It's St. Patrick's Day, and the world is celebrating one of the most widely celebrated holidays in the world, but is it really a holiday at all? Today's guest Sheila Gunn-Reed and host David Menzies try to figure out if it's a real holiday.
00:00:00.000Hopefully you're having a good time with this podcast, but I guarantee a better time would be coming to Alaska with me, Drea Humphrey, and my other Rebel colleagues.
00:00:11.340You've got to find out more at our special website, rebelnewscruise.com, but it's taking place June 18th to June 25th, a vacation trip of a lifetime.
00:09:37.860We'll get to that in a little bit because we have that lined up on the Mark Carney nonsense.
00:09:42.380And some of Mark Carney's HR selections are set to inflame the Americans most definitely.
00:09:52.500But we'll get to that in a little bit.
00:09:55.820And I think, you know, like Polyev is gunning to be the next prime minister of Canada, not the next governor of the 51st state.
00:10:04.800That's exactly the right choice to make to express that messaging.
00:10:12.820And you'll note what a difference a Polyev trip to a steel mill looks like versus a carny one, right?
00:10:22.620And I think it has a lot to do with the last time a liberal wandered in a steel mill, at least anywhere near the yucky workers of a steel mill, they got told off.
00:10:33.380Do you remember that one guy telling off Trudeau in the parking lot of a steel mill?
00:10:39.100And basically he said, well, we're giving your company like $400 million.
00:10:47.180So Carney couldn't have that sort of public relations misstep, which is why when he visited also a heavily subsidized steel mill in Hamilton,
00:10:56.920he made sure that there was no mixing and mingling of him with the workers, or at least one that might be caught on camera.
00:11:33.960But now they know which direction they're going with the NDP.
00:11:39.300It's no longer about the Lunch Bucket Brigade anymore.
00:11:41.780It's about climate action and this sort of nonsense.
00:11:45.980The other thing, Sheila, is that tons of media were there.
00:11:51.340And every single steel worker that decided to come up to the media area came up to talk to Lincoln, Jay, and I said how much they admired the work Rebel News is doing.
00:13:24.840They're called orders in council, and they have to go before the governor general.
00:13:27.660But Mark Carney, he's been out of the country so long that maybe he doesn't understand how our parliamentary democracy works.
00:13:33.920And he – for a guy who is so anti-Trump, he sure appreciates the theater of Trump signing something for a photo op.
00:13:42.060Except when Trump signs something, it actually means something.
00:13:47.100Let's watch Polyev pointing out what the media failed to do.
00:13:52.180They brought in a carbon tax in this law.
00:13:56.820This law is still in place, even though Mr. Carney has signed a fake executive order to hide the tax for 35 or 40 days leading up to the election.
00:14:08.720It is still in place, and it applies across the board.
00:14:14.400The tax is scheduled to go up 300 percent over the next five years, and hiding it for a few weeks will not change that.
00:14:22.800Furthermore, the full carbon tax also applies to industries.
00:14:33.240IVACO makes hot rolled steel wire and steel billets, and these taxes drive up the cost of the entire domestic steel industry.
00:14:42.680Mr. Carney has said that he wants to expand the industrial carbon tax beyond the already eye-watering increases the government has passed into law.
00:14:53.520He specifically singled out steel in an interview he did on CTV.
00:14:58.680He said that Canadians don't buy steel.
00:15:00.840They don't need steel, and therefore it won't do any harm to tax steel.
00:15:05.020Although he did admit that the tax would drive up the cost of an automobile, but by just $200.
00:15:29.520Hide the tax before the election, and then bring it back bigger than ever after the election.
00:15:35.480This was a bad idea before the Trump tariffs.
00:15:38.540But now that Trump is hitting Canadian industry with a massive tariff, Carney is saying that he will impose a massive carbon tax on Canadian businesses.
00:15:47.540The combination of Trump's tariffs and Carney's carbon taxes would be a disaster for the workers behind me.
00:24:00.800I've got a video of Stephen Gilbeau from October.
00:24:04.400So not a gazillion years ago, like four and a half months, five months ago.
00:24:09.980Stephen Gilbeau on the carbon tax then, when it wasn't a campaign issue.
00:24:16.540So let's hear how quickly he flip-flopped on the issue.
