Good afternoon. I'm here with the stock swoosh and here I am today going over the spy and Spy did get up this morning as I predicted. I Thought it would hold Early in the morning. It looked like it was going to but it didn't let's just go back here cuz of 15 minutes Actually, this this did hold in here. It was 1015. This is not a good time It would have been better at 10 o'clock Tried to continue higher tried to do it couldn't do it couldn't get over the open open today was 196 57 that we didn't get up big though look at the daily chart in a minute. Anyways, I do think we hold summer in here But here it is it's 12 15 12 15 on a Friday. We still haven't held. Is this the low of the day in the market? And remains to be seen but I do believe that the market is higher whether or not it holds and stabilizes itself today to rally today or Waits until next week. We'll have to find out This was tricky today because the fact that we keep gapping up And I really thought we'd gap up and hold much better than we're doing Because it wasn't anything that I didn't see wouldn't hold But right now what's going on is that the shorts aren't willing to give it up yet? And the longs haven't stepped in enough today except for the gap except for the gap up To continue this market hire the longs did step in all in the last few weeks, but today The longs have not stepped in yet. So right now the bears are in control Who's gonna win out in the overall picture? It's the bulls one of the live day today Time is running late 195 55 is the high here So we came in and sat down onto this person The only way we hold those are fine The only way the market rallies is buying today now we did rally in here and we're gonna continue to rally And I think we see over 200 next week. There's a possibility. We could have seen that today. That's not gonna happen, but Could we go green on the day? Only if we hold in here only if we hold in here We have to hold right now because it's 1215 the only way we actually go green today as we hold in here This drop-off isn't big. It's not massive. It's not it's not anything to be concerned about Which is why I'm so surprised we even did it I mean right now we're actually less than a dollar off the high Which is nothing nothing for the market nothing for the spy anyways Where do we have to actually go to go? See here. I think over here like 196 ish Actually, we're not that far from that right now I think if we aggressively start to get bought over 196 we could go over the high today Why wouldn't that be interesting? Very tough read of the market here if you don't if you don't have conviction the overall trend I guess that's the best point to put it which I've always had so every time I looked at it. I was very Very careful to make sure that I was reading every gap right the downs and the ups But the overall trend has prevailed and will continue to prevail in the market It's tricky for people though because if they're looking for higher highs and higher lows and lower highs and lower lows to take positions or read the trends they're getting Bamboozled all over the place If you really have to learn how to read gaps to learn how to read overall trends, right? Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to predict this so well, so we'll see what happens here today We the buying number today that was aggressively over 196 and that's not that far from the high It's pennies from it So there's still a chance we could do that and go green in the day that would really be something if we go green On the day today this late in the day in a Friday after the drop-off we had this morning Which wasn't big but still unexpected so we didn't hold early That would be very interesting and actually will create quite a lot of buying It will create quite a lot of buying that I don't even know we could go up to 198 199 today We could run up to 200 in the close today that that would be really insane But we could actually do that today if the market holds right in here around lunch So we'll have to see what happens. That means we have to go green over the high today and get bought Which we will if we go over the high today It's just that we have to do it sooner rather than later Have a great weekend everyone email me at unless the stocks wish dot com If you'd like to sign up for the next golden gap class, it's march 6 and 8. Have a great day


There's a strange phenomenon that's been going on for a while and it has multiple layers to it. I'm half black but look white, so I haven't had to endure anywhere near the amount of racism that most black people have had to deal with. Still, I see instances of racism as well as systemic racism happening regularly.  There's something happening on a psychological level as well as a status level and I wanted to do my best to tease these things apart to try and figure out what is going on.  They give a person place, institution, or even a situation their black seal of approval as non-racist and go along their merry way. When this happens, you'll see white people share their tweets or video clips far and wide because a black person has given them their blessing. They can now toss this situation into their quote unquote non-racist toolkit and use it whenever they please. As I see this happen when blatantly racist situations arise, I can't help but wonder if there's a protective form of delusion happening in the black person's mind. It's sort of like the just world fallacy when we believe that bad things only happen to bad people. It eases our anxieties that something terrible can happen to us. Is it possible that these black people deny racism every chance they get so that they can rest easier believing that racism doesn't exist? I can only imagine what it's like moving through this world wondering if you experienced racism.  But what's a hell of a lot easier than doing that is to just strike anything down as racist whenever you get the chance. From here, you can retreat into your happy place believing that it's never happened to you and it never will. Meanwhile, black people are actually dealing with this and fighting for change while these people are creating a massive obstacle.   Would you think that that white person might be just a little bit racist? Like even a tiny bit? Well, trust me, we're going to come back to this story a little bit later. But something I should get out of the way before we get started is my thoughts around the current state of calling things racist amidst these wacky culture wars. I'm sure many will believe I'm one of those woke warriors who runs around calling everything racist and that could not be further from the truth. I recently wrote a piece about how often I get in trouble with my fellow leftist for my views. One of the things that gets me into trouble is that my bar for seeing something as racist is extremely high. I typically try to give people the benefit of the doubt and often attribute things they do or say to ignorance or some kind of unconscious biases. There are situations where many people would call something racist and I'll be the first to say, I'm not so sure that's what we're seeing here. So if you're here in bad faith thinking that I'm Ibram Kendi or Robin D'Angelo 2.0, you're sorely mistaken. This in combination with my skepticism and the burden of proof that I require for just about everything, it takes quite a bit for me to call a person or system racist. By the time I label something racist, the amount of evidence is far too much to deny. I think that due to all of these factors including my skepticism, it's why I've noticed those in the black community who deny that anything is racist. It's creating a major problem. And what's worse is that I believe that they believe they're actually helping. In reality, they are being used and it needs to be addressed. So what is racism? I think a good starting point in this conversation with anyone is to ask something extremely simple. All we have to do is ask. Do you believe that racism exists? Well, do you? Because I think if you asked 1000 people this question, I think it's safe to say that at least 990 of them would say yes. I don't know what's going on with those other 10, but we'll figure them out later. For the other 990 people out of 1000, this is extremely important. If the majority of people believe that racism exists, why do so many people never see it happening? A book that was recommended to me so many times was Racism Without Racist, Color Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla Silva. It took me way too long to read this book. And now I think it should be required reading because the entire book is about this topic that we're addressing today. Not only that, but it's backed by a ton of research. Through Bonilla Silva's research, he found that while most