Quick note about the profligate spending and bureaucratic bloat in Canada’s healthcare system. I worked the last 10 years in Canada’s most prestigious kid’s hospital. Of the 38 OECD countries, 31 have universal healthcare including Canada. Of those 31 countries, 🇨🇦 ranks first place for per capita spending on healthcare but only 28th for how many physicians we have. Same story for nurses and other frontline workers, we rank basically at bottom. These stats can be found in the MacDonald-Laurier Institute’s report titled “Canada’s Governance Crisis”, free pdf on their site. So we spend the most of all counties with universal healthcare but have chronic and worsening short staffing. Where does the money go? Another interesting stat: Canada has more than double the health admin per capita than Germany. This is staggering as 🇩🇪 is regularly considered the best and most efficient healthcare system. What on earth is Canada doing with over double the health admin of the best system when our frontline staff are so understaffed and overcapacity? Leftists in Canada cry “more funding” and seem to be totally unaware that we already spend the most among our peer nations. More funding does nothing and actually worsens the problem when the allocation is busted and admin bloat is so bad.
This admin bloat has broken the healthcare and mental healthcare system (insane wait times, chronic and worsening staff shortages and burnout). In regards to youth mental health (in which I have worked for 20 years now) the average wait time to see a psychiatrist for an assessment is 18 months to 2 years, let alone accessing treatment. Canada ranked 33rd among 38 OECD countries in 2014 for the youth su1c1d3 rate, then ranked 35th in 2022 and projected to rank last by 2030. The bigger context is that youth mental health tends to be worse in developed nations with deteriorating social institutions (marriage, family, community, etc) compared to developing nations. Developing nations tend to have stronger social institutions and they don’t have the same mental health crises we see in the west. The exceptions would be the extremely war-plagued and poverty stricken nations (Yemen, Myanmar, Syria, DRC) where youth mental health can be bad. People often like to think that “well, at least we don’t live in other parts of the world…at least we have our material comforts” but our youth are truly experiencing a crisis that is among the worst in the world. Having the material comforts and decent infrastructure, and low violence does not mean people here have a “good life”. Nor am I saying Canada is the worst place on earth. In many ways, the country is still good. What I am saying is the mental health crises in 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 is severe, especially among youth, and that it’s likely due to our dying social institutions, our lack of cultural identity, and also the victimhood identities that the left encourages.
@@Reznikeisenyes, it’s just as bad in the school boards I hear, same in the 🇺🇸. Also post-secondary, Stanford had approx 1 admin for each student. I hear the upper admin and superintendents make a lot of money. But it seems like the main trend is that the growth of the admin and their salaries are outpacing by a long shot the amount of other staff and their salaries. Teachers are stuck with big classes because frontliners get paid less than the bloated admin. More funding will not fix the problem, the funding does not get to the frontline. And yeah, I did not mention the impact that school closures had on youth, it was horrendous. We knew by summer 2020 from mountains of data from other nations that healthy kids were not at risk and not major spreaders. Fully unnecessary to keep schools closed so long and it hurt so many youth. Esp kids with developmental conditions, we saw a huge surge in admissions for mental health and kids with developmental issues. It’s related to the culture of coddling and safteyism, how our overprotection of youth causes more harm than it prevents.
@@Reznikeisen in the helping profession, the closer you are to the frontline or the harder the job is, usually the lower the pay is. For instance, working in group homes with a lot of challenging kids is insanely tough and pays very little. Social workers can make okay money but they take on an incredible burden that is not enough close to fairly compensated. The further back you get from the frontline, the more money you make. Like being admin or manager or director. Whereas in blue collar industries, at least there is a semblance of danger pay and higher wages for higher risk. It’s not exactly always fair in those industries either, they might make a bit more but not what they should considering the danger. But at least it seems more compensated. From my experience, because these systems (healthcare, mental healthcare) are so broken and overwhelmed, new staff just make the assessment and decide to get to an admin role as fast as possible. I can’t blame them, however, that sort of dynamic only perpetuates the problem as you lose a lot of good staff to turnover or just wanting to be paid more.
The richest people around are in health management. The 2020 BC budget had 20+ billion for health, and 20+ billion for health management. It totaled to about 43B iirc. Our GDP at the time was 243B or so. That means that healthcare represents 1/6 of all dollars spent. The government changed how it was listed in the budget after covid so it's harder to track now, but i can't imagine it is less. It's INSANE.
@@hosmerhomeboy that’s ludicrous. And those salaries tend to buy allegiance to the more leftist parties, they know not to bite that hand which feeds. Too many people think the problem is simply inadequate funding. When parties more to the right take power, of course they enact cuts. If only it could be surgically applied to upper management. And let’s pray that AI could perhaps make a lot of admin jobs redundant. Countries like 🇨🇦, 🇸🇪 and 🇦🇺 tend to hire those folks with otherwise usually liberal arts degrees into those admin and management positions. The general disdain that these “white collar elites” have for blue collar/trades workers and the way they have been oppressing them financially is reprehensible to the utmost. They are wealthy but largely bankrupt morally.
Thank you Benjamin and Blackhorse! Excellent and interesting conversation. God help Canada. That said, young men like Blackhorse gives this older (relative to the dissent right men I listen too) much hope. Keep up the good work, gentlemen. Again, thank you
I'd actually argue that the fragmenting of Canada began under Pearson in the 60s. Pearson was the one that really made the first substantive move against the English majority by starting to open up immigration and redefine the Canadian identity way from its (primarily) English heritage. This process was largely completed under Mulroney several decades later. This is sort of why there's no (functional) conservatism in Canada. No conservative movement in the country has a leg to stand on because it's foundation has essentially been kicked out from under it. This results in conservative movements either collapsing or just becoming an echo of the Liberal position. This shift essentially removed the largest unifying factor in the country, turning each province (and the country at large) into little more than disparate economic zones with (often) conflicting priorities.
I would say it goes back to after the war in the 40s early 50s. The idea of a National Identity was seen as a problem, and watering it down with fragments and multiculturalism would quash any unified sentiment. There's quite a bit about it in the archives at the time
@Caitgreenham yeah, I would agree with that to a certain degree. With the US in ascendance and the UK falling apart, the elites in Canada shifted priorities in a big way. I usually peg the start of the change to the 60s for practical purposes though. That's sort of when the internal discussions that were happening amongst the elite class shifted into the public and really started to be acted upon.
True, and this was happening across most of the Western world with the removal of the cultural quota system for immigration. You could actually argue that world war 1 and 2 were the starting point for globalism as the utter destruction of Europe allowed politicians to seriously consider globalism as a way to avoid war, which had become a civilizational threat. Although I'm pretty sure Pearson and politicians of those days never comprehended that eventually almost all immigration would be from South Asia and Africa. They likely envisioned more of a Pan Europa than true globalism.
The largest unifying factor in Canada has always been “we are NOT Americans”. Claiming the unclaimed territory for Canada was the reason for the building of the Trans Canada railroad and the settlement of the Northwest Territory and its subsequent inclusion in Confederation as the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Even Louis Riel’s Red River rebellion was about getting Métis rights recognized and protected in the founding of Manitoba because being annexed by the USA was a very real danger. The Métis were not happy about Rupert’s Land simply being given to Canada by the HBC but were also NOT interested in being governed by the USA because of the Indians Wars. A lot of the white settlers that settled in the former Northwest Territory came to the area because they didn’t appreciate being governed by anyone, British or American. The new dominion of Canada was just the least bad option. Those settlers were never happy with Ottawa because Ottawa didn’t care about anything but exploiting their labour in order to exploit their natural resources. Western Alienation has been a thing in Canada since the founding of the Western provinces because they were never created to be equal to Ontario and Quebec. Only to prevent American annexation and guarantee natural resources for the prosperity of central and Eastern Canada. Thus, the birth of both libertarianism and prairie socialism among American and Canadian settlers in the West. Both of which prioritize your local community as the primary, relevant level of government over the far away, ignorant and disinterested federal governments in Ottawa and Washington. Canada has always been too big and too diverse to govern effectively and the only thing keeping us together is fear of becoming Americans; that’s the only “unified” national identity we have. Or had. We’ll see.
This comment and the replies to it were super interesting. I know bits and pieces of Canadian history and it’s identity but I have never dug into the geopolitics…another rabbit hole
When you asked about the psychology of Trudeau, whether he feels embarrassment, I instantly thought of his Bollywood style costume and many theatrical get-ups… gut reaction is no, this man is without shame 🤣🫣
No, you're wrong. Blackface, india trip, lack of basic knowledge of WW2, getting kicked out of a teaching gig mid-term, attempting engineering school, and dropping out after one term, point to the fact this is a man that mentally never made it pass age 15. 1:34:24
When you speak of Western Canadians being a little more conservative in their views than those of Eastern Canada, don't forget that there is one HUGE exception to that rule, that being the coastal areas of British Columbia. The interior of BC probably aligns closer to the praries politically, but coastal BC aligns mostly with the coastal cities of the US, Washington, Oregon, and the coastal cities of California. So you need to think extremist far-left politics in these areas. Unfortunately for those in BC who are not far left supporters we are surrounded by many useful idiots who quite gjleefuly will vote their freedoms (and ours as well) right down the toilet, and have us all living in a socialist septic tank.
@@mariepicard8385people in the Maritimes are hugely dependent on government welfare programs, as conservative as they might be socially this still puts them in league with the bugmen politically
@@beowulf_of_wall_st That's what happens when the federal government shuts down your industries and sells you off to the highest bidder. Just because those provinces have been left for dead doesn't mean the people there are lefties.
