Juno News - Trump FURIOUS over Carney cozying up with China

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Hope everyone had a wonderful

00:00:10.380 weekend. It is great to be with you. There's so much going on in the news with Mark Carney and

00:00:15.240 his world tour. He was in China over the weekend, then on to Qatar. Now he's back at home where he

00:00:21.280 feels comfortable at Davos talking with the global elite at the World Economic Forum. So we will talk

00:00:26.600 about that. We'll talk about the Emergencies Act being upheld. Yes, it was unconstitutional. Yes,

00:00:32.780 Justin Trudeau acted unreasonably when he invoked it against the peaceful trucker peace convoy.

00:00:38.820 And finally, I told you on Friday that I was celebrating 12 years of marriage over the

00:00:42.400 weekend. So I will reflect a little bit on that. All right, let's get right to it. So everybody

00:00:46.920 was focused on this clip. It's a flashback of Prime Minister Mark Carney just less than a year ago in

00:00:52.900 April during the federal election when he said that China is the greatest threat to national

00:00:59.400 security. Let's play that clip. Well, we're in a security section. I think we didn't have a chance

00:01:05.280 to talk about anything internationally. I think the biggest security threat to Canada is China. 0.98

00:01:09.720 China, you say? Yeah. So our biggest national security threat, I actually agree with him on that. 1.00

00:01:14.860 I think when you're looking into the future, you're thinking about the Arctic and our rare minerals up

00:01:18.840 there and what the future is going to look like. Yes, China is a threat. Yes, they have their eye 0.87

00:01:23.300 on Canada. And therefore, having deeper integration with them, having a closer relationship and alliance

00:01:28.300 with them, probably not wise. And yet, fast forward to January 2026. And here we have Mark Carney

00:01:34.800 announcing a new special relationship partnership trade deal with the same Chinese government. Let's

00:01:40.760 play this clip that we aired again on Friday of Mark Carney talking about his new world order.

00:01:46.320 We're hardened by the leadership of President Xi Jinping and the speed with which our relationship

00:01:58.660 has progressed in recent months. This sets the stage for these important discussions on a wide range of

00:02:07.960 issues where we can be strategic partners, from energy to agriculture, to people to people ties, to

00:02:19.360 multilateralism, to issues on security. And I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership

00:02:26.580 sets us up well for the new world order.

00:02:33.400 Man, that guy talks so slowly. He's like half asleep. I get it. Maybe he's a little jet lagged

00:02:38.860 being in China, but wow, does he ever talk? So anyway, you heard him say that this new partnership

00:02:42.820 has accelerated quickly. It's a strategic partnership. Here we are setting up the new

00:02:47.600 world order, which again, of course, that's supposed to be conspiracy theory. And yet,

00:02:51.620 when Mark Carney is saying it, he's talking about the reality, which is that he doesn't think that

00:02:56.040 America is a reliable partner anymore. He doesn't see the Western liberal order as being

00:03:00.740 predominant anymore. The world is shifting and therefore Canada has to go and make new partnerships

00:03:05.380 like that with China. Well, that gave Pierre Pauly, a leader of the opposition, a great 0.56

00:03:09.800 opportunity for this singer. He posted this on X. Which of these two men do you agree with? And he

00:03:14.720 shared both of those two clips back to back. You can't have it both ways, Mark Carney. You can't say

00:03:19.760 the truth, which is that China is a large security threat to Canada, but then also that they are the 1.00

00:03:25.100 way that we're going to focus. We're going to turn our attention away from our American friends and

00:03:28.280 allies away from the people who we have shared values and a shared continent and a shared history

00:03:32.260 together with. And we're going to forge a new partnership with a totally unreliable ally that

00:03:37.180 has all kinds of problems, all kinds of things wrong with a communist dictatorship over in China.

