Trump tells Canada to fix our border or he will. And all the smart people freak out. Trump is effectively doing foreign policy by tweet now, even before he s in office, not even by phone call, because he s getting the desired effect.
00:00:00.300Hello, my friends. I want to talk about Donald Trump's astonishing tweet. Actually, it was on Truth Social, where he says if Canada doesn't seal the border to stop illegal immigrants and drugs from coming into America, he's going to whack our economy with a 25% tariff. That would destroy Canada's economy.
00:00:17.660So it's basically saying to Justin Trudeau that these last nine years of atrocious policy, fix it in two months or I will. Just a total Trump move, and I don't think Trudeau knows what to do about it. It's a very interesting show. We have an interesting guest. I really want you to see it, not just hear it.
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00:02:32.520As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing crime and drugs at levels never seen before.
00:02:43.140Right now, a caravan coming from Mexico composed of thousands of people seems to be unstoppable, and its quest to come through our currently open border.
00:02:51.120However, on January 20th, as one of my many first executive orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous open borders.
00:03:09.560This tariff will remain in effect until such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop the invasion of our country.
00:03:18.100Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long-simmering problem.
00:03:24.560We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price.
00:03:35.000Now, by the way, Mexico's new president almost immediately said,
00:03:38.880We'll do, no problem, which is sort of shocking when you think about it.
00:03:43.300It shows that Mexico could have stopped the border rush anytime they wanted to, but either Biden and Harris sort of told them not to, or they just had such little respect for Biden and Harris and America.
00:03:56.220It's amazing that Trump is effectively doing foreign policy by tweet or true social now, even before he's in office, not even by phone call, just by tweets, because he's getting the desired effect.
00:04:08.880It's interesting that Trump is putting Canada and Mexico in the same batch, and I know a lot of dainty Canadian Laurentians are, how dare you, they're a third-world country.
00:04:19.260Well, actually, more terrorist suspects have tried to get into America from the northern border than from the southern border.
00:04:27.740And, by the way, those numbers are ramping up, and a lot of people get into Canada because we're such a soft touch and then try and make their way to the United States.
00:04:35.560The numbers of that are just escalating astonishingly.
00:04:38.440And Trump wanted to get our attention.
00:04:41.360Here's Trudeau talking about his phone call with Trump yesterday.
00:04:46.780Watch it, and then I have a question for you afterwards.
00:04:49.120So here's Trudeau talking about how warm the relationship is.
00:04:55.860We obviously talked about laying out the facts, talking about how the intense and effective connections between our two countries flow back and forth.
00:05:06.860We talked about some of the challenges that we can work on together.
00:05:17.040Laying out the facts, moving forward in constructive ways.
00:05:21.760This is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on, and that's what we'll do.
00:05:26.140One of the really important things is that we be all pulling together on this.
00:05:31.780The Team Canada approach is what works.
00:05:34.760That's where, putting aside partisanship, that's where I reached out immediately to Doug Ford to agree with him that we would have a First Minister's meeting this week to talk about the United States.
00:05:46.100Talked with Francois Legault and some other premiers as well.
00:05:49.220So there's work to do, but we know how to do it.
00:05:52.960Okay, I got a question for you about that clip.
00:05:55.420Did Trump not mention the tariff scheme here in his phone call with Justin Trudeau?
00:06:05.280If he mentioned it, why didn't Trudeau refer to it?
00:06:08.680Like, it's a shocking, stunning threat, really.
00:10:23.780I'm calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to put partisanship aside.
00:10:28.840And in the spirit of Team Canada to accept that we can, he cannot go ahead with quadrupling the carbon tax to 61 cents a litre.
00:10:38.460This was an irresponsible policy to begin with.
00:10:41.840But combining this kind of crippling energy tax increase with potential tariffs from Donald Trump would push our economy into a nightmare and a tailspin.
00:10:53.840So, let's put partisanship aside and ax the tax.
00:10:58.620Second, the Prime Minister has to put aside partisanship and, in the spirit of Team Canada, cancel his energy cap, which would see Alberta and Saskatchewan produce 35% less energy.
00:11:16.980It is our biggest industry and our biggest export.
00:11:20.380The incoming American president says he wants to cut gas prices in half.
00:11:25.160Well, the only way to do it will be to import more clean Canadian energy.