of us admit that racism exists, we seem to never see it. And that's kind of weird, right? I couldn't put this book down as it continued to showcase transcripts from actual conversations with people on a wide range of topics as they excuse racism. The survey conversations go a little bit like this. Researcher, do you believe Black people are denied jobs or promotions because of their race? Responding. Oh, absolutely. And I think it's just awful. This should never happen. And it's totally unfair to do this to someone based on their race. This is a terrible form of racism. Researcher responds, here's a story of a Black man or woman who worked at a place for five plus years without a raise or a promotion at their company while watching white people get hired above them and getting paid more. Are they dealing with racism? And then the respondent says, well, the white person may have been more qualified. Like they might have had more education or experience in the field. And that's why they were able to get the job or promotion. Or another situation might go like this. Researcher, do you think Black people are discriminated against or lack the same opportunities as white people when it comes to getting into colleges? Respondent. Absolutely. It's terrible that they're held back in so many ways and live in underfunded communities and don't benefit from nepotism and other factors that help white people get into these schools. Researcher then asks, if a Black person gets the same grades as a white person and meets all of the same criteria as a white person for getting into a school, do you think that the Black person should get in to counteract some of these issues with racism? And the respondent says, well, I don't really think that would be fair if they just got in based on their race. I know that I personally worked really hard to get into my school. So I don't really think it'd be fair if the college did something like that. Racism without racist is literally hundreds of pages of this stuff with interviews with dozens of different people. As I read this book, my jaw was on the floor. As I read these transcripts and witnessed the mental backflips people did to deny that racism was ever happening. Or if they agreed that racism was happening, they didn't want to agree to any solutions because it might screw up just how good they have. And this is extremely common when we're looking and addressing white privilege. What's worse is when you see Black people using this same type of logic to defend everything we see going on and refuse to admit that this is actually happening. In his book, Bonilla Silva writes, the central component of any dominant racial ideology is its frames or set pass for interpreting information. These set pass operate as cul-de-sacs because after people filter issues through them, they explain racial phenomena following a predictable route. Although by definition, dominant frames must misrepresent the world, hide the fact of dominance. This does not mean that they are totally without foundation. For instance, it is true that people of color in the United States are much better off today than at any other time in history. However, it is also true facts hidden by colorblind racism that because people of color still experience systematic discrimination and remain appreciably behind whites in many important areas of life, their chances of catching up with whites are very slim. What we're seeing is that people are choosing to interpret these situations however they want, which perpetuates the dominance that white people experience regularly. For black people, this is something that must be hard to grapple with. I've written about how delusional thinking can be useful. Like if you didn't think you could accomplish something, you may not even try. This is why we evolve to lie to ourselves. It only makes sense that some black people are using this delusion as a way to cope with very real situations that are going on. And it's not just limited to racism either.  They were saying we all know the pseudoscience exists, but nobody wakes up in the morning and says to themselves, I'm going to go and put my pseudoscience lab code on and practice some pseudoscience at my pseudoscience lab. These people think they're practicing legit science. I think the most salient example that comes to mind is Elon Musk. The guy will legit talk about the quote unquote elites. Although Tesla stock isn't what it used to be, he's still the richest man in the world.  In his mind, he is not one of these people. And that's pretty crazy, right? Well, not only are many people denying racism, but racists don't even think they're racist. What got this topic stuck in my head was a particular story. And I've seen this group of black deniers of racism everywhere since this happened. Remember that story I mentioned at the beginning of Juneteenth and the tweets? Well, here's the real life story, something that actually happened. So a black firefighter in New York is suing because his captain pressured him to go to this party. When they got to the party, there were a ton of black racist tropes as quote unquote jokes. There was a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken on a table with bottles of cognac and flags for Juneteenth.  Again, my bar for racism is pretty high. As somebody who tries to avoid conflict as much as possible while in person, I personally would have done the same mental backflips that I'm criticizing right now just to excuse the behavior. I would chalk this up to ignorance, and I would probably just passive aggressively let them know that this isn't cool. I'd maybe even try educating the captain on why this is kind of messed up just in case he didn't know because sometimes you just got to educate some fools, but this wasn't me. And I think that's very important to touch on.  And I think that we have to respect that he found this highly offensive and took the steps that he did because other people are not us. And how can you stop this stuff unless there's some type of punishment that actually happens? Well, after this story made headlines, the fire captain and his family were attacked online and they ended up holding a press conference with their lawyer where in tears, they said that they were victims of cancel culture and as somebody who's been canceled and received harassment and threats from hundreds of thousands of strangers, I definitely empathize. Now, I'm sitting here trying to catch up on this story and do everything I can to give these people the benefit of the doubt and they just goofed up big time. But then I come across this news clip and they point out what this lawyer says, and then we'll talk about what happened moments later. I challenge you. The press look into their backgrounds. Find anything they've done in their lives or 50 plus years lives that's racist. We didn't have to wait long or go very far to accept that challenge because 25 minutes after it was made, Mary Nicosia admitted she's the owner of an anonymous Twitter account that she and the lawyer admit posted racist tweets. Mary Nicosia apologized for that. Perfectly, very news 10 to be seen. Well, right after that, the wife goes up and publicly admits that she has an anonymous Twitter account where she says in her own words that she has made, quote, blatantly racist comments.   And if you don't believe me, let's watch the clip. There you go. That operates under a veil of a persona. And I have been lately racist comments under that persona. Culture of Twitter operates that way and it's part of its charm. I don't want to say its charm, but it gives you an opportunity to be someone that you're not. In terms of a persona and for these comments, I'd like to apologize to the African American community for what I and other people in the community that I have heard or offended by doing what I was doing on Twitter. And it past 12 difficult days that I've been through, you know, learned a lot and I learned that making a comment under persona of Twitter hurts is just as wrong. Hurts just as much as saying it directly to someone in the room. And I think it's a lesson learned certainly for me. And I think others can learn from the lesson.  I grew up in East Cleveland, a very diverse community. And I would doubt or challenge you that you would find anybody in the community that would tell you that I am. But nonetheless, I hold myself accountable and ashamed. It wasn't an easy thing to do to get up and tell you this. And I ask that you accept my apology as it is sincere. It was right here where I felt like I just took a handful of crazy pills. So let me get this straight. This white woman took time out of her day to create an anonymous Twitter account for the sole purpose of making racist tweets. Now, you're probably saying, but Chris, making a Twitter account doesn't take that long. Well, as you can see, she's old as hell. That definitely took some time. And I wouldn't even be surprised if she had to have like one of her grandkids help her to set that account up. But after seeing this story, I just kept asking if this is not racist, then what is? And this is the issue that we run into with black people who keep giving passes to everything that is blatantly racist. They have no definition for what racism actually is.  