Juno News - December 05, 2024


Trump trolls Canadaļ¼š Tariffs, AI Memes, and Trudeauā€™s new positionļ¼Ÿ


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

183.21951

Word Count

6,466

Sentence Count

399

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome back to the third episode of Northern Dispatch.
00:00:12.520 My name is Harrison Faulkner and I'm joined as always by our co-hosts on the program,
00:00:17.320 Ryan and Tonya from Northern Perspective.
00:00:20.400 Well, it's been an incredible week once again, Donald Trump is still dominating the news.
00:00:25.380 He is living rent free in the mainstream media journalists heads and I imagine guys, he'll
00:00:32.100 end up, you'll end up staying there for the next four years.
00:00:34.720 I think that's pretty much a safe bet at this point.
00:00:37.560 What have you guys made of the news this week?
00:00:40.000 Well, you said it, I think media and content creators are thrilled that Donald Trump is
00:00:48.580 going to be back in the White House.
00:00:52.320 I think we learned from the first time around, there's not going to be a day that goes by
00:00:56.620 without something to talk about regarding Donald Trump.
00:01:03.000 With the magical dinner that happened over the weekend with Justin Trudeau, where he initially
00:01:08.740 came back and said, oh, it was a great conversation.
00:01:11.820 Everything went well and then we learned what really happened.
00:01:15.200 I think it's going to be an interesting four years for Canada, starting with the first day
00:01:19.760 he's in office.
00:01:20.760 Yeah, I think that's right.
00:01:23.060 Yeah.
00:01:24.060 I think, um, uh, the liberals tried to play it off as, oh, it was so much fun.
00:01:28.380 It, you know, Trump was joking with us.
00:01:30.520 It was great.
00:01:31.820 I don't really think he was joking with them.
00:01:33.940 I think he was demeaning them.
00:01:35.660 Um, but you wouldn't know that if you talk to the Canadian mainstream media.
00:01:40.060 Yeah.
00:01:41.060 They don't seem to understand what's a joke and what isn't.
00:01:44.060 Right.
00:01:45.060 Exactly.
00:01:46.060 And as, as should have been expected with all of the evidence we have, this was going
00:01:50.300 to be a bullying session.
00:01:51.680 Trump was going to have his way with Justin Trudeau.
00:01:54.980 Um, and when we found, when we were, when we were being told that it was a great success
00:01:59.300 for the Canadians, I think most Canadians with some critical thinking skills could see that
00:02:04.380 that was just good spin.
00:02:05.480 Before we get into the show, we've got a lot of clips.
00:02:07.540 We're going to go through a lot of what's been happening because the news is coming thick
00:02:10.080 and fast here.
00:02:11.220 We have to get to the results of our last episode, a poll.
00:02:14.840 And the question we had last episode was, do you support Donald Trump's 25% tariff threat?
00:02:21.880 And it wasn't even close, uh, 80% of respondents said they do support Donald Trump's 25% tariff
00:02:29.220 threat.
00:02:30.220 Only 20% said no.
00:02:32.220 Uh, I mean, what did you guys make of that result?
00:02:34.380 I, I, I, I'm not surprised to hear it, but I think we should, uh, we should remember that
00:02:39.380 we are supposed to be supporting our country here.
00:02:42.400 25% to 25% tariff would be disastrous for us.
00:02:45.760 Yeah, I think that's the truth is that it will be disastrous for us, but I think many Canadians
00:02:51.060 are seeing that this is the thing that finally kicked Justin Trudeau in the butt to start examining
00:02:57.540 our situation at the borders and to start examining our immigration policies.
00:03:02.720 And maybe that's not so bad.
00:03:05.480 Well, and I also think that Canadians across the country that have been screaming about
00:03:12.280 the fentanyl issues, the drug issues, the border issues, the immigration issues.
00:03:17.540 Um, this was almost a call it a third party validation of everything that they've been screaming
00:03:23.880 about for the last few years.
00:03:26.140 And, um, uh, the fact that Trudeau has essentially, you know, responded to the snapping of the fingers
00:03:32.500 of, of his master, the president, the future president of the United States, a, it makes
00:03:36.760 him look weak, but at the same time, it's, it's getting him in line.
00:03:40.840 And I think, I think what Canadians are saying when they support the threat, they support
00:03:45.900 the threat.
00:03:46.640 They don't support the implementation because the threat is actually getting things done
00:03:50.940 up here.
00:03:51.960 Right.
00:03:52.160 Exactly.
00:03:52.680 And I think, I think Canadians are realizing that what they think and what they want, how
00:03:58.200 they respond to, to polling isn't going to influence the political, uh, situation in
00:04:03.360 this country at all.
00:04:04.200 Because when it comes to immigration, the polling has been out for years now that the majority of
00:04:08.140 Canadians wanted the, wanted the immigration controlled and the government just wasn't
00:04:12.540 responding, wasn't listening.
