New Rule: Whoa, Canada | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

If we want to save our country, we should learn from other progressive nations and pump the brakes on extreme wokeness.

[@knelle1114]

It’s also worth pointing out the New York Times has defended Sweden’s new strict immigration policy while simultaneously condemning similar proposed immigration policies in the U.S.

[@wesjones1417]

Bernie Sanders also praised Sweden for their worker standards, while condemning their no minimum wage. It's amazing how much people cherry pick what they want from other countries.

[@ryankuypers1819]

Yet another reason to never take the NYT seriously. It pains me that I once had to read the entire front page every morning although that was in the 90s so perhaps there was still some journalism occurring.

[@bl9531]

@@wesjones1417 Cherry picking or misinformation: Sweden operates without a nationally implemented minimum wage. However, minimum wages are set by sector or industry through collective bargaining using the krona.

[@armondtanz]

yes sam seder said similar, said there's loads of jobs in America all immigrants are welcome... then condemned any1 for saying Egypt should take on Gazan refugees because of infrastructure and recourse issues???

[@justfedup]

Immigration how is going down now is a disaster , Calgary is cheap and my house is 500 usd, go to Toronto or Vancouver and you’ll spend 3x that,

[@fujibosco]

I'm a college educated Canadian, who works 40 hours per week in a white collar job, and I can't afford to live in the country I was born in. Tough to date from your moms basement. America, do not go down the road we went... Bill is not wrong.

[@monicabeaston4996]

In the neighborhood I grew up on you woukd consider yourself lucky to find a house under a million. The New York Times published advice on how to afford a house if a young American: buy your parent's house from them at a reduced price. Well, what about all those you g Americans who aren't only ch8lsren abd whose parents don't own homes? Bill is very out of touch here.

[@IDontBuyIt50]

They just published that annual number for America that is the median home price. It was 484k. Its been climbing despite how many empty homes there are. In any given small town similar to my hometown, under 8k people, you may have one or two people who could afford that. I bought a home that needed a new roof for 115k in the mid90's in that small town. It was made from fieldstone and two story, like a Scottish castle. Put it 30 miles over onto Lake Michigan and its worth a couple of million. Twenty five years later that home is empty, I had it for 16, now the new owner is asking 350k. In a town that has actually shrunk in population. Its because there is more and more properties owned not by families but by large investment companies. They can sit on something for years, my old house has been empty two years, 2500 sq feet and two car garage with loft, just sitting there. I will say that in those nineties, I worked full time but just as a grocery store manager and was able to buy that home and get a new roof. Nobody in their late twenties with that job can buy anything here anymore.

[@corerlt]

@@ClaudiusCaelum You're funny.

[@ClaudiusCaelum]

@@IDontBuyIt50 "(...) there is more and more properties owned not by families but by large investment companies. They can sit on something for years" BINGO !! Blaming a Country ( or it's government ) for the lack of affordable housing is like blaming it for the weather, lol America may have the monopoly on institutionalized, systemic greed, but Canada is not immune to it unfortunately...

[@user-pu2yy8xd9x]

@@ClaudiusCaelum Heads up: Every sentence does not need to be its own paragraph. Also, the ideological bullshit has gotten out of hand. People are hired because of their skin color now, instead of their qualifications. How great will that be when it's the doctor that does your surgery? Or the pilot that flies your plane?

[@ensontaylor4836]

"going too far left can push people in the middle to the right" this is happening to me and a lot of my friends and family

[@deathlynebulaLIVE]

Yep, exactly. The trans issue in particular is making me see how crazy "progressives" can get. Coming from a fellow leftist, it's extremely sad and infuriating.

[@wasabiflavoredcocaine]

Welcome to the club

[@SplitFinn]

Happened to me. Voted left in UK, Australia and New Zealand but just cannot anymore.

[@jeffreydean7556]

@@deathlynebulaLIVE Yup. The phrase "I didn't leave the left, the left left me,' exists for a reason.

[@MicahMicahel]

in Canada people .. some people are so confused tehy will never know how to get back to common sense though. the government destroyed their ability to see right and wrong. They are de-moralized, as BEzmanov said.

[@travelwithtony5767]

“Calling it racist doesn’t solve the problem” 👍👍👍👍

[@mdjambazky4968]

And highlighting that Trump will solve the problem :)

[@TC-ic1ic]

@@mdjambazky4968 he will. Get over yourself.

[@user-zf3xb3qx8w]

@@mdjambazky4968 What did that mustached buy say in the 30's in Germany?? Give the people simple slogans, repeated over and over.

[@romnesia7729]

​@@user-zf3xb3qx8w "Ever wanna find an inçel online? Just look for the idiot making up quotes about Hitler" - Mark Twain

[@ClaudiusCaelum]

@@romnesia7729 "Ever wanna find an inçel online? Just look for the idiot making up quotes about Hitler" - Mark Twain" What exactly does quoting Hitler and being Incel have in common ? I'm sure White Supremacists would love to hear your reasoning ( before beating you to a pulp... ) It was not Hitler that said that quote about repeating a lie over and over, it was Joseph Goebbels: - “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." That's EXACTLY what Drumph has been doing with his "save the steal" Big Lie; fooling gullible people like you. “It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” - Mark Twain ( REAL quote... )

[@snacktime2497]

As someone from Whitehorse, I can confirm that the air quality was so poor last year because the whole ass territory was ON FIRE for half the summer.

[@Jedi.Toby.M]

No joke, I mean California should have at least a small idea about that...I mean it's only on fire during the spring to fall months these days... Cheers mate!😅😂

[@pault3179]

Exactly, it was all because of forest fires. Bill positioning is as anything else, which he did, diminishes his credibility. I know he's not a journalist, but I at least thought he was a credible source of information.

[@Darkdragon5544]

Bud I'm in Québec and OUR FIRES WERE BIGGER THAN YOURS!! BEAT YOU WESTERN CANADA!! NA NA NAAA!! (Seriously tho, it's a real problem and it might happen again this year... We should get coffee and plan out something... 🤔)

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[@iankane1733]

“Calling it racist doesn’t solve the problem” well put.

[@ClaudiusCaelum]

@iankane1733 5 hours ago “Calling it racist doesn’t solve the problem” No... It underlines ANOTHER even WORSE problem...

[@deebee4575]

@@ClaudiusCaelum I would say that a country going from the lowest s*xual assault rate to the highest in just a couple of years is a far worse problem than some people calling names. Continue to keep your head in the sand though.

[@yourmother4898]

It identifies the problem in order to address it . Why don't you understand?

[@deebee4575]

@@ClaudiusCaelum So the country with some of the lowest s*x assaults in Europe is now the country with the highest number and the perpetrators are 99% "migrants". And wanting to stop that trend is somehow racist?

[@authenticallysuperficial9874]

​@@yourmother4898 It misclassifies the problem

[@theakountant8444]

The last minute of the video hit HARD. "Blaming rising crime on immigration is racist. Yeah, but is it true?"

[@brutustantheiii8477]

As the child of Chinese immigrants, I 110% AGREE. Facts are facts

[@DreamingDarlin]

Muslims in Sweden are also a problem. A major problem is not trying to adapt to their new country who took them in and living exactly as they did in Africa or the Middle East. It's slowly happening here in America.

[@jfkst1]

@@DreamingDarlin Because genetics matter.

[@mgraulau]

@@DreamingDarlin The USA refuses to admit that multiculturism is a flop when migrants refuse to assimilate. They are shredding their new countries apart.

[@ALT-vz3jn]

@@DreamingDarlinit’s the same in Quebec. Huge influx of Muslims from North Africa, and the cost of public safety net systems went up exponentially. They’re experts in taking advantage of every and all public programs, which puts a huge burden on the taxpayers.

[@davedawe2420]

As a conservative Canadian I agree 150% with everything Bill said here. My problem is this; if it was a conservative saying it, all Bill's audience would be booing.

[@SagaciousBoothe]

It's odd how I can agree with what he's saying but not laugh.

[@jeanthepants7905]

He talks a good gamev - Except, unfortunately he got a lot of the facts to base these arguments, wrong. Just to start, Unemployment isn't calculated the same between the two, and so does not mean the same thing when comparing as a %, - not going to get into the other logical fallacies he goes on about . But if they change the facts, to improve their arrangements... then the argument itself is insupportable by actual data. People who want to manipulate you, change the facts so that reasonable people believe they are making up their minds based on information, except they are just being led into a narrative

[@renemichaud4935]

@@jeanthepants7905Right on the spot Jean.

[@renemichaud4935]

Canadian here. I use to be on the left, but with the wokeness of my country, now I am neither right or left. That being said, Bill misrepresents a lot of things in this clip; unemployment rates, pollution, health care. BTW in a country where a large percentage of people just can't afford to see a doctor, it's normal that they are not in the statistics in regards to delays involved in seeking medical care; they just are not rich enough to get in line to wait! Yea here in Canada you have to wait, sometimes to long, but at least you still have a system in wich you actually can seek the medical care you need regardless of your revenu. I strongly beleive that most people in Canada, left or right, would no change our health care system for someting resembling that in the US.

[@karltannerfookinlegendofgi5243]

i’m in the same boat as you. give them all a break. Bill Maheris finally catching up to current events, and he’s holding the hands of his audience along the way.

[@grahamcawthorne3720]

I'm from Montreal, Québec, Canada and in 2007 I paid 425/month rent minimum wage was 8 bucks ish, same place now with minimal renovations and upkeep is 1675/month minimum wage now is 15.75. So minimum wage has doubled but rent is nearly 4x

[@neisanland2503]

Salary barely goes up and prices goes up 4x meaning that eventually it was going, will go collapse.

[@mathieuduval7544]

Americans have to stop thinking Canada is this great country with polite ppl, its a dumpster fire over here and no one wants to put it out!!!.... the government will have to do something with regulating the prices of rent and food or alot of ppl will be.... well... burning in that dumpster fire!!.... you commented on things were better in 2007 and you're right.... but i think back in the day my dad made 20$/ hr and he bought a house for 34K.... and to think ppl used to bitch back then!!??

[@steelcom5976]

Voters keep voting in the same parties. Whose fault is that?

[@Plax123]

I lived in Guelph, ON in 2013 and my 2-bedroom apartment near downtown was $950 CAD + utilities and minimum wage was ~$13 CAD/hour. Now minimum wage is ~$16/h and rent for a 2-bedroom in the same place is now $2300/month + utilities

[@Section5_CdnIntelService]

How much are house prices driven up by foreign investors who don't even live in Canada.

