The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - August 31, 2018


Daniel Hannan joins Canada’s Conservatives

Hosted by
Jamie Schmal
Mentioned
Andrew Scheer John A. Macdonald Stephen Harper Trudeau
All-star team joins The Blueprint, live at Convention 2018 Spring 2019 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada

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Length

15 minutes

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123.5

Word count

1,943

Sentence count

128

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1

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Toxicity

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Hate speech

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Learn English with Andrew Scheer, the new Prime Minister of Canada. In a speech in Quebec City, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with supporters to celebrate his victory in the upcoming leadership election, and spoke about his vision for the future of the country.

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00:00:00.000 You are listening to The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative Podcast.
00:00:09.040 Is the Prime Minister actually saying that taxpayers should be on the hook when he breaks the law?
00:00:20.420 What is it going to take for the Prime Minister to have any respect for any laws in this country that may curb his out-of-control behaviour?
00:00:30.000 All these deficits leading to nothing but burying Canadians in taxes.
00:00:39.000 Thank you, ladies.
00:00:42.000 It is an honour for me to be here, in Nouvelle-Écosse,
00:00:48.000 among the many champions of the conservative movement.
00:00:52.000 You represent the best of Canada.
00:00:56.000 In looking around me, I can't stop expressing my optimism
00:01:02.000 about the future of this vast and magnificent country.
00:01:07.000 It makes me great pleasure to share this scene with a great patriot Canadian, Andrew Scheer.
00:01:16.000 The Canadians can feel happy and happy to count on Andrew as the next Prime Minister.
00:01:29.000 I am speaking in Canada, just in Trudeau's Canada,
00:01:39.000 and I have made no attempt whatever to parody the indigenous clothes of the natives.
00:01:46.000 Please don't think me rude.
00:01:47.000 Please don't think me rude.
00:01:48.000 Please don't think me rude.
00:01:49.000 Let me do something about that right away.
00:01:53.000 That's better.
00:01:58.000 That's better.
00:01:59.000 That's better.
00:02:00.000 C'est mieux comme ça.
00:02:01.000 Do you know, I don't know if you ever had a kind of rich, well-meaning, dim, embarrassing,
00:02:08.000 gap year friend. 0.68
00:02:09.000 I bet you never thought in a million years that that rich, dim, embarrassing, well-meaning
00:02:13.000 friend would become the leader of a G7 country.
00:02:19.000 I've got to tell you, my friends, I can see no greater contrast in politics at the moment
00:02:26.000 than that between the leaders of Canada's two big parties.
00:02:31.000 The Conservatives are led by somebody from an ordinary background but with extraordinary
00:02:36.000 skills, extraordinary resilience, extraordinary talent, extraordinary integrity.
00:02:45.000 The Liberals, well they are led by somebody who had every privilege, every opportunity,
00:02:52.000 but it turned out that behind the smile there was nothing.
00:02:56.000 He was like the Cheshire Cat, just the smile surrounded by airy nothing.
00:03:03.000 Never make the mistake of underestimating Andrew Scheer, 25 years old when he won his parliamentary
00:03:10.000 seat against a guy who had held that seat longer than he had been alive, 32 years old
00:03:15.000 when he became Speaker, and now leading this great party with the ambition not of snatching
00:03:21.000 at the levers of power in Ottawa, but rather with the ambition of giving power and control
00:03:28.000 back to ordinary people in Canada.
00:03:38.000 You can trust that to the supply teacher who kind of accidentally ended up becoming a Prime Minister.
00:03:46.000 Every day that passes, it becomes clear that behind the charm and behind the good looks,
00:03:53.000 there's literally nothing, nothing there at all.
00:03:58.000 As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there.
00:04:02.000 He wasn't there again today.
00:04:05.000 I wish, I wish he'd go away.
00:04:08.000 My friends, this should be no contest, right?
00:04:17.000 If it came down to character, to policy, to commitment, this would be, as they say across
00:04:24.000 the border, a slam dunk.
00:04:27.000 But here we come to the cosmic asymmetry, the unfairness that afflicts every right of centre
