00:05:50.640We haven't really seen this kind of an agreement, from my recollection, in the history of the country.
00:05:57.020Typically, when a NDP and liberals form a coalition together, the NDP gets something, right?
00:06:02.840The NDP leader might get a position in cabinet.
00:06:05.240They might get more power within the actual government.
00:06:08.340This time, it just seems like it's just a paper agreement that the NDP will continue to prop up this liberal government for the next two and a half,
00:06:16.580almost three years, I guess, until the end of that parliamentary session in 2025. So by the time
00:06:22.100this deal expires, Justin Trudeau will be our prime minister for 10 long punishing years. This
00:06:28.380is the news that Canadians woke up to this morning. So here are some of the details of the
00:06:33.680agreement between the Liberals and the NDP. The Liberal Party has reached a supply and confidence
00:06:38.360agreement with the New Democrats. This agreement is in place starting today until the end of the
00:06:42.400parliamentary session at the end or in 2025. This agreement will see the NDP supporting the liberals
00:06:47.820during confident votes in budgetary matters, including budgetary policy, budget and implementation
00:06:52.320bills, estimates and supplies. And in return, the liberals will support NDP initiatives. I just want
00:06:58.280to make a point here that, you know, there really isn't that much of a distinction between the
00:07:03.000liberals and the NDP in terms of what they promise. I mean, these two parties basically have the same
00:07:07.820philosophy they're both progressive left-wing governments uh that believe that there's no limit
00:07:14.140in sight for governments they believe in no restraints uh no constraining uh aspect to the
00:07:19.100government the government can do everything it can fix all of your problems we heard that from both
00:07:23.180leaders today both the ndp and the uh liberals announced this justin trudeau and jagmeet singh
00:07:30.220sounded like they were sharing the same talking points they were both talking about helping
00:07:33.660canadians and having canadians backs um is that really what we want from our government though
00:07:39.260a government that's going to be there for you to solve all of your problems with with with
00:07:43.660absolutely no limitations in terms of their ability to actually help people or the amount
00:07:47.980of money that they have because this is this is a major problem for the liberals and and and the
00:07:52.540ndp are simply enabling it that this idea that there's no end in sight to how much money this
00:07:57.500government will spend and how deep in debt they will bring canadians so the supply and confidence
00:08:03.260agreement, we'll see the NDP supporting the Liberals. Both parties agree to standing meetings.
00:08:09.740So the leaders are going to meet once a quarter. The House leaders are going to continue to meet.
00:08:13.540The whips are going to meet. And there will be monthly stock take meetings by an oversight group.
00:08:18.560Canadians need stability, said Justin Trudeau this morning. We cannot allow our differences
00:08:22.100to stand in the way of delivering what Canadians deserve. So what are the issues that they agree on?
00:08:27.720They both want to spend even more money on health care. You know, to me, the lesson the last two
00:08:32.300years was that there is a major fundamental problem with the canadian healthcare system it is
00:08:36.460not funded in a way that will allow for canadians to get the help that they need when they need it
00:08:42.140uh we need change we have a rigid system that clearly failed in in the face of a crisis and
00:08:48.380the outcome that the takeaway the liberals and the ndp have here is that they want to spend even more
00:08:53.820money to double down on this broken system they want to add dental care to the program look i'm
00:08:57.900I'm a big advocate of people going to the dentist, having a dental care.
00:09:02.380I think it should be part of standard insurance that you should have with your job.
00:09:06.080But the idea of including it into the government system will just make dental care terrible in this country.
00:09:11.840So more of that, more affordable housing, more $10 a day child care, more money towards climate change, a better deal for workers, which really just means government workers.
00:09:22.900So more perks and privileges to those who work for the government, more on reconciliation, better tax system for the middle class, whatever that means at the same time is also increasing the carbon tax.
00:09:36.440And then this is kind of ironic, making democracy work for the people, removing barriers to voting.
00:09:41.740So supposedly these two politicians who have made a backroom deal for us today are going to improve our democracy.
00:09:59.520Prime Minister, by the time this deal expires in 2025, you will have been in office for almost 10 years.
00:10:06.200Are you committed to staying on and running another election campaign in that year,
00:10:09.820or do you imagine a leadership race within your party?
00:10:12.260As I've said a number of times, I'm planning on continuing to serve Canadians through and beyond the next election.
00:10:20.760All right. That was not the clip I wanted. That was a clip of Justin Trudeau telling us that he is not going anywhere, that he is going to continue to be our prime minister, that many people are speculating today that this might be the end of Justin Trudeau, might be the end of Jagmeet Singh, that these politicians are making this deal to sort of secure the end of their political life.
