00:00:50.020I mean, I don't know if you were in this boat.
00:00:51.880But I sort of mocked this idea of a feminist foreign policy when it was first announced
00:00:56.260because it just didn't seem to be coming from anywhere and rooted in any practical manifestations of what this would be.
00:01:03.400But the government was committed to it.
00:01:04.840They said we're going to apply a gender lens to everything and they do this in their dealings in government.
00:01:10.640And here we have one case where you'd think the feminist perspective is pretty ironclad and pretty clear cut.
00:01:17.100And oddly, our foreign policy was not interested in that.
00:01:19.660No, they weren't. But look, this goes back to every issue that Trudeau's dealt with on this front.
00:01:27.800You recall that when he was first elected, he said he'd have a gender balance cabinet.
00:01:33.480And I'm going off memory here. So if I'm off by one or two, forgive me.
00:01:37.980But 2015, he announces the gender balance cabinet. And why?
00:01:42.720Because it's 2015. And then we get the order of precedence, which, you know, details which cabinet ministers are considered most senior,
00:01:51.320which ones would take over in the event something happens to the prime minister.
00:01:54.900And it's all old white men at the top. And then we find out that five of the 15 cabinet ministers in that first cabinet are all junior cabinet ministers.
00:02:06.160They're not even full ministers. So they make less money.
00:02:08.820They have less seniority. They have fewer, you know, a lesser department.
00:02:13.160And they were all women. So, you know, that was pointed out.
00:02:16.740And they said, oh, well, that's just a mistake. And then they fixed it.
00:02:19.840Time and again, you can look at their feminist credentials and Trudeau fails on every front.
00:02:26.620Groping a reporter, elbowing, you know, a female MP in the breast just because things were being delayed and he was frustrated.
00:02:34.680Time and again, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott, Cesar Sivana, Selena.
00:03:36.900Did did did the rapes actually happen?
00:03:38.940And I don't know if we believe I mean, but they don't even care about this glaring gap in the rules they've established over the last six years and the rules as they pertain to Hamas terrorists.
00:03:51.360Melanie Jolie was heritage minister when the Me Too movement started and she went on CBC on Q and did an interview all about that topic.
00:03:59.040She was foreign minister when last year when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and as part of her feminist foreign policy,
00:04:07.420stood there with Justin Trudeau denouncing the American Supreme Court, overturning abortion law, federal abortion precedent and returning that issue to state legislatures.
00:04:59.360The international observers, the Israeli government, the Israeli defense forces, images put up by Hamas themselves to brag about what they did,
00:05:09.060all point to the proof that women were raped on October 7th.
00:05:40.860But as you alluded to, as the conflict's gone on, they've started to waver all over the place.
00:05:46.660But for the foreign affairs minister of a feminist government implementing a feminist foreign policy not to come up with this, it is mind-boggling.
00:05:57.400And I was writing on another issue today.
00:06:00.200And I'm finding, you know, references to their feminist agenda on climate change.
00:06:04.960You know, I don't think a lot of mothers who do shopping for their kids to feed them will be happy with what that leads to with a higher price for hamburger meat.
00:06:14.180But, you know, this language is peppered all through the government's talking points and its agenda.
00:06:21.560It's just not present in the actual reality of how they operate.
00:06:27.060Yeah, I mean, anyone who's ever looked at ATIPS, government documents,
00:06:31.460you'll see oftentimes these reports on the gender-based GBA+, gender-based analysis+,
00:06:37.280and it's that you have to take anything and everything and somehow find a gender argument.
00:07:11.400The policy isn't saying, you know what, we're going to go to the UN and we're going to raise issue with the fact that Iran is chairing the,
00:07:22.160I forget what the exact title is, but there's a gender council within the human rights realm at the United Nations.
00:08:52.200So when you're launching your new dictatorship, you want to call it like Ardvarkistan or something, and then you'll be like first on the order of precedence for all of these things.
00:09:05.160Let me just, I want to talk about one of your climate pieces.
00:09:08.260But before, let me just ask you about the equivocation and the wavering of this government.
