Juno News - January 17, 2025


The World is Laughing at Canada


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

173.82693

Word Count

9,948

Sentence Count

679

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm and welcome to the Candice Malcolm Show. Happy Friday, everybody.
00:00:11.480 Hope you have a great weekend lined up here. It's Friday. We've got a lot of news to catch
00:00:17.080 up on today, but because it's Friday, we're also going to have a bit of fun. So yesterday,
00:00:21.940 I sat down with financial journalist and author Diane Francis about her 2013 book,
00:00:27.900 Merger of the Century, Why Canada and the United States Should Become One Country. It was a super
00:00:34.060 interesting, rather provocative interview, and I hope you will go and check that out. One of the
00:00:39.100 things that Diane Francis mentioned, and she's an esteemed journalist, very well respected across
00:00:44.280 the country, across the aisle, and she made the point repeatedly that Justin Trudeau is a disgrace.
00:00:50.660 He has become a punchline, a joke for the rest of the country and the rest of the world. She called
00:00:56.040 him a woke joke, and I think that is entirely correct. Canadians care a lot about our international
00:01:01.160 reputation. We care a lot about what people are saying about us and what people think about us,
00:01:05.960 and the fact that Justin Trudeau is out there embarrassing us day in and day out is just a
00:01:12.080 national disgrace. It really truly is. The world is laughing at how woke and how pathetic he is,
00:01:18.220 but they're also laughing at Canada. They're also laughing at our country and how dysfunctional it is,
00:01:24.400 and I think that one of the major news stories highlighting this dysfunction and putting it out
00:01:29.400 for everyone to see is this meeting that happened this week on Wednesday, meeting of the premiers and
00:01:36.280 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussing what they were going to do with Trump, with the 25% tariffs
00:01:42.800 coming through, and notably, Daniel Smith refusing to sign on to this agreement, refusing to go along with
00:01:51.440 what the Team Canada approach that Justin Trudeau is trying to usher in. So on Wednesday,
00:01:57.200 Daniel Smith put out a statement rejecting Justin Trudeau's ideas. She had a long post on X. I'll just
00:02:04.240 read part of it to you just explaining why she was not joining in on this joint statement. She wrote,
00:02:11.760 I had a constructive discussion with my fellow premiers on how best to deal with the threat of tariffs
00:02:16.400 from incoming US administration. We agreed on several strategies and I look forward to working
00:02:20.800 with them. However, federal government officials continue to publicly and privately float the idea
00:02:26.400 of cutting off our energy supply to the US and imposing export tariffs on Alberta energy and other
00:02:32.640 products in the United States. Until these threats cease, Alberta will not be able to fully support the
00:02:38.400 federal government's plan in dealing with the threatened tariffs. Alberta will simply not agree to export
00:02:45.120 tariffs on our energy or other products, nor do we support a ban on exports of these same products.
00:02:51.200 We will take whatever actions are needed to protect the livelihoods of Albertans from such destructive
00:02:57.920 federal policies. And so we reported on this at True North, just saying that Daniel Smith is refusing
00:03:08.240 to support these potential tariffs. We're already getting tariffs one way from Trump potentially as
00:03:15.600 soon as early next week when Trump is sworn in and inaugurated. Why would we put additional tariffs
00:03:21.360 and further harm our own economy? That is sort of the point coming out of Alberta. We're already suffering
00:03:27.120 through a cost of living crisis in this country. And if the Americans are going to try to teach us a lesson
00:03:33.760 in saying, you know, we want you to change your supply management regime, we want you to focus on
00:03:38.240 your border, we want you to carry your own weight when it comes to military spending. The reaction should
00:03:44.400 not be a trade war. I want to read this excellent analysis by Dan Knight because this is really turning
00:03:49.920 into a Alberta versus Canada debate where many, many Canadians and even many conservatives from other
00:03:56.480 parts of the country are saying that Alberta is wrong and that we should all be on one united page.
00:04:01.760 Dan Knight just made an absolute excellent point here. And I do want to read a little bit from his
00:04:08.720 post here. Dan Knight is a journalist and he is a commentator. He has a subsec and really,
00:04:14.160 really excellent stuff. So he's talking about what Trudeau is proposing to do, which is essentially a
00:04:19.280 $150 billion countermeasure plan to include the possibility of crippling Alberta's energy sector.
00:04:26.080 And so he says, why wasn't Alberta there? Because Premier Danielle Smith isn't an idiot.
00:04:31.360 Trudeau's plan includes export levies on Canadian oil, a move that would essentially tell Alberta
00:04:36.640 to torch its own economy to help Trudeau look tough on Trump. Alberta exports $13.3 billion of energy
00:04:43.840 to the US every month, making it the lifeblood of the country's economy. But sure, let's just gamble
00:04:49.440 that away because Trudeau needs a distraction from his sinking legacy. But Alberta's refusal isn't just
00:04:55.120 about this plan. It's about years, years of Ottawa treating Alberta like the black sheep of confederation.
00:05:01.760 Remember the Northern Gateway pipeline? Trudeau killed it. Energy East dead too. These projects
00:05:08.080 could have given Alberta access to global markets. Instead, Trudeau left the province landlocked,
00:05:14.240 dependent on the US and completely vulnerable to economic extortion like this. And now, after all that
00:05:20.400 sabotage, he expects Alberta to unite behind this plan, please. He says, don't get me started on
00:05:27.200 Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act, or what we call the No Pipelines Bill. This masterpiece of
00:05:33.680 legislation basically made it impossible to build anything that moves oil. So Dan Knight just really
00:05:40.480 hammering home this point of just how Alberta has been treated under this Liberal government. After almost
00:05:48.000 a decade of bill after bill, measure after measure, trying to intentionally destroy Alberta's economy,
00:05:55.680 Canada's energy, making the oil sands seem like there's something wrong with them, that it's something
00:06:00.720 embarrassing that we need to shut down. Just completely devoid of reality, really. I mean,
00:06:05.360 just take a look around the world. Take a look at what China's doing. Take a look at India. Take a look at
00:06:09.520 the number of coal plants that are built every year, the emissions going up, up, up. Here we have Canada,
00:06:15.040 a drop in the bucket with our responsibly developed oil and gas sector, the highest environmental
00:06:22.560 standards in the world. And yet Trudeau treated it like it was an embarrassment and he did everything
00:06:27.680 he could to kill it. And now here we are in this hour of need when our weaknesses are being exploited
00:06:35.200 and used against us. And Trudeau has the gall to tell Alberta to basically cripple its own economy
00:06:42.000 to save face. It is just absolutely ridiculous. I'm going to read a little bit more from Dan Knight
00:06:46.400 here. He says, and then there's Quebec. Oh, Quebec, the province has spent years wagging its finger at
00:06:52.320 Alberta, calling its oil sands dirty energy, blocking pipeline product projects that could have helped
00:06:58.320 the whole country. Meanwhile, Quebec gleefully cashes in billions in equalization payments heavily
00:07:04.800 subsidized by Alberta's wealth. That's right. The same people who call Alberta the bad guys are more
00:07:09.680 than happy to take their money. And now Trudeau wants Alberta to step up and take one for the
00:07:16.160 team. Give me a break. Danielle Smith saw this nonsense for what it was exploitation. She flatly
00:07:22.880 refused to sign on to any plan that includes export levies on energy restrictions. And you know what?