Totally agree. I'm less than an hour from Vancouver.... Quite conservative where I'm at but the mob has been pushing their way into the area I live heavily in the last few years. The island and Vancouver area are very "left" as it may be called. Last election here was very close.... As said in another post. It's more city against country folks.
Some people are oblivious. I'm self-employed, have an uncommon job and quickly most of my customers were deemed necessary, so I worked throughout the lockdowns. It was eerie on the highways and fascinating talking to people as I travelled. So many stories of resistance--refusing to close businesses, having parties with large groups of people, saying no to the jab. My family, siblings, stayed home and then called the truckers racist, while I quietly wept with relief. Regrettably that relief is gone. My one sibling now understands the truth, the other is hopelessly woke and has little interest in me it seems. They broke so many of us with lie after lie after lie. Then they took our "white pills" from us and flushed them down the toilet. I wanna care. I really really do. I just don't know what to care about other than family and friends.
As a Swede I used to regard the US, UK and Canada as beacons of hope, and thought that while they were quite multicultural, they were societies that upheld law and order, with a tough police force which was admired by citizens. Societies with sane, let's call it conservative values. But since the great awokening and the last decade I reflexively recoil by just seeing these nations mentioned. After events such as D Chauvin ending up in jail for lifetime for just doing his job the Anglo-Saxon world gives me feelings of disgust. I am constantly depressed.
@gulanhem9495 I am an American and there is hope here. We still have the first and second amendments and they need to be cherished. I do think this country might very well be the last bastion of freedom.
@ It's good that you haven't given up hope about the US. But so much of the woke insanity came from the US and spread to us in Europe and elsewhere (not saying that Europe necessarily is overall better than the US though). Seeing and listening to progressive sh1tl1bs from your East and West coasts, there's nothing that makes me more sick in the stomach. I can't handle it. In those moments I lose every ounce of hope I have left.
Your guest misses one very important point that nullifies many of his other points. If T picks up the 51 state, he'll go down in history as the greatest president since Roosevelt. What does he have to do to have this happen? Since Canada is in such a F up state, very little. A 25% tariff for a couple of years is more than enough, as Canadians would rather live as Americans than Venezuelans.
It's a bit like a perfect storm. I've been sitting back and watching since I became aware of the influence of the globalist agenda on Trudeau's government. The pattern I'm seeing is: Enlightenment/Progressivism, WEF, Cloward-Piven, Resource-rich state in chaos requiring "rescuing".
Quebec used to have massive lumber and mining operations, but they were either bought out and shut down or regulated out of existence. My dad's side were all miners and lumberjacks (and logdrivers!), but the various local mills were bought out by Anglo-Montrealers then shut down to stop competing with other interests. Much of the resource extraction and primary resource processing in Quebec has been exploited by outside sources. I understand Alberta's complaints, but there are other issues keeping them out of power and thus needing more of the equalization. I have no idea what the plan is for doing this, I only know that it's happening.
Quebec itself has so much red tape that as of the last 20 years has kept it down and in that perfect position to bribe the rest of Canada for money so they don't seperate
@@vibrolax Yes and no, It's also because 95% of Québecois were farmers and we had an huge overpopulation. To many men to feed and to work on the family farm. That created a surplus of labor. Wich New-England's factories needed.
The dilemma of the Canadian middle manager ( health, education, wherever) Be faced with cuts to your bloated budget, do you ...... 1)Contemplate operating in good faith and cutting your own bloated support staff or amenities- the frontline care won't change and the budget will go down OR 2)Deliberately cut the budget and support for the front lines, in the most obvious and painful way possible. You pick 2 every time. Why? Because the leaders who made the cut ( or budget freeze) will be out on their ass because your frontline and the public will blame them. Cuts to education? take away textbooks and limit TA's. Even though the budget didn't change, do it. Blame the government. You can keep your office and travel expenses and lackeys this way. Cuts to health? Hire more management. Make more rules, cancel care hours. Everytime someone dies waiting for care your org won't provide, the government is shamed into increasing your budget and power.
26:33 to be fair.... the "Laurentian" provinces definitely do produce stuff. The Canadian tech industry is mostly in Ontario, in the Ottawa, Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo areas. Manufacturing is also centered around there, mainly in southern Ontario but also in Quebec, especially in the smaller cities. Even the resource sector is not that weak. Lots of forestry in the east, just like the west, but also metal mining in the northern areas (ex Abitibi gold, Sudbury nickel, iron from the Labrador/northern Quebec region). There's also agriculture, although the Prairies are very expansive, Ontario greatly outperforms the Prairies for high value crops such as fruits and vegetables, as well as crops that require warmer weather such as corn and soybeans, and also produces much more dairy, pork, chicken and eggs (Alberta outperforms on beef though). Some fishing, even some oil/gas in Hibernia (Newfoundland). But there's also a lot of financial industry, real estate, media and government in the east, which I suppose you can say is of more questionable value. Quebec also produces more refined aluminum than the rest of North and South America combined. It doesn't mine it, but it has smelters than take bauxite ore from places like Brazil and extracts/refines aluminum out of it. The majority of the steel mills are in Ontario (5), or Quebec (2), with just one in western Canada (Saskatchewan). Unfortunately a lot of the productive industries in the east has been getting hollowed out. Tech is not what it used to be when we had Nortel and Blackberry. You still get startups and lots of smart grads, but a lot of them (I think even the majority...) just move to the US for better opportunities. Manufacturing has been struggling, with land and energy getting expensive, and competition from foreign countries with cheap labour. Mining in Ontario has been held back by regulations, lack of clarity with how to negotiate with First Nations, and lack of commitment to infrastructure (in Quebec and Newfoundland/Labrador, it's been better).
I just got a history lesson of Canada.If you look at Canada and their politicians it’s weird as it’s family run. A father enters politics and then his son/daughter goes into politics replacing the father. Canadians need to wake up
@ am not sounding American the Canadian political system is prone to been hijacked.Yes you vote for party at local level but if I stayed in Vancouver all my life I can go to Kingston Ontario and rube voted for and have a stronghold of that sit for years to come. It’s really sad.this country is a Marxist pig with western society lipstick.Even in Africa stuffs like that doesn’t happen
Are you an American? You're deeply confused. Trudeau Sr and Jr is the only case of this "family run" politics as you say at the federal level. The US has more of this, with the Roosevelts, the Bushs, etc.
God bless, really important video and messages for western mans future. Winning this will be a matter of holding on with enough strength to weather the storm and the some strength left thereafter for the great reclamation.
Small correction, Parliament used to be unilaterally sovereign in the UK but the Blair government changed that, making the supreme court able to override parliament. See the 2005 Constitutional Reform Act
I think Canadians biggest weakness is being distracted by American politics without realizing that its completely separate from the Canadian ones that actually affect them. Especially in terms of Progressive policies being implemented that have negative results that Canadians would almost all condemn, if they weren't distracted by American politics. Canadians don't realize that there are hardly any news sources that actually describe current events. Local policies aren't usually made known and especially if its controversial, CBC doesn't fund stories that make their funders look bad.
@vangoghsear8657 I was just going to say the same. Not to mention who own them. Trudeau has had media on payroll for years. Also, in November 2023, the Trudeau government announced that it had reached an agreement with Google that would see the tech giant pay $100 million annually to Canadian news outlets under the Online News Act. Apparently, half of private journalism is funded by the government with a 50% wage subsidy in salaries up to $85,000.
Truth seekers know better than to look for the truth from legacy media. The information is out there, but unfortunately most won't find it because they aren't inclined to do their own research.
@@vangoghsear8657 I was just going to say the same. Not to mention who own them. In November 2023, the Trudeau government announced that it had reached an agreement with Google that would see the tech giant pay $100 million annually to Canadian news outlets under the Online News Act. Apparently, half of private journalism is funded by the government with a 50% wage subsidy in salaries up to $85,000.
I cannot overstate how important and also informative this calmversation is. Most people have no appreciation of the dire precipice Canada is now on because of decades of insidious proto-wokeism that infiltrated EVERYTHING. Growing up in the 90s we were taught that Canadian identity and pride was founded in our quiet, unassuming, unforgivably polite, unlimitedly tolerant, hyper-progressive contrast to our boorish southern neighbours. This was a fatal delusion. We were small, cold, out of the way, and assumed that if we didn’t bother anybody, the whole world would just be as nice and utopian towards us as we were to them. Peace and love for all. It was a dangerous and irresponsible delusion. Those chickens have come home to roost. We are internally fractured, domestically feeble, and at the mercy of any country that so desires. Because we were lulled by globalist progressive hippies for far too long.
I travel a lot from Toronto to across south-western Ontario. The latter has a lot of people who are of Mennonite or Dutch Reform backgrounds and are either farmers or 1 generation removed from a farm. They are very conservative. They want the government to provide basic services (police, courts, etc) and otherwise stay the hell away. Huge resistance to Trudeau's restrictions on rifles and anti-free speech legislation. "F Trudeau" stickers on trucks are everywhere. And, Torontonians for the most part are completely confused by them or despise them.
26:15 "So what does Quebec and the Laurentian elite produce?" Historically, manufacturing and farming. They're called the Laurentian elite because of the St. Laurence river, it's the corridor along the river through Quebec and Ontario that leads to the Great Lakes, which was a major shipping highway both into and out of Canada. It was the perfect place to build factories, and that's how they became rich and powerful enough to create the nation in the first place from the original colonies. Now that manufacturing and farming backbone is decrepit, and they were always the financial and legal center of the country. They bought into the NeoLiberal global project and allowed their industry to crumble.
