Juno News - No budget, no confidence vote, no accountability! Carney Cabinet is an absolute DUMPSTER FIRE

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. We have an excellent episode for

00:00:06.280 you today, folks. So it has just been a few days since Mark Carney has assembled his cabinet,

00:00:12.040 this ragtag crew of recycled liberals. It looks exactly the same as the Trudeau cabinet. There's

00:00:17.840 a few new sort of star cabinet ministers, and yet they are each a disaster. Each one is worse than

00:00:23.680 the other. So anytime one of these people gets up in front of a microphone, speaks to reporters,

00:00:28.180 the whole game is given away. The whole idea that this has changed, that this represents some kind

00:00:32.440 of new government, it is the exact same as the previous government, and we are going to go

00:00:38.020 through that. Today, absolutely stunning news. We learned that we will not have a budget this year,

00:00:43.680 that Canada will not table a budget, which means no hope of a cabinet, of a confidence vote,

00:00:49.220 no threat to the Carney government that they could go down before they even start. We will show you

00:00:53.680 all of the dirty tricks that the Liberal government is rolling out already, and I'm very pleased today

00:00:58.040 to be joined by Wyatt Claypool. Wyatt is a political commentator and founder of the National

00:01:02.800 Telegraph based in Calgary. Wyatt, thank you so much for joining the show.

00:01:07.080 Absolutely. I usually don't like talking about budget, so maybe Mark Carney did this for me,

00:01:12.880 because it makes it simpler to talk about. But yeah, you'd think that the master businessman

00:01:18.620 and the man who's worked as the governor of the Bank of Canada and England would be able to

00:01:22.960 at least do the finances properly. They're not going to be great, but they're filed and formatted

00:01:27.700 properly, but I guess not. Well, it's just a total abdication of any responsibility. How are you

00:01:33.340 supposed to have any accountability? How are you supposed to be held to account by the opposition

00:01:37.160 if you're not even providing the basic information? So let's just play this clip. This is Finance

00:01:43.480 Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne speaking to CTV's Vassie Capellos, where he just sort of lets it

00:01:50.280 out, lets this bombshell out that no, Canada will not be getting a budget this year. Let's play that

00:01:54.880 clip. I want to ask you explicitly, will there be an actual budget in 2025? There will be a fall

00:02:01.540 economic statement when we're coming back. How are we as Canadians to hold your government

00:02:05.780 accountable for what you're promising if you're not going to be transparent about it for six months

00:02:10.220 or so? And I take your point about the timeline. There's still another month. And I would say this

00:02:14.540 is a new government. So let's start, if we're going to start, this is a new government, new

00:02:18.000 legislature, new prime minister. So the direction is very clear. He's being very- But you're still

00:02:22.320 the finance minister. Yeah, I'm still the finance minister. And I would say the world has changed

00:02:25.620 also in six weeks. So Canadians understand that. Okay, so let's go to X. Table Salt points this out.

00:02:32.460 Countries that are not doing an annual budget in 2025 include Afghanistan under the Taliban,

00:02:37.500 North Korea, the Palestinian authority under Hamas, Iraq, Iran, etc. And yet Canada will not

00:02:45.680 be doing one. Well, Polyev issued a statement saying this. First, he said, Parliament has already

00:02:52.020 been shut down for nearly half a year. Now in the face of serious economic threats, the liberals don't

00:02:57.160 intend to present a budget this year. There is no roadmap forward, no economic vision, no willingness

00:03:03.220 to lead. This is not the leadership Mark Carney promised. It's an abandonment. Okay, and then he

00:03:08.440 was also speaking to reporters earlier this morning, Wyatt, and here is what he had to say.

00:03:14.500 Mr. Carney said during the election campaign that he had a plan. And he took great delight in saying

00:03:21.080 that a slogan is not a plan. Well, a budget is a plan. And if he does indeed have a plan, if he does

00:03:28.060 know what he's doing, then he would introduce a budget so that Canadians know exactly what the

00:03:34.060 finances are.

