The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin - No Healthcare, Just Same Day MAID! | CBP 255 Pt 2

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

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Okay. Well, I mean, quite a lead there. You buried with the Hamilton Brantam. No, we're not starting. Well, we got half an hour ago. Yeah, we got half an hour ago. We're ending that. So I guess that's the end. But I guess we'll talk about like oil, for instance.

That's a, it's a good topic. Round tripping, by the way. It's the price action of this is going nuts. It went up so much, went down so much. I thought we were going to get to see $2 per leader over here in Canada. Maybe not. Maybe we still are. I don't know.

Diesel, yesterday was hovering up close to $2. Crazy. And if you look at That's economy destroying prices by the way $2 diesel. That's like a mass. That's even just the beginning. Yeah.

Things could get way. You know, if you consider the price of gas a few weeks ago was $1.20, at least over here, everywhere it would be higher or lower, but at least I'm going to use the example here, $1.20. That's what, if you look at the price of food, how much it's gone up in the past few years, the price of gold, how much that's fucking changed in the past year. The price of a new car, used car. Like all this shit has gone up tremendously.

A dollar 20 a liter for gas. I've been brainwashed to think that this is fucking cheap. You know, like, that it's fucking like, like, It was 30 cents in the 90s. Yeah. Yeah. I remember, I remember filling up a go cart for $2. Nice.

In the 90s. Imagine that. But those, those days are long, long gone, right? I mean, we got the $80, West Tets. WTI right now. It's an $80? It went to what, it was 84 when we started the show, I think. But it was one, one 10th or 120, yeah, the futures.

That's, it's a tough pill to swallow, right? You got the price of food, like I talked about. It's already very, very high in Canada. And in comparison to other G7 nations. And, you know, this is going to get worse as the price of diesel goes up because, well, who eats that cost in the end? It's the consumers, right? Now when the price of gas goes up, another thing that's going to be discussed,

or at least talk to them more is EVs. People are going to look at this as an alternative to be shielded away from the volatility of gas prices. So this is something else. And with all that, you had the fucking oil price going up, going down, gas going up. They got the job market too, which I found to be fucking incredible, the numbers that came out. Canada, we have a rough time because we have in the past little while, we have continually the same thing, less permanent, sorry, less full-time jobs, more part-time jobs, and this is just a constant. And when you have this, this is not a recipe for success.

And in the United States, 92,000 jobs lost in February. And this is before what you call the Department of Downward Revisions taking it in effect here, which historically, they change this thing negatively. If they do, those numbers are going to look even worse once they get their hands in it. Video cards. Like, I'll just go through this. Like, you want to play a good game. You lost your job.

What are you going to do? Build a PC. Fuck that. You know, you can't build a modern PC. The RTX 5090, it took a peak. This could set you back 5K USB. Yeah. Yeah. I told you, I told you we bought, dude, we bought this rig that I'm streaming on now.

The show owns this rig for video. We bought it in November. It has a 5070. And we got the whole rig for, I think after tax was like a little shy of three grand. You can't even, you can't even. You can't even buy the card anymore. Let's sell that shit. Let's go in a long vacation and enjoy it.

DDR5 memory, the memory of that 4x since October. DDR4, 3x since June of last year. And all this, why? Because AI, they're buying up all this. You know, whatever. People are now unemployed, temporarily adjusting to this thing. You know, Amazon, Microsoft.

block we had recently all moving towards more AI. More so blocked the other two. But you know what? I look at that as the poster boy, that in H-1Bs and offshore jobs. Like, you know, again, a healthy economy, right? This is not. And then, you know, the environment of the war, like we first had the war in Eastern Europe, drawing all the attention and resources from the countries.

No country wins a war of attrition against Russia. the fucking Germans, not the French, nobody. Now, you got Iran versus Israel and United States. I mean, I don't know. The Leafs weren't even expected to make the playoffs. It's a fucking zoo. Now with everything's going on. Gold, I'd expect gold to fucking be ripping in this environment.

Yeah. In a situation where you have these big players getting involved in the war a straight of what are the fuck is called. Hormuz. Farmoos, yeah. 20% of oil passes through there. Qatar is sending, they used to send a lot of LNG to Europe. That's shut off.

But still, gold, not moving. What the fuck caused it to move before? Before all this took place. If it should have moved anywhere, any time, it should be now, but it's not. Something is fucked up. I don't understand, but, you know, the paper economy, I'm looking at that, the bonds, the equities, legacy banks, they're fucking. going to be begging for your money because they need your participation moving forward without

your participation they're fucking dead into water and when you do the gatekeepers like black rock for instance right these guys these motherfuckers they won't let their investors pull out their money their funds right black rock billions of dollars stuck right and people wonder why i have bitcoin i don't have to ask anybody when i have to move or deal with my bitcoin right then black rock from what I gather, there's a circuit breaker. When there's redemptions that go past a certain percent, 5%. They stop it. They say, fuck you.