00:24:19.680If you're serious about climate change, if you're not serious about climate change, like Pierre Poirier, then, of course, you don't want to do anything.
00:24:27.740You don't want to put measures to fight climate change.
00:24:30.460And, you know, the planet and Canada can go to hell in a handbasket.
00:32:34.020Because I can tell you this, Sheila, that means the City of Toronto residents, you're in for yet another perhaps double-digit tax increase next year.
00:32:44.800That is if you can afford the steel, you know, to do these things, thanks to Mark Carney's tariffs.
00:32:52.180I just want to point out the hypocrisy here.
00:32:53.880Has Olivia Chow ever banned Chinese companies, state-owned companies, from doing business in China?
00:33:03.600In fact, Invest Ontario, which is the crown corporation of the Ontario government, has an entire office dedicated to getting Chinese businesses to invest in Ontario.
00:33:17.120And this is, it's got a mandate letter from the provincial government to do this work.
00:33:26.760It's from the Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade to get Chinese entities to invest in Ontario.
00:33:35.860Even after all we know about China and how sinister they are.
00:33:39.900Um, this is what's happening in Ontario, but they see the Americans as the bad guys, worse than China right now.
00:33:48.220Sheila, let's compare apples and apples when it comes to Ontario.
00:33:52.380Uh, last week, as you know, uh, China applied more tariffs against Canadian-made products.
00:33:58.420So, I ask, um, Premier Doug Ford, uh, does that mean you're going to yank the Chinese products off the shelves of the liquor control board, uh, stores, like you did earlier this month with Kentucky bourbons and California wines and assorted other products?
00:34:15.740And by the way, I, I put that out on X and I got flamed by certain people.
00:34:20.720Oh yeah, lots of Chinese liquor at LCBO stores.
00:34:23.740Yeah, actually there is, there are Chinese liquor products and beyond this tariff tiff that we're into, Sheila, why are we stocking Chinese liquor, Chinese beer, uh, the trinkets and trash that are on the shelves, such as bottle openers, which are made in China anyways?
00:34:42.520I mean, shouldn't we have had an anti-Chinese regime buying policy going back to COVID?
00:34:49.780You know, from the world endured trillions, trillions with a T folks of economic damage.
00:35:37.900Because Justin Trudeau tariffed, uh, Chinese EVs to save his heavily subsidized, uh, EV battery and otherwise, uh, automobile, automobile manufacturers in Quebec and Ontario.
00:35:52.740Um, I just, I sort of posted on X before I jumped on the stream here.
00:35:58.220It's real easy to be team Canada when it, you've got the federal government, all the political parties fighting to save your jobs.
00:36:09.460I was going to say doing everything they can, but they're not doing everything they can as in just take down the rhetoric a little bit.
00:36:15.040They're not willing to do that, but otherwise willing to do everything they can to make sure that your jobs are protected while Western Canadian, uh, workers and farmers, um, we're expected to sacrifice ours.
00:36:28.300Of course you are because the West doesn't vote liberal, Sheila.
00:36:40.020As you pointed out a little bit earlier, Mark Carney, I think, uh, pointing out his priorities and in a swipe at the Trump administration, which I mean, these guys continue to be petty about the Trump administration, but they will crush our economy if they don't stop this BS.
00:36:58.440And, and, and anyways, Carney decided to go, uh, to Europe as his first, uh, tour of duty, go home to Europe, I guess.
00:37:09.980And this is him remarking, um, that Canada is the most European of non-European.
00:37:15.280Uh, no, actually, I would say we're very close to the Americans, uh, but that just grosses these people out.
00:37:46.120We both stand for sovereignty and security demonstrated by our unwavering support for Ukraine under your leadership with you, Mr. President.
00:38:02.360I want to ensure that France and the whole of Europe works enthusiastically with Canada, the most European of non-European countries.
00:38:14.200Determined like you to maintain the most positive possible relations with the United States.
00:38:22.300Canada is a reliable, trustworthy, and strong partner of France, which shares our values and lives them through action during this age of economic and geopolitical crises.
00:38:37.020Okay, so if we're all about trade deals with Europe, Sheila, and I really mean this, I really wish one of the trained SEALs in the mainstream media who can get access to Prime Minister Carney would ask this.
