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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Hi, and welcome to The Candice Malcolm Show, everyone. I'm your host, Candice Malcolm. It
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is great to be with you today. We've got a lot of news to get to. I just noticed on the calendar
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today is January 14th. And let me tell you, my anniversary, my wedding anniversary is on January
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18th. My husband and I got married in 2014. And so almost every year, he mistakes our anniversary
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rather than thinking it's on the 18th. He thinks it's the 14th because he thinks back to our
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wedding invitations or some of our wedding memorabilia that says 1-18-14. And in his head,
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he just thinks January 14, even though it was 2014. So this is like the first year, probably in our
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entire 11 years, coming on 11 years being married, that he hasn't accidentally tried to celebrate our
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anniversary today. So yeah, we've got a big anniversary coming up on the weekend, the 11th
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anniversary. Our 10th anniversary was last year, but I was pregnant with our fourth child at the
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time. So we had a very subdued celebration, lack thereof. I mean, I was like six months pregnant,
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and we didn't really want to do anything fun. You know, we imagined, hey, let's throw a big party and
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invite all of our friends and family. But when you're six months pregnant, that's kind of the last
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thing that you want to do. So we decided we would have a bigger celebration this year. But then
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we totally forgot we dropped the ball. We didn't plan anything again. So we might have to do
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something more fun. I don't know, maybe for the 15th anniversary, or maybe we'll have to wait
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until our 20th anniversary. Anyway, I want to get to the news today. And I think the big story coming
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out of yesterday and today is that banker and World Economic Forum trustee board member Mark Carney
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is going to be running for leader of the Liberal Party. He is going to be the next Prime Minister of
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Canada. Mark my words, he will be the next Prime Minister, and he will be awful. We're going to get to
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all the details today. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our
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channel, and consider leaving us a five-star review if you are enjoying our content. Okay, so yesterday
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we saw there was an article over in the Hill Times that said that Mark Carney is expected to launch his
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Liberal leadership bid in Edmonton on Thursday, according to sources. So it is coming. It's going to happen
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this week. Mark Carney, interestingly, choosing Edmonton, I think he's doing the same thing that
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Chrystia Freeland tries to do, which is sort of like play up her Alberta roots, even though Chrystia
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Freeland represents the downtown riding of Toronto University, Rosedale, where I used to live.
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She likes to talk a lot about the fact that she was born up in Peace River and that she has these
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modest Albertan roots. Mark Carney similarly was born up in the Northwest Territories, but I believe he
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spent some time in his childhood in Edmonton. His father was a Liberal candidate in Edmonton back in the
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1980s. So he is kind of, he's going to play up those ties. He's going to pretend to be an Albertan
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and it's going to be nauseating. Really, he did launch his campaign last night on television.
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Interestingly enough, American television. Mark Carney went on to the Tonight Show with Jon Stewart.
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Remember that show? It used to be like really culturally relevant, like 15 years ago, like back in 2005.
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Everybody watched it. Well, guess what? 20 years later, it's still in the air. Not very many people watch it.
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But Mark Carney was there nonetheless. And he really did sort of do a soft launch of his campaign.
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Sir, may I recommend to you, with your charm and debonair wit, yet strong financial backbone,
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that you offer yourself as, have you offered yourself as leader?
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So, I'm sorry, I said the Tonight Show. I meant the Daily Show, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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So, laying it on a little thick there, Mark Carney, pretending that he hadn't really thought about running,
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even though his own aides are leaking to the press that he's going to be announcing his leadership race on Thursday.
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So, really, it's interesting that these guys go to the U.S. market, right?
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Like, we're supposed to be told that they're proud Canadians, that the Liberals love Canada.
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I mean, for heaven's sakes, they fund the media.
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And they tell us, taxpayers, that it is so important that we fund the Canadian media because they need our support.
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And yet, when it comes to actually making appearances and announcements like this,
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they go down to the United States, which kind of contradicts the whole message.
