00:07:37.540It's going to make the governor's job harder to bring down those interest rates.
00:07:43.380rates. And what we need to do today is do the exact opposite.
00:07:47.220A common sense, conservative government under Pierre Polyev would balance the
00:07:51.500budget to bring down inflation, to bring down those interest rates.
00:07:55.500Because today, after eight years of Justin Trudeau, Canada is most at risk
00:08:00.020in the G7 for a mortgage default crisis.
00:08:03.060So we need to help to save people's homes.
00:08:05.180Number two, we need to ax the tax, get rid of this carbon tax altogether.
00:08:09.580That's what a common sense, conservative government would do to bring down the cost.
00:08:13.380gas groceries and home heating and we need to get more homes built in this country and our common
00:08:18.260sense conservative leader put forward a bill inside a parliament literally called build more
00:08:23.620homes not more bureaucracy act now when you mention balancing the budget i know the conservatives
00:08:29.940previously campaigned i think it was the 2019 election on a law that would effectively force
00:08:34.900the government to balance the budget now you've seen the numbers now you've seen the books you've
00:08:39.620seen the size of the deficit how many years do you think it would take to bring the budget to
00:08:44.420balance because i'm not sure without some very aggressive cuts that you know even a conservative
00:08:49.700government right now could eliminate this deficit to zero and have produced a balanced budget this
00:08:54.660year although i i would love to be proven wrong if you've got an alternative there look i don't
00:08:59.780know if anyone can really know what this the the real picture looks like until we form government
00:09:05.780Because even the public budgeting officer, the Liberal's own public watchdog, the finance watchdog, has said that whatever is being projected or whatever he's seen, it's still not the full picture because there's a lot more that they're not adding in.
00:09:19.700But I will tell you what the Conservatives will do to get started. Right now, this Liberal NDP government is covering its incompetence up by hiring $22 billion a year on Liberal connected insider consultants.
00:09:35.780These are the kind of wasteful spending that's made, that's fueled inflation and actually made Canadians' lives even worse because services has not gotten better at all.
00:09:45.120These are the kind of things that we would do.
00:09:46.900And like I said, here's some free advice for the Liberals.
00:09:50.740And you don't need to pay me or any consultant for this advice.
00:09:54.420If you ask the tax today, it would put a massive dent in inflation.
00:10:00.620That's what the governor of the Bank of Canada confirmed.
00:10:02.500It would take off 0.6, which means in today's date, it would bring us back down to the range for the governor of the Bank of Canada to start bringing down interest rates.
00:10:12.820That's some free advice for the government, what they could do today.
00:10:16.020And not only that, we could help people's paychecks, Canadians' paychecks be stronger because they could keep more in their pocket that way.
00:10:23.320And the cost of food, gas and home heating, and that's wintertime now, would all come down.
00:10:29.640These are the kind of things that the government needs to be doing.
00:10:32.100But under a parapoly of government, these things will get done.
00:10:35.520I know when we're talking about a budget that is involving spending in the billions,
00:10:39.820it may not be the hugest amount, but we did see in the fellow economic update,
00:10:43.040the Liberals want to put, I think it was $126 million more into bankrolling the media.
00:10:49.700Now, I take it that's not, given what your leader has said previously,
00:10:53.360that's not a priority for the Conservatives here?
00:18:22.600I think on one hand, it's easy to say it's a bit of a win,
00:18:25.180but it hasn't changed the precariousness,
00:18:27.320which is that you have a government declaring war on plastic.
00:18:31.260And I think, for starters, it's based on a very false premise.
00:18:34.780The plastics that are ending up in turtles' noses in Asia and Africa
00:18:39.120are not coming from Canada and the United States,
00:18:41.560which have very good waste management systems.
00:18:45.460But it's companies in Canada that pay the price for these things.
00:18:48.680So what has the impact been of this ban in the first place on Canadian industry?
