The Candice Malcolm Show - January 14, 2025


Banker Mark Carney will be Canada’s next PM


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Candice explains why she thinks Mark Carney will be the next Prime Minister of Canada. She also explains why it's a good thing she's not pregnant with his baby, and why she doesn't want him to be named after her husband.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, and welcome to The Candice Malcolm Show, everyone. I'm your host, Candice Malcolm. It
00:00:11.420 is great to be with you today. We've got a lot of news to get to. I just noticed on the calendar
00:00:15.840 today is January 14th. And let me tell you, my anniversary, my wedding anniversary is on January
00:00:21.960 18th. My husband and I got married in 2014. And so almost every year, he mistakes our anniversary
00:00:28.440 rather than thinking it's on the 18th. He thinks it's the 14th because he thinks back to our
00:00:32.960 wedding invitations or some of our wedding memorabilia that says 1-18-14. And in his head,
00:00:39.880 he just thinks January 14, even though it was 2014. So this is like the first year, probably in our
00:00:46.320 entire 11 years, coming on 11 years being married, that he hasn't accidentally tried to celebrate our
00:00:51.660 anniversary today. So yeah, we've got a big anniversary coming up on the weekend, the 11th
00:00:56.880 anniversary. Our 10th anniversary was last year, but I was pregnant with our fourth child at the
00:01:01.820 time. So we had a very subdued celebration, lack thereof. I mean, I was like six months pregnant,
00:01:06.540 and we didn't really want to do anything fun. You know, we imagined, hey, let's throw a big party and
00:01:10.880 invite all of our friends and family. But when you're six months pregnant, that's kind of the last
00:01:14.460 thing that you want to do. So we decided we would have a bigger celebration this year. But then
00:01:18.640 we totally forgot we dropped the ball. We didn't plan anything again. So we might have to do
00:01:23.140 something more fun. I don't know, maybe for the 15th anniversary, or maybe we'll have to wait
00:01:27.020 until our 20th anniversary. Anyway, I want to get to the news today. And I think the big story coming
00:01:33.100 out of yesterday and today is that banker and World Economic Forum trustee board member Mark Carney
00:01:40.960 is going to be running for leader of the Liberal Party. He is going to be the next Prime Minister of
00:01:46.720 Canada. Mark my words, he will be the next Prime Minister, and he will be awful. We're going to get to
00:01:52.160 all the details today. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our
00:01:56.620 channel, and consider leaving us a five-star review if you are enjoying our content. Okay, so yesterday
00:02:02.900 we saw there was an article over in the Hill Times that said that Mark Carney is expected to launch his
00:02:08.660 Liberal leadership bid in Edmonton on Thursday, according to sources. So it is coming. It's going to happen
00:02:15.260 this week. Mark Carney, interestingly, choosing Edmonton, I think he's doing the same thing that
00:02:20.080 Chrystia Freeland tries to do, which is sort of like play up her Alberta roots, even though Chrystia
00:02:25.760 Freeland represents the downtown riding of Toronto University, Rosedale, where I used to live.
00:02:31.040 She likes to talk a lot about the fact that she was born up in Peace River and that she has these
00:02:35.200 modest Albertan roots. Mark Carney similarly was born up in the Northwest Territories, but I believe he
00:02:40.820 spent some time in his childhood in Edmonton. His father was a Liberal candidate in Edmonton back in the
00:02:46.600 1980s. So he is kind of, he's going to play up those ties. He's going to pretend to be an Albertan
00:02:52.600 and it's going to be nauseating. Really, he did launch his campaign last night on television.
00:02:58.460 Interestingly enough, American television. Mark Carney went on to the Tonight Show with Jon Stewart.
00:03:04.280 Remember that show? It used to be like really culturally relevant, like 15 years ago, like back in 2005.
00:03:09.100 Everybody watched it. Well, guess what? 20 years later, it's still in the air. Not very many people watch it.
00:03:14.380 But Mark Carney was there nonetheless. And he really did sort of do a soft launch of his campaign.
00:03:21.040 So here is what that looked like.
00:03:22.900 And you are of the Liberal Party.
00:03:24.960 I am of the Liberal Party, yes.
00:03:26.660 Are they looking for a new leader?
00:03:29.600 I think they might be, Jon.
00:03:31.820 Sir, may I recommend to you, with your charm and debonair wit, yet strong financial backbone,
00:03:40.580 that you offer yourself as, have you offered yourself as leader?
00:03:47.420 I just started thinking about it.
00:03:50.100 So, I'm sorry, I said the Tonight Show. I meant the Daily Show, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
00:03:56.300 So, laying it on a little thick there, Mark Carney, pretending that he hadn't really thought about running,
00:04:01.760 even though his own aides are leaking to the press that he's going to be announcing his leadership race on Thursday.
00:04:08.220 So, really, it's interesting that these guys go to the U.S. market, right?
00:04:12.760 Like, we're supposed to be told that they're proud Canadians, that the Liberals love Canada.
00:04:16.300 I mean, for heaven's sakes, they fund the media.
00:04:18.560 They fund the media in Canada.
00:04:19.900 And they tell us, taxpayers, that it is so important that we fund the Canadian media because they need our support.
00:04:25.980 They need our help.
00:04:26.780 And yet, when it comes to actually making appearances and announcements like this,
00:04:31.080 they go down to the United States, which kind of contradicts the whole message.
00:04:35.180 Justin Trudeau used to do the exact same thing.
00:04:37.320 Who could forget?
00:04:38.280 Back in 2017, Justin Trudeau, anytime he'd be facing a scandal at home,
00:04:42.920 he would just pop down to the U.S., do some glowing, loving interview,
00:04:46.080 where some American journalists would just fawn over him for being such an awesome, woke leftist
00:04:51.240 and kind of just try to distract from any of the scandals that he was facing at home.
00:04:56.100 So, remember, he was on the cover of the Rolling Stones magazine.
00:05:00.140 Oh, look at the dreamy Justin Trudeau with a subtitle there.
00:05:03.100 Why can't he be our president?
00:05:04.680 He's just so progressive and he's so cute.
00:05:08.360 The Americans just disgusting, just fawning over him. 1.00
00:05:11.840 It was gross then.
00:05:12.920 And also, Justin Trudeau, right after he was elected, back in December 2015, who could forget this?
00:05:18.500 He went over to the New York Times magazine and he told the Americans about this whole new vision of Canada.
00:05:25.720 The headline there says, Trudeau's Canada again, because, of course, Canada used to belong to his daddy, Pierre Trudeau,
00:05:31.940 and now Canada belongs to a Trudeau once again.
00:05:35.640 This time, Justin, that was right at the beginning, before any of the madness came to fruition.
00:05:41.180 But Justin Trudeau hinted about what it was that he believed, and that was where he made his infamous remarks,
00:05:47.080 calling Canada the first post-national state.
00:05:51.080 Who could forget that?
00:05:52.480 I'm going to read a little bit from that.
00:05:55.140 Let me just pull it up here.
00:05:57.260 Post-national state.
00:05:59.660 There it goes.
00:06:00.320 He says that Trudeau's critics say he's a lightweight and a dangerous one.
00:06:03.660 Trudeau's most radical argument is that Canada is becoming a new kind of state, not defined by its European history,
00:06:09.920 but by the multiplicity of its identities from all over the world.
00:06:13.600 His embrace of a pan-cultural heritage makes him an avatar of his father's vision.
00:06:18.680 There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada, he claimed.
00:06:23.220 There are shared values.
00:06:24.360 These qualities are what make us the first post-national state.
00:06:29.620 Well, Trudeau's guess, his little snapshot into the future there back in 2015, it has come true.
00:06:37.640 We do live in a post-national state, and it is a hellscape.
00:06:41.760 It is just pure and simple, absolutely fallen apart under Justin Trudeau, and we should have known better.
00:06:48.720 He was saying it out loud to us back in 2015.
00:06:53.020 This brings up a good point made by my friend J.J. McCullough over on X.
00:06:57.860 He, again, picked up on the same kind of criticism, which is why do these guys go to the U.S.?
00:07:03.320 So here, J.J. says,
00:07:04.980 Mark Carney soft-launching his campaign on The Daily Show is wild.
