Edison Motors gets screwed by very fishy British Columbia Government grantmaking process
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Edison Motors
02:42 - Edison Motors Grant application
03:23 - Where this all goes downhill...
03:53 - Where this becomes bs
08:44 - Cat
09:15 - editing
09:35 - I support edison motors
10:48 - Edison Motors' own words
Hearing you say Canadia instead of Canada multiple times made me chuckle.
If Americans are from America,
Canadians are from _______
It's high time we correct this mistake once and for all.
I prefer Canadistan
@@rossmanngroup Canadica?
@@IntegerOfDoom Cannuckistan even
@@IntegerOfDoom Yet another intelligent American comment. It's no wonder your country is so fucked up.
Pay us a 20% bribe. Thats the word for it. Bribe.
Fucking hell, this is straight out of the horror stories from the USSR
It's also how lobbying works
It’s time to jail half the Canadian government… maybe more than half.
@@Zulonix AKA, bribing
"kickback" is the official term
Why investigate yourself when you are corrupt
That's the point
touché
To pretend to not be corrupt to trick the idiots into thinking that they're not corrupt.
Who watches the watchers? 😂
The British Columbia goverment told its own civil servants noy to use the word British Columbians as it might offend someone.
Does nobody remember the $250M payment to a basement IT firm with two employees that did no IT work?
Watched the hearings.
The biggest issue is the control of information. Most Canadians have no clue about this
No, but I'm interested.
@@chuckinshanks search up “arrive scam Pierre P”
The hearings are still going on and they are finding more and more corruption. The Turdow govt has also "lost track" of 2.5 billion from the Carbon tax.
Every person involved in this racket needs to go to prison
If you've seen the running theme in Canada recently, real criminals get away with this. Its just the hard working Canadians that gets prosecuted. Take a look at car theft in Canada, or straight up corruption in politics.
@@Tyler-ed1bt the connection between politics and organised crime has never been more apparent.
@@Tyler-ed1bt Get a grip on yourself.
all the names were on that list, start there.
you get a grip on yourself, he is 100% correct.
When Louis says "But wait it gets better" that means it's about to get worse. A lot worse.
That goes without saying...
And when he says "I hope you're having a lovely day" that means he hopes your day is good enough to withstand that worsening.
At this point it's like his Steve Jobs "One more thing..." moment... I love it and hate it at the same time :D
I'm yelling "JFC Louis, just tell me what to buy!" Then I realize Louis isn't here to hold my hand but to try to educate me to make my own choice. Because the hand holders are the ones who are trying to shove ads into our HDMI cables.
Irony and sarcasm. People used to use them a lot in multiple languages.
Government wants to build a road. Firm A bids $1m. Firm B bids $2m. Firm C bids $3m. Firm C is chosen, because they will subcontract Firm A for $1m, and split the remaining $2m between themselves and the government agent ($1m each). This is where we are at.
And politician will brag that this creates 3X more jobs.
@@gorkyd7912While also saying to us it's more green for the environment I bet.
True, this completely stinks of a Chinese style bureaucracy.
Thats what the government always has done. Its a crime syndicate first
And if you're in the US, at least, the government will literally bus and fly migrants who have illegally entered the country...oh, sorry, I meant "refugees"...to the city the work is in so that Firm A can hire them for slaves' wages (instead of hiring locals for a competitive wage) and then share _that_ ill-gotten gain with their government cohorts.
Is it any wonder the new guy down in Argentina got elected on a platform centered around the wholesale elimination of certain government ministries?
Update * a investigation is about to happen now. And the RCMP may be called in to investigate this matter also.
Thanks for this video Louis 😊
Good, it is time for the sun to shine in the halls of power
It's getting more attention in BC
Unfortunately the RCMP isn’t trustworthy either.
Is there a link to this? Seems highly illegal and as a BC resident I’d love to track this story
@@AlexFuturemark Edison motors runs a RUclips channel, he talks about the whole thing there and on Twitter. Expect the govt owned media to remain silent.
As a resident of BC I’m concerned about how many of these things aren’t yet discovered and the hidden corruption of our provincial and federal governments that have been stealing from citizens for years while our infrastructure, education, medical and pensions crumble.
Theirs a global swap of career politicians who earn millions fleecing the taxpayer.
@@sabiti5428 WTF does that even mean?? Career criminals are what is fleecing the taxpayer. Mostly lazy millennials that are too lazy to work and just go stealing everything. Them and krak heads and tweekers.
