Love these little rants, reminds me of the old Rick Mercer's rants

@4xhoser

2 ай бұрын

Yes!! Love Rick Mercer 🤘🇨🇦

@ThatMattWhite

2 ай бұрын

He needs to hold his phone at extreme angles and shift it every 4 sentences

@rickwood248

2 ай бұрын

I’m not Canadian, but I agree with you 100%.. 👍😎🔧

This whole video makes way to much sense for today’s decision makers!!

Kinda like selling unrefined petroleum and gas to the US only to buy the refined product back at a massive price increase...

@henrinaths1

2 ай бұрын

Yes our energy resources to begin with, sold below market value by foreign owned companies to keep royalties payments down and then bought back and sold to us, complete with compounding taxes, gst on the carbon tax at the inflated prices. We refine 18 thousand bpd and consume 2.3 million bpd and wonder why we don’t have refineries to meet our demand? IT MEETS GOVERNMENT POLICY TO KEEP US POOR!!

@idemanddonuts

2 ай бұрын

The thing about oil is because different oils require different refineries and refineries are very expensive. But yeah, it's also kinda stupid to not setup over. But if a country was to refine and use their own oil, American oil companies wouldn't be happy

@user-of2py3gf3i

2 ай бұрын

ehhh not really. Refineries are expensive to build; also it helps maintain good relations with Canada. If youre Canadian; you should be happy we are friends.

@ScrapDaddy968

2 ай бұрын

The refineries are better suited for the foreign oil The real problem is we cant make more/new refineries that would be suited for our oil because of the massive amount of red tape and regulation so they just send it somewhere else

@circular_logic6217

2 ай бұрын

The usa has a vested intrest in keeping it that way. Small countries that try to do things like that or sell oil in there own currencies suddenly end up having a forced change of leadership

Not all heroes wear capes! #ChaseForPM

I can tell you, local crews care about keeping the roads safer because their kids, neighbours and community are travelling on them. Up in my spot in ontario you can see pavement most all winter because of how dedicated they are. Also: they tend to care about the little things more. The throughway routes that have houses on them, the plow trucks try to use their side plows to clear the big mounds from the driveway ends to make it easier on us.

Locavorism. Yes. Pacific coast Oregonian, remote county, local issues need local responses. Yes to localization of services, no to consolidation of providers.

In Brazil we sell our harvested oranges to buy the juice (mostly from Cocacola Co.)

America could learn from this as well

@the_undead

2 ай бұрын

In the US some of this is pure negligence. However, some of it is part of the US's foreign policy to try to strengthen relationships with other countries, why Canada needs to do this is beyond me

Chase, that’s the same reason that I have an issue with everything made out of “chineseium”. It seems like so many things are made there these days, BUT I do my absolute best to NOT buy that stuff, because most of it is JUNK!

@Rakusan2

Ай бұрын

All power to you, but I seen too many Canadian and US businesses buy Chinese crap, mark it up 2-4x and sell it as locally made. May as well buy it from China if that money will go to them anyway.

Seen similar things to that here in Norway too, when a foreign contractor gets the contract to build a tunnel or bridge they fail every time. They don't realise Norwegian mountains are all gneiss and granite

After the construction industry scandals in Quebec, the gov outsourced the building of the CHUM hospital in Montreal to a conglomerate of European companies that don't know how to build in Canada. The corruption and incompetence was mind-blowing, plumbing that caused pipes to burst and flooded whole areas any time the power was down, hundreds of doors so badly installed they had to be redone, either with the wrong or inappropriate hardware installed among other issues. For example having public waiting area bathrooms with keyed locks on them meaning everyone wanting to use the washroom had to hunt down a key. On one occasion there was a whole entrance hall drywalled finished and painted for when a news crew came to report on the progress, then torn down again as none of the plumbing or electric was installed yet. All these issues had to be worked on while the hospital was functional, causing labour costs to skyrocket as extreme dust contamination procedures had to be undertaken before even beginning the work.