And I want you to sit there and really ask yourself, what is the burden of proof that's needed for something to be racist? What does a person have to do when we do this? We see where the major issue is with these black people who deny racism.  After knowing this person for all of this time, I've never seen them actually call something racist, but they are one of those people who admits that racism exists. And I think it's important to mention that this person is a really good person. They are legit one of the kindest people that I know. Kindness and compassion are values that we should all admire in a person. But there comes a point where it does more harm than good. I regularly see this person jumping out to defend people and situations every chance they get to say that something is not racist. While doing all of the mental gymnastics that we've been discussing, this person is regularly used by white people as their past and their evidence that something isn't racist. I point this person's kindness out because I honestly don't think that they do it for the attention. There are definitely bad actors out there like Candice Owens, who do this for the money and the fame and the grift. But I don't think that's what we're seeing here. The problem is that when your entire persona in these debates is labeling things as not racist for white audiences, how will they ever know what is racist? For example, if I only taught my son what's right, how would he ever know what's wrong? That would be terrible parenting on my part. Why? Because there's an endless amount of wrong things that he could do if every time he said thank you or held a door open for someone and I told him that what he did was good. But I kept my mouth shut. If he just randomly ran up and punched people in the face, I would definitely be lacking in my parenting. So why is this so common with these black people who regularly tell white people what is not racist while refusing to tell them what is racist? What they're doing by not defining anything as racist is leaving the door wide open for plausible deniability. This is especially true when they're constantly giving excuses for these behaviors and trying to find every reason under the sun to label something as not racist. People see this and are just loading up on everything they believe they can do because these black people are giving them a pass and telling them that this isn't a problem. But what would happen if these black people who would never in a million years deny racism exists actually pointed to something and said that that right there. This example right here, that is racist, but they never do. The major issue is that these seemingly trivial acts of racism seep into so many places that create systemic issues. And what we're seeing is exactly what Bonilla Silva points out in his book. Quote, the central component of any dominant racial ideology is its frames or set paths for interpreting information. We're meant to believe that someone who creates a racist Twitter account to say racist things has never, ever, ever mistreated a person of color based on their race. How do you prove it? These people have created a burden of proof that is so impossibly high to reach. They never define racism and there's no way to actually prove that something is racist. Like think about this for a second.  Every single white person they hire is great at their job, went to a good college and everything else the employer wants.  I want you to really sit back, take just a minute and think about this.  Well, apparently, even if we found all of the racist things that this employer has said behind closed doors, that's still not enough. So are they just not racist?  There is an endless amount of people that lose their minds every single time someone who isn't a straight white male is cast into a role. When you freak out every time a non white person is hired for anything, it's time to sit back and do some reflection. Meanwhile, I watched the black racism deniers say, well, Disney clearly just did this for the woke points. This logic is so utterly terrible. And it's just another weapon for the racist to use. And I'll be completely honest, I 100 percent think that Disney panders to the left by doing these diversity things. And why? Because they're a multi billion dollar company in our capitalist society that does not care about anything aside from increasing their share prices. But the reason that this logic is such a problem is that you could use that ridiculous logic all the time. What if you said this and use this logic every single time a black person got hired? Or what if we said that every single time these black racism deniers got hired?  Well, we would end up in a situation where no black people ever got hired. We'd end up back in the situation where you can't prove something is racist. How do you prove the company actually hired the black person on merit? Since meritocracy is nonsense and many people with the exact same qualifications don't get the same opportunities. How do you prove the white person didn't get the job over some arbitrary nonsense?  That black person right there. Well, they only got hired because of their skin color. Like, I really hope that you as the viewer are really starting to see this issue.  Yes, things in this country are a lot better for black people compared to the past. But we're still dealing with so many systemic issues. I'm nowhere near done with this topic. But I think this is a foundation of so many other problems that we're still dealing with. These black people who deny racism are being used as tools in these smaller racism debates and is preventing us from making much larger changes that are needed to make our society more equal.  Black people receive longer sentences for committing the exact same crimes. Black people are denied credit and loans far more than white people, even though they make the same income. And there's just so much more to dive into. Every single time I bring up the systemic issues, there's a black person coming out of nowhere to try and figure out a way to justify the systemic issues by denying that racism exists. So next time and stay tuned. I'll discuss how I've witnessed these people change definitions just so they can ease their dissonance and live in their pretend world where racism doesn't exist. All right, everybody, that's all I got for this video. Thanks so much if you've made it all the way through. This is a topic, like I said, that has been on my mind just for so, so, so long. And I hope this all made sense. 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Member Statements. Yes I recognize the member from York Simcoe. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I would I'm here today and I would like to congratulate Jason Burkike from MyRiding, a Holland Marsh Farmer who was the recipient of the Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. Jason is the owner of Caron Farms which grows heirloom carrots that come in red, purple, black, white, yellow and orange. He received the Premier's Award for his work that adapts existing computerized equipment from Europe to ensure that each bag contains not only the right weight but the proper mix of colors. Jason has also had many previous successes as well, having been a finalist for the Ontario Outstanding Young Farmers Award in 2011. Congratulations go to Jason on all your success and to the entire Caron Farms family. Thank you for contributing not only to our local community but to the entire province. It is because of people like Jason that Ontario's agri-food sector is so vibrant and remains crucial to our provincial economy. I can also attest to the flavor of the many carrots that Jason grows on his farm. It's fun to get a bag of many colored carrots. Thank you. Thank the Member for the Member's Statement. I recognize a member from Hamilton East, Stoney Creek. Thanks Speaker. I rise today to commend the advocacy efforts of two dental hygiene students at the Ontario Dental Education Institute in Ancaster. Nicole Obermeyer and Rachelle Taylor recently met with my constituency staff to advocate for better access to dental care. I was shocked to learn that for every hundred dollars spent on oral health in Ontario, this government contributes just one dollar and