00:07:09.420 It's the media equivalent of elite Canadians going to private hospitals in the U.S. when they're sick.
00:07:14.040 When push comes to shove, Canadian elites shun the subsidized state-run junk that they tell the rest of us to use.
00:07:22.140 Yes, that pretty much sums it up, and I completely agree with you, J.J.
00:07:26.600 Okay, let's go back to The Daily Show and see more of Mark Carney and what he has to say about Canada,
00:07:32.660 a little bit about why he is running.
00:07:34.620 He will be running for prime minister.
00:07:36.520 Let's play the first clip here.
00:07:38.580 There is a type of politician.
00:07:41.360 You have a few of them here in the United States.
00:07:43.100 I think we just stopped.
00:07:43.800 Stop it.
00:07:44.360 Yeah.
00:07:45.680 They had a lot in and around Brexit.
00:07:48.540 Yes.
00:07:49.000 And we have Mr. Polyev in Canada.
00:07:52.180 A type of politician who's, you know, tend to be a lifelong politician.
00:07:55.980 Really?
00:07:56.560 Tend to worship the market.
00:07:57.840 They've never actually worked in the private sector.
00:08:00.360 Right.
00:08:01.120 And they see opportunity in tragedy, like you just had with the California fires, these horrible fires.
00:08:07.740 Correct.
00:08:07.940 And they see opportunity in tragedy to push an agenda that here's one they prepared earlier.
00:08:13.520 Right.
00:08:13.680 And they fit it in.
00:08:14.980 And so whether it was Brexit, here often, you know, the star of the beast type approach.
00:08:20.140 So Pierre Polyev, when COVID started, his reaction was, hmm, this is a good time to cut spending and cut taxes.
00:08:29.660 Everyone's just been pushed out of a job.
00:08:32.120 Nobody's got work.
00:08:33.220 So let's cut the taxes on the work they don't have.
00:08:35.880 And let's take away the social safety net when everybody's vulnerable.
00:08:40.800 Kind of doing his best Barack Obama impression there.
00:08:44.580 Clearly the guy's running, okay, and his complaints about Pierre Polyev, you're going to see a preview of his campaign.
00:08:50.140 Because this guy, if he runs, which it looks like he will, he will win.
00:08:53.640 He will win.
00:08:54.200 It will be a coronation by the Liberal Party.
00:08:56.280 And this is a preview of what his attack is going to be against Pierre Polyev in the general election.
00:09:01.480 It's going to be fear-mongering.
00:09:02.840 It's going to be all about how, ooh, this dangerous free market type, he just wants to cut.
00:09:06.980 He's going to get rid of your beloved social programs.
00:09:09.280 He just wants lower taxes for his rich friends.
00:09:11.840 Sort of a preview there.
00:09:13.560 Ironically, you know, Mark Carney was advising Justin Trudeau at the time.
00:09:17.200 They did the exact opposite of that.
00:09:19.000 They turned on the floodgates of government spending.
00:09:21.560 First, they shut down the economy.
00:09:22.900 And then they turned on the floodgates of government spending to make up for the fact that they shut down the economy.
00:09:27.260 And they didn't have the money.
00:09:28.540 So they started printing money out of control, basically completely drowning the Canadian public in extra money, which drove up inflation.
00:09:37.560 So terrible policies from Mark Carney, from Justin Trudeau during COVID.
00:09:42.820 And here he is saying the opposite, that Pierre Polyev somehow would have made it a lot worse.
00:09:47.660 Final clip I want to show, and this one's really, really telling.
00:09:49.960 This is, again, how Mark Carney is going to be crafting his message to Canadians.
00:09:55.480 He's sort of testing it out here on The Daily Show.
00:09:58.700 Let's play this clip.
00:09:59.420 And the headwinds are like that.
00:10:02.380 It's really difficult for a candidate to come in who is saddled with the policies that are on...
00:10:08.340 But let's say...
00:10:09.620 Oh, boy.
00:10:10.240 Let's say...
00:10:10.940 Just throwing out a wild...
00:10:13.200 Look at you trying to preserve the relationship all of a sudden.
00:10:16.900 A wild hypothetical.
00:10:18.120 Let's say the candidate wasn't part of the government.
00:10:22.000 Let's say the candidate did have a lot of economic experience.
00:10:25.720 Let's say the candidate did deal with crises.
00:10:28.680 Let's say the candidate had a plan to deal with the challenges in the here and now.
00:10:33.440 You sneaky.
00:10:34.180 You're running as an outsider.
00:10:36.280 I am an outsider.
00:10:38.740 He's totally an outsider.
00:10:39.780 Totally an outsider.
00:10:40.520 I like how Jon Stewart there just says, you're sneaky.
00:10:44.860 You're running to be an outsider.
00:10:45.980 Kind of like calling him on his bluff.
00:10:47.820 Like, yes, he's sneaky.
00:10:49.300 And yes, he's not actually an outsider.
00:10:50.600 This sort of allows the conservatives to...
00:10:52.960 Like, the attack ad kind of writes itself here because there are so many articles in the legacy media that have come out over the last five, six years that claim and that talk about Mark Carney as an advisor.
00:11:04.460 We know that he was involved in the Trudeau government.
00:11:06.320 He's not an outsider.
00:11:07.620 Here you see Andrew Lawton, former host, radio host, and host here at the True North Center, who's now gone on to become a candidate for the Conservative Party.
00:11:15.780 He posted this tweet basically just mocking the idea that Mark Carney is an outsider.
00:11:20.280 There he says, Mark Carney, the UN envoy, Trudeau advisor, godfather to Chrystia Freeland's child.
00:11:28.080 Of course, he's involved in the WEF as well as a trustee.
00:11:32.020 And he wants you to believe that he is an outsider to the government and an outsider to the establishment.
00:11:37.180 Of course, the opposite is true.
00:11:38.920 This is so far from the truth.
00:11:40.240 We know that Mark Carney has been advising Trudeau, like I said, since at least 2000.
00:11:44.860 And even just to go back to October, going back as recently as October, just three months ago, he was a guest on a podcast with a Liberal MP, Nate Smith.
00:11:55.600 And he says right out, he says outright that he is involved in the government.
00:11:59.920 He says that he is in the trenches of politics.
00:12:03.160 That's not something an outsider says.
00:12:04.980 Outsiders aren't in the trenches.
00:12:06.640 Insiders are in the trenches.
00:12:07.880 Let's play this clip.
00:12:08.600 You are now entering into partisan politics in a, you know, you're not jumping right to a leadership position.
00:12:15.580 You're playing, I don't know if you have a view.
00:12:17.680 I'm in the trenches.
00:12:18.760 I'm in the trenches.
00:12:19.800 Well, one question I would have is, do you see a value in elected office as a backbencher or as an MP before a higher profile role?
00:12:30.220 I mean, there's, you can't map these things out.
00:12:32.660 Of course, there's value in that.
00:12:34.240 But let me, let me pick up, something popped into my head while you were using that example.
00:12:39.400 So one of the, the, the knocks on me that the opposition makes or part of the opposition.
00:12:46.900 You're a WEF global elite.
00:12:48.140 Exactly.
00:12:49.380 I'm a WEF global elite.
00:12:50.400 John Barrett is too, but I don't know.
00:12:52.340 Campaign coach here, that never comes up.
00:12:53.900 You know, and you know, when.
00:12:57.300 He's banned his ministers from going to World Economic Forum events to cater to conspiracies.
00:13:02.100 And you've been a board member for over a decade.
00:13:03.760 I, yeah, yeah, I, I've rolled off the board, but that's absolutely right.
00:13:07.360 I had a board member there and I used to go there with the Prime Minister Stephen Harper when, you know, he was there and et cetera.
00:13:14.120 But let's, let's be clear what, you know, my international experience.
00:13:18.760 I understand how the world works.
00:13:20.540 You know, I, I know other world leaders.
00:13:23.880 I know people and, and I understand, I know people who run some of the world's largest companies and understand how they work.
00:13:31.540 I know how financial institutions work.
00:13:33.320 I know how markets work.
00:13:34.380 I know, and I know the good and bad of that.
00:13:37.800 I've experienced it.
00:13:38.900 I've had to, in some of my roles, discipline it, discipline the financial system, discipline with others, the world's largest banks, the, you know, the Wall Street banks in America after the crisis.
