Juno News - How low can Trudeau go？

00:00:00.000 yeah see i thought i am very scottish and then i wondered how scottish i was and maybe it's english

00:00:05.120 and it turns out i'm like very distantly related to alfred the great and then a whole bunch of

00:00:09.520 people said oh billions of people are doing that so i don't know if it's even true so we'll have

00:00:14.400 to see is it really like that not to like discredit your heritage or anything but is it really that

00:00:21.440 like oppressive to be related to like a distant king or whatever like it's like a quarter of the

00:00:26.160 world's population related to genghis khan or something like that so that's why i've only

00:00:32.320 talked about it with my dear friends like you right now on the internet so and not spread it around

00:00:38.160 all joking aside going back into your ancestry is pretty crazy so uh that was pretty cool but

00:00:44.000 the thing i wanted to mention at the bottom of the show if we have time is the fact that now uh

00:00:48.400 canadian taxpayers own vacant land in senegal but i don't know if that makes us like an emperor or

00:00:53.920 something it's pretty good we own vacant land in senegal but no canadians can afford to own land

00:00:59.440 in canada uh wonderful well according to the liberals isn't that like neo-colonialism or

00:01:05.440 something like that i don't think like we're not i don't think we're supposed to do that according to

00:01:09.200 them i think we have a clip of trudeau okay since we're already getting into the show we should

00:01:12.640 probably start the show let's get this thing started

00:01:14.720 hi my name is chris simms i'm the alberta director for the canadian taxpayers federation

00:01:25.760 i'm sitting in here for true north on off the record with my dear friends isaac and noah uh

00:01:30.800 gentlemen we have a lot to get to and for our viewers and listeners uh a warning we have a lot

00:01:37.440 trudeau clips i actually hear from people who say i need a warning so this is your warning and they're

00:01:42.320 really good clips you have to listen to them uh gentlemen where do we want to start do we start

00:01:47.040 want to start with dei or do we want to start with him getting big mad about the carbon tax bumper

00:01:51.760 stickers i'll start with carbon tax yeah yeah all right so just to set this up uh prime minister

00:01:58.080 justin trudeau uh gave a speech at the halifax chamber of commerce out there on the east coast

00:02:03.840 um it was quick the speech i listened to all like 52 minutes of him from monday night and then he did

00:02:10.080 a sit down where he talked about a lot of stuff especially the carbon tax and he went over again

00:02:17.280 this canard that you can magically give the government money in the form of a carbon tax and

00:02:22.080 they will magically give you more back than you paid in at no cost to you which is not true and then he

00:02:27.280 seemed to get like really upset like ranty even about bumper stickers and the state of politics so

00:02:34.640 without further ado uh let's listen first to prime minister justin trudeau explaining in his view uh

00:02:42.800 the carbon tax to all of us we're not having real conversations around politics now we're having

00:02:49.680 you know seven second tick tock videos we're having a bumper sticker or a flag that's waving when i'm around

00:02:57.840 that's political discourse and debate of course it's easy to say tax is bad

00:03:11.040 sorry i don't know why i sounded like frankenstein when i was doing that but okay fire bad um but

00:03:18.640 having conversations about how we actually solve the challenges we're facing in this world

00:03:24.320 in thoughtful ways how we reduce our emissions and support hard-working families that's a more

00:03:33.360 complex answer than my opponents actually want you to have quite out there i will point out that the

00:03:42.080 tee-up question for this was something like so um your party really tanked in the provincial election

00:03:48.480 and it was largely because of the carbon tax and people really rejected it what do you think about that

00:03:53.280 and his answer was this big long-winded rant paraphrasing here but how people aren't smart

00:03:59.200 enough to grasp the genius of his carbon tax policy which is a really bad idea to tell voters uh

00:04:06.720 gentleman what did you guys think of this when he he did this sit down yeah i mean trudeau's response

00:04:13.200 we've seen from so many members of the liberal caucus which was not a response at all you ask them a

00:04:18.960 question and they just start talking about some random virtue signaling thing that might might not

00:04:23.440 even be related quite frankly and yeah i mean i don't know why the liberals keep repeating their

