00:01:55.620But for now, we'll tell you that Pierre Polyev released a video this morning saying that if elected as prime minister, he would impose life sentences for fentanyl kingpins.
00:02:08.720He drives home this point that making and selling fentanyl is mass murder and that our laws and our criminal justice system should treat it that way.
00:02:20.280I call mass fentanyl trafficking what it is. Mass murder. Selling 40 milligrams of this poison is enough to kill 20 people. It's like spraying bullets into a crowd. You might not know who you are killing, but statistically, it's certain that someone will die.
00:02:36.380That's why I'm announcing today, as part of my Canada First plan, that Common Sense Conservatives will bring in mandatory prison sentences, including life sentences for anyone caught trafficking, producing or exporting over 40 milligrams of fentanyl and 15 years for traffickers caught with between 20 milligrams and 40 milligrams.
00:03:00.300So, Brian, what do you think of Pierre's announcement today?
00:03:04.120I think it's fantastic. And part of the announcement is also repealing the liberal law Bill C5. And I was just looking up on my phone. You know, Bill C5 goes hand in hand with what's been happening because we've reduced our mandatory minimum sentences on drug laws that would affect how these drug kingpins are treated. But also the guys running fentanyl
00:03:34.120are responsible for the increase in gun crime that we see. So many of our issues, well beyond
00:03:40.100and long before Donald Trump raised fentanyl at the Canadian border, and we've still got the
00:03:44.840Globe and Mail out there saying, oh no, no, we're not a problem. Look at our front page. We're not
00:03:49.360a problem. Fentanyl is a problem in Canada. We should be dealing with this. And the only person
00:03:55.160that's been talking about this federally is Pierre Pagliere. And he's been talking about it for some
00:04:01.040time. He's put out videos about this before. He's talked about the opioid problem in our cities.
00:04:07.540And you can think that this is just a problem in Vancouver's downtown east side. You can think it's
00:04:13.180just a problem in Toronto. No, small and medium sized cities are devastated. Belleville here in
00:04:19.400Ontario, Lethbridge. I mean, look, I haven't looked at the stats since Premier Daniel Smith did and
00:04:26.840and her former chief of staff, Marshall Smith, did the big reboot of how Alberta deals with
00:04:32.460drug overdoses. But Lethbridge was devastated by the opioid crisis, both fentanyl and the
00:04:38.920dillies that the government was handing out. So yes, we should be dealing with this,
00:04:43.940not just for the border, but for what it's doing to Canadians. It's funny, I reposted
00:04:49.660Pierre's video and said, this is exactly right, and it's what we should be doing.
00:04:55.100and people started saying, well, Poliev's never talked about this before. He's been talking about
00:04:59.240it for two years. It's like saying, oh, he's never talked about inflation before. Of course he has.
00:05:03.580So I think this is a smart move. The liberals have gone down the road of soft on crime. And
00:05:13.280that can sound like it's just a trite slogan. Bill C-5 took away mandatory minimum sentences
00:05:19.920for gun smuggling and selling illegal guns and drug trafficking crimes. And in some cases,
00:05:26.340the mandatory minimum only existed on your second or third conviction, Candace.
00:05:31.500Can you believe that? Where they say, oh, you know, we have to get rid of this because it's
00:05:35.980for youthful indiscretion. They made a mistake. I'm sorry, you're caught smuggling guns three
00:05:39.920times. That's not youthful indiscretion. Well, it's interesting because I listened to
00:05:45.980Paulio's full video and I encourage the audience to go and listen to it as well. It's about seven
00:05:49.520minutes long. And he mentioned C5. And I thought, hmm, which one is C5? Because, you know, they all
00:05:53.920sound the same. And so it's like, which I couldn't remember exactly what it was. So I looked it up,
00:05:57.740and I had to go back a couple of years in reporting to see what it was. So this is how
00:06:03.620the CBC described it. It said liberals introduced legislation to end some mandatory minimum
00:06:08.560sentences. The bill would affect 14 criminal code sections and six drug-related offenses.
00:06:14.920so that's the CBC there and then the Globe and Mail had a different way of framing it so I'm
00:06:21.280going to read from the Globe and Mail the headline here says Trudeau promises to address high rates
00:06:26.540of Indigenous incarceration so there you go kind of giving it all away this is all part of their
00:06:31.660social justice regime Brian let me just read a little bit from this article as Prime Minister
00:06:36.220Justin Trudeau says the over-representation of Indigenous women in federal prisons is appalling
00:06:41.240And the government's push to eliminate some mandatory sentences will help address it.
00:06:46.220And so it goes on to say that half of the women in federal prisons are Indigenous, but that's only 5%.
00:06:52.160Indigenous women only make up 5% of the population.
