Juno News - January 22, 2026Trump vindicated at Davos ｜ Trudeau gets wrecked by reporter
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We're back in Davos covering the World Economic Forum, where President Trump delivered a blistering speech to the globalists. We also hear from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Doug Ford, and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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We have a great episode for you today. We're going to be continuing our coverage of what is
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happening in Davos, Switzerland with the WEF conference. Usually it's a bunch of leftist
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global elites lecturing us, virtue signaling, talking about how important it is to move away
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from natural gas, hyperventilating over climate alarmism, and making up imaginary scenarios about
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how we're going to totally reinvent our economy. Of course, it's different this time because
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President Trump is there. President Trump is inserting a much needed dose of reality and
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realism into the conversation. There's a lot of hand wringing over it, but it is completely
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necessary. And let me just say, from somebody who is very skeptical, from the perspective of
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somebody who's very skeptical of WEF and these conferences and these global elites making plans
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and schemes about the future, it feels a bit too much like global governance. It feels a bit too
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much like the so-called conspiracy of the new world order. Well, it is quite satisfying to
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see Trump go in there and tell them all the truth and tell them all how much they're failing
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and how terrible their policies have been for regular people. So we're going to cover Trump's
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speech, including his remarks towards Mark Carney, more satisfying moments, which is when we see
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people like Justin Trudeau, former prime minister, actually get grilled by actual reporters,
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something that barely ever happened during his 10 years in office as prime minister because he
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controlled the press. Well, seeing free journalists in Davos actually getting to ask him questions,
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we're going to cover that. We're going to cover his deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who almost broke down
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in tears over just a couple of tough questions from our friends over at The Rebel. I think Premier
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Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, sorry, is having some buyer's remorse for endorsing the Liberals.
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We'll talk a little bit about his reaction to the EV scandal that's unfolding. And finally,
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there's going to be a new land acknowledgement. I think we can all get behind. So we've got a great
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episode. You're going to want to tune in to the very end to hear that. Okay, so President Trump
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storms Davos. He's there in person, not just zooming in, but actually speaking the truth, telling
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the globalists what they desperately need to hear. I don't know if they're going to be receptive to the
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message, but they should be. And that is that basically Europe's policies have bankrupted the
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continent. Europe's almost unrecognizable thanks to mass open, unvetted migrations changing the
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culture of Europe, and also this sort of obsession with climate alarmism, destroying their own
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economies. You know, if they really believed in global warming, and they were really afraid of
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the impact of fossil fuels on our environment, then they would have embraced nuclear, they would
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have, but they didn't, right? They didn't, they closed down nuclear plants, they closed down gas
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plants, they tried to use green energy, that didn't really work in places like Germany. And so they were
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stuck importing natural gas from Russia, fueling the war that they were also fighting against. It was
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totally, total hypocrisy, total nonsense. They deserve to be called out for this. So I'm going
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to play you a little montage of President Trump's speech at NATO. It talks about how Europe's not
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heading in the right direction, talks about Greenland, and sort of the elephant in the room
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that everybody is nervous and handling about. Well, Trump, will he, won't he actually use military force
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to take and acquire Greenland? Well, he does rule that out. I think this is all part of the art of the
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deal, by the way. You go in, these leaders need to read the art of the deal, right? Trump is a pretty
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straightforward, pretty simple man. He has laid out his playbook, like 30 years ago, and he uses it over
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and over again. You go into the room, you make the most outrageous demand possible, you confuse
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everyone, you double down on it. And then, you know, by the time you kind of like, walk it back a little
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bit, sound more reasonable, you have the people halfway towards your negotiation, and you get what you
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want, which is, I think, exactly what Trump does. He plays everybody over and over again, and it's pretty
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predictable what he's going to do, because he's done it so many times. And yet, they always fall
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for it. They always fall for it. So anyway, here is Trump scolding Europe, as they deserve to,
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and talking about Greenland and making it clear that it's not about the precious minerals. It's
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not an economic expansion that he wants Greenland. It's for national security. It's because of China
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and Russia and their activities in the Arctic. So here, let's play this clip of President Trump at Davos.