For years I was certain it would be Canada, as the 1st Western nation to [koll + apse], but now convinced will be [yoo + kay]. America was in a not-so-distant 3rd, but we may have turned corner.
😢😢 We're trying 🇬🇧 . Sorted the trans thing out. Now to resolve grape gangs and the same amount of migrants per year as the US, a country 38 times larger than us.
Thanks Blackhorse! it feels good to know that some one else out there with the same observation of last man in a dyeing culture its felt like that for a long time....
Blackhorse is WRONG about western canada being more Christian. British Columbia (a lib province because of Vancouver), and then Alberta (the conservative party's stronghold) are the two least religious provinces in the country. However I do suspect that those who say they're Christian on the census in Alberta, are more likely to actually be Christian than those in Ontario.
It's true that loyalists--ancestors of English Canadians were badly mistreated by Americans. It's really shocking that they have no resentment for that.
Sadly the British “loyalists” wrote their own history by maintaining allegiance to a depraved warlike English monarchy. This is what the American revolution was fighting against. Unfortunately Canada today is the sorry legacy of British imperialism and its creation as a blockade against American republican anti monarchist ideology. The “loyalists” are celebrated today by the Canadian state bc that’s a big part of their legitimacy, but being loyal to a distant British king simply for the purposes of maintaining a global empire isn’t necessarily something to celebrate.
@@cliffm6566 What fascinates me is their lack of ill will toward the US --whether or not they supported a tyranical king...being right or wrong is beside the point. Other countries have chips on their shoulders for much less.
1:37:55 I wouldn't expect an Ontario resident to fully know all the background to this story, but the law school at TWU has never been built. The community standards are no longer mandatory for students, but they remain for staff, faculty and student leaders.
Great conversation--gotta respect someone who can speak clearly in a non-partisan way. Definitely some bright minds up there. I welcome you to join the American Empire, but respect if you want to fight for your nation!
At the very least, we must re-write the Canadian Constitution to be similar to the American text ! … especially the first few chapters !!… no compromise !!
Canada is lost, nothing can change until the political system is totally reformed but that can't happen because it would require ontario and quebec giving up a ton power and that won't happen
Get lost Azrael... Canada is awesome! All the whinners & complainers should move to Florida. Quit blaming government for your bad choices and poor financial decisions
Our government equals our survival and ability to be civil while struggling to survive. By the way! I bought strawberry's from Walmart, and they were frozen. If you can't understand that you need heated trucks to deliver your product up here, what other things will you refuse to understand.
@maxnovax3948 What can't you buy from Walmart. Food, auto repair, electronics, seasonal items. They don't have gas like at Costco or Canadian Tire. Canadian Tires car chargers are the best next to Teslas of course.
The worst kind of Liberalism (note, all forms of liberalism are bad and lead to the same general places) was what Canada was rooted in at the time of Confederation. The Laurentian elites specifically are the most degenerate forms of liberal elites imaginable and always have been--that is why Canada was so easily vassalized by Progressivism from the United States. A pathetic weakness of our people and specifically our elites for several generations led us here. Confederation in its structure and the elites that seeded it and the ones that followed made Canada a degenerating project from the beginning--we are now fully rotted out
Grant's "Lament for a Nation" truly is the blackpilled history of all time, because if you read that book closely it's very clear he's saying Canada has been cooked since about 1840.
@ we need not despair however. As long as we hold true to ourselves and pass it along, the fire will continue and our people’s posterity will be great when the time is right because we ensured be the proper vanguard.
I've been an avid follower of Bret's as well as AAs for a number of years now and it's absolutely great to see you trying to bridge this gap. The JQ probably ensures that they will always remain separate, but having an interlocutor is a good thing, I think.
He should be clear that Canada and the US had a free-trade deal for several years before NAFTA (when Mexico joined). The first hit was the US and then the next hit was Mexico (low-wage)
Why do they maintain bilingualism in the country when a small, a very small portion are truly bilingual? I see many who listen in French or English, but few listen in both. In recent years, the stories have changed in the languages. Similar to what I saw as a kid up north-the Ontario news would say Quebec wanted out, and in French, they were under attack. The truth was in between. I argue this bilingualism was not what they said it was-I argue it is how the Laurentian elite maintains their hegemony. I was bilingual and passed the literacy tests. I’ve been across our country and worked in finance for decades. I used my French with tourists from Europe. Even the Quebeckers I knew wanted to practice their English, or in Ontario, few have confidence in their French language or even the accent. You can see this in Trudeau and Pierre-they both began the last few years speaking in their limited high-school-friend-circle French. Not university-level, etc. Now they are getting much better. Jagmeet never got much better. Blanchet has wonderful French but hates to speak English. Imagine if an English politician refused to speak French-oh yes, the last one was forcibly removed from the Liberal leadership race for saying he didn’t think Canadians needed French. I agree, but Blanchet was wrong. Or how about Mélanie Joly and Trudeau calling Blanchet vieille comme le monde and con con con-nothing was ever said. That is disgusting speech and worse-they are the old-world thinkers. Canada, c’est bizarre.
I don't think this is correct. Quebec favors French-speaking immigrants, e.g. the former French colonies of central and Northern Africa. they do not want Anglophone immigrants.
Australia is marginally better then Canay, because we borrowed so heavily from the US during our 'Federation" process. I say "Federation" because Australia is a federation only very weakly so. The problem here is the inverse where the States all try and outcompete one another to be the most draconian and "Australian".
Canadas done. The caucasian christian freedom/free market one anyway. There will always be a Canada but theres too may differing factions. At this crumbling point with gov't civil servants being the elites on top of a ponzi scheme, low birth rates and open borders etc. etc. Canadians are so weak, the fact that JT was even a thing a decade ago is mind blowing.
I'm not super familiar with Canada's Christian communities, but I had a lot and according to the census, Alberta has a very low percentage of people who identify as Christian, basically second to only British Columbia within Canada, while the Maritimes have more than any province outside Quebec. However, checking on Google Trends, keywords such as "God", "Bible", "Jesus", "Apostles", "Faith", "Worship", "Church", "Christ", "New Testament" that should be of high importance among all Christian denominations seem to generate less interest in Atlantic Canada than in the Prairies. BC still comes off as still being one of the most secular provinces. Ontario sometimes comes out closer to the Prairies, sometimes more secular. With Quebec, it seems like google trends isn't good at picking up on search results from both languages, but even with words that are the same in both languages (ex "Christ" or "Bible"), there seems to be less interest from Quebec (this is not true for terms like "internet" that are also the same in both French and English but have no religious or regional correlation), so it seems like Quebec is the least religious based off Google Trends. Does Eastern Canada (especially Quebec) just have a lot of Christians in name only compared to the Prairies?
@@Flatlanderexpress better to vote your conscience than to worry about splitting the vote. I worry that the CPC are WEF stooges like the Liberal Party are; voting for the Conservative Party is just another way of putting the Uniparty in power again.
People have a short memory. Maxime Bernier left classified documents with his Hell's Angels affiliated girlfriend 20yrs ago. Doesn't seem like a serious person or a conservative to me. We have no real options in Canada.
@Benjamin A Boyce I figured the way to counteract your exceedingly calm mellow delivery that seems bolstered with Xanax and marijuana! Basically to put umph back into the show at least the tempo can go up with ×2 speed. Wish you drank whiskey and smoked or something to give just a bit of grit to the material. But alas not all commentators can sound as severe and serious as Id prefer. Just so bizarre to me such topics spoken about with the same energy Id expect from a painting or baking show host.
Interesting conversation. Checked out The Black Horse X account. A couple of constructive pointers: you should probably learn how to spell Pierre Poilièvre's name if you're planning to post about him everyday. I know, not that important. A more major point would be that your views on Canadian politics show that you're from a western province (that includes Ontario from a Maritimer's perspective). Throwing all the French Canadians in one bowl makes no sense. Quebec is very different from the rest of French Canadians. Acadians aren't progressives, French Manitobans or Ontarians aren't progressives, etc. I understand that we have no power, but we also aren't responsable for all the nonsense (and political rift) Quebecers may have caused federally. The real political division in Canada is city versus country.
@@Liisa3139 Did u readed my last comment? Either it got deleted or is not visible to me. I think I rought something about Ben's cats not being so weak that they could not k1ll a mous.
Listening to Canadians speak about politics is frustrating because they focus mainly on superficial and even irrelevant issues while adopting a passive attitude toward issues of importance. Canada appears to be one gigantic social experiment that eventually gets imposed upon other liberal western democracies. That may be why Canadians are now disrespected and even despised internationally. There was a hope with the Truckers uprising against the proposed Mandates, that Canadians would be able to shrug off the indoctrination. That was swiftly suppressed by their Federal government with the support of the Americans alphabet agencies in coordination with big tech. The subsequent apathy and resignation of the populace doesn't bode well for their future and that weakness, along with the pathetic display of their political leaders seems to have emboldened opportunistic parties abroad, including Trump. Break up and absorption into the US or the proposed North American Union may be the best outcome outside of sudden upsurge of nationalistic pride and independence which doesn't seem likely.
@@wlf7184 I'm more of a realist. In fact, I believe that trading Wall Street control of Canada's resources for the American Constitution and Bill of rights, ultimately works in Canadian citizens favor. Which makes me wonder whom or what you are loyal to as a Canadian?
@@battygirlrachel Looked to me like something in the ferret, weasel, stoat, marten, mink, badger family. (but not stout enough to be badgers) Couldn't get a good look because they were too swift and slinky.