00:06:56.340And so somehow it was because of Indigenous women.
00:07:00.620I don't understand, you know, that the specific bill said it would repeal 20 mandatory minimum sentences, mostly for drug and gun crime.
00:07:10.800So somehow under the guise of saying, you know, there's too many indigenous women in prison, I guess he's saying that the reason that they're in prison is because of gun and drug crimes.
00:07:20.260I don't know why indigenous women are getting caught with drugs and guns unless they're actually not.
00:07:26.160Well, not on the scale that we're dealing with.
00:07:28.640Yeah. And so this is all kind of like reverse engineering, like social Marxism, basically, that we have to have a quality of outcome.
00:07:35.880And because the outcome of these drug laws are that women, too many indigenous women go to jail, we have to get rid of them all.
00:07:41.140And look what look what's happened over the last two, three years because of it, Brian.
00:07:45.420So Justice Minister David Lamedi brought it in.
00:07:48.700And, you know, from my recollection of the reporting and from what you've just read, most of my colleagues writing on this did not go past the press release because that's how the liberals framed it.
00:08:00.580indigenous women, young black men being caught up in the justice system. Oh, you know, they made a
00:08:06.680mistake. Again, I say to you, if you are caught three times and convicted of smuggling or selling
00:08:18.080illegal guns or trafficking at an industrial scale in drugs, that's not a youthful indiscretion.
00:08:25.500So yes, they wrapped it up in social justice and sold it. And most of the media didn't go
00:08:31.180past the press release. Or if they did, they said, oh, this is for minority in social justice. Let's
00:08:39.260go talk to activists from those groups. They didn't sit there and go through the legislation
00:08:44.220and say, because it's very difficult, by the way, when you get a piece of legislation like C5,
00:08:49.980it doesn't tell you in plain language what it's taking out it'll tell you uh this section is
00:08:56.940replaced by this well you have to go into the the actual criminal code look up the section and then
00:09:01.500see what they're replacing it with and it becomes quite shocking and that's why i was writing at the
00:09:05.900time this is this is utter insanity this is hug a thug catch and release um you know but there was
00:09:13.420a court uh court case that knocked down some mandatory minimum sentences but it didn't knock
00:09:18.940down the mall so they used a combination of court case saying that some mandatory minimums went too
00:09:24.700far and those were some horrific decisions by the supreme court that were purely political um there
00:09:31.020was one guy in alberta stoned out of his tree uh walking down the street with a rifle shooting at
00:09:38.140a house with uh two parents and two kids inside and so he was um charged he was convicted they
00:09:47.900They appealed. And based on the hypothetical, what the courts call a reasonable hypothetical,
00:09:54.540which is completely unreasonable, and they just make it up, they said, well, this law goes too
00:10:00.740far because it could be used against someone caught with an airsoft gun. So therefore,
00:10:07.160the entire mandatory minimum has to be thrown out. So the liberals took that decision,
00:10:11.320wrapped it up in social justice with saying indigenous women and black men are too overrepresented
00:10:18.400and took away common sense mandatory minimums so that that's why i think both on the life
00:10:25.160sentences for drug kingpins and getting rid of c5 i think paliev is on to something and i think the
00:10:30.840public mood is going to be with them and a lot of people who voted for justin trudeau in the past
00:10:35.600will look at his promise and say yeah that makes sense and then they'll look at the liberals what
00:10:40.220they've been doing on it, their response to the entire fentanyl crisis has been to put more
00:10:46.120opioids into our communities through these so-called safe supply, give them hydromorphone
00:10:53.140pills, which hasn't worked. I completely agree. I think that Canadians are done with this, right?
