The Candice Malcolm Show - February 27, 2025


Carney Caught LYING again!?


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

180.40292

Word Count

9,313

Sentence Count

647

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Candace Malan and Ezra Levant discuss the latest in the liberal leadership debate, and why you should trust independent media in this country. They also talk about the latest polls and whether or not you can trust them, and how the polls are contradicting one another.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:11.820 We've got a great show for you today. We're going to talk about Donald Trump, whether or not we're
00:00:15.760 going to get tariffs on March 4th, as promised. We're going to talk about the latest polls and
00:00:20.260 whether you can believe them, whether you can trust them, and how the polls are contradicting
00:00:23.820 one another. We're going to talk about the need for independent media in this country. I think
00:00:28.300 that the liberal leadership debates, those questions, the way they were framed, everything
00:00:32.640 about them showed us why you cannot trust the media and why you need independent media in this
00:00:38.120 country. But first, I want to talk about the front runner of the liberal race, Mark Carney,
00:00:43.780 because it appears that he has been caught in yet another lie. So last week on the show,
00:00:48.800 we pointed out the very obvious. This is something that liberal candidates have done for decades,
00:00:55.020 for decades, say one thing in one language to one side of the country, and then contradict themselves
00:01:00.020 when they're in Quebec speaking in French. So we had Mark Carney out in British Columbia telling
00:01:05.580 supporters that he would do anything in his power to get pipelines built, to get the economy going.
00:01:10.920 He said that he would even use emergency powers to get pipelines built. And then two or three days
00:01:16.980 later, he's on the French CBC. He's asked about this, asked whether he would force Quebec to have a
00:01:21.980 pipeline. And he said, never. He repeated it four times, folks. Never, never, never. He completely
00:01:27.320 contradicted himself. And he lied. We pointed that out here on the Candace Malcolm show. Well,
00:01:31.820 it looks like he has been caught in yet another lie. And we are going to walk you through all of it.
00:01:37.560 But first, I'd like to introduce our guests today. I'm very pleased to be joined by Ezra Levant.
00:01:42.220 Ezra is founder of Rebel News, host of the Ezra Levant show. He's authored several books,
00:01:47.320 including the best-selling Ethical Oil, as well as the Libranos. And I'm very excited to announce
00:01:53.260 with Ezra that he has released a new book called The Deal of the Century, The America First Plan
00:01:58.740 for Canada's Oil Sands. We're going to talk about that book a little later in the show. But first,
00:02:03.360 Ezra, thank you so much for joining the program. My pleasure. And congratulations on Juno News.
00:02:09.080 Thank you so much. Thank you, Ezra. Okay, let's talk about Mark Carney, because this sort of came out
00:02:14.560 after the debate. And I saw that the conservatives were making a big deal about it. And at first,
00:02:19.220 I didn't quite understand it. And as soon as I did, I realized that this is a big deal. This is,
00:02:23.680 this is, I think, very harmful to Mark Carney and his brand. So allow me to walk us through it.
00:02:28.960 Mark Carney, after the liberal debate on Tuesday night, he was asked by a reporter to clarify his
00:02:36.420 role in Brookfield management. So we're going to show this clip of Mark Carney says, I want to correct
00:02:41.000 a few factual things. He says, I was chair of Brookfield Asset Management. I ceased to be the
00:02:46.300 chair on the 15th of January, when I announced my leadership. And then he said the formal decision
00:02:51.260 of the board happened after I ceased. So Brookfield Asset Management, a big Canadian company,
00:02:56.420 moved their headquarters from Toronto to New York City. Carney claims that he had nothing to do with
00:03:02.780 it. So here's that clarification on Tuesday night.
00:03:05.200 So two things. I'll just correct a few factual things. One, I was chair of Brookfield Asset
00:03:12.760 Management. I ceased to be chair on the 15th, I think, of January, when I announced for leadership,
00:03:22.080 the decision, the formal decision of the board happened after I ceased to be on the board.
00:03:28.360 I do not have a connection with Bloomberg Asset, or Brookfield Asset Management. No longer have a role,
00:03:33.440 obviously, as I resigned in the middle of January. So he's using a bit of weasel words there. He looked
00:03:38.500 a little bit uncomfortable. He was scrambling a little bit, Ezra. And then all of a sudden,
00:03:43.000 the Conservatives produced a letter that was signed by Mark Carney and dated December 1st, 2024,
00:03:50.100 almost a full week after Trump's economic threats and several weeks before he resigned. So Michael
00:03:58.020 Barrett produced this letter, a Conservative MP. And you can see here he says,
00:04:03.080 breaking Carney lied. Carney was chair of Brookfield's board when they unanimously voted to move
00:04:08.980 headquarters from Canada to New York, Trump's hometown. Mark Carney can't be trusted. And then
00:04:14.920 he produced the letter itself, the letter in question. And you can see the highlighted bits
00:04:19.760 here. This is Mark Carney has signed this letter. He said, we believe that there is more we can do
00:04:25.520 to broaden our shareholder base and gain access to the deepest pools of capital. The most common
00:04:29.900 feedback that we hear from investors encourages us to position Brookfield Asset Management for
00:04:36.180 inclusion in some of the most widely followed global large cap stop indices, including in the
00:04:40.740 United States. He goes on, the board based on, among other things, recommends unanimously,
00:04:46.580 basically to go ahead and to move the company to New York. We have a timeline here. October 31st,
00:04:54.960 Brookfield announced that it was moving. November 5th, we know Donald Trump was elected. November 25th
00:05:01.320 was the first time that Trump made his 25% tariff threat. December 1st was when that letter was
00:05:07.420 written by Carney to his shareholders, unanimously, saying unanimously the board agrees and confirms that
00:05:14.740 we should move to New York. The shareholder vote took place on December 20th. But Ezra,
00:05:20.580 it wasn't finalized until January 27th, we're told because of the Canada Post strike. So it was
00:05:27.100 delayed. Carney technically resigned on January 16th. And then January 27th was when it was finalized.
