The Candice Malcolm Show - Are you prepared for Canada’s DYSTOPIAN future？ Shocking report predicts ANOTHER decade of decline

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for tuning

00:00:06.340 in, everybody. We have a great episode for you. Now, I just want to start by saying that

00:00:12.120 Canada is in deep trouble, OK? So according to a recent abacus poll, some 52 percent of

00:00:19.180 Canadians think that Prime Minister Mark Carney is off to a good start. They're optimistic

00:00:24.220 about the future. They think that they can trust him and that he's going to turn things

00:00:27.980 around. And let me tell you, folks, we need things to turn around because when you look

00:00:32.180 at the data, when you look at the numbers, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It's scary.

00:00:35.700 The numbers are scary. And I am worried about the future of this country. So the media and

00:00:41.300 the liberals have successfully memory hold Justin Trudeau. You never hear that guy's name

00:00:46.360 anymore. You never hear anything about him. And the liberals and the media have basically

00:00:51.100 convinced Canadians, or at least 52 percent of them, that the new liberals are very different

00:00:56.980 than the old liberals, that the two have nothing to do with each other and nothing in common.

00:01:01.580 But the economic reality, the cultural reality remains that Canada experienced a lost decade

00:01:08.220 under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. I can explain that in just one fact. So our GDP per capita,

00:01:14.900 which is basically the average income averaged out among Canadians, in 2013, the GDP per capita

00:01:20.780 was 52,500. And in 2023, the GDP per capita was 53,000. So we're talking about the bare number,

00:01:31.440 minimum growth. And then, of course, when you add inflation into that, and we'll talk about that

00:01:36.080 in a minute, inflation is barreling out of control. You can see that our country is in decline,

00:01:41.860 that Canadians are poorer now than they were a decade ago before Canada elected Prime Minister

00:01:47.360 Justin Trudeau for the first time. And so what did the liberals do to try to fix their failing

00:01:53.440 economic record? Well, they opened up the floodgates and they let in as many people as possible,

00:01:58.420 as many people who are willing to come to Canada or welcomed with open arms. And they let in millions

00:02:03.820 of newcomers each and every year. Now, more people does mean more economic activity. So yes, on the

00:02:09.760 surface, it means that you can say that the economy is growing because you have more people,

00:02:13.580 more bodies doing more work. Forget about culture, forget about community and integration,

00:02:18.480 unity, peace, any of those kind of things. All the liberals cared about was more bodies,

00:02:23.040 more jobs, so that they could say that the economy was growing. And that's why the GDP per capita number

00:02:29.160 is the more important one. But the reality is that even with the increased immigration,

00:02:35.020 the economics still didn't work. So more people meant more dollars, but we were also experiencing

00:02:39.840 rapid inflation because of runaway government spending, runaway government debt, the printing

00:02:45.820 of money. And of course, we still had the limited housing supply. So more people, fewer homes just

00:02:51.440 meant that people couldn't afford to live. People couldn't afford to buy the homes that they wanted.

00:02:57.180 And we've experienced that not just in big cities, not just in Vancouver and Toronto, but literally

00:03:01.740 all over the country. I want to point your attention to this piece in the Globe and Mail written

00:03:08.680 on Monday, Canada, prepare for a decade of thrift and lower living standards. Another decade, right?

00:03:15.720 We've already experienced the lost decade under Justin Trudeau. And now the Globe and Mail is warning

00:03:20.520 us that we are going to have another decade of thrift and lower living standards. Yes, thanks again

00:03:26.760 to these liberal economic policies. I'm going to read you a little bit from this Globe and Mail article

00:03:31.480 because it is really shocking. It's depressing, folks. It's depressing what has happened to our country.

00:03:37.620 So this is written by John Turley-Uart, who is special to the Globe and Mail. He is an economic

00:03:43.440 contributing columnist and a historian on Canadian banking. And this is what he writes.

