Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Young Canadians want out... and it's all Trudeau's fault

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends, a crazy poll by Ipsos, which is quite a large polling company showing that almost half of young Canadians are open to joining America.

00:00:10.500 And in fact, if you look into what's called the cross tabs, you can figure out that 61% of young men, Generation Z men, 61% would take Donald Trump up on his offer of citizenship and redeeming our Canadian mini bucks at par.

00:00:27.360 I'll take you through that poll. We'll also talk to Franco Territzano to show you how Justin Trudeau has basically destroyed our country economically.

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00:02:12.540 Tonight, I'm not sure if the U.S. would want all of Canada to join it, but would they take Alberta?

00:02:20.540 It's January 17th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:02:23.480 You've got it for freedom!

00:02:26.740 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:02:29.860 Hey, look at this from the pollster Ipsos.

00:02:41.880 It's a new poll about should Canadians join the United States.

00:02:46.080 Here's their headline.

00:02:46.920 Four in ten, 43%, Canadians age 18 to 34, would vote to be American if citizenship and conversion of assets to U.S. dollars guaranteed.

00:03:00.420 Then they say,

00:03:01.640 A strong majority of Canadians agree that Canada should remain independent in spite of Donald Trump's comments about Canada becoming the U.S.'s 51st state.

00:03:10.580 So that's their headline.

00:03:11.580 Now, the poll was taken between January 9 and January 13, two very preliminary observations right off the top.

00:03:20.340 Things have gotten even hotter since that poll stopped on January 13th.

00:03:25.800 And we'll know on Monday if Donald Trump carries through on his threat of tariffs.

00:03:31.860 And that could lead Trudeau, the lame duck prime minister, to do something insane in his final weeks.

00:03:37.860 I mean, really, there's no accountability.

00:03:39.220 The guy does what he wants.

00:03:40.200 He could put economic sanctions on Alberta for our own good, to fix the problem, for the good of the country.

00:03:47.660 Come on, be a team player.

00:03:49.200 This is the chance to get Alberta.

00:03:51.580 So Donald Trump is making a tariff threat, and you want to take it out on Alberta.

00:03:55.300 Yeah, that's pretty much what he said.

00:03:56.880 Here's Trudeau.

00:03:57.480 I think it was really important yesterday as we met with first ministers from across the country that premiers have an opportunity to express the interests of their citizens, of their industry, of their areas.

00:04:12.820 Certainly, I don't blame Danielle Smith for speaking up for her industry. 1.00

00:04:18.580 That's part of her job. 0.99

00:04:19.880 But every single premier other than Danielle Smith then chose to put Canada first and say, but we're all part of Team Canada because what happens to any part of us happens to all of us.

00:04:35.140 And we will be there to respond strongly, to fight for Canada, and to do it in a united way that makes sure that it's fair across all industries, across all regions.

00:04:46.820 That was what we came together yesterday to do.

00:04:51.500 I would actually like to point out to Danielle Smith that Canadians know the importance of standing up for each other.

00:05:00.220 That's why Canadian taxpayers bought the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, TMX, to be able to get Albertan oil to new markets.

00:05:11.040 That was an investment that all Canadians made that the Alberta government is making billions of dollars off of because in what was a very difficult decision, the federal government, we made the decision to purchase and build and complete that pipeline.

00:05:30.200 That's an example of all Canadians standing up for Alberta and getting it done.

00:05:35.240 So yes, premiers should be advocating for their own industries, their own country, their own communities, but they should also put their country first as every single premier except Danielle Smith did.

00:05:53.820 I could point to any number of those premiers and point out lots of moments in which they have points of disagreement with me.

00:06:00.080 From Doug Ford, to Scott Moe, to Tim Houston, to even David Eby and Wob Canoe and others.

00:06:08.280 There's all sorts of disagreements we're going to have.

00:06:10.980 But when push comes to shove, every single one of them are Canadians first. 1.00

00:06:16.460 And yes, they're going to look out for their communities, but they also know that looking out for all of us...

00:06:21.080 You know, Trudeau really isn't good at dealing with strong women who disagree with him, is he?

00:06:26.160 I mean, holy moly, he just doesn't know what to do with Danielle Smith other than to attack her.

00:06:31.720 Funny thing is, in Alberta, that probably just makes her stronger. 1.00

00:06:34.540 My first observation is that things might get a lot hotter on Monday.

00:06:38.320 My second observation is, Trump must have seen something in that moment at Mar-a-Lago when Justin Trudeau came down, when he met with Trudeau.

00:06:46.140 He must have seen how sensitive Trudeau was, how insecure.

00:06:48.840 And perhaps, through him, how sensitive and insecure some parts of Canada are.

00:06:55.520 And here's what I mean by that.

00:06:57.060 With a couple of weeks worth of roiling and boiling, nearly half of all young Canadians would join the U.S.

00:07:05.580 That's all it took.

00:07:07.280 I mean, there's been no campaign, no political party, no referendum, no advertising.

00:07:12.920 Just pretty much talking about it on Twitter.

00:07:14.980 Twitter, that's our starting point, is 40-plus percent of young people.

00:07:21.000 And that's on Trudeau, by the way.

00:07:24.580 And what makes a country?

00:07:25.560 Why would people love Canada?

00:07:26.720 What is a country in general?

00:07:28.700 Well, it's borders.

00:07:30.260 It's a passport that's valuable.

00:07:32.000 It's money that's valuable.

00:07:33.900 It's a history that's valuable.

00:07:35.860 You're proud of the history.

00:07:37.120 It's a purpose.

00:07:38.420 It's a common culture.

00:07:39.900 A feeling of solidarity.

00:07:41.020 A connection to the land.

00:07:43.120 Some common symbols.

00:07:44.840 These are a few of the things that make up a country and citizenship.

00:07:48.360 And Trudeau has tried to destroy all of that.

00:07:51.540 I mean, my favorite, worst example is that Trudeau took Sir John A. MacDonald off the $10 bill.

00:07:57.400 He changed the lyrics to, oh, Canada, in a small way.

00:08:00.320 But what is he doing messing around with our anthem?

00:08:02.320 He has given away millions of our passports, really, to anyone in the world who wants them,

00:08:07.440 including scammers and schemers.

00:08:09.240 He's called Canadian history detestable and genocidal.

00:08:13.300 He's printed hundreds of billions of dollars to devalue our currency.

00:08:17.340 He's denounced anyone who disagrees with him, really, as being racist or sexist or what's

00:08:22.420 the new one, transphobic.

00:08:24.200 He's made us a weak laughingstock around the world, where his only shtick is showing his

00:08:30.160 fancy socks to world leaders who are bored with him now.

00:08:33.220 He's at the kids' table in these foreign meetings.

00:08:35.400 Trudeau has declared war on the land and those who work the land, from farmers to oil men.

00:08:43.140 He's announced to the New York Times, no less, that we are post-national.

00:08:47.360 Now, what's interesting, and I'll show you this in a moment, is that young people most want to

00:08:53.280 join the United States.

00:08:54.240 So it's people who didn't have a proud patriotic education about Canada.

00:08:58.720 It's people who have grown up under Generation Trudeau.

00:09:03.400 Trudeau has been in office for nine years, nine years of Trudeau, nine years of Woke.

00:09:08.380 Young people apparently don't feel the connection to Canada, but obviously they want to connect

00:09:12.120 to something.

00:09:12.960 They want to hang out with someone who thinks about greatness and history, someone and something

00:09:17.680 proud and hopeful and prosperous.

00:09:19.760 Half of young Canadians see that in America now more than they see it in Canada.

00:09:24.040 Isn't that sad?

00:09:24.840 I mean, it was pitiful the other day on CNN.

00:09:27.420 Did you see it when Trudeau, who's been avoiding Canadian journalists, Trudeau was asked to

00:09:32.540 define Canada?

00:09:33.620 You would think that the prime minister of the country for nine years would have a pretty

00:09:37.320 good answer to that question by now.

00:09:40.120 His answer was, we're not America.

00:09:42.680 Did you see that?

00:09:43.280 Here, take a look.

00:09:43.820 That's not going to happen.

00:09:45.600 Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.

00:09:48.540 One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we're not American.

00:09:52.540 There is such a depth of pride that that's not actually an issue.

00:09:58.300 What I think is happening in this is President Trump, who's a very skillful negotiator, is

00:10:04.640 getting people to be somewhat distracted by that conversation.

00:10:10.700 To take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and

00:10:17.180 steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete and everything the American consumers buy from

00:10:21.700 Canada is suddenly going to get a lot more expensive if he moves forward on these tariffs.

00:10:25.580 And that's something that I think we need to be focusing on a little bit more.

00:10:29.700 Can you imagine if any other world leader had said that as their answer?

00:10:33.680 It's impossible.

00:10:34.900 Imagine summing up your entire country, your entire people, history, culture as well.

00:10:40.440 We're not American.

00:10:42.780 In fact, maybe we're a bit anti-American.

00:10:44.600 Is that the best he has?

00:10:46.160 Is that the best he can say about all of us?

00:10:49.040 What an insult he has made to us.

00:10:51.180 No wonder young people find that uninspiring.

00:10:53.640 Hey, guys, vote for Canada.

00:10:55.840 Stay in Canada. 0.92

00:10:57.060 Love Canada.

00:10:58.120 Build your future in Canada.

00:10:59.440 Invest in Canada.

00:11:00.460 Why?

00:11:02.000 Because we're not America.

00:11:04.780 Imagine if Pepsi's ad campaign was, we're not Coke.

00:11:09.000 Imagine if Ford was, we're not GM.

00:11:12.000 You have no identity of your own.

00:11:13.640 You're just not something else.

00:11:15.060 So when Trump says, hey, join America, we're going to make America great again, a country where their poorest state, Mississippi, Alabama, are wealthier than Canadians on average.

