Juno News - March 13, 2025


What is going on with Mark Carney?


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Join Marty and Clyde as they discuss the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, as he is sworn in as Canada's 24th Prime Minister, and the challenges he will face in his new role. They also discuss what it means for the future of the country and the country's economy.

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00:00:00.000 I'm pleased today to be joined by Clyde Nichols and Marty
00:00:06.680 Boulanger, two of my favorite podcasters, Canadian content
00:00:10.920 creators. So Clyde is known as Clyde Do Something Online. He's
00:00:14.340 an auto mechanic by day and a political commentator at night.
00:00:17.880 And then Marty goes by Marty of North. He's been a professional
00:00:21.660 engineer by training for over 40 years. And I guess he's now a
00:00:26.120 podcaster. So gentlemen, thank you so much for joining the show.
00:00:30.000 Yeah, happy to be here. Actually, Clyde and I were, it feels like me
00:00:35.580 and Clyde just got off his show. We were on till what last night,
00:00:38.240 midnight or something like that.
00:00:39.540 Far too late, far too late. Lost a podcast in this country. That's
00:00:43.140 why we're on. I mean, there's like 2025 is off to a crazy start.
00:00:47.580 It certainly is. And it seems like, you know, things change like
00:00:52.260 every day, like some days I feel like, okay, Polyev has taken back
00:00:55.860 control of the narrative, and he is leading things and he's doing
00:00:58.400 really well. And then a poll will come out that shows a liberal
00:01:02.180 majority. And it's like, it's totally every day is something
00:01:07.240 totally different. So let's start with this news that we are
00:01:09.880 seeing from Canadian press and CTV is reporting that Mark Carney
00:01:13.980 will be sworn in as Canada's 24th Prime Minister tomorrow, along
00:01:18.560 with his cabinet. So Carney, Governor General Mary Simon's office
00:01:23.220 has confirmed that the swearing in ceremony of Prime Minister and his
00:01:26.200 cabinet will officially take place at Rideau Hall at 11 a.m.
00:01:30.580 Eastern in Ottawa. So that's that. I mean, there was some rumors
00:01:36.380 circulating that he wouldn't officially be sworn in, that he
00:01:39.120 would call an election right away, or that maybe he would try to
00:01:42.220 prolong his time and do this, do this later. But it looks like it's
00:01:46.660 going to happen tomorrow. Now, I guess the question is, do you think he
00:01:49.760 will trigger an election right away? Or do you think he'll try to govern,
00:01:52.720 try to pull in Jagmeet Singh and continue to maintain some kind of a
00:01:57.160 coalition? Mario, I'll go to you first.
00:02:00.420 Well, that's the million dollar question. The Liberals definitely got a 0.83
00:02:06.400 bounce in the last little while with him, with their leadership
00:02:09.240 campaign, with him getting chosen. You know, some people question the
00:02:12.780 polls. They always say that the polls are paid for. Sure, they're paid for,
00:02:16.940 but they do show a trend. And I do believe that the Liberals have narrowed
00:02:22.640 that gap in the popular vote. So I think and I think Trump or sorry, Trump, I
00:02:27.780 think Carney's a one trick pony myself. I think he's he's being paraded as an
00:02:33.420 economist, you know, with a resume, you know, Bank of Canada, Bank of England.
00:02:37.040 So he's a one trick pony. You can see that because they're not making him
00:02:41.120 speak on other issues. He's not talking about whatever social issues or anything
00:02:45.500 like that. So because he's a one trick pony and he's getting a boost from Trump
00:02:50.680 right now, he needs to strike while while the polls are hot. And I think he's
00:02:55.060 going to I hope he misreads the polls and I hope he calls an election. And I think
00:02:58.780 he will. I think he'll call an election because because if he delays this for too
00:03:03.680 long, waiting till October, let's say that six months where he'll have to come in
00:03:09.700 front of the press and answer questions and talk about his his real policies, other
00:03:13.800 than just the Trump tariffs. And I think on that he'll flounder. So he he'll call
00:03:18.980 it an election. That's my that's my bet.
00:03:22.260 What do you think?