00:03:49.140 We are poorer than we think. Canadians running their retirement numbers are shining light in the dark 0.96

00:03:54.880 corners of household finances in this country. The sums leave many anxious, fearful and sad about

00:04:00.820 their finances. 52% of us worry about our personal finances. 50% feel frustrated. 47% feel emotionally

00:04:08.960 drained. 43% feel depressed. Yes, that is what liberal economic policies do to Canadians. And so I want to

00:04:17.500 kind of zero in on some more of the numbers here. It says, our debt to household disposable income has

00:04:23.080 bumped up nearly 200% for years now. Putting Canada in first place among G7 countries, Canada's is

00:04:29.980 185%. The average for all the GDP G7 countries is 125% according to Statistics Canada. So Canadian 0.99

00:04:39.740 households collectively owe $3 trillion, almost three quarters of it in mortgage debt. So people are

00:04:48.020 living beyond their means. That is obvious. He writes that today's Canadian dream is simply to make

00:04:54.420 the next mortgage payment without having to borrow it. The housing crisis hasn't just hobbled the hopes

00:05:00.700 of many Canadians seeking affordable housing. It is undercutting middle-class living standards.

00:05:06.420 So earlier this year at a conference with Canadian bank CEOs, Peter Rutledge, who leads Canada's bank

00:05:12.020 regulator, alluded to the bleak financial reality many Canadians are facing. He said that in 2025

00:05:18.740 and 2026, it will be challenging years. So as of September 2024, 65% or 3.8 million mortgages are set

00:05:28.460 to renew by the end of 26. So this is people who had a five-year mortgage cycle. They got locked in

00:05:35.640 with low interest payments in the years after COVID and their mortgages are going to come up for renewal,

00:05:40.820 of course, because the government has been spending so much money, printing so much money. They've had to

00:05:46.640 increase interest rates in order to just stop the inflation or at least try to curb the inflation.

00:05:52.420 And so people are going to have to re-sign those mortgages with higher interest rates, which means

00:05:58.260 higher monthly payments. So people are going to get squeezed. People are going to get squeezed. It's

00:06:02.320 going to get a lot worse. He writes, he continues with higher mortgage payments layered atop elevating

00:06:07.880 living costs that Canadians have endured over the past five years, materially increasing the price of

00:06:13.860 basic goods, basic goods, such as food. There is less money to put aside for retirement using the

00:06:19.840 Bank of Canada's inflation calculator. What cost $100 in 2020 now costs $120. So 20% inflation is just

00:06:29.660 five years. Just think about that. If you had $100 in 2020, now just five years later, what would cost

00:06:35.420 $100 would now cost $120. So yes, we're going to have a decreased standard of living because our

00:06:43.740 money goes less far because we've spent so much and borrowed so much. And then for anyone who has

00:06:48.560 a mortgage, people who are lucky enough to already be in the housing market, keep in mind that pretty

00:06:52.600 much anyone under 35 has basically been blocked out of the housing market. People who are a bit older,

00:06:58.180 people who are more financially ready to buy a house, the cost of borrowing, cost of servicing

00:07:03.680 that debt continues to go up. So it just means less money to go around. This piece really does

00:07:10.720 paint a scary picture for a country. It paints a picture of another 10 years where Canadians will 0.99

00:07:17.620 just not be able to get ahead. Well, things will slowly get worse and worse. You know, folks,

00:07:21.680 it reminds me of this report that came out during the federal election. This came out on April 7th.

00:07:28.160 Blacklock's reporter had this headline, Fed report predicts collapse. Okay. The story was the Privy

00:07:35.580 Council in a report quietly released predicts Canada in 15 years may be so dysfunctional that

00:07:42.520 wage earners flee the country and the poor resort to illegal hunting for food. It's plausible,

00:07:48.700 said the report titled Future Lives, Social Mobility in Question. Just to read a bit more from

00:07:54.560 Blacklock's social mobility predicted city dwellers who remain and are affluent enough to own property

00:08:00.480 will crowd into gated communities for protection against social, economic, and political conflict.

00:08:07.040 In the wider community, the poor would resort to illegal hunting to feed themselves. Now, remember,

00:08:11.840 there's a bit of a controversy around this report because Blacklocks reported it and then many other

00:08:16.580 outlets, the Toronto Sun, the Western Standard, and others reported as well to the point where the

00:08:21.020 conservatives started talking about it because it was so shocking, the details of this report.