00:07:29.920 Good for her. She said the federal officials are floating the idea of cutting off energy supply to the
00:07:34.880 US imposing tariffs on Alberta energy until these threats cease. Alberta cannot support federal
00:07:42.000 government's plan translation. Alberta is done being Ottawa's doormat. Good for her. Great analysis. I'll
00:07:49.440 just finish up by reading here. He says, here's the reality. Alberta isn't at the table because Ottawa
00:07:55.840 hasn't earned the right to ask them to be. You don't treat a province like an ATM for nearly a decade
00:08:02.000 and then expect them to roll over when you need a favor. Danielle Smith stood up and said enough and
00:08:07.520 frankly good for her. So here's the real question. How long does Ottawa think it can keep exploiting
00:08:13.760 Alberta before the province decides it's had enough? Because let me tell you, when Alberta's done,
00:08:18.960 it's not just the energy sector that's going to feel it. It is the entire country that is just so eloquently
00:08:25.120 put, completely agree. It's like, again, all of a sudden, you know, the same industry that Trudeau
00:08:31.440 hasn't attacked and demonized for 10 years. And now all of a sudden, it's Canada's bargaining
00:08:36.400 shit. It's Canada's, it's the pride of Canada. Derek Fildebrandt at the Western Standard had a great
00:08:43.840 tweet kind of just summing this up. He said that Alberta's dirty oil has suddenly become Canadian energy.
00:08:51.040 Exactly, exactly. Now that the Prime Minister can use the oil and use it to help benefit himself and
00:08:56.960 his legacy, he's more than happy to, you know, claim that it belongs to the entire country and it's the
00:09:02.960 pride of the country. So Pierre Polyev was asked about all of this. And again, he just pointed out how
00:09:10.640 completely disunited our country is, how much, how ridiculously fractured we are, how under Justin Trudeau,
00:09:19.280 Canada has just become incredibly fractured and not united. Here is Pierre Polyev pointing that out.
00:09:25.120 Morning, Andrea McPherson, Global News. Your reaction to Daniel Smith's refusal to design,
00:09:30.240 to sign that joint agreement on the tariff retaliation plan by the premiers and the impact
00:09:36.400 you think that will have on Canada's battle against the tariffs? Yes, I mean, like I said,
00:09:41.440 the, I think the first thing President Trump will do when he takes office is to send a bouquet of flowers to
00:09:48.080 the Liberals of Freeland, Kearney and Trudeau, who have weakened and divided our country and given him
00:09:53.440 the upper hand. They force, the Liberals have forced Canadians to sell 100% of our oil and gas
00:10:00.720 to the Americans at discount prices, which has put us in this position of weakness. It'd be nice if we had
00:10:06.800 pipelines and export terminals that could take our energy to Asia and Europe without going through the
00:10:12.880 United States. But of course, the economic radicals of Trudeau, Freeland and Kearney blocked those
00:10:21.120 projects because of their radical ideology and they have made us more and more dependent on President
00:10:27.440 Trump. And my approach will be exactly the opposite. I will, I will quickly approve energy projects to
00:10:34.240 send our energy to the rest of the world without relying on Americans. And we will make our country
00:10:40.800 more self-reliant and independent. I will also unite our country. The Liberals are trying to divide
00:10:46.240 one province against another, Canadian against Canadian, right at our moment of maximum vulnerability.
00:10:52.560 This is because we do not have a functional federal government. So we have effectively 10 different
00:10:58.640 foreign affairs ministers, one from each province trying to fight separately. If we had a carbon tax
00:11:05.360 election now, we could elect a strong, stable national majority government that would stand up for all
00:11:10.880 Canadians, all industries in all provinces. And that's what we need to do. Pierre is obviously right.
00:11:17.840 He's making a lot of sense there. As much as the media would love to talk about
00:11:22.080 how Danielle Smith is being selfish and how it's in Alberta versus the rest of Canada debate,
00:11:26.720 the reality and the thing that we should all be talking about is how we got into this mess,
00:11:31.280 the absolute dystopian nightmare that we find ourselves living through, where we have a government,
00:11:37.040 a totally dysfunctional government that has destroyed our economy in so many ways. And we have
00:11:42.400 this pathetic lame duck leader representing us. Justin Trudeau is the one that is going to be talking to
00:11:48.160 Donald Trump on January 20th when Trump is sworn in. And why is it that Trudeau gets to represent us
00:11:55.200 after the mess he's made and the fact that he's already essentially resigned, like he shouldn't even
00:11:59.280 be there. And rather than talking about that, rather than talking about what the liberals have done to
00:12:03.840 this country, the media get a pass and they get to pretend that this is all Danielle Smith sort of acting
00:12:09.840 out of turn and being selfish. And like, how dare she put Albertans before the rest of Canadians?
00:12:16.480 Well, Danielle Smith supports Pierre Polyev. She shared his video on X, just basically saying,
00:12:23.600 I agree 100% with Pierre Polyev. You know, it was also interesting because the media took that response
00:12:30.720 that I just showed you of Pierre Polyev and said that he was trying to dodge the question that he didn't
00:12:36.480 answer, that he wasn't clear about whether or not he supports Danielle Smith at all. No, he just cut
00:12:42.000 to the chase. He just cut past the BS and explained the real problem, which is that Trudeau has completely
00:12:47.280 divided the country. And it's a total joke. Like we have 10 different people negotiating on behalf of
00:12:53.360 Canada rather than just the one prime minister. And if we had a prime minister who had a political mandate,
00:12:59.520 that would be the case instead of the total mess that we have. Here is Justin Trudeau, who was asked
00:13:04.880 about this yesterday, and he just continues to divide the country. It is pathetic. Let's watch that clip.
00:13:11.200 I think it's very clear that right now, Pierre Polyev, who wants to be prime minister for all
00:13:16.320 Canadians, has a choice to make. Either he stands up to fight for all Canadians alongside all premiers
00:13:24.400 and the federal government that are doing that, or he chooses to stand with Danielle Smith,
00:13:30.080 Kevin O'Leary, and ultimately Donald Trump.
00:13:35.520 He's just so unbelievable. He just loves to divide. It's always about dividing. Justin Trudeau, how dare
00:13:40.720 you just say that you're standing up for all Canadians? You haven't stood up for all Canadians
00:13:44.880 for a very, very long time. And for you to sit here and accuse Pierre Polyev of not standing up for
00:13:50.080 all Canadians is pathetic. It is pathetic. But don't worry, Justin Trudeau still has a lot of fans propping
00:13:56.640 up his position and his point of view. I'm talking specifically about the CBC, who are still
00:14:02.000 unwavering in their love and support for Justin Trudeau. I want to play this clip from at issue
00:14:06.400 journalist Althea Raj, making a point that just really makes you scratch your head. Here's Althea Raj.
