Juno News - No “Day One” Trump Tariffs

00:00:00.000 hi i'm candace malcolm and this is the candace malcolm show welcome to the podcast today i hope

00:00:11.160 everyone had a wonderful weekend hope you spent lots of time with your family and with your loved

00:00:16.540 ones well it is an exciting day in the world of news and that is because as you probably know

00:00:21.620 it is joe biden's last day in office and it is donald trump's first day he is being sworn in

00:00:27.960 as president as we speak as i am recording this and everyone around the world is watching with

00:00:33.680 anticipation uh with concern especially us up here in canada worried about the impact of a trump

00:00:40.320 presidency but before we get into all of that and we will i think it's important to just sort of stop

00:00:45.780 and appreciate the moment that we're living in we witnessed something truly remarkable with trump

00:00:51.840 coming back uh so many people thought that he was just completely unelectable that it would never

00:00:56.660 happen again after all of the events that happened uh especially in around january 6 2021 uh which i

00:01:03.680 always thought was very much blown out of proportion but uh the way he acted uh was not presidential at

00:01:10.300 moments and i don't think anyone would have guessed um that we would be back here um seeing him sworn in

00:01:15.940 as president um there's always a lot of pomp when it comes to the american uh traditions and the way that

00:01:22.360 they celebrate their democracy and i think today it's just kind of fun to watch uh whether you're american

00:01:27.340 or not whether you love trump or hate him um the pageantry uh is is always something and so it's fun to

00:01:33.380 watch uh the inauguration and so talking about trump the question that everyone is dying to know is will

00:01:40.060 trump bring in the economy crippling tariffs that he has threatened well the answer is that no not on day one

00:01:48.620 as he previously pledged he had said that it was going to be one of his initial executive orders

00:01:53.640 that has not happened yet that did not happen um so dustin trudeau may have dodged a bullet but the

00:01:59.440 war the war of course is far from over we'll talk about all of that we're also going to talk about the

00:02:05.040 lawsuit by the jccf the justice center for constitutional freedoms uh to try to get parliament back in session

00:02:10.700 to try to force our own transfer of power our own election up here in canada so we'll give you an update

00:02:16.680 on that before we get to any of that i want to give you the latest news when it comes to the liberal

00:02:22.120 leadership race so what's going to happen who is going to replace justin trudeau as the leader of

00:02:27.820 the liberal party and therefore will become our next prime minister whether we like it or not well

00:02:32.640 christia freeland trudeau's uh sort of right-hand man his deputy prime minister finance minister before

00:02:38.560 that she was a foreign affairs minister christia freeland officially launched her campaign

00:02:43.500 in toronto on sunday and i'm sorry to say but christia freeland it was a disaster it was a

00:02:50.080 disaster i guess we could have predicted that because pretty much everything that this woman 0.99

00:02:53.600 touches becomes a disaster she's a bit of a hot mess over there um almost to the point where you 1.00

00:02:59.120 feel bad for her almost almost not quite but almost feel bad for her uh so this is what happened

00:03:03.920 shortly after taking the podium christia speech christie freeland's speech was interrupted 0.94

00:03:08.920 by a group of you guessed it pro-palestinian protesters let's play that clip in my office in ottawa

00:03:16.120 i have a beautiful painting of a canadian flag

00:03:21.360 unbelievable i don't understand

00:03:34.940 Unbelievable. I don't understand. I mean, this woman was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. 0.99

00:03:53.640 Presumably, she has a team, she has some staff, she has security. How is it that when Mark Carney

00:03:59.280 introduced his intention to run as leader of this party, they wouldn't even let journalists

00:04:04.580 into the room. That's how tight the security was. That's how closely things were vetted. They

00:04:08.740 literally did not let journalists into the room unless you worked for a government media company.

00:04:14.500 As our own Isaac Lamoureux learned, Kian Bextie and many others, including journalists from the

00:04:21.860 Western Standard, were not allowed into the room because security was so tight. And here we have

00:04:26.760 Chrystia Freeland. Somehow they didn't catch the people standing right behind her with a giant 0.98

00:04:32.320 banner. I mean, can we show this banner? It says Freeland, our deputy PM gravedigger.

00:04:38.800 Like how on earth do you get a banner of that size into the room? You could tell the room isn't very

00:04:44.360 packed. There's not that many people at this event. It was a pretty small, pretty sad event. And yet

00:04:49.980 somehow they managed to have that huge banner rolled up in someone's pocket or hidden inside

00:04:56.240 someone's jacket and actually were able to unscroll it and put it up behind Chrystia Freeland. You saw

00:05:01.840 it at the very end of that clip that I played that she didn't realize that she knows someone was in her

00:05:06.680 face. They took that person away and she didn't realize that there was more. There was a group of

00:05:10.820 them and that someone was behind her holding that sign. What a terrible, terrible look. And again,

00:05:16.440 it's kind of ironic because these protesters are of the left. They're part of her coalition. I think that

00:05:22.520 the Liberals have been completely cynical about Canada's immigration plan. They've even let in 1.00

00:05:28.000 Gaza and refugees, for goodness sake. The countries around Gaza don't want Gaza and refugees because

00:05:33.900 of the trouble that they can bring. And yet Canada, with open arms, is allowing them to come in and

00:05:38.480 giving them welfare checks when they get here. These people should be supporting the Liberals, you would

00:05:42.540 think. But the reality is that no one is ever far, far extreme enough for these activists and they're

00:05:49.160 going to keep pushing and pushing. And so they really just created a mockery of Chrystia Freeland. 0.99

00:05:53.780 The fact that they had that photo behind here. Our friends over at Canada Proud pointed out something

00:06:00.060 interesting about these protesters, which is just that they've been harassing Canadians with zero

00:06:04.960 consequences for a year and a half. But when they annoy Chrystia Freeland, 10 seconds later, the response

00:06:10.620 is different. They get booted out of the room. And again, just having that banner back there, again,

00:06:17.080 amateur hour, bad start to a bad campaign. Couldn't have happened to a worse person.

00:06:22.740 Chrystia Freeland, it didn't get much better from here, folks. She's just not a very capable

00:06:29.480 politician. She's not very polished, not at all like Mark Carney. Here she is. This is a funny

00:06:35.880 ex-user that I like to follow called Ryan Garrison. He has great content. He posts this video of her

00:06:42.140 saying, this is Chrystia Freeland's Kamala Harris moment. You have no, when you know, I have no

00:06:46.180 idea what to say. So you just repeat it and pretend no one notices. Okay, let's play this clip.

00:06:51.720 You're ready to fight, aren't you? I can feel it.

00:06:59.020 That is so great. That is so, so great. We are ready to fight, aren't we?

00:07:04.980 And so, with your help, we are going to fight.

