00:09:19.020They just keep the same words and it's the worst type of Mad Libs as a result.
00:09:23.000So what's happening here is the liberal government is presiding over the profound collapse of
00:09:29.220the liberal coalition and of the liberal support.
00:09:32.160Now, conservatives have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the past.
00:09:36.680So no one should just shrug if you want Justin Trudeau gone and say, well, the work is done, the job is done. It's still not entirely clear when the next election will be. Just this morning, the Liberals unveiled this weird dental plan for seniors and children that was meant to pacify the NDP. But if you look at it, it's not even what they initially promised.
00:09:59.340What the NDP wanted was some massive universal socialized dental plan, and instead the liberals
00:10:05.440have given them this program that doesn't even really apply to such a huge number of people.
00:10:12.700And what's fascinating here is that right now the NDP, I believe, have everything to gain
00:10:20.900by having an election right now. The NDP as a party have everything to gain. If they had an
00:10:26.840election right this second, Justin Trudeau would be decimated. Most of that would be to the benefit
00:10:34.260of the Conservatives, but the NDP would increase their vote share. And Jagmeet Singh might even be
00:10:39.560the leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition. He might get to live in Stornoway, which is about,
00:10:45.640I mean, NDP loves subsidized housing. They love government housing. Jagmeet Singh and Stornoway
00:10:50.280would be very, very poetic. But for Jagmeet Singh personally, it's all downside. It's all downside.
00:10:59.040Sean is asking if I want to make a Jack Layton joke. Well, it's a massage parlor. It's not a
00:11:02.960massage parlor. It's Stornoway. I don't have a good Jack Layton joke on this one. But the thing
00:11:07.900that I will point out about the NDP and the Jagmeet Singh situation is that Jagmeet Singh has
00:11:15.940everything to lose. The NDP as a party will gain, he will lose because he has got to be gone. His
00:11:21.160party has to get rid of him for just being such a profound and dismal failure after the next
00:11:27.040election. And then they're going to bring in someone else who may or may not be more radical
00:11:31.680than Singh is. So that's the NDP advantage, as you've heard me say in the past,
00:11:36.400to keeping the liberals going until 2025. But for Justin Trudeau, he's gone after the next
00:11:43.900election. Singh is gone after the next election. Pierre Polyev is likely at this point going to be
00:11:50.600prime minister after the next election. So no one really wants to pull the trigger now except for
00:11:57.700the conservatives who can't do it. So this is where we go back to this petition. I understand
00:12:02.220the anger. I understand people saying I want to vote in non-confidence now. But you could have
00:12:06.800the vote now and the NDP is still going to vote the way they voted on every single confidence
00:12:12.520motion, the way they're voting in the budget, the way they voted on the throne speech.
00:12:16.100So even if the petitioners were to get what they wanted, it's not going to amount to a
00:12:36.940but don't do it in a manner in which you think that something more is going to come from that
00:12:42.940than what is and michelle ferrari i just saw on twitter this morning is that she's getting
00:12:47.900like everyone's very threatened by this petition for weird reason so they're trying to just dismiss
00:12:53.380it and downplay it and and say the points that i've been making but to do it in a more negative
00:12:57.600way and michelle ferrari is like yeah of course i mean anyone can sign a petition that's the point
00:13:01.380of it is that uh these things but they are vetted you do have to be a real person uh one of my
00:13:08.760colleagues just wants to start a poll is andrew lawton a killjoy yes andrew lawton is a killjoy
