EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump's bravado overpowers Trudeau's WEIRD male feminism
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Who's a greater threat to Canada's identity: Donald Trump or the people who would rename the John A. Macdonald School? Ezra LeVant answers that question and much more on this episode of The Ezra LeeVant Show.
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Hello, my friends. Three more schools in Canada will have their names changed, including the Sir John A. MacDonald School.
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Tonight, who's a greater threat to Canada's identity, Donald Trump or those who would rename the John A. Macdonald School?
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It's January 30th and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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I keep thinking about that poll I showed you the other day that showed that many young Canadians,
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especially young Canadian men, are open to taking Donald Trump's banter about becoming the 51st state.
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The pull is that America is rich and about to get richer.
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And Trump is a charismatic, decisive leader who is racking up wins every day.
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But he's winning not just for himself, but for his entire country.
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I don't know if you saw it, but just yesterday, they announced they're going to turn Guantanamo Bay
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into a 30,000-person prison for the worst of the worst illegal migrants.
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Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security
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to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.
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Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust the countries to hold them
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because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.
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This will double our capacity immediately, right?
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Today's signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime
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And it was just a purely, it's just an unforced error that we even have to be doing this.
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Now we need Congress to provide full funding for the complete and total restoration of our sovereign borders
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as well as financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens.
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No real person disagrees with that other than some woke media.
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Trump is doing 10 dramatic things like that every day.
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He is a man of action and he's a businessman at heart.
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What young man wouldn't find that inspiring, more inspiring than Trudeau's weird male feminism
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or Mark Carney's blathering about how we need a carbon budget or whatever buzzword he's using now
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to describe how we have to pay taxes to change the weather, but somehow China doesn't.
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Now, so far, carbon prices have been applied sparingly.
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In the single digits on average globally, well shorted the estimated $8,200 a ton needed by the end of this decade
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Yeah, the carbon taxes are not really about changing the weather.
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It's about controlling you and enriching them and about giving China a competitive advantage over the West.
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So the pull of joining the U.S. said Donald Trump really is making America great again.
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You might not like all his plans to annex Greenland.
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I love that some pundits are calling it red, white, and blue land.
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Or that Trump insists on retaking the Panama Canal.
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But it's decisive and bold and action-oriented and it's about not being pushed around anymore.
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I think the clearest moment was when Colombia's little socialist president refused to allow two flights of illegal migrants being repatriated back from America.
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In response, Trump just detonated Colombia, canceled 1,500 visa interviews that were scheduled, announced huge tariffs,
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announced a ban on anyone involved in that government and even their family members from coming to America.
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Colombia's socialist president capitulated in less than an hour.
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You know that Joe Biden would have just accepted that indignity and Kamala Harris to, again, compare that kind of leadership to Justin Trudeau
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or the U.K.'s Keir Starmer or France's Emmanuel Macron.
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That's why people like Jordan Peterson are successful.
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They're reminding men, especially young men, about the virtues and responsibilities of being manly.
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That's the reason why people in Canada might actually want to join the U.S.
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But at the same time as all that pull, there's never been more push, as in Trudeau and Carney and Freeland pushing Canadians towards the U.S.
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Oh, by the way, have you forgotten that the carbon tax is actually scheduled to go up again on April 1st?
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And even the so-called conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, what's his great masculine way to fight back against Trump?
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By borrowing billions of dollars to just sort of fire hose money at people?
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You tell me if you understand the great conservative plan that Doug Ford is selling in this video.
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We'll redouble our efforts to build Ontario's economy.
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We will do whatever it takes to protect workers and their livelihoods.
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We will invest tens of billions of dollars in new spending to keep people working.
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We will work with unions and businesses to retain and reskill our hardest hit workers.
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And as we do, we need to do everything possible to keep our economy competitive.
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We'll keep up the fight against the job-killing liberal carbon tax.
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And we're urging the federal government to join us in cutting red tape and streamlining approvals to get big things built faster.
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Yeah, Trump is winning in substance but also aesthetics.
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Also, what it all comes down to is creating opportunities for our citizens.
