00:00:00.000Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:11.740We've got a great show for you today. We're going to talk about Donald Trump, whether or not we're
00:00:15.680going to get tariffs on March 4th, as promised. We're going to talk about the latest polls and
00:00:20.180whether you can believe them, whether you can trust them, and how the polls are contradicting
00:00:23.760one another. We're going to talk about the need for independent media in this country. I think
00:00:28.240that the liberal leadership debates, those questions, the way they were framed, everything
00:00:32.560about them showed us why you cannot trust the media and why you need independent media in this
00:00:38.040country. But first I want to talk about the front runner of the liberal race, Mark Carney, because
00:00:44.000it appears that he has been caught in yet another lie. So last week on the show, we pointed out the
00:00:50.140very obvious. This is something that liberal candidates have done for decades, for decades.
00:00:55.620say one thing in one language to one side of the country, and then contradict themselves when
00:01:00.420they're in Quebec speaking in French. So we had Mark Carney out in British Columbia telling
00:01:05.500supporters that he would do anything in his power to get pipelines built, to get the economy going.
00:01:10.800He said that he would even use emergency powers to get pipelines built. And then two or three
00:01:16.700days later, he's on the French CBC. He's asked about this, asked whether he would force Quebec
00:01:21.200to have a pipeline, and he said never. He repeated it four times, folks. Never, never, never. He
00:01:26.780completely contradicted himself, and he lied. We pointed that out here on the Candace Malcolm
00:01:31.080Show. Well, it looks like he has been caught in yet another lie, and we are going to walk you
00:01:36.000through all of it. But first, I'd like to introduce our guest today. I'm very pleased to be joined
00:01:40.740by Ezra Levant. Ezra is founder of Rebel News, host of the Ezra Levant Show. He's authored
00:01:46.460several books, including the best-selling Ethical Oil, as well as The Libranos. And I'm very excited
00:01:52.180to announce with Ezra that he has released a new book called The Deal of the Century,
00:01:57.340The America First Plan for Canada's Oil Sands. We're going to talk about that book a little
00:02:01.980later in the show. But first, Ezra, thank you so much for joining the program.
00:02:05.860My pleasure. And congratulations on Juno News.
00:02:09.020Thank you so much. Thank you, Ezra. Okay, let's talk about Mark Carney, because
00:02:13.040this sort of came out after the debate. And I saw that the conservatives were making a big deal
00:02:18.400about it. And at first, I didn't quite understand it. And as soon as I did, I realized that this is
00:02:22.460a big deal. This is this is, I think, very harmful to Mark Carney and his brand. So allow me to walk
00:02:27.920us through it. Mark Carney, after the liberal debate on Tuesday night, he was asked by a reporter
00:02:34.640to clarify his role in Brookfield management. So we're going to show this clip of Mark Carney says
00:02:40.220want to correct a few factual things he says i was chair of brookfield asset management i ceased to
00:02:45.820be the chair on the 15th of january when i announced my leadership and then he said the
00:02:50.300formal decision of the board happened after i ceased so brookfield asset management a big
00:02:55.260canadian company moved their headquarters from toronto to new york city carney claims that he
00:03:01.580had nothing to do with it so here's that clarification on tuesday night so two things uh
00:03:07.260I'll just correct a few factual things.
00:03:09.760One, I was chair of Brookfield Asset Management.
00:03:13.160I ceased to be chair on the 15th, I think, of January when I announced for leadership.
00:03:21.620The decision, the formal decision of the board, happened after I ceased to be on the board.
00:03:28.280I do not have a connection with Brookfield Asset Management.
00:03:32.320I no longer have a role, obviously, as I resigned in the middle of January.
00:03:35.260So he's using a bit of weasel words there. He looked a little bit uncomfortable. He was scrambling a little bit, Ezra. And then all of a sudden, the conservatives produced a letter that was signed by Mark Carney and dated December 1st, 2024, almost a full week after Trump's economic threats and several weeks before he resigned.
00:03:56.980So Michael Barrett produced this letter, a conservative MP, and you can see here he says,
00:04:03.100Breaking Carney lied. Carney was chair of Brookfield's board when they unanimously voted
00:04:08.240to move headquarters from Canada to New York, Trump's hometown. Mark Carney can't be trusted.
