Justin Trudeau has hit a new low, and we're here to talk about it. Today's episode of Stand On Guard with David Creighton is all about how Justin Trudeau is using the forest fires to distract from his economic record.
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00:01:55.680Now, I want to get on to our story here because it's absolutely fascinating what Trudeau has done in the House of Commons.
00:02:08.920Now, what's been going on this week, if you haven't been watching, is that Conservative leader Pierre Polyev has been insisting that the government acts the carbon tax and get to balancing the budget.
00:02:27.260Or it's going to filibuster the Liberals' budget bill.
00:02:31.100And it began to do that last night, Wednesday night this week.
00:02:36.520It began the filibuster with opposition leader Pierre Polyev leading the charge.
00:02:44.100But this is a great exchange Wednesday in the House of Commons.
00:03:42.760It's the worst year on record for forest fires already.
00:03:46.780But the fact is, they are going to get worse in the coming years because climate change is real.
00:03:53.860And yet, the Conservative Party continues to stand against the climate action that we've been taking.
00:04:00.140Stand against the investments that we're making to support families, to support first responders.
00:04:05.740They continue to stand against help for Canadians who are losing their homes, losing their families, losing their livelihood.
00:04:12.400The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:04:15.880Has he really sunk into the low of exploiting these fires for political gain to distract from his inflationary and high interest rate policies?
00:04:25.240Is that what he's come to that he's so ashamed of his economic policy and record?
00:04:30.240I'm going to have to interrupt this because, I mean, I'm getting noise from both sides.
00:04:37.860But what I need to have is I want to hear what's being said.
00:04:41.320And I'm sure both sides want to hear what's being said.
00:04:43.780I'm going to ask him to start from the top, please.
00:04:46.180Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister has just lowered himself to the worst steps to try and distract from his disastrous economic record.
00:04:54.040He's now using the forest fires to change the channel.
00:04:57.900This is even lower than I would have expected from him.
00:05:01.100Mr. Speaker, Canadians are going to sit down tonight to discuss how they're going to move into a small apartment because they're going to have to give up their homes.
00:05:09.560After his inflationary policies have driven up interest rates on Canadian mortgage holders who have record debt.
00:05:17.520Will the Prime Minister keep the promise he made six months ago to balance the budget and bring down inflation and interest rates before folks go broke?
00:05:24.500Yeah, interesting because there's a lot of things going on here.
00:05:31.100And first of all, when I address this forest fire issue, we put a poll out this week on Creighton's right.
00:05:39.860Only one person responded to say that climate change is the reason for these forest fires that are creating a catastrophe across Canada from the West to the Maritimes.
00:05:54.320This is a huge problem, but a lot of people are identifying arson and bad forestry management as the primary reason.
00:06:05.640And there is a lot of evidence in the media right now that people are deliberately setting fires and causing this.
00:06:13.080Trudeau has absolutely no firm or final evidence that there's any causal relationship between forest fires and climate change.
00:06:24.920Trudeau has the nerve to suggest if you don't support his climate change program, which adds up to really one thing.
00:06:50.280The carbon tax that you are responsible for the carbon tax that you are responsible for the forest fires.
00:06:56.020He has the gall to suggest the Conservatives for not backing his climate change policies, read, carbon tax, that they are responsible.
00:07:08.660When the latest carbon tax goes through, Canadians will be spending 61 cents a liter every time they fill up just in carbon tax plus GST.
00:07:27.120Now, I remember, and I'm not talking about the 1980s here, when we were able to buy a liter of gas for about 65 cents a liter.
00:07:40.260It wasn't that long ago when the price dropped that low.
00:07:44.160But now we're going to be paying 61 cents in carbon tax and GST alone.
00:07:52.260Now, that's a heck of a lot of expense.
00:07:55.440And what Polyev is trying to say here is that Trudeau wants to change the channel because he doesn't want to acknowledge inflationary spending.
00:08:05.780He keeps talking about targeted non-inflationary spending, which is a crock.
00:08:13.640Trudeau has never demonstrated anything like non-inflationary targeted spending.
00:08:49.640Trudeau is lying about how he's spending, about how his spending is affecting inflation, and how inflation then affects interest rates.
00:09:00.260And those interest rates went up again this week by another 25 basis points.
00:09:06.700Every time they go up, people are spending hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars more on mortgage payments by a month, by year.
00:09:19.180Now, this is an issue that affects a lot of Canadians.
