00:00:11.000We've got a great show lined up for you today.
00:00:13.000But before we get to the news, I want to stop and pause and reflect upon the situation we find ourselves in today, in late January 2025.
00:00:22.000We don't have a Prime Minister in this country.
00:00:25.000We don't have a federal leader and we don't have anyone representing us in our country or standing up for Canadians.
00:00:32.000It was just two weeks ago that Justin Trudeau announced that he was resigning.
00:00:37.000I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime Minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.
00:00:51.000He said he was stepping down as leader of the Liberal Party and as Prime Minister, citing internal squabbles in his cabinet and his caucus, in his Liberal Party.
00:01:00.000Presumably and notably, he was talking about Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister, who resigned.
00:01:06.000Now she's out there doing media rounds, bashing her former boss, saying that she disagrees on him, on everything from the carbon tax, to capital gains taxes, to the GST rebate, to his strategy in dealing with our American ally.
00:01:19.000Now, also recall that third party leader Jagmeet Singh has let it be known that the moment the Parliament resumes, his party, the NDP, the ones who have been propping up Trudeau and the failed Liberal minority government since 2019,
00:01:32.000they will vote against the Libs in a non-confidence vote and trigger an election.
00:01:37.000So, rather than facing this reality, rather than allowing Canadians the opportunity to elect our next leader and our Prime Minister, instead of allowing democracy to run his course, Trudeau has used a loophole in our Westminster system of government, system of parliamentary democracy, to prorogue the House of Commons to avoid triggering an election.
00:01:57.000He's just pressed pause on democracy for crass partisan purposes.
00:02:02.000Now, if this doesn't make you question our very system of government, make you doubt how well our government functions, I don't know what will.
00:02:09.000It is insane that a Prime Minister can first derail the economy with his terrible woke policies, and then just pause the democracy to take time to regroup within his own party.
00:02:21.000Now, that was the situation on January 6th, when Justin Trudeau resigned without actually resigning.
00:02:27.000Then everything got so much worse, because we just don't have a Prime Minister.
00:02:31.000As you know, US President Donald Trump is no fan of Canada's Liberal government.
00:02:36.000He openly mocks Trudeau, calling him the governor of the 51st state, an insult to all Canadians.
00:02:42.000And he doesn't much like Trudeau's Deputy Chrystia Freeland either, who goes out of her way to bash him.
00:02:48.000Now, Trump is very serious about immigration.
00:02:51.000He's serious about border security, national security, and energy security.
00:02:54.000And he is very willing to impose devastating tariffs on our country to protect his country.
00:03:03.000Canada is already suffering through a cost-of-living crisis unlike anything I have seen in my entire life.
00:03:09.000Our economy is on the rails, the loonie is collapsing, and every day Canada feels a little bit more like Venezuela.
00:03:15.000Crime is out of control, drug use is rampant, and overdoses are far too common.
00:03:20.000Mass, unchecked immigration has created not just ballooning housing prices and rent prices, but an existential identity crisis in Canada.
00:03:28.000Being Canadian doesn't mean anything anymore, and foreign tribal feuds are spilling out onto our streets every single day.
00:03:36.000We need leadership. We need a Prime Minister.
00:03:39.000Not these clowns who are making a mockery of our country.
00:03:42.000Justin Trudeau no longer has the confidence of the House, he no longer has the confidence of Parliament, and he no longer has the support of Canadians.
00:03:49.000He doesn't have a mandate anymore. He resigned for goodness sake, and he needs to go.
00:03:54.000Liberal insiders and global elites should not get to select our next Prime Minister in an undemocratic internal selection process that is ripe for abuse and foreign interference.
00:04:05.000Enough is enough. Stop being polite, Canada. You should be angry.
00:04:10.000That is why today I am launching a petition. This is from my own website, CandaceMalcolm.com.
00:04:15.000It is separate from my journalism and separate from True North.
00:04:18.000But Canada needs an election. We need an election now.
00:04:22.000Not in three weeks when the Federal Court will hear a case about the legality of prerogation,
00:04:26.000and not in March after the Liberals have their leadership review and select their next leader.
