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On today's show, we are talking about the disturbing latest Food Bank numbers, also, disarray within the Liberal Party, why Justin Trudeau must go, and much, much more. We bring on Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage, Shuv Majumdar.
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Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm
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hit the bell, be notified when new content is made available. On today's show, we are
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talking about the disturbing latest food bank numbers. Also, disarray within the Liberal Party.
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Justin Trudeau must go. This and much, much more. We bring on the Member of Parliament for Calgary
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Heritage, Shuv Majumdar. Thanks for joining us. First time caller, long time fan. Great to be here
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with you, Jamie. How are you? It's great to have you on. That's awesome. I appreciate the time and
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your insight that we're about to have today. Well, I don't know how much insight I have to offer, but
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I walk in your footsteps proudly. I do what you tell me to. Like that, how are you not on the show
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more often? I agree. All right. Disarray within the Liberal Party. They're calling, a number of
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caucus members are calling for Justin Trudeau to go to step down. So far, Justin Trudeau has said,
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no, I am staying until the next election. What are your just, I know it's going to be a little biased
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given the fact that we're on the same team here. Totally empirical perspectives. Exactly. Just give
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me your outline of what you see in front of us. Listen, after nine long years of Trudeau and Singh's
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NDP arrangement, NDP Liberal Government arrangement, they've seen nothing but utter devastation.
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And they're hearing it at the doors. These are politicians who are very pragmatic people.
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And they are hearing a dissatisfaction by Canadians on a performance that is the height of moral and
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financial corruption. I don't know the last time you or I would have actually seen this type of
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obscene levels of moral and financial corruption on all issues, on every aspect of our economy,
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crime, chaos, drugs, disorder, raining across our streets. And I think they've had enough because
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they know they have a performative prime minister who isn't delivering actual results for people.
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There isn't a problem they can't throw a photo op or a publicity stunt at. And I think they're tired
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of just having to carry that water. I don't blame them. You know, you shouldn't take joy in other
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people's pain, but they've been part of this problem. So I can't wait until Canadians can go to
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the polls and have the election they demand to change a government with one that's adult,
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responsible, ready to go on day one on a range of issues that Trudeau and Singh have set this
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So I also bring this up for that great analysis as well. I couldn't set it better, but you're
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bang on. It's not because necessarily because of those issues. That's why the liberal MPs,
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the 20 or 30 or so, however many have stood up, it's to save their own jobs, not necessarily like
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you said, the food bank usage, the crime, the drug use, et cetera, et cetera. They're just more
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into saving their own hides rather than saying, wait a second, Canada's definitely on the wrong
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You're absolutely right. Think of everything you just said here. Like I know we're going to
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talk about food bank crisis in Calgary today. We just saw a report that was released that says
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that food bank usage in Calgary is up 200% since 2019. None of these dissenters are placing the
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problems of Canadians at the core of why Justin Trudeau needs to go. They're putting their own
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political height on the line. This is about survival, not about change for people. And I mean,
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what do you want me to say? Liberals are going to liberal. This is how they are. But I'm so
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pleased that our party actually cares about the ideas that have an impact on the lives of everyday
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people, extraordinary people, people who have been sidelined by this government at every turn,
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people who you've met at the doors and I met at the doors in my by-election last year.
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I have never seen people so hurting, so desperate, so angry. I know that there's a lot of commentary
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about how polarized our country is and how emotional people are. I would say it's not about
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the emotions that we should be paying attention to. It's about how desperate they are, what's causing
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that anger, that fear. And what's really troubling, Jamie, is to watch Trudeau and Singh exploit those
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emotions. Try and divide Canadians every turn on matters of faith, on matters of ethnicity,
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ethnicity, on any issue. They will lie and smear conservatives for the sake of their own partisan
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interests over hard national ones. I find that absolutely abhorrent and a flavor of what's to
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come this year. Yeah, unfortunately, it's not going to get any better. But the overall strategy seems to
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be the same on how liberals handle the story, right? Globe and Mail story was wrong when we're talking
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about SNC-Lavalin, right? It was basically to deny, okay, it's happening a little bit. Okay,
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it's happening, but we're not going to talk about it, right? And what's happening in the Liberal
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Caucus, this is happening. So here is how the Liberals deal with a media nightmare, okay? And
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you pointed out a bit here. So let's queue up cut one. Let's play cut one. This is, it's not happening.
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How do you move past this? How do you quell the dissent? How does the Prime Minister get past this?
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I mean, you are amplifying something that is very not to the what you, I think you wish
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it would be. You have MPs. You have MPs in your caucus. I haven't seen anything from any MPs
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signed by any MPs. You think they're bluffing? I haven't seen anything signed by any MPs and
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any MPs came to me with something like that. None. Are you saying that's 30 or so MPs?