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This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America, on the northern frontier of the
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western hemisphere. That's our territory. It is therefore a core national security interest of the
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United States of America. And in fact, it's been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside
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threats from entering our hemisphere. And we've done it very successfully. We've never been stronger
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than we are now. It's the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant
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piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that it's good for Europe and safe for Europe
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and good for us. And that's the reason I'm seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the
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acquisition of Greenland by the United States. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use
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excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that.
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Okay? Now everyone's saying, oh, good. That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force.
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I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force. But the problem with NATO is that
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we'll be there for them 100 percent. But I'm not sure that they'd be there for us if we gave them the call.
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Gentlemen, we are being attacked. We're under attack by such and such a nation. I know them all very well.
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I'm not sure that they'd be there. I know we'd be there for them. I don't know that they'd be there for us.
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And honestly, if you can't enjoy President Trump for his sense of humor and his delivery and his
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style, I can't fix that for you. I think you either find Trump to be charming and amusing,
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which I happen to find him, or you just loathe him and hate him, which is unfortunately, I think
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the majority of Canadians just hate him so much. They're so deranged that they can't actually listen
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to what he's saying when he makes good points. Well, it wasn't just Europe that he was scolding and
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pointing out. He also pointed his ire at Mark Carney, Prime Minister Mark Carney, talking about Canada,
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talking about a lot of the freebies that we get. Of course, we free ride off of the United States
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from a military and security perspective. Of course we do. We do it from an economic perspective
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as well. And you know what Trump notices when Cardi gets up there and cozies up with China,
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when he makes deals with China, when he talks about how we can't trust Americans anymore and we have to
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stand our own, sort of bashing the Americans just for fun, for sports, like what liberal Canadians
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do, have always done. Trump notices it, and this is what he had to say about Canada.
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Going to be defending Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way,
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they should be grateful also, but they're not. I watched your Prime Minister yesterday,
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he wasn't so grateful. They should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of the United States.
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Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements. Fact check, true. Yes, Canada lives because
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of the United States. Canada's current military spending is $62 billion after a $9.3 billion boost
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to meet the 2% GDP target, but is still $50 billion short of the new 3.5% target. And so,
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you know what, we saw a lot of the Laurentian elites, the usual suspects, hand-wringing and
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hyperventilating on social media. People like writers in the Globe and Mail and the CBC worried
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about, will Trump actually have military intervention into Greenland? What would happen?
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The Globe and Mail had a article, like mapping out, a hypothetical mapping out of an Arctic strategy
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for Canada's military to defend Greenland. Just total fever dreams here. The fact that, what,
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we're going to engage in war against the Americans over Greenland and that we would have any chance.
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That is so absurd, so ridiculous. They love to bash Trump. They love to use him sort of as a punching
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bag to insult all Americans and all conservatives for that matter. But it turns out that Trump was
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actually kind of vindicated and we saw this from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. He had several
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clips that were circulating on social media and he is actually, says that he's in strong agreement
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with President Trump. He says that Trump is right to be worried about Greenland, that we all should
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be worried about the threat to Greenland. Let's play this clip. So, statements for me will not add
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anything here. And when it comes to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right. Other leaders in
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NATO are right. We need to defend the Arctic. We know that these sea lanes are opening up. We know
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that China and Russia are increasingly active in the Arctic. There are eight countries bordering on
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the Arctic. Seven are a member of NATO. That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland,
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Canada and the US. And there's only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO and that's Russia.
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And I would argue there is a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the
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Arctic region. So, President Trump and other leaders are right. We have to do more there. We
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have to protect the Arctic against Russian and Chinese influences. That's exactly what NATO
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ambassadors decided to do in September. We are working on that, making sure that collectively
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will we defend the Arctic region. And that's exactly right. So, Trump got what he wanted,
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which is for there to be more attention paid to the threats from Russia and China in Greenland.
