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- May 24, 2022
WEF experts and elites want even more control
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Global elites are hobnobbing in Davos, Switzerland this week as part of the World Economic Forum's
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annual meeting, but criticizing these elites, standing opposed to their global governance
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schemes, will get you called a conspiracy theorist according to these elites. We're
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going to break it all down on the show today. Plus, we'll be joined by True North's Andrew
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Lawton, who's on the ground reporting in Davos. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice
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Malcolm Show.
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Everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. It's great to have you here.
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I hope everyone had a wonderful Victoria Day long weekend. Hope you got to spend lots and
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lots of time with your family, with your friends. I got to spend some time with my family. I
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love to unplug over these long weekends. I basically just turn my phone and computer off and soak
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in as much time with my two little kids. I have a one-year-old and a three-year-old, and
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it's just so much fun. Having little kids around is the funnest thing. My daughter, Georgia,
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who is 18 months, is starting to talk. Her and her brother, they like to wrestle and play,
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and it's just really, really fun to be a part of that and to get to really immerse yourself
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with the kids. I like getting rid of all the technology, getting rid of all the devices,
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to spend time with the family and the kids. It's really what it's all about. I want to talk
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today about the World Economic Forum, about what's going on in Davos, because we're living
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through this really interesting moment in time where we have this sort of expert class that
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tells us everything that is good for us. We're ruled by these technocrats who truly believe
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that they know better how to live our lives than we do. They sit there and they issue heavy-handed
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edicts. They push heavy-handed rules. We've lived through some of the most heavy-handed authoritarian-like
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rules in my lifetime, where the government had exerted so much control over what we can do.
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I'm talking about the COVID pandemic, the restrictions that we all lived through. We
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haven't seen anything like that in the West before, maybe since wartime, since the Second World War,
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when there were Emergency Measures Act issue. And so what we're seeing, what we're experiencing,
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is a backlash towards that. People don't like that. People don't like these technocratic experts
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telling us what to do because lo and behold, the experts are often incorrect. What a surprise,
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I know, this idea that experts can't actually run our lives better. And so I see a growing pushback
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against this and it's not really a left-right thing anymore. It's more like more and more people just
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don't want these arrogant, progressive, mostly left-leaning elites telling us, designing our lives,
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telling us what's good for us, telling us that we're going to have to suffer, we're going to have to
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sacrifice for some greater good that we don't see, especially when the underlying assumptions that
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these elites are making are often wrong. And so we're seeing lots and lots of pushback against
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this. I think the trucker convoy, that was what it was all about. But there's so many other instances
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in society. You can look at Brexit, you can look at Trump. People don't like to be told what to do
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by a group of out-of-touch elites. And nothing sort of exemplifies this attitude and this distinction
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between the elites and everyone else better than what goes on every year in Davos, Switzerland,
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a luxury ski resort in the Swiss Alps where the global elite gather and they have these
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conversations out loud. They say the quiet part out loud. They talk about how they want to reset
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the economy, how they want to redesign the way that we live our lives. They want capitalism to be
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infused with their woke ideology. They want us to sacrifice in terms of getting rid of fossil fuels.
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They want to eliminate the kinds of jobs that they don't want. They really talk out loud about this
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utopian vision that they have for the world where the experts are in charge and everyone else just
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does exactly what they say. And so lo and behold, no surprise, people don't like that. People don't
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like being told what to do by a group of out-of-touch experts and snobs. And that is exactly what the
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World Economic Forum is all about. So it's easy to understand why there is a lot of interest in what
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goes on at Davos. There's a lot of anger about what goes on at Davos. And it's not just coming
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from the conventional political right. I know that a lot of the ink spilled in the Canadian legacy media
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talking about how there's these conspiracies on the right. The reality is that people on the left
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also oppose a group of billionaires flying in their private jets, heading to, again, a luxury ski resort in
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the Swiss Alps to kind of rub elbows with politicians and government officials and the head of NGOs.
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Like this whole gathering upsets a lot of people, not just on the political right, but on the political
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left as well. Our own Andrew Lawton, who's on the ground there, has been reporting how most of the
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protesters that go in and try to destabilize it, you know, they're climate environmentalists or they're
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vegan activists. They're people who you would traditionally think of on the political right.
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Obviously, there's a lot of frustration and skepticism from the political right as well.
