00:00:00.000Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. We are going to talk about the
00:00:12.180Liberal leadership debate last night, break down who are the winners and who are the losers. We're
00:00:17.280going to talk about the surge that's happening in the polls with the Liberal Party. Is it a mirage?
00:00:22.560Is it media manufactured? Or is this legit? Is it the real thing? Are the Liberals actually
00:00:27.960inching ahead of the conservatives. Really unbelievable. And we're going to talk a little
00:00:32.700bit about Trump's latest comments. I'm very pleased today to be joined for the entire show
00:00:37.300by the very astute and brilliant David Knight-Lag. He is a principal, was a principal advisor to
00:00:44.880Premier Jason Kenney in Alberta. He served as the first CEO of Invest Alberta Corporation,
00:00:50.040and he advises governments and firms in energy finance all over the world. Really,
00:00:55.560really interesting person and very delighted to be joined here on the Candace Welcome Show with
00:01:00.300David. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks Candace, good to be with you. So the leadership
00:01:05.660debate happened last night. It was the last one. We had the French one happen the night before
00:01:09.900and then last night was the English one. We did a live show last night. Let me just say it was a
00:01:14.480little underwhelming. It was a little boring. Basically all of the candidates more or less
00:01:18.300agreed on everything and rather than really talking about the issues that face Canadians,
00:01:22.020it seemed that they were obsessed with talking about the states, talking about Trump,
00:01:26.800talking about this existential threat that we apparently now face. And it was just sort of
00:01:32.920uninspiring, but we're going to go through it. I want to start right off the bat with Chrystia
00:01:37.080Freeland, because this is, I think, the third time that she's repeated this story. And I think this
00:01:41.800is a dubious story. She talks about how she spoke to a four-year-old girl named Ari in Saskatchewan,
00:01:48.340And the little girl asked how Canada could stop the U.S. from evading.
00:01:55.200She also shared this story on X a couple of days ago.
00:01:58.000And she also said it during the French debate.
00:02:00.380As a mother of a four-year-old child, look, I get that some little kids are precocious
00:02:04.780and they understand things far beyond their years.
00:02:08.020But I have a very hard time imagining my little four-year-old asking such a question.
00:02:12.440Unless maybe their parents have been laying on a little thick at home.
00:02:18.340and scaring their poor children on the idea that Canada might get invaded. Anyway, here is
00:02:23.540Chrystia Freeland recounting the story last night. A few weeks ago in Saskatoon, I met a four-year-old
00:02:29.940girl named Ari. She asked me, can you stop Trump from invading Canada? Ari is a smart girl,
00:02:39.140and she's asking the right question. Asking the right question. I'm not really sure that
00:02:46.740this is really something that four-year-olds should worry about. David, you had a criticism
00:02:51.640of this post on X. So what did you make of this making an appearance again in the debate last
00:02:57.140night? Well, look, obviously I'm skeptical. I think a four-year-old that's worried about
00:03:02.680geopolitics is a pretty unusual person. And if she's that bright, she'd be bright enough to know
00:03:08.880not to ask Krista Freeland for any help on the issue. I think that the biggest issue that we
00:03:14.980have in this entire set like being that first of all it's just so obviously scripted you know this
00:03:20.340is a classic pr campaign move i've been involved in campaigns they tell you to try and familiar
00:03:26.420familiarize yourself with your audience and make your position more appealing by you know putting
00:03:31.380words in the mouth of a small child or a little lady or a guy with a hard hat right and so somebody
00:03:37.140says you know i was in this place and i spoke to this person what that represents is my perspective
00:03:41.780And I think the punchline of what she's trying to say, which I find deeply cynical and actually craven, is the idea that she is a solution to a fear factor and a victim ideology that seems to have seized the Liberal Party of Canada in the absence of having any economic or security plan for the country.
00:04:02.060And what they've done is they've tried to say, look, there's this huge, scary external force called the United States of America and President Trump.