I work for Emcon in Ontario and everyone should be known Our highways in Northwestern Ontario are taking very good care of

@5N05L1DR

2 ай бұрын

I sure hope your joking

Over here on the island we have the opposite problem. Most of our local contractors rarely see snow and don't have the expertise to deal with it when we get slammed once or twice a year. I got stuck in Tofino last winter because the one and only plow truck on #4 went off the road on Sutton pass.

Oh no, I hope he does not learn about the corruption in Government.......That would be a rant!

There’s a lot of that going on. Some Italian company bought a steelmill in my town retrofitted it and they forgot to put insulation on the piping and then Christmas happened, and all their pipes blew up. I laughed, and I laughed, and I laughed.

Note on Spain. Due to EU and free flow of economy with a couple of *, the Spanish truck drivers driving through the mountains in the dead of winter in Norway wears shorts, flip flops and have almost bald tires on their truck. Reason why I know this is due to a TV channel having a road rescue.

Totally agree!

Just like in the US. Indiana toll road was sold to foreign company to run and maintain the toll road. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if it's not the same outfit

ABSOFREAKINLUTELY!!!!!!!!!! I'm from the USA, but we have been having to tolerate this BULL SPIT for a whole bunch of years now! Here in Indiana in March 2006, our ILLUSTRIOUS governor sold (OK in writing it was a 99-year lease) our toll road to a "Spanish/Australian consortium." Within 6 months, the neglect of the repairs on this highway began to be painfully obvious. At least one of the original leasees of the toll road declared bankruptcy and struck a bargain basement deal with yet another foreign entity, and the road continued to deteriorate. After less than 8 months following the lease deal I stopped using the toll road and started running US Highway 20 which parallels the toll road even though it took a bit longer to run due to the fact that US 20 runs through nearly every small town in its path. I was an OTR owner/operator of a semi truck and was forced to retire in 2010 due to permanent effects of an injury so I was no longer forced to make the conscious decision to avoid the toll road at ALL COSTS. I live far enough south in the state that staying off the toll road allows me to not even be bothered by rerouting my trip plans. I very much appreciate your activism supporting your country's business health and prosperity! Keep up the good fight!!!!!

@randyneals9945

2 ай бұрын

Hwy 407 toll road in Ontario... Sold to subsidiary of Ferrovial, a spanish company. Tolls went sky high. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_407

We have the same problem down here in the USA. This is just a theory and I’m sure there might be one or two other people in the world who agree with me. It is a lot easier for the politicians to get kick backs once they transferred it to a foreign country than it is to get kick backs from the country they reside in. 🤔☮️🇺🇸

Lowest bidder isn’t the best option.

If the government spends the money locally they collect that money back through taxes anyway, if they spend it on a foreign company they just gave that money to the foreign companies government who they pay tax to (not the one contracting them)

Driving 97c several nights a week it is ridiculously easy to tell where the contract boundary is.

Right on! I hear ya! Right you are.

I hope you can get the truck business up and running well before you become Prime Minister. I don't want to see the trucks suffer by you getting stretched to thin😂

They should have kept the toll booths on the coquihalla and just reduce the toll once the project was paid for so there would be ample funds for maintenance and repairs without using the lowest bidder.

417 in Ontario highway maintenance company is from Texas

It’s how “we” pay those who put “our” leaders in power

Truth!

All tax money should be spent locally, after all it is the local,people paying taxes.

Yup agree. But it also sounds like Dawson 100 Mile House. Roads in this area bare minimum. But other Dawson roads in the province are always better maintained. And you can see a definite difference at the switch in jurisdictions.

Is there a Canadian company that makes drivetrains for electric trucks?

@25aspooner

2 ай бұрын

Not yet. Hopefully they can make that happen. Their E axles are from China because no one else made them.

