EZRA LEVANT ｜ While Trudeau schemes, Trump takes action on illegal immigration
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Rebel News is in Washington, D.C. as Donald Trump storms back into the White House. We talk to both the Trump lovers and the Trump haters, and hear both sides of the story. And we have a sit down exclusive meeting with Alberta s premier, Danielle Smith.
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Oh, hi, everybody. We're down in Washington, D.C. You know why. It's the inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th and now the 47th president of the United States.
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We talk to so many people. We talk to people who love Donald Trump and we talk to people who hate Donald Trump and what their arguments are.
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Boy, it was very interesting to hear both sides of that story.
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And we had a sit down exclusive meeting with Alberta's premier, Danielle Smith, who has been here for weeks, really, on and off, lobbying for Canada, not just for Alberta, but against Donald Trump's plan to put tariffs on the Canadian economy.
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She's been doing the job that Justin Trudeau won't. Anyway, big show today.
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And it was great to be down here, even though it was so cold.
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Tonight, Rebel News is in Washington, D.C. as Donald Trump storms back into the White House.
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It's January 20th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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It is a cold day in Washington, this cold as Justin Trudeau's heart.
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Upon learning that Donald Trump is back in power and back in a big way, here's an excerpt from his inaugural address.
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My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.
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That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.
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I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office,
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the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.
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Well, today wasn't just a day for words, it was a day for action.
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In other words, Trump and his transition team were not waiting for today to get cracking.
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Many of the immediate orders had to do with immigration, sealing the U.S.-Mexico border,
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deploying the military, declaring drug cartels as terrorist groups.
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You know, that means any affiliation with them is a crime,
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and it would allow the U.S. government to use different means to go after them.
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Other decisions, including moving quickly on deportations.
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It looks like Canada has been spared, at least for the moment, when it comes to tariffs.
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But wow, has Canada ever been roiled by Trump's threats of tariffs?
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It really has revealed the different nature of our politicians.
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As you may have seen yesterday, I had a sit-down meeting with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
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She jammed me in amongst a whole bunch of meetings she's had lobbying both business and political leaders in America
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I asked her in that interview if she had any allies.
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I asked her if anyone else from the Canadian government was lobbying.
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You mentioned some American allies, but other people.
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It's the worst caricature of an anti-Alberta bigotry that I grew up with in Alberta.
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Do you have any friends in Canada on this issue?
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I would say that what I like about the cough table, Council of the Federation, is when we
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come together as a group of premiers and we write a communique, we go through it line by
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line to make sure everybody is comfortable with what's in it.
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We make accommodations for each other because when we go out with a statement, we want to
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make sure that everybody is in agreement on it.
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That didn't happen with the first minister's meeting.
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And I think that's probably a reflection of Justin Trudeau's style.
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He didn't care that I wasn't in agreement and he didn't try to find language where we
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I think that when I'm out and talking about how we defend Canada, I can talk just as well
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about the germanium, which is a critical mineral from British Columbia, and gallium, which is
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I can talk about nuclear in Saskatchewan, and I can talk about how we've got critical minerals
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in our northern territories, how the agri-food industry is integrated, and we can talk about
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I happen to lead with oil and gas because it is the most important export Canada has.
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We also know that that is what the Americans are looking for now, for energy security and
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But I would say that by leading with the things the Americans care about, we'll be able to,
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I think, reset the relationship for all of Canada.
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So I promote my colleagues and friends and the economies of the other provinces as well.
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But we simply will not allow Alberta to be singled out by an Ottawa-based tax that is generating
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revenue to be distributed in the rest of the country.
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So for whatever reason, Trump did not move on the terrace.
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Maybe some of the credit goes to Danielle Smith.
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It certainly doesn't go to Justin Trudeau or, bizarrely, to Chrystia Freeland, who announced
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her leadership for the Liberals in a very dull event, I should say.
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And she said that a reason Liberals should choose her is that Donald Trump hates her.
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During the first Trump administration, I fought hard to protect Canadian jobs, the Canadian
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I left Trudeau's cabinet because I know what we need to do to win that fight again.
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Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies think they can push us around.
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Saying that Donald Trump hates her is probably true.