You can't get access to your money. No more fucking trading for you. What a fucking joke. It's not your money. It's somebody else's even when you're dealing with these motherfuckers. Blackstone as well. What's this with these fucking names, by the way, right? They want us to keep us in the dark. That's the reality. They're not

fucking hiding it. Even they have a redemption 7%. They had to up at the 7%. But still, appreciate it but seven versus it's pretty solid but i don't want to beg you for my cash and you wonder like this is impact ibit this is a big one for bitcoiners apparently not this whole redemption bullshit ibit is not being impacted right now i say right now because tomorrow is another day we don't know you know it's it's not a tainted bite as fiat bullshit it's still wrapped in fiat but it's not tainted by it's not tainted bite but i i just want to quickly go further into the weeds here i can't believe i'm

fucking doing this shit. Because in Canada, people are collecting a bunch of people collecting CPP, right, Joey? Yeah. To the tune of 6.6 million according to Google as of 2024. 14% of the population. It's got to even higher now. Yeah, it's got even higher now. Is that a lot? I mean, I'll let you decide how many people rely on that. What about people on on CDPQ? How will people collecting from the Ontario teacher's pension? It goes on and on. You got a lot of people out there that are collecting. And, well, these pensioners, where do they get their money from? They're getting shut out from these black rocks and black stones and stuff like that.

I can't buy enough Bitcoin when I see this kind of stuff, right? Like I say, I have my access to my fucking Bitcoin 24-7. And people don't have access to their money when to rely on this fucking bullshit. But on top of all this, you think that parking your wealth, this is just an absolute beauty. This is a cherry on top, Joey. You know, there's all these Fiat games going on. on, right? I think a great place to park money is in energy.

Right? You look at what's going on out there. Can't print more energy, right? Can't print more energy. The price is going up, at least now, if you can't put down. Anyways, in late 2025, for Gibronis, they were represented by eco-justice. They filed a lawsuit against the CPP. Did you know that's Joey?

I think we talked about this. They were, because they were saying that the CPP IB was effectively, gambling with their future solvency to chase short-term profits because they were continually buying fossil fuel expansion and pushing that narrative. I cannot wait to fucking leave, man. I'm done on so many

fucking levels when I see this fucking bullshit. This stuff, it just drives me fucking bonkers. I love it and I hate it at the same fucking time. A couple things. The pensions and the both public can't private pensions. So teachers,

CPPIB, CDPQ, whatever. This is the next domino to fall, I think, in a lot of ways. And it's going to be hard to spin the pensions having problems with, not necessarily with liquidity. I don't think that's going to be the problem. I think the problem is going to be freedom of investment. Yeah, ability to move markets and do whatever they want to do with the money they have. They're not going to be allowed to invest past a certain

percentage in foreign markets in oil and gas, in whatever. They'll come up with a number of, you know, let's say just sort of blacklisted investments. This is not new, by the way. In Canada, Freeland, when she was finance minister, talked about this. Carney has talked about this both in his role as a bank governor and also in his role as PM that we have to incentivize the pensions to invest in Canadian companies. I've said a million times on this show. I've said a million times on the show that the unit party is is alive and well in Canada because the conservatives also have this same idea. Expanding out your TFSA room to 12,000 and then telling you that 40% of it's got to be in a pre-selected basket of Canadian equities is capital control. And what you have,

what you have brewing in Canada is a big time failure to launch on projects that would have helped to prevent this outcome. the major projects office just took an L on a pipeline expansion, I think, or a pipeline buildout. I forget what. But more or less because of native interests, I think I have to do some more research into this, but it happened late last week. At the same time that oil, you know, it was ripping up and down like a gold chart during Well, they're going to build out a port in BC.

And that's been... They couldn't do it, right? They're not allowed to do it. And I just think, like, you know, until we start taking seriously the potential that the golden goose that we enjoy in terms of the pension and, you know, to some extent health care, although obviously we'll talk about the direction that's going tonight too. You just, you have to be in other assets. Arthur Hayes makes this point a lot. And, you know, maybe most famously in an essay he wrote probably three years ago talking about outside money. And this is something I've talked about on Tradfye podcast I've been on.