00:05:34.380 And so I guess that's how he gets out of it. But this all coming out and him, you know, that display
00:05:41.740 that he had on Tuesday where he was fumbling with his words, not quite able to even explain clearly
00:05:47.260 why. I think he's guilty. I think that he has lied. And it is incredibly damaging, not just the lie,
00:05:53.520 Ezra, but the actual act of moving a Canadian company to Trump's New York City, while we're told
00:06:00.180 that Carney is the only one that can deal with Donald Trump and stand up to him. What do you make
00:06:04.200 of all this? Well, the reason Donald Trump applies tariffs is precisely to get companies to move to the
00:06:11.080 states if they want to do business in the states. Think about it. He's saying to the auto sector,
00:06:16.540 I'll put tariffs on you because I want to move the factories back to Michigan. So that is Trump's
00:06:22.400 whole strategy. He's, I mean, he likes the money from tariffs, but he prefers to have the companies
00:06:28.260 reshoring in America. And that is exactly what Mark Carney did. And what's so incredible is he did it
00:06:36.540 right during the time when Trump was talking about this. I don't want to take anything away from the
00:06:43.500 conservative MP who released this letter, but it was not a secret letter. Brookfield has to publish
00:06:49.380 letters like this frequently if there's any material changes to the company in their management
00:06:55.980 discussions. Like this is filed with the SEC constantly. They're a big public company that has
00:07:02.920 to disclose things like this. And so moving their headquarters to New York was something that we're
00:07:08.640 talking, it was in the media, it was in disclosures months ago. What's sort of funny here, I don't know
00:07:14.580 funny is the word, but what's curious is that Mark Carney is not used to being grilled in a precise and
00:07:22.820 meticulous way. He's used to sort of sliding or eliding through things. And so I heard when you played the
00:07:29.520 clip from after the debate the other night, he said, well, the formal decision didn't come after I was
00:07:36.300 gone. Yeah, that's probably a technical truth. That's sort of like Bill Clinton arguing about what
00:07:42.120 the meaning of the word is, is whatever trickery. But it is crystal clear that Mark Carney headed up
00:07:51.660 the move process for months. I don't doubt that the final X marks the spot on the New York lease
00:07:59.140 happened after he was gone. But he was the chairman who oversaw that. Now you say this is critical and
00:08:07.020 very important. And I would agree in two reasons. First of all, he handed over a major Canadian
00:08:13.800 company to America that shows that he puts money ahead of his patriotism. And by the way, he hasn't
00:08:20.580 answered a lot of questions. Where did he live over the last few years? Why does he have not one,
00:08:27.360 but three passports? I know why he got the British passport, because after being the head of the Bank
00:08:32.320 of Canada, he became the head of the Bank of England. But why does he still have it? Where is his main
00:08:37.700 residence? How many days in 2024 did he actually live in Canada? Why is his wife still working in New York
00:08:45.920 City? Why isn't like, I'm not picking on her. I'm just very curious. It feels like when Michael
00:08:52.520 Ignatieff said, well, I'll only come back to Canada, if I can rule over you. But it also shows
00:08:58.980 one more thing. He's not used to scrutiny. He's used to the World Economic Forum. That's where I last
00:09:06.000 bumped into him on the streets of the WEF at Davos. And he's used to scripted questions from friends
00:09:12.600 in a low stress environment. And he's not really ready for the accountability of a democratic process.
00:09:19.320 And this coronation that the liberals are running, it's not a true primary. It's not a true leadership
00:09:24.920 contest. It's an agree-a-thon. I mean, they were actually helping each other. They were finishing
00:09:30.300 each other's sentences in these debates. And Mark Carney has made the bet, sort of like Joe Biden did in
00:09:39.700 both 2020 and the first half of 2024, that if he just does not allow himself to be grilled by
00:09:47.260 independent journalists, if he just keeps a really low-key, under-control management of himself,
00:09:55.620 he will escape any scrutiny. And you say, you're suggesting he won't, because you're saying this is
00:10:03.420 a very serious moment. I agree it's a serious moment. But, you know, the saying, if a tree falls in the forest
00:10:09.500 and no one's around it here doesn't make any sound. So if this lie, if this handing over of a Canadian
00:10:16.320 company to America, and the subsequent lies and covers up by Mark Carney, if it's not covered by the
00:10:23.060 mainstream media, or if they cover it, if they explain it away, and make their headlines, conservatives
00:10:28.860 pounce, which a lot of, then maybe he'll sneak through, like Joe Biden won in 2020 with no scrutiny.
00:10:36.520 He basically campaigned from his basement. I am worried that the regime media has the same kind
00:10:43.880 of exuberance they had once Kamala Harris took over in 2024. And they're going to do anything they can
00:10:49.740 to pull their boy across the finish line. The question is, is independent media in Canada strong
00:10:56.000 enough to get the truth out? Because the regime media, and I don't just mean the CBC, every other
00:11:02.300 private sector journalist that gets about a third of their salary covered by Trudeau's newspaper bailout,
00:11:08.520 this is life or death for them too. Every journalist in Canada has a moral hazard. They're in a conflict
00:11:16.240 of interest. Trudeau pays at least a third of their salary. In the CBC, it's 100% of their salary.
00:11:21.420 That is why you are going to see the greatest whitewash of Mark Carney in Canadian history.
00:11:28.220 And I think it's happening.
00:11:29.980 Well, absolutely. I want to pick up on a few things, because one of the things you mentioned was the fact
00:11:33.540 that Mark Carney has three passports. We dove into this on a recent show, and he became governor of the
00:11:39.900 Bank of Canada, I'm trying to remember, I think it was 2014. But reports say that he didn't get his British
00:11:44.780 citizenship until 2019, Ezra. So it's not like it was a requirement for the job, right? He moved to the UK,
00:11:50.220 he qualified for it somehow, and then he got it, which tells me that he did it by choice.