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And it probably appeals to the Liberal base that hates Trump in return.
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I'm just not so sure if that's a selling point if you're actually trying to stop a trade war.
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But then again, as I've argued several times, I don't think the Liberals want to stop a trade
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I think they want to demonize Trump as their preferred opponent, as opposed to Pierre Polyev.
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The latest polls show Polyev at 46% compared to just 20% for the Liberals.
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What's interesting to me also, and while I'm talking about Chrystia Freeland, is that her
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event was stormed by the Liberal Hamas caucus and the Liberal Hamas street gangs.
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He's clearly the candidate of choice of the Islamist left.
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Here's what happened at Chrystia Freeland's launch.
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And the Liberals didn't like it for the first time.
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They'd been fine with this sort of thing when it's been targeting Jews and synagogues.
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But boy, she didn't like it when it was targeting her.
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We have voted Trump, and they won't kill us, too.
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I went to the big protest against Donald Trump, except it wasn't very big, and it was pretty
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Certainly different from the massive street riots that roiled America in his first inaugural
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And then, of course, in the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter riots really ushered
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Let me show you a little bit about what I did see at the coalition against Trump.
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And to be honest and not being mean here, it was pretty dumb.
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This is the sign for the Democratic Socialists of America.
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And if you want to ask them about it, they are right over there.
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Do you mind if I ask you one question about your answer?
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I appreciate that, but I'm familiar with Rebel Media.
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Well, I'm sort of disappointed that you won't even tell me what your sign means.
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Well, I was going to ask you a challenging question, which is, I think socialism and fascism
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both have an element of authoritarianism to it.
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I, uh, once again will direct you to the DSA to speak further.
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Uh, yeah, uh, we, uh, we are intolerant of intolerance.
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I've never met such thin skinned people in my life.
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Um, and I want to, um, just make it clear that, that, you know, we are the people, um,
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Um, you know, I, I want people to, to know that they can make themselves heard, um, make,
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Um, and, you know, no matter your, your, all these different groups to have their differences,
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but now it's the time to join hands, um, and, and work, uh, to make this country a better
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The guillotine though, the symbolism is very violent.
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Um, it, you know, I, I have a certain optimism.
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Um, I'm just, I want people to wake up to, to, um, the severity of the situation.
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Yeah, um, there, the thing is, um, the people in power, um, should be scared, um, and, and
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treading lightly, uh, again, because we have this power together.
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Would you say your concerns are more economic, social justice, foreign affairs?
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Um, my personal reasons for doing this, um, you know, uh, I have, um, there are communities
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that I deeply care for that, that are losing their rights.
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Um, but, um, I will say, you know, the economic disparity in France, uh, in 1760 to 1790, when
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they were bringing the real thing out, we're in a worse spot in this, uh, country today.
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We have iPhones, we have, um, just these little distractions that make us feel like everything's
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Um, but people aren't waking up to the wealth and resources that are kept, uh, above our
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People, uh, who are the proletariat think that they're maybe wealthy.
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Because yes, um, they're, you know, you give the people pride in circuses, they won't
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Um, it's, it's, um, I, people should be more aware of, of the disparity.
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Did you make it or did you get a friend to help?
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Like that's not a sharp blade, but it looks like it could work.
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It's, it's, it's foam, um, and there's no rails.
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Um, I, I, I want it to be clear that this is, this is, um, you know, it's just a piece
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Um, and, um, are you an artist yourself or you had a friend maybe make this for you?
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Um, I think I can now say that I'm an artist, um, you know, um, and, and I, I'm, I'm involved
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And the only other person I've ever met who's done blackface is Justin Trudeau.
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Um, this is, you know, I, I wanted to, um, I, I don't want to have any really identifying,
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Um, I want to, it's not so that, um, I can be anyone.
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Well, you're, you're, uh, you, you look a little bit scary.
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That looks a little scary, but I found you quite gentle in our conversation.
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In fact, I think he ended by saying bless you, which, uh, I did not expect.
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We need to all join together in this revolution because if anything's going to change, we all
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Can I ask you what kind of things you'd like to change?
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The people have nothing and we need to take back what's ours.
