On today's show, David Crayton is joined by Dan McTeague, a former member of Parliament, to discuss the news that the GM plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, is laying off 500 workers, and what that means for the future of electric vehicles in Canada.
00:00:00.560Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Crayton. I'm coming at you live from our nation's capital on this Saturday morning, April 12th.
00:00:11.220Historic day. This was the day the Titanic went down in 1912. So, looks like the Kearney ship is going down too. So, we're watching that carefully.
00:00:24.520My guest this morning, I don't see him waiting in the green room yet, the blue room if he doesn't show up, is Dan McTeague, former member of parliament for Scarborough and a dear friend for many, many years.
00:00:40.640I knew Dan when I worked on the Hill and he was a member of parliament, a liberal member of parliament, a common sense liberal.
00:00:47.060And he's still a common sense individual. I don't know if he still is a liberal. I never asked.
00:00:54.520But he's supporting a conservative in this election campaign.
00:00:58.680And so, I'm coming back very shortly with Dan McTeague and with lots of information for you. Thank you for watching today.
00:01:09.520The Prime Minister lied and his minions continue to lie.
00:04:43.660It's like investing in the Brooklyn Bridge that you don't own.
00:04:47.440This is a incredibly foolish venture by the provincial government of Ontario and the federal government of Justin Trudeau.
00:04:54.600They lauded this as a great thing, as something that was just a remedy for the economy, a remedy for climate change.
00:05:07.120And of course, once you mix climate change with the economy, it never works.
00:05:14.460It never fits together like the way these liberals always insisted does.
00:05:19.600So, it's not the tariff that's causing this problem.
00:05:30.940It's lack of interest in electric vehicles.
00:05:36.660That's what's creating the crisis here.
00:05:39.080And I know there are certain politicians, some even on the right of the spectrum, who are insisting this 500-worker layoff is all a direct result of Donald Trump.
00:06:29.140And every election, of course, the liberals try to suggest the conservatives are going to ban all abortions.
00:06:39.200Well, of course, the conservatives have never suggested that.
00:06:43.240Going back to Brian Mulroney, who tried to establish an abortion law when the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the existing abortion law in 1988, leaving us with no abortion law since 1988.
00:07:48.520And I'm looking forward to the day when a conservative leader, hopefully it's Pierre Polly, can stand up and say, yes, Canada needs an abortion law.
00:09:26.860So I was just talking about the Ingersoll layoffs.
00:09:30.380And I'm sure it's going to be a closing before long.
00:09:32.540It's very optimistic to say this is all going to be rectified in a couple of months.
00:09:36.580But as I was explaining, there are some politicians out there who are suggesting this is all a result of nasty, evil Donald Trump's tariffs.
00:10:33.300People are not purchasing like they thought they would.
00:10:36.100So they have thousands of vehicles sitting there.
00:10:39.840We're going to make sure we support the workers and make sure that we get government, especially Canada Post, to pick up some of these vehicles because that's what it's geared for.
00:11:12.340And on the 22nd of March, I said, it says a lot about why at Ford Nation is Giddy supporting Kearney.
00:11:20.540He's committed billions of borrowed EV and battery manufacturing like this one in Ingersoll, where the provincial and feds kicked in over half a billion for bright drops.
00:11:30.180It was supposed to sell 100,000 units, only sold 2,100.
00:12:56.700He decided that it would be a good idea to maybe talk to the French president, Macron, about buying some of those Rafale Dassault military fighters.
00:13:06.700Kick out the F-35 planes, the jets that we were committed to buying.
00:13:10.580Spend 10, 15 billion bucks on these jets and get France to buy maybe 5 billion bucks worth of military vehicles,
00:13:17.120which are going to be built at places like Ride Drop, perhaps, or maybe even the half-built or even not yet built Northvolt battery plant, the other bankruptcy that's occurred.
00:13:26.640So, however you slice it, the Liberals have had 10 years of failed policies.
00:13:35.780And what they're going to try to do is use a lot more public money and hopefully put enough wool over everyone's eyes so that we continue to go down this road of more recklessness as a result of what we've seen on EVs.
00:13:45.820For Doug Ford to have signed on this, I mean, shame on him.
00:13:48.080But it probably explains why he doesn't want to support Pierre Polyev.
00:13:51.680It says a lot about, forget what Corey Tanike and the dispute between or the anger or the animosity between Ford and Pierre Polyev.
00:14:00.600This is about Pierre Polyev saying, your policies are garbage.
00:14:04.600They've undermined the financial feasibility and sustainability of the federal government and the provincial government.