00:18:53.840And it's definitely companies pay, but companies also pass the increased costs on to consumers.
00:18:58.440Let's face it, people at a time when an awful lot of small hospitality businesses, for example, restaurants, hotels and so on, are already are still struggling to get out of their pandemic, you know, depression.
00:19:12.500uh that this increased cost because they had to replace all this stuff the alternatives are
00:19:18.480invariably more expensive and they're often worse for the environment that was that was one of the
00:19:24.240classic uh elements of it that was utterly ridiculous but uh it just it's just another
00:19:31.380hit on business the other thing and and anybody that knows anything about plastics knew this from
00:19:36.420the get-go they outlawed things like straws as you say and apparently that one picture of the
00:19:42.040one turtle, and I love turtles. So, you know, I would sympathize with the turtle. But that one
00:19:47.200picture of the poor turtle precipitated a ban on the entire, and the straws, the paper straws that
00:19:54.920replaced it were found to have toxic materials in them. I mean, I shouldn't be laughing. It's
00:19:59.360utterly ludicrous. But this is almost comedic if it weren't so serious. We have thousands of jobs
00:20:06.100in the plastics industry in Canada. The things they banned were mere virtue signaling. They're
00:20:11.820not the worst sources of plastic waste, for example, water bottles are. And I guess if we
00:20:17.180were all using paper box water bottle thingies or whatever, then we should be worrying about that.
00:20:25.480But I think they thought they'd get too much blowback from consumers. But frankly, I think
00:20:29.360water bottles are ridiculous to use at all because they're unnecessary. We have good water in this
00:20:34.380country. But anyway, the things that they banned were virtue signaling. They weren't realistic at
00:20:40.560all, calling them toxic. And this, of course, is where the judge's decision came in. And they had
00:20:46.120the bad luck of getting a judge that actually had some science background. She had a master's degree
00:20:51.260in biology. So she actually knew some of this stuff a lot better than seemingly Minister Guiveau
00:20:56.980did. So it was merely a virtue signaling exercise that hurt business at a bad time, not that it's
00:21:04.120ever a good time, but hurt consumers naturally, drove up prices, therefore fed inflation yet again,
00:22:03.440And in the automobile industry, for example,
00:22:06.880Having plastic parts, body, you know, auto body and so on means they're lighter and therefore more fuel efficient.
00:22:12.880Well, and a couple of years ago, we were just trumpeting the innovation of 3D printers.
00:22:17.620And now, you know, it's, oh, well, plastics are terrible.
00:22:20.060No one should do anything with plastic.
00:22:21.800And you mentioned earlier, and I had alluded to this, and I don't have the numbers handy,
00:22:26.300but there was a massive study a few years back on plastic in the ocean.
00:22:31.520And it was literally the entirety of it was from Africa and Asia.
00:22:36.460I think it was like eight rivers in Asia that contributed to almost all of it, and then two rivers in Africa.
00:22:42.300And a lot of it is discarded fishing gear.
00:22:44.160It's not even trash that's thrown in the water.
00:22:46.840But similar to with emissions, emissions and plastics are the same thing.
00:22:51.360We get virtue signaling Western politicians that force Canadians in our context to pay for problems that, if they are problems, are being caused by the Chinas and the Indias of the world.
00:25:30.480Although it's quite hilarious when they saw that it was costing them gobs of votes in a liberal rich vote area of the country, Atlantic Canada.
00:25:38.800They suddenly, all their principles went out the window and they gave them a break on heating oil.
00:25:44.700So let's face it, the hypocrisy is overwhelming, but it's doing real damage.
00:25:51.800And no, I don't think they even understand or care how many businesses and jobs and whatnot are being driven out of the country.
00:25:57.800We've seen by a number of recent studies, we've seen that our GDP per capita, which is which is a source of it's a very good indicator of standard living.
00:26:06.540It's been dropping precipitously. We've always been lower than the U.S., but now we're over 30 percent lower than the U.S.
