Rebel News Podcast - REBEL ROUNDUP ｜ Canada-US tariff talks, Toronto police apologize, RCMP surveilled Trudeau

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00:03:43.620 Tariff Mania, Royals on. And so the crackdown on Canadians visiting the United States, the red,

00:03:53.160 what do they call us in Bellingham, Washington, the red plague. That's what they call us at the

00:03:58.120 Costco there. According to CTV News, but I think it was first reported in Reuters, the United States

00:04:06.800 will require Canadians visiting for more than 30 days to register with authorities. The federal

00:04:12.160 register showed Wednesday toughening rules as trade tensions soar between the North American

00:04:17.960 neighbors. The new requirement, we hinted on this yesterday, but now the details are out.

00:04:25.080 The new requirement effective from April 11th would harden enforcement of an existing law from

00:04:30.140 which US media and Canadian nationals had typically been exempt. It will likely impact an estimated 900,000

00:04:40.220 Canadians, colloquially known as snowbirds, who spend winters in warmer Southern US states,

00:04:45.840 such as Florida, Texas, and Southern Carolina. Was this written by an Easterner? Because we completely 0.93

00:04:51.620 forgot Arizona, which everybody in the West, that's where they spend their summer or for their winters.

00:04:57.740 Half of my friends are right now in Arizona. Half of them right now fully are in Arizona. Yeah. And

00:05:03.880 Southern Carolina, is that what that, is that what that piece said? Southern? Yeah, not South Carolina.

00:05:09.660 South Carolina. Yeah. Give that person a raise, whoever wrote this. Yeah. Yeah.

00:05:14.320 Southern Carolina capitalized. Southern Carolina. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense.

00:05:18.480 Well, you know what? Again, none of this is any surprise. They're tightening up on who is in their

00:05:27.720 country and for how long. And you know what? That's what I want Canada to do. Fair enough.

00:05:33.100 I don't know how we can imagine. We're not nationals to the United States. We're not citizens there.

00:05:37.420 And if they impose requirements on non-citizens, such as the right as a sovereign country,

00:05:43.980 and we should be forced to play along with their rules. That's what I want for Canada. So I don't,

00:05:49.720 I'm not particularly upset at this. It's inconvenient for sure. But like, really,

00:05:54.440 what is the registration going to take out of your day? I bet you it's an online form.

00:05:57.700 Well, sure. Or another process as you're going over the border, right? Like in order to gain

00:06:04.400 entry, they're going to make you fill out a new form or register you there. But I thought that they

00:06:09.860 were keeping track of that at the border anyway. Like every time I cross over, what is your purpose

00:06:15.540 here? How long are you staying? Are you here for business or pleasure? Like I thought they were asking,

00:06:21.700 I guess this is just another, just another, just another step in the process to make it more

00:06:27.380 formal. But I do know that there are some Canadian snowbirds that are just a little bit,

00:06:32.620 a little bit nervous about this just simply because they're like, well, are they going to ask us to

00:06:37.400 leave? Are they going to ask us to leave? What are they registering us for? Yes. Yeah. So we'll see.

00:06:42.940 I mean, it remains to be seen, but yeah, I don't, I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

00:06:48.000 No, I'm not particularly upset about it. No. And considering how Canada is behaving in this

00:06:54.620 tariff dispute, I could see a lot more of these, these T's crossed and I's dotted to come from the

00:07:03.100 Americans as it pertains to our good neighbor relationship with Canadians.

00:07:08.180 Well, this is exactly what Trump said he would do. He said he would keep track of foreign nationals

00:07:11.880 in the country and then determine who, who belongs. Uh, again, I w I would love for the

00:07:18.700 Canadian government to attempt to do even, even a little bit of this, but even when we order people

00:07:23.300 deported, we just lose them in the country indefinitely. Right. They just leave and go 0.91

00:07:27.980 somewhere else and don't check in. Like I just don't check in. They just leave Toronto and go to

00:07:32.720 Vancouver. Like call me crazy, but I think that we should be doing this already, already. If you're not,

00:07:38.760 if you're not a citizen of the country, there, there should be a requirement that you, uh, are,

00:07:44.640 are checking in or reporting your, uh, reporting your residence or where you are at the end.

00:07:50.400 It's wild that we're not. It's wild that we're not.

00:07:54.060 Seems, seems reasonable. Now, uh, thanks to, uh, I guess, Doug Ford. Um, Canada is hitting the U.S.

00:08:03.220 with dollar for dollar retaliation for Trump's unfair steel and aluminum tariffs. How do we

00:08:09.000 think this is going to end with an angry phone call directed at Doug Ford and Doug Ford having

00:08:13.600 to walk back the latest thing that he's trying to do to the Americans, as was the case yesterday.

00:08:18.360 It says Canada's leveling reciprocal dollar for dollar tariffs on U.S. steel, U.S. steel and

00:08:23.480 aluminum imports in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum

00:08:29.120 imports that came into effect today. The federal government's countermeasures

00:08:31.940 will come into effect at 12.01 a.m. March 13th. The 25% tariffs will hit steel products worth

00:08:38.680 12.6 billion and aluminum products worth 3 billion. And in addition, Canada's hitting another

00:08:45.520 14.2 billion worth of imported U.S. goods with fresh tariffs totaling another 28.9 billion in

00:08:53.080 retaliation. And just remember, this is going into the federal government's coffers. And how quickly

00:08:57.740 is this hitting? Uh, how quickly is this hitting the steel industry in Canada? Again, this all goes

00:09:06.020 back to not securing the border, not dealing with fentanyl and showing no proof of work. Well,

00:09:11.880 Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma steel layoffs started yesterday.

00:09:16.940 Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't doubt. I absolutely don't doubt it. Uh, I've got tariff

00:09:22.680 whiplash, like the way that this is going back and forth so quickly. Doug Ford yesterday folded like

00:09:27.520 a cheap tent, like we knew he would, like we called it yesterday. Uh, but $28 billion in tariffs on a

00:09:34.360 $30 trillion economy, uh, it in the States is, is a drop in the bucket. Truly it's a drop in the bucket and

00:09:41.900 it's going to do nothing but hurt Canadian jobs, decimate Canadian jobs, hurt Canadian families 0.71

00:09:47.860 and, uh, and further put us in an economic situation that's untenable for Canadians because

00:09:54.980 we've been abused for so long. I mean, this is just, this is just grossly disappointing. And again,

00:10:00.940 another example of our federal government mishandling this, this dispute.

00:10:06.680 Right. I mean, uh, I saw the other day, Stelco is already considering layoffs, but Algoma right away

00:10:13.840 cut 20 people right away. And, uh, I think it was, uh, Stelco who said this could cost 70,000 jobs

00:10:23.800 across the industry. And instead, yeah. And instead of just dialing it down, they're, you know,

00:10:31.500 campaigning against Trump, they're accelerating it. Like they're accelerating. Yeah.

00:10:35.740 Can everybody just say, okay, we need to slow down and talk to each other, but it appears as

00:10:43.520 though none of that is happening. Like they're, they're imposing the tariff as was the case with

00:10:47.880 Doug Ford yesterday, electricity tariffs in the morning. And then he decided to talk to, uh, the

00:10:55.220 American secretary of commerce. And then the tariffs were ended on electricity. Like maybe we could do

00:11:01.100 the first, like the second part first before we deal with the tariffs.

00:11:05.500 Well, they're, they're being, they're, they're being aggressive first. Like they're, they're coming

00:11:09.860 out of the gate to see who can be most aggressive and who can look the most aggressive because that's

00:11:16.240 what Doug Ford wants. Doug Ford wants to look like he, he has a, he has a big, a big swinger and

00:11:22.220 he's going to go into this, you know, he's going to stand up and he's going to rah, rah. And he's going

00:11:26.300 to, he's making the hard decisions and he wants to look like the tough guy, but really what it does

00:11:31.460 is, is harm Canadian workers and harm Canadian families. 70,000 jobs is, is, um, is an incredible

00:11:39.720 loss for the, for the country of Canada. And those, I mean, those families must be just beside

00:11:45.180 themselves up at night, not being able to sleep over this. And these, these decisions have real

00:11:51.440 ramifications for real people. Sorry. Right. I have to just, well, we can go to, uh, this

00:11:58.120 video of finance minister, Dominic LeBlanc announcing these, the tariffs that I just

00:12:04.340 talked about, 25% reciprocal tariffs on additional 29.8 billion in American goods

00:12:10.300 entering Canada. Let's listen. Today, I am announcing that the government of Canada

00:12:15.640 following a dollar for dollar approach will be imposing as of 12 0 1 AM tomorrow, March

00:12:25.120 13th, 2025, 25% reciprocal tariffs on an additional 29.8 billion dollars of imports from the United

00:12:37.800 States. This includes steel products worth 12.6 billion and aluminum products worth

00:12:45.340 3 billion, as well as additional imported U S goods worth $14.2 billion for a total of

00:12:54.960 $29.8 billion. The list of additional products affected by counter tariffs includes computers,

00:13:03.100 sports equipment, and cast iron products as examples. These tariffs are in addition to Canada's