00:10:38.080if the government is in place till 2025, Justin Trudeau could step down next year or the following
00:10:43.420year and give the new leader of the liberals that they select some time to govern before the next
00:10:48.500election. So there is him disputing that, saying, no, no, I'm not going anywhere. You can take that
00:10:54.100with a grain of salt. But do we have the right clip here of Trudeau? No, I don't think we have
00:11:01.100that clip. Anyway, he was just announcing that basically what I just said, which was that this
00:11:06.400is a agreement in principle, it's not an official coalition, and that both parties basically have
00:11:12.360the option to leave the agreement anytime soon. I'll play another clip. Here's a question
00:11:19.440that Justin Trudeau received, actually a pretty stern question that he faced in French today,
00:11:27.220asking, basically, you know, we just had an election, we just had an election, this is a
00:11:32.100travesty of democracy, and here is what Justin Trudeau said to apply to that.
00:11:39.380Good morning, Prime Minister. What do you say to Canadians who are furious with this arrangement
00:11:44.500because they said they elected a Liberal government only six months ago, and here they are
00:11:50.480with a Liberal NDP government, which would be now a majority. Is this not a travesty of democracy?
00:11:58.120Well, the major message that people gave us with the election of a minority government is that people expect that parliamentarians will work together.
00:12:13.000People expect that members of parliament will be able to agree on common points in order to work more constructively for Canadians.
00:12:28.500And that is exactly what we are announcing today.
00:12:33.060Well, so here you go. At least he got a little bit of pushback from his government-funded media there.
00:12:39.940Yes, this is a travesty of democracy. Canadians did not vote for a coalition. We did not vote for an NDP government, NDP propping up liberals like this. Sure, they voted for, Canadians voted for a minority government, which implies that there will be coalitions. But this is, it implies that governments will be, parties will be working together.
00:13:01.000But this goes above and beyond that. This goes into a backroom deal. Warren Kinsella, who is a former aide to a liberal prime minister, he's a liberal, but he doesn't like Justin Trudeau.
00:13:13.000He had an amusing piece in the Toronto Sun this morning saying, breaking down the motive for this undemocratic liberal NDP backroom deal.
00:13:21.060And he calls these guys the axis of weasels. That's a pretty good take on it. The axis of weasels. Dirty deals gives Trudeau a lot of runway to cobble together some sort of a legacy agreement. So he has that over on the Toronto Sun website. And I have to say, I might start using that term there, the axis of weasels. Pretty apt.
00:13:46.720Lots of criticism coming out against this. Candace Bergen, the leader of the Conservatives, the interim leader, she slams the agreement.
00:13:53.960She says that the NDP Liberal Coalition is nothing more than a callous attempt by Trudeau to hold on to power.
00:14:00.420Canadians did not vote for an NDP government. This is little more than a backroom, than backroom, backdoor socialism.
00:14:06.360This is the NDP Liberal Agreement at government by blackmail.
00:14:11.720Let's play that clip of Candace Bergen. I believe we have that. This is nothing more.
00:19:40.300They borrowed another $10 million during the 2019 election.
00:19:44.000And the only way that they were even able to stay afloat is because taxpayers subsidized them.
00:19:49.880Taxpayers gave them a nine million dollar rebate. So the reality is that the NDP is pretty hapless.
00:19:55.300I wouldn't be surprised if this party just like folds and they permanently merge with the liberals, because I can't really see another way out.
00:20:03.680And, you know, we here at Trenorth were speculating this morning as to whether or not this guy would remain leader of the party.
00:20:09.020I mean, it's an interesting question, but he's just taking the party in such a strange direction.
00:20:16.520And finally, I think this is good news for the Conservatives.
00:20:19.980I know that everyone watching this right now is like, this is terrible.
00:22:29.360Hi everyone, sorry about the poor quality of this video, but I'm traveling from Montreal
00:22:33.700to Ottawa just as breaking news comes forward of a coalition power pact between the socialist
00:22:41.120NDP and the Liberals to keep in control of the government until the year 2025.
00:22:48.960Obviously, they agreed to a radical and extreme agenda to expand the power of government by taking away the freedoms of the people, to increase spending and taxes and inflation on the backs of the people, or just inflation as I've described it.
00:23:10.480the news might seem terrible but I'm here today with a message of hope with a strong conservative
00:23:20.640leader who knows how to win the debate and the procedural contests on the floor of the
00:23:25.300House of Commons we can push back hard against the this coalition attack on our freedom
00:23:32.320so again this is great news for the conservatives because it gives them
00:23:37.780So much fodder, so much to talk about.
