EZRA LEVANT ｜ With Freeland gone, Trudeau is more dangerous than ever
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Chrystia Freeland has been the essential loyalist to Justin Trudeau for his entire tenure as Prime Minister. She quit just hours before she was scheduled to deliver her mini budget update, throwing the government into disarray and calling for more resignations.
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Hello, my friends. Special show today. Wow, we were covering the detonations in Ottawa in real time.
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Chrystia Freeland just ambushing Justin Trudeau with a bitter criticism and a resignation,
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throwing the whole party into disarray, calling for more resignations.
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But I think Trudeau will tough it out. He always has before.
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Things are worse than ever, but what does he care?
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I want to show you the various interviews of the different MPs and cabinet ministers.
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Tonight, Chrystia Freeland drops a bomb on Justin Trudeau, criticizing him and resigning on the same
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day. What's next? It's December 16th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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You know, I just got the copy of my new book, hot in my hands here, Trudeau's secret plan,
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what he'll do to us if he wins again. I'm not sure if he's going to win again. I don't think
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there's a path to victory for him very likely, but what he will try to do and what he will do
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in the remaining weeks and months of his tenure will be astonishing. And I sort of lay that out
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in the book. By the way, thanks to everybody who has bought the book so far. Climbed up,
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I think, number 10 on the bestsellers list of all books, number one political book in canon over the
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weekend, so thank you for that. Anyhow, I want to tell you about this amazing day, amazing in terms of
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the ice breaking in like a mighty river that's frozen over and then the ice breaks and things
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start to move. Chrystia Freeland, who has been the essential deputy to Justin Trudeau for his entire
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tenure, I mean, deputy prime minister and finance minister and sort of acting foreign minister in
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the case of Ukraine and acting intergovernmental affairs ministers and, and, and. She really has done
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a bit of everything. And even though I don't think she's the sharpest knife in the drawer,
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she is hardworking. You have to give her that. And for her to have been the essential loyalist for
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so long, and then to quit, and not just quit, but quit just hours before she was scheduled to delay,
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to deliver her mini budget update, throwing the government into such disarray, managing to keep
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that a secret, by the way. Just incredible to look at and to see the scrambling in the government
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benches. Anyways, I did a special two hour live stream about this today while it was happening
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in real time. And I, and I think I made some points that I would like to share with you. Obviously not
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the full two hours of it. So we've boiled it down to the essence, but after thinking about it for half
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a day, here's my thinking. I don't actually think that he will win the next election. I think that's
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very unlikely. But I am absolutely certain that he will not give up easily. He will not bend to
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pressure. He doesn't care what MP says. He looks at MPs as people he has given bonuses and benefits
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to. Even Chrystia Freeland, all these people would be no name nobodies were it not for Justin Trudeau
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selecting them, anointing them, making them his MPs. So I don't think he respects his MPs. If anything,
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his contempt for them, he would look at an MP saying, please resign and say, how dare you? I
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gave you everything you have. And now you turn against me. You don't deserve me. He's had that
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kind of aloofness and contempt since his first days as PM. And remember his own father, Pierre Trudeau,
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said MPs are nobodies 100 feet off Parliament Hill. So I think that Justin Trudeau simply is not a
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quitter, even if the odds are against him. You're going to have to wrench it out of his cold, dead hands.
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And I think the most astonishing thing after Chrystia Freeland's letter today was Jagmeet
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Singh saying, I think Trudeau should resign. But when being pressed on, it says that he's refusing to
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commit to voting no confidence. So Jagmeet Singh is completely fine with things slouching forward.
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And even if you are a liberal MP who's a rebel, what are you going to do? You're going to force a
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non-confidence vote now in the final days of the House sitting in 2024. So we're thrown into an
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election over the Christmas break. I mean, you're going to get slaughtered. And of course, Justin
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Trudeau would most likely be the candidate in that campaign. I mean, you don't have time to replace
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him. Just what exactly are you proposing to do? So I think Trudeau will survive this detonation. It is a
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huge detonation. I think the government has lost all credibility, even watching the press
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scrum Jagmeet Singh and scrum. I mean, obviously, Trudeau was hiding from the press today.
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Marks a sea change. People see Trudeau as dead man walking, but he believes he can win. He believes
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he's the chosen one. And he has won long shots before. And remember my theory I shared with you
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the other day, Trudeau doesn't want to run against Pierre Paglia. All the polls say he'll lose that.
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But if Trudeau can run against Trump, now that's a more even matchup because Trump is not that well
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liked in Canada. And if Trump actually does impose 25% tariffs on Canada, it'll be so shocking to our
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economy and cause such damage that Trudeau will be able to say, Trump is the cause of your evils,
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not me. Trump is the cause of our poverty, not me. So vote for me instead of Trump and Trump's
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puppet in Canada, Pierre Paglia. But it's a long shot. I think it's going to be highly destructive
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to the country. I don't think it will work, but I bet that's what he does in the months ahead. So
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I think that Trudeau will be in power as long as he likes. I think that we will wind up going to the
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polls in September of 2025. And when I look through the things that he intends to do with his remaining
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months, they are in fact terrifying. On that note, let me leave you with the highlights of my two-hour
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live stream today on Chrystia Freeland's war, insurrection, if you will, against Justin Trudeau.