I've talked about at conferences I've gone to, talked about it with like real estate people at the Karazza's stuff. Outside money has never been more important. And to a lot of people, outside money used to be gold. That was what it meant to have outside money. But gold was sort of a fun thing to hold in a world where you thought that you could bring gold to a shop, to trade it for fiat, to make a purchase or whatever. But when you have, when you have, when you have, when you have this like this sprouting issue with societal cohesion. You have these other issues with the sort of like likelihood that the gold you have is actually there in a vault somewhere. You have an issue with redemption. You have an issue with shipping in terms of like, you know,

actual redemptions from overseas vaults. Gold solely doesn't look as good. Not to mention that if you were holding gold through the 70s, from the 70s to like 2008, for example, you, basically got beat by everything else. So gold was meant to be a wealth preserver. He got beat by the S&P. Gold is meant to be a wealth preserver, got beat by real estate. Gold is meant to be a wealth preserver, got beat by farmland. Gold was meant to be a wealth preserver, got beat by, you know, Mike Richter, rookie cards, whatever, right? There's one for you, Len. You know, the Kager on gold from that period is like 7%. Kager on the S&P was about 13. the sort of rebuttal to that would be, well, 7% is a great kegger. Yeah, it is. But not when the

easiest thing to buy would have netted you double. Not when the easiest thing to buy real estate would have netted you double or triple. Like that's the problem, right? And so when you start to look at what gold's done, you have to admit that it's failed as a store of value and a wealth preserver. I think that's number one. But number two, maybe more importantly, on the on the issue of, you know, money in crisis, you can't transport gold safely if you are in a crisis where you need to use gold. And if you need to use gold, you are in a crisis. And you can't transport it safely. You're not armed. You don't have the proper mechanisms to store it. You don't have the proper mechanisms to test it or weigh it or check

purity, any of these things. You simply don't have them. The only retail stuff available to people damages gold during the process, requires stuff like acid testing. It's difficult to do. There's nothing wrong with that in good times when you're just going to the pawn shop to spin out a couple of, a couple of grams to, you know, buy a PlayStation or whatever. Different story. But in a situation where you need to barter, this becomes extremely difficult to carry out. And so it affects the value of gold. And by the way, if you go to sell gold to somebody, do you think they're going to pay you per ounce if you show up with 20 kilos or 10 kilos? No, they're going to pay you less than market. Because why? Because it costs money to store it.

It costs money to secure it. They have an overhead. Gold overhead is significant. Bitcoin doesn't have any of these problems. So now you're talking about pensions and currencies that are starting to head the wrong direction in Canada. You're talking about pensions and currencies that are starting to head the wrong direction in terms of value. You're talking about politicians who have no interest in actually fixing problems. They're looting the treasury as the sort of, you know, as the story goes in this phase of the end of fiat. And now your asset that you wanted to hold through all this time is being killed by a new asset. and you're still unwilling to get rid of it.

You still want to play in this Fiat realm. You still want to play in relying on CPP. That's your plan. And like this is to say nothing of the tax regime becoming more oppressive. This is to say nothing of travel becoming more difficult. This is to say nothing of, you know, I know we disagree on this, but I'm of the opinion that if you have a publicly funded pension, whether it's like teachers, cops, public service, whatever, like I would guess inside a tenure.

you're not going to be able to leave the country for more than a certain amount of days every year. And I really do believe that that's coming next because why wouldn't it? It's easy pickings. Nobody would vote against, nobody who's having trouble affording a home would vote against boomers being able to hold all that wealth that they accumulated working for a publicly funded company or a publicly funded pension arm. No one would vote to have them leave with it. it. I think value

lawmakers are the ones that do it though. They're not going to vote themselves to be shut out from it. So you're basically telling them to, to, because they're the ones, to be honest, politicians, once they finish, the ones that are. Why would they vote? They don't have to vote for theirs. They can just vote for yours. I'll give you an example. Look at the way

that they're handling privacy right now. DPP, they're going to be collecting that too, right? But they can leave and do whatever they want. You won't be able to. But they won't be able to collect. No, they'll collect. The politicians will continue to collect and will move freely, but the people who worked for hospitals and whatnot, they will have a problem. And I think the reason I say that is because you're already starting to see two-tier justice

in Canada in terms of the privacy stuff. For sure. And so I would just suggest to people, and I know you and I might disagree on this a little bit, but I would just suggest to people that if you think, if you think that the regime is going to become less oppressive and make it easier for you to leave with capital, especially capital that's quote unquote public money, I really think that's a mistake. and I would just ask that anyone, and you can maybe make the counterpoint here when I pass it to you,

but like you got to show me the evidence, the momentum that is going against that thesis. Because I see it, I see it only going that way. And it's accelerating in the direction that I'm, then you're going to have to separate somehow in a way that your CPP is different from their CPP and they're able to get it. I don't know how, what type of mechanism.

Basically, it's an all or nothing when it comes to this. So I just can't see them making a two-tiered CPP type thing. I think the rules are going to change fast and furious in a lot of ways. Well, let them. And you know what? The beautiful thing is there's a reason why my TFSA stands at exactly $0. Yeah. I am not added to it.