[@AgentJayZ]

As a western Canadian who takes motorcycle road trips through the USA, I often hear people say how polite and nice Canadians are. My experience has been that over 90% of the time, Americans are nicer and more polite. ... and we do have a serious doctor shortage.

[@pablonutribar8708]

Americans are friendlier than Canadians. However, talk to them for more than 15 minutes and they're going to say some wacky stuff (probably about guns or Jesus).

[@billm5555]

Thank you

[@histman3133]

I grew up in the big cities and now live in small town Saskatchewan and it's honestly not that bad out here with regards to doctors. You guys in the big cities have it WAY worse. It all depends where you are in the country. My conscience is clear though because I voted for Stephen Harper back in 2015. I knew Trudeau was gonna be a wreck for the country at the same time every other Canadian was foaming at the mouth like a girl scout about how apparently sexy he was and how he had nice hair. 🙄😒 You reap what you sow.

[@carmenmccauley585]

It's called over population. Let a million ppl a year in and you have an everything shortage.

[@TheBirdierouge]

I hate that this is true 😢 I am from Canada but live in the US because I married an American. American have always been kind to me and show interest when they find out I grew up in Canada… they all have nothing but nice things to say out it and if they felt negatively about Canada they never have been so bold as to say it to my face. On the other hand, the shit my American husband and kids get from Canadians is disgraceful, brazen bigotry and ignorance.

[@jebroniemyles5333]

Hi Bill, as a wildland firefighter for the province of British Columbia, I just wanted to point out that the air quality was so poor here because we were experiencing a devastating record breaking Wildfire season last year. All the best to you, Love to our American brothers and sisters of the wildfire hot shot crews, we couldn't have gotten through the season without you.🇺🇲🇨🇦

[@cedricwilford]

We have wildfires in the U.S. as well. Lots of them.

[@Desmondbrown73]

Arson created fires is not climate change

[@nostrum6410]

​@cedricwilford not even remotely similar

[@jeremieheon-miousse2811]

​@@cedricwilfordcorrect, and you also blame democrat for it because. It is mostly in washington state, oregon or california. Yet, when it is Canada most conservative province, Alberta, it is because of Justin Trudeau, not Danielle Smith Double standard is it?

[@cedricwilford]

@@nostrum6410 I don't understand. How is a US fire not remotely similar to a Canadian fire?

[@brendar-b310]

I am an independent leaning Democratic voter currently and I think it’s absurd to do any gender affirming to any child before the age of 18 and if I had my druthers, it wouldn’t be until their frontal lobe completely developed i.e. 21 to 28!

[@wasabiflavoredcocaine]

You will vote blue down the whole ballot anyways

[@terryrobertson111]

After all of the shit that has gone down in the last few years you're still a Democrat?

[@DannyXXXXX]

A crap house in Vancouver is over a million dollars now. It is completely insane.

[@pawel115]

Yep and a dump is Toronto is the similar price range.

[@breebartkowiakova]

A 2 bedroom condo in Toronto is over $1.5 million.

[@Djamonja]

And it's all mostly legal immigration too. I'm amazed they haven't reduced it, I think Canada could handle about 150-200k immigrants per year, but 1 million plus is crazy.

[@Brad-99]

I was born in van but I can't afford to live there now ,it's a playground for the rich now .😮

[@tony2888]

How is every city now a playground for the rich. How many r8ch people does it take to make NYC fall apart cause of cost of living.

[@UncleBobo]

Everything in moderation. For some reason, that phrase never applies to politicians.

[@TheAdamReedThomas]

or lefties

[@cpthornman]

Or capitalists

[@katyaflippinov9197]

Or some boob jobs?

[@reiddickson]

@@TheAdamReedThomas Your comment makes no sense in this context. The lefties aren't in power nationally in Canada and haven't historically had any national significance. Trudeau's party is center-left liberal. The lefties are the NDP.

[@user-jx7jc7is8s]

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely

[@inventgineer]

The, "...-Really? You couldn't find another word? We were using that one...." line was comedy gold, given the truth of the statement/matter 😂.

[@MuckoMan]

California = Gavin Newsom Canada = Justin Trudeau

[@lindaleelaw5277]

Denver - Governor Jared Polis, Mayor Mike Johnson - cutting tax- payer - paid - for - services to pay for Illegal invaders ... People - Socialism defined " To each according to our need, to each according to their ability to pay". No more sanctuary cities

[@saigon68foxtrot83]

And you MuckoMan = Donald Trump?

[@AlexAnder-rv1gu]

​@@saigon68foxtrot83 Is that a slander? Let me just remind you: Donald trump is/was -the only president in modern history not to start a war -the only president to even make contact with North Korea for peace talks... yeah, he failed at that, but instead of praising him for doing a better job and trying harder than any other president, he was slandered as a failure. -maintained peaceful relations with a traditional enemy (Russia)...and was slandered for that too, calling it "Collusioin" or some shit. It was GOOD DIPLOMACY -he also maintained good relationships in the middle east (and while I personally despise Saudi Arabia and Israel, the bottom line is, Trump did a GOOD JOB with DIPLOMACY - maintaining stable and fair economic ties.) Trump was perhaps the most peaceful and anti-war president in modern history. ...and THAT is why the msm hates him: He won't give the msm war porn to exploit for cash. That's why the deep state hates him: he doesn't give the Military Industrial Complex a reason to demand more money from the government. Even if you don't agree with his PEACE MAINTENANCE, he still deserves massive props for having done what is best for the safety and prosperity of human lives all over the world.

[@jmac5937]

Yes, and Maher LOVES Newsom. He doesn't know why though. Patrick Bet David asked him on Club Random why and Bill couldn't think of one good thing Newsom has done. He just said "because he can win elections." Very strange.

[@jmac5937]

@@saigon68foxtrot83 I would also like to = Donald Trump.

[@marcusjaybrode2129]

About the air pollution… To be fair it should be noted that last summer’s wildfires are responsible for the air quality.

[@danielmaloney946]

Also to be fair, air pollution was about five seconds of an 8 minute video

[@blazingstar9638]

That’s what I was saying.

[@blazingstar9638]

@@danielmaloney946doesn’t matter at all

[@Gzoratto]

@@blazingstar9638 Bill has lost it. He considers a weirdo shop teach a "threat". America had 80 school shooting in 2023. Canada had 19 since, 1867. US schools have monthly, "active shooter drills", but think wearing a mask creates anxiety. Guns are the leading cause of death of kids under 17. Canadian students rank 7th when tested for Reading, Science and Math. America ranks 20th. Canada doesn't fear immigration, roughly 25% of Canada is foreign born, compared to 14% in the US. Canada's unemployment rate is always higher, because the number is calculated differently. Bill has bought into the culture war distraction. MAGA uses it to frighten people into voting against their interests on policies that actually count. It disappointing.

[@seandixon7387]

@@danielmaloney946yes but he led with it.

[@Trotzenfeldt]

So I googled pollution in Canada. It has always been lower than in the US except last year BECAUSE OF WILD FIRES.

[@TheAdamReedThomas]

So I googled the population of Canada. It has always been a hat, more like a pink beret

[@spencerdickson9693]

ok... everyone is saying this... out of everything he said that was the big thing that wasnt true?

[@Paul-ew5st]

@@spencerdickson9693 It's a big deal because the topic was zombie lies. And he used a lie. It's the kind of thing Joe Rogan does weekly but Bill used to be more professional.

[@bcbeasters]

@@Paul-ew5st It's a right-wing tactic... because they're both right-wingers... doing what right-wingers do! 😋

[@vonb2792]

All the dot where in oil manufacturing cities of Canada.. Canada is number1 oil provider to usa

[@erikericksen9693]

Thank you for saying what most of us are thinking and already know. Common sense needs to be spoken to make a difference.

[@faisal0800533]

Can't agree more. I was democrat all my life but this time Dems really put me down with their "WOKISM." My vote is for right this time.

[@NotRiansLuke]

"If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today." -- Thomas Sowell

[@AldiAldiFPen]

Thomas Sowell, every conservative/Republican's imaginary Black friend. 🤣 Try admiring a Black person that does not mimic everything you say and believe for once.

[@bernardvc5820]

not sure but it's as if this text seems to be missing a then statement to complete the if statement. That or there's some context missing

[@jlpowell51]

@@AldiAldiFPen Pro-tip: You can evaluate the quote without admiring or denigrating who said it.

[@AldiAldiFPen]

@@jlpowell51 Pro tip: People of color were not created to parrot white conservative ideology.

[@UndergroundIndigenousPrimate]

@@jlpowell51 How or why would _ever_ separate a quote from it`s author?

[@bs6938]

Ugh, that lady who laughs too loud is back!!!

[@zacharywhite211]

😂😂

[@Sabien]

Professional laugher

[@frankpalancio8471]

Exactly. Female Ed McMahon

[@forman208]

The worst part is, that dumb bish has to laugh at EVERY joke too lol

[@moriahmcgill3687]

Come to the comments to say just that!! Shut her up!

[@jasonhutchinson8060]

We can all thank Justin. In 10 years Canada has turned into a joke without a pun.

[@bronsonjohnson9019]

I’m not sure if this is a spelling mistake or a solidly meta joke.

[@CivilizedWarrior]

Don’t forget without a gun…

[@jimharringtonsr.2793]

Countries and cities all have the politicians they deserve. This is especially true when you reelect the same assholes over and over.

[@ryeguy7941]

Or guns

[@user-nb7co9hs3g]

Canuck here. This place has been going down hill for a decade, if not more. So much that I have migrant friends that left back to their countries of Origin.

[@richardshort3914]

In fairness to the shop teacher: _That was a God-level troll of the woke school board._

[@tylerdurden8378]

That guy (he/him) played the school board like a fiddle.

[@alex7171]

They must be very gullible then.

[@joetoe9207]

@@alex7171They either are or dealt with it secretly. It’s ridiculous. He won.

[@tylerdurden8378]

@@alex7171 Not really. They probably knew what he was doing but the problem is that woke use bully tactics. So they weren't gullible just cowards. These education bureaucrats earn big money doing little work. They won't jeopardize that.

[@user-vn4km7yr5q]

He totally did. Personally I get his point but I still dont think he should still be working. He wanted to make a point but it brought unnecessary stress and attention to the kids he was teaching.

