Juno News - What everyone’s missing about Trump’s 51st state “threat”

00:00:00.000 hi and welcome to the candace malcolm show i'm your host candace malcolm and it is so great to

00:00:12.800 be back here happy 2025 this is my first show of the year actually my first show in about nine

00:00:18.940 months i've been on maternity leave i welcomed my husband i welcomed our fourth child back in may

00:00:25.000 my original plan was to be on maternity leave for a full year come back in may uh what i thought was 0.90

00:00:31.020 going to be in time for the federal election uh well everything changed sort of by the end of

00:00:35.940 december early january here and you know watching the news unfold this week i really couldn't stop

00:00:42.180 myself i couldn't hold back i wanted to jump back in the phrase so we're bringing you the candace

00:00:46.520 malcolm show here and just super excited uh to be back so we have a lot to get to today uh i'm going

00:00:53.060 to cover trump's recent comments on canada supposedly becoming the 51st american state i'm

00:00:59.460 going to talk about the response the hysterical response uh from our national leaders and the

00:01:04.360 commentary class uh including justin trudeau's rather embarrassing appearance on cnn last night

00:01:09.680 with jake tapper uh basically we're going to talk about what everybody is missing uh when it comes to

00:01:16.080 donald trump and how he negotiates uh later in the show we're going to talk a little bit more about

00:01:21.140 justin trudeau and his completely selfish cynical plan to pause parliament to prorogue it this is

00:01:27.720 probably the most consequential and important time perhaps in our country's history certainly in this

00:01:34.140 century and what does our prime minister do he prorogues parliament for selfish personal partisan

00:01:40.460 reasons to try to save his sad sorry party from getting wiped out in the next election quite pathetic

00:01:47.240 we're going to talk about that and finally the end of the show we'll talk about canada what does

00:01:51.180 it mean to be canadian and at this point is our country worth saving worth defending so really

00:01:57.680 excited uh to be back and we've got a great show for you today please don't forget to like this video

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00:02:11.720 newsletter so you'll never miss a news story okay let's get going here folks let's talk about donald

00:02:17.600 trump and let's talk about his proposal and if he is actually serious because he has been kind of

00:02:23.680 leaning in on this joke well what we thought was a joke that he wanted to annex canada and he wanted

00:02:29.200 to make canada the 51st state i think a lot of it has to do with trolling this is kind of what trump

00:02:35.360 does best right like think back to 2015 and 2016 when he was running for leadership of the republican

00:02:41.580 party he wasn't really seen as a serious candidate but what he did was he kind of like picked apart

00:02:46.260 the other candidates he mocked them he made fun of them he made a joke out of them to the point where

00:02:50.840 we couldn't really take them seriously anymore right like think back to jeb bush um calling him

00:02:55.960 low energy jeb it just completely took the energy out of his campaign it mocked him in a way that he

00:03:01.500 really deserved to be mocked and he did to all the other candidates and that's kind of the beauty

00:03:05.060 of trump and his marketing and so we're seeing this pressure apply to justin trudeau

00:03:09.480 and let me just tell you my opinion i think it's hilarious i i love it i love seeing justin

00:03:15.300 trudeau sort of humiliated by donald trump i love having donald trump sort of put him in his place

00:03:20.200 here you have our canadian prime minister who is as arrogant as they get he really does think

00:03:25.400 that canada belongs to him and that he sort of personifies canada he is canada's one in the same

00:03:30.800 um there's many many of us canadians who just don't feel that way we don't see ourself and our

00:03:36.080 country when we look at justin trudeau when we hear him speak when we see what he does he doesn't

00:03:41.320 represent us and so to have someone who is as arrogant as justin trudeau be kind of slapped

00:03:46.480 down and put in his place by someone who is much more powerful much more vocal much more famous

00:03:51.840 than him it's sort of like you know that's exactly what justin trudeau deserves and i think that we

00:03:56.940 need more of that right we need to be able to laugh at our politicians laugh at our leaders

00:04:00.680 uh because it takes their power away so i for one have just personally enjoyed laughing about this

00:04:06.060 whole thing and laughing at just trudeau there's more to what trump is doing and we'll get to that

00:04:10.560 a bit later but here we had uh donald trump at a press conference earlier this week this was on

00:04:15.440 tuesday afternoon he was fielding questions on just about absolutely anything this is one of the

00:04:19.760 things that trump does he can talk about anything and he loves to field questions and just go off on

00:04:24.600 tangents on every issue it's quite impressive uh so at this press conference he talked about

00:04:28.740 everything from ukraine uh to american domestic policy he was asked about greenland and how he

00:04:34.020 wanted to annex greenland and talked about the panama canal and then the question of canada came

00:04:39.280 up and this is sort of what everyone wants to know like are you serious are you actually going

00:04:43.200 to take canada is that what you're proposing to do and will it be military so let's watch that

00:04:48.240 clip of donald trump being asked about canada mr president if you were working under the assumption

00:04:53.860 that you're serious about making canada the 51st state of the united states the leader of the

00:04:59.060 conservative party in canada said under no circumstances he'll never be the 51st maybe

00:05:03.080 maybe he won't win but maybe he will i don't know you would suggest you listen i don't care what you

00:05:07.880 said you were considering military force to acquire panama and greenland are you also considering military

00:05:15.580 force to annex and acquire no economic force because canada and the united states that would

00:05:23.500 really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that

00:05:29.720 looks like and it would also be much better for national security don't forget we basically protect

00:05:34.520 canada but here's the problem with canada so many friends up there uh i love the canadian people

00:05:42.380 they're great but we're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we're spending hundreds

00:05:48.340 of billions a year to take care of canada we we lose uh in trade deficits we're losing mass we don't

00:05:54.620 need their cars you know they make 20 of our cars we don't need that i'd rather make them in detroit

00:05:59.160 we don't need the cars we don't need their lumber we have massive fields of lumber we don't need their

00:06:05.260 lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know restrictions on but i can do that

00:06:11.260 with an executive order we don't need anything they have we don't need their dairy products we have more

00:06:16.740 than they have we don't need anything so why are we losing 200 billion dollars a year and more

00:06:22.200 to protect canada so there's donald trump being pretty straightforward pretty honest from an american

00:06:29.480 perspective talking about what do they gain from the relationship and could they possibly just do it

00:06:35.200 on their own like yes canada has tons of national resources we have an auto uh system the the manufacturing

00:06:42.180 corridor where products go back and forth across the border and both sides are mutually dependent on

00:06:47.380 the other side uh but trump is saying well we can just build our own factories we can use our own

00:06:51.320 softwood lumber uh we can have our own natural gas like we don't need all this stuff from canada um so

00:06:57.140 if the if the relationship isn't benefiting us we have leverage here right and the point about national

00:07:03.100 security like canada doesn't defend itself that is completely true and completely fair canada needs to

00:07:08.560 spend more money on our own national military national defense um and good for trump for pointing