Yeah. I continually not to add to it. And I'm proud not to add to it. And that's basically it. So anybody that follows in these footsteps, I think you'll be in a much better position, for sure have yeah and yeah i don't give a fuck about anything at this particular moment i just want to add my stack of bitcoin my 0.1 btz stacking goal so i could retire i'm getting closer and closer to hitting that and once i get there i'll be happy is that what they is that what the boys are

saying these days and the i have no idea i haven't i don't keep up with all this fucking bullshit i don't know there total you do understand like i i do not listen to much podcast i do not watch any any YouTube videos with respect to all this stuff. All this, it's just an echo chamber and I don't really participate in it. So I don't know. I don't indulge. I don't digest. I just know that back in the day, they were saying 0.1 Bitcoin is what you need to retire.

Who knows what is now? Oh, whatever. Everybody's different, right? And if you're going to go, like, pick a cheap country, you're purchasing power to go a lot further in some way. Imagine comparing that to say, living in London, England. Oh, my God. Yeah. Right.

And who'd want to live there now? Are people in Europe who see the EU going sideways likely to consider Canada? Boomer is mentioning something like this that we might get a flux of people leaving the EU. I know London, not necessarily European Union. But I do kind of like that thesis, that people will be looking for a country with similar benefits where they can use some of their earning power that they've accrued and get a little more bang for their buck in terms of resettling. That's not a bad thesis.

I don't know where people who are earning big money. I shouldn't say big money, but let's say someone with a net worth of like $2 million, right? That's probably a middle, upper middle class Canadian lifestyle net worth of $2 million. You include your house, savings, cars. You don't think. I think it's too high. Struggling a lot of people.

Yeah. Maybe I'm wrong about that. I don't know. It really depends. I mean, if you're in the bush and you have that, it's a lot more. But if you're living in downtown Toronto, you know, and you're paying a mortgage on that. I just want to point out John is saying like Europeans earning big money, L. well. The thing is that in London, you know, the average salary, I would guess, is probably close

to $100,000 Canadian. You know, if you work and make a white color job, I'd have to, I'd have to look, but I bet you it's closer to $100,000 than it is anywhere in Canada. They bled a lot, a lot of capital left the UK in a past year in change because taxation laws. Sure. Sure. And they're going to other European nations, I mean, other places too, but a lot of European nations. I don't want to name them, but they've picked up the people that they, you know, it makes sense, right? If you, if you're going to go there and not get taxed to the same degree you are in the UK, fuck, and better weather. Yeah.

Right. Like on top of that, like, sign me up. And then, you know, some of these countries, they have access to, you could pay for health care. They may be publicly funded some, but, you know, in other cases, you could then also pay for a two tier. So, yeah. Yeah. London. The London median salary is 86,000 Canadian. So like those people. I thought it'd be hired in that. I mean, that's pretty good though.

Like I would guess what's the median salary here? You think? Toronto? Toronto has so many like recently landed in people as well. They're probably going to drag that down. So does London. So, you know, that's the good. Legacy.

I don't know. Legacy finance. Yeah. Yeah, finance in Toronto too. I'm just, I know it's not quite the same. I know. I know.

But the point is that these white collar guys and girls. The Romans didn't set fucking up. They set up fucking London. Yeah. This is a very old city that dates back to the Roman area. The Roman era. The Roman era. They're the ones that set up the city.

I don't know, man. We can talk about made. Lower middle class in London, 81,000. Upper middle class in London. These are all medians. 130. 126, 7, yeah. And then the live comfortably threshold.

threshold is about 60,000 pounds, 180,000. £6,000, okay. In Toronto, the mean salary is, or the median salary, you're never going to guess what it is. London median salary is 86,000 Canadian. 57. 52. So it's like almost, I don't want to say a double because it's not almost double,

but it's closer to a double than a half. And I just think people don't, and Boomer, that's a good point, man. I had not really considered that. I had not really considered that. So there you go. Trying to live over there, you can't buy a home. A lot of it is renting, at least in Toronto, the dream up until very recently was you could always buy. That's sailed.

And let's be honest, the fucking, the public transit is way, way better over there. I mean, you'll, you probably get stabbed there too and killed. But at least you're able to get to your destination much quicker over here. You don't know. Right. They fucking built those subways 100 change years ago. Here we're fucking, every kilometer. We got to fucking do this.

Yeah. Environmental assessment. I saw a guy on Twitter today say Toronto is going to get hit by a nuclear bomb in two weeks. Anyways, he's got the inside scoop. So you would get three weeks with that new LRT, I guess. And then nuclear fallout. Why true? What does Canada do?

It's just some guy on Twitter. Who cares? He's probably trying to move polymarket or something. We'll talk about made. Do you want to talk about the same day, Maid? I mean, the Maid story is when we've covered before, but the same day is really wild, really wild. 65 cases or something like that.

In Ontario. Yeah. But if you do since 2023, it was 154, people got killed within 24 hours. It's crazy. So there was legislation

when it was made a search legalized. It was a 10-day grace period and some sort of reflection because you make a decision like that. You don't want to be hasty. You want to sober second thoughts. I think it would say.

They could say so. Talk to family. Sleep it off. Maybe I made the wrong decision. But no, man. This is now, 2021. The parliament revoked that. And they could do it the same day.

