Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump's bravado overpowers Trudeau's WEIRD male feminism

00:00:00.180 Hello, my friends. Three more schools in Canada will have their names changed, including the Sir John A. MacDonald School.

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00:01:28.040 Tonight, who's a greater threat to Canada's identity, Donald Trump or those who would rename the John A. Macdonald School?

00:01:49.800 It's January 30th and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:52.380 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:02:07.100 I keep thinking about that poll I showed you the other day that showed that many young Canadians,

00:02:12.280 especially young Canadian men, are open to taking Donald Trump's banter about becoming the 51st state.

00:02:18.600 I think there's both push and pull there.

00:02:21.580 The pull is that America is rich and about to get richer.

00:02:24.860 And Trump is a charismatic, decisive leader who is racking up wins every day.

00:02:29.740 He's not emasculated.

00:02:31.440 He's manly in that sense.

00:02:33.980 But he's winning not just for himself, but for his entire country.

00:02:37.880 I don't know if you saw it, but just yesterday, they announced they're going to turn Guantanamo Bay

00:02:41.780 into a 30,000-person prison for the worst of the worst illegal migrants. 1.00

00:02:47.400 Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security

00:02:54.000 to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.

00:02:58.800 Most people don't even know about it.

00:03:01.200 We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. 0.92

00:03:09.740 Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust the countries to hold them

00:03:12.680 because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo. 0.61

00:03:17.280 This will double our capacity immediately, right?

00:03:20.460 And tough.

00:03:21.800 That's a tough place to get out of.

00:03:24.880 Today's signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime 1.00

00:03:29.740 in our communities once and for all.

00:03:32.180 And it was just a purely, it's just an unforced error that we even have to be doing this.

00:03:37.240 Now we need Congress to provide full funding for the complete and total restoration of our sovereign borders

00:03:44.040 as well as financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens.

00:03:48.720 No real person disagrees with that other than some woke media.

00:03:52.580 Trump is doing 10 dramatic things like that every day.

00:03:55.540 It's unbelievable.

00:03:56.800 He is a man of action and he's a businessman at heart.

00:03:59.940 What young man wouldn't find that inspiring, more inspiring than Trudeau's weird male feminism

00:04:06.120 or Mark Carney's blathering about how we need a carbon budget or whatever buzzword he's using now

00:04:12.080 to describe how we have to pay taxes to change the weather, but somehow China doesn't.

00:04:18.320 Did you see this clip?

00:04:19.080 Now, so far, carbon prices have been applied sparingly.

00:04:22.420 They've been set far too low.

00:04:23.880 In the single digits on average globally, well shorted the estimated $8,200 a ton needed by the end of this decade

00:04:32.060 to keep us on track to net zero.

00:04:34.280 Yeah, the carbon taxes are not really about changing the weather.

00:04:37.500 It's about controlling you and enriching them and about giving China a competitive advantage over the West. 0.93

00:04:43.560 I think a lot of us see that.

00:04:45.120 So the pull of joining the U.S. said Donald Trump really is making America great again.

00:04:50.560 You might not like all his plans to annex Greenland.

00:04:54.660 I love that some pundits are calling it red, white, and blue land.

00:04:58.360 That makes me laugh.

00:04:59.660 Or that Trump insists on retaking the Panama Canal.

00:05:03.740 America built it.

00:05:05.420 38,000 Americans died building it, in fact.

00:05:08.640 But it's decisive and bold and action-oriented and it's about not being pushed around anymore.

00:05:13.160 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.

00:05:24.260 In response, Trump just detonated Colombia, canceled 1,500 visa interviews that were scheduled, announced huge tariffs,

00:05:32.920 announced a ban on anyone involved in that government and even their family members from coming to America.

00:05:39.480 It was a full sanctions package.

00:05:41.180 Colombia's socialist president capitulated in less than an hour.

00:05:45.740 We told you about that the other day.