00:03:36.280 And just one final piece of context that I wanted to add here, Wyatt, which is that we didn't really

00:03:41.560 get one last year either. Philippe Francois Champagne said that he that they had a fall economic

00:03:47.440 update. But because they prorogued Parliament, parts of that were never approved. You can recall

00:03:52.080 that in the middle of the election campaign, this bombshell was dropped. This is from an account

00:03:56.940 called Canada Spends. And I just want to point this out that it is run by a liberal, right? This is

00:04:01.440 not a right wing account. This is run by someone who used to work in the Trudeau government, who is

00:04:06.660 just sick and tired of government's spending like there's no tomorrow. So this is what the account

00:04:12.160 writes. The government approved $40 billion in spending from April 1st to May 15th through a

00:04:17.720 special warrant. This was done because Parliament is prorogued and it's not possible to make

00:04:21.880 appropriations. The only information shared with Canadians is a list of departments and the total

00:04:26.920 amount. According to the document, the appropriate ministers have reported that the payment of these

00:04:32.140 sums is urgently required for the public good. We'll leave it here for you to decide. And then

00:04:35.800 they screenshot all of the amounts that each ministry receive, right? And there's just no

00:04:42.900 accountability. They never voted on this. In our parliamentary system, you're supposed to vote

00:04:46.160 to approve budgets. You're supposed to vote to approve spending. We didn't have that. And it looks like

00:04:50.240 we're just not going to have it again. I mean, if the Conservatives were doing this, it would be a huge

00:04:54.400 national scandal and every single news outlet, news agency and journalists in the legacy media

00:04:59.060 would be like sounding the alarm. And the Liberals are doing it and they're just sort of getting away

00:05:04.240 with it. It's unbelievable that this is the state of Canada under the Liberals in 2025. What do you

00:05:09.000 make of all this, Wyatt? I have to point out a few things about this. One, it's completely asinine

00:05:14.040 for Champagne to say, well, it's been a weird last six weeks. So now we don't have to table a budget.

00:05:19.620 We have tabled budgets in far bigger crises than we are currently in. We're not even really

00:05:25.080 in a crisis. The whole trade war is kind of resolved. There's kind of a blanket tariff that

00:05:33.620 Donald Trump has put on pretty much any imports. So that should be very easily baked in to our budget.

00:05:39.980 But again, we've been able to put together budgets in far worse scenarios. Based on this,

00:05:44.880 they could just never pass a budget because if this is considered something unprecedented,

00:05:50.000 we're living in unprecedented times and we have to wait six months,

00:05:52.840 are times going to stop being unprecedented by this standard in six months and now they can

00:05:57.740 finally pass a budget? And yeah, the last time they did this was in COVID where they didn't pass

00:06:02.980 a budget in 2020. So that was considered like a really big deal then. Are we even in a 2020 scenario

00:06:10.260 right now where they're going to have to budget people staying home and not actually working

00:06:15.080 anymore? Like obviously not. And then consider on top of this, that we've already had a credit

00:06:21.260 downgrade under the final year of Justin Trudeau, as well as Mark Carney's advisorship over the economy.

00:06:29.880 So why are we thinking that this is not going to result in us going from, I believe we went from

00:06:34.420 AAA to AA+. We could end up just going to AA over the next year or so because we're not actually

00:06:41.220 being, we're not taking any steps to make any credit raging agency think that we're actually

00:06:46.600 trying to get back on the horse. We just don't seem to care. And also with the OIC, $33 billion

00:06:52.660 that the government spent, both them and their defenders at the CBC tried to make it seem like,

00:06:58.480 no, no, no, this is just to bridge the gap before we table the budget in a few weeks.

00:07:02.660 And I already knew that was nonsense because you'd only need about 5% of your budget for each

00:07:07.740 department to be given to them to bridge a gap for a couple of weeks and then put forward a budget.

00:07:12.680 I noticed that the CBC in that readout of where money went was given $178 billion. Now they get

00:07:21.740 about a billion of their budget every single year for taxpayers. So why do they need 17.8% of their

00:07:30.000 budget given to them all at once if this is just to bridge the gap? It was obviously to give

00:07:34.720 strategic, like money strategically to departments that the government favored with a little bit of

00:07:40.420 money to bridge the gap until they now, they give up more money in an OIC. And this is going to be

00:07:46.080 probably a way of baiting and switching Canadians where you can kind of give small lump sums of money

00:07:51.800 all year long through OICs. And it's going to be very difficult for the average citizen to be able

00:07:57.200 to kind of keep up with, well, how much has each department been given? Because in theory,

00:08:02.100 he could give the CBC as an example, 2 billion, but it's in 5 billion, 10 billion, 50 billion chunks

00:08:09.800 as time goes on. And it allows them to basically spend like it's a credit card rather than actually

00:08:14.700 having to follow a budget like a responsible household or business would do. I don't know.