00:23:40.400I'm going to take some of your questions here since we are doing this live show.
00:23:43.920I've got a couple that my producer has been pulling.
00:23:53.760Actually, I had Rupa Supramana on my show last week.
00:23:57.180She wrote a piece about how she believes that Chrystia Freeland's position on the board
00:24:02.460of the World Economic Forum is a conflict of interest with her position as finance
00:24:06.360Minister of Canada. Personally, my opinion of the World Economic Forum is just sort of just another
00:24:12.940like useless sort of rather creepy leftist authoritarian international institution where
00:24:20.140they sit around and talk about how important they are and how great they are and kind of nothing
00:24:26.900comes of it. Or, you know, they set these ridiculous standards and politicians sort of talk good game
00:24:32.600And then they come back and nothing becomes of it. Like, I think I think that the World Economic Forum wishes it was as powerful as people think it is.
00:24:39.900In reality, it's just an opportunity for the sort of elitists of the world, people like Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland to gather around like minded people and basically just sit around and talk about all the sort of wacky plans that they have for the world.
00:24:59.320it is interesting because um there were some conservatives that were involved in and i i agree
00:25:04.280i don't i don't like that i don't like to see people um on the conservative side participating
00:25:08.040in these sort of elitist leftist global governance sort of schemes and i i was happy to see pierre
00:25:14.760polyev uh denounce them on on you talked about on the andrew lawton show last week and i hope that
00:25:19.800more conservatives push back against these sort of terrible global governance schemes another
00:25:25.960question here. Pamela asks, Candace, what is your opinion and what could be done to reverse this to
00:25:31.760get Trudeau and Freeland out and to force an election? Well, unfortunately, that all rests
00:25:38.100in the hands of Jagmeet Singh. He's been given a tremendous amount of power in this parliament,
00:25:43.660given the minority situation. So he holds together the power and it looks like he's using that
00:25:49.060to create this pact, this agreement. I think it'll be very bad politically for Jagmeet
00:25:55.820thing. I think that there's a lot of people in the NDP who don't like Justin Trudeau, a lot of
00:25:59.940working class people who frankly feel very alienated by this idea that the NDP is now in lockstep with
00:26:06.420the liberals. Liberals are very clearly the corporatist party in Canada. They represent
00:26:10.540the woke ideology of the left as well as the sort of like corporate culture in Canada. And I think
00:26:18.080it again creates a huge opportunity for the conservatives to represent the people of the
00:26:23.000country, the working class, the working people, people who don't work for the government, people
00:26:27.280who don't work for corporations, small business owners and families. I think that the NDP has
00:26:32.500completely abandoned that aspect of its base. And I don't think that it'll reward Singh in the long
00:26:40.040run. I think that he's given away all of his power today. And I think, again, next time that there's
00:26:45.980an actual election and the Canadians get to choose, I think they will be punishing Justin
00:26:50.600Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh for today. As far as, you know, can we make that happen any sooner?
00:26:56.440I don't think so. I think these guys just cemented their own power for at least the next two, three
00:27:01.060years. Next question, Candace, is there a way of getting rid of this situation? No, I mean,
00:27:07.660you know, they're using their power. They're using the powers that they have in Parliament. And I
00:27:13.520think the only way that we can reverse it is ensuring that whenever the next election comes,
00:27:19.180whether it's 2025, as this agreement would suggest, or, you know, whether the Liberals and the NDP break it themselves before that, that Canadians are aware and that we don't let them forget.
00:27:34.200Lots of questions along those lines. So, you know, what can we do? I want my country back. So do I.
00:27:38.680I will say during most of the pandemic, I was truly saddened and disappointed by the direction of government, the lack of pushback, the lack of even amongst conservatives fighting back against excessive government use, lockdowns, just all of the craziness, shutting down schools, shutting down our hospital system.
00:27:59.580I wanted to see more of an opposition, whether it's from conservatives or any party.
00:28:05.640I think that we've now turned a corner and, you know, I think that the Freedom Convoy was a huge wake up for many people.
00:28:14.580You know, we want our freedoms back, we want our country back.
00:28:16.760And it was it was good to see, I think, that we're heading in the right direction and we need to continue to harness that power of good and continue to go in that direction.
00:28:28.540to tell our leaders that we don't want this direction.
00:28:31.620We don't want to become a socialist, globalist country.
00:28:36.580Next, we have a question from Colleen.
