Juno News - Trump sends Liberals into DISARRAY + Pierre Poilievre's best day

00:00:00.000 The Liberal Party is in free fall after Christy Freeland resigned after disagreeing with Justin

00:00:06.040 Trudeau on how to handle the threat of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tariffs. He's

00:00:12.260 not even Canadian, but his trade negotiations might finally spell the end of Justin Trudeau.

00:00:18.900 I believe this is what we call the Trump effect.

00:00:21.980 I'm Rachel Parker, and you're watching Rachel in the Republic.

00:00:30.000 Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Rachel in the Republic. I'm your host, Rachel Parker.

00:00:38.380 We are going to be diving into the Trump effect today, talking about how his posts and his trolling

00:00:44.540 of Justin Trudeau and of Canada have led to disaster for the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:00:50.480 Joining me today to discuss is Marty Belanger, best known online as Marty Up North. He's been

00:00:57.080 a guest on my show twice this year, so I guess this makes it three times now. Marty, thanks

00:01:02.660 for being here today. I know that you've been talking about this a lot online, trying to

00:01:08.320 analyze what Donald Trump is doing, how effective it has been. So right off the top, I want to

00:01:14.860 start by asking you, do you see a clear link between Donald Trump and his threatening of

00:01:22.100 Canada with 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods entering the U.S. market, and Chrystia Freeland's

00:01:27.880 resignation from the Liberal cabinet on Monday morning?

00:01:34.220 Hi, Rachel. That link's hard to make. I'm trying to make that link. I mean, to be honest,

00:01:44.160 so much unraveled in the last, call it three weeks, right? So it's kind of hard to try and

00:01:49.240 piece it together. There is a link, but I can't make the direct link right now. I, you

00:01:54.360 know, like Trump, let's be, you're, you're spot on. There is a Trump effect, like Trump's

00:01:58.960 election. I think Trudeau honestly was not expecting Trump to be elected, right? I mean,

00:02:03.760 Trudeau from, uh, uh, after Trump, uh, left under the Biden administration, Trudeau was,

00:02:10.140 you know, making fun of Trump, uh, cozying up to Biden. And then in the last little while,

00:02:16.280 Trudeau truly picked his candidate, he, he was betting on Kamala Harris. And, uh, and, and he,

00:02:23.720 I think he's honestly been surprised by the election of Trump and now he's having to deal

00:02:28.180 with it. And, and the consequences of some of the things he said.

00:02:32.620 Absolutely. I have it right in front of me. I just want to read a couple of lines from

00:02:36.100 Chrystia Freeland's resignation letter on Monday. She directly references the threat of the tariffs

00:02:40.660 here. She says our country today faces a grave challenge. The incoming administration,

00:02:45.880 the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive, aggressive economic nationalism,

00:02:51.200 including a threat of 25% tariffs. We need to take that threat extremely seriously. That means

00:02:57.000 keeping our fiscal powder dry today. So we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff for

00:03:03.300 that means eschewing the costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians

00:03:10.520 doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment. So there you clearly see her, as I said yesterday,

00:03:17.020 when we covered this on the show as well, she kind of knifes Trudeau in the back on her way out. 0.55

00:03:22.460 She essentially accuses him of costly political gimmicks and is saying, you know, we need to have

00:03:27.620 reserves in place so that we can weather these tariffs in case they come into place. Is that sort of

00:03:32.840 what you took out of what she was saying there? Yeah, I mean, definitely, I take that out. I mean, I think

00:03:38.360 Trudeau is mishandling what's going on right now, like, but not fun, not a lot more than what he's been

00:03:44.840 doing in the past, right? I mean, the economy, the Canadian economy is in trouble, the borders in trouble,

00:03:50.020 things like that, you know, and is it is it a lot worse than what it's been for the last few years under

00:03:56.820 Trudeau? No. And Chrystia Freeland was on board, right? She's his number two, and she was on board with him. So

00:04:02.440 did she have a massive change of heart and resign because she, you know, she grew a backbone? No, 0.96