00:08:22.000 But Mark Carney's good at this, I've been told, by Rosemary Barton.

00:08:25.600 Well, you're so right. I think it's designed to just completely avoid accountability, right?

00:08:31.560 If you pass a budget, it has to be approved. It has to be passed in a confidence vote. And that puts

00:08:37.780 the government at risk of falling before they've even really gotten going. And so it avoids them

00:08:41.880 having to cobble together a plurality or like a coalition to get to a majority. And it just

00:08:47.780 allows them to continue as they go. And to the point about the crisis, right? Like I was told

00:08:52.460 that Mark Carney was great in a crisis. I was told that that is how he thrives. And so yet here we are

00:08:58.080 in the first week really of his government. And he's saying, his finance ministers out there saying

00:09:02.800 that, no, no, no, it's too rushed. We can't put together a budget. Like the basic core duty of a

00:09:08.160 government is to do that. And yet this man that's supposed to be like a whiz under pressure and in

00:09:13.580 a crisis is basically shrugging and saying, we just can't do it. Maybe next year. It's really

00:09:17.780 unbelievable. Okay. I want to keep going on because that was just, that's just dipping our toe in the

00:09:22.220 water of the complete disaster show that is this cabinet so far. So as well, yesterday speaking to

00:09:29.380 reporters in Ottawa, Canada's new housing minister, this is a new face federally. Although those of us

00:09:34.520 from British Columbia know this man very well as a socialist mayor of Vancouver, Mr. Bike Lines

00:09:39.820 himself. And here he is, Gregor Robertson, the new housing minister, saying that, no, no,

00:09:45.620 our goal is not to actually lower housing prices to make it more affordable for young people to

00:09:49.420 be able to afford their first home. No, no, no. We want to keep the prices sky high. We just want

00:09:53.380 to build more and, hey, throw in some government housing in there. Let's play this clip.

00:09:58.000 Affordable housing.

00:09:59.120 No, I think that we need to deliver more supply,

00:10:03.460 make sure the market is stable. It's a huge part of our economy. We need to be delivering

00:10:08.540 more affordable housing.

00:10:10.560 I think it shows that he doesn't know the first thing about economics, right? Because

00:10:13.420 he's saying, like, the question to him is, should I want housing prices to go down? He

00:10:16.700 says, no, no, we just have to stable them by increasing supply. Well, the whole idea is that

00:10:20.340 if you do increase the supply to match demand, the prices will automatically go down because

00:10:25.500 there won't be such a shortage, right? The costs have gone up because there's an artificial

00:10:28.780 shortage in housing because we've flooded the country with new immigrants at the same time as 1.00

00:10:32.220 just refusing to really grow to keep up with the growth. And here, like, this is also something

00:10:39.140 that drives me crazy about these socialist types is that they think that the answer is

00:10:43.240 like a government program, right? So he says, we need more affordable housing. Read into that.

00:10:47.860 They want more rentals that are subsidized, right? They want, like, price controls on rentals so

00:10:53.120 that some families who get into this program can afford to pay the rent because artificially

00:10:57.280 lowered by the government. That doesn't solve the problem of young Canadians getting locked

00:11:01.220 out of the housing market. That doesn't solve the problem of people not being able to find

00:11:05.040 a house in a safe neighborhood to raise their families. Like, to me, this is just going to

00:11:09.660 be an absolute disaster putting someone like Gregor Robertson in the housing portfolio. What

00:11:13.580 do you think, Wyatt? Well, it's like Mark Carney saw, like, Sean Frazier as housing minister.

00:11:18.420 And when someone thought there couldn't be possibly anyone worse for that role, he said,

00:11:22.320 hold my beer. And he ended up finding this guy, dragging him out of retirement, saying,

00:11:27.620 this will make sure that people are confident that our government's going to do a good job.