00:13:10.300 25% counter tariffs on $30 billion of imports from the United States in response to U S tariffs put in

00:13:18.340 place on March 4th. In addition, we learned yesterday that the United States tariffs would

00:13:24.880 also be imposed on steel and aluminum content in certain derivative products. The government is

00:13:32.060 currently assessing this aspect and may impose, of course, further tariffs in response to this measure

00:13:39.360 as well. Oh, good. Oh, good. Let's speed things up. Let's make things worse. And let's take more

00:13:48.900 money out of the pockets of hardworking Canadians and Americans. Just awesome. Just awesome. Like these

00:13:54.840 guys, again, these guys don't have a mandate to negotiate on our behalf. The government is not a

00:14:00.780 functioning government while our parliament is prorogued. And, uh, and I don't have a lot of

00:14:06.780 confidence that Mark Carney is going to be able to negotiate us out of this. I, I really, I don't have

00:14:12.960 any confidence that he's going to do that, especially after, uh, and I think we're going to talk about this

00:14:17.180 later after meeting with Doug Ford. If, if that's who he's, if that's who Mark Carney is getting his

00:14:21.880 advice from, we're in a, we're in a, we're in for a world to hurt Canada. And it's not just the steel

00:14:30.380 industry that's going to be hurt because there's the, uh, inputs industry to steel manufacturing,

00:14:35.960 the coal industry, uh, people completely forget about that. So, um, this is, so domestic coal that's

00:14:45.500 used for the creation of aluminum and steel that's going to tank now because of these tariffs, but

00:14:52.100 also a lot of that domestic coal mining, uh, those, uh, that coal is destined for the United States

00:15:00.240 for their steel manufacturing. And what does David Eby say? Well, guess what we're going to do?

00:15:06.020 We're going to put levies on, uh, coal that's being exported through the port of Vancouver into the

00:15:13.820 United States. So again, coal jobs are already under attack, thanks to the environmentalist left.

00:15:21.320 Um, and so then we have this, and so you put a levy on the coal and makes the coal unaffordable.

00:15:27.560 They're going to get it from somewhere else. It's not going to be as clean burning as Canadian coal,

00:15:31.240 by the way. And then, um, look at this. David Eby wants the federal government to impose a U.S. tax

00:15:37.520 tax on U.S. thermal coal that goes out of the province as a way to pressure the white house. So this

00:15:42.860 is coal that's coming from Montana and Wyoming, and it goes to Asian markets through, uh, the port of

00:15:51.260 British Columbia, and he's going to tariff it going out the door that way. So it, uh, makes now we're

00:15:58.900 dragging Asian markets into the trade dispute here. Well, and, and I don't think that they're going to

00:16:06.560 stop there. They're not going to stop shipping. They're just going to find another, another place to

00:16:11.600 ship from. That is what they're going to do. Well, also, and what's the retaliation they're

00:16:17.160 going to pull here? Uh, maybe line five. Yeah. Maybe they'll cut off line five that goes through

00:16:23.360 Michigan up into Ontario. You know, like if you're cutting off, basically it's a pipeline by rail for

00:16:29.300 coal that comes from Montana and Wyoming and goes out the port of Vancouver. If you're cutting off that

00:16:34.860 pipeline because it goes through BC, then, uh, the American retaliation will be line five, cutting off

00:16:42.320 line five because it's Alberta oil that flows through Michigan and up into Ontario and Quebec.

00:16:48.840 And those guys are going to see five buck a liter gasoline if they don't, uh, rein in David Eby on this

00:16:54.680 issue. This is just wild. This is just wild. And yeah. What, what did we see yesterday? David Eby,

00:17:01.260 um, saying that he's going to, he's going to, he's going to charge, uh, road traffic coming in from

00:17:09.660 to BC, right. Coming into BC to, to get to Alaska. That's what, that's what he's doing. Like

00:17:14.760 David Eby. On a road the Americans built. On a road the Americans built and let us use.

00:17:20.360 And paid for. I don't, I don't know that amongst any of them, they've really, really thought this

00:17:25.620 through. And that like, doesn't this just go to show you Canada that, uh, that the knee jerk reactions

00:17:32.760 of some of these provinces have, have the potential to really, really harm us to really harm us. Uh,

00:17:42.460 it in the, we're sort of caught, caught in the crossfire of, of the bad decisions being made by

00:17:47.240 Canadian politicians. And it's really quite sad. It's really quite sad. I mean, that Alaska highway

00:17:53.660 one is the one that really gets me because the Americans paid for that highway to be built.

00:17:59.920 Canada gets the benefit of it. We get the benefit of the use of it, the benefit of the,

00:18:04.280 the commerce that's done along the way, connecting all those rural, uh, communities. Uh, now they have

00:18:11.240 to pay for the upkeep, but the deal was Americans get to use it as a trade route through our country.

00:18:17.320 And it was fine. And then now we're undoing decades and decades of cooperation over this because we

00:18:25.460 can't secure the border to keep people and fentanyl out. It's unbelievable. Um, new, this is a video

00:18:36.360 from, uh, industry minister, Francois Philippe Champagne. He was a short-lived leadership candidate.

00:18:43.780 He says, uh, uh, uh, he might actually be talking sense here. Increased costs, uh, to steel and

00:18:51.740 aluminum will weaken North America's economy and national security. That is true because what's the,

00:18:57.040 uh, what's the choice here? China, Chinese steel. I think it is. I think that's the other affordable,

00:19:04.980 reliable. Yeah. That's the other affordable, reliable producer. And I'm informed by environmentalists

00:19:10.780 like Mark Carney, that China doesn't do a good job of taking care of the environment when they're

00:19:16.380 manufacturing things like steel and aluminum, but think of, think of, think of the, the green

00:19:23.120 footprint, the carbon footprint of shipping, of shipping, steel, steel and aluminum all the way

00:19:30.560 to Asia to make up for the shortfall. I mean, it is, it is, uh, if you're listening to the liberals

00:19:36.360 who say that taking a road trip will kill the, will kill mother earth in her entirety. Well, 1.00

00:19:42.960 how, how much, how much damage do tankers and tankers and tankers full of these really heavy

00:19:49.820 minerals and these really heavy products cost to get to America to make up for the shortfall that

00:19:54.900 we're threatening to take away. It is right. It is nuts. And shipping uses largely bunker fuel,

00:20:01.860 which is like the, the dirtiest burning, the dirtiest. If you care about those sorts of

00:20:08.140 things, I generally don't, but the liberals keep taxing my car. So I think they believe in it.

00:20:13.360 Anyways, let's watch this video from Francois-Philippe Champagne.

00:20:18.520 Make no mistake. Today's decision by the U.S. will increase cost for consumers.

00:20:23.520 Mr. Julie was right. When you're talking to our American friends, we need to make them clear.

00:20:27.900 This is going to increase the price of construction. This is going to increase the price of

00:20:31.680 car. This is going to increase the price in the defense industry. It will put thousands of jobs

00:20:37.920 at risk. And I would add unnecessarily, and it will weaken North America's economic and national

00:20:44.280 security. My dear friends, whether you're in Canada or in the United States, we cannot let

00:20:50.220 uncertainty become the new certainty in North America. That cannot stand. That will make us less

00:20:56.480 competitive. That's going to weaken us. And that's going to affect our economic security

00:21:01.520 and ultimately our national security.

00:21:06.280 He looks like the content of what he was saying aside, does he not look like a South Park version

00:21:13.180 of a French-Canadian politician?

00:21:16.180 He really does.

00:21:18.280 He really does.

00:21:19.140 He's a stereotype. And stereotypes are a thing because they're true. 0.55

00:21:23.440 He's actually making sense here. But the solution should not be driving markets to Asia.

00:21:31.040 Right.

00:21:31.500 He's making... Like, the problem is true. The problem is true. This trade war does weaken both countries

00:21:37.340 economically. It does jeopardize our security. But his solution is to ramp up the trade war,

00:21:44.840 which only makes it worse.

00:21:46.100 That's exactly right. And the harm to our economies is disproportionate. The Canadian economy,

00:21:54.180 because it is so much smaller, will suffer a great deal more than the American economy, which

00:22:01.840 has the buying power, right? The buying power that we just don't have in Canada. I mean,

00:22:10.880 the harms to Canadians and to Canadian jobs and to the Canadian economy is just so much larger,

00:22:18.720 so much larger than the States. And that's one thing that these, you know, politicians don't seem

00:22:24.180 to understand. Oh, I think they understand it just fine. I just think they don't care. Because for

00:22:29.940 the liberals, it's a key to advancing their political fortunes. I think they totally get

00:22:35.400 that it will be 70,000 steel jobs. I think they completely get that if they get their way with the

00:22:41.840 oil patch, it'll be close to 500,000 jobs across the country, both in direct oil and gas, but also

00:22:48.360 supporting. I think they understand. They just don't care. Because it's all about power. And right

00:22:55.600 now, it's beneficial to campaign against Trump. That's the cost they're willing to pay. You know,

00:23:02.060 70,000 jobs, 500,000 jobs, that's a cost that they're willing to pay in order to stay in power.

