Stephen Harper came out and gave an old fashioned campaign speech last night. I ll take you through it and give you my thoughts on it and what I think he would do if he were running. That s ahead.
00:06:44.780I have known Pierre Poilievre for a quarter of a century. Since he was a very young man,
00:07:05.460the first time I met him, I could see that he was smart, articulate, possessing, tremendous passion
00:07:14.420for our country, and strong convictions about sound public policy.
00:07:19.160In 2004, during the time of my leadership, Pierre's parliamentary career began.
00:07:26.160He went, progressively, from a backbench MP to a parliamentary secretary, to a junior cabinet minister,
00:07:35.780to a senior cabinet minister, and, of course, to party leader.
00:07:41.160And, and in all of those roles, he worked, he fought, and he learned.
00:07:54.280Because it is not just that Pierre excelled in all of those roles.
00:07:59.280In all of them, he grew. He got better and better.
00:08:03.440Friends, don't let anyone tell you that he was born to be prime minister or that he can just somehow
00:08:19.520parachute into the job fully prepared. Political experience, elected, accountable political experience,
00:08:29.840and the capacity for growth with that political experience, that is what Pierre has demonstrated
00:08:36.340for two decades, and that is the single most important characteristic a prime minister needs.
00:08:41.780And, by the way, I say that as the guy who actually did lead Canada through the global financial crisis.
00:09:03.160I hear there's someone else claiming it was him.
00:09:17.980It was, of course, our government. The late, great Jim Flaherty.
00:09:29.820And our conservative team who were responsible for the day-to-day macroeconomic management during that challenging time.
00:09:42.500There are some zingers aimed at Mark Carney in there. To say that Carney ran our economy, which is what the liberals are trying to say these days,
00:09:50.480it's just not the truth. It's an attempt at resume inflation by the liberals,
00:09:54.920and it hides the fact that their own decision as a cabinet, their decisions over the last decade under Trudeau have been disastrous.
00:10:03.200Everything from printing money to spending and taxing and shutting down the oil and gas industry. Here's some more.
00:10:09.340And, friends, it's no secret that our country faces today another historically challenging time in the form of the Trump administration.
00:10:20.780There is no sugarcoating that. But the bulk of the problems that afflict our country, falling living standards, declining employment and housing opportunities,
00:10:34.760rising crime, the growing divisions between our regions and our people, these were not created by Donald Trump.
00:10:42.780They were created by the policies of three liberal terms, policies that the present prime minister supported and wants a fourth liberal term to continue.
00:11:04.780This is why the liberals love fighting with Donald Trump so badly. They desperately want to trade war.
00:11:10.560The worse, the better, because they want to obscure their own disastrous decisions over the past 10 years with some of Trump's tariff uncertainty these past weeks.
00:11:19.300They have what's called a moral hazard. They want Trump to do damage to us, so it hides the damage they themselves did.
00:11:26.920They, Trudeau, but also the rest of their team, and Carney as Trudeau's advisor, they're the ones who made the mess.
00:11:33.960They need someone else to blame. And, of course, it's not just economics.
00:11:37.700Pierre has consistently opposed those policies.
00:11:42.420Policies that have put costs up, accelerated crime, left our wealth in the ground, and made our economy vulnerable and under America's thumb.
00:11:57.400And Pierre has, just as importantly, long advocated the positive alternatives for change, to axe those taxes, build homes, bring back jobs, get our resources to the whole world.
00:12:16.520And stand up to Washington from a position of strength.
00:12:26.140I think Harper would be leading from a position of strength, but I think Harper was a grown-up enough to have a constant, professional, friendly relationship with the U.S. president, such that things would never have spun out of control like this.
00:12:39.820And I say that based on Harper's relationship with Barack Obama.
00:12:43.600I don't know if the two men hated each other, but let's just say they disagreed on every possible thing you could disagree on.
00:12:49.960But they kept it together. They did not bicker, at least not in public.
00:12:53.360They had a kind of working respect for each other.
