Census Results!

All right, let me get the census results up on my phone here. Um, we're going to be talking about the— about some of them, a few of them, not all of them, uh, and that is because the full— the full results— ooh, I don't know why my screen is so— the full results is in a giant PDF that went to all of the subscribing members. So if you are a member of the Tod Squad on Facebook or YouTube or Patreon or Buy Me a Coffee or you— or, uh, my newsletter, which is probably the better way, then you should now have this in your inbox, a link to download the full report. So, um, but we're going to talk about some of them for sure, definitely.

And Swarccia had the long-form census. Well, people told me it was— took them like quite a while to finish it.

The questions that Ottawa was too afraid to ask. All right, so let's talk about the overall, overall numbers. First of all, will you be releasing this video at a later time? Yes, this, like a rebroadcast with her. Yes, so this, this video will stay up, uh, so you'll be able to, um, you'll be able to, to do it. In fact, I'm going to do a new start, uh, hello Georgia, because this was an awkward start with the technology problems. Have the Aragorn done a song with the census? That would be cool.

Did you have a good time in Campbell River and Comox Valley? Oh my gosh, the weather was amazing. The meetups were super cool. Like, people were lovely. Great turnout.

Okay, there were 30 at the time when I did— there's more since then, but at the time that I downloaded the results Uh, there were 33,210 respondents, uh, all of which claimed to be from Canada. And just to put this in perspective in terms of like how big a deal this is statistically, a big survey, a big public opinion survey in Canada is 4,000. 4,000 people is considered like an impressive number. Most of them are 1,000, some of them are 2,000. And we had 33,000 and counting. Now, the, the nerds among you will, uh, will tell you that the, um, that it's self-selected, right? So the people who are— it's not a random sample. It's, it is a sample of people who decided to take the census and who follow my account, which are— is not necessarily a representative sample of Canada. Um, so still impressive. Gonna miss you by a day when you're in Edmonton. Oh no. No.

Do we need ID to fill this short? Oh, I mean, for the real Canadian census, no, but it's— you get something mailed to your home and it's for whoever in that household, and then you like scan a code and then go do it. This is talking about Tod's census. Yeah, he didn't get the long-form census this time, so you did good.

You did good. All right, so let's start with like some of this general demographics of things. Um, the— by far the highest number of respondents came from the province of Ontario. That is mostly because there are just more of them there. It's not necessarily that, you know, that's just where a big dense population is. Um, next up you would think would be Quebec, populationally speaking, but it's BC. BC represented, uh, 20s. Ontario was almost 40% of the respondents, which is a lot. BC was about 27%. If this were a poll of Canada, Quebec would be in second place, probably 20%, probably. And that's 8,000 people in BC, probably because we are also in BC, so we have a lot of BC people follow us. Alberta was next after that.

Wow.

With 13%. And then it, and then it just collapses down. Fourth place was Nova Scotia. Shout out to Nova Scotia. We had more people— I'm not talking per capita, I'm talking like raw numbers of people— we had more people from Nova Scotia, 1,500 or so, than Quebec, which was 1,388.

That's impressive.

Yeah, that's impressive. Okay, the age range, almost without exception, the older you were, the more likely you were to fill this out. That is a, uh, partially, I think, to do with retired people have more time to do this kind of stuff. And also, I— my audience tends to be people over 60.

It's a known characteristic of older generations though that they are more supportive of surveys in general. We do it in my work a little bit, and, um, uh, older people in general are more likely to fill out surveys.

So the biggest group, 26% of the group, was 60s, people in their 60s. Then it was people in their 50s, then it was people in their 40s, uh, and then it went down from there. The— I only had there— that's not a— that's a big number, actually. I had 22 people who said that they were— do not— you can't— you cannot jump there, dude, you're gonna No, you can't do that either.

Oh, just—

oh my gosh, only we had 22 people who said they were over 90.

Holy—

that's a lot. Uh, okay, gender.

This person says, holy, was I the only person from Saskatchewan who filled it out?

No, no, Saskatchewan was at 1,087 people representing 3.3% of the, of the survey response.

That's That was a pretty good sample from Saskatchewan. Wow.

Gender— I'm big with the ladies, let's just say that. About two— a little more than two-thirds were, uh, women. Men were a little more than a quarter. And then non-binary people, there were 684 people who identified themselves as non-binary. Wow, that's 2.1% if you're curious about the non-binary side of things. And then half of 1% identified as other. Do you identify as trans? I was just more curious about this than anything. We're gonna get to the Canadian stuff. I just wanted to— an overall stuff. Um, I mean, obviously the vast majority of people said no, but 665 people who filled this out identify as trans, and that is 2%.

Wow.

How does that pair with the National average? Yeah.

I don't know, actually. We'll have to— we'll do some research and get back to you.

7%— more than 10% said they were not strictly monogamous in their relationship. So 7%—

I'm curious how that reflects the national average too.

7% said mostly monogamous. 2.3% said non-monogamous.

A lot of this is suggesting that there are more— there are younger followers, younger people who completed the survey than— more than we think.

Uh, Yvonne, so, uh, yes. So if you want to see the full results, like literally the results of every question that was asked in the survey, um, then yes, you've— uh, that is something that I'm holding for my dear supporting members who help me. This is the box of postcards that we have to sign. It's something that I did for the supporting members. It's about $7 a month, and it helps me carve some time away from my day job to be able to do this. What are you looking for?

Oh, scissors. There's some— Here. Wow.

But you can stick around because we'll probably be I'll probably be talking about a quarter of the questions, which is still like 20 of them or so, the ones that people want to know. And then I'm also releasing some on my social media. So like today I released one about the snack food, which it was actually close between most of them. But where did my—

What?

I thought I took them out of the freezer. Cheezies. Cheezies were number one.

Nice. I thought you were talking about the cats.

Okay. How do you pronounce— so here's the first survey result. This one depressed me. I'll be honest. This one I was sad about. So the word that we use instead of mile is kilometer. Right? That's how most people pronounce it. I pronounce it kilometer. And my, my rationale for that is that we call it centimeter, millimeter, kilometer. Makes sense. Uh, however, I'm quite in the minority because 70.7% of Canadians— well, of people who— you know what, I'm— when I say Canadians, just understand we're talking about the people who took this survey. By the way, what do you think of the phone case?

That's a Pela case, right? From BC.

Yeah, you can get this case from BC, a company called Pela, P-E-L-A. Um, they make great phone cases.

Not sponsored.

Not sponsored. Um, so yeah, so only, only 19%, uh, say kilometer.

What did they do with it? Sorry.

And, uh, 10% say they just say clicks and Avoid the whole thing. Now let me find ones that were a little—

oh, there we go.

Oh, when someone thanks you, what do you say? Before I read out the— before I read out the, uh, the actual results, you tell me. When someone— when someone thanks you, what do you say?

I say you're welcome.

Oh, you know what? I think I have to— I think to get the Instagram one going, I've got to actually like go do something on their site. I just realized. I'm being stupid.

Hang on for one minute, folks.

Uh, where is it? Like live?

Holy doodle.

No, I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't know why I I hate Instagram.

Instagram is not in the chat today.

So most of you are saying you're welcome. Some of you are saying no worries, no problem. Um, 50— this, this was a, this was a notable response with 33,000 respondents. Remember, 57.3% of them say a variation of either no problem or no worries. 'Your welcome' was not first, which surprised me. 'Your welcome' was 34.5% of the respondents. 'My pleasure' was 5.5%. 'For sure' was 1.9%. And, uh, 'I'm a supporting member in the US, will I get a postcard?' Yes, the postcards are for people who order merch. So if you're— you can order merch, we will ship it to the US and you will get a postcard signed by us. And then I also asked whether people say "mm-hmm" because I will say that I have heard Americans say this and I think most Canadians find it irritating, rude, you know, like, yeah, like almost disrespectful.

Yeah, like, "Thank you, mm-hmm." It's an interesting cultural difference that I don't understand sort of where it branched out or how it happened, but It's like, I wonder if it's like a lot of the people providing the service that gets a thank you are, you know, they have a rough job and they deal with the public all day. I don't know.

Uh, and so, but there were people who said it. 288 people on my survey say uh-huh. Uh, but that was less than 1% of the total responses.

In, in their defense, the Sometimes with a lot of people, the "uh-huh" is like "uh-huh," like that. It can sound good, but mostly it just sounds like not as good.

Yeah. I'm trying to find it. All right, here's an interesting one. Sorry. Here's a sentence. "Buddy came into the store today." Okay? Think about— yes, I am wearing pajamas. Very Canadian pajamas on my dad. Buddy came into the store today. Is Buddy a good friend, a harmless stranger, or some dipshit? So if a friend of yours starts a story and says, "Buddy, so Buddy came into the store today." Who is Buddy? And 48.5% said Buddy is some dipshit. It's like a dismissive term. Now I will say that they— there was a comment section that people could, um, people could fill out.

The person has a good point that it may have been Americans. Yeah, this survey was mostly Canadians.