00:05:47.360 You know that Joe Biden would have just accepted that indignity and Kamala Harris to, again, compare that kind of leadership to Justin Trudeau

00:05:54.320 or the U.K.'s Keir Starmer or France's Emmanuel Macron.

00:05:58.880 Western civilization has been emasculated.

00:06:01.740 That's why people like Jordan Peterson are successful.

00:06:03.920 They're reminding men, especially young men, about the virtues and responsibilities of being manly.

00:06:09.320 So that's the pull.

00:06:11.340 That's the reason why people in Canada might actually want to join the U.S.

00:06:14.460 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.

00:06:24.280 Taxes.

00:06:25.020 Oh, by the way, have you forgotten that the carbon tax is actually scheduled to go up again on April 1st?

00:06:29.940 It just never stops.

00:06:32.380 And even the so-called conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, what's his great masculine way to fight back against Trump?

00:06:38.920 By borrowing billions of dollars to just sort of fire hose money at people?

00:06:43.920 How is that fighting?

00:06:44.880 I'm not exactly sure.

00:06:46.160 How does that fix a problem?

00:06:47.920 I don't know.

00:06:49.440 But that's my point.

00:06:50.280 Trump isn't just a masculine style.

00:06:53.360 He has leadership and action.

00:06:55.220 He's done stuff in his life.

00:06:57.000 He's got a plan.

00:06:58.660 Everyone can see it.

00:07:00.240 You tell me if you understand the great conservative plan that Doug Ford is selling in this video.

00:07:04.820 We'll redouble our efforts to build Ontario's economy.

00:07:08.260 We will do whatever it takes to protect workers and their livelihoods.

00:07:13.480 We will invest tens of billions of dollars in new spending to keep people working.

00:07:20.500 We will work with unions and businesses to retain and reskill our hardest hit workers.

00:07:26.100 And as we do, we need to do everything possible to keep our economy competitive.

00:07:32.440 We'll keep up the fight against the job-killing liberal carbon tax.

00:07:36.760 And we're urging the federal government to join us in cutting red tape and streamlining approvals to get big things built faster.

00:07:46.000 Yeah, Trump is winning in substance but also aesthetics.

00:07:48.500 Okay, let's do a go.

00:07:50.220 Come on, let's do a go. 0.79

00:07:51.660 Watch out.

00:07:53.460 Wait, wait, wait.

00:07:56.840 I mean, that was absolutely incredible.

00:08:08.100 And on the other hand, you've got this guy.

00:08:10.500 Also, what it all comes down to is creating opportunities for our citizens.

00:08:14.480 People are struggling with affordability.

00:08:16.400 Who sits like that?

00:08:18.380 Or maybe this woman. 1.00

00:08:21.960 or maybe you like this guy that's mark carney with jeffrey epstein's right-hand woman gilaine

00:08:47.300 maxwell it could be called unpatriotic to abandon your country for another country that's literally

00:08:53.240 the definition of the world word unpatriotic but what if the country you're in tells you not to be

00:09:00.640 patriotic what if the country you're in right now the country you're born in tells you not to love

00:09:07.440 your homeland that there's no purpose or essence to it because that's actually the push trump and

00:09:13.900 america are pulling like a giant magnet but that sort of always happens the brain drain to america

00:09:19.100 but what is canada doing i've listed some of the things before you've heard me say it before

00:09:23.700 i mean the narrative that we are overseeing a genocide against indigenous people not just

00:09:31.580 historically but in the present day too that's what trudeau says that's what the former chief

00:09:36.160 justice of our supreme court this chinese agent beverly mclaughlin says that's what every land

00:09:41.740 acknowledgement implicitly says that's what anyone who says turtle island means what people who call

00:09:47.320 you and i settlers mean they say canada is not legitimate not moral even not legal they say we're

00:09:54.200 criminal they say we're racist trudeau recently announced his so-called black justice strategy in

00:10:01.820 in canada canada doesn't have a major black presence during the time of slavery canada was the

