Trudeau Got Clark... Is Freeland Next？
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Summary
In this episode of The Big Blue Mug, John talks about why Christy Clark dropped out of the Liberal leadership race and why she may have been forced out by the Trudeau team. He also talks about the new candidate, Chrystia Freeland.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Wednesday, January 15th at 5 16 a.m. with the big
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blue mug of coffee and I always say be skeptical. Don't believe everything you hear and I guess
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today you should not believe everything you see. You can be fooled by that as well and I'm always
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skeptical particularly when it comes to the media. I was in the media between 30 and 35 years. I know
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what it can be like but you need to be a little bit cynical as well and I don't like to be a
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conspiracy theorist but I think I called it pretty good when it came to Christy Clark. As you may know
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she dropped out of the liberal leadership race and I predicted this was going to happen and I believe
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she was forced out. Now here's the article that ran in the National Post. Look at this. Clark and
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Champagne bow out of liberal leadership race as Gould prepares to launch. So Clark bows out and I'm
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wondering if Christy Freeland will bow out. I'm wondering if the word is already out to her
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or a deal has already been made with Christy Freeland. Now what did I say about Christy Clark
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just a few short days ago? Now why would they go after Christy Clark? She's a liberal. She's a
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female. She could lead the party. It's right in the video I showed you. Here it is again.
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I'm joining the party so that I could support my friend Mr. Charest and you know what I think he can
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bring to the national dialogue. I mean I do think he'd be a devastating opponent for Mr. Trudeau.
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So she voted for Jean Charest as a conservative because he would be a devastating opponent to
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Justin Trudeau. You don't think Justin Trudeau knows about this video? Of course he does. And as
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soon as her name came up as a possible leader of the liberal party to take over from him he sicked the
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CBC on her or at least somebody in his office did. They said listen we got this great story for you
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and they did a real bang up job hit piece on Christy Clark. I stand behind that story that I
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did a few days ago. I believe that it was Justin Trudeau people on his team and probably Mark Carney
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that planted that story with the CBC and that's why Clark is no longer in this race. Justin Trudeau
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gets another woman folks and I don't know whether she can ever recover from this. I mean how humiliating
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to be caught in such a blatant lie and to have it broadcast all over the country. But what's
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fascinating about this is if you read the sub headline to this story in the national post here
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it is. I've worked hard at improving my French but it's not where it needs to be today. Seriously that's
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why you dropped out of the race. For god's sakes there's a guy in the race right now named Chandra
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Arya who's running for the leadership of the liberal party. You don't hear much about him.
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It doesn't bother him that he doesn't speak French. He hardly speaks English. And what's interesting
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about this headline again read it Clark and Champagne that's Francois Philippe Champagne.
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He's the great French hope from Quebec. He dropped out on the same day that Christy Clark did.
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So what about Christy Freeland? I mean Christy Clark became a conservative to vote for Jean Charest
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to get Justin Trudeau and that got under Trudeau's skin. Well it was only a month ago that Christy
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Freeland walked out on Justin Trudeau the day she was supposed to announce a $62 billion deficit
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in that budget update. And I think that put the wheels in motion for Trudeau to eventually resign
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just a little over a week ago. So they got to get rid of her. She's the next big threat here. Now
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do they have anything on her like they have or had on Christy Clark? Perhaps. She's been around for a long
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time been the right hand man or right hand woman of Justin Trudeau for a number of years.
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But Mark Carney's got a lot of connections and Christy Freeland wants to move her way up in the
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world and wants to make some money. I mean these people have no shame. They've got no pride.
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They'll prostrate themselves on the altar of power just to move themselves ahead. So it wouldn't surprise
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me if she decides not to run at this point. We'll find out very shortly she'd been rather coy
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about what she's going to do and whether she's going to be a leadership contender. People seem
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to think she will. But it wouldn't surprise me if she walked away. And sometimes that's the wise
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thing to do. Christy Clark tried to do that. Unfortunately it didn't work out for her. But
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if you look at somebody like the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, politician, walked away for a while,
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was a radio person, waited for her time. Now she's the Premier. So maybe that would be the smart
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thing for Christy Freeland to do. She certainly has a lot of baggage. And I don't believe that,
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I didn't believe from the beginning that an actual Liberal MP would get the job as leader.
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It would be an outsider. Well the only other outsider is gone. They've cleared the field of
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everybody else. And Mark Carney's just waiting for the crown to go on his head. I mean he's showing up
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on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He's been planted. It's all in the works. And Trudeau had this
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all worked out in advance. He knows exactly how things are going to happen step by step. Wouldn't
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be surprised if Christy Freeland has already been paid off in one way or another. I appreciate you
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watching. Give me a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. See you on the next one.