00:09:13.940Do you think it is a government that is letting its, you know, inner desires come out, like they were only able to hold up the veneer for so long?
00:09:21.920Or do you think they're responsive to a change in the climate that they're seeing?
00:09:26.700And it's a bit more cynical in that sense.
00:09:28.940I think that there are real divides within the Liberal Party, and I think there's real divides on the issue of how to, you know, what stands to take on the war that Hamas launched against Israel within Canadian society at large.
00:09:43.520You know, I've taken what I believe to be the only correct moral stand, and that is that Israel has a right to defend itself and the true oppressors of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
00:09:53.140Well, that's Hamas, and Hamas must be eradicated.
00:09:56.000I'm glad to see Bernie Sanders in the United States saying that.
00:09:59.800While we've got aggressive politicians up here saying, calling for ceasefire, Bernie Sanders is on TV explaining why that can't happen.
00:10:09.420But, so, I think the government, I think Trudeau was trying to please all people, and in the end, he's pleased none.
00:10:16.520The Jewish community is livid with Justin Trudeau.
00:10:20.120And for the most part, the Jewish community have been reliable Liberal voters.
00:10:24.040Some did move over to the Conservatives during the Harper years.
00:10:26.920But for the most part, most have still been reliably Liberal.
00:10:31.540But the Muslim community, which has been courted by Trudeau, well, you saw the story the other day.
00:10:38.240400 Muslim professionals who have been donors to the Laurier Club signed a letter saying they're leaving.
00:10:43.640And then, on the weekend, there was a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ottawa that marched to Langevin bloc, where Trudeau's office is, and were denouncing him as a terrorist, claiming he had blood on his hands for refusing to call for a ceasefire now.
00:11:29.660Okay, let me just switch my browser window here to, this is the Government of Canada announces new economic incentive to reduce methane emissions from beef cattle.
00:11:39.780It is the protocol called reducing enteric methane emissions from beef cattle.
00:11:47.340Cows burp a lot, and they want that to change.
00:11:52.640They want better handling of manure on farms.
00:11:54.840Look, this is, these are all good things.
00:11:57.160And farmers are some of the most environmentally conscious, actually environmentally conscious people you will ever meet because it's their livelihood.
00:12:06.020But what the Trudeau government wants to do is try and get farmers to use more expensive feeds.
00:12:11.700Right now, most cattle in this country, they are raised on a, from calf to, to stock.
00:12:17.920They're raised on a diet of grass or hay, and they might be finished with corn at the end, but they're going to be raised on, mostly on that.
00:12:26.880They're going to be out in the pasture in the winter.
00:12:28.680They're going to eat from those big round bales of hay that we see going by on trucks all the time.
00:12:32.860Going to a corn-based island, corn silage, or adding red seaweed apparently can help reduce the methane, or adding chemicals.
00:12:41.860This has potential to change the composition of the beef, but also it's going to be more expensive.
00:12:50.060Now, they say, well, we're going to be able to allow farmers to sell offsets, and that'll make them more money.
00:12:56.120Well, just like the carbon tax, though, it's going to drive up prices.
00:12:58.820And so you and I are going to have to pay more.
00:13:01.100We're all going to be like Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon saying, I don't know how to call it hamburger helper.
00:13:05.900Tastes just fine on its own, because we won't be able to afford the hamburger.
00:13:10.560Now, here's the other funny part is for years, we've had consumers who can afford it moving towards grass-fed beef, and you see grass-fed milk.
00:13:26.020You're going to have less of that if you follow the government's plan, because, you know, the beef will be better for the planet, but not as good for you.
00:13:33.660So it's a bizarre situation, but climate change policy comes before everything, including you having a healthy diet, Andrew.
00:13:43.140Yeah, so coming soon is going to be like the bovine flatulence tax, where, you know, cows just basically have to pay a levy any time they, you know, let a bit of gas out.
00:13:51.300One dollar out the front, two dollars out the back.
00:13:53.300I think that's how it's going to be calculated.
00:13:54.900Jacinda Erd-Hearn's government, New Zealand, brought in one of those.
00:13:58.060Now, they've just lost power, and they've brought in a conservative government who's put that on pause for now.