EZRA LEVANT ｜ Anti-Trump elites blame U.S. for economic woes
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The trade war with the United States is getting crazier all the time. Doug Ford has gone full Hulkamania. Does that work against Donald Trump? We ll find out when the two men meet on Thursday. I ll give you my thoughts today.
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Hello, my friends. The trade war with the United States is getting crazier all the time.
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Doug Ford has gone full Hulkamania. Does that work against Donald Trump? We'll find out when
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the two men meet on Thursday. I'll give you my thoughts today. But first, let me invite you to
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Tonight, Ontario Premier Doug Ford heats up a trade war with the United States. Is it smart
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or is it crazy? It's March 11th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Well, a lot of politicians in Canada have been taking advantage of Donald Trump's tariff threats
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and even his banter about Canada becoming the cherished 51st state. They've been taking advantage
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of that for a number of reasons. First of all, as I mentioned with Justin Trudeau, he was despised by
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Canadians until the very last moments. And this was a chance for him to switch the subject and fight
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against Trump to defend Canada. Of course, every liberal around the world's dreams of fighting
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against Trump. They've all had Trump derangement syndrome. Not only do they want to fight Trump
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against their real competitor, in the case of Canada, Pierre Polyev, who was ahead in the polls,
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but in the case of the economy, any damage that Trump could do to the Canadian economy
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through tariffs would be a great way to blame Trump for our economic woes rather than 10 years
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of economic mismanagement. Tariffs really have nothing to do with the price of housing in Canada
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or inflation in Canada or the overwhelming immigration in Canada that makes everything from
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health care to schools more difficult, drives down wages, drives up housing. None of that has to do
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with these Trump tariffs that are only, in fact, I don't think they've even actually been imposed.
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But by demonizing Trump, it's a double win. Fight against a preferable bad guy and suddenly
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whitewash your own economic mismanagement. Well, Trudeau tried that, but his time was up. Mark Carney
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is picking up the torch and running the same playbook. He knows it would be better to run
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against Trump than to run against Polyev and it seems like he's going to do that, although we haven't
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quite seen how he sounds as an actual prime minister. Doug Ford did something very similar.
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He opportunistically called a provincial election. There was no need to do so. He already had a fairly
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fresh mandate. He said he was going to fight back for Ontario. He never really explained how,
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other than his promise, his promise to borrow, tax and spend more money, sort of like COVID emergency
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spending. It was sort of muddled messaging, but he caught his two opponents off guard and he won.
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But instead of declaring victory, he went back to the battlefield and he started talking tough
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towards Trump in a way that I thought was quite odd. He said, for example, that he wasn't just going to
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put tariffs on U.S.-bound energy. An export tariff is a really weird thing for energy, don't you think?
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But he was actually threatening to turn off electricity with a smile on his face. Here's him saying that.
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Let me be clear. I will not hesitate to increase this charge. If necessary, if the United States
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escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely. Believe me when I say I do not want
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to do this. I feel terrible for the American people because it's not the American people who started
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this trade war. It's one person who's responsible. That's President Trump. I'd rather be working together
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I want to sell the U.S. more energy, more electricity, more critical minerals. I want to
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make Canada and the United States the richest, most successful, safest, most secure two countries on
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the planet. But as Premier, my number one job is to protect the people of Ontario. You know, Israel
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sometimes turns off electricity to the Gaza Strip. You might be saying, what? Israel supplies Gaza with
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food, supplies Gaza with water, with health care, with many other things. It's only in rare occasions
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do they turn off electricity. They happen to be in a war with Hamas and Gaza. They turn it off and
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they're denounced roundly. This is a crime against humanity. At least that's what it's called when it's
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Israel turning off the electricity to Gaza. But Doug Ford thought he would try that on our best friends
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and customers and neighbors. It's one thing to put a tax or a tariff on things, but to actually turn off
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the electricity to schools, to hospitals, does that even work in trade? I mean, it's surely illegal under
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our trade agreements, but that is what Doug Ford said he would do. And he gave a series of interviews
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with U.S. media where he basically said, I'm going to bring the battle to the United States. Here's an
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example of one of those interviews. And joining us now is Doug Ford, the Premier of Canada's most populous
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territory. Ontario and Premier Ford, as we mentioned, President Trump is now saying he is enacting a 50%
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tariff on steel and aluminum from Canada, which will go into effect tomorrow in response to your
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actions. What's your reaction? Well, first of all, thank you for having me on. I start every interview
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with saying we love Americans. I love Americans. Spent 20 years of my life there. And I know Canadians love
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Americans and vice versa. In saying that, we will not back down. We will be relentless. I apologize