00:23:10.500 That's what it comes down to. And I mean, going back to just yesterday, with President Trump calling us

00:23:18.300 their cherished 51st state, every single elected politician in Canada should be working

00:23:25.840 for the betterment and the safety and security and prosperity of the Canadian people. And that's

00:23:31.920 just not what we're seeing. Yeah, I don't feel cherished. I don't feel cherished by the liberals.

00:23:37.500 It's like that old saying where it's like a lot of you are going to have to suffer,

00:23:42.020 but it's the cost I'm willing to pay. And that's like the liberal government right now.

00:23:46.540 Yeah. Ministers Melanie Jolie and Francois-Philippe Champagne discuss Canada's approach ahead of

00:23:53.700 negotiations with the US amid a trade war. And I guess they must defend the unionized industries

00:24:02.900 at all costs. Is it Francois-Philippe Champagne? This looks like Dominic LeBlanc's ruddy face.

00:24:09.160 Is this the right one? Oh, there she is. Okay, we're good. It might be Dominic LeBlanc and Jolie.

00:24:17.220 Go ahead.

00:24:17.640 Make sure that we put maximum pressure to defend our jobs, defend our sovereignty,

00:24:22.360 defend our way of living. But meanwhile, as a team negotiating, we need to find off ramps.

00:24:29.060 And it is just the right thing to do. So we'll do both. That conversation with Howard Lutnick is

00:24:35.360 important. The ones we have and I'll have with Secretary Rubio as well. So we're doing that in

00:24:42.000 the best interest of Canadians.

00:24:43.420 Let me just add on the auto sector because you touched something that will really... No,

00:24:48.060 but that's going to affect hundreds of thousands of people in this country. Trust me, those who are

00:24:52.060 watching are listening to that. Those who are watching, we're going to fight for the auto sector

00:24:56.940 every single day. I spoke to them and I say, Canadians have been there for you. Canadians have been there for

00:25:03.160 the auto sector for decades since we had the auto pack. And these companies, most of them,

00:25:08.380 have longstanding commitments to this country. We're going to make sure that they abide by the

00:25:14.220 terms of every single agreements we have with them to make sure we protect the jobs. We had

00:25:20.000 discussion with the union leaders yesterday and with the representatives from the company.

00:25:25.800 And they truly understand that the reasons they came to Canada is because we have the best worker,

00:25:30.700 it's because Canadians have been there for them and we have integrated supply chain. So I just want

00:25:35.640 to be clear on the auto sector. Make no mistake that we are already on their back saying there will

00:25:41.320 be... We're going to be watching like hawks as to what may happen to the auto sector because this is a

00:25:46.860 core industry for the prosperity of this country.

00:25:50.500 Huh. Imagine hearing this and being in the oil patch right now.

00:25:55.360 Like imagine, you know... Oh, go ahead. Oh, Sheila. Imagine hearing this and you are a Saskatchewan

00:26:03.140 canola grower with double tariffs, double tariffs. Or Alberta canola grower. Right, right. Yeah,

00:26:09.440 yeah. Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba canola growers where they're facing double tariffs, 25%.

00:26:15.940 So canola in Canada is roughly 50% sold to the United States, 50% to China. And both of those

00:26:23.540 countries have a 25% tariff on canola right now. Imagine thinking about planting your crops this

00:26:32.240 spring and knowing that you are not going to make a single dollar on any of it. It is devastating.

00:26:40.900 Who's sticking up for our ag producers in Canada? Why are we hearing... Why are we only hearing about

00:26:47.020 Ontario's precious auto sector and their precious steel manufacturers because they're union-linked?

00:26:53.720 That is why. That's exactly it. Farmers on the prairies are not going to vote Liberals. So again,

00:27:00.440 we're just the people they're willing to sacrifice. Most of you have not even heard about the canola

00:27:06.700 tariffs. Wonder why that is. Why the mainstream media is not talking about the canola tariffs in

00:27:11.900 any real substantive way. They're angry at the Americans, but is anybody doing anything about 0.87

00:27:17.180 China? No, seriously. This has not been mentioned. It has not been mentioned in any capacity. It's not

00:27:25.660 being treated like an actual economic emergency on the prairies. And we've got literally tens of

00:27:35.320 thousands of farmers looking at earning nothing this next year. And that is, I mean, the way that

00:27:42.280 it drives... Look at this. 100% tariffs will take effect March 20th in response to Ottawa's tariffs on

00:27:50.200 Chinese electric vehicles. So they're tariffing the Chinese electric vehicles to protect the auto

00:27:55.760 sector in Ontario after they're getting gajillions of dollars to build battery plants as the companies

00:28:02.440 continue to go broke. And they are just throwing the entire canola sector on the bonfire of this mess.

00:28:09.640 We are the world's largest exporters of canola. Canola was actually developed in Canada to deal

00:28:15.100 with our short growing seasons. Oh, tell them, tell them. You told me this. Tell them, tell the people

00:28:20.560 what canola is. Go on, tell them what it stands for. Canola is a hybrid plant. It means Canadian oil,

00:28:26.920 low acid. It was developed on the prairies to deal with our short growing seasons. There's a reason

00:28:34.200 it ripens in the field after you cut it. And it's because we get too cold to have it continue to grow

00:28:40.020 in the field. So it is engineered to ripen in the field. Now, whatever you think about seed oils,

00:28:44.580 let's just put that aside for a second. This is a major market for Canadian farmers. And you're not

00:28:49.180 hearing the mainstream media talk about it. You're not hearing the politicians talk about it.

00:28:53.880 It is a sacrifice industry because they're trying to protect the auto sector. And then canola farmers

00:29:00.280 on the prairies, one of which is on the call right now with you, we are just sacrificed to this mess.

00:29:06.940 And we got to listen to them stand up and say, we are going to defend the automakers at all costs.

00:29:12.120 I guess one of those costs is the canola industry here. But, and then just drilling out just away

00:29:19.200 from canola for a second. Imagine being TC Energy, hearing them say, we're going to stand up for the

00:29:25.480 auto sector. TC Energy basically took Canada out of the name of the company because it was so tainted

00:29:33.120 because you just can't do business with a Canadian oil company at this point.

00:29:36.600 So Novus, Suncor, and Cana, all these companies, projects denied by the liberals or tech, tech oil company.

00:29:47.080 The liberals allowed it to die on the vine because of environmentalists largely organized out of the

00:29:54.000 United States. These were Canadian jobs in indigenous communities. And that wealth just vaporized. 1.00

00:30:00.240 And then you got to listen to this South Park caricature of a French Canadian politician saying

00:30:07.120 how important the auto sector is, and they will move heaven and earth to defend it. It's

00:30:11.760 revolting to me. I think they should defend auto sector jobs, but not at the expense of these other

00:30:17.280 industries, and not when they haven't done a damn thing to help anybody else.

00:30:21.280 Exactly that. Girl, I love Spicy Sheila when she starts, or when she starts just roaring about our egg, 1.00

00:30:28.380 our egg sector, because especially on the prairies, it, egg is king. It has, when egg has a downturn,

00:30:36.280 our retail sector suffers, our mining sector suffer. Everything takes a downturn if our farmers

00:30:42.540 aren't in the fields and making money. And, and this is just disastrous for the prairies. It is really,

00:30:47.840 really devastating that nobody is, nobody on the federal level is coming to our defense in this.

00:30:54.260 Yeah. Well, there's no votes to, to win or lose by throwing the agricultural sector under the bus, 0.74

00:31:01.880 because it is a big blue block, uh, West of Winnipeg, basically. So that they don't care.

00:31:08.420 They don't care. And for people who think that farmers are rich, most farmers have jobs off the farm.

00:31:14.120 Uh, in my household, we both do. Oh yeah. Yeah. Uh, you might be, uh, equipment rich and you might

00:31:22.460 be land rich, but you are basically farming the land to pay for those other things. A lot of years,

00:31:28.600 I feel like I'm a journalist with a farming habit. Oh no. Oh, oh, truly. No, no. Most farmers finance

00:31:35.580 their crops on a yearly basis through Farm Credit Canada. This is how, like there, there is not

00:31:40.880 enough to rotationally go year after year with your own dollars. I mean, that's how,

00:31:47.240 that's how tight farmers are being squeezed. And so then you add this additional, this additional

00:31:53.800 promise of not making any money on it. I mean, what's the point of planting if you're not going

00:32:00.480 to be able to harvest it and make your money back to be able to fulfill your commitments?

00:32:04.300 It makes no sense. And, and there's a, there's an awful lot of farmers right now trying to pivot

00:32:10.280 really hard, trying to pivot really hard just to find a way to, to sort of, uh, keep the lights on,

00:32:16.040 on their, on their family farms, on the prairies. It's, it's devastating.