00:04:10.000 I think Trudeau was mishandling the situation. He panicked a little bit. Things, you know, his

00:04:15.940 demise started accelerating. He was looking for scapegoats. He was, I think he was just honestly

00:04:20.780 going to replace her and try and put somebody else in her position to try and salvage, you know, 1.00

00:04:27.060 to drag on a little bit longer before the election. And she quit. She called his crap. So I think

00:04:33.320 there's two stories here. I mean, there is there is the Trump effect on Trudeau. And then and then

00:04:37.600 Freeland is a casualty of that. Or perhaps she's just a mastermind who played it well. I think she's

00:04:43.260 a mastermind. Actually, that's that's my conclusion on Freeland. She Trudeau misplayed it. Freeland is

00:04:49.740 distancing herself from Trudeau and preparing herself for a potential run at the leadership. I think

00:04:55.040 that's the, you know, that's the bigger, the bigger, that's her story. But but I think Trudeau

00:05:00.380 and the whole country is misplaying mishandling Trump, right? The whole thing about Trump declaring,

00:05:07.180 you know, a potential trade war with us makes no sense. Like, I'm still confused by that whole

00:05:12.760 approach. I mean, I looked at the numbers a lot this week, you know, Canada does about $780 billion

00:05:20.800 worth of trade worldwide. And and 80% of our trade goes to the US like $594 billion last year,

00:05:29.420 the latest year we have so 80% of what we send abroad goes to the US there are biggest trading

00:05:35.260 partner, right? And and we and we and we're not selling them trinkets, we're selling them stuff

00:05:40.920 that they need that they want. We're selling them oil, we're selling them fertilizer, grains,

00:05:46.260 things like that, the things that they are short on, they're buying from us, that's legit. Now,

00:05:52.000 Trump, a little upset, because he says that, you know, in return, he thinks he's subsidizing us,

00:05:57.160 we bought $373 billion worth of stuff from the US last year. So is there a little bit of imbalance?

00:06:04.440 Absolutely, there is, right. But there's always going to be that imbalance, because they're 10 times

00:06:09.120 bigger than us. You know, it's like me being a farmer who, who, who has eggs, and the and the

00:06:16.740 family next door has 10 kids, and they sell firewood, well, I'm going to buy he's going to buy

00:06:21.600 more eggs for me than I buy firewood from him. So so I think, so when I analyze that, I don't think

00:06:28.020 Trump is serious about this Trump, this, this tariff war, that because it makes no sense, first of all.

00:06:34.820 And secondly, it would be devastating for his own country. And thirdly, it's it's almost illegal.

00:06:40.260 I mean, there's agreements around the world, and you don't just go and do tariffs like that. And

00:06:44.600 if Trump was going to do a tariff like that, he wouldn't telegraph it, he wouldn't give us

00:06:49.380 six weeks to think about it, he would do it, you know, once he became president. So I think,

00:06:55.740 you know, when I analyze that situation, I think Trump is just is just toying with Trudeau.

00:07:00.700 These these these late night tweets are just him trolling Trudeau. And and Trudeau's responding

00:07:08.260 in a bad way. So you know, well played Trump, I think Trump's playing Trudeau at this point.

00:07:13.640 Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with you that Donald Trump, I mean, is trolling Trudeau. I think another

00:07:20.500 guest on the show said that Trump is looking for cooperation with Canada. And maybe you know,

00:07:27.560 there are some border irritants that he wants to have resolved as well. But I think that the main

00:07:33.200 thing is that he does want cooperation with Canada, he kind of wants to show show the Trudeau

00:07:38.080 government who's boss again, for the government spent the last few years, you know, making fun

00:07:43.560 of peer poly of comparing him to Donald Trump. And so yeah, I think he's absolutely looking for

00:07:48.480 cooperation with Canada. And I think probably he thinks one of the best ways that you can get

00:07:53.440 cooperation with Canada is if Justin Trudeau is not at the helm of our country. And so I personally

00:08:00.640 suspect, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, he keeps making these jokes about Canada

00:08:04.640 becoming the 51st state, like, what does this mean? We need to buckle up. I'm personally not even

00:08:10.440 thinking that Donald Trump wants to make Canada a part of America, he doesn't want to make us a state.

