Juno News - Trade minister IGNORES latest U.S trade warning

00:00:00.000 Well, Canada's Trade Minister rejects the idea that a ban on U.S. liquor sales in Canada hurts

00:00:11.040 the prospect of renewing the free trade deal with the Americans. U.S. Trade Representative

00:00:16.880 Jamison Greer released a report flagging the ban on U.S. alcohol sales by most Canadian provinces

00:00:23.900 As a major irritant today, Dominic LeBlanc says those irritants are not a deal breaker.

00:00:31.620 This is not a surprise to us.

00:00:34.820 Some elements on the list that were released yesterday, in fact, have been resolved.

00:00:40.500 Others were working on with the United States.

00:00:43.560 I don't, again, share the premise of the question that those represent a barrier to the review of Kuzma.

00:00:52.220 Other countries have lists that are much longer than ours.

00:00:57.220 We're working through constructively, as we have been for months.

00:01:02.460 The U.S. has called on Canada to immediately restore sales of alcoholic beverages across

00:01:07.720 the country.

00:01:08.720 While it doesn't always pay to bite the hand that feeds you, a popular columnist known

00:01:13.580 as the Food Professor has been canceled from his regular unpaid job as columnist with Montreal's

00:01:19.620 La Presse.

00:01:21.620 Sylvain Charlebois posted the news on X. He says the French language paper suspended him

00:01:28.260 over his criticisms about government subsidies for media. Canadian newspapers like Le Press get

00:01:34.020 millions of dollars from the Liberal government. As a result, Charlebois says they've been reduced

00:01:39.300 to repeating government talking points rather than doing actual journalism. Conservative leader Pierre

00:01:46.340 Poliev is calling on the government to cut federal taxes on fuel for the rest of the year. Let's

00:01:51.940 listen. Liberals tax Canadians again and again and again for fuel. There's the 10 cent a litre 0.83

00:01:58.260 excise tax. Then there's the 7 cent a litre fuel standard tax. Then there is the GST, which

00:02:05.880 actually collects more money for the government the more gas prices go up. And it is a tax not

00:02:10.880 only on the fuel but on the other taxes a tax on a tax on a tax on a tax mark carney did not get

00:02:18.240 rid of the carbon tax he renamed it he called it the fuel standard and this week he told canadians

00:02:24.640 that he is closely following the rising gas prices mr carney no more following it's time to lead

00:02:33.600 lead for affordable gas, groceries, and homes.

00:02:39.060 Pollyoff says cutting taxes would save a family of $4,200 a year.

00:02:44.880 A social media post by the Toronto Blue Jays wishing Jewish fans a happy Passover

00:02:50.200 has sparked a backlash from critics of Israel.

00:02:53.820 The post reads, Happy Passover to all our friends celebrating.

00:02:58.100 What followed was a blistering series of attacks by those responding to that.

00:03:04.600 This headline,

00:03:06.060 You Lost Me Forever, Toronto Blue Jays Blasted for Wishing Jewish Fans Happy Passover.

00:03:12.460 Criticisms included posts like this one,

00:03:16.680 Star of David isn't a Jewish symbol from 3,000 years ago.

00:03:21.060 It's a Zionist symbol from the early 1900s, you cucks. 0.79

00:03:24.880 And this one, 0.90

00:03:26.080 Ew. Seeing this helped me get over that World Series loss a lot quicker. Thank you. No longer

00:03:34.280 a proud fan. And there was this positive message. Thank you from a Dodgers fan who has mad respect

00:03:42.020 for this franchise. Our guest today is Blue Jays fan and independent journalist, Daniel Boardman.

00:03:48.260 Welcome, Daniel. Thanks for having me. Good to be back.

00:03:51.380 I mean, you saw some of the posts, some of the responses to Rogers and the Blue Jays simply wishing a happy Passover to Jewish fans.

00:04:02.920 Did you expect that you'd see this much negative backlash to that?

00:04:08.500 Yes, absolutely. Yes. If you don't, you have not been living in Canada.