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Justin Trudeau used to do the exact same thing.
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Back in 2017, Justin Trudeau, anytime he'd be facing a scandal at home,
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he would just pop down to the U.S., do some glowing, loving interview,
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where some American journalists would just fawn over him for being such an awesome, woke leftist
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and kind of just try to distract from any of the scandals that he was facing at home.
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So, remember, he was on the cover of the Rolling Stones magazine.
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Oh, look at the dreamy Justin Trudeau with a subtitle there.
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The Americans just disgusting, just fawning over him.
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And also, Justin Trudeau, right after he was elected, back in December 2015, who could forget this?
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He went over to the New York Times magazine and he told the Americans about this whole new vision of Canada.
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The headline there says, Trudeau's Canada again, because, of course, Canada used to belong to his daddy, Pierre Trudeau,
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and now Canada belongs to a Trudeau once again.
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This time, Justin, that was right at the beginning, before any of the madness came to fruition.
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But Justin Trudeau hinted about what it was that he believed, and that was where he made his infamous remarks,
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He says that Trudeau's critics say he's a lightweight and a dangerous one.
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Trudeau's most radical argument is that Canada is becoming a new kind of state, not defined by its European history,
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but by the multiplicity of its identities from all over the world.
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His embrace of a pan-cultural heritage makes him an avatar of his father's vision.
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There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada, he claimed.
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These qualities are what make us the first post-national state.
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Well, Trudeau's guess, his little snapshot into the future there back in 2015, it has come true.
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We do live in a post-national state, and it is a hellscape.
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It is just pure and simple, absolutely fallen apart under Justin Trudeau, and we should have known better.
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This brings up a good point made by my friend J.J. McCullough over on X.
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He, again, picked up on the same kind of criticism, which is why do these guys go to the U.S.?
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Mark Carney soft-launching his campaign on The Daily Show is wild.
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It's the media equivalent of elite Canadians going to private hospitals in the U.S. when they're sick.
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When push comes to shove, Canadian elites shun the subsidized state-run junk that they tell the rest of us to use.
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Yes, that pretty much sums it up, and I completely agree with you, J.J.
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Okay, let's go back to The Daily Show and see more of Mark Carney and what he has to say about Canada,
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You have a few of them here in the United States.
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A type of politician who's, you know, tend to be a lifelong politician.
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They've never actually worked in the private sector.
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And they see opportunity in tragedy, like you just had with the California fires, these horrible fires.
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And they see opportunity in tragedy to push an agenda that here's one they prepared earlier.
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And so whether it was Brexit, here often, you know, the star of the beast type approach.
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So Pierre Polyev, when COVID started, his reaction was, hmm, this is a good time to cut spending and cut taxes.
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So let's cut the taxes on the work they don't have.
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And let's take away the social safety net when everybody's vulnerable.
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Kind of doing his best Barack Obama impression there.
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Clearly the guy's running, okay, and his complaints about Pierre Polyev, you're going to see a preview of his campaign.
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Because this guy, if he runs, which it looks like he will, he will win.
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And this is a preview of what his attack is going to be against Pierre Polyev in the general election.
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It's going to be all about how, ooh, this dangerous free market type, he just wants to cut.
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He's going to get rid of your beloved social programs.
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He just wants lower taxes for his rich friends.
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Ironically, you know, Mark Carney was advising Justin Trudeau at the time.
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They turned on the floodgates of government spending.
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And then they turned on the floodgates of government spending to make up for the fact that they shut down the economy.
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So they started printing money out of control, basically completely drowning the Canadian public in extra money, which drove up inflation.
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So terrible policies from Mark Carney, from Justin Trudeau during COVID.
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And here he is saying the opposite, that Pierre Polyev somehow would have made it a lot worse.
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Final clip I want to show, and this one's really, really telling.
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This is, again, how Mark Carney is going to be crafting his message to Canadians.
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He's sort of testing it out here on The Daily Show.