00:13:49.240 So I understand how the world works.
00:13:52.220 I'm trying to apply that to the benefit of Canada.
00:13:55.440 So there's a whole bunch to unpack from that clip, but he clearly says that he's in the trenches and he's very involved in what's happening in government.
00:14:03.800 And then he sort of doubles down and takes a victory lap about his involvement in the world economic forum, sort of brags about being a weffer.
00:14:12.160 And the host there says, you were on the board for over 10 years.
00:14:14.900 And then he kind of pivots to talking about how he has run massive institutions, how he's friends with all these bankers and how his job is to discipline the bankers.
00:14:26.160 Like he has a God complex and he is in charge of the entire market.
00:14:29.460 He oversees it all.
00:14:31.220 And so really not, not the kind of person who is an outsider.
00:14:34.800 He really is.
00:14:35.760 Mark Carney really is an elite.
00:14:37.240 He doesn't try to run away from that.
00:14:39.080 He has his hands involved in very many, many aspects of government, which we can get through all of that.
00:14:47.320 But really, it's strange to see him now just three months later trying to paint himself as an outsider when just a couple months ago he really was bragging about it.
00:14:55.740 I want to go back a little further because, again, he's trying to distance himself from this train wreck of a government so that he can run as an outsider.
00:15:03.180 But his own record is just as bad.
00:15:06.580 His own record, apart from advising Justin Trudeau on being a Justin Trudeau clone, his own personal record is just as bad.
00:15:14.940 So Mark Carney was the governor of the Bank of Canada.
00:15:17.660 He moved on and became the governor of the Bank of England.
00:15:21.200 And then he now runs like he's a banker.
00:15:24.160 He runs a huge trillion dollar fund.
00:15:26.480 And so here is a clip of him.
00:15:27.940 This is really telling.
00:15:28.900 In committee, in a Canadian committee back in 2021, sparring with none other than Pierre Polyev.
00:15:36.420 Polyev is trying to hold his feet to the fire for opposing pipelines in Canada, but being in favor and investing in pipelines and oil development in the third world.
00:15:46.380 So here is Mark Carney basically saying that oil is good in other countries, but oil is bad in Canada.
00:15:53.080 This is unbelievable.
00:15:53.740 This clip, I think, is incredibly damning and perhaps a preview of what a federal election will look like in 2025.
00:16:00.700 So let's play that clip.
00:16:02.400 Do you support the prime minister's decision to veto the Northern Gateway pipeline, Mr. Carney?
00:16:08.680 I understand the veto of the Northern Gateway pipeline.
00:16:15.140 Do you support it?
00:16:17.400 Given both environmental and commercial reasons.
00:16:21.100 Do you support it?
00:16:22.440 I think it's sensible.
00:16:23.780 I wasn't involved in the decision, but I think it was the right decision.
00:16:26.320 And yet your company has invested billions of dollars in oil companies in both Brazil and the UAE to buy pipelines.
00:16:34.880 You've bought billions of dollars of pipelines as a company in the last five years.
00:16:41.260 Do you support those investments?
00:16:43.900 Mr. Polyev, there is a global energy system.
00:16:47.360 And one of the issues, I'm trying to explain a bit of how the economy works.
00:16:52.220 Thank you so much.
00:16:53.560 Well, it may help.
00:16:54.840 One of the issues for this committee in thinking about a sustainable transition is where is Canada's role in those as energy transitions from fossil fuels to renewables?
00:17:08.780 And in different jurisdictions, into different geography, it matters.
00:17:13.280 It matters.
00:17:13.880 And this is a fundamental point.
00:17:15.820 I'm sorry.
00:17:16.280 This is a fundamental point.
00:17:17.020 You're finally getting to a point that is relevant to this committee's inquiry.
00:17:23.180 What you're saying is you oppose pipelines in Canada, but you support them in the UAE and in Brazil.
00:17:29.700 That's what you've actually said.
00:17:31.200 There are specific pipelines.
00:17:32.040 That's your double standard.
00:17:33.480 It is not a double standard.
00:17:36.220 So Pierre just completely holds him to the fire, completely accurate in exposing the mindset, the ideology of these sort of leftist elite bankers.
00:17:44.260 That oil needs to be phased out in Canada, that we need to be modeling a green economy.
00:17:49.440 But in other parts of the world, their emissions are going up.
00:17:52.240 They can develop more oil and gas.
00:17:54.280 They can build pipelines.
00:17:55.200 And we'll even pay for them.
00:17:56.580 Complete hypocrisy.
00:17:57.820 I have a hard time imagining Mark Carney defending that.
00:18:00.860 Because even there, when he was trying to defend it against Pierre Polyev, he came across as condescending.
00:18:05.640 Let me explain to you, Pierre, how the economy works.
00:18:08.900 Like, on his high horse, that's not going to fly with Canadians. 1.00
00:18:12.140 That's not what Canadians want.
00:18:13.900 I can't imagine a less palatable person.
00:18:17.740 This, you know, high-flying banker wanting to come in and become our prime minister.
00:18:23.140 Likewise, when it came to the trucker convoy, you guessed it, Mark Carney came out on the absolute wrong side.
00:18:29.840 Remember, he was advising Justin Trudeau at this time, and it seems like his advice came through.
00:18:35.460 So Mark Carney had an op-ed over in the Globe and Mail.
00:18:38.940 He said that he wanted the Emergencies Act deployed on Canadians, and he wanted the bank accounts frozen.
00:18:44.960 And so this was from the trucker reporter, the Pled reporter on X.
00:18:50.540 He says, the Globe and Mail headline here said,
00:18:53.480 It's time to end the freedom convoy in Ottawa by enforcing the law and following the money. 0.77
00:18:58.260 And here's a quote from that piece.
00:18:59.660 It says, anyone sending money to the convoy should be in no doubt.
00:19:03.880 You are funding sedition.
00:19:06.300 Canadian authorities should take every step within the law to identify and thoroughly punish them.
00:19:12.240 Well, lo and behold, Mark Carney had his way.
00:19:15.280 He said it in the Globe and Mail, in the pages of the Globe and Mail.
00:19:18.220 And mere days later, Chrystia Freeland froze the bank account, 0.62
00:19:21.320 and Justin Trudeau unleashed martial law against peaceful protesters doing absolutely nothing wrong other than upholding their God-given right to free protest, freedom of protest, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly on the grounds of Parliament.
00:19:37.400 And Justin Trudeau showed us who he really is, a tyrant, and it seems like Mark Carney was in his ear.
00:19:43.880 That's something else that Mark Carney is going to have to explain.
00:19:47.640 Mark Carney also, again, you know, this is a high-flying global elite.
00:19:51.240 It's no surprise that he has some questionable friendships and questionable relationships.
00:19:56.580 So these posts started circulating online.
00:20:00.240 Very, very questionable here is Mark Carney with none other than Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:20:06.800 Now, those who aren't familiar with Ghislaine Maxwell, she was a close friend and confidant of pedophile pervert Jeffrey Epstein.
00:20:14.880 And Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence in prison for her role in sex trafficking, including of minors.
00:20:23.940 And here is Mark Carney, Chummy Chummy, side by side at an event, talking to Ghislaine, over and over, four pictures of them together.
00:20:33.840 Now, True North reported on this, and Mark Carney's people said that Mark Carney is not friends with Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:20:41.700 He downplays these photos, and he just says that, well, you know, she went to school with my wife's sister, and so we're sort of all part of the same circle of friends.
00:20:51.640 But no, I'm not friends with her, and really downplayed that relationship.
00:20:55.960 But that is not the only questionable relationship that Mark Carney has.
00:20:59.340 Over in the UK, the Daily Mail reported that Mark Carney was attending parties alongside disgraced Prince Andrew.
00:21:08.260 Prince Andrew, also known as being someone who was involved in the sex trafficking ring with the Epstein's, a minor has accused him of having sex with her while she was a minor.
00:21:19.140 And here, Prince Andrew, again, reported in the pages of the British press that Prince Andrew was paying Mark Carney to attend these lavish parties at the time when Carney was the bank, the governor of the Bank of England.
00:21:33.540 So really, we're starting to see who this person really is.
