EZRA LEVANT ｜ Will Mark Carney become our next prime minister as Trudeau 2.0？
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Will Mark Carney become our next Prime Minister in March without ever having won an election? Ed Levenoran takes a detour from the main news to talk about this, and much more, on today s episode of The Ed LeeVant Show.
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Tonight, will Mark Carney become our next prime minister in March without ever having won an
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It's January 13th, and this is the Ed's for LeVant Show.
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I'm filming this monologue on my laptop on Sunday, because on Monday, I'm going to be traveling
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There's no time to record the show tomorrow, so I'm doing it now, but I'll be back on Tuesday.
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It's incredible how much news there is these days.
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You know, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin once said, there are decades where nothing
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happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen, and even a commie can be right about
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I want to talk to you a bit about Mark Carney, the World Economic Forum, big shot.
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He left Canada to run the Bank of England, and he's now decided to come back to Canada
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to favor us with his amazing leadership qualities, and we should be so grateful to him.
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The Harvard professor that the liberals tried to run in 2011 against Stephen Harper.
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He left Canada because he was bigger than he could fit into our country, and he thought
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he'd come back to us, little people, in favor of leading us.
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He got crushed in the election, less than 19 percent.
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The liberal parties were shown since Canada was started.
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Ignatius lost his own seat mercifully, and of course, he then proceeded to go back to Harvard,
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and then the Central European University, which is a university paid for and set up by George
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He really just came back to Canada to see if he could collect us.
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At least he ran for an election in a 2006 by-election, and then the 2008 general election.
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He won, and then, of course, he was thrown out in 2011.
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Michael Ignatius was wooden, and he was condescending and snobby, but he managed to earn the support
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of ordinary people in Etobicoke before he was thrust into the top job.
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And that's what Mark Carney, another master of the universe, wants to do.
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Mark Carney wants to go straight to the top job in Canada before he even runs for dog catcher.
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I'll give you the details in a moment, but first, I just have to show you something
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about a totally different subject that I know you haven't seen if you rely on the mainstream media.
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You probably heard that half of Los Angeles is on fire, the fancy half, the luxury half,
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There's a massive water reservoir in LA, but it's empty.
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The biggest fire in Palisades is still 90% out of control.
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First thing I want to show you is the mayor of LA, Karen Bass.
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Everyone knew there would be a huge fire risk this week because the strong winds were whipping
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But the mayor left the city to fly to Ghana, the country in Africa, right as the fire was
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Some ceremonial visit at the expense of taxpayers.
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Who wouldn't want a five-star luxury visit to Africa?
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Not even as a regular tourist, which could be fun, but as a pretend VIP paid for by taxpayers.
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Here she is when she was spotted switching planes, finally coming home.
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A reporter saw her and she doesn't have a single word to say for herself.
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Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
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Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?
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Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
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Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.
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Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with
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Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?
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Madam Mayor, let me ask you just again, have you anything to say to the citizens?
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she's a Democrat, not just a Democrat, an actual communist. She visited Cuba a half dozen times in
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the 70s, not as a tourist, as a political ally of the Castro regime. That's similar to New York's
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former Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio, an actual communist. Same with Bernie Sanders, the senator.
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You know, he took his honeymoon in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. There really are
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communists who believe in totalitarianism. They just use democracy as the tool to get power,
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since they can't quite seize it outright in other ways yet. So that's the mayor. Let me show you the
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head of water for LA. That's a big job because it's pretty dry down there. Did you know that the head
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of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Janice Quinones, she has a staff of 11,000 people,
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and I guess they all just sort of forgot to make sure there was water in the fire hydrants. I'm
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actually kidding. They didn't forget they knew. They just didn't care. They had other priorities.
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Coming from the communities that I come, seeing what I've seen through my career in utilities and
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through the military, I've been in the Coast Guard 19 and a half years now. So I got six more months to
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qualify for my 20 years, which was my original goal. Wow. Congratulations. And thank you for your
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service. Thank you. Thank you. It's important to me that everything we do, it's with an equity lens
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and social justice and making sure that we right the wrongs that we've done in the past from an
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infrastructure perspective and that we involve the community in that process. And this utility is
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serious about it, is authentic about it. And so I'm just super excited to be part of that movement.
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So she makes $750,000 US a year. That's more than a million dollars a year Canadian. She had one job,
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water. But they spill the water right out in the ocean for environmentalist reasons.
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They're now actually destroying dams to do even more of that. It's all in the name of diversity and
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global warming. And here are the, sorry, the mayor, the head of water. And here are the three women,
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all named Kristen, who run the fire department in LA and have a huge job. This is a tweet by Charlie
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Kirk, the conservative activist. I swear, I thought it was a joke. It's not. They're all lesbians named
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Kristen. I want to tell you, I don't care about the race or sexuality of firemen or fire women or
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fire they, thems, whatever. I just want to know that they can do the job. You know, can you come to
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the fire with water? Can you lift someone out of there if they've succumbed to the smoke?