00:13:13.840but i'm trying to make everyone smarter by being a killjoy because then we'll all be in the trenches
00:13:18.440together so uh take from that what you will but yes this is not canada's most irreverent talk show
00:13:23.420it's canada's most joyless talk show we've just replaced irreverence with joylessness for this
00:13:29.600holiday season. I am a regular old Grinch here. And you know what? I will try to put on the green
00:13:35.240face makeup, which is again, more palatable this time of year than Justin Trudeau's makeup of
00:13:40.200choice. So nevertheless, we will move on there and talk about this. Really, I don't even want
00:13:47.280to use this to make fun of the liberal government. Make no mistake, I will. But this is far more
00:13:54.300serious than just the obvious headline that is at stake here, which is that the foreign affairs
00:14:01.480minister, the chief convener of Canadian foreign policy, Melanie Jolie, has finally, after two
00:14:08.060months, acknowledged the sexual violence, the rapes that took place against Israeli and Jewish
00:14:13.840women and girls at the hands of Hamas. Now, this took two months. Now, you may think that's bad
00:14:21.400enough on as it is. And if you look at the widespread anti-Semitism that is unfolding
00:14:26.300across the country, across the West, you may not be all that surprised by it. The liberal government
00:14:31.620in some ways has been very unequivocally in support of Israel, but in other ways they've
00:14:35.620equivocated. And certainly the longer Israel's counter-offensive to Hamas has gone on,
00:14:40.740the weaker Canadian government officials have been in their response. But we go back to what
00:14:47.320Justin Trudeau has articulated as the essence of Canada's foreign policy which is that it's not a
00:14:53.260foreign policy rooted in Canada first it is a feminist foreign policy and when else do you
00:15:00.120need a feminist foreign policy but when sexual violence is taking place in a foreign conflict
00:15:06.300and this is oddly where our foreign affairs minister was nowhere to be found for two months
00:15:10.820Brian Lilly had a great piece about this in the Toronto Sun Jolie proves Trudeau's feminist foreign
00:15:16.660policy just empty words he joins me now brian good to talk to you thanks for coming on today
00:15:21.780uh thanks for having me andrew i i mean i don't know if you were in this boat i sort of mocked
00:15:26.660the this idea of a feminist foreign policy when it was first announced because it just didn't seem
00:15:31.700to be coming from anywhere and rooted in any practical manifestations of what this would be
00:15:36.900but the government was committed to it they said we're going to apply a gender lens to everything
00:15:42.020and they do this in their dealings in government and here we have one case where you'd think the
00:15:47.300feminist perspective is pretty ironclad and pretty clear-cut and oddly our foreign policy was not
00:15:52.420interested in that no they weren't but look this goes back to every issue that trudeau's dealt with
00:15:59.780on this front um you you recall that uh when he was first elected he said he'd have a gender
00:16:05.620balance cabinet and i'm going off memory here so if i'm off by one or two please forgive me but
00:16:12.020uh 2015 he announces the gender balance cabinet and why because it's 2015 and then we get the
00:16:19.860order of precedence which you know details which cabinet ministers are considered most senior which
00:16:25.060ones would take over in the event something happens to the prime minister and it's all
00:16:29.700old white men at the top and then we find out that five of the 15 cabinet ministers in that first
00:16:37.060cabinet are all junior cabinet ministers. They're not even full ministers. So they make less money.
00:16:42.420They have less seniority. They have fewer, you know, a lesser department and they were all women.