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That all these major companies you can think of, they own them.
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They're the same people that sell you your cars.
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They're the same people that sell you your insurance.
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Are the same people that sell you your medicine.
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They have everything and we have nothing, but it's ours.
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Because you mentioned drugs and I'm guessing you have some views on health.
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I think it's a radical thing that Donald Trump appointed RFK Jr. to cabinet.
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Very skeptical of, uh, you know, industrial food.
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Maybe not the far left, but he is radical in his own way.
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What do you think about the fact that he is Trump's nominee for health and human services?
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I don't have any, um, strict opinions on RFK Jr.
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Um, I, I see you, you're wearing the colors of the rainbow.
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Because I was looking at some of the appointments that Donald Trump has made.
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His treasury secretary, uh, Rick Grinnell, Tulsa Gabbards, um, some of his spokesmen.
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I, I, and there's a lot of LGB, uh, appointments, even at the cabinet level.
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Trump hasn't talked about them as gay appointments.
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Like, like, he has a press release about them, but he never mentions their sexuality.
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And I think that's a very interesting approach, which is sort of, these are regular folks.
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I'm not even going to talk about their sexuality.
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It's just that they're not sort of radical activists.
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I mean, as far as, like, one sexuality goes, I, like, don't think it is vital information
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that, um, in the political world for you to disclose that information.
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Um, so personally to me, it doesn't matter whether or not, like, you appoint someone, um,
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who's queer or trans, um, and choose whether, or, well, the person that you appoint, they
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choose whether or not they want that information disclosed.
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Um, to me, what's most important is the actual, um, actions that people choose to take.
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Are you surprised that Trump has, uh, appointed so many, uh, gay people to high office?
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Um, I personally believe that, um, a lot of what goes on in the government is for show.
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He would be really talking about, look at all the gay people I appointed.
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He's done the appointment part, but not the show part.
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I'm saying that, like, if people are taking it to an extra level and they're trying to
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make a point of like, oh, well, he chose to not disclose the information or they chose
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I don't think that that's important, um, to talk about.
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I think what's important to talk about is what people actually decide to do while they're
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I mean, everyone here, I mean, that fella, you and your friend are pretty gentle.
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I mean, the whole point of a guillotine is to cut off someone's head, most likely with
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What are you doing standing next to a replica of a killing machine?
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I mean, a lot of us also have a lot of righteous anger.
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You, you're in the wealthiest, freest country in the world.
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Even the poor people in this country would be considered rich in most countries in the
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You are the luckiest generation in history, in the history of the world, in the history
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I'm angry because all of our wealth goes up to the top 1%.
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The wealth that you talk about is all controlled.
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Even poor people in America are wealthier than rich people in most parts of Africa.
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I mean, if you're talking about the poor people that have to spend, like, all of their time
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working and have absolutely no free time whatsoever, and they are wealthier than the people in Africa,
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I'm not saying that they aren't in that sense, but I am also saying that, like, we are a slave
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two-hour jobs, and, like, even as someone who, like, works multiple jobs to make rents and meet, I have
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basically no free time, and I think wealth is more than just money.
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I think wealth is also being able to have free time to actually explore the world and actually do things
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You know, I, uh, I gotta tell you, sister, I'm a little bit older than you, and if, uh, being very angry
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about not having enough free time is the worst problem you got, you live a blessed life.
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It's been a pleasure talking with you, and I hope your problems never get any worse than just
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To have enough free time, and really, what free time I have, I just find myself wasting it on my
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phone. In a way, Joe Biden did everyone a favor by taking away TikTok. I'm not so sure if Donald
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Trump giving it back is the right thing. I, uh, it is sort of amazing that the number one grievance
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she has in life is not enough free time. I'm not sure if the guillotine is the solution to that, but
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I want to say hi to, yeah, I want to say hi to Justine also.
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de-institutionalized violence, hands off the people, free Luigi, and all political prisoners,
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But, I mean, he shot a guy, how is that a political prisoner?
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I, I wonder if she's ever thought of that before.
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Yeah, I want to, I want to talk about peace in Lebanon, but you, is there someone else you
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There is a, I mean, there was a ceasefire held, but Israel violated the ceasefire and
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it continued to bomb Lebanon after it was made.
