 Hong Kong born Olivia Chow is now the mayor of Toronto Canada that makes her the first non-white mayor in the city's history David The internet is buzzing about this everybody is talking about it They have their opinions and also everyone's asking is Canada good getting taken over by Chinese or not Wow, I am so proud of Olivia Chow She is probably going to have dinner with Drake and probably you know no Masayuri from the Raptors Yeah, I hope that Drake lets the lights dim some and that Susie Lee comes out and makes the food Yeah, then we got Kensim's in Vancouver then we have Trong and London Ontario as the police chief is great All right guys, we got to talk about Olivia Chow shout out to her I don't know her politics, but she seems like a nice lady seems like a smart lady But anyway, she won a really close race after 14 years of having a conservative mayor of Toronto She is the first liberal mayor in 14 years and she won after that mayor resigned, of course And yeah, I mean here's a little quick background from her. She's originally from Hong Kong immigrated at 13 She started on the school board of trustee. She was married to the former leader of the DNP Which is the like the Democratic the liberal party liberal one She was in the parliament and ran for mayor in 2014. She lost she was became a professor Then she ran again recently and now she won She speaks Cantonese Mandarin in English she was doing some interviews recently in Cantonese in English So I guess it's just a new face and a lot of new things are going on and kind of like shocking some Torontonians. Yeah, I think people are surprised that Kensim's Andrew who's Canadian born one in Vancouver And he's also married to an Indian wife I think that people are really surprised that she Olivia Chow won in Toronto Andrew These are the two biggest cities in Canada with the biggest population biggest economy the most important cities in Canada are run by Cantonese people now All right, we're gonna be breaking it down hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot-pot boys as we talk about Canadian politics and we polled a very real Canadian friend of ours who is Chinese and he gave you his honest breakdown of Olivia Chow Did he not a pretty smart guy? He's very proud of being Canadian and Chinese She he said it's cool that she's Chinese, but I think she's not well-versed to run a city that needs funding I think she will be a one-term mayor if I had to be honest It was a little bit surprising that she won anyway since she didn't do particularly well in the debates and ran a week platform But I do like the Vancouver mayor Kensim's, but of course for Toronto. I wish the best Yeah, I mean was this pretty real of him to say that he said I'm wishing the best for Olivia Chow You know can't oh it's got a rep for each other, but at the same time he was on a policy level He was keeping it real. He's a little skeptical and I think the reason why and I'm not I don't know all the details But I guess because she might not be fully experienced in what Toronto needs now that doesn't mean she can't do a good job But I guess people are skeptical, but anyways guys Before we get into the comment section that has everything from inflammatory to complementary to celebratory to negative David what what are your thoughts your quick thoughts? I think one of my most more selfish thoughts and this is Andrew We're all biased and I have human nature, right? We didn't I may be a human was like yo, man Would it be like have been more fun to grow up in Canada like literally? I'm just asking on a probability level obviously I love growing up in America all the cool subcultures come out of America more than they do Canada I'm just talking about like comfort ability. Why does it seem like there's more like comfortable upbringings for Chinese in Canada Yeah, I think if you want to grow up and be proud and be fluid in your Chineseness and not feel like so Much racism or so much pressure. I think growing up in Canada is great Especially in Vancouver, Toronto. Just ask can't tell Mando shout out to them I mean see moves from Canada Jackson Wayne Godfrey Gao RIP. It almost like Feels like a lot of like Edison was from Canada I'm not saying there's no struggles in Canada, but obviously we're just saying it might be a little bit more comfortable And my other thought was man I think it's really really really difficult to be the mayor of any major North American city right now to be honest I think that it would be the equivalent Andrew of inheriting a rusty bicycle With like 20 heavy suitcases on the back of the bicycle and then somebody giving you a bunch of very difficult Navigation missions to drive around the city and at some point Andrew your bicycle is about to break the tires about to go flat You already know it's rusty you start dumping priorities off the back even though you want to take them all with you You can't and guess what Andrew some people are like that was my priority I hate you and that is why the mayors of any major North American city It's almost like 40 to 60 percent of people always hate them Yeah I think being a politician really sucks right now because I thought that Everybody could be united over around what makes a city great But now those things are breaking down and now part of the city hates you and part of the city loves you and yeah Nothing's gonna make it possibly