00:11:26.160 And though they certainly have the problems, too, I think they feel like they're about to have another golden age.

00:11:30.680 They're going to get stronger, richer, healthier, better.

00:11:33.880 And you can show you this.

00:11:36.040 Here's just an example.

00:11:36.860 I showed this the other day.

00:11:38.180 Could you imagine a businessman anywhere in the world announcing a $100 billion private sector investment in Canada?

00:11:49.000 Well, that's what happened a couple of weeks ago in Mar-a-Lago.

00:11:51.760 Do you remember this?

00:11:52.300 My confidence level to the economy of the United States has tremendously increased with his victory.

00:12:03.520 So because of that, I'm now excited to commit this $100 billion and $100,000 jobs into the United States.

00:12:14.180 This is double of last time, as President Trump said, because I say, oh, President Trump is a double down president.

00:12:26.200 I'm going to have to double down, you know, $100 billion and $100,000 jobs.

00:12:31.700 This is, you know, my confidence level because that has doubled down.

00:12:37.660 So I am truly excited to make this happen.

00:12:42.560 Here's another guy with $20 billion of his own money that he's going to put in America.

00:12:49.640 Remember this?

00:12:50.040 Take a look.

00:12:50.780 It's been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected in November.

00:12:57.500 We've been waiting four years to increase our investments in U.S. to a very large amount of money.

00:13:04.740 We are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world.

00:13:08.140 We have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline.

00:13:15.600 In data center, we are in 10 countries around the world, in Asia, Europe, and Middle East.

00:13:21.320 And we're very, very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to U.S.

00:13:31.200 For the last four years, we've been waiting for this moment.

00:13:34.280 And we're planning to invest $20 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us.

00:13:40.940 But at the moment, we're planning $20 billion in data center, catering for the AI and cloud business for the hyperscaler.

00:13:48.960 Trump doesn't have to say, we're the best place in the world to do business.

00:13:52.960 It's just evident.

00:13:54.200 We can all see that that's true.

00:13:56.240 People don't invest $100 billion of their own money in failing jurisdictions.

00:14:01.780 The only big investments in Canada these days are governments shoveling tax dollars into schemes and scams.

00:14:08.320 I mean, America is a country that's sending rockets into space, that's making driverless cars and building robots.

00:14:15.660 And I'm just talking about the three things Elon Musk is doing.

00:14:18.300 In Canada, what are we doing?

00:14:20.200 We're jacking up the carbon tax again in 10 weeks.

00:14:22.640 That's not particularly inspirational compared to Rocketman, is it?

00:14:26.540 And Trudeau hasn't ruined the country fully, obviously.

00:14:30.380 It's still salvageable, I hope, maybe.

00:14:33.780 I mean, I think we need to deport about 5 million people.

00:14:35.820 And that's not a joke number.

00:14:37.500 It is the number of people who do not have permission to remain in this country after December.

00:14:43.260 But it's not just about immigration and prosperity.

00:14:46.000 It's culture, too.

00:14:46.820 In America, free speech is making a comeback.

00:14:49.860 First, Twitter, but now Facebook.

00:14:52.400 Did you catch this?

00:14:53.760 I want to talk about something important today,

00:14:55.820 because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.

00:15:00.660 I started building social media to give people a voice.

00:15:03.520 I gave a speech at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression.

00:15:08.780 And I still believe this today.

00:15:10.620 But a lot has happened over the last several years.

00:15:13.360 There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.

00:15:17.700 Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.

00:15:21.660 A lot of this is clearly political.

00:15:23.160 But there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there.

00:15:26.700 Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.

00:15:29.460 These are things that we take very seriously.

00:15:31.700 And I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.

00:15:33.740 So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.

00:15:37.380 But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.

00:15:40.980 Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that's millions of people.

00:15:45.560 And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.

00:15:50.860 The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.

00:15:56.560 So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes,

00:16:00.780 simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.

00:16:04.980 So you're a young person.

00:16:06.200 That could be inspiring as opposed to Trudeau's censorship plans.

00:16:09.980 Who does that inspire?

00:16:11.040 Trump is exciting, not just because of his personality, but because of his plans.

00:16:16.460 And they're simple.

00:16:17.220 Peace through strength.

00:16:18.560 Smaller government.

00:16:19.720 Close the borders and make citizenship meaningful and valuable.

00:16:23.040 Crack down on crime.

00:16:24.320 We are none of those things in Canada.

00:16:26.620 What young person wouldn't prefer the promise of America,

00:16:29.740 especially if they haven't yet been able to put down deep roots in Canada?

00:16:33.900 You're a young person in Canada, but you haven't been able to build your life,

00:16:37.160 partly because you can't afford to put down deep roots.

00:16:40.060 If you ever want to feel sad, go to Realtor.com.

00:16:45.240 That's the American real estate website.

00:16:47.920 And search for the price of houses in places like Texas or South Carolina.

00:16:53.360 Or if you really want your dollar to go far, go to Arkansas.

00:16:57.340 See what you can get for $200,000 in Arkansas.

00:17:01.200 Here, let me show you the page.

00:17:02.680 I did it for you.

00:17:03.220 I selected Realtor.com to show houses for sale in Arkansas between $200,000 and $300,000.

00:17:11.080 Just beautiful.

00:17:12.260 I mean, $200,000 is a down payment for a home in Toronto or Vancouver.

00:17:17.920 And yeah, sure, those are in U.S. dollars, but that makes the point even more, doesn't it?

00:17:21.720 Because they are earning U.S. dollars.

00:17:23.840 You can buy a house if you're a young person there.

00:17:27.860 Even with the currency conversion, those are houses you can never afford in Canada.

00:17:32.320 So you're a young Canadian.

00:17:34.000 Your country is overrun by foreigners either crowding you out of a university or crowding down wages through competition 1.00

00:17:41.140 or just getting in front of you in line at the hospital or shouting pro-Hamas threats in the street

00:17:47.560 and you can't afford a house and your prime minister calls you names if you complain.

00:17:52.460 Why wouldn't you make a new life in the land of opportunity?

00:17:55.400 There's a reason why the phrase, the American dream is famous.

00:17:59.580 You don't really hear the Canadian dream that often.

00:18:02.280 Certainly not under Trudeau, do you?

00:18:03.700 So when Trump says, hey, Canadians, join us, a real young person just might. 0.95

00:18:11.600 So let's look at this poll.

00:18:12.740 I just want to focus on one of the various questions.

00:18:16.500 And you can see it here.

00:18:17.840 They ask a lot of questions, but my favorite is, do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

00:18:23.040 If the United States offered all Canadians a full U.S. citizenship

00:18:26.900 and a full conversion of the Canadian dollar and all personal assets into U.S. dollars,

00:18:31.760 I would vote for Canada to become part of the United States, agree or disagree.

00:18:38.380 So this particular table shows the answers by different demographic groups,

00:18:43.360 and they combine strongly agree and agree, and they combine strongly disagree and disagree.

00:18:49.100 So 30% of Canadians say yes to that proposition,

00:18:53.700 that they would take up Trump on his offer of becoming an American citizen

00:18:57.660 and converting their dollars at par.

00:18:59.780 So 30% say yes, 70% say no.

00:19:04.320 But that's of the whole population.

00:19:06.880 And again, that's a very high number, by the way.

00:19:10.160 And again, this is without any campaign, just after a couple weeks of banter.

00:19:13.960 But let's drill down for a moment.

00:19:15.480 In British Columbia, you can see here broken down by location,

00:19:19.600 33% say yes.

00:19:21.240 That's combining strong agree and agree.

00:19:23.940 In Alberta, surprisingly, it's a little bit lower, 29%.

00:19:26.520 In Quebec, it's 26%, which is interesting.

00:19:29.060 I wonder how many Quebecers who want independence would be satisfied with joining America

00:19:33.540 instead of being fully independent.

00:19:35.320 And incredibly, the biggest number, is this a surprise?

00:19:38.760 The biggest number who say yes is Ontario, 34%.

00:19:42.060 That's more than Alberta or Quebec.

00:19:44.220 And there's a margin of error here.

00:19:45.400 But still, that's very interesting, isn't it?

00:19:47.460 In what was supposed to be the economic powerhouse of Canada,

00:19:49.800 that's where the most people want to join the states.

00:19:52.080 If you look, the answer is pretty steady, no matter the income level.

00:19:57.200 So rich or poor, everyone thinks that's a good deal.

00:20:00.960 Here's that same question now broken down by sex, age, and education.

00:20:05.200 Again, the national average is 30%.

00:20:07.240 Now, that rises to 38% for men.

00:20:11.840 I think that's because, in many cases, men are the breadwinners.

00:20:14.420 I think men are the ones who are thinking about prosperity and a future.

00:20:19.080 Imagine if someone said to you that they would give you one U.S. dollar

00:20:22.500 for every one Canadian dollar you have in the bank, 0.98

00:20:25.180 and you don't have to listen to that clown Trudeau 0.96

00:20:29.500 or his successor, Carbon, Dax Carney, anymore. 0.93

00:20:33.720 That's a huge number of young people that would say yes to that deal.

00:20:37.640 Like if someone walked into your room right now and said,

00:20:40.380 I'll give you all your Canadian dollars,

00:20:43.240 I'll give you American dollars one for one,

00:20:45.100 and I'll give you citizenship in America.

00:20:48.400 Huge numbers of young people would say yes.

00:20:50.320 You can see 43% of 18 to 34-year-olds.

00:20:55.000 Well, what are 18 to 34-year-olds?

00:20:56.680 They've done high school, maybe they're going to college,

00:20:58.720 but they're starting their life.

00:21:00.600 They're looking to get married.

00:21:02.340 They're looking to get a job.

