Juno News - Carney CAUGHT PARTYING while Canadians “make sacrifices”

00:00:00.000 And welcome to Straight Up. I am your host, Mark Bertrand. I appreciate you tuning in,

00:00:09.620 my friends. Well, Prime Minister Carney has called on Canadians to make sacrifices, but

00:00:13.760 he doesn't seem to be setting much of an example. On the very evening, after tabling a budget that

00:00:19.980 added $5,400 in new spending on the backs of every Canadian family, the Liberal government

00:00:26.400 threw itself a party. That's right. Liberals, lobbyists, their friends in the media. Well,

00:00:33.020 you and I were not invited, of course. And it was all courtesy of lobbyists. It featured appetizers

00:00:39.680 and addled beverages at the Metropolitan Brasserie and French Restaurant, touted as a taste of Paris.

00:00:46.920 Savor the best Parisian brasseries have to offer. Delish. Based on the pictures, MPs took full

00:00:53.900 advantage of the food and drink. Prime Minister Carney was there, of course, along with select

00:00:59.520 members of the media. No wonder they love the Liberals so much. But you know who seemed to

00:01:04.400 be having the best time of all? None other than the Finance Minister. That's right. But

00:01:08.720 what do you expect when your last name is Champagne? If these were the best of economic times for

00:01:14.740 Canadians, you could almost forgive the indulgence. But they're not. In fact, 2 million Canadians rely

00:01:20.680 on food banks every month to feed themselves and their families. Throwing a party after you just

00:01:26.920 racked up a $70 billion deficit is beyond tone deaf. It's a middle finger in the face of all those people

00:01:34.680 that the government insists make sacrifices for the good of the country. Here's Prime Minister Carney

00:01:40.440 himself just two weeks ago calling on Canadians to tighten their belts. We won't transform our economy

00:01:47.080 easily or in a few months. It will take some sacrifices. Right. Sacrifices. Well, here's a post

00:01:54.840 by Conservative Member of Parliament Michelle Rempel-Garner. Because nothing screams government

00:02:00.520 fiscal responsibility like a champagne party hosted by lobbyists in the media outlet. During question period,

00:02:07.480 Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev ripped the government's spending. Let's listen.

00:02:12.120 This budget, with its record deficit outside of COVID, is a deficit twice as the size the one

00:02:19.000 Trudeau left behind and $16 billion bigger than the Prime Minister promised. It has, in this spending,

00:02:27.000 $5,400 of extra costs for every family in more expensive government. While Canadians are already unable to

00:02:35.880 eat, heat and house themselves, why is this Prime Minister's costly budget making them pay

00:02:41.320 even more? Mr. Speaker, this budget has 75 percent of the measures are for our sovereignty to protect

00:02:55.320 our borders, to protect our communities, to protect our way of life. And the balance is for affordability,

00:03:03.560 a middle-class tax cut that the member opposite missed because he was not here. Mr. Speaker,

00:03:09.800 this budget invests in Canada at twice the rate as any budget during this millennium. We believe in Canada.

00:03:17.160 We believe in Canada, says the Prime Minister, suggesting that, what, anyone who does not

00:03:24.120 believe in this particular budget does not believe in Canada? Now, Dan McTague spent 18 years on

00:03:30.040 Parliament Hill as a Liberal member of Parliament, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't invited to that little

00:03:35.400 shindig yesterday either. Dan, welcome to the show. Good to be here, Mark. And no, definitely,

00:03:41.240 when I was in Ottawa yesterday, I wasn't invited to any Liberal event at any time. And you know what,

00:03:45.800 I really don't care if I get the invitation or not. Frankly, I would never go.

