Juno News - This is all Trudeau’s fault

00:00:00.000 So are you all ready for Christmas, Rachel?

00:00:01.540 Have you completed your shopping?

00:00:04.280 Is that a thing that people get done this early in the year?

00:00:07.660 You might be fine.

00:00:08.280 William, I've been so busy working that, you know,

00:00:12.020 I haven't even started thinking about my Christmas shopping yet.

00:00:15.080 I've just been really focused on, you know, the American election

00:00:18.740 and then immediately afterwards, now this tariff fret moving over us.

00:00:21.840 So I don't really have time left in my schedule to think about anything else.

00:00:25.340 I'm absolutely focused on work 100% of the time.

00:00:28.100 And you should definitely remember that this weekend

00:00:29.800 when you're working on our performance reviews.

00:00:32.560 Well, I was thinking, you know, those tariffs,

00:00:35.140 if they come to pass and it creates a spike in the price of goods on both sides,

00:00:40.120 we're definitely going to want to get our Christmas shopping done

00:00:42.060 and maybe even buy next year's Christmas gifts

00:00:44.420 before we see them go up in price.

00:00:47.720 But hopefully, as we're going to talk about,

00:00:49.540 hopefully cooler heads prevail and we don't see those tariffs come in.

00:00:54.540 Yeah, it's just a bit of a vibe session that our political leaders are having.

00:00:58.300 Nothing negative is actually going to come from it.

00:01:00.420 All right, now I've given away too much about today's show.

00:01:02.800 Let's get it started.

00:01:10.180 Hey, everyone.

00:01:11.280 Welcome to Off the Record, our Friday fun show.

00:01:15.180 I am your host today, Rachel Parker,

00:01:17.400 and I am joined by my colleagues,

00:01:19.740 William McBeath and Isaac Lamoureux.

00:01:22.500 William and Isaac, thank you so much for being here today

00:01:25.060 to discuss the crazy and fun stories that happen this week in Canadian politics.

00:01:31.220 I want to start it off with something that I have been covering very closely this week,

00:01:35.600 and that is the looming threat from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump

00:01:39.280 of 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods coming into the U.S.

00:01:44.900 unless Canada cleans up its act

00:01:47.480 and stops the flow of illegals into the United States

00:01:50.520 as well as the flow of drugs.

00:01:53.240 Now, William, you've been around a little longer than me.

00:01:56.280 What's your take?

00:01:57.740 Yeah, I mean, this was a problem that didn't just crop up overnight.

00:02:01.960 It's a problem that's been nine years in the making

00:02:04.760 ever since Prime Minister Trudeau 0.71

00:02:06.980 and his merry band of incompetent cabinet ministers took office.

00:02:11.060 We've seen what was once an immigration system 1.00

00:02:15.440 that was praised by President-elect Donald Trump.

00:02:19.060 He pointed to Canada as a model for how to do an immigration system

00:02:23.380 to one that has now put Canada on a knife's edge economically.

00:02:28.440 And, you know, what are the factors?

00:02:30.360 Well, the first thing is Trudeau completely lost control of the Canadian border.

00:02:34.540 He basically invited the entire world to come to Canada.

00:02:38.440 We didn't do adequate background checks into these people.

00:02:42.320 We've allowed millions of non-permanent resident immigrants 1.00

00:02:46.580 to come into the country in the last year alone.

00:02:49.380 And now we have no real idea of how to control this,

00:02:53.280 of how to get this problem under control.

00:02:55.840 And you're right, it requires political will.

00:02:58.420 But that's not something this government is particularly known for.

00:03:02.380 If it isn't climate change or other pet woke issues

00:03:06.640 like how many genders there are and what people kind is,

00:03:10.880 this government just doesn't care.

00:03:12.940 And, you know, True North's Candace Malcolm wrote a great article on this

00:03:17.280 talking a little bit about how we lost our way.

00:03:20.280 One stat she cited, which I think is really important,

00:03:24.520 is that when it comes to terrorists,

00:03:27.540 potential or actual terrorists entering the United States,

00:03:31.380 apprehended by U.S. border and customs,

00:03:35.320 Canada has had more than five times the number of terrorists

00:03:39.920 entering the United States across its border than Mexico has with it.

00:03:43.820 So you're right, when it comes to drugs,

00:03:45.800 when it comes to sheer numbers of immigrants, 0.97

00:03:48.880 Mexico is by far a problem.

00:03:50.160 But when it comes to terrorism, that's Canada's problem.

00:03:53.020 And we are by far a bigger threat than Mexico in that regard. 0.99

00:03:55.820 So I think the president is right to express concern about allowing terrorists

00:04:00.440 into the United States across the northern border.

