REBEL ROUNDUP | Canada-US tariff talks, Toronto police apologize, RCMP surveilled Trudeau
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Lise, how's it going? Good morning, everyone. It is a beautiful,
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Tariff Mania, Royals on. And so the crackdown on Canadians visiting the United States, the red,
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what do they call us in Bellingham, Washington, the red plague. That's what they call us at the
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Costco there. According to CTV News, but I think it was first reported in Reuters, the United States
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will require Canadians visiting for more than 30 days to register with authorities. The federal
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register showed Wednesday toughening rules as trade tensions soar between the North American
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neighbors. The new requirement, we hinted on this yesterday, but now the details are out.
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The new requirement effective from April 11th would harden enforcement of an existing law from
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which US media and Canadian nationals had typically been exempt. It will likely impact an estimated 900,000
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Canadians, colloquially known as snowbirds, who spend winters in warmer Southern US states,
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such as Florida, Texas, and Southern Carolina. Was this written by an Easterner? Because we completely
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forgot Arizona, which everybody in the West, that's where they spend their summer or for their winters.
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Half of my friends are right now in Arizona. Half of them right now fully are in Arizona. Yeah. And
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Southern Carolina, is that what that, is that what that piece said? Southern? Yeah, not South Carolina.
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South Carolina. Yeah. Give that person a raise, whoever wrote this. Yeah. Yeah.
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Southern Carolina capitalized. Southern Carolina. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense.
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Well, you know what? Again, none of this is any surprise. They're tightening up on who is in their
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country and for how long. And you know what? That's what I want Canada to do. Fair enough.
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I don't know how we can imagine. We're not nationals to the United States. We're not citizens there.
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And if they impose requirements on non-citizens, such as the right as a sovereign country,
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and we should be forced to play along with their rules. That's what I want for Canada. So I don't,
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I'm not particularly upset at this. It's inconvenient for sure. But like, really,
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what is the registration going to take out of your day? I bet you it's an online form.
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Well, sure. Or another process as you're going over the border, right? Like in order to gain
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entry, they're going to make you fill out a new form or register you there. But I thought that they
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were keeping track of that at the border anyway. Like every time I cross over, what is your purpose
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here? How long are you staying? Are you here for business or pleasure? Like I thought they were asking,
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I guess this is just another, just another, just another step in the process to make it more
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formal. But I do know that there are some Canadian snowbirds that are just a little bit,
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a little bit nervous about this just simply because they're like, well, are they going to ask us to
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leave? Are they going to ask us to leave? What are they registering us for? Yes. Yeah. So we'll see.
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I mean, it remains to be seen, but yeah, I don't, I don't blame them. I don't blame them.
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No, I'm not particularly upset about it. No. And considering how Canada is behaving in this
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tariff dispute, I could see a lot more of these, these T's crossed and I's dotted to come from the
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Americans as it pertains to our good neighbor relationship with Canadians.
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Well, this is exactly what Trump said he would do. He said he would keep track of foreign nationals
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in the country and then determine who, who belongs. Uh, again, I w I would love for the
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Canadian government to attempt to do even, even a little bit of this, but even when we order people
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deported, we just lose them in the country indefinitely. Right. They just leave and go
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somewhere else and don't check in. Like I just don't check in. They just leave Toronto and go to
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Vancouver. Like call me crazy, but I think that we should be doing this already, already. If you're not,
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if you're not a citizen of the country, there, there should be a requirement that you, uh, are,
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are checking in or reporting your, uh, reporting your residence or where you are at the end.
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It's wild that we're not. It's wild that we're not.
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Seems, seems reasonable. Now, uh, thanks to, uh, I guess, Doug Ford. Um, Canada is hitting the U.S.
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with dollar for dollar retaliation for Trump's unfair steel and aluminum tariffs. How do we
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think this is going to end with an angry phone call directed at Doug Ford and Doug Ford having
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to walk back the latest thing that he's trying to do to the Americans, as was the case yesterday.
