Mazdas are made in Japan, Mexico and the US.

Make sure the VIN on any car you buy starts with a 2 for Canada

If that model isn’t made in Canada, make sure it DOESN’T start with 1, 4, 5, or 7 for United States.

Mexico starts with 3A-3X.

Japan starts with J.

South Korea is K1-K3 and KL-KR.

Here is the whole list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number

Buying a used Google Pixel to put GrapheneOS on it isn’t as bad as buying a new Google Pixel.

While most Androids might be Samsung, they aren’t as good as they used to be. I’ve had lots of problems with Samsung products from tech to appliances in the past 5 or 10 years. At this point, I don’t buy anything Samsung. LG isn’t as bad.

There is also FastMail and Mailbox.org and others that aren’t American.

ProtonMail isn’t for everyone. Most people want a smooth experience.

Peter Zeihan has been saying for a while now that the US is going to stop protecting merchant ships that aren’t their own. Canada is going to need to protect it’s own ships to/from Europe, Central and South America and Asia.

If you don’t need to buy a new phone right now, wait until the Motorola phones that support GrapheneOS.

His religion stuff is already tagged in the SponsorBlock browser add-on. Skips right past it.

Why start this at 8:15 in?

It depends on how much you trust or distrust that government or corporation. You might trust or distrust one government more than another or one corporation more than another. I can easily think of some governments and corporations I would trust more or less than other ones. Of course one shouldn’t completely trust or distrust any government or corporation. Choose which ones to trust carefully, hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.

If you want electoral reform, one of the best things you can do is get involved. Join the federal and provincial parties you think you can make the most progress toward electoral reform by being a member. Push for ER at the meetings.

A nice side-effect of being involved in political parties is that in addition to getting to vote in the public elections, you also get to vote for your local candidate and the party leader.

You’re being disingenuous saying voters walk away every time. There are over half a dozen different ways of implementing PR. Show me an example for each type of PR where the voters walked away.

Also, out of the 74 democratic countries in the world, 2/3rds of them use some type of PR voting, so how about you show the reasons why these Canadian voters walked away from PR when 2/3rds of the world’s democracies have it and want it.

Link without tracking: https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/why-canada-needs-chinese-evs

Society still needs oil and natural gas. We can’t end its use instantly. Unfortunately, there are some things people are not willing to give up until a greener solution becomes available for at least equal if not lower cost. If Canada doesn’t produce it, other countries will and they may do it in a more polluting manner. Removing oil and gas from the market may cause the prices to increase temporarily, pushing some people to renewable energy options, but when the price goes up, other countries will see an opportunity to start or increase their production of oil and gas, which will reduce the price again.

If environmentalists really want society to reduce the use of oil and gas, they should strive to be more effective by focusing on pushing for more research for, and the adoption of, more efficient renewable energy, which will reduce the demand for oil and gas. They should put out ads and publish articles about areas where renewable energy is not only cleaner but less expensive than oil and gas so people will consider switching. They should also focus on disproving myths about renewable energy that pervades the media, not only myths that were never true, but especially the myths that used to be true but no longer are. They should also focus on converting the use of oil to natural gas if renewable energy isn’t suitable yet or is still more expensive than natural gas. People aren’t using oil and natural gas because they want to pollute, they are using it because it’s less expensive than renewable energy or where renewable energy isn’t feasible.

As renewable energy efficiency improves, and it is improving fast and will improve much more, society will move eventually away from oil, and also natural gas, as they become infeasible and more expensive, and these pipelines will likely be repurposed for moving natural gas and eventually for moving critical resources like water instead. That said, there will always be some uses for oil and natural gas that will prevent it from not being used at all, and hopefully they will be used in ways that don’t involve burning it and producing CO².

You replied to a person who didn’t comment it.

Get a second phone to run WhatsApp. When not using WhatsApp, turn the phone off or get a Faraday bag to keep it in.

Most US states use forced labour in their prison systems.

Our politicians are so gullible to believe businesses needed TFWs to fill jobs. They have to understand that it’s always only about increasing profits. Not only should they not have brought in TFWs, but minimum wage needs to be raised to be a livable wage. If a business isn’t making enough to pay every employee a livable wage, then their business model is a failure and they don’t deserve to be in business. Not only Tim Hortons, but Walmart and Amazon are forcing governments to subsidize their low employee wages by having employees need food banks and other social services just to survive. It’s criminal.

A good start would be for the federal government to stop funding news orgs that have more than 0% foreign ownership or funding.

Worker cooperatives.

Also, housing cooperatives and other types of cooperatives everywhere.

A UBI is intended to be inexpensive to administer, this is why everyone gets it unconditionally, but income taxes need to be increased so that the wealthy end up paying back what they got and more, such that it balances the cost of giving it to everyone.