00:08:15.780 This to me is all very clearly negotiation tactic. Yeah, well, actually, you brought up a couple of

00:08:23.180 good points. I mean, one of the things he there is some value to the threat that he made of let's

00:08:29.680 let's go back to the the tariff threat, right? He didn't make a threat saying, I'll, I'll, I'll take

00:08:36.740 it away if you clean up your border. Now, I was naive on that. At first, I thought, Oh, why is he going

00:08:41.800 there? Right? Because I thought they, you know, we all know what's going on at the southern border

00:08:45.540 with the US between Mexico and the US. And so I thought his, his claims that the Canadian border

00:08:50.920 needed to be addressed were a little bit exaggerated. I looked into that there is some he's got a

00:08:56.700 legitimate concern there. So, you know, but could but did he need to threaten that 25% tariff to get

00:09:02.880 that done? No, again, he could have just stepped in and, you know, talked about it and we would have

00:09:08.540 resolved it. But but he got some he got some traction on that, that's for sure. But the other

00:09:14.380 thing I go back to is, remember, on his first campaign, Trump was elected to clean up the swamp,

00:09:20.120 he didn't finish cleaning up the swamp, then he had four years to think about it. Now, you know,

00:09:24.960 Trump 2.0 is a stronger, better president. And he still wants to clean up the swamp. And I think one

00:09:32.240 of the things he's realized, or he's been told is that the swamp is deeper than just in his own

00:09:36.500 country, right? There is some swamp all around him. So and when I and when he talks about the

00:09:43.060 swamp, I think he is truly talking about the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization,

00:09:47.800 the UN people, unelected people like Soros and Schwab that have that are a threat to him. And

00:09:55.840 we know that Soros and Schwab and those people have their, you know, deep connections have infiltrated

00:10:01.880 us. And so in a sense, he's, he's, he's perhaps right that, you know, he's trying to clean up the

00:10:08.900 swamp and that and coming after Canada and cleaning up Trudeau and some of that mess is part of that

00:10:13.940 message. So yeah, it's a complicated, it's a complicated thing. And it's the Trump effect,

00:10:21.380 right? I mean, Trump is, Trump is an unpredictable person. I mean, we saw that in in in Trump 1.0,

00:10:28.980 I kind of thought Trump 2.0 was going to be boring, because he was going to be a little more refined

00:10:35.000 than the team he built around him. But he's still Trump. I mean, you know, take away his take away

00:10:40.120 his computer at the end of the night, because, you know, tweeting at 336 in the morning. I mean,

00:10:46.440 that was the other funny thing. He, he tweeted about Chrystia Freeland earlier this week, calling her a

00:10:51.940 toxic person. But sorry, Mr. President, but when you tweet the way you are at 336 in the morning,

00:10:57.540 you're also being a little bit toxic. It's interesting when you say there that,

00:11:02.860 you know, he'd promised to drain the swamp, didn't quite get that done in his first term.

00:11:06.200 Now he's looking maybe to do it in his second term as president. And he's been thinking about

00:11:10.740 that over the four years. I think he has especially been thinking about draining the swamp over the

00:11:15.680 four years, because some of the people that he didn't get rid of were the same people that were

00:11:20.880 coming after him in every avenue of lawfare that they could possibly find to throw at him

00:11:26.560 in the four years since to ensure that he wouldn't become president again. And obviously they were

00:11:31.920 incredibly unsuccessful in one of the most epic political comebacks we've ever seen with Donald

00:11:36.940 Trump being reelected. I want to talk a little bit about your response to Donald Trump's controlling

00:11:43.420 in Canada. I know you've made it pretty clear. You don't, you know, think he should be tweeting at

00:11:46.680 3.36 AM. This here, you responded online. Obviously Donald Trump posts on Truth Social