fifty cents. Nicole and Rachelle asked that we make preventive care more widely available, that we increase dental funding to the Canadian average, and that we improve programs for housebound citizens. Nicole and Rachelle presented their ideas with passion, intelligence and eloquence, a standard that each of us in this House aspires to. People in low paid and precarious work rarely have access to benefit packages, and certainly not to the ones that include good dental coverage. Yet dental diseases result in pain, serious health problems, and heavy financial costs. One in six Canadians do not seek dental care even when they are in dire pain because they cannot afford it. The people who decide that dental care is not important are usually those who already have excellent care through benefit packages, as we do here at Queen's Park. I was appalled to learn from my NDP colleague from Nicobelt this morning that this government is cutting preventive dental care for tens of thousands of vulnerable children. I will fight these unjust cuts and instead advocate for wider access to dental care in Ontario, as Nicole and Rachelle have argued. Thank the member from Hamilton East Stony Creek. Further member statements. I recognize the member from Glen Gary, Prescott and Russell. Thank you very much, Speaker. I rise today to recognize an outstanding citizen in my riding of Glen Gary, Prescott and Russell. On November 6th, this province acknowledged an Ontario citizen for her impactful and longstanding commitment to the community. The Lieutenant Governor presented 13 awards at a ceremony held here in Toronto, including one to Louise Sprule of Van Klee Hill, who was recognized with a 2014 Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship. This award created in 1973, recognizes people who have made an exceptional long term contribution to the quality of life in their communities. Louise was acknowledged for her extraordinary commitment to local fundraising efforts and her enormously important Yes Women Can Event, which showcases female entrepreneurs. She was also responsible for spearheading and organizing the restoration of the historic Higginson Tower in Van Klee Hill, which was built in originally built in 1932 as a wind powered gristmill and then transformed into an observatory tower. In 2013, she celebrated her incredible 20th anniversary of ownership of the review. That's a local newspaper, a beacon of award winning journalism, community engagement and charitable involvement. Speaker, I first had the opportunity of meeting Louise in 1994 when I was mayor of Alexandria and throughout my political career, Louise and the review have always provided comprehensive political coverage and there were only a few editorials perhaps that raised my eyebrows. Her commitment to her community demonstrates the spirit of active citizenship. I am extremely proud of Louise and I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation on behalf of everyone in Glen Gary Prescott Russell. Congratulations Louise, you're a very worthy recipient of this year's Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship. Thank the member from Glen Gary Prescott Russell. Further member statements I recognize a member from Perry Sound, Muscova. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise in this house today to recognize an extraordinary effort by the Salvation Army Central East Division. On December 1st, the Salvation Army collected over 12,000 pounds of donations for the local food bank in the town of Bracebridge. In one day with over 150 volunteers from the community including a local emergency services staff they were able to accomplish this. 12,000 pounds of food in one day is an amazing feat. I would like to recognize all the volunteers who contributed to make the holiday food drive a success. I'm proud of the generosity of individuals with both the donations of food and time through volunteering. Through these efforts the Salvation Army provides a tremendous service to our communities across Ontario. On December 12th this Friday I will be participating in the local Moose FM Christmas Kids Radiathon in support of the Salvation Army. The annual Radiathon is run by Moose stations in Huntsville, Bracebridge and Perry Sound. Money raised through the Radiathon annually contributes tens of thousands of dollars to provide much needed services including emergency food relief, emergency assistance with utilities, and emergency housing and accommodations. Locally the Salvation Army also gets results through non traditional methods. One which I would like to highlight is the donation of firewood for families and individuals in need particularly with winters like the one we experienced last year. The difference in people's lives the donations to the Salvation Army make cannot simply be measured in dollar amounts. I would like to thank Lieutenant Fred Reed, pastor of the Salvation Army in Bracebridge and all the Salvation Army and volunteers for the great work they do in providing this assistance to families in need particularly at this time of year. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I'd like to thank the member from Perry Sound, Muskoka, further member statements, the member from Nickelbelt. Thank you Speaker. I rise today to sound the alarm bells about cuts coming to dental care to vulnerable children here in our province. In August 2015 in about eight short months from there this government plans to remove clinical preventative oral health services from the Ontario public health standards. What does that mean Speaker? Well it means that for thousands of children that public health units identified as in need of preventative oral health care they will lose access. The government say that they have increased eligibility to 70,000 children as of April of this year. They say that they are integrating several different program and that funding will say the same. This all sounds pretty good but it could be quite misleading Mr. Speaker because come August of next year the new program proposing come cut off will mean that services will be denied to thousands and thousands of children in need of oral care. But don't take it from me Mr. Speaker. Listen to Dr. David McCown, Medical Officer of Health for Toronto Public Health. He says that for his public health 15,000 children will be cut off. Go to North Eastern Ontario with Dr. Mark Perot from the Northwest Health Unit and he says 98% of the children will no longer qualified. The Association of Public Health Agency is also sounding the alarm bell. Speaker, things have to change. Those children are needs or support. Thank you. Thank you member from Nickelville. Further member statements? The member from Cambridge. Thank you Speaker. Last week I attended the annual Feather Party in support of Lissard House in Cambridge and chatted with Executive Director Connie Dwyer who reminded me about what a special place it is. In 1998 Sheila O'Donovan and her late husband Val founder of Con Dev in Cambridge gave $1 million to establish a freestanding residential hospice in Waterloo region. Today Lissard House is a cancer hospice providing quality end of life palliative care. Staff welcomes its residents without charge to a home like environment offering support to the resident and their family. I recall Val saying I want Lissard House to be better than home and in many ways this hospice achieves just that. All six bedrooms have a gorgeous view through large window doors and all rooms are decorated with serene countryside paintings. The sun room with lounge chairs and heated floors is a favorite spot for all to watch birds at the feeders. When I used to refer families to Lissard House I knew that staff and volunteers would look after residents needs and let them focus on making the most of their last days. I commend the dedicated staff and volunteers for the incredible care they give to these families at such an emotional time in their journey. I know that Cambridge citizens will continue to support Lissard as it opens a new hospice named Innisfree with another 8 to 10 beds in the very near future. Thank you. Thank you members for your statements. The member from Kitchener Conestoga. Thank you speaker speaker. While we've recently seen a return to the old liberal politics of blaming Ottawa for our province's fiscal woes, we've also seen a reminder of the benefits of conservative economic values both on a national and local level. I spoke a couple weeks ago about the economic example set by Wilmot Council in achieving debt free status. So too can this province learn from the examples being set by the very government when Liberals point at with one hand while seeking handouts with the other instead of pointing fingers under a cloud of a $12.5 billion deficit. The province