00:32:20.400 And that's a decision a lot of us farmers made a few years ago when Justin Trudeau danced his way

00:32:25.580 through India. Nama stayed his way through India and came home with a tariff on pulses. So a lot of

00:32:32.760 farmers made a, a pivot to, uh, more domestic markets, but at the end of the day, uh, we are

00:32:39.020 the world's largest exporter of canola and either we're going to sell that, like the world, I truly

00:32:44.440 believe the world needs more Canada, more Canadian oil, more Canadian agricultural products, more

00:32:49.740 Canadian manufacturing products. I believe the world is better if we are filling the void as opposed 1.00

00:32:55.080 to China or the more unpleasant places of the world, more Saskatchewan potash. They need more of that

00:32:59.940 too. So I, uh, so I think Canadian farmers should be doing this, but the government is throwing up

00:33:07.960 these roadblocks every step of the way. And they're making sure that, Oh, by the way, there's

00:33:12.800 the soul. I'm going to go on a side quest right now. Uh, so farmers can't now, uh, uh, make money off

00:33:21.760 their land carrying huge mortgages. A lot of times, huge finance payments on equipment that can cost up

00:33:28.300 to a million dollars. Um, so what happens? You get out of the family farm, who buys it up?

00:33:33.740 Big corporations, Bill Gates, if you're in the United States, maybe China, who knows?

00:33:39.280 Chinese investors, Chinese investors. If you're really lucky, if you're really lucky,

00:33:45.040 somebody will come along and put a solar farm on it. Right. Or a wind farm. But, but these are,

00:33:51.860 these are intergenerational, uh, these are intergenerational family farms that are not

00:33:57.240 finding, uh, solutions to their modern day current problems. And, and it is very, very sad. It's a,

00:34:04.860 it's an attack on our way of life on the prairies anytime that, that our farmers are impacted. And,

00:34:11.620 uh, it would really be nice if we had somebody sticking up for us in this moment.

00:34:15.440 Yeah. Okay. Let's move ahead. Uh, cause I could rant and rave about the ag sector all day. Um,

00:34:22.600 especially during tax season. Um, we've got, uh, Dominic LeBlanc and Melanie Jolie discussing why

00:34:29.240 they think Mark Carney's the right guy to lead Canada through the tensions with the Trump administration.

00:34:34.960 Great. I think, I think Mr. Carney has been quite effective in saying to Canadians that the government,

00:34:42.380 his government needs to take a firm response, a strong response. Uh, your colleague talked about

00:34:49.800 his public comments around a dollar for dollar response to these terrorists, which is what we're

00:34:54.660 doing today. But I have every confidence that he's exactly the right leader at this moment to continue

00:35:01.300 to take a tough, uh, responsible, proportionate position with respect to these unjustified American 0.99

00:35:09.460 terrorists, but also, um, to lead the Canadian economy to a position where, um, these tariffs are

00:35:15.600 lifted. Um, and we have a stronger economy that's less dependent on this, obviously unpredictable context.

00:35:22.140 Can I add to that? I think Mr. Carney is a serious person, a serious man, and he'll engage only if there

00:35:30.060 are serious talks. I think, I think Mr. Carney has been quite effective in saying to Canadians.

00:35:35.780 Okay. So is that a slight at Trudeau maybe from Jolie? I'm not sure. Like by saying Carney is a

00:35:42.520 serious man and he will engage with serious talks. I think it's both a slight on Trudeau,

00:35:46.580 but also on Trump to say that he's unserious. Uh, I think he's serious as a heart attack right now.

00:35:52.240 And to consider him other than serious, uh, would be a gross, misunderstanding of the,

00:36:01.520 sorry, a gross misunderstanding, I guess, of the entire situation that we have with the Americans

00:36:08.020 to say that they're not serious. Oh, I think they're stone cold serious.

00:36:12.400 Yeah. And just yesterday I posted, um, I'm listening to Mark Carney's book values and, uh,

00:36:19.300 and I posted a bunch of the reviews on, on, on the X platform. And it's, it's really interesting

00:36:27.660 people that have listened to the whole thing to be completely honest, to put me to sleep within

00:36:31.440 about, uh, four and a half minutes. It is so dry. It is self-narrated. It is so dry and so uninteresting,

00:36:38.200 but, but basically what they've said is this is a man who has, uh, there it is, uh, who has a, uh,

00:36:45.120 a command of the jargon. So this is a jargon speaking elitist. Uh, oh yeah, this is, yeah,

00:36:52.300 it's hypocritical tripe knowing he profits from and is a shareholder of companies that own and build 0.58

00:36:59.140 pipelines in overseas countries. These musings have broken economies and have not helped the 1.00

00:37:03.420 climate trash book. Thank you, Viviana. Yes. Thank you, Viviana for, for, from all of us.

00:37:09.500 When you have communists running your currency, you're destined to starve. Mark's highest value is

00:37:15.200 equity, excuse me, equality. He projects into everyone and believes in group values. Communists 0.90

00:37:20.720 always have purity tests and purge people that don't fall in line. Get ready for the apartheid 0.95

00:37:25.820 and the gulags like this. Tales of a parasite from Jesse. Thank you, Jesse. Yes. Yeah. And that's not, 0.99

00:37:32.800 that's not a new, uh, that's not a new review. That's like from 2021. So that's not like somebody

00:37:39.220 who just found Mark Carney and left him a bad review. Okay. Really just an example of why people like him

00:37:46.580 should stay in their own spheres outdated with focus on ESG values, et cetera. This guy loves his

00:37:51.700 own. Everyone is highly regarded and an honor to have worked with go back to banking cabal and stay

00:37:57.720 away from politics. Yeah. We do not share the same values. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really just fluff. Yeah.

00:38:06.080 An example of why people should stay in their spheres. And really what he says is, it's just,

00:38:11.200 it's just a validation circle jerk about him dropping names and, you know, writing about how

00:38:17.100 everybody, everybody he knows is just so talented and so wonderful. And it was just such an honor to, 0.66

00:38:23.340 to work with him. So I think that if that's, if that's one thing that the Americans should know

00:38:28.020 about Mark Carney is that he is very, very good at, uh, at stroking those egos and using the jargon,

00:38:35.760 but whether he, whether he knows, I mean, he's never participated in, uh, in an international

00:38:44.080 trade dispute before. So whether he, whether he can do a good job or not, and people from England,

00:38:51.500 when he was the bank of England have described him as an absolute disaster. So it remains to be seen

00:38:58.520 Canada, but it would, I think that we're all going to agree that Mark Carney, uh, Mark Carney isn't the

00:39:04.280 person that we want negotiating on our behalf anyway. He's not the right guy. Trump is so

00:39:10.720 exciting and funny. And Carney is completely the opposite, like boring and unfunny. Now,

00:39:17.680 Stephen Harper was both boring and funny, which is an interesting combination. Um, but Mark Carney is

00:39:24.740 just boring and like, it's almost like all he knows is jargon. He's like an Android of ESG jargon. And

00:39:36.120 with regard to ESG jargon, it's purposefully complicated so that normal people are just like,

00:39:44.740 I can't translate this into English. So I'm just going to check, I'm going to check out of the

00:39:49.740 conversation. It's, it's designed to be that way. You need to be able to translate the nonsense

00:39:56.000 so that you can really understand what these people try are trying to do to you. And it is

00:40:01.440 basically turning you into climate surfs. Beware of the jargon coming out of Mark Carney. Beware of the

00:40:08.520 jargon. Yeah. It's, it's always funny when you listen to environmentalists talk and it's like,

00:40:14.580 no, no, no, no, no. I don't care about your big predictions and whatever, uh, your modeling. What

00:40:20.840 I know is, and what you're saying to me is that if I give you money, the weather will be gooder. And

00:40:29.380 that is definitely not how any of it works. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, let's hit an ad rebel news ad,

00:40:36.940 and then, uh, give Lisa a chance to blow her nose and, uh, we'll come back with more Carney news. 0.97

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00:42:09.780 Okay-doke. We've got a video from Mark Carney. He says he's ready to sit down with Donald Trump. So

00:42:18.260 I guess Donald Trump must be serious. And Melanie Jolie is just saying things to agitate the Americans 0.99

00:42:24.900 in her press conference. Oh, look. Look. Look at Karina Gould. Look at Karina Gould in the background.

00:42:33.400 She looks like she's going to go on one of those tree escapades in the forest. Right.

00:42:38.900 What are they? Zip lining. Zip lining. Yeah, that's what she looks like she's doing. 1.00

00:42:43.200 This is the closest. Look at them zip lining uniforms.

00:42:47.300 Mark Carney probably thinks that manual labor is the guy who does his gardening and not an actual

00:42:52.920 thing that other people do. So this is just, this is a Trudeau-esque costume. But let's hear from him.

00:43:01.960 We understand. I understand. I respect President Trump's concern for American workers and American

00:43:08.800 families. We respect his concern about fentanyl. It's an issue for us here in Canada as well. And

00:43:18.180 that's why the Canadian government moved very quickly with a comprehensive response that has

00:43:23.280 had a huge, huge impact in terms of controlling that issue and getting on top of that issue.

00:43:30.080 No, you didn't.