00:03:44.340 And I want to point something out as well, because the way that the media covered this was just not

00:03:48.300 right. They led with the story that Mark Carney has forged a new trade deal and that that is a done

00:03:53.780 deal and that we have a new partnership and a new agreement with China. But that's not even true,

00:03:58.520 right? If you look carefully at what the statement said and what he posted himself, Prime Minister

00:04:03.560 Mark Carney, on X, he says that he expects that China will reduce its tariff. So I'm going to read

00:04:08.940 this tweet again because it's really important. We're removing trade barriers to unlock billions of

00:04:13.280 dollars in business for Canadian farmers, fish harvesters, workers across agri-food sectors. By March 1st,

00:04:19.100 we expect that China will lower tariffs on Canadian canola from 84% to 15% and that Canadian canola

00:04:25.200 meal, peas, lobsters, and crab will no longer be subject to anti-discrimination tariffs. Okay,

00:04:30.820 so what that's saying is that we reduced our tariffs against China proactively, hoping and trusting that

00:04:38.840 they will in turn reduce theirs two months from now. So we'll wait, I won't hold my breath, we'll wait

00:04:45.020 and find out whether that actually happens. And it's important to know that in exchange for this

00:04:50.260 reduction, expected reduction in a tariff, which isn't reducing a tariff, it's not eliminating a

00:04:55.280 tariff, sorry, it's just reducing it. But that we were also allowing up to 49,000 Chinese electric

00:05:01.720 vehicles into the Canadian market. Remember when the Canadian government was subsidizing our own

00:05:06.900 plants and our own EV vehicles? And now we're just going to turn around and allow Chinese to flood the 1.00

00:05:11.580 market with competitors at a lower price because they undercut by paying their workers next to

00:05:16.780 nothing over there. Oh, and also, it is a proven fact that Chinese electric vehicles spy. It is

00:05:23.240 spyware. We are allowing spyware. We might as well allow 49,000 drones to surveil Canadian roads and

00:05:29.040 Canada so that they have the maps all lined up so that they can attack us one day because we know that

00:05:33.600 Chinese electric vehicles are just absolute spies. Now, the bailout media is celebrating this,

00:05:41.120 again, like I said, the way that they're framing it is that this is a huge win. Even our friends

00:05:45.940 over at the Western Standard, look at this headline. I couldn't believe it. The Western Standard,

00:05:50.280 Carney threads the needle with China deal that saves farmers and cools tariffs. Wow, guys,

00:05:56.660 getting a little heated over Mark Carney there. I guess that is what accepting a government bailout

00:06:02.200 will do. Sadly, the Western Standard took that government bailout journalism fund. Derek Fildebrandt,

00:06:07.320 the editor announced it last year, and all of a sudden now they are also trumpeting in support

00:06:12.800 of Carney, I guess, not just them. The CBC, going to play a clip here from a panel, Rosemary Barton

00:06:18.080 states clearly that China is a better and more reliable partner than the United States. And of

00:06:25.100 course, the panel just takes it all up and repeats it back, says insane things like the fact that the

00:06:31.220 Chinese have a better human rights record than Americans. Unbelievable. Let's play that clip. 1.00

00:06:35.660 As the prime minister himself agrees with that notion that China is more reliable and more

00:06:41.620 predictable than the United States, I think that's probably a fair assessment, frankly, given

00:06:46.600 what's happened just over this weekend. No, that's not fair.

00:06:50.700 We could be raising exactly the same question with our relationship with the U.S.

00:06:55.020 Where are our guardrails when it comes to human rights abuse, when it comes to ICE agents coming

00:07:00.820 in and harassing and deporting people and locking them up, even American citizens killing them 0.84

00:07:09.900 on the street? Where is our moral stand there? If you cannot rely on people's ethical stands when it

00:07:20.980 comes to commercial relationship, what you can do to protect your own capacity to be taking

00:07:28.740 decisions on your own and protect your own sovereignty is really just to diversify, not to put

00:07:34.680 your eggs all in the same basket and make sure that there is basically evil everywhere, but you're not

00:07:40.540 too dependent on one sort of evil. Okay, that was totally insane. The fact that CBC airs that kind

00:07:45.440 of nonsense tells you exactly where CBC is. So we're supposed to believe that immigration 1.00

00:07:50.340 officers in the United States deporting dangerous criminals and getting bad guys out of the country,

00:07:56.060 which is something that Canada really needs to do, by the way. That is the equivalent of a communist

00:08:02.160 dictatorship that locks down, that shuts down newspapers, that doesn't have any free press,

00:08:07.260 that doesn't have any opposition parties. It's a one party state over there that people just disappear

00:08:12.000 for the crime of criticizing the government, that there are work camps and slave labor camps all over

00:08:17.540 like all the terrible things about China is the moral equivalent of ICE trying to deport bad guys

00:08:24.700 and one woman getting killed because she got in the way of a active ongoing law enforcement

00:08:30.520 investigation. Okay there, CBC, good luck pushing that narrative and that nonsense. Okay, so there are

00:08:36.680 many problems with cozying up to China. I've said a few. Obviously, Chinese EVs are nothing but spyware.