@GordieGii I was watching from my phone so I just noticed there were other cats besides Body and the black cat he usually shares... might have to watch on my computer 😆
@@GordieGii now that can see them... they look too stout to be ferrets... they do resemble prairie dogs in the face, but their tails are longer and bushier. I asked Grok what fit that description and it said it was probably a marmot... looking at their range and coloring etc, I think that is probably what these are.
What 1h03m00s Israel has laws specifying the % of Jews and they are about 80% they aren’t a minority. They are about 50% if you add in the West Band and Gaza that are under military occupation. French Canadians are the majority in the province of Quebec and there are many in the Federal Govt that’s true. Quebec does control it’s own immigration.
1. Would have liked to understand more about implications on Canada of Trump's tariffs in by way of examples. 2. Found myself getting lost on the Laurentian elite and what TBlack Horse means when he says "ideologies" or "ideological". Seem to me there was a particular meaning in context of discussing Canada.
WELL WE WHERE NEVER ABLE TO GET FRENCH TO AGREE SO THEY SET THIER OWN CONSTITUTION IN PLAY QUEBEC IS NOT PARTY OF CANADA JUST A TRADE PARTNER QUEBEC SEPARATE WELL FIRST YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MARRAGE BEFORE YOU CAN HAVE A SPERATION
I AGREE WITH MUCH I LIKE YOUR CALLER HE KNOWS YA MARITIMES PROVINCES KEPT THE FAITH ..I WOULD DISAGREE AMERICA WANTS ITS FULL INDEPENDANCES FROM FORIEGN BANKES .
At 21m00s he didn’t mention what could be done with the money from nationalizing those industries! Well let’s look at a couple of examples shall we? Russia & Norway have nationalized in whole or part of they Oil/Gas The top personal income tax rate in Russia is 16%! 😱 In Norway their national Fund when done on a per capita bases means every citizen is worth $353,000 CA dollars! 😱 😜
Thanks for sharing this interview, enjoyed some of BH's bold claims. Some takes were a bit baseless, though. I suspect that Justin Trudeau is indeed pretty insufferable, but when BH says, "I know JT because I know lots of people like him" that is very circular logic. He also ascribes motives without evidence and does so in the least charitable way possible. "It would be fine if the people weren't evil" seems like a cartoonishly simple explanation. Finally, he describes Canada as if it was a third world hellhole, and while it is indeed terribly woke, we are doing really well by most standard metrics. Thanks again for your video!
You don't know how empty the Canadian ruling class is, they are all pod people and they all think exactly the same way. They all went to the same couple of schools and you can go to a handful of events and you will have met every single powerful person in the country. They are interchangeable, fungible. Trudeau is a particularly stupid example but other than that he is barely even a person. The number one priority these people have is repeating the correct opinions in public so people can acknowledge their orthodoxy.
The concept of woke right is very sloppy. I don't think what gets coined as the "woke right" has the answers to what would work societally, but they shouldn't be dismissed, no more than people who see the value in a liberal, democratic society should be haphazardly dismissed. I don't think we'll discover anything functional, unless we shift from waging ideological war to mutual challenging and competition towards an end where the inevitably ideologically heterogenous masses can co-exist without resorting to means that bring down everyone. It takes commitment, which is increasingly difficult to establish, which is a sign of societal weakness. We should also remember that a religious, clannish or tribal society can also mean and degenerate into something resembling modern Afghanistan, as opposed to a mythical past. Europe during the Reformation was not a non-violent place and incentives still apply to modern humans. If things deteriorate enough, I can easily see Christian clannish structures forming over time, with competing denominations coming to blows over perceived otherness and practices and beliefs that might incite hostility between groups. It could come down to something as worldly as control over resources, such as land. It's no different than it is with American politics. Christians are in no way above that sort of development, unless there exists enough common cause to establish a baseline of rules for conducting relations between people. The Book is not enough, as history shows. It could turn worse than it is now.
I would like to hear a conversation between The Black Horse and Professor Bruce Pardy who is a very intelligent Canadian Classical Liberal. I got the impression that The Black Horse's faith isn't offering him much hope. The beauty of Christianity is the living hope in Christ the Saviour.
And the fact anything after 1931 isn’t actually law but god forbid anyone ever actually look into Canadian history. It’s called the Statute of Westminster.
Conservatives Party is also Laurentian elites. Come on..Brian Mulroney, to start. War measures act was not to break separatism but to stop actual terrorism. Pierre’s intent was to reason with rather than to stamp out Quebec separatists militarily, as this is made to sound like here. Very authoritative tone this speaker, but what he’s spitting is not that accurate.
Churchill Falls represents 15% of Québec's electricity. Between 40% to 50% comes from the James Bay Project. The rest comes from more than 50 other electrical generating stations owned by Hydro Québec, and even more stations that are privately owned, making it the forth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world, a third of total Canadian generation, making it the top electricity producer, and the top electricity exporter in Canada. Québec have wood (25% of Canada's exports), which it transforms in pulp and paper products (37% of Canada's exports), agriculture and food (12% of Canada's exports) including maple syrup where it's the world leader, 30 minerals are mined, the most important being iron, gold, nickel, titanium, niobium, zinc, copper and silver (almost 50% of Canada's exports). Québec also has very good expertise in aerospace (one of the world's leaders actually, and 77% of Canada's exports of aircraft and parts), in video games (e.g.: Ubisoft and EA), in Artificial Intelligence (see Mila, the largest concentration of deep learning academic researchers globally). So yeah, you've been misinformed.
Quick note about the profligate spending and bureaucratic bloat in Canada’s healthcare system. I worked the last 10 years in Canada’s most prestigious kid’s hospital.
Of the 38 OECD countries, 31 have universal healthcare including Canada. Of those 31 countries, 🇨🇦 ranks first place for per capita spending on healthcare but only 28th for how many physicians we have. Same story for nurses and other frontline workers, we rank basically at bottom. These stats can be found in the MacDonald-Laurier Institute’s report titled “Canada’s Governance Crisis”, free pdf on their site.
So we spend the most of all counties with universal healthcare but have chronic and worsening short staffing. Where does the money go? Another interesting stat: Canada has more than double the health admin per capita than Germany. This is staggering as 🇩🇪 is regularly considered the best and most efficient healthcare system. What on earth is Canada doing with over double the health admin of the best system when our frontline staff are so understaffed and overcapacity?
Leftists in Canada cry “more funding” and seem to be totally unaware that we already spend the most among our peer nations. More funding does nothing and actually worsens the problem when the allocation is busted and admin bloat is so bad.
This admin bloat has broken the healthcare and mental healthcare system (insane wait times, chronic and worsening staff shortages and burnout). In regards to youth mental health (in which I have worked for 20 years now) the average wait time to see a psychiatrist for an assessment is 18 months to 2 years, let alone accessing treatment.
Canada ranked 33rd among 38 OECD countries in 2014 for the youth su1c1d3 rate, then ranked 35th in 2022 and projected to rank last by 2030. The bigger context is that youth mental health tends to be worse in developed nations with deteriorating social institutions (marriage, family, community, etc) compared to developing nations.
Developing nations tend to have stronger social institutions and they don’t have the same mental health crises we see in the west. The exceptions would be the extremely war-plagued and poverty stricken nations (Yemen, Myanmar, Syria, DRC) where youth mental health can be bad.
People often like to think that “well, at least we don’t live in other parts of the world…at least we have our material comforts” but our youth are truly experiencing a crisis that is among the worst in the world. Having the material comforts and decent infrastructure, and low violence does not mean people here have a “good life”.
Nor am I saying Canada is the worst place on earth. In many ways, the country is still good. What I am saying is the mental health crises in 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 is severe, especially among youth, and that it’s likely due to our dying social institutions, our lack of cultural identity, and also the victimhood identities that the left encourages.
@@Reznikeisenyes, it’s just as bad in the school boards I hear, same in the 🇺🇸. Also post-secondary, Stanford had approx 1 admin for each student.
I hear the upper admin and superintendents make a lot of money. But it seems like the main trend is that the growth of the admin and their salaries are outpacing by a long shot the amount of other staff and their salaries. Teachers are stuck with big classes because frontliners get paid less than the bloated admin. More funding will not fix the problem, the funding does not get to the frontline.
And yeah, I did not mention the impact that school closures had on youth, it was horrendous. We knew by summer 2020 from mountains of data from other nations that healthy kids were not at risk and not major spreaders. Fully unnecessary to keep schools closed so long and it hurt so many youth. Esp kids with developmental conditions, we saw a huge surge in admissions for mental health and kids with developmental issues.
It’s related to the culture of coddling and safteyism, how our overprotection of youth causes more harm than it prevents.
@@Reznikeisen in the helping profession, the closer you are to the frontline or the harder the job is, usually the lower the pay is.
For instance, working in group homes with a lot of challenging kids is insanely tough and pays very little. Social workers can make okay money but they take on an incredible burden that is not enough close to fairly compensated.
The further back you get from the frontline, the more money you make. Like being admin or manager or director. Whereas in blue collar industries, at least there is a semblance of danger pay and higher wages for higher risk. It’s not exactly always fair in those industries either, they might make a bit more but not what they should considering the danger. But at least it seems more compensated.
From my experience, because these systems (healthcare, mental healthcare) are so broken and overwhelmed, new staff just make the assessment and decide to get to an admin role as fast as possible. I can’t blame them, however, that sort of dynamic only perpetuates the problem as you lose a lot of good staff to turnover or just wanting to be paid more.
The richest people around are in health management. The 2020 BC budget had 20+ billion for health, and 20+ billion for health management. It totaled to about 43B iirc.
