00:01:34.260So Trump took to True Social today and let it be known that 25 percent tariffs will be imposed starting on Tuesday, 25 percent on all goods other than oil.
00:01:48.400and Trump says that if Canada retaliates, that the tariffs will increase. So we are waiting
00:01:54.880for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to speak. He's supposed to speak at 6.30. He's supposed to be at
00:01:59.0406 Eastern. Then it got bumped to 8.30. It's 9.07. And we're still waiting for our Prime Minister,
00:02:05.280who said he resigned, but he's still the Prime Minister for some reason. We are waiting for him
00:02:10.320to come out and tell the nation what is happening and what his response will be. Kian, thank you so
00:02:17.080much for joining us on this broadcast. What do you make of all of this so far? Yeah, no problem.
00:02:22.840Trudeau being late is just like perfect for him right now. He's been completely AWOL, not just
00:02:28.080since he announced his resignation, but really since he took office. It's the perfect metaphor.
00:02:34.100Trudeau's leadership is the reason we're in this position. Trump does what he says he's going to
00:02:38.520do. He always has. From his first term to his second term, he's always followed through. And
00:02:44.120a lot of people a lot of CBC pundits right now are going to be telling us that Donald Trump is
00:02:48.920the enemy now like look I like Donald Trump do I like what he's doing to Canada right now
00:02:54.300absolutely not but the reason he's doing this is because he's putting America first and he sees
00:03:00.080Canada as weak he sees Justin Trudeau's leadership or should I say lack thereof over this past week
00:03:06.940while the world was watching while our American neighbors were gearing up for serious trade talks
00:03:11.580What was Trudeau doing? Absolutely nothing. His itinerary was literally blank for two of the last three days. Not one meeting, not one strategy session to counter this looming disaster. It's been like he's been on vacation while the economy was on the brink.
00:03:26.980Trump's decision to impose these tariffs, it's not just out of thin air, it's a direct result of Trudeau's failure to manage, to engage seriously with this new administration.
00:03:38.520Do you remember when Trudeau went to Mar-a-Lago?
00:03:40.900Instead of coming back with concrete plans or even a hint of what was actually discussed, we got radio silence.
00:03:47.780As Canadians, as the stakeholders of that meeting, we got nothing.
00:03:51.900Trudeau has been more focused on looking good for photo ops than actually doing the hard work of diplomacy.
00:03:57.540And we are the ones that are about to pay the price.
00:04:12.900His strategy has been hoping that the problem will go away if he ignores it long enough.
00:04:18.020But the newsflash is it's not going to work like that with Donald Trump.
00:04:22.420Well, you know, it's interesting, Kian, because when Trump or when Trudeau went down to Mar-a-Lago, that was when the 51st state meme started coming out.
00:04:30.620That's when Trump started talking about it. And Trump said over and over that he asked Justin Trudeau what would happen if we put on 25 percent tariffs.
00:04:38.960According to Trump, Trudeau said it would destroy our country. It would end Canada.
00:04:45.140That doesn't really seem like a very good negotiating strategy. Like, if you're really
00:04:49.300down there, and you think this guy is serious, and you think that he wants to, you know, send
00:04:54.660a message, he thinks that, you know, the drugs are a major problem, the illegal immigration is
00:04:59.700a major problem. He is seriously concerned about these things. And what does our Prime Minister do?
00:05:05.060He goes straight up and says, our greatest weakness, like, if you impose these tariffs,
00:05:09.940we won't exist as a country anymore. No wonder Trump is going to pick up on that and push that
00:05:15.860in, because Trudeau told him that. I don't understand why Trudeau would have said that
00:05:20.100in the first place. I think the media is not making nearly a big enough deal out of the fact
00:05:24.580that Trudeau said that, because I think he was really actually setting Donald Trump up.
00:05:28.660And if you look at, you know, Melanie Jolie, the foreign minister, was down in Washington,
00:05:33.140DC, and what was she doing? She was meeting with Democrats. She was meeting with liberal Democrats
00:05:38.980and posting smiley selfies and pictures of herself on x with these democrats it's like hello do you
00:05:46.500understand anything about partisan politics like you going down and meeting with democrats doesn't
00:05:51.540help at all that's not diplomacy that's not at all diplomacy what danielle smith was doing was
00:05:56.420diplomacy trying to uh cut a deal folks we've got one eye on the podium here justin trudeau
00:06:02.660is supposed to address the country he was supposed to have come out a couple of hours ago uh we don't
00:06:07.380know what he's going to say but one thing is clear kian that donald trump has said that any
00:06:11.780retaliatory measure will be met with harder and stronger tariffs so from my perspective
00:06:19.300i'm terrified like 25 coming in on tuesday will be devastating our economy is already incredibly
00:06:25.620weak right after 10 years of justin trudeau printing money like you know there's no tomorrow
00:06:31.380inflating the economy like the economy is on the rails falling off the rails yeah and the idea
00:06:38.100that you know the strongest leader in the world the strongest country in the world is threatening
00:06:42.260tariffs and and threatening to to possibly double them again or who knows i i don't think retaliatory
00:06:48.340tariffs are the way to go but that seems to be uh where we're headed seems to be sort of the
00:06:52.660unanimous position of you know canadian politics now i don't i don't want to get too deep into
00:06:58.420reading the responses we will go through them we'll react trudeau's on okay let's go to trudeau
00:07:03.060then 25 percent tariffs on canadian exports to the united states and 10 on canadian energy
00:07:11.140a decision that should the elect to proceed with should take effect on tuesday february 4th
00:07:18.660cette décision met en péril une relation économique historique
00:07:23.220– a relationship that has been the source of so much richness, prosperity and possibility
00:14:41.460We will stand strong to ensure our countries continue to be the best neighbors in the world.
00:14:50.760With all that said, I also want to speak directly to Canadians in this moment.