00:04:14.600And then he produced the letter itself, the letter in question. And you can see the highlighted bits
00:04:19.680here. This is Mark Carney has signed this letter. He said, we believe that there is more we can do
00:04:25.460broaden our shareholder base and gain access to the deepest pools of capital the most common
00:04:29.940feedback that we hear from investors encourages us to position brookfield asset management for
00:04:36.020inclusion in some of the most widely followed global large cap stop indices including in the
00:04:40.580united states he goes on the board based on among other things recommends unanimously basically to
00:04:47.540to go ahead and to move the company to New York. We have a timeline here, October 31st, Brookfield
00:04:55.460announced that it was moving. November 5th, we know Donald Trump was elected. November 25th was
00:05:01.400the first time that Trump made his 25% tariff threat. December 1st was when that letter was
00:05:07.340written by Carney to his shareholders, saying unanimously the board agrees and confirms that
00:05:14.660we should move to New York. The shareholder vote took place on December 20th. But Ezra,
00:05:20.860it wasn't finalized until January 27th, we're told because of the Canada Post strike. So it was
00:05:27.040delayed. Carney technically resigned on January 16th. And then January 27th was when it was
00:05:33.240finalized. And so I guess that's how he gets out of it. But this all coming out and him, you know,
00:05:39.920that display that he had on Tuesday where he was fumbling with his words, not quite able to even
00:05:46.300explain clearly why. I think he's guilty. I think that he has lied. And it is incredibly damaging,
00:05:52.500not just the lie, Ezra, but the actual act of moving a Canadian company to Trump's New York
00:05:58.240City while we're told that Carney is the only one that can deal with Donald Trump and stand up to
00:06:03.620him. What do you make of all this? Well, the reason Donald Trump applies tariffs is precisely
00:06:09.040to get companies to move to the states if they want to do business in the states. Think about it.
00:06:13.860He's saying to the auto sector, I'll put tariffs on you because I want to move the factories
00:06:19.440back to Michigan. So that is Trump's whole strategy. I mean, he likes the money from
00:06:25.680tariffs, but he prefers to have the companies reshoring in America. And that is exactly what
00:06:32.380Mark Carney did. And what's so incredible is he did it right during the time when Trump was
00:06:38.800talking about this. I don't want to take anything away from the conservative MP who released this
00:06:45.700letter, but it was not a secret letter. Brookfield has to publish letters like this frequently if
00:06:51.780there's any material changes to the company in their management discussions. Like this is filed
00:06:57.720with the sec constantly um they're a big public company that has to disclose things like this
00:07:04.220and so moving their headquarters to new york was something they were it was in the media was in
00:07:10.080disclosures months ago what's sort of funny here i don't know funny is the word uh what's curious
00:07:16.680is that mark carney is not used to being grilled in a precise and meticulous way he's used to sort
00:07:24.820of sliding or eliding through things. And so I heard when you played the clip from after the
00:07:30.740debate the other night, he said, well, the formal decision didn't come after I was gone.
00:07:37.120Yeah, that's probably a technical truth. That's sort of like Bill Clinton arguing about what the
00:07:42.220meaning of the word is, is, or whatever, trickery. But it is crystal clear that Mark Carney headed up
00:07:51.600the move process four months. I don't doubt that the final X marks the spot on the New York lease
00:07:59.060happened after he was gone, but he was the chairman who oversaw that. Now, you say this is
00:08:05.320critical and very important, and I would agree in two reasons. First of all, he handed over
00:08:12.660a major Canadian company to America. That shows that he puts money ahead of his patriotism,
00:08:19.320And by the way, he hasn't answered a lot of questions.
00:08:22.100Where did he live over the last few years?
00:08:25.200Why does he have not one but three passports?
00:08:28.680I know why he got the British passport,
00:08:30.740because after being the head of the Bank of Canada,
00:08:32.760he became the head of the Bank of England.
00:09:03.360He's used to the World Economic Forum.
00:09:05.200That's where I last bumped into him on the streets of the WEF at Davos.