00:07:22.440 I don't know if her teleprompter froze there or something like that, but she says, we're so ready

00:07:26.800 to fight. And we're just going to fight. And we're ready to fight. Fight, fight, fight. Fight,

00:07:32.900 fight, fight. Okay. Okay. There. Kind of some, you could see some overlap between her and Kamala 1.00

00:07:39.320 Harris, even just with the situation that Trudeau realizes that there's no chance that he can win

00:07:44.480 the election. So he dumps it onto his sort of number two and she's just wildly unprepared as a 1.00

00:07:50.460 candidate and not a very inspiring person. You could totally see it happening again. Okay. Let's go to

00:07:55.780 this. Steven Taylor, political commentator. He pointed this out. Not a lot of, not a lot of interest

00:08:02.720 in Christia Freeland. Not a lot of interest. So during her speech, during her big, big announcement

00:08:09.060 that she'd been teasing for weeks and weeks and weeks, she only had 98 viewers. Yes. Only 98 people

00:08:15.360 were watching the stream as it was happening. So not a lot of people in the room, not a lot of people

00:08:21.040 online. Not a great start. Well, don't worry, not to fear. Christia Freeland does have one big fan

00:08:28.740 in her corner fighting for her. And that is none other than the Globe and Mail's Andrew Coyne. So

00:08:33.400 Andrew Coyne, of course, praised Christia Freeland. Here is his tweet on the matter. He said that she

00:08:42.340 really captured the public mood better than Mark Carney. So Andrew Coyne is giving nothing but flattery

00:08:50.440 to Christia Freeland. I guess he knows where his bread is buttered. And he's just praising her campaign

00:08:57.780 video that she released, which really not a lot to compliment in this video, but I'll play it for

00:09:04.820 you. Let me know what you think in the comments. Here's the, here's the video. I want to let you in

00:09:10.140 on a little secret. Donald Trump doesn't like me very much. Canada. We don't like their representative

00:09:16.440 very much. I'm a tough negotiator. During the first Trump administration, I fought hard to protect

00:09:22.080 Canadian jobs, the Canadian economy, and our way of life. And we won. I left Trudeau's cabinet because

00:09:28.800 I know what we need to do to win that fight again. Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies

00:09:33.840 think they can push us around. Trump thinks we're for sale. But he can take what isn't his.

00:09:39.840 I'm not gonna let him. We're a proud country. The true north, strong and free. A country of smart, caring,

00:09:50.000 and hardworking people. A country that gets big things done. A country worth fighting for. But Pierre

00:09:58.080 Poliev, he'll bow down to Trump and sell us out. This moment matters. For all of us. I'm running

00:10:09.920 to be leader of the Liberal Party and our next Prime Minister. I'm in this to fight for you. To fight

00:10:17.520 for Canadians. To fight for Canada. Join me. Join the fight.

00:10:28.080 I think she said the word fight about 80 times in that video. She just kept repeating the word fight, 0.86

00:10:32.240 fight, fight, fight. Okay. A couple of things to pick up on that video there. She talks about how

00:10:38.480 Trump has his billionaire buddies. I'm sorry. That's a bit rich coming from Christie Freeland.

00:10:42.480 She wrote a book that sort of helped launch her career called Plutocrats. And during her time

00:10:47.600 profiling the richest, most powerful people in the world, she buddied up with them and became friends

00:10:52.400 with a bunch of them. Most notably, of course, George Soros. So here, Melissa

00:10:57.920 Rogers had this tweet saying, Christie Freeland started working with George Soros in 1990.

00:11:03.360 Together, they worked to manipulate Ukrainian politics. Soros also funded the Ukrainian legal

00:11:08.080 reform, which Christie Freeland's mother led. They will do whatever it takes for Ukraine to flourish.

00:11:14.480 This is the mandate, not Canada. I pointed this out in some of my investigative writing,

00:11:19.600 uh, when Christie Freeland first sort of surfaced and when the, uh, Russian invasion of Ukraine happened,

00:11:25.200 that it's so weird. I mean, Christie Freeland described herself as a Ukrainian national.

00:11:30.240 That's how she described herself. She's a nationalist. She's a nationalist for Ukraine,

00:11:34.320 not for Canada. Um, she probably thinks being a nationalist in Canada means that you're a racist. 0.82

00:11:39.520 And yet she herself described herself, um, that way. So, you know, very close friends, uh, friendship,

00:11:46.720 admiration for George Soros. And yet somehow she's accusing Trump and Pierre Polyev of being the ones,

00:11:52.960 uh, with billionaires and her whole entire pitch to Canadians in that video was that Donald Trump 1.00

00:11:58.880 hates her, was that she would do a better job negotiating with Donald Trump because Trump 0.92

00:12:03.680 doesn't like her. I'm sorry. That is not a good pitch to Canadians, regardless of what Andrew Coyne

00:12:08.640 thinks. Andrew Coyne is wrong on this issue, just like he's wrong on a lot of things.

00:12:13.120 Having the incoming prime minister or incoming president who's threatening tariffs against your

00:12:17.520 country hates you is not going to help our country. We need someone who can go down and speak to Trump,

00:12:24.240 who speaks his language. We need like a Trump whisper at this moment in time. And so if your

00:12:29.360 whole pitch is that Trump doesn't like you, I'm sorry, I don't want you negotiating on my behalf.

00:12:34.800 I don't want you there. You're not a good person to lead our country. If the person who you're

00:12:40.000 negotiating with hates you, especially someone like Trump, who can be a bit erratic. Uh, we don't want

00:12:45.040 him holding an irrational grudge against you and taking it out on our entire country. And again,

00:12:51.840 falling back on her negotiating NAFTA again, I'm sorry, but that was embarrassing. Christia

00:12:57.280 Freeland representing us. That was back when she was a minister of trade. It was embarrassing. It was

00:13:02.560 embarrassing. First, she showed up, uh, with these weird t-shirts that she made. She went down to

00:13:07.120 Washington. She was wearing this weird t-shirt that said, keep calm and negotiate NAFTA. I'm sorry,

00:13:13.200 but what kind of grown adult woman wears a t-shirt, like a graphic tee? This is something you do in 1.00

00:13:18.480 high school, or maybe like, if you're a member of a sorority, you wear like cute matching t-shirts,

00:13:22.880 but you're the representative of Canada going down to negotiate and you show up in like a crappy

00:13:28.480 homemade t-shirt in your professional capacity. That was just incredibly bad, incredibly embarrassing.

00:13:36.800 I wrote about this at the time I was writing in the Toronto sun. So I had an article that was

00:13:42.000 talking about how she, she, she gave a deranged speech. I'm sorry. She was given this really

00:13:47.680 ridiculous award by foreign policy magazine diplomat of the year. And she gives a speech

00:13:53.040 just ripping into Trump and talking about the new world order and how it has to like deal with

00:13:58.800 dictators and authoritarians, obviously talking about Trump. Um, the other side, the Americans took

00:14:06.320 note of that. They saw that she was out there bashing them, bashing the Americans and they

00:14:11.200 didn't like it. They didn't like it very much. Um, here she is again out there, this, this clip six in

00:14:16.560 my mind, um, of how kind of cringe she is. So here, she was talking about how trade negotiations

00:14:23.840 are kind of like going into labor and having contractions and having a baby. Here's this clip.