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One of the things that Trump gets some credit for is the, what was called the Abraham Accords.
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When, when he was president in his first term, he got a peace deal between Israel and the
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No, but I heard about the United Arab Emirates and how they're, um, they're, well, they're
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funding this war and, uh, or they're fighting in Sudan and there are military.
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Well, I guess what I want to ask is I'm, I'm hopeful that maybe they would have Abraham
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Accords round two with Lebanon and then maybe Lebanon could be part of a broader regional
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Can I ask why you're carrying the flag in the protest then?
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Well, because the war with, um, the war, because, okay, if you want to know Hezbollah and Israel
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were in a conflict, we want to talk about the whole history.
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All right, well, good luck and hopefully peace will come.
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Well, I'm standing amongst, uh, some pro Trump folks who were not able to get into the Capital
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One, uh, Coliseum where Trump was having some of his presentation because it's quite cold
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What was going to be an outside, uh, presentation was moved inside.
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Many people, and I would be one of them, also think there was likely a security issue.
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It is indeed cold outside, quite cold, but I think that, uh, security concerns are at
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I just don't know if the, if that was a feature of things, but I don't know if you saw the news
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Two or three senior regime judges were just assassinated.
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The reason I mentioned that is you never know if Iran would try and get vengeance on Israel.
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And his choice of a cabinet shows he's not messing around this time.
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He's had a long time to think about the errors of his first term, and I think many of them
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He hired people in his sanctum sanctorum, in his inner circle, who were actively working
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I should mention that, uh, Joe Biden in his final two days as president, in fact, in one
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case, just minutes before the handover today, Biden pardoned anyone who had, uh,
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undone Trump from Anthony Fauci to general Mark Milley to today, pardoning his entire family,
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Joe Biden's brother and extended family, the entire Biden crime family got a Biden pardon
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And, uh, it's very interesting because Trump, I think is proceeding on a different tack.
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I think that you're going to see more action from this presidency, perhaps since any president
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since Reagan, uh, even more than Reagan, I'd say I'd have to go back to the second world
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war to see a president, uh, uh, presidential administration.
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He's thinking now of his legacy, keeping promises.
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Yes, but also doing things that presidents haven't thought of in a long time.
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I think he was joking about turning Canada into the 51st state, but I don't think he's
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And I don't think he's joking about turning Greenland into a U.S.
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You're going to see an amazing Trump presidency.
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Some people will hate it, but everyone will be riveted by it.
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So the question that I'm asking is what will the changes be for Canada?
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We've been talking a lot about the trade war and the tariffs, but will the cultural change
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that Trump is bringing to America spill over to us too?
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One of Trump's many orders today was to immediately stop the shenanigans about 53 genders.
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According to the executive orders Trump issued today, there will only be male and female
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There were other steps taking against trans extremism.
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Things have gone totally crazy in Canada on the trans agenda.
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I think it's going to have an effect on Canada.
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Canadian sports teams sometimes go to the U.S. for tournaments.
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Well, if there is a trans player, if there is a biological male playing on a women's sports
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team, that will not work in a tournament in the United States.
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So that's a tiny way that already Trump's agenda will affect us and can.
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Trump has promised an agency called DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, which will
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If the United States really does dismantle a significant amount of its regulatory burden,
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Right now, Canada's headed in the opposite direction.
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I remind you that on April 1st, barely two months from now, Canada's carbon tax will actually
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How on earth can ordinary Canadian businesses, let alone ordinary Canadian residents, compete
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with the United States that will be cutting taxes, cutting the size of government, and
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It really will cause a brain drain from Canada and a capital drain if Canada doesn't change
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What's also interesting to me is who the liberals are putting up.
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We talked about Chris Jafiel and the other leading choice, of course, being Mark Carney.
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What a stark contrast with Donald Trump, who's the anti-globalist.
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By the way, my teammates, Sheila Gunn-Reed and Avi Amini, are in Davos today, their first
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I will be making my way there tomorrow to join them.
