Juno News - Donald Trump has a message for Trudeau

00:00:00.000 I spoke with Justin Trudeau. In fact, he flew to Mar-a-Lago within about 15 seconds after the call

00:00:08.120 ended. It's been a few weeks and the U.S. president-elect is still trolling Justin Trudeau

00:00:14.260 and saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state. And now even some Americans are weighing in and

00:00:20.700 saying that they agree this is a good idea. Joining me today to break it all down is Detroit

00:00:26.640 radio host, Justin Barclay. I'm Rachel Parker, and this is Rachel in the Republic.

00:00:40.760 Hey everyone, I'm Rachel Parker. Welcome back to Rachel in the Republic. We have Justin Barclay,

00:00:47.000 a Detroit radio host, joining us once again today. Justin, thank you so much for being here. I want

00:00:52.280 to start by asking you right off the hop, what do you as an American and as someone who covers

00:00:58.560 Donald Trump make of his trolling of Canada and of our prime minister? I love it. First of all,

00:01:07.800 President Trump, this is the art of the deal. And if no one's ever read the book, pick it up,

00:01:13.960 read the book. It's just quintessential Trump. This is the kind of thing that he does,

00:01:21.180 the tariff talks, throwing this stuff out there. And of course it did exactly what he thought it

00:01:25.700 would do. It got the attention of both Canada and Mexico, and it'll get the attention of other

00:01:30.480 countries very soon. But what he's essentially looking for isn't tariffs. That's not what he

00:01:36.080 really wants. What he wants is cooperation on certain things. What he wants essentially is to

00:01:41.520 reset the temperature, reset the tone, and let people know there's a new sheriff in town.

00:01:46.260 I love Canada. I love our Canadian friends. And here in Michigan, obviously, right here on the

00:01:55.480 border in Detroit. In fact, I broadcast into Ontario, Windsor. And if they allow me, I don't

00:02:03.100 know if there's a way to block me there yet. But we get in. And occasionally we'll get phone calls and

00:02:10.460 things like that. And so I love it. I love, in fact, Windsor. I know things have changed a little

00:02:16.560 bit. But years ago, the first time I went there, because I never had anything. I didn't grow up in

00:02:20.700 Michigan. I grew up in Indiana originally. I never had been over and across the border, across the

00:02:25.080 Ambassadors, beautiful bridge. You can go through the tunnel and you go through and you tell them why

00:02:29.480 you're coming. And sometimes they pull you aside and have a conversation with you. But

00:02:33.420 largely we were going, you know, to visit and to be a part of, you know, occasionally the radio

00:02:41.240 station I worked with at the time would do promotions at these nightclubs there. Because

00:02:46.580 you had, I think you only had to be 19 to drink the watered down beer that they had, the certain

00:02:50.840 beer that they had there that you could only drink certain kinds. And 19-year-olds could drink it.

00:02:55.920 And so we just loved going over there. It was a great time. But part of that whole process,

00:03:01.180 I learned that like Windsor, people didn't lock their doors. It was so safe. It was like this

00:03:06.040 just, you know, I don't know, kind of idyllic little places. At least that's the way we were

00:03:10.360 told. But things have changed in recent years. And a lot of that has to do with some of the

00:03:16.260 policies and I think some of the things that Trudeau is responsible for. So on one hand,

00:03:21.420 I love to see it because it's the art of the deal. It's what Donald Trump is best known for.

00:03:25.440 It's him setting the tone, getting the leverage set in not just with Canada, but with Mexico and

00:03:32.460 some of these other countries as well. But I also kind of like to see it happen to Justin Trudeau

00:03:37.100 because even though I share his name, I don't share a lot of his ideals. And of course,

00:03:43.880 policies, what he's done in the past several years, and particularly what he did during the

00:03:47.680 pandemic and the truckers and jailing pastors and most recently jailing journalists. A lot of this

00:03:58.320 stuff is just, I know it's hard for a lot of folks in Canada to watch too because, I mean,

00:04:04.460 we're very similar in our, I think, in our sensibilities and the way we think here at Canada

00:04:11.480 and America as neighbors that we are. I know there are differences, but I think a lot of people look

00:04:16.560 at this stuff and they go, there's scary times. This is wild stuff to watch.

