EZRA LEVANT ｜ What's next for Canada after the chaos in Ottawa？
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After yesterday's bombshell by Chrystia Freeland, how exactly are things going to play out for Justin Trudeau? I ll give you my predictions on what s going to happen over the next few weeks and months. And, before you get to the podcast, here s what you should be looking out for in the coming election.
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Hello, my friends. Boy, I'm still digesting what happened in Parliament. What a move
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by Chrystia Freeland. I despise her and Trudeau in equal measure, but she sure knifed him in the
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back. Just incredible. What a pleasure to see. I want to tell you what I think is going to happen
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over the next few weeks and months. By the way, spoiler alert, I don't think Trudeau is going
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anywhere until he's thrown out by voters months from now. But let me invite you to get the video
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After yesterday's detonation by Chrystia Freeland, how exactly are things going to play out?
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I'll give you my predictions. It's December 17th. This is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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You fighting for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!
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Just incredible, Justin Trudeau being given a body blow by his own right-hand woman. Sort of
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incredible to see. And the scheming behind it was just delicious that she waited until the morning
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of the budget update to make the announcement. But really, the chutzpah of Trudeau did tell her on
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Friday, you're going to deliver the worst budget in history, and then I'm going to immediately fire
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you and give you some token job. Basically, go out and wear this atrocious budget, and then I'll demote
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you. What did he think was going to happen? Anyhow, it's sort of interesting to watch. So what did Justin
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Trudeau do? Well, yesterday he dodged question period. And he dodged it again today. I mean,
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why would you think he would go to answer such impertinent questions, first of all, from the
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opposition, and second of all, from the media? But he has his priorities. Last night, he gave a
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fundraising speech. Imagine being the kind of person that donates more than $1,000 these days to hang
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out with Justin Trudeau. I mean, really, unless you're part of the liberal Hamas caucus, some lobbyist
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or someone with a contract with the government. Who would do that? Here's Trudeau with his favorite
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people, those making him rich. Thank you all for being here tonight. It's obviously been an eventful
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day, and it has not been an easy day. But I wanted to come here tonight and speak with you, dedicated,
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devoted members of the Liberal Party, because you, not me or any other politician,
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are the beating heart of this movement. You are the ones that never shy away from knocking on doors,
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from making phone calls. Pierre Polyev is uninterested in building more homes, delivering vital supports,
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creating good jobs, or even as we saw with his opposition to our GST tax break, he's opposed to even
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cutting taxes. That's a given with the Conservative Party. But what makes Polyev different,
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is that he's willing to actively bet against Canadians and Canada. He says Canada is broken,
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while actually trying his damnedest to break it. See, we're not living in simple times. The world is
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increasingly complex, unstable, and dangerous. And in this new global reality, we must all pull together.
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I trust Canadians. There is no place I'd rather be than Canada, and it is the absolute privilege of my
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Now, Canada is the best country on earth, but it's not perfect. That's why I wake up every single day,
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thinking about how to make this nation work better for all Canadians. That mission to consistently put in
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the works so that we're living up to our ideals and values. That's at the core of what makes us
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liberals. And it's why you show up here, even on the toughest days, as a party.
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You know that the only thing that ultimately matters is fighting like hell every single day to make life
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better for Canadians. And that's what you do. Well, Parliament is about to rise for the Christmas
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season. Expect a very long break from them. And during that break, lucky for Trudeau, there is no
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way to have a non-confidence vote to vote for the fall of the government. And frankly, even if there was
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such an opportunity, I would bet he would win it. I mean, Jagmeet Singh and other pension grabbers,
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they want to make sure the election doesn't come before they are fully vested. I just want to play it
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again. Here's Jagmeet Singh the other day being asked repeatedly, will you vote no confidence? He
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kept saying Trudeau should resign, but he's not going to do anything about it. This was one of my
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favorite scrums of all time. People realizing, I don't know, is Jagmeet Singh this dumb or is the media
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dumb for letting him get away with it for years? Remember this? Right now, Canadians are struggling
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with the cost of living. I hear it everywhere I go. People cannot find a home that they can afford.
