Stand on Guard with David Krayden - January 10, 2025


Suing Trudeau for Suspending Parliament ｜ Stand on Guard


Episode Stats

Length

32 minutes

Words per Minute

149.33817

Word Count

4,919

Sentence Count

370

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau go head-to-head in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. Trump calls for Canada to become the 51st state, Trudeau says they should be a 51st US state, and Wayne Gretzky wants to be the next Prime Minister of Canada.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 But when you get a, I was going to say conflagration, but at least an intersection of both right-wing policy, right-wing attacks and social media,
00:00:15.800 you end up with a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and responsible governments have to stay focused on the policies that are making a difference, and that's what we've been doing.
00:00:25.860 Yeah, I'm sure a lot of you have already heard that.
00:00:30.000 Snippet from an interview Trudeau did with CNN yesterday, Jake Tapper, who, of course, was never a fan of Donald Trump, but was a huge fan of Justin Trudeau, obviously.
00:00:40.720 And we'll talk a bit more about that.
00:00:43.320 I'm still waiting to see if our guest from the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, James, I was going to say James Mason, but he's, he was going to be on the show here.
00:00:57.720 And it's James Manson from the, from the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, was supposed to be on.
00:01:09.620 I have not been able to contact him this morning.
00:01:11.900 So we, I do have a alternative recording of James, if I have to use that.
00:01:20.680 But
00:01:21.320 we want to talk about what happened yesterday.
00:01:27.480 So much goes on, even when it's a slow news day these days.
00:01:32.400 Let's listen to what Donald Trump said yesterday and then the responses from Justin Trudeau and Pierre Paglia, I think, was very enlightening in what he said.
00:01:46.220 I'm going to Trudeau because they should be the 51st state, really.
00:01:49.600 It would make a great state.
00:01:50.600 And the people of Canada, Canada, like it.
00:01:53.660 They'd pay lower taxes.
00:01:55.080 They have virtually no military.
00:01:56.680 They have a very small military.
00:01:58.120 They pay less than 1%.
00:01:59.480 They're about the lowest payer in NATO.
00:02:02.300 They're supposed to pay much more.
00:02:03.580 They haven't been paying.
00:02:05.060 A lot of, they have a lot of problems.
00:02:07.660 And they, I was with Wayne Gretzky.
00:02:09.940 I said, Wayne, would you like to be the governor of Canada?
00:02:12.280 I can't imagine, I can't imagine anybody doing any better than Wayne.
00:02:16.780 Wayne was not too interested.
00:02:17.960 But I think he probably would have liked statehood.
00:02:22.680 He's a friend of mine.
00:02:23.500 He's a great guy.
00:02:24.560 He's the great one.
00:02:25.480 We call him the great one, right?
00:02:26.740 He's a great hockey player.
00:02:28.180 But I will say this.
00:02:30.700 I think that there's, you know, it was stated pretty strongly a couple of weeks ago about Canada and people laughed.
00:02:37.320 And now they're all saying, well, it's very interesting.
00:02:40.340 And I say from the standpoint of the United States, we're subsidizing Canada $200 and $250 billion a year.
00:02:47.860 We have massive deficits.
00:02:49.840 They've taken about 20% of our car business.
00:02:52.200 I'd rather do it here.
00:02:53.200 We could put tariffs on.
00:02:54.440 We don't have tariffs on them yet.
00:02:56.360 But that will happen.
00:02:58.280 But they've taken about 20% of our car business.
00:03:00.780 I'd rather have it done in Detroit or have it done in South Carolina or any other state that does cars.
00:03:07.080 And we have a lot of them.
00:03:08.640 We don't need Canada for that.
00:03:09.960 We don't need Canada for lumber because we have big forests that we have, you know, not utilized.
00:03:15.340 In some cases, they're protected, which I can take that protection off.
00:03:18.800 And you take down a tree and you grow a better tree.