00:04:30.400 eight out of ten canadians are better due to the carbon tax lie that the pbo has repeatedly disproven

00:04:37.760 and as we talked about uh before the show chris i was mentioning uh let's say the cost is a few

00:04:42.880 hundred dollars per family in canada based on the pbo reports i mean we all know it's much higher

00:04:48.560 than that because these reports don't go into the trickle down effect of the production line because

00:04:53.520 when you tax gas or diesel and something you buy has 10 different lines of transportation that it's

00:05:00.880 taxed on of course you're going to pay more the fact that any canadian could believe they get more back

00:05:07.520 into the carbon tax is ridiculous and uh canadians obviously aren't buying the lie based on all the

00:05:13.760 polls and data we've seen yeah and to add on to your point isaac i mean the parliamentary budget

00:05:19.360 officers found that you know when accounting for the fiscal and economic impacts uh canadians lose

00:05:25.040 over a thousand dollars a year uh from the carbon tax that's probably higher because the parliamentary

00:05:29.520 budget officer generally you know makes these reports you know very modest modestly and very

00:05:34.880 cautiously and they're not exactly trying to account for every little thing uh that could be

00:05:40.320 causing uh households to have a net loss when it comes to the carbon tax and this is especially

00:05:46.400 affecting uh people in alberta because albertans are on average paying about two thousand three

00:05:52.800 hundred dollars uh net uh in net cost of the carbon tax and it's a lot higher than uh other parts

00:05:59.600 of the country it seems that if you know true about prime ministers with the last name trudeau

00:06:03.360 just have a knack for you know getting after albertans and you know making their lives a little

00:06:08.720 harder so um i think you know canadians the when when you tell them that um that it's raining

00:06:15.280 uh but you know yeah he really is just a guy you know how do you just you know pissing on you it's 0.52

00:06:21.120 people are gonna get sick out of it um like you can't continually gaslight canadians for nine years

00:06:28.400 and they feel the effects of your policies and then tell them you know be grateful for our you

00:06:33.600 know rebates you know while we are actually uh just like robbing you blind and you know causing a net

00:06:39.520 negative impact to the economy so careful on gaslighting because that's natural gas and there's

00:06:44.880 a carbon tax on natural gas so i'm not sure how much trudeau's came to gaslight us on with the carbon

00:06:50.240 tax on natural gas um as far as the numbers go here uh for alberta just to give you an idea like

00:06:56.560 for across the country the the mandatory minimum carbon tax the first carbon tax because we have

00:07:02.000 several on diesel is 21 cents per liter so if you do that math really and you fill up a big rig truck

00:07:10.320 for example that's about 200 extra just in the carbon tax not including administration cost not

00:07:16.880 including dst and the truckers finally came out and said so i think it's costing them two billion

00:07:22.160 dollars this year b that's just the first carbon tax um also keep in mind for home heating right now i

00:07:29.280 don't know about you guys but it's pretty frosty out here in lethbridge everything is coated in ice

00:07:34.080 and frost and most of us use natural gas for home heating here in alberta and the average average

00:07:40.800 alberta household will pay about 400 extra just this winter just in the carbon tax so it is a huge

00:07:48.880 expense for people and this is something i wanted to get into because the prime minister clearly does

00:07:55.440 not understand what it is to pay a bill i mean let's be honest here he's never had to worry about

00:08:00.720 his bill and in his entire life he was born wealthy he was raised largely at 24 sussex in a taxpayer funded

00:08:08.320 mansion and he has staff to do stuff for him now it's okay to be wealthy we want people to achieve and

00:08:14.800 work hard but what really gets frustrating for people is when he's the prime minister and he

00:08:20.000 keeps lecturing the rest of us about how important his carbon tax is and how we should be prioritizing

00:08:26.640 that over feeding our kids and paying rent and he said that again during this chit chat he also said

00:08:34.320 it for the first time on stage a couple of weeks ago in brazil which was just bonkers it went crazy on

00:08:39.760 mine but i wanted to pull up one of his other greatest hits that he dug up during this chat and