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They can't buy their groceries. And on top of that, we have Trump threatening tariffs at 25%,
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which put hundreds and thousands of Canadian jobs at risk. And instead of focusing on these issues,
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Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are focused on themselves. They're fighting themselves
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instead of fighting for Canadians. And for that reason, today, I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to resign.
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He has to go. Will you declare no confidence in the Liberal government as soon as possible?
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All tools, all options are on the table. People are hurting, people are struggling,
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and so all options are on the table. Just to clarify, you're calling for him to resign,
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but you are not willing to vote no confidence in his government? How do those two things connect?
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What does this mean for your support with the Liberals, though? How can you say he needs to resign,
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but then you're not telling us what you're going to do for non-confidence?
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I'm telling you that all options are on the table.
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Will you support the Fez? And also, are you willing to continue to support the Liberals
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if there is a different leader aside from Trudeau?
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Right now, that's not in front of us. There's no votes in front of us. But we will take each vote.
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And right now, literally, everything's on the table.
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Mr. Singh, that all options are on the table. So why are you holding out the option to still
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support this government? I understand that you're saying that you might, you know, trigger a
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confidence vote, but why are you still holding out the option? What is the glimmer of hope that
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you're seeing to possibly support the Fez or possibly support this government in some other way?
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Depends on the votes. And so I want to make it very clear. Justin Trudeau has to go. He has to
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resign. And because of that, all options are on the table. And we'll look at each vote and we'll
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make a decision. But now, all options are on the table. Paul Wells. Go ahead, Paul. Go ahead, Paul.
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The room behind you, sir, that room behind you is a parliament. The government continues to govern
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as long as MPs continue to have confidence in the government. You have no say over who the leader of
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the Liberal Party is. Will you support the government or are you withdrawing your support
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from the government? With respect to that, I've said that all options are on the table.
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That means everything is possible. But what is clear, given what we have seen,
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Justin Trudeau and a Liberal government that are focused on themselves, they are infighting at a time
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when people cannot even do their groceries. They can't even find homes that are affordable. And we've
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got the threat of Donald Trump and 25 percent tariffs that mean hundreds of thousands of jobs
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are at risk. Because of that, I'm saying very clearly that Justin Trudeau has to resign all
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options on the table. But look, even if Jagmeet Singh suddenly thought that an election was in his
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interest, because that's the thing, he'll probably get wiped out too. Even if a majority of MPs objected
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to Trudeau now, there's no instrument. There's no way to get it done. And if you think that Trudeau is
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going to resign out of some sense of duty, I think you misunderstand him. He is impervious to peer
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pressure because he doesn't think he has peers. Justin Trudeau thinks he is morally and cosmically
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superior to the rest of us. He looks at his fellow MPs not as allies who are in the trenches with him,
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but people he has blessed with his sanction to run for the liberals. He looks at every single person
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in his government and he says, you're there because of me. Your power is because of me. You're fame is
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because of me. Your riches are because of me. You don't even deserve me. The idea of peer pressure
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doesn't work on a guy who thinks he's superior to you. He disrespects the media even worse.
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There's this CBC host. I love the fact that I can never remember his name. That's how it ought to be.
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He's so unimportant in the big scheme of things. I first noticed him, I think his name is Cochran
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or something, in one of the campaigns where Trudeau was giving freebies to journalists.
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And some journalists declined to take it because you don't take a free handout
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from a politician you're covering. Well, not this guy. He took the free poutine from Justin Trudeau.
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And watching Justin Trudeau just sort of relish that moment of you are so easily bought off
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It's for you, David. It's for you. No, no, no, no, no.
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You know what I mean? Hey, the party always supports the CBC.
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Oh, who's gonna taste it? Who's that? We want to slow him down.
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Yeah, well, that guy got a promotion, obviously. And you can see why the other day,
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uh, before Christian Freeland detonated, this same liberal government journalist,
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the same guy who took the free poutine, he was mad that Pierre Polyev, the leader of the opposition,
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was daring to oppose Trudeau. That he wasn't, you know, repeating Trudeau's message track.
