Juno News - Billionaire will pay for Singh’s pension in return for early election

00:00:00.000 Jagmeet Singh is out of reasons to continue propping up the Liberal government. Calgary

00:00:06.020 businessman Brett Wilson has agreed to arrange private funding for the NDP leaders pension if

00:00:13.100 he agrees to bring down the government triggering the election that Canadians want. 2025 looks to

00:00:19.960 be a very promising year indeed. I'm Rachel Parker. Welcome back to The Rachel Parker Show.

00:00:30.000 Hey everyone, welcome back to The Rachel Parker Show. I am your host Rachel Parker. We are joined

00:00:47.620 today by the man Brett Wilson himself who is going to tell us about his plan to privately fund NDP

00:00:55.180 leader Jagmeet Singh's pension and hope that he will trigger an early election. So Brett, I want

00:01:00.200 to start off. I saw a report from CBC News this week that said that Jagmeet Singh would be eligible to

00:01:06.060 claim $66,000 a year annually beginning at the age of 65. How much are you actually willing to fund for

00:01:14.920 him to help pay for his pension if he agrees to trigger an early election? Well, let's go back

00:01:20.840 to big picture. One of the greatest investments I could ever make in this country is making sure

00:01:25.620 that we move to an election quickly and the only impediment to an election quickly is Jagmeet Singh.

00:01:31.580 He says he doesn't trust Trudeau but he refuses to act on his own words. So I started out with a bit

00:01:38.940 of a smartass comment on Twitter saying that I would fund his his accelerated pension plan and whatever that

00:01:48.080 is I've seen numbers to two plus million. And let me tell you as much as I could afford to do that

00:01:53.440 myself for the right reasons, again, investing in Canada, I've had a dozen different people reach out

00:01:59.680 and say, can I participate in your program? And one of my friends said I might even make money giving

00:02:06.120 a pension to Jagmeet. And there's that many people interested in seeing him gone. Now, whether this is

00:02:14.560 legal, don't know, is it ethical? I think so. I don't know how the government works, nor do I care.

00:02:21.280 The real point is to drive home Jagmeet, you're done. So you said that you've had people reaching

00:02:27.920 out to you who are willing to help fund this. And they said they'd actually come out ahead now. Are

00:02:33.120 they actually saying they'll come out ahead because some of the restrictions from the Trudeau government

00:02:36.880 would be rolled back under a conservative government? How would they come out ahead under this?

00:02:40.720 No, it would be I that would come out ahead in the context of if I needed to raise 2.3 million,

00:02:46.240 one of my senior legal partner at a law firm in Calgary looked at me and said, you'll have no trouble

00:02:51.520 raising more than two and a half million bucks to get rid of Jagmeet. And again, it's an investment

00:02:56.480 in Canada. It's got nothing to do with where it goes, happens to be going to Jagmeet. Jagmeet's doing

00:03:02.160 nothing for Canada now. So when he leaves, he'll be doing nothing for Canada. But more importantly,

00:03:07.520 the fact that we can call an election and the odds of Trudeau getting reelected slim to nil,

00:03:13.200 but more importantly, let's let the people of Canada call the shots. I'm not happy that Bloc Quebecois

00:03:19.440 gets to delay the program. I'm really unhappy with the way the NDP has dawdled and delayed the whole

00:03:26.160 protocol. And again, Jagmeet will say, I don't trust, I don't believe, I don't honor the grounds that

00:03:33.040 Trudeau walks on. And yet he refuses to act when Poilev calls his shots and says, look, all right,

00:03:39.600 well, then let's call for a non-confidence vote. Let's call for an election. And so as much as it

00:03:45.040 seems silly that one individual would put up two, two and a half million, if I'm going to invest in

00:03:50.080 Canada, one of the greatest things, I mean, to be blunt, if we could change governments, I'd make more

00:03:55.280 in a year than giving up that call at that two, two and a half million because of the investments,

00:04:00.240 because of the opportunity. And again, whether you like Trump or hate him, I don't, I mean,

00:04:04.240 a lot of people don't like Trump, the man, I honor Trump, the leader. And what he's forcing Canada

00:04:09.440 to do right now is good for Canada. Ultimately, we will be better off as we can ship fossil fuels

00:04:16.160 to the world, ship fossil fuels to the US, all of that. It seems irrelevant, but Trudeau is not the

00:04:21.200 guy to do those negotiations. Certainly Jagmeet's not. So the quicker we get rid of Jagmeet, the quicker we

00:04:26.640 can get on to a proper relationship with the rest of the world.

