Who The Hell Is Running The Country？
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Summary
In this episode of the Big Blue Mug, John talks about his optimism and pessimism about the future of our country and what's going to happen in the election. He also talks about Kevin O'Leary's interview with the Toronto Sun's Brian Lilly and why he should be our Prime Minister.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 451 AM on Tuesday, January 14th, with the
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I certainly am, but I am feeling both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time.
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I'm optimistic because a couple of videos I saw yesterday, and I'm pessimistic because
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So as far as the optimism goes, an interview that Premier Daniel Smith of Alberta, my premier,
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It looked like she was in a hotel room, perhaps still in Florida, because she was down there
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talking to Donald Trump about working with the United States when it comes to our oil
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So very optimistic because she's down there speaking on behalf of my province, and I believe
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Now, the other thing I saw yesterday was an interview with Kevin O'Leary.
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Brian Lilly did a masterful job talking with Mr. Wonderful for the Toronto Sun.
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Now, as far as Kevin O'Leary goes, incredibly optimistic and pessimistic at the same time
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Now, I did a video a little over a month ago where I brought him up when it was talking
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about the Department of Government Efficiency in the United States.
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We don't have anybody of the stature of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy?
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We have Kevin O'Leary, you know, the Shark Tank guy.
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He's, you know, I see him on Fox News, but he's on CNN.
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He does hits all over the place, business networks and whatnot.
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Of course, he has a lot more expensive watches than me, but he's the guy that should head
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up the Department of Government Efficiency in Canada.
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So O'Leary may not be leading up a Department of Government Efficiency, but at least he's
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out there speaking on behalf of Canada, trying to make some deals.
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He says in that interview that he worked with Premier Daniel Smith.
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They've got a $70 billion investment coming to Alberta.
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Now, I'm very pessimistic for another reason, because these two people, O'Leary and Smith,
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But we have no leadership in this country right now.
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And I guess I'm guilty of that, because I've been talking about the liberal leadership campaign
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What loser liberal is going to get into the race?
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The names right now would be Freeland and Champaign.
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We've got a couple of no-names who have their name in for the leadership right now.
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And the actual leader of this country, Justin Trudeau, the lame duck, all he's doing is leading
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The same architects of destruction are leading up a man who will just lead us farther down
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that road of destruction, including a guy named Gerald Butts.
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This is what he had to say about Gerald Butts, who is backing Mark Carney right now.
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Gerald Butts, by the way, is behind Mark Carney's campaign to become the next liberal leader.
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Yeah, no, I've heard that rumor, and if that's true, people should understand in Canada, Gerald
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He has blood on his hands because he impoverished 25% of the Canadian population.
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He is sheer evil, and the fact that he would come back, I mean, I've got to let every Canadian
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know, the only reason I'm able to bring capital back is I've told them, Trudeau's gone, Butts
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is gone, liberals are gone, we're going to open the country back up.
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If he gets near government, the country will go bankrupt.
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Gerald Butts is the antichrist, and Gerald Butts is one of the people pushing Mark Carney
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Meanwhile, we've got Melody Jalee, our foreign affairs minister, threatening energy export
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Here's what Premier Danielle Smith had to say about her.
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First of all, it's oil and gas that's owned by the provinces, principally Alberta, and we
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And you should never, ever threaten something you cannot do.
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And I would encourage the minister to look at a map of where Line 5 goes.
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Line 5 comes down through Michigan to get to Sarnia, and then that feeds the bulk of the
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supply needed for Ontario and connects with Line 9, which feeds the bulk of the product needed
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And so if you cut off that line, you are cutting off Ontario and Quebec.
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So I would encourage the ministers to either understand how our integrated pipeline system
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works and start looking at ways that we would be able to practically respond.
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Because there's no point in making empty threats that cannot be executed on.
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So Premier Smith is basically saying, hands off Alberta's oil.
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She says, you don't understand pipelines and don't make empty threats.
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It was Trudeau Sr. who likened Canada to a mouse and the United States to an elephant.
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We're going to get stepped on in any situation like this.
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Meanwhile, you've got a businessman who makes quite clear in the interview with Lilly, he's
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not speaking on behalf of the Canadian government, but he's showing some leadership.
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What did he tell Donald Trump about our current situation politically here and the people who
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are actually supposed to be speaking on behalf and leading our country?
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Listen, I went down and asked Trump personally, look, cut some slack for Canada.
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I have no idea, but he understands our dilemma.
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There's no point in negotiating with a minister who's going to get wiped out in the next election.
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That includes Melanesia Lee, our foreign affairs minister, who's going to make a mess of
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things if we don't have some real leadership, which we don't have right now when it comes
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Thank God we have people like Kevin O'Leary and Danielle Smith speaking on behalf of
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Canada right now and trying to make some deals.
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You've got the, you know, the regular liberals and far leftists online totally disgusted that
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Kevin O'Leary and Danielle Smith could be talking to Donald Trump.
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Their Trump derangement syndrome gets in the way every time.
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They'd rather have a trade war with the United States of America than try to work this thing
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What is Kevin O'Leary saying about Danielle Smith?
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You know, frankly, Danielle Smith is a very, very important person in North America.
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There's more or there's more oil and gas in Alberta than all the United States.
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She's way ahead of anybody else in Canada right now.
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And so, you know, you've got everybody throwing barbs at Trump.
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And it frightens the hell out of me because there are enough stupid people in this country
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that will continue to vote liberal and vote for what I call the architects of destruction.
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And that's why I have a certain amount of pessimism as well as a little bit of optimism.