@newatthis50

2 ай бұрын

​@@25aspoonermaybe his step up to bat will encourage others to do so too

I recently got a job where I'm working for my local power company. Said power company is owned by a company out in Spain. Why on earth is it like that? Why does a Spanish company own the power I get in the US? Something as important as power should probably be owned by the same government that owns the land that it supplies. But hey. At least the job seems like a good opportunity, so I'll enjoy it while I have it. Hopefully 😎

@RealityGutPunch

2 ай бұрын

It'a what happens when lobbyists and politicians love each other very much....

@JD-yx7be

2 ай бұрын

I think our local power company is owned by a french company.

Back pocket deals.

The other calculations point to more than 85% of the government money gets returned to the government via taxes as the dollar circulates. If it goes to a foreign contract, basically it is only wages and expenses for fuel that gets taxed. Considering management will be foreign, it's only the local workers they collect tax from. And fuel would be tax deductable, and more than likely have some sort of subsidy or removal of levies because it is used for industry and not transport.

Completely agree! Yet, it’s not up to the PM. According to the WTO, you can’t give preference to local companies over transnationals as this would be interpreted as “protectionism” (which is illegal). The uncomfortable truth is that these situations are created because of the neoliberal logic and how the free market is held up as an universal value. Several local Canadian companies have gone bankrupt because the government, by law, can’t economically support them since there will always be an outsourcing company that will do it for cheaper. It’s a race down. If Canada ought to change things, it won’t suffice changing PM. Canada will need to rethink if the economical activity serves the interests of the few or its people 🤔

I’m in Kelowna and hate AIM roads, I wish we still had Argo working on our roads. These potholes are awful even for B.C standards.

It’s like foreign company’s owning timberland in the US. Simply ridiculous

We are constantly sucker punched no matter the government. In Harpers era, the last recession, US companies landed contracts for infrastructure and road rebuilding in Alberta. Complete with their own machinery and manpower.

Chace could definitely tell off some hockey players if they came up to his produce stand.

I’d go further and ask why we contract out essential public services to private companies at all?

Not Canadian, but supportive...!

Stupid Competition is rampant

I live in terrace bc where your looking at a shop. And I'm pretty sure the contact for snow removal is given to a Kelowna company and our roads have been the worst I've seen. They hardly do anything if people don't bash them online 😂

Why isn’t the provincial government doing this in house? In most US states, snow removal is handled by the state DOT.

Ah! The safety of Canadians, by Canadians, for Canadians!

And every one said amen 🙏

I tend to agree. Until I look at Irving shipbuilding etc.

I love everything you are doing Chace, but this is the right decision for the wrong reason. The reason they should lose the contract is they are doing a bad job, not because they are a foreign company. I would hope that no Spanish trucking company refused to buy Edison products because "how could they understand what it takes to move freight in Spain?" Imports and leakage are no different that buying eggs at a grocery store instead of from your neighbor. Sometimes local businesses have volume limitations or do not provide exactly the specific variety of service you need; that does not make you a bad person for picking a service from another town or another province or another country. What you want is for wealth to grow in Spain because they provide good products, and that their economy would grow so that their import demands rise too. This is a question of quality, and the fact that the company doing a bad job is not Canadian makes no difference.

Nice video man that blows my mind i live in southern ohio every thing here is cleand off by state, country and townships.

@newatthis50

2 ай бұрын

Here too !! BUT I feel they should use made in the USA equipment to do it Something is wrong when our government buys made out of the USA equipment

There was a time when a Chinese company almost became the owners of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

They got the contract because they put in a lower bid. Lowest bid always get the govt contracts.

The question is who is getting kickbacks from foreign companies.

Once again Chase if you want change you have to make the change happen

@jameson1239

2 ай бұрын

The dude is quite literally building the first Canadian truck in 30 years, what are you doing?

@the_undead

2 ай бұрын

@@jameson1239 trying to make a point that this man wants to change these things he is complaining about. He is absolutely capable of doing it. Cuz as it stands right now the people in power benefit from screen over the Canadians like the way he has described in a couple videos now

Accionia also uses P3 partnerships to pay for the building of hospitals and they then lease those hospitals to the province on 99 year leases. Why do we do this crap?