would do well to learn from a federal government that has achieved a $1.6 billion surplus and I'm glad the finance minister is here to listen to this. Ontario's deficit grows more ominous with each scandal squandering tax dollars on e health gas plants and Mars buildings. The federal surplus means a whole realm of opportunities for Canadians speaker in implementing conservative economic values instead of feeding a government spending addiction. The Harper team is supporting and giving back to Canadian families. In fact, the federal government has announced a $27 billion package of family tax cuts, including for families for a possible $2,000 benefit and an increase in expansion of the universal child care benefit up to $160 a month speaker. You see speaker, this is what leadership looks like taking care of economic priorities and order that we can take better care of our people. So when members opposite are pointing their finger at Ottawa, I asked them to take a look at their target as if they don't learn from a national example. It's the closest they'll get to fiscal responsibility here in Ontario for the next four years. Thank you, Member from Kitchener kind of stoga. Further statements the member from kitchener center. Mr Speaker, I have some positive information to offer you from Waterloo. Mr Speaker, this past Friday I had the opportunity of joining female engineering students and faculty at the University of Waterloo, where they do have the largest school of engineering in Canada. The event was to mark the national day of remembrance and action on violence against women with 14 female students lighting candles in a very solemn memorial. We were reflecting on the events 25 years ago at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. 14 female engineering students there were senselessly murdered, singled out by a disturbed gunman because of their gender. Mr Speaker, I remember covering this tragic event and locally asking the question, what would compel someone to act out so violently against women? 25 years later, we're still asking that same question. In recent weeks, we have seen a very heightened awareness surrounding this issue. I'm encouraged to see our government taking action to raise awareness, to support victims and to remain committed to stopping violence and harassment against women. Mr Speaker, I have a daughter who is currently attending the University of Waterloo and she is the same age as some of the victims who were killed on December 6th, 1989. So for her sake and for the sake of women and girls in my community across Ontario and Canada, we need to remain vigilant in ending all forms of violence against our gender. Thank you. The member from Kitchener Center, further member statements. May I recognize the member from Ottawa Orleans. Mr President, I wrote this time as the MPP for Ottawa Orleans on July 8th to talk about a project that's very dear to me, the Miracle League of Ottawa. At that time, I urge everyone to vote online for this project. Though we didn't now win the grand prize, the organization was lucky enough to receive a generous donation by the Toronto Blue Jays. Today, I rise again as a proud residents of Ottawa because we succeeded. We did it. We will soon have an accessible baseball field. It is a privilege and an honour to have been part of this amazing adventure to build the first ever baseball diamond and playground for children with disabilities in the country. The President of the Miracle League of Ottawa, Mr David Goorley, along with Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson, City Councilor Stephen Blay, Jody Mittick, and former Councillor Rainer Blows, and representative of the Rotary Club of Orleans, and most of all Bryce Derrushie, an extraordinary 11-year-old boy with cerebral paralysis, join me for the official groundbreaking on November 28th at the future baseball field in Notre Dame-des-Chants. This is a remarkable community project that will make an enormous difference in the lives of local children and their families. Merci, Monsieur le Président. Thank you. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Thank you, Member from Ottawa, Orleans. The time for our Member's statements has expired.


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Hello, I'm Michael Belowski and this is True North Reports TV Robert Maynard could not be with us today. He is taking his son to Taekwondo class. So that should be fun. I Actually did Taekwondo myself for a bit. I lived in Korea for four years and learned by a instructor Who instructed US military personnel? He was a Korean Korean military person instructing US military on Taekwondo and self-defense and I was able I had the privilege to to learn and obtain a black belt and so Don't mess Anyway, so Lou varicchio will be joining us today by phone. He'll be calling in in a couple of minutes My topic today is going to be the carbon tax. The carbon tax is back again. I apologize if this is a repeat topic, but It just keeps coming up. I don't know what else to say. I've been writing Politics and economy and so forth in Vermont for a couple years now And I I think every single year since about 2015. There has been some variation or another of a carbon tax proposed Usually multiple at one time, but this latest one is called the Essex plan before I dive into the carbon tax I actually Wanted to preface the entire debate conversation with an observation About a sort of philosophical observation of the carbon tax. I want to talk about 1984 the story by Penn named George Orwell real name Eric Blair who wrote about a Uber control controlled society in the future well no longer the future of course, but in any case at that time the future He was writing in the 1940s where everything was controlled economically sociologically free speech everything and So the main character Winston Finds about halfway through the story without giving too much away He he obtains a manual like a like a manual by the secret power elite and the and it explains how How everybody is controlled how the government does it how it suppresses people suppresses the economy and and So the chapter in this book the main character he obtains this manual he reads the book and The greatest challenge of the ruling class any given day of the week to maintain to maintain power is to suppress the middle and lower class economically and artificially and in the story he talks about how The three mega powers of there's like Asia America and like somewhere in the middle probably Europe and Africa There are like three mega states that are at perpetual war and they're constantly building battleships and sinking them and building more Battleships and sinking them and he explains the reason they're at perpetual war is because it absorbs the excess production of modern technology modern capacity human capacity Of course at this time you have the emergence of factories and mass production and the ruling elite are Seeing the middle and the lower class rise up and they need to create these artificial demands To push them back down and hence perpetual war. Now. What does this have to have to do with the carbon tax? the thought that I want to close this preface with is think about the net cause of adding an artificial cost to energy and then think about I Know it's somewhat garbled but Then the notion of a ruling elite Trying to think of ways to artificially suppress the economy because obviously if you've read through the whole book I don't think it mentions a carbon tax, but it does mention Suppressing the economy and now I will get to the article itself It is The carbon okay, this is that true north reports, of course And it is titled the carbon tax resurfaces as an electric subsidy electric power subsidy okay The carbon tax is back again, but with a new name local environment and will local environmentalist Unveiled the Essex plan at the energy action network annual meeting and Champlain College last week in Burlington The tax proposal endorsed by seventh generation focused on adding costs to carbon-based fuels and Transferring the tax revenue to electric utilities. It was promoted Saturday at the climate action through car through carbon pricing event hosted by the Vermont Public Interest Research Group as Envisioned by the plans 13 authors the Essex plan will quote create jobs attract new businesses spur Strategic electrification and provide the cleanest electricity at the lowest rates in New England the authors of the plan The authors say the plan will lower utility bills quote for every Vermont for every Vermonter and Vermont business and quote and offer refundable rebates for low-income and rural Vermonters, so in a nutshell What this tax would do this proposal would do is it would add a cost to carbon-based fuels at an