Juno News - Trudeau's foreign policy has been a failure

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.

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00:00:12.760 Coming up, why China matters, Justin Trudeau's mandatory vaccine double standard,

00:00:17.880 and why the latest round of climate alarmism is a nothing burger.

00:00:24.000 The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now.

00:00:30.000 Hello and welcome to another edition of Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.

00:00:35.080 It is Wednesday, August 11th, 2021.

00:00:38.720 You're tuned in to The Andrew Lawton Show on True North,

00:00:41.640 and I'm very grateful to have you on whenever you are listening,

00:00:44.920 wherever you are listening, in the on-tenterhooks-awaiting election week.

00:00:50.000 We are pretty sure now that the election call is going to be on Sunday,

00:00:55.040 which means we are off to the races basically by Sunday afternoon.

00:00:59.680 So we can breathe a little bit easily.

00:01:01.720 I actually realize I'm not normal, which you've probably figured out by now.

00:01:06.740 I tend to like elections, and there's a reason for it.

00:01:10.240 Number one, I'm a political wonk, and elections are newsy events.

00:01:13.700 And also, it's the opportunity for Canadians to, in a very real and very direct way,

00:01:20.020 tell the government what they think.

00:01:22.380 More than polling, more than referenda, plebiscite.

00:01:26.040 It's an opportunity for the voters to take out their frustration

00:01:29.220 in a way that is very unique to liberal democracies.

00:01:33.900 And that's why I'm not buying into, if you've heard the last few shows,

00:01:37.940 this idea that, oh, it's too dangerous to have an election.

00:01:40.360 We should welcome the opportunity to exercise our democratic right,

00:01:44.540 whatever our frustrations are with this policy or that policy.

00:01:48.660 This is all a long way of saying, I'm ready to go, and I hope you are too.

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00:02:04.860 as you may remember if you followed us in 2019.

00:02:07.560 But very important, because we know the mainstream media

00:02:10.020 simply is not covering elections the way they need to.

00:02:13.540 Not talking about the stories they need to,

00:02:15.660 and certainly not covering the issues and perspectives they need to.

00:02:19.040 But we are here at True North.

00:02:20.680 So now that I've gotten that out of the way,

00:02:22.560 and I appreciate you indulging me here,

00:02:24.440 I want to talk about what has become the big story of the week this week,

00:02:28.580 which is China.

00:02:30.220 Now, I've often said this needs to be the bigger story most weeks.

00:02:34.380 China is not a friend. 0.99

00:02:36.260 It's a country that is ready to bully its way around the world,

00:02:40.300 is doing exactly that,

00:02:41.680 yet has been given this legitimacy by the world

00:02:44.320 because they say the right things.

00:02:46.440 They talk about,

00:02:47.060 oh yes, we're partners in climate change,

00:02:48.900 and we're joining the liberal world order.

00:02:50.960 Meanwhile, they are performing this massive neo-colonial takeover

00:02:56.040 of the third world through the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:02:59.300 They are also keeping Canadians locked up with arbitrary reasons,

00:03:04.740 no reasons actually,

00:03:06.100 and doing this as a way to exert pressure to release Meng Wanzhou,

00:03:11.020 as we've seen with the imprisonment of the two Michaels,

00:03:14.000 Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor,

00:03:16.040 and also Mr. Schellenberg, Robert Schellenberg,

00:03:19.060 who is a bit of a different case,

00:03:20.600 but again, someone who China has held without due process

00:03:23.440 on charges of drug smuggling.

00:03:26.760 And what's happened here,

00:03:29.180 which is very unfortunate,

00:03:30.660 is that Schellenberg has been on appeal sentenced to death.

00:03:35.280 China has decided to throw the book and then some at him 0.92

00:03:38.140 and sentenced him to death in a move that can only be interpreted

00:03:42.360 as a response to Canada's imprisonment,

00:03:46.000 well, not even imprisonment,

00:03:47.040 but Canada's prosecution and pursuit of extradition

00:03:49.860 of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou

00:03:52.800 at the request of the United States.

00:03:54.800 And this is hostage diplomacy,

00:03:57.500 but unlike what would normally happen in a case like that,

00:04:01.240 Canada has, it seems, been doing very little about it.

00:04:04.880 Apart from just, you know, finger-wagging every now and then,

00:04:08.400 Canada has not managed to secure the release

00:04:10.680 of Michael Kovrig or Michael Spavor,

00:04:13.380 and now Michael Spavor is finding himself

00:04:15.920 staring down the barrel of an 11-year sentence,

00:04:18.520 which also includes deportation.

00:04:20.780 Now, this is very key.

00:04:22.180 We don't know if the deportation is going to happen

00:04:24.220 at the end of the 11 years

00:04:25.660 or if the deportation could be happening

00:04:27.960 in the coming days, weeks, months.

00:04:30.320 We just don't know.

00:04:31.200 So there's an opportunity here,

00:04:33.500 which China is very aware of,

00:04:36.140 for Canada to get Michael brought home,

00:04:38.540 which is exactly what he wants.

00:04:40.260 I want to talk about the political implications of this

00:04:42.980 because there are a great many of them,

00:04:45.020 but I also want to delve into the human aspect of this

00:04:48.260 because we view this case

00:04:50.780 in oftentimes diplomatic terms,

00:04:53.420 which it is.

00:04:54.000 That's part of what it is.

00:04:55.200 China is using Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor 0.97

00:04:58.340 as weapons against Canada,

00:05:00.460 as weapons against the West.

00:05:02.180 But these are also two human beings

00:05:04.100 who for more than two years

00:05:05.360 have been kept without consular access

00:05:07.700 for the most part,

00:05:08.980 very minimal oversight,

00:05:10.580 and I would also say very little transparency,

00:05:14.340 no transparency, in fact,

00:05:15.780 about the nature of these ham-fisted,

00:05:18.660 half-baked charges

00:05:19.700 that China has put against them on espionage.

00:05:22.760 We did get a message from Michael Spavor

00:05:26.480 sent through Canada's ambassador to China,

00:05:29.380 Dominic Barton,

00:05:30.560 this morning at a press conference,

00:05:32.540 which was very upsetting to hear,

00:05:34.620 but I think necessary.

00:05:35.880 Consular visit with Michael right afterwards,

00:05:38.400 and he wanted to send three messages.

00:05:41.040 I explained that we were very fortunate

00:05:43.160 to have all of the international support

00:05:45.060 in the embassy in Beijing,

00:05:47.560 as well as here with us in Dandong,

00:05:50.500 and he had three messages he wanted to send.

00:05:53.440 One, thank you for all your support.

00:05:55.840 It means a lot to me.

00:05:58.460 Two, I am in good spirits.

00:06:01.320 And three, I want to get home.

00:06:04.340 That much time in what I can only assume

00:06:06.900 are horrific conditions,

00:06:08.500 and he still is thanking Canadians

00:06:10.860 and saying that he's in good spirits.