00:09:23.520And Trudeau says, don't worry about your house.
00:09:26.540We've got a grocery rebate for you in the mail.
00:09:31.600Well, I tell you, if you lose your house and you can't even afford to live in an apartment, the rent of which is more than most people are paying for their mortgage, I don't think the grocery rebate's going to help very much when you're eating on the street.
00:09:47.700But that's exactly what Trudeau is doing.
00:09:54.360He wants to talk about climate change and nothing but climate change.
00:09:59.440And to blame the forest fires, not only on climate change, but on the conservative party, because he doesn't want to talk about the fiscal reality he has created, which is catastrophic for people.
00:13:02.400And and this is this is absolutely beautiful.
00:13:05.960And I want you I want you I want you to see this.
00:13:08.420The practice for Canadian governments for my government, we bring up human rights concerns with friends, allies and and challenging partners around the world.
00:13:23.740And as friends, Canada and Poland will always have frank conversations on the things we're doing together and places where we raise concerns.
00:13:32.360I certainly raised concerns that we have around some of the reports coming out of of of Poland around LGBT.
00:13:40.720Now, I just want to pause there for a second to say the media reported this story.
00:13:46.860As Trudeau doing this in private, clearly, he's not doing this in private.
00:13:53.420He's in a news conference and is dressing down the Italian prime, excuse me, the Polish prime minister.
00:13:59.200So once again, this the illusion of this is that Justin Trudeau is doing this in private, but he's embarrassing himself in Canada yet.
00:14:11.720He writes around democracy and we had a frank conversation, as must be the case.
00:14:17.400We will continue to work together on a broad range of things, but we will continue to be there to stand up for the values that matter as well.
00:14:25.400Now, I want you to look at the Italian prime minister here doesn't look very pleased, does he?
00:14:51.600Can you just imagine what he's thinking?
00:14:55.400Does this swine, this moron, really think he can get away with this?
00:15:02.360Here he is raking me over the coals at a news conference.
00:15:06.240He probably didn't even expect this, but how does this guy have the gall to do this with what he's been doing in Canada?
00:15:36.440We very strongly put focus on nurturing families, supporting families, and sometimes it is misunderstood by some people as being discriminatory towards some other people.
00:15:51.400Which is not the case, and the best proof of this is that we do not have issues with the European Commission from this point of view.
00:16:08.240Because the normal so-called cohesion fund and other European funds would not be given, would not be granted for Poland had we experienced any issues from that point of view.
00:16:33.200That's the best proof of this, but on top of this, I can assure you there are no problems whatsoever.
00:16:40.160There are lots of misunderstandings, I reckon, and I can explain them even more in details, but this is not an issue in Poland.
00:16:52.160No, not an issue in Poland, but Trudeau wants to make it an issue, and as a lot of people have pointed out to me this week, if I was a foreign leader and Trudeau wanted to meet with me, I'd say forget it.
00:17:10.160Take a hike, take a hike, head for the hills, I'm not talking with you, because all you're going to do is try to make a fool out of me when you have your next news conference.
00:17:20.260This kind of behavior is just disgusting.
00:17:23.040But, you know, Trudeau really thinks he can get away with it, and that's what makes it so, so disgusting.
00:17:29.420Now, I want to move quickly to a story I did this week for the Epoch Times, and I was quite proud of this, because it's a really good story about what's happening in Calgary.
00:17:47.780Now, Calgary has gone mad, has absolutely gone mad.
00:17:54.040In the first place, they made it very difficult for parents to protest these drag queen story hours, because, you know what, Calgary City Council and the woke mayor, they're not offended by drag queen story hours for little children, but what they are offended by are pro-life demonstrators.
00:18:20.420And if pro-life demonstrators show up to protest, and they have any pictures of aborted fetuses, like that's what abortion is all about, they have to hide them in an opaque envelope that's clearly labeled, warning, contents offensive.
00:18:39.360You know, it just makes me wonder, whatever happened to Calgary, where they used to be offended by abortion?
00:18:45.500Oh, no, you have to go back a few years of that.
00:18:48.320But at least be offended by exposing children to this sort of nonsense.
00:18:53.360But no, they're really offended in Calgary by pro-life protests, and they're trying to make it even more difficult.
00:19:01.360They made it impossible for pro-life demonstrators to appear before hospitals years ago, decades ago.
00:19:11.520Now they're making it next to impossible for them to protest anywhere else.