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or maybe you like this guy that's mark carney with jeffrey epstein's right-hand woman gilaine
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maxwell it could be called unpatriotic to abandon your country for another country that's literally
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the definition of the world word unpatriotic but what if the country you're in tells you not to be
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patriotic what if the country you're in right now the country you're born in tells you not to love
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your homeland that there's no purpose or essence to it because that's actually the push trump and
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america are pulling like a giant magnet but that sort of always happens the brain drain to america
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but what is canada doing i've listed some of the things before you've heard me say it before
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i mean the narrative that we are overseeing a genocide against indigenous people not just
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historically but in the present day too that's what trudeau says that's what the former chief
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justice of our supreme court this chinese agent beverly mclaughlin says that's what every land
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acknowledgement implicitly says that's what anyone who says turtle island means what people who call
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you and i settlers mean they say canada is not legitimate not moral even not legal they say we're
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criminal they say we're racist trudeau recently announced his so-called black justice strategy in
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in canada canada doesn't have a major black presence during the time of slavery canada was the
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destination of the underground railroad where black slaves ran away to be free black slavery was not
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an issue here it was abolished by the british empire in canada long before canada became a country
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and it wasn't even a fact on the ground there were precisely 16 black people in toronto according
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to a census when when slavery was banned in canada it wasn't a thing slavery in canada was actually
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mainly one indigenous band enslaving another sorry to report that to you that's that's how it was
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but trudeau's black justice strategy not only enshrines different rights rights based on different
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races and privileges black canadians but it calls for black reparations in canada how
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yeah you're trying too hard to copy the worst parts of the u.s democratic race huckster scheme
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up here we don't have that problem please don't import it or manufacture it we don't have the
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same history or problems as america we have problems of our own of course everyone knows
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that this whole black lives matter thing is an american project everyone can see how the government
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pitting us against each other and paying us to hate each other that is a woke project that's not
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who we are as canadians and trudeau does it on sex and on race and on religion and now on
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transgenderism he's trying to pit us against each other our history is denigrated sir john a mcdonald
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is stripped off our money any history has been stripped out of our passports replaced by generic
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graphics not that we're even taught history anymore and then there's that constant scolding
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about canadians being something shameful it never stops trudeau has never in his life apologized
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for something that he has done not once even when he went on the u.s tv station to say why he was
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quitting remember he hit the american circuit he said he was going to resign as prime minister not
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because he did anything wrong but because his fellow mps were quarreling nothing he did it's always the
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other guy remember this i think it's probably a bit of everything i mean right now there's a there's a
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political cycle where incumbents particularly those who steered us through covid i mean canada did
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extraordinarily well through covid you know better than just about every other tier tens of thousands
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less fewer deaths proportionately than than than our our our friends and allies around the world
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um we inflation hit less hard our economy bounced back faster it was good but there is still a lingering
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frustration towards incumbents and for me where i lean in on is all the good things we were able to do
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we've put forward policies that are going to make a difference for decades to come in canada and i
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think right now we're seeing a time in politics where emotions and social media is carrying an awful
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lot of weight in how people feel about things but i'm always going to lean back on what are the
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substantive things that are being done what are the substantive measures that make a big difference in
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people's lives and standing up for the vulnerable supporting people who need it building an economy