Our GDP at the time was 243B or so.
That means that healthcare represents 1/6 of all dollars spent. The government changed how it was listed in the budget after covid so it's harder to track now, but i can't imagine it is less.
It's INSANE.
@@hosmerhomeboy that’s ludicrous. And those salaries tend to buy allegiance to the more leftist parties, they know not to bite that hand which feeds.
Too many people think the problem is simply inadequate funding. When parties more to the right take power, of course they enact cuts. If only it could be surgically applied to upper management. And let’s pray that AI could perhaps make a lot of admin jobs redundant.
Countries like 🇨🇦, 🇸🇪 and 🇦🇺 tend to hire those folks with otherwise usually liberal arts degrees into those admin and management positions. The general disdain that these “white collar elites” have for blue collar/trades workers and the way they have been oppressing them financially is reprehensible to the utmost. They are wealthy but largely bankrupt morally.
Thank you Benjamin and Blackhorse! Excellent and interesting conversation. God help Canada. That said, young men like Blackhorse gives this older (relative to the dissent right men I listen too) much hope. Keep up the good work, gentlemen. Again, thank you
I'd actually argue that the fragmenting of Canada began under Pearson in the 60s. Pearson was the one that really made the first substantive move against the English majority by starting to open up immigration and redefine the Canadian identity way from its (primarily) English heritage. This process was largely completed under Mulroney several decades later.
This is sort of why there's no (functional) conservatism in Canada. No conservative movement in the country has a leg to stand on because it's foundation has essentially been kicked out from under it. This results in conservative movements either collapsing or just becoming an echo of the Liberal position.
This shift essentially removed the largest unifying factor in the country, turning each province (and the country at large) into little more than disparate economic zones with (often) conflicting priorities.
I would say it goes back to after the war in the 40s early 50s. The idea of a National Identity was seen as a problem, and watering it down with fragments and multiculturalism would quash any unified sentiment. There's quite a bit about it in the archives at the time
@Caitgreenham yeah, I would agree with that to a certain degree. With the US in ascendance and the UK falling apart, the elites in Canada shifted priorities in a big way.
I usually peg the start of the change to the 60s for practical purposes though. That's sort of when the internal discussions that were happening amongst the elite class shifted into the public and really started to be acted upon.
True, and this was happening across most of the Western world with the removal of the cultural quota system for immigration.
You could actually argue that world war 1 and 2 were the starting point for globalism as the utter destruction of Europe allowed politicians to seriously consider globalism as a way to avoid war, which had become a civilizational threat.
Although I'm pretty sure Pearson and politicians of those days never comprehended that eventually almost all immigration would be from South Asia and Africa. They likely envisioned more of a Pan Europa than true globalism.
The largest unifying factor in Canada has always been “we are NOT Americans”. Claiming the unclaimed territory for Canada was the reason for the building of the Trans Canada railroad and the settlement of the Northwest Territory and its subsequent inclusion in Confederation as the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Even Louis Riel’s Red River rebellion was about getting Métis rights recognized and protected in the founding of Manitoba because being annexed by the USA was a very real danger. The Métis were not happy about Rupert’s Land simply being given to Canada by the HBC but were also NOT interested in being governed by the USA because of the Indians Wars.
A lot of the white settlers that settled in the former Northwest Territory came to the area because they didn’t appreciate being governed by anyone, British or American. The new dominion of Canada was just the least bad option. Those settlers were never happy with Ottawa because Ottawa didn’t care about anything but exploiting their labour in order to exploit their natural resources. Western Alienation has been a thing in Canada since the founding of the Western provinces because they were never created to be equal to Ontario and Quebec. Only to prevent American annexation and guarantee natural resources for the prosperity of central and Eastern Canada.
Thus, the birth of both libertarianism and prairie socialism among American and Canadian settlers in the West. Both of which prioritize your local community as the primary, relevant level of government over the far away, ignorant and disinterested federal governments in Ottawa and Washington.
Canada has always been too big and too diverse to govern effectively and the only thing keeping us together is fear of becoming Americans; that’s the only “unified” national identity we have. Or had. We’ll see.
This comment and the replies to it were super interesting. I know bits and pieces of Canadian history and it’s identity but I have never dug into the geopolitics…another rabbit hole
Yeah, apparently Canada is the first post national estate until tariffs come along and then it’s team Canada right when they need more power
Team Marxiste not team Canada.
Tarrifs are the crisis that will necessitate colossal welfare spending.
Black Horse is great, but he doesn't sugar coat things!
When you asked about the psychology of Trudeau, whether he feels embarrassment, I instantly thought of his Bollywood style costume and many theatrical get-ups… gut reaction is no, this man is without shame 🤣🫣
Let's not forget Sophie Gregoire Trudeau's singing at an MLK tribute. They were a family unit devoid of shame.
Vain and stupid fellow.
Mr DressUp. JT is a laughingstock on the global stage.
he can smile and wave while crowds jeer and yell at him. He knows the camera will make it look like people love him.
No, you're wrong. Blackface, india trip, lack of basic knowledge of WW2, getting kicked out of a teaching gig mid-term, attempting engineering school, and dropping out after one term, point to the fact this is a man that mentally never made it pass age 15. 1:34:24
When you speak of Western Canadians being a little more conservative in their views than those of Eastern Canada, don't forget that there is one HUGE exception to that rule, that being the coastal areas of British Columbia. The interior of BC probably aligns closer to the praries politically, but coastal BC aligns mostly with the coastal cities of the US, Washington, Oregon, and the coastal cities of California. So you need to think extremist far-left politics in these areas. Unfortunately for those in BC who are not far left supporters we are surrounded by many useful idiots who quite gjleefuly will vote their freedoms (and ours as well) right down the toilet, and have us all living in a socialist septic tank.
Don't forget the Maritimes, they're more conservative too. The real division is city versus country.
@@mariepicard8385people in the Maritimes are hugely dependent on government welfare programs, as conservative as they might be socially this still puts them in league with the bugmen politically
@@beowulf_of_wall_st That's what happens when the federal government shuts down your industries and sells you off to the highest bidder. Just because those provinces have been left for dead doesn't mean the people there are lefties.
Totally agree. I'm less than an hour from Vancouver.... Quite conservative where I'm at but the mob has been pushing their way into the area I live heavily in the last few years. The island and Vancouver area are very "left" as it may be called. Last election here was very close.... As said in another post. It's more city against country folks.
Its really only the larger metros and inner cities that tend to be more left. They want handouts though.
Canada feels like a very dark, dystopian place. I went up to B.C. on a bicycle trip and this feeling was quite pervasive.
Some people are oblivious. I'm self-employed, have an uncommon job and quickly most of my customers were deemed necessary, so I worked throughout the lockdowns. It was eerie on the highways and fascinating talking to people as I travelled. So many stories of resistance--refusing to close businesses, having parties with large groups of people, saying no to the jab. My family, siblings, stayed home and then called the truckers racist, while I quietly wept with relief. Regrettably that relief is gone. My one sibling now understands the truth, the other is hopelessly woke and has little interest in me it seems. They broke so many of us with lie after lie after lie. Then they took our "white pills" from us and flushed them down the toilet. I wanna care. I really really do. I just don't know what to care about other than family and friends.
@ilfautdanser9121 Family and friends are most important.
As a Swede I used to regard the US, UK and Canada as beacons of hope, and thought that while they were quite multicultural, they were societies that upheld law and order, with a tough police force which was admired by citizens. Societies with sane, let's call it conservative values. But since the great awokening and the last decade I reflexively recoil by just seeing these nations mentioned.
After events such as D Chauvin ending up in jail for lifetime for just doing his job the Anglo-Saxon world gives me feelings of disgust. I am constantly depressed.
@gulanhem9495 I am an American and there is hope here. We still have the first and second amendments and they need to be cherished. I do think this country might very well be the last bastion of freedom.
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It's good that you haven't given up hope about the US. But so much of the woke insanity came from the US and spread to us in Europe and elsewhere (not saying that Europe necessarily is overall better than the US though).
Seeing and listening to progressive sh1tl1bs from your East and West coasts, there's nothing that makes me more sick in the stomach. I can't handle it. In those moments I lose every ounce of hope I have left.
Your guest misses one very important point that nullifies many of his other points. If T picks up the 51 state, he'll go down in history as the greatest president since Roosevelt. What does he have to do to have this happen? Since Canada is in such a F up state, very little. A 25% tariff for a couple of years is more than enough, as Canadians would rather live as Americans than Venezuelans.
It's a bit like a perfect storm.
I've been sitting back and watching since I became aware of the influence of the globalist agenda on Trudeau's government.
The pattern I'm seeing is: Enlightenment/Progressivism, WEF, Cloward-Piven, Resource-rich state in chaos requiring "rescuing".
Quebec used to have massive lumber and mining operations, but they were either bought out and shut down or regulated out of existence. My dad's side were all miners and lumberjacks (and logdrivers!), but the various local mills were bought out by Anglo-Montrealers then shut down to stop competing with other interests. Much of the resource extraction and primary resource processing in Quebec has been exploited by outside sources. I understand Alberta's complaints, but there are other issues keeping them out of power and thus needing more of the equalization. I have no idea what the plan is for doing this, I only know that it's happening.
That's why the USA is full of Québeckers who emigrated
WTF? Keeping who out of power?
Quebec itself has so much red tape that as of the last 20 years has kept it down and in that perfect position to bribe the rest of Canada for money so they don't seperate
@@vibrolax Yes and no, It's also because 95% of Québecois were farmers and we had an huge overpopulation. To many men to feed and to work on the family farm. That created a surplus of labor. Wich New-England's factories needed.