00:11:55.280 He is also a citizen of Ireland. And in the past, both with Andrew Scheer, who was the conservative
00:12:01.060 leader in the 2019 election, it was learned that he was born with American citizenship because his
00:12:05.580 mom was an American, and also Tom Mulcair, who is a French citizen. And both those two individuals
00:12:11.680 promised to renounce their second citizenship if they became prime minister. Andrew Scheer put the
00:12:17.460 paperwork in to get the wheels in motion. Thomas Mulcair said that he would renounce his French
00:12:22.000 citizen if he became prime minister. For best I can tell, Mark Carney hasn't spoken on the record
00:12:27.180 at all. He hasn't made any pledge. And we're lined up to have him become prime minister in, what, less
00:12:32.820 than 10 days, Ezra, when he will be selected by the liberal leadership base. He won't then go into
00:12:38.060 a general election. He will become prime minister that day, which to me, it's concerning that he hasn't
00:12:43.940 even been on record, which again, goes to underline your point about the need for the independent
00:12:48.560 media. I want to show you this clip, Ezra, because I want to get your reaction to it. So the CBC
00:12:53.500 is already out there spinning and trying to cover for Mark Carney. First of all, I'll give them some
00:13:00.220 credit for even covering this. I was surprised to see Ian Hanna-Mansing out there saying, did Mark
00:13:05.640 Carney lie? Even just using that sentence, I think was a bit of an improvement. But then they went to the
00:13:10.580 CBC's David Cochran, who's bending himself into a pretzel here defending Mark Carney. I don't think
00:13:16.300 this is a very good explanation. I don't even think that the CBC viewers will buy it. But let's
00:13:20.700 play that clip and I'll get you to react to it. The official re-registration of the corporate
00:13:25.480 headquarters from Toronto to the United States happened in October of last year, before Donald
00:13:30.260 Trump was re-elected, before Chrystia Freeland had resigned, before any of the big seismic political
00:13:34.560 events had happened. Now, the reason for this, it's not necessarily corporate flight from Canada and a
00:13:39.600 reflection of the Canadian economy, is that Brookfield Assets Management, as part of its
00:13:43.540 growth strategy, it's a subsidiary of the larger Brookfield Corporation, which is a major company
00:13:48.100 here in Canada. It needs to be headquartered in New York to get access to shareholders in the
00:13:54.160 United States, or it needs to be headquartered in the United States, and they get access to stock
00:13:57.220 indexes. And ultimately, it wants to be on the Standard & Poor's 500. You have to be registered in
00:14:03.040 the U.S. to do that, whether Donald Trump is president, whether Kamala Harris or Joe Biden had won the
00:14:08.020 last election. It sounds like he's reading a Liberal Party press release there, just explaining the
00:14:13.460 corporate speak and why they have to be. Well, if that's the case, then why would any company be
00:14:17.620 headquartered in Canada? They would all want to have access to those American markets. To me,
00:14:21.860 that was a terrible explanation. Pathetic that a CBC journalist was doing it, but we've come to
00:14:26.460 expect that. But the explanation in and of itself, I don't think it will convince the CBC audience that
00:14:30.100 this is okay. Well, I don't even know what the CBC audience is anymore. I mean, I'll forever
00:14:36.020 remember David Cochran as the guy who, with the cameras rolling, took a gift from Justin Trudeau
00:14:44.040 of a free poutine, and he started to eat it. And Trudeau said, basically, I'm bribing you.
00:14:51.580 And David Cochran went through with it. I mean, he was taking – it's an amazing video clip from an
00:14:58.600 early election campaign. It was just in the moment, David Cochran knows who his boss is.
00:15:04.520 It's Justin Trudeau. There are an enormous number of Canadian companies listed on the U.S. Stock
00:15:12.700 Exchange that raise enormous amounts of investment on the U.S. Stock Exchanges, New York Stock Exchange,
00:15:18.820 NASDAQ, et cetera, who have their headquarters in Canada. In fact, the biggest Canadian companies
00:15:24.760 have huge investments from U.S. institutional investors like pension funds, like the oil
00:15:29.900 sands companies, for example. Synovus. I'm just picking a company out of the blue. I think it's
00:15:34.300 actually majority owned by American shareholders. It is based in Calgary. So David Cochran is either
00:15:41.340 corrupt, like maybe he's taking another poutine gift, or he's stupid, or maybe it's neither of those
00:15:47.160 things. Maybe he's quite clever, and he realizes that he needs to get Mark Carney across the finish line
00:15:52.740 to protect the CBC from Pierre Polyev. What I am worried about is this simulation
00:15:59.400 of criticism, this simulation of journalistic critique might fool some people that he's
00:16:06.740 being vetted. We don't know the most basic things about Mark Carney. We don't know what he owns,
00:16:13.120 what he earned, who he lobbied for, who were his different clients. When I bumped into the World
00:16:20.780 Economic Forum a year ago, he said he was working for the United Nations. I asked him, I said,
00:16:26.240 who are you here on behalf of? And he said, the UN. Okay, well, what were his duties there? Has he
00:16:34.720 resigned from those duties? What lobbying did he do? We have not had a vetting. We have not had a
00:16:43.000 background check. We have not had even basic biographical information about this guy. Where's his
00:16:49.140 primary residence? I mean, we don't know anything about him other than what his official CV says,
00:16:56.380 and even that is being scrubbed. He's even denying that he was on the board of the World Economic
00:17:01.160 Forum. And the reason that's important is because I want to know who his bosses are. And if he had
00:17:06.280 bosses for 10 years at the UN and for 10 years at the World Economic Forum, just because he has,
00:17:11.380 quote, severed ties, doesn't mean those are not relevant facts for us to know. We know less about
00:17:18.100 Mark Carney than we've known about any Canadian Prime Minister. He's going to be Prime Minister in less
00:17:25.440 than two weeks. We know less about him than any other Canadian Prime Minister in history. We barely know
00:17:32.300 that he's Canadian. And other than the fact that he was born here, I don't even know if that's really
00:17:37.720 who he is. We know nothing about him. And I think that suits the regime media just fine.
00:17:43.660 Well, it's so interesting, Ezra, because a few days before they disqualified Ruby Dalla,
00:17:49.140 you had a liberal former chief of staff to a cabinet minister, Steve O'Brien, say on a panel that she
00:17:56.360 hopes that the Liberal Party will find a legitimate reason to disqualify Ruby Dalla, because if Ruby Dalla
00:18:02.520 is allowed to compete on the stage during the debates, it will turn it into a circus. Look,
00:18:06.780 I think that Ruby Dalla is a bit of an outsider. She has contrarian opinions, especially for the
00:18:12.500 Liberal establishment. To your point, the entire debate was nothing but everyone agreeing with
00:18:16.920 each other. I had David Knight-Lag on the show last night, and he just kept calling it like a
00:18:22.100 faculty club meeting. And that's kind of what it was like. It was like they were just throwing out
00:18:25.680 big sky ideas, weren't taking any accountability. I mean, the focus of the debate was Trump, Trump,
00:18:31.380 Trump. They didn't mention anything about crime during those debates. They didn't talk about bail
00:18:35.740 reform. They didn't talk about immigration. They didn't talk about fentanyl. You know,
00:18:39.360 the main issues that are causing Donald Trump to make these tariff threats were not addressed
00:18:44.420 in the debate. They didn't talk about the foreign gangs that are running drug cartels and drug
00:18:50.560 operations in our small towns across Canada. They didn't mention anything about the Chinese election
00:18:56.020 interference. Ezra, to me, I mean, the moderator was a former CBC national anchor, Hannah Thibodeau.
00:19:02.420 And it seemed like they just didn't want to talk about anything controversial, to your point,
00:19:07.580 that this whole thing is supposed to be a coronation. They know that in order for their
00:19:12.320 bread to be buttered, in order to keep getting money from the government, they need a liberal
00:19:17.000 government. And that's why they're not holding anyone accountable. They're not raising the important
00:19:20.740 issues that Canadians demand to know about, not even mentioning the biographical information.