00:09:09.260And he's used to scripted questions from friends in a low-stress environment,
00:09:14.320and he's not really ready for the accountability of a democratic process and this coronation that
00:09:21.620the liberals are running it's not a true primary it's not a true leadership contest it's an agree
00:09:26.460a thon i mean they were actually helping each other they were finishing each other's sentences
00:09:31.220in these debates and uh mark carney has made the bet sort of like joe biden did in both 2020 and
00:09:41.560the first half of 2024, that if he just does not allow himself to be grilled by independent
00:09:47.580journalists, if he just keeps a really low-key, under-control management of himself, he will
00:09:56.460escape any scrutiny. And you're suggesting he won't, because you're saying this is a very
00:10:03.680serious moment. I agree it's a serious moment, but the saying, if a tree falls in the forest
00:10:09.440and the other ones around here doesn't make any sound. So if this lie, if this handing over of a
00:10:15.900Canadian company to America and the subsequent lies and covers up by Mark Carney, if it's not
00:10:22.200covered by the mainstream media, or if they cover it, if they explain it away and make their
00:10:27.660headlines, conservatives pounce, which a lot of, then maybe he'll sneak through like Joe Biden won
00:10:34.640in 2020 with no scrutiny. He basically campaigned from his basement. I am worried that the regime
00:10:41.800media has the same kind of exuberance they had once Kamala Harris took over in 2024, and they're
00:10:48.480going to do anything they can to pull their boy across the finish line. The question is, is
00:10:53.820independent media in Canada strong enough to get the truth out? Because the regime media, and I
00:10:59.420don't just mean the CBC. Every other private sector journalist that gets about a third of
00:11:04.660their salary covered by Trudeau's newspaper bailout, this is life or death for them too.
00:11:11.860Every journalist in Canada has a moral hazard. They're in a conflict of interest. Trudeau pays
00:11:17.780at least a third of their salary. In the CBC, it's 100% of their salary. That is why you are
00:11:22.860going to see the greatest whitewash of Mark Carney in Canadian history. And I think it's happening.
00:11:29.420Well, absolutely. I want to pick up on a few things, because one of the things you mentioned was the fact that Mark Carney has three passports. We dove into this on a recent show, and he became governor of the Bank of Canada. I'm trying to remember, I think it was 2014. But reports say that he didn't get his British citizenship until 2019, Ezra. So it's not like it was a requirement for the job, right? He moved to the UK, he qualified for it somehow, and then he got it, which tells me that he did it by choice. He is also a citizen of Ireland.
00:11:57.900And in the past, both with Andrew Scheer, who was the conservative leader in the 2019 election,
00:12:02.700it was learned that he was born with American citizenship because his mom was an American.
00:12:06.540And also Tom Mulcair, who is a French citizen.
00:12:09.340And both those two individuals promised to renounce their second citizenship if they became prime minister.
00:12:16.600Andrew Scheer put the paperwork in to get the wheels in motion.
00:12:20.000Thomas Mulcair said that he would renounce his French citizen if he became prime minister.
00:12:23.860for best I can tell Mark Carney hasn't spoken on the record at all he hasn't made any pledge
00:12:28.900and we're lined up to have him become prime minister in what less than 10 days Ezra when
00:12:33.860he will be selected by the liberal leadership base he won't then go into a general election
00:12:39.080he will become prime minister that day which to me it's it's concerning that he hasn't even been
00:12:44.160on record which again goes to underline your point about the need for the independent media
00:12:48.860I want to show you this clip Ezra because I want to get your reaction to it so the CBC
00:12:53.460is already out there spinning and trying to cover for Mark Carney. First of all, I'll give them
00:12:59.900some credit for even covering this. I was surprised to see Ian Hannemansing out there saying, did Mark
00:13:05.560Carney lie? Even just using that sentence, I think was a bit of an improvement. But then they went to
00:13:10.380the CBC's David Cochran, who's bending himself into a pretzel here defending Mark Carney. I don't think
00:13:16.240this is a very good explanation. I don't even think that the CBC viewers will buy it. But let's
00:13:20.640Let's play that clip, and I'll get you to react to it.
00:13:23.300The official re-registration of the corporate headquarters from Toronto to the United States
00:13:27.300happened in October of last year, before Donald Trump was re-elected,
00:13:31.160before Chrystia Freeland had resigned, before any of the big seismic political events had happened.