00:03:48.920 Now, you were in Ottawa during the 90s. There were some pretty tough times when we were running

00:03:56.040 massive deficits. You were there during the tabling of budgets. Do you ever remember a time

00:04:02.680 when the government, on the government side, had a little party for itself after tabling a budget in

00:04:08.360 which there had to be tens of millions of dollars in cuts? And billions of dollars in debt,

00:04:15.560 the likes of which this generation, the next generation would not be able to pay. And with

00:04:19.640 cuts that will, it's obviously perhaps not deep enough, but won't meet the standard of a viable

00:04:26.920 economy in the days to come. And of course, waiting that maybe somehow, maybe they were cheering the

00:04:33.080 idea that bad news for us is good news for them. It's a little bit like dancing on the grave of

00:04:39.160 those who've fallen. This seems to be terrible optics. But of course, you know, the woke types

00:04:46.120 out there, the albozos, think this is just normal way of doing things. But maybe they should have 1.00

00:04:50.600 celebrated the number of people heading to food banks in this country, or maybe the people who are

00:04:54.120 losing their homes. Maybe perhaps they could even look at the number of young people who can't find work in 0.99

00:04:58.520 this country and the very grim economic future that lies ahead for Canada, given 10 years of

00:05:04.280 recklessness. So not a lot to dance about, but I guess they may be cheering the fact that so many

00:05:09.320 Canadians were ignorant enough to continue these very bad policies, which seem like they're going 0.98

00:05:15.160 to continue today. Maybe perhaps they were more importantly celebrating the fact that some people 0.99

00:05:21.000 are going to fall for the line that the CPP, which is used for our pensions, can somehow be used as

00:05:26.840 collateral to pay for this massive, obscenely large debt. And I'm not just talking about the federal

00:05:32.360 one deficit of 78 billion, one point near 5 billion for the federal accumulated equivalent, provincial

00:05:39.560 and municipal and personal. I mean, when a country owes five or six trillion bucks, its economy is only

00:05:45.080 worth half of that. It's called debt to GDP. We're in really difficult times, hardly a reason for celebrating.

00:05:52.040 Yeah. And the idea of asking people to sacrifice just two weeks ago, especially young people.

00:05:58.440 I mean, he's directed his message towards young people where you have in Ontario, for instance,

00:06:03.320 an unemployment rate of what, 15, 16%. I mean, to ask for sacrifices and then do this,

00:06:10.280 it's kind of a slap on the face, I would say. What do you think?

00:06:12.680 Oh, it's arrogance and hubris because, you know, we know young people were sacrificed for the interests of the

00:06:20.040 boomers who by a large majority voted liberal and want to preserve what's good for them while the 0.54

00:06:26.920 rest of the country falls to pieces. So, yeah, it's their own constituency. It's their own support

00:06:32.280 level or their own support base that I suppose cheers mediocrity. But, you know, a decade of

00:06:38.200 recklessness is going to hit far more than just, you know, people who didn't happen to support them.

00:06:42.360 It's not going to come to really bite those who actually went along with the idea that elbows up and

00:06:48.760 we don't like Pierre. He talks too mean to us. Someone who is a tough voice, a strong voice

00:06:54.280 in difficult times has been rejected and they want to celebrate this. I think this goes to show you

00:06:59.400 just how tone deaf the liberal cult really is when it comes to the very grim destiny that they've

00:07:06.280 created for Canada. That's why they're not the same liberals I was once part of that worked very hard,

00:07:11.000 didn't celebrate, was involved with a lot of austerity when it came to a debt situation that was about

00:07:15.720 to cripple the country. We acted decisively and that helped save not only programs,

00:07:20.280 but a lot of Canadians from the hardship that this generation is going to now experience thanks to 0.83

00:07:25.000 its arrogance, its hubris and its ignorance. I bet you want to weigh in I'm sure on the floor 0.85

00:07:32.680 crossing that we just saw and of course rumors there may be others as the liberals try to get the

00:07:38.680 majority that they need in order to have no problem, you know, passing this budget. Chris D'Entremont,

00:07:44.600 months, six, seven months after the election. I've spent weeks blasting the liberals over their

00:07:51.160 policies and touting the conservative ones, you know, just flippantly decides he's had enough and

00:07:57.880 goes over to the government side. Does this bother you? Well, it bothers me because these are difficult

00:08:03.880 times. He's expressed them very well and eloquently in the past. Suddenly there has to be a personal

00:08:09.800 reason for why he's doing these things and it can't be because he was supporting, you know,

00:08:15.560 Aaron O'Connor a few years ago. It has a lot to do with the fact that there's probably better

00:08:19.640 opportunities for him and, you know, maybe there's something in the weight for him. Regardless,

00:08:26.280 if this was about his inability to run as Speaker of the House of Commons because the

00:08:31.080 Conservatives needed every single vote, this is a terrible way of pointing out just how disloyal you are.