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that works for the middle class these are things that ultimately make the biggest difference in
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people's lives oh but trudeau will always apologize for canada and how racist and sexist we are
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not him just you and me so yeah trump pulls and trudeau and his mini me's christian freeland and mark
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carney they push they're pushing people out they're denigrating canada they're devaluing it
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here's the latest look at this story in the national post and other places ryerson and mcdonald
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schools to be renamed in toronto tdsb the tdsb the largest public school board in canada
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embarked upon a proactive review of the names of all schools under his purview
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the toronto district school board will change the names of three public schools commemorating
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henry dundas egerton ryerson and sir john a mcdonald
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says who by what right this recommendation is based on the potential impact that these names
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may have on students and staff based on colonial history anti-indigenous racism and their connection
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to systems systems of oppression says a report from board staff i clicked on that link and i read
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that semi-literate report here it is you can find it pretty quickly yourself
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it feels like it was written by a low iq activist based off some google searches seriously you know
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i'm not saying i'm smarter than anyone but even i know that sir john a mcdonald's last name doesn't
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have a capital d in it that's not that's not a super important thing to know i know that's a small thing
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in this conversation but if you don't know how to spell sir john a mcdonald i'm going to say that
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you're probably not an expert in sir john a mcdonald you probably just started thinking about this last
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week when you got some racism grant and then you went to wikipedia or something
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they don't know how to spell john a mcdonald we're a country that destroys its own history at least the
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taliban when they destroy statues they destroy the other guys statues the statues of their enemies not
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their own we destroy our own don't we and the worst of all is conservative doug ford who has put the
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sir john a mcdonald statue at his legislature queen queen's park in a wooden coffin he lacks the courage
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to take it down completely like the toronto schools but he also lacks the courage to stand by it
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oh but hey guys he's our fighter though just ask him this is so gross and it is speeding up look life
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is always about choices and paths when donald trump says hey come join us in america the first response
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the first instinct is to be shocked by the audacity of it but i think for a lot of canadians the second
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instinct is to consider the offer on its merits trump says he'll give us a lot of free stuff he'll
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convert the dollars at par in 2025 what does it mean to offer a young person life in canada or life in
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america trudeau and the army of woke politicians and bureaucrats who follow after him they've destroyed
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so much of the value proposition of being canadian i don't just mean money of course we're poor now
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many young people can't afford a home now crime is high now you have to wait in line behind 4.9 million
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migrants to get a doctor we have hamas hate marches on our streets but most of all we have had a decade
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of being told canada is actually ugly and evil and shameful and embarrassing in a way it took trump to
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wake us up to that i think mark carney will be chosen as the next liberal leader he'll be chosen
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by 14 year old non-citizens many of whom aren't even real people they're bots run by china and iran we
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know that because that's who interfered in the last election according to ceases so mark carney will
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rule over us as long as he can and he'll obviously strike any deal with jagmeet singh singh perhaps the
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most promiscuous political deal maker in canadian history he'll do anything and the cbc will abide
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all of it they'll go to absolute war on the rest of us but i think polyev will still win in october
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i think pierre polyev is going to win we should have an election now but our political system is
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so much weaker than america's when it comes to checks and balances doesn't it pierre polyev i
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believe will be our prime minister before the year is out and if not then we really could be swallowed
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up by trump if polyev becomes our prime minister he's got to do what trump is doing he's got to stop
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the madness in our schools and in our bureaucracies he's got to issue orders that cancel funding to any