00:14:57.700I'm sure many of you are anxious, but I want you to know we are all in this together.
00:15:06.080The Canadian government, Canadian businesses, Canadian organized labour, Canadian civil society,
00:15:13.240Canada's premiers, and tens of millions of Canadians from coast to coast to coast are
00:15:19.480aligned and united. This is Team Canada at its best.
00:15:26.720Plus tôt aujourd'hui, j'ai parlé avec les premiers ministres de toutes nos provinces
00:15:32.880et territoires. On est unis et solidaires. Ils ont tous appuyé notre approche. On est
00:15:41.560aussi alignés pour faire tomber les obstacles qui freinent le commerce entre nos provinces
00:15:46.920et territoires et rendre ça plus facile pour les consommateurs de choisir des produits
00:15:52.240de chez nous. Il y a quelques minutes, je me suis entretenu
00:15:57.480That was Justin Trudeau responding in kind with 25% tariffs. Trudeau says that Canada will impose tariffs 25% on $155 billion worth of U.S. goods.
00:16:12.680So here we are, Kian. We have now officially entered a trade war. We're not going to try to de-escalate. We're not going to try to strike a deal with Trump.
00:16:22.340It seems that Trudeau is, again, I have to stop and just say, you know, this guy resigned.
00:16:28.640You know, I woke up on January 6th with a notification, and then I saw Justin Trudeau
00:16:33.820with my own eyes telling us that he was done, that he was resigning, that he wasn't going
00:16:39.160And yet we still have to listen to him.
00:16:40.420We still have to hear him go out there with his drama, you know, big boy voice, speaking
00:16:46.680sternly to the Americans, talking down to them.
00:16:48.800Like, you know, he said during his message, the whole thing that he's going to address at first the message to the Americans.
00:16:55.540And then he gives us all the sap, quoting John F. Kennedy, trying to like play up a nostalgic, you know, love for one another.
00:17:03.540I'm sorry, it's not going to cut it. You know, it's 2025.
00:17:06.580Trump is issuing, you know, he's ushering his country into the golden age and he sees Canada as an impediment and he is smacking Trudeau around.
00:17:16.000Trudeau doesn't understand that. He is about a joke. Like, I know that it's supposed to elicit
00:17:20.140like patriotism and pride and like, yeah, we're on the same side. When I hear Justin Trudeau speak,
00:17:25.440I just feel like so ashamed that he is the one that is representing us, that he is the one
00:17:30.520speaking for us. I don't want him to be our prime minister anymore. He needs to resign.
00:17:34.780We need an election. Like, I know it's not going to happen right now because we're in the midst of
00:17:39.400this and this is going to, you know, Trudeau is going to use this to continue to promote the
00:17:44.260Liberals, it's all like so much of the reaction that we're seeing from politicians right now
00:17:47.580is all about their own political careers and pushing for their own elections and their own,
00:17:51.980you know, Mark Carney saying this, Pierre Politeff saying this. And, you know, deep down,
00:17:55.560it's all just about them trying to win an election. It's not actually what's best for Canada.
00:18:00.960It's just, it's such a shame that we are here at this point. Trudeau barely even mentions the
00:18:07.280major issue that Trump has talked about, which is immigration and fentanyl and drugs. Yes,
00:18:11.740He mentioned it in passing, but obviously he hasn't done enough, Kian, to address those issues.
00:18:16.940If he had, we wouldn't be in this position.
00:18:21.400Trump said he was going to impose these tariffs, and here they are.
00:18:24.360And I think it's just going to be absolutely devastating for our economy.
00:18:27.740Our economy is already incredibly weak.
00:18:29.940People are suffering so much from this cost of living crisis that has come from Justin Trudeau's taxes and his inflationary policies.
00:18:36.660And now we're going to have another 25 percent each way.
00:18:39.460like this is just going to be absolutely deadly for our economy and the idea that canada can
00:18:44.500engage in a trade war with the united states i'm sorry our economy is just absolutely minuscule
00:18:49.060compared to theirs it is you know we're one tenth of the size of the population much less than that
00:18:53.620as a percentage of their their economy versus ours like we don't stand a chance this isn't
00:18:58.580going to go well for us i don't understand kian what do you think i'm trying to not lose uh lose
00:19:06.340my marbles after having to listen to yet another uh impassioned brainless speech from our prime
00:19:13.860minister it after hearing that it becomes more and more clear that justin trudeau and the liberals
00:19:20.260are using this as a sort of october surprise and are intentionally tanking the economy to profit
00:19:28.260politically off of the backs of canadians who are now going to have to pay in untold levels of
00:19:35.940of economic pain so that he can stand there with Melanie Jolie and Dominic LeBlanc, who looks like
00:19:42.480an absolute clown, by the way. They look like they're in shell shock, that they don't understand
00:19:47.140why this is happening. And I know exactly why it's happening. Folks, this is what happens when
00:19:52.160you elect a leader who is more interested in virtue signaling than actual governance. Trudeau's
00:19:57.680blank itineraries this week are a metaphor for his entire term empty devoid of substance and
00:20:06.120completely out of touch with the needs of Canadians and Americans he said that Canada has always been
00:20:13.340there for America for America talking about the streets of Kandahar and the peaks of the Korean
00:20:19.620Peninsula going on and on about how Canadians have been there for Americans and it's true
00:20:24.000They haven't been. But the prime minister that does not get to claim any of that is Justin Trudeau. He has been nowhere to be seen when it comes to building the relationship between Canada and the United States, when he's not taking partisan potshots, as you mentioned, talking about how Americans are actually stupid because they didn't elect a woman and shatter the glass ceiling.