00:06:13.200 I think the third point he raises

00:06:14.560 is the most important one.

00:06:15.600 He wants to come home.

00:06:17.160 And listen, I know China's a bully. 1.00

00:06:18.820 I know China cannot be trusted. 0.99

00:06:20.520 I know China is the enemy of the West, 1.00

00:06:22.640 the enemy of freedom.

00:06:24.040 China is trying to establish itself 0.77

00:06:26.140 as the global hegemon,

00:06:28.140 and its ambitions have oftentimes gone unchecked,

00:06:31.640 certainly by Canada.

00:06:33.480 I can't guarantee that if Andrew Scheer

00:06:36.020 had won the election in 2019,

00:06:37.860 things would be different,

00:06:38.700 or that Aaron O'Toole could secure their release.

00:06:41.000 No one can make that promise

00:06:42.260 when you're dealing with someone

00:06:43.300 who is a lot more powerful than Canada in this

00:06:46.020 and holding a lot more of the cards.

00:06:48.800 But what I can say is that for Justin Trudeau

00:06:51.320 to audaciously make this promise in 2015.

00:06:56.720 And I want to say this

00:06:59.240 to this country's friends all around the world.

00:07:03.200 Many of you have worried

00:07:04.840 that Canada has lost its compassionate

00:07:07.960 and constructive voice in the world

00:07:10.240 over the past 10 years.

00:07:12.260 Well, I have a simple message for you.

00:07:15.980 On behalf of 35 million Canadians,

00:07:19.000 we're back.

00:07:24.160 Remember that?

00:07:25.260 Yeah.

00:07:25.480 So for Justin Trudeau to make that promise

00:07:27.460 that Canada's back in 2015,

00:07:30.380 that should be met with something

00:07:32.360 in the way of action.

00:07:34.760 But rather than actually do the things

00:07:38.000 that are necessary on the world stage,

00:07:40.360 Justin Trudeau instead wants to go to India

00:07:42.840 and play dress-up.

00:07:44.200 He wants to pursue this ill-fated attempt

00:07:46.960 at securing a seat

00:07:48.620 on the United Nations Security Council.

00:07:50.900 He wants to go and talk about

00:07:52.400 gender-neutral budgeting around the world

00:07:54.620 and have gender transparency

00:07:56.960 and gender equality in the NAFTA renegotiations.

00:08:00.120 All of these things on the foreign policy stage

00:08:02.400 that make Canada the laughingstock.

00:08:04.820 Meanwhile, two Canadians languishing,

00:08:07.000 three Canadians in fact,

00:08:08.060 but I think the case of the Michaels

00:08:09.880 are different than the case of Robert Schellenberg.

00:08:12.600 All the while, Canadians are languishing 1.00

00:08:14.660 in detention in China

00:08:16.260 with no success at getting them back.

00:08:20.920 So how dare you look at Canadians 0.58

00:08:22.940 and say that Canada's back

00:08:24.680 when you haven't taken aim

00:08:27.100 at the greatest threat facing Canada,

00:08:30.800 which is the rise of China?

00:08:33.260 I've often said that Canada has,

00:08:36.460 the Trudeau government specifically,

00:08:37.800 has a China-sized blind spot 1.00

00:08:40.800 in its foreign policy,

00:08:42.360 which I would also say has creeped

00:08:43.860 into its domestic policy.

00:08:45.660 Let's go through a couple of the highlights,

00:08:47.200 if you don't mind.

00:08:48.040 Remember this, Jim?

00:08:48.860 There's a level of admiration

00:08:52.040 I actually have for China

00:08:53.640 because their basic dictatorship

00:08:58.980 is allowing them

00:09:00.440 to actually turn their economy around on a dime

00:09:03.380 and say we need to go green as fast

00:09:04.940 as we need to start investing in solar.

00:09:07.900 I mean, there is a flexibility

00:09:09.020 that I know Stephen Harper must dream about

00:09:11.220 of having a dictatorship

00:09:12.240 that he could do everything he wanted

00:09:13.800 that I find quite interesting.

00:09:16.280 Ah, yes, China's basic dictatorship

00:09:19.140 allows them to get things done,

00:09:21.040 to turn around their economy on a dime.

00:09:23.020 Well, where's that efficiency

00:09:24.260 when it comes to releasing the two Michaels?

00:09:27.920 Or how about this one?

00:09:29.540 So why is your government so reluctant

00:09:31.480 to acknowledge China's possible faults

00:09:33.540 in this pandemic?

00:09:34.940 My job right now

00:09:36.860 is to make sure that Canadians

00:09:38.900 get the best support,

00:09:40.680 the best protection,

00:09:42.020 and are able to get through this

00:09:43.980 as best we possibly can.

00:09:46.280 That means getting the equipment that we need.

00:09:49.540 That means ensuring that the cooperation

00:09:52.660 and the collaboration

00:09:53.420 on the international stage

00:09:54.960 is done properly.

00:09:57.440 That means focusing right now

00:09:59.840 on today and tomorrow

00:10:01.400 and how we're going to keep Canadians safe.

00:10:04.040 There will be plenty of time

00:10:05.920 to point fingers,

00:10:07.540 to ask questions,

00:10:09.360 to draw conclusions,

00:10:10.340 and to make ensure that there are consequences

00:10:15.120 for things that different countries

00:10:17.180 may have done during this pandemic.

00:10:20.640 Right now,

00:10:22.160 my job is to look out for Canadians.

00:10:25.280 Ah, yes,

00:10:25.720 that was at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

00:10:28.180 when we had a lot of evidence suggesting

00:10:30.500 that COVID may have escaped from a lab,

00:10:32.620 that China had been disingenuous

00:10:34.940 or outright dishonest with its numbers,

00:10:36.900 that China was complicit

00:10:38.420 in allowing COVID to become

00:10:40.180 as big a problem as it did,

00:10:42.020 as early as it did.

00:10:43.220 And what does Justin Trudeau say?

00:10:44.880 He doesn't even mention China

00:10:46.140 and says,

00:10:46.840 well, now's not the time.

00:10:47.720 We can point fingers later.

00:10:49.280 Well, it's been,

00:10:50.240 you know,

00:10:50.480 a year later

00:10:51.020 and that finger pointing

00:10:52.080 still hasn't happened.

00:10:53.560 Where has been the push

00:10:54.840 to hold China to account? 0.73

00:10:57.160 It hasn't been coming from Justin Trudeau.

00:10:59.880 And of course,

00:11:00.580 there's Patty Hajdu saying

00:11:01.760 that if you accuse China

00:11:03.260 of giving wrong numbers,

00:11:05.260 you're feeding conspiracy theories.

00:11:07.320 And then we have all of the journalists,

00:11:09.360 the blue check elites

00:11:10.360 that said that you are just a conspiracy theorist.

