Juno News - What does Donald Trump’s victory mean for Canada？

00:00:00.000 welcome everyone to the very first episode of true north's newest show the northern dispatch

00:00:14.880 my name is harrison faulkner i host ratioed and the faulkner show on this program

00:00:19.520 and we are joined by co-hosts who you may or may not be familiar with but

00:00:24.040 instead of introducing them myself i thought they would be better to introduce themselves

00:00:29.520 to all of you hi everybody my name is ryan and i am one of the two co-hosts of the podcast

00:00:37.920 northern perspective this is my lovely wife tanya hi my name is tanya and i'm the second half of

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00:01:27.720 back to you uh harrison right well true north and northern perspective are teaming up for the first

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00:02:16.920 get right into it this week the biggest news of course still driving the news cycle in canada and

00:02:22.360 the united states is the victory of donald trump capping off probably the greatest political comeback

00:02:28.120 in in history at least in my opinion but you know the legacy media in canada they talk on and on

00:02:35.420 about donald trump's domestic policies his domestic appointments who's going to lead this department

00:02:41.060 who's going to lead that department none of that really matters to you none of that really matters to

00:02:45.320 us we are canadians he's not our president he's not our prime minister and he's not leading our

00:02:49.800 country but what does uh ryan i'll start with you what does donald trump's victory mean for canadians

00:02:56.360 well it means that i i think at least the mainstream media was wrong because they were all pulling for

00:03:04.740 and predicting a kamala harris government and you know we didn't have any horse in this race in terms of

00:03:12.680 who would win uh on northern perspective um we thought of the two of them donald trump would

00:03:17.700 probably be best for canada because um as we've seen with the liberal policies uh under justin trudeau

00:03:24.720 um they are all about censorship all about huge government and it uh it really strips away at the

00:03:32.500 freedoms of canadians so under a donald trump type of government especially if pierre polyev ends up

00:03:38.940 forming government with the conservatives um we seem to think that he's going to be much easier to

00:03:44.560 deal with uh especially because of how we saw justin trudeau dealing with donald trump and it was

00:03:52.100 almost like he was acting like a kid out of high school um in you know being nice and polite in front

00:03:59.380 of uh in front of donald trump and then as soon as trump left the room it seems he ran to the microphone

00:04:04.240 and uh started talking talking badly about his closest trading partner so um i think it's going

00:04:12.140 to be very interesting it may be some friction depending on how long trudeau remains in government

00:04:16.940 until that election takes place um but um it's not going to be without its challenges as well because

00:04:23.080 as we all know uh donald trump can be a little abrasive in the media but um i think he he does

00:04:30.660 everything with intent as well i think one major difference is going to be that the liberals are

00:04:37.300 probably going to start saying oh look do you want pierre polyev in government he's just going to be

00:04:42.280 like trump down south i think that's one thing that they'll absolutely use to their advantage

00:04:46.800 i i predicted uh i predicted that justin trudeau might try to call an election in line with the u.s

00:04:53.700 election or close to tronald donald trump's victory to do exactly that tanya to basically try to pin

00:04:59.600 pierre polyev to donald trump and the reality is that they're just they're you really can't compare

00:05:05.000 the two you know you might be able to compare um doug ford's populism to donald trump's populism

00:05:12.160 uh some of the economic angle stuff but when it comes to pierre polyev and donald trump there really

00:05:17.420 isn't much to compare the two you know pierre polyev is a career politician he's been in politics

00:05:24.360 his whole life donald trump is a businessman and he went in as president that first time he's a bull

00:05:29.480 in a china shop guy he doesn't seem to have that same sort of uh political attitude the way pierre

00:05:36.920 polyev does um so i think that uh i think that a relationship between pierre polyev and justin

00:05:44.080 trudeau uh ron pierre polyev and donald trump is going to be really interesting to see there was some

00:05:50.080 public polling on this right ryan there was some public polling that indicated what canadians uh thought

00:05:55.020 was going to happen or who would be best to handle donald trump version two yeah so nanos um recently

00:06:01.780 released a poll uh about this and what they found unsurprisingly i think to most canadians

00:06:07.740 is that pierre polyev um they preferred him to uh to deal with donald trump 35.5 percent of the time

00:06:15.600 versus justin trudeau at only 21.3 percent of the time so um you know a 30 percent gap uh on that

00:06:23.840 between the two now does that mean that pierre is going to be perfect in dealing with donald trump

00:06:29.020 well that remains to be seen but one thing that you can count on pierre polyev to do is to rely on

00:06:35.520 all of the talent that he has around him um which he has done so up until now he will be extremely

00:06:41.420 disciplined but extremely calculating when he looks at how he approaches that relationship and what

00:06:47.820 he can can get out of it let me ask you tanya to play devil's advocate here is there something 0.53

00:06:53.560 to be said about having the years of experience dealing with donald trump and the people that

