Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Demographics Part 2: The Canadian Treadmill...Stops" video.

As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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@FullCircleTravis And don't forget our animals are different. Our ones that eat people stay in the water where they belong. Polar bears get out of the water and hunt you down.
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As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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@macalister8881 I like Peter he's very good on geopolitical stuff but occasionally gets his information wiring crossed. I'm an engineer so pick up that he gets technical stuff wrong at times, but they also tend to be common misconceptions. On practical math & stats here's my best advice for everyone. If you put 2 circles either side of a line like this -> "oIo" its basically a dick symbol. If you tilt that symbol to the right you get this symbol "%" or as I like to call it the dick symbol of math because it f-cks anything and everything it can. For starters it can make any number equal any other number. Like when does 1 = 25? When the interest rate goes from 4% to 5% that 1% equals a 25% increase. That's why bankers like it so much because with it they can f-ck who ever they want. Just remember whenever you see this symbol -> % if you aren't careful you will get f-cked.
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As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. Your specific comment on students is IDENTICAL to here. The industry we have developed for students from Asia, India, China,... etc is almost identical to what's happened in Canada. When our news services do stories about the issues almost all the comparisons are with Canada. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa.
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As an Australian this freaked me TF out because if you change the words to Australian and Australia and swap Trudeau for Albanese and you are 100% factually describing Australia. His description of Vancouver is practically identical to Melbourne and especially Sydney with respect to housing. We are idiotically addicted to foreign investment. I'm an engineer and was actually in Canada late 2017 through early 2018 for a project. Other than the temperature inversion Canada was like another version of Australia. I was in Saskatchewan and it was like wheat belt of Western Australia, the Western 1/2 of Victoria and the Murray Darling section of New South Wales. A vast area of endless flat farmland, with exactly the same kinds of people. We even hate Canberra the EXACT same way Canadians hate Ottawa. AND we have the same brain drain of younger highly educated Australians to America, particularly in tech industries.
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@SP-po5qg There's parts of Australia around our major universities where you can say exactly the same thing, except its about 50% Chinese and 50% Indian students. Its causing some very serious issues with our universities but the "business people" who now run our Universities don't care. More students = more money, and that's as far as things are discussed. As far as I know New Zealand has similar issues but not yet as bad as ours.
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@FullCircleTravis And we both like shootin and eatin 'em. One of my favorites is "kanagnaise" which is bolognaise made with kangaroo mince. I use port instead of red wine and plenty of chilli and its awesome. Gotta be careful with most Australian wild meat. Its very lean with not much fat at all so if you get it wrong it becomes stuff so tough you can make mountain climbing boots out of it. So its either a quick sear served rare or a very slow vey low roast or combined. Kangaroo also makes for great leather. Super soft and super long lasting.
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@arthurcarr7364 I didn't say it was the same country. I said its got so many similarities its freaking weird. Like we both think the other has freakishly dangerous animals. When I was there they kept telling me how dangerous Australia was with snakes, sharks and spiders. We have koala's and they are good for tourist photos, while Canada has polar bears and they eat tourists. Everyone else has deer or antelope or gazelles and like Bambi they're cute. Canada has moose and they are the animal kingdom's equivalent of a bad tempered ice hockey player with 4 legs and 2 sticks, one mounted out each side of the ugliest head in the Northern hemisphere. There is one major difference our neighbors are New Zealand, who in general are pretty good. Canada has 330 million gun totting psychos with nuclear weapons for neighbors AND they like starting fights.
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@arthurcarr7364 The country you didn't grow up in also perfectly describes Australia. Change is one of the things the older generations are handling very badly. if you look at history you'll see that society has always changed no matter what people did. What bothers people is uncontrolled change because it creates uncertainty. If you want to talk about what's causing all the stress of how societies are changing let me know. In a nutshell its due to how a very small number of hyper-wealthy people in their late 80s & 90s who refuse to concede their power and influence to anyone are behaving.