00:04:09.120We should all run around in fear, and I'm here to help save you.
00:04:14.380That's the climate motif, that's the COVID motif, and now it's the scary tariff motif.
00:04:20.320And the problem that I have in particular with Chrystia Freeland being the one that's purveying this bizarre story is that she is probably the single most damaging finance minister the country's ever had.
00:04:31.360She mixed financial illiteracy on things like net debt to GDP with a horrific decision to misprice our COVID debt, over $400 billion in COVID debt, was completely mispriced it, I think at the time, sort of 80 basis points and now we're paying 5% on it.
00:04:48.260So she's had a series of cascading mistakes that have blown up the intergenerational theft of a debt that's now reached $1.3 to $1.5 trillion, depending on how you want to count it.
00:04:58.420They have no plan for removing that debt. And so that means little Ari, whether she's fake or real, is going to inherit a structural debt that is so destructive that it is now already costing more in interest payments every year than the entire amount we spend on all of our military.
00:05:14.600So if little Ari is actually worried about an invasion, she's asked Krista Freeland why she's destroyed the ability of Canada to actually pay its bills, keep its commitments to things like NATO at the same time that, you know, she's one of the architects in a whole series of hugely mistaken things that Mark Carney now wants to call investments.
00:05:34.580Like my favorite investment has been the $50 billion that they blew on these EV battery plants that have all gone bankrupt.
00:05:42.740You know, and they call that an investment.
00:05:45.240When the market decides that it won't put a single cent into something like peak EV technology to compete with Chinese supply chains or massive American supply chains, it's because it's uninvestable.
00:05:56.940And this government, in its hubris and its arrogance, is taking $50 million from Ari and all her friends and said, we're going to spend it right now to try and score some votes for something that looks like jobs that will cost about $3 million each in terms of the subsidies and blow up in two years.
00:06:13.160So the bigger problem that I have, besides the obvious sort of craven nature of the PR driven scripted campaigns, is that this entire coronation of Mark Carney that's taking place is taking place after nine years that have been the most destructive in terms of more than doubling the entire national debt compared with all other governments combined.
00:06:35.980right more debt uh increasing the bureaucracy by over 70 percent in terms of cost stunning
00:06:41.900the total decline of public services by this massively obese sclerotic bureaucracy that is
00:06:48.300basically paid voters for the ndp liberal coalition and the destruction of an opportunity society for
00:06:55.420our kids including bizarrely as they start to run short on money applying taxes to the worst
00:07:01.660possible places you would apply taxes if you want to create a turnaround you know with like capital
00:07:06.460gains it's just pure investment uh risk investment capital which is something canada desperately
00:07:11.340needs we're trying to i've worked very hard i'm trying to get it from overseas um in albert and
00:07:15.820we've succeeded at that but you know we started succeeding at that because we cut corporate taxes
00:07:20.700we started to reduce red tape we made a lot of very hard decisions and alberta continues to fund
00:07:25.660the rest of the country to the tune of 20 to 25 billion dollars a year as a result of hard economic
00:07:30.860decisions we make in alberta that they refuse to make federally in and other provinces so
00:07:36.780you know i don't want to go on but i think that the punchline of what's happening at this debate
00:07:40.860is the debates are boring because we're a nation not an actual debate there's no serious differences
00:07:45.820of political opinions between these these sort of characters the the entire thing is scripted
00:07:52.620and constructed mark carney is not being straightforward about things that he said
00:07:56.620very explicitly in the past right he's very much a central planner leveler um he was uh he has a
00:08:04.220terrible track record politically in the uk he um you know he sat in in in architecture here that
00:08:12.380didn't permit anything like the housing crisis and he's tried to take credit for decisions that
00:08:16.300were way above his pay grade so i i find him to be uh brittle constructed uh heavily scripted
00:08:24.460and someone that's unwilling to be straightforward about what we're facing and and that's a loss to