00:43:32.040 We are ready to sit down with the Americans, with the U.S. government. I'm ready to sit down with

00:43:38.740 President Trump at the appropriate time under a position where there's respect for Canadian

00:43:45.960 sovereignty. And we're working for a common approach, a much more comprehensive approach

00:43:51.800 for trade. We're all going to be better off. Workers here in Canada, which is our concern,

00:43:57.620 workers in America, which is his concern. We are all going to be better off when the greatest

00:44:03.060 economic and security partnership in the world is renewed, relaunched. That's possible.

00:44:08.860 You have a new government, but the same commitment. And that commitment is built rock solid on the

00:44:16.460 commitment you have all made here at DeFasco.

00:44:21.880 You know, you can tell when somebody has never put on a hard hat before because all the straps

00:44:26.380 are twisted. That's a guy who's never, ever, ever put on a, this is Mr. Dress Up from Mark.

00:44:34.760 Looking Gould. Gould has never gone anywhere near something that'll make her hands dirty.

00:44:39.360 Look at her.

00:44:39.900 No, no. Hard hat on, hard hat on sideways, not fitted properly, sitting way, way high up on the

00:44:46.560 top of her head. It's just funny.

00:44:48.280 I mean, look at these guys trying, they're trying hard to look like they're invested in

00:44:53.100 everyday working Canadians, but, but, but I mean, we can see right through it. We can see right

00:44:58.120 through it. These people have never, never done a hard day's work in their entire lives.

00:45:03.580 What I enjoy is that, like the costumeness of it all. I remember when the NDP first took power

00:45:10.820 in Alberta and they went to Leduc number one. Now, if you don't know what Leduc number one is,

00:45:17.640 it's the reason Leduc, the town exists. It is a historical site in Alberta. It's a museum

00:45:27.440 of drilling. Like it quite literally is a museum. And the NDP tweeted about how they went there to

00:45:34.500 learn how drilling rigs work and they have a new understanding for the drilling industry. And I'm

00:45:39.300 like, you guys, you're standing on a platform with a wood derrick. Do you think that's what we do?

00:45:45.580 Do you think that's what they're doing out there? Like this was their like foray into the oil patch

00:45:51.260 instead of the fact that it's like a state of the art techno technologically advanced, highly

00:45:56.420 efficient industry. They're out there standing on a wooden derrick thinking, wow, this is how they

00:46:03.600 do it guys. We understand them. That's the same vibes I getting from that press conference with

00:46:09.140 Carney. But, um, what is he talking about? We're doing things at the border because you prorogued

00:46:15.020 parliament. So none of the border funding was deployed. Right there, Sheila, right there.

00:46:22.980 They have done nothing. What they've done is stand up and do some speeches in front of some fancy flag

00:46:29.520 saying we've got on it. We've made massive changes. We're taking this very seriously. And, and really

00:46:36.040 the only people that have taken it serious, seriously are the provincial premiers, I think,

00:46:41.540 in Alberta and Saskatchewan by deploying, uh, by deploying Marshall services and conservation

00:46:47.760 officers. And, uh, and what do we have like two helicopters, two helicopters for 4,000 kilometers

00:46:55.120 of border. Oh yeah. They're taking it. They're taking it real seriously. No, they're not. They're not.

00:47:00.940 You know, I bet the only funding they've deployed on this issue is, uh, to pay the salary of their

00:47:05.600 borders are who I forget his name because I don't think he's done anything tangible.

00:47:11.180 I don't remember his name. Yeah. Is that what it was? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a, he's a career

00:47:17.760 bureaucrat too. That's bounced around between, um, federal agencies climbed, climbed the, the bureaucratic

00:47:25.620 pole pretty fast. That slippery pole went straight up it. And you gotta, you gotta ask yourself why,

00:47:31.580 but he was at Fisheries and Oceans for, for the last several years. And that plays a part in our

00:47:37.980 border security. We have a, of course it does. And if all of the drugs are getting in through our

00:47:44.400 ports, which are unpoliced and, and, and the majority, the vast, vast majority of, of, uh, drugs

00:47:53.200 that are coming into Canada are coming in through ports that are unpoliced. There we go. That's the guy.

00:47:57.100 That's February 11th. I haven't seen him since a month later. What do you do? One press conference

00:48:04.040 and said, I'm going to take this very seriously. And then we haven't, we haven't heard a single

00:48:08.280 word since. So there we have it. Yep. Even if he's just having phone calls, I want to hear him do a

00:48:14.260 press conference for every phone call that he's doing. I would need proof of work. Right. I, there's

00:48:20.760 none of it. Like we need to show the Americans that we're doing something. And I can't, I, we're not,

00:48:25.720 we're just not, where are the seizures at the port of Vancouver? Where are the seizures of the drugs

00:48:31.860 or the, or the ingredients for the drugs that are coming in? Where are those seizures? Uh, we see

00:48:37.240 every, every couple of days we'll have, uh, an RCMP announcement saying, you know, they caught

00:48:42.660 somebody on the highway or they caught somebody, right. You know, they did a, they did a, a, a minor

00:48:48.100 drug bust, but the, the big amounts that are coming in through the ports are still going on policed

00:48:54.540 and unsearched. So I don't think we're doing what the Americans want us to do.

00:49:01.080 That's like, um, was it last week where the police just stumbled across all those meth pills in the

00:49:07.240 bush? I think it was in New Brunswick. It was just pills hidden in the bush and they stumbled upon them

00:49:14.240 for unrelated reasons. And I remember there was like a press conference or a statement by the CBSA,

00:49:20.060 not all that long ago when they're like, uh, they were not sure what they want us to do with the

00:49:25.120 border. We sure would appreciate some direction from the higher ups, like the public safety minister.

00:49:30.700 And they were like, this is it. Yeah. Uh, these are just pills in the bush. Uh, and they don't know

00:49:38.140 if they were dropped there or hidden there or who's supposed to pick them up. Frankly, if I were the

00:49:43.860 cops, I would have put a trail cam up and then just watched them for a bit. Right. Wait for the

00:49:50.040 people to come back to collect them. Yeah. Then nab the people, but no, no, no, no, no. They're,

00:49:57.260 they're out there looking for a lost dog or some other thing. Who knows? Come across. They're like,

00:50:01.880 Oh guys, guys, look at all these pills. Guys, it's crazy. Look at all these Ziplocs full of pills.

00:50:08.840 It's just, just, just, just to actually, that's a really Canadian thing to have happen. Completely, 0.53

00:50:14.120 completely. They're probably peeing in the bushes, uh, having a Tim Hortons and found the pills.

00:50:19.540 Yeah. Uh, we've got, uh, we talked about this yesterday. The news broke yesterday as we were

00:50:25.180 on the show, premier Doug Ford's, uh, said he's dropping the, uh, 25% surcharge on electricity,

00:50:32.280 but he says, it's not a win. It's not Doug. I'll tell you that it's an embarrassing fiasco for you.

00:50:39.200 Um, well, let's, uh, let's watch this. Okay. Are you concerned that suspending the surcharge

00:50:47.440 that you put on electricity will be considered a win by Trump? No, I wouldn't call the win

00:50:52.400 whatsoever because we still have in our tool kit that we can use at any given time. Again, I,

00:50:59.120 I mentioned to the governors, uh, I apologize. We have to go to this extent, but remember folks,

00:51:06.720 we never started this war. Uh, president Trump started this economic war against Canada. It

00:51:14.520 was unprovoked. I truly believed that we'd move forward and it would grow both economies with

00:51:21.160 great, more jobs, more economic prosperity. Well, this has gone the other way. Uh, the,

00:51:27.880 the economy, uh, right now I'm, I'm concerned about it. And if a recession does happen, it's

00:51:35.440 a self made recession by one person and one person only. So I just want to move forward.

00:51:43.140 I'm asking for the people of Ontario and Canada support. I want to thank them for the thousands

00:51:49.700 of messages I'm getting. Even people that disagree with me, as some people say, I disagree with

00:51:54.960 the 99%, but you're doing a great job. Keep going. I need everyone's support as team Canada,

00:52:00.940 as, as we move forward, uh, because this, uh, these negotiations are going to be the toughest

00:52:06.740 we've ever, we've ever had.

00:52:08.300 So just to be clear within, within three hours yesterday, three hours yesterday, Doug Ford went

00:52:20.780 from saying, I will cut off the electricity gleefully. I, if America escalates, I won't

00:52:29.340 hesitate to cut off electricity to America to three hours later, getting called to the principal's

00:52:36.980 office by Howard Lutnick, the secretary of, um, oh, help me, Sheila, the secretary of commerce, 0.98

00:52:43.880 um, saying, get your butt to Washington. And we are going to talk about this. Doug Ford got his 0.85

00:52:50.680 hand spanked, just like we said yesterday on the show, like, this is not going to work out for you,

00:52:55.240 Doug, making these threats are not going to work out for you, Doug. And that's exactly what happened.

00:52:59.060 America is calling him. Okay. To, to Washington to talk about these things. And, and I don't think

00:53:07.060 that this is going to go the way Doug thinks it's going to go.

00:53:10.960 No. Uh, Trump responded to this. He said, we had a problem with Ontario, but it's fixed. So let's see

00:53:19.180 this.