00:20:49.840And that's where progress really would have been seen. And gosh, if only Americans were as smart as us Canadians who have gender balance cabinets and oh, it's 2015 and blah, blah, blah. And then he takes credit for sending water bombers down to the United States. That wasn't Justin Trudeau. That was the government of Quebec. That was Daniel Smith who actually sent Albertan firefighters down to Los Angeles to help save Americans. But Justin Trudeau is taking credit for that.
00:21:16.920so all of Canadians uh to all the Canadians that are going to be feeling the pinch because of these
00:21:23.860tariffs the CBC is going to be blaming Donald Trump every left-wing pundit is going to say
00:21:31.100that we are the victims here and you know to be fair the everyday Canadian they are the victim
00:21:36.340but we're only a victim because we've been we've allowed ourselves to be victimized by political
00:21:42.400incompetence like justin trudeau justin trudeau's negligence has put our economy in jeopardy and
00:21:49.040it's high time that we demand better leadership than this this is embarrassing that we we sit
00:21:55.280here for two hours waiting for this moron to come out on stage and speak these platitudes he said
00:22:00.960nothing outside of the fact that he's going to destroy the canadian economy on principle because
00:22:05.920he doesn't like donald trump and he's unwilling to do what needs to be done to protect our borders
00:22:11.040to protect americans from fentanyl that's coming through mexico to canada and into the united states
00:22:15.520and also to protect canadians he didn't really care when roxam road was spilling hundreds of
00:22:21.200thousands of illegal migrants from the united states canada he doesn't care about borders
00:22:25.680at all he said it wasn't even an issue in the speech that he just gave and then he said oh
00:22:29.680but we did invest a billion dollars and now we're seeing progress just directly contradicting
00:22:35.200himself. It's tough to put into words how brain dead this prime minister is. He really is in it
00:22:41.100for the polling numbers. And I think that he is using this situation to benefit his party and his
00:22:46.900own legacy. And it's embarrassing and it needs to stop. Well, I completely agree with so much
00:22:52.480of what you said there, Kian. I couldn't help when he came out there and he started giving his speech
00:22:56.080like he just to me, he's always a drama teacher and he's always got the flair and he's always
00:23:06.380He's going to put his hat in and run for leader of the Liberal Party.
00:23:10.260I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he just changed his mind and said, you know, times are too important and figure out a way to stick around.
00:23:17.380Because that's obviously, you know, he's all about himself, loves the sound of his own voice, loves to go out there and be in front of the camera and give his best blue steel there.
00:23:27.880So, folks, for anyone just joining us, I'm Candice Malcolm, joined by Keane Bextie of The Counter Signal.
00:23:34.340So earlier today, we had major breaking news.
00:23:36.980Donald Trump announced that there were 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports coming on Tuesday.
00:23:44.400The only slight difference from the 25 percent across the board tariffs, which he had promised, was that we learned that oil will be tariffed at only 10 percent.
00:23:52.840so maybe you can say thank you to Danielle Smith for that one, for her efforts. I assume that her
00:23:59.960efforts are what led to that carve out of 10%. Not great still, but at least it's not the full 25%.
00:24:08.120Trump said that if Canada retaliates, the tariffs will increase. Well, lo and behold,
00:24:13.080our prime minister, who just won't go away, who resigned, but somehow he's still prime minister,
00:24:17.160came out and spoke to the nation and said that Canada will in fact respond with retaliatory
00:24:23.180tariffs. So we haven't yet heard Trump back. Trudor just spoke moments ago declaring that
00:24:29.120Canada will impose a 25% tariff on our American neighbors in response to Trump's 25%. He said
00:24:37.020that they will apply to $155 billion worth of goods and that 30 billion of those will go into
00:24:42.620effect on Tuesday. So on Tuesday, Canada's economy will go into a major tailspin. It's going to be
00:24:52.140scary, folks. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has said that this will be devastating for the auto
00:25:00.620industry, the North American auto industry. And basically, this is uncharted territory. So we have
00:25:07.500some of the statements here. So, well, first let's go through what Donald J. Trump said. This is what
00:25:14.380he posted on to his True Social. I think we have the graphic. He says, today I've implemented a 25%
00:25:19.880tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada, 10% on Canadian energy, and a 10% additional tariff on
00:25:25.600China. This was done through an International Emergency Economic Powers Act because of the
00:25:31.460major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our citizens, including fentanyl. We need
00:25:39.160to protect Americans. And it is my duty as president to ensure the safety of all. I made a
00:25:43.740promise on my campaign to stop the flood of illegal aliens and drugs from pouring across our borders
00:25:49.300and Americans overwhelmingly voted in favor of it. Just a side note here, Kian, when I listen to the
00:25:56.040legacy media, when I turn on CBC or when I listen, when I read the newspaper, I barely hear anything
00:26:01.980about these issues. Like when the mainstream media look at Trump, they just think, you know,
00:26:07.420this is all about his imperial desire to rule over North America. This is manifest destiny.
00:26:13.400He wants Canada to be the 51st state, like tying it all back to Trump the man and Trump the, you
00:26:19.860know, MAGA the movement. And they don't talk about the thing that Trump has said that he cares the
00:26:24.240most about, which is stopping illegal aliens from crossing the border, stopping that flow
00:26:28.980and, of course, deadly fentanyl. Look, all you have to do is look at Sam Cooper. Sam Cooper is
00:26:34.640one of the best, if not the best investigative journalists in the country, and he has uncovered
00:26:38.640an unbelievable web of basically like Chinese mob, mafia in Canada, mostly in British Columbia,
00:26:48.220you know, tied into all kinds of money laundering. Canada is absolutely full of money laundering
00:26:53.820And to the point where our institutions like like the fact that we let other countries get away with this kind of stuff in our country.
00:27:01.260And yes, there are fentanyl labs and yes, they're being distributed like British Columbia has become the world headquarter in some ways of fentanyl.