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So, Kate, on that, like all the national leaders get together in the cabinet room. That's where
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they met, apparently. And, and they were all asked to not say things like the border is broken. And
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in about 45 seconds, Pierre Polyev says the border is broken. And then he leads off question period
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This is exactly the sort of thing they're all being asked not to do because it, it, it helps
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the U.S. news cycle and helps the president-elect's argument.
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Uh, you know what? The worst of all, are, you know, that phrase is a lovely phrase. I think it's a British
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phrase, a barroom Napoleon. Have you ever heard that? You know what a barroom Napoleon is?
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You can probably imagine that. It's someone at the pub who's opining very loudly. And the more
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he drinks, the louder he gets and the stronger his views are. And I'll do this and I should do
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this. And he's just a barroom Napoleon. He's, he's not actually a fighter in the world. He's
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just someone who likes to hold court and, and say things very loudly and very passionately, but
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nothing ever comes from it. The liberal party is full of ballroom, barroom Napoleon, barroom,
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not ballroom, barroom Napoleons. I mean, a number of them have tweeted or signed a letter,
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but you don't see any of them actually quitting the liberal party. Even Chrystia Freeland
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has not quit the liberal party. In fact, she said she's going to run again. She wants to be the leader.
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So you have these barroom Napoleons talking tough about quitting, but they won't.
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You don't even have a mechanism for them to call a question, to put the question.
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It's just not going to happen. The governor general will not act just because there's gossip out there.
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Justin Trudeau has the confidence of the House of Commons. Prove me wrong, you can't.
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So Parliament's about to go on a very long break. They always get longer holidays than the rest of us.
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They get huge summer holidays. They get, they always get weeks off where you and I get days off.
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So they're about to break for a month, maybe a month and a half.
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We will be back in January. And by the way, you might recall, that's the deadline
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for Donald Trump to say Canada has to get its house in order. That's when the tariff deadline is.
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Donald Trump's inauguration will be on January 20th.
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And he said he expects the border problem to be resolved by then. Mexico said,
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no problem. They got on it right away. Trudeau. Well, that's the whole point here is Donald Trump's
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tweet saying that border better being fixed was sort of the first domino in a series of dominoes
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that actually led to the crisis yesterday. Isn't that funny? Donald tweets are so,
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But like I say, Justin Trudeau probably likes the idea of a trade war with the United States
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because that way he can run against Trump instead of running against Polyev.
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That way he can blame Trump's tariffs instead of his own economic mismanagement.
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I think it's going to be a disaster. I think it's going to make everything worse in the country.
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And I do not think he will actually win for Trudeau. But I think that's his strategy.
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So back to these liberal barroom Napoleons and the ones too afraid to say anything. I think if
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you're a liberal, unless you are in the ultimate liberal heartland of downtown Montreal and downtown
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Toronto, you're going to get blown away. If you are a liberal MP, you know it's lights up. Like I say,
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on Monday night, they had a 60%, 6% in the by-election in BC, the conservative candidate got 66%.
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That's such an astonishingly high number. Granted, it's a by-election, but what a good temperature
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taking. Remember, BC, Trudeau used to claim that was his home away from home. They hate him out
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there. You know, if you're a liberal MP, it's lights out. I saw a new poll by David Coletto,
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my favorite pollster, because he leans liberal. 11% approval in the latest poll, just absolutely
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falling off a cliff. 11% of Canadians. You have to gather nine Canadians before you find the ninth
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one who says, yeah, I approve of Trudeau. So do you want to end your lovely career now or in six
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months? That's the real question. If you're a liberal MP, if you go to the polls now, if you
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get all tough with Trudeau and say you got to leave, and if you vote non-confidence, all right,
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you're in a vote in 35 days, really. That's how long the campaign is. Do you really want to do that
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now over Christmas time because Chrystia Freeland chose this time? Or do you, instead of having a
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random start to the campaign, do you want the timing of your own choosing? Now look, you're still going
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to lose. But at least if it's later, you get your pension vested. And Trudeau and his friends in the
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poutine media will help him with his campaign. They will see spending and other astonishing promises
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more than you have ever seen in your life. If Trudeau can rack up a 62 billion dollar deficit
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this year, imagine what he would do in a campaign. Why wouldn't he announce a hundred billion dollars?