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to the American people that President Trump decided to have an unprovoked attack on our country,
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on families, on jobs, and it's unacceptable. Let's work together. Let's get to the table if he has
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issues and let's sort this out. You see the market tumbling. Consumer confidence is down. And if he
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continues on with this, assembly plants in Michigan will shut down and around the country, whoever makes
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autos. And as well as businesses, they're going to hurt. And these pensions, when the market goes
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down, it's going to affect people's pensions. So I'm not too sure why he continues to attack his closest
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friends and allies. But we need the American people to speak up. We need those CEOs to actually get a
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backbone and stand in front of them and tell them this is going to be a disaster. It's mass chaos right
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now. That's what we need. Now, just to stop for a second, an electricity export tax is crazy. It's
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illegal. And it would most likely push America off Canadian electricity. And I think that fairly quickly
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they would find domestic sources of electricity. I could be wrong on that. But shutting off electricity
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altogether, that really is tantamount to an act of war. By the way, that's similar to what Russia has
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done several times historically to Ukraine by turning off the natural gas pipelines. They certainly did
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that in 2014. And they never tried that during the Cold War, I should tell you. But Russia has done
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that to Ukraine several times in the last 20 years. Why? Why was Doug Ford acting as a de facto foreign
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foreign minister for Canada? Canada's own foreign minister, Melanie Jolie, has not been engaging with
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the U.S. I don't think they really have a lot of time for her. She prefers to go over to Europe and
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hang out with the other middle-aged feminist defense ministers and foreign ministers like Kaya Callas.
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They have sort of a girl power club over there where they talk about things that they find
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interesting, none of which happens to be the Canada-U.S. trade agreement. That involves math and stuff.
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So while Justin Trudeau has been doing whatever he's doing, and Mark Carney is busy being selected
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as our new prime minister, I think Doug Ford sort of filled the void. And he filled the void in a
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very newsworthy way. He was saying things that would obviously attract attention, and they did in fact
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get the attention of the White House. Here's the White House press secretary talking about them today.
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Are there conversations between the administration and the Canadians going on over this tariff? Because
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the Ontario premier says the next step is to cut off electricity to the U.S.
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And the president put out a statement after seeing those comments and said that it would be,
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there would be grave consequences imposed on Canada if they think about shutting off electricity for the
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United States of America and our citizens. And the president is also determined to ensure that we are
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depending on American electricity, not the electricity production of foreign nations, including our
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allies in Canada. As for conversations, there is continued correspondence between the president's
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team, particularly Secretary Lutnik, and the Canadians as well.
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Well, it's true. If Canada, if Ontario actually did shut the power off to the United States, it would
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bring grave consequences to Canada. Would Doug Ford actually do that? Could he even do that
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logistically? Would it even happen? I don't know. And how would it be handled on the U.S. side? What
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would Trump do in return? I don't know. I think the whole thing is so ludicrous and absurd, but look
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what it got done. Well, just a little while ago, I had an opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik.
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Secretary Lutnik has sent out an olive branch to us to come down and immediately meet with him, meet with the
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whole trade administration, and discuss the future. Rather than waiting until April 2nd, threats going back and
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forth, tit for tat, I've agreed to suspend temporarily, and we always have that tool in our toolkit,
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uh, until we sit down, you know, over the next day or two. I'll be heading down to Washington, uh, along with
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Dominic LeBlanc, uh, and, uh, we'll have a good discussion.
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Howard Lutnik, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, spoke to Doug Ford on the phone, and Ford is going to be down in
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Washington in two days' time. They put out a tweet to that effect, and both sides have decided to, you know, cool their,
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hold their fire at least until then. So maybe you could say that Doug Ford's crazy wild man negotiating,
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maybe it worked. Maybe it was actually Trump-style enough that it worked. I don't know. Uh, we'll find
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out soon enough. I don't, I don't think that Trump or Lutnik are used to dealing with someone quite like
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Doug Ford. Uh, when the president of Columbia got a bit stroppy online and refused to accept returning
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deportees from the United States, Trump immediately put sanctions on the president of Columbia and his
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family and his party, and the president of Columbia caved in less than one hour. I don't think the same
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dynamic is at play in Canada, but we'll see. I know one thing about Trump is he prefers to have arguments
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behind closed doors rather than in public. In fact, that was his main complaint with Wladimir
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Zelensky. Remember when Zelensky visited the White House and started criticizing J.D. Vance,
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and Vance's first reaction was, we don't want to litigate this in public. Here's the clip.