00:08:25.900 And then the liberals and the media went into overdrive to spin and they claimed that this wasn't a

00:08:31.440 government report. This was just like a third party think tank that put out like a thought piece

00:08:36.340 and it really had nothing to do with the government. Folks, just look at the report itself. Okay.

00:08:41.140 Let's go to the primary source here, right? Future Lives, Social Mobility in Question. Look at the logo on

00:08:47.140 the top of the page. Government of Canada. Government of Canada. Published by the government of Canada.

00:08:53.680 These are bureaucrats and they are predicting this reality that will happen in 15 years. The Globe and

00:08:59.780 Mail likewise is explaining how that will happen. Well, sadly, I mean, this is what we were reporting

00:09:06.420 here at Juno News. This is why you have to support independent media. That bleak dystopian future is

00:09:12.980 already here. You know, that report said that the poor would result, it would resort to illegal hunting

00:09:18.320 to feed themselves. Well, here you go. In September 24, a viral Bowmanville Creek net fishing video

00:09:27.120 prompts conservation investigation. The Ministry of Natural Resources is investigating after a group of

00:09:33.040 men were discovered fishing with nets and bagging salmon found in Bowmanville Creek, a salmon spawning

00:09:38.720 area and popular spot for sport fishing in the township. Tip Talk user, Justin Newell posted a

00:09:44.800 video, which now has over 2 million views, exposing a group of mostly men fishing with nets in the creek.

00:09:51.380 After Newman confronts them, the men were seen throwing large fish into bags. So yes, that idea that you have

00:09:59.540 migrants who have different cultural backgrounds that want food, they can't afford it. They just go out and, 1.00

00:10:05.920 you know, hunt and poach animals, regardless of, you know, whether it's a public park or whether,

00:10:12.100 you know, there's restrictions around when you can fish, when you can hunt, etc. It's happening.

00:10:18.580 It's happening. And it's not just that, right? We have other symbols that are happening in Canada.

00:10:23.120 Soviet bread lines. Like, this just never fails to just amaze me when you see this kind of activity 1.00

00:10:29.280 in Canada. Soviet bread lines, not for bread, right? In the Soviet Union, they rationed food,

00:10:35.160 so people had to line up to get their daily bread. In Canada, it's food banks. It's people who donate

00:10:40.440 money, donate food to help the needy. And look at these lines, look at the cues of people lining up

00:10:46.340 in our country just to be able to get a free meal. So again, True North reporting this. Toronto Food

00:10:53.180 Bank see unprecedented demand surpassing the city's population. According to the Daily Bread Food Bank

00:10:59.600 and North York Harvest Food Bank's annual Who's Hunger Report, there were 3.5 million client visits

00:11:06.380 in just Toronto alone between April 1st, 23 and March 31st, 24. The city's population is just over

00:11:14.240 3 million people. And we have 3.5 million visits, marks nearly a 1 million person increase from the

00:11:22.040 previous year and a 273% increase since before the pandemic five years earlier. And, you know, the food

00:11:30.040 line, the cues for food banks isn't the only Soviet bread lines that we see in our country. Look at what

00:11:39.240 happens when a company advertises just a basic level job, right? Service level jobs, entry level jobs. We've seen

00:11:47.860 these pictures as well. They've gone viral. Cues of people lining up. This one's for an LCBO, the Liquor

00:11:54.560 Control Board of Ontario. Look at the way these people are behaving and just look at the numbers. Look

00:11:59.220 at the numbers of people who are lining up for food. You go onto Reddit and you can just find hundreds of

00:12:05.300 these kinds of images. People lining up, hundreds of thousands to work at a restaurant, to work at a

00:12:11.380 Tim Hortons, to work in a warehouse. Basic entry level jobs. This is what happens when you let millions of

00:12:17.360 people into the country and they are competing against young Canadians, teenagers, right? When I 0.89

00:12:22.640 was growing up, people started working when they were 15, 16 years old, you know, whether it would

00:12:27.600 be working at a restaurant or like mowing lawns or anything, people were working. Compare that to now,

00:12:32.580 teenagers just don't work the same rate that they used to. And it's not necessarily their fault.

