Canada

57 statements across 17 episodes · 21 bullish · 24 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jul 2, 2017 by Marc Garneau · said 507 times in 93 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Everything said about Canada, oldest first

Jul 2, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Garneau: Canada will work with US to harmonize autonomous vehicle regulations
“I work very closely with my counterpart in the United States, who is the Secretary of Transport Of course, it's a new one. Now, her name is Elaine Chao, and I will be working very closely with her to make sure that we harmonize our regulations, because obvious…”
Marc Garneau Jul 2, 2017 ▶ 24:57 #20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
Jul 2, 2017 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Garneau: Canada was the third country to operate a satellite in space
“Canada was the third country in space, which a lot of people don't know”
Marc Garneau Jul 2, 2017 ▶ 5:53 #20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
Jul 2, 2017
Assertion Supported
Garneau: Canada joined NASA space shuttle missions because it built Canadarm
“The reason we were invited to become astronauts and to fly on the space shuttle is because We had designed the robotic arm that is on the space shuttle, and, in fact, part of it was designed here in Montreal, and, ah, the, ah, United States, NASA wanted to tha…”
Marc Garneau Jul 2, 2017 ▶ 6:02 #20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
Jul 2, 2017 positive
Opinion
Garneau: Canadian liberalism means staying open to immigration and global trade
“Being a liberal here in Canada is wanting to be open on the world at a time when we see protectionism coming in. We, we've seen some evidence of that in the world where, where people talk about terms like populism and nativism, Coming into, ah, the politics of…”
Marc Garneau Jul 2, 2017 ▶ 10:26 #20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
Jul 2, 2017 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Garneau: Canada will align transportation technologies with the US over Europe
“I think that every, Europe has its own solutions based on, on its geography and its densities. I think we will probably have some similarities, but I think we'll probably be more like the United States, because we do interact with them a huge amount, and we ha…”
Marc Garneau Jul 2, 2017 ▶ 39:49 #20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
Jul 2, 2017
Assertion Supported
Garneau: Cars and trucks cause 80% of Canada's transportation emissions
“23% of the greenhouse gases that are produced by Canada come from the transportation sector. And 80% of that is cars and trucks.”
Marc Garneau Jul 2, 2017 ▶ 53:42 #20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
Jul 11, 2018
Assertion Contradicted
MacAskill: The poorest people in the US or Canada are in the top 10-15% globally
“Even the very poor in the United States, for example, or Canada, They're still in the richest 10 to 15% of the world's population”
William MacAskill Jul 11, 2018 ▶ 45:30 #36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Haidt: Overprotection Since the 1990s Deprived Kids of Experiential Learning
“Kids learn best from feedback, from experience. And beginning, especially in the 19 nineties in the United States, and I think perhaps in Canada too we began really overprotecting kids. That is not giving them unsupervised time where they could learn from thei…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 2, 2019 ▶ 6:54 #61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Haidt: Female teen suicide is at record highs across the Anglosphere
“They're having exactly the same gigantic increase in girls' depression, anxiety, and self-harm and suicide in the US and UK and Canada. We're all at record high levels for teenage, for female teenage suicide. So this is throughout the Anglosphere.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 2, 2019 ▶ 17:09 #61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
Sep 3, 2019
Disclosure
Alice Cooper qualified as Canadian content to hack radio airplay laws
“And then we went up to Toronto and found the guys who did the Guess Who. Who had a studio in Toronto, and gave it, got found a co-writer, Canadian, and brought the record in as a Canadian content, which I don't think an American band had ever done before.”
Shep Gordon Sep 3, 2019 ▶ 16:52 #65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
Oct 27, 2020
Disclosure
Mistral Targets Mid-Hundreds-of-Millions Exits Over Unicorns in Canada
“Especially in, in a tier two market like Canada, if you will, as opposed to Silicon Valley, you know, there's less unicorns born here. So we are looking for the solid, but mid hundreds of millions of dollars exit as opposed to the billion dollar unicorns.”
Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 13:00 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
Jul 27, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Immelt: US and Canadian manufacturing costs now equal Mexico and China
“My hunch is you could go through product after product and making it in Canada or the U S is probably just about the same as making it in Mexico or China today.”
Jeff Immelt Jul 27, 2021 ▶ 37:33 #116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
Apr 5, 2022 negative
Opinion
Balaji: Canada's financial crackdown on truckers was an unprecedented PR disaster
“Yes, Canada did implement these unprecedented financial controls. Yes, it did affect these, you know, truckers, but because they were unable to successfully censor social media, Canada suffered probably the gravest PR disaster that I've ever seen in my life.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 8:07 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Apr 5, 2022 negative
Insight
Balaji: Heavy-handed state crackdowns signal government insecurity, not strength
“This crackdown demonstrated insecurity. When you need to do something like that it indicates that you feel you can't just, you know, go and put out a megaphone and be like, hey, people, I'm listening to you know, we'll figure it out, and there's a mutual trust…”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 8:38 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Jan 23, 2024
Disclosure
Parrish Admits to Regularly Violating Canadian COVID Lockdown Bubble Restrictions
“From somebody who, me, violated the law on a regular basis during this in Canada, because I had a bubble of people that was more than two households, and, you know, we had a teacher involved, and we had all these other things involved, and you know, I had neig…”
Shane Parrish Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 1:17:10 Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
May 28, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Housel: Real US home prices exceed 2006 housing bubble peak
“And real home prices in the U.S., I'm sure it's the same in Canada. Are much higher today than they were at the peak of the bubble in 2006 on average.”