00:07:14.760 that out because maybe we do need internal pressures uh to do things like boost our own military

00:07:19.160 and to eliminate a lot of the sort of protectionist measures that we have in areas like dairy like

00:07:24.200 supply management so everything trump is saying there is truth to it uh but we don't like the way that

00:07:30.040 he's saying it is basically what's happening in canada so if you look at the way that our national

00:07:34.540 leaders have replied it's just it's been very much in unison there's not a lot of distinctions let's

00:07:40.720 go through how people have replied it'll start with our prime minister justin trudeau uh because his uh

00:07:46.620 his response is quite telling he writes there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that canada would

00:07:52.420 become part of the united states workers and communities in both their countries benefit from

00:07:57.560 being each other's biggest trading and security partner i kind of like the joke i kind of like the

00:08:02.580 lie not a snowball's chance in hell uh but here's justin trudeau trying to be a tough guy right trying

00:08:06.620 to be strong and powerful and say like i can go eye to eye with trump well no you can't justin you

00:08:12.580 can't because you didn't right you didn't over the last administration you didn't get the deal that was

00:08:18.540 needed for canada you've destroyed our country economically like it's not your time so just like

00:08:24.060 sit down and be quiet and that is pretty much the response that we saw my favorite one came from

00:08:28.580 elon musk the owner of twitter now known as x and he just replied girl you're not the governor of

00:08:35.420 canada anymore so it doesn't matter what you say just reminder you step down you're not going to be

00:08:41.220 leading the country anymore you're not going to be leading these negotiations with trump so just keep

00:08:45.500 your mouth shut and be quiet i love that we also had pierre polyev jump in with a super strong

00:08:51.400 response but again pierre is taking trump at face value so he's replying uh as if trump is really

00:08:58.840 serious about canada being annexed so this is what pierre polyev has to say he says canada will never

00:09:04.100 be the 51st state period we are a great and independent country we are the best friend to the

00:09:10.240 u.s we spend billions of dollars and hundreds of lives helping americans retaliate against al-qaeda's

00:09:15.540 9-11 attacks we supply the u.s with billions of dollars of high quality and totally reliable

00:09:20.480 energy well below market prices we buy hundreds of billions of dollars of american goods our weak

00:09:26.140 and pathetic ndp liberal government has failed to make these obvious points i will fight for canada

00:09:31.660 when i'm prime minister we will rebuild our military take back control of the border to secure both

00:09:36.300 canada and the u.s we will take back control of the arctic to keep russia and china out we'll axe 1.00

00:09:41.980 attacks slash red tape rapidly greenlight massive resource projects to bring home paychecks and

00:09:47.720 production to our country in other words we will put canada first amen to that again pierre is just

00:09:55.460 so strong and he totally is just right on point here this message is not directed to donald trump

00:10:01.020 like donald trump doesn't care about this he reads this and it doesn't speak to him but pierre is

00:10:05.480 speaking past trump he's speaking to the canadian people he's trying to sort of re-spark that hint of

00:10:10.520 patriotism and nationalism uh that canadians might be feeling right now and this is a super solid message

00:10:16.960 but again i don't think it's gonna it's not gonna get very far uh with trump just saying canada will

00:10:23.400 never be the 51st state uh period that's not gonna appeal to trump i want to go through the rest of the

00:10:28.500 leaders here so let's see what jagmeet singh said the leader of the ndp and again jagmeet singh is not

00:10:35.020 an important person or at least he shouldn't be but just because of the situation we find ourselves

00:10:39.360 in canada where this man holds the balance of power this man has propped up a terrible liberal

00:10:44.220 government for the past several years in the worst interest of canadians really just putting himself

00:10:49.380 first because he wants this bloody pension that he's gonna get um he became powerful and he shouldn't

00:10:54.780 be and soon he won't be anyway jagmeet singh had this to say cut the crap donald no canadian wants 0.83

00:11:01.260 to join you we are proud canadians proud of the way we take care of each other and defend our nation

00:11:06.660 your attacks will hurt jobs on both sides of the border you come for canada's jobs and americans will

00:11:12.620 pay the price again this is weak sauce this is weak again like jagmeet singh's trying to pretend

00:11:18.220 that he's on equal footing to donald trump cut the crap donald like speaking to him by his first name 0.52

00:11:23.740 probably trying to like diminish him um by calling him by his first name it just falls flat it's pathetic

00:11:30.540 it's just not it's not even right no canadian wants to join you well in fact jagmeet singh i think

00:11:36.600 there's plenty of canadians out there who are actually excited about the potential of joining the

00:11:41.200 united states who actually piques their interest and they believe that their life could possibly

00:11:45.160 be better under the united states so he's claiming he's making a statement that's not even true i'm

00:11:49.120 sure even ndp supporters don't agree with this anymore and and and then this goes to something

00:11:55.120 i'm going to talk about a little later in the program jagmeet singh sort of defines canada he

00:11:59.540 says we're proud canadians proud of the way we take care of each other and our nation so he he kind

00:12:04.240 of defines canadians as being more like we take care of each other read into that like we're more

00:12:09.100 socialistic we're more communistic we believe in like more uh more equality or egalitarian society

00:12:17.220 which i just i don't think that that's part of our national identity i think that he would like

00:12:20.740 for that to be the case uh but i don't agree with that next we have elizabeth may of the green party who 1.00

00:12:27.860 um definitely wins like the most unhinged response uh i'm going to play a video here uh where

00:12:33.800 she offers a different deal uh to donald trump so let's play that clip i don't want to belittle

00:12:39.520 mr trump but on the other hand hey donald have we got a deal for you you think we want to be the

00:12:46.280 51st state yeah but maybe california would like to be the 11th province how about it california

00:12:53.120 oregon washington you're you've got geography in common with us and not only that we've already

00:13:00.380 got a carbon trading system between california and quebec we've got some strong alliances

00:13:06.580 on our west coast from british columbia there's been a lot of academic papers on the idea of

00:13:11.520 cascadia so california governor newsom and washington state jay insley and newly elected governor of

00:13:19.740 oregon tina kotak how about it want to put a referendum to your citizens because this is what you deal 1.00

00:13:24.700 have we got a deal for you this is what you get free health care universal free health care

00:13:29.480 no more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the medicaid list and their parents are in the news

00:13:33.520 because they're trying to do a gofundme so they can get their daughter to a doctor

00:13:36.680 okay so there's the crazy lady uh elizabeth may i i do appreciate that she's she's mocking donald trump 0.91

00:13:45.200 and kind of taking it as seriously as i think donald trump is taking it like yeah sure you want to make

00:13:49.500 us a 51st state how about you become the 11th province instead and then she brings up the old idea

00:13:54.460 of cascadia uh which is a little dear to my heart i grew up in vancouver and i remember i became

00:13:59.000 interested in this project this idea that there's a political movement to sort of merge or to create

00:14:05.060 a new country on the west coast uh spanning from british columbia all the way down to california it's

