Juno News - January 19, 2026Trump FURIOUS over Carney cozying up with China
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Candice Malan talks about the Emergencies Act being upheld, Justin Trudeau's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause, and the new trade deal between Canada and China. She also explains why she thinks China is a threat to Canada's national security.
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Hope everyone had a wonderful
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weekend. It is great to be with you. There's so much going on in the news with Mark Carney and
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his world tour. He was in China over the weekend, then on to Qatar. Now he's back at home where he
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feels comfortable at Davos talking with the global elite at the World Economic Forum. So we will talk
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about that. We'll talk about the Emergencies Act being upheld. Yes, it was unconstitutional. Yes,
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Justin Trudeau acted unreasonably when he invoked it against the peaceful trucker peace convoy.
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And finally, I told you on Friday that I was celebrating 12 years of marriage over the
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weekend. So I will reflect a little bit on that. All right, let's get right to it. So everybody
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was focused on this clip. It's a flashback of Prime Minister Mark Carney just less than a year ago in
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April during the federal election when he said that China is the greatest threat to national
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security. Let's play that clip. Well, we're in a security section. I think we didn't have a chance
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to talk about anything internationally. I think the biggest security threat to Canada is China.
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China, you say? Yeah. So our biggest national security threat, I actually agree with him on that.
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I think when you're looking into the future, you're thinking about the Arctic and our rare minerals up
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there and what the future is going to look like. Yes, China is a threat. Yes, they have their eye
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on Canada. And therefore, having deeper integration with them, having a closer relationship and alliance
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with them, probably not wise. And yet, fast forward to January 2026. And here we have Mark Carney
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announcing a new special relationship partnership trade deal with the same Chinese government. Let's
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play this clip that we aired again on Friday of Mark Carney talking about his new world order.
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We're hardened by the leadership of President Xi Jinping and the speed with which our relationship
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has progressed in recent months. This sets the stage for these important discussions on a wide range of
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issues where we can be strategic partners, from energy to agriculture, to people to people ties, to
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multilateralism, to issues on security. And I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership
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Man, that guy talks so slowly. He's like half asleep. I get it. Maybe he's a little jet lagged
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being in China, but wow, does he ever talk? So anyway, you heard him say that this new partnership
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has accelerated quickly. It's a strategic partnership. Here we are setting up the new
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world order, which again, of course, that's supposed to be conspiracy theory. And yet,
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when Mark Carney is saying it, he's talking about the reality, which is that he doesn't think that
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America is a reliable partner anymore. He doesn't see the Western liberal order as being
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predominant anymore. The world is shifting and therefore Canada has to go and make new partnerships
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like that with China. Well, that gave Pierre Pauly, a leader of the opposition, a great
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opportunity for this singer. He posted this on X. Which of these two men do you agree with? And he
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shared both of those two clips back to back. You can't have it both ways, Mark Carney. You can't say
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the truth, which is that China is a large security threat to Canada, but then also that they are the
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way that we're going to focus. We're going to turn our attention away from our American friends and
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allies away from the people who we have shared values and a shared continent and a shared history
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together with. And we're going to forge a new partnership with a totally unreliable ally that
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has all kinds of problems, all kinds of things wrong with a communist dictatorship over in China.