[@codingsenju4189]

“You couldn’t have used another word? We were using that one”😂

[@Rathkryn]

The Chinese use homonyms for their version of the masculine and feminine pronouns. Why couldn't we have done that instead? It would freaking solve the problem instead of just confusing everybody. 🤣

[@Fomites]

@@Rathkryn That's a good idea. My wife is Chinese and sometimes forgets to nominate masculine or feminine in English and it seems to me that would be a better way to converse.

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[@ljprep6250]

@@Rathkryn Where in =other= Leftist crap have they ever used logic to guide themselves? I rest my case.

[@TheAngryAtheist]

@@Rathkryn You being confused is entirely a you problem. What do the gamers say? "Get good"

[@STRM1991]

I'm Canadian and I haven't voted Conservative federally since I was 18, I'm 32 now. The next election I am voting Conservative. The Liberals and JT have failed us.

[@jasondashney]

Always vote for the party that makes more sense. Right now it's the conservatives and it's not even close. When that eventually flips, and the liberals are more sensible, vote for them.

[@gabycesari7799]

Thx😢😢😢

[@LeChevalierduLys]

I have been voting for around 30 years now, I never voted for the Conservative party, until now. PS: Never voted Trudeau either, just to be clear...

[@Fransjosefsland]

Ah yes, nothing can save liberalism quite like populist trumpism…

[@user-zf3xb3qx8w]

Relying on your "supreme leader" is a really false flag. it's slightly more complicated than that.

[@markorr999]

FYI Bill, Canada and the US measure unemployment differently. But yes, Canada is broken and Trudeau broke it.

[@craighudy4196]

Canada's cities having worse air pollution currently its technically correct but the statement is misleading because the air quality issues is caused by wildfires rather than industrial or automotive pollution and this is only true in the last few years as wildfires have increased dramatically. So I get that you're a TV program with limited air time that makes it difficult spell out all the details but when you're willing to make statements that are misleading because they fit your narrative then you are contributing to the degradation of trust that everyone has in the media. Do I expect that Bill Maher is the bastion of journalistic integrity? No, but do I wish they would try harder to make their points with well researched legitimate arguments rather than the same sensationalized garbage that they criticize FOX News for.

[@wallace44able]

Well said. Bill's lost the plot these days.

[@fredherfst8148]

Agree

[@kt798]

Bill just needs a reason to rag on liberals and blame them for Trump these days. I agree, he's being misleading.

[@Aloysius10]

Also Canada can give notes to America on how to better mistreat asians.

[@mofishin2648]

Kind of like when he lambasted Canada for having healthcare take up 13% of GDP while the US is at 19% .. lol Too many editorials not enough actual information. Bill needs to let go of his ego and stick to one editorial max per episode, more conversation instead.

[@jacksonian71]

Bill has always been more liberal than me, but today I find our views eerily identical. We met in the middle where I wish we all could.

[@sophien5416]

Well if your idea of views accepts half baked cherry picked information, then keep it moving...but if you really care about accuracy of information, I recommend you watch the RATIONAL NATIONAL debunking of all the falsities of this segment.

[@thanks4that261]

I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Cheers 🍻

[@jessicaleigh6244]

People seem to have a very hard time excepting that there is a middle. It’s left or right and that’s all in their minds. And that’s one of the reasons we’re in the mess we’re in.

[@jimmypeeps8471]

So you're kind of for destroying freedom, but at the same time kind of against it. Congrats, you're not a useless pawn. MY ONLY CONCERN.....is you're STILL not useful though, like you still lack independent thought, which makes you just another NPC. Usually people who "play it safe" opinion wise? Are just cowards, this "grey area" isn't for thinking folk, and too many put themselves unobservabley in this section.

[@BFreeGodzilla]

He is right to far right. He is far from liberal.

[@cook4470]

Thank you, Bill Maher. Let's all get back to the center of politics and move forward with common sense, not emotions and "causes."

[@kenhall1392]

What ppl don't realize about that teacher is that it was the ultimate troll. The guy wasn't trans he wanted to either get fired and sue the shit oitta the school board or show how absolutely stupid they were being. Was a win win, personally i salute him on that haha.

[@silviaquesada2499]

but the idiots accommodated him/her! That's what is so ridiculous considering he/she wandered around a school with this contraption.

[@trappedkitty5335]

Yup. Not trans. It's people like this who make it worse for those who just want to contribute to society and go on with their lives.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Canada's corporal Klinger 👍

[@peacetoall1858]

@@AsaTrenchard1865 lol what a call back. Loved MASH.

[@chrisr3788]

Our tax rate in Canada is much higher, which Americans always forget. If you think a 7.25% sales tax is high in Los Angeles, it’s 13% here in Toronto.

[@stevenulseth7107]

GST is 5% in Alberta, no PST.

[@labtob]

@@stevenulseth7107 But you have to live in Alberta.

[@CompoundingTime]

You have to consider things like not having to pay for health insurance which make up on average 10.69% of US incomes when you attempt to make tax comparisons. If you add that on top of US tax brackets and compare to Canadian tax brackets US citizens are paying about 5% more in income tax per year.

[@andrewpierce1588]

We pay a lot in taxes when you add together the seven different excises, property, sales, and income tax.

[@drewnogy]

It's almost 10% in Los Angeles, not 7.25% It has been that in a long time. I live here.

[@ienekevanhouten4559]

I am Canadian, grew up in Amsterdam. I have always loved my adopted country, until recently. Something has gone very wrong. The increasing surveillance, the trans madness, I am seriously considering voting conservatives for the first time ever. You nailed it Bill.

[@bullballsallday]

It's too late. You should've voted conservative over 10 years ago. The country you loved is now gone. 🎺Womp womp womp

[@sophien5416]

Keep drinking the kool-aid. So much FALSE information in the segment but you swallow it willingly

[@JT-gi8rx]

Why have you been voting Liberal then, if you didn’t want this? I’m guessing because you didn’t try to be well informed before voting. You only have yourself, and others like you, to blame for this situation, because you literally voted for this situation. Anyone who was well informed could see this coming from a mile away. During the 2016 election, when Trudeau first was elected, he was widely quoted as saying, “The budget will balance itself.” What part of that gave you confidence in his fiscal management skills??? He was going to have a $30 billion deficit per year, but Harper told us that, if Trudeau was elected, it would be vastly greater. And it was, something like $400 billion, essentially doubling the national debt in 4 years. Anyone with sense knows that jacking up the deficit will cause large scale inflation. Besides this, his focus on the environment over everything else is moronic. He acts like there is an imminent environment crisis, which there is not, there is a housing crisis and cost of living crisis, both caused by him, and both easily remedied if he cut out the carbon tax. And don’t get me started on all the failed ethics inquiries and all the endless corruption he has been found guilty of. No, you should feel guilty and responsible for the current state of affairs Canada is in, because it was completely foreseeable, but you voted for it anyways. Stop thinking like a leftist and stop thinking for yourself, with logic, and put the needs of Canadians above pompous left wing idealism.

[@bullballsallday]

@@JT-gi8rx 🍻 amen. Liberalism is a mental disorder. It's why we have clown world 🤡🌎.

[@bullballsallday]

@@JT-gi8rx 🍻 liberalism is a mental disorder. Your comment was long essay, but worth the read.

[@chrisr631]

To say Canadians are polite is a MYTH! My American friend was shocked when he got a wake up call when visiting me up north. Especially Winnipeg which is the Detroit of Canada

[@realcanadiangirl64]

Winnipeg has always been a 💩 hole

[@christinebeades9465]

Toronto airport worst in the world. Air Canada personnel and TSA act like the gestapo herding criminals

[@wihamaki]

Did they know he's American? Every once in awhile there's an American who says something that gives you hope for the humanity of the people down there. But in general, you see things like MAGA, Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Tucker Carlson, Lindsey Graham, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren, Clarence Thomas, Lauren Boebert... it all just makes you want to piss on the American flag and spit in their face. Canadians are absolutely polite and friendly to their friends. To their enemies... well there's a reason they had to write the Geneva Convention.

[@leo-wr6do]

In the 90s, I met a visitor from Canada. After about an hour of telling me how things were so great there, safety, wages, quality of life, etc, he asked to borrow 20 USD. People talk to much crap.

[@davidnewell3232]

That would be "to say ALL Canadians are polite is a myth."

[@bkanoid]

Air pollution in B.C. and AB Canada- is based on average over a year. We have massive forest fires. The air pollution is not from industry nor other man made sources. It’s smoke and ash.

[@PUBHEAD1]

Air pollution was due to exceptionally bad forest fires, not industrial pollution.

[@jasonmckinney474]

Exactly but that will never come out in another monologue from Bill. It paints a different picture when you put some factual information behind it. Bill's monologue was funny but not overly informative.

[@kimchristensen2175]

Fitting that it was in Alberta. The province's oil industry drives most of Canada's CO2 emissions..

[@aaabbbccc1939]

@@kimchristensen2175 it was mainly in BC, who, like Alberta, encouraged the fires due to ecological preservation theories.

[@user-nh3gu1ge3d]

That doesn't help the liberal's case at all, though. If anything, it just proves the right's claim about how insignificant their cars are and how pointless the carbon tax is.

[@usernameisusername]

So? Still pollution Poindexter

[@stanzim7612]

I live in Toronto and auto theft is so out of control the police announced that we all need to leave our car keys easily accessible to the car thieves…like the front porch. It’ll prevent the home invasions. I’m not joking. In Toronto you can’t buy a house, even a dump for under a 1 mil CDN

[@T.T.85]

That's right….. it's best to leave the keys on the porch, and if you happen to be video tapping said porch you better not share that video, or you’re violating the rights to privacy of those masked men with guns that were just trying to earn a decent living by sending cars that don't belong to them to the Port of Montreal.

[@user-hh9qs8tc1s]

The crime syndicates,latin gangs, and the mafia must love doing business in Canada. The citizens don't want to hurt the criminals feelings and the cops don't want to arrest anyone and the courts have made laws protecting the unlawful.What a dystopia nightmare it must be to live their.

[@mariahspapaya]

@@T.T.85what a time to be alive

[@frzmtl3849]

And don’t shoot them when they break in your house or you’re the one going to jail. Heil Trudeau!

[@yoyoyo416]

That was one stupid advisor and the Toronto Police spoke a day later saying to not do that. Spread more fear.