00:19:25.640 So Ezra, I want to say we have a petition that we are launching. We want independent media to be part
00:19:32.880 of the upcoming election. We demand equal access and we want our voices to be heard. We want to get as
00:19:38.880 many Canadians to sign this petition so we can present it to the various parties, present it to
00:19:44.600 anyone necessary. Look, there was just a petition to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship. I just checked it
00:19:50.660 right before the show, Ezra. There's over 300,000 signatures on that of people who want to revoke
00:19:55.940 Elon Musk's citizenship, which is absurd. We can talk about that too. But I want to get that many
00:20:01.920 or more to sign this petition. Head on over to my website, CandiceMalcolm.com, sign the petition and
00:20:07.080 tell the powers that be that we want independent media, not just for me, but I want Ezra to be there
00:20:13.400 too. I want a rebel journalist. I want Kian Bexty there. I want the independent voices. Heck,
00:20:17.760 I don't even mind if they open it up to left-wing independent voices as well. Sure,
00:20:21.860 like Rachel Gilmore and Paul Wells and other people in there as well. But it's so important
00:20:25.880 that we hear more perspectives than just what the CBC wants to present. So please help us out.
00:20:32.040 Go sign that petition. Ezra, like, I mean, what can we do at this point to stop the coronation of Mark
00:20:39.140 Carney? Well, nothing because it's an internal process in the Liberal Party. We don't, getting back
00:20:45.340 to Ruby Dalla, we don't even know who was on the secretive panel that kicked her out. We don't
00:20:50.260 know what the rationale was. When I talked to Ruby last Saturday, she raised the issue of the World
00:20:56.680 Economic Forum and the fact that both Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney were on the board. I was
00:21:01.640 sort of surprised that Ruby Dalla raised that issue. You can imagine how that would have been like a skunk
00:21:06.960 at a picnic had she asked those questions in the debate. And, you know, I saw reports that Mark
00:21:14.320 Carney had very high-level meetings in China recently. Of course those were not plumbed. In
00:21:21.640 the first French-language debate, they talked a little bit about Hamas. They shut up and didn't
00:21:26.480 mention it again in the second debate. They didn't talk about foreign affairs other than their hatred of
00:21:31.220 Donald Trump. I think they kept out Ruby Dalla because she would have been a dissident and a
00:21:37.520 disruptor. And from the reports I've seen, she was actually doing well in terms of signing people up
00:21:45.660 and getting donations. Perhaps she was attracting Sikh voters. I don't know. I think that the Liberals
00:21:52.700 are undemocratic, and we know that. And they're going to install and select our new Prime Minister.
00:22:00.100 That is terrifying. It's undemocratic. And I'm afraid, I don't think they're going to get away
00:22:07.400 with it. I think the Conservatives are still going to win the next election. But there will be an
00:22:11.580 interim period where you have a leader of the Liberal Party who is installed as Prime Minister
00:22:17.100 without a single election vote being cast for him. Indeed, the Liberal Party rules, as I think you
00:22:24.040 know, Candace, allows people as young as 14 years old to vote and allows foreign nationals who
00:22:30.080 are not yet citizens. They have to be permanent residents. So you can have 14-year-old children
00:22:35.360 who aren't even Canadian citizens installing a Prime Minister that the rest of us don't know
00:22:42.000 anything about and haven't been asked for. And of course, he's going to do a deal with Jagmeet Singh.
00:22:47.460 Jagmeet Singh is the most compliant and submissive politician I've ever seen in my life. Of course,
00:22:55.580 he'll be bribed. And I believe that we're going to have Mark Carney as Prime Minister until at least
00:22:59.860 October. And they might declare some emergency. He's talked about declaring an emergency over Trump.
00:23:06.160 Not so much of an emergency that he didn't hand over his own massive companies in New York City.
00:23:11.140 But I think that we are seeing the irony is all these Canadian Trump derangement syndrome folks
00:23:17.360 talk about Trump being an undemocratic dictator. Trump just won an election, including the popular vote,
00:23:23.100 and including all battleground states. He's acting with his constitutional purview. You cannot say
00:23:28.680 any of those things about how the Liberal Party is conducting itself from dissolving Parliament to
00:23:33.720 installing an unknown person as Prime Minister, to delaying the vote, to allowing foreigners and
00:23:41.440 children voting. Who is actually the tyrannical and authoritarian and undemocratic government
00:23:48.000 of the two of us? Well, I think that answers itself. And, you know, Trump did it with all of
00:23:53.620 the institutions and powers that be working against him, whereas Trudeau and the Liberals have all of
00:23:58.720 the powers and all of the institutions working for them. Now, it's interesting, Ezra, that you said
00:24:02.300 that you still think that the Conservatives are going to win. I have to jump to this latest Ipsos poll
00:24:06.640 that came out yesterday. Liberals take the lead for the first time since 2021, after nearly four years
00:24:12.740 of dominance in the polls, Conservative dominance polls, the Liberal Party has taken a two-point lead,
00:24:18.260 overturning a 26-point deficit in just six weeks. I've never seen anything like this in my entire
00:24:24.040 life of watching politics. So here we have it from Ipsos, a very credible pollster, showing the Liberals
00:24:30.300 up at 38% and the Conservatives down at 36%. It seems to me, Ezra, that Donald Trump gets a good chuckle
00:24:38.780 out of jeering with Prime Minister Trudeau. He likes calling him Governor Trudeau. He likes the
00:24:44.220 51st state comment. But every time he makes that comment, the Liberals go up in the polls. It makes
00:24:49.580 Canadians crazy. It turns us into, you know, our anti-American impulse comes up. Look, I just want
00:24:54.720 to show this chart from 338 Canada showing the change. Just look at what has happened in 2025,
00:25:03.360 the right-hand side of your screen. The blue dots are all of the Conservatives' leads in different
00:25:08.320 polls. And the Liberals, a very clear trend. Conservatives trending down, the Liberals
00:25:13.800 trending up. Whether or not the Liberals are actually ahead, we had another poll from Abacus
00:25:19.040 Data, another very fair, very reputable pollster coming out today, which showed what it's always
00:25:26.480 showed, which is the Conservatives do maintain that hefty lead, 41% for the Conservatives. The Liberals
00:25:32.240 are definitely inching up with 29, but it's still nowhere close. These contradictions, Ezra,
00:25:37.760 they have a lot of us scratching our heads. Like, is this manufactured? Is the media just
00:25:42.360 trying to pump up these numbers to make it seem like Mark Carty has a chance? Or is there a
00:25:47.400 legitimate shift that's happened in this country?
