00:02:45.800And then with her photojournalist colleague, David E. Sherman, she arrives at Buchenwald in Dachau.
00:02:53.640The concentration camps where tens of thousands of Jews and gays and Jehovah's Witnesses and Poles, Freemasons, Communists, Catholic priests, and Roma people were slaughtered.
00:03:47.160It had arrived right around the same time that Justin Trudeau held a press conference in the GTA to announce a tax holiday on pudding and fake Christmas trees.
00:03:59.820His smirking minister of finance hovering at his elbow.
00:04:04.300He was asked about the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants against two Jews.
00:04:11.940And his government would abide by the warrants, he said.
00:04:14.860That's just who we are as Canadians, he said.
00:04:32.500Like the two Jews that Trudeau agreed to arrest in the unlikely event that they ever arrive on Canadian soil are Israel's prime minister and its former minister of defense.
00:04:43.820And they had committed war crimes, the ICC said in a release.
00:04:49.180And then the release went on to say that the details of the war crimes are secret.
00:04:54.740It's relevant that the details are being kept secret because disclosing the facts, I think, would quickly reveal the allegations to be as phony as one of Trudeau's tax-exempt plastic Christmas trees.
00:05:09.600Palestinians, some in uniform and some not, swept into Israel early in the morning of October 7, 2023, and commenced murdering, maiming, raping, and stealing thousands of Jews.
00:05:21.300On that day, you might say, it was just who they are as Palestinians.
00:27:21.500I am because this situation, the abuse of the Indigenous appropriations policy, which allows, the government encourages 5% of contracts to go to Indigenous-owned firms,
00:27:33.180really arose during the Arrive Can scandal, when it was found that there were lots of other pretendian companies that were saying,
00:27:41.300hey, we're Indigenous and getting money from the government, and they weren't.
00:27:47.580You know, why has it taken so long for Randy Boissoneau's company that was also, that was, you know, in 2020 when they made their applications?
00:27:54.940And they didn't get the contracts for that, by the way.
00:27:57.000But still, he claimed his business at the time was fully aboriginally owned.
00:28:00.800And he's not even fully Aboriginal in his own claim, which, as it turns out, is fake.
00:28:06.760You know, what shocks me today is that you could just take a DNA test and find out exactly what you are in less than a week.
00:28:15.300So, how can anyone claim anymore that they are Indigenous if they really are not?
00:28:21.060I mean, oral history from your family and the sort of fuzzy way he painted it, that he had an Indigenous grandmother or great-grandmother.
00:28:42.020But there's no excuse for anyone anymore.
00:28:44.260And people should be careful because it's become a serious issue for Indigenous Canadians who are just like, if they've had enough of this.
00:28:52.580Yeah, this segment brought to you by 23andMe, clearly.
00:28:55.100I wanted to stick in one last topic here.
00:28:59.860And we kind of alluded to it a little bit more earlier in terms of the Cabinet nomination south of the border.
00:29:15.160Well, I mean, Donald Trump pushed his luck a little too far and, you know, it backfired.
00:29:21.720But it won't stop him because this is a guy who said, and perhaps he was right, that he could kill a man in the street of New York and be elected president anyway.
00:29:30.260So, of course, he assumes that, you know, whatever he does will be accepted.
00:30:12.860I mean, I think if you're accused credibly of sexual assault in the United States, you've got a poll position to join Donald Trump's cabinet.
00:36:18.080And Brian, before we talk about the relationship, such as it is, between the Trudeau government and the soon-to-arrive Trump government,
00:36:27.180a lot of people have contacted me about the appalling images that were coming out of Montreal in the past days,
00:36:38.760Nazi salutes and final solution and cars set on fire and windows of homes and businesses being broken and genocidal chants.
00:36:48.560And there was our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, at the Taylor Swift concert in Toronto.
00:36:56.340And, you know, you, I think, have always been very fair.
00:37:00.220The politicians having a private life and a personal life, and that's okay.
00:37:03.940But I was fucking blown away that he or his staff did not realize how disastrous an image that would be and did not get him out of that concert because it was going to be contrasted against the images coming out of Montreal.