00:10:58.460Like I think when Bill C-5 was introduced, it was 2022, it was still sort of the zeitgeist was like
00:11:03.480social justice and woke politicians. And it was also in the wake of the unmarked graves hoax and
00:11:09.960moral panic that was happening around there so i think the idea of anything to help first nations
00:11:15.080canadians said okay uh sure uh whereas you know things have really changed and i think
00:11:19.560a lot a large part of that is donald trump driving the agenda driving the narrative to say well i
00:11:25.400think it was changing in canada on this stuff even before trump but you know he adds to it
00:11:31.720he has so yeah so polyev says that canada has become a drug manufacturing hot spot super labs
00:11:37.160in canada synthesize the drugs using precursor chemicals and the ingredients make fentanyl so
00:11:42.760the video again does a great job just kind of is showing what happens and to your point it's not
00:11:47.320happening in big big cities i mean it is too but it's also happening in smaller places like falkland
00:11:51.960bc um you know one of the things that i've noticed brian is that the legacy media has really
00:11:57.880downplayed uh canada's role in fentanyl you know you mentioned that the front page of the globe
00:12:03.000and mail there was uh talking about how really you know canada contributes such a small amount
00:12:07.960um compared to what's happening in the united states uh here we saw cnn making the same point
00:12:12.600canada makes up just 0.2 percent of border fentanyl uh seizures oh daniel dale of the toronto star
00:12:21.560okay yeah he's at cnn now but right daniel dale only checks one type of politician
00:12:27.160he does not fact check liberals yeah his fact checks are nauseating i think he fact checked
00:12:33.760after the trump harris debate and decided that trump had lied like 200 times and kamala harris
00:12:38.060had only lied once um which you know i i was watching i had almost the opposite you and i
00:12:43.020have been around politicians long enough to know they all lie well it depends yeah like like any
00:12:49.280any tiny little like minor you know even trump just kind of boasting in the way that he does
00:12:53.680daniel they would count that as a lie um whereas kamala harris like blatantly lying about the fact
00:12:58.000that there's no active servicemen in the united states anywhere and then that was like actively
00:13:02.720debunked by like active servicemen um sharing a video of themselves on social media so anyway
00:13:09.040yeah we've we've got this claim that that we're not an issue and then um trying to figure out i
00:13:15.360know we'll get into the border stuff in in a bit more but this relates to it uh trump's executive
00:13:21.440order on bringing in the tariffs that were supposed to hit Tuesday, the one that he signed
00:13:26.060on Saturday. It cites a report from Fintrac, a Canadian federal government agency. So I just
00:13:33.480want to read a quote here. It says, with respect to smuggling of illicit drugs across our northern
00:13:37.820border, Canada's Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center recently published a
00:13:43.140study on laundering of proceeds of illicit synthetic opioids, which recognize Canada's
00:13:48.560tightened domestic production of fentanyl, largely from British Columbia, and its growing footprint
00:13:53.400within international narcotics distribution. That report was up on the Fintrack website for
00:13:59.840several weeks. It's now down. We have our own reports saying this, and yet our national
00:14:06.340conversation, since Trump raised the issue, is, oh, there's nothing to see here. We're not bad.
00:14:11.720oh wait, one of our banks just paid a huge fine for laundering money in the States?
00:21:16.060um they they dispute the entire narrative around tariffs they believe tariffs are good
00:21:21.120and one of the reasons that they believe it's good is that it will bring back middle-class jobs to
00:21:25.900places like the the small town that lighthizer grew up on on the shores of lake erie in ohio
00:21:32.000uh where those blue-collar jobs are gone and they really believe that they need to bring that back
00:21:38.440in america and give people work with dignity and if that costs them a bit on the stock market or
00:21:43.180GDP growth, they're fine with that. And this is all laid out. They make it very plain in their
00:21:49.620writing. I just don't think enough Canadians are paying attention to what they're saying.
00:21:53.780And we're still stuck in this mentality of Reagan and Mulroney, and that's where everyone is. Or
00:22:02.480even 10, 15 years ago, you've been down to CPAC. For people that don't know CPAC, it's the big
00:22:09.820gathering of conservatives in washington it's not the canadian cable show you would hear a very
00:22:16.060different message 10 years ago than you'll hear there now they have the the message that vance
00:22:22.940and trump were are selling now would not have been welcomed 10 15 years ago at cpac now it's warmly
00:22:29.820embraced i i think that's right and i think the first time around when trump was running there
00:22:34.620was less of a consensus on the republican side i think than there is now brian i just think the
00:22:39.900world has really changed obviously since the reagan years you know when a lot of this free
00:22:45.020trade apparatus was set up um china was like an insignificant but growing economy uh you know i
00:22:52.460think it was in reagan's years we weren't worried about china we were worried about japan right in
00:22:57.820japan right yeah and the world is just so totally changed so it's like you're you're trying to set
00:23:03.660up a free trade apparatus with an actor in china that doesn't abide by our free trade
00:23:09.500like free market system and so the the mistake i think that canada's made is just putting itself
00:23:16.620in opposition to the united states and treating them like they are the enemy you know what i saw
00:23:20.620over the last week a lot of like uh chest thumping and saying like we can do it without uh the
00:23:25.820americans it's like well i mean what what kind of world would that look like um i think that canada
00:23:31.580needs to do everything it can to get back into Trump's good books to say, you know, we're part
00:23:36.880of the same continent. We want security for the entire hemisphere. Yes, you should change your
00:23:42.880trade structure with China because China cheats and crack down and change your rules and impose
00:23:48.340that tariff. But don't punish Canada when our entire economy has been set up to do back and
00:23:55.340forth across the border. And then I think that there are some sacred cows in Canadian domestic
00:24:00.720policy like trump trump's named a few of them um you know regulations around banking uh obviously
00:24:06.360airlines things like when it comes to uh dairy and the the supply management quotas that canada
00:24:12.220puts on like we we have a lot of you know anti-free trade barriers as well um what do you what do you
00:24:18.120make of or what's your reaction to that well first off the people saying that uh well we can do this
00:24:22.980without the uh americans uh we don't need them the only way that you can say that and believe that
00:24:28.840is if you are independently wealthy or part of the laptop class. If you make things,
00:24:36.340if you grow things, if you extract things from the ground, no, we can't.
