00:03:51.860I did want to also talk about, speaking of where news is made outside of Parliament, the interview at the New York Times this week.
00:03:59.180An hour-long interview, Scott, the first big headline that garnered the most reaction here in Canada was certainly this.
00:04:04.160he was the prime minister was asked whether or not you know there'd be any instances of
00:04:08.320preparation about the prospect of some kind of military attack from the united states and he
00:04:12.860said yes you know it's an extreme you know outside risk uh but yes we have prepared what0.97
00:04:19.240now this is where you would say this is the dumbest thing i've ever heard they all should0.83
00:04:24.720say that and then that should say segment over but here we go well it's astonishing i mean well
00:04:31.160first of all if they're doing contingency planning i'd like to know more about the draft plans like
00:04:35.000will it include heavy set 60 year old men with eyeglasses because if so only blue ones i need
00:04:40.760to make some plans fast um the blue glasses brigade that's what we're going to put on the
00:04:46.040front lines hopefully that puts me to the top of command i i think there are two things that are
00:04:52.680genuinely astonishing about this uh the first is that it is a an understandable but still staggering
00:05:02.040reminder of where our relationship is with the united states and how much donald trump changes
00:05:07.800everything this was an unimaginable discussion point that has now not only become imagined but
00:05:14.280actually we're feel somewhat obligated to think it through i'm also astonished that the prime
00:05:19.480minister said it if i'm going to be honest i i'm i i don't think that people find it that
00:05:24.520preposterous given the aggression of donald trump he paints the stars and stripes across our map and
00:05:30.280he talks often about his desire to preferential access and perhaps exclusive access to our
00:05:35.560critical minerals and energy so you can imagine a situation where at some point he just says
00:05:40.200all right i'm just going to take them you know you have to think about what was discussed prior
00:05:46.920to this New York Times article. I'll bet you Carney planted this. Ask me about an invasion
00:05:53.080of the U.S. into Canada. I'll bet you he planted that. Why would anybody bring this up? Although1.00
00:05:58.500it was brought up a little while ago from somebody from CTV, which I'll get to in just a moment.
00:06:04.900But the fact that these people think this is possible and that it gets worse from here,
00:06:10.140trust me, it gets a lot worse from here. The fact that Scott Reed, Mr. Blue Glasses here,
00:06:14.460is even suggesting this is possible is ridiculous in itself. Here we go.0.69
00:06:18.920I'm still surprised that the prime minister said this. I can only think of one of two reasons.
00:06:23.380One, he just got a little ahead of himself. Or two, and it relates to our earlier discussion.
00:06:29.240Perhaps he is trying to reinforce, on both sides of the border and particularly here at home,
00:06:35.080how unique these circumstances are, how high the stakes are. And therefore, it reinforces
00:06:41.120the political imperative to do things like pass the legislation that he's trying to pass to pursue
00:06:46.360the policy agenda that he wants, knowing that he's asking for things that other prime ministers have
00:06:51.240been told no to. So he's on to the right track here, but he doesn't say why he's doing this.
00:06:57.460Why does he bring up the fact that the United States is going to invade Canada? And we've got
00:07:02.400a contingency plan in case it happens, because it riles up his supporters. It riles up the new
00:07:08.340world order and allows him to pass a legislation that most Canadians probably would not agree with1.00
00:07:14.760if they were thinking straight and weren't listening to idiots like Scott Reed,1.00
00:07:19.040Corey Tanike, and Kathleen Monk on Vashi Kapelis' CTV question period. He kind of gets it,1.00
00:07:25.620but he doesn't understand. And the other thing that Mark Carney's doing here is, folks,
00:07:29.500he's in the United States. I mean, there's a story today. In fact, Kathleen Monk brings it
00:07:34.760up in this interview on he's only talking to the media in the United States. Why is he doing that?
00:07:40.900One, he, well, let me just show you the article here. This is an article from today. Has anyone
00:07:47.240told Carney he can do interviews with Canadian media? If we go down here, earlier this month,
00:07:52.280Prime Minister Mark Carney granted Bloomberg News an exclusive one-on-one sit-down interview.