00:04:31.200 You brought up Donald Trump. One of the reasons that this conversation is so pertinent right now

00:04:36.080 is because it seems that the Liberal government, or at least Liberal leader and Prime Minister

00:04:40.720 Justin Trudeau, have never seemed closer to falling with the resignation of Chrystia Freeland

00:04:45.440 earlier this month, kind of knifing Trudeau in the back on her way out, accusing him of costly

00:04:49.600 political gimmicks. On her way out, Chrystia Freeland acknowledged that her and the Prime Minister had

00:04:54.560 disagreed with how to handle the threat of Donald Trump's tariffs. Do you attribute any of what's

00:04:59.840 gone on this month with Justin Trudeau never having been in a weaker position? Do you attribute any of

00:05:04.000 that to Donald Trump? I do. And I actually believe, I mean, after Trump had dinner with Trudeau at

00:05:11.600 Mar-a-Lago, he, within 24, 48 hours, was kind of making fun of the guy, of Trump, Trump making fun of

00:05:19.600 Trudeau rather, in the context of, let's see whether or not the governor of Canada is on side

00:05:25.840 with converting Canada into the 51st state. And people have got their backs up, I've seen that,

00:05:30.720 but there isn't a moment where Trump really believes that the 51st state is an issue.

00:05:35.920 He's making fun of Trudeau. He's making fun of Canada in backing Trudeau. That's all he's doing.

00:05:42.240 And so the quicker we can align and get rid of Trudeau, the quicker we can get to the negotiating

00:05:48.560 table. Again, I genuinely believe, you watch what's happening now. The Government of Canada

00:05:53.040 announced yesterday a $1.3 billion upgrade to our border system. Why did that happen? One reason,

00:06:02.800 Donald Trump. Got Danielle Smith working in the background, doing the same thing. You got a bit of

00:06:08.160 noise. And again, social media, or pardon me, legacy media has been pretty focused on the fact

00:06:13.280 that Trump's calling for tariffs. They don't finish the sentence, which is Trump's calling for tariffs

00:06:18.480 if we don't get our shit together and fix the border crossing. We had Nenshi yesterday said one

00:06:24.960 of the stupidest things. He said a lot of stupid things. He and I don't get along, but he said one

00:06:29.280 of the stupidest things imaginable. We'd sent 44, they'd caught 44 pounds of fentanyl going across the

00:06:35.600 border. And he flippantly says, well, that's not very much. Well, you do the math. It turns out

00:06:40.480 that could kill 10 million people. That's not very much, says Nenshi, get out of the way. But the real

00:06:47.440 picture is that we've got the federal government is now stepping up. We've got the provincial governments

00:06:52.560 and to varying degrees stepping up. We're fixing our border problem. Why? One reason, Donald Trump.

00:07:01.440 You've said to Jagmeet Singh that you'll privately fund his pension if he agrees to

00:07:05.280 trigger an election in the early months of 2025. When specifically does this offer expire?

00:07:13.120 One of the problems is not quite understanding what the date is that allows him to get his full

00:07:18.720 pension. And I'm reading materials now that suggest that as long as he stays in office,

00:07:24.880 excuse me, until the end of February, he gets his full pension. Can I wait till then? Not willingly,

00:07:31.840 not happily, but let's just say that by the 15th of January, the offer that I've made, which will

00:07:38.160 guarantee him his full pension starting immediately, let's say that it has to end on January 15th. We

00:07:44.880 need time to call an election. We need time to have that election. We need time to change governments.