00:04:13.740 And all it took was a Donald Trump getting elected and a threatening to tariff the country
00:04:18.300 to death.
00:04:18.860 And that's basically what this would do.
00:04:20.980 Let's get into the comments from last episode as well.
00:04:24.440 We're, as we, as we said before, we're going to read out some of the comments that get the
00:04:28.060 most likes, and then we'll get to the next poll question.
00:04:31.040 The first comment we have comes from new life on our last episode.
00:04:35.600 And this user writes, I applaud Trump and his decision.
00:04:38.140 It says to force Canada to shut the border.
00:04:40.820 If our own government won't do it, then a partner in the U S has every right to impose
00:04:44.600 sanctions.
00:04:45.920 Borders are important and Canada is full.
00:04:48.540 Going back to what we all discussed.
00:04:49.540 I mean, that's clearly what's going on here.
00:04:51.620 The U S president has put his foot down and dictated, uh, what, what is going to happen
00:04:55.760 for our country.
00:04:56.760 And I think Canadians would like the results if we do get control of our border.
00:05:01.220 And next one is from Richard first rate, uh, zero four night.
00:05:04.420 I believe Trump is putting one more finishing nail in Trudy's coffin.
00:05:07.880 And Trump absolutely knows the mess north of the border.
00:05:10.880 He is in Canada's conservatives corner.
00:05:12.880 Yeah.
00:05:13.880 I think this is another, uh, uh, another indication of the fact that Trump's going to do what Trump's
00:05:20.700 going to do, and I actually don't know if he really cares what happens, uh, up here.
00:05:26.460 He may think that, uh, pure poly of might be a little easier to deal with.
00:05:29.760 He may not.
00:05:30.580 But one thing that he does know is that, um, Trudeau essentially stabbed him in the back
00:05:36.520 in, in one of the press conferences.
00:05:37.900 And I don't think Trump has had any respect for Trudeau since then.
00:05:41.560 And he, he knows that, uh, he, he has Trudeau's number.
00:05:46.120 So he will take any and every opportunity to publicly humiliate Justin Trudeau and show
00:05:51.580 him as the fraud leader that he is.
00:05:54.100 And our final comment comes from Tricia Sullivan, seven, nine, seven, eight.
00:05:58.620 He meaning Trump has every right to want a safe border.
00:06:02.040 As do we, maybe this will push for Canada to clean up too.
00:06:05.460 That's what the tariffs are meant to do, make both countries safer, then we will be able
00:06:09.840 to negotiate in a friendly manner.
00:06:11.940 And I think that's a good point, um, that these tariffs, or at least the threat of these
00:06:16.020 tariffs are meant to get Canada in gear, get us, start protecting our own border, and then
00:06:22.620 we can negotiate with the Americans fairly and freely.
00:06:25.500 Well, and I think the other thing that this does for Trump is he's going to, he's going
00:06:29.260 to come into office already bragging that look, look, look at what I've already done.
00:06:33.060 And I haven't even been in office yet.
00:06:34.900 So, um, I think he's going to take that as an early win in, in his narrative of safeguarding
00:06:40.800 the Northern border.
00:06:41.840 Oh, absolutely.
00:06:42.780 I don't want to get too into the weeds of, of us, uh, diplomatic politics, but I think
00:06:47.080 you're right about that.
00:06:48.220 Donald Trump is making threats, not only to Canada and Mexico regarding tariffs, but he's
00:06:53.700 also making threats in the Middle East and forcing people to try to fall in line.
00:06:57.480 And he could be able to claim victory on day one over a number of, of serious, uh, foreign
00:07:02.820 issues like Gaza and Israel.
00:07:04.760 I think that he will likely end up coming, coming through with that similar to what Reagan
00:07:08.920 was able to accomplish on his first day with the Iran hostage deal.
00:07:12.380 There might be something there with Gaza, but that's a bit, you know, we're, we're going,
00:07:15.860 we're going to a little deep into American politics there.
00:07:17.800 Let's bring it back to the Canadian angle and let's start with what has set the Canadian
00:07:22.760 media alight this week.
00:07:24.640 And that all has to do, of course, with the dinner that Trudeau had with Donald Trump on
00:07:29.960 Friday night.
00:07:31.380 Immediately after that, we started to hear reports from Canadian legacy media that it
00:07:35.260 was a success for Canada, that Justin Trudeau and Katie Telford and Dominic LeBlanc showed
00:07:40.200 up as team Canada and were successful at getting Trump to recognize the differences between Mexico
00:07:46.080 and Canada when it comes to immigration and drugs.
00:07:48.520 That's a pretty low bar.
00:07:49.680 I think, uh, I think all of us on this call on this show could be successful at doing
00:07:53.540 that because really there is no comparison when it comes to both countries.
00:07:57.560 However, it wasn't long until the United States and the American media came in with the other
00:08:03.580 side of the story, probably the truth about what happened at that dinner.
00:08:07.400 And this is what Fox news host Peter Doocy said on, on Monday night about what really happened
00:08:14.620 at that dinner.