00:11:13.180 If you talk about the lab leak theory before,

00:11:15.680 well, that became the predominant theory

00:11:17.820 in how COVID got into the world.

00:11:20.820 But the reality is Justin Trudeau,

00:11:22.780 despite claiming that Canada

00:11:23.960 is asserting itself

00:11:24.980 as this middle power on the world stage,

00:11:26.900 has done not a darn thing

00:11:29.980 to deal with China,

00:11:31.980 which is not just an abstract problem,

00:11:34.140 by the way.

00:11:34.580 They have Canadians.

00:11:36.540 They are holding Canadians. 1.00

00:11:38.840 This is not abstract.

00:11:40.460 This is very real.

00:11:42.360 And for them to get up now

00:11:43.660 and say,

00:11:43.980 oh, we're deeply concerned

00:11:45.200 and we condemn the sentence.

00:11:46.720 It is a load of nonsense.

00:11:49.020 Where have you been before now?

00:11:51.900 That clip from Justin Trudeau

00:11:53.560 saying, well, now is not the time.

00:11:55.640 Well, the problem

00:11:56.460 when you don't take those battles up early

00:11:58.720 is that eventually you're left now

00:12:00.400 just responding to these things.

00:12:03.380 What has happened?

00:12:04.380 Now, people say,

00:12:05.140 oh, well, maybe he's playing some 3D chess.

00:12:07.200 Justin Trudeau, 3D chess.

00:12:08.660 Anyway.

00:12:09.300 Oh, maybe, you know, he's doing,

00:12:10.720 he's trying to play it cool.

00:12:12.280 He's not wanting to rock the boat.

00:12:14.000 Again, where are the results to show that?

00:12:17.700 Where are the results?

00:12:18.800 Where's the success?

00:12:19.720 Where's the victory?

00:12:21.220 And as I said,

00:12:22.000 I'm not claiming that Andrew Scheer

00:12:23.600 would have done different.

00:12:24.440 I'm not saying that Aaron O'Toole could have.

00:12:26.340 But I can say that the way to do it,

00:12:28.920 if it is going to be done,

00:12:30.280 is not by prancing around the world,

00:12:33.140 talking about every issue that doesn't matter,

00:12:36.200 ignoring the one that does,

00:12:38.260 ignoring Xi Jinping's attempts

00:12:40.460 to take over the world.

00:12:42.180 But, oh, no, all they have to do is say,

00:12:44.000 ah, yes, we're partners in climate change.

00:12:45.580 And you know what?

00:12:46.620 That's just like turning the knees

00:12:48.420 of the Canadian foreign policy establishment to butter.

00:12:50.940 No way they can stand up to China 0.94

00:12:52.720 when they've got partners in climate.

00:12:54.180 And we're going to be talking later on in the show

00:12:56.180 with Mark Morano about what's happening

00:12:58.240 on the climate front.

00:12:59.700 Now, Aaron O'Toole,

00:13:00.640 I've had some criticisms

00:13:02.000 of how he's handled his campaign thus far.

00:13:04.460 But one issue where he's been immensely

00:13:06.400 and tremendously solid has been on China.

00:13:09.880 He is the only one in Canadian politics

00:13:11.700 talking about this.

00:13:12.980 And more importantly,

00:13:13.940 he's talking about it in the lead up to an election.

00:13:16.900 After the sentencing of Robert Schellenberg to death

00:13:20.500 and before the Spavor sentencing,

00:13:22.700 just to contextualize it,

00:13:24.380 Aaron O'Toole basically put

00:13:26.320 the Chinese Communist Party on notice.

00:13:28.860 Before I start,

00:13:30.420 I need to take a minute to comment on the news

00:13:32.520 about our federal Canadians,

00:13:34.460 Robert Schellenberg and Michael Spavor.

00:13:37.500 The denial of Robert Schellenberg's appeals

00:13:40.280 must be seen for what it is.

00:13:42.140 A foreign government planning to take the life 1.00

00:13:44.820 of a Canadian for political reasons.

00:13:48.100 The use of the death penalty is abhorrent,

00:13:51.100 but to impose it for political reasons

00:13:53.800 is inexcusable.

00:13:55.980 We will be watching tonight's verdict,

00:13:58.700 and we won't be alone.

00:14:00.600 The Chinese Communist Party needs to know

00:14:02.980 that the world is watching,

00:14:04.700 and we will be asking tough questions.

00:14:08.300 Canadians just enjoyed celebrating

00:14:09.920 the amazing achievements

00:14:11.220 of our athletes in Tokyo.

00:14:13.660 I know how hard our athletes are training for Beijing,

00:14:17.100 but we are approaching a point

00:14:18.700 where it won't be safe for Canadians,

00:14:21.800 including Olympic athletes,

00:14:23.320 to travel to China.

00:14:25.040 The outcomes of the Spavor and COVID cases

00:14:28.240 will help us answer that question.

00:14:30.660 And he also went on to say after that

00:14:33.560 that we should be considering a boycott

00:14:36.200 of the upcoming Beijing Olympics,

00:14:38.880 a position that Justin Trudeau hasn't taken,

00:14:40.820 a position that I would say

00:14:42.120 the vast majority of Canadians would support,

00:14:45.740 because Canadians do care about this.

00:14:48.800 And I'm always leery of the idea

00:14:51.360 that foreign policy is going to win you votes

00:14:53.240 in an election.

00:14:53.900 I think it can on really hot-button issues

00:14:56.160 that are connected to diaspora in Canada,

00:14:58.260 like, you know, Israel or Palestine.

00:15:00.560 I don't know how many votes

00:15:01.880 taking a tough stance on China

00:15:03.900 is going to get you on foreign policy grounds.

00:15:06.740 But Canadians are very aware of these problems,

00:15:10.100 at least on economic grounds.

00:15:11.480 Canadians are aware of what's happened

00:15:13.300 to all of their jobs being outsourced to China.

00:15:16.080 Canadians do care about human rights,

00:15:17.860 so the Liberal government's refusal

00:15:19.960 to call out the genocide against Uyghur Muslims

00:15:22.380 is in fact a significant thing.

00:15:24.900 when everyone else in the Canadian political establishment

00:15:28.660 is saying, yes, this is a genocide.

00:15:30.440 Conservatives, Bloc Québécois,

00:15:32.180 New Democrats, Greens, Independents,

00:15:34.380 and the Liberals are saying,

00:15:35.880 oh, well, I don't know.

00:15:37.780 This was Mark Garneau's bold stand

00:15:39.660 for human rights in the House of Commons.

00:15:41.980 Mr. Speaker, I abstain

00:15:43.560 on behalf of the government of Canada.

00:15:45.680 Mr. Garneau, abstention, abstention.

00:15:48.240 Mr. Hardy.

00:15:49.700 What was that about?

00:15:51.380 Ah, yes, Canada is back indeed.