00:08:29.580canadians we should have had a huge debate on what happened with the debt in the last nine years and
00:08:33.180what's gonna what that means for little arie so i am uh you know i'm troubled i you and i spoke
00:08:40.620earlier about the fact that when you go overseas you see the the absolute decline of canada's
00:08:45.020reputation overseas on just about every front you know in in i'm in the investment world and
00:08:50.220people just don't think canada's investable right now period well it's one of the things
00:08:55.500move brookfield asset management i mean one of the most incredible things to me is to have
00:08:59.340a guy like mark carney there and not have christian feeling say why did you advocate
00:09:03.500for the movement of brookfield asset management from toronto to new york he's very clear why he
00:09:08.700advocated for it it's because there's deeper pools of capital for global capital markets for a great
00:09:13.260firm like brookfield but the reason for that is people like christian freeland made canada
00:09:17.740totally uninvestable. And it's the reason why multiple large companies have moved
00:09:22.460down to the United States. We have serious issues they should be debating that they're
00:09:25.900actually accountable for having created in this country. And the public just isn't seeing any of
00:09:30.620this. Well, that's one of the things I completely agree that watching the debate last night,
00:09:35.980to your point about hubris, I mean, there was so much sanctimoniousness. These four liberal
00:09:41.420candidates who believe that you know they have been brought to us to to save us from their own
00:09:47.900record from the things that they have done and just hearing them i mean they weren't held to to
00:09:53.180answer for all the mistakes we've made that they've made so many of them you just laid out quite
00:09:58.380articulately um instead they were given more opportunities to sort of double down on this
00:10:02.780idea that we need more government more government programs we just need more uh spending on health
00:10:07.420care you know it's not it's not the structure that's the problem it's just we need more money
00:10:11.020for daycare we need more money i mean they were even talking about a universal basic income um as
00:10:16.540if you know we we did try a version of that during covid with the serb part of it was like you
00:10:22.060mentioned uh what led to record debt being racked up and also the the loss of productivity because
00:10:27.900who who wants to go work for a living when the government will pay you to sit at home
00:10:31.740to me the idea of a universal basic income is completely non-starter it has been a disaster
00:10:36.860And to hear them talk about it last night, it just seems so out of touch to me.
00:10:43.080David, I want to go through a few more examples of these candidates last night fear-mongering over President Trump.
00:10:50.180Here we have Mark Carney saying that President Trump wants to take our country
00:10:55.140and that apparently Pierre Pauly, the Conservative leader, worships Donald Trump.
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00:24:42.440So, David, to your point, at a time where things are getting pretty serious around the world,
00:24:47.320and this idea that, to your point, Trump is making these remarks about the 51st state,
00:24:53.200regardless of how we interpret them, we all are starting to realize that our military is the weak link here in North America,
00:24:59.300that we're not pulling our own weight, and yet here is the things that the Canadian military is focusing on.
00:25:08.000look you know my my grandfather fought in burma in world war ii i've grown up around people that
00:25:14.980are in the military um and you know it's been hijacked by this woke liberal ndp faculty club
00:25:23.040dei philosophy that goes nowhere it does nothing for combat readiness no one that you saw on that
00:25:30.020platform that dais has is a combat um veteran you know it's fake and we know that it's fake
00:25:36.580you know it's like it's like you know wanting if your house is on fire and you're on the third
00:25:41.840floor you don't want the dei person you want the 230 pound linebacker guy who's a fireman that can
00:25:48.740haul you out in throwing you over his shoulder right i mean this is and that's not bias that's
00:25:54.660simply saying there are certain attributes that make some people extraordinary at what they do
00:25:58.820and that's what we want we want in our forces that celebrates extraordinary bravery extraordinary
00:26:05.480physical capacity, extraordinary destructive capacity. And Canada made its name by punching
00:26:13.760way above its weight on those factors in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War.