00:08:36.520 So if he did it to the Conservatives, I'm pretty sure he could probably do it to the Liberals and

00:08:40.200 will wind up going somewhere else in the next few years if he's given the chance to win the next

00:08:45.080 election. My bets are that he's finished. Interesting. You know, we have a government

00:08:51.240 and the Globe and Mail is outside here. It seems to be they're fawning over this budget.

00:08:56.600 They're talking about investment coming in to Canada in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars.

00:09:02.120 You know, based on what exactly? I mean, they haven't tackled the core issues with Canada

00:09:07.160 right now as far as investment goes. That's why so many billions of dollars have left the country for

00:09:13.240 greener pastures in the United States generally where they have lower taxes. They have less of a

00:09:17.880 regulatory burden. Energy costs are lower. So the idea that by, you know, committing huge amounts of

00:09:25.160 money, you know, and spending that that is somehow is going to be a magnet for investment. You know,

00:09:29.720 it might attract some companies because some companies that's basically will say, well,

00:09:33.320 sure, you know, you've got some money, you're dangling some cash. I'd be happy to

00:09:37.000 relieve you of some of it, but it's not the way to create a long-term economy, is it?

00:09:43.000 It isn't. And it does suggest that the Globe and

00:09:47.080 Mails and other papers and other those who've indulged themselves very much with financial support

00:09:52.680 to keep themselves going have pushed the Liberal narrative, especially the dangerous

00:09:57.320 one on climate change and, of course, on the nonsense surrounding net zero. One by one,

00:10:03.720 these things are falling like dominoes. No electric vehicle. That dream is gone with billions of dollars

00:10:09.480 in public money. The carbon tax is gone. They're going to try to play around and dance around the

00:10:14.040 idea of emissions caps. Look, we've had 10 years of their handiwork, of their wokeness, of their idea that

00:10:21.880 somehow we can wish away the things that make Canada prosperous in favour of nonsense that,

00:10:27.480 frankly, has now lost favour around the world. Look, Greta Thunberg doesn't believe it anymore.

00:10:34.360 Neither does Bill Gates. That should be a sign to the Globe and Mails and other media grifters and

00:10:39.160 apologists that it's not time to celebrate something that says, hey, we can, what they call an investment,

00:10:45.320 which is actual debt accumulation that is likely to lead to even more higher interest rates supported

00:10:52.200 by our CPP. So I want everyone to understand you pay for the Canada pension plan. It's meant for you

00:10:57.160 when you retire. They want to use this as collateral against the massive debt that they're incurring right

00:11:02.920 now to pay boomers and others who think that this is a wise thing to do. At the end of this, 0.68

00:11:07.720 we're going to continue to see the Canadian economy slide. It doesn't take Donald Trump to make a bad

00:11:12.520 situation. This was still been a dog breakfast with or without tariffs. But as Tiff Macklin has said,

00:11:18.200 the bank governor, you know, it's get ready, get used to a declining standard of living. You voted for

00:11:24.360 it. And the Globe and Mail helped grease the rails towards that end. In the meantime, the dollar

00:11:30.600 continues to languish. It's down at 71 cents. Five years ago, it was at 75 cents. And so if you want to

00:11:38.040 keep rates low as well, I mean, that means that our daughter is just going to buy it less and less. 0.98

00:11:43.720 And so consumers are going to continue to suffer, Dan. And so, I mean, they're going to look at this

00:11:48.440 budget and say, well, what exactly is there for me besides sacrifice, you know? And frankly, there isn't

00:11:54.440 really all that much, but was there anything else about this budget that stood out for you?