00:14:10.020And we're going to get rid of them, just like we're going to get rid of the CBC.
00:14:12.740And so, for those reasons, you're going to see why people are not supporting Pierre Polyev because they know, you know, they know which side of the bread is going to get buttered.
00:14:22.360And for guys like Doug Ford, bad mistake, back the wrong horse, and now we're holding the bag.
00:14:27.280That's why I call the election early, my view.
00:15:33.280It created famine and millions of people died in the process because ideology cannot trump reality.
00:15:41.040And this is exactly as I see what's happening with these electric vehicles.
00:15:45.360It had to work because net zero has to work, because electric vehicles have to work, because the gas-powered engine is on the verge of extinction.
00:16:04.260And I can't believe there's not more outrage out there because we have spent, you know, as I just showed a minute ago, we have spent $42.6 billion in subsidizing the electric vehicle industry.
00:16:45.800And they've just, you know, basically burned through a billion point one, 1.1 billion of your money and mine in order to build something that can't be done.
00:16:56.020And if Canadians can't get their head out of the sand and realize that they're being duped, that they can't afford, you know, the saddling of the debts that these things are incurring for generations to come.
00:17:06.160And they think that somehow, you know, crapping on pipelines or putting emission caps that won't allow us to make any more oil or gas to send these pipelines that they now suddenly have discovered are important.
00:17:16.600If we don't wake up real soon, the next two weeks, I can say confidently the next four years I'm going to be spending is basically tut-tutting people saying, I warned you, but, you know, you decided that it was probably better to be worried about orange man bad south of the border rather than considering the absolute weakness that you all acknowledged just a few months ago under Justin Trudeau.
00:17:38.460Nothing has changed, if anything, Mr. Carney and his company, as we well know, has lied on so many fronts.
00:17:46.460And here's the big one that I'm going to say it here now because I've said it many places before, but to be absolutely clear, you're going to get a carbon tax.
00:17:54.280And that 20 cents you think you're getting off, it's going to be 40 cents by 2030, likely by the end of another government, should they form a majority government.
00:18:00.680So, look, folks, if, you know, you're maxed out your credit cards, you can't pay your utilities, some of the people have to go to food banks, you don't have a job, your kids certainly don't have one, and the future looks extraordinarily bleak with a $1.3 trillion debt, accumulating $62 billion every year in deficits.
00:18:19.080Those are things that would have caused liberals and conservatives' hairs to curl in years past.
00:18:28.060And I see these people who have good pensions and self-directed pensions, and, oh, we're not worried about it, we just don't like Donald Trump, and we think Pierre Paulyev's like him.
00:19:11.480Now, Mark Carney, of course, has been talking out of both sides of his mouth on net zero and pipelines.
00:19:17.280When he's in Alberta, he's amenable to pipelines.
00:19:19.500And maybe net zero wasn't such a great idea.
00:19:22.160When he's up back in Ontario, no way we're going to go for pipelines.
00:19:25.860And no way is net zero going to be gone.
00:19:29.660He hasn't eliminated the consumer carbon tax.
00:19:32.980He's reduced it to zero for the election.
00:19:34.920So it could be reignited again at any time.
00:19:38.640He's promised the corporate carbon tax.
00:19:41.000And he's also talking about something called a carbon tariff, which is even more ominous because it could potentially drive everybody, all the corporations out of Canada, because they don't have to pay a carbon tariff south of the border.
00:19:56.140And they don't have to pay a corporate carbon tax out of the border.
00:20:00.720So is Carney playing games with us here?
00:20:03.640Well, let's understand and break that down a little bit.
00:20:08.100But this is a guy that's basically come around and come up with great ideas as to how to cartelize the financial industry to try to choke off oil and gas.
00:20:16.700And it's great in Canada because we'd like to bend over and we take these things because we can always find some kind of cool argument.
00:20:23.360But the United States doesn't take it that way.
00:20:25.000And as I mentioned earlier, Mr. Carney and G-Fans are subject now to what is likely to be a significant hit in terms of antitrust.
00:20:38.360They've taken on the big grocery dominant players back in the 1930s, the 1890s, and very recently IBM and others.
00:20:45.220So the reality is that at the end of this, it's going to be very embarrassing for Mr. Carney and for liberals to have gone along with this idea that somehow we can wish these things away.
00:20:56.220And I think for Mark Carney's policies, it's one thing in one region of the country.
00:21:00.420It's another thing in another region of the country.
00:21:01.740But the reality is that for the liberals, my whole party, they're campaigning against what they did over the past 10 years.