There's some examples that were floating around. There was a lady in her 80s and she had heart condition surgery. And there was some complications coming around that. And, you know, there was some caregiver burnout as a result of this. and she just wasn't happy. And you know what? 24 hours later, you know. And then you see these stories and it just goes to show you when you have a fucking

broken money system, right? Like it fucking, it just compounds the fucking problems because you think you can't get out of, say you're laid off, depressed, there's no hope for a job. You have no house. You're living in a fucking basement. Fucking bills coming out of your years. You have no way to. fucking pay all that like it just it just creates more and more fucking problems up and the fact

that they're offering this and they're not giving people a chance just to fucking think it over even i read that somewhere even if you say no after agreeing they still do it right they assume that they actually assume that the other thing that you've been pressured out of a decision you wanted to make and so they they do it anyway it's fucking ridiculous that this is being done yeah you have And like, depending on what you believe in, you have one shot at life. And once you give that up, think of all the people out there that don't live in Canada. We'll love to come here. They live in war-torn countries.

They live in areas that are full of poverty, like real fucking poverty, disease, no clean water. You're shitting right beside your sand. You're shitting like crazy as soon as you eat because of fucking dysentery and all this stuff. Then people are just giving up on life over here. It is getting worse by the day, but it could be a lot, lot worse, man. It's just too bad that mental health isn't being addressed. People need to fucking take a step back. It's easier for me to say this, right?

I'm not in this position. But man, oh man, I wish we could address these mental health issues because life is sacred. Once it's gone, it's gone. You will not get a second chance. Like, fuck, it's too bad. This is about cost savings and it's about health care being overrun. I will die, no pun intended on this hill. Some quick research here that I did before the show and just fine-tuned here while you were giving the rundown.

A maid death, I think this is in Ontario, but we'll say Canada. Costs how much do you think, including administrative costs? $35,000. $5,500. That cheap? You got about $750,000 for federal reporting and health Canada oversight. There's provincial maid coordination offices that charge. about 500 per death. That's case intake, eligibility tracking, and assessor scheduling. So

scheduling doctor death to come to you. There's legal compliance and documentation at about 400 per death. It's mandatory written requests, witness verification and record retention. Fine. And then the assessor training and cert programs are about 200 per death amortized across the entire system. So all in is somewhere between 3,800 and 5,300 per death. Call it 4,500, let's say, is midpoint. So cheap. Treating a 65-year-old diabetic. how much they cost over the remainder of their life. If there's no extra complications, I should say. The complications are too difficult to calculate today.

Three quarters of a million? It costs one quarter of a million, $260,000-ish. That includes administrative overhead, like building insurance, routine care, blood work. And then there's a whole other subsection here that's difficult to get your head around if there's complications. So, you know, it's hard to imagine that what the government's trying to avoid here is throwing good money after bad in a lot of ways, right?

So if I think about what a diabetic might go through, if you get to type 2 diabetes, what is that, what do we know about you for sure? We know you're impulsive. We know you probably have a food addiction. We know you probably need not only like insulin resistance protection, but also, I would guess, cardiovascular protection. You probably need physical rehab. You may need an amputation.

The likelihood that you're going to be a significantly larger burden on the system, even if it's for a shorter period of time, is obviously like hundreds of times higher than someone who's healthy or even the type 1 diabetic, right? Someone who's born with that deficiency. Meanwhile, you could save the same type 2 diabetic, who, by the way, is probably having a bad time at 65 or 70. Listen, we could put you through these appointments every week, blood work, dialysis, your quality of life is going to depreciate rapidly or decline rapidly.

Here's the chart that we show people that the line goes down to the right. Why don't you think about made? We'll give you some time to think about it with your wife. Maybe your wife's not well either and can't take care of you, which is another cost. You have to add a caregiver. Maybe you don't have insurance. Maybe you live far from the hospital. Maybe there's any number of different complicating factors that like you said, if you were at

a moment of weakness, you may find yourself a little more malleable and a little more receptive to the idea that, yeah, just, you know, let's end it with some quote-unquote dignity. I disagree with that assessment. But that's, of course, what's in the pamphlet if I had the yes. I've not seen a pamphlet. We should try and hunt one down to the show. Yeah. You know, I mean, you know there's a, you know, two things about made, okay?

