Juno News - NO, Canada should not join America

00:00:00.000 Donald Trump is trolling Canada.

00:00:12.160 Unless you somehow missed it, this week, Trump posted an edited picture of himself

00:00:17.120 standing on a mountaintop next to a Canadian flag.

00:00:21.540 Cue the Canadian media's pearl-clutching as they desperately try and understand what this all means.

00:00:27.560 Let me spell it out for you.

00:00:29.460 It's what some of us call a joke.

00:00:31.900 I'm Rachel Parker, and this is Rachel in the Republic.

00:00:44.220 Hey everyone, I'm Rachel Parker.

00:00:46.500 We have so much to dive into today.

00:00:50.280 It's been a very interesting and exciting time in the Canada-U.S. relationship.

00:00:55.900 So as you guys know, we've covered it extensively on this show and elsewhere at True North,

00:01:01.420 the looming threat of 25% tariffs on all Canadian products entering the U.S. market

00:01:07.580 continues to hang over Canadians and the Canadian economy,

00:01:12.460 as we have a leader who seems unable to respond to these threats.

00:01:16.160 Well, at least we thought so, until Friday night suddenly everyone noticed that the Prime Minister's plane was headed due south.

00:01:25.740 It looked like it was going straight to Florida, and it certainly was.

00:01:28.780 We would soon learn that Justin Trudeau would meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday night.

00:01:34.800 Now, if you watch the CBC or listen to the Canadian press, CTV Global News,

00:01:41.020 you would have thought that that meeting went splendidly for the Canadian Prime Minister.

00:01:46.880 The Canadian media hailed Trudeau's praises after meeting with Donald Trump and said the meeting was very productive.

00:01:54.240 Soon, however, cracks began to show in that narrative.

00:01:59.700 To start, Trudeau wasn't invited to stay the night at Mar-a-Lago,

00:02:05.100 Donald Trump's castle-like residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

00:02:09.940 Now, you might not think that's too much of a big deal,

00:02:12.620 unless you consider the fact that President-elect Donald Trump always invites his guests to stay the night,

00:02:19.120 and that Mar-a-Lago has 126 rooms.

00:02:25.100 The narrative further began to slip when Trudeau emerged from his hotel room on Saturday morning.

00:02:32.260 We showed that clip at the beginning.

00:02:33.960 We're going to play it again for you guys now.

00:02:35.700 I want you to take a good, hard look at Trudeau's face here.

00:02:39.860 Hi, Master.

00:02:40.800 What was it about this meeting with the other than the left?

00:02:43.420 It was an interesting conversation.

00:02:45.420 How are you talking about your own Trump?

00:02:46.640 Thank you, Donald Trump.

00:02:49.120 Stressed, tired, looking like the world is crumbling around him.

00:02:54.340 Those are all thoughts that came into my mind when I saw that video of the Prime Minister emerging from the elevator.

00:03:01.560 He does not look like someone who is having the best day.

00:03:05.580 And then the final nail in the coffin emerged when the tenacious Peter Doocy of Fox News

00:03:11.860 revealed a little tidbit of the conversation between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President-elect Donald Trump.

00:03:18.620 Take a look.

00:03:19.260 And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump-Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.

00:03:25.220 We are told that when Trudeau told President-elect Trump that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy,

00:03:32.380 Trump joked to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion a year,

00:03:39.420 then maybe Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau could become its governor.

00:03:45.720 Yikes. Yikes.

00:03:49.000 I said in my opening statement that Trump was making a joke, which is true.

00:03:53.780 He makes a lot of them.

00:03:55.760 And the mainstream press consistently takes them seriously and gets upset about it, making the jokes all the more funny.

00:04:02.940 But there is another self-evident truth here.

00:04:05.880 Donald Trump doesn't like Justin Trudeau and he doesn't take him seriously as a leader.

00:04:12.040 And that spells very bad news for Canadians and the Canadian economy amid this looming threat of tariffs.

00:04:19.100 That will happen unless our unserious leader finally starts to take the border crisis seriously.

