Juno News - The World is Laughing at Canada

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. 1.00

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 1.00

00:07:16.160 team. Give me a break. Danielle Smith saw this nonsense for what it was exploitation. She flatly 1.00

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 0.85

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 0.56

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 0.99

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 0.74

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, 0.98

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 0.86

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 0.71

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 0.83

00:15:19.440 would want the Canadians to actually have free trade in order to have a free trade agreement. 0.89

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 0.99

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.84

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 0.98

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, 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.88

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.96

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 0.91

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 0.67

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.

Juno News - January 17, 2025

The World is Laughing at Canada

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