It's a snow day in some parts of the country, and we're here to talk about it. Plus, we talk about a new law that could change the way licensing is done in Canada, and how to stay safe on the roads in the winter.
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00:02:28.120I just, you know what, I shovel with the snow blower or with the leaf blower because it's so light and cold that you can just sort of blow it off.
00:02:36.500So we got the snow and then it rained on top, so it was heavy and wet and compacted.
00:02:43.240And yeah, it's not nice, light, fluffy, playful snow by any means.
00:02:49.200I'll be, it's not great for making snowmen, but I will be on TikTok later looking for clips of those new Canadians struggling with their first Canadian winter in Toronto.
00:02:59.900And not realizing how to drive on ice or snow or how to make sure you're safe after a collision.
00:03:08.880I don't know why I've seen so many clips of new Canadians experiencing their first winter and then like getting out of the car after they get stuck in standing in the lane of traffic.
00:03:19.320When we give you your driver's license when you come to Canada, no, we have to teach people all about like safe habits on the road in the wintertime.
00:03:29.460It seems like it's a huge problem, especially in places like Toronto.
00:03:33.540Yeah, well, the 401 corridor is horrible, especially with transport trucks.
00:03:37.800And I know, I think there was a CBC investigation that showed that some of the new Canadians were coming into the country and then capitalizing on the ease of licensing.
00:03:48.900And so there one person would be licensed and then like families and cousins or whoever would also get in on the license stream.
00:03:58.500And they would be out on the roads without having actually undergone the testing and the licensing process.
00:04:04.780And it just makes for complete chaos because you do have to adjust your driving to the weather conditions.
00:04:11.460And if you've never experienced the black ice potential during Canadian winter, then you're in for a surprise.
00:04:19.100But it's not just you. It's everybody in and around your vicinity.
00:04:22.660So really concerning things to look out for if you're out on the roads these days in Ontario, which the GTA is the hub for immigration.
00:04:33.660Immigration, I think we take on something like 50 to 60 percent of all new Canadians.
00:05:13.400But then I would cut him a little slack.
00:05:15.500I was graceful because I realized that he's from the UK and icy roads are not something he has to live with.
00:05:21.400And I thought, oh, God, we just did this.
00:05:23.240But with like a million people in Canada, that's not great.
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00:09:00.020So, this article here comes from Maple Ridge Pit Meadows News.
00:09:03.660And it notes here that Mark Carney drew cheers and applause from a crowd of more than 300 party faithful during a quick stop in Kelowna on Tuesday morning.
00:09:35.940We have a plan for Canada that is going to deliver the strongest economy and ride out the Americans until they come back to the table.
00:09:45.080Well, I'm already, there's a lot of yellow and red flags here for me.
00:09:50.720He says Americans have lost their way and have forgotten about the big hits and squeezes on the middle class.
00:09:56.580I think that's the exact class that Trump and all of his executive orders are trying to bring back and reignite and help and assist by bringing manufacturing home,
00:10:06.340by cutting the bureaucratic bloat and waste through the new Doja Department of Government Efficiency overseen by Elon Musk.
00:10:14.600I mean, there's all these things that Trump is doing and handling and implementing to help the middle class.
00:10:20.240And so, this isn't, I don't think, going to hit the U.S. where it hurts, as Carney's alleging, so much as it's going to affect Canadians.
00:10:30.500We have a clip here, though, where Carney says, point blank, that he is going to abuse the emergency powers of the federal government to build green energy projects
00:11:45.520It's like extremely under-caffeinated people.
00:11:49.200But he just sort of thought it was the most clever thing he ever said that he would, he said, use.
00:11:57.160But it would be an abuse to use the emergency powers of the federal government to push forward these green energy projects.
00:12:06.480And then he turns and sort of smirks at the camera because he thinks it's the cleverest thing he's ever said.
00:12:11.680And to take on the Americans, not, you know, like, fight the threat of tariffs,
00:12:16.660but to actually, like, take on the Americans, the people themselves, which I thought was quite an odd thing to say, but excessively tone deaf.
00:12:26.620Kelowna is a very conservative place, by the way.
00:12:29.240It's the interior of BC, which may as well be Alberta.
00:12:33.880And he's telling them that these people, a lot of them participated in the Freedom Convoy,
00:12:41.260which was resulted in the invocation of the government's emergency powers illegally.
00:12:49.780And he's promising to disregard all that and do it all again this time so that we can have, I don't know, tariff lockdowns, climate lockdowns.
00:16:07.880That it's a quirk of our parliamentary system.
00:16:10.260But just on the topic of what Jim, or Jim, of what Mark Carney was saying there, in of all places, Kelowna.
00:16:20.000Kelowna is absolutely hard hit by the opioid crisis because it's in the interior of BC.
00:16:27.380Because it is one of those places for your drug addicts, from the prairies to make their way to the favorable climate in the downtown east side of Vancouver.
00:16:38.160They get a lot of transient opioid addicts there.
00:16:42.920And I haven't seen the data yet for 2024.
