Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon Patriots and Merry Christmas. I got a special present for you today.

00:00:05.100 We're going to examine a recent interview between Pierre Polyev and Brian Lilly of the Toronto Sun.

00:00:10.080 Now Polyev, in his usual style, he didn't pull any punches, giving the mainstream media a series

00:00:15.780 of gentle but firm love taps. Let's take a look at that. Did you foresee any of the last year?

00:00:22.540 I'm better at predicting the past than the future, but it has been a hell of a year. You're right

00:00:26.460 about that. Right now you're going through a moment, you're part of a lot of speculation about

00:00:31.500 floor crossing. There's been two, there's been a resignation. You look at the polling numbers,

00:00:36.820 your polling numbers are actually good. The party's doing well. You are on the number one issue of

00:00:42.780 affordability. Are you finding it hard to break through as you deal with the drama of is another

00:00:49.720 person going to cross the floor? Is Mark Carney going to get a majority? Are you able to break

00:00:54.460 through? Well, I mean, we're breaking through with somebody because as you said, we are at the

00:00:59.600 highest, not only the highest of any party in most of the, in some of the polls, but we're higher than

00:01:04.720 we've been in 40 years, basically since the 1980s. So somebody likes what I have to say. But it is

00:01:12.440 frustrating that, you know, obviously the liberal media doesn't want to talk about affordability and

00:01:17.060 the cost of living, crime crisis, the continued out of control immigration. And so there's a 1.00

00:01:26.380 distraction. And I think we need to focus on people's daily lives. Again, be nice if when

00:01:32.100 people turned on the news, they could talk about how we're going to make it possible for them to

00:01:35.600 afford groceries, which are going through the roof or how our young people are actually going to be

00:01:39.980 able to afford homes rather than political and parliamentary intrigue.

00:01:44.320 Now, what Polyev said right here, this is what most conservatives are thinking.

00:01:48.360 Nobody on our side actually watches the mainstream media anymore. Why? Because they always talk so

00:01:54.220 negatively about conservatives. They're always crying about how Polyev lost a couple MPs. They're

00:02:01.240 always crying about how Polyev was talking about putting Trudeau in jail, even though that's where he

00:02:06.260 actually belongs. And they're always crying about all these little things that no one else really cares

00:02:12.640 about. They never tell you the fact that Polyev came this close to winning the election. They never

00:02:17.940 tell you the fact that Polyev had record turnout. They never tell you the fact that Polyev, unlike

00:02:23.460 Carney, is uniquely qualified to make Canada an energy superpower. They never tell you the fact that

00:02:29.720 millions of Canadians admire Polyev and see him as a source of hope. They never tell you that. And

00:02:35.720 that's why most conservatives, if not all, are done with the mainstream media. And of course, what would you

00:02:40.380 expect? The CBC is literally funded by the government, the liberal government. The liberal

00:02:45.060 government is awful generous with the CBC. And on top of that, other media networks such as CTV Global

00:02:51.360 receive generous bailout packages from the liberal government. Justin Trudeau even joked, and when I

00:02:57.180 say joke, I mean joked with quotations, that he bribed the media to say good things about him. Now, you know

00:03:03.900 what they say, there's some truth to every joke. And in case you're unaware, Brian Lilly, the guy doing the

00:03:09.020 interview, he used to work with Sun News when it still existed. And then he also worked with Ezra Levant to

00:03:14.420 start Rebel News. For one reason or another, he separated himself from Rebel News. And now he's a columnist, and he

00:03:20.420 makes videos with the Toronto Sun, just in case you didn't know. Now, both these people, Polyev and Lily, they're

00:03:27.100 experienced politicos. They have a lot of experience. And this is a really good interview. I have to point out this is a bit

00:03:33.280 longer than the normal interviews I show you. So make a coffee, grab a beer, take some time, sit down and watch the

00:03:40.740 whole thing. I think you're really going to like it. Before we get into this, I want to point out, and I hate to bring

00:03:44.660 this up again, but I want to point out I'm being heavily censored on YouTube. So if you see this, let me know in the

00:03:50.220 comment section. Tell me what city you're from for reference. I always like to see where people are coming from. Give me a

00:03:55.880 like, and make sure you're still subscribed. All right, let's watch the interview.

00:04:00.380 I do want to talk about those, but let's stick with the distraction for a moment. We'll spend more time

00:04:05.560 on the meat, right? Let's stick with the appetizer. What are you doing to manage your caucus, to reach

00:04:14.480 out, to make sure that there isn't another Michael Ma or Chris Dontremont that is going to say, you know

00:04:19.160 what? The pool looks better over there. It looks warm. I'll jump in. Well, we have to unite around issues.

