Juno News - January 23, 2026Mark Carney UNINVITED from Trump’s “Board of Peace”
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The FBI has arrested Canadian Ryan James Wedding, the number six most wanted fugitive in the United States. The former Olympian snowboarder is suspected of being a cocaine trafficker, thought to have been in hiding in Mexico for over a decade.
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The FBI has arrested Canadian Ryan James Wedding in Mexico, the number six most wanted fugitive
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in the United States. The former Olympian snowboarder is suspected of being a cocaine
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trafficker, thought to have been in hiding in Mexico for over a decade. He's been taken to
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the United States to face charges. FBI Director Cash Patel is in Los Angeles with the details.
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Today, we are announcing a capture of another FBI's most wanted top 10 fugitive, Ryan Wedding.
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That makes six top 10 FBI captures in one year alone. And just to tell you how bad of a guy
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Ryan Wedding is, he went from an Olympic snowboarder to the largest narco trafficker in modern times.
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He's a modern day El Chapo. He is a modern day Pablo Escobar. And he thought he could evade
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justice. But these brave men and women put together a prosecution package, put together
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investigative packets, put together an operation strategy. And here we are today, bringing him
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to justice for trafficking hundreds of kilos of cocaine and also for the murder of innocent
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Now, police say Wedding ran a drug trafficking operation that shipped hundreds of kilos of
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cocaine from Colombia through Mexico into the United States and Canada. He's also suspected
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of ordering the murders of those who threatened his operation. He'll be in court on Monday.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on consumers not to buy Chinese EVs once those vehicles are
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shipped into Canada. Ford says consumers need to consider the impact on manufacturing jobs in
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Ontario before they even think of kicking the tires on these vehicles.
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A moment ago, you said you're discouraging Canadians from buying one of the 49,000.
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Are you officially asking Canadians, Ontarians to boycott any of the 49,000 Chinese-made EVs that
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come to Canada? That is exactly what I'm saying, Colin. So thank you for that.
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Say your word. Sorry, you're asking them to boycott the Chinese EV vehicles, support,
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support companies that are building vehicles here. It's as simple as that. This is a team
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While Prime Minister Carney agreed to import 49,000 of these vehicles in a recent deal in exchange
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for China cutting tariffs on canola and other agricultural products.
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President Trump has uninvited Canada to join the Board of Peace. Trump posted this on his
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social media site. Dear Prime Minister Carney, please let this letter serve to represent that
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the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada's joining what will be the
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most prestigious group of leaders, board of leaders ever assembled at any time.
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Joe Warmigdon will be joining us today with that story. Here's his headline in the Toronto Sun.
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Mark Carney's Board of Peace invite rescinded and laid a spat with the United States.
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As many as 30 countries have already signed on, but most of America's traditional allies,
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like Britain, France, Germany, have so far declined. The aim of the board is to promote peace,
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but some worry its intention is really to ultimately replace the United Nations.
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Carney was asked about trade negotiations with Trump. He called the question boring.
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Okay, what else are you going to do for affordability for Canadians?
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Our guest today is Joe Warmigdon of the Toronto Sun, and he's been very busy writing about Trump,
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Carney, Canada's role in the world. Welcome once again, Joe.
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Yeah, it's good to be with you. It's historical times right now. There's so many,
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you know, I guess things that people won't forget about this era, that's for sure.
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Well, you've got a couple of stories. This one included Mark Carney's Board of Peace invite
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rescinded in latest spat with the United States. We were invited and then we were uninvited.
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Well, I don't think the Board of Peace part is really all that relevant to it. It was basically
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the president reminding Mark Carney, you went to Davos and you humiliated himself. I mean,
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like in terms of going out Trump, he tried to humiliate him. He spewed a lot of things that were
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kind of like real leftist kind of Davos style, WEF, you know, UN climate change nonsense out of
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America. And he did it in front of, you know, Americans, but also the whole world.