00:26:19.220We've always been next to our American cousins in different war fighting scenarios. And we've
00:26:25.400always had an extraordinary punch above our weight capacity because, you know, you recruit
00:26:33.740young mostly young men who are deep believers in their country and see it as a mission because
00:26:40.200this is this is a job that requires you to die right and and we forget that at our peril as a
00:26:48.060nation like there's a certain category of person like my grandfather was that chooses to sign up
00:26:52.740and say I know that in this job there's a very good chance I'll die because that's the entire
00:26:57.480intention of everybody oh I'm going to fight against they want to kill me right and they're
00:27:01.860going to figure out how. And so we have to put in, it's a deadly serious business. Russia laughs
00:27:06.880all the way to the bank of their shadow fleet, and they're seeing situations like this. These
00:27:13.000people are a joke. They're deeply unserious people. And Canadians that want to go and fight
00:27:19.100for their country to the point of risking their lives for it will not report to people that look
00:27:23.820like that or talk like that, right? Like, it's just, it's implausible that we have a nation that
00:27:30.840is worth fighting and dying for we have values that we believe are worth fighting and dying for
00:27:35.800and then we want to treat those the same way that we want to treat some sort of dei faculty club um
00:27:42.840you know hr process at a university uh now i think that what happens i mean
00:27:49.960what my son plays for a soccer team is the most diverse strategy you've ever seen right
00:27:54.760you don't need to worry about racialized canadians that you know we've got a hugely talented
00:27:59.480uh our athletic community is hugely talented the armed forces be the same way you don't need to
00:28:04.040worry about diversity you commit to excellence you create demanding uh environment to create
00:28:10.280the best possible war fighters you give them the best equipment so it's interoperable with
00:28:14.920all our nato allies and american uh allies you expand and extend the strategic command function
00:28:21.640and you you provide a vision for what people can be and do in the world that's worth dying for
00:28:27.560and worth living for and you will see people sign up in droves to that because that's a vision of
00:28:32.520what you can do and be in the world it's not this dead sad numbers game being counting people's race
00:28:39.800being counting people's gender it's embarrassing and by the way you know one of the things i find
00:28:44.840ironic is as soon as you you say to someone the left so you're a big fan of telsey gabbard you
00:28:50.920know no they're worried so i what i think has happened what i think is happening with our armed
00:28:56.920forces what i think is happening what happened with climate what happened with covid what's
00:29:00.520happening currently is they're politicizing something that should actually exist for all
00:29:04.600canadians and it should exist on the basis of a vision of what it can do and be in the world and
00:29:09.320what canada needs to do and be in the world and and if that was the debate and if that was the
00:29:14.520presentation if i saw somebody in our armed forces stand up and say look we have a vision for what
00:29:19.960canada needs to do and be in the world and this is that vision we are going to secure the arctic
00:29:24.600and make sure no russian sub or ship ever gets through it when it warms up enough to be the
00:29:29.320northwest passage we're going to be part of the global security force that maintains international
00:29:34.760rule of law and rule of the sea we are going to re-establish ourselves as the fifth largest navy
00:29:39.960in the planet we are going to become fully interoperable with all nato forces we're going
00:29:44.280We're going to ship our gas to destroy Putin's control over European energy security.
00:29:48.920And to do all that, we're going to need 150,000 deadly, dangerous war fighters supported by the best equipment, with the best communications, fully interoperable with our European and our American allies.
00:30:02.660And that's what we're going to do and be in the world.
00:30:04.420And we're going to fund it with $3 trillion worth of natural gas traded to Asia.
00:30:08.720And Russia is going to take us seriously.
00:30:11.100And we want you to sign up if you want to be part of that.
00:30:13.440I think a lot of people sign up, and I think they'll sign up from every possible corner and category that these sort of sad HR people are trying to bean count.
00:30:21.740So when you've got people just voting with their feet saying, I don't share your vision, I don't want it, being told that there'll be some sort of special category that gets a special sort of, we really, really want you to join, right?
