Justin Trudeau makes bashing western Canada part of his reelection plan
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A letter from six Canadian premiers, including the premier of the Northwest Territories, Bob McLeod, to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It's a good letter, and I want to answer the question, is Western separatism a real thing?
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Folks, I want to show you the letter from six Canadian premiers,
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including the premier of the Northwest Territories, a great guy named Bob McLeod,
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I want to read to you a few paragraphs from it.
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And I want to show you Trudeau's response to it.
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And I want to answer the question, is Western separatism a real thing?
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Tonight, Justin Trudeau plans to make bashing Western Canada part of his re-election plan.
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It's June 13th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Hey, did you see the letter from six premiers, five provincial premiers, and Bob McLeod,
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the premier of the Northwest Territories, he's one of my favorite guys, by the way,
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pro-development, solid guy, aboriginal too, by the way.
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With Justin Trudeau sacking Jody Wilson-Raybould, I think it's fair to say that he's the most
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prominent elected aboriginal leader in Canada, the most senior probably.
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So you'd think we'd hear a lot more about him, except for what I just mentioned.
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He's pro-development, anti-carbon tax, pro-resources.
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So the media, which normally searches, goes an extra mile for an aboriginal angle on anything,
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in the name of affirmative action or whatever, well, they deliberately unreport anything Premier
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McLeod does, because he's not on their left-wing narrative.
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Oh, do they hate him now even more for writing a mean letter to the precious, Justin Trudeau.
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We are writing on behalf of the governments of Ontario, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
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Collectively, our five provinces and territory represent 59% of the Canadian population and
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We are central to Canada's economy and prosperity, and it is of the utmost importance that you consider
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I wonder what percentage of the geography they are, too, and that's relevant because those
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Now, in case you don't know, by their parliamentary numbers, Bill C-69 is the absurd bill championed
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It's a bill that would kill any large industrial project in Canada, but it would let foreign imports
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from China or OPEC come into Canada unregulated.
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Example, it would force any oil and gas or mining project in Canada to go through a carbon
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analysis, but not imports of foreign oil from Saudi Arabia to Canada.
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I never want to stop showing this because I want to show you how crazy they are.
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Here's Catherine McKenna, possibly the worst salesman in the history of salesmen.
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Project decisions will be based on science, evidence, and Indigenous traditional knowledge.
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We're also taking a bigger picture look at the potential impacts of a proposed project.
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Instead of just looking at the environmental impacts, we'll look at how a project could affect
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our communities and health, jobs and the economy over the long term, and we'll also do a gender-based
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Now, I know I've shown you this next clip before once or twice, too, but seriously, when even
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Dawn Martin of CTV thinks you're nuts, you know you're nuts.
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How does that fit into a pipeline approval process?
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So I'm really glad you asked that because I think people are like, well, what is this gender
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Well, imagine that you have a huge number of people going to a remote community, many
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And actually, once again, smart proponents understand this.
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It's just taking a smart approach to thinking about, okay, what's going to be the impact of
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Yeah, guys, Catherine McKenna is here to say that all the smart companies are really doing
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gender analysis for their factories because no one knows smart companies like Catherine
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McKenna, veteran business leader and job creator.
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Bill C-48 is the tanker ban off the north coast of BC, except it's not really a tanker
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It just bans the export of Alberta oil on tankers from the north coast of BC.
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There are US oil tankers going up and down the BC coast with oil from Alaska and other
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And of course, there's no tanker ban on Canada's east coast to stop Saudi tankers bringing OPEC
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Anyways, let me read a little bit more of the premier's letter.
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Canadians across the country are unified in their concern about the economic impacts of
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the legislation such as it was proposed by the House of Commons.
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In this form, the damage it would do to the economy, jobs, and investment will echo from
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Provincial and territorial jurisdiction must be respected.
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Provinces and territories have clear and sole jurisdiction over the development of their
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non-renewable natural resources, forestry resources, and the generation and production
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Bill C-69 upsets the balance struck by the constitutional division of powers by ignoring the exclusive
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provincial powers over projects relating to these resources.
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The federal government must recognize the exclusive role provinces and territories have
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over the management of our non-renewable natural resource development or risk creating a
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My only quibble is I think it's a little bit overstated to say that all Canadians are united
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in their concern about the economic impacts here.
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The makers of Canada are concerned, but not the takers, which is pretty dumb given that
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there's no wealth, if there's no wealth created by the makers, then there's no wealth to be
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But there's a reason why the fable about the man who killed the golden goose that laid the
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golden eggs, that's a classic because it's human nature.
