Stand on Guard with David Krayden - February 21, 2025


Danielle Smith EXPOSES the Real Problem with Trump Tariff Dispute ｜ Stand on Guard


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Why is Justin Trudeau so upset about Pat King not getting a 10-year sentence for obstructing justice in the SNC-Lavalin scandal? And why is he so upset that the Prime Minister s office won t re-open the investigation into the scandal?

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00:00:00.000 You see, as I mentioned, Haida Gwaii was one of my first trips as liberal leader.
00:00:05.780 And I can't think of any place more appropriate for one of my very last.
00:00:11.300 Sorry.
00:00:13.060 You guys, this.
00:00:16.640 Yeah, it's sad.
00:00:18.260 Why is Trudeau crying?
00:00:19.940 We'll come back with some possible solutions.
00:00:22.360 And wait for it.
00:00:24.720 The interview you have been wanting to hear, you've been asking me to do this.
00:00:30.000 We spoke with Danielle Smith.
00:00:32.060 This is an interview you can't miss.
00:00:34.480 We'll be right back with more.
00:00:47.840 We need, but it's a change.
00:00:53.320 But we also need to resolve to resist.
00:01:00.000 So why was Trudeau crying?
00:01:07.540 Is he crying because the Epstein list is on the verge of being released?
00:01:11.540 And I tell you, if Justin Trudeau or Mark Carney are on that Epstein list, I'll be back again in a couple of hours with another broadcast.
00:01:19.880 We're waiting to see that.
00:01:21.420 Trudeau could be crying because an accessed information request revealed that Jody Wilson-Raybould, when she was justice minister and attorney general, wanted the IRCMP to investigate deeper and further into the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
00:01:34.960 Or is Justin Trudeau really sad that Pat King did not get sent to jail for 10 years?
00:01:41.260 Lots of reasons for Justin Trudeau to be crying.
00:01:43.760 It's not because he loves the height of people so much.
00:01:47.080 No, that's not the reason.
00:01:48.780 Because we know how he feels about people.
00:01:51.360 He kicks people under the bus. 1.00
00:01:53.700 Women, minorities, black people. 1.00
00:01:55.940 He does blackface for years. 1.00
00:01:57.600 He's a hypocrite. 1.00
00:01:58.680 He doesn't care for anybody but himself. 1.00
00:02:00.560 He never has. 0.88
00:02:01.120 He's the classic narcissist. 0.98
00:02:01.960 Narcissist, that's Justin Trudeau. 0.74
00:02:04.960 So we've got a couple of things to deal with before I get to the interview, but I can't wait.
00:02:08.960 And by the way, before I forget, like the station right now if you can.
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00:02:15.600 It means so much.
00:02:16.580 We're on the verge of 40,000.
00:02:18.860 I want to see 50,000 in a couple of months.
00:02:21.340 We're going to move upward and onwards.
00:02:23.280 Thank you so much for supporting the station.
00:02:25.500 You might have to resubscribe.
00:02:26.480 A lot of people find they have to do that.
00:02:28.220 But I want to clear up a few things here.
00:02:32.500 And this is all very, very fascinating.
00:02:36.840 But do you think Justin Trudeau, and this is a post I put out on Access Crime, because he knew the access to information was about to come out, that former MP and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, who is Haida, had reportedly advised the MP to widen the scope of the SNC-Lavalin probe.
00:02:56.620 But the RCMP refused to investigate further.
00:03:02.180 So, if you're seeing YouTubers out there saying, Trudeau busted, it's not true.
00:03:12.900 In fact, it's the kind of disinformation the liberal government likes to target, and so they can start saying everything on YouTube is disinformation.
00:03:22.580 So, no, it's not true.
00:03:23.620 He's not being busted.
00:03:24.560 The RCMP is not reopening the investigation.
00:03:28.300 Let's find out what's really happening.
00:03:31.720 And, you know, I'm sick of clickbait.
00:03:34.540 You don't see clickbait on my station because it is lies.
00:03:40.180 Breaking.
00:03:40.680 Advocate applies for private prosecution of Trudeau and SNC-Lavalin.
00:03:45.120 This is my friend Sam Cooper at the Bureau.