00:10:11.200 destination of the underground railroad where black slaves ran away to be free black slavery was not

00:10:19.240 an issue here it was abolished by the british empire in canada long before canada became a country

00:10:24.040 and it wasn't even a fact on the ground there were precisely 16 black people in toronto according

00:10:29.980 to a census when when slavery was banned in canada it wasn't a thing slavery in canada was actually

00:10:35.920 mainly one indigenous band enslaving another sorry to report that to you that's that's how it was

00:10:42.180 but trudeau's black justice strategy not only enshrines different rights rights based on different

00:10:48.520 races and privileges black canadians but it calls for black reparations in canada how

00:10:55.680 yeah you're trying too hard to copy the worst parts of the u.s democratic race huckster scheme

00:11:00.380 up here we don't have that problem please don't import it or manufacture it we don't have the

00:11:06.100 same history or problems as america we have problems of our own of course everyone knows

00:11:12.120 that this whole black lives matter thing is an american project everyone can see how the government

00:11:16.460 pitting us against each other and paying us to hate each other that is a woke project that's not

00:11:21.320 who we are as canadians and trudeau does it on sex and on race and on religion and now on

00:11:26.720 transgenderism he's trying to pit us against each other our history is denigrated sir john a mcdonald 0.80

00:11:32.780 is stripped off our money any history has been stripped out of our passports replaced by generic

00:11:39.060 graphics not that we're even taught history anymore and then there's that constant scolding

00:11:45.120 about canadians being something shameful it never stops trudeau has never in his life apologized

00:11:50.480 for something that he has done not once even when he went on the u.s tv station to say why he was

00:11:57.580 quitting remember he hit the american circuit he said he was going to resign as prime minister not

00:12:02.000 because he did anything wrong but because his fellow mps were quarreling nothing he did it's always the

00:12:08.660 other guy remember this i think it's probably a bit of everything i mean right now there's a there's a

00:12:13.220 political cycle where incumbents particularly those who steered us through covid i mean canada did

00:12:18.640 extraordinarily well through covid you know better than just about every other tier tens of thousands

00:12:23.360 less fewer deaths proportionately than than than our our our friends and allies around the world

00:12:29.200 um we inflation hit less hard our economy bounced back faster it was good but there is still a lingering

00:12:37.160 frustration towards incumbents and for me where i lean in on is all the good things we were able to do

00:12:44.080 we've put forward policies that are going to make a difference for decades to come in canada and i

00:12:51.520 think right now we're seeing a time in politics where emotions and social media is carrying an awful

00:12:58.960 lot of weight in how people feel about things but i'm always going to lean back on what are the

00:13:05.080 substantive things that are being done what are the substantive measures that make a big difference in

00:13:10.040 people's lives and standing up for the vulnerable supporting people who need it building an economy

00:13:14.520 that works for the middle class these are things that ultimately make the biggest difference in

00:13:19.420 people's lives oh but trudeau will always apologize for canada and how racist and sexist we are

00:13:24.440 not him just you and me so yeah trump pulls and trudeau and his mini me's christian freeland and mark

00:13:32.200 carney they push they're pushing people out they're denigrating canada they're devaluing it

00:13:36.680 here's the latest look at this story in the national post and other places ryerson and mcdonald

00:13:43.260 schools to be renamed in toronto tdsb the tdsb the largest public school board in canada

00:13:49.360 embarked upon a proactive review of the names of all schools under his purview

00:13:53.440 the toronto district school board will change the names of three public schools commemorating

00:13:58.860 henry dundas egerton ryerson and sir john a mcdonald

00:14:02.500 says who by what right this recommendation is based on the potential impact that these names

00:14:10.940 may have on students and staff based on colonial history anti-indigenous racism and their connection

00:14:16.020 to systems systems of oppression says a report from board staff i clicked on that link and i read

00:14:24.180 that semi-literate report here it is you can find it pretty quickly yourself