00:14:29.520 It's never over until it's over. Uh, it, uh, when I was giving birth, one of my midwives said,

00:14:42.240 you never know how long the labor will be, but you know that each contraction is one contraction

00:14:49.440 closer to the baby being born. And if I could use such a personal metaphor, uh, that seems to apply to

00:14:57.120 trade negotiations. I'm sorry, that is just wildly inappropriate. Like I say this as a, as a, as a

00:15:04.800 mother of four and someone who, who actually my last child was born at home, uh, not in a hospital,

00:15:10.080 not with any medication, hearing her in a professional setting, talking to reporters,

00:15:16.240 she was down in Washington, talking to the press, the American press and the Canadian press, and talking

00:15:21.040 about giving birth and having contractions and working with a midwife. It is just weird. It's

00:15:26.800 inappropriate. It makes everybody stop. Instead of thinking about the trade, the political situation

00:15:33.360 on the ground, they're now picturing you going through labor. I mean, I, I get that Trudeau is

00:15:39.920 a feminist and he likes having women in his cabinet and he likes putting women out there. And they probably 1.00

00:15:44.240 told Christia Freeland to play up the fact that she's a woman because it makes liberals like Trudeau

00:15:49.760 better that he has a woman in a high position there negotiating on behalf of Canada. But you probably

00:15:55.760 shouldn't talk about that kind of stuff in a press conference in front of the press when you're

00:15:59.520 trying to talk about trade. It's just, it's just not right. It's inappropriate. It's weird. It's cringe.

00:16:04.640 Um, that's what we're going to have to expect from Christia Freeland. And again, I mean, let me know

00:16:08.880 what you think. Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I think the pitch that Trump doesn't like you is kind of

00:16:14.560 disqualifying in this moment, in this moment of politics, when we need a representative to go down there

00:16:20.640 and speak to Trump and negotiate a deal and save our country from economy crippling tariffs, having

00:16:26.960 someone that he hates, I just don't think it's a good idea. Now, maybe I'm missing something. Um,

00:16:32.240 but I don't think so. I don't think that Christia Freeland is the right person. Even the liberals know

00:16:36.960 that even their own audience isn't really interested. Not a lot of people at her launch,

00:16:41.520 the few people that were there, some of them protesting, not a lot of people watching online,

00:16:46.560 not a lot of hope there. Uh, let's give you an update on the other candidate who is running.

00:16:50.960 That of course is Mark Carney. Part of his big pitch is that he is this global elite who has had a lot

00:16:57.040 of positions of power. Uh, well, that might not necessarily help him here. We had the former UK

00:17:03.120 prime minister, Liz Truss, warning Canadians, basically pleading with Canadians, not to go with this guy.

00:17:10.160 She writes after printing too much money at the bank of England, promoting disastrous net zero policies

00:17:17.360 and backing the labor MP, Rachel Reeves, who was a far left globalist pro lockdown, pro vaccine,

00:17:24.640 pro everything, um, growth, killing economic plans. It seems like Mark Carney wants to inflict these

00:17:31.200 terrible ideas on Canada, resist Canadians, resist. So, uh, speaking from the prime minister who worked

00:17:38.880 with the guy, resist, do not go for this guy. Uh, says former PM, Liz Truss of the UK. I noticed this

00:17:47.440 as well, again, from Melissa Rogers. I showed another one of her tweets. Uh, she posted this

00:17:51.920 on X over the weekend, just saying to understand Mark Carney, look at the 15 people that he follows

00:17:57.840 on Instagram. He only follows 15 people and it's pretty illuminating as to who it is that he's

00:18:04.400 interested in, who he gets influenced by. Uh, of course, Gavin Newsom, who has been just absolutely

00:18:10.800 disastrous when it comes to dealing with those LA fires. Um, who else do we have on this list?

00:18:16.960 Uh, Justin Trudeau, of course, the liberal party, of course, but also another sort of left-wing

00:18:23.360 authoritarian there. Um, Jason Arden, the former prime minister of New Zealand, who was absolutely

00:18:29.920 disastrous, maybe one of the few countries in the world that was even stricter and more harsh against

00:18:34.560 people who didn't want to take the shot. Um, and that was New Zealand. Um, as well as of course,

00:18:41.280 Gerald Butts, who is, uh, reportedly working on his campaign and the radical, radical environmentalist,

00:18:48.240 Stephen Gilbo. So yeah, I think we're going to have to expect much of the same, uh, from Mark Carney

00:18:55.120 as what we have got from Justin Trudeau. And much like Trudeau, Mark Carney doesn't seem to like the

00:19:01.760 press that much. Doesn't seem to want any independent voices to cover his work. Doesn't

00:19:06.320 seem to have a lot of time for hearing the other side of the story and doesn't have much regard for

00:19:10.880 the truth as well. So here we have liberal MP, George Chahal, the one who hosted Mark Carney's,

00:19:17.440 uh, event, his, his, uh, announcement last week that he was running. And here he is on the news

00:19:24.400 telling the Canadian public that all local journalists had access to the event. That

00:19:28.720 of course is not true, but the truth doesn't really matter around here. So let's play that clip.

00:19:33.920 It's not as though this happened overnight. There's been lots of speculation that Mr.

00:19:36.800 Carney would run. He couldn't even answer the most basic question, which was,

00:19:40.160 will you not pursue a consumer price on carbon? He said, you know, he, he sort of alluded to the

00:19:45.360 idea that there could be other things, but that would have to replace it, but he, he wouldn't be

00:19:49.440 specific. Isn't that problematic? Well, no, I think he clearly stated

00:19:54.080 what his plan will be moving forward in the days and weeks ahead. He will be outlining

00:19:58.320 his ideas and his plan for Canada. And I think that's important that to launch today. We, we've

00:20:03.760 seen that, uh, all the local journalists had the opportunity to ask him a number of questions,

00:20:08.640 but a lot of our constituents here in Edmonton got an opportunity to meet him and ask him those

00:20:13.280 questions as well. So no, it's not true. All local journalists have not admitted because again,

00:20:18.800 True North's local journalist, Isaac Lamoureux was not allowed in the building. So not telling the truth

00:20:24.560 there, George, not telling the truth there, Mark Carney. Okay. Who else do we have in the race?

00:20:29.760 Karina Gold also made her announcement over the weekend that she would also be joining the campaign.

00:20:35.200 Now I wouldn't say that her event was as disastrous as Christia Freeland, but I can't say it went very well

00:20:41.280 either. Uh, at her own campaign launch speech, uh, she just let the cab right out of the bag and said 1.00

00:20:47.120 that Canadians don't trust the Liberals. Canadians have lost trust in our party. Let's play that clip.

00:20:52.880 And I'll be very honest with you, Rosie. Canadians don't trust the Liberal Party of Canada right now.

00:20:57.840 And I think that's because, uh, over the past couple of years in particular, we've gotten further

00:21:02.720 away from the grassroots and talking about the things that Canadians care about.