00:04:25.080 That's the best way to go forward, and our biggest issue is affordability because our MPs are going to

00:04:29.560 go back to their ridings over the Christmas break and find that their constituents can't afford

00:04:33.860 groceries. A lot of folks will struggle to put Christmas dinner on the table with grocery prices

00:04:43.480 expected to be up another $1,000 a year for the family of four in Canada. That will be the biggest

00:04:50.280 issue. So we need to remind all of our MPs, but actually they don't really need to be reminded, they

00:04:55.560 already know it, that the biggest, the reason that the Canadians sent us here was to fight for an

00:05:01.520 affordable life, affordable food, affordable homes, affordable fuel. And that's the unifying issue that keeps

00:05:06.960 us together. Okay, but there is a question about if Mark Carney gets a majority, do you stay on as leader?

00:05:17.800 You've got a leadership review coming up. I mean, most people are saying, oh yeah, you'll pass that

00:05:23.440 with flying colors, but if another MP or two bolts... Oh, it comes down to a very simple question, Brian. Who runs the party?

00:05:30.960 Backroom dealmakers or the welders and waitresses and plumbers and police officers, the soldiers, 0.75

00:05:40.000 the small business people who are actually going to be delegates at the convention, they decide who

00:05:45.680 the leader is. I get all that. And they will decide when they vote. And I'm going to... My message to

00:05:52.880 them will be that, you know, we've got a record number of votes in the last election. We've led the

00:05:57.040 debate on carbon taxes, inflation, housing costs, crime, natural resources, drugs, and more. And we

00:06:04.960 will win the next election to deliver for them. I get all of that. But would you feel any personal

00:06:11.280 responsibility if after losing the election and then Mark Carney getting the majority because some of

00:06:20.080 your MPs cross over? Well, it would be a disaster for the country. And obviously that would, I wouldn't

00:06:25.120 be happy about that. But that said, the Prime Minister will be seeking an illegitimate mandate

00:06:31.760 that Canadians did not vote for. They didn't vote for him to have a majority where he can impose new

00:06:37.440 taxes and massive deficit spending. They didn't vote for him to keep the soft on crime laws in place that

00:06:43.680 he has maintained. They didn't vote for any of that. So the Canadian people should decide who governs and

00:06:50.880 whether it's a minority or a costly majority. And I hope that he respects the fact that they were

00:06:56.960 rejected a majority Liberal government last election. I'm starting to worry as I talk to people about

00:07:04.080 a potential impact on national unity if that happens. And I know politicians hate to talk about

00:07:09.600 hypotheticals, but I hear it from my readers, my viewers out West. Well, this will just make me vote for

00:07:16.880 separation. Well, look, it's amazing, isn't it? You were around 10 years ago and there was no separation

00:07:24.320 movement in Alberta. The Bloc Québécois and the PQ were dead in Quebec, dead as doorknobs. No one was

00:07:32.880 talking about separation. After 10 years of the Liberal government destroying the economy, driving up the

00:07:39.120 cost of living, depriving youth of home ownership, attacking our natural resource sector, centralizing

00:07:44.240 power in Ottawa, we have strong and vibrant, unfortunately, separatist movements in both the

00:07:50.240 West and Quebec. And the people are more divided than ever before. So I see it as one of my missions

00:07:55.200 to reunite the country around the promise that we all used to enjoy, which is that anybody from

00:08:01.200 anywhere in their country can work hard and get a good life. And that's the message I brought to

00:08:06.000 Quebecers just yesterday. I was there and I said to young Quebecers, with whom I'm leading, by the way,

00:08:11.200 in the polls and who are saying the same thing as young Albertans, which is that they feel like

00:08:18.000 they've lost hope in the country. I need to be the leader of hope to unite the country and keep us

00:08:23.680 together moving forward. Are you more worried about separatism in Quebec right now or in Saskatchewan

00:08:28.800 and Alberta? Because everyone talks about Alberta. You look at the polling and it's more popular in Saskatchewan.

00:08:34.240 So I'm worried about all of it. We should be worried about all of it. And look,

00:08:41.920 I don't agree with separation, but think of what the government of Canada, the government has said

00:08:48.000 for the last 10 years to our youth. You can't afford a home. You can't afford food. You might

00:08:53.040 not even be able to find a job. Oh, and by the way, the government says we're a post-national

00:08:58.160 state with no common identity. And so what binds it all together? And unfortunately, when the

00:09:05.200 government says that to our youth long enough, eventually they believe it. And so I have to go

00:09:10.320 with a counter message to those same youth and say, one, we can, you don't have to live like this.

00:09:15.200 We can once again be a country where you can achieve anything through your ambition and hard work.

00:09:20.080 And two, we do have a national identity based on our common history and our common heritage. We should

00:09:24.800 be proud of where we are and who we come, where we come from. And that is a, both a hopeful message,

00:09:32.080 but also a unifying one. National polls, you're either tied or close with the liberals. When I look,

00:09:40.800 most of them, it's margin of error stuff. So no one had to see ahead yesterday. I had me ahead of Kearney

00:09:47.120 personally. I haven't seen that one, but I did see the abacus one that have you tied as parties

00:09:52.160 nationally, but also that showed that the number one issue for voters by far was cost of living.