00:27:09.100It's being distributed all over the world from Canada and we don't we don't have a handle on it.
00:27:14.980We can't stop it. And it's barely discussed. Trudeau hardly mentioned it.
00:27:18.900We do have a problem with illegal immigration. We do have a problem with fentanyl.
00:27:22.600We do have a problem with nefarious and adversarial regimes being able to operate in our country without any consequence.
00:27:31.660I mean, there was a foreign interference election study commission studied it for months and months and months.
00:27:39.020For two years, we heard about how there were traitors in our parliament and how they were going to come out with something strong.
00:27:43.760and then you know comes out with a whimper and nothing to see here and whoops no uh no
00:27:48.860interference just some naughty bit or just some you know uh unwitting uh behavior and and that's
00:27:55.220and that's it and we move on like like we're not actually addressing the major problems in our
00:27:59.440country our country is falling apart this isn't donald trump that is destroying our country our
00:28:03.580country has been destroyed by justin trudeau and i just you know seeing him come out and give that
00:28:09.580speech, like he just needs to go away. He needs to go away. He broke the country. He's not going
00:28:15.180to be the one to fix it. We need to move on. Kian, what do you think? It stems from a complete lack
00:28:22.060of focus and discipline from our federal government. You know, just today, the Liberals
00:28:29.160announced 41 million, let me look, 41 million, I think it was, dollars towards an initiative
00:28:38.460supporting advancing equality for the quote 2s lgbtqi community with that money they could have
00:28:47.760leased dozens of black hawk helicopters for a decade and patrolled the border crack down on
00:28:56.140drugs crack down on human trafficking but no this is what they thought that this was this was a press
00:29:02.240release from the liberals today i just i couldn't believe what i was saying we did a story on it
00:29:07.260because I was just in shock that they were just so out of touch with what Canadians need right
00:29:11.920now. We don't need to advance to SLGBTQI equality right now when our economy is about to unravel
00:29:19.500at the seams completely and totally. It's not just Trudeau, it's the entire liberal apparatus
00:29:28.860of government that is responsible for this disaster. I have to say it, as much as I hate
00:29:34.540Trudeau and think that he is, you know, very responsible for the situation we're in. It is
00:29:41.860the entire liberal bureaucracy that is out of touch, not in focus, and not focused on dealing
00:29:48.720with the issues that Canadians really, and North Americans at large, need support and answers for.
00:29:55.620Justin Trudeau, I tweeted this, it went kind of pretty widespread today, that Justin Trudeau and
00:30:01.180and Carney, all of the liberals, they want you to think that this is happening because Donald
00:30:06.760Trump is mean. But it's actually happening because the US and all of our other allies have been very
00:30:12.660clear about this, that they've lost confidence in us as a country. They don't see us as a peer
00:30:18.440anymore. They see us like Mexico. They see us like China. We're failing at the basics. And you can't
00:30:26.340partners with a country that is a danger to itself. Justin Trudeau said that we're this
00:30:31.820bastion of democracy, and we're super trustworthy on that front. But you said it perfectly.
00:30:37.580There's traitors in our parliament, and we're not strong enough to drag them out by their toes
00:30:45.060and string them up. It's really unfortunate that we are willing to sacrifice what it means to be
00:30:51.680Canadian at the altar of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals? Well, I think so many Canadians are done
00:30:56.900with it. And, you know, just looking at the polls, I mean, Trudeau is finished, and nobody wants him
00:31:03.300out there negotiating for us. He's doing a terrible job. He shouldn't even be there. And, you know,
00:31:09.460it's interesting to see the other candidates sort of jockeying position. Mark Carney put out his own
00:31:15.040video right around the same time as Justin Trudeau was speaking. And again, it's just
00:31:19.900electioneering, like the Liberals would so much rather run an election on dealing with Trump and
00:31:25.340who's going to be like the stronger anti-Trump voice, because that is harder for Pierre Polyev
00:31:30.300to manage, rather than it be a referendum on the last nine years, which have been an absolute
00:31:35.820disaster. Well, folks, thank you so much for joining us. We threw this live stream together
00:31:41.340quite quickly. You know, it's Saturday night, 9.30 my time, I put my kids to bed, and I was about to
00:31:47.260like crawl into bed and go to go to sleep and then i realized that all of this was happening
00:31:51.260i turned my computer like oh my goodness okay i need to get on a live stream so i appreciate
00:31:55.420uh everyone watching us kian uh always a pleasure for you uh to join the the channel and the network
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00:32:16.800Okay, so let's go back to some of the responses.
00:32:20.440So we had Doug Ford just come out like really blunt.
00:32:32.980I would much rather Doug Ford be out there than Justin Trudeau.
00:32:36.180And I say that as someone who has never voted for Doug Ford.
00:32:38.740and I'm not a big fan, but on this front, I think he's a better communicator, and I'd rather him be
00:32:44.480out there negotiating because he kind of speaks the same language as Trump and as many Americans.
00:32:49.040But he posted quite a somber message on X. He said, I'm extremely disappointed that Donald Trump
00:32:55.360has chosen to walk away from a trading relationship that for decades has made life better for millions
00:33:01.020of workers on both sides of the border. He goes on, he says, the coming days and weeks will be
00:33:06.420incredibly difficult. Trump's tariffs will devastate our economy. They'll put 450,000 jobs
00:33:12.740at risk across the province. This is Ontario. Every sector and region will feel the impact.