Yeah, the survey asked if you're Canadian, and if you said no, it told you to not— in fact, it removed the button to let people take the survey, and it said, I'm sorry, this is for Canadians only. But you could then go back and change it to yes. And how, you know, I'm not checking ID except for the people in Nunavut. Screw those people.

And then there was an American survey.

I know it's an American survey. Um, all right, I'm skipping over a couple of these because I'm saving a bunch for the, for the, um, members of the Todd Squad. What do you call the bathroom? Oh, is it This, this word, vegetables, the vegetables in the store, is it produce or produce or produce?

This divides Canadians, I think.

Yeah, well, actually no.

Really?

Yeah, no, this was actually a two-thirds result.

Well, what was it?

Uh, let's see in the comments what you guys use first.

I'm not a Todd Squad member.

I know you are. So produce or produce. What do you use? And sorry, we're delayed by about an hour here, so we're like watching the—

what people—

there we go.

Oh, pro. But if you say pro, that could be— are we— I guess that's pro, but not— no, that means if it was the opposite, it would be pro.

Yeah, they would type it out if it was pro.

I feel like Specific to vegetables, I say produce. But if I'm saying produce is a different thing.

If you have not taken the census, the URL is right down here, uh, in the red. It's census.todmuffin.com.

And again, not the Canadian census, Tod Maffin's census.

Yeah, uh, okay, so holy moly, there are a lot of you. Yeah, um, 667 of them.

Holy doodle!

A whopping result here. More than two-thirds, 66.9%, say produce, which I guess I should start saying now if that's what—

and, uh, say whatever you want, baby.

24% say produce. 8.3%, and I would consider myself in this, go back and forth. I'm surprised. I thought we all went back and forth. But no, apparently most people say produce. Produce unless Swiss chard and then pigweed. Okay.

Yeah, there's a story there.

All right, so I'm skipping over what the correct pronunciation of caramel is. You can see what my opinion was. How do you give directions?

How—

I'm just gonna give this to you. How do you measure oven temperature? Actually, this is more— this is bigger result than I thought. 93.6% said Fahrenheit. I thought it would be around 85. I thought the young people would be using it, but I guess not.

I remember learning, but maybe this was like a Huffington Post survey or something, I don't know, but I remember reading a thing that said it was talking about Canadian and American differences, and it said that, um, Canadian stoves weren't required to be in Celsius until well into the middle of my lifetime. And so people grew up— older, older people, I guess I'm older people— grew up with stoves that had Fahrenheit only, and then Celsius and Fahrenheit. And our parents are the ones who teach us how to cook, and so they teach us in the system that they were most used to that was on their Fahrenheit-only stove. That's my theory. That is, that is what I learned, but I don't know if that's true.

Our ovens are all in Fahrenheit. Oh, that's a good point. The, the machines are all— yeah, okay. I'm trying to log into this thing and it's not letting me.

Into what?

Twitch. All right, never mind, never mind.

We clearly got a big group of people here, so that, that's all that matters.

Yeah. Uh, so I'm skipping a bunch of the weather ones. I'll probably post a couple of the weather-related ones on my social media, um, over the next little while. More reliably, by the way, you'll see my stuff on the Canadian networks. Um, so that's going to be Hey Cafe or the A-App, eh, or North Social or Gander Social.

Oh, I haven't tried North yet.

Yeah, it's a little slow, but But they're, they're trying. That's where I post most of my stuff, is on the Canadian platforms. The problem with the American ones like Instagram and Facebook and so on is that even if you follow a page, it won't show you everything from the page. It'll just show you what it thinks you will want to know, whereas most people who follow something are like, I want to know everything that this page posts. So the Canadian platforms do that because we're not evil algorithmic bastards.

Um, oh, beef.

So Hey Cafe, which is actually my personal favorite. Hey, that's hey.cafe. The A-App, E-H-A. Uh, Gander Social, which just opened its doors publicly, and North Social. That's where you'll find more reliably.

Tod's phone case is from Pela, P-E-L-A. It's a BC company. Um, it's And it— I think you can only buy them in twos, which is interesting.

Yeah.

Um, and it's made out of recycled reclaimed products, which is kind of cool.

All right, so you may have seen this on social media. Um, what is the best Canadian snack food? If you haven't seen that, here are the results. In from bottom to top, in bottom place— what's wrong?

Well, later if possible.

Well, we're far from the mic. That's why I'm shouting a little.

Okay.

Uh, in bottom place is Nanaimo bars. So obviously this has been rigged. Uh, the deep state do not want you to know the truth. The custard layer holds the truth. Do your own research, sheeple. Um, so I don't know what happened there with the Nanaimo bars. We'll probably have to have a by-election for those. That was 13.4%. Which is still— shout out to the 4,456 people who said Nanaimo bars.

You're gonna have to appeal to Elections Canada for to reimburse, to fix that injustice.

Yeah, uh, slightly above was ketchup chips, slightly above, 14.2%. Poutine was 19.7% in third place, so almost 20%. Now in the comment section, because there was a bottom— in the bottom there, there's a section about, uh, leave Todd a comment or something. Um, and I got a lot of flack over that. People were saying that poutine should not have been listed as snack and should have been like a meal. I don't know, it's, it's debatable.

He literally rolled his eyes at me when I said the same thing. I didn't, I didn't know that other people had commented on it, and I was like It's not really a snack, is it? It's like, "Wah wah." It is debatable.

Yeah. 20. So we're down to Cheezies versus Hawkins. Cheezies versus Hawkins Cheezies. No. Cheezies versus Butter Tarts. Sorry. I'm getting all these notifications. That's why I'm distracted. And in top place, by only half of 1%, I might add, The winner was Hawkins Cheezies. 26.6% said Hawkins Cheezies was the superior Canadian snack food. 26.1% said Butter Tarts. By the way, this whole snack food project that I've been doing— oh, shout out to these guys!

Oh my gosh, so good!

Farm to Table Canada. I'm gonna do a whole popcorn episode because we got a lot of popcorn from different companies.

So good!

This is hot honey caramel popcorn. It is so good. Um, but Hawkins Cheezies is the whole reason I started it. The whole reason I started this thing was I was like, how do I get some free Cheezies? I'm not cheap. I have not heard shit from Hawkins Cheezies, by the way.

Oh, that explains why. I wondered why you started it because— and we haven't had Hawkins Cheezies that much since like last, like I don't know, last fall?

Yeah.

We ate so many Hawkins Cheezies that we had to stop.

Yeah, it was just—

it was getting like—

too good.

Well, they're just really salty and you eat a lot and it's like, I need a little break for a bit.

Okay, well, actually I haven't told you something. I'm doing a video. We're doing a video. Hopefully you'll join me. Oh, it's the cat. So there's this— people say that if you put Hawkins Cheezies in the freezer, have you heard this? No, that if you freeze them and then you eat them, they're better. And then I heard someone else say that they left them in the car, in the hot car, and it was hot, they were quite hot, and they were better when they ate them.

So, oh, I would try that.

We're gonna do a room temperature, refrigerator, freezer, and heat it up in the oven. Oh, and if we get the barbecue cleaned in time, I'll put them on the barbecue and then we'll do a cheesy taste test.

I wouldn't, wouldn't you worry it would burn in the barbecue. But I am up for that. I, I have to say, even though we needed a break from Hawkins last fall, or whenever it was, like, that was because we were eating it all the time. Yeah, like all the time. So we are— our bodies needed a break. But it, um, I do like them. Like, Todd got them while we were at the hotel last week, and I snarfed at least half of them. Down. So I will save myself for that video.

Yeah, I had to pay 20% tariff on Kindrikko shirts that you said were tariff-free. I did not say they were tariff-free. How could they possibly be tariff-free?

We can't—

if you're in the US, if you're in the US, that's Trump put the tariffs on, uh, that's not— that's not us. Um, but yeah, we can't control about that. Uh, all right. Where do you stand on poutine? Are you fries, curds, gravy, and that's all? Are you an absolutist? Or are you a fries, curds, and gravy, and other stuff is okay too, right? So are you in the camp of people that are like, um, uh, poutine is great with, with, uh, I don't know, what do they put on it, with pulled pork? Or poutine is great with bacon bits on it. Okay, if you— are you in that camp, or are you in the— where I am, in the poutine is 3 ingredients and that is all? And I am pleased to say that 65.7% are also purists.

They said—

they said fries, curds, gravy, and that's all. So yeah, maybe you don't like poutine. What's wrong with you? How can you not like poutine? Uh, does ketchup belong on Kraft Dinner? 61% literally said Jocelyn is wrong. No, 61% said that ketchup does not belong on Kraft Dinner. Once again, um, the correct answer.

I don't know what was going on in my very Anglo-BC household growing up, but Um, we put a moderate amount of ketchup on KD and on, um, like chicken pot pie, beef pot pie, like certain things that we just— and eggs. And we were not like a ketchup goes with everything, like ketchup is its own food group. That was not our vibe, but we used it on a fair amount of things, so I don't know.

Yo, what does this button do?

Yeah, I was wondering about that earlier. Did it give us a new view or something like that? It looks like to add other stuff.