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That's the whole point of this. He wants the NATO countries to increase their military spending
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so that they can meet the need and meet the demand that is happening in the world
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around us. Trump put out a true social sort of talking about this. He said, based upon
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a very productive meeting that I've had with Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte,
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we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and in fact,
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the entire Arctic region. The solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United
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States of America and all NATO nations. Based upon the understanding, I will not be imposing the
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tariffs that we scheduled to go into effect on Feb 1. Additional discussions are being held
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concerning the Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be made
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available as discussions progress. So basically, he's just saying, you know, this is what we wanted.
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We got what we wanted. We're not going to do the tariffs. We want to work together. We want everybody
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to increase their NATO spending. We don't want to be responsible for being the global policeman and
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global security guard forever. And everybody needs to up their own responsibility. So Europeans are now
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fully committed to NATO, according to Rutte, noting that spending targets have been met. So all 32
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NATO members projected to meet the 2% target in 2026, which is a huge increase to what it was prior
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to Trump making this issue front and center for himself. But he's saying that now 2% is insufficient.
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New NATO target for defense spending is 5%, 1.5% for infrastructure, 3.5% for military. So like I
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said, Canada still needs to up their military spending by approximately $50 billion to meet
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this. I have another clip of Mark Rutte thanking Trump. This is him in conversation with Trump and
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actually thanking him for bringing this issue to the forefront. Let's play the clip.
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I want to thank you again for what you did since coming in, in January, Trump 47,
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basically getting the Europeans and Canada to really step up. And that led to the enormous
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success we had in The Hague with the 5%, which is crucial to defend ourselves and to also equalize
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with what the US is paying. This was a problem already there since Eisenhower. I always tell
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the Europeans, you are completely committed to NATO, but there is also that one irritant,
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and it is this factor that the Europeans were not paying the same as the US was paying. And we solved
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it, and this is crucial also because we need the money to protect ourselves. There's one thing I heard
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you say yesterday and today, you are not absolutely sure that the Europeans would come to the rescue of
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the US if you will be attacked. Let me tell you, they will. And they did in Afghanistan,
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as you know, for every American who paid the ultimate, for every two Americans who paid the
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ultimate price price, there was one soldier from another NATO country who did not come back to his
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family, from the Netherlands, from Denmark, particularly for other countries. So you can be assured,
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absolutely, if ever the US would be under attack, your allies will be with you. Absolutely, there's an
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absolute guarantee. I really want to tell you this because this is important. It pains me
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if you think it is not. And under your leadership, this alliance is stronger than ever.
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All right. So aside from the main stage, there are other important things happening in Davos and in
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Switzerland at the WEF this year. One of them is the leaders of our country that were never properly
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held accountable, the people that got away with absolute murder in our country, and now they're
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walking free and they've personally enriched themselves or living great happy lives. Well,
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they need to be held accountable. And we saw some small dose of accountability on the streets here.
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So I want to play this incredible clip. This is Callum Smiles, who is a British reporter and
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journalist, formerly worked with Rebel, now with an outlet called Vox Populi. And he confronts Justin
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Trudeau. And let me just say, we're all Callum in this clip, hearing these questions asked to our
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former prime minister, watching him smirk about it, right? These are things that the Canadian legacy
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media would never ask him. I'm talking about vaccine injuries, vaccine mandates, the forced
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lockdowns during the COVID era. Looking back in retrospect, totally insane. You know, we were
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one of the few Ellis and View voices at the time, at the time of it all, saying this is totally wrong
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and totally insane and totally an affront on civil liberties. Now, in retrospect, I think a lot more
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people have come around to that perspective. So here is Callum grilling our former prime minister.
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And no, Trudeau doesn't take accountability. Yes, it is infuriating to watch him smirk like this.
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But I will just say, it is good that he has asked these questions, that he's finally hearing
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from somebody who is not on his payroll when it comes to journalism. So good for Callum Smiles. Let's
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Why are you pushing disinformation the way you have?