00:12:38.320 They're competing against people who have much more experience, much more education coming from

00:12:43.340 foreign countries who are much more desperate and they're willing to work longer hours, lower wages,

00:12:48.360 worse conditions. It's really driving them down. Final Soviet era cues and bread lines that I want to 0.90

00:12:55.200 show you. This, remember this story, we covered it on the show back in January, but this is what it

00:13:02.740 looks like when people have the opportunity to get a family doctor. One of the other crises facing our

00:13:07.300 country is that you can't see a family doctor. If there's an emergency, heaven forbid, you have to go to

00:13:12.760 the ER, expect to wait, I don't know, 10, 12 hours to have help. Here we had this, this is in

00:13:19.220 Walkerton, Ontario, and a local doctor opened up and said that they were taking new patients and look

00:13:26.240 at the queue of people desperate, standing in the snow, standing in frigid, cold Ontario winter weather

00:13:32.600 just for the chance to get a family doctor. There are only 500 spots. And look at this headline

00:13:39.020 in the CBC, we're seeing a Hunger Games across Ontario, hundreds in this town line up for the

00:13:45.760 chance to have a family doctor. Not too long ago, that was considered kind of like a basic right of,

00:13:52.680 like everybody got one. Everybody had access to a family doctor. Canadians who go around bragging about 1.00

00:13:58.720 our government healthcare, our universal healthcare, thinking that it's some kind of prize. I mean, the

00:14:03.440 reality of it is that there's just not enough to go around. It's what happens when you ration things,

00:14:08.400 right? It's just like the Soviet era, bread lines, people waiting in line just to have a family 0.55

00:14:14.200 doctor. Really in a country like Canada, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, we should

00:14:19.320 have a family doctor. You shouldn't have to wait in negative 20 degree weather and just hope for the

00:14:24.420 chance that you get a spot. It is unbelievable. And again, just to point this out, overall unemployment

00:14:31.200 rate for youth. So I mentioned when I was a teenager, I worked at a fish and chips stand. I was,

00:14:36.080 you know, selling fish and chips out of a little stand when I was 17. And that was great. It was

00:14:42.340 my first job. It gave me experience to get more. Well, today, the youth unemployment for age 15 to

00:14:46.980 24 rose to 13.5% in June. And that's only of people who are actively looking for a job. So if

00:14:52.760 you're in university and you're not looking for a job, you don't get counted in that. Basically,

00:14:57.360 it's going up. It's up 2% from last year. And on top of that, right, we have these problems,

00:15:03.960 all of these problems that I'm outlining. And lo and behold, this story comes out in the Toronto

00:15:08.300 Star a few days ago. Canada sets a record for the number of refugee claims. These numbers were

00:15:15.460 shocking to me. Like I used to work in the Ministry of Immigration. I was press secretary to the Minister

00:15:20.720 of Immigration back in the Harper government. And just how much the numbers have changed. I'm going

00:15:25.900 to lay it out for you. So last year, Canada received a record 174,000 new refugee claims

00:15:33.660 of the 3.1 million global refugees in the world. 174,000 of them are coming to Canada. Canada's

00:15:41.140 second largest resettlement country globally, welcoming 49,000 refugees. So 49,000 through

00:15:48.080 official refugee channels coming from United Nation camps and being sponsored sometimes through families,

00:15:53.840 sometimes through churches, and sometimes through the government. 49,000 is a huge number,

00:15:58.440 folks. That is leaps and bounds higher than we used to. It is incredibly generous for Canada to

00:16:04.180 welcome that many people because the data shows us that refugees don't tend to have the same kind of 0.99

00:16:11.200 economic advancements and achievements as other immigrants, right? When you welcome in a refugee, 1.00

00:16:16.440 you kind of assume that they will forever be a refugee. They'll forever at least be 1.00

00:16:21.140 receiving more in benefits than they pay in taxes. I'll put it that way. But then on top of that 50,000

00:16:29.900 that we let in through the United Nations, according to the government department, IRCC,

00:16:36.520 Canada also had 171,000 refugee claims. So people who come to Canada throw up their hands and say,

00:16:46.100 I'm a refugee, I can't go home. And so Canada has to accept them and process them. And they go through 1.00

00:16:52.300 a whole system where a judge determines whether or not they're a true refugee. They find ways to game 1.00

00:16:57.740 the system. They find ways to stay longer and longer. The vast majority of those people never

00:17:02.620 leave. They just continue to drag on their welcome. And they basically just take advantage of our system.