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So what do you expect you're going to get? You know, obviously, President Trump, when he was on
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the stage, he said, you know, he reminded Mark by name, you know, don't forget who you're messing
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with here. And then, of course, we were all waiting for this shoe to drop. I was checking
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True Social every hour, Mark, to see what he would respond with. So far, he came up with this Board of
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Peace thing. That's not going to hurt us all that much. But if he extends that into things like travel
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visas or, you know, in all the Cold War, which is where this could head to, that is going to affect
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us. And so I'd like to see Prime Minister Carney tone down this idea that he's the leader of this
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weird resistance against President Trump and realize that the American blood that goes through
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Canada's veins is kind of necessary for us to survive. You can go make deals with China and
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all this stuff all day long. It's not going to replace the 83% of the GDP and all the things that
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come from Americans. That's our neighbor. It's our best friend. And, you know, it needs to be repaired
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and not lit on fire worse. Yeah, I mean, there's an economic price to be paid for all of this.
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Well, it's our livelihood. Our future is at stake. I mean, look, if you look at the
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the world, there's not many places. There's only seven in that G7, but there's only about 10 countries
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in total that have what we have in terms of an economy and the lifestyle that we have. We want
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to keep it. The reason, you know, you have to look in the mirror and say, why do we have it? Well,
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we have it because the American market is there. Yes, they want to change it. Yes, sometimes they're
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bullies and whatever. That's the way it is when the big dog is in the pound. But to turn around and say,
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no, we're going to just, you know, blow by you and all of that, we're going to belittle you
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on the world stage amongst the very people that Trump hates, who he went there to kind of belittle
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himself. It was nonsense. Look, it worked for Carney in terms of his own brand. His speech was, you know,
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highly lauded around the world. And he's considered the anti-Trump leader. That's not good for you and me
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or anybody that works in the street level here. We don't have Brookfield stock. We don't have blind
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trusts. We have overdraft and we have a hard time paying our bills. And that's the fact we want to
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keep it, whatever, whatever we do have, we would like to keep it. Yeah. As far as Carney's speech
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goes, I mean, some of the media suggests that it was all about Trump, but Carney was talking about
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the great powers. That's plural. So obviously he was talking about China. And if you look at the way
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China, no, he doesn't get that mark. Sorry. He doesn't get to say that after coming back and signing a
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deal with China and then talking about global governance, he was talking about America and
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Trump. And he tried to do a sneaky little thing about, oh, world powers is China. Oh, by the way,
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I just got back from there and I just talked about how great they are. You know, I'm sorry,
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but I don't mean to cut you off, but I was like, my goodness, I heard, I heard other,
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I heard other people trying to spin it that way too. I just don't see it that way.
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The two Michaels. China arrested the two Michaels. China put up the huge 100% tariffs on our canola.
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China has spied on us. China has stolen our intellectual property.
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So I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm just saying Carney doesn't get to say it. It's ridiculous.
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Carney doesn't get to lead on that though. He's the one that went over,
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not with the elbows up, but with bended knee to China. And he also went over to Qatar.
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So he doesn't lecture us about these kinds of things about global powers, but he's playing,
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you know, a real dangerous game with the very people that also, you know,
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they protect us, but they provide us with the lifestyle of the market that they do.
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Our life here is because of the American way of life and let's not kid ourselves.
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And so, no, I get your point, Mark. I do. I'm not clapping back at you. I'm clapping back
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at the notion that the Carney spin machine is to saying that they meant China. They didn't mean China.
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They just opened up the market for them to bring these phony cars in here that are so-called battery
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operated into our market while we're losing market share. We're losing shifts here in Oshawa. I wrote
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about that this week. There's over 5,000 jobs in Ontario alone that are disappearing as we speak.
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I mean, the, the premier board has called for a boycott of these Chinese vehicles.
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Well, I think, you know, again, it's, that's another soundbite from the premier and it sounds good.
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Uh, welcome to the party. I mean, you know, he's been running around his best friend,
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Christian Freeland and Carney and Trudeau for all these years. And now all of a sudden,
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when he sees that Polly have is in some sort of trouble and he may want to run for the leadership,
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he's deciding that he's going to be that voice of opposition. Now, having said that,
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I do agree with Doug on this one. There's no way I'm buying a Chinese EV, uh, you know,
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especially on the backs of our workers losing their, their livelihoods, their houses and their
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kids' futures. And, you know, while they're pumping all that fentanyl into our country,
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which is destroying our, our, our people, uh, sorry, I, I do agree with the premier on it,
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but I just say, you know, welcome to the fight, premier.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, you brought up fentanyl. I mean, we just also had the arrest of Ryan,
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uh, Wedding, of course, in Mexico. He was number six on the list of most wanted in the United States.