00:33:19.300He says, none of us want to be here, but Canada and Ontario have faced down this kind of challenge
00:33:24.020before. Each time we've emerged stronger, more united, more determined than ever. So he's also,
00:33:31.220you know he's he's running an election to recall folks that he's called an election in ontario so
00:33:36.660he's decided that he's gonna pull the plug early on his government and go for another four years
00:33:42.420um and he it's gonna win a huge majority because there isn't really an opposition to him okay let's
00:33:48.660go to pierre poly of pierre poly of um also posted quite a lengthy uh response here he says i'm gonna
00:33:57.140going to get your opinion after this, Kian, because I don't know about this response from
00:34:02.960Pierre Paliyev. I think he's playing it a little too safe, but here we go. I'll give it a read. He
00:34:07.000says, we must put Canada first. That is why common sense conservatives condemn President
00:34:12.340Trump's massive unjust and unjustified tariffs on Canada's already weak economy. Canada is the
00:34:18.720United States' closest neighbor, greatest ally, and best friend. We shared the world's longest
00:34:24.060undefended border and fought alongside Americans in two wars, Korea and Afghanistan, where 158 of
00:34:29.900our brave men and women died, helping the United States avenge 9-11. There is no justification
00:34:36.380whatsoever for this treatment. The Liberals must put aside their partisan interests and recall
00:34:40.620Parliament now to pass the Canada First Plan that will, one, retaliate with a dollar-for-dollar
00:34:46.140tariff carefully aimed at maximizing impact on American companies while minimizing impact
00:34:51.340on Canadian consumers. Good luck with that. Two, put all the tariff revenues into help for affected
00:34:57.260workers and businesses. Government should not keep a dime of the new revenue. Three, pass a massive
00:35:03.580emergency bring it home tax cut to bolster the economy, stop inflation, and save and create jobs.
00:35:10.220Four, immediately scrap the Liberal Anti-Resource Law Bill C-69, Greenlight LNG plans, pipelines,
00:35:16.700mines, factories, and port expansions. I'm definitely for that one. Number five, bring in
00:35:21.620truly free trade within Canada by knocking down interprovincial barriers. That's a no-brainer.
00:35:26.800Number six, rebuild our military and take back control of our borders to regain the confidence
00:35:31.220of our partners, assert our sovereignty, protect our people, and put Canada first. We will protect
00:35:36.860our economy, defend our sovereignty, bring home production and paychecks, and never back down.
00:35:41.280we'll put Canada first now and always. So to me, to me, it's a little bit like, like all the
00:35:47.420internal stuff is like, yeah, definitely. Like, like, why does Canada, Canada have so many trade
00:35:51.920barriers interprovincially? That's such nonsense. Yes, we need to have a better military. Yes,
00:35:57.040we need to build more pipelines. But Pierre is basically calling for the same thing that Trudeau
00:36:02.340just said, which is dollar for dollar retaliatory tariffs there. What do you think, Kian?
00:36:06.940it the difficulty here for Pierre is that he's listening I think a lot to the mainstream media
00:36:17.540and he's hearing them justify Trudeau's response and a team Canada response and you know the
00:36:26.100mainstream media is always happy to tax people more and that is what a tarot is it's a tax
00:36:31.700I appreciate that Pierre said that he doesn't want the Canadian government to keep a dime of it. That's going to be important that we watch and audit Justin Trudeau to make sure that he's not profiteering off this financially as well to cover up his deficit.
00:36:47.260it um i wish that pierre was a little bit more speaking you know i think that i think trump
00:36:56.580responds to strength and he responds to people who think like him uh you mentioned that about
00:37:03.000doug ford and i think pierre could learn a little bit about this this is not the time to to agree
00:37:09.200that justin trudeau is on the right path here i think that we've analyzed why he's not um these
00:37:15.600tariffs are going to hurt Canadians. They're taxes on Canadians. That's the problem here.
00:37:21.400And I don't think that that's the way to go. I think that there's anything but consensus on that
00:37:26.620outside of the Ottawa bubble. When Canadians go to get the orange juice that they trust and
00:37:33.140drink every day and give to their kids, and they can no longer afford it, you know, maybe,
00:37:38.300and here's the other thing, maybe if our economy was in a good position right now,
00:37:42.120we could stomach some tariffs, but we can't. The economy was already a dumpster fire before
00:37:48.300Justin Trudeau took this action, and agreeing with him that this is the right course of action
00:37:53.340is just going to hurt Canadians more, which is deeply, deeply unfortunate.
00:37:58.840Pauliette started off saying, yeah, we've got to put Canada first. Great. That's a sentiment I can
00:38:04.560get behind, especially when you consider the context. Trump's throwing these massive tariffs
00:38:09.100at us and what does polyeth think that we should do well a canada first plant he's been talking
00:38:14.940about that for a long time i like it um he's condemning these tariffs fine but because canada
00:38:23.340is america america's closest neighbor their greatest ally we can't forget that we are
00:38:30.460responsible for the situation that we have put ourselves in we have allowed the border to become
00:38:38.620this no man's land where where where drugs cartel members and thugs pour over without any care of uh
00:38:49.820or or or any concern that the rcmp or fbi are going to attack them i think it's a what what
00:38:55.740pierre should say is that this is a mutual problem and he should lay out the solution for it for when
00:39:01.820he takes power and worked with donald trump to solve the solution i mean pierre doesn't need
00:39:07.180to go uh go through this and explain why justin true should is rightfully tariffing canadians
00:39:14.140he needs to be explaining to donald trump why this is going to change when he takes power
00:39:19.020because i think that these tariffs you know if justin trudeau wants to keep escalating as donald
00:39:23.660trump has said to not do because the tariffs will increase it's a trade war and the only way this
00:39:29.660changes is with a change in leadership at the very top of our our government uh otherwise i think
00:39:35.580we're in for a hell of a ride for the next few months i couldn't agree more okay so we have bc
00:39:41.580premier uh david just when you think that justin trudeau is the biggest joke in the country um you
00:39:46.460know here you have a bc premier stepping up and say i i'm gonna do you uh justin trudeau you're
00:39:51.580gonna go one more so uh bc premier david ebbe declares that his first step in retaliate in
00:39:57.580retaliating against the Americans is to tariff British Columbia liquor stores the government
00:40:03.660liquor stores out west and telling them to stop buying liquor from red states so you can still
00:40:09.580get your California wine you can still get your whatever they produce in New York your IPAs but
00:40:17.900you can't get your Jack Daniels or your whiskey from Kentucky you can't you can't get red state
00:40:24.220alcohol. So we're now even zeroing in even harder on Donald Trump and supposedly the Republicans
00:40:31.340who voted him in. What a silly, silly thing to do. I'll read Daniel Smith's response as well.