00:08:45.360 that's where he says something to the effect of he said this a few weeks ago you know what isaac and

00:08:51.120 noah the only people who are truly feeling the cost of the carbon tax are people with mansions with

00:08:56.560 indoor swimming pools and a bunch of personal cars he doubled down on that but get this now it's up to

00:09:04.320 three mansions listen to this if everyone gets here in nova scotia about 824 a year from the canada

00:09:11.680 carbon rebate that's the average price now if you have three big mansions with an indoor swimming pool

00:09:19.040 that 824 a year isn't going to cover that price on pollution you're choosing to pollute more than

00:09:25.120 we're giving you back for but if you're a middle class family and if you're living in rural areas we give

00:09:30.800 a 20 top up because we know you have to drive further to go to school to drop your school or work

00:09:36.000 we're giving you that money back

00:09:40.160 so again he keeps pushing this and to your point noah uh with the latest parliamentary budget

00:09:46.560 officer report because of course they've gone back and forth and they fought over what the real

00:09:49.840 numbers are even in the most conservative possible read of it when you go take a look at the overall

00:09:56.880 impact of the carbon tax the average alberta family even on paper is still out 400 this year

00:10:04.800 and it's only going to go up as they continue to increase the carbon tax so even his own data

00:10:10.240 defies this which is of course you know a violation of common sense um i i don't know about you guys uh but

00:10:16.320 i did not grow up with an indoor swimming pool and no judgment did either of you guys grow up with an

00:10:21.200 indoor swimming heated swimming pool i don't know my roof has a hole in it so yeah take your guesses

00:10:28.720 so no my roof has a hole in it too so of this my roof is intact thank goodness but of the people on

00:10:35.680 this call and in this chat um we've played a clip from a guy twice who grew up with an indoor swimming

00:10:42.240 pool at 24 sussex just saying in fact it was installed when his dad was prime minister so we know for

00:10:50.640 faxies that he grew up at least partially with an indoor heated swimming pool so speaking of not

00:10:57.600 getting it um i didn't watch this clip because it wasn't in pertaining to like balance budgets or

00:11:03.040 carbon tax or something but apparently he said something along the lines of he was really sad that

00:11:08.560 kamala harris didn't win the presidency who wants to take this one away 1.00

00:11:12.320 uh well i can uh so basically uh basically uh justin trudeau he has been trying to i guess uh

00:11:24.160 ease tensions uh between canada and the united states uh specifically because donald trump

00:11:29.120 recently said that he would be imposing a 25 tariff on canada and mexico as so long as they

00:11:35.360 as we uh do not meet certain conditions ever pertaining to border security and drug smuggling

00:11:41.760 so you know while we're in this the middle of this you know tense negotiation trudeau gets up on stage

00:11:47.600 in all of his hubris and progressive aura and basically says that you know i kind of wish that

00:11:54.240 kamala harris won the election and you know her losing the election is uh quote uh women's progress 0.99

00:12:00.800 under attack um i think we have a clip for this so we should uh hear it from the donkey's mouth

00:12:07.520 himself now it shouldn't be that way it wasn't supposed to be that way we were supposed to be on

00:12:14.080 a steady if difficult sometimes march towards progress and yet just a few weeks ago the united states

00:12:23.360 voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president everywhere women's rights

00:12:31.280 and women's progress is under attack overtly and subtly but i want you to know that i am

00:12:38.000 and always will be a proud feminist you will always have an ally in me and in my government 0.99

00:12:46.800 i i mean absolutely ridiculous especially considering what he did to jody wilson raybald and

00:12:52.800 jane philpot but uh like i just i just i don't want to go on too much of a tangent but when he talks

00:12:59.200 about the sort of march of progress or whatever he says uh that's a very sort of like left-wing view

00:13:05.920 of the world that you know we have to get rid of old traditional mores and we have to get rid of the 1.00

00:13:11.680 the values that canada was founded on and our civilization was founded on and instead replace

00:13:17.200 it with these new progressive uh values and we've basically been dealing with that for the past nine

00:13:22.400 years and look at what it's gotten us you know we basically got rid of the old values of you know