00:10:00.000 Yeah. 67% say the cost of living is worse than I remember at any point in my life. Yeah. 62% say

00:10:06.480 it's the most important issue for the government to deal with 22 points ahead of healthcare, which is

00:10:11.040 number two at 40%. You've been hammering home on this. Um, what practically can be done though,

00:10:18.720 to deal with it, you know, inflation, core inflation. If you just look at our 2.2%,

00:10:23.120 that's manageable. That's okay. Food inflation in November was up 4.7%. Groceries cost 27% more

00:10:29.840 than they did five years ago. What can the government actually do? What we, what are you proposing

00:10:36.880 that they do to deal with this? Because when abacus digs deeper, groceries is the number one issue.

00:10:42.880 Absolutely. Well, the question isn't what the government should do. It's what should,

00:10:46.960 it should stop doing. Um, stop taxing food, stop taxing the food chain, uh, the government.

00:10:53.360 You know, you raise this in the house and the liberals always say there's no taxes on food.

00:10:56.960 Okay. Well, if you tax the steel that goes into farm equipment,

00:11:02.400 then you're tax, you're making it more expensive for farmers to produce food. You tax fertilizer,

00:11:06.800 which is hit with the car, the industrial carbon tax, then you're taxing food production. The fuel tax,

00:11:12.960 they call it the fuel standard. That's driving up the cost of gas and diesel for farmers and truckers

00:11:19.120 who bring us our food. Then you've got the food packaging tax, which is this ban on the use of

00:11:24.000 plastics. Well, that makes food go bad four days earlier and that costs a billion dollars in higher

00:11:30.400 grocery bills. Not to mention when the government has a 78 billion dollar deficit, that also inflates

00:11:36.800 food prices. So at the end of the day, uh, those are all liberal food taxes. Are they on your bill?

00:11:43.040 No, they're worse than that. It's worse that they're not on the bill because they're, um,

00:11:47.280 they're hidden dishonest, uh, liberal taxes that drive up the cost of groceries. And it's why the

00:11:53.760 cost of food keeps rising next year. According to Dalhousie university, the grocery bill for a family

00:11:59.680 of four will be up another thousand dollars to 17,600 bucks to feed a family of four. Like where do 0.94

00:12:06.800 people get that, that money? It's going to be, it's going to be a nightmare and, um, we've got to get

00:12:12.880 rid of all those taxes because people should be able to have a full stomach, a full fridge and a full

00:12:18.560 bank account at the same time. Now coffee, uh, I don't know about you, but coffee is a staple for me.

00:12:23.440 Yeah, it's up like 30%. Yeah, 29 point something. So yeah, 30 close enough. Um,

00:12:29.360 part of that is, uh, for a while we had a counter, uh, um, well, I mean, the Americans weren't, uh,

00:12:36.800 tariffing coffee from us. We don't sell them any, but we had a tariff on coffee coming in from the

00:12:41.120 States with where most of it comes from and where does the United States gets most of its coffee from

00:12:46.960 Brazil. So they had a tariff on Brazilian coffee. We had a tariff once it came in from Brazil to the

00:12:52.080 U S and into Canada. So at least they've gotten rid of that, but beef's up 17%.

00:12:58.560 Uh, lettuce, I think is up to 30%. Now people are moving to chicken and pork because they're

00:13:03.440 cheaper too. And now those are going up. So, you know, some of those aren't government policy.

00:13:08.320 Some of it's like, you know, with the beef producers, there was a drought and a bunch of

00:13:11.680 farmers cut out. So how do you, how does the government incentivize more beef production or,

00:13:18.560 you know, well, look, um, there's a number of things on, on, on agriculture that are smaller.

00:13:27.280 Like for example, uh, we have, they have massive regulations that prevent our farmers from protecting

00:13:33.120 their crops from pests like, uh, like gophers. Uh, and that might seem like a small thing. I can tell

00:13:38.720 you in my riding of Battle River Crowfoot, gophers are chewing up $10,000 of a one farmer's crop

00:13:45.680 because he can't, uh, he can't, uh, use rodenticide. Uh, and that 10 grand is going to get passed on.

00:13:52.000 Um, that, uh, and then it also gets passed on in the feed, the cost of producing the barley to feed the

00:13:57.440 cows. So, uh, carbon taxes and, uh, new, uh, the new fuel tax is going to drive up the cost of farming

00:14:04.000 because you've got to diesel up your truck and your tractor. All of that stuff makes food more

00:14:08.960 expensive. And I, I, I also get frustrated with all these excuses governments make say, okay, well,

00:14:14.560 if you just look at beef, it's because of, you know, a cattle shortage this year, coffee, it's just

00:14:19.280 because of something that happened in Brazil. Everything in the food basket is up and it's been

00:14:24.080 going up year after year after year as these excuses come and go. And as they go, like, remember

00:14:30.080 their excuse was COVID. Well, COVID is gone now. So why didn't food prices drop back down after it,

00:14:35.280 after it supposedly caused the inflation because of COVID wasn't the culprit. It was government

00:14:40.160 spending, government taxes, government inflation. And that's what we have to address. Well, you know,

00:14:45.200 China or it's, um, Canada and Japan are the two countries where food inflation is detached from