00:04:03.600 Well, just last, earlier this month,

00:04:05.680 one of India's most wanted terrorists was arrested in relation to a shooting in Toronto.

00:04:12.240 What is one of India's most wanted terrorists doing in Canada in the first place?

00:04:17.920 That's a question that we should all be asking ourselves.

00:04:20.300 And to your point, William, it's something that the Americans are noticing.

00:04:23.980 They are seeing the security breaches that we are having here in Canada.

00:04:27.680 They are seeing the types of people that we are allowing into our country. 1.00

00:04:31.300 They recognize that these people are crossing the border into the States.

00:04:34.640 And they are finally saying enough of this.

00:04:37.900 Isaac, we have talked about the absence of leadership from Tutorial.

00:04:42.500 I know that you cover the Alberta government very closely.

00:04:45.620 What is Danielle Smith doing differently? 1.00

00:04:48.500 Yeah, so I wrote two articles that touched on this.

00:04:52.860 Firstly, I wrote about the premier's meeting that they convened yesterday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

00:05:00.040 when they, of course, discussed the looming tariff and the border issues.

00:05:04.940 And interestingly, although perhaps unsurprisingly,

00:05:09.060 Smith was the premier to come out the most outspoken after the meeting.

00:05:13.640 Some of the premiers merely just referenced it.

00:05:16.020 Some didn't talk about it at all.

00:05:17.300 But Smith came out with a huge statement on all of her concerns that she covered in the meeting that weren't only about the border,

00:05:24.780 but, of course, as you could imagine, about energy security, the production cap, etc.

00:05:29.820 Other premiers who were outspoken was, of course, Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe.

00:05:35.140 And he said what you alluded to there, Rachel, which was he said,

00:05:38.180 look, we need the CBSA, the Border Service Agency, and the Coast Guard to help us on the border.

00:05:43.680 It's simple.

00:05:44.300 We need to just, you know, use the organizations we have at our disposal to help deal with border security.

00:05:51.880 And the other article I wrote, which William referenced, Candace had also discussed,

00:05:56.580 was, of course, the terrorists going across the Canada-US border compared to the Mexico-US border.

00:06:02.860 Between 2022 and 2024, yes, it was six times more individuals on the terrorist watch list

00:06:09.340 that were apprehended at the northern border compared to the southern,

00:06:13.220 despite, as you mentioned, Rachel, that we only have 9% of the number of people crossing that border.

00:06:19.920 So, I mean, the fact that we have six-fold amount of people on the terrorist watch list,

00:06:24.000 despite being 9%, I mean, it's a shocking number.

00:06:26.960 And it's little surprise that Trump has come out as strongly as he did.

00:06:31.040 I mean, who would have thought a few months ago that Trump, of all people,

00:06:35.120 would be the person to save Canada from its immigration crisis?

00:06:40.720 It's interesting that Danielle Smith, as you said, she's come out so strongly and said,

00:06:45.180 Canada can address the Americans' concerns, and we should do that.

00:06:49.340 We should recognize that they are targeting our economy because they are angry about our lax way of handling the border.

00:06:57.640 And now Danielle Smith even came out after that first minister's meeting and said that

00:07:01.520 she is going to be working with the RCMP and here in Alberta to make sure that that border that Alberta shares with Montana is being patrolled.

00:07:10.880 She's going to ramp up security efforts there. 1.00

00:07:13.200 Now, when you think about legals crossing in Canada and the states,

00:07:17.760 you don't really think about Alberta and Montana as a huge problem.

00:07:21.740 That's not really the first area to jump to mind.

00:07:23.780 That being said, I suspect what Danielle Smith is doing is she's signaling to the Americans.

00:07:28.220 We know that she said from the beginning that she is going to be building her own relationship with the Americans

00:07:33.620 because she doesn't trust Justin Trudeau to do it and because Justin Trudeau continuously targets Alberta as seen through its emissions cap.

00:07:41.220 And so, you know, I think she wants the Americans to recognize that even if the rest of Canada

00:07:45.540 and even if Justin Trudeau isn't going to take Trump's concerns seriously, she is.

00:07:51.320 And so even if you don't think about Alberta and Montana as necessarily being a problematic issue,

00:07:56.220 Danielle Smith is signaling to them that it is something she is going to take seriously.

00:07:59.900 She is going to do everything in her power to make sure that Donald Trump's concerns are assaged.

00:08:05.380 And furthermore, I think that she's trying to get an exemption on Alberta energy. 1.00

00:08:10.920 I think she's recognizing that we don't have the people in place.

00:08:13.760 Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau, these are not serious people.

00:08:17.420 These are not people that Donald Trump and his team like.

00:08:20.560 They have been very clear about the fact that they do not like Chrystia Freeland.

00:08:23.880 They do not like Justin Trudeau.