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What is disinformation? What, that people have died?
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Why are you pushing people in Canada to vaccinate the COVID vaccine?
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But that's not misinformation. My old cameraman's,
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my old cameraman's mother actually, you pushed him into jail.
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My old cameraman's mother actually died after complications from the COVID vaccine.
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So is that misinformation? Oh, now you're laughing.
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So Justin Trudeau doesn't know how to handle a real question from a real reporter. We showed you
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on the show yesterday, Ezra Levant from The Rebel also confronted Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau,
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you know, he knows Ezra. He knows who he is. And so he can go back to his regular, like,
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you know, oh, Ezra, you're my old friend, whatever. This is all over now. And also doing
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what he does. You push misinformation. You're liars. You guys are responsible for the erosion
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of trust in institutions in Canada and all that nonsense. But when it comes to a foreign journalist,
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like we saw here, Trudeau doesn't really know how to handle it. He doesn't really have a response.
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He tries to do the old, oh, you're pushing disinformation. That's just not going to hold anymore.
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He actually didn't have anything. And he pretended to see a friend on the street
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and started like laughing it up with this guy. Even though if you watch the full interaction,
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you can see that he doesn't actually know him. He doesn't like it's a total stranger,
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but Trudeau is just always acting, always playing a game. Totally. Honestly, Justin Trudeau deserves
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for that to happen to him every single day of his life. I wish that it would. I wish that more
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people would confront him over his atrocious record. But it was quite satisfying to just see that one.
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Something else that happened, again, our friend Ezra Levant over in Davos doing
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Yeoman's work over there, and he confronted Chrystia Freeland. This one was very satisfying,
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asking her in person about her job with the Ukrainian government. She was a sitting MP,
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and then all of a sudden it was announced by the leader of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky,
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that she's going to be his advisor. It's like, wait a minute, why could a sitting MP be an advisor to
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a foreign government? It makes no sense. But Chrystia Freeland has always described herself as a Ukrainian
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nationalist. Sure, she was born in Canada, but I think she sees herself as a Ukrainian.
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And that is always her support. So here is Ezra grilling her. It's actually remarkable to see how
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quickly she falls apart. She unravels. It almost sounds like she's breaking down tears. It's almost
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hard to watch. I texted this to Ezra. It really seems like she was just really upset and almost in
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tears over having a little bit of accountability, having a real journalist ask a real question.
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Let's play this clip. Why didn't you disclose your job offer from Ukraine to the conflict
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of ethics commissioner within seven days as required? Hi, nice to see you. I disclosed it
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to the ethics commissioner immediately. Are you sure about that? Because you didn't tell the
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prime minister for two days. I told the prime minister as soon as I spoke to him,
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as soon as I could speak to him. Why did you keep it secret from the public though,
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until the president of Ukraine tweeted it out? It wasn't finalized. Are you sure it wasn't because
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you guys were shipping two and a half billion dollars out and it would be odd to have you on
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both sides of the deal? That was a decision of the prime minister. And let me just say,
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I think Canada should be proud to support Ukraine. And I don't think that's the question. You were on
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both sides of the deal is the question. I wasn't on both sides of the deal. I actually wasn't at that
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meeting with the prime minister. But in any event, let me be very clear. Ukraine is fighting for
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Canada's security and for Canada's democracy. No one's disagreeing with that. So pathetic excuse for
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a leader, Chrystia Freeland, so cringe. Just everything about her is just, you know, good riddance. Glad
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she's gone. Well, it wasn't just Ezra asking questions. His video videographer, Lincoln Jay,
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also jumped in asking her about her record of freezing bank accounts during the trucker convoy.
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As you know, we reported on the show that that decision to use the Emergency Act was found by a
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federal court in 2024 to be unreasonable and counter to the constitution of Canada. That was upheld last
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week by a federal appeals court. So two federal courts have now ruled that what they did during the
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freedom convoy, what they did to truckers, what they did to locking up bank accounts,
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was counter to our constitution. Chrystia Freeland being asked about that here by Rebel News' Lincoln
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Jay. And I think you should be ashamed of yourself. For what? For doing Putin's work.