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Interestingly, Donald Trump will be giving a speech at the World Economic Forum this year
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I expect it'll be similar to his last speech there, which is to trumpet American values
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and basically say to the world's investors, if you're serious about prosperity, come to
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Mark Carney is the champion, not just of carbon taxes, but of what's called ESG, Environmental,
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Governance, that's basically the corporate version of DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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His whole career, including when he was at the Bank of England, was about promoting carbon
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taxes and turning corporations into socialist errand boys.
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But in recent weeks and months, that has fallen out of favor, largely because Trump's back.
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And so you see major banks from around the world, including major Canadian banks, abandoning the green
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projects that Mark Carney had worked on ensnaring them.
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So as the world pendulum swings back towards freedom and prosperity, as the pragmatists in the world,
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like Mark Zuckerberg, suck up to Trump by rediscovering a belief in freedom of speech,
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those same pressures will be doubly so in Canada.
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If you're the leader of a high-tech company, if you're the leader of a prosperous company in Canada,
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and you see America getting more and more free and more and more friendly to business,
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while Canada continues to raise taxes and go down the woke path,
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you're going to be faced with a choice pretty soon to move or to perish.
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I think, for example, of the enormously successful high-tech company called Shopify,
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which is basically the sales page of tens of thousands of businesses around the world.
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They use Shopify for their website stores or online stores.
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The leaders of Shopify have been outspoken in defense of freedom and smaller taxes.
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It'll be fascinating to see if they can hold on and make a go of it in Canada,
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or if they will do what so many Canadian companies do is, and just move to the States.
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I was delighted to have the honor of interviewing Danielle Smith,
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who I think has become a real leader on a national stage.
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I think she did what was in the interest of all Canadians, not just Albertans.
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Canada is out of the woods for now on tariffs, but I don't know if that'll be the case for long.
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Anyways, that's my report from here on the chilly streets of Washington, D.C.
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I've been invited to an inaugural dinner tonight with two different companies co-sponsoring it.
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You may know them as the free speech alternative to YouTube,
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and that's our favorite place to publish videos at Rebel News.
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So I was delighted to receive an invitation from Rumble to attend their event,
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and it's co-sponsored, incredibly, by Trump's Truth Social platform.
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So who knows if we'll have a visit by Donald Trump Jr., or maybe President Trump himself.
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I thought it would be worth my time to go in case there was, I don't know.
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And even just to meet the leaders of these free speech-oriented social media platforms,
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Then, right on the plane for me to join my colleagues in Davos,
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there's so much going on with Rebel News right now.
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Alexa Lavoie in Quebec covering Trudeau's final MP caucus retreat.
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David Menzies, of course, doing amazing work in Ontario.
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We've been covering the Trump inauguration in D.C.
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and Sheila and Avi at the World Economic Forum.
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And the reason we go to these places is not just that they're interesting,
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but they affect our life at home back in Canada.
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What happened here today in Washington will have a profound effect on us back home.
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And that makes it even more shocking that Justin Trudeau, Dominique LeBlanc, Melanie Jolie,
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the entire federal government, and 9 out of 10 premiers refused to come here in some sort of petty boycott.
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The fact that Justin Trudeau is putting his own vendetta and feud above the national interest
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Last point, it was when I was down here that I learned that the Federal Court of Canada
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has agreed with our friends at the Justice Center to have an expedited hearing
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on their challenge to the legality of the invocation of prorogation.
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Remember when Justin Trudeau had the Governor General suspend Parliament to buy him more time
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because he was going to lose a no-confidence vote?
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Well, the Justice Center is challenging that prorogation in Parliament.
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Now, I didn't think that was, I thought that was such a long shot it had no chance.
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But then John Carpe reminded me, actually I didn't know, that in the UK that prorogation was challenged and defeated.
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Here's a quick clip of my conversation about that with John Carpe from a week ago.
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Got a very strong precedent from 2019 when in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson prorogued Parliament for five weeks,
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not nearly as long as the 11 weeks that Justin Trudeau is proroguing Parliament in Canada or trying to.
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Boris Johnson prorogued Parliament for five weeks, which was longer than the usual one to three weeks.
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And the highest court in the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom Supreme Court, ruled that it was a violation of the constitutional principle of the sovereignty of Parliament.