Corruption in Canadian politics is the standard, not the exception. The current government scandals one after the other cannot be isolated incidents by a few bad actors when it's this rampant.
Every single grant in Canada works like this and has forever. We get grants all the time and that’s how it works. It’s not like a secret one off thing. It’s a very open very normal practice.
It’s all of Canada and most likely in every other country as well… actions speak louder than words
Always assume incompetence instead of malevolence when incompetence is an option.
Unless the government is involved - then assume both.
There comes a point, at which stupidity becomes indistinguishable from evil.
No. You presume Incompetence, unless evidence suggests otherwise. However - minor Incompetence, and major incompetence are two different things. It is one thing to be struggling and do a poor job, it is another to blatantly lack the qualifications, and fundamental understanding to do a position and to push your way into it anyways.
Any position of Critical importance, or of Great Authority, must be held to a high standard; any demonstration of repeat incompetent behaviour must be treated as malicious - as the individual MUST be aware of their capabilities, and either be actively seeking remedy, or - the damage their incompetence will cause is of extreme nature, and as such - the individual MUST be treated whether intentional or not, as if they are a malicious actor.
The last several decades of people spouting out that all politicians are the same has spread such FUD that this has been allowed to get systemically worse. There was a time when a scandal like this would have had the relevant politician resign from office. The Scandals of the current Liberal Federal government would have sank any other political party years ago. And yet, because we have just accepted that corruption, and incompetent leadership from politicians - it has been allowed to be normalized; and one of the worst offenders is the main stream media.
When I look at the german government, malevolence and incompetence have become identical. Because a competent politician is well aware that he or she does not know everything and is willing to listen to advice. Now _my_ government is a bunch of incompetent morons and university dropouts with _no_ education whatsoever, who think they know everything and they know everything better. Also, they are completely immune to advice.
A german magazine had to sue the government to get access to the papers the scientific service of the government created before the green party shut down our last three nuclear power plants - in the winter and in the middle of an increasing energy crysis. Turns out that they told the government very, very clearly that this is a very, very stupid idea and would harm the german economy as well as the people immensely. Not a single fuck was given by those ideologues, because they have their agenda and because, as always, the children's book author and moron that is called our vize-chancellor and minister of economy knew better.
They are incompetent and they use their incompetence as a weapon against their own people, so incompetence and malevolence are inseparable when it comes to those people.
Why should the government be able to vote against an investigation into themselves lmao? Our country is so backwards in some ways...
That's well said. I used that for judges. Until I was unable to fool myself any more. Now, incompetence is not an option
"We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."
And gave ourselves a payrise to boot😂😂😂
Said every authoritarian government ever lol
What I'm seeing is they didn't even do that. They just said "Nah, we're not even investigating ourselves. Go suck a lemon."
"Did you do it?" - "Naaah"
like the IDF...
The worst part is that corrupt system denied them when they're actually the only one that truly qualified for the grant.
Truly fucked up situation. I watched their long video where they're taking us through the prototype of that truck. Talking through everything they've done, and why they did things that way - and the *passion* & dedication, and sincerity! *Disgusting* to do that to good men like these.
This isn't just a conflict of interest, it's a multi-level conflict of interest and multiple layers of corruption.
the politicians who voted "no" on investigating the corruption need to be voted out of office.
the power to vote people out of office is one of the few powers we have against bad government.
good luck, I am quite sure the "no" votes for them will be turned into "yes" votes after some water main breaks shutting down vote counting so they become the most popular party ever.
You have a bunch of "feelings" over intelligence females voting for politicians on looks or how many taxpayer funded giveaway programs they will advocate for. We have the same issue in the USA and sure hate to see our great Canadian neighbors going through the same thing.
They need to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Hopefully the NDP will be voted out this October! Can't come soon enough!
We have had a vote and decided that it says we can stay in government, thank you all for voting.
Wow, blatant corruption. If I was a BC taxpayer I'd be pissed. I feel like this thing is probably more common than we realize.
You see, corruption only happens in bad countries, like those over there! We do not live in bad countries, right? So we do not have corruption! Right? Right???
You feel like it’s more common than we realize? That’s literally the essence of government lol
@@kevinklien90 By "we" I mean most people.
Bc taxpayer here. Very pissed off.
@@paulbrammer1596 same
Not only is British Columbia's NDP premier in lockstep with our crimeminister Trudeau on the carbon tax, but also in criminal enterprise, as seen in this video! This needs to be investigated thoroughly!