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Why not? Why not say it? I mean, either he keeps a promise or he doesn't, but he'll say whatever he
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needs to say. And that's just on the money side. I don't know how he can wring anything more out of
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abortion or guns or transgenderism or some forced crisis, but whatever button, panic button there is,
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he'll push them all. Now it's funny because Chrystia Freeland, who I think is really the only
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possible contender for leadership, even though she is a personal disaster, she is so unlikable.
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She was the woman who ordered the bank account seized under the Emergencies Act. She's the one
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who's on the Board of Governors of the World Economic Forum. She has been the right-hand woman for
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every disastrous decision Trudeau made. There is no difference between the two of them. Just like Kamala
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Harris could not say how she's different in any way from Joe Biden. Well, in the case of Chrystia
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Freeland, that's 10 years of saying ditto and me too. To pretend that they had some last-minute
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disagreement is a bit of a joke. Now, I don't know if you saw this book online. I hadn't heard of it
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until yesterday. A new book called simply Chrystia, like Hillary or Kamala. A loving biography was set
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to be released in February. Now, the publisher is speeding that up. They're releasing it now.
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What a loving biography. That's her campaign book. She was planning on pulling that trigger in February.
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Now, I really think they are going to drag it out a little bit. I mean,
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not just there's no pressure on Trudeau to do the right thing, but he loves being prime minister. Not
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the actual work of governing, but the accoutrements, the perks. He loved going to that Taylor Swift
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concert. He loved hanging out with teenage girls. They're his favorite. Trading friendship bracelets.
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He loves going on private jets, including to beach holidays. Hey, where do you think he's going this
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Christmas? He loves that luxury lifestyle. He's not taking Sophie around anymore, but he's taking his
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kids on private jets. Who wouldn't want to? He loves the perks and he lives for the authoritarianism,
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for the self-congratulations, for the adulation, for the power. That's why he went to the donor dinner
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last night. He loved it. He'll let Dominic LeBlanc try and do the hard work. I don't know what work
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he could possibly do. Everything's falling apart in the country. But I think this will all end soon,
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and it'll end after a campaign where the only people for Trudeau are the CBC, other bailout media,
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lobbyists, and Islamists. I mean, tell me another demographic group who would support Trudeau.
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I think Pierre Polyev will have a huge win, perhaps too huge a win. What do I mean by that?
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Sometimes a coalition can be too big. You have too many disparate groups within a coalition.
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You'll get differences of opinion that might paralyze you. Sometimes it's good to have a majority,
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but not a huge majority, because you need to be able to make decisions that won't offend,
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that will offend sometimes someone. And look, if Pierre Polyev wins, even with a huge majority,
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his problems will be huge as well. Not just the deficit and the taxes and the trade war with the
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United States, but the other issues, housing, inflation, groceries, etc., the price of energy.
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4.9 million illegals. There are 4.9 million people in Canada today who must, by law,
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leave within the next 12 months and two weeks. That's not going to happen on its own.
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How's Pierre Polyev going to deal with that? And through what systems? The systems are rigged.
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The Senate is dominated by liberals and they don't care. They can't be subject to election. They'll
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block for Trudeau. The courts will do much of the same. Civil servants will do much of the same.
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There's other interest groups like immigration scammers, not just the lawyers, but the colleges.
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But a huge mandate, I don't know, maybe Polyev is up to it. He needs to be bold,
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like Donald Trump, Canadian style, but he needs to take a hatchet to things, not just a scalpel.
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I mean, if it doesn't happen in the first year, if Pierre Polyev doesn't make the big changes in the
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first year, it likely will never happen. He's going to have to spend some of that huge political
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capital. He'll have a ton. He'll have the biggest election result in Canadian history, I predict.
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And he's going to need it for the hard work ahead.
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Stay with us. An interview with our friend Franco Teresano, next.