00:03:21.900 That's, you know, pretty common.
00:03:23.640 But we don't need anything.
00:03:24.820 We don't need their fuel.
00:03:26.040 We don't need their energy.
00:03:27.140 We don't need their oil and gas.
00:03:28.540 We don't need anything that they have.
00:03:30.140 And I said to Trudeau, I said, why are we subsidizing you $200 and $250 billion a year?
00:03:39.420 He said, I really don't know.
00:03:41.960 Now, I'm sure even Justin Trudeau understands that the trade deficit that Canada has with the United States,
00:03:49.880 or the United States has with Canada, is based on energy.
00:03:54.860 And yes, Mr. Trump, the United States does need Canadian energy.
00:04:00.800 And you get it at discount prices.
00:04:03.040 And we're going to be listening to Pierpalia make this point later.
00:04:06.800 You get it at discount prices and you refine it and basically sell it to the world and sell it back to us.
00:04:15.260 So there's a lot of bravado going on here.
00:04:19.520 There's a lot of BS going on here.
00:04:22.380 And this is all about Trump getting his way over whatever talks come up.
00:04:27.820 But we'll get back to the point that Justin Trudeau is incapable of representing Canada right now.
00:04:33.940 There's a lot of things to consider.
00:04:35.320 And I'm not in the bag for anybody.
00:04:39.180 When I disagree with Donald Trump, I'll say so.
00:04:42.280 I disagree with Donald Trump here.
00:04:44.000 I think it's stupidity to talk about Wayne Gretzky as being the next prime minister.
00:04:48.880 Wayne Gretzky would have to run for the Liberal Party leadership right now to be the next prime minister.
00:04:54.720 And do you really think Wayne Gretzky wants to be in charge of the Liberal Party of Canada?
00:04:59.720 But that's the only way he's going to become prime minister.
00:05:04.240 And where's Pierpalia in the equation vis-a-vis Donald Trump?
00:05:08.620 I really find this irritating because Pierpalia needs to be in the conversation.
00:05:14.720 And I don't blame Palia for this.
00:05:16.120 He's doing his best to get in the conversation.
00:05:18.000 Donald Trump is apparently completely unaware, or at least is pretending to be completely unaware,
00:05:23.680 that there's a Conservative Party of Canada leader.
00:05:26.500 There's an official opposition leader named Pierpalia.
00:05:30.340 Let's listen to the end of this.
00:05:31.780 And I said, well, I don't know either.
00:05:34.280 I said, what would happen to Canada if we didn't?
00:05:37.480 He said Canada would be obliterated if that happened.
00:05:40.200 I said, then Canada should be a 51st state.
00:05:42.540 Hello, Canada.
00:05:46.180 Hello, Greatland.
00:05:46.820 We love you.
00:05:48.720 All right.
00:05:49.540 So Trudeau's interview, this amazes me.
00:05:54.240 And we'll get to Trudeau admitting he's down in the United States in the same room,
00:06:00.060 not even far from President-elect Donald Trump, and he doesn't talk to him.
00:06:06.720 And so what does Donald, what does Justin Trudeau spend his time talking about in this CNN interview?
00:06:13.260 Climate change and how the wildfires in California are to blame for, are caused by climate change.
00:06:20.160 I can't believe he would try that one.
00:06:23.260 We know they're caused by excessive brush that they haven't cleaned up.
00:06:28.720 Underneath the power lines, sparks fly.
00:06:31.900 They start on fire.
00:06:33.940 It's nothing to do with climate change.
00:06:35.380 We know arson is also involved, like it was in Canada when we had our wildfire season.
00:06:42.540 But listen to Justin Trudeau.
00:06:44.400 Make it up as he goes along.
00:06:46.260 The struggle that you were having domestically, your disapproval rating, had to do with, as I understand it,
00:06:53.860 discontent with your government because of high inflation and the economy, and also because of immigration policies.
00:07:00.320 Those are also issues that the left-wing party in this country has faced a lot of disapproval of and just lost an election over.