If there's a pamphlet and that's full of AI slop graphics, I'm 100% sure of both. So they're saving themselves, you know, let's say a quarter of a million dollars, right? That's on the low end because as I mentioned there, it doesn't really account for any complicated cases. And at a time when hospital wait times are through the roof, you know, we're losing something like 20,000 people a year on weight list, dying, waiting for diagnostic scans, this is the way. And I'll just point to one other thing. And I'll draw from my own experience on this. If you think, and you can go back and listen to the show we did with Dr. Zrabian and Dr. Brian Day, both guys who work in medical, both guys

who are concerned with the state of affairs and the administrative burden of the system. You can go back and listen to that. And the big point that they made and that I will make now is that there are better options that we could just use. It doesn't have to be the quote unquote

like American system, you know, all insurers, all private, whatever. There can be a mix. There could be a hybrid system like you see in places like Europe. But even if you wanted to use an American system, more and more doctors now in Canada are saying, hey, if you don't need imaging,

go to the states. I'll write you the referral, take it to the U.S. I did that for my knee. You know, for someone my age who just wants to go back to playing sports and lifting weights, living a healthy lifestyle, heaven forbid. Prevent, by the way, changes in my gate, you know, that's the way you step. I don't know if everyone knows that term. Prevent changes in your gate that would lead you to get arthritis, need a knee replacement sooner,

adding burden to the system, adding costs, right? Just kicking those costs down the road by waiting 12 months for surgery and then being told by a surgeon, you don't really need it. You're 38 years old. If you just want to go play with your kid, you can do it. Just only run in a straight line from now on. Like, that's what I paid in the system for, I paid for my whole life into that system. And then when I need it, I'm discouraged from using it.

Meanwhile, you can go to the U.S. and pay $700 for an MRI, get the results the same day. Go the same day if you want. It's like a shopper's drug mart over there. You get a full body MRI in Mississauga. And I think the price is $7 or $8 grand. Yeah. Full body. In the States, the full body MRI is 3100 Canadian.

So like this is, the problem is now there's too much competition and people are starting to wake up, especially guys our age. Like you're a little older than me, but we're in the same bracket, I would say. Guys are age, you might need imaging for like sports injuries. No, this is imaging for cancer. That's what they're doing. No, but I'm saying if you want imaging for a sports injury, right? You know. Yeah, like think about that.

It's crazy. You play a lot of sports. I play a lot of sports. Would you wait a year of no? no sports, not being able to play with your kid, you know, like being limited in what you could do, not being able to golf, not being able to do whatever. I'll be honest. It depends if I fucked it up at the end of the year.

I might be willing to wait a few months because then I'm not playing anything. Sure, sure. So it's hard to say. I can't give you an answer that's definitive across. I would hate to. Yeah. But, you know, if I could pay a little bit more to get shot something done, certainly. This is how I know you've never needed surgery because it's not about what you're doing

at the time you get the imaging. It's about how long the recovery is. And you have to get through that imaging bottleneck to see a surgeon. I've only had one surgery in my life. That was from my appendix. Yeah, see? Like you have to get through the imaging bottleneck to see a certain. There you go.

Yeah. And in Canada. Yeah. And in Canada, like, what do you do? Right. And so to tie a bowl on this and bring it back to Made, everything is about cost savings. And until that changes, Canadians are getting the short end of the stick. It is, I see people in the chat.

It's a disgrace. It's a design around the terminally ill. Yeah, Ryan, I get that it's designed around the terminally ill. But I mean, the reason we brought this up is because this is a story we actually covered a few years ago, Len, you may remember the story about the guy who's we did the video and he's in his kitchen talking about how he's too poor to a four food. And so he's just going to do made. Like that's the thing. We also did another story, Ryan, I don't know if you know this one either of a military veteran or a special Olympics veteran, right? What was she? She was an Olympian or a vet. I forget. And she needed a, her quality of life was declining because she had some degenerative bone issue. And she asked her insurer for her. basically an acorn. Like,

I think they'll take you up and down the stairs in your house. And instead, the, yeah, it was veterans affairs. The equivalent of Veterans Affairs offered her assisted suicide. Like,

like, that's, that can't be, that can't be even on the table. But the fact that it happens so often tells you that somewhere in the guidance, this is what's being suggested. Right.

You can't ignore that. You can't be ignored. Who wants to stay here in their golden years, stick around and deal with this fucking bullshit? Get the fuck. Go somewhere out. man. The world is huge and there's so much you could do

and not just that, there's living in your salt water, living in the mountains, there's so many fucking things you could do to extend your life and thoroughly enjoy it and you don't have to do with all the bullshit that comes along here. Totally. You offered up made. Those 33,000 new Canadians or new permit residence

looks like it's going to be the immigration minister can we take a victory lap on this by the way? We had Ben Rabidoo on the show and he and I got not into a spat, but we argued about what was going to happen with these people. And he said they were all going to be sent back. And I said, no fucking way. What's

going to happen is they're going to be made somehow they're going to be made part of the Canadian fabric and able to vote through some stupid fast track thing. You and me have talked about that. I talked about it on Tom and Nick's show a year or two ago. Talked about it with Ben. He was dead wrong

on this. So it's 33,000 foreign workers that are here. It's a soft launch that has been used as the language which they're doing and they're going to be granting these permanent residents to 33,000 that are in specific fields in which they could be used to. Yeah. So that's being done.