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Yesterday, Ottawa was the center of attention for the whole country,
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as the deputy prime minister and finance minister detonated herself just hours before the fall
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economic update, sort of a mini budget, an update on the budget. Her political machinations stole the
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spotlight and led to cabinet shuffles and even a comment by Donald Trump, who seems to side with
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Justin Trudeau ahead of Christian Freeland, who he called toxic. I think he's just poking around with
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what he calls Governor Justin Trudeau. The whole country was talking about politics and will Trudeau
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resign? Will Jagmeet Singh continue to support him? But lost in the shuffle was the budget update itself,
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an astonishing $62 billion deficit. What else is in there? Who's minding the store? Why the liberals
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fight amongst themselves? Joining us now to talk about this is, you know who, our trustworthy friends
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because they don't take any government money. I'm talking about the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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and their outstanding leader, Franco Teresano. Franco, great to see you. I know, like all of us,
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you were focused on the political intrigues, but you also looked at the actual budgetary documents
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themselves. Tell us that story, because we already heard the politics. What's in the numbers?
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Well, just when you think Justin Trudeau's budget couldn't get any worse, he proves you wrong.
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And I'm glad we're actually talking about the numbers, the dollars and cents, because
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this budget update was a disaster. So all year you had Trudeau and companies saying they won't
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exceed their fiscal guardrail of $40 billion deficit. In and of itself, that's insane,
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a $40 billion deficit. Then what do we learn from the budget update? We learned that Trudeau drove
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through his own fiscal guardrail by more than $20 billion. So he ran a $62 billion deficit last year,
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which is nuts. How? How did he do it? I mean, I can guess, but you tell me,
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was it like, what did he spend it on? I guess is what I'm saying.
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Well, look, I can tell you what the government claims and let's poke some holes through it, right?
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The government claims that there is some one-time expenses that nobody could have foresaw,
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which is why the budget blew through the guardrail of $40 billion to $62 billion. But like,
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none of that even passes the slightest sniff test. So number one, even without those unexpected
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expenses, well, they still would have blown past the $40 billion deficit. Number two,
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this year's deficit is supposed to be about $48 billion. So even without those one-time expenses
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this year, they're breaking the fiscal guardrail. Number three, Ezra, as you are well aware of,
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this isn't the first time that Trudeau has blown through a budget target. You'll remember all the
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way back in 2015, he promised these tiny little baby deficits of less than $10 billion and a balanced
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budget by 2019. Well, of course, we now know today that Trudeau missed that balanced budget by $20
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billion in 2019. But more to the point, Ezra, like what happens when a one-time expense comes up for
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any prudent family or business? Well, you cut back spending elsewhere to deal with that issue,
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but that's not what's going on with Trudeau. They're spending like drunken sailors on so many different
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things that they should be able to find savings in every single area of their budget.
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Can you give me an example of one of these so-called one-time unexpected expenses? I mean,
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they have entire office buildings full of economists and bureaucrats and people studying
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and calculating the idea that they just have a whoopsie of $20 billion is unacceptable and unbelievable.
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But what are they pointing to as an excuse? It sounds like the great train robbery or some sort
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of heist. Yeah, well, so I have to be upfront. I'm not a lawyer, so this one's a little bit difficult,
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but the biggest expense, the bulk of it, had to do with some legal issues over indigenous expenses.
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That was the big ticket item that the budget update pointed to. But even if you take that for granted,
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we already kind of poked through those holes of the government's claims in the previous Q&A,
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right? In the sense that even if you remove that big ticket spending expense that they couldn't
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have foreseen, there's still $48 billion deficit this year.
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You know, it's madness and I just don't get it. I heard, now let me move into the realm of political
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gossip because I heard that, of course, Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada,
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governor, former Bank of England governor, big shot at the World Economic Forum, big shot at the
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end, like the ultimate globalist. I heard he was considering taking the position. I know Trudeau
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made him the special advisor for the economy. From what I heard, he's sort of backing away from this
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bonfire. I mean, whoever takes over, and it's Dominique LeBlanc, pretty much the only grown up in
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cabinet, I think we can all say. This is just thrown on top of him, along with, oh, you know,
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public security for portfolio. He's got about half a dozen things because in her own way,
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Chrystia Freeland, even though she did a disastrous job, she was sort of the jack of all trades for Trudeau.