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I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
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Yes, but if you are not strong. Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to
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come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are
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going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should
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be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine that
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you say what problems we have? That's J.D. Vance's way of saying, let's argue, but let's argue when we're
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alone, not when every camera is on us, because that makes it impossible to later have a rapprochement.
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So we'll see. Maybe Doug Ford is coming to Washington. But the thing is, Doug Ford doesn't have the power
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to give Donald Trump what he wants. If you take Trump at face value, he wants a stronger border,
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both to deal with migrants and with drugs. Doug Ford is really not in a position to do that,
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at least beyond his own Ontario border with the U.S., which is sizable, to be sure.
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But Doug Ford is not in charge of foreign affairs. He's not in charge of borders. He's not in charge of
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the military. You know, he can do some things, but he is not the one to solve that problem.
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Trouble is, Parliament is not in session. Trudeau ran away. Here's a goofy picture of him
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sticking his tongue out, taking his chair out of Parliament. Very odd. He leaves Parliament as
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bizarrely as he entered it. Melanie Jolie can't get her calls answered, so we really don't have a
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government and we don't have a foreign policy right now. We'll see. Listen, I hope that this whole trade
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or fight with the states goes away. But I am, I think, objective enough to acknowledge that Donald
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Trump's demands are not actually crazy. It's crazy to cut off electricity. It's crazy to choose a trade
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war instead of fixing the border. Stop the fentanyl. Stop the illegal immigration. Maybe chip in a bit more
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to NATO. Come up with a real reason why U.S. banks can't open in Canada or let them in. And yeah, U.S.
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dairy being kept out of Canada is a big irritant. And frankly, it's an irritant for Canadians too. We pay
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twice the price for eggs, poultry, dairy that Americans do. And we have much less selection in
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quality. So the things that Trump wants are actually not negatives for Canadians. You simply
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have the moral hazard of first Justin Trudeau and next Mark Carney preferring to fight than to make
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a deal. They prefer to fight for their own political fortunes than for the economic fortunes of all
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Canadians. Those are my opening thoughts. I want to show you an interview I had yesterday with Benny
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Johnson, who's a pretty prominent Trump-adjacent podcaster. I was talking about my book,
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Deal of the Century, the America First Plan for the Oil Sun. So it's sort of related. I thought I was
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sort of high energy and did a good job. So I, at least if I may say so myself, can I show you how
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that video went? Take a look. Here it is. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us right now, who's up against
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a very hard out is Ezra Levant from our great brother, sister, future 51st state, I don't know,
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nation of Canada. Ezra is the founder of Rebel News, and he's a kick-ass dude. And we want to have him
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on to talk about the new elections in Canada. What's going to happen next? Let's go.
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Benny, I'm great. Justin Trudeau is, his last day as prime minister is today. Yesterday,
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the Liberal Party selected his successor. Got to tell you, his successor is just as bad.