00:37:20.200Like, it just, I don't know what your reaction was, but I was just gobsmacked.
00:37:24.080Well, you know better than I do, because you've run campaigns, that politicians spend a lot of time worried about their image.
00:37:35.080Justin Trudeau, more than most, everything down to how his tie is just slightly askew and his sleeves are always rolled up when he does news conferences like he did for the GST holiday on Thursday.
00:37:48.520Um, what type of pants he's wearing, what's the backdrop, how is he photographed, from which angles, all those things are thought about in great detail by him and his staff.
00:38:00.620And so the images being juxtaposed of him dancing while Montreal burns are going to linger and hurt him.
00:38:10.480And, you know, I've seen his, his defenders, oh, well, the concert didn't start till 8 and, um, Montreal was over by 7 p.m.
00:39:25.420And, you know, I'm just fed up and I'm done with the guy because as I wrote in my column, yep, that's enraging seeing Montreal and him dancing.
00:39:36.460But when you look at what he's actually doing to the country and the unemployment rate and the out of control spending and in the fact that now he's doing exactly what he said he would never do with these rebate checks, smart politics in some sense.
00:39:51.300But, you know, he's giving us a tax holiday for two months just before he increases a bunch of taxes on April 1st.
00:39:59.000Somebody in PMO planning didn't think that through.
00:40:02.180No, I think, I don't think he's governing us anymore.
00:40:06.560But that, there were two indictments of Trudeau this week.
00:40:10.100One was your excellent column in Post Media, which I encourage everybody to read, where Brian kind of goes through the litany of abuse that the Trudeau government has engaged in.
00:40:23.680But also, Pierre Polyev wrote an open letter of sorts to Trudeau, which was extraordinary and so powerful, such an indictment of the Trudeau regime.
00:40:35.380I think we published it in full in our newspaper.
00:40:40.940And, you know, what did you think of what Polyev had to say?
00:40:44.000I found myself nodding as I went all the way through it.
00:40:46.360Well, I haven't, I haven't talked to him or anyone on his staff since that came out, but probably just the same thing that prompted me to write a column that effectively said, I'm done.
00:41:01.100I'm done and Canada has to be done with you.
00:41:03.420So, the sheer frustration, so we're all seeing the powerful images out of Montreal on Friday night, and we're seeing him dancing, and there's no comment.
00:41:16.860And then, when he does finally comment, it's the same mealy BS that he's been putting out for the last year.
00:41:25.100He did not, you know, I'm just going to pull it up and read it to people so that you can see there's nothing to it.
00:41:32.820And it took him until afternoon to get it out.
00:41:37.960What we saw on the streets of Montreal last night was appalling.
00:41:40.820Acts of anti-Semitism, intimidation, and violence must be condemned wherever we see them.
00:41:45.840The RCMP are in communication with local police.
00:41:48.300There must be consequences, and rioters held accountable.
00:41:52.420So, not much substance, and then he's trying to shift it while this is on the Montreal police.
00:42:00.500He needed to be condemning this for the last year.
00:42:04.780So, Polyev just said, you know, we are reaping what you sowed and goes through how it has been for the last year.
00:42:15.760And it must be a powerful letter if you are nodding along and complimenting Polyev, because while I've been a fan of his for a long time, having known him for 20 years, you have not been a fan.
00:42:52.000It's, you know, I mean, that's the word leadership gets used a lot, but understood very little, in my opinion.
00:43:00.440Like, Polyev has changed, and I think he gets it.
00:43:04.240That letter, you know, like along with Brian's column, I encourage everybody to read the letter.
00:43:09.780And, you know, to the point where we have this extraordinary scene on Fox News this week with Lindsey Graham, who I'm no fan of either, or, you know, Sean Hannity, who I'm no fan of.
00:43:25.220And Lindsey Graham saying, we will crush the Canadian economy or any economy that, you know, tries to execute on these absurd arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.
00:43:36.660You want to tell us a little bit about that one?