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Maybe one of the reasons why the takers are the takers is because they're not quite so good
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There are still parts of Canada, especially in the media, in academia, in politics, in lobby
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groups, who absolutely do want to destroy Canada's resource sector, which is precisely
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why they support these bills, is precisely why they were written this way.
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And Trudeau's inner circle, his key ministers like McKenna, their chiefs of staff, his key
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advisors, they were actually, in some cases, the senior leaders in the Rockefeller Brothers
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This is a slide from their campaign plan, as you know, literally the same people who
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were part of this campaign against the oil sands are now chiefs of staff running Canada's
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energy ministry, running McKenna's environment ministry, have senior policy positions in Trudeau's
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So yeah, there are definitely pockets of Canadians who hate Canadian oil and gas and mining and
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But no one in the real world, no one who can't just, you know, get a grant from Trudeau or McKenna.
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Canada, we can't all get $12 million for free fridges, you know, some of us have to
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And Canada is blessed with oil and gas and minerals, so that's as good a place to work
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The law doesn't even have to be in place for it to do its damage.
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As I told you a few months ago, the National Energy Board recorded the first decline in
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Even though global demand for oil and gas has never been higher and is expected to continue
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to climb, Canada is sitting on the world's third largest reserves of oil in the world.
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And we actually have half of all the world's accessible oil, which is what I mean, oil that's
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open for drilling by any company that's not commanded by some tyrant or king or dictator.
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And please don't tell me it's because of oil prices.
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Oil prices are healthy enough in the 50-plus U.S. dollar range, enough to spur record production,
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for example, right across the border from Saskatchewan, for example, in North Dakota, which is the
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exact same geological formation called the Bakken Formation as Saskatchewan has.
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So North Dakota's never been richer, Texas's never been richer, never been busier, and we're
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British Columbia's liquefied natural gas industry, which is huge.
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It's drilling and fracking and pipelines and those massive LNG facilities to put the gas
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onto ships and send it to places like Japan and Korea.
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I mean, why waste time in Canada fighting with Trudeau and old Yeller there, asking if
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Hey, were you smart enough to do a gender analysis on your LNG?
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Yeah, no, you'll just invest in Texas or Louisiana or Australia now.
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So we've lost over $100 billion worth of construction projects.
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Now, when Trudeau took office in 2015, the country was pretty much with him.
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As you can see, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland were pretty much the only conservative places.
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And here we are four years later, look at the map.
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Holy moly, most of the country is conservative now, including parts of Atlantic Canada, and
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And I think that is undeniably due, at least in part, to a reaction to Trudeau.
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Yeah, of course, provincial politics is provincial politics.
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But Trudeau is the biggest personality in Canadian liberal politics.
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And his policies have started to hurt the provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, obviously.
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I think you can lump Ontario in there, too, especially with Trudeau's carbon tax and the
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Well, when you kill a $15.7 billion pipeline project called Energy East that was going to
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terminate in New Brunswick and all your provincial premiers were liberal and they're turning into
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Yeah, I think Trudeau really was part of the mix for the results in the Atlantic.
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So my point today is the premier's letter from the six premiers to Trudeau, it's true
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There's a constitutional problem here because the federal government, well, it would be nice
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if they actually championed jobs for the rest of us, I mean, other than just the corrupt
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cronies of Bombardier and SNC-Lavalin and Loblaws.
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But at the very least, perhaps they could stop blocking natural job creation, stop letting
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Trudeau himself personally killed the Northern Gateway pipeline.
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Here's a poll done by Angus Reid earlier this year.
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Who would you vote for federally if there were a Western separatist party around?
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I'm not surprised that in Alberta, which you can see right in the middle there, 40% of
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It's literally the number one option in every Western province.
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It would be in a three-way tie in Manitoba, but a tie for first.
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I note that the conservatives would be the second place choice in every province too.
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So every single age group is pro-separatist, including millennials, by the way.
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And I think it's interesting that support for this radical option, I mean, separatism
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I guess that's a reflection that people who have been around a while have concluded
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We had it in various degrees under Mulroney and Kretchen too.
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So what did Justin Trudeau have to say about this Western discontent?
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Quebecers are better than the rest of Canada because, you know, we're Quebecers.
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Or maybe that's exactly perfectly the right clip.
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He baits and smashes the West to delight his friends at the CBC in Montreal to a degree
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I want you to look at the smirk and the sideways head bob.