[@hectatusbreakfastus6106]

I'm a Canadian industrial inspector with multiple inspection tickets and 7 years of experience. I've been unemployed for almost 7 months even when actively looking for work. I have one of the best jobs in Canada as far as the rate is concerned but I spend a lot of time unemployed and looking for work even while being one of the more experienced inspectors. There is always a foreigner with no experience at every job though. Companies get tax incentives to hire "visible minorities" so Canadian born white people lose jobs to foreign workers 100% of the time.

[@mathieuhubert9613]

1-Air quality stats exceptionally dropped in 2023 because of the wildfires in Canada. 2- yes...Healthcare GDP spending is 13% but in the USA its 16.6% for an healthcare system that doesn't cover all its citizens LMAO

[@justinpeterson2105]

Good points

[@donspafford414]

Yet Canadians still keep coming here for CAT scans and knee surgeries, weird…

[@justinpeterson2105]

@@donspafford414 must be the only things theyre coming for...we have the least efficient medical system on Earth, and are the only advanced country without universal coverage. Disgrace. I live in Spain. I have public coverage AND private insurance. One reason Ill never go back is the health system. One.

[@ViolinistJeff]

"Yes, you can move too far left, and when you do, you wind up pushing the people in the middle to the right." The best line that no one ever hears.

[@scottjeune154]

The supreme court currently counterbalances this

[@slXD100]

this whole argument is bad, because it paints the right as a bad place or a side which you shouldn't be on. switzerland was and has always been majority right and it's probably the best country in the world and has been so for decades.

[@TheRogueEmpire]

@@scottjeune154 whens the last time the supreme court DIDNT take away a basic human right from americans?

[@TheRogueEmpire]

@@slXD100 the right is a bad side, are you pretending its not? whens the last time right wing policies helped anyone? besides the rich.

[@slXD100]

@@TheRogueEmpire did you read my comment? switzerland is literally a heaven for all classes of people. and they are majority right. the most right-leaning country in the west after switzerland (norway) is also one that should be mentioned

[@good2goskee]

I am a proud Canadian. I have a sense of humor and can chuckle at what was said. However, the reality is Bill is correct with many of his statements made about Canada. Put this into perspective, never in my wildest dreams would I consider leaving Vancouver 10 to 15 years ago. To speak about leaving would be absurd. We were the best place to be on earth. Our economy and banking system was a G-7 model. Getting top medical attention in a timely manner was baseline. Now, it is not, and our medical systems have ultimately been mismanaged. Our standard of living is dropping precipitously in part because we have become less competitive. Sadly, conversations about moving to Aberta, where personal freedom, lower taxes, and wealthier society are evident, are common place over coffee-chat. Even people speaking about moving abroad are more common now. WHY HAS THIS HAPPENED? Trudeau and his WEF sponsored cronies, creating bureaucracy, socialism killing our ability to be competitive is fact. Trudeau and his woke ideologies killing families with socialist WEF agendas, selling out normal Canadian families to LGBT fringe agendas are indoctrinated in our education systems. However... we have hope because our new PM in waiting will bring back the commonsense Canadians are demanding. There is an organic push to right the cancerous socialist WEF guided wrongs injected by Trudy. We have hope reasonable, sensible government of Poilievre will open Cabada up for business again, correct the misguided Trudeau policies, and fix this nonesense disease Trudeau has infected us with. Sadly, even when good defeats evil, it will take time to rectify wrongs done. Signed a weakened but never beaten Canadian.

[@jimmeurer4053]

I feel for you, and hope you stay never beaten. As an American I can say we are dealing with our own brand of lunatic fringe, mob rule, and gross mismanagement. I hope y'all do elect Poilievre...he's smart, pragmatic and practical from what I can tell. Kudo's to Bill for speaking his mind too....and maybe showing people that it is better for both sides to cooperate and find common ground.

[@fernandojackson7207]

Getting medical attention was baseline. Now it's vaseline.

[@mysticaltyger2009]

The thing is, the WEF is pushing the same agenda all over the world. It's very troubling.

[@RichardDunkley-vs7nq]

As a Canadian , I agree . What did we expect though ? Some voted , not just once or twice , but three times for a guy that said " the budget will balance itself. Go figure , eh ?

[@tangobear3536]

Justin Trudeau. Hard to believe, nine years of that, and still there, like a plague.

[@KurtisC93]

At 0:31, Maher says: "And of the 15 North American cities with the worst air pollution, 14 are in Canada." This sounds pretty convincing, until you look into the _actual_ report that he was citing-the 2023 IQAir World Air Quality Report. Excerpted from pg. 27 of that report is the following: "During May, the monthly average PM2.5 levels in Alberta, Canada, surged almost ninefold compared to the same period in 2022. This trend persisted through late spring and summer, with the state experiencing PM2.5 levels nearly three times higher than those recorded in 2022. Consequently, 2023 marked the first instance in this report’s history where Canada surpassed the United States in regional pollution rankings, with Canada’s annual PM2.5 concentration of 10.3 µg/m3 exceeding the U.S. level of 9.1 µg/m3." If you were just watching this without any kind of fact-checking, you'd think the U.S. generally has far better air quality than Canada. But the above excerpt tells us two things: 1. 2023 was the first year in the report's 6-year history where Canada surpassed the U.S. as the North American country with the worst air pollution. 2. This was pretty much _entirely_ due to the wildfires that raged across Canada last summer. I live in Edmonton, smack-dab in the middle of the region most affected by wildfire smoke. Of the fourteen Canadian cities that ranked as the worst for air pollution, _fully half_ of them are directly within the Edmonton metropolitan area-St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, Spruce Grove, Leduc, Camrose, and Edmonton itself. Out of these seven cities, six are within a 34-kilometer radius of Edmonton's city center (34 km = approx. 21 miles). And _all_ of the fourteen, without exception, are found somewhere in Western Canada. If you take the statistic as Maher presented it, you'd think that Canadian cities generally have worse air pollution than American ones. In reality, this year was an anomaly due to the devastating forest fires that engulfed much of the country, which hit Alberta particularly hard and the Edmonton area _especially_ so. There's plenty to criticize about Canada. We do indeed have a housing crisis, much of which is the result of unchecked immigration. Prices are through the roof. The healthcare system can definitely be inefficient, though Maher also cherry-picked the data to paint a bleaker picture of Canadian healthcare than is born out by reality (my comment is long enough as is, so if you're interested, Google it). However, the air pollution tidbit was poorly scrutinized at best, deliberately misrepresented at worst. It feels very emblematic of what Bill Maher's show has devolved into over the past five years: poorly researched talking points, cherry-picked statistics, and strawman assertions. Very disappointing.

[@HughJass-jv2lt]

Not Disappointing at all. its Pretty much _EXPECTED._ 😂😂

[@aspman97]

Report the vid for misinformation?

[@Valpo2004]

Thanks for the background, I did think it was odd that most of those cities were clustered in one area where statistically a very low percentage of the Canadian population lives.

[@latulip100]

Thanks for doing the research. I don’t think Canadians are under the illusion everything is perfect. Or even better then the US. The debt makes me sooo angry. Guys no, no the bank did not just give you a present, that line of credit is a debt slavery sentence not a gift.

[@arynrowland862]

So, he was right. It sounds like you, like most Canadians, have a hyper-sensitivity to *any* criticism your country receives. Canada had worse air quality last year, compared to previous years. That is a fact. Thank you for going into the long winded context behind that, but it doesn’t change the fact, that your country, for whatever reason, had worse air quality than you’ve ever had in 2023. Canada being the fourth largest producer AND exporter of oil and petroleum products has nothing to do with forest fires by the way. Maybe all that oil extraction and processing had *something* to do with the air quality in Canada, but what do I know?

[@level9drow856]

"Look at me....I'm Swedish now."

[@Grmario85]

You win today. Case closed. ;)

[@linguistengineer588]

Been there recently, they committed suicide, unforced, completely. A country with no history of colonialism decided to import the ordure of the world and ruin itself for no reason.

[@JH-im5sk]

Yeah so much for the old blonde viking swedish people

[@andoceans23]

@@JH-im5sk”Diversity is our strength”

[@Navy35]

@@andoceans23then Bernie Sanders said that we need to be more like Sweden and Denmark.

[@rixxy9204]

Immigration is completely crazy in Canada. Over a million in one year, mostly from countries that have no understanding of Canada at all. Suddenly all of your neighbors not only don't speak English but also have zero respect for the rules & culture of the country. It's a mess.

[@silviaquesada2499]

Justin Trudeau must be dancing, exactly what he wanted. What a jerk!

[@ryanchristiansen]

Very sad. I just can't understand why Canadians keep electing him into power. Immigration needs to slow drastically to under 100k and with the majority coming from western cultures. Canada will never be the same anymore. Immigrants have the most babies and so the demographics of Canada are now forever changed. Founded by white, western European people and values, and morphing into arabic, african and indian religions and ideology.

[@terryrobertson111]

And no where for them to live. Thanks Justin. Well played.

[@user-zn5qm2yq9h]

Unfortunately We The People of the United States have been seeing this for well over two decades. Most of the immigrants who come here legally are honest, law abiding citizens who appreciate the opportunities they now have and are very pro America. It's those who don't put their American citizenship first and want us to conform to their wishes that drag the country down. Sounds like the same thing is happening in Canada...

[@rhymeswithteeth]

The flooding of Canada with non-Whites is the same program,currently, going on in the US and the same program that went on in Europe in previous years. It's a program of the United Nations, the WEF and other similar groups.

[@Bloodwulf999]

My understanding was the teacher was trolling an extremely woke school board and it's policies. His goal was to push it to the extreme in order to force them to enact more reasonable policies, but they put their policies ahead of the children's well being.

[@JessicasMagicalTreasures]

‘She, her, and those!’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️ Bill- I love you!! You’re so hilarious!

[@brianwade879]

That would be something that I hope to never see again.

[@durtintracey5858]

Still the bastion of truth.

[@erichancock6815]

Considering you can't fix stupid, no matter what pronoun it uses, I find all one needs to know about someone's intellect/understanding these days is when they wear a mask over their mouth but not their nose, as that clown who most certainly now has lower back issues demonstrates.

[@mediawarrior5957]

Ms Choksondik is real

[@mikey27437]

Every other pronoun except the correct one! What kind of society would agree it’s a good idea.

[@kodij6488]

As a Canadian, thank you. I can’t believe how much people of my country are struggling lately. I’ve noticed it a lot in the past 5 years.