00:07:08.600 It seems like voters in both of these, you know, liberal democracies are sending a message to left-wing parties, liberal parties.
00:07:17.160 We don't like how you're doing the economy when it comes to inflation.
00:07:19.940 We don't like how you're doing immigration.
00:07:21.260 There are a lot of feelings involved.
00:07:24.860 I mean, if you look at the actual numbers, inflation in Canada was lower, came down quicker.
00:07:30.120 Our economy bounced back faster after the pandemic than anyone else's, including the United States.
00:07:35.700 We're projected to grow faster than the United States and all other G7 countries next year.
00:07:40.360 Our economy is doing very well.
00:07:42.320 But when someone's paying $8 for a head of lettuce, it doesn't matter that you're doing better than they are in Spain or somewhere else.
00:07:50.440 There's a sense that, okay, something's got to give.
00:07:54.720 And that's where incumbents are in trouble everywhere around the world, not just in our two countries.
00:08:00.220 The issue, though, is that in a time of crisis, responsible politics is around focusing on things that actually make a real difference in people's lives.
00:08:10.020 We delivered $10 a day child care.
00:08:12.820 And here come the talking points.
00:08:14.920 Incredible.
00:08:15.580 It's like he's back in question period.
00:08:17.800 And he actually brings out that carbon rebate lie.
00:08:21.760 We're delivering a dental care program that provides free dental care to people who don't have coverage.
00:08:27.600 We're moving forward on putting a price on pollution that puts more money in the pockets of 8 out of 10 Canadians, of middle-class Canadians.
00:08:34.420 These are policies that are not short-term.
00:08:37.700 They're policies that will have a deep impact in the well-being of Canadians and of our country for years to come.
00:08:44.520 Now, you can take those policies, like a child care policy, and say, oh, see, that's just about wokeness and about women's rights.
00:08:51.600 Well, no.
00:08:52.120 It's about getting more women into the workforce at a time where...
00:08:55.700 And this guy knows all about women's rights.
00:08:58.500 We need economic growth.
00:09:01.160 That's what it is.
00:09:02.440 But when you get a conflagration, but at least an intersection of both right-wing policy, right-wing attacks and social media,
00:09:17.420 you end up with a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and responsible governments have to stay focused on the policies that are making a difference.
00:09:25.120 And that's what we've been doing.
00:09:26.080 I know you're...
00:09:28.080 Yeah, incredible.
00:09:29.700 So he can't get through this interview without talking about climate change.
00:09:36.740 So listen to this.
00:09:39.160 Wildfire is increasingly encroaching on urban areas.
00:09:42.460 And that's an interface fire where we're having to train up more local municipal firefighters to deal with wildfires in a way that we never had before.
00:09:52.000 I've been back and forth texting with Governor Newsom.
00:09:55.680 We've offered a tremendous amount of equipment that they're already accepting.
00:09:59.680 There's expertise.
00:10:01.120 There's things that we're having to do to deal with together as we, of course, respond to these fires,
00:10:06.520 but also know that climate change means they're going to get steadily worse.
00:10:10.540 And we have to keep stepping up on fighting climate change, too.
00:10:13.300 A lot of people out there might say, what does climate change have to do with...
00:10:16.560 Yeah, a lot of people might say that because it's got nothing to do with these wildfires.
00:10:22.020 As I said, it's got everything to do with brush that is susceptible to starting on fire.
00:10:29.240 And it's got everything to do with arsons.
00:10:31.640 It's got nothing to do with climate change.
00:10:34.120 There's not a single shred of evidence for it.
00:10:36.520 When the summers get drier, when weather gets hotter, when weather patterns shift,
00:10:43.360 communities that were built in a place that never saw fires are suddenly seeing fires much more frequently.
00:10:49.400 There's a shift in everything that means even what we see now is going to just get worse and worse and worse
00:10:55.900 over the coming decades if we're not serious about reducing our emissions
00:10:59.940 and looking for ways to protect our future generation.