00:53:19.540 We had a problem with Ontario and they dropped that, uh, when I let them know what we were going

00:53:29.040 to be doing, they dropped it immediately. So I'm glad because electricity shouldn't be playing with

00:53:33.220 electricity. It affects people's lives here. Yeah. Actually their life. I mean, it can affect,

00:53:38.700 depending on whether it can affect their life. So we can't do that. Uh, and it doesn't make sense that,

00:53:44.820 uh, our country allows electricity to be made in another country and sold into us who did that deal

00:53:50.940 for the United States. Okay. I looked at that long ago and I said, that's not something that's very

00:53:56.340 smart. So we've had a lot of, uh, bad trade policies and yet, uh, we're doing Ontario's hydro. Okay.

00:54:05.500 Is going to have to find a new consumer because what Donald Trump just said is he's going to, uh,

00:54:11.380 self-make their electricity. Why are we dependent on Canada? If they can threaten to shut it off,

00:54:16.760 why are we depending on them? And we're going to make it ourselves. So well done, Doug,

00:54:20.560 you just lost your, your, your, uh, your hydro sector, your hydro market in the United States.

00:54:27.320 Yeah. And he, Trump is right. Like imagine, let's say, for example, there's a nice little old lady

00:54:32.640 that lives in your house and she needs oxygen. Uh, you are going to increase the cost of electricity 1.00

00:54:40.240 and perhaps her family can't afford to pay the power bill now. And her oxygen tank gets cut off.

00:54:47.080 Like that's the game that Doug Ford was willing to play with innocent Americans, uh, just allowing 0.92

00:54:55.160 them to be caught in the crossfire. Yeah. And, and let's not forget, we're not at a winter yet.

00:55:00.060 We're not at a winter yet. Uh, the, the end of March and early April are, are well known for some

00:55:06.540 screamer winter storms and to threaten to do this in a season where if you cut off the heat and

00:55:15.200 electricity to people, they will die. They will die. This is much, much worse than, than, you know,

00:55:21.820 air conditioners getting shut out and shut off in, in brownouts as often happens in blue States in the

00:55:29.460 United States. Uh, winter is not to be trifled with and to do that at this time. And without any,

00:55:35.920 like without any consideration, you're right for the, for the very, for the very old, the very

00:55:41.860 vulnerable and people and people that, you know, stay, stay alive because of that electricity.

00:55:47.140 It's crazy. It was a crazy threat. Now I want to point out the liberal hypocrisy on this because

00:55:52.820 Mark Carney, uh, last night, right. It's the 12th. Yeah. So last night at five Oh five mountain time,

00:55:59.360 uh, Mark Carney tweets this. He says it has been more than two days that the supply of electricity

00:56:07.160 to Gaza has been shut off. It must resume essentials, including food, electricity, and medical supplies

00:56:13.220 should never be used as political tools. Oh, Oh, Canada must work with our allies to stand up for

00:56:20.060 international law, to promote sustainable peace and security in the middle East and to support full

00:56:25.340 access to humanitarian aid for Palestinian families. As this work continues, both parties

00:56:32.900 must work towards the return of all hostages. He didn't say Israeli hostages. That's who's holding

00:56:38.180 the hostages, right? Is the Hamas holding Israeli hostages? Not all like this wording indicates that

00:56:45.320 there are hostages on both sides. Um, and the completion of the ceasefire agreement, uh, Israel is at war

00:56:53.520 with Gaza. Now they have no obligation to provide electricity, food, and supplies to the people 0.56

00:57:01.820 actively trying to kill them. What is required of them is to not cut off the supply routes for other

00:57:10.280 people to supply it to them, but they are under no obligation to provide food and electricity to the

00:57:16.540 people who are trying to kill them. That's not how it works, but I'm reliably informed by the chief

00:57:22.460 negotiator for Team Canada, Doug Ford, that using electricity against innocent people is an

00:57:29.680 appropriate trade cudgel. So, uh, imagine what you should be able to do with it during war. Um,

00:57:37.440 the, the liberals can't pick a lane here. Not only his first, Carney has never said a word, a peep

00:57:44.200 about Israel this whole time. And the first thing he has said, he's weighed in on the side of Hamas

00:57:51.940 here and condemned Israel for not providing its enemies electricity and food. Somebody else can do 0.77

00:57:59.160 it. Talk to Jordan. They can, they can pay for it, right? Like it's not Israel's problem. Um, but Doug 0.88

00:58:05.720 Ford just, just threatened to cut off electricity to innocent Americans governed by a democratically

00:58:13.820 elected president. And it makes you, it makes you wonder if Doug Ford or the liberal party or our

00:58:22.520 liberal government believes we are in wartime right now with the United States. We saw Christopher

00:58:28.560 Freeland in the lead up to the liberal leadership, um, leadership decisions say, uh, call, call,

00:58:38.340 basically call for French and British nuclear powers to defend Canada against the United States.

00:58:45.900 You just have to wonder if, if they believe that we are in a pre-war period with the United States.

00:58:53.920 And that, that should be enough to put a chill down every single Canadian spine that, that is,

00:59:00.180 that is nothing to joke about. I mean, we are outgunned. We are, I mean, their military is the

00:59:07.320 fiercest military in the world. Um, and we would not win. We would not win. And yet this, this sounds

00:59:14.480 as though that is what they're lining us up for. So are, are, are, I mean, maybe, maybe one of the

00:59:22.520 mainstream media could ask them, are you suggesting that we are at war with the United States?

00:59:28.200 Right. Because, uh, but even if we were at war in the liberals minds with our best friends and

00:59:34.300 neighbors, even they would not agree that cutting off electricity was appropriate. Right. Like that's

00:59:41.500 what Mark Carney just said. But to your point that the liberals would, uh, assume a wartime footing,

00:59:47.820 I think they would. And they, the people they would be at war with would be Canadians, right? We saw how 0.99

00:59:55.700 quickly they invoked a wartime law called the emergencies act on Canadian citizens. Now, this

01:00:02.900 is an existential threat when you've got Trump saying, well, you should just become the 51st state

01:00:07.880 and we'll hammer you economically until such time as you just agree. The liberals will see that as a,

01:00:14.880 uh, at least something that they can manipulate to inhibit the civil liberties of Canadians. Cause they 0.79

01:00:22.740 did it for the honking, which is much less. That's right. That's right. Yeah. No, the,

01:00:28.720 but before it was the emergencies act, it was the wartime measures act. And they invoked that against

01:00:34.300 regular Canadians. Uh, we should be under no illusions that they'd be prepared to do that to us again,

01:00:40.600 based on their response to, uh, the American terror or I'm sorry, tariff crisis.

01:00:48.420 Yes. Uh, we've got a quick, uh, I think we've got a chat here. Did I see a chat? Yes. It's from

01:00:54.580 peace sign guy gives us 10 bucks and says, how is it that Carney can win all those writings with

01:01:00.580 virtually the same percentage as elections Canada going to investigate? It sounds statistically

01:01:05.540 impossible. Ezra went over this on the show on Monday about how it is basically statistically

01:01:12.440 impossible. And, uh, I do have a petition calling on not just elections Canada, but let's start,

01:01:19.100 let's get the alphabet agencies involved. So, uh, CSIS RCMP, uh, to make sure there was no foreign 1.00

01:01:25.700 interference. Uh, and the liberals have said on their own that there was foreign interference.

01:01:30.000 That's why they said they booted Ruby, right? Like, so, um, we should be investigating, right?

01:01:36.480 By their own admissions, 150,000 were allowed to vote out of 400,000 who signed up two out of every

01:01:44.460 three were excluded. And then Mark Carney, look at that. I started off with the goal of 10,000

01:01:50.540 signatures. Now I'm nearly at 15,000 signatures. If you agree with me that something is very suspicious

01:01:57.040 here, why two out of every three were not allowed to vote, go to audit Carney.com.

01:02:02.980 Um, yeah, it is something stinks. Something stinks in that leadership race. And back in the olden days,

01:02:10.780 we used to call this a political coup. We used to call these things a political coup. And, and now

01:02:17.620 because we have the, the liberal party of Canada trying to hang on to power, they call it a defense

01:02:23.660 of democracy or, or defending democracy. And really what it looks like is there is some real untoward

01:02:30.740 business going on, uh, in that, in that leadership, in that leadership race. And it, it needs to be

01:02:37.460 looked at. It definitely needs to be looked at. What's it going to take for those alphabet agencies

01:02:42.480 though? What is it going to take? Well, that's the thing. Uh, they didn't do much during the last

01:02:48.220 two elections where there was explicit evidence of foreign interference. I'm not convinced they're

01:02:54.360 going to do much now, but I sure would like to shame them into doing the right thing. Um, now speaking

01:03:00.680 of Ruby Dalla, looks like she was in the office of the president. Ha ha. Ruby. Do you see this tweet?

01:03:08.920 Ruby. Ruby. Ruby.

01:03:10.760 Ruby. A busy day in Washington, talking tariffs and taxes with senators and members of Congress.