00:08:16.380 Take a listen.
00:08:17.620 And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump-Trudeau dinner from two people
00:08:22.440 who were at the table.
00:08:23.500 We are told that when Trudeau told President-elect Trump that new tariffs would kill the Canadian
00:08:29.960 economy, Trump joked to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the U.S.
00:08:35.080 to the tune of $100 billion a year, then maybe Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau
00:08:42.300 could become its governor.
00:08:44.060 So there we go.
00:08:45.200 Ryan, apparently Donald Trump actually said that if Canada can't survive a 25% tariff when
00:08:52.380 we are ripping them off to the tune of $100 billion, maybe we should just become the 51st
00:08:58.900 state and Trudeau can become the governor of the country.
00:09:02.760 Ouch.
00:09:03.040 Yeah, and I guess, you know, what they're saying, what happened after that was there
00:09:09.800 was some nervous laughter from Justin Trudeau and Dominic LeBlanc.
00:09:15.800 And I really think about how the Canadian media is now trying to spin this because first it
00:09:22.660 was, oh, you know, we had a great conversation, yada, yada, yada, everything's going to be fine.
00:09:26.320 And then this story drops and now they're all in damage control.
00:09:30.500 And now the Canadian media is saying, oh, well, it's actually a good thing that they
00:09:35.020 were making fun of Canada because that actually shows that there's a camaraderie between them.
00:09:40.080 Like, are you kidding?
00:09:41.700 Seriously, are you kidding?
00:09:43.780 Have you seen what Donald Trump has said about Justin Trudeau after Trudeau tried to come
00:09:49.320 out as the big tough guy after their one meeting?
00:09:51.340 So I don't think that that is, you know, going to fly with the Canadian public.
00:09:57.820 And I think about if Pierre Polyev was in that situation, I think you probably would
00:10:03.520 have heard a shot back from him because you see this all the time from Pierre Polyev
00:10:08.080 in question period in debates.
00:10:09.920 He's very good at thinking on his feet.
00:10:11.400 And I think Trump would have respected a shot back from Pierre Polyev and probably would
00:10:16.960 have given a handshake after that.
00:10:18.380 But this is Justin Trudeau, and he just folded like a cheap suit.
00:10:22.460 Yeah, the Canadian media is trying to pass this off as, oh, it was just a joke.
00:10:26.060 It was just a joke.
00:10:27.160 Maybe it was a joke, but I think it was one of those jokes that has some truth to it and
00:10:30.800 is meant to sting.
00:10:32.600 I mean, we all know the kind that we're talking about here.
00:10:35.940 And I don't think it was just lighthearted fun.
00:10:38.920 I think it was meant to send a message.
00:10:41.560 Oh, I think absolutely.
00:10:42.720 I'm sure it was meant to send a message.
00:10:44.400 And, you know, we all know Donald Trump to be a joker, to use humor as a political weapon
00:10:51.060 and a very effective weapon at that.
00:10:52.640 It has been for him in the past.
00:10:55.840 But, you know, I want to ask you this, Ryan.
00:10:57.900 What do you think Pierre Polyev would have said?
00:11:00.180 I mean, it's a tough position to imagine being in the president joking about annexing the country
00:11:04.740 and all that face to face with that guy.
00:11:07.280 What do you think you could even say back to that?
00:11:09.480 I don't even know how you would respond to something like that.
00:11:13.060 Well, it'd be kind of difficult because you would have to take into the context where is Canada at that point
00:11:22.060 with Pierre Polyev?
00:11:23.000 How long has he been in power?
00:11:24.280 What has he been able to do?
00:11:26.460 If we kind of take the same time period, let's say he's been in office for three or four years at that point,
00:11:32.700 he probably would have done a lot.
00:11:34.480 But he probably would have, you know, shot back something about Trump's campaign
00:11:41.080 or he probably would have made a lighthearted comment about Kamala Harris
00:11:48.400 or even Trump's legal situation as a, you know, kind of a bar back,
00:11:54.140 just sending a message of his own saying, yeah, you know, you can be clever, but so can I.
00:12:00.760 And, you know, we're a small country as Canada, but small doesn't necessarily mean we're a country to be trifled with
00:12:09.500 because you get all of our oil, buddy.
00:12:11.480 So, you know, there's some things that we can do here.
00:12:14.440 So I really think he would have been able to really come up with something
00:12:19.020 and almost, you know, establish a stalemate.
00:12:23.300 And I think that would have been probably his aim there.
00:12:25.920 That way Donald Trump can say essentially in his head, well played.
00:12:29.260 And then that's how you earn the respect of somebody like Donald Trump.
00:12:33.220 You know, this entire situation, this, what appears to be the early stages of a dangerous trade dispute,
00:12:42.320 potentially a trade war with the United States, has got me thinking about Canada's position
00:12:48.080 and what it means to be Canada first, a Canadian nationalist, and the history of this, right?
00:12:54.100 Because we've gone through periods of time where the relationship between the United States and Canada has not been good.