@BidouLaloge I live in Québec with my very old stock Acadienne / Brayonne wife. We are constantly in contact with the people and their history.
Trucker protest in ottawa was January - February 2022, not 2021.
I remember. It started on my birthday on the 29th in 2022 and my bank account got frozen for participating on valentine's day.
We truly are in a time of GOOD VS EVIL once again.
I largely agree with Black Horse's point of view about our country.
The dilemma of the Canadian middle manager ( health, education, wherever)
Be faced with cuts to your bloated budget, do you ......
1)Contemplate operating in good faith and cutting your own bloated support staff or amenities- the frontline care won't change and the budget will go down
OR
2)Deliberately cut the budget and support for the front lines, in the most obvious and painful way possible.
You pick 2 every time.
Why?
Because the leaders who made the cut ( or budget freeze) will be out on their ass because your frontline and the public will blame them.
Cuts to education?
take away textbooks and limit TA's. Even though the budget didn't change, do it. Blame the government. You can keep your office and travel expenses and lackeys this way.
Cuts to health?
Hire more management. Make more rules, cancel care hours. Everytime someone dies waiting for care your org won't provide, the government is shamed into increasing your budget and power.
26:33 to be fair.... the "Laurentian" provinces definitely do produce stuff.
The Canadian tech industry is mostly in Ontario, in the Ottawa, Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo areas.
Manufacturing is also centered around there, mainly in southern Ontario but also in Quebec, especially in the smaller cities.
Even the resource sector is not that weak. Lots of forestry in the east, just like the west, but also metal mining in the northern areas (ex Abitibi gold, Sudbury nickel, iron from the Labrador/northern Quebec region). There's also agriculture, although the Prairies are very expansive, Ontario greatly outperforms the Prairies for high value crops such as fruits and vegetables, as well as crops that require warmer weather such as corn and soybeans, and also produces much more dairy, pork, chicken and eggs (Alberta outperforms on beef though). Some fishing, even some oil/gas in Hibernia (Newfoundland).
But there's also a lot of financial industry, real estate, media and government in the east, which I suppose you can say is of more questionable value.
Quebec also produces more refined aluminum than the rest of North and South America combined. It doesn't mine it, but it has smelters than take bauxite ore from places like Brazil and extracts/refines aluminum out of it. The majority of the steel mills are in Ontario (5), or Quebec (2), with just one in western Canada (Saskatchewan).
Unfortunately a lot of the productive industries in the east has been getting hollowed out. Tech is not what it used to be when we had Nortel and Blackberry. You still get startups and lots of smart grads, but a lot of them (I think even the majority...) just move to the US for better opportunities. Manufacturing has been struggling, with land and energy getting expensive, and competition from foreign countries with cheap labour. Mining in Ontario has been held back by regulations, lack of clarity with how to negotiate with First Nations, and lack of commitment to infrastructure (in Quebec and Newfoundland/Labrador, it's been better).
I just got a history lesson of Canada.If you look at Canada and their politicians it’s weird as it’s family run.
A father enters politics and then his son/daughter goes into politics replacing the father.
Canadians need to wake up
Indeed. Pierre Trudeau nearly ruined Canada. It is now a debacle.
Canada is run by cartels and a tiny group of elites who all know each other personally, it's a banana republic cosplaying as a real Western democracy
You're sounding American. We don't choose a Prime Minister. We vote for party at local level by voting for a local MP. The party chooses the leader.
@ am not sounding American the Canadian political system is prone to been hijacked.Yes you vote for party at local level but if I stayed in Vancouver all my life I can go to Kingston Ontario and rube voted for and have a stronghold of that sit for years to come.
It’s really sad.this country is a Marxist pig with western society lipstick.Even in Africa stuffs like that doesn’t happen
Are you an American? You're deeply confused. Trudeau Sr and Jr is the only case of this "family run" politics as you say at the federal level. The US has more of this, with the Roosevelts, the Bushs, etc.
God bless, really important video and messages for western mans future.
Winning this will be a matter of holding on with enough strength to weather the storm and the some strength left thereafter for the great reclamation.
Small correction, Parliament used to be unilaterally sovereign in the UK but the Blair government changed that, making the supreme court able to override parliament. See the 2005 Constitutional Reform Act
Which has led to so much chaos.
Today I listened to two podcasts with very knowledgeable Canadian guests.. makes me a little bit hopeful, because everything else is dark over here
What was the other one?
@@mattwatson8667 Pete Quinones ua-cam.com/video/10m5L1eGjGM/v-deo.html
What’s the other one?
Hmm.. this is weird. I pasted the other channel "podcast" here. Seems like it disappeared 😕 what's going on, I wonder 🤔
Wow 😮 it disappears as soon as I paste the link! This is crazy. It's the Pete Quinones show
I dont see why Trump wouldnt want Alberta-Sask seperating & having closer ties to US
Alberta is fed up with Ottawa, and will likely seperate from Canada this Century
@@ryu_street_fighter561 Its inevitable.
@@ryu_street_fighter561 No chance.
I think Canadians biggest weakness is being distracted by American politics without realizing that its completely separate from the Canadian ones that actually affect them. Especially in terms of Progressive policies being implemented that have negative results that Canadians would almost all condemn, if they weren't distracted by American politics. Canadians don't realize that there are hardly any news sources that actually describe current events. Local policies aren't usually made known and especially if its controversial, CBC doesn't fund stories that make their funders look bad.
Very true.
That's the case with any progressive legacy news outlet though.
@vangoghsear8657 I was just going to say the same. Not to mention who own them. Trudeau has had media on payroll for years. Also, in November 2023, the Trudeau government announced that it had reached an agreement with Google that would see the tech giant pay $100 million annually to Canadian news outlets under the Online News Act. Apparently, half of private journalism is funded by the government with a 50% wage subsidy in salaries up to $85,000.
Truth seekers know better than to look for the truth from legacy media. The information is out there, but unfortunately most won't find it because they aren't inclined to do their own research.
@@vangoghsear8657 I was just going to say the same. Not to mention who own them. In November 2023, the Trudeau government announced that it had reached an agreement with Google that would see the tech giant pay $100 million annually to Canadian news outlets under the Online News Act. Apparently, half of private journalism is funded by the government with a 50% wage subsidy in salaries up to $85,000.
2:03:40 Benjamin Boyce the curator of online discourse, all of the interesting discourse anyway. Perfect description.
"Like a 19th century bug collector" lol
I cannot overstate how important and also informative this calmversation is.
Most people have no appreciation of the dire precipice Canada is now on because of decades of insidious proto-wokeism that infiltrated EVERYTHING.
Growing up in the 90s we were taught that Canadian identity and pride was founded in our quiet, unassuming, unforgivably polite, unlimitedly tolerant, hyper-progressive contrast to our boorish southern neighbours. This was a fatal delusion.
We were small, cold, out of the way, and assumed that if we didn’t bother anybody, the whole world would just be as nice and utopian towards us as we were to them. Peace and love for all. It was a dangerous and irresponsible delusion. Those chickens have come home to roost. We are internally fractured, domestically feeble, and at the mercy of any country that so desires. Because we were lulled by globalist progressive hippies for far too long.
Excellent discussion. New sub ❤
Thanks and welcome 🤗
"White" would be a racial identity. Ethnic would be French or English...
There is no White race, nor is there a Black one.
There are Caucasians, Negros, Mongoloids and Dravidians.
I travel a lot from Toronto to across south-western Ontario. The latter has a lot of people who are of Mennonite or Dutch Reform backgrounds and are either farmers or 1 generation removed from a farm. They are very conservative. They want the government to provide basic services (police, courts, etc) and otherwise stay the hell away. Huge resistance to Trudeau's restrictions on rifles and anti-free speech legislation. "F Trudeau" stickers on trucks are everywhere. And, Torontonians for the most part are completely confused by them or despise them.
26:15 "So what does Quebec and the Laurentian elite produce?"
Historically, manufacturing and farming. They're called the Laurentian elite because of the St. Laurence river, it's the corridor along the river through Quebec and Ontario that leads to the Great Lakes, which was a major shipping highway both into and out of Canada. It was the perfect place to build factories, and that's how they became rich and powerful enough to create the nation in the first place from the original colonies.
Now that manufacturing and farming backbone is decrepit, and they were always the financial and legal center of the country. They bought into the NeoLiberal global project and allowed their industry to crumble.
Academic Agent is a real revelation for me. Excellent interview. Thank you
Very interesting conversation and view of the 3 elite blocks.
Fascinating discussion
Damn, you sent me on a great tangent with your mention of Academic Agent 😯 Never heard of him until now!
For years I was certain it would be Canada, as the 1st Western nation to [koll + apse], but now convinced will be [yoo + kay]. America was in a not-so-distant 3rd, but we may have turned corner.
😢😢
We're trying 🇬🇧 . Sorted the trans thing out. Now to resolve grape gangs and the same amount of migrants per year as the US, a country 38 times larger than us.
Not fond of grapes one bit. Particularly gangs of grapes 🍇. 🐿
Thanks Blackhorse! it feels good to know that some one else out there with the same observation of last man in a dyeing culture its felt like that for a long time....
Quebec also has a gigantic natural gas deposits. The provincial gov. doesn't want to exploit it.
Blackhorse is WRONG about western canada being more Christian. British Columbia (a lib province because of Vancouver), and then Alberta (the conservative party's stronghold) are the two least religious provinces in the country. However I do suspect that those who say they're Christian on the census in Alberta, are more likely to actually be Christian than those in Ontario.