00:21:08.000 Wrong clip there. Well, that was her later that day,

00:21:10.160 telling Rosemary Barton that, uh, Canadians have lost trust in the Liberal Party. She said

00:21:15.520 pretty much the same thing at her launch campaign. So let's play the clip of her at her launch, 0.98

00:21:20.960 uh, saying that Canadians have lost trust in her party.

00:21:24.880 We have a big challenge ahead of us. Canadians have lost trust in our party.

00:21:31.760 And if we are going to be able to keep building our country, we must rebuild our party.

00:21:40.160 I became a Liberal at the age of 14 because I believe in Canada. I believe in who we are as a

00:21:54.400 people. I believe in the promise that we represent for the entire world. The Liberal Party of Canada is

00:22:02.080 not a hobby for me. It's not a side project. It is something that I have been working for my entire

00:22:09.680 life. Like so many of you in this room and Liberal Party members across the country.

00:22:16.960 So she's speaking some truth there. I'll give it to her for that. That's kind of the kind of speech that

00:22:22.080 you give after you've lost an election, right? That's the kind of thing that you say after your

00:22:26.480 party has been obliterated in an election and you say, okay, let's have some hard truths,

00:22:31.440 some hard conversations. Uh, this is why we lost. Let's rebuild our party. It's time to rebuild our

00:22:36.080 party. It's a little bit awkward to say that when your party is still in power and when you're running

00:22:42.000 to try to lead that party. I know those clips, I can just wait. I know that those are going to end up

00:22:47.280 in conservative attack ads because having a Liberal front runner say the truth, let it out of the bag,

00:22:53.200 the saying that Canadians don't trust us. Nobody likes the Liberals anymore. We have to rebuild our

00:22:57.200 party. Uh, that's not going to help them. It's true. It's entirely true, uh, but not going to help

00:23:03.440 them. Okay. I want to get to the big, big news of the day, which is that Donald Trump

00:23:08.000 is being inaugurated. And I think it's a good time to pause. Look, first of all, just say that this is

00:23:14.160 a Canadian show. This is a Canadian podcast. True North is a Canadian news outlet. And the thing that

00:23:19.040 we'd like to do is focus on Canada. Talk about the things that matter in our country.

00:23:22.880 If you want to get the American news and you can, there's so many great podcasts. I know that you'll

00:23:26.800 probably be over there listening to the guys at the daily wire or Megan Kelly, or one of the very

00:23:31.840 many great sources of news, uh, down in the States to hear what's happening down there. And I'm not

00:23:36.960 going to try, um, to provide any special insight on, uh, Donald Trump, but I do think it's important

00:23:43.840 that we pause and sort of recognize just how disastrous Joe Biden was for the United States.

00:23:50.640 And by virtue of that, the entire world, because what happens in the United States is so consequential

00:23:55.520 around the world, having a weak president down there hurts everybody. And there was a Twitter

00:24:01.680 thread that I saw, which was Joe Biden's disastrous presidency in 25 photos. And so I want to kind of

00:24:09.600 walk us through, uh, just how bad it is partially because look, a lot of this stuff was happening in

00:24:16.560 Canada. A lot of this stuff, there's a lot of overlap between Trudeau and Biden. And that is why

00:24:22.720 it's important to walk us through it. So let's go through this, uh, thread. So the, the, um,

00:24:29.440 the, the author on Twitter here is a gentleman called Ben Q and he says, Joe Biden's disastrous

00:24:34.720 presidency in 25 photos. Here's 40, 25 photos that show the story of the Biden years. So the first one

00:24:41.600 here is just a flashback to the socially distanced cabinet. Just remember this, remember that this

00:24:48.880 happened. This, this was our lifetime. This wasn't that long ago. This was part of Joe Biden's legacy.

00:24:54.240 Here they are with their ridiculous masks on with their chairs, exactly six feet apart. Remember

00:25:00.720 that keep three meters apart. Uh, that's science, trust the science. Um, and that is just incredibly

00:25:07.040 ingrained as part of his legacy, part of the embarrassment of his time in office. Okay.

00:25:13.360 Let's move on to the second one here, which is just gas prices, gas prices rose massively in 2021.

00:25:20.400 Of course, because of high inflation, inflation that came from huge increases in government spending

00:25:26.800 and the printing of money, the government spending went to basically just pay everyone to keep the

00:25:31.440 economy going while their disastrous policies had shut it down. And again, exactly the same thing.

00:25:37.600 Number one and number two, exactly the same thing were happening under Justin Trudeau. Of course,

00:25:42.480 our, our gases and leaders there's is in gallons, but tells the exact same story. I could be saying the

00:25:48.160 same thing, um, about Justin Trudeau. Okay. The next picture here heading north. Uh, this says

00:25:55.360 Guatemalan authorities were pushing back on the migrant caravan nearly. Um, you know, this is what

00:26:01.280 would happen. These individuals are just pushing their way into the United States and having an open

00:26:06.160 border, completely unguarded border. You know, you just, you don't have a country anymore. If you don't

00:26:11.360 have a border, you don't have sovereignty. You don't have control over your territory. You can't be a

00:26:15.840 country. And it is just unbelievable. Both Trump, both Trudeau and Biden just fully embrace the policy

00:26:21.920 of letting whoever wants to come in, come in like all of these young military aged men welcome into 1.00

00:26:28.400 the country. No worries. Everyone can come collect your welfare, collect your benefits. And we're going

00:26:34.240 to be one happy, uh, shining, happy family, a big post national state here, uh, happened in the United States,

00:26:42.080 happened in Canada. Uh, here's one thing that doesn't, didn't happen in Canada. Um, we, we didn't

00:26:47.680 have a kind of declining cognitively impaired leader. Here's Joe Biden sadly showing his age where

00:26:54.960 he couldn't walk up the stairs of air force one failing to make it up the stairs. I mean, look, we got

00:27:01.520 our own problems with Justin Trudeau. Um, fortunately, uh, being in the decline, uh, in terms of his age and

00:27:08.880 ability is not one of them. Um, although I'm sure some in the comments will probably point out the

00:27:13.360 fact that there's other types of declines happening with Justin Trudeau. Uh, next photo here is the

00:27:19.200 Afghanistan withdrawal. I think this moment, uh, really, really, I mean, it was, it was horrifying

00:27:25.840 to watch, horrifying to see how it all unfolded and it really changed the world. It, because seeing how

00:27:32.160 weak the Americans were seeing how absolutely chaotic and disorganized this was the idea that

00:27:38.800 they would just leave and leave so many people behind, leave so much resources behind military,

00:27:45.360 uh, everything. It just showed the absolute weakness of Joe Biden. The fact that he was willing

00:27:51.600 to do all that without a plan, it just seemed completely ham-fisted. And again, it showed, it showed,

00:27:57.680 it showed the world that now's the time. Now's the time we have a weak president, a sleepy old man

00:28:03.200 in office, uh, never should have been elected. A lot of really questionable things happened around

00:28:09.040 that 2020 election that allowed for this man to become president. And now, now's your chance. If,

00:28:14.400 if you're any kind of, uh, you know, adversarial state, uh, looking to get the upper hand in terms

00:28:22.240 of regional stability or, uh, hegemony, regional hegemony, now's your chance. And you can draw a

00:28:27.840 direct line from that Afghan withdrawal to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to Hamas's war against

00:28:34.240 Israel. Um, you know, when, when, when the United States is weak, the world is unstable. Um, and we

00:28:39.920 definitely saw that. Okay. Let's skip ahead here to another photo of Joe Biden with the vaccines,

00:28:46.720 the vaccine mandate, much like in Canada, the United States introduced a vaccine mandate via

00:28:53.440 executive order, wasn't voted in, wasn't, it didn't come from Congress. It came from Biden

00:28:59.120 and it was later ruled unconstitutional, uh, because in the United States, their constitution

00:29:04.800 is actually something that's binding that is upheld by the courts over there. Uh, unlike in Canada,

00:29:11.200 where again, our charter and freedoms, our chart of rates and freedoms did nothing,

00:29:15.280 did nothing to protect us from a tyrannical government during COVID.