00:11:52.540 rather than X, but his tweets are repurposed for X all the time. And so here you said in response to

00:11:59.020 his latest tweet, again, saying that he's going to make Canada an American state. You said,

00:12:05.500 let's be real, Mr. President, the USA is not subsidizing Canada. I know you hate Trudeau,

00:12:10.100 but give us a bit more time and we'll get rid of that idiot for you. We're your biggest ally

00:12:15.740 ally. Why mock us like this? So obviously we've talked a little bit, the Trump effect is trolling

00:12:21.780 has been effective in causing at least some disarray in the liberal party. If you don't

00:12:27.000 appreciate Donald Trump's trolling of talking about how he's going to make Canada a state,

00:12:30.700 then what ways do you think he could better troll Trudeau without trolling Canada?

00:12:36.940 Okay, well, great. So let's actually, let's assume, let's assume that he's legit, right? Let's assume

00:12:43.700 that he's worried about the Canadian border. And let's assume that he's worried about a trade

00:12:49.820 imbalance. So those are two legit concerns. So, you know, come meet with us, right? Come,

00:12:57.300 come meet with us now. And let's talk about it. I mean, the trade imbalance, I don't think there's

00:13:03.100 much we can do about it. Like I said, you know, we send him $400 billion worth of goods. And when

00:13:09.340 we buy back $300 billion, that's not going to change. Actually, in fact, it's going in his favor

00:13:13.800 slowly because the value of the Canadian dollar keeps dropping. So that trade gap is going to close

00:13:19.460 itself because we've become so unproductive. So let's assume that's real. Then the other part is

00:13:28.600 the border. And, you know, the borders, we are in agreement, right? Canadians, I mean, I'm in

00:13:35.960 agreement. But I always thought the border problem was Americans coming in at, you know, at Roxham

00:13:40.640 Road coming in to our country. Turns out there's actually a lot of people going out, you know, 0.55

00:13:46.480 coming in, flying into Canada, bad people are flying into Canada, and then walking across the border

00:13:53.220 quickly into the US. So that problem is legit needs to be addressed. And, and, and, and if he

00:13:59.800 comes and talks to Pierre on that one, there's no need to troll even Trudeau, even anybody, we're all

00:14:05.260 in agreement, the border needs to be fixed. In fact, in the last, just in the last two days,

00:14:11.100 Trudeau made a same thing, he Trudeau sent out a late night tweet saying we're beefing up the border.

00:14:17.520 And, and that wasn't in the budget supplement that wasn't in the fall update. So so so Trudeau

00:14:24.180 responded. So yeah, I think I'm rambling. But we if if if his concerns are real, we agree with his

00:14:33.220 concerns. And I certain and I know Pierre agrees with his concerns. And again, going back to that,

00:14:37.480 right? If, if, if Trump, or if Trudeau and Freeland thought that Trump's concerns were real,

00:14:45.020 why did Trudeau and Freeland have a falling apart? Because there is it because in the latest budget

00:14:52.540 update, you know, Trudeau didn't put enough things to address the Trump claims. So that you know,

00:15:01.920 back to that, I don't see Freeland resigning necessarily over a disagreement on how to handle

00:15:07.340 Trump. Now, what's been really interesting also is, is the, you know, what's happening with the

00:15:13.000 premiers, like, and other people who've taken Trump's claims seriously, right? Like here in

00:15:19.420 Alberta, Danielle last week made an announcement that she's going to increase the border security,

00:15:25.040 because she knows right of that, actually, like, let's step back to that, that big trade, you know,

00:15:30.740 that we do with the US, the $400 billion, about 50% of Canada's trade with the US comes from Alberta,

00:15:37.000 like, we're a big, big, big contributor. So that's another point of tension, right? Is that Trudeau

00:15:45.000 addressing Trump, he's actually not really, he's only responsible for the border part of it,

00:15:52.600 the trade part is mostly the provincial matter.