00:08:25.560 So I think she is going to do everything in her power to make sure that Alberta energy is exempt from those tariffs.

00:08:31.520 What do you think, William?

00:08:32.140 Do you think that Danielle Smith is trying to get that exemption on Alberta energy? 0.95

00:08:36.500 No, I mean, I think she absolutely is.

00:08:38.400 This is someone who has well understood and looked with very clear eyes about the source of Canada and Alberta's wealth and prosperity.

00:08:48.380 And she knows the energy sector plays a vital role in that.

00:08:51.160 And I think she also knows because she said so, that the perception of Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Freeland by the Trump administration,

00:08:58.920 the incoming Trump administration is not good.

00:09:00.780 That they have gone out of their way at times to antagonize Mr. Trump,

00:09:05.340 to play the moral superiority card, to try and paint him as someone that they're so much better than.

00:09:14.140 But you also have to understand that Mr. Trump is a very sensitive person when it comes to what people say about him.

00:09:22.120 He does not like criticism.

00:09:23.920 He does not like mockery.

00:09:25.420 You can only ask anybody who's ever done those things when he lashes out at them how much he likes them.

00:09:31.700 And the fact is, is that Mr. Trudeau's own statements, because he cannot help but talk about how much better he is,

00:09:37.880 how much better the liberal government is, how much purer the government is on so many issues,

00:09:43.360 has really painted themselves into a corner.

00:09:45.340 I mean, thankfully, we are hopefully going to see a change in government in Canada at some point in the coming year.

00:09:52.080 And maybe Mr. Pagliavra will have a better chance negotiating with Mr. Trump.

00:09:56.760 At least there won't be that personal animosity.

00:09:58.740 And frankly, you have to wonder just how up the tired Trudeau government is to a hard negotiation

00:10:07.180 with a freshly elected U.S. administration chomping at the bit to try and make some changes.

00:10:13.580 So, yeah, I think we could be in for some pain.

00:10:16.720 Hopefully, clearer heads prevail.

00:10:18.840 And hopefully, we can get a cast of characters on our side

00:10:21.940 who's able to deal more effectively with the people we know we'll be dealing with for the next four years.

00:10:26.420 Part of the reason that we're seeing this tension between Alberta and Ottawa,

00:10:32.400 which admittedly is nothing new,

00:10:34.340 but part of the reason we're seeing this renewed tension right now,

00:10:37.760 Danielle Smith is saying that she wants a Team Canada approach to the threat of tariffs,

00:10:42.640 but it's very difficult for her to have a Team Canada approach 0.99

00:10:45.580 because of the way that Justin Trudeau is treating Alberta.

00:10:49.100 And she points to the emissions cap that the Trudeau government wants to push through as an example. 0.99

00:10:53.300 And she's saying that it's so short-sighted and that it's making Canada look stupid 0.97

00:10:57.740 because the Americans want energy security. 0.98

00:11:00.980 So, Alberta should be willing to meet that need for energy security that America desires

00:11:05.260 to help Alberta and to help give Canada a higher position in negotiating with the Americans.

00:11:11.420 And I know that there has been quite an interesting development to this story.

00:11:15.880 Isaac, why don't you take the lead on this one?

00:11:17.480 Yeah, so we'll remember that Danielle Smith previously called the Liberals' proposed emissions cap 0.96

00:11:25.620 a, quote, deranged vendetta, specifically targeting Alberta.

00:11:29.380 And in fact, in her most recent press conference,

00:11:31.620 her and Minister Schultz essentially said,

00:11:33.200 look, we've been trying to work with these guys since before we got an office.

00:11:36.980 We've been telling them, do not do this.

00:11:38.780 You will cripple Canada's economy.

00:11:40.880 But despite their numerous calls, emails, letters, you name it, they have remained unanswered.

00:11:49.740 And long story short, Alberta is taking the very, very strong stance of invoking the Alberta sovereignty

00:11:57.300 within a United Canada Act to counter the emissions cap.

00:12:01.120 This announcement was made this week by Smith, and she was alongside Environment Minister Rebecca Schultz

00:12:07.340 and Minister of Energy Brian Jean.

00:12:09.840 And look, they said, look, you're violating our constitution.

00:12:13.080 We're going to put up this Sovereignty Act to protect our exclusive jurisdiction, 0.76

00:12:18.120 which is non-renewable energy sources.

00:12:20.180 We've all seen the reports.

00:12:21.620 I mean, we've discussed these reports at length,

00:12:24.660 the various reports that have showed that this cap will cut up to 2 million barrels of oil per day.

00:12:31.960 It'll slash over 150,000 Canadian jobs.

00:12:35.820 We saw the one report saying that this would cut a trillion dollars between 2030 and 2040 from Canada's GDP.