00:29:19.600 I mean, what is, is, is the constitution even written worth the paper it's written on if it

00:29:24.480 can't protect you? The, one of the very first things in the Canadian chart of rights and freedom

00:29:28.560 is the right to freedom of religion. And yet churches were closed, right? We have the, you,

00:29:34.640 we're supposed to have a freedom of mobility in our charter. Uh, and yet the government prevented you

00:29:39.920 from basically leaving your house in many circumstances. You couldn't get on a plane,

00:29:44.000 couldn't get on a train, couldn't get on a bus if you didn't have the jab. Um, and again,

00:29:50.800 really, really, really unbelievable, uh, what happened with regards to governments,

00:29:55.600 uh, just out of control, out of control. Okay. Let's, uh, move on to the next one here.

00:30:01.360 As I alluded to with the Afghan withdrawal, um, Putin goes rogue

00:30:05.440 and invades Ukraine turns into a horrific war. One of the most devastating wars of the 21st century.

00:30:14.000 Um, million, a million people or more have been killed and billions and billions and billions

00:30:19.760 of dollars have gone to further that war, to fund the war effort, to continue the fighting and the

00:30:26.320 misery in Ukraine. That's definitely part of Joe Biden's legacy. Uh, next we have Joe Biden's

00:30:33.280 Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, famously saying that she is not a biologist

00:30:40.160 because she was asked to define a woman. And according to this brilliant legal scholar,

00:30:47.280 you can't define what a woman is unless you're a biologist and she is not a biologist. Therefore, 0.95

00:30:52.800 she does not have to answer the question and no, she cannot define what a woman is. I think that that

00:30:59.360 is just a photo that we will remember, um, and think of when we think of Joe Biden and his time in

00:31:06.960 office. Uh, speaking of that, I, I'm gonna pull up a tweet that I saw, um, when it comes to this issue

00:31:13.840 because I believe one of the first things that Donald Trump did do was an executive order

00:31:19.040 plainly stating, um, that men are men, women are women. Behold, this is, uh, from Megan Kelly's

00:31:26.240 X. It says executive order written by Trump issued on the first day here is a government-wide,

00:31:32.000 um, establishes government-wide that biological reality of two sexes is clearly male and female.

00:31:39.920 All radical gender ideology guidance communication policies are to be removed. Agencies will cease

00:31:45.440 pretending that men can be women and that women can be men when enforcing laws to protect against 0.52

00:31:50.400 sexual discrimination. Woman means an adult human female. The executive order directs that

00:31:55.520 government identification like passports and personnel records will reflect biological reality

00:32:01.440 and not self-assessed gender identity. Wow. So big change there down in the United States. Uh, I hope 0.98

00:32:09.200 that that means that Canada will be next. I hope that Canada will go down the same path. Okay,

00:32:14.000 let's go to the next photo here. Sean, the freak show, the freak show. This is back to Joe Biden's

00:32:19.040 legacy, the 25 pictures that defined his presidency. Here we have the non-binary deputy secretary of,

00:32:28.880 um, sorry, Sam Brinton and his transgender assistant secretary of health, Rachel Levine,

00:32:37.680 pose her photos. So yes, these are actually administer, these are actually officials in the

00:32:42.720 Biden administration, very confused men pretending to be women. They're, uh, definitely part of his 0.97

00:32:49.760 legacy. Next we'll move on to the fentanyl crisis. And again, this is part of Canada's legacy as well.

00:32:56.320 This photo depicts homeless encampments continue to expand across the United States and most cities,

00:33:03.280 notably in California, many of the homeless or addicts hooked on fentanyl smuggled in by Mexican drug

00:33:10.000 cartels and much of it made in China. Um, nuts again, could say the same thing about Justin Trudeau

00:33:16.880 could say the same thing about Canada. Okay. Let's move on to the political persecution. Uh, this is

00:33:25.360 about January sixers, uh, inside images from inside a federal prison show how Biden regime is torturing

00:33:32.400 January six protesters through the use of prolonged solitary confinement. Meanwhile, hundreds more are

00:33:39.040 convicted on long sentences for the so-called insurrection, absolutely unconscionable treatment

00:33:46.160 over there. And again, some similar overlaps. I know that the media tried to portray Canada's

00:33:51.840 freedom convoy as our version of January six. They lied and said it was an insurrection.

00:33:56.480 They went out of their way to use undue force, uh, really just a stain on Justin Trudeau's time in

00:34:02.640 office. Same thing happened down in the United States, but then things started to turn around.

00:34:08.800 Biden used lawfare against Donald Trump. Um, it was kind of funny, right? During the campaign,

00:34:15.200 you heard a lot in the U S about how Donald Trump was going to use the, uh, government,

00:34:22.400 use the power of the government against his political enemies, um, that he was going to

00:34:26.560 lock people up. Um, and then of course the irony is that it was literally what the Biden regime

00:34:31.040 was doing against Donald Trump. So Biden regime moves forward with the prosecution of his political

00:34:37.360 adversary and the leader of the other party, Donald Trump, who was leading at the time in the polls for

00:34:41.760 the Republican nomination on phony charges. Well, it all backfired, right? Cause after this photo was

00:34:47.440 taken after the raid on Mar-a-Lago, after this photo was taken, that was when Trump was back that put

00:34:53.440 Trump back. Uh, so many Republicans who were sort of loop warm on him, unsure about him, didn't really

00:34:59.600 know if they wanted to go for him. They were all in after this. It's like, once you declare war against

00:35:05.040 our guy, it just makes you double down and want him even more. And so this was sort of part of the

00:35:10.160 turning point. A couple more photos here. Which one do we have next here, Sean? Um,

00:35:17.200 we've got Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden. Oh, Hunter arrives at court ahead of his trial on tax fraud

00:35:24.240 and illegal immigration charges. Of course, he would later be pardoned by his father,

00:35:28.320 despite repeated promises by old Joe that he would not do that. But of course he did. Um, next we have,

00:35:36.240 what do we have next here, Sean? The debate, the debate, this will sort of go down in infamy

00:35:42.400 as the worst performance ever by a debater. I don't think it's ever happened that someone has

00:35:46.800 performed so badly in a presidential debate that they've literally had to drop out. Um, but that's

00:35:51.520 what happened this, uh, in this campaign, 2024, the debate effectively ended his candidacy for president.

