Rebel News Podcast - REBEL ROUNDUP ｜ Trump vs 'Team Canada', Poilievre's response, Provincial trade barriers

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00:00:30.000 Oh, hey, good morning, good afternoon, everybody. Depending on which part of this beautiful country

00:00:45.600 that you're in, you're watching Rebel Roundup. I'm your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed. My friend David

00:00:51.180 Menzies is off for the next two weeks. I'm joined by my friend, our managing editor, Tamara Ugolini.

00:00:57.500 Tamara, how's it going? Hey, Sheila. Well, what a loaded question given the, as David Menzies

00:01:04.260 would say, the jam-packed sausage of news coverage that we have to get to on this manic Monday. But

00:01:10.320 all things aside, doing well considering the tumultuous times we're experiencing here on the

00:01:16.920 political landscape in Canada and North America. What about you over there on the west side?

00:01:22.160 You know, I think we're going to do better than the rest of the country and somebody's got to

00:01:27.200 because you people in the rest of the country want nice things and somebody's got to pay for them.

00:01:32.500 But it is bitterly cold. So I'm really excited for that hike in the carbon tax coming April 1st.

00:01:38.840 It's so cold today the school buses didn't run. So I guess my car did. I had to drive everybody to

00:01:44.140 school. But yeah, it's a wild time to be alive. It's, as you alluded to, tariff mania today, I think

00:01:52.820 is what we're going to talk about on the show today. The different responses from the different

00:01:57.640 premiers raging from confrontational, adversarial, and superheated, and asking for trouble to the

00:02:03.820 more measured approach coming out of Alberta. So we'll talk about that all today. Doug Ford had an

00:02:08.280 early morning, early, I guess, for me, I think it was 730 for me press conference. And we'll go

00:02:14.160 through that together because these people obviously have no interest in taking the heat

00:02:17.860 down for some reason. Well, I think I know what that reason is. And we'll talk about that in a

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00:03:10.380 Rumble. It's called a Rumble rant. If it's over the $5 US cutoff, it's mandatory. We've got to read

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00:03:27.380 critical. We'll take the constructive criticism too. So I think that's it. Unless I've forgotten

00:03:32.940 something, Tamara, your premier is really just hell bent on destroying your economy, isn't he?

00:03:39.160 I think that is becoming more and more clear as time goes on. He also just, as David Menzies and I

00:03:45.940 have chatted about before on the live streams, textbook name Flip Flop Ford, and he doesn't

00:03:51.520 know whether he's coming or going. He seems to say all of these crazy things, and then he backpedals on

00:03:58.100 it, or he switches directions entirely. That's been a pretty near constant over the last five years of

00:04:04.920 keeping a closer watch and eye on Premier Doug Ford here in, as I call it, on terrible. But yeah, so he

00:04:13.200 has done everything in response to these tariff threats that are now becoming reality from President

00:04:20.500 Donald Trump to, you know, first saying things like, we're going to cut off US energy supplies,

00:04:27.380 just completely as a retaliatory measure. I think that was about three, four weeks ago, he started

00:04:32.600 with that kind of rhetoric. And then he backpedaled on that, said, oh, we're just going to take some of

00:04:37.420 the bourbon, the US bourbon off the shelves. And now he is saying things that Canadians have been

00:04:45.160 advocating for for years. Why haven't we been utilizing our natural resources, oil and gas

00:04:51.360 sector and building pipelines this whole time? I mean, you cannot keep up with the amount of times

00:04:56.120 that Premier Ford flip flops and backpedals and switches directions. I mean, now he's called an

00:05:04.840 election in the middle of this disastrous trade war that we have, you know, unprecedented in my time

00:05:12.180 with our closest ally and trade partner, the United States. And what does majority government

00:05:19.140 Doug Ford do? Well, he calls a snap election under the guise of needing a stronger mandate. So, you

00:05:26.080 know, Ford, I think, doesn't know what is going on. And he's just throwing everything out at the wall

00:05:31.400 to see what will stick. Yeah, it's exactly like what Justin Trudeau did in 2021, right? Call a snap

00:05:38.660 election because we need a mandate to deal with the crisis. And the only election we actually want

00:05:44.900 and need is the one that will get rid of Justin Trudeau, who apparently could not even get a phone

00:05:51.660 call in to President Trump before the tariffs came. I think he had one, as Ezra mentioned in the morning

00:05:57.980 staff meeting, one this morning, like after the tariffs are announced. And then after we retaliate

00:06:04.700 with tariffs, he decides, well, maybe I should talk to President Trump. But we'll get to that

00:06:09.500 in a second. Let's get to this first clip. Trump says tariffs could increase on Canada

00:06:17.180 if the Trudeau government takes retaliatory measures. I mean, again, this is something Trump warned us

00:06:24.340 about. He said, do these things, you'll avoid the tariffs, or retaliate with tariffs, and I will crush

00:06:32.760 you further. We do like, anyways, let's watch this. And I'll tell you why we're in for a world of

00:06:37.660 hurt. Well, it could happen if they do anything, we will. Canada has been very abusive of the United

00:06:47.520 States for many years. They don't allow our banks. Did you know that Canada does not allow banks

00:06:53.340 to go in? If you think about it, that's pretty amazing. If we have a US bank, they don't allow

00:06:59.100 them to go in. Canada has been very tough on oil, on energy. They don't allow our farm products in,

00:07:05.160 essentially. They don't allow a lot of things in, and we allow everything to come in. It's been a

00:07:10.620 one-way street. We subsidize Canada by the tune of about $200 billion a year. And for what? What do

00:07:18.860 we get out of it? We don't get anything out of it. I love the people of Canada. I disagree with the

00:07:23.620 leadership of Canada. And something's going to happen there. But if they want to play the game,

00:07:30.820 I don't mind. We can play the game all they want. Mexico, we've had very good talks with them.

00:07:36.600 And this is retaliatory. This is retaliatory to a certain extent. Millions of people float into

00:07:43.920 our country through Mexico and Canada. And we're not going to allow that. 0.97

00:07:52.340 We're in trouble. We're in big, bad trouble. And, you know, as Ezra rightly pointed out,

00:07:59.900 the trade surplus is a direct result of Canada's oil and gas. And as McDonald-Laurier poll results

00:08:09.900 from last week show, a lot of Americans have a lot of misconceptions about where their foreign oil

00:08:17.880 comes from. The majority of Americans think their foreign-sourced oil comes from Saudi Arabia,

00:08:23.280 not from Canada. And that's a failing of the Trudeau government and all the big oil and gas

00:08:31.400 producers who have all the money to do the education campaigns on this issue. They didn't do anything for

00:08:36.860 10 years to remind people like, hey, we're your friendly neighbor. And you're worried about energy

00:08:42.680 security. And you don't want to buy it from the bad guys of the world. And you don't want to

00:08:47.640 send us into the loving arms of China as a place to sell our oil and gas. Wouldn't you rather have it

00:08:53.460 from us? You need to also replace the strategic reserve that Biden released into the world to

00:09:00.120 artificially deflate the cost of oil and gas in the United States. You might want to fill that back up.

00:09:04.900 But anyways, we're in for a world of hurt. And this is why. Because the Texas economy,

00:09:16.020 one state, albeit a big boy, their entire economy is larger than that of Canada's. So that shows you

00:09:22.700 the level of pain Trump can inflict on us, rightly or wrongly. He can inflict just an absolute level of

00:09:31.920 hurt like we have never seen, because they're 10 times larger than us easily.