00:11:31.780 And here, they kicked out Nate Erskine-Smith as housing minister when he only came back to run

00:11:37.820 for re-election under the promise that they would let him be housing minister. Now, I disagree

00:11:43.180 with Nate Erskine-Smith on pretty much everything. At the same time, it's like Mark Carney is a career

00:11:50.880 politician in the sense that he may have not been in office for very long, but he has a lot of the

00:11:55.700 flaws that you would normally associate with a really bad quality career politician. He wants

00:12:02.400 to be around people in his government that he likes to talk to and that he pairs up with well. It

00:12:07.940 doesn't matter if they're incompetent. He just picks people he's friends with, and maybe he doesn't

00:12:11.500 jive very well with Nate. So Nate's not in, and now Gregor Roberts gets in because maybe Mark Carney

00:12:17.800 knew him from back in the day. So his cabinet at best is full of dumb and pretty people that he 0.99

00:12:23.920 likes to hang out with. But we don't actually have anyone who has a track record of success in any 0.98

00:12:30.080 field. And sometimes they're even moving up to more complicated departments.

00:12:35.160 Well, plucking the former mayor of Vancouver, I mean, Vancouver is like ground zero, like patient

00:12:39.180 zero in terms of unaffordable housing. Like it's the least affordable housing market in the country.

00:12:45.040 The rest of the country is starting to catch up to Vancouver, but Vancouver has been dealing with

00:12:47.960 this problem since Gregor Robertson has been mayor, if not thereafter. Okay, let's go ahead.

00:12:53.680 By the way, though, the prices in Vancouver spiked like 178% or something crazy, like more than double

00:13:01.480 when he was mayor during the housing crash. He somehow increased prices during the housing crash.

00:13:08.080 That is some sort of wizardry.

00:13:10.040 Right. Well, I mean, that's what happens again when you have your borders completely open and you allow 0.99

00:13:15.500 like speculative investors from foreign countries to just swoop in and buy single family homes. And

00:13:20.380 then the regulations are so tight that you won't allow anything different to be built. Okay, I want

00:13:24.740 to move on to Stephen Galbault because many people might have like breathed the sigh of relief that this

00:13:29.860 guy is no longer the environment minister. He has been given a new portfolio called the Canadian

00:13:34.380 Identity Minister. Okay. And yet when he was speaking to reporters yesterday, he just couldn't help

00:13:39.840 himself. Why? He couldn't help himself. And he doubled down on his crazed environmentalism, saying

00:13:45.680 that there is no appetite, that investors will simply not pay for new pipelines. Let's play that clip.

00:13:51.380 Before we start talking about building an entire new pipeline, maybe we should maximize the use of

00:13:56.940 existing infrastructure. And the Canadian Energy Regulator, as well as the International Energy Agency,

00:14:03.060 you're telling us that probably by 2028, 2029, demand for oil will peak globally, and it will also peak in

00:14:11.060 Canada. So as far as I know, there are no investors right now. There are no companies that are saying that they

00:14:16.040 want to build an east-west pipeline. And as you know, these things are built by companies.

00:14:21.420 Man, this guy's living in the past. I haven't heard that phrase, peak oil, I think since like the 2000s, right? But he's

00:14:26.300 repeating all of the old favorite scaremongering from the far left. So Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta,

00:14:31.840 jumped in on that one. She writes this on X. She says, Canada's new identity minister, Stephen

00:14:36.360 Galbeau, just deceived Canadians, saying we don't need more pipelines because the Trans Mountain

00:14:40.760 pipeline is only 40% full and peak oil will be here in two years. The facts are that TMX,

00:14:46.000 which just opened and wouldn't have been built entirely, sorry, and would have been built entirely

00:14:51.300 with private sector dollars if Ottawa hadn't made it impossible for the original proponent to build

00:14:55.900 it, is already close to capacity. Further, most estimates of demand for bitumen shows it growing

00:15:00.780 for several decades and that it will be needed to replace declining U.S. conventional oil fields.

00:15:06.140 This is just another example of how misleading and destructive this former environment minister

00:15:10.540 was to Alberta's and Canada's economy and investment climate. We ask for the new environment

00:15:16.320 minister to disavow these comments and commit to working with Alberta to build new pipelines to

00:15:21.840 access markets. Why on earth is this fool talking about pipelines? Like he was removed from that 0.99

00:15:26.780 portfolio. Mark Carney is out there presumably saying to people in Alberta, like, cool, like,

00:15:32.740 it's okay, we're going to be more pro energy and more pro pipelines than the predecessors.

