Juno News - Danielle Smith： Carney will be WORSE than Trudeau

00:00:00 I am Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you

00:00:11 today. I'm so excited. We're going to go straight into an interview today and I'm so pleased to be

00:00:16 joined by the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith. Danielle Smith, thank you so much for joining the

00:00:21 program. It's great to have you. My pleasure and congratulations on your new venture. I'm looking

00:00:25 forward to seeing it grow. Thank you so much, Premier. Okay, so I want to talk about your recent

00:00:30 diplomacy and your advocacy. Typically, the Premier of Alberta wouldn't be a diplomat going

00:00:36 down to foreign capitals and advocating on behalf of the country. But frankly, you have done a better

00:00:41 job. Our viewers and our subscribers tell me that they feel like you represent Canadians more than

00:00:46 any other federal leader on the stage. So I'm wondering, Premier, if you could take us behind

00:00:51 the scenes a little bit to your recent trip to Mar-a-Lago. You were down in Washington, DC for

00:00:55 the inauguration. I believe you were there again last week with the other premiers. So tell me,

00:01:00 what was it like to meet President Trump? And what do you think has been the most impactful

00:01:04 and productive of these meetings? I had an opportunity to go to Mar-a-Lago at the invitation

00:01:10 of Kevin O'Leary. And so we were able to be at a table that was right next to the president. And

00:01:16 then the next day went to a golf club and went to many, many inauguration events when I was down

00:01:22 there. And then you're right, also returned just last week to be there with the premiers. And this

00:01:28 is the first time all 13 premiers have been down. So I think that part of the reason is that what

00:01:34 I've observed is that if we're going to be able to have somebody at the table to go toe-to-toe

00:01:40 in negotiations, we need someone with a four-year mandate. We have a prime minister who's going to

00:01:45 be there another 17 days, followed by another prime minister who may be there another 30 days

00:01:51 or longer, followed by after an election, perhaps a third prime minister. And so if we want to

00:01:55 maintain the diplomatic relationship and start building those ties, it's really going to fall

00:02:01 to those of us who do have a mandate and who do have relationships with governors and members of

00:02:06 Congress to have some influence on the people who are assisting the president in his decision

00:02:12 making. What I would say about what I've learned in the trips that I have taken is that I think

00:02:20 this is a president who's going to be making a lot of the decisions of his administration

00:02:24 directly. And maybe that's not going to surprise anyone after seeing his first few weeks on the job

00:02:30 with the number of executive orders that he's written before he's had a cabinet in place

00:02:34 without having to put legislation through Congress. I think he's going to be the kind

00:02:40 president who does a lot of these kind of executive orders. And what we need to do is make sure that

00:02:47 those who share our common interests are armed with the information so that they can influence

00:02:52 his decision making. And that's part of what I've done is why I've built relationships with

00:02:56 the Secretaries of Energy and Interior, various members of the Senate, other governors who are

00:03:04 influential on the president. And I'm beginning to see some signs that our message is breaking

00:03:09 through. Well, that's great. One of the interesting tidbits that I learned in reading a Calgary

00:03:14 Herald column written by Rick Bell was he said that the evening that you met President Trump,

00:03:20 he was in the ballroom. There's hundreds of people there. Everyone wants to talk to the

00:03:23 president. And he, President Trump, walked into the room, this is according to the recounting by

00:03:28 Rick Bell, and he said that President Trump beelined to you, that he was so keen and so

00:03:33 interested in talking to you and pleased to meet you, that he went right to you. And I, you know,

00:03:39 I think that that really shows Premier how serious he is about trying to improve the relationships with Canada and trying to make a deal with us.

00:03:48 Well, I had let a few members of the administration know that I was going to be there.

00:03:53 And so they put in a word to let the president know.

00:03:57 And I was pleased that he was able to come over and share a few words.

00:04:00 What I wanted to know, because we had heard a lot of discussion in the press about, I think he had just recently said, we don't need Canada, we don't need your autos, we don't need your timber, we don't need your oil and gas.

00:04:13 And I thought, well, is that really true? Does he really not want our oil and gas?

00:04:17 And I wanted to get to the bottom of whether or not that was the case.

00:04:20 And so I asked him, pretty frankly, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada?