00:38:51.700Your predecessor, Justin Trudeau, last year told some European countries, such as Germany and Greece, as well as an Asian country, Japan, there was no business case for selling about $1 trillion of liquefied natural gas.
00:39:08.660Mr. Carney, what is your position on that?
00:39:11.860Because right now, it seems that given his supposed about face on the carbon tax and his trip to Europe to, I don't know, I think, Sheila, the ostensible policy reason is to get more trade from European allies because what's happening in the U.S. right now, isn't that a fair and valid question?
00:39:35.380And really, Sheila, I don't even know how we'd answer that question.
00:39:38.500How about this? Why are you going to Europe and proclaiming that Canada is European in the middle of a trade war with the Americans?
00:39:52.900How about that? Just like, let's not complicate the question.
00:39:56.440What are you doing in Europe when you should be in Washington?
00:39:59.880I feel like that's a really, like a question we all should be asking.
00:40:05.280And to say, oh, we're very, we're very European.
00:40:08.500Who? Montrealers? Quebec City residents?
00:40:13.720What about the rest of us here in Alberta who feel more culturally aligned?
00:40:19.320I'm not saying that people want to be American, although there is a very healthy portion of the population who do.
00:40:25.240But even just to say that, you know, like there's a huge part of this country that feels more culturally compatible with Americans than Macron.
00:40:34.820Well, you know, Sheila, I don't speak French, but I even wonder if Quebecers have that tie anymore.
00:40:40.600I've been told if there's a made in Quebec movie that air that, you know, is screened in France, they have to put subtitles on it.
00:40:48.780Yeah, I feel the same way about anything made in Newfoundland.
00:42:39.960But let's get into further to Mark Carney refusing to take down the heat in the trade dispute with the Americans.
00:42:48.420You know, first he goes to Europe instead of going to Washington, which is a real clear signal that he is not willing to back down on any of this stuff to save Canadian jobs.
00:42:59.320But he then hired Catherine McKenna's house husband, Scott Gilmore, of all people, to be his foreign defense and security policy advisor.
00:43:19.020So this is the Canadian government and not like what Carney did to avoid ethics disclosures.
00:43:26.340He joined as an advisor to the leader of the Liberal Party, which would help him advise Trudeau on things that would then enrich Brookfield asset management without having to make ethics disclosures.
00:43:38.740Because, oh, I don't work for the Canadian government.
00:43:42.300Now, I think Scott Gilmore has joined in an official capacity in the prime minister's office.
00:43:47.600Now, the reason I say this is crazy is because, well, Scott Gilmore, you'll know he once famously said that people's grandpas who went off to war in Europe to fight the Nazis, you know, like stormed the beaches of D-Day in what was often a suicide mission.
00:44:07.100And he thought Antifa was cut from the same cloth as our grandpa's.
00:44:11.400Now, he's Carney's defense and security advisor, like advising on issues of national defense, military related stuff.
00:44:20.420Like he pictured he sent a tweet of it was D-Day.
00:44:24.480And it was like one of those, the beaches, like the they were headed towards the beach.
00:44:30.160And he was like, this is the alt left going to fight the alt right.
00:44:35.640As if as if those young men fighting in defense of the world considered themselves akin to the alt left, which is Antifa and the Hamas marchers, like just madness.
00:44:50.740But this is the guy who's advising on military issues now.
00:44:54.260You know, I know how much it bothered him to be called the house husband.
00:54:14.180No, the guy who had his farewell party at a venue not far from our headquarters, which has a ginormous Pinocchio statue.
00:54:23.580This is the guy that's lied and lied, you know, about the biggest one, I think, Sheila, is police services telling the government to do the crackdown on the trucker freedom convoy in 2022.
00:56:03.280Like, you know, the NDP, Mark Carney, is in it for billionaires, not working people, and then he promises taxes to cut taxes for billionaires, not working people.
00:56:15.460Sheila, there is a big scuttlebutt right now that the election will indeed be called, perhaps on Sunday.
00:56:27.660And the reason I would think the Liberals and Carney would want to go to the polls ASAP is that they believe these ludicrous popularity polls that showed them within 1%, whereas just a few months ago, it was a lopsided landslide for the Conservatives.
00:56:50.600I still think it's going to be a Conservative-majority government, but if they believe their own hype, yeah, well, go for it.