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A globalist who was on the board of the World Economic Forum. He used to be the central banker
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in Canada. Then he got promoted to be central banker in the UK, where he hung out with Ghislaine
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Maxwell. There's photos of it. Then he left to join Brookfield Asset Management, which is like a
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mini BlackRock. And from within Brookfield, he pushed ESG. He pushed carbon taxes and environmentalism
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into the companies he invested in. Well, now he's the liberal leader, and he's going to be
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appointed PM without ever having won an election. He's not a member of parliament,
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but he's going to be catapulted to the top job. So things are getting wild up here. But I'm a little
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bit worried, Benny, that Donald Trump is not going to like the cut of this guy's jib. And he's going
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to be taking pot shots at this guy and hitting the rest of our country. And I say that because the
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tariffs on Canada, you know, I don't know if you know, Benny, but the number one export Canada sells
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to the United States, it's not maple syrup, it's not even cars, it's oil. And I call it ethical oil
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from Canada's oil sands, as opposed to conflict oil from OPEC countries, or Russia. And here's what
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I would say to my America First friends. When you're shooting at these liberal politicians,
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when you're yanking their chain by saying, you know, Governor Trudeau or 51st State,
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I get it. And we all hate these liberal leaders too. But don't push away our oil, because China
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is sniffing around at Canada's oil sands. I have a better idea. America shouldn't tear up the oil,
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because you can't move the oil sands to America. It's not like a factory that you could pack up and
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move to America. The oil sands is where it is. It's in the most pro US province in Canada called
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Alberta. Don't push it away, Benny, pull it close. I have an idea, I call it, I call it the deal of
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the century, because I'm trying to think, how does Donald Trump think? He thinks in terms of real
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estate, right? Buy Greenland, buy Panama. Don't buy Canada. You don't want it. You don't want
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the French-English bilingualism. You don't want another California in your electoral college,
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trust me. But what you want is the oil. I think Trump should sign a 50-year deal to buy all the oil
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in the oil sands. And with the money, insist that Canada rebuild its military. So instead of pushing
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away Canada's oil, pull it in close, lock it in, and here's the icing on the cake. If you replace
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all your OPEC conflict oil imports with Canadian ethical oil, you don't have to spend $50 billion
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a year patrolling the Persian Gulf sea lanes, because it's not your business anymore. Anyway,
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that's my case for Canadian oil. But the bad news is we've got a liberal prime minister for at least
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a little while yet. They're going to agitate each other. The two aren't going to like each other.
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And so you're saying that some of this could backfire potentially and alienate patriotic
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Canadians that are generally on our side. And there are a lot of patriots in Canada.
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I mean, it's a little bit of a leftist-centered country. I acknowledge that. But look, we really
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are seamless. I mean, there's a little bit of an accent difference we say about and house. And I would
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say we pronounce a few words a little differently than Americans. And we're a little different in how we
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spell things. And we use kilometers instead of miles. But I think I've just summed up a lot of
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the differences. You really, half of your Saturday Night Live comedians are Canadian. Now, I know
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You saw Mike Myers the other night. Yeah. Okay. So can you educate us? What's Pierre Paulyev,
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good or not? And when this election actually happens, is it going to be the proverbial bloodbath
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that we hear about for liberals? Great questions. Pierre Paulyev is the Conservative Party leader.
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And he's as conservative as you get in Canada. I've known him for more than 20 years. And he's
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been talking conservative even when it wasn't cool. Now, he's in a bit of a pickle because if
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you're too conservative, now people say, oh, you're just Trump's poodle up here. You're going to sell out
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Canada. So actually, some of this 51st state banter, which I think, you know, that's typical Trump
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trolling. There's a great sense of humor behind it. And it was poking at Trudeau. And it worked.
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But some other Canadians are saying, oh, Pierre Paulyev is a mini Trump. He's not. He's a
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conservative guy, but he's a Canadian guy. I'm a little worried, but I think Trudeau has wrecked
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things so badly in Canada that the country wants to throw out the liberals. And I think that in the
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election, the conservatives will win. I just hope that we have a chance to properly vet this new
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liberal named Mark Carney. He's the guy I mentioned about, the former Central Bank or World Economic
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Forum guy, because he has actually not lived in Canada for years. In fact, his wife still lives
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and works in New York City. He just moved Brookfield Asset Management to New York City. He's got three
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passports like any good globalist would. So he's, I don't think 99% of Canadians even recognize his
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face. He sort of looks like a, you know, a funeral parlor boss. So he, it would be, it's so weird.
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This, like, he's like some prince who's been living abroad, has decided to come home to the shire
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to rule over us because it's his turn. So this guy, Mark Carney, is a problem for sure, Benny. But if we
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can just get through the next few months until the election, I think Pierre Polyev is going to win.
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And you're going to have someone who's going to work with Trump to strengthen our military, get rid
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of some of the trade irritants. And the number one thing I think Pierre Polyev is going to do that
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Americans are going to appreciate, he's going to take the war on fentanyl to new levels. Pierre Polyev
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is so tough on crime. He's for mandatory minimum sentences. He, I think he's even talked about life in
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prison for fentanyl. I got to check on that. Like he's tougher than any Canadian has ever been
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on crime. And I think Trump's going to look at that and say, all right, you're no Justin Trudeau.