00:15:53.700 So if we are, as a country,

00:15:56.760 not prepared to take on China,

00:15:58.880 we are not really dealing

00:16:00.440 with anything that matters.

00:16:02.320 And this is why I get so annoyed

00:16:03.680 with campaigns that tend to be about,

00:16:05.660 ooh, this little boutique tax credit

00:16:07.460 or this home retrofit credit

00:16:08.940 or we're going to plant trees,

00:16:10.440 we're going to do all...

00:16:11.000 And none of this matters.

00:16:13.020 None of this matters

00:16:14.220 if you do not respect the rule of law.

00:16:16.320 None of this matters

00:16:17.140 if you do not have a place in the world

00:16:18.760 that is actually relevant,

00:16:20.560 that is dealing with the issues that matter.

00:16:22.220 None of it matters

00:16:23.540 if you are not protecting yourself

00:16:25.880 against Chinese infiltration.

00:16:29.160 China is doing an economic takeover of the West.

00:16:32.380 China is doing an economic takeover

00:16:33.900 of the Global South.

00:16:35.100 China is clearly not concerned

00:16:37.680 with poking the bear, if you will.

00:16:39.980 Not that we've established ourselves

00:16:41.760 as a bear in the world stage by any stretch,

00:16:44.100 but they're not concerned

00:16:45.260 with rocking the boat

00:16:46.600 by imprisoning Canadians. 0.79

00:16:48.300 They're not concerned

00:16:49.200 because we are inviting them in.

00:16:51.300 And remember a few months back

00:16:52.680 when we learned

00:16:53.500 that we were still inviting

00:16:54.820 the Chinese People's Liberation Army

00:16:56.620 in to do military training.

00:16:58.600 That's how we talk tough with China.

00:17:00.480 We give them our military training.

00:17:02.920 That's what we do.

00:17:03.860 Is that what you do with an enemy?

00:17:05.540 No.

00:17:06.100 That's what you do with a friend.

00:17:07.960 So while Canada insists

00:17:09.160 on treating China as a friend,

00:17:10.780 China continues to walk all over Canada, 1.00

00:17:13.360 which is why I don't buy

00:17:14.360 the crocodile tears

00:17:15.420 from liberal politicians right now

00:17:17.120 who claim they're just so heartbroken

00:17:18.820 about the sentences

00:17:20.340 that the Chinese regime

00:17:21.520 is applying on Canadians

00:17:23.140 when they have not done

00:17:24.640 a single thing of substance

00:17:26.980 to secure their release up until now.

00:17:29.740 I'm not saying they haven't tried.

00:17:30.900 I'm not saying they haven't,

00:17:31.820 you know, had some stern warnings

00:17:33.100 and some stern reprimands.

00:17:34.900 And while they're sucking up to China 0.94

00:17:36.380 on climate change,

00:17:37.480 maybe saying,

00:17:38.040 oh, by the way, by the way,

00:17:39.200 the Michaels,

00:17:39.960 no, you don't want to.

00:17:40.600 Okay.

00:17:40.820 Yeah, no, we'll talk about that another time.

00:17:42.920 Justin Trudeau wants to say

00:17:44.140 that Canada's foreign policy motto

00:17:46.120 is Canada's back.

00:17:47.360 The actual one is that other line.

00:17:49.680 Now's not the time.

00:17:53.620 You're tuned in to the Andrew Lawton Show.

00:17:59.600 The three magic words

00:18:01.080 we've all been longing to hear

00:18:02.740 for basically a year and a half now,

00:18:05.300 life after COVID.

00:18:07.320 What's it going to look like?

00:18:08.540 Well, that is a question

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00:18:29.040 So do go over and check it out.

00:18:31.360 Let's talk a little bit about

00:18:32.520 what that is looking like

00:18:33.740 in the context of the election.

00:18:35.800 Though we've been talking about

00:18:36.940 vaccine passports

00:18:38.080 and all of these pushes

00:18:39.420 from local groups,

00:18:40.940 some businesses,

00:18:41.640 to require governments

00:18:43.780 to require them

00:18:45.320 to demand vaccination

00:18:47.080 from customers.

00:18:48.120 It's a very weird thing

00:18:49.280 in a supposedly free country

00:18:51.100 and free society.

00:18:52.760 Well, it's creeping into politics.

00:18:54.840 Of course, we have Aaron O'Toole

00:18:56.180 saying that

00:18:56.800 we can't have a campaign

00:18:58.220 in the fourth Delta-driven wave

00:19:00.760 or something like that.

00:19:01.800 Now we also have the media

00:19:03.000 basically seeking vaccine passports

00:19:05.800 from political candidates.

00:19:07.760 Global News has inexplicably

00:19:09.780 surveyed the five major

00:19:12.060 political parties

00:19:12.920 to ask them

00:19:13.720 what they're doing

00:19:15.080 to ensure their candidates

00:19:16.840 are vaccinated.

00:19:18.620 They sent a survey.

00:19:19.860 Are the parties requiring vaccination?

00:19:22.080 Are they verifying

00:19:23.220 candidates' vaccination status?

00:19:25.240 How many of their candidates

00:19:26.400 are unvaccinated?

00:19:28.020 And will they advise

00:19:29.560 unvaccinated candidates

00:19:31.020 to avoid certain activities

00:19:32.620 like indoor unmasked gatherings?

00:19:34.980 So they're basically asking

00:19:36.100 the party to pony up

00:19:37.080 the list of who's vaccinated

00:19:38.900 and who's not

00:19:39.760 so that the media can then

00:19:41.000 start running all of these stories

00:19:42.620 about, oh, well, the candidate

00:19:43.760 in, you know, London,

00:19:44.980 whatever is not vaccinated

00:19:46.240 or, oh, the candidate

00:19:47.000 in Scarborough, whatever is.

00:19:48.700 I'm not talking about specific people,

00:19:50.020 just in general.

00:19:51.560 So I think it's bizarre.

00:19:52.760 This is what journalism is now.

00:19:54.340 But now the story has become

00:19:55.760 that the Conservatives

00:19:56.960 and the Liberals

00:19:57.640 are not saying,

00:19:59.600 yes, the Conservatives

00:20:00.540 and the Liberals

00:20:01.080 wouldn't play ball.

00:20:02.180 They wouldn't tell Global News

00:20:03.500 about the vaccination status

00:20:05.160 of their candidates.

00:20:06.560 Normally, I'd say good for them.

00:20:08.900 The problem here is that

00:20:10.580 just last week,

00:20:12.080 Justin Trudeau said this

00:20:13.980 about public sector workers.

00:20:15.620 For those who are hesitant

00:20:17.620 to go and get their first doses

00:20:20.080 and their second doses.

00:20:21.540 That's why I've asked

00:20:22.400 the clerk of the Privy Council,

00:20:24.180 who is responsible

00:20:24.860 for the federal public service,

00:20:26.500 to look at mandatory vaccinations

00:20:28.940 for federal employees.