00:24:43.540Look, can we do a better job of diversifying our trade? Absolutely, we can. And we should.
00:24:49.540Although Justin Trudeau announcing that he wants to kickstart talks again with the UK
00:24:53.560on a free trade agreement, while we're in the middle of dealing with this, is probably just
00:24:58.220going to annoy the Americans, so not bright. But we should do that. Even if we do that, though,
00:25:03.520and we take advantage of the, what, 15 free trade agreements that Stephen Harper signed
00:25:07.840specifically for this purpose that no one's taken advantage of, even if we do that, the
00:25:14.000United States is still going to be our biggest trading partner. So yeah, we need to be able to
00:25:21.340work with them. And they don't want us to, I'm sure Trump keeps talking about us being the 51st
00:25:27.640state. But really what they want, Candace, is they want a reliable partner. And whether,
00:25:34.820you know, sure, Trump hates Trudeau and doesn't see Canada as a reliable partner. Guess who else
00:25:42.040didn't see Canada as a reliable partner? Joseph R. Biden, Barack Obama. Like, this has been a
00:25:49.140problem for a long time now. So we have to start aligning ourselves better. You know,
00:25:56.560do we want to be with China or do we want to be with the U.S.? That's kind of the choice right
00:26:02.600now. Panama decided they were going to be with China and that caught Trump's ire. And when we
00:26:08.880were renegotiating NAFTA during Trump one, Justin Trudeau's decision to go in the middle of those
00:26:16.280renegotiations to try and get a free trade deal with China completely irritated the White House.
00:26:22.060Everybody in the Trump administration was furious. Why would we do that? It makes zero sense. But these guys, again, don't get that the world has changed. They're still dealing with a mindset that no longer exists.
00:26:36.500I remember when there was a bipartisan consensus in Washington that trade and opening up to China
00:26:45.680was good. When I started interviewing Peter Navarro, when his book Death by China came out,
00:26:51.840that was still the consensus. Navarro won the day on China. We'll see how he does in the second
00:26:59.440edition of the Trump administration, but he won the day. The bipartisan consensus is that China
00:27:04.020is a bad actor, as you said, that we need to alter the trading system because China doesn't
00:27:12.600play fair. They take advantage of it. They sell to us. We can't sell to them. You go to China to
00:27:17.460start a company. You have to allow them to be an equity partner in it. And often they just steal
00:27:24.080the company away from you in the end. So get out of this mindset that we have been in and
00:27:31.400look at the way the world is now. And we benefit from being under the American military protection
00:27:39.860umbrella, but we can't just rely on that. They will not keep paying for that if we're not a
00:27:46.780reliable partner. So we've got to beef up our military spending, get a freshwater port or a
00:27:53.580deepwater port in the Arctic, which, you know, the plans are already there. They've been asking for
00:27:58.240it. Start defending the Arctic, start defending our borders, stop playing footsies with China,
00:28:05.040and maybe align some of our trade policies. You mentioned dairy.
00:28:11.920When we renegotiated NAFTA, the Americans thought they were getting more access for
00:28:15.520their Wisconsin dairy farmers. And everyone walks out of the deal thinking that's what's happening.
00:28:23.760canadians immediately interpret it differently and block them 277 million us according to the
00:28:30.640wisconsin dairy farmers is what they lost out on you you start blocking that kind of trade
00:28:35.520and you're going to annoy everyone so the americans had accepted supply management
00:28:40.240and if we keep blocking them at every turn even when they think they've negotiated in good faith
00:28:45.600with us and they're willing to say yeah keep your supply management but we'd like some access
00:28:50.000and then we block that access guess what now they want the whole supply management system gone
00:28:55.440they might not be there yet but if our dairy farmers keep pushing the way they are they're
00:29:02.240going to blow up the entire free trade agreement with the united states and are we willing to do
00:29:07.040that in order to keep mostly quebec dairy farmers happy i know the block quebec was i mean that they
00:29:12.720would turn the entire economy into quebec dairy farmers if they could but that would be a really
00:29:17.760stupid move to block the americans so much that they say forget it either the whole supply management
00:29:23.200system's gone or we're ripping up the the trade agreement and we could end up at that point well
00:29:29.680i think that might be what it comes to brian i think that sometimes external pressure is exactly
00:29:34.400what we need uh to clean up our own house and another issue that's come up um in all of this
00:29:39.040is just the need for more inter-provincial trade it's been said so many times uh it's kind of become
00:37:50.860But remember, he was working under the guidance of Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty during the 2008-9 economic crash.