If BC had enough gumption to implement their own carbon-reduction program, they wouldn't be subject to the carbon tax. The federal government wrote the carbon tax as a backup in case provinces weren't going to do it themselves. This happened in Ontario until Ontario pulled out of their carbon agreement with California and Quebec, hence triggering the onset of the carbon tax.
This is very interesting, I hate the NDP, literally an arm of the LPC. Sam Cooper should hop in the chat.
@@danhallatt4954 BC does have its own carbon tax program, it's been in place since 2008 or 2009, and has nothing to do with the federal system. The guy above you is a moron.
Huffing gasoline is bad for your brain.
Wait wait wait. Enough gumption to issue their own tax? You ever think that maybe they didn’t want a useless tax that had high possibilities of the government fumbling into their own pockets imposed on their people? It’s almost like I can use a tax to magically pull carbon from the air or use tax tape to patch up the O-zone layer.
Literally saying you shouldn’t have went and got big government corruption when you have corruption at home.
Communicating with the same name through two different domains with one being from the government and the other asking for a bribe is in a level of bullshit I have never encountered, and I live in Brazil!
I watched Edison Motors explain this this morning. They are such nice guys that they were kinder and gentler than you. However You were exactly right, they got screwed. Between Edison and their partner DeBoss Garage they have a million subscribers. Now you have exposed this shit to another 2 million subscribers. WELL DONE.
I have been following Edison Motors and I LOVE what they are doing. I applaud everything they do and just as you say, use off the shelf parts, document everything, make it all repairable, allow the user/owner to work on it themselves. OUT-STANDING! But of course government happens, and as usual, it smells. Badly.
I m guessing that both share a lot of subs , so between 1M and 2M haha.
Now how would the gov and the megacorps make obscene profits if people fixed there own stuff.like they want us to have a dishwasher that last 20 years.people make the mistake of thinking that they actually care what we think. Legally corporations are people and those people are psychopaths.
So you want the government to spend the tax payer money on a no future company when we have one of the worst dept of the g7
Yes sure keep burning my money like they don't do it more than enough already
So this companys whole schtick is to leech 20% off government funding, and the government doesn't care to investigate it? Who are these people friends with? Which politicians family runs this company?
I'm sure you can (((guess)))
right. pretty clear they're in bed together
The person running the company is also in charge of the government so it's not a case of who the company gave a blowjob to but a case of which government official is taking 20% of the money.
More like the government officials are getting paid to not look into it.
It's the same people, that's the point.
And yet people still have faith in government. Boggles the mind.
We don’t actually, but everyone is so broken after what they did to peaceful protesters with reasonable demands
In the US, Biden voters believe in the government. Trump voters don't.
Right?
I beleive in the ideas of a government being a possible functioning entity.
But not as it is now.
Good lawd, no.
@@mk6315 And yet in Vancouver, BC they rioted not once but twice when the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley cup twice.
Just four years ago most of the Metro Vancouver area bought up all the toilet paper because it was far more important than food and water all because of a virus.
Can you imagine the biblical hell we will face when an earthquake hits the area and 80% of the shit infrastructure collapses because they did sweet F all in the last 30 years to prepare for the long overdue M7.5 or greater earthquake due to hit the area?
Yeah, they were BROKEN long before that there, bud. Most Canadians are too complacent to give a PHUCK and accept mediocrity as a way of life much like politicians are entitled and feel that corruption is an acceptable way to collect their paycheque.
Problem is that the only way to fix the problem is to create an much bigger problem in the short time.
Thank you for calling the NDP government of British Columbia out on this one.
The corruption up here in B.C. is not a joke.
Keep up the good work
The amount of corruption on display here is absolutely staggering.
par for the course nowadays it seems.
It's pretty much standard fair when it comes to how government allocates funds.
Welcome to Canada. New York really doesn't look to bad next to most of what is happening in Canada.
We're going to find out this is standard practice in multiple provinces. MNP has their fingers into grants in at least 4 provinces plus the Yukon.
Every government is the same, the only difference is how well they hide it.
Has an arrest warrant for "Catrina" been issued, yet? -Blackmail- Extortion is still a Crime. Racketeering is also a Crime.
Oh no, 'Catrina' might suffer 'trauma' and here in BC where open drug use is legal, and shoplifting not stopped, crime actually does pay. They're duking it out with Portland, Seattle, SF and LA as to who has the most asininely woke policies. Vancouver is definitely a contender as to the most shi-h-le city.
Betrayal of the trust of the people should have the worst penalties under the law. What are those in B Canadia
Extortion is fun amarite
That's not blackmail...