00:35:58.160 Biden showed himself to be every bit as demented as his critics had worn, very sad,

00:36:03.120 um, but very true. And we all saw it. And then they plopped in a replacement candidate here,

00:36:09.040 Kamala Harris, bringing back the joy. What a, what an absolute disaster these two were. Wow. 0.67

00:36:15.120 Wow. Kamala Harris takes over as the democratic nominee and chooses Tim Waltz as a running mate

00:36:21.600 with a promise of restoring joy to politics. The campaign turns out to be a catastrophic failure.

00:36:28.480 You could see it happening with Chrystia Freeland. You could see, you could see the parallels. And

00:36:33.680 then of course, Don Trump wins with the greatest political comeback ever. And that brings us to today

00:36:40.320 where he is being sworn in as the 47th president, the greatest, greatest comeback in political history.

00:36:47.920 I think that's exactly right. Trump posted this video on his true social, and I want to go ahead and

00:36:54.640 play it for you because it's really remarkable what has happened in the United States. So here's that clip.

00:37:00.560 Message to hold in your hearts today. It's this. Never, ever give up.

00:37:06.960 FBI raid at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. Deadly force being authorized.

00:37:12.080 Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

00:37:17.360 Donald J. Trump has been indicted. Jack Smith has again indicted former President Trump.

00:37:23.600 Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair.

00:37:27.840 You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve.

00:37:31.920 Like I said, take a look at what happened.

00:37:36.960 But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight.

00:37:42.240 Never, ever, ever give up. The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong.

00:37:56.560 CNN projects that Donald Trump has been elected president.

00:38:00.720 Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.

00:38:07.040 Relish the opportunity to be an outsider because it's the outsiders who change the world.

00:38:13.760 250 million Americans are not garbage.

00:38:18.320 And it'll make a real and lasting difference.

00:38:20.640 The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead.

00:38:32.000 You must keep pushing forward.

00:38:34.880 I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.

00:38:41.200 America. So just remember that. Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.

00:38:49.760 America is beginning a new chapter. Our best days are yet to come. I can promise you that.

00:39:06.720 What an incredible message. What an incredible leader.

00:39:09.440 And I know that most Canadians don't like Donald Trump. Most Canadians don't.

00:39:14.800 You know, they tell pollsters anyway that they would not vote for Trump, that they would have voted for Kamala Harris, even many conservatives, which is tough to understand.

00:39:22.480 But you could see just the difference in style. Right.

00:39:25.120 The Americans are so much more brash, so much more in your face. 1.00

00:39:28.080 Their patriotism is just so much more out in the open.

00:39:30.960 Many Canadians find that distasteful. I personally find it inspiring.

00:39:35.120 I love that about Americans.

00:39:36.400 I love the fact that there's this new resurgence in in patriotism and love of country in this even just the whole like USA, USA, USA chance that break out.

00:39:47.440 I remember those from like the 90s and then they kind of seem to disappear for a couple of decades.

00:39:51.600 And now they're back.

00:39:52.640 And seeing sort of the excitement, the optimism for the future, the idea that America is going to go through another golden age, just the idea that the best days of their country lie ahead and are not behind.

00:40:05.120 And it's genuine when you hear it, you think, yes, that's possible.

00:40:08.560 Yes, it's true. And it's so exciting when you hear it about Canada.

00:40:12.400 I mean, you don't really hear any of that stuff about Canada.

00:40:14.800 And it's tough to even get in the headspace where you would feel optimistic for your country and for your future like that, like like you see down in the United States.

00:40:23.760 And that's why I've been talking about this on the podcast that I think Canadians should get on board.

00:40:28.320 They should get on board.

00:40:29.280 Trump is doing something amazing in the United States, whether you like him or you hate him.

00:40:33.680 You can't deny the fact that he is a consequential person, the fact that it was the hand of providence that saved that man's life when he was being the assassination attempt.

00:40:43.680 The fact that the bullet missed his head by mere millimeters and he turned his head at that exact moment.

00:40:49.120 I mean, what an unbelievable thing to have happened.

00:40:53.200 And I think that with that energy and excitement, like Canada needs to be involved.

00:40:57.440 Canada needs to somehow strike a deal.

00:40:59.760 I'm not saying that we should be absorbed or annexed or become American.

00:41:03.600 But I'm saying that why wouldn't we want to try to get in on that, try to try to emulate that,

00:41:09.040 try to bring back our own patriotism and our own excitement for the future,

00:41:12.560 unleash the free market and have our own economic heyday.

00:41:16.880 I think that that that's what I want.

00:41:18.880 I don't know if that's what many Canadians want, but that's what I want.

00:41:22.560 And if if Trudeau was smart, well, first of all, if Trudeau was smart,

00:41:26.800 he would just call an election and allow for a new government to go down there and negotiate with Trump.

00:41:32.800 But instead, he is sending down his own motley crew of characters down to be part of this new

00:41:41.040 Canada-U.S. Relations Council.

00:41:42.800 So here is True North reporting that Jean Charest, who remember, he ran for leadership of the

00:41:49.600 Conservative Party.

00:41:50.480 Well, it turns out he's back on Team Liberal again, former Liberal Premier of Quebec,

00:41:55.120 along with Rachel Notley and many others.

00:41:57.520 They're the ones going down.

00:41:58.800 They're the ones going down to represent us.

00:42:00.960 So Trudeau found a crew of left wing liberals to go down there and try to talk to Trump's team.

00:42:08.720 That's just not going to work. It's not going to go over very well.

00:42:11.920 If he had some sense, he would find the people who already have the connections with the incoming

00:42:17.040 administration, people like Jamil Javani.

00:42:19.200 Jamil Javani is a member of parliament on Pierre Polyev's team.

00:42:22.800 He represents a riding just outside of Toronto.

00:42:26.080 And Jamil actually has a personal connection to the Trump administration.

00:42:29.920 He went to law school with J.D. Vance, and they've been great friends and good

00:42:33.760 buddies for the last 15 years. Here is a picture of Jamil Javani with his friend,

00:42:38.800 his close personal friend, J.D. Vance. It's incredible.

00:42:42.720 And Jamil Javani is down there for the inauguration right now.

00:42:46.240 Why wouldn't you put Jamil on that council and get him as part of the negotiations to reach across

00:42:51.840 the aisle and put a conservative out there? That's who is going to speak the same language

00:42:56.560 as Donald Trump. You also had Danielle Smith down there. 1.00

00:43:00.880 Justin Trudeau is picking fights and trying to make enemies of Danielle.

00:43:04.560 But Danielle is actually, the premier has negotiated and she's made inroads.

00:43:09.920 Here she is at a black tie event down in Washington, D.C. the other night.