00:06:36.000The question now is, do Canadian conservatives have the same follow through that Trump has had?
00:06:42.000Not many conservatives get into office and do what Donald Trump did and on day one have a stack of executive orders on their desk that tall and just go through bang, bang, bang.
00:07:05.000It's a disastrous bureaucratic organization, very similar to the World Economic Forum in terms of their waste, in terms of their their belief that they know better than the common man.
00:07:17.000Getting out of that was a huge win for the Americans, the amount of money that they spend on the World Health Organization is sickening, especially when they don't make up the majority of the global population.
00:07:27.000They're spending that basically providing free health care through a wasteful bureaucratic organization to everyone on the planet.
00:07:34.000And they were footing a huge part of that bill.
00:07:37.000Canada also foots a huge part of that bill.
00:07:39.000We're the fifth largest contributor to the World Health Organization.
00:07:44.000We hand the organization about a quarter billion dollars a year.
00:07:55.000And that like the leadership of that organization is this like and I'm not even a conspiracy theorist here when I say that they're like this like cabal of communists from Africa that are running it and taking our money and wasting it.
00:08:08.000So I hope that Pierre gets the message and follows suit with Donald Trump and the huge success that he's seen in just the first three days that he's had in office and pulls Canada out of the World Health Organization as well.
00:08:18.000I just think these are such mainstream ideas. I think that when we watch what happened with the pandemic and how these edicts were coming from this World Health Organization, it clearly seemed like a corrupted organization that somehow was having huge power and control over our lives.
00:08:31.000Now, I know that it's the elected government in Canada that gets to implement the laws, but the edicts were certainly coming from these kinds of organizations.
00:08:41.000I think it's the only way to see Trump saying no to the Paris climate accord and no to the WHO.
00:08:45.000I really hope that the conservatives follow suit.
00:08:47.000Like you said, like Pierre, if he becomes prime minister, when I'm urging Canadians to sign my petition and call for an election like we need an election now.
00:08:56.00077% of Canadians say that they agree. It blows my mind that Justin Trudeau can just pause democracy.
00:09:03.000He can just press pause for his own party to try to regroup. It's embarrassing in Washington.
00:09:08.000You were just in Washington. What were you hearing? What were you seeing when it came to Canada and sort of our lack of leadership and presence there?
00:09:17.000I heard a lot. I spoke with a lot of staffers from the Republican side of Congress, and they seem to think that this tariff thing was a lot of posturing and they just wanted a few simple things.
00:09:31.000They wanted at least the Canadians to come to the table and negotiate in good faith, which they say they just haven't been.
00:09:38.000They've been completely AFK AWOL. They're just missing an action. And that, you know, we know why, because the government is in tatters.
00:09:47.000Most of Justin Trudeau's cabinet has either committed to resigning or committed to the leadership race.
00:09:53.000And they're focused on getting Mark Carney elected or Christia Freeland elected.
00:09:57.000So it's just a disaster all around. They're not at the table negotiating with the Americans.
00:10:01.000And that's going to be a huge disaster for us, which is why Daniel Smith has taken it upon herself to go.
00:10:06.000I wish other premiers, you know, Doug Ford has complained a little bit about it.
00:10:10.000David Eby should go down. Rob Canu should go down.
00:10:13.000These provincial leaders have a mandate, a fresh mandate in most cases, from their people to put their provinces first.
00:10:21.000And they should be going down and standing up in it. You know, sure, go with the United Front.
00:10:27.000Go with a message that is pro-Canada and Canada first.
00:10:30.000But they have a responsibility to make sure that their provinces are not going to be left scarred by the mistakes of the absent Trudeau regime.
00:10:39.000Daniel Smith has a huge issue right now, making sure that energy gets and she's not doing that just for energy producers in Alberta.
00:10:48.000She she wants energy to be exempted from the tariffs, which is would be great for Alberta.
00:10:52.000But it would also be great for Ontario, who relies on our energy as well, which gets sent through the American border twice.