It's extortion, coercion, ransom, depending how you look at it, but it's *not* blackmail....
@@Locutus : You're of course correct, it is extortion, rather than blackmail.
The even bigger issue with them not getting this grant is that our government has steadily raised taxes on fuel and called it “carbon tax” wouldn’t it make sense for the money to go to a company to innovate? Ya well it never will and the Edison motor situation is just the icing on the cake
I've been following Edison motors on RUclips for over a year now, and this pisses me off to no end. The rampant corruption in not only the federal government, but also the provincial governments is absolutely deplorable. These politicians need to be investigated and fired from their positions. Politicians get payed 6+ figure salaries and ha e the best pensions of anyone in the country, they can make upwards of 3 million dollars between the age of 55 and 75. Truly disgusting behavior on behalf of my provincial government. Here's hoping voters wake up and realize the NDP is just another wing of the trudumb government, even on the provincial level, and change their votes in the next election period
Pay to play and kickbacks are a sure sign of corruption in government.
Thought this was just normal, growing up in Canada. 😂
Right on.
Oddly, they're usually a sign that the corrupt regime is in the process of collapsing.
Great to hear they turned down a grant to this innovative company got turned down right after the carbon tax went up. I'm furious.
and the grant is literally for this type of thing. we should protest. im in downtown van, that law frim is walking distance
You make the assumption that want you driving at all.they want to get 80 percent of cars off the road by 2035.they want to force the majority of people to go live in the citys or in work camps.
It work on fuel they want nothing to do with this it go against the agenda are you this stupid or what lol
Secondly the return on investment is way too big for any company to even think about buying crap like this bs a conventional diesel that will need less maintenance got less part and most wear part are standardized in the trucking industry ie easy to get bs a bespoke design with part from all over the world
I applaud is effort but he digging is grave with this project and now deboss garage will go down with them it look like
I am more than happy that they didn't burn the taxpayer money on a death on arrival company
We already got enough with northvolt
the vast majority of the carbon tax is rebated, the majority of it does not fund these grant programs.
Yah, I just wrote my MLA (member of legislative assembly). I’m pissed! Thanks for sending this out!
Thank you for talking about this, I've lived in British Columbia my whole life and literally everything in this province is a scam.
Pffft… Hold my beer: Ontario’s “Conservative” Premier is widely reported to have been a drug dealer in high school. Check out his bias toward developers and their corrupt land dealings.
Sad world we live in where an honest man has to wonder if making the right decision was the correct decision
100%. I believe in the long run honesty is the best policy. It may look dark in the moment but there is a light on the end of the tunnel. Thank god for this channel and the internet this corruption like this get exposed. Hopefully people in BC will vote for policies and not ideologies in October this year!
Punishing someone for doing the right thing is almost as vile as rewarding them for doing the wrong thing.
he is NOT honest he is a scam artist!!! edison is a 100% a scam bs company.
"Sad" is the understatement of the decade.
@@iknowbetter5075utter crap
ah yes, government being a problem, classic. why does this not surprise me
This is corruption being a problem, not government inherently being a problem.
Graft and corruption can exist in any group of people.
@samuelsmith9582 taxation is theft, bro. Deal with it.
It wont stop until we change political structure in these countries. Why are we not allowed to vote on policy in the US?
@@visitante-pc5zc You're actually brain-dead.
@@visitante-pc5zc Taxation is required for civilized society to function.
We have investigated ourselves and determined there was no wrong doing.
They should get the current US administration to investigate them.
Biden and Hunter are up past their foreheads in their own corruption you really thin that's a smart idea?
Well done for exposing these crooks.
How much do we want to bet that a bunch of those voting to not investigate are getting a kickback
You bet your sweet ass they're getting a kickback
Nooo, nooo, they don't get kickbacks! Kickbacks are wrong and bad. They get campaign donations, which are perfectly fine and legal.
20%
@falcie7743
7 hours ago
How much do we want to bet that all of those voting to not investigate are getting a kickback
FTFY
Probably not. They are just people getting paid an enormous salary to do nothing with hopes and dreams of one day becoming PM. This is more than enough to keep them in line. They have a party whip (literally what the position is called) who tells them all how to vote and if any of them use their conscience they are kicked out of the party and nobody will vote for them next election because voters are fooled into thinking they have to "vote strategically" to avoid the bad guy from getting in
Louis, thank you for bringing this to our attention. As a resident of BC and a big fan of what Edison Motors is doing. I am very upset to hear this. I will be sure to spread this far and wide. This sort of behaviour is completely unacceptable. Another great example of government corruption. This might just be something that if not fixed right away, will cost them the next election.