increasing gradual rate You know small in the beginning and then it would increase over the years and it would shift that money To electric utilities, so it's actually like a tax and a subsidy in one shot It's taken money off of the carbon-based energy and then plopping that onto the electric based power and the notion I assume the idea is to try to Subsidize electric alternatives to carbon-based fuels electric cars electric heating oh Lou is up Hello, hi Sorry in my radio studio, there's a loud beep when somebody calls and I I didn't hear anything Anyway, you're here great. I am here great to have you I was just explaining my carbon tax story On true north reports and is explaining how the proposal called the Essex plan Will take will add a cost to carbon-based fuels and shift that money to electric utilities and I'm making a sort of half assumption here, although I think it's pretty accurate they're trying to promote electric cars and electric heating and obviously electric alternatives to carbon-based fuels and Where I was going to go next with that was to say that The issue with that is and we actually kind of talked a lot about this on our prior show But carbon-based Transportation and and fuels are not Quite a caught as cost efficient as their carbon alternatives Well, you know the the other thing that probably the third rail here in Vermont is and I wouldn't say it's off topic, but Nobody ever talks about wood heat and what he would is a carbon-based fuel and A lot of Vermonters burn wood, you know, we we hear a lot about promoting, you know wood chip wood pellet Fuel and that sort of thing, but you know you burn wood it produces a lot of carbon dioxide goes up to chimney Along with water vapor and and other You know particulate pollution that comes from wood wood heat Yet, that's never discussed. I always find that interesting and The then if you think about this tax is on carbon-based fuels, so presumably This will be shifting some people if it was implemented, of course It would be shifting some people towards wood heat Exactly, exactly. I mean if I get a heavy tax on my Heating oil I may just go and you know, I used to have a wood furnace It was an old thing. I took it out. It was a backup heat source But I may just go back and start burning wood again mm-hmm and One of the authors of the report who I interviewed for this article Mark Koran Founder and co-owner of Black River produce talked about how part at least for him part of this Appeal of the carbon tax was indeed to move People towards wood heat and I have a quote. He says But then all of a sudden oil Came way back down. He's talking about the price of oil Oil came way back down and I thought well It's cheaper for us to burn oil than it is to burn wood pellets that are made here in Windsor, Vermont 15 miles away. So here he's making the argument and a totally reasonable argument I suppose that you know, he thinks that it's it's better to tax the oil because it will Push people towards the local economy. You've got wood pellets are I at least in this case produced right here 15 miles away from him and I imagine a lot of the wood pellets if not all of them are produced around here and So for him it's like well, this is going to support the local economy Which is a totally legitimate argument But as you just pointed out if the idea is to reduce carbon footprint, then there's that too Exactly that it doesn't work You know, so it's sort of everybody has blinders on In in some of this, you know, if you want to be totally logical, you know, I wouldn't think Supporting the manufacturer wood pellets makes any sense. I mean, I don't agree with that but Yeah, that it's you start getting into this parsing of What's carbon-based and what isn't and right doesn't make sense to me? so my large takeaway from this whole Essex plan I'd taking money away from carbon-based fuels and pushing it in the electric energy sector the the issue with that is Electric power as we discussed with the cars in the prior show it is more expensive the electric cars are heavily subsidized right now Electric heat while getting more efficient than it's been. I think that they call it the cold heat pumps They are a newer and more efficient technology for Electric heating, but they are still not quite up to par with the prices or I should say down in prices With with carbon-based fuels So it sounds sounds great and wonderful on the surface Well, we're gonna take money from one thing and put money in another But you're taking money from the cheaper thing and putting it into the more expensive alternative and we just need to Be clear about that and we have another caller. Okay Oops, I dropped on one. Uh-oh Hello, somebody's there. Yep We're Lou's gonna have to call back. Oops. Sorry Lou Okay, who's calling? Yep, I'm here. Can you hear me? All right? Yeah, this phone call is kind of like the whole carbon tax thing is totally confusing My comment is you know, we're talking about You know, if we end up going forward with a carbon tax initiative Which we know the far left is going to push push push push for whatever their agenda might be just because they want to tax tax tax and then we start talking about maybe we start taxing more on On wood burning people etc. I get a question for you We're talking about maybe burning more wood Or burning less wood whatever Don't you and I'm not sure how familiar you are with this, but isn't it amusing that you see tons of trucks leaving Vermont Mm-hmm logs on them. I'm sure. Yeah, they probably yes. Well, no, hold on They're leaving Mm-hmm these same trucks Are meeting trucks with logs on them coming into Vermont Mm-hmm. Where's the logic? That doesn't sound very logical to me It's a true fact that it happened After day after day especially in the Northeast Kingdom Especially in the Southeast part of the state as well Mm-hmm. It's just like we we take one truck load of wood We send it out of state and sell it to somebody we got another truck load of wood coming in And we're buying it. Where is oh? No, I hung up on the other guy Oh, sorry. Sorry Anyway, Lou you're back or I lost the collar We're gonna have to figure out how to how to get two people on it once. I apologize if you're still so anyway Well, we'll get that down before the next episode So he was talking basically about Good products being shipped around between the dates. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think I and I apologize if I butcher this But to summarize and everybody else heard it. I think what he's getting with getting that is It's just an efficient to be once you start moving things large distances Either away from Vermont or to Vermont if you're using that material to try and save on carbon It kind of defeats the purpose and I'm and yeah, I think and I'm paraphrasing here but that's what I felt like I heard the caller saying and You know, I wanted to mention earlier this week I was down in Manchester at Byrne Burton Academy and The Republicans hosted a very interesting legislative forum which the public attended you know problems Vermont faces and You know, one of the things and I was surprised that it was kind of bipartisan agreement that Vermont definitely needs tax reform Although no discussion of tax up at least in theory I would think It it would definitely go along with what what the Democrats and Republican legislators on this panel We're talking about they were all from Bennington County But you know while there seems to be some bipartisan agreement that you know things like property tax and and there's a You know a lot of burden on on a certain sector in the Vermont population basically the working Vermonter Is You know, what about carbon tax? That seems to be moved from the discussion when when we talk about tax reform is why are we moving toward yet another tax? Yeah So again, you know, the old logic argument Comes up is it doesn't really make make much sense. I in my sort of opening monologue to the show before you called I Reference the chapter in the book 1984 by George Orwell, which is this pen name. It's real names Eric Blair and the purpose of that was in The book 1984 which is all about a society that's suppressed and controlled by by a sort of global government he talks about how When the main character Winston finds like a manual on how they control everybody it talks about how they need to create an artificial pressure sort of artificial cost on The economies of the world and they achieve that through perpetual war You know battleships are built and then they're destroyed and battleships are built again and they're destroyed and the reason they have to do that is because Without people wasting their production they would rise up and you know presumably be able to challenge the ruling class And the reason I brought