Morgan Housel May 28, 2024 ▶ 23:06 Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
Oct 1, 2024
Disclosure
Bragg: Oxford Frozen Foods is the largest beekeeper in Nova Scotia
“We're the largest beekeeper in Nova Scotia by far, and one of the largest in Canada, because we couldn't get the bees, so we had to start our own apiary.”
John Bragg Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 20:21 John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
Oct 1, 2024 positive
Opinion
John Bragg: Canadian tax policies are not bad
“Tax policies in Canada aren't bad.”
John Bragg Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 1:25:38 John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
Oct 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Bragg: Oxford Frozen Foods is Canada's largest carrot processor
“We're the largest carrot, certainly carrot processor in Canada, maybe in North America.”
John Bragg Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 27:20 John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
Feb 11, 2025
Assertion Supported
By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales
“Sales had exploded from twenty-two million in nineteen-oh-seven to one hundred and forty-one million in nineteen-twenty. The catalog alone brought in sixty million. They owned 60% of the entire country's department store sales.”
Shane Parrish Feb 11, 2025 ▶ 29:21 Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
Apr 13, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Poilievre: Canadian passport will restore historical heroes and end statue removals
“That's going to be part of my goal is to, you know, we're going to put all our heroes back in the passport, for example no more tearing down statues. I think we should build new statues.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 1:10:08 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada's cold weather makes LNG liquefaction 25% cheaper
“We have an enormous advantage there too, because our cold weather makes it 25% cheaper to liquefy.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 42:10 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025
Insight
Poilievre: Immigrants to Canada Must Leave Foreign Conflicts Behind
“If you come to Canada, sure, bring your culture, bring your language, your food your traditions, but the problems from abroad have to stay at home. We bring here a place where we leave all that behind and unite for our flag.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 5:24 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Poilievre: Bureaucracy Delays US- and EU-Approved Drugs from Reaching Canada
“We have lots of advanced medications and treatments that are available in the States and EU that are not available yet here because our bureaucracy is so slow.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 1:06:03 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Poilievre: Conservative plan offers zero capital gains tax for domestic reinvestment
“One idea that I think a lot of your listeners would find interesting is that I want to pass what I call the Canada first reinvestment tax cut, zero capital gains when you reinvest in Canada.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 12:51 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada receives $15k investment per worker annually versus $28k in US
“In Canada, we get 15,000 dollars of investment per worker per year. In the States, it's 28,000. We're way behind even the OECD average. We get 65 cents of investment per worker For every dollar an OECD average worker gets.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 36:10 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada generates $53 USD per work hour versus $78 in US
“And so today we generate 53 dollars USD for every hour we work as Canadians. The Americans generate 78 dollars.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 35:30 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Opinion
Poilievre: Trump Tariffs on Canada Only Strengthen China
“Trump tariffs against Canada actually only strengthen China because they weaken both Canada and the US.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 46:41 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada Lacks Harmonized Trucking Rules Between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
“We don't have harmonized trucking regulations across the country, so you're going over the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. There's a weight weight regulation difference. So, you know, you can't move products seamlessly between those two provinces…”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 44:09 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Poilievre: Canadian building permits rank second slowest in the OECD
“We have the second slowest building permits in the OECD, and it takes us 17 years to get a mine approved, three times longer to get approval for a housing development in Canada versus the UK or the US.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 29:21 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Poilievre cites $500 billion net capital outflow to the US over decade
“In the last 10 years, there's been a net outflow of five hundred billion dollars of investment to the U.S. From Canada, and that's partly because our taxes are extremely high.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 28:50 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 positive
Opinion
Poilievre: Canada must retaliate against U.S. tariffs for deterrence
“I do think you need to retaliate, because if not, there's no deterrent value. The offending country, in this case, it's the U.S. Administration, needs to know that there's a cost for its producers in tariffing Canada.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 38:37 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Poilievre: Conservative government will completely eliminate Canada's carbon tax
“So I will get rid of the entire tax for everyone and for real.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 11:14 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Poilievre: Commits to 15% Income Tax Cut for Average Canadian Workers
“So I'm committing to lower income tax by 15% on the average worker and senior.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 17:32 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canadian aluminum generates 2 tons of CO2 per ton versus 14 in China
“They produce one ton of aluminum with two tons of carbon. China, it's 14 tons of carbon for every ton of aluminum.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 1:18:42 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Poilievre claims 25% of Canadians in poverty and food bank lineups doubled
“Now 25% of people are in poverty. Food bank lineups increased by over a hundred percent. One in four of our kids is going to school undernourished.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 21:49 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Ireland's GDP per capita is twice that of Canada
“Now Ireland's per capita GDP is twice Canada's.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 37:26 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: 20,000 immigrant doctors and 32,000 immigrant nurses cannot practice in Canada
“So we have, for example 20,000 immigrant doctors, 32,000 immigrant nurses who can't work because they don't have a license in Canada.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 1:02:53 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Apr 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canadian Resource Trades Jobs Can Pay $200,000 to $300,000
“These jobs can be two, 300,000 dollars a year.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 16:53 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Jul 1, 2025
Assertion Supported
Jimmy Pattison built a Canadian fleet of over 4,000 vehicles
“He built one of Canada's largest fleets with over 4000 vehicles.”