00:17:09.640 I just want to compare this, folks, to what it looked like under the Harper government and what

00:17:14.860 it used to look like, what a sane immigration program would look like, right? So here is the 0.96

00:17:19.100 numbers between 2011 and 2016. I worked in the government in 2011 and 2012. And so you can see we

00:17:27.040 undertook serious changes to stop the abuse of people coming to Canada and claiming that they are

00:17:34.060 refugees. And so just the bottom line here, in 2011, we had 25,000 claims. In 2012, it was 20,000.

00:17:40.980 And then because of the reforms that happened while I was there, we had got the number down to 10,000.

00:17:45.980 So we had 10,000. In 2013, there were 10,000 refugee claims. Compare that to 171,000 in 2024.

00:17:56.140 That's 17 times. That's 17 times more people coming to Canada. Why? Because the Trudeau government

00:18:01.500 basically got rid of all of the requirements that would stop this kind of behavior, right?

00:18:05.960 We used to have visas from countries that were bad offenders when it came to people coming 1.00

00:18:10.260 and claiming refugee status, like countries like Mexico. And the Trudeau government eliminated the

00:18:14.880 visa for people from Mexico. So anyone can come. There were all kinds of things, like just making

00:18:19.820 sure that, for instance, a person has a return flight, making sure that they have some money in the

00:18:23.340 bank account, basic checks and balances to protect our country, protect our system. Trudeau government

00:18:28.100 did away with them. And lo and behold, a 17 times increase in the number of people claiming

00:18:34.720 asylum. And you know that these people get basically gold-plated welfare. They basically 0.97

00:18:39.520 get better welfare services above and beyond what Canadians get. They get money in the mail,

00:18:44.840 mail checks every month. They get better health care. They get access to dental care. They get all

00:18:50.480 kinds of perks that you and I don't. So I was glad, actually. This is a bit of a tangent,

00:18:54.620 but I want to point this out. Earlier this week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced that she

00:19:00.060 was going to basically be surveying the people of Alberta, asking them a series of questions. It's

00:19:06.260 called the Alberta Next Panel. And one of the questions was on immigration and on refugees.

00:19:11.600 And the question was, should the province withhold social services for immigrants? So if Alberta isn't

00:19:18.520 satisfied with the number or kind of newcomers moving to our province, we may have the option to

00:19:23.320 withhold provincial social programs to any non-citizen or non-permanent resident who does

00:19:29.120 not have an Alberta-approved immigration status. That's a step in the right direction, right? We have

00:19:34.640 to have safeguards. We have to have checks and balances. We have to stop people who are just

00:19:38.760 trying to take advantage of our generosity, who are only in Canada because they want to be on the

00:19:43.940 dole. They want taxpayers to provide them with a cushy life. That's not the point, right? You can come

00:19:49.060 to Canada, you can work hard and you can join the Canadian middle class, join the Canadian dream.

00:19:52.960 Coming here to just take advantage of our system, get paid in different various benefits and try to

00:19:58.460 cheat and try to undermine the rules, that doesn't work. And Canadians need to get smart and get serious 0.66

00:20:03.220 about it. Otherwise, our country will just continue to decline. And so, you know, I talked about at the

00:20:08.800 beginning the Globe and Mail story about just how people's personal finances are getting tighter and

00:20:15.000 tighter people are in, a great deal of debt. Well, I think that the population, the Canadians,

00:20:20.480 you know, not being necessarily fiscally responsible, they're taking cues from their

00:20:24.280 government, right? So again, the legacy media and the Liberal Party are trying to memory hole

00:20:28.800 Justin Trudeau, but his legacy remains, okay? This is from the Fraser Institute, a report that they did.

00:20:35.380 Justin Trudeau's legacy was distinguished by unprecedented levels of government spending. The numbers don't lie.