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I think it's absolutely irresponsible for Conservative Premiers to be threatening our national unity
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The fundamental job of any Canadian Prime Minister is to hold this country together,
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to gather us together and move forward in the right way.
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And anyone who wants to be Prime Minister, like Andrew Scheer, needs to condemn those attacks
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The Premiers are worried about national disunity because Canadians are worried about national
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But Trudeau says that by raising those concerns, the Premiers are creating national disunity.
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By raising the concerns, by reflecting the will of their constituents, their voters, their
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industries, by representing their regions, they're creating a problem.
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Anyone who says they're a problem, they're the only problem.
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Trudeau isn't very good at solving problems, partly because he doesn't admit there are problems
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And he doesn't really solve those problems, but he can apologize for them, can't he?
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Usually with a lot of tears from the dramatic actor or substitute drama teacher, so you know
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It's a form of his censorship policy, isn't it?
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He'll just stop people from expressing themselves.
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He leans on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube to get critics shut up.
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He'll revive the Section 13 censorship provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
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So if everyone is silenced and no one is saying there's a problem, then there's obviously
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If you put a piece of duct tape across someone's mouth, you have maybe silenced them, but you
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Oh, and by the way, at least Pierre Trudeau claimed to fight against separatism.
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But at least he claimed to try to fight against it.
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Stephen Harper, by the way, he cooled Quebec separatism to absolute zero.
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Imagine that, a Western conservative from Calgary, so appeasing and appealing to Quebec, that
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Well, Justin Trudeau, he's not quite as patriotic as his old man, is he?
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He said, this is what he said a few years back when he was in opposition, he said, and I
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always say that if I ever believed Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper, and
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we were going against abortion and going against gay marriage, and we were going backward
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in 10,000 different ways, maybe I'd think of wanting to make Quebec a country.
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Yeah, you know, I think this isn't an accident.
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See, if Quebec was upset about anything, Trudeau would give them whatever they wanted.
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Look at how far he was willing to go for SNC-Lavalin or Bombardier or whatever.
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Because I think Justin Trudeau has calculated in his mind there are enough haters in the
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He wants the West angry, because maybe he can win Toronto and Ottawa and Quebec and the
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That head-bobbing peacock move shows this is something he was certainly thinking about.
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I think Justin Trudeau would absolutely sacrifice Canadian unity to win the next election.
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Stay with us for more on the subject of Lauren Gunter.
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Well, who better to talk about this than our friend Lauren Gunter, senior columnist at the
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Trudeau risks Western Canadian resentment with pig-headed environmentalism.
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I agree with that as far as it goes, Lauren, but I think it's not just environmentalism.
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I think he just likes baiting and bashing the West.
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Environmentalism is his cause du jour, but it could be anything.
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When our son, who is now in his mid-20s, was seven, he came back from school one day and we asked him about how things were going.
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He was talking about the principal at his elementary school.
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He said, that Mrs. C has too much government in her.
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And my wife laughed and she said, where do you think he gets that from?
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Like he sat at that kitchen table as a child and heard his father go after Western Canada and probably, you know, probably disparage Alberta all the time.
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It would be very hard for him not to have drunk a lot of that up.
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It's not just environmentalism, but on this issue, which was, you know, the pair of anti-pipeline bills that the liberals are going to pass before the end of this session.
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I think they're doing more than anything else to stir up that resentment.
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I mean, it's true, even just by passive osmosis, if you're at the dinner table with your prime minister, dad, and especially, I mean, Trudeau was born in December of 1971.
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He wouldn't have any memory of the first term or two of Pierre Trudeau's government.
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But by the time the National Energy Program came around in 1980, 81, 82 kind of time, okay, now Justin Trudeau, the boy, is 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and he's taking an interest in his dad.
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And so he's paying attention not in the, you know, wage and price control era of Trudeau, but in the smash the West, destroy the West, NEP era of Pierre Trudeau.
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And that would be his final memory of his dad's prime ministership, his strongest memory, maybe his only memory.
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And you know, there's a great book that was written by a former liberal insider called The Fights of Our Lives, and it talks about the five or six elections in Canadian history that have made a difference to the way we're governed.
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And it talks about the 1980 election, which is the one where Trudeau made some vague, Pierre Trudeau made some vague promise about, you know, a made in Canada energy policy or whatever.
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But nobody ever said anything about the National Energy Program.
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And then within a year of the election, of course, they sprang that on us.