00:12:43.600 I mean, the number trillion is even hard to comprehend.

00:12:47.200 And then there was a report from the Conference Board of Canada as well,

00:12:50.400 showing that each family, every single family in the country will have $419 less a month,

00:12:56.260 which is staggering because we've also seen the CTF's previous reports that

00:13:01.340 the vast majority of Canadians are less than that away from insolvency.

00:13:07.060 So the difference there is really the difference between being bankrupt or not.

00:13:11.020 I mean, how crazy can we get?

00:13:13.680 Yeah, I'm curious.

00:13:14.520 What do you guys think about the Sovereignty Act?

00:13:16.680 Do you think it will actually protect Alberta and completely stop the feds?

00:13:20.780 I mean, we saw in Alberta's press release all the things they plan to do with this cap.

00:13:25.900 It's even a long list to go through.

00:13:27.700 But I think even the interesting thing here, because your question is,

00:13:31.800 is it going to protect Alberta, is really what's atop everyone's mind.

00:13:35.220 OK, let's see how this plays out.

00:13:37.100 The Alberta government is using this to defend Albertans' interests,

00:13:40.340 honestly to defend Canada's interests,

00:13:42.020 and also to protect their own jurisdiction, which is their own resources.

00:13:46.020 Alberta has the right to develop its resources that is very clearly laid out and enshrined.

00:13:52.420 The one thing that I would say about this is that I feel like because legal proceedings are so lengthy,

00:13:59.860 I can't help but suspect even while the legal proceedings is ongoing and the challenge is ongoing,

00:14:05.580 I would suspect that we would see a change in government.

00:14:08.100 But William, I know you're about to jump in there.

00:14:09.580 What were you going to say?

00:14:10.220 Well, I have to shake my head.

00:14:12.460 What is it with prime ministers whose last name is Trudeau

00:14:15.640 and their absolute obsession with wrecking the Alberta economy and energy industry?

00:14:21.720 You know what they say?

00:14:22.420 Like father, like son.

00:14:23.800 Well, you've seen it before.

00:14:24.740 You'll see it again.

00:14:25.560 We have the NEP, which absolutely was, you know,

00:14:29.680 a wound to Alberta economically and even socially as people lost their jobs and their homes.

00:14:35.080 And now we've got, you know, Stephen Gilboa, who is really a jumped up eco-radical activist.

00:14:41.020 That's what he is.

00:14:41.800 He wears a suit, but he's more at home hanging off of a structure,

00:14:45.720 protesting whatever nonsense climate thing he's got going on that week.

00:14:50.160 These are the people in charge of federal departments who make serious decisions about our economy.

00:14:56.120 And, you know, as Isaac mentioned, a cost per family of $419 a month,

00:15:03.060 that's $5,000 a year taken right out of the pockets of your typical Canadian family.

00:15:08.600 So that's $5,000 less to pay for your mortgage, to pay for a vacation, to buy groceries,

00:15:13.720 to invest in college funds for your kids.

00:15:16.080 And instead you're paying it for, you know, Mr. Gilboa and Mr. Trudeau's latest eco-insanity

00:15:22.500 that they're foisting onto Canadians. 0.50

00:15:24.600 I think, Rachel, you're absolutely right.

00:15:26.360 The goal here, maybe not, isn't necessarily to overturn this legislation.

00:15:30.320 It is to run out the clock on a government that knows it has a limited amount of time

00:15:35.280 to try and get things done.

00:15:36.780 So, again, hopefully before too much damage happens,

00:15:40.140 we can see a change in government and a change in policy.

00:15:42.920 Well, to your point about us all needing to buy, like, our Christmas presents

00:15:46.920 for next year, this year, which you said, I don't know if that was on the show

00:15:50.300 or just us chatting before, but, you know, hopefully before we get to next Christmas,

00:15:55.240 we all, you know, have, we've seen that change in government that you've mentioned

00:15:58.800 and I think that we're all sort of waiting for.

00:16:00.320 What I said to my audience this week when I was reporting on this,

00:16:03.240 and I myself, I know I feel very unsure that Justin Trudeau and his administration

00:16:07.520 has what it takes to get a negotiation that will not see tariffs on Canada.

00:16:11.780 Maybe they won't be quite so high, but no tariffs at all.

00:16:14.220 It seems quite unlikely.

00:16:15.040 But I said basically, you know, batten down the hatches, everyone.

00:16:18.100 It's going to be a bumpy ride for a little while.

00:16:20.580 And, you know, it seems to be the case that everyone's thinking it across the board

00:16:23.720 because, to your point, William, you know, Stephen Guibault, he's more at home

00:16:27.120 hanging off someone's house.

00:16:28.760 He's more at home in an orange jumpsuit.

00:16:31.320 These are not serious people.