00:08:42.200 But also, this is an interesting tidbit that Cat Canada pointed out on X, which is that Brookfield

00:08:48.220 is making a lot of money off of this. So here is Cat Canada on X. She says, hey Grok, does China's 0.73

00:08:53.800 EV market have anything to do with Carney's investment firm, Brookfield? Grok says yes and then goes on to

00:08:59.780 name all of the different ways that Brookfield has been investing in this agency, in this industry

00:09:04.280 and is set to actually make money on this, which I don't think that's why Carney is doing this,

00:09:08.900 but it doesn't help optically, right? You have these conflicts of interest. You had this as a

00:09:13.020 big issue during the election campaign. Everything that Carney is announcing in terms of his policy,

00:09:17.360 his policy playbook, all ties back to Brookfield. Not a good look at all. And then, of course,

00:09:24.140 you have Carney saying that he expects reciprocal trade and that yes, it is based on trust. You had

00:09:29.600 Rosemary Barton there saying that China is more predictable. China is more stable. I don't think so.

00:09:34.920 I don't think that you can actually trust and rely on China, but we'll see in March. And then final 0.94

00:09:39.720 big problem here with Carney cozying up to China and Xi Jinping is the fact that everybody is

00:09:45.360 watching, everybody is noticing, and the Americans aren't too happy about it. And so I'm going to show

00:09:51.180 you this clip. This is this post, sorry, this is Mark Carney. He posted it on his next page. He says,

00:09:55.860 a pleasure to meet with President Xi in Beijing. Canada and China are forging a new strategic

00:10:00.500 partnership. We're leveraging our strength, focusing on trade, energy, agriculture, seafood,

00:10:04.060 and other areas where we can make massive gains for both of our people. This post went absolutely

00:10:10.000 viral. A picture of their two smiling faces. Mark Carney couldn't be more excited to meet with

00:10:15.500 the Chinese dictator and Xi Jinping just sort of looking stoic as he always does. But that clip,

00:10:21.780 that image got millions and millions of views and impressions. Everybody chiming in on it seemed like

00:10:25.760 people on the left were kind of blaming Trump saying, you know, this is what happens when you

00:10:30.380 nudge and bully Canada and joke about the 51st state and annexation. You drive away your allies

00:10:36.440 and look at what we've done. Look what we made Carney do go and cozy up to China. Whereas people on the 0.64

00:10:42.800 right and more sensible people in my mind say like, what is happening with Canada? What is going on?

00:10:47.900 They are openly cozying up with somebody that they really shouldn't be. I want to point out this post by

00:10:53.040 the US Oil and Gas Association. They quote tweeted that picture. And they said, Alberta, we love you.

00:11:00.100 You complete us. Which got quite a big response as well. Kind of openly, you know, saying it out loud.

00:11:07.320 Alberta, are you sure you really want to be going down this path with your prime minister there with

00:11:11.960 the Chinese dictator? I don't know. I don't want to be going down that path. Likewise, Steve Bannon in

00:11:17.220 his podcast, War Room. So Steve Bannon is a Trump longtime advisor and friend. And I think that when

00:11:22.360 he speaks, he really gets to the heart of probably what Trump is thinking, but what people in his

00:11:26.980 orbit, people around him, people who are advising him think when they see this kind of thing. So Steve

00:11:31.220 Bannon, I'll play you a clip from his podcast, but this is basically what his War Room post tweeted.