00:21:03.540 They're looking to buy a house.

00:21:04.340 That's how you start life.

00:21:05.300 You're starting families.

00:21:06.380 You're paying the bills.

00:21:08.140 They're the people Trudeau has hit the hardest.

00:21:09.780 They're the people who want this American deal the most.

00:21:12.540 You can see seniors, by contrast.

00:21:15.380 Only 17% want to join the U.S.

00:21:17.740 Fair enough.

00:21:18.400 They've put the most into Canada,

00:21:20.200 and Canada has put the most into them.

00:21:22.560 They've probably paid off their mortgages.

00:21:24.780 They probably don't have to work for a living anymore,

00:21:26.620 so they don't have those same stresses.

00:21:29.040 And by the way, they're patriotic

00:21:30.740 because they grew up in a time when patriotism was still a thing.

00:21:34.220 Look at by education.

00:21:35.300 Not a lot of difference,

00:21:36.140 but people without high school,

00:21:38.480 which could be trades people,

00:21:40.400 they're the most eager to have a crack at being American,

00:21:42.940 maybe because it's the easiest to get ahead there

00:21:45.260 if you're working class.

00:21:47.300 And look at that last category,

00:21:49.600 generation.

00:21:51.080 Gen Z,

00:21:53.280 48% want to join the U.S.

00:21:56.280 48%.

00:21:56.760 Now, if this were broken down by sex and age,

00:22:01.120 if we knew the number for Gen Z males,

00:22:03.160 I think it would be a majority.

00:22:04.680 In fact, what I did is,

00:22:06.580 in my own math,

00:22:07.300 I transposed the difference between men and women 0.99

00:22:10.020 onto that Gen Z number.

00:22:12.000 And by my calculations,

00:22:13.620 a Generation Z male,

00:22:16.720 61% likely to say yes to the deal.

00:22:20.520 And all I did there was,

00:22:21.440 I took the Gen Z number for both genders,

00:22:23.780 and then I unpacked it using the earlier stat

00:22:26.660 of the difference between men and women.

00:22:29.340 61% of Generation Z males

00:22:32.420 would join the States.

00:22:35.740 That's the Joe Rogan generation.

00:22:37.440 That's the Jordan Peterson generation.

00:22:39.500 Those are people who are impatient with wokeness

00:22:42.040 and want to have a prosperous life.

00:22:44.040 Imagine how broken Canada has to be

00:22:46.440 when just a few tweets by Trump

00:22:48.700 is enough to make more than half of young men say,

00:22:52.080 sure, we're ready to join.

00:22:53.380 That sounds like a good deal.

00:22:55.760 And imagine how tone-deaf Trudeau

00:22:57.180 and the rest of the regime have to be to say,

00:22:59.340 in response to Trump,

00:23:01.080 we're going to punish Canadians 1.00

00:23:02.440 by attacking the oil patch,

00:23:03.780 aka young men working for a living,

00:23:06.000 and generally escalating the trade war.

00:23:09.560 Instead of just doing what Trump asked,

00:23:11.360 to seal our border against illegal migrants 0.86

00:23:13.280 and illegal drugs.

00:23:15.140 Oh, by the way, remember this.

00:23:17.260 In the United States, it's illegal

00:23:19.040 for states to break away.

00:23:21.340 You might remember they had a whole

00:23:22.700 terrible civil war about that.

00:23:25.720 In Canada, it's completely legal.

00:23:28.640 There's a law called the Clarity Act.

00:23:30.240 It was already ruled on by the Supreme Court.

00:23:32.500 It's legal.

00:23:34.240 They have step-by-step how you do it.

00:23:36.500 The Supreme Court says,

00:23:37.780 as long as there is a clear question

00:23:39.640 in a referendum,

00:23:41.460 the province can separate.

00:23:42.860 You might recall that Quebec came

00:23:45.520 within 0.5% of separating,

00:23:48.780 and that was a generation ago.

00:23:51.480 I predict that within one year,

00:23:54.200 the Panama Canal will return

00:23:56.400 to the sovereignty of the United States.

00:23:58.560 That's not that hard to imagine.

00:24:00.580 Jimmy Carter should never have sold it

00:24:02.120 to Panama for a dollar a generation ago,

00:24:04.560 but that wasn't even that long ago.

00:24:05.860 I think that's going to happen pretty quickly.

00:24:07.380 I think that Greenland will not join the U.S.

00:24:12.000 as a state.

00:24:12.760 It's too small.

00:24:14.480 I don't think it'll join even like a territory

00:24:16.240 like Puerto Rico or Guam.

00:24:18.780 But I think it'll do something like maybe sign

00:24:20.660 a 100-year trade and military agreement

00:24:23.900 with the United States

00:24:24.980 that makes it a de facto American turf.

00:24:27.980 It'll still call itself Greenland

00:24:29.320 and have some local independence,

00:24:31.340 but I think it's basically going to hook up

00:24:32.880 with America,

00:24:33.860 and they're going to get rich off it,

00:24:36.300 and they're going to feel more important

00:24:37.780 than Denmark seems to be treating them.

00:24:39.200 And, well, what's left?

00:24:40.720 Well, there's Canada.

00:24:42.660 Where will we be in a few years?

00:24:44.580 Well, the jury is out.

00:24:46.320 I think if someone who loved Canada

00:24:48.360 and wanted to restore it

00:24:49.700 to a status of pride and strength and prosperity

00:24:52.800 were to become prime minister

00:24:54.320 and made a compelling case for Canada,

00:24:57.840 I think such a person could win back

00:24:59.960 the 48% of Generation Z that wants to quit.

00:25:03.360 I think so.

00:25:05.340 But if Trudeau is replaced

00:25:07.460 by a droning World Economic Forum oligarch

00:25:11.380 like Mark Carney or Christy Freeland,

00:25:14.420 more of the same,

00:25:15.860 with an added war on Alberta oil

00:25:18.540 and the jobs that come with it,

00:25:19.680 don't be surprised

00:25:20.840 if one day there actually is

00:25:23.800 a separation referendum in Alberta.

00:25:26.100 And don't be shocked

00:25:27.360 if it passes.

00:25:29.180 I'm going to be meeting up

00:25:31.180 with the premier of Alberta

00:25:32.160 on Sunday in Washington, D.C.

00:25:33.960 I'll let you know what she has to say.

00:25:36.560 Stay with us for more.

00:25:37.600 Well, my friends,

00:25:49.660 you know the old saying,

00:25:50.580 the power to tax

00:25:51.900 is the power to destroy.

00:25:54.880 It's a shocking statement,

00:25:56.440 but it's always true.

00:25:58.540 And if you look at how

00:25:59.780 the prosperity of our country

00:26:01.040 has slowly fallen behind the Americans,

00:26:03.080 I think a lot of it

00:26:04.400 has to do with taxation,

00:26:05.640 including the hidden tax of inflation.

00:26:08.460 That is, the government printing

00:26:10.300 so much money

00:26:11.160 that effectively your money

00:26:12.640 is devalued.

00:26:13.920 I remind you that

00:26:14.780 when Stephen Harper left office,

00:26:17.460 Canadians were actually ahead

00:26:19.440 of Americans

00:26:20.180 in terms of per capita earning.

00:26:22.660 If you can believe

00:26:23.260 that we were richer

00:26:24.160 than the Americans.

00:26:25.640 Now we're poorer

00:26:26.400 than even the poorest state.

00:26:28.380 These are heavy matters,

00:26:29.560 but it's important

00:26:30.400 we keep talking about them.

00:26:31.520 And the guys who never stopped

00:26:33.860 fighting on this battle,

00:26:35.200 you know who I'm talking about.

00:26:36.540 One of our favorite guests

00:26:37.640 and certainly a fan favorite

00:26:38.640 is our friend Franco Territzano.

00:26:40.240 He's the boss

00:26:40.900 of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:26:43.240 And unfortunately,

00:26:44.360 he's very busy these days.

00:26:46.020 Franco, it's a target rich environment,

00:26:48.100 but I think it means Canadians

00:26:49.140 are sort of waking up to taxes

00:26:50.980 and they're like Atlas shrugged.

00:26:52.540 They're going to sort of shake off

00:26:53.980 all these little taxes,

00:26:55.880 God willing.

00:26:56.420 Give me your thoughts

00:26:57.680 on the recent days in this country.

00:27:00.020 What's going on?

00:27:01.520 Well, look, I agree with you

00:27:03.040 in the sense that Canadians

00:27:04.240 are just so sick and tired

00:27:05.880 of this big, bloated, bossy government

00:27:08.720 looking for ever new ways

00:27:10.460 to take more money from us

00:27:12.120 so that they can waste

00:27:13.180 our tax dollars largely on themselves,

00:27:16.480 on fancy trips abroad,

00:27:18.120 on giving corporate welfare

00:27:19.560 to multinational corporations,

00:27:21.540 or on hiring tens of thousands

00:27:23.580 of extra bureaucrats, right? 0.93

00:27:25.120 So Canadians are sick and tired.

00:27:26.380 And one of the massive tax hikes

00:27:28.800 that we have seen

00:27:29.700 from the Trudeau Liberal government

00:27:32.080 is this capital gains tax increase.

00:27:34.300 Now, number one,

00:27:35.460 it will wreak economic carnage

00:27:39.100 on Canada.

00:27:40.420 There's really no way

00:27:41.400 else to look at it, right?

00:27:43.120 There's this recent report

00:27:44.120 from the C.D. Howe Institute,

00:27:45.780 University of Calgary economist

00:27:47.240 Jack Minch,

00:27:47.880 who crunched the numbers,

00:27:49.380 and the capital gains tax hike

00:27:51.120 will result in 400,000 fewer Canadian jobs

00:27:56.200 and blow a $90 billion hole 0.59

00:27:59.600 in our economy.