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It's really difficult for a candidate to come in who is saddled with the policies that are on...
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Look at you trying to preserve the relationship all of a sudden.
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Let's say the candidate wasn't part of the government.
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Let's say the candidate did have a lot of economic experience.
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Let's say the candidate had a plan to deal with the challenges in the here and now.
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I like how Jon Stewart there just says, you're sneaky.
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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.
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We know that he was involved in the Trudeau government.
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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.
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He posted this tweet basically just mocking the idea that Mark Carney is an outsider.
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There he says, Mark Carney, the UN envoy, Trudeau advisor, godfather to Chrystia Freeland's child.
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Of course, he's involved in the WEF as well as a trustee.
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And he wants you to believe that he is an outsider to the government and an outsider to the establishment.
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We know that Mark Carney has been advising Trudeau, like I said, since at least 2000.
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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.
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And he says right out, he says outright that he is involved in the government.
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He says that he is in the trenches of politics.
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You are now entering into partisan politics in a, you know, you're not jumping right to a leadership position.
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You're playing, I don't know if you have a view.
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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?
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I mean, there's, you can't map these things out.
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But let me, let me pick up, something popped into my head while you were using that example.
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So one of the, the, the knocks on me that the opposition makes or part of the opposition.
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He's banned his ministers from going to World Economic Forum events to cater to conspiracies.
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And you've been a board member for over a decade.
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I, yeah, yeah, I, I've rolled off the board, but that's absolutely right.
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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.
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But let's, let's be clear what, you know, my international experience.
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I know people and, and I understand, I know people who run some of the world's largest companies and understand how they work.
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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.
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I'm trying to apply that to the benefit of Canada.
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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.
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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.
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And the host there says, you were on the board for over 10 years.
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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.
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Like he has a God complex and he is in charge of the entire market.
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And so really not, not the kind of person who is an outsider.
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He has his hands involved in very many, many aspects of government, which we can get through all of that.
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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.
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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.
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His own record, apart from advising Justin Trudeau on being a Justin Trudeau clone, his own personal record is just as bad.
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So Mark Carney was the governor of the Bank of Canada.
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He moved on and became the governor of the Bank of England.
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In committee, in a Canadian committee back in 2021, sparring with none other than Pierre Polyev.
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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.
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So here is Mark Carney basically saying that oil is good in other countries, but oil is bad in Canada.
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This clip, I think, is incredibly damning and perhaps a preview of what a federal election will look like in 2025.
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Do you support the prime minister's decision to veto the Northern Gateway pipeline, Mr. Carney?
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I understand the veto of the Northern Gateway pipeline.
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Given both environmental and commercial reasons.
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I wasn't involved in the decision, but I think it was the right decision.
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And yet your company has invested billions of dollars in oil companies in both Brazil and the UAE to buy pipelines.
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You've bought billions of dollars of pipelines as a company in the last five years.
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And one of the issues, I'm trying to explain a bit of how the economy works.
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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?
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And in different jurisdictions, into different geography, it matters.
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You're finally getting to a point that is relevant to this committee's inquiry.
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What you're saying is you oppose pipelines in Canada, but you support them in the UAE and in Brazil.
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So Pierre just completely holds him to the fire, completely accurate in exposing the mindset, the ideology of these sort of leftist elite bankers.
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That oil needs to be phased out in Canada, that we need to be modeling a green economy.
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But in other parts of the world, their emissions are going up.
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I have a hard time imagining Mark Carney defending that.
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Because even there, when he was trying to defend it against Pierre Polyev, he came across as condescending.
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Let me explain to you, Pierre, how the economy works.
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Like, on his high horse, that's not going to fly with Canadians.
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This, you know, high-flying banker wanting to come in and become our prime minister.
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Likewise, when it came to the trucker convoy, you guessed it, Mark Carney came out on the absolute wrong side.
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Remember, he was advising Justin Trudeau at this time, and it seems like his advice came through.