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You froze Canadians' bank accounts. She just goes back to the same stale. Like,
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oh, if you're asking me tough questions, you must be a Russian stude. You must be working for Putin.
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Shame on you. Like, what are you even talking about, lady? Okay, like no one's buying your BS anymore.
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Uh, good riddance to her and good for the rebel for holding her accountable and at least asking
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her those tough questions. Okay, I want to move on. I think Ontario Premier Doug Ford's having a little
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bit of buyer's remorse for endorsing the Liberals and cozying up with Liberal leader Mark Carney.
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I'm talking about this announcement that was made last week that Canada and China were going to be
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striking a new friendship, striking a new trade deal. And that include Canada importing some 50,000
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electric vehicles, which of course goes counter to so much of our own industrial policy. So I'm going to go over
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that a little bit right now. So we'll take you back to December 2023, when the federal government's
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zero emission vehicle mandate called to ban the sale of new gas and diesel vehicles by 2023.
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This is just so unbelievable. The fact that this is still on the books is outrageous, but they are
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looking for a national target of 100% zero emission vehicle sales. All the gas guzzling cars off the road,
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according to the liberal utopians running our government. In June 2025, Conservative MPs tried to
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overturned the ban, and they lost a vote in the House 194 to 141, with only opposition support for
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the bill. Conservative MP Melissa Lansman said at the time, nobody is denying people the choice to drive
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an electric vehicle. There's nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is the government mandating that
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everybody drive an electric car. Obviously, it doesn't really work in Canada in our cold weather.
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The electric charge just doesn't work as it should. So in early 2025, EVs made up only 9.7% of new car
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sales as Canadian interest in buying them fell from 51% in 2022 down to 36% due to the cost and the
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cold weather performance and range concerns. Since 2019, according to Epoch Times, Canada has sold or
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leased 546,000 EVs, according to the Department of Transportation nationwide. The cost for charging
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infrastructure, if we wanted to eliminate gas stations, which we would have to do by 2035,
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if we wanted to meet this ridiculous goal, it would cost us some $30 billion to build the national
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infrastructure for charging stations. That just doesn't make any sense, folks. This is like
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utopian thinking. This is exactly what President Trump and his Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnant,
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came in and saying globalization failed. This whole idea of net zero is just totally insane, right? Canada
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is sitting on one of the largest proven reserves of oil and gas in the world, and rather than focusing on
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that, using it as our superpower and our super strength, we're trying to ban it and trying to
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create some new energy that's bankrupting us or at least costing us lots and lots of money.
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According to PBO, projections expect that 33,900 more standard charging ports will be needed by 2030,
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just to keep up with the demand. This is all just not good for our economy. This is not what we should be
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focusing on. So bring you up to speed to January 2026, enter China. Canada has now signed that trade
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deal, allowing up to 49,000 Chinese EVs into the country. Well, Ontario is not happy about it,
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right? We're building our own. We've spent all of this money creating the infrastructure to build our
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own electric vehicles and to try to have those reach the Canadian market. And all of a sudden,
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we're just going to get flooded with Chinese electric vehicles. I think Doug Ford is finally
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starting to see the light. So here he was yesterday on Wednesday saying that there is a risk
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that Carney is creating in this deal. It's a risk for Ontario and our manufacturing bases. Play that clip.