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And yet what we see from the media, almost in lockstep, is a kind of weird defense of these
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global elites. You have media across the board in Canada basically saying it's not okay to criticize
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these global elites. And if you do, you will be called a conspiracy theorist. This is a perfect
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example, I think, of why Ezra Levant over at The Rebel, he coined the term the media party to
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describe the media, the journalists in Canada, because they all take the same position. It's like
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a party where they all kind of agree on the party lines and then they repeat the same talking points
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about it. It doesn't matter what publication they write for. It doesn't matter whether they're
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journalists, reporters, political pundits. It doesn't matter really if they're conservative or liberal.
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They all have the same opinion when it comes to Davos. We're going to go through some of that
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on the show today. So first, I want to talk about the so-called conspiracy theory and what it is all
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about. So when you see all these members of the media party sort of shaking in anger and consternation,
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saying, you know, these awful right-wingers and their conspiracy theorists about the World Economic
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Forum, what are they talking about? Well, basically, the conspiracy theory is that the World Economic Forum
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has penetrated Canada's cabinet, that this group of elites basically controls Justin Trudeau
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and his cabinet. There's also a conspiracy around Klaus Schaub, who is the head of the World Economic
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Forum. He started this thing 51 years ago. He's an academic from Switzerland. And the idea is that
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basically this guy has total control. He controls governments. He planned the pandemic, that the whole
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idea behind the pandemic was a great reset in order to just collapse the global economy and restart to
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build it in some other way. Obviously, that's not true. This guy isn't all that powerful. But, you know,
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the reason why people believe this, the reason why people think this is because that's literally what
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he says. That's literally what he says. So here is Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum,
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explaining how he has penetrated governments with its young global leaders program, including Justin
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Trudeau. Let's see that clip. And I have to say, when I mention our names like Mrs. Merkel,
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even Vladimir Putin and so on, they all have been young global leaders of the World Economic Forum.
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But what we are very proud of now is the young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau,
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President of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets. So yesterday I was at a reception for
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Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know that half of this cabinet, or even more half of
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half of this cabinet are for our actually young global leaders of the World Economic Forum.
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So, gee, I wonder why some people online think that this guy has penetrated Trudeau's cabinet. Well,
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maybe because he says that he has. Likewise, you know, the whole idea of the Great Reset is supposedly
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a conspiracy theory. And yet, Klaus Schwab's own book is called COVID-19, The Great Reset. So,
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you know, it's not like these conspiracies are coming from thin air. There is actual reasons
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behind why they're there. Now, you don't have to believe the meat of the conspiracy to be skeptical
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of the underlying assumptions around it. Namely that, yes, a group of very influential,
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high-profile, powerful people gather every year. They go skiing in this beautiful ski resort.
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Usually the event takes place in January, but this year they were all so paranoid and so worried about
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COVID, they pushed it back to now to May. So they didn't get to go on their usual ski trip in the
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Swiss Alps. I guess that'll have to wait till next year. But they did get to gather in this beautiful
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Swiss town. And so you have this really bizarre situation where you have a bunch of Canadian
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journalists basically defending global elites against accusations from Canadians that these
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people are doing something nefarious so that they're somehow wrong, which again, kind of doubles
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down on the reason why so many Canadians are skeptical of elites and of institutions. It's like,
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here we have a group of Canadians, a large and growing group of Canadians who have lost trust in
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their government. They've lost faith in the media. They've lost faith in many of the governing
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institutions of our country. And part of their anger and frustration is towards this sort of global
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elite class of people who make decisions for them. And when you have an instance of people expressing
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their frustration at these global elites, you have the media, one of the institutions that is failing,
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that Canadians have lost trust in, their knee-jerk reaction is to defend the global elite against
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accusations from the people. Once again, I made this point several times on social media and on the show,
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that journalists used to hold the powerful accountable in service of the public. So they
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would hold government accountable, they would hold powerful people, hold billionaires, hold corporations
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accountable in service of the public. Now, what we see more and more, and this is another example of it,
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we see journalists holding the public accountable in service of the elites, in service of the
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government. And so here we have Clark Campbell over in the Globe and Mail saying that the World Economic
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Forum conspiracy theory is in the conservative leadership race, and it's in Canada's main
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streets. He does pick up on this trend. He writes that as a development in Canadian politics, it could
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be a lot more important than a leadership race. A sizable group of Canadians have lost trust in, well,
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almost anyone. Okay, it's not just in the Globe and Mail that they are accusing Canadians of being
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conspiracy theorists. Our friends over at the Toronto Sun have likewise jumped in. Here's Brian Lilly writing
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an op-ed last night. Polyev shills conspiracy theories to sell memberships. His whole point here
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is that, well, members of the Harper government attended the World Economic Forum a decade ago,
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and therefore how could Pierre Polyev criticize it? What we see here is basically a bunch of strawman
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arguments saying that Canadians who criticize the World Economic Forum are lying or they're wrong or
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they're mistaken, failing to actually try to understand what the criticisms are that are deeper.