00:03:47.580 Once again, I encourage you to read Sam's work on the Bureau.
00:03:50.720 He was on the show just the other day talking about the crisis.
00:03:56.380 That's all I'm going to say.
00:03:58.260 The RCMP conducted a very superficial investigation into the cabinet's interference.
00:04:05.060 Duff Conacher, who I'd like to have on the show as well, he's the co-founder of Democracy Watch.
00:04:10.380 They are asking for an investigation into this.
00:04:13.620 They didn't interview many key witnesses or obtain critical cabinet records, then decided not to prosecute anyone behind closed doors.
00:04:20.400 We believe a judge must see this evidence in court.
00:04:26.400 Newly released RCMP transcripts indicate that senior officials, including Trudeau's then Principal Secretary Gerald Butts, repeatedly pressed Wilson-Raybould to override prosecutors and grant SNC-Lavalin a deferred prosecution agreement.
00:04:40.400 So, that's what's going on here.
00:04:47.200 Let's see.
00:04:49.280 Get to the last slide.
00:04:50.800 Democracy Watches will say, the document alleges that the RCMP applied an improper legal standard for obstruction of justice and never considered breach of trust.
00:05:01.620 This is what I have been saying for the past two years.
00:05:06.440 The RCMP is in the pocket of Justin Trudeau.
00:05:09.400 You can't trust them to do a proper investigation.
00:05:15.220 They don't do it anymore if it involves Justin Trudeau or the Liberal government.
00:05:20.500 I question their credibility as a national police organization.
00:05:25.600 I do that because the evidence suggests that.
00:05:29.600 This is an access to information request that Democracy Watches received, saying SNC-Lavalin scandal was never properly investigated.
00:05:42.440 The group contends that the RCMP relied on self-interested public statements, omitted key witness interviews, including those of then Health Minister Jane Philpott, and accepted the Cabinet's refusal to disclose pivotal communications.
00:05:55.440 The RCMP covered up its investigation.
00:06:00.440 And, you know, it's incredible to me.
00:06:07.760 By the way, SNC-Lavalin, and this is Trudeau announcing a high-speed train service between where?
00:06:18.080 Toronto and Quebec City?
00:06:20.180 Who the hell is going to Quebec City anymore?
00:06:23.440 Who's going to Montreal?
00:06:24.380 What about Ottawa to Toronto?
00:06:26.420 What about Toronto to Niagara Falls?
00:06:30.280 What about Calgary to Edmonton?
00:06:32.140 What about Calgary to Vancouver?
00:06:33.160 There's a lot of other routes that should have been considered for this high-speed rail.
00:06:38.340 But who do you think is going to get the contract?
00:06:40.900 Would it be SNC-Lavalin?
00:06:43.580 But SNC-Lavalin has changed its name.
00:06:47.520 It's now Atkins Realis.
00:06:52.680 Isn't that something?
00:06:55.120 Now, I want to shift here to something else.
00:06:59.240 This is incredible.
00:07:03.160 This is our Heritage Minister, Pascal Sanong, announcing yesterday that CBC should have guaranteed funding, and it should be doubled.
00:07:16.660 I'm sorry.
00:07:18.600 Doubled.
00:07:20.720 Where did this come from?
00:07:22.840 Why should we be doubling the CBC's funding?
00:07:25.980 Well, because it should have more responsibilities.
00:07:29.340 It should be responsible for monitoring disinformation, although the CBC is probably one of the greatest purveyors of disinformation in the country, because it represents the government.
00:07:40.320 Yes, they've done some good news.
00:07:41.940 I'm not going to say it's all disinformation.
00:07:44.140 But who watches the CBC anyway?
00:07:47.040 And it does produce a lot of government propaganda.
00:07:50.880 It's done that over the years.
00:07:52.280 But listen to what Sanonga says here.
00:07:56.700 CBC should be getting more money, and what the hell should Parliament be voting on it for?
00:08:02.220 Because we don't even need a Parliament.
00:08:04.460 Just keep it prorogued for the rest of the age.
00:08:08.060 Just keep Parliament out there.
00:08:12.000 Keep Parliament suspended until somebody thinks we might have to bring them back.