00:06:58.460 surround donald trump that justin trudeau has rather than the the position that polyev might

00:07:03.660 be coming into as a total freshman um as someone who has never had to deal with a u.s president let

00:07:09.100 alone a figure like trump um i think you could say yes if they had a history of doing it well

00:07:16.400 which i feel that they don't um so do you have a history of this political government dealing with

00:07:25.800 the u.s i wouldn't say they did the greatest job so is that really an asset i think somebody like

00:07:32.300 pierre polyev has a history in politics he he was a minister under harper um i think he has the

00:07:39.260 knowledge and the know-how to how to deal with foreign governments and i'm really looking forward to

00:07:45.080 seeing what he can do with our closest partner uh and ally the united states well just to add on that

00:07:50.900 i would also say that pierre polyev has uh as you pointed out earlier harrison he's a career politician

00:07:56.920 which means he's been in government for multiple presidents uh going all the way back to i believe

00:08:01.960 it was 2005 um so he's been around when canada has been dealing with uh these different presidents

00:08:09.040 and he's seen the backroom conversations he's been in harper's cabinet um not necessarily dealt

00:08:15.040 directly with trump but he was he was there when uh when trudeau was dealing with trump and was helping

00:08:19.900 to criticize him as well so um so does does trudeau have a slight edge devil's advocate i i think he

00:08:28.440 might in terms of that experience if trudeau is smart which you know the jury's out on that um

00:08:35.040 uh i think he will look at his past mistakes and try to correct them the problem is is true uh he's

00:08:43.060 already made a first impression with trump and i don't think that impression was left with one of

00:08:47.820 respect no absolutely not and we're gonna later on get into some of those funny moments that uh trump

00:08:55.140 and trudeau had uh during his first term and they weren't very good for canada or for justin trudeau

00:09:00.760 personally i feel like that's a good question to ask the audience actually let us know in the

00:09:04.620 comments what you think what do you think the dynamics of a poly of trump relationship will

00:09:09.220 look like will it be a lot better uh than a trudeau trump relationship or does donald trump just look

00:09:15.340 at canada as as maybe a little sibling of the united states to boss around i hope i certainly hope not

00:09:21.880 but one of those major elements between the trump trudeau uh relationship was the renegotiation of

00:09:30.360 nafta and the establishment of the usmca trade agreement donald trump found that the deal was

00:09:36.420 a bad one for the united states and so we ripped it up and uh both mexico and canada really had no

00:09:41.160 choice you have to kind of go along with what the u.s president says and part of that uh part of what

00:09:46.740 we saw was a major increase on tariffs on softwood lumber major increase on tariffs with steel and

00:09:54.460 aluminum which were met with canada imposing tariffs on american steel and aluminum and generally uh the

00:10:01.940 basically i would call it trade hostilities between the u.s and canada and um ryan the usmca agreement

00:10:10.720 that donald trump negotiated with trudeau and with christia freeland is up for renegotiation in 2026

00:10:16.660 do you think uh do you think canada is in for a tougher ride now with a new uh a new usmca agreement

00:10:23.540 on on the horizon i think that all depends um assuming that pierre polyev and the conservatives

00:10:31.480 get into government i think that will make it easier to do um you know the i think the west understands

00:10:40.100 that there is a a energy crisis due to the reliance on russian oil out there canadian oil is something

00:10:49.320 that would really benefit europe it would continue to benefit the united states um you know the keystone

00:10:57.740 pipeline there's a question there that is up for for discussion but i think because pierre polyev

00:11:05.260 and donald trump have more aligned stances on the environment and the use of fossil fuels um it is

00:11:12.280 not the doom and gloom that the mainstream media will have you think it is um i think it will make

00:11:17.860 it easier to negotiate and there will be more give and take because i think one of the big challenges

00:11:21.740 with justin trudeau is a lot of it most likely centered on the environment and canada wasn't willing

00:11:27.000 to budge on a lot of these things so if if pierre can can bring in some some aspects not necessarily

00:11:36.680 directly related to the usmca but more specific to the energy sector as uh as an encouragement for

00:11:43.220 donald trump to make certain concessions it's it's possible now donald trump is still going to be

00:11:47.660 america first and pierre polyev is is moving to also a more canada first type of approach from what

00:11:55.040 we've heard from from his policies so um it's going to be interesting to see uh to see what

00:12:02.140 saber rattling if any is actually done but um i'm hopeful that that they can actually reach a fair

00:12:08.640 deal if if both sides are happy that's what i always say in a negotiation if both sides walk away

00:12:13.640 unhappy then it's probably a fair deal and you know i i think back to joe biden's first day

00:12:21.180 as president immediately after inauguration he has a stack of executive orders on his desk and one of

00:12:26.940 those executive orders is to shut down the keystone xl pipeline and to shut down the northern gateway