00:16:48.500So, you know, that was pointed out and they said, oh, well, that's just a mistake. And then they
00:16:52.340fixed it. Time and again, you can look at their feminist credentials and Trudeau fails on every
00:16:59.860front, groping a reporter, elbowing, you know, a female MP in the breast just because things were
00:17:06.340being delayed and he was frustrated uh time and again jody wilson raybold jane philpot caesar
00:17:13.620savannah's um selena selena caesar chevans ccc yes um you know just look at the way that women
00:17:22.020who have dealt with him describe how he talks to them so it's no surprise that when it comes to a
00:17:28.020feminist foreign policy it's just about words as well empty words this government is about
00:17:34.020the announcement it's not about governing it's not about the policy it's just about putting out a
00:17:40.420press release yeah and i mean this is not to to broaden the discussion unnecessarily here but
00:17:46.980we've seen a tectonic shift in the last five years the last six years in how we view sexual violence
00:17:53.460and how we view sexual assault and uh whatever people think of the me too movement you know the
00:17:57.940the refrain that came out of this era was believe all women and now uh the number of people i see
00:18:03.220on social media people that are very supportive of the government being slow to respond on this
00:18:08.580uh saying well i don't know did did the rapes actually happen and i don't know if we believe
00:18:13.860i mean but they don't even care about this glaring gap in uh the rules they've established
00:18:20.180over the last six years and and the rules as they pertain to hamas terrorists melanie jolie was
00:18:26.180heritage minister when the me too movement started and she went on cbc on q and did a
00:18:30.980an interview all about that topic um she was foreign minister when last year when the u.s
00:18:36.260supreme court struck down roe v wade and as part of her feminist foreign policy stood there with
00:18:41.380justin trudeau denouncing the american supreme court overturning abortion law a federal abortion
00:18:47.540precedent and returning that issue to state legislatures she always had things to say on
00:18:53.300that but on this issue where there was proof of israeli women jewish women being raped as a
00:18:59.060weapon of war she was silent she just couldn't be bothered talking about it but then compare
00:19:06.100as i did in in the column in the sun october 17th and there is the claim by hamas a terrorist
00:19:14.820organization puts out a claim that israel has bombed the al-shifah hospital melanie jolie
00:19:21.940doesn't wait for proof. She tweets that doing this is a war crime. That tweet is still up.
00:19:29.440She believed Hamas with no proof. The international observers, the Israeli government,
00:19:36.400the Israeli defense forces, images put up by Hamas themselves to brag about what they did,
00:19:42.560all point to the proof that women were raped on October 7th, that this was a tactic they used.
00:19:49.460the instruction manuals found on dead Hamas fighters detailed that, yes, this is part of
00:19:56.200what you should do. And she couldn't bother denouncing it. Now, I'll give the Trudeau
00:20:01.520government some credit. From early on, they said the right thing about the October 7th attacks.
00:20:09.100Justin Trudeau denounced it, said that Israel has a right to defend itself. He was steadfast in that.
00:20:14.240But as you alluded to, as the conflict's gone on, they've started to waver all over the place.
00:20:20.700But for the foreign affairs minister of a feminist government implementing a feminist foreign policy not to come up with this, it is mind-boggling.
00:20:31.080I was writing on another issue today, and I'm finding references to their feminist agenda on climate change.
00:20:38.620you know i don't think a lot of uh mothers who do shopping for their kids to feed them will be happy
00:20:44.960with what that leads to with a higher price for hamburger meat but you know this language is
00:20:51.040peppered all through the government's talking points and its agenda it's just not present in
00:20:57.080the actual reality of how they operate yeah i mean anyone who's ever looked at atips
00:21:03.920uh government documents you'll see oftentimes these reports on the gender-based uh gba plus
00:21:09.520gender-based analysis plus and it's that you have to take anything and everything and uh somehow
00:21:14.480find a gender argument you want to talk about office chairs well let's do a gender-based
00:21:18.400analysis to make sure that you know gender needs are being met and you know all of this stuff and
00:21:22.800you're right it's a government that on paper claims it's doing this in every single facet
00:21:27.760of its existence and you know they're certainly bringing in diversity trainers to that end
00:21:32.080but when the rubber hits the road it's nowhere to be found yeah and it's one of the reasons this
00:21:38.160government is so frustrating is that the in the policy is the communications tool the policy isn't
00:21:44.160governing the policy isn't um saying you know what we're we're going to go to the un and we're going
00:21:51.120to raise issue with the fact that iran is uh chairing the i forget what the exact title is