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It says Canada's leveling reciprocal dollar for dollar tariffs on U.S. steel, U.S. steel and
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aluminum imports in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum
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imports that came into effect today. The federal government's countermeasures
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will come into effect at 12.01 a.m. March 13th. The 25% tariffs will hit steel products worth
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12.6 billion and aluminum products worth 3 billion. And in addition, Canada's hitting another
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14.2 billion worth of imported U.S. goods with fresh tariffs totaling another 28.9 billion in
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retaliation. And just remember, this is going into the federal government's coffers. And how quickly
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is this hitting? Uh, how quickly is this hitting the steel industry in Canada? Again, this all goes
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back to not securing the border, not dealing with fentanyl and showing no proof of work. Well,
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Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma steel layoffs started yesterday.
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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
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whiplash, like the way that this is going back and forth so quickly. Doug Ford yesterday folded like
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a cheap tent, like we knew he would, like we called it yesterday. Uh, but $28 billion in tariffs on a
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$30 trillion economy, uh, it in the States is, is a drop in the bucket. Truly it's a drop in the bucket and
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it's going to do nothing but hurt Canadian jobs, decimate Canadian jobs, hurt Canadian families
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and, uh, and further put us in an economic situation that's untenable for Canadians because
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we've been abused for so long. I mean, this is just, this is just grossly disappointing. And again,
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another example of our federal government mishandling this, this dispute.
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Right. I mean, uh, I saw the other day, Stelco is already considering layoffs, but Algoma right away
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cut 20 people right away. And, uh, I think it was, uh, Stelco who said this could cost 70,000 jobs
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across the industry. And instead, yeah. And instead of just dialing it down, they're, you know,
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campaigning against Trump, they're accelerating it. Like they're accelerating. Yeah.
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Can everybody just say, okay, we need to slow down and talk to each other, but it appears as
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though none of that is happening. Like they're, they're imposing the tariff as was the case with
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Doug Ford yesterday, electricity tariffs in the morning. And then he decided to talk to, uh, the
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American secretary of commerce. And then the tariffs were ended on electricity. Like maybe we could do
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the first, like the second part first before we deal with the tariffs.
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Well, they're, they're being, they're, they're being aggressive first. Like they're, they're coming
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out of the gate to see who can be most aggressive and who can look the most aggressive because that's
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what Doug Ford wants. Doug Ford wants to look like he, he has a, he has a big, a big swinger and
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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
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to, he's making the hard decisions and he wants to look like the tough guy, but really what it does
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is, is harm Canadian workers and harm Canadian families. 70,000 jobs is, is, um, is an incredible
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loss for the, for the country of Canada. And those, I mean, those families must be just beside
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themselves up at night, not being able to sleep over this. And these, these decisions have real
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ramifications for real people. Sorry. Right. I have to just, well, we can go to, uh, this
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video of finance minister, Dominic LeBlanc announcing these, the tariffs that I just
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talked about, 25% reciprocal tariffs on additional 29.8 billion in American goods
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entering Canada. Let's listen. Today, I am announcing that the government of Canada
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following a dollar for dollar approach will be imposing as of 12 0 1 AM tomorrow, March
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13th, 2025, 25% reciprocal tariffs on an additional 29.8 billion dollars of imports from the United
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States. This includes steel products worth 12.6 billion and aluminum products worth
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3 billion, as well as additional imported U S goods worth $14.2 billion for a total of
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$29.8 billion. The list of additional products affected by counter tariffs includes computers,
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sports equipment, and cast iron products as examples. These tariffs are in addition to Canada's
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25% counter tariffs on $30 billion of imports from the United States in response to U S tariffs put in
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place on March 4th. In addition, we learned yesterday that the United States tariffs would
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also be imposed on steel and aluminum content in certain derivative products. The government is
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currently assessing this aspect and may impose, of course, further tariffs in response to this measure
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as well. Oh, good. Oh, good. Let's speed things up. Let's make things worse. And let's take more
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money out of the pockets of hardworking Canadians and Americans. Just awesome. Just awesome. Like these
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guys, again, these guys don't have a mandate to negotiate on our behalf. The government is not a
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functioning government while our parliament is prorogued. And, uh, and I don't have a lot of
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confidence that Mark Carney is going to be able to negotiate us out of this. I, I really, I don't have
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any confidence that he's going to do that, especially after, uh, and I think we're going to talk about this
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later after meeting with Doug Ford. If, if that's who he's, if that's who Mark Carney is getting his
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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
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industry that's going to be hurt because there's the, uh, inputs industry to steel manufacturing,
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the coal industry, uh, people completely forget about that. So, um, this is, so domestic coal that's
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used for the creation of aluminum and steel that's going to tank now because of these tariffs, but
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also a lot of that domestic coal mining, uh, those, uh, that coal is destined for the United States
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for their steel manufacturing. And what does David Eby say? Well, guess what we're going to do?