Who is the other canadian guy Benjamin talked to they talked about? Dime something? Which episode is that one?
It’s Dimes… Blood Satellite is his website
Fact Check: -30C is -22F.
Owned with facts and logic!
@@theblackhorse3996 Some dark part of my soul made me do this.
It gets colder in the US. We win.
@@jonschmitt232 false. But it's fair to say more Americans live in cold climate compared to Canadians who mostly live in the armpit in Ontario
It's true that loyalists--ancestors of English Canadians were badly mistreated by Americans. It's really shocking that they have no resentment for that.
I can't remember that.. Don't need Americans though, too propagandized a people.
Sadly the British “loyalists” wrote their own history by maintaining allegiance to a depraved warlike English monarchy. This is what the American revolution was fighting against. Unfortunately Canada today is the sorry legacy of British imperialism and its creation as a blockade against American republican anti monarchist ideology. The “loyalists” are celebrated today by the Canadian state bc that’s a big part of their legitimacy, but being loyal to a distant British king simply for the purposes of maintaining a global empire isn’t necessarily something to celebrate.
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What fascinates me is their lack of ill will toward the US --whether or not they supported a tyranical king...being right or wrong is beside the point. Other countries have chips on their shoulders for much less.
Canadians don't know anything about history
Justin Trudeau is the most authentically inauthentic person you will ever meet...😬
1:37:55 I wouldn't expect an Ontario resident to fully know all the background to this story, but the law school at TWU has never been built. The community standards are no longer mandatory for students, but they remain for staff, faculty and student leaders.
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Great conversation--gotta respect someone who can speak clearly in a non-partisan way. Definitely some bright minds up there. I welcome you to join the American Empire, but respect if you want to fight for your nation!
At the very least, we must re-write the Canadian Constitution to be similar to the American text ! … especially the first few chapters !!… no compromise !!
There be blood,buckets,oceans.
Rewrite the Canadian constitution and charter of rights.
Canada is lost, nothing can change until the political system is totally reformed but that can't happen because it would require ontario and quebec giving up a ton power and that won't happen
Get lost Azrael... Canada is awesome!
All the whinners & complainers should move to Florida.
Quit blaming government for your bad choices and poor financial decisions
Our government equals our survival and ability to be civil while struggling to survive. By the way! I bought strawberry's from Walmart, and they were frozen. If you can't understand that you need heated trucks to deliver your product up here, what other things will you refuse to understand.
You buy food from Walmart??!
@maxnovax3948 What can't you buy from Walmart. Food, auto repair, electronics, seasonal items. They don't have gas like at Costco or Canadian Tire. Canadian Tires car chargers are the best next to Teslas of course.
@@maxnovax3948 is that supposed to mean something??
Thank you Benjamin 🇨🇦
The worst kind of Liberalism (note, all forms of liberalism are bad and lead to the same general places) was what Canada was rooted in at the time of Confederation. The Laurentian elites specifically are the most degenerate forms of liberal elites imaginable and always have been--that is why Canada was so easily vassalized by Progressivism from the United States. A pathetic weakness of our people and specifically our elites for several generations led us here. Confederation in its structure and the elites that seeded it and the ones that followed made Canada a degenerating project from the beginning--we are now fully rotted out
Grant's "Lament for a Nation" truly is the blackpilled history of all time, because if you read that book closely it's very clear he's saying Canada has been cooked since about 1840.
@ we need not despair however. As long as we hold true to ourselves and pass it along, the fire will continue and our people’s posterity will be great when the time is right because we ensured be the proper vanguard.
I've been an avid follower of Bret's as well as AAs for a number of years now and it's absolutely great to see you trying to bridge this gap. The JQ probably ensures that they will always remain separate, but having an interlocutor is a good thing, I think.
He should be clear that Canada and the US had a free-trade deal for several years before NAFTA (when Mexico joined). The first hit was the US and then the next hit was Mexico (low-wage)
Why do they maintain bilingualism in the country when a small, a very small portion are truly bilingual? I see many who listen in French or English, but few listen in both. In recent years, the stories have changed in the languages. Similar to what I saw as a kid up north-the Ontario news would say Quebec wanted out, and in French, they were under attack. The truth was in between. I argue this bilingualism was not what they said it was-I argue it is how the Laurentian elite maintains their hegemony.
I was bilingual and passed the literacy tests. I’ve been across our country and worked in finance for decades. I used my French with tourists from Europe. Even the Quebeckers I knew wanted to practice their English, or in Ontario, few have confidence in their French language or even the accent. You can see this in Trudeau and Pierre-they both began the last few years speaking in their limited high-school-friend-circle French. Not university-level, etc. Now they are getting much better. Jagmeet never got much better. Blanchet has wonderful French but hates to speak English. Imagine if an English politician refused to speak French-oh yes, the last one was forcibly removed from the Liberal leadership race for saying he didn’t think Canadians needed French. I agree, but Blanchet was wrong.
Or how about Mélanie Joly and Trudeau calling Blanchet vieille comme le monde and con con con-nothing was ever said. That is disgusting speech and worse-they are the old-world thinkers. Canada, c’est bizarre.
Quebec wants to separate from canada. Also Quebec; welcome hyper immigration while not promoting assimilation.
Isn't that ironic? 🐿
what? no we dont want immigration, we use the french language to circle around racism basically youre clueless. Montreal isn't quebec
That means Quebec is no longer.
I don't think this is correct. Quebec favors French-speaking immigrants, e.g. the former French colonies of central and Northern Africa. they do not want Anglophone immigrants.
@ I can handle being incorrect. Where have the latest waves of immigrants been settling? Not in Quebec? Is housing supply larger and cheaper there?🐿
@@vibrolaxto be fair, most immigrants don't speak English or French
Australia is marginally better then Canay, because we borrowed so heavily from the US during our 'Federation" process. I say "Federation" because Australia is a federation only very weakly so. The problem here is the inverse where the States all try and outcompete one another to be the most draconian and "Australian".
Canadas done. The caucasian christian freedom/free market one anyway. There will always be a Canada but theres too may differing factions. At this crumbling point with gov't civil servants being the elites on top of a ponzi scheme, low birth rates and open borders etc. etc. Canadians are so weak, the fact that JT was even a thing a decade ago is mind blowing.
White Canadians and running around pretending to be native or black
@21:20, lol and so much for a benevolent dictator, lol.
I'm not super familiar with Canada's Christian communities, but I had a lot and according to the census, Alberta has a very low percentage of people who identify as Christian, basically second to only British Columbia within Canada, while the Maritimes have more than any province outside Quebec.
However, checking on Google Trends, keywords such as "God", "Bible", "Jesus", "Apostles", "Faith", "Worship", "Church", "Christ", "New Testament" that should be of high importance among all Christian denominations seem to generate less interest in Atlantic Canada than in the Prairies. BC still comes off as still being one of the most secular provinces. Ontario sometimes comes out closer to the Prairies, sometimes more secular.
With Quebec, it seems like google trends isn't good at picking up on search results from both languages, but even with words that are the same in both languages (ex "Christ" or "Bible"), there seems to be less interest from Quebec (this is not true for terms like "internet" that are also the same in both French and English but have no religious or regional correlation), so it seems like Quebec is the least religious based off Google Trends.
Does Eastern Canada (especially Quebec) just have a lot of Christians in name only compared to the Prairies?
They reference a conversation with "Dimes" a few times. Does anyone know where that is?
I hope Canadians consider voting for the PPC instead of the Conservatives in the next election.
yup. split the vote and have the liebarrel pigs come up the middle
@@Flatlanderexpress better to vote your conscience than to worry about splitting the vote. I worry that the CPC are WEF stooges like the Liberal Party are; voting for the Conservative Party is just another way of putting the Uniparty in power again.
@@Flatlanderexpress I voted conservative last time and never want to do that again. Don't care about a split, I'm voting for the fringes.
Me too ( in PEI), but unfortunately too many cowards unwilling to step away from the red/blue ingrained traditions
People have a short memory. Maxime Bernier left classified documents with his Hell's Angels affiliated girlfriend 20yrs ago. Doesn't seem like a serious person or a conservative to me. We have no real options in Canada.
Where can I find the Dimes episode?
He mentioned the “Dimes” episode a couple of times, anyone know which episode that is?
Where is this "Dymes/Dimes" interview that keeps getting referenced?!
Just dropped!
Good news all around
How to spot an American: ask them to say "Canada." 🤣
That’s aboouut right!
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Why are these territories in it because they share a dropbox together for similar talking points and ideas?
Greeting From One Horseman to you all
Where did you get that jumper Mr Boyce?
Minus 30 C is minus 22 F
Alberta must separate
Why don't you shut up and just do it? The rest of Canada would be happy to see you go.
"...the french tradition from which the american system is derived"?! No.
Look up psychopath and narcissism, malignant narcissism, and you may find some interesting correlations
Indeed: Poilievre. Trump. Danielle Smith. Scott Moe. I could go on.
@Benjamin A Boyce I figured the way to counteract your exceedingly calm mellow delivery that seems bolstered with Xanax and marijuana!
Basically to put umph back into the show at least the tempo can go up with ×2 speed. Wish you drank whiskey and smoked or something to give just a bit of grit to the material.
But alas not all commentators can sound as severe and serious as Id prefer. Just so bizarre to me such topics spoken about with the same energy Id expect from a painting or baking show host.
Sounds like Aus.
W3f puppet states..