00:25:49.980 First of all, Justin Trudeau had become the most hated politician in Canada. In fact, in some polls,
00:25:55.660 in many polls, you know, they say, do you like him or like him a lot? Do you dislike him or dislike
00:26:00.820 him a lot? People didn't just dislike Trudeau, they hated him. And, and I saw some polls to put
00:26:07.760 his likability on by certain demographic groups, as though it was 16%. If you were a single young
00:26:14.100 man in the prairies, like you, like 11% supported Trudeau, the man was hated. My point for saying
00:26:21.040 this is if you remove that odious, hateable guy, and run a fence post, of course, the Liberals are
00:26:28.220 going to do better, just because they're not running the most hated man in Canada. So, so
00:26:32.400 removing Trudeau gets rid of a lot of the toxicity. Mark Carney looks good. He looks like a bit of a
00:26:38.320 funeral parlor director, I think. But he looks prime ministerial. He, he talks well enough, people can
00:26:45.240 visualize him as PM. He's not twitchy and weird, like Christia Freeland. And he's having a bit of a
00:26:54.160 honeymoon. The media is certainly egging that on. And so it's, it's to be expected that this gap will
00:27:01.320 narrow. And as you correctly point out, they're wrapping themselves in the Captain Canada flag
00:27:06.040 again, which is funny, because a couple years ago, they were sending riot horses out against anyone
00:27:10.400 with a Canadian flag who was singing, Oh, Canada. I admire David Coletto, the pollster, I used to know
00:27:16.860 him personally. And I know that his company tilts liberal. So if they say something positive about the
00:27:23.740 conservatives, it's not in their nature to do so, because if anything, they're going to be a little
00:27:27.760 bit liberal. I trust his methodology. And, and I, my own instinct is the gap is narrowed, but it has
00:27:34.860 not closed. But you can see, I mean, Anita Anand has decided to unretire and to run again. I think
00:27:42.940 some liberals who were desolate and dejected with the Trudeau campaign are now thinking, well, maybe they
00:27:51.140 have a chance. And of course they have a chance. And of course there's, you know, conservative
00:27:56.500 Canadians should not be complacent. But I do think that Canada has had it with the liberals. I just
00:28:01.560 really think the pendulum is, I mean, they didn't talk about the things that Canadians are concerned
00:28:07.600 about. And if they did, it was sort of like OJ Simpson saying, I'm going to find the real killers.
00:28:12.540 When you've got Christy Freeland saying, I'm going to find out who caused this deficit and who caused
00:28:18.760 housing prices to be so high. And when I find her, I'm going to give her a piece of my mind. Yes,
00:28:24.040 sister, it was you. And I'm not sure how easy it's going to be for the liberals to shuck off
00:28:29.080 nine and a half years of atrocious government. People can't afford homes, inflation, the plunging
00:28:36.160 Canadian dollar. That's why we can't travel to the States and everything is so expensive. You've got
00:28:41.220 millions of migrants who should not be here economically, culturally. The country is in a mess.
00:28:47.280 And I don't think that Mark Carney is quite the star he set out to be. I don't think he's a great
00:28:55.160 retail politician. Mark my words, he will agree to only a single debate in each language. He does not
00:29:01.380 want to debate against Pierre Pauliev. We've seen the two of them tangle before when Carney appeared in
00:29:06.360 Parliamentary Committee and Pauliev grilled him. Mark Carney is good at being a VVIP. He's good at
00:29:12.900 working in those CEO circles and getting lobbying deals done and getting grants from the Canadian
00:29:18.160 government. And we haven't found the full depth of how he enriched himself and his different companies
00:29:25.000 and clients from the Canadian government because the regime media is not inquisitive. So we have a lot
00:29:31.400 of journalism to do that falls to independent journalists because you're certainly not going
00:29:36.100 to see it from regime journalists. Absolutely. Well, if you look into some of the sort of issues
00:29:42.600 that were touched on during the poll, I want to go back to the David Plato poll because when asked what
00:29:49.600 the top issue facing Canadians, the cost of living, the rising cost of living is still far and away the
00:29:55.540 number one concern. The second one has now become Donald Trump and his administration, followed by
00:30:01.040 health care, housing affordability, the economy, and immigration. I will note that immigration is now a top six
00:30:07.500 issue more important than so many of the other issues that the Liberals promote, including climate change, the
00:30:12.740 environment. So immigration really has become something that Canadians want change on, Ezra. And then when it's when
00:30:20.280 it goes to people were asked what the best party to handle these situations, you could see the in the blue,
00:30:26.660 Conservatives cost of living majority of Canadians or the plurality of Canadians still say that the
00:30:30.820 Conservatives are best handled to best situated to handle that. And then the economy. I mean, look at
00:30:36.260 this 45% say the Conservatives, only 23% say the Libs. The only issue that the Liberals are really leading
00:30:43.520 on is dealing with President Trump and climate change, which is no longer very important to Canadians. So, Ezra,
00:30:50.700 this is why I think the scandal on multiple levels hurts Mark Carney, because first of all,
00:30:55.600 Liberals and Canadians trust, they say they trust the Liberals most to handle and to deal with and
00:31:02.180 negotiate with President Trump. Well, I think that this undermines it, knowing that their leader and
00:31:07.780 the next Prime Minister chose in his private life to move his company and recommend that. And then he
00:31:13.140 kind of lied about it. That raises big concerns. I think it undermines their entire credibility on this
00:31:18.680 issue. And then to the second point, which is that we don't know very much about Mark Carney. We don't know
00:31:23.540 very much about his record. But we do know that he's willing to lie about it or willing to twist
00:31:27.600 the truth and weasel words and use technicalities to confuse the issue, which to me, any good
00:31:33.740 journalist, any journalist worth their salt in this country would start digging into that, would start
00:31:38.240 looking into it, would say, you know, what else is here that Mr. Carney is not telling us about?
00:31:44.120 Yeah. You know what? I'm just looking at the David Coletto poll right now. What's interesting
00:31:48.900 is how the Jagmeet Singh numbers have collapsed. They were just last month at 19 and 18%. Now they're
00:31:59.320 down to 14%. And there was a dynamic that happened way back in 2015, for those who remember, where in
00:32:06.520 the final weeks of the campaign, there was an anybody but conservatives movement where people in
00:32:12.920 different districts said, well, what's the best chance of blocking Stephen Harper from being reelected?