00:21:08.460They're actually borrowing ideas from the conservatives.
00:21:10.800So, you know, I've taken the position very, very clearly, David.
00:21:14.220But I'm not fooling around with these guys.
00:21:15.780They no longer represent the liberal of the centre, the consensus builder, the pragmatic party that they once were under, you know, under Pearson, that they were under Kretzian, that they were under Martin.
00:21:25.760I'm not taking the view that it's time for the last party at the centre to do well.
00:21:29.700And that's why I'm knocking on doors for the conservatives in this election.
00:21:32.120Because I want to confront Canadians with their stupidity and their willingness to think, well, everything's just fine.
00:21:42.600And if you elect an international fellow who doesn't pay taxes in this country, whose first act was to lie about the fact that he had put Brookfield in the United States, who has a lot to account for.
00:21:54.000And the fact that he doesn't, he had no business in telling us that he did the 1998 budget, that he balanced it, that he had nothing to do with claiming that there was no recession in 2008, when in fact there was.
00:22:04.880And for that, Canada escaped somewhat because of the work of Paul Martin, David Dodge and Jim Flaherty.
00:22:10.660All of these things have a cumulative effect.
00:22:13.920And if Canadians want to sit back and go, oh, it's nice.
00:22:16.580You know, the same way that Canadians voted for socks, sobbing and selfies.
00:22:19.540If Canadians are that gullible and that impressionable and that easily, easily duped.
00:22:25.720Well, then it won't be hard for Mark Carney and the Liberals to pick their pockets further in the days to come.
00:22:29.840Because make no mistake, everything that they say they're getting rid of, they're actually going to reapply.
00:22:33.580And you mentioned at the outset, that carbon tax is coming back.
00:22:36.700Sure, as the day is bright, the sun, you know, rises in the east and settles in the west.
00:22:42.460And anybody who doesn't believe that only has to look at the fact that they kept the bureaucracy.
00:22:47.760They haven't changed the legislation or plan to implement any changes to that legislation.
00:22:52.780Say a couple of things here and there.
00:22:54.760Everything about Mark Carney is a contradiction.
00:22:57.200And people are going to learn about that right after the election, especially when it declares assets and where they find the massive conflicts of interest.
00:23:02.560Not just his alliances with what's happening in Beijing and the Chinese government, but also his apparent conflicts when it comes to things like tariffs.
00:23:11.840He said there'd be no more tariff for them.
00:23:18.500And of course, this electric vehicle fiasco is a double loss.
00:23:23.240And a lot of people aren't even aware of this.
00:23:25.040Because we put tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to protect our dying industry, which, of course, was another bit of insanity.
00:23:33.960But as a result, China has imposed 100 percent tariff on canola oil, which is basically the cash crop of most of Western farmers.
00:23:44.800When all else fails, they can make some money off canola oil.
00:23:48.440It's basically the equivalent today of cotton or tobacco.
00:23:53.400You can't eat it, but it's very essential to making a living as a farmer.
00:24:01.040And this, of course, China's punishing us for this.
00:24:04.420I just want to show you this short clip from a Canadian farmer.
00:24:07.580He's putting up his arms and saying, why are we protecting electric vehicles that nobody wants to buy so I can't sell my canola?
00:24:15.900So I thought I'd share a little bit of farmer math today.
00:24:20.120This is a 5,000 bushel bin of canola that I harvested last fall.
00:24:26.760Now, at current values at the elevator right now, this bin is worth $62,500.
00:24:34.280You're probably thinking, wow, that's a lot of money, right?
00:24:37.300The problem is that on my farm, the cost of production on this bin of canola was $65,000.
00:24:45.900The market has basically – and that's where Canadian farmers are.
00:24:55.280And, of course, Mark Carney doesn't give a damn about those Canadian farmers who are going to be losing money.
00:25:00.380And some of them will go bankrupt as a result of this.
00:25:03.200But Mark Carney, of course, is afraid to do anything that's going to be an affront to China.
00:25:09.380And he's not going to complain about this 100% tariff on canola oil or anything else.
00:25:17.860But, you know, this is really what it comes down to for me this morning, Dan, is that why – and I ask you this as a former liberal MP who saw many liberal leaders.
00:25:29.160You've worked with many liberal leaders over the year.
00:25:38.480Like it was the second coming or something.
00:25:41.020But why has this man caught on with Canadians?
00:25:43.440We know he's deep in the pocket of China.
00:25:46.120He wants – he said many times he wants the Chinese yuan to replace the U.S. dollar as the global currency.
00:25:53.400He wants China to replace the United States as the global engine of economic movement.
