A feature conversation with our friend Manny Montanagrino about Justin Trudeau's horrible, no good, very bad week. The Ezra LeVant Show features a great feature interview with Emmanuel Montenegrino, CEO of Think Sharp.
00:12:50.160We're rudderless going through the ocean, and we don't know where we're landing, and we have nothing.
00:12:54.840And it's a terrible situation, because Canada was a principled, strong nation with lots of core values that saw us through, from one prime minister to another, whether he be liberal or conservative, the same core values.
00:13:20.320You know, I was thinking, other than Ukraine and Cuba, are there any countries with whom Canada has a stronger relationship now than before Trudeau took over from Harper?
00:15:31.060And so is the American administration.
00:15:32.800So if you look at it, and you're absolutely right, Ezra, and I'm going to tell you something, Ukraine, like anyone that gets close to Trudeau is, finds himself in deep, deep trouble.
00:15:46.000Ezra, no one takes Justin Trudeau seriously.
00:15:51.620You know, Stephen Harper, I think, got Canada punching above our weight in foreign affairs.
00:15:57.640I think even Barack Obama, who was so opposite to Harper in many ways, he respected Harper enough that he actually didn't kill the Keystone XL pipeline until after Trudeau was elected.
00:16:13.080I mean, Obama was against that pipeline and he was contrary to Harper, but he respected Harper and their working relationship enough not to insult him by killing it when he was PM.
00:16:23.880And I think that Joe Biden walks all over Canada and Obama walked all over Canada.
00:16:30.400And Harper, every country in the world, at least knew where Canada stood.
00:16:37.000And he, by the way, took on Putin in his own way, too.
00:16:40.320Remember when he met him at a meeting and he said, I'll shake your hand, but don't invade Ukraine or something.
00:18:43.920Now, we've been talking about foreign affairs, but I want to back up for a second because Trudeau had another problem on his hands between India and Ukraine and this Nazi they dug up.
00:18:56.780And that is, about a week ago, they called it the Million Person March.
00:19:03.120I don't know if there was quite a million, but boy, there were tens, maybe hundreds of thousands all across the country.
00:19:12.400We had 14 journalists in seven different cities covering these folks, and it was about parents and their kids worried about their children of tender years being taught radical gender ideology, being taught they can change their pronouns, change from boys to girls and girls to boys.
00:19:32.320And you can be tolerant of different sexual orientations for grown adults making their own decisions, but the focus on young kids, I think, is what really prompted parents to become protesters for the first time in their life.
00:19:48.880And the organizer of these massive protests was actually a Muslim man.
00:19:54.040And I think we saw members of the Muslim community and other immigrant communities who were generally a little bit shy about joining protests.
00:20:02.540It was a very multiracial, multicultural protest.
00:20:06.100And I think the iconic image for me was a Muslim woman wearing a hijab, holding a sign over her head, going from memory, it said something like, don't trust anyone who says to keep a secret from your parents.
00:20:17.600And we used to teach that to kids, don't take candy from a stranger, don't keep secrets from your parents.
00:20:54.060And I don't know why people are not calling him out on it.
00:20:57.400If you have a million people, let's go back to the protest, the truckers' protest.
00:21:06.700Because one Nazi flag, and there's some discussion of whether it was planted by a liberal or not, but let's forget it.
00:21:13.800That one Nazi flag was enough for him, for Trudeau, to paint the brush that everyone was a Nazi, everyone was bad.
00:21:23.900All these, these are good people trying to get some, and following good science, but he paints the brush.
00:21:31.180And yes, with this million-a-person march, Ezra, in addition to what you said, what's more important than the teachings of kids is the inserting government between parent and child.
00:21:50.080It was, you know, the teaching stuff, we'll get into that.
00:21:53.040But please do not come between father and child or mother and child.
00:21:58.500And that's what the Muslim community, the Christian community, and normal people say it's wrong.
00:22:04.100But now because we say we don't want government between, we don't want our child to be taken away and hidden from us because they might say something to an advocate teacher and we lose custody of our child.
00:23:12.760Now, I noticed yesterday that a prominent Muslim affairs council put out a statement basically telling Trudeau to stop insulting their members who were worried about this sexual ideology.
00:23:25.600And listen, it's just a tweet and it's just a statement.
00:23:28.800And I put it to you that most Muslims don't follow their official political leadership any more than more Jews or Italians or Greeks do.
00:23:37.680So I wouldn't overstate the importance of it other than Trudeau has had a lot of the Muslim vote locked up for a few elections.
00:23:47.720It was sort of his counter approach to Stephen Harper really had the Jewish vote and the pro-Israel vote.
00:23:53.020And I think Trudeau said, I can't beat Trudeau.
00:23:55.600I mean, Trudeau really thinks about ethnicity and voting.
00:23:58.540I think that's why we got in the pickle with India and the Sikh extremist issue.
00:24:03.120I think it's why Trudeau cozied up to this Yaroslav hunker because there's a – he thought, well, there's domestic politics at play.
00:24:12.180And I think Trudeau really emphasized the Muslim community and it was very successful for him.
00:24:17.100And now he's calling them homophobic and transphobic.
00:24:21.320And I think for the first time we're seeing a pushback.
00:24:23.980I think Trudeau is in trouble at home and abroad.