00:14:09.300 kind of an interesting theory uh although as soon as i looked into it i realized that there's like

00:14:13.080 nothing there there uh there's not actually a political movement it's run by a bunch of kooks and of

00:14:18.100 course it never got anywhere probably because elizabeth may's idea there of like a left-wing 0.99

00:14:22.820 environmental utopia uh just would never work like the idea that hey come to canada and you

00:14:28.300 have this great free health care uh just you know don't don't uh don't look too closely at the details

00:14:33.200 forget the fact that um in british columbia right now they are literally sending sick kids down to

00:14:39.280 washington state to get cancer treatments because the line the queue in canada is so long we've all

00:14:45.120 seen our health care system just completely uh deteriorate uh post-covid and the reason is just

00:14:51.340 because it is a controlled socialist system so there's limited resources and that leads to

00:14:56.100 queuing that leads to rationing of care this is stuff that we've been talking about for a long

00:15:00.440 long time and everyone's seeing that so this idea that canada's golden health care is part of our

00:15:05.240 national identity and it's like the appeal why other people would want uh to leave the united states

00:15:09.500 and come to canada just it's not true it doesn't hold true it's like based on a 1990s myth about

00:15:14.920 canada being a superior country because of our health care system and then we watched our health care

00:15:19.200 system decay uh and fall apart over the last 20 years and people are still saying it but it's just

00:15:24.480 not true and everyone knows uh that it's not true all right i want to pivot to uh premier of ontario

00:15:31.040 doug ford who had a response to this which i actually think this is probably the best way to reply to

00:15:37.260 donald trump uh doug ford he he spoke about this several times um over the week i'm going to play a clip

00:15:42.740 that he did on fox news with jesse waters sort of giving an alternative idea uh and countering

00:15:48.700 trump's uh proposition so here's that clip what's your problem with the united states absorbing canada

00:15:55.660 well first of all uh jesse you know i i love the u.s i love americans and i i get it you know

00:16:04.320 president-elect trump is a real estate tycoon he's made billions but that property's not for sale

00:16:11.360 as simple as that but i have a better idea jesse why don't we create fortress amcan and make sure

00:16:18.360 it's the richest wealthiest most prosperous jurisdiction in two countries anywhere in the

00:16:22.820 world we have the critical minerals we have the energy we have the electricity that america needs

00:16:28.160 and there's only one place i'd want to sell it to and that's the u.s i i get it you you say you say

00:16:33.700 that americans don't have a problem with canadians and we don't but it seems like you have a problem

00:16:38.280 with us because if i were a citizen of another country and i was a neighbor of the united states

00:16:43.580 i would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the united states of america that's what everybody

00:16:49.740 else in the world wants american citizenship for some reason that's repellent to you canadians

00:16:55.660 and i find that personally offensive premier well you know something jesse we're proud canadians

00:17:03.340 just like there's proud americans and if we join together uh and and take on the world with a great

00:17:10.180 trade deal between us i think that'd be fabulous no one could stop us i think that could possibly be

00:17:16.840 the most like stereotypical interview between an american like a brash americans kind of like a new

00:17:21.720 york style just write your face i'm offended by the fact that you don't want to be american

00:17:25.180 and then you have like you know kind of like nice kind bumbling uh doug ford there being like well you

00:17:31.120 know we like you guys but uh we like our ourself too we like being canadian eh um and i think it did

00:17:37.600 uh pretty much sum up uh what what a lot of people are thinking i'm not a huge fan of doug ford i

00:17:43.020 haven't really liked much of what his government has done but i think on this he sort of strikes the

00:17:46.960 right tone which is like hey there is a deal to be made here there is a partnership that is very

00:17:51.720 potentially beneficial especially to canadians to help us through this economic hangover that we're

00:17:56.960 going to have to when we finally deal with justin trudeau's out of control spending and the printing

00:18:01.960 of money that has happened over the past several years um why don't we join forces why don't we

00:18:06.340 build this big fortress that's has better security that has freer flowing energy like basically creating

00:18:12.640 a stronger uh trade zone i would even argue that canada should go ahead and get onto the u.s dollar

00:18:18.360 and allow our economy to be like really opened up to competition from the united states without

00:18:23.840 actually going so far as to merging so i think i think doug ford kind of hits the nail on the head

00:18:29.760 here by saying let's kind of further integrate our economies and our national security our military

00:18:35.400 uh while keeping our cultural sovereignty and our cultural heritage i think that's that's kind of

00:18:40.840 right on the mark um what is right not right on the mark is the way that the sort of elite classes

00:18:46.440 in canada have responded like if you think that the political leader's response was over the top

00:18:51.260 uh just wait until you see what some of the liberal journalists and pundits in canada have had to say

00:18:57.300 over this the sort of pearl clutching and the feet stomping has been hilarious and and so delicious

00:19:02.780 so i want to show you a couple of examples of that first we're going to go with warren kinsella who's

00:19:07.400 a long-time liberal strategist not a fan of trudeau but a liberal nonetheless here he is writing in

00:19:12.840 the toronto sun and he writes if you support trump over canada get the hell out pretty succinct pretty

00:19:22.840 straightforward i mean i thought we weren't allowed to tell one another uh to get out of canada i

00:19:27.260 thought that that was sort of out of bounds in our political uh culture certainly when conservatives

00:19:31.560 say that to anybody who wasn't born in canada like if you don't like it here get the hell out

00:19:35.480 uh we're called racists and bigots and accused of all kinds of nasty things uh but i guess a liberal

00:19:40.700 can say it to someone who might be more uh prone to accepting a pro-american message so uh that's

00:19:47.000 that's pretty uh on the mark uh for a liberal i'll move on here to stephen marr who is kind of a

00:19:52.900 freelance mainstream media guy who writes in all kinds of uh publications um he writes this time

00:19:59.360 for canadian leaders to set aside partisanship to respond to this and they're trying to reset what

00:20:05.920 the ballot box question will be what is the next election about right like most canadians want an

00:20:11.400 election based on how terrible justin trudeau mismanaged the country how bad our country has

00:20:17.640 suffered under liberal rule under the sort of unleashing of a woke agenda that's just damaged

00:20:22.540 us in every possible way that you can imagine um and then you see liberals trying to like re uh

00:20:28.400 readjust the conversation to say like no no that the the question in the election the ballot box question

00:20:34.140 is not whether you want more terrible disastrous economic policy from the liberals the real question

00:20:39.760 is who will defend our sovereignty who will defend us from the united states um don't let them do that

00:20:45.160 don't let them switch the issue and make it about this because liberals have a natural advantage there 1.00

00:20:51.120 right like all of our national symbols have been designed by liberals it's like our our flag is like the

00:20:57.420 liberal party flag uh they got rid of our red ensign and replaced it with that they replaced everything

00:21:02.240 they even changed the lyrics of our national anthem um to make it more politically correct so when it

00:21:07.520 comes to the sort of national identity thing liberals do have a natural advantage there and that's why