00:10:59.000It goes down south west of the Great Lakes and then back up east.
00:11:03.000So it's going to be a disaster for Doug Ford.
00:11:05.000I think the Canadian premiers have got to get on board with what Daniel's doing and actually start fighting for their people.
00:11:11.000Absolutely. I mean, I'm not from Alberta. I don't live in Alberta.
00:11:14.000But I think that Daniel Smith speaks for so many Canadians, myself included, when she is saying that, no, the idea to get into a trade war here and have retaliatory tit for tat tariffs is not the way to go.
00:11:25.000Let's negotiate a deal. Let's show up in good faith. We just don't have a prime minister to do that.
00:11:30.000OK, I'm going to ask you more questions about your time in Washington, but we have to get to this Pierre Polyev clip.
00:11:35.000So, you know, speaking of gender, we had Trump with this wonderful executive order defending women from gender ideology and Pierre not to be outdone.
00:11:43.000So he was on I think it was what was a breakfast television or CTV, one of those.
00:11:47.000And he was asked whether he would follow suit with what Trump did and only recognize two genders.
00:11:53.000This is hilarious. It's classic, Pierre. I love this. OK, let's play this clip.
00:11:56.000First day on the job, President Trump signed an executive order.
00:12:00.000You know, the U.S. government only recognizing two genders, male, female. They're unchangeable.
00:12:05.000You know, if elected as prime minister, is that something that you're going to kind of walk in line with?
00:12:10.000Or what are your feelings on that executive order?
00:12:12.000Well, I don't know. Do you have any other genders that you'd like to name?
00:12:51.000There are people there who say they're some gender. Yeah, they say they're gender neutral.
00:12:55.000They're, you know, they're they're a trans person.
00:12:58.000Is that something that you would recognize here?
00:13:02.000Whereas in the states, at least with their U.S. government, the way they're seeing it, there's only two.
00:13:08.000I'm only aware of two. But if you have if you come up with another list, then you're welcome to do that.
00:13:15.000But I'm aware of two. And as far as I'm concerned, we should have a government that just minds its own damn business and leaves people alone.
00:13:23.000Amazing. So that was Phil Perkins of CP24 asking the questions there.
00:13:28.000What did you think? It was a classic peer interview, just like the Apple interview.
00:13:33.000He puts the onus on the reporter to actually stand behind the idiocy of what they're asking.
00:13:39.000He's a smart politician. Obviously, that is a great answer.
00:13:44.000But if you're of, you know, of the position that he should actually take action, it could leave people a little bit concerned because he didn't actually commit to doing what Donald Trump did.
00:13:55.000He just sort of ridiculed a reporter, which again, hilarious. Love it.
00:13:59.000But I want a commitment that says, yeah, there are two genders.
00:14:04.000We're not going to allow X, Y, Z on your passport.
00:14:07.000We're not going to allow like I want as a as a ideologically driven person to hear a commitment that he's going to make Canada better.
00:14:17.000But, you know, I think I know what he's getting at. I think we both do.
00:14:20.000So it's good news that he's not allowing reporters to run the show.
00:14:24.000That's at least the first step. The second step would be like concrete action.
00:14:29.000Well, no, it is classic Pierre. And I love the point you make where he he makes the report.
00:14:33.000He puts the onus back on the reporter, right?
00:14:35.000Because reporters in Canada are so used to just having their way with conservative politicians and basically humiliating them based on liberal dogma.
00:14:42.000Right. And so here you have a journalist who's just trying to do what they've always done, which is like what Donald Trump did was scary.
00:14:50.000And you have to walk away from it. And then Pierre just so skillfully turns around and it's satisfying because really, like, what is he talking about?
00:14:58.000Like what other genders? Name one, right? Name one.
00:15:01.000And then, you know, the reporter kind of awkwardly goes back to this idea like, well, I'm a male, a cis male.
00:15:07.000It's like, what does that, what does that even mean?
00:15:11.000And then Pierre says, well, I'm a man too. Like, congratulations.