00:15:38.820 And yet he has this guy out here speaking like that. What do you make of it, Wyatt?

00:15:43.800 Well, the fact he feels like he can speak about it so confidently means probably a shared view

00:15:48.280 within cabinet. If he was taken aside and says, like, you're, you are on this new file,

00:15:53.220 you cannot talk about this anymore. He wouldn't probably talk about it. He's doing this because

00:15:57.080 this is probably just the common belief that, that, uh, that's within cabinet. Also, this is just

00:16:02.740 what I would consider a, um, like a Maxwell Fawcett-ism of whenever you're trying to like run down the oil

00:16:09.860 and gas industry, you just pretend there's no business case for it. In this case, he's just lying

00:16:14.820 about the 40% capacity, but whenever like, Oh, well, uh, an oil and gas project didn't go forward

00:16:20.640 or this, uh, this oil and gas company to shut down. See, there's no business case. It's like, wow,

00:16:25.400 I can't believe that when you shoot the industry in the head, it might actually have a bit of a,

00:16:29.820 a bit of a headache and a little bit harder time being able to get going over the next few years.

00:16:35.300 At the same time, these people are totally fine with subsidizing green, renewable green energy

00:16:40.760 projects everywhere, despite the fact that they would never have any investment unless the government

00:16:46.600 was backing it up with subsidies at the same time, oftentimes giving them way more money in

00:16:51.980 subsidies than they're actually having to even invest in the project. We're going to get to that

00:16:56.160 in a few minutes when we get to Melanie Jolie and her comments, but I just want to follow up

00:16:59.560 once more on these Stephen Gelbo comments. So earlier, Danielle Smith had also raised her concerns

00:17:06.560 with his predecessor, who is, uh, sorry, with his successor, who's the newly appointed environment

00:17:11.680 minister, Julie, Julie, uh, Debrusen Smith writes this. She says, uh, they put out a release yesterday

00:17:18.300 saying not only is she a self-proclaimed architect of the designation of plastics as toxic, but she is

00:17:24.820 a staunch advocate against the oil sands, a proponent of phasing out oil and gas. And for the last four

00:17:30.380 years, she served as the right hand to former environment minister and militant environmentalist,

00:17:35.360 Stephen Gelbo. So yes, Smith asked her to disavow Gelbo, but presumably she won't. They're part of

00:17:41.880 the same team and she served as his deputy when he was the environment minister. Uh, just earlier this

00:17:47.780 morning, we also had Pierre Polyev commenting on this. So speaking to reporters in Ottawa, uh, Polyev

00:17:53.760 responded directly to these claims from Stephen Gelbo. Let's play that clip.

00:17:58.540 I just find it astonishing that Mr. Carney would appoint a man who says we don't need any pipelines built.

00:18:05.360 Um, the liberals went around the country pretending they had changed their minds about pipelines after 10 years

00:18:10.880 of blocking them. But now one of Mr. Carney's top ministers comes out and says we don't need any more pipelines

00:18:17.880 and that, uh, he would work to block those pipelines.

00:18:22.400 So really just saying what needs to be said here. Okay. I want to move on. Why? Because we also have

00:18:28.280 Anita Anand, who is the new foreign affairs minister. And I think she really put her foot in her mouth when she talks about what is happening in Israel and Gaza. She basically blames everything, right? The entire war on Israel. Let's play that clip.

00:18:43.880 I can't hear you. Israel is blocking food and aid to Gaza. What do you think of that decision? And is there any, is the Canadian government doing anything to stop that?

00:18:50.880 We cannot allow the continued use of food as a political tool. The Prime Minister has been very clear about that. Over 50,000 people have died as a result of the aggression caused against the Palestinian and the Gazan people in Palestine.

00:19:17.880 And, uh, using food as a political tool is simply unacceptable.

00:19:22.880 So you have to be so careful with your words when you're a minister. I didn't like that question at all that, that blaming Israel for so-called like blocking food and aid against Palestinians.