00:04:24 And he told me yes. So that says to me that whatever our current issues that we have with

00:04:30 the president are, I think that we can begin the discussion once again of how Canada can assist

00:04:36 with American energy dominance. I think that's one of the messages that was well received and

00:04:42 clearly got through. And I'll give you an example why I think that's the case is when you look at

00:04:47 the initial tariff that was being threatened to come in, I believe it was February 4th,

00:04:53 It was to apply 25 percent across the board. But some of our allies, whether it was with them within the administration or the American Petroleum Institute or the refiners, were able to to make the case that America benefits from being able to get oil and gas at a discount so that they can upgrade it in their refineries and provide low cost energy to Americans and then also be able to export their WTI internationally.

00:05:17 One of the arguments I've made is the Americans consume about 21 million barrels a day of oil, and they only produce 13 million barrels a day.

00:05:24 So they need to get the rest from somewhere else. And if you're looking for heavy oil, there's not a lot of good places to get it from.

00:05:29 They can get it from Venezuela and Iraq and Iran, or they can get it from us. 0.61

00:05:34 And so I think that that argument had some resonance.

00:05:38 But when you look at how we wrote up the order as well that would have provided a lower tariff, it wasn't just oil and gas.

00:05:43 It was energy resources, which he has defined in his declaration of an energy emergency to include critical minerals.

00:05:52 Every province has critical minerals.

00:05:55 It includes electricity.

00:05:56 Many of our provinces also export electricity.

00:05:59 So if we can make that argument and be successful, I think we can be successful on a number of fronts.

00:06:05 We can make the same argument about our integrated food system, the same argument about how they can benefit from timber to create lower lumber prices, to have a cheaper housing.

00:06:13 and how we can talk about intermediate goods, like auto parts, as a way of being able to lend

00:06:19 themselves to building out the U.S. auto industry. So I think we just have to be prepared to make the

00:06:25 argument directly, have advocates in the United States, make friends, and hopefully chip by chip

00:06:31 be able to have that kind of influence so that we can continue to enjoy this tariff-free

00:06:37 relationship. So I love that approach, and I think that that is the way to go. But it seems,

00:06:42 premier that so many people particularly federal politicians um have taken trump's words and yes he

00:06:49 he uses very bombastic terms like this idea that canada would be the 51st state um or that that

00:06:54 that there's going to be some kind of annexation uh they take that very literally and sort of use

00:06:59 it as a kind of a wedge issue in politics to say that you know this is a serious threat the

00:07:04 americans are our enemies now and you know canada needs to stand up against this i i don't see that

00:07:09 approach from you at all and i'm wondering like what like like what what do you think

00:07:16 do you think trump is is literal when he says that he wants canada to be the 51st state

00:07:20 uh i don't know what his intention is when i when i spoke with dominic leblanc who was at that

00:07:24 initial table in mar-a-lago when they went down with the the prime minister he said it was it

00:07:30 was accepted by the table as a joke everyone laughed at the time but the the fact that it

00:07:34 it keeps getting repeated it becomes less funny with each repetition and as you can you can clearly

00:07:40 see that canadians are are are getting frustrated with being disrespected i mean i i don't like

00:07:46 seeing the u.s national anthem booted hockey games i think the national anthem is there to

00:07:51 to honor our veterans um men and women in uniform who fight for our countries and we fought many

00:07:57 many wars and shed a lot of blood with our american compatriots i don't like seeing that

00:08:02 and that's been kind of the outcome that uh that has resulted from that but but what i do think is

00:08:08 that the positive side of canadians deciding to come together has been look at what has changed

00:08:15 we now have politicians of all stripes talking about building pipelines east and west and north

00:08:20 we we've talked about accelerating our own permitting process so that we can develop our

00:08:25 critical minerals we've talked about tearing down all of the inter-provincial trade barriers

00:08:30 and creating new comprehensive mutual recognition agreements so that we can trade more with each

00:08:34 other than we do with our southern neighbors so i think that uh the the fact that we've had a

00:08:40 positive uh uh outcome with us really taking stock of what it means to be canadian that i think is

00:08:47 important i think it makes us stronger i think we can turn to the positive i think we can find

00:08:52 new markets and i think we have to be prepared to do that i don't know if this recalibration

00:08:57 with this president is going to be a short-term issue or if it's going to be something that lasts

00:09:02 his entire presidency or if it's going to be something that if there is a republican presidency

00:09:08 to follow that this might be the the new reality of dealing with our american neighbor for the for

00:09:14 the next decade or more but if that is the case then we've got to take some some uh some action

00:09:19 to ensure that that we've got diversified markets that we are also able to to to trade more with

00:09:25 with each other than we are with our Southern neighbor.