00:14:50.800 core inflation. Everyone else, it goes at about the same rate. Right. And us in Japan, we make a lot of

00:14:56.800 food. Japan imports a lot. Exactly. Uh, so that's, that's a bad thing. Everything should be dirt cheap

00:15:02.160 in Canada, Brian, because we have the most dirt. We have the most dirt to grow food on the most food

00:15:08.080 dirt to build houses on the most dirt to dig resources from. So, and I don't mean that to be

00:15:14.400 glib. It is genuinely true. It should be cheap to buy a house, for example, in Canada, because we have

00:15:20.320 space. We're in Singapore or Hong Kong. And you said, well, there's just nowhere to put houses. I would say,

00:15:25.600 you know what, you've got a fair point. Uh, I'm not going to blame the government on that one,

00:15:28.800 but we have the second biggest landmass and much of the land is right next to big cities

00:15:33.200 where the housing could go the same for food. Uh, and of course our resources should be meaning that

00:15:39.040 we have the cheapest energy and the most powerful dollar, uh, around to buy stuff. So, uh, we have no

00:15:46.400 excuses, but the good news is because we have all those things, we can be the most affordable country

00:15:50.800 in the world. Immigration is an issue in a way that I never thought it would

00:15:55.520 be. Um, you know, when you were part of the Harper government, I would sometimes hear people say,

00:16:01.760 oh, the immigration levels are too high. We're bringing in too many people. That was at 250,000 1.00

00:16:06.640 people. Statscans just come out and said, well, our population dropped by 76,000, um, due to,

00:16:14.800 you know, non-permanent residents leaving. Okay. But we've gone up 9% in just a few years, 9%

00:16:21.840 population growth, all driven by immigration. The Kearney liberals have said, okay, well,

00:16:26.960 the, the Trudeau guys got it wrong. They were headed to 500,000. We'll stop at like 395,000.

00:16:33.200 Is that still too high for permanent residents? And then you add on foreign students, temporary 0.57

00:16:39.440 foreign workers, an asylum system that has a 300,000 person backlog. Is that still too high?

00:16:44.720 I think the numbers are still too high. Uh, we have to have more visitors leaving than we have

00:16:52.080 new people arriving for an extended period of time so that our housing, healthcare and job market can

00:16:58.160 catch up with the astronomical growth in our population. Um, and, uh, you know, we also need

00:17:04.800 better vetting. Like we we've said, it's not just the numbers, but it's the, the fact that we don't,

00:17:09.600 the liberal government doesn't actually do criminal background checks in the country of origin.

00:17:15.360 They say, well, we checked that they have a criminal record in Canada. Well,

00:17:18.240 if the guy's never been to Canada, obviously he's not going to have a criminal record here.

00:17:23.520 It's in the country of origin that we need to know. And so we're letting in criminals. 1.00

00:17:27.200 And then when they get convicted of new crimes in Canada, we're not even kicking them out

00:17:31.680 because the judges are allowed to downgrade their sentences

00:17:35.280 and let the, to, to below the six month threshold for a deportation. So our, uh,

00:17:40.640 member, our shadow minister of immigration as a bill says, if you commit a crime while you're here,

00:17:45.520 you don't get a sentencing discount to stay in Canada. You get your full sentence and then

00:17:49.760 you get kicked out of the country, uh, because we don't need criminals in our country. We also

00:17:53.760 don't want people, these false refugee claims, simple rule we want to put in place. You have to 1.00

00:17:59.040 claim refugee status within the first month you arrive. You can't stay here for two years. 0.73

00:18:03.920 And then when you become ineligible, uh, or you're being deported for a crime,

00:18:08.720 like a bunch of extortionists who came out last week in the news, you can't then say,

00:18:12.640 oh, I'm a refugee. Keep me around for another four years while I do appeals at the taxpayer's

00:18:17.360 expense. You have to declare, if you're a real refugee claim, oh, and you set foot on Canadian. 0.54

00:18:21.680 So these things would clean up the system and, uh, get our population under control like it was

00:18:27.680 before the liberals. I'm betting that you've, uh, heard a lot from voters about that sentencing

00:18:32.400 discount. I know Michelle Rempel-Garner, your shadow minister has been doing great work on that. 0.95

00:18:36.640 I talked to a couple of judges and they said the initial ruling, the initial reason for having

00:18:42.400 that was that you shouldn't, uh, punish someone more because of their immigration status. And now

00:18:49.600 it's been twisted into, well, you know, if we, if we sentence you like we should, you were,

00:18:55.600 you know, you'll get kicked out. So we're going to give you a lesser sentence.

00:18:58.880 Does that show that we need better judicial appointments?

00:19:02.240 Well, the, any judge that would say that an immigrant, uh, that someone who is actually

00:19:07.120 not really an immigrant, it's a visitor, that a visitor should not face the full brunt of the

00:19:11.360 law for committing a crime, uh, because that would mean they get deported, has got it backwards.