00:21:57.440but there's a gender council within the human rights realm at the United Nations and in a ranch
00:22:04.060chairing that? How is that feasible? And why are we not complaining loudly? I don't doubt that Bob
00:22:08.960Ray is. You know, I disagree with Bob Ray on an awful lot of policy, but he is a fundamentally
00:22:15.600decent man, especially on issues like this. But he speaks for the government, but he doesn't set
00:22:22.780policy but we should be banning our shoes on the table like the old sylvia's at the u.n
00:22:29.580demanding that something be done when you get iran who is oppressing women beating them for
00:22:35.180not wearing their hijabs in public and they're in charge of a committee on gender rights
00:22:43.500you you can't make it up that's the the terrible part of this okay can i tell you something quick
00:22:48.940about these crazy bits uh because back during the harper government there was something similar
00:22:54.460north korea as they're trying to build their bomb uh is named the head of the nuclear disarmament
00:23:01.420committee or something in that effect and i looked at john wright who was then the foreign affairs
00:23:06.300minister and i said how does this happen he said believe it or not they go on an alphabetical order
00:23:12.220and they were next how these things happen so then like oman was next and then pakistan would
00:23:19.660have also been uh you know coming up there uh that's an alphabetical order okay so uh when
00:23:26.380you're when you're launching your new dictatorship you want to call it like ardvarkistan or something
00:23:31.100and then you'll be like first on the order of precedence for uh for all of these things
00:23:35.740for peace and democracy council yeah exactly let me just i want to talk about one of your climate
00:23:41.500pieces. But before, let me just ask you about the equivocation and the wavering of this government.
00:23:47.600Do you think it is a government that is letting its inner desires come out, like they were only
00:23:53.500able to hold up the veneer for so long? Or do you think they're responsive to a change in the
00:23:59.080climate that they're seeing? And it's a bit more cynical in that sense. I think that there are real
00:24:05.480divides within the Liberal Party. And I think there's real divides on the issue of what stands
00:24:10.640take on the Hamas launched against Israel within Canadian society at large. You know, I've taken
00:24:18.280what I believe to be the only correct moral stand, and that is that Israel has a right to defend
00:24:23.060itself and the true oppressors of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Well, that's Hamas,
00:24:27.980and Hamas must be eradicated. I'm glad to see Bernie Sanders in the United States saying that
00:24:33.340while we've got aggressive politicians up here saying, calling for ceasefire, Bernie Sanders
00:24:37.940is on TV explaining why that can't happen. We need more of that. I think Trudeau was trying
00:24:47.120to please all people, and in the end, he's pleased none. The Jewish community is livid with Justin
00:24:53.240Trudeau. For the most part, the Jewish community have been reliable liberal voters. Some did move
00:24:58.580over to the conservatives during the Harper years, but for the most part, most have still been
00:25:03.080reliably liberal. But the Muslim community, which has been courted by Trudeau, well,
00:25:09.520you saw the story the other day, 400 Muslim professionals who have been donors to the
00:25:15.320Laurier Club signed a letter saying they're leaving. And then on the weekend, it was a
00:25:19.700pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ottawa that marched to Langevin Block, where Trudeau's
00:25:25.500office is, and were denouncing him as a terrorist, claiming he had blood on his hands for refusing
00:25:31.640to call for a ceasefire now. And so he's lost both sides by trying to make everybody happy.
00:25:38.040He's made nobody happy. And I think it's going to have a real lead to a real shift in Canadian
00:25:44.840politics. Exactly how I think we're still seeing that, you know, shake out. Yeah, very well said.
00:25:50.720Just before I let you go, Brian, I have to ask about this piece you had this morning in the
00:25:54.700Toronto Sun. Trudeau targets cow burps and your ability to afford beef. What is going on?
00:26:03.340Okay, let me just switch my browser window here to this is the government of Canada announces
00:26:08.940new economic incentive to reduce methane emissions from beef cattle. It is the protocol called
00:26:15.100reducing enteric methane emissions from beef cattle. Cows burp a lot and they want that to
00:26:23.620change they don't want as many cow burps they want better handling of manure on farms look
00:26:29.140this is these are all good things and farmers are some of the most environmentally conscious
00:26:33.860actually environmentally conscious people you will ever meet because it's their livelihood
00:26:39.860but what the trudeau government wants to do is try and get farmers to use more expensive feeds
00:26:45.620right now most cattle in this country they are raised on a from calf to to stock they're
00:26:51.620raised on a diet of grass or hay, and they might be finished with corn at the end, but they're
00:26:58.560going to be raised on mostly on that. They're going to be out in the pasture in the winter.