00:04:21.260 To your point, I think, you know, a lot of Canadians, we've seen a lot of Canadians,

00:04:26.120 especially on the right, sort of cheering Trump on because they're so fed up and they're tired

00:04:31.200 with Justin Trudeau. Not that they actually want to become the 51st state of America. I don't see

00:04:35.940 that happening. I think some Canadians actually like would like it to happen, maybe actually think

00:04:40.320 it's on the table. I don't think that's what's going on here. I think, as you said,

00:04:44.160 you know, this is the art of the deal. This is something that Trump is saying because he wants

00:04:49.420 to open up that negotiations. He wants cooperation with the countries. And, you know, to what you were

00:04:54.400 saying, it seems to me like part of the reason that President-elect Donald Trump is leaning into

00:04:59.600 this so much is because it has garnered so much attention and so much publicity and everyone is

00:05:04.920 talking about it. You know, I saw a guy tweet or a post on X the other day, a Canadian, I think his

00:05:15.080 name's Sean Newman. I don't know if you know who he is, but I shared it. I know Sean. Yeah.

00:05:19.420 I can't stop thinking about this. Trudeau just got on by Trump four days after Canada was threatened

00:05:24.000 with tariffs. Our fearless leader was begging for mercy at Mar-a-Lago. And he said, here's how Trump

00:05:30.580 did more for Canada in five minutes than Trudeau has in nine years. And he kind of outlined some of

00:05:38.300 these different pieces. And it's a great thread. I go into all of it, but I thought it's a fascinating

00:05:45.580 conversation and look in to the mindset of some of the folks inside Canada and what they think about,

00:05:55.180 because they're not being represented. You know, we know what that's like. You get a Biden or,

00:05:59.020 God forbid, we would have had a Harris and even an Obama at times. These people just do not

00:06:05.660 represent our way of thinking and policies at all. And we're so far off the rails. I know you have

00:06:12.300 opposition there, but still in the media working alongside them create this kind of false. And

00:06:22.060 we've seen how false it was, particularly with this election, the turnout, we saw how many people

00:06:26.020 came out and how really massive the landslide was to mandate what will happen moving forward. But

00:06:33.780 a lot of the people, real life, everyday people, they don't agree with some of this.

00:06:40.800 A lot of us, let's be realistic, a lot of the craziness, the insanity that I know that's really

00:06:47.160 plagued your country. And it's been a part of ours as well. These are leftist policies,

00:06:51.000 crazy policies that are completely detached from reality that I think that most people just aren't,

00:06:57.640 it's not in touch with the way most people think. I don't know. You know, I'm not an expert on Canada,

00:07:03.240 but I'm an expert on, I guess, America, right? And Michigan. And we're so close. We're so similar,

00:07:08.680 I think, in a lot of ways. I think most people, Canadians, if they're like Americans, just want to go

00:07:13.960 about their lives. They want to be left alone. They want to be able to raise their kids, make a good

00:07:19.080 living, and be able to leave things in Canada a little bit better off for their kids than what

00:07:24.020 they had. And I think these policies, these crazy, wacky, out-of-touch policies are completely

00:07:32.280 detached from reality. And they're completely at odds with the thinking of the average person here

00:07:39.940 in America, I can tell you. I would imagine it's the same in Canada. So as I said, you know,

00:07:45.700 some Americans are kind of looking at this, at Trump's pitch to make Canada the 51st state,

00:07:50.420 and joking along with it. Jesse Waters of Fox News was one of those peoples. Take a look at what he had

00:07:55.700 to say. Let's just be clear. We're not going to make Canada the 51st state. We'll make it 51 and 52.