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institution that wants to replace sir john mcdonald or any other canadian historical figure
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they've got to be told they will immediately lose any federal funds they'll just have it suspended
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polyev's got to be like trump that way no debate no pleading just cut him off and let him squawk it's
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the only language they understand and it's the only language the rest of us will understand to show
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the polyev is serious about stopping the slow national suicide our country has been subjected to
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hey welcome back you know i was in the united states i was in washington dc on inauguration day the 20th of
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january is very exciting i was there a day early uh because i managed to arrange an interview with
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alberta premier danielle smith now i wanted to play a short clip of that i don't think i've told you
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that my luggage had been detained so i had to interview her in sort of my casual clothes that i
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wore on the plane i'm a little embarrassed about that but here's just a quick recap of some of the
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things she said to me when i met with her for about 20 minutes on that busy day we're here in
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washington dc you back-to-back meetings thanks for jamming me in is there any news that you were able
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to communicate back home how is it going well i i can tell you we've got a lot of friends in america
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i think that uh every person i've spoken with has uh has either canadian friends or canadian neighbors
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there's lots of snowbirds down here there's a really strong awareness of canada and i i feel like
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if we build on the the relationship that we have developed over not just uh literally decades but
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over a century i think is a good starting ground to to start from i i won't know um what the tariff
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situation looks like until we see what the executive orders look like uh but i i think we have a very
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strong case to make about why canada should get a car vote whatever strategy the the president has
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with regard to tariffs or the rest of the world canada is unique we have an integrated economy we buy
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more american products than anyone else in the world and when you take out energy we actually
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have a trade surplus um the americans have a trade surplus with canada we buy more american goods and
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services from them than they buy from us so those are the kinds of messages that i'm bringing down
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here i hope it has some impact you sound like a foreign minister or an ambassador yet you're the
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premier of a province can i ask you is the federal government is trudeau's government is
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melanie jolie is dominique leblanc are they deployed here is there anyone else working the
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rooms on behalf of canada or is it just you and your team i haven't seen any any canadians who are
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here from official in an official role from the federal government i don't know that they will
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tomorrow i'll be going to the canadian embassy as the change to the inauguration has been moved
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indoors we'll be watching the inauguration from the embassy and i'll be able to have more
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conversations there but my view has always been if you're going to be diplomatic lead with diplomacy
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lead with a relationship lead with common interests lead with talking about what the
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americans benefit from their relationship with canada so i've taken a bit of a departure i think
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from our federal counterparts but i think it's the right one i think that this is going to be the way
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that that we ensure that the relationship does not get damaged as the federal liberals are going
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through their inner party turmoil that's the thing i find uh so sort of stressing is that
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they're not taking a canada first approach they're taking a liberal party first approach
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they're they're turning the uh the americans and the trump administration into in particular
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into um into the bad guys so that they can campaign against uh against them for the for
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their own personal political benefit and that is not good for the country so we're putting the
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country first we're putting the relationship first and we we hope that we end up with a positive
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outcome it was sort of exciting to meet with her and i didn't describe this part of it
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uh we were at a hotel conference room in the heart of washington dc and she had this large
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conference room and all sorts of advisors and she was putting through meetings as fast as possible
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like i had to get in and get out in 20 minutes i couldn't be late at all i couldn't stretch it