00:04:13.500 You have not gone on the streets of any major city.

00:04:15.480 um it the only thing now is like it's just impossible to tell what the political uh

00:04:20.620 orientation of these posts are i mean when someone posts a hitler should have finished you all

00:04:25.360 um post under a blue jays wishing people a happy passover um you have no idea if this is a

00:04:34.300 you know far left um equity based teachers union ndp supporter who believes in human rights and

00:04:42.620 equality for all and that's why she sports hitler this could be a far-right neo-nazi like actually 0.80

00:04:48.040 is you know i love hitler because he's a fascist or it could just be one of the uh everyday muslims

00:04:54.120 um in canadian society and for all three of those groups you like come together so um yes i expected 0.59

00:05:00.920 it it should be expected in canada canada is not the same country that it was under stephen harper

00:05:06.720 the mass migration directed from specifically Islamic nations, which Johnson Trudeau did

00:05:13.060 promise. If you look at some interviews he did with the Arabic press in 2015, he is very clear

00:05:19.140 to the Muslim community that he intends to target for mass migration to expend particular Arabic

00:05:26.740 and Islamic countries en masse to bring in. And that's what he promised them. And that's what he 1.00

00:05:31.580 did. And we are now seeing, again, in these countries, at best, absolutely best case studies

00:05:38.280 we have from most Middle Eastern countries over the last 100 years, really, is 90% of them are 0.75

00:05:45.680 extremely anti-Semitic to the points of Nazism. 90% is the best number we ever get. Usually it's 1.00

00:05:53.220 around 95%, closer to 97% is the average. So again, if you're targeting mass migration from

00:05:59.300 populations that were never denazified because again the arabs um were very very uh heavily

00:06:04.660 involved uh with the nazis uh because nazi propaganda was very very anti-british um which

00:06:12.420 a lot of the british and french again really having mandates in the region so um to sort of

00:06:17.940 inspire them and again they they they they really glommed on to the arabic society the anti-semitism

00:06:23.060 aspect because they are themselves a highly conspiratorial society um which um anti-semitism 0.81

00:06:29.520 is sort of derived from conspiracy or far more conspiratorial than other things like this is

00:06:34.860 when they say all racism is is the same and where it's all the same fight you know no actually

00:06:39.300 everyone's a little bit different and you actually have to treat these things seriously like

00:06:42.320 you know no one that really has anti-black conspiracies right they might say black people

00:06:48.120 are this black people are that it's like crime statistics or this and that there's no conspiracy

00:06:52.380 It's sort of, but the anti-Semitic conspiracy is sort of the Jews are controlling you from the weather or this or that.

00:06:58.760 It's sort of this nebulous, untethered thing.

00:07:01.380 So to a conspiratorial mind and to a society that's sort of breaking down and losing its foundations and its culture and its history.

00:07:07.540 And the more untethered you get from reality, the more anti-Semitism you're going to get.

00:07:11.080 Because, again, it's conspiracy mindset, which is, unfortunately, when you don't trust the institutions, when the institutions say, yeah, there's no.

00:07:21.280 yeah it's actually safer to transition a seven-year-old girl into a seven-year-old boy this

00:07:25.360 is great this is what the scientists say and then no one trusts the institutions of the science

00:07:29.280 anymore so you you have a disconnect from reality and and this is a result but for it to venture

00:07:35.920 into the world of sports you know i'm sure that rogers didn't think the owners of the blue jays

00:07:42.560 didn't think that it would lead to an attempt that a post like that a seemingly innocent post

00:07:49.840 wishing happy passover to fans would lead to something like that you know a blue here's

00:07:56.480 here it is baseball now becoming a target for this type of well let's call it what it is

00:08:02.800 hatred there was this post by one of the respondents star of david isn't a jewish symbol

00:08:09.760 from 3 000 years ago it's a zionist symbol from the early 1900s u cox and that was

00:08:16.320 by somebody who was obviously triggered by the star of david you know apart from just the