00:12:59.540 I've done some reading recently about Diefenbaker and Kennedy.
00:13:03.460 Famously, they were very cold with each other, very cold with each other.
00:13:07.160 And Diefenbaker took serious exception to a memo that he received,
00:13:12.900 which basically outlined America's plans to push around Canada, to dictate to Canada what can be done.
00:13:20.220 I want to ask you this, Tonya.
00:13:22.200 We look at the situation regarding trade.
00:13:24.180 Donald Trump says that we're ripping the United States off by $100 billion a year.
00:13:28.680 The reality is that comes from the United States buying our oil.
00:13:33.740 And that also doesn't take into account the trade relationship with the United States.
00:13:37.680 The U.S., Americans can purchase Canadian companies.
00:13:41.220 Americans can also demand that we supply them with goods at the same rate if we enter a shortage.
00:13:47.480 It doesn't really seem to me that the trade relationship is out of balance on the United States side.
00:13:53.540 It seems that we're the ones with the short end of the stick
00:13:56.320 because we obviously wouldn't be able to survive a 25% tariff.
00:14:01.040 Yeah, I don't think the term ripping off is the correct term in this situation.
00:14:05.960 I think this is more of a symbiotic relationship where both countries are benefiting.
00:14:09.900 The United States is benefiting from the goods that we are sending down there.
00:14:13.700 And obviously, Canada is benefiting from the money that we are able to earn by selling those goods.
00:14:20.700 Yeah, I think we've had a very positive trade relationship with the United States up until this point.
00:14:25.640 They're our largest trading partner.
00:14:28.340 But if they're going to threaten tariffs, maybe we do need to look elsewhere for more positive trade relationships.
00:14:34.380 Well, the other thing that I would jump in there with is just because you go to buy groceries
00:14:39.860 or you even go to that small business down the street and you purchase something from them,
00:14:44.980 you exit that encounter with less money.
00:14:47.260 That doesn't mean they're ripping you off.
00:14:49.240 Right.
00:14:49.280 So just because the U.S. is buying our oil and, you know, to the tune of, you know, $100 billion in the hole,
00:14:56.340 they are then turning around and making a net gain on that purchase because they're turning that into other products.
00:15:02.340 So it's a very, I think, small, focused view of that individual transaction.
00:15:09.600 But this is what Trump does in order to try to gain leverage.
00:15:13.000 Right.
00:15:13.500 So but we also have to look at the different options that perhaps under a peer poly of government that we would then gain,
00:15:22.880 which is, you know, Western pipelines out to B.C.
00:15:25.260 And, you know, we have a lot more options.
00:15:28.100 You know, maybe he's going to pick up the phone and contact Japan and Germany and ask them,
00:15:31.680 hey, do you still need natural gas?
00:15:33.660 Because contrary to what my predecessor said, there is actually a business case.
00:15:38.300 Right.
00:15:38.760 I mean, I sure hope he does.
00:15:39.820 I think the majority of Canadians do.
00:15:41.260 It was funny that the the the cleanup act, the cleanup act by the government and the legacy media
00:15:46.720 involved Dominic LeBlanc admitting, well, maybe he was just making it up.
00:15:51.100 But he said that Trump was teasing the Canadian delegation.
00:15:55.320 I don't know.
00:15:55.820 As a Canadian, I don't really like the idea of of any world leader teasing and, you know,
00:16:02.340 kind of making jokes directed at our prime minister, regardless of who it is in our delegation.
00:16:07.180 That's what Dominic LeBlanc said.
00:16:08.480 Take a listen to this.
00:16:10.000 This desperate cleanup act.
00:16:14.000 Not at all.
00:16:14.900 Not at all.
00:16:15.460 That was not the context at all.
00:16:17.520 In a three hour in a three hour social evening at the president's residence in Florida on
00:16:25.680 a long weekend of American Thanksgiving, the conversation was going to be lighthearted.
00:16:31.740 The president was telling jokes.
00:16:34.760 The president was teasing us.
00:16:36.660 It was, of course, on that issue in no way a serious comment.
00:16:41.560 We had a discussion on trade issues, on border security that was very productive.
00:16:48.240 But the fact that there's a warm, cordial relationship between the two leaders and the
00:16:51.720 president is able to joke like that, for us, was a positive thing.
00:16:55.440 What exactly did he say?
00:16:57.320 What exactly did he say?
00:16:58.340 We don't have a transcript.
00:16:59.780 If you look carefully at the picture, nobody had pads or were taking notes.
00:17:03.400 It was a social evening.
00:17:04.600 It wasn't a meeting in a boardroom with 10 bureaucrats keeping notes.
00:17:09.800 It was a social evening.
00:17:11.760 And there were moments where it was entertaining and funny.
00:17:15.200 And there were moments where we were able to do, we think, some good work for Canada.
00:17:18.240 All right.
00:17:18.540 Well, the biggest thing that has happened really this week has been the continuation of Donald
00:17:24.360 Trump's trolling of Canada.