00:08:01.940 You make Western Canada, that'll be Republican. Eastern Canada, that'll be Democrat. So you keep the

00:08:07.980 electoral balance there. So many reasons to make this a state. It's the, I think, has the third

00:08:14.700 largest oil reserves in the world. Oh, a lot. So that makes us an energy behemoth. It's the

00:08:20.220 most well-educated country in the world because we need a little help in that department. Talk about

00:08:26.320 mining, agriculture, fishing, AI, tech, real estate, Canada, you name it, they got it. We'll never

00:08:33.640 probably lose another Winter Olympics. We'll have all of their skaters and skiers. I mean, 0.99

00:08:40.120 good luck, Sweden. And they share our cultural heritage. They share our language. It's just a

00:08:46.360 no-brainer. Now, I don't know if Canada is going to go along with it, but there's ways to maybe

00:08:51.000 change their opinion. Do you want to end it there? I like it there. I think it's a good idea.

00:08:57.320 The army is minuscule, but that's fine. We'll pay to protect them as a state. But we're doubling the

00:09:03.840 size of the country, America. Think about it. He makes some good arguments there. I mean,

00:09:11.560 we basically already rely on your military, so there's nothing new on that front. The bit about,

00:09:17.060 you know, having the 51st and the 52nd state was, I think, an important note because there are

00:09:20.900 major regional differences. That being said, the division lines might not fall quite so nicely

00:09:26.540 because BC, which is our western most province on the ocean, is quite liberal. So we run into some

00:09:33.760 issues there. But, you know, you're saying this whole conversation has been started because,

00:09:38.980 you know, Trump, Trump's tariffs, but also Trump just really wanting cooperation with Canada.

00:09:44.140 You know, Canadian politicians and Canadian media, everyone's really panicking about this threat of

00:09:48.900 25% tariffs on all Canadian products entering the U.S. market. So in your opinion, what does Canada

00:09:54.680 actually need to do to avoid these tariffs? I'm not exactly sure what Trump is looking for,

00:10:01.320 but I think mostly it's get in line. I think that's the overall, America's been a laughingstock

00:10:08.740 for the past four years under the failed leadership of a Biden-Harris administration.

00:10:16.800 And I think what he really wants to do is set the tone to let folks know,

00:10:20.660 there's no sheriff in town. This is, we're not going to put up with this anymore. In fact,

00:10:23.900 we're going to, we're going to have to make sure that we, we, we do some things like lock down the

00:10:29.860 border. And, you know, we share a massive border with, with Canada. And I know that there,

00:10:34.740 you know, there are some things that are being done right now to control that, but I think he

00:10:39.900 wants a little more cooperation, a little more stepped up help. It's not just immigration.

00:10:46.340 I think that's a big part of what we're seeing happen here. But when we talk about border

00:10:51.220 issues, we talk about national security issues and we've got fentanyl coming across.

00:10:57.660 And not only do we have folks coming from other, can all over the world, they're flying in the

00:11:04.800 places and just walking across. Well, that's happening and possible in Canada. In fact, I,

00:11:11.300 I know some people that are border patrol agents on our border with, with Canada. And they said that

00:11:18.720 it's, it's ratcheted up. It's got even worse what they see the border crossings and what they see

00:11:24.220 happening in Canada because they've had to send so much the resources down to the Southern border to

00:11:32.900 help and aid and assist down there that, that, that now that the Northern border has been left wide

00:11:38.400 open. And as you know, there, there are places like the ambassador bridge or some of these bridges

00:11:45.080 and tunnels and the new bridge they're building the Gordie Howe bridge. But those are like, you have

00:11:51.320 to go through the checkpoint and it is very serious. You know, I just, I remember coming

00:11:56.780 into Canada, we had guys with us that maybe got in trouble here or there in the States or whatever.