[@reiddickson]

I feel really bad for my Canadian friends. Everywhere they live -- Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta, and BC -- has had rapidly climbing costs of living largely due to housing costs. That said, I sorta take issue with Bill's quip about it being a result of "moving too far left". The immigration rate Canada has is clearly unsustainable, but it is definitely not the sole cause of Canada's housing price struggles, and I don't even think it's the largest factor. Take the US, for example: Our immigration rate plateaud after the Great Recession and our population growth rate has only declined since 1990, yet the highest inflation-adjusted housing prices on record in the US all occurred after 1990. Metropolitan areas throughout the Anglosphere implemented restrictive zoning laws, overreaching historical preservation laws, lot size minimums, and other artificial limitations on housing development in the 1950s-1980s, and then perpetuated & strengthened these laws in the 1990s-2010s. We can see the effects of these disastrous laws everywhere -- they incentivize suburban sprawl which is extremely economically inefficient and environmentally damaging. They also aid speculative real estate investing. Most importantly, though, they push populations away, hollow cities out, and dampen economic growth wherever there's a large demand for workers such as in the San Francisco Bay Area. Also, rising economic inequality slows economic growth and pushes the ultra-wealthy to invest in real estate assets at an increasing rate which simultaneously exacerbates inequality. The point I'm getting to is that these laws are NOT left-wing. They're protective, they're exclusionary, and they're contrary to the housing policies we see in cities like Vienna which has successfully avoided the worst of extreme housing costs by having large public investment in housing development. Rising economic inequality is also definitely not a symptom of far-left governance. We've only just recently seen meaningful changes regarding artificial supply constraints. California had statewide zoning reform. Los Angeles expanded zoning exemptions around transit stops. Toronto just last year finally 'upscaled' the 70% of the city's residential land where it was previously illegal to build anything other than detached single-family houses. The challenge is that we built this problem up over 70 years so it certainly won't be easy nor quick to fix. We'll probably require decades of sufficient development post-reform before we see a return to stable housing costs. It's worth noting that housing prices were relatively stable for decades in the US under periods of far higher population growth than we have today. We didn't have much of a problem until the results of supply constraints reached a breaking point alongside a dramatic increase in economic inequality that helped destabilized the housing market. Another problem that is certainly not far-left is property taxation. Economists have known for years that a land value tax (LVT) is better at incentivizing productive city development than the typical outdated and regressive means of taxing real estate that are common throughout the US in particular. Detroit's mayor has been trying to reform the city's property taxation system into an LVT and has faced an uphill battle. The tax reform requires state legislative approval, and guess who's repeatedly blocking it? Mostly Republicans and some centrist Democrats. Canada needs to lower its immigration rate to a more manageable level, but it also needs to address economic inequality and artificial supply constraints. - Guess which major Canadian city has avoided the worst of the country's housing affordability crisis? The answer is Montreal, Quebec. - Guess which major Canadian city has the fewest artificial housing supply constraints? Again, the answer is Montreal, Quebec. - Guess which major Canadian province has the lowest economic inequality (as measured via Gini coefficient)? And again, the answer is Quebec (second to PEI). More useful context: Greater Montreal's population growth has exceeded Greater Toronto's in the past 10 years, yet housing in Montreal remains substantially more affordable than Toronto's. I don't want to say high immigration is a scapegoat because, as I mentioned, it is certainly a factor and should be reduced to a sustainable level. But we're kidding ourselves if we think it is the primary cause of housing affordability crises in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Economic inequality and artificial supply constraints like restrictive zoning urgently need to be addressed.

[@lefty-bw1zp]

@@reiddicksonI believe that the problem with housing crisis is from too much immigration and hedge funds buying single family homes. Many countries in Europe had their quality of life decline when they accepted high levels of immigration. Canada needs to close the door to immigrants (as does the USA).

[@guyledouche6039]

​@@reiddicksonbro u really think people want to read a f*ckin novel in a YT comment thread?

[@mb7196]

@@guyledouche6039 maybe you should. It's people who are to lazy to read who become the victims of propaganda like blaming immigrants for housing. It's simple...look in the mirror canadians. It's the rich mostly white people in places like vancouver and toronto who oppose high density housing projects in their neighborhoods that is a FAR FAR greater problem than immigrants. But the anti pc backlash angry white male alt right crowd are too lazy to do any reading so they fall for rightwing propaganda. EVERY SINGLE TIME....and on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE.

[@dangal9366]

No problem here.

[@user-ey9ih6vj4u]

I think this guy did this to highlight how extreme the woke movement really is. Calling out the nonsense in a very visual and obvious way. Sometimes the only way to get through to the delusional is with outrageous acts that can't be ignored. Funny and point made!

[@MSYNGWIE12]

As a Canadian, I forgive you Bill because sadly, you are correct. A new cereal appeared in our local paper via the cartoonist: Wackos- and sadly I fear too many confused folks have been into them. Hugs

[@rolandbennett1319]

the poor air quality numbers are a result of the massive fires over the few years

[@nivesc]

This, but also bad air quality seems to only be concentrated in provinces that have huge oil industries. Something the left is a huge fan of or so I've heard. Yet, everything bad is the fault of the left.

[@warfarenotwarfair5655]

Nope, Canada has no interstate system, the highway is right through the neighborhoods. This is what happens when you skimp on infrastructure.

[@iviewthetube]

Woke arsonists?

[@rv2167]

You are both right, in a way. Our road system is terrible, particularly Vancouver leading to massive traffic and pollution. Our emissions are about 60mt but the fires last year were 180mt which we dont do enough about

[@garrickmusic]

@@warfarenotwarfair5655 The "stats" Bill is using are 100% from last summer during the worst forest fire season on record. Those vast majority of the air pollution numbers from Bill's map are not caused by cars. There are not even 5 million people living within every orange dot on that map total in an area far far bigger than Texas x 2. Give you head a shake if you think that pollution is from the cars owned across 5 million people.

[@ozne_2358]

@2:17 Same in Australia : ~500K extra people in one year and the media keep wondering about the housing crisis.

[@aron.gortman]

Australian real estate ponzi scheme is unlike anything else in the world.

[@bradenhue6066]

Reduce migration is a sensible policy

[@Stormie33]

Very true, but in fairness, it's more than just immigration causing the housing crisis, at least here in Canada. Overseas investors (often Chinese) buy up property and just leave it to sit empty, then there's also the rise of Airbnb, which has taken hundreds of thousands of rental units off the market by incentivizing homeowners to prioritize short-term rentals to travelers rather than long-term housing for fellow Canadians. Even the Airbnb's that are long-term rentals in theory provide almost no protections for renters, as landlords can skirt many of the rental/tenant bylaws that are otherwise applied to monthly rentals.

[@jasonmckay8793]

Yeh dude this is all clearly co-ordinated the question is why.

[@jasonmckay8793]

​@@Stormie33same thing in aus

[@sierrasky2491]

Dang! Bill is killin it these days! Good job! ❤

[@ghazale.355]

I don't know when you ever get to see a doctor in a day or two are you kidding? I live in the United States and have health coverage through my job and unless it's an optometrist or some like a dentist, seeing a doctor can take months also. I have no idea what people are talking about when they say this.

[@abpsd73]

I'm in Canada, haven't had a family doctor in over 30 years. If I do actually need treatment, I have to wait in line at the walk-in medical clinic, or go to the nearest hospital ER.

[@54raynor]

It’s fair to point out that Canada’s “free” health care accounts for 13 percent of their GDP. It’s also fair to point out that this is a fairly normal spending amount for universal health care, and it is significantly less than the USA’s 17.3% GDP spending on health care.

[@skiboatdriver]

Thats probably true, but US healthcare provides access when you need it. (If you can afford it or have insurance) neither system is ideal. The best systems in the world are a combination of public and private.

[@red149]

And to point that you have to wait 1-2 years for a knee or back surgery!

[@Max-bi8fn]

@@red149that’s bc most knee and back surgeries are not based on evidence and are scams mostly

[@colbysmith6201]

Bill from cherry picking facts and exaggerating far left woke minority issues you would fit in nicely between Sean Hannity any other hack on Fox News.

[@roberthansen6001]

Bill forgets to mention a lot of important facts.

[@SheilaPotts]

I think you should try to remember that last year Canada was battling the worst forest fires in history and so air pollution was terrible.

[@burns281981]

I know Americans are effectively brain dead when it comes to geography. But he literally pointed out the Oil Sands are large polluters and are located in Canada. Kind of been the case ever since they started drilling for oil there SIXTY YEARS AGO.

[@vanlyman2317]

Many of which were started by people for political reasons. No joke.

[@AdrianWolf_in_TO]

...and that the 14 cities were all surrounded by those same wildfires (which consumed ~4% of Canada's forests)...and that the report was using fine particulate matter typically caused by burning as the basis for the study...and that it was the first time in the report's history that it had happened where Canada's air quality was worse than U.S....yada yada yada...A strange study seemingly cherry picked to highlight a point that any other year would not have even occurred. That being said, Canada isn't perfect, but what country is?

[@kgsails7102]

Sheila, nearly all of California was on fire in 2021 and 2022 (with horrendous air quality numbers over 400 - essentially poisonous) but that's not what Bill is talking about. Those numbers are full year air quality, not just spot numbers.

[@paulocraice]

@@vanlyman2317Footage of people setting fire around Alberta, same people, part of Greta Thunberg fan club. Because you know, they must keep Conservative leaders away from winning ballots…

[@tamburavadak]

This whole segment was a pretty good Trump campaign ad. Well, done Maher.

[@michaelswinburne4350]

Damn, we have some work to do -proud Canadian

[@mackcummy4976]

The air pollution thing is from forest fires.

[@LightStrikerQc]

And Alberta open-sky oil sands. But yeah, mostly forest fire. But love how he doesn't say how much % of their income American put in healthcare.

[@Dgills]

Actually, it’s years of neglected forest management. 80%+ of Canadians live with health issues from smoke before the fires this past year. There is a similar amount of area of forest between the US and Canada, but the US is dryer and has more extreme weather. The US made forest management a big priority under the New Deal to prevent it. The Canadians didn’t really govern on this until 1985 and still have left much of their forest untouched because of the remoteness, but they also don’t have hurricanes and other crap to deal with. Canada has sort of rested on its laurels after years of alarming health data.

[@mofishin2648]

Bill's getting worse with age, can't even remember 7 months ago!

[@petert834]

Also, Canada measures unemployment differently than the US so it's actually around 1% closer (US still lower though)

[@Hirnlego999]

You can't except Bill and his team to do research Besides, neoliberalism is the dominating ideology, not far left "wokeism"

[@kooldoggo]

Dude what is with your audience members 😭 each episode has someone with a terrible laugh LMAO

[@benprice2034]

I couldn't stand her.