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another minute and she obviously went to capitol hill as well i saw her the next day on the 20th
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at a inaugural ball event again schmoozing with different political people journalists making
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the case she was tightly scheduled she was meeting many powerful people i have to guess
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that she has met more than 100 people from secretary of state rubio down to oil and gas lobbies to
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donald trump himself on a brief occasion can you say the same for justin trudeau other than his one
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jaunt down to mar-a-lago where are the other premiers where is our foreign minister she had a quick
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meeting with rubio today i think it was or yesterday hardly doing anything danielle smith has carried the
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entire diplomatic force of our country for the last two months on this issue and you know what
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thank goodness she has imagine if justin trudeau had been the irritating face of canada in capitol hill
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these last two months joining me now to talk about danielle smith the looming tariffs and justin
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trudeau's failures is our friend lauren gunter senior columnist with the edmonton sun who joins us now
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via skype from edmonton law and great to see you again good to see you it was very exciting to see
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danielle smith just operating and there was james rajat who's sort of alberta's ambassador i mean
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country provinces don't really have ambassadors but he's alberta's man down there it was like she
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wasn't just wandering around aimlessly she had a team just cranking these officials through it was
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sort of exciting to see that a premier from i mean alberta is an important place but it felt like i was in
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the presence of a world leader i'm just telling you how it felt aesthetically and just to be
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in this buzzy place that's how it felt yeah you know they've been very very professional in all of
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this uh and they've been grown up like everybody else including doug ford from ontario who you would
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hope would know better but doesn't uh they've said look the americans have some complaints let's deal
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with the complaints let's see how far we can get by answering their concerns about illegal drugs
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entering their country from canada about illegal immigrants entering their country let's do that
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first yeah before we go into this head-to-head dollar-for-dollar tariff war we're gonna get in
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a big fight with the americans yeah the liberals can't resist that because they have to raise
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their popularity in the polls uh and they also have just an innate hatred for trump yeah so he says
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something and they just immediately jump off like this this whole thing started because trudeau went
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down to mar-a-lago and trump kidded him about maybe becoming the 51st state and trudeau threw his
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hands in the air and oh my god they're telling that they don't recognize our sovereignty blah blah blah
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oh please if they had just all acted like smith yeah and and been more grown up about this we would
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not be in this mess now yeah howard litnick who's the uh treasury secretary nominee by trump
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said yesterday well so that would be uh wednesday of this week at his hearing before the senate that
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now we don't want to impose tariffs on canada if they sort out the border concerns that we have we
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won't have to do any of these we might later on this year look at some tariffs if we think they're
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engaging in illegal or or unscrupulous uh trade practices but we don't want to put tariffs on
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them so we won't if they deal with their border which exactly proves smith's point yeah and that
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is if we had simply acted like grown-ups in all of this and negotiated with the americans for a
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settlement on the border security they wouldn't be as upset as they are and i would say canada would
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be better off too uh if if we upped our border security we're going to be safer yeah i want to
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play a short clip of that uh howard litnick i think he's one of the most important people in
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trump's orbit i think he was the head of the transition team for trump so he actually led the
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picking of all the other guys and then he became commerce secretary which is i mean as they say the
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business of america is business he has strong views on things he's a consummate businessman he was a
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ceo of canter fitzgerald a major uh investment firm was actually devastated on 9-11 and he has
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he lost his brother on that day so he has a lot of views on freedom and terrorism and um so so he cares
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about terrorists crossing borders more than someone else would and anyhow let me play a clip from
00:28:17.040