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But there's a great story because it was always, there's always been this rumor that during that campaign in the liberal war room, Keith Davey, who was the longtime senator and chairman of election preparedness for the liberals, there was this rumor forever that he had said, screw the West, we'll take the rest.
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And the liberals had always said, oh, my goodness, no, no, no, no, no, no one ever said that.
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And so, I mean, I think this group of liberals is not as honest as the last group, even with themselves.
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I don't think they sit down and they say, we're going to screw the West, we're going to screw Alberta.
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But everything they do is, you know, is anathema to what it is that we value, that we believe, and that we advance.
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You know, I want to make one more point and get your reaction to it on Trudeau echoing his father's comments, because it's not the most important thing here.
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The most important thing is that he is doing what he's doing.
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He's poo-pooing the concerns by these six premiers, including, I should point out, an aboriginal premier of Northwest Territories.
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I want to say one more thing about Trudeau echoing his dad, because I look at Trudeau, and I think he's not a serious man like his dad.
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His dad, however wrongheaded, was a thinker and a writer and a sort of scholar, and he had a firm worldview.
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And whenever I hear Trudeau talk about something spontaneously, like not as in reading a script, it feels like a 10-year-old's recollection, or a grown-up's recollection of what he heard when he was 10.
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So the instinctive distaste, aesthetically, for those yucky Westerners.
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Look at the other two things, the other couple things you can see in him today.
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I mean, the only things that Trudeau actually cares about, other than marijuana legalization.
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And he had reached for their basic dictatorship.
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You had to admire their basic dictatorship because it's enabled them to become one of the world leaders in environmentalism.
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That is so wrong, so shallow, and so dense that you have to wonder how an adult would even say that.
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That's a 45-year-old, 48-year-old man remembering a feeling that he got from his dad 35 years ago.
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Yeah, I mean, I have a slightly different one, but it basically boils down to an underdeveloped mind.
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I think that he was sort of enamored of his freshman seminars in political science at McGill and has never advanced into the real world.
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I mean, we all did that when we were in university, right?
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Maybe by fourth year, we were either activists or we were realists.
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And as we moved through family and mortgages and jobs and careers and things, we lost a lot of that immature and naive freshman mentality.
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He could go around to folk music festivals and drink a little too much beer, smoke a little too much weed, maybe grab a reporter here and there.
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And that was as serious as he ever had to be because there was a family fortune that was paying his way.
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Then a bunch of seasoned liberals came along and they said, gee, if we had that name leading our party, we could get back to power.
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And I've used this analogy with you before and with others too.
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And if you've ever seen Jersey Kaczynski's book, Being There, or the movie that was made with Peter Sellers about that book,
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about a guy who is a little slow, wanders off from his job as a gardener to a rich guy after the rich guy dies,
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And yet the tony people, the trendy people, all think it means something.
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I remember, oh, I just forgot the name of the comedian.
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As long as the roots are not severed, all is well, and all will be well in the garden.
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That is, it's, that's not only the, the, the, uh, shallowness of Trudeau's comments,
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but that accurately shows how the fancy people are wowed by this genius.
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Let's get, I mean, we're having a lot of fun talking about Justin Trudeau, uh, because you
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There's a dearth of this kind of psychology of like every utterance of Stephen Harper,
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everything Trump has said, you get a medical point of view by the left.
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You get a psychological analysis by the left, his family, his relationships, none of that
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So I feel like there's, I mean, Sophie Trudeau just did an interview the other day.
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No wedding ring on, and I'm not saying that there's trouble in the Trudeau house.
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I am pointing out that you don't see her in public with Trudeau a lot.
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If that was Melania Trump, if Melania Trump had given an interview with no wedding ring
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on, that would be front page New York times and Sunday night live.
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How many times did you see her facial expression examined at the inaugural bowl?
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Remember that was, that was a big thing for days.
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Well, that's, I mean, that's a lot of fun and I enjoy talking about it because no one
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else in this country seems to, but let's get back to the meat and potatoes here, which
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Those are two bills that would disproportionately punish not only industry, but Western industry.
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So these six premiers are saying, we got a problem here, Houston.
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I mean, I, I, I liken Trudeau's response where he said that these six premiers were a
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threat to national unity as, as when somebody in a schoolyard says, you're a bonehead.
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And, and the person who's, who's the subject of, of the insult thinks they're being witty.
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And I just, I think that's, that's the level at which he's at at this point.