00:17:26.700 He saw the meltdown that has been taking place over the news that he was joking about
00:17:31.880 annexing Canada.
00:17:32.740 He doubled down on Truth Social out of nowhere, posting an AI-generated picture of him standing
00:17:39.140 on top of a mountain with the Canadian flag and the caption, Oh, Canada.
00:17:43.500 Ryan, when you saw this, what did you think?
00:17:45.800 Oh, I thought it was real.
00:17:46.900 No, I didn't.
00:17:49.940 He actually scaled a mountain.
00:17:51.600 It's unbelievable.
00:17:52.520 In a suit.
00:17:52.920 Yeah.
00:17:53.240 Well, you know.
00:17:53.620 In a suit, no less.
00:17:54.700 I thought he took a helicopter off.
00:17:56.880 Let's be realistic here.
00:17:58.580 But I just, I thought it was funny.
00:18:01.540 And I think it's interesting how short of a memory people have of Donald Trump.
00:18:06.740 Like he, this is not the first time he has done something like this.
00:18:09.900 This was literally just, he knows that all of Canada all of a sudden is paying attention
00:18:14.980 to him.
00:18:15.520 And he just posted that as, you know, just a kind of like, I would say a mischievous smile
00:18:23.300 to the Canadian media and to the Canadian public.
00:18:26.480 Yeah, it was to rub salt in the wound is what it was.
00:18:29.040 Yeah.
00:18:29.380 And to people that actually know what it was, it's hilarious.
00:18:32.300 Like, you know, am I a fan of Donald Trump himself?
00:18:36.500 Not particularly, but at the same time, he's not a stupid man.
00:18:41.680 And I thought it was absolutely hilarious.
00:18:44.220 Absolutely.
00:18:45.760 You know, and believe it or not, we've actually obtained exclusive footage, TrueNorth exclusive.
00:18:51.160 This is very exciting.
00:18:52.220 We've obtained this footage of the moment that Donald Trump saw that picture and decided
00:18:57.780 to troll Justin Trudeau.
00:18:58.840 Take a look at this.
00:19:00.220 I gotcha.
00:19:01.220 Well, if you believe that that was real, I'm afraid to say you've got some media literacy
00:19:16.640 training that is definitely required, but in all seriousness, property in Lethbridge,
00:19:21.460 Alberta, I'd like to tell you.
00:19:22.740 Exactly.
00:19:23.900 Exactly.
00:19:24.860 The funniest part you can, but you can just imagine that actually taking place with Justin
00:19:29.640 Trudeau and his staff, someone made that picture and was like, sir, look at this.
00:19:33.240 This is going to, this is going to make the Canadian media go insane.
00:19:36.280 How funny would it be to post this?
00:19:37.780 And he's like, yeah, get it up right away.
00:19:39.300 I mean, it's just, that's the way he acts, right?
00:19:41.420 It is funny.
00:19:42.400 And I think we have to, we have to remember that Donald Trump is, is a troll artist and
00:19:48.440 this is actually part of his diplomacy.
00:19:51.740 Yeah.
00:19:52.100 I think we need to remember that all of our politicians are human and maybe some of them have a sense
00:19:56.860 of humor.
00:19:57.320 Maybe some of them don't.
00:19:58.320 Well, and I think this is why he and Elon Musk get along so well, because Elon Musk is
00:20:04.200 also a, a master troller as well.
00:20:07.280 And, uh, but this is the interesting thing.
00:20:10.240 Even, even the initial post by the terrorist, it's not like, uh, Donald Trump picked up the
00:20:15.640 phone and called, uh, called Justin Trudeau.
00:20:18.260 It's not like he had a official letter sent to the Canadian government.
00:20:22.380 And his, his threat from his terrorist was literally a post on true social.
00:20:26.340 So even that, who knows if it was a troll or not, but his trolling actually got things
00:20:31.820 done.
00:20:32.240 So you, you, you, you can't fault him with that, but people have to understand what is
00:20:37.240 real and what is not.
00:20:38.120 Well, exactly.
00:20:39.120 Exactly.
00:20:40.120 And it reminds me of when he was, he did this near the end of his, uh, end of his first
00:20:44.920 presidency when he started to float around the idea of buying Greenland.
00:20:48.580 And, uh, he actually looked, it looked as though he was actually serious about it.
00:20:52.580 He may in fact try to do it again in the next four years.
00:20:54.580 Four years, he posted a picture of some tiny Greenland village with a giant gold Trump tower.
00:21:03.860 You can see it here on the screen.
00:21:05.000 I promise not to do this to Greenland.
00:21:06.660 I mean, that is just his thing.
00:21:08.860 It reminds, you know, he, he called Kim Jong-un at the United nations, little rocket man.
00:21:13.520 And look what happened.
00:21:14.520 He ended up, he ended up getting a summit with Kim Jong-un and walking across the DMZ.
00:21:19.720 So that's just his thing, right?