00:09:37.780 Yeah, I was I was reading this morning that the GDP, Canada's GDP, we export approximately 22%

00:09:43.680 of our gross domestic product into the United States versus I think it was 1.2% that they give

00:09:50.640 back to us. I mean, this definitely gives the United States a much higher hierarchy of leverage power

00:09:58.660 against Canada when we depend on that market trade relationship for our GDP and that stability in

00:10:08.820 our economy. And Canada's economy is already on rocky ground. These tariffs are going to do what

00:10:15.960 the Trump administration has signed executive orders to do. They want to drive business, drive innovation,

00:10:23.100 drive manufacturing back into the US economy, they want to stop their dependency on foreign imports,

00:10:29.560 and make America great again, make that their home base having that strong capacity once again to be

00:10:38.400 independent, both energy, manufacturing, all goods and services. And so this is part of Trump's larger

00:10:46.860 administrative strategy to bring that back home into United States, build the economy, build better

00:10:52.980 jobs. And all we see from our supposed leaders, which Trump in that clip says explicitly,

00:11:00.440 I don't agree with the leadership of Canada. And obviously, the vast majority of Canadians don't

00:11:04.780 either. And so despite all of that, and the fact that we have a frozen parliamentary system,

00:11:11.880 the outgoing lame duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has resigned from his post, but is still

00:11:17.240 supposed to be or supposedly leading this Team Canada approach, which are just counter-threatening

00:11:23.880 tariffs back onto the US. And despite all of that, what Canadians really want to see is that trade

00:11:31.420 partnership not be completely tattered by this nonsense of doing dollar for dollar tariffs when

00:11:38.140 the Canadian dollar, I think, is trading at, what, three quarters of the US dollar? Where do they think

00:11:43.960 we're getting this leverage power from? It's crazy. Yeah, we're at two thirds. The dollar took

00:11:48.980 just a harsh tumble today. Now's a good time to buy oil and gas stocks if you're into that sort of

00:11:54.500 stuff. They might, you know, they're tumbling, but they'll pick back up. That's my little free advice

00:11:59.140 to everybody. But if you've got some money to play with, buy a few stocks today because things are

00:12:04.860 tumbling. But we've just seen on the flip side, the Mexicans, who Trump has been like, these are bad

00:12:15.040 hombres. The Mexican government is not sending us their best. Like he has said that for years.

00:12:22.340 This shows how poisoned the relationship is between Trudeau and Trump. Because Mexico, 0.95

00:12:30.400 that Trump has been very hard with, very critical of, they just struck a deal with Trump this morning

00:12:36.600 to avoid tariffs, at least for the time being. So Trump says, I just spoke with President Claudia

00:12:43.760 Scheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she has agreed to immediately

00:12:47.500 supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers to the border separating Mexico and the United States. Now,

00:12:53.080 Canada could never do this because we don't have, I don't think, that many deployment ready soldiers.

00:12:57.220 And that's part of the problem here that Trump has with us. These soldiers will be specifically

00:13:02.560 designated to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migrants into our country. We further agreed to

00:13:06.860 immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a month period during which we will have negotiations

00:13:11.140 headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who I believe could be convinced to alleviate some of

00:13:18.720 the pain on the Canadian economy. Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant, and Secretary of Commerce,

00:13:24.080 Howard Lutnick. And Howard Lutnick is a bit of an Alberta fan. So if we could just get some sort of

00:13:31.760 concessions out of Trudeau, we could maybe start picking away at things, but I just don't think

00:13:38.720 we'll see it. And high level representatives from Mexico. We will attempt to achieve a deal

00:13:45.280 between our two countries. So that was posted originally on Truth Social. So that should tell you

00:13:50.440 how poisonous the Trudeau government has been to Trump, because Trump was willing to pause the

00:13:59.200 tariffs on Mexico while they did something about their border problem and their fentanyl problem.

00:14:05.720 Trudeau just refuses to acknowledge there's even a problem here. In his two and a half hours late

00:14:12.820 statement to the media on Saturday night, he said, our border is secure. And it's no big deal. And we

00:14:20.840 all know that's not true. There's so many people coming across our border that it has completely

00:14:26.920 collapsed our immigration system. It takes years to get an immigration review board hearing once you

00:14:32.200 waltz into the country and claim refugee status. So anyway. 0.85

00:14:37.860 Not to mention the fact that I think there's about 150,000 illegal refugees who were claiming

00:14:45.140 refugee status, who were denied that the government just lost.

00:14:49.400 We don't know where they are. They're just running amok. Yeah.

00:14:51.820 And so they're crossing the border. Where do you think that they're headed? To the land of greater

00:14:56.540 certainty. But as this message came out with Mexico and that diplomacy and those negotiations have been

00:15:03.500 successful and fruitful to both countries, right? Because this is a benefit to both Mexico and the

00:15:09.720 United States if they can reach an agreement here to move forward in a way that benefits both the

00:15:15.640 countries. Now we have a official opposition leader as though we now, I guess, have some form of an

00:15:21.080 opposition in Canada once again. You have Pierre Polyev taking to Twitter, sorry, taking to X,

00:15:27.900 saying that we must take back control of the border and save Canada-US trade. He's now kind of separating

00:15:35.660 from that Team Canada retaliatory approach and saying we must send Canadian forces, troops, helicopters

00:15:42.820 and surveillance to the border now. So exactly what Danielle Smith has been doing for the better part of a 1.00

00:15:47.200 month. Add at least 2,000 border agents and extend the CBSA powers along the entire border, not just crossing.

00:15:53.740 Again, Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, has called for a border czar to do just that because she no 0.58

00:15:59.620 longer trusts the CBSA or the RCMP to fulfill their mandate of securing our borders and keeping Canadians

00:16:06.440 safe. I mean, they've had that mandate since the beginning of the country and they haven't been able

00:16:12.000 to uphold that over the last few years. It's becoming more and more prevalent. It's becoming more and more

00:16:16.760 exposed. Canadians are starting to see things the way that they really are. And so, you know, this is

00:16:22.040 is basically taking Danielle Smith's approach and trying to shoehorn it into this Team Canada

00:16:28.000 approach with Pierre Polyevin. The third thing he's saying is install high-powered scanners,

00:16:32.880 border surveillance towers and truck-mounted drone systems to spot border incursions. I mean,

00:16:38.340 this is literally what Danielle Smith has been doing for almost six weeks.

00:16:43.320 Yes. Yes. And it's actually something for people who say that, oh, this is just in response to

00:16:48.180 Trump's threats. It's been months and months in the works because those sheriffs had to receive

00:16:54.740 specialized training. They had to ramp up equipment and training. And so it's been like six months

00:17:00.460 of a federal or a provincial government focus on doing the federal government's job. And initially it

00:17:06.800 was done as a way to combat human trafficking and drug trafficking because we have not just a recovery

00:17:15.320 focused approach in Alberta, but like a zero tolerance for fentanyl, unlike the federal government

00:17:21.480 who just wants to give out hard drugs. Like, let's not kid ourselves. Do we not think for a second that

00:17:28.200 the safe supply from British Columbia is not ending up on the streets of Seattle?

00:17:34.740 Right? Like, I imagine the Americans are quite irritated that our government is issuing the poisons

00:17:40.720 which kills Americans. All funded by us, the taxpayer. They're literally putting them in 0.67

00:17:46.580 vending machines and giving them out to kids on the streets in front of hospitals. I mean,

00:17:51.120 this idea that there is safer supply. And the thing, the thing that really gets me with all of these

00:17:55.480 trade tariffs and the counter threats is that every day average Canadians have been asking and calling

00:18:01.740 on and demanding the government do these things for years. We've been saying there's a crime wave

00:18:08.280 across the country. We need to bring back bail reform. We need to change the federal judicial

00:18:14.560 system, the catch and release. All of these woke, ridiculous implementations that the Justin Trudeau

00:18:21.620 liberals have put onto our criminal justice system has just led to more crime and chaos in the streets

00:18:27.440 compounded with the drug crisis. This idea that there is safer supply of deadly, extremely toxic,

00:18:35.480 and highly addictive opioid synthetic drugs. And then, of course, we have this porous border

00:18:41.820 issue where we've just opened the floodgates to record immigrant immigration numbers and have done

00:18:49.660 away with the usual checks and balances to make sure that those people are properly assimilating into

00:18:54.760 Canada as a country. Instead, we've just lost a bunch of the ones who didn't actually get refugee

00:19:00.860 status because, as you mentioned, it's taken so long and there's such a backlog because we don't

00:19:06.540 have any systems in place to bring those checks and balances and restore them back to pre-2020 and

00:19:14.400 pre-Justin Trudeau levels. So this is nothing new to any Canadians who have been paying attention

00:19:20.640 the last several years under the reign of terror, as I would like to call it, of the Justin Trudeau

00:19:26.320 liberals. But now Trump's just really shining a spotlight on those things that have been ignored

00:19:33.000 by the political class for years and years and years. And it's left Canadians feeling completely

00:19:37.740 sidelined. Right. Like, as you point out, this is the right thing to do for Canadians. It has been

00:19:42.840 the right thing to do for Canadians for years, at least going back to 2017, when Justin Trudeau sent that

00:19:49.700 tweet saying, welcome to Canada, when Trump was busy deporting people from five failed states.