00:08:22.540 congratulatory or the well-wisher from that was listed on the post so do you have any thoughts

00:08:29.420 of that yeah i mean i i am gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna disagree with the sincerity of this poster

00:08:37.380 i don't think he is as smart or as sincere as he is claiming to be so he's claiming that oh it's

00:08:43.420 about passover it's about the the magendavi the star of david which um was not the star of david

00:08:48.780 it was actually just invented randomly in 1948. now if you look at the uh the flag of palestine

00:08:54.460 from the 1920s so again um there was a mandate period uh after the first world war so the french

00:09:01.500 had manned and people think it was mandated people don't understand what a mandate is we'll get it

00:09:05.340 but you had british mandates and french mandates sort of callings you could say or protectorates

00:09:09.900 whatever um and one of them was the mandate for palestine if you look at the flag for the mandate

00:09:14.540 of palestine it has again to be on it too it's a blue white with a yellow mcgendavid on it so

00:09:20.380 the thought that it that this just came uh from 1940 from a zionist movement no no it's sort of

00:09:25.340 forever been associated with um king david and like the symbol itself again when you have like

00:09:30.540 geometry symbols like stars and different things the good ones tend to get were used a lot so if

00:09:36.140 you go into um many dharmic societies like india nepal of england and you look at hindu buddhist

00:09:42.380 and sort of sikh images one of the like eight sort of symbols in there is that you see them again

00:09:47.820 david right so it's like a six-sided star looks nice it's symmetrical people use symmetry they

00:09:53.100 have you know babylonians everyone looks up at the stars does some basic math you know geometry is is

00:09:59.500 is standard so it makes sense that you know this symbol might have developed for different

00:10:04.300 cultures different regions different ways uh and we have absolute archaeological evidence that

00:10:09.440 the kingdom of david existed david was the king and they use this star of david but to me so this

00:10:14.760 is just no there is this 99.9999999 percent of anti-zionism is anti-semitism and i will give

00:10:23.140 the anti-zionist i did meet one person who was legitimately hated israel for non-anti-semitic

00:10:27.020 reasons just a random woman who loved going to cuba and loved cuba so much and hated america and

00:10:32.240 Israel because they voted against Cuba at the UN. So, okay, fine. That's somewhat reasonable.

00:10:38.700 Reality-based means to have your opposition to the state of Israel as purely a, you know,

00:10:43.720 vote on UN-Cuban embargoes. Okay, fine. But the majority of this is they don't like the

00:10:48.500 holiday Passover. They don't like the Jewish symbols. And they attack this because they

00:10:51.720 see Israel as a representative of all Jews. And they know they can't say Jews. So they either

00:10:55.480 substitute Jews for Israel or Zionist. And that's sort of the left and, you know, half of the 0.52

00:11:00.600 Islamic society. The right, which I like the far right anti-Semite likes a lot more because they

00:11:04.800 will say Jews and they'll do the common decency of calling you a Jew. And like, then we can at

00:11:09.480 least engage in this honestly. Um, but, uh, the sort of, uh, the, I would assume the guy who's

00:11:15.240 getting mad at me star of David because it's a Zionist symbol. I would assume he would be voting

00:11:20.520 NDP, um, in the next election or maybe, maybe Carney, but, uh, most likely it's a, it's a left

00:11:26.780 wing embrace of neo-nazism i keep hearing that jewish canadians are leaving the country or at 0.86

00:11:35.500 least thinking of leaving the country are you finding that yeah everyone's everyone's talking

00:11:41.980 about it um yeah it's again listen there's a synagogue in my neighborhood that's been shot up

00:11:48.060 double digits since

00:11:49.900 October 7th.

00:11:52.260 Again, gunfire.

00:11:54.660 The police don't care.

00:11:57.680 The mayor doesn't care. 1.00

00:11:59.580 The Jewish organizations,

00:12:00.840 I don't know if they even, the major ones 0.99

00:12:02.680 even know what to do about it.