00:11:30.340So, the Prime Minister has to stop this assault on our biggest industry.
00:11:34.080Next, he has to cancel all tax increases.
00:11:38.540Tax increases on work, investment and making stuff in Canada.
00:11:43.780Finally, he needs to renew and restart the commitment to end the Stoffwood lumber tariffs and the Buy America policies,
00:11:53.100just like Stephen Harper was successful in doing, even though Justin Trudeau has not been able to do that under three presidents and nine years.
00:12:00.140On security, about a week ago, Justin Trudeau admitted that he broke our immigration system, and that brings new challenges.
00:12:11.060His own published documents show there are 4.9 million people here temporarily that are supposed to leave by December 31st of next year.
00:12:24.280Thirteen months from now, 4.9 million people.
00:12:28.120We asked what the plan was to track their departures, and yesterday his immigration minister said,
00:12:34.900we're just going to take people at their word.
00:12:37.500He admits that there have been two ISIS terrorists allowed into our country.
00:12:43.740What is the plan to protect our security and reinstate sovereignty over who is in our country?
00:12:53.020Justin Trudeau has demolished our military with poor decisions, botched procurements, and wasted money.
00:13:02.560One thing he could do today is announce that his planned billion-dollar cut to the military is cancelled,
00:13:10.100and then present a real plan to reallocate money away from lower priorities towards rebuilding our military and reinforcing our military security over North America.
00:21:02.940But they know that the US-UK relationship is so important that they're going to not necessarily grovel, but swallow their pride and just move on with being grownups.
00:21:12.900And I think you're going to see them really emphasize that because the UK cannot afford to be offside with the United States.
00:21:19.580But if that goes for the UK, it goes twice as much for Canada.
00:21:23.080We are much more integrated with the US economy.
00:21:25.380We are completely reliant on the US military.
00:21:28.820There are so many ways we're inextricably linked to the US.
00:21:35.680Will Justin Trudeau continue his performative outbursts against Trump?
00:21:40.520Will he allow his staff to continue to disparage Trump?
00:21:44.440Or will he be a bit of a grownup and work with Trump to fix the border, to stop the mass migration across the border and stop the fentanyl trade, much of which comes through from China?
00:23:03.200But Minister, these tariffs, I mean, these are estimated to knock at least half a point off of the country's GDP.
00:23:10.420That's enough to put the economy into recession.
00:23:12.560So do you have any clarity on whether or not Canada is exempted from this or whether it's going to have to deal with this and maybe retaliate with tariffs of its own?
00:27:29.920Well, look, you know, we live in an increasingly dangerous world, as you know.
00:27:33.540I'm just out of jail for, you know, taking a picture in a free society like Canada because there's confusion and there's a lot of concern.
00:27:44.140And we've got two obvious wars, one in the Middle East and one in the brain.
00:27:50.040And then we've got a host of other security considerations all over the world right now.
00:27:54.320And Canada is completely unserious about a lot of these things and has been so for a while.
00:27:59.820And I think that the new U.S. administration coming in has made it crystal clear that that can't stand any longer.
00:28:07.960You know, I was compelled to write a note about this because when you travel as a Canadian overseas and you see your country through the lens of the press in other countries,
00:28:18.340sometimes it's just extraordinary how different the perspective is of Canada from an overseas perspective.
00:28:24.600And, you know, that sort of collision of seeing Toronto on fire with, you know, Hamas supporting protesters with their face mask rioting, that did not look like Canada.
00:28:39.240And that was occurring in the context of Canada being the host of a NATO summit.
00:28:44.320So as the host country, we showed the world that we can't even keep law and order in our own core cities,
00:28:51.160even for something as important as a NATO summit, where we're in particularly sort of tough shape and trying to prove to the world that we can keep our promises to our NATO allies.
00:29:03.000We're not going to keep cheating on what it costs to be prepared in a military sense or in terms of security or intelligence sharing.
00:29:10.980And yet we dropped the ball on something as simple as hosting a summit.
00:29:14.820You know, and then you saw the next issue, of course, was the fact that both our prime minister and our minister of foreign affairs sided with a very dubious,
00:29:24.100absurd judgment by a very dubious ICC judge instead of aligning with our allies in Israel and obviously our allies in the United States.