00:20:41.120 From 2018 to 2023, Justin Trudeau recorded the sixth highest level of spending in Canadian history,

00:20:49.080 even after excluding emergency spending during the pandemic. So for context, this means the Trudeau

00:20:53.840 government spent more per person during those six years than the federal government did at any other

00:20:58.240 time during the Great Depression, during the two world wars, during the height of the global financial

00:21:03.580 crisis in 2008-2009. Unsurprisingly, the Trudeau government was unable to balance the budget during

00:21:08.900 any of his nine years in power after first being elected in 2015. Trudeau, of course, infamously promised

00:21:14.720 to run modest deficits. He said he would balance the budget by 2019. Instead, he ran nine consecutive

00:21:21.040 deficits, including an astonishing $61.9 billion deficit in the 23-24 fiscal year, the largest deficit

00:21:29.460 any year outside of COVID. The result, what do you expect? Historically high levels of government debt.

00:21:35.500 So look at this. This is debtclock.com. They have the debt clock. Canada's federal debt currently sits

00:21:40.220 at $1.26 trillion. Your share of that is $30,000. Not just your share, $30,000 for you, $30,000 for your

00:21:49.680 spouse, $30,000 for each of your children, right? This is how much we owe in government debt. Just for

00:21:56.140 reference, this table went a little viral during the election. You've probably seen it before.

00:22:00.280 All the total federal debt of all prime ministers. So every other prime minister in Canadian history

00:22:06.820 managed to rack up a combined $634 billion. And Justin Trudeau himself, $659 billion. What an

00:22:17.960 absolute disgrace. And so for the liberals who say, you know, Carney's different. It's a change. 52% of

00:22:24.600 Canadians say that they're optimistic with the direction of the country. What has Mark Carney

00:22:28.880 done, right? First of all, he refuses to introduce a budget. So we don't know exactly where his money

00:22:34.660 is going. But even when he's out there, right, today he's doing a photo op with NATO and he's out

00:22:39.500 there, you know, championing Canada's new alignment with the European Union. And look at this headline,

00:22:45.320 National Post, NATO to take a quantum leap with 5% military target spending. So yes,

00:22:53.120 Mark Carney has announced that he will up Canada's defense spending up to 5%, right? We were struggling

00:22:59.340 to get to 2%. That's the basic requirement. You're supposed to have Canada historically never made

00:23:03.880 it that far. Like we were down at like 1.2. Look, I'm for funding a military. I'm for spending the

00:23:08.900 money on that. One of the few things that the federal government should do is keep our territory 0.98

00:23:13.620 secure, keep us safe, including from rampant immigration and people coming to take advantage of

00:23:18.980 generosity. But also through defense, yes, our military desperately needs an upgrade and we need

00:23:23.880 more spending. But the thing I worry about with these liberals is the way that they'll define the 0.90

00:23:28.380 spending, the things that they'll include, the kind of pork and barrel spending that we will see,

00:23:32.940 the inevitable green schemes that benefit liberal insiders. It's all the same. We've seen this movie

00:23:39.040 before. And here it is. It's just giving the liberal social license to just spend even more money 0.88

00:23:44.380 out of control. So an interview with CNN and their host, Christine Ampour, Mark Carney said that NATO's

00:23:50.780 new defense spending target could cost Canada up to $150 billion a year. Of course, we don't have the

00:23:57.740 economic growth to support that. So where's the money going to come from? Well, they're just going

00:24:01.140 to borrow it. Liberals have no problem with borrowing to leverage our future. Let's play a clip of

00:24:06.100 Prime Minister Mark Carney saying that. Let's take the 5% of GDP figure, which is a big,

00:24:12.100 huge chunk. Big number. How much is it actually for you?