00:20:31.540 And we're also looking

00:20:33.780 at federally regulated industries

00:20:35.680 to encourage

00:20:38.280 or perhaps even to mandate

00:20:40.140 vaccinations for those industries.

00:20:43.400 So he's talking about,

00:20:44.980 on one hand,

00:20:45.500 mandating,

00:20:46.680 mandating vaccinations

00:20:49.060 from public sector workers

00:20:50.940 for the federal government

00:20:51.980 and even those

00:20:52.740 in federally regulated industries

00:20:54.580 while not even saying

00:20:57.040 whether Liberal candidates

00:20:58.260 are vaccinated,

00:20:59.760 which, I mean,

00:21:00.280 they could do.

00:21:00.720 They won't even allow people 0.99

00:21:01.840 who are pro-life

00:21:02.520 to be running.

00:21:03.480 So certainly they could

00:21:04.440 mandate whatever they want

00:21:05.720 because they clearly

00:21:06.380 don't care about independence

00:21:07.720 and individuality

00:21:08.800 in their slate of candidates.

00:21:10.800 But this is hilarious

00:21:11.760 because even,

00:21:12.600 so Justin Trudeau's approach

00:21:13.780 would make vaccination mandatory

00:21:15.480 for anyone working

00:21:16.920 for Elections Canada.

00:21:18.860 But apparently the Liberal Party

00:21:20.300 is in a different category.

00:21:22.380 As my late friend,

00:21:23.600 Kathy Shadle said,

00:21:24.660 Liberals,

00:21:25.240 it's different when we do it.

00:21:26.560 We had like three Liberal MPs

00:21:28.400 in the span of a couple of hours

00:21:29.780 this week announced

00:21:30.700 they weren't running again.

00:21:32.020 Will Amos, who,

00:21:33.340 well, we all know

00:21:33.960 who Will Amos is.

00:21:34.980 Karen McCrimmon,

00:21:35.980 someone else as well.

00:21:36.740 I mean, the names don't matter.

00:21:37.980 These are not well-known people.

00:21:39.420 But now I'm wondering,

00:21:40.700 oh, maybe they didn't want

00:21:41.460 to play ball

00:21:42.180 with the vaccination game

00:21:43.540 and they knew it was coming down.

00:21:44.680 Who knows?

00:21:45.080 I have zero reason to think that.

00:21:46.680 I'm just spitballing here.

00:21:48.220 You got to have some fun

00:21:49.040 with politics.

00:21:50.520 But this is, I think, bizarre.

00:21:52.180 Again, I don't care

00:21:53.440 about which candidates

00:21:54.540 are vaccinated

00:21:55.280 and which ones aren't.

00:21:56.420 I care about what they're going to do

00:21:57.700 to ensure that Canadians

00:21:58.920 who want to get vaccinated

00:21:59.900 are able to,

00:22:00.860 what they're going to do

00:22:01.500 to ensure recovery

00:22:02.480 after the pandemic.

00:22:03.840 But this new sort of witch hunt

00:22:05.380 that you can just judge a person

00:22:06.840 instantly by their vaccination status

00:22:08.780 is bizarre.

00:22:10.280 The media is playing ball.

00:22:11.520 The media loves vaccine passports.

00:22:13.500 The media loves this idea

00:22:15.200 of stratifying society,

00:22:16.820 which means scarily

00:22:18.860 that if a government does come

00:22:20.420 and say we're going to do this,

00:22:21.580 the media is going to be

00:22:22.820 all over it.

00:22:24.480 But we're not.

00:22:25.180 We still stand up for freedom

00:22:26.600 and individuality here

00:22:28.000 on The Andrew Lawton Show.

00:22:30.400 You're tuned in

00:22:31.640 to The Andrew Lawton Show.

00:22:36.260 Code red for humanity.

00:22:38.400 Yes, that's what UN Secretary General

00:22:40.600 Antonio Guterres says.

00:22:42.280 We have the Atlantic saying

00:22:44.060 it is just a catastrophe.

00:22:45.500 It's grim.

00:22:46.840 It's a crisis

00:22:47.660 and it's caused by fossil fuels.

00:22:50.060 Ah, that's the key part here.

00:22:51.640 All of the people

00:22:52.520 that are talking about

00:22:53.440 the grave existential threat

00:22:55.240 that climate change poses

00:22:56.360 to humanity,

00:22:57.100 they want to use that

00:22:59.380 as justification

00:23:00.260 to decimate

00:23:01.640 what they call

00:23:02.660 the fossil fuel sector,

00:23:03.800 to decimate the oil

00:23:04.640 and gas sector,

00:23:05.440 a sector that in Canada

00:23:07.020 is significant to the economy

00:23:08.720 and is also on the cutting edge

00:23:10.780 of dealing with

00:23:11.960 a lot of these issues

00:23:12.880 that they say are so grave.

00:23:14.520 But that side of the story

00:23:15.700 doesn't get told.

00:23:17.280 One guy who never shies away

00:23:18.760 from telling this story

00:23:19.740 is Mark Marano.

00:23:20.920 He is the author

00:23:21.880 over at ClimateDepot.com

00:23:23.500 and also of the great book

00:23:24.860 Green Fraud, 0.54

00:23:26.260 Why the Green New Deal 0.81

00:23:27.480 is Even Worse Than You Think.

00:23:28.920 Mark Marano joins me now.

00:23:30.460 Mark, good to talk to you.

00:23:31.280 Thanks for coming on today.

00:23:33.340 Good to talk to you, Andrew.

00:23:34.200 Happy to be here.

00:23:34.880 Thank you.

00:23:35.680 Now, the media is taking this

00:23:37.260 as the big gloom and doom scenario.

00:23:39.860 There's not really

00:23:40.680 anything new in this.

00:23:41.800 I mean, these are the same

00:23:42.940 sort of predictions

00:23:43.800 and extreme rhetoric

00:23:45.540 that we've been getting

00:23:46.380 for years from the IPCC.

00:23:48.080 It's exactly the same

00:23:50.580 recycled stuff.

00:23:52.020 Going back to 1990

00:23:53.300 when they first started this,

00:23:54.940 the best analysis I saw

00:23:56.620 was just recently written

00:23:58.120 by a climate statistician,

00:23:59.880 Dr. Matt Briggs.

00:24:01.080 And he literally said

00:24:02.620 that he thinks

00:24:03.520 all that they did

00:24:04.480 between this report

00:24:05.540 and the previous report

00:24:06.720 is they put in a find

00:24:08.880 and replace in the document

00:24:10.120 and they changed very likely

00:24:12.200 to virtually certain.

00:24:13.940 And what they've done

00:24:14.800 is just come up

00:24:15.580 with the most extreme scenarios

00:24:17.080 and they're claiming

00:24:17.880 it's plausible.