when he speaks i think people should listen and he's speaking so plainly here he was talking to
00:28:22.620
michigan senator who was worried and the michigan senator let me play a bit of a clip said he was
00:28:28.220
worried about sanctions on the canadian side of the auto sector he said because we're so integrated
00:28:33.080
so here you have a senator from michigan saying hey lutnik i love you but don't hurt the auto sector
00:28:39.380
watch this exchange lauren i thought it was very illuminating take a look the short-term issue is
00:28:44.120
illegal migration and worse even still fentanyl coming into this country and killing over 100 000
00:28:51.860
americans there's no war we could have that would kill 100 000 americans the president is focused on
00:28:58.680
ending fentanyl coming into the country you know that the uh labs in canada are run by mexican cartels
00:29:06.640
so the this tariff model is simply to shut their borders with respect respect america if we are your
00:29:14.580
biggest trading partner show us the respect shut your border and end fentanyl coming into this country
00:29:20.560
so it is not a tariff per se it is an action of domestic policy shut your border and stop allowing
00:29:29.220
fentanyl into our country killing our people so this is a separate tariff to create action from mexico
00:29:37.820
and action from canada and as far as i know they are acting swiftly and if they execute it there will be
00:29:44.700
no tariff and if they don't then there will be but it's an action-oriented model that's not it the
00:29:50.960
ordinary tariff the ordinary tariffs need to be studied and examined and that will start as the
00:29:57.060
eo said in april so that's a separate tariff correct after that study what would be the timeline of that
00:30:03.520
i think that's sort of in april those studies will come out in the end of march and april and then you'll
00:30:08.320
hear about those at that time so big macro issues with tariff are being studied but the micro issue
00:30:14.040
is canada and mexico and the precursors from china they need to end and we need to protect our americans
00:30:21.540
from fentanyl and our trading partners in canada and mexico they should end it and stop disrespecting
00:30:27.660
us and allowing this come through our borders well i think we all agree one secure borders i'm with you
00:30:31.920
all the way uh being a northern border state i a ranking member on homeland security we want to do that
00:30:36.940
my concern though is what's going to happen in the april time frame as to what could that mean in
00:30:41.980
terms of increased costs to americans if not properly implemented or properly thought through
00:30:48.280
what sort of assurances can you give us that we will not see that when that second set of tariffs
00:30:54.860
get implemented or if they get implemented but it sounds as if that's your plan well we are we are
00:31:01.300
going to study um those the actions and the economy of america and how it works but if you think about
00:31:08.600
it we need to grow domestic manufacturing as you said uh michigan is one of the great places where we
00:31:14.980
build things and the car manufacturing went to canada it went to mexico it is important that that come
00:31:21.060
back to michigan and come back to ohio and come back to the great states of america that can build
00:31:27.040
and so i think a thoughtful tariff policy that drives domestic manufacturing i think is fundamental
00:31:33.620
to the american workers especially to the workers in michigan now the thing about that is lutnik's a
00:31:39.160
businessman he's got a bit of a flair but he's a businessman first and foremost he doesn't enrage
00:31:44.800
liberals the same way trump does i think trump has a way of just making people go cuckoo and so you're
00:31:52.220
seeing everyone from trudeau to doug ford go cuckoo instead of lutnik speaking and saying look guys we
00:31:58.640
don't want to put tariffs on you just seal your border and and it goes away but everyone wants that
00:32:05.660
fight for their own personal reasons well you know marco rubio who's the incoming uh secretary of state and
00:32:12.740
was a senior senator from florida a very very smart guy uh he had said when he was a senator
00:32:20.060
hey i'm really worried about these 5 000 gazans that the canadians are letting in and this is since
00:32:27.560
the october 7th 2023 attacks against israel because they're going to let in these gazans because they
00:32:33.760
feel really sad for them and it's a really bad situation and and you know of course the the federal
00:32:39.680
liberal government can't stop calling the uh israelis occupiers and criminals um they're letting in
00:32:46.860
5 000 gazans but they're not doing proper security screening on them so we know we we can assume
00:32:53.840
that there'll be a fair number of hamas operatives in with this five five thousand and then they're
00:33:00.780
in canada they're right across the border from us what what do you think the chances are some of them
00:33:06.200
are going to sneak into the united states and commit terror acts so you know we may not be worried about
00:33:11.920
that as as a country officially that would make us look racist but uh but rubio was worried the
00:33:19.380
americans all know that this is taking place i'm sure the cia is aware of it as well i'm sure that
00:33:25.380
homeland security knows the national security agency in the united states and so they know that we have
00:33:32.160
a problem with our border and the liberals have been very unwilling to deal with it for a number of
00:33:38.900
reasons first of all it's not a woke issue right uh and they they love to do virtue signaling rather
00:33:45.580
than real policy but also they would have to admit that their criminal justice policies are wrong
00:33:52.560
that their immigration policies are wrong and when you consider that there is a big involvement
00:33:58.920
in drug smuggling in particular that involves first nations that straddle the border between canada
00:34:06.440
the united states you'd have to take your reconciliation policy and rejig it and they
00:34:12.380
don't want to do any of those things so so they have not for years dealt with any of the americans
00:34:19.160
concerns and now trump comes i don't think trump really means he wants to put 25 percent
00:34:24.880
terrorist he's he's a blowhard right that's how he negotiates he's he gets you at a table you want
00:34:31.680
to sell him 840 marble countertops for the bathrooms in his newest hotel and so he's going
00:34:38.140
to jerk you around and frighten you and make you think that you're not going to get the deal until
00:34:43.720
