Juno News - Trudeau thinks about quitting daily. What's stopping him？

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

00:00:06.540 This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by TrueNorth.

00:00:13.980 Hello and welcome to you all.

00:00:17.000 Happy Monday.

00:00:17.960 I hope it's a happy Monday.

00:00:19.080 It is Monday, March 18th, 2024, the day after St. Patrick's Day.

00:00:24.740 And I decided to honor St. Patrick's Day by watching Brian Mulrooney sing

00:00:31.660 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling alongside President Ronald Reagan.

00:00:36.800 And then I also learned my friend Mark Stein had written a column about that song

00:00:40.900 on yesterday's Song of the Week, which is a feature he does at his website, Stein Online.

00:00:45.960 And he also had a video of Brian Mulrooney singing it for Donald Trump,

00:00:50.720 which I didn't know existed.

00:00:51.720 And I would share the link, I would share the link with you, but, or not the link,

00:00:56.040 I would share the song with you.

00:00:57.380 But every time we even do like the slightest bit of music,

00:01:00.700 we get some ridiculous YouTube copyright strike.

00:01:03.800 And I don't want, you know, the estate of Brian Mulrooney via YouTube coming after us.

00:01:08.560 But Brian Mulrooney does have a state funeral coming up,

00:01:11.260 and it'll be quite interesting to see what becomes of that.

00:01:14.740 He is a figure that is quite significant and quite pivotal in Canadian politics.

00:01:19.040 And I know he wasn't always the most popular among many, well,

00:01:23.360 certainly among people in the West or a lot of people in conservatism.

00:01:26.380 But he was very influential, very transformative,

00:01:29.340 and very well-liked and well-respected across the board.

00:01:32.700 So we'll keep an eye out for that.

00:01:34.200 And I know this afternoon in the House of Commons,

00:01:36.460 there are also going to be some tributes.

00:01:38.180 This is the first week in, it was basically like three and a half years,

00:01:41.860 it feels like, that the House of Commons is back sitting again.

00:01:45.180 And they're only back for, I think it's a week or two weeks,

00:01:47.440 and then they're off again.

00:01:48.500 Like, you really wonder if members of Parliament are doing anything.

00:01:51.680 But that is a discussion for another show.

00:01:53.840 I'll tell you someone who doesn't want to do anything.

00:01:56.860 That is Justin Trudeau, who you may have seen this story making the waves.

00:02:02.300 As always, you oftentimes get better coverage from non-Canadian media

00:02:06.900 of what's happening in Canada than you do by the official Canadian press.

00:02:11.520 But BBC ran this story.

00:02:13.640 Canada's Justin Trudeau says he thinks daily about leaving crazy job,

00:02:20.640 crazy job being in quotation marks.

00:02:23.100 It was a story that was based off of a French language interview

00:02:26.440 that Justin Trudeau did with Red Seal Canada,

00:02:29.040 in which, and again, my French is decent, it's passable.

00:02:32.680 I do not pretend that I can navigate the intricacies

00:02:35.300 of linguistics and translation,

00:02:37.740 which this story has really come down to.

00:02:40.520 Because Trudeau made a comment in the interview,

00:02:44.120 which was very important.

00:02:45.680 He said his job was a word that BBC originally translated to boring,

00:02:52.820 and then was very quickly subject to a bunch of haggling

00:02:57.100 and negotiating by the Twitterati about what he really meant by that.

00:03:01.680 And some people said, no, no, no, no, no.

00:03:02.980 It doesn't mean boring.

00:03:04.480 It means challenging.

00:03:05.820 And people have said, well, no, it clearly means boring.

00:03:07.740 And people are saying it means challenging.

00:03:09.580 BBC eventually folded.

00:03:12.120 And they ran an update to their story.

00:03:15.100 And in the story, it now says it's super tough.

00:03:18.460 It's very challenging at times.

00:03:20.360 So originally they translated what he said as boring.

00:03:23.420 Now they're saying translating, but challenging.

00:03:26.340 But what is clear, what is accepted,

00:03:28.400 is that Trudeau said, I think about quitting every day.

00:03:32.680 So whether it is a story about him saying that he wants to quit

00:03:37.760 because his job is challenging,

00:03:39.140 or he wants to quit because his job is boring,

00:03:42.540 I think there are a lot of Canadians,

00:03:44.080 certainly from what I have heard people saying online

00:03:46.180 in the last couple of days that are like,

00:03:47.540 why are you thinking about quitting?

00:03:49.640 Why are you not just doing it?

00:03:51.120 Now, I would, of course, never go down that road.

00:03:53.660 I would never tell this man what he should do.

00:03:55.900 I would never encourage him to take a walk in the snow.

00:03:59.180 I would never encourage him to think just a little bit harder

00:04:02.700 about whether or not he wants to be in this job at all.

00:04:06.260 That is something I will leave for other people.

00:04:08.980 But it is interesting that he is trying to play a victim here.

00:04:12.200 He is trying to tell Canadians that he has it so tough.

00:04:16.180 It's so difficult being him.

00:04:18.080 And he thinks about quitting,

00:04:19.320 but then he quickly pulls back and says,

00:04:21.060 oh, no, no, no.

00:04:21.900 But what kind of man would I be if I did that?

00:04:24.880 That was the one translation.

00:04:26.760 I'll pull it up what he said there.

00:04:28.320 And again, I'm relying on another translation,

00:04:32.620 but I believe his line,

00:04:34.860 I had it up here a moment ago.

00:04:36.260 My tabs have just decided to take on a life of their own here.

00:04:40.460 Ah, here it is.

00:04:41.400 He says, I couldn't be the man I am

00:04:44.100 and give up the fight at this point.

00:04:46.220 Now, when you try to get into Justin Trudeau's mind,

00:04:49.640 you'll find that you have difficulty finding it.

00:04:52.360 But if you manage to find it and you manage to get there,

00:04:55.080 one point that I will raise about this that's incredibly important

00:04:58.740 is that he doesn't seem like the kind of guy

00:05:01.880 that cares about what happens to the country

00:05:04.180 or even his party after he's gone.

00:05:06.740 He does really come across to me,

00:05:08.620 and again, this is me playing armchair psychologist here,

00:05:12.000 but he seems like the kind of guy that's okay

00:05:13.840 just burning it all down behind him if he's gone,

00:05:16.620 which is why, despite my protests in the past,

00:05:19.540 that Justin Trudeau is not going to leave

00:05:21.520 unless he is forced out either by his own party or by Canadians.

00:05:25.700 I don't think he's going to take the step down

00:05:28.340 before the election in the way,

00:05:31.000 I mean, speaking of Brian Mulroney,

00:05:32.400 the way that Brian Mulroney did in 1993

00:05:34.540 and the way that other prime ministers in this country have done.

00:05:38.960 So what we are going to see

00:05:41.480 and what we're going to have happen here

00:05:43.380 is a very significant change in course for Justin Trudeau.

00:05:48.860 I think he's going to start doing what anyone does

00:05:51.700 when they're backed into a corner.

00:05:53.160 He is going to get aggressive.

00:05:55.040 He's going to get nasty.

00:05:56.440 He's going to get dirty.

00:05:57.380 The Liberal Party is going to basically turn the next election

00:06:00.540 into a bare-knuckle street fight

00:06:01.900 because they have no other options.

00:06:04.340 And if you're a Liberal member of Parliament,

00:06:07.580 and I talked about this,

00:06:08.620 I can't remember if it was last week or two weeks ago.