00:19:32.880 But everyone knows, everyone knows what's going on. Look, I'm not a fan of war. I don't want that war to continue. I think that enough is enough.

00:19:39.880 But we've seen Hamas. They steal the aid, right? We know what they do, right? So this idea that Israel is to blame. And she says that these people have died as a result of aggression caused against them.

00:19:52.880 Well, where did that aggression come from? It came from the October 7th attacks, obviously. And again, just the way it's framed, pretty gross.

00:20:00.880 One more for you here, Wyatt, which is at Chrysia Freeland, you know, the woman that just won't go away. I mistakenly said that she was put back as the Minister of Trade on the show, I think it was yesterday.

00:20:11.880 She's actually interprovincial trade. So it is a huge demotion, right? She went from trade minister up to foreign affairs minister, up to finance minister and deputy prime minister, and now all the way back down the ladder to interprovincial trade.

00:20:23.880 But that's okay. Chrysia Freeland is taking it all in stride. Here she is saying that they're going to make trade sexy again. Let's play this clip. 0.88

00:20:30.880 I'm especially excited about internal trade. This is something that Canadian economists, Canadian geeks have been talking about for decades.

00:20:40.880 Entire books have been written about it. The IMF has estimated that lifting all barriers to internal trade will add as much as 4% to our GDP. That is a lot. And we need it right now. And I really believe this is a moment we can get it done. Internal trade has become sexy. It has.

00:21:05.880 So cringe. She's also the Minister of Transport. Maybe they threw Speed Racer into that role because of her driving abilities out in Alberta. 1.00

00:21:15.880 Honestly, this just like every clip is worse than the last one. It's unbelievable that all of the incompetent people come back.

00:21:23.880 It's just turned into Veep. It's just turned into Yes Minister and Veep. The whole thing is just people who are just not very good at their jobs saying kind of flowery idealistic things right before like face planting into the ground when it comes to their actual job performance. 0.53

00:21:37.880 None of these people like Anita and Anand back with the Israel questions like be an adult figure out how to like it like this is I meet a lot of incompetent politicians and everyone and you're just sitting there like oh my goodness someone in your office is holding your hand every day because you can't even like you can't even think on your feet to for the most basic thing you should say for this question.

00:22:01.880 How are you going to actually do like how are you going to like engage in any diplomacy as the foreign affairs minister or how are you going to do any interprovincial sign an interprovincial trade deal when you seem like you couldn't actually get through a normal question period like without like falling all over yourself.

00:22:20.880 Okay speaking of Veep I think this might be the best Veep clip of the day. This comes from our new innovation science and industry minister Melanie Jolie sounding just like a total idiot here. So she's asked about the plant potential plant closures when it comes to auto plants vis-a-vis the tariffs and she's really excited about the government's plan here in the wake of really bad news. Let's play this clip. 0.99

00:22:43.880 So I've already been in contact with the CEOs of GM Ford and also Stellantis. My goal is to be able to have good conversations with them before the end of the week. My message to the workers in the auto sector is we're there for you. We know that there's anxiety. We know you're concerned about losing shifts. We know we were concerned about losing your jobs and we will always fight for your jobs.

00:23:08.880 Notwithstanding that, we also have a $2 billion worth of support for the industry, the auto industry, the steel and aluminum industries that are affected by the trade war. One of my first decisions will be also to make sure that the workers can benefit from these investments.

00:23:26.580 I can never tell with her whether she's just like really nervous and can barely make it through a sentence because she's just so bad at this or if maybe she's like on drugs or something. I don't know. What do you think, Wyatt?

00:23:39.160 Well, just platitudes. Just platitudes. I've been sitting down with GM Stellantis and who cares? Who cares? Did you get anything from those meetings? Do you have any plan to cut taxes? Really? 80% of the time, whenever somebody is talking in who's in government, who's a minister, if they're not talking about tax reductions, they're just screwing up everything.

00:24:02.420 Every single department in the government right now should just be figuring out ways of reducing taxes, reducing regulatory burden if you're scared of jobs being sucked over the border into the United States.

00:24:14.540 But all these people are like, we talked with Stellantis. Who cares? Who cares that you had a cup of coffee with them? I don't think that actually does. We're fighting for workers.