01:03:17.600 She's already in Washington. What's Carney doing? Right. Uh, she says she's standing up for Canadian

01:03:23.780 workers, businesses, and our country this time as a business owner and CEO. And she tags, uh, Doug Ford

01:03:29.760 in it. That's incredible. That's absolutely incredible. Ruby getting the heavy lifting done

01:03:35.920 in Washington. I mean, it is the, it is the women. It is the women that are doing the heavy lifting on 1.00

01:03:41.520 this Ruby and, uh, Danielle Smith, Danielle Smith. But what a, I mean, what a loss, honestly,

01:03:47.940 what a loss for the liberal party to have disqualified her truly, truly. They made a,

01:03:53.860 I think they made a grievous error in judgment there. Uh, I think the Overton window has shifted.

01:03:59.720 She would not have been happy there. I don't think so. I don't think she's all that distinguishable

01:04:05.940 from, uh, like a more socially progressive Tory, like Michelle Rempel Garner. I think that on most

01:04:14.580 issues, including the economy, immigration and social issues, Ruby and Michelle probably share 0.99

01:04:21.280 exactly the same viewpoint. I just think Overton window has shifted too far. And like the liberals

01:04:27.180 of yore are now finding themselves in the conservative party, just like Republicans, right? Like if you look

01:04:32.080 at Trump's, uh, Trump's inner circle, many of them are former Democrats who are like, nope, I don't

01:04:39.160 belong here anymore. RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, they came from the, they were, they were leftists. Elon, Elon,

01:04:47.100 Joe Rogan, like all of them, all of them were former leftists and they, and they all say very much the

01:04:53.240 same thing. I didn't leave the left, the left left me. And, uh, and that's what we're seeing in Canada now

01:05:01.040 too. Yeah. With Ruby, Ruby would find a nice home in the conservative party. She should cross the

01:05:06.260 floor. She'd do a real number on Brampton. That's for sure. Uh, we've got, we talked about this

01:05:13.120 yesterday about this, uh, police podcast in Toronto. It was called Project Olive Branch where they're

01:05:21.660 supposed to be, I don't know, reaching out across communities, but they seem to be making excuses for

01:05:26.500 terrorists. Um, like the olive branch, like the extension of peace. Um, but they are making

01:05:34.020 excuses for people who commit acts of war. Uh, Toronto police, uh, they've deleted it according to,

01:05:41.960 uh, national post journalist, Brian Passifium, who's one of the great ones over there. He says, uh,

01:05:49.000 Brian says, Toronto police, uh, tell me they've deleted an episode of a podcast where two uniformed

01:05:56.500 Muslim liaison officers praise October 7th for an increase of converts to Islam

01:06:02.120 and implied that criticizing anti-Israel rallies equates to Islamophobia. I didn't even hear

01:06:09.460 that portion of the podcast, but my good golly. The, the crazy thing is, is the levels of approval

01:06:18.900 approval that this would have had to go through, um, on, on the official police side to get this

01:06:26.520 published and pushed out into the public is, is like, I mean, it just, it just can't be overstated.

01:06:33.460 This had levels of approval before it was ever released, right? Like they didn't just,

01:06:39.840 they didn't just record a live podcast and hit publish. It would have gone through the communications

01:06:45.100 office. It would have gone through the, you know, many, many layers of approvals.

01:06:48.900 And that it made it into the public. Now, when the, the, the, the, the apology, non-apology,

01:06:56.300 right. What it was, was a humongous word salad saying, we recognize, we acknowledge that, that

01:07:02.620 people might've been upset by this, but really what they were apologizing for is that they got caught.

01:07:07.780 That is what they were upset about that. They had to take time out of their busy DEI schedule

01:07:13.020 to make a statement. Uh, but, but it never should have, I mean, it, it just has to go back to,

01:07:19.540 it never should have seen the light of day. As a matter of fact, it should have been caught in

01:07:24.720 their approval process and said, right guys, like this is, this is way off side, right? This has the

01:07:30.600 potential to blow up in our faces. And because it wasn't, it just makes you wonder,

01:07:34.900 what are they doing over there? What are they doing over there?

01:07:41.640 But does it surprise you? Or is it any wonder why these anti-Israel protests are allowed to go on

01:07:49.780 the way they are blocking the street, blocking the roads for prayer? Um, and the police bringing coffee

01:07:58.520 over to the Hamas protesters in Jewish neighborhoods where they're standing on the overpass,

01:08:05.180 intimidating Jews coming into their neighborhood. Like they can tell me all they want that this is 0.96

01:08:10.460 about Israel and Zionism, but why are you in the Jewish neighborhoods of Toronto? What do they have

01:08:15.800 to do with anything? Yes. Right. Yes. Uh, no, it makes, it makes a lot of sense. Like if this is the

01:08:22.920 sentiment that they are incubating over there at Toronto police, of course, we're going to see,

01:08:29.760 uh, you know, crazy, crazy marches in our streets with, with bloodthirsty, you know, bloodthirsty

01:08:38.600 heathens, uh, making trouble for the, for the rest of, for the rest of the, uh, for the rest of the

01:08:45.280 city. And in many, many provinces, this is happening. So maybe it just goes to show you,

01:08:50.480 it just goes to show you that we have a two tier policing problem here in Canada too.

01:08:55.280 Yeah. Uh, Toronto police under chief Myron Demke of private meeting with Justin Trudeau fame.

01:09:01.220 He says, we recognize the Jewish community's profound pain and anguish as a result of October

01:09:06.380 7th and the ensuing rise of antisemitism. I've personally heard from the community about the

01:09:11.600 impact of this podcast. And I'm truly sorry. Our commitments to protecting our Jewish communities

01:09:16.320 remains unwavering. I don't think you are protecting them. I don't, I don't think,

01:09:21.680 I don't think you're truly sorry to be completely honest. If you were truly sorry,

01:09:26.780 it would never would have went up. Well, it never would have gone up, but, but also this statement

01:09:31.140 would say the people involved have been put on administrative leave, right? We are doing a full

01:09:37.580 investigation about how this happened. That's what would have, if they were truly sorry, we would see,

01:09:44.220 we would see administrative leave announcements and we all, we all know that that hasn't happened

01:09:50.200 or they would have told us. So I don't think they're truly sorry at all. I think they're truly

01:09:54.240 sorry. They got caught. Yeah. I think they're truly sorry that they got called out on it, but I don't

01:09:59.140 think they're truly sorry for saying it. No, no, that's exactly it. They thought it was perfectly

01:10:03.920 normal to say those things. They thought that what they were saying, like, Oh, thank goodness for

01:10:08.860 October 7th, because look at how many more Muslim converts they are. Uh, so just 1200 dead Jews and

01:10:16.080 240 kidnapped ones. Uh, those are just the costs of doing business. Those are the costs of the

01:10:22.820 registration drive. Is that it? Cops of Toronto. I mean, I don't even want people on the street who

01:10:30.660 believe that. And yet those are the ones packing heat. Yep. That's exactly right. Those are the,

01:10:37.800 those are the people that have, that have the authority in Canada to, to, well, they just have,

01:10:44.960 they have wide and overarching authority in Canada to, uh, to make decisions on behalf of the citizens.

01:10:52.360 And this is the kind of, um, this is the kind of behavior that really degrades the public's trust

01:10:59.780 in those policing institutions. Yeah. It's a shame because there are lots of good cops out there.

01:11:06.160 Yeah. Um, that we know and love. And, uh, it's a shame that they have to wear the same sorts of

01:11:13.240 uniforms as these two guys. I mean, it's chilling that these kinds of police have a monopoly on

01:11:20.640 violence. Um, it's very chilling. Uh, we've got a clip, uh, just came in from CH, CH news. So

01:11:28.880 that's, uh, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, I think, um, Mark, Oh no, sorry. It's Mark Carney in Hamilton.

01:11:35.620 Sorry. CHCH is in Hamilton. Um, auspicious start for PM designate Mark Carney in Hamilton. No

01:11:43.500 questions taken from reporters and his handlers told the camera operator pooling the event to shut

01:11:48.000 off sound when he was inside talking to workers. Why? Cause I bet you these blue collar workers gave 0.98

01:11:53.880 this guy a piece of their mind. Let's watch this. Wow. Now the mainstream media is going to be upset

01:12:15.580 about this obviously, because they're not used to being treated this way, but welcome to the jungle

01:12:20.100 friends. This is how we are always treated in the end of independent media landscape. This is,

01:12:26.080 this is just dealing with the liberals. This is how we have to work. You can see how shocked and

01:12:30.460 appalled they are that they're being treated this way. Um, but they've never said a word, uttered a word

01:12:35.380 when the rest of us are. Right, right. Well, because they're, because they're corrupt Sheila, because they

01:12:42.680 are corrupt, it would be a real, it would be a real bitter pill to swallow for the mainstream media

01:12:50.740 to be treated like independent media in Canada. And, uh, and I think they're going to get a,

01:12:58.820 I think, well, just, just based on these last several weeks and the way Mark Carney has not been

01:13:06.300 forthright with the press in Canada has been unwilling to answer any questions off the, you know

01:13:13.560 what I mean? Non-scripted, non-scripted questions and his unwillingness to face the public. I think

01:13:19.540 we're, I think we're going to be in for it, Canada. I think we're going to be in for it with this guy.

