EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump steals the show at ASEAN as Carney fumbles abroad
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Donald Trump and Mark Carney were both in Malaysia, but they didn t meet. Let me show you how each of them fared at that get together, and contrast it with Trump's triumphant arrival at the same conference that day.
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Hello, my friends. I watched Mark Carney's entire speech at an Asian conference in Malaysia.
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It's only five and a half minutes long. That's all the time they gave him.
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I'll play you the speech and I'll give you my thoughts and then I'll contrast it
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with Donald Trump's triumphant arrival at that same conference. That's ahead.
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Tonight, Donald Trump and Mark Carney were both in Malaysia, but they didn't meet.
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Let me show you how each of them fared at that get-together.
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It's October 27th and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Hey, the word ASEAN, A-S-E-A-N, it's like NATO. It's an acronym.
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It stands for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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There's 11 countries, including Indonesia, which is a pretty big country.
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And you'd be surprised how big countries like the Philippines and Vietnam and Thailand are,
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but they're all pretty poor also, to be honest.
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Neither Canada nor the United States are members of this club called ASEAN,
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I'm going to show you what each of those two leaders did.
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Now, I'm sorry, you're going to find this very depressing.
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His best friend, Doug Ford, had dumped $75 million, allegedly,
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the same time as Canada's diplomats are trying to negotiate a trade agreement with them.
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Could you imagine if Trump had bought $75 million worth of political attack ads in Canada
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just to rough up Mark Carney, to whip up Canadian sentiment,
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to put pressure on Carney, to compromise in a negotiation?
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but that's what the brilliant neurosurgeon rocket scientist Doug Ford cooked up.
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And even when he agreed to stop the ads, he fudged that
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because he really wanted the ads to air during the World Series over the weekend.
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That surprised Trump, who had been told the ads were coming down.
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And he gave Canada, as a surprise in return, a 10% bump in tariffs.
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On the plane yesterday, you said that you're so thrilled about the Canada tariffs.
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Can you walk through when you expect those to take effect?
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He used them sparingly, which he probably would make a mistake.
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And again, I was the biggest fan of Ronald Reagan.
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But on finance, on trade, it wasn't his strong suit.
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And they totally changed that to say that he didn't.
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Because Canada has been ripping us off for a long time.
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Canada has been ripping us off for a long time.
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One of the most difficult countries to deal with has been Canada.
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As much as I love Canada itself and the people of Canada,
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The Ronald Reagan Foundation was the one that caught them.
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And it was totally the opposite of what they said.
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And let me just tell you, they shouldn't have done it.
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And they said, we're going to take the ad down.
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By the way, here's a U.S. negotiator who says it's not even about the ad.
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It's about all sorts of antics by the Canadian negotiating team.
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And he specifically mentioned some holdovers from the Trudeau years.
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something that reveals his frustration with the actions and postures of the Canadians
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Mr. Hassett, on Canada, you said the president was frustrated.
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I think the frustration has built up over time.
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I've been involved in some of these negotiations.
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And the Canadians have been very difficult to negotiate with.
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And you look at all the countries around the world that we've made deals with,
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and the fact that we're now negotiating with Mexico separately
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And is he planning to speak with the Prime Minister Carney
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Because this ad had nothing to do with Carney's government.
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Mr. Hassett, how concerned is the administration
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that the Supreme Court will not ultimately side with your view on the tariff policy?
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The president has been truthing a lot about the upcoming case.
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I think that we have a very high level of confidence
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I've been fishing through the briefs myself just to see what the arguments are.
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and we're highly confident that they'll side with us.
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I even spoke to the Oval with the president about it last night.
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And I say the level of confidence is extremely high.
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what has been so challenging about dealing with Canada in trade negotiations?
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I guess the lack of flexibility and, you know, also I would guess that
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leftover behaviors from, like, the Trudeau folks
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that can be very frustrating for people who are in this year.
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Is there anything more important that Carney is doing?
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But, you know, his way of handling crises seems to be to run away to his happy place,
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as opposed to our parliament or a cabinet meeting
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or even just going down to the White House to try and fix things.