00:15:14.000It kind of reminds me, it was about a year ago where we at True North were reporting intensively on this topic of puberty blockers that are going to be given to children.
00:15:25.000And we didn't know where Pierre stood. I didn't know at the time whether he was going to come out in support of just biological reality or whether he was going to go down this left wing rabbit hole of allowing kids to transition and all kinds of drugs being given to very confused minors.
00:15:42.000I want to play this clip because this, it kind of had the same vibe where he kind of almost plays dumb and then he ends up coming to the right place.
00:17:08.000And I think that the left lost itself in this gender ideology discussion because they just assumed that they were correct, that they were on the right side and that Canadians would fall in line just like they did on gay marriage and abortion.
00:18:00.000Like this isn't one of those positions where I'm like just an extreme conservative on.
00:18:04.000Almost everyone I know and almost everyone I talk to is in complete lockstep agreement with me to the point where I think a big part of the reason why Donald Trump was so accepted and is so mainstream now is because of these issues where people are just had enough of the wokeness.
00:18:51.000The left stepped on a beehive with this one.
00:18:53.000They were, they were, they were gallivanting down this path of, you know, enjoying being able to, to set up these social issues.
00:19:01.000Well, oh, the conservatives are these scary racist people or, oh, they're trying to prevent, you know, they're trying to force women to have kids and like, like the handman's tail, like super weird stuff.
00:19:11.000And these were like kind of winning issues for them in the past because they were able to successfully hoodwink Canadians into thinking that conservatives really were
00:19:42.000There's just so much evidence now that it's a bad idea to allow children, especially children with often parents who they themselves say are trans, who all of a sudden the kids become trans.
00:19:52.000Like it's just not, it's not in the best interests of society or kids to allow them to do it.
00:19:57.000And I think that Pierre, I mean, I'm speaking with people, I've spoken with people close to him and they drew inspiration from Daniel Smith on this.
00:20:05.000They saw that she, people supported what she did.
00:20:09.000All you had to do was be bold, stand on the side of protecting children.
00:20:13.000And the, the, the way forward was paid for you because liberals just are completely in disarray when they have to come to terms with something like this.
00:20:41.000My question, sir, is should you form the next federal government?
00:20:46.000Will you make female safe spaces safe again by introducing legislation that bans so-called transgender women from participating in female sports and getting access into female shelters and female prisons?
00:21:04.000Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males.
00:21:10.000The, you asked if I introduce legislation on that.
00:21:14.000A lot of the spaces you described are provincially and municipally controlled.
00:21:20.000So, it is unclear what federal legislation, what would reach federal legislation would have to change them.
00:21:29.000But obviously, female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males.
00:21:39.000First, a little shout out to David Menzies.
00:21:41.000This is why it's so important to have independent media at these events because they ask better questions a lot of time than the legacy media.
00:21:47.000So, he kind of defaults to all these are provincial jurisdictions.
00:21:51.000One thing I will note with Donald Trump's executive order is that it just shows leadership, right?
00:21:55.000Like he can't mandate that the entire country fall in line with what he's doing.
00:22:00.000But when he does it, it gives permission to other people.
00:22:03.000Like I saw someone noting on X that Silicon Valley is actually like breathing a sigh of relief because they hate these gender ideology provisions and they hate the diversity, equity, inclusion stuff.
00:22:17.000And it's like gives corporate America an excuse to not do it anymore as well.
00:22:21.000You're right that Danielle took the lead with banning these sex surgeries and cross-sex hormones to minors.
00:22:27.000Have you seen any kinds of changes across Alberta society?
00:22:31.000And do you think that what Pierre said there is the right approach?
00:22:34.000I would love to talk to a political expert and understand why Pierre sort of does take this route when he sort of like hands off the onus to the provinces.
00:22:47.000Even if it's an issue that the states could solve, he does do exactly what you said.
00:22:52.000He gives them permission to take the right stance as a leader should.
00:22:56.000But as the first minister of our confederation, Pierre, soon to be potentially, Pierre has like this obligation to show conservatives the way and say it's okay to do this.