00:26:13.900And it continues to decline. That kind of indicator is not good for Canadians.
00:26:18.900And if we want to enjoy the kind of lifestyle we, you know, we've gotten accustomed to, something's got to change fast.
00:26:25.580And if business can't compete in Canada and we've got government growing like crazy and that's not something that adds to our productivity at all, quite the contrary, it's a drag on productivity, then we've got a lot of problems to deal with.
00:26:37.100I mentioned earlier that even with the federal court decision last week striking down the plastic span we have a federal government that's going to appeal it we have a federal government that is probably going to try to put some modified version in place and then we go back to square one and we have to restart the court process so I'm not convinced it's a win and I don't want to take that away from it but I'm not convinced
00:26:59.100it puts businesses that are concerned about this or people that are concerned about this in the
00:27:03.340clear. So there still is this precariousness. And I wanted to ask about that because it's one thing
00:27:07.920for a company or a corporation to say, we're leaving Canada because X, Y, Z, whatever those
00:27:13.640things are. It's another thing for a company to say, we just have no idea what the future is
00:27:18.600going to hold and it's safer to go elsewhere. And I think that must be happening as well.
00:27:23.980Oh, very much so. You can see how bad investment, non-residential investment, because we know our housing market's out of control price-wise, but non-residential investment, which is a source, again, of wealth that promotes our standard of living, that's been declining for years under the Trudeau government.
00:27:40.980And a lot of it is uncertainty. There's a lot of uncertainties in the world of business, no matter what. We don't need the government to add more and more and more. And yet that's what they've done.
00:27:50.160And the Supreme Court, as you may recall, just about a month ago, struck down the Bill C-69, the so-called No More Pipelines Bill, and that had introduced all kinds of uncertainty for large projects in Canada.
00:28:03.260Yeah, and that was, again, one where you've had a couple of major projects that have just said, you know, it's not worth it.
00:28:09.240And then it was particularly bad when you had Trudeau on this side of the border and Biden on the other side of the border.
00:28:14.380And, you know, the long, long, long anticipated Keystone project just became dead on arrival.
00:28:19.440So, obviously, you've had the opportunity to speak to a number of political leaders.
00:28:24.620I know Premier Danielle Smith in Alberta and Pierre Paulyev, the Conservative leader.
00:28:29.600I mean, are you optimistic that if, I mean, in Alberta's case, where she's in government or at the national level,
00:28:35.720where Paulyev wants to form government, that they can turn this around?
00:28:38.940Or are the problems too great right now for a government to really solve in a four-year term?
00:28:45.280Well, they're going to be hamstrung by our debt, for sure.
00:29:59.260I mean, it is a live show, so we don't normally do breaking news.
00:30:02.240But I just want to make sure I know what's going on before I share anything on that.
00:30:06.820But I do want to talk about some of the anti-Semitic incidents that we've been seeing across this country.
00:30:12.660I shared yesterday a clip of what looked like a young boy making a call for violence against Jews and Israelis, leading a crowd in a chant of intifada, revolution, resistance, from the river to the sea, all of these catchphrases.
00:30:27.720And the thing about it is that these ideas will get cheered on.
00:30:32.760They're not controversial now in Canada.
00:30:35.560Anti-Semitism, Jew hatred, these are all too common things.
00:30:40.120And I don't think this has just been created in the last few days. I think in the last few weeks, rather, I think it's been awakened. I think people have become very, they felt like they do not need to hide or conceal these views and values, which is even more concerning about it.
00:30:57.120Now, I don't know what's happening here. This incident is apparently at the US-Canada Rainbow Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls, a vehicle explosion that the FBI are investigating. The bridge is closed. We'll try to keep an eye on details there. And again, I never like saying what something is in the first 24 hours because it almost always becomes something else. But we are keeping an eye on that.
00:31:23.280But one of the things when you look at it, I mean, certainly we have university and college campuses, which are hotbeds of anti-Semitism and Jew hatred.
