Juno News - January 27, 2026
Carney APOLOGIZES to Trump over WEF speech?!
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Two very different accounts of what happened during a phone call conversation between Prime Minister Carney and President Trump this week. Well, they can t both be telling the truth. Two very different stories from two very different people.
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well they can't both be telling the truth two very different accounts of what happened during
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a phone call conversation between prime minister carney and president trump this week this headline
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in the toronto sun joe warmington's story did carney aggressively walk back davos speech to
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trump while u.s treasury secretary scott besant said he did he told fox news he was in the white
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house when carney walked back the anti-trump comments he made in a speech to the world economic
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forum let's listen i was in the oval with the president today he spoke to prime minister carney
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who was very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks he made the at davos and sean
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i'm not sure what the prime minister was thinking of course canada depends on the u.s there's much
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more north-south trade than there could ever be east-west trade he talks about middle countries
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having to do their own thing and i'm old enough to remember when french president francois
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minteron tried to go down that route it it failed the back in the 80s it'll fail now now when carney
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was asked about it he gave a very different account of what he told trump during that conversation
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but to be absolutely clear and i said this to the to the president um i meant what i said in in davos it
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was clear it was a broader set of issues that canada was the first country to understand the change in
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u.s trade policy that he had initiated um and we're responding to that we're responding positively by
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building partnerships abroad we're responding positively by building at home and we're prepared
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to respond positively by building that new uh relationship through kuzma he understood that
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and it was a good conversation as i say well if that's what happened during that conversation
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carney kept it to himself until besant told the world about it on fox news normally when prime
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ministers talk on the phone with world leaders they release that information to the media this post
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by the toronto sun's brian lilly the point i'm making is that we have no word from carney for decades
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when a pm would have a call with a world leader you would get a readout which would be sent to the
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media in the online world posted to the pm's website trudeau harper chretien etc all did this not carney
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but if carney did walk back elements of the devos speech in his conversation with trump it wouldn't
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be the first time he retreated in his dealings with the president last fall carney apologized over
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the reagan tv ads in which the former president is heard to oppose the use of tariffs our guest today
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is dan mctaig a former 18-year member of parliament he was a liberal member of parliament these days he's
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executive director for canadians for affordable energy welcome dan mark thank you for the
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introduction and great to be here with you i see you're in your car lots of snow around you i'm sure
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not too many electric vehicles i bet no no electric vehicles and unless you have a really small place
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i don't see any uh battery powered snowblowers either uh my 12 horsepower took care of my 300 feet
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of uh snow with uh with ease but uh again uh not a lot of people seeing windmills or solar panels
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working when they're covered in snow so uh i guess we're all using natural gas propane or uh hooked
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up to one of the nuclear reactors but uh the fantasies of the past 10 15 years are over as is the idea
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that the climate is somehow changing yeah we've got a canadian winter again yeah well we'll get to
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the mandates and i'm at the ev mandates because on a day like this it stands out as being pure folly but
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i have to ask you about this latest kerfuffle involving the prime minister and trump the pm wants to
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look like he's getting tough on trump he's got his elbows up but he ends up looking like he's caving in
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this time over a conversation the two of them had over the the uh davos comments the speech he gave
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sounding tough talking tough in front of the world economic forum and then uh scott besant
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came out and told fox that he was in the oval office when the two were talking and it sounded
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like carney was was backpedaling mightily in order away from his this comments that he had made to
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davos and then you have carney coming out today and say no i i stuck to my guns what do you suppose
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is going on here well he's saying one thing to one audience and another thing to a very different
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audience and he knows full well that uh you know this is not the kind of administration let alone
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the kind of country you want to play games with and try to uh you know play uh footsies with china
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at the same time uh berating or degrading or uh insulting denigrating the united states look we all
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have a position on trump uh we may not like the guy but uh at the end of the day mark carney's job was
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one that he could get a deal with him number two is that uh we have an extraordinarily important
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relationship cultural geographic and yes economic and unless people are prepared to trade away
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everything they own and i mean that uh we better smarten up very quickly so it's cool and trendy and
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crazy for uh you know for carney to talk to his buddies in davos the billionaires that he's been