00:28:01.540 So this is a massive tax hike.

00:28:04.000 It's going to make Canada 0.80

00:28:05.200 way less competitive.

00:28:07.380 And you know, Trudeau,

00:28:08.660 he likes to claim that,

00:28:10.400 oh, don't worry, folks,

00:28:11.520 it's just going to hit the billionaires.

00:28:13.540 No, no, no.

00:28:14.320 This is a sucker punch

00:28:16.500 to many ordinary Canadians.

00:28:19.280 It'll hurt small businesses.

00:28:21.120 It'll hurt doctors.

00:28:22.540 It'll hurt people

00:28:23.700 saving for the retirement.

00:28:25.600 Minch notes that this could impact

00:28:27.280 like a million Canadians,

00:28:29.480 half of whom earn

00:28:30.820 under $117,000 annually.

00:28:35.040 Now, help me out,

00:28:36.260 because is this the tax?

00:28:38.140 I mean, there's so many taxes.

00:28:39.760 We're being soaked in so many ways.

00:28:41.160 But is this the tax

00:28:42.220 that the CRA,

00:28:43.460 the Canadian Revenue Agency,

00:28:44.780 is going ahead and collecting

00:28:45.800 at a new rate

00:28:46.500 before it's actually

00:28:47.680 been authorized by Parliament?

00:28:48.860 Or am I confusing that

00:28:49.880 with another tax?

00:28:51.760 No, that's correct.

00:28:53.040 This is the undemocratic.

00:28:54.980 It's not even passed by Parliament.

00:28:56.640 It's just happening.

00:28:57.840 And even though

00:28:58.280 it hasn't been approved?

00:29:00.320 That's correct.

00:29:01.060 The legislation

00:29:01.540 hasn't even been brought

00:29:02.920 into Parliament,

00:29:03.860 let alone passed.

00:29:05.500 Right?

00:29:05.820 This is about as undemocratic

00:29:07.280 of a tax hike

00:29:08.260 as you can imagine,

00:29:09.800 where you have

00:29:10.540 unelected CRA bureaucrats

00:29:12.340 that are going to be

00:29:13.220 putting their grubby paws

00:29:14.580 on Canadians' pockets.

00:29:16.140 and to make matters

00:29:17.760 even worse,

00:29:18.360 like set aside

00:29:19.060 just the economic damage

00:29:20.360 of a capital gains tax hike.

00:29:22.260 But this is an undemocratic

00:29:23.480 tax hike, right?

00:29:24.820 It has never been passed

00:29:26.040 by Parliament,

00:29:27.320 not to mention the fact

00:29:28.380 that Parliament

00:29:28.900 is now shut down

00:29:30.120 until March the 24th.

00:29:32.060 There's every indication

00:29:33.300 that when Parliament

00:29:34.180 resumes,

00:29:34.680 there's going to be

00:29:35.720 a non-confidence vote

00:29:36.940 relatively quickly

00:29:37.900 and the government

00:29:38.480 will fall

00:29:38.980 and head into an election.

00:29:40.520 So this legislation

00:29:41.460 has never been passed.

00:29:42.920 It will likely

00:29:43.420 never be passed.

00:29:45.100 And also,

00:29:46.400 the party that's leaving

00:29:47.420 in the polls,

00:29:48.820 the Conservative Party

00:29:49.640 under Pierre Polyev,

00:29:51.240 well, they have just

00:29:52.220 come out and said

00:29:52.980 that they would reverse

00:29:53.920 the capital gains tax hike.

00:29:55.640 So this legislation

00:29:56.540 never passed,

00:29:57.660 likely will never pass,

00:29:59.000 and the party likely

00:30:00.060 to form the next government

00:30:01.220 says they're against it.

00:30:02.340 So there's no other way

00:30:03.600 to spin it, right?

00:30:04.960 This is an undemocratic

00:30:06.520 tax hike

00:30:07.200 where unelected bureaucrats

00:30:08.660 are taking more money

00:30:09.760 from Canadians.

00:30:11.120 Yeah, that's just,

00:30:12.380 I mean, I don't know

00:30:12.940 if that's even legal.

00:30:14.220 And, you know,

00:30:15.280 we all know that phrase,

00:30:16.540 no taxation

00:30:17.480 without representation.

00:30:18.920 And that's a centuries-old concept.

00:30:21.240 In fact,

00:30:21.780 that was even part of the,

00:30:23.540 you know,

00:30:24.000 the Boston Tea Party

00:30:25.580 and the rebellion

00:30:26.180 against the king.

00:30:27.700 And, in fact,

00:30:28.980 if you've ever been

00:30:29.500 to Washington, D.C.,

00:30:30.680 their license plate motto,

00:30:32.800 I don't know if you know this,

00:30:33.540 Franco,

00:30:33.780 is no taxation

00:30:34.840 without representation

00:30:36.060 because they're saying

00:30:37.380 we're paying taxes in D.C.,

00:30:39.120 but we don't have

00:30:40.080 a congressman or anything.

00:30:41.640 It's an ancient

00:30:43.260 kind of fairness.

00:30:44.440 And, you know,

00:30:46.160 who allows a tax collector

00:30:48.760 to collect more taxes

00:30:49.880 if it has not been

00:30:51.020 authorized by Parliament?

00:30:51.960 I find that very unjust.

00:30:53.640 Like, you can argue

00:30:54.940 against the HST,

00:30:56.820 you can argue

00:30:57.560 against any particular policy,

00:30:59.860 the carbon tax,

00:31:01.560 but I suppose

00:31:03.180 the final line of defense

00:31:05.380 for those advocates

00:31:06.420 would be,

00:31:07.040 well, Parliament passed it,

00:31:08.640 that's the will of the people

00:31:09.860 in our system.

00:31:11.080 If you don't like it,

00:31:12.000 run against it.

00:31:12.880 And there's some

00:31:13.780 basic truth there.

00:31:15.100 But if Parliament itself

00:31:16.680 didn't even pass it,

00:31:18.180 it just feels

00:31:19.620 so achingly undemocratic.

00:31:21.700 Like, boy,

00:31:22.660 do you know anything

00:31:23.440 about the legality of that?

00:31:24.820 Like, is that,

00:31:25.960 like, how did that even happen?

00:31:27.420 Just some exec,

00:31:28.100 is there even

00:31:28.580 an executive order?

00:31:29.880 Like, how does a tax collector

00:31:31.640 collect taxes

00:31:32.360 without Parliament's approval?

00:31:33.700 I'm just lost here.

00:31:35.920 Well, stay tuned

00:31:37.240 on whether or not

00:31:38.300 this is legal.

00:31:39.020 You know,

00:31:39.200 I don't want to be cute,

00:31:39.940 but I just can't release anything

00:31:41.720 until it's final.

00:31:42.780 But let me just say

00:31:43.820 that the Canadian

00:31:44.340 Taxpayers Federation,

00:31:45.280 we are going to use

00:31:46.420 every tool in our toolbox

00:31:47.720 to fight

00:31:49.320 what the CRA is doing

00:31:51.280 and what the government

00:31:52.020 is doing.

00:31:52.660 But, you know,

00:31:53.420 just to really add a point

00:31:55.140 on how undemocratic this is,

00:31:57.520 in 2021,

00:31:58.640 the last federal election,

00:32:00.400 the Liberals

00:32:01.140 did not even run

00:32:02.760 on a capital gains tax hike.

00:32:04.780 Right?

00:32:05.460 So not only

00:32:06.320 has Parliament

00:32:07.420 not passed

00:32:08.420 legislation

00:32:09.440 for this capital gains tax hike,

00:32:11.620 but the Liberals

00:32:12.680 in the last election,

00:32:13.720 they ran on

00:32:14.340 a lot of tax increases.

00:32:15.440 They never ran

00:32:17.000 on a capital gains tax increase.

00:32:19.080 So no way

00:32:20.520 could you say

00:32:21.080 that this is

00:32:21.620 the will of the people.

00:32:22.700 It absolutely is not.

00:32:24.200 So now there's two reasons

00:32:25.280 that this is going forward.

00:32:26.460 Number one,

00:32:27.300 pure bureaucratic overreach,

00:32:29.800 to say the least.

00:32:31.000 Right?

00:32:31.440 Bureaucracy run amok,

00:32:32.860 to say the least.

00:32:33.800 But number two,

00:32:35.040 this should be

00:32:35.660 on our elected representatives.

00:32:37.320 Right?

00:32:37.660 This is on

00:32:38.320 the Liberal government,

00:32:39.920 Liberal cabinet ministers,

00:32:41.160 and Liberal MPs

00:32:42.200 for not speaking out

00:32:43.360 against this.

00:32:43.900 In fact,

00:32:44.460 all MPs

00:32:45.220 should be speaking out

00:32:45.960 against this

00:32:46.420 because what is going on

00:32:47.620 is the government

00:32:48.180 is essentially

00:32:49.420 rubber stamping

00:32:50.160 a tax hike.

00:32:51.600 And when this happens,

00:32:52.760 you've got to

00:32:53.120 throw up your hands

00:32:53.700 and say,

00:32:53.980 well,

00:32:54.060 what's even the point

00:32:55.160 of having members

00:32:56.280 of Parliament

00:32:56.780 if the government

00:32:57.640 can just increase taxes

00:32:58.960 without parliamentarians

00:33:00.280 even having a vote?

00:33:01.860 Like,

00:33:02.260 this is a total

00:33:03.280 crushing blow

00:33:05.160 to our democracy

00:33:06.920 and the fundamental idea

00:33:08.340 of no taxation

00:33:09.660 without representation.

00:33:10.980 But folks,

00:33:12.040 two other things here.

00:33:13.080 Number one,

00:33:14.440 why isn't the Liberal government

00:33:15.700 stepping in on this?