00:04:33.000 party, yours and mine included.
00:04:36.000 And it's this.
00:04:38.000 The voters tend to send for Conservatives in times of crisis.
00:04:43.000 They tend to vote for us just when the Treasury has been emptied, when the credit has been exhausted,
00:04:49.000 when the economy is plummeting, when unemployment is rising.
00:04:52.000 And we then come in, we Conservatives, and we do what needs to be done.
00:04:56.000 We willingly put our shoulder to the wheel.
00:04:59.000 We make the tough decisions.
00:05:00.000 We restore order and sanity to public finance.
00:05:04.000 And just when we've done the job, just when the economy is growing again, they say,
00:05:08.000 Oh, that's great.
00:05:09.000 Thank you very much.
00:05:10.000 Why don't we vote for that nice bimbo supply teacher with a nice smile? 1.00
00:05:14.000 I struggle to think of any government that left such a golden legacy to its successors,
00:05:29.000 as Stephen Harper's government in Canada.
00:05:39.000 You can take any metric you like.
00:05:42.000 Crime was falling.
00:05:44.000 Immigration was controlled and legal, which meant that people were coming here with a sense of optimism 1.00
00:05:49.000 and patriotism, keen to make a success of their lives in this country.
00:05:54.000 This was the only G7 state to come through the downturn without a downturn.
00:05:59.000 Taxes were falling faster than at any time in Canadian history.
00:06:02.000 The budget was in surplus.
00:06:04.000 And now look.
00:06:07.000 Now we have a deficit that we're told won't be closed until 2045.
00:06:13.000 Unforgivably, a government that is squandering those reserves during a boom time.
00:06:23.000 My friends, Canadians, if anything, are a fair-minded people.
00:06:29.000 We understand, you understand, that no good parent would run up huge debts and pass them on to their children.
00:06:38.000 That doesn't become any less true when people think as voters and when people act as a nation.
00:06:45.000 There is something unethical and immoral about sustaining living standards today and expecting somebody else to pick up the bill.
00:07:00.000 And let me say something as a Conservative among fellow Conservatives.
00:07:06.000 Your party should never be embarrassed about making the case for Canadian patriotism and the vision of what this country stands for and what it could be.
00:07:17.000 And when I talk about Canadian patriotism, when I talk about that vision, I don't mean the vision of Trudopia.
00:07:28.000 I don't mean a great country that defines itself as being a kind of touchy-feely, UN compliant, nappy-changing, interventionist social democracy.
00:07:38.000 I mean, yeah, there may be a certain market for that in some aspects of this country.
00:07:43.000 But I tell you, your allies abroad, my friends, your allies have not forgotten the Canada of Vimy Ridge and the Canada of Juneau Beach.
00:07:51.000 Unless I've completely misread your temper, I don't think Canadians have completely forgotten it either. 0.86
00:08:18.000 In a way, that shouldn't need saying.
00:08:22.000 And yet, as we sit here in Halifax, we're living through an extraordinary time where it is considered acceptable for people to trash the name and deny the legacy of the founder of Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald.
00:08:39.000 Now, just think of what people are doing when they attack Sir John A. Macdonald's legacy.
00:08:45.000 What are they really saying? I mean, what is it that we remember him for, right?
00:08:48.000 What they're really saying is, the world would have been a better place if Canada hadn't come into being at all.
00:08:54.000 And I've got one question for the people who say that.
00:08:57.000 What country has contributed more to the happiness of man, forgive me, the happiness of people kind than this one?
00:09:07.000 When nations and systems that have elevated the individual above the collective have struggled for supremacy against autocracies that have done the opposite,
00:09:18.000 every time Canada has been on the right side.
00:09:22.000 If you don't think that this country was worth building, you find me a better one.
00:09:25.000 Let me say this as a friend of Canada, as a friend of Canadian democracy.
00:09:44.000 My late father fought, I suspect alongside some of yours, in Italy in 1944.
00:09:53.000 My late uncle is buried in rural Ontario.
00:09:56.000 He was a casualty of an exercise during military training, a surprisingly common way for people to meet their end.
00:10:03.000 His heartbroken parents never got to visit the grave.