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Um, so Brian Lilly writes this. Schwab's call to have a great reset in the economy as part of the
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recovery from COVID-19 has been the focus of those who see the World Economic Forum as an organization
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with too much power. There are regular claims the World Economic Forum controls governments, including
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Justin Trudeau's cabinet, and fixes the elections. Then Brian Lilly writes, none of this is true, but it's
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shared widely online, and it's the people who buy into these conspiracy theories that Polyev is trying to attract
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in his bid to win the leadership of the Conservative Party. Hmm, I wonder, I wonder why people believe
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that the World Economic Forum controls governments, perhaps because all of these government leaders go
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and gather in Davos every year. Uh, when it comes to Justin Trudeau's cabinet, his own finance minister
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sits on the board of the World Economic Forum. Forget about everything else. How is that not a conflict
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of interest? How is it not a conflict of interest for a cabinet minister, the minister of finance,
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to also sit on the board of this global governance organization? Our friend Rupa Subramania over in
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the National Post raised these questions, and I think it's perfectly legitimate and perfectly reasonable
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that we question and doubt this. So Subramania's piece here says Chrystia Freeland's side gig with the
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World Economic Forum is endangering Canadian democracy. Freeland notes an invitation to Davos
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marks an aspiring plutocrat's arrival on the international scene. That was a quote from Chrystia Freeland back when
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she used to be critical of the World Economic Forum. The global elite don't especially enjoy the glare of
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publicity on their privileged lifestyles, so much so that Freeland wrote in a 2015 opinion piece in
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The Guardian that after my book Plutocrats was published in 2012, I was even disinvited to a Davos
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dinner party. The doors of Davos were closing for Freeland. They swung back open with their entry into
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politics in 2013. And so now we know that Freeland is sitting on the board. She's currently the only
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government minister to be sitting on a board. So again, makes you wonder, why is that a conflict of
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interest? Why is Chrystia Freeland allowed to sit on a board that is espousing incredibly left-wing
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views, right? This is the heart of the matter, that the experts and the elites at Davos express views that
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are not widely shared by Canadians. They're pretty extreme. They're pretty out there. Okay,
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but here's the real issue with Davos. It's not so much that it controls the Trudeau government. I
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don't think that Klaus Schwab picks up the phone and tells Justin Trudeau what to do. The problem
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is that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, and by that I mean broadly Liberals in politics and media,
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including most of the media party here, is that they like global institutions. They favour globalism.
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They like the United Nations. They're aspirational. They like the idea of working together. And they
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truly believe in the power of these institutions. And that is counter to the growing sentiment in
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society who feel like these global institutions don't work and they're not working in Canada's
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best interest. They're not working in the best interest of Canadians. In fact, they sort of undermine
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our sovereignty. And so it's not so much that Trudeau is controlled by them, but it's that Trudeau is
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inspired by them. Trudeau and his Liberal cabinet ministers love going to these kind of global events.