00:08:17.880 But don't bring them back to approve CBC's budget.
00:08:20.960 Give them $2 billion a year instead of the $1.3 billion.
00:08:24.900 Listen to this woman.
00:08:26.940 The existence of our public broadcaster depends on a single line in the budget.
00:08:31.580 I'm proposing that we remove the decision-making around funding from the political cycles, whether it's the elections or the budget.
00:08:42.220 Many countries around the world have chosen that path in giving their public broadcaster predictable, viable, and stable funding.
00:08:54.420 So we shouldn't even ask Parliament whether it's okay to give CBC another billion dollars.
00:08:59.660 It's automatic. Make it automatic, just like they do in Europe.
00:09:03.300 Yeah, they're doing things so well in Europe, they're cracking down on free speech, just like Justin Trudeau wants to do.
00:09:09.140 And he wants the CBC to monitor whether we have too much free speech in this country, and whether there's too much disinformation.
00:09:20.520 CBC does not belong to the Liberals. It does not belong to the Conservatives.
00:09:25.680 It belongs to the Liberals. It belongs to woke people.
00:09:28.760 That's who controls the CBC. Look at the people at the top.
00:09:33.200 They are all Liberal Party supporters. They're all woke ideologists.
00:09:37.420 And it does not belong to any other political parties.
00:09:41.820 It belongs to the Canadian people.
00:09:44.760 And this is why to be able to give CBC Radio-Canada the means to fulfill its mandate,
00:09:49.580 I propose that it be financed directly in the legislation instead of in the budget through statutory appropriation.
00:09:57.340 Statutory appropriation should be based on the demographic reality, and I mean by that a per-capita funding-based formula.
00:10:07.180 The average funding for a public broadcaster in a G7 country is $62 per person per year.
00:10:14.000 In Canada, we're second to last, with $33 per year per person.
00:10:19.120 So you're not paying enough for CBC.
00:10:22.960 If you're paying $33 per capita, which is overspending as it is, she wants you to spend double that, $66 per person.
00:10:34.560 We're closer to the United States than to any other country of the G7 country.
00:10:38.780 And I don't think that we want the United States to be our reference.
00:10:43.640 I think we need to aim closer to the middle ground, which is $62 per year per person.
00:10:50.920 Canadians need to have access to reliable, factual sources of information that are available across the country
00:10:57.580 and not be misled by false information during those emergency situations.
00:11:02.140 CBC Radio-Canada, by virtue of its size and geographic reach, must have a clear mandate to disseminate this information using its infrastructure,
00:11:11.980 whether it's radio, TV, or web.
00:11:15.180 So I'm proposing that we anchor that new role directly in the legislation,
00:11:20.220 the role that CBC must play in case of national emergencies.
00:11:22.920 Enshrine in law, the role that CBC Radio-Canada plays in the fight against disinformation to support the public,
00:11:32.320 especially in the current context.
00:11:34.300 And this refers directly to some of the recommendations that were made by the Foreign Interference Commission,
00:11:42.140 which repeated how important it is that Canadians can rely on Canadian sources of information
00:11:47.760 to be more resilient and to understand the patterns that the other countries use
00:11:52.700 to disseminate propaganda or disinformation to influence how we live together in our political context.
00:12:01.940 And this is why I propose to anchor in CBC Radio-Canada's mandate its role in helping the Canadian population
00:12:10.900 fight against disinformation and understand fact-based information.
00:12:17.760 Thank you so much, Minister Stan Ong.
00:12:20.160 So CBC will now be telling me what is truth and what is lies, what is truth and what is propaganda,
00:12:26.060 what is misinformation and what is disinformation.
00:12:28.320 You want CBC telling you that? 1.00
00:12:30.020 Let's tell this ministry to go to hell. 1.00
00:12:31.840 Let's get rid of this liberal government. 1.00
00:12:33.720 Let's have new elections.
00:12:34.660 Let's have a credible, legitimate federal government.
00:12:37.620 Let's have a new government because this government is bankrupt.
00:12:41.060 All right.
00:12:41.980 Transition time, folks.
00:12:43.140 Let's move to the moment you've all been waiting for.