00:09:28 And I think that that's going to be

00:09:30 a very healthy conversation for us to have.

00:09:32 I wanna ask you because we've heard

00:09:34 from several leading sort of academics

00:09:36 more on the conservative side, people like Jordan Peterson.

00:09:39 He had a great op-ed or essay in the National Post

00:09:42 basically saying that Canada has to respect Alberta more

00:09:45 because maybe Trump can offer something more

00:09:47 than what you're getting in Canada.

00:09:49 Bruce Partey, a professor at Queens

00:09:51 has written something similar.

00:09:52 And we had David Haskell, a professor from Wilfrid Laurier

00:09:55 the show yesterday and he talked about the idea that Alberta is not getting a very good deal

00:10:00 in Canada right now and maybe perhaps Trump and the Americans can offer something more appealing

00:10:06 to Americans. Surveys show almost 50 percent of young men would take American citizenship

00:10:13 if offered to them. I think the number is highest in Alberta in terms of people who

00:10:19 would be interested in this. Do you take the idea seriously at all?

00:10:21 I can tell you why people feel that way. Because I know that the federal government likes to say,

00:10:28 oh, well, Trans Mountain Pipeline got built, and Coastal Gas Link got built. And those two things

00:10:34 are very true. But you know what both of those do demonstrate is just how much stronger we are

00:10:41 when we're able to build those kinds of big projects to have more diversified markets.

00:10:45 And it was not easy getting there. And in fact, yes, we got those two bills, but we have 176 billion in proposed projects that got canceled, multiple LNG projects, Northern Gateway, which would have been the most important pipeline to get Canadian product international, the Energy East pipeline, which would have helped to support energy security and independence for Ontario and Quebec, rather than having to rely on the US and international.

00:11:15 for most of their product we when keystone got cancelled we didn't have any defense from our

00:11:22 from our national level of government big oil sands projects like tech's frontier mine also

00:11:28 got cancelled so these are the things that that really cut to albertans is that the number of

00:11:34 ways in which the federal government has interfered with our ability to develop our resources and get

00:11:39 them to market. And the fact that we're now having a new conversation is important because

00:11:45 one of the reasons why I took great umbrage to the various politicians musing about throwing an

00:11:53 export tax on Alberta exports as a way of generating revenue for Ottawa is it's how dare you

00:12:00 after everything that you have done to try to kill this industry, keep it in the ground,

00:12:04 tax us out of existence, regulate us out of existence. And I don't think that it's some kind

00:12:09 of a playing chip to play when it's convenient. That is just not going to be on in Alberta.

00:12:15 The reason why we sell so much product to the United States is because our neighbors and other

00:12:20 provinces wouldn't let us sell it to them. And I've been very clear about that, that if we actually

00:12:26 want to change the way this country works, part of it comes down to let's build these big nation

00:12:30 building projects. Let's build pipelines, transmission lines, and let's support each

00:12:34 other and getting products to market. And I'm pleased to see that we're beginning to have that

00:12:37 conversation. It's one that's overdue. Well, I want to bring in Mark Carney into the conversation

00:12:43 because it looks like he's going to be the new prime minister selected by liberal insiders

00:12:47 to lead the country. And he has long believed, I mean, he wrote a book in 2021 called Values,

00:12:53 very committed to the green agenda, very committed to the concept of carbon tax. I think that carbon

00:12:58 taxes aren't politically popular right now. So even liberal leader candidates are saying that

00:13:02 they would do away with them. But then Mark Carney says that he would propose an industrial

00:13:06 carbon tax as well. So how do you think Mark Carney plays into this equation? And do you

00:13:10 think that will hurt or will it benefit the discussion with President Trump and that

00:13:14 administration? Well, I don't know. I keep hearing that the liberals are a feminist party. There's 1.00

00:13:18 three women running. Don't you think that maybe one of the women might be chosen as the successor? 0.85

00:13:25 All kidding aside, Brock Carney is no friend of Alberta.