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And I want to point something out as well, because the way that the media covered this was just not
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right. They led with the story that Mark Carney has forged a new trade deal and that that is a done
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deal and that we have a new partnership and a new agreement with China. But that's not even true,
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right? If you look carefully at what the statement said and what he posted himself, Prime Minister
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Mark Carney, on X, he says that he expects that China will reduce its tariff. So I'm going to read
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this tweet again because it's really important. We're removing trade barriers to unlock billions of
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dollars in business for Canadian farmers, fish harvesters, workers across agri-food sectors. By March 1st,
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we expect that China will lower tariffs on Canadian canola from 84% to 15% and that Canadian canola
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meal, peas, lobsters, and crab will no longer be subject to anti-discrimination tariffs. Okay,
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so what that's saying is that we reduced our tariffs against China proactively, hoping and trusting that
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they will in turn reduce theirs two months from now. So we'll wait, I won't hold my breath, we'll wait
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and find out whether that actually happens. And it's important to know that in exchange for this
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reduction, expected reduction in a tariff, which isn't reducing a tariff, it's not eliminating a
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tariff, sorry, it's just reducing it. But that we were also allowing up to 49,000 Chinese electric
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vehicles into the Canadian market. Remember when the Canadian government was subsidizing our own
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plants and our own EV vehicles? And now we're just going to turn around and allow Chinese to flood the
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market with competitors at a lower price because they undercut by paying their workers next to
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nothing over there. Oh, and also, it is a proven fact that Chinese electric vehicles spy. It is
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spyware. We are allowing spyware. We might as well allow 49,000 drones to surveil Canadian roads and
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Canada so that they have the maps all lined up so that they can attack us one day because we know that
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Chinese electric vehicles are just absolute spies. Now, the bailout media is celebrating this,
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again, like I said, the way that they're framing it is that this is a huge win. Even our friends
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over at the Western Standard, look at this headline. I couldn't believe it. The Western Standard,
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Carney threads the needle with China deal that saves farmers and cools tariffs. Wow, guys,
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getting a little heated over Mark Carney there. I guess that is what accepting a government bailout
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will do. Sadly, the Western Standard took that government bailout journalism fund. Derek Fildebrandt,
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the editor announced it last year, and all of a sudden now they are also trumpeting in support
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of Carney, I guess, not just them. The CBC, going to play a clip here from a panel, Rosemary Barton
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states clearly that China is a better and more reliable partner than the United States. And of
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course, the panel just takes it all up and repeats it back, says insane things like the fact that the
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Chinese have a better human rights record than Americans. Unbelievable. Let's play that clip.
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As the prime minister himself agrees with that notion that China is more reliable and more
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predictable than the United States, I think that's probably a fair assessment, frankly, given
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what's happened just over this weekend. No, that's not fair.
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We could be raising exactly the same question with our relationship with the U.S.
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Where are our guardrails when it comes to human rights abuse, when it comes to ICE agents coming
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in and harassing and deporting people and locking them up, even American citizens killing them
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on the street? Where is our moral stand there? If you cannot rely on people's ethical stands when it
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comes to commercial relationship, what you can do to protect your own capacity to be taking
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decisions on your own and protect your own sovereignty is really just to diversify, not to put
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your eggs all in the same basket and make sure that there is basically evil everywhere, but you're not
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too dependent on one sort of evil. Okay, that was totally insane. The fact that CBC airs that kind
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of nonsense tells you exactly where CBC is. So we're supposed to believe that immigration
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officers in the United States deporting dangerous criminals and getting bad guys out of the country,
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which is something that Canada really needs to do, by the way. That is the equivalent of a communist
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dictatorship that locks down, that shuts down newspapers, that doesn't have any free press,
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that doesn't have any opposition parties. It's a one party state over there that people just disappear
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for the crime of criticizing the government, that there are work camps and slave labor camps all over
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like all the terrible things about China is the moral equivalent of ICE trying to deport bad guys
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and one woman getting killed because she got in the way of a active ongoing law enforcement
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investigation. Okay there, CBC, good luck pushing that narrative and that nonsense. Okay, so there are
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many problems with cozying up to China. I've said a few. Obviously, Chinese EVs are nothing but spyware.
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But also, this is an interesting tidbit that Cat Canada pointed out on X, which is that Brookfield
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is making a lot of money off of this. So here is Cat Canada on X. She says, hey Grok, does China's
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EV market have anything to do with Carney's investment firm, Brookfield? Grok says yes and then goes on to
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name all of the different ways that Brookfield has been investing in this agency, in this industry
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and is set to actually make money on this, which I don't think that's why Carney is doing this,
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but it doesn't help optically, right? You have these conflicts of interest. You had this as a
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big issue during the election campaign. Everything that Carney is announcing in terms of his policy,
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his policy playbook, all ties back to Brookfield. Not a good look at all. And then, of course,
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you have Carney saying that he expects reciprocal trade and that yes, it is based on trust. You had
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Rosemary Barton there saying that China is more predictable. China is more stable. I don't think so.