00:24:22.920 How do you cut the workers' taxes? I never understand why this is a dirty word in government. I know Mark Carney's technically cutting taxes right now, but I don't think exactly giving everyone 400 bucks back is going to save the economy.

00:24:35.580 Well, it's so interesting because it's the exact opposite approach, as you mentioned earlier, to pipelines, right? So when it comes to pipelines, they're just like, oh, well, we just create all these regulations and there's no business case. The businesses just don't want to build these pipelines in Canada anymore. That's not our fault. That's their fault, right?

00:24:47.760 Completely ignoring all of their own policies. And yet when it comes to auto manufacturers, it's like they're literally just bribing them with our money, paying them billions and billions and billions of dollars to please keep your businesses in Canada so that we can have jobs for these people.

00:25:03.860 And even with all those subsidies over the years, the companies are like, yeah, no, you're not a good business environment.

00:25:09.720 Like, it's like, hello, it is your regulations and your taxes that drive these people away. No amount of special subsidies is going to keep them. And just for some background, I mean, oh, sorry, just one more point about her.

00:25:21.420 That she's just like super excited about their $2 billion, like EI basically top up fund. Like, I'm sorry, if you're about to lose your job, the fact that they have $2 billion, like that's not going to go very far when you're talking about tens of thousands of laid off employees, right?

00:25:35.060 This doesn't really help you. You don't want welfare. You want a job, right?

00:25:38.120 It's a real civilization building policy to keep people at home on their couches.

00:25:42.640 Well, it's terrible, right? And so, yeah, if you are an auto worker, you should be nervous under this government and you should be angry with your compatriots for voting in another liberal government.

00:25:52.460 And obviously the background here is that we learned that this Honda plant is closing.

00:25:56.320 So JGenXer on X reminded us, here's Justin Trudeau post saying Honda, Stellantis, NorthVolk, Volkswagen, Asshai and Kasai, these are big companies that can choose to build anywhere and they're choosing Canada.

00:26:09.180 Well, how's that going? He writes. So how are these liberal investments going?

00:26:13.120 NorthVolk just went bankrupt. Honda shelved its EV project for two years.

00:26:16.800 Stellantis halted production, shifted 1,500 jobs to Illinois.

00:26:19.920 Volkswagen battery plant is now facing major delays.

00:26:23.000 Billions of dollars in taxpayer money are circling in the drain.

00:26:26.680 And who was likely behind many of these investments advising?

00:26:29.380 Justin Trudeau every step of the way. Well, that, of course, would be Mark Carney, your new prime minister.

00:26:32.880 Like, this strategy is just a failed strategy. Let's stop with the corporate welfare.

00:26:36.480 Let's stop bribing these companies.

00:26:37.980 This is kind of part of the reason that got us into this whole mess with President Trump, Wyatt, is that Canada just loves to subsidize different industries.

00:26:45.760 And that is what Trump is talking about when he says that, you know, countries like Canada are cheating.

00:26:50.220 It's like, yeah, we are paying all of this taxpayer money to try to prop up America's competition.

00:26:56.000 And he's saying, you know, I'm going to combat that with terrorists.

00:26:59.340 And yet Canada's response is just to do more of the same. What do you think?

00:27:02.940 Well, it's just it's letting the Americans take our jobs in the long run in the sense that when it's honestly what happened in the American auto industry in the 70s.

00:27:10.820 When you prop up, when you protect an industry and you subsidize it for decades and that industry is allowed to become inefficient and bloated, unions end up taking over the entire labor side of the industry.

00:27:25.720 And then suddenly there's increased competition like the Americans are pushing us for or at least they'll tariff us back because we're effectively subsidizing our own own industry to keep it here.

00:27:36.180 Well, the whole thing is going to evaporate in a second because the thing is not actually built on like a solid foundation.

00:27:42.040 It's built just on subsidies that can burn up in a second.

00:27:45.920 It's just built on, you know, like easy money.

00:27:49.640 People will rather go and build a company in a place that's going to be more stable in the long run, even if we're offering money because it's too much of a headache.

00:27:58.720 Taxes keep going up or regulations keep going up in this country.

00:28:02.240 So even if when you get money, you require more money every single year to stick around.

00:28:07.720 They can't just keep giving a billion every single year to a car company.