00:13:31 He is the architect of the net zero banking policy and alliance, which was designed to stop funding oil and gas projects.

00:13:41 It was designed to stop insurance companies from insuring oil and gas projects.

00:13:47 projects, the offensive agenda that we have, whether it's emissions caps or net zero electricity

00:13:54 regs, all generate from Mark Carney, who's been pushing that agenda for a long period

00:14:00 of time.

00:14:01 So if you think that I would meet the potential of his leadership with any enthusiasm, let

00:14:07 me tell you, I think he'd be even worse than what we see out of Justin Trudeau and Stephen

00:14:13 Gibault, because he's been the one who has been advocating for these policies internationally and

00:14:18 causing us such great harm. So that's going to require, I mean, I think any politician now who

00:14:24 aspires to lead this country has to realize that there's certain things that are not on.

00:14:32 Accelerating and inflating the price of energy, which is making everything more expensive for

00:14:37 everyone, from groceries to home heating to home electricity, that is not on anymore. Punishing

00:14:44 one region of the country out of some ideology that is being led by international bodies,

00:14:50 that is not on anymore. Pitting one province against the other, not on anymore. And so I

00:14:56 don't know if the liberals are going to be able to shift in their perspective, or if that

00:15:02 particular leadership candidate will be able to shift in his perspective, but you shouldn't be

00:15:06 I was surprised to hear me say that the political leader that most allies with the aspirations of Albertans is actually Pierre Polyev.

00:15:13 And I think that the kind of commentary he's talking about, making us proud to be Canadian again, saying we need a new trading partner, each other.

00:15:22 Those are the kind of things that we all want to hear.

00:15:25 That's really where I think Canadians are at right now.

00:15:27 Well, I think one sort of silver lining of this all is that suddenly everybody wants more interventional trade.

00:15:33 just I want to ask you a final question because we had Mark Carney last week in Kelowna speaking

00:15:37 to an audience and he said that he would take any measure possible to grow the economy to get

00:15:43 projects done he even said he would use the emergencies act if necessary to get pipelines

00:15:47 built and then a few days later he was speaking on French CBC and he was asked by the host would you

00:15:53 force Quebec to have a pipeline he Mark Carney said never he said never four times in the

00:15:58 interview so he is literally the oldest trick in the book speaking one thing in western canada

00:16:03 in english and saying the exact opposite thing in the same in the course of a week um the exact

00:16:07 opposite opposite thing to the french uh audience in quebec uh what do you what do you think about

00:16:13 quebec and the idea that they can veto national projects and that you know a liberal prime minister

00:16:19 wouldn't you know use use the powers to try to encourage that to happen well i i'm glad he got

00:16:26 busted on that because you can't do that you can't promise one thing in one part of the country and

00:16:29 another in another part of the country just to be popular and try to sneak in to uh to getting

00:16:33 elected so if he keeps doing that i hope that you and the independent media keep calling him out on

00:16:38 that but i would say that my conversations in quebec and i i i always joke with uh premier

00:16:46 legault every time i see him i keep telling him every time i see you i'm going to encourage you

00:16:50 to develop your own vast natural gas resources so that you can not only feed your own uh people with

00:16:55 a solid supply but you can also export it internationally and i can assure you that i

00:16:59 raise it with him every time i think that the conversation with quebec has to maybe start

00:17:04 from a different point what were the reasons why there was such opposition to energy east

00:17:09 and part of it was that it was going through montreal which may well be aside from vancouver

00:17:15 the most progressive a green oriented municipality that we have in the entire country so is there

00:17:22 a path of lesser resistance? Could we look at a different route? Could we go up to Quebec City?