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Hi, everybody. Ezra LeVant here. I'm here hosting the live stream. What a pleasure to be back in this
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chair. Normally, my colleagues do this honor. But today, I've got so much to say because Chrystia
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Freeland, the deputy prime minister and the finance minister, has resigned from cabinet in a flourish,
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in a bombshell. And it was so interesting because over the weekend, she was posting videos in her
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capacity as finance minister and talking about the future and making promises. And in no way
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was she telegraphing that she intended to quit this morning. And the reason that's interesting
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is that today, in fact, this morning, the government was set to introduce its fall economic statement,
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sort of an update on the budget, sort of a before we go into Christmas, here's how it's going. We'll
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adjust a few numbers. Here's how revenues are going. Here's how expenses, here's how deficits are
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going. And it's been sort of weird over the last couple of weeks as people have said, when are you
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going to have this fall economic update? And Chrystia Freeland wouldn't really answer. And she said,
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it'll happen before the end of the year. It was really strange. It was clear she didn't want to
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have the bad news hung around her neck. And there seemed to be a quarrel. Last night, the National
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Post had a scoop, they said, that the $250 per person Christmas gift that Trudeau was promising
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might be scrapped. So there was obviously a lot of tension out there. And then this astonishing
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letter published to Twitter this morning by Chrystia Freeland, an ambush. Trudeau had apparently on
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Friday told her, I want you to read this fall economic update. And then I want to fire you as
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finance minister and have you take some other job and presumably put his buddy Mark Carney as the new
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finance minister. So just to understand, Trudeau fired her and then said, oh, but I want you to go out
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and brand yourself, your last public act as finance minister to take ownership of this disastrous
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budget update. And Chrystia Freeland must have nodded as she does. She does a lot of nodding.
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And this morning, just an incredible letter. I want to read the whole thing in full, if I may. Go
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ahead and put it on the screen. It was dated today. Dear Prime Minister, it's been the honor of my life
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to serve in government, working for Canada and Canadians. We have accomplished a lot together.
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On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your finance minister and offered me another
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position in the cabinet. She doesn't say which one. Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only
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honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet. So she's not just, basically, if she
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can't stay on as finance minister, she's done, she says. To be effective, a minister must speak on behalf
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of the prime minister. And with his full confidence in making your decision, you made clear that I no
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longer credibly enjoy that confidence and possess the authority that comes with it. I think that's true.
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For the past number of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for
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Canada. I think that's probably true, although she certainly said whatever he told her to say, didn't she?
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The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic
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nationalism, including a threat of 25 percent tariffs. We need to take that threat extremely
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seriously. Well, I think here she's fudging it a bit. Trump doesn't want a trade war now. He just
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wants us to close our borders to illegal drugs and illegal migrants. But Trudeau and Freeland love to
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fight Trump. So they're saying, well, we got to fight. How about just fix the border? But I'll read a little
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bit more about what she says. That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today. So we have the reserves
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we may need for a coming tariff war. That means eschewing costly political gimmicks. Wow. Well,
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she's obviously talking about this GST holiday and the $250 bonus, costly political gimmicks. Isn't
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that great? Just the other day she was defending them, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians
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doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment. It's sort of funny that she says we need to keep
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our fiscal powder dry so we have reserves. We don't have any reserves. I mean, it's a $62 billion
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deficit. What reserves? They burned those long ago. Let me read the letter. That means pushing back
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against America first economic nationalism with a determined effort to fight for capital and investment
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and the jobs they bring. That means working in good faith and humility with the premiers of the
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provinces and territories of our great and diverse country and building a true Team Canada response.
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Olivia, can you pull up the clip of the president of SoftBank making his announcement with Trump today?
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I want to show that in a moment because it's relevant here.
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Um, but what, uh, what you see here is Christian Freeland saying we should be working with the
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premiers because you've seen the premiers take the lead here. You've seen the premier of Alberta,
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Danielle Smith announced drones and a border patrol and, um, a red zone and sniffer dogs to patrol the
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border. You've seen Francois Legault, the premier of Quebec's actually meet with Trump very briefly at the
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Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and said, look, no one wants to trade war. Let's fix the border.
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So you have premiers saying, let's fix the border other than Doug Ford, who seems just to be, um,
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mimicking whatever Trudeau says. Freeland is saying, let's have a Team Canada approach. Um,
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it, it sort of makes me laugh to fight for capital and investment in the jobs they bring.
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You know, it was tough enough for Canada to fight against the United States economy when Trudeau was
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ratcheting up and Chrystia Freeland was ratcheting up the carbon tax every April Fool's Day and all the
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other punishments they put on. But now that Trump is in, he's not even in office yet.
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Uh, the other day he, I don't know if you can find this one, Olivia, on short notice. Trump the other
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day, just apropos of nothing tweeted, anyone who comes to America with a billion dollars or more,
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we will clear the, we will expedite you through all the regulations, uh, especially the environmental
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ones. I don't know if you saw that. It was just, it wasn't pegged to any news. He just sort of said,
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it was a very short tweet. He just said, if you can look for the word billion, if you search Trump
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and then billion, maybe it shows up. It's not, it's not critical that you find it, but it's just,
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I mean, if you are a billionaire anywhere in the world, Trump wants you to bring your money,
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uh, to America so badly that he'll just, he's thinking of it and he just announces it. Um,
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bring your billion dollars plus to America and we will roll out the red carpet and we'll expedite the,
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the red tape, especially the environmental red tape. Just, just a statement, but it flies the
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flag, doesn't it? That America is back. Their economy is going to roar again. And you can have
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that, or you can have the European union, which is regulating you to death, or you can have Canada
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that's taxing you to death. You know, one of the most successful Canadian companies is a tech
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company called Shopify. You've probably seen Shopify. It powers so many online stores, by the way.