00:16:45.560But when Mark Carney was making these remarks, I pulled up the data for Kelowna's opioid poisonings in 2023.
00:19:21.780These should be men earning, buying houses, having kids, being husbands and fathers.
00:19:28.500These are the healthy, productive years of our young men.
00:19:33.300These are fathers being snatched from their families.
00:19:36.280And Mark Carney thinks it's no biggie.
00:19:39.400This is the product, I would say, of the stigmatizing of toxic masculinity, right?
00:19:46.060Making men feel like they're terrible racists or misogynists for wanting to be the man of a household, for wanting to be a provider, a protector.
00:20:01.160This is what you get when you tell men that they need to be superior and lay down and stop with any form of masculinity and that it's toxic to be a man who wants to have those things.
00:20:21.880This also, to build on your point, this is also the lack of prioritization of men's mental health in this country.
00:20:29.500During the pandemic, by the way, men who exhibit rates of suicidality, the reason they give for having those thoughts, and I would suggest to you that opioid addiction is a slow suicide.
00:21:27.380They could not be the providers that their biological imperative calls them to be.
00:21:34.200And then they turn to opioids, and then they die.
00:21:36.500And a lot of this is on the government, not just their drug policy, but their COVID policy, and then their lack of prioritization of men's mental health and wellness while we go through the culture shift into worrying about gender nonsense all the time.
00:22:06.880We have our government, despite the fact that Canadians have been shedding a light and asking for this to be curtailed.
00:22:15.740But we have this fentanyl problem, which Carney thinks is more of a challenge than an actual crisis.
00:22:22.700And so, you have this new fentanyl czar being appointed by Justin Trudeau, who is a now-resigned prime minister, still running the country, not as liberal leader anymore.
00:22:41.140Anyway, so he has appointed Kevin Brousseau as the new border and fentanyl czar, and he has an interesting connection here to digital ID.
00:22:55.120So, he previously endorsed a globalist surveillance project, which was done with partnership of the World Economic Forum, Canadian government, some of our airlines, Air Canada, the Trudeau Airport in Montreal, and the Toronto Pearson Airport in Toronto, obviously.
00:23:15.780But this is a now-deleted social media post from him, dating back to June 2019, thrilled to see the official launch of KTDI.
00:23:26.700He called it a groundbreaking collaboration between, which also included the Dutch government, Transport Canada, and the World Economic Forum.
00:23:34.000The known traveller digital identity, like I said, acronymed KTDI, was a digital credentialed system designed for international travellers.
00:23:43.640It never launched, despite a $105 million budget allocation for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
00:23:53.720And the report kind of goes on to explain a little bit more about the boondoggle that was this digital ID project that our new border and fentanyl czar was a huge fan of and endorsed.
00:24:06.540And then I wanted to point to the announcement where he's announced as the fentanyls are from February 11th from the prime minister's office.
00:24:17.220I think I forgot to share this link in here.
00:24:19.460But anyway, it goes on to state, you know, he has a long career.
00:24:24.940Kevin Broso has a long career with the RCMP and he has all these connections and public safety, intelligence, et cetera, et cetera.
00:24:34.000And then I watched, though, they had an announcement yesterday with public safety minister, Bill Blair, and they really didn't say much of anything.
00:24:46.880I think we might have a small clip of it to share with you.
00:24:50.360But, you know, basically, from what I could hear, they're just bringing everyone to the table and having a bunch of discussions right now.
00:24:58.060Oh, is this with James Blair, White House Deputy Chief of Staff?
00:25:19.780It's a pretty tight deadline given that tariffs could be put back in place on or put in place on March 4th.
00:25:28.700I'm hoping to be able to give an intensity to the work being carried out by thousands of men and women in this country and the United States trying to deal with the real public safety and national security crisis that is fentanyl.
00:25:44.700Bringing that integrated approach, bringing the teams together, ensuring the collaboration, ensuring the communication is happening at officials' level on both sides of the border and communities across the country.
00:26:44.000In fact, I spoke with the ambassador of the United States last night and she and I talked about getting to D.C. very, very soon to be able to have those conversations.
00:26:53.360I've already, of course, as you know, spent some time here.
00:27:00.260Like, I look at the people making an impact on the fentanyl issue.
00:27:05.320For example, Mike Ellis, Alberta's public safety minister.
00:27:08.700If you really wanted to make a difference, you would have, if I were Trudeau and I actually wanted to do something,
00:27:16.240I would have taken somebody from a jurisdiction that the Americans like, Alberta, and somebody who has experience in policing, Mike Ellis, former cop, who is the public safety minister,
00:27:29.300who is dealing with border issues from a place that is taking a zero-toleration approach to fentanyl and a treatment approach to the drug crisis that's happening.
00:27:42.120This is the guy I would have tapped if I wanted to impress the Americans and stave off tariffs, but they didn't.
00:27:48.680They hired a career bureaucrat from the RCMP in Ottawa that has overseen the explosion of fentanyl in this country.