Next elections? Do you know how much money they will redistribute to their pockets until the elections? You should be out there in front of the building with a banner demanding the minister to resign right now. At least if you can do that in your country. Get people together and stand in front of her office
@@luboinchina3013 most people have to work for a living.
@@luboinchina3013 Oh I absolutely plan on it. This is insane to say the least and people have had to resign for a lot less. Look into the BC liberals corruption scandal. That should tell you enough. Casinos laundering money, etc. people will not stand for this shit anymore.
Edison must not be a union shop. 😂
What can we do, fellow BCer? I'll be telling everyone I know about this. My MLA voted yes for the investigation.
A truck company in Canada speaking out about corruption... and they can still use a bank?
👩🦽🐎
The bank freezes were done by the federal government. This is provincial. They are not quite so bold yet...
they are a scam company anyways they have taken millions of dollars from hard working people to fund their luxury lifestyles, the owner of edison uses investors money on holiday's and other personal expenses
every government building that deals with public matters needs open webcams and microphones so they cant hide their shady backroom deals
I've just resigned from local government here in the UK because of the whole process around planning. I can't use the word bribe but money changes hands or something is built for free that no-one wants or needs and planning gets miraculously passed despite hundreds of objections and some councillors speaking out against certain planning applications. Corruption and government go hand in hand and we keep voting these people in, it doesn't matter which country you live in they're all the same.
yup, small businesses is how communism runs, take a deep dive into it and you'll learn patterns that are rewarding capitalists in the current system to be corrupt
Integrity used to be the thing that set the English culture apart essentially all others... and here we are.
ah corruption is rampant in the UK, it's always council officials giving out contracts to friends/family who charge tax payer 10x what that service should really cost. It's like the cycle lanes, 50 yards of paint for £1m, to a company in the Seychelles which is sub contracting local contractors to do the work, and then they pay their media buddies to spread anti-cyclist hatred online to distract the public attention.
But you tipped the balance in their favor by leaving.
the government decided the government can do what it wants
the government votes itself into power
the government makes it illegal for you to interrupt the government processes
even when every process is wrong
I live in BC. Thanks for this video; I think I'll drop a line to my MLA about it.
Don’t just think- jump on it, and share this stuff on your socials, too!
If this isn't corruption it would be nice to have the government explain why it isn't.
it just goes to show that they don't actually give a shit about the environment, its all about control and power.
Been saying that for years but usually people just say you're a right winged extremist if you don't fully throw yourself into the so called clean energy movement.
If climate change was real. Then no insurance company would insure any beach side property.
Until that happens, you all know is a scam.
This is literally why we can't have nice things anymore. 🤦♂️ The one guy who actually cares about the environment, cares about efficiency, cares about his local and national economy, and wants to make things better worldwide, comes up with an affordable and feasible solution to address those problems until something better can be invented. And what happens?
He's the one guy who gets kicked in the stomach and shown the door.
Such a cool world we live in today. 😊
Lol is number a crap assumption with way too much rainbow and unicorn
Go see watch Wes work take on them and you will understand why nobody want to give them money
@@legros731 i have seen those vids, and yeah, no. ever seen any modern train engine? what's the core drivetrain layout of those vs Topsy aside from the batteries and other ancillaries? i have yet to see anyone apply that very layout to any road-legal trucks, aside from edison motors
@@niteriderevo9179 train are less efficient than modern diesel truck engine 25% vs 30/40% for a truck engine
They get the efficiency with the immense load they carry not with the diesel electric layout
The electric motor produce the needed torque to get them going form a stand still
Steam engine produce even more torque at 0 rpm than any electric motor can dream of but that besides the point
Using one kind of energy (diesel) to make another (turn a generator)to charge a battery to power a motor via a speed controller is not that efficient there lost in form of heat in every step vs a conventional engine layout
Just like regenerative braking can only make a fraction of what it take to power the motor too much loss in the form of heat ~ half the energy is lost in the conversion
Even the tire friction from decelerating produce heat or energy lost
And even Edison said it a viable alternative for a special use case scenario ie for the logging industry going up and down the mountain
So your company doesn't even exist and you acknowledged that for like 95% of the truck market your truck is no good that a horrible strategy
@@niteriderevo9179 train are maybe 25% efficient
A truck engine is 30/40% efficient
Train are efficient because of the immense load they carry not because they are diesel electric lol
We use electric motor to get the o rpm torque to move these massive load
Ps steam-engine produce even more torque than any electric motor could dream of
@@legros731 where Topsy and the tesla semi both have that exact same zero-rpm torque advantage the train does, Topsy has an added bonus, range vs the tesla semi because of that genset engine.. no gear-shifting, either.. also the driveline loss overall is a fair chunk less for Topsy and the tesla vs a normal semi
As a British Columbian, every time he called us “British Canadia” it hurt personally.
