Juno News - Carney has WORST economic start in over 60 years

00:00:00.000 So far, Canada's economic record under Mark Carney represents one of the worst starts for any

00:00:10.360 Canadian prime minister since 1963. Since Carney was elected, real gross domestic product has

00:00:17.900 shrunk 0.05%, the worst result for a Canadian prime minister in at least 63 years. But do

00:00:26.780 Canadians believe it. A poll by Nanos Research finds 60% of Canadians think Carney has done

00:00:33.860 a very good or good job of handling the economy. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is not one of

00:00:40.280 them. This post on X, Mark Carney posts the worst economic start for all Canadian prime ministers

00:00:47.100 in more than six decades. The only people getting ahead in Carney's economy are the

00:00:52.740 Liberal Club insiders who get carve-outs, bail-outs, and handouts, while Canadians who

00:00:58.760 actually do the work pay the rising cost. As far as the economy goes, Prime Minister Carney admits

00:01:07.220 Canada is not a player on the world stage these days. You have to be doing things differently.

00:01:13.400 I mean, if you're a candidate, you have to improve. There are very few people who get up in the

00:01:20.980 morning and think about Canada. I mean, that's the reality. Carney's predecessor is getting some

00:01:25.860 attention these days as well. Yes, Justin Trudeau appearing in a promotional video

00:01:32.640 featuring his girlfriend, Katy Perry. Not everyone was impressed. Let's watch the video.

00:01:50.980 Justin was an extra on that video. And the UK Daily Mail ran this story,

00:01:58.560 Jumpin' Justin. Justin Trudeau is brutally roasted online for

00:02:03.520 hopping like a rabbit in a bizarre new video. Our guest today is Dimpy Brarr. She's a writer.

00:02:10.740 Joining us from Oakville, you can read her terrific work in The Daily Wire, Washington Examiner,

00:02:16.380 american spectator the federalist among other publications welcome once again dimpy always a

00:02:22.540 pleasure to be with you mr petroni well let's watch that video once again this is i guess the

00:02:29.740 prime minister former prime minister of canada making a cameo appearance in his girlfriend's

00:02:34.720 video let's watch

00:02:46.380 There he is. And we're already starting to see some memes. Not sure if you caught this one. Let's have a look.

00:02:56.640 Justin Trudeau, you are under arrest.

00:03:03.800 Okay, so I guess the question I want to ask is, should we care that a former Prime Minister of Canada, even Justin Trudeau, who's been known for some hijinks, even when he was Prime Minister,

00:03:14.280 Should we care that he's behaving in this way or not?

00:03:17.200 Oh, of course we should care.

00:03:19.340 The office of the prime minister is something that requires and obviously necessitates a level of dignity and decorum for a very, very important reason.

00:03:29.020 This is somebody who the people invest their entire trust in to lead their nation.

00:03:34.320 Now, how fitting is it, by the way, that the first lyrics to that video are watching it burn?

00:03:39.360 That is a perfect encapsulation of what Mr. Trudeau did under his prime ministership.

00:03:45.440 He watched this nation burn.

00:03:47.240 I'm very glad that he seems to be having such a wonderful time while the nation which he

00:03:52.320 oversaw is in complete crisis.

00:03:54.740 But again, it speaks to a lack of seriousness, not just with Mr. Trudeau, but a lot of these

00:04:00.900 voters among the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:04:03.380 And unfortunately, we see it on the conservative side as well.

00:04:06.060 There's a lack of seriousness right now in what the country is facing. We are facing multiple

00:04:12.480 crises at this moment, and there's really nothing very funny or trivial about it. I would like for

00:04:19.080 your viewers to consider the fact that for the ancient Greeks, you know, I always come with a

00:04:23.420 lecture. For the ancient Greeks, one of the qualities associated with great statesmen was

00:04:30.020 seriousness. The word was budayos. And the idea was, is that the statesman's role is so serious

00:04:37.240 because it involves the life or death of his entire country and population. Therefore, the

00:04:43.460 man is not going to be seen in TikTok videos or making these offhanded remarks or jokes. So yes,

00:04:49.520 we should absolutely care and we should absolutely be recovering or attempting to recover

00:04:53.760 a level of seriousness that's obviously missing from our political discourse today.

