Mark Carney's DISGRACEFUL remarks and the national UNITY CRISIS
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Summary
In this morning's show, John sits down with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney to talk about the ongoing trade war with the United States, the Canadian oil and gas sector, and the potential for a national unity crisis.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. It is 6 a.m., Wednesday, October the 1st. I hope
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you're having a great start to your day, a great start to your Wednesday morning, a great start
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to October. Hard to believe we're into October already. I do have my big blue mug of coffee
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with me this morning. Thank you for being part of the channel. I do appreciate it.
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And today I have a statement, and I have a question of you. My statement is this. I think
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we're in the midst of a national unity crisis. Do you think we're in the midst of a national
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unity crisis right now? Now, where have you heard that phrase before? Well, a lot of you
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will remember Danielle Smith said this, the premier of Alberta. And I looked back, and
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it was mid-January, or I think she said this the first time. And it was in regards to Trudeau
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blocking oil exports from Alberta to get back at Donald Trump for tariffs. She said, under
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no circumstances. Then she said it when she had a list of nine demands of the next prime
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minister. We want these things, or we'll have a national unity crisis. I want them within
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six months. She has given Mark Carney an extension. I think it's a mistake. But national unity crisis.
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I think we're there right now. And the reason I'm thinking this way is because of a story that
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broke within the last 24 to 36 hours, Imperial Oil is going to get rid of 900 jobs, most of
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them where I live here in Calgary. And this is a big deal, folks. These are high-paying
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jobs in the oil and gas industry. Now, another question I have for you. Do you not think Mark
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Carney, if this were the automotive industry in Ontario, would have made a comment about
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this already and already promised a bailout for the automotive industry and a bailout to the
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people losing their jobs? Do you not believe that would already be happening if it were in Ontario
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and it were the automotive industry? Of course it would be. But he's not doing this because he hates
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the oil and gas industry. But 900 jobs are significant. They're very important. And here is
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Danielle Smith talking about this yesterday. Very disappointing. No one likes to see these kinds
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of consolidations, especially in our energy sector. I think it reinforces why it is we have to start
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building more pipelines and increasing production. The industry for the last 10 years has been
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hampered and hobbled by federal government decisions. The media spinning this into the jobs
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are being lost because of the low price of oil might have a little bit to do with that. But I think
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it's got more to do with the hostility towards our oil and gas industry by the federal government.
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We know there's an interest in investment in oil and gas. We found that out the other day.
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Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy, one of North America's leading energy infrastructure
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companies, betting big on America's energy future. The company is planning to invest more than $8.5
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billion in U.S. projects over the next five years. I think we'll see more of this if things don't
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change from a national level, just reinforcing the idea that we've already got a national unity crisis
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here. And then you've got this popping up again, just within the last 24 hours or so.
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Canada is in such a mess. Donald Trump joking about us becoming the 51st state again.
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And Canada called me a couple of weeks ago. They want to be part of it.
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To which I said, well, why don't you just join our country, become 51, become the 51st state,
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Do you realize we're getting close to the year anniversary of him saying that for the very first
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time, which I think happened when Trudeau was at Mar-a-Lago? It was a joke back then,
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but Trump's been saying it ever since. And he wouldn't be saying it right now if he didn't know
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Canada had problems. I think we have a national unity crisis, and he wouldn't be saying it if
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the tariff issue were resolved, and it hasn't been resolved yet. Meanwhile, you got Mark Carney flying
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all over the world, accomplishing really nothing other than staying away from question period when
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it comes to Pierre Polyev. He's announced a list of five things so far for nation building projects,
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which are just recycling old ideas, much like he's recycling trade deals, as you saw recently on CTV
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Your opposition at this moment in time says that you're essentially conveying something that isn't
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true. That in Indonesia's case, for example, that deal was actually arrived at in November of 2024,
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before this Prime Minister took office. That in Mexico, there's not anything really tangible
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besides an agreement saying that you want to work together more. That even in Europe, SIDA is largely
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in place, and that there's no sort of proof of what those expanded relationships will actually mean
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for Canadians. Can you respond to that criticism that basically you're advertising something that
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isn't isn't fully actually provable? We understand what's going on here, folks. We understand what's
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happening in the country. The people who are supporting Mark Carney and the Liberals, they don't
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get it. That's how there's no unity at all. There's division here in a big way in this country. And then we
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have Mark Carney yesterday. You know what happened yesterday, right? There's Carney addressing indigenous
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people yesterday, expressing his white guilt, all the while insulting people that look like me. This
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is disgraceful. I had an indigenous painting installed outside the cabinet room behind us
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in the West block of Parliament. It's called A Brief History of the Northwest Coast Design by Luke
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Parnell. And it depicts a painful part of our shared history through 11 wooden panels with images inspired by the
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design on the bent wood boxes and feast bowls of the Nishka and the Haida. The first few of those panels
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first with vibrant colors. And then with contact, those colors fade until the middle ones become smothered in
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white paint, a culture literally whitewashed. You do get what he's implying there, right?
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How, how can I have unity with a man who would say something like that? How can I have unity with a
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party, the liberal party that believes that? How can I have unity in this country with millions of
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people that support a party and a man that believe exactly that? Somebody in his office wrote that.
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He read it verbatim and he didn't even think about it. That's one of the most disgusting things
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I've ever heard in my life from a prime minister. Absolutely disgraceful. And here's the thing, folks.
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It's the next day now. You won't hear anything about this until he comes out and makes the
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same speech next year. Meanwhile, you and I will dish out $32 billion to these people
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and they'll be complaining about exactly the same thing next year. Nothing's going to change.
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National unity, folks. We got a crisis in this country. The next thing will be November 4th.
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You remember when $10 billion deficits were a lot? Well, that's, that's in the rear view mirror,
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folks. What was it? $62 billion last year. It could be $100 billion this year. It's just making life
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miserable for you. And you don't support this. And they think we need to be unified and team
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Canada. Well, it's all a load of bulls**t, folks, because there's no unity here. We have a national
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unity crisis. You know, I woke up this morning and I started thinking about a number of these things.
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And there's others I could talk about today. Yesterday, I tuned out completely. My wife came
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to me with some politics. I said, I don't even want to talk about it. I thought about ending this channel
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because I'm so sick and tired of mining for negativity every day. And that's what it is.
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I mean, that's what people want to see. Yeah. You want to watch the, the puppy and kitten videos
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every once in a while, but you're more likely to run for fail army, right? Because if it bleeds,
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it leads folks. Joseph Conrad, the writer, I've mentioned this before said, it's the fascination
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of the abomination. And that's what this liberal party is. That's what this country is right now.
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I hate to be so goddamn negative here, but we have a national unity crisis already here right now.
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You and I see it. And I thought about completely tuning out of politics. And then I remembered a
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quote from Plato. Let me read it to you. I typed it here into my computer just so I'd get it right.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Ain't it the truth? Do we have a national unity crisis? Let me know. And you know what? I'm going
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to engage in the comments a little bit more. I don't often do that because it's hard for me to do that.
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Because it just adds to the negativity. I know you're very positive, a lot of you,
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and you agree with me. Most people do. But I'm going to engage in the comments a lot more. But what
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do you think? Do we have a national unity crisis in this country right now? I think we do.