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And the Liberal Party were brave enough to sign a piece of paper saying they want Justin
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Trudeau to move on. The revenue minister there. It's not happening. This whole thing
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is a fabrication. You know, the media is amplifying it. Okay, so crisis number one.
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It's not happening. All right, let's queue up number two. Screenshot. Then we say, okay,
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bang, there are some names. Those are a bunch of MPs. Some of them you may know. Some of them
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you may not. Yeah, we've got useless Georgia Hall in Calgary. Incredible. The, uh, Mr. Canada Post.
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Yeah, yeah. Auditioning for cabinet after trashing on Trudeau. It's incredible. It's an interesting,
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uh, little, maybe he's trying to save a seat. I don't know. I don't know. That's an interesting
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thing. So, okay. So now it's happening a little bit. All right. Let's queue up cut three. Okay.
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It's happening. Let's move on. Do you think, though, the prime minister listened to what he
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was told yesterday? Yes. I know, I know he did. I was in the room. Yes. Yes, he absolutely did.
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So he listened. How does it, 18 hours later, he still declares he's staying?
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He listened, but he wasn't swayed. You know, there's, uh, he, he, he felt very strongly.
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Our views weren't the only ones. That's that, it is what it is. You know, it's, uh, it's time for,
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it's time. Well, me personally, I'm moving on. There's been so much, there's so much energy burned
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on all of this. Um, and that's, that is, that isn't where it needs to be now that this case is
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clearly closed. All right. They're moving on. It's done. We're not even talking about this anymore.
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Never happened. It's amazing how this happened. These are not the droids you're looking for. Right?
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Yeah. They should die until it actually becomes something and then walk away. Just they've decided
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we're done talking about it. So we're moving on. Well, thank God we are not. Exactly. We need to
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get rid of Trudeau. We need to get rid of Singh. Yeah. We need to focus on the issues that, um,
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our Canadian voters are deeply, deeply distressed about. Uh, we'll stay humble, work hard and get
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the job done. These guys can't. No, exactly. So it's time they go. So we had the food bank, uh,
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numbers come out absolutely disturbing, frightening, uh, scary, uh, just everything you can think
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of a nightmare scenario here. Um, 200% increase in Calgary and in a city, I think most people
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usually have a mindset or a view that Calgary is, is a fairly, you know, wealthy place to
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be for the most part. Obviously every city has their challenges, but for the most part,
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you wouldn't expect these, these kinds of increases in, in that area.
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All across the country, people are hurting. Um, and in Calgary, you've seen a nine year assault
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on our energy sector that has denied, not just the people of Calgary from contributing to the
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success of our country and the security of the world through energy security. Um, you've seen
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their livelihoods and their incomes gone up in smoke. In my own neighborhood, the Wood Creek
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Community Food Bank runs out of food, uh, for lower income neighbors within hours of getting stocked.
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Uh, I had a neighbor of mine, Maria, who, uh, she's a teacher, husband's working as an engineer.
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They've got two teenage boys and I met them earlier this spring. They are making decisions at the,
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at the grocery store about which products are expired versus which are not. And they've been
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on the cusp of going to the food bank, uh, for months. They don't want to go there because they
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want to preserve the food for people who really need them. Imagine the shock of a dual income home with
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two teenage kids now wondering whether they're going to be able to make ends meet. This is serious
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stuff. Um, you know, I love my city. I love the part of the city I come from. Um, and it's just
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devastating to see the, the, the cost that people are paying newcomers who, um, are, are just trying
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to make an honest go of it. Like my parents did in the 1970s. Uh, they came to Calgary. They worked in
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the energy sector. Dad worked oil. Mom taught, uh, gave me a great life in South Calgary and an
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opportunity to be a member of parliament for the area that I grew up in. Um, what a, what an amazing
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story. What an amazing promise. Newcomers now, I see single mothers who at their doors don't know
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whether they're going to keep the roof over the head with a $900 billion mortgage meltdown on the way
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with costs of food going up with their kids going to school and taking the C train or bus and not sure
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that the kids are safe coming home at night. Uh, I mean, these are stories that would have never
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been heard of before in Calgary. Uh, this is what Justin Trudeau has done to my city and my neighbors.
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And we have to focus on the fight ahead and get the job done because I can't imagine the kind of pain
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that will unfold if we do not. Well, some liberals will say, well, look at the interest rates. The Bank
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of Canada, you know, announced a major change, which some saw, some didn't. Uh, at the same time,
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they did that, I think for the most part to preserve the, what's left of our economy. If,
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if, if nothing happened, I think there would be a major, major, uh, implications within our,
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our economy, uh, the chain as a whole. They have been taxing our economy to death.