00:11:58.600 What stood out for me was the falsehood that we could use the Canada Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan,

00:12:04.040 CPP, QPP, to offset this debt. Think about it. They're saying we can have all this massive

00:12:12.760 crushing debt that would have killed us in the 1990s, that we turned things around,

00:12:16.920 but we can absorb these things and pretend that somehow we can fool the bond rating agencies,

00:12:21.960 the credit rating agencies, and they believe in Canada should maintain its credit worthiness because

00:12:26.840 now they can read the CPP. The CPP, your pension has now been collateralized. Your pension has now been

00:12:33.560 used as leverage against an ever-increasing debt. And guess what? If one bond rating agency declines

00:12:41.320 and reduces Canada's credit rating, well, not only does that become a falsehood, you're going to see

00:12:47.640 higher interest rates, not lower interest rates, and the government will have to borrow money at a

00:12:53.640 much higher rate. So that which it's assuming now will be the projection of debt for the years to come

00:12:58.440 will be even higher. And this is the problem we've had many years ago, where as rates, interest rates

00:13:03.880 went up, so did the cost of borrowing money, not just for the private sector, consumers and business,

00:13:08.280 but for the government. So we may not have a $78 billion debt. If bond rating agencies change their

00:13:13.560 mind, you better hope they don't. That could be easily another 10, 15 billion bucks. So, you know,

00:13:21.080 you've, we've pooched the economy. We've destroyed the energy, the oil and gas sector. We've pretended

00:13:26.360 we've taken, you know, the caps, emission caps off that. We've threatened the automotive sector that

00:13:30.440 isn't given the protection of our big banks and financial institutions and other woke organizations

00:13:35.560 that think that they can virtue signal and stuff. They're not being given a challenge to compete

00:13:41.320 by American financial institutions. They're protected as a supply management. But when it comes to the

00:13:45.560 auto sector here in Ontario, it's under real threat. And I can tell you with the way things are going

00:13:51.640 right now, we're going to lose our oil sector or natural gas sector, and we could be losing our

00:13:56.600 automotive sector. All those things combined, well, we're looking down the abyss and we're now starting

00:14:02.280 to realize that maybe it wasn't such a bright idea to have people who pretend they know how to deal with

00:14:07.160 the economy, can stand up to Donald Trump, pretend they can do all these things, having been the ones

00:14:12.040 still with the ball peen hammer in their in their hands after vandalizing the Canadian economy,

00:14:16.840 running the show. I don't want to say Canadians are crazy, but I can tell you a lot of people 0.84

00:14:21.320 are probably very shocked and they're going to forget what I say. Wait till next month when your

00:14:25.720 mortgage rates have to come up for renewal. Wait till you lose your job or, you know, they scale back

00:14:30.680 the amount of hours you have. How are you going to meet, you know, the needs of your family? The reality is

00:14:35.800 that these guys have spent the silo bare and now we're running on fumes.

00:14:40.680 Paul Jay And they haven't given up on net zero. I mean,

00:14:45.480 we've got a potential here to build infrastructure that would allow us to ship a lot more oil and gas

00:14:53.720 to Asia and to Europe. But of course, we've got the regulatory constraints there and legal

00:15:00.280 constraints in terms of rolling out more pipelines. And so you have this blind spot as far as the

00:15:05.960 government goes, even as you've got, you know, people like Bill Gates bailing on the whole idea

00:15:10.920 that, you know, climate change is an existential threat to the, to the planet. These guys are

00:15:16.920 holding fast to that same failed ideology. It's already cost us hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:15:23.320 This is absolute folly, Dan. And, uh, I guess these guys are never going to give up on this con, are they?