00:19:17.280 In fact, the truth is we want to deport visiting criminals. Like if you come to our country as a 1.00

00:19:24.000 visitor and commit a crime, you should be kicked out of the country. I don't, I don't even know why

00:19:28.800 we're having, why this has to be a topic of conversation. It's so obvious, but, um, but

00:19:34.800 nevertheless, uh, that's the common sense we want to reinstate in our judicial appointments and in our

00:19:39.680 laws.

00:19:40.000 The liberals say that they're, uh, getting tough on crime, uh, that they're bringing in bail reform. I

00:19:46.800 know that you've called that, what was the term you used the other day, counterfeit conservatism.

00:19:50.960 Uh, you don't think that the bill bill's going far enough.

00:19:54.160 Well, it's not going anywhere right now, uh, whether you like it or not, uh,

00:19:58.400 whether you like the bill or not, they're not moving it. They, they announced it. They're very

00:20:02.560 good at that, but they've been blocking it in the justice committee for the entire parliamentary

00:20:07.360 session. Carney's now been prime minister for almost eight months.

00:20:10.560 They introduced it, what, four, six weeks ago?

00:20:13.600 I think it was late October, very late October. So, you know, call it eight, seven weeks,

00:20:17.920 eight weeks ago after Carney had been prime minister for nearly six months.

00:20:22.800 They finally introduced it and they haven't called it for even one minute of a study at the

00:20:26.960 justice committee. So I'm convinced they don't even want it to be voted on because many of their

00:20:31.440 loony left caucus don't support it. Um, and they don't believe in it. They, they were the ones who

00:20:37.600 liberalized bail in the first place. And so why would we trust that they really want to reverse

00:20:42.880 themselves on it in the future? They want to get kudos because obviously our approach to bail

00:20:47.760 is very popular, but they don't actually want to do it. And that's why I call it counterfeit.

00:20:52.320 You know, they're, they're ripping off the policy cocking points, but not the policy implementation.

00:20:57.600 But on bail, even Democrats in the States, like, uh, New York governor, Kathy Hochul,

00:21:03.200 they went down the same road. It's like they all subscribed to the same, you know, leftist magazine

00:21:08.080 or something and said, Hey, here's a good idea. Let's go down this crazy road on bail. She got 0.51

00:21:12.560 rid of this two years ago because they were having the same disastrous results. If Democrats in the

00:21:17.520 States can get rid of it, why can't the liberals here? Look, we, we, the liberal caucus is filled with

00:21:22.960 very radical, soft on crime, catch and release, uh, people. Uh, they are the ones that brought in

00:21:28.720 catch and release bail. Like the justice minister today, Sean Frazier was in the house of commons wrote

00:21:33.680 voting for the catch and release loss. I see 75 under Trudeau. Most of the cabinet was part of

00:21:40.240 the Trudeau government. The present day cabinet was part of the Trudeau government that gave us

00:21:44.320 catch and release. They believe in that it's core to who they are. Now they're playing pretend

00:21:49.520 and they're counterfeiting our talking points. So because they know that Canadians side with us on this,

00:21:54.960 but they're not serious about it. And that's why crime is getting worse. You want to lock up criminals

00:21:59.360 and bring safety to our streets. You need a conservative government. You've mentioned the

00:22:04.160 loony left inside the liberal party a couple of times. Um, you know, under Justin Trudeau,

00:22:08.720 they were trying to do a friendly takeover of the NDP almost succeeded. Um, and so you've got policies

00:22:16.800 like the EV mandate. It's on pause. It's on pause. It's not going to come in on January 1st where we

00:22:24.640 have to have 20% of our cars be electric, but the simple fact is they haven't gotten rid of it. And

00:22:33.200 my sources are telling me they're going to bring it in, in the new year. They're going to say,

00:22:37.440 yes, we're keeping it. We'll just delay it a little bit. Uh, Ford just did a massive write down

00:22:43.440 on their EV production. I'm not anti EV, but you can't force it on consumers and the market's telling

00:22:49.840 them that do you think that they're going to keep this easy mandate and, and just try and soft sell

00:22:55.360 it to us in the new year? Carney would love to keep it. You know, he supports all of these radical

00:23:01.280 net zero policies. He wrote a book about it. Remember he said, these are my values because

00:23:05.600 the book's called values and they've read it. Yeah. His values were to keep 50% of our oil on the ground

00:23:10.960 and to not only have carbon taxes, but to massively increase them. But now he, he expects us to believe

00:23:17.440 that he's, he's thrown away his values, um, on, on these sorts of things. I don't believe

00:23:23.120 that he's changed his mind. I think he's changed his tune. Um, but, uh, there, the EV mandate is a

00:23:29.920 complete night nightmare for the auto sector, uh, for consumers. Uh, I would get rid of it right now,

00:23:36.240 bring in free choice. Uh, by the way, the other problem with the EV mandate is that a lot of the

00:23:41.440 automakers are being forced to buy credits because they, they can't produce enough EVs in Canada,

00:23:47.840 to meet the mandate. The only way around that is to pay a tax or buy a credit from a foreign,