00:05:00.020 Yeah, there's also the matter of him continuing to comment on the world stage. He was at a conference recently in Sweden, as he mentioned. And, you know, he has been vocal on serious matters. And so he's still seen as kind of a spokesperson for the country, as you put it. I mean, this is really the main problem here, isn't it?

00:05:23.400 Oh, yes. He is a reflection of the nation no matter where he goes. If that was something

00:05:29.080 that he wasn't interested in, he should have thought of that before he put his name in

00:05:32.420 the race. But it seems very clear that for people like Mr. Trudeau and others, the prime

00:05:37.840 ministership seems to just be a stepping stone to a kind of celebrity status. He's more interested

00:05:42.740 in being a celebrity. I mean, again, perhaps it's fitting the man was a drama teacher and

00:05:47.120 that's who he elected. But still, you would think that there could be a little more to

00:05:51.180 this. And like you said, he still uses the title of expert minister, not just for corporate

00:05:58.180 appearances, but to make comments on the foreign policy stage. He makes comments against President

00:06:03.400 Trump. He speaks on behalf of the nation. And I've yet to hear Mr. Carney rebuke him in any way or

00:06:09.480 say that he doesn't speak for the nation. So until that has been said, I have to take it as the

00:06:15.080 majority of the electorate ought to take it that he is representing our nation on the world stage.

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00:07:30.160 Yeah, I mean, as you mentioned, I mean, he is talking about Trump, but I'm not sure

00:07:34.400 he matters all that much south of the border because he's out of power. I mean, he might

00:07:39.560 argue, look, I'm a private citizen now. Why should anybody care what I do or how I do it?

00:07:45.240 If I want to prance around, if I want to, I don't know, act like a clown, then I should be

00:07:52.320 fully able to do so. I guess when you compare him to other past prime ministers like Stephen

00:07:57.700 Harper, for instance, or Jean Chrétien or Brian Mulroney, who's departed, but these are people

00:08:05.180 who understood that there's a level of decorum that they carry with them after they leave the

00:08:11.960 office, right? And so I think they appreciate that. But I guess former Prime Minister Trudeau

00:08:21.300 thinks very differently. And I don't know, what does it say about Canada? I mean, the guy led

00:08:26.120 our country for 10 years. I mean, does it make you question a little bit the judgment by the

00:08:33.100 the people who voted for this guy three times? Oh, no. Oh, absolutely. Our leaders, because we

00:08:39.140 live in a democracy, are always reflective of the people in the electorate. So it can be very easy

00:08:44.580 to criticize those in the political classes until you realize that they're elected officials.

00:08:50.360 Again, it speaks to the lack of seriousness in the country as a whole, and we're seeing it now

00:08:54.900 under Mr. Carney as well. Some of the things that we are speaking about that are appearing

00:09:00.460 through our state media right now. Thankfully, Juneau News is not part of that. But what we see

00:09:05.520 in the state media, if you were to watch it for a day, and I don't recommend it to anybody, but

00:09:10.760 if you were to watch state media for the day, you would see the biggest news stories are things like

00:09:17.220 the Gordie Howe Bridge or much smaller issues, fake MOUs signed by the current Prime Minister

00:09:25.740 with nations with whom he has no intention of actually doing anything. It's all rhetoric and

00:09:30.840 it's all optics and it betrays the lack of seriousness in this country. I do not believe

00:09:37.400 that the people nor their political elders seem to understand the crises which are facing this

00:09:43.780 nation. We are really on a life or death path right now. This is not politics as usual and this

00:09:49.460 is not business as usual. We just saw the numbers come out today that Mr. Carney is facing the

00:09:56.280 worst first year economic record of any prime minister in the past 60 years. All the signs

00:10:03.580 are there and we're all decided to turn away from it. There is a brilliant man who once said

00:10:10.180 about those who lack seriousness in politics, it's not even a matter of Nero fiddling while

00:10:16.600 Rome burns. It's a matter of being Nero and not knowing Rome is burning, nor that you're fiddling.