00:29:32.320That led to Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Tom Cotton, a series of senators that have normally had Canada's back on issues in the past,
00:29:42.440warning us there would be economic sanctions if we persisted in crossing them on security measures as important as the relationship of the U.S. and Israel to the ICC.
00:29:51.220Many of the prime minister dancing, you had Jenny Kerrigan at the Halifax Security Conference calling out Jim Reich,
00:29:57.700a very important senator for Canada and the trade discussions.
00:30:00.740It's just been a bonfire of liberal vanities of a country that's kind of lost its way.
00:30:07.120And I don't know what it's going to take.
00:30:09.400And you saw what it did take to sort of throw some cold water on our discussion nationally, which was Trump saying,
00:30:16.940look, I'm going to put 25 percent tariffs on Canada, Mexico until you secure this northern border.
00:30:22.040You know, and and that has been a stunning shock to the Canadian system.
00:30:27.440I think some people want to feel aggrieved by Trump and it is egregious, a 25 percent tariff.
00:30:33.780But to me, it's so obviously just his his not his desired outcome.
00:30:39.360He's saying steal your border to illegal migrants, including potential terrorists and drugs.
00:30:44.280And he doesn't want that. It's not an economic weapon.
00:30:47.340He's saying, can I please have your attention? Our border is a problem.
00:30:51.020Let me give you some encouragement to shake off your dust.
00:31:04.680And I'm not saying I support putting tariffs on my own country.
00:31:09.100I'm just saying Trump is trying to get our attention.
00:31:11.680And I think what might happen, given how amateur and immature our government is, is instead of thinking seriously about, well, should we strengthen our border?
00:31:22.620Should we stop fentanyl being shipped to America?
00:31:26.460We're going to I'm worried that the government will take potshots at Trump instead.
00:31:30.960Do you think there are any grownups at the PMO and the foreign policy office that are trying to do the right thing here, like the Mexican president?
00:31:39.480Like, why would Canada die on the hill of illegal immigration and illegal drugs?
00:31:45.600It's not even in our interest to do so.
00:31:49.560We should be doing that for Canadians.
00:31:51.720You know, fentanyl is ripping apart families across Canada.
00:31:55.040It's one of the biggest issues that we're dealing with.
00:31:57.120Why do we have to be compelled by the American president to do the right thing for Canadian border security?
00:32:03.640Immigration is an issue that we know has been metastasizing.
00:32:06.800We've got an asylum system that's become completely fraudulent.
00:32:10.360We know that organized crime and terror laundering operations use it with impunity.
00:32:15.780Why does it take an American president to put his finger on that and say,
00:32:19.320unless you change these things that are threatening the secure northern border and changing what's been a special relationship for over 100 years,
00:32:37.500So, I mean, the question I think that people that are clutching their pearls right now have to ask is,
00:32:42.000what is Trump supposed to do with this situation?
00:32:45.680Tom Hogan, who is his new border czar, said he has a 10x more likelihood of a terrorist incident coming over the northern and southern border right now,
00:32:53.580which is why they're so focused on it.
00:32:55.640It took their intel agencies to tell us about four different terror incidents inside our country.
00:33:00.920It took us years to follow the American demand that we named the IRGC a terrorist faction.
00:33:07.640We know there's about six or seven hundred IRGC, that's the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, agents working within Canada.
00:33:17.300You know, what is it going to take for Canada to wake up and start to do its part in the security arrangement
00:33:23.340that is to find the best, closest working economic and military and energy security companionship in diplomatic circles?
00:33:33.660The other thing I'd say, Ezra, just quickly, is, you know, what we have to understand is that the reason the world takes us so much more seriously
00:33:41.020than our economy, the size of our economy would dictate or that our military would dictate
00:33:46.140or that our diplomatic prowess would dictate is because of our close relationship with the United States.
00:33:50.680Western Europe relies on Canada to be the one that can kind of be persuasive with the U.S.
00:33:56.560when there's a close call to make, because we've always had the back of the Americas.
00:34:01.300We've always taken a position that is aligned because our interests are so aligned with theirs
00:34:05.220and because we've had that longstanding relationship.
00:34:08.880You know, this is not meant to be adversarial.
00:34:11.900We had 25 U.S. senators from the Democrats and the Republicans send us nice long letters saying you really have to stop being NATO deadbeats.