00:33:16.800 Well,

00:33:17.320 besides the political aspect,

00:33:19.040 the government is broke.

00:33:20.240 It's more than

00:33:20.740 a trillion dollars in debt.

00:33:22.240 They ran a 60 billion

00:33:23.720 plus dollar deficit

00:33:25.240 last year.

00:33:26.220 Like,

00:33:26.440 just to put a point

00:33:27.920 on that,

00:33:28.740 like,

00:33:29.040 this capital gains tax hike

00:33:30.480 will take about

00:33:31.240 seven billion dollars

00:33:32.520 from Canadians this year.

00:33:34.260 Well,

00:33:34.800 the Trudeau government,

00:33:35.780 the way it's spending,

00:33:36.900 will blow through that cash

00:33:39.000 in less than a week.

00:33:41.180 Right?

00:33:41.780 This government spending

00:33:42.800 is still out of control.

00:33:44.320 But number two,

00:33:45.300 the reason why

00:33:46.000 all Canadians

00:33:46.680 have to come off

00:33:47.560 the bench on this

00:33:48.500 is because we can't

00:33:50.240 let politicians

00:33:51.320 or the government

00:33:52.220 get away with this precedent.

00:33:53.940 Right?

00:33:54.340 They try to take

00:33:55.380 as much money

00:33:55.960 from Canadians

00:33:56.540 as they can

00:33:57.200 and we cannot

00:33:58.040 let them get away with it.

00:34:00.060 Yeah.

00:34:00.440 Wow.

00:34:01.260 Well,

00:34:01.560 I was just looking

00:34:02.360 at a poll by Ipsos

00:34:03.680 that showed

00:34:04.640 43%

00:34:06.020 of

00:34:06.860 18 to 34s

00:34:08.480 would consider

00:34:09.980 joining America

00:34:10.740 if they could

00:34:11.980 get their Canadian dollars

00:34:13.460 at par with American

00:34:14.740 and

00:34:15.640 I did some calculations

00:34:17.600 looking at the crosstabs.

00:34:19.300 61% of Gen Z

00:34:21.760 males 0.81

00:34:22.780 would do that

00:34:24.020 and I'm thinking

00:34:24.320 why is that?

00:34:25.380 I think it's in large part

00:34:26.580 because how do you start

00:34:27.540 a family

00:34:28.020 if you can't buy a house?

00:34:29.740 How do you get ahead

00:34:30.800 when taxes are so high

00:34:32.400 that

00:34:32.620 and inflation is so bad?

00:34:34.620 And I think

00:34:35.360 that's a very sad thing.

00:34:37.720 It's one thing

00:34:38.320 for people

00:34:39.720 well into the thick

00:34:40.600 of life

00:34:41.000 in their 40s,

00:34:41.640 50s,

00:34:42.000 60s

00:34:42.460 to pay these taxes

00:34:43.840 but I truly believe

00:34:45.540 that a big reason

00:34:46.380 why young people 1.00

00:34:47.320 would take Donald Trump

00:34:50.000 up on its invitation

00:34:50.880 to join America

00:34:51.600 is because it's too tough

00:34:53.020 for a young person

00:34:53.680 to pay the bills

00:34:54.260 in this country.

00:34:55.180 It's a sad thing to say.

00:34:57.280 I got one more question

00:34:58.100 for you though.

00:34:59.040 In 10 weeks from now

00:35:00.740 we have another tax hike

00:35:02.780 don't we?

00:35:03.180 On April Fool's Day

00:35:04.360 we've got another tax hike

00:35:06.120 coming don't we?

00:35:07.540 Sure do.

00:35:08.260 Carbon tax

00:35:08.880 it's going up again

00:35:10.100 right?

00:35:11.000 Probably the most

00:35:12.120 unpopular tax

00:35:13.400 in Canada

00:35:14.380 Canadians

00:35:15.000 clearly oppose

00:35:16.320 the carbon tax

00:35:16.940 why?

00:35:17.300 Because it makes

00:35:17.740 the necessities

00:35:18.340 of life more expensive

00:35:19.360 right?

00:35:20.580 Canadians can't afford it 0.95

00:35:21.680 and it doesn't work

00:35:23.000 to help the environment

00:35:23.980 like come on

00:35:24.620 Canada makes up 0.98

00:35:25.300 1.4%

00:35:26.500 of global emissions

00:35:27.260 you're just talking

00:35:28.260 about the United States

00:35:29.280 the largest economy

00:35:30.780 in the world

00:35:31.340 our biggest trading partner

00:35:32.760 in many respects

00:35:34.100 our biggest ally

00:35:35.020 but also

00:35:35.740 our biggest competitor

00:35:37.060 they don't have

00:35:38.120 a carbon tax

00:35:38.860 even the Biden

00:35:40.280 administration

00:35:41.260 didn't impose

00:35:42.380 a carbon tax

00:35:43.240 right?

00:35:43.980 Trump's not going to

00:35:44.740 impose a carbon tax

00:35:45.960 so like what are we

00:35:47.120 what are we doing here?

00:35:48.200 The carbon tax

00:35:48.940 is all economic pain

00:35:50.980 without environmental gain

00:35:52.220 and what's happening

00:35:53.100 April 1?

00:35:53.960 A carbon tax increase

00:35:55.240 but Ezra

00:35:55.880 let me just point out

00:35:56.700 a timeline here

00:35:57.540 right?

00:35:58.140 Parliament shut down

00:35:59.660 until March 24th

00:36:01.260 we'll presumably

00:36:02.580 have a new prime minister

00:36:03.800 the next liberal leader

00:36:04.920 presumably right?

00:36:06.360 Well in a couple days

00:36:07.520 or a couple weeks

00:36:08.600 after parliament

00:36:09.460 gets back

00:36:10.140 there's going to be

00:36:11.480 non-confidence votes

00:36:12.580 and then April 1

00:36:13.860 carbon tax increase

00:36:15.200 so you know

00:36:15.900 a little pro tip

00:36:16.740 to all the liberal

00:36:17.960 leadership hopefuls

00:36:19.020 out there

00:36:19.440 do you really want

00:36:20.640 to head to the polls

00:36:21.780 immediately after

00:36:24.080 hiking the carbon tax?