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Uh, a guy who really became known as a snowboarder and Olympian for Canada. And boy, he went on to
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much bigger things, you know, in a way when he ventured into the world that he is suspected of
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venturing into, but they got him, they arrested him in Mexico and Kash Patel was talking about
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that. I mean, that's one less bad guy behind bars anyway, Joe.
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Well, I mean, you know, again, it, this doesn't help Canada. I mean, the very fact that Ryan
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Wedding is there, you saw the way that the Trump administration are suggesting that
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there's dangers from the North to their border. When we all feel that it's, you know, more trouble
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from the South, their South, but this doesn't help that, you know, Ryan Wedding, I was out at that
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Olympics that he was in, you know, I found that whole snowboarding crowd that, you know, it was
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kind of like they let people into the Olympics that never thought they'd be in it. They were all
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a little out there, if you will. They were fun to talk to, but let's not kid ourselves. They, they,
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they lived an alternative lifestyle. I don't know how he got into all that stuff. And I am
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a big believer in, uh, due process. So I'll listen to the evidence because I've felt that they've
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always pumped this guy up as a bit of a celebrity, uh, style, uh, convict or, or a fugitive that they
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could kind of sell. Uh, so I never know for sure what I'm reading or what I'm seeing, whether it's
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real or not, maybe I'll put a request in to talk to Ryan wedding, but from based on what I've seen,
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it sure doesn't look good for him. Uh, lots of fancy cars and weapons and drugs. And, you know,
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he was, he was taunting, um, if it was his, uh, you know, his, his own social media,
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he was taunting the authorities and things like that. So, you know, you mess with the big boys,
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uh, you're going to get, uh, you know, you're going to get what you get.
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Yeah. He was nabbed. I mean, a guy like that, and I want, I'm going to move on from this story.
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I just couldn't help noticing. I mean, his looks, he's, he's very well, for lack of a better word,
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white, like he's a ginger. He appears to be like a red haired guy. I mean, a guy who's going to stand
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out in Mexico, like a sore thumb, you know, if I look like him, I, I might go to Ireland or somewhere
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or blend in a guy like that would not be able to blend in in Mexico. So I'm not, I'm surprised.
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I wonder, you know, again, I just, the last point on Ryan wedding is that,
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you know, I want to hear and see more details because he, he almost feels like,
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like, I wonder if he could have been some sort of maybe an addict or something along those lines,
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as opposed to being this big drug kingpin, but I'm not denouncing what, you know, the FBI,
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great work. They found them and the RCMP helped and good law enforcement. So let's,
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let's give them their due. But at the same time, I don't think we're supposed to be cheerleaders here.
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Show me the goods. Let's see it. And then we'll report on it.
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I think the RCP commissioner was down there for that announcement with Cash Patel, I believe.
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Well, we got a story before you go. Trump's vile lie that NATO front in Afghanistan, pure fiction.
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This really got under your skin and anybody, including myself, who interviewed the families of
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Canadian soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan, knowing the incredible pain and loss they feel,
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would have to find this repugnant by the, by the president.
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He's way off base. He's way off base. He needs to walk that back. And, you know,
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I would say, apologize. The guy's not infallible. You know, he gets a really a big wide berth from
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a lot of people, you know, in the conservative style media say like, you know, on Greenland and different
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things, kind of go with it, go with it. But you're not going to urinate on our troops like he did. And that's
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exactly what he did. If you've got the quotes in front of you, you can, you can read them. But
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the reality of it is that he's basically suggesting, or more than basically, he is suggesting
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that the Americans were the ones that did all the heavy lifting in Afghanistan
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and other conflicts. It's just not true. I call it a lie. In Afghanistan, Canadians, we lost 158
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troops there. I was on the highway heroes many times. I was also in Afghanistan with those brave
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troops and with NATO troops from all over the place, the Brits and, you know, many other places
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that served. In fact, of the, you know, 3,800 or whatever the number is of people that died in that
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war, which we handed the property back over to the Taliban at the end. So it was all wasted time.