00:15:57.360 Yeah, it's been really interesting to see what Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been doing amid the 0.70

00:16:02.380 trade negotiations. She's obviously addressing what she calls Trump's trade irritants, looking to me

00:16:09.320 really, like she's trying really, really hard to get an exemption for Alberta energy if tariffs do

00:16:13.840 come in, which, as you said, it seems like maybe that's not really his play, he's looking to get

00:16:17.940 cooperation from Canada, among other things. But I did a lengthy-ish interview with her about this

00:16:23.240 topic that we published on Friday. So for my audience, if you haven't already seen that, go back and take a

00:16:27.640 look at that, because we spend almost the entire interview talking about trade and what she plans

00:16:33.100 to do to secure an exemption for Alberta. Back to Donald Trump, on the, you know, the thing about

00:16:40.240 being a 51st state, I have to acknowledge, like, I know there's a lot of conservatives who are like,

00:16:44.560 yes, this is the best thing ever, Canada should become America. I'm not one of those people. I do not

00:16:50.020 think that Canada should join America. In the back of my head, I acknowledge that there might be a time

00:16:54.440 when I have to leave Canada, if it continues the direction that we're going in, if the

00:16:59.480 conservators are not able to roll back some of the very harmful legislation, and to curtail the harmful,

00:17:05.880 harmful immigration, the harmful immigration numbers that we're seeing coming into this country. But I've, I did a 1.00

00:17:11.100 whole show on saying, you know, I don't think that Canada should become America. And it's a little bit sad,

00:17:16.620 but I have to say that I'm, I'm finding the jokes, not even from Trump so much, but from other Canadians who are

00:17:21.940 cheering him on, a little perhaps tiresome. My takeaway from this all is that I actually felt a

00:17:27.020 bit relieved to know that I still felt patriotism for my country, because my entire adult life has

00:17:34.420 been under the Justin Trudeau government. I graduated from high school in 2015, graduated from university

00:17:40.320 in 2019. And this has been an incredibly dark and difficult period in Canadian history. And I kind of

00:17:45.760 have to constantly remind myself what things were like, when I was a kid, because what I've known has

00:17:52.040 always been this dark and difficult period of Justin Trudeau. And so my takeaway from the jokes and from

00:17:58.180 even Canadians spurring Donald Trump on is that ultimately, I do still feel hopeful, I do think

00:18:02.740 that we can turn things around in Canada. And that actually took a little bit of soul searching from

00:18:06.580 me. But do you I didn't know unless you want to comment on that?

00:18:10.060 No, no, that's great. That's interesting what you mentioned, because I live through the great Canada,

00:18:15.160 right? I'm I'm a I'm a 57 year old man who worked in the oil patch. I mean, for me, the period from,

00:18:21.260 let's say 2001 2014 was glorious, it was glorious. And so and yes, I'm not a I'm not a I absolutely do not

00:18:29.940 want to be part of the US. And what's interesting is the Canadians who do say, hey, hey, we should be part of

00:18:35.440 the US, the things that they mentioned that that that joining the US would solve the problems that

00:18:40.820 would solve, we can fix ourselves, right? People say, Oh, they have, if we join the US to have a

00:18:46.220 better constitution, they have lower taxes, they have, you know, more entrepreneurial people, I'm

00:18:52.780 like, so okay, so let's do all those things in Canada, we don't need to join the US to fix what's

00:18:58.880 wrong with Canada, we can fix what's wrong with Canada on our own. And and then and then after that,

00:19:04.420 we like, we should be like the US, I mean, we should be a super well, we we were, I mean,

00:19:08.880 we're a G7 nation, right? We're and and and there's no reason we shouldn't be G5, G6, G4,

00:19:15.020 like we we have a we are a powerhouse of natural resources, we have two oceans, we have educated

00:19:20.920 population. But let's ask ourselves why the country doesn't work? And how do we solve the problems? And

00:19:26.140 the problems can be all solved internally by getting rid of Trudeau by perhaps reforming our

00:19:30.420 constitution a little bit. And, and by and then by remembering to be productive, and by

00:19:37.220 doing what we used to be good at, what we used to be good at is we're a nation that extracts 1.00