00:24:15.840 5% of our GDP would be about $150 billion. I mean, that's a lot. It's a lot of, it's a lot of

00:24:21.280 number. Per year? Per year. That's a lot. Of course it's, it is a lot. So it means that that's stuff

00:24:25.340 that you can't give to your own citizens. Well, okay. Socialism. Let's start to, let's start to,

00:24:29.420 let's start to break it down. So part of it, a little more, a little less than a third of that

00:24:36.000 overall number is spending on things that quite frankly, we're already doing to build the resilience

00:24:43.220 of our economy. So he's basically admitting that, you know, it's stuff that we're already

00:24:47.680 doing. We're just going to start counting it under NATO spending and under defense spending. It's all

00:24:53.120 just, you know, trick, accounting tricks. Mark Carney, the global banker, that's his specialty,

00:24:59.680 right? And so again, right, kind of laughing away the fact that you're not spending money on your own

00:25:03.800 citizens. You're spending it on other things. This is more like Justin Trudeau. This is more

00:25:08.760 Justin Trudeau-esque. And I want to breeze around and talk about our friends over at the Canadian

00:25:13.200 Taxpayers Federation have an annual award ceremony called the Teddies. And the Teddies is the waste

00:25:19.260 award where they highlight the absolute worst examples of governments just recklessly wasting

00:25:25.120 taxpayer dollars. They interestingly gave a lifetime achievement award to Justin Trudeau. I'm sure that

00:25:31.380 Franco's going to cover this, but I just want to point this out. Justin Trudeau added 99,000 extra

00:25:36.640 bureaucrats. He billed taxpayers $6,000 a night for a hotel suite in England. They spent six figures on

00:25:42.920 airplane food after the government promised to cut those costs. That was Justin Trudeau's legacy.

00:25:47.220 And it looks like we have someone else following in his footsteps with Mark Carney, but I'm going to

00:25:53.560 send it over to Franco Teresino, who's going to walk us through some of the highlights of

00:26:00.380 that Teddy Waste Award. Over to you, Franco. Well, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation held our

00:26:05.820 annual Teddy Waste Awards, where we give out big golden pig-shaped trophies to the worst

00:26:11.880 waste offenders in all levels of government. And of course, we had our mascot Porky, Porky the

00:26:18.380 waste hater with us, you know, this big old pig. And he was there to help me hand out these golden

00:26:24.460 pig-shaped trophies to the politicians and bureaucrats who are wasting your money. So let's go over some of the

00:26:29.220 highlights here. The municipal government winner for waste was the city of Calgary. So the city of

00:26:35.860 Calgary spent $65,000 on this art project that allows people to call the Bow River. Yeah, you heard

00:26:43.780 that right. The city of Calgary spent $65,000 so that when people called a 1-800 number, they could talk

00:26:50.600 to the Bow River, El River. So here's what I think the phone conversation would go like, okay? Something

00:26:55.760 like this. Hello, you've reached the Bow River. I can't take your call right now because I'm a river.

00:27:01.280 Please leave a message after the sound of your tax dollars being flushed down the drain.

00:27:05.840 Well, folks, I guess there is one silver lining. It's now easier to get a hold of a river than the CRA. 0.75

00:27:12.440 Our provincial government waste winner was New Brunswick. So New Brunswick spent $77,000 on an

00:27:20.160 eight-day trip to Europe to get Europeans to visit the province. Because, hey, why go to the Roman 1.00

00:27:25.520 Colosseum when you can go to the Moncton Colosseum? But, you know, the craziest part of this is that

00:27:31.700 the ads that were used to promote tourism in New Brunswick were just full of wrong information.

00:27:36.740 So one ad went along like this, okay? One ad said, hey, come to St. John, the provincial capital.

00:27:42.620 Well, St. John is not the capital of New Brunswick. Fredericton is. Another ad was,

00:27:49.400 relax before your flight to St. John, New Brunswick's largest city. Well, St. John is not

00:27:55.600 the largest city. Moncton is. Another ad was like, check out the Martello Tower. Well, that sounds nice,

00:28:02.920 but the tower has been closed for nine years. Another ad suggests visiting the New Brunswick Museum.

00:28:09.160 Well, the museum has been closed for two years. Another ad also suggests taking the family to the

00:28:15.440 Terrybrook Zoo. The zoo had been closed for five years. So you know what their tourism ad should

00:28:21.580 have been, hey? It should have been, check out New Brunswick. We don't know where anything is,

00:28:25.480 and everything is closed. And let's move on to the federal government waste winner,

00:28:31.500 and that was Global Affairs Canada. And that's because they're spending $51,000 a month on alcohol.

