The Globe and Mail reports that Canada will be dropping the need to be fully vaccinated for entry into the country on September 30th, and the government is also going to make all vaccinations on arrival on planes and trains optional. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau sings a solo in the lobby of the Carinthia Hotel in London.
00:01:21.520but if you're tuning in if you've had a loved one that lives in another country that hasn't
00:01:25.540been able to come here for two years they will be able to barring any other changes on September 30th
00:01:31.300so I want to read the actual announcement in the actual order this is coming from a Globe and Mail
00:01:37.380story that's been leaked by a couple of quote-unquote unnamed government sources I believe
00:01:42.880the story there's been little drips and drabs of something like this happening but I want to
00:01:47.820actually read it before I say what's going on because we know that the government has said
00:01:52.660that it's working to a quote-unquote evolved definition of fully vaccinated. We know they're
00:01:58.720talking about having up-to-date vaccination where having two doses of Pfizer or Moderna doesn't
00:02:04.240actually mean all that much but we also know they're seeing Canadians grow more and more wary
00:02:09.440and I'd say grow more and more weary too. The Canadians are weary and wary right now. We're
00:02:14.980we're all the wearies of, not Aaron Wary at CBC, we're not turning into him, but we're weary of
00:02:20.240the restrictions. We're wary of government making them. And I think government realizes this, that
00:02:24.720it no longer has the legitimacy to impose all of these different restrictions and mandates on
00:02:30.020people. So September 30th, I'm getting this from the Globe and Mail. I also have heard other
00:02:34.400whispers of this, and we'll have some updates as well as the show goes on. So to the producers
00:02:40.320working behind the scenes, if you see anything on this, shoot me a note before the show ends.
00:02:44.980What I wanted to talk about originally, which now I guess seems relatively inconsequential, but still, I try to give the people what they want, is the descent of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into what we can only effectively call Jukebox Justin.
00:03:00.700If you haven't seen the clip right now, where the heck have you been? But here it is just for posterity. Here is our Prime Minister in the lobby of the Carinthia Hotel in London.
00:03:14.980so that was theoretically bohemian rhapsody again he didn't even try for the really high note which
00:03:33.580is unfortunate i i feel if you're going to do bohemian rhapsody you owe it to yourself
00:03:38.100you owe it to queen and you owe it to the people watching to go up instead of going down but
00:03:43.520Justin Trudeau decided to play it safe because, you know, apparently there is still some there is still some semblance of shame and self-awareness that when he is in the United Kingdom for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral, which is a rather somber affair for a member of the Commonwealth and for all of the other leaders of government and heads of state there.
00:04:03.840And he decides, you know what, what the world really needs right now to break through the sadness of Her Late Majesty's passing is an unsolicited vocal solo by the Prime Minister of Canada in a London hotel lobby.
00:04:19.500Now, we have to talk about the baby steps towards progress here.
00:04:23.140We have to talk about the little victories.
00:04:36.560He wasn't throwing himself down the Corinthians grand lobby staircase,
00:04:41.360which is his go-to party trick, as we've learned for much of his adult and adolescent life.
00:04:46.220No, he was just singing, just singing.
00:04:48.700So you may say, well, it's not a huge deal.
00:04:51.060That's been the Canadian media's response to it.
00:04:53.280But what's interesting is that when you look at how other people around the world see it,
00:04:57.240They actually are embarrassed by this.
00:04:59.480They think that Jukebox Justin has, in fact, embarrassed Canada on the world stage once again.
00:05:06.380This was just to give one example here, a clip from Jesse Waters' show on Fox News.
00:05:13.820Justin Trudeau decided the best way to honor the Queen's legacy would be to fly to London, wear a T-shirt, get drunk at a British pub, and do karaoke.
00:08:52.800he's doing this like Scaramouche, Scaramouche. Yeah. And look, I find that it's not about joyless
00:08:58.640pearl clutching. It's not about saying, oh, the prime minister is not supposed to have a
00:09:01.860sense of humor. He's not supposed to let loose. But when Stephen Harper decided to bust out and
00:09:07.000sing and play the piano, it was always at an appropriate point. It was at an appropriate
00:09:13.380point. And that's the difference here between what's happening in the Justin Trudeau context.
00:09:19.380And by the way, let's just take a look at the reception he's getting, because I remember when he was getting heckled and booed and jeered during the federal election campaign, he blamed it on the unvaccinated.
00:09:31.480He blamed it on the far right and he blamed it on people sowing discontent and discord and all of that.
00:09:37.180But this is what happens when Justin Trudeau is walking around in England, a foreign country.
00:09:49.380now i have a lot of family in the united kingdom i've spent a lot of time in the united kingdom
00:10:12.400if you haven't that's okay boo is not a britishism for we love you justin keep up the good work
00:10:19.000You may think it is. You may think the boo is just British for we love you, vote liberal, build back better.
00:10:24.880But believe it or not, in England, boo means the same as it means here, which is we do not like you.
00:10:31.700Now, do I believe that people should be jeering in front of a world leader in their own country when they're there for a state visit to pay respects to the sovereign?