00:16:33.480 These are not people who are in positions that they are suited for.

00:16:37.820 They do not have the skill set.

00:16:39.380 They do not have the intelligence.

00:16:41.180 It is just putting people, you know, it's like they're just not well suited to it.

00:16:44.500 At any time, like, Melanesia Lee, for example, is, I think, the best example of this.

00:16:48.400 Every time she goes out and speaks, it's like she has nothing of substance to say.

00:16:54.480 You know, I remember even recently she was asked about her plan to how to deal with the

00:16:58.140 Trump administration, how to deal with the threat of tariffs.

00:17:00.180 I have a plan.

00:17:01.240 I'm not going to tell you what it is right now, but I have a plan.

00:17:03.540 Like, that was legitimately her answer.

00:17:05.920 It was just a stunning thing to behold.

00:17:08.540 And, you know, Christopher Eland is another great example of this.

00:17:11.480 Someone who is totally ill-equipped for the job that she is now.

00:17:14.320 And also, someone who can't help herself, but to continuously insult Canadians. 1.00

00:17:20.520 There was that instance a little while ago where she told everyone, yeah, you're struggling,

00:17:24.320 you know, with the inflationary crisis that my government has created.

00:17:28.180 Cancel your Disney Plus account.

00:17:29.700 You know, that extra $8 to $12 a month, I don't actually know what it costs.

00:17:33.900 That'll really solve all your problems.

00:17:36.220 Now, the same thing with the local government offering this pennies of tax break,

00:17:40.320 which I think got voted down, but, you know, things are not actually going to do anything

00:17:45.660 for, you know, for Canadians.

00:17:47.620 It's not a matter of nickels and dimes here.

00:17:49.760 That's the issue.

00:17:50.660 And then Chrystia Freeland, most recently, now insulting Canadians once again. 1.00

00:17:55.460 I'm sure you guys have seen this clip.

00:17:57.080 We're going to play it for you now.

00:17:57.920 Take a look at Chrystia Freeland and listen very carefully to what she says.

00:18:02.580 People have been talking about a vibe session

00:18:05.200 and how that is a challenge for the Canadian economy.

00:18:11.980 Okay.

00:18:13.060 So you guys at home, you're struggling to make ends meet.

00:18:16.160 You're struggling to pay rent, get groceries on the table, keep the lights on.

00:18:19.180 That new part for your car that you've been needing, you can't afford it.

00:18:22.500 You can't get that root canal for your son that he needs.

00:18:25.780 No worries.

00:18:26.560 It's just a vibe session.

00:18:27.820 You're just feeling now.

00:18:29.000 There's not actually anything wrong with the economy.

00:18:30.660 The economy, the liberal government's economy, best economy there's ever been.

00:18:34.160 Just you.

00:18:34.580 You're just feeling.

00:18:35.840 It's just a bad vibe.

00:18:36.880 That's all it is.

00:18:37.980 That's what she's telling Canadians.

00:18:42.020 It is actually laughable if it didn't make you want to cry.

00:18:46.880 This is, of course, a government that famously said they would build the economy from the heart out

00:18:51.580 and that the budget would balance itself.

00:18:53.700 And now, as long as we all have good vibes, then why should we be worried about the fact

00:18:59.580 that we can't pay our rents and our mortgages or buy groceries or afford to save for retirement

00:19:04.840 so we'll all have to work until we literally drop dead in the middle of a workday?

00:19:09.940 You know, just get on with a better vibe.

00:19:12.200 I mean, I'll tell you, if you can find someone more out of touch with the needs and experience

00:19:18.040 of an everyday Canadian than Chrystia Freeland, I would be amazed at who that is. 1.00

00:19:22.760 Maybe one of the Kardashians because it's been so long since they've lived a real life.

00:19:27.420 But, you know, again, you have to wonder, who are these people?

00:19:31.880 Who are these people who are in charge of government departments

00:19:34.900 and charged with making massive and important decisions day in and day out

00:19:39.380 that affect the lives of ordinary Canadian families?

00:19:42.480 We have a vibe problem?

00:19:44.300 No, we have a cost of living crisis.

00:19:46.840 We have a housing crisis.

00:19:48.860 We have an immigration crisis. 0.97

00:19:51.720 We have a healthcare crisis.

00:19:53.680 None of which can be solved by simply listening to Pharrell's Happy on playlist on repeat over and over again.

00:20:02.100 You know, I know it's not polite to speak ill of them, but you have to wonder sometimes. 1.00

00:20:07.160 These people really are dumbasses. 0.99

00:20:08.880 You may need to bleep that, editors, in the post. 1.00

00:20:12.740 I think they will.

00:20:13.760 And that was my mistake.

00:20:14.660 I think the HST tax is expected to pass, but the GST, sorry, is expected to pass.