00:19:54.720 Um, and he called it the, the mainstream media called it the Muslim ban, but it was just from

00:20:00.320 failed states where he couldn't verify anybody's identities. He put a pause on migration from there.

00:20:05.240 And Justin Trudeau said, oh, really? Well, welcome to Canada. That one tweet caused a collapse in our

00:20:10.480 immigration system. And now as Trump starts mass deportations of illegals in his country, something

00:20:16.220 he was elected to do, whether you like it or not, his concern is I'm going to deport them.

00:20:22.540 They're going to go to Canada, go to Pearson airport where you could just claim refugee status 0.61

00:20:28.220 now, and then wander back across the border. So the, the impetus is on us to, uh, make sure

00:20:34.700 that these people just don't, you know, it's like that, um, Simpsons, uh, meme where Mo was

00:20:40.480 throwing Barney out the front door and he walks in the back door. That's what Trump is, is worried

00:20:45.140 about a little bit. Um, we've got, uh, this interesting clip from the Justin Trudeau presser

00:20:53.100 on Saturday night. And this I found slightly stomach churning given Justin Trudeau's treatment

00:21:00.860 of the people, um, who did many of these things. So let's, uh, just go into this. He's standing on

00:21:06.700 someone else's shoulders as if, uh, he and his government did it from the beaches of Normandy,

00:21:14.660 to the mountains of the Korean peninsula, from the fields of Flanders to the streets of Kandahar,

00:21:21.900 we have fought and died alongside you. During your darkest hours, during the Iranian hostage

00:21:31.240 crisis, those 444 days we worked around the clock from our embassy to get your innocent

00:21:38.420 compatriots home. During the summer of 2005, when Hurricane Katrina ravaged your great city

00:21:46.620 of New Orleans, or mere weeks ago when we sent water bombers to tackle the wildfires in California.

00:21:56.820 During the day the world stood still, September 11th, 2001, when we provided refuge to stranded

00:22:06.040 passengers and planes, we were always there, standing with you, grieving with you, the American

00:22:16.580 people. Together, we've built the most successful economic, military, and security partnership the

00:22:26.300 world has ever seen. A relationship that has been the envy of the world. Yes, we've had

00:22:34.160 our differences in the past, but we've always found a way to get past them.

00:22:41.500 As I've said before, if President Trump wants to usher in a new golden age for the United States,

00:22:49.220 the better path is to partner with Canada, not to punish us.

00:22:57.080 Right off the bat, I feel like this is a discussion between a husband and a wife.

00:23:03.440 This is textbook gaslighting. Don't forget all these times that we stood together, and we were

00:23:10.300 unwavering, and we were strong, and let's forget the bad times, and let's just focus on all the times

00:23:16.900 we weathered the storm and came out on the other side, successful and strong. This is such a weird

00:23:22.240 way to approach the conversation. After the White House press secretary called Trudeau, and I think that

00:23:28.240 was on Friday or sometime maybe over the weekend, she called out Trudeau and said maybe before he

00:23:32.920 runs to the media, slinging his rhetoric around, he should just pick up the phone and give President

00:23:39.080 Trump a call. And then you have him up here on the podium with gaslighting the U.S. as though,

00:23:46.620 like, don't forget all of our history and all of our strong ties. And meanwhile, back when he was

00:23:52.940 actually with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago, Trump explicitly said, what do you think if I

00:23:59.780 implement 25% tariffs on Canada? And Trudeau acknowledged that it would crush the country.

00:24:05.500 Like, this isn't the makings of a strong leader. I mean, when does this guy go away? Because he's

00:24:12.780 resigned from being prime minister. He's prorogued parliament. Why is he still up here leading the

00:24:20.180 charge? I don't understand. But yeah, it was, by the way, it was the provinces that sent the help

00:24:27.260 to California. It was Alberta that sent, I think, 30 some odd wildland firefighters. Another province

00:24:37.580 sent water bombers. The provinces did that. You know, Alberta, the province you want to punish all

00:24:42.980 the time. You want us to burn ourselves down to heat the rest of you. We did that. We deployed

00:24:50.060 those specialized wildland firefighters. And I think they actually went to Bakersfield,

00:24:57.160 where there's a large oil and gas field because our wildland firefighters are used to fighting fires

00:25:02.120 around oil and gas installations. That's not something Justin Trudeau would know about, though.

00:25:08.100 And the other thing that I found quite disgusting was he's standing on the backs of our veterans 0.86

00:25:14.340 to make the case for why we are good neighbors to the United States. But those are the same people

00:25:22.520 that Justin Trudeau said was asking for more than he was willing to give them. So he wants the Americans

00:25:28.700 to appreciate their service and sacrifice when we know Justin Trudeau himself does not appreciate

00:25:34.360 their service and sacrifice because he is a horrible, despicable man who just won't go away.

00:25:40.160 Speaking of horrible, despicable people who just won't go away, we've got

00:25:44.480 Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau's former right-hand woman,

00:25:48.800 one of two WEF choices to lead Canada

00:25:52.360 going forward. She says, Canadians are, 0.99

00:25:56.140 guys, we're super hurt.

00:25:58.100 We're so super hurt and we can't even turn to Disney Plus because we canceled it to fight inflation.

00:26:07.080 And I just, you guys, just cut it out. Let's watch this.

00:26:14.000 Americans have to understand how hurt and frankly how furious Canadians are. Our sovereignty is being

00:26:22.380 challenged. And so, yeah, regular Canadians across the country are coming up with ways to stand for

00:26:29.180 Canada, to fight for Canada, to defend Canada, but mostly to say to our American neighbors,

00:26:34.520 guys, just cut it out. Just stop it. This is a terrible idea. And yes, we are going to use all the

00:26:41.080 tools in our toolbox. You mentioned a little bit earlier how the United States depends on China,

00:26:46.000 critical minerals and metals that you need for semiconductors, that you need to build electric

00:26:52.100 vehicles. Well, guess who also produces those? Canada. You depend on us for a lot and we are

00:26:58.920 happy to work together, but it's got to be a two-way street. Oh my gosh. Okay. So then we have

00:27:05.500 Chrystia Freeland with her paternalistic rhetoric being like, just cut it out, guys. 1.00

00:27:11.260 Just cut it out, you guys. She's like, it's like fighting children. She's being the parent of a 1.00

00:27:16.600 pair of fighting children who just won't stop duking it out. And then we have Trudeau up there,

00:27:22.800 you know, inferring that this is like some sort of romantic relationship. Don't forget that we had

00:27:27.760 each other's backs all these years. Remember when I bought you those flowers that time after I gave you

00:27:33.760 a black eye? Yeah, that's what it felt like. I cannot believe that these are the individuals who

00:27:39.360 were elected to leave the country because this gas, it's all, it all reeks of gaslighting. And,

00:27:46.080 and don't forget, I, the treating this as though it's a romantic, weird relationship, paternalistic,

00:27:55.200 cut it out everyone. And I'll be your parent and tell you what to say and do next is exactly why

00:28:00.780 everybody dislikes the liberals and why they are on their way out, why they're pulling numbers are

00:28:06.580 absolutely abysmal. And I can't, I think that Trump is obviously shining a light on all of this

00:28:13.580 and the way that these people are acting. I don't know how everyone isn't seeing through this and

00:28:19.020 calling out this absurd conduct by the Justin Trudeau liberals and Chrystia Freeland. I can't

00:28:26.660 believe you have a whole entire team and staff behind you who develop your speeches and develop your

00:28:33.260 talking points and this is the best they could come up with. This is craziness.

00:28:38.380 I've seen the people behind Freeland and Trudeau and their performances during the

00:28:43.540 Foreign Interference Commission. So I'm actually not surprised. Actually, this is better than I 1.00

00:28:48.320 thought that they could come up with. But there's a reason Trump and his people cannot stand Chrystia

00:28:54.500 Freeland. And you just saw it right there. She's condescending. She is, she talks down to you like

00:29:01.100 we're a bunch of kindergartners. When we're the ones that understand economics and our household

00:29:08.740 economics a lot better than she does. And yet she, this crazy lady, was in charge of the entire 1.00

00:29:15.360 Canadian economy. You know what, it's by the grace of God, things are not even worse in this country.