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I don't think that you can actually trust and rely on China, but we'll see in March. And then final
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big problem here with Carney cozying up to China and Xi Jinping is the fact that everybody is
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watching, everybody is noticing, and the Americans aren't too happy about it. And so I'm going to show
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you this clip. This is this post, sorry, this is Mark Carney. He posted it on his next page. He says,
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a pleasure to meet with President Xi in Beijing. Canada and China are forging a new strategic
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partnership. We're leveraging our strength, focusing on trade, energy, agriculture, seafood,
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and other areas where we can make massive gains for both of our people. This post went absolutely
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viral. A picture of their two smiling faces. Mark Carney couldn't be more excited to meet with
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the Chinese dictator and Xi Jinping just sort of looking stoic as he always does. But that clip,
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that image got millions and millions of views and impressions. Everybody chiming in on it seemed like
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people on the left were kind of blaming Trump saying, you know, this is what happens when you
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nudge and bully Canada and joke about the 51st state and annexation. You drive away your allies
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and look at what we've done. Look what we made Carney do go and cozy up to China. Whereas people on the
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right and more sensible people in my mind say like, what is happening with Canada? What is going on?
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They are openly cozying up with somebody that they really shouldn't be. I want to point out this post by
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the US Oil and Gas Association. They quote tweeted that picture. And they said, Alberta, we love you.
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You complete us. Which got quite a big response as well. Kind of openly, you know, saying it out loud.
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Alberta, are you sure you really want to be going down this path with your prime minister there with
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the Chinese dictator? I don't know. I don't want to be going down that path. Likewise, Steve Bannon in
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his podcast, War Room. So Steve Bannon is a Trump longtime advisor and friend. And I think that when
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he speaks, he really gets to the heart of probably what Trump is thinking, but what people in his
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orbit, people around him, people who are advising him think when they see this kind of thing. So Steve
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Bannon, I'll play you a clip from his podcast, but this is basically what his War Room post tweeted.
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They said, Canada is in the vital national security interest of the United States. This is
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inextricably linked to Western Hemisphere defense. Hemispheric defense for the United States starts
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in Canada. Canada is rapidly changing. These people are hostile to the United States of America,
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not neutral. They're hostile to the United States of America. Let's play that clip.
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You're seeing a shift in Canada right now. And this is why I think Alberta in this succession
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movement, they're seeing, they're sitting there going, it's not just about economics. That's not about
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tax policy. Canada is rapidly changing. 25% of Canada's, you just heard Tomlinson say, 25% of
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Canada's population is foreign born. 25%. Right now, Canada is rapidly changing. And I'm going to tell
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you, if you look at parliament, if you look at some of these papers, you look at the discussion
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on TV there, Brian Kennedy, these people are hostile to the United States of America, not neutral.
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They're hostile to the United States of America, sir.
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So not a good look for Canada to be out there cozying up with China when our friends and allies
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in America, yes, they're still our friends and allies. I know you might not like this in
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administration. You might not like what Trump is doing and thinking, but they are still our closest
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allies, friends and partners. And they are looking at this and saying Canada's hostile. Canada's
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hostile. And yes, the United States protects the North. The United States is the reason that Canada
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can be an independent country. We don't spend as much on our military as we should. We would stand no
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chance if we were ever attacked by a real serious country, a country like Russia or China or Iran or
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anyone else that has a real military. And so we rely on the United States. And when the United States
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sees us cozying up with China, they have every right to be worried, to be angry, to be upset. And in this
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case, to even think it's an act of hostility. This is not a good path to be going down. I think that Canadians
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prefer the days when we just had a simple friendship with America. Yes, maybe we free
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road a little bit too much and we should contribute more. But just because we're having this little
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feud is no reason to turn our backs and to try to cozy up with China, a country like China, which is
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obviously an adversary to the United States. And yes, even President Trump himself seems to be
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noticing. So NBC News was reporting this on Sunday, January 18th, so last night, that Trump's latest
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Western Hemisphere fixation is on Canada. And the story itself goes on to say that the president has
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intensified his criticism of Canada in private conversations with aides in recent weeks over
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what he sees as a country's vulnerability to US adversaries in the Arctic. So again, yes, Americans
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have every right to be concerned. And if they think that China has a foothold, that China is going to gain
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access to our North, that is a very big problem for the United States, a big problem that may lead to
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them potentially having to mobilize the military, not what we want, but it could happen. And what
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does Canada do? They can't help themselves, right? They just love to sit on the sidelines
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and criticize, do the armchair quarterback thing and criticize America for what they're doing. So
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they both, both Prime Minister Mark Carney and leader of the opposition, Pierre Polyev, had tough
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words for President Trump over Greenland. As you know, Trump was threatening tariffs on the European
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nations, the eight European nations who are opposing and standing in the way of the US,
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trying to make a new deal to take over control of Greenland. So Trump has issued those tariffs.