00:13:35.360Now, the reason for this, it's not necessarily corporate flight from Canada,
00:13:39.360and a reflection of the Canadian economy, is that Brookfield Assets Management,
00:13:42.980as part of its growth strategy, it's a subsidiary of the larger Brookfield Corporation,
00:13:47.100which is a major company here in Canada.
00:13:48.700it needs to be headquartered in New York to get access to shareholders in the United States,
00:13:54.660or it needs to be headquartered in the United States, and they get access to stock indexes,
00:13:58.420and ultimately it wants to be on the Standard & Poor's 500. You have to be registered in the
00:14:03.100U.S. to do that, whether Donald Trump is president, whether Kamala Harris or Joe Biden had won the
00:14:07.940last election. It sounds like he's reading a Liberal Party press release there just explaining
00:14:13.180the corporate speak and why they have to be. Well, if that's the case, then why would any
00:14:17.080company be headquartered in Canada. They would all want to have access to those American markets.
00:14:21.520To me, that was a terrible explanation. Pathetic that a CBC journalist was doing it. But we've
00:14:26.180come to expect that. But the explanation in and of itself, I don't think it will convince the CBC
00:14:29.400audience that this is okay. Well, I don't even know what the CBC audience is anymore. I mean,
00:14:35.100I'll forever remember David Cochran as the guy who, with the cameras rolling, took a gift from
00:14:41.920Justin Trudeau of a free poutine, and he started to eat it. And Trudeau said,
00:14:48.940I'm basically, I'm bribing you. And David Cochran went through with it. I mean, he was taking,
00:14:55.140it's an amazing video clip from an early election campaign. It was just in the moment,
00:15:01.980David Cochran knows who his boss is. It's Justin Trudeau. There are an enormous number of Canadian
00:15:10.280companies listed on the US stock exchange that raise enormous amounts of investment on the US
00:15:15.600stock exchanges, New York, New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, etc, who have their headquarters in
00:15:21.400Canada. In fact, the biggest Canadian companies have huge investments from US institutional
00:15:27.720investors like pension funds, like the oil sands companies, for example, Synovus, I'm just picking
00:15:32.660a company out of the blue. I think it's actually majority owned by American shareholders. It is
00:15:37.540based in Calgary. So David Cochran is either corrupt, like maybe he's taking another poutine
00:15:43.800gift, or he's stupid, or maybe it's neither of those things. Maybe he's quite clever,
00:15:48.760and he realizes that he needs to get Mark Carney across the finish line to protect the CBC from
00:15:54.300Pierre Polyev. What I am worried about is this simulation of criticism, this simulation of
00:16:03.240journalistic critique might fool some people that he's been vetted we don't know the most basic
00:16:08.400things about mark carney we don't know what he owns what he earned what what who he lobbied for
00:16:17.360who were his different clients when i bumped into the world economic forum a year ago he said he was
00:16:23.180working for the united nations i asked him i said who are you here on behalf of and he said the un
00:16:30.560okay well what were his duties there has he resigned from those duties what was what lobbying
00:16:37.760did he do we we have not had a vetting we have not had a background check we have not had even
00:16:45.100basic biographical information about this guy where's his primary residence i mean we don't
00:16:52.580know anything about him other than what his official cv says and even that is being scrubbed
00:16:58.200he's even denying that he was on the board of the World Economic Forum. And the reason that's
00:17:02.160important is because I want to know who his bosses are. And if he had bosses for 10 years at the UN
00:17:08.020and for 10 years at the World Economic Forum, just because he has, quote, severed ties doesn't mean
00:17:13.660those are not relevant facts for us to know. We know less about Mark Carney than we've known about
00:17:20.360any Canadian prime minister. He's going to be prime minister in less than two weeks.
00:17:25.860we know less about him than any other Canadian prime minister in history. We barely know that
00:17:32.420he's Canadian. And other than the fact that he was born here, I don't even know if that's
00:17:37.020really who he is. We know nothing about him. And I think that suits the regime media just fine.