00:27:02.360They're going to eat from those big round bales of hay that we see going by on trucks all the time.
00:27:07.760Going to a corn-based island, corn silage, or adding red seaweed apparently can help produce
00:27:13.960the methane, or adding chemicals. This has potential to change the composition of the beef,
00:27:18.420But also, it's going to be more expensive.
00:27:23.740Now, they say, well, we're going to be able to allow farmers to sell offsets, and that'll make them more money.
00:27:29.800Well, just like the carbon tax, though, it's going to drive up prices.
00:27:32.660And so you and I are going to have to pay more.
00:27:34.720We're all going to be like Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon saying, I don't know how to call it hamburger helper.
00:27:39.580Tastes just fine on its own because we won't be able to afford the hamburger.
00:27:43.600Now, here's the other funny part is for years, you've had consumers who can afford it moving towards grass fed beef and you see grass fed milk.
00:27:53.900Why? It's supposed to be healthier, less saturated fats, more omega three fatty acids, more nutrients.
00:27:59.300Well, guess what? You're going to have less of that.
00:28:01.280Follow the government's plan because, you know, the beef will be better for the planet, but not as good for you.
00:28:07.020So it's a bizarre situation, but climate change policy comes before everything, including you
00:28:14.940having a healthy diet, Andrew. Yeah. So coming soon is going to be like the bovine flatulence
00:28:19.760tax where cows just basically have to pay a levy anytime they let a bit of gas out. $1 out the
00:28:25.720front, $2 out the back. I think that's how it's going to be calculated. Jacinda Erd-Hearn's
00:28:29.580government in New Zealand brought in one of those. Now they've just lost power and they've brought in
00:28:33.760conservative government who's put that on pause for now they'll probably scrap it but yeah they
00:28:38.640brought in a cow burp tax and a sheep burp tax so you know don't give them ideas these things
00:28:45.360are out there and we don't want to encourage them all right fair enough uh brian lily from the
00:28:51.040toronto sun always a pleasure we should do this again sooner rather than later thank you very much
00:28:55.840thank you all right thanks very much now the one thing here's a segue i can give you sometimes you
00:29:00.720don't get the natural segue if the government does do the bovine flatulence tax they are going
00:29:06.880to spend as much to administer it as the tax will collect this is a report from the canadian
00:29:13.680taxpayers federation 200 million dollars to administer the carbon tax that is not money
00:29:19.840that's going towards the stated aims of the carbon tax that is just money gone to manage the
00:29:26.480bureaucracy. Chris Sims is the Alberta director with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and does
00:29:32.420not yet join us. I jumped the gun there. We'll have Chris Sims in just a moment. I got excited.
00:29:37.460I saw Chris in like the chat, the behind the scenes waiting room, green room chat, and I
00:29:41.720thought she was ready, but we'll have her on in just a moment. But $200 million. Now,
00:29:47.320this is just in the last three years alone. Last year, it was $82.6 million. So we're paying this
00:29:56.460us Canadians just for the government to manage having a carbon tax. Now we have Chris Sims here.
00:30:04.020We, uh, you know, good things come to those who wait and no gooder thing to make up a word than
00:30:08.720Chris Sims on the show. Uh, Chris, good to talk to you. Thanks for coming on today.
00:30:15.840Oh, maybe we're still waiting. Do we still have Chris?
00:30:20.320Oh, Chris is gone again. Oh, I was just, I was tempting fate. See what happens. I get excited.