00:19:41.980 resources, we used to extract oil, lumber, grain, minerals, things like that. And and then suddenly,

00:19:49.540 in the last 30 years, you know, we suddenly started convincing ourselves that what we were good at was

00:19:56.960 actually bad. As like, wow, you know, we, we, we, we convinced ourselves that extracting resources was

00:20:03.980 bad for the planet, nothing could be further from the truth. Can we do it without huge impact? Anyways,

00:20:09.000 I ramble. But yeah, we don't need to join the US to fix what's wrong with our country, we should do it

00:20:14.140 ourselves. It's interesting that you say we convinced ourselves that what we're good at doing is actually

00:20:21.000 bad. Because essentially, that's what wokeism is. It's to tell someone that what they are, and what they

00:20:26.780 are inherently designed to do to tell women that the desire to have children is a bad and negative thing

00:20:32.280 to tell people who were, you know, created perfectly and wonderfully in the image of God that they are in the

00:20:37.040 wrong bodies require harmful, invasive and experimental surgeries. Very interesting point that you've made

00:20:43.940 there. And I really think we've seen this, the evilness of wokeness corrupting our society in more 0.62

00:20:49.640 ways than one. Yesterday, or on Monday, rather, conservative leader Pierre Polyev had what his

00:20:55.520 former campaign spokesperson Anthony Koch said was probably his best day in office being the opposition

00:21:01.720 leader. I want to play a little section from his speech that he made in the House of Commons on Monday.

00:21:07.160 And it addresses specifically what we've been talking about today, how some people feel that they don't

00:21:12.280 see a future for themselves in Canada. Take a look at this.

00:21:16.020 When I travel across this country, I consistently meet two types of people. One, those who are a

00:21:22.200 little better off and tell me that, and I'll be very blunt about this, is that if I don't win,

00:21:27.620 they will leave the country. And they are very numerous. But you know, I don't worry about them

00:21:33.300 as much. You know who I worry about? The ones who can't leave. The ones who don't know, and if I can

00:21:40.480 just be, use very blunt language, who tell me, I don't know what the hell I'm going to do.

00:21:45.380 Okay, so really powerful speech from Pierre Polyev. I think a lot of us know people who have said,

00:21:52.120 I don't know if I'm going to be able to stay in Canada. I've been transparent with my audience that

00:21:57.320 I've had these thoughts of myself, not so much even because of the economic hardship, although

00:22:02.740 that is a part of it, but largely because of the restrictions on speech and because the way

00:22:07.120 the Liberal government wants to throw people like me who say men can't become women in jail. And that

00:22:12.600 is ultimately their plan to absolutely and totally curtail their speech, at which point I wouldn't

00:22:17.480 even be able to work in Canada. And it's already become incredibly difficult for me to do so with,

00:22:22.500 for example, not being able to post my article content on Facebook. I've tried to post an op-ed

00:22:27.300 the other day on my Facebook account, I even used a little link in common section and it was still

00:22:31.100 removed. So it's just becoming incredibly difficult for people on the right to be able to live freely.

00:22:35.900 Marty, have you ever gotten to a point where you thought there might be a need to leave Canada?

00:22:41.580 I haven't because I'm retired now. So, you know, I'm retired, but I have four adult children,

00:22:48.360 three sons that are engineers, and I've actually told my sons they should leave. So,

00:22:52.320 you know, because for the reasons you mentioned, I mean, for me, it's not for me, it's not the lack

00:23:01.440 of it's not speech. It's my line of work. And it's their line of work. They're in a day. They

00:23:06.480 chose to follow my footsteps, be engineers and extract resources. And that's not valued in this

00:23:11.600 country. And it's highly valued in the US. I mean, probably 10 10 of my closest friends, I don't know

00:23:19.040 what that is as a percentage, but 10 of my closest friends have moved to the US in the last, you know,

00:23:24.680 five years. So it is happening. I talk about it all the time. The brain drain is real. People are

00:23:29.720 moving to the US because real talent is appreciated over there. Actually, I'm telling you, it's a side

00:23:36.540 note. One of my boys is trying to get on with SpaceX. How incredibly crazy would that be, right?