00:11:37.080 They said, Canada is in the vital national security interest of the United States. This is

00:11:43.000 inextricably linked to Western Hemisphere defense. Hemispheric defense for the United States starts

00:11:48.500 in Canada. Canada is rapidly changing. These people are hostile to the United States of America,

00:11:53.660 not neutral. They're hostile to the United States of America. Let's play that clip.

00:11:58.780 You're seeing a shift in Canada right now. And this is why I think Alberta in this succession

00:12:03.840 movement, they're seeing, they're sitting there going, it's not just about economics. That's not about

00:12:07.440 tax policy. Canada is rapidly changing. 25% of Canada's, you just heard Tomlinson say, 25% of

00:12:14.080 Canada's population is foreign born. 25%. Right now, Canada is rapidly changing. And I'm going to tell 0.99

00:12:22.320 you, if you look at parliament, if you look at some of these papers, you look at the discussion

00:12:26.120 on TV there, Brian Kennedy, these people are hostile to the United States of America, not neutral.

00:12:31.820 They're hostile to the United States of America, sir.

00:12:33.940 So not a good look for Canada to be out there cozying up with China when our friends and allies 0.58

00:12:39.460 in America, yes, they're still our friends and allies. I know you might not like this in

00:12:42.960 administration. You might not like what Trump is doing and thinking, but they are still our closest

00:12:47.580 allies, friends and partners. And they are looking at this and saying Canada's hostile. Canada's

00:12:52.280 hostile. And yes, the United States protects the North. The United States is the reason that Canada

00:12:57.380 can be an independent country. We don't spend as much on our military as we should. We would stand no

00:13:02.240 chance if we were ever attacked by a real serious country, a country like Russia or China or Iran or

00:13:07.880 anyone else that has a real military. And so we rely on the United States. And when the United States

00:13:11.880 sees us cozying up with China, they have every right to be worried, to be angry, to be upset. And in this 0.99

00:13:17.280 case, to even think it's an act of hostility. This is not a good path to be going down. I think that Canadians

00:13:23.240 prefer the days when we just had a simple friendship with America. Yes, maybe we free

00:13:29.840 road a little bit too much and we should contribute more. But just because we're having this little

00:13:34.740 feud is no reason to turn our backs and to try to cozy up with China, a country like China, which is

00:13:40.880 obviously an adversary to the United States. And yes, even President Trump himself seems to be

00:13:46.760 noticing. So NBC News was reporting this on Sunday, January 18th, so last night, that Trump's latest

00:13:51.400 Western Hemisphere fixation is on Canada. And the story itself goes on to say that the president has

00:13:56.600 intensified his criticism of Canada in private conversations with aides in recent weeks over

00:14:01.680 what he sees as a country's vulnerability to US adversaries in the Arctic. So again, yes, Americans

00:14:09.020 have every right to be concerned. And if they think that China has a foothold, that China is going to gain 0.90

00:14:13.580 access to our North, that is a very big problem for the United States, a big problem that may lead to

00:14:19.560 them potentially having to mobilize the military, not what we want, but it could happen. And what

00:14:24.140 does Canada do? They can't help themselves, right? They just love to sit on the sidelines 0.98

00:14:27.400 and criticize, do the armchair quarterback thing and criticize America for what they're doing. So

00:14:32.900 they both, both Prime Minister Mark Carney and leader of the opposition, Pierre Polyev, had tough

00:14:37.680 words for President Trump over Greenland. As you know, Trump was threatening tariffs on the European

00:14:44.260 nations, the eight European nations who are opposing and standing in the way of the US,

00:14:48.980 trying to make a new deal to take over control of Greenland. So Trump has issued those tariffs.

00:14:54.660 And what does Mark Carney say? Well, he is weighing in on sending soldiers to Greenland for military

00:15:01.280 exercises with NATO allies. Why? Why do we have to get involved in this? Why do we have to bud

00:15:07.280 ourselves into this? It's between Trump and those European countries over protecting Greenland, over

00:15:12.880 what's best for the world with regards to Greenland. I got to tell you, I don't have a problem with

00:15:17.540 America taking over Greenland. I really don't. I think it's probably in better hands, safer hands

00:15:21.580 in a world where it is an adversarial place. There are bad guys out there. There are bad countries that

00:15:27.660 want to take over these kinds of things. And I'm sorry, I don't think that Greenland is protected by

