This is all Trudeau’s fault
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On this week's Off The Record, hosts Rachel Parker, Isaac Lamoureux, and William Beaton discuss the latest in Canadian politics, including the Trump administration's new tariffs on Canadian goods, and the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border into the United States.
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Is that a thing that people get done this early in the year?
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William, I've been so busy working that, you know,
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I haven't even started thinking about my Christmas shopping yet.
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I've just been really focused on, you know, the American election
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and then immediately afterwards now this tariff fret moving over us.
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So I don't really have time left in my schedule to think about anything else.
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I'm absolutely focused on work 100% of the time.
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And you should definitely remember that this weekend,
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when you're working on our performance reviews.
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if they come to pass and it creates a spike in the price of goods on both sides,
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we're definitely going to want to get our Christmas shopping done
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hopefully cooler heads prevail and we don't see those tariffs come in.
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Yeah, it's just a bit of a vibe session that our political leaders are having.
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Nothing negative is actually going to come from it.
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Now I've given away too much about today's show.
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Welcome to Off The Record, our Friday fun show.
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and I am joined by my colleagues, William McBeat and Isaac Lamoureux.
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William and Isaac, thank you so much for being here today
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to discuss the crazy and fun stories that happen this week in Canadian politics.
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I want to start it off with something that I have been covering very closely this week,
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and that is the looming threat from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
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of 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods coming into the U.S.
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unless Canada cleans up its act and stops the flow of illegals into the United States
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Now, William, you've been around a little longer than me.
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Yeah, I mean, this was a problem that didn't just crop up overnight.
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It's a problem that's been nine years in the making ever since Prime Minister Trudeau
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and his merry band of incompetent cabinet ministers took office.
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We've seen what was once an immigration system that was praised by President-elect Donald Trump.
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He pointed to Canada as a model for how to do an immigration system
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to one that has now put Canada on a knife's edge economically.
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Well, the first thing is Trudeau completely lost control of the Canadian border.
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He basically invited the entire world to come to Canada.
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We didn't do adequate background checks into these people.
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We've allowed millions of non-permanent resident immigrants
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to come into the country in the last year alone.
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And now we have no real idea of how to control this,
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But that's not something this government is particularly known for.
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If it isn't climate change or other pet woke issues like how many genders there are
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and what people kind is, this government just doesn't care.
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And, you know, True North's Candace Malcolm wrote a great article on this,
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talking a little bit about how we lost our way.
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One stat she cited, which I think is really important,
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is that when it comes to terrorists, potential or actual terrorists entering the United States
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Canada has had more than five times the number of terrorists entering the United States across its border
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So you're right, when it comes to drugs, when it comes to sheer numbers of immigrants,
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But when it comes to terrorism, that's Canada's problem.
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And we are by far a bigger threat than Mexico in that regard.
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So I think the president is right to express concern
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about allowing terrorists into the United States across the northern border.
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Well, just last, earlier this month, one of India's most wanted terrorists was arrested
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What is one of India's most wanted terrorists doing in Canada in the first place?
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That's a question that we should all be asking ourselves.
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And to your point, William, it's something that the Americans are noticing.
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They are seeing the security breaches that we are having here in Canada.
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They are seeing the types of people that we are allowing into our country.
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They recognize that these people are crossing the border into the states.
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Isaac, we have talked about the absence of leadership from Trudeau's file.
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I know that you cover the Alberta government very closely.
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Yeah, so I wrote two articles that touched on this.
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Firstly, I wrote about the premier's meeting that they convened yesterday
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with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when they, of course, discussed the looming tariff
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And interestingly, although perhaps unsurprisingly,
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Smith was the premier to come out the most outspoken after the meeting.
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Some of the premiers merely just referenced it.
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But Smith came out with a huge statement on all of her concerns that she covered in the meeting
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that weren't only about the border, but of course, as you could imagine,
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about energy security, the production cap, etc.
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Other premiers who were outspoken was, of course, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
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And he said what you alluded to there, Rachel, which was he said,
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look, we need the CBSA, the Border Service Agency,
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We need to just, you know, use the organizations we have at our disposal
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And the other article I wrote, which William referenced, Candace had also discussed,
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was, of course, the terrorists going across the Canada-US border
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Between 2022 and 2024, yes, it was six times more individuals
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on the terrorist watch list that were apprehended at the northern border
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compared to the southern, despite, as you mentioned, Rachel,
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that we only have 9% of the number of people crossing that border.