Interesting conversation. Checked out The Black Horse X account. A couple of constructive pointers: you should probably learn how to spell Pierre Poilièvre's name if you're planning to post about him everyday. I know, not that important. A more major point would be that your views on Canadian politics show that you're from a western province (that includes Ontario from a Maritimer's perspective). Throwing all the French Canadians in one bowl makes no sense. Quebec is very different from the rest of French Canadians. Acadians aren't progressives, French Manitobans or Ontarians aren't progressives, etc. I understand that we have no power, but we also aren't responsable for all the nonsense (and political rift) Quebecers may have caused federally. The real political division in Canada is city versus country.
What are those brown animals running in the background in the first minute with the house cats?
Prairie dogs?
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Wow. I thought prarie dogs were kinda like guinea pigs and would get killed by the cats.
@@gulanhem9495 I have no idea, but that I do know that many cats are so domestic that they may not know how to catch mice even.
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But those cats belong to Ben Boyce. Do really you think his cats are such cucks that they don't even can kill a mouse?
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Did u readed my last comment? Either it got deleted or is not visible to me. I think I rought something about Ben's cats not being so weak that they could not k1ll a mous.
Listening to Canadians speak about politics is frustrating because they focus mainly on superficial and even irrelevant issues while adopting a passive attitude toward issues of importance. Canada appears to be one gigantic social experiment that eventually gets imposed upon other liberal western democracies. That may be why Canadians are now disrespected and even despised internationally. There was a hope with the Truckers uprising against the proposed Mandates, that Canadians would be able to shrug off the indoctrination. That was swiftly suppressed by their Federal government with the support of the Americans alphabet agencies in coordination with big tech. The subsequent apathy and resignation of the populace doesn't bode well for their future and that weakness, along with the pathetic display of their political leaders seems to have emboldened opportunistic parties abroad, including Trump. Break up and absorption into the US or the proposed North American Union may be the best outcome outside of sudden upsurge of nationalistic pride and independence which doesn't seem likely.
Traitor.
@@wlf7184 I'm more of a realist. In fact, I believe that trading Wall Street control of Canada's resources for the American Constitution and Bill of rights, ultimately works in Canadian citizens favor. Which makes me wonder whom or what you are loyal to as a Canadian?
In the intro, what are those animals infiltrating the cats? Ferrets? Prairie Dogs?
I thought they were stray cats... almost looked like a heard of cattle coming in so I asked if he were starting a cat farm...
@@battygirlrachel Looked to me like something in the ferret, weasel, stoat, marten, mink, badger family. (but not stout enough to be badgers) Couldn't get a good look because they were too swift and slinky.
@GordieGii I was watching from my phone so I just noticed there were other cats besides Body and the black cat he usually shares... might have to watch on my computer 😆
@@battygirlrachel You absolutely should. It's pretty cool.
I'm going to watch it again, but in full screen and maybe slow it down.
@@GordieGii now that can see them... they look too stout to be ferrets... they do resemble prairie dogs in the face, but their tails are longer and bushier. I asked Grok what fit that description and it said it was probably a marmot... looking at their range and coloring etc, I think that is probably what these are.
What 1h03m00s Israel has laws specifying the % of Jews and they are about 80% they aren’t a minority. They are about 50% if you add in the West Band and Gaza that are under military occupation.
French Canadians are the majority in the province of Quebec and there are many in the Federal Govt that’s true. Quebec does control it’s own immigration.
1. Would have liked to understand more about implications on Canada of Trump's tariffs in by way of examples. 2. Found myself getting lost on the Laurentian elite and what TBlack Horse means when he says "ideologies" or "ideological". Seem to me there was a particular meaning in context of discussing Canada.
Are you starting a cat breeding farm, Benjamin? So... does that make @NinjaKittyBonks a cat wrangler?
BTW, great conversation.
WELL WE WHERE NEVER ABLE TO GET FRENCH TO AGREE SO THEY SET THIER OWN CONSTITUTION IN PLAY QUEBEC IS NOT PARTY OF CANADA JUST A TRADE PARTNER QUEBEC SEPARATE WELL FIRST YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MARRAGE BEFORE YOU CAN HAVE A SPERATION
CANADA HAS NO CONFEDERATION
By 1982 this was a serious problem so they went to reestablish an inherent jurisdiction under the crown
When 1812 came USA still wanted to remove French and British from North America .So now do to stupidity we may face economical 181w battle
I AGREE WITH MUCH I LIKE YOUR CALLER HE KNOWS YA MARITIMES PROVINCES KEPT THE FAITH ..I WOULD DISAGREE AMERICA WANTS ITS FULL INDEPENDANCES FROM FORIEGN BANKES .
At least under Trump
At 21m00s he didn’t mention what could be done with the money from nationalizing those industries!
Well let’s look at a couple of examples shall we?
Russia & Norway have nationalized in whole or part of they Oil/Gas
The top personal income tax rate in Russia is 16%! 😱
In Norway their national Fund when done on a per capita bases means every citizen is worth $353,000 CA dollars! 😱 😜
Thanks for sharing this interview, enjoyed some of BH's bold claims. Some takes were a bit baseless, though. I suspect that Justin Trudeau is indeed pretty insufferable, but when BH says, "I know JT because I know lots of people like him" that is very circular logic. He also ascribes motives without evidence and does so in the least charitable way possible. "It would be fine if the people weren't evil" seems like a cartoonishly simple explanation. Finally, he describes Canada as if it was a third world hellhole, and while it is indeed terribly woke, we are doing really well by most standard metrics. Thanks again for your video!
You don't know how empty the Canadian ruling class is, they are all pod people and they all think exactly the same way. They all went to the same couple of schools and you can go to a handful of events and you will have met every single powerful person in the country. They are interchangeable, fungible. Trudeau is a particularly stupid example but other than that he is barely even a person. The number one priority these people have is repeating the correct opinions in public so people can acknowledge their orthodoxy.
Alberta will be the 51st State
I hope Alberta will leave confederation. I speak on behalf of the rest of Canada. We don't want you. You're traitors to our country.
The concept of woke right is very sloppy. I don't think what gets coined as the "woke right" has the answers to what would work societally, but they shouldn't be dismissed, no more than people who see the value in a liberal, democratic society should be haphazardly dismissed. I don't think we'll discover anything functional, unless we shift from waging ideological war to mutual challenging and competition towards an end where the inevitably ideologically heterogenous masses can co-exist without resorting to means that bring down everyone. It takes commitment, which is increasingly difficult to establish, which is a sign of societal weakness.
We should also remember that a religious, clannish or tribal society can also mean and degenerate into something resembling modern Afghanistan, as opposed to a mythical past. Europe during the Reformation was not a non-violent place and incentives still apply to modern humans. If things deteriorate enough, I can easily see Christian clannish structures forming over time, with competing denominations coming to blows over perceived otherness and practices and beliefs that might incite hostility between groups. It could come down to something as worldly as control over resources, such as land. It's no different than it is with American politics. Christians are in no way above that sort of development, unless there exists enough common cause to establish a baseline of rules for conducting relations between people. The Book is not enough, as history shows. It could turn worse than it is now.
Eject Quebeq.
Eject Alberta.
Sadly agree ❤ 22:33
Get Matthew Ehret on
I would like to hear a conversation between The Black Horse and Professor Bruce Pardy who is a very intelligent Canadian Classical Liberal.
I got the impression that The Black Horse's faith isn't offering him much hope. The beauty of Christianity is the living hope in Christ the Saviour.
I'm guessing Mennonite if he's in South Western Ontario
That's funny, a few of us were telling Bruce he should go do a Calmversation just the other day. I think it would be a good one.
47:46 Erdogan tier you'd best be careful not to upset the apple cart or you'll get a refugee crisis
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And the fact anything after 1931 isn’t actually law but god forbid anyone ever actually look into Canadian history. It’s called the Statute of Westminster.
Amazing to see your cats disinterested in preying on small wildlife.
He is so true about your role in this space @benjamin
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Guy is out to lunch...? Would be way better if ya just tried talkin normal.
Generalize much eh?
Yada yada yada, you are still locked into your dissolving bubble. Talking like you really rule, but “they” took over. Not impressed.
Conservatives Party is also Laurentian elites. Come on..Brian Mulroney, to start.
War measures act was not to break separatism but to stop actual terrorism. Pierre’s intent was to reason with rather than to stamp out Quebec separatists militarily, as this is made to sound like here.
Very authoritative tone this speaker, but what he’s spitting is not that accurate.
this balderdash.
I'm sorry, there's no risk of the US Economy exploding? Dude's aware we are 37 TRILLION dollars in debt right?
As long as we remain, or are perceived as the top military power, I don't think it matters. Not that I think that can be forever either lol
Quebec does not have any resources developed. They get all their electricity from Churchill Falls, which is in Newfoundland.
Churchill Falls represents 15% of Québec's electricity. Between 40% to 50% comes from the James Bay Project. The rest comes from more than 50 other electrical generating stations owned by Hydro Québec, and even more stations that are privately owned, making it the forth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world, a third of total Canadian generation, making it the top electricity producer, and the top electricity exporter in Canada.
Québec have wood (25% of Canada's exports), which it transforms in pulp and paper products (37% of Canada's exports), agriculture and food (12% of Canada's exports) including maple syrup where it's the world leader, 30 minerals are mined, the most important being iron, gold, nickel, titanium, niobium, zinc, copper and silver (almost 50% of Canada's exports).
Québec also has very good expertise in aerospace (one of the world's leaders actually, and 77% of Canada's exports of aircraft and parts), in video games (e.g.: Ubisoft and EA), in Artificial Intelligence (see Mila, the largest concentration of deep learning academic researchers globally).
So yeah, you've been misinformed.