Its just sad, corruption everywere, same here in Portugal 🇵🇹.
Hope justice is served 💪
This is informative and unfortunate.
Seems like that's a lot of news nowadays
I almost forgot about this amazing line, thanks for reminding me of it.
This is informative and unfortunate.
@@lightyisrealyup
This guy built 2 trucks out of a tent in his parent's backyard. I'm glad you covered this. I've been following their channel and it's complete BS what happened with the grants..
You did the RIGHT thing, corruption breed’s corruption! You can go forward now and be a Truly righteous Company ! Bravo!
Louis, thank you for helping push this issue. Your comparison to New York is on point- corruption only breeds more corruption at every level, everywhere. All North American political parties are a sham- Republican or Democrat, Liberal, NDP, or Conservative: same shit, different sandwich.
FYI ... The Canadian Government is the governing body of Canada (currently Liberal under Trudeau). The BC Government is a Provincial Government (currently NDP) and is the equivalent of a US State Government. If the grant is from BC then it is not the Canadian Government. And a charge of 20% share for a government grant sounds like a major scam. As a citizen of British Columbia, this should be reported to the Office of the Premier of British Columbia with a copy to the Leaders of the United Party of BC and the Conservative Party of BC. Remember to copy the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CTV and Global news services.
honestly they should probably just go straight to the federal government.
@@Jvk1166z Feds don't have authority over the provinces until it gets to the Supreme Court of Canada. See update above.
@@chriscutress1702 i know, im canadian, thats kinda my point, go to the supreme court who are in fact the part of the federal government you would go to for something like this, it's a big enough deal that it should be in their wheelhouse
@@Jvk1166zdamn straight 👌
I lived in BC more than 30 years. Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy in a government.
Did you misspell D.C. there?
We all live in bubbles. I can guarantee that you will find plenty of examples that are worse.
Ah did your BC Liberal Party implode?
For reference, this is currently the lesser corrupt party of the options BC has. The BC United (nee "Liberals") sold out the province for over a decade before the NDP took over again.
You haven't seen D.C., New York, Florida, Texas, Ohio, or Michigan yet
Thanks Louie for giving Edison Motors a platfofm. They have the story on their youtube channel also. This kind of government corruption needs to be stopped on both sides of the border. Odds are the NDP has these people giving kickbacks to their reelection campagains.
Thanks for bringing to the public.
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"20% won't be enough to pay even an intern"
Governments should not be making industrial policy determining the winners and losers, leading to mistakes from inept government officials, and corruption of same.
No shit they shouldn't, it's not like they didn't know. It's a corrupted system created to be corrupted
New to Canadian Government eh?
Friedman would agree
My socialist country is a great example of that.
The more socialist the leader is, the more he thinks he has to intervene and "fix" everything with his divine power
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You make it sound like capitalism is the answer and not fixing corruption.
Do i really need to point out how Boeing would've gone bankrupt many times over if not for being subsidized by the public? How about Walmart? They are one of the largest welfare queens in the world due to the government providing food stamps, housing assistance, and much more to their employees because they aren't paid a living wage.
The problem always boils down to corruption.
They should contact their local media to look into it. Corruption runs rampant while in the dark.
Absolutely vile corruption. They do it here too and I'm glad to see it being brought to light wherever it's happening.
Oh, so this is just simple corruption. Glad it's just in your face and not some convoluted system that nobody understands. You just have to pay the government employee to get the grant.
not quite a government employee. MNP is the company administering the distrubition of the grant while at the same time soliciting business by offering to make sure the grant gets approved for 20%
@@SuperMadman41taxpayer grant? Right but not a government company…
@@SuperMadman41 3:23 he explains that this person is ALSO in the government. This is textbook corruption.
Clearly corruption when the person that take 20% is the same one deciding if you get the grant.
The fine line is whether government pay them to review the application or they only get paid on successful applications. Edison Motors got no grant and hence Zero commission.
So let me get this straight if somebody grants you money 💰 which is basically equivalent to an investment weather strings are attached or not for an entrepreneur invention finds out that it works and is not able to ask for a 20% kickback off of the money that they granted you to use is corruption?