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So, I mean, the fact that we have six-fold amount of people
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on the terrorist watch list, despite being 9%, I mean, it's a shocking number.
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And it's little surprise that Trump has come out as strongly as he did.
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I mean, who would have thought a few months ago that Trump, of all people,
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would be the person to save Canada from its immigration crisis?
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It's interesting that Danielle Smith, as you said, she's come out so strongly
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and said Canada can address the Americans' concerns, and we should do that.
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We should recognize that they are targeting our economy
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because they are angry about our lax way of handling the border.
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And now Danielle Smith even came out after that first minister's meeting
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and said that she is going to be working with the RCMP and here in Alberta
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to make sure that that border that Alberta shares with Montana is being patrolled.
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She's going to ramp up security efforts there.
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Now, when you think about legals crossing in Canada and the states,
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you don't really think about Alberta and Montana as a huge problem.
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That's not really the first area to jump to mind.
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That being said, I suspect what Danielle Smith is doing is she's signaling to the Americans,
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we know that she said from the beginning that she is going to be building her own relationship
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with the Americans because she doesn't trust Justin Trudeau to do it
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and because Justin Trudeau continuously targets Alberta as seen through its emissions cap.
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And so, you know, I think she wants the Americans to recognize that even if the rest of Canada
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and even if Justin Trudeau isn't going to take Trump's concerns seriously, she is.
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And so even if you don't think about Alberta and Montana as necessarily being a problematic issue,
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Danielle Smith is signaling to them that it is something she is going to take seriously.
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She is going to do everything in her power to make sure that Donald Trump's concerns are assaged.
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And furthermore, I think that she's trying to get an exemption on Alberta energy.
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I think she's recognizing that we don't have the people in place.
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Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau, these are not serious people.
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These are not people that Donald Trump and his team like.
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They have been very clear about the fact that they do not like Chrystia Freeland.
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So I think she is going to do everything in her power to make sure that Alberta energy
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Do you think that Danielle Smith is trying to get that exemption on Alberta energy?
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This is someone who has well understood and looked with very clear eyes about the source
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And she knows the energy sector plays a vital role in that.
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And I think she also knows, because she said so, that the perception of Mr. Trudeau and
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Ms. Freeland by the Trump administration, the incoming Trump administration, is not good.
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That they have gone out of their way at times to antagonize Mr. Trump, to play the moral
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superiority card, to try and paint him as someone that they're so much better than.
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But you also have to understand that Mr. Trump is a very sensitive person when it comes to
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You can only ask anybody who's ever done those things when he lashes out at them how much he
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And the fact is, is that Mr. Trudeau's own statements, because he cannot help but talk
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about how much better he is, how much better the liberal government is, how much purer the
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government is on so many issues, has really painted themselves into a corner.
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I mean, thankfully, we are hopefully going to see a change in government in Canada at some
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And maybe Mr. Pagliavra will have a better chance negotiating with Mr. Trump.
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At least there won't be that personal animosity.
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Um, and frankly, you have to wonder just how up, uh, the, the tired Trudeau government is
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to a hard negotiation with a freshly elected U.S. administration chomping at the bit to
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So, uh, yeah, I think we could be in for some pain.
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Hopefully, clearer heads prevail, and hopefully we can get a cast of characters on our side
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who's able to deal more effectively with the people we know we'll be dealing with for
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Part of the reason that we're seeing this tension between Alberta and Ottawa, which admittedly
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is nothing new, but part of the reason we're seeing this renewed tension right now, Danielle
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Smith is saying that she wants a Team Canada approach to the threat of tariffs, but it's
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very difficult for her to have a Team Canada approach because of the way that Justin Trudeau
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And she points to the emissions cap that the Trudeau government wants to push through as
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And she's saying that it's so short-sighted and that it's making Canada look stupid because
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So Alberta should be willing to meet that need for energy security that America desires to
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help Alberta and to help give Canada a, you know, a higher position in negotiating with
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And I know that there has been quite an interesting development to this story.