00:03:23.360 I don't think he can hang on to this for too much longer because the longer the
00:03:26.860 longer he hangs on to it, the more fuel that Pierre Polyev will have in debates
00:03:31.480 and just in campaigning against him. He did run on the promise of getting rid of the 0.90
00:03:37.020 consumer carbon tax. Now he can do that day one as he's sworn in. The PMO doesn't
00:03:41.980 have to go to the parliament to request this. He can just make the carbon tax zero
00:03:48.280 percent. You can do that with a stroke of a pen. So this is going to be fodder for
00:03:53.160 him going forward. He probably his best bet would be go into an election. So he
00:03:59.500 doesn't have much time as the prime minister at that. But we don't know. We
00:04:03.940 don't know what he possibly could do. All I know is that Mark Carney was a busy guy
00:04:08.500 with a lot of things on his plate. He didn't do this just to be prime minister
00:04:11.920 for five minutes.
00:04:12.800 Yeah. And just one last thought on this. I mean, if he doesn't call an election, he's
00:04:18.460 going to have to sit in the gallery of the House of Commons. And so, I mean, months
00:04:23.680 of that, of not being able to himself answer the questions from Pierre, I think
00:04:29.480 that would be disastrous for him.
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00:05:14.640 you so much. Back to the episode.
00:05:17.000 I think you're right. Like, I think that the more that Canadians see and learn about Mark
00:05:21.100 Carney, the less appealing he is. Like, I don't know any Canadian that's sitting around 1.00
00:05:25.220 like, do you know what we really need? A globalist banker who has all of this experience
00:05:29.280 in like transnational corporations, moving companies out of Canada, investing in like
00:05:34.060 our competitors and opposing basically our main industry in Canada. Well, I think
00:05:39.160 Carney also as a retail politician, he doesn't really have a lot of experience. And the more
00:05:43.160 that we see him out in the field and interacting with regular Canadians, the more out of place 1.00
00:05:48.040 he seems. So he was in Hamilton yesterday at a steel plant. And he just looks silly. Like,
00:05:53.660 this is totally like Mr. Dress Up 2.0. We can show some images. So the front row there are the
00:05:59.040 liberal, like his liberal team, I guess. And they're all dressed up as if they are steelworkers.
00:06:03.540 The steelworkers are behind them. But then when he's giving his speech, the steelworkers are gone. And
00:06:09.080 those are all just liberal MPs behind him, all dressing up, pretending, I guess, that they're
00:06:14.040 blue-collar working Canadians. And his speech that he gave was sort of less than inspiring. He was
00:06:19.120 umming and ahhing his way through. It kind of actually made Justin Trudeau seem articulate in
00:06:23.980 comparison. We have a little clip of him speaking from Hamilton yesterday.
00:06:30.040 We are ready to sit down with the Americans, with the U.S. government. I'm ready to sit down
00:06:36.260 with President Trump at the appropriate time, under a position where there's respect for Canadian
00:06:43.640 sovereignty.
00:06:44.200 So I don't know that he's a very clear communicator. I don't think he's had a lot of
00:06:50.300 experience. I mean, he's never been elected for anything ever. He's never been a member of
00:06:54.280 parliament. And so he's not really tested. I think it's a huge risk for the liberals to just like
00:06:58.940 draw him into an election. But then on the other hand, you know, I think that the media will cover
00:07:03.460 for him. The media will paint him like a competent hand steering us through rocky times. And so he
00:07:09.660 I don't know how to do that much.
00:07:11.040 Yes and no. I mean, one thing that's already happened just in the last five days since he
00:07:16.160 was elected is the number of old clips of him that are showing up. They weren't showing up during the
00:07:21.160 campaign because the liberals weren't going to bring him up. And the conservatives weren't actually
00:07:25.140 bringing them up on purpose. I think now that he's the leader now, now it's being unleashed. So
00:07:30.800 old videos of him saying all sorts of things like, you know, how he feels about the carbon tax,
00:07:36.260 the true, the true carny. So that's coming out. As for that meeting yesterday, that, that,
00:07:41.600 that, you know, he was, he purposely picked that steel mill because again, some of his earlier
00:07:47.580 comments on steel, like he literally made a comment about a month ago during the campaign
00:07:52.360 that, uh, I'm going to, I'm going to transfer the carbon tax away from consumers, put it on
00:07:57.360 big producers. Somebody brought up steel. And then he says, well, people don't use steel
00:08:01.360 anymore. So he was trying to backpedal that. And that's what we saw yesterday.
00:08:05.440 Hey, and the other part of yesterday is he sneaks in and out. Like even, even the media
00:08:12.140 can't get to, can get to him. They're, they're still sheltering him from the media. They don't
00:08:16.380 want him answering off the cuff questions because he has no answers or he'll tell the truth, which
00:08:21.720 is very problematic.