00:27:56.340And if we kept listening there, one of the journalists asked, oh my gosh, and I was just banging my head, why did you pick the title czar?
00:28:03.740And nowhere in the press conference, which again spanned almost 16 minutes, did they ask anything about, hey, what about the ports of entry where there are no police?
00:28:16.220What's the plan of attack on these ports that don't have any security or surveillance where you can just walk over the border?
00:28:23.480What about the fentanyl precursors, right?
00:28:26.580Because fentanyl requires all these other ingredients to be manufactured in the country.
00:28:31.620What about all those ingredients coming in separately?
00:28:34.740How are we monitoring and trying to curb that border issue and those crossings over?
00:28:41.900Because it's not just fentanyl specifically, it's all the ingredients that make it up.
00:28:47.120And no one in there asked about government safe supply.
00:28:50.500We know that government regulated and produced and taxpayer funded safer supply of these powerful opioids are being diverted out into the streets.
00:29:02.360And then that is being utilized to fund more fentanyl purchasing power by addicts on the street.
00:29:10.420So you don't have a mainstream media who's asking any of these relevant, pertinent questions.
00:29:16.480They're asking, oh, how did you come up with the title czar?
00:29:29.260Yeah, like my questions would have been exactly yours.
00:29:33.600Why aren't we marking the government issued safe supply so that we can determine if it is indeed ending up in the hands of Canadians who are either trafficking it or ending up dead by it?
00:29:46.800Also, what are we doing to deal with the infiltration of gangs into our points of entry, but also our ports?
00:30:20.220So in similar news, we also have the Premier of British Columbia, which is really the, in many instances, ground zero of this drug crisis and the fentanyl crisis, David Eby.
00:30:35.160He earlier remarked on Premier's frank conversation with James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
00:30:45.360So we have a video here that I want to show you, share with our viewers, a couple of tweets that are kind of funny in response to our mainstream media failures and spreading of misinformation.
00:30:58.900Yeah, we had frank conversations where, about the 51st state comment, where we underlined that that was a non-starter.
00:31:06.680That was obviously consistent among all the Premiers.
00:31:10.320And for my part, just underlining how important it was to share information and concerns related to fentanyl on the border with the Premiers as well.
00:31:19.760There are enforcement actions that we can take to make sure that information is flowing.
00:31:23.500If these are the key points of frustration for the President, we want to take action on those things too.
00:31:55.620Yeah, and then Colin DeMello, who is the president of the Queen's Park Press Gallery and also a correspondent, the Queen's Park Bureau Chief Correspondent with Global News.
00:32:08.720He took to X to post, you know, he regurgitated EB's remarks saying he had this frank conversation.
00:32:16.520And he shared a few items with Trump, including willingness to engage, work on key areas of agreement, and that Canada would never be the 51st state.
00:32:26.040And then that was reposted by James Blair, who said, and maybe we can show this on screen for our viewers, pleasant meeting with the premiers.
00:32:35.860To be clear, we never agreed that Canada would not be the 51st state.
00:32:40.380We only agreed to share Premier EB's comments.
00:32:43.780Further, we said the best way to understand President Trump's position is to take what he says at face value.
00:32:50.380So, I mean, I am pretty sure he, yeah, he substantially out-ratioed DeMello.
00:32:57.360Which is so funny to see because the mainstream media has been in absolute meltdown mode for the last few years, crying wolf about every time misinformation and how dare you make these claims.
00:33:10.320And this is, you know, far-right conspiracy theory stuff.
00:33:15.100And now we're seeing more and more how they are being caught in the misinformation spreading.
00:33:21.480And it's becoming more and more kind of blatant and in your face.
00:33:24.960And you have people from the U.S. side who are not holding back, right?
00:33:29.420They're not afraid to call it, to call a spade a spade and tell people how it really is.
00:33:41.820I can't believe your platform is free so that we can see the mainstream media in Canada being abused by their intellectual superiors in the federal government in the United States.
00:33:55.580But I hope our conservatives here in Canada are learning a little something.
00:33:59.980Treat the mainstream media like the enemies of you that they are.
00:34:31.320Where they take their marching orders from, we can, we can speculate.
00:34:36.480Do you know what, I also, I see stupid questions like that sometimes and I think, wow, that's a failing of the entire newsroom over there.
00:34:42.800Because, you know, like if we're sending journalists to a press conference and maybe they don't have, okay, let's say it's about oil and gas and pipelines.
00:34:50.160And I will help you prep some questions.
00:35:34.140And so we work together to develop questions and learn the issues and talk about what matters.
00:35:40.080Um, I just think sometimes with these journalists and maybe they're just fresh out of J school or whatever, but I think do your editors, your editor in chief, your managing editor, do they not care about you?
00:36:13.220If you need some questions that you think regular people have about the oil and gas sector that you want to ask to our government overlords, DM me right now.
00:36:54.200Before we go to that, let's do a quick ad read, uh, to stay on target because, uh, I have to sort of get out of here and go back to federal court.