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But they can't do it. They cannot do it. 750 grand for the water boss who forgot about the water
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because she was focused on diversity. And then, well, here's one of those top fire people.
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You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call
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or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that
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somebody might understand their situation better. Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't
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carry my husband out of a fire? Which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to
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carry him out of a fire. You agree with her? Is the most important thing when your house is on fire
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that the fireman who shows up looks like you? Is that the most important thing? But that doesn't
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even make sense since every household looks different and they don't match firemen to burning
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houses by race. That's crazy talk. That's crazy in a whole bunch of different ways. But look at that.
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She says, if she is not strong enough to save your husband, because she's a diversity hire as a woman,
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well, what's your husband getting into trouble first in the first place? Why did you go have
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that stupid fire? Not very smart of you, was it? That was a real interview that she did on purpose.
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That was not a gaffe or misspeaking. So you've got the three top fire Christians and the top water boss
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and the mayor. And every single one of them is focused on everything other than fighting fires,
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going to Ghana, racial and gender quotas. They actually sent a lot of their firefighting
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equipment to Ukraine. But the sad thing is most of the people whose homes burned,
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well, the Democrats, they voted for this. Not all of them, of course, but if you live
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such a luxury life that imaginary things like woke DEI and global warming posturing
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are more important to you than the actual safety of your family and your house. Well,
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I think this is what they call chickens coming home to roost. By the way, it just so happens
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that Donald Trump called this out a long time ago and was ignored, of course. You see this?
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You've seen what happened. You've talked about the forest fires. Now we're permitting and cleaning
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up these forests so it will reduce the threat of forest fire as well as creating jobs in these
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communities. We're all to do that in California. Yes, sir. California is a mess. We're giving
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billions and billions of dollars for forest fires in California. There's no reason for those fire
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fires to be like they are. They're leaving them dirty. It's a disgraceful thing. Old trees are
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sitting there rotting and dry. And instead of cleaning it up, they don't touch them. They leave
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them. And we end up with these massive fires that we're paying hundreds of billions of dollars for to
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fix. And the destruction is incredible. So I think California ought to get their act together and
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clean up their forests and manage their forests because it's disgraceful. They said, we have no
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water. I said, do you have a drought? No, we don't have a drought. I said, why don't you have no water?
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Because the water isn't allowed to flow down. It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north
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of water, more water than they could ever use. And in order to protect a tiny little fish,
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the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water
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gets poured. I could have water for all of that land, water for your forests. You know,
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your forests are dry as a bone. Yeah. Okay. Dangerous. That water could be routed. You know,
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you could have everything. Not only dangerous, billions of dollars a year they spend on forest
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fires. And you know, there's a case with the environment. They're not allowed to rake their
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forest because you're not allowed to touch it. And all they have to do is clean their forest,
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meaning rake it up, get rid of the leaves, get rid of, you know, leaves that are sitting there
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for five years. And they'll certainly get rid of the dead fall and get rid of the trees that have
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fallen. Yeah. You know, it's not just the mayor or the fire chief. It's the governor. It's the whole
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state of California. If you thought that airport video with the mayor was bad, look at this. The
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governor, Gavin Newsom, just lying. Governor, you got a second? Governor,
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governor, I live here, governor. That was my daughter's school, governor. Please tell me what
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you're going to do. I'm not going to hurt him. I promise. I'm literally talking to the president
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right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter.
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Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it.
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I'm sorry. There's literally, I've tried five times. That's why I'm walking around to make
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the call. Why is the president not taking your call?
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Because it's not going through. Why? So I have to get self-service.
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So let's get it. Let's get it. I want to be here when you call the president.
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I appreciate it. I'm doing that right now. And it's to immediately get reimbursements,
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individual assistance, and to help you on with a devastating failure. I'm so sorry,
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especially for your daughter. I have four kids. Losing the school.
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Someone who went to school there, they lost their homes. They lost two homes because they
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were living in one building another. Governor, please tell me, tell me, what are you going
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to do with the president right now? We're getting, we're getting the resources
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to help rebuild. Why was there no water in the hydrants, governor?
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That's all literally. Is it going to be different next time?
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It has to be. Has to be. Of course. What are you going to do?
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To fill the hydrants. I would fill them up personally. You know that.
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I would fill up the hydrants myself. But would you do that?
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I would do whatever I can. But you're not. I see the, do you know there's water dripping
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over there, governor? There's water coming out there. You can use it.