00:20:21.080 But the Conservatives will be voting against it.

00:20:23.700 And, you know, the Liberals are really trying to raise the alarm on this saying,

00:20:28.120 oh, you know, the Conservatives are voting against this tax.

00:20:30.500 They don't want you to have a tax break.

00:20:32.220 I actually, I don't think that line of attack is working anymore.

00:20:35.620 I think that it worked against the Conservatives for a really, really long time.

00:20:39.560 But Trudeau is so far down in the polls right now, and people are really seeing through him.

00:20:44.620 He's so unpopular.

00:20:45.780 And I think that even, because, yes, it's such an easy thing to say, oh, the Conservatives voted against a tax break.

00:20:52.520 I think Canadians recognize that this was a useless tax break that wasn't going to do anything meaningful for their pocket.

00:20:59.820 And, you know, we can live without saving that extra $3 when we go out for dinner.

00:21:04.320 If you're really struggling, you're probably not going out for dinner in the first place.

00:21:09.160 What's your take, Isaac?

00:21:09.900 Yeah, just wanted to speak quickly about the vibe session thing, which was, because I wrote the article on that.

00:21:18.080 I just wanted to say, I listened to the, I think it was 42-minute press conference held by Freeland and two other ministers.

00:21:25.340 And my editors can attest to this.

00:21:28.440 The article took me longer than normal to write because I was, frankly, shocked.

00:21:32.660 In this 42-minute conference, almost not one sentence that was said was true.

00:21:39.360 Literally everything they said was just verifiably untrue.

00:21:43.860 They would say things like, oh, Canada has the lowest unemployment in the G7, the best GDP growth in the G7.

00:21:48.880 I mean, the list goes on.

00:21:50.120 But you could check these things in five seconds and tell that they're just, frankly, not true.

00:21:54.980 So, I mean, it's frustrating that these parliamentarians can just have a conference and lie for the whole thing, and it's all good.

00:22:03.900 But I don't know.

00:22:05.160 As for the GST tax break, what's that going to cost Canadians?

00:22:08.760 $6 billion or something?

00:22:11.200 Yeah, not that, I mean, hey, like William said, the budget will balance itself.

00:22:14.720 So, I mean, Justin Trudeau has accumulated over $1 trillion in debt already during his tenure, which, of course, as we all know, is more than every other prime minister before him combined, which, I mean, just saying that is almost unbelievable.

00:22:28.060 It's truly a shocking statistic.

00:22:30.140 And, hey, it's only going to continue to climb.

00:22:33.260 We've seen everyone's questioning the Liberals because they initially said they were going to have a, what, $40 billion deficit.

00:22:38.440 But now the PBO is saying, are you sure about that?

00:22:41.160 Because I'm looking at the numbers here, and it doesn't look like you're going to be able to have the deficit you promised.

00:22:46.160 It's going to be higher.

00:22:47.380 Surprise, surprise.

00:22:49.720 How much was it?

00:22:50.680 How much did you say that it was?

00:22:52.960 Canada's dead?

00:22:54.160 Yeah, the deficit that was promised.

00:22:56.100 Oh, I think it was $40.2 billion, right?

00:22:58.660 With a billion with a B.

00:23:00.200 With a B.

00:23:00.980 Yes.

00:23:02.740 Sorry, guys.

00:23:03.600 You're not going to have that $40 billion deficit that you promised.

00:23:06.920 It's actually going to be a lot higher.

00:23:09.220 All right.

00:23:09.820 We have spent enough time only depressing and anxiety-inducing stories.

00:23:14.140 We've got to end it off with something a bit more humorous.

00:23:17.080 William, I think that you picked that green shirt intentionally today.

00:23:21.480 I'm going to go out.

00:23:23.020 I am.

00:23:23.460 I better watch out, though, because, you know, if you've been paying any amount of attention on social media for the past week,

00:23:29.720 you probably know that the film version of the musical Wicked appeared on big screens.

00:23:35.880 It's a fun musical, lots of songs, lots of high-energy dancing, and tries to tell a little bit of a backstory, I think,

00:23:43.460 on some of the characters from the original Wizard of Oz movie.

00:23:46.400 But over at the, I want to get their name right, the British Board of Film Classification, a group of people who have never met a fun time that they couldn't find something to wreck it with,

00:23:56.660 they decided that the movie is discriminatory and now has a trigger warning specifically for green-skinned people and persecuted talking animals.

00:24:09.060 And when I saw this story, I actually had to click it to make sure I wasn't reading an Onion or other satirical article.

00:24:17.420 I thought, surely to goodness, we aren't actually concerned about discriminating against green-skinned people and talking animals. 0.99

00:24:26.240 But, no, lo and behold, that's what this censorious body in England has decided.

