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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. We are going to talk about the

00:00:12.180 Liberal leadership debate last night, break down who are the winners and who are the losers. We're

00:00:17.280 going to talk about the surge that's happening in the polls with the Liberal Party. Is it a mirage?

00:00:22.560 Is it media manufactured? Or is this legit? Is it the real thing? Are the Liberals actually

00:00:27.960 inching ahead of the conservatives. Really unbelievable. And we're going to talk a little

00:00:32.700 bit about Trump's latest comments. I'm very pleased today to be joined for the entire show

00:00:37.300 by the very astute and brilliant David Knight-Lag. He is a principal, was a principal advisor to

00:00:44.880 Premier Jason Kenney in Alberta. He served as the first CEO of Invest Alberta Corporation,

00:00:50.040 and he advises governments and firms in energy finance all over the world. Really,

00:00:55.560 really interesting person and very delighted to be joined here on the Candace Welcome Show with

00:01:00.300 David. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks Candace, good to be with you. So the leadership

00:01:05.660 debate happened last night. It was the last one. We had the French one happen the night before 0.99

00:01:09.900 and then last night was the English one. We did a live show last night. Let me just say it was a

00:01:14.480 little underwhelming. It was a little boring. Basically all of the candidates more or less

00:01:18.300 agreed on everything and rather than really talking about the issues that face Canadians,

00:01:22.020 it seemed that they were obsessed with talking about the states, talking about Trump,

00:01:26.800 talking about this existential threat that we apparently now face. And it was just sort of

00:01:32.920 uninspiring, but we're going to go through it. I want to start right off the bat with Chrystia

00:01:37.080 Freeland, because this is, I think, the third time that she's repeated this story. And I think this

00:01:41.800 is a dubious story. She talks about how she spoke to a four-year-old girl named Ari in Saskatchewan,

00:01:48.340 And the little girl asked how Canada could stop the U.S. from evading.

00:01:55.200 She also shared this story on X a couple of days ago.

00:01:58.000 And she also said it during the French debate.

00:02:00.380 As a mother of a four-year-old child, look, I get that some little kids are precocious

00:02:04.780 and they understand things far beyond their years.

00:02:08.020 But I have a very hard time imagining my little four-year-old asking such a question.

00:02:12.440 Unless maybe their parents have been laying on a little thick at home.

00:02:18.340 and scaring their poor children on the idea that Canada might get invaded. Anyway, here is

00:02:23.540 Chrystia Freeland recounting the story last night. A few weeks ago in Saskatoon, I met a four-year-old

00:02:29.940 girl named Ari. She asked me, can you stop Trump from invading Canada? Ari is a smart girl,

00:02:39.140 and she's asking the right question. Asking the right question. I'm not really sure that

00:02:46.740 this is really something that four-year-olds should worry about. David, you had a criticism

00:02:51.640 of this post on X. So what did you make of this making an appearance again in the debate last

00:02:57.140 night? Well, look, obviously I'm skeptical. I think a four-year-old that's worried about

00:03:02.680 geopolitics is a pretty unusual person. And if she's that bright, she'd be bright enough to know

00:03:08.880 not to ask Krista Freeland for any help on the issue. I think that the biggest issue that we

00:03:14.980 have in this entire set like being that first of all it's just so obviously scripted you know this

00:03:20.340 is a classic pr campaign move i've been involved in campaigns they tell you to try and familiar

00:03:26.420 familiarize yourself with your audience and make your position more appealing by you know putting

00:03:31.380 words in the mouth of a small child or a little lady or a guy with a hard hat right and so somebody

00:03:37.140 says you know i was in this place and i spoke to this person what that represents is my perspective

00:03:41.780 And 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.

00:04:02.060 And 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.

00:04:09.120 We should all run around in fear, and I'm here to help save you.

00:04:12.880 And, you know, I'm tired of that.

00:04:14.380 That's the climate motif, that's the COVID motif, and now it's the scary tariff motif.

00:04:20.320 And 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. 0.99

00:04:31.360 She 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.

00:04:48.260 So 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.

00:04:58.420 They 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.

00:05:14.600 So 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.

00:05:34.580 Like my favorite investment has been the $50 billion that they blew on these EV battery plants that have all gone bankrupt.

00:05:42.740 You know, and they call that an investment.

00:05:44.180 It's gross.

00:05:45.240 When 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.

00:05:56.940 And 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.

00:06:12.480 It's disgusting.

00:06:13.160 So 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.

00:06:35.980 right more debt uh increasing the bureaucracy by over 70 percent in terms of cost stunning

00:06:41.900 the total decline of public services by this massively obese sclerotic bureaucracy that is

00:06:48.300 basically paid voters for the ndp liberal coalition and the destruction of an opportunity society for

00:06:55.420 our kids including bizarrely as they start to run short on money applying taxes to the worst

00:07:01.660 possible places you would apply taxes if you want to create a turnaround you know with like capital

00:07:06.460 gains it's just pure investment uh risk investment capital which is something canada desperately

00:07:11.340 needs we're trying to i've worked very hard i'm trying to get it from overseas um in albert and

00:07:15.820 we've succeeded at that but you know we started succeeding at that because we cut corporate taxes

00:07:20.700 we started to reduce red tape we made a lot of very hard decisions and alberta continues to fund

00:07:25.660 the rest of the country to the tune of 20 to 25 billion dollars a year as a result of hard economic

00:07:30.860 decisions we make in alberta that they refuse to make federally in and other provinces so

00:07:36.780 you know i don't want to go on but i think that the punchline of what's happening at this debate

00:07:40.860 is the debates are boring because we're a nation not an actual debate there's no serious differences

00:07:45.820 of political opinions between these these sort of characters the the entire thing is scripted

00:07:52.620 and constructed mark carney is not being straightforward about things that he said

00:07:56.620 very explicitly in the past right he's very much a central planner leveler um he was uh he has a

00:08:04.220 terrible track record politically in the uk he um you know he sat in in in architecture here that

00:08:12.380 didn't permit anything like the housing crisis and he's tried to take credit for decisions that

00:08:16.300 were way above his pay grade so i i find him to be uh brittle constructed uh heavily scripted

00:08:24.460 and someone that's unwilling to be straightforward about what we're facing and and that's a loss to

00:08:29.580 canadians we should have had a huge debate on what happened with the debt in the last nine years and

00:08:33.180 what's gonna what that means for little arie so i am uh you know i'm troubled i you and i spoke

00:08:40.620 earlier about the fact that when you go overseas you see the the absolute decline of canada's