00:36:26.120 like I'm not this

00:36:27.560 political pundit

00:36:28.820 I don't pretend to be

00:36:29.880 but that doesn't sound

00:36:30.960 like smart politics

00:36:31.760 to me

00:36:32.260 Well I got one last question

00:36:33.520 I'm grateful for your time

00:36:34.520 thank you for

00:36:35.200 carving out some time

00:36:36.460 from your schedule

00:36:36.960 of course

00:36:38.640 Mark Carney

00:36:39.480 the former Bank of Canada

00:36:41.360 governor

00:36:41.700 then Bank of England

00:36:42.560 governor

00:36:42.980 I call him an oligarch

00:36:44.720 he's the boss

00:36:46.580 of Brookfield

00:36:47.340 which is a huge

00:36:48.300 asset management firm

00:36:50.180 and it does other things

00:36:51.380 and Bloomberg

00:36:52.300 like these are

00:36:52.900 very big companies

00:36:53.940 he was a governor

00:36:55.300 on the World Economic Forum

00:36:57.000 like he really is

00:36:57.680 a master of the universe

00:36:59.140 and he's come back

00:37:00.160 to Canada

00:37:00.640 to do us the favor

00:37:01.900 of leading us

00:37:03.180 and I've been following

00:37:05.600 Mark Carney

00:37:06.060 for some time

00:37:07.300 and I really think

00:37:09.140 that his central

00:37:10.160 idea

00:37:12.180 even when he was

00:37:13.860 at the Bank of Canada

00:37:14.560 and the Bank of England

00:37:15.380 has been carbon

00:37:17.100 carbon budgets

00:37:18.720 carbon taxes

00:37:19.800 carbon markets

00:37:20.660 like it's all

00:37:21.420 he talks about

00:37:22.160 he says he's part of

00:37:23.840 Greta Thunberg's movement

00:37:25.400 which is crazy to say

00:37:26.600 I would say

00:37:27.320 I see myself

00:37:28.160 as part of the social movement

00:37:29.560 I think those

00:37:30.160 at the vanguard

00:37:30.800 of the social movement

00:37:31.820 might see me

00:37:32.640 as being farther behind

00:37:35.020 and I've

00:37:36.840 you know

00:37:37.140 full

00:37:37.460 absolutely full credit

00:37:39.000 and I do

00:37:39.480 in the book

00:37:40.380 to Greta Thunberg

00:37:41.900 who I've had the

00:37:42.740 pleasure of meeting

00:37:43.640 several times

00:37:44.660 and who absolutely

00:37:46.380 has

00:37:47.240 catalyzed

00:37:49.440 that movement

00:37:50.400 the youth movement

00:37:51.340 and also

00:37:52.640 done something

00:37:53.400 incredibly valuable

00:37:54.280 and this is embarrassing

00:37:55.400 to admit

00:37:56.000 but I think we should

00:37:56.780 admit it

00:37:57.300 and this is often true

00:37:58.700 by the way

00:37:59.100 in finance

00:37:59.540 very obvious

00:38:00.340 truths

00:38:01.080 are not fully understood

00:38:02.960 in the system

00:38:04.780 so what she

00:38:05.620 hammered home

00:38:07.020 was the carbon budget

00:38:08.020 how small it was

00:38:09.280 how rapidly

00:38:09.840 it was being depleted

00:38:10.840 and we've moved

00:38:12.800 in a few short years

00:38:14.700 in part because of her

00:38:16.640 from a world

00:38:17.680 of ESG

00:38:19.100 sustainability

00:38:19.980 broader

00:38:21.500 conversations

00:38:22.960 around

00:38:23.540 as I say

00:38:24.860 sustainability

00:38:25.380 to a relentless

00:38:27.040 focus on net zero

00:38:28.080 it's called the Glasgow

00:38:28.740 Financial Alliance

00:38:29.460 for net zero

00:38:29.960 for a reason

00:38:30.560 because we've moved

00:38:32.280 to the

00:38:32.980 relentless logic

00:38:34.520 of

00:38:35.180 having to get

00:38:36.940 emissions down

00:38:37.960 consistent with

00:38:38.860 the carbon budget

00:38:39.620 so in that regard

00:38:41.920 I'm

00:38:42.380 part of that

00:38:43.980 and part of mapping

00:38:45.480 what people want

00:38:46.720 to

00:38:47.100 the mechanisms

00:38:48.180 particularly in finance

00:38:49.540 in order to deliver it

00:38:50.760 yesterday

00:38:52.300 when he announced

00:38:53.800 his run

00:38:55.020 in

00:38:55.840 I think it was

00:38:57.400 in Calgary

00:38:57.940 he

00:38:58.760 he was asked

00:39:00.760 about the carbon tax

00:39:01.400 can I play a clip

00:39:02.120 of that for you

00:39:02.580 I'd like your reaction

00:39:03.380 I'm trying to understand

00:39:04.640 here's a guy

00:39:05.220 who for

00:39:05.680 20 years

00:39:07.160 has been talking

00:39:07.980 about carbon taxes

00:39:09.080 I'm trying to figure

00:39:11.360 out what he meant

00:39:11.980 yesterday

00:39:12.460 take a look

00:39:13.080 that if you were going

00:39:14.160 to take out

00:39:14.840 the carbon tax

00:39:16.560 you should replace it

00:39:18.320 with something that

00:39:19.000 is at least

00:39:19.820 if not more effective

00:39:20.800 and by effective

00:39:22.860 it's not just

00:39:23.740 having the same impact

00:39:25.320 in reducing

00:39:26.580 greenhouse gas emissions

00:39:28.160 but it's making

00:39:29.200 our companies

00:39:29.760 more competitive

00:39:30.500 it's creating jobs

00:39:31.800 it's ensuring

00:39:32.980 that Canadian households

00:39:34.580 are made whole

00:39:36.040 in terms of their finances

00:39:37.960 because perception

00:39:39.660 may be

00:39:40.360 that it takes

00:39:42.480 out more

00:39:43.060 than the rebate

00:39:44.340 provides

00:39:45.160 but reality

00:39:46.100 is different

00:39:46.700 and Canadians

00:39:48.280 will miss that money

00:39:49.100 so you need

00:39:49.560 a comprehensive

00:39:50.500 approach

00:39:51.420 you need a

00:39:52.340 comprehensive plan

00:39:53.380 not just a sound

00:39:54.360 bite

00:39:54.560 that fits on

00:39:55.840 a lectern

00:39:57.180 and that again

00:39:58.280 is a difference

00:39:58.880 between me

00:39:59.700 and some others

00:40:00.320 I don't do a little leak

00:40:02.260 I don't do a sound

00:40:03.060 bite

00:40:03.300 I do a comprehensive

00:40:04.440 plan that addresses

00:40:05.300 all the aspects

00:40:05.920 and you'll see that

00:40:06.580 in the coming weeks

00:40:07.220 I don't understand

00:40:08.320 what that means

00:40:08.780 that sounds exactly

00:40:09.680 what we have now

00:40:10.640 Trudeau giving this

00:40:11.700 little carbon rebate

00:40:13.060 this is

00:40:13.500 you know

00:40:13.960 Stefan Dion in 2008

00:40:15.260 was talking about

00:40:15.720 the green shift

00:40:16.420 I

00:40:17.180 I don't understand

00:40:18.960 what he's saying

00:40:19.420 but if I

00:40:19.860 if I was forced

00:40:20.920 to say

00:40:21.260 Ezra what do you

00:40:21.760 think that means

00:40:22.400 I would say

00:40:23.460 he's just going to

00:40:24.020 rename the carbon tax

00:40:25.220 well I have no idea

00:40:27.300 what it was

00:40:28.500 he was talking about

00:40:29.220 there to be honest

00:40:29.780 like that was

00:40:30.320 about as clear as mud

00:40:31.320 like a total word salad

00:40:33.000 but you know

00:40:33.960 what's so crazy

00:40:34.820 about all of this

00:40:35.380 right

00:40:35.560 because for Carney

00:40:36.680 to win the liberal

00:40:37.660 leadership

00:40:38.040 he has to be

00:40:39.220 the smart guy

00:40:40.060 in the room

00:40:40.580 right

00:40:40.880 the guy with all

00:40:41.680 the plans

00:40:42.180 to save the economy

00:40:43.120 that's going to be

00:40:43.760 his pitch

00:40:44.400 to the liberal

00:40:45.400 membership

00:40:45.880 well

00:40:46.820 if you're the smart

00:40:48.120 guy

00:40:48.560 then shouldn't

00:40:49.360 you have the answer

00:40:50.380 to the most obvious

00:40:51.580 question that he was

00:40:52.700 going to face

00:40:53.400 are you going to

00:40:54.620 keep

00:40:55.020 the carbon tax

00:40:56.540 or are you going

00:40:57.000 to scrap it

00:40:57.720 it's a yes

00:40:58.560 or no answer

00:40:59.340 and it's an answer

00:41:00.240 that he should have

00:41:00.920 and as you just

00:41:02.140 heard by his response

00:41:03.180 he had no idea

00:41:04.500 or at least

00:41:05.120 that's what he

00:41:05.840 said to the

00:41:07.120 Canadian public

00:41:07.860 right

00:41:08.380 but here's the thing

00:41:09.240 Canadians

00:41:09.900 are against

00:41:10.980 the carbon tax

00:41:12.040 Canadians

00:41:12.560 are against

00:41:13.660 all carbon taxes

00:41:14.960 so now you're

00:41:15.940 starting to hear

00:41:16.880 even liberal

00:41:18.200 politicians

00:41:18.780 start to speak

00:41:19.800 out against

00:41:20.260 carbon taxes

00:41:21.020 okay

00:41:21.780 well two things

00:41:22.960 number one

00:41:23.600 prove that you're

00:41:24.680 against the carbon

00:41:25.400 tax because

00:41:26.040 taxpayers

00:41:26.620 have trust issues

00:41:28.040 and immediately

00:41:28.900 call for the

00:41:29.560 government to

00:41:30.060 scrap the carbon

00:41:30.820 tax

00:41:31.100 don't wait

00:41:31.760 after the

00:41:32.200 net

00:41:32.300 don't let it

00:41:32.620 go up

00:41:32.880 on April 1

00:41:33.680 exactly

00:41:34.440 but number