00:28:38.000 Right? $51,000 a month on alcohol. So they're wasting money faster than taxpayers can say bottoms

00:28:45.300 up. But remember, folks, like, this is the same department, Global Affairs Canada, that spent $1,700

00:28:51.660 on a musical about lesbian pirates. They spent $8,800 on a sex toy show in Germany titled Whose

00:29:00.740 is this? Crazy. And like, hey, maybe I'm a little old fashioned, but if the Germans want to have a sex 1.00

00:29:07.440 toy show, they should pay for it themselves, not with Canadian taxpayers money. And of course,

00:29:12.900 Global Affairs was also the same department that spent $12,000 on a show where senior citizens in

00:29:19.520 other countries wanted to talk about their sex lives in front of live audiences. Like, crazy,

00:29:25.800 right? And these aren't even Canadian seniors. The government was outsourcing old people sex 0.99

00:29:30.820 stories. So let's recap. Global Affairs spent $1,700 on a lesbian pirate musical. They spent $8,800

00:29:38.020 on a sex toy show in Germany. And they spent $12,000 on a show where seniors in other countries

00:29:43.860 talked about their sex lives in front of live audiences. Well, how did all this spending get

00:29:48.620 approved? It must have been the $51,000 a month on booze. And then finally, we also had a very special

00:29:56.760 Lifetime Achievement Award for Waste. And this year's winner, very well deserved. We may never

00:30:03.000 see another one like him. The Wayne Gretzky of Waste, Justin Trudeau. And you know, of course,

00:30:09.320 Trudeau won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Waste. I mean, he doubled the debt in less than a decade.

00:30:14.480 He ballooned the bureaucracy. You're now paying for 99,000 more federal bureaucrats today than you

00:30:20.200 were 10 years ago. But then remember the crazy examples of government waste, right? It was Trudeau

00:30:25.720 who stayed in the $6,000 per night hotel suite in London, England, right? It was Trudeau who doubled

00:30:32.620 the Governor General's outrageous airplane food tab when he spent $220,000 on airplane food,

00:30:40.160 him and his entourage during his six-day trip to the Indo-Pacific region. And like, remember too,

00:30:46.600 it was Trudeau who billed taxpayers for $61,000 in Manhattan hotel rooms during a two-day star-studded

00:30:55.420 conference. Now, what was that conference about? Fighting poverty. Okay, so, you know, how was Trudeau's,

00:31:04.920 what was Trudeau's solution to fighting poverty? Well, the only way he knew how was selfies,

00:31:10.280 room service, and a big bill for taxpayers. So, you know, because he doubled the debt,

00:31:15.600 because he ballooned the bureaucracy, and because he was the goat of government waste,

00:31:20.460 Justin Trudeau is a very, very worthy recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Waste.

00:31:26.640 And, you know, if you want to learn more about all the winners or all the government nominees

00:31:31.100 for the Teddy Waste Awards, you can find that all at taxpayer.com.

00:31:36.360 Thank you, Franco. Now, yes, it is good to poke fun at these politicians and these bureaucrats

00:31:41.680 for wasting our money and being just so ridiculously irresponsible. But the sad reality is that we're

00:31:47.420 living in an era where governments live beyond their means, they borrow and leverage our future,

00:31:51.660 and citizens are following suit, and they're likewise failing to be fiscally responsible

00:31:56.080 because they just can't keep up with the cost of living, inflation, the cost of housing,

00:32:02.000 everything combined is making it so our dollars go less far. And we are poorer and poorer than we

00:32:08.220 were a decade ago, or than our parents were when they were our age, or grandparents. We're heading

00:32:12.820 in the wrong direction, folks. And this, the result is just crushing debt, anemic growth,

00:32:17.920 diminishing standards of living. And yes, our country is heading in the wrong direction.

00:32:22.160 And the 52% of Canadians that are optimistic about the future, I think they're just not

00:32:25.880 paying attention. I think that they're not looking closely enough because when you look

00:32:29.080 at it and you examine what's going on, it looks pretty scary. All right, folks, thanks so much

00:32:33.400 for watching. We'll be back again tomorrow. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm

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The Candice Malcolm Show - June 25, 2025

Are you prepared for Canada’s DYSTOPIAN future？ Shocking report predicts ANOTHER decade of decline

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