00:14:15.520 For a lot of Conservatives, especially Western Conservatives, who were really upset by a Bloc Quebecois
00:14:20.240 bill just a few months ago that aimed to carve out supply management from any future trade deals,
00:14:26.160 it's rather convenient that when it starts to be about oil, they've completely changed their tune,
00:14:32.320 because the rationale is the same. You should not purposefully say out loud to the person negotiating
00:14:39.440 on the other side of you, I'm unwilling to touch this. That's not how you have a strong negotiating
00:14:45.280 hand. That's the point of the Prime Minister. So according to Althea Raj, let's just get this
00:14:50.800 straight. Quebec's supply management, right, a government program that issues quotas and rations
00:14:58.080 and distributes dairy. So a government socialist scheme in Quebec that they want to protect
00:15:04.720 is the same thing as Alberta's free market energy system. Like you can't even make that up. Like how is
00:15:10.320 that even the same thing? One is a government contrived program. And when you have free trade,
00:15:15.200 you're not supposed to have these protectionist programs in place. So obviously the Americans
00:15:19.440 would want the Canadians to actually have free trade in order to have a free trade agreement.
00:15:24.720 On the other hand, you have Alberta's energy, which is like I read earlier from Dan Knight's post,
00:15:29.840 the lifeline of the blood of the Canadian economy. Like everything in our economy, so much of our economy
00:15:37.120 is connected to natural resources like energy and oil and gas. Just very confused point. But
00:15:43.360 like we know that CBC journalists will say anything to make Justin Trudeau look good and to slam the
00:15:50.560 other side, namely mostly conservatives. A side note, because yes, the CBC still loves their man. They'll
00:15:56.240 still stand by their man, Justin Trudeau. Not all the press feel that way. Interesting, a user on
00:16:02.960 X that I follow, a contrarian tribe. He pointed this out, posted some questions from the Trudeau
00:16:09.680 press conference there, the one that I just showed you a clip from. And he says that the questions,
00:16:14.240 well, they actually weren't showing very much love. The journalists in attendance weren't showing a lot
00:16:19.440 of love for Justin Trudeau. I think it soured on him a little bit. So I'm going to play you a bit of that clip.
00:16:24.800 If you're not seeking reelection, you're not running in the liberal leadership, respectfully,
00:16:31.120 why are you here in Windsor? This essentially feels like a campaign whistle stop visit of our
00:16:37.040 wonderful city. Why spend all this money on security and travel if you're not campaigning?
00:16:45.360 The job of a prime minister is not first and foremost to campaign.
00:16:49.280 As you reflect on your legacy, how do you feel knowing that the consumer carbon tax is all but
00:16:55.040 dead? I am not spending any time right now reflecting on my legacy. I'm very much focused on continuing to
00:17:03.120 do the work as prime minister. Why do you believe you're effective right now in helping lead Canada's
00:17:10.000 response to the tariff threats when the other side, the Trump administration, knows you're on your way
00:17:15.120 out the door and might not ultimately be the person they're going to be dealing with and trying to
00:17:18.880 sort this out.
00:17:22.480 Canada's had an election in 2021 that sent me into the prime minister's office once again.
00:17:29.440 Has there been any indication from the Trump administration that the border measures you
00:17:34.320 introduced could be enough to stop the tariffs? I can say that the border plan that we put forward
00:17:40.800 and the measures we put forward have been very well received by different members of the American
00:17:47.120 incoming American administration.
00:17:49.440 Why are you here, Prime Minister? Why are you talking to us? Why are you going to Washington?
00:17:54.000 Nobody wants you anymore. Nobody wants you there. And even the press, even the government-funded
00:17:59.600 press, the official legacy media bought and paid for by the Trudeau government, they're even willing to
00:18:05.200 say it. Kind of amusing to watch Justin Trudeau, um, um, um, his way through pretty basic questions there.
00:18:12.000 Okay. Speaking of the free press and the bribe press, um, Mark Carney announced his leadership
00:18:17.280 yesterday up in Edmonton. And guess what? He, he let it be known where he really believes and where
00:18:23.600 he stands on a free press and free speech. So pretty blatant here at his campaign announcement.
00:18:29.520 He just refused to let any independent journalists into the building, even those accredited by the
00:18:35.680 Alberta legislature, even the local journalists like our own Isaac Lamoureux, who lives in Edmonton,
00:18:41.840 who registered to go to this event. As soon as he tried to walk in the door, the thugs working on the
00:18:46.480 Carney campaign, in addition to the paid police officers who were there, uh, had them escorted out.
00:18:52.640 So here is, uh, how we were reporting it yesterday. Um, basically that police told Lamoureux that he was
00:19:01.600 not allowed to enter the premises after contacting the organizers who refused True North entry.
00:19:06.240 Shortly thereafter, Lamoureux was asked to leave the, by the organizers after organizers told police
00:19:11.520 that he was not welcome. There's, uh, some footage here by Kian Bextie of the counter signal. Kian was
00:19:18.400 a guest on our show earlier this week. Go check out that episode if you haven't already. Uh, but here
00:19:23.280 is Kian's videos, um, showing some thugs, just basically not letting him in and the police rather
00:19:28.960 politely. Uh, you can see how, sorry, how polite Kian is being with the police, uh, who are enforcing these
00:19:34.480 rules that they cannot perform journalism, um, on the great Mark Carney. Let's play that clip.
00:19:41.520 Is it incredibly frustrating for us at True North? Look, one of the number one rules of journalism
00:20:10.400 is that you don't want to make yourself the story. And I actually really agree with it. And I don't
00:20:15.680 like it when our journalists become the story. I don't like it when I myself or when Andrew Lawton
00:20:20.560 or when one of our younger reporters like Isaac becomes the story, I would so much rather just
00:20:25.760 actually get to go and perform journalism. Like I would much prefer Isaac just be let into the room
00:20:31.360 to report, ask your questions, just treat him like a journalist because he is one. Um, rather than this
00:20:37.760 whole thing that seems to happen every time there's a liberal event where they pretend that anyone who
00:20:44.000 comes from an independent organization, anyone who's not funded by the government through the
00:20:47.840 government bailouts, anyone who's not part of CBC, uh, somehow they don't deserve a spot to be in
00:20:52.720 there. It really does go against the very foundational principles of a free society. I'm not just being
00:20:58.560 like hyperbolic here. It's incredibly important for journalists to be able to question a political
00:21:04.800 leader, especially in a situation like this where Mark Carney, you know, the WEF elite, the global
00:21:10.640 elite who brags about, you know, going to Davos and being part of the WEF and being part of the in crowd,
00:21:17.600 um, that he wouldn't even take questions from reporters that he, he doesn't recognize you as
00:21:23.680 journalists unless you come from the CBC or one of the other selected media companies. This is a guy
00:21:29.040 that's going to become prime minister in all likelihood without getting voted in by the people. The man
00:21:34.480 doesn't even hold a seat in the House of Commons. You would think that he would try to at least be
00:21:39.440 open to hearing from Canadians, but instead he's showing us who he truly is on day one. And it is
00:21:46.000 just really unfortunate. Uh, we've been through this before. For those of you who've been following
00:21:50.560 TrueNorth for a long time, you'll remember back in 2019, I sued the Trudeau government. I sued the
00:21:55.520 Leadership Debate Commission because they wouldn't let Andrew Lawton report. We actually won that lawsuit.