00:21:38.200 And that's not the only reporting out of the UK that really shines some doubt onto Mark Carney.
00:21:43.840 You know, he's supposed to be this brilliant banker.
00:21:45.580 Well, here is an article in The Spectator, written by a financial columnist and author, saying that Mark Carney is not fit to be the Canadian Prime Minister.
00:21:57.400 And that is based on his record.
00:21:59.400 So let me just read a little bit from this article.
00:22:02.660 He writes,
00:22:03.200 The trouble is, it is now clear that Mark Carney was actually not very good.
00:22:07.340 The bank made a whole series of mistakes under his management.
00:22:10.140 Growth was considerably weak.
00:22:11.860 The bank printed way too much money, stoking an asset bubble and ultimately triggering the highest inflation rate in the G7.
00:22:18.500 It badly misjudged the impact of the UK's departure from the EU, allowing itself to become politicized as part of project fear.
00:22:26.480 It lost control of regulations, came clear during the liability-driven investment crisis, during the trust premiership.
00:22:33.600 And it allowed the city to start losing its position as a leading financial center, a trend that has accelerated since he left.
00:22:40.500 It has gotten, it's hardly a very inspiring record.
00:22:44.980 It has gotten even worse since, with Carney becoming one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Rachel Reeves during her run for the election.
00:22:53.420 Again, praising her, he goes on and on and just says that, look, it's true that he will make an easy opponent for the Conservatives if he does appear to take over as PM.
00:23:03.380 But the blunt truth is this, he is not fit for the job and Canada can do much better.
00:23:09.680 Ouch, that stings. 0.68
00:23:10.760 That stings.
00:23:11.360 Because again, he's running on this record of being this incredible banker who steered the British economy as a bank, governor of the bank over there.
00:23:19.720 But really, it seems like the record was quite similar to Canada, just printing, printing, printing tons of money, which has spiraled us into an inflation crisis.
00:23:29.080 And, you know, the whole thing that's really interesting is that he's trying to paint himself as an outsider, trying to say he's very different than the current government, which, sure, he's not a cabinet minister.
00:23:38.380 So he'll have an easier time making distance between himself versus someone like Chrystia Freeland.
00:23:44.760 But when it comes to people in the know, they're saying that he's exactly the same as Justin Trudeau.
00:23:50.640 So here is Warren Kinsella.
00:23:51.860 Warren Kinsella is a partisan liberal insider.
00:23:54.600 And he wrote on X the other day, he wrote that Mark Carney is the team Trudeau candidate.
00:24:02.360 His campaign is being run by Gerald Butts, Katie Telford, etc.
00:24:06.140 The ones who had to resign due to scandal or who've been implicit and implicated in multiple scandals, the ones who reduced the liberal party down to 16%.
00:24:15.380 He says that Carney equals Trudeau.
00:24:18.720 Same people running the campaign, same people behind the scenes.
00:24:21.400 They're part of the same social circle.
00:24:23.260 Don't be fooled.
00:24:24.000 That is also the message coming from the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:24:28.460 Pierre Polyev came out just saying that they're all Justin.
00:24:31.700 We wrote about this over at True North.
00:24:33.600 Here's the story.
00:24:34.500 They're all Justin Trudeau, he says, of the liberal leadership candidates.
00:24:37.680 No matter which one you look at, you will find Justin Trudeau.
00:24:40.860 Here is a clip of Pierre Polyev saying just that.
00:24:44.120 And so right before an election, the liberal MPs want to elect another Justin Trudeau who has a different face.
00:24:54.000 They're all Justin Trudeau.
00:24:57.680 They're all just like Justin.
00:25:03.120 In the next election, I will be running against Justin Trudeau.
00:25:07.380 Whether his name is Justin Trudeau or his name is Chrystia Freeland or Carbon Tax Carney or Carbon Tax Clark, they will all be Justin Trudeau.
00:25:20.440 They supported everything he's done and they promised to keep doing it.
00:25:25.580 And if they say otherwise, we know they're lying because they would have done so earlier.
00:25:30.740 So that's going to be the line from the Conservatives that no matter who they're running as their candidate, it's all the same.
00:25:40.480 We know their record.
00:25:41.260 They've been in office for nine years.
00:25:42.780 They can't just sort of put on a fresh, shiny new face on the same failed policies.
00:25:47.860 And I really do think that Mark Carney is the one that is going to win.
00:25:52.200 It seems like if he jumps into the race, barring some huge, huge scandal that no one has uncovered yet, which I think is doubtful at this time, just given that he's had these high profile roles for such a long time, the liberal membership will choose this guy.
00:26:07.640 He has the exact right pedigree for liberals.
00:26:10.760 Liberals just love these kind of elites.
00:26:12.240 They love people who went to Harvard, people who are impressive in other countries, people who have been successful in the UK or the US.
00:26:19.620 And Mark Carney sort of checks all those boxes.
00:26:22.600 And we'll go through the roster of the other liberals.
00:26:26.180 But let's just say it's not a very deep bench.
00:26:28.820 And the people who are running are not very serious.
00:26:32.000 So let's go through it here.
00:26:33.520 Melanie Jolie has announced that she is not running.
00:26:36.100 Phew, Canada dodged a bullet there.
00:26:38.640 Dominic LeBlanc also not running.
00:26:40.340 And Steve McKinnon.
00:26:42.240 Is not running as well.
00:26:43.220 So you have a bunch of these liberal cabinet ministers, these hacks that didn't do a very good job.
00:26:48.240 Relieving to hear that they're not running, thankfully.
00:26:51.760 The few that have announced that they are running, we have Chris Clark, who is a former premier of British Columbia.
00:26:57.480 You almost feel bad for her at this point.
00:26:59.940 Her campaign kickoff has been such a disaster.
00:27:03.220 Almost as soon as she announced that she was going to be running, everything imploded.
00:27:07.960 Everything imploded.
00:27:09.120 Because she got caught in the weirdest of weird lies.
00:27:11.440 I don't understand why someone would lie when it's just so obvious that we're going to be able to catch her in this lie.
00:27:18.360 So what was the lie?
00:27:19.900 Christy Clark said that she has never been a member of the Conservative Party.
00:27:24.360 She calls herself a lifelong liberal.
00:27:26.600 Of course, in Canada, you can't be a member of two opposing parties.
00:27:30.400 And I guess the liberal bylaws itself says if you become a liberal member, you have to renounce being a member of any other party.
00:27:36.880 And so, you know, just two years ago, Christy Clark was out there endorsing Jean Charest in the Conservative leadership race.
00:27:44.180 Jean Charest, the former liberal Quebec premier, was running against Pierre Polyev to be the leader of the Conservative Party.
00:27:51.320 Christy Clark was right in the middle of it endorsing Jean Charest.
00:27:54.900 And at the time, even saying that she was a member.
00:27:58.640 And so the CBC really quickly was able to basically just take her down.
00:28:03.140 So I don't compliment the CBC very often.
00:28:06.460 I don't compliment them very lightly.
00:28:08.940 But in this case, they really caught Christy Clark in a very obvious lie.
00:28:14.080 So here's a clip of her with CBC journalist Catherine Cullen, where Cullen just kind of backs her into a corner and exposes the lie.
00:28:22.180 Let's play that clip.
00:28:24.120 You have called yourself a lifelong liberal, but you voted in the last federal conservative leadership race.
00:28:30.100 That would have required you to cancel your Liberal Party membership in order to join the Conservative Party.
00:28:34.900 How long were you a member of the Conservative Party, Christy Clark?
00:28:38.360 Never.
00:28:39.600 But you voted in the race, did you not?
00:28:42.360 No, I didn't.
00:28:43.340 I didn't.
00:28:43.960 And I never got a membership and I never got a ballot.
00:28:48.220 What I did, though, is...
00:28:49.060 I will say, Christy Clark, we reached out to the Conservative Party who told us, in fact, that your membership was cancelled.
00:28:54.760 Oh, well, why don't they come out and show my membership or my ballot?
00:28:59.100 They never sent me any of those, although I wouldn't put it past them to manufacture one of them.
00:29:04.680 Okay, so I just don't understand why you would lie about something like this.
00:29:07.820 And Christy Clark is so confident in her lie.