00:07:50.320 And so the sooner it is, the better. And have you actually had any contact with either the NDP leader

00:07:56.880 or anyone in his party to discuss this offer with them specifically? I texted Jagmeet's brother who's

00:08:05.120 followed me on Twitter for a while. No response yet. So maybe he's just not going to respond. I mean,

00:08:12.400 obviously it's been, it's been flagged. I don't know if Jagmeet thinks it's serious. I had the

00:08:17.280 privilege of being on a couple of radio shows before he was leader of the opposition with him.

00:08:23.040 We got along great. He was an enjoyable person to banter with. And again, it was pre him taking

00:08:28.720 the position he's taken now. So he's met me. We've met again, friends, no acquaintances, yes,

00:08:34.560 but no, they're not responding in any way, shape or form. And by the way, I couldn't be more delighted

00:08:39.920 that Mark Carney has chosen to wait. I still think he's going to try and play a role in the Liberal

00:08:45.120 Party. But I think Carney was smart to stay away from the Liberal Party as we know it today. So

00:08:50.480 Jagmeet, not good. The Liberal Party, not good. Trudeau, not good. I think Chrystia Freeland left

00:08:56.160 in a way that she thinks she can then run to be leader of the party. I, you know, I've made fun of

00:09:01.760 her on social media. She comes across like a cocaine addicted queen. And the giggling and the wiggling 1.00

00:09:08.000 and the, I just, it doesn't seem right. It doesn't, I mean, she's almost Kamala Harris in terms of

00:09:13.680 at times goofy. There's definitely, yeah, there's something, it seems to be something a little bit

00:09:19.360 amiss with Chrystia Freeland. If you watch how she presented herself, even from a few years ago 0.99

00:09:23.840 to now, we've touched on it a little bit, you know, the sinking ship of the Liberal Party.

00:09:27.840 What are your predictions for 2025? Is Justin Trudeau going to step down as leader of the Liberal Party and

00:09:33.680 we will simply see a Liberal Party leadership race? Do you think that we will have an early

00:09:37.840 election or do you think that Trudeau might hold on all the way to the bitter end in October?

00:09:43.280 Maybe something else entirely. What's your 2025 predictions? My judgment is that Trudeau will

00:09:48.160 step down because he acknowledges, recognizes, reluctantly understands that he's going to get

00:09:53.920 slaughtered. If he stays on as leader of the Liberal Party in the next federal election,

00:09:59.680 they are going to get slaughtered. The best chance they have of not being slaughtered

00:10:05.200 is to choose another leader. And if they have a brand new leadership program, that might be where

00:10:10.320 Chrystia Freeland steps up, might be where, for example, Mark Carney steps up. So my bet, and again,

00:10:16.320 my wish is that Trudeau stays in power and calls an election. But my bet is that he's going to step down,

00:10:22.480 acknowledging that he cannot be the ultimate failure.

00:10:25.440 Brett, thank you so much. Appreciate the opportunity, Rachel, always.

00:10:30.080 All right, everyone. That was Brett Wilson, a Calgary businessman and entrepreneur who is

00:10:36.560 offering to privately fund NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's pension. Something tells me that Jagmeet Singh is not

00:10:42.720 going to take him up on the offer, though that would be good news for Canadians. Now it is our last 0.93

00:10:48.560 episode of 2024. I just wanted to take a few brief seconds here and go through some of your comments

00:10:55.440 from the last few episodes. I feel like some of the last two episodes I've done have gone on a bit

00:11:00.000 longer. I haven't quite gotten to some of your thoughts. I wanted to take a few minutes and do

00:11:04.400 that now. I got actually a comment from an American conservative in Florida. He writes,

00:11:09.760 Hey, yo, black conservative from Florida here. And I honestly think what Donald Trump did had a drip

00:11:14.960 effect to the overall outcome of what's happening. I live near West Palm and I was shocked that Trudeau

00:11:21.600 came down here to congratulate Trump. I can honestly see what most people don't like Trudeau, but it was

00:11:26.800 weird where all the other world leaders celebrated Trump and he came down. The trolling and mocking is

00:11:32.480 directed towards Justin and not the Canadian people. 25% tariffs was a measure to make your people get 0.88

00:11:39.040 stuffed on on your end of the border. But seeing the reactions and what has taken place,

00:11:44.080 they have not been doing jack. So the threat was just to make people tighten up and seeing how

00:11:48.880 things are going with plans and sorting things out on the Canadian side. We should be good.