00:10:41.520No, I don't believe that we should politicize that.
00:10:43.980But I also feel that if he is politicizing it first, if he shoots first on the politicization
00:10:50.500game, they have a right to say, you know what, we're going to give you a bit of a heckle
00:10:54.680when you're walking from point A to point B.
00:10:56.800So the aspect of this that is far more unique than Justin Trudeau just doing this is the
00:11:03.080media response to it or the media non-response.
00:11:05.900And at first, this was only circulating on social media.
00:14:28.140We're going to look into that and get Maxime Bernier back on the show any moment now.
00:14:32.160But I do want to just discuss in general the context here because we had a poll that came
00:14:36.920out earlier today and it was from Nanos.
00:14:40.640And I want to just get the numbers accurate here because in this poll, we saw that the
00:14:44.900Conservative Party of Canada had 31% support.
00:14:49.040Now, this is with a sample size of 1,000, and it is a poll that had a, again, a sample size of 1,000.
00:14:58.640It was conducted over September 9th to September 16th, and this is, I think, an important window
00:15:03.440because this is when people knew that Pierre Polyev was going to be the Conservative leader.
00:15:07.960And 31% said yes, they would vote Conservative if the election were held today.
00:15:12.70028% said they would vote for the Liberals.
00:15:15.740So we're still talking about within the margin of error here, but it means that all of like the really evil, scary, fear mongering of the Conservatives hasn't necessarily translated to polling.
00:15:45.020All right. Good to talk to you, Maxime. So I was just talking earlier about this poll that came out from Nanos today showing the Conservatives at 31%, PPC at 3%. It's one poll. You never want to extrapolate too much. But what do you think is the strength or health right now of the PPC?
00:16:02.700Well, it's a big difference between us and the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:16:06.880I believe that, you know, there's a lot of difference between us and the Conservative.
00:17:19.660And now Polyev will want to have more support.
00:17:23.420And I believe that they will do some compromise with their ideas, but also he's not speaking about something that is very important for Western Canadians and the alienation from Western Canadians.
00:17:36.280They are fed up with the federal government that is not respecting the Constitution and, you know, doesn't do anything to build pipelines.
00:17:46.100And also, Polyeb didn't speak about the equalization formula. That is very important for all Canadians.
00:17:52.660we must be less generous, we must change the formula. So we have a lot of policies that are
00:17:57.300very different than the Conservatives. I can add climate change. Pierre won't impose a carbon tax,
00:18:03.380I understand that, but he will have to impose more regulations. For us, we won't sign the Paris
00:18:10.180Accord, we will withdraw from that Paris Accord. So there's a lot of distinction and we'll see what
00:22:55.980That being said, if it's the immigration, we are the only party that is speaking for saying no to mass immigration, for sustainable immigration.
00:23:05.020Polyev and Trudeau and Jack Mead are on the same wagon on that.
00:23:18.720But we have strong policy, and that can be the future of our country.
00:23:22.360As you know, right now in Alberta, there's an independence party in Alberta, 32% of Albertans want to separate. And we are the only national party that is addressing that, saying we need to have a radical decentralization. We need to give more autonomy to provinces. We are speaking about that.
00:23:42.820So I don't know what will be the main issue at the next election, but we will be there.
00:23:47.900We have the same platform, and that will be the same one.
00:23:50.900And I don't know what will be the platform of the Conservative Party of Canada, because
00:23:54.780like I said before, they will do polling and focus group before the election, and after
00:23:59.820that, they will do some compromise, try to have more votes in Ontario and Quebec.
00:24:05.180As you know, there's more seat in the GDA than in all Alberta.
00:25:01.660Yes, the Reform Party of Canada did merge with the,
00:25:04.900at the end it was the Progressive Conservative Party,
00:25:09.360but in between the Canadian Alliance as you know but what is the legacy of
00:25:14.520Stephen Harper we had 10 years and I was part of that of a conservative government
00:25:19.920what is his legacy I can name only ending the with board that's it and so you
00:25:27.060know we won't do that mistake we will always fight for what we believe we
00:25:30.900cannot trust the conservative party of Canada we don't dare conservative when
00:25:35.540they are in the leadership contest and after that we don't know with O'Toole
00:25:40.100we knew he went he went all the way to the left
00:25:43.820Polyev would do that maybe a little bit later so it's not my responsibility to
00:25:49.340help elected conservative candidates my responsibility is to help our
00:25:54.540candidates or PPC candidates to be elected so answering your question we
00:25:59.980won't merge because what happened in the past you know we are the new reform
00:26:04.760party 90 of our platform it's based on the old blue book the reform party so we won't do any
00:26:12.180compromise with our ideas and we won't do the mistake that president manning did one thing that
00:26:18.820i would ask you about the pbc and i know that you have a lot of things in your platform that touch
00:26:23.200on a number of issues from indigenous issues to ending supply management and so on but i last time
00:26:29.840I mean, overwhelmingly, when I went to your rallies and I covered you on an Alberta tour and when I interviewed you, the biggest topic was vaccine mandates and vaccine passports.
