Candace Malan is joined by Gwen Morgan to discuss the latest scandal surrounding Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney. The CBC reported that during a phone call last month between Donald Trump and Mark Carney, the Governor said that Trump respected Canada's sovereignty.
00:00:37.460We are heading into the final weekend of the campaign and it is incredibly close.
00:00:42.680Juno News' exclusive poll that came out earlier this week had it neck and neck, 39 for the Liberals, 39 for the Conservatives.
00:00:50.160There's other hints and I'm optimistic because when I look at Juno News' neighbour poll, and I mentioned this,
00:00:55.660but Abacus Data, one of the top pollsters in Canada, has also put out a neighbour poll.
00:00:59.940They've sort of followed our lead, changed their methodology, put out a neighbour poll.
00:01:03.700And theirs is even more optimistic for the Conservatives.
00:01:06.000They have Pierre Polyev at 44% to Mark Carney's 40%.
00:01:11.020So either way, this election is going to come down to a hair.
00:01:15.440And I think that the stories going into the final weekend of the campaign really matter, which is why the news about Mark Carney is just so incredibly damning.
00:01:24.100He has been caught in a very big, very public lie.
00:01:28.080And even the legacy media are coming after him.
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00:01:40.840OK, so to help me break down the news, talk about this scandal, talk about Mark Carney, talk about the lost liberal decade of productivity.
00:01:48.880I'm very pleased today to be joined by one of Canada's most successful businessmen, Gwen Morgan.
00:01:54.140Gwen is a retired petroleum engineer who was the founder of Encana and served as a CEO until 2005.
00:02:00.980Gwen, thank you so much for joining us.
00:02:11.700I think that the idea that Mark Carney was up by 15 points earlier in the campaign is absurd.
00:02:16.360And I think that really the neighbor poll, to me, is the best poll out there.
00:02:20.960I hope we're vindicated on Election Day.
00:02:23.160I think that this type of polling has been effective in other countries in picking up on things that regular polls don't.
00:02:29.400And so I think, again, this scandal, I'm going to walk us through it here, with Mark Carney, it kind of implodes their entire campaign.
00:02:37.980The entire idea behind Mark Carney's success here is that we're told that his CV, his resume is so impressive, he's the one that can step in and manage a crisis, and that Donald Trump respects him, right?
00:02:48.840And that was what the legacy media pushed.
00:02:54.200CBC reported it on Thursday, April 24th, that during a phone call last month between Donald Trump and Mark Carney, basically at the time, Mark Carney said that Trump respected Canada's sovereignty, that the whole Governor Trudeau and 51st states was over.
00:03:11.420He wasn't doing that anymore with Carney.
00:03:13.740And he said we respected his sovereignty.
00:03:15.840Well, the CBC reported yesterday that that's not true.
00:03:19.100So this is what the CBC reported during a phone call between Donald Trump and Mark Carney.
00:03:23.080The U.S. president did put the idea of making Canada the 51st state back on the table, sources told Radio Canada.
00:03:30.620So first, let me just show you the clip of Mark Carney back in March dismissing the idea, saying that he had a good call with President Trump and that he respected his sovereignty,
00:03:41.460implied that those kind of comments about the Governor and 51st state were not made anymore.
00:03:46.020And so, again, telling the Canadian public that with him at the helm, with him as prime minister, that Trump was backing off and backing down.
00:03:53.500And that's, again, why we needed Mark Carney.
00:03:54.900So let's show this clip from back in March.
00:03:58.180Some say the bubbles in an aero truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
00:04:02.880Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.
00:07:56.500There's a difference between the conversation that was held between leaders of government, which was this conversation,
00:08:04.480and a discussion that led directly to an agreement that, as sovereign countries, we would have negotiations about our partnership following the election on Monday.
00:09:08.660It's two sovereign nations coming together, negotiating our partnership, our relationship.
00:09:13.660And the question is, will there be a deal that's acceptable to Canada?
00:09:20.960There's a lot that will never be on the table in those negotiations.
00:09:26.980And I've been absolutely clear about that.
00:09:30.120So really not able to give a straight answer.
00:09:32.940You can see that trick that he did where he switches to speaking in French.
00:09:35.980He was in Coquitlam, British Columbia, right?
00:09:38.240There's no reason to start speaking French in the middle of a press conference other than just to duck the question so that you don't have to give the answer.
00:09:43.960And he said, yeah, I said that Trump said the 51st state thing.
00:10:54.980And one thing, this is kind of a tangent, but during the French debate, Poliev explained why he wanted to continue to support Radio Canada.