00:12:47.000 This was a pleasure talking to somebody I have known for decades.
00:12:51.160 I've said that for a long time.
00:12:52.520 This interview proves it.
00:12:54.900 It was such a pleasure to do this interview.
00:12:56.980 I hope you all enjoy watching and listening as much as I enjoyed conducting it.
00:13:03.480 Here it is.
00:13:04.240 Today on Stand on Guard.
00:13:06.020 And it's such a pleasure to have an old friend.
00:13:09.060 Yes, believe it or not.
00:13:10.000 We go back to the Calgary Herald together.
00:13:13.280 Premier Daniel Smith.
00:13:15.300 And Premier, so nice to have you with me today.
00:13:20.020 And I said one time, I've been working for Politico at the time.
00:13:24.160 And I said, and you were with Wild Rose at that time.
00:13:28.200 And I said, Daniel Smith is going to be the Premier of Alberta. 0.98
00:13:32.800 And she's going to be the best damn Premier that province ever had. 1.00
00:13:36.740 Took a few years for that to happen. 0.99
00:13:39.300 But it's happened.
00:13:40.640 And you are just doing a fantastic job in the Premier of a province that is a mover and shaker.
00:13:48.080 And so I appreciate that.
00:13:50.080 I can tell you timing is everything, really.
00:13:52.220 When I think about this time in history and everything that we've been through
00:13:57.440 and the experience that I had by not succeeding the first time around
00:14:02.180 and the things I learned along the way, especially being in radio and business advocacy,
00:14:06.760 I think I'm really ready for the challenges right now.
00:14:09.680 And it's an important time in Alberta history and it's an important time in Canadian history.
00:14:14.820 So I'm glad that Albertans gave me another chance.
00:14:17.740 Well, I think you're not just working for Albertans.
00:14:20.960 You're working for all Canadians.
00:14:23.720 And you did that during, you talk about challenges.
00:14:27.060 The big challenge right now is, of course, a potential tariff from Donald Trump and the United States of 25%.
00:14:33.880 It could be a trade war.
00:14:36.200 We don't want a trade war.
00:14:37.540 You don't want a trade war.
00:14:38.860 And you were the backbone of the Canadian tariff negotiation team.
00:14:43.960 I mean, all I saw from other premiers was caving in to the idea that natural resources don't belong to provinces.
00:14:52.120 What sort of relationship did you develop with Donald Trump during the times that you were negotiating with him?
00:14:59.000 You were, of course, a guest at his inauguration.
00:15:03.040 You were at Mar-a-Lago.
00:15:05.560 What kind of relationship can you say you have with the president right now?
00:15:08.820 And is he somebody that Canada can work with, especially if we get a new government, preferably with Pierre Paulieff as prime minister?
00:15:16.780 Well, I had a couple of opportunities to meet him.
00:15:20.180 I went to Mar-a-Lago at the invitation of Kevin O'Leary and then the next day to his golf club and then was at the inauguration as well.
00:15:27.680 And it does seem to me that President Trump is the ultimate decision maker.
00:15:32.660 That's one of the things that I've learned by talking to those who are around him.
00:15:37.480 And our job as subnational government leaders is to reach out to as many contacts as we can to talk to those who have influence on him so that we can change the pathway and the trajectory that we now find ourselves on.
00:15:51.760 I think that there is a pathway with diplomacy.
00:15:54.620 I think we have an incredible argument to make about the way in which our integrated economies help to support not only our interests, but also create great American jobs, produce great American products that Canadians buy back in larger volumes than anyone else on the planet.
00:16:11.960 And this is a relationship that we should maintain.
00:16:14.520 And we're in a bit of a rocky patch.
00:16:17.100 There's no doubt about it.
00:16:18.120 But I would say that as long as we are identifying the things that are in our mutual interest to solve, I think that we're going to be able to avoid tariffs.
00:16:27.260 When the President said he was worried about fentanyl, we needed to get serious about fentanyl.
00:16:32.140 And it took a little while to get there.
00:16:33.860 But now we have a fentanyl czar.
00:16:35.180 We've identified cartels that are terrorist groups to give us more tools to be able to dismantle them.