00:30:26.020I jumped the gun and then the whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket. Maybe Chris is just like
00:30:30.420checking the cattle out in the area in Alberta to make sure they're all ready to pay their
00:30:34.960bovine flatulence tax. But the other thing I'll say, and I'll bring it up now while we wait here,
00:30:41.480nearly half of Canadians think that a carbon tax is ineffective in fighting climate change.
00:30:48.760Nearly half of Canadians. Now, the government wants you to believe that a carbon tax is just
00:30:56.360this thing that everyone likes that's uncontroversial. The only people that don't like
00:31:00.940the carbon tax are those like evil anti-science troglodytes in the Conservative Party. Canadians
00:31:06.040want it. Canadians are happy to pay for it. Well, clearly this is not the case. When the government
00:31:10.420gave a carbon tax exemption to the good people of Atlantic Canada who need home heating oil,
00:31:16.300Everyone else in the country was saying, well, we want an exemption too.
00:31:20.340Just this week, I believe it was yesterday or two days ago, the premier of the Northwest Territories came out and said, well, we want an exemption.
00:31:30.560I don't know if you've ever been to the Northwest Territories.
00:31:32.840I have not myself, but it gets a little cold up there.
00:31:36.700So obviously they have to deal with aggressive energy consumption.
00:31:40.600and you can understand why they are saying now that they want a bit of a break when everyone
00:31:46.340else is getting a bit of a break. The conservatives did a massive filibuster and the point of this,
00:31:55.000excuse me for a moment, excuse me, the point of this filibuster was to basically try to handcuff
00:32:02.440the government into having this carbon tax be the hill it was going to die on. Now the government
00:32:09.080didn't roll the government didn't fold and conservatives were you know voting all through
00:32:12.720the night there was a video that Pierre Polyev posted of bringing some like order of McDonald's
00:32:17.840in now that was very Trump Trump like Trump would have done the uh the McDonald's order
00:32:21.800uh but of being uh very Trump like and bringing fast food I believe we have Chris Sims again now
00:32:27.140let's give this one more try here Chris hello I won't make any sudden movements that was super
00:32:32.000freaky um it's I love that hit you did with Brian because we did that exact story on Sun News Network
00:32:39.060that eventually through the United Nations or WEF
00:32:42.900or whoever other global group wants to tax the bejesus out of us
00:32:46.940will eventually start taxing the emissions from cows.
00:32:51.220And we were all called crazy conspiracy theorists at the time.
00:32:54.580So nice to see that, well, I guess it's not nice to see
00:32:57.300that it's actually coming to fruition from the sounds of it.
00:33:00.260So when we look at this $200 million to administer,
00:38:35.620Their emissions keep going up anyway, and this is government data.
00:38:40.580This is the government of British Columbia's data showing that as the carbon tax goes up, the emissions almost always keep on going up anyway, because people still need to eat and they still need to heat their homes.
00:38:53.400And I think that story, Andrew, is getting out.
00:38:56.700It's seeping out past the Rockies and people are realizing that they're getting screwed.