that up for the carbon tax was I feel like To add a cost to energy I mean that I understand that Mr. Orwell or Eric Blair may not have ever envisioned the carbon tax in his time But when I read that book For the first time and then years later heard about the carbon tax the connection in my mind just went like snap like wait a second To me it's it feels like the perfect Artificial sort of barometer to push down on the economy, you know 48, which is when he wrote the novel But it certainly has far more reaching effects. I mean his whole satire on on government control I mean if you add a cost to energy Everything's gonna go up and anything and everything you can think of it's gonna cost more if you add a cost to energy And and they they present it as well. We're gonna make electric energy cheaper. Well, that's fine But you're taking that from a tax on what's already cheaper So the net the net impact is still going to be a higher cost than energy That's that's my my observation I don't think you're alone. I think a lot of the critics of the carbon tax are pretty much saying exactly what you're saying yeah, I Got for those who want to read the article It is at True North reports. It is not on the main page But if you click on TR TNR news Carbon tax resurfaces as electric power subsidy and it's got an interview with one of the founders Who makes a totally logical and reasonable argument for some of the positive things that would happen from it? And then it also has a some comments from some of the critics Rob Roper of the Ethan Allen Institute And I believe those are the two main people profile. Oh, okay, so wow this show moves quick What why don't we move to we're at the ten minute warning. We have another topic. I Have I cued up an article here. This is Middlebury professor break silence on assault blames radical campus elements This is one of your articles Why don't you introduce this one that you wrote well, sir Allison Stanger Individual who invited author To the campus which coverage of the disruption of the students who shouted down Murray the author and Then Charles Murray up. Yeah, then professor Sanger When when it became clear within in fact, I was at that Oh, you were there that lack lecture. Yes, and it was oh my gosh quite a memorable experience, but She ushered Murray out of the plan was to take him to a room on campus where they would stream, you know, let him continue the lecture Did then afterwards? The author and Sanger were confronted by Our students and some other questionable individuals whether or not they were students or anti-fud type people who were at And you know there to disrupt roughed up individuals and You didn't hear much from Sanger after the incident. She was injured. She understand had a neck injury was in the local hospital in Middlebury and then Surprisingly went on sabbatical she sort of Disappeared from from campus view and then she popped up a couple weeks ago With Brian Lamb on C-span and did a an interview which you can view if you go to C-span site You do the door actually read my article. I have the link there Yeah, might be easier than searching for it, but you know she Kind of tells all although she I don't think she went as Hard as she could have one on the disruption on campus but she pretty much blamed the leftist elements on campus and also outside agitators on Creating, you know the whole mishap. You know what? We got the interview queued up I'm just gonna play a minute or two of it if that's all right All right, we'll see how this works Is I myself at Harvard benefited enormously from interacting with some of the great conservative thinkers there people like Harvey Mansfield James Q. Wilson even Samuel Huntington. These are professors with whom you could disagree profoundly But that interaction was so important For my own personal development that I wanted to be available to other students Charles Murray 1994 appeared on this program was called book notes at the time talked about the bell curve I just want to run this You know the whole book is about this Distribution and this change what about the bell curve as a title and dick and I dick hernstein and I heard it and It was one of those cases where we said yeah, that's a wonderful title. What's it mean? It refers to that picture on the front of the book that's it looks like a bell and It's a phenomenon. You see in all kinds of things in nature whether it's height or weight or in this case IQ so you just heard an excerpt of the Video and it's kind of the opposite of what happened at last week's show. We couldn't hear it, but apparently the audience did so That's better better that way than how it went last week anyway or last month Well, anyway, so let's just continue from there even though we didn't hear what she said the audience did and you can continue to explain Well, maybe if I might chime in real quick my observation is If you disagree with something and you feel like that idea is poor and and should be you know poo-pooed and and be kind of challenged and put down in society You need to let that happen in the free market of ideas the moment that you start using violence You're not only discrediting yourself, but you're adding credibility to the Source that you're trying to suppress Yeah, I mean in defense of all the students who were nonviolent and that was the majority You know, I guess one could only complain that their disruptive behavior Kind of gave them a black eye in my opinion because you know one thinks of a college campus Can exchange ideas they didn't define the guest lecturer there as able to give his ideas which they branded as racist and You know conservative which disagree with the racist part definitely perhaps conservative, but it probably more libertarian And I think Everyone lost in that whole incident is You know gave the college a black eye And a lot of negative press which I think is going to take a long time for them to recover and Unfortunately The author who was there wasn't even there to speak about the bell curve the controversial bell curve Book which he co-authored back in the 80s. He was there to discuss a new book a newer book I should say yeah, which he never even got an opportunity to do so. I think everybody lost Yeah, I mean it doesn't and it just I think it just illustrates the new McCarthyism on college campuses where You know, if you were perceived as not being politically correct you shut up Right, right Yeah, it shocked me. You know, it's funny. I actually found out about this story in national news I wasn't reading Vermont news when I stumbled on I'm not talking about the one that you wrote in particular When this hit the headlines when it first happened, right? It happened in March And I think I was scanning the headlines on drudge report and I saw Middlebury College and I thought to myself That's Vermont So I clicked on it and I was quite shocked. Well, I want to say I was shocked But with all that Unfortunately with all the headlines going on around the nation and you know, you had all those riots in a thing It was Berkeley University When they try to have you see Berkeley, right? So again, I mean I'm I'm just trying to think if I really believe that and I don't I think it'd be a whole other debate to even get into it But if I really believe that this author is a bad person and needs to be Shunned it needs to happen in a free market of ideas, you know that once you once you resort to violence It's just discrediting everybody, you know, you know, and it's crediting actually I bet now there's going to be some people who are going to go look at the bell curve and say why why what? Why was I discouraged from knowing about this? Yes.  She you know Since she's a political You know teaches political science on campus that you know, she thought it was good for students To come in and maybe have a discussion and you know, ask him some hard questions if they disagreed with him But they didn't even give him the opportunity to express himself and and I you know, and I'm surmising this But I bet a lot of the students Never even read the book have no idea what he said and we're just taking a few radical interpretations of his work and running with it and you know white and basically tarring and feathering the man Right, you know, I just think it was it not only a black eye to the college But I think the whole state of Vermont suffered our image Once again of being you know sort of a monolithic state where You know a lot of thoughts just aren't permitted Yeah, it's Again, it kind of it surprised me, but it didn't surprise me. Yeah, I mean, I'm naturally cynical So it didn't surprise me but actually to have attended the event and gone in you know as a member of the fourth estate to be there to cover it for true north reports and I also And the editor of the Vermont Eagle of weekly newspaper in which is published in Middlebury I went to cover the events for both the news outlets and It was gosh, it was embarrassing not not to me, but yeah, and it had to have been I could just See especially the the folks from the media department at the college I mean they were just Besides themselves knowing there was nothing they could do to calm these students down. They were Really literally out of control. Well with that we were at the 10 minute 10 second warning So you were listening to Lou Vericchio and Michael Balowski of true north reports and we each write for other newspapers as well Thank you for watching be seeing you be seeing you


