00:06:37.440I mean, last year, Elon Musk complained out loud that he actually didn't have political power, that his ideas were not being followed by Trump.
00:06:44.640And Trump immediately sacked him and exiled them from the White House.
00:06:57.320It's true, as the Globe and Mail notes, that Musk has billions of dollars in revenues from the government.
00:07:02.340They say, Mr. Musk disparages big government while gorging on at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits, often at critical moments.
00:07:12.700That makes it sound like some sort of Canadian arrangement where we give companies corporate welfare.
00:07:19.580I think that's called projection by the Globe and Mail.
00:07:22.940Musk sells his services to the U.S. government, including building a military satellite system called Starshield, which is the military equivalent of Starlink, his internet satellite company.
00:07:35.640He's the best in the world at that, and its value is being proven over Ukraine.
00:07:41.140Ukraine could not have a drone army were it not for Starshield.
00:07:44.460musk sends more cargo into space than every other space company rocket company or country
00:07:53.160combined times 10 and because he reuses his rockets it's so much cheaper than anyone else0.99
00:08:01.020imagine no elon musk china would by far be the world's leader in space nasa is a big dumb0.73
00:08:07.720government agency oh and by the way it's very jealous listen to nasa's aging celebrities0.92
00:12:14.400You might have thought the world's richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history's biggest IPO, yet he has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking up racial hatred in Britain on his social media site.
00:18:14.860It's in the middle of its worst crime wave ever.
00:18:16.700They are not using the kind of long arms that ranchers have or that a duck hunter says, let's go hunting.
00:18:25.000The crime in the big cities is almost exclusively done with illegal firearms smuggling from the states that simply is not touched by these laws.
00:18:37.840Basically, this is a boutique issue for the Liberal Party of Canada and other progressive parties in Canada.
00:18:44.280And really, all over the Western world, it's the same in the United States, overseas, UK, Australia, which have seen similar bans and similar attempts at confiscations.
00:18:55.560So does this have any basis in public safety?
00:19:03.260And unfortunately, Canadians have to suffer because of it.
00:19:06.200Now, this firearms ban and the buyback and a lot of these schemes have been kicking around for years.
00:19:12.780I mean, Justin Trudeau certainly leaned on this.
00:19:15.480Tell us about this latest firearms ban that is sort of on hold.
00:19:21.340This is being litigated, and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear it.
00:19:25.140By the way, for folks who don't know, you generally do not have the right to have a case heard by the Supreme Court.
00:19:31.300I think if you were convicted of murder, you do.
00:19:33.640But other than that, I don't think anyone else has the right to say,
00:19:36.880I demand for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court.
00:19:39.600they're quite picky and choosy about the court the cases they take they typically only take ones
00:19:44.800that will have national public policy ramifications or if there's two different streams of thought
00:19:50.460emerging from different provinces so if in the west the law is this interpretation in the east
00:19:55.340it's that the supreme court will want to clarify it so this is it's a big deal that the that the
00:20:00.420supreme court has said yeah we're going to hear it tell us a little bit about uh that and i understand
00:20:05.920it's going to happen sometime next year but fill us in a little bit on on that supreme court battle
00:20:10.560yeah uh this is an important property rights issue okay and frankly what the liberals have
00:20:17.620done with these uh bands with the orders in council uh the first one was in may 2020
00:20:22.600uh second december 2024 and uh the last in march of 2025 uh what they've done here is really
00:20:31.080unprecedented. They have targeted hundreds of thousands, if not millions of firearms,
00:20:38.140private property of Canadians and demanded that they be turned in at some point. Compensation
00:20:44.620paid, maybe, you know, if you're lucky, it's not guaranteed, but it really is unprecedented. And
00:20:50.680maybe the Supreme Court saw it in that manner and decided that it was worthy of consideration.
00:20:57.620Yeah. You know, the buyback, in some ways, it's appealing because it feels voluntary. I mean, someone chooses to sell their gun. So theoretically, they're getting some sort of compensation.
00:21:24.780Does it imply that the price is wrong?
00:21:27.680Does it imply that no one trusts the government, that people don't want to give up their guns?
00:21:32.440Why have the – or were the liberals just, you know, fooling themselves and thinking Canadians don't want – why is it that they have failed?
00:21:41.120Like, what's the technical reason, do you think?
00:21:43.300Well, it implies that the entire program, the entire concept of this is patently offensive and has been rejected by Canadians.
00:21:53.000I mean, it boggles the mind that the Liberals thought it was a good idea to do something like this, especially in the scope and the scale that they did it.
00:22:04.100But the fact of the matter is there's a lot of parallels with the old long gun registry.
00:22:08.620And, of course, at that time, the government demanded that Canadians register their rifles and shotguns.
00:22:14.780A lot of people, probably the majority of firearms owners in Canada, saw this as a prelude to confiscation.