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We're going to put levies on, uh, coal that's being exported through the port of Vancouver into the
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United States. So again, coal jobs are already under attack, thanks to the environmentalist left.
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Um, and so then we have this, and so you put a levy on the coal and makes the coal unaffordable.
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They're going to get it from somewhere else. It's not going to be as clean burning as Canadian coal,
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by the way. And then, um, look at this. David Eby wants the federal government to impose a U.S. tax
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tax on U.S. thermal coal that goes out of the province as a way to pressure the white house. So this
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is coal that's coming from Montana and Wyoming, and it goes to Asian markets through, uh, the port of
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British Columbia, and he's going to tariff it going out the door that way. So it, uh, makes now we're
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dragging Asian markets into the trade dispute here. Well, and, and I don't think that they're going to
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stop there. They're not going to stop shipping. They're just going to find another, another place to
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ship from. That is what they're going to do. Well, also, and what's the retaliation they're
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going to pull here? Uh, maybe line five. Yeah. Maybe they'll cut off line five that goes through
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Michigan up into Ontario. You know, like if you're cutting off, basically it's a pipeline by rail for
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coal that comes from Montana and Wyoming and goes out the port of Vancouver. If you're cutting off that
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pipeline because it goes through BC, then, uh, the American retaliation will be line five, cutting off
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line five because it's Alberta oil that flows through Michigan and up into Ontario and Quebec.
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And those guys are going to see five buck a liter gasoline if they don't, uh, rein in David Eby on this
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issue. This is just wild. This is just wild. And yeah. What, what did we see yesterday? David Eby,
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um, saying that he's going to, he's going to, he's going to charge, uh, road traffic coming in from
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to BC, right. Coming into BC to, to get to Alaska. That's what, that's what he's doing. Like
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David Eby. On a road the Americans built. On a road the Americans built and let us use.
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And paid for. I don't, I don't know that amongst any of them, they've really, really thought this
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through. And that like, doesn't this just go to show you Canada that, uh, that the knee jerk reactions
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of some of these provinces have, have the potential to really, really harm us to really harm us. Uh,
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it in the, we're sort of caught, caught in the crossfire of, of the bad decisions being made by
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Canadian politicians. And it's really quite sad. It's really quite sad. I mean, that Alaska highway
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one is the one that really gets me because the Americans paid for that highway to be built.
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Canada gets the benefit of it. We get the benefit of the use of it, the benefit of the,
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the commerce that's done along the way, connecting all those rural, uh, communities. Uh, now they have
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to pay for the upkeep, but the deal was Americans get to use it as a trade route through our country.
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And it was fine. And then now we're undoing decades and decades of cooperation over this because we
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can't secure the border to keep people and fentanyl out. It's unbelievable. Um, new, this is a video
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from, uh, industry minister, Francois Philippe Champagne. He was a short-lived leadership candidate.
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He says, uh, uh, uh, he might actually be talking sense here. Increased costs, uh, to steel and
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aluminum will weaken North America's economy and national security. That is true because what's the,
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uh, what's the choice here? China, Chinese steel. I think it is. I think that's the other affordable,
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reliable. Yeah. That's the other affordable, reliable producer. And I'm informed by environmentalists
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like Mark Carney, that China doesn't do a good job of taking care of the environment when they're
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manufacturing things like steel and aluminum, but think of, think of, think of the, the green
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footprint, the carbon footprint of shipping, of shipping, steel, steel and aluminum all the way
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to Asia to make up for the shortfall. I mean, it is, it is, uh, if you're listening to the liberals
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who say that taking a road trip will kill the, will kill mother earth in her entirety. Well,
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how, how much, how much damage do tankers and tankers and tankers full of these really heavy
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minerals and these really heavy products cost to get to America to make up for the shortfall that
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we're threatening to take away. It is right. It is nuts. And shipping uses largely bunker fuel,
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which is like the, the dirtiest burning, the dirtiest. If you care about those sorts of
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things, I generally don't, but the liberals keep taxing my car. So I think they believe in it.