00:24:32.080 They want people to know, before watching Wicked, that if you're green of skin or if you're an animal that can talk, you may be deeply offended by Wicked, the musical on screen.

00:24:44.340 So, I just thought that was worth mentioning in the fact that, has the world lost its mind and gone completely crazy?

00:24:52.540 Definitely certain parts of it, the answer is an unqualified yes. We are living in insane times.

00:24:58.620 Well, it certainly has. And the way that we know that is that when you're saying,

00:25:02.800 I initially thought this was like a headline from the Onion or another satirical site, that seems to be happening on the regular now.

00:25:09.600 Basically, you know, at least once a week, if not more often, you're running into a headline.

00:25:15.100 You're like, I got to double check this. You're reading, you know, you're clicking on the news site.

00:25:18.780 You're like, something's glitching here. This can't be real.

00:25:21.220 And sure enough, it turns out that it was a real headline.

00:25:24.580 The thing that is just killing me about this whole Wicked thing is, so I had actually never heard of this musical.

00:25:30.860 Apparently, it's like, you know, really popular and all these things. I hadn't heard of it before.

00:25:36.100 Ariana Grande was cast in it. I didn't really realize like how big of a deal it was that they were doing Wicked.

00:25:40.820 And they have pumped out like millions and millions of dollars on the advertising for this to the point where if anyone in the audience has not seen an advertisement for this musical,

00:25:53.840 please let me know in the comment section below because you are like the luckiest person in the entire world.

00:25:59.120 My timeline, no matter which social media platform I'm using, if I'm on X, if I'm on Facebook, if I'm searching the web, if I'm on YouTube,

00:26:07.820 it is filled with all sorts of promotional content for this musical Wicked.

00:26:13.120 You absolutely cannot escape it.

00:26:14.680 Personally, I'm not a very big Ariana Grande fan who was sort of the pop celebrity that was cast as one of the main roles in this movie.

00:26:24.060 See, I know way too much about it because like I've watched some of this advertising content that I actually don't want to watch, but I just I can't help it.

00:26:30.460 And her and the other lead who plays the green character, you know, they have been doing this sort of insufferable press tour

00:26:38.240 where they cry in every single interview that they do.

00:26:42.780 They'll break down in tears and talk about how important and how meaningful it was.

00:26:46.180 And it's just the most sickening, grotesque thing I've ever witnessed.

00:26:49.140 So you're and you're actresses. 1.00

00:26:51.060 You have the easiest, best life.

00:26:53.460 Put on a smile.

00:26:54.840 Do your press interview.

00:26:56.340 Talk about how great it was.

00:26:58.120 Talk about how everyone should go see the musical and call it a date.

00:27:01.040 Stop with the bloody tears already.

00:27:02.680 It's so annoying to watch.

00:27:04.180 And so they are just getting absolutely raked over the cold to the point that I suspect people like myself,

00:27:10.380 someone I consider myself a normal person, a normie.

00:27:13.520 I get that nowadays everyone wants to be weird and they'll use whatever labels they can to show that they're weird because they just want attention.

00:27:19.460 I'm a very normal person.

00:27:21.440 I am not interested in watching this musical because of how insufferable the press tour has been for it. 0.98

00:27:26.580 But now that this stupid trigger warning has come out for the movie, 0.94

00:27:29.940 I've been put in this difficult position where I like I almost have to defend the artistic integrity of the movie because the trigger warning is just so annoying. 0.97

00:27:37.420 And I suspect there's other people on the right.

00:27:39.140 We've also been put in sort of this, you know, uncomfortable conundrum where it's like I hate this musical and everything that the people who are writing it stand for.

00:27:47.000 But also the trigger warning is really over the top.

00:27:49.580 And I want to call it the people who gave the trigger warning.

00:27:52.160 Isaac, do you have any thoughts?

00:27:53.480 I mean, like, have you been seeing all the I my timeline is just filled with stuff about Wicked like and can you even see in Canada or do you have to go to London?

00:28:01.600 Because I don't even think we can see it here, but I could be totally wrong on that.

00:28:05.340 Yeah, I have a few thoughts.

00:28:06.940 Firstly, I don't know that I've noticed it as much as so on social media as you may have, Rachel.

00:28:11.900 But I will say every single hockey game I've watched this season has had an advertisement for Wicked,

00:28:17.420 the very ones you described of essentially actresses crying in press conferences.

00:28:20.900 And it's it's definitely insufferable of that stuff insufferable.

00:28:26.200 But to be fair to Sportsnet, they also have been showing Alberta's scrap the tax or score.

00:28:30.920 Sorry, scrap the cap ad campaign.

00:28:33.160 Well, hold on.

00:28:34.120 They do got both.

00:28:34.740 It's not that we can say to be fair to them.