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So my hope is for my dear American friends, especially the America first ones, when you're
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shooting at these liberal leaders, remember that not all Canadians are for it. And that actually a lot
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of Canadians really love America. I mean, I'm a proud Canadian, but my God, did we ever win the lottery
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of life being born right next to America? I mean, I'm glad we're not in some rougher neighborhoods
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in the world. We're so lucky, but, but in a way Americans are lucky too, because we got all this
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oil up here. I don't know if you know, Benny, but the Canadian oil sands have more oil than any other
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country in the world, other than Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, 170 billion barrels. So a 50 year deal to buy
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all our oil. You don't even need, it's just a pipeline. You don't even need tanker ships. So
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forget about the Houthis hijacking tankers. Forget about, you know, terrorism in the Middle East. You
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can get out of that. America first, pull in the oil sands. We'll be with you and give us a few months
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to settle this whole peer poly of Mark Carney thing. Don't give up on Canada. We won't give up on you.
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Okay. Okay. I know Ezra, you, you have a hard out, but very quickly here, we have the photo of
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Ghislaine Maxwell. Um, what the hell is going on with these unelected people? Like they tried to
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pull a Kamala Harris on it. You're, you're getting Kamala Harris here, right? Like we're somebody that
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nobody elected. Right. And it's someone that was very creepy background. This is Carney, I think in
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the purple shirt right here. That's right. Yeah. And his wife is on the far right. And that lady in
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black, that's Ghislaine Maxwell. And there's a lot of photos. Cause remember he was sort of this,
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um, princely type in the UK. He moved to the UK. He became the head of the bank of England,
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the first foreigner to have that position. And he basically used it as a power position to network.
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He really is the world economic form personified. He's never been elected to anything, but he rules
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over us. He says he's a Canadian, but he actually has three passports. This guy believes that you
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should have to turn down your thermostat in the winter. You shouldn't be able to drive or fly.
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You should live in a 15 minute city, but he's a private jet guy going all over the world. And,
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and he's, they're looking at Canada as some sort of prize to be bought. It's sort of a George Soros
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mindset. This guy's slick and the media love him. And you're a hundred percent right when you say he's
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the Kamala Harris move because Trudeau was so toxic that actually, and it was a Trump tweet that did
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it. If you look back, it was Trump in November saying, I want that border solved by the time
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of my, um, inauguration. And that set in motion, a series of things where he demanded that the
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finance minister, uh, take on the file and she quit and said it just bigger and bigger dominoes.
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Donald Trump tipped over the first tiny domino with a tweet that led to Justin Trudeau's ouster.
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We just got to deal with his successor, Mark Carney here. And that that's his biography,
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his world economic forum biography. I don't know if you know much about the world economic
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forum, Benny. Oh, you do. You do my, my brother. You do. They've got this crazy supervillain
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leader named Klaus Schwab. And he speaks in a, it's too much the German accent. And he said about Canada,
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we have penetrated the cabinet and you got to say that the German accent, I, and, but it's true.
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Trudeau was a world, Trudeau was a world economic forum, young leader, Mark Carney's world economic
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forum board member. They sort of run Canada as a colleague. Yeah. That's Klaus Schwab right there.
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Look at that guy. He's like a bond villain. So we, we got to fight these guys off. Pierre
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Polyev is the conservative hope. And I'm just saying, Hey America, don't give up on us. Okay.
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Don't judge us all by Justin Trudeau. I want you to know that the last poll I saw in January on the
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subject, Justin Trudeau was less popular in Canada than Donald Trump was in Canada. Trump would have
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beat Trudeau in an election in Canada. True story. All right. So don't let them Kamala, your country.
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That's right. No elections, oligarchs choosing, little moving people around on the chessboard.
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I really hope. One more detail. I got, I got to go into about five minutes, but let me tell you one
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more detail. You mentioned that this guy has never been elected. He was selected by the liberal party,
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but let me tell you a little bit how their leadership contest went. You did not have to
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be a Canadian citizen to vote in it. Come on. They allowed foreign nationals to vote as young as 14
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years old. So a 14 year old child who is a citizen of a foreign country, as long as they're a permanent
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resident in Canada, a 14 year old could vote. So they had 400,000 people register to vote,
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but they wound up disqualifying two thirds of them. And they didn't explain that. So two thirds of the
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people signed up were either fake or bots, or maybe the people's Republic of China had some internet
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operation. Like there's so many question marks, but even if it was legit, by the way, this guy has
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never been elected by any Canadian. He's never even run for dog catcher. We are having our new prime
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minister installed. He's being selected. So please America, do not think we all love this guy, Mark
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Carney. I promise you, we don't just stay with us and don't give up on us, Benny. Yes. All right.