00:43:40.440You know, Lindsey Graham is no example in life that I would follow, but it was just like, wow, is the relationship between the Trump and Trudeau guys ever getting off on the wrong foot?
00:43:52.860Well, so I was with Trudeau on Wednesday.
00:43:56.980I was at his event where he was asked about acting on the arrest warrants.
00:44:00.980And if he wanted an example of what he could say, he could have looked to a statement from earlier this year by a certain Joseph Biden, who, I think it was in May, issued a statement still up on the White House website,
00:44:20.780calling these indictments and any warrants that would come from them what they are, garbage, law, bullshit.
00:44:30.200And so for any listeners thinking, oh, it's just the Trump guys.
00:44:36.920No, Biden does not believe in the ICC.
00:44:40.460He does not think that they, that those were fair hearings.
00:44:43.420And you have to recall, they were pushed by South Africa, a country that hosted Hamas after the attacks.
00:44:52.600And the litigation was funded by Iran, by the way.
00:45:32.500It's often, I mean, there's no legislative body and you and I can't vote for that.
00:45:38.060It is determined by the countries that make up the United Nations, which if anyone looks at that organization with clear eyes,
00:45:45.820there are more dictators and despots and authoritarian regimes in the United Nations making these decisions than there are democracies.
00:45:56.280And that's why you get people like Francesca Albanese, who has the impreter of being, well, the United Nations says, well, no, a raging anti-Semite said.
00:46:06.100And she's backed by all these raging anti-Semitic countries at the United Nations.
00:46:12.840And then as they're talking about the arrest warrants on Hannity, Lindsey Graham started to say, we'll sanction any country, any ally that, you know, tries to enact this.
00:46:30.140And Hannity says, well, you've seen the view of little Justin up in Canada.
00:46:40.620And that's when Graham said, you do this, we'll crush your economy.
00:46:44.440And I think we should take him at his word on that.
00:46:47.900But, I mean, that was just one of a few attempts to bruise the relationship.
00:46:56.500Mike Turner, who's ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, is up in Halifax at the NATO, or no, sorry, not in Halifax.
00:47:06.480He's in Montreal for the NATO meetings, the ones the Hamasniks were ostensibly protesting by making Heil Hitler salutes and calling for a final solution.
00:47:17.340So he's there, and he made statements about Canada's defence spending and not meeting targets, and that he doesn't think we will meet targets, and all very accurate.
00:47:28.700And Trudeau went on a rant against him and accused an ally and someone he's going to have to work with, with spreading disinformation.
00:47:38.280We had the CDS taking a run at a ranking Republican in the Senate at the Halifax meeting over things he didn't say.
00:47:53.800These are not the ways that you enabler yourself to the incoming administration.
00:47:58.760There's always going to be conflicts between Canada and the U.S. over defence spending.
00:48:03.340As I love pointing out, Barack Obama stood on the floor of our House of Commons, giving a speech to both houses, and said, you need to increase defence spending.
00:48:14.160This is a long-standing American thing.
00:48:17.440And the Trudeau guys appear to be taking a swing at every pitch that comes their way, which is not how you win in baseball, and it's not how you win in politics.
00:48:27.040It sure isn't, and this week is certainly representative of that.
00:48:31.280And they were striking out across the board.
00:48:35.700Can I make one quick point that may seem small, given all the other stuff we're talking about?
00:48:41.240At two of his announcements this week, Trudeau just outright lied, and it gets reprinted, and this is problematic.
00:48:49.960So on the GST announcement, he said, we're taking the GST off of 100% of groceries.
00:48:56.040Anyone that knows how the tax works knows that there's very little at the grocery store that is subject to tax.
00:49:03.260If you're buying pop or chips, you're paying the GST.
00:49:06.560If you're buying the rotisserie chicken dinner, you're paying the GST.
00:49:10.020But if you're buying fresh fruit, vegetables, canned soups, a fresh chicken, there's no GST.
00:49:16.260But he goes around making these pronouncements, and in his statement, we're taking GST off of 100% of groceries.
00:49:23.420Strange way of phrasing it, but it makes it sound like you're getting more money.