[@forman208]

Maher's audience post pandemic has been atrocious

[@RedGuy-wy2gg]

Lol you ever see that ed helms movie?

[@JRZTXN]

He totally has paid people to laugh like he’s a god.

[@brianwade879]

Staff person.

[@YitroBenAvraham]

A single working male in Canada has to make a choice: place to live or car to get to work? You can’t have both.

[@Marie16240]

What he and his audience laughs about is what he and his audience vote for 😡

[@mysticaltyger2009]

Yeah, that's the thing. He will still vote blue no matter who. Then he'll complain about it afterward.

[@HRHPrinceFarouk]

Spot on Bill! I recently moved to Canada and I was so upset even as an immigrant that the country threw open its borders and doesnt seem to have a plan for infrastructure to take care of the huge population it is letting in. Suffice to say, I am now planning to go back to my country. Opening borders without an adequate plan for an increased population doesnt do anyone including the immigrants any favors!

[@markflood3014]

You moved to Canada hahahaha

[@discobartleby]

Canada in absolutely no way has open borders. Everyone that comes here needs a visa. They have high immigration cos there is a huge surplus of jobs and not enough people for them. Housing here is a disaster, but immigration is not the sole reason. They simply dont build enough houses, or the ones they do build are built way too slowly.

[@evelynargueta490]

Good you go back.. I can give you a drive to the airport

[@allankolenovsky7028]

@@evelynargueta490 Actually, speaking as a Canadian, I hope he stays. He sounds like an intelligent person and we need people like him. I'm all for people legally immigrating to my country. I'm just not for people ILLEGALLY immigrating to my country.

[@craig5908]

So let me get this right.. you moved to Canada, a country known for massive levels of immigration (that is how the economy is grown in Canada) and are disappointed that there is massive immigration? Did you not read up on Canada, even a little? So very American of you

[@yijiequ662]

I'm grateful for the opportunity to witness this, as it's a testament to the importance of free expression. Unfortunately, in Canada, there's a growing concern over the limitations on free speech. The recent enactment of anti-hate speech legislation has raised alarm bells, potentially leading to individuals being placed under house arrest for mere thoughts, without the safeguard of a jury trial. To my fellow Americans, as an immigrant living in Canada, I urge you to remain vigilant. The rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights, including the First and Second Amendments, are paramount. Any concession on these fundamental freedoms could lead to a slippery slope where all liberties are at risk. It's disheartening to observe parallels between the current state of affairs in Canada and the oppressive regimes my parents endured in their homeland under communism. Many Canadians may not appreciate the gravity of this comparison, but it's essential to recognize the potential erosion of freedoms in the name of security or political correctness.

[@ClaudiusCaelum]

"The recent enactment of anti-hate speech legislation has raised alarm bells, potentially leading to individuals being placed under house arrest for mere thoughts, without the safeguard of a jury trial." First, let me get out of the way that i enjoyed reading your post even if i TOTALLY disagree with it. Let's be clear, outside of the histrionic paranoid minds of people like Sean Hannity, NOBODY will EVER be thrown in jail for mere 'thoughts' You're extrapolating an absurd dystopian future from an unrealistic assessment of a law used in an extreme application. Canadians may be many things, but EXTREME applications of laws isn't one of them; we always try to err on the side of the innocent The only time in Canada's HISTORY that citizens were ''arrested without the safeguards of due process" is during the FLQ crisis, and those happened to fight terrorists placing BOMBS, not 'hate speech' "It's disheartening to observe parallels between the current state of affairs in Canada and the oppressive regimes my parents endured in their homeland under communism." You GOT to be KIDDING... The US is well on it's way to AUTOCRACY, but you feel the need to warn them about "despotic" Canadian hate speech laws, lmao !!

[@JasbirSingh-zj1fg]

Govt of Canada: "But we're only doing it for your own good, don't you understand!"

[@ClaudiusCaelum]

"The recent enactment of anti-hate speech legislation has raised alarm bells, potentially leading to individuals being placed under house arrest for mere thoughts, without the safeguard of a jury trial." Let's be clear, outside of the histrionic paranoid minds of people like Sean Hannity, NOBODY will EVER be thrown in jail for mere 'thoughts' in Canada. Thoughts are not intents... Mens Rea and the presumption of innocence are and always will be fundamental principles in Canadian justice. You're extrapolating an absurd dystopian future from an unrealistic assessment of a law used in an extreme application that will never happen... Canadians may be many things, but EXTREME applications of laws isn't one of them; we always try to err on the side of caution and the innocent: Just compare the number of convicts pr capita between the US and Canada if you don't agree... Freedom has MANY applications...Which country is more free: A country that worships freedom of expression, while sending millions of disenfranchised citizens in jail with mock trails ? MOCK TRAILS... Nothing spells dictatorship more than that. The only time in Canada's HISTORY that citizens were ''arrested without the safeguards of due process" was during the FLQ "Crise d'Octobre", and those happened to fight terrorists placing BOMBS, not 'hate speech' "It's disheartening to observe parallels between the current state of affairs in Canada and the oppressive regimes my parents endured in their homeland under communism." You GOT to be KIDDING... The US is well on it's way to AUTOCRACY, but you feel the need to warn them about "despotic house arrest" Canadian hate speech laws, lmao !! What communist country your parents are from exactly ? I don't know of any totalitarian countries where laws in themselves were more dangerous than the corrupt authoritarian LEADERS enforcing them...

[@bl9531]

Exactly right, we have a PM who has stated on a number of occasions that he admires China above other countries because the Government has the power to impose “what is best “ for citizens. Must say though, Trudeau doesn’t hide what he thinks: the problem is the people who keep voting for him.

[@jimmyguitarwell]

Freedom ain't free, brotherrrrrrrr. Neither is racism.

[@imoutbye]

canadian here. nailed it with immigration and cost of living/quality of life. fir the past 20 years i’ve been left/center. prior to that i was a teen and didn’t care about politics. this year. even in recent months. i’m now on the right. and will vote conservative. because the liberals and trudeau went tooooooo far.

[@knrdvmmlbkkn]

"this year. even (...) will vote conservative." What took you so long?

[@davewhite2674]

Bill is able to use 50 percent fact and make 100 percent humor. Gained some perspective on just how easy it is to skew information.

[@eiyukabe]

I've been on the political left my entire adult life. I moved up to Canada for a job (Ubisoft Toronto). I was fired one day out of the blue in a surprise meeting for saying "men aren't women" on social media. Not at work -- on social media. Canda is _insane._

[@AndrewBurbo-zw6pf]

consider yourself lucky, you did not get arrested

[@davidbeddoe6670]

pff Ubisoft

[@mrAZcardinal]

canaduhhh

[@cioccolateriaveneziana]

Is there a law that we must utter everything that goes through our minds on social media? I don't think we must.

[@eiyukabe]

@@AndrewBurbo-zw6pf Oh I do!

[@user-og2wt3le4j]

At 2:30. In my hometown the average price of a home is $1 million. You can buy a starter home for $700,000. A two bedroom rental apartment averages $2300 a month. This is all in CAD but it is still unaffordable for most people to buy a home.

[@mootseighthecat]

Most people do not deserve a home in Canada because it's an financial investment to them. There is nothing fair in life!

[@joeysworldsewer]

No wonder you're all coming down here to Florida.

[@glenskurka4957]

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[@katkumen]

@@joeysworldsewer in canada minimum wage is 17.00 an hour USA 7.50 an hour

[@joeysworldsewer]

@katkumen the Canadian dollar is weaker than it has ever been, and Trudeau has been gutting the petroleum industry that is the very lifeblood of the Canadian economy. The diworseification is going to hit your economy like a truck with all the new "Canadians" the Liberals keep letting on in.

[@biofixphysicaltherapy5353]

Am I the only one that was distracted by that ladies laugh 😂

[@crystalrassifineart]

Those who never voted for Trudeau saw this coming in 2016. When his first acts were to make weed legal, let men use women’s bathrooms, and take in more immigrants than we can handle, we knew were we’re going be in debt and civil tensions for a very long time!

[@robertsproull6750]

Okay but Canadians wanted legal weed, that's partly why you elected him.

[@justmenb3379]

Dual citizen here and I do love both countries but for many reasons I prefer to live in Canada.

[@CanadianFox1867]

I thought he was a bit harsh. Canada is going down the tubes, but it's mostly from too much immigration, a bad economy, and being way too woke. I think most people that know both Canada & the US a bit, also know that the northern States and Canada are actually pretty similiar.

[@Sdewebb]

Oh really? How is Canada preferential to America? We don't give all the power to our children over the wishes of the parents. We don't go after the bank accounts of those we politically disagree with and we don't have hate speech laws which is a step closer to having actual thought police.

[@Thelius42]

​@@CanadianFox1867yeah I live in Seattle and have much more in common with people from BC than people from alabama

[@glenskurka4957]

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[@alex7171]

Well, you have few minorities there, so I guess that's desirable for some folks.

[@QLHOOQ]

Bill needs to do a segment about the 2 million Americans with Healthcare Insurance who cross into Mexico every year and pay out of pocket for healthcare they could receive at home but won't because their premiums would go through the roof....

[@jeffmpvd7689]

Or the million GoFundMe campaigns for people that can't afford their medical treatment in the US

[@jeremyDiguetDickson]

He is shifting to the right more and more

[@elli0122]

Yeah, he needs to worry about his own back yard more, draw some attention to this failing state he's in.

[@matthewadams8294]

35 Trillion in debt. There is no way to provide universal health care in the US. It’s a math problem. I’m sorry but that’s the reality. So many of you never bothered to learn how money works, only victimhood.

[@duncreg]

People's premiums don't go through the roof because they use their insurance. They go into Mexico because they're cheap, and often want cosmetic surgery.

[@richardjarrell3585]

You’d think a committed marijuana enthusiast might mention that Canada has legal weed coast to coast.

[@tarom5560]

Was in Canada 2 weeks ago. Had to take out a personal loan to go to breakfast

[@estebanpacheco7102]

As a Canadian, real estate, inflation and wokeness is out of control. Accurate.

[@maryannepaul2980]

Poor you! Wokeness is so terrible!

[@davemacdonald5261]

​@@maryannepaul2980 It is moron! Did you not listen to what Bill said or did you not understand!