00:22:01.600 We got a court order that demanded that they let Andrew Lawton into the building. I was so proud of
00:22:07.040 that. And I was proud to see Andrew in there asking questions of his prime minister, of Justin Trudeau,
00:22:13.040 as the press are supposed to do. It's sad that here we are six years later and we're still fighting
00:22:18.160 these same battles. Um, but this is the mindset of the liberals, of the global elite. They don't care.
00:22:24.800 They don't care. They're going to fund the journalists that they approve of and the other
00:22:28.800 ones are just going to be pushed right out. So, uh, we'll get to a little bit about what happened
00:22:34.080 at the actual debate. Uh, Carney delivers a speech. I don't know. I, I don't see it. This guy is not
00:22:40.400 impressive to me. Um, he's just a very boring, dry, low energy candidate. He's a banker. I don't know how
00:22:48.080 he's going to appeal to Canadians or how he thinks he's going to appeal to Canadians. Here's a little bit
00:22:52.800 about what his speech looked like yesterday. Old times, my friends are over. Our times are anything
00:23:04.560 but ordinary. The system, it's not working as it should, and it's not working as it could.
00:23:17.840 People are anxious. No wonder. Too many are falling behind. Too many young people can't afford a home.
00:23:28.960 Too many people can't find a doctor.
00:23:33.040 And then we're living through the two biggest technological revolutions since they split the
00:23:38.160 atom. And our climate is changing in ways that threatens livelihoods from Fort Mac to Fort Smith.
00:23:44.080 And then on top of that, as George just mentioned, in just four days, the United States will swear in
00:23:52.800 Donald Trump as their 47th president, a man who threatens economic force on his closest,
00:24:00.320 most steadfast allies, including Canada. No.
00:24:05.360 I'm really getting some strong Jeb Bush vibes from this guy. Kind of reminds me of low energy Jeb,
00:24:13.920 where he has to beg the audience, like, please clap. Please clap. That was the applause line. Please
00:24:18.080 clap. Really. And the picture that he's painting there, this doom and gloom picture, it's like,
00:24:23.920 yes, Canada is in a terrible situation because of your policies, because of the policies that you were
00:24:29.760 advising to Justin Trudeau to spend, spend, spend, print money to get their way out of the COVID
00:24:35.600 disaster that they themselves created by shutting down the economy. It is all your fault. It's all
00:24:40.640 the fault of liberals. They call themselves liberals, but they're actually socialists,
00:24:44.880 green socialists. And now they're pretending that all of this whole situation was just handed to us.
00:24:49.840 It was totally outside of our control. And now we're going to have to have some hard times because of
00:24:54.080 it. Not compelling at all. And I will point out something kind of amusing that was going around
00:24:59.360 on social media. I don't know if you noticed it there, but Mark Carney's logo on the stand that he
00:25:07.200 was talking to, here he goes, I'm in. And he's got this flashy little logo, an M with a Canadian
00:25:13.920 flag underneath. But uh-oh, whoever designed his logo, it turns out that they actually just copied it
00:25:20.640 from an Alberta bank, MedCredit. Look at that. It is the exact same. I wonder if AI created it.
00:25:27.360 They just like plugged in Mark Carney and said, Hey, create a logo. And they even have the same
00:25:31.680 initials, MC there. I think that's so funny. So, um, whoops, Mark Carney accidentally stole
00:25:38.080 a logo from a local bank and the bank pointed out on social media, it was pretty funny there,
00:25:44.160 saying it's a beautiful logo. We're apolitical. Stop trying to, don't, you're going to, you're going to
00:25:50.480 destroy our brand, man. Like we're in Alberta. We don't want anyone to think that we're liberals.
00:25:54.720 We have nothing to do with you and we don't want to. So, uh, whoops, a little bit of a gaffe to start
00:26:00.480 off the campaign there for Mark Carney. Mark Carney, uh, decides to take jabs at Pierre Polyev here,
00:26:09.120 uh, saying that somehow Polyev is not going to be able to negotiate very well with Donald Trump.
00:26:16.080 The idea of him negotiating is laughable. Um, and then he kind of takes a little shot at
00:26:21.200 Daniel Smith here. Let's play that clip. Let me tell you one other thing in these times,
00:26:27.680 sending Pierre Polyev to negotiate with Donald Trump
00:26:34.160 is the worst possible idea. I can think of one other politician. I might not say.
00:26:38.400 It just came to me in the last 24 hours.
00:26:47.840 Oh, so funny. So edgy, so bold. Uh, it's funny because I'm assuming that he's talking about
00:26:53.600 Daniel Smith there. Uh, but all I could think was Justin Trudeau. Like the one person that you really
00:26:57.920 don't want sitting down with Donald Trump is Justin Trudeau. Cause Trudeau is just so bad and so pathetic.
00:27:02.880 He's ruined Canada and everybody knows that. Um, I would much rather have Pierre Polyev much, much, much
00:27:08.880 rather. I don't, I don't know why the audience thought that was funny to even think of Polyev with
00:27:13.280 Trump. Um, the funny thing to me would be imagining Justin Trudeau trying to be Mr. Tough guy, um, with
00:27:18.720 Donald Trump, just not, not going to happen. Um, interestingly enough, when it came to policy, Mark Carney
00:27:26.240 didn't really make it clear whether or not he was going to continue down the road of the carbon tax.
00:27:31.600 We know that for years and years and years, Mark Carney has been a huge advocate of the carbon tax.
00:27:37.280 Um, you know, this is his campaign announcement. You would think that he would have a very clear
00:27:40.640 answer to this question, but when he's asked about whether he would scrap the carbon tax,
00:27:46.080 he, he didn't really say, he couldn't really give a clear answer. Here is this clip.
00:27:50.960 If you were going to take out the carbon tax, you should replace it with something that is at least,
00:27:57.280 if not more effective. And by effective, it's not just having the same impact in reducing greenhouse
00:28:04.960 gas emissions, but it's making our companies more competitive. It's creating jobs. It's ensuring that
00:28:10.880 Canadian households are made whole in terms of their finances, because perception may be that
00:28:18.800 it takes out more than the rebate provides, but reality is different and Canadians will miss that
00:28:26.320 money. So you need a comprehensive approach. You need a comprehensive plan, not just a soundbite
00:28:32.480 that fits on, uh, a lectern. And that again, is a difference between me and some others.
00:28:38.400 I don't do a little leak. I don't do a soundbite, do a comprehensive plan that addresses all the aspects.