All right, let's see. All right, so there's an elephant in the room. Michael H claims. So let's get the elephant in the room out of the way. I hope a bunch of people don't stop listening live once I answer this question. But let's do it so that it doesn't bother you from listening to the rest of the show. This is not the topic of my show.  What does you want to think about what you might say? About the fact that the Daily Wire, the outfit that has today Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson and Matt Walsh, God, every religious conservative on the planet, as its host, has just bought an option. Now, notice it isn't making Atlas Shrugged. It's bought an option to buy, it's a one-year option, to buy the right to make Atlas Shrugged. So there are a lot of steps that have to happen between now and then. Oh, and Coke says, don't forget Clueless Candice. Yes, of course, there's Candice Owen on there as well. So there's a lot of, so just explain this to you, they bought an option. What an option says is that they, a year from now, will be able to buy, or anytime during the year, they will be able to buy at a set price the right to make the movie, but they can also walk away from it. They've paid the option price and they can walk away from it. During that year, the rights to make the movie can be sold to anybody else. They have the exclusive option to do this. Why do people do this? Why do they buy an option and don't just buy the right to make the movie? Basically, because they wanna go out, and this isn't a movie, this is a TV series. So this would be a TV series that would be streamed. Why do they buy an option and not outright just by the right to make a movie? Because the option is cheaper, significantly cheaper, and it gives them time to figure out if they can make it. Can they find a writer? Can they find actors? Do they have the capital? Is this reasonable? Is it gonna make money? A million different things are involved in going from saying I wanna make a movie to actually making it. So first, everybody's blood pressure come down. Nothing's happened yet. Nothing's gonna happen anytime soon. Maybe sometime in the next year. We'll take a next step. But options on Iron Man's materials are sold all the time, and almost never does a movie actually get made at the end of that. So that's one issue I just wanna resolve in terms of just the process here. The process, there's still a lot of money that a lot of time, a lot of stuff that has to happen between now and an actual TV series. Second, the big concern is, of course, well, these guys are religious conservatives. What kind of a series are they gonna make? Well, probably not a very good one. Certainly not philosophical, right? Philosophically. You know, the series is likely to be likely to focus on, and if you heard the CEO of the Daily Wire talk about this, this is his understanding what the novel is about, and this is what I think they'll focus on. Likely to focus on economic freedom, divorced from any kind of philosophy, any kind of philosophical foundation, any kind of philosophical outlook. This will focus on the evil of socialism, the evil of government intervention, the evil of regulations, the evil of taxes. Who knows, but it will focus on something like that. And the solution to that is, quote, free markets, right? And the gold speech to the extent that there is a speech will be limited to some economic advocacy for limited government in the realm of economics, and I don't expect more than that. So it's not gonna be a deep movie, it's not gonna be a TV series, not gonna be a philosophical TV series, particularly philosophical, I think the heroes will be knocked down a little bit in a sense that it's unlikely that it is unlikely that the heroes will be presented as philosophical heroes. I certainly don't think weird in this whole affair with Dagny and as well as with a wife is going to be presented positively. Again, these religious conservatives, it's unlikely. So it's gonna be a massive mixed bag and if you expect a philosophically great movie, it won't be. I do think though that the production values will be good, that the production values will be much higher than the movies, the movies that try to stick with Iron Man's philosophy, but production value was so bad that who cares what the philosophy actually said. I think here the production values will be high. I think Daily Wire won't do, I think they perceive this if they do it as a big deal, as their premier product for their streaming channel, and therefore I think they'll invest a lot of money and they'll make this from a production values perspective. I can't tell you if the writing is gonna be good or anything like that, but the writing probably won't be good because they'll be conflicted between free markets and a philosophy they don't agree with. So it will really be focused on, so it really will be high production value, mediocre or bad philosophically, and it will present a free market perspective. You know, Iron Man's wishes for a movie of Atlas Shrugged and I think this applies to TV series will always, that it sells the book and get it done, the quality doesn't really matter, nobody's gonna be able to do it anyway other than Iron Man, just get it done. That was her perspective. Good perspective, bad perspective, I don't necessarily agree with Iron Man, but that was her perspective, and that I think is the reason why the sale went through. It's a fulfillment of her wishes in that sense. I do think that the one issue the movie makers are likely to stay away from, I hope, and I think that there's good reason to believe that they will, is I don't think they'll try to pretend that Iron Man was religious, I don't think they'll try to pretend that religion is a salvation. I think they'll stay away from that, I think they have enough integrity to stay away from that. I mean, that's a strong statement, but I have reason to think that. We will see, we will see. So, we'll see how that plays out, but that is the real danger. The real danger, the two real dangers here, that the filmmakers make Iron Man out to be a religionist, that is the philosophy behind free markets is some form of religion, or that they make Iron Man out to be a libertarian, and let's hope that neither one of those two things happen. But other than that, let's wait and see. I'm not, I don't know where this goes, I doubt that they will want any kind of philosophical guidance from the people at the Iron Man Institute of a real objectivist. I think they're gonna have a hard time finding a good writer, I think they're gonna have a hard time finding just people to participate in the project that'll be good. I don't think money will be the problem, I think it's just talent will be the problem. Now, we will see, we will see, maybe I might very well be wrong about all of that. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. 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An overview of the superlative in English grammar. Superlatives are the highest degree of comparison. This means superlatives are used when we talk about something that is at the top level, or the bottom level of equality. Let's take a look at how the superlative works in the English language. Superlatives ending in S. For one-syllable adjectives, we simply add S at the end of the word to indicate the superlative. For example, cheap, the cheapest, high, the highest. The Great Dane is the biggest breed of dog. Superlatives ending in E. For two-syllable adjectives that end in Y, we change the Y to Y, and add S to indicate the superlative. For example, happy, the happiest, friendly, the friendliest. The busiest airport in the world is the Atlanta International Airport in Georgia. Superlatives with most. For two-syllable adjectives that don't end in Y, and adjectives with three or more syllables, we add the most or the least to indicate the superlative. For example, careful, the most careful, difficult, the least difficult.  Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for Tefal and TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.