00:30:41.900they have to refuse more of these kids every year than they can get because there's a vision for
00:30:46.040what you can do and be and that that that's what I think is lacking in this current liberal debate
00:30:50.480I think it's lacking generally in the country in some ways and it's one of the things keeping us
00:30:54.680from making honest hard straightforward decisions about who we are what we want what our you know
00:31:02.140what our intentions are how we're going to make hard decisions to pay down the debts our kids
00:31:06.080have opportunities and we return to them the opportunity society that we inherited mostly
00:31:11.500from our parents you know like these are the things i think of my grandfather i inherited a
00:31:16.580secure world in a safe country because he put his life on the line and lost some of his best friends
00:31:21.840in the worst corners of the world right uh that that was his challenge our challenge now is to
00:31:27.520get honest about what it's going to take for canada to be relevant in the world in that same
00:31:31.360way again and it's going to look different this time than it did that time but you know that armed
00:31:36.700forces presentation and that liberal debate, both to show a poverty of ideas and a poverty of vision.
00:31:42.800Well, all that being said, I mean, I agree with much of what you just said. It then seems
00:31:48.120remarkable to, I'm going to tie this back to recent polls. A poll came out yesterday that has
00:31:54.020the liberal party up ahead of the conservative party, 38% of the liberals, 36% of the conservative.
00:32:00.380This is an Ipsos poll. Ipsos is very credible. And this is the first time in four years that
00:32:05.680the Conservatives have not been ahead. So, you know, against this backdrop of, you know, this
00:32:12.000woke mind virus that has just completely taken over the bureaucracy to absurd extents, right?
00:32:17.780You have an economy that's really just not working for us, and you laid it out really brilliantly.
00:32:23.100And so every time Trump says it, it angers them. And instinctively, they run to the most
00:32:28.860anti-American party around, which is the Liberal Party. And now we see in the last six weeks,
00:32:34.600a 26 point swing, David. It's unbelievable. To me, it's terrifying that Canadians could have
00:32:39.800that short of a memory and could run back to the party that has just absolutely destroyed our
00:32:44.700country. I don't know if it's real. I don't know if this is a media manufactured thing that they're
00:32:49.860pumping up the numbers to make Mark Carney look good, to make it seem like there's a chance so
00:32:54.360that maybe we'll have an election and we'll see what happens. I don't know. But to me, it's really
00:33:00.640unbelievable. So can you help us understand what's happening here? Yeah, look, I think that
00:33:05.660polls are snapshots in time. It's really important to remember that. Ipsos is a terrific pollster,
00:33:09.880by the way. There's polls that are sort of, you know, deeply funded by the federal government,
00:33:15.500ECOS, and others. But Ipsos is hugely credible. I think that we're in an unusual situation because,
00:33:22.960you know, the prime minister has suspended parliament. So there's no normal,
00:33:26.980there's no normal parliamentary debate uh there there is no regular press inquiry of
00:33:33.460pierre paulia ever what he thinks and how that can be distinguished he's not on the stage with
00:33:37.120the four people that are reading these scripted comments uh so it's been sort of a press blackout
00:33:42.580of any conservative ideas or responses to what's going on and so in in the absence of any sort of
00:33:50.260platform for conservative ideas in opposition to liberal ideas what you've got is three months
00:33:56.720of no parliament which is i i think just extraordinary and anti-democratic you've got
00:34:02.620the liberal party basically you know in the public square right now the debate is which
00:34:08.180liberal do you like better you know it's sort of like which flavor do you like better this
00:34:12.200you know hard left uh philosophy um and it's candy coated it's presented and it's the airways
00:34:19.880are full of it you know so you've got a full campaign going with people spending a lot you've
00:34:25.060got the Liberal Party is also very careful about scripting
00:34:28.060anything that could cause a problem that their their Ruby