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I appreciate it. I'm going to make the call to address everything I can right now,
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including making sure people are safe. I'd like to make sure you, can I, can I have
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an opportunity to at least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing?
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Thank you. Could somebody have a contact? Can I have your contact information right now?
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You know, they say a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Do you know what I mean
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by that? It's easy to be soft on crime when it happens to other people, not so much when
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it happens to you. That's why San Francisco is political swinging back a little bit.
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All the tech millionaires can no longer insulate themselves from the disaster on the streets
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Well, your multimillion dollar house burning down, that's a pretty big moment of being
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bugged, mugged by reality. I wonder if they're going to still keep voting for all the Christens,
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though. I just want to mention that because that video of the black lesbian fire chief saying
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her job is about race and sex, not about saving lives, it's just the absolute logical conclusion
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of DEI. I mean, I'm surprised they're not sending in firefighters in, in wheelchairs. I mean,
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why are they so ableist? All right, I just have to show you that crazy video, but back to Canada.
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By the way, we have the same left-wing fire policies too. Wildfires in Alberta and Jasper
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this year were made all worse because eco-extremists like Stephen Gilbone refused to cull the forest
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to remove dead trees that are just fuel waiting for a spark. They slashed firefighting spending,
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just like the LA liberals. Canada's liberals don't actually know how to do anything.
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They just know how to do woke. I keep thinking about that one kilometer stretch
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of the California high-speed train, a hundred billion dollar project, decades late,
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still not running. They actually were so proud they put out a press release celebrating that
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disconnected, incomplete, like one kilometer stretch. Did you see that? They're proud of that.
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I think that's just absolutely perfect. Whatever you think of Donald Trump,
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the guy actually knows how to build things. I've never met a Democrat or a Canadian liberal who has.
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All right, let me get back to my real topic today, which is Mark Carney, your next prime minister,
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if things go as they are. And I think he falls into the category of someone who's never actually
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done anything, but he's wafted to the top. When Trudeau first announced his resignation,
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it was vague. He said he'd resign after the party chose his successor, but he didn't say when that would
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be. And he announced it at the same time that parliament was going to be dissolved until March 24th.
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And it's shameful that our partisan governor general allowed that. Trudeau wanted parliament
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dissolved so MPs couldn't vote non-confidence in him. That's his main priority. But of course,
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it also means parliament cannot meet to discuss or debate or vote on anything else.
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All the bills in the House of Commons were vaporized. And that's a good thing when it comes
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to atrocious laws like Bill C-63, the censorship law. But it also means the parliament can't deal with
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the threat of tariffs from Trump or the real problem, Trump's real point, which is, you know,
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he wants us to get a stronger border between us, to stop illegal drugs and illegal immigrants.
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That's one of the worst things that's going on right now. Instead of just saying, sure,
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we'll stop illegal things at the border. Frankly, we should do that on our own accord.
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Thanks for giving us a kick in the behind. We're assuming that, no, we're not going to stop
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illegal drugs or illegal migrants. We'd rather have a showy trade war with Trump because that does
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well with the liberal base or something. My point is, the actual problem to solve is the border,
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not ignore that and prefer a devastating fight over tariffs. Trudeau, of course, won't even talk
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about this. He's hiding from journalists. His last interaction with Canadian media was on the CBC
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state broadcaster, their government comedy show called This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
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Um, you know, not really funny, but of course, they're never going to ask him a question. So
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it was safe for him. Since then, he's gone on a few U.S. shows. He's gone on CNN and MSNBC. Those
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are hardcore left wing shows. You go on there when you want a softball interview, not to communicate
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to Trump and his government. Listen to Trudeau complain about why he resigned. Nothing that he did,
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just right wing social media. Did you see that? But when you get a con, you know, a, a, a, a,
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I was going to say conflagration, but at least a, an intersection of, of both, uh, you know,
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right wing policy, right wing attacks and social media, you end up with a lot of misinformation,
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disinformation, and responsible governments have to stay focused on the policies that are making a
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difference. And that's what we've been doing. Yeah. I wonder who he means. Anyways, the liberal
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leadership race is now on. They have announced that March 9th is when voting ends and the result
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will be known, but candidates only have until January 23rd to announce their candidacy. That's
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just 10 days from now. It's a $350,000 entry fee too, by the way, which will discourage some candidates.
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So it's really compressed, but here's the crazy part. The deadline to register to vote as a member
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of the party is January 27th. So all the candidates have two weeks to sell memberships by sell. They
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don't actually cost anything, which I think is crazy. Also, anyone can just sign up as easy as
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clicking like on Facebook would be. Liberals claim they've tightened it up a little bit until last
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week. Even foreign nationals could join. I don't think they've done anything to audit existing
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members who signed up under that rule. For all we know, there are a hundred thousand foreign citizens
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who will choose the next liberal leader who will immediately become the next prime minister, by the
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way. It's just as nuts. No money, no, no auditing. You can vote as young as 14 years old. You can join the
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liberal party at 14 and choose the next prime minister before Canadians have a vote on it in the election.
