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00:00:00.000 Noah, am I seeing things or did you fix your roof?

00:00:05.060 No, no, it's not fixed.

00:00:06.900 It's just the angle of where the camera is.

00:00:08.700 First thing I noticed, I'm like, wait, Noah has a roof.

00:00:11.060 Usually it's just a vacant attic space.

00:00:13.920 Is that tape?

00:00:15.380 Oh, no, there it is.

00:00:16.580 Oh, yeah, there it is.

00:00:17.220 There's holy.

00:00:18.280 It's where the hole used to be a lot bigger.

00:00:20.260 Maybe it's just me.

00:00:21.540 No, I was so embarrassed that I didn't want to show the entire thing.

00:00:25.300 But now my dad tells me to take the entire roof down in the basement.

00:00:30.040 So it's only going to get worse before it gets better.

00:00:32.680 So the next time you take your electric moped out somewhere, however you young people travel, 0.98

00:00:38.940 pop by, get a little piece of gyprock from a hardware store.

00:00:44.440 Just stick it in there.

00:00:46.140 Paint it whenever you want.

00:00:47.720 Or paint cardboard.

00:00:49.620 Something.

00:00:50.900 That would be a good solution.

00:00:52.800 However, I'm just going to leave that to people who know how to do that stuff, like my dad,

00:00:57.300 or, you know, like a handyman or something like that.

00:00:59.580 I'm good at writing, you know, not necessarily like fixing roofs, you know.

00:01:03.860 I would have gone into carpentry.

00:01:05.960 Yeah, I know.

00:01:06.980 That's my only skill.

00:01:07.880 I'm worried that a posse of possums and raccoons are going to team up and come down through that hole at any time.

00:01:15.240 Oh, I need company.

00:01:16.480 It gets lonely down here.

00:01:17.720 You know, I wouldn't mind raising a little family of possums.

00:01:20.460 That'd be great.

00:01:21.520 They're a little hissy.

00:01:22.880 All right.

00:01:23.300 This is too much fun for a Friday.

00:01:25.480 Let's get started.

00:01:34.300 Welcome to Off the Record, which is broadcasted on the internet.

00:01:37.940 My name is Chris Sims.

00:01:39.140 I'm the Alberta Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:01:41.960 I'm joined by my friends from True North, Noah and Isaac.

00:01:45.680 Thank you so much for joining us today.

00:01:47.720 Lots of fun things to talk about, namely that I'm right.

00:01:50.880 And that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is not going to bring down the Trudeau government anytime soon, no matter how much he huffs and puffs and tries to pretend to blow the house down.

00:02:03.940 Here's your headline.

00:02:04.960 Singh will not support attempts by the Conservative Party of Canada and the Bloc Québécois to trigger an early election.

00:02:12.260 Shocker to exactly nobody.

00:02:15.160 And, of course, this thing will just keep rolling on and rolling on.

00:02:18.260 My prediction is that we're going to – so I think he qualifies for his pension in February of this coming year.

00:02:25.600 After that, we're going to have a federal budget, which is an automatic confidence vote because it's a big money bill.

00:02:30.940 And presto, bango, I think we're going to be having an election sometime around April or May. 0.95

00:02:36.340 What's your guys' take?

00:02:37.300 Well, I think that Jagmeet Singh has proved himself to be one of the most dishonest politicians in Ottawa.

00:02:44.040 You know, like we can say a lot about Justin Trudeau and, you know, the dishonesty of his government, all the scandals that his government is responsible for.

00:02:51.780 However, Jagmeet Singh routinely just tries to deceive the Canadian public.

00:02:56.480 And I think it's crazy.

00:02:57.500 You know, you can see that from his messaging on inflation, the greedflation thing, which is, like, the most nonsense economic statement possible.

00:03:05.740 And, you know, he does this routinely talking about how Pierre Poliev is going to take away your abortion rights and stuff like that.