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And, and so you have this, this prime minister who doesn't understand the effects that his
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policies are having on other parts, or maybe even relishes the effects that they're having,
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because these are parts of the country that he doesn't really like anyway.
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And so he's, he's happy because this is, is energizing the people he needs to vote for
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The, the downtown Toronto, uh, full environmentalist who, who's so happy we're going to get
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rid of plastic straws because that's going to save the turtles.
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Uh, I mean, that, that kind of person who shares his shallow thinking, uh, but expert
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after expert, after expert told the senators who were examining these two bills that they
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And the interesting thing about this is that on C 69, which is the one that increases the
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number of, uh, uh, steps in, in the approval process in the assessment process for future,
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uh, pipelines in bill C 69, the, the independent senators who we all know are the liberal senators
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and the conservative senators went away on their own and, and, and, and constructed their
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And when they came back, the two reports were very, very similar.
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It's so similar that they could get together very quickly and form a joint report.
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And despite that, despite the fact that they heard thousands of hours of testimony that
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they, uh, they listened to scores of witnesses and the two of them together, both sides agreed
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Um, despite that, no, Trudeau says, no, we're not changing this bill in any substantial way.
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Uh, we're going to leave it just the way we sent it to you.
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We don't care whether it's hard on national unity.
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We don't care whether it's hard on the economy because it's a going to get us reelected and
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I have of, uh, the, the, the environment that we can switch from a fossil fuel, uh, economy
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to a zero carbon economy, just with the, the waving of a magic wand.
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It's, it's the kind of answer you'd expect from a guy who says, oh, I'm reducing my plastic
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by buying water, uh, for $36 U S for 12 liter packages shipped to my house, by the way, in
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I want to do one more amateur psychological round here because we, we heard, we've heard
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a lot in the last six months about Trudeau's personality that we haven't heard in the last
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We've heard, we've seen how he passively aggressively dealt with Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott.
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Soon the passive just gave way to the aggressive.
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We've heard from Selena, from Selena Cesar Chavan, uh, the, the immigrant, I think from Grenada,
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the black lady who was really, uh, hotheaded in her own right.
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But we heard how Trudeau shouted at her on the phone when he didn't get his way.
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We heard how Trudeau was the driving force behind the false prosecution of Vice Admiral
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Mark Norman because he dared to, uh, not fall into line.
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Um, I think Trudeau has a personality quirk that if he doesn't get his way in politics,
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which is a game of give and take, he pouts and he's vengeful.
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And, and you saw that even when those Aboriginal protesters came in to his fundraiser in Toronto
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I remember too, you remember too, he was at a corn roast in August last year, just south
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And a woman asked him when he was going, the federal government was going to pay back the
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Quebec government, the $149 million that it cost Quebec to accept, to, to, to offer social
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services to the people he was allowing to come across illegally from the United States.
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And he said, that kind of racism isn't needed here.
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And I mean, granted the woman was a bit edgy, but she's a voter.
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She's not somebody in, in a great position of power, but he ranted on her and called her
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And really, maybe, maybe there was sort of a hint of racism in what she was meaning, but
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she didn't say anything racist and he just jumped on her.
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And I remember that incident and we'll play some background footage here as, as I mentioned
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The police grabbed her and twisted her arm and wouldn't let her go.
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And, and we see, I don't know if you know this, Lauren, but we had a young reporter,
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Kian Bexty, go to a prime minister's event in, in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan.
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A PMO handler literally elbowed our Kian Bexty there.
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Let me ask you, listen, I'm enjoying the psychological conversation about Trudeau and
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his team because it's not analyzed enough out there, but let's bring it back one more
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Do you think Bill C-69 and B-C-48, do you think those will be rammed through by Justin Trudeau?
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Yes, yes, I do, because of just what we said, that he gets his back up about things and he
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thinks that he needs to have his way, that he's the prime minister, he gets to have his
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But also because I do think they genuinely believe in the liberal caucus, in the House
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of Commons, that these are really good bills, A, for the environment and B, for their re-election
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chances, which are dwindling in, in some key ways.
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Frankly, at this point, I am still worried that we're going to have a liberal minority
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and it's going to be held in place by the NDP or the Greens, which would be even worse
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But yes, I do think this is going to get pushed through for all of those reasons, because
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Trudeau is arrogant and because he really honestly believes his own publicity, that these
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You remember, you know what he did, of course, before he became prime minister.