00:11:03.740 Incredible. He keeps that line up no matter what is actually happening.
00:11:13.240 And of course, we know it's got nothing to do with climate change.
00:11:16.240 There's an artificial drought. It's not because of climate change.
00:11:19.120 It's because they're rerouting the water in California into the Pacific Ocean.
00:11:23.740 Trump has been needling you a bit, calling you Governor Trudeau,
00:11:27.980 talking about making Canada the 51st state.
00:11:30.000 Did you have any interaction with him today?
00:11:31.520 No, not today. But that's not going to happen.
00:11:36.160 Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.
00:11:39.140 One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we're not American.
00:11:43.840 There is such a depth of pride that that's not actually an issue.
00:11:48.780 What I think is happening in this is President Trump, who's a very skillful negotiator,
00:11:54.600 is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that conversation to take away from the conversation
00:12:03.100 around 25 percent tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete
00:12:09.680 and everything the American consumers buy from Canada is suddenly going to get a lot more expensive
00:12:14.620 if he moves forward on these tariffs.
00:12:15.980 And that's something that I think we need to be focusing on a little bit more.
00:12:20.320 Did the re-election of Donald Trump and this more direct confrontation with Canada over this issue
00:12:27.340 play any role at all in your decision to resign as leader of your party and prime minister?
00:12:32.280 No, on the contrary.
00:12:33.760 What we were able to do during the first presidency of Mr. Trump's was work together
00:12:41.540 in a very challenging situation to come out with a very strong win-win in Canada-U.S. relations
00:12:50.040 You knew he had to say challenging in some point.
00:12:51.760 Relations with the re-negotiation of the USMCA.
00:12:54.380 It is a great deal for both of our countries.
00:12:57.480 We've seen trade grow.
00:12:59.020 We've seen opportunities grow.
00:13:00.660 We've seen wealth grow in both of our countries for workers, for businesses.
00:13:06.120 Working together concretely is something that we've been able to do in the past.
00:13:10.760 And I'm looking forward to continuing to work with him for the next two months while I'm still in office.
00:13:14.940 Let's talk about this potential 25% tariff from the United States on Canada.
00:13:20.240 Economists say that will drive the Canadian economy into a recession.
00:13:24.080 And the Canadian government is preparing.
00:13:26.000 Now notice Trudeau's nodding here.
00:13:28.920 Trump claims that Trudeau said it would obliterate the Canadian economy.
00:13:34.320 Trudeau's body language here indicates that he actually did say that.
00:13:37.320 Retaliatory tariffs, if these actually go through, which do you think would be potentially the most effective against the United States?
00:13:46.860 I don't want them, by the way, just as an American, I don't want these tariffs.
00:13:50.100 But minerals, energy?
00:13:53.060 You know, we don't want them either.
00:13:55.820 We do not want to see tariffs on our side.
00:13:58.600 We do not want to see tariffs on your side.
00:14:01.880 Yeah.
00:14:02.620 And of course he admits he's at this Jimmy Carter's funeral, state funeral.
00:14:08.760 And he doesn't talk to Donald Trump about any of this.
00:14:12.020 About any of this.
00:14:14.540 And yet they're claiming now that the liberal leadership will be decided by March the 9th.
00:14:21.020 So they're all Justin Trudeau.
00:14:46.360 They're all just like Justin.
00:14:49.580 So what are they fighting about?
00:14:51.760 Given that they agree on all the same disastrous economic policies, they're fighting for themselves.
00:14:59.120 Liberals are putting liberals first.
00:15:02.180 It's time to put Canada first.
00:15:05.900 Given that all of them are the same, all of them are just like Justin, let's get this decision out of the way.
00:15:12.040 We need certainty now.
00:15:14.000 We cannot wait.
00:15:14.980 Wait, I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to do what he has the legal power to do.
00:15:20.480 He can do it without his caucus supporting him.