00:06:10.500 It's probably come up a couple of times,

00:06:12.020 but if you're a Liberal member of Parliament right now,

00:06:13.960 your political future hangs in the balance

00:06:15.940 because Justin Trudeau, if he is the captain of a sinking ship,

00:06:20.000 all of these MPs are going to go down with him.

00:06:23.980 And look, it's all well and good

00:06:25.200 if he wants to say that his job is so challenging

00:06:27.160 and it's so difficult being him and boo-hoo-hoo.

00:06:29.460 But there are a lot of people whose political lives,

00:06:32.180 whose livelihoods depend on that party

00:06:35.540 getting its act together right now.

00:06:36.960 And again, far be it for me to try to give free advice

00:06:39.780 to the Liberal Party of Canada,

00:06:41.000 not that they listen to the likes of me

00:06:42.800 or anything like that.

00:06:44.800 But the point that I'll stress here,

00:06:46.940 which I think is tremendously important,

00:06:48.900 is that it's amazing how many MPs

00:06:51.640 don't really seem to realize this

00:06:53.240 or don't care about this.

00:06:55.220 Again, if you are a member of Parliament,

00:06:57.200 what was the last polling I saw

00:06:59.180 said the Conservatives were on track

00:07:01.380 to win 221 votes,

00:07:03.800 seats in the next election.

00:07:05.260 221 seats out of 338.

00:07:07.560 I think there are going to be a few more seats,

00:07:09.400 but 221 seats is massive.

00:07:11.920 That is more than Brian Mulroney had

00:07:14.420 when he had his supermajority.

00:07:15.800 It's more than John Diefenbaker had

00:07:17.660 when he had his supermajority.

00:07:19.380 And it's going to be incredibly difficult

00:07:21.680 if you're one of those Liberal members

00:07:22.980 of Parliament in Toronto,

00:07:24.780 even in the suburbs of Vancouver,

00:07:27.800 in southwestern Ontario,

00:07:29.580 especially if you're an MP that's only had

00:07:31.680 maybe one shot, one term, maybe two terms,

00:07:35.240 you haven't quite qualified for your pension yet.

00:07:37.600 And these MPs are now facing an election

00:07:40.040 that is going to be an absolute bloodbath

00:07:42.040 for the Liberals

00:07:43.140 because the Liberals have been so unrepentant

00:07:46.360 about their strategy.

00:07:48.100 They've been so unrepentant about their track record

00:07:50.380 and they refuse to accept

00:07:52.340 that anyone else

00:07:54.360 could have a more resonant vision for the country

00:07:59.120 than the one that they are putting forward.

00:08:02.280 And I wanted to share a clip

00:08:04.160 because I think this is actually illuminating.

00:08:05.940 I spent a fair bit of the show last week

00:08:08.440 talking about the great carbon tax revolt,

00:08:11.340 talking about all of the provinces

00:08:12.760 that are now stepping up and saying

00:08:14.920 that they do not want

00:08:17.420 to have Justin Trudeau's carbon tax.

00:08:19.560 They do not want it.

00:08:20.280 They do not like it.

00:08:21.360 It's the old green eggs and ham thing.

00:08:23.040 I do not want your tax, Sam.

00:08:24.900 I do not like it.

00:08:26.020 I won't bother trying to rhyme.

00:08:28.000 But the whole point here

00:08:29.340 is that these premiers

00:08:30.660 do not think that this is viable for them,

00:08:33.520 whether it's for economic reasons,

00:08:34.980 political reasons,

00:08:35.840 or a combination of the two.

00:08:37.780 And I want to share a clip.

00:08:39.140 This is Pierre Polyev.

00:08:40.180 He was doing an East Coast swing last week,

00:08:42.680 continuing his Axe the Tax,

00:08:44.760 Spike the Hike campaign,

00:08:46.080 which I guess, look, is clearly working

00:08:48.060 given where premiers are going on this.

00:08:50.140 But this was what he had said

00:08:51.620 facing down this increase in the carbon tax,

00:08:55.140 which is coming in on April 1st.

00:08:57.120 The tax hike of 23% is scheduled to take effect

00:09:05.760 in just a few weeks.

00:09:07.600 April Fool's Day,

00:09:09.020 and with Justin Trudeau and the liberals,

00:09:11.040 the joke is on you.

00:09:14.160 Trudeau will hike gas prices

00:09:15.720 at stations like this one.

00:09:18.340 Home heating bills will rise across the country.

00:09:20.840 Farmers, fishermen, truckers,

00:09:24.580 who all bring us food,

00:09:26.100 will be paying more

00:09:26.960 and passing on those prices

00:09:28.580 at the grocery store

00:09:30.300 to Canadians who are already starving.

00:09:33.060 That's why common-sense conservatives

00:09:35.440 are standing with 70% of Canadians

00:09:38.880 in the polls

00:09:39.640 and 70% of provincial premiers

00:09:42.760 who have called for Trudeau

00:09:44.920 to spike the hike.

00:09:47.760 Cancel this heartless

00:09:50.400 and cruel April 1st tax hike.

00:09:54.140 There will be two common-sense conservative motions

00:09:57.940 before the House of Commons next week.

00:10:01.720 Liberal and NDP members of Parliament

00:10:04.040 will have to decide

00:10:05.160 whether they vote for their constituents'

00:10:07.420 affordable gas, food, and homes,

00:10:10.080 or whether they will vote

00:10:12.000 with Justin Trudeau

00:10:13.960 to dig deeper into the pockets

00:10:16.020 of Canadians who are freezing and starving.

00:10:19.800 That will be the decision.

00:10:21.940 Those votes are part of what Polly Ev announced

00:10:25.460 about a week and a day ago,

00:10:27.640 a so-called massive pressure campaign

00:10:30.160 on the government.

00:10:31.500 Look, I would love nothing more

00:10:33.660 than to see the carbon tax

00:10:34.920 and a great many other Canadian taxes,

00:10:36.500 by the way,

00:10:36.920 brought out to the woodshed and shot,

00:10:39.780 but I am not optimistic.

00:10:41.380 The Liberals and NDP

00:10:42.460 have, at the federal level,

00:10:44.640 doubled and tripled

00:10:45.640 and quadrupled down on this.

00:10:47.080 There have been so few

00:10:48.320 that are interested in the idea

00:10:50.300 of tax relief,

00:10:51.520 let alone carbon tax relief.

00:10:53.180 And I should say, by the way,

00:10:54.180 on a mea culpa,

00:10:54.940 last week I mentioned

00:10:56.140 on this show Ken Hardy,

00:10:59.280 and I was crediting Ken Hardy

00:11:00.880 as being the guy

00:11:03.680 who stood up against the carbon tax.

00:11:05.960 Then I realized when I was emailed

00:11:08.460 by someone,

00:11:09.160 Ken Hardy is not.

00:11:10.720 Ken Hardy is a Liberal MP from BC.

00:11:13.540 I was thinking of Ken McDonald,

00:11:15.060 who is the Newfoundland MP,

00:11:16.980 so I apologize very much to,

00:11:18.680 well, I apologize to Ken McDonald

00:11:19.860 for comparing him to Ken Hardy,

00:11:21.200 which is, I think,

00:11:22.020 tremendously offensive

00:11:22.820 for several reasons.

00:11:23.820 And I also apologize to Ken McDonald

00:11:26.380 for not giving credit

00:11:27.500 where it was due.