00:40:39.660She says, I'm disappointed with U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to place tariffs on
00:40:43.900Canadian goods. This decision will harm Canadians and Americans like and strain the important
00:40:47.740relationship and alliance between our two nations. Alberta will do everything in its power to convince
00:40:52.300to the U.S. President and Congress, as well as the American people, to reverse this mutually
00:40:56.780destructive policy. We note that reduced 10% tariff for Canadian energy, which is partially
00:41:03.980a recognition of the advocacy undertaken by our government and industry to the U.S. administration,
00:41:08.540pointing out the substantial wealth created in the U.S. by American companies, tens of thousands
00:41:13.820of American workers, to upgrade and refine approximately $100 billion of Canadian crude
00:41:19.420into 300 billion of products sold over the world to the same company. So she goes on and on to talk
00:41:26.540about the benefits of the relationship and what she thinks Canada should be doing, including
00:41:33.420securing our borders against illegal immigration and drugs, moving both directions,
00:41:37.260achieving our nation's 2% of GDP NATO commitment by 2027. She sort of reluctantly says that she
00:41:43.740she will agree with the federal Canadian government. She says Alberta will work collaboratively
00:41:51.020with our federal government and fellow provinces on a proportionate response to the imposed
00:41:59.720U.S. tariffs through a strategic use of Canadian import tariffs on U.S. goods. So she's sort
00:42:05.400of not fully coming around to this idea. Remember, it was a few weeks ago that she refused to
00:42:10.660sign that joint statement by the premiers and Trudeau because she didn't want to jump ahead
00:42:15.500and say, yes, we're going to do retaliatory tariffs. Here she's saying that she will work
00:42:20.240collaboratively with them with the strategic use of it. So she's sort of reluctantly saying
00:42:24.680we're going to do it. But I think that the message from Danielle there was much more
00:42:28.220on the money. Like we have to continue negotiating. We're going to continue to make the case,
00:42:33.340right? Not getting up on your high horse and like explaining to the Americans how wrong they are,
00:42:39.080but say you know we're going to continue to do use diplomacy and make inroads and hopefully we
00:42:44.360can get past this like nobody wants an economic war here and uh yeah trudeau does he wants it
00:42:52.120he's thriving off of this yeah no you're right i mean seeing seeing him get up there and and give
00:42:58.760his speech you know i really do think that he's like already planning his comeback his political
00:43:03.720come back. And you mentioned Daniel Smith. I feel like she's the only adult in the room.
00:43:12.120She is Team Canada. She is the person that's put us in the only good thing that has come from this.
00:43:19.880Rewind a week, two weeks. It was a 25% tariff on Canada, full stop, all goods. We were wringing
00:43:28.440our hands horrified what that would do to the automotive industry uh every industry out east
00:43:36.360fishing and the energy industry that and then that's when daniel stands up and says okay i'm
00:43:40.840going to go down south i'm going to speak with the president and now here we are 10 that's 15
00:43:45.880percent now 10 is going to be disastrous for for western canadian select oil it's not going to be
00:43:51.240good um you can see it in our dollar already people are preparing to not be buying that oil
00:43:56.680it's bad for our forex it's going to be bad for our uh our the industries both upstream and
00:44:02.280downstream in the oil and gas industry but at the end of the day that 15 is going to save jobs
00:44:10.840there are an amount of jobs that now will not be lost thanks to the diplomacy that daniel smith
00:44:18.120has done diplomacy is a weird word to use with a premier of a province in canada it's almost
00:44:23.320unheard of in our system of government for a premier to be having diplomatic relationship
00:44:29.800with a foreign government let alone the president of the united states but she saw the gap she saw
00:44:37.240the bubble the leadership vacuum and she decided to take action so i think credit where credit is
00:44:43.400due for her you know naheed nancy the leader of the alberta ndp not to get too into alberta
00:44:50.040specific politics here he was angry at danielle smith he said that this was her fault mocha if
00:44:55.800you could bring up his twitter and show people what daniel uh what naheed and she was saying
00:45:00.600today she just tweeted it a few hours ago saying that this is her responsibility that because she
00:45:06.600went down south to speak with donald trump these tariffs are now happening it's completely out of
00:45:11.480touch with any political sensibilities any understanding of the diplomacy that danielle
00:45:17.080was doing premier smith was doing when she was down there i was down there with her i interviewed
00:45:21.480her i spoke with her and she sounded serious dead serious she was not happy to be there but she knew
00:45:27.400that she had to be there and that's um you know that's leadership at the end of the day absolutely
00:45:33.960i mean she's the only one that's doing it i i i sort of get strategically why pierre polyev doesn't
00:45:39.240get on a plane and go down to the inauguration and go down to mar-a-lago like that would be
00:45:43.960kind of, I guess, political suicide to like many of like the red Tories who live in Ontario. I
00:45:48.440don't know. I would like to see Pierre engaging because I think that he needs to show Canadians
00:45:55.560and show Trump. Look, this Trudeau government is on the way out. They are incredibly unpopular
00:46:01.080and they have all but destroyed Canada. Our economy is incredibly weak and they have weakened
00:46:05.560it. They have destroyed it with their carbon taxes, with their anti-energy policies, their
00:46:09.160inflationary spending, with their open border immigration. That's all going to end as soon
00:46:13.160as a conservative government comes in so why don't you wait you know give us a few months
00:46:18.520we're going to have an election we're going to get it done deal with me i'm going to be the
00:46:22.920prime minister like that's what pierre polyev needs to be doing he needs to be speaking to
00:46:26.840trump speaking his language making the case and you know i i when i see pierre come up with this
00:46:33.160kind of thing i think he's just being a little too cautious he's he's being a little bit too