Oh, I wonder if— well, anyway, we'll do that another day. All right, so, uh, it's not just cheese, it's cheese curds.

Yeah, they're, they're a little different. They squeak.

I hate cheese curds, so I get poutine. Is cheese free? That's— those— that's not poutine. That's just fries and gravy.

I wonder if they did—

is a different food.

I could picture them doing one that was tofu because it has a very similar texture. It wouldn't be as good for sure, but like if you really— or, or ghee. What's the, um, cheese, quote unquote cheese, that they— in Indian cuisine, I forget what it's called.

The one that you can fry? Yeah, maintain the shape.

What about that one?

Forget, maybe. I'll—

uh, I'll—

no.

Anyone?

Anyone? All right, um, so I'm skipping over a couple. I'm gonna skip over the whether people buy their milk in bags or plastic jugs. I'm gonna skip over the Montreal or Toronto bagels. Uh, I'm skipping over how do you feel about ketchup chips being unavailable in the US. If you'd like the full results, um, you need to be a member of the Tod Squad, which which is, uh, my newsletter, um, and then you will get the free results. Paneer, thank you very much. But we're going to give you like easily half of the results here. Tim Hortons. Has Tim Hortons gotten worse over time or better over time?

Oh, halloumi too, I agree.

This was not even close. 90% of people who took this said Tim Hortons has gotten worse over time.

I, I thought that was going to be the question that divided Canadians. I thought that there would be war in the comments.

No, no.

And it— I will keep my mouth shut.

Uh, see, if you see, this is the issue with— I don't know why that wasn't turned on. It's stupid Instagram, it's just being dumb. Anyway, okay. Um, oh, this is an interesting one. Do you own a dedicated drawer for plastic bags? Do you guys? Let me know. Let us know in the comments.

That's a really hard question to answer.

Do you own a dedicated drawer for plastic bags? Because some communities have— are still allowed plastic bags. And some communities, some people whose communities don't have it anyway.

And some people like us used to, like actively used to have. We had, I wouldn't say we had a drawer, we had a whole freaking cupboard for it. And the, the bags just would pour out of the under sink cupboard. And now we don't have any. We used to use them for poop bags. For the animals. And now we have to get poop bags from other places.

Oh, I can see Facebook comments!

Yay!

Yeah, it was, it was because Facebook wasn't broadcasting until just now, so I can change this. Hang on a second.

Sorry.

We'll do that.

Hang on one sec, guys.

Okay, okay.

Do we want the questions, the chat? Yeah, there we go.

Do you own a dedicated drawer for plastic bags? 51.4. It was very close. 51.4%, yes. Now the next question was, did you just lie on the above question because you felt shame? 2,521 people admitted that yes, they lied on the pun. 7.6. Uh, okay, we're skipping over those.

Holy— I'm so— as someone who's like— I, I did survey research in grad school. I did like— it's amazing to me the response rate you got, even if it's not normally distributed. It's not, you know, it's, it's still amazing. You guys are amazing.

Have you made an effort? I'm curious to know what you folks think the number will be here. Oh, by the way, welcome to the Facebook people who just got added because of a technical problem. You weren't here at the beginning, but the YouTube— if you go to the YouTube page, it'll be there. Jocelyn and I are doing two things tonight. First of all, we're going through the census, the long-form census that I did, which you can still take at census.todmaffin.com. If you want the full results, then those are available to my subscribing members. But we're also signing the postcards that you get if you order merch from us.

I don't think you can see the silver one on screen very easily.

Oh yeah.

If you— my apologies if you get some merch and you get your postcard and it has a— scribble because, um, after a while my hands get sore and I have to try it a different way, and sometimes I mess it up. If you get one that looks like a drunk fish, apologies. It's, it's a collector's item from me to you.

I just want to make sure we're still—

did your— does that say afternoon, sir? I love it.

Do we still— yeah, we're still— I think the— oh, hang on. Oh, it was scroll. It was— okay, I see. Sorry about that, folks. Okay, uh, here's a question, and I'd love to know what you folks in the comments think. Have you made an effort to buy more Canadian goods in the last 12 months? And your choices were: I try to only buy Canadian. I try, right? I try to only buy Canadian. Or I've bought some Canadian, but it's not been a priority. Or no, I haven't. Although with that one, the actual option said no, I haven't, and I have a small penis. So if you're gonna— if you're gonna say—

if you—

if you're gonna admit that you, uh, were not shopping Canadian, like you were just ignoring the Canadian stuff going on right now, then, um, you also had to admit that.

We would call that a push poll or a biased question.

So lots of you are saying yes, some of you saying kind of. So I was pleased by the result of this poll. I'll just say this, I was pleased by that because 76.4% said they try to only buy Canadian. That is more than I thought it was going to be. I figured it would be 60. 55, 60. Now I suspect that my audience, the people who took this survey, are more likely to have said yes, but still pretty good. Uh, only half of 1% said no, I haven't.

Yeah, Oleksii, Oleksii, that— me too. Um, there's a lot of like things that are hard to get in our city and in general niche products that you don't always have an option locally or online to buy it from Canada. So I, I kind of had that same hierarchy. I try for Canadian stores and Canadian-made, and then like Canadian stores if it can't be found Canadian-made, and then overseas somewhere else, and then the US. And not because I don't of our American cousins, uh, it's because they're threatening to absorb us into their— absorb us through economic warfare.

Yeah.

And so it, it matters.

Yeah.

Yeah, Yvonne, exactly. It is, it is harder in smaller centers. So you do your best. No shame to anyone who just doesn't have the option. Um, we do what we can. So good, good for this— what was it, 70%? Yeah, who are trying to buy Canadian wherever possible. It really does matter, especially to the like small local stores who depend on you making that decision.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get the Instagram people on here.

It's okay, don't worry. Um, I'm looking at all your answers. I will pay more for the Canadian product. Um, citrus actually grows on Vancouver Island. Um, there is citrus on Vancouver Island? That would be cool.

There is.

I bet probably not enough for like orange juice, but yeah, probably worth a try. All right, we love our local farmers markets and we definitely do end up paying more for stuff like that, but that money stays in our community and it's really important. When we're able to, we do it. And there's an amazing, um, there's actually like 2 or 3 amazing hummus, uh, like vendors at our local farmers market. So good. I love hummus.

I think I figured it out.

Woohoo! Everyone stand by, stand by. I'm just making a couple tweaks.

I'm trying to get the Instagram people people in here. Stream key, stream orientation. Oh, I can choose landscape for those people.

Wicked. Um, for everyone else, we, we have a living room that has a big window that faces a street, and we can see everybody walking by. And I wonder always if they can see us, but I mean, it just looks like we're FaceTiming someone. Yeah, it's not that— oh, nobody would care.

Oh, I know, I just said— it just said streaming, but this is Instagram.

We mean it.

May be lying.

Um, as an immigrant to Canada from the US, thank you to everyone boycotting the US. You little heart. I know it's not easy. If— think— I, I keep thinking to myself, what would it be like if my own country was experiencing a lot of the stuff that's happening in the US right now. It's not easy. Um, my plastic bags are under the kitchen cabinet. Yes, ours were too. You can't get plastic bags in our— in— I think it's a provincial law now.

Yeah.

Um, so we have a whole bunch until just recently just a huge pile of paper bags stuffed in between the fridge and the border of the fridge, and, um, we had to just recycle them. I do use them though, I reuse them all the time. So, um, Tina says, I try— oh, Tina on Facebook, hey! Um, I try really hard to buy Canadian. It infuriates me when stores can access other produce, but they don't. I don't know, you're— sorry, it's the quest— comments are going really fast. Um, it really makes me mad too, and Tod reminds me of the stores that have dubious histories on that, so dubious records. Sam uses the paper bags for compost. That's really smart. Um, that's one of the best things about paper is that it breaks down so well.

Um, Yeah, I don't think it's—

in Vancouver you can still get— you're not supposed to get plastic, but, um, Vancouver allows organic— or what's it called— compostable plastic because Vancouver has a compostable plastic, uh, or no, a plastic compost facility with nearby. We don't on the island. So I asked someone that, um, when I used to live there. I was like, why are we allowing this kind of plastic.

Anyway, all right, so that— I'm gonna do a couple more.

Sheila Peterson, we got something from them. Stay tuned.

Oh yeah, we did. Yeah, yeah, we got, we got some, uh, some nuts from— oh, I just got it.

Did you really?

I just got it.

I, I, oh my God. Oh, I was expecting it to be underwear.

So, so one of the snacks— one of the snack companies sent us, and the snack companies name was Jules Under the Kilt, and they sell nuts. And I just made the connection.

I just— that might be the only joke that Tod— well, I got first and Tod didn't. Community building and living and possibilities for great change. Absolutely. I think we're in a time where people really crave community. And, um, and that we have this moment, maybe we can support each other.

Okay, a couple of politics question results. Can you name your current member of parliament? This is higher than I thought it was going to be.

Way to go, Kelly Smith! I think I know who you are. Hey, Kelly!