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@macalister8881 I wouldn't say he's wrong more than right, what he does is repeat certain things that he's just wrong about. For example he's said repeatedly that the Russian Siberian oil fields have a huge problem because all the American experts have left. That totally ignores the common practice that engineers TRAIN THE LOCALS. He's right, that losing the American expertise makes things hard, but to think it leaves the Russians helpless is just wrong AND HE'S REPEATED THAT A LOT. Where he's very good is on demographics and how that affects things, but then that's his real area of expertise.
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@macalister8881 The other thing to be aware of is there are a bunch of channels that cut and paste excerpts from his talks. Some of those are months or years out of date and they are posted as if he said them last week. I only spotted it after hearing some of his older talks. There's a couple of very sneaky and very shitty channels and its not just Peter's work they do this with. They do it to people who have given longish (1/2hr or longer) public talks with Q&As afterwards. Remember every time you click on a video the host of that page can earn money from the YT advertising. So there are people profiting from this cut & paste game and they don't care squat if what they are posting is accurate or not or if its out of context. They look for people. 1 I came across posts videos where he talks and asks questions and then pastes in comments other people made publicly to make it sound like its a real interview. Its very devious and misleading. SO CHECK OUT THE PAGES YOU ARE GETTING THIS FROM. They might be reposting old information that's out of date.
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@macalister8881 Do you know or remember which specific video of his has peeved you so much? I don't know any commentator of I agree with 100%. Another person I've taken to listening to is Prof Scott Galloway, who's primarily an economist and he's agreed with some of Peters work but arrived at the same conclusions via economic and social analysis rather than demographics and geopolitics. I can say similar things about him especially on technology, but them I'm the engineer and they aren't. I've spent 30+ years doing automation across various industries and I know there's so much being said about automation, AI, robotics and engineering in general that is just hype or narrative that people keep repeating. There's so much stuff being said at times and nobody checks. Its only spotted if someone who actually knows what's true hears it. I'll give an example. Just recently there's the big news about a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Out of dozens of reports I have maybe seen 4 that are close to accurate, because as an engineer I know how long it will take to build the power stations. For sure its a positive step but its just one step in a million step journey. So I'd advise you keep watching peter Zeihan because he's pretty damn good at the things he's good at. BUT be mindful that just as you should with all these commentators go and check things out. Ad doctors say, "get a second opinion!"
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@nicklanfear4303 Go look up McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World You're the ones who are down under.
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@dixonhill1108 FYI - I am an engineer and did a project in Canada in 2017-18 in Saskatchewan and loved Canada. Other than the cold it was so like Australia in many ways. Canadians are as sports mad as we are, just in a Canadian way. One of the weird things is that Canadians talk about Ottawa and its bureaucracy the same way Australians talk about Canberra its bureaucracy. There's an Australian show called "The Hollowmen" which was a spoof on it. I bet if you ran the same scripts but with Canadian actors and Canadian place names nobody would spot it.
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@dixonhill1108 I forgot to mention my favorite Canadian joke. What do you call an American who is polite, can think and understands basic geography? A Canadian.
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@dixonhill1108 That looks like your trying to explain parts of Australia with different names. The most significant difference is we don't have 330 million clowns with nuclear weapons for neighbors. Although we do supply those clowns with their most important satellite base that lets them see most of Europe, the entire Middle East, all of Asia and importantly all of Russia.
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@macalister8881 I don't know where you got those numbers from but they are totally bogus. China is actually the largest wheat producer and Russia produces more wheat than Ukraine. Even if you look at export numbers your numbers are not even close to realisy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exports
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@macalister8881 You know about the FX swaps????? Your the first person I have seen comment on them. The YT creator I heard from was George Gammon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLGMxH9KFa8 I checked that BIS report and found ANYONE can freely download it as a pdf without even having to sign on. Its that easy to get a hold of. Actually George did make a mistake he said the paper is on page 76 when its actually 67. But then nobody's perfect. What's bugging me is that 4 weeks after that report and *NOBODY is speaking about it AND I really mean nobody. None of the usual business channels none and none of the commentators. You really are the first person I have encountered to make a comment on it. But then until I saw George's video I had never heard of the BIS. How is it that this thing exists and NOBODY outside of the central banking system knows about it? Its like the BIS doesn't exist and yet its where all our central banks do their stuff.