00:15:23.480 I'm calling on him to walk to Rideau Hall and announce that there will be an axe-the-tax election now.
00:15:32.040 So that Canadians can take back control of their lives and country.
00:15:36.740 The choice will be simple.
00:15:37.720 Either the NDP liberals who tax your food, punish your work, double your housing cost, unleash crime and chaos and weakness on the world stage,
00:15:49.040 or common-sense conservatives who will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, stop the crime and put Canada first.
00:16:00.000 We will take back control of immigration, take back control of spending, take back control of our borders, take back control of inflation, taxes and interest rates.
00:16:11.960 Let's take back control of the country that we knew and still love.
00:16:15.920 And we will put Canada first.
00:16:16.920 We will stand up and we will state clearly that Canada is a sovereign and independent country.
00:16:23.920 That we will protect our integrity as a nation through strength.
00:16:31.680 And that's what we're going to do.
00:16:32.680 We're going to take back control and put our country first.
00:16:35.320 That means rebuilding our economy, bringing home production, rebuilding our military, supporting a strong border, reinstating controls on immigration,
00:16:47.020 and most of all, being proud of our country and unapologetic for our history.
00:16:51.620 We need to be, we need to honor our past and our shared values.
00:16:56.540 We need to live out the dream that started with John A. MacDonald.
00:17:01.700 Yes, I said John A. MacDonald.
00:17:04.120 Who believed in an independent and sovereign Canada.
00:17:09.160 We need to uphold our heroes.
00:17:11.520 Stop tearing down our symbols.
00:17:14.420 Remind people who come here that when they're given a Canadian flag and they land on Canadian soil,
00:17:20.700 that it's the greatest gift on earth and that they should be proud to be part of the Canadian family.
00:17:29.660 That's what it means to be a proud Canadian.
00:17:33.160 That's what it means to put Canada first.
00:17:34.880 Now, very good, very good remarks.
00:17:38.020 And especially about being proud of our history, be proud of our heroes.
00:17:41.580 Excellent.
00:17:43.240 But Pierre Polly needs to get into the narrative with Donald Trump.
00:17:47.040 I don't know what's going on with Wayne Gretzky.
00:17:49.020 This is beyond stupidity with talking about this.
00:17:51.900 But anyway, he says here he's challenging Justin Trudeau to walk down to Rideau Hall and ask for Parliament to come back and to have an election.
00:18:08.180 Now, I don't think Justin Trudeau has any intention of doing that.
00:18:11.320 So how else can we get over this proroguing period, which is killing Canada?
00:18:16.260 Parliament's suspended.
00:18:17.420 Justin Trudeau likes it that way.
00:18:18.780 Well, the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms has an idea.
00:18:23.120 It's a constitutional challenge to have to Justin Trudeau being allowed to prorogue for political partisan reasons.
00:18:30.480 And James Manson was unable to be on the show today, unfortunately.
00:18:36.520 But this is an excellent encapsulation of what he wants to do right here.
00:18:43.140 Well, good evening, everybody.
00:18:44.360 James Manson here, constitutional lawyer.
00:18:46.820 By now, I think quite a number of you have probably seen the news on social media that the organization that I work with,
00:18:57.700 we've been able to file a challenge to Prime Minister Trudeau's prorogation of Parliament that happened yesterday.
00:19:06.760 That document was filed sometime this afternoon, and I would expect that hopefully we'll be getting going with that case on an urgent basis very soon.
00:19:18.760 Certainly, the court will appreciate the gravity of the situation.
00:19:22.280 But I wanted to reach out to explain to everybody who's interested exactly what the case is about and what we can expect maybe going forward.
00:19:32.160 First of all, the case is interesting and very important and really quite unique in our country.
00:19:40.280 It never happened before.
00:19:42.040 It's never happened before that a couple of litigants, and in this case, the litigants are two citizens of Nova Scotia.