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There really is not time to go door to door, is there? It's all going to be online.
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I bet at the Chinese embassy, they've opened up a special situation room
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to mobilize people to join, and not just people, fake people, robots, to interfere.
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Like the CSIS says they did in 2019 and 2021, when they interviewed in at least 11 electoral
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districts in Canada, now I'm sure China is gaming the whole country online in two weeks. I bet they've
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got an artificial intelligence, an AI app designed to do this. I mean, they haven't given all the
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details, but given the compressed time, I'm sure voting will either be online or perhaps by phone.
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There's no time for snail mail, and obviously nothing's going to be done in person. And since
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there's no payment, you don't have a credit card, you need a real credit card with a real name. That's
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a form of ID when you think about it. No credit card necessary. So you just have to type something
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on a website. You don't think Chinese AI is going to game that? Do you think the Chinese AI can outsmart
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the liberal party? Yeah, I'm guessing. In fact, I don't think they have to outsmart the liberal party.
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I think the liberal party is fine with having the government of China rig the rules. They
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haven't done anything about the 11 MPs who were elected in Chinese interference districts. We'll
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see. I mean, I think it really comes down to two big names, Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney. I don't
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think DC's Chrystia Clark is a serious candidate. Freeland, as you know, has been Trudeau's right-hand
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woman since the beginning. She was deputy prime minister and really the de facto PM. Trudeau never
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really did any work. He just schmoozed and did the photo ops and handed the hard parts off to her.
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I'll give her this. She had a work ethic. I don't think she was particularly bright, but she
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did the work. When she quit, I think it was astonishing to her whole caucus. I think all
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the liberal MPs knew that Trudeau really had no clue to do what to do without her. Not that she was
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clever or popular. She was just essential to the operation. Name any other cabinet minister who
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you could fairly say did a good job about anything. Stephen Gilbeau, Melanie Jolie. They're all
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all are Canadian versions of those fire Karens, fire Christens. Hired for some demographic reason,
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DEI. I mean, imagine Melanie Jolie as prime minister. I don't think anyone can.
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So Chrystia Freeland will have lots of connections in Canada with MPs in the riding. So give her this.
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She is a relentless campaigner who is known throughout the party on the ground. And that
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would matter if Chinese AI wasn't a part of this. But like I say, it's all going to come down to
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computerized voting. I mean, right now, she's leading the few opinion polls I've seen. I've seen
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three polls. She's ahead in all of them, but not by much. Because although she had that one moment of
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defiance against Trudeau, that comes after nearly 10 years of obedience to Trudeau, she sold every
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Trudeau policy from the carbon tax to high immigration, to being pro-Hamas, to stripping
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Sir John A. McDonald off our $10 bill. She owns every liberal scandal. The fact that she is not as
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hated as Trudeau is simply because he was more ubiquitous than her. He was the top target. She was
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like the vice president. You know, the worst moment, speaking of vice presidents, in the Kamala Harris
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campaign, and I think Democrats acknowledge this now, was when she went on The View and was asked if
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there was any difference between her and Joe Biden. If there was any policy, she would disagree with him
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Well, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past
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four years? There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of
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the decisions that have had impact. Listen, I plan on having a Republican in my cabinet.
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Oh, I got a list. Yes. Right. You asked me what's the difference between Joe Biden and me. Well,
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that will be one of the differences. I'm going to have a Republican in my cabinet. Because I don't,
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I don't feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea. Yeah. Right.
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She said, no, she thought it would be good for her to take credit for being Joe Biden's mini-me.
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But to voters, it meant she was complicit in everything he did wrong. Don't do that if Biden
00:25:30.780
is hated. Don't do that if Trudeau is hated. Trudeau is at 16% in the polls. If you are the
00:25:37.320
number one Me Too girl for Trudeau for 10 years, saying you're Trudeau's right-hand woman is not
00:25:44.040
going to help you. So that's Chrystia Freeland. You'd think she's well known, but she's never
00:25:48.280
really been vetted by the regime media. And she's never really had a hostile media interview in her
00:25:53.240
life. I think she's as off-putting as Kamala Harris was. No cackle, laugh, but plenty of condescension
00:25:59.800
and words salad. I think she's deeply unlikable. Compare that to Mark Carney. I hear he's going
00:26:06.840
to be announcing his campaign very soon. He looks and sounds good. I hear he's going to be launching
00:26:13.220
in Edmonton, actually, trying to get a small-town feel. He looks and sounds good. It's still
00:26:19.040
artificial, but he's better at it than, I think, Chrystia Freeland. You know, this Oilers jersey
00:26:25.960
picture is a little bit lame and forced. So was his skinning on the canal. I think he's got that
00:26:31.620
ignatty of stiffness to him. But he's a good talker, is what I mean. Better than Freeland
00:26:36.300
is. She's got kind of Tourette's, I think. Here is Mark Carney last year taking a bit of
00:26:43.920
a shot against Freeland when talking to me. This is Canada. You could have him arrested.