00:38:00.000He was governor of the Bank of Canada.
00:38:01.600They make some independent, strong decisions, but the big economic decisions were being made by Flaherty and Harper.
00:38:11.100But this guy who claims to be an outsider was courted by the liberals, went down to Scott Bryson's cottage in Nova Scotia while he was still bank governor, as he was being courted to run for liberal leader then.
00:38:25.300He backed out because Justin Trudeau jumped in.
00:38:27.620and the guy has been advising the government since 2020 uh he does all these videos with
00:38:36.820liberal cabinet ministers like uh jonathan wilkinson who's a you know everyone pays attention
00:38:42.380to stephen guibo because uh you know of how radical he is on the environment uh jonathan
00:38:48.860wilkinson is not different from him at all he just looks more respectable with his nice haircut and
00:38:53.840his glasses. He doesn't look like someone you'd see in an orange jumpsuit on the side of the CN
00:38:58.960Tower. Mark Carney's walking along with him, thanking him for his endorsement. Oh, we've
00:39:04.680known each other 25 years, is it now? Don't claim that you're an outsider. Okay, I would never claim
00:39:12.620to be a political outsider. Now, am I an outsider within the media landscape? Yes, because I write
00:39:19.020for the Toronto Sun because I used to work in private conservative talk radio. A lot of the
00:39:24.220media are like, oh, I don't want to associate with that. But I've been around this game for 25 odd
00:39:31.320years. I know people in every party. I know how to reach them, able to talk to them, get inside
00:39:39.000info. That's why I'm paid to do what I do. I couldn't claim to be a complete outsider at this
00:39:44.780point. Mark Carney is more ingratiated in the system than I am, and he's claiming he's an
00:39:49.640outsider. He's not, and that's why he gets a pass from the media. He's friends with an awful lot of
00:39:56.240them. If I ran into Mark on the street, we would know each other to say hi, could have a friendly
00:40:02.340conversation. We're not buddies, but he's actually got friends in the media, and I think that's why
00:40:08.040gets a pass. It's a little unreal. Look, I've got lots of politicians who I know, who I'm friends
00:40:16.840with, connections with. They still get kicked in the shins from me, and they know it. Mark Carney
00:40:21.200deserves to be asked serious questions about his policies, like he wants to bring in a carbon
00:40:27.200border adjustment, meaning a tariff. We're in the middle of fighting the Americans on tariffs,
00:40:33.000and his big carbon tax policy is you'll get rid of the consumer carbon tax, but put a carbon
00:40:38.380tariff on everything that comes from a country that doesn't have a climate plan that he approves
00:40:42.820of. The U.S. doesn't have a carbon tax. What do you want to bet it would be on American goods?
00:40:48.780And what do you think the reaction would be? You'd put the most left-wing Democrat in the
00:40:54.200White House. We put a carbon tariff on every import from America. What do you think the
00:40:59.700reaction is going to be from the Americans. Economic war. Well, absolutely. I think Canada
00:41:06.340certainly dodged a bullet this week when Trump decided to move away from the 25% tariff, although
00:41:12.280to your point, it might still come and other tariffs might still come. But it seems like Trump
00:41:16.860has, you know, he's moved on. He's talking about a new deal, not talking about Canada being the
00:41:22.18051st state anymore. And now he's talking about Gaza. So I want to talk to you, Brian, about this
00:41:26.800latest development, Trump had Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House
00:41:31.940yesterday. And Trump just made this absolute bombshell announcement saying that the U.S. will
00:41:37.320take over Gaza and develop it and that the Palestinians should leave. Unbelievable. So I
00:41:44.120want to play this clip. Here is Trump talking about what he wants to do. The U.S. will take over the
00:41:49.940Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling
00:41:56.780all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site level the site and get rid
00:42:02.940of the destroyed buildings level it out create an economic development that will supply unlimited
00:42:09.980numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area do a real job do something different
00:42:17.180just can't go back if you go back it's going to end up the same way it has for a hundred years
00:42:21.740so i i guess gaza's gonna be the 51st state not canada we might we might be 52 brian what do you
00:42:28.100what do you make of this uh quite the bold prediction i i don't know who's going to live
00:42:35.120there after it's developed though is he going to give it to israel or will the gossians be able to
00:42:39.900come back i i you know if you haven't been there it's heartbreaking to see what's happening
00:42:47.700because Gaza could actually be the next Dubai. It's on the Mediterranean. They've got beautiful
00:42:54.140beaches. They've got wonderful spots. It could be a tourist Mecca. Nobody wants to go there. Why?