00:11:03.680Radio Canada is a French version of CBC.
00:11:05.660So he's saying defund the English CBC and keep the French CBC.
00:11:08.440And he was saying because when he was growing up in Calgary and he was a French speaker, he was only able to get his news from Radio Canada, therefore meaning we should keep it.
00:11:18.680But in my mind, I'm like, you know, that was the 70s and the 80s, man.
00:11:36.380He said Mark Carney lied about his call with Trump in a desperate attempt to distract from the lost liberal decade of rising costs and crime and to trick Canadians into giving liberals a fourth term.
00:11:49.740Carney's entire campaign is built on lies.
00:11:52.140If he lies about this, he would lie about inflation, taxes, crime and everything else.
00:11:56.900A little hyperbolic, but I actually agree with this idea.
00:12:00.140The entire campaign was built on a lie.
00:12:02.740The entire thing that the media were trying to tell us about Mark Carney is that he showed up with Trump.
00:12:14.420And that is why Canadians, many of them, again, if you believe the polls or just the momentum, that Mark Carney was the person for the job because of that lie.
00:12:24.480And for it to come apart on the eve of the election, I think it will have an impact.
00:12:38.080He said, there's a very good chance the liberals leaked that Carney lied about the Trump call.
00:12:42.780It's easy bait to resurrect the main theme of the liberal campaign.
00:12:48.000Boy, you know, these liberals, if you believe something like this, it's like they're trying to play 3D chess over there.
00:12:54.200But their dirty tricks keep failing, right?
00:12:56.480The whole idea of button gate, the dirty tricks.
00:12:59.000They were planting Trump buttons at the Canada Strong and Free conference just to get exposed and humiliated over that.
00:13:07.240And then if they were lying about this, I get why they want Trump back in the news cycle.
00:13:11.720But if they planted that, they really didn't do their guy any favors because you saw him squirming out there, unable to answer those questions in Coquitlam.
00:13:19.780So if a liberal operative did that, maybe this is a firing offense.
00:13:24.140Mark Carney didn't fire the staff over button gate, but I think maybe he should fire whoever leaked this to the media.
00:13:29.400I don't agree with that analysis, by the way.
00:16:45.780You know, a lot of it relates back to the Trudeau government's green fanaticism, which actually is even more strong, I think, in the mind of Carney.
00:16:57.100He was one of the founders of the Gantz International Agreement on Emissions that he's been trying to back away from.
00:17:10.560But it really is basically going to wipe out the economy of the country if it went forward that way.
00:17:18.740You know, the carbon tax is a very interesting thing because we know that what it's done for the motor fuels and for the cost of moving around by Canadians.
00:17:37.020But what is not clear to a lot of people is that at the same time, we were putting huge EV subsidies in place, and the accommodation of that has done a lot of economic damage.
00:17:51.340You know, what Carney wants to do is move the carbon tax away from where the people see it, which is at the pump, back to producers, which are the people that produce the economy and support the economy of the country.
00:18:19.220He's going to put it upstream and try to hide it.
00:18:23.620And that's another thing that says something about the guy, you know, about his whole approach things.
00:18:29.300But actually, when you look at the farmers and all the people upstream producing goods and services and putting it on their back, not taking it down, just putting it on their back is a subterfuge.
00:18:46.380It's another one of his way of doing things.
00:18:49.920You know, there's this whole thing about the New World Pipelines Act that the federal government put in place.
00:19:01.540It was introduced by Stephen Gilbert, the former Greenpeace activist who once climbed to the top of CN's tower in front of a banner that said,
00:19:18.640Canada and Bush climate clinic killers, and this is the guy who we're relying on for the liberal economic and climate policies.
00:19:33.520One of the things that's also a measure of how a country does is what the business investment per worker is.
00:19:43.460It's a key driver of income and living standards.
00:19:48.760And the Fraser Institute published a note that said that in 2023, it said that our business investment per worker had declined from $18,000 in 2014.
00:20:02.680In 2014, they're just a little less, over $14,000 in 2023, and it's heading downwards.
00:20:13.200And that's a gap between Canada and the U.S. of 82% in investment per worker.
00:20:19.400All of this stuff, you know, is not readily understood by the average Canadian, I don't think.
00:20:26.900But really, all it means is that the country is continuing to go downward and push its self-downwards through these kinds of policies.
00:20:36.020And then there's, of course, our DEI policies that compel businesses to hire people that aren't fully qualified,
00:20:45.460or at least not the best qualified for the work they do.
00:20:49.860And that's a devastating thing for business.