Canada's Most Influential Person For 2025
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The man who most influenced Canada in 2025 wasn t Canadian. He was not Canadian at all. It was Donald Trump. Happy New Year! - John Rocha Happy Holidays and Happy New Beginnings!
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Hi, it's John. Happy New Year. Thank you so much for being here and thank you so much
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for supporting the channel over the last 12 months.
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Some news organizations have what they call the person of the year. Many of them have already
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chosen Mark Carney as their person of the year. Others might have the most newsworthy person over
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the year. What I'm going to do right now is tell you who I think the most influential person was
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Canada, rich in resources and built by people who believe that tomorrow would always be better than
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today. But this Canada found itself at a crossroads. Ten years of liberal leadership had passed,
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inflation was rising, government induced. High deficit spending created mountains of debt.
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Food banks were no longer a last resort. They had become a regular stop. Young people did something
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they had never done before. They stayed home, not by choice, but because they couldn't afford to leave.
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Homes became dreams. Groceries became luxuries. More and more Canadians began to whisper something
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that was once unthinkable. Canada is broken. Out west, the unrest grew louder. Resource development
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halted. Investment disappeared. Unity fractured. And the rest of the world was watching.
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Justin Trudeau's decade was no longer defended. It was explained away, excused, and apologized for.
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Then hope emerged. From the right side of the political spectrum, a man spoke plainly.
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He talked about unleashing Canada's true potential about work, production, ownership, and pride. He spoke
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about leaving the Trudeau years behind. Pierpoliev surged. Poles soared. As the calendar turned to 2025,
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it looked like change had arrived. And then, just like that, it was gone.
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A new leader came forward and something strange began to happen. A phrase once spoken jokingly,
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became nervous and then serious. The 51st state. Canadians began to wonder if the country had grown
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so weak that it could be swallowed whole. One American voice dominated every conversation.
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Suddenly, there was talk of fighting back from every corner, from every party. Resource development was no
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longer a dirty word. Working together was back in fashion. They called it Team Canada. Change was
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necessary to avoid being overwhelmed by the behemoth to the South. Talk of tariffs filled the air,
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the media, and even the dinner table. Parliament buzzed with the issue. As the nation approached an
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election, the polls shifted. Fear proved powerful. Gray-haired, comfortable baby boomers who had survived
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just fine found a fresh burst of patriotism. They rallied behind the very party that had caused the
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trouble in the first place. On a campaign fueled not by hope but by fear, Mark Carney won. But make no
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mistake. This story is not about Trudeau. It's not about Polyev. It's not even about Carney. There was
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one man who moved markets without voting, who changed elections without campaigning, and who reshaped
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conversations without stepping a foot in Canada. He shook an entire country awake. He altered the economy.
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He influenced voters and redirected a nation's future. No Canadian politician comes close.
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The man who most influenced Canada in 2025 wasn't Canadian at all. He is Donald Trump.
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