00:23:42.420 Getting on with SpaceX. And I wanted to just throw this out there as something I talked about yesterday.

00:23:47.840 You know, Tesla is an American company worth $1.5 trillion. Okay, so $1.5 trillion. That's more

00:23:55.660 than our GDP. That's an American company. So again, back to Trump, Trump being worried about a small

00:24:02.160 $100 billion deficit between our two countries, Donald, like he they can make that up in seconds

00:24:08.660 with by kickstarting their economy. And that's the biggest threat. That's actually, for us, the tariffs

00:24:14.540 are a minor threat to us. The bigger threat is that the Americans will continue to steal 1.00

00:24:18.980 our talent, that our dollar compared to theirs is devalued, that we're unproductive, they're highly

00:24:24.600 productive, like they're gonna like, I'm more worried about never mind tariffs. I'm just worried

00:24:29.480 that if if Donald kickstarts their economy, the way he plans on doing it, that's bad for us. I mean,

00:24:35.640 or it could be good, it could be good, if we stop being woke, and we go back to drilling for oil,

00:24:43.120 growing wheat, cutting firewood, and mining for copper and aluminum, then we'll do just fine.

00:24:50.200 Yeah, you raise a really interesting point about the real threat of the US, which is essentially this

00:24:54.620 brain drain that was incidentally, also caused by Justin Trudeau. Just one last thing I wanted to

00:25:00.780 touch on today while I have you. Totally, totally different topic. But a few weeks ago, you posted,

00:25:06.520 this is in the context of Donald Trump will be coming to Canada for the G7 summit in, it is, I

00:25:13.480 believe, May. And you posted that the last time the G7 summit, it was hosted in Alberta, it's going to

00:25:18.680 be in Kananaskis this time. You, as you spent a lot of time in the backwoods hiking and such, you

00:25:23.600 actually ran into, I don't know if it was Secret Service or military, who it was, who were out there

00:25:28.200 camping in preparation for the arrival of the US president. And I made a couple inquiries about

00:25:34.660 this and learned that this is like a totally a thing. And that it's likely that we're going to

00:25:39.040 see, you know, some, like I said, not sure, but Secret Service, but that they will be camping in

00:25:43.320 the woods, like at least a few weeks out ahead. They were, they were here almost four weeks before

00:25:50.320 his arrival, scoping the air, not just the village of Kananaskis, they were deep in the backcountry.

00:25:56.480 Anybody going in and out was being checked. They suspect, I mean, yeah, because we can,

00:26:03.040 like, it's, it's very, it's very possible to sneak in, you know, to have a clear line of sight to

00:26:09.280 Kananaskis from some of the summits nearby kind of thing, you know, it's, it's nefarious, but they, 1.00

00:26:14.860 oh yeah, they had, they had the whole area locked down, a huge area locked down. I had lots of funny

00:26:19.920 stories from that one. I mean, I had a friend who, I had a friend whose truck was almost demolished by a

00:26:25.140 dog, like the dog jumped in, a Secret Service dog sniffing for all sorts of stuff. And I mean,

00:26:29.940 you know, you're in Alberta and what do we have in our trucks, right? Like there's leftover blood

00:26:33.280 from a moose kill and this and that, and the dog went nuts and started ripping up the guy's,

00:26:37.800 my friend's truck. And my friend was trying to stop it. And the Secret Service that basically said

00:26:43.040 to him, well, we'll buy you a new truck. Don't worry about it. So I was like, wow, you never got a new

00:26:47.540 truck. Yeah, that's crazy. I was going to say, I mean, it does sort of like make you think like,

00:26:52.240 okay, that's crazy that all these preparations are needed for the US president. And we saw just

00:26:57.660 this summer, I saw it personally there. I was there. What happens when the US Secret Service

00:27:02.420 does not take the necessary precautions? It can actually result in lost lives as it did that day