00:13:28.000 moderate immigration and you know he wrapped it up and look at what look what's happened you know he's

00:13:32.080 got rid of uh rid of the idea that we're supposed to be canadians first and foremost and have pride and

00:13:37.920 love for our country and instead you know went toward this post-national view of the country and look

00:13:42.720 what's happening in our streets when we have uh people marching uh for foreign terrorist groups

00:13:48.880 in montreal and in toronto it's absolutely uh ridiculous this is the sort of world view that

00:13:54.880 justin trudeau um that justin trudeau's world view gets us to so uh what did you guys uh make of justin

00:14:01.360 trudeau saying that kamla harrison's defeat is uh you know an attack on women and their progress and their

00:14:07.760 rights yeah so my first takeaway from what trudeau said there is he is essentially saying dei should

00:14:17.040 supersede democracy this from the leader of canada the prime minister of canada a democratic democratic

00:14:23.920 nation i mean the fact that anyone could possibly agree with those words being uttered by our leader

00:14:31.520 is is is shocking i mean in what world should world leaders be chosen on dei uh attributes not

00:14:40.720 because they're brilliant economically savvy uh smart i mean the list goes on of adjectives you could use

00:14:45.920 by the way none of which i believe kamala harris was so there's the good example and we saw we saw how

00:14:51.920 decisive of an election it was in the united states they clearly voted against dei initiatives so trudeau's

00:14:58.480 kind of on the other side of the coin and and i mean i think in the near future here we're going to see

00:15:04.720 at least the western world completely shun dei so uh trudeau can continue down this path but i don't

00:15:11.520 know that that will get him much support so as a woman uh i find it really insulting and demeaning for 0.98

00:15:20.640 him to try to speak for me uh i think that's gross uh as someone who values lower taxes and balanced

00:15:27.680 budgets um has he met premier danielle smith she's the premier of alberta and as of right now and it

00:15:37.200 better stay that way keeping an eye on you uh the budget is balanced here in alberta uh we are saving

00:15:43.760 money in the heritage fund uh we have a taxpayer protection act that they have beefed up so that

00:15:49.440 if they wanted to increase any personal taxes uh that are already existing we'd have to have a referendum

00:15:54.880 to do it like there are a lot of awesome things here happening fiscally in alberta and the premier

00:16:03.600 happens to be a woman so this should be based on numbers and results and merit and performance

00:16:11.680 uh he might have cracked open a history book uh i think his father probably met the late margaret

00:16:17.360 factor she was just prime minister of you know the united kingdom for more than a decade so it's it's

00:16:24.400 weird to have just saying as a woman who's been in the political arena now for like 25 years 0.83

00:16:30.240 it's weird to have the prime ministers making this about men and women rather than number one that's

00:16:36.400 another country and they had a democratic election and that's their choice two you got to go into

00:16:42.800 negotiations with this dude now that you just finished saying out loud with your face wish

00:16:48.000 hadn't won that's not going to go super awesome for you and three it's weird to have him overlooking

00:16:56.160 really competent political leaders who happen to be women here in canada for the purpose of his own

00:17:01.920 narrative so that can get that can get squishy there um did we want to go to gst who wants to take the fun

00:17:08.800 with the gst right the gst poll yeah the gst poll so for folks who don't remember um we've got a

00:17:17.360 temporary reprieve of gst on some items you find in the grocery store and other stuff like you know

00:17:22.960 kids clothes and diapers which frankly shouldn't have gst anyway and it's going to last for a couple

00:17:26.960 of months and then there's also a february if i'm correct everybody's supposed to get who's working

00:17:33.040 supposed to get about 250 bucks each so but there's a poll now out on it

00:17:37.120 yeah and this poll went into both the gst hst holiday and the 250 check highlighting that

00:17:44.880 essentially canadians are not buying what the liberals are selling so yeah this was a survey

00:17:51.200 from the um angus reed institute uh and it asked canadians about as i mentioned both the 250 one-time

00:17:57.920 check and the gst hst cuts which by the way both policies will cost more than 6.2 billion dollars