00:43:16.560 And she says, honored to see my good friend, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum,

00:43:21.360 who is the nominee for the U.S. Interior Secretary and head of the Energy Council,

00:43:26.000 as well as Chris White, nominee for U.S. Energy Secretary, wishing them both all the very best

00:43:31.360 as they go through their confirmation hearings and look forward to working with them to secure

00:43:36.320 North American energy dominance. Again, why wouldn't you include someone like Danielle Smith, 1.00

00:43:41.520 who actually has the friends, who's down there working the room, making friends,

00:43:46.800 posting about it, trying to make those inroads? Why would you send her top political 1.00

00:43:51.440 adversary, Rachel Notley? That makes no sense. It makes no sense to have Rachel Notley down there,

00:43:58.400 rather than Danielle Smith. Who else is in Washington? Well, none other than Kian Bexty

00:44:03.040 of the Counter Signal. Man, this guy's got an uncanny ability to just find politicians. Here he is with

00:44:10.160 Ted Cruz down in Washington. You'll remember Kian Bexty tracked Justin Trudeau down when he was hiding

00:44:17.040 from the press, hiding from reporters. Kian somehow found a way to find Justin Trudeau on a beach on

00:44:21.680 Vancouver Island. He did something similar when he found Greta Thunberg when she was in Canada.

00:44:28.560 Kian's just incredible journalists. So check him out down at the Counter Signal. He's going to be

00:44:33.920 reporting everything that's going on down in D.C. during the inauguration. Well, we did get some good

00:44:40.400 news, folks. We did get some good news, and that is that there are no tariffs coming in yet. So this

00:44:45.760 is Paul Vieira of the Wall Street Journal, who is reporting that despite the fact that Trump said

00:44:51.680 that on day one he was going to issue an executive order, including a 25% tariff on Canada, he writes

00:44:57.520 this, President-elect Donald Trump is planning to issue a broad memorandum Monday that directs federal

00:45:04.160 agencies to study trade policies and evaluate U.S. trade relationships with China and America's

00:45:11.360 continental neighbors, but stops short of imposing new tariffs on his first day in office. So this is

00:45:19.040 a win. This is a win. Trudeau dodged a bullet. I don't think it is because of his counsel there. I

00:45:25.280 don't think it is because of his cabinet who are down there trying to, I don't know, trying to win over

00:45:32.640 their American counterparts. I think it is probably more to do with the advocacy work of people like

00:45:38.320 Daniel Smith, perhaps Jamil Giovanni as well. But so far, no tariffs, just a report studying it,

00:45:44.160 which means that there's going to be some sort of sober second thought before any rash tariffs

00:45:49.840 come in, which is very, very good news. BlackBerry co-founder Jim Basile, he warned Canada that we are

00:45:57.200 sleepwalking into a Trump tariff crisis. And I think it's just incredibly important to put the

00:46:04.000 right people in place. It is incredibly important, which is why we need an election. We need to have

00:46:11.360 an election. We need to get the House back in session and we need to have an election. So I want to give a

00:46:18.000 quick update on that because the JCCF, the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, as you know,

00:46:25.360 we reported on this earlier on a previous episode about how they are trying to force parliament back

00:46:31.280 in. They say that Trudeau's effort to prorogue parliament was actually unconstitutional. Well,

00:46:36.320 an update on Saturday, they announced that a federal court had granted an expedited hearing on the case

00:46:42.960 in the decision to prorogue parliament. Chief Justice Crampton cited the matter's urgency,

00:46:48.480 the risk of mootness under standard timelines, and the public interest in resolving the issue

00:46:54.080 promptly. And so because of all this, we learned that the new hearing will take place in Ottawa

00:47:01.440 on February 13th and 14th. Now, I know some of you might chuckle at that because if you think of

00:47:08.480 an expedited hearing, you think about urgency in this matter and how there's quick timelines here

00:47:15.760 and there's public interest, you would think, hey, today is January 20th. If this was such an urgent

00:47:21.120 matter, why aren't we hearing the case today? Why isn't there a federal judge hearing this right now,

00:47:27.760 this trial right now? Well, I guess expedited and quick in Canada means three weeks rather than waiting

00:47:34.880 all the way until the end of March, which is what they're asking for, what Trudeau has asked for.

00:47:40.400 So we will continue to report on this. Hopefully we'll even have a reporter down in Ottawa to report

00:47:46.480 on that case and that trial because it is incredibly important and we will bring you more on that.

00:47:53.600 When it comes, I think that, I mean, really, an election couldn't come fast enough. An election

00:48:00.880 couldn't happen soon enough just given what we're dealing with, the absolute disaster that is Justin

00:48:08.720 Trudeau, the joke of his cabinet ministers and his US envoy that's down there, his US-Canada

00:48:18.160 Relations Council being the ones who are going to be representing us. It's just, it's not good for

00:48:26.640 Canada folks. It's not good. As I just said, it's an exciting day in the world. It's an exciting day 1.00

00:48:32.720 for our American cousins and neighbors that they are welcoming in this new era. And I think even a lot

00:48:38.160 of people who really didn't like Trump back in 2016, even people who didn't vote for Donald Trump this

00:48:43.520 time around, recognize the excitement of the moment in bringing in a new politician, a new administration

00:48:50.720 that thinks differently, that has different ideas, that isn't completely tied to the status quo and the

00:48:56.160 way that things have been in the past. And there's some excitement in that. I mean, Trump may fail.

00:49:02.080 Trump may not be able to live up to his own expectations and what he wants, but he's willing

00:49:07.200 to take risks and do things differently. And that is exactly what we need in Canada. Things have gone

00:49:14.640 incredibly downhill in Canada. So just thinking about what Canada looked like 10 years ago before Justin

00:49:21.600 Trudeau came into office back in 2015. I saw this Twitter post comparing Canada and what has happened

00:49:30.160 over the last 10 years with Justin Trudeau in office. It says when he took in 2015, the dollar was at 0.75 US.

00:49:38.880 Today is at 0.69. The national debt was $630 billion back then. It's now 1.3 trillion. The average home

00:49:46.880 cost $450,000. Now it's $725,000. The average gas price was $1 a liter. Now it's $1.50 a liter.

00:49:55.600 And this is crazy. The price of gold was $1,400 per ounce. And today it is nearly $4,000 per ounce.

00:50:05.280 And not to mention the fact that 25% of Canadians live in poverty. This is according to a Twitter account,

00:50:13.200 an X account called government is corrupt. So this is a video from a news report from CTV back in 2024

00:50:22.080 about the number of Canadians living in poverty. Let's play that clip.

00:50:26.240 We begin this morning with a concerning new look at how many Canadians are struggling with the rising

00:50:32.160 cost of living. One in four people living in poverty in this country. Those numbers coming from 0.99

00:50:38.480 Food Banks Canada. It found the poverty rate is actually higher than the 10% estimated by StatsCan

00:50:45.200 using metrics out of Europe. The report says 25% of Canadians cannot afford two or more household

00:50:52.720 essentials, putting them below the poverty line. That includes 30% of 18 to 30 year olds, 44% of single

00:51:01.520 parent families and 42% of renters. So I think Canada is at a sort of moment of truth. It's like

00:51:09.680 a fork in the road right now. We have to decide which direction we are going to take as a country.