00:12:01.540 And that, and if you had one person that was with you and a group of people was going through

00:12:04.980 that person got held back. And I mean, it was, they were very serious about that and they ought to,

00:12:09.920 they ought to have, um, but it, it, it needs to be like that throughout the entire border.

00:12:15.660 And there are lots of places where I think you can just walk right over and it's, um, you know,

00:12:21.300 it, it is, there is a, there are vulnerabilities. So those things need to make sure that we've got

00:12:27.680 all of that locked down, but even bigger, it's gotta have, I think Trump's looking for the full

00:12:33.860 cooperation and the, the, uh, really the, the full on policy that would ensure that Canada is,

00:12:43.380 is gonna, is gonna help us through this, whatever that looks like. And we'll do the same for them.

00:12:48.340 I don't know what else he's looking for. Maybe he's looking with some more trade cooperation.

00:12:52.720 Maybe there's some numbers, some movement that he's looking for there. I'm not, I'm not exactly

00:12:56.980 sure. I'm not in his head as far as that's concerned, but I don't think I, again, I think

00:13:02.080 Jesse was kind of joking too. I don't think we're really looking at, um, you know, the two countries

00:13:09.760 merging. Um, but I will say that I do think this is strictly an art of the deal and it's,

00:13:17.480 it's, it's genius. It's brilliant because everybody reacts in the same way that we're

00:13:22.520 watching. There was a, I can't, I can't remember her name, but she, she, uh, she was talking at one

00:13:30.500 of the, one of your politicians was talking about how this makes her so nervous. And, uh, and,

00:13:35.820 and I thought, well, it ought, it ought to make, you know, make you nervous. She said,

00:13:40.000 it's not funny. And I said, you know, well, it's funny to me. It's funny because you're

00:13:44.880 so nervous. And that's why it, that's why I think it's so funny because you're seeing

00:13:49.960 these people and politicians. I don't know how it is, uh, Rachel with, with you all,

00:13:56.380 but we kind of call it here. It's like Hollywood for ugly people. Politics is like Hollywood for

00:14:02.240 ugly people. And really what that means is a lot of these people are full of it. They're acting,

00:14:07.120 they're actors and they don't really have, um, now they're always acting like they're so serious

00:14:14.060 and they don't really have, I think the, the, the command of the, uh, situations of the subjects

00:14:21.500 and scenarios as much as they ought to. They, a lot, I think they just act their way through it

00:14:25.760 and there are real consequences. And I think, unfortunately they have been, uh, successful

00:14:34.560 for many years. I know, at least in the States and probably similar, uh, for you all as well,

00:14:39.260 but they've been successful, uh, in, in this whole dance, this whole masquerade. And finally,

00:14:46.680 the mask being ripped off by a guy who's been able to come in and disrupt it all. And I think that's

00:14:51.520 what Americans love about Trump. Um, maybe that's what some throughout the world like about him is

00:14:56.580 that he's willing to come in and shake things up and maybe make things better. Maybe it's not just

00:15:01.560 making America great again. Maybe he wants to make Canada great again too. That's already, you know,

00:15:07.600 quite the movement here. We have, uh, make Canada great again hats. Now, actually you might've seen

00:15:12.420 this circulating online, but the Canadian armed forces sent out a survey to its members. They wanted

00:15:18.900 to know if, um, any of their members were identifying with extremist groups. And one of the ways that,

00:15:25.500 you know, if you're an extremist or if somebody that you're one of your peers in the military is an

00:15:30.900 extremist is if they, I, if they've ever purchased make Canada great again, merchandise actually.