@@iiiKingLongSwipeiii Maybe government should have paid the administrative 20% upfront and not per approved application. It definitely would cost more for government to setup a professional team to do this, charity charge way more for administration fyi.
Have the NDP indicted for obstruction of justice for interfering in a corruption investigation.
I don’t even live in Cananada however I’m pulling for these guys and this is forked up! These guys are on a higher level and should be getting the red carpet rolled out but nope. Corruption at its finest.
Corruption here, Corruption there, Corruption everywhere.
you get a grant, You Get A Grant, YOU GET A GRANT,.... Everybody gets a Grant !
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Back in the day ppl would die over something like this we need to bring fear back to politicians.
Comments like this make you disappear these days or gets you investigated which is honestly a wake-up call
@@NeptuneSega It's an insurrection. 😂
@@NeptuneSegait's only going to get worse.there using ai and the Chinese internet model.there going to sharply ramp up censorship from here.there also building a Chinese style social credit system. Also there quietly building what amounts to gulag and I fully expect that they will start disappearing people.
@@NeptuneSega No they dont, everyone sits on their ass and does nothing just like you and I, and the government will keep torturing us until we give them reason not to
Make politicians afraid to start their cars again.
Thank you for bringing attention to this. This is terrible.
Absolutely despicable, it saddens me to see what Canada has become.
Corruption is like cancer, you have to chemo to remove it. Because money can always entice even the honest people......
Where? 😅
@1betterthanyou1 I wasn't trying to sound like anything. Just in case you still don't get it. Chemo = Eradicate (Deatch sentence in this case)
"We've investigated ourselves and foun no corruption" Claps and back pats all around
Seems Canadian politicians have attended the same "how to hide the greed seminars" as our democrats and RINOs in the USA.
Its worse than that, they refused to investigate in the first place, while asking anyone who has evidence to come forward - immediately after someone had brought evidence that they swept under the carpet.
They didn’t even investigate lol!
@@Epic-so3ek...Frank can't be a Bot on Ai, cuz there is an error in their message.
Maybe they have a disability, or three?
These criminals need to be jailed.
Thanks for covering this and shouting out Edison Motors: those guys are just Phenomenal and their newest self designed Hybrid Heavy Hauler "Topsy" is something to behold in real life! The videos don't do her justice.
Ever since I first saw their ideas for the 1 ton pickup conversion kit I was sold but I had to have that terrible thought of "someone is going to buy them out and gut them" and I hate that that is where late stage capitalism, and overzealous intellectual property protection is overriding the rights of peoples ownership of a thing, and the right to repair said owned thing.
Edison's core principle is that you gotta be able to fix this in the middle of the bush, an hour or more drive from even a paved road, let alone a town with a mechanic, if you have a breakdown; it can be life or death if you can or cannot fix your rig and during my 9 years in the Northern Alberta oil & gas fields I was in that spot more than a time or two, and the first time I could do nothing to get up and running again without having a Code Reader for my truck: bullsh!t, 8 am, coming off nightshift, middle of nowhere out past Pink Mountain and its -35 in the middle of febuary... luckily a guy going past did have one and helped me out for a couple joints, great dude wonder what happened to him. Worst about that situation is When you need a tow there are 0 companies in those areas that will tow you off radio controlled roads for less than $2000; pricks know if your on those roads you probably make really good money so they'll fleece ya real good...I had one quote me 4.5 hours of wait and $2175 to come to the camp 2 km off the highway so we strap towed my truck to the highway and I called them again "oh we can be there in 45 mins and it'll be $645" like f**k you, you miserable ba$t@rds...
Not only is the Right To Repair a foundational part of technological innovation, but companies need to return to the form where things were built with "Easily Fixing What Will Break" in mind.
This is as stark as government embezzlement gets. Create a program to dole out tax money and make sure some of your friends get a cut. It's sad to see money that is supposed to be going towards the betterment of society be squandered constantly. This sort of thing is not always so obvious and it's happening all the time.
Depending on the province, this blatant corruption has been around and stymied growth in Canada. It has become a society of who you know, who are you friends with, and what party card you are carrying.
Federally it's become quite clear the corruption, as you've rightly noted "King Trudeau" The society here has been so badly conditioned to simply believe in the party colours instead of actually holding that party accountable for their actions or the party campaign goals (they are not promises).
it's almost like he's actually done a decent job, and since i dont watch american media at all, i dont absorb all the anti canada propaganda that make him out to be a dictator, so i dont hate him.