00:11:28.200 But the point that I raised

00:11:29.340 was that Ken McDonald

00:11:30.180 was against the carbon tax,

00:11:31.940 but seemed to pipe down

00:11:33.160 once the federal government,

00:11:34.800 once Trudeau gave Newfoundland

00:11:36.620 a bit of a reprieve,

00:11:37.820 didn't really care about reprieve

00:11:39.000 for the rest of the country,

00:11:39.900 cared about his own constituents,

00:11:41.520 fine, but not exactly committed

00:11:43.600 to the broader message

00:11:45.440 of carbon tax relief for Canadians.

00:11:48.460 But we're seeing so much gaslighting

00:11:50.320 on this.

00:11:51.400 And when I say gaslighting,

00:11:52.700 I really mean this.

00:11:54.000 Do you remember that old play,

00:11:55.180 Gaslight?

00:11:55.680 It was basically about

00:11:57.320 an abusive husband

00:11:58.340 that manipulates his wife

00:11:59.960 by going around

00:12:00.720 and turning the gaslights

00:12:01.860 on and off

00:12:02.500 and telling her

00:12:03.780 that he had nothing to do with it

00:12:06.060 to make her think

00:12:06.740 she had gone crazy.

00:12:07.680 That is where the term comes from.

00:12:10.020 There's your little bit

00:12:10.660 of trivia for the day.

00:12:11.700 There's also a Dixie Chick song 0.63

00:12:13.380 called Gaslighter,

00:12:14.760 which, I mean,

00:12:16.140 it's Dixie Chick,

00:12:16.720 so I don't particularly love it.

00:12:18.240 But anyway,

00:12:19.200 I know very little about pop culture,

00:12:21.700 so when I do know a little bit,

00:12:23.020 I try to slip it in there.

00:12:24.320 It's not like sports

00:12:24.920 where I know absolutely nothing.

00:12:26.360 But the whole point

00:12:27.500 is Justin Trudeau gaslights

00:12:29.040 Canadians on the carbon tax

00:12:31.120 from telling us that,

00:12:32.840 oh, well, you know,

00:12:33.660 we all end up better off on this

00:12:36.020 to telling us

00:12:36.600 that it is going to save the planet.

00:12:39.640 This is one I had to share

00:12:41.420 before we go to our Monday friend,

00:12:43.240 Chris Sims.

00:12:43.680 This was Justin Trudeau

00:12:44.800 trying a little bit

00:12:46.320 of this carbon tax gaslighting

00:12:48.180 in real time

00:12:49.360 right before your very eyes last week.

00:12:54.320 I think a lot of people

00:13:05.780 are seeing the public pressure

00:13:08.200 of folks who are worried

00:13:12.200 about the cost of living

00:13:13.540 and worried about affordability.

00:13:14.900 And one of the challenges

00:13:16.800 that is out there

00:13:18.060 is that everyone seems

00:13:21.400 to be talking about

00:13:22.280 the price we've brought in

00:13:23.480 on pollution.

00:13:25.360 Nobody is talking about

00:13:27.500 the Canada carbon rebate

00:13:28.940 that puts more money

00:13:30.680 in the pockets of 8 out of 10 families

00:13:33.300 across the country

00:13:34.300 than the price on pollution

00:13:36.640 actually costs them.

00:13:38.180 So taking away the price on pollution

00:13:41.480 or leveling it off where it is

00:13:44.900 would actually mean less money

00:13:47.540 in the pockets of 8 out of 10 Canadians

00:13:50.320 in the jurisdictions

00:13:51.700 where it's imposed,

00:13:52.960 which doesn't make sense.

00:13:55.320 Canadians are squeezed on groceries,

00:13:57.240 they're squeezed on rent,

00:13:58.300 they're squeezed on cost of living.

00:14:00.520 We are putting more money

00:14:02.260 in their pockets

00:14:02.980 four times a year

00:14:05.140 with the Canada carbon rebate,

00:14:06.860 and we're going to continue

00:14:08.300 to do that.

00:14:10.180 So what are you going to say

00:14:10.900 to Mr. Fury though specifically?

00:14:12.440 Do you think he's

00:14:13.100 a short-term thinker?

00:14:14.520 I think Mr. Fury

00:14:15.880 is continuing to bow

00:14:17.380 to political pressure.

00:14:20.020 I think Canadians

00:14:21.720 in Newfoundland and Labrador

00:14:23.120 and right across the country

00:14:24.360 expect their governments

00:14:25.500 to do the right thing.

00:14:26.840 And the right thing right now

00:14:28.080 is not just fighting climate change

00:14:29.780 and spurring innovation

00:14:30.760 for the future.

00:14:31.980 It's about being there

00:14:33.320 to support Canadians

00:14:34.320 during this affordability crisis

00:14:35.840 and the Canada carbon rebate

00:14:37.640 helps out 80% of Canadians

00:14:40.600 with more money

00:14:42.120 than they pay

00:14:43.080 in terms of a price on pollution.

00:14:44.900 It's basic math

00:14:46.180 and we're going to continue

00:14:47.240 to be there

00:14:47.840 to support Canadians

00:14:48.920 with the Canada carbon rebate.

00:14:51.800 Basic math.

00:14:53.160 Is it as basic

00:14:54.140 as those poll numbers

00:14:55.000 that show you

00:14:55.640 getting absolutely trounced

00:14:57.000 in the next election?

00:14:58.220 Okay, that was a low blow.

00:14:59.860 I apologize for nothing.

00:15:01.260 But anyway,

00:15:02.220 this is Justin Trudeau

00:15:03.280 telling us

00:15:03.760 that we're all better off.

00:15:04.880 So the increase in groceries,

00:15:06.580 the increase in gas,

00:15:07.540 the increase in home heating,

00:15:08.680 no, no, no.

00:15:09.380 All of that pales

00:15:10.560 in comparison

00:15:11.120 to those nice little

00:15:12.280 carbon tax checks

00:15:13.300 we get from the government.

00:15:14.440 80% of us.

00:15:15.580 Well, it's not much

00:15:16.360 of a cold comfort

00:15:17.260 if you are in the 20%

00:15:18.880 and it's a very cold comfort

00:15:20.500 if you can't afford

00:15:21.240 to heat your home

00:15:22.000 in part because

00:15:23.140 of the carbon tax.

00:15:24.820 And I love that little bit

00:15:26.160 about Andrew Fury,

00:15:27.180 the Premier of Newfoundland,

00:15:28.460 elected with a mandate.

00:15:29.820 He's a Liberal.

00:15:30.400 He's an ideological kin member

00:15:33.000 of Justin Trudeau's Liberals.

00:15:34.860 But, oh, no, no, no.

00:15:35.880 He's just being targeted. 1.00

00:15:37.580 He's too dumb 1.00

00:15:38.380 to know what's good for him. 1.00

00:15:39.560 He's bowing

00:15:40.500 to political pressure

00:15:41.880 because he spoke up

00:15:43.200 and said Newfoundlanders

00:15:44.380 can't afford

00:15:45.080 the carbon tax.

00:15:46.320 Chris Sims

00:15:46.740 is the Alberta Director

00:15:48.160 with the Canadian

00:15:48.820 Taxpayers Federation

00:15:49.680 and joins us every Monday.

00:15:51.060 Once again,

00:15:51.960 always good to see you, Chris.

00:15:53.140 Thanks for coming on today.

00:15:54.720 Likewise.

00:15:55.360 Thanks, Andrew,

00:15:56.000 for playing that clip again.