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I'm surprised they haven't moved to America. I mean, it must, it's just must be tough operating
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in Canada. Um, when they just look across to where most of their customers are and you don't worry
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about it. It's just, it was just a one line tweet about him saying billionaires welcome because look
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at a billionaire who took him up on his offer. Maybe that's what happened. Maybe Trump knew
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that the president of SoftBank, which is one of the biggest investment, um, financial companies
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in Japan. Maybe he sort of was doing a deal with this guy and it was still under wraps and he just
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tweeted, Hey, any billionaire who comes here will help out. Just take a listen to this guy. This,
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this is the president of SoftBank. He's also a major shareholder in it. This is one of Japan's
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richest men, uh, Korean by ethnicity. Um, he just apropos, nothing comes to America
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and announces, well, I'll let you listen to him. Look at this stunning announcement. So in Canada,
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you have a total meltdown of our political system. Our finance minister was fired or quit. I'm not
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sure the best way to describe it. Our deficit is at a record level. Carbon taxes are going up.
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We're an absolute laughingstock. And by contrast, look what's going on in America. Take a look at
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this guy to go. And we were discussing and president Trump said, masa, you know, double
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that is not enough. Maybe, you know, go for more. Right. That's all right. I'm going to ask him
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right now. Would you make it $200 million? Well, my promise is 100, but you know, he's, he's now asking
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to do more. I think, you know, with your leadership, my partnership with you, with your support, I will,
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I will try to make it happen. That's good. All right. $200. He'll make it happen. $200 million
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investment. He is a great negotiator. He's a brilliant guy and an unbelievable job. And the
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people of Japan and all over the world are very proud of him. They have tremendous respect for
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himself. What he does, what he just did. And I would be surprised if it wasn't good to him. When you say
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you'll try, I know you'll do it. I will, I will really try. And, and I need your support though.
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You'll have my support. All right. We'll have my support. Oh, fantastic. Thank you, my support.
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Fantastic. There was some banter there. His announcement was, let me just tell you what
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his announcement was. It wasn't clear there. He's going to invest over the next four years,
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$100 billion to create 100,000 jobs in America in different, in different portfolios, in different
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sectors. And when you think about that, that's pretty incredible math. That's basically
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a million dollars per job, which is credible. And it's not a government grant. It's not a tax.
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It's not a subsidy. It's a $100 billion investment. And it's unthinkable that such an investment would
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have been done under Biden or Harris. And it's unthinkable that that would be done in Canada.
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And you saw Trump, even after the deal was done, trying to upsell the president of this bank to a
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200 billion. And that's real money, by the way, that's US dollars. So 100 billion US, you know,
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I'd have to put that in my calculator. That's got to be about 1.5, almost 1.5 billion, 150 billion
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Canadian, excuse me. So what a laugh that Chrystia Freeland is saying, we got to win capital from around
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the world investing in Canada. Do you think that SoftBank president for one second, even contemplated
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investing in Canada, even proportionately $10 billion? Why would he? So he can pay the carbon
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tax, so we can have it taxed away, so we can have the general meltdown in society? Anyhow, let me get
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back to the statement today. I just wanted to, what a laugh that Chrystia Freeland is going to bring
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investment to Canada. Donald Trump just brought $100 billion. All right, back to the statement.
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I know Canadians would recognize and respect such an approach, she says, talking about the Team
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Canada approach. They know when we are working for them, and they equally know when we are focused
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on ourselves. That's a bit of a zinger. Trudeau loves himself more than all other things combined.
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Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end, but how we deal with the threat our country
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currently faces will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer. Canada will win if we are strong,
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smart, and united. I don't think the Trudeau government is strong. I don't think it's smart.
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And I'll show you some clips today that suggest that it's not very united.
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It is this conviction which has driven my strenuous efforts this fall to manage our spending in ways
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that will give us the flexibility we will need to meet the serious challenges presented by the United
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States. You've got to stop lying. Like, I love this letter because it detonates Trudeau. But she's
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lying. She has not shown any fiscal restraint. It's an astonishing, staggering budget deficit.
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There is no keep our powder dry. And it's a trick. Trump just says, seal your border or I'll hit you
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with tariffs. They're all focused on tariffs and counter tariffs and how to pay for the tariffs.
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Why don't you just seal the border to illegals?
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I will always be grateful for the chance to have served in government. And I will always be proud
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of our government's work for Canada and Canadians. I look forward to continue. This is very interesting.
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I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues as a Liberal member of Parliament.
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And I am committed to running again for my seat in Toronto in the next federal election. With
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gratitude, the Honorable Chrystia Freeland. That last line is so interesting. She's not running away
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like David Lamedi, the disgraced justice minister who brought in the Emergencies Act. When the Emergencies
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Act was found by the federal court to be illegal and unconstitutional, he quit. As justice minister,
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but also as MP, he didn't even serve out his term. And he ran off, skulked away to a private gig.
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He was just ashamed and disgraced and driven out of public life. That's not what Chrystia Freeland's
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doing. In fact, talking about, oh, all our times come to an end. She's basically saying,
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your days are numbered, Justin. I'm going to be in Toronto. I think it's called University is the
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name of her riding university. What's it? University Spadina or something. It's actually one of the
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the few safe liberal seats in Canada. It is so liberal down there. And I think that's her way
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of saying, I'm blaming you. I could have fought and helped and win, but you mismanaged it. This is on
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you. Enjoy the next few weeks or months. I'm going to be just a backbench MP. And when you are done,
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well, I will still be here. She doesn't say, and I'm running for parliament, but she obviously will.
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And she does say she's running for parliament. She doesn't say she's running for leader,
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but I think she obviously will. You cannot be finance minister and deputy prime minister and go
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back down to just a regular MP and say, no, no, that's fine. That's all I want to do. I don't believe
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that. No one believes it. She was demoted by Trudeau. So she quit and she's just going to wait
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till he's gone and she's going to throw her hat in the ring and she will be immediately the leading
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contender. There's no doubt about who else is there. That Melanie Jolie. I mean, I know that she had her
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photo shot, photo shoot with the New York Times, basically declaring her campaign in New York City,
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which is sort of bizarre. And then that guy, Francois-Philippe Champagne, I find it astonishing
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that he thinks he can be leader. But I mean, I guess the thing about politicians is someone
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whispers in their ear, you can do it. You can be prime minister. And they just want to believe it
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so bad they force themselves to believe it. I want to show you a few other vids that just got me
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chuckling. Here's Francois-Philippe Champagne. Because there was another resignation the other
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day, Sean Fraser, who, if I'm not mistaken, was at one time the immigration minister and then the
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housing minister. Maybe I have my order wrong there. So you've had a couple of senior resignations
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from cabinet. These guys can read the polls. And here's Francois-Philippe Champagne, who truly,
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truly, truly, truly, in his bones, believes he can be prime minister. And who knows, maybe he can be.
