Canadians prepare for an election... in 2026
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Summary
On today's show, John runs through a few indicators that point to an emergency being declared in Canada regarding the fentanyl crisis and why the election should be pushed back until 2026. He also talks about the Trump administration's demands for Canada to tighten up the border with the United States and the impact that could have on the economy.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel 5.11am on Monday, February 10th.
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Hope you're having a great day today with the big blue mug of coffee.
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And I think we are on DEFCON 5 right now when it comes to an emergency here in Canada and
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I think all of the pieces are in play now for the Liberals, and I think some of this
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is planned as well, which I think is disgraceful.
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But I do believe we're going to have an election in 2026.
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So what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to run through a few of the things and the
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indicators I've come to see regarding this issue here in Canada.
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So let's start off with not securing the border.
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This article right here, running in the Canadian press, Ford urges Ottawa to move faster to
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Now, this was published on February the 7th, just a few days ago.
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And Doug Ford, who's in an election campaign right now, so keep that in mind, had this
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They've been clear to everywhere in North America.
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The federal government says we're going to get a border czar.
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But to the federal government, enough talking in the back room.
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So the Premier of Ontario was saying Canada is not acting fast enough in declaring a border
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Now, going back to that headline from Doug Ford, that was from February the 7th.
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Canada's fentanyl czar details should clear by end of week, Minister says.
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And if you look at what the fentanyl czar is supposed to be doing, this article right
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here, Public Safety Minister David McGinty, look in the middle, in that middle paragraph,
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McGinty was asked about the timeline of the fentanyl czar, who will serve as the primary
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liaison between the Canadian and U.S. governments in addressing the two countries' fentanyl crisis,
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So I think the border czar is different than the fentanyl czar.
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And it looks like the government of Canada is not acting fast enough when it comes to
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And as Doug Ford said, that's the thing that the Trump administration wants.
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So moving along to number two on this list, today we have an aluminum and steel tariffs
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Now, I think this is a real, it's an awful move by Donald Trump.
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But Donald Trump smells blood in the water, folks.
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And he's going to take advantage of this as much as possible.
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Another reason why the liberals will say we need to declare an emergency and push off the
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We export a lot of aluminum and steel to the United States of America.
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And we really don't have an answer to this one.
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It's going to be interesting to find out what happens over the next couple of days.
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Trudeau says Trump is serious about Canada becoming the 51st state.
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Just a rule to you, being a broadcaster for years, never, ever say anything around microphones,
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The only reason he's admitting this right now is because it gives him another opportunity
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to say we need an emergency, we need to delay the election to 2026.
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If this is the biggest economic threat we've been in under decades.
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We've recalled Parliament on a number of occasions here in Canada for things like housing,
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He's over in Europe, which I'll get to in just a moment.
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But that's another reason why I think they're setting us up for an emergency here in Canada.
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Now, I want to go through this video with Melanie Jolie, the Foreign Affairs Minister,
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Do you not think, though, that having a quote-unquote lame-duck Prime Minister
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and a government that is nearing the end of its life cycle,
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that that is not helpful to the country and to facing off the president-elect?
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Well, what I will answer to you on that question is any politician,
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any leader in this country need to put their country first.
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Okay, so she wants to point out Pure Polyev here.
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And we need to be united because this is the biggest economic threat that we've been under in decades.
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So if it's the biggest economic threat we've been under in decades, why is Parliament not sitting?
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And so based on that, this is not the time to play politics.
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This is not the time for conservatives to try to undermine the government.
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So this is not the time for the conservatives to undermine the government.
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Or score points against the liberals because of petty politics.
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This is a time to be serving the country for the best interests of the country.
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So this is a stupid answer because we're supposed to be serving the country for the best interests of the country,
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And that's what everybody in the country needs to do.
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If it's time for Team Canada, why do we have tariffs coming in, aluminum and steel today?
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I love seeing the people online, the faux Canadian patriotism we're going through right now.
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I'm canceling my trip to Florida because I don't want to deal with the United States of America.
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Donald Trump, as I said, sees blood in the water, folks.
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And he's going to take advantage of Canada because we are weak right now,
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because we have no government, because we're in the middle of a liberal leadership campaign,
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and we're months away, if not years away, from an election right now.
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So this woman is not a serious person, and she's our foreign affairs minister.
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So our foreign affairs are an absolute mess right now with the United States of America.
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Now, another reason why I think we're in for an emergency situation in the country
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and a very, very late election into 2026 is because Trudeau's in Europe right now.
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I mean, the article's running right now that he's over there talking about them
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getting into some more trade deals with the EU, almost joining the EU,
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which I think is a ridiculous idea. I mean, Britain got out of it for all the right reasons.
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They had no control of their government anymore.
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Their government was controlled from Brussels and the EU.
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No control of their borders, no control of their immigration, no control of their trade,
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no control of their seas, no control of anything.
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I certainly don't think we need to be in that situation when it comes to Europe and Canada.
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We'll have a new government pretty soon, hopefully sooner before later, but I don't think so.
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And they're just going to make their trade deals on their own.
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So Trudeau's over there hiding, as far as I'm concerned.
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And the last thing I want to tell you here is another reason why I think we're going to an election in 2026
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is because Jagmeet Singh is running third in his riding right now.
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Here's his riding. He is running third in his riding right now.
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He says his party will vote non-confident in the government,
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and they're not going to vote in lockstep with the Conservatives.
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because that's what's going to happen if we go to an early election.
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Jagmeet Singh will no longer be the leader of the NDP.
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So that's another reason why I think we're going to an election in 2026.