00:17:31 Is there other places that we can find a route that satisfies Quebecers' concerns about some

00:17:37 of the environmental issues, but also allows them to meet their energy needs? That's the

00:17:42 challenge that I'm putting out to the industry is let's find a route, let's find a corridor,

00:17:46 let's find a way that we can talk about it from an area of mutual interest. Maybe we need to be

00:17:52 looking at how Indigenous bands are going to able to own a portion of a pipeline like that so that

00:17:57 they can get a revenue stream. Maybe Quebec needs to build a new refinery so that they can get the

00:18:02 benefits of those upgrading jobs, which they already have in Montreal. Maybe those are the

00:18:09 ways that we should start having the conversation this time, is talking about mutual benefit, and

00:18:13 maybe we might get further next time around. That's what I'm hoping to do, is I don't think

00:18:18 that there should be a veto. I think that we are well past that. If we're going to be a country,

00:18:24 we have to start acting like a country. But that also means trying to find a way to identify the

00:18:29 issues that are causing the conflict and see if we can resolve them. And I'm committed to trying

00:18:34 to do that. Excellent. Well, just final thing, Premier Smith, I saw a clip of you speaking French

00:18:40 and it had a lot of people wondering, does Premier Smith have federal aspirations? Is there any chance

00:18:46 you're going to get into federal politics one day? There isn't, but I'll tell you one of my grave

00:18:51 concerns. One of my grave concerns is that I see the rise of the Bloc Québécois federally, and I

00:18:56 see the rise of the Parti Québécois provincially. And I want to be able to monitor what is being

00:19:02 said in Quebec so that if there are any misconceptions or misapprehensions about how

00:19:07 Alberta feels about Quebec or the ways in which we want to work with Quebec, that we can correct

00:19:11 those. So I don't know if I'll ever be fluent enough to be able to speak to francophones in

00:19:17 their own language. But I think it is important for us, especially now when we're facing a

00:19:23 potential threat from the United States that is causing disunity. I don't want to see a threat

00:19:30 from the Bloc and the Parti Québécois causing disunity as well. So that's part of what I'm

00:19:34 preparing for. There's going to be an election there in 2026. And if I can do my part to help

00:19:40 communicate Alberta's view and why it is we think we're stronger together and why I think that we

00:19:46 need to cooperate on some of these big issues. I want to be able to do that.

00:19:50 Excellent. Well, Premier Smith, thank you so much for joining The Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you for

00:19:54 your time. We really appreciate it. Thanks, Candace.

00:19:58 And wow, we were so lucky to have the Premier on. Really enjoyed that interview and I hope

00:20:03 you did too, folks. Okay, we've got a few more news stories that I would like to get to today.

00:20:08 it's fake news friday we used to do fake news friday every week on the show but we've been so

00:20:12 busy last week we had pierre pauliavon on friday and this week we had danielle smith on but i will

00:20:17 get to some of it a little bit later in the show first i want to talk about the hockey i want to

00:20:22 talk about the updates with the game last night with canada and the us facing off in the four

00:20:29 nations final so we talked about it earlier in the week there was a game in montreal the fans

00:20:33 booed i don't like it i think it's disgraceful when hockey fans boo national anthems because

00:20:39 you're not just booing the politics you're not just you know saying you are displeased with the

00:20:44 leadership of the country you're disrespecting everybody in the country including the brave men

00:20:50 who fought and died for our freedoms for our collective freedoms in canada and the united

00:20:54 states we need to respect one another and it goes both ways so last night the game was in boston

00:21:02 at the TD Garden. I do like to note that the arena in Boston is called the TD Garden. I don't

00:21:08 know if they know that their arena is named after Toronto Dominion Bank, but I had a good

00:21:14 chuckle at that one. Anyway, the stakes were pretty high and we saw a lot of politicians

00:21:19 weighing in. A lot of it was in good fun. I like this kind of good faith, good fun,

00:21:23 back and forth. So you had before the game, Texas Senator Ted Cruz posted this on X.

00:21:30 Winner gets to keep Canada. Deal. Deal, Senator Cruz. We should have taken the deal because,

00:21:37 well, you probably know who won the game. Dead Cruz, by the way, born in Calgary. So

00:21:41 I think he's cheering for the wrong team there, Senator Cruz. But anyways, he says winner keeps

00:21:46 Canada. I had a pregame interview with YouTuber and commentator Benny Johnson. Vice President

00:21:53 J.D. Vance responded and here is what he had to say. Canada made the mistake of booing Team USA

00:22:02 and then they got their asses kicked. Team USA. Fantastic. Canada again today rematch. A message 1.00

00:22:08 of encouragement for Team USA versus Canada. Absolutely. Well, you know, we'd like you to

00:22:11 kick their asses again because you don't boo the United States of America. And to Canada, 1.00

00:22:15 if you guys don't win, the tariffs are even higher. No, I'm kidding.

