## Summary In a recent discussion, Pierre Poilievre emphasizes the need for a smaller government in Canada to boost personal responsibility and economic growth. He argues that current policies under Trudeau are harming the economy and benefiting the wealthy. Poilievre believes that reducing bureaucracy and focusing on Canadian resources will lead to better opportunities for all Canadians. ## Highlights I think people are sick and tired of grandiosity. In fact, I think there's something grand about a family that can go on a nice road trip and share stories, and build lasting memories that the kids will remember when they're 85 years old ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh40b5jpxckb32za43qdvvy6)) - 💭 this one really resonated with me, made me pause and appreciate the sentiment. It sounds just a lot like the American dream and these can be simple promises but the quality and standards that have happened so far have been so low that people are just wanting something else. I do appreciate this simpler vision though, but I'm not entirely sure on whether he does have this national intention at heart. It's just not possible in Toronto, here for example. If you take the average income and the average house price, it would take us 29 years to save up for a down payment. So, you know, if you for a down payment, not to pay it off, forget paying it off. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh40q1z0yve9bd6yz3t0x14w)) - 💭 I'm incredibly grateful to be in the position I am now, to cooperate with my parents to at least have a place to stay Our young people are saying, "I want to start a business. I want to invent something. I want to create things. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh40va317jvrgmv7bq5my134)) - 💭 also pairing with traditional values in wanting to start a family. as a young person I do agree and I do feel like the sentiment is shifting a bit towards something more meaningful and ambitious, or is that just bias? I was definitely his target audience when I was 19 he seems to be really targeting trades people and is talking about the physical resources but what about the digital world? productivity. Sounds complicated? It's actually extremely simple. You just take the GDP and you divide it by the hours worked in the country. So American GDP is $80, so for every hour an American worker works, on average, he or she produces $80 of GDP. In Canada, it's 50 ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh41919a4w7g400fkr32dtfs)) - 💭 part of the reason why some people are working and grinding so much is because they just genuinely are paid less this is why I do remote work inflation punishes the people who forgo gratification to invest in the future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh41cpt563hb5q50g8bxdmkb)) - 💭 needing to be harsher on contributions, because printing is only a short term fix believes in a state that controls every aspect of your life. Money, your speech, your thought, um, control the economy. All of the industries of the country, um, and every time that has been tried, it is a complete disaster. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh42dpb2e4tjw7s2zp0w3y7p)) - 💭 yeah i guess socialism isnt good if the government is shit lul Canadians have always been about 20% of Canadians stably supported the socialists, the NDP, and that’s been true since about 1962 or something ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh42evwvec2gntqjhdqn046k)) - 💭 i didnt realize ndp was socialist. so if you're not wanting a government like this then you would go conservative? tempting. the second problem Jagmeet Singh has is that all of his political ideology is implemented now. So right, and we’re seeing it. Like people look around and say, "Okay, this is what it looks like, the Utopia the NDP has been spinning in the corner of Parliament. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh42kzrv21h8wprw5bg1ba69)) I've heard great things about the graduates from the University of Waterloo. The people I know in Silicon Valley, yeah, they’re our biggest export right now. Yeah, well, they feel that they’re at least the equivalent of the graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh43csgrs9ngmxk2mn32wt8f)) - 💭 interesting this comparison is made, i guess some of them are pretty cracked Why don’t we make this the most attractive place for these brilliant minds to come out of these schools and build it here and keep it here? I think we can do that. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh43e37bf65s86bx65r00225)) - 💭 i really resonate with this vision. even during my short time in Vancouver there were so many smart minds. i want even Saskatchewan to feel entrepreneurial and technically advanced. I have a mission there. You know, I um, was it Frankle that said, "He who has a why can withstand any what?" ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh43sn8pyr23kn8114wpbf76)) - 💭 get you a prime minister that misattributes philosophy 😍 You know, I don’t come from a privileged or wealthy background. I was adopted by school teachers. I grew up in a normal suburban neighborhood. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh43tz291wfp33qj3v61g5c9)) You know, I don’t come from a privileged or wealthy background. I was adopted by school teachers. I grew up in a normal suburban neighborhood. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh43v1ed0nnhdmg4ttnx9f4m))