00:22:21.240And I think that's been confirmed by recent liberal actions on this.
00:22:26.880They are certainly using old long gun registry data to target owners.
00:22:30.520um so i think a lot of the uh a lot of the uh predictions that we made uh back when uh the
00:22:38.600long gun registry battle was going on have come true today um generally speaking uh canadians
00:22:44.200have contempt for this program uh they very much believe in their rights and freedoms and the right
00:22:49.680to keep property like this uh lawfully acquired property don't forget all of these firearms are
00:22:55.700owned by licensed firearms owners i mean they're not just wandering out there in the street they
00:22:59.760You know, they were not purchased unlawfully or owned unlawfully.
00:23:04.660These are the property of licensed firearms owners and the contempt that the liberals are demonstrating for those people, those Canadians and taxpayers in general with this program is it will not be forgotten.
00:23:18.440You know, if you start to get worried about your civil liberties in Canada, you start to notice things.
00:23:25.600For example, I think a lot of Canadians were shocked when the government declared a national emergency, invoked the Emergencies Act, and seized and froze bank accounts of hundreds of their peaceful critics with no judicial process at all.
00:23:49.840And then you see the new bill introduced just yesterday by the liberals requiring people to show ID to get onto social media.
00:23:58.560They're framing it as keeping kids off, but that means adults have to prove who they are when they log on.
00:24:05.360And, you know, I hear from my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed that in Quebec, the government is proactively calling spouses of gun owners just to say, hey, any spousal assaults lately?
00:24:17.600like just the most astonishing violations of privacy and and that's the most bizarre and then
00:24:23.460throw on their censor so between the violation of privacy the violation of property rights and
00:24:29.700the removal of basic rule of law in the emergencies act and by the way even though two courts have
00:24:38.160ruled that illegal the government insists on appealing so i think if you look at all these
00:24:42.040things together there's cause for concern and uh i think that that is the real motivation for the
00:24:50.280liberals is they want to weaken our our strength as individuals and strengthen their powers as an
00:24:58.520authoritarian state they have authoritarian tendencies that's my view and i'm not a gun
00:25:02.520owner but that's how it looks like to me from the outside yeah you're absolutely right i mean this
00:25:07.660is a very statist liberal party uh it's very extreme in a lot of its views uh it has adopted
00:25:14.680a lot of very concerning uh programs and agendas that i think are rejected by most canadians
00:25:22.060and uh you know uh firearms owners have always felt themselves to be the canary in the coal mine
00:25:27.680you know a lot of canadians think well oh you know gun control we need gun control and a few
00:25:32.280people have to be inconvenienced you know that's too bad uh we'll accept uh you know the uh we'll
00:25:38.920accept the assault on our liberties and the predictions that certainly we made 20 30 years
00:25:44.600ago are all coming true today i think a lot of people have woken up i think there's a lot of
00:25:49.300concern don't forget that this gun confiscation program is not supported by the majority of
00:25:55.140provinces in canada right it is not it is not supported by the majority of law enforcement
00:25:59.980Right, right. You know what? You're so right. And including some surprisingly large police forces whose members say, you know, we're not going to waste our time on that. We're actually going to go after the bad guys. I mean, I mean, I live in a city with a massive crime wave right now. And the idea that this would be a policing priority is so far from common sense. I think even when police say this is a stunt, I'm not going to waste my time on it. You know that things have gone off the rails.
00:26:25.940Blair, thanks for the refresher course on this. I think some of our viewers are like me. They're not gun owners, but they understand gun ownership and its importance. And some are like my colleague Sheila, who it's part of their culture, it's part of their family, it's part of their history, and they know more than the rest of us what a foolish law this is.
00:26:46.340So thanks for the briefing, and we'll keep in touch, and we'll look with interest on the Supreme Court case when it finally comes down.
00:26:52.700Yes, this is a Canadian right and cultural tradition. Okay, and we've been celebrating that since Confederation. I think the Liberals have made a very bad mistake here. But unfortunately, we're just going to have to see how this plays out in the year or years ahead.
00:27:09.780you know i read a lot online from uh official commentators and from amateur individuals
00:27:18.760about elon musk's ipo making him a trillionaire and one guy said he doesn't mind living in a
00:27:26.000society where uh someone who is sending rockets into space and will put people on mars and is
00:27:32.740building robots that that's the guy to become a trillionaire he sort of feels like yeah that's
00:27:38.680it ought to be i mean what's the alternative some saudi prince some tyrant or dictator i mean who
00:27:46.600would you rather have as the first trillionaire in the world it's sort of fitting and i think it's
00:27:51.960i think he's right that's our show for the day until next time on behalf of all of us here at
00:27:57.720at Rubber World Headquarters to you at home.
00:27:59.500Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.