00:34:31.600Dalla had pulled second. She was ahead of Freeland. You know,
00:34:35.500when they removed her, she was a danger to them because her
00:34:38.140messages were contrarian to the accepted script. And so I think
00:34:43.420that when when we there's a big debate going on right now, which
00:34:47.620is will Mark Carney when he wins call an election right away
00:34:50.380or will he try to lead for a while before he calls an
00:34:52.280election. I think that there, you know, and I've, I thought that the, I chose kind of curtain number
00:35:00.200two when a friend was asking me, but I said, I think he's going to leave for a while, because I
00:35:03.320think that in an election where you actually draw a contrast between him and Pierre Polyab, I think
00:35:08.360the polls will shift heavily. So I'm, I'm one, you know, I'm not, I'm not trying to be blithe about
00:35:14.480it. I'm certainly not trying to, I've been through this, you know, I've studied polls a lot. I look
00:35:19.420a lot of things i would want to dive deep into some of the crosstabs of uh geographically where
00:35:25.980is that shift taking place and then also demographically where's that shift taking place
00:35:30.860my gut sense is that what you're seeing is a lot of um uh elderly people uh the you know
00:35:37.660it's over 57 which is a very strong voter base liking mark carney and seeing him as middle of
00:35:43.100the road and uh given the options of the other three candidates and uh and that that's kind of
00:35:49.900a response and that that's sort of you know if you're if you're constantly being shown four
00:35:53.900candidates they're all liberals and you're asked how do you want to vote i think it's you know it's
00:35:58.300not untenable that what's happening is that's being reflected in a poll where they say what
00:36:02.780about the conservatives um i i don't know i one of the features of the poll that's very interesting
00:36:09.580to me is that the NDP has lost a lot to the Liberals in this current scenario. So I think
00:36:17.240if we go back to whether Mark Carney tries to lead or calls a vote right away, one of the
00:36:21.160questions will be, what role will Jagmeet Singh play? Because he's changed his mind multiple times
00:36:25.480on this. Yeah, let's show that quickly. So the Leger poll that also came out on February 23rd
00:36:31.120on Sunday, it shows that the Liberal Party are up seven points to 40%. Sean, if we could put this
00:36:36.980on the screen the conservative party is up 30 uh up four points to 38 so the conservatives are
00:36:42.440actually up oh this isn't the one the um the recently j poll shows that the ndp are only at
00:36:49.08011 percent and that they are down seven percent from previous polls so yeah you know this would
00:36:55.180be the liberals taking entirely from the ndp and the conservatives actually doing uh better than
00:37:01.520than they had before which is interesting but anyway you can carry on well yeah look i think
00:37:06.160I think we've got to read the crosstabs on these things.
00:37:09.380I remember I posted a note on Twitter where a bunch of friends of mine said,
00:37:13.000you know, Harris is polling and I said her polls are all wrong.
00:37:15.880The crosstabs don't help her at all. Right.
00:37:17.800And so you have to know how the distribution looks.
00:37:20.960In the case of the states, you could be a Democrat.
00:37:23.300You could have 100 percent of California doesn't move the voting outcomes at all,
00:37:28.340but it massively moves the, you know, the public.
00:37:31.400um i i just have a sense that that this has been extremely well scripted from a tactical
00:37:38.360uh point of view by the liberal party to suspend democracy in canada make tons of promises you know
00:37:45.080i don't know how they're able to do this i just the prime minister just um you know said they're
00:37:50.600going to give five billion dollars to ukraine and leave on the table whether we put troops i mean
00:37:55.800it's all it's it's embarrassing because no one's taking it seriously but in europe but
00:37:59.720But the other thing is, how how are these commitments being made without a parliament sitting?
00:38:04.500This is this is democracy. And and the fact that the press is paid off and that they're actually going out, you know, this weird reminder that came from Pascal Sainte-Ange saying we need to double what we pay the CBC.