00:04:24.600 If you still don't believe me that Donald Trump doesn't like Justin Trudeau and doesn't take him seriously,

00:04:31.140 take a look at this next troll Trump posted to his Truth Social account.

00:04:36.040 Now, for those of you who are just listening on the audio version,

00:04:38.960 here we can see a picture of President Trump standing next to a Canadian flag.

00:04:45.140 It is not the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, but I suspect that it was edited to make it look like he was standing in the Rockies.

00:04:51.660 Now, I've explained that this is a joke and that we should laugh at it,

00:04:56.080 but we should also take very seriously the concern that Trump doesn't respect our nation's leader.

00:05:02.300 That is a problem.

00:05:03.900 But this whole saga also brought forward a perhaps predictable,

00:05:07.360 and I would say a bit immature response from some on the Canadian right.

00:05:11.360 Following Trump's trolling of Canada, which I admit is funny,

00:05:15.380 and I agree that Justin Trudeau is unfit to lead this country,

00:05:18.120 but I also acknowledge it is a problem that Trump doesn't take Canada seriously,

00:05:23.300 a problem that is inherently because of our unserious leader.

00:05:27.280 Some on the right said that America should invade Canada and make Canada its 51st state.

00:05:33.100 And I have to say that, well, as some of you who have watched the show consistently over the past number of months know,

00:05:39.080 I love America and I love its principles.

00:05:41.880 I do not agree.

00:05:43.860 Canada should not become a part of the United States.

00:05:46.760 And here's why.

00:05:48.440 Well, to start, Canada and America are uniquely different countries with different cultures.

00:05:53.420 Elsewhere in the world, and sometimes even here in Canada,

00:05:55.800 people will like to correlate the two countries and talk about how similar we are.

00:06:00.320 I mean, sure, if you compare Canada to, say, Japan,

00:06:02.860 then America does seem quite like Canada on that level of comparison.

00:06:08.520 But we also are uniquely different when you look at our countries individually.

00:06:12.020 I've spent a lot of time in the States and obviously I've lived my whole life in Canada.

00:06:17.500 And I can say for certain that we are deeply different countries.

00:06:21.180 To start, just something simple off the top of my head.

00:06:24.980 Canadians, we are known for our politeness.

00:06:27.980 Now, on the negative side, that can at time extend to unwillingness,

00:06:32.260 an unwillingness to speak our minds and to stand up for ourselves.

00:06:35.560 On the opposite end of the spectrum, Americans are known for their candor.

00:06:39.980 You'll know if you piss off an American because they'll be sure to tell you.

00:06:44.080 Likewise, Canada has also been a country that welcomes immigrants and multiculturalism.

00:06:49.000 Remember, Canadians only recently became frustrated with immigration

00:06:52.260 because of the rising crime and the rising costs of housing and other products in this country.

00:06:58.020 But most Canadians still want to lower immigration for the next few years

00:07:02.380 and then get right back on track with opening our door to the rest of the world

00:07:07.300 once prices have come down and once we've caught up with building homes and schools.

00:07:12.560 Now, I must acknowledge that I personally dislike this about Canada.

00:07:16.740 I think that our immigration numbers are too high. 1.00

00:07:19.640 I think that we should put more of an emphasis on assimilation rather than multiculturalism.

00:07:24.600 But most Canadians do not share my sentiment.

00:07:29.140 If you ask most Canadians, they will tell you that Canada is a place of multiculturalism

00:07:34.620 and that they like that about their country.

00:07:37.600 In contrast, America expects their immigrants to assimilate. 0.97

00:07:42.640 They opened their borders to the world's poor for a few years 0.99

00:07:45.760 and now they elected a president who is going to send those people back home.

00:07:51.340 I don't hear the federal conservative leader here in Canada

00:07:54.540 and the likely next prime minister of our country advocating for deportations.

00:08:00.580 America has stronger protections of civil liberties as enshrined in its constitution.

00:08:05.840 Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms pales in comparison.