00:07:57.180On Wednesday, he sat down with the New York Times and both interviews failed trade negotiations
00:08:02.180with the U.S. were discussed. He's not discussed that in Canada because he can't, because he
00:08:06.220killed the deal. It wasn't the United States. He killed the deal because he wants to hitch his
00:08:10.600wagon with China and the EU. Notably, the same opportunity has not been provided to Canadian
00:08:16.120media. Trade talks of the U.S. broke down August 21st. Since then, we've been given conflicting
00:08:21.180information from U.S. representatives about the reason for the breakdown and not one sit-down
00:08:26.260interview from our PM because he can't do it. Because he's got to keep his supporters wild
00:08:32.140up thinking it's all the United States fault. And this is the thing that Tanike, Reed, Monk just
00:08:37.960don't get. And Vashti Capellas never calls them out on this. Let's continue with this interview.
00:08:44.440And I don't know if you should give him that much credit, but I can't think of another rational
00:08:48.620explanation as to why you would speculate on this. Because he's got to rile up his supporters
00:08:54.000and he's trying to influence the United States election, which is less than two months away.
00:08:58.700well six weeks away at this point less than six weeks away that's what he's trying to do
00:09:04.540that's why he's in the united states well i think he said it because it's true like i
00:09:09.680said it because that's actually what's going on uh you know it's it's not a a unfortunately sadly
00:09:18.660unbelievably not a completely uh out of the realm possibility i agree it's like a very low
00:09:25.020percentage risk but it's not a zero and and it would have been a zero for you know most of the
00:09:31.860last century but it's but it's not now and why not because the guy who gets to make the decision
00:09:36.980donald trump uh has been making threats uh uh about us about greenland about other places
00:09:43.100uh while cozying up to uh to putin and uh the chinese dictators and uh north korean dictators
00:09:50.240It's, you know, no mention that Carney's cozying up to Chinese dictators and just think of it from.
00:10:00.080Think of this through the lens of somebody who's in their 60s who think Canada is what it was 30 years ago.
00:10:07.180It's not the same. You know that. I know that. But think about it from their standpoint.
00:10:11.040Oh, that awful Trump. Now Carney can do anything he wants.
00:10:14.540We've talked about this. He can do anything he wants to you now to push the agenda that other prime ministers,
00:10:20.240have been told they can't do like scott reed said it's really uh i think it speaks to the craziness
00:10:26.020of the times i i doubt it's intentional but i agree with scott's point that it's maybe accidentally
00:10:31.320brilliant to bring that up it's the same time you're bringing up this legislation because it
00:10:35.680does at least he gets that he brings it up so that he can pass this legislation out the you know
00:10:44.700depth and breadth of the stakes here kathleen yeah putting aside carney's love affair with
00:10:49.780international media uh so there you go she mentions the fact that carney's not talking
00:10:54.620to canadian media nothing because he can't he'd let the cat out of the bag he'd have to
00:11:01.820kind of avoiding domestic media i i think that you know don't put too much you know genius
00:11:07.040comm strategy on this on on answering the question right the the 10 journalists in the room asked
00:11:11.980the question he responded he actually has kind of a propensity to answer quite a forthright in some
00:11:17.380in some times. And so I think that's what happened. But I think there were two audiences
00:11:20.920here that he was both, both the Canadian audience, as my colleagues have suggested, but also
00:11:25.080the American audience. Yeah. So he's got the Canadian audience that still watch his crap like
00:11:30.840this. Then he's got the American audience that he's trying to rile up because he wants to0.99
00:11:35.600influence the U.S. election. That's where, I mean, we get concerned about influence from other
00:11:40.340countries in Canadian elections. Now, Canada is interfering in the United States election.
00:11:44.340They're also doing the same same thing in Israel. And while we've been living this nightmare for 18 months under Trump with all the threats, 51st state, you know, economic.
00:11:52.300I've been living a nightmare for the last 18 months under Mark Carney and the liberal government.
00:11:57.460Oh, hell, it goes back 11 years under the liberal government, the previous government run by Justin Trudeau.
00:12:02.960They don't get that media reported in the same way that we live this nightmare every day.
00:12:07.500And I think it was important for Carney to talk to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg and all the other agencies he's been speaking to lately to get that message out because he's telling Americans just how bad it's been from a Canadian perspective.