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He's certainly China's candidate. I don't know if you remember. This guy, when he was foreign minister,
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had a mortgage on a house or an apartment. And you know who gave him the mortgage? Was it the Royal
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Bank? Was it TD Bank? Was it Scotiabank? Was it, you know, there's a lot of Canadian banks. And
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then there's smaller lenders. And then there's international lenders, too. There's, you know,
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Citibank, Wells Fargo. Like, there's probably a, if I think his property is in London, England,
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which probably has more banks than any other city in the world. Maybe even more than New York. I bet it
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does. So who do you think he took his mortgage from? The Bank of China. A government bank that is not
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really in the home mortgage business. Francois-Philippe Champagne, when he was foreign minister,
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owed over a million dollars to the government of China. The government of China was his financier,
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was his mortgage lender. First of all, how did that happen? Why did that happen? What's the deal there?
00:25:57.420
And why would he think that's okay? And he was the sitting foreign minister while he owed a debt
00:26:04.460
of over a million dollars to the People's Republic of China. So that's how crooked and dirty this guy
00:26:10.960
is. Here's Francois-Philippe Champagne. I understand that he was asked by Trudeau to deliver the fall
00:26:18.160
economic statement today and he just refused. Take a look. So you don't think this has anything
00:26:22.660
to do with the lack of confidence in the leadership of the Liberal Party?
00:26:26.260
I think after a decade, you've seen colleagues on both sides of the aisle, you know, looking back
00:26:33.520
and saying they've given a lot, they've worked a lot for their constituents, they've worked a lot
00:26:38.240
for Canada. And I think he's leaving with, I'm sure, the feeling that he has accomplished a lot
00:26:45.180
for his constituents, but also for Canada. So in my view, I think for him and anyone who's been
00:26:52.600
serving, we should all be thankful and say, listen, thanks for a job well done and wishing you the
00:26:59.560
best for the rest, you know. That was about Sean Fraser. I wonder if we also have one about him
00:27:05.440
talking about Christian Freeland. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but Anita Anand, who has had various
00:27:12.980
senior portfolios, including defense. She was asked about Freeland. I think that comment by
00:27:20.260
Francois-Philippe Champagne was like a slightly earlier than Christian Freeland's bombshell
00:27:26.060
announcement. So it only captured the Sean Fraser resignation. Here's Anita Anand.
00:27:32.700
I'll let you judge her answer for yourself. I think this is likely an unscripted, genuine answer.
00:27:38.520
Normally, everything is stage managed and choreographed in Ottawa. You tell me what you
00:27:45.800
Christian Freeland is a good friend, someone I work with very, very closely as president of the
00:27:53.380
Treasury Board and Minister of Transport. This news has hit me really hard, and I'll reserve further
00:28:01.940
I'm not sure. It sounds like she was running or going up some stairs then. She really doesn't
00:28:08.220
know what to say. She needs more time to process it. Translation, she needs to think, which boat
00:28:13.540
does she want to be in? The sinking Titanic or one of the lifeboats? I think, you know, the last one
00:28:22.280
into the last one out, turn out the lights. I think on the one hand, loyalty to the boss
00:28:29.640
gets you a promotion perhaps, but for how long? Is it measured in months or weeks or days? Whereas
00:28:39.360
you get out on the lifeboat, I mean, it's almost too late. I mean, Anand, like Freeland, was at the
00:28:45.620
heart of every atrocious decision this government made for 10 years, nine years.
00:28:52.520
Christian Freeland had some real zingers about Trudeau, gimmicks and narcissism and all about
00:28:59.280
yourself. Yeah, she had some insults there. But show me a single thing she disagreed with and
00:29:04.320
refused to argue for in nine years. It looks like a liberal MP, Francis Drouin, has also called on
00:29:14.440
Trudeau to resign. I'm not sure when this was recorded. Do you have that? I see Harrison Faulkner
00:29:19.380
tweeted the vid, if you've got that handy. I say again, I don't know if this was before or after
00:29:26.860
Freeland. Let's take a listen. Obviously, many of my colleagues have put up, and I've been a great
00:29:33.300
defender, but I just don't see how we move forward without having a future minister resign. Today was
00:29:39.880
supposed to be a presentation of a plan, and now we're talking about a finance minister who has
00:29:44.260
resigned. I don't see how this helps the prime minister, and I don't see a way out, and how
00:29:48.800
this helps us talk about Canadians while we're continuing to talk about what's happening right
00:29:52.600
now. So he needs to go. Sorry, I'd like to hear you. I think he needs to go. Yeah. Justin Trudeau.
00:29:58.760
Yeah. Yeah. I think today's resignation is a sign of that. Now, I want to make a confession. I have no
00:30:06.340
idea who that guy is, do you? Francis Drouin. Do you know where he's from, Olivia? And I'm not trying
00:30:13.360
to put you on the, I'm just, he's 41 years old. He's from Glengarry Prescott Russell, and he was
00:30:25.600
elected in 2015. So he has been in parliament for nine years. And he's never gone anywhere. I'm just
00:30:36.520
looking. Oh, he was the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. So he was
00:30:44.740
the deputy, like a junior parliamentary secretary. And obviously, he's going no further. He's on a few
00:30:57.000
committees. I honestly have never heard of him before. And maybe I'm just displaying my own ignorance.