00:12:32.080 pipeline uh pipelines that were going to bring in oil and energy from alberta and british columbia

00:12:37.520 respectively to the united states i mean that was a stunning thing to see that that joe biden would do

00:12:44.140 that um and would basically take take a cause a lot of pain and a lot of hurt for americans

00:12:50.160 jack up their energy prices and leave a bunch of canadian jobs sidelined

00:12:55.120 yeah it was um it was something else it was it was really something else and i think it had a lot

00:13:02.920 of people especially in the business sector scratching their heads the the trouble now because

00:13:08.400 you know we saw we saw trump green light it and then biden shut it down and even if trump green

00:13:15.040 lights it the question is is uh you know is tc energy going to be even interested in in going back

00:13:21.800 to that because what they're seeing is just complete instability in terms of something like

00:13:26.140 this because um canadians may not know but creating these pipelines are massive projects and

00:13:31.440 it's not something that you can get done within you know with within a few years right why would

00:13:36.020 you want to invest if in maybe four years they're going to shut it down again so because they can't

00:13:41.160 predict it right and i think i think if you're a betting person is it going to be a republican or a

00:13:48.640 democrat president after donald trump who knows who knows history shows that it would it may end up

00:13:56.160 being a democrat president so it's it's probably going to cause some businesses to be very skittish on

00:14:03.300 committing to a large-scale project like that and that is just a lose-lose for canadians as well as

00:14:09.100 americans yeah you know i i look at the situation and i you know justin trudeau says this biden was

00:14:15.840 saying this and people around biden were saying this that the the high price of energy the high price

00:14:21.420 of gas that was a global phenomenon it was because of global factors they refused to take any

00:14:27.320 responsibility but they were they were refusing to untap the potential that was beneath their feet

00:14:33.280 right we have in this country we have uh we're importing energy we're importing oil when we should

00:14:38.580 be exporting it to the rest of the world when we should be basically energy uh energy uh self-sufficient

00:14:44.620 and that was one of donald trump's main policies one of his one of his uh talking points during this

00:14:50.100 campaign and as president was that america was energy independent i think canada should be energy

00:14:56.100 independent at this point and the fact that we aren't is is it's almost unbelievable yeah and the

00:15:02.060 need for oil and fossil fuels does not go away just because you shut down a pipeline yeah there was a

00:15:08.780 there was an interesting interview between i think it was sky news and a climate activist uh for just

00:15:14.760 stop oil and the climate activist was stating that they wanted um all of the world to stop using fossil

00:15:23.020 fuels by 2030 and okay let's just say for example that fine we agree with that how do you do that that

00:15:31.160 means you're essentially going to be reverting civilization back to a pre-industrial era because

00:15:39.140 your clothes are made of oil your phone is made of oil everything is made of oil the in order to get

00:15:44.860 the energy and green uh vehicle materials in order to actually make these allegedly green uh materials

00:15:52.400 you have to use oil-based products so it's it's it's a such a flawed approach um and this is why a lot

00:16:01.960 of people are are are questioning this and lastly you are now allowing the the countries that are hostile

00:16:09.600 towards the rest of the world like russia to actually get rich on the fact that you have these 0.56

00:16:14.880 environmentalists that are saying no no no we can't take our oil well they're going to get it from

00:16:19.420 somewhere so would you rather them get it from countries that are potentially hostile to the rest of

00:16:25.080 the western world or would you actually like a better quality product and enrich the the west provide

00:16:31.660 jobs to the west and thereby make it that much harder for those hostile countries to uh to to pay for their

00:16:39.100 war chest and the argument right is to lower carbon emissions across the country there is nothing

00:16:44.600 canada could do to properly lower carbon emissions when it comes to transitioning our energy you're not

00:16:50.720 going to stop china from uh you're not going to you're not going to be able to get china to shut down 0.99

00:16:55.240 their coal plants and india to stop using uh uh you know fossil fuels right so canada couldn't do

00:17:02.220 anything and i just find it so i just find it so ironic that um you know what are the solutions right

00:17:08.240 the solutions are yeah as you as you pointed out in canada and the united states we're going to

00:17:12.720 transition to wind we're going to transition to solar um and uh and somehow that's going to really

00:17:18.980 uh you know move the needle we're going to forget about the rest of the rest of the world and you

00:17:23.220 know you know canada the united states and the uk and you know throwing a few other countries we're

00:17:28.220 going to save the planet no we're not absolutely not and you know when it comes to wind i laugh about

00:17:33.800 this because trump is kind of funny when it comes to wind he talks about how you know wind is is

00:17:39.060 completely useless and he always talks about how environmentalists never talk about wind turbines

00:17:45.040 because they're basically graveyards for birds and he does he goes on to these weird long tangents

00:17:49.460 about how how bad for birds the wind turbines are you know i think for people in the media trump is