00:28:43.440 And you'll see that in the coming weeks. So I don't know if anyone told Mark Carney, but he is
00:28:48.960 running for prime minister. The point of that is to be able to communicate to people. And so, yes,
00:28:53.760 sometimes you need soundbites. Sometimes you need to be able to explain your policy in a few words so
00:28:58.320 that people can understand it and people can hear it. Uh, no, no, that's beneath Mark Carney. So he's just
00:29:02.880 going to get some sophisticated discussion, totally nonsensical as well. The idea that somehow, uh,
00:29:09.120 attacks on our industry makes us more competitive and makes us create more jobs that doesn't actually
00:29:15.520 happen because other countries don't care about this kind of thing, China and India and Russia and
00:29:20.240 Iran, Venezuela, none of them have carbon taxes. They don't care. They don't care. So when we implement
00:29:26.320 this kind of thing, we're just harming ourselves, but Mark Carney is too sophisticated, um, for all of
00:29:32.080 that. And, uh, whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops. Let me just, uh, turn off my phone ringer here. Sorry, guys.
00:29:40.240 Someone's calling me and I need to be able to turn it off. And where is it?
00:29:49.280 Sorry about that. Someone's calling me and I missed the call. Okay. So, so basically where was I here?
00:29:58.240 Um, Carney won't say whether or not he supports the carbon tax, uh, but we know that he has for
00:30:03.680 a very long time. So Pierre Polyev jumped in on this and sort of amusingly started trolling Mark Carney,
00:30:10.640 uh, saying, Hey, let's have some fun. Every 20 minutes, I will post some quotes from Mark Carney
00:30:15.520 supporting the carbon tax, including demands that the tax go even higher. That's why we call him
00:30:21.040 carbon tax. Carney hold onto your wallets. And while Mark Carney was making this announcement,
00:30:27.280 Pierre made good on this promise and just put, um, you know, post after post after post quoting
00:30:34.400 Mark Carney in the past, he has been the biggest champion of carbon tax. His only criticism of
00:30:39.520 Justin Trudeau's carbon tax is that he wishes that it was higher. He wishes that there were more taxes
00:30:46.560 and that it has to be much, much higher to change people's behavior. And so really just keep it going.
00:30:53.040 So, you know, he might try to run on a campaign of getting rid of the carbon tax or changing the
00:30:58.560 carbon tax is sort of what he was alluding to in that speech. But the reality is that he believes
00:31:05.440 in it. He supported it. Um, it has been, that that's enough, Sean, you don't need to show them
00:31:10.160 anymore. Um, that's enough that, that, that, that he, he, he'll never explain to Canadians why it is
00:31:17.120 that he's changed his position, why it is that he supported carbon taxes for all those years.
00:31:22.400 And now he's against them. I think that's the onus is on Carney to explain that change of heart.
00:31:28.080 Of course, it didn't take the conservatives long to release an attack ad. And so, uh,
00:31:33.840 moments after Carney made his announcement, the conservatives were ready with this ad.
00:31:39.440 Mark Carney is back from Europe.
00:31:41.280 Speaking as European. To continue what Justin Trudeau started. A steady increase in the price
00:31:46.080 of carbon. Carbon prices have been applied sparingly. They've been set far too low.
00:31:50.720 He even called Trudeau's carbon tax a model for others. So no matter what he calls it.
00:31:56.240 Effectively a shadow carbon price. Or price on pollution. You're going to keep paying.
00:32:01.200 In some form of carbon tax. Carbon tax Carney. He's just like Justin. You're sneaky.
00:32:07.920 Yeah. So yeah, he's going to have to explain. All right, let's move on. Christia Freeland is also
00:32:14.800 in the race and, uh, she was supposed to announce on Friday that she was in while she posted this on
00:32:20.720 X saying that she is in, but her formal, uh, announcement, I guess is going to come
00:32:26.640 this weekend. So it says official launch Sunday and it says, uh, Christia Freeland today issued the
00:32:32.080 following statement regarding the liberal party leadership race. I'm running to fight for Canada. So
00:32:37.600 she's in, even though she's not actually doing an announcement. I wonder why. I wonder, uh,
00:32:43.360 if they had to totally change their strategy, given that Mark Carney, uh, came out ahead of her
00:32:48.560 and announced, uh, so they're throwing something together, uh, for Sunday. I think that she will
00:32:53.600 also be running far, far away from her own record and her position in Justin Trudeau's government.
00:32:59.120 She was a deputy prime minister. She was a finance minister. She was Trudeau's right-hand
00:33:04.000 man throughout the entire ordeal. And the fact that she will probably be running as a change agent,
00:33:10.320 as someone different. I imagine that she'll also abandon the, uh, carbon tax. It was sort of hinted
00:33:16.000 to in the national post article here. It says that Freeland plans to replace the carbon tax with
00:33:22.560 something else. So even the person who shepherded it in, who advocated for it, uh, side by side with
00:33:29.280 Justin Trudeau now recognizes that it has been a total disaster for the economy and the country
00:33:35.200 and is backing away. Uh, interestingly, she also is setting this up kind of as a fight
00:33:40.800 of Canada versus Alberta versus the United States here. Um, so it seems like they would rather, uh,
00:33:46.640 run against Donald Trump or Danielle Smith than Pierre Polyev probably because Polyev is such an
00:33:51.120 effective politician, but here is what she posted on X. She wrote, I'm a proud daughter of Peace River,
00:33:57.760 Alberta. That makes me a proud Canadian. I stand together with all of Canada in the face of Donald
00:34:02.480 Trump's threats. Pierre Polyev, are you going to stand up for Canada? Are you going to stand with
00:34:07.040 Danielle Smith? So playing up her Alberta roots there, even though, as I mentioned,
00:34:12.720 she represents the urban riding of Rosedale university in downtown Toronto. So about as far
00:34:20.080 away as you can get from Northern Alberta, where she grew up. So we will continue to cover the liberal
00:34:26.960 leadership race on the show. We'll be back on Monday with much more of that. All right,
00:34:31.200 let's change focus a little bit. We used to do a segment called fake news Friday on the show,
00:34:36.000 and I think it's fun to highlight some of the sort of worst things that happen in the Canadian media.
00:34:42.320 This story gave me a little chuckle. Uh, CTV basically tells Canadians to lower their standards
00:34:49.040 of living. So they post this article on X. It says seven ways to help you. What does it say? Seven, uh,
00:34:55.280 ideas to help you break free from living to paycheck from paycheck to paycheck. And you can
00:35:00.480 see the reach of this post, put that back up, Sean, um, at the bottom there, you can see how many
00:35:07.600 views it's had. This thing was viewed over 6 million times, 6.4 million views. Holy smokes. That is big
00:35:14.320 for a Canadian publication like CTV. Well, it wasn't good news for CTV. The reason that this post got shared
00:35:22.160 so widely and so much is one of the ideas to help you break free from living from paycheck
00:35:27.920 to paycheck was here. It is number seven, just reduce your standard of living,
00:35:34.800 just reduce your expectations, lower your expectations. Canadians, one of the biggest
00:35:39.520 mistakes you can make is having too high of a standard of living. So for all of you Canadians,
00:35:46.320 I know you, you think you live in the first world. I know you think you live in a Western,
00:35:50.320 uh, rich Western liberal democracy. Uh, but the reality is under Justin Trudeau,
00:35:54.640 it's become a third world. It's become a third world. It's become Venezuela. And so all you have
00:35:59.360 to do is just reduce your standard of living. Well, uh, news for CTV, we're all doing that.