00:19:50.360 They have challenged the Prime Minister's advice given to the Governor-General to, as I say, prorogue Parliament.
00:19:59.800 That's never happened before in Canada.
00:20:04.200 There have been many prorogations, and just so that we all understand, a prorogation is essentially a royal prerogative.
00:20:13.980 It goes back to the days of the kings and queens back in England, back a long time ago, when the king or the queen was the boss,
00:20:21.440 and they did whatever they wanted to, and they could, if they want to, suspend Parliament for however long they wanted to.
00:20:27.540 And as time went on, of course, democracy took stronger hold, and then it was the Prime Minister who was able to essentially assert his power,
00:20:36.660 or, well, it was always his power at that point, over the monarch in terms of when to suspend Parliament.
00:20:43.440 So now what happens is the Governor-General, who acts for the king or the queen, will do essentially what the Prime Minister advises them to do,
00:20:52.000 and in this case, that's what happened yesterday.
00:20:53.900 So there's nothing inherently wrong with prorogation.
00:20:58.000 Prorogation really is a temporary suspension of Parliament.
00:21:02.580 And usually what that is, is to give everybody a chance to legislatively reset the situation.
00:21:10.380 So oftentimes what happens is the government will have a speech from the throne.
00:21:14.360 There will be a direction laid out by the Speaker, or pardon me, by the monarch, by the Governor-General in this case.
00:21:22.700 And once that legislative agenda is finished, then there needs to be a new direction.
00:21:29.000 There needs to be new department instructions given, and there needs to be new, you know, momentum established for new legislative policies, things like that.
00:21:39.240 And that's normal. That usually happens probably once every Parliament or so.
00:21:44.720 However, where it gets tricky is that you can't have it done.
00:21:50.600 You can't prorogue Parliament to avoid political trouble.
00:21:54.420 That's really what it comes down to in this case.
00:21:57.240 Our case is remarkably similar, that's how, anyway, we will argue the point, to the case in 2019,
00:22:08.220 when Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the United Kingdom, he attempted to prorogue Parliament for five weeks out of eight.
00:22:15.980 And the timing was very, very tricky because, as you guys may recall, that was when the Brexit was coming and they needed to have an agreement with the European Union about how to exit from the EU.
00:22:30.500 And if they didn't, there could be a hard exit and it would be very, would have been very catastrophic economically, politically for the UK and maybe for the EU.
00:22:38.820 So, anyway, Johnson, Prime Minister Johnson at the time, decided anyway to prorogue Parliament for five weeks of the eight remaining weeks leading up to the Brexit.
00:22:50.560 And essentially, he wanted to avoid scrutiny from Parliament.
00:22:55.420 He wanted to avoid the tough questions, avoid all of the mess in the House of Commons that was happening at the time.
00:23:02.040 And so, ultimately, this led to a challenge like the one that we've brought today.
00:23:06.800 And the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled unanimously, 11 votes to zero, 11 to zero,
00:23:14.860 that the exercise of the prorogation power by Prime Minister Johnson to advise, at that point, the Queen, to prorogue was unlawful.
00:23:26.220 And essentially, what the Supreme Court of the UK said at that point was that you can't,
00:23:32.020 in the course of proroguing, you can't frustrate or prevent the ability of Parliament to oversee the government,
00:23:42.320 to do its job, which is to oversee the government, to supervise the government.
00:23:45.940 Because as we all know, it's Parliament that is the supreme body in a Western parliamentary system.
00:23:53.080 It's Parliament, not the government.
00:23:54.960 It's Parliament as an entire body that is actually the supreme body of the country.
00:24:03.080 So, in any event, that's what we're seeing happen in this case.
00:24:08.440 We are suggesting that, like what happened in the UK when Prime Minister Johnson, you know,
00:24:14.220 did what he did to really frustrate the will of Parliament to supervise the government,
00:24:18.680 we're suggesting in the same vein that in this particular case, the Prime Minister has prorogued Parliament
00:24:27.660 in order to really gain some political advantage here.