68.6%. Can name their own MP. 23.3% can only name the party. They don't know the person's name. And a shockingly high number, 8.1%, have no idea whether they are rep— what party represents them or the name of the candidate that represents them.

I suppose there is a likelihood that there are a fair amount of people who move a lot or live in more than one place. Who would have trouble answering the question.

But, uh, here are some of the questions that are in the full results. Have you ever watched a, a full leaders' debate? Um, how do you feel about the Senate? I will tell you this of that question: the lowest response was that it should be abolished. The fewest people said that it should be abolished.

The Senate?

The Senate. Um, what did you—

what do you think? Do you not want to say?

No, I don't care. Um, I don't give the Senate a lot of thought, so I think it's important to have— I think it's important. I think so. For second thought, I think so. For second thought, where it's not based on political parties anymore. I mean, it kind of sort of is, but not really. Um, I think it's important.

I think since the changes that Trudeau brought in for representation, like, um, to change it from like a political appointment to a more merit-based appointment, I, I have more trust in it than I did.

Um, how do you feel about Canada's electoral system? Are most Canadians— I'll give you this answer— most Canadians are decent people who want the best for the country, or opportunistic grifters, or disingenuous? And exactly two-thirds believe that they are decent people who want the best for the country. However, I'm actually disappointed by that result. I think that's low. I, I wish they were higher.

Yeah, it shows there's some trust to be rebuilt.

33% of my audience, who are, you know, yeah, usually on the liberal side of things, yep, believe that they're— that most Canadian politicians are opportunistic grifters. That makes me deeply sad.

Yeah.

And, and I think that kind of attitude prevents people from going into politics, right? Uh, how do you feel about Canada's relationship with the monarchy? Will be in the full results. Have you ever intentionally spoiled a ballot? 11% have intentionally spoiled a ballot. Does that not surprise you? Uh, you're nodding like it's a—

I have. I've— you have? Yeah.

That's illegal.

Oh, I didn't know that. I think it is.

I— isn't it? Let me check.

It was a weird situation. It was municipal, uh, election, and I signed a form. Oh, I don't know if I should admit to this. Um, I spoiled a ballot where I didn't think the, um, it was answered honestly, and that's all I'll say about that. Okay, unless I get arrested or something.

Oh, it's not illegal. Deliberately marking a ballot so it cannot be counted is a legal act.

I thought that spoiling a ballot is one legal way of responding.

Oh, interesting. Refusing to vote is also legal. You can show up, receive a ballot, decline it officially, which is record— which is recorded separately from a spoiled ballot. I didn't know that.

I was, I was a scrutineer for probably 3 elections in my home riding, um, when I grew up, and you— they teach you all of those things. Huh.

Uh, so how do people feel about the notwithstanding clause? That'll be in the full results. Your premier picks a fight with the feds, who do you back? That's in the full results. Do you know the difference between first reading and third reading of a bill? All right, I'll get— here's one, here's one that we will leak out away. Should voting in federal elections be mandatory? Um, now there are probably some Australians, uh, on the stream because I have some Australian folks. Um, it is mandatory in Australia to attend a polling station. I don't believe it's tech— like, it's mandatory voting, but they— but I think—

but it's still a secret ballot.

It's still secret ballot, so they don't check what you voted, but I think they— I think they check to make sure you've attended the voting station on the day of the election, not that you've submitted a ballot. I think that's the way they do it. I'm not, I'm not 100%.

I don't know. I'm looking for the people who are to see if there's someone, someone here from Victoria, the state of Victoria in Australia, is, is here. So I'm kind of hoping that she'll say something.

What are your thoughts on Turks and Caicos joining Canada? I mean, we need to ask them because they are their own people and they have—

we're trying not to do more colonialism.

That's exactly— yeah, we're trying to not We don't take over other countries, um, but if they were on board— and they have been, you know, various governments of theirs have been on board at certain times— we've just never had it align where Turks and Caicos has been on board at the same time that there's been a movement in Canada.

I don't get it other than as like a funny joke.

Oh, I'd love it.

I would— no, of course, like, it would love it, but I don't get it. I don't think it offers more to Turks and Caicos than they already get. Yeah, and, and doesn't change things much for us.

So Mary says it should be— should not be mandatory to vote. Some people could be too sick or disabled to vote. Those people, even in Australia, they do not— they get an exemption, obviously. So yeah, so it's, it's mandatory to vote if you have the ability to vote. Um, you're not going to be thrown in jail for being disabled.

Hi Susie!

So on the question, should— voting—

Tod's name right next time.

On the question, should voting in federal elections be mandatory? I will say that the winner, the, the top result, because there was only yes or no, was 64%. So it was reasonable. Now, do you think that 64% of people said yes, voting should be mandatory, or no, voting should not be mandatory? The, the skew was 64% was the winner. I would love to know what, what you folks think about that. And we have 1,000 people now between Facebook and Instagram and Facebook and, uh, YouTube, mostly.

Um, voting should be anonymous. Too much surveillance is bad. My guess is no.

Well, I mean, even in Canada, there's, there's— they know whether or not you've attended to vote because they track it to make sure you don't vote twice.

So mail-in voting is very common in BC and in Canada generally. It like, it is a trusted, long-standing way of voting. And mail-in voting plus hospital voting plus you can vote at any polling station— I think that might just be for provincial elections, but like literally I had to vote for my own, um, writing. And I was finishing work late in another writing, and I voted. And yes, it's like mail-in voting where they hold it aside. And if there's a— if it's very close in your writing, then they open them. But still, it's counted. It's a form of— it's legit.

Yeah. Before I tell you whether it was yes or no, Robin asks, I think this means, do I have a Substack? No, I don't use Substack because they still platform white supremacists and they refuse to take them off from what I've seen. So I just have my own newsletter. It's farandwide.news. You can get to it.

It works the same way as a Substack does. It comes to you or you can see it online.

Yeah. Yeah. With 64%, should voting in federal elections be mandatory? Canadians responded Yes, and I agree, and I agree with that.

Can I say something? I know you're not going to talk about what we— people said about the notwithstanding clause, but we have 1,000 people here and I want— desperately want you all to see the video Tod did on the notwithstanding clause and go and read what it is. I think if more Canadians knew what— how it was playing a role in today's Canadian democracy and politics I think they'd have opinions about it, and I think we need to. I don't want to be too political, but I really want everyone here to know what it is.

Yeah, so yeah, definitely. Um, Deborah says she just joined tonight. In Ecuador, it is mandatory to vote. Fines are issued if citizens don't vote. Wow.

Is that— I, I'm curious then, Does it ever get used against them? Like, because if fines in Australia or Ecuador— because if the— if people knew, if that information was available to politicians or parties, then it could become a problem. Like, we have a very famous case in Alberta right now of a loss of confidentiality among the voter rolls, and you know That's what people are worried about, if, if there's— if your, your presence at the polling station is, is tracked. I also believe it should be mandatory.

What is your honest opinion of question period? Was one of the questions. When you vote federally, is your vote mostly to back the party that you want to form government or the individual candidate? So when you vote federally— and you can type in your things before we get to the answer, I will give you this answer— when you're voting federally, are you voting for the party or for the person running? I vote for the party. I'm sorry, candidates.

And I do, unless there's like a really awesome candidate that isn't the usual party I vote for. I did that once, I deeply regret it.

Yeah.

But I do it sometimes.

A lot of people saying, yeah, I personally would like the notwithstanding clause just gone. It was a compromise in order to try and get Quebec on board, and it was, uh, kind of it. And it was fine. It was, it was not being used. It was, it was meant as a, as an escape hatch in the last possible, you know, in the last possible thing. And the reason it's being used now is because of the US. Is because our Conservatives— well, the, the Polyev wing of the Conservative Party is, and, and the Alberta provincial government currently is looking at the US and looking at how Americans, how the Trump administration are abusing those similar last resort things. For instance, banning or massively tariffing a product, uh, because it's a national security threat. Okay, he put that on aluminum. He put that on aluminum. How is aluminum a national security threat? That's only to be used in the case of an emergency. Same with the notwithstanding clause. But now governments are just like, wow, we can just use it for whatever.

It's— well, and it's being used for, um, in Alberta for like antisocial causes, if I recall.

Yeah.

Um, and that to me, if we're gonna keep it, it needs more guardrails. And my thing with watching what's happening in the US is, um, what we've seen over the last like 10 or 15 years is the norms of the US government that so much of their policymaking and government relies upon have been broken. And, uh, and they've gone away. The norms don't matter anymore. And not enough of their system was in law.

Oh.

And so, um, in Canada, it makes me look at our government and go, what are we relying on norms? For, um, what parts of our government relies on norms. And it turns out the notwithstanding clause kind of does, does. So that, that's why it really matters to me that people who vote know what the notwithstanding clause is and remember when it's used and make them pay. I mean, like, in a political way. We're not condoning any sort of violence. Um, oh man, this is going so— yeah, it should automatically trigger an election. Yeah, that's a great way to do it because you— that is good, you make it happen and then there's a close accountability, a bit like that Emergencies Act where it triggers its own review, um, that's very public. And I think that's how it's gonna— if it's gonna be a thing, that's how it should be.