00:43:00.260Because for more than 20 years, they've used it as an armed camp to build up machines of war
00:43:06.900and terrorist attacks and constantly attack Israel. They could develop into the most amazing
00:43:13.680locations. Donald Trump's not boasting when he says that. Everybody I talked to in Israel said
00:43:20.800if they would stop fighting us, they could have the most amazing economy over there,
00:43:26.540but they won't. So I'm not sure he could do this. It's an interesting proposal.
00:43:35.900What's he going to do to get Egypt and Jordan to take their share of the 1.8 million
00:43:42.060Gazans that are there right now? I don't know. But it is telling that none of the neighboring
00:43:49.280countries want this population in their country. Why? Because it is the most radicalized place on
00:43:56.060earth. One of the stories I was told was that at the start of UNRWA, which Trump has said he's not
00:44:03.040going to fund anymore, and neither should we, at the start of UNRWA, after the Arab-Israeli war
00:44:11.820in 47, 48, they thought, okay, we'll do like a Marshall plan for the area and help the Arabs
00:44:20.600build up. And they sent in an American official who had dealt with development in the United
00:44:26.500States very successfully. And after a while, he quit. And they said, well, why are you quitting?
00:44:32.180And he said, because we can't resettle and rebuild with a population that doesn't want to move on.
00:44:39.580the popular and this this was around 19 or 1950 or early 50s he'd spent a couple years trying to
00:44:47.840rebuild and he said they don't want to move on they don't want to change they just want to go
00:44:53.260back and take over israel and destroy it what has changed in the 75 years since nothing and so
00:45:00.680leaving hamas in place though that's not an answer leaving unwritten place that's not an answer
00:45:08.760but I don't know if what Trump is suggesting here is feasible. You always have to look and say,
00:45:14.920okay, is he serious or is he doing this? That's my opening position. We'll settle for something
00:45:21.060else. Yeah. I mean, maybe he's trying to entice Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates or
00:45:27.220someone else to say, no, no, we'll step in and take over. I mean, I agree. Look, it's interesting
00:45:33.700to watch because every real power and presumably Canada will condemn this as well and say,
00:45:38.760no, this violates international law, you cannot displace these people. The reality is that during
00:45:43.320a war, you would move people out. A lot of the people have already been displaced and removed.
00:45:48.440And the whole point of a refugee program is to resettle them elsewhere. That's what we did with
00:45:52.520Syrian refugees. They left Syria because they couldn't be there anymore. And they got resettled
00:45:56.200all over. So again, Trump said, you know, that the US will take it, they'll own it. Trump sort
00:46:02.440of sounding like a real estate mogul there, like, you know, he's going to do a deal, he's going to
00:46:05.640build some beautiful resorts or something along the mediterranean beaches there um and then he
00:46:10.440said that the territory uh that the people should move to uh territory in countries like jordan and
00:46:15.560egypt and to the point he just made um these countries have resisted because it's such a
00:46:19.240radicalized population like at this point i think it's like canada and the uk are the only countries
00:46:23.320that have actually said that they would take even just a small number one other one or two others
00:46:28.760uh and i think indonesia took them for you know in exchange for some cash uh but the
00:46:34.680i think saudi arabia could do a good job um in the area they they are uh not tolerant of radical
00:46:43.400populations um they are trying to uh you know they know that they had their own
00:46:51.320problem with radicalization and they're in some ways trying to reform their branch of islam so
00:46:56.440So they may be able to do something good
00:46:59.280and they would be able to develop it very well.
00:47:03.400But nobody wants to invest and create jobs in Gaza.