00:12:55.720Trudeau either avoided Trump or antagonized Trump.
00:13:00.060He preferred playing to his Trump derangement syndrome base than actually fixing a problem.
00:13:07.740Friends, I believe that the challenge this country faces today from the United States, as real and serious as it is, should not be another excuse for liberal failure.
00:13:24.500Instead, it should be a historic opportunity.
00:13:30.920An opportunity to make Canada what it should be.
00:13:33.840Internally united, internationally connected, a truly independent economy with the highest living standards in the world.
00:13:47.840And with those benefits, enjoyed not just by protected elites, but by all the people of this country in every region of this country.
00:14:07.400And do bring it home, friends, because that goal...
00:14:29.400That goal does not depend on Donald Trump, it depends on us.
00:14:35.400But we will only get there with leadership.
00:14:43.400From a person who has been right on all the big issues for a decade, and a person who has the energy, and yes, the youth, to take us forward into a better, stronger, and more united future.
00:15:05.240That person, that person, that person, that person has been my colleague, he is my friend, he is our leader, and he is the next Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Paulyevre and Anna.
00:15:17.520I think that if Stephen Harper were running again today, he would thump Mark Carney.
00:15:23.200Harper's only 65 years old, but the one thing Harper has is people know he's serious.
00:15:28.880They know he's an economist who's a master of the economics file.
00:15:33.260They know it was him who guided Canada through the 2008 crisis better than almost any other country did, and they know he's serious.
00:15:39.600They don't quite know that yet about Pierre Paulyev, because Paulyev, while he's been a cabinet minister and a leader of the opposition, he has never been tested as a kind of CEO.
00:15:50.260I think that's all people see in Carney.
00:15:53.680He's got some gray hair and a resume, and he seems to know money things.
00:15:58.400And that's enough for many Canadians, those who hated Trudeau for personal reasons, and now find it easy to come back to the liberals.
00:16:04.200Those who used to be for the NDP for virtue signaling reasons, but really just want to stop the conservatives, and those, especially baby boomers and seniors, who just want someone who looks and sounds like Carney, as opposed to a younger, more aggressive politician like Pierre Paulyev.
00:17:00.660Carney is a managerial elitist pushing the Davos agenda, net zero, central bank, digital currency, DEI, and many other strangleholds on growth and freedom.
00:18:29.220Like Mark Carney at Brookfield, I was head of ESG.
00:18:34.140And that's when I read Pills, and I realized, holy shit, this is a huge marketing scam.
00:18:44.240This is a multi-trillion-dollar marketing scam that seeks to tell the public, we're saving the planet and the people, we're doing good, and you guys can do well by investing in us, in these investment products, ESG.
00:19:01.420When all the while, it was a scheme to overcharge and under-deliver.
00:20:10.000So, first of all, you know, after Mark Carney left as, you know, governor of Bank of England, he, of course, you know, took his position at Brookfield.
00:20:19.840He also led GFANS and made claims that net zero, the drive for the race to zero, like net zero, was going to lead to tremendous productivity increases and GDP growth,
00:20:38.080as well as transitioning economies globally, leading to more jobs and lower energy costs.
00:20:51.400And in fact, he made claims that 130 trillion, over 130 trillion dollars was committed to climate action,
00:20:59.480that the corporate world was unified in believing that there was a climate emergency and all this money was going to rebuild growth economies.
00:22:30.460And by 2021 and, you know, 2022, you knew ESG was a marketing scam, and you knew that net zero was leading to higher energy costs and actually a degrowth, like the shrinking of the economy.
00:22:53.640You know, economies need to grow with access to affordable energy.
00:22:58.100The other point I'm going to make is this.
00:23:55.660You knew that ESG was largely, the trillions that were mobilized into ESG investments were actually investments in, like, U.S. tech stocks.
00:24:08.640They were investments into Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA.
00:24:14.220That's not going to save the planet or the people.
00:24:18.640But, like, these aren't net zero investments.
