Mark Carney's anti-American rant in response to Marco Rubio's speech in Munich is more interesting than it sounds, and I'll take you through it. Plus, a look at the latest on Iran and Venezuela.
00:21:05.740So in a time of headlines heralding the end of the transatlantic era, let it be known and clear to all that this is neither our goal nor our wish.
00:21:17.740Because for us Americans, our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe.
00:21:26.740Our story began with an Italian explorer whose adventure into the great unknown to discover a new world brought Christianity to the Americas and became the legend that defined the imagination of our pioneer nation.
00:21:38.740Our first colonies were built by English settlers to whom we own not just the language we speak, but the whole of our political and legal system.
00:21:54.740Our frontiers were shaped by Scots-Irish, that proud hardy clan from the hills of Ulster that gave us Davy Crockett and Mark Twain and Teddy Roosevelt and Neil Armstrong.
00:22:12.740Our great Midwestern heartland was built by German farmers and craftsmen who transformed empty plains into a global agricultural powerhouse.
00:22:22.740And by the way, dramatically upgraded the quality of American beer.
00:22:46.740Maybe nowadays that we are after a century of, I don't know, Marxism being deployed against our institutions.
00:22:53.740But does Mark Carney even know the history of Christianity in Canada?
00:22:58.740Does he know that our Constitution mentions Christianity, specifically Protestants and Catholics, and guarantees rights to those groups several times?
00:23:07.740Does he know that the very first sentence of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, even before Section 1, the preamble, refers to the supremacy of God?
00:23:17.740Does Carney know that the King of Canada, King Charles, is also the head of the Church of England?
00:23:25.740I think he may believe this is a non-Christian or post-Christian country.
00:23:44.740And it looks like a lot of Canadians agree with him, especially in Ontario.
00:23:48.740But just don't pretend that disparaging the United States, and sucking up to China and Qatar, and declaring Canada un-Christian, just don't pretend that any of that is in Canada's national interest.
00:24:23.740The most important thing is that the Liberal government is one step closer to majority.
00:24:28.740I think we're going to be in election season sooner rather than later.
00:24:33.740As someone who previously denied ever crossing the floor and, in fact, was going to resign to spend time with family, has now crossed the floor to the Liberals.
00:24:44.740And that is Conservative MP Matt Jenneru from Edmonton Riverbend.
00:24:49.740I guess I'll throw it to the guys first.
00:24:55.740I can tell you it's disappointing to see, not just obviously as a supporter of the Conservative Party, but just from a Democratic point of view.
00:25:02.740When you run to get elected locally, you tell people you're going to serve them under a certain party banner.
00:25:08.740And frankly, you either were lying at the time or your judgment capabilities are so out of line that maybe you shouldn't be serving.
00:25:39.740But this is very disappointing from Democratic process.
00:25:42.740And I hope there will be a robust recall campaign that gets launched to make life, at the very least, to make life difficult for the MP who has done this.
00:25:59.740Yeah, it's a betrayal of his constituents.
00:26:02.740I think he's a good guy, but it's the last political thing he'll be able to do.
00:26:07.740And I think this is very short-sighted.
00:26:09.740I think moves like this by guys like this are so short-sighted because it doesn't just violate the Democratic principle of constituent representation.
00:26:19.740It also fundamentally undermines people at a time where they're hurting, they want to be heard, they want to be understood by a government that's been kind of evading that.
00:26:30.740I also think that basically it points to a likely election coming up.
00:26:35.740I think this is, in so many ways, this is a big mistake by Matt.
00:26:39.740Yeah, I see former Conservative MP, and I think generally a good guy, Rick Perkins, has noted that Matt doesn't live in the riding and hasn't for quite some time.
00:26:52.740And that he's already in British Columbia, so run in British Columbia if his seat opens up.
00:26:59.740I mean, not only are you not now respecting the Democratic will of the people of Riverbend, but you aren't even there.
00:27:08.740And then you're going to cross the floor to the Liberals.
00:27:12.740Matt, I think he won by about six points.
00:27:15.740So he's held the riding since it was created in 2015.
00:27:19.740And, you know, you sort of, as demographics change, you've seen sort of that huge gap between the Conservatives and the Liberals close there.
00:27:27.740But he's still one-handily and, you know, he's completely ignoring the message sent by those constituents. Ezra?
00:27:35.740You know, floor crossing this quickly after an election with no good reason other than, hey, I thought I would be more powerful and have a bigger, you know, salary.
00:27:46.740That's an insult to the democratic process no matter what.