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So it's all on Dominique LeBlanc. There's no way one person can do this.
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Who, I don't know if he's, I mean, I suppose they're going to go into an election before too
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long anyways. But if you were Mark Carney, or if you were someone who was tasked with being
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the finance minister, put aside politics, how would you even go about getting out of this mess? Like,
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let's say you were Donald Trump, a corporate turnaround artist, or let's say you were Elon Musk,
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a get-or-done entrepreneur. What would a radical approach look like to try and fix this insane
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budget? Because it is unsustainable. It's going to sink us. Well, it is unsustainable, right? Like,
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right now, interest charges on the debt are costing taxpayers more than a billion dollars every single
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week, right? I mean, look, like in Canada, you pay a federal sales tax to cover interest charges
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on Trudeau's government credit card, right? That's how bad things are. And you kind of asked if I was
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Trump or Elon Musk or whatever, well, you got to kind of look at what Trump and Musk are doing,
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the Department of Government Efficiency, right? We don't need a newly created government department
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in Ottawa per se, but the mandate of DOGE in the US should be followed in Canada.
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So number one, start with the little things. I don't know, don't spend millions of dollars on
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government podcasts that nobody listens to. Don't spend $8 million building a barn. Don't spend more
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money on food in four days when you go over to Europe than what the average family spends on
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food in four years. Then you got to do the big thing, right? And the big thing is dismantling
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the bureaucracy. Trudeau has added 108,000 extra government bureaucrats in less than a decade.
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He has ballooned the cost of the federal bureaucracy by 73% in less than a decade.
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You have to cut the number of government employees. Then you have to end corporate welfare.
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Ezra, cut taxes. Don't hand corporate welfare to multinational corporations. And then you have
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to do some other stuff too, right? Like getting out of the business of business. Defund the CBC.
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The government doesn't need a state broadcaster. Privatize the Canada Post, right? Why do we own a
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postal service? Like it's the year 2024, almost 2025. Sell via rail, right? That crown corporation
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loses hundreds of millions of dollars every single year. That is just a taste of some of the reforms
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that we need here in Canada. You know what? We need to adouge a department of governmental efficiency.
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And I would hope that the next prime minister appoints you, Franco, because you've got a nose for
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this stuff for digging around. Can I share with you two contrasting things that happened in the last
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24 hours? Yeah. Our dollar hit 69 cents briefly. I think it's back above 70 cents. It's around the
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lowest in years. That's the world sort of giving their appraisal of the health of our entire economy.
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And at the same time, and I mentioned this the other day, the president of the Japanese
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huge investment fund called SoftBank goes to Mar-a-Lago, has a handshake with Donald Trump,
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and announces he's going to invest 100 billion dollars in the American economy with an aim of
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creating 100,000 jobs. Obviously, he's not interested in the jobs per se. He's interested in the rate of
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return and the company. None of that is government money, Franco. None of that is a taxpayer grant to some
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electric battery scheme that Trudeau cooked up. The difference between
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investment as the way the Canadian government uses it, which means take taxpayers money to give
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some to some crony versus attracting on your own merits a 100 billion dollar investment. It couldn't
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be clearer. And I just wish we would choose the path of Trump or Javier Mille, the new president of
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Argentina. I don't know if you saw, inflation is now completely broken and he turned a surplus for
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the first time in a generation. If you can turn around Argentina, Franco, you can turn around Canada,
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don't you think? Oh yeah, totally. I mean, like the bad news, we don't have to keep reiterating,
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right? We talk about it all the time and there's so much bad news coming from this government in Ottawa
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for taxpayers. The good news is that Canada is not too far gone, not even close, right? We're not even
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close. Like the market is so powerful. Canadians, like let's put this into perspective here. Let's
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think bigger picture. Canada can and should be the most free and most prosperous country in the world.