00:29:19.760 Um, let's get to this, uh, quick chat and then we'll do the, uh, rumble ad read, hit a break,

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00:29:31.980 So we've got, uh, Gray Donk gives us 10 bucks. Thank you very much. Says an American first president

00:29:37.200 and a Canada first prime minister. Interesting. You use that phrase because, uh, Polly have used that

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00:29:59.280 Um, and I think the feeling is, well, the feeling is mutual and the liberals won't shut up about it.

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00:33:01.180 Let's get into the grownups in the room. Polyev saying the things that we can do internally,

00:33:07.780 immediately, immediately, right now, to make things better.

00:33:16.520 Yes? No? Olivia?

00:33:19.200 Olivia? Do we have that clip from Polyev saying that we need a new trading partner?

00:33:23.400 There it is. We'll take this one. There we go. Thanks.

00:33:28.740 New tariffs on Canada's economy. It is reckless to remain so helplessly dependent on just one export

00:33:36.040 market, the United States. Canada must also look to sell to other countries, and I've found just the

00:33:43.740 one. It is a country that needs Canada's products, and it sells things that we'd benefit from buying.

00:33:49.660 It's a peaceful democracy, with lots of resources and famously nice people. It shares our climate,

00:33:57.140 culture, and would you believe it? Their official languages are French and English, just like us.

00:34:04.500 There's only one problem. This country imposes massive trade barriers on us that cost about

00:34:10.260 $5,100 per person. So which country is it that we should be pursuing as our new top trading partner?

00:34:19.660 Switzerland? France? No. Our new top trading partner will be... Canada.

00:34:27.980 But don't we already have free trade with ourselves? Nope.

00:34:32.760 It's actually easier for our businesses to sell to other countries than to other Canadian provinces.

00:34:39.380 Trade barriers between Canadian provinces are actually more costly than trade barriers between Canada and other nations.

00:34:46.820 The result is that we now trade more with the rest of the world than we trade with ourselves.

00:34:53.660 In 2023, international trade was worth 66% of our GDP, while interprovincial trade was only worth 36%.

00:35:03.480 That makes no sense.

00:35:05.660 Economist Trevor Tomb estimated that eliminating all interprovincial trade barriers would boost

00:35:10.880 Canada's economy by as much as 7.9% and generate an economic boost of $200 billion per year,

00:35:18.760 or $5,100 per person.

00:35:22.180 In 2022, Canadian provinces and territories sold nearly six...

00:35:27.020 Yeah, that's good. Cut this one. It goes on for seven minutes.

00:35:29.160 I mean, it's really informative and it's great to know.

00:35:30.840 But I think that the Trump tariffs have really, again, shone a light on all of these things.

00:35:38.760 For people who didn't know previously that there are interprovincial trade barriers on industry,

00:35:44.860 promoting and prompting that business to exit the country instead of staying and working within.

00:35:51.760 This has really acted as a catalyst to drive that potential big change for the betterment of what these so-called leaders are calling the Team Canada approach.

00:36:05.280 If we are going to go with a Team Canada approach, then we should be prioritizing how we become more independent

00:36:12.360 and utilize things like our vast natural resources and our energy sector to benefit the country as a whole.

00:36:20.680 So I think this has really served as a way to expose the inter... 1.00

00:36:27.920 Not only the interprovincial, but the international trade market

00:36:32.480 and how maybe it's not actually working to serve Canadians the best.

00:36:37.580 Yeah, and this is something that the provincial government in Alberta has been working on for a very long time.

00:36:42.880 It sort of started with a few legal battles with interprovincial trade on liquor.

00:36:50.680 Because like inbound liquor, they were tariffing, other provinces are tariffing outbound liquor.

00:36:56.680 And isn't that the point of confederation?

00:36:58.920 Like why are we a country then if we have these inbound trade disagreements?

00:37:07.440 Isn't that why you join a country?

00:37:09.480 So we can work collectively with each other?

00:37:13.880 But along the way, really from the very beginning, these trade barriers went up.

00:37:18.360 Daniel Smith says,

00:37:20.440 Did you know it's easier for Canadian provinces to trade with European countries than with each other?

00:37:24.800 This is true.

00:37:25.760 And I've got some numbers on this.

00:37:28.740 It's time Canada eliminates interprovincial trade barriers

00:37:31.900 so that Canadian families, businesses, and our national economy

00:37:34.440 can weather this incoming trade dispute with the United States.

00:37:38.020 I was pulling up some numbers before we came on air.

00:37:44.980 And all told, non-geographic internal trade barriers in Canada

00:37:52.880 add up to a tariff equivalent of 21%.

00:37:58.240 That's pretty close to the 25%.

00:38:00.900 And that's the International Monetary Fund estimates that.

00:38:04.220 So this is like an outside looking in.

00:38:09.380 So the International Monetary Fund says,

00:38:13.720 The benefits of removing these internal trade barriers would be huge.

00:38:17.760 It estimates that if trade in goods was fully liberalized,

00:38:21.280 real gross domestic product per capita would increase by 4% nationally,

00:38:25.860 with the internal trade volumes rising to the level of Canada's internal trade.

00:38:30.580 Labor mobility would increase,

00:38:32.500 boosting employment in the Atlantic provinces by 6%.

00:38:36.460 It would take a big chunk out of the unemployment rate there.

00:38:40.160 Removing trade barriers would also boost international trade

00:38:43.600 by providing easier access to the entire Canadian market.

00:38:47.440 This is something that the CFIB has been talking about forever and ever.

00:38:53.320 Over the decades, because of these internal trade barriers,

00:38:56.800 companies have just given up with trying to access other markets inside the country.

00:39:00.680 So over the decades, interprovincial trade has declined relative to international trade from 50% to 40%.

00:39:08.600 So companies are just saying, you know what, it doesn't even matter.

00:39:13.000 I'm not even going to bother trying to sell into Saskatchewan because I can't.

00:39:17.380 I'll just sell to the Montanans.

00:39:18.860 You have Danielle Smith here who has just completely bypassed the media and kind of became the media on her own right. 1.00

00:39:29.720 And she's posted an op-ed here in the National Post where she says how Team Canada can overcome Trump tariffs.

00:39:38.500 So in addition to highlighting those interprovincial barriers and the interprovincial trade issues,

00:39:45.860 she has taken here to the National Post where I think it's about a third of the way down the page.

00:39:51.580 She said,

00:40:21.580 And then later on, she says that's why she's planning to return to Washington, D.C. twice more this month

00:40:28.840 to participate in the Republican Governor's Convention, visit with dozens of elected and administrative officials.

00:40:35.360 Well, she'll never stop telling Alberta and Canada's story to their friends and allies south of the border.

00:40:40.640 Oh, and also she says this calm, logical discussion is far more effective than tough guy rhetoric when dealing with a misguided ally who has wronged us.

00:40:51.900 And, you know, it's quite the essay for anybody who wants to go in and read it all.

00:40:57.460 But I mean, yeah, let's let cooler heads prevail.

00:41:01.120 Stop exploiting this tension with our closest ally and trade partner and figure out what's going to work.

00:41:07.800 I mean, if Mexico can do it, why in the heck can't we?

00:41:11.320 Right. Well, it has to do with Mexico having 10,000 deployment ready soldiers.

00:41:16.360 And I'm quite certain we don't have that and that should hang around Justin Trudeau's neck like a millstone.

00:41:23.500 But yeah, Daniel Smith also says, I encourage all elected Canadian leaders to do the same,

00:41:29.820 to tell your stories, to reach out to the other side.

00:41:34.140 Instead, Justin Trudeau is dividing Canadians.

00:41:39.220 He's dividing us from our American friends and allies.

00:41:43.020 Daniel Smith says the Canadian U.S. friendship with the American people is far more important and enduring than any one person.

00:41:50.880 We would do well to remember that.

00:41:53.380 Yes. Yes.

00:41:55.500 But again, we were led by leaders and that are idiots.

00:41:59.420 And here we are.

00:42:00.440 And then, yeah, we have another video here from Polyev saying that he will continue to march forward as proud Canadians.