00:08:23.940 Yeah. I mean, we, we know what you really believe is because he hasn't been shy about
00:08:27.800 it. And like, you know, you're talking about how he was, uh, there are old clips circulating
00:08:31.980 of him saying stuff. It's not like they're even that old. It's like things from a month
00:08:35.760 ago or two months ago or three months ago where he's saying that we need a shadow carbon
00:08:39.580 tax. So, you know, he's saying, let's get rid of the carbon tax because nobody likes it
00:08:43.900 and it is divisive.
00:08:44.660 We know how he feels. He wrote a 600 page book and, and one of his values apparently
00:08:50.120 is to be modest, but while being modest, he's touting his 600 page book.
00:08:54.240 Right. And, and, and yeah, and, and in there, he talks about like the urgent need to implement
00:09:00.000 all kinds of regulations and taxes in the economy to basically shut down fossil fuels
00:09:05.240 or at least like, uh, reduce our, uh, dependence on them. And so we know what he really believes.
00:09:11.140 I think to me, the question is whether or not the media is going to push this guy, whether
00:09:16.580 we're going to have a, like the, the true role of a media, which is to try to, you know, push
00:09:22.020 the people in power, get the truth, help Canadians understand who he is. My concern is that the
00:09:27.960 media is so in the bag for the liberals are so dependent on the taxpayer money that the
00:09:31.780 liberals have given them to sustain their industry that they're not going to, it's going to be
00:09:35.460 a walk in the park for Mark Carney. He's never going to be tested. He's not going to be chased
00:09:40.020 and pressed to answer these sorts of questions. The media is just going to take it face value.
00:09:44.820 Okay. He doesn't want to talk about carbon taxes. Uh, let's not press him on that. Let's just
00:09:49.440 move on to something else focused more negatively on Pierre Polyev. Clyde, uh, what do you think?
00:09:54.240 Uh, what's, what do you think's going to happen?
00:09:56.380 Well, I think liberal voters, I mean, the Canadians are voted, they're primed to vote liberal. When
00:10:01.180 we saw they, when ahead of Justin Trudeau stepping down, we had MPs coming to the news and saying,
00:10:07.940 I have my constituents calling me up and saying, I love you. We want to have you as our MP, but if,
00:10:14.740 if Justin Trudeau is the leader, we're not going to vote for you. We're going to switch to the
00:10:17.780 conservatives. As soon as Justin Trudeau stepped down, this is, this is where I think the polling's
00:10:22.140 coming from. I think it's people going back to, uh, you know, sit with their liberal MPs and be
00:10:27.820 happy with that because Justin Trudeau is not the leader. Now, Mark Carney is not going to be any
00:10:31.880 better than Justin Trudeau. He's more of the same. Uh, he's, he's, he's bringing in roughly the same
00:10:36.600 cabinet. I mean, we got the announcement that Marco Mendicino is coming in and same with, uh, David
00:10:41.280 Lamedi. So we are getting a Justin Trudeau 2.0. It's just, they're, they're, they're masking it. And this is
00:10:46.540 something that came up in our live stream last night, uh, that, you know, we have Pierre
00:10:49.880 Polyev with ax, the tax, and we have Mark Carney with mask, the tax, because he's bringing it in.
00:10:55.680 It's just, he's just, he's just making it look like we don't have that by getting rid of the
00:10:59.120 consumer side of it. It's going to be much bigger actually.