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Just let us know when the next trucker protest is. We'll be there. Honk honk. Ezra, one of the best
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men follow Ezra right over here. He got 500,000 subs on his ex. He's a fantastic. He runs rebel news
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and he's one of those guys who not just runs rebel news, but he's literally running through the world
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economic forum, talking to some of the biggest goblins out there and making huge impact. We love
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your work Ezra. Um, and, uh, we say Godspeed brother. Thank you, Benny. Keep up the fight down
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there. All right. See you, man. Well, let's shift gears now and talk about one more last gasp that
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the Trudeau regime did. We're going to talk next about the plans to ban some unbanned firearms. That's
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up next. I'm not sure exactly when Mark Carney becomes the prime minister. The whole thing is
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rather weird given that he's never won any sort of election in Canada whatsoever. Made even weirder.
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If you saw my math yesterday, you'll, you'll note how weird it is that Mark Carney got almost exactly
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the same percentage of the vote in every single one of all 338 ridings in Canada. He didn't lose a
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single one. Even in Chrystia Freeland's home riding, where she's been a very active politician for a
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decade. In Karina Gould's home riding, Mark Carney still got approximately 85.9%, plus or minus a few
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points. To be asked to believe that in 10 years as a cabinet minister and the leading liberal on TV
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every day, the leading liberal patronage giver, that Chrystia Freeland would only have 188 votes
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in her hometown. That's votes. That's not that point system. Just only 186 people other than her own,
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herself and her husband would vote for her. I'm sorry. I just don't believe it. I think there's
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something fishy there. But no more fishy than dissolving parliament to avoid a non-confidence
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vote and delaying that until the liberal party sorts out its own affairs, all the while in a trade war
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with the United States. It's the worst of times, my friend. It makes me wonder about the democratic
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legitimacy of certain things going on and just little flourishes like Justin Trudeau packing the last
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five Senate seats with his cronies. Just one final reward before he goes out the door. It's so gross.
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Other strange things like announcing a multi-billion dollar train project just days before he's gone.
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It really is showing the liberals in their true essence how they've behaved themselves with no
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parliamentary oversight and knowing that they have a lame duck leader. But one thing Trudeau certainly did
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well was get his last frequent flyer points on the private jet that the Canadian prime minister is
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afforded. Well, one of these undemocratic last gasp desperate moves by the liberals was the announcement
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by the liberals. And you can't even say it's by the government because the parliament isn't sitting,
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just the liberals announced that they're going to ban 179 more kinds of guns. I didn't know there
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were more guns left to ban. They have literally banned hundreds of them, but they can't really
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explain what the difference between them are. They call them assault style weapons. They're not
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really. They're little plink, plink, plinkers. I remember last time they said they were going to
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seize the guns and give them to Ukraine to fight. Well, that would be a death sentence to give these
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little plinkers to Ukrainians fighting against modern Russian military equipment. Again, it's not a serious
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move. It's a desperate move. It's a PR move. Let me show you what that looked like when Rachel Bendayan
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tried to look very, very serious. This was as when there was a mass shooting in Scarborough of
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obviously an unregistered firearm. Here's Rachel Bendayan warming up the gun front for the liberals.
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Take a look. In 2022-23, our government passed legislation to freeze the market for handguns in Canada,
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banning the sale, transfer, and importation of handguns into the country. Just recently, in December
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2024, we went further, banning some of the additional assault style weapons that remained in the Canadian
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market. Today, our government is finishing the job, adding a further 179 unique makes and models of
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assault style weapons to the list of prohibited firearms here in Canada. This prohibition takes
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effect immediately. It is our hope, our government's intention, that this be the last discrete listing
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of assault style firearms for prohibition. If we finish the job well, we have all the tools necessary
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to ensure that new models of assault style weapons will be captured and denied legal entry into the
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Canadian market. Let's be clear, these are weapons of war. Firearms designed specifically to kill as many
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people as possible in the least amount of time possible. As with previous prohibitions, the weapons
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we are banning today are semi-automatic firearms with sustained rapid-fire capability. Experts have told us
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that they exceed safe civilian use. That's just not true, and I haven't gone through the list myself.