00:36:04.560 Uh, not voluntarily though. Um, so many Canadians, uh, you know, even Olivia Chow, the mayor of Toronto
00:36:10.240 suggested that, uh, one way to deal with the, uh, crisis of, uh, standard of living is just to skip
00:36:17.280 one meal, just to skip a meal a day or skip a meal a week. And that will help you make ends meet in
00:36:23.200 Canada. So the blowback was so bad that CTV had you take the article down. It is now no longer on
00:36:29.280 their website. Uh, Canadians did not appreciate being told to lower your standard of living.
00:36:36.080 And again, this goes back to the theme of the show, I think, which is that it's no wonder that
00:36:40.640 the world is laughing at us. Canada has become a joke under Justin Trudeau, under his insane
00:36:46.000 woke policies and the world noticed the world reacted. It's a little bit refreshing to hear
00:36:51.440 some Americans notice what's happening in Canada. Like it's so obvious to them from the outside,
00:36:57.200 looking in at what a disaster Justin Trudeau has been. So it's a little bit vindicating
00:37:01.520 for Canadians who have opposed Justin Trudeau from day one, like myself, uh, to hear Americans
00:37:07.360 finally kind of open up and speak the truth when it comes to Justin Trudeau. So we're going to go
00:37:12.720 through a few examples here, starting with none other than Joe Rogan. So here is what Joe had to
00:37:18.800 say after he heard the news that Justin Trudeau is stepping down. Oh, just thinking to Justin Trudeau
00:37:24.720 doing blackface, you know, he just retired retired. Yeah, that's crazy. Well, he, he's stepping
00:37:30.320 down until they find, they're going to have to find a replacement and then he leaves. I liked him
00:37:34.240 better when he was black. That was very brief. Ouch. Uh, that stings. We also had American,
00:37:42.560 uh, journalist and podcaster, Megan Kelly, uh, I think really speaking for all women when she
00:37:48.240 describes how she feels as a woman, uh, looking at Justin Trudeau and hearing from him. Let's play that
00:37:53.440 clip. Justin Trudeau has turned himself into a punchline. He is. When I picture if feet feckless man,
00:38:03.680 I picture Justin Trudeau. I couldn't think of somebody less attractive to me as a woman
00:38:10.400 than that man. I, I can't stand the sight of him. I'm thrilled. Our friendly neighbors in our evil
00:38:18.960 top hat as Michael Knowles calls Canada have come to their senses and effectively forced him to this
00:38:25.520 decision. I think, uh, Megan Kelly speaks for all women. I would say all women. Uh, it, it is funny
00:38:33.040 to the point where if I play a clip of Justin Trudeau on my show, the comment section will be
00:38:37.520 like, I had to turn off your video, Candace, cause I cannot stand the look of him. I cannot stand the
00:38:41.840 sound of his voice. There's nothing about him that I like. And I think Megan Kelly, uh, kind of summed it
00:38:47.200 up there as funny. She calls Canada America's evil top hat. I remember when I first heard that
00:38:52.080 I was kind of offended. I was like, Hey, what did we do? Right. And then you hear Michael Knowles,
00:38:56.000 who's an American, uh, Christian commentator who, who kind of explains his perspective on why Canada is
00:39:02.160 America's evil top hat. And you're kind of like, okay, I agree with that. Like all of the worst work
00:39:07.680 policies, um, that are destroying America are also being tested and tried up in Canada, uh, with a lot
00:39:13.680 less, uh, pushback. So you can't, you can't fight with him on that one. It's completely true. Uh,
00:39:18.720 speaking of the daily wire, we also heard from Matt Walsh over there. Here is what he had to say
00:39:23.280 on the situation. As a result, after a decade of self-loathing, Canada is now predictably falling
00:39:29.440 apart. Justin Trudeau has resigned. Parliament has been suspended. Their whole government has basically
00:39:35.120 collapsed. Canada is, uh, sputtering along, barely staying alive in the cold, like a stray cat that
00:39:42.320 everyone ignores. But there's some good news now for Canadians. Finally, at long last,
00:39:48.000 against all odds, they may soon have a nation to call their own.
00:39:55.040 So there you go. Uh, we also heard from Ben Shapiro. Ben does a decent job explaining what
00:40:00.560 is happening in Canada and the need for Pierre Polyev to step in. Let's play that clip.
00:40:06.720 And Justin Trudeau has been an awful prime minister. And the fact that he has lasted as long as he has,
00:40:12.240 is simply because of, of the system itself. And by the way, the, the original fall off for Trudeau
00:40:18.240 certainly had something to do with the convoy protest, right? The freedom convoy that started
00:40:22.160 in early 2022, that started to have an impact on him. And now of course he is facing down a Trump
00:40:27.520 administration that is not friendly to him. President Trump has called him the governor of
00:40:31.360 the 51st state and suggested that perhaps the United States ought to annex Canada. You know,
00:40:36.240 we would be greeted as liberators, but we don't even have to because Polyevre is fantastic. I don't
00:40:39.840 know if you've watched any tape of Polyevre. He is absolutely steady, steadfast, ideologically
00:40:47.360 coherent, excellent on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy, a true classically
00:40:52.400 conservative leader, probably even more right-wing than Stephen Harper was. Stephen Harper was the
00:40:57.680 prime minister of Canada about a decade ago. You are seeing a whole new spate of conservative
00:41:05.360 right-wing leaders across the world because of the reaction to the left.
00:41:08.560 And so you see some respect there towards Pierre Polyev in stark contrast to Justin Trudeau. And,
00:41:16.240 you know, you might kind of expect a American conservative like Ben Shapiro to like a fellow
00:41:20.960 conservative in Pierre Polyev. I want to show you this clip, which is interesting because it is the
00:41:25.440 Daily Show, the same Daily Show that had Mark Carney on to sort of, you know, prop him up, lick his boots
00:41:31.200 right before he's announcing that he might become prime minister of Canada. Just a few days earlier,
00:41:36.160 before Jon Stewart was back from vacation, there was a guest host, Desi Liddick,
00:41:40.560 and she kind of had a different take and a different opinion on Pierre Polyev. So let's show that clip.
00:41:47.520 By the way, this isn't the first time he's mentioned this. He's been tweeting about making
00:41:51.120 Canada the 51st state for months now. Side note, I'm impressed that he currently knows there are 50
00:41:56.640 states, but surely Canada's not going to just take this. Prime Minister Trudeau, tell him what's up.
00:42:03.840 I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister. God damn it. God damn it.
00:42:12.480 Well, welcome to the United States, Canada. But no, Trudeau didn't resign just to make it
00:42:17.280 easier for Trump to take over Canada. The fact is he resigned because he's very unpopular now.