00:10:07.000 But they were consoled by receiving regular letters from a local woman who, spotting the headstone and inferring that the body lying there was a long way from home,
00:10:17.000 for years took it on herself to lay flowers at the grave.
00:10:22.000 Our countries have been through a great deal together.
00:10:26.000 Look around you in this city, see the monuments to the young men who were prepared to cross half the world in order to take up arms for freedom.
00:10:37.000 Half a million Canadians passed through Halifax alone in the Second World War, out of a population of what, 11 million at the time.
00:10:46.000 Half a million, almost all of them volunteers, rushing to the aid of a country on which in most cases they'd never set eyes.
00:10:55.000 Why?
00:10:58.000 Partly, of course, because of congruities of language, of culture, family ties, of course.
00:11:04.000 But that wasn't all.
00:11:06.000 Didn't they also have a sense that they were defending a better way of life?
00:11:12.000 A way of life that elevates the rules over the rulers, that elevates the individual above the collective.
00:11:18.000 And they were right to believe that.
00:11:20.000 My own country, I'm glad to say, is at last recovering its sovereignty, its independence, its right to hire and fire the people who pass its laws.
00:11:41.000 And one of the consequences that I hope will flow from our recovering our self-government is that we will be able to strengthen our bonds with our oldest and closest allies.
00:11:57.000 In part, this is a question of closer economic and trading links.
00:12:06.000 Canada looks like it's going to have a trade deal with the EU.
00:12:09.000 It's great, much better to have one than not to have one.
00:12:11.000 It took seven years and we still haven't got CETA through.
00:12:14.000 But we could do a lot better.
00:12:16.000 We could do a lot better.
00:12:17.000 What about a trade deal between the UK and Canada that simply said,
00:12:22.000 whatever is legal in your country is automatically legal in ours and vice versa.
00:12:27.000 That this applies to services.
00:12:29.000 It applies to professional qualifications.
00:12:31.000 We trust each other's regulators.
00:12:32.000 We are creating a proper market for the consumer, not for big business.
00:12:36.000 And if we have such a deal between the UK and Canada, it becomes very difficult not to extend the same deal to the United States,
00:12:51.000 which would solve the NAFTA problem that your current Prime Minister is making such a hash of.
00:12:57.000 We could have a different way of doing trade, one that brought together initially common law and English-speaking countries,
00:13:06.000 but that extended in time to anyone who was able to meet those standards,
00:13:10.000 that was based on mutual recognition instead of standardization,
00:13:14.000 on extending choice and opportunity, on being a capitalism for the little guy,
00:13:19.000 not a capitalism for the big corporates.
00:13:21.000 And we can lead the world together in establishing such a system.
00:13:27.000 But this is about more than trade and economics.
00:13:36.000 I want to re-establish that alliance of free democracies that has done so much to secure the happiness and liberty of our species.
00:13:46.000 And I want to see Canada resume its leading place in that alliance.
00:13:51.000 And the great, elemental, historic task of your party is to preserve that vision of a proud, strong, free, independent Canada.
00:14:02.000 If there is one job for the Conservative Party of Canada, and for all of you as private individuals, even when you're not sitting here as delegates, it's this.
00:14:11.000 Your job is to remind young people here, wherever their parents or grandparents were born, that they are not just a random set of individuals born to a different random set of individuals.
00:14:25.000 That being Canadian means something, that it makes them heirs to a sublime tradition.
00:14:44.000 Let me end with a plea from a British Conservative to Canadian allies.
00:14:53.000 I'm not the men who made this country.
00:14:56.000 Keep intact the freedoms that you've all been lucky enough to inherit.
00:15:02.000 And pass them on securely to your children.
00:15:05.000 children. Never be afraid to speak to and for the soul of this great country, of which,
00:15:14.740 by good fortune and God's grace, you are privileged to be part. Thank you, my friends. God bless you.
00:15:21.800 God bless Canada. And God bless the alliance of our great Commonwealth democracy.
00:15:28.580 Thank you for listening to The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative Podcast.
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