00:23:53.280 probably American electric, Tesla, a Tesla tax. Um, and ironically, very well from this, I, I,

00:24:01.280 you know, I've heard, uh, some people tell me and they, they, they haven't published yet,

00:24:05.440 but that our automakers are going to have to pay millions of dollars in effectively taxes to Tesla

00:24:13.120 in order to get around Mark Carney's EV mandate. This is madness. Let consumers decide they want

00:24:20.240 to drive a Tesla. They can do it. But if they want to drive an old fashioned gas and diesel powered

00:24:25.920 vehicle, like I do, like I've always believed in, then let them do that too. Um, we've got the Alberta

00:24:32.960 MOU. There was one with New Brunswick earlier today. Uh, Doug Ford was in Ottawa signing an

00:24:40.480 agreement with Mark Carney for one review process, one environmental review process, which, you know,

00:24:46.880 correct me if I'm wrong. That was the law up until 2015. Uh, when you were part of the Harper

00:24:51.520 government, you guys did that. The liberals said, no, I don't want to get into the Alberta MOU in a

00:24:58.320 a moment, but this idea that the prime minister has to go around and sign these deals. I mean,

00:25:03.360 isn't this just how the country should be working? Like why are the, to me, especially the Ontario and

00:25:09.280 the New Brunswick ones, they, it feels like it's just optics. Well, it is, it's ironic. It's a,

00:25:17.040 all he has to do is get out of the way. So as you say, he goes to Ontario and says, well, sign a deal

00:25:23.280 to remove the duplicative regulations that the liberal government has imposed. Why not just get

00:25:29.840 rid of those duplicative regulations? If you admit as he does that they're not necessary to protect

00:25:35.040 the environment, hence the MOU, why not just get rid of them for all the provinces? Let provincial

00:25:40.400 governments protect the environment, which is their duty for projects that are within the boundaries of

00:25:46.880 one province. So likewise with Alberta, why not just get rid of the devastating liberal regulations

00:25:54.240 and let the industry thrive rather than doing one-off agreements to get around those rules? We all agree

00:26:02.160 that the problem in Canada with resources is that we have this wall of red tape and regulations blocking

00:26:08.000 us from our resources. Carney's solution to too much bureaucracy is to create even more bureaucracy with

00:26:16.080 a new agency that goes around old agencies, with new rules that go around old rules. Why not just

00:26:21.760 get rid of the obstacle in the first place? Get out of the way and let us produce our resources.

00:26:27.200 Let me ask you about the Alberta MOU. You guys came out pretty hard against it. Premier Smith says she likes it.

00:26:36.160 Do you give her some credit for getting plenty of credit? To be clear, what we're against,

00:26:41.360 I'll tell you what we're for and what we're against. We're against the industrial carbon tax that the

00:26:46.400 federal government is imposing on Albertans. Which is why it wasn't in your motion. That's right. We

00:26:50.640 didn't want to move a motion supporting a tax that drives up the cost of building homes and producing

00:26:56.800 food and hurts our industry at the same time. So we're against that. We're in favor of getting rid of the

00:27:05.440 liberal production cap, the liberal electricity regulations. That's a good thing. And on the

00:27:13.120 pipeline, obviously we want a pipeline. We just don't believe that Mark Carney is sincere in his

00:27:19.360 reversal on that. He opposed the original Northern Gateway pipeline, as did his party, which killed it.

00:27:25.040 And he has simultaneous, right now, liberal MPs who tweet out their opposition to

00:27:31.920 the construction of a pipeline to the Pacific and basically tell their voters the pipeline will

00:27:38.880 never happen. So we wanted Mr. Carney to start speaking out of one side of his mouth and say,

00:27:44.480 do you support approving a pipeline of the Pacific? We'll put it in a motion, vote on the House of

00:27:48.960 Commons. He voted against the pipeline because that's where he really stands.

00:27:53.680 Premier Smith the other day was saying, well, there's another way we could do it. And that would

00:27:57.360 be the nutrient route. And so you would go down to the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast.

00:28:06.800 How concerned are you about Canadian companies just deciding because there is still so much

00:28:11.200 uncertainty? Nutrient, a billion dollars U.S. investment in an American port. TC Energy,

00:28:17.920 8 billion going into cap expense in the U.S. this year. Enbridge also putting most of that in there.