00:17:56.660 great for ratings it's just the reality guys it's going to be good it's going to be an interesting four

00:18:00.360 years it sure is and uh but in in terms of saving the world um i would argue that canada could help

00:18:07.780 uh save the world uh in in terms of environmentalism because um if let's just i always say this let's

00:18:15.360 just agree that carbon emissions are the be all end all of the environment let's just for the sake of

00:18:21.400 um so what you have is you have a country in canada with the best nuclear engineers on the planet

00:18:30.300 with the safest nuclear reactors on the planet so what we should be doing in canada is transitioning

00:18:36.700 more into nuclear and using our lng to export and encourage countries that are on coal to get on to

00:18:43.560 lng and then help them do that you're creating jobs for canadians to work overseas get really high

00:18:50.920 paying jobs you're increasing our lng manufacturing creating jobs in canada bringing more money in

00:18:56.440 canada and you can drastically have a positive impact on the carbon emissions of these countries

00:19:03.260 that are based on coal and then you now have them on a roadmap where eventually you can then help them

00:19:09.060 transition off of lng down the road maybe 20 30 years then on to canadian nuclear so you are setting up

00:19:16.300 canada as an energy superpower on the world stage and that's good for you in the environment good

00:19:22.720 for canadians and good for the economy but ryan and tanya justin trudeau said that exporting lng to

00:19:28.700 the rest of the world there was no business case for that oh my mistake my mistake yeah we should we

00:19:35.140 should be taking uh we should be taking uh you know energy lessons uh from justin trudeau uh uh which i i

00:19:40.900 again i just find so so unbelievable it's it's hard to imagine you know i was thinking a couple days

00:19:46.300 ago that when the trudeau era comes to an end and on election night in canada when when the government

00:19:52.420 very likely switches hands you know i thought what what are the moments that i'm going to be talking

00:19:56.980 about regarding justin trudeau and i think you know there's so many that that jump out but one that

00:20:02.060 doesn't get a lot doesn't get talked about a lot is this idea that when when trudeau was saying

00:20:05.680 he was turning down our allies who were begging us for lng basically on their knees begging us to

00:20:12.060 give them lng and he said oh no there's no business case sorry about that uh unbelievable

00:20:16.760 speaking of another thing i will think about as justin trudeau's uh you know as part of justin

00:20:22.860 trudeau's era as prime minister is immigration in this country and the complete uh loss of control 0.89

00:20:28.560 when it comes to the immigration file and we know that uh donald trump brings with him

00:20:33.740 uh a completely new approach to immigration uh compared to what the united states was going on

00:20:38.760 for the past four years and one of his plans as he has stated is to bring about mass deportations in

00:20:45.400 the united states of illegal immigrants how this process plays out i'm not exactly sure uh but obama

00:20:51.020 deported more uh illegals in the in the united states than donald trump did which is something to

00:20:55.840 think about so it is possible and a different approach is likely coming as a result guys as predicted

00:21:01.940 the news is now reporting that canada is now seeing a migrant surge to the northern border

00:21:07.820 from the united states of course this was going to happen but not to worry canada canada the rcmp

00:21:13.980 tell us they've got everything under control i don't believe that for a second

00:21:17.320 yeah and you have to go back to 2021 when justin trudeau's liberals essentially ran on the plan of the

00:21:28.800 century initiative and i know true north has reported on this before we've talked about this

00:21:33.440 before for those of uh for those viewers that may not be familiar with it check it out um this is not

00:21:40.800 one of these conspiracy theories you can actually look it up um and compare the century initiative

00:21:45.920 platform to the liberal platform and shouldn't surprise everybody that the century initiative board

00:21:51.600 is made up of people from mckenzie uh ex-liberals ex-ambassadors so it is it is no wonder now um

00:22:00.480 to to your point harrison they completely lost control of canada's immigration when they just

00:22:05.920 jacked up the permanent resident cap to it was around 470 plus thousand new permanent residents a year and

00:22:13.600 that's not even counting the temporary foreign workers that come in so we're seeing well over a million

00:22:19.760 canadians coming in the country since 2021 now what does that mean towards this current crisis it means

00:22:26.880 we cannot absorb any more that's what it means our already crushed medical system can't take any more

00:22:34.240 you already have less than a third of canadians with access to a family doctor and that is decreasing

00:22:40.240 with the more people that are coming in and the doctors that are potentially leaving as a result of the

00:22:46.240 impending capital gains tax if the liberals can actually ever get it passed so you're going to

00:22:52.000 have a serious problem when it comes to these people coming in now i feel for the people because

00:22:58.080 you know we we just don't have the resources and the capacity to keep them the question is is what

00:23:04.000 happens at that border and are we going to end up with not just one rocks and road but a hundred rocks

00:23:09.120 some roads across canada um that was shut down but how long did it take us to even shut that down and