00:15:32.920 Denmark. I don't think that Denmark has what it takes to keep Greenland safe and sovereign and to

00:15:38.220 stop an invading force like Russia or China. And I don't know about NATO. I think that NATO's days are

00:15:45.020 pretty much numbered. So I don't think Canada should have got involved. I don't want to hear

00:15:47.940 what Mark Carney has to say on this. And I really don't want to hear what Pierre Polyev has to say

00:15:52.320 on this. And here he is trying to out-liberal the liberals on X. Here is his statement. He says,

00:15:57.580 it is unacceptable for the US to seize the territory of a sovereign country, including by threatening

00:16:02.000 tariffs on other NATO countries. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and we support its

00:16:07.420 territorial integrity. Conservatives support NATO, Canada's obligation as a NATO member. Canada should

00:16:12.500 strengthen the NATO alliance and rebuild our own forces in the Arctic to combat threats coming

00:16:17.420 from China and Russia and to protect our skies, our sea skies and soil. You know, the bottom part of

00:16:22.600 that, I agree generally, yes, we should strengthen our own military and that we should work to protect

00:16:28.240 the North. But again, I think this is what got Pierre Polyev into trouble in the last election. He

00:16:34.480 didn't really know where he stand. A lot of times he was trying to out-liberal the liberals

00:16:38.140 on the US trying to be tougher on Trump, saying, Trump likes Mark Carney better than me. I'm tougher

00:16:43.420 on Trump. Nobody's buying it. Nobody's buying it. Might want to just sit this one out. Okay,

00:16:47.740 let's move on to Carney's visit to Qatar. Interesting to know, this is the first ever visit by a Canadian

00:16:54.260 sitting prime minister to Qatar. And I'm not sure that we really want to deepen our cooperation,

00:17:01.400 trade, investment, and have security partnerships with, again, another dictatorship. This one,

00:17:06.420 an Islamist dictatorship that is known for harboring terrorists, known for being a state sponsor of 0.71

00:17:12.680 terror. Again, just because we're mad at the United States, just because we don't like President Trump

00:17:17.020 doesn't mean we have to go on this world tour and cozy up with the worst of the worst and the terrible

00:17:22.200 bad guys in the entire world. So here is Arielle Kimmel on X saying, I'm sorry, now the RCMP is going

00:17:29.540 to have a partnership with the Qatari police, the state sponsors of Hamas. We're just jumping into bed 0.85

00:17:34.740 with authoritarian terrorist regimes. And you see our foreign minister, Anita Anand, there cozying up with

00:17:42.200 some kind of a Qatari official there. Yeah, not a good look, guys. Not a good look. And of course, of course,

00:17:49.720 there's another Brookfield connection, because there's always a Brookfield connection. So here's Melissa Rogers

00:17:54.480 pointing it out on X. She writes this.

00:17:56.520 So last month, Brookfield and Qatar Investment Authority teamed up on a $20 billion venture to

00:18:03.380 invest in AI infrastructure. Coincidentally, Kari and Qatar making AI announcements, collaboration

00:18:08.720 with Qatar. One big circle. Hmm. Hmm. Guys, again, not a very good look for our prime minister. And like 0.99

00:18:18.380 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

00:18:24.600 he feels the most comfortable with his fellow elites, the World Economic Forum. So we will be

00:18:29.560 keeping an eye on that. Here's another one that happened just after we recorded on Friday.

00:18:34.780 The Emergencies Act ruling was upheld. So read a little bit from the CBC here. It says,

00:18:39.380 Federal government loses Emergencies Act. Appeal court says use during convoy protest was unreasonable.

00:18:45.940 And oh, I'm sure it was just so difficult for the CBC to have to write this story. Federal Court of

00:18:50.780 Appeals upholds decision that protest did not meet the threshold of national security threat. Yes,

00:18:56.620 it was all propaganda. It was all lies. Justin Trudeau did act unreasonably. It was always about

00:19:00.940 power. It was always about squashing those who opposed him. It was never about anything else.

00:19:05.420 The CBC pretended the entire time that it was some deep threat to our democracy. It was an insurgency.