00:41:35.780 two Ezra

00:41:36.580 and I know

00:41:36.980 we're running

00:41:37.260 out of time

00:41:37.620 but I just

00:41:38.000 have to say

00:41:38.460 this

00:41:38.760 Canadians

00:41:39.360 are against

00:41:40.320 carbon taxes

00:41:41.140 Canadians

00:41:41.560 want carbon

00:41:42.280 taxes gone

00:41:43.180 they don't

00:41:44.360 want the 0.55

00:41:45.000 carbon tax

00:41:45.740 relabeled

00:41:46.760 and I mean

00:41:49.000 Canadians don't

00:41:49.780 know Mark Carney

00:41:50.440 well and if

00:41:51.260 this is their

00:41:51.820 introduction to him

00:41:52.660 and if every

00:41:53.060 time he's asked

00:41:53.780 will you scrap

00:41:54.780 the carbon tax

00:41:55.440 yes or no

00:41:55.940 if he gives

00:41:56.680 that answer

00:41:57.340 you know that's

00:41:58.160 like if my wife

00:41:58.800 says Ezra will

00:41:59.420 you take the

00:41:59.900 garbage out

00:42:00.420 well you see 0.97

00:42:02.020 I have this

00:42:02.620 comprehensive plan

00:42:03.940 and this

00:42:04.540 will you take

00:42:05.640 the garbage out

00:42:06.240 or not

00:42:06.520 well hey

00:42:07.140 you know

00:42:07.820 we're having

00:42:08.480 a focus group

00:42:09.180 and like if

00:42:09.960 like it's that

00:42:10.820 BS on a yes

00:42:12.160 no answer

00:42:12.660 we all know

00:42:13.380 what the answer

00:42:14.000 is this man

00:42:14.880 has spent his

00:42:15.360 entire public

00:42:16.080 life and it

00:42:16.620 by the way

00:42:16.940 his wife

00:42:17.480 is even more

00:42:18.260 extreme than

00:42:18.960 he is

00:42:19.560 like this is

00:42:20.280 a green

00:42:21.000 extreme family

00:42:22.680 and he just

00:42:23.540 wow

00:42:24.540 but listen

00:42:25.540 I know you're

00:42:26.020 going to fight

00:42:26.460 hard on this

00:42:27.260 I also

00:42:28.020 if I heard

00:42:28.880 you right

00:42:29.260 you were very

00:42:30.100 careful about

00:42:31.300 how you phrased

00:42:31.920 it but if I

00:42:32.640 was a betting

00:42:33.320 man I want

00:42:34.460 to keep my

00:42:34.780 eyes peeled

00:42:35.120 maybe the

00:42:35.460 taxpayers federation

00:42:36.240 might even

00:42:36.660 wind up going

00:42:37.420 to court

00:42:37.800 to fight

00:42:38.420 this capital

00:42:40.240 gains tax

00:42:40.820 I can if

00:42:41.220 you do

00:42:41.520 please come

00:42:42.080 back on the

00:42:42.620 show

00:42:42.800 we'd love

00:42:43.380 to hear it

00:42:43.820 or send

00:42:44.460 the lawyer

00:42:44.840 and again

00:42:45.160 I'm making

00:42:45.880 a leap

00:42:46.340 here

00:42:46.780 I'm filling

00:42:47.480 in a blank

00:42:48.080 because someone's

00:42:49.220 got it

00:42:49.460 if this capital

00:42:50.400 gains tax

00:42:51.060 as we discussed

00:42:51.960 five minutes ago

00:42:52.500 is illegal

00:42:53.080 someone's got

00:42:54.360 to do something

00:42:54.860 about it

00:42:55.280 and Rebel News

00:42:56.180 likes to litigate

00:42:56.920 these things

00:42:57.480 but this is

00:42:58.240 such a good

00:42:58.640 fit for the

00:42:59.060 taxpayers

00:42:59.340 we'll help

00:43:00.220 you crowd

00:43:00.620 fund it

00:43:01.080 if you need

00:43:01.460 it

00:43:01.560 we'll help

00:43:01.960 you

00:43:02.120 like that

00:43:02.760 it would

00:43:03.080 be such

00:43:03.560 a victory

00:43:04.100 if the

00:43:04.560 taxpayers

00:43:04.940 federation

00:43:05.560 would undo

00:43:07.240 this tax

00:43:07.860 that would be

00:43:08.260 the greatest

00:43:08.860 gift

00:43:09.500 you could give

00:43:10.380 to millions

00:43:11.020 of entrepreneurs

00:43:11.840 and you're

00:43:13.380 the perfect

00:43:13.860 people to do

00:43:14.440 so let me

00:43:14.920 lobby you

00:43:15.500 please do

00:43:16.340 what I think

00:43:17.000 you're going

00:43:17.300 to do

00:43:17.680 and if we

00:43:18.460 can help

00:43:18.800 come back

00:43:19.240 on the show

00:43:19.680 okay

00:43:20.040 well Ezra

00:43:21.440 you know

00:43:21.780 can't give

00:43:22.220 away too

00:43:22.640 many details

00:43:23.140 all I can

00:43:23.820 say for

00:43:24.260 sure is

00:43:24.820 that we

00:43:25.180 are going

00:43:25.440 to fight

00:43:25.820 every way

00:43:26.380 we can

00:43:26.860 against the

00:43:27.600 undemocratic

00:43:28.300 capital gains

00:43:29.000 tax hike

00:43:29.540 and the

00:43:30.040 carbon tax

00:43:30.680 well I'm

00:43:31.680 delighted

00:43:32.220 and thanks

00:43:32.740 for taking

00:43:33.120 the time

00:43:33.500 and you're

00:43:33.920 in for a

00:43:34.680 busy season

00:43:35.400 my friend

00:43:36.000 sure

00:43:36.820 and I'm

00:43:37.880 glad you

00:43:38.280 are because

00:43:38.800 we rely

00:43:39.280 on you

00:43:39.620 and I

00:43:39.800 had the

00:43:40.020 pleasure

00:43:40.280 of meeting

00:43:41.140 up with

00:43:41.500 Chris Sims

00:43:42.040 your Alberta

00:43:42.580 boss

00:43:43.020 the other

00:43:43.640 day

00:43:43.880 and she's

00:43:44.300 doing great

00:43:44.780 and I know

00:43:45.220 you've got

00:43:45.420 a whole team

00:43:45.940 across the

00:43:46.400 country so keep

00:43:46.980 it up my

00:43:47.300 friend

00:43:47.600 hey thanks

00:43:49.160 Ezra

00:43:49.460 all right

00:43:49.920 there you

00:43:50.120 have it

00:43:50.320 Franco

00:43:50.540 Teresano

00:43:51.080 he's the

00:43:52.300 boss of the

00:43:52.680 Taxpayers

00:43:53.020 Federation

00:43:53.440 he's got a

00:43:53.840 big fight

00:43:54.240 ahead and

00:43:54.600 we're going

00:43:55.300 to stand

00:43:55.580 with him

00:43:55.820 the whole

00:43:56.040 way

00:43:56.200 stay with

00:43:56.560 us

00:43:56.720 more ahead

00:43:57.200 hey welcome

00:44:09.620 back your

00:44:10.220 letters to

00:44:10.880 me

00:44:11.200 Jess says

00:44:13.180 Trudeau is

00:44:13.680 hanging something

00:44:14.400 over Ford

00:44:15.100 thank you

00:44:15.880 Danielle for

00:44:16.400 standing up

00:44:16.940 for all

00:44:17.220 Canadians

00:44:17.680 yeah I

00:44:19.620 think that

00:44:20.360 Doug Ford

00:44:20.940 is going to

00:44:21.420 copy the

00:44:21.960 Justin Trudeau

00:44:22.720 or Mark Carney

00:44:23.540 strategy which

00:44:24.400 is to

00:44:25.280 embrace the

00:44:25.960 trade war

00:44:26.600 and use it

00:44:27.620 as the

00:44:28.380 issue of

00:44:28.900 choice in

00:44:29.660 the upcoming

00:44:30.000 campaign I

00:44:30.600 say again my

00:44:31.240 own house I

00:44:32.160 had a couple

00:44:32.600 of door

00:44:32.900 knockers from 1.00

00:44:34.040 the Ford

00:44:34.440 Conservatives

00:44:35.040 last weekend

00:44:36.220 so I think

00:44:38.740 it's a

00:44:39.280 certainty

00:44:39.740 I think it's

00:44:42.220 sort of gross

00:44:42.780 that Doug Ford

00:44:43.540 wants Alberta 1.00

00:44:44.200 to be the

00:44:44.680 sacrifice zone

00:44:45.640 how would

00:44:46.380 Doug Ford

00:44:46.780 react if

00:44:47.540 Danielle Smith

00:44:48.120 said well

00:44:48.680 let's punish 0.99

00:44:49.920 the Americans 0.99

00:44:50.540 by shutting

00:44:51.120 down the

00:44:51.980 auto sector

00:44:52.900 I mean no

00:44:54.200 one else would

00:44:54.720 talk that way

00:44:55.460 about any

00:44:56.200 other province

00:44:56.960 except that

00:44:58.060 seems to be

00:44:58.540 accepted to

00:44:59.080 talk that way

00:44:59.580 about Alberta

00:45:00.220 by the way I

00:45:01.000 don't think it'll

00:45:01.460 work

00:45:01.700 James C

00:45:03.120 says honestly

00:45:04.000 it wouldn't

00:45:04.900 hurt my

00:45:05.220 feelings if

00:45:05.760 Trump targeted

00:45:06.480 Ontario and

00:45:07.760 Quebec industry

00:45:08.760 well look

00:45:09.920 we do love

00:45:10.860 our fellow

00:45:11.220 Canadians

00:45:11.680 and just

00:45:13.180 because Doug

00:45:13.740 Ford or

00:45:14.420 Francois

00:45:15.560 Legault say

00:45:16.300 things we

00:45:17.000 disagree with

00:45:17.500 we don't

00:45:17.740 want to

00:45:18.000 punish

00:45:18.320 ordinary

00:45:19.300 working people

00:45:20.280 in those

00:45:21.160 provinces

00:45:22.040 and we

00:45:22.500 don't

00:45:23.160 which is

00:45:24.560 why it's

00:45:24.940 so nutty

00:45:25.680 that instead

00:45:26.440 of focusing

00:45:27.000 on what

00:45:27.500 Trump wanted

00:45:28.380 us to do

00:45:28.980 which is

00:45:29.480 fix the

00:45:30.640 border

00:45:31.000 we're letting

00:45:32.740 that remain

00:45:33.420 an issue

00:45:33.900 so we have

00:45:34.840 the battle

00:45:35.280 over well

00:45:35.760 what's he

00:45:36.100 going to do

00:45:36.540 if we ignore

00:45:37.420 his reasonable

00:45:38.220 demand

00:45:38.600 it is a

00:45:39.160 reasonable

00:45:39.660 demand

00:45:40.260 between

00:45:41.300 neighbors

00:45:41.760 to fix

00:45:42.240 a fence

00:45:42.820 between

00:45:43.700 the two

00:45:44.080 neighbors

00:45:44.700 now maybe

00:45:45.420 you talk