00:17:43.660Well, it's so interesting, Ezra, because a few days before they disqualified Ruby Dalla,
00:17:49.080you had a liberal former chief of staff to a cabinet minister, Steve O'Brien,
00:17:54.360say on a panel that she hopes that the Liberal Party will find a legitimate reason to disqualify
00:18:00.720Ruby Dalla, because if Ruby Dalla is allowed to compete on the stage during the debates,
00:18:05.180it will turn it into a circus. Look, I think that Ruby Dalla is a bit of an outsider. She has
00:18:10.140contrarian opinions, especially for the Liberal establishment. To your point, the entire debate
00:18:14.860was nothing but everyone agreeing with each other. I had David Knight-Lag on the show last night,
00:18:20.880and he just kept calling it like a faculty club meeting. And that's kind of what it was like. It
00:18:24.160It was like they were just throwing out big sky ideas, weren't taking any accountability.
00:18:28.180I mean, the focus of the debate was Trump, Trump, Trump.
00:18:32.080They didn't mention anything about crime during those debates.
00:18:52.820They didn't mention anything about the Chinese election interference.
00:18:57.120Ezra, to me, I mean, the moderator was a former CBC national anchor, Hannah Thibodeau.
00:19:02.800And it seemed like they just didn't want to talk about anything controversial, to your point, that this whole thing is supposed to be a coronation.
00:19:09.860They know that in order for their bread to be buttered, in order to keep getting money from the government, they need a liberal government.
00:19:17.460And that's why they're not holding anyone accountable.
00:19:19.560They're not raising the important issues that Canadians demand to know about.
00:19:22.820not even mentioning the biographical information you said so Ezra I want to say we have a petition
00:19:28.960that we are launching we want independent media to be part of the upcoming election we demand
00:19:35.300equal access and we want our voices to be heard we want to get as many Canadians to sign this
00:19:40.740petition so we can present it to the various parties present it to anyone necessary look
00:19:45.820there was just a petition to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship I just checked it right before the
00:19:51.240show Ezra, there's over 300,000 signatures on that of people who want to revoke Elon Musk's
00:19:57.380citizenship, which is absurd. We can talk about that too. But I want to get that many or more
00:20:02.420to sign this petition. Head on over to my website, CandiceMalcolm.com, sign the petition and tell the
00:20:08.380powers that be that we want independent media, not just for me, but I want Ezra to be there too. I
00:20:13.720want a rebel journalist. I want Kian Bexty there. I want the independent voices. Heck, I don't even
00:20:18.160mind if they open it up to left-wing independent voices as well sure let like rachel gilmore and
00:20:22.960paul wells and other people in there as well but it's so important that we hear more perspectives
00:20:27.600than just what the cbc wants to present so please help us out go sign that petition ezra like i i
00:20:35.920mean what can we do at this point to stop the coronation of mark harney well nothing because
00:20:41.040it's an internal process in the liberal party we don't getting back to ruby dolla we don't even know
00:20:46.720who was on the secretive panel that kicked her out. We don't know what the rationale was.
00:20:51.720When I talked to Ruby last Saturday, she raised the issue of the World Economic Forum and the
00:20:57.560fact that both Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney were on the board. I was sort of surprised that
00:21:02.840the Ruby dollar raised that issue. You can imagine how that would have been like a skunk at a picnic
00:21:07.700had she asked those questions in the debate. And, you know, I saw reports that Mark Carney had very
00:21:15.320high-level meetings in China recently. Of course, those were not plumbed. In the first French
00:21:22.480language debate, they talked a little bit about Hamas. They shut up and didn't mention it again
00:21:27.180in the second debate. They didn't talk about foreign affairs other than their hatred of Donald
00:21:31.400Trump. I think they kept out Ruby Dalla because she would have been a dissident and a disruptor.