00:31:05.060
But let me put it another way. If you have been an MP for Trudeau for nine years, and you're not in
00:31:15.120
cabinet, you're never going to be in cabinet. And if the best you can do is be junior deputy
00:31:22.320
Agri-Food and sit on a few boring committees, you're not going anywhere. And so why not? I mean,
00:31:29.920
how can they punish you? You're not going to get the carrot. And really, at this point,
00:31:35.280
what's the stick? So Francis Drouin has the courage, the courage, nine years later to say
00:31:41.500
Trudeau's got to go. It'll be interesting to see what those numbers are like. But I want to remind you
00:31:49.060
about the true nature of Chrystia Freeland. I mean, as you know, her grandfather was a Nazi,
00:31:57.780
an actual Nazi, who expropriated a newspaper from a Jew back in Ukraine and turned it into a Nazi
00:32:06.820
propaganda rag. So her grandpa wasn't just a card-carrying Nazi. He was a Nazi propagandist,
00:32:14.160
a Nazi activist who personally stole property from a Jew. And I don't know for a fact, but I would assume
00:32:21.380
that the Jew was killed. Now, you cannot blame a granddaughter for the grandfather's Nazism. You
00:32:32.600
can't. But Chrystia Freeland tried to cover that up, tried to hide that. And when it started circulating
00:32:41.560
in the news, she denounced it as Russian disinformation. She actively covered up
00:32:50.100
her grandfather's Nazism. Here's the Ottawa Citizen headline. Chrystia Freeland's granddad was
00:32:56.940
indeed a Nazi collaborator. So much for Russian disinformation. It's a true story. And you can
00:33:04.720
see that was published in 2017. She managed to hide it. And then she had a few other flashbacks
00:33:12.880
where she showed that she is indeed her grandfather's granddaughter. She attended an event with a scarf
00:33:24.120
that is sort of a signature item of a Ukrainian fascist leader. I don't want to get the name wrong.
00:33:33.420
That was a scoop by our friend Candace Malcolm at True North. It was a Bandera scarf. Olivia,
00:33:40.820
if you can Google. Yeah, there you go. Slava Ukraini, which is fine. That means just,
00:33:46.720
you know, basically go Ukraine, strengthen Ukraine. But she's wearing a scarf, or maybe that is the scarf,
00:33:54.260
in the banderite colors, which is basically the Nazi leader during the Second World War.
00:34:00.760
And of course, she was on her feet applauding wildly when an actual Nazi SS soldier, Yaroslav
00:34:12.340
Hanka, I think was his last name, was introduced to the Canadian parliament. And I was watching this
00:34:20.060
because you might recall Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, was in parliament. It was the
00:34:27.700
big day. Everyone was excited. And I was watching. And the speaker of the house introduces
00:34:34.040
this stranger that none of us knew. Do you want to play it? Go ahead and play it.
00:34:41.520
Yeah, there he is. And he's very old now. I think he's in his 90s.
00:34:47.060
And there he's, I don't know if he's, why he's wiping his brow like that. And he, maybe he's just
00:34:53.500
elderly and he gives sort of a cheer. He can't believe it. He's been a not, not just a regular
00:34:59.480
Nazi, an SS officer. And he can't believe that he's getting a standing ovation in the Canadian
00:35:08.300
parliament. I was watching this live at home. I remember. And I remember they announced him in
00:35:13.260
some way. He fought against the Russians in the Second World War. And I thought, you know,
00:35:22.960
I don't like the Soviets or something. I thought, you know, I don't like the Soviets much myself. But
00:35:28.400
the people who were fighting against the Soviets in the Second World War, they were the Nazis. And I
00:35:36.920
Googled it. And I was, you know, just to toot my own horn, I was one of the first people to say,
00:35:41.080
what the hell? Who is this guy? And it was just astonishing. So yeah, Chrystia Freeland
00:35:46.540
has those Nazi instincts in her. And she works on the board of directors by another son of a Nazi
00:35:53.900
named Klaus Schwab. Do you have the World Economic Forum biography handy? Chrystia Freeland is no longer
00:36:02.400
in the Canadian cabinet, which is tantamount to the board of directors of Canada. So here's her
00:36:09.580
board of directors on the World Economic homepage. And you can see they haven't yet updated the news.
00:36:16.540
I'll read it to you. World Economic Forum. The Honorable Chrystia Freeland is Canada's Deputy
00:36:23.960
Prime Minister of Finance. She was first elected as MP for Toronto Centre in July 2013. She was elected
00:36:33.940
as an MP for University Rosedale. That's the proper name of the university riding in October in 2019 and
00:36:40.720
reelected in October 2019 and September 2021. From 25th, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let me read the last
00:36:52.640
An esteemed journalist and author. Blah, blah, blah. Scroll down a little bit more, a little bit more.
00:37:09.160
There we go. She joined the Thomson Reuters. She's written two books, Sale of the Century,
00:37:13.540
The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution, and Plutocrats.
00:37:16.620
She was recognized. Scroll down a little bit more. Boy, this is very long. She is a member
00:37:22.240
of the Forum's Board of Trustees. So she is on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum.
00:37:29.900
And scroll up a bit. She was the official biographer. A little bit more, a little bit more up.
00:37:38.500
I'm trying to find it. I'm pretty sure it's in this biography that they discuss her role as George
00:37:48.420
Soros' authorized biographer. Scroll up a little bit more.
00:37:56.140
I can't find it there, but I'll look for it elsewhere. That's what she was doing before she
00:38:03.860
became an MP. She was George Soros' authorized biographer. You know what an authorized biographer
00:38:08.460
is, right? I mean, you could call me a Trudeau biographer. I just released a new book on him.