00:29:09.600 Like, she's so bold-faced that she would just say, never, I've never been a member.
00:29:13.340 Never been a member.
00:29:14.600 I'm sorry, but we're going to find out the truth.
00:29:16.740 It's been written about in the news.
00:29:18.620 You can't hide from that.
00:29:20.020 And so almost immediately you have Jenny Byrne, who's running the Conservative campaign right now. 0.98
00:29:24.520 She shows up with receipts.
00:29:26.060 She posts an article from the Canadian press in August 2022 saying that Christy Clark was going to be voting for Jean Charest, that she was a candidate, that she had gotten her...
00:29:41.060 I mean, that's two and a half years ago.
00:29:44.660 So why would you come out and lie and be so bold about it?
00:29:47.920 Jenny Byrne showing up with even more receipts. 0.81
00:29:50.040 She posted this on X as well, which is from the Conservative database, showing that Christy Clark was indeed a member of the party, a paid member, back in 2022 to 2023.
00:30:01.580 So pretty easily, pretty easy to debunk something like this, Christy Clark.
00:30:06.580 I don't understand why you would lie.
00:30:08.720 It kind of gives us a little insight into the mind of these politicians who are just so used to lying.
00:30:13.900 And lying is so easy for them that they just, it just comes out without even thinking it through.
00:30:18.360 You know, there was no, there was no even hint that she was lying because she was so confident in what she was saying.
00:30:24.460 But it turns out to totally have been a lie.
00:30:27.500 And Christy Clark had to do a little mea culpa here and admit that she had been caught in a pathetic, ridiculous lie.
00:30:35.280 Here she is on X saying, well, I misspoke.
00:30:38.080 Misspoke is a politician's word for lying.
00:30:41.880 She says, as HIT happens, lesson learned.
00:30:44.780 I've always been clear that I support Jean-Claire to stop Pierre Polyev, not backing away from that.
00:30:50.320 So she's just thinking that she is just going to keep on running.
00:30:55.120 Sorry to tell you, as fast as you announced that you were going to be running for this party leadership, it's over.
00:31:01.540 No one's going to vote for you.
00:31:02.760 Her campaign went down in flames there on Friday afternoon.
00:31:06.260 So it's not just Christy Clark that's getting caught in weird lies.
00:31:10.000 It seems to be a trait by these liberals.
00:31:12.080 Another candidate running here named Chanda Ara, who is a liberal MP, really remarkable interview that he did.
00:31:20.040 He went on CBC and basically just told the host, David Cochran, that it's not important to speak French,
00:31:27.080 that French isn't really important in the Liberal Party, it's not that important in Quebec, and he's fine.
00:31:32.540 He knows Quebecers better than anybody else, and that's why he's going to be prime minister.
00:31:37.520 Let's see this clip.
00:31:39.260 How's your French?
00:31:40.740 Nope.
00:31:40.980 No? No French?
00:31:42.540 No French. 1.00
00:31:43.180 Okay. The Liberal Party of Canada is the party of official bilingualism. It's going to be a tough one.
00:31:46.600 I don't speak French either, so I, you know.
00:31:48.400 The point is that whether the Quebecers are English Canadians, it's not the language that matters.
00:31:54.440 It's what is that they deliver to them.
00:31:56.040 But the language matters very much in Quebec.
00:31:58.200 No. At the end of the day, Quebecers see who delivers what.
00:32:01.620 You know, we have English-speaking, French-fluent prime minister for all the time.
00:32:06.540 One of the things that matters to Quebecers are being a sovereign country, a sovereign republic.
00:32:11.320 Yeah.
00:32:11.660 And which prime minister has ever talked about that?
00:32:14.960 Mr. Aryeh, if you're going to run for prime minister, I mean, you have to know that the French language matters,
00:32:20.160 and the French, it matters in Quebec profoundly.
00:32:22.580 Trust me.
00:32:22.900 Trust me. At the end of the day, for French Canadians and English Canadians,
00:32:27.540 the matters most is that how the children and grandchildren are going to prosper in this country.
00:32:31.960 That is the thing that matters.
00:32:34.860 Just when you think a liberal politician can't be any more arrogant,
00:32:38.580 there comes another politician even more arrogant.
00:32:41.400 Hearing that guy say that French isn't that important in Quebec,
00:32:45.820 that Quebecers are English-Canadian, what?
00:32:48.900 What does that even mean?
00:32:49.780 I mean, look, if you're running the Conservative Party,
00:32:52.460 I don't think it's necessarily all that important that you speak French.
00:32:54.980 It's a good thing, but it's not mandatory because the Conservatives don't represent Quebec.
00:32:59.160 They never really win in Quebec.
00:33:01.220 Quebecers don't really like the Conservative Party.
00:33:03.220 That's a different story with the Libs.
00:33:04.960 The Libs need Quebec.
00:33:06.360 If you are a liberal politician who has any hope in becoming prime minister,
00:33:09.520 you basically have to sweep Quebec.
00:33:11.720 And so this guy coming out here saying that it's not important,
00:33:14.820 so out of touch, so dumb, just terrible dumb. 0.66
00:33:17.640 And of course, he's lying about it too, because his own MP website at the House of Commons
00:33:22.380 says right there at the bottom, preferred language, English and French.
00:33:26.600 Well, he admitted on the CBC that doesn't actually speak French, so he was lying.
00:33:30.300 He hardly, you know, even saying that he's fluent in English is a bit of a stretch
00:33:33.760 because you have a very hard time understanding the guy in that interview.
00:33:38.680 What a mess.
00:33:39.420 What a disaster.
00:33:40.060 So who else do the Liberals have?
00:33:42.360 Well, Chrystia Freeland, the former finance minister, is expected to run.
00:33:47.140 She's expected to announce sometime around Trump's inauguration.
00:33:51.480 So here is a CTV report saying that she's expected to announce her bid next week.
00:33:56.360 I don't see it happening.
00:33:57.680 Chrystia Freeland, you know what?
00:33:59.400 You froze the bank accounts of the truckers, so you're never going to get my support.
00:34:02.680 But again, you know, you were too close to Trudeau.
00:34:05.820 You were his right-hand man.
00:34:07.320 You were the deputy prime minister through some of the worst parts of Justin Trudeau's
00:34:11.380 time as prime minister.
00:34:13.280 And, you know, she's got her own weird personal thing going on that I don't think is going 0.51
00:34:17.320 to appeal to Canadians.
00:34:19.700 There's a couple of other also-rans people who you probably have never heard of because
00:34:23.340 I do this stuff for a living and I had barely heard of these people.
00:34:26.600 There's an individual called Frank Bayless who announced that he was running.
00:34:30.700 Not a great track record for this individual.
00:34:34.320 There was a story written by True North and covered by our great journalists over there
00:34:38.960 from 2020 saying that a company that was owned by this former liberal was awarded a $400,000
00:34:45.700 contract.
00:34:47.320 Of course, that's what the liberals do best is make their friends and the insiders rich.
00:34:52.700 So that's going to sting.
00:34:54.860 Another person announcing that they were going to run for the liberals is an individual called
00:35:00.360 Jamie Batiste.
00:35:02.740 He wants to be the first indigenous prime minister and he announced that he will be running.
00:35:09.680 A couple of others considering running.
00:35:12.820 Francois-Philippe Champagne says that he's considering it and he's going to make a decision
00:35:17.500 at some point in the next days here.
00:35:21.120 Also, Katrina Gould is considering, seriously considering running, she says.
00:35:27.480 Well, that would be a bit of a disaster.
00:35:28.820 Someone else who is not running, and this is going to bring us to a bit of a fun story
00:35:33.140 here, Anita Anand, the defense minister, the god-awful, terrible defense minister, has 0.71
00:35:39.560 announced on Saturday that she will not be running for the liberal leadership and she's
00:35:44.160 done with politics.
00:35:44.920 She's not seeking re-election.
00:35:47.260 She is out and gone.
00:35:49.340 Never any accountability for these people.
00:35:50.940 They just sort of sail off into the night.
00:35:52.620 They came into office, they destroyed Canada, they ruined our lives, and then they're just
00:35:58.600 going to go off and collect their pension and move on to the next chapter of their life.
00:36:03.560 And now this gets into a fun, Canada.