Yup

Add to that transurban running toll roads in the US and taking 100's in fees from people its fucked up

Emcon for the “W”

As a American that pays for his health insurance it’s crazy to me that the government doesn’t take care of your roads. I mean Washington state roads are shit, especially Eastern Washington roads where I’m from and government workers are lazy but atleast I know if the road isn’t plowed it’s out of incompetence and laziness not some ass hole trying to save every little bit of sand and salt to make a better pay check.

1) statements like “if I was prime minister…” might end up coming true, 2) is this a use case for topsy as a plow truck?

If I was Prime Minister of Canada I'd move it closer to the equator. 😅

I think the big thing being missed here is that money leaving the area is a two way thing. Many countries spend money on Canadian businesses sending money back into Canada. Most of the western world is built on an integrated economy where broadly money leaving and money coming in forms a balance. This system of trade is broadly beneficial for the countries involved. You could shift the economy and add big hurdles for foreign businesses and they will go ahead and do the same for you. And you would likely be worse off.

Protectionism is a form of market socialism. Which I am all for, don't get me wrong. I'd just like people like Chase here to be up front and verbal about that directly, telling the story of why international capitalism is NOT appropriate.

@jamesphillips2285

2 ай бұрын

"Free markets" are not really free without aggressive regulations.

@SkylosSobaka

2 ай бұрын

​@@jamesphillips2285 its a balancing act for sure - which actions are too powerful and make it not-free, and which ones aren't?

@RealityGutPunch

2 ай бұрын

Henry Ford once wrote a popular book on The International " Capitalist" 😂. Which of course isn't capitalism because it relies exclusive access to cheap debt, and collusion wit corrupt politicians.

@jamesphillips2285

2 ай бұрын

@@SkylosSobaka I think as a rule of thumb: 1. Try to correct for externalities. Environmental regulations would apply here. 2. Consider nationalizing "natural monopolies" like infrastructure.

@SkylosSobaka

2 ай бұрын

@@jamesphillips2285 There are so many externalities; up to and including various forms of tragedy of the commons. Is 'transport of goods' itself a natural monopoly? Is people dying because truckers are rushing around instead of investing in trains an externality that should be addressed?

My friend successfully sued The Crown, who has ultimate responsibility for ensuring proper service levels, for windshield damage because they were using rocks instead of sand and it wrecked his windshield. You have the right to look up what the official service levels are and sue The Crown for negligence if their contractor isn't doing the work properly, especially if yoh have been affected.

Look at the garbage trucks. Not many small companies left

Deja Vu or did I see this video a fews years age 🧐

Canadians better look at their ballot. I think Chace is running for prime minister.

Don't feel bad, all toll roads in the US are foreign owned, the money goes overseas and the roads get worse every year.

you just aren't old enough to have experienced the drop in quality when governments started outsourcing to private Canadian companies. The roads where higher quality and had longer service lives when it was government crews doing the work because there was no incentive to cheap out on materials. the problem is bills forcing local and provincial governments to hire the lowest bidder among private contractors instead of having a proper transportation department handling the process every step of the way. Roads here in Ontario started falling apart after Mike Harris privatized everything he could.

The road maintenance in other parts of the Province by Canadian Companies is atrocious. Sand, salt dribbled down the centre line, then only in certain areas. Not on all hills up or down or on corners resulting in commercial vehicles riding the centre line for traction forcing all others towards the ditch. Under manned and under equipped to handle any significant snow removal. We live in an area with one of these ass_ _ les.

Give the contract to the local company. Local company value goes up. Foreign investor buys the local company.

Highway maintenance in BC sucks, period. Jasper to Kamloops you likely won't even see a plow until there's a crash.

Dude, I used to work in road building in BC. The whole thing is grift. Canadian and Foreign companies. Ever see the dragon going up and down bc highways? Pure grift, absolute waste of money.