00:38:14.880
I'm writing about Trudeau. But obviously, it was not an authorized biography. An authorized biography
00:38:20.240
is more of a PR document. They're often done working with the subject who gives you access to
00:38:27.540
private materials, but also has control. The reason that it's authorized is they know
00:38:34.500
you're going to say friendly things. That's who Chrystia Freeland is. Granddaughter of a Nazi,
00:38:44.220
works with Klaus Schwab, whose father was a Nazi, and works with George Soros, who actually was a
00:38:50.760
Nazi collaborator. Can you Google the image of Trudeau, Freeland, and Soros? In one of his first
00:39:00.200
foreign trips after being elected back in 2015, Chrystia Freeland accompanied Trudeau to the World
00:39:06.040
Economic Forum and sort of showed him around. And one of the first private meetings they had
00:39:12.200
was a, yeah, that's it right there. That's from January 2016. Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau.
00:39:21.840
Who's the boss? Let's just look at the body language there. Who's the boss in that room?
00:39:26.780
And since then, can you also, can you now Google Alex Soros and Trudeau? Alex is the son of George
00:39:39.960
Soros, and he's the inheritor. George Soros is in his 80s, and I'm not sure how long he'll be around,
00:39:48.540
but he's really bequeathed things to his son, a younger, dumber, meaner Soros. And Trudeau meets
00:39:59.420
with them, and Alex Soros collects politicians all the time. And yeah, go ahead and show that one
00:40:05.420
there. That's Alex Soros on the right, and Justin Trudeau in the center, and George Soros decomposing
00:40:15.040
before our eyes. So there's another generation. By the way, Alex Soros is now dating Huma Abedin.
00:40:23.160
Actually, they're married. Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's former staffer. So yeah, that's a little
00:40:29.360
bit about Chrystia Freeland. But like I say, I don't want to judge someone too much based on
00:40:35.120
what happened before they were even born, what their grandfather did before they were even born.
00:40:39.100
The fact that Chrystia Freeland later tried to cover it up, I think is newsworthy. And the fact
00:40:44.060
that she welcomed a Nazi SS officer to parliament is newsworthy. But let me show you about Chrystia
00:40:52.400
Freeland herself, and few things sum her up better than the next two videos I want to show you. I want
00:40:57.700
to show you the video of her imposing sanctions on Canadians who dared to attend the peaceful political
00:41:08.600
protests of the trucker convoy, the largest peaceful protest in Canadian history. No acts of violence
00:41:15.500
other than when police shot our reporter Alexa Lebois. And without judicial process, without a court action,
00:41:25.060
based on media gossip, she ordered the banks to seize hundreds and hundreds of bank accounts of families.
00:41:35.140
And of course, a lot of families, the husband and the wife jointly have the account. So husband is
00:41:40.620
maybe at the protest, wife at the grocery store, suddenly none of her cards work. And I mean none.
00:41:45.760
Not just the bank accounts frozen, the credit cards frozen. Imagine the trauma, the shock, the embarrassment
00:41:52.540
hundreds of times. And the way she laughed while doing it. I'll never forget that. Her Nazi grandfather,
00:42:02.020
looking up from hell must be so proud of this little Nazi here. Here, take a look at Chrystia Freeland
00:42:08.760
laughing and smirking while destroying hundreds of lives. Take a look.
00:42:14.340
So you're confirming that accounts have been frozen, both personal and corporate, but you're not releasing
00:42:19.080
the information. And the actual follow up is, I'm just wondering whether the bank accounts will be
00:42:24.000
targeted of individuals who donated to the Give, Send, Go and the GoFundMe campaigns. Are they
00:42:29.560
considered designated people under the Emergencies Act, meaning that their credit cards could be cut
00:42:33.980
and financial services are targeting them as well?
00:42:36.500
Okay. So the names of both individuals and entities, as well as crypto wallets, have been shared by the RCMP
00:42:49.540
with financial institutions. And accounts have been frozen, and more accounts will be frozen.
00:42:58.300
Uh, crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers have started the registration process
00:43:06.440
with FinTrack. Uh, in terms of the specifics on whose accounts are being frozen, uh, you now
00:43:17.200
have the regulations. The financial service providers have those regulations as well. And they,
00:43:25.900
working with law enforcement, will be making the operational decisions.
00:43:32.020
Really, the important thing I wanted to show you there was her glee, her laughing. It was a delight for her
00:43:38.740
to seize and freeze family bank accounts with no legal process, no court order, no search warrant, no hearing.
00:43:46.620
Look at that laugh. She's just having the time of her life. Her Nazi grandpa would be so proud.
00:43:52.360
To me, that's the essential Christia Freeland. Um, I want to show you another clip. This is from January
00:44:00.420
this year, when she was attending a vigil for Persian Canadians, Iranian Canadians, who had lost family
00:44:09.120
in a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. That's, um, a terrorist group
00:44:16.520
in Iran. And the chutzpah of, uh, Christia Freeland showing up at this vigil when she refused to ban the IRGC
00:44:27.180
was astonishing. Public sidewalk, public event. Our reporter David actually being invited to the event.
00:44:34.960
David's clearly wearing his journalistic lanyard. He's got a cameraman there. He's got his microphone.
00:44:39.660
He's asking a question in the public interest of a public person in a public place. He's immediately
00:44:46.660
jumped by Freeland's bodyguards. And instead of saying, no, no, no, guys, this is fine. No, it's okay.
00:44:53.180
Or even saying, uh, make an appointment or I'll talk to you later, or I don't have time to talk.
00:44:58.260
Instead of saying anything, she just smirks as the police physically rough up David and lie about him.
00:45:05.660
If we didn't have this on tape, David would surely be convicted of assault. Take a look.