00:12:04.940 They just write a letter. They're not

00:12:06.440 convinced. They're too scared to do anything

00:12:08.680 about it.

00:12:10.000 We have cameras. There's no

00:12:12.060 catching him.

00:12:14.440 Catch this guy. Why would you catch him?

00:12:16.180 And if you do catch him, why would you hold him?

00:12:18.060 And even if you do hold him, why would a judge ever put him in jail when you could just release him on bail 15 minutes later?

00:12:23.140 So everyone kind of knows that these people are around every week in Toronto.

00:12:27.740 There's a group of radical anti-Semites who go to Bathurst and Shepherd, which is like a Jewish majority area, just to protest the Jews and stomp around the neighborhood.

00:12:36.060 They were stopped one week, but they're back again.

00:12:37.900 And a lot of the leaders of this, like, constantly, I mean, there's people who spend all day on Twitter, on Instagram, we have accounts of calories, who just spend all day making threats against various Jews and Jewish organizations throughout Canada.

00:12:50.460 And, you know, the police do nothing about it, not really.

00:12:53.960 And, you know, Mark Carney claims that there are currently no laws in order to stop all this.

00:12:58.480 We need C9.

00:12:59.500 We can't arrest someone for trying to burn down a synagogue. 0.98

00:13:03.640 It's illegal.

00:13:04.300 We need Bill C9 because once we institute Islamic blasphemy laws, then anti-Semitism will go away.

00:13:09.200 History shows that quite clearly. Right. You know, that's that's that's that's the pattern. 0.93

00:13:13.860 And it's just a shame that shooting up a synagogue just happens to be in this little loophole where it's not illegal and we need speech laws.

00:13:19.900 So that's where the liberal government is.

00:13:21.380 They I think they're quite content to let this spiral out of control to then claim that Bill C9 is their solution to anti-Semitism.

00:13:27.540 And they are doing something which will just be used to arrest people like me for criticizing the people burning down the synagogues and churches.

00:13:33.680 But yeah, most Jewish families, we're going to have a Passover Seder tonight with the family.

00:13:39.320 I'll see if anyone brings it up about leaving to go somewhere else.

00:13:44.120 We do have an Israeli family there who are always looking at the Canadians in our family like we're crazy people who just don't understand the world, which is nice. 0.98

00:13:53.720 But yeah, it's a conversation in the mind of every Jewish Canadian family with the means to get out.

00:13:59.680 is if things are getting worse there's no sign of them getting better in the government um clearly

00:14:04.240 doesn't care about our lives um and again you have this again like high tax and dna and canada

00:14:09.920 doesn't even love canada anymore like so if you want to like i mean what what's our purpose as a 0.93

00:14:15.600 nation like take the jewish canadians out of it okay fine but what's your pitch to the average 0.74

00:14:20.080 canadian to stay in canada right now if you're the liberal government like canada is good because 0.51

00:14:24.000 it's not america like you just can you just run the country off a pure hatred of donald trump

00:14:28.400 and how long does that last right we this is the post-nation state idea and in a post-nation state

00:14:33.440 where there are no core values or whatever whatever well then yeah you're going to get

00:14:36.800 people coming in from iraq who are going to say okay this is iraq now and in iraq we believe that 1.00

00:14:43.440 we should just kill all the jews because that's what everyone in iraq believes because all arab 0.99

00:14:47.920 leaders have just used the jews as a scapegoat for their own incompetence for the last 50 60 years so 1.00

00:14:53.680 That's what we have now in Canada. Everyone can see it. 90% of the Jewish community can see it. We still have some insane lefties who still exist. And I always like to say, Jews live closer to reality than the average person, right? Like, where is there? Which gives some Jews a hypersensitivity to reality and a great understanding of what's going on and a willingness to fight it, but also gives a certain segment of the Jewish population this great immunity to reality, right?