00:15:36.960 Yeah. So that survey was actually funded by us, the Canadian taxpayers. So things in Canada,

00:15:43.140 you know, as you said, we're all kind of tired of the nonsense and of the extremism and yeah,

00:15:48.540 definitely want to get back to, you know, running our own lives and not having our taxpayer dollars

00:15:53.820 wasted. Um, to your point about the nervousness, I think when Trump pulls the stunts, which, you know,

00:16:00.640 his, his trolling, Justin Trudeau is talking about making Canada a state. I think when he makes

00:16:05.820 politicians nervous, that's exactly what he's looking to do because that gives him the upper hand

00:16:10.540 in the bargaining, as you were saying, the art of the deal. Like if you are able to make the person

00:16:14.780 that you are negotiating with nervous or uncomfortable, you will immediately have the

00:16:19.180 upper hand. And I think that, you know, we've got a lot of weak politicians in Canada right now,

00:16:23.340 and I think they've easily, you know, seated him that territory. Unfortunately, I just want to go

00:16:27.660 back and play the full clip that we showed at the beginning of Trump talking about how he had a phone

00:16:31.980 call with, with Justin Trudeau and Justin Joe immediately announced he was going to fly to

00:16:36.700 Mar-a-Lago to meet with him. Take a look at this clip.

00:16:38.780 I spoke with Justin Trudeau. In fact, he flew to Mar-a-Lago, uh, within about 15 seconds after

00:16:47.100 the call. And it was, uh, at Mar-a-Lago, we were having dinner talking about it. Uh, I said,

00:16:52.780 you have to close up your borders because they're coming in the Northern border too, a lot, not like 0.96

00:16:56.940 the Southern border, but they're coming in the Canadian border a lot and drugs are pouring in.

00:17:01.660 Almost as importantly, drugs are pouring in, maybe more importantly, drugs are pouring in at levels never

00:17:07.100 seen before, 10 times what we had. They're just pouring in. We can't have open borders.

00:17:13.580 And I said to the president of Mexico and to Justin Trudeau, if it doesn't stop,

00:17:19.020 I'm going to put tariffs on your country at about 25%. That's a very, very substantial tariff.

00:17:27.820 I think that clip speaks a little bit to your point. You know, Trump basically said,

00:17:31.340 jump and Trudeau's like how high and went down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with him. And it was sort of

00:17:35.340 the scandal here in Canada, because how many bedrooms does Mar-a-Lago have like well over

00:17:40.140 a hundred and Trudeau wasn't invited to stay there for the night. And I guess Trump always invites his

00:17:44.220 visitors to stay for the night. So certainly you could tell that, uh, you know, Trump, not a big,

00:17:49.100 very, a very big fan of Trudeau, but the one thing that I'm wondering, and I'm specifically wondering

00:17:54.460 this because I'm broadcasting from Alberta, you know, we have the third largest oil reserves in the world

00:17:59.580 and we do a lot of trade with Canada. A lot of our oil goes down to the States and you know,

00:18:04.460 we've seen our conservative premier here, Danielle Smith. Um, she's been encouraging the federal

00:18:12.300 liberal government to work with Donald Trump. And she even announced that she was going to be asking

00:18:17.100 our Alberta RCMP to ramp up security at the border. Do you think that president elect Donald

00:18:22.700 Trump notices these specific efforts from premiers similar to your governors in the States? And do you

00:18:28.700 think there's any possibility that he would take notice of these efforts and carve out exemptions

00:18:33.340 for some provinces? Oh, that's an interesting question. I don't know. I don't know what's

00:18:39.900 possible there when it comes to tariffs. I do know some of the people that work on the trade side of

00:18:44.060 those things to try and figure that out. And I'll have to dig into that. I'm not sure if they can do

00:18:50.060 that, but I do know he's paying attention. Um, those folks would be, um, I'm sure high on the list of,

00:18:58.460 of not only because not only would he be watching, um, what Trudeau does, but he's also watching what

00:19:05.660 the, maybe the opposition does. He's watching what the governors might do and say, because they want to

00:19:09.660 gauge how effective all these things are within the country. In fact, uh, our, uh, somebody that I

00:19:17.980 know very well is going to become the, our ambassador under the Trump administration to, to Canada.