00:21:21.240 I mean, Canadians have to, uh, have to be able to laugh at the trolling, you know, none
00:21:25.660 of us are responsible for Canadian diplomacy, so we can just sit back and laugh about it
00:21:30.360 and just, I guess, pray that in fact, he doesn't annex us.
00:21:33.460 Um, but we got to move along because we've got so much, so many clips here to get to this.
00:21:38.060 I found to be very interesting.
00:21:39.760 This is the new line guys that the liberals are rolling out the new attack on Pierre
00:21:44.400 Polyev coming from Mark Miller, the immigration minister, of course, responsible for the immigration
00:21:49.820 disaster.
00:21:51.020 Take a look at what Mark Miller is now saying to Pierre Polyev in the House of Commons.
00:21:55.140 Mr. Speaker, it comes down to this.
00:21:57.300 Do you trust the guy who renegotiated NAFTA with Mr. Trump?
00:22:00.300 Do you trust, do you trust the guy who secured the border during pandemic of the century?
00:22:07.300 Do you trust the guy who went down on his, on President Trump's playing field to fight
00:22:11.660 for Canadians to secure the border against the guy who spent 20 years making up interesting
00:22:17.660 rhymes, spent 20 years securing one and one only thing, his own paycheck and a bloated
00:22:22.940 pension?
00:22:23.940 Do you trust the guy who renegotiated NAFTA?
00:22:28.060 Or do you trust the guy who spends his time making up interesting rhymes and spending 20
00:22:33.180 years securing his pension?
00:22:36.180 If you've seen this clip, Ryan, what do you, what do you make of this new attack line against
00:22:41.060 Pierre Polyev for being soft on immigration?
00:22:43.460 And I guess, I guess, a rhyme artist?
00:22:46.700 Well, here's the thing.
00:22:49.580 Um, the liberals literally have basically nothing left to try and attack Pierre Polyev and the
00:22:58.940 conservatives with.
00:22:59.740 They've been almost spotless.
00:23:02.100 They've made a few mistakes, um, and, and some of them were a bit larger, but the liberals
00:23:08.260 didn't capitalize at all on it.
00:23:10.180 So, um, this is essentially a clinic, uh, for anyone studying politics of how not to actually
00:23:18.900 handle your political opponent.
00:23:20.420 Um, and that's by the liberals and that's by Mark Miller.
00:23:23.860 And I think he is just getting so frustrated because literally everybody is now going on the
00:23:29.300 attack against Mark Miller and he feels like he, he tries to clap back.
00:23:33.300 Now, the interesting thing is, is Pierre gets some, some criticism from a lot of people that
00:23:39.060 haven't paid attention to literally everything that he says.
00:23:42.260 And how can you blame people?
00:23:43.540 They, they can't, but, um, Pierre has come out and stated that he will cap immigration to
00:23:50.980 housing starts and, and the capacity of the healthcare system, uh, as well.
00:23:56.500 So, um, I, uh, I don't know what Mark Miller is, is trying to talk about here.
00:24:03.140 Now, Pierre does have to be careful to avoid just falling into a contrarian, uh, type of,
00:24:09.860 uh, uh, a role here.
00:24:11.780 Like it's okay to agree with the liberals if they're correct on something.
00:24:16.100 So I would, I would, I would advise Pierre, don't just oppose everything the liberals are
00:24:22.260 doing just for the sake of being an opposition.
00:24:24.100 Right. And Tanya, what do you make of the, of the new liberal attack? It seems to be, uh,
00:24:30.340 it seems to be desperation.
00:24:32.180 Yeah, I think it's completely baseless. Um, if Pierre Polyev was only after a pension,
00:24:37.540 well, he would have left after he got his six years. I mean, he's still here 20 years later.
00:24:43.220 I think he cares very much about this country and he wants to see it restored to its former glory.
00:24:47.620 Um, I also think that there is such a thing as being right too early. And that's why the
00:24:53.140 conservatives haven't said anything about immigration up until very recently. If, uh,
00:24:58.100 you think about even a year ago, what was Canadians attitude in general towards immigration? Everybody
00:25:02.820 was very pro immigration. Um, everybody was very pro open border. I don't want to say everybody,
00:25:08.660 but many Canadians. And now it's just starting to come around that, you know, maybe we don't have
00:25:15.220 the capacity to, to support this many people all at once. And I think the conservatives are trying
00:25:20.820 to navigate that carefully so that the liberals can't use that against them.
00:25:24.180 Right. And I think, I think there are, there are, you know, as we've pointed out,
00:25:28.420 there are many things that you can criticize Pierre Polyev for. There is, as, as has been
00:25:33.620 discussed many times on my show and on others, um, this, this concern that members of the conservative
00:25:40.420 party are worried about being labeled are worried about being attacked by the legacy media and,
00:25:46.340 uh, and are because of that, a little bit soft on some of the core conservative principles.