I think I'd like to formally apologize to Jocelyn, do to, uh to Diana, who is new, and her first video she saw of mine was on the word moist.

Oh no, sorry, I'm sorry about that.

Sorry, I don't know how to turn that— those off. You got to scroll all the way out there. Uh, all right, before we get on to some new, uh, some, some, some of the other, um, survey results, and we're only reading out a few of them, if you want the full results They are available to members of the Tod Squad, which is my paid tier of the newsletter, which you can get to at todsquad.todmaffin.com. But we are first going to talk about this board game, which was sent to me.

Super fun.

It's called American Dictator.

You know, it'd be funny if you left off the last part of that word.

If you like Monopoly, you'll like this. It's kind of a Monopoly game. It was, it was designed by and created by kids in Canada. Um, they're high school students and this is what they do. They have a company called E-Games, I think. Hang on, what's the name?

It's E-Up and it like elbows up. Oh yeah, their logo is really cute actually.

Yeah, E-Up Games, and they make games and they market them. And I'm talking perfect, look at this, like they're not like little just paper games, they're like Full on, it's a Monopoly board.

There you go.

It's the Pentagon, by the way. And, um, and there, there are pieces, decent pieces. There are questionable decision things. I'm going to be making a, um, I'm going to be making a video about this because it's just so good.

Screenshot that if you want to.

Oh, good call, good call.

Um, the URL is e-upgames.com.

There we go.

Not sponsored. We—

we—

they sent it to us to have a look at and we thought it was really cool.

Oh, thank you so much, Clairvoyant. Thank you.

Oh, so nice.

That is so sweet of you.

We work— we work— what I was just gonna say, we just like the game. It works a little bit like Monopoly, but everything else is very specific to the current situation in the US, and it's both funny and kind of savage and also kind of informative. It's like a satirical game.

I'm gonna try and mirror the videos for you guys. They're saying that it's mirrored. Oh yeah, there we go. Did that pop it? Yeah.

Okay, can you read Todd's shirt now?

Yeah, I think I fixed it. All right, let's try this again, the QR code again. Uh, and someone just wanted the, um, uh, the URL for the Todd Squad, and it's right there.

Shannon Connolly just put it in as well. Um, sorry. Oh, for the game. Sorry, my bad. There, it's— if you want the URL for the game, it's e-upgames com.

So anyway, yeah, it's very fun. And I have to tell you that the most fun part of it are these questionable decision cards, which is kind of like jail, I guess, in, in Monopoly. But they are deeply satirical. Like, one of the cards says— is like— and they're all based on US politics. One of the cards reads, it's called Roe v. Wade. And right away you're just like, oh, shit. And it says everyone— I think it says every woman under 40 who is playing loses $50. Like, that's kind of dark, actually. Despite— like, look at this. Despite your claims that egg prices are falling, they're actually going up. Pay $35 in grocery fees. Like, this is This is some decent level of— Storm the capital. Move to Washington. If unknown, take it for free. If owned, double your roll to take the city. And they have, instead of, like, hotel, whatever the levels are in Monopoly.

Hey, Don McGuire, the e-upgames.com is the maker of this game.

Yeah. Instead of building that, you build a tower and then a golf course. Um, you don't like the names of some sports teams, so you order them to be changed. Pay $30.

And if you want Todd's, um, Todd Squad paid subscription to the newsletter, that's the one that's on the screen right now, right there. Yeah, I, I kind of jumped on that, and sorry if I confused anyone.

And it's not just like lose money, not lose money. "Uh-oh, measles! Everyone except you gets measles. They all miss one turn." And this is a great one. "You appoint a new FBI director. Look at the next 5 cards, keep one, and put the rest back in any order you choose." There's some thought given to the satire of some of those.

Yeah, it's really interesting.

And yeah, so kids came up with it. The business is owned by the parents. Um, it is 100% Canadian. Let me just read you the text. I've been going back and forth with this fella because we, we, we check—

there is a— Tristan, there is ballroom. There are cards related to the ballroom too. It's kind of funny. Uh, one of them you end up paying money to the person on your left for their ballroom.

So the game can be ordered off eupgames.com and is available They have about 100 on hand right now. We ask because often when the sort of the— our social platform now is big enough that when we talk about a product online, sometimes it sells it out, which is great for Canadian stuff but frustrating, like frustrating in a good way, for these businesses. So they have 100 on hand, so they should be fine. The legal entity behind our company is E-Up Games Incorporated. The owners are the parents of of the kids involved, all Canadians. The board games are also made in Canada, with a portion of profit donated to the food bank here in London, Ontario. The rest of the profit is shared among the kids.

And if I remember correctly, they assemble the— whoa, we had a little agreement. Oh, the dog— the cat just pushed the dog off the couch. Um, the— if I remember correctly, I think the kids and the parents who help them assemble the games. If you're— I heard, I saw someone mention like, oh, I wish it was cheaper. Um, I think we have to remember how much everything costs right now. And if it's a small cottage business, you're not getting, um, like discount volume discounts, and it's not Milton Bradley or Parker Brothers or something making it. It's so— it's, it's the kind of thing where, you know, if it, if it is something you can afford um, it's, it's worth the, the energy and the cost it took them to make it. So yeah, how big is the cat? Well, the dog and the cat weigh almost the same, um, and the cat is the owner of the household, of course. So poor little dog, she's just like pouting at the door now.

Are your pants Canadian? They are. I bet your trousers are made in Canada. Well, they're not trousers, they're pajamas.

They're, um, they're from a Canadian company but probably not made here. Those are pre-existed. Those are probably 5 years old.

Those are— they are Joe Fresh, uh, which is actually owned by Loblaws. So Canadian company, but we're not standing Loblaws right now. But can you check the tag and see if they were made in Canada?

Probably Bangladesh. It's like we got them a long time ago, and that is the place that makes all of the garments. Most of them.

Nobody clipped this, by the way. There's no—

there's no tag for that. It's probably in the side. See him right there.

I don't want to see that on social media.

But you— something to consider is, um, boycotting American goods does not mean you don't buy anything non-Canadian. And staying away from, um, that doesn't mean you burn all of your old stuff.

I haven't—

like, we also want to be kind to our environment.

Oh wait, I haven't— I have a better idea.

What are we doing?

I'm making it so they can— so the horizontal people can see you too.

Oh, I don't think the horizontal people can see either of us.

No. And now I'm making it so that the vertical people can't see us. Yeah, I don't know, they can see me.

I feel like they can see me. Can they not see me?

Not the vertical people. These are the vertical.

I know, but you like— they never could see either of us. Yeah, now they can see you. Um, it's okay.

I know, I just don't want to leave you out.

The vertical people. Thanks, Tod. This is what I deal with, this guy.

So I see that some of you are buying this game, which is amazing. I haven't even done the video, so I'm going to hold up the QR code again just in case you want it. So again, the game is called American Dictator. If you like Monopoly you will like this game. If you don't like Monopoly, you will not. I'm not a big Monopoly fan myself, so we've tried playing it. We— well, we did play, we didn't try, but we—

full disclosure, we played it with 2 people, and it's the kind of game that can play 2 to 6, and it's not hard to play, but it's not the kind of game that is gonna hit for a 6-year-old. Like, some of them are not gonna understand the dynamics, but it's really good.

By the way, just, um, Well, they can, they can turn their phone, but that doesn't mean that they can see the horizontal version then. Anyway, um, so a couple of more things about the game, which I'm going to hold up the thing for. Um, so one of the funniest parts of this is they have a, um, Matthew, probably, is they have a Supreme Court Justice. It's a player token that sits on the board, and if you land on that square, you get the Justice. You basically have bought the Justice. The Supreme Court Justice, and then you can overrule anything you want.

That was particularly true.

And then you have to return it back to the, to the court, but then someone else could— like, it's, it's simple, but, but satirically, like, just right on spot. So yeah, and it's high school kids, in case you miss it, it's high school kids, their parents own the company, profits— part of the profits go to the food banks where they live in London, Ontario, and then the rest of the profits are given to the kids, which is great. All right, we're making progress on the merch cards. You're killing it.

Holy—

you've done all these?

Yep, I'm working on it.

How many— how many are left?

A lot. There's 2 more thousand bundles, I think, or, uh, 250 bundles. Okay, this is, um, there's more here somewhere. We're in the middle of a construction zone, partly because our, um, uh, we've— our kitchen's being renovated. And so like we have an oven right in front of us in our living room. So a lot of stuff is not where we expect it to be. So there's probably like 200 cards just like somewhere over there. But we have a big old box of them with 2 more big bundles of them.

June, the, um, the, uh, the token for the Supreme Court of Canada Justice is black. I don't know if that's a comment, satirical comment.

I think it's just likely they remember their robes, right?

Oh, that's true. Yeah.

All right. It's the, the symbols, the little avatar, like the player pieces in the game are neckties, colored neckties, which is actually pretty clever, I think. And eventually we figured out that the, the little black Supreme Court piece kind of hangs on the top of the Thai main player piece, which is kind of clever.