00:08:45.020 reputation overseas on just about every front you know in in i'm in the investment world and

00:08:50.220 people just don't think canada's investable right now period well it's one of the things

00:08:55.500 move brookfield asset management i mean one of the most incredible things to me is to have

00:08:59.340 a guy like mark carney there and not have christian feeling say why did you advocate

00:09:03.500 for the movement of brookfield asset management from toronto to new york he's very clear why he

00:09:08.700 advocated for it it's because there's deeper pools of capital for global capital markets for a great

00:09:13.260 firm like brookfield but the reason for that is people like christian freeland made canada

00:09:17.740 totally uninvestable. And it's the reason why multiple large companies have moved

00:09:22.460 down to the United States. We have serious issues they should be debating that they're

00:09:25.900 actually accountable for having created in this country. And the public just isn't seeing any of

00:09:30.620 this. Well, that's one of the things I completely agree that watching the debate last night,

00:09:35.980 to your point about hubris, I mean, there was so much sanctimoniousness. These four liberal

00:09:41.420 candidates who believe that you know they have been brought to us to to save us from their own

00:09:47.900 record from the things that they have done and just hearing them i mean they weren't held to to

00:09:53.180 answer for all the mistakes we've made that they've made so many of them you just laid out quite

00:09:58.380 articulately um instead they were given more opportunities to sort of double down on this

00:10:02.780 idea that we need more government more government programs we just need more uh spending on health

00:10:07.420 care you know it's not it's not the structure that's the problem it's just we need more money

00:10:11.020 for daycare we need more money i mean they were even talking about a universal basic income um as

00:10:16.540 if you know we we did try a version of that during covid with the serb part of it was like you

00:10:22.060 mentioned uh what led to record debt being racked up and also the the loss of productivity because

00:10:27.900 who who wants to go work for a living when the government will pay you to sit at home

00:10:31.740 to me the idea of a universal basic income is completely non-starter it has been a disaster

00:10:36.860 And to hear them talk about it last night, it just seems so out of touch to me.

00:10:43.080 David, I want to go through a few more examples of these candidates last night fear-mongering over President Trump.

00:10:50.180 Here we have Mark Carney saying that President Trump wants to take our country

00:10:55.140 and that apparently Pierre Pauly, the Conservative leader, worships Donald Trump.

00:10:59.580 Let's play that clip.

00:11:01.120 We have to recognize that the Donald Trump of today is different than the Donald Trump of several years ago.

00:11:06.860 Then his objective was to take more of our market.

00:11:11.740 Now he wants to take our country.

00:11:14.860 Let me finish by pointing out one other thing.

00:11:17.220 Who's the worst person to stand up to Donald Trump?

00:11:20.020 It's Pierre Polyev.

00:11:21.340 He worships the man.

00:11:23.680 I've never seen Pierre Polyev even say nice things about Donald Trump,

00:11:28.840 so that's news to me.

00:11:30.380 Next, we had Chrysia Freeland saying that America has become a predator

00:11:34.640 and that the United States is now a threat.

00:11:37.660 Let's play that clip.

00:11:39.120 For the first time since the Second World War,

00:11:40.740 rather than guaranteeing the rules-based order,

00:11:43.420 the U.S. is turning predator.

00:11:45.520 And so what Canada needs to do

00:11:47.620 is work closely with our democratic allies,

00:11:50.800 our military allies.

00:11:52.080 That's why I would start with our Nordic partners,

00:11:54.880 specifically Denmark, which is also being threatened,

00:11:57.780 and our European NATO allies.

00:11:59.860 I would be sure that France and Britain were there

00:12:02.560 who possess nuclear weapons, and I would be working urgently with those partners to build

00:12:08.920 a closer security relationship that guarantees our security in a time when the United States

00:12:15.100 can be a threat. So Christine Phelan, they're writing a whole new international

00:12:20.580 diplomatic world order, and she even said that she envisions building a new world order. Let's

00:12:27.600 play that clip. I don't think any of us wants to be the leader who was asleep at the wheel and

00:12:33.680 didn't get Canada defended, did not work with our democratic allies to protect our borders. They

00:12:41.640 want to work with us. It's time for us to step up at home, to urgently reach out to them and build

00:12:47.820 a new world order where democracy and Canadian sovereignty is protected. Seems like a bit of a

00:12:54.620 pipe dream to me. But next, we'll just play this final clip here, is that Mark Carney agreed with

00:12:58.980 Freeland, which we saw a lot of last night, but added that the United States would be exiting

00:13:03.820 this new world order. Let's play that clip. I'm going to associate myself, I'm going to agree

00:13:09.580 with that. The only amendment I'm going to make is, unfortunately, it won't be a world order.

00:13:14.840 It will be a subset of the world order because the number of like-minded countries is much

00:13:20.040 smaller with the U.S. exiting. So it seems to me that they've just created this full distraction

00:13:26.300 so that they don't have to talk about the record. They don't have to talk about the things that they

00:13:29.600 as liberals have done. I mean, two of the three, two of the four people on stage were part of the

00:13:35.200 Trudeau cabinet. Mark Carney was an economic advisor since 2020. You know, these are, these

00:13:39.980 are liberal insiders in Ottawa, distancing themselves in record and playing international

00:13:44.900 relations and pretending to be professors at a university rather than potential leaders

00:13:50.740 taking accountability for the things that they've done? Yeah, look, I think the biggest problem

00:13:57.060 that they have is that Canadians aren't hearing in any of that language. What they're hearing,

00:14:02.820 again, is what the Liberal Party has done with something like climate. They've said there's a

00:14:07.460 huge problem facing us in this case in the United States. Previously it was climate, then it was

00:14:11.540 covid and the way for canada to be relevant on this issue is to adopt a bunch of very high

00:14:18.580 spending self-defeating policies by the local government right so canada's done nothing in

00:14:23.940 the planet to reduce global emissions they've made a series of self-destructive decisions to

00:14:29.860 try and reduce domestic emissions including domestic emissions of the one cleaner fuel

00:14:34.900 that would have removed global emissions by being shipped into the asian coal-fired grid which is our

00:14:38.820 lng and having denied multiple projects and infrastructure initiatives and private market

00:14:45.780 investment into that have closed canada for business not only in that sector but in dozens 0.98

00:14:50.980 of other sectors where the largest investment funds say look if you're that dumb then we just 0.91

00:14:55.780 don't have any need to try and put ourselves in a position of the guys that tried to build 0.90

00:15:00.820 trans mountain and had it picked up by the trudeau government so we've had a flight of capital