00:24:22.700It's obvious it's a carbon light industry.
00:24:25.660So, those, you know, you knew that, you know, the Black Rocks, you know, the other, you know, banks and asset managers were overcharging for regular way investments that were actually underperforming the main index, the S&P 500.
00:24:44.440In addition, right, renewable energy is more expensive than fossil fuel energy.
00:25:07.060But when the results came in, he denied them, dismissed them, couldn't care less about ordinary, the strife, the issues, right, the, you know, the crisis among ordinary people, right?
00:25:44.240People don't have a choice about, like, what they're going to drive, how they're going to heat their house, what their access to, you know, the country's natural resources are.
00:25:55.860You also move from, let's also look at the social agenda.
00:25:59.480You also look at controlling the demographics of your country, who you're letting in, how many, who's in the workforce.
00:26:11.500You know, society becomes less of a meritocracy.
00:26:15.640And just look at, you know, Carney's response to the truckers' rebellion, tremendous censorship and financial control.
00:26:23.440Hey, let me ask you a question about China, because Brookfield, and Mark Carney in particular, seem to have strong connections to China's Xi Jinping and the Communist Party.
00:26:36.820They lent him a quarter of a billion dollars to Brookfield.
00:26:41.280And I don't know how this squares with Carney's professed dedication to net zero, because China is by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
00:26:51.820And, you know, Brookfield invests in fossil fuel projects in other countries, but Carney says he's against them in Canada.
00:27:00.640He would support C-69, a bill that really regulates pipelines and tankers and things of that sort.
00:27:08.280Tell me a little bit about your thoughts on Carney's relationship with China.
00:27:12.900What are you worried about, if anything?
00:28:31.300You don't take on, you know, and support and promote net zero policy and take on advisory, you know, positions at Brookfield, Bloomberg, Stripe.
00:28:45.700He was in charge of defense, the UN, PIMCO, academics, you know, board seats at, you know, Harvard, Oxford, you know, World Economic Forum and other think tanks.
00:28:58.540The other, you know, thing is, like, remember, you know, he is, you know, on the global stage, you know, pretty much at so many seminal financial conferences, earning, you know, I believe, six-digit speaking fees.
00:29:17.940Some, of course, he does pro bono, right, to enhance his, you know, presence on the global stage.
00:29:23.500And, you know, others, you know, he's getting a sizable, you know, speaking fee.
00:29:29.740He is there promoting, you know, his own power and his, you know, own money-generating ability, but cloaking it in moral superiority.
00:29:41.060You know, this is somebody who, you know, hasn't been elected.
00:29:44.800He's been appointed, and he's had, you know, corporate seats.
00:29:51.120You know, you know, where can you point to, you know, where he's helped ordinary people?
00:29:57.280As a governor of the Bank of England, priming the pump for tremendous inflation, and more focused on climate risk and DEI than financial stability?
00:30:06.460Like, what happened, you know, look at the UK, lackluster growth.
00:30:12.840So I just, I believe he should be championing democratic values and giving the people of Canada the choice on what they want to do with their own policy and their natural resources.
00:30:36.460Hey, welcome back to Your Letters to Me.
00:30:39.180I was on Tim Poole's broadcast last night.
00:30:41.960I actually zipped down to Washington and back overnight so fast you didn't even miss me.
00:31:19.360If we didn't have an alternative venue, the entire event would have been canceled.
00:31:23.360Well, that's interesting because in our case here in Canada, we had a great contract with the venue operator who was fairly brave, I guess.
00:31:32.640He just didn't know that he would be fighting against the government.
00:31:35.640He thought he would be fighting against some Antifa threateners or something.
00:31:40.940Yeah, but we had a rock-solid contract that the government tried to induce a breach of.
00:31:47.680Mary Petit says, Sue Demestra, how does someone like Yara Sachs get elected?
00:31:51.800Are the people in her riding out to lunch?
00:31:53.800Well, believe it or not, I live in her riding.