00:16:39.820 We're all hands on deck when it comes to finding the 10,000 personnel that we need to make sure that we're addressing the issue from a law enforcement and border security point of view.
00:16:49.420 And we've really stepped up efforts, as you can see, with the amount of seizures that have taken place at the border, the stopping of illegal migrants, and the law enforcement that's taking place.
00:16:58.620 So I think all of that is being acknowledged, and there will always be irritants in this relationship that we have with the United States.
00:17:06.760 So let's just make sure that we're dealing with the security issues, the legitimate security issues that are being raised.
00:17:13.080 And then we can get on to talking about some of those other irritants and hopefully keep this 99% tariff-free relationship going.
00:17:21.020 So we have this 30-day reprieve.
00:17:23.580 Justin Trudeau agreed to do something about the border.
00:17:26.840 We have a fentanyl czar.
00:17:28.220 I think that's, as you said, a positive step.
00:17:30.420 What concerns me, though, about Trudeau's fix-it plan for the border, two things.
00:17:35.460 There's no 10,000 frontline personnel at the border.
00:17:38.720 I don't see anybody coming soon.
00:17:40.220 The defense minister has said they're not going to be military people.
00:17:43.580 They can't be RCMP.
00:17:45.520 We don't have CBSA agents in sufficient numbers to do it.
00:17:49.060 So I don't know what Trudeau meant by frontline personnel, except it's a very nebulous term.
00:17:53.940 The second thing that bothers me about his plan is $1.3 billion over six years.
00:18:01.300 Most of that money is projected to be spent in years five and six.
00:18:05.280 In fact, Trudeau is spending more money this year on the gun grab than he is on border security.
00:18:11.540 Does it bother you that he's not entirely serious about border security?
00:18:15.880 Well, I think that's why he had to come up with a more robust plan.
00:18:19.000 The initial plan was announced, and as you point out, didn't pass in the legislature or in the parliament because they prorogued.
00:18:25.180 And there was only a very small amount that was to be spent this year, I think $81 million.
00:18:28.280 They since came back to the table with the announcement of a fentanyl czar who's now in place, the announcement that $200 million would be spent this year.
00:18:38.140 And they've started rolling out Black Hawk helicopters, which is very key to managing such a large border that we have.
00:18:44.500 I look at it a slightly different way.
00:18:47.020 There are 8,500 border security and RCMP, and that is a good base to build on.
00:18:53.800 And then I believe that the rest of the security issues do have to be made up with local law enforcement and provincial law enforcement.
00:19:01.720 One of the issues around the border when it comes to the operations of cartels and when it comes to the flow of drugs and the precursors to make them, some of that is stopping it before it gets to the border.
00:19:16.500 We've seen that.
00:19:17.260 We shut down three super labs for fentanyl in our province.
00:19:21.220 And so that, to me, if we can seize the drugs in the place that they're being created and then shut those labs down, that helps with border security.
00:19:30.620 That helps make sure it doesn't get into the United States.
00:19:33.280 We also shut down drug houses.
00:19:34.980 We also have fugitive apprehension.
00:19:36.740 And these are all policing functions.
00:19:38.780 So I would say that the issue in Canada is slightly different than in Mexico.
00:19:43.500 Mexico, they have people who are streaming across the border, I think, in numbers like 2,000 to 3,000 per day was what was happening prior to the most recent crackdown.
00:19:54.600 That's not the same nature of the problem that we have here.
00:19:57.060 So it means that we have to use slightly different tools.
00:19:59.520 We've got to look at money laundering.
00:20:01.060 We've got to look at our financial institutions.
00:20:03.520 We've got to look at what's happening.
00:20:04.400 If there's money laundering through casinos, this has been alleged in different provinces, if we can take an all-hands-on-deck approach using all of our different law enforcement mechanisms, I think the end result will be fewer drugs on the streets in Canadian cities, but also fewer drugs going across the border.
00:20:20.700 I found it interesting, too, that the Trudeau administration has actually admitted there's a problem at the Vancouver ports with the precursors for fentanyl getting in.
00:20:33.360 And, of course, they love to say it's only 1% across the border, but only 1% is actually being examined at the border.
00:20:39.480 So I think the fentanyl crisis is a lot larger than we have ever been told.