00:03:10.680 And now he's told the Canadian people two months ago, now time flies, two months ago he pulled out of the Confidence and Supply Agreement and basically made it seem like he was going to stand off against Trudeau in Parliament and is going to really, you know, take it to him and, you know, bring down the government, you know, if they make just one little mistake because that's what was holding him back with the Supply and Confidence Agreement.

00:03:32.840 But it seems as if the affairs in Ottawa just goes on, as they always have been for the past few years, and he is supporting the Trudeau government.

00:03:41.220 It seems as if Jagmeet Singh is more supportive of the Trudeau government than, like, 24 Liberal MPs, you know.

00:03:47.540 It's kind of crazy.

00:03:49.200 So I think that Jagmeet Singh really needs to take a look in the mirror.

00:03:53.400 If he wants to gain some seats in the next election, he's going to have to come out against this very, very unpopular prime minister.

00:03:59.520 And the longer he continues to support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he won't make any progress in the polls.

00:04:08.980 I think we have a clip of Jagmeet Singh, you know, talking about his justification for not bringing down the Trudeau government along with the Bloc Québécois.

00:04:18.500 Does that mean that you will not work with the Bloc and Conservatives to bring down the government?

00:04:24.580 We know people are hurting right now.

00:04:26.440 People are struggling right now.

00:04:27.760 They're having a hard time affording their groceries.

00:04:29.700 They're having a hard time affording a place to call home.

00:04:32.420 And seniors are just getting help with their teeth.

00:04:35.260 I'm not going to let Pierre Polyev, the king, cut himself and the Bloc decide when to cut these things that people need. 0.94

00:04:41.940 I'm not going to let them cut the things that people need.

00:04:43.780 So, no, I'm not going to play their games.

00:04:46.280 Gameplay?

00:04:47.940 Really?

00:04:48.560 It's just dishonest messaging.

00:04:50.960 At least I respect he's Francois Blanchet.

00:04:53.260 But he went to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and he tried to get some concessions out of him.

00:04:56.820 He tried to get, you know, boost some support for seniors.

00:04:59.860 And he also tried to, you know, get some Quebec-specific policies, you know, as he is apt to do.

00:05:05.180 And, you know, after a few weeks of negotiation, well, before the negotiation, he told the press straight up, I'm going to take a few weeks.

00:05:11.920 And if the Prime Minister takes no action to move towards our demands, we're going to call for an election or tell the Conservatives and the NDP to pull their support from the government.

00:05:23.540 He did that.

00:05:24.400 And then he told reporters, yeah, we're not getting anywhere.

00:05:27.200 We don't support the government.

00:05:28.260 That's how you become an effective negotiator.

00:05:31.760 You state your demands clearly and you act upon them.

00:05:34.800 And if the other party doesn't want to budge, you know, you just pull out your support.

00:05:40.600 And Jagmeet Singh, he's been trying to do this for three years and he hasn't made any progress whatsoever.

00:05:45.760 So, has he really been trying?

00:05:48.560 I don't know.

00:05:51.000 I think he's trying. 0.97

00:05:52.600 I just think he's really, really incompetent. 0.68

00:05:54.840 I don't know.

00:05:55.180 What do you think, Isaac?

00:05:55.920 Do you think Jagmeet Singh has been trying or he's just really bad at his job?

00:05:59.820 Look, here's what I'll say.

00:06:01.060 He mentioned the dental program, which I saw Justin Trudeau tweet about, oh, the dental program has served one million Canadians.

00:06:07.280 This is half the number of Canadians that are attending a food bank on, I think, a monthly basis or even daily, which is two million Canadians.

00:06:14.320 So, talk about flawed priorities.

00:06:17.000 And here, really, Jagmeet Singh, I mean, come on. 0.98

00:06:19.320 He's the poster boy for hypocrisy. 0.99

00:06:21.720 Every single thing that leaves his mouth or his X account is hypocritical. 0.98

00:06:26.900 All he does is bash the government as if it's the bane of every Canadian's existence, which it is, by the way. 0.86

00:06:33.060 And yet, he's the only person holding them up.