00:45:09.660
Ms. Freeland, how come the IRGC is not a terrorist group?
00:45:14.880
Why is your government supporting Islamo-Nationalism?
00:45:23.160
Why are you pushing? You're under arrest for assault.
00:45:28.980
Police. Police. You're under arrest for assault.
00:45:36.560
I've got my credentials here and you just bumped into me.
00:46:02.840
Because you assaulted me three years ago when Blackface was under arrest.
00:46:28.740
That was a little bit aggressive for what was happening.
00:46:37.100
She was just happy to let the police do to her critics what her grandpa would have done to his critics.
00:46:45.300
I see that premiers of Canada have been asked if they have confidence in the Trudeau regime.
00:46:57.520
It's in Slack there, Olivia, the last one there.
00:47:05.560
As premiers, do you have confidence in a Trudeau government to lead Canada into a tariff war that is knocking on our door?
00:47:16.080
Well, the way I can answer that, we're going to be at the table.
00:47:19.600
All the premiers are going to be at the table, making sure that we move forward in a very constructive way,
00:47:27.080
a very collaborative way to protect our provinces and our territories and our entire country from coast to coast to coast.
00:47:45.780
I think he's basically saying the premiers are ready.
00:47:50.120
Doug Ford is actually, of all 10 premiers, actually 13 premiers, when you realize the territories are led by a politician called premier.
00:47:59.060
Of the 13 premiers, Doug Ford is the most pro-Trudeau of them all.
00:48:08.900
And his response to this tariffs thing has been atrocious.
00:48:11.980
Instead of saying, OK, Trump wants to fix the border.
00:48:17.120
He's all, we're going to cut off energy to America.
00:48:20.940
You don't run Alberta, which is where 99% of the energy comes from.
00:48:26.400
There's another comment this morning where I think Ford was a little bit tougher.
00:48:36.440
Ford was at least willing to say the obvious, that it's chaos out there.
00:48:40.100
His best friend, Chrystia Freeland, is no longer in office.
00:48:45.100
Premier, I understand you spoke to Chrystia Freeland, who you have worked very closely with over these past four years, specifically on the pandemic, EVs, many other joint initiatives between Ontario and the federal government.
00:48:56.320
And just wondering your thoughts on her sudden departure.
00:49:00.300
What is what does this chaos in Ottawa, political chaos in Ottawa, say to you guys as you're trying to develop a plan to deal with an existential threat for Mr. Trump's tariffs on January 20th?
00:49:13.200
Sorry, I did speak to Chrystia and I just wanted to thank her for her service.
00:49:20.160
I did put her on speaker with the rest of the premiers.
00:49:22.900
We have a good relationship with Chrystia over the years.
00:49:27.960
But as a country, we have to project strength, unity.
00:49:39.240
And it's time that what we do every single day, the premiers, we step up and we'll make sure that we tell the world that there is stability here.
00:49:52.960
And by all means, it's a great place to invest in any of our provinces or territories.
00:50:00.780
And we have a great group of premiers, very brave individuals around the table here.
00:50:10.180
I suppose there's some meaning there, but I'm sort of embarrassed that he's the go-to guy.
00:50:18.600
Francois Legault actually flew to Paris and had a quick, you know, chat with Donald Trump.
00:50:27.320
Danielle Smith has taken the lead by actually deploying a border force, announcing it, funding it, giving the details of the plan.
00:50:38.740
Maybe Doug Ford doesn't know how to do anything.
00:50:45.260
I'm not sure if Doug Ford really does know how to do anything.
00:50:51.980
If you listen to him, if you actually listen to him on those few occasions when he's speaking from the heart, he's an authoritarian.
00:51:02.480
In the most honest thing he's ever said, please find that China is the country he most admires, Glip.
00:51:08.900
It was an unprepared, unscripted question that he totally was not ready for.
00:51:18.240
He was asked, what country besides Canada do you most admire?
00:51:22.480
And he gave an astonishingly answer, an astonishingly honest answer.
00:51:33.660
Trudeau's meeting last week with a group of Toronto women was an example.
00:51:40.220
Even with Sun TV watching for any slip, he was asked which country he most admired and referred to China.
00:51:47.300
There's a level of admiration I actually have for China.
00:51:54.160
Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say,
00:52:01.600
we need to go green as fast as we need to start, you know, investing in solar.
00:52:05.760
I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted.
00:52:14.620
First of all, he gave China's answer and the basic dictatorship is why.
00:52:19.400
And then he sort of and then he explained why, because they can move on a dime without having to listen to anybody.
00:52:25.760
So he said, oh, Stephen Harper must love that power.
00:52:28.800
No, actually, Stephen Harper didn't just say he admires China's basic dictatorship.
00:52:34.400
You just were erotic for a second about your love for that authoritarianism.
00:52:38.500
And when you realized what you had done, you said, oh, and Harper would love that.
00:52:47.620
Because they're authoritarian and they don't need to respect anyone else's wishes.
00:52:52.140
And you might recall that when Castro died, Trudeau released a eulogy that was so gross that Marco Rubio, who's – what's Rubio's new role?
00:53:08.180
That's of interest because – I think he was just – was he just nominated?
00:53:25.520
I think he – I forget what he was – yeah, sorry about that.
00:53:39.720
Justin Trudeau writes a eulogy that is so gross that Marco Rubio himself says that is super gross.
00:53:50.860
And guess who the new secretary of state for the United States is?
00:53:55.160
And he will obviously be confirmed because he's in the Senate.
00:54:04.340
He is – if I'm not mistaken, he's been on various committees for foreign affairs.
00:54:13.820
I don't want to get the names wrong without checking them.
00:54:18.320
Trudeau's admiration for authoritarian banana republic rulers is deep and authentic.
00:54:23.800
It's one of the few authentic things about him.