00:20:43.680 And there's a lot of journalists working on that story right now.
00:20:47.180 I hope I'm one of them.
00:20:48.320 Right, because part of the issue is that these precursors, there is legitimate industrial uses for them.
00:20:54.940 And so that's part of why we have to identify them and make sure that we're tracking them appropriately.
00:21:00.360 But I think that the fact that they've also identified that we need to do a better job of tracking those precursors, that's also a recognition.
00:21:06.480 That whether it's coming in through the ports or whether it's coming in through trucks across the border, there has to be a lot more vehicle inspection.
00:21:13.540 There has to be sniffer dogs, which are some of the ones that we're deploying with our sheriff's team.
00:21:19.340 And you have to have people trained in looking for secret compartments.
00:21:22.600 So I think it's a combination.
00:21:23.900 The ports is also going to have to require the same kind of scrutiny.
00:21:26.580 The idea that we would only check 1% of containers coming in or 1% of trucks and cars coming across the border, I think we now recognize that that is not giving the kind of confidence to even our own people that the flow of drugs and guns and other illegal activity is not going two ways.
00:21:47.380 And so I'm glad to see that the federal government is making those investments, that all the provinces are putting their resources to bear on it.
00:21:54.300 And I think it'll lead to safer communities for all of us.
00:21:59.100 During the period when we were actively looking at this tariff as being a real thing, you were fighting tooth and nail to enforce Alberta's authority to manage its natural resources.
00:22:12.540 A lot of people said, hey, you're putting Alberta first when you do that.
00:22:15.740 That's not Canada first.
00:22:16.840 I said many times on this program and in my columns, I said, no, Daniel Smith is not putting Alberta first.
00:22:23.380 She's putting Canada first because the Canadian Constitution gives natural resources to the provinces. 0.99
00:22:30.620 And you pointed that out time after time.
00:22:33.520 Are you concerned if we go back to stage one again and we're looking at tariffs that the federal government is going to try to steal Alberta's natural resources by putting tariffs or duties on exports to the United States?
00:22:46.900 I think that's the thing we have to be aware of, that when you do end up in a situation of tit for tat tariffs, normally it's import tariffs.
00:22:54.920 So, look, if we all end up having to pay a little bit more for orange juice as a way of demonstrating to the Americans that we're just not going to put up with unfair tariffs, that's one thing.
00:23:04.860 But to single out Alberta energy for an export tariff that could, if it was applied at 25%, generate $40 billion for Ottawa, because tariffs go to Ottawa, so that they can distribute it to places that are more friendly to voting liberal.
00:23:22.640 So, that's an equalization program.
00:23:24.680 We've seen that newsreel many times before.
00:23:27.120 We fought that in Peter Lougheed's day when the original Trudeau tried to impose an export tariff, and we simply will not allow for that.
00:23:35.760 We know that if there's any agreement to that kind of approach, we'll never get rid of it.
00:23:41.980 And this is the kind of thing that the federal government has been trying to do to us time and time again.
00:23:45.540 That's one part of it.
00:23:46.380 The other part is, we have spent the last number of years invoking the 1977 Pipeline Treaty to prevent Line 5 from getting shut down.
00:23:57.440 That's important on two fronts, because I did ask the federal government to take a look at a map so that they could see that the way in which the Line 5 that terminates in Sarnia is fed is it comes down through Michigan.
00:24:10.600 And if you start talking about using energy as a war by cutting off supply, that puts the Ontario and Quebec citizenry in greater peril, because 100% of the product they get comes by way of the United States or comes by way of shipments from overseas.
00:24:30.980 Why?
00:24:31.680 Because they wouldn't let us build a pipeline, Energy East, to be able to feed the consumer market there.
00:24:37.900 So you should not ever be playing with something as dangerous as that.
00:24:42.240 And why do we have a 1977 Pipeline Treaty?
00:24:44.740 It says that we will not impede the flow of energy as a vital resource to or from the United States and to or from Canada.
00:24:53.480 So I would say that there was maybe a little, I don't know if it was chest beating, maybe a little posturing, but we have to be practical.
00:25:03.360 We should only ever put forward any kind of measures that we know we can act on.