Andrew That is just a feature of the ultra individualism of late late-stage capitalism. Anyway, let's get in the comments section Andrew Somebody said Vancouver and Toronto now both have Chinese mayors. It'll take about 10 years to see what will come of this I'm kind of a I'm not rooting against them, but I'm just a little skeptical as a white Canadian Yeah, and then someone said Canada has been colonized by Europeans and now it is colonized by China fair enough playing field Right, I mean dude. I don't know if it's colonized by China Although these are people of Chinese descent Olivia is from Hong Kong. She was born in British Hong Kong by the way Um, like we said everybody's perspective on an issue is driven by like the life that they've lived and the lens that They see life through so I can totally understand some skepticism Obviously now that both of the major cities are run, you know not run by like the mayors are Chinese Somebody said, you know, I love Olivia Chow's speeches about let's bring everybody together to work together for a better future But literally this has never ever happened before so I don't know I mean these just feel like nice like Obama style speeches, right? Somebody said, you know, she won't actively make things worse But I have zero faith that she will actually fix something somebody said. Yeah Well, she can't really get anything done because no nothing works in the face of big money Everything will just stay the same and she'll be the scapegoat for the future Do you think Andrew if she has a downside mayorship it will hurt the chances of like other Asians getting elected in the future I think in the short term it would be it would be a bad look if she fails horribly, you know And if she shows up to be weak and everything obviously have also Ken Sims I think generally Ken Sims most people like what he's doing in Vancouver. He's very moderate, right? But it's very unclear how well Olivia Chow will do because she seems to be I guess a little bit less Experience in this sense of running a city like commerce side from what I heard guys. Like I said, I don't know You know, I'm not the most versed and Canadian I don't know a boot Canadian politics I do know that Olivia Chow was the first bilingual mayor of Toronto though Andrew because Toronto is famous for being very bad at French Despite French being one of the you know main languages for federal politicians obviously in Canada. It's really interesting But Ken Sims does speak French and he actually does not speak Chinese somebody Man, we got to move on to the spicy section. Oh my gosh and or some people a lot of people Obviously that were against Olivia Chow are accusing her of being a CCP plant and even some people said that Ken Sims is compromised Of course, of course anybody who has a drop of Chinese blood, I bet if they just look Chinese I bet if these people were Korean or Taiwanese a lot of people would even make the same jokes man That's the sad thing but anyways, obviously, there's a slew of comments First of all, you know, what's funny is that people get to leave comments no matter where they live These people could not even live in Canada and they get to leave these comments or they could be realistically Andrew in Was that Ottawa or Manitoba? Yeah, whatever, you know the Garth Brooks zone. I know there's a peg or yeah Anyway, the any of those places that are above the more rural places North Dakota, right? Yeah, so I'm saying like It of course it doesn't matter what they say But there's always that like joke or that fear that everybody's trying to like, you know, drum up Oh, she's all China's taken over because we got to Chinese faces Yeah, I get why visually you think that because it's such a quick and big change in your opinion But these are also the biggest cities if you had lived in Vancouver, Toronto You already know that it's super diverse 14% Indian 10% Chinese alone or 14% South Asian and 10% Chinese alone just in Toronto So I'm like guys like chill, you know, what's really interesting Andrew is in Canada at one point I feel like Canada I think was like so white that the French Franco whites and the Anglo whites used to not get in like beef But like used to argue about how French or English, you know, certain zones used to be so they're kind of like arguing You know, I guess they could get united in their skepticism of the Chinese mayor David is it weird? Everything is being racialized or should I say? Geo politicized I think that everything is at peak diversity But for some reason people are not like fully handling it as well as I would have guessed Of course, anybody would guess that there would be some sort of friction But it just seems like the friction is being amplified by social media And perhaps it is more of an internet thing than IRL thing though, man You know what man? I wish there was like some show or movie or like series about trying to solve The race wars, but a lot of people don't want to talk about it. No, we're talking about it on our channel I'm not standing man I'm trying to like trying to talk about it man because both sides ain't doing what they're supposed to do anyways Um, of course, there was a lot of arguing about no, she is from British Hong Kong She is not like with mainland China and someone said but oh, yeah I don't hear a really say that much about it because at the end of the day some of her Toronto