00:49:28.160And then his school food program, he's going around saying that this is going to save Ontario families,
00:49:36.200a family of four with two kids, it will save them $800 a month.
00:49:40.440Well, I think that's questionable math, even if it did apply to every family.
00:49:47.700But he makes it sound like it applies to every family.
00:49:50.700And really, it applies to a very small percentage.
00:49:53.580160,000 kids, there's more than 2 million students in the Ontario public school systems.
00:49:58.560The fact that he's making these small lies to justify his policies just shows me that they really are at the end here.
00:54:12.300All right. I'm not sure where to go with that, but I guess where I'll go first is to the ICC.
00:54:21.300The ICC, a body that Canada, at least the Trudeau government likes to say they helped create, has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yaukulant, the former defense minister in Israel, for war crimes.
00:54:39.300We don't know what the details are, because they have kept them secret, the ICC has.
00:54:45.300Notwithstanding that, when asked about all of that at his fake Christmas tree press conference this week in the GTA, Justin Trudeau said, without blinking, yeah, we would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he came to Canada.
00:55:04.300Tell us about international law, and is this a good thing for Justin Trudeau to say?
00:55:15.300I mean, in my view, it's not a good thing for him.
00:55:20.300I sort of want to try to be funny here, but there's nothing funny about this on any level.
00:55:25.300First of all, the ICC should rename themselves the Star Chamber.
00:55:28.300You're going to indict people, you're going to say, arrest him in any country that participates in that court in the world, but we're not going to show you the evidence or present the accusers thereto and justify those warrants.
00:55:41.300Second of all, it's a meaningless court at this point, and they've had arrest warrants out for Vladimir Putin for, what, a couple of years now, since the beginning of the Ukraine war.
00:55:49.300He sort of flies anywhere he used to anyway.
00:55:52.300I mean, yes, he doesn't visit the United States or Western Europe, but he really wasn't doing that for a decade anyway.
00:55:59.300So I'm not sure it matters in a material way, internationally, whether those warrants exist or not.
00:56:04.300I don't think Bibi Netanyahu has probably lost a minute's sleep over it.
00:56:08.300It just proves to him that the international bodies, whether it be the ICC or the UN with their fabulous wing, the UNWRA, who just seem more and more like a proxy militia for Iran, are anti-Semitic.
00:56:24.300Do not think that Israel has the right to exist and are irrelevant because Israel will continue apace with the full support and non-arrestable indictments of the ICC of the United States.
00:56:40.300For Justin Trudeau to have said that means only one thing.
00:56:43.300He needs the Muslim vote to hold some furniture for his party, not my party anymore.
00:56:48.300And he knows when he says that, that pleases much of the Muslim population, like it or not, in this country and probably people outside the Muslim population.
00:57:01.300And I also think it puts another huge chasm between us, the United States and Western Europe when it comes to NATO and to our military and political alliances.
00:57:54.300Let's say your argument's right and it's useless and he can't get those votes back, although I still think that's his principal motive.
00:58:01.300There is another possibility, even more horrific, which is that Justin Trudeau thinks that the leadership in Israel are war criminals and that Israel shouldn't exist.
00:58:12.300I am waiting for him on the heels of this to make an announcement this week.
00:58:17.300And he could go a little or he could go a lot on this where he says something akin to we are no longer going to supply Israel any weapons, any infrastructure, any financial or humanitarian aid.
00:58:27.300And even further, anybody who's doing so, I think of Scotiabank who have investments and other major banks who have investments in military development and production firms in Israel, we're going to sanction you.
00:58:40.300We no longer can do business the way we tell the same thing to people when it comes to Russia, because that would be the logical extension of his I'm willing to arrest BB Netanyahu.
00:58:49.300So he has taken a position and it's anti-Israel and it's shameful.
00:59:29.300But this is not sensible and it's not the way you treat an ally, you know, for responding to a terrorist attack.
00:59:36.300Like, you know, does Trudeau propose to arrest my former boss, Christian, for participating in the war against Al Qaeda, you know, following 9-11?
00:59:48.300Like, you know, was that, it's just the absurdity of it is really very hard to get your head around.