[@NPCMii]

@@maryannepaul2980people like you have literally voted for the destruction of Canada. I hope you enjoy what comes next. Stay woke!

[@qatestbrian1]

Are Canadiens looking to vote in politicians who can move your country in the other direction for a while?

[@MegaRhyz]

womp womp

[@Briley253]

The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance. It's obvious we are headed for inflation,it is always the poor who take the hit.

[@CalderonStemper]

Amazing video, and thank you for your great content!! All we need is the right advice on how to invest in crypto and we will be set for life, I've made huge figures from trading regardless of the market conditions

[@sumba592]

Same here, with my current crypto portfolio made from my investments with my personal financial advisor

[@reyes-z]

I'm surprised that this name is being mentioned here, I stumbled upon one of her clients testimony on CNBC news last week.

[@CalderonStemper]

Yeah!!! I started with Maria Bravo in 2021 and now my life is good, something to write home about!!!! I thank God the most He alone made it possible for the opportunity to come my way 🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻

[@ScottMaldo]

​@@CalderonStemperThis sounds so good and I would like to be a party to this, is there any way I can speak with her?

[@susans3510]

I have lived in Canada my entire life, and what Bill Mayer is saying is 100% accurate! Our taxes and costs for everything are excessive, it takes months /years to get medical appointments or you can sit in an Emergency Room for 12 hours to be seen. That's what our so-called "free" Healthcare is like. Our regular gas costs the equivalent of $7.00 U.S. a gallon (there was a 56 cent/gallon increase just the other day!). The average house price in Ontario is now $900,000 Cdn and renting a one-bedroom apartment is close to $2,000 Cdn. IF you can find housing. Think twice before you follow Canada's lead. Some things are better, but many things are worse!

[@ALT-vz3jn]

You have all my empathy 😖. I moved from Canada to California 15 years ago. The good people of California think Canada is some kind of healthcare utopia... Their eyes widen in horror when I describe the lack of access to primary care, the years-long wait times to see a specialist, the horror stories of family and friends coming close to death as they wait and wait for urgent surgeries. The blatant corruption in the healthcare system and other government ministries. I lived it first hand when working for a private company, they would demand financial kickbacks for several people just to let us in the door and award us contracts… Canadian government corruption at its finest. And Trudeau is wrecking the country. Maher is right that if we’re not careful, the orange farting clown will end up in power and destroy the US in turn.

[@Buddy308]

Health care. Did anyone think that the best and brightest would go to medical school when what awaited them was NOTHING but a mid-level job in an enormous bureauracy where the managers were rewarded only for squeezing 100 hours of work per week from MD wage slaves for 40 hours of pay? Anyone?? And now it's WORSE because applicants are judged more on their blind allegiance to DEI than on their MCAT or undergrad GPA. You sow the wind, and you shall reap the whirlwind. Sell your soul to the devil who promises to allow you to boast about how good a person you are (when you're doing NOTHING), and you'll never get your soul back.

[@MicahMicahel]

@@ALT-vz3jn I can't get a doctor. I couldn't even get a doctor for my kids. We would go to emergency just for routine doctor visits. Canada is going to be a sweat shop country. I think that's the globalist plan for canada. (Edited f or spelling mistake)

[@RL-zk9wb]

Only Trump can fix things.

[@davidlong7247]

@@ALT-vz3jnAn update: Wait times have been high lately, partly due to demographic shifts, partly some government mismanagement. (Chiefly, but not completely conservative.) In my city, here are the wait times for emergency rooms at all our hospitals with emergency rooms: (April 29, 2024: Grace: 6.75 hours, Health Sciences, 6.75 hours, Children's Hospital 5.5 hours and St. Boniface, 5 hours.) A note on the website where this is posted notes that you may have to wait longer if a more critical case comes in, and that up to 40% of the cases in emergency could be treated at an urgent care Centre, or even at a doctor's office or walk in clinic. (In my experience, if one goes in with symptoms of stroke or heart attack, you'll be seen within minutes or even seconds. A broken arm, and you'll probably wait the 6 or 7 hours). And as has been mentioned elsewhere, this system covers EVERY Canadian, though it differs somewhat from province to province. (The system is not completely free; usually you have to pay for parking).

[@Banshee22068]

What he didn't say is in the US the healthcare industry is 19% of the economy as opposed to 13% in Canada.

[@craven5328]

And he didn't note that the developed nation that has the worst actual health care outcomes...is the US.

[@Banshee22068]

@@craven5328 Is that why rich people in countries with socialized medicine come to the US for treatment when it is a life-threatening condition? The US has the best health care that money can buy. But as in all things if you are poor...

[@bonnieberesford9800]

Maher noted that Canada's health care system comes in dead LAST, and it happens every time health care systems are assessed across the globe . The money is distributed by CPAs. not doctors, they throw money at whichever current medical need is in shortest supply, and every single medical specialty has ruinously long waiting lists. Americans may whine about how we need "universal health care", but when something is free , " universal shortages" are the result. No American would put up with the shortages and waiting lists that Canadians suffer every day. Canadian health care is only 13% of the economy because Health Canada does not give you the health care you need, it dictates to everyone the health care you get to have, and theirs is the iron fist that cuts you off when THEY say you've had enough, not your doctor.

[@craven5328]

@Banshee22068 Sure, the uber ritch 1% from accross the globe can fly anywhere, and probably many do go to the US. But that's the 1%. And unless folks are deluded enough to ever think they will be among the 1%...the 99% are far better off in countries that have socialized medicine.

[@craven5328]

@@bonnieberesford9800 Americans put up with wait lists all the time. Accorsing to the OECD, in 2016, The share of people reporting that they “sometimes, rarely or never get an answer from their regular doctor’s office on the same day" was 33% in Canada, and 28% in the United States, vs ~15% for places like Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Where Canada is an outlier is in particular, is with wait time for specialist or elective surgeries.

[@jacksonhana360]

Air pollution last year was because of the record forest fires Canada had. Not because of dirty cities.

[@uzul42]

Shhh! Don't ruin the bit

[@Dgills]

I must’ve misread that Canada was in top 3 fracking countries in the world then, which pollutes air and water. But for the fires, the US and Canada have similar area of forest. More extreme and dry climate in the US outside of the less forested Canadian tundras. But the US actually passed the New Deal and serviced all of its forests with land management practices and took preventative measures to stave off wildfires. The Canadians didn’t prioritize this until much later (1985) and still don’t manage much of their land due to remoteness. Meanwhile, the US has hurricanes and other climate disasters to manage. They literally dropped the ball on this problem when they’ve been facing an air quality health epidemic for years.

[@dustindauncey]

@@DgillsCanada has a fraction of the USA population to manage our forests, and Canada has about 45,000 hectares more forest than the USA to manage. I don’t think they can be compared too easily.

[@Dgills]

@@dustindauncey 45K more hectares..out of 300+ Million hectares? I think it’s comparable enough. Canada pretty much didn’t prioritize forest management until 6 years before I was born. Personally, that’s insane to me.

[@Dgills]

@@dustindauncey but for sure on the population difference. It’s an extremely difficult problem to tackle. I really hope it gets better

[@jasonarthurs3885]

For clarity, the air quality suffered in nearly all the Canadian cities with Worst Air pollution in NA are direct result of proximity to forest fires; dozens of fires from last year's record-setting season, are still smoldering today.

[@Dgills]

And for extra clarity, the US has more extreme climate and a similar total area of forest. The difference? The US has prioritized forest management since the New Deal. The Canadian government shrugged and said our forests are too hard to reach, we’ll deal. Despite not having to manage climate disasters like hurricanes, etc. The air quality issue has been an issue for Canadians (80%+) for years. WHO reports. They just aren’t stepping up on this one. I had a roommate in college who worked for the US forest service and anecdotally based on the hours of driving he had to do everyday for the preventative measures they took to prevent our forests from burning down, I’m pretty sure the US has simply managed this one better. Kind of crazy to think it’s totally out of their hands when the US was primed for a very similar issue and has even more climate disasters to wrangle.

[@scottcarey5635]

He absolutely left that out .

[@tophercabba]

@@Dgills once again you have no idea how massive our forest land is most of which have no towns near them for 300-700 kms of wilderness how do u "manage" that, how do you manage an area the size of one of your states with no roads and access to them ,the fact you cited the WHO is hilarious cause they are just the bastion of truth eh lmao i had to travel one time in the yukon and had to bring gas cause there was no place to fill up for 600 kms nothing no one u get in an accident your pretty much done or have to get airlifted out ,you cant compare our forests wat so ever , we are the big leagues you guys are tee ball

[@Paul-ew5st]

@@Dgills Will you stop saying that! US forest management has been a joke since the new deal.

[@Dgills]

@@Paul-ew5st disagree about the New Deal remark but agree it’s not robust enough, I just want them to feel better about something 😛

[@lafuerza113]

Thanks for telling it like it is about Canada. I am 70 and sadly I do not recognize my country. It used to be a fine place to live, but now, too many issues and no good solutions so far. Our government is seen as a disgrace internationally.

[@AnnoyingMoose]

Here in Vancouver, B.C. the average price of a house is $1,320,000 CAD ($970,000 USD).

[@bugtusslealien3931]

Try San Francisco and see the shack you'll get.

[@DeathToTheDictators]

similar in New York

[@bugtusslealien3931]

@@ed9492 HUH???? I'm trying to compare housing prices between San Fran and Vancouver. Both are west coast cities and desirable locations but the atrocious prices are prohibitive for middle incomers to afford. I'm not sure what your response is trying to elicit?

[@vanavatareight5135]

Both San Francisco and Vancouver have very expensive homes; however, Vancouver salaries are 1/2 what they are in San Francisco. If you want to buy a house in Vancouver now, average income there would make it necessary to share a house with 3 or 4 families to be able to afford the mortgage.

[@jayrideau]

And that is spreading to every major city. It’s a plan.