00:08:09.340 They also have the right to bear arms,

00:08:11.920 which was created to protect the American people from tyranny.

00:08:16.560 We do not have the right to bear arms in Canada

00:08:18.860 and many Canadians feel squeamish towards firearms.

00:08:22.780 Again, I should reiterate that these are attitudes that I do not personally share.

00:08:27.100 I wish that we had the right to bear arms enshrined

00:08:30.020 in our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but we don't.

00:08:33.580 Another huge difference that I think extends to the attitudes between our countries

00:08:37.840 is how Canada became a country in the first place.

00:08:41.660 Canada has sought to earn its independence over 100 years.

00:08:45.260 We waited until Britain recognized our independence to become a country.

00:08:48.860 And we still recognize the King of England as the Canadian monarch.

00:08:53.380 America certainly does not.

00:08:55.480 As you likely know, America fought for its independence from Britain,

00:08:59.380 a war that spanned over several weeks.

00:09:01.940 And those who were living in America that had loyalty to the crown

00:09:05.380 moved north to what would eventually become Canada.

00:09:09.620 These differences are evident in the attitudes of both nations.

00:09:13.760 I would also say that I personally prefer the decentralization of power.

00:09:18.440 I'm not looking to be under the control of an even bigger federal government.

00:09:22.960 I might currently like who is to be the next president of the United States of America,

00:09:27.680 but there will be other times when I dislike the presidents of the states.

00:09:31.680 And if Canada was a part of the states,

00:09:33.720 that individual would have a heck of a lot of power over millions of people.

00:09:38.420 I should also say that while I may not love all the things about Canada that I've outlined here,

00:09:43.460 like our high immigration numbers, like our emphasis on multiculturalism,

00:09:48.340 I wish that we had the right to bear arms,

00:09:50.220 I do love Canada.

00:09:52.140 I love the childhood I had here, growing up in a small village nestled in the Niagara Escarpment.

00:09:57.640 I love our freshwater lakes, the prairies, the Rockies, and especially the people.

00:10:02.660 The Canadians who drove to Ottawa and to the border to stand up for my freedoms.

00:10:07.660 So to me, America is something to hope for, should all be lost here.

00:10:13.340 I love Canada, and I always will, but I don't know if Canada loves me anymore.

00:10:17.700 And I'm not accused of being a traitor for acknowledging that there might not always be a place for me in my country,

00:10:22.960 because my family has sacrificed a lot to fight for freedom in this country,

00:10:27.700 more than most people in fact, and we will continue to do so.

00:10:30.820 But if the day ever comes when I'm thrown in jail, as the Liberal government would like to do,

00:10:36.220 there's a bill in the House of Commons right now that's at second reading,

00:10:39.640 that threatens to do this very thing.

00:10:41.680 If I'm thrown in jail for saying that a man can't be a woman,

00:10:45.060 or the government wants to take my kids from me because I want to raise them as Christians,

00:10:48.980 or homeschool them, or maybe I don't want to have them vaccinated,

00:10:52.100 then I will have no choice but to leave.

00:10:54.060 And should that day come, I'll be grateful that America exists just as it is,

00:11:00.080 without the politicians and the people who sought to strip so much from people like you and like me.

00:11:07.020 All right, everyone, let me know what you think of today's episode of Rachel and the Republic.

00:11:11.280 I'm especially curious to hear if you think that the Conservative Party and a federal Conservative leader,

00:11:17.160 Pierre Polyev, will undo the damage caused by Justin Trudeau.

00:11:20.600 Yes, I think they'll undo some of it, but will they undo all of it?

00:11:24.520 I think the biggest problem that we have facing our country right now is the high rate of immigration 1.00

00:11:29.260 and the fact that Canadians do not want to have children anymore.

00:11:34.180 Curious to hear your thoughts on this subject matter.

00:11:36.740 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:11:38.000 I'll see you next week.

00:11:39.360 Have a great weekend and God bless.

Juno News - December 04, 2024

NO, Canada should not join America

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