00:19:22.140 Uh, he's, uh, he's, uh, from Michigan. His name is Pete Uxtra and he ran the Michigan, uh, GOP,

00:19:27.900 the MI GOP, the Republican party here. Um, but he was a congressman from, uh, where I'm at my neck

00:19:33.500 of the woods and, um, going to be an interesting guy. They're going to be, they're going to be

00:19:37.740 watching, I think very closely how that sentiment is going because what I think, you know, the other

00:19:45.580 piece of this, what's happening is, and he's very effective at doing this is sort of pushing people

00:19:52.060 along in, in a certain way, in a direction that he wants them to go. And I think the world's headed

00:19:58.380 in that direction too. Uh, and, and so he's pushing Canada, he's pushing Mexico, he's pushing Europe.

00:20:05.260 He's pushing all of our allies really to move into this sort of, uh, same, uh,

00:20:12.140 I don't want to call it MAGA cause it's not make America great again, but this it's,

00:20:15.660 it's this sense that we're all kind of going to push into this. And it's not even just conservative,

00:20:20.380 but it's a direction of which back to return to common sense. We've gotten so far off the rails

00:20:28.460 with, you know, the woke policies, DEI and all of these things. And that's happening all throughout

00:20:33.020 the world right now. And in, in places like Canada and, and, and England and the UK, Europe,

00:20:38.700 all these places. Um, and, and it, and it's happening here too, but the pushback here,

00:20:45.020 specifically with immigration, um, and a great conversation with a guy named father,

00:20:49.980 Calvin Robinson, who's, um, from the UK, he's an Anglican priest and, uh, he's very outspoken,

00:20:56.780 but part of why he's moved here to Michigan has actually moved here, um, is to sound the alarm and

00:21:03.260 to warn America of what's coming. If we're not careful and the West is, is under attack altogether.

00:21:09.820 So we can break it down into countries, you know, Canada and the United States, the UK,

00:21:14.380 it's, but it's the West that's under attack. Um, and so I think part of what we're seeing

00:21:20.860 is if Trump is effective at handling this immigration crisis, if he's effective doing that,

00:21:26.300 then the UK or Canada may be able to, uh, be more effective with those policies in, in their

00:21:34.060 respect as well. Courage is contagious. Yes, that's true. That's true. Thank you so much for

00:21:41.020 insight today. That was Justin Barclay, a Detroit radio host. As he said, if you live in the Windsor,

00:21:46.860 Ontario area, you might still be able to get his show on the radio. That is until the CRTC has

00:21:53.260 something to say about it. I'm sure they will nip that in the bud if they can, as they always do.

00:21:58.460 Okay, everyone. I, and I just thought it was actually especially interesting how he of course

00:22:02.540 is living in a border city, a, um, I'm kind of from a border city from Niagara. I'm not quite from

00:22:07.740 Niagara falls, but quite close. And, um, you know, he was saying even people that he's spoken to border

00:22:12.700 agents who work in Detroit say that they've noticed an uptick in illegal crossings from Canada.

00:22:17.900 So obviously this is something that people on the ground are noticing. All right, everyone,

00:22:21.340 before I let you guys go for today, I just wanted to make a quick announcement. This is the second

00:22:26.140 last week of racial in the Republic. That does not mean that we are ending our us coverage. We'll still

00:22:31.820 cover, you know, the trade war and all the other interesting stuff that pops up over the next few

00:22:36.540 weeks, but we are simply going to be folding it under one banner of the Rachel Parker show. So you'll be

00:22:43.100 getting, um, in a few weeks time, probably in the new year, you'll be getting the Rachel Parker show two

00:22:47.740 times, two times a week. And, um, our American coverage will be folded into that show. So don't

00:22:55.900 fret. You'll still be getting our us politics coverage. All right, everyone. That's all we have

00:23:00.860 time for today. I hope that you enjoy the rest of your week. I will see you on Tuesday. The Rachel

00:23:05.820 Parker show. God bless.

Juno News - December 11, 2024

Donald Trump has a message for Trudeau

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