00:31:31.340And it's a lot of these, you know, white, decolonial, post-colonial study lefties that try to take their very distorted worldview and put it on to these situations in the world.
00:31:42.520But you also have to look at immigration.
00:31:44.200And I was glad that Barbara Kay, who's a tremendous columnist with the National Post, put this in context so well.
00:33:09.960I don't remember, but I know about it.
00:33:13.100Anyways, it was, you know, nationalist sentiment was running very high,
00:33:16.600And particularly, and as always, when nationalism is high, fears about the French language declining are high.
00:33:24.040So the government quite understandably decided that they did need immigration.
00:33:30.420But why not? Why not choose immigrants that are already fluent in French rather than bringing in non-French speaking and spending years, you know, bringing them up to speed?
00:33:41.360So the government started looking, kind of throwing open their doors and making it very easy for immigrants who were who were French speaking to come here.
00:33:52.140And that made it very logical to look for a look at former French colonies.
00:33:57.840So a lot of people came from, you know, Vietnam and Haiti.
00:34:02.900Those immigrants didn't have a problem with Jews.
00:34:05.680But the French colonies that were the source of a lot of immigration from North Africa and the Middle East did and do.
00:34:14.180So we had a lot of immigration from Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Jewish immigrants also from Morocco, especially Tunisia.
00:34:28.320uh so it it some of them really uh you know look most of these immigrants it has to be said again
00:34:36.760and again and i say it because i mean it most of these immigrants do not present a problem most of
00:34:41.800them just want a good life they're peaceful they're apolitical but if even one percent of many
00:34:47.260many many many thousands of people are activists and do harbor uh certain hatreds and want to see
00:34:55.220those hatreds expressed in action that that's not good because it doesn't take very many to make
00:35:00.980trouble uh so you know we have seen several really bad actors in quebec and uh many people of my age
00:35:09.060certainly remember or not even my age um ahmed rasam the millennial bomber who uh made he set up
00:35:17.220in montreal montreal is an ideal place if you're into that business because it's very close to the
00:35:22.180us it has a good international airport um and it's uh you can melt into the crowd very easily
00:35:29.700uh so i once asked a former thesis director uh we haven't had we haven't had incidents of
00:35:34.660terrorism in montreal he said no why why would they it's an ideal place to operate from so what
00:35:41.540you've got are a lot of a lot of uh islamist activists in montreal uh directing funding
00:35:49.620for other groups, helping to plan operations elsewhere, and radicalizing youth very successfully
00:35:58.340in their mosques and via internet forums. So as a result, we've seen a certain amount of sense,
00:36:07.140and certainly right now there are demonstrations every single week, and some of them
00:36:11.380have been, you know, we've had bullet holes in Jewish schools. We've had Jewish-owned businesses
00:36:21.100vandalized. We've had a hit list of, well, I don't know if it's a hit list, but a list of Jewish-owned
00:36:27.740enterprises circulating. One restaurant in my vicinity, which has a very big Jewish clientele,
00:36:35.560has had a demonstration every single week right outside its windows unfortunately the police would
00:36:42.660not even put a perimeter and very hostile he's lost a lot of you know a lot of money because
00:36:50.160when they assemble like that the the guests can't get out of their their underground garage they
00:36:56.020can't exit into the street so they're causing a lot of trouble and I do feel that it it has that
00:37:03.060feeling of something much worse. You know, when you put bullet holes in a door, you're really
00:37:08.000saying to the people whose kids go to that school, this time, you know, we shot into the door at
00:37:13.860night when nobody was there. Next time, well, you know, maybe there will be somebody there. I think
00:37:20.440Montreal Jews are extremely fearful. We have no quarrel at all with Monsieur Legault. Premier Legault
00:37:29.600has made many, several statements that are absolutely, you know, perfect, says he's,