00:42:08.440 The thing with some of these videos that are being put out is that this is changing so quickly

00:42:13.280 that you see pretty much almost in real time a lot of these videos and clips going stale.

00:42:20.560 But also as things change, you know, just this morning as Mexico and the U.S. reach a negotiation deal

00:42:28.180 and the tariffs are paused for a month because of the actions they are immediately taking to secure the border

00:42:34.120 and stop the crossing of illegal fentanyl, just in general, into the U.S.

00:42:41.400 You see now Polyev comes out with that, you know, leaning more on the Alberta model.

00:42:46.020 And so some of these clips already, I'm wondering if they're already getting stale

00:42:50.380 after these leaders have seen the way that things have unfolded in the Mexico relationship.

00:42:58.320 So maybe in that in that regard, I'll skip over that video.

00:43:02.600 And I'd like to throw to this one by Saskatchewan Premier, Scott Moe, who has been really the only one to back Smith.

00:43:14.040 It took him about a week or two to get his bearings.

00:43:16.940 Yeah, he eventually came around.

00:43:20.000 He, you know, he did sign on with the Team Canada stuff.

00:43:22.840 But then I think he saw Smith stick her neck out and take a different path. 0.99

00:43:27.640 And he came around.

00:43:29.760 So we have this small clip from him just this morning.

00:43:33.940 No one wants to be in the situation that we currently find ourselves.

00:43:38.160 Likely the most challenging situation in recent history and certainly may well be one of the most challenging situations

00:43:45.400 that we've seen since we've last been involved in any actual wartime conflict.

00:43:51.240 This is going to have an impact on our agricultural producers up and down the supply chain in the ag industry in Saskatchewan.

00:43:57.820 It will have an impact on our miners up and down the supply chain as well.

00:44:02.160 All of those involved in the mining industry, whatever the product might be, our oil and energy workers,

00:44:07.120 as well as our retailers in our urban centers and in our communities across this province.

00:44:12.580 This will have an impact.

00:44:14.320 And I would implore on our federal government to work alongside the provinces as they have been,

00:44:19.460 but to ensure they are always looking at options like we saw in Mexico this morning

00:44:24.500 to have these tariffs removed if it even is for a short period of time so that we can further our engagement

00:44:30.460 and further the integration and further the opportunity that we have to implore on one individual,

00:44:36.500 one individual, President Trump, that seems bent on using these tariffs in some way, shape or form

00:44:43.540 to destabilize the investment environment that we have in North America,

00:44:47.780 to destabilize the energy and food security that we have been able to acquire in North America

00:44:52.560 over the course of the last number of decades and maybe even the century

00:44:56.020 and the significant role that Saskatchewan plays in this.

00:45:00.600 And again, I would just say that everything that we do as leaders, political leaders,

00:45:05.140 business leaders, community leaders, needs to be focused on the long term.

00:45:09.700 It needs to be focused on de-escalating the conversation around imposing tariffs on one another,

00:45:15.660 de-escalating the conversation around harmfully reducing the opportunity

00:45:22.300 that we have in that strong, growing and vibrant North American economy

00:45:26.720 and focusing on ensuring that these tariffs are removed as soon as possible,

00:45:31.600 like it appears they may have been for a period of time in Mexico this morning.

00:45:38.020 Yeah, the only thing I would say about Scott Moe's comments are that Trudeau

00:45:43.940 is directly responsible for destabilizing investment in this country with their woke, 1.00

00:45:51.620 DEI, energy, sustainability, sustainable development goal, aligning strategies and policies

00:46:00.500 that has driven investment and innovation out of this country, not what Trump is doing.

00:46:08.800 I would argue that what Trump is doing is simply shining a light on it.

00:46:14.460 And unfortunately, until our political leaders get a grip and realize that Canadians have been 1.00

00:46:20.100 calling on them to do all of the things that Trump is also asking them to do with these tariffs,

00:46:28.100 we're kind of the ones who will suffer the most consequences.

00:46:33.100 And it's really sad for the Canadian people.

00:46:36.900 I think, and as Trump mentioned in one of those earlier clips, you know,

00:46:39.820 I like the Canadian people, but I don't agree with the leadership.

00:46:43.660 And I am all here, here for that.

00:46:47.220 You know what?

00:46:49.500 If I were Scott Moe, my next phone call, and I would be for my first phone call would be to Daniel Smith

00:46:56.180 to say, hey, when you're in Washington, can I come?

00:47:01.260 And can we together meet Brooke Rollins?

00:47:04.920 Now, Brooke Rollins is Trump's pick for ag secretary, head of the USDA.

00:47:10.680 And he should go there and make the case on behalf of the Canadian potash industry.

00:47:16.380 Now, Saskatchewan is the number one potash producer in the world.

00:47:20.680 And the other countries of the world have some serious human rights problems.

00:47:27.280 If you are going to up the cost of Canadian potash, that'll send you into the arms of Russia. 0.96

00:47:33.640 Now, Canada produces more than double what Russia produces in potash per year.

00:47:39.700 So that should tell you how much potash we have and how important the potash industry is in Saskatchewan,

00:47:46.060 not just to Canadian agriculture, but to the stability of the food chain around the world.

00:47:51.340 Because if you don't get it from Canada, you're getting it from Russia, then China, then Belarus.

00:47:56.560 So the top, oh, Germany comes in with like a fraction as number five.

00:48:01.240 So of the top four, four of them are kind of not great on the human rights issue.

00:48:06.340 And then there's us in Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan being some of the friendliest people on the planet.

00:48:11.020 Um, so Brooke Rollins is the USDA secretary.

00:48:17.400 Scott Moe should be meeting with her and saying, look, these tariffs are going to increase the cost of the inputs for the American farmer. 0.65

00:48:27.300 And the American farmer is either going to have to eat that cost, which a lot of times you have to, because you take your price from the world market.

00:48:35.420 You don't set it.

00:48:36.700 So it's going to make farmers poorer if their input costs grow up.

00:48:40.340 Or in some instances, that cost will be passed along down to the consumer.

00:48:45.040 So you're going to have poor people in the United States facing food insecurity because you are adding a 25% tariff to our potash.

00:48:54.480 So for our sake and for the sake of the American people, let's drop the potash tariff.

00:49:03.460 Um, that's if I were Scott Moe, that's the first thing I would be doing like today.

00:49:07.660 Call Daniel Smith, say, you're going to talk to the governors.

00:49:10.040 I'm going to let's talk to Brooke Rollins and let's see what we can do to plead our case. 0.61

00:49:14.640 Do not leave this up to, uh, the Trudeau government because they don't know anything about farmers.

00:49:21.020 Absolute disaster.

00:49:22.020 Yeah, like why let's focus on building that relationship and building that rapport and moving forward as, you know, renewed allies and a united front.

00:49:31.960 Um, but President Trump, as we see pretty much in real, real time, I think this is about 10 minutes ago, his, uh, communications advisor in the White House, uh, posted this 42nd clip of him still saying, uh, and wanting Canada to become the 51st state.

00:49:50.240 Look, what I'd like to see Canada become our 51st state.

00:49:55.500 We give them protection, military protection.

00:49:58.740 Uh, we, we don't need them, them to build our cars.

00:50:01.600 I'd rather see Detroit or South Carolina or any one of our, Tennessee, any one of our states build the cars.

00:50:08.680 They could do it very easily.

00:50:09.680 We don't need them for the cars.

00:50:10.960 We don't need them for lumber.

00:50:12.740 We don't need them for anything.

00:50:14.260 We don't need them for energy.

00:50:15.840 We have more energy than they do.

00:50:17.340 We don't need them for energy.

00:50:18.860 Don't.

00:50:19.520 Uh, so I say, why are we doing this?

00:50:21.640 Why do we, why are we willing to lose between a hundred billion and $200 billion a year?

00:50:27.360 We don't need them.

00:50:28.560 As a state, it's different.

00:50:30.300 Look.

00:50:30.440 I don't know.

00:50:31.940 I think that Trump also sees a vast resource land here in Canada and he's definitely downplaying

00:50:38.660 the amount that Americans, you know, as you've already pointed out, Sheila, the amount of,

00:50:43.320 of oil and gas that Americans and energy Americans do rely on.

00:50:47.080 And I think he sees that we are just a vast land of pretty much untouched natural resources.