00:21:39.400And from the reports I've seen, she was actually doing well in terms of signing
00:21:45.060people up and getting donations. Perhaps she was attracting Sikh voters. I don't know. I think that
00:21:52.020the liberals are undemocratic, and we know that. And they're going to install and select our new
00:21:59.500prime minister. That is terrifying. It's undemocratic. And I'm afraid, I don't think
00:22:06.720they're going to get away with it. I think the conservatives are still going to win the next
00:22:10.360election, but there will be an interim period where you have a leader of the Liberal Party who
00:22:15.600is installed as Prime Minister without a single election vote being cast for him. Indeed, the
00:22:22.500Liberal Party rules, as I think you know, Candace, allows people as young as 14 years old to vote and
00:22:28.440allows foreign nationals who are not yet citizens. They have to be permanent residents. So you can
00:22:33.080have 14-year-old children who aren't even Canadian citizens installing a prime minister
00:22:40.240that the rest of us don't know anything about and haven't been asked for. And of course he's
00:22:45.460going to do a deal with Jagmeet Singh. Jagmeet Singh is the most compliant and submissive
00:22:51.860politician I've ever seen in my life. Of course he'll be bribed. And I believe that we're going
00:22:57.600to have Mark Carney as prime minister until at least October, and they might declare some
00:23:01.860emergency he's talked about declaring an emergency over trump not so much of an emergency that he
00:23:07.880didn't hand over his own massive companies in new york city but i i think that we are seeing the
00:23:13.200again the irony is all these canadian trump derangement syndrome folks talk about trump
00:23:18.380being an undemocratic dictator trump just won an election including the popular vote and including
00:23:23.740all battleground states he's acting with his his constitutional purview you cannot say any of those
00:23:29.300things about how the Liberal Party is conducting itself, from dissolving Parliament to installing
00:23:34.780an unknown person as Prime Minister, to delaying the vote, to allowing foreigners and children
00:23:41.660voting. Who is actually the tyrannical and authoritarian and undemocratic government
00:23:47.920of the two of us? Well, I think that answers itself. And, you know, Trump did it with all
00:23:53.420of the institutions and powers that be working against him, whereas Trudeau and the Liberals
00:23:57.940have all of the powers and all of the institutions working for them. Now, it's interesting, Ezra,
00:24:01.600that you said that you still think that the Conservatives are going to win. I have to jump
00:24:05.100to this latest Ipsos poll that came out yesterday. Liberals take the lead for the first time since
00:24:10.1202021. After nearly four years of dominance in the polls, Conservative dominance polls,
00:24:15.240the Liberal Party has taken a two-point lead, overturning a 26-point deficit in just six weeks.
00:24:22.000I've never seen anything like this in my entire life of watching politics. So here we have it
00:24:26.460from Ipsos, a very credible pollster showing the liberals up at 38% and the conservatives down at
00:24:33.28036. It seems to me, Ezra, that Donald Trump gets a good chuckle out of jeering with Prime Minister
00:24:40.780Trudeau. He likes calling him Governor Trudeau. He likes the 51st state comment. But every time
00:24:46.140he makes that comment, the liberals go up in the polls. It makes Canadians crazy. It turns us into,
00:24:51.200you know, our anti-American impulse comes up. Look, I just want to show this chart from 338 Canada
00:24:57.200showing the change. Just look at what has happened in 2025, the right-hand side of your screen.
00:25:04.920The blue dots are all of the Conservatives' leads in different polls, and the Liberals,
00:25:09.920a very clear trend. Conservatives trending down, Liberals trending up. Whether or not the Liberals
00:25:16.180are actually ahead. We had another poll from Abacus Data, another very fair, very reputable
00:25:21.520pollster coming out today, which showed what it's always showed, which is the conservatives do
00:25:28.140maintain that hefty lead, 41% for the conservatives. The liberals are definitely inching up with 29,
00:25:34.420but it's still nowhere close. These contradictions, Ezra, they have a lot of us scratching our heads
00:25:39.500like, is this manufactured? Is the media just trying to pump up these numbers to make it seem
00:25:44.620like Mark Carty has a chance? Or is there a legitimate shift that's happened in this country?
00:25:50.200First of all, Justin Trudeau had become the most hated politician in Canada.
00:25:53.960In fact, in some polls, in many polls, you know, they say, do you like him or like him a lot?
00:25:59.200Do you dislike him or dislike him a lot? People didn't just dislike Trudeau, they hated him.
00:26:05.480And I saw some polls that put his likability on by certain demographic groups as though it was 16%.
00:26:11.800If you were a single young man in the prairies, like 11% supported Trudeau.