00:21:12.940 they would much rather talk about that as opposed to all the terrible things that are happening in

00:21:17.360 canada right now and so you see people like steve marr kind of taking the lead on that uh next we had

00:21:23.080 andrew coin who is a cbc talking head and national post uh columnist and just a generally grumpy person

00:21:30.020 um he writes this uh some need to decide whether their allegiance lies with canada or with trump

00:21:37.540 uh so i guess that's like a warding out to conservatives pretty ironic given that andrew coin

00:21:44.960 andrew coin's questioning our allegiance in our country uh while at the same time on x here where he

00:21:51.060 posted this you can see that he has four flags next to his name right there are four flags we have ukraine

00:21:57.340 israel uh that's a georgia flag and then the final one i think that's moldovia is that right yeah

00:22:02.820 moldovia so like in what world is this guy who doesn't even bother to put a canadian flag

00:22:08.100 in his bio when he's clearly really into flags uh he doesn't bother to put the canadian one and yet

00:22:14.440 he's lecturing us um saying that our allegiance must lie with canada um and not on trump so that was

00:22:20.520 quite amusing i want to read one reply to andrew coin's tweet because i think it really hits the

00:22:26.660 nail on the head and it's a bit more somber um really telling people like andrew coin why it is

00:22:33.560 that so many are actually taking serious this idea um that canada might be better off uh with the

00:22:40.060 united states so this is julian rochelle i believe his last name is rochelle uh apologies if i'm

00:22:46.060 mispronouncing that but he is a prolific writer and author and he writes neither mr coin

00:22:51.020 canada versus trump is a false choice fallacy my allegiances to my family my friends and my

00:22:56.960 community to protect them from what canada has become perhaps you don't understand how deeply we

00:23:02.080 have been betrayed by our country and how thoroughly the government has obliterated the

00:23:07.100 social contract between the government and its people for that matter uh can you even define what

00:23:13.280 this thing called canada is anymore other than a tax and regulatory system that is plundering us

00:23:19.220 at every turn from my perspective it looks a lot like a government for the benefit of the governors

00:23:23.960 and their friends with us as a voiceless surf what cultural values does canada represent what principles

00:23:31.360 does it preserve the border is a national line where one culture stops and another begins can you

00:23:36.280 identify what it is being canadian that you value so much other than just the fact that you're not

00:23:42.540 american he goes on and on but i think that kind of sums it up a lot of canadians feel deeply betrayed

00:23:47.640 by their government by their ruling class they don't feel like the people in power represent them

00:23:52.440 in any meaningful way and they've kind of abandoned the idea of a of a canada it's sad to say uh but so

00:23:59.560 many canadians are feeling that way and that's something that the elites and certainly the liberals

00:24:02.900 uh in this country just do not understand it's kind of it's kind of an interesting thing that happens

00:24:09.240 i know in the u.s there's tons of polling on patriotism and sort of love for country and what you see

00:24:15.560 is that republicans are pretty much always patriotic they always love their country regardless of who's in

00:24:21.140 power uh whereas the democrats it shifts right when there's a democrat president like when president

00:24:25.900 obama was in power democrats were super proud like there was a very high percentage of democrats who

00:24:31.620 said i am proud to be an american and then as soon as donald trump was in office that number like

00:24:35.660 plummeted so they're the democrats um allegiance to the country is really dependent on who is in power

00:24:41.960 whereas the republicans are always patriotic uh dips a little bit obviously but but more or less

00:24:46.740 all always patriotic um i wouldn't say the same thing is true about canadians and conservatives i

00:24:52.480 haven't seen the polling numbers but just from my experience interacting with conservatives in

00:24:56.880 canada over the last decade while justin trudeau has been in office i don't think that there's that

00:25:01.580 kind of universal um unflappable patriotism and love for canada um seeing what a prime minister and a

00:25:08.980 leader like justin trudeau has been able to do in the last nine years it doesn't really give you a lot

00:25:14.360 of assurance and give you a lot of confidence that your country can withstand even the worst of the

00:25:19.740 worst of political leaders like like if you see how much canada has fallen apart over the last

00:25:23.820 decade under justin trudeau it's hard to really have faith that canada um you know that our

00:25:28.700 constitution that our system of government is so strong that it can preserve our liberties i mean

00:25:33.460 it didn't right it failed on its face even if you think the chart of rights and freedoms is a good

00:25:38.240 document that there's good points in there it's like well it's not being interpreted it's not being

00:25:42.680 read properly it's not being preserved it isn't it wasn't it didn't so it's very hard for many

00:25:47.440 people on the political right um to maintain that faith and that hope and that optimism

00:25:51.820 in canada after living through uh what we have lived through and it kind of gets back to that

00:25:58.100 sort of defining question that we keep struggling with here like what does it mean to be canadian

00:26:02.520 what does that even mean what is it that we're fighting for what are our shared values do we have

00:26:07.000 any if you listen to people on the political left and liberals the things that they're proud of are

00:26:11.440 like left-wing policies um things that i don't like that i don't agree with i don't want universal

00:26:16.120 health care because i think it's a crappy system i don't like free abortions i don't like unlimited

00:26:20.940 abortions i don't like that policy i don't like the fact um that we can't own guns to protect

00:26:25.100 ourselves like like all the things that these lefties define canadian as are things that we don't

00:26:29.780 even actually agree on that most canadians don't agree on and so that that's sort of where this

00:26:34.900 this whole thing is coming i want to get to a few more takes we had prime former prime minister

00:26:39.740 stephen harper he chimed in on social media as well and posted on twitter um basically just

00:26:46.060 saying that you know he meant this when he said it and he still means it today talking about his

00:26:51.320 hope and belief in canada he says yeah here it is true when i said it and still true today this was a

00:26:56.580 video uh campaign video that stephen harper and the conservatives put out back in 2011 kind of

00:27:01.940 capturing the hope of canada the hope of what our country means and and what we stand for i think this

00:27:08.900 is part of the reason why stephen harper won that election back in 2011 this is this is sort of one

00:27:14.280 you know the mark part of the greater marketing and the pitch to canadians back then that really

00:27:18.820 appealed to them and captured the imagination of the canadian people it's almost sad to look back at

00:27:23.260 this 2011 13 years ago um about how little hope that we still have in the country so let's play this clip

00:27:29.900 canada is and always has been our country and we want canada to be a true north that is as strong

00:27:41.700 and as free as it can be in every way that matters the best country in the world that's why we're here

00:27:48.260 that's why we strive that's why we serve

00:27:50.680 canada must reflect the true character of the canadian people honorable in our dealings faithful

00:28:01.220 to our commitments loyal to our friends by turns a courageous warrior and a compassionate neighbor

00:28:08.600 it is our purpose that canada must be great it must be great for all canadians it must be a country of

00:28:16.640 hope and an example to the world and only when it is these things when canada is all that it can be