00:22:18 good good fun good fun there and you know i i i like i like the the back and forth barbs i think

00:22:27 it's fun it's part of the game and don't don't don't boo the national anthem folks they we booed

00:22:32 their anthem so i think we kind of had it coming uh at a press conference in toronto yesterday

00:22:37 conservative leader pierre polyev was asked by true north's own noah jarvis what uh we should

00:22:44 be focusing on and whether or not he liked the fact that the canadians were booing the national

00:22:47 lap and here's what that looked like at the next four nations face-off match and at future

00:22:52 sporting events should Canadians boo the American anthem or refrain from doing so I would focus on 0.99

00:22:58 cheering on Canadians I want Canadians to win I enjoyed the game unfortunately did not enjoy

00:23:03 the outcome when I sat down with my little boy Cruz it was the first in-person hockey game and

00:23:09 my wife Anna was there my retirement plan is for a little Cruz to become an NHL hockey player 0.99

00:23:16 So we wanted to get him started early on that.

00:23:19 I would just encourage everyone to remember that our disagreement is not with the American people.

00:23:23 It's with the American president's unjustified threats of tariffs.

00:23:28 And let's focus on building our own country up.

00:23:31 So we should all be friends, guys. Let's just all be friends.

00:23:35 And of course, the Americans gave it right back.

00:23:38 So the national anthem was played.

00:23:40 It was played by Grammy Award winning Canadian singer Chantal Krevyazic.

00:23:45 Remember her?

00:23:45 she performed the national anthem. I'm going to play you the clip, and I want you to spend

00:23:50 a specific notice, take specific notice to the lyrics, because Chantal Kravyazic decided to

00:23:56 change the lyrics of O Canada, which in and of itself is an absolutely disgraceful, disrespectful

00:24:03 sign to the Canadian people, okay? So it's bad enough that we have the Americans booing our

00:24:08 national anthem, which they did, which I don't like. I didn't like when the Canadians did it.

00:24:12 I don't like it when the Americans do it. 1.00

00:24:14 A little bit of tit for tat.

00:24:16 I'm not saying that it's unwarranted because we kind of deserve it, guys.

00:24:18 They did it.

00:24:19 We did it to them.

00:24:20 They do it to us.

00:24:21 But also pay attention to the lyrics that were sung here.

00:24:24 Let's play that clip.

00:24:42 so she says in true patriot love that only us command that's not that those aren't the words

00:24:50 those aren't the lyrics but she decided to change it i guess that was a little protest saying that

00:24:55 only us command only we get to command our country in other words not not you president trump

00:25:00 look i i i don't like this i don't like it when you change the national anthem remember the

00:25:04 canadian tenors did it way back then to make some point about black lives matter or something and

00:25:09 basically finish them their career as performing artists because we don't like that right the the

00:25:14 national anthem is supposed to be dignified and the only the only reason i give chantelle

00:25:19 kraviezic a little bit of of rope here and credit here is because trudeau already kind of ruined

00:25:25 this part of the national anthem right remember uh for over a century canadians english canadians

00:25:30 sang this song and we sang in all thy son's command right when i go to a hockey game i still sing

00:25:36 in all thy son's command i teach my children the original lyrics in all thy son's command

00:25:40 um they changed it uh several years ago um one of the first uh one of the first acts of the

00:25:46 trudeau government and they changed it because apparently all thy son's command was sexist so

00:25:51 they changed it to in all of us command which just sounds bad and so she so chantelle clever 0.98

00:25:56 doesn't change from all of us command to only that command lame terrible not good okay let's

00:26:02 get back to the game because it was actually a great game it was a great game it was very

00:26:06 very exciting and it ended up with canada defeating the americans 3-2 in overtime doesn't this bring

00:26:12 you back to the 2010 olympics when sydney crosby scored the gold medal goal in overtime well this

00:26:18 time around it was none other than connor mcdavid one of the great young or current canadian hockey

00:26:24 players one of the greatest canadian hockey players of all time certainly one of the best

00:26:28 in the nhl today for the edmonton oilers here he is scoring the game winning goal

00:26:36 There's nothing better, nothing better than watching a Canadian score the game-winning

00:26:55 goal in overtime against the Americans.

00:26:57 Take that, take that.

00:26:58 So yes, Ted Cruz, we will keep Canada.