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And what does Mark Carney say? Well, he is weighing in on sending soldiers to Greenland for military
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exercises with NATO allies. Why? Why do we have to get involved in this? Why do we have to bud
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ourselves into this? It's between Trump and those European countries over protecting Greenland, over
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what's best for the world with regards to Greenland. I got to tell you, I don't have a problem with
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America taking over Greenland. I really don't. I think it's probably in better hands, safer hands
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in a world where it is an adversarial place. There are bad guys out there. There are bad countries that
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want to take over these kinds of things. And I'm sorry, I don't think that Greenland is protected by
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Denmark. I don't think that Denmark has what it takes to keep Greenland safe and sovereign and to
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stop an invading force like Russia or China. And I don't know about NATO. I think that NATO's days are
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pretty much numbered. So I don't think Canada should have got involved. I don't want to hear
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what Mark Carney has to say on this. And I really don't want to hear what Pierre Polyev has to say
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on this. And here he is trying to out-liberal the liberals on X. Here is his statement. He says,
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it is unacceptable for the US to seize the territory of a sovereign country, including by threatening
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tariffs on other NATO countries. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and we support its
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territorial integrity. Conservatives support NATO, Canada's obligation as a NATO member. Canada should
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strengthen the NATO alliance and rebuild our own forces in the Arctic to combat threats coming
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from China and Russia and to protect our skies, our sea skies and soil. You know, the bottom part of
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that, I agree generally, yes, we should strengthen our own military and that we should work to protect
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the North. But again, I think this is what got Pierre Polyev into trouble in the last election. He
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didn't really know where he stand. A lot of times he was trying to out-liberal the liberals
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on the US trying to be tougher on Trump, saying, Trump likes Mark Carney better than me. I'm tougher
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on Trump. Nobody's buying it. Nobody's buying it. Might want to just sit this one out. Okay,
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let's move on to Carney's visit to Qatar. Interesting to know, this is the first ever visit by a Canadian
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sitting prime minister to Qatar. And I'm not sure that we really want to deepen our cooperation,
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trade, investment, and have security partnerships with, again, another dictatorship. This one,
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an Islamist dictatorship that is known for harboring terrorists, known for being a state sponsor of
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terror. Again, just because we're mad at the United States, just because we don't like President Trump
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doesn't mean we have to go on this world tour and cozy up with the worst of the worst and the terrible
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bad guys in the entire world. So here is Arielle Kimmel on X saying, I'm sorry, now the RCMP is going
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to have a partnership with the Qatari police, the state sponsors of Hamas. We're just jumping into bed
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with authoritarian terrorist regimes. And you see our foreign minister, Anita Anand, there cozying up with
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some kind of a Qatari official there. Yeah, not a good look, guys. Not a good look. And of course, of course,
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there's another Brookfield connection, because there's always a Brookfield connection. So here's Melissa Rogers
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So last month, Brookfield and Qatar Investment Authority teamed up on a $20 billion venture to
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invest in AI infrastructure. Coincidentally, Kari and Qatar making AI announcements, collaboration
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with Qatar. One big circle. Hmm. Hmm. Guys, again, not a very good look for our prime minister. And like
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I said, he is in Davos this week. I'm sure he's just going to be loving every moment of it. It's where
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he feels the most comfortable with his fellow elites, the World Economic Forum. So we will be
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keeping an eye on that. Here's another one that happened just after we recorded on Friday.