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Anyways, let's watch this video from Francois-Philippe Champagne.
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Make no mistake. Today's decision by the U.S. will increase cost for consumers.
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Mr. Julie was right. When you're talking to our American friends, we need to make them clear.
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This is going to increase the price of construction. This is going to increase the price of
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car. This is going to increase the price in the defense industry. It will put thousands of jobs
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at risk. And I would add unnecessarily, and it will weaken North America's economic and national
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security. My dear friends, whether you're in Canada or in the United States, we cannot let
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uncertainty become the new certainty in North America. That cannot stand. That will make us less
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competitive. That's going to weaken us. And that's going to affect our economic security
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He looks like the content of what he was saying aside, does he not look like a South Park version
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He's a stereotype. And stereotypes are a thing because they're true.
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He's actually making sense here. But the solution should not be driving markets to Asia.
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He's making... Like, the problem is true. The problem is true. This trade war does weaken both countries
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economically. It does jeopardize our security. But his solution is to ramp up the trade war,
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That's exactly right. And the harm to our economies is disproportionate. The Canadian economy,
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because it is so much smaller, will suffer a great deal more than the American economy, which
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has the buying power, right? The buying power that we just don't have in Canada. I mean,
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the harms to Canadians and to Canadian jobs and to the Canadian economy is just so much larger,
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so much larger than the States. And that's one thing that these, you know, politicians don't seem
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to understand. Oh, I think they understand it just fine. I just think they don't care. Because for
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the liberals, it's a key to advancing their political fortunes. I think they totally get
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that it will be 70,000 steel jobs. I think they completely get that if they get their way with the
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oil patch, it'll be close to 500,000 jobs across the country, both in direct oil and gas, but also
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supporting. I think they understand. They just don't care. Because it's all about power. And right
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now, it's beneficial to campaign against Trump. That's the cost they're willing to pay. You know,
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70,000 jobs, 500,000 jobs, that's a cost that they're willing to pay in order to stay in power.
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That's what it comes down to. And I mean, going back to just yesterday, with President Trump calling us
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their cherished 51st state, every single elected politician in Canada should be working
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for the betterment and the safety and security and prosperity of the Canadian people. And that's
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just not what we're seeing. Yeah, I don't feel cherished. I don't feel cherished by the liberals.
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It's like that old saying where it's like a lot of you are going to have to suffer,
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but it's the cost I'm willing to pay. And that's like the liberal government right now.
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Yeah. Ministers Melanie Jolie and Francois-Philippe Champagne discuss Canada's approach ahead of
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negotiations with the US amid a trade war. And I guess they must defend the unionized industries
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at all costs. Is it Francois-Philippe Champagne? This looks like Dominic LeBlanc's ruddy face.
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Is this the right one? Oh, there she is. Okay, we're good. It might be Dominic LeBlanc and Jolie.
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Make sure that we put maximum pressure to defend our jobs, defend our sovereignty,
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defend our way of living. But meanwhile, as a team negotiating, we need to find off ramps.
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And it is just the right thing to do. So we'll do both. That conversation with Howard Lutnick is
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important. The ones we have and I'll have with Secretary Rubio as well. So we're doing that in
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Let me just add on the auto sector because you touched something that will really... No,
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but that's going to affect hundreds of thousands of people in this country. Trust me, those who are
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watching are listening to that. Those who are watching, we're going to fight for the auto sector
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every single day. I spoke to them and I say, Canadians have been there for you. Canadians have been there for
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the auto sector for decades since we had the auto pack. And these companies, most of them,
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have longstanding commitments to this country. We're going to make sure that they abide by the
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terms of every single agreements we have with them to make sure we protect the jobs. We had
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discussion with the union leaders yesterday and with the representatives from the company.
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And they truly understand that the reasons they came to Canada is because we have the best worker,
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it's because Canadians have been there for them and we have integrated supply chain. So I just want
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to be clear on the auto sector. Make no mistake that we are already on their back saying there will
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be... We're going to be watching like hawks as to what may happen to the auto sector because this is a
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core industry for the prosperity of this country.