00:15:05.380 because there's a lack of vision what's happening in the united states is trump has come in and

00:15:10.660 he's and his national security advisors and others have basically said there will be a

00:15:14.260 hemispheric shift going on we're going to shift away from managing europe and we're going to shift

00:15:19.860 away from managing asia and we're going to focus first of all on deep priority on our hemisphere

00:15:27.140 we're very they're dead serious about greenland had some conversations with a couple guys in the

00:15:30.900 state department it's one of the most fascinating conversations i've had they've been they've had

00:15:35.780 files in greenland for years and they have an entire strategy around greenland they have to

00:15:41.220 have a strategy around the canadian arctic they're deeply disappointed with the total lack of

00:15:45.780 seriousness by canada in the arctic russia's russian subs and russian ships apply canada's

00:15:51.780 territorial waters at will right now that's totally unacceptable um canada stands up you know doesn't

00:15:57.940 pay its nato dues but pays an equivalent amount of money on failed ev battery plans to compete

00:16:02.340 with tesla i mean you can't make this stuff up it's totally provocative so in a moment where

00:16:08.020 where and one thing that i find interesting about this moment where we've got this faculty club

00:16:13.300 discussion amongst our four liberal sort of front-runner candidates is they're trying to

00:16:18.260 play this game like canada has some sort of relevance in the observation that it's making

00:16:23.140 that the united states is becoming more america first that's that's a 10 cent idea it's got

00:16:28.980 nothing to do with our national politics our failure to be relevant in the planet which we

00:16:34.100 are not at all and and that relevance has been declining steeply in the last five years and one

00:16:40.580 of the reasons for it is that if you look at the three biggest files that the americans have open

00:16:46.100 with us right number one security back in may of last year marco rubia who was then senator

00:16:52.900 marco rubio and is now secretary of state marco rubio wrote a letter that was signed by 24 26

00:17:00.100 senators bipartisan democrat republicans saying we've we're actually done now on this conversation

00:17:05.860 over you being deadbeat and freeloading on the american taxpayers for nato and norad it's over

00:17:10.340 there will be consequences right that letter had a different tone than any other letter because

00:17:15.220 they said look we keep talking we keep you keep saying making commitments that's over and now

00:17:19.620 Marco Rubio is leading the charge on what's going to happen. Canada is a series of, we can talk

00:17:25.380 about this later, but there's sort of eight or nine major files open on the security issue of Canada.

00:17:29.620 We saw the first one and the most prominent one, obviously the first file they're going to deal

00:17:33.940 with was fentanyl because it's a promise that they made, particularly in the Midwest where it's been

00:17:38.180 most destructive and it's, and fentanyl is created to the trade, sort of connected to the trade

00:17:43.140 crisis because it's a lot of the post-industrial areas that have become the areas where they've

00:17:47.460 had the worst worst addictions areas that have been hollowed out by uh by their manufacturers

00:17:52.260 have been hollowed out the second big file aside from security is economy and there's just a series

00:17:59.140 of things that it's like we're not serious about talking about them we have a 200 tariff three two

00:18:04.420 to three hundred percent tariff on our dairy products in the united states right so we can't

00:18:10.340 we can't continually pretend to be victims at all times without acknowledging that there's two sides

00:18:16.260 to a trade debate and an economic debate and we have to be serious about it canada actually has

00:18:21.220 a 58 billion dollar trade surplus with the united states when you remove energy from the equation

00:18:26.660 but energy is more important to the united states than any other component of what we trade with

00:18:30.500 them because it's the lowest cost input into a huge supply chain in midwest refining and advanced

00:18:37.780 materials and all kinds of refined products that they then go on and sell around the world at

00:18:42.100 profits so if you just look at the bilateral relationship you're spending a lot more on energy

00:18:46.660 than you're sending back but if you look at the net profitability of that relationship to the

00:18:51.220 united states and its treasury it's enormous and these are great points that you know premier

00:18:56.420 smith was trying to make when she was being castigated by this weird team canada crowd that

00:19:00.740 stayed home at the cbc studios in ottawa over the inauguration which i was at and i saw her working

00:19:07.140 the room with different people you know and so i think that the problem that we've got is the deep

00:19:12.740 lack of seriousness in the liberal party of canada right now it's deep desperation to make this an

00:19:19.060 election against donald trump who you know who you know has a lot there's a lot to talk about there

00:19:25.460 but he's easy to caricature what i think we need to do as a country is forget donald trump for a

00:19:31.300 minute and think about our own status as a nation and what we've done you know to to make the world

00:19:36.740 a better place a safer place place with lower global emissions nothing right what could we

00:19:42.100 have done we could be removing more emissions than our entire carbon footprint as a nation with

00:19:46.260 lng capacity into asia only four countries right we could be doing that we could be absolutely

00:19:51.700 having an impact that would also be a trillion and a half dollar trade for canada's economy

00:19:56.260 and it would make us deeply relevant to the united states on the security constraints that us being

00:20:00.820 a huge supplier of energy into china and india would create right so we have these win-win-win

00:20:05.780 opportunities as a nation and we have no seriousness over people that are saying we want to

00:20:09.940 lead the the current version of the ndp liberals and potentially the liberal party one of our two

00:20:14.740 biggest parties and and there's no serious debate happening around our economy around our security

00:20:20.420 and our deadbeat freeloading status and security with our allies and the provocation that's creating

00:20:25.380 the arctic that we simply don't seem to want to talk about as a nation and the final issue that

00:20:31.060 I think is the most optimistic opportunity for us in the next few months and that I hope when

00:20:36.340 Pierre's prime minister he'll pick up on is the power of Canada as a dual use between security

00:20:43.700 and economy, principal relationship with the U.S. on critical minerals, oil and gas, advanced

00:20:49.620 materials, all the CFIUS related trade in technology, AI, etc. Canada, we are the luckiest

00:20:57.860 country in the planet and we have the biggest opportunity in the planet to have a deep much

00:21:04.100 deeper economic and security relationship with the united states they have no intention of us

00:21:09.780 being the 51st state but trump loves to troll this because he feels like there's just a complete lack

00:21:15.840 of seriousness here and unless he trolls it you know we did nothing but stay at home and and be

00:21:21.240 worried about trump being a bad guy for two months and then in two phone calls in one day gave them

00:21:27.200 everything they wanted on fentanyl on the border it's embarrassing as a country right uh and and

00:21:33.120 so i think the big opportunity for us is to take serious security seriously have a plan for