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@macalister8881 Oh yeah when we talk about energy its in Joules with a Capital 'J' not the little 'g' that's for grams. and the little 'm' is for milli as in 1/1000th. Its the big 'M' for mega which is for 1,000,000 (million). I'm Australian and grew up with metric. When I did my degree in America I had to explain metric so many times I should have charged money. Oddly I am also one of the few Australian engineers left who knows how to work in imperial.
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@macalister8881 Yeah that whole bit on fusion was BS. Its an important step, but its 1 step in a journey of a million steps. Go get some sleep. The world wont end because you or anyone else gets 8 decent hours, but it might if someone is sleep deprived and they make a mistake.
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@dixonhill1108 I hadn't heard that term "Cantrailian" before but I got it. And yeah we are basically the 51st and 52nd states. The only question is which of us is the 51st and which is the 52nd. Or maybe Puerto Rico thinks its 51st and we are just the 52dn & 53rd. Do you know when Australia was pushed to get its turn at the UN Security council the main objection was that it would just guarantee America a second vote? Which is sadly true. In early/mid 2018, about 18 months into the Trump Presidency I read a report on its affect on Australian Foreign Policy. They basically admitted to a major problem. For about 50 years AFP was basically "What do the Americans want?" But nobody had written any FP without American input in so long they didn't know what to do at times. I forced a lot of our diplomatic corps to think for themselves. Its one of the odd positive things about the Trump presidency. By accident it made a lot of countries think for themselves for the first time in decades. This is something the Biden team are yet to grasp fully. They now have allies who aren't just followers and will just do as they are told to do like all through the cold war and war on terror.
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@dixonhill1108 Closely followed by a John Oliver like observation. Canada, everyone else's favorite American State. Closely followed by: Why do Canadians say "Sorry" so often? Its their way of telling the rest of the world, "Sorry about our neighbors!" in just 1 word.
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@dixonhill1108 You're right we don't have a specific state like Quebec with its ridiculous sense of self importance that the rest of the country can't stand, BUT we do have New South Wales with its ridiculous sense of self importance that the rest of the country can't stand. The difference is the Quebecois speak French and New South Welshmen speak SHlT!
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@dixonhill1108 I spent 4 months in Saskatchewan in 2017-18 and I got that there's huge gulf between Eastern and Western Canada. Australia has some of that but not quite the same either as we also have significant rivalries going north South as well.
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@kwazhims3lf Every country has at least one ASSH0LE they wished would shut up, even Canada the politest nation in the world. It was a waste water treatment plant that was destroyed by the local CANADIAN engineer less than 2 months after handover because he let it freeze solid. After not getting paid for getting the plant finished and operating the first time around. And then keeping me on hold for over a year. The Canadian insurance companies expected me stop and drop everything on a whim and at MY EXPENSE fly back and fix what a CANADIAN BROKE without guaranteeing I'd get paid. 99% of Canadians are fabulous people. You're NOT in that 99%.
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@agaragar21 You make about 1/10th of valid point 1) There was no genocide but there certainly were some very ugly incidents. The stolen generation was also not a genocide because despite being incredibly ugly and misguided it targeted children of mixed heritage. 2) The subject of native reserves was done away with the establishment of native title laid down by the Marbo decision. ALSO since we are on the subject of invading and taking land can you please tell me which Italian I should hold accountable for the invasion of Britain in 55BC and then which German, Dane, Swede or Norwegian I hold accountable for for the Germanic and Nordic Invasions that happened after the Romans left Britain OR do you expect me to hold the French accountable for William the Conqueror who was actually 1/2 French and 1/2 Norwegian? The point is don't be so simplistic about such complex things. Also there's a fair amount of evidence that the current Aboriginal peoples of Australia were NOT the first people of Australia. This is most evident in the distinct styles of rock art. Its not spoken about much because although there is evidence is a fairly sensitive topic and not enough evidence to be conclusive. Finally there is no doubt that the European settlement of Australia was a disaster for the native population, but that has been the case with every mass migration in history. What I hate about people being so simplistic is they IGNORE what has been done to redress the situation in Australia.
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