00:47:07.040Nobody wants to go and stay at a hotel in Gaza
00:47:10.920because you'll get, even before the war started,
00:47:16.940So the solution at the end of this has to be
00:47:21.460that the terrorist group that took billions of dollars
00:47:24.400aid money from countries like Canada, like the United States, like Germany, and dug up water
00:47:30.880pipes that were supposed to make sure people had clean water to drink, dug them up or just never
00:47:37.680put them in the ground and used those water pipes to build rockets, those people can't be left in
00:47:43.480charge. The people that starve their own population or use them as human shields can't be left in
00:47:48.860charge. And right now, if Israel just walks away, that's who's left in charge, unless somebody else
00:47:55.280like the US or Saudi Arabia goes in and cleans things up. But it'll take a long time to de-radicalize
00:48:03.260a population that has been taught in schools that you and I paid for to hate Jews simply for
00:48:11.180existing. And that's what they've been taught for far too long. It's so true. Like everyone knows
00:48:16.740status quo is broken everyone knows we can't go back to how we were before october 7th i i just
00:48:21.300i appreciate trump for kind of coming up with an outside the box unique solution and even if it's
00:48:25.380just to get the ball rolling and try to get someone else to actually take over this land i i think
00:48:29.460that's the the right uh step in the right direction anyway it's it if i can just say this it's smarter
00:48:35.540than saying let's have a two-state solution who's the other state who's the other partner they don't
00:48:40.820exist exactly because you can't have terrorists um running running that place anymore i want to
00:48:46.580talk with you about the ontario election i know you're there in toronto in queen's park uh reporting
00:48:50.900on it we had uh both uh major candidates uh under a bit of fire in the last few hours here uh for
00:48:57.700uh hot mic incidents so um just to provide a bit of uh context for everybody so doug ford triggered
00:49:04.660an election last week the election date here in ontario will be february 27th um so it will come
00:49:11.140before the um updated 30 day or 28 day um pause on tariffs interesting because doug ford kind of
00:49:18.020triggered this election saying that the ballot box question was who could best deal with trump
00:49:22.020and respond to trump and that issue has kind of been neutralized and so now we have an election
00:49:26.020and i'm not sure what the ballot box question is maybe you can answer that uh for us but first um
00:49:30.500Doug Ford, much like Donald Trump, has received union endorsements, which is not something that's
00:49:35.540common for conservatives. So he has a whole number of unions, including Unifor, the United
00:49:41.180Auto Workers, endorsing him. PCs are projected to win a massive majority. They're pulling up 45%
00:49:48.240to the Liberals, 27%, which may equate to PCs getting something like 99 seats, the Liberals
00:49:54.600getting wiped down to third place with nine seats in the NDP with 13. So, well, first of all,
00:50:01.600we'll go to Doug Ford's hot mic situation. So here he was on Tuesday where he accidentally
00:50:07.020let it split that he was happy that Donald Trump was elected. So let's play that clip.
00:50:24.600So I don't know if Ford realized that he was audio, audio was on there, but you could hear him say that he was 100% happy when Donald Trump won the election, then he felt betrayed saying that Trump pulled out the knife and yanked it into us. Later on that campaign stop, he was asked if he is still supporting Donald Trump. And he replied, absolutely not. Let's play that clip.
00:50:46.040You've previously voiced support or admiration, I suppose, for Donald Trump.
00:50:53.780Do you still consider yourself a Trump supporter?
00:51:45.580i don't go to anything in brampton it's not my city i don't care not my city i don't care i'm
00:51:54.380not clear exactly when that video audio came from um but it is making the rounds trending
00:52:00.060and circulating not a great thing for someone who wants to be premier of the entire province
00:52:04.220uh so brian what's your take on all this well in fairness to crombie uh um my understanding
00:52:09.900and she said that while she was mayor of mississauga and but you know is that going
00:52:14.460going to help her in Brampton. She was just in Brampton campaigning on a tax cut and trying to
00:52:18.200win some seats there. I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think it'll hurt her in
00:52:23.900Mississauga, which is pretty big suburb of Toronto and vote rich. And outside of Brampton and
00:52:30.700Mississauga, nobody's going to care. Because if you don't, if you live in Ottawa, if you live in
00:52:36.180Richmond Hill, if you live in Hamilton, you don't care about Brampton either. So it's not going to
00:52:41.280an issue but it will hurt her in that area and the liberals were hoping to make gains there
00:52:46.320uh they're the only ones that can take those seats away from the pcs this time i don't think
00:52:50.080the ndp who won some seats in the area in 2018 i don't think they can do it now
00:52:55.920we'll see how the the hot mic about donald trump um plays out or maybe it's already played out i
00:53:03.920mean the news cycle is so fast these days if people moved on it'd be hard to say since november
00:53:10.08025th when trump posted his um his uh you know comments about 25 tariffs which were shocking to
00:53:19.040everybody he had talked about 10 tariffs never 25 aimed at canada nobody's been more vocal in trying
00:53:27.040to fix that than doug ford i mean he's he's even done more interviews than danielle smith she's
00:53:33.040probably like right behind him the two of them on american media constantly trying to make canada's
00:53:39.120case. The prime minister wasn't. So you can't say that he's been out there endorsing what Trump's
00:53:45.480doing now. So we'll have to wait and see if it hurts him in a couple of days. The opposition
00:53:51.560parties just aren't able to punch through right now, though. And you said that the tariff issue
00:53:58.580has kind of been neutralized. No, no. And Ford has been rightly making these comments. Whether
00:54:06.220it's tomorrow, next week, next month, six months from now, there's going to be more tariffs and
00:54:11.200there's going to be more protectionist measures. Why would he have been in favor of Trump over
00:54:16.440Kamala Harris, though? What most people don't realize is that the Democrats were incredibly
00:54:22.700protectionist. Just like there's been a change in the bipartisan consensus on trade overall and on
00:54:28.820China, protectionism is back in vogue in both parties. And the only difference between Trump
00:54:34.680and the Democrats, whether it's Obama, Biden, or Harris, is that the Democrats will come at you
00:54:41.380smiling and give you a big hug and tell you how wonderful you are while they slip the knife
00:54:46.020between your ribs. And Trump comes at you with the knife up here screaming that he's coming for you.