00:25:08.980 That is one we cannot act on because the treaty prevents it, number one, but because it'd be devastating to Ontario and Quebec, number two.
00:25:15.960 And people need to understand a little bit more about where their energy comes from.
00:25:19.440 You pointed out in the past that Justin Trudeau often likes to poke a stick at Donald Trump.
00:25:27.160 For instance, he made the comment about, isn't it a shame that Kamala Harris didn't win the presidential election?
00:25:33.980 And that was a repudiation of women's rights. 1.00
00:25:37.660 Couldn't have come at a worse time.
00:25:39.080 Of course, Donald Trump resented that remark.
00:25:41.580 The people decided who would be president in the United States.
00:25:45.140 I wonder sometimes, though, do you think Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party, especially Mark Carney or anyone else who might be anointed as the next leader and then prime minister, do you think they actually want a trade war with the United States?
00:25:59.960 Because it helps them to find an enemy that they can run against.
00:26:04.940 They're not going to be successful against Fyrapaliev and the conservatives.
00:26:08.560 I think the conservatives still have a healthy lead.
00:26:10.880 But it's easier to run against Donald Trump, against the American enemy.
00:26:17.320 And I don't know why we continue to talk about a trade war right now, why it's all buy Canadian, don't buy American goods, because we're supposed to be getting back to normalcy.
00:26:28.520 But do you think Trudeau is encouraging this?
00:26:30.820 Trudeau, you know, I thought you were going to go and you said, do you think the liberals even want, I think you're going to say, do you think the liberals even want a female leader?
00:26:38.460 Because they've got three female leadership candidates to choose from. 1.00
00:26:41.360 And everyone keeps talking about the male candidate who's only been back in Canada for five minutes.
00:26:46.180 So I find that interesting that the liberals love to talk about what feminists they are. 1.00
00:26:51.200 And yet I think they're the only major political party at the federal level and even among many provincial parties that have yet to choose a female leader.
00:26:58.420 I just put that out there for consideration.
00:27:00.920 But on your other point, I would hope that's not true.
00:27:04.620 I would hope that you don't have a group of leadership candidates that are gunning for a fight.
00:27:11.540 Everybody gets hurt by a tariff war.
00:27:13.540 We are one-tenth the size of the U.S. economy.
00:27:15.680 We cannot win a tariff war if it's tit-for-tat 25% across-the-board tariffs.
00:27:21.720 And tariffs hurt American consumers when the U.S. president applies them.
00:27:26.740 And they hurt Canadian consumers if the Canadian government applies them.
00:27:30.820 At a time when we've had an inflation crisis, a supply chain crisis, an affordability crisis,
00:27:36.340 I would say that the very best approach is why I have taken the approach of diplomacy.
00:27:41.080 We should be avoiding these tariffs altogether.
00:27:42.880 We should be doing the things that we need to do to address these issues that the Americans have raised.
00:27:48.680 But because they're good for us, too.
00:27:50.740 It's good for us to meet our 2% NATO commitment and be a reliable partner in international security.
00:27:57.500 We should have Arctic security as top of mind to prevent against threats from Russia and China trying to invade our territorial waters.
00:28:07.420 We should want to stop fentanyl on our streets so it's not killing our people.
00:28:13.360 So it may well be that these issues being raised by the U.S. president are ones that are a priority to him.
00:28:20.740 But they should be a priority to us, too.
00:28:22.480 And we shouldn't be itching for a fight.
00:28:25.520 A fight on this kind of front is devastating to millions of jobs, millions of families.
00:28:30.820 And I would really hope that that isn't on the mind of any of the liberal leadership contenders.
00:28:35.380 I'll get you out of here on this one, Premier, the final question.
00:28:40.400 If things go off the rails again, if we are facing this terror, are you prepared to go back to Washington and to deal with Donald Trump?
00:28:49.280 Because Mr. Trump, President Trump, seems to look at you as somebody he can negotiate with.
00:28:55.520 He respects you.
00:28:56.400 It's quite obvious.
00:28:57.500 And I think he likes you as a leader.
00:28:59.520 Are you prepared to go down, not just to fight for Alberta, but as you did previously, are you prepared to go back to fight for Canada?