00:34:21.000You're the worst of the 31. That's got to stop.
00:34:23.740U.S. taxpayer can't be expected to pick up the tab all the time for Canada, not doing even its most nominal commitment,
00:34:31.760making its most nominal commitment in this regard.
00:34:33.840And so the question for those that are worried is what would you advise President Trump to do
00:34:38.500if you were a sitting U.S. senator that knew that that northern border was porous,
00:34:43.420there was a fundamental problem, and that Americans were tired of paying Canada's bill for military and security?
00:34:48.140Yeah. You know, it just dawned on me two of the things you listed.
00:34:52.880You mentioned Canada siding with this radical judge at the International Criminal Court and saying arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:35:03.340Now, Benjamin Netanyahu, I don't think, has any plans to come to Canada.
00:35:06.800So I think the actual likelihood of Trudeau having to arrest him is zero.
00:35:12.980I'd be surprised if he even takes his calls anymore now, frankly.
00:35:15.800But let me just compare that to one other thing you mentioned, and that was the Canadian senior sailor,
00:35:23.280who's a woman, I forget her name right now, who chided the United States for not being the U.S.,
00:35:31.620I think the incoming Secretary of Defense, the nominated Secretary of Defense, for having questions about women in combat.
00:35:37.220After 39 years of career as a combat-arms officer and risking my life in many operations across the world,
00:35:46.820I can't believe that in 2024, we still have to justify the contribution of women to their defense and to their service in their country.
00:36:05.040And all women sitting here in uniform, stepping in and deciding to get into harm's way and fight for their country need to be recognized for doing so.
00:36:16.440So, again, and that, folks, is the distraction, not the women themselves.
00:36:32.840First of all, she wasn't asked about it.
00:36:34.840She went out there, I think, to try and score points for something she thought would be an applies line, and it was, because people want to be kind.
00:36:43.080But Pete Hegseth, who's the nominee for Secretary of Defense, you know, has said certain things.
00:36:50.040And if you read what he's written, you know, he's part of forward operating units.
00:36:55.560Those units almost never contain, I can't think of an instance where those have ever contained women.
00:36:59.760He was talking about specific combat roles.
00:37:02.300He wasn't talking about drone operators or helicopter pilots or other things, right?
00:37:05.980It's a relatively non-controversial notion in the context in which he said it.
00:37:11.940But worse than that, one of the senators that really has Canada's back, Jim Reich from Idaho, is a great guy.
00:37:19.320He's been terrific for us on so many things.
00:37:22.040He's somebody that the other senators listen to.
00:37:24.220He's a very important guy, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
00:37:27.020He was on the stage commenting in a discussion format on what he thought about the nominee.
00:37:35.140And he said, you know, there's a variety of things to consider here.
00:37:40.080I'm not going to comment on it other than to say, you know, we really appreciate this in combat.
00:37:46.040It was very noncommittal and thoughtful.
00:37:47.980For some reason, our top general wanted to make a point of this with a senator that is extremely important to us and wasn't making a point, a negative point about women in combat at all.
00:38:00.840And, you know, it's just one of those things.
00:38:02.500I've got a friend who's who's up potentially to be in the administration from the defense side, who's a former assistant deputy secretary of defense.
00:38:10.400And he's got a couple of roles they're considering him for now.
00:38:13.500You know, I get a call from these guys saying, what are you guys doing?
00:39:43.140Can we fix this or are we on course for a disaster?
00:39:48.780Well, look, we've got three things going for us.
00:39:51.220One, we're the greatest nation in the world.
00:39:54.080You know, the Americans are lucky to work with us.
00:39:56.060And seriously, as we've been given every possible advantage in the planet, we have we do have the largest, longest undefended border with the great biggest economy in the planet.
00:40:09.580We have, you know, natural resources coming out of our ears.
00:40:15.200You know, Alberta's got more oil than Russia, China and the United States put together.
00:40:19.060The United States wants to include us in their strategy for global energy security and for military preparedness and for strategic preparedness.
00:40:29.100We just have to in some ways, Ezra, it's like it's like people that have been spoiled by having it so good for so long.
00:40:34.640And we've allowed these performative options that are purely about domestic politics to take the place of seeing ourselves as serious contenders that need to speak seriously when we're talking about another country.