00:50:56.180 And so Trump is a businessman.

00:50:57.560 He's thinking about this from a purely business monetary, what is best, um, to capitalize on

00:51:05.840 the, on, on Canada as a country.

00:51:08.460 And so, uh, you know, I take that 51st state with it, with a massive grain of salt.

00:51:14.160 I'm not saying that, Hey, we can't have that a conversation of how the countries can work

00:51:18.800 together and build a more robust United front, maybe, you know, North American strategy between

00:51:24.780 and that was supposed to be kind of the whole point of the USMCA, that trade deal that was

00:51:29.240 negotiated back in, uh, 2020.

00:51:32.060 And so I think that there is definitely a lot of space there to have renewed discuss discussion

00:51:37.220 and build that relationship back to where it was.

00:51:40.900 But this nonsense of hitting back with dollar for dollar tariffs and escalating these tensions

00:51:46.040 is not it.

00:51:47.220 This is not, this is not a team Canada approach, no matter how many times they try to throw

00:51:51.680 that verbiage out there.

00:51:53.440 Um, this is going to hurt Canadians.

00:51:55.320 And I think the more true Trump kind of trolls Canada, as though we will eventually become the

00:52:00.780 51st state.

00:52:01.740 I mean, that would be, that would be massive.

00:52:03.560 Just even think about it.

00:52:04.980 Logically, Canada would have to be broken up into, uh, multiple little states that were

00:52:09.980 to ever come to fruition.

00:52:10.960 Don't take this the wrong way, don't take this the wrong way, but I don't want to be

00:52:15.400 in a state with the rest, with Ontario.

00:52:18.100 Like, that's just it.

00:52:20.720 Yeah.

00:52:20.980 We're too vast to be just one state lumped in together.

00:52:24.400 Um, I think Sydney Fassard, our videographer did a fun little streeter video where he asked

00:52:30.980 Albertans, would you, would you want Alberta to be the 51st state?

00:52:35.000 And, uh, so that was lots of fun to see.

00:52:37.260 We're pretty receptive.

00:52:38.500 Yeah.

00:52:38.900 Well, and I think a lot of Canadians are, I mean, we're, our economy is not doing well.

00:52:43.540 We, as a country, the polling numbers indicate that people despise the Justin Trudeau liberals.

00:52:51.500 Yeah.

00:52:51.640 Any of the runner ups are equally as despised as Justin Trudeau himself.

00:52:55.500 And we are desperate for a change.

00:52:58.940 And so when you have Canadians suffering and even things like, okay, we have the tariffs

00:53:04.340 coming in.

00:53:04.920 We also have, as you've mentioned, the increase in the carbon tax coming up on April the 1st.

00:53:10.120 And Canadians are already paying more in taxes than all of their basic necessities combined.

00:53:18.040 This is unprecedented levels of taxation that the Canadian people are living under the thumb of.

00:53:23.940 And so when you have people who are so desperate, who feel so slighted and, um, sidelined by their

00:53:31.760 government, well, then you have the ears of those people to see what can change.

00:53:36.460 And so I think Trump has, you know, he sees all of that.

00:53:40.580 Yeah.

00:53:40.960 I mean, and of course, Albertans are, we've been living that vibe, as they say, for quite a long

00:53:47.020 time.

00:53:47.280 So that's why we will be, of course, more, more receptive to that rhetoric.

00:53:52.400 But yeah, we've got so many resources that our government insists on just stranding, stranding the

00:53:58.080 asset, which is crazy.

00:53:59.380 I mean, we've got 800 years of the world's cleanest burning coal in Alberta.

00:54:03.220 We can't use it.

00:54:04.500 We can't get pipelines built.

00:54:06.140 We can't get energy approvals.

00:54:07.720 They've slapped an emissions cap on us.

00:54:10.340 And then Justin Trudeau pleads the case of Canadian, reliable Canadian energy to Donald Trump.

00:54:16.560 And it's like, excuse me, who do you think you are?

00:54:20.440 You've bad-mouthed our oil and gas for the 10 years, nine years that you've been in office.

00:54:24.640 And before that, you've enabled everything to strand the asset.

00:54:30.240 And then you say to the Americans, well, you can't, you can't tariff us.

00:54:34.360 We've got the energy that you need.

00:54:36.200 Yeah.

00:54:36.980 No, we do.

00:54:37.860 And we would love to have sold them more, but you won't let us.

00:54:41.160 We've got a couple of chats here and a quick ad read.

00:54:46.660 And then I think maybe we should get into some of the dumber things that suggested by the premiers, because I think like maple syrup in your shopping cart, those selfies are going to be the new vaccine Band-Aid selfie.

00:55:03.660 Like already that nonsense is trotting out that you're just a frontline soldier in the war on Trump by buying French's mustard or something.

00:55:14.500 So we've got a couple of chats here.

00:55:16.380 We've got one from Alberta Dawn, regular viewer of the show, regular supporter, gives us five bucks and says, Trudeau talks about our critical minerals.

00:55:24.420 How long does, thank you, exactly.

00:55:26.300 How long does it take for a mine approval?

00:55:30.020 Does Trudeau and Ford know the U.S. does not force automakers to produce EVs anymore?

00:55:36.480 Yeah, exactly.

00:55:37.140 They don't need as many of our critical minerals as Justin Trudeau seems to think they do.

00:55:42.060 And actually, they can get them from China because they've only tariffed China 10%.

00:55:47.800 And I think we had another one.

00:55:50.000 Oh, Billy Howard says,

00:55:50.960 Now, that feels a little foreign interference-y. 0.94

00:56:07.460 And I think that's why Trump's not saying that.

00:56:12.680 I think maybe Trump is trying to push public sentiment in that way.

00:56:17.260 But at the same time, we couldn't dislike Trudeau more in many parts of this country.

00:56:23.720 And it's really, I guess, just up to Jagmeet Singh, what we do.

00:56:28.340 Go ahead, Tamara, if you have something to add.

00:56:29.900 Jagmeet Singh, who I'm not confident that he would have called a January 27th non-confidence vote.

00:56:35.600 You see, there's-

00:56:36.080 I still don't think too well.

00:56:37.840 Yeah.

00:56:38.420 And he said that.

00:56:39.420 He has come out and said that he would not support a non-confidence vote.

00:56:43.120 The fourth non-confidence vote in as many months in December literally used his own words.

00:56:51.860 They verbatim took what Jagmeet Singh said about the Liberals and put it into,

00:56:58.580 the Conservatives put it into a non-confidence motion, and it didn't pass.

00:57:03.820 So I think that speaks for itself, whether or not Jagmeet Singh is going to support a non-confidence vote.

00:57:10.020 You can put them forward as much as you want.

00:57:13.300 But so long as there's that fringe minority liberal NDP coalition propping up the democracy in our country,

00:57:21.920 which I would say is in and of itself inherently non-anti-democracy,

00:57:27.220 we're all hostage to their fringe views.

00:57:30.920 And that's the state of affairs in Canada.

00:57:32.920 When we actually have a functioning parliament, which as it stands right now, we don't.

00:57:37.360 And ask yourself, imagine what Canada could be if we had a leader who cared as much about growing

00:57:47.200 and protecting our economy as Trump does for his.

00:57:52.340 You know, we've got we've had nothing but 10 years of self-sabotage to please the globalists.

00:57:58.300 Really.

00:58:00.100 Imagine.

00:58:01.300 Imagine if we had somebody who worked as hard as Daniel Smith did to save the economy of Alberta.

00:58:08.480 Just someone who is willing to say, like, look, I'm going to go there.

00:58:11.220 I'm going to talk to these.

00:58:12.020 I'm going to talk to them.

00:58:12.940 I'm going to plead the case.

00:58:13.740 I'm going to put my face in front of it.

00:58:15.440 And what I really like is that when the media called her a traitor, when the liberals called

00:58:20.280 her a traitor, when her fellow conservatives, Doug Ford, called her a traitor, she never

00:58:24.820 bent.

00:58:25.200 Not even once.

00:58:25.920 She just did not care because Albertans elected her to stick up for her jobs and for our jobs. 1.00

00:58:32.020 And that's what she did.

00:58:33.540 We've got one more quick ad read.

00:58:35.740 And then we'll go into what David Eby is doing.