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I think that Mark Carney likes giving speeches in faraway places
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and sounding like a boring Goldman Sachs analyst, which he is.
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Let me show you his entire speech to this ASEAN conference.
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I got to tell you, the speech is just over five minutes long
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He was just sitting in front of a microphone, low energy.
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I'm not sure if his speech was written out for him,
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I want you to promise to stay and listen to what Trump said
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So please don't be bored by Mark Carney and click away.
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I really want you to stay to see the difference
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I'm going to, like I said, it's about a five-minute speech that Carney gave.
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I'll play the first two and a half minutes without interruption.
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Now, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, as for the tradition,
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and we begin with the Prime Minister of Canada.
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Thank you very much, Prime Minister, for that introduction,
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for your hospitality, and for your leadership in this vital forum
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at this historic time and your leadership over the years and going forward.
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Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, it is an honor to be here.
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as my first trip as Prime Minister to Asia for a reason.
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And that is, like ASEAN, Canada values sustainability
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And I felt as I walked in to the summit, as I said to His Excellency,
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We respect trade agreements and the rule of law.
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We value the free exchange of goods, capital, and ideas.
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we value ASEAN as the standard barrier of multilateralism.
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And I just want to say a few words about how we can contribute to building that.
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We don't know the new system that's going to emerge.
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It's a shift that's happening in a short period of time.
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Multilateralism, giving away to transactional bilateral trade,
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Developments that all challenge the effectiveness
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of the institutions on which we as middle powers have long relied.
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And it underscores the importance of reliable partners
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who honor their commitments, who are there in tough times,
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in brokering the peace agreement that was announced this morning.
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A future determined by commitment, not circumstance, again, to quote.
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And, colleagues, I would like to just underscore
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You know, in 2025, no one really cares about someone
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That's the idea that economic power and military power
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some bureaucrats at the UN publish that matter.
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Certainly not in places like Ukraine and Russia
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and Israel and Gaza and China and Taiwan and anything.
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Mark Carney does not believe in a rules-based order.
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He violated the rules by unilaterally and unconditionally
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declaring Canada's recognition of a Hamas-led Palestine
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without adhering to any rules or any international systems
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I think the rules-based system is code for blocking the United States.
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But it's a bit rich for the guy who claims to follow the rules
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just to give a big diplomatic gift to Hamas terrorists
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But other than that, would you agree that this speech
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Like a bored professor talking to bored students?
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It seems like he had no idea about it in advance.
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that no one listened to that Canada might be willing to help do that.
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No one asked Canada to help negotiate between Ukraine and Russia
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because here's where he starts in on his sales pitch
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I announced our plan to double our non-U.S. exports
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The liberals killed the Northern Gateway Pipeline
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But what does a clean energy superpower even mean?
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Now he does mention LNG, liquefied natural gas.
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But his liberals have been an impediment to LNG.
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Listen to what he says about rare earth minerals,
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Take a look here, and I'll come back to it in a minute.
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is to work with you on financing and developing that,
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which can provide a secure buyer for these resources
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He says he's ready for financing and development
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is to work with you on financing and developing that,
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which can provide a secure buyer for these resources
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Well, I don't know what he's talking about there.
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I guess he saw that he has just 60 seconds left
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and it sort of overheats in his short circuits.
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and he just starts reaching for his happy places,
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Much of that will be in the realms of cyber security,
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This is an area where our cooperation is ideal.
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Why is he telling that to these other countries?
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Is he going to send them some of the shipbuilding contracts
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Is he inviting them to get some of that business?
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because you've just got to hear Trump by contrast.
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This reflects what we want to do as a government.
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And finally, to supplement your work on digital,
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because this is the form of reason and respect.
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This is the form of inclusivity and sustainability,
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and we are keen to contribute in any way we can.
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Yeah, so Mark Carney is all about speed and ambition, people.
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Again, he mutters the buzzwords digital, clean tech,
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Is he trying to get them to invest money in Canada?
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He ends with some sort of passive-aggressive comment
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that ASEAN, this group, is a form of civility and inclusively.
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He said he concluded a trade agreement with an ASEAN country.