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So Mark Carney had an op-ed over in the Globe and Mail.
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He said that he wanted the Emergencies Act deployed on Canadians, and he wanted the bank accounts frozen.
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And so this was from the trucker reporter, the Pled reporter on X.
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He says, the Globe and Mail headline here said,
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It's time to end the freedom convoy in Ottawa by enforcing the law and following the money.
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It says, anyone sending money to the convoy should be in no doubt.
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Canadian authorities should take every step within the law to identify and thoroughly punish them.
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He said it in the Globe and Mail, in the pages of the Globe and Mail.
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And mere days later, Chrystia Freeland froze the bank account,
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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.
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And Justin Trudeau showed us who he really is, a tyrant, and it seems like Mark Carney was in his ear.
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That's something else that Mark Carney is going to have to explain.
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Mark Carney also, again, you know, this is a high-flying global elite.
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It's no surprise that he has some questionable friendships and questionable relationships.
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Very, very questionable here is Mark Carney with none other than Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Now, those who aren't familiar with Ghislaine Maxwell, she was a close friend and confidant of pedophile pervert Jeffrey Epstein.
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And Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence in prison for her role in sex trafficking, including of minors.
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And here is Mark Carney, Chummy Chummy, side by side at an event, talking to Ghislaine, over and over, four pictures of them together.
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Now, True North reported on this, and Mark Carney's people said that Mark Carney is not friends with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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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.
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But no, I'm not friends with her, and really downplayed that relationship.
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But that is not the only questionable relationship that Mark Carney has.
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Over in the UK, the Daily Mail reported that Mark Carney was attending parties alongside disgraced Prince Andrew.
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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.
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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.
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So really, we're starting to see who this person really is.
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And that's not the only reporting out of the UK that really shines some doubt onto Mark Carney.
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You know, he's supposed to be this brilliant banker.
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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.
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So let me just read a little bit from this article.
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The trouble is, it is now clear that Mark Carney was actually not very good.
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The bank made a whole series of mistakes under his management.
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The bank printed way too much money, stoking an asset bubble and ultimately triggering the highest inflation rate in the G7.
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It badly misjudged the impact of the UK's departure from the EU, allowing itself to become politicized as part of project fear.
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It lost control of regulations, came clear during the liability-driven investment crisis, during the trust premiership.
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And it allowed the city to start losing its position as a leading financial center, a trend that has accelerated since he left.
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It has gotten, it's hardly a very inspiring record.
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It has gotten even worse since, with Carney becoming one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Rachel Reeves during her run for the election.
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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.
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But the blunt truth is this, he is not fit for the job and Canada can do much better.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So he'll have an easier time making distance between himself versus someone like Chrystia Freeland.
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But when it comes to people in the know, they're saying that he's exactly the same as Justin Trudeau.
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And he wrote on X the other day, he wrote that Mark Carney is the team Trudeau candidate.
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His campaign is being run by Gerald Butts, Katie Telford, etc.
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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%.
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Same people running the campaign, same people behind the scenes.
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That is also the message coming from the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Pierre Polyev came out just saying that they're all Justin.
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They're all Justin Trudeau, he says, of the liberal leadership candidates.
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No matter which one you look at, you will find Justin Trudeau.
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Here is a clip of Pierre Polyev saying just that.
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And so right before an election, the liberal MPs want to elect another Justin Trudeau who has a different face.
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In the next election, I will be running against Justin Trudeau.
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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.
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They supported everything he's done and they promised to keep doing it.
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And if they say otherwise, we know they're lying because they would have done so earlier.
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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.
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They can't just sort of put on a fresh, shiny new face on the same failed policies.
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And I really do think that Mark Carney is the one that is going to win.
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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.
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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.
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And Mark Carney sort of checks all those boxes.
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And we'll go through the roster of the other liberals.
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And the people who are running are not very serious.
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Melanie Jolie has announced that she is not running.