00:25:52.020 However, I do find, I do find it funny that the, that the liberals are now attacking Polyev
00:25:56.660 for being anti deportations, uh, you know, a pandering and, uh, and making up the rhymes.
00:26:03.460 I think the rhymes, the rhymes and the slogans get a little tired for me, I have to say,
00:26:07.460 but it is, uh, it is clearly desperation from them. Desperation times. And what do they say?
00:26:13.380 Desperation calls for a desperate times call for desperate measures. And it looks as though
00:26:17.380 Miller is certainly, uh, has reached that point. I wanted to move on. We talked about the Mexican
00:26:22.660 president, uh, Claudia Scheinbaum in the last episode, because of her stance on the U S fentanyl
00:26:28.820 crisis. She's now changed her focus to go after Canada. And she said that, uh, the Canadians should
00:26:35.300 not be talking about the fentanyl issues that Mexico needs to be respected. Uh, and I believe
00:26:41.300 her exact words are as follows. Uh, Canada has a problem with fentanyl consumption among its citizens
00:26:47.780 due to a drug access policy that has implemented in previous years. It is different from the problem
00:26:52.260 that occurs in Mexico where consumption is minimal. Uh, I find this interesting, Tonya, I'll go to you.
00:26:58.660 Uh, it seems as though the Mexican president has forgot the part of the, uh, of fentanyl creation
00:27:04.180 part of this equation. Uh, clearly they don't have a problem because the Mexicans don't sell the
00:27:08.500 fentanyl to their own people. Yeah. It sounds like she's saying, well,
00:27:12.500 maybe we make it, but we don't use it. So, you know, that makes it okay.
00:27:16.340 Well, and they've obviously seen the movie Scarface where it's a, where the, the main lesson
00:27:21.540 that, uh, Tony Montana or Tony Montana, um, didn't take to heart was you never use your own product.
00:27:29.380 That's basically what they do. So, um, so yeah, of course they don't have a, uh, a narcotic
00:27:35.220 problem in Mexico because they're, they only make it, they don't use it. Well, and the Mexican
00:27:41.780 president says that Canada has a, uh, a access, uh, change in access policy. Well, you guys haven't
00:27:47.940 changed your export policy in a long, long time. Right. And I, I, I, I've been like almost,
00:27:54.260 almost to the point of being offended by what the Mexican president has been saying over the past
00:27:58.340 couple of days. I just find it outrageous, but then I've done, I've done a little bit of digging
00:28:02.500 and I learned that actually none of this should be surprising. The Mexican leadership have,
00:28:07.300 uh, have a history of saying outrageous things about the fentanyl crisis to, uh, divert any,
00:28:13.140 any bad attention on their own people. Famously, the previous Mexican president said of the U S
00:28:19.220 fentanyl crisis, the reason why the Americans are dying from fentanyl is because of a lack of hugs,
00:28:24.900 a lack of hugs. Uh, this was written in the AP in 2023. So that's the position of the Mexicans on
00:28:31.860 fentanyl crisis. They're not, the Americans aren't being hugged enough guys. So they need
00:28:36.100 one giant group hug in America and then they'll be fine. Very serious people down there clearly.
00:28:41.460 Um, and, uh, just, I mean, maybe I shouldn't be so offended there. That's just their, that's just
00:28:46.020 the way they roll. I now want to move on another classic example guys of, of the CBC and their position
00:28:53.140 on Pierre Polyev and, and immigration. We've known this for a while, but when you see it,
00:28:58.260 you just got to highlight it. You got to call it out. This came from David Cochran last night.
00:29:02.900 Justin Trudeau held a leaders meeting to inform Polyev, Jagmeet Singh, uh, Yves-Francois Blanchet,
00:29:10.100 even Elizabeth May got herself into that meeting shockingly, uh, to discuss what they can't,
00:29:15.220 what the Canadian approach is going to be to this tariff threat. Apparently, Justin Trudeau said to all
00:29:21.940 the leaders, please don't talk about the immigration failure that I have caused. Don't,
00:29:26.180 don't bring attention to the fact that we have an open border. It would be great if you could just,
00:29:30.340 you know, not talk about that. While Pierre Polyev went ahead, did his job, opposed the government
00:29:35.300 and talked about it immediately after the meeting. Take a look at how David Cochran responded to this.
00:29:40.980 Remember, he's supposed to be a journalist. So Kate on that, like all the national leaders get
00:29:45.700 together in the cabinet room. That's where they met apparently. And, and they were all asked to not say
00:29:49.700 things like the border is broken and in about 45 seconds, Pierre Polyev says the border is broken
00:29:54.340 and then he leads off question period about the broken border. Right. This is exactly the sort of
00:29:58.420 thing they're all being asked not to do because it, it, it helps the U.S. news cycle and helps the
00:30:03.860 president-elect's argument. Uh, he was making comments about the border well before that meeting.
00:30:08.740 Sure. Um, he had also done an entire media availability on Sunday where he talked about what he would do to
00:30:13.700 fix the border. So he's not just coming out and saying the border is a problem and it needs to be fixed.