00:28:11.100 They've got to give 1.2 billion, 1.4 billion the next year and the next year because the liberals can only ever justify more rules, more regulations, more taxes, whatnot like that.

00:28:23.020 Okay, I want to end the show on a fun note.

00:28:25.120 We're going to move entirely away from Canadian politics and go to something totally different.

00:28:29.760 So Brett Cooper, who is a YouTuber and sort of former Daily Wire personality, a young Gen Z conservative, she has been doing a tour.

00:28:39.900 And she was at a show in Phoenix, Arizona last weekend.

00:28:43.940 And I want to play this clip because I just think it is so remarkable for so many reasons.

00:28:47.960 So first, let's play this clip of Brett Cooper in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:28:51.080 Um, because what I'm about to do tonight, I've never done before, um, ever.

00:28:58.220 I'm literally like shaking right now.

00:28:59.500 But I think that you guys should know that the special guest is already on stage.

00:29:04.260 So I'll tell you why I love this, right?

00:29:26.200 This is a young, successful sort of career into Gen Z woman. 0.98

00:29:30.360 And yet when she announces to her fans and to her audience that she's pregnant, she gets this like huge, like heroes applaud.

00:29:36.940 Like people are so happy for her, right?

00:29:38.760 And this is the kind of response that you would tend to get from like your friend group or your family when you tell them you're pregnant, if you have been like really trying to get pregnant.

00:29:45.020 And to me, it, it signals like this cultural shift, right?

00:29:48.760 Like for me and millennials, it seems like everything that was told to us, all the messaging from the culture was like girl boss, you know, go into the, you could achieve anything and go into any line of work and career, career, career.

00:30:01.000 And I think that the culture is shifting and that women are being told that it's a great thing to be a mother and that our culture is celebrating it again.

00:30:08.660 I'm really excited and happy for young women like Brett Cooper for sort of like paving this new path that yes, there's like no shame in being a mother. 0.93

00:30:16.480 Actually, it's like the most wonderful, amazing thing.

00:30:18.940 And so seeing this reaction from her audience brought me a lot of joy.

00:30:22.460 What do you think, Wyatt?

00:30:23.680 Well, I'm going to, I'll, I'll, I'll agree with everything you said, but then also counter by saying I'm the most socially awkward person I know.

00:30:30.740 So I always think I was watching that.

00:30:32.140 I was like, okay, well, I don't know what to do with this information.

00:30:34.580 I'd be like the person in the back, like, I guess that's good.

00:30:38.660 Like, I don't know.

00:30:39.800 People tell me good news and I just like shut down.

00:30:41.980 I'm like, okay, I guess so.

00:30:44.440 Cool.

00:30:44.800 Yeah.

00:30:45.300 Well, it's also kind of funny because she's like, she doesn't really look pregnant, right?

00:30:48.660 She's probably like just maybe a few months along.

00:30:51.820 And, but I think she was thinking that she looked huge because when you're pregnant, you always feel like you're bigger than you are.

00:30:57.220 So I think she was expecting it to be really obvious when she turned to the side, but she doesn't really have baby bump yet.

00:31:03.080 So that was just another tidbit to make you feel even more awkward, Wyatt.

00:31:06.260 Yeah, it is a cultural shift in the sense that that's probably something that someone would mention like, you know, decades ago.

00:31:14.180 And that would be like a big celebration for someone who's like a news anchor or something like that.

00:31:18.160 But these days it's kind of considered like, you know, that's, that's gross.

00:31:21.540 Just like, I don't tell me about that or people don't like the subject of like kids because they don't want any adult subject being brought up because, you know, that might make them feel like they're, you know, they actually need to take their lives more seriously.

00:31:33.200 But, you know, people are actually taking their lives more seriously in their, you know, the twenties now, which is good.

00:31:38.100 It's absolutely good.

00:31:39.580 And I think that it's great for the culture.

00:31:42.120 Okay, Wyatt, thanks so much for joining us.

00:31:43.620 Really appreciate your time.

00:31:44.540 This is Wyatt Claypool of the National Telegraph.

00:31:47.140 I'm Candace Malcolm.

00:31:47.680 This is the Candace Malcolm Show.

00:31:48.500 Thank you and God bless.

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