I may have just screwed something up. No, okay. Hoping to hear the Wayne Gretzky question. So I'll give you the answer to the Wayne Gretzky, because I think I shared that one already online. It was a resounding he's dead to me. I think it was 70%.

Surprise me.

I think it was 70% was he's dead to me. And, um, and then there was like 15% that— or 20% that was like the next level down, like I'm not proud of him but he's still— or it's complicated. That was it. But yeah, no, he, he blew it. He blew it.

Um, yeah, I would—

I thought another person bought the board game.

Divided. Um, yeah, I thought it would be a little bit more divided. I'm— I would say that that game would be— the best audience I could imagine for that game be the same audience that you would play, um, oh, I've lost it, the card game with the— where you match the question with the blanks to the answers. I just— my brain, sorry. Um, like, it's not apples to apples, but anyway. It's, you know, the one, the game that can get a little bit raunchy. It's that kind of thing where it's a game that would be great for satire and political conversations. But it's really well made. Anyway, they didn't pay us. Card Dance Humanity, thank you so much. That's the one I meant. I'll carry you guys around with me so I fill in my gaps in my little gray cells.

I'm going to give you bonhomme in a second. Have you ever been to a live NHL game? What do you guys— have you ever? I'll tell you what the answer we got on the survey was. Someone asked how many people responded. More than 33,000 people responded to the census.

The Tod Maffin census.

Have you ever been to a live NHL game? That is such a bad bruise.

And this is getting better. It was huge. I still don't— I think it was my bike.

Well, wouldn't you know, you're not—

I know, but— or, or— so funny thing that happened, guys. Um, we were just about to leave to go stay in the hotel while our house was being renovated, and, uh, the wheel, the front wheel, it's called a caster, on my wheelchair fell off. Just like—

which has never happened to you.

Never happened to me. It was like it got spat out by my chair frame, and I saw it happening and I like wheeled toward the bathroom and then I got stuck because I tried to like transfer over to the toilet so I could look at my chair and I got stuck because my chair did a little tippy canoe and I yelled for Tod and that might have been it because you know when you get cortisol and you get your adrenaline going up, you often don't feel it. So you don't feel the pain of an injury until later. TikTok.

Someone asked the name of the game, so I was going to show this while—

American Dictator.

The name of the game is American Dictator. Just ordered the game. It's not our game, it's not our game, but thank you.

It's cool, it's cool.

Thank you for ordering this. I, I hope they get some good sales out of, out of this.

Yeah, the goal here, like all of this stuff, when people send us samples and stuff like that, it's not— we're not getting money from them because we want them to buy to buy Canadian products that— and if we really enjoy them, we feel like you'll enjoy them. And, um, you know, so that's, that's the basis of all this. This is not like a SpawnCon deal or anything.

Um, I have never done a sponsored video, by the way. Not a single video that you've seen of mine has ever been sponsored. Um, have you ever been to an NHL game? 69% of people who responded said yes, they'd been to at least one. Um, 33% said never. 43% said yes, one or two.

Aww, Kelly, you're our favorite houseguest, Kelly.

43% said one or two. 26% said many. Uh, someone wanted to know about Bonhomme, so we will go to Bonhomme.

Bonhomme. Bonhomme. Sorry, that's what I hear in my head every time.

Oh, I'll give you this before Bonhomme. Should Canada ever trust the United States again?

Oh, we're getting deep in the feels now.

47%, which was the top result, nope.

Wow.

We've moved on.

Wow. Wow. Well, I mean, also, it's hardly a, you know, Your audience is more likely to feel that way too, I think. But still interesting, more than I would have thought. Uh, I definitely said that too.

41% said yes, Canada will trust the US again, but it will take decades. And 11% said yes, once Trump is out of office. So, so Canada is not— Canada's, you know, we are grudge holders in this country. Um, do you know all the lyrics to O Canada? 25% said they were rusty on some lyrics. 25%.

Did you say how many of the verses, or were we just talking about the main ones?

Do you know all the lyrics to O Canada?

Oh, I'm, I'm not sure I know like all of them. I know the ones you sing at hockey games and the ones you sing at school.

The, um, the questions that we are skipping over are: how do you feel about Canada's Olympic performance? Uh, what just best describes your relationship with the CBC? How do you respond when someone makes you for America— mistakes you for American while you're traveling? Um, do you know— how well do you know the hybrid English-French version of O Canada? Um, so the, uh, supporting members of my newsletter will get, uh actually today got it. Um, have you met Bonhomme? Have you met Bonhomme? Let me see how many have. 20. 20%. That's more than I thought. 20.3. 20.3% of my people have met Bonhomme. And remember that only 8% of the respondents of this were from Quebec.

Oh, interesting. I was gonna say, like, Quebec has a a sizable number of, um, a sizable proportion of our population. But also Ottawa and the, like, Metro Ottawa is right next to Quebec. Yeah, like, right. It's not just Quebec.

Yeah, that's true.

Montreal. So I can imagine that, you know, Will and his family go back and forth all the time.

Um, the top result, however, was not that. The top result was no, I have not met Bonhomme, but I want to. By the way, if you're American or not Canadian, or Canadian and don't know what Bonhomme is, Bonhomme is a mascot of the Quebec Winter Carnival— Winter Festival, rather, I think. Um, I did a video. If you're on YouTube, you can look for my Bonhomme video. It is satirical. Do not take it seriously. Cabinet ministers do not play the role of Bonhomme in real life. I made that up. Uh, 22% said no, I have not met Bonhomme. 'And he creeps me out.' And 20% just said 'who.' Um, and the last question, which I will reveal, um, we're skipping over 'do you consider yourself more Canadian or more from your province,' is 'are you proud to be Canadian right now?' 65.9% said yes, more than ever. 27% said yes with some, some asterisks, and only 5.7% said it's complicated, and only 4/5 of 1% said no, I'm not proud to be Canadian right now.

That's— I think that's an honest answer. Yeah.

Oh, my back is sore from leaning over like that. Excuse me. So that is a survey. You can still take it. It is available at census.todmaffin.com. It's that address below. Hang on, let me, uh, let me fix this. There we go. All right, census.todmaffin.com is where you can take the survey, and the results I'm gonna fix this. I don't know if this will fit. This is a lot of text.

It's little, but yeah, that's okay.

Yep. Yeah, there we go. Okay, are we—

are you ending it or no? Okay, cool, cool.

Just bought the game. Thank you. This is amazing. I really hope that, uh, That people do that. I'm on your mailing list, but I didn't get the email about the survey. Do I have to be a member of your group to get it? So it's only for supporting members, um, the full result, like the full PDF with like every question, the breakdown, the full data set, all that kind of stuff. Um, those are only for supporting members. Um, so if you're on my mailing list, you've got to be on the Todd Squad tier. Um, so a paid, a paid member. Um, but I will be dribbling out all, not all, but most of the results on social media here and there over the, over the next few months. Um, so you won't be missing much if you're not, uh, able to pay. You just might have to wait a little bit and it'll be on social media. But if you want all the results right now and do your own data analysis, uh, join the newsletter at down there where it says todsquad.todmaffin.com. That will take you to the, to the page where the paid tier is. Um, oh, oh, oh, jeez, sorry about that.

You're gonna be dribbling out. That's what he said.

Are you asking to start another whiskey war? That's such a good story, the whiskey war. Uh, what else is going on in here? The questionable decisions t-shirt in the merch section are awesome too. Oh, cool.

Oh, I didn't know they had their merch.

I haven't even— now I kind of want to look. Hang on, I'll do it on my phone. I'll show you on my phone if they're— if, if I like them. But it sounds great. E-Up Games.

Um, Canadian. So this— Lynell, if you're Canadian, you would do the Canadian census. Like, he didn't make a million different censuses, just— it made one for Canadians, and if you're still a Canadian and you're not living in Canada, I think you could do that. Um, whatever, whatever you identify as. Um, I think it's— then you get into the weeds. I think the US survey was like considerably less responded to, but that's okay. That's kind of to be expected. They're the US followers. Contingent is smaller. UK versus Verse 6 national anthems, interesting. I have to go look that up. Um, free shipping for the game. Yeah, apparently there's a tariff on it though for the US, but that's—

well, there's a tariff on everything.

The US put it on themselves, and it's not just Tariff, like, he also got rid of the de minimis exemption. Yeah, which means that all small packages cost a lot more for shipping.

Please remember, Americans, we are not putting the tax on you up here in Canada. We are not tariffing you. It's, it's your government is putting the tariff on and making you pay it, and your government removed the de minimis exemptions. That is why your shipping is so expensive. It has nothing to do with us. We would ship it to you for free. In fact, we do ship it to you for free. It's taxed when it hits your side of the border.

Yeah, we don't have any choice in that matter, and it is decimated a lot of Canadian small businesses. Like, if you buy anything from Canadians on Etsy, um, it— a lot of them have no longer shipped to the US because they can't afford to, because they would have to— Etsy requires their sellers to cover, um, a lot of their sellers, to cover the shipping in order to, um, uh, what am I trying to say, in order to like be promoted by Etsy. And, uh, they— it has just basically made it impossible for Canadian sellers to be able to, um, sell to Americans.

Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for the frozen cheesy taste test. Uh, people have said that frozen Cheezies are better, and so these have been in the freezer for a couple of hours, and we're gonna try. All right, I don't know, can you— are you willing to do this? Yeah, I haven't asked, I just like—

you're kidding me—

non-consensually force you to do it.

Oh, okay.

What, what are you supposed to do? I was gonna say we should 1, 2, 3.

You gotta brief me before I say something.

I don't detect any difference. In fact, if you like it—

I don't know if it's so much different that it's definitely due to it being cold. It would have been smart to like hold back a few to try them at the same time, warm, like room temperature and cold.

Hmm.

Your son's 3D printing company is suffering. Sorry to hear that, Katz. Meow. It is really— oh, I'm sure it is, Violet Storm. I'm— it, it's really hard to, to watch, like, to have, you know, wealthy people who don't really care about the rest of the world making decisions like this and really harming businesses and, you know, rural healthcare. All kinds of different things are affected.

They are not harder to crunch.

Ninvez, I find them very salty as well, but I still like them.

See, that's why I like them.

They're easier to crunch.

That's why. Yeah, they do seem a little easier to crunch, don't they? Mind you, we just had one each, but.

I learned recently that when you toast bread, it breaks down some of the gluten in it and it makes it easier to digest. And I think people say it loses like 10 calories or something. I wonder if it's the same thing at play here because it's some kind of grain.

Wait, when you toast bread, do you mean when you toast frozen bread?

No, when you, uh, you just said toast bread. No, and you toast— oh yeah, that didn't—

no, I think it's when you— I think it's when you freeze bread and then you toast it. Yes, I think that's what you mean.

Yeah, might be. Yeah, and now I've— I'm just off on a rabbit trail.

Swears by Frozen Hawkins.

Frozen Hawkins Cheezies. Can I, can I have another one?

Yeah, I don't— I'll try another one, but I don't—

I'm just happy to eat Hawkins Cheezies. I just don't want to eat them forever. No, no, it's just toasting, says Kelly. There you go. I was saying the right thing, but I was not like— it was the connection that I was trying to draw. It didn't make any sense.

You know what it does? It makes them fall apart into more minute pieces.

I do think it makes them easy, like, uh, what's the word? It's not a hard crunch anymore. Some people do find them really hard to crunch, but if you cool rice, it has less calories when reheating it.

Yeah, it's somehow softer. That's so weird. It is. I don't like that. I like them hard.

Mm, I could imagine it would be more pleasant for people who have trouble with the crunch. See, people are talking about freezing carbohydrates, it reduces the glycemic index. We have the munchies.

If I freeze Cheezies from Hawkins, like Hawkins Cheezies, will that reduce the gly—

glycemic index.

Glycemic index when I eat them.

We are from BC. Oh, we pretty much get a contact high just from walking down the street.

So freezing Hawkins Cheezies will not meaningfully release— wow— will not meaningfully—

we haven't had our dinner yet—

reduce the glycemic index.

Oh dog, no, no, no, no, no, no.

What's going on?

I left the dog and she took the wand toy apart.

The GI reduction from freezing applies mainly to starchy foods like bread or rice, whereas cold— where cold temperatures can cause starch retrogradation, a process that makes starches harder to digest. Cheezies are a corn-based snack with very little moisture, so that mechanism does not apply here in any significant way. All right, well, that's an important thing to know. It's actually too bad because I thought I can eat them a little bit more now. Well, your, your trays are almost over, so let's talk about exactly what's in here. First ingredient—

first thing I want to know— la la la la la la la la.

First ingredient is cornmeal.

Second, they're gluten-free.

Second ingredient is cheddar cheese. Third ingredient is modified milk ingredients, and the fourth ingredient is salt. And then they have— they do have a color in here, uh, like a sunset yellow. Oh yeah, they would have to for this. There's no way. There's nothing in— nothing in nature is this color, unless you're counting hazmat vests.

I miss that. Yeah, that's why it matches with Nanaimo so well.

Um, I lost one. There we go.

Hmm.

Oh, I got chips here too. These are also Canadian, from Winnipeg. We actually do eat real food, by the way. I want you to know we have, uh, samosas. We have butter chicken samosas. Made by the deli at Country Grocer to eat tonight?

Um, we used to buy— I am a huge fan of Que Pasa chips that used to be from BC, and they— I really loved their, um, like basic salty ones and then the red and blue, red and green. They are no longer made in BC.

No, they're made in the US, in fact. Yeah, sucks.

I think they moved to Washington. I don't know why, I can't comment on it, but it made me really sad, especially, you know, when we're trying to buy more Canadian, like, made in Canada stuff. But, um, I like La Cucina. It's not my favorite, but it's still really good. Like, it's no problem. But the, uh, sadly, Que Pasa— I'm really curious what the motivation was. Was it because they couldn't serve the Canadian— the American market? Which is a much bigger market, um, from Canada because of the tariffs. I don't know. I did not know they were from Winnipeg either.

Yeah, I think they are. Let me double-check that.

Lightning— oh, so people here said it too. Lightning said, uh, they just came off a one— a month-long Hawkins Cheezies binge. Been there.

St. Anne, Manitoba.

Oh, St. Anne. Sounds like where Granny and Grandpa live.

Yeah, Quepasa— some of Quepasa's chips, not all of them, but some of them are now products of US.

And I think their office moved there too.

No, I think—

oh no, it's not Burnaby.

I think they have an office in the US, but I don't think they moved there. But yeah, they, uh, they're going the wrong direction.

Yeah. And Nature's Path, which I am a big fan of a couple of their cereals because they have lots of fiber and they taste good. And, um, they kind of do the little sus thing where they don't say where it was made.

Yeah.

And they say, oh, office is at some something something Vancouver, BC. Tod looked it up. They, they're made in the US. Made in the US.

By the way, there's no regulation in Canada that requires companies to put where their, where their product is made. All of that is voluntary. So if you, if you see one and it has— and they, they're not saying at all, that is a decision they've made to not tell you where it's made. And you can take your own guesses as to why that is.

I didn't, I didn't know it was voluntary. Yeah, I'm kind of annoyed about it.

I am too. Yeah, it's voluntary. They do not have to say where it's made.

I have to say what I want to say about us being good people to each other when we are trying to buy Canadian and support Canadian stuff is that this is not a time where we, um, speak negatively or hostilely about the products that come from that country. It's just that we're trying to support our own economy, right? Yeah. And I sadly grew up with extended family with my, my grandma, um, who liked to say nasty things about things that came from China. And I hope that we don't get to the point where we just say nasty things about where things are made of without evidence of its truth. Um, we just choose to support buyers or support makers that are in our own country for economic reasons and independence reasons.

Could you possibly mention the Canada app that checks if products are Canadian? Yeah, so there's a number of those apps. Um, there, there are various levels of good. Uh, some are not good, some are okay. None of them are perfect. That's the problem with that. So there's really two types of these Buy Canadian apps. There's the scan the front of the box and it will do AI to determine what is— whether it's, um, Canadian. I find those generally to be slower but more accurate.

Um, oh, Kelly said something.

As for the ones where you scan the barcode, the UPC code, they're faster, but, um, often they don't have the products that you're scanning in their database. So that's problematic as well, which is kind of too bad. But yeah, it's, um, yeah, we— BC does have a giant tiger, don't we have one? I think we have one. They have one in Cranbrook, or maybe—

no, you're talking about an old brand of— it was like the sand, maybe.

Mystic Light, uh, K-Pass is— no, not entirely. Some of K-Pass's chips are made in Canada. Some of them are product of the USA now, and that's been a recent change. In particular, the, the plain chips, like the plain salted chips— go to your store and flip it around, it'll say the company is this and that, but it's, um, it'll also say locally— they're headquartered locally, but it'll say product of USA, at least on the ones in, in, uh, in our store.

Yeah.

Yep.

Which is a big, a big, um, blow because I really like those chips. Up, up! Should we go outside?

Quick!

No?

Yeah, I thought there was, I thought there was one in Cranbrook, but I could be wrong about that.

Cranbrook, of all places. Come on!

No, no Giant Tiger in BC, just like that? Oh, that's too bad.

Come on, we're going outside, baby!

All right, let me, let me Scroll back here through and see what we got. I would like to find a Canadian source of Scottish oatmeal, stone ground rather than steel cut, so I don't have to buy Bob's Red Mill. Um, I think the— I think Red River is what you're looking for.

Oh yeah, I think we got a sample from them too. I haven't tried it yet. We did.

It's really good. Red River is really good.