you cut him 15 off the top and then he says oh yeah we can do business with that and i think that's
00:34:49.340
where he's at with us he doesn't want to put tariffs on he he does like tariffs and i don't understand
00:34:55.740
that myself but he does like tariffs but i think really he said uh well let's just pick a number
00:35:01.620
out of the air that'll scare the canadians and the mexicans 25 seems like a good number we'll just say
00:35:07.980
we're going to put 25 tariffs on everything until they do what we tell them to do or do what we want
00:35:12.500
them to do and i i think that's exactly where we're at and i think as as you said early on in in in our
00:35:18.200
interview here danielle smith is the only one of the leaders in canada who has recognized that that's
00:35:24.640
what this is all about yeah and so let's deal with the core of his concerns and if he still imposes
00:35:30.620
tariffs that's fine then you know i'm okay with us bashing back at the americans we we have some
00:35:36.180
things that they really need we have some rare earth materials that they want for defense construction
00:35:42.420
and for electric vehicles we have a quarter of all of their gas their oil and gas that they import
00:35:49.240
okay not no sorry not that they import a quarter of all their oil and gas totally is imported from
00:35:56.380
canada four million barrels it's not a quarter of their imports it's a quarter of all of their
00:36:00.440
that's almost half their imports yeah we're we're a big supplier and so we do have some leverage but
00:36:06.200
let's not start doing that from day one like and let's not make alberta the punching bag which is
00:36:11.740
what the others want to do exactly let me show you i was very uh inspired by these photos that
00:36:17.380
danielle smith put up on her twitter feed this is some of the new sheriffs the new special border
00:36:22.160
patrol that is being deployed on the alberta montana border now the funny thing is and we were just saying
00:36:27.480
this before the interview that alberta montana border is not a hot spot for fentanyl and illegals
00:36:33.380
that's more the bc washington border and new york and and near the big cities near near toronto near
00:36:40.740
montreal near vancouver but the but it looks awesome and that is a visual language that trump speaks
00:36:47.540
that trump's border and immigration cars they will see those strong men in tactical gear with dogs with
00:36:57.120
drones and say ah those are my kind of guys like it's a visual communication of oh yeah okay good that
00:37:05.100
that that's secure because that's and that's what americans want to see and so danielle smith knows
00:37:10.920
what she's doing and sending melanie jolie who is perhaps the weakest cabinet minister and this is a
00:37:16.980
it's a real contest in the liberals who's the weakest cabinet minister and by the way i remember
00:37:22.240
marco rubio had harsh comments when justin trudeau praised fidel castro upon his death it was
00:37:28.180
particularly offensive to marco rubio who represents the cuban community
00:37:31.380
who is a cuban american yeah so very interesting days um hey you know when you were talking about
00:37:39.360
how trump negotiates i think we all know that and i have started to reread art of the deal i bought it
00:37:45.920
again yes because it's good to remember how trump operates he's pretty plain about it and here's a
00:37:51.580
phrase that i've used before and i bet you have too take trump seriously but not necessarily literally
00:37:59.760
correct and if you do that then you don't get hung up on the little flashy things no that's right you
00:38:06.440
just say well what does he actually want here and can and progressives progressives take him literally
00:38:13.260
but not seriously and that is their mistake like i you know we're talking about and i think it's i i'd like
00:38:20.960
to just get these points out here on on alberta so so far this year the and and the uh this is for
00:38:28.900
2024 statistics this this past year 2024 the u.s border patrol interdicted 2.87 pounds of fentanyl coming
00:38:42.220
from alberta like so under three pounds you you you take three bricks of butter we less fentanyl than
00:38:52.220
that went to the united states through alberta uh whereas back in november the rcmp discovered and
00:39:01.040
broke up the largest fentanyl super lab ever found in canada was in a place called falkland bc
00:39:07.900
which is an absolutely gorgeous location it's on a bench between kamloops and vernon it's surrounded
00:39:15.280
by peaks it is gorgeous in there but that lab had enough pre-material in it to manufacture 95
00:39:25.620
million doses wow of fentanyl yeah 95 and david eby by the way the premier bc he's the hard drug pusher
00:39:34.480
guy anyways so this would be a repudiation of his soft drugs priority and and so yes well you know
00:39:41.680
i'm glad that that the rcmp sent one of its two blackhawk helicopters to fly back and forth on the
00:39:47.960
300 kilometer border between alberta and montana but you know there's nothing going on there yeah
00:39:54.320
but it's one of those there's that song that used to be the the theme song for uh corner gas the the
00:40:00.740
great canadian comedy show uh where it says you can i can tell you my dog ran away i can tell you
00:40:06.440
that it took three days because it's so flat in saskatchewan yeah you can see anybody coming or
00:40:12.680
going for three days if they're on foot well it's the same at the montana alberta border if you if
00:40:18.280
you're coming up through sweetgrass which is the american side of of the coots border crossing and you
00:40:23.960
were on foot it seriously it would take you at least a week out in the open everyone would see
00:40:30.300
where you like i remember when i remember when the pandemic began we were in california with with
00:40:36.660
with my wife's father and mother-in-law and they were talking about how they should get back
00:40:44.520
and my my father-in-law said well i'm told that if we take our car we have to leave it at the border
00:40:52.900
and somebody has to come to the border from the canadian side and pick us up and i said to him
00:40:56.880
uh your car doesn't have covid they're not worried about that but but by the way where would they park
00:41:03.980
all those cars because there's 20 000 cars a day go through that border crossing so where would they
00:41:08.140
park all those cars and then i thought about it and i well yeah yeah there's miles and miles and
00:41:12.900
miles of nothing in northern montana i guess they could park a few hundred thousand vehicles in there but
00:41:18.140