00:14:28.560 it feels like it was written by a low iq activist based off some google searches seriously you know

00:14:36.500 i'm not saying i'm smarter than anyone but even i know that sir john a mcdonald's last name doesn't

00:14:42.340 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

00:14:47.100 in this conversation but if you don't know how to spell sir john a mcdonald i'm going to say that

00:14:55.100 you're probably not an expert in sir john a mcdonald you probably just started thinking about this last

00:15:01.020 week when you got some racism grant and then you went to wikipedia or something

00:15:05.900 they don't know how to spell john a mcdonald we're a country that destroys its own history at least the 0.84

00:15:13.740 taliban when they destroy statues they destroy the other guys statues the statues of their enemies not

00:15:18.700 their own we destroy our own don't we and the worst of all is conservative doug ford who has put the

00:15:26.340 sir john a mcdonald statue at his legislature queen queen's park in a wooden coffin he lacks the courage

00:15:35.180 to take it down completely like the toronto schools but he also lacks the courage to stand by it

00:15:40.700 oh but hey guys he's our fighter though just ask him this is so gross and it is speeding up look life

00:15:48.540 is always about choices and paths when donald trump says hey come join us in america the first response

00:15:56.140 the first instinct is to be shocked by the audacity of it but i think for a lot of canadians the second

00:16:03.440 instinct is to consider the offer on its merits trump says he'll give us a lot of free stuff he'll

00:16:10.680 convert the dollars at par in 2025 what does it mean to offer a young person life in canada or life in

00:16:19.800 america trudeau and the army of woke politicians and bureaucrats who follow after him they've destroyed

00:16:26.640 so much of the value proposition of being canadian i don't just mean money of course we're poor now

00:16:34.000 many young people can't afford a home now crime is high now you have to wait in line behind 4.9 million

00:16:39.920 migrants to get a doctor we have hamas hate marches on our streets but most of all we have had a decade 0.62

00:16:45.800 of being told canada is actually ugly and evil and shameful and embarrassing in a way it took trump to

00:16:52.760 wake us up to that i think mark carney will be chosen as the next liberal leader he'll be chosen

00:16:57.920 by 14 year old non-citizens many of whom aren't even real people they're bots run by china and iran we

00:17:04.420 know that because that's who interfered in the last election according to ceases so mark carney will

00:17:10.540 rule over us as long as he can and he'll obviously strike any deal with jagmeet singh singh perhaps the

00:17:16.460 most promiscuous political deal maker in canadian history he'll do anything and the cbc will abide

00:17:22.000 all of it they'll go to absolute war on the rest of us but i think polyev will still win in october

00:17:28.940 i think pierre polyev is going to win we should have an election now but our political system is

00:17:34.540 so much weaker than america's when it comes to checks and balances doesn't it pierre polyev i

00:17:39.680 believe will be our prime minister before the year is out and if not then we really could be swallowed

00:17:46.040 up by trump if polyev becomes our prime minister he's got to do what trump is doing he's got to stop

00:17:53.900 the madness in our schools and in our bureaucracies he's got to issue orders that cancel funding to any

00:17:59.800 institution that wants to replace sir john mcdonald or any other canadian historical figure

00:18:05.800 they've got to be told they will immediately lose any federal funds they'll just have it suspended

00:18:11.920 polyev's got to be like trump that way no debate no pleading just cut him off and let him squawk it's

00:18:18.300 the only language they understand and it's the only language the rest of us will understand to show

00:18:23.560 the polyev is serious about stopping the slow national suicide our country has been subjected to 0.94

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00:19:29.440 hey welcome back you know i was in the united states i was in washington dc on inauguration day the 20th of

00:19:43.840 january is very exciting i was there a day early uh because i managed to arrange an interview with

00:19:49.760 alberta premier danielle smith now i wanted to play a short clip of that i don't think i've told you

00:19:54.060 that my luggage had been detained so i had to interview her in sort of my casual clothes that i