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More than a thousand were from other NATO countries, a thousand, more than a thousand. So for the president
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to get up and say that they don't matter and that they were on the side and in the back, I mean,
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that is a gross, gross, fictional rewrite of history. And he has to be called out on it. I
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interviewed Major General, retired Dean Milner, who was a commander of troops in Afghanistan. How
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about that? And he said that it was, you know, ridiculous. Again, he said the president's right
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about, you know, the Greenland things and the NATO investments and, you know, Canada not being able
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to defend its own sovereignty. He said that the president has kicked everyone's butts.
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And they needed that. And he's right. But on this, he's not only was it rude and crass and
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just disrespectful. It's wrong. It's out and out wrong. And, you know, in terms of history,
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I mean, Canada has always been there first. World War I, World War II, you name it. Afghanistan,
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we're there. We're there many times before the Americans were there, particularly in World War I and
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II. And you know what? We've got to stand up for our troops. I mean, there's people buried all over the
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world under a Canadian flag. So the president is, you know, has been accused of saying some things
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before about the troops. I never really bought it. This time I heard it with my own bloody ears
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and I didn't like it. And, you know, again, you criticize and you praise on each issue. And on this
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one, that's an F for me. Yeah, absolutely. No disagreement on my end. But he's not the first
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president to kind of diss our troops a little bit. I can distinctly remember during the war in
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Afghanistan, four of our troops were killed by friendly fire and Bush kind of sloughed it off at
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first. He didn't give it the degree of attention and concern that he should have when it first happened.
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And so, you know, Trump's not the first. That doesn't make it right by any stretch, but I don't know
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what it is. You know, it's an indicator, though, of the lack of respect that the Americans sometimes
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have for other countries because they do the heavy lifting and their troops were very brave there. I
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was on all their aircraft and everything. And I just was just so impressed with the Americans that I met
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in Afghanistan. Think the world of them. And, you know, they don't, maybe they don't think the world
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of us or maybe their leaderships don't. But that doesn't change the fact, Mark, that this did happen.
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And we lost 158 soldiers. Many of them were blown up. And, you know, we lost civilians as well. We don't
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forget that. And then, of course, the other troops. So, you know, from the other NATO countries. So the
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president, if he wants people and Americans want other countries in NATO or whatever it is to back them up in
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wars in the future, you know, you're going to wonder, well, if we go and we lose, you know,
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Canadians there, is it going to be a punchline for you? Because if it is, no, thank you. I mean,
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it's not exactly easy to sell losing people and having them come home and body bags. And that,
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by the way, is how the Highway of Heroes happened. And I remember, you know, Candace is, you know,
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obviously the boss at your network here, she would remember because her and I covered a lot of this
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stuff for the Sun back in the day. And the reason we did it was because we wanted the Canadian public
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to feel something and a sense of pride towards the Canadian troops. That's how the Highway of Heroes
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happened. You know, it was something that I was out in Trenton. I saw the people on the bridges. It was an
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organic movement. And we just put a title on it, the Highway of Heroes, because that's what it was.
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And that became very important to Canadians, because now they understood what the sacrifice
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was for. So to have someone come along and say that sacrifice didn't exist, and they were in the,
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you know, in the back and they didn't do anything. My goodness, you know, that really was a punch in
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the head. And I, you know, like, I'm not one, like, I'm not saying, you know, I'm just,
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I'm calling out the president on this issue. And I think it was important to do it.
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And I hope others do it too. All right. Joe Warmington,
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you can check out his terrific work in the pages of the Toronto Sun. Thank you,
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Joe. Appreciate this. I'm glad to be here. All the best. Have a great weekend.
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You too, my friend. And that is it for this edition of Straight Up. Appreciate you
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tuning in, my friends. Let's do it again soon, shall we? Bye-bye for now.