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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
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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
00:36:59.140
pipelines in overseas countries. These musings have broken economies and have not helped the
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
00:37:20.720
always have purity tests and purge people that don't fall in line. Get ready for the apartheid
00:37:25.820
and the gulags like this. Tales of a parasite from Jesse. Thank you, Jesse. Yes. Yeah. And that's not,
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,
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,
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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
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.
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
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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.
00:43:32.040
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
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economic and security partnership in the world is renewed, relaunched. That's possible.
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You have a new government, but the same commitment. And that commitment is built rock solid on the
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.
00:44:39.900
No, no. Hard hat on, hard hat on sideways, not fitted properly, sitting way, way high up on the
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,
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
00:52:08.300
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,
00:52:43.880
um, saying, get your butt to Washington. And we are going to talk about this. Doug Ford got his
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
00:53:19.540
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
01:03:10.760
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
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
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
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
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
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repeatedly blocked independent journalists from accessing press conferences held on the parliamentary
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precinct, ensuring only select media maintain exclusive access to politicians and officials.
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Independent outlets like Rebel News and True North have also been denied access to government events,
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allowing the PPG to shield politicians from tough questions. By barring caliber magazine, the PPG
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ensured that stakeholders most affected by this gun ban, firearms owners, retailers, and legal gun users
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were excluded from the conversation. The IPG calls for an immediate end to these exclusionary practices
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and demands transparent, apolitical accreditation for all journalists. Sincerely me.
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So, uh, not only do we denounce politicians, we denounce other media organizations who are effectively
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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,
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uh, they have opened up their White House press gallery to independent journalists, to content creators,
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to, uh, non-mainstream, uh, non-mainstream journalists. And what we've seen is the door blown open on transparency
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because then, because when, when, when you have a closed, like a, a, a sort of cloistered, a cloistered press,
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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
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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
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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
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answered. Like it is, it's sort of a, you know, uh, uh, uh, co-pathetic relationship that could be
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working here, but, but because they're, they're interested in the mainstream media right now in, in keeping
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their monopoly safeguarded, uh, the freedom, freedom of pressing Canada does not exist. It does not exist.
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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
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they're like the candlestick makers at the dawn of the electric age, you know, and they're still
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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
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realized that their industry is dead and they were part of the disease that killed it.
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Well, I think, I think they, they might be catching on in that without their humongous federal subsidies,
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they would cease to exist within the better part of a week. Uh, uh, but this is, this is,
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this is nothing but self-serving this, the same self-serving behavior that we've come to,
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to grow and detest in Canada over these last nine years. I mean, subsidizing the media in Canada was
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the end of press freedom in Canada and there should be no, no journalist or outlet or company
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that's at all funded by federal or provincial dollars. None at all. If you can't figure out a way
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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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working hard enough. We here at Revel News know this. We know this better than anyone. So we do. And I think
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because we have to, we have the business model that we do, we rely on crowdfunding. It keeps us connected
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to our people. Like we, we have to know what the people want and the stories that you care about, because
01:23:08.180
if you don't care about the stories that we're doing, there's no us. And so I think it keeps our pulse, our
01:23:13.600
finger on the pulse of Canadians. A hundred percent. We are engaged in the feedback loop of our viewers. We want to
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tell the stories that are important to you. And those are the ones that are most important to us. So glad to do it.
01:23:26.360
Rebel fam, glad to do it on your behalf. Thanks so much for your support.
01:23:31.180
All right. On that wonderful note of the Mutual Appreciation Society of Rebel News and its viewers,
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I think we should wrap up the show. Lise, thanks for toughing it out two days back to back while
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enduring a cold. But your contribution to the show allows David Menzies to be out in the world
01:23:49.260
doing what David Menzies does best. So we just appreciate you so much for it.
01:23:53.120
Oh, well, it's my pleasure, you guys. It is my pleasure. And I will see you here next week.
01:23:59.200
Yes. Yeah. Back Tuesday. The show, as always, is going ahead 11 a.m. Mountain, 1 p.m. Eastern
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01:24:16.860
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