A monk in Los Angeles lived in deep forest for 2 years, to win an election in Canada

Okay, this is a very interesting situation, because at that time, I met a couple of guys, a couple of monks, we had a very nice chat for a couple of years, a few years, right? Even the big monks, they came to Canada, I was the only one, I was the one who initiated to talk to him. So it was one day, they invited me to be a monk, maybe for an entire summer in L.A. The situation is funny, it's so extreme. I regretted a day before to go, because we're going to take a flight to L.A., right? To Pearson Airport. I remember it was Terminal 2 or Terminal 1, whatever. So I purposely, I lay to the airport for two hours. So I assumed the flight should be flying away. I'm sorry I was late, but unfortunately, the flight didn't go. They told me they're broken down. So you weren't late? I was two hours late, but the flight's still there. So you didn't take off? I didn't take off, until I checked in. Until I checked in, they said, oh, it's done now, we can go. So I've been forced to do that. It was a very interesting experience, you know. Which year was that? Sorry? Which year? Well, I think it was 1994 or 1996. I was very young. But it was quite an experience. Yeah, I was there. For how long were you a monk? I've been there an entire summer. So what did you do as a monk? Same thing as what monks do, you know, get up early in the morning, then clean in, then do this. What's that called? The Bible? It's not called the Bible, whatever. You study. So you were at the temple? In the temple, yeah. I was in the Buddhist temple. I was shipping. I shipped. I don't know. Yeah, I got shipped, you know. I got to wear the clothes, you know. Oh, so you shaved your head? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. For real? It was real. It was real? It was real. Not like real. It was real. So the entire summer, so four months. So how did you then come back to a normal life? You know, at that time, I was only early 20-something, right? So I think it's pretty natural. At first, I called my friend in L.A. I told him, I'll be leaving tomorrow. Take me out. Get me barbeque. Because you got to be begging in the temple, right? Been four months there. So I told my friend, take me out to go to Korean barbeque right away. Yeah, enough. Yeah, enough, man. But it was quite experience. No, I only paid for the flight ticket. Well, you know, flight ticket was cheap, right? You have a couple hundred dollars U.S., you know, from Toronto to L.A. at that time. So I can regret it. Unfortunately, I guess they don't like me. They don't like me. Yeah. So it was your wish to seek another type of life instead of staying at the temple forever? Oh, I never planned to stay forever. But I want to know my experience of life, because I like to do these philosophy things, right? I want to know why we are human. You know, why I'm here. Why I have my parents here. Why so, so, so many why's here. My life, meaning of life. Taoism is, you know, it's very traditional Chinese, you know. Daoshi. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I live in the mountain, in deep mountain for two years. Where? In Taiwan. Taiwan? Yeah. Right in the mountain. And my master teach me in the morning, teach me at night. In the morning, we walk through the, into the mountain everywhere. Even in the woods. Even in, yeah, even in the forest, yeah. Forest. Yes, yeah. Two years. That's a quite exceptional experience, you know. But they still vague it. Damn, they all still vague it. Why, why? So, at that time, I still sneak to the place of taking some meat. Sneak it to the, it's okay. Because the thing is, you don't have to be really, really so strict yourself. At the end, this is what I learned. Also, this is what I come up with. Be yourself. If you want to help the people, try the best you can do. Yeah, yeah. The people, they think politicians, it's a bad job. But I think it's the real job for you can really, really helping the people there. When you got the right concept. Right, right idea. I want to be running this election because I see what Canada missing. See, look at here. I've been here almost 40 years. I remember what happened. The prime time was when I was here. You know, we're seeing it getting down gradually. I was looking at what happened. The result is, I can tell this result is because we, 30 years ago, we didn't do anything. For our infrastructure, we stopped. You know, we stopped right there. That's the problem to us. When more and more people come to Canada, our resources are not enough. Why we come to GTA here? Because our job's here. Right? So, when we get a, okay, GTA only this big. We're pouring more waters here. What happened? Overspill. Right? That's the problem. So, if we're making the GTA, not making GTA, we're making another fall or container in the other side. It has a job there. People go. Right? So, why we keep squeezing the GTA here for? Right? We have to make people shift. But we are not forcing. We are not this, we are not communism, right? To say, you go over there. You know, we're kind of forcing the people to do that. The thing is, we have to create this opportunity for them. That they're willing to go. People go with opportunity. Right? People say, oh, we got opportunity. We got a job there. They will live to go over there. That's it. This is the way we have to do it. This is under the federal policy. Even Ontario itself, they can't solve this problem. That's why I come to this federal level. Yeah. Because I believe in this politics, we're getting the policy here. We bring technology back to Canada. We'll bring infrastructure to Canada. We'll bring the high-speed rail in Canada. We're shifting the people from GTA to up north a little bit. Yeah. I think this can solve 80% of the problem here. And also, we can secure the next 40 years of our economic score. Yes. We have to think. We can't think, well, tomorrow, next year. We can't think tomorrow. We can't think next month. We can't think a couple years later. It won't. The problem won't solve. It's only getting worse. It looks like, oh, we're solving the problem right now. But a couple months later, it's getting worse. We need a good plan for that. Long-term plan. We make time to build up. Build with it. Yeah. That's why I say the technology part is so crucial in Canada right now, because we don't have any. We don't have any. Thank you for watching. Please comment, like, and follow us. See you next time.