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Last week, Prime Minister Carney announced a deal with China that will allow thousands of cheap
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made-in-China electric vehicles into Canada's market. I've been clear about my concerns with this deal
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by opening up our country to a flood of cheap made-in-China vehicles. The federal government
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is asking Canadian autoworkers to compete on unfair ground. We've seen what happens when cheap Chinese
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vehicles enter Western markets. Factories have closed. Workers have lost their jobs. That's the risk
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this deal is creating right here in Ontario. In exchange for opening Canada up to this flood of
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cheap Chinese vehicles, the federal government got nothing, absolutely nothing in return for Canadian
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autoworkers. So, well, Doug Ford, that's kind of what you get for climbing into bed with the Liberals for
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endorsing Mark Carney and stabbing Pierre Polyev in the back during the last election, chickens coming home to
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roost and all of that. Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford collaborated to provide $57 billion in electric
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vehicle manufacturing subsidies to automakers, including Volkswagen, Solantis, Hondas, and General
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Motors, according to The Hub. According to economist Jack Mintz, $35 billion in handouts to Volkswagen,
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Solantis, and Norfolk amount to $4 million for every hypothetical job created. And then, of course,
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Norfolk has since declared bankruptcy in Sweden and Solantis has moved its production
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out of Canada in the US. Hmm, maybe this isn't a very good industrial policy. Maybe it's not the
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best idea to subsidize, to this extent, a sort of unproven and untested and, frankly, unwanted piece
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of technology, while at the same time keeping our oil on the ground and refusing to build pipelines.
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Everything wrong with the Canadian economy. Again, it all traces back to the ideology of these leftist,
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elite, globalists, people like Mark Carney and Net Zero. This is just totally, totally the wrong
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direction. And I think that we would all be wise to listen to what the Trump administration is saying.
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And again, stop shooting ourselves in the foot when it comes to our economy, when it comes to our
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future. Okay, and finally, I want to end the show on a bit of a lighter note. This is something we can
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all get behind. You know, we all hear these ridiculous land acknowledgements all the time,
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whether you're, you know, hearing them on the news and politicians like to say them at the start of
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every speech. Any sort of left of center politician loves to start by sort of making this land
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acknowledgement. I was just out in Vancouver over Christmas holiday. I couldn't believe how often
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I heard them. Even at like Science World, they were doing presentations and they'd start by basically
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saying that Canada is an illegitimate country and that it's stolen and that land actually belongs to
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somebody else. Total nonsense. You should totally reject these when you hear them. I don't like them
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at all. But here in Toronto, we had a taxpayer basically mocking the city government and saying,
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before I start with my presentation here, I want to acknowledge the taxpayers of this city.
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We should all stop and remember that our governments are funded by taxpayers, funded by hardworking
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citizens, by people like you and I who pay our taxes, give away some 50% of the money that we earn
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to fund governments. So rather than focusing on bashing Canada and saying it's illegitimate at the
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start of like every government meeting, why don't we start and just take a minute to thank the taxpayers
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for funding the salaries of all the people who work in government. Let's play this clip.
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I'd like to start my deputation in a good way by acknowledging the people who fund this municipal
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enterprise, the Toronto taxpayer. Let's reflect and remember that every word spoken in this chamber,
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every light bulb and every salary paid, including those of city councillors, is funded almost entirely
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by the hard work and earnings of taxpayers and property owners. Nearly all of the city's $18.9 billion
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budget comes directly from them. We acknowledge that while taxpayers and property owners have endured
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an almost 20% increase in the last three years, only a small and insulated group decides how much of
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their income is expropriated to sustain a burgeoning municipal bureaucracy that continues to grow
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regardless of outcomes and results. We pay respect to those taxpayers because without them, this institution
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could not indulge in ideological excesses like renaming streets and public squares, painting roads
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with inferior and environmentally damaging red paint, nor fund harm reduction programs that result in a steady
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stream of drug paraphernalia littering our streets, sidewalks, parks and playgrounds.
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In this spirit of acknowledgement and with an eye to the future, we recognize the Toronto taxpayer
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and revere their tolerance for being taxed. I've heard enough. I want that guy to be mayor.
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I don't know who he is, but I agree with every word he said there. That guy should be mayor of
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Toronto. Enough with the leftists, enough with people like Olivia Chow. We should remember where
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the money comes from. All right, folks, this is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for
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tuning in. We'll be back in soon. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.