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you know rubbing shoulders with for the better part of a decade or so but when it comes down to
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actually facing the music that is uh the relationship we have the inextricable relationship we have between
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the two countries your philosophy and your uh your your uh your narrative goes right out the window
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under the pressure of rail politic bottom line these liberals don't act in a way and certainly
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carney isn't the one to deal with realism he talks about fanciful things and polemics and whatnot and
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that's what i saw in his speech last week yeah the trendies are going to say it's great but in fact
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it's a very dangerous and very ominous position especially when it comes after signing a big deal with the
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world's greatest security threat and then uh proclaiming it's a new world order i mean mark
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carney is a very dangerous man smart a lot smarter than the dummy who he replaced but at the same time
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canadians aren't aware what's going on frankly i don't know who to believe anymore but i certainly
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don't believe mark carney yeah the americans are very perplexed and not very happy about the deal
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that canada signed with china of course to bring over 49 000 of these uh chinese-made evs i know you have
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some strong feelings about that and then uh he said well we're not pursuing free trade did carney
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carney said we're not pursuing free trade with china we're just making some smaller deals but i think
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all of this is muddying the waters going into canada's negotiations uh on the kuzma front or usmca
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whatever your perspective is and that's coming up very shortly i none of this helps does it dan
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no and especially when you uh signed an agreement or made some kind of a deal with the chinese based
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on duress based on uh bribing based on uh you know someone basically coming up to you and saying if
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you don't do a certain thing uh then we're going to continue to penalize they're playing the game
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against us and if people don't recognize uh that this kind of blackmail uh is not the basis for any
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kind of trade certainly not a way of turning around to the americans a thumb around nose up and saying
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uh we got a better deal with china i know the elbozos out there think that's cool except that
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you gotta ask them when they lose their pension when they lose government programs when they lose
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their value of their homes and their cottages then what are they going to be left with will they still
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be cheering this idea that we can somehow uh berate uh the american administration like it or not
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you know if we have to respect uh the fact that mark carney was elected prime minister however that
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happened we also have to respect the united states made a decision and the decision they're making
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is with an administration saying listen we want to do trade but you're going to do it on our terms
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not just on your terms and you're not going to do sneaky things behind the scenes and yes supply
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management is part of that but what this really says to me is that canada has now come to a point
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where it needs to make a choice is it chinese interference is it chinese surveillance is it chinese
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uh china acting like a bully to all its neighbors in uh the in the east uh the southeast asia region
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or are we going to deal with a partner that we can actually talk to that we've dealt with for better
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part of a hundred years and we've uh you know gone shoulder to shoulder with almost every conflict
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going back at least that period of time it's hard to know exactly what carney's up to here he's trying
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to play the chinese off against the americans either way i mean if he's trying to play you know 4d
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chess i don't think it's working very well everybody just sees right through him yesterday we had
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announcements about affordability of course with gst credits increased in order to ease the crunch
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facing so many canadians as far as buying groceries and then also talk about bail reform so these are
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two major issues for canadians crime and affordability and the fact that they would deal with these two
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after 10 months of doing nothing on either as some people wondering dan if in fact this isn't the
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possible start of an election campaign uh what do you think oh i think very much is because the
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liberals are running on uh on fumes right now whether they like it or not and there's this bump
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in the media again i look at some of the media shares of their 35 cents there's nothing holding
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them in the game except the liberal party grift that's keeping them uh afloat and of course they're
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not going to bite the hand that feeds them but there's a bigger issue here as the author of one of
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the first uses of the gst to give a rebate to people you recall i did this mark back in 2000 2001
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i wrote a report on gasoline pricing saying that we can't give the gst back uh because they would
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likely be absorbed by other circumstances i suggested that we provide a rebate to canadians
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on lesser income the point i'm making is that the gst rebate is in light of the fact the federal
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government and it's liberal net green policies you don't want to give you ev mandates that block
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pipelines and massive one two three carbon taxes it's also the same one that has driven up the cost
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of uh and and and made inflation that much more difficult for canadians especially when it comes
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to food uh that aside i mean it's a very dumb way of trying to resolve a problem that you and your