00:21:37.200 canadians first but also for america and nato and norad aquas we need to take our economy seriously

00:21:43.600 and start building things again all the things have been denied for nine years and open ourselves

00:21:47.600 up to global capital to build those things and we need to take the opportunity these these

00:21:52.160 extraordinary dual use opportunities as the united states focuses on its hemisphere and replaces

00:21:57.520 china as a critical minerals uh supply chain canada can can make a again another trillion

00:22:04.400 dollars off of that relationship if we get it right this is the biggest opportunity for us as

00:22:09.280 a nation to quit acting like victims and running scared and repeating this weird 51st state mantra

00:22:14.960 or this even more weird idea that we can have a trade war right we can't we have no capacity for

00:22:20.880 for a trade war. I keep reading these bizarre economic assessments, right? Or we could have a,

00:22:27.040 you know, it's wild to see some, you know, disenfranchised liberal hippies suddenly

00:22:31.720 wanting to pick up guns and fight the United States. But I did a note on NATO, you know,

00:22:35.960 we're 67,000 people in our forces right now. We're 16,000 people shy. We have a DEI-obsessed,

00:22:43.520 weird, woke general staff that is, you know, destroying the current military. And the U.S.

00:22:50.320 have 1.3 million standing military and 700,000 reserves. We haven't done...

00:22:56.220 I'll just jump in on that because I did want to share this clip. We have a clip of Lieutenant

00:23:00.640 General Lise Bourgeon last week saying that the priority of the Canadian Armed Forces

00:23:06.500 is to streamline its recruitment of number one, non-citizens and number two, racialized Canadians,

00:23:14.300 whatever that means. And number three is women. So to your point that they focus on prioritizing 0.94

00:23:20.920 this woke agenda rather than the things that actually matter. Let's play that clip.

00:23:25.280 We are challenging outdated policies and practices to simplify security process

00:23:31.200 for applicants with ties to other countries.

00:23:34.980 Therefore, most applicants, included permanent resident,

00:23:39.080 can begin basic training after receiving their reliability status clearance.

00:23:44.360 Right now, 26.4% of newly enrolled Canadian Armed Forces members

00:23:49.640 identify as racialized Canadians.

00:23:53.220 18% are women and 5.2% identify as Indigenous.

00:23:58.140 To succeed, we must continue to tap on all Canadians from all communities who want to serve.

00:24:06.500 And just further to that, the Government of Canada website for Armed Forces has a dedicated section for diversity, equity and inclusion.

00:24:14.640 Here's what that looks like.

00:24:15.780 So some of the resources included is resources to combat systemic racism and racial discrimination, a positive space program to foster what it calls an inclusive environment for L, sorry, 2SLGPTIQI plus individuals, gender-based analysis plus integration into policies, programs, and services, and of course, a guide on inclusive language and terminology.

00:24:42.440 So, David, to your point, at a time where things are getting pretty serious around the world,

00:24:47.320 and this idea that, to your point, Trump is making these remarks about the 51st state,

00:24:53.200 regardless of how we interpret them, we all are starting to realize that our military is the weak link here in North America,

00:24:59.300 that we're not pulling our own weight, and yet here is the things that the Canadian military is focusing on.

00:25:06.740 What's your comment on that?

00:25:08.000 look you know my my grandfather fought in burma in world war ii i've grown up around people that

00:25:14.980 are in the military um and you know it's been hijacked by this woke liberal ndp faculty club

00:25:23.040 dei philosophy that goes nowhere it does nothing for combat readiness no one that you saw on that

00:25:30.020 platform that dais has is a combat um veteran you know it's fake and we know that it's fake

00:25:36.580 you know it's like it's like you know wanting if your house is on fire and you're on the third

00:25:41.840 floor you don't want the dei person you want the 230 pound linebacker guy who's a fireman that can

00:25:48.740 haul you out in throwing you over his shoulder right i mean this is and that's not bias that's

00:25:54.660 simply saying there are certain attributes that make some people extraordinary at what they do

00:25:58.820 and that's what we want we want in our forces that celebrates extraordinary bravery extraordinary

00:26:05.480 physical capacity, extraordinary destructive capacity. And Canada made its name by punching

00:26:13.760 way above its weight on those factors in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War.

00:26:19.220 We've always been next to our American cousins in different war fighting scenarios. And we've

00:26:25.400 always had an extraordinary punch above our weight capacity because, you know, you recruit

00:26:33.740 young mostly young men who are deep believers in their country and see it as a mission because

00:26:40.200 this is this is a job that requires you to die right and and we forget that at our peril as a

00:26:48.060 nation like there's a certain category of person like my grandfather was that chooses to sign up

00:26:52.740 and say I know that in this job there's a very good chance I'll die because that's the entire

00:26:57.480 intention of everybody oh I'm going to fight against they want to kill me right and they're

00:27:01.860 going to figure out how. And so we have to put in, it's a deadly serious business. Russia laughs

00:27:06.880 all the way to the bank of their shadow fleet, and they're seeing situations like this. These

00:27:13.000 people are a joke. They're deeply unserious people. And Canadians that want to go and fight 1.00

00:27:19.100 for their country to the point of risking their lives for it will not report to people that look 0.99

00:27:23.820 like that or talk like that, right? Like, it's just, it's implausible that we have a nation that

00:27:30.840 is worth fighting and dying for we have values that we believe are worth fighting and dying for

00:27:35.800 and then we want to treat those the same way that we want to treat some sort of dei faculty club um

00:27:42.840 you know hr process at a university uh now i think that what happens i mean

00:27:49.960 what my son plays for a soccer team is the most diverse strategy you've ever seen right

00:27:54.760 you don't need to worry about racialized canadians that you know we've got a hugely talented

00:27:59.480 uh our athletic community is hugely talented the armed forces be the same way you don't need to

00:28:04.040 worry about diversity you commit to excellence you create demanding uh environment to create

00:28:10.280 the best possible war fighters you give them the best equipment so it's interoperable with

00:28:14.920 all our nato allies and american uh allies you expand and extend the strategic command function

00:28:21.640 and you you provide a vision for what people can be and do in the world that's worth dying for

00:28:27.560 and worth living for and you will see people sign up in droves to that because that's a vision of

00:28:32.520 what you can do and be in the world it's not this dead sad numbers game being counting people's race

00:28:39.800 being counting people's gender it's embarrassing and by the way you know one of the things i find

00:28:44.840 ironic is as soon as you you say to someone the left so you're a big fan of telsey gabbard you