00:10:21.820 And that's what we're into right now. Yeah, you're absolutely right about the state of the economy.

00:10:27.300 I don't think this guy should be very proud about his performance, but lucky for him,

00:10:33.280 according to polls, Canadians, 60 percent of Canadians either think he's doing a very good

00:10:38.180 job or a good job. So there's a major disconnect here between reality and the perception of the

00:10:46.580 guy. Maybe there's they still think that it's somehow it's all Trump's fault. But how do you

00:10:52.560 account for that? I think that a large portion of this does have to do with the fact that the

00:10:58.520 electorate is vehemently anti-Trump. So they will take the rhetoric as well as the optics of being

00:11:05.640 anti-Trump over and against the reality, the economic realities that they're facing. And let's

00:11:11.360 be very clear. The Liberal electorate is one which is insulated from the consequences of many of

00:11:17.620 their actions. They can be open borders when they live in gated communities in Rosedale.

00:11:22.720 They can be for open immigration when they're living in lofts above the downtown Toronto core

00:11:31.440 where they never have to deal with these people. They can be for all these quote-unquote luxury 0.96

00:11:36.640 beliefs because they are insulated from the consequences of their actions. Us regular everyday

00:11:42.020 people, we do not have said luxury. So again, this is another case of the liberal party and liberal

00:11:49.220 parties across the West in general, which will promulgate ideas and actions which have dire

00:11:57.000 consequences for the everyday man and worker, but they themselves have to bear no responsibility or

00:12:02.860 consequence for. And there is going to come a time when those two things come to a head.

00:12:07.560 We are witnessing right now a kind of economic chaos. Let's not forget that we were supposed to

00:12:15.680 have a Section 301 hearing in the United States. Canada did not even send a representative.

00:12:22.860 So that's how seriously we're taking trade talks. This is with an economy that is so

00:12:28.120 deeply embedded in ours and ours and theirs that any kind of disruption or divorce would affect

00:12:36.940 the entirety of the national economy and our security. This is not something small. And it's

00:12:42.160 becoming more and more clear that Mr. Carney has no intention of signing a deal with Mr. Trump.

00:12:48.840 It's looking as if he is okay to let USMCA expire. And all of this, meanwhile, as he makes overtures

00:12:56.320 to some of the worst tyrannies the world over not just china but now we have saudi arabia

00:13:02.080 he said an outrageous phrase to me the other day he said engagement is not endorsement well

00:13:08.560 actually in a liberal democracy that's precisely what it is economics is downstream from our

00:13:15.200 political ideas and our free markets should be for free countries that's where we trade with it

00:13:22.000 It is not just an economic solution.

00:13:24.400 This is a kind of political soft power.

00:13:27.940 For him to deny that is to relativize and give him an excuse as to why he can work with China and Saudi Arabia.

00:13:34.380 But somehow America is a bridge too far.

00:13:38.000 Yeah, I mean, on the matter of the media, he seems to be the beneficiary of some very good coverage, you know, very positive coverage.

00:13:48.560 It's like as bad as things get, the worst things get for Carney in terms of what he's doing to the economy, the more the media attacks the official opposition, the leader in particular, saying it's his fault that somehow he should be joining Team Carney.

00:14:04.760 It's just very, very strange and very disturbing that the media should turn its attention on

00:14:11.880 Poliev as a way of trying to show their viewers, such as they are these days, that whatever

00:14:20.560 problems we have, it's not Carney's fault. 0.97

00:14:23.620 No, you know, it's his fault over there in the opposition benches.