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Isaac, why don't you take the lead on this one?
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Yeah, so we'll remember that Danielle Smith previously called the Liberals' proposed emissions
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cap a, quote, deranged vendetta, specifically targeting Alberta.
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And in fact, in her most recent press conference, her and Minister Schultz essentially said, look,
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we've been trying to work with these guys since before we got an office.
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But despite their numerous calls, emails, letters, you name it, they have remained unanswered.
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And long story short, Alberta is taking the very, very strong stance of invoking the Alberta
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sovereignty within a United Canada Act to counter the emissions cap.
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This announcement was made this week by Smith, and she was alongside Environment Minister Rebecca
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And look, they said, look, you're violating our constitution.
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We're going to put up this Sovereignty Act to protect our exclusive jurisdiction, which
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I mean, we've discussed these reports at length, the various reports that have showed
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that this cap will cut up to 2 million barrels of oil per day.
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We saw the one report saying that this would cut a trillion dollars between 2030 and 2040
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I mean, the number trillion is even hard to comprehend.
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And then there was a report from the Conference Board of Canada as well, showing that each family,
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every single family in the country will have $419 less a month, which is staggering because
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we've also seen the CTF's previous reports that the vast majority of Canadians are less
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So the difference there is really the difference between being bankrupt or not.
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What do you guys think about the Sovereignty Act?
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Do you think it will actually protect Alberta and completely stop the feds?
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I mean, we saw in Alberta's press release all the things they plan to do with this cap.
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But I think even the interesting thing here, because your question is, is it going to protect
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Alberta, is really what's atop everyone's mind.
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The Alberta government is using this to defend Albertans' interests, honestly to defend Canada's
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interests, and also to protect their own jurisdiction, which is their own resources.
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Alberta has the right to develop its resources.
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The one thing that I would say about this is that I feel like because legal proceedings
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are so lengthy, I can't help but suspect even while the legal proceedings is ongoing and
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the challenge is ongoing, I would suspect that we would see a change in government.
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But William, I know you're about to jump in there.
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What is it with prime ministers whose last name is Trudeau and their absolute obsession with
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the wrecking the Alberta economy and energy industry?
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We have the NEP, which absolutely was, you know, a wound to Alberta economically and even
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socially as people lost their jobs and their homes.
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And now we've got, you know, Stephen Gilboa, who is really a jumped up eco-radical activist.
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He wears a suit, but he's more at home hanging off of a structure, protesting whatever nonsense
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These are the people in charge of federal departments who make serious decisions about
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And, you know, as Isaac mentioned, a cost per family of $419 a month, that's $5,000 a year
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taken right out of the pockets of your typical Canadian family.
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So that's $5,000 less to pay for your mortgage, to pay for a vacation, to buy groceries, to
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And instead, you're paying it for, you know, Mr. Gilboa and Mr. Trudeau's latest eco-insanity
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The goal here, maybe not, isn't necessarily to overturn this legislation.
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It is to run out the clock on a government that knows it has a limited amount of time to
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So, again, hopefully before too much damage happens, we can see a change in government
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Well, to your point about us all needing to buy, like, our Christmas presents for next
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year, this year, which you said, I don't know if that was on the show or just us chatting
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But, you know, hopefully before we get to next Christmas, we all, you know, have, we've
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seen that change in government that you've mentioned.
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And I think that we're all sort of waiting for.
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What I said to my audience this week when I was reporting on this, and I myself, I know I
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feel very unsure that Justin Trudeau and his administration has what it takes to get a
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negotiation that will not see tariffs on Canada.
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Maybe they won't be quite so high, but no tariffs at all.
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But I said, basically, you know, batten down the hatches, everyone.
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It's going to be a bumpy ride for a little while.
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And, you know, it seems to be the case that everyone's thinking it across the board, because
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to your point, William, you know, Stephen Guibault, he's more at home hanging off someone's
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These are not people who are in positions that they are suited for.
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It is just putting people, you know, it's like they're just not well suited to it at any
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Like, Melanesia Lee, for example, is, I think, the best example of this.
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Every time she goes out and speaks, it's like she has nothing of substance to say.
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You know, I remember even recently she was asked about her plan to how to deal with the
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Trump administration, how to deal with the threat of tariffs.