00:15:29.880 They're not, and they won't give up until Canadians are, uh, crushed into the ground so that they don't 1.00

00:15:35.080 walk around pretending that, uh, they've got a guy who lied about what he did in 1998, as far as

00:15:40.440 balancing the budget. He wasn't even Canada. A guy who said he had something to do with the 2008

00:15:44.760 economic downturn and preventing us from going to recession. He didn't. That was Jim Flaherty and

00:15:49.560 even Paul Martin's work before. Uh, and a guy who said he could handle Trump. Can't do it. Look,

00:15:54.600 if we're going to continue down this idea that net zero has to stay in place, no change on the

00:15:59.560 electric vehicle, uh, what I call a availability standard, which is a baloney statement, by the

00:16:05.400 way, they're still continuing with that. There's no tanker band that's been removed. They're going

00:16:09.400 to continue to, uh, you know, make this impression that they're somehow going to get some kind of

00:16:13.880 energy superstructure or kind of energy, uh, corridor. Nothing's happened. They've been there seven,

00:16:19.320 eight months now. And all we're seeing is falling further and further and further into debt.

00:16:24.680 What will it take? Will you have to lose your home, lose your ability to make enough money to

00:16:29.000 put food on the table? Uh, will it be a question of your kids fleeing to another country? Is that

00:16:34.120 what's going to finally convince you of, uh, of your woke ways and having made a dumb decision 0.95

00:16:40.120 for the fourth time? I'm not sure what it will take, but my God, and I've said this before,

00:16:45.080 I know we all love the tragically hip and those of us who don't know it, they wrote a great song

00:16:48.680 called 100th Meridian. And one of the quotes in that is very apt to the Canadian electorate today,

00:16:53.720 because I've been knocking on doors since 1978. I can say this. It is now a generation 0.98

00:16:58.680 so much dumber than its parents. 1.00

00:16:59.960 Yeah. Unbelievable. Now there is some talk that the liberals, I mean, they're too shy of a majority. 1.00

00:17:09.960 And do you think that they're a little nervous that they don't have the numbers to pass the budget?

00:17:13.960 I mean, the NDP has caved before. There's no reason to think that they won't again, but

00:17:19.320 it just stands to reason that, you know, maybe that's why they're so desperate to attract people

00:17:24.520 to their party and, you know, uh, lure others in order to get that, then the numbers they need.

00:17:32.360 Is it possible that the, that they might, that the government might fall in a confidence motion

00:17:37.400 around the budget? I'm less convinced that'll happen. I think the NDP wants a leadership race and

00:17:42.200 they, uh, they might have a few of their members not show up. Um, but I, I made a statement the

00:17:48.440 other night at a conservative meeting. I don't get invited by liberals to speak anymore. I wonder why,

00:17:53.320 gee, I was their consumer guy. I was their consular guy. I was their veterans affairs guy,

00:17:59.320 but, uh, they, those aren't, those aren't things they care about. Even the beautiful week,

00:18:02.920 like remembrance, uh, we can, hopefully we'll celebrate that on the 11th. But I said to the

00:18:06.920 conservative said, thank your lucky Spurs, you didn't form government. I think the best thing

00:18:13.000 of the conservative, all the shenanigans and all the little tiny little games being played in

00:18:17.480 tactical games, rather strategic games played by the liberals, let them play it out. I used to play

00:18:22.280 goalie, not a very good one, by the way, in hockey. It was always let the other guy make the first move

00:18:26.200 and the liberals are basically giving themselves enough rope to hang themselves because the economy

00:18:31.000 is falling to pieces. And thank goodness, the conservatives won't have to wear this. This will be

00:18:35.000 completely on liberals, liberal supporters, and those who still fantasize that these people are

00:18:39.880 somehow have their best interests at heart. They don't. It's all about themselves. They're grifting

00:18:44.600 friends and their willingness to try to humiliate or to try to admonish others who don't agree with

00:18:49.800 their ideas, which have nothing to do with the liberal party that I belong to far longer than

00:18:54.600 those that are in there now. Dan McTague, hard hitting stuff as always. Thank you so much

00:19:00.680 for coming on the show. Always a pleasure, Mark. Thanks for having me. Enjoy.

00:19:05.000 And that is it for this edition of Straight Up. Appreciate you tuning in,

00:19:08.680 my friends. Let's do it again soon, shall we? Bye-bye for now.

Juno News - November 06, 2025

Carney CAUGHT PARTYING while Canadians “make sacrifices”

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