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Now, there was a deal with Indonesia that was done last year,
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I mean, if he's taking credit for that, I guess it's true.
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Here's the statement that I thought he was referring to.
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He put this statement out about meeting the head of the Philippines.
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The headline is, Prime Minister Carney met with the president of the Philippines,
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I read the statement, and it says that Canada has been slowly negotiating freer trade
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with the ASEAN group for years, and that'll continue for at least another year.
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And the big news in that press release, apparently,
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is that now Canada will also directly negotiate with the Philippines,
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and that's going to take at least a year to negotiate.
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So that's starting now, as in they don't have an agreement yet?
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but we only do about $3 billion in two-way trade each year with them.
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We sell them about $1.4 billion worth of stuff every year.
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Compared with a trillion dollars or $1,000 billion,
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I see he was pretty proud to meet with the leader of Laos.
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I couldn't find them on a map, honestly, but I'm sure they're nice.
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I think running away from the crisis in Washington
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If you take all the filler words out of his speech,
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AI, cyber, clean tech, digital, sustainable, transformative,
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catalyzing, decisive action, you take all those words out,
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there was only three things he said in that whole speech.
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If he means the one that was negotiated last year,
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I guess that's true, but that's a weird thing to boast about.
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And he's taking a veiled dig at Trump not being civil.
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Trump landed at Malaysia around the same time, too,
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and he announced two real things almost immediately.
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Now, some might point out that there have been attempts at getting those two countries together for a long time and that Trump just came along at the end as they crossed the finish line. Well, I suppose, but that's sort of the point. No one could make it stick. No one could get it across the finish line. No one could get it done. No one else could turn a maybe into a yes. No one else had the charisma, the authority, the economic power, the diplomatic power, the carrot and the stick.
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Just like Joe Biden allegedly was working on peace for Israel his whole term. Well, Trump did it in a few months, getting both the Jews and the Arabs to agree.
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Oh, but don't forget our Mr. Mumbles. He said he's available in case anyone wants him as a mediator or whatever it was that he said in that incoherent speech.
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But besides a peace deal, Trump announced a trade deal the day he landed. And by deal, I mean a real deal, not a promise to try and get a deal a year from now.
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You can read the deal on the White House website. It's very long and very beneficial to the United States. I skimmed the whole thing. It's very long.
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It has 19% tariffs on Malaysian exports to the United States. So they pay for access to the U.S. market. And in return, they grant preferred market access for Americans in the Malaysian economy.
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Isn't that what Carney said he was supposed to go to this conference in Malaysia to do? Didn't Carney want access to markets? Our guy didn't get them. Trump did. Remember, Carney mumbled something about critical minerals.
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It was weird. He said Canada had them, but then he said something about ASEAN developing them. I'm not sure what the deal was. Actually, I am sure there is no deal. Just a mumble.
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But let me read the critical minerals section of Trump's deal, which is in black and white.
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Malaysia has committed to refrain from banning or imposing quotas on exports to the United States of critical minerals or rare earth elements.
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Malaysia has committed to the expedient development of its critical minerals and rare earth sectors in partnership with U.S. companies, including granting extended operating licenses to create certainty for businesses to increase production capacity.
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Malaysia has committed to ensure no restrictions are imposed on the sale of rare earth magnets to U.S. companies.
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So U.S. companies get to go into Malaysia, mine rare earths, sell it to America with no impediments, no, you know, taxes or tariffs for an extended time.
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Pow! China's strategic advantage over rare earth minerals just disappeared.
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And remember Carney mumbled something about LNG? Yeah, Trump just signed a deal on that, too. Let me read it to you.
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America will sell, Malaysia will, quote, purchase up to 5 million tons per annum of liquefied natural gas, estimated at up to $3.4 billion per year.
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And unlike Canada, the U.S. has plenty of LNG liquefaction plants.
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They frack the natural gas, they pipe it to the ports, they liquefy it, and they put it on ships to Asia.
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They're doing that now. We have a single LNG plant that's operational, and it's just started, and it's not even up to full speed yet, and there's problems with it.