00:18:05.760 this with what what's our debt at now chris 1.25 trillion just over that yep yeah uh so

00:18:13.840 the interesting thing about this poll was it really went into the data and it showed that

00:18:18.720 over a quarter of the poll respondents said they weren't even eligible for the check

00:18:23.280 uh even more almost 40 said it would have absolutely no impact on their household while only just over 30

00:18:30.240 said it would help a little but get this only five percent of canadians said it would help a lot

00:18:35.440 so that's not really doing anything for them and then going into the gst hst exemptions this over

00:18:42.080 half 55 said that it'll do nothing to help their household and then over a third 38 said it would

00:18:49.280 help a little but again only seven percent said it would help a lot uh and yeah the poll got into all

00:18:55.440 the income groups and age groups and of course the parties as well which as you would uh expect

00:19:02.640 the conservatives were the most likely to say that this that these policies were quote entirely

00:19:07.200 political with 82 of those who intend to vote conservatives saying that uh compared to when

00:19:14.640 you look at all parties it was 55 overall who said that it was entirely political

00:19:18.800 hmm that is rough actually yeah i mean there's so much data i could go into it all but basically all

00:19:25.840 you guys need to know is that canadians aren't buying either of the policies uh yeah what do you

00:19:30.640 think about that go ahead noah well yeah i think that it's entirely political and canadians know that

00:19:39.120 and they that they don't want to feel bought off i mean this is the type of stuff that happens in

00:19:44.000 10 part you know democracy even like latin america or like africa or somewhere you know

00:19:49.040 before an election they're just handing out you know a couple hundred bucks to people like okay now

00:19:53.360 go vote for us you know that's exactly what trudeau wants to do especially since there was speculation

00:19:59.120 that the liberals might want to try and call for a spring election or at least maneuver i think the

00:20:04.160 parliament so that an election does occur uh in the spring right just uh before after the um checks get

00:20:11.200 mailed out to canadians so uh and you see this in other promises too like english colombia and

00:20:17.040 in ontario and come back this part of the reason but but the thing is this stuff does not work in

00:20:23.360 quebec francois legault i think mailed out 500 checks to people i think during the pandemic and

00:20:27.840 just after the pandemic and his approval rating is at the lowest it's ever been i think his personal

00:20:33.360 approval ratings at like 26 his parties at like 21 in the polls uh doug ford is immune to all

00:20:41.200 political hits and you know so ontario is just weird like that uh in bc you've seen a big backlash

00:20:48.160 against the eb government with the bc conservatives coming within a an inch of forming government

00:20:53.520 and trudeau is you know sticking to these terrible tactics terrible policies trying to buy canadians off

00:21:00.240 people don't want to feel like it feels grimy you know like you know getting paid off to you know

00:21:05.680 vote for a politician like people don't want to feel like that so they're it's actually going to

00:21:10.720 probably cause a backlash and cause more people to move away from the lower party which i think is

00:21:15.520 absolutely hilarious yeah speaking of that noah let me just get into that data quickly which i

00:21:20.560 forgot to mention this is very very key is that it actually is causing a backlash so get this less

00:21:26.960 than two percent of the respondents this excluding those that already intend to vote liberal said that

00:21:31.920 these policies would make it quote much more likely that they would vote for the liberals in

00:21:35.920 the future elections whereas three percent said they would make it quote more likely 55 said it would

00:21:42.560 make no difference but get this this is where it gets interesting so eight percent of respondents

00:21:47.280 said that these policies would make it quote less likely for them to vote liberals in the future

00:21:51.760 whereas 28 28 said that it would make it quote much less likely that they would vote liberals in the future

00:21:59.040 due to these policies so what what do you i mean this is this is these are insane numbers what do

00:22:04.160 you think about the backlash we're seeing from from these policies i mean clearly they are panning out

00:22:09.360 terribly yeah people don't want to be bought off and you know like 250 dollars it's marginal

00:22:16.160 you know the carbon tax it's it's it's rinsing canes for thousands of dollars uh every year instead

00:22:21.200 of you know mailing out these checks if you're like oh here you go after we've robbed you blind i'm