00:32:17.420 Is it the liberals in this district or is it the NDP? And in the last two weeks, things really
00:32:22.520 consolidated behind Trudeau. And that may happen. Jagmeet Singh is so weak and so pointless and so
00:32:30.960 ineffective that when the chips are down, I think maybe liberals are going to rally around their new
00:32:37.240 guy, Mark Carney. At least that's another story in the poll. So yes, the gap is narrowing. The
00:32:43.500 conservative vote is still strong. 41%. I'm going from the Coletto poll here. That's still a majority
00:32:50.060 government. It's that you see a little bit of consolidation on the left-hand side. I wonder
00:32:56.220 how it will go in Quebec. Mark Carney's French is better than mine, but it's not particularly strong.
00:33:03.160 We haven't yet seen the federal conservatives engage fully. I see some ads. They're running some ads,
00:33:09.080 but we have, I think they're still figuring out their best way to handle things. I was at the rally
00:33:14.420 in Ottawa where they have a real Canada first approach. They're trying to avoid being tagged
00:33:19.560 as Trumpists. You'll notice that Pierre Polyev has not spoken to Trump. He hasn't not gone down
00:33:26.400 to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump, but that's diplomatically appropriate. You wouldn't have the
00:33:30.640 leader of the opposition necessarily doing that, although Nigel Farage in the UK has.
00:33:34.820 I think that's Pierre Polyev making a decision not to be lumped in with Trump because you know
00:33:40.980 the liberals would love that. I mean, that's how they're running things right now.
00:33:45.620 There was a hysteria in the liberal debate. I mean, there's Chrystia Freeland calling
00:33:50.160 Trump a predator and saying she wants an alternative to NATO where she teams up with the nuclear powers
00:33:56.100 of the UK and France or something. And another one of the candidates was talking about working
00:34:02.600 with Mexico to surround America. And then Frank Bayless, who's best known for getting a massive
00:34:08.980 Canadian government contract as an ex-MP, he said he wants to actually undo border security between
00:34:16.440 our own countries. These people are crazy, but yeah, they're absolutely tapping into that dark side
00:34:23.280 of being Canadians, which is anti-Americanism. And I look at some of the major regime newspapers
00:34:29.260 and they've gone nuts also. You have the Globe and Mail demanding that Wayne Gretzky apologize
00:34:35.740 for being friends with Trump. You have General Andrew Coyne of the Globe and Mail. Just I've never
00:34:41.220 seen anyone with Trump derangement like him before. There is a madness amongst the official people of
00:34:46.200 this country about Trump and what's so obviously a joke. Hey, Candace, did you see the video where
00:34:53.700 Marco Rubio explained where the whole 51st state thing came from? Did you see that?
00:34:59.000 I did. Yeah. And you know what? Peter Doocy of Fox News had made the same explanation. And when it came
00:35:04.100 out, I was so surprised, Ezra. I mean, you can walk us through it, but that the media didn't pick up on
00:35:09.740 this, that it was Trudeau had given it all away and given his adversary, you know, the best line of
00:35:15.300 attack against Canada. It was unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, Trump said, why should we continue to have a
00:35:21.840 $200 billion trade surplus with you? Well, if Trudeau had ever in his life read a briefing note,
00:35:27.180 he would have said, because Mr. President, you're buying that much oil from us. If you didn't buy
00:35:32.920 it from us, you'd buy it from OPEC or even Russia. And you're going to have a trade surplus in oil until
00:35:37.820 American domestic production grows. So that's why. But Trudeau doesn't know that. He's too stupid.
00:35:44.960 He doesn't read his briefing notes. So instead of giving an answer to Trump, he said, well, if we didn't
00:35:50.480 have this trade imbalance that would mark the end of Canada. And like, it was Trudeau who expressed
00:35:57.100 that existential threat. It was Trudeau who said that would end us as a state. And Marco Rubio says,
00:36:04.560 to which Trump necessarily said, well, you should become the 51st state. It was Trudeau. That's my
00:36:09.720 point, Candace. It was Justin's stupid Trudeau who, when pressed about the trade surplus, didn't know
00:36:17.520 anything. So he said, well, this would mark the end of our independent country. He's the guy who
00:36:22.880 showed his breaking point to Trump. He gave Trump the weapon to be used against him. And Trump is
00:36:30.040 using it, obviously, as a joke. Very early on, Trump said, of course, he's not going to invade.
00:36:36.020 But these liberals are LARPing. They, you know what? If only we had a military,
00:36:43.580 if only we had a national identity after 10 years of Trudeau denuding it. You can't take down
00:36:50.620 statues of John A. MacDonald. You can't strip them off the $10 bill. You can't rewrite the lyrics of
00:36:56.620 the anthem. You can't take the photos of Canadian history out of our passport. You can't say we have
00:37:02.140 no core identity. You can't accuse us all of being racist, sexist, transphobic genociders. You can't say
00:37:09.800 that the genocide is continuing and it's understandable that the churches are burning.
00:37:15.520 You can't say that for 10 years and then suddenly say, I'm Captain Canada defending our country.
00:37:21.700 That's why there was, speaking of polls, there was a full poll two weeks ago that showed over 40% of
00:37:27.240 young men want to join America because the alternative is Trudeau's crappy socialist post-national
00:37:34.480 state. And you're a young man who wants a prosperous future. Donald Trump is offering
00:37:39.800 you dollar for dollar American bucks instead of Canadian bucks and the military. It's a little
00:37:44.880 more inspiring than what Trudeau has been talking down our country for 10 years. And suddenly Trudeau
00:37:50.620 and Carney have discovered patriotism. I don't buy it.