00:28:50.920 know no they're worried so i what i think has happened what i think is happening with our armed

00:28:56.920 forces what i think is happening what happened with climate what happened with covid what's

00:29:00.520 happening currently is they're politicizing something that should actually exist for all

00:29:04.600 canadians and it should exist on the basis of a vision of what it can do and be in the world and

00:29:09.320 what canada needs to do and be in the world and and if that was the debate and if that was the

00:29:14.520 presentation if i saw somebody in our armed forces stand up and say look we have a vision for what

00:29:19.960 canada needs to do and be in the world and this is that vision we are going to secure the arctic

00:29:24.600 and make sure no russian sub or ship ever gets through it when it warms up enough to be the

00:29:29.320 northwest passage we're going to be part of the global security force that maintains international

00:29:34.760 rule of law and rule of the sea we are going to re-establish ourselves as the fifth largest navy

00:29:39.960 in the planet we are going to become fully interoperable with all nato forces we're going

00:29:44.280 We're going to ship our gas to destroy Putin's control over European energy security.

00:29:48.920 And 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.

00:30:02.660 And that's what we're going to do and be in the world.

00:30:04.420 And we're going to fund it with $3 trillion worth of natural gas traded to Asia.

00:30:08.720 And Russia is going to take us seriously.

00:30:11.100 And we want you to sign up if you want to be part of that.

00:30:13.440 I 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.

00:30:21.740 So 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? 0.94

00:30:33.500 This is pathetic. 0.95

00:30:34.300 That's not asking people. 0.98

00:30:35.240 You don't have to ask my son's friends from every possible country in the world that are playing soccer if they want to sign up.

00:30:41.160 They're lined up.

00:30:41.900 they have to refuse more of these kids every year than they can get because there's a vision for

00:30:46.040 what you can do and be and that that that's what I think is lacking in this current liberal debate

00:30:50.480 I think it's lacking generally in the country in some ways and it's one of the things keeping us

00:30:54.680 from making honest hard straightforward decisions about who we are what we want what our you know

00:31:02.140 what our intentions are how we're going to make hard decisions to pay down the debts our kids

00:31:06.080 have opportunities and we return to them the opportunity society that we inherited mostly

00:31:11.500 from our parents you know like these are the things i think of my grandfather i inherited a

00:31:16.580 secure world in a safe country because he put his life on the line and lost some of his best friends

00:31:21.840 in the worst corners of the world right uh that that was his challenge our challenge now is to

00:31:27.520 get honest about what it's going to take for canada to be relevant in the world in that same

00:31:31.360 way again and it's going to look different this time than it did that time but you know that armed

00:31:36.700 forces presentation and that liberal debate, both to show a poverty of ideas and a poverty of vision.

00:31:42.800 Well, all that being said, I mean, I agree with much of what you just said. It then seems

00:31:48.120 remarkable to, I'm going to tie this back to recent polls. A poll came out yesterday that has

00:31:54.020 the liberal party up ahead of the conservative party, 38% of the liberals, 36% of the conservative.

00:32:00.380 This is an Ipsos poll. Ipsos is very credible. And this is the first time in four years that

00:32:05.680 the Conservatives have not been ahead. So, you know, against this backdrop of, you know, this

00:32:12.000 woke mind virus that has just completely taken over the bureaucracy to absurd extents, right?

00:32:17.780 You have an economy that's really just not working for us, and you laid it out really brilliantly.

00:32:23.100 And so every time Trump says it, it angers them. And instinctively, they run to the most

00:32:28.860 anti-American party around, which is the Liberal Party. And now we see in the last six weeks,

00:32:34.600 a 26 point swing, David. It's unbelievable. To me, it's terrifying that Canadians could have 1.00

00:32:39.800 that short of a memory and could run back to the party that has just absolutely destroyed our

00:32:44.700 country. I don't know if it's real. I don't know if this is a media manufactured thing that they're

00:32:49.860 pumping up the numbers to make Mark Carney look good, to make it seem like there's a chance so

00:32:54.360 that maybe we'll have an election and we'll see what happens. I don't know. But to me, it's really

00:33:00.640 unbelievable. So can you help us understand what's happening here? Yeah, look, I think that

00:33:05.660 polls are snapshots in time. It's really important to remember that. Ipsos is a terrific pollster,

00:33:09.880 by the way. There's polls that are sort of, you know, deeply funded by the federal government,

00:33:15.500 ECOS, and others. But Ipsos is hugely credible. I think that we're in an unusual situation because,

00:33:22.960 you know, the prime minister has suspended parliament. So there's no normal,

00:33:26.980 there's no normal parliamentary debate uh there there is no regular press inquiry of

00:33:33.460 pierre paulia ever what he thinks and how that can be distinguished he's not on the stage with

00:33:37.120 the four people that are reading these scripted comments uh so it's been sort of a press blackout

00:33:42.580 of any conservative ideas or responses to what's going on and so in in the absence of any sort of

00:33:50.260 platform for conservative ideas in opposition to liberal ideas what you've got is three months

00:33:56.720 of no parliament which is i i think just extraordinary and anti-democratic you've got

00:34:02.620 the liberal party basically you know in the public square right now the debate is which

00:34:08.180 liberal do you like better you know it's sort of like which flavor do you like better this

00:34:12.200 you know hard left uh philosophy um and it's candy coated it's presented and it's the airways

00:34:19.880 are full of it you know so you've got a full campaign going with people spending a lot you've

00:34:25.060 got the Liberal Party is also very careful about scripting

00:34:28.060 anything that could cause a problem that their their Ruby

00:34:31.600 Dalla had pulled second. She was ahead of Freeland. You know,

00:34:35.500 when they removed her, she was a danger to them because her

00:34:38.140 messages were contrarian to the accepted script. And so I think

00:34:43.420 that when when we there's a big debate going on right now, which

00:34:47.620 is will Mark Carney when he wins call an election right away

00:34:50.380 or will he try to lead for a while before he calls an

00:34:52.280 election. I think that there, you know, and I've, I thought that the, I chose kind of curtain number

00:35:00.200 two when a friend was asking me, but I said, I think he's going to leave for a while, because I

00:35:03.320 think that in an election where you actually draw a contrast between him and Pierre Polyab, I think

00:35:08.360 the polls will shift heavily. So I'm, I'm one, you know, I'm not, I'm not trying to be blithe about

00:35:14.480 it. I'm certainly not trying to, I've been through this, you know, I've studied polls a lot. I look

00:35:19.420 a lot of things i would want to dive deep into some of the crosstabs of uh geographically where