00:23:12.000So it's not a situation of like pushing it onto NDP premiers to solve the issue.
00:23:18.000It really is a national social issue that we need to have some authority on and explain what should we be doing here.
00:23:27.000And we need a standard standard approach across the country when it comes to this kind of stuff, especially women's prisons.
00:23:33.000The fact that some of the most insidious people in this country can do terrible things and then be put, you know, I'm not an advocate for for other criminals who are rightfully in prison, but these women shouldn't be forced to live their lives with some of the most insane people in the world who managed to get into a women's prison.
00:23:54.000I mean, I won't go into details about some of the court cases I've been involved in in British Columbia with someone who assaulted me years ago, but they were of, you know, a similar situation where they would end up in a women's prison and they should not have been in a women's prison.
00:24:10.000Right. A biological man who is having some kind of a mental break and decides that they're a woman and they're also a criminal.
00:24:16.000I'm not in the case necessarily that you're talking about, but this happens like there's a story out of Quebec of a man that murdered three people and then he goes to jail.
00:24:23.000And now all of a sudden he's a woman and he wants to go in the women's prison.
00:24:26.000Like I get that female prisoners aren't necessarily the most sympathetic audience that you say, well, they aren't deserving of, you know, the threatened fear of living with a criminal man in their same cell.
00:24:36.000But it's like at a certain point, like a woman has a right not to be raped, not to be in a situation where they can be raped.
00:24:43.000Even, even prisoners, even women who are in jail.
00:24:45.000And those, those women are put in a hugely unfortunate situation when they're, when they're forced to shock, like to, to be in a cell with these people.
00:24:53.000You know, a lot of these, a lot of these criminals, women, female prisoners, they're not violent criminals.
00:25:00.000They're in jail and they're serving a sentence for society and they shouldn't be put in that situation.
00:25:07.000So that's the kind of leadership that I would want from our prime minister to, to tell premiers, you know, premiers have, have jails that they're in charge of as well.
00:25:16.000And, but so does the federal government.
00:25:18.000There's different types of prisons in this country and they all need an understanding of what is okay and what is not okay.
00:25:26.000And I, I think that's right that like, well, even many of the women, Muslim women, um, who are in women's prison, even the, the hard offenders who have committed violent crimes is almost always with women, a situation where they've killed their husband or their domestic partner.
00:25:39.000Like it's, it's almost always like a personal relationship.
00:25:41.000And so again, the idea that they would be subject to a dangerous male criminal is, is just unfathomable.
00:25:49.000Um, that's, that's sort of the less sympathetic argument.
00:25:51.000The more sympathetic argument is when you have women in sports, like teenagers and girls trying to compete at the top of their level.
00:25:58.000Um, I was an athlete when I was a teenager and the whole point of female sports is so that women can have a chance because they can't compete with men.
00:26:13.000I saw one on social media the other day of a, a male, I think it was a volleyball player on Vancouver Island University.
00:26:20.000But this, this, this man had gone through a sex, basically transformation as a child.
00:26:27.000So in this video where, um, he's saying, I want to play sports, um, with the girls because I'm a girl.
00:26:35.000It's a biological boy, but he says that he was, he started transitioning at the age of five.
00:26:40.000And so he's, he never went through male puberty and you, you have this like really sad situation.
00:26:46.000Like I actually really feel, I have so much sympathy and I feel for him because I feel like he's been the victim of abuse, um, at the hands of his parents and a society that is delusional enough to, to, to, to allow this to go on.
00:26:59.000And now you have a person who's in the middle of it and living through it.
00:27:04.000Um, but at the same time you need the leadership.
00:27:06.000Didn't you think that that clip from Pierre though on breakfast or on CP two, four, don't you think that is kind of the leadership, the equivalent of what Trump is doing?
00:27:14.000Like giving people permission to take a stance on the decision?
00:27:57.000And then maybe talk a little bit about your highlights of your time.
00:28:00.000Well, the last time I was in Washington DC was to document January 6th, which I feel like I can talk about now because I was like constantly worried that people were going to be upset for me being there as a journalist.