00:12:22.080And that's important from a public opinion point of view, a persuasion point of view, and the fact that we're heading into the midterms.
00:12:29.040And he really wants that audience to know why Canada is making the dramatic moves to diversify that it is.
00:12:35.840say it say it he wants the american public to know because he wants to influence their vote
00:12:43.800arming up and and possibly buying planes from european countries and you know and i actually
00:12:50.300don't even think you know it was the only interesting thing in that article article that
00:12:53.900was posted i mean the stuff that he said about you know we're not only changing geopolitical
00:12:57.800relations we're actually changed want to change you know global financial relations and his
00:13:03.020reference to the dollar that actually is quite significant and for a business audience could have
00:13:08.400big impact too okay so let's move away from this so you know you know what's interesting about this
00:13:15.320is the americans don't give a damn what goes on in canada and i have a friend who was just it was
00:13:19.860jason levine he was down there with his family they went on a vacation they went to mount rushmore
00:13:23.940in different places and he talked to people and that's jason's way you're paying attention to
00:13:29.320what's going on in canada right now i've heard rumblings but don't think about it very much
00:14:02.160In what universe would the United States invade Canada?
00:14:05.520Contingency plans are supposed to be about what-if scenarios, such as what if the leader of Canada went absolutely bonkers and imagined the U.S. would invade his country?
00:14:14.940Perhaps the U.S. would be forced into a preemptive strike before Carney could warm up the sled dogs and attack Minnesota or something.
00:14:23.820Canada mentioned being prepared for a U.S. or sorry, Carney mentioned being prepared for a U.S. invasion to a news outlet equally bonkers with TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, as he was.
00:14:36.240The New York Times. I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk.
00:14:41.880That's just risk management. That's not a base case, Carney told the Times, arguing that it would be irresponsible not to.
00:14:49.100Some idiot news person asked the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo, a hypothetical question about an American invasion of Canada.0.97
00:15:00.040I find that scenario to be absolutely and utterly preposterous.0.99
00:15:08.280And so I follow the orders of the commander-in-chief, but that is a needlessly emotional question.
00:15:19.740I don't find, forgive my saying it too, is that Canada is a close ally.
00:15:30.040I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be insulted, but you didn't answer the question. I'm sorry. You didn't answer the question. I said I follow the orders of the president and I find it to be a. Would you ask me, please, also what my attack plans are for the Martians?
00:15:50.400I might add, I think it was a CTV reporter that works with Vachy Capellas who asked that stupid1.00
00:15:56.420question. How did the media cover this? We'll get back to this article in just a moment.1.00
00:16:00.640U.S. Admiral dodges questions about attacking Canada. Excuse me? He said it was utterly
00:16:06.580preposterous. Here's a story from just a couple of days ago. Zero chance U.S. attacks Canada.
00:16:12.880Alaska governor tells conference, of course, it's zero. Back to the article. Papero shouldn't be
00:16:19.840so harsh with the Canadians. They have moved beyond the snowflake stage of wokeness and entered1.00
00:16:25.660marshmallow brain territory back to the idiot people on CTV you were just watching. Corey1.00
00:16:31.540Tanike, Scott Reid, and Kathleen Monk, along with Vashie Capellas. Carney's angst originated with
00:16:37.180President Donald Trump's epic troll of our northern neighbors, referring to them as our
00:16:41.74051st state. There is no greater insult that can be given to a Canadian who has books of jokes
00:16:47.640about Canada really being America due to its geographic proximity, cultural similarities,
00:16:53.580or polite nature. Now, here's the Robin Williams quote, which is just genius. Robin Williams
00:16:59.020summed it up when he said, Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
00:17:07.320Why did we never invade Canada before? Because every time American military planners looked at
00:17:13.360a map, they realized they'd have to administer Quebec and everyone decided it just wasn't worth
00:17:19.000the trouble, ladies and gentlemen. If you ever wonder why people are so misinformed and so
00:17:26.100clueless when it comes to the relations between Canada and the United States of America,
00:17:33.160it's because of things like CTV and CBC. You know what really needs to be done right now
00:17:37.820that is not being discussed, not at all,
00:17:42.280Carney should make a trade deal with the United States of America.