00:54:52.140He tells you up front. They do it sneakily. Harris was behind some legislation that most of it passed,
00:54:59.880the Inflation Reduction Act. But there were other features in the original edition of the
00:55:05.060Inflation Reduction Act that would have decimated Ontario's auto industry. And the only reason that
00:55:10.800got taken out was that Senator Joe Manson from Virginia, and I forget the name of the two
00:55:15.720Democrat senators in Georgia, they represented auto plants that weren't unionized. And they
00:55:20.840had included language that said it had to be unionized. So some of that got watered down.
00:55:25.440But at the end of the day, the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRA, is still the reason why all those EV battery deals, the billions and billions to Stellantis and Volkswagen, thankfully, those have not been paid out yet, by the way.
00:55:41.180Those were to match what the Americans were offering in the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:55:47.560the good news is the language in the contract says if one if you don't produce the batteries
00:55:53.100you don't get the tax break it's a tax break not a direct handout and two if the inflation
00:55:58.240reduction act is rescinded or goes away in any way shape or form we're off the hook looks like
00:56:03.720Trump's going to get rid of that so he may save Canadian and Ontario taxpayers billions but that's
00:56:09.140why he would be in favor of Trump rather than Harris Harris was trying to kill off the auto
00:56:12.940industry and, you know, doing it sneakily. Trump is now threatening the auto industry, doing it
00:56:18.340loudly. At least you know where he's coming from. Yeah, I don't think that many people would begrudge
00:56:24.580Ford for saying that he supported Trump. I mean, I think that it's not 2016 anymore. Trump was
00:56:29.100actually one in a huge majority and he's popular in large swaths of the population. Brian, let's
00:56:35.040just get to this really quickly because I saw, you know, Elon Musk came in, had a mandate,
00:56:41.700placed in the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
00:56:45.780A lot of people are kind of shooting the messenger for him
00:56:48.240for pointing out horribly wasteful programs.
00:56:50.800One of the ones that they set their eyes on is USAID.
00:56:54.120And I saw that you tweeted that this whole fight over USAID
00:56:59.120reminds me of Stephen Harper's fight with CETA.
00:57:01.400In Ottawa, Foreign Affairs thinks they work for themselves,
00:57:04.960not the people in government, but CETA was worse.
00:57:07.980So Harper sent in Bev Oda to clean it up.
00:57:10.560and oh boy so just real quick because we've just got a minute or two left here yeah what do you
00:57:15.820think of what elon musk is doing and uh do you think that we can do it up here in canada as well
00:57:20.120well bevota did it for stephen harper uh years ago and i remember asking harper and one of the
00:57:25.600controversies people were always out to get out i said why do you stand by her and he said because
00:57:30.220you haven't seen the good work she's done cleaning up the department i'm guessing some of what she
00:57:34.680cleaned up is now messy again so yeah we're going to need that sort of thing but you you'll look at
00:57:40.120some of the things that USAID is paying for, and you say, why would American taxpayers be
00:57:46.180half a million dollars to spread atheism in Nepal? Don't you think the Nepalese government
00:57:52.040might say, what are you doing? You're going to annoy people with projects like this, or
00:57:56.920paying for sex change operations in other countries. Why? What are you doing? So, you know,
00:58:03.960look, there's some good programs they do, just like there's good programs CETA does,
00:58:08.980but there's always a lot of radical left stuff in there and you got to keep your eyes on for it.
00:58:14.380It's like in the Ontario education system. It's whack-a-mole. You smack one of the crazy ideas
00:58:19.280down, it pops up somewhere else. So whoever has that job when Polyev wins, which I hope happens
00:58:26.020soon, they're going to have their hands full. Well, I nominated Franco from the CTF. We had
00:58:31.220him on the show yesterday and he had nothing but examples. So I said, okay, I think that you should
00:58:35.060go in there and clean house. All right, Brian Lilly, it's such a pleasure. Thank you so much
00:58:38.340for joining us and thank you for all your insights. Thank you. All right, folks, we're
00:58:42.520going to leave it there. Thank you so much for tuning in. We'll be back again tomorrow
00:58:46.080with all the news. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.