00:24:18.760 In fact, over 50%

00:24:20.440 of the claims

00:24:21.600 in this report

00:24:22.880 about doom

00:24:24.020 are the outlier

00:24:26.060 extreme model-based

00:24:27.620 scenarios of doom.

00:24:28.980 So this is the big difference

00:24:30.320 between this

00:24:31.000 and previous reports.

00:24:31.980 They've just gone

00:24:32.540 all in on doom.

00:24:34.540 Yeah.

00:24:35.060 One of the things we saw,

00:24:36.260 certainly in a Canadian context,

00:24:37.880 where a lot of my listeners are

00:24:39.280 in the COVID pandemic,

00:24:40.360 is that when you

00:24:41.180 make a modeling projection

00:24:43.200 and you go with

00:24:44.180 the most extreme scenario

00:24:46.680 and it doesn't pan out,

00:24:48.260 people realize,

00:24:49.200 oh, well, okay,

00:24:49.820 maybe we shouldn't put

00:24:51.340 too much stock in modeling.

00:24:52.600 But on climate,

00:24:53.540 that hasn't happened yet,

00:24:54.600 mainly because

00:24:55.300 they keep making

00:24:56.300 these projections

00:24:57.080 just far enough out

00:24:58.260 that they can't be proven wrong.

00:24:59.560 And then when they are,

00:25:00.560 well, they've already moved

00:25:01.320 on to the next thing,

00:25:02.280 so it doesn't matter.

00:25:04.160 Yeah, we've seen it

00:25:05.020 over and over.

00:25:05.560 In 1989,

00:25:06.480 the UN issued

00:25:07.160 the 10-year tipping point

00:25:08.700 by which nations

00:25:09.560 would be submerged

00:25:10.300 unless we took action.

00:25:11.260 NASA's lead scientist

00:25:12.960 said Obama was elected in 2008.

00:25:15.860 We had four years

00:25:16.660 to tackle it.

00:25:17.320 We have AOCs.

00:25:18.140 My favorite was Prince Charles,

00:25:19.500 the 100-month tipping point.

00:25:22.920 And then he counted down

00:25:23.900 and when he got to zero,

00:25:25.200 he ended up putting like a 40,

00:25:26.700 it's like now 2047,

00:25:28.520 which he could still be alive

00:25:29.640 given his royal genes

00:25:30.840 with his mom.

00:25:31.860 But they just keep

00:25:32.800 either disregarding it

00:25:34.280 or they just keep

00:25:34.980 crossing it out

00:25:35.840 and putting up

00:25:36.480 a new deadline.

00:25:37.820 So it's a,

00:25:39.600 the report

00:25:40.160 is quite simply

00:25:42.300 a political

00:25:43.320 lobbying document.

00:25:44.880 That's all it is.

00:25:46.220 One of the authors

00:25:47.140 of the report,

00:25:47.700 a lead author

00:25:48.480 named Jim Cosin

00:25:49.520 who works with a,

00:25:50.620 what he calls

00:25:51.600 a climate risk firm.

00:25:53.300 Now,

00:25:53.800 this is a lead author

00:25:54.800 of the report

00:25:55.280 selling climate fear

00:25:57.040 through his own

00:25:57.960 private group.

00:25:58.720 It's called

00:25:58.940 the Climate Service.

00:26:00.120 His quote by the media

00:26:01.700 was,

00:26:02.420 I think this will help,

00:26:03.980 this new IPCC report

00:26:05.400 will help change

00:26:06.300 people's attitude

00:26:07.340 and hopefully affect

00:26:08.660 the way they vote,

00:26:10.020 unquote.

00:26:10.620 So there you have it.

00:26:11.760 This scientific report

00:26:13.200 by the world's top scientists

00:26:14.600 is literally

00:26:15.920 and labeled

00:26:18.300 as a report

00:26:19.260 to impact

00:26:19.980 the way you vote.

00:26:21.320 In other words,

00:26:22.000 stop voting

00:26:22.720 for climate deniers.

00:26:23.880 This report

00:26:24.480 will make you,

00:26:25.200 we're going to scare you

00:26:25.980 so bad.

00:26:27.000 It really is crazy.

00:26:28.680 And you're right though

00:26:29.480 to point out

00:26:30.160 as you did earlier,

00:26:30.840 it's not benign.

00:26:31.980 These are things

00:26:32.720 that politicians

00:26:33.560 tend to be

00:26:34.440 very receptive to.

00:26:35.840 Certainly the media

00:26:36.740 is very receptive to this.

00:26:38.760 And I want to talk

00:26:39.480 a little bit about this

00:26:40.320 because in 2015

00:26:41.440 we had the Paris Climate Agreement

00:26:43.120 which in and of itself

00:26:44.560 was fairly aggressive.

00:26:46.360 And now as the UN

00:26:47.540 heads toward

00:26:48.360 COP26 in Glasgow,

00:26:50.460 the entire mandate

00:26:52.000 seems to be based on,

00:26:53.100 oh yeah,

00:26:53.360 Paris didn't go

00:26:53.960 nearly far enough.

00:26:55.300 One of the lines

00:26:56.120 that they're,

00:26:56.720 one of the goalposts

00:26:57.500 they're moving is,

00:26:58.340 you know,

00:26:58.620 to keep global warming

00:26:59.740 from a two degree rise

00:27:01.260 over pre-industrial levels

00:27:02.520 to now 1.5.

00:27:03.860 That's the target

00:27:05.100 they're moving towards.

00:27:06.320 And all of these

00:27:07.120 basically will compel

00:27:08.720 these governments

00:27:09.320 that have decided

00:27:10.020 to hitch their climate agendas

00:27:11.440 to these initiatives

00:27:13.500 and to these reports

00:27:14.400 to do some drastic,

00:27:16.160 drastic measures.

00:27:17.140 I know in the US

00:27:18.180 where you are,

00:27:18.820 you've got the Green New Deal

00:27:19.880 which is being pursued

00:27:21.200 and in Canada

00:27:21.920 we've got a liberal government

00:27:23.180 that would basically

00:27:24.540 just want to completely

00:27:25.620 rip up any shred

00:27:27.960 of the oil and gas sector.

00:27:29.760 What is it that really

00:27:31.140 is being called for here?

00:27:32.700 Well, first of all,

00:27:34.140 just what you mentioned

00:27:34.820 in the 2015 Paris.

00:27:35.980 If you remember,

00:27:37.140 when that was signed

00:27:38.520 and passed in that December,

00:27:40.000 it was such a jubilee.

00:27:41.720 The media, academia,

00:27:43.260 the UN scientists,

00:27:44.400 we had John Kerry

00:27:45.500 praising it,

00:27:46.300 President Obama,

00:27:47.280 the French president,

00:27:48.280 the UN chief.

00:27:49.120 They basically said

00:27:49.880 we solved the planet.

00:27:51.460 When John Kerry signed it

00:27:52.520 with his granddaughter,

00:27:53.340 he said future generations

00:27:54.580 will look back

00:27:55.380 upon this moment.