00:26:39.420And this was an issue that no one else in Canadian politics was speaking up on.
00:26:44.100It was only the PPC. And I commend you for that, Maxime.
00:26:47.200If those issues are not live issues in the next election, how do you get people who might have only been introduced to the PPC because of that to stick around?
00:26:57.300I think the ending the mandate, it's not, you know, we still have to work on that.
00:27:03.940Actually, tomorrow I'll be in the court in Ottawa with Brian Pettford. We are fighting for our
00:27:09.860rights to freely travel across this country against the vaccine mandates that Trudeau imposed
00:27:15.700to us on unvaccinated Canadians. And it's important to do that fight in the court,
00:27:20.660because we want to have a legal precedent. And like that, it would be impossible for
00:27:25.220any government to impose these kind of mandates on canadians so we are doing that fight also in
00:27:31.060the court but yes you're right maybe at the next election it won't be coven 19 and i hope it won't
00:27:36.900but that being said there's a big difference with us you know climate change now we are living in a
00:27:42.180climate hysteria everywhere we are the only party that is saying no and we will withdraw from the
00:27:47.540paris accord immigration it's another big challenge mass immigration at the roxham road in quebec
00:27:54.340people are staying crossing our border illegally we are the only party that is speaking against
00:28:00.340mass immigration for sustainable immigration a maximum of 150 000 a year with the big majority
00:28:07.220of them being skilled immigrants the conservative won't speak about that because it's not popular
00:28:12.900like polyev didn't speak against the mandate because it was not popular in 2020 polyev is an
00:28:18.660opportunist politician and he's speaking about things when they're popular for him the most
00:28:24.100important it's not to be on the right side of the current issue is to be on the popular side and
00:28:30.980that's what the that's why i said the conservative party is intellectually morally corrupt they don't
00:28:36.580fight for real conservative values and we are doing that and that's why and i'm very pleased
00:28:42.180right now that polyam is speaking against the mandate it's a sign that the freedom fighters
00:28:47.460that are truckers that ourselves and all the freedom fighters across the country
00:28:52.580won the battle because yes we were a french minority in the beginning in 2020 and after
00:28:58.900two years now we are part of the majority so for polyette he can speak about it and he's doing that
00:29:05.380so i don't know what will be the issue next time but the bbc will be there always to fight
00:29:11.300for a smaller government that will respect our rights and respect the autonomy of every province
00:29:18.220Just before I let you go, Maxime, I wanted to ask you about this little victory you had in Saskatchewan this week.
00:29:23.600Now, oftentimes it's hard to affect change directly when you're not in Parliament.
00:29:27.920But you and one of your lieutenants in Western Canada, Kelly Lawrence, had posted this on Twitter.
00:29:35.400And it did very well that the Saskatchewan Public Health Line, I think it's like 511 or 811 or something, had on its main menu, you know, press one if you want to speak to a nurse, press two.
00:29:45.360number five was if you want help with assisted death you press five and this is the number that
00:29:50.680people were dialing if they had a mental health crisis as well and in your advocacy on this they've
00:29:56.540actually removed this now yeah i'm very pleased with that it took them a couple of weeks but the
00:30:02.780common sense has prevailed and that's important they were promoting assistance suicide and when
00:30:09.380they're doing that actively the federal the provincial government was doing that actively
00:30:14.640When you know that in our healthcare jurisdiction right now and healthcare system, it's not working well.
00:30:23.540We have wait time for surgeries and long waiting lists.
00:30:27.520So that being said, when you're promoting that, and the goal of that number 811 is for you to have the medical assistance,
00:30:36.400not to have somebody that will tell you, hey, if you want to die, by the way, we can help you.
00:31:37.700And again, I'm sorry about the technical issues we encountered there, but glad we moved beyond those.
00:31:43.560Maybe it's like C11 in action already where you bring a PPC leader on and it just like the line goes dead.
00:31:49.280So not that like Justin Trudeau is standing with the scissors, but at the Ethernet cable.
00:31:53.880But in any event, we have also, by the way, I should say in the interest of fairness here, we cover the broader conservative with a small C movement in this country.
00:32:02.220We've asked Pierre Polyev to come on the program now that he is conservative leader, and the spot is available to him should he decide to take us up on it.
00:32:10.200We're very glad that Maxime Bernier did, and it's good to talk to him.
00:32:14.940So I just want to, before we wrap things up here, talk about this very small—actually, it's not a small issue, and I'm sure we'll delve into this later in the week on Fake News Friday, Harrison Faulkner and I.
00:32:26.700But CBC ran a story yesterday. It's a slippery slope, how young men fall into online radicalization.
00:32:35.260Now, when I saw this, I'm like, oh, it's going to be another one of these like evil far right sort of things.
00:32:40.120And that's exactly what it was. But they took it and went like so bizarrely with it here.
00:32:46.820And if you read the story, it centers around this one guy who's 21, a man by the name of Reed Brown, who's like a reformed right wing radical, I guess.