00:37:53.560 Well, it's amazing that they're getting away with it and that the media is amplifying it and
00:37:56.880 that Canadians are going along with it, or at least a subset, at least that maybe that core swing
00:38:01.180 voter in suburban Toronto. Those seem to be the ones that could potentially be going over to the
00:38:07.160 Liberals. Ezra, and I completely agree with your sentiment there. It's so hypocritical. I want to get
00:38:11.700 to the news though about President Trump. He's sowing some confusion over what will happen with these
00:38:17.580 tariffs. So on, when was this? The 26th. So yesterday, Donald Trump, President Trump was speaking
00:38:25.400 to reporters at a cabinet meeting. And he said that the 25% tariffs will be imposed on Canada,
00:38:32.660 Mexico on April 2nd. So previously we had heard it was going to be March. Well, originally it was
00:38:37.460 supposed to be February. Then it was going to be March. Now it's being bumped to April. So let's play
00:38:42.020 that clip. April 2nd. I was going to do it on April 1st, but I'm a little bit superstitious. I made it
00:38:47.360 April 2nd. The tariffs go on. Not all of them, but a lot of them. And I think you're going to see something
00:38:53.460 that's going to be amazing. But then Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik, also suggested that
00:39:00.480 the original March 4th deadline for fentanyl and border-related tariffs still holds, but the pause
00:39:06.740 could be in the sort of broader economic tariffs that Trump has suggested, and that there's still
00:39:12.280 time for Canada to satisfy Trump's efforts. Let's play that clip. Fentanyl-related is a pause. If they
00:39:19.920 can prove to the president, they've done an excellent job. That's what they first do in 30
00:39:25.140 days. But then the overall is April 2nd. So the big transaction is April 2nd, but the fentanyl-related
00:39:32.240 things, they're working hard on the border. At the end of that 30 days, they have to prove to the
00:39:36.900 president that they've satisfied him to that regard. If they have, they'll give them a pause,
00:39:42.560 or he won't. So you had a little bit of confusion there, Ezra. And I want to tie this in to your new
00:39:51.960 book, your forthcoming book, which I'm very excited to read, because you have sort of been a prolific
00:39:56.260 writer when it comes to Trump and Trudeau. Your 2017 book, Trumping Trudeau, How Donald Trump
00:40:01.620 Will Change Canada, even if Justin Trudeau doesn't know it yet. It was a fantastic read, a lot of insight.
00:40:07.500 And I think you've proven to be correct in many of the suggestions that you made in that book.
00:40:10.940 Your new book coming out, I don't know if it's out already or if it's coming out, but it's called
00:40:14.560 The Deal of the Century, The America First Plan for Canada's Oil Sands. And I saw that you had
00:40:21.120 an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the same topic, How Trump's Tariffs Helped Trudeau and
00:40:27.040 Canada's Liberals, which sort of goes to some of the themes that we've been talking about today.
00:40:30.960 So why don't you tell us a little bit about the book, when it's available, where folks can get it,
00:40:36.300 and then you can comment on the latest tariff negotiation, whether or not they're going to happen.
00:40:40.940 Thanks. The book's for sale right now on Amazon. It's called Deal of the Century. And I don't know
00:40:46.560 if you remember, but about a dozen years ago, I wrote a book called Ethical Oil, The Case for
00:40:51.200 Canada's Oil Sands. And that book, it might sound funny coming from me because I'm right-wing,
00:40:56.160 but I wrote that book with left-wing arguments. I was trying to convince environmentalists and
00:41:02.440 peaceniks that ethical oil was better than conflict oil, based on environmental responsibility,
00:41:07.720 peace, the treatment of workers and civil rights. I argued that the oil sands were the fair trade
00:41:13.600 coffee of the world's oil industry. So that was a left-wing argument, and it actually sort of worked.
00:41:18.840 But what's an argument that might convince Donald Trump to lay off Canada a bit, especially our
00:41:24.780 number one export, which is the oil sands oil? Well, you're not going to probably win with those
00:41:29.640 liberal arguments. So what's the America first? That's Trump's ideology. That's his philosophy.
00:41:36.020 What would an America first approach be to the oil sands? Well, you wouldn't push it away. You
00:41:40.840 wouldn't tariff it because unlike a factory, which can move into America, you can't move the oil sands
00:41:48.300 into America. So one of the reasons Trump likes tariffs is he says, if you want to sell into America,
00:41:54.220 you better build your company and your factory in America. Well, you can't move the oil sands.
00:41:58.520 So it's not going to work. The tariff is just going to be paid by U.S. refineries.
00:42:03.900 So it'll be straight passed on to American consumers. So it doesn't really make sense
00:42:08.520 economically. And China has already always been snooping around the oil sands a bit. It bought
00:42:15.400 Nexen a decade ago. It would love to get that strategic asset. And I think Trump just likes to
00:42:23.480 yank Trudeau's chain. Trouble is, he's shooting at Trudeau. He's hitting the rest of us.
00:42:28.280 So I say, all right, the America first approach. Think like a businessman. Think like a real estate
00:42:34.900 tycoon. Think of a dealmaker. Look at Trump talking about Greenland and Panama and even Gaza. He's
00:42:41.440 thinking like a real estate man, isn't he? So I propose in this book, I call it the deal of the
00:42:46.500 century. There's 170 billion barrels of oil in the oil sands. Even if the oil sands were to double
00:42:54.780 production, like double it, as Danielle Smith says she wants to do, that would be enough oil
00:43:00.600 to totally replace all foreign imports into the United States for 50 years. And what's the price
00:43:10.300 on that? 50 years, 170 billion barrels, 75 bucks a barrel. That's a $13 trillion deal. And all of a
00:43:21.980 sudden, America doesn't have to have military bases near the Persian Gulf. The U.S. spends about $50
00:43:27.620 billion every year just securing the Persian Gulf sea lanes. Why are you doing that? Why not just buy
00:43:33.400 oil from Canada? The companies in the oil sands are either American companies like Imperial Oil,
00:43:39.300 or they're owned by American shareholders. Why not get all your oil from Canada? $13 trillion deal. And
00:43:46.280 by the way, what would Trump demand in return for $13 trillion worth of oil? He'd say, you got to
00:43:51.860 strengthen your military now. You can't make excuses for not having the money. We just like, I think that
00:43:57.320 the Trumpy deal is to pull Canada close, not to push it away. And I have one more idea in the book,
00:44:03.240 and it's sort of a funny secret, but I'll tell you, Candace, I think if Trump wants to zing Trudeau,
00:44:10.360 if he wants to get back at Trudeau, because Trudeau is always beaking off about Trump,
00:44:14.380 how would you do that in a way that doesn't hurt Canada? Well, what did Donald Trump just do to the
00:44:20.660 international criminal court that threatened to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and do all sorts of other
00:44:26.020 crazy things? He put sanctions on members of that rogue court. What would happen, hear me out,
00:44:34.640 if Donald Trump would say, hey, Justin Trudeau, I've been reading a lot of your deep thoughts,
00:44:38.540 and you say that you have presided over a government that is in the current present tense
00:44:45.360 committing a genocide over your First Nations. You have confessed it. You have said there's a
00:44:53.080 genocide ongoing, Canada, and you are presiding over it. We are putting you on a sanctions list.
00:44:59.960 You're not allowed to come to the United States anymore. We're going to freeze your assets down
00:45:03.880 here. And you're telling me that wouldn't bother Trudeau endlessly. Trudeau loves going down to New York.
00:45:12.440 It's sort of what happens in New York, stays in New York. He's down there all the time. He goes on
00:45:16.760 there and talks shows. He parties, because most people don't know who he is down there. Trump should
00:45:22.220 get even with Trudeau by banning him from America and seizing his bank accounts down there. Don't take
00:45:28.560 it out on the rest of us with tariffs. So I have that sort of fun, controversial part of the book,
00:45:33.980 too. Anyhow, the book's doing well. You saw that op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. I was sort of
00:45:38.960 surprised to be in such a prestigious publication. Well, congratulations.