01:13:24.940 Yeah. It is, it is remarkable though, to, uh, see these same journalists who just like, can't

01:13:30.620 find their tongues when Mark Carney's throwing out independent journalists right beside them

01:13:35.960 to, to take their outrage to the internet when it happens to them. And let me be the first to do

01:13:42.840 what they won't do. I condemn the way the mainstream media press is being treated by Mark Carney. Uh,

01:13:53.180 because whether it happens to independent press or the mainstream media, it's not right. Now that is a

01:14:00.240 statement you will never hear from the parliamentary press gallery when one of us gets excluded.

01:14:06.340 Yes. And, and so to most Canadians, the vast majority of Canadians, uh, Mark Carney is a, is a

01:14:14.520 complete unknown. We don't know a lot about him. We haven't heard from him in his elitist circles. He's,

01:14:22.140 he's very well known and the big, the big money bureaucrats sure know a lot about him, but regular

01:14:28.600 everyday Canadians do not. And it is important that we do get to know him, uh, the, his, his authentic

01:14:37.420 self. Uh, this is by subjecting him to questions off the cuff that he doesn't have time to prepare

01:14:44.900 for or script or in other in, or, or in other ways manipulate. Uh, so Canadians can make an appropriate

01:14:53.340 choice come election day. And so, uh, so the mainstream media, I mean, the mainstream media

01:14:59.780 could get on that real quick, get on the same train as we've been on real quick by starting to

01:15:04.980 ask some really tough questions when, and I think that that's the important, the important thing to

01:15:09.820 note here is, is when they're telling you, you're not allowed to ask the questions you are to ask them

01:15:17.060 anyway, demand the answer anyway. I mean, the, the, that they would ask them to turn the sound off or

01:15:24.460 that they would, they would tell them that they're not answering questions, ask them anyway, demand

01:15:29.020 answers of this man. We Canadians deserve to know who he is. Uh, actually I, I'm shocked that, that,

01:15:38.140 although I shouldn't be shocked, I'm, but I am surprised that the camera operator complied

01:15:43.460 because, uh, if they tell you, you can't see the thing, the public must see the thing. The public

01:15:52.040 must see the, here's what I think though. I don't think Mark, Mark Kearney had to discriminate against

01:15:58.060 all media because I think he was worried that independent press might be there. So on the

01:16:03.940 parliamentary precinct, he knows he's not going to encounter someone who might ask a difficult

01:16:08.960 question. So he's happy to take questions there. I think when he's out in the world,

01:16:13.880 you are going to see him uniformly exclude all media because one of us might get in there and

01:16:19.820 ask a question and he can't tell the difference quite yet. That's what I think happened.

01:16:24.380 That is wild. That's a, that I think you're, I think you're hitting it right on the nose, Sheila.

01:16:28.920 I think you're hitting it right on the nose. Yeah. Speaking of the nose, I'm sure yours is running.

01:16:33.340 So we'll wrap up the show right away, but I wanted to just now that we're on the topic of,

01:16:38.120 uh, the free press, uh, the independent press gallery, president me, uh, we issued a statement

01:16:45.040 this morning, uh, because the, as I, as I just mentioned, the parliamentary press gallery controls

01:16:52.140 access to politicians on the parliamentary precinct. So this is a cabal of media journalists

01:16:56.920 and they get together and decide, you know, who's going to get to talk to the politicians,

01:17:02.120 us, not you. And so they don't allow the independent journalists in protecting their

01:17:08.340 monopoly. Right. So if a press conference is being held, uh, sort of at the house of comments

01:17:15.660 around the house of comments, you're going to hear a lot of boring or anti-conservative questions

01:17:19.560 being asked. Never the ones you want to know, like, Hey, what's your association with

01:17:23.900 Ghislaine Maxwell, Mark Carney, you're not going to hear that if the press conferences

01:17:27.260 on the parliamentary press gallery, cause they control who gets in and gets out, which

01:17:31.620 is outrageous that they've given the cabal of our competitors, the decision-making over

01:17:37.320 who we get to talk to. Like that is wild. Uh, but the, the independent press gallery, the

01:17:43.420 IPG stands in stark contrast to the PPG and the IPG this morning had to issue a statement

01:17:50.400 denouncing the parliamentary press gallery for their treatment of Canada's largest firearms

01:17:54.760 magazine. So let's just, I'll go through a little bit. Um, the independent press gallery

01:18:00.280 condemns the parliamentary press gallery for barring caliber magazine, Canada's largest firearms

01:18:05.360 publication from attending the Trudeau government's March 7th gun ban announcement led by associate

01:18:10.240 minister of public safety, Rachel Bendayan. Despite requesting access well in advance, caliber

01:18:15.800 magazine was ignored when they followed up by phone officials stalled claiming they needed approval

01:18:20.260 from a manager who is completely unavailable or conveniently unavailable. Then just 15 minutes

01:18:25.660 before the press conference, they were told to complete an arbitrary accreditation form while

01:18:30.040 officials admitted they had already researched the publication and its social media presence.

01:18:36.320 This blatant exclusion follows a pattern of press censorship under the liberal government. The PPG has

01:18:42.160 repeatedly blocked independent journalists from accessing press conferences held on the parliamentary

01:18:46.240 precinct, ensuring only select media maintain exclusive access to politicians and officials.

01:18:51.680 Independent outlets like Rebel News and True North have also been denied access to government events,

01:18:55.900 allowing the PPG to shield politicians from tough questions. By barring caliber magazine, the PPG

01:19:02.180 ensured that stakeholders most affected by this gun ban, firearms owners, retailers, and legal gun users

01:19:08.560 were excluded from the conversation. The IPG calls for an immediate end to these exclusionary practices

01:19:13.500 and demands transparent, apolitical accreditation for all journalists. Sincerely me.

01:19:19.340 So, uh, not only do we denounce politicians, we denounce other media organizations who are effectively

01:19:25.060 censoring other journalists. Uh, so anyways, caliber magazine doing good work.

01:19:31.160 Way to go caliber magazine. We're big, we're big fans of your publication. Um, but further to this in the United States,

01:19:39.340 uh, they have opened up their White House press gallery to independent journalists, to content creators,

01:19:47.900 to, uh, non-mainstream, uh, non-mainstream journalists. And what we've seen is the door blown open on transparency

01:19:59.260 because then, because when, when, when you have a closed, like a, a, a sort of cloistered, a cloistered press,

01:20:07.360 you never get out of the validation circle. Like all they do is sort of ask the same version of the same

01:20:13.940 question or, or different versions of the same question. When you allow, uh, in especially independent

01:20:21.220 journalists, uh, and content creators, uh, and content creators to ask the questions, you get a much

01:20:27.140 greater breadth of, of information. And, and this is what we should be. This is, I mean, what they're

01:20:34.040 doing in the United States is absolutely incredible. And we should be endeavoring to support that here in

01:20:39.780 Canada, the mainstream media, the mainstream media may not be brave enough to ask the questions that the

01:20:47.340 independent media, that the independent media would, but they should still welcome those questions.

01:20:54.500 They should still welcome those questions. They will benefit from those questions being asked and

01:20:59.540 answered. Like it is, it's sort of a, you know, uh, uh, uh, co-pathetic relationship that could be

01:21:06.640 working here, but, but because they're, they're interested in the mainstream media right now in, in keeping

01:21:13.980 their monopoly safeguarded, uh, the freedom, freedom of pressing Canada does not exist. It does not exist.

01:21:22.340 Yeah. Like it, if they're scared of ruffling feathers, that's fine. I'll do it. I'll do it.

01:21:28.720 You want to remain in a cozy relationship with Dominic LeBlanc and get invited to all of his stuff.

01:21:34.140 That's fine. Let me come in and make trouble. It doesn't hurt you at all. Um, but they just want to

01:21:40.660 they're like the candlestick makers at the dawn of the electric age, you know, and they're still

01:21:46.440 trying to force everybody to have the candles in their house. Right. Uh, things have changed. The

01:21:51.700 new media is taking over where the old media failed to quote Andrew Breitbart and they haven't even

01:21:58.080 realized that their industry is dead and they were part of the disease that killed it.

01:22:02.220 Well, I think, I think they, they might be catching on in that without their humongous federal subsidies,

01:22:09.900 they would cease to exist within the better part of a week. Uh, uh, but this is, this is,

01:22:15.920 this is nothing but self-serving this, the same self-serving behavior that we've come to,

01:22:22.660 to grow and detest in Canada over these last nine years. I mean, subsidizing the media in Canada was

01:22:29.400 the end of press freedom in Canada and there should be no, no journalist or outlet or company

01:22:37.840 that's at all funded by federal or provincial dollars. None at all. If you can't figure out a way

01:22:44.000 to make it work and to pay for yourselves, well, then you're not doing a good enough job. You're not

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Rebel News Podcast - March 12, 2025

REBEL ROUNDUP ｜ Canada-US tariff talks, Toronto police apologize, RCMP surveilled Trudeau

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