00:23:15.840 what is that going to look like for canada it's going to be it's going to be interesting but like

00:23:20.160 you said trudeau assures us the rcmp are ready for this yeah okay was there mass hirings over the

00:23:26.960 last week that we don't know about yeah i mean i just don't have much confidence in the rcmp i'm not quite

00:23:32.800 sure why you know remember in 2017 when when donald trump came to power justin trudeau famously wrote

00:23:39.120 on twitter uh and i've pulled it up here to those fleeing persecution terror and war canadians will

00:23:45.600 welcome you regardless of your faith diversity is our strength and that was a clear shot at donald

00:23:51.920 trump and that was a clear welcome to people entering the united entering canada through the united

00:23:57.600 states through ruxom road what happened a surge occurred so i guess in 2017 it was totally fine

00:24:03.760 to welcome the surge to welcome illegal border crossers in canada and it was never a concern

00:24:09.280 but now it all of a sudden is because tanya the discussion on immigration has totally flipped in

00:24:14.720 recent years yeah it seems like canadians are realizing that this country only at the moment anyways

00:24:24.240 only has enough resources to support a finite number of people um i always liken it to the fact

00:24:30.080 that right now we have two cats as pets what would i love you know 50 cats as pets absolutely i love i

00:24:36.400 would not he wouldn't but i would but we know that i wouldn't have the room for all of them i wouldn't be

00:24:43.200 able to afford the veterinary services for all of them i wouldn't be able to feed all of them and as a

00:24:48.400 whole everybody's quality of life would go down and i think canadians are starting to see that

00:24:54.080 in canada which is why the uh the attitude towards our immigration is changed um for example we had

00:25:01.200 a meeting with our son's school yesterday and all we heard was we don't have enough resources we don't

00:25:05.920 have enough resources and about let me see about six months ago they had contacted all the parents

00:25:14.000 in a particular area including our area and said okay our school is over capacity it's 160 capacity the

00:25:21.280 children that live between this street and this street are all going to have to go to a different

00:25:25.200 school so they don't even have the capacity at the education level never mind in health care we don't

00:25:32.800 have enough doctors we don't have enough nurses one of my best friends is a nurse and she's constantly 0.99

00:25:38.320 picking up extra shifts because they just don't have the staff yeah i imagine that uh the health care

00:25:44.000 system would are would be dreaming for only for having as much as 160 capacity for the people

00:25:51.520 uh that they actually require and i know there's been recent polls about kenny's attitude uh towards

00:25:57.520 immigration and i think it's like for the first time in a hundred years people are are now souring

00:26:02.720 towards immigration and there's no wonder um we haven't managed it properly and some people may look at

00:26:10.400 and say well canada is so big we have so much space we have so much space but most of that is not housing

00:26:17.680 so it's cold it's cold and it's empty right right and and we we can't even get our housing right for

00:26:24.720 the people that we have and the people that we had prior to 2021 never mind looking at millions of

00:26:32.080 people crossing the border right and you know the situation on on our southern border the u.s northern border

00:26:38.400 border is not just one-way traffic of u.s migrants fleeing deportation to canada it's also the other

00:26:46.720 way it's also people using our country as a landing ground as a uh as a landing ground to try to enter

00:26:53.440 the united states and in some cases they are some of the worst people they are some of uh some of the

00:26:58.160 worst people in the world listed terrorist members in fact and i had a chance in february of this year at

00:27:05.760 cpac in washington dc to speak with donald trump's incoming border czar tom homan who's going crazy

00:27:12.400 viral right now on social media people either love him or hate him but i asked him specifically

00:27:16.640 about the northern border about the u.s northern border and he said something incredible that a

00:27:22.080 terrorist is 10 times more likely to cross into the united states from canada than from the southern

00:27:29.120 border and that the the numbers are rising at an insane rate i'll show you this clip right now here we go

00:27:35.760 talk about what's going on in the northern border oh there's a lot of chatter that's roper northern

00:27:39.760 border okay so south of kingston so what do you make of what's been going on there there's not a

00:27:44.560 lot of noise that comes up to canada about the problems that america faces from a northern border

00:27:48.880 but do you think the u.s needs to take that more seriously absolutely you know their report last year

00:27:53.920 last fiscal year in fyi 23 227 people off the terrorist watchlets across the southern borders that were

00:28:00.560 arrested at the same time 432 across the northern border remember the uh you're a good man you're a

00:28:08.080 good man and a patriot remember after after 9-11 uh gao did it uh did an audit did a a a study and they

00:28:19.200 said that a terrorist crossing the northern border is 10 times more likely than one crossing the southern

00:28:24.480 border and the number of people off the terrorist watches across the northern border last year almost

00:28:28.400 double the southern but we never talked about it crossings in northern border up 400 to 600 percent