00:15:58.500 Do you feel, again,

00:16:00.700 this is the whole

00:16:01.820 carbon tax rebrand

00:16:03.420 that we've talked about

00:16:04.340 in past weeks

00:16:05.000 where they say,

00:16:05.900 no, no, no,

00:16:06.200 the problem isn't the policy.

00:16:07.680 The problem is that

00:16:08.640 Canadians don't understand it.

00:16:10.420 And their effort to do that

00:16:11.780 is by just disingenuously

00:16:14.060 claiming that we're all better off.

00:16:15.780 And again,

00:16:16.260 he says it's basic math.

00:16:17.960 If we're all better off

00:16:19.300 by the tax,

00:16:19.980 if we're profiting from this,

00:16:21.920 then what was the point of it all?

00:16:24.220 That the only mechanism

00:16:25.940 by which this makes sense

00:16:27.240 for the government

00:16:27.840 is if it's penalizing people.

00:16:30.480 Okay.

00:16:31.060 So there's so much to unpack here.

00:16:32.620 I just wanted to say

00:16:33.400 to your viewers

00:16:34.120 who are sane,

00:16:35.360 we know, okay?

00:16:36.500 We know what he's saying

00:16:37.960 doesn't make sense.

00:16:39.260 We know that the tax

00:16:40.680 will make you poorer,

00:16:41.900 that it doesn't make you richer

00:16:43.140 when the government

00:16:43.680 takes more of your money.

00:16:44.620 Okay.

00:16:44.800 All of that is established.

00:16:46.480 What we're going to try

00:16:47.140 to break down here

00:16:48.000 is some of the pretzel-like

00:16:49.940 twisting and thinking

00:16:51.200 that the prime minister

00:16:52.600 is trying to engage in here.

00:16:53.980 Okay.

00:16:54.520 So number one,

00:16:55.840 exactly to your point, Andrew,

00:16:57.780 if the carbon tax

00:16:59.380 actually costs you nothing

00:17:01.100 or you get magically

00:17:02.940 more money back

00:17:04.080 every single time you pay it,

00:17:06.300 well then,

00:17:07.480 where is the stick?

00:17:10.240 Where's the deterrence

00:17:11.660 for using oil and gas products?

00:17:13.940 Because some people might forget

00:17:15.920 with all this baffle gab

00:17:17.060 that the prime minister

00:17:17.740 is putting out,

00:17:18.660 the liberal government

00:17:20.100 of Canada

00:17:20.800 put through a carbon tax

00:17:22.640 in order to punish people

00:17:24.560 for using things

00:17:25.920 like oil and gas.

00:17:27.240 So gasoline, diesel,

00:17:28.760 propane, natural gas,

00:17:29.980 kerosene, you name it.

00:17:31.280 If it comes from oil and gas,

00:17:33.200 you're going to get

00:17:33.800 carbon taxed on it.

00:17:35.200 Their thinking,

00:17:36.360 way back when they first

00:17:37.740 invented this thing,

00:17:38.820 was that they would stick you,

00:17:40.700 they would hit you

00:17:41.380 with the stick

00:17:42.100 until you moved over

00:17:44.140 and switched

00:17:45.040 to another energy source.

00:17:47.500 problem is

00:17:49.020 most Canadians,

00:17:50.680 the vast majority of us,

00:17:52.020 do not have access

00:17:52.860 to an affordable,

00:17:54.460 abundant,

00:17:54.920 alternative energy source.

00:17:56.940 So there's nothing

00:17:57.460 to switch to.

00:17:58.360 So it just turns

00:17:59.160 into a punishment.

00:18:00.260 So that didn't work,

00:18:01.740 okay?

00:18:02.180 Even if we only emit

00:18:03.980 less than 2%

00:18:04.860 of the world's

00:18:05.680 global emissions,

00:18:06.840 fine,

00:18:07.160 that still didn't work

00:18:08.060 because people still

00:18:08.900 need to drive to work

00:18:09.920 and heat their homes

00:18:10.580 and eat food.

00:18:11.600 So then they had to

00:18:12.540 change their comms plan.

00:18:13.880 It's like,

00:18:14.280 oh, okay,

00:18:15.080 we're not robbing you blind.

00:18:17.000 We're actually

00:18:17.740 making you richer.

00:18:19.320 That flies in the face 0.51

00:18:20.880 of the idea

00:18:21.620 of a deterrence.

00:18:23.020 That's the whole point

00:18:24.180 of this carbon tax

00:18:25.560 was to make stuff

00:18:26.380 more expensive 0.95

00:18:27.020 so that us dummies 0.96

00:18:28.560 would switch 0.95

00:18:29.320 to other things.

00:18:30.360 But that's not

00:18:31.040 working out for them.

00:18:32.400 No,

00:18:32.720 and the hilarious thing

00:18:33.980 is that if you were

00:18:35.080 to do something,

00:18:36.060 if you were to enact

00:18:36.880 a policy that makes

00:18:37.980 people richer,

00:18:39.060 my goodness,

00:18:39.900 are there better ways

00:18:40.800 to sell that?

00:18:41.700 Like,

00:18:42.040 hey, everyone,

00:18:42.700 here's a free check.

00:18:43.880 Like,

00:18:44.000 this is just,

00:18:45.060 it makes you feel

00:18:46.160 you're being hoodwinked.

00:18:47.380 Well,

00:18:47.560 I mean,

00:18:47.760 you are being hoodwinked,

00:18:48.740 but the government's

00:18:49.580 saying,

00:18:49.780 okay,

00:18:50.080 you pay us,

00:18:51.240 you know,

00:18:51.460 a dollar more

00:18:52.280 every time you do this,

00:18:53.440 then we're going

00:18:53.900 to give you $5

00:18:54.820 every quarter.

00:18:56.560 And you're thinking,

00:18:57.200 well,

00:18:57.360 okay,

00:18:58.100 this is how con men speak.

00:19:01.120 Yes.

00:19:01.260 This is how con men

00:19:02.520 try to sell you on things.

00:19:03.800 They come up with a scheme

00:19:04.980 that makes it so convoluted

00:19:06.860 and complicated

00:19:07.440 where it sounds good,

00:19:08.500 but you know you're 0.96

00:19:09.400 getting screwed at the end. 0.96

00:19:10.480 And that's the thing here. 0.97

00:19:11.500 I mean,

00:19:11.620 Canadians need to know 0.99

00:19:12.740 they're getting screwed 1.00

00:19:13.440 because otherwise 0.98

00:19:14.000 there would be no point.

00:19:15.420 And again,

00:19:15.800 the government's even

00:19:16.720 like abandoned this

00:19:17.640 because originally

00:19:18.140 it was a price on carbon.

00:19:19.940 Pollution shouldn't be free,

00:19:21.340 which in and of itself

00:19:22.380 is based on a premise

00:19:23.420 that's incredibly flawed.

00:19:25.160 But at the end of it,

00:19:26.260 I'm waiting to see

00:19:27.540 the eight in 10 Canadians

00:19:29.280 that are supposedly better off.

00:19:31.660 This is it.

00:19:32.660 So again,

00:19:33.200 you've nailed it.

00:19:33.980 So let's move on now

00:19:35.120 to the magically

00:19:36.040 eight in 10 Canadians

00:19:37.140 are better off.

00:19:37.840 Okay.

00:19:38.160 So just on the surface of it.

00:19:39.980 So I don't know,

00:19:41.260 you know,

00:19:41.480 lots of people

00:19:42.160 had lots of different

00:19:42.820 types of jobs,

00:19:43.420 but do you remember

00:19:44.020 that time where

00:19:44.700 you're in a coffee shop

00:19:45.940 and you're this long

00:19:47.300 lost buddy from school

00:19:48.520 sits you down

00:19:49.620 and starts explaining

00:19:50.480 this new investment scheme

00:19:51.720 he's got going.