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I'm going to hazard the guess that Rachel Bendayan doesn't know anything about firearms other than
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they're yucky. But you did hear her say, mission accomplished. And it's funny how that the timing was
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just perfect. The last dying days of the Trudeau regime is just when she just had enough time to do this
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last one, Aaron. Now, the only problem is the actual gun criminals didn't get the memo. Like I
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say, there was a shootout in Scarborough the other day. There's shootings practically every day in
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Toronto. There is a sustained crime wave in this city and indeed across the country. But hey, those
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weapons of war were banned. I say again, I hope that no army goes to war with the little plinkers that
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were banned by Trudeau and Bendayan. Joining us now to talk about this is Rod Giltaka. He's the CEO of the
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Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights. And he joins us now. Great to see you again, Rod.
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Now, I have not looked through the 179 makes and models. And to be honest, I don't know much more
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about firearms than Rachel Bendayan. The difference between us is that I'm not pretending that these
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are weapons of war. And that by making up another list, we're going to suddenly bring the gun crime rate
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down because it's extremely rare. And I do know this, that it's extremely rare for a semi-automatic
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long arm to be used in a crime. It's typically illegal pistols that farmers and ranchers and
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sportsmen don't have anyways. This whole thing was false from the very beginning. Why don't you tell
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Well, it's, yeah. When you say from the very beginning, we're talking about basically when
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the Trudeau Liberals took office. It's been just a big exercise in gaslighting and boat farming.
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But this latest list wasn't exactly what we expected. We expected more firearms to be on them.
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On this particular list, it was a lot of older firearms, all models of the M1 as well. And then
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there was a couple of modern firearms. There was a couple of shotguns, modern looking shotguns
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that were magazine fed. They look aggressive, but they're limited to five rounds. All of the other
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criteria that you expect from non-restricted firearms, they were all prohibited too.
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And, you know, interestingly enough, just talking specifically about those shotguns,
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these are Turkish made shotguns. They are meant for a civilian market. These are not
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durable military grade firearms to begin with. No clear minding soldier would take them into battle
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anywhere. So I have to say, I am just really tired of the gaslighting. I'm tired of being a punching
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bag as a gun owner. To the Liberals, every time they're sinking in the polls or they want a little
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boost, they attack us and let criminals run wild. It's a status state of affairs. I've never seen
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Now, how about Mark Carney, the new three-passport prime minister? Any moment now, he'll be elevated to
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that, which is quite a feat. Has he weighed in on firearms? Do we know where he stands? Or is he
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Well, unless we hear something to the contrary, we'll assume that he is the same.
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And then he started to gather the old Trudeau guard around him, some of the worst politicians,
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in my opinion, in the history of the country, like Marco Mendocino. Like a man with,
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in my, without overstating, like he's got some issues. He doesn't understand what his role ever
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has been very clearly and has done a lot of lying and gaslighting. It's just been an absolutely
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atrocious politician. He's now in, apparently, as well as David Lamedi, just sort of the old,
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the old worst suspects that didn't make it in Trudeau's cabinet, which you have to wonder if you
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can't make it in Trudeau's cabinet. Wow. But Carney is surrounding himself with these people. So
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I don't see this as encouraging for gun owners or any Canadians in general.
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You know, it's funny, the two names you mentioned, David Lamedi was the justice minister who was
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installed after Jody Wilson-Raybould was fired. She was too ethical. Lamedi was appointed for
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precisely that reason. He would do anything. And we know that because he invoked martial law
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illegally and unconstitutionally. That's according to the Federal Court of Canada.
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So you've got David Lamedi, who doesn't care about civil liberties, violated the civil rights
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of Canadians, according to the court. And you've got Marco Mendocino, who in that same martial law
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exercise, it was so dumb. And I'm sorry, I don't mean to say that as an insult, but his own staff
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didn't brief him on what was good. Like, memos were circulated, updates were circulated.
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They didn't bother going to Mendocino to reprove things, to read things, because he was such a low
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energy watt, low watt bulb. He wasn't the decider. He was, I don't know, demographically, they needed a
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Italian-Canadian person from North Toronto or something. I don't know, maybe that's why they put
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him in cabinet. But it was astonishing to me to learn that memos involving his department were not
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set at, were regularly not sent to him. It wasn't that they missed him one time or another.