00:28:33.600 depending on what sector you look at i grew up uh near alex bay you know again an aqua kingston area

00:28:40.320 and their numbers are sky high so and the problem is with the canadian border we got very few board

00:28:46.000 patrol agents up there and half of them have been assigned to the southern border which means there's

00:28:50.880 very little patrol on the northern border at all so it's a big national security vulnerability

00:28:54.560 absolutely absolutely well i think for a lot of people who are not in the united states they look

00:28:59.200 at what's been going on at the southern border and they're just wondering why it seems that nothing

00:29:03.680 is actually taking place why no enforcement under the current administration is taking place what do

00:29:08.480 you make of the fact that under joe biden it's it's sky things have skyrocketed across the southern

00:29:12.640 border and from a lot of people's perspective nothing is actually being done nothing is being

00:29:16.880 done this is this this isn't incompetence it isn't mismanagement this is by design this is open

00:29:23.120 borders that's what they ran on they're keeping a promise because because they see some future

00:29:27.840 political benefit out of an open border they think these millions of people will be future democratic

00:29:32.640 voters but people need to be reminded they don't even have to vote because president biden also

00:29:38.320 overturned the trump census rule which means millions of these illegal aliens are going to be counted in 0.84

00:29:43.920 the next census in sanctuary cities so when they reproportionate seats in the house

00:29:49.200 this automatically means more seats in house for the dems that means perpetual power perpetual

00:29:53.520 control they sold this country out for power last question for you mr homan we're asking attendees 1.00

00:29:58.240 at cpac what they think of our leader justin trudeau you have any thoughts about justin trudeau

00:30:04.400 you need to find a better man absolutely he also says at the end there guys uh when i asked him about

00:30:09.600 justin trudeau he said you got to get a better man he's terrible so i don't think i don't think trump's

00:30:16.560 new borders are is going to be a big fan of justin trudeau he's pretty subtle i can't blame him

00:30:23.200 yeah he's pretty subtle i think he's gonna have to work on his directness so we can better better

00:30:27.600 understand his real feelings on on the subject but to kind of pull it back around to your point

00:30:32.320 about it's more likely for terrorists to be coming from the northern border i grew up in a border town

00:30:36.800 i was born and raised in niagara falls ontario and we used to go across the border every week to go

00:30:41.600 grocery shopping and you didn't even have to show id when i was a kid my parents would just pull up

00:30:47.040 to the the toll booth or or the the uh border booth and they would say what's your citizenship and

00:30:52.800 they'd go canadian and they'd be like how many are you you know five of us are they are the kids

00:30:58.160 canadian too yep okay see you later it was just so easy to cross the border into the states well i think

00:31:04.480 there's that comes from i think a historic understanding of trust between the united states

00:31:10.880 immigration and canadian immigration and the understanding was is that both countries were

00:31:17.520 doing their due diligence in terms of who was coming into their countries um i i go back to 9 11 and i

00:31:23.040 believe uh i could be mistaken but i believe um some of the terrorists that were involved in 9 11 were

00:31:29.280 actually proven to come in through the canadian border as well so um and we had that recent recent

00:31:35.760 example where we had that um one terrorist that was caught on this horrific video in the middle east

00:31:42.880 was granted entry to canada given citizenship and then was working with his son to plan a terror attack

00:31:49.040 in toronto so um there are gaping holes in in the canadian immigration system and

00:31:56.240 and justin trudeau seems to think that nobody else notices um but everyone sees it and everyone sees

00:32:04.400 our response to to foreign interference or rather lack of response and it seems that everybody but the

00:32:10.400 liberal government sees that canada is a playground for terrorists to enter this country and foreign

00:32:17.360 interference to take place so it's no wonder that there's concern about that you know i i always take

00:32:23.120 the canada first perspective i always take the uh this you know the side of the canadian government

00:32:28.480 over any other government but i do believe that the united states being really really tough on canada

00:32:33.680 to get our border in check to get this this situation under control on our side is going to be a major win

00:32:40.720 for both countries it's a big win for canada if the united states under donald trump can put his foot

00:32:46.080 down and say you know we're going to shut down business here unless you can stop the the flow of dangerous

00:32:52.080 people entering into my country through your border i think it would be a actually it would be a win 1.00

00:32:57.520 for both countries and i think it'd be a phenomenal win and it would actually foster greater collaboration

00:33:03.920 if we didn't uh look at that as having a bruised ego and saying okay sure help us figure it out and

00:33:10.720 maybe some new systems can actually be put in place and we can leverage the more vast intelligence

00:33:17.680 network that the united states has in order to screen some of these people and i don't know if

00:33:21.920 that's happening right now i've never worked for the cbsa but um i would i would take that as an

00:33:27.360 opportunity and not a challenge you know speaking of a win-win situation for canada i think uh i think

00:33:34.160 there's no better example of a win-win for both countries than defense spending and be and having canada