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Immediately before he became prime minister, he was a very well-paid motivational speaker
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who mostly went to public sector conventions and conferences and gave them backpacks about
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how important their public service jobs were, whether they were teachers or bureaucrats or
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nurses or whatever it was, how important those jobs were to Canada, how important they were
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I don't disagree with that, but that's, that's all he did.
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He had these bromides that he would go and he'd deliver for a half an hour and then they'd
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all swoon and, and clap and, and I think, but you know, cause you've been to conferences
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that when you go, you get this happy feeling, right?
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You want to start in on, on re, re, uh, energize your mission, whatever it is, it's politics,
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So he, he just thinks because he went to all these conferences, got paid a lot of money
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and people rushed up to him afterwards and said, Oh, you're so insightful.
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And so then when, when he says something and anyone, whether it's a citizen or an opposition,
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a politician, uh, disagrees with them and sometimes very sharply, he's never seen that
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You know, believe it or not, I used to have the same speaking agent as him and I used to
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follow, I used to see clips of some of his speeches and that's exactly what it was like.
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Like he, Justin Trudeau should have been on the Ted talk circuit and some sort of, you
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know, frankly, if he were a governor general, I would hate it if he wrote his own speeches,
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but being a mascot, just showing up everywhere, smiling, selfies, if he could have been nonpartisan,
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that would have been actually a good place for him.
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But anyone who has to deal with disagreement or policy is not the job for him.
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Listen, Laura, I could talk to you all day about these things because you're one of the
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few guys in the country who aren't afraid to challenge the precious one, but I know you've
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That's our friend, Lauren Gunter, senior columnist of the Edmonton Sun.
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I encourage you to read his article in today's edition.
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Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about Trudeau's proposed plastics ban.
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Joel writes, don't forget Trudeau thinks babies are scientists, so he must think this
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nine-year-old kid is the world's most renowned guru on everything.
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You know, as Lauren Gunter said, Trudeau used to go to these, he loves speaking in
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front of high school kids because he can just say any goofy thing like babies are scientists
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and we'll grow the economy from the heart out and he always can end sentences with some
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Now, I said for a long time that Gerald Butts was the Rasputin of Canadian politics.
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And I think the proof of that moment was in the Trudeau inquiry where Justin Trudeau was
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prosecuted and convicted by the ethics commissioner violating, was it four or five counts of the
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Conflict of Interest Act for taking the free gift from the Aga Khan.
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I know you've heard me say this before, but the accusation was that by taking a vacation worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in secret from the Aga Khan, Trudeau was at risk for corruption
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because, of course, the Aga Khan is a huge lobbyist getting huge grants from the government of Canada.
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And Trudeau's defense to that accusation, which on the face of it is so obvious, someone, you know, Aga Khan, who's a billionaire, of course he'll let Trudeau hang out at his Bahamas property.
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When he's got a grant request in, it's business.
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That's how they do it in the third world, at least.
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Trudeau said, no, no, no, no, no, couldn't be because I don't know anything.
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I wouldn't understand what the hell he's talking about.
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I just come in, shake hands, I'm a relationship builder, and then I let the smart people do the work.
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Read the, Google it, find the Trudeau report by the ethics commissioner.
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He said, I couldn't be corrupted because I had no idea what the man was saying to me.
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Gerald Butts used to run this government, now he's gone.
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It's so clear that Trudeau's just bouncing around like a pinball.
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On my interview with Barbara Kaye, Paul writes,
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the liberals keep upping the rhetoric they call pro-life anti-choice.
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Now we're guilty of genocide because of murders of Natives by Natives.
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Someone sent me a message yesterday asking me what the legal consequences to a conviction for genocide is.
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And I thought, well, you know, getting into international law, and I don't even know if international law is a real thing,
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And if someone has actually been found convicted of genocide, if a government has, what are the so-called consequences?
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What were the consequences in Bosnia or Rwanda?
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Obviously, the Holocaust ended when the Third Reich was destroyed by the Allies.
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And the Armenian genocide just ended when the Turks rolled over everyone.
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The Ukrainian genocide of the Holodomor, again, Stalin, quote, won.
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So what does happen when a sitting government is, quote, convicted of genocide?
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Now, maybe even a genocide court at The Hague would say Trudeau is so stupid,
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he pled guilty to a crime that did not actually happen.
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But what do you do when the accused man says, yeah, I'm guilty?
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I think international law is a lot of hocus pocus.
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But, you know, it behooves me to look into this a bit, and I appreciate the question.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
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And keep fighting for freedom while you still can.