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policies have created liberals need to nix net zero get away from that bad policy the rest of the world
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sees it like a bad smell i mean we don't see uh uh people like uh uh greta thunberg anymore talking
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about how dare you or you know uh other bill gates and others trying to push this narrative it's over
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it's not 2015 it's 2026 and reality means that prices are going through the roof for everything
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because we still have policies that create enormous amount of red tape regulation and at the end of the
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day add to the burden and the cost of just about everything in this country and i'm talking about the
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second carbon tax the carbon tax 2.0 which mark you and i've been talking about for five or six years
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it's starting to hit canadians and then you have the industrial carbon tax on top of that not to
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mention regulations that are discouraging investments in this country and plunging the value of the
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canadian dollar when it takes 137 pennies to buy us dollar that's adding you know that removes the
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purchase power of at least 30 to 40 percent of every canadian like it or not if canadians aren't
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prepared to uh walk away from abandon the uh the net zero policies that are really the granddaddy of
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all these bad you know inflationary policies and they're going to continue to suffer and no amount
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of you know playing a little bit of gst game here and there which is going to add to our deficit by the
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way is going to resolve this problem until the liberals and mark carney in particular who wrote a
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book about it is prepared to completely renounce the folly of those policies uh canada is going to
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continue to suffer and these kind of woke policies might go well in the short term because it's free
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money but at the end of the day we all know who pays the free money our kids and our grandchildren
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and that's a shame on my generation who does this kind of nonsense yeah i mean in this case we're
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talking about almost 10 billion dollars over the next five years to to bring down the well to
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increase the tax credit for canadians uh makes you wonder if it makes more sense just to eliminate
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the tax altogether but i guess the government doesn't want to do that because they would
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rather decide who gets the break and who doesn't let's talk a little civil servants that they've
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hired uh employed right even though they're saying they might give out some pink slips at the end of
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the day the only the only job growth is is uh grifting and the only job growth is uh the only
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growth in the economy is grifting and the only jobs that are being created are government jobs that's
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not how you run an economy and mark carney being an economist knows that full well without anybody
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producing anything of value in this country or investment coming to this country to support
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that kind of investment into new capital into new investments into new equipment into new pipelines
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in a new manufacturing we are sitting ducks and until we get our heads out of the sand we're going
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to wind up putting our entire body six feet under i mean you talk to a lot of people out there
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in milton and uh i mean and you know a lot of people who voted for for the liberals last time around
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are they still uh online with mark carney or are they starting to wonder if they made the right
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decision oh they're still online with him uh because they uh they haven't felt the full effect
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them they themselves as i said when their pensions begin to get pushed back when we see a bond rating
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agency that has the guts and the courage to recognize that you can't borrow forever and there's no
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money coming in this country also of course we're talking about uh chinese money uh come to support
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whatever we want we know that means china with everything with china is a one way street it's
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not about you it's dumping their products in your wealthy country robbing it depredating it and at the
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end of the day uh taking it over or at least uh making it uh insolvent the reality i think for most
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canadians and i think i'm hearing this is that they haven't quite seen it yet yeah you know there's no
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one selling homes now the housing market is dead food banks and mark carney had to admit this are
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going through the roof uh drug use up uh you know criminal activity up i mean the reality is that
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this is not a canada that is doing very well it's limping it's sick and the last thing it needs
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is another five years on top of the 10 years of destruction and recklessness that has led us to a
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country that has a very very bleak future like it or not i don't feel good about it i have kids i have
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grandchildren and to me we have done a tremendous disservice so those folks who start around with their
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little elbows up think about the fact that right now you've managed to put the canadian economy six
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feet under with the minutes we've got left i want to read this post here by ryan garretson
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toronto your government wants these cars to be all electric plugged into where wires running from where
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tens of thousands park on the road the future they dream of isn't based on reality
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this this is something that you've been talking about for quite some time dan and on both my shows
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uh it's you really feel it on a day like this at a time like this when winter really rears its ugly head
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yeah heat pumps don't work when it's minus 35 outside we know that electric vehicles and i see
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none of them here on the road none i'm looking around and haven't seen any i drove uh from uh the