00:26:49.340
Did you see that? Your rival, Chrystia Freeland, had one of our reporters arrested.
00:26:53.000
I don't think she did. She didn't say a word against it. It was the wrong thing. It was
00:27:00.020
absolutely the wrong thing. Thank you for saying that. Look, freedom of the press. I've been a
00:27:07.860
public figure in Canada, been a public figure in the UK. I know you've got to answer tough
00:27:12.200
questions. And you guys, you know, you ask tough questions and that's fair. So who exactly
00:27:16.360
is Mark Carney? Well, we'll talk more about that tomorrow. He's the consummate World Economic
00:27:21.680
Forum man. He's been on their board, too. But unlike Chrystia Freeland, who is on their board
00:27:27.120
at this moment, Mark Carney has become a master of the universe himself. He's the chair of Brookfield.
00:27:32.860
He's the chair of Bloomberg LLP. These are billion-dollar or trillion-dollar companies. He
00:27:38.580
really is a master of the universe. And like Ignatieff, he seeks to collect Canada as a little
00:27:44.140
bauble. You know, listen to him tell the liberal MP that he knows how the world works. He's one of the
00:27:50.740
high priests. You got to trust them. One of the knocks on me that the opposition makes or part of
00:27:59.280
the opposition. You're a WEF global elite. Exactly. I'm a WEF global elite. John Barrett is too, but I don't
00:28:05.140
know. Campaign coach here. That never comes up. You know, and, you know, when... But yeah, he's banned his
00:28:11.220
ministers from going to World Economic Forum events to cater to conspiracies. And you've been a board
00:28:16.000
member for over a decade. Yeah. Yeah. I've rolled off the board, but that's absolutely right. I had a
00:28:20.640
board member there and I used to go there with the Prime Minister Stephen Harper when, you know,
00:28:24.380
he was there and et cetera. But let's be clear what, you know, my international experience. I understand
00:28:32.320
how the world works. You know, I know other world leaders. I know people and I understand. I know people
00:28:40.820
who run some of the world's largest companies and understand how they work. I know how financial
00:28:45.320
institutions work. I know how markets work. Uh, I know, and I know the good and bad of that. I've
00:28:51.000
experienced it. I've had to, in some of my roles, discipline it, uh, discipline the financial system,
00:28:56.820
discipline with others, the world's largest banks, the, you know, the Wall Street banks in America after
00:29:01.440
the crisis. So I understand how the world works. I'm trying to apply that to the benefit of Canada,
00:29:08.480
you know, so I'm not going to run away from the fact that I understand how things work.
00:29:13.080
Does he really know how the world works though? I mean, he's the world's biggest carbon tax advocate.
00:29:18.360
He's for DEI woke corporate governance in the world of corporate governance. That's called ESG,
00:29:24.900
environmental, social, and governance. He's never lived a normal life. I mean, right out of high
00:29:29.100
school, he went to Harvard and then to Goldman Sachs. And then after working for a bit in the Department
00:29:34.500
of Finance, he became the head of the Bank of Canada. And then he went to become the head of
00:29:39.260
the Bank of England. Now his chief goal has always been to push climate policies and other world
00:29:45.340
economic foreign priorities. He is, I think, accurately called the world's leading carbon tax
00:29:53.020
advocate. I actually don't think he knows how the world works as in what it's like to be a farmer or a
00:30:00.460
factory worker or a waiter or, or one of 99% of ordinary things. I don't think he knows how to
00:30:07.360
actually do anything. I think he would have run the LA fire department as a woke DEI playground.
00:30:14.220
I think the thing he knows how to do is to schmooze with CEOs at conferences and how to manipulate
00:30:20.540
numbers on a balance sheet and how to tweak GDP by opening up mass immigration. I think he does know
00:30:26.580
that. That's the stuff he's an expert at. But I don't think he knows anything about real life,
00:30:30.700
real people, real problems. And the fact that he says he does, and he smears the conservatives down
00:30:36.120
and Pierre Poligniew doesn't. And the fact that he won't take ownership of the Canadian economic
00:30:40.820
disaster, even though he's had an influence on it for years. I mean, remember, he's been Trudeau's
00:30:45.820
economic advisor for months. I think it shows he thinks the way it is that the world economic form is the
00:30:51.840
way the world ought to be. I actually don't think he knows anything about the world.