00:28:23.880 only then can we say that our work is done

00:28:27.040 just an amazing video like that just that that makes me uh just feel so patriotic canada is so

00:28:37.140 beautiful too what a beautiful beautiful landmass that we have beautiful country and we do have these

00:28:41.680 this sort of greater national identity that can't really be defined uh but again like looking back

00:28:48.780 at the optimism of 2012 2011 um comparing it to the hellscape that we see before us here in 2025

00:28:55.880 it is just such a stark uh difference to go back even further um on the nostalgia front i noticed that

00:29:02.540 uh toby lukey who's the uh ceo and founder of shopify uh he posted on twitter um but he wanted to go

00:29:08.880 back even further he says um can we have this canada back and he posted a video of a beer commercial

00:29:16.740 uh from the 1990s uh that many of us uh who were growing up in that time remember like like this

00:29:23.180 commercial i hadn't watched it in years uh but this commercial very much was my belief of what

00:29:28.980 canadian identity was back as like a naive high school um student uh in the 90s uh thinking of canada

00:29:35.880 uh when i look back at it now i have a different feeling of it so i'll play it for you here and

00:29:40.620 then i'll share my thoughts on this video so here is the beer the most molson beer commercial i think

00:29:45.800 from the 90s

00:29:46.640 hey i'm uh i'm not a lumberjack or a fur trader and i don't live in an igloo or eat blubber or own a dog

00:29:57.160 sled and i don't know jimmy sally or susie from canada although i'm certain they're really really

00:30:02.860 nice i have a prime minister not a president i speak english and french not american and i pronounce

00:30:11.220 it about not a boot i can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack i believe in peacekeeping not

00:30:17.700 policing diversity not assimilation and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal

00:30:23.580 wow doesn't that bring you back uh i will still say i get like tangs of patriotism watching that

00:30:49.060 but i also cringe because it's just so superficial and if that's really if that's all we have that's

00:30:54.400 the difference between what it means to be canadian uh versus american that we pronounce some words

00:30:58.820 differently we have different lingo and then all this total nonsense i'm sorry total nonsense about

00:31:04.060 how we don't police we peace we peace keep um you know i i'm sorry that just doesn't doesn't mean

00:31:10.980 anything right like america is the force that keeps the world safe because when america is strong

00:31:16.320 everyone else is afraid of america and they behave better right we've seen this on the world stage

00:31:21.560 when trump was in office everybody was afraid of him because he was so erratic and they just didn't

00:31:26.140 know what he was going to do so there were no wars there were no escalations things calmed down

00:31:30.660 um and then when you had biden who was a blithering idiot in office showed total weakness on so many

00:31:36.500 fronts starting with the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan and then all the world leaders looked at

00:31:41.960 that and said hmm um this is what we're dealing with here now is probably our chance and that's

00:31:46.900 why you saw uh russia invade ukraine that's why you saw hamas um wage an atrocious attack on israel um 0.80

00:31:56.240 it's because when america's weak everyone's emboldened right so this idea that americans are just

00:32:01.560 police agents that are like policing the world um that's actually kind of a good thing um and then

00:32:07.820 the whole idea of canadians being peacekeepers doesn't really mean anything and it didn't at

00:32:11.520 the time so um yeah that was like a fun time to be canadian sorry the commercial came out in march

00:32:16.400 2000 um and it does bring back memories but i don't think it really means anything it doesn't really

00:32:23.140 show anything deeper about what it means to be canadian i want to get to ben shapiro's reaction here

00:32:29.120 because ben jumped in and he's kind of taking this about as seriously as i think you should so he

00:32:33.700 had some viral uh posts on x kind of responding to all this so he replied to justin trudeau's there's

00:32:40.680 not a snowball's chance in hell that canada would become part of the u.s he replied to this saying

00:32:44.960 uh when we take canada you will be expelled to panama to work in the canal uh ouch that's that's

00:32:51.980 pretty painful uh next he responded to pierre pauliev's tweet about uh canada will never become a

00:32:57.780 51st state period and he said we'll call off the planned invasion if you were like pm

00:33:03.000 will make no such guarantees if fidel's fidel castro's son remains pm and finally he posted

00:33:10.320 uh this map which i thought was hilarious uh for those of you who missed the news uh trump announced

00:33:15.320 that he's not going to call it the gulf of mexico anymore he's going to start calling it the gulf

00:33:19.220 of america you can see uh in the bottom of your screen there so here ben posted a new map of north

00:33:25.160 america in in trumpland what it would all look like according to donald trump so canada becomes a

00:33:29.440 51st state uh greenland up there becomes trumpland the atlantic ocean just becomes the anti-european

00:33:36.120 moat you got the gulf of america down there and then mexico just becomes the other side of the wall

00:33:42.440 this is all just in good and i think this is hilarious and about right oh and then he also had

00:33:47.900 a little tweet uh under there saying oh yeah and reclaiming the panama canal uh we're renaming it

00:33:52.900 the south mississippi river so this is kind of going with the meme um that americans were kind of

00:33:57.960 ignorant about the world outside their borders and they just like you know it's like america not

00:34:02.840 america and uh i think that's uh pretty pretty funny okay i want to get to justin trudeau because

00:34:10.620 he didn't stop at that tweet he decided to uh further inject himself into the story and double

00:34:16.260 down on things and so he was on cnn yesterday afternoon with jake tapper on a show um the lead

00:34:23.600 and they had an in-depth interview again so many of us just want justin trudeau to go away just

00:34:28.740 stop man just just leave it alone you've already you've already resigned you're not we're not gonna

00:34:33.560 be prime minister soon like just go away stop trying to speak for us we don't like you we don't want

00:34:39.120 you to speak for us anymore uh but alas here is justin trudeau so first i want to show a clip

00:34:44.480 um of how justin trudeau defines being a canadian so let's watch that clip

00:34:49.200 president-elect trump uh has been uh needling you a bit calling you a governor trudeau talking

00:34:55.460 about making canada the 51st state did you have any interaction with him today no not not today

00:35:00.160 uh but that's not going to happen uh canadians are incredibly proud of being canadian uh one of

00:35:06.740 the ways we define ourselves most easily is well we're not american um there is uh such a depth of

00:35:13.500 pride that that's not actually an issue such a depth of pride and yet our superficial prime minister

00:35:20.300 can only the only way he can define canada and what he claims that so many canadians uh say is

00:35:26.180 that we're just not american like like the only identity that we really have the way that we define

00:35:31.380 our identity is just that we're not american um that's not very compelling justin that's not very

00:35:37.180 that's not really evoking patriotism and like a strong uh connection to our country that we that

00:35:43.980 we have to hold on to uh pretty superficial pretty dumb uh but that's what we should expect uh next

00:35:49.760 i want to play this clip so jake tapper just set it up jake tapper's asking justin trudeau why he's

00:35:55.140 so unpopular why he's so hated in canada why he resigned and interesting to get into the mind of our