00:27:08.840 in Butler. But at the same time as Canadians, you know, we live here, we pay taxes here. And when a

00:27:14.820 US president comes to visit, restrictions are placed on our mobility rights. This happened to me

00:27:19.880 in Ottawa a few years back, I believe the vice president at the time was visiting and he was

00:27:23.920 going to be on Parliament Hill. And I was working on Parliament Hill at the time. But because I was a

00:27:28.760 student, I would just kind of simply come every day, get my day pass to then go and watch a

00:27:33.320 parliamentary committee hearing, which I would write reports on. And I was essentially told like,

00:27:38.120 you're not going to be allowed entrance in today. And I was like, well, this is my job. I need,

00:27:41.840 I need to have access. And eventually they did let me in. I had to walk all the way around. I

00:27:46.960 honestly just think because the agent I was speaking with felt like flexing their muscles,

00:27:50.280 the door was like a few feet away from me. And they told me I had to walk all the way around

00:27:54.060 to a different door. So you know, just just a bit silly. But yeah, I don't know, it doesn't quite sit

00:27:59.020 right with me the restrictions. And I do feel like your friend probably could have got should have

00:28:02.540 gotten his new truck.

00:28:03.840 They Yeah, you know, you'd think intuitively that holding it in a place like Canon ask us away from

00:28:09.840 everybody would be simpler, but it's not it's I bet you the Secret Service and all the other people

00:28:14.640 just do not look forward to this one. It's a it's a complicated, very complicated to secure an area

00:28:20.520 that big at the same time they might enjoy I don't know, like if it was you, you would really enjoy

00:28:25.800 all the back country camping for like a week out that you're getting paid for. So

00:28:30.720 Oh, I know now I have to go out there five weeks in advance and not four. But yeah, you know, if they

00:28:36.740 if you hide, they'll find you, I'm sure they'll find you just just coincidentally, or just just

00:28:41.180 historically, Canon ask us is where we, you know, for the people who are not familiar with

00:28:45.800 it is the big forest area south of Calgary, it's, it's a big collection of national of

00:28:50.940 parks of provincial parks and provincial wildlands. But it's also where we used to keep German 0.85

00:28:57.320 prisoners of war. So when you were a poor German soldier in World War Two, and you got captured,

00:29:02.180 you took a boat all the way across the ocean, and then the train all the way across Canada,

00:29:06.360 and you were put in these camps, the conditions were good. And there was almost no security,

00:29:10.380 because at that time, it was like, well, if you want to run, run, this is not where to go.

00:29:15.460 Especially, especially in the winter. Okay, Marty, thanks so much. We're gonna leave it there for

00:29:20.060 today. We appreciate Marty's insight. As always, I did announce this last week, but I just want to

00:29:24.740 let you guys know once again, if any of you missed last week's episode, that this is technically the

00:29:29.520 last episode of Rachel and the Republic, I will still be doing my US content, it will just fall under

00:29:38.000 the Rachel Parker show. So moving into the new year, we'll have two episodes of the Rachel Parker

00:29:42.500 show weekly. And I just did a little poll on X today to kind of see what type of content you guys

00:29:47.560 are liking for me. And basically, it seems the results are fairly split. So I'm just going to

00:29:51.960 keep doing what I'm doing. We're going to have a little bit of Alberta coverage, a lot of federal

00:29:55.360 news, and then some US Canada relation stuff mixed in there as well. And you know, I occasionally have

00:30:00.820 the odd cultural war culture war story. And that seems to be pulling less favorably, but we don't

00:30:06.280 do a ton of that here anyway. So feel free to let me know which type of content you're especially

00:30:11.340 enjoying that I put out as I do start to prepare my content for 2025. But in the meantime, just want

00:30:18.060 to let you know that everything will basically be falling under the Rachel Parker show beginning

00:30:21.960 in 2025. Okay, guys, that's all we have time for today. Thanks so much for tuning in. I hope

00:30:27.580 you guys have a great rest of your week. God bless.

Juno News - December 18, 2024

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