00:36:04.900 I wasn't sure if I was going to cover this controversy, to be perfectly honest, because
00:36:08.700 it's a little silly.
00:36:09.720 And I think the whole thing is manufactured as a bit of a distraction.
00:36:12.540 The legacy media would so much rather be talking about conservative infighting than they would
00:36:17.740 the disaster happening, the clown show happening over there with the Liberal Party, or anything
00:36:23.580 to do with our economy and anything else happening.
00:36:26.520 So this was kind of a mountain made out of a molehill.
00:36:30.880 But anyways, when Anita Anand announced that she was not going to be running, Erin O'Toole,
00:36:37.080 who was the previous leader of the Conservative Party, jumped in and thanked Anita Anand for
00:36:42.840 her service.
00:36:43.680 He writes, I saw the dedication Anita Anand brought to national defence at a time it was
00:36:49.320 desperately needed.
00:36:50.640 She cared deeply about the Canadian air, the CAF, their families, and the need for Canada
00:36:57.760 to do more.
00:36:59.040 I wish her fair winds and following seas.
00:37:02.600 So Erin O'Toole is just sort of gushing there in a beautiful note, written to someone who
00:37:08.320 was really a disaster in this role.
00:37:11.180 And that is when Jenny Byrne, who is running the Conservative Party right now, she is the 0.77
00:37:15.640 top advisor to Pierre Polyev.
00:37:18.320 And she was also that role back in the Harper years.
00:37:21.560 So she's back running the party.
00:37:23.600 And she jumps in and just tells the truth, says it like it is.
00:37:27.340 She says, for anyone unsure why Erin O'Toole is no longer leader of the Conservative Party,
00:37:34.060 points down to this tweet, says she supported DEI policies like name, rank, and pronouns,
00:37:40.240 tampons in the men's bathrooms, etc.
00:37:43.840 So yes, Jenny Byrne pointing out two truths here.
00:37:46.980 One, that the woke policies of the Liberal government have been a disaster.
00:37:50.960 It is so embarrassing to have a military that is focused on things like pronouns and tampons
00:37:56.780 for men.
00:37:57.760 Yes, you heard that correctly.
00:37:59.500 Tampons for men. 0.68
00:38:01.360 True North was one of the first ones reporting on that story, which is entirely true. 0.68
00:38:05.540 The government put tampons in male bathrooms. 1.00
00:38:09.140 Somebody needs to fill me in and tell me what it is that men need tampons for. 1.00
00:38:13.560 But I digress.
00:38:14.500 So pointing out that the libs were terrible and Erin O'Toole is congratulating them and
00:38:21.620 saying, you did a wonderful job.
00:38:23.480 Let's just ignore all the woke stuff that you did.
00:38:26.160 And let's just celebrate you for being a great leader, showing us why Erin O'Toole was not
00:38:32.900 a very good leader.
00:38:34.220 Look, I think Erin O'Toole is a decent enough guy, but he was very bad at leading the Conservative
00:38:38.780 Party because he wasn't very conservative.
00:38:40.380 He wasn't tied to his Conservative positions as soon as the election happened.
00:38:45.280 He was more than happy to throw everyone under the bus, take every Liberal position that
00:38:49.540 he could.
00:38:50.860 And so, you know, it's no wonder why the Conservatives lost in 2021.
00:38:55.420 No wonder why we have a much stronger leader of that party at this moment.
00:39:01.160 And then what do we see?
00:39:02.200 There was just so much hand-wringing.
00:39:03.620 Like everybody on X had an opinion on this.
00:39:06.420 They were trying to highlight it and read into it and talk about how, oh, the Conservatives
00:39:11.880 are just mean, nasty people now.
00:39:13.740 And Jenny Byrne is just a mean person. 1.00
00:39:16.740 The reality is that Jenny is right.
00:39:18.760 She is one hell of an organizer. 1.00
00:39:20.760 She is an incredible asset for the party.
00:39:24.000 And so I think that the Liberals would love to just be able to cancel her or, again, be
00:39:28.480 able to focus on this infighting rather than focus on the important things happening in
00:39:33.720 our country.
00:39:34.220 And so, you know, Jenny Byrne is right.
00:39:36.540 And that's all I'll say about that.
00:39:38.000 Let's move on.
00:39:39.220 Interestingly enough, an interview of Stephen Harper surfaced.
00:39:43.020 I think he did this interview over the weekend.
00:39:45.420 And he did a very good job explaining very succinctly what happened to the Liberals.
00:39:51.740 Like what happened to this party, which not that long ago, back in 2015, so just less
00:39:56.440 than 10 years ago, they won a sweeping majority.
00:39:59.980 Canadians across the country gave their support.
00:40:03.520 They believed in Justin Trudeau.
00:40:04.800 They thought that there were, they saw something in Justin Trudeau that they were inspired by,
00:40:08.800 that they believed in.
00:40:09.680 They liked his policies.
00:40:10.680 They liked the party.
00:40:11.700 So how did we get from that, from that 2015 glow down to the depths today where basically
00:40:18.680 Justin Trudeau has to run and hide because he cannot run an election and his party is in
00:40:23.940 absolute shambles that we've spent most of the show today just talking about all the ridiculousness
00:40:30.800 coming out of the Liberal Party.
00:40:32.460 So here is that clip of Stephen Harper just explaining what went wrong with the Liberals.
00:40:37.840 History a bit in perspective.
00:40:40.180 You know, Trudeau came in in 2015, won a big majority.
00:40:43.880 We'd been in office for a decade.
00:40:45.720 But he really ran as a centrist, didn't run as a far leftist, you know, tried to convince
00:40:53.040 everybody that all the things they liked about our government would be maintained and a few
00:40:57.720 things would be changed.
00:40:58.740 Of course, the government then went to the far left almost immediately and has since lost
00:41:04.280 its majority in Parliament in 2019.
00:41:07.120 Frankly, lost its majority in two consecutive elections that I personally think our party
00:41:13.160 should have won.
00:41:13.940 But he actually had his wings clipped.
00:41:16.260 Unfortunately, then the far left party in Parliament popped the bop, which is why, you
00:41:21.760 know, this thing ended up going five years longer than it should have with, frankly, a lot of
00:41:27.200 damage to the country.
00:41:28.200 And look, you know, I'm obviously a biased source, but I think if you look at the economic
00:41:33.660 statistics, the damage is undeniable.
00:41:37.520 So, you know, that's the situation we're in.
00:41:42.640 And, you know, it's kind of interesting at this point, because back in 2011, when Stephen
00:41:49.320 Harper won his majority, he decimated the Liberal Party, right?
00:41:52.700 The Liberal Party was not the official opposition after that election.
00:41:56.420 It was the NDP.
00:41:57.280 The NDP sort of surprised everyone.
00:41:59.780 Jack Layton, at the time, the leader, really captured the imagination of a lot of people
00:42:04.000 in Quebec.
00:42:04.900 And you ended up with a lot of these Quebec MPs who had basically no business being in
00:42:09.800 Parliament, people who just kind of wrote their name down and signed up to be candidates,
00:42:13.720 thinking that there was no chance that they would win.
00:42:15.500 And then this huge orange wave swept across Quebec.
00:42:18.180 And you ended up with a lot of very young, junior, sort of inexperienced people as parliamentarians
00:42:23.760 over there.
00:42:24.640 But the Liberal Party was decimated, partially because they ran such a terrible candidate,
00:42:29.620 Michael Ignatieff.
00:42:30.360 Remember that guy?
00:42:31.360 Kind of seeing Michael Ignatieff tones in Mark Carney here.
00:42:36.300 But nonetheless, the party was decimated.
00:42:38.900 And it was unclear that they were really had had a role in Canadian public life.
00:42:43.780 You know, like, why do we need all of these left wing progressive parties?
00:42:47.980 Right.
00:42:48.140 Justin Trudeau came back, resuscitated the party, in large part because of his famous
00:42:52.580 last name and his famous father, and not to mention sort of his good looks and his,
00:42:57.440 you know, aspirational ideas.
00:43:00.720 But at the time, he resuscitated the party.
00:43:03.820 And to Harper's point, he ran much more as a centrist.
00:43:07.280 Yes, he wanted deficits.
00:43:08.600 But remember, he said modest deficits.