00:27:56.720 Guess what?

00:27:57.820 Six months after they did that,

00:27:59.480 we had to save the world

00:28:00.660 all over again.

00:28:01.300 There's no criteria.

00:28:02.700 This is an important point

00:28:03.480 because you brought up

00:28:04.060 the 2015.

00:28:04.840 There's no criteria

00:28:05.740 by which we've solved

00:28:07.400 climate change.

00:28:08.420 It's an endless cycle

00:28:09.680 of always getting worse,

00:28:11.640 always getting more extreme.

00:28:13.720 Just to go back

00:28:14.740 to this other analysis

00:28:16.820 that just came out today,

00:28:18.260 it's okay if you're wrong.

00:28:19.680 You can be wrong for decades,

00:28:21.000 but if you're always wrong,

00:28:22.560 if you're wrong

00:28:23.860 in the direction

00:28:24.680 the leaders want you to be,

00:28:26.100 there's no cost.

00:28:27.140 And we're seeing that

00:28:28.020 all across the climate.

00:28:29.440 You can make outrageously

00:28:30.760 bad predictions,

00:28:31.480 but no one calls you on it.

00:28:32.460 But if you challenge

00:28:33.380 one of those incorrect predictions,

00:28:35.400 you are an evil denier

00:28:36.700 and you'll be dethroned.

00:28:37.700 Now, you asked me specifically

00:28:39.020 what's in this report.

00:28:40.320 Well, they are predicting

00:28:41.160 mostly with the weather extremes

00:28:44.040 they're going after.

00:28:44.920 They're saying essentially

00:28:45.900 that this is code red

00:28:47.660 for humanity,

00:28:48.860 first of all in temperature,

00:28:49.960 but also in floods,

00:28:51.560 hurricanes, droughts,

00:28:52.360 tornadoes, storms.

00:28:53.320 Now, you might ask,

00:28:54.420 well, wait a minute.

00:28:55.020 If you pay any rudimentary

00:28:57.400 attention to the climate debate,

00:28:59.440 you know that the storms,

00:29:01.820 extreme weather storms

00:29:03.400 are not getting worse.

00:29:04.720 So how do they get around that?

00:29:05.920 Even this report acknowledges

00:29:07.380 no increase in global floods,

00:29:09.640 droughts, hurricanes,

00:29:10.460 tornadoes, strong winds.

00:29:11.500 They're trying to say

00:29:12.320 there's an increase

00:29:12.880 in extreme precipitation

00:29:13.860 and some heat waves.

00:29:15.420 But here's how they get

00:29:16.760 real fear, Andrew.

00:29:18.440 When current reality

00:29:19.680 fails to alarm,

00:29:20.560 they just make scarier

00:29:21.680 and scarier predictions

00:29:22.880 of the future.

00:29:23.580 So that's the classic misdirection

00:29:25.720 of the whole climate debate.

00:29:27.480 Let's take a look at polar bears.

00:29:29.180 And by the way,

00:29:29.680 polar bears have rapidly disappeared

00:29:31.940 from the entire climate debate.

00:29:33.760 But polar bears are at

00:29:34.840 or near historic population highs.

00:29:36.420 They've never counted this many.

00:29:37.720 They're all over the Arctic.

00:29:39.280 They've, you know,

00:29:39.820 new studies showing

00:29:41.000 that they've thrived

00:29:41.780 in much warmer periods

00:29:42.940 than they're even,

00:29:43.680 you know,

00:29:43.860 the most dire scenarios

00:29:45.020 are predicting as a species

00:29:46.160 they've survived.

00:29:47.140 There really is nothing

00:29:48.020 to be alarmed about

00:29:48.800 with polar bears.

00:29:49.540 So what do they do?

00:29:50.520 They make scarier

00:29:51.540 and scarier predictions

00:29:52.560 of dire conditions

00:29:54.640 for the polar bear.

00:29:55.600 And they'll say,

00:29:55.980 it's worse than we thought.

00:29:56.900 You know,

00:29:57.000 how is it worse than we thought?

00:29:57.940 There's more than ever.

00:29:58.740 They're thriving.

00:29:59.460 And their answer is

00:30:00.200 our predictions of 100 years

00:30:01.780 are now much more dire

00:30:02.900 than they were just a year ago.

00:30:04.660 This is like the heart

00:30:06.160 of an IPCC report.

00:30:08.460 In terms of temperature,

00:30:09.620 they talk about

00:30:10.220 this 1.5 C degree temperature goal.

00:30:13.200 Here's the con on that.

00:30:14.200 We know from

00:30:14.840 the Climategate emails

00:30:16.120 that that was quite literally

00:30:17.800 pulled from thin air.

00:30:19.160 It's a political statement.

00:30:21.320 1.5 C was selected,

00:30:23.100 has no scientific merit whatsoever.

00:30:25.420 It's just a number

00:30:26.600 that they can have

00:30:27.340 the public latch onto

00:30:28.620 to justify

00:30:29.680 all of these draconian regulations.

00:30:32.680 Yeah, and it's baffling too

00:30:34.640 because these people

00:30:35.600 are completely unconcerned

00:30:37.600 with economic harm.

00:30:39.480 I remember earlier on

00:30:40.440 in the pandemic

00:30:41.000 when you had those critical points

00:30:42.520 where no cars were on the road

00:30:44.400 and you had the talk

00:30:45.420 of the Great Reset

00:30:46.340 and, oh, well,

00:30:47.060 this is going to be great

00:30:47.900 and it's going to be great

00:30:48.620 for the climate.

00:30:49.400 And, well, yeah,

00:30:49.820 because, you know,

00:30:50.440 no one is working,

00:30:51.460 no one has jobs,

00:30:52.340 nothing is open.

00:30:53.700 And even now,

00:30:54.560 you've got countries

00:30:55.460 like Tuvalu and Tonga

00:30:57.120 that are saying,

00:30:57.620 oh, yeah,

00:30:57.840 we're going to be underwater

00:30:58.760 in, you know,

00:30:59.240 like three minutes

00:30:59.980 if you don't do all this.

00:31:01.940 And then you've got

00:31:02.540 countries like the United States

00:31:04.360 now under Biden

00:31:05.380 that are going along with this.

00:31:07.380 And, like, I mean,

00:31:08.280 they have to know

00:31:09.140 they're signing the death warrant

00:31:10.360 for industry in their country.

00:31:12.040 So why go along

00:31:13.580 with this con

00:31:14.300 as I think you've

00:31:14.880 aptly characterized it?

00:31:17.060 It's because of,

00:31:17.960 first of all,

00:31:18.380 it's a beholden

00:31:19.280 to an ideology.

00:31:20.400 Now, let's take

00:31:20.880 Joe Biden for an answer.

00:31:21.800 Why is he going along

00:31:22.700 with this?

00:31:23.180 Here's what Joe Biden inherited.