00:20:00.680 wore on the plane i'm a little embarrassed about that but here's just a quick recap of some of the

00:20:05.160 things she said to me when i met with her for about 20 minutes on that busy day we're here in

00:20:09.940 washington dc you back-to-back meetings thanks for jamming me in is there any news that you were able

00:20:15.900 to communicate back home how is it going well i i can tell you we've got a lot of friends in america

00:20:21.920 i think that uh every person i've spoken with has uh has either canadian friends or canadian neighbors

00:20:28.800 there's lots of snowbirds down here there's a really strong awareness of canada and i i feel like

00:20:34.680 if we build on the the relationship that we have developed over not just uh literally decades but

00:20:40.340 over a century i think is a good starting ground to to start from i i won't know um what the tariff

00:20:47.040 situation looks like until we see what the executive orders look like uh but i i think we have a very

00:20:52.080 strong case to make about why canada should get a car vote whatever strategy the the president has

00:20:56.820 with regard to tariffs or the rest of the world canada is unique we have an integrated economy we buy

00:21:02.980 more american products than anyone else in the world and when you take out energy we actually

00:21:08.700 have a trade surplus um the americans have a trade surplus with canada we buy more american goods and

00:21:13.720 services from them than they buy from us so those are the kinds of messages that i'm bringing down

00:21:17.820 here i hope it has some impact you sound like a foreign minister or an ambassador yet you're the

00:21:24.180 premier of a province can i ask you is the federal government is trudeau's government is

00:21:29.500 melanie jolie is dominique leblanc are they deployed here is there anyone else working the

00:21:35.120 rooms on behalf of canada or is it just you and your team i haven't seen any any canadians who are

00:21:41.960 here from official in an official role from the federal government i don't know that they will

00:21:45.660 tomorrow i'll be going to the canadian embassy as the change to the inauguration has been moved

00:21:50.360 indoors we'll be watching the inauguration from the embassy and i'll be able to have more

00:21:54.100 conversations there but my view has always been if you're going to be diplomatic lead with diplomacy

00:21:59.280 lead with a relationship lead with common interests lead with talking about what the

00:22:04.100 americans benefit from their relationship with canada so i've taken a bit of a departure i think

00:22:08.800 from our federal counterparts but i think it's the right one i think that this is going to be the way

00:22:12.560 that that we ensure that the relationship does not get damaged as the federal liberals are going

00:22:18.380 through their inner party turmoil that's the thing i find uh so sort of stressing is that

00:22:22.620 they're not taking a canada first approach they're taking a liberal party first approach

00:22:26.800 they're they're turning the uh the americans and the trump administration into in particular

00:22:31.220 into um into the bad guys so that they can campaign against uh against them for the for

00:22:36.820 their own personal political benefit and that is not good for the country so we're putting the

00:22:40.460 country first we're putting the relationship first and we we hope that we end up with a positive

00:22:44.800 outcome it was sort of exciting to meet with her and i didn't describe this part of it

00:22:48.840 uh we were at a hotel conference room in the heart of washington dc and she had this large

00:22:56.040 conference room and all sorts of advisors and she was putting through meetings as fast as possible

00:23:01.720 like i had to get in and get out in 20 minutes i couldn't be late at all i couldn't stretch it

00:23:07.820 another minute and she obviously went to capitol hill as well i saw her the next day on the 20th

00:23:13.800 at a inaugural ball event again schmoozing with different political people journalists making

00:23:20.980 the case she was tightly scheduled she was meeting many powerful people i have to guess

00:23:28.060 that she has met more than 100 people from secretary of state rubio down to oil and gas lobbies to

00:23:36.940 donald trump himself on a brief occasion can you say the same for justin trudeau other than his one

00:23:44.940 jaunt down to mar-a-lago where are the other premiers where is our foreign minister she had a quick

00:23:50.940 meeting with rubio today i think it was or yesterday hardly doing anything danielle smith has carried the