00:25:59.940We know he sought and received a $276 million loan from the Central Chinese Bank while he was in Beijing, ostensibly supposed to be representing the prime minister's office.
00:26:11.240WeChat supported him during his liberal leadership campaign and continued to do so during the federal election.
00:26:18.800He stood behind Paul Chang, a guy who wanted to deliver his conservative opponent to the Chinese consulate for a bounty.
00:26:28.040And what strikes me – and, of course, yes – and the tax evasion issue.
00:26:32.880Even CBC, Radio Canada, CTV have been reporting extensively on Mark Carney, hoarding his profits from Brookfield Assets Management in the Cayman Islands now and in Bermuda.
00:26:49.900Mark Carney was sold to Canadians as a man of integrity.
00:26:53.560This was the man who was going to bring sense back to the Liberal Party after 10 years of a manic, depressive like Justin Trudeau, who nobody was taking seriously anymore.
00:27:04.200And you could take Mark Carney seriously.
00:27:07.340This was a banker, after all, a man of integrity.
00:27:10.820And the more this guy stays around and the more we dig, we find out he lacks any integrity.
00:27:47.360I mean, you did the interview with Liz Truss some time ago saying about the ruinous efforts that he had made as bank governor in ruining and creating hyperinflation, which is almost uncontrollable in the UK.
00:27:59.540But, you know, I think for this point, it really speaks to the depth to which the Liberal Party has controlled the media and pollsters and influencers.
00:28:10.080I mean, media receives substantial benefits directly and indirectly from the federal government's CRTC moves to prevent some from having to pay their CRTC dividends.
00:28:25.180We also know that pollsters, yeah, all of them, without exception.
00:28:28.840And I can't think of many that don't, apart from, you know, having strong Liberal ties, which I know about, for instance, one of them, Main Street, is Kito Maggie.
00:28:40.900These people bleed Liberal Party in red.
00:28:43.360But beyond that, how much have they received in contracts, generous, you know, inside contracts for various ministries?
00:28:52.600There's 30, you know, for surveys and for random sampling and things like that.
00:28:58.120They are, you know, people are, I say, well, no, every one of us are sampled to death.
00:29:04.580We get calls all the time for the most ridiculous of things.
00:29:07.180And yet, that has been a source of significant amounts of money, what I call and you call grift, has been very profound.
00:29:15.620And so, yes, Mark Carney is treated as the best since the sliced bread.
00:29:20.100And, you know, Winston Churchill himself, except for when he waves these little pieces of paper around, says peace in our times, and that we have no care for with the United States.
00:29:32.020And we're not going to talk about China in all the ways in which you've alarmingly put out what has been happening, the level of interference and the willingness to accept.
00:29:42.460All these things aside, I think, have manipulated gullible Canadians.
00:29:46.780And it really comes down to the fact that if they're not intelligent enough to distinguish and to make the right decisions, then they're going to be saddled with extraordinary pain over the next few years, the likes of which we have not seen.
00:29:58.740We've got industry after industry, manufacturing that's reeling, construction that is reeling, the energy sector, which is reeling as a direct result of what this government has done.
00:30:08.560And now Canadians say, oh, we don't like Donald Trump.
00:30:11.200Well, you don't like Donald Trump and he's being able to slap us around, as are the Chinese, because we're weak and not because we're not smart.
00:30:18.240We've been able to punch above our weight for decades, but we've lost that.
00:30:21.260And if Canadians don't smarten up this time, I'm afraid to say, you talked about the canola farmer earlier, I think there's some elements in this country that are ready to pack it in.
00:30:29.820I hope I'm definitely wrong, but I've never seen anything like this before.
00:30:33.080And I've been around long enough to remember, you know, Western alienation, the Western Canada concept, the victory at Olds Didsbury.
00:30:40.080I mean, a lot of these things, people would look at me, their eyes would roll.
00:30:43.060History is important to understand because I think the future of this country is most uncertain now.
00:30:47.200So you think the polling might be affected by the amount of money they're getting from, you know.
00:30:54.680Yeah, no, I know it is because I think there's also, if you look at one of the polls I saw last week from Nick Nanos, and I got a hold of someone who works with him, said, why are you polling 50% of the people over 60 years of age?
00:31:04.540I know I'm in that category, but, and I have the gray hair to prove it, but we don't represent the majority of Canadians.
00:31:10.680It's the under 60 that do, and they're not voting liberal.
00:31:13.080So why that? So there was a slight tweaking in the poll, and guess what?
00:31:16.840It showed the Conservatives moving up, the Liberals moving down as a result of that.