00:31:24.580 And this is just shocking

00:31:25.840 when you look at this.

00:31:27.240 President Trump left office.

00:31:29.200 American had not only 0.75

00:31:30.340 achieved energy independence,

00:31:32.060 which had been the goal

00:31:32.800 of every,

00:31:33.260 all five previous presidents,

00:31:34.940 at least since Jimmy Carter

00:31:36.140 and the energy crisis

00:31:37.060 in the 1970s in the U.S.

00:31:38.920 But we had energy dominance

00:31:40.940 in the United States

00:31:41.760 for the first time

00:31:42.860 since Harry S. Truman

00:31:44.120 was president.

00:31:44.720 1952,

00:31:45.680 we had more energy production

00:31:47.000 than consumption.

00:31:48.260 For the first time

00:31:49.020 since Eisenhower

00:31:49.920 was president,

00:31:50.460 we had more energy exports

00:31:51.800 than imports.

00:31:53.000 We were the world's

00:31:53.660 largest producer

00:31:54.320 of oil and gas.

00:31:55.620 President Biden comes in,

00:31:57.000 day one, Andrew,

00:31:58.580 slaughters the pipeline,

00:32:00.840 slaughters drilling

00:32:02.100 on federal lands,

00:32:03.400 starts going after fracking,

00:32:04.900 the death of 1,000 cuts.

00:32:06.340 We suffer this colonial pipeline.

00:32:08.120 We have gas lines

00:32:09.080 reminiscent of the 1970s.

00:32:10.360 So what is the Biden

00:32:11.360 administration doing now?

00:32:12.320 One thing they're saying

00:32:13.300 is climate change

00:32:14.380 is a national security threat,

00:32:15.800 it's the gravest

00:32:16.340 existential threat.

00:32:17.660 No, their climate policy

00:32:19.500 is the greatest

00:32:20.340 national security threat

00:32:21.820 in the U.S.

00:32:22.440 Because what they've done,

00:32:24.240 they're going after,

00:32:25.820 they're actually begging,

00:32:27.120 President Joe Biden's

00:32:28.040 administration is begging

00:32:29.040 OPEC to increase

00:32:30.080 oil production.

00:32:30.960 As we shut down

00:32:32.100 in the U.S. domestically,

00:32:33.120 we're begging

00:32:33.680 Middle Eastern oil

00:32:34.780 to increase.

00:32:35.780 Secondly,

00:32:36.580 Russian oil imports

00:32:37.680 are at or near record highs,

00:32:39.520 the highest they've been

00:32:40.280 in about 15 years

00:32:41.240 and near record highs

00:32:42.580 in the United States.

00:32:43.660 So we're more reliant

00:32:44.600 on Russia.

00:32:45.720 Third,

00:32:46.360 we're now more reliant

00:32:50.140 on China

00:32:50.800 for mining rare earth

00:32:52.100 metals

00:32:52.520 using slave labor

00:32:55.000 in China

00:32:55.540 and human rights

00:32:57.200 violation labor

00:32:58.080 in Africa.

00:32:59.480 And then

00:32:59.860 this is the fate

00:33:01.980 of what we're doing.

00:33:02.860 And he's doing this

00:33:03.640 because his platform

00:33:04.600 was written

00:33:05.100 by the Sunshine Movement,

00:33:06.360 by AOC,

00:33:07.180 by Bernie Sanders.

00:33:07.960 So the Biden administration

00:33:09.040 just sold out

00:33:10.020 to these radical activists

00:33:11.380 that would make

00:33:11.840 the Obama administration

00:33:13.200 blush.

00:33:13.660 The Obama administration

00:33:14.420 looks like an America 0.98

00:33:15.380 first climate plan

00:33:16.940 when you compare it

00:33:17.760 to President Joe Biden's

00:33:19.220 climate plan.

00:33:22.120 Well, yeah,

00:33:22.840 I mean,

00:33:23.000 look at one of Biden's

00:33:24.000 day one priorities

00:33:25.280 in entering the White House

00:33:26.420 to scrap the Keystone

00:33:27.580 pipeline project

00:33:28.640 from Canada,

00:33:29.540 a pipeline that

00:33:30.460 had much of it

00:33:31.260 already in the ground.

00:33:32.920 And doing that,

00:33:33.760 and I'm up against this

00:33:34.860 with Canadian

00:33:35.460 anti-oil activists

00:33:36.540 all the time,

00:33:37.240 it doesn't reduce

00:33:38.320 the demand.

00:33:39.220 All it does

00:33:39.800 is shift the supply

00:33:41.060 to these,

00:33:42.120 you know,

00:33:42.520 third world dictatorships.

00:33:44.340 And again,

00:33:45.080 it doesn't actually

00:33:45.860 reduce overall consumption.

00:33:47.760 It's just mind-boggling.

00:33:48.780 But this is the state

00:33:49.580 of where we are.

00:33:50.220 This is what my book

00:33:51.000 Green Fraud 0.99

00:33:51.780 is all about.

00:33:52.980 It's just we've taken

00:33:53.880 logic and science

00:33:55.620 and technology

00:33:56.320 and we've turned it

00:33:56.960 all on its head

00:33:58.000 for this insane agenda

00:33:59.620 that's going to hammer

00:34:00.680 America and Canada first.

00:34:03.420 Well,

00:34:03.880 and that is a great book,

00:34:05.060 Green Fraud, 0.54

00:34:05.840 why the Green New Deal

00:34:06.680 is even worse

00:34:07.620 than you think.

00:34:08.520 And I always make sure

00:34:09.200 to check out

00:34:10.040 what you're writing

00:34:10.480 on a day-to-day basis

00:34:11.300 at climatedepot.com as well.

00:34:13.280 Mark Morano,

00:34:14.040 thanks so much

00:34:14.500 for coming on.

00:34:15.040 It was great.

00:34:16.140 Thank you, Andrew.

00:34:16.780 Appreciate it.

00:34:17.760 That was great.

00:34:18.780 Very, very necessary.

00:34:20.700 And again,

00:34:21.020 as we hear from

00:34:21.820 all these politicians

00:34:22.640 and I'm sure

00:34:23.180 we're going to be hearing

00:34:23.920 in the campaign as well

00:34:25.360 about this dire existential threat.

00:34:27.280 We know Justin Trudeau

00:34:28.100 is going to be citing

00:34:28.860 this IPCC report

00:34:30.460 to tell us

00:34:31.120 why we all have to pay more

00:34:32.680 and use less

00:34:33.740 and all of that stuff.

00:34:34.500 But again,

00:34:35.280 this is nothing new

00:34:36.800 and it's also not even true.

00:34:39.520 We've got to wrap things up there.

00:34:40.780 My thanks to you all

00:34:41.900 for tuning in

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00:34:45.620 This is the Andrew Lawton Show

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Juno News - August 12, 2021

Trudeau's foreign policy has been a failure

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