00:19:11.840 It was a January 6th of Canada. That was all not true. All nonsense. Okay. I just,

00:19:18.040 I enjoy reading this. This is from the CBC. I don't usually enjoy reading the CBC,

00:19:21.540 but I'm sure it was just so difficult for them to actually have to write this.

00:19:24.680 So I'll read a little bit from the story. The liberal government unreasonably invoked the

00:19:29.000 Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests at gridlock the capital city and border points.

00:19:34.160 Nearly four years ago, the Federal Court of Appeals ruled on Friday, the court dismissed the

00:19:38.500 government's appeal of the 2024 ruling, which deemed former prime minister Justin Trudeau's decision to

00:19:43.160 use legislation unlawful and infringed on protesters' charter rights. Yes, read it and weep, CBC. You

00:19:50.600 did. You pushed this. You were the one that upheld Justin Trudeau's propaganda. They were partially

00:19:55.360 using your fake news reports as justification for their illegal use of force. And now it is all

00:20:02.340 coming back. The record has been set. Canadians will remember this. And let me just say that this

00:20:06.960 was a big part of the launch of my news organization and my career as a journalist and as a podcaster,

00:20:13.020 because we, at the time True North, were reporting on the ground. We were at the forefront of all of

00:20:18.020 this. We were one of the few voices that were going against the lies and the propaganda of the

00:20:22.060 legacy media. And that's how we connected with our audience, built our audience. It was a great

00:20:25.540 time for us, as terrible as it was really for the protesters and for the country under lockdown and

00:20:32.040 under ridiculous COVID restrictions for years and years and years. That Freedom Convoy was what broke us

00:20:36.780 out of it. And it is what broke independent media apart from the rest. And so many Canadians saw

00:20:42.060 the light. So we are grateful. We look back at that time with gratitude, especially towards the

00:20:47.220 truckers. All right, folks. Well, on Friday's show, I also let you know that I was celebrating my wedding

00:20:51.280 anniversary over the weekend. And yes, my husband Kaz and I have been married for 12 years. So it's always

00:20:57.180 fun to reflect upon your marriage together, your time together. Interesting too, because I think

00:21:03.640 when you're first married and your first year anniversary or second year anniversary, you make

00:21:07.220 a big, big deal about it. You might go out for dinner or go somewhere special or do something

00:21:10.700 nice. Once you've been married for 12 years and you have four kids like we do, it's like, if you can get

00:21:15.380 an hour together, it's a blessing, right? And so it was kind of nice to do the anniversary. We actually

00:21:20.880 gave gifts to the kids this year and we had just a nice morning together. We went to church and then my

00:21:26.180 husband and I were able to sneak out with some babysitters for the kids and have a nice lunch

00:21:29.760 together. So it was good. I wanted to just say one thing because someone mentioned this to me and I

00:21:33.900 wanted to point out that they said, you know, marriage takes work. Marriage takes work. And I

00:21:38.900 actually disagree with this concept. I think when I think of work, I think of like cleaning my kitchen

00:21:44.020 or like, or like going through my inbox and replying to emails that have been like sitting there and I

00:21:48.760 need to reply to. That is work. Marriage is one of the joys of life. It is the absolute, absolute

00:21:53.380 foundation of your life. And I think the person that you marry is the most important decision that you

00:21:58.540 will make in your entire life. I think our society tells young women and young men to a certain

00:22:03.020 extent, you know, to focus your time when you're young on your education and your career and setting

00:22:07.880 all of that up. But I actually don't think that is the most important thing. I think that focusing

00:22:12.120 on making the right choice, meeting the right person, choosing well when you marry and then

00:22:17.900 building that together. It's a joy, right? You should want to spend time with your spouse. You should

00:22:21.680 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

00:22:26.820 life. So yes, happily married for 12 years with four children, and I can't recommend getting

00:22:32.060 married enough. So if you're not married, I totally recommend focusing on that and making

00:22:36.120 that a priority. All right, folks, that's all the time we have for today. Thanks so much for

00:22:39.680 tuning in. We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news. Thank you so much for Candice Malcolm.

00:22:42.420 This is the Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.

Juno News - January 19, 2026

Trump FURIOUS over Carney cozying up with China

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