00:06:36.260 It's pretty messed up.

00:06:37.740 I will say this on pensions.

00:06:40.040 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is presenting at committee next week on the issue of, get this for disingenuousness, moving the election ahead by one week.

00:06:51.260 The scheduled official election date next October is when it's technically supposed to happen.

00:06:56.340 Bumping it ahead one week.

00:06:57.440 And this government actually has the audacity to claim that it's because they don't want to interrupt with Diwali.

00:07:04.100 And not because a whole bunch of members of parliament will automatically come into their pensions.

00:07:10.080 So, if they have it early, around 80 MPs or so, roughly around there, I think is the number, a bunch of MPs, regardless, will not be able to get a pension.

00:07:19.640 But if they have it a week later, bango, bango, because they've served for six whole years, they then qualify for a pension. 0.71

00:07:26.840 Which, of course, we're calling them out on that nonsense because if they're so worried about, you know, interrupting a really important festival like Diwali, just have it earlier.

00:07:36.000 Why aren't you having it earlier, guys?

00:07:37.620 Why later? 0.98

00:07:38.800 So, yeah, this ridiculous hypocrisy. 0.97

00:07:41.120 Do we want to jump over to the bureaucrat podcast extravaganza? 0.98

00:07:46.300 Let's go.

00:07:46.900 So, here at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we have an investigative journalist, like a real one.

00:07:52.500 He's paid by us.

00:07:53.780 He's on salary.

00:07:54.560 He's on staff.

00:07:55.160 Ryan Thorpe.

00:07:56.060 And he dug up these freedom of information requests that actually surprised me.

00:08:00.900 I had no idea these things existed.

00:08:03.520 Apparently, departments, the bureaucracies within the federal government, have their own podcasts.

00:08:12.240 Yeah, like Statistics Canada has its own podcasts.

00:08:17.580 I know.

00:08:18.300 You're wondering, how can I listen to this?

00:08:21.080 Not.

00:08:23.120 This is the funniest part, though, is that these bureaucrat podcasts that nobody listens to have cost the taxpayer nearly $2 million.

00:08:34.440 So, here it is.

00:08:35.540 This is from our website at taxpayer.com.

00:08:37.860 You can just see here dozens of departments and agencies.

00:08:40.440 Okay?

00:08:40.600 So, this isn't a one-off.

00:08:41.800 Okay?

00:08:42.200 This isn't somebody at Heritage Committee or Heritage Department who's sad about not being a journalist anymore and starts his own podcast.

00:08:50.300 No, no, no, no.

00:08:51.160 This is like Statistics Canada.

00:08:53.220 I bet you that the agency that manages our bridges also has a podcast.

00:08:59.960 And shocker, nobody's listening to these things.

00:09:03.180 But what's really crazy is, again, I don't understand how they manage to spend nearly $2 million.

00:09:09.120 Because I asked, this is not just the salaries of the involved bureaucrats that we're adding up on an abacus.

00:09:17.700 No, no.

00:09:18.540 This is actual billing.

00:09:20.900 This is like cost.

00:09:22.720 And, you know, no offense, Noah, to like the hole in your roof and stuff.

00:09:26.660 And like my microphone's pretty nice.

00:09:28.840 It shouldn't cost $2 million to put together a podcast.

00:09:32.160 What did you guys think about this story?

00:09:34.660 Completely absurd.

00:09:35.780 I mean, you know, this microphone here cost $30.

00:09:38.560 I didn't pay $30 for it.

00:09:39.820 I got it at a contest at school.

00:09:41.900 But, you know, $30 microphone, you know, laptop, you know, most people have a laptop or whatever.

00:09:48.280 And, you know, you get like a $5 cable.

00:09:49.960 And, boom, there's your podcast.

00:09:51.560 It's pretty simple, you know.

00:09:52.900 Get some free audio recording software and there you go.