00:51:15.600 Are we going to continue doing what we've done to get us into this absolute mess? This idea that,

00:51:21.280 I mean, we're basically on the way to Venezuela, like Canada will be Venezuela in 10 years if we

00:51:26.480 continue down this path. Or can we find a way to force an election to vote in a new party, get a

00:51:32.240 new political mandate and make some serious, serious changes? I really do hope for the latter.

00:51:38.480 I think Canada doesn't have a lot more time. I don't know that we can survive another 8 or 10 years

00:51:44.800 in an administration like that of the Justin Trudeau government. Just how disastrous things have been

00:51:49.760 and how quickly things have fallen apart. Okay. Well, we wish all the best to our American friends

00:51:56.640 and neighbors in this exciting day for their country and ushering in a new president. Okay,

00:52:03.520 folks, I want to, enough about politics, enough about the world and what's happening over there.

00:52:09.360 I want to bring it, bring it back to home now and talk a little bit about myself. I don't usually talk

00:52:14.400 too, too much about myself and my family on my podcast. I like to be a fairly private person.

00:52:20.240 But I did mention that my husband and I were celebrating our 11th marriage anniversary. We

00:52:25.600 did so over the weekend. It was really good. You know, what happens when you, when you first have

00:52:30.880 kids, you kind of have to readjust like your entire life and you have to readjust all of your

00:52:35.600 expectations as well. And there can be some resistance. I remember the first time we celebrated our

00:52:40.160 wedding anniversary after we had kids. Uh, we still had this mindset, my husband and I like,

00:52:44.720 let's go away for the weekend. Let's go like, you know, stay at a hotel. I think we drove like a mile

00:52:49.680 away from our house. We had my mom, grandma staying with our baby at the time. And we, we went to try to

00:52:55.360 have like a romantic weekend away. Um, I was still nursing the baby. And so it, it didn't really work

00:53:01.360 out as planned. We were going to go away for two days. We ended up spending one night and then waking

00:53:05.600 up early the next morning, um, and going home, um, to be with the baby. And so, you know, the whole

00:53:10.960 idea that you, that, that you can kind of continue doing your life as you did before kids, it just

00:53:15.200 doesn't really happen. It doesn't really make sense. And I think now, you know, here we are celebrating

00:53:19.920 11 years. We've, we've come to terms with the fact, um, that our kids dominate our lives and we don't

00:53:25.120 even try to go away for a weekend. Uh, we did, we did manage to get out for a nice lunch together. And that

00:53:30.000 was, um, about as much as you can expect, uh, when you have four little kids. But I think, you know,

00:53:35.840 I, again, I don't, I don't like to talk about it all the time, but I think marriage is absolutely the

00:53:40.720 most important institution in Canadian society. I think that if you don't put family at the center of

00:53:47.120 the world and your world and the country, um, the only thing that else that can fill that void is

00:53:53.360 government. And so strong families, strong marriages, strong families create strong

00:53:58.480 communities and strong communities are what can resist against government tyranny. And so again,

00:54:04.960 like I define myself as being a social conservative and the way that I define that is simply that I

00:54:09.840 believe that families and, and, and marriage is the most important institution and that families

00:54:15.120 are the central institution in society, not government. Um, you know, again, families create

00:54:20.880 communities, churches create communities and strong communities are what, um, stop tyrannical, uh,

00:54:26.480 forces in government. I, I actually proud to announce that I contributed an essay to a new book

00:54:31.760 on marriage. Um, the book is called, I do why marriage still matters written by Andrea M. Rosick

00:54:38.320 and Peter von John Mitchell, who, uh, worked for the Curtis Institute. This is an initiative of Curtis.

00:54:45.040 And it was just an absolute pleasure working with these folks. Um, an incredible book. I got to read it

00:54:50.720 before it was published. And again, I have an essay in there talking about my own personal views on

00:54:57.200 marriage and my own situation. I'm going to read a little bit from the synopsis here, because I think

00:55:01.840 it's just so important and it's worth reading. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this book.

00:55:06.480 It says for many today, marriage is a nice thing, but not necessary. I do is a book to help you

00:55:13.200 reconsider the central importance of marriage, not simply for the couples involved, but for all of us.

00:55:18.480 Plenty of research suggests that a good marriage encourages health, wellness, and happiness,

00:55:22.640 and the goodness of marriage extends into our communities. To this, to retort, the retort comes

00:55:28.720 quickly. Well, that's the result of good marriages. Yet, instead of nurturing good marriages, we are

00:55:34.640 throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Marriage is not the solution to every problem. It remains, 0.99

00:55:39.120 however, an ideal to which we can still aspire. The book connects the dots between statistics,

00:55:44.400 public policy problems, and people's experiences. Better understanding of the attributes of marriage

00:55:50.800 allows each one of us to invest deeper meaning into our relationships, as well as enhancing and

00:55:55.920 creating stronger communities. The authors equip readers with the language and logic of marriage,

00:56:01.600 using secular research. But by imagining that marriage still matters, we can learn to properly

00:56:07.680 support and nurture marriage for the good of the world. Absolutely so important, such an important

00:56:13.440 message, not just because I was reflecting on this as recently celebrating a wedding anniversary,

00:56:19.680 but there's, there's some really shocking data out there on Canada. I mean, if you just look at the

00:56:25.280 plummeting birth rate alone, I think the last time I checked, Canada's birth rate is now 1.3.

00:56:32.080 1.3. Keep in mind that replacement is 2.1. So we're almost at half the rate that we would need to

00:56:39.360 maintain the birth rate of our society to maintain our population, which really just means that each

00:56:46.720 generation is half the size of the previous one. Each generation is half the size of the previous one,

00:56:52.480 and that the population naturally, if it weren't for immigration, would be cut in half every 100 years.

00:56:58.720 So really, I mean, we need to do everything we can to try to encourage people, Canadians to have more

00:57:06.000 children. Canadians, marriage is just one of the ways that we can do it. I think there's a lot of

00:57:11.440 other public policy ideas that have been floated and can work to various extents. But really, it comes

00:57:17.920 down to a much more fundamental problem, which is that people just don't believe in the future,

00:57:22.160 they don't have the optimism, they don't believe that the world is heading in the right direction,

00:57:26.480 and they don't want to have kids. And that's very alarming. So I think everything that we can do

00:57:31.200 to try to encourage people that it's still worth doing, it's still worth in taking on these kinds of

00:57:38.160 responsibilities, can lead to just so much happiness and joy. So I won't go on too much,

00:57:44.000 I'll leave it at that. But I do recommend that everyone pick up a copy of this wonderful book.

00:57:48.160 And I'm hoping to have the authors on the podcast in the future to go into more detail

00:57:52.880 on it. All right, folks, I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:57:56.560 Have a wonderful day. I'm Candice Malcolm. Thank you for tuning in and God bless.

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