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And the grand total it's shipped ever is less than a million tons.
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Now, I'm rooting for it. I hope Carney doesn't kill it, or the other LNG projects that are trying to get built.
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I hope Carney doesn't kill the gas pipelines to feed these LNG plants.
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But Trump just signed a 5 million ton a year deal with Malaysia, while we're still figuring out where our naval is.
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Procurement of 30 aircraft plus a purchase option for 30 additional aircraft.
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Now, I'm not sure if those are fighter jets that America would sell, or passenger jets, but that in itself is a multi-billion dollar coup.
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I'm not going to read the whole deal. I'd characterize it two ways.
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Number one, Malaysia pays to sell its goods into America, and agrees to let America sell significant goods into Malaysia on favored terms.
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But more importantly, America locks in Malaysia's rare earths, dealing a blow to China's ambitions in the region.
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So, yeah, one meeting, ASEAN, two different leaders, Carney and Trump.
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Based on what you've seen, Trump is absolutely going to devour Carney, isn't he?
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Well, I think that Alberta is the crucible, the laboratory for conservative and freedom-oriented and smaller government ideas in Canada.
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In fact, I think you could argue that it has been that place for more than a century.
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A lot of political leaders, a lot of political parties come out of Alberta.
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And right now, a movement that has a fair bit of life to it is the Alberta independence movement.
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And as you may know, Rebel News had some town hall meetings in Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, and even one in Saskatoon.
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Hundreds of people came out just to explore the ideas.
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Well, a couple of days ago, there was a rally outdoors in the cool weather in Edmonton,
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Edmonton, and thousands and thousands of people came.
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And one of them was our friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter.
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It was just nothing but Alberta flags and thousands of people.
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Now, there are some disputes over how many people were there.
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I asked the police on scene, take this for what you will.
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They said between 5,000 and 6,000, which is still...
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It's an enormous number for a nonpartisan political rally.
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The only rally I've seen bigger would be Polyev's final rally in Edmonton.
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There's no political money backing it the way that it would back a political party.
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The organizers, the Alberta Prosperity Project, organized this on kind of short order,
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Their numbers, using drone footage and some analysis of that, suggest closer to 10 or 12,000.
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It's hard to get a grasp on how big a crowd is when you're in the middle of it and all you see
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For example, I thought there was people sort of up top of the plaza because they ran out
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He's the lawyer who undead much of Jason Kenney's COVID madness here.
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There were other Alberta Prosperity Project linked people, but also Chris Scott.
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So the Whistle Stop Cafe owner who stood up at great personal cost against the COVID mandates.
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And now he's standing up for Alberta independence.
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And I was safe to do that, not only because I was in thousands of friendly folks, but because
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the police were guarding these antis pretty carefully.
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There were about a dozen or so police officers guarding about eight counter protesters.
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They look exactly how you would imagine they look.
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There was one openly Antifa guy waving an Antifa flag.
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There was, you know, your obligatory Handmaid's Tale LARPer.
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But, you know, there was just eight people, you know, your regular left-wing kooks from
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Well, I suppose if they use plural pronouns, that would double the number.
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So there's eight people there, but they all call themselves they, them.
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A couple years ago, when Danielle Smith was running for the UCP, United Conservative Party
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leadership, there was a forum held by the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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And if you can believe it, they asked me to be one of the emcees in this debate.
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And I put a question to Danielle Smith, which I guess they liked because they played it.
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The audio is from a couple years ago, though, when I moderated the debate.
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Ezra, I hope your eyes are better after getting pepper sprayed over in Ireland.
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I think it was this week, but he asked a question during the leadership campaign for
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And Danielle Smith was the one who answered, Kerry, get the audio.
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Are you willing to say, we want these things or else?
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At what stage would you, for example, invoke the Clarity Act as clarified by the Supreme
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For example, calling a referendum on the Clarity Act question of secession.
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And I'll start off with Danielle Smith on that one.
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The or else is Dennis Modry and the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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We complained into law on April the 7th, the Citizen Initiative Act, which gives the people
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the power to collect signatures for a petition campaign to propose an amendment.