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They just didn't bother asking him because he was not the real decider. I think that says quite a lot
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about Mark Carney, that these are his two picks. You're right. If they were not good enough for Trudeau,
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but they're good enough for Carney, that tells you a lot.
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Yeah, absolutely. And when we're talking about Mendocino specifically, I was, you know, I think
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a minute ago when I was talking about him, my mind was searching for a stronger word than incompetent
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because he makes incompetence as a word seem like a compliment. But I didn't want to fall down the
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rabbit hole. But, you know, that's unsurprising that he wouldn't be charged with any actual
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responsibility or decision-making. He was just put there. I can only speculate, obviously, right?
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But in my dealings with his department and the entire time that he was there, I would think that
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they picked Marco. They're like, who's a throwaway member of our caucus? Who's not going to have a
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career as soon as he opens his mouth? You know, like zero potential. Stick him in the seat because
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Bill Blair's fleeing that portfolio of public safety and the buyback and all this. Stick Marco
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Mendocino. Let him get set on fire. You know, jettison him when he's, you know, once he's taken all the
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heat and then we'll start over. And I think that's what ended up happening. But yeah, it's startling
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that Carney, who is going to have to face an election sooner or later, would surround himself with these
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people. I guess it's business as usual over at the Liberal Party of Canada. Yeah. Or maybe he just
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doesn't have that big a Canadian network of his own. I mean, he spent so much time in New York City,
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in London. He has an Irish passport too. I think in other possibilities, he simply doesn't know a lot
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of Canadians. And I guess the quickest way to find some are just to look at Trudeau's discards.
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That's a theory at least. Well, listen, great to catch up with you, Rod. I'm sorry that it's always
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bad news. It brings us together. But I'm still optimistic that Carney will not bring the Liberals
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back from the dead. He'll certainly do better than Trudeau would in the polls. I think a fence
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post would. But I think you and I will be talking soon about what the Pierre Polyev government might
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be doing. Now, I don't want to count chickens before they're hatched, but I remain an optimist in
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that regard. Great to see you again. Thanks so much, Echa.
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There you have it. Rod Giltaka, the head of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights. Stay with us,
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Hey, welcome back. Your Letters to Me. You know, I chatted with my old friend, Steve Lindrew. I
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haven't seen him in a long time. He's such a nice man. And you know, that's from an era where the
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Liberals, you disagreed with them, but you didn't hate them. I mean, oh, believe me, I railed against
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Jean Chrétien when he was prime minister. But let me give you one example. He didn't kill the oil
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sands. He didn't kill any pipelines. In fact, he protected the oil sands in its key period. He gave
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them regulations they could work within. He legalized and nationalized the oil sands. I'm not saying he did
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the work himself. I'm saying he did the political and legal work that allowed it. He probably could have
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killed it in its cradle. He didn't. What a difference we have now. Anyways, here's some
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letters on my interview with LeDrew, who's a liberal of that vintage. Laurel Stewart says,
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is it not a conflict of interest for Carney's wife to get government contracts for the company
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she works for, owned by Butts? You're talking about the Eurasia Group. Oh, you know what? It's
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Gerald Butts works there. Carney's wife works there. And they're based in New York. They get huge
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untendered contracts from the government of Canada. And nobody's ever heard of them. They're sort of
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this boutique office in New York City that runs half of Canada. Stallion Studio says, I like these
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old school liberals that are more centered and not power hungry. Real liberals. It's funny how now people
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like this gentleman are closer to the conservatives than the modern day liberals, yet they have not
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changed their political stance. It really shows how extreme the modern liberal party has become.
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You're exactly right. And I think they had a good nature to them. And I think the fact that the
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liberals would win allowed them to have a good nature. But there wasn't a cancel culture. There
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wasn't a viciousness. They didn't call you a hater. They said you were right wing, maybe.
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Javier Di Nardo says, the last image of Justin Trudeau stealing a parliamentary chair and sticking his
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tongue out to Canadians says it all. Yeah, he's got that weird tongue out thing. He does that at all
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his gay pride events he goes to. He did that whenever he wears blackface. It's a weird move.
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It's some psychological tell of some sort. I don't get it. Is it childish? Is it some weird tick? Is it
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some inner demon? I don't know. I'm just sort of glad he's gone. At least I hope he's gone.
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That's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.