That's done. And we move on to the, I guess, one more quick story. Canada and India, there's a new talent and innovation strategy. What a disaster. Trying to attract top tier students and researchers from India to come to Canada. $25 million coming from the, you. University of Toronto to fund over 220 scholarships for Indian students, along with an additional 10 million in Indo-Pacific scholarships from the federal government

to boost their research exchange. And they'll be trying to get people to get into the artificial intelligence sector, clean energy sector, health and sciences, shit like that. And this also allows for students to begin. This is very interesting. students will be able to begin their Canadian coursework in India before transition to Canada to finish their degrees. What could go wrong in this setup? Don't fucking even want to begin to talk about this.

The best thing is that the other part of the announcement was there's also opportunities for Canadians to go study in India. What kind of mental deficiency would you need to have to decide to go to university in India? What would have to happen? How dumb do you have to be? I think it's a good time to transition to the Hamilton versus Branton. segment. You do the 256, Reed. I'm not doing it today.

You do it. You know what? One thing I can't hear. You really want to leave it right there. Are we really, we haven't. Do you want me to? We have a research agreement with India. Okay.

I can't help but notice. This is doubling back. This fucking guy, Modi or whatever his name is, okay? Yes. It's constantly talking about how all his talent needs to leave the country. He's talking about how his best people are stranded. because of some travel issue. We got to set up another thing

where we're sending our smartest people away. The High Commissioner to Canada said they should bring in 60 million more. Like, why? I don't want. They're not, like, why are you, are you, do you think I'm, do you think I'm so stupid? Bray, you're open to fucking, open it all, man.

I just, just do it. We're going to have to add a second show. With 100 million Indians, we'll have to add a second show for Brampton versus Hamilton, man. We'll just do 45 minutes a week on Brampton Man versus Hamilton, man. But I don't have enough.

You will if there's a hundred million. No. For sure. For sure. That humble Bronco story. That guy should be executed. And the media should be ashamed because they're running interference for this guy. Oh, people want him deported.

It would leave behind his wife and kid. What? Send him all back then. The guy should either be in jail, death penalty, or deported. What other? What other sympathies and forgiveness is and flexibility do I owe this guy? So if he were somehow

in a red light in a semi-truck in clear conditions, killed 18 kids and is fighting to leave. The lawyer representing him should be this bar. Just last week, I almost got to run off. There's too much due process in this country. I almost got to run off the road last week by a semi-truck, semi-truck trailer truck.

Who is driving? Who is driving? I could not fucking see, but I could get. Yes. And I had to go on the fucking shoulder to fucking avoid getting just smoked. This shit happens. You know, every time it happens,

just more fuel to the fire. Just another flip-flop enjoyer driving around a fucking $20,000, $20,000 ton truck. If this guy was to be given the opportunity to assembly back in a society, who would employ him as a driver? Yeah. What neighborhood's living? Would you want living in your neighborhood?

You wouldn't. Like, this is the problem. How could he earn a living? Like who can't? He can't. And so like he's going to stay and you got to pay for it too. Yeah, you got to pay for it too.

It's amazing. All the time to be alive. Let's bring in, let's bring in 60 million more. What's the worst it can happen? Things are going so well. I'm bored. Just so long as fucking bitch.

These are going so well at a few million. Why stop there? Let's, it's really good at that. Bring in the best and the brightest. Until we haven't done enough until Lake Ontario looks like the Ganges River. That's what we'll know that we have enough.

Don't be afraid to laugh. These things are funny. No, it's not laugh. If you don't laugh, We can't have you crying on the air. I was just thinking of what story. I've been there. With my own two eyes, I've seen things that I don't even want to repeat right now because

I'll be called certain names. Let's do the Hamilton versus Brampton segment. And I can't hear the minor running next to you, Joey. It's running. You're running to 506 heat. It's running. It's going to be running right up here at some point. I've got to put it up on the wall behind me here at some point.

It's heating your room. You're collecting stats. Yeah. Look, if you are now we're going to. literally never shuts off. It's just like all the way so on. It never has a problem. It just runs like a hog.

On your device, do you have the ability to throttle it depending on the time of day? If I haven't done it on mine, I just leave it. You can actually do it from your phone. Twan will help you install the app and get everything set up.

You can throw it down anytime you want. So that is cool. So you could heat your home. I know we're getting to the end of the heating your home segment of the time of the year, but it's going to get cold again and not too distant future

and six months from now a little bit more. And so what you're going to do? Well, you might as well use electricity to heat your home and collect some sats at the same time using one of these excellent heaters provided by 256 heat. Check them out going at 256heat.com and if you do place an order, make sure you tell them that we sent you there. Tuan is an awesome dude. He knows this stuff. He will give you some excellent information on how to set it up. And you know what? You'll love it.