but that's what makes it so difficult for the uh the smugglers and and the drug traffickers
00:41:26.100
the illegal immigrants who want to jump the border to go through any of the prairie yeah provinces
00:41:32.260
because there's it's so desolate that that you can be seen anywhere and so this helicopter flying
00:41:38.020
back and forth is going to see people who are trying to jump the border you know it's funny because
00:41:44.620
the three prairie i saw wab canoe actually spoke very nicely about strengthening the border and i i he
00:41:50.760
has exceeded my very low expectations let me throw one last thing at you because again we're canada so
00:41:57.040
whenever we're mentioned by an american we get all excited and it's the center of our lives i think
00:42:03.020
it's always been thus you know there was a sort of a saying that you can be very famous in canada
00:42:07.760
but until you're famous in the states people take you i mean that in music in comedy many of our
00:42:12.860
cultural celebrities we didn't respect them until they made it big in the states it's some it's a
00:42:17.960
touch of an inferiority complex i think in our country but i mean you've the whole world is riveted
00:42:23.740
by donald trump and he has been president for not even 10 days and he has done hundreds of executive
00:42:31.560
orders he has spoken with dozens of world leaders he's trying to negotiate peace between russia and
00:42:38.940
ukraine he's trying to negotiate a peace and abraham accords part two in the middle east he's trying to
00:42:46.380
deal with panama canal he's like he's got so much going on i hate to say it but canada is not his number
00:42:55.500
one thing no so he said this thing he loves the reaction he gets our country is thrown into a tizzy
00:43:02.840
and is it on his mind yeah a little bit but donald trump is not cackling about this all week long
00:43:10.000
he's doing a hundred other crisis things and and we just gotta calm down listen clearly what does he
00:43:17.840
want and what he's asking for us to do is not against our interests it's in our interests last word to
00:43:23.080
you lord yeah no i that's absolutely true if the the liberals would have to understand that having
00:43:30.160
opened our borders to any foreigner who wanted to come for the last four years and we now have over
00:43:38.440
five million people who've been added in the last four years to our to our population uh we're going
00:43:46.380
to have baddies in there but if you opened your borders to immigration because you felt this was
00:43:53.980
your moral obligation to the to the developing world or something of that sort uh and you're you're
00:43:59.580
so huge on multiculturalism you can't believe that there are any bad people in in that group of five
00:44:05.000
million people then you're naive and but the americans aren't naive because the americans have
00:44:09.240
real security issues yeah everybody in the world wants to take a shot at them yeah yeah and so you
00:44:15.600
know i i i think the only country in the world that has more security issues in the united states is
00:44:20.740
israel because everybody in their neighborhood wants them gone yeah uh so the the israelis are very
00:44:27.760
sensitive about this americans are very sensitive about this and we've not been sensitive at all and
00:44:32.800
now all those chickens are coming home to roost yeah well it's very interesting and you know the
00:44:38.220
trump said by january 20th and then he said by february 1st and boy everyone's he's throwing a cat
00:44:46.060
amongst the pigeons we'll see what actually happens but uh it's interesting to watch and i'm proud of
00:44:50.360
alberta i think alberta if anyone's going to save canada it'll be alberta and i don't think
00:44:54.920
danielle smith will give the thanks that she deserves lauren great to catch up with you
00:44:58.820
likewise there you have it lauren country senior columnist of the edmonton sun
00:45:19.480
001 dark cycle said if disinformation is the greatest threat then we need more extreme
00:45:26.240
transparency in government not censorship laws bound with loose language that can be interpreted
00:45:30.780
as a limit on free speech our canadian government is unfit to govern that word misinformation or fake
00:45:39.000
news it's so loosey-goosey who gets to decide what's true or not who gets to decide what opinion
00:45:45.120
is too far or not the government would seek to be the arbiter of truth it's a very dangerous thing
00:45:49.880
and by the way they often get it wrong happy days says sure there is no foreign interference in the
00:45:56.800
government because the entire government is at the behest of foreign interests so to them it's not
00:46:00.840
interference at all unless canadians complain that's the thing justin trudeau knew what was
00:46:07.360
happening the liberals knew what was happening the trudeau foundation had this special event where
00:46:14.860
a chinese communist party donor gave him i think it was a quarter million dollar check
00:46:18.520
this wasn't done secretly this was done boldly but trudeau was fine with it because he was the
00:46:24.540
chief beneficiary of it 72 pup6 says i'm voting for a new blue party of ontario they are much more
00:46:32.120
common sense conservative doug ford is more of a liberal he has to go well i am aware of smaller
00:46:39.140
more freedom-oriented parties derrick sloan randy hillier and like on the federal scene where you have
00:46:44.980
the people's party of canada there's a lot to commend the ideology the ideological purity of these
00:46:51.460
smaller parties the trouble is there is no way at all they're going to win the only choices for
00:46:58.580
winning provincially are conservative liberal or ndp the i mean maybe it's worth a protest vote to go for
00:47:06.180
a smaller more pure party maybe that's the right thing to do to show your disgust with doug ford
00:47:11.120
but i'm afraid just like the ppc it's a protest vote and it's an ideological vote but i don't think
00:47:19.220
mathematically it has a chance i like maxime bernier and i like derrick sloan and i don't have a strong
00:47:25.160
relationship with randy hillier but i know he's stood for freedom in the past i just think that in
00:47:29.960
our system you can have a small party that comes in second or third in a number of ridings and you get
00:47:37.100
nothing only in countries where they have proportional representation does coming in second or third
00:47:42.400
actually yield political power well that's our show for today until next time on behalf of all of us
00:47:47.900
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00:47:52.300
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