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one side of burlington all the way up here to mississauga i have yet to see one now there's some
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very brave people but they sure as hell went out the night before last when it was minus 32
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the reality i think for most of us is that as long as the federal government continues to
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uh pretend uh that we can have this ev mandate the chinese are going to now sell and basically dump
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their crappy products into our market if you want an over glorified golf court court cart that's fine or a
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uh for a four slice toaster on wheels that's what these things amount to uh and look there's a purpose
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for those things but i'd say if you're in toronto you need one of these things take the damn transit
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i mean when it's working of course but on a day where things are are you know are pretty much uh
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snowed in where uh the infrastructure is at the best you know limited um there's no way we can make
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uh mark carney's fantasies and the liberal fantasy of ev mandates work unless we're prepared to kill the
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automotive sector in this country while at the same time pretend that we have the grid that can support
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this kind of nonsense in a canadian real climate and that's why i think the climate bedwetters
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aren't anywhere to be found today or in this past week because they now know this is a real canadian
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winter this is the kind of weather we're quite used to we had it good for a few years there i guess
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the solar flares have a lot to do with that or the tilting of the axis of the of the earth but the
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reality is that welcome back to canada and when you're here in canada the last thing you need
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is to take your little phone and go outside and try to pretend that those batteries are going to work
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when you need it the most we can't afford to have people showing up with frostbite or dead at our
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hospitals uh thanks to this trendy idea that we can somehow uh you know reinvent uh science and the
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laws of thermodynamics to prevent uh to get people to drive vehicles that are both useless unreliable
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costly and very very burdensome when it comes to the amount of subsidies that the country has had
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to pay out in order to get these things on the road so that liberals can go around virtue signal
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yeah but the liberals have painted themselves into a corner over these mandates it would be
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quite the climb down for them to say all right we admit it's not going to work so i don't see them
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changing that anytime soon which means that if canadians want to get rid of these things they'll
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have to vote the government out that's the only way that i see it what do you think well they'll have
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to vote the federal government they'll have to vote provincial conservatives out because it appears
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appears that doug ford is uh once again back on board with this kind of nonsense you've lost as a you
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did the thing last year at bright drop vans i still see some of these things driving around
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someone yesterday and laughed at the guys he rolled rolled to the way he actually opened up
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the little door on the side i said so how many hours you have left on that thing he said i got
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about 30 minutes i gotta find a place to charge this thing the company he bought it for got it
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for nothing that's the point but your taxes and mine went to pay for that and general motors
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is walking away from evs like it's a bad odor the reality here is that it may work in
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california and yes it'll work in florida but it sure as hell is it practical or will work up here
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and so for liberals not to walk this back i mean the uh the consequences are pretty grim
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the destruction of the automotive sector in ontario the number one uh sector good luck with that
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and uh good luck trying to campaign the next election in any part of what's left of our
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manufacturing sector here in ontario we are writing our own uh economic death warrants by pursuing
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something that the world has long since walked away from i'm in a 2014 at mercedes-benz it's got
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300 000 kilometers on they don't make them in germany anymore they're going to send them over to hungary
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because they have followed the climate nonsense to the point where there's no more manufacturing
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we are de-manufacturing we are of course de-industrializing our economy while at the same
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time making canadians more dependent on government at the same time watching the uh the uh the wealth
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the health the well-being and of course uh the prosperity of canadians go literally out the
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window and i for one i warned about this knew it was going to happen it's now happened and it's
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now real anybody who does want to see that take the blinders off your eyes wake up smell the coffee
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and get real dan how do people support canadians for affordable energy yeah come online affordableenergy.ca
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i do a lot of my own work a lot of my own background 18 years as you mentioned in the in the
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in the house of commons but i also worked in the private sector i've worked in the energy field
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and i've worked of course in the automotive sector so all those things can be put to good use i need
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your help any contributions ideas and of course any financial is something we always welcome and
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we certainly do that here now dan mctay behind the wheel thank you so much for coming on the show
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good to be here thanks for having me mark cheers cheers and you have an opportunity to support juno news
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