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The Emergencies Act ruling was upheld. So read a little bit from the CBC here. It says,
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Federal government loses Emergencies Act. Appeal court says use during convoy protest was unreasonable.
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And oh, I'm sure it was just so difficult for the CBC to have to write this story. Federal Court of
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Appeals upholds decision that protest did not meet the threshold of national security threat. Yes,
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it was all propaganda. It was all lies. Justin Trudeau did act unreasonably. It was always about
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power. It was always about squashing those who opposed him. It was never about anything else.
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The CBC pretended the entire time that it was some deep threat to our democracy. It was an insurgency.
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It was a January 6th of Canada. That was all not true. All nonsense. Okay. I just,
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I enjoy reading this. This is from the CBC. I don't usually enjoy reading the CBC,
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but I'm sure it was just so difficult for them to actually have to write this.
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So I'll read a little bit from the story. The liberal government unreasonably invoked the
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Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests at gridlock the capital city and border points.
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Nearly four years ago, the Federal Court of Appeals ruled on Friday, the court dismissed the
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government's appeal of the 2024 ruling, which deemed former prime minister Justin Trudeau's decision to
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use legislation unlawful and infringed on protesters' charter rights. Yes, read it and weep, CBC. You
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did. You pushed this. You were the one that upheld Justin Trudeau's propaganda. They were partially
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using your fake news reports as justification for their illegal use of force. And now it is all
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coming back. The record has been set. Canadians will remember this. And let me just say that this
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was a big part of the launch of my news organization and my career as a journalist and as a podcaster,
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because we, at the time True North, were reporting on the ground. We were at the forefront of all of
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this. We were one of the few voices that were going against the lies and the propaganda of the
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legacy media. And that's how we connected with our audience, built our audience. It was a great
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time for us, as terrible as it was really for the protesters and for the country under lockdown and
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under ridiculous COVID restrictions for years and years and years. That Freedom Convoy was what broke us
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out of it. And it is what broke independent media apart from the rest. And so many Canadians saw
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the light. So we are grateful. We look back at that time with gratitude, especially towards the
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truckers. All right, folks. Well, on Friday's show, I also let you know that I was celebrating my wedding
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anniversary over the weekend. And yes, my husband Kaz and I have been married for 12 years. So it's always
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fun to reflect upon your marriage together, your time together. Interesting too, because I think
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when you're first married and your first year anniversary or second year anniversary, you make
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a big, big deal about it. You might go out for dinner or go somewhere special or do something
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nice. Once you've been married for 12 years and you have four kids like we do, it's like, if you can get
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an hour together, it's a blessing, right? And so it was kind of nice to do the anniversary. We actually
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gave gifts to the kids this year and we had just a nice morning together. We went to church and then my
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husband and I were able to sneak out with some babysitters for the kids and have a nice lunch
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together. So it was good. I wanted to just say one thing because someone mentioned this to me and I
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wanted to point out that they said, you know, marriage takes work. Marriage takes work. And I
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actually disagree with this concept. I think when I think of work, I think of like cleaning my kitchen
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or like, or like going through my inbox and replying to emails that have been like sitting there and I
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need to reply to. That is work. Marriage is one of the joys of life. It is the absolute, absolute
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foundation of your life. And I think the person that you marry is the most important decision that you
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will make in your entire life. I think our society tells young women and young men to a certain
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extent, you know, to focus your time when you're young on your education and your career and setting
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all of that up. But I actually don't think that is the most important thing. I think that focusing
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on making the right choice, meeting the right person, choosing well when you marry and then
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building that together. It's a joy, right? You should want to spend time with your spouse. You should
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look forward to it and you shouldn't think of it as work. It's just not. It's one of the great joys of
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life. So yes, happily married for 12 years with four children, and I can't recommend getting
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married enough. So if you're not married, I totally recommend focusing on that and making
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that a priority. All right, folks, that's all the time we have for today. Thanks so much for
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tuning in. We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news. Thank you so much for Candice Malcolm.
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This is the Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.