00:11:02.020 Yeah. Like, like Clyde's referring to, uh, liberals like, uh, Ken McDonald in Newfoundland,
00:11:06.860 right? He said it two, three times, like my constituents want me, want Trudeau to step down. They
00:11:12.080 didn't say they don't want liberals. They literally said they want Trudeau to step down. And, and,
00:11:15.980 and, and let's face it for the last 157 years, liberals have been in power 70% of the time in
00:11:22.040 this country. I mean, it is our, it is our tendency. We vote liberal. Yeah. I mean, and that's
00:11:29.520 sort of what the latest polls are showing. So I want to jump to the polls. Leger released a poll
00:11:34.700 just over the weekend that found that the liberals and the conservatives are now tied at 37%. And I mean,
00:11:43.520 this is like, this is the, this shows that the, the strong lead that Pierre Polyev had just two
00:11:51.000 months ago, maybe completely gone. Um, the way that this is modeled out is even more terrifying because
00:11:57.420 it shows a clear liberal lead, uh, possibly even a liberal majority government. So it would result in
00:12:04.920 the liberals getting 176 seats, the conservatives 137. And this is what the map of Canada would look
00:12:11.400 like. You can see the greater Toronto area, almost entirely going back to the liberals, Atlantic Canada,
00:12:17.400 again, going back to being red and much more red even throughout the prairies. And so, I mean, this isn't,
00:12:23.400 this isn't some fringe polling company. This isn't Frank Braves putting up liberal propaganda. Leger is
00:12:29.160 the gold standard. They are considered the best pollsters in Canada. And so if this is the position
00:12:33.640 that we now face ourselves, that we now find ourselves in, I think it's a big, big problem
00:12:38.120 and major concern for the conservatives. It's a problem. It's similar to 2021. I mean,
00:12:42.760 in 2021, we all thought we were facing an open net and, uh, and we couldn't, and the conservatives
00:12:47.560 couldn't do it because mostly of, of the mainstream media getting behind the liberals. I just want to
00:12:53.960 say one thing too. I agree that the Leger polls are pretty good, but the other thing, if you believe
00:12:59.160 the election of the, uh, Carney's election results, uh, they put them up on their website and you could
00:13:05.080 go look at them. Carney won all the writings, right? So when you voted in the liberal leadership,
00:13:10.280 your vote was still assigned to the writing where you lived and he defeated Freeland and he defeated,
00:13:16.440 uh, Gould and Bayless in their own writings. And so, um, so liberals came out and they're,
00:13:22.680 they voted for change and, and they're going to try and capitalize on that. So, so that's for me,
00:13:27.480 that's the most interesting thing that I want to look at tomorrow is who made it into Carney's
00:13:33.320 cabinet and who didn't, because that's the tough navigation for him. That's another big factor we
00:13:39.080 overlook. He does have 40 liberal MPs who said they weren't running again. And then because of the
00:13:44.680 leadership race, it did force, uh, partisanship within their group, right? Freeland's a big loser.
00:13:50.760 And then Freeland had a solid 30 or 40 MPs who threw their name behind her. And then, and then
00:13:56.840 Carney had his camp. So he's got to navigate that. And I think he made a weird choice yesterday by
00:14:01.720 choosing Marco Mendocino as his chief of staff to help him do that. But again, there's, there's some
00:14:07.160 really bad blood with Mendocino and the cabinet. So I think we're going to see
00:14:12.360 a divided liberal party emerge from this thing. It's not going to be as united as we think. And
00:14:17.800 that perhaps could be one reason why he might want to delay an election because he's going to,
00:14:22.600 I think he's going to have a divided party. Yeah. A lot of interesting dates.
00:14:26.760 No, when, when Trudeau stepped down on January 6th, he said that part of the reason that he was
00:14:31.560 stepping down was because of these internal divides within his own party. But then if you looked at the
00:14:36.360 liberal leadership results that came out on Sunday evening, it didn't seem like a divided party at
00:14:41.240 all. You know, 85% of the people voting went for Carney. And I think that there is a fact that
00:14:48.440 some 60% of liberal members did not vote. Yeah. Not a, not a divided part.
00:14:53.160 Because they couldn't, but we don't know what happened to those 250,000 potential voters.
00:14:58.840 Not a divided party. You're right. So the statistically the, the, the membership voted for Carney,
00:15:04.680 but a divided, call it a divided cabinet or a divided caucus, call it a divided caucus. Because
00:15:11.400 like I said, the 40, a third of his caucus said they're not running again. And then the other two
00:15:16.840 thirds that are running again, a line behind Carney and Freeland. So he's got that problem to navigate.
00:15:22.760 Interesting. What do you think Clyde?
00:15:23.560 Well, you look at the, at their actual election, we had, they were bulls, like they were bragging
00:15:29.240 about the fact that they got 400,000 new members and somehow they, none of them turned up to vote
00:15:34.120 except 150,000 people. A number of people were disqualified. For what reason? A number of candidates
00:15:39.880 were disqualified. For what reasons? Uh, weren't very, they weren't very forthcoming with all of this
00:15:45.720 information. It doesn't seem like a fair election by any standard. Uh, so I, I think he was, he was
00:15:52.440 selected to be the leader of the liberals. And I think there's some cynicism and that's why, uh, that's
00:15:57.960 why the vote swung so far towards him. Yeah. The election results, if you, if you didn't know what
00:16:03.160 had happened and you just look at the election results, it looks transparent. It looks one-sided.
00:16:09.400 It looks unified. It looks all those things. And the more you look at it, the more it looks suspicious,
00:16:14.440 the more it looks fabricated to, to, to make everybody think that Carney's the guy.