00:46:37.160concern about you know the people in Toronto who read the Globe and Mail who you know are swing
00:46:43.160voters look at the end of the day I think Pierre Polyam is going to win the next election whether
00:46:48.200he wins a massive sweeping historic majority or whether he gets like a small like you know
00:46:55.160squeaks through sort of like the way that I mean I hope he doesn't get a minority government but
00:47:01.880you know i i think i think that at a certain point like pierre just needs to
00:47:06.200stop worrying about what the laurentian elites in toronto think and the people who read the global
00:47:11.800mail and people write for the gold mail and and just like go for what's best for the country like
00:47:17.080canada's in serious trouble and like i don't say this with glee i i like this isn't something that
00:47:23.000like brings me joy to say but like when i look at canada and what has happened over the past 10
00:47:27.960years and specifically what's happened here in the last two years like the country is not in a good
00:47:32.680shape economically culturally socially like there's so much division there's so much hate there's so
00:47:39.160much you know so many people that are just totally demoralized and like you do surveys and you see
00:47:45.560that 50 of young men want to move to the united states many do many go up and go and it's not
00:47:50.760because they hate canada i'm sure a lot of those guys have maple leafs tattooed you know on their
00:47:55.640chest it's like at the end of the day you go where there are opportunities and and you need to be
00:48:01.000able to support your family feed your family and you look around i mean i'm sorry like cost a
00:48:05.960million dollars to buy a crappy house in toronto like like there's nowhere to live in the city
00:48:11.080and it's overrun i mean like the the the the rent prices are insane um you we've done stories at
00:48:18.040true north about basements in like suburbs where there's like 20 guys living in one basement and
00:48:24.840they're each renting a bed for like 200 bucks a month like it's just absolutely out of control
00:48:29.800unbelievable it's not even touching um the crime the drugs the illegal immigration you know the
00:48:35.960terrorists the really really terrible people that should never be operating in our country
00:48:41.480uh the fact that there are all kinds of agents and like officials from adversarial countries
00:48:49.080like China, there's like operating in Canada completely without, you know, even notice,
00:48:54.760like, it's not even an issue that we talk about, but it's happening. There's just so many problems
00:48:59.320in Canada. And, you know, it's, I just don't think that now is the time to just say, okay,
00:49:04.920let's just get along and have this united team Canada approach. It's like, no, I want to see
00:49:09.960the conservatives break out and take an approach much more like what Danielle Smith's doing. She's,
00:49:16.680she's she's not coming across as extreme in any way by the way she's she's completely on track
00:49:22.200she's completely rational every time she speaks it just it makes sense i think danielle smith is
00:49:27.160really having a moment i think i see a lot of people in the chat like they're like let's like
00:49:31.480she should be prime minister let's let's let's like danielle smith she really is showing um
00:49:36.360you know she's thriving in this circumstance and it's it's nice to see it's it's definitely not
00:49:42.520time for politics as usual um danielle has premier smith has read the room and she knows that she
00:49:48.760understands that i hope that pierre does as well and my guess is that the calculus that's going
00:49:54.920through his head is that he sees that donald trump is going to be unpopular with canadians
00:50:02.600and even his base because the mainstream media and justin trudeau are going to be effective
00:50:08.920at dodging the blood trudeau will be effective at dodging the blame personally and the mainstream
00:50:13.640media will help him do that by point they've always hated donald trump they've always loved
00:50:18.200trudeau we we know how this story goes we've seen this movie before um and pierre is weighing his
00:50:25.240head well do i go down and talk with donald trump and do i take some of the blame for this potentially
00:50:30.840politically personally for him if it doesn't get solved the answer is yeah maybe but the problem is
00:50:37.480that we have allowed the mainstream media to define the narrative here already i mean not you
00:50:42.840and i we're obviously trying to share the the news and the stories that the mainstream media tries to
00:50:48.840keep hidden and the angles that they want to bury under the rug but canada has allowed the mainstream
00:50:55.800media to shape opinion on this before it happened they had a month of lead up time they knew trump
00:51:01.560was coming into office they knew these tariffs were coming they knew justin trudeau was weak
00:51:05.480and they set this up hook line and sinker for justin trudeau to run away with and pierre
00:51:11.400unfortunately i think has been a little bit caught off guard with this preparation that
00:51:15.960they've all put together and executed pretty flawlessly to make themselves look like the
00:51:20.920heroes that's why i'm glad that we have platforms like this like youtube and x and our our websites
00:51:27.080the counter signal and true north so that people can actually get the news that they need an answer
00:51:32.760too. I'm getting a, but I'll try to swipe away from that. People need to hear the story that the
00:51:43.580mainstream media wants to keep covered, which is why I'm glad that we have these platforms. And
00:51:47.900as you mentioned earlier, likes and subscriptions help a long way to help the algorithm go and share
00:51:54.400this news with moderate Canadians who might be duped by people like Justin Trudeau and Rosemary
00:51:59.720Barton into thinking that this really is Trump's fault when it was brought on by the Canadian
00:52:04.520administration. Absolutely. I mean, Justin Trudeau is to blame. He's the one in the country,
00:52:10.440and he, I mean, he just, he has to go. He has to go. So, Mercedes Stevenson, who's a reporter
00:52:18.600over at Global, is saying that senior government sources say that the White House has warned
00:52:24.280Prime Minister's office, Justin Trudeau, that if Canada implements retaliatory tariffs,
00:52:29.560the US will hit Canada even harder. So, you know, we saw this just last week with Colombia, right?