00:26:37.260He looks like a bit of a funeral parlor director, I think, but he looks prime ministerial.
00:26:41.800He talks well enough. People can visualize him as PM. He's not twitchy and weird like Christia Freeland. And he's having a bit of a honeymoon. The media is certainly egging that on. And so it's to be expected that this gap will narrow.
00:27:01.560And as you correctly point out, they're wrapping themselves in the Captain Canada flag again, which is funny because a couple years ago they were sending riot horses out against anyone with a Canadian flag who was singing O Canada.
00:27:13.480I admire David Colletto, the pollster.
00:27:18.360And I know that his company tilts liberal.
00:27:21.500So if they say something positive about the conservatives, it's not in their nature to do so because if anything, they're going to be a little bit liberal.
00:27:53.380And of course there's, you know, conservative Canadians should not be complacent.
00:27:58.240but i do think that canada has had it with the liberals i just really think the pendulum is i
00:28:03.020mean they didn't talk about the things that canadians are concerned about and if they did
00:28:08.600it was sort of like oj simpson saying i'm going to find the real killers when you've got christia
00:28:13.660freeland saying i'm going to find out who caused this deficit and who caused housing prices to be
00:28:19.960so high and when i find her i'm going to give her a piece of my mind yes sister it was you
00:28:24.920And I'm not sure how easy it's going to be for the liberals to shuck off nine and a half years of atrocious government. People can't afford homes, inflation, the plunging Canadian dollar. That's why we can't travel to the States and everything is so expensive. You've got millions of migrants who should not be here economically, culturally. The country is in a mess.
00:28:47.220And I don't think that Mark Carney is quite the star he set out to be.
00:28:53.400I don't think he's a great retail politician.
00:28:56.460Mark my words, he will agree to only a single debate in each language.
00:29:00.600He does not want to debate against Pierre Paulyev.
00:29:03.020We've seen the two of them tangle before when Carney appeared in Parliamentary Committee and Paulyev grilled him.
00:29:12.100He's good at working in those CEO circles and getting lobbying deals done and getting grants from the Canadian government.
00:29:18.440And we haven't found the full depth of how he enriched himself and his different companies and clients from the Canadian government because the regime media is not inquisitive.
00:29:30.300So we have a lot of journalism to do that falls to independent journalists because you're certainly not going to see it from regime journalists.
00:29:38.920Well, if you look into some of the sort of issues that were touched on during the poll, I want to go back to this David Pledo poll, because when asked what the top issue facing Canadians, the cost of living, the rising cost of living is still far and away the number one concern.
00:29:57.000The second one has now become Donald Trump and his administration, followed by health care, housing affordability, the economy and immigration.
00:30:04.460I will note that immigration is now a top six issue, more important than so many of the other
00:30:10.700issues that the Liberals promote, including climate change and the environment. So immigration really
00:30:14.580has become something that Canadians want change on, Ezra. And then when it goes to people were
00:30:21.620asked what the best party to handle these situations, you could see in the blue,
00:30:26.720Conservatives, cost of living, majority of Canadians or the plurality of Canadians still
00:30:30.360say that the Conservatives are best handled to, best situated to handle that. And then the economy,
00:30:35.760I mean, look at this, 45% say the Conservatives, only 23% say the Libs. The only issue that the
00:30:41.560Liberals are really leading on is dealing with President Trump and climate change, which is no
00:30:46.840longer very important to Canadians. So Ezra, this is why I think the scandal on multiple levels
00:30:53.200hurts Mark Carney, because first of all, Liberals and Canadians trust, they say they trust the
00:30:59.060liberals most to handle and to deal with and negotiate with President Trump. Well, I think
00:31:04.340that this undermines it, knowing that their leader and the next prime minister chose in his private
00:31:10.160life to move his company and recommend that. And then he kind of lied about it. That raises big
00:31:15.640concerns. I think it undermines their entire credibility on this issue. And then to the
00:31:19.620second point, which is that we don't know very much about Mark Carney. We don't know very much
00:31:23.840about his record, but we do know that he's willing to lie about it or willing to twist the truth and
00:31:28.160weasel words and use technicalities to confuse the issue, which to me, any good journalist,
00:31:34.160any journalist worth their salt in this country would start digging into that, would start
00:31:38.160looking into it, would say, you know, what else is here that Mr. Carney is not telling us about?