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00:59:29.440 Tamara, I'll let you pick which one goes first.

00:59:31.240 We want Eby or Ford.

00:59:33.880 Yeah, well, we chatted about Ford a little bit at the beginning.

00:59:36.200 So maybe let's go into Ford and then we'll talk about the British Columbia's premier,

00:59:40.480 David Eby, with his emotional rhetoric.

00:59:43.800 But we have a clip here from premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, from this morning.

00:59:49.800 So let's roll with that one.

00:59:51.100 Tomorrow, the LCBO, which sells nearly a billion dollars worth of American beer, wine, spirits

00:59:58.880 and seltzers every year, will remove all U.S. products from its shelves and wholesale catalog.

01:00:06.380 Starting today and until U.S. tariffs are removed, Ontario is banning American companies from

01:00:14.080 provincial contracts.

01:00:16.160 Every year, the Ontario government and its agencies spend $30 billion in procurement alongside

01:00:22.440 our $200 billion plan to build Ontario.

01:00:25.460 And I'm urging all 444 municipalities to do the same.

01:00:31.300 U.S.-based businesses will now lose out on tens of billions of dollars in new revenues.

01:00:38.260 They only have President Trump to blame.

01:00:40.920 We've gone one step further.

01:00:42.840 We'll be ripping up our contract with Elon Musk's Starlink.

01:00:46.720 Ontario won't do business with people hell-bent on destroying our economy.

01:00:53.140 Friends, there's no sugarcoating it.

01:00:55.760 The coming days and weeks will be incredibly difficult.

01:00:59.840 Trump's tariffs are going to devastate our economy.

01:01:03.480 These tariffs will put up to 450,000 jobs at risk from every sector and every region.

01:01:10.360 No one will be immune.

01:01:12.120 Everyone will feel the impact.

01:01:13.700 Yeah, I remember when Doug Ford, the last time he called everyone friends, which was

01:01:21.000 when he was rolling out COVID pandemic relief like it was candy and printing money with the

01:01:29.840 help of the federal government, of course, to offer everyone all of this relief and don't

01:01:36.000 worry, stay home, save lives, you won't, your business will be okay, just shutter it.

01:01:40.740 It's only two weeks to flatten the curve.

01:01:42.100 And they're rolling out and starting to implement these exact same pandemic relief style supplements,

01:01:50.860 which is just going to make inflation even worse than it already is.

01:01:56.620 Instead of securing the border and getting the drugs off of our streets, we're going to

01:02:02.400 just print money to try to deal with the tariffs and counter them and escalate those tensions

01:02:09.620 with the U.S.

01:02:10.200 Logically, again, it just doesn't make sense why we can't secure the border, get the drugs

01:02:16.920 off of the street, do what Danielle Smith has stuck her neck out to do, which is facilitate 1.00

01:02:23.460 that diplomatic relationship and implement what Canadians want for that province.

01:02:30.260 Why doesn't Team Canada do that on a more Canada broad scale instead of putting us into even

01:02:37.940 more economic hardship?

01:02:39.020 Basically, I think until Canadians are at the government's doorstep begging for universal

01:02:45.360 basic income because what they're going to do with this pandemic style relief, as they call

01:02:50.480 it, it's just inflationary spending.

01:02:53.200 It's just money printing.

01:02:54.600 It's all fake.

01:02:55.980 And we will become so devastated and reliant on government handouts that people will be

01:03:01.700 begging, just bring in UBI, please. 1.00

01:03:03.920 We'll take it.

01:03:05.580 Yeah.

01:03:05.860 You know what?

01:03:06.380 And I'm going to be petty here just under the corner of my eye.

01:03:09.200 I was like, how is it possible that Doug Ford looks like both Weirton Willey and the guy

01:03:15.000 who holds up Weirton Willey and says the groundhog has decided?

01:03:19.440 I don't know how that happened.

01:03:21.940 But Doug Ford said he's going to cut off contracts with Starlink.

01:03:26.580 And I was like, man, how serious is he about not doing business with Elon Musk?

01:03:31.180 So then I went over and I read the announcement over on X.

01:03:34.780 And I'm like, not all that serious, are you, Doug?

01:03:39.500 Because it was like he makes his announcement to not do business with Starlink.

01:03:45.860 And he tweeted it from his ex Blue Checkmark account.

01:03:52.120 So he has no problem paying Elon in that way, just not the other way.

01:03:57.280 Oh, the irony.

01:03:58.840 And we have, I guess the polling numbers must be in because Pierre Polyev has just, we've

01:04:05.920 just clipped another video from him where he is slamming the liberals for losing control

01:04:12.700 over the border and implementing a radical, borderless, globalist, post-national agenda.

01:04:21.000 Let's play this little 45-second clip.

01:04:23.640 Nice.

01:04:23.980 Borders.

01:04:26.920 They are the protective arms wrapped around our people and our land to stop foreign threats 1.00

01:04:34.100 and protect against enemies.

01:04:37.460 They mark our place and stake out our ground as a people and country.

01:04:41.620 But in nine years, the NDP liberals have lost control of our borders, letting drugs, guns

01:04:47.180 and terrorists threaten our people.

01:04:49.500 Part is incompetence.

01:04:51.360 But part is the radical liberal agenda.

01:04:54.820 A borderless, globalist, post-national agenda.

01:04:59.840 Post-national is the word that Justin Trudeau used.

01:05:03.120 All of this done with the advice and support of his top economic advisor, Mark Carney, who

01:05:09.980 calls himself a European.

01:05:13.620 Yeah.

01:05:14.460 So looks like Polyev's maybe growing a backbone.

01:05:18.880 You know what?

01:05:19.400 The deal with Mexico, I think, is the real turd in the punch bowl right now for the liberals 0.98

01:05:26.780 Team Canada approach, because it shows that even a country that Trump, Trump, I think,

01:05:33.780 to some extent, literally campaigned against Mexico, and he was able to cut a deal with

01:05:38.700 them to stave off the tariffs.

01:05:41.220 It shows, again, how poisonous the relationship is with the Trudeau liberals and how this would

01:05:47.000 not be happening to us were it not for the Trudeau liberals' approach to this problem.

01:05:54.240 So good.

01:05:55.540 You know, it's nice to see.

01:05:56.340 By the way, I have a tough time being told that I need to get on board with the Team

01:06:01.220 Canada approach by people who arrested people for waving Canadian flags in the nation's

01:06:06.200 capital.

01:06:06.660 Sorry.

01:06:06.900 I just I'm I'm having a tough time squaring that circle these days.

01:06:11.080 You know, froze their bank accounts and pressured in martial law against their own peacefully

01:06:16.920 assembling citizens to quash a grassroots civil rights movement against this very government.

01:06:24.380 Yeah, who claims now we're all about Team Canada.

01:06:28.140 Really, really bizarre handling.

01:06:31.900 Yeah.

01:06:32.260 Of our government.

01:06:33.280 And again, Canadians have been trying to say this and they've been voicing these concerns

01:06:38.800 that have repeatedly fallen on deaf ears for several years now.

01:06:43.480 And it's really come to a peak now since COVID and the handling of COVID.

01:06:48.560 And now we have another president coming in and shining that light on even more than it

01:06:57.560 already kind of was.

01:06:58.920 And so on the more global scale, again, this is all being revealed.

01:07:03.740 I think we just have time here for one more EB.

01:07:07.080 This is the British Columbia Premier with his far left NDP rhetoric on the tariffs.

01:07:14.740 Today, we're at a crossroad and the journey ahead won't be easy, but there is no place

01:07:21.560 on Earth I would rather be to face this threat than right here in British Columbia.

01:07:26.560 We have everything we need to succeed.

01:07:29.380 Oh.

01:07:30.060 Abundant natural wealth and clean, cheap energy.

01:07:34.040 A diversified economy and access to global markets.

01:07:37.180 And our most important resource of all, you, the people who call this beautiful place home.

01:07:44.520 British Columbians are hardworking, highly skilled and resilient.

01:07:48.300 Through this uncertainty, our government will be there to stand up for you and your family.

01:07:54.100 As proud British Columbians and Canadians, we will meet this moment together and come

01:08:00.040 out stronger on the other side.

01:08:02.340 Together we'll fight, not fold.