00:43:10.420 He wanted a $10 billion deficit that he said that he was going to erase within the first
00:43:14.300 few years.
00:43:15.220 Well, we all know how that went and how sideways it all went.
00:43:18.580 But basically, the Liberals are supposed to be a centrist party.
00:43:22.200 And now they're even further to the left, you could argue, than the NDP.
00:43:25.860 Why does Canada need all these left wing parties? 0.90
00:43:27.860 Why do we need multiple left wing parties? 1.00
00:43:29.560 We basically have four hard left parties in Parliament right now.
00:43:32.960 You have the Liberals, you have the NDP, the Green Party, which is deranged far left
00:43:38.340 fringe.
00:43:39.280 And then you also have the Bloc Quebecois, which is supposed to be a panneological party.
00:43:42.900 But most of their views and most of their positions are hard left, sort of anti-Canadian
00:43:48.420 oil sands, anti-resources.
00:43:51.240 And you kind of wonder about the future of this party without Trudeau.
00:43:54.860 You know, you have the famous guy keeping it all together.
00:43:57.280 And I do wonder after the next election, which of the two parties is going to get decimated?
00:44:02.100 It might be the NDP.
00:44:03.100 They really deserve to get decimated with a leader like Jagmeet Singh.
00:44:06.680 But then you have to look at all this sort of institutional corruption and all these
00:44:10.300 terrible people involved in the Liberal Party.
00:44:13.720 And it really does make you wonder whether the Liberal Party should exist at all.
00:44:19.360 All right, let's let's move on.
00:44:20.720 I want to talk a little bit about the meeting that took place yesterday or over the weekend
00:44:25.440 with Daniel Smith, Alberta Premier and U.S.
00:44:28.620 President, incoming President Donald Trump.
00:44:31.300 We covered that in depth on our show yesterday.
00:44:34.160 So if you missed it, go check out that episode.
00:44:36.180 We went through everything and detailed the entire visit.
00:44:40.300 Well, there's a little update from that because yesterday in her press conference, Danielle
00:44:44.680 Smith was asked, how did you end up in Mar-a-Lago?
00:44:47.400 Did Trump reach out to you directly with an invitation or what were you doing there basically?
00:44:52.000 And Danielle Smith let us know that she came as a guest of Kevin O'Leary, a famous Canadian
00:44:58.160 investor, Shark Tank host, Kevin O'Leary, one of the sharks, one of the investors of that
00:45:03.980 show, someone who's been speaking out about the Trump threats and actually making a lot
00:45:08.140 of sense.
00:45:09.120 And so it turns out that Kevin O'Leary is a friend of Donald Trump's.
00:45:12.800 Kevin O'Leary is also a friend of Danielle Smith.
00:45:15.420 And he made that connection and allowed them to have that meeting, allowed Danielle Smith
00:45:20.380 to do a bit of diplomacy, do something that the liberals and the elites in this country
00:45:25.200 have completely failed to do, which is try to make some inroads and make a bit of a
00:45:29.500 friendship with the president-elect down there.
00:45:31.980 So here is Kevin O'Leary explaining to Canadians that Danielle Smith was ahead of the curve,
00:45:39.400 that she is the only politician in Canada doing the right thing, going down and trying
00:45:44.140 to make a personal relationship and friendship with Donald Trump.
00:45:47.500 Here's that clip.
00:45:49.140 She's the only politician in Canada now that has a personal relationship with Trump and
00:45:55.300 many of his cabinet.
00:45:56.840 Why?
00:45:57.220 She took the time to come down to Mar-a-Lago for a couple of days and work the room.
00:46:03.720 That woman knows how to work a room. 1.00
00:46:06.540 It was described by critics as, oh, she just met him at the table.
00:46:10.580 It was just going by to kiss the ring.
00:46:12.640 There was no substance there.
00:46:14.700 You were there.
00:46:16.440 She was there for two days.
00:46:18.220 She had multiple chances to talk to Trump.
00:46:20.400 You don't, you're not going to get a lot of time.
00:46:23.080 There's a thousand people trying to meet him from all around the world.
00:46:26.500 You don't have to go to Davos anymore.
00:46:28.740 No point in getting on a plane and going to Zurich.
00:46:30.760 You just have to get to Mar-a-Lago.
00:46:32.760 That's what you have to do.
00:46:34.280 She got plenty of time with him.
00:46:35.920 And more importantly, as importantly, I should say, with many of his cabinet.
00:46:41.320 She worked the room.
00:46:43.100 She's way ahead of anybody else in Canada right now.
00:46:45.440 She's smart to have done that.
00:46:47.660 And so, you know, you've got everybody throwing barbs at Trump.
00:46:50.900 They don't have a relationship with him.
00:46:52.680 One day they might.
00:46:54.080 But right now, she's the leader of the pack. 0.70
00:46:58.420 The leader of the pack.
00:46:59.860 There you have it.
00:47:00.380 I think that Kevin O'Leary is right.
00:47:01.980 I think that he is one of the people who have been making the best points,
00:47:05.200 making the most sense when it comes to how Canada should deal with Trump.
00:47:08.620 The reality is that we need the United States.
00:47:11.880 We need the United States.
00:47:12.800 We need that relationship.
00:47:14.020 America is going to have a big boom under Trump because he is going to cut regulations,
00:47:18.960 cut the size of government.
00:47:20.500 And Canada needs help.
00:47:22.660 Our economy is on lifeline.
00:47:24.220 And we need to start making a partnership, making deals.
00:47:27.420 And Danielle Smith, doing what Justin Trudeau can't do.
00:47:30.220 Justin Trudeau went down there and made everything worse, became the butt of the joke.
00:47:33.920 That's when all the Governor Trudeau jokes started coming out from Trump.
00:47:37.500 The 51st State stuff came after Trudeau's meeting with Trump because Trudeau just can't
00:47:43.380 help himself.
00:47:43.940 He's arrogant and anti-American.
00:47:45.700 That's how you would describe Justin Trudeau.
00:47:49.140 He's arrogant, anti-American.
00:47:50.680 He doesn't like Americans.
00:47:51.700 He hates people like Donald Trump.
00:47:52.960 He can't contain his anger.
00:47:54.240 Even for the good of the country, he couldn't even fake a smile, fake a friendship, incapable
00:47:59.040 of doing something like that.
00:48:01.200 Danielle Smith was the one capable of doing it.
00:48:04.140 And thank goodness for that.
00:48:06.020 So you have on the one side people who are actually being helpful and trying to make
00:48:10.380 inroads over there.
00:48:11.480 And then the other hand, you have people who are just completely irresponsible and trying
00:48:15.400 to make everything worse.
00:48:16.820 And of course, right now I'm talking about NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, who just, I can't
00:48:22.580 wait until the next election because I just really hope this person loses any kind of relevancy.
00:48:28.200 You know, if there's any justice in the world, he will not be in any kind of position of power,
00:48:33.940 any balance of power, hopefully not even an MP because he's just terrible.
00:48:37.800 But Jagmeet Singh chimed in.
00:48:39.460 He just really wants to be part of the conversation.
00:48:41.300 He wants to put on the tough guy role and just pretend that he's an equal to Donald Trump.
00:48:46.800 He was doing this shtick yesterday where he wants Canada to impose tariffs just as bad
00:48:51.420 as the U.S. because, oh, yeah, that'll help.
00:48:54.420 And now he's saying that he wants us to do embargoes and including to cut off our minerals.
00:49:00.380 So he just wants to completely cut off from the United States.
00:49:03.160 I wonder who Jagmeet Singh would prefer that Canada trade with.
00:49:06.900 Like if we're going to be turning our back on America, who does he want us to realign with?
00:49:11.540 Does he want us to engage in a relationship with China, have a deeper integration with China,
00:49:16.380 maybe deeper integration with Russia?
00:49:17.680 I mean, we don't have a lot of options here when it comes to big trading partners.
00:49:21.360 But Jagmeet Singh just seems totally willing and interested in blowing up that relationship.
00:49:27.420 So here is this tough guy video that he put out yesterday.
00:49:32.040 Donald Trump is a clear threat to Canada.
00:49:35.480 His tariff threats are directly threatening hundreds and thousands of Canadian jobs.