00:29:17.000And so not to excuse the behavior, I think that there were some bad actors and bad behavior on January 6th, but by and large, it was a protest, right?
00:29:24.000It was a protest in support of Trump in, in, in protest against a lot of really crazy things that happened in the 2020 election.
00:29:31.000A lot of irregularities, a lot of media interference, a lot of things that we now know about the things like the Twitter files, that they were actually manipulating the information behind the scenes, blocking the Hunter laptop Biden story from getting out.
00:29:44.000Like there was a lot to be angry about at that time.
00:30:38.000I wanted to see what, you know, what people were doing.
00:30:42.000These, these moments in history are always so great to be at and witness with your own eyes because you can share it with your viewers so that they feel like they're there as well.
00:30:51.000And you can give them like this on, you know, your viewers trust you and you can give them this honest,
00:30:57.000If we left it to the CBC, who I was standing beside during January 6th to, to relate to Canadians, what was going on.
00:31:06.000Canadians would think that it was an insurrection and part, many do.
00:31:10.000So I'm, I was glad that I was able to be there in case whatever happened, happened.
00:31:15.000We'd be able to be there to, to document it.
00:31:17.000And I was lucky enough to be able to get into the Canadian embassy, which funny enough, the last time I was there, I was also thrown out by Bill Morneau because I was trying to go to Bill Morneau.
00:31:25.000I was trying to go to a Bill Morneau press conference and they threw me out, they made me persona non grata on my own embassy, which is just weird.
00:32:39.000Wanting to get your thoughts on Mark Carney and your relationship with him, uh, while you were prime minister of the United Kingdom and any advice you have to Canadians who think he might make a good prime minister.
00:32:49.000Well, Mark Carney was governor of the bank of England and under his tenure.
00:32:54.000Uh, too much money was printed, which did damage to the British economy and put our economy off track.
00:33:01.000He at the last election endorsed Rachel Reeves economic policy.
00:33:09.000Uh, the country is heading for bankruptcy.
00:33:12.000So I would strongly recommend not backing Mark Carney or his policies on net zero, which have been disastrous for Britain would be disastrous for Canada.
00:33:55.000I want to ask people questions that Canadians and my audience in general want answers to.
00:34:01.000And I was able to fly across the continent, go to an embassy and ask a former prime minister of a G7 country, a pretty big deal, a basic question and get something that was extremely valuable content wise.
00:34:16.000That's what I wanted to do with Mark Carney.
00:34:18.000He wants to be anointed leader of the liberal party and then, and then appointed prime minister of this country.
00:34:23.000Uh, and I wanted to ask him simple questions.
00:34:25.000Um, it was different questions and he might not have liked to answer them in this case.
00:34:30.000Of course, Liz trust was happy to talk about Mark Carney because she really does not like him.
00:34:34.000Uh, she attributes his downfall or her, her, her downfall in her short term as prime minister to him and his money printing policies.
00:34:41.000Um, so, you know, it's different questions.
00:34:45.000And obviously they're, they can be prickly and who knows what the questions are going to be.
00:34:50.000Um, I usually determine what they're going to be about an hour before I asked the person or sometimes on the spot in that case with Liz trust, it was just out of my pocket.
00:35:34.000I'm sure if I'm sure if I was anyone else, they would bend the rules, but it means that I have to either find interesting places to find them on the street, on a beach, whatever, or at a press conference somewhere that is not highly controlled by parliamentary security.
00:35:48.000So it, it, it, it's frustrating to me that I have to fly across the world, um, to go to a foreign country to ask our own leader.
00:36:14.000Um, in fact, when, and during Donald Trump's first term, the only time I've ever been able to get a question close to Trudeau up until that point.
00:36:23.000Um, obviously I met him on a beach recently, but, um, I had to fly to the white house.
00:36:29.000I'd have to go to the white house for his Trudeau's foreign visit to see Donald Trump there.
00:36:33.000And then I could ask him questions of course, his media team was furious and they pushed me.
00:36:37.000And they didn't get questions through it.