00:19:16.280And you can bet there's more coming, because this is a woke council and a woke mayor, and the city is increasingly gone crazy.
00:19:24.800So that's, that's probably all we need to say about that one.
00:19:30.960But I want to move on to really the story that continues to brew.
00:19:36.180You know, and it's, it was really quite astounding.
00:19:41.280The testimony was really quite astounding.
00:19:45.160And it was the David Johnson, former Governor General David Johnson, special rapporteur, appeared before the committee that's investigating Chinese election interference.
00:19:55.420And he appeared to be completely at a loss, not only to understand why everybody is saying there's a conflict of interest here, you great friend of Justin Trudeau and the Trudeau family, you former member of the Trudeau Foundation, you guy who is part of the auto establishment and really is working for Justin Trudeau.
00:20:22.580So, and I love how the conservatives have now described, now describe him as the loyal rapporteur, instead of the special rapporteur, because that's, that's what he's doing.
00:20:33.340So I want to watch, let's watch a bit of this testimony, because this week they had Jenny Kwan, who is an NDP MP from Vancouver East, very NDP writing.
00:20:46.020But, CSIS revealed to her that she was targeted by China, by the communist Chinese government.
00:20:56.280And she was really mad about this, but CSIS told her, and apparently didn't tell David Johnson, or David Johnson did not.
00:21:02.840And Jagmeet Singh, who of course vacillates from one side to the other, can't decide whether he wants to oppose Trudeau or stay in his non-aggression pact with Trudeau.
00:21:14.360He was there asking some pretty good questions too.
00:21:17.340And we've got a great question from Michael Cooper, one of my favorite MPs from St. Albert Edmonton.
00:21:26.800So let's, let's have a listen to this.
00:21:31.900I want to point out a particularly concerning, different conclusion that you, that you, that you arrived at in comparison, in comparison to Mr. O'Toole.
00:21:42.980And, and I want to highlight, Mr. O'Toole raised a question of privilege, and he indicated, and I just want to quote a portion of what he said with my time remaining,
00:21:54.560that the briefing he received from CSIS confirmed to me, this is Mr. O'Toole, what I suspected for quite some time,
00:22:01.120that my party, several members of my caucus, and I were targets of misinformation and voter suppression,
00:22:07.120and that was orchestrated by China before and during the 2021 election.
00:22:10.540So members of the Conservative Caucus and himself were targeted.
00:22:14.040In your report, you find that you, when referenced to Mr. Chu, who was of course a member of the Conservative Party and a candidate in the 2021 election,
00:22:22.820that misinformation could not be traced to a state-sponsored source.
00:22:27.080So we've got two very different conclusions from a CSIS briefing that Mr. O'Toole is referring to,
00:22:32.620and then you're stating in your report that there was no clear evidence that it was state-sponsored.
00:22:37.420How could you have such different conclusions from what Mr. O'Toole received?
00:22:41.660Well, again, Madam Chair, I appreciate that particular question, and it has to be brief.
00:22:46.500We did have an opportunity to meet with Mr. O'Toole shortly before our report was completed,
00:22:51.680and did take into consideration what he had to say to us.
00:22:55.180And I must say he has been a very knowledgeable, thoughtful person about this and has much more to contribute.
00:23:01.980The evidence that we had before us that permitted us to come to the conclusion you've just suggested
00:23:06.540was what was available to us at that time.
00:23:09.280I think since that time, the conversations that Mr. O'Toole has had with the Director of CSIS,
00:23:14.180I think there's been a much greater step in terms of what should have been done and what must be done in the future.
00:30:59.320We need to stay on the air to give you the news, to give you those reports.
00:31:04.340The mainstream media isn't necessarily showing you because we're digging into the testimony in the question period.
00:31:11.300We're broadcasting question period every day until Parliament recesses for the summer because this is important stuff.
00:31:18.420You know, I hear some people say fiscal news is boring.
00:31:23.280Well, it's not boring when your paycheck isn't meeting the demands of your life, when you can't pay your bills, when you can't pay your mortgage, when you can't fill up your gas tank to go to work.
00:31:44.340And this is what this government is ignoring right now, or basic needs, as much as they are ignoring basic democratic values by imposing a very authoritarian style of government on Canada.
00:32:00.840And here at Creighton's right, at Stand on Guard, we are going to continue to fight those policies, and we need your support.
00:32:09.360So watch those clips we're putting up every day.