00:38:19.840and cbc has become unwatchable and it has almost no no audience but they're making these sort of
00:38:24.880tacit promises as they're you know you know you've got media outlets covering the liberal party and
00:38:31.200saying what if we give you guys another billion dollars let's have that debate out loud right
00:38:35.200it's incredibly corrupt it just looks like a banana republic from the well and saint angers
00:38:39.520is saying not just that they want to give cbc more money but that they want to remove the decision
00:38:44.080making away from the political realm and basically try to find a way to guarantee their funding
00:38:48.800basically to protect them from future conservative government that doesn't see the value and wants
00:38:53.440to defund it we saw justin trudeau announce a proposed three billion dollar uh bullet train
00:38:59.040from quebec city to toronto um you know california had a similar promise uh for a train half as long
00:39:05.440and they said that it was going to cost 25 billion the tab is upwards of 150 billion today and it's
00:39:11.280still still not built it's there's nothing built and so this idea that trudeau could build a bullet
00:39:15.920train for three billion dollars is so absurd and yet the media covered i want to bring it back to
00:39:21.040the media though because i just don't understand from my perspective no one's watching it and
00:39:25.280they're tuned out specifically in the gen z and the millennial generation people don't watch the
00:39:30.000legacy media so so how is it that they can have such an outsized influence still in our country
00:39:36.160um that that they could cause such a such a drastic swing in just a few weeks well you know i
00:39:42.640think i i think there's a couple things going i think the the media uh people still pull their
00:39:48.960information increasingly from social media and different sources right but there's uh when you
00:39:54.960when you use people's tax dollars to fund an ideological position that you know i saw this
00:40:00.880one cbc i just thought about posting about this in light of what pascal saint-on said but i remember
00:40:05.520the cbc did a very high production um sort of willy wonka mockery of the freedom convoy um and
00:40:12.640I was disgusted by it, you know, outside of Canada, even the president was compelled to say that what Christian Freeland did with the truckers was fascism, right?
00:40:22.680This is language that, you know, people in Europe found it bizarre.
00:40:27.300And it's like, it's extraordinary that a state-owned broadcaster not only doesn't say, let's have a question about civil rights and a decision that was found to be deeply unconstitutional, total violation of the law.
00:40:42.640right and instead we're going to create a musical mockery of people whose intention was to confront
00:40:49.640the anti-scientific basis of a bunch of covid mandates federally that were soon dropped because
00:40:53.920they were totally out of line with what was going on everywhere else in the world and we're out of
00:40:57.560line with what was health best practice and we're killing these the the business of these truckers
00:41:02.080these guys were debanked uh you know terror laws were invoked against canadians we were told it
00:41:10.080foreign interference it was almost all canadians that backing these people and and the one sort of
00:41:16.720you know news business of record that is supposed to serve canadians is entirely
00:41:24.240not just failing to defend the idea that there's something important here that needs to be debated
00:41:29.280in terms of civil rights dissent these decisions and how this was handled beyond that they're
00:41:34.320openly mocking it sending this sort of like wink and nod like aren't these people clowns aren't
00:41:38.800Aren't they dumb? Aren't they uneducated? Aren't they sad?
00:41:41.360It was so disgusting. It was so pravda.
00:41:44.260And now we're dealing with a bunch of second-tier politicians
00:41:49.300who are using old Soviet terms like misinformation and disinformation.
00:41:55.760And they're using them with a straight face against Canadians
00:41:58.300that want to have an open debate about this kind of society
00:42:00.720they want to live in and they want to inherit.
00:42:03.120So I think that there's a lot to play for right now.
00:42:05.740I think this is partly why the media is so desperate to to portray Pierre as a Trump wannabe or a Trump supporter.
00:42:14.900I think it's painted the Conservative Party into a corner in terms of the kind of messaging that you have to use.
00:42:20.420And, you know, on the one hand, you've got to say the people that are presenting themselves as defending Canada are actually the problem, you know, because for nine years, they've created a weaker, less resilient economy, a joke of the military.
00:42:32.340and they've undermined Canadians, we've got the worst productivity, we've got, you know,
00:42:37.080they want to do dollar for dollar tariffs, and it costs $1.43 to do a dollar for dollar tariff.