00:24:33.600 He has given us his reasons, as you all know from yesterday's press conference,
00:24:37.940 the reasons are to reset, not legislative resetting, but to reset the tone
00:24:43.620 or the acrimony that he's been seeing in the House.
00:24:49.840 Well, there's a way to do that.
00:24:51.860 It's called have an election.
00:24:53.420 There's a way to do that.
00:24:54.500 It's called face the opposition, have a motion of non-confidence and have an election.
00:24:59.060 That would be the democratic and legitimate way to reset Parliament.
00:25:03.920 There's another issue, which is that why 11 weeks?
00:25:07.440 This is an 11-week prorogation.
00:25:09.240 And that seems to be an awfully long time simply to have everybody's temperature cool down.
00:25:14.780 And this excellent points.
00:25:18.020 And James has said he thinks he can win this.
00:25:21.680 He thinks he can win this.
00:25:22.940 But to get back to Pierre Polyev, who I think needs to insert himself as much as possible,
00:25:28.100 and I think he's doing a great job of inserting himself into this equation
00:25:31.980 as being the Prime Minister in waiting.
00:25:34.660 Unfortunately, it's falling on deaf ears in the United States, as far as we can see.
00:25:38.260 You never know what Donald Trump is really thinking.
00:25:41.520 But Polyev clearly understands why Canada is necessary to the United States as an independent country.
00:25:49.960 It doesn't need to fold itself into the U.S. because we have nothing else to offer.
00:25:55.360 And yes, our defense spending is weak.
00:25:58.040 Our national defense is getting weaker.
00:26:00.380 But Canada still has a lot to offer as a partner with the United States.
00:26:10.260 And I think Polyev hits the nail on the head here.
00:26:12.380 We will take back control of immigration.
00:26:15.360 Take back control of spending.
00:26:16.940 Take back control of our borders.
00:26:19.040 Take back control of inflation, taxes, and interest rates.
00:26:24.260 Take back control of the country that we knew and still love.
00:26:28.500 And we will put Canada first.
00:26:30.560 We will stand up and we will state clearly that Canada is a sovereign and independent country.
00:26:37.120 That we will protect our integrity as a nation through strength.
00:26:43.300 First of all, this means a strong economy.
00:26:47.360 We need a massive bring-it-home tax cut.
00:26:49.660 Lowering taxes on work, investment, energy, and making stuff in Canada will bring home billions of dollars of investment and paychecks,
00:26:58.860 but will also make us more economically independent and less vulnerable to threats from abroad.
00:27:04.620 Second, we need a prime minister who can make the case to our economic allies on the ground in America.
00:27:12.460 We should go to the American workers in the Midwest and their union and business leaders and say,
00:27:20.220 how many jobs are you prepared to lose by hitting Canadian energy with tariffs?
00:27:24.480 Energy that we sell to America at discounts that create six-figure jobs for American workers.
00:27:30.660 How many of them?
00:27:31.240 Very, probably that's the first one I've heard say this.
00:27:35.500 Why isn't the Canadian government saying this?
00:27:38.040 We're selling energy to the U.S. at discount prices.
00:27:43.040 They refine it and send it back.
00:27:45.100 Those people will go out of work.
00:27:47.060 How many of those hard hats will be laid down and boots will be unfilled?
00:27:50.740 Because Americans will lose jobs due to that self-harm if those tariffs go ahead.
00:27:57.100 We need to go to American home builders and say, we can help you build more affordable homes
00:28:01.780 if your government would stop tariffing our softwood lumber.
00:28:06.020 We need to go to the American tech companies and say, you could have access to our unmatched,
00:28:14.360 totally reliable and clean electricity sources for your data centers.
00:28:19.940 AI requires 10 times as much electricity as traditional information technology does.
00:28:27.720 Now, what do you think is driving this annexation idea?
00:28:33.960 This, probably have hit the nail on the head here.