00:09:56.880 $2 million.

00:09:57.720 I have no clue where that money went.

00:10:00.140 Are they getting like some premium microphones that cost like $10,000 and they're building out a whole studio for a podcast that are listened to by like the people who actually produce the podcast and that's about it?

00:10:11.480 You know, like it's absurd.

00:10:13.120 And, you know, I was thinking like what are they talking about in these podcasts?

00:10:16.880 I think like Housing Infrastructure and Communities Canada are probably talking about the details of how they pour the cement for like a bridge or whatever.

00:10:23.960 It's like, hmm, you know, we pour the cement on an 86 degree angle or something like that, you know.

00:10:29.060 Or, you know, like StatsCan, they're going to read to you like some like boring fertility numbers or like, oh, you know, this is the number of people that, you know, that came to this country as a tourist or whatever.

00:10:41.500 It's like, no, nobody wants to hear these things.

00:10:43.180 Nobody wants to hear these things.

00:10:44.540 There's a reason why Canadians are producing podcasts themselves because, you know, they know what the Canadian people want and they can deliver to the people what they want.

00:10:54.920 And viewers get to choose with their dollars or with their time what podcasts they decide to listen to.

00:11:01.860 However, the federal government, they're just, you know, unnaturally trying to force this onto the Canadian people.

00:11:06.680 The Canadian people aren't listening to it and then how the Canadian people have to pay for it.

00:11:11.080 That is utterly insane.

00:11:13.400 It is.

00:11:14.600 Yeah, it is.

00:11:15.480 It's definitely a scandal.

00:11:16.740 But, you know, obviously, you know, there's all these scandals on a daily basis that come out of the government that, you know, we can't even keep track of.

00:11:23.760 So it's, you know, this is like scandal number one thousand five hundred eighty four.

00:11:28.720 So it's just it's just, you know, a long line of over and over again, wasting taxpayers money.

00:11:34.300 And this is another example of just an egregious waste of money that I hope a future government will, you know, slash and, you know, cut back on.

00:11:45.040 I'm going to read some of the titles of the podcast.

00:11:47.340 So, but Isaac, I wanted to get your take in the meantime.

00:11:49.560 So are you are you subscribed now?

00:11:51.440 Are you like I was looking at you with anticipation, Chris, because I'm like, oh, it looks like she has something nice to share.

00:11:56.660 But what I will say is when you mentioned Statistics Canada had a podcast, I'm a bit of a nerd.

00:12:02.820 So I got a bit excited, like, oh, it's the Statistics Canada podcast.

00:12:05.080 But I mean, really, I would be bored in two minutes.

00:12:07.240 I would rather read their reports like they.

00:12:09.420 Isaac, it's your psychiatrist.

00:12:11.960 Are you a whale psychologist?

00:12:13.620 I'm like, oh, data.

00:12:14.700 Nice, nice.

00:12:15.380 We can learn about data.

00:12:16.720 But no, how as for how this two million dollars was spent, I'm in the same boat as you, Noah.

00:12:22.000 I don't see how this is in any way, shape or form possible other than maybe paying like agencies and people to boost your shows and add.

00:12:30.420 I mean, but again, what are you doing boosting your viewers from two to four?

00:12:33.780 Like, what's the point?

00:12:34.460 No one wants to listen to bureaucrats at the liberal government speak about their programs.

00:12:39.260 I mean, yeah, Chris, do you have any ideas into like what kind of shows we're looking at here?

00:12:45.340 OK, so to be clear, like, you know, we didn't it isn't just the salaries that are added up into this.

00:12:50.600 They actually cost money outside of their salaries.

00:12:53.060 Like, for example, the podcast cost taxpayers one hundred and fifty five thousand seven hundred and thirty six dollars.

00:12:59.200 This is for one podcast.

00:13:00.580 OK, the costs include nine thousand dollars for podcast training and consultation.

00:13:06.880 Two thousand dollars for equipment.