00:30:56.580
He's anti-populist, of course. He's one of the masters of the universe. I personally think he's
00:31:02.080
the worst possible candidate for the times and for the troubles that our country has right now.
00:31:07.000
I think the whole world, the pendulum is swinging back away from that woke-ism.
00:31:11.820
But here's the thing. There is a very real chance he will win on March 9th. Electronic voting,
00:31:18.420
online voting, anyone could win. And if he does win without a seat, he'll be the first prime
00:31:22.920
minister. Sorry, he'll still be prime minister on March 9th. Even if he doesn't have a seat,
00:31:29.540
you can be the prime minister without a seat in parliament. Trudeau said he's going to resign.
00:31:36.080
It'll be 15 more days until parliament resumes on March 24th. That could be the first time MPs
00:31:43.220
vote non-confidence in him. That's not a lot of time to be a PM. He'll use that time to put his
00:31:49.600
personal stamp on things, to make some appointments, to introduce a cabinet, to make
00:31:56.220
some announcements, to change some policies. But the main point is on March 9th, while parliament
00:32:02.220
is prorogued, if he wins, he will be slipped right into 24 Sussex Drive. No Canadian election
00:32:09.740
with citizens and adults voting. He'll be selected by this bizarre liberal process of children
00:32:16.860
and permanent residents and anyone who can activate a computer account. He'll be selected,
00:32:21.940
not elected. And you know what? I can absolutely imagine Jagmeet Singh being persuaded to give the
00:32:30.380
new guy a chance to continue supporting Carney, propping him up like Jagmeet Singh has propped up
00:32:36.400
Trudeau so many times, until October, when the election is now tentatively scheduled.
00:32:42.320
So, if Carney can negotiate with Jagmeet Singh, and he would give him anything for this,
00:32:50.340
Carney wouldn't just have two weeks as an unelected prime minister. He would have seven
00:32:56.160
months, more than half a year. That's a long time to put your imprint on the world. Mark Carney,
00:33:02.620
the World Economic Forum prime minister, to replace Trudeau and to beat Freeland,
00:33:09.260
What we are very proud of now is the young generation, like prime minister Trudeau,
00:33:16.440
president of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets. So, yesterday I was at a reception
00:33:26.480
for prime minister Trudeau, and I know that half of this cabinet, or even more half of this cabinet,
00:33:38.280
are for our actually young global leaders of the world.
00:33:43.400
My friends, don't be so sure that we're going to be in an election in the spring.
00:33:51.140
prime minister Mark Carney ruling over us without an electoral mandate,
00:33:57.580
without a seat in parliament, for more than half a year first.
00:34:01.520
Let's go to the CTV news clip, because it feels as though the Liberals are actively trying to
00:34:16.700
sabotage anything that Premier Smith is trying to do.
00:34:21.160
And it goes, I think, to Ezra's theory that the Liberals would much rather campaign against Donald Trump
00:34:27.920
as the economy killer than they would against Polly Ev.
00:34:33.080
Let's hear from Jolie, because she says everything's on the table, but I'll tell you, sister, it ain't.
00:34:43.940
These tariffs are applied, as he has threatened them to be, which we don't know the case.
00:34:47.220
He hasn't announced the specifics, but he's saying 25%.
00:34:50.580
I was interviewing six economists, the top six economists, the chief ones for all the big banks the other day.
00:34:57.000
And collectively, they said the hit to the economy, we're looking to the tunes of millions of jobs,
00:35:01.100
you're looking at a 3% contraction, and essentially an immediate recession.
00:35:05.300
So it's in that vein, against that backdrop, I ask you about what retaliation would look like.
00:35:10.140
Is your government prepared to cut off supplies of energy, for example, to the United States?
00:35:16.520
What I can tell you is everything is on the table.
00:35:19.400
And that's the conversation we will have, the Prime Minister, Minister LeBlanc, and myself,
00:35:25.580
And that's a conversation also I'll take to Republican senators and key Republican decision makers
00:35:34.540
Because this is indeed a decision that would be taken by President-elect Trump
00:35:40.500
that would have devastating impacts on Canadians.
00:35:44.720
And so, for those who are watching us right now,
00:35:48.340
it is important to understand that the threat is real.
00:35:59.240
Because she said something completely erroneous there.
00:36:04.140
And Premier Daniel Smith quickly corrected her.