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I'm not going to tell you what it is right now, but I have a plan.
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And, you know, Christopher Eland is another great example of this.
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Someone who is totally ill-equipped for the job that she is now.
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And also, someone who can't help herself, but to continuously insult Canadians.
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There was that instance a little while ago where she told everyone, yeah, you're struggling,
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you know, with the inflationary crisis that my government has created.
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You know, that extra $8 to $12 a month, I don't actually know what it costs.
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Now, the same thing with the local government offering this pennies of tax break, which I think
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got voted down, but, you know, things are not actually going to do anything for, you
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And then Chrystia Freeland, most recently, now insulting Canadians once again.
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Take a look at Chrystia Freeland and listen very carefully to what she says.
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And how that is a challenge for the Canadian economy.
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So you guys at home, you're struggling to make ends meet.
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You're struggling to pay rent, get groceries on the table, keep the lights on.
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That new part for your car that you've been needing, you can't afford it.
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Can't get that root canal for your son that he needs.
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There's not actually anything wrong with the economy.
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The economy, the liberal government's economy, best economy there's ever been.
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It is actually laughable if it didn't make you want to cry.
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This is, of course, a government that famously said they would build the economy from the heart out
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And now, as long as we all have good vibes, then why should we be worried about the fact
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that we can't pay our rents and our mortgages or buy groceries or afford to save for retirement?
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So we'll all have to work until we literally drop dead in the middle of a workday.
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I mean, I'll tell you, if you can find someone more out of touch with the needs and experience
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of an everyday Canadian than Chrystia Freeland, I would be amazed at who that is.
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Maybe one of the Kardashians because it's been so long since they've lived a real life.
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But, you know, again, you have to wonder, who are these people?
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Who are these people who are in charge of government departments and charged with making massive
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and important decisions day in and day out that affect the lives of ordinary Canadian families?
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None of which can be solved by simply listening to Pharrell's Happy on playlist, on repeat, over and over again.
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And, you know, I know it's not polite to speak ill of them, but you have to wonder sometimes.
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You may need to bleep that, editors, in the post.
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I think the HST tax is expected to pass, but the GST, sorry, is expected to pass.
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But the conservatives will be voting against it.
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And, you know, the liberals are really trying to raise the alarm on this saying,
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oh, you know, the conservatives are voting against this tax.
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I actually, I don't think that line of attack is working anymore.
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I think that it worked against the conservatives for a really, really long time.
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But Trudeau is so far down in the polls right now, and people are really seeing through him.
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And I think that even, because, yes, it's such an easy thing to say,
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oh, the conservatives voted against a tax break.
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I think Canadians recognize that this was a useless tax break
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that wasn't going to do anything meaningful for their pocket.
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And, you know, we can live without saving that extra $3 when we go out for dinner.
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If you're really struggling, you're probably not going out for dinner in the first place.
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Yeah, just wanted to speak quickly about the vibe session thing, which was,
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I just wanted to say, I listened to the, I think it was 42-minute press conference
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The article took me longer than normal to write,
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almost not one sentence that was said was true.
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Literally everything they said was just verifiably untrue.
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They would say things like, oh, Canada has the lowest unemployment in the G7,
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But you could check these things in five seconds
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So, I mean, it's frustrating that these parliamentarians
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can just have a conference and lie for the whole thing,
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As for the GST tax break, what's that going to cost Canadians?
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Yeah, not that, I mean, hey, like William said,
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So, I mean, Justin Trudeau has accumulated over one trillion dollars in debt already
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during his tenure, which, of course, as we all know,
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is more than every other prime minister before him combined,
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which, I mean, just saying that is almost unbelievable.
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And, hey, it's only going to continue to climb.
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because they initially said they were going to have a, what,
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But now the PBO is saying, are you sure about that?
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and it doesn't look like you're going to be able
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You're not going to have that $40 billion deficit that you promised.
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We have spent enough time only depressing and anxiety-inducing stories.
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We've got to end it off with something a bit more humorous.
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William, I think that you picked that green shirt intentionally today.
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if you've been paying any amount of attention on social media for the past week,
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you probably know that the film version of the musical Wicked appeared on big screens.
