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Trudeau's foreign policy has been a failure

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This week on The Andrew Lawton Show: why China matters, Justin Trudeau's mandatory vaccine double standard, and why the latest round of climate alarmism is a nothing burger. The Andrew Lawrence Show starts right now.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.
00:00:06.740 This is The Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
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.
00:01:52.180 We have some great things planned at True North to cover the election.
00:01:55.460 And if you want to contribute to that, please do head on over to tnc.news
00:01:59.720 and click the donate button.
00:02:01.400 And you can be a part of what is always a very expensive endeavor,
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. 0.97
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. 0.83
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. 0.70
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
00:18:09.500 that our friends over at secondstreet.org
00:18:11.920 are answering in a new ebook,
00:18:14.240 a free ebook,
00:18:15.300 addressing the key questions of the country.
00:18:17.660 What can be done about rising government debt,
00:18:19.780 long healthcare waiting lists,
00:18:21.520 unemployment.
00:18:22.680 Secondstreet.org's free ebook,
00:18:24.420 Life After COVID,
00:18:25.420 is available at secondstreet.org.
00:18:27.920 And you don't want to miss that.
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 0.63
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, 0.66
00:28:35.400 you are an evil denier 0.99
00:28:36.700 and you'll be dethroned. 1.00
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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