00:13:09.740 Right. Like this is just nuts.

00:13:11.100 It racked up thirty thousand dollars in expenses on top of salary costs.

00:13:15.580 Like this is just one podcast.

00:13:17.720 This is a really funny one, though, here.

00:13:19.500 I wanted to actually read this to you.

00:13:21.680 It was from Statistics Canada and it was what they are actually talking about.

00:13:26.680 It's called A Sayers Podcast from Statistics Canada.

00:13:30.620 It has twenty one episodes since January of twenty twenty one.

00:13:34.680 So I guess they were getting a little stir crazy to episode topics have ranged from gender identity to climate change and misinformation and to systemic racism.

00:13:45.420 This is a liberal party platform.

00:13:47.600 Yeah, literally.

00:13:48.600 This is StatsCan.

00:13:50.100 This is not, oh, wow, look at how our population is changing, like maybe we need better roads here.

00:13:55.440 No, no, no.

00:13:56.700 It's all the same old stuff, but it's just bureaucrats talking to each other when nobody listens to them and you get to pay for it.

00:14:03.140 Now, to be clear, like cards on the table, if you want to have a podcast about like LGBTQ plus ghosts, which actually one of them talked about.

00:14:14.600 I'm not kidding.

00:14:15.480 Like the word paranormal is in there in this kind of stuff.

00:14:19.680 Fill your boots.

00:14:20.940 Honestly, I'd probably go watch that show.

00:14:22.780 I'm a huge Beetlejuice fan.

00:14:24.440 Do it.

00:14:24.920 It's really fun and entertaining, but do it on your own time.

00:14:28.060 Like don't make taxpayers pay for this stuff.

00:14:31.220 And this is where it gets pretty wild, because whenever we come forward and we say, you know, guys, you have a 40 something billion dollar deficit.

00:14:38.760 Could you maybe lay off the spending?

00:14:41.220 Could you balance the budget?

00:14:42.960 Could you stop doubling the debt?

00:14:44.760 They just clutch their pearls and they say, what do you want to cut first?

00:14:48.900 You know, dental care to old people or daycare to desperate children?

00:14:53.140 How about you stop this?

00:14:55.820 Number one.

00:14:56.820 Anyway, it was pretty good.

00:14:58.040 So guys, go check it out.

00:14:59.180 It's all over the even the mainstream media. 0.96

00:15:01.240 Pick this up because it's so ridiculous.

00:15:03.460 Look up government bureaucracy podcasts and read the titles for yourself. 0.80

00:15:08.260 Go listen to them.

00:15:09.520 Seriously, go listen to them.

00:15:10.500 You paid for them.

00:15:11.180 You own those podcasts.

00:15:12.080 Do we want to get to where do we want to go from here?

00:15:14.900 Do we want to get to the CBC hosting the next debate?

00:15:18.080 Is that where we're headed now, boys?

00:15:19.660 Yeah.

00:15:20.100 So essentially, the CBC is going to host the next federal leadership debate, which is wonderful for those of you who have ever watched debates in the United States and what happens with their moderators.

00:15:31.700 Very, very, very fair and unbiased.

00:15:34.760 Obviously, this is sarcasm.

00:15:37.220 And I'm sure that we can expect the same with these upcoming debates because it should become as a surprise to nobody that Pierre Poilievre has been very, very critical of the CBC.

00:15:47.840 So by default, you would expect them to treat him unfairly.

00:15:50.880 Do you guys think that we're going to see fair and unbiased, unbiased, moderated debates here coming up?

00:16:00.160 No, not really.

00:16:01.380 I remember watching the 2019, 2021 leaders debates, and I just remember thinking like, wow, the format of these debates are really bad.

00:16:09.360 Say what you want about the American presidential debates and how the moderators go about doing their job.

00:16:15.460 But I think at least the format is pretty decent.