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So you have a bunch of these liberal cabinet ministers, these hacks that didn't do a very good job.
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Relieving to hear that they're not running, thankfully.
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The few that have announced that they are running, we have Chris Clark, who is a former premier of British Columbia.
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Almost as soon as she announced that she was going to be running, everything imploded.
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Because she got caught in the weirdest of weird lies.
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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.
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Christy Clark said that she has never been a member of the Conservative Party.
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Of course, in Canada, you can't be a member of two opposing parties.
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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.
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And so, you know, just two years ago, Christy Clark was out there endorsing Jean Charest in the Conservative leadership race.
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Jean Charest, the former liberal Quebec premier, was running against Pierre Polyev to be the leader of the Conservative Party.
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Christy Clark was right in the middle of it endorsing Jean Charest.
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And at the time, even saying that she was a member.
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And so the CBC really quickly was able to basically just take her down.
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But in this case, they really caught Christy Clark in a very obvious lie.
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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.
00:28:24.120
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?
00:28:43.960
And I never got a membership and I never got a ballot.
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.
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Okay, so I just don't understand why you would lie about something like this.
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Like, she's so bold-faced that she would just say, never, I've never been a member.
00:29:14.600
I'm sorry, but we're going to find out the truth.
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And so almost immediately you have Jenny Byrne, who's running the Conservative campaign right now.
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...
00:29:44.660
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.
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.
00:30:08.720
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.
00:30:27.500
And Christy Clark had to do a little mea culpa here and admit that she had been caught in a pathetic, ridiculous lie.
00:30:44.780
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.
00:31:02.760
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.
00:31:12.080
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.
00:31:43.180
Okay. The Liberal Party of Canada is the party of official bilingualism. It's going to be a tough one.
00:31:48.400
The point is that whether the Quebecers are English Canadians, it's not the language that matters.
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.
00:32:11.660
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.
00:32:22.900
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.
00:32:34.860
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,
00:32:49.780
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.
00:33:01.220
Quebecers don't really like the Conservative Party.
00:33:06.360
If you are a liberal politician who has any hope in becoming prime minister,
00:33:11.720
And so this guy coming out here saying that it's not important,
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.
00:33:42.360
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.
00:33:59.400
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.
00:34:07.320
You were the deputy prime minister through some of the worst parts of Justin Trudeau's
00:34:13.280
And, you know, she's got her own weird personal thing going on that I don't think is going
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.
00:34:34.320
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
00:34:47.320
Of course, that's what the liberals do best is make their friends and the insiders rich.
00:34:54.860
Another person announcing that they were going to run for the liberals is an individual called
00:35:02.740
He wants to be the first indigenous prime minister and he announced that he will be running.
00:35:12.820
Francois-Philippe Champagne says that he's considering it and he's going to make a decision
00:35:21.120
Also, Katrina Gould is considering, seriously considering running, she says.
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
00:35:39.560
announced on Saturday that she will not be running for the liberal leadership and she's
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.
00:36:04.900
I wasn't sure if I was going to cover this controversy, to be perfectly honest, because
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
00:36:43.680
He writes, I saw the dedication Anita Anand brought to national defence at a time it was
00:36:50.640
She cared deeply about the Canadian air, the CAF, their families, and the need for Canada
00:37:02.600
So Erin O'Toole is just sort of gushing there in a beautiful note, written to someone who
00:37:11.180
And that is when Jenny Byrne, who is running the Conservative Party right now, she is the
00:37:18.320
And she was also that role back in the Harper years.
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,
00:37:43.840
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
00:38:01.360
True North was one of the first ones reporting on that story, which is entirely true.
00:38:09.140
Somebody needs to fill me in and tell me what it is that men need tampons for.
00:38:14.500
So pointing out that the libs were terrible and Erin O'Toole is congratulating them and
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
00:38:34.220
Look, I think Erin O'Toole is a decent enough guy, but he was very bad at leading the 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
00:38:50.860
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.