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They love virtue signaling. They love being at the forefront. They love the glowing
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profiles that they get from like-minded journalists who also go to these events. So time and time again,
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they leave Davos and they come back and basically adopt exactly what was being talked about. So we
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have a bunch of examples in June 2021 addressing climate change through carbon taxes, and they use
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Canada as an example of successful carbon taxes. Likewise, this idea of the Global Future Council on
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energy transition. There was a piece from 2021, why we need a global framework to regulate online harm
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that was talked about at the World Economic Forum. And it was adopted by Canadians. We've seen this also
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in regards to the United Nations. There's a huge uprising, mostly on the political right a couple
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of years ago when the United Nations introduced a global compact on migration that basically gave
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migrants the exact same rights as refugees and said that anyone has the right to travel to any country and
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try to get citizenship. And the media was very, you know, the media party were very upset and they
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were saying, you know, this isn't law. This isn't ratified. This is just basically an aspirational
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international declaration. So why are conservatives getting worked up about it? Well, the idea is
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because Trudeau comes home and drafts his legislation based on the nonsense and the gobbledgoop that is
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being cooked up in these international forums. And again, we see it time and time again,
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which is why I'm personally very skeptical of the World Economic Forum. And I think
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that the criticism of the World Economic Forum is not a conspiracy theory. Sure,
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there are some conspiracy theories and those should be debunked. It's not true that these people
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actually control the levers of power, but they inspire governments like the Trudeau government to
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do all kinds of awful policies that are terrible for the people of Canada. And so that's why I'm happy
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to see Pierre Polyev come out pretty forcefully over the weekend and say that he will ban cabinet
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ministers and top officials from being involved in the World Economic Forum. And sure, this is symbolic.
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It's not going to completely stop the problem of global elites trying to ram their expert opinions
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down our throats, but it's a good first step. And it's a good measure of where Pierre stands in the
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in the issue of sort of global institutions and global governance on one side and state sovereignty and
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the supremacy of the nation state on the other side. And it's good to see Pierre come out on the side of
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Canada. And so this is a video that Pierre released over the weekend where he basically lays it all out
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and he lets it be known where he stands on the World Economic Forum. And let me just tell you,
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this created quite the stir online. We'll go through some reaction. And so here is that clip of Pierre
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letting us know where he stands on the World Economic Forum. And that is why I've made it clear
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that my ministers and my government will be banned from participating in the World Economic Forum when
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I'm in government.
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Work for Canada. Work for Canada. If you want to go to Davos to that conference, make it a one-way ticket.
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But you can't be part of our government and working for a policy agenda that is against the interests of
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our people. What he says are exactly right is exactly at the heart of people's concerns with
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the World Economic Forum. You can't be part of our government and working for a policy agenda that
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opposes Canadians' best interests. And I couldn't have said it any better myself. Good for Pierre,
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again, for putting that out. Pretty remarkable the reaction to that tweet. Every fancy person in politics
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and the media came out in lockstep to denounce Pierre Polyev and to basically just try to dunk on him,
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try to say that he's lying or that he's promoting conspiracy theories or saying,
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well, wait a minute, Stephen Harper attended the World Economic Forum 10 years ago, right?
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It's like, well, guess what? This whole realignment about the global elites and experts telling us
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what to do, that wasn't as much of a concern back 10 years ago when Stephen Harper was prime minister.
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And also we knew where Harper stood. It was very clear that Stephen Harper preferred,
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that Stephen Harper didn't like these global institutions. Every time he went to the United Nations,
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he would tell us all of the problems that he had with the UN. And so it's so weird to see journalists
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like here we have Evan Solomon from CTV or Mercedes Stevenson from Global trying to punch down Pierre
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as if they're his opposition, as if it's their job to counter his position. You know, they're the media,
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they're supposed to be reporting things. Instead, they're jumping into the arena and acting like political
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players trying to dunk on the potential conservative leader. And of course, in doing all this,
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these journalists reveal themselves to be clearly, obviously part of the same global elite mindset
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that gathers in Davos. I'm sure they wish that they were all in Davos as well, like Chrystia Freeland,
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who managed to go from journalist to cabinet minister in Canada to board member of the World Economic Forum.
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I'm sure all these journalists aspire to that and that's their aspired career path. But I want to point
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out what Robin Urbach of the Globe and Mail said. She quote tweeted Pierre and says,
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I will make Canada the freest country on earth by banning certain people from participating in
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something the internet told me was bad. It's kind of funny that a journalist would try to measure
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freedom. Like usually when you measure freedom, you think of the freedom of the everyday person,
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the ability for them to have a good life, to be able to afford a house, a car, the cost of living,
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free to pick their own career, free to live their life in the way they want. Typically,
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when you're measuring the freedom of a society, you're not measuring in terms of what government
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officials and cabinet ministers or what extracurriculars they're allowed to be involved
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with. It's just sort of weird that a journalist would instinctively think of freedom in terms of
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the freedom of a cabinet minister to go to some fancy conference as opposed to the freedom of everyday
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people to be able to live their life and pursue their own interests. It just really, again, shows you
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the mindset of journalists that they're interested in defending the elite. They're not interested
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in defending Canadians. They're not interested in holding elites accountable in service of
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Canadians. They're interested in the exact opposite of that, holding Canadians accountable in service
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of global elites. Well, this seems like a good point in the program to bring in Andrew Lawton,
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True Norris Andrew Lawton, who's reporting from the ground in Davos, Switzerland. Andrew, it's great to have you.