00:35:59.980 prime minister uh to to think about what he thinks the problem is so here uh here is that clip

00:36:05.260 in a time of crisis responsible politics is around focusing on things that actually make a real

00:36:11.880 difference in people's lives we delivered ten dollar a day child care we're delivering a dental

00:36:16.280 care program that provides dental free dental care to people who don't have coverage we're moving

00:36:21.800 forward on putting a price on pollution that puts more money in the pockets of eight out of ten

00:36:26.520 canadians of middle class canadians these are policies that you know are not short term they're

00:36:31.640 policies that will have a deep impact in the well-being of canadians and of our country for

00:36:37.260 years to come now you can take those policies like a child care policy and say oh see that's just about

00:36:42.700 wokeness and about you know women's rights well no it's about getting more women into the workforce 1.00

00:36:47.660 at a time where we need economic growth that's what it is but when you get a con you know a a a

00:36:56.160 i was going to say conflagration but at least a an intersection of of both uh you know right-wing

00:37:03.700 policy right-wing attacks and social media you end up with a lot of misinformation disinformation and

00:37:10.940 responsible governments have to stay focused on the policies that are making a difference and that's

00:37:15.200 what we've been doing unbelievable unbelievable so justin trudeau defends his terrible policies

00:37:21.020 and says that they're actually good for the country for the long term um mentioning that you

00:37:26.640 know him introducing government daycare isn't just about being a feminist it's about forcing more 1.00

00:37:32.020 women back into the workforce which is supposedly good for the economy so he's really doubling down

00:37:36.900 on his total nonsense things that aren't even true um and then he steps back and rather than having

00:37:41.620 any kind of reflection um being sort of self-critical uh or self-aware he says that the reason that he's

00:37:49.160 unpopular is a combination of right-wing uh anger and social media which creates misinformation

00:37:57.520 and disinformation so we're like right back to 2021 with the thought police where you know the the

00:38:04.200 only the only thing stopping justin trudeau from like universal love and praise um is just like

00:38:09.900 dangerous shattery forces and misinformation and disinformation these vaguely uh defined terms

00:38:15.100 basically if you criticize justin trudeau you're far right uh and you're pushing misinformation

00:38:20.060 and disinformation so i don't i don't know why i had any expectation that justin trudeau would grow

00:38:24.560 as a person and be more honest and forthright uh no he's just going to go back to his garbly

00:38:30.120 nonsense again and again and stick with that uh to the very end the reality is canada is facing

00:38:36.700 a bit of a crisis we're facing a genuine crisis and at a time where we are dealing with an

00:38:43.040 incoming president who wants to impose a terrifying tariff which will destroy our economy even more

00:38:48.560 you know we have an economy that's in shambles and it will be like the death blow it will be like

00:38:53.660 you know the the end of things um rather than having a responsible government in place to deal

00:39:00.320 with that look at the situation that justin trudeau has left we have no parliament parliament has been

00:39:06.580 prorogued we have no finance minister the finance minister resigned we never even got our fall economic

00:39:11.340 outlook we don't we don't have anyone running the books we don't have a finance minister at the

00:39:17.100 moment um and we we we don't really have a prime minister we have a prime minister who's lame duck

00:39:22.580 on his way out about to leave us behind um it's it's it's just absolutely wild the situation that

00:39:29.000 trudeau has left the country and the fact that he's still being entertained in polite society the fact

00:39:35.200 that there aren't just like thousands of canadians out there demanding that he resign in a proper way

00:39:40.860 and call an election and let canadians have a choice on the future of our country it's beyond

00:39:45.340 me like canadians are not angry enough i i know canadians are paying attention canadians are finally

00:39:50.180 paying attention in a way that i wish they had been for the last nine or ten years but we need to we

00:39:55.620 need to get more animated about it we need to make demands that no no no we're not going to put up with

00:40:00.980 this we we need another trucker convoy we need we need people to descend onto ottawa and say no to the

00:40:05.900 prorogation no to allowing things to happen to benefit the liberal party we want a country we

00:40:11.040 want a government we want a prime minister uh we want an election i i think that that that's the

00:40:15.600 message that needs to be heard loud and clear i'm not hearing that enough i want to get to kevin

00:40:22.060 o'leary because he's been making a lot of noise over this whole exchange i think he understands

00:40:27.160 donald trump in a way that many political leaders are missing and so here was kevin o'leary

00:40:32.380 in an interview where he basically just said everyone needs to relax about donald trump and

00:40:37.140 just start negotiating and i think he really he really gets it so let's play this clip

00:40:41.340 he also says he wants to make us the 51st state and he said that several times uh online and in

00:40:47.460 press conferences kevin as you know uh canadian leaders they've spoken out against this idea

00:40:52.160 justin trudeau says quote there's a snowball's chance in hell of this happening

00:40:55.820 pierre polyev has said canada will never be the 51st state period now you of course ran for

00:41:01.940 the conservative leadership back in 2017 had you won would you be willing to make canada the 51st

00:41:08.220 state and become a governor rather than be a prime minister no no one said we have to do that

00:41:13.980 you know what i've been telling people when you understand how trump works we've been listening

00:41:18.760 to him for 12 years you have to distinguish between the noise and the signal the noise is we're

00:41:26.080 buying canada and everybody's becoming an american and there's governors no no no no the signal is

00:41:32.380 let's explore an economic union if you don't understand that you don't understand trump and

00:41:36.420 what i'm trying to point out to people is look and first of all let's go back to the list i don't give

00:41:41.940 a damn what trudeau says nobody cares anymore he's gone and that's very important for canadian people

00:41:46.400 very important he was the worst manager in canadian history and wiped out the net worth of almost

00:41:51.480 every canadian 25 of our population lives in poverty now and that's exactly right kevin o'leary just cuts

00:41:59.940 to the chase and says this is the part that i love about what he said that that it's not like ignore

00:42:04.600 the ignore the noise and focus on the signal right ignore the bombastic claims and the the jousting and

00:42:10.840 the jokes about governor uh that we're all just really meant to put justin trudeau in his place so

00:42:15.620 that trump would have a better negotiating hand and trump has been wildly successful about let's just

00:42:19.520 remember like you could draw a direct line from donald trump's 51st state comments and trudeau's

00:42:24.720 trip down to mar-a-lago uh to him resigning on monday um so trump has had that effect and that's

00:42:31.460 part of the brilliance of of how trump governs down in the states i want to just point out because one

00:42:36.620 thing that i remember back in 2015 i'll admit i was no fan of trump at the beginning and i didn't want

00:42:41.960 him to be the republican nominee or candidate uh back in 2016 uh one of the early people who sort of was

00:42:48.680 came around to trump became an advisor um is billionaire investor peter teal who was a founder

00:42:53.700 of paypal early investor in um facebook and just sort of like a main uh prominent figure in the

00:42:59.940 silicon valley back in 2016 he was like the only one who was out there defending trump and willing to