00:16:18.100 The candidates, they get some time to do their opening spiel, and then they get to go back and forth with each other on the live mics and basically try and push back on each other's ideas and really go at it.

00:16:30.620 Whereas the Canadian debates are very, very sanitized.

00:16:33.960 They try and just avoid all conflict and confrontation between the candidates, and even when they have open time to speak between the candidates, it just comes off as very tame and very muted.

00:16:50.720 Now, I hope that when Pierre Poiliev gets on stage, he's going to try and flip the table and change that whole dynamic.

00:16:57.200 And it seemed like Andrew Scheer tried to do that, a little unsuccessfully.

00:17:00.400 I mean, he did lose the election.

00:17:01.300 But at least with the debates in America, they're entertaining to watch, especially the Joe Biden-Trump one.

00:17:08.460 It was pretty funny to watch.

00:17:10.780 And the reason why viewership is going down for these debates is because they are just very boring to watch.

00:17:17.180 Even people who are very interested in politics think they're boring, which is saying something because these people, including myself, are political.

00:17:25.600 It's like, this is all we do our entire lives.

00:17:27.740 So I think that when you are losing the people that are very interested in politics, the people who are not interested in politics but still need to make a voting decision, they're just not going to tune in.

00:17:36.800 They're just going to listen to what the candidates have to say.

00:17:39.740 And that might be for the best if you're not a fan of debates.

00:17:42.900 But it certainly isn't good that we're having the CBC host it, which is funded by taxpayer dollars, instead of a network that could do a much better job.

00:17:52.960 I'm not saying that CTV and Global and all these other networks are amazing, but what I am saying is that they have the resources to put on such a debate, and we're not giving them these debates.

00:18:05.460 We're instead giving it to the public broadcaster, who by and large has lost the trust of the Canadian people. 0.94

00:18:10.860 And it seems like an idiotic decision in line with everything that has come in these past nine years. 0.93

00:18:16.640 So the mainstream media has lost the trust of the public, like by and large. 0.97

00:18:22.680 I think it's around seven in ten Canadians or Americans even think that the mainstream media is deliberately misleading them.

00:18:28.920 These aren't oopsies or accidentally mispronouncing a name or getting a date wrong or something, which happens to all of us because we're human.

00:18:34.120 But no, like I think around 70 percent, give or take, of people actually believe that they're deliberately trying to mislead them.

00:18:41.020 And they should think that because some of the stuff that we've seen pulled here on either side of the aisle is pretty crazy.

00:18:47.160 From the taxpayer's perspective, we want lower taxes, less waste and more accountable government.

00:18:51.980 So for us, we want things to be as simple and bare bones and basic and clear as possible.

00:18:57.640 So if someone, for example, like Steve Paikin is very balanced, he asks very serious, insightful questions, you can't tell how the guy votes, which is how it should be with journalists.

00:19:10.200 And so if someone like him is asking the questions and if you have an audience that is invited from all different perspectives on the political spectrum, I mean, they can't hoot and holler and throw things, of course.

00:19:21.040 But if they're there to naturally respond to what people are saying in the room, that's really good for accountability and asking people questions and kind of keeping the room kind of a good human tone, if that makes sense.

00:19:33.280 And so as long as it's that nice and bare bones and well done, produced, or isn't wasting a lot of money, no ridiculous little sound effects like they did with the Conservative Party leadership debate.

00:19:43.840 Remember that?

00:19:45.060 I'd rather not think about it.

00:19:46.340 That was so embarrassing with the sad trombone sound effects.

00:19:49.760 And then I'm like, what's your favorite book?

00:19:51.760 You know, what Netflix show are you watching lately?

00:19:54.000 It's like, please, please don't do repeat that.

00:19:57.280 Do you like long walks on the beach? 0.57

00:19:59.440 No, that's silly.

00:20:00.440 We want to know, you know, how are you going to be spending our money?

00:20:03.220 What do you think about things like government accountability?

00:20:05.660 Like, I don't know, recall legislation at the federal level.