00:42:22.320 And if he ran again, he'd have to face this guy, Pierre Polyev. He's the leader of the conservative
00:42:28.560 party. And based on this interview, he's a pretty intimidating dude.
00:42:33.200 On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you're obviously taking the
00:42:38.480 populist pathway. What does that mean?
00:42:43.520 Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess.
00:42:48.240 I mean, certainly a lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the
00:42:55.280 Donald Trump book. Probably like which people would say that?
00:42:58.880 Well, I'm sure a great many Canadians, but. Like who?
00:43:02.720 I don't know who, but. Well, you're the one who asked the question,
00:43:06.720 so probably you must know somebody. America's not getting Canada from him.
00:43:11.520 Get on your knees. You're our province now.
00:43:19.360 Admittedly, pretty funny stuff there on The Daily Show. But again, you can see how differently they
00:43:25.120 treat Pierre Polyev and not in a negative way. I want to show you a funny meme. This is my favorite
00:43:30.240 meme of the week came courtesy of Kian Bexty with the idea of America inviting Canada to be
00:43:38.240 the US, part of the US. I think many Albertans can relate to this. The guy says, you know,
00:43:43.040 you have this Chad looking guy with the American headband looking at a pretty girl saying, hey,
00:43:48.320 you want to join the US? And Alberta goes, sure. And then you have Ottawa step in and say she's not
00:43:54.080 interested. Oh, oh, that's good. Gotta love the memes. Okay. I want to go on to this video.
00:44:04.080 I love this video. Okay. Earlier in the week, I was talking about the horrendous forest fires in
00:44:08.720 Los Angeles and the incredible bravery that we have been seeing from firefighters. Just some
00:44:14.240 incredible clips of planes and helicopters doing really incredible maneuvers there to try to put
00:44:20.400 out those horrendous flames and the fires. I described a video of a Canadian bomber filling
00:44:26.480 up water from the Pacific ocean and I didn't have the clip at the time. So I wanted to play you the clip,
00:44:31.360 but I'm not just going to play you the clip. I'm going to play you this other clip of a guy
00:44:35.680 watching it that went viral. This guy, I just love this guy. It's like, it's not even an act. It's so
00:44:41.200 real. Him reacting with just so much like masculine excitement for the bravery of these men who are
00:44:49.120 maneuvering this plane in an unbelievable way. I hope we blurred out all the bad language,
00:44:53.920 just a little bit of bad language. Just a warning. I think we might've, I think we've got it all covered
00:44:58.320 up, but I'm going to play this clip because I just love it so much. Here is this clip.
00:45:02.800 Look at this American badass right here, son. That is an American badass. Look at the Pacific,
00:45:09.360 how rough it is. He don't give a son. He's like coming down in there. I got it, Captain. Watch,
00:45:16.000 he's going to skim it right across the Pacific, son, and load that belly full of water. That right there
00:45:24.400 is an American badass, son. Whoa, baby. Look at the concentration. Look at the focus, son. He's got
00:45:33.520 a belly full, Captain, and he's fixing to lift her back up, baby. Holy smoke, son. That is an American
00:45:43.040 badass. And here comes another one. Balls of steel, son. Balls of steel. Look at him. He's like,
00:45:50.960 I don't give a . We got a fire to put out. Whoa, son. Thousands of gallons of water. And he just
00:45:58.400 lifts up and flies off into the damn sunset. And here comes another one. Holy . Baby. Look at him,
00:46:06.800 son. That is some badasses, baby. You have to love the enthusiasm and appreciate that energy. Like,
00:46:17.280 yes, this is truly, truly amazing. Just one minor, minor point there, sir. And that is that those are
00:46:24.080 not indeed American badasses. They are Canadian badasses. So community notes did its thing on X there.
00:46:31.600 Readers added some context here. The water bombers are Canadian CL415s provided by Quebec and Ontario.
00:46:39.360 The crews are also Canadian. And so despite the enthusiasm and the excitement there, just a little
00:46:47.120 fact check. Colin Rugg, who's a journalist on X, tweeted this. He said, who has the heart to tell him
00:46:53.280 that it's a Canadian badass? So the replies were really funny. That was what another one said. Hey,
00:46:59.840 sorry, not an American. Those are Canadians, actually French Canadians. So here is another post just
00:47:05.920 pointing out the crew of these planes. They're all from Quebec. The pilots are Pascal de Clou,
00:47:11.840 Sébastien Marquis, Christian Paquette, and Eric Bergeron. So really hats off the skill required to do
00:47:19.920 those kind of maneuvers. Like you said, the Pacific Ocean is incredibly choppy, right? To go down, pick up
00:47:25.600 the water and then lift off again, you know, over and over and over again. These people are incredible at
00:47:32.240 their jobs. God bless these men, you know, for putting themselves in harm's way like that to help
00:47:38.160 protect other people. Okay, final final segment of the show here. I want to talk a little bit about
00:47:45.440 Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. It was his birthday last week. And you know, one of
00:47:51.920 one of the most painful things that we've seen happen over the last five or six years under Justin
00:47:57.040 Trudeau is the complete effort by the woke mob to erase our history and to denigrate our entire past,
00:48:04.560 to say that celebrating our first, our country's first Prime Minister is beyond the pale, to see the
00:48:09.760 statues get toppled, the streets renamed, the schools renamed, take John A.'s name off of everything. It is
00:48:15.200 an absolute disgrace, the effort by the extreme left, the cult of the left, the far white, the far left woke
00:48:22.880 mob to erase our history. It's been despicable. And what I noticed this year on Sir John A.'s birthday
00:48:30.160 is that there are now efforts to combat that, that there's more and more people willing to speak up
00:48:36.640 and voice their support for a person like John A. Macdonald, our appreciation for him, the fact that
00:48:42.640 we would not be a country. We would not be here. We would likely be Americans if it weren't for Sir
00:48:47.600 John A. Macdonald. And it's really a great point that is worth making. So we had Pierre Polyev
00:48:53.840 making this point. He said, today we honour Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister.
00:48:58.320 On his birthday, a nation builder, he brought Canada together through Confederation and the Pacific,
00:49:03.680 and the Canadian Pacific Railway, laying the foundation for a strong and prosperous country.
00:49:08.320 Without his vision, Canada would not exist today. Happy birthday, Sir John A. Likewise, there's this great
00:49:14.080 video circulating on social media, a heritage moment. I still love these growing up. Remember
00:49:19.120 watching these heritage moments while you were, you know, watching TV as a kid while they're back.
00:49:24.080 And here is one celebrating Sir John A. So let's play that clip.
00:49:27.200 Oh, careful, that champagne cost a fortune. Mr. Macdonald, do you plan to bribe the entire delegation?
00:49:34.720 Our methods may differ, Mr. Brown, but our objective is the same.
00:49:37.520 My objective, sir, is honest talk. And mine is to win.
00:49:40.960 Gentlemen, enough. We must convince the Maritimes or there will be no Confederation.
00:49:45.760 Aye, George. Today, civil war grips America. How long before they look to our borders again?