00:43:04.960 be part of his advisory team and peter teal gave us a much better framework of how to think about

00:43:11.120 trump and how to look at trump and i think it's worth uh going back to that today because it's still

00:43:15.620 true and i think would help a lot of canadian leaders to understand um this one important

00:43:20.640 point about donald trump which is that you have to take him seriously but you don't always have

00:43:25.120 to take him literally so let's play this clip from peter teal i think uh you know i think one thing

00:43:30.360 that should be made distinguished here is that you know the media always is taking trump literally

00:43:35.820 it never takes him seriously but it always takes him literally i think a lot of the voters who vote

00:43:40.880 for trump um take trump seriously but not literally and so when they hear things like the muslim comment

00:43:48.660 or the wall comment or things like that it's not uh the question is not you know are you going to

00:43:53.240 build a wall like the great wall of china or you know how how exactly are you going to force these

00:43:58.320 these tests what they hear is uh we're going to have we're going to have a saner more sensible

00:44:04.900 immigration policy and i think that you can also take that line of thinking to apply it to this 51st

00:44:12.260 state thing like take take take the ideas that he's talking about very seriously but don't take

00:44:18.060 the words that he's using as literally as we are like i really don't think that trump is planning to

00:44:23.080 annex canada i don't think that he wants to issue economic warfare and i don't think that he really

00:44:27.800 wants canada to become 51st it doesn't even really make sense for a republican to want that everyone

00:44:32.800 knows that canada would be a very blue state if it were a state it would be adding two democrat senators

00:44:39.460 um to something that's already you know very close balance of power in in every election between

00:44:44.960 republicans and democrats like like republicans don't want more democrats they don't want more

00:44:49.780 electoral electoral college seats um that look like california so like they wouldn't they wouldn't

00:44:54.680 actually want us um but if you if you look past the the sort of words and you think more about the

00:44:59.760 broader meaning like let's create a partnership let's let's work together let's create a better

00:45:04.680 partnership um i think it's just better for canada if we had better integration um in things like

00:45:10.400 national security and our economy um less regulations in canada less restrictions and really

00:45:16.340 just let's like unleash the power of the free market in both countries together at the same time

00:45:21.160 like when i look at the united states i'm actually super optimistic about what's going to happen down

00:45:25.500 there under trump i think that the idea of doge and eliminating the size uh reducing the size of

00:45:30.100 government and eliminating a lot of waste having business-minded people go in and look at that like

00:45:34.760 look at what elon musk has done to so many big successful companies he's really he really understands

00:45:40.180 um how to make a big company work uh take that mindset put it in government and you think about what

00:45:46.380 the economy is going to do when you get rid of a lot of these regulations and rules um that just tie

00:45:51.920 things up i mean trump has even floated the idea of eliminating income tax like some of these ideas

00:45:56.320 are just like so exciting and so interesting and so innovative that you almost just want canada to

00:46:02.020 be part of it and when you look at canada you don't see that same optimism you don't see it uh what

00:46:06.060 you see is a country that's just really in shambles um especially from an economic perspective but

00:46:10.500 also social and cultural the impact um of mass immigration unchecked immigration no no attempts to

00:46:17.120 integrate uh crime just spilling out in every direction uh not to mention all the crazy woke

00:46:22.280 things that are happening in our government like i read a story about a man in quebec who murdered

00:46:26.400 three people and rather than going to the u.s prison he wants to go to a woman's prison of course because 0.51

00:46:31.360 it's canada and nothing makes sense and everything's ridiculous so you know over there we have things

00:46:35.740 getting back on track um and making more sense and canada's still a mess so i think that's why this this

00:46:43.300 message as crazy as it is and is out there is it appeals to canadians because we kind of want to

00:46:49.020 be part of what trump is bringing in in some ways um that excitement um that regrowth in the economy

00:46:54.860 that innovation and i really do think that uh canada needs to be more open to a better deal and a

00:47:00.480 better partnership uh with the united states okay i want to talk about the latest on trudeau um what he

00:47:07.300 has done how he has left our country uh not from a policy perspective not so much on his years of

00:47:11.580 governance but what happened on monday when he announced his resignation sort of kind of that

00:47:16.880 he's stepping down um he's not stepping down immediately he's stepping down in the future

00:47:21.140 and he's using a tool of governance known as prerogation something that most canadians don't

00:47:26.120 really know that much about um or really understand and so i want to go through that a little bit uh true

00:47:33.960 north uh was reporting here about how two canadians are legally challenging trudeau's decision

00:47:40.180 to prerogue parliament so we can hop on over to the justice center for canadian uh for constitutional

00:47:46.760 freedoms um and basically they are just challenging the government and saying what prime minister

00:47:52.480 justin trudeau is doing here what he's asking the governor general to do is actually illegal um they

00:47:58.180 are saying that there's no reasonable justification for prerogation so let me just read a little bit

00:48:02.900 from the story it says when parliament is prerogued the parliamentary session is terminated

00:48:06.920 and all parliamentary activity including work on bills and in committees immediately stops among

00:48:13.180 its many grounds arguing that trudeau's decision to advise the governor general to exercise her

00:48:18.100 prerogative power to prerogued parliament that's quite a mouthful um all the way to march 24 2025

00:48:23.960 this application argues that the decision to prerogued parliament was incorrect unreasonable or both

00:48:31.080 the court application which they filed today contends that the prime minister's decision to prerogued

00:48:35.720 was not made in furtherance of parliamentary business or the businesses of government but

00:48:40.640 in service to the liberal party of canada and so i think this is incredibly important a lot of

00:48:48.420 canadian talking about this this is incredibly relevant because the purpose of prerogation is

00:48:54.120 so that the prime minister can have a bit of time to ensure that he can have the confidence of the vote

00:48:59.040 you need the confidence of the house of commons in a vote in order to remain prime minister at this

00:49:04.060 point we know that justin trudeau doesn't have the confidence he's in a minority government being

00:49:08.140 propped up by the ndp and remember back over christmas jagmeet singh the leader of the ndp party

00:49:14.260 made it perfectly clear that he was no longer willing to prop up the prime minister he was no longer

00:49:19.220 willing to vote in favor of them and he said that at the next confidence vote the government would fall

00:49:24.300 they would vote against it forcing an election so the governor general knows this and according to our

00:49:29.440 system you're not supposed to just be able to pro parliament for any old reason it has to be for this

00:49:34.480 specific reason and the idea is that that that's just not why trudeau is doing it and it is possible

00:49:41.080 that a federal judge could overturn the decision of the governor general could actually say no this

00:49:46.300 is not a fair and good use of prerogation and you can't do it in which case the house would go back in

00:49:52.320 session in january and we would have an election triggered right away we would go right into an

00:49:58.020 election i want to show you a little bit of howard anglin's piece howard anglin is a brilliant lawyer

00:50:03.440 and he is also the former chief of staff to prime minister stephen harper among other things

00:50:08.920 and he had this piece over in the hub saying the governor general should not allow trudeau to prerogue