00:14:28.660 And based on these nanos numbers, though, you have to ask whether it's a strategy that's

00:14:34.540 working for the prime minister, at least up to this point, because I think if things continue

00:14:39.280 to get bad, eventually, no matter what the media does, people are going to realize that their

00:14:45.020 government just isn't getting it done. Last word for you. Well, there's also a very ugly aspect to

00:14:51.200 this that hasn't been spoken about, which is it's not very helpful when we have members of the

00:14:56.420 conservative party, usually those quote unquote Ontario lobbyists, especially ones who are

00:15:03.520 responsible for the most recent loss in BC with Miss Elliott's campaign. It does not help to have

00:15:10.220 someone come on television or write op-eds about how terrible the opposition leader is. You know,

00:15:16.380 when the call is coming from inside the house, it is a very, very serious management issue.

00:15:22.240 And what I witnessed over Twitter the last few days from a certain faction of the conservative

00:15:29.120 media even has been absolutely outrageous. We saw people absolutely beclown themselves. And again,

00:15:35.400 speak to the lack of seriousness facing the country. I am a conservative because I care

00:15:40.880 about saving this country. And I think that the conservatives are the best last hope for ensuring

00:15:48.000 that. But the country and Canada must come first. I don't really care that much about everyone's

00:15:53.860 partisan issues or their partisan politics. If you want to help save the country, then you are

00:16:00.000 a friend of mine and we are allies. If you are not serious about it, you need to get out of the way

00:16:05.840 so the ones that want to save the country can actually do so. Yeah, I think it's interesting

00:16:12.340 that you raise the issue of kind of a civil war, a rift in the conservative party between certain

00:16:18.880 people lobbyists and people who are well connected in terms of offering consulting services uh

00:16:26.640 divided really against the current leader and you know who has the contract right it's all about

00:16:34.960 exactly and if this guy ain't gonna give it to me then let's get rid of him and get somebody else

00:16:40.960 in there that seems to be what the problem is yeah well it's very simple when it comes to mr

00:16:46.960 Mr. Polyev, if there have been whispers, there's a long running, I wrote about this

00:16:52.680 months ago in the Western Standard, that the BC electoral race was really not a provincial race,

00:16:59.420 it was a battle for the soul of the federal conservative party. There are very much our

00:17:04.040 knives out for Mr. Polyev. And there might be reasons, I can be sympathetic for reasons why 0.97

00:17:10.620 people are disappointed with Mr. Polyev. However, if your alternative to Mr. Polyev is, say, Doug

00:17:17.680 Ford or let's say Jason Kenney, well, that's a very different thing altogether. And that's a

00:17:22.780 very different type of fight. And again, it was shocking to see the beclowning publicly. I hope

00:17:29.140 we can all get it together and unite the right because that's what's necessary in saving this

00:17:33.660 country. Yeah, it's interesting how you don't see the liberals ever do that, you know, because

00:17:38.420 everybody's going to get their beaks wet you know we're all going to get a piece of the pie

00:17:45.040 just let's all be patient instead on the conservative side you see them you know

00:17:49.860 battling it out you know hundred percent and you know what the liberals will exile and banish you

00:17:57.780 the second you disagree with them you know that is like you won't you won't last long they would

00:18:02.980 never allow that to happen. Only us losers do that. Where can people read your latest work? 0.97

00:18:12.460 Okay, well, my latest work was in the Washington Examiner, and I was looking at the

00:18:16.800 biggest winner out of the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship, which I say is Xi Jinping.

00:18:23.200 It also has consequences for Canada. Otherwise, you can follow me on Twitter at IsThisDimpyB.

00:18:28.880 I am constantly producing and I'm a little machine right now, so there will be more.

00:18:35.920 Well, you're doing a fantastic job.

00:18:37.560 Thank you so much, Timpy.

00:18:38.600 Appreciate it.

00:18:39.740 Thank you so much.

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Juno News - July 13, 2026

Carney has WORST economic start in over 60 years

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