00:42:42.060Like, you know, this is what we're up against. And how do you, you know, it's sort of like
00:42:47.020the narrative, if it gets adopted wholesale by a media that doesn't want to be critical of the
00:42:53.420government, ends up bending people's sentiment and creating sort of, you know, this idea of
00:43:00.240Overton window where, you know, there's sort of a framing of ideas where certain ideas become
00:43:06.000acceptable only when a crisis kind of opens that window up. I don't think Canadians have yet seen
00:43:11.440how disastrous what's happened to the economy and our security has been, but I think they're
00:43:15.600starting to see it. I think people are more and more frustrated. The extremism that they see in
00:43:19.200our streets, the Bebas family in Israel, you know, um, you know, the strangulation, a little nine
00:43:26.400months old, um, barehanded by Gazans, Gazan civilians, you know, killed these, killed these
00:43:32.320kids in cold blood, returned their bodies that Hamas used it as a parade. It was celebrated
00:43:38.080foreign affairs people. Where, where, where is Melanie Jolie now after repeating Hamas talking
00:43:42.800points about the fake bombing of a hospital? Like where is Canada right now? There, there was,
00:43:48.560there was several hundred thousand people in Buenos Aires the same day that we had militant
00:43:55.760islamist supporters shouting murderous slogans against jewish people in downtown montreal and
00:44:02.160toronto what has happened to canada you know it's beyond reckoning in our in our in our press the
00:44:10.240fifth estate their job is to say we've reached a point of moral blindness or darkness as a country
00:44:18.080that must be addressed the the the sickness and depravity of the things being said on our streets
00:44:25.280by people sponsored by the iranian revolutionary guard corps which we only named a terrorist
00:44:31.120entity in in june of this year by the way we still have 600 of those guys trolling our
00:44:36.880streets and they're all using our asylum laws to try and stay in canada and they're sponsoring
00:44:40.560things like samadu you know everybody that went to that hezbollah funeral in lebanon every single
00:44:47.120person that flies back in from canada should be detained and if they if they have anything related
00:44:53.760to not being a full citizen born here, deported.
00:45:22.000but but what's happening it doesn't have to be liberal conservative we need a society that has
00:45:26.560a vision for what it can do and be and and you see complete hollowness and silence in a moment where
00:45:33.740hamas has jumped the shark like if it was even possible to think they were more depraved than
00:45:38.300we already thought they were right well i i couldn't agree more i think it's so sick that
00:45:43.100people traveled from canada to go to that funeral and part of the problem is the people i saw that
00:45:48.040we're doing it we're like white far left activists not even necessarily but we have terror laws for
00:45:53.660this reason right i promise you this if there was a right wing uh funeral and we had a bunch of
00:46:00.540thugs with tats flying up then coming back you bet they'd be detained right yeah i completely agree
00:46:06.080weird uh again you know this very weird progressive left instinct that wants to um play play softly
00:46:15.580And again, I think we do this at our peril, but we need to get our cities and our streets back and we need to end this this fraud that's being abetted by terror and criminal syndicates.
00:46:26.420I couldn't agree more. I just want to we only have a minute left here, but I did want to play the latest Trump clip from President Trump.
00:46:33.940This is pretty unbelievable. So Trump, again, doubling down on this 51st statehood thing.
00:46:38.220You mentioned that you thought it was a joke. I tend to agree.
00:46:40.640So while signing executive orders in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked a question about whether maybe the path to Canada becoming American is through Western Canada, potentially Alberta.
00:46:51.960And so I wanted to specifically get your thoughts on this.
00:46:54.720This is a bit of a longer clip, but here is President Trump on Tuesday saying that a lot of people in Canada do want to join the Americans by that clip.
00:47:03.360Last week, I spent some time with two government officials for Canada.
00:47:08.080I was asking them how realistic is it that Canada would be the 51st state.