00:52:36.520Like, Colombia, apparently in the middle of the night, decided that they weren't going to take
00:52:40.680a couple planes full of illegal criminals who have illegally been in the United States,
00:52:46.600who are being deported. They were supposed to go back to Colombia, the Colombian president said,
00:52:50.920no, we're not going to take them. And Trump, apparently from a golf course, like texting
00:52:55.400in between holes, put out this order saying, we're going to slap you with 25% tariffs. We're
00:53:00.520revoking all the visas for you and all your family members, a bunch of other measures.
00:53:04.200And if this doesn't stop, we're going to double that tariff to 50%. Trump means business. This
00:53:09.880is like F around and find out, right? And I think Justin Trudeau continues to F around. He continues
00:53:16.040to kind of poke the poke the bear and say okay um like do you dare me to uh we'll do it and you do
00:53:23.160it like playing this game of chicken as if we are two equals like as if our tariffs are going
00:53:29.080to hurt them as much as their chairs hurt us i mean maybe if we were equal size with equal
00:53:33.880populations and equal economies that might make a little bit more sense but it's just not the
00:53:38.280reality like canada is so wholly dependent on the united states for our for our entire economy like
00:53:45.400we need them we need them and so playing these kind of games especially when at this point i
00:53:50.520get that he was elected he was elected three times but he is not a legitimate prime minister right
00:53:55.160now he resigned he he has no business being propped up the way the jagmeet singh has been
00:53:59.880propping him up i cannot believe that they allowed him to pro parliament like to just press pause
00:54:05.720on our democracy this might be like the most consequential moment in this century for canada
00:54:13.160like i i can't even think of a time that would be more important for our politicians to be in
00:54:18.840ottawa at work and to be just debating and discussing a reaction like to see our parliament
00:54:26.200in work to have like canadians had the ability to observe what's happening and to have some
00:54:32.280accountability from the opposition to the government but we can't because trudeau pulled
00:54:36.920the plug on parliament he prorogued like it's unbelievable to me that these guys aren't even
00:54:42.760going to work like they're not even parliamentarians aren't even carrying out their business
00:54:47.480in parliament because justin trudeau wants to step aside so that mark carney can become the first uh
00:54:55.720world economic forum unelected prime minister it doesn't give you confidence it just feels
00:55:01.800like the system is absolutely broken we need massive reforms we need massive change we have
00:55:07.480basically an unelected prime minister right now who's appointing to an unelected body the senator
00:55:13.640the senate 10 senators that are going to be filled at some point before truder leaves and it's all
00:55:19.000being held up by a governor general who has no accountability to the people like what what kind
00:55:24.280of system is this no wonder our country is absolutely failing when this is the way that
00:55:28.520our institutions are set up they're set up to stop the people from having a say at a time when
00:55:35.080canadians have a lot to say and it's just absolutely uh unbelievable unbearable i think i
00:55:41.880don't know uh i'm not one of those people who thinks that canada should join the united states
00:55:46.280or become the 51st state but i i totally understand uh why many many people would
00:55:51.480yeah you know you said you said that this is going to do damage and you're right on a scale
00:56:00.500of 10 to 1 our con every every ounce of pain we hope to extract against the the american
00:56:07.260government uh well every ounce that trudeau hopes to extract is going to hurt us 10 times more than
00:56:15.440it would ever hurt them there's simple concessions we can make here uh and they should have been
00:56:20.860made a month ago. He told Israel, he said, get this done, get the hostages back, get a ceasefire
00:56:30.840finished before I get into office or else there will be hell to pay. And guess what? They reached
00:56:36.500a deal that nobody thought they could. He gave Justin Trudeau the same warning, fix the border,
00:56:43.820fix the crime fix the drugs and he ignored him he knew that this would happen and he wanted to be
00:56:51.740in front of that podium tonight he wants to keep people waiting because he wants his moment to
00:56:56.340repair his legacy rewind just four months ago before trump won his election trudeau's polling
00:57:02.540was worse than it had ever been and now he sees an opportunity to save his legacy and he's doing
00:57:09.680that on the backs of Canadians. It's pathetic. You should never have let it happen. And the
00:57:15.820only way this changes, and I'm saying this to Jagmeet Singh now, the only way this changes
00:57:21.840is if he follows through with his word and brings the government down at the earliest
00:57:28.180possible moment. If he doesn't, it will be the biggest betrayal in Canadian history.
00:57:35.560well we just we we need to recall parliament we need to have parliamentarians at work and
00:57:43.880jagmeet singh said that he was going to pull the plug as soon as that happens so um yeah you know
00:57:51.400it's just it's it's it's unbelievable that these people are the ones that hold the balance of power
00:57:55.800kian and i mean tuesday's going to be a rough day for the loony in the economy um but at this point
00:58:04.360you know we don't have parliament justin trudeau was asked during his q a if he would bring back
00:58:07.800parliament and he didn't really answer so uh no surprise there uh wouldn't be surprised at all
00:58:13.080if jagmeet singh continues to prop up this government because he's been doing it for the
00:58:16.360last two years inexplicably um and uh it's just a rough rough time for our country well folks
00:58:23.720really appreciate you uh joining us here on a saturday evening 10 p.m uh here in the eastern
00:58:30.200time zone and eight o'clock for you out in Alberta, Kian. I appreciate you jumping on the live stream.
00:58:35.900We're going to be back on Monday morning with my show, The Candace Malcolm Show, and we will have
00:58:40.560more analysis and provide all of the latest news and details. So folks, we're going to wrap it up,
00:58:46.120but appreciate you joining us this evening. Appreciate all your support. Check out Kian
00:58:52.960Bextie's The Counter Signal. And Kian, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me.