Juno News - December 31, 2024


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


Episode Stats

Length

15 minutes

Words per Minute

185.4359

Word Count

2,785

Sentence Count

165

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary


Transcript

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
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
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
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
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
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.