00:36:07.280
So, she basically said everything's on the table, including cutting off the supply of energy
00:36:17.720
So, she thinks that she is going to either outbound tariff, Alberta oil and gas, Saskatchewan oil and gas,
00:36:28.020
or maybe even, what do you guys produce out there?
00:36:40.640
It's the last clip there, Olivia Efron, Premier Smith, warning the feds to stay in their lanes.
00:36:49.540
Daniel Smith loves a good lawsuit as much as our boss does.
00:36:55.200
And she's pretty winning against the federal government.
00:37:00.620
Yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie talked about,
00:37:04.600
was asked specifically, if in negotiations with Trump, Canada would consider an energy embargo on the United States.
00:37:16.960
And I want to, as leverage, what do you think, what do you make of what she said?
00:37:23.480
Well, first of all, it's oil and gas is owned by the provinces, principally Alberta, and we won't stand for that.
00:37:32.520
And you should never, ever threaten something you cannot do.
00:37:37.980
And I would encourage the minister to look at a map of where Line 5 goes.
00:37:45.240
Line 5 comes down through Michigan to get to Sarnia.
00:37:50.720
And then that feeds the bulk of the supply needed for Ontario and connects with Line 9,
00:37:58.100
which feeds the bulk of the product needed for Quebec.
00:38:01.160
And so, if you cut off that line, you are cutting off Ontario and Quebec.
00:38:07.800
So, I would encourage the ministers to either understand how our integrated pipeline system works
00:38:14.780
and start looking at ways that we would be able to practically respond,
00:38:22.120
because there's no point in making empty threats that cannot be executed on.
00:38:28.200
So, there are other things, I'm sure, that we'll all talk about collectively,
00:38:34.580
but let's just remember how integrated our markets are with the Enbridge system, the TC Energy system,
00:38:41.260
that we have a product going back and forth across the border every single day.
00:38:48.420
And we cannot do anything that harms Canadians in such a substantial way.
00:38:54.680
So, I just don't take that as a credible threat.
00:38:57.240
I'm sure that the U.S. administration won't either.
00:38:59.840
So, we should talk about things that we actually can do as opposed to empty threats.
00:39:04.500
If they were to proceed down that path for some reason, what would be Alberta's response?
00:39:14.120
Well, they will have a national unity crisis on their hands at the same time as having a crisis with our U.S. trade partners.
00:39:23.460
And I don't think Ontarians in Quebec should stand for that as well.
00:39:26.560
They shouldn't be standing by and listening while a federal minister talks about cutting off their energy supply.
00:39:37.300
You know, Sheila, isn't it wonderful to see an adult in the room who understands the issues,
00:39:45.800
And first of all, I just want to go back to Minister Jolie when she begins her response to Vashi Capello's with the phrase,
00:39:57.980
That phrase, thanks to Sellout Singh, has been completely bastardized because for the last several weeks,
00:40:05.600
he has been stating all the time with his opening remarks, everything is on the table.
00:40:10.860
Well, not everything, because, you know, Sellout Singh isn't going to cast a non-confidence vote against these liberals,
00:40:22.960
It's kind of like when you see a consumer product new and improved.
00:40:29.100
It's neither new and it probably hasn't been improved.
00:40:32.260
But I will say this, Sheila, I think what the premier is getting at,
00:40:36.340
and I totally believe this, if Canada, if the provinces are going to get into a trade or tariff war
00:40:45.520
with the United States of America, we are going to lose and we are going to lose badly.
00:40:55.980
Do you think, like listening to Premier Smith talk about energy issues,
00:41:01.780
she is someone who deeply understands the issue right down to where a specific pipeline feeds to
00:41:08.040
and where it goes, where the feedstock goes, and where the refined product goes,
00:41:15.480
She understands the entire supply chain, upstream and downstream, on these pipelines.
00:41:21.920
Do you think Melanie Jolie even knows what line five is,
00:41:25.920
or line nine, or when it was reversed, where it feeds to?
00:41:29.460
She is running her mouth about stuff she doesn't understand,
00:41:34.420
and it's willing, and her actions will devastate Ontario and Quebec.
00:41:41.260
Can you imagine $2 a liter for gasoline in Ontario coming up
00:41:47.360
because you don't have access to oil and gas through line nine and line five?
00:41:54.920
He should be saying, oh my goodness, Melanie, my friend Melanie, shut your mouth
00:42:00.600
because you're going to cause economic devastation for the people of Ontario and Quebec.
00:42:08.480
But where is he to say, the Feds do not speak for us.
00:42:13.260
They should not consider blocking energy exports to the United States
00:42:19.920
Well, first of all, Sheila, to answer your question, yes, I can imagine $2 a liter
00:42:24.660
because we're only about $0.40 away from it right now.