00:27:00 Thank you very much.

00:27:01 And so after the game, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote the following, I don't like

00:27:06 Trudeau, but I did like this. He wrote, you can't take our country and you can't take our game. Boom,

00:27:11 take that. Americans, Mark Carney, not so well, didn't do so well. Mark Carney posted the

00:27:18 following on X. He says, yeah, baby, Mac D, the Messiah. What? What? Does anybody call Connor

00:27:28 McDavid Mac D? I've never heard that before. Never heard that before. And of course, he didn't even

00:27:35 smell McDavid properly. It's not MACD with an A, it's just MCD. So nice try there. It's kind of

00:27:43 funny because, you know, there's a lot of consternation about Donald Trump and his use

00:27:48 of social media. People say, you know, he's on there late at night, tweeting crazy things with

00:27:52 all kinds, all caps and exclamation points. Sean, if we could put that tweet back up.

00:27:57 But Mark Carty, who's supposed to be the strong, stable hand for Canada, the professional banker

00:28:02 man coming in to take over our country uh you know 11 11 30 p.m you got the all caps the several 0.79

00:28:09 exclamation points the misspelt macd the messiah the lame hashtag i don't know this is this is

00:28:17 seeming kind of trumpian to me i don't i don't think that that was quite the message uh that

00:28:22 mark cartier perhaps his intern i don't know who's managing the x account there uh but not

00:28:28 not a very good message of course gets roasted in the comment section uh which is all pretty

00:28:33 hilarious okay i want to move on here and talk about the liberals we talked about it earlier in

00:28:38 the week they're on their way out trudeau has maybe two weeks left in office and he's gonna 0.88

00:28:43 like spend all the money he can on the way out the door announcing a ridiculous train bullet train

00:28:50 project that i promise you will not get built and if it does it won't come in a budget at three

00:28:54 billion dollars uh it's going to cost 10 or maybe 100 times that to build what trudeau proposed

00:29:00 uh that's not the only thing they're promising on their way out the door so here we have the

00:29:04 national post liberals want to nearly double cbc funding as an investment in national security so

00:29:13 the liberals are proposing to increase the cbc's budget from the current 33.66 per canadian up to

00:29:23 62 dollars per canadian so if if you didn't think you were getting enough uh value for your 33

00:29:29 get ready to have that double you're gonna have to pay double the amount to promote the god-awful

00:29:34 cbc uh i guess should the liberals maintain their power so at a news conference in ottawa minister

00:29:40 pascal st orange the heritage minister proposed a plan to shield cbc funding from public

00:29:46 accountability locking it into legislation bypassing budgetary oversight and political

00:29:53 scrutiny this is what a dictatorship looks like folks you cannot do this kind of thing

00:29:58 and the trudeau government is just doing it on its way out i'm so sick of this because what

00:30:01 they're going to do is they're going to ask pier poliev now are you going to continue with this

00:30:06 pledge to double the cbc of course his answer is no so then the whole election will be fought over

00:30:10 the future of the cbc are we going to defund it and get rid of it or are we going to double its

00:30:14 budget and it's impossible to have a fair and balanced press during an election campaign when

00:30:21 one of the election issues is will you fund the media company that most of the journalists work

00:30:26 for when you go to a typical news conference in any canadian city any any political news conference

00:30:32 whether it be ottawa or anywhere else i'm telling you the majority of the journalists in the room

00:30:38 in the press calories in the press conferences are government funded in ottawa most of them

00:30:43 work for the cbc because you have cbc and you have french cbc and so they just comprise a huge portion

00:30:49 of the journalists out there they make the questions completely biased they form the

00:30:53 narrative they copy whatever the liberals are talking about and ask those questions to

00:30:57 conservatives and this is what continue continually pushes the completely biased media landscape in

00:31:05 the country it is so outrageous it is so outrageous this needs to stop we don't want to have another

00:31:10 election fought over whether or not the CBC will exist. I cannot wait. I hope Pierre Polyev follows

00:31:15 through in his pledge and just defunds it. Cuts it off completely. No more. The Liberals, of course,

00:31:21 will do everything they can to continue it. So let's show this clip news conference in Ottawa

00:31:28 and here is Pascal Saint-Ange talking about how they're basically going to enforce the funding

00:31:35 to the CBC and try to hide it from you.