00:27:50.740I mean, if there were a grand reason, if there were an important philosophical or ideological reason, I think people would have more patience for it.
00:27:59.740To switch to be a turncoat this soon after an election, and we saw the same thing happen in Nova Scotia a month or so ago.
00:28:07.740It's outrageous, but let me add one more layer to it, because right now Alberta is gearing up for a referendum on secession.
00:28:16.740And, in fact, I think tomorrow night the Premier is going to have an address talking about that.
00:28:21.740And there are people actively signing petitions to get out of Canada.
00:28:25.740And the people of Edmonton Riverbend did something positive.
00:28:30.740They say, no, we're going to vote for a federalist party because we think we can work with the system and elect someone to parliament to challenge the bad directions this country is going.
00:28:41.740All right. You said work within the system. So we will.
00:28:45.740So they vote in that district for a conservative.
00:28:47.740And I haven't checked, but I understand that conservative that district has always been conservative.
00:28:53.740In private backroom arrangements, some inducement, a secret inducement that we do not know, is proffered to this candidate who just ran months ago on being a conservative.
00:29:07.740What do you think everyone in that district, everyone in that riding is thinking now?
00:29:13.740They're thinking the obvious. The system is rigged.
00:29:16.740When we do what we're told, when we play within the rules, it's rigged.
00:29:37.740I think that Mark Carney didn't realize the separatist echoes of what he did because he just proved the system is broken for Alberta conservatives.
00:29:53.740We'll see where the whole discussion goes.
00:29:55.740I think you want to talk about that a bit relative to separation.
00:30:00.740And I have to further to what Ezra said.
00:30:05.740Maybe, Matt, when I say this charitably, maybe he needs, you know, some help in terms of just stability.
00:30:12.740Because, you know, a wise man once said this to me, and I'm being careful here, that when something happens in politics that completely makes no sense at all, somebody is getting paid off.
00:30:25.740And I'm not saying that applies here, but it's either that or something so overwhelmed his judgment.
00:30:32.740As Ezra's pointed out, there's been a long standing seat here.
00:30:35.740And first of all, if there is something personal going on, you know, mentally with him, I hope he gets help.
00:30:42.740But there still is no excusing what he did.
00:30:45.740And constituents need to come down hard on this.
00:30:49.740And as I said, just said a minute ago, we need to see a really robust recall.
00:30:54.740Whether it works or not, it sends a message.
00:30:57.740Fighting a recall campaign is expensive.
00:31:41.740So why are you rewarding the liberals with your support?
00:31:45.740It causes people to speculate on the things that Stockwell just mentioned, David.
00:31:51.740Yeah, look, parties are an organizing structure for interest to be aggregated around real interest.
00:31:59.740And people vote conservative because they believe that freer markets and lower taxes and more autonomy will create more prosperity for them and their kids.
00:32:11.740And when you take away, when you disenfranchise the vote because somebody can do a backroom trade, you create a secondary market in being able to buy off, buy off representatives once they've been elected.
00:32:25.740And that's a really dangerous precedent for the country.
00:32:28.740I actually think that if there's one or two more of these, there's going to be a discussion around whether or not you have to have, you know, a waiting period.
00:32:38.740I actually think there's a fundamental democratic issue at stake here for the country that has to be addressed.
00:32:44.740When the shoe's on the other foot, and it will be soon, you know, maybe not sex election after.
00:32:49.740If the conservatives did the same thing going the other way around and you created this market for backroom trade that allowed you to just subvert the will of the people that have voted and just buy off those merry timers we're always hoping would go conservative, right?
00:33:04.740And you create a super majority and you push through the entire conservative agenda based on our ability to buy off people that have voted for liberals but we're able to buy their reps off once they had actually gotten into the house, you would have a huge scandal on your hands.
00:33:20.740And so I think there's going to have to be, this is going to have to be addressed beyond just our frustration because it's conservative crossing the floor.
00:33:28.740It's actually a fundamental problem and flaw if this is left within community federalism.
00:33:34.740Well, and you know, you could understand it.
00:33:38.740I wouldn't like it, but you might understand it if there were some sort of touchstone issue that just exploded that would either drive someone to the liberals if the conservatives had did it or drive a liberal to the conservatives going the other direction.
00:34:06.740There are issues where somebody says, I know these are my constituents, but I have a conscience.
00:34:11.740And on a particular issue, I'm not going to just try and vote the popular will of my constituents or my party.