00:11:52.560 That's up to Donald Trump and the gang. Much love from Florida guys. So yes, as you know,

00:11:56.560 Brett himself said, and I think I've echoed on this show probably five or six times now, it seems very

00:12:02.720 clear to me. Donald Trump is joking. He's not looking to make Canada a US state, but the joke has played off

00:12:07.920 more effectively than he would probably ever imagined with all the disarray that we are seeing

00:12:13.600 in the liberal party. And I expect honestly that these jokes are going to continue. He might even

00:12:18.000 ramp them up considering the discord he has been able to cause among the Canadian liberal government.

00:12:23.680 Another user said, why is this channel not mentioning the deal offered about to stop the

00:12:28.560 illegal immigration and to stop the fentanyl problem and why our government doesn't want the deal?

00:12:33.600 I've covered the border crisis and the trade negotiations between Donald Trump and Canada

00:12:39.200 probably five or six times now. And I think three of those shows have been almost entirely

00:12:44.160 dedicated to talking about the work on the border. I did an episode of Rachel and the Republic on this.

00:12:49.680 I did an episode of the Rachel Parker show. I had an interview with Alberta Premier Daniel Smith almost

00:12:53.760 entirely about the issues on the border, as well as what the Alberta government is doing to ramp up

00:12:58.480 security there. So in the last week, we've been focused a little bit on the trolling and some of the

00:13:03.280 ways that Donald Trump has been able to cause discord among the liberal party. But this channel

00:13:07.920 specifically has talked extensively about Donald Trump's request for Canada to stop the illegal 0.52

00:13:13.920 immigration and flow of drugs. Maybe you haven't seen those episodes, but I specifically have done

00:13:18.240 a number of episodes and covered that issue quite extensively. Another user said in response to me

00:13:24.240 saying that I've grown up, I've become an adult in the Justin Trudeau era. He writes,

00:13:28.880 sucks to be Rachel. I grew up in the Crescent and Harper eras. I prefer owning Alberta to be an

00:13:34.240 American state. Canada will never survive without Alberta. And finally, this comment right here made

00:13:40.480 me laugh. I believe this was my interview with Anthony Koch, user at Corey B. Jarnison writes,

00:13:46.800 are you two having a blinking contest? I'm honestly so self-conscious of how much I blink on this show

00:13:52.000 because I have these two massive lights to make sure that I have good and even lighting all across

00:13:58.080 my face when I am recording for you guys. And they are so bright that it actually really hurts my eyes.

00:14:03.360 And I find that I have to blink quite a bit more than I normally would. Sometimes I try to stop blinking

00:14:09.040 because of how much my eyes are hurting and just can't be done. So yes, I do definitely blink more

00:14:14.640 than you usually would when I am recording the show. Okay guys, that brings us to the end of our

00:14:20.720 coverage for 2024. Thank you guys so much for your support and for your comments and your constructive

00:14:28.400 criticism and your notes and your words of encouragement over the last year. And I am so

00:14:33.040 grateful to have an audience because I love what I do and I can continue to do this work because of you,

00:14:39.200 the people who watch and enjoy our content. So I hope that you guys have a very blessed New Year's

00:14:44.640 Eve and I am looking forward to 2025. I have a good feeling about 2025. I think

00:14:50.000 good things are on the horizon for Canada. All right, everyone, take care. I'll see you next year. God bless.

Juno News - December 31, 2024

Billionaire will pay for Singh’s pension in return for early election

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