00:37:39.700you know, won't be tolerated. And I do, I believe he feels that way. Monsieur Legault is a big
00:37:46.480supporter of Israel. They have, Quebec was about to open an office in Israel, you know,
00:37:54.640a quebec israel bureau uh that unfortunately will have to be postponed until after the war
00:38:00.120but so you know on on a on an official level everything's very cool uh in terms of relationships
00:38:06.640between the jewish community which is 90 000 people you know next to toronto the biggest um
00:38:13.800but we're fearful we're fearful i want to go back i mean one of the things that i mean you and i
00:38:20.420both know Mark Stein and one of the things that he has done very well going back to America alone
00:38:26.020in 2006 was explained that a lot of this is just about numbers and and you said that as well I mean
00:38:31.800if you bring in thousands and thousands of people one percent is you know a small number if you look
00:38:36.420at the stats but in raw numbers that's enough to cause serious problems I mean we've seen
00:38:40.580significant terror attacks that have evolved one person like you do not need a lot of people to
00:38:45.780cause a lot of harm in a country. And when we look at anti-Semitism, I think the best case
00:38:51.580scenario is that if someone has some anti-Semitic beliefs and they emigrate to Canada, that the
00:38:57.960country itself has sufficiently said, these are not tolerant here, that you shut up about it.
00:39:03.380And it just becomes this private bigotry that you hold that doesn't do anything. And
00:39:07.760the problem is we're seeing in the last six weeks, a lot of people who do not feel that need. They do
00:39:14.000not feel the need to hide it. They've now been celebrated and cheered on. I mean, people at
00:39:18.980these rallies, like that child I showed a clip from yesterday that can call for intifada, call
00:39:23.900for violence against Jews, and they're getting cheered on by thousands of people. You saw in the
00:39:28.520UK, 100,000 people take to the streets a couple of weeks ago. Of those, is it 1% that supports
00:39:34.620violence against Jews? 10%? Either way, you're talking about hundreds, if not thousands of
00:39:40.940people. And as you well know, when you're talking about immigration, the time to deal with it is
00:39:47.980before you open the doors. Afterwards, especially if people have gone through the process and become
00:39:53.660citizens, you really don't have any response to this as a society or as a country, do you?
00:39:59.160Well, no. And I don't personally understand how you can... I mean, I guess you have to have a very
00:40:07.260sincere belief that people, when they cross your borders, they're going to leave all their
00:40:13.080prejudices behind, no matter what they are, they're just going to, you know, and you think
00:40:19.340that multiculturalism is just a question of, you know, people getting along and diversity,
00:40:25.340all these superficial words. Well, and these people say it's offensive to insist that there
00:40:30.300is or should be something that we would call a Canadian value, that that's even a part of,
00:40:35.400or should be a part of that process? Well, I should think that one of our values that in any
00:40:40.340democratic country would be that people from various backgrounds and religions and, you know,
00:40:45.520should be able to get along with each other without one group fearing that because, you know,
00:40:51.660that they have been collectively tarred as inferior or worthy of extermination. I mean,
00:40:58.960one would think that would be a basic value for any democratic country. So if you know that you're
00:41:05.260importing people who have grown up with i i've had countless middle easterners tell me who they
00:41:13.740themselves have sort of managed to divest themselves of these old prejudices but they
00:41:20.220have told me you just have no idea how common anti-semit it's it's like a given it's just a
00:41:28.380I know that in Egypt, for instance, which has had a cold peace with Israel since 1979, you'll still find on the street people selling the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It's very popular, you know, and this is, this is, these myths and horrible blood libels are considered common knowledge in amongst, you know, in parts of the Middle East. That's how it is.