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Hey, it's good to be with you. So I wouldn't even know half the half of what was going on at Davos
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if it wasn't for your reporting. The legacy media seems to have no interest in what's being said and
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the themes and what's going on there. So first question for you, Andrew, why did you decide to
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go to Davos and why do you think it's so important to report on this kind of stuff?
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Well, I think there are two things. I mean, one is that we try to give the people what they want.
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And I know our audience has been talking a lot about this, asking a lot about the questions they have
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about the WAF and specifically its context on Canadians. And I know there are a lot of things
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that are territorial about this organization because it is mysterious and that mystery and
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secrecy breed that sort of stuff. But I think there's an overcorrection from a lot of people
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who want to avoid looking at it at all, who say, oh, it's all conspiracy. You can't do anything. So
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really what I want to do is come here and do what we do best at True North, which is talk about the facts,
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talk about the side of the story the mainstream media is not representing,
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and explain without delving into the fringe stuff that really isn't, I think, the bulk of
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most people's criticisms with the WEF. Talk about what the organization is, what it stands for. And
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a lot of that is just using its own language and showing what it is that they want. I mean,
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there is no secrecy about the agenda. They're really using, I think, a very vocal and clear
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language about what it is they want to do. So just a question, because I remember you had some
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issues where they didn't want to let you in. They didn't want to allow you to cover this as a journalist.
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You couldn't get the right credentials. But it seems like you have been able to get in and report
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on that. So can you give us a bit of an update of your ability to access and report as a journalist
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there on the ground? Yeah. So officially, I have no status. Officially, I can't go into any of the
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secure areas. They have this really weird caste system with badges where your status depends on
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the color of badge you have. And I'm completely bad. So I've got no status here, which means I can't
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go inside. But there are two things that I think are working in my favor here. The first is that a
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lot of their programming is actually public. A lot of their sessions are public. And you can access
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them and watch them online. Anyone can. We have some people back in Canada as well that are going
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through and looking for really important details. But the other part is that this is really an elite
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village. I mean, one of the pro-climate justice protesters I spoke to a couple of days ago
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characterized it pretty well as a corporate Disneyland. And they're not used to anyone in this safe space that
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isn't invited. So a lot of these really important people are just walking around, going into the
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shops, going into the restaurants. And I've been able to speak to UN officials. A few moments ago,
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I spoke to former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney. He didn't want to answer any questions,
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but he was there. So it's really a combination of the two, what they're saying publicly and then
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privately when you see them walking around just to ask them about what it is they want to do and if
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they're okay with the consequences of that. Henry, you wrote a piece called The Strange Phoniness of Davos.
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One of my impressions of the whole World Economic Forum is that the things that they think are the
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priorities are so distant from the everyday concerns of Canadians. I know you were at the
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Trucker Convoy. You report on a lot of the kind of cost of living issues that Canadians face. Can you sort
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of contrast or talk about whether you think that the main areas of focus at a conference like this
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are aligned with and similar to the day-to-day concerns of Canadians?
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No, it's the opposite. And that's been one of the most stark things to see. And I've been trying
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to figure out how to write about it. So let me workshop some material with you and your audience
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here is that there's just this profound disconnect between the people that deal with the consequences
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of the policies discussed here and those discussing the policies. And one significant example of this,
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there was a panel yesterday featuring a Norwegian banker whose name I can't recall right now. And she
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was talking about how all of these changes to green energy and the small and medium-sized business
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industry are going to cause pain. Those are her words. And she said, we have to accept that it
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causes pain and we have to talk about that. But she said, it's all worth it. And we have to just
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tell people that it's worth it. Well, if you're a small business owner that can't afford the gas bill
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or the electricity bill for your business, or you're a trucker who can't afford to put fuel in your
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truck right now, you're not really going to be all that heart warmed by some Norwegian banker in the
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Swiss mountains saying that, ah, yeah, but it's short-term pain, but it's better in the long run.
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It's not better for the people. It may be better for the country. It may be better for the climate.