00:35:25.980 is that shift taking place and then also demographically where's that shift taking place

00:35:30.860 my gut sense is that what you're seeing is a lot of um uh elderly people uh the you know

00:35:37.660 it's over 57 which is a very strong voter base liking mark carney and seeing him as middle of

00:35:43.100 the road and uh given the options of the other three candidates and uh and that that's kind of

00:35:49.900 a response and that that's sort of you know if you're if you're constantly being shown four

00:35:53.900 candidates they're all liberals and you're asked how do you want to vote i think it's you know it's

00:35:58.300 not untenable that what's happening is that's being reflected in a poll where they say what

00:36:02.780 about the conservatives um i i don't know i one of the features of the poll that's very interesting

00:36:09.580 to me is that the NDP has lost a lot to the Liberals in this current scenario. So I think

00:36:17.240 if we go back to whether Mark Carney tries to lead or calls a vote right away, one of the

00:36:21.160 questions will be, what role will Jagmeet Singh play? Because he's changed his mind multiple times

00:36:25.480 on this. Yeah, let's show that quickly. So the Leger poll that also came out on February 23rd

00:36:31.120 on Sunday, it shows that the Liberal Party are up seven points to 40%. Sean, if we could put this

00:36:36.980 on the screen the conservative party is up 30 uh up four points to 38 so the conservatives are

00:36:42.440 actually up oh this isn't the one the um the recently j poll shows that the ndp are only at

00:36:49.080 11 percent and that they are down seven percent from previous polls so yeah you know this would

00:36:55.180 be the liberals taking entirely from the ndp and the conservatives actually doing uh better than

00:37:01.520 than they had before which is interesting but anyway you can carry on well yeah look i think

00:37:06.160 I think we've got to read the crosstabs on these things.

00:37:09.380 I remember I posted a note on Twitter where a bunch of friends of mine said,

00:37:13.000 you know, Harris is polling and I said her polls are all wrong.

00:37:15.880 The crosstabs don't help her at all. Right. 0.82

00:37:17.800 And so you have to know how the distribution looks.

00:37:20.960 In the case of the states, you could be a Democrat.

00:37:23.300 You could have 100 percent of California doesn't move the voting outcomes at all, 0.99

00:37:28.340 but it massively moves the, you know, the public.

00:37:31.400 um i i just have a sense that that this has been extremely well scripted from a tactical

00:37:38.360 uh point of view by the liberal party to suspend democracy in canada make tons of promises you know

00:37:45.080 i don't know how they're able to do this i just the prime minister just um you know said they're

00:37:50.600 going to give five billion dollars to ukraine and leave on the table whether we put troops i mean

00:37:55.800 it's all it's it's embarrassing because no one's taking it seriously but in europe but

00:37:59.720 But the other thing is, how how are these commitments being made without a parliament sitting?

00:38:04.500 This 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.

00:38:19.840 and cbc has become unwatchable and it has almost no no audience but they're making these sort of

00:38:24.880 tacit promises as they're you know you know you've got media outlets covering the liberal party and

00:38:31.200 saying what if we give you guys another billion dollars let's have that debate out loud right

00:38:35.200 it's incredibly corrupt it just looks like a banana republic from the well and saint angers

00:38:39.520 is saying not just that they want to give cbc more money but that they want to remove the decision

00:38:44.080 making away from the political realm and basically try to find a way to guarantee their funding

00:38:48.800 basically to protect them from future conservative government that doesn't see the value and wants

00:38:53.440 to defund it we saw justin trudeau announce a proposed three billion dollar uh bullet train

00:38:59.040 from quebec city to toronto um you know california had a similar promise uh for a train half as long

00:39:05.440 and they said that it was going to cost 25 billion the tab is upwards of 150 billion today and it's

00:39:11.280 still still not built it's there's nothing built and so this idea that trudeau could build a bullet

00:39:15.920 train for three billion dollars is so absurd and yet the media covered i want to bring it back to

00:39:21.040 the media though because i just don't understand from my perspective no one's watching it and

00:39:25.280 they're tuned out specifically in the gen z and the millennial generation people don't watch the

00:39:30.000 legacy media so so how is it that they can have such an outsized influence still in our country

00:39:36.160 um that that they could cause such a such a drastic swing in just a few weeks well you know i

00:39:42.640 think i i think there's a couple things going i think the the media uh people still pull their

00:39:48.960 information increasingly from social media and different sources right but there's uh when you

00:39:54.960 when you use people's tax dollars to fund an ideological position that you know i saw this

00:40:00.880 one cbc i just thought about posting about this in light of what pascal saint-on said but i remember

00:40:05.520 the cbc did a very high production um sort of willy wonka mockery of the freedom convoy um and

00:40:12.640 I 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?

00:40:22.680 This is language that, you know, people in Europe found it bizarre.

00:40:27.300 And 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.

00:40:42.640 right and instead we're going to create a musical mockery of people whose intention was to confront

00:40:49.640 the anti-scientific basis of a bunch of covid mandates federally that were soon dropped because

00:40:53.920 they were totally out of line with what was going on everywhere else in the world and we're out of

00:40:57.560 line with what was health best practice and we're killing these the the business of these truckers 0.77

00:41:02.080 these guys were debanked uh you know terror laws were invoked against canadians we were told it

00:41:10.080 foreign interference it was almost all canadians that backing these people and and the one sort of

00:41:16.720 you know news business of record that is supposed to serve canadians is entirely

00:41:24.240 not just failing to defend the idea that there's something important here that needs to be debated

00:41:29.280 in terms of civil rights dissent these decisions and how this was handled beyond that they're 0.96

00:41:34.320 openly mocking it sending this sort of like wink and nod like aren't these people clowns aren't 1.00

00:41:38.800 Aren't they dumb? Aren't they uneducated? Aren't they sad? 1.00

00:41:41.360 It was so disgusting. It was so pravda. 0.87

00:41:44.260 And now we're dealing with a bunch of second-tier politicians

00:41:49.300 who are using old Soviet terms like misinformation and disinformation.

00:41:55.760 And they're using them with a straight face against Canadians

00:41:58.300 that want to have an open debate about this kind of society

00:42:00.720 they want to live in and they want to inherit.

00:42:03.120 So I think that there's a lot to play for right now.

00:42:05.740 I think this is partly why the media is so desperate to to portray Pierre as a Trump wannabe or a Trump supporter.

00:42:14.900 I think it's painted the Conservative Party into a corner in terms of the kind of messaging that you have to use.

00:42:20.420 And, 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.