00:45:45.820 about well

00:45:46.140 who pays

00:45:46.560 for that

00:45:46.980 and here's

00:45:48.000 my beef

00:45:48.500 with your

00:45:48.900 fence

00:45:49.280 and vice

00:45:49.600 you have

00:45:50.020 an argue

00:45:50.840 bargue

00:45:51.240 about it

00:45:51.660 but when

00:45:51.940 a neighbor

00:45:52.280 says

00:45:52.720 your wild

00:45:53.640 dog

00:45:53.960 is running

00:45:54.380 into my

00:45:55.000 side of

00:45:55.640 things

00:45:55.880 if you

00:45:56.220 don't

00:45:56.480 deal

00:45:56.660 with your

00:45:56.960 wild

00:45:57.140 dog

00:45:57.380 I'm

00:45:57.580 putting

00:45:57.740 up

00:45:57.920 a

00:45:58.040 fence

00:45:58.300 Donald

00:45:59.600 Trump

00:45:59.860 just

00:46:00.060 said

00:46:00.220 stop

00:46:00.540 the

00:46:00.700 illegal

00:46:00.960 immigrants

00:46:01.320 and

00:46:01.520 stop

00:46:01.720 the

00:46:01.880 illegal

00:46:02.120 drugs

00:46:02.420 and

00:46:02.580 instead

00:46:02.880 of doing

00:46:06.540 various

00:46:06.760 politicians

00:46:07.180 are

00:46:07.420 welcoming

00:46:08.040 a

00:46:08.480 battle

00:46:08.840 Joe

00:46:09.360 Bush

00:46:09.600 says

00:46:10.020 all

00:46:10.720 Canadian

00:46:11.160 provinces

00:46:11.640 are equal

00:46:12.240 except

00:46:12.500 when it

00:46:12.800 comes to

00:46:13.140 liberal

00:46:13.400 economic

00:46:13.880 policies

00:46:14.880 and

00:46:15.440 Alberta

00:46:15.680 is always

00:46:16.100 the

00:46:16.280 province

00:46:16.540 that is

00:46:16.780 thrown

00:46:17.020 under

00:46:17.240 the

00:46:17.380 economic

00:46:17.740 bus

00:46:18.120 well

00:46:19.020 as I

00:46:19.420 said

00:46:19.660 in my

00:46:19.960 monologue

00:46:20.500 the idea

00:46:23.900 that Canada

00:46:24.900 would join

00:46:25.480 the United

00:46:25.920 States

00:46:26.440 is more

00:46:28.100 palatable

00:46:28.700 to more

00:46:29.080 people

00:46:29.520 than you

00:46:30.080 might

00:46:30.260 think

00:46:30.580 especially

00:46:31.160 the younger

00:46:31.720 the person

00:46:32.320 the more

00:46:32.740 likely

00:46:33.020 they are

00:46:33.340 that's

00:46:33.560 supported

00:46:33.940 by

00:46:35.100 my math

00:46:35.680 generation

00:46:36.760 Z

00:46:37.340 males 0.81

00:46:38.080 are 61%

00:46:39.500 in favor

00:46:40.100 of the idea

00:46:40.580 of joining

00:46:40.920 the US

00:46:41.420 young males

00:46:43.400 are not yet

00:46:43.960 the decider

00:46:44.600 in this

00:46:44.940 country

00:46:45.180 there's more

00:46:45.780 Gen X

00:46:47.760 and middle

00:46:48.500 age

00:46:48.800 and boomers

00:46:49.480 out there

00:46:49.960 but

00:46:50.200 if things

00:46:51.440 actually go

00:46:52.120 as bad

00:46:52.660 as Trudeau

00:46:53.640 is threatening

00:46:54.180 you might

00:46:54.780 see a

00:46:55.400 full-blown

00:46:55.880 unity crisis

00:46:56.620 and you

00:46:56.940 know

00:46:57.120 it's one

00:46:59.100 thing for

00:46:59.720 Alberta

00:47:00.220 to separate

00:47:01.220 and become

00:47:01.740 independent

00:47:02.200 there's a

00:47:02.560 lot of

00:47:02.860 unanswered

00:47:03.440 questions

00:47:03.880 for Albertans

00:47:04.620 if that

00:47:04.900 were to

00:47:05.120 happen

00:47:05.400 what currency

00:47:06.540 do we

00:47:07.000 have

00:47:07.380 what army

00:47:08.020 do we

00:47:08.480 have

00:47:08.880 how do

00:47:09.640 we get

00:47:09.920 access

00:47:10.280 to

00:47:10.820 you know

00:47:12.040 the shore

00:47:13.120 like to

00:47:13.560 seize

00:47:14.160 through a

00:47:14.600 pipeline

00:47:14.920 there's a lot

00:47:15.380 of questions

00:47:15.920 but a lot

00:47:16.960 of those

00:47:17.180 are answered

00:47:17.540 very quickly

00:47:18.160 if it's

00:47:18.740 not

00:47:19.000 well

00:47:19.360 Alberta

00:47:19.780 independence

00:47:20.240 it's

00:47:20.600 join the

00:47:21.600 United States

00:47:22.200 either as

00:47:22.700 a 51st

00:47:23.400 state

00:47:23.680 or with

00:47:24.700 some sort

00:47:25.100 of

00:47:25.740 special

00:47:26.620 agreement

00:47:27.100 there

00:47:27.480 and

00:47:28.400 I say

00:47:30.100 again

00:47:30.380 that Trudeau

00:47:30.960 has weakened

00:47:31.900 the ties

00:47:32.900 between all

00:47:33.600 citizens

00:47:33.980 in this

00:47:34.300 country

00:47:34.580 for nine

00:47:35.360 years

00:47:35.700 he's

00:47:36.300 destroyed

00:47:36.800 and tried

00:47:37.700 to destroy

00:47:38.340 the things

00:47:39.200 that make

00:47:39.480 people proud

00:47:40.080 of a nation

00:47:40.680 culture

00:47:41.580 history

00:47:42.220 you know

00:47:44.660 a strong

00:47:45.320 economy

00:47:45.800 meaningful

00:47:46.320 passports

00:47:47.380 meaningful cultural

00:47:48.600 symbols

00:47:49.000 Trudeau has declared

00:47:49.740 war against

00:47:50.240 all of that

00:47:50.920 so he's

00:47:51.720 weakened

00:47:52.320 the attachments

00:47:53.740 he's kind of

00:47:55.100 pushing Alberta 0.98

00:47:56.200 away

00:47:56.600 this time though

00:47:57.820 Trump is pulling

00:47:58.880 Alberta

00:47:59.580 I'd say

00:48:00.900 the chances

00:48:01.520 of Alberta

00:48:02.280 separating

00:48:02.920 Canada

00:48:03.400 have not

00:48:04.320 been this

00:48:04.860 high since

00:48:05.440 the first

00:48:05.880 national energy

00:48:06.560 program

00:48:07.060 done by

00:48:07.900 another

00:48:08.220 Trudeau

00:48:08.780 hey

00:48:10.500 I think

00:48:12.000 that's our

00:48:12.340 show for

00:48:12.700 today

00:48:12.940 but I'm

00:48:13.260 excited

00:48:13.600 about what's

00:48:14.020 coming up

00:48:14.420 on this

00:48:14.700 weekend

00:48:14.960 I've got

00:48:15.380 a special

00:48:15.760 mission

00:48:16.020 in Ottawa

00:48:16.660 tomorrow

00:48:18.000 you'll see

00:48:18.620 the results

00:48:19.280 of that

00:48:19.620 soon

00:48:20.000 and then

00:48:20.700 on Sunday

00:48:21.400 I'm meeting

00:48:21.880 Premier

00:48:22.200 Danielle

00:48:22.520 Smith

00:48:22.760 in

00:48:23.060 Washington

00:48:23.500 DC

00:48:24.260 to talk

00:48:24.820 to her

00:48:25.080 about

00:48:25.360 things

00:48:25.620 we'll see

00:48:26.040 what she

00:48:26.980 has to say

00:48:27.600 because things

00:48:27.960 are getting

00:48:28.260 hotter

00:48:28.620 I'll be

00:48:29.640 in Washington

00:48:30.260 on Monday

00:48:30.900 for the

00:48:32.280 inaugural

00:48:32.980 for the

00:48:33.760 we're going

00:48:35.880 to cover

00:48:36.220 a lot of

00:48:36.520 things on

00:48:36.840 the ground

00:48:37.200 then I'm

00:48:38.000 going to

00:48:38.380 Davos

00:48:39.060 for the

00:48:39.840 annual

00:48:40.200 World Economic

00:48:41.080 Form

00:48:41.360 as you know

00:48:41.720 we go

00:48:42.040 every year

00:48:42.800 and it's

00:48:43.880 sort of

00:48:44.140 crazy

00:48:44.520 that both

00:48:45.400 leading

00:48:46.280 liberals

00:48:47.020 in the

00:48:47.740 candidate

00:48:48.220 in the

00:48:48.960 leadership

00:48:49.340 contest

00:48:49.900 Chrystia Freeland

00:48:52.160 and Mark

00:48:52.860 Carney

00:48:53.120 both of

00:48:53.860 them

00:48:54.060 are or

00:48:56.040 were

00:48:56.240 directors

00:48:56.700 of the

00:48:57.020 World Economic

00:48:57.520 Forum

00:48:57.820 what are

00:48:58.180 the odds

00:48:58.600 of that

00:48:59.000 so I

00:49:00.100 think our

00:49:00.660 dedication

00:49:01.040 to the

00:49:01.640 annual

00:49:02.040 visit

00:49:02.460 to the

00:49:03.080 World Economic

00:49:03.600 Forum

00:49:03.880 is showing

00:49:04.360 its value

00:49:05.000 if you

00:49:05.980 want to

00:49:06.280 understand

00:49:06.840 both

00:49:07.180 Chrystia Freeland

00:49:07.860 and Mark

00:49:08.420 Carney

00:49:08.660 you've got

00:49:09.080 to go

00:49:09.260 to Davos

00:49:09.700 and we'll

00:49:09.980 be doing

00:49:10.380 that

00:49:10.780 I'll be

00:49:11.760 there with

00:49:12.000 Sheila

00:49:12.200 Gunn-Reed

00:49:12.560 and Avi

00:49:12.940 Emini

00:49:13.220 and of

00:49:13.440 course

00:49:13.620 we'll be

00:49:14.420 back in

00:49:14.920 Canada

00:49:15.280 as soon

00:49:15.660 as possible

00:49:16.140 and by

00:49:16.760 the way

00:49:16.920 we have

00:49:17.280 a team

00:49:17.660 remaining

00:49:18.020 in Canada

00:49:18.580 from David

00:49:19.460 Menzies 0.96

00:49:19.860 to Drea

00:49:20.200 Humphrey

00:49:20.600 to Alexa

00:49:21.040 Lavois

00:49:21.340 covering

00:49:21.660 everything

00:49:21.960 that moves

00:49:22.420 from here

00:49:23.320 so that's

00:49:28.600 World Headquarters

00:49:29.360 to you

00:49:29.640 at home

00:49:29.880 good night

00:49:30.340 and keep

00:49:31.620 fighting for

00:49:32.060 freedom

Rebel News Podcast - January 18, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Young Canadians want out... and it's all Trudeau's fault

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