00:20:09.320 Good stuff like that, where people can actually hold their politicians to account.

00:20:13.340 That's the kind of stuff, meat and potatoes, good stuff that we look for in a debate.

00:20:17.640 And as long as it's done that way and efficiently, our people are pretty happy.

00:20:22.280 Speaking of people being happy, did we want to get to our kicker?

00:20:25.780 Apparently something's happening in the United States this coming Tuesday.

00:20:29.940 Yeah, something big, eh?

00:20:31.440 Yeah.

00:20:31.880 Are we going to do predictions or what are we doing here?

00:20:34.000 What do we think is going to happen?

00:20:35.100 Isaac, you take that one away.

00:20:36.980 Okay.

00:20:39.080 I definitely...

00:20:40.420 And I'm going to hold you to this.

00:20:41.440 Yeah, no, I definitely predict Trump to win.

00:20:45.260 What I really hope for is that the election is fair and there's little question of election

00:20:51.920 integrity.

00:20:52.780 And I don't know if it goes the opposite direction and there's some really sketchy things that

00:20:59.080 happen.

00:20:59.540 Obviously, that's going to just create more unrest in the United States. 0.71

00:21:02.500 And I don't want to see what that could crumble into.

00:21:06.280 So I really do think Trump will win.

00:21:07.880 And I don't know by what margin I'm thinking, but I mean, I expect him to have a decisive

00:21:12.860 victory.

00:21:15.060 Yeah, I think if you're a Republican, my prediction is a little less optimistic.

00:21:19.960 I think it'll be a coin toss.

00:21:21.480 You know, I have a coin here.

00:21:22.920 So let's say heads is Trump, tails is Kamala, and we got Trump.

00:21:27.900 So, you know, yeah, there we go.

00:21:29.820 That's what's going to happen and Trump's going to win.

00:21:32.160 But no, in all honesty, I think it's a coin toss.

00:21:34.980 I think that, you know, both campaigns have, you know, fell into their respective, you

00:21:40.100 know, pitfalls.

00:21:41.180 You know, Trump, he shot himself in the foot by inviting Tony Hinchcliffe into the MSG

00:21:47.220 rally, which, you know, if you even if you like the joke, it was not a good idea to have

00:21:52.940 a guy come up and do racial jokes, just like it's not a good idea when Kamala Harris is 1.00

00:21:57.100 inviting Megan Thee Stallion on stage, you know, shake a rump or whatever, or, you know, at

00:22:01.800 least rap about songs about that stuff, you know.

00:22:05.020 And then, you know, Biden, he also, you know, shot her his vice president in the foot when 1.00

00:22:09.500 he said that, you know, Trump's people are garbage. 1.00

00:22:12.860 Yeah. 0.99

00:22:13.340 So definitely both campaigns ran flawed, you know, mixed campaigns.

00:22:17.260 They had their high moments.

00:22:18.400 They had their low lights.

00:22:20.220 So I think it'll definitely come down to, you know, a few swing states.

00:22:24.440 It looks like Pennsylvania can swing either way, although it looks like maybe Trump will

00:22:29.380 win that.

00:22:30.420 Maybe Michigan will go to Harris.

00:22:32.460 It really depends on, you know, just a few states in the United States on how this election

00:22:38.360 will be determined.

00:22:39.200 But I think that in the event of a Trump president, of a Harris victory, we're going to see Trump

00:22:46.780 deny the results.

00:22:49.340 You know, like it looks like he's lobbying himself up for that.

00:22:52.420 And, you know, I think that it'll be helpful to healing the sort of American consciousness

00:22:59.800 if he doesn't do that, if he generally does lose.

00:23:02.940 So we'll see.

00:23:04.880 But yeah, it's definitely a coin toss, in my opinion.

00:23:07.880 As a longtime journalist, both mainstream and alternative or startup journalist, I always

00:23:13.640 tell everybody, watch the clips for yourself.

00:23:17.100 Go back.