00:42:32.340 and they've undermined Canadians, we've got the worst productivity, we've got, you know,

00:42:37.080 they want to do dollar for dollar tariffs, and it costs $1.43 to do a dollar for dollar tariff.

00:42:42.060 Like, you know, this is what we're up against. And how do you, you know, it's sort of like

00:42:47.020 the narrative, if it gets adopted wholesale by a media that doesn't want to be critical of the

00:42:53.420 government, ends up bending people's sentiment and creating sort of, you know, this idea of

00:43:00.240 Overton window where, you know, there's sort of a framing of ideas where certain ideas become

00:43:06.000 acceptable only when a crisis kind of opens that window up. I don't think Canadians have yet seen

00:43:11.440 how disastrous what's happened to the economy and our security has been, but I think they're

00:43:15.600 starting to see it. I think people are more and more frustrated. The extremism that they see in

00:43:19.200 our streets, the Bebas family in Israel, you know, um, you know, the strangulation, a little nine 1.00

00:43:26.400 months old, um, barehanded by Gazans, Gazan civilians, you know, killed these, killed these 0.56

00:43:32.320 kids in cold blood, returned their bodies that Hamas used it as a parade. It was celebrated 1.00

00:43:38.080 foreign affairs people. Where, where, where is Melanie Jolie now after repeating Hamas talking 1.00

00:43:42.800 points about the fake bombing of a hospital? Like where is Canada right now? There, there was,

00:43:48.560 there was several hundred thousand people in Buenos Aires the same day that we had militant

00:43:55.760 islamist supporters shouting murderous slogans against jewish people in downtown montreal and

00:44:02.160 toronto what has happened to canada you know it's beyond reckoning in our in our in our press the

00:44:10.240 fifth estate their job is to say we've reached a point of moral blindness or darkness as a country

00:44:18.080 that must be addressed the the the sickness and depravity of the things being said on our streets

00:44:25.280 by people sponsored by the iranian revolutionary guard corps which we only named a terrorist

00:44:31.120 entity in in june of this year by the way we still have 600 of those guys trolling our

00:44:36.880 streets and they're all using our asylum laws to try and stay in canada and they're sponsoring 1.00

00:44:40.560 things like samadu you know everybody that went to that hezbollah funeral in lebanon every single

00:44:47.120 person that flies back in from canada should be detained and if they if they have anything related

00:44:53.760 to not being a full citizen born here, deported.

00:44:57.300 Go live there.

00:44:58.320 Go live under Hamas and Hezbollah. 1.00

00:45:00.420 But stop the streets and quit turning us 1.00

00:45:02.100 into this anti-Semitic extremist culture.

00:45:06.320 And our press is letting us down.

00:45:07.720 Our law enforcement is letting us down.

00:45:09.640 And our politicians are letting us down.

00:45:11.640 And this is not conservative liberal.

00:45:13.580 This is the kind of society you want to live in.

00:45:15.460 Most of my Jewish friends

00:45:16.520 have actually traditionally voted liberal.

00:45:19.000 And we have huge debates over that, right?

00:45:20.840 Because I think that's crazy.

00:45:22.000 but but what's happening it doesn't have to be liberal conservative we need a society that has

00:45:26.560 a vision for what it can do and be and and you see complete hollowness and silence in a moment where

00:45:33.740 hamas has jumped the shark like if it was even possible to think they were more depraved than 1.00

00:45:38.300 we already thought they were right well i i couldn't agree more i think it's so sick that

00:45:43.100 people traveled from canada to go to that funeral and part of the problem is the people i saw that

00:45:48.040 we're doing it we're like white far left activists not even necessarily but we have terror laws for

00:45:53.660 this reason right i promise you this if there was a right wing uh funeral and we had a bunch of 0.65

00:46:00.540 thugs with tats flying up then coming back you bet they'd be detained right yeah i completely agree

00:46:06.080 weird uh again you know this very weird progressive left instinct that wants to um play play softly

00:46:15.580 And 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.

00:46:26.420 I 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.

00:46:33.940 This is pretty unbelievable. So Trump, again, doubling down on this 51st statehood thing.

00:46:38.220 You mentioned that you thought it was a joke. I tend to agree.

00:46:40.640 So 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.

00:46:51.960 And so I wanted to specifically get your thoughts on this.

00:46:54.720 This 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.

00:47:03.360 Last week, I spent some time with two government officials for Canada.

00:47:08.080 I was asking them how realistic is it that Canada would be the 51st state.

00:47:13.680 And they told me there is a path.

00:47:15.660 Alberta is first.

00:47:17.380 And if they sign on, Saskatchewan would follow.

00:47:20.380 And then you go west to British Columbia.

00:47:23.240 There is a movement in Canada to join us.

00:47:26.680 Want to get your thoughts on that and how that's proceeding.

00:47:29.260 So it's true.

00:47:30.600 Thank you, Brian.

00:47:31.360 It's true.

00:47:31.980 a lot of people in Canada liking becoming our beautiful, cherished 51st state. They'll have

00:47:39.700 to pay much lower taxes. They'll have the ultimate security. You know, they don't pay very much for

00:47:44.220 security right now because they rely on us, which is really unfair to us.

00:47:50.020 So it's interesting, actually, I had Bruce Pardy, professor from Queen's University, on the show

00:47:54.380 on Monday. And he, I think that the reporter might have been talking about our interview,

00:47:58.680 because that's literally what he said he thought that alberta um would get a better deal and i know

00:48:03.000 jordan peterson made a comment like this in an essay in the national post that you canada has

00:48:08.200 to offer something better for alberta otherwise alberta might be the one to look to the united

00:48:13.160 states i i just want to get your comment i know you're in alberta and you understand what the

00:48:18.440 political culture there you know you would think as a conservative province that might be the case

00:48:22.520 although i speak to many people in alberta and it doesn't really seem that way to me what what

00:48:27.320 do you make of it no look i think i think president trump's doing what he always does

00:48:32.120 uh he's trolling uh what he perceives to be an extremely weak federal canadian government um

00:48:39.480 he saw the weakness live in the way that they failed to respond to any of the questions you

00:48:46.120 know he let's let's let's scroll back for a second because i find this interesting because we don't

00:48:50.600 seem to cover ourselves the way that we're covered overseas i was i was in the states in december

00:48:56.440 then i was back during the inauguration and in the in in the us people will play clips of people

00:49:03.320 like melanie joe lee supporting the i the corrupt islamist icc judge against netanyahu right that 0.68