00:36:39.000They didn't respond, but we were able to shout them to him and get the point across what we wanted to ask.
00:36:43.000And, um, it's, it's the point of it is the access.
00:36:47.000You have the ability to get there and ask a question.
00:36:49.000If they want to respond, they respond.
00:36:50.000It's up to them, but there shouldn't be a police force between you, between someone who represents the people and wants to get answers from those in power and get, you know, relay.
00:37:02.000Sort of a message between the two and actually have some accountability between the two.
00:37:07.000Um, there shouldn't be a police force able to determine if you meet the right partisan, you know, check.
00:37:14.000If you check off the right partisan boxes to be allowed in the room.
00:37:30.000Everyone was really interested in hearing what she had to say.
00:37:32.000And no one in the legacy media thought to do that, right?
00:37:35.000Like for all the resources, all the money that the CBC and CTV and all these different newspapers and outlets, they all had presence in Washington.
00:38:13.000Um, but the idea was that you and a handful of other independent journalists, including True North, Isaac Lamoureux, uh, were, were not, I don't know what their justification was that you weren't, you weren't journalists or that you weren't allowed.
00:38:25.000I mean, you're an Albertan and he's in your province and he's refusing to ask questions.
00:38:59.000Unfortunately, my meta, I got these new like meta sunglasses to film video.
00:39:03.000They failed on me that day, which disappointed me a bit because those would have caught footage of his campaign team, locking my leg in a door, like closing my door, closing door on my leg.
00:39:16.000And then putting their legs and body in between me and the door to keep me locked there.
00:39:21.000Unable to move or go into a different room.
00:40:01.000Have you ever gone in and like shouted out somebody while they were talking and giving a speech?
00:40:05.000Like, I mean, we saw Christia Freeland giving her announcement and you had a bunch of people out there calling her part of a genocide and pushing their Gaza issue.
00:40:14.000Um, have you, have you ever done something?
00:40:21.000I mean, you've shouted questions at someone who's running across the street or we'll get to Justin Trudeau on the beach, but I don't think I've ever seen you interrupt an event.
00:40:28.000In polite company, you want to be polite.
00:40:30.000You don't want to be the person that like runs in front of the cameras and busts up an event just so that you can get some silly question to someone who probably won't answer it anyways.
00:40:42.000The purpose is to get a thoughtful question that Canadians want answers to, asked to, and responded by someone of significance who needs to be held accountable.
00:40:52.000Or, or has something of intrigue like Liz Truss, who doesn't need to be held accountable necessarily, but has some advice for people.
00:40:58.000And you want to be able to give that to your readers and viewers.
00:42:49.000And it's like in some ways the Canadian political class is like so locked down and you can't get to them.
00:42:54.000And then in other ways they're totally exposed and like actually could, things could have gone a lot worse.
00:42:59.000Like if you could sneak a big sign into a campaign launch for the film, what else could you sneak in there?
00:43:04.000Yeah. And I don't want to be an advocate for tightening up access to politicians.
00:43:08.000I think that's a great thing about Canada that we are able to get that access.
00:43:11.000Um, but then you compare it to the United States and it's, it's very different.
00:43:17.000Um, someone can walk off the streets and go up to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office, sit in the front office of it and wait for it to come out.
00:43:26.000And, uh, they can get their phone number, imagine, and they can get their email.
00:43:33.000You know, they're not publicly accessible.
00:43:35.000You can, you know, you could email justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca and it'll go to a bureaucrat or some, some, um, what the actual email that goes to his Blackberry or iPhone or any other member of parliament is like first name dot last name dot a string of digits.
00:43:52.000And that will go to them if you are an insider or an elite or also a politician.
00:43:57.000And I get that their phone can't be blowing up all the time and they have work to do.
00:44:01.000But the access that we have, um, isn't anywhere close to what the Americans get, which, you know, you gotta, you gotta hand it to them.
00:44:09.000Being a, uh, congressman or senator, you are, you're accessible to the people.
00:44:16.000And they know that they know that their job is to represent the people and help them.