00:23:18.120 Watch.

00:23:18.480 If you can watch the entire speech.

00:23:20.940 Trust me.

00:23:21.440 Go do it yourself and listen to it.

00:23:23.840 So in that spirit, I actually wanted to play the clip that Noah's referencing there to set

00:23:29.120 this up.

00:23:29.700 Again, like he was pointing out, there was that massive rally at Madison Square Garden. 1.00

00:23:34.380 Some comedian got up there and told, I thought it was a stupid joke and completely pointless. 0.99

00:23:39.100 And anybody who's planning a political organization campaign shouldn't book people like that. 0.99

00:23:43.420 OK, pro tip for free. 0.99

00:23:44.540 So he said some stupid joke and then who is still currently the sitting president of the 0.99

00:23:50.300 United States of America, Joe Biden, was doing an interview. 0.99

00:23:53.960 Looks like it was some form of like a Skype interview.

00:23:56.180 And he was responding to that joke.

00:23:59.300 This is what he said.

00:24:01.060 Roll tape.

00:24:01.640 I don't know the Puerto Rican that I know or Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of

00:24:08.420 Delaware.

00:24:09.020 They're good, decent, honorable people. 1.00

00:24:11.060 The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. 0.99

00:24:14.820 Yeah. 0.98

00:24:15.480 So if you're watching American stuff, that that's making a lot of waves and it's even

00:24:20.460 spurred former President Trump to even climb into a garbage truck.

00:24:25.160 That was quite the photo op and get a lot of press out of it.

00:24:29.600 So, again, this is the kind of I'm a big fan of professional wrestling and it looks an awful

00:24:36.000 lot like WWF in the few days leading up to it.

00:24:39.620 From the taxpayers perspective, it doesn't really affect Canadian taxpayers necessarily.

00:24:43.820 The main thing, though, are things like pipelines going to the United States.

00:24:47.280 That's a big one and possible trade tariffs.

00:24:50.380 So we got to keep a real close eye on that because that could definitely affect taxpayers

00:24:55.040 up here on this side of the border.

00:24:56.260 Gentlemen, thank you so much for your great show today.

00:25:00.060 Folks, if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to hit up the True North website.

00:25:04.360 And remember, everything we've said here is off the record.

00:25:15.180 Yeah, Chris, I watched the Rogan Trump interview, obviously, and Trump really was presenting himself

00:25:21.880 as the king of tariffs.

00:25:23.900 Like all he did have the podcast was talk about tariffs.

00:25:26.360 I'm really curious, what does this CTF think about that?

00:25:29.660 Because obviously, if Trump takes office, he's going to implement all of these tariffs based

00:25:33.340 on what he was saying on that show there.

00:25:35.480 So it goes two ways.

00:25:37.180 So if we had tariffs, for example, like good or bad, like, you know, I've got a streak of

00:25:42.100 prairie populism in me, too, of let's make everything in Canada and have it all homegrown.

00:25:46.180 Like, I'm a bit torn, but I also understand the importance of international trade.

00:25:52.340 Like Sweden, about 120 years ago, was literally starving to death because we didn't have international

00:25:57.860 trade of food.

00:25:59.340 So international trade is super important.

00:26:02.920 Tariffs, you can even call them import taxes because that's what they are.

00:26:08.720 Now, the question, though, is with the United States, are they big and powerful enough of

00:26:15.240 an economy that if Trump does impose tariffs, it is tit for tat to use like, you know, a

00:26:20.860 weird expression.

00:26:22.460 Will they actually suffer financially by having tariffs or will other players have to step up

00:26:28.460 to the plate like happened when he was first president?

00:26:31.320 So when he was first president, keep in mind, he was started hitting China with these tariffs.

00:26:36.440 And then what did we get?

00:26:38.840 COVID.

00:26:40.240 Like, I'm not kidding.

00:26:41.900 That was just a couple months later.

00:26:44.360 So this is like big boy marbles now.

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