00:41:55.700and it's up to the government to know that if they're importing people from one part of the
00:42:04.900world investigate what are these people's cultural values I know we're not supposed to say that but
00:42:12.160you know what now that people are running around the street saying Jews are horrible gas them or
00:42:16.160whatever I think I can say and you can say or whoever wants to can say you know not all cultures
00:42:23.880are equal. And not all cultures can be counted on to produce people who have respect for the
00:42:33.640beliefs or for other people, you know, as individuals and not according to biases that
00:42:41.100they've inherited from their culture. So, you know, Angela Merkel admitted finally after she,
00:42:48.440you know, brought in a million North African migrants, that it just wasn't working out so
00:42:55.900well in terms of anti-Semitism in Germany, which was exploding amongst that population.
00:43:02.320And we also saw sexual violence just absolutely spike in that time. Yeah.
00:43:06.400So when you say here, we've seen anti-Semitism rising like crazy. Well, come on, let's get
00:43:15.560epidemiological about it what is the source of this rise and this sudden rise in anti-semitism
00:43:21.640is that you know where is the hatred coming from uh where where is the actual the stuff that is
00:43:28.920criminal where is that coming from um and and let's talk about it i think we have to be very open
00:43:36.520otherwise we're not going to be able to start uh dealing with it in an educational way it's no good
00:43:44.520to just say yeah we're gonna have holocaust education uh for everybody that doesn't work
00:43:49.960by the way you know a lot of the holocaust education is um obligatory throughout europe
00:43:57.240especially in germany they kids every german every kid in germany gets a lesson a vivid
00:44:03.720lesson they go to they're taken to the camps so they know their holocaust education it has not
00:44:09.400stopped antisemitism uh well and we have not the answer and we have the federal liberal but i know
00:44:15.640one answer is to start looking at who we're bringing in from where and um what kind of biases
00:44:23.000they have about uh about jews because that's the primary vector um you know for trouble uh from
00:44:32.520you know especially amongst islamists i mean is islamists tell us we don't have to guess
00:44:41.960they're very open about it they hate jews and they say so yeah uh so well we have the federal
00:44:48.600government ignoring that why are we pretending that islamophobia is just as big a problem as
00:44:54.680anti-semitism it just isn't it isn't uh people don't like islamism that's not a phobia they
00:45:01.480don't like it because it's horrible um but we should be able to talk about this well the federal
00:45:10.200government this week redoubling its commitment to regulating online hate as though the internet is
00:45:15.080just you know the source of anti-semitism without talking about this this immigration side it was a
00:45:20.680great column uh you wrote barbara k thank you very much for coming on i i feel you might not be able
00:45:25.400to hear me right now but uh nevertheless we were at the end of the interview anyway so i appreciate
00:45:30.360your time uh barbara kay columnist with the national post thank you very much for that
00:45:35.640uh we are just keeping tabs here out of the the corner of my eye on what's happened at the rainbow
00:45:41.800bridge the last update i got is that there was a vehicle explosion uh that entered into the united
00:45:47.960states from canada and then exploded on the american side of the bridge so we have american
00:45:54.520media outlets i understand there's a video clip of some kind i haven't seen this clip but sean said
00:46:18.600that uh i don't know what was in that video certainly a bit of the aftermath
00:46:22.600on the explosion that was from colin rug on twitter
00:46:26.280Now, Colin Rugg has said that earlier today, CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge warned of an increasing terrorist threat to New York State tied to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
00:46:39.060Now, again, I've not been able to verify any of this directly, but now we have this report that I saw quoted in that tweet.
00:46:47.720An increase in civilian casualties raises the likelihood that violent extremist threat actors will seek to conduct attacks.
00:46:54.160I've been briefed on the incident at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, and we're closely monitoring it with state agencies on site and ready to assist.
00:47:03.700That's a statement from the governor of the state of New York.
00:47:21.480So please do stay connected and tuned into tnc.news this afternoon. Obviously, these sorts of things, you never want to commit to a path until you know what's happened. That's generally speaking where people in the media get into trouble. But it certainly is consistent with other terrorist incidents we've seen in the past, people using vehicles, although this one at an international border crossing, certainly unique in the Canadian context.