00:33:41.280 be forced to increase our defense spending get that number to two percent of our gdp donald trump

00:33:47.440 was hounding justin trudeau for years to increase that number he wasn't successful trudeau refused to

00:33:54.160 budge sure he raised the defense spending budget from where what he inherited it as and we have to be

00:33:59.760 honest about that but he never got it too close to two percent we're getting a bit closer now justin

00:34:05.680 trudeau has made a loose commitment to reach the two percent of gdp spending but only within about you

00:34:10.400 know in 10 years time i don't think we have time guys uh the world's in a pretty weird place i don't

00:34:15.760 think we really have that much time to uh play around with this but famously in one of these

00:34:20.960 interactions donald trump accused justin trudeau of being two-faced on this issue for saying one

00:34:27.680 thing to trump at a press conference saying another to uh other allies and not moving on the two percent

00:34:34.400 budget you might have seen this clip but you know since we're back at this new era of donald trump

00:34:39.040 we'll play it one more time for you well he's two-faced do you think that germany is too nice

00:34:45.120 and honestly he's a nice guy i i find him to be a very nice guy but you know the truth is that

00:34:50.800 i told him out of the fact that he's not paying two percent and i guess he's not very happy about it

00:34:56.400 i mean you were there a couple of you were there and uh he's not paying two percent and he should be

00:35:00.880 paying two percent it's canada they have money and they should be paying two percent so i called him out

00:35:06.000 on that and i'm sure he wasn't happy about it but that's the way it is look i'm representing the us

00:35:11.520 and he should be paying more than he's paying and he understands it so i can imagine i can imagine he's

00:35:18.160 not that happy but that's the way it is so this may be the major uh breaking point between donald trump

00:35:24.720 and the canadian government will the canadian government finally step up and increase the

00:35:29.920 defense spending like we really ought to well i think this is a very pertinent relevant conversation

00:35:36.720 considering that remembrance day was just a few days ago right um we were at a ceremony at uh at

00:35:44.160 the canadian uh warplane heritage museum and we were able to meet um some of these veterans of world

00:35:51.360 war ii that are still alive they were 100 103 years old 105 years old and the sad thing about the

00:36:00.640 canadian military is that for years it's it's been a joke um people people make fun of you know how

00:36:07.920 how little resources we have um and these veterans in in talking to them they they remember with pride

00:36:15.680 that at the end of world war ii we had the third largest navy in the world we had a massively equipped

00:36:22.400 air force and our infantry were regarded as basically stormtroopers from hell uh nobody wanted to go up

00:36:31.440 against them and now fast forward to now and it's it's frankly pathetic so um i think the that the pierre

00:36:41.280 polyev uh conservative government you know forget the harper government forget the the trudeau government

00:36:46.800 this is going to be a new government and i say to them i will i don't even care if we spend two percent

00:36:54.720 or more what we should be doing is adequately equipping our military in order to be able to do their jobs

00:37:02.800 it is completely disrespectful to the men and women in uniform to say to them thanks for volunteering

00:37:10.400 thanks for for potentially laying down your life for us but oh sorry by the way we can't even afford

00:37:16.320 to give you accommodations that is completely unacceptable it's an embarrassment um and as uh

00:37:24.560 you know tony you've talked about us acting like the little brother uh yeah we are kind of like america's

00:37:29.840 little brother where um you know they kind of take us under the ring oh you can't do your two percent

00:37:34.560 oh that's okay you know we'll cover you we almost rely on them to protect us and i just

00:37:40.240 want to make the statement ryan you might know this better than anyone i think our military is

00:37:44.640 almost like an it department when things are going well uh the big wigs go why do we have to fund this

00:37:50.640 everything's fine why don't we just take money away from it we don't need to to give them all this money

00:37:56.000 because it's not when things are going well that you need the infrastructure that you need the funding

00:38:01.280 it's when things go bad well and we're seeing an increased need uh drastic increased need in air

00:38:09.040 superiority in terms of the arctic because you know this isn't the same world that it was 20 years ago

00:38:15.120 30 years ago you know i think some people forget that russia is literally right over there um it's

00:38:22.160 it's just over the pole so there is a significant risk of potential uh potential uh aircraft coming

00:38:31.120 in from russia over canada and what do we have there to defend it nothing so i think we should be

00:38:38.640 you know moving past two percent of gdp and i think that's over 43 billion dollars something like that

00:38:43.840 um and then i would ask the question okay so while throwing money over to ukraine

00:38:51.120 sure you can make the argument that that is helping ukraine but how are we giving billions

00:38:55.600 and billions of dollars to ukraine and we're not even adequately funding our own military it's a

00:38:59.520 disgrace i completely agree with that and you look at you look look even further look past ukraine

00:39:06.080 but i agree with the position on i agree with your position on ukraine that you know it's one thing to