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And both of those I think are big ifs, but it's not better for the people and they don't seem to care.
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And it's amazing how little they seem to care about the fact that they don't care.
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So one of the things, as you probably saw, Pierre Polyev came out with a video saying,
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you know, if I find the prime minister, I'm not going to allow any government officials and any
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cabinet ministers to go to this thing. And the reaction has been wild. Like everyone in lockstep
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has come out to condemn this comment. I'm wondering if you, like, what is your feeling? Do you think
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that Pierre is sort of giving oxygen to conspiracy theorists or do you think that that is a legitimate
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and wise policy choice? One of the things that I find interesting, I've read a little bit of the
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criticism of Pierre Polyev saying that. And what I find fascinating is that the people that try to
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dismiss conspiracy theories, say they don't do anything. It's nothing. It's just a bunch of
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people to get together and talk. They're, they're not actually doing anything. So if that's the case,
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why do we want to be involved either? I mean, there's, there's an excuse to not want to be
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involved because you think they're doing a bunch of terrible things, but if you think they're doing
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nothing and it is just this global corporate Disneyland get together, then I think there's a
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similar question of why do we want to embolden that? I think for Canada to come here, all of the climate
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and energy discussions they're having have basically been policies that would amount to
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signing a death warrant on the oil and gas sector, which in Canada is of the utmost importance. So I
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think any Canadian government should be looking long and hard at their economic needs in Canada,
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at what we need as a country and what they're talking about here and saying there's just not
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a compatibility here. Well, Andrew, it looks like you're, you're getting rained on. So I really
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appreciate you sticking it out there for this interview. I'll just ask you one, one final question.
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You know, we, we, I agree with you that, that the criticism of Pierre, it feels like straw man.
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It's like, rather than actually getting to the root of, Hey, this is why people don't like Davos.
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This is why people don't like the world economic forum and what they're talking about. They just
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say, Oh, the stupid conspiracy theorists and how, how dare Pierre give them oxygen or, or even
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acknowledge them. But, but it's a fact that the Trudeau government gets inspired by these kind of
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radical leftist ideas that get, um, shopped around at these kinds of conferences. We we've seen that with
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climate policies, with punishing oil and gas recently with, uh, online harms or censorship.
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I'm wondering if, if, uh, if you, uh, being on the ground there, what, what, what is the main
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theme of the conference this year? What are people talking about and what should Canadians be concerned
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about on the horizon? What's the, what's the next thing that Trudeau is going to get inspired by?
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Well, the, the official theme has been rebuilding trust, which I think is an evergreen theme,
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but if you look at the panels that they're having, it's all about climate, the environment.
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A lot of people are walking around with these UN sustainable development goal pins, but they're
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not UN employees. They're executives at Microsoft and Google that are all just walking around with
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these UN pins. So I think that the climate change stuff is the biggest stuff for Canadians, but
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certainly free speech as well. I mean, there was a clip I posted yesterday that went viral of
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Australia's e-safety commissioner talking about how we need to recalibrate things like freedom of
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speech. So we know that this is some stuff that's very much on the radar for Justin Trudeau.
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I don't believe that Klaus Schwab is running the show in Canada, but I believe that the World Economic
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Forum is putting out a series of policies that people like Justin Trudeau really want to lap up.
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And I think that's why to go back to your original question of why are we here? Canadians need to be
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paying attention to this. Well, absolutely. And again, Andrew, if it wasn't for the reporting that
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you're doing, we just wouldn't even be aware of any of this. We wouldn't, wouldn't have the details.
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And so we really, really appreciate you going and doing what most legacy media journalists and
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candidates refuse to do, which is simply go observe, gather information, and you're doing
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a great journalism out there. We appreciate it. And sorry, we're getting you, making you stand
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out in the rain, but it's all worth it for the story. Excellent. Well, thank you so much, Andrew,
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for reporting on the ground. That is Andrew Lawton on the ground in Davos, Switzerland,
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doing excellent journalism, doing the kind of work that the legacy media refuses to do.
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doing great reporting on the ground. It's so important to shine a light on what is going on there,
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not to give oxygen, again, to the conspiracy theorists, but just to show the problem with
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the mindset of the people and the radical left-wing policies that are being cooked up
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in these back rooms and on the stage at Davos, Switzerland. Well, thank you so much for tuning
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in. I'm Candice Moncombe, and this is The Candice Moncombe Show.
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