00:49:09.240 will actually play it will be like this is bizarre um trudeau gave a speech saying americans were

00:49:15.560 sexist because they didn't elect a woman president for the second time that was his speech in december

00:49:21.960 when we were all worried here about being trolled as a 51st state um christian freeland the same

00:49:28.840 month was saying uh maple syrup mega all the time and then saying she stood up to trump

00:49:34.360 and trump's a bully right this is this was like our our self-appointed chairman of the

00:49:40.120 u.s canada relations committee now i have some friends in the administration they think she's 1.00

00:49:45.320 a joke she was a disaster when she did usmca she was people forget this and again our press doesn't

00:49:50.680 talk about it she was totally missing in action she got shut out entirely by bob lighthizer after

00:49:56.280 she went on stage saying that trump was a dictator she was on stage with about punji and trump with

00:50:00.840 some left-wing activists they did it they did a bilateral deal with mexico and then we were

00:50:06.360 invited to come back and try and seal a deal in a few weeks only a few weeks remaining but the

00:50:10.920 bilateral deal with mexico was concluded she was out of the room this is somebody who's never stood

00:50:15.320 up for anything except trying to get reelected with a left-wing base and so what the u.s observe

00:50:21.720 is a series of of passive aggressive behaviors by people that are extremely weak don't know their

00:50:28.520 files don't show up can't engage melanie jolie was down there and she posted stuff she met with like

00:50:35.560 the three most radical left senators that are totally peripheral in u.s politics right what are

00:50:40.920 we doing as a nation like it's deeply unserious so when a reporter prompts a guy like trump and says

00:50:47.480 hey sounds like you're going to put these tariffs on on march 4 for mexico and canada what do you

00:50:52.040 think canada just being the 51st states can be like you know what i think they'd like it and

00:50:56.280 here's what i think is happening in alberta in alberta we had this debate where the reaction

00:51:01.640 to the fact that we were so uh we lacked resilience was we need to build these pipelines coast to

00:51:07.240 coast again and start having alternative markets from the United States.

00:51:10.760 We have economic resilience right away.

00:51:12.920 Quebec said, you know what?

00:51:14.080 We don't have any social license for your pipelines. 0.96

00:51:17.120 And what happened in Alberta that I don't think it's covered nationally, as I said,

00:51:20.080 you know what, Quebec has taken from Alberta has contributed in the last 15 years,

00:51:26.480 about $300 billion net to the country.

00:51:28.960 No one's even close.

00:51:30.920 The next closest is B.C. at like 42.

00:51:33.880 And after that, it's a little bit from Ontario.

00:51:35.680 and then everybody else takes it.

00:51:38.260 They just take the money, right?

00:51:40.060 They say thank you.

00:51:40.760 They don't say thank you.

00:51:41.580 They just take the money.

00:51:43.340 Quebec has taken far more money in any one year

00:51:46.300 than it would cost to build that pipeline,

00:51:47.860 but they don't think there's any social license

00:51:49.460 for us to send cleaner burning liquid natural gas

00:51:53.000 to our NATO allies in Europe.

00:51:56.400 That's starting to become untenable.

00:51:58.080 The thing that people should be debating

00:51:59.800 is not the 51st state stuff that Trump is trolling.

00:52:02.320 They should be debating what is the purpose

00:52:04.560 to be in a canadian federation if one province is paying everybody's bills and it's basically

00:52:10.480 sustaining soft socialism in other provinces it simply won't make the harder decisions that alberta

00:52:15.200 makes to have lower taxes less red tape more trade and to build an economy that you know used to be

00:52:21.520 very oil and gas dependent but is now heavily diversified out of oil and gas it's got the

00:52:25.920 highest net income the youngest demographic the highest educated workforce in the country and the

00:52:30.160 fastest growth in the country for 20 years running even through recessionary periods like at the end

00:52:35.280 of the day conservative politics aren't there to be sort of a blue jersey you wear they're there

00:52:40.240 to make people more prosperous most more secure and more free and if the politics don't do that

00:52:45.600 change your politics change the policies and when you do do that and you do become more prosperous

00:52:50.720 and you do create higher debt income and you do support the federation and you look at these

00:52:54.720 provinces that refuse to do that and they continue to be welfare states quebec is now

00:52:59.520 poorer it just crossed the line from being the 49th poorest u.s state to being poorer than

00:53:03.600 mississippi this year our great province of quebec i think quebec's phenomenal right i love quebec

00:53:12.320 but it has become a impoverished place because of these sad policies i don't care what the political

00:53:17.840 party is that has to change and living off welfare from alberta isn't helping so if people say you

00:53:23.120 want to be the 51st state i just say canada has got to quit focusing on being trolled by

00:53:29.040 the president of the united states and figure out what is our vision to be the first nation

00:53:34.880 on a bunch of categories instead of last place in the oecd on our productivity last place in

00:53:40.720 the g7 in terms of our economic growth last place from where we've ever been in terms of violent 0.99

00:53:46.160 crime and sexual crimes lastly 50 000 fentanyl deaths since 2016 because of our failed policies

00:53:54.160 we have to build our nation so that we get over the fact that the rest of the world sees us as the

00:53:59.840 51st state in military and security concerns the rest of the world sees us as a vassal economic

00:54:06.480 state that became more dependent on the united states the last nine years that's how the world

00:54:10.960 sees us we might not like it and we might not like being trolled about it and it might make

00:54:15.440 us feel proud to sort of say we're not going to be that 51st state but what not being that 51st

00:54:20.720 state really means is policies that make canadians more prosperous more secure and have a better

00:54:26.800 opportunity society to pass to their kids that's the hard stuff that has to happen and i think when

00:54:31.680 push comes to chauvin pierre and and um you know mark carney failed off face off against conservative

00:54:38.400 policies like the ones we passed in alberta that have made us the economic powerhouse of the country

00:54:43.600 with 90% of all private sector hires in the last 12 months in the nation. And the failed policies

00:54:49.280 of repeating what's been going on in the Liberal Party, we're going to win. And that's going to be

00:54:52.960 good. And that's the best response to the 51st state BS from the president. All right, David.

00:54:58.720 Well, there you have it. Thank you so much for your insights. Really enjoyed talking to you today.

00:55:02.160 That's David Knight-Legg. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Candice. Great to talk to you.

00:55:06.560 All right. That brings us to the end of the show. Thank you so much for joining us. We'll

00:55:10.320 be back tomorrow with all the news. I'm Candice Malcolm. This is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:55:13.620 Thank you and God bless.

Juno News - February 26, 2025

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