00:28:37.420 They get paid a lot of money to run those ads. 0.79

00:28:40.220 And I just wanted to tell a quick story to defend green skinned individuals.

00:28:45.360 I was in I was in Dollarama like a few weeks before Halloween and I seen this guy walk in not in a costume.

00:28:53.080 He looked completely normal aside from the fact that his skin was completely yellowish slash green. 0.96

00:28:59.640 And of course, it's Halloween time.

00:29:01.060 So he could have been in a costume or maybe he had jaundice.

00:29:04.520 I don't know that I've ever actually seen someone in person with it, but it looked so realistic that it wasn't makeup.

00:29:10.060 So I thought, hmm, maybe that's jaundice.

00:29:12.740 And he's the very person they're trying to defend in this rule, I guess.

00:29:19.480 OK, so they're trying to defend jaundice individuals. 0.95

00:29:22.380 Please then explain the bit about the talking animals.

00:29:24.680 Well, I just had to laugh because I don't know if maybe I'm older, so this was only for my generation.

00:29:30.380 But there used to be an expression where when people were saying, you know, well, I'm not racist.

00:29:34.700 It doesn't matter if someone's black, white or purple.

00:29:37.880 And now I think, well, actually, now it turns out that purple, like green, could be a protected category of people.

00:29:45.340 So we may have to now update that example again to to say something more relevant.

00:29:50.360 I just have to wonder, don't people have anything better to spend their time, energy and money on than, you know, trying to say, oh, the poor green skinned, the nauseous people on a cruise who are green from feeling seasick. 1.00

00:30:05.620 You know, that's a protected class of people, too.

00:30:08.520 No, that's the problem with society today is our lives have become too easy.

00:30:13.740 We are too modernized.

00:30:15.040 A lot of people are not having kids.

00:30:16.540 They have nothing but time.

00:30:17.800 They're so bored with themselves and with their, you know, their meaningless, frivolous lives that they create problems that don't exist to talk about how they can solve them.

00:30:25.680 That is the problem of our society is people do not have enough work.

00:30:29.160 I definitely believe that to be true.

00:30:30.880 And I actually looked this up when we were talking as I knew it was something shocking.

00:30:34.880 Their advertising budget was one hundred and forty five million dollars.

00:30:39.640 So they spent one hundred and forty five million dollars on that miserable, miserable press tour.

00:30:45.420 Yeah. And all it's going to result is people like me are not going to go watch the musical.

00:30:50.760 And does anyone know, do you have to go to London to see it?

00:30:53.640 I feel like that's a William question.

00:30:56.480 I don't think so.

00:30:57.540 I think it's if it isn't already out everywhere, it will be.

00:31:01.480 Oh, so it's like going to be in the movie theaters here.

00:31:03.980 I believe so.

00:31:05.280 To be honest, I haven't paid that much attention to it either.

00:31:08.380 Uh, I was more shocked that green skin is apparently now a protected human rights criteria. 0.90

00:31:15.120 Hundred and forty five million dollars would be quite the advertising campaign to just cover a film that is filmed or able to be seen in London.

00:31:23.520 Yeah, I just I feel like if it's a musical, I don't know.

00:31:26.720 I thought maybe that they were actually like doing it in a theater somewhere in London.

00:31:29.820 But I guess it's just like a high school musical movie title.

00:31:33.220 No, it's a movie.

00:31:34.980 It was a musical.

00:31:36.200 It was on stage.

00:31:37.420 Now it's a movie for everybody to see.

00:31:39.780 But be warned, there are green people and talking animals in it. 1.00

00:31:43.480 So cover yourselves accordingly.

00:31:45.440 Don't be too offended.

00:31:47.200 All right, guys, we're going to leave it there for today.

00:31:49.260 Don't forget that everything you heard today was off the record.

00:31:52.120 Do you guys remember like a year ago they redid the Mean Girls movie?

00:32:04.140 So.

00:32:04.460 I do, yeah.

00:32:05.560 To see it.

00:32:07.360 And it was like the day that I was going to see it, I realized that I like looked something up and I learned I was reading an article about it.

00:32:13.620 And I was like, oh, it's a musical.

00:32:14.940 I had no idea.

00:32:15.440 Yeah, I mean, the original Mean Girls is kind of a classic, you know, written by Tina Fey, scarring the.

00:32:22.700 Famous and then infamous Lindsay Lohan.

00:32:25.620 And then, you know, to try to remake it, I always think, why wreck a good thing by remaking it?

00:32:31.360 Why don't you just let the original be a thing that people like?

00:32:34.780 And, you know, here's an idea, Hollywood.

00:32:36.860 Come up with a new idea for a movie once in a while.

Juno News - November 29, 2024

This is all Trudeau’s fault

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