00:59:54.300But one thing I did want to ask you about is the Trump administration incoming, and you know, you've gone to pains to be fair to them.
01:00:04.300However, there was Lindsey Graham prancing around on Fox News this week, saying that the American, the incoming Trump administration would crush, it's the word he used, the Canadian economy, if we dared to enforce those arrest warrants.
01:00:24.200Like, saying stuff like that, doesn't that actually accrue to Justin Trudeau's benefit?
01:01:25.800Anyway, I sort of think that if Trudeau is still there when Trump takes office, they're going to start to crush the Canadian economy anyway.
01:01:34.040And I think you can double down on that because Elon Musk, who seems like, you know, the hand, to use the Game of Thrones expression, the hand of the King Trump, has already told the American public, you guys are going to suffer for two years.
01:01:49.500We're going to do a reset on this economy, and it's going to be miserable.
01:01:52.560And if the United States economy is suffering, it'll be twice as bad here.
01:01:55.900I'm not sure they'll even have to try to crush our economy.
01:01:58.680But one thing's for sure, they don't want to do business with Trudeau.
01:02:02.340And remember, Trump did say that if Trudeau came down there, he might arrest him.
01:02:06.640Well, let's talk about the hand, as you accurately described Elon Musk.
01:02:14.820I think there's a great way of describing him and the other triumvirate, you know, foreign policy experts that Trump relies upon, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk and who else is in there?
01:02:26.960I guess his coke-addicted son, all of them have taken swipes at Vladimir Zelensky in the past few days, this week.
01:02:38.240All of them have clearly signaled that the United States support for Ukraine, militarily and otherwise, is coming to an end.
01:02:53.700However, in Ukraine, there is a poll indicating that the Ukrainian people are fed up with the war and are prepared to consider losing parts of their nation to Russia.
01:03:22.280And one of the big points in the piece in the post was that simply, when you were working there, even if the facts were in front of you, you could never tell what the truth is.
01:03:32.000They manufacture polls like we manufacture auto parts in Brampton and Peel region.
01:03:42.860I sat through focus groups that we, you know, as democratizers there in 2004 would create and watch 400 people be interviewed.
01:03:50.900And I still didn't know what the truth was because a lot of them had been paid by somebody to lie in one direction or the other.
01:03:56.780I spoke with our friend Stefano Bandera, who's been, I believe, even on this show at one point yesterday and asked him what the truth was.
01:04:05.000He, as a Western Ukrainian, is still ferocious in his support for Zelensky.
01:04:09.000And he's very well plugged in, knows people across, you know, the polit bureaus of Ukraine and the economic, I speak, mavericks and supporters in Ukraine.
01:04:18.800They all want all that territory back.
01:04:21.120They all want all of Crimea back and they want the Russians out of their country.
01:04:25.320But that doesn't mean that the Ukrainian population, maybe in the east or in the south, aren't just sick of being blown up, being poor, living in terror and losing their children.
01:04:35.040Ukraine's having a really tough time recruiting young men and women to keep this fight going.
01:04:40.620I would have got a conscription crisis.
01:04:42.660They've got a conscription crisis underway.
01:04:50.460The one thing I wanted to ask you about, and we can finish in this way.
01:04:56.520Excellent thread on X this morning, of all places, indicating that the Russian economy is getting ready to collapse in 2025 and that Putin can no longer afford to prosecute this war in the way that he has.
01:05:11.780Do you remember at the beginning of the war when we said we'd crush the Russian economy and they'd be broken a year?
01:05:18.100And what ended up happening was the price of oil internationally doubled and they started making more money than they had before.
01:05:24.320And they just seem to keep on chugging along.
01:05:26.400Their military production capacity has gone up four to eight hundred percent, depending on who you believe.
01:05:31.680And they still seem to be fielding men and women and all of the components necessary, even going so far as to doing deals with North Korea and Iran for your hardware or human, you know, human intelligence and human beings.
01:06:39.200Well, maybe they can send Justin over there and Justin can take the tax off of artificial Christmas trees as he's now done here, which will will fix everything, I think.