00:28:26.960 You've got the auto parts plants in Ontario buying up American production facilities and companies

00:28:33.680 because, well, they need the certainty. How much does that concern you that Canadian companies and

00:28:41.440 Canadian governments, in the case of Premier Smith, are saying maybe the safest route is to build our

00:28:46.960 business in the U.S.? I think it's terrible. And I don't begrudge the Premier for looking for other

00:28:53.440 ways. But isn't it sad that it would be easier for us to get Alberta oil to the Pacific by going

00:29:00.240 through the U.S. rather than going through our own country? I don't know about you, but I find that

00:29:04.080 really sad. Why not allow all of the Northern British Columbia communities to benefit from the

00:29:10.400 enormous job creation that would be involved in laying a pipe from Hardesty to Prince Rupert or

00:29:15.120 Kitimat? Why not allow Canadian steel to go into that pipe? It will be American steel if it's built 0.54

00:29:22.000 in the U.S. because the tariff would make it impossible for it to be a Canadian steel-based

00:29:27.760 project. So again, I don't blame Danielle for that. I think she's just trying to do anything 0.83

00:29:32.240 she can to get our resource to market. I blame Mark Carney and the Liberals for blocking a Canadian

00:29:38.560 pipeline. And more broadly, we should make this the best place in the world to invest. I want to get rid of

00:29:43.120 the capital gains tax for anyone who reinvests in Canada. This is one of your ideas in the last

00:29:48.160 election. Yeah. So expand on that a little bit. Well, cap gains tax is what you pay every time you

00:29:53.200 sell one investment to buy another. So a lot of people don't sell their investments even when they

00:29:57.520 want to. They want to get hit with a tax bill. And worse still, many that invest abroad don't want to

00:30:04.480 bring it back because as soon as they do, they get a tax hike. So I'm saying, look, if you sell an

00:30:10.800 investment anywhere in the world, you bring it to Canada, zero capital gains tax. If you invest.

00:30:16.720 If you invest in Canada, you have to invest in a pipeline, a mine, a factory, a business,

00:30:23.120 a startup, home building, all of that stuff. And in so doing, you create a boom. It'll be like a

00:30:30.640 rocket fuel for our economy. Bring back that half trillion dollars of investment the Liberals have 0.96

00:30:35.200 sent south. And the government will get its pound of salt one day anyway. If you reinvest and grow

00:30:41.520 all that capital and decide you're going to finally sell it all and have a vacation, well, you'll then

00:30:47.520 be able to pay your tax at that point. And they'll also make money off taxes on profitable businesses.

00:30:53.280 That's right. And the wages of the workers and all that. Last election, Mark Carney's message was,

00:31:00.720 vote for me. I'm the guy that can stand up to Trump. He said you would kneel to Trump, by the way,

00:31:05.920 and that he was elbows up. I haven't seen evidence of elbows or knees or any joints, really.

00:31:14.560 He said in an interview recently that Canada is in a better position than we were a year ago

00:31:20.880 with the United States. What's your reaction to that? I just look at the numbers. He hasn't

00:31:26.000 reduced a single, he hasn't been able to get the president to reduce a single tariff.

00:31:32.160 Since Trump Carney became prime minister, American tariffs on aluminum, steel, and autos are double.

00:31:38.480 The Americans put out their list of concerns yesterday. It included that we're not living up

00:31:45.920 to our already negotiated framework around dairy in Kuzma. They're concerned about the Online Streaming

00:31:53.440 Act, the Online News Act. They say Alberta's not treating Montana's electrical system fairly.

00:32:02.720 So they've got their list of irritants out there. How would you handle negotiating with Donald Trump

00:32:10.480 on these issues differently than Mark Carney has?

00:32:13.520 We have to leverage our strengths. We have natural resources that America needs that will allow us,

00:32:19.040 for example, to produce the electricity for AI data centers at a lower cost than the Americans can,

00:32:25.600 and we can house that data here in our country. We're a safe partner for that. They don't want to be

00:32:31.120 storing their data in a hostile regime. We've got a friendly regime right next door with cold weather and

00:32:37.040 lots of electricity, which is exactly what you need for a data center. They're worried about gas prices

00:32:43.440 in America. Well, we could probably produce an extra two million barrels a day and sell it to them at

00:32:47.840 better prices for us and lower prices than they're getting from the world market right now to lower

00:32:54.000 their gas prices at the pump. What we have to offer is a stronger Canadian military to unburden

00:33:00.800 the U.S. of protecting our Arctic waters. All things that we can do greater and more abundantly

00:33:06.160 if we have unbridled access to the American market. So I would look for a win-win because that's the

00:33:12.800 only way we're going to get out of this and boost wages, bring down consumer costs at the same time.

00:33:18.080 Looks like the American view now is there's going to be some type of minimum tariff, 10% at least,

00:33:24.480 for everyone, including Canada. Is that something that you would accept? Is that just going to be

00:33:30.480 reality? What would you say to that? Because that appears to be the offer that was on the

00:33:35.200 table that Mark Carney said he nearly signed. Look, I don't think we should make unilateral

00:33:42.560 concessions. I don't think we should come out and say we're going to accept American tariffs.

00:33:48.160 I think we should negotiate with the aim of getting tariff-free access because that's what we had before.