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He wanted to get the United Kingdom out of the European Union quicker.
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It had been three years since the referendum and the court ruled that his prorogation of Parliament was illegal because it sought to shield the government from scrutiny by Parliament.
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And we have the same constitution fundamentally in Canada where the government is or should be accountable to Parliament.
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The government needs to enjoy the support of the majority of MPs.
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And so what we've got Justin Trudeau doing is analogous to what Boris Johnson did in 2019.
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Incredibly, the Justice Centre won the first preliminary battle and there will be a hearing in February as to the legality of that prorogation.
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Wouldn't it be amazing if the Justice Centre managed to get Parliament to reconvene?
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Well, my friends, I'm going to sign off now and I'm going to show you a few more videos from our time here.
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All of it was interesting and all of it should be of interest to Canadians.
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Because for better or for worse, we live right next door to the world's most powerful country.
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And I think it's in our entire national interest that we find a government that can work constructively with our U.S. neighbors, not to be so bloody petty about it like Trudeau and others are.
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From the streets of Washington, D.C. to you at home, on behalf of Rebel News, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
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So you think it's a little bit of bluster, a little bit of a salesmanship?
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But I wouldn't say that he's ready to put a tariff on tomorrow as soon as he takes office.
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I've heard that Trudeau's response to Trump's demand was not sufficient to stop the tariff.
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And he'll probably be more open to making a good deal.
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Because, of course, they've got French-English bilingualism.
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And maybe in Springfield, where there's a lot of Haitian folks.
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I don't know if anybody likes Quebec to begin with.
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Tell old blackface Justin Trudeau to take a hike.
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I have a theory that Trump looks at Justin Trudeau and he gets mad.
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I mean, I look at Emmanuel Macron and I get, I actually like France, but I can't stand Emmanuel Macron.
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Do you think Trump's just reacting to his personal feelings about Trudeau?
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I don't understand why it would be done to your best friend.
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If they were our best friend, if they wouldn't be ripping us off and we wouldn't have a...
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Well, it's a ripoff because we have a $10 billion trade deficit.
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Okay, but if you wanted to buy oil from someone else, you would.
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Hopefully, we can avoid this trade war between our two countries.
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Hope you get to stay on the air a little longer.
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Maybe up when Pierre Pelliev, however his name is pronounced, takes office.
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I take it by the fact you're at a Trump rally that you're Republican.
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Have you ever considered that if Canada were to join the U.S.,
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it would be in the Electoral College like another California?
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It would be the biggest state with the most number of representatives in the House
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and the most electors in the Electoral College.
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Oh, well, if you follow everyone other than Nebraska and Maine,
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you wouldn't split your electoral votes either,
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and we'd never have another Republican president again.
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Like, doesn't that just go straight to what you're talking about,
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I think it's like 4 million barrels a day we sell to you.
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Well, we need to get drilling at home open back up.
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And, you know, we've got a lot of people out of work
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because they're restricting us on where we can drill and what we can drill.
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And the safety of this continent is what's critical.
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I don't think that's a good idea for Canada to sell our oil to China.
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Anyhow, I just hope that it's a bit of salesmanship banter.
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Well, now that's something we can all agree on.
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I think that Trump, I think when he sees a picture of Trudeau,
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he gets his hackles up, like a lot of Canadians do.
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We're all going to get everything working fine together,
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you know, and keep up the trade and keep up the back and forth.
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The 51st state, what do you think the new name is going to be?
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And what if the name of it was California Junior?
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Well, I mean, my point being, get ready for an electoral college
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I think that the two countries can be independent,
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but friends, lots of good trade, military allies.
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That's just ammunition for him to negotiate, basically.
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Same thing with the Gulf of America, Greenland, all that.
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I think that that is a more serious project than the 51st State.
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To, like, of all the things to do, to slap a tariff on oil
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that you buy for your own refineries, that just seems so counterproductive.
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Like, it's not like you're stopping, like, trinkets and junk.
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Well, it's a little chilly for that these days.
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Well, but that, okay, I agree with you, drill, baby, drill.
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Well, I'm relying on you to be an advocate for Canadian oil.