00:24:27.240Manny, I remember when Trudeau would get in a pickle and he would fly down to New York to give a speech to the UN or he would fly off to some meeting and he would get all the love.
00:24:37.320He would sprinkle foreign aid around and everyone would love him and he would be away from those pesky reporters and the troubles of home.
00:24:43.060Now, whether it's at home and the trans issue or abroad and he's stunk up the joint on foreign affairs or this latest thing, I think Trudeau is actually a bit miserable.
00:24:59.000I don't think he's having fun anymore.
00:25:06.280I mean, in Canada – the media doesn't show this, but I see it on the internet – when he goes to a meeting, there are hundreds of people yelling terrible things at the prime minister.
00:25:19.140And every event he goes to, he sees that.
00:25:23.480When he goes abroad now, the last G20 meeting, he was pariah.
00:25:39.820People have understood – Ezra, with India, which is a huge thing, you did make a good point that the world is moving away from China to India.
00:25:50.460India is going to be perhaps – I'll call it the savior of what could be if China becomes a world leader.
00:25:59.020India is the great counterbalance to that.
00:27:11.920So here now he sends, he gives an allegation that we've never seen in history, unprecedented, prime ministering something in the House of Commons and blames India for a murder.
00:27:23.900And then he says the next day, I don't want to talk about it.
00:27:27.080You can't, you cannot, if you understand natural justice, it goes back to 1215, India has it, we have it, UK has it, America has it, is that if you lay an allegation against someone, you have a duty to lay out the whole case.
00:27:44.020And you have a duty for a speedy trial because you can't leave these people hanging.
00:27:49.060He's leaving a whole nation of 1.5 billion people hanging.
00:27:53.120He makes this terrible allegation, then walks away and says, I'm done.
00:28:02.940We need to know right away because we need to clear this.
00:28:05.620You know, I remember when Trudeau came back from India and he, it was very poorly, everything was very bad about it.
00:28:13.760There were no success, but he came back to Canada and he had sort of a group of meetings with former politicians, Tony Blair of the UK, Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, Santa Maran of Finland.
00:28:30.020I think, I'm trying to remember the names of some of the others, most of them had been run out of town from their own countries.
00:29:03.360It felt sort of sad that he couldn't get an important meeting at the real country meeting, but he could meet with all these ex-leaders, many of whom are in disgrace.
00:29:38.900Ezra, let me throw something out here.
00:29:40.720When you say he needs a gig or something to do, I'm concerned that of the $9.5 billion that is kind of washed through a pretty corrupt country.
00:29:53.680We've already seen in the United States that they removed some Ukrainian leaders because there's a lot of financial corruption over their money.
00:30:01.540Why is it we're not talking about, is that happening to Canada?
00:30:06.440And here, is any of that $9.5 billion fining it to Canadian politicians and particularly Justin Trudeau?
00:30:34.040Right, and he went and spoke at high schools and during, I'm the only one that tweeted on this and looked at this, but when he went to these high schools, and he was the youth shadow minister.
00:30:49.620When he went to those high schools, he got paid for them and they said, well, that's all right.
00:31:25.200And when Senator, why am I, his name is scamping me, Duffy was in trouble with his expenses, he then volunteered to pay it back because he knew that he could be on the hook.
00:31:40.160So here's a kid, a brand new MP that basically double-billed, knew what he was doing, billing the, making money as a speaker when that's what MP.
00:31:53.060He should be doing, but also billing the expenses twice.
00:33:17.260The amount of money sloshing out of Canada in the name of Ukraine that is not being vetted is much larger, a multiple, a hundred times larger of what's going on with China.
00:33:32.180And how much is flowing back to the big guy here in Canada?
00:33:41.760No one's even asking the question, is it possible?
00:33:44.860And no one's even saying, I'm saying, given this guy's got a pattern, and we've now cited five different events, and to include the Trudeau Foundation and family, with the WE Charity.
00:33:55.800You know, to me, the WE Charity was not about the charity.
00:33:59.420It was about, I actually believe that this pandemic was a killer that was going to kill millions, if you believe the lies at the beginning.
00:34:09.780And his first thought was, yeah, let's forget about vaccines.
00:34:13.840How can I get some money from the $1 billion to my family?
00:34:53.320I mean, it's been a bad week for Trudeau, and I would put it to you that it's been a bad year.
00:35:00.240And I think that for a lot of people, the fever broke when the truckers stared down Trudeau, and he panicked, and he brought in martial law.
00:35:07.980I think if you look at the polling numbers, he's been trending down ever since.
00:35:12.000And I think the truckers also helped renovate and rejuvenate the Conservative Party of Canada by getting a new leader in there.
00:35:18.940So the combination of Trudeau overplaying his hand and a new conservative leader, and I feel like we're on the right trend poll-wise.
00:35:26.400But so many things can happen between now and election.
00:36:44.440And I don't know if there's any strong people in the Liberal cabinet to put an end to this.
00:36:54.640Certainly, when I saw Minister Gold, I mean, it broke my heart.
00:37:00.860This is a woman who said that her parents were, or grandparents were survivors of the Holocaust.
00:37:07.160I mean, how dare you be loyal to this man?
00:37:11.520Like, maybe it's Italian in me, but boy, if I were to dishonor my family that way, I would walk out of that party and I said, I brought dishonor to the Jewish community.