00:28:39.080She says, Candace, do you think conservatives and bloc can emerge together
00:28:42.280and compromise West and Quebec issues so we can get a fair vote?
00:28:47.120Well, I don't think that we would have enough seats.
00:28:49.660I don't think that the conservatives and the bloc...
00:28:56.920Yeah, so the Bloc only has 32 seats. The Conservatives have 119. So that would be 151 combined. The Liberals and the NDP combined are 182. So even a Bloc and a Conservative combination would not be enough to counter that Liberal NDP vote.
00:29:16.260So, you know, those are the numbers. That's that's the parliament that we have. And there's very little that we can do about it. I'll go to the next question. Nadeem, what are the liberals so laser focused on keeping Trudeau as their leader? What was their last when was their last leadership contest? Yeah, Justin Trudeau has been leader of this party since, what, 2012?
00:29:37.540And interesting because back then there were some other good candidates that were running for the liberals.
00:29:44.240It wasn't just Trudeau that was already the Justin Trudeau show because that party is very much a cult around the Trudeau name.
00:29:51.480And as soon as Justin Trudeau announced that he wanted to lead the party, it was basically a coronation for him.
00:29:57.400So, yeah, I mean, I could sort of see Trudeau gracefully stepping aside, well, as gracefully as he could, you know, giving his seat to Chrystia Freeland so that she can run in the next election, sort of the way that Dalton McGinty did for Kathleen Wynne, avoid the sort of scrutiny of his scandals all coming out.
00:30:20.260and stepping aside before the electorate could really throw him out, which saved the Liberal
00:30:26.280Party. Recall, Dalton McGinty was in power for a long time in Ontario. By the end, he was very
00:30:30.940unpopular because of the gas plant scandal and a number of other ethical scandals. And the Ontario
00:30:36.940public was very clear that they wanted a change. And so Dalton McGinty provided that change within
00:30:41.560the Liberal Party. He stood up aside. Kathleen Wynne came up. People didn't see her in the same
00:30:46.400light as they saw Dalton McGinty. And so that change was sort of already fulfilled. And Kathleen
00:30:51.660Wynn was rewarded with becoming the premier. So I could see them kind of taking a book from that
00:30:58.160playbook. But again, Justin Trudeau told us today, I played you that clip earlier, he said that he
00:31:04.560will run again in 2025. So he doesn't want you to know that he is going anywhere. That's, again,
00:31:11.980a terrifying idea for many of us. But for Justin Trudeau, he says that he's not going anywhere.
00:31:17.400Maybe he wants to stay in power like his father. I mean, he's not even that old. I think he's
00:31:21.120in his 50s. But he could have a long way to go if he wanted to continue to govern. I know that's
00:31:28.700a scary proposition. I'll do one more question here. Pamela asks, do you think this will push
00:31:34.940Western separation, three more years of the liberals will ruin us. I think it will heighten
00:31:41.740Western alienation for sure. I think the longer that the West is left out and ignored and neglected,
00:31:47.820the worse it will be, the sentiment. You know, I had Irvin's student on the show earlier this week.
00:31:54.300Actually, it was just yesterday. I had him on the show. He's a brilliant political analyst. And he
00:31:59.740sort of talked about how the idea that Canada is going to remain a country isn't a given.
00:32:04.940He's analyzed countries and he says that most of them typically last about 60 years.
00:32:10.240And anything on top of that is because of constant hard work and constant refreshing and renewing of our institutions.
00:32:18.700And that's simply not happening in Canada under Justin Trudeau.
00:32:21.320There is significant democratic decay in our country and Trudeau just sort of seems indifferent to it.
00:32:26.560And instead, he wants to continue pushing us down this very scary path towards authoritarianism, towards government regulation, government controlling the Internet, government censoring what you can say, government censoring what you can think, the way that they demonize and scapegoat people that they disagree with.
00:32:45.840the direction of the government under Justin Trudeau is truly going in a very scary direction.
00:32:52.720Trudeau seems uninterested in fixing and addressing the sort of broader problem. So I think the longer
00:32:58.000that he behaves this way, the longer that he acts this way and governs this way, the worse it is
00:33:02.260for our country. And yes, I definitely think that is a concern for the country, that people
00:33:11.820don't see themselves being reflected in this government. And that Justin Trudeau is sort of
00:33:16.400apathetic to that idea. And rather than trying to understand the concerns of working people or
00:33:23.820people in the West, people in the trucker convoy, he would simply rather name call them and do
00:33:29.300backroom deals like we saw today to secure his own power. All right, folks, thank you so much
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