00:45:43.120 I'm good. Thanks. I'm going to try my best to get this book into the hands of the America First
00:45:47.320 crew. Let me say one quick thing. You mentioned Howard Lutnick. He's Trump's commerce secretary.
00:45:52.560 Do you know a little bit about Howard Lutnick? I think he's the most interesting guy,
00:45:56.600 maybe other than Elon Musk, in the whole cabinet. Do you know his story? Do you know who he is at all?
00:46:01.020 Vaguely, but you can tell the audience.
00:46:03.300 He's the CEO of a huge investment firm called Cantor Fitzgerald. And they became famous in a
00:46:12.580 terrible way. They had the top floors of the World Trade Center. And so on 9-11, when the jets came in
00:46:19.280 and hit underneath Cantor Fitzgerald, every single person up there died. Now, Howard Lutnick was late
00:46:26.820 for work that day because he was taking his child to kindergarten for the first day. But his brother
00:46:32.000 was in the top of the tower. His brother died that day, as did hundreds of his staff. It was the most
00:46:38.460 devastating thing. And he built back up and he got raised $180 million for the families of the
00:46:46.320 deceased. And he came back. But he was a huge victim of terrorism, including the loss of his own
00:46:52.160 brother. And he's had other tragedies in his life that are almost as shocking as that. And he's come
00:46:57.760 back. He's a huge optimist. He's a huge entrepreneurial capitalist. He's got a larger
00:47:04.380 than life personality, sort of like Trump. The two of them get along like peas in a pod.
00:47:10.180 And Lutnick, I think he's got Trump's enthusiasm, but he's maybe 5% less effusive. So it was Lutnick
00:47:18.900 who said to the Senate in January, on these tariffs of Canada, we're just trying to get them
00:47:25.780 to do action on the border part. It's not actually to punish them. So I think listen to Lutnick and
00:47:32.140 you'll probably see where Trump is going. I don't think Howard Lutnick wants these tariffs. He just
00:47:38.080 wants Canada to strengthen the border. And he's using the tariffs as sort of a tool. Now, the Canadian
00:47:43.100 side wants the fight. That's my argument in my book, is that Trudeau and Carney actually want
00:47:48.900 this battle with America so they can play hero. By the way, Lutnick is brilliant on companies
00:47:56.020 getting tax loopholes overseas. I won't go into that now, but I think he's really... Elon Musk and
00:48:02.720 Howard Lutnick, I think, are the two most interesting men in this cabinet. Well, I shouldn't say that.
00:48:06.700 There's Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as well. It's sort of an amazing dream team. Anyhow, so Lutnick would make
00:48:12.540 me believe that these tariffs on Canada are just to get us to fix our border. So if Lutnick and Trump
00:48:18.580 can be convinced that the border is fixed, the tariffs won't come. Well, we've seen that so far
00:48:23.840 because all it took was Trudeau announcing some measures, taking Daniel Smith's idea and appointing
00:48:28.860 a fentanyl czar. And just like that, they agreed to it. You raised so many interesting points, and I
00:48:35.480 really urge the audience to go pick up a copy of your book, Ezra. But just one thing, finally, when he was
00:48:41.200 dealing with the Colombians, remember that they had two airplanes full of Colombian illegals that
00:48:46.040 they were trying to send home, the Colombian government said, no, we're not allowing these
00:48:49.060 planes to land. And what did Trump do? Apparently from like the third hole of a golf course, he got
00:48:54.280 on his phone and basically said, you know, not only will you face all these tariffs that will be
00:49:00.020 devastating your economy, but the regime, the president himself and his cabinet, all of their
00:49:05.560 family members will no longer be able to be in the United States, will revoke all of their visas.
00:49:09.740 And, you know, to the point you made earlier in the show, Ezra, we don't know where Mark Carney
00:49:14.360 lives. Apparently his wife lives in New York City. He's about to be the next prime minister. So maybe
00:49:19.080 Trump could apply that not just to Trudeau, but to the entire liberal cabinet, because I think a lot
00:49:24.140 of those people spend a lot of time in the U.S. They love going to the U.S. They love spending time
00:49:28.080 there. And yet, you know, on the debate stage at the liberal debate, they told Canadians not to go to
00:49:32.720 Florida, not to go visit relatives in the U.S. or shop at American stores, even though basically our entire
00:49:38.400 country is filled with nothing but American stores and products. So a lot of hypocrisy and
00:49:44.300 contradictions. I'll leave the last word to you, Ezra.
00:49:47.740 You know, I think we're lucky that Donald Trump is very, very busy. If he's not trying to solve the
00:49:54.780 war in Russia, Ukraine, he's trying to solve Middle East peace with Abraham Accords, part two.
00:50:00.060 He's dealing with China. He's dealing with the fires in L.A. He's getting his candidates
00:50:04.500 through the Senate confirmation. He's a tiny bit busy, this Doge thing, managing Elon Musk.
00:50:11.280 So we're lucky in that Donald Trump doesn't have that much time to follow our navel gazing,
00:50:18.420 to follow our Trump derangement syndrome, because I think he would be appalled by how a country that
00:50:24.720 calls itself America's best ally conducts itself. And I'm not even talking about our lack of
00:50:30.460 participation in NATO, our lack of a border security, the foreign policy of bringing in
00:50:37.320 unvetted Gazans. That's crazy. So we are lucky that Donald Trump doesn't know how badly behaved
00:50:44.880 our establishment is. I can hardly wait for Pierre Paldiev to win just to stop the madness. And Candace,
00:50:52.060 I do think he's going to win. Thanks for plugging my book. I think the target of the book is the
00:50:57.520 Americans. I want to convince them it is not in their interest to tariff Canada. But boy,
00:51:03.880 Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney are sure working hard to get those tariffs on us.
00:51:08.560 I think you're right. I think it really benefits the liberals. The more Trump says 51st state,
00:51:12.520 the better they do. And they're going to keep hitting that point and trying to drum up that
00:51:16.680 trade war. Well, Ezra, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you so much for joining
00:51:20.280 us. Everybody, please go check out Ezra's book, Deal of the Century. And we'll have to have you on
00:51:25.600 again soon. Thank you, Ezra. Thank you. All right, folks, it's all the time we have for
00:51:30.820 today. Thank you so much for tuning in. We will be back again tomorrow with all the news. I'm
00:51:34.500 Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.