00:22:25.760 gonna give you so it's like that meme where the guy hands out a ten dollar bill from like a wallet

00:22:31.040 where he has a hundred bucks and the guy just takes the wall instead of the ten dollar bill so you're

00:22:34.560 left with you know a little instead of giving the guy what you actually wanted like this is like that

00:22:38.960 meme in real life you know they're gonna rinse you blot uh rinse you with thousands for a thousand

00:22:43.680 dollars with the carbon tax they're gonna rinse you with increases in in the in taxes elsewhere

00:22:48.720 and the capital gains tax the economic activity is gonna go down wage and wage growth is gonna be

00:22:54.000 stunted like oh here's 250 bucks like people know that this is absolutely ridiculous and it's gonna

00:22:58.960 hurt the true uh true liberals politically as it should to me it's a big indicator that 28 that's a

00:23:07.360 big number um to me this just indicates people are angry like really angry and no matter what this

00:23:16.000 government does sounds like it's just gonna keep on getting angrier um it's one of those situations

00:23:22.400 where it's almost like an interpersonal fight where our line has been crossed and you're completely

00:23:28.160 done with that person it's like no no no no matter what you say it is going to make me matter so they

00:23:33.440 come back with some roses you know it doesn't really like no exactly you know take your chocolates and

00:23:38.880 i'll chuck them over the fence right so it seems like we're getting to that boiling point now and again

00:23:44.640 to be fair um this happens in government uh people were super mad at the brian mulroney government and

00:23:51.680 that is why the pcs were reduced to two seats so to me um that was a conservative government kind of

00:23:58.800 and to me this is feeling like that again where people are just completely done and they're at the

00:24:05.520 moment of let's vote the bums out um i will also point out that even the so-called sausage making isn't 0.67

00:24:12.480 working very well right now uh in ottawa so quite often it's important to kind of pull back the

00:24:18.240 curtain like in the wizard of oz and see what's going on behind the curtain and apparently for

00:24:24.160 example the uh the premier of new brunswick who's a newly elected liberal party premier of new brunswick

00:24:31.760 was barely consulted about this temporary gst pause so much so that especially in atlantic canada they

00:24:39.520 have an hst so meaning their provincial sales tax which we do not have here in alberta thank you very

00:24:45.360 much um their provincial sales tax is enmeshed with the federal one and apparently she had like

00:24:52.640 a 36 hour heads up and oh by the way this is going to blow this big of a hole in your provincial budget

00:24:58.800 in the revenue column now again i'm all for a tax cut that's a really good thing i'm talking about the

00:25:04.160 fact that there was nearly no consultation even with your closest players and a birdie was telling

00:25:10.400 me because i still have a lot of friends in ottawa bless them um that apparently even the bureaucrats

00:25:16.160 so those in the department the unelected part of the final financial department they still have some

00:25:21.520 adults working in there believe it or not we're tearing their hair out at this saying what you're

00:25:26.320 doing what you haven't talked to whom like so this was a seat of your pants quick grasp to try to fix

00:25:33.520 stuff and again if you're giving me 250 bucks back of my own money i'm going to take it because that

00:25:38.800 goes a ways towards your energy bill it can buy a few groceries that is a good thing but the fact that

00:25:44.480 they could even screw up a tax cut it's ridiculous like like like even good ideas and i don't think

00:25:52.160 it's a good idea but even like good ideas implemented poorly it's just going to be bad policy that's not

00:25:58.000 going to help anyone you know i i but this is like a policy that was written on the back of a napkin

00:26:03.520 and then handed over to christopher freeland's like implement this now you know like i sort of imagine

00:26:08.480 like there was a cabinet immediately meeting you know trudeau's hearing from the cabinet ministers

00:26:12.880 didn't like what you want to or what they were saying so you know brings melanie jolene to the

00:26:17.120 back room yeah they each have a scotch with one another and then they can see with this uh plan you

00:26:22.080 know uh like and then they're like okay guys this is what we're doing and freeland's like what all the

00:26:27.520 bureaucrats are like you can't do this and like no we're doing it so you know like it's just a bad