00:50:15.000 to hold a full leadership race and so basically saying that there's constitutional uncertainty

00:50:21.520 about whether or not prerogation is actually even legal in this circumstance again the purpose of

00:50:27.120 prerogation it's supposed to be brief so that the prime minister can regain and ensure confidence in

00:50:32.560 the house but if you go back to jagmeet singh's letter he says no he says it doesn't matter who the

00:50:39.420 leader of the party is they're going to push for an election and so the liberal party's own

00:50:44.300 constitution says that a leadership race will take something like three months and that's not a good

00:50:50.220 reason to prerogue the parliament for so according to howard anglin he says the best way in our system

00:50:56.760 of government in our westminster system of government is to solve this issue through an election let

00:51:03.000 canadians decide it is up to the canadian people who governs them we live in a democracy and this kind

00:51:08.720 of puts it to the test we're at a point where we could reach a constitutional crisis

00:51:13.860 over what to actually do what is legal what is the precedent here we haven't really had a situation

00:51:19.280 just like this before in canada and so it would be a test of whether or not the governor general and

00:51:25.580 the prime minister actually had this power like in theory the governor general is supposed to have the

00:51:30.580 power to say no to trudeau like no you can't do this this is for selfish partisan reasons it's not

00:51:35.640 for the good of the country and it won't achieve the goal of you having confidence in the house or your

00:51:40.300 party having confidence house it's pretty nakedly clear that the purpose of this whole thing is just

00:51:46.540 to try to preserve the liberal party to get rid of the very unpopular prime minister try to find anyone

00:51:52.040 out there who's more popular uh just in the hopes of saving some seats maybe having a hope that a new

00:51:59.580 fresh leader of the party someone who's seen as an outsider like maybe uh mark carney or maybe christy

00:52:05.640 clark or maybe even christia freeland um that that would be different enough to the canadian people 0.98

00:52:11.060 that they would still be willing to vote for a liberal government it's all partisan all the

00:52:16.440 rationale is partisan it's not for the good of the country and so here you have people that are putting

00:52:22.060 party before country pretty blatantly pretty clearly and the governor general is allowing for it so

00:52:28.780 people like the canadian uh like the jccf and like howard england are saying no don't allow that just

00:52:36.080 stop it we're going to do this legal challenge and hopefully we can force trudeau out trudeau out

00:52:40.960 sooner hopefully we can force these mps back to work have a session of parliament at which point

00:52:46.220 presumably jagmeet singh will force an election and then it will finally be up to the canadian people

00:52:51.800 to tell the government what we want what we think to decide the future of our country to decide who it

00:52:58.260 will be who will be negotiating against donald trump from my perspective the sooner this can happen

00:53:03.080 the better i mean today is january 10th in 10 days from now president trump will be inaugurated

00:53:08.080 and he says that this will be a day one initiative that he will impose a 25 tariff on all canadian goods

00:53:14.220 this is important we should have a leader a competent leader that has been elected by the canadian people

00:53:19.900 that have been chosen by the canadian people uh to be at the table to negotiate so from my perspective

00:53:25.620 the election should have already happened uh unfortunately can't go back in time now is the

00:53:29.780 time i hope that these parties are successful and that they can force something different because

00:53:33.940 the idea of waiting until march to have an election or even just to go back to house knowing that there's

00:53:39.640 a process that's going to take several weeks after that to actually get a new government it means that

00:53:44.100 we'll have months and months and months of a lame duck trudeau government negotiating with donald trump

00:53:49.660 that's not what i want that's not what i don't think any canadian want it's not in the best interest

00:53:54.060 of our country so i think this shenanigans needs to end no prerogation let's just get them back to

00:54:00.360 work get an election and start fixing our country okay we will leave it at that before i end the show

00:54:08.000 to thank everybody who is sticking around and watching to the very end i thought i would end the

00:54:13.300 show on uh more of a personal note talk a little bit about um myself and my family because as you know

00:54:19.560 uh as i said earlier in the show we welcomed our fourth child uh in the um in back in may um it's

00:54:27.180 just like a truly wonderful thing to be a mother to have these children and it's actually hard for me

00:54:32.260 in many ways to come back to work because i'm basically essentially just a stay-at-home mom i spend

00:54:37.760 all of my time with my kids i'm very involved in their lives for all of them i have a baby that's now

00:54:44.300 what seven months i have a two and a half year old a four year old and my eldest is turning six

00:54:49.600 next month and it's it's just a joy to be around them to get to spend time with them to watch them

00:54:55.940 grow to see them develop um to see them learn how smart they are and how wonderful it is to spend time

00:55:01.080 with them i really kind of leaned into being a mom not like in the trad wave kind of way but just

00:55:06.040 getting really interested in things like health and their well-being i try to bake and cook everything

00:55:11.640 we eat from scratch i started a vegetable garden over the summer and i'm starting to learn how to

00:55:17.500 grow more to to get more into gardening i started making sourdough bread so i have my own sourdough

00:55:23.060 starter in the fridge which on the counter which is something the kids like love to be involved in

00:55:27.440 we bake every day we bake uh bread and muffins and all kinds of snacks and pastries and the kids just

00:55:33.920 love uh being involved in it and it is just so great to sort of like lean into that role like

00:55:39.780 at 20 years old when i was in university i didn't think i would ever want to be a stay-at-home mom i

00:55:44.800 always thought that whatever career i pursued that would be like the most important thing

00:55:48.760 in my life and my journalism is incredibly important i'm incredibly pleased and grateful

00:55:54.880 um for the audience for true north and everything that we've been able to build um and you know from

00:56:00.400 a professional perspective i love my job um but there's just nothing that compares to being with

00:56:05.480 your kids and having that um home environment and being able to spend time with them i just

00:56:10.460 see it as such a gift um i'm also super lucky because i'm literally able to record this show and get

00:56:16.660 back to work a little bit uh because my mom lives with us she lives with our family and so we kind of

00:56:22.280 have like a full-time grandma around and the baby's with grandma right now and that allows me to

00:56:27.800 you know bring a babysitter in to be with the other kids and spend a few hours a day uh with you and

00:56:33.600 working so i'm really looking forward to bringing back the candace malcolm show uh bringing it um up

00:56:39.020 to speed having you informed on everything that's happening giving you the full news uh rundown um

00:56:44.760 especially during the election it's going to be such an important time i'm going to do my best

00:56:47.820 to report the news and to uh fill it in with commentary uh we're also still being uh doing my best

00:56:54.060 uh to be a mom and uh fulfilling that sort of domestic household role so i want to just give you a

00:56:59.840 glimpse uh into my personal life there again thank you so much uh for tuning in thanks for watching

00:57:05.120 all the way to the end don't forget to like this video subscribe uh and check out our news over at

00:57:11.280 tnc.news thank you so much and god bless

Juno News - January 10, 2025

What everyone’s missing about Trump’s 51st state “threat”

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