[@littlerainyone]

It's not just a matter of "being too extreme". It's a problem of fixating on a particular policy (EX. single-payer) as a shibboleth or marker of moral identity. For example, Singapore has universal coverage but they also (unlike us) have functioning medical markets that drive prices way down. They also use price controls on the most expensive drugs, but they are free-riding on U.S. drug innovation (just like Canada & every other country that benefits from market segmentation arrangments with the U.S.), so that part we couldn't import, but we could imitate key parts of their system and massively reduce health care costs in the U.S., while achieving the goal of universal coverage and eliminating the current billing nightmare we have, which is not based on "capitalism" but rather on a mind-numbingly stupid system of cross subsidies managed by central planners. But no one mentions Singapore. Why not? Because Singapore doesn't have the leftwing caché that single-payer Canada has. Michael Moore didn't make a film lauding Singapore, etc. Just goes to show that PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT ACHIEVING GOOD OUTCOMES, as Bryan Caplan argued. People only care about signaling loyalty to their moral tribes. The problem is not that Canada is "too extreme". The problem is that we should cherry pick whats best wherever we find it (Canada, France, Singapore, think tanks, etc.) instead of lazily reciting bumper sticker solutions of the sort that shallow ideologues like Robert Reich & Michael Moore promote.

[@leechap3]

Moore's documentary gives many examples including France, the UK and Cuba. It would be unwieldy to name every nation with universal healthcare because every other developed nation has it.

[@littlerainyone]

@@leechap3 you can speak of national systems as a first pass provided you avoid the low resolution thinking of treating this like a team sport where "they" do it right and "we" don't. We do some things very badly and others very well. Like I said, all of those countries, including Canada, are free-riding on U.S. drug development, by far the most expensive item in any national health budget. We have many things that are badly broken and need fixing in the U.S.: the billing & insurance system, inadequate coverage of the citizenry, etc., but any "fix" of our system that destroys our drug innovation would be unbelievably foolish, and the harm would extend far beyond our borders. Unfortunately, when people approach these issues the way that guys like Michael Moore do, it is extremely difficult to get intelligent policy, because he steadfastly refuses to give thought to incentive structures, which by the way, is why he will take no interest at all in what SIngapore has achieved. Ultimately, he cares less about good outcomes than ideology. You won't hear Moore acknowledge the vital importance of leveraging the local knowledge of health consumers & competition among service providers, and for that reason alone, he has nothing to say worth listening to. You may as well consult horoscopes or QAnon or Marjorie Taylor Green.

[@leechap3]

@@littlerainyone Way too wordy, especially when it's all handwaving. Healthcare, insurance and drugs are separate issues.. Also the US is not the only country were drug innovation exists.

[@sullyschwartz2365]

​@@leechap3​ Thats why you list the ones that do it best and why/how they do it differently. Yes, universal healthcare is common; but the ways they are implemented differentiate-are you American? Because it comes across as American to say "ehh, lots of places have it" even though how they have it can be different from place to place. They teach you this shit in basic math, how manipulating the full context of graphs can misconstrue conclusions drawn from data points. "itd be unweildly" to explain something without showing the best cases. Its because of that communism is seen as impossible (even though its always been with cases of it as a starting point, when communism is supposed to be an end goal).

[@sullyschwartz2365]

​@@leechap3Youre trolling saying those are seperate issues🤡💀

[@ddiamondr1]

Bill did Fox News do your fact checking for you on this?

[@stuff485]

I can't argue any of that. We need an election ASAP

[@TheSlayerMovie]

The only reason we fell behind on air quality was because of all the forest fires last summer, not pollution. I live in Kelowna where the fires were. The clean air and beautiful clean city I live in does not resemble what this guy said in this video. That statement was terribly misleading, I had to look it up. No pollution here. All the fires were started by hot temperatures, and lightning strikes.

[@Snowdog070]

Much of it arson too.

[@mikelisejordanjaden]

yeah I did some checking and he was wrong. All the top polluted cities in North America are American by far.

[@deanduplessis8881]

Most of what Bill said was idiotic.

[@Snowdog070]

I spent a career in environmental law enforcement in Canada. Your comment aligns with what I know to be the truth. Transportation sources are by far the largest contributors to poor local air quality and I'm certainly not talking about CO2. That does nothing but good things for the environment. There are no limits on the emission of CO2 in provincial law because of this fact.

[@markmitterhuber]

The US has the health care system with the highest costs in the world. It spends 17% of its GDP for healthcare. (13% in Canada) But the life expectancy is significantly lower in the USA. 76 years in the USA vs. 82 years in Canada

[@PjRjHj]

That may have something to do with additives in US food that are banned in Canada

[@tedr4526]

Again, Bill Maher does not know what the fuck he’s talking about

[@aswinhanagal4293]

Population.

[@svalbard01]

Dude, what's the average life expectancy in the US if you remove the morbidly obese South?

[@MFFL674]

highest costs, lower life expectancy, extremely expensive for middle class to use and also less access than canada.

[@KeikoMushi]

Remember that Canada is also encouraging homeless people to top themselves through the MAID program, along with people with short-term mental health issues and people with non-terminal conditions. Also, the shop teacher is a known troll.

[@sabrinat5446]

Not Canada, just our Crime Minister and his Goon Squad

[@fwd5614]

Powerful statement at the end. Also powerful calling out how far has fallen. Trudeau has been a disaster.

[@wardmacleod3765]

As always well said sir. As a Canadian, I left in 91 and headed overseas, I'm ashamed of what Canada has become.

[@ALT-vz3jn]

I left in 2010, would never go back to live in Canada. God bless the Canadians, they’re in a very bad situation and have a terrible leader.

[@MicahMicahel]

@@ALT-vz3jn he's puppet. TEHy flung almost all media here. You can know the truth about things. That's algorithmically demoted so typical people never know the truth. There are huge government made laws and lies that are from their fas e news. We had the flags half mast for a year becaue of fake news generated from the government down have the papers to show when they invented the story of nuns killing native kids. Fakes.... but most Canadians =still believe the lie. You have to know how too get the real news here.

[@lordbarham1]

So am I but likely not for the same reason you are. I'm ashamed of the fact that we let down all this Afghanis who healed us during that pointless debacle, and then abandoned them to their fate, not once, but three times! Well done to the bureaucrats in Ottawa!

[@jaydragonsbreath2423]

"Yes, you can move too far left. And when you do, you wind up pushing the people in the middle to the right." So true, and I'm definitely one of those who've been pushed.

[@Ronnie438]

@jaydragonsbreath2423 To be fair, this is not a good thing. I say this because people who are pushed to right like this ignore the crazies within the far right.

[@TheAngryAtheist]

whats an example of "too far left"?

[@SundayTopper]

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[@themouthofsauron6926]

​@@TheAngryAtheistmen in women's sports

[@TheAngryAtheist]

@@themouthofsauron6926 any real things? Or just made up stuff?

[@b4dys3]

Bro, that one laugh in the audience...

[@Colmenero444]

I live in quebec. You're not getting a home at 487..it's more like 600. Not to mention the bidding wars.

[@Macefantastic]

Well I hate to be that Canadian….but unemployment figures are reported differently. Canada treats as unemployed those who engaged in any job search during the previous month, whereas the US requires "active" search. The air quality in Canada has always been better then the US, except last year because of wild fires, do you see how stats can so easy be manipulated

[@hihihi5367]

Why aren’t more areas in California, who suffers from just as bad, if not worse, wild fires every season on this list? Maybe it because California isn’t destroying the world with oil sands and gas active carbon capture operations. Enough with the Canadian yapping, yall speak from both sides of your mouth

[@nolongerblocked6210]

Thank you! Bill relies on anyone hearing him not doing a basic fact finding/Google search, he cherry picks stats to fit his narrative.... he's literal propaganda

[@CroElectroStile]

@@nolongerblocked6210 I don't think those two were the sticking points he was trying to make. I think standards of living generally don't depend too much on those two (unemployment and air), rather on inflation, the debt being crazy high for such a country, and the housing crisis exacerbated with opening your borders to everyone and anyone is not helping. Wages will not go up anytime soon now because you have immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh that are happy to work for less so they can send their earning back home. Prices in Canadian supermarkets are ridiculous, and the fact that even if you find a job in Canada, you will never be able to afford a house, and you will live basically paycheck to paycheck because of the prices of goods, is bad. As a European, I can affirm the situation is crazy here. Most Americans are unaware of how many terrorist attacks there was, increase in rapes and the steady growth of an immigrant underclass of a different race with totally different cultures are bad for our societies like it or not, and how much turmoil there was in the streets because of the Israel-Gaza incident. Talk about importing conflicts into your country. The research on puberty blockers is also correct; it causes many problems in children. It's not reversible because of the newfound atrophy of the testes in boys by the Mayo Clinic, and it causes other hormonal issues that need to be treated afterward with perpetual medication. So, no, it's not propaganda.

[@grizzybear9111]

Not manipulated but in which context stats are used.

[@000EatMan000]

The wildfires don't really change the context that much though. The pollution was still borderline apocalyptic and people had to live through it... including in the US.

[@keylime2998]

As a life long Dem, friends with Dems and republicans, I do wish we had a functioning Republican Party. Both parties keep each other in check.

[@richardstreng3345]

I'm a life long Dem also, and Bidens open border immigration policies make me want to stay home this coming election.

[@Secretname807]

@@richardstreng3345 I would argue against doing that. If you're not happy with the two major choices, then you should try to find a third party. If enough votes go to third parties, then the two major parties will have to make changes for their own survival. If you don't vote, they'll just ignore you.

[@richardstreng3345]

@@Secretname807 3rd party candidates are only spoilers for the Dems as we have seen. The gop always gets in line and votes for their candidates with the utmost discipline...and 1 more thing, the American voter (70%) want a Secure Border. Why is Biden handing the White House to trump?

[@danielmaloney946]

Functioning Republican party? You watch too much CNN.

[@BenWeeks-ca]

The populist part is working but under attack by the Mitch Mcconnel Bushite McCain Military Industrial Complex Uniparty. Who is anti war is a key filter.

[@Curmudgeon2]

Have met a number of Canadian Doctors who moved here...to the USA...fleeing the Canadian Health Care system.

[@smcb2202]

As a Canadian I agree Canada is failing. Still love my country but I am praying it returns to some state of normalcy soon!!

[@dawnnoble8186]

Canadas Former Prime minister once famously quoted about US "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt, " That quote has become even more relevant today than ever before.

[@sohrab_solheim]

So Bill's segment hurt your feelings?😂😂😂

[@dawnnoble8186]

t@@sohrab_solheim Will now, aren't you a shit disturber. Sorry buddy, whatever you thought you were going to accomplish with that remark isn't going to work.

[@abjectt5440]

@@sohrab_solheim I'm so jaded now I don't give a fuck what anybody says about Canada. In fact the rest of the world can go to hell.

[@jeffersonadams8711]

lol Canadians are so fragile.

[@OTPulse]

Canada had become a shit hole under Dictator Trudeau. It's a shame you'll vote him in again.