00:42:30.480
And secondly, what you said about Daniel Smith knowing the nuance
00:42:36.960
and the nitty-gritty of where pipelines go, where they lead to,
00:42:42.120
and does Melanie Jolie have a scintilla of that knowledge?
00:42:45.620
And this is a fantasy which will never be fulfilled, but wouldn't it be great
00:42:50.060
if a mainstream media reporter put Melanie Jolie on the spot and said,
00:43:04.680
And, oh, you know, wouldn't that be a very awkward moment, so bad it's good,
00:43:13.180
but we'll never see the mainstream media ask those kind of questions, folks,
00:43:19.120
We don't want to embarrass black faces, liberals,
00:43:22.260
well, the ones that are still with the party and still intending to run, that is.
00:43:31.660
where she warns that tariffs are likely to start on January 20th.
00:43:37.480
So in the olden days, Trump, as one of his first jobs in office,
00:43:43.500
approved Canadian pipelines, was like, let's go, let's trade with our friends, the Canadians.
00:43:54.700
I think we need to be prepared that tariffs are coming.
00:44:00.800
I mean, I think we've all seen the biggest irritant to the United States
00:44:06.040
are trade deficits, which they believe they have.
00:44:09.900
I don't actually believe they have a trade deficit.
00:44:14.600
we actually buy more goods and services from the U.S. than they buy from us.
00:44:19.460
I'm happy to make this national bank report available to anyone who wants it
00:44:24.400
that shows we actually have $58 billion in a trade deficit with the Americans when you take energy out.
00:44:30.460
That's why I wanted to have the assurance that the Americans are interested in getting more of our oil and gas,
00:44:37.160
because I think oil and gas is going to be key to being able to get a breakthrough once tariffs do come in, in getting them off.
00:44:45.720
I think if we maintain a strong partnership on energy,
00:44:49.180
we make the case about how much the Americans benefit from that energy relationship.
00:44:53.700
We demonstrate that we are a good trade partner,
00:44:56.580
that we buy more goods and services from America than any other nation,
00:45:02.140
and that we do buy more goods and services when you take energy out.
00:45:12.940
but we do need to be preparing ourselves for the fact that they're likely to come in on January 20th.
00:45:19.900
You know, Sheila, I mean, I want to defer to your knowledge because you live out in oil patch country
00:45:31.560
What I would be concerned about if I was a premier of an energy province,
00:45:39.840
is that we know in the first mandate of Donald Trump,
00:45:51.720
In fact, it was exporting energy thanks to the miracle of fracking.
00:45:58.080
when Daniel Smith says $58 billion trade deficit with Americans,
00:46:09.460
Is that the wild card here in terms of the U.S.
00:46:17.920
You know, that, I think, is something that we will eventually have to deal with.
00:46:22.600
And a federal government with foresight would have been working on that for the last 10 years,
00:46:28.460
the way Stephen Harper tried to do that before he was voted out of office.
00:46:34.440
We had Northern Gateway, we had Energy East, Keystone XL.
00:46:38.860
These were all pipelines that the Harper government was fighting for.
00:46:43.320
It's also a reason why we should have listened to Japan
00:46:47.680
when they pleaded for Canadian liquefied natural gas now twice.
00:46:52.240
Instead, Justin Trudeau has told these countries that are coming to Canada saying,
00:46:56.420
please, if you wouldn't mind, sell us all your bountiful natural gas
00:47:00.980
so that we don't have to rely on Gazprom and fuel the Russian war machine.
00:47:05.540
But he has said that there's no business case, if you can imagine that,
00:47:15.220
Maybe Justin Trudeau doesn't know what a trillion is.
00:47:18.500
Well, it's because the benefits of that business
00:47:26.640
But it is something that we will have to deal with.
00:47:38.780
So we can't get world market prices for our oil and gas
00:47:50.060
with the Americans that they can buy Canadian oil and gas
00:47:53.540
for cheaper than what they can produce it there for themselves.
00:48:14.040
to get us out of that monopoly with the Americans.
00:48:22.800
who makes watching boring committee meetings exciting
00:48:35.680
and his head's going to fly off like a dandelion.
00:48:50.460
and they are going to have the full cooperation
00:48:55.760
They're rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
00:48:58.940
I think it's going to be a Mark Carney coronation
00:49:07.420
These guys are going to dodge a confidence vote.
00:49:09.680
The NDP are not going to help bring down the government
00:50:11.040
Because I think it's the right damn thing to do.
00:50:39.580
when it's good for your party to win more seats?
00:51:21.780
or you're not going to get your pharmacare deal.
00:52:22.180
so we don't have to hear him retching for life?
00:52:35.960
and just hearing you read O'Toole's tweet again,
00:52:56.640
They're all doing this sort of performative nonsense