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If it's a simple matter of policy, it's a 10% threshold.
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If it's a constitutional change, it's a 20% threshold.
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And as I understand it, Dr. Modry has a million people on his database.
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So part of when I decided I wanted to run, I knew how important it was to make sure that
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And I talked to Dr. Modry as one of my first steps.
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If we're not successful, and this is why I take your movement very, very seriously and
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why Justin Trudeau should take it very, very seriously too, because you have the power to
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Well, that's sort of fun, but I think it is the essential point.
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I mean, in politics, you can take your base for granted if they have nowhere else to go.
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But if you can, like, can you take Alberta for granted?
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Well, if there's no or else, then the answer is yeah, probably.
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And my question to Danielle Smith, who's now the premier, implied, let's say you try and
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fail like so many Albertan leaders have tried and failed before.
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Are you willing to push that button, that independence button?
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Because she's allowing the referendum and making it a little bit easier.
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But the fact that she would give it her blessing itself is a big positive.
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How did this crowd sound in regards to Danielle Smith?
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Because in a way, she's enabled their referendum, but she's not sort of cheering for it.
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I think she's taking a neutral stance, which is probably wise.
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You know, I didn't meet a single person there who would not have been a UCP voter, like a
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I think the Venn diagram, as they say, on these people being Conservative Party voters,
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United Conservative Party voters, it's a circle.
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And as I said in my upcoming video on this, you discard these people at your peril.
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I think they are people who are perfectly happy to have Danielle Smith fight with the
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feds, fight for provincial autonomy, fight for our jobs, fight for our pipelines, fight
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But in the meantime, do all that while they work towards independence.
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In fact, I think a lot of people appreciate her hands-off approach.
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And yet, there's the likes of Jason Kenney, who repeatedly goes after the Sovereignist movement
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as in the same language that Justin Trudeau used to go after the Freedom Convoy.
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They sure didn't look that way to me when I was there.
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In fact, there are people who likely voted for Jason Kenney in the past.
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You know, I mean, Jason Kenney is a pundit out there, but he's also in private business.
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And if he's speaking for himself or for his clients, I'm not quite sure.
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Let me ask you a question, because I've been focused on Mark Carney, and he has been really
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He promised he would be the guy who could handle Trump better than anyone else.
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Turns out he's the guy who Trump doesn't want to meet with over anyone else.
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Like, Trump will literally, he's cutting deals every day, but he will not talk with Carney.
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He was in Malaysia, and he said Canada has clean energy to offer, and we have what the
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But I don't know what he means by clean energy.
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But I don't think he means oil, even though places like India and basically everyone in
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the world would prefer to buy our oil if they could.
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Do you think Mark Carney is going to allow a pipeline of oil to be built?
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That's why I wasn't such a cheerleader for Bill C-5 when it was being rammed through the
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I don't think the government should be deciding private projects that are in the nation's
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They should meet a specific criteria for safety, and then that's it.
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But when they attach this in the nation's interest to it, what I believe is in the nation's
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interest and what the liberals believe are in the nation's interest are two far different
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You're going to see, I think, all sorts of green energy projects being approved in the
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nation's interest and a lot of liberal linked friends and insiders being enriched by these
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projects that are being approved because they're in the nation's interest.
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But do I believe that a pipeline will go forward?
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And like the liberals before him, Mark Carney is offloading the voice of no to somebody
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And so do I think that any of these projects that are in the nation's interest related to
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When Mark Carney says that the world wants what Canada has, I think he means maybe.
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But I think some weird, quirky green project too, like offloading some sort of weird green
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tech that's developed in Canada for a gajillion dollars to Brookfield Asset Management.
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You know, when I was in Bermuda for four hours earlier this year trying to track down one
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of his shell companies, I discovered them in Bermuda.
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All his green companies have this sort of storefront office in Bermuda.
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It's just basically compliance lawyers and clerks.
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He has still held on to all his stock and he makes money with these green schemes.
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And just, I mean, 99 plus percent of his stocks are foreign.
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In fact, his last act as head of Brookfield was to move their head office out of Canada.