00:30:18.900 He's also outlining a path for how it could be fixed in actions that the government could take.
00:30:23.220 So it's not just identification of a problem. There's also a solutions roadmap that he's identified.
00:30:28.340 Are you, are you guys surprised about the way the CBC is handling this?
00:30:32.740 I'll tell you, we're not proper journalists and I don't think even we would behave in that manner.
00:30:37.540 Yeah. Um, I, I must've left my surprise face downstairs. So sorry. I, I don't have that
00:30:43.620 with me right now. So, um, you'll have to settle with my not surprised face. Um, no, there, the,
00:30:49.220 the CBC has $1.3 billion, uh, reasons a year, um, to act this way. And, uh, and as we know,
00:30:57.700 there's a history between David Cochran and Justin Trudeau. They're frankly buddies.
00:31:02.660 Oh yeah. You got to take, take a look at this clip. We've showed it on true north before,
00:31:06.580 but remember back in 2019, David Cochran and the CBC were being so good to Justin Trudeau,
00:31:13.140 so good to the liberals, giving them some great headlines that Justin Trudeau decided to gift
00:31:18.980 David Cochran at a press conference, a poutine. He famously said these words,
00:31:23.060 take a look at this clip here. So David Cochran, the new host of power and politics,
00:31:39.300 attempting to hold the liberal government to account. It appears as though, uh, he knows,
00:31:43.300 he knows who buys him the poutine. Hey. Yeah. And evidently he got some extra gravy with that
00:31:49.220 because that gravy has lasted about five years, uh, up to now. So, um, and, uh, maybe he keeps
00:31:57.140 getting, you know, a, a, a new poutine delivered by, by Uber eats every week. I don't know, but, um,
00:32:04.100 something's happening. He's getting some sort of delivery from Justin Trudeau because he,
00:32:08.260 he keeps giving this over the top, I would say completely biased view just towards, uh, Justin
00:32:17.620 Trudeau and the liberals. And Tanya, like, let's get into this here. Let's just think about the
00:32:22.500 substance of what David Cochran is expecting of Pierre Polyev to not criticize Justin Trudeau's
00:32:29.700 government for arguably maybe their biggest failure in government, the most important and pressing
00:32:36.820 issue of the day. That is actually going to determine whether or not the Canadian economy
00:32:40.980 survives that can determine whether or not tens of thousands of Canadians have a job in the next
00:32:46.420 three months. David Cochran wants Trudeau, wants Pierre Polyev to be completely silent on that
00:32:52.260 and just go along with Justin Trudeau. I mean, that is an absurd ask at any time, but with this,
00:32:57.380 with these conditions, it's even crazier, even for the CBC. Yeah. In our Westminster parliamentary
00:33:03.380 system, the job of the official opposition is to hold the government to account. And if you have the
00:33:09.620 prime minister saying to the leaders of the opposition parties, please don't talk publicly about this.
00:33:14.820 Well then, how are those leaders supposed to hold the government to account? How is the media
00:33:19.620 supposed to find out about this and then hold the government to account? And how is the public
00:33:24.900 supposed to find out about this? So we as citizens can hold our elected officials to account.
00:33:29.780 Well, and this just goes back to the fact that Justin Trudeau doesn't take seriously who's the people
00:33:34.500 that actually pay his salary. You know, these are things that they should be discussed,
00:33:40.020 they should be available to the public. This isn't a matter of national security,
00:33:44.260 it's a matter of national embarrassment, but it's not a matter of national security and national
00:33:49.700 embarrassment. That is not a reason to be withholding, you know, this type of criticism
00:33:55.220 from the government. If anything, you know, the government needs more criticism, especially from
00:34:01.220 our mainstream media. Yet, all the politicians do is demonize all of the people that actually do
00:34:06.900 criticize them. That's why, you know, we're called, you know, these crazy, you know,
00:34:11.540 late night YouTubers that Justin Trudeau refers to in the House of Commons.
00:34:16.340 Right. I mean, honestly, we could have an entire show, probably an hour long show,
00:34:21.140 just going over what the CBC said the previous day. It seems to be getting worse. And I think,
00:34:27.860 I think it's just reinforcing the need for the CBC to face some significant restructuring,
00:34:32.740 as it appears as very likely going to happen. Well, that is all the time we have for on the
00:34:37.620 episode today. I'm afraid I've done it. Once again, you got to bear with me. We're still new
00:34:42.020 to this show. I forgot to read out to you the poll question for this episode, which you can find in
00:34:46.900 the pinned comment of this video. We want to hear you. We want to hear your comments. We also want
00:34:51.380 you to engage in the poll. The poll question for this episode is, do you think Trump will follow
00:34:56.740 through with his tariff threat or is he bluffing? Is he bluffing to Justin Trudeau? Let us know in
00:35:03.380 the pinned comment, your thoughts on that poll question. We will read out the results
00:35:07.300 on the next episode. But until then, thank you very much for tuning in. We'll see you next week.