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Yeah. The carbon tax, which is purely ideological, as we well know, like not, not a single climate
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metric has been met as a result of the imposition of this, this carbon tax. It has been suppressing
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the price of home building. It has been suppressing the incomes of the lowest income people. It
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is the most immoral tax on low income Canadians because of how outsizedly it impacts their
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day to day life on food, fuel, and home heating. The winter is coming and we do not see energy
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production at a level that would be self sufficient for our country. Um, I'm just saying this is
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a government that is absolutely not focused on the priorities of Canadians and instead trying
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to save their own hide by performative things, uh, I wish that, um, some common sense prevailed
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and the liberal NDP caucus, but we know that they've become more radical than they have been
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at any point in, in the history of our country. Uh, I remember, you know, I used to work at
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a nonpartisan think tank, the McDonnell Laurier Institute. I remember that the liberal party at
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a time was, uh, a voice for how we would end the cold war. Now the liberal party is focusing
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on partnering with every rival Canada has, uh, and opening our country to become a playground
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for foreign adventurism. Um, what an abrogation of responsibility, Jamie. I, I just wish we,
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we could have that election now. And when we're talking about the economy as a whole, again,
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we've mentioned this many times on the show, when conservatives talk about the economy, it's
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leveling the playing field, getting government to the, the, the best point it can be, which is
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usually the least point it can be, lowering taxes to a reasonable and responsible level
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and letting the, the market lead the way, right? No one government can decide what, you know,
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40 million plus people want, right? So the market can decide, decide the market will provide
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the best product price service. Whereas the liberals seem to be saying, we're going to tell
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you what you're going to want and we are going to invest in those areas. So usually liberal
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friendly firms get some lucrative contracts without delivering really anything people want.
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A $400 billion slush fund, a $400 billion slush fund that has gone to invest in liberal insiders
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for their own personal prosperity at the expense of, uh, anything that would make a difference in our
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energy mix or electricity distribution, our energy supply to the world. Here we have trillions of
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dollars of resource wealth, wealth, food, fuel, uranium, oil and gas, energy technologies,
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all of these things we enjoy in abundance. If we made one deal with one of the foreign leaders that
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have come knocking on our doors, if we had made one deal with Germany, the impact that it would have
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had on our national treasury alone would have been able to help pay off our debt, provide for the
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social welfare net, an efficient one, a more efficient one that has been delivered by wasteful liberals.
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Uh, it would have rebuilt our military, help toward reconciliation with first nations, all of the
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value added benefits of an energy sector that would actually decrease international emissions because
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of how well we curate our energy resources, uh, has been locked in, has been landlocked and suffocated from
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global markets, from the markets that would actually demand Canadian goods and services. It's, um, you think about the
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effort it would take to put aside $400 billion to pay off your friends versus the effort it would take to
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unlock our resources and improve the lives and livelihoods of Canadians. And they actually have
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to work harder to steal the way that they do, to cheat, to lie. It takes extra effort. It's actually more
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efficient to just do the right thing. It would be. And you know, I genuinely wish that they would, but
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that's how we fix the budget by lowering taxes, unlocking our resources and getting our goods and
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services, not just to other Canadians, but across the world to a world that's demanding it. And as a
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global partner, providing the energy that countries in Europe and otherwise need so they don't have to
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rely on bad actors to supply their energy. You know, every part of the old value chain, which was the
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oil and gas one, it's controlled by OPEC, which as you know, is a club of oil producing dictators,
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which Russia is a member, they act through consensus. Every part of the energy transition
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to come that we're often told about requires refined critical minerals, which China now refines
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over 80% of global mineral supply. So here you have the old energy economy and the new energy economy
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controlled by dictators who are not acting in the interest of everyday Canadians. But here's Canada
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that has energy resources that can displace dictator oil, that has critical mineral resources and energy
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technology ingenuity that can displace reliance on China, all being locked in to do what? To subsidize
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the Russians and the Chinese and how they're trying to destabilize the world. We need some more common
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sense, I think, in every aspect of our life. Yeah, I know, right? Like we have some trillions below our feet.
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Trillions. Let's start helping Canada help the world, help ourselves. Everyone will be a happier place.
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Literally, nobody gets hurt in that proposition. I agree. I agree. All right. We're out of time,
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but the guests always get the last words or the floor is yours. Listen, I am born of an immigrant
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family. I've had the honor of doing some remarkable things in my life, including especially now serving
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the great people of Calgary heritage. Our country had a promise, a promise that if you work hard,
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do as best of your ability as you can. It doesn't matter where you come from. It doesn't matter what
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your name is. I worry about the politics of fear and division that NDP liberals will cast about this
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country to hold on to power. They will cling to power at every turn. And so my message to your audience
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and to conservatives across the country is stay strong. I know this country is hurting. Our team is
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ready. Our coalition is big. We're going to stay focused on the priorities of everyday Canadians and never let
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the politics of fear and division triumph over the freedom and hope that we have to offer. Thank you
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very much. Well said. Thank you very much. Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage,
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Stephen Harper's old seat. Indeed. Appreciate your time. We appreciate yours as well. Don't forget to
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