00:49:41.420 They also threaten to increase the cost of living at a time when people are already struggling
00:49:45.780 with the cost of groceries and the cost of their bills.
00:49:49.080 So it is serious.
00:49:50.200 We have to take it seriously.
00:49:52.120 And that's why what we've seen again and again has not worked.
00:49:56.080 Going to meet with them, trying to wine and dine them is a failed approach.
00:50:00.740 Donald Trump is not rational.
00:50:02.060 You can't discuss a plan over a meal with him.
00:50:05.380 He is a bully.
00:50:06.620 And bullies understand one thing.
00:50:08.940 That is strength.
00:50:11.320 They also understand pain.
00:50:12.440 So if he wants to pick a fight with Canada, we have to make sure it's clear that it's
00:50:16.580 going to hurt Americans as well. 0.51
00:50:18.280 There's going to be pain felt for not just Canadians, but also Americans.
00:50:22.720 And so that's why I'm calling on my plan.
00:50:25.980 We know that the United States needs our critical minerals.
00:50:29.520 They're very important for the United States.
00:50:31.240 So I'm calling on all political leaders to support turning off the taps on those critical
00:50:36.760 minerals.
00:50:37.400 Let's stop the flow of those critical minerals into the states. 0.94
00:50:40.140 This is, there's no quicker way to get Donald Trump to back away from tariffs than to shut
00:50:45.140 off the tap on critical minerals with the state's need very clearly.
00:50:51.420 So this is just so ironic.
00:50:53.500 Here you have Jagmeet Singh, the guy who has advocated shutting down Canadian mines, who
00:50:58.540 doesn't want us to mine our own minerals.
00:51:00.660 He doesn't want us to develop our oil sands.
00:51:02.780 But yet he's happy to use these resources as a bargaining chip to try to stay relevant in
00:51:07.620 the conversation here.
00:51:08.440 So he wants Canada to shut off sales of critical minerals and metals.
00:51:12.880 Of course, he doesn't say exactly which ones or why or how a targeted approach would be.
00:51:18.400 It doesn't really even seem like he's thought this one through.
00:51:22.520 Justin Trudeau, sorry, Jagmeet Singh, it's just not a serious proposal.
00:51:26.740 He's not a serious person.
00:51:28.160 He won't even give the details of this.
00:51:30.500 And again, it just shows why this person should be nowhere near the negotiating table, nowhere
00:51:35.220 near Donald Trump.
00:51:36.160 Please just hide him.
00:51:36.960 Just keep him away.
00:51:37.740 We only have a few more weeks or a few more months into an election.
00:51:40.520 Hopefully, he loses then.
00:51:41.840 Just everybody keep this guy away from the people in power, from the people in control.
00:51:49.060 Okay, folks, I want to get to one last thing here.
00:51:52.320 So as you know, Friday was my first show back, first show of 2025, first show after my maternity
00:51:58.820 leave. 0.99
00:51:59.260 I have a little seven and a half month old baby.
00:52:01.820 And so I've been off for the last eight and a half or nine months or so.
00:52:05.480 And I was so pleased to hear so many of the comments from you.
00:52:09.640 I saw all across social media, people on X, on YouTube, on Facebook, on Instagram, everyone
00:52:16.120 sending me really nice messages saying, welcome back.
00:52:18.900 Great to see you back.
00:52:19.740 But not everybody was happy to see me back.
00:52:23.360 Not everybody was so welcoming and so kind as the audience here.
00:52:28.380 And one person who was really not happy, not happy at all that I was back, is Globe and
00:52:34.040 Mail columnist Andrew Coyne.
00:52:35.740 He's a talking head over on CBC as well.
00:52:38.920 He took my podcast that I posted on Friday.
00:52:41.680 He quote tweeted it.
00:52:42.660 So he shared it to his followers, which I'm appreciative of.
00:52:45.980 Um, but, uh, with, with the following comments, which I will read to you here, he writes Trump's
00:52:53.200 declaration of economic war on Canada has caused many on the right to distance themselves from
00:52:58.940 him, but not the folks at true North who remain loyal to Trump.
00:53:04.080 And then, uh, he quotes part of the copy that we had written here.
00:53:07.640 It says the hysterical, this is what my show was about.
00:53:10.540 So quoting what my show is about talking about the hysterical reaction from our politicians
00:53:15.500 and pundit class, the few people who get it and why many Canadians are taking Trump seriously
00:53:21.700 on his proposal.
00:53:23.740 So that is just beyond the pale, uh, beyond anything for Andrew Coyne.
00:53:29.560 He's, he finds it unfathomable that I would write that.
00:53:32.780 Uh, let me just clarify a few things, uh, to you here, Andrew.
00:53:36.640 Look, I am not, um, supporting Donald Trump.
00:53:40.440 I don't remain loyal to Donald Trump at all.
00:53:43.140 That's not what I was saying.
00:53:44.200 Uh, when I was talking about the few people who get it, I was talking about the people
00:53:47.880 who understand the way that Trump talks, the way that Trump talks.
00:53:51.120 Remember the quote that I gave from Peter Thiel, which is to take Trump seriously, but
00:53:55.840 not always literally.
00:53:57.140 And the people who I said got it and understood it were Kevin O'Leary, who has been talking
00:54:01.680 about how there is a deal to be made and Canada should lean into this friendship and relationship
00:54:06.340 with the United States.
00:54:07.580 And someone like Doug Ford, I don't agree with much that Doug Ford says.
00:54:11.000 I don't, I don't like him as premier of Ontario, uh, but I think when it came to Trump, he
00:54:14.920 kind of, he kind of got it.
00:54:16.020 He was on a better track than most of the other leaders when he was saying, let's create
00:54:21.340 Fortress Can-Am.
00:54:22.840 Let's build a huge economic and national security partnership.
00:54:26.220 And so those are the people who I said, got it.
00:54:28.640 Um, and, and yes, it's true.
00:54:30.300 I'm not one of those people, but I know that there are plenty of Canadians out there who
00:54:34.880 would take Trump seriously on this, on this proposal, who would actually want to see Canada
00:54:40.820 become a 51st state.
00:54:42.620 Because the reality is that Canada has gone so downhill over the last 10 years.
00:54:46.920 It doesn't really feel like our country, like it used to, um, our charter of rights and freedoms
00:54:51.680 did not protect our freedoms during COVID.
00:54:53.680 Um, and there are so many, so many other problems, uh, with the socialist sort of elite class
00:54:58.920 in our country that many Canadians would actually prefer to just do something different.
00:55:03.040 I'm not one of those Canadians.
00:55:04.240 I love Canada.
00:55:05.060 Let's just be clear.
00:55:06.440 I think that Canada should remain, um, independent, but Andrew Coyne, just, just super, super grumpy,
00:55:12.320 super grumpy about, um, me being back, my show, me, uh, representing, or at least, uh, reporting
00:55:19.000 on the fact that there is a segment of the population who would happily go and join the
00:55:24.220 United States.
00:55:25.260 Um, and that some of the people who are making sense when it comes to dealing with Trump are
00:55:29.560 conservative people.
00:55:30.840 I would add Daniel Smith to that list now as well.
00:55:33.240 People who are trying to talk through the noise, uh, focus on the signal and making that
00:55:39.000 relationship good and better.
00:55:40.480 As a side note, I did invite Andrew Coyne to be a guest on the podcast.
00:55:44.160 Um, he has not yet responded, uh, to my message, but if he ever wants to come on the show, he
00:55:49.000 has a standing invitation, uh, to join me.
00:55:50.940 We can have this debate in real time.
00:55:53.240 So Andrew Coyne, I know you're listening to the show.
00:55:55.060 I know that you watch the show because you like to post about it on social media.
00:55:58.780 So if you're watching right now, the offer stands, you are welcome to be a guest on my
00:56:03.080 show at any time.
00:56:04.100 I would love to have you on.
00:56:05.680 Um, all right, folks, uh, thanks so much for tuning in.
00:56:08.680 Really appreciate you watching this show and we will be back again tomorrow, uh, with all
00:56:14.060 the news.
00:56:14.480 Thank you so much.
00:56:15.140 I'm Candace Malcolm.
00:56:16.080 Thank you.
00:56:16.700 And God bless.