00:26:32.480 idea you know tax relief it's great do it properly though and they're absolutely not doing that and you

00:26:39.520 know they obviously didn't give the bureaucrats enough time to be able to implement this properly

00:26:43.920 which is bad governance it's the opposite of good government reminds me of lining up to take a quick

00:26:49.120 sprint like a good race and just forgetting to tie up your shoes and you just rip and fall on your

00:26:54.160 teeth so this is kind of what this is happening uh do we want to get on to our last story here the fun

00:27:00.080 one about global affairs spending millions of dollars to own stuff around the world who wanted

00:27:05.600 to take that one away i i i thought i could if you wanted to i did but uh this was based of course on

00:27:15.120 the ctfs write-up which you you had done chris so but if you want me to do it sure if that's fine

00:27:20.160 uh so you did a really good write-up on it so i think you should get the cred so thank you thank

00:27:25.040 you chris yeah of course the ctf through some access to information documents revealed that

00:27:30.560 taxpayers were funding the tab for a federal department's real estate portfolio which was

00:27:35.360 costing 186 million dollars over the last decade this was from global affairs canada who owns more than

00:27:42.720 400 properties in over 70 countries and no people these aren't uh standard properties for example

00:27:50.800 one of the expenses 12.5 million dollars for vacant land in senegal i mean what are we talking about

00:27:57.920 who pays 12.5 million dollars for vacant land except maybe in vancouver

00:28:04.720 maybe we're gonna build another disneyland there i hope not all the people in vancouver right now is

00:28:10.080 like this goddamn isaac you know he's making fun of our profits that's true my favorite part of that 0.81

00:28:16.960 and i say favorite because folks who are watching this that are like really struggling i know we have

00:28:21.520 to stay happy warriors if we don't laugh we will cry about this also it's really important to laugh

00:28:27.520 at this government because they hate it like they take themselves super seriously like they think they're

00:28:32.400 landed dukes the prime minister of canada is paid more than four hundred thousand dollars per year

00:28:37.600 taxpayer funded and lives in a mansion with staff so it's important for us as jesters to poke and laugh

00:28:43.440 at the king super important so my favorite part of this was the fact that taxpayers are on the tip

00:28:49.120 tab for 41 million dollars for properties that we own in afghanistan now before you get started

00:28:56.800 on the whole operation medusa and all that stuff no no no folks they bought this in late 2018 2019

00:29:04.320 well into the early indications that uh we'll be leaving soon guys so i think this happened after

00:29:11.840 then u.s president donald trump was having meetings with the taliban saying yeah knock it off and we're

00:29:17.120 leaving so pretty much everybody in the western world as far as i could tell by then knew we were

00:29:22.160 leaving but nope here comes canada foreign affairs canada we're going to spend 41 million dollars on

00:29:27.280 property and by the way that's now obviously being totally controlled by the taliban we can't we have no

00:29:32.160 way of even checking on it but boneheaded the decision to buy this i mean like you couldn't rent

00:29:38.160 it uh like you know why do you have to own the piece of land and like furthermore i've got you like

00:29:44.720 you guys invaded afghanistan just take it you don't have to buy the land you know like like i don't take 0.55

00:29:50.880 it it's right there you know you're like whatever what are we doing here like it's absolutely ridiculous

00:29:57.040 that yeah global affairs like it's just wasting taxpayers money like like uh like have unlimited

00:30:02.640 amounts of cash like 10.2 million dollars on a chancery in ukraine i don't even know what a

00:30:08.400 chancery is i have to look that up um you know like vacant land in senegal i mean come on guys we

00:30:15.280 we can do a little bit better have some more care for the taxpayer and the value of their dollar

00:30:20.960 a chancery is kind of a super special embassy with an official residence correct

00:30:27.200 like why do we need that though like like settle it like like the ukrainians need like shelter for

00:30:32.960 the bombs that's dropping you know like let them let them have it don't i don't know it seems

00:30:38.240 ridiculous to me it's also an awful lot of money again on the new york uh embassy as well with the

00:30:43.520 official residence there the point of this is is that quite often when we'll yell about the fact that