00:44:21.000Canadian members of parliament, I don't think have that same, uh, opinion of themselves.
00:44:26.000Uh, it's interesting that you said that any journalists can kind of show up at the White House and go to a press briefing that their first amendment guarantees that.
00:44:34.000How do they prevent, cause I just did like play devil's advocate.
00:44:37.000You hear the, the, the libs or the establishment people in Canada say, well, not just anyone can be a journalist.
00:44:42.000Like not every citizen from Twitter can just show up and expect to ask questions of their premises.
00:44:47.000So how does, how does the U S stop just like every single like streamer and citizen journalist on X from showing up to an event or they just don't worry about it.
00:45:27.000But if you're a journalist that gives you some credibility and, um, and you obviously you gotta be a good, a safe person, nonviolent, not a criminal, but, um, their definition of journalist is quite broad in the United States.
00:49:26.000Uh, yeah, he, he never accepted the actual interview surprise surprise, but at least, uh, I, I like how he, he does an interview cause he's answering the questions just to say, I don't do interviews.
00:49:35.000It's like, well, whether you realize that or not, Mr. Carney, you're literally doing an interview, um, right now.
00:52:39.000A news organization deemed it to be newsworthy.
00:52:41.000And the reaction, the value that people saw in that afterwards deemed it as well.
00:52:46.000And his minister had just told Canadians that going on a road, like the context of this is his minister, just Mark Holland, said that going on a road trip is causing the world to burn.
00:52:57.000And it is the responsibility of Canadians to ration how often they go on vacation.
00:53:02.000And then Justin Trudeau charters a private jet.
00:53:05.000Right, because somehow us driving in our car for like two hours is going to end the planet.
00:53:09.000Meanwhile, this guy's off on a private jet going around the country.
00:54:07.000I've been arrested and hauled out of Rideau Hall when he was having a COVID press conference because his press advance, Terry Guillon, who's a terrible, terrible piece of scum, human, worst person in the world.
00:54:21.000Justin Trudeau has him deciding what journalists are allowed in and out.
00:54:25.000He sicked the RCMP on me to send me away.
00:54:28.000So we, you know, we have to find novel ways of finding the prime minister.
00:55:28.000So how is it my fault for asking him questions?
00:55:31.000Well, liberals told me that I was just an evil, terrible person for doing this.
00:55:34.000Conservatives, they, you know, they loved it because they knew that this is the only way you can actually get questions to him.
00:55:40.000The mainstream media, although that there's that one guy, I think his name was Jordan Armstrong, came to that same beach house to ask him questions two years prior.
00:56:22.000He's probably not used to being able to, you know, he puts on the charm and then the people fall in line.
00:56:27.000And that's everyone around him, probably his entire life.
00:56:30.000So I think it was a little bit, you know, put him off guard for, for someone like you to be so firm, but also this is of their own making, right?
00:56:38.000They create an environment where independent journalists who have valid questions, who speak for millions and millions of Canadians, don't get the chance to actually ask our prime minister.
00:56:46.000Like I would love for you to go find Justin Trudeau wherever he is right now and do the same thing.
00:56:50.000Be like, why haven't you stepped down?
00:57:04.000I don't know why they're not answering these questions.
00:57:06.000And this is all Justin Trudeau's fault for not allowing you in in the first place.
00:57:09.000He's made his own bed when it comes to this kind of thing by sheltering himself from questions that are, you know, Donald Trump lets any reporter ask him tough questions.
00:57:42.000He's a very handsy person and he tries to control the conversation and because he's that's who he is.
00:57:49.000He thinks that everything revolves around him, that he determines when you can speak, where you can stand, when you sit, when you talk.
00:57:56.000And he, you know, he doesn't like answering questions.
00:57:59.000So that's sort of played into this whole nine years of him avoiding any sort of accountability and us having to find novel and unique ways to speak to him.
00:58:08.000Well, it's not a good sign that Mark Carney is doing the same thing, hiring the same thugs.
00:58:12.000I do think he'll be the next prime minister of this country.