00:34:17.740So we actually structure votes around solving for that specifically so that you don't create a secondary market in buying off reps once they've already been elected.
00:34:47.740It was foreshadowing the intense energy across the province to sign up for this petition.
00:34:53.740I want to talk just a little bit more because about that.
00:34:56.740And I know that there are other I mean, there are other things on our sort of news list here, but I want to make maximum advantage of David's availability.
00:35:05.740David, I understand that tomorrow the premier is going to announce some details about the referendum process.
00:35:12.740And of course, it's not just the independence question.
00:35:15.740I understand, for example, there's going to be an immigration question, too.
00:35:20.740In fact, I see that the premier's chief of staff is tweeting to sort of foreshadow that.
00:35:26.740Do you know anything about some of these other referendums?
00:35:29.740And if if so or if not, what do you think about this immigration question?
00:35:38.740Oh, really like the way that the premier is leading on these issues.
00:35:53.740Yeah, I said I don't have any any specific information about the the questions.
00:35:59.740But what I do like is that the premier is getting in front of these issues and representing Albertans as she sees their interests and talking about them very openly.
00:36:08.740She's been unafraid to address what is actually a very tricky high wire act for a premier dealing with an issue like separatism and dealing with something like immigration.
00:36:22.740And it marks the sea chains because until just really over a year ago, it was unanimous amongst the ruling class that you don't say anything critical of immigration.
00:36:34.740One of the most cringe worthy moments of the 2021 election campaign was when I think I think I got my date right was when Aaron O'Toole was asked if he has any difference of opinion with Justin Trudeau on immigration.
00:36:52.740And basically, he said no, but it was sort of a moving whatever Trudeau said, O'Toole had the same answer.
00:36:59.740So it wasn't even that he had a belief in Trudeau's policy.
00:37:03.740It's that he was absolutely terrified of allowing Trudeau to criticize him on the subject.
00:37:08.740It's not that Aaron O'Toole was saying this is the number I support.
00:37:12.740He was saying whatever the other guy says, me too.
00:37:15.740Please just don't ask me questions about it.
00:37:17.740And by the way, in the previous election, Andrew Scheer, I remember the founder of the co-founder of Rebel News.
00:37:26.740I 15 percent share with my friend Hamish Marshall has since bought him out.
00:37:31.740But at the very early days of Rebel News, we had a partner, Hamish Marshall, great guy.
00:37:37.740And he became the campaign manager for Andrew Scheer.
00:38:19.740David, why has it suddenly become, I don't know, possible to talk about immigration, whereas a year ago that wasn't true?
00:38:28.740I think because Canadians have started to realize that it's OK to let people in the political class understand that you're not racist and you're not actually even against immigration.
00:38:45.740I think the degree and the scale of the fraud in our immigration policies and our asylum policies, you know, when you see six guys that have been extorting people and destroying the Sikh community, targeting these young Sikh boys to join criminal gangs, violating the pact of the, you know, the Canadian immigration social pact, the civil pact.
00:39:11.740And when they're caught and they're discovered to have been liars that should have had no place in this country.
00:39:17.740And the people that are the victims of those crimes are all Sikh people in the Sikh community.
00:39:23.740And these these clowns get caught, arrested, arraigned.
00:39:28.740They say we want to claim asylum and they get they completely defraud the system again.
00:39:34.740And as more and more people see this, they start to realize, you know, this has nothing to do with whether you support immigration or not.
00:39:43.740This has to do with whether you support people that are openly defying what Canada stands for, all of our values, the security of the country.
00:39:52.740And the number one communities are being destroyed by this open, you know, violent, easily manipulated cartel and criminal syndicate dominated defrauding of the system are the minority communities that are new first generation immigrants and their kids.
00:40:10.740Right. So I think what's happened is is reality is starting to mug this question in a way that's allowing people not only to feel like they can raise it, but actually go further than that and say, I've absolutely had it with this. Right.
00:40:24.740Right. People coming in openly defrauding a health care system, an education system that's been letting me and my family down for the last few years because there's too many kids that can't speak English.
00:40:35.740You know, you've got classroom sizes that are blowing up. You've got hospital wait times that are extraordinary.
00:40:43.740And you've got people now that, you know, the recent one where they've got this guy, the most sadistic things they've caught him.
00:40:50.740And they found out that the guy is now using Canadian benefits and health care in spite of the fact that he's a known terrorist.
00:40:57.740I mean, you can't these things used to be the subject of like Babylon be irony or sarcasm. Right.
00:41:03.740And it's actually Canada's current system is so broken that you can't even make up the headlines.