00:29:07.100 Well, look, I don't want to overstate it.
00:29:08.960 But I recognize that the relationship between Canada and the U.S. is prime minister to president.
00:29:14.820 And it's very important that we have a prime minister in that chair who has a four-year mandate, because they're the ones who are going to be negotiating our international trade deals.
00:29:24.200 What I can do is put the issues on the table that I think we've been able to do successfully so far.
00:29:29.700 I mean, the provinces have a voice.
00:29:31.700 The fact that the feds are now talking about our NATO commitment and NORAD bases and Arctic security and fentanyl czars, that's because it's the premiers who've been saying you've got to address these issues in a serious way.
00:29:43.660 I think the reason why, when they were talking about 25% tariffs, that they were prepared to give a 10% tariff on energy resources is because of the arguments that we're making about how the U.S. is reliant on oil and gas and critical minerals and electricity.
00:29:59.300 And all of that allows the Americans to make products more cost-effectively and create American jobs.
00:30:06.680 I think that those are arguments that will resonate, whether we're talking about energy, whether we're talking about food, it's the same argument on food, it's the same argument on timber, and it's even the same argument on intermediate goods like auto parts.
00:30:19.880 It's part of our job to make sure that we're filling in the information gaps and making sure that we've got advocates that we're connecting with in the United States who can make the case for us.
00:30:28.960 We've been particularly successful, I think, at making that case on energy, but I'm prepared to make it on every product we and our Canadian allies produce because I think that this tariff-free relationship is an important one to maintain.
00:30:42.520 And so the short answer, which I haven't been very short on it, is yes, I will go to the United States as often as I need to.
00:30:50.380 I'll be going down to CIRA Week, which is their big energy conference in Houston in March.
00:30:55.500 And I'm hoping that we'll be able to have a really constructive conversation about how we might be able to get more oil and gas pipelines built so that we can help with the U.S. aspiration of energy dominance.
00:31:07.940 I think that's important for global energy security.
00:31:10.440 Premier Daniel Smith, thank you so much for the time.
00:31:14.000 I tell you, when I do a story with Daniel Smith, the comment section is incredible.
00:31:21.000 It goes wild because people on this show really like the work you're doing.
00:31:25.200 Of all the political leaders in this country and around the world, they love Donald Trump.
00:31:30.100 They love Pierre Pauly, but they really, really like Daniel Smith because I think you are doing the job that needs to be done.
00:31:37.220 And I encourage you, for whatever it's worth, keep fighting, not just for Alberta, because Alberta is the home of people who have never taken anything from the federal government or a Trudeau.
00:31:48.980 Whether it was Pierre Trudeau when Peter Lougheed was fighting back or whether it's Justin Trudeau and you have fought back.
00:31:55.000 But also, Alberta has always led the way for Canada, a strong Canada.
00:32:00.560 And I believe that very strongly.
00:32:02.560 And all I can say is keep fighting, not just for your province that you're leading so ably and capably, but for Canada, because Canadians love you too, Danielle.
00:32:11.360 Well, thank you, David.
00:32:12.460 I've always felt that when Alberta does well, Canada does well.
00:32:15.220 So we just want to keep on doing what we do, and we think the entire country will benefit from this.
00:32:20.200 So thanks for those very kind words.
00:32:22.580 Thanks for joining me today, and we'll stay in touch.
00:32:25.860 You bet. Bye now.
00:32:29.840 This was my interview with Premier Daniel Smith from Alberta.
00:32:33.460 It was a pleasure.
00:32:34.420 Thank you for watching today.
00:32:37.180 And please, we welcome your comments.
00:32:39.940 Hopefully, we'll be talking to Pierre Pauly over the next couple of weeks.
00:32:43.360 Again, this is somebody I've known for a long time, but Pierre as well is reaching out to a lot of shows in the new media and the independent media, because that's where the audience is, people like you and I.
00:32:57.040 Thanks for watching.
00:32:57.860 I'll be back again tomorrow with all the news you need to know.
00:33:00.640 Let's continue to resolve to resist this liberal government, this Trudeau tyranny.
00:33:05.100 Thank you, and goodbye for now.