00:30:49.360 the budget is horribly imbalanced as of right now technically on paper the deficit is about 40 billion

00:30:56.000 dollars in the red to give you an idea of what kind of money that is that would build you 38 brand

00:31:02.480 new really awesome hospitals that's just the deficit and we don't have the fall economic statement yet

00:31:08.800 but apparently all the rumors are is that it's going to be even a bigger deficit so whenever we

00:31:13.760 yell at them and say could you clowns try to balance the budget they say something like oh what

00:31:20.160 do you want to cut first food to orphans or health care for grandma um no how about you not spend 41

00:31:27.200 million dollars on property in afghanistan that is now being controlled by the taliban just to start

00:31:33.840 chris just wanted to get your thoughts on something because i see your defund the cbc

00:31:37.360 sticker in the back there and obviously the canadian taxpayers federation previously highlighted that

00:31:41.680 the cbc's real estate portfolio was worth over 444 million dollars across 12 properties i mean

00:31:48.640 what yep these properties are over 30 million dollars each what are they buying so the two

00:31:55.440 big ones again i don't care i'm going to pick on vancouver all i want because i was raised just

00:31:59.520 outside of vancouver it used to be a really fun place to work and live it is not fun anymore because

00:32:03.920 it's outrageously expensive they own a ginormous piece of property right on the waterfront in vancouver

00:32:10.640 is where the cbc headquarters is is there in in bc so it's right downtown um i actually think it was

00:32:17.360 right around the corner frighteningly enough from like a shooting that happened there just like a

00:32:22.160 few days ago so that was pretty freaky so that's now bleeding into like downtown fancy vancouver so

00:32:27.760 they own a big property there in downtown fancy vancouver right near the water and also the big one of

00:32:33.440 course is in toronto that gigantic building that they have there like that the building is so big

00:32:42.000 um that when you walk in they used to have like three story tall pictures of gian gomeshi

00:32:48.640 who used to be of course the host of q um that like in superhuman size and they even had two i don't 0.70

00:32:55.360 know if they still have them they had these little droids that used to develop deliver your mail so your

00:33:01.360 inter-office like mail if you're mailing something from you know one floor to another floor they had

00:33:06.560 bots that did that before bots were even a thing like this thing is huge so yeah this is what you're

00:33:12.320 paying for with the cbc that's why we took them to the cleaners there at the committee the heritage

00:33:18.480 committee and said you guys are costing us this year 1.4 billion dollars you're getting microscopic

00:33:25.120 ratings and it's wrong for journalists to be paid by the government and we just think those are

00:33:30.320 inassailable but you're right a big chunk of that cost is the holdings of real estate that the

00:33:36.080 state broadcaster is hanging on to thank you for reminding me i'm mad all again now

00:33:42.080 all right folks that was really fun uh any other uh parting shots that you would like to take

00:33:49.120 well i just gotta say that if you are a global affairs canada bureaucrat uh like don't spend like

00:33:56.640 you like you have elon musk's wallet you know like you don't it's not a limited amount of money

00:34:02.240 you can't you know spend billion dollars more on stuff but just because you want to buy it like

00:34:07.200 you know must have for twitter just like spend like you know you're a college student trying to

00:34:13.200 make ends meet and the taxpayers will thank you for it but right now you're gonna have the canadian

00:34:18.320 taxpayers federation on your back because you guys are doing a good job thank you well i wish musk

00:34:24.800 would come up here when he's finished cleaning it up in the states because we definitely need our own

00:34:28.720 department of government efficiency but until then remember everything is off the record

00:34:41.040 speaking of musk we never did get into him so i'll just reference that quickly because for those

00:34:45.120 who don't know he mentioned trudeau on twitter and musk said quote he's such an insufferable tool we

00:34:52.320 won't be in power for much longer so yeah oh there it is perfect isn't musk a canadian citizen i think

00:34:58.480 he has like eight citizenships but i think he's partly canadian i would like him to come up here

00:35:03.440 uh if for nothing else to uh try to cut some government spending so thank you for that

Juno News - December 13, 2024

How low can Trudeau go？

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