00:41:10.740It's not even dark comedy anymore. Right.
00:41:13.740And so I think as it's reached a point where, as with so many of these things, something had to break and now it's broken.
00:41:20.740So you've got billions of dollars the country doesn't have that actual citizens and their kids have to pay back now for generations to fund an open defrauding of the system by people that are intentionally defrauding it using criminal and terrorist syndicates to do so.
00:41:38.740This has been known for years by people in the know.
00:41:41.740The fact that it hasn't been dealt with seriously by the government is a break in the trust people have with the government.
00:41:47.740People in CSIS have been warning about this.
00:41:49.740People that watch these things from a security perspective have been warning about it.
00:41:53.740It's people on the street that are sort of realizing just how bad it's gotten as they try and get basic public services and seeing they can't get them anymore.
00:42:02.740I think it's it's now just kind of an open conversation, you know, and I'm proud of the premier that she's putting it on the table and raising it something that's normally the domain of the federal government.
00:42:13.740She's saying we've had it here in Alberta. We've got to address it.
00:42:16.740It's moves like that by her, by the way, that infuriate the the, you know, the so-called elites out east that are actually have the best chance of maintaining Alberta as an autonomous, you know, province within a unified Canada without her making moves like that.
00:42:35.740This this this this would start to break because people just had it with the complete mismanagement of the country by this stay at home bureaucracy that's now.
00:42:46.740Do you see this now 80 percent more expensive as a decade ago?
00:42:53.740Do you know how long do you know the performance of the CRA, which is one of the very few departments that the Auditor General can audit against a set of measured metrics?
00:43:04.740They they are unable to answer a phone call within 15 minutes, 83 percent of the time.
00:43:13.740Average time that you spend on the phone waiting for somebody in the CRA to answer that call is 31 minutes.
00:43:20.740Then when they do answer it, this is the kicker.
00:43:22.740So if you get lucky, if you're in the 17 percent of Canadians that can actually get your call answered and they answer your question, their error rate is 83 percent.
00:43:33.740In other words, 83 percent of the time they get the answer they're supposed to give you wrong.
00:45:49.740You know, in that in the communities I grew up in, people, people were working really hard as immigrants.
00:45:55.740What people are offended by, especially people that are immigrants, is is when people defraud a system and they abuse it and they do wrong.
00:46:12.740These are taken from our premium comments on our show.
00:46:16.740Colin Dyler says about Brett Wilson, Brett's a nice enough guy and all, but come on, Canadian provinces can't even negotiate barrier free trade and regulations.
00:46:30.740You know, there's something to that letter.
00:46:32.740I mean, for all the talk about Team Canada and breakdown internal barriers, the biggest internal barrier I can think of is British Columbia blocking any oil pipelines from Alberta.
00:46:58.740We'll never get a fair deal in that ball and chain system that used to set up.
00:47:02.740You know, someone said something the other day that I literally had never thought of in my 54 years and it was maybe Canada's too big.
00:47:11.740I'd never heard that said until about a week ago.
00:47:14.740And I've been thinking about it because part of the Canadian identity is we're so big, the vast north, which is 99.999% empty.
00:47:22.740There's so few people living in our cold north.
00:47:25.740But maybe east and west it's too big also.
00:47:28.740Maybe people in Calgary have very little to do with people in Toronto and people in Vancouver have very little to do with people in Halifax.
00:47:35.740And it doesn't mean that we're hostile.
00:47:37.740It just means maybe it doesn't make sense to have them ruled by the same ruler, especially someone so authoritarian in Ottawa.
00:47:45.740Next letter, silver feet said, I am not anti evil, but pro good.
00:47:50.740Please, friend, you are delusional if you can think you can sit on the fence.
00:47:54.740It is obvious you are financially beholden to the current system.
00:47:57.740This is a letter in response to Brett.
00:47:59.740The same system that has destroyed the lives of so many people.
00:48:02.740So what should be the decision of Albertans?
00:48:04.740Vote for prosperity or side with the financial interests of some rich guy who doesn't care less about the common man.
00:48:13.740See, I can see Alberta and Saskatchewan being a great country that would have, I don't know about, I'd have to do the math, about 7 million people.
00:48:21.740It would have an enormous economy from natural resources, bordering with the United States, whose Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besson, has already said, oh, we'll take all the Alberta oil.
00:48:33.740Don't you worry about oil pipelines being blocked.
00:48:35.740So, and I would think that, frankly, half of BC, the BC interior would join too.