00:28:36.560 It's about the fact that big tech needs more energy because of AI.
00:28:44.000 Where do you think that's coming from?
00:28:45.400 Elon Musk, perhaps?
00:28:47.820 This is, probably seems to be the only politician in Canada
00:28:51.560 or the only political leader in Canada who understands the dynamics of the economy right now.
00:28:58.120 Justin Trudeau, it's his way over his head.
00:29:02.300 It's way over Justin Trudeau's head.
00:29:04.980 We have the most uranium for nuclear centers.
00:29:09.960 Meta, Google, Microsoft are all buying or refurbishing their own nuclear plants
00:29:16.700 to power their data centers.
00:29:18.440 We can do it for them here in Canada.
00:29:21.440 Cold, dry climate, lots of energy, low cost, totally reliable, 100% ally right next door.
00:29:30.840 We can provide that to America.
00:29:33.380 And energy, today, Venezuela being torn apart with opposition leaders being attacked.
00:29:39.960 And what is America going to be forced to do?
00:29:41.820 Buy Venezuelan oil instead of good, clean Canadian oil.
00:29:46.880 Not only should we condemn Maduro and the dictators in Venezuela for what they're doing,
00:29:51.680 we should shut them off by shutting down their energy and their oil sales
00:29:56.160 and replacing it with Canadian oil sales.
00:29:58.280 The Americans, our friends, want Canadian oil, not Venezuelan, not Iranian,
00:30:03.580 and not other dirty dictator oil from around the world.
00:30:06.720 These are the arguments that a strong prime minister,
00:30:09.240 with the brains and backbones to lead a country,
00:30:11.800 would be making right now if we had a serious government.
00:30:15.140 And that's what we're going to do.
00:30:17.080 We're going to take back control and put our country first.
00:30:19.740 And we don't have a strong, we don't have a strong prime minister.
00:30:23.700 We don't have a prime minister with either brains or backbone.
00:30:26.920 And clearly, as I've said from the beginning here,
00:30:29.940 Pierre Polyev needs to get into this narrative with Donald Trump.
00:30:35.360 Trump is clearly saying Trudeau is out, it's gone, we're not dealing with him.
00:30:39.160 He's not legitimate.
00:30:41.540 He needs to understand that Pierre Polyev will be the leader he's dealing with.
00:30:47.560 And we need a new election and we need a new government as soon as possible.
00:30:52.120 The tariffs are coming.
00:30:54.120 Trump is serious about this.
00:30:55.700 I can tell you that with incredible certainty.
00:30:59.540 I don't know how serious he is about annexation, about annexing Canada,
00:31:05.060 but he's damn serious about this 25% tariff.
00:31:09.700 And he's not taking our border plan to spend $1.3 billion over six years very seriously.
00:31:17.800 So that's what we're facing right now.
00:31:20.940 That's what we're facing.
00:31:22.580 This is indeed a crisis.
00:31:25.900 And we have to realize that.
00:31:28.220 Just a reminder, have a look at our story today.
00:31:33.860 We'll be right back.
00:32:03.860 Yes, and I'm using the Keep Calm and Carry On mug today.
00:32:11.600 Thanks for watching today, folks.
00:32:13.380 I'll be back again tomorrow.
00:32:15.120 My apologies.
00:32:15.840 We didn't have a live interview with James from the Constitutional Center.
00:32:23.820 Or sorry, for the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
00:32:28.920 But we're going to try again and see what happened today.
00:32:32.460 It's been a terrible week for me.
00:32:33.620 I had two interviews myself this week that were totally bungled because of technical problems
00:32:41.180 and other things that came in the way.
00:32:43.900 So it's not been a good week for me for interviews, either doing them myself or conducting them.
00:32:48.920 So thank you for watching today.
00:32:50.280 I'll be back again tomorrow.
00:32:51.500 Keep resolving to resist and keep fighting.
00:32:55.600 Thank you.
00:32:56.300 Thank you.