@Jessev741

2 ай бұрын

dragon?

@NavySturmGewehr

2 ай бұрын

@@Jessev741 It's a big long thing that mills a layer off the pavement, reheats/recycles the pavement, then adds some new materials and then puts it back down. All in one process. It got the nick name "the dragon". The problem with it? It only resurfaces and doesn't fix the problems with the underlying sub base, so they end up resurfacing the same highways more than would otherwise be needed if the sub base was repaired correctly.

@Jessev741

2 ай бұрын

@@NavySturmGewehr I bet it costs less overall and provides a better road surface overall. Thanks I hadn't heard that nickname

@NavySturmGewehr

2 ай бұрын

@@Jessev741 Yes absolutely, in terms of resurfacing, it is very cost effective. I guess I didn't do a good job of making my point. Most of the issues with highways in BC is that the subbase has failed and isn't able to support the pavement. This causes the pavement to fail prematurely, forcing more frequent resurfacing of the highway. Until we properly fix our highways, we'll be paying way more for maintenance in the long haul than if we paid up front to build the highways properly.

@Jessev741

2 ай бұрын

@@NavySturmGewehr Sure, but if a highway is already built... we can't tear them all up and rebuild at once, so remilling/resurfacing seems like the best interim solution.

Its just as bad as here in the us. Their great idea, outsource everything

Also, who exactly enables this contract? Our elected should be held accountable for screwing us over.

Looks like we have somebody who doesn’t believe in Canada’s post-Canadian future.

Dude it’s so simple

If we don’t give contracts to foreign companies how can our politicians get kickbacks in foreign accounts. Need to pity on our poor politicians

Dude aim also treats staff horribly and bid on a contract for copper Mountain Mine road that they never filled causing millions in lost wages and production.

I remember traveling the Alaska Highway in 1969 where people were fuming about the road equipment (and there was a lot of equipment needed when the road was unpaved) was freshly of Japanese origin. Cheap Japanese junk they said. Turned out it wasn't really cheap. But it also wasn't shoddy. Xenophobic rage is a fashionable look every new season but it does grow tiresome generation to generation.

@RealityGutPunch

2 ай бұрын

Either you don't know what xenophobia is, you missed the point entirely or.... How's the weather in Tel Aviv? 😂

@JD-yx7be

2 ай бұрын

Japan is basically a u.s territory after ww2 anyway, they can't have a military and depend on the u.s to defend them so they have to do anything we say

UHOHHH! Somebody's popularity who loves Canada is rising! Could it be?!? Canadalands Trump? Another business man whom loves his Country!😮 They're gonna try to destroy you my man!

Chase for Prime Minister!

If we could outsource the government.....

That is a tough piece of road to maintain in winter, it's unfathomable that the snow removal is outsourced!! I will warn you that if you keep exposing government malfeasance in B.C. and Canada in general you will soon only have Conservative allies !!

It’s not better it’s cheaper when the damn job isn’t done.

Or end the privatization of snow removal.

Can you run for president of the United States as well as prime minister of Canada? Be the head of state for both countries at the same time.

Missing the bribe’s somewhere

None of it makes sens e to begin with when those smaller companies will give better rates to the government to begin with.

10% for the big guy, in your case Trudeau.

Love Sand hate acid

EVERYTHING IS BROKEN AND CORRUPT IN CANADA!!

Dude you didn't even scratch the surface that company has its hand in so much and principle share holder is split between george sorros and some Chinese corp strange bedfellows makes since with trudo

@jamesphillips2285

2 ай бұрын

Highway maintenance (like health care) will be provincial, not federal.

it's called embezzlement

🤣🤣🤣 Welcome to Africa my friend. Everyone is exploiting us.

Ch

Aren't they hiring Canadiens to do the work? It's a global economy.

Dude is about to run for office instead of

Chase, we got an election coming stand as an independent . We desperately need a voice of reason in this 2024 social stupidity we call politics

wait local governments dont handle snow removal in Canada? that's how the US does it.