00:19:52.720 It's a pyramid scheme.

00:19:54.640 Okay.

00:19:55.040 You give him money.

00:19:56.260 He gives the other person money

00:19:57.380 and then you magically

00:19:58.240 at some point

00:19:58.960 get your money back.

00:20:00.060 Meanwhile,

00:20:00.480 he's taken off

00:20:01.260 to Mexico somewhere.

00:20:03.080 This is what this is.

00:20:04.760 Okay.

00:20:05.220 But he just happens

00:20:06.360 to be in a suit and tie

00:20:07.600 and be standing

00:20:08.500 in front of a TV camera.

00:20:09.980 So it all looks official.

00:20:11.480 So don't even take it

00:20:12.960 from the Canadian

00:20:13.480 Taxpayers Federation.

00:20:14.660 Okay.

00:20:14.960 Like we've been fighting

00:20:15.900 this forever.

00:20:16.680 We literally have

00:20:17.360 the bumper sticker

00:20:18.020 and the t-shirt.

00:20:19.060 We know this.

00:20:20.300 Fine.

00:20:21.180 Take it from

00:20:21.680 the parliamentary

00:20:22.500 budget officer.

00:20:23.760 Okay.

00:20:24.000 It's an independent

00:20:25.000 arm's length

00:20:25.800 government watchdog

00:20:26.880 that keeps an eye

00:20:27.600 on their spending.

00:20:28.740 Okay.

00:20:29.380 Just the spending.

00:20:30.980 This year,

00:20:32.140 the average Alberta family

00:20:34.020 will be out $900

00:20:36.700 net.

00:20:38.820 That is with the rebates

00:20:40.400 factored in.

00:20:41.340 Okay.

00:20:41.480 Like they've done

00:20:42.560 the math on their

00:20:43.820 big calculator.

00:20:44.940 Okay.

00:20:45.400 And the way they do

00:20:46.540 that is of course

00:20:47.780 the carbon tax

00:20:49.060 isn't just you

00:20:50.220 filling up your

00:20:51.080 little Honda Civic.

00:20:52.260 Okay.

00:20:53.000 And spending around

00:20:54.040 eight to ten dollars

00:20:55.280 extra every time you

00:20:56.280 fill up in the carbon

00:20:57.020 tax.

00:20:57.440 It's not just that.

00:20:59.200 It's your home

00:21:00.080 heating.

00:21:00.860 Okay.

00:21:01.340 It is the food

00:21:02.560 that the trucker

00:21:03.460 had to haul

00:21:04.220 to your grocery

00:21:05.000 store.

00:21:05.680 It's the food

00:21:06.560 that the farmer

00:21:07.200 had to grow

00:21:07.940 keeping his poultry

00:21:08.900 barns warm

00:21:09.660 and his grain dry.

00:21:11.060 All of this

00:21:12.060 level of taxation

00:21:13.380 cascades to the economy

00:21:14.960 and you,

00:21:16.080 dear taxpayer,

00:21:17.040 are the ones

00:21:17.620 who pay it.

00:21:18.400 The parliamentary

00:21:19.120 budget officer,

00:21:20.280 to their credit,

00:21:21.580 did all of that math.

00:21:23.480 They said,

00:21:24.200 no, no, no.

00:21:24.640 It's not just your

00:21:25.380 little rebate

00:21:25.940 that you might be

00:21:26.560 getting from your

00:21:27.200 local gas station

00:21:28.120 once you're finished

00:21:28.720 filling up.

00:21:29.560 No,

00:21:30.060 it's the cascade

00:21:31.040 of that carbon tax

00:21:32.740 effect.

00:21:33.060 And that is why

00:21:34.120 Alberta families

00:21:35.160 are out net

00:21:36.480 $900 this year.

00:21:38.660 And further,

00:21:39.600 it just,

00:21:40.040 to your point,

00:21:40.520 I'm so glad

00:21:41.080 you described

00:21:41.800 what gaslighting

00:21:42.800 means.

00:21:43.520 Because a lot

00:21:44.420 of times I think

00:21:45.080 people just use

00:21:45.820 that term

00:21:46.300 and they don't

00:21:46.740 realize how

00:21:47.520 awful and

00:21:49.320 insidious

00:21:49.980 gaslighting is.

00:21:51.540 Right?

00:21:51.940 It's,

00:21:52.840 to put it in

00:21:53.540 a more simplistic

00:21:54.320 term,

00:21:54.820 it's like you're

00:21:55.260 in the schoolyard

00:21:56.240 and the bully

00:21:56.880 is like grabbing

00:21:57.820 your own hand 0.67

00:21:58.520 and hitting you 0.99

00:21:59.120 with it.

00:21:59.820 And he's saying,

00:22:00.360 stop hitting

00:22:00.740 yourself.

00:22:01.240 Stop hitting

00:22:01.620 yourself.

00:22:02.740 I have an

00:22:03.120 older brother,

00:22:03.680 I'm familiar.

00:22:04.520 Yeah,

00:22:04.740 me too.

00:22:05.120 I got three

00:22:05.620 of them,

00:22:05.980 right?

00:22:06.300 And so,

00:22:06.860 you know,

00:22:07.160 name 10

00:22:07.600 chocolate bars.

00:22:08.420 I still shudder,

00:22:09.360 right?

00:22:09.880 So,

00:22:10.540 this is what

00:22:11.220 Prime Minister

00:22:11.800 is doing here,

00:22:12.660 but on a

00:22:13.200 macro scale

00:22:14.140 and he's

00:22:15.180 taking money

00:22:15.760 from people

00:22:16.300 and it's

00:22:16.700 just fundamentally

00:22:17.420 unfair,

00:22:18.040 which is why

00:22:18.620 we're now

00:22:19.440 seeing,

00:22:19.880 I think it's

00:22:20.300 seven in

00:22:20.860 10 premiers

00:22:21.520 saying no

00:22:22.820 more carbon

00:22:23.340 tax.

00:22:23.980 I think the

00:22:25.160 tide has turned

00:22:25.740 on this.

00:22:26.880 Yeah,

00:22:27.220 and then,

00:22:27.780 you know,

00:22:28.540 Wab Canu,

00:22:29.500 the NDP

00:22:29.940 Premier in

00:22:30.480 Manitoba,

00:22:30.980 being very coy

00:22:31.800 on this,

00:22:32.260 but this is

00:22:32.840 actually a good

00:22:33.380 segue into

00:22:34.020 some news

00:22:34.580 in my own

00:22:35.220 province,

00:22:35.860 Ontario.

00:22:37.180 No,

00:22:37.680 no,

00:22:37.780 no,

00:22:37.940 don't boo.

00:22:39.560 So,

00:22:40.100 Bonnie Crombie,

00:22:40.900 who's the

00:22:41.440 new minister,

00:22:42.900 the new leader

00:22:43.580 of the Ontario

00:22:44.400 Liberal Party.

00:22:45.240 Now,

00:22:45.380 this is the

00:22:45.800 party of

00:22:46.240 Kathleen Wynne

00:22:46.880 and Dalton

00:22:47.240 McGinty.

00:22:47.740 This is like

00:22:48.180 one of the

00:22:48.480 most rabid,

00:22:49.780 radical,

00:22:50.540 environmental

00:22:51.100 parties in

00:22:52.900 the country

00:22:53.960 when they were

00:22:55.000 there.