00:54:27.120
Marco Rubio, who is now tasked with affecting America's interests around the world.
00:54:32.000
Again, I say it's sort of lucky that America is not focused on Canada.
00:54:40.700
America is focused on renewing peace in the Middle East.
00:54:46.720
We are very lucky that Canada has not attracted attention more than it has.
00:54:52.340
But it looks like Trudeau wants to pick a fight with Trump.
00:54:59.760
The moment the finance minister resigned, the government's published order of precedent
00:55:05.040
meant that François-Philippe Champagne instantaneously became the finance minister.
00:55:12.140
But now he tells us he doesn't have the job and doesn't want the job.
00:55:16.320
So it goes to the next minister who's on the published order of precedent.
00:55:21.820
And that is Randy Wozno, more commonly known as the two Randys, the gentleman who had to
00:55:27.240
resign because he falsely claimed he was Indigenous, falsely claimed that there were more than one
00:55:35.800
And he is now technically our finance minister as we speak.
00:55:41.260
We don't know for sure, though, if he'll still be finance minister in three and a half hours
00:55:46.300
when the scheduled fall economic update is expected to land.
00:55:51.060
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that economic update.
00:55:54.260
My guess is they're just going to publish it online.
00:55:56.360
I'm not sure if there's even a legal requirement for it to be spoken by a human being.
00:56:04.480
And here's an interesting idea that Pierre Pauly had mentioned in the same press conference.
00:56:10.460
Canada, the Canadian government is in chaos right now.
00:56:14.820
And maybe it's a good idea to hit the reset button before Donald Trump assumes office on
00:56:26.020
Will the election itself need to take place before January the 20th when the catastrophic
00:56:33.180
That would be it would be ideal to have it the election done before the president takes
00:56:39.360
office or or within the first week or two of his mandate so that he would have so the
00:56:44.280
Canadians would have a strong prime minister with the brains and backbone, the strength
00:56:50.800
and smart smarts to stand up for Canada facing down President Trump and our American competitors.
00:57:09.480
I think there's a seven, sorry, a five week minimum campaign.
00:57:17.340
It is December 16th right now, 31 days in December.
00:57:36.040
But I think that if the election were called literally today, it would not be done in time
00:57:41.000
If literally the writ were dropped today and that just can't happen, I don't even know
00:57:48.460
And right now, even though everyone's up in an uproar, the liberals seem to be in their
00:57:57.780
But I don't think Justin Trudeau is going to quit.
00:58:06.320
Show me one thing he's ever done that shows he's a quitter.
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Now, many of the fights he's fought in have been rigged to his advantage.
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All Trudeau cares about is winning and feeling good.
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And quitting is not winning and quitting is not feeling good.
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Sure, he's stressed out by how things are going, but he's never been one to sweat the
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I noticed that Jagmeet Singh had indicated that he wants Trudeau to resign.
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But is Singh actually going to do the one thing that would get Trudeau to resign, which is to
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Right now, Canadians are struggling with the cost of living.
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People cannot find a home that they can afford.
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And on top of that, we have Trump threatening tariffs at 25 percent, which put hundreds and
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And instead of focusing on these issues, Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are focused on
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They're fighting themselves instead of fighting for Canadians.
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And for that reason, today, I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to resign.
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Will you declare no confidence in the Liberal government as soon as possible?
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You're calling for him to resign, but you are not willing to vote no confidence in his
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How does those, how do those two things connect?
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How do you listen to me for your support with the Liberals, though?
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How can you say he needs to resign, but then you're not telling us what you're going to
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And also, are you willing to continue to support the Liberals if there is a different
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And right now, literally, everything's on the table.
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Are you saying that all options are on the table?
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So why are you holding out the option to still support this government?
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Because he doesn't get his pension unless he's in Parliament a few more weeks.
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What is the glimmer of hope that you seem to possibly support the Fez or possibly support
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And because of that, all options are on the table.
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And we'll look at each vote and we'll make a decision.
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The government continues to govern as long as MPs continue to have confidence in the government.
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You have no say over who the leader of the Liberal Party is.
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Will you support the government or are you withdrawing your support from the government?
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With respect to that, I've said that all options are on the table.
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Okay, you know, he's just going to repeat that.
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In case you're having trouble figuring out what he really means.
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Anyone who thinks he's going to answer a question is dumb.
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He was asked five times, will you vote against him?
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Which is what he always says when he criticizes Trudeau, but then supports him.
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I'm deeply embarrassed for Singh and also for the journalists who go through the motions with him.
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And frankly, that's what Trudeau is going to say to the MPs.
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He's going to say, we have the power to continue.
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Jagmeet Singh has given us the power to continue.
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And instead of having a crash election right now at the choosing of Chrystia Freeland and to the delight of Pierre Polyev,
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let us have an election in three, six, nine months where we basically slow roll the launch, soft launch the campaign right now.
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I would say, look, there will be an election soon, whether it's immediately in one month, three months or six months.
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Which do you think is more likely to be successful for you?
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Hasty now over Christmas on this disastrous note where Chrystia Freeland has defined the terms?
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Or should we have a comeback in 2025, fight for Canada against Donald Trump, demonize Pierre Polyev, we're defending the country and go out in a blaze of glory?
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The question is, which timing is more felicitous to the backbench MP?
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And of course, it extends Trudeau's power by days or weeks or months.
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But I think you could make the case if you were a crass liberal pragmatist that calling an election just a week or so before Christmas because Chrystia Freeland is mad at you is not the best timing.
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So I think Trudeau could negotiate his way through this.
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So far, other than Chrystia Freeland, who has stomped out?
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Trudeau, why would Trudeau go to question period?
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I mean, all of this is sort of funny because I just last week launched my new book called Trudeau's Secret Plan.
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Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night.