00:39:06.420
They were trying to highlight it and read into it and talk about how, oh, the Conservatives
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
00:39:39.220
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.
00:40:04.800
They thought that there were, they saw something in Justin Trudeau that they were inspired by,
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
00:40:32.460
So here is that clip of Stephen Harper just explaining what went wrong with the Liberals.
00:40:40.180
You know, Trudeau came in in 2015, won a big majority.
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
00:40:58.740
Of course, the government then went to the far left almost immediately and has since lost
00:41:07.120
Frankly, lost its majority in two consecutive elections that I personally think our party
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
00:41:28.200
And look, you know, I'm obviously a biased source, but I think if you look at the economic
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.
00:41:59.780
Jack Layton, at the time, the leader, really captured the imagination of a lot of people
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
00:42:24.640
But the Liberal Party was decimated, partially because they ran such a terrible candidate,
00:42:31.360
Kind of seeing Michael Ignatieff tones in Mark Carney here.
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?
00:42:48.140
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,
00:43:03.820
And to Harper's point, he ran much more as a centrist.
00:43:10.420
He wanted a $10 billion deficit that he said that he was going to erase within the first
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?
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
00:43:39.280
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
00:43:51.240
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?
00:44:03.100
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
00:44:13.720
And it really does make you wonder whether the Liberal Party should exist at all.
00:44:20.720
I want to talk a little bit about the meeting that took place yesterday or over the weekend
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
00:45:09.120
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.
00:45:49.140
She's the only politician in Canada now that has a personal relationship with Trump and
00:45:57.220
She took the time to come down to Mar-a-Lago for a couple of days and work the room.
00:46:06.540
It was described by critics as, oh, she just met him at the table.
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.
00:46:28.740
No point in getting on a plane and going to Zurich.
00:46:35.920
And more importantly, as importantly, I should say, with many of his cabinet.
00:46:43.100
She's way ahead of anybody else in Canada right now.
00:46:47.660
And so, you know, you've got everybody throwing barbs at Trump.
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.
00:47:14.020
America is going to have a big boom under Trump because he is going to cut regulations,
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
00:47:54.240
Even for the good of the country, he couldn't even fake a smile, fake a friendship, incapable
00:48:01.200
Danielle Smith was the one capable of doing it.
00:48:06.020
So you have on the one side people who are actually being helpful and trying to make
00:48:11.480
And then the other hand, you have people who are just completely irresponsible and trying
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.
00:48:39.460
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
00:48:54.420
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,
00:49:17.680
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.
00:49:35.480
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.
00:49:52.120
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.
00:50:12.440
So if he wants to pick a fight with Canada, we have to make sure it's clear that it's
00:50:18.280
There's going to be pain felt for not just Canadians, but also Americans.
00:50:25.980
We know that the United States needs our critical minerals.
00:50:31.240
So I'm calling on all political leaders to support turning off the taps on those critical
00:50:37.400
Let's stop the flow of those critical minerals into the states.
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.
00:50:53.500
Here you have Jagmeet Singh, the guy who has advocated shutting down Canadian mines, who
00:51:02.780
But yet he's happy to use these resources as a bargaining chip to try to stay relevant in
00:51:08.440
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.
00:51:30.500
And again, it just shows why this person should be nowhere near the negotiating table, nowhere
00:51:37.740
We only have a few more weeks or a few more months into an election.
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
00:51:59.260
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.
00:52:23.360
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
00:52:42.660
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
00:53:23.740
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.
00:53:44.200
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
00:53:57.140
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
00:54:07.580
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
00:54:16.020
He was on a better track than most of the other leaders when he was saying, let's create
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.
00:54:30.300
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
00:54:42.620
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
00:54:53.680
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.
00:55:06.440
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
00:55:25.260
Um, and that some of the people who are making sense when it comes to dealing with Trump are
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
00:55:40.480
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
00:55:53.240
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
00:56:05.680
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