base is still kind of Petriotic to mainland China, even though they're Canadian citizens now So I need to hear more anti Chinese words from her for me to trust her But obviously Andrew, uh, that's kind of like a very I guess Western or more of a white perspective, right? Like I can't trust you till you disavow The old land right you better hate China Once you become mayor because that's what's gonna make me feel safe the chairman chow and the chairman Mao eating boughs This comment right here is nothing undercuts the pro-Beijingers constant claim How racist the West is more than democratic elections add to this can sims is mayor of the biggest city in Vancouver All the members of Canadian Parliament that China tried to influence recently. I guess like if they're just saying like hey guys Look at Canada. They're pretty open. It's not racist, right? Yeah, and what do you think about the whole comment section that was saying? Oh, yeah, we're turning it into China. Why it's not even Canada anymore. It's China duh, I mean and we have to address this fear right because I Don't know what the truth is. I don't know if there was any sort of like pay officer I don't know think about it. The question is How did it become that way? Who let it become that way and why is that bad? Is it bad? How bad is it and who let it become that way who got bribed or who figured out that maybe this Asian person does a good job Right, or who like whose culture food is whatever like how did it go to the honeypot guys? Somebody had to eat the honey guys take the honey pot. I know did not put boots on the ground and Physically take over Canada. China has not done that. That's why the nemoidians I knew that they were going to use the round about circumventing tactics There was another comment saying that Andrew Mandarin and Cantonese are the number one and number two most spoken languages Outside of English and French in Canada. So it totally makes sense Or I mean in Toronto. I'm sorry. Yeah, I guess David overall in the takeaways man How what do you think about like? How just nobody can It seems like nobody can agree on anything man Like you know Toronto a place that you mean in Toronto Toronto Toronto so diverse Everybody celebrates the diversity there. It's like a New York City. It's kind of like, you know, Canada's New York Well, it's called it's referred to as Canada's New York, right? Right or New York of the north or whatever it is Like I think like it's kind of I mean, it's crazy to see somebody who looks like our kuma Like, you know get elected or someone who feels like Andrew that is auntie from happy Valley Pomade I'm teach out on teach out. But then uh, it's it's just so crazy that like It's always getting racialized and geopoliticized man. Yeah, it's just the internet. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, um, I Just think there needs to be more shows like you said to help people get over it And there needs to be more direct talk about it I like that's why I like comedy Sparking discussion and I think people realize that the more they talk about it the more they like can accept these others differences Yeah, you know what I mean? Like they may never fully see eye-to-eye like 10 out of 10 But you just want to get people like even like five or six out of 10 on the same page You know what it is? I personally I do feel like that I just hope she's the right person for the job I care a little bit that she's Chinese. I think it's cool and that is progressive That's cool to see but also if she were to fail. I don't think it's worth it Right, you said some sort of Alberto Fujimura situation in Peru. Yeah, because not only is it a bad look on Chinese people I don't really like that's the secondary. I really think that the worst cities get Which it's hard to agree on what makes the city bad But the worst cities get the more people are gonna be mad and angry and extreme, right? You know about their opinion So it's almost like I just want Cities to get better things to get better first and foremost whoever that may be for the job And then from that way we can have like these easier conversations. It seems like yeah, like you said man I think that right now we're at a point where it's almost like if enter this group They're like let's say a city's made up of like 10 buckets of people Somebody's bucket goes down 5% But another buckets person's bucket goes up 15% that person that's bucket went down 5% It's just mad about that and they don't care that this other group of people that they don't care about Their bucket went up 15% and that's for like every group. I'm not like pointing at a Political side that's guilty of this. This is like both sides exactly So anyways guys you let us know in the comments down below. Are you hopeful for Olivia Chow? Do you care? What does this mean? I mean, she's a mayor of the biggest city in Canada. What about when will we have a? An Asian mayor of the biggest city in America. I don't know and why does it seem like maybe the UK? You know, they have Rishi's to knock and now there is Olivia Chow and you know Kensim over here in Canada Why does it seem like us and maybe Australia like kind of behind? I don't know. Is it whose fault is it? Maybe nobody will the Asians help save the new world We will see All right, everybody. Let us know in the comments down below until next time. We are the hot-pot boys. We out