00:22:55.360 This is the

00:22:55.920 country or the

00:22:56.640 province that

00:22:57.140 brought in

00:22:57.620 cap and trade

00:22:58.380 Ontario,

00:22:59.260 that like

00:22:59.520 terrible,

00:23:00.200 terrible record

00:23:01.220 on this,

00:23:01.740 that brought

00:23:02.020 in the wind

00:23:02.560 turbines that

00:23:03.300 there's no

00:23:04.640 business case

00:23:05.200 for.

00:23:05.740 So,

00:23:05.980 Bonnie Crombie,

00:23:06.680 the leader of

00:23:07.080 the Ontario

00:23:07.540 Liberal Party,

00:23:08.360 has said that

00:23:09.320 if she wins

00:23:10.260 the election

00:23:10.900 and she defeats

00:23:12.000 Doug Ford's

00:23:12.720 progressive

00:23:13.220 Conservatives

00:23:13.920 in 2026,

00:23:15.420 there will be

00:23:15.920 no provincial

00:23:16.820 carbon tax

00:23:17.640 for consumers.

00:23:19.200 Now,

00:23:19.800 this is a

00:23:20.660 big,

00:23:21.240 big development.

00:23:22.140 And I mean,

00:23:22.600 the Overton

00:23:23.160 window,

00:23:24.040 what this tells me

00:23:24.800 is that the

00:23:25.120 Overton window

00:23:25.780 and the

00:23:26.020 carbon tax

00:23:26.620 has shifted

00:23:27.180 where you

00:23:28.400 can't really

00:23:29.060 be elected

00:23:29.800 without opposing

00:23:30.940 it.

00:23:31.660 And provincial

00:23:32.300 governments are

00:23:32.940 getting this,

00:23:33.480 provincial parties

00:23:34.160 are,

00:23:34.500 you have NDP

00:23:35.100 leadership candidates

00:23:36.100 in Alberta

00:23:36.620 saying no to

00:23:37.620 the carbon tax,

00:23:38.380 you've got the

00:23:38.760 Ontario Liberals,

00:23:39.660 the Newfoundland

00:23:40.100 Liberals,

00:23:40.740 everyone but

00:23:41.420 Justin Trudeau.

00:23:42.780 I know,

00:23:43.580 he's the last

00:23:44.340 one to get it,

00:23:45.280 right?

00:23:45.800 I had a sense

00:23:46.800 to my friend,

00:23:47.460 I said,

00:23:47.940 bring an umbrella

00:23:48.560 because pigs

00:23:49.260 are flying in

00:23:50.400 Ontario today.

00:23:51.920 Like,

00:23:52.620 I want to go

00:23:53.220 get,

00:23:53.520 you know,

00:23:53.680 those dollar store

00:23:54.400 fairy wings you

00:23:55.160 can get or

00:23:55.540 angel wings,

00:23:56.220 I want to go

00:23:56.600 stick them on

00:23:57.260 Porky the

00:23:57.780 Waste Hater,

00:23:58.440 our big, 0.60

00:23:58.920 our pig mascot

00:24:00.320 in Ottawa

00:24:00.800 and make,

00:24:01.280 make Franco

00:24:02.240 do cartwheels

00:24:02.840 on Parliament

00:24:03.280 Hill with it.

00:24:04.120 So,

00:24:04.760 to your point,

00:24:05.760 and again,

00:24:06.100 I lived in

00:24:06.580 Ontario at the

00:24:07.300 time when

00:24:08.160 the Liberals

00:24:08.720 were in charge

00:24:09.540 and they

00:24:11.000 destroyed the

00:24:12.240 affordability

00:24:12.880 for your

00:24:13.620 power bill.

00:24:14.760 So,

00:24:15.260 I remember

00:24:15.680 distinctly

00:24:16.260 myself,

00:24:16.980 we had a

00:24:17.740 very small

00:24:18.460 bungalow

00:24:18.920 that we were

00:24:19.300 renting,

00:24:20.320 we were using

00:24:20.780 natural gas

00:24:21.500 for heat,

00:24:22.140 I was obsessively

00:24:23.000 doing laundry

00:24:23.640 like after

00:24:24.220 midnight

00:24:24.640 using only

00:24:25.320 LED bulbs

00:24:26.920 and our

00:24:27.700 power bill

00:24:28.240 was still

00:24:28.920 more than

00:24:29.360 $400 a

00:24:30.540 month.

00:24:31.400 And I was

00:24:32.160 getting off

00:24:32.580 easy compared

00:24:33.380 to some

00:24:33.800 like Kathy

00:24:34.300 Ketula

00:24:34.720 and some

00:24:35.180 of those

00:24:35.440 folks who

00:24:35.860 were living

00:24:36.180 in more

00:24:36.520 rural areas

00:24:37.260 that were

00:24:37.880 getting power

00:24:38.840 bills that

00:24:39.380 were more

00:24:39.700 than $1,000.

00:24:40.900 So,

00:24:41.720 the reason why

00:24:42.280 I'm telling you

00:24:42.780 this little

00:24:43.160 story,

00:24:43.640 because it

00:24:43.860 doesn't sound

00:24:44.260 like carbon

00:24:44.780 taxi stuff,

00:24:45.760 the same

00:24:47.100 geniuses

00:24:47.960 who invented

00:24:49.000 the Clean

00:24:49.880 Energy Act

00:24:50.780 in Ontario

00:24:51.560 and ruined

00:24:52.300 people's

00:24:52.720 affordability,

00:24:53.660 they scurried

00:24:54.640 up after

00:24:55.260 they got

00:24:55.700 booted out

00:24:56.140 of office,

00:24:56.680 they scurried

00:24:57.280 from Queen's

00:24:57.860 Park,

00:24:58.300 guess where?

00:24:59.200 They scurried

00:24:59.700 up to

00:25:00.040 Ottawa.

00:25:00.880 They're the

00:25:01.420 ones that

00:25:02.020 created the

00:25:03.280 legislation for

00:25:04.380 this current

00:25:05.060 federal carbon

00:25:05.700 tax, my

00:25:06.220 friend.

00:25:07.080 And so that

00:25:07.680 is why

00:25:08.240 Andrew and

00:25:09.000 I are

00:25:09.260 highlighting

00:25:09.680 this.

00:25:10.160 Guys, we

00:25:10.520 have to keep

00:25:10.960 an eye on

00:25:11.380 these people,

00:25:12.160 but politically

00:25:13.060 speaking,

00:25:14.180 bringing it

00:25:14.620 around full

00:25:15.080 circle, to

00:25:16.000 your point,

00:25:16.900 to have that

00:25:17.620 same party

00:25:18.680 leader now,

00:25:19.820 so different

00:25:20.200 lady, same 0.94

00:25:21.120 party though,

00:25:21.940 and she's

00:25:22.300 leader, saying

00:25:23.240 no provincial

00:25:24.120 carbon tax,

00:25:25.700 my how

00:25:26.280 things have

00:25:26.800 changed.

00:25:27.540 So I don't

00:25:28.680 know what's

00:25:28.940 going to

00:25:29.120 happen.

00:25:29.620 Is the

00:25:30.140 Prime Minister

00:25:30.580 going to

00:25:31.140 see the

00:25:31.980 lesson here

00:25:32.600 and cave

00:25:33.600 to politics?

00:25:34.480 By the way,

00:25:35.020 sorry dude,

00:25:35.740 but you're

00:25:36.360 a politician.