00:33:56.240 The Americans are negotiators. They're going to start from a tough position

00:34:00.400 and then we have to work to whittle those down. That's what a negotiation is about and that's

00:34:05.280 what I would seek to do. We'll end on the soft note. You're looking to take some downtime at

00:34:09.760 Christmas. What are you doing? We're staying in Ottawa and my my wife surprised me. She said

00:34:15.040 she wanted to go skiing and you know she's from a she was born in a very hot country and so she hasn't

00:34:21.920 always been a fan of snow and so I said well this is great. I grew up in Calgary so we used to ski a couple

00:34:27.840 times a year and so we're going to take the munchkins out. A four-year-old and a seven-year-old. 1.00

00:34:32.480 Good luck. Wish us luck indeed. It's going to be an adventure but our little Valentina is a daredevil. 1.00

00:34:38.320 Cruz is much more cautious so I'll go with Valentina. We'll be daredevils together and

00:34:43.840 and then Cruz and mom will take the slopes together. What does the Paglia family eat at 0.99

00:34:48.800 Christmas dinner? It's a very it's a vast array. We do actually have typically some turkey

00:34:56.480 but my wife does make some Latin American specialties as well and she has a great version

00:35:03.520 of what we call Irish cream. It's absolutely fantastic but we'll be in trouble with Premier

00:35:11.600 Ford because it typically involves some Crown Royal. So we'll have to keep the recipe secret.

00:35:17.920 All right and what are you reading? What are you watching? Podcasting?

00:35:22.800 A lot of things right now. I've been reading lately. There's actually a guy I'm following out of the

00:35:38.000 States right now who is working on AI data systems and AI defense systems and trying to understand how

00:35:47.360 this is going to alter the this the the future of conflict like that we're going to have unmanned drones

00:35:54.080 taking a bigger role in our defense. I'm studying a lot about and reading a lot about the inflationary

00:36:02.160 effects of monetary creation. I know this is one of my boring obsessions that puts everyone to sleep

00:36:08.320 but I've been really studying that you know there's a great book called More from Less and it is about

00:36:16.240 how we can make so much more stuff with so much less cost and I'm trying to ask myself how can we actually

00:36:23.920 convert that into lower prices for people. And then for fun what do you do? For fun I goof around with the kids because

00:36:31.200 that's all the time the fun time I have. So with Cruz and I we're building Lego blocks and reading Spider-Man books.

00:36:38.480 He's got some great coloring books as well. So and he's actually much better than I am at it.

00:36:44.800 Then Valentina likes to jump climb swing and run. She is very physically active and so with her it's

00:36:53.120 physical with Cruz it's sort of meticulous project. Now this is the way I see that was a heartwarming

00:36:57.200 interview. That was a fantastic interview and Pauliev really gave some insight into who he is as a person

00:37:03.520 and also reminded us why he's uniquely qualified to lead Canada. Now if you don't agree with me that's your

00:37:08.560 choice but it could only be for one of two reasons. One you didn't actually watch the interview. Number

00:37:14.400 two you suffer from a bad case of Pauliev derangement syndrome and unfortunately there's a lot of

00:37:19.760 Canadians that have Pauliev derangement syndrome. It's sad these people need help and I hope they get it.

00:37:25.520 Pauliev is all around a good guy. He's a good husband, a caring father and a strong leader and you

00:37:32.240 know what really drives me nuts what really makes me mad frustrated is the fact that the left always

00:37:37.520 attacks his wife. The left always brings his wife into it. Well this is the way I see it. They're just

00:37:43.600 jealous that he has a gorgeous supermodel making traditional Latin food for him on Christmas.

00:37:50.320 That's what's happening. I think there's a lot of liberals and even a lot of conservatives that would

00:37:54.320 just love to have a wife as as caring, smart and great at preparing food as his wife. I'm just saying

00:38:02.400 the quiet part out loud folks. Like I've said a hundred times I'm going to say it again. There's

00:38:06.640 no doubt in my mind that Pauliev is going to be the next Prime Minister of Canada and it could be

00:38:11.120 early as this summer. I'm still hoping for a blue summer. I want to say that there is a chance that

00:38:16.400 another sneaky traitorous MP could cross the aisle and become liberal. That would give Carney a majority

00:38:23.120 and that means there won't be an election anytime soon. There still could be in theory but it's

00:38:28.480 going to push things back. But I say if it's going to happen let it happen because when Pauliev becomes

00:38:33.760 Prime Minister he needs to hit the ground running. He needs a team of people that he can trust and it's

00:38:39.120 better that we deal with it now than wait until he gets elected and then find out that he has traitors

00:38:44.640 in his midst. Get rid of them now and I know that's not what people want to hear and that's why I still

00:38:50.080 have my fingers crossed. That's why I'm still praying every single night that we get that super

00:38:54.240 majority we deserve in the summer. But I have to point out that it might be delayed a little bit so I

00:39:00.000 just want to put it out there. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. But there's no doubt that Pauliev is

00:39:05.360 going to win the leadership review. The mainstream media they want to twist it around. They want to act like

00:39:10.000 there's doubt in any conservative's mind that he's going to win and he's going to win. He's going to win.

00:39:16.080 I can tell you that. Now I want to remind you all that Christmas is the time of giving and I think

00:39:20.560 I've given a lot to conservatives over this year. Now if you like what I'm doing and you can spare a

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00:39:46.400 description and in the comment section. Once again thanks for tuning in. I love you all.

00:39:51.120 Have a Merry Christmas. Talk to you soon.

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