00:24:00.400 entire diplomatic force of our country for the last two months on this issue and you know what

00:24:06.980 thank goodness she has imagine if justin trudeau had been the irritating face of canada in capitol hill

00:24:14.060 these last two months joining me now to talk about danielle smith the looming tariffs and justin

00:24:18.800 trudeau's failures is our friend lauren gunter senior columnist with the edmonton sun who joins us now

00:24:23.060 via skype from edmonton law and great to see you again good to see you it was very exciting to see

00:24:29.060 danielle smith just operating and there was james rajat who's sort of alberta's ambassador i mean

00:24:35.100 country provinces don't really have ambassadors but he's alberta's man down there it was like she

00:24:41.060 wasn't just wandering around aimlessly she had a team just cranking these officials through it was 1.00

00:24:48.580 sort of exciting to see that a premier from i mean alberta is an important place but it felt like i was in

00:24:54.300 the presence of a world leader i'm just telling you how it felt aesthetically and just to be

00:24:58.640 in this buzzy place that's how it felt yeah you know they've been very very professional in all of

00:25:06.060 this uh and they've been grown up like everybody else including doug ford from ontario who you would

00:25:14.320 hope would know better but doesn't uh they've said look the americans have some complaints let's deal

00:25:23.260 with the complaints let's see how far we can get by answering their concerns about illegal drugs

00:25:29.080 entering their country from canada about illegal immigrants entering their country let's do that 1.00

00:25:34.580 first yeah before we go into this head-to-head dollar-for-dollar tariff war we're gonna get in

00:25:39.860 a big fight with the americans yeah the liberals can't resist that because they have to raise

00:25:44.480 their popularity in the polls uh and they also have just an innate hatred for trump yeah so he says

00:25:55.220 something and they just immediately jump off like this this whole thing started because trudeau went

00:26:01.640 down to mar-a-lago and trump kidded him about maybe becoming the 51st state and trudeau threw his

00:26:08.900 hands in the air and oh my god they're telling that they don't recognize our sovereignty blah blah blah

00:26:14.040 oh please if they had just all acted like smith yeah and and been more grown up about this we would

00:26:23.720 not be in this mess now yeah howard litnick who's the uh treasury secretary nominee by trump

00:26:31.860 said yesterday well so that would be uh wednesday of this week at his hearing before the senate that

00:26:40.340 now we don't want to impose tariffs on canada if they sort out the border concerns that we have we

00:26:46.940 won't have to do any of these we might later on this year look at some tariffs if we think they're

00:26:53.160 engaging in illegal or or unscrupulous uh trade practices but we don't want to put tariffs on

00:27:01.820 them so we won't if they deal with their border which exactly proves smith's point yeah and that

00:27:07.340 is if we had simply acted like grown-ups in all of this and negotiated with the americans for a

00:27:14.140 settlement on the border security they wouldn't be as upset as they are and i would say canada would

00:27:21.640 be better off too uh if if we upped our border security we're going to be safer yeah i want to

00:27:29.260 play a short clip of that uh howard litnick i think he's one of the most important people in

00:27:33.940 trump's orbit i think he was the head of the transition team for trump so he actually led the

00:27:40.460 picking of all the other guys and then he became commerce secretary which is i mean as they say the

00:27:47.320 business of america is business he has strong views on things he's a consummate businessman he was a

00:27:54.260 ceo of canter fitzgerald a major uh investment firm was actually devastated on 9-11 and he has

00:28:01.420 he lost his brother on that day so he has a lot of views on freedom and terrorism and um so so he cares

00:28:10.000 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 0.83

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 0.97

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 0.75

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 0.96

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 0.94

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.85

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 0.99

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

00:45:02.600 stay with us your letters to me next

00:45:05.240 hey welcome back your letters to me

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

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Rebel News Podcast - January 31, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump's bravado overpowers Trudeau's WEIRD male feminism

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