00:25:37.820 I don't know

00:25:38.840 if you knew

00:25:39.140 this, but

00:25:39.500 you're in

00:25:39.900 the arena.

00:25:40.800 It is your

00:25:41.220 job to

00:25:42.040 listen to

00:25:42.660 people and

00:25:43.500 respond to them.

00:25:43.860 It's like the

00:25:45.180 number one

00:25:45.600 thing you do

00:25:46.200 when you run

00:25:46.640 for office.

00:25:47.420 You come up

00:25:48.200 with an

00:25:48.460 excuse to

00:25:48.920 say I'm

00:25:49.320 not a

00:25:49.660 politician,

00:25:50.360 but it's

00:25:50.600 like, well,

00:25:51.160 you, because

00:25:51.840 I tried that

00:25:52.440 when I ran

00:25:52.900 for office in

00:25:53.460 2018.

00:25:54.160 I'm not a

00:25:54.700 politician, but

00:25:55.080 I was a

00:25:55.980 politician at

00:25:56.580 that point.

00:25:57.020 It doesn't

00:25:57.140 mean I was

00:25:57.540 like every

00:25:58.280 other politician,

00:25:59.180 but once

00:25:59.640 you're elected,

00:26:00.320 the pretense

00:26:00.920 is completely

00:26:01.480 gone.

00:26:02.140 Like, dude,

00:26:02.700 your name

00:26:03.060 is on a

00:26:03.420 lawn sign.

00:26:04.540 I'm literally

00:26:05.280 watching you

00:26:05.960 kissing babies

00:26:06.760 and shaking

00:26:07.200 hands.

00:26:08.060 You're a

00:26:08.620 politician.

00:26:09.540 So this

00:26:10.120 is it.

00:26:10.800 We can't

00:26:11.480 pop the

00:26:11.980 champagne on

00:26:12.540 this yet.

00:26:13.080 There's still

00:26:13.480 a long way

00:26:14.300 to go, but

00:26:15.540 it's really

00:26:16.000 good to see

00:26:16.540 the narrative

00:26:17.140 changing, as

00:26:17.980 the kids say

00:26:18.540 in school,

00:26:19.180 on the

00:26:19.640 carbon tax

00:26:20.280 because a

00:26:20.780 few years

00:26:21.180 ago, you

00:26:21.640 might remember

00:26:22.140 the former

00:26:23.140 leader of

00:26:23.620 the Conservative

00:26:24.140 Party even

00:26:24.940 was totally

00:26:26.000 in favor of

00:26:26.780 the carbon

00:26:27.160 tax.

00:26:27.660 He was just

00:26:28.020 calling it

00:26:28.460 something

00:26:28.680 different and

00:26:29.180 we were

00:26:29.380 going to get

00:26:29.720 a solar

00:26:30.040 blender.

00:26:31.440 Yeah, exactly.

00:26:32.620 Just like

00:26:32.920 Canadian

00:26:33.260 Tire, but

00:26:33.920 you get an

00:26:34.400 e-bike.

00:26:36.060 So let me

00:26:37.020 just ask

00:26:37.460 briefly about

00:26:38.300 this.

00:26:38.640 So Doug

00:26:39.140 Ford has

00:26:40.440 said that

00:26:41.160 he does

00:26:42.180 not have

00:26:42.920 the latitude

00:26:44.180 that, say,

00:26:44.880 Scott Moe

00:26:45.500 does.

00:26:45.680 So Scott

00:26:46.120 Moe, they've

00:26:46.600 just stopped

00:26:47.540 remitting the

00:26:48.120 carbon tax, but

00:26:49.100 they also have

00:26:49.900 a pure Crown

00:26:50.720 Corporation energy

00:26:51.700 provider, which

00:26:52.880 Ontario does

00:26:53.640 not.

00:26:54.380 And so that

00:26:55.460 argument makes

00:26:56.220 sense.

00:26:56.640 But do we

00:26:57.400 know the

00:26:57.720 mechanism that

00:26:58.420 Bonnie Crombie

00:26:59.160 is proposing

00:26:59.940 here so that

00:27:01.100 she can get

00:27:01.860 rid of this

00:27:02.340 consumer carbon

00:27:03.060 tax?

00:27:04.120 I think, now

00:27:05.280 I don't want to

00:27:05.680 speak for her, but

00:27:06.420 my understanding

00:27:07.220 was that if

00:27:08.160 there were no

00:27:08.920 federal tax, she

00:27:10.320 would not bring

00:27:11.200 one home to

00:27:11.900 roost in

00:27:12.300 Ontario.

00:27:13.200 Okay, so she's

00:27:14.040 not pledging to

00:27:14.820 do the Scott

00:27:15.700 Moe thing of 0.99

00:27:16.440 somehow exempting

00:27:18.940 from the

00:27:19.280 federal.

00:27:19.560 Hey, if she 0.87

00:27:20.360 could, all the

00:27:21.020 power to her.

00:27:22.040 I might even

00:27:23.140 vote for her if 1.00

00:27:23.740 she can do

00:27:24.140 that.

00:27:24.640 Hey, you want

00:27:25.420 to throw shoes

00:27:26.160 at our bad

00:27:26.720 boyfriend, girl?

00:27:27.660 I will help

00:27:28.260 you.

00:27:28.480 I will send

00:27:28.980 you shoes to

00:27:29.600 throw at this 0.77

00:27:30.200 man.

00:27:30.920 So the same

00:27:31.420 way that Daniel

00:27:32.000 Smith is doing

00:27:32.700 here, the

00:27:33.060 premier of

00:27:33.460 Alberta, it

00:27:34.240 was funny.

00:27:34.740 She was like,

00:27:35.220 how on earth

00:27:35.940 do I do what

00:27:36.720 Moe did? 0.91

00:27:37.620 Do I create

00:27:38.260 this little shell

00:27:39.660 of a Crown

00:27:40.440 Corporation?

00:27:41.060 We don't

00:27:41.580 usually like

00:27:42.040 Crown

00:27:42.220 Corporation, but

00:27:42.980 I understand

00:27:43.540 the usefulness

00:27:44.260 in this

00:27:44.560 particular fight.

00:27:45.640 So she's

00:27:46.040 trying to figure

00:27:46.480 out how to

00:27:46.840 do that too

00:27:47.460 because she's

00:27:48.340 in this kind

00:27:48.800 of friendly

00:27:49.160 competition with

00:27:50.140 premier Scott

00:27:51.020 Moe next 1.00

00:27:51.480 door on how

00:27:52.500 much each of

00:27:53.160 them can stand

00:27:53.860 up to

00:27:54.600 prime minister

00:27:55.180 Trudeau.

00:27:55.980 A little

00:27:56.720 note though,

00:27:57.880 and again, I'm

00:27:58.480 speaking directly

00:27:59.180 to the people

00:28:00.060 who love your

00:28:00.640 show, who are

00:28:01.720 probably fans of

00:28:02.900 the premier, like

00:28:03.860 I personally have

00:28:04.800 an awful lot of

00:28:05.360 time for the

00:28:05.900 lady.

00:28:08.600 Jurisdictionally

00:28:09.080 though, she's 0.99

00:28:10.120 doing something

00:28:10.620 wrong.

00:28:11.720 She's going to

00:28:12.220 be increasing

00:28:12.800 the provincial

00:28:13.300 fuel tax here

00:28:14.780 on the same

00:28:15.380 day that

00:28:15.980 prime minister

00:28:16.440 Justin Trudeau

00:28:17.180 is jacking up

00:28:17.840 the federal

00:28:18.200 carbon tax.