00:15:21.440 They're very, very good at ignoring reality because they live much closer to it. 0.99

00:15:24.820 So their antibodies to reality are very, very well built up. 0.81

00:15:28.400 So this is like this explains Avi Lewis, right, who lived in progressive and increasing more progressive and progressive Jewish families to the point where now he's a Hamas supporter. 0.59

00:15:37.680 But he's so insulated from his own ideas because he just lives in this echo chamber.

00:15:43.640 He's so sort of pot committed to it that he just gets further and further and more deranged and insane. 0.94

00:15:48.480 there now appeals to like what two percent of the jewish population at best is this thing so that's 0.99

00:15:52.980 so you have most of the jews coming into reality um and realizing okay we might need a plan do we 0.78

00:15:58.340 go to panama do we go to costa rica do we go to israel do we go to america to florida like where 0.92

00:16:02.580 do we go that's safe and then you have um the lemmings who say okay we just capitulate a little 0.88

00:16:07.380 bit further if we sell out um the jews just to the right of us um if we just capitulate and and do 0.90

00:16:13.600 whatever and pay the jizya, so to speak, then things will get better. 0.99

00:16:17.540 But that, that, that subset is, is, is dwindling and getting smaller and

00:16:21.340 smaller and smaller every day.

00:16:25.740 Last question.

00:16:26.480 I mean, I just wanted to touch on the corporate handling of this last I

00:16:31.320 checked Rogers did not pull or the Toronto blue Jays did not pull the

00:16:36.360 congratulatory post.

00:16:37.960 And I'm glad about that.

00:16:39.760 They didn't stop comments either.

00:16:43.080 didn't block any more comments. And they haven't responded really to our request to comment on the

00:16:50.200 fact that they got so much backlash around this. What do you expect from Rogers on this? Or if

00:16:58.880 anything? I don't really expect anything from Rogers. And I think that's my high expectations

00:17:05.520 here. So I'm glad Rogers didn't take down the post. I'm glad they leave comments up so more

00:17:10.820 people can just see what it is because um i think this is a great highlight for a lot of normal

00:17:16.200 canadians who are you know not jewish and just see you know a happy passover message and then 0.69

00:17:20.300 can see the utter derangement under the blue jay thing like this is this is like the blue jays are

00:17:24.060 very uniting force across canada right we all remember that world series run um you know i

00:17:29.160 wasn't i was you know i wasn't i was just i was watching every game even though i was a part of

00:17:32.760 the world where it was like 5 a.m and i was up watching it um really really unifying like

00:17:38.400 Toronto sports is amazing culture, amazing culture,

00:17:42.960 unless you're the Leafs, utterly toxic.

00:17:45.020 However toxic our Leaf culture is,

00:17:47.120 the inverse of that is true for like basketball and baseball

00:17:49.760 and the other ones. 0.66

00:17:50.680 Like the sort of non-Canadian supposed to be just, 0.68

00:17:52.780 oh, you're playing baseball for Canada? 0.99

00:17:54.660 Let me give you a hug.

00:17:55.380 It's okay.

00:17:56.040 Oh, you gave up a home run?

00:17:57.220 Like you'll get back at the next time.

00:17:58.540 But like, oh, Austin Matthews, you sneezed too loudly? 1.00

00:18:01.340 Kill him, put him down. 1.00

00:18:02.140 He's dead. 1.00

00:18:02.460 Like trade him for a bag of clocks. 1.00

00:18:03.820 Like, so however toxic Leaf culture is,

00:18:06.320 blue jay culture is equally reverse on that level of toxic so i think rogers if i was them i just

00:18:12.560 would leave it up i wouldn't say anything there are worse instances of anti-semitism um each time

00:18:18.080 just yeah you said happy passover you didn't take it down and i think this is a good example for

00:18:23.200 just like where canadian society is right now where you wish happy holidays to jews and a 0.89

00:18:29.360 absolutely deranged part of the population just comes out and exposes themselves. 0.98

00:18:35.840 Daniel, thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate that and happy Passover.

00:18:40.720 Thank you.

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Juno News - April 02, 2026

Trade minister IGNORES latest U.S trade warning

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