00:31:39 The existence of our public broadcaster

00:31:41 depends on a single line in the budget.

00:31:44 I'm proposing that we remove the decision making

00:31:48 around funding from the political cycles,

00:31:51 whether it's the elections or the budget.

00:31:54 Many countries around the world have chosen that path

00:31:58 in giving their public broadcaster predictable,

00:32:01 viable and stable funding.

00:32:05 Of course, of course you would want to take it away from the political agenda because your party is about to lose. Your ideology has failed us. We don't want to fund the CBC anymore. So on the very last week of your government, you're going to try to hide budget funding and ensure that it's not a political realm. No, no, you cannot do that.

00:32:23 the same press conference, by the way, Pascal Saint-Ange announced that she wasn't seeking

00:32:27 re-election. So she's a lame duck politician on her way out. You don't get to make huge billion 1.00

00:32:33 dollar announcements when you've already said you were going to resign, when you're not involved in

00:32:37 the political discussion, when your government is heading into an election. Wait until after the

00:32:41 election. Make these pledges during the election. If you win, you'll have a mandate. You shouldn't

00:32:45 get to do this at the very, very end of your mandate. And I want to throw in the fake news

00:32:51 Friday bit here, because this is just so typical. Pierre Polyev was also giving a press conference

00:32:56 almost at the exact same time as this, when he was speaking in a grocery store. It was pretty

00:33:00 amusing because he picked five journalists that would get to ask questions or his team did. And

00:33:05 they all happened to be from the independent press. So it's a little bit of taste of their

00:33:09 own medicine, right? When it's the Trudeau government and the liberals, they will absolutely

00:33:12 refuse to speak to independent journalists. They'll go so far as to have our journalists

00:33:16 arrested and, you know, charged with trespassing if they can for the crime of trying to ask questions

00:33:23 of their government and of their prime minister. Pierre Polyev flips the script a little bit and

00:33:27 says to the legacy media, no, you don't get to ask me questions. And they all like light their

00:33:31 hair on fire. You can see all the consternation and tears on X complaining about this. Well,

00:33:37 hello, we've been going through this for the last decade, so spare me a little bit. But anyways,

00:33:41 The CBC is playing this press conference of Pierre Polyev, and Pierre Polyev is on fire at this press conference.

00:33:49 He's talking about, among many things, about how he's going to defund the CBC.

00:33:53 So he's literally talking about how he's going to defund the CBC in this press conference.

00:33:57 And what does the CBC do?

00:33:59 They cut off Polyev's press conference mid-speech.

00:34:04 You know, he's doing Q&A with the reporters and they cut him off to go to the Canadian Heritage Minister, Pascal Saint-Ange, so that she could deliver her like nonsense, nothing announcement that hopefully won't even go through.

00:34:18 I want to play this to you. This is just so typical of the CBC.

00:34:22 Artificially lower the deficits that people see reported.

00:34:26 But that doesn't mean that Canadians won't have to pay the price.

00:34:30 In fact, every.

00:34:33 They cut him off.

00:34:34 buy Canadian tax. Okay, well, we want to take you from Toronto to Ottawa. As you can see,

00:34:41 Minister Pascal St. Ange of Canadian... Our friend, the club reporter over there,

00:34:46 pointing it out. And it's just, it's hilarious. Like they don't want to hear what Pierre Polyev

00:34:51 has to say. Pierre Polyev is about to be in the race for prime minister, right? He's one of the

00:34:57 people running for prime minister. He's the front runner right now. Whenever there's an election,

00:35:01 He has a very good shot of being prime minister of the country.

00:35:04 So which one from like a news perspective, which one's more important?

00:35:07 The future prime minister, hopefully, God willing, or this like nothing back like heritage

00:35:14 minister that nobody cares about, who's literally announcing that she's not seeking office and

00:35:18 that she wants to double the CBC's budget.

00:35:21 The CBC, of course, chooses the liberal.

00:35:23 That's just exactly what we're up against.

00:35:25 It's so hilarious.

00:35:26 And again, it's just completely typical.

00:35:28 So this shows you folks what we're up against, what the media landscape looks like, how the CBC can't even help themselves.

00:35:34 They're so incredibly biased.

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Juno News - February 21, 2025

Danielle Smith： Carney will be WORSE than Trudeau

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