Oh right, it's not— it's not like—

but it's not instant. Yeah, it's its own thing, but it's not instant. It's, it's the kind of thing where like you gotta heat it up. It's slow. It's like, it's— yeah, yeah. If they could come up with like a Red River in the paper, dump it in, apples and cinnamon flavor. I'd love that, man. Anyway, well, I think we're near the end of our time. We— Jocelyn did a lot of signing. If you're wondering what she's been doing this whole time, if you order merch from us, which is— let me get the merch store address on screen here. Which is made in Canada. All of it's made in Canada. I mean, the actual raw material, the cotton, is— we don't grow any of that stuff in Canada, so I think it comes from Guatemala. But it is shipped en masse to Canada where it is cut and dyed. They ship it to Parksville where they hand-screen it, and that's just down the road from us actually. And that is merch store is merch.todmaffin.com. And the t-shirts are going away soon. I haven't actually— whoops, that's the wrong thing. Um, I haven't actually announced that formally, but we are going to be pausing the Relentlessly Decent, the Relentless Decency line, and the I Stand for Canada lines. We're going to be pausing those. I don't know for how long. A few months anyway, because we are coming out with a special, a special thing for Canada Day. It will probably be available for sale in the next 2 weeks or so. So you'll be able to buy it and get it to you in time for Canada Day. That's the goal. I think you'll like it. People have been asking for this kind of thing and it has taken me, to be honest, it's taken me a long time to find the right designer for it because it's a, it's obviously a real human being designer. It's a local woman here in Nanaimo named Amy who does it. It's not AI. It's, you know, hiring Canadian artists for this work. So that's slower, you know, obviously, and more expensive. But it is the right thing to do. So when you order merch from the merch store, you get one of these cards from us and we sign the back of every single one of them. And we have 1,000. I think we've been through 1,000 already. And the The merch people were like, we need more. So we are, we are doing that. Paws in Relentless shirt. Yeah, we most likely in about, in about a week and a half or so, something like that. And for the reveal of the new product, for the reveal of the new merch item, I bought a drone. I'm so excited for the video that I'm making. It requires a drone. It's going to be a little bit— it's going to be a different video. It's going to be epic. It's going to be an epic video, um, but, um, and hopefully funny. But it will, uh, it requires a drone. So I've been saving up and I bought a drone and I'm very excited by it. I just received my shirt with no thank you card. That's not true.

Get them a replacement. We were— we had a bunch.

Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. There was a window of time where we were in Victoria, or we were out of town or something, and could not get— the printing company where the cards are made is Nanaimo. Parksville is where the merch store actually is, where they do the work. And we were not anywhere near those. In fact, this just happened again with this With this group, we had just left for a week to— shit. For a week to Comox and Courtney. And they called and they said, "We're out of cards again. We're getting close to being out of cards." So I'm so sorry that you didn't get one. Almost everyone did. But yeah, there was a couple of times when it didn't. So yeah, that sucks. All those helicopters were just Todd fiddling with his drone. I was really, I was really concerned because, uh, Kristen, yes, we do have v-neck shirts. Um, there are, there's a whole line of women's shirts, uh, there that are properly fitted for women and, and they feel great. This is actually, this is not my merch, but this is the same fabric, uh, the same company, the same company. It's, they're so comfortable, the shirts.

Um, and they go up to 3XL, I think.

Yeah, they go quite far. Oh, is GTL in here?

We were talking about GTL earlier.

Card the Leaf is in here. Um, and, uh, and, and I had to learn the law around drones because you can't just buy— well, you can, you can just buy a drone and just start flying it, but you can't absolutely— you can't do it without sort of knowing. So you have to buy a drone that is under 250 grams which limits you quite a bit, which is probably good because it limits also the, the more expensive ones. So that's good. Um, but, uh, and then there's a— and then the other restriction is height. And the worst restriction that I'm actually really sad about is you have to maintain line of sight with it because these things, the one that I got, can go 20 kilometers on its own.

That's— to me, I think that that's I, if I had a choice, I would limit consumer-facing drones to a, like, line of sight or 5K maybe, because the, the only reason to have a one that can go so far away— oh, hey, Dan K. —spy on people. Yeah, maybe you could have a drone with no camera that can go that far, or, you know, or a drone with a camera that can't.

Um, then, uh, DN, the name of the t-shirt company is called Kindred Coast, kindredcoast.com. But if you go to this address, merch.todmaffin.com, that takes you to their store. Basically, it takes you to a subset of my stuff, but you can just use the nav bars and it'll get you to the rest of their stuff. What have you done? What is going on?

Turtle, come here. I think she's okay. Sorry, we have an often misbehaving small dog. Yeah, she's like, what, what did you want? Just staring at me like, what?

Oh, I just wanted to say yo, thank you, keep reading the Canada Gazette. Thank you, Joseph. I just put out a video.

You're doing the hard work.

If you haven't seen this, I just put it out just before we came on live. Um, the Canada Gazette is the most boring piece of literature that the federal government puts out. It's all their official announcements and the appeals and the regulatory notices and things like that. I find it fascinating because I'm weird. So I did a video on it and there's really interesting stuff in there.

It's supposed to be like the print record, the government's print record, like home from before. There was always like an internet print record.

Like you might think that, you might think that like reading about appeal decisions on tariffs is boring until you, until you actually read what they're appealing. Home Depot Canada, which is not Canadian despite the word— despite the word Canada on the end of it. Home Depot Canada wants the government to reclassify battery packs. What is the— what is the word they wanted to use? It's in a different— it's for tariffs, right? They would get a lower tariff for doing it. They want it to move from battery packs to— and I am not making this up, this is actually what the tariff appeal or what the classification appeal is Electric accumulators. Come on.

You know that story of why shoes— a bunch of shoes have felt pads right in the middle of the sole, and it's because that means they're considered slippers, and so they don't wear out.

Wow, that's crazy. It's like—

and they're very slippy. They make— they're not good at runner— as runners, but they're— that's what they do.

Yeah, the Canada Gazette it's called. It's online. You can find it. Every Saturday morning they post it. I find that stuff really interesting. There's also a list of 140-odd charities that they have sent them a warning saying that they are going to be deregistered. Forgive me if I'm not using the exact legal right word, but I believe that's the word. Anyway. They're going to be removed as official charities and half of them are faith-based. And I don't think that half of the bad ones are faith-based. I think it's just half— more than half of charities generally are. But yeah, so it's absolutely Home Depot getting desperate. Yeah. Hey, we have someone watching from Mexico. Nice. Hello. Welcome. Yeah, it's so dumb. Electric accumulator. Anyway, I think that's going to be it for us because I'm tired. And, um, we haven't had dinner yet, and the dog and cat keep picking fights with each other. Um, so thank you so much for coming by. If, um, if you— where do I— how do I get to the little captiony thing there? Uh, the census results— if you want to get the full census results, um, you just have to join the Tod Squad, which is the, uh, the membership tier of the newsletter. The first month is half price. It's $3.50, less than a price of a fancy coffee. When you get the welcome email, it will give you the link to download the full results if you want to. Then if you want, you can cancel. That's it. Stick around for one or two issues. I think you'll like it. We put a lot of work into it. It comes out— the free newsletter, because the newsletter is also free. You don't have to pay anything for it. That is at newsletter.todmaffin.com. That comes out every Saturday morning. My rant is usually— one of my rants is usually in there. Elsbeth from my team does a whole bunch of research on the news that you did not hear this week, really important stories that got no press coverage. She also has a section about new content that's come out, new bands, new artists, new— there's a whole section on, on Indigenous Canadian news. We have a cartoonist that does a weekly cartoon. There's the stock market report of how the biggest stocks in Canada have done. All of that is free. There's trivia. There is a national poll that we do every week. That's newsletter.todmaffin.com every Saturday morning. The Tod Squad tier is you get twice as much. You basically get an extra episode— episode, sorry, my head's still in radio— an extra issue every Wednesday. So you get a special bonus midweek issue, only people on the Tod Squad. Supporting member tier get that. Plus in their newsletters, all the ads just stripped out. They have their own special sections. There's a thing called Made in Canada, which profiles a Canadian business every week, and a thing called What the Fact, which is a data table that's in there as well. So those are just for the newsletter people. But yeah, and if you have been a supporting member on any platform like Facebook or YouTube, check your— check in the case of YouTube, uh, check the post section. That link will be there for you. Uh, if you're on Facebook, check, uh, check my Facebook page. Uh, just scroll down. Uh, if you're a subscriber to the Facebook page, you will see, uh, that information there as well. So I'm going to quickly run through the comments and then we're going to say goodbye. It looks like— what's on the menu? We are having, um, uh, we are having butter chicken Samosas from Country Grocer in Nanaimo and one of their spring salads. Can you deliver my July 1st shirt by drone? Maybe if you're— ah, wouldn't be allowed because it has to be line of sight. Damn, that sucks. I hate rules. All right, that's it. Thank you all so much for coming by. Thank you for hanging out with us. I joined the Todd Squad to get the census. Thank you, and you can cancel if you want, but But just, you have it for a month now. So stick around for a couple of weeks and see if you like what the extra stuff on the newsletter is. I think you'll like it. So yeah. Thank you all so much. We really appreciate your support. Even just coming in and watching the stream really does help. So thank you, and we'll see you again soon. Bye! Bye!