00:31:44.560Yeah. You know what? I'm just looking at the David Coletto poll right now.
00:31:47.800What's interesting is how the Jagmeet Singh numbers have collapsed. They were just last month
00:31:55.000at 19 and 18%. Now they're down to 14%. And there was a dynamic that happened way back in 2015,
00:32:04.540for those who remember, where in the final weeks of the campaign, there was an anybody but
00:32:09.740conservatives movement where people in different districts said, well, what's the best chance
00:32:14.940of blocking Stephen Harper from being reelected? Is it the liberals in this district or is it the
00:32:19.560NDP. And in the last two weeks, things really consolidated behind Trudeau. And that may happen.
00:32:26.620Jagmeet Singh is so weak and so pointless and so ineffective that when the chips are down,
00:32:34.340I think maybe liberals are going to rally around their new guy, Mark Carney. At least that's what,
00:32:39.220that's another story in the poll. So yes, the gap is narrowing. The conservative vote is still
00:32:44.460strong. 41%, I'm going from the Coleto poll here, that's still a majority government. It's that you
00:32:51.680see a little bit of consolidation on the left-hand side. I wonder how it will go in Quebec. Mark
00:32:57.800Carney's French is better than mine, but it's not particularly strong. We haven't yet seen the
00:33:04.940federal conservatives engage fully. I see some ads, they're running some ads, but we have, I think
00:33:10.160they're still figuring out their best way to handle things. I was at the rally in Ottawa where
00:33:15.440they have a real Canada first approach. They're trying to avoid being tagged as Trumpists.
00:33:20.920You'll notice that Pierre Polyev has not spoken to Trump. He hasn't not gone down to Mar-a-Lago
00:33:27.140to meet with Trump, but that's diplomatically appropriate. You wouldn't have the leader of
00:33:30.860the opposition necessarily doing that, although Nigel Farage in the UK has. I think that's Pierre
00:33:35.880Polly of making a decision not to be lumped in with Trump because you know the liberals would
00:33:42.220love that. I mean, that's how they're running things right now. There was a hysteria in the
00:33:47.800liberal debate. I mean, there's Chrystia Freeland calling Trump a predator and saying she wants an
00:33:52.780alternative to NATO where she teams up with the nuclear powers of the UK and France or something.
00:33:58.380And another one of the candidates was talking about working with Mexico to surround America
00:34:05.280And then Frank Bayless, who's best known for getting a massive Canadian government contract as an ex-MP, he said he wants to actually undo border security between our own countries.
00:37:08.880You can't say that the genocide is continuing
00:37:11.580and it's understandable that the churches are burning.
00:37:15.220You can't say that for 10 years and then suddenly say, I'm Captain Canada defending our country.
00:37:21.620That's why there was, speaking of polls, there was a full poll two weeks ago that showed over 40% of young men want to join America because the alternative is Trudeau's crappy socialist post-national state.
00:37:35.180And you're a young man who wants a prosperous future.
00:37:38.720Donald Trump is offering you dollar for dollar American bucks instead of Canadian bucks and the military.
00:37:44.000it's a little more inspiring than what Trudeau has been talking down our country for 10 years.
00:37:49.440And suddenly Trudeau and Carney have discovered patriotism. I don't buy it.
00:37:53.560Well, it's amazing that they're getting away with it and that the media is amplifying it and that
00:37:56.960Canadians are going along with it, or at least a subset, at least that maybe that core swing voter
00:38:01.420in suburban Toronto. Those seem to be the ones that could potentially be going over to the
00:38:07.080liberals. Ezra, and I completely agree with your sentiment there. It's so hypocritical.
00:38:10.960I want to get to the news, though, about President Trump. He's sowing some confusion over what will happen with these tariffs. So on, when was this? The 26th. So yesterday, Donald Trump, President Trump was speaking to reporters at a cabinet meeting, and he said that the 25% tariffs will be imposed on Canada, Mexico on April 2nd.
00:38:34.500So previously we had heard it was going to be March.
00:38:36.440Well, originally it was supposed to be February, then it was going to be March.