Shane Parrish Jul 1, 2025 ▶ 22:25 Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Parrish: Eastlink was first in North America to offer a triple-play bundle
“Eastlink became the first cable company in Canada to offer telephone service over cable. First in North America to bundle internet, phone, and TV into one package. The first to let customers add or drop channels in real time.”
Shane Parrish Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 34:31 How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
Sep 16, 2025 positive
Opinion
Shopify's Tobi Lütke made it safe for Canadians to voice political opinions
“I don't know if he realizes it, but he probably single-handedly changed The number of people speaking out in Canada on the election, because he started having an opinion, having a voice, and that, that sort of made it safe for other people to have an opinion, …”
Shane Parrish Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 18:51 How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Poilievre: Canadian housing costs doubled over the past decade
“The doubled housing costs. So young people can't even come close to making a down payment. You know, it takes to your late, in your late thirties to afford a down payment.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 11:39 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: 2.2 Million Canadians Use Food Banks as Scurvy Returns
“I find it appalling that we had 2.2 million people lined up at food banks, that we got a return of scurvy in Canada, or one in four kids are going to school hungry.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 7:09 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Poilievre: Eliminating Capital Gains Tax on Reinvested Capital Is Economic 'Rocket Fuel'
“There's also, I think, some very exciting things we can do, like get rid of capital gains tax. When you reinvest in Canada, the government's going to get its pound of salt one day anyway. Eventually you'll fully cash out and you'll want to enjoy Everything you…”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 20:16 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada gave Stellantis $15B while Stellantis cut Canadian jobs
“And we've seen it with the Stellantis deal, where we're in for fifteen billion dollars, and Stellantis is cutting jobs in Canada. Fifteen billion dollars for one company. That works out to almost a thousand dollars for every Canadian family in taxes for a comp…”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 26:28 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth
“The liberals have been bringing in a million people a year, growing our population almost three percent while our housing stock grows by one percent. Our job market grows by about the same and our availability of doctors and nurses grows by about That one or t…”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 7:44 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 positive
Insight
Poilievre: Accessing global markets gives Canada leverage over US trade
“And I think you'd have more leverage in that negotiation if you had done, if we do unblock the other world markets that await us.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 23:17 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Opinion
Poilievre: Post-national policy and mass immigration divide Canadians along foreign lines
“And what we've allowed to happen over the last decade is that the government has said the Canada has no national identity. We're a postmodern, post-nationalist state, and there's nothing that binds us together. And as a result of that and mass migration on lev…”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 5:02 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Natural gas fetches 4x domestic price in Asia and Europe
“We just have to get it to coast, liquefy it, put it on ships, send it over to Asia and Europe, where it goes for four times the price that it, that we pay for it here.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 22:54 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Poilievre: Canadian Government Will Cut Foreign Aid
“And, you know, I, I've said very clearly, I will be cutting foreign aid.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 7:05 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Poilievre: Northwest BC pipeline would generate $30B annually in exports
“You got one pipeline to Northwest British Columbia that the liberals blocked and that I'm pushing for that would move a million barrels and 30 a day and thirty billion dollars a year overseas. That would be the single biggest boost to overseas exports in the h…”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 22:07 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Oil and gas is Canada's single biggest net export
“Whether we like it or not, and I like it, oil and gas is the single biggest net export in this country, period. And there's nothing that is even close.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 21:46 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Poilievre: Temporary foreign workers are paid below prevailing wages and suppress employment
“There are temporary foreign workers who are making less than the, in reality, less than the prevailing wage and driving wages down and jobs out.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 12:30 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Dec 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Poilievre: Mark Carney holds 90% of assets in US, dodges Canadian taxes
“Here's Mark Carney, the guy who moved his corporate headquarters to the US, who has 90% of his assets in the US who You know, he, Carney dodges his taxes in Canada by putting his, putting them in the Caribbean.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 24:37 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Jan 20, 2026 negative
Opinion
Housel: Affordable Housing Is the Single Biggest Social Problem in America
“So housing, affordable housing, I think is the single biggest social problem, certainly in America, probably in Canada right now. Because so many other social problems that might seem bigger than that are downstream of housing. A lot of the drug problem, the d…”
Morgan Housel Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 23:58 Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
Jan 20, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Parrish: Government Fees Account for 30% of New Home Prices in Canada
“I've seen reports, at least in Canada, that 30% of the price of a new home is basically government fees.”
Shane Parrish Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 28:23 Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
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