00:39:01.440Yeah, I mean, one thing I'll say, if you accept the premise, if you accept the premise that
00:39:07.840emissions are inherently bad and causing climate change and all of that, which I think is dubious
00:39:13.260at best, but even if you do, and you look at what the government stated objective is,
00:39:17.920which is reducing emissions, you're absolutely right. And I think the government has tried to
00:39:21.700position this issue as one in which emitting is a luxury that people choose, that people choose to
00:39:28.920do the things that cause all these emissions. They choose to have products that need to be
00:39:33.220shipped. They choose to get on a plane to go and see grandma. They choose to drive a vehicle that
00:39:39.780is not a hybrid when the reality is these things are our products of demand. And it's not to say
00:39:43.480you couldn't make a choice that perhaps has a marginal benefit over another choice, but
00:39:48.340Canadians are not doing that because they want to. It's not like they're, you know, getting into the
00:39:53.480Hummer and just like idling it in the parking lot for the good of their health. They're doing it
00:39:57.260because well they're not doing that but they're they're doing the things that are driving those
00:40:00.920emissions up because they are necessary and when you look at it through that lens it's insane that
00:40:07.360we are dealing with all of this while the world is still producing and while other countries are
00:40:13.000still producing while china is investing and building coal plants yes exactly i try to appeal
00:40:19.600to the folks who truly are scared about emissions truly earnestly okay i grew up partly on vancouver
00:40:26.740Island. Okay. I swam with the orcas. I hand sewed my baby's cloth diapers. I even rode a bike in
00:40:31.560the Glebe in Ottawa for 13 years. I get it. Okay. Let's say that emissions are what keeps you up at
00:40:38.600night. Mathematically speaking, global emissions, even if Canada, God forbid, ceased to exist
00:40:46.340tomorrow. Okay. We all stopped driving. We all stopped eating. We all stopped heating our homes,
00:40:51.960stopped existing it wouldn't make a dent in global emissions because we are a teeny teeny
00:40:59.080teeny tiny little like you it's even off the screen andrew when we talk about global emissions
00:41:04.520so that being understood if that's what you really want to tackle does it not make sense
00:41:10.840to tackle the big end of that arithmetic problem let's leave china off the table for a second
00:41:15.880because they're a communist country and it's more difficult to deal with them talk about india okay
00:41:20.840We have a lot more in common with them. They're a democracy, right? They actually want to buy our
00:41:26.040natural gas. India has on average between 250 and 300 million people, so 10 times our size there
00:41:35.320abouts, burning wood and animal refuse every day for heating and eating. Folks, imagine that. Imagine
00:41:46.120the entire population of Canada, about 10 times the size roughly, burning that stuff indoors
00:41:52.240every day. Their emissions are off the charts for that. Not to speak of their indoor air pollution
00:41:59.000and the burden on women and children for collecting that fuel, but guess what? They want to buy our
00:42:04.700natural gas, which is way, way, way cleaner burning, okay? They still need to heat and they
00:42:10.100still need to eat just like the rest of us, okay? They're human beings and they deserve to do that.
00:42:13.960They want to use our cleaner fuel. So why don't we then use our brains instead of taxing people for driving a minivan? Why don't we use our brains and ship them our natural gas using our best environmental regulations in the whole world and really high labor standards for extracting said fuel? Like that kind of sounds like a win-win mathematically. And we don't tax people and punish them needlessly for doing the basics here in Canada.
00:42:39.740Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation thank you as always we will talk to you next
00:42:45.440Monday thanks Andrew all right we are doing something a little bit special on the Andrew
00:42:50.120Lawton show this holiday season we are we always do some year in review type shows because you
00:42:56.780don't necessarily have the ability to bank on there being breaking news content you can cover
00:43:00.960and you know December 27th or anything like that but I thought we'd do something fun and I'm kind
00:43:05.540of stealing this from Ezra Levan, who does some variation of this every year. But every now and
00:43:10.580then you will email me questions and I try to answer them. But let's carve out a bit of time
00:43:16.200on the show where I'm going to answer your questions, no matter how wacky or invasive or
00:43:21.400intrusive they are, because I can just take out the ones that I don't like ahead of time.
00:43:25.460But if you want to send your questions in, we'll do a special episode in the coming weeks in which
00:43:30.080I delve into some of these. It could be anything. It could be what I think about a particular
00:43:33.860political issue. It could be what I think about a particular person. You could fish for some story
00:43:38.600from my past, or you could ask a technical question about how this show works, such as,
00:43:44.720for example, Andrew, do you wear pants when you're on air? And the answer is it depends,
00:43:48.820but I'm not tilting the camera down today. So all of that is to say, send me your questions,
00:43:53.540andrew at truenorthcanada.com. My email is andrew at truenorthcanada.com. And we will,
00:44:00.040I won't reply to your email because I'm going to save it and do a big mailbag episode as we wind down the show for the year.
00:44:07.720So send your questions to Andrew Lawton.
00:44:09.880That's me, by the way, if you didn't know.