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It's a fun musical, lots of songs, lots of high-energy dancing,
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and tries to tell a little bit of a backstory, I think,
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on some of the characters from the original Wizard of Oz movie.
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But over at the, I want to get their name right, the British Board of Film Classification,
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a group of people who have never met a fun time that they couldn't find something to wreck it with,
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they decided that the movie is discriminatory and now has a trigger warning specifically for green-skinned people
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And when I saw this story, I actually had to click it to make sure I wasn't reading an Onion or other satirical article.
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I thought, surely to goodness, we aren't actually concerned about discriminating against green-skinned people and talking animals.
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But no, lo and behold, that's what this censorious body in England has decided.
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They want people to know before watching Wicked that if you're green of skin or if you're an animal that can talk,
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you may be deeply offended by Wicked, the musical on screen.
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So I just thought that was worth mentioning in the fact that, has the world lost its mind and gone completely crazy?
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Definitely certain parts of it, the answer is an unqualified yes.
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Well, it certainly has, and the way that we know that is that when you're saying,
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I initially thought this was like a headline from the Onion or another satirical site,
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Basically, you know, at least once a week, if not more often, you're running into a headline,
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you're like, I gotta double-check this, you're reading, you know, you're clicking on the news site,
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you're like, something's glitching here, this can't be real.
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And sure enough, it turns out that it was a real headline.
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The thing that is just killing me about this whole Wicked thing is,
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Apparently, it's like, you know, really popular and all these things.
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I didn't really realize like how big of a deal it was that they were doing Wicked.
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And they have pumped out like millions and millions of dollars on the advertising for this
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to the point where if anyone in the audience has not seen an advertisement for this musical,
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please let me know in the comment section below because you are like the luckiest person in the entire world.
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My timeline, no matter which social media platform I'm using,
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if I'm on X, if I'm on Facebook, if I'm searching the web, if I'm on YouTube,
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it is filled with all sorts of promotional content for this musical Wicked.
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Personally, I'm not a very big Ariana Grande fan who was sort of the pop celebrity
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that was cast as one of the main roles in this movie.
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See, I know way too much about it because like I've watched some of this advertising content
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that I actually don't want to watch, but I just, I can't help it.
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And her and the other lead who plays the green character, you know,
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they have been doing this sort of insufferable press tour
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where they cry in every single interview that they do.
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They'll break down in tears and talk about how important and how meaningful it was.
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And it's just the most sickening, grotesque thing I've ever witnessed.
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Put on a smile, do your press interview, talk about how great it was,
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talk about how everyone should go see the musical and call it a date.
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And so they are just getting absolutely raked over the cold to the point that I suspect
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people like myself, someone, I consider myself a normal person, a normie.
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I get that nowadays, everyone wants to be weird
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and they'll use whatever labels they can to show that they're weird
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because of how insufferable the press tour has been for it.
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But now that this stupid trigger warning has come out for the movie,
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I've been put in this difficult position where I like,
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I almost have to defend the artistic integrity of the movie
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because the trigger warning is just so annoying.
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And I suspect that there's other people on the right.
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We've also been put in sort of this, you know, uncomfortable conundrum
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where it's like, I hate this musical and everything that the people
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But also the trigger warning is really over the top.
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And I want to call it the people who gave the trigger warning.
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my timeline is just filled with stuff about Wicked.
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And can you even see it in Canada or do you have to go to London?
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Firstly, I don't know that I've noticed it as much on social media
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but I will say every single hockey game I've watched this season
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the very ones you described of essentially actresses crying
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they also have been showing Alberta's Scrap the Tax,
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They get paid a lot of money to run those ads.
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I was in Dollarama like a few weeks before Halloween,
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aside from the fact that his skin was completely yellowish slash green.
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I don't know that I've ever actually seen someone in person with it,
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but it looked so realistic that it wasn't makeup.
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and he's the very person they're trying to defend in this rule, I guess.
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Okay, so they're trying to defend jaundice individuals.
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Please then explain the bit about the talking animals.
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but there used to be an expression where when people were saying,
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it doesn't matter if someone's black, white, or purple.
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So we may have to now update that example again
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don't people have anything better to spend their time,
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You know, that's a protected class of people, too.
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I haven't paid that much attention to it either.