00:40:48.780We don't we haven't earned the right to have a debate.
00:40:52.060Well, we would never have earned the right to have cheap shots like that with the country that we care about, want the best for.
00:41:00.120You know, the Americans are in a position right now where they're going through a really disruptive change in the way that the government's going to look after a Trump administration.
00:41:21.100And I think that there are really good people that are nonpartisan.
00:41:25.020I'm a partisan. I'm a conservative, but there are great people in our government and in their government that want to get this right.
00:41:31.500They're going to work hard on getting it right.
00:41:33.560So I'm I'm very optimistic that what we're going to see in the next few months is Canada focusing on things that we should have been focusing on the last nine years anyway.
00:41:42.640Getting rid of the drug problem, fixing immigration, getting much tougher on crime and making sure that we, you know, take Canada to a place where we can be a reliable ally, not just to the Americans, but to the Europeans as well.
00:41:55.740Very thoughtful. And I don't think I fully introduced you to our guests.
00:41:59.420Of course, you were involved with the Canadian, the Alberta government.
00:42:02.700One of your jobs was to be sort of a missionary for the oil industry, especially overseas, to convince the world that Alberta was back after its terrible holiday from history with Rachel Notley and the NDP.
00:42:14.260So you have your job. I don't think I properly credentialed you besides being a successful businessman in your own right.
00:42:21.120Your job was promoting Canada's interests, especially Alberta's interests around the world.
00:42:26.740So you know what it's like to try and win hearts and minds with the only result being furthering Alberta's interests, not, you know, a self-indulgent performance, not taking selfies.
00:42:39.460And so you bring a lot of wisdom and experience.
00:42:42.680And even just the fact that, you know, who's who in the zoo there is impressive.
00:42:47.200I hope that when, God willing, Pierre Paglia forms the next government next year, that he will call upon your services to help rebuild Canada's relationships around the world.
00:42:58.480But for today, let me just thank you for letting us sneak 20 minutes of your time while you're overseas.
00:43:03.980I very much appreciate it. And I'll refer people to your tweets so they can read your entire essay.
00:43:11.360Thanks, Ezra. Hey, I'm glad I'm glad you're not in a jail cell somewhere in that great country.
00:43:16.660You might not be totally feeling like it's the greatest country on Earth right now, but we're going to we're going to get it back to where it should be.
00:43:22.500Right on, David. Great to see you. Thank you very much.
00:43:24.680OK, great to see you. Take care. There he is, David Knight Legg.
00:43:28.480He is a businessman. We talked about his role with Elements Capital Advisors, but I think his main credential for our conversation today was his role as an ambassador for the Alberta energy industry.
00:43:52.820Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me.
00:43:54.700The Green Leopard says, Ezra sued the police for saying your presence alone as the reason why they gave for your inciting violence, total abuse of international human rights.
00:44:05.660Well, I don't know about international human rights, but I know my Canadian rights.
00:44:08.820I have the right to be on the public sidewalk. I have the right to be a journalist and I have the right to be a Jew.
00:44:15.820And I don't really lead with that all the time. I mean, it's I mean, I talk about Jewish things in Israel, things from time to time.
00:44:21.640But most of what I talk about is of general interest.
00:44:24.360I was there as a reporter for all Canadians, but it was because I was a Jew that that Hamas objected and that the police said, get out of here, which is atrocious.
00:44:35.000So that's against my Canadian civil rights. Cliff Roberts says, I live in Montreal.
00:44:42.120I'm sick of the police giving police escorts to terrorists. Me too.
00:44:47.020I think we should arrest terrorists if they're actual terrorists.
00:44:51.600They should arrest terrorist supporters because that's against the law.
00:44:54.600If someone is breaking another law, trespass, mischief, vandalism, uttering threats, whatever, they should be arrested for that too.
00:45:01.640I learned today that there are 4.9 million people in Canada who do not have the legal right here to remain here permanently.
00:45:09.800And I think if any of these pro-Hamas extremists, part of this anti-Semitic crime wave, are temporary residents in this country, they should be immediately ejected.
00:45:20.420Like, if you are a privileged visitor to our house and you bring your hatred and your pro-terrorism with you, get the hell out.
00:45:27.720So, Fergus from Walking says, same thing in the Netherlands.