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We have abundant natural resources, diverse natural resources all throughout Canada. We have a very
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skilled and educated workforce and we are situated right beside the world's largest economy. There is no
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reason outside of what our governments are doing to us that Canada should not be the freest and most
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prosperous country in the world. And we can be. All we need to do, and yes, it is this simple,
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is cut down the size and scope of government. The government regulates too much, it taxes too much,
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and speaking of inflation, the central bank in Canada, the Bank of Canada, prints way too much.
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Yeah. You know, there's such an exuberance in industry in the United States. So many things are
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now being considered possible again. There's no way that $100 billion would have come in under Biden or
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Harris. Donald Trump's signals to AI and to crypto have given a boost to that sector. His signals to oil
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and gas. I mean, you could already feel the engines revving up down there. We could do that too. We could.
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And we could be like Javier Mille. We could be like that president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
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If they just break with the past, in that case, they crack down on crime and also increase prosperity.
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I don't know if Canada, if our leaders are bold enough, but if we don't do it, we're just,
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the difference between Canada and the United States is going to continue to grow. I don't know if you
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remember under Stephen Harper, there was this brief moment where the ordinary Canadian family
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had a higher income than the ordinary American family. It was just like for about one year,
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that was the case, largely driven by oil and gas, by the way. Now we're poor compared to them.
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I don't know, Franco. I just feel like we have to make some bold decisions that are very un-Canadian
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by cutting whole departments, privatizing whole industries, or we're going to get lost and
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left behind as Trump roars back. Well, let me just show you the biggest
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contrast you can think of and how bad our government's economic policy, if you could
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even call it that, really is. On the one hand, you have the Trudeau government putting taxpayers on
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the hook for about $30 billion to multinational corporations like Honda, Volkswagen, Stellantis,
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and Northvolt, taking money from Canadians and putting taxpayers on the hook for this corporate
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welfare to multinational corporations. On the other hand, you have the Trudeau government hiking taxes
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on successful Canadian entrepreneurs, doctors, small businesses through its capital gains tax hike.
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So hiking taxes on Canadians, giving our money to multinational corporations, that is the exact wrong way
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to try to grow the economy. Yeah. Wow. We are headed into a very momentous year.
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This next year will be so strategic in terms of, do we follow the path of prosperity or do we become
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sort of a European socialist, low growth, failed state? I think the stakes couldn't be higher.
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Thanks for spending some time with us, Franco. Hey, thank you, Ezra. All right. There he is.
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Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, one of the good guys. And I'm not kidding.
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When I say, Pierre Polyev, if he wanted someone to tackle government waste, you can't look within the
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system. You don't hire a lobbyist. You don't hire a bureaucrat. You hire Franco. Am I right?
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I'm going to be making that recommendation when Prime Minister Polyev is invested. We'll talk to you soon.
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Hello, my friends. Your letters to me is someone named Squish says,
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Freeland is a Canadian Harris. Yeah, I think that she's more of a doer. I mean,
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she does have that same word salad, baffle gab talk. But, you know, I disagree with everything
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she does, but she's got a better work ethic than Kamala Harris. And like, I can't actually tell you
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anything Kamala Harris has actually done. I can tell you a ton of terrible things
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that Christy Freeland has done. Scrammon says, this has given me actual confidence that we can
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delete this government from Canadian history. When I know Trudeau has left the House of Commons for the
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last time, then we can begin to heal this battered country. Well, that's what I talked about in my
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monologue today. There are huge challenges and Pierre Polyev is going to need all his courage.
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John Harvey says, when she's done, is there any way for accountability or is she immune
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at that point? Well, you can't really hold someone criminally liable for what they do as
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a politician, unless it's an actual crime, that is. You can't sue someone for making this policy
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decision or that policy decision. Now you can sue the government for damages if they committed a wrong
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against you. I think you'll see some lawsuits against the government for the seizing bank
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accounts, for example. But I don't think any of that will redound personally to Christy Freeland.
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I don't think she will be charged with crimes. Well, that's our show for today. Until next time,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.