00:31:19.700I think the next two weeks are really the point which people are going to spend a lot of time looking at the facts.
00:31:24.420And it's not voting well for Mr. Carney. He can't use the Trump issue anymore.
00:31:28.240The Liberals can't use the Trump issue anymore.
00:31:29.840What we can use is what happened in Ingersoll, Ontario, which I predicted a month ago with the closure of the bright drop.
00:31:36.000All this public money that's been, you know, fire and smoke have been blown to pieces.
00:31:42.380You as Canadians, we as Canadians have given money to these people so they could invest in stupidity,
00:31:47.540which has now created a situation where not only do we have massive deficits, we've got nothing to show for it,
00:31:52.200and we no longer have an automobile, viable automotive sector in Ontario.
00:31:55.880Thanks, Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney.
00:31:59.160Looks like working together has worked very much decidedly against the interests of Canadians, both short-term and long-term.
00:32:05.140Exactly. So do you see this election breaking over the next, we've got two weeks and a day precisely until April 28th.
00:32:14.980Do you see this breaking towards the Conservatives and Polly over this time, Kerry?
00:32:20.560Not with the pollsters, but I'm seeing on the street, I'm knocking on doors.
00:32:23.700It's a great feeling. In fact, I'm going up today to help one candidate.
00:32:28.460For anybody who's in Hamilton and Wentworth, you'll see me.
00:32:31.240I'll be knocking at the doors with Erica Alexander, the granddaughter of the great Lincoln Alexander.
00:32:38.220And I'm getting a very different reading from the ground.
00:32:41.580In Liberal polls, people aren't bamboozled.
00:32:56.220They don't like talking to me all the time now like they used to because they know I'm not supporting the Liberals in any way, shape or form because they're not the Liberals.
00:33:02.820What they're nervous at, the Conservative vote is committed.
00:33:07.420And for people like Chantal Liberti who go say, well, Trudeau had these rallies with 10,000, 15,000 people in 1979.
00:33:12.800Hey, Chantal, unlike you, when we went to my school, high school, I was actually there and there wasn't 20,000 people there.
00:33:20.160And in fact, we came damn close to winning that election anyways.
00:33:22.340But at the end of the day, you only had one event.
00:33:24.680You didn't have 10 or 15 events where you polled that many people, even if it was 10 or 15,000.
00:33:32.120And this time, the Conservative vote is actually coming out.
00:33:34.960And that's got to make the Liberals very, very nervous.
00:33:36.800Notwithstanding the fact that the new Democrats can't stay dead forever.
00:33:39.820However, some of those NDP hardliners, especially the workers up in places like Sault Ste. Marie and Kenora and other places like that, are eventually going to go back to their own and realize, you know, the only, there's no point in a new Democrat, a socialist, supporting a banker.
00:33:55.400Well, I know you're on the verge of going out right now and door knocking on behalf of the Conservative candidates there.
00:34:01.880And that's something I don't think a lot of people would have imagined.
00:34:05.020Just like I just was reading yesterday, Erwin Kotler, a former Justice Minister, Liberal Justice Minister, is supporting the Conservatives at the time.
00:34:12.880And I really do think, I really do think that Mark Carney was a manufactured candidate.
00:34:18.540It's a guy with absolutely no business being leader of the Liberal Party or Prime Minister.
00:34:25.000He was just taken and stalled by globalists, by people who just don't give a damn about Canadian democracy.
00:34:32.120And now his campaign, I think, is being completely manufactured.
00:34:37.760And it just kills me because he hasn't got an original thought in his head.
00:34:44.200I mean, there's all that talk about his plagiarizing his doctorate back at Harvard.
00:34:48.340But he's stealing policies every week for Polly.
00:34:51.860And of course, if they're Polly's policies, they're bad.
00:34:55.560But if Carney takes them, they're good.
00:36:56.280You've saddled me with 62 trillion, 62 billion in annual accumulated debts and $1.3 trillion and no future.
00:37:05.260A future in which I can't even find work because you've flooded the country with people who work for nothing.
00:37:09.260I mean, on so many fronts, David, the country has fallen.
00:37:13.720The country is sliding towards, you know, an abysmal outcome.
00:37:19.160I mean, the lowest GDP numbers productivity in the world.
00:37:23.960I mean, that's pretty significant when you, you know, you've got to sort of bring your country's level of growth down to, you know, levels that we don't see even in the third world.
00:37:33.780The fact is that we're in a very, very, very difficult position.
00:37:38.860And denialism by those who have much while denying that to the next generation is pretty bad.