@@Jvk1166zyou're uninformed, insane, or both. Objectively speaking: EVERYTHING is worse since he took office, and massively so. His government also hemmorrages money while improving nothing.
That's ignoring his insane dictatorial power grabs and BLATANT corruption.
Edison was also being implicitly offered a bribe. Note that a reason for denial: Edison asked for too little money.
Combine that with MNP getting 20% of the grant. The incentives are clear: MNP writes and approves a giant and excessive grant, MNP gets 20% of this giant grant, Edison gets 80% of the giant grant which is still more than they asked for originally, MNP handles any required government kickback from their 20%. The only losers are tax payers and integrity, everyone involved makes more money.
I bet people at MNP are utterly flabbergasted that Edison motors didn't take the deal. They were being offered more free money, who would say no? Was there a miscommunication?
This is how you become a Bannana Republic. Money that should be spent being productive is lost to corruption. In the long run, the country becomes less competitive and poorer.
As always, having a conscience is bad for business. The world needs more corrupt people behind bars.
British Columbia or B.C. used to stand for Bring Cash, now I guess it is Being Corrupt as well.
Thank you for covering this. I am so disgusted by our British Columbian Government.
He won me at the words "F*ck" and "Bullsh*t"👍👍👍👍👏👏👏
that is corruption. its a classic in romania.
city need to repair a road . mayors son has a company and wins the bid. he gets paid from the goverment to repair it ,but he doesnt. he splits the money with his father and declare bancrupcy.
mayor happy ,son happy , citizens not happy, government doesnt care about the money since it was in the budget to give for that city anyway.
Yup, this purportedly "friendly" country is actually far, far from it.
A couple days after this video the BC NDP asked the Attorney General to investigate. Public pressure works, occasionally.
I'm glad you touched on this Louis. You are and always have been true to your word. Spread the word about right to repair. You are a leader in this and ty
Thank you for exposing corruption
I'm just so tired of business owners and government officials doing shit that would leave regular people in jail, or 6ft under.
And here I thought "The best government money can buy" only applied to my country. "Nice" to see solidarity from our Canadian brothers and sisters.
Thanks for covering this. I've been rooting for Edison. Thanks in general for being an advocate for "common sense" rights.
While it's extremely infuriating, corrupt politicians are by far the least surprising development in any story. It's tragic to see how this crap works, and that these people get away with it for so long.
Thanks for sharing this. I came over from the Edison video.
Quick reminder for anyone seeing this in BC. This is an election year.
From B.C. thank you for talking about this.
This need way more attention than its getting right now.
Thanks to these guys there's an investigation going. It's a damn shame that more people here don't care or get pissed off more.
WOW! This level of corruption starts to justify a real punishments... 😖
YES! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS! This needs far more eyes on it. This is such an overt, blatant example of corruption. It's insane.
Edison Motors understands that the power source is the issue (batteries). Their powertrain makes so much sense and serviceability is a key component for them.
Thank you Louis for keeping us updated on this company.love what they are trying to do.Totally with you on right to repair.
That kind of tells me they're all getting paid from that 20%
It's the Government of BC, not the federal (Trudeau) government. Premier Eby needs to reverse this descision and launch an investigation.
I'm betting MNP (a large accounting firm) already had that contract. It's greasy AF.
They should not have been soliciting grant writing services for programs they had contracts for.
It's not the federal government but there are two poles in Canadian politics. And only one of the two poles would throw millions of dollars of grant money towards these "net zero" goals without doing any kind of investigation into ROI.
@@gorkyd7912 never under estimate corporate grift. MNP runs grant programs on behalf of other provinces including Alberta and Ontario. Double ending the grant writing and grant approval is a problem no matter what the grant is for and a prohibition for this should be in the contract to admin the grants.
@@realalbertan And this is why is always better to just cut taxes and if the government needs the private market to do something they should bid it out and pay for it directly.
smells like FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD...
Imagine sparking the collapse of your inner government corruption ring by forgetting to switch the email in your "from" field inside outlook...
This is absolute corruption
Well of course the gov’t wouldn’t support a local manufacturer who won’t pay to play.
Thank you Louis, as a BC taxpayer, we’ve been getting bled to DEATH by government. We’re also paying for the carbon tax while our provinces citizens receive NO CREDITS WHATSOEVER. Property taxes in some municipalities have been risen nearly FIFTEEN PERCENT IN ONE YEAR.
They knew what they were doing. You can't do business there without knowing how they do things. Thank you, keep working.