00:39:11.040 fund an ally in a time of war but if you have no defense then you are you are seriously putting yourself

00:39:17.920 in harm's way this country gives billions and billions of taxpayer dollars every single year

00:39:23.120 to countries all around the world in foreign aid packages in certain countries that do not respect

00:39:29.600 canadian values and our canadian way of life the money never even gets to where it's supposed to go it

00:39:34.320 ends up stuffing the pockets of corrupt political leaders around the world and that's taxpayer money

00:39:39.680 that's our money and the people watching this show and that money is not going to funding the military

00:39:44.880 and it's not just accommodations our military members who are deployed in latvia on able on nato

00:39:52.160 training missions have to buy their own helmets and battle and battle belts chest rigs it is a disgrace

00:39:59.840 as you point out yeah and i think they did some uh they did some analysis and if canada went to war

00:40:05.280 today we have three days of ammunition and that was back in december during an interview that we learned

00:40:10.880 that so it could be even less now so again um when you reduce it to the absurdity it's just completely

00:40:18.720 absurd it is i can't even put myself into the mindset of the people that are in the canadian military

00:40:26.960 and what they expect going into uh to basic training and then to your point all right you're

00:40:33.600 being shipped out to latvia make sure you buy a helmet when you get there like yeah they understand

00:40:39.680 we think that they're joking it's you must think so right i mean how how can how can we go as you

00:40:45.680 point out from being not just have not just being one of the one of the best militaries in the world after

00:40:51.120 the war but also having our own domestic manufacturing industry we used to build war

00:40:56.400 planes we used to build so many great things that we could we could basically self-supply our military

00:41:02.000 you know bill blair said at the recent nato summit in the united states that the reason why the federal

00:41:09.760 government has been unable to spend the money necessary for the for the defense budget is he said

00:41:15.120 something like you know it's one thing to spend the money but we don't know exactly where to spend the

00:41:19.600 money so you know it's one thing to put the money down but you know you have to find a way to you

00:41:24.240 got to locate where to put it and it's like you know i think the average canadian on the street could

00:41:29.440 give you a pretty good breakdown of where that money should be going and part of that money i think a good

00:41:34.960 amount of that money should be going to some new recruitment strategies to get some new troops in the

00:41:41.280 force because there's a major recruitment crisis attrition crisis you speak about the navy uh the vice

00:41:46.800 admiral the canadian navy recently said that with their new fleet of arctic patrol ships the harry

00:41:51.760 de wolf class they don't even have enough sailors to operate all the ships at once only can operate

00:41:56.880 about two at once and there's there's six ships coming we're in dangerous we're in dangerous waters

00:42:03.760 well i would say we're on dangerous land because we uh you don't i can't even get the people on the

00:42:07.760 ships in the water so i think that comes from this anti-canadian narrative that we're seeing pushed out

00:42:14.480 these days um we're losing pride in our country well and we we don't talk about our veterans until

00:42:22.080 remembrance day and that's a huge problem um you know i used to uh i used to visit the states often

00:42:29.200 and what really really shocked me because we don't do it here is everywhere i went almost everywhere

00:42:37.760 you would see references to the military or military discounts or honoring veterans you know sporting events

00:42:44.000 everything it was ingrained in day-to-day life and i i think that we've lost that as as canadians

00:42:53.600 and it should be something that is celebrated every single day like these these people literally

00:43:00.080 volunteer to put their lives on the line the least we can do the bare minimum is to equip them properly

00:43:07.200 and if you equip them properly and you give them the state-of-the-art uh firepower state-of-the-art

00:43:14.560 equipment and vehicles then that may actually encourage more people to join why would you join

00:43:20.160 when you know when you're being expected to buy your own helmets when you're not being accommodated well why

00:43:25.840 would you join when you're constantly being told what a horrible place canada is because of our history

00:43:32.640 well and the other thing is is we have some of the best aerospace engineers in the world why are we not

00:43:40.240 funding these companies to actually build new next generation airplanes and fighters for our own

00:43:46.880 canadians we could sell them to the united states remember the avro aero everybody like that could have 0.69

00:43:52.880 been a boom for the for the canadian economy up here it absolutely would and it's a conversation we could

00:43:59.520 have for a very long time i'm sure but we don't have the time on the program today we'll we'll open this

00:44:05.920 up to the comments as well what do you think is going to happen to canada's defense spending under a

00:44:11.920 donald trump presidency is the push gonna gonna be as strong as it was um in the uh during the first

00:44:18.320 term let us know in the comments and also let us know what you think of the new show let us know if

00:44:23.120 you have any ideas feedback we intend to read out some comments on every episode uh but until next

00:44:30.080 thursday that's all the time we have on the northern dispatch thank you all very much for watching

Juno News - November 14, 2024

What does Donald Trump’s victory mean for Canada？

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