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I think, you say there's between 6,000 and 12,000 people at the separate independence rally
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When it becomes clear, when you get a hard no on a pipeline, I think then you will see
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Right now, people are trying to understand Carney.
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But he's been Prime Minister for almost 230 days, which is a lot more than it feels like
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In my monologue today, I point out Trump, he lands in Malaysia, announces a peace treaty,
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But the total Canadian exports to Laos last year were $18 million with an M, not a B, not
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Like, what are you even doing meeting with the Laotian leader?
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I mean, are you going to increase trade by 10%?
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And just the paperwork on that trade, like, it was such a joke.
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I mean, Doug Ford was the bad cop attacking Trump.
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I think that this is, it's the old Mark Carney, the green scheme, sustainable, yeah, I think
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You know how I know there's no pipelines getting built in Canada?
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Brookfield is heavily invested in pipelines in other places.
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If Brookfield were heavily invested in pipelines in Canada, then Canada would get pipelines.
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But Mark Carney's policies are whatever is good for Brookfield.
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And there's a Brazilian pipeline that Brookfield is invested in and another one in the United
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And blocking Canadian pipelines is good business for Brookfield.
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And it was quite something I'm going to try and make the next rally myself.
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I should at least go to the ones in my, the province of my birth.
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Before you, before you let me go, I have to tell you, usually when I go to these things,
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people are asking me, did David Menzies ever get his whiskey?
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But a lot of people were asking me, how's Ezra?
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How, how is he post his incidents, incidents in Dublin?
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So your province of your birth cares about you as much as you care about them.
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I got pepper sprayed, which, you know, it's really painful when it's in your eye, but
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you wash it out and the pain goes away in 10 minutes.
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And, you know, I'm not saying I wanted it to happen, but it's sort of a, you know, a
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coming of age, I suppose, as a street journalist.
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Being assaulted, being jumped on by some, some guy in a, in a mask was not my idea of fun.
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They didn't even break my glasses, which is sort of surprising, but yeah, I mean, Dublin,
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I, I don't, I don't, I think once you open the door to violence, you know, it just spins
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They have a different culture, a different, you know, they rebelled again.
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Hey, I'm talking too much about Ireland, but they, they are rebels and they mean it.
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And, um, anyway, I love going over there to learn.
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Uh, I'm just going to try not to be the, the, the target.
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Your Letters to Me on the show this past Friday, Trevor Boyne says, notice how Doug Ford mentions
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I mean, his approach, just shouting, calling everyone a tyrant, running $75 million worth
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Then Danielle Smith went down to Washington politely, was not obsequious, just said, look,
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Um, Danielle Smith has been utterly vindicated.
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Doug Ford has been shown to be a destructive buffoon.
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Susan Ashbrook writes, really enjoyed your discussion with Keith Wilson tonight.
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Keith predicted it, that Donald Trump would be enraged when he learned that in
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fact, the ad was not canceled as promised, but run ran during the World Series.
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And I mean, just put the shoe on the other foot.
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Imagine if Trump was running attack ads against Mark Carney in, in districts where there was
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a by-election of foot or something, I don't know, like attack ads.
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And by the way, even if the attack ads are right, even if Doug Ford's attack ad on Donald
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Trump is correct, you're at a, you're at a negotiating table.
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That's my negotiating tactic is to have an external threat to you.
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Last letter from Ruth Bard, who says, when Carney speaks, I'm reminded of the ads from the 70s
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about how they got the caramel in the caramel bar.
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Yeah, you know, there are some industry leaders who can think clearly and speak clearly.
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And you can tell that their clear speaking is a reflection of their clear mind.
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And then there's the opposite, the absolute BSers.
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In companies, you typically don't see that in a CEO.
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Whatever else the guy is, he's a blunt communicator.
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He might go down different tangents, but he is crystal clear about what he means, even
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Mark Carney uses words to obscure, not to reveal.
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And as Keith mentioned, Keith Wilson mentioned, he didn't really run Brookfield.
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And Brookfield itself doesn't really run things.
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As they just acquire things and hold them, I think we've got a terrible prime minister
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good