00:49:51.520 Separated, the colonies are isolated and weak.
00:49:54.240 But united? Just imagine. To the east, the Atlantic provinces, then upper and lower Canada,
00:50:00.960 across the prairies to the Rockies and beyond. A new country made one by a railway from sea to sea.
00:50:08.080 Gentlemen, the time for union is now. I ask you to take the dare.
00:50:16.960 The Charlottetown Conference set Confederation in motion.
00:50:20.640 On July 1st, 1867, Sir John A. Macdonald became Canada's first prime minister.
00:50:26.080 So two things of note there. Well, many things of note, even just the fact that people were circulating
00:50:32.080 that and that was put out by the government. Interesting that they sort of say right out,
00:50:37.600 the whole purpose of Canada was to stop the Americans, was to make sure that they didn't get
00:50:42.560 annexed. The Americans were fighting a civil war at the time and the Canadians were afraid that if they
00:50:47.680 didn't unite, the British didn't unite as its own entity in North America, they would get consumed
00:50:54.480 and absorbed into America. So the very purpose of our country was doing what Justin Trudeau is still
00:51:01.520 trying to do today, which is keep Canada together and keep the Americans out essentially. And that was
00:51:07.760 the purpose. And the second thing was what it was that united the country was a huge, ambitious,
00:51:14.000 natural resource, basically plan to build a railway so that you could get resources to and from the
00:51:20.080 West Coast so that you could connect the country via rail. You know, the criticism that many people
00:51:25.520 in Western Canada have of Sir John A. Macdonald was that Canada was created sort of as an economic
00:51:32.000 colony, like the West was really just brought in to service Ontario and Central Canada. But remarkable
00:51:39.280 still just that they were able to build such an audacious project, you imagine trying to build
00:51:45.040 something like that today, and it would just get blocked by any number of these sort of radical left
00:51:51.120 wing Gerald Butts designed policies meant to make it so that you can't develop natural resources anymore.
00:51:59.360 Canada's ground to a halt. Thinking about the vision of Sir John A. back then, I think he would be
00:52:04.720 disappointed to see Canada at the point where the provinces are fighting, no one can agree,
00:52:10.480 we can't create one solid, you know, we can't come together to show, you know, unity towards the
00:52:20.400 United States, because we can't agree, you have one province that has been severely mistreated for,
00:52:26.160 you know, a decade, but much, much longer, because it's really been since the first Trudeau was in
00:52:30.960 office. And finally saying, you know what, we're just not going to do it, we're not going to allow
00:52:36.320 you to sacrifice us again, because we're sick of it, you've been doing it for far too long. And again,
00:52:43.680 I know I pointed this out on almost every show this week. But if you just look at a map of the pipelines,
00:52:49.280 and you just see how Central Canada gets its oil, it gets its oil from a pipeline that goes through the
00:52:55.440 United States. So the whole idea of putting extra tariffs on oil going into the United States,
00:53:02.480 it doesn't make any sense, because it would be Ontario and Quebec that would pay the severe price,
00:53:08.080 especially on an embargo, an embargo on the US oil oil going into the US would also essentially be an
00:53:13.920 embargo on oil coming into Ontario. So how do you explain that? Like, what are you thinking? Have you
00:53:20.880 thought through how disastrous this would be to actually implement a policy like that? I really
00:53:25.920 don't think that they have. And you know, to the point that Althea Raj was making in that clip that
00:53:30.240 I played earlier from Add Issue Power in Politics, it's just about being on the same page for negotiating
00:53:35.120 and saying nothing is off the table. I don't really see that being as helpful. That's playing into Justin
00:53:40.240 Trudeau's strategy that says, you know, I will unleash any kind of economic warfare against you if you do this
00:53:47.360 to us. I don't think Trump's going to respond to that. I think Trump would call him on his bluff and
00:53:51.600 be like, yeah, buddy, go ahead. You want to cut off oil to Canada? Good luck with that, because you're
00:53:56.400 going to cut off oil to your own population centers in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Like, what are you
00:54:02.800 thinking? It's just, it's so brutal. But to take it back to Sir John A., I think that he had a vision for
00:54:09.680 this country that is worth reflecting on, worth remembering, and worth teaching to the next generation.
00:54:15.680 And that's why I'm super proud of True North and our journalist, Lindsay Shepherd, who has written a
00:54:21.680 book on this topic about Sir John A. It's called A Day with Sir John A. And it's a kid's book, a
00:54:28.000 delightful child story about a young boy who gets transported through time to get to spend a day with
00:54:34.960 Canada's first Prime Minister. It is really, really fun, beautiful illustrations there as well. Lindsay did a
00:54:41.200 great job. I love the book. I've got four little kids, some of them are a bit too young for it. But
00:54:46.320 my five year old, nearly six, absolutely loves it. And I think it's just so important to teach
00:54:52.000 children positive stories about our past positive lessons, because especially if your kids are in
00:54:57.360 public school in Canada, but heck, even if they're in a private school, the woke ideology has gotten
00:55:02.080 everywhere. It has absorbed us, and they will be hearing the other story, the other side of the story
00:55:07.840 at school. And so, you know, you have to combat that at home. And I think Lindsay's book does a
00:55:14.000 great job of teaching young Canadians, young children, that, hey, our Prime Minister, you know,
00:55:19.520 he might, history might not be remembering him too kindly right now, but he actually did tremendous
00:55:24.400 things for our country. And indeed, our country wouldn't be here without him. And in, you know,
00:55:30.000 the face of this entire thing, this threat from Trump, this threat from the United States about being
00:55:34.960 absorbed and annexed into the United States. My husband, Kaz tweeted about this, and he made a
00:55:40.240 great point. He said, you know, who argued best for Canada, independent from the United States,
00:55:46.480 Sir John A. McDonald, maybe this government should have spoken up when his statues were being torn down.
00:55:51.520 Maybe our history and heritage of freedom is something we should hold proudly. And that is 100%
00:55:59.600 correct. That if like, it's rich to hear from this government, the same government that has been
00:56:05.200 telling us for years, that Canada's genocidal, like literally genocidal, trying to erase our past,
00:56:10.480 trying to change our symbols, trying to even changing the words of our national anthem, telling
00:56:15.360 us that there's kind of something wrong with being Canadian. And now all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
00:56:21.120 it's all flipped around. And they're raw, raw, raw Canada, we need to be independent. Well, you guys
00:56:26.080 haven't been making a very good case for that. Over the last decade, you really haven't. And it's
00:56:31.440 hard to take it from you today. Okay, so we salute and honor Sir John A. And I hope people continue to
00:56:38.800 teach the positive messages from his heroic role in helping create this country. We would not be here
00:56:46.960 without Sir John A. All right, folks, I'm going to wrap it up and leave it at that. Thank you so much
00:56:52.240 for tuning in. It's been great. This is our first full week back on the Candace Malcolm show. It's
00:56:56.160 wonderful to be back. Wonderful to be with you. Looking forward to catching up on Monday,
00:57:00.480 all the news on the show. Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend and God bless.