01:08:04.420 Be resolute, not roll over, because that's just who we are.

01:08:10.220 Here in the true North, strong and free.

01:08:16.320 Okay, so he announced that he is banning products or tariffing products.

01:08:21.020 I forget how it went.

01:08:22.000 Oh, banning liquor from red states, from Republican-run states, but not from Democrat-run states.

01:08:30.620 And I don't know why he's pulling U.S. liquor off the shelves.

01:08:35.420 But he said it was red states, which is ridiculous.

01:08:41.180 But maybe this is his response to conservative Alberta avoiding the worst of the tariff.

01:08:47.000 So he was like, I'll show you guys.

01:08:49.260 I'll punish the Republicans.

01:08:51.960 I don't know.

01:08:52.740 This is just one of the dumbest, most politically driven stunts that we've seen in this very

01:08:59.960 early NDP government in British Columbia.

01:09:03.460 Yeah, exactly.

01:09:04.180 And as Drea has already pointed out, won by a smidgen of a hair.

01:09:09.340 Just say it.

01:09:09.700 And how much...

01:09:10.760 Yeah, with some potential discrepancies involved there.

01:09:15.720 We have to be careful what we say on YouTube, but you can find all of her reports if you

01:09:18.820 want to look a little bit more into what happened in the B.C. election last fall.

01:09:24.880 What a difference it would have been if...

01:09:27.320 Oh, why can't I think of his name right now?

01:09:29.080 The conservative...

01:09:29.940 John Rustad.

01:09:30.920 Thank you.

01:09:31.400 Yeah, if he had of won the provincial election, and then you would have B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan

01:09:40.440 banding together, you know, having this diplomatic relationship, mending ties, and what a difference

01:09:49.160 that would maybe make for the real Canadians, actual Team Canada, who has wanted to see these

01:09:55.220 measures implemented far before Trump ever threatened tariffs to do so.

01:09:59.180 Before we go, I know we're done, and I know we're over time, and we both have important

01:10:03.840 jobs at the company, so to take us both out of the company just to be on the live stream

01:10:09.600 for a bit is a little bit inconvenient for everybody who relies on us to improve things.

01:10:14.100 But Elon Musk has responded to Doug Ford.

01:10:19.220 Oh, no.

01:10:19.480 And this is what he says.

01:10:21.540 Can we bring that up?

01:10:24.740 I was in News Jax in the Slack channel.

01:10:29.180 Did you find it?

01:10:31.060 He's a funny...

01:10:32.100 He's a really good troll.

01:10:34.260 Yeah.

01:10:36.740 So, to be clear, the Ontario government had a $100 million contract ahead of Starlink,

01:10:43.000 or with Starlink, and that's what they're canceling.

01:10:47.060 And so, I'm not...

01:10:48.120 What does that mean for everybody else?

01:10:49.620 But Elon Musk, oh well.

01:10:52.700 Like, the guy had nearly $50 billion of just mad money to spend on a failing company called

01:11:00.220 Twitter, because he believed in free speech.

01:11:02.120 He was just willing to just throw it out there.

01:11:05.580 Do you think he cares about your $100 million contract, Doug Ford?

01:11:10.680 Looks like he doesn't.

01:11:11.860 So, I don't know.

01:11:13.040 Good stunt, though, bro.

01:11:14.260 So, also, what does ripping up a $100 million contract really mean?

01:11:19.080 Are we still paying, and we just don't go through with the deal, or what happens there?

01:11:25.180 Because if it was a contract, then there must be stipulations in there for payment.

01:11:29.680 So, we're still going through, but we're just going with the optics of how it looks to rip

01:11:34.400 it up, or what's really happening?

01:11:37.580 Also, what does this mean for the 10,000 rural people?

01:11:41.860 Yeah, hi.

01:11:45.320 Yeah.

01:11:45.860 Like, Starlink literally changed my life when it comes to work.

01:11:50.880 I would have to get up even earlier than I do, and I'm a farmer, just so that I could

01:11:57.160 get my work done so that I wasn't competing with video upload speeds.

01:12:01.060 If you remember the olden days of the live stream, I would just disappear, pixelate and

01:12:05.740 disappear, because my internet would blow in on the wind and then blow away, or however

01:12:10.360 the internet works.

01:12:11.320 But Starlink is strong and reliable, and I probably just jinxed it like calling a shutout.

01:12:16.560 But for rural people, it is a game changer.

01:12:20.860 I don't have landlines into my house.

01:12:22.580 There's no hope in hell of ever getting fiber optics past the door.

01:12:26.060 Like, it's not coming.

01:12:27.220 My house was built without the connection.

01:12:29.880 It's just a log house in the middle of nowhere.

01:12:31.700 So, this, Doug Ford, good job.

01:12:33.900 You're punishing the rural people now, too.

01:12:36.180 So, with your tariffs, which punish consumers, now you're punishing rural people.

01:12:39.960 Great work, Dougie.

01:12:41.760 It's just also another very clear example of flip-flop Ford.

01:12:48.500 On January 24th, I just posted this in the live stream chat.

01:12:52.980 On January 24th, he explicitly stated that he won't scrap the Starlink deal over the tariff

01:13:01.020 spat.

01:13:01.660 He defends his decision, arguing that no other companies could handle the infrastructure,

01:13:06.740 given that Starlink is the largest satellite provider globally.

01:13:11.060 And this comes after Ontario actually paid, I think it was Telesat, for a deal to deliver

01:13:18.660 Canadian-owned satellite internet.

01:13:22.420 And they, I don't even remember how many years.

01:13:25.640 I think it has been at least, is it 10?

01:13:29.000 It's been at least a few years.

01:13:30.500 It's supposed to be 10.

01:13:31.060 It's supposed to be, like, the length of the, to get it up and running.

01:13:35.040 It's already been a few years.

01:13:36.060 I think it's supposed to be 10 years out.

01:13:38.180 Yeah, but they've done nothing.

01:13:40.860 And despite getting billions of dollars dedicated to building this infrastructure, they have

01:13:49.740 done nothing.

01:13:52.600 And so, ironically, it's called Lightspeed, but it's traveling at the speed of a snail.

01:13:59.100 And so, the Elon Musk Starlink deal was replacing this nonsense with Lightspeed that is not delivering

01:14:08.960 any sort of speed, let alone the speed of light.

01:14:11.700 And now, flip-flop Ford has reneged on all of that.

01:14:15.180 So, who knows what Ford will even end up doing.

01:14:17.900 Who knows whether or not he'll get a renewed mandate at this point.

01:14:20.760 He's not even really the premier.

01:14:22.360 He is now a candidate, because we're in the middle of a provincial election.

01:14:25.460 So, what Ford does is anyone's guess, because he just flip-flops all over the place.

01:14:32.560 These people are absolutely insufferable.

01:14:36.160 It's just, everybody is just, you know, like I said, maple syrup is going to be the new vaccine

01:14:41.760 selfie.

01:14:42.900 And people who ate at Harvey's today are going to be scolding you for eating at McDonald's.

01:14:49.720 Like, it's just more division.

01:14:51.760 And at the end of the day, it's the consumer and the normal people who suffer while they

01:14:58.500 try to advance their political fortunes on the backs of Canadians.

01:15:02.360 Like, that's the only reason the liberals are doing this, because they're plummeting in

01:15:05.200 the polls.

01:15:05.640 They can't campaign against polyevs, so they've got to campaign against Trump. 1.00

01:15:09.500 And they're going to be the saviors of Canada from Trump, instead of the people who led us

01:15:13.980 as lambs to slaughter in a trade and tariff war.

01:15:19.080 Is that, are we done?

01:15:20.360 Are we all wrapped up?

01:15:21.220 I think that's all the clips that we're going to get to today.

01:15:23.680 Do we have any chats left or no?

01:15:25.980 I don't see any left.

01:15:27.240 Oh, okay.

01:15:27.800 We'll wrap up.

01:15:28.120 I think that we're done.

01:15:29.580 Okay, great.

01:15:30.680 Tamara, thanks for subbing in for David Menzies, as he's got a couple of weeks off.

01:15:37.040 Let's all get back to work.

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Rebel News Podcast - February 03, 2025

REBEL ROUNDUP ｜ Trump vs 'Team Canada', Poilievre's response, Provincial trade barriers

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