00:28:19.820 And like, it's

00:28:20.420 just math.

00:28:21.380 This is nothing

00:28:21.860 personal.

00:28:22.620 That's not good.

00:28:24.000 She's increasing

00:28:24.680 it by four cents

00:28:25.700 a liter.

00:28:26.440 It's on schedule

00:28:27.280 on April 1st.

00:28:28.500 The provincial

00:28:28.920 fuel tax is

00:28:29.680 going up four

00:28:30.340 cents a liter.

00:28:31.720 And federally

00:28:32.700 speaking, the

00:28:34.180 carbon tax is

00:28:34.920 going up three

00:28:35.780 cents a liter.

00:28:37.080 So not a good

00:28:38.180 look.

00:28:38.700 Like, so the

00:28:39.200 Alberta premier

00:28:40.020 has really

00:28:40.540 got to pay

00:28:40.940 attention to

00:28:41.900 the home

00:28:42.220 roost here

00:28:42.740 and not jack

00:28:43.380 up her fuel

00:28:43.900 tax, especially

00:28:44.580 on the same

00:28:45.100 day that

00:28:46.040 Prime Minister

00:28:46.820 Trudeau is

00:28:47.280 jacking up

00:28:47.700 his carbon

00:28:48.040 tax.

00:28:48.920 Yeah, very

00:28:49.400 well said.

00:28:50.040 And judging

00:28:50.600 by your

00:28:50.960 t-shirt, your

00:28:51.600 kind offer to

00:28:52.580 the country

00:28:52.980 still stands

00:28:53.800 that for the

00:28:54.860 low price of

00:28:55.720 one dollar a

00:28:56.460 day, you

00:28:56.960 or one dollar

00:28:57.500 a year, you

00:28:58.720 will be Her

00:28:59.620 Excellency

00:29:00.320 Governor General

00:29:01.120 Chris Sims,

00:29:01.740 which you know

00:29:02.040 what, we could

00:29:02.340 do a lot

00:29:02.740 worse.

00:29:03.880 Well, pretty

00:29:04.220 much anyone

00:29:04.580 else would be

00:29:05.080 worse.

00:29:05.480 So, all

00:29:06.000 right, Chris,

00:29:06.460 always good to

00:29:06.920 talk to you.

00:29:07.260 Thanks so much

00:29:10.020 Chris Sims, we

00:29:11.380 will see you

00:29:12.440 back next

00:29:13.340 Monday.

00:29:14.100 Great to have

00:29:14.580 your insight on

00:29:15.220 this.

00:29:15.460 And yeah, I

00:29:16.160 gotta say, I

00:29:16.620 did not think

00:29:17.380 Bonnie Crombie

00:29:18.160 had an inner,

00:29:18.780 but good on

00:29:19.260 her as well.

00:29:19.820 And I would

00:29:20.120 say to Doug

00:29:20.740 Ford, your

00:29:21.200 move, and

00:29:21.700 it'll be

00:29:21.960 interesting.

00:29:22.880 If Pierre

00:29:23.580 Pollyev lauds

00:29:24.880 Bonnie Crombie

00:29:25.800 for this in

00:29:26.260 any way, I

00:29:26.740 haven't checked

00:29:27.060 his Twitter

00:29:27.420 feed this

00:29:27.800 morning, that'll

00:29:28.660 be interesting

00:29:29.160 because there's

00:29:29.680 a fair bit of

00:29:30.220 tension between

00:29:31.000 the federal

00:29:31.620 Conservatives and

00:29:32.760 the Ontario

00:29:33.460 Progressive

00:29:34.020 Conservatives,

00:29:34.540 they really

00:29:34.840 don't get

00:29:35.180 along.

00:29:35.940 So I can

00:29:36.380 see, I

00:29:37.200 don't know, I

00:29:37.600 don't want to

00:29:37.980 get too much

00:29:38.460 into the

00:29:38.760 palace intrigue

00:29:39.540 of this, but

00:29:39.940 I can see

00:29:40.520 Pollyev as 0.92

00:29:41.580 actually really

00:29:43.140 trying to stick

00:29:43.740 it to Ford by

00:29:44.840 saying something

00:29:46.320 nice about what

00:29:46.940 Bonnie Crombie is

00:29:47.560 doing.

00:29:47.880 So I'll keep

00:29:48.500 an eye out for

00:29:49.060 it.

00:29:49.180 Anyway, I have

00:29:49.940 no inside

00:29:50.380 knowledge on

00:29:50.960 that part.

00:29:51.700 I just, knowing

00:29:52.640 the other stuff,

00:29:53.900 the relational

00:29:54.600 stuff I was

00:29:55.160 talking about, I

00:29:56.220 wouldn't be

00:29:56.560 surprised.

00:29:57.280 Now, that is

00:29:58.080 going to do it

00:29:58.560 for us for

00:29:58.940 today.

00:29:59.300 I will say

00:29:59.780 though, because

00:30:00.980 I mentioned

00:30:01.340 Handmaid's Tale

00:30:02.080 last week, I

00:30:03.040 started watching

00:30:03.880 the show The

00:30:05.040 Handmaid's Tale,

00:30:06.000 which is based on

00:30:06.740 the Margaret Atwood

00:30:07.320 book, and I

00:30:07.800 mentioned it on

00:30:08.540 the show, and

00:30:08.960 then Sean, my

00:30:09.780 producer who's

00:30:10.400 off today, said

00:30:10.980 he likes The

00:30:11.440 Handmaid's Tale.

00:30:12.520 It is having a

00:30:14.060 weird effect on

00:30:15.040 me, because two

00:30:17.340 nights ago, I had

00:30:19.240 a weird dream

00:30:19.800 about Margaret

00:30:20.340 Atwood.

00:30:20.660 No, not that

00:30:21.200 kind of dream.

00:30:21.860 It was not that

00:30:22.500 kind of dream

00:30:22.920 about Margaret

00:30:23.420 Atwood.

00:30:24.120 But I dreamed

00:30:25.000 that I was

00:30:25.760 walking down a

00:30:26.880 Toronto street, and

00:30:27.920 I saw Margaret

00:30:28.500 Atwood, and I

00:30:29.020 wanted a selfie

00:30:29.580 with her, and

00:30:30.740 she ignored me,

00:30:31.880 so then I went

00:30:32.560 into some hipster

00:30:33.680 cafe and sat

00:30:34.500 down and had a

00:30:35.040 coffee, and then

00:30:36.100 she followed me

00:30:37.060 in and joined

00:30:37.960 me, and we

00:30:39.160 sat down and

00:30:40.040 spoke for 20

00:30:40.700 minutes about

00:30:41.320 free speech, and

00:30:42.220 we agreed.

00:30:43.180 So I don't know

00:30:44.540 what to take from

00:30:45.100 that.

00:30:45.340 Margaret Atwood

00:30:45.820 did come out and

00:30:46.600 criticize Bill C-63

00:30:48.260 as Orwellian, so

00:30:49.720 perhaps that was

00:30:51.100 buried in my

00:30:51.820 subconscious a

00:30:52.500 little bit, as

00:30:53.020 well as The

00:30:53.440 Handmaid's Tale,

00:30:54.220 but I never

00:30:54.920 thought I'd be

00:30:55.360 dreaming about

00:30:55.940 Margaret Atwood.

00:30:56.740 So anyway,

00:30:57.780 without further

00:30:58.580 ado, I will end

00:30:59.400 things there, but

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