You can have it next to you as your sleep, next to you where you work or anything like that. You know, your wife's not going to get pissed off because it's too noisy. It's a great device. It's a great device. Well, maybe a little too warm for some people. For me, it's never warm enough. Just crank that shit. Let's keep it warm. All right.

Got two stories. Got the Hamilton Man versus the Brampton Man. And you have to decide which is the Hamilton Man, which is the Brampton Man. Let's see. So you got story number one. We have a Dolly Parton-style wig wearer rob a somebody. So police has arrested a suspect in a robbery of a convenience store where the thief wore a dolly

Parton-style wig. Due to 61 years old, charged. And they responded to this convenience store that was obviously being robbed 3 o'clock in the morning. And police say they were provided information that the male was dressed as a female wearing a blonde

wig and miniskirt. Bangor. According to the police, the man used a sharp-edged weapon to threaten the lone employee to steal cigarettes. And there were no injuries from the incident. the guy was charged with robbery and disguised with intent. And according to police surveillance video provided him assisted in the arrest. And that's number one.

And number two, we have this landlord can't sleep at night after he says his tenant stopped paying rent and won't leave. As his roommate now. A tenant was told that a past landlord, tenant was told that this, she's making 120,000 a year. That's what she claimed. And so she became a tenant of this landlord. She said she was making 120,000 a year as an online content creator.

That was her claim to having income to paying everything. Anyway, she's got to go from the landlord tenant board. So she's been accused of not paying her rent for at least a year. And this is the second time that the landlord was trying to, trying to evictor. The previous owner of the same place tried to evictor, but it didn't work. So it sold the home. New owner came in, decided to try to evictor and it's still sticking there. So she refuses to leave or make any payments. But this is not the first time this person has done that. Apparently the homeowner says his health is affected. He can't sleep at night. It's horrible experience.

He's not going to get into renting anymore. Back in 2023, the same person rented a furnished two bedroom condo in downtown Toronto for $4,500 per month and yeah, $30,000 worth of missing furniture. Damage to so didn't do reference checks obviously.

It's good for the scum bucket but ended up landing in Brampton not paying for a year two landlords later still sticking there but you have the Dolly Parton robbing the store the convenience store and also this guy just squatting for a couple of years. Well you told me the second guy

It was a Brampton man. You just said it. Did I? Yeah. Oh, my bad. Oh, I did. Yes. It is a Brantan, my bad.

I would have guessed that anyway. There's no way, because there's no way the Brampton man is cross-dressing to take some cigarettes. He's not cross-dressing to get a pack of Dumos from the convenience store. Yeah. 61-year-old dude. Tell me more about the tenant. Tell me more about the tenant. What's her deal?

Her deal, I guess. she claimed that so claimed that she was four months pregnant and not well mentally so that's why she was not able to pay her rent

she said she lost her job and yeah just a real piece of $4,500 a rent oh sorry a month for rent for the first place and this one

$23,000 and unpaid a run for the second that's great she said she was making $120,000 a year online doing what the fuck are you making the

we could assume, but yeah, good for her. I guess she didn't really do a good job on that platform. Yeah. I'm not going to look and see, yeah, I'm not going to look and see the content, but. I don't have a name. I have nothing. Actually, I probably do. What's the name?

I don't know, just the picture. I'm going to put it into a private shot. I'm not a per of the landlord. The landlord? Oh, hell yeah. Absolute banger. you guys are going to fucking love. If you still feel bad for the dude.

You guys are going to love this shit. You can't sleep at night. Oh, no. Oh, no. Damn. Damn. Raymond Preet Singh. One of the two landlords then, yeah.

Do we know the name of the woman in question? No. No, we don't. She fucked up his utility box. Yeah. Wow. For security reasons, they're not going to fucking release this information. This is a recent story too, February of this year.

Yeah, it's great. I love that. There's a bunch of recent stories, but they're high profile. Fuck, you, everybody probably heard of them and I can't use them. That's a fucking problem. The stories that are just fantastic, like the bus guy, remember the guy that stole the bus? Yeah. And we're still making stops.

That was great. That's a beautiful story. Another good one, the guy that set up the, I think, Guess in Gage Park. I don't know which park. He had a whole system, electricity running. That was Gage Park.

Yeah, that was Gage Park. See, that's another beautiful story. But it's well known and I can't fucking use it. That was a good one too. That is a great story.

I mean, for the unsuspecting, what the fuck is going on here? They got fucking water. Oh, God. Mining for Bitcoin probably at the same time. Classic. Let's get out of here.

Great. Thanks for hanging out. Thanks for coming. Thanks for watching. Like the video. Subscribe, all that good stuff. going to bug you again. Francis interview coming soon. We'll see you guys next time.

You should give him a Hamilton versus Brampton. I will not. I'll give you the two stories and you can just fucking rhyme it off to him and save him for the Christmas special this year. We're only nine months away. We're already thinking about that. I know. Anyways, good show. Take care of. See everybody.