Danielle Smith： Carney will be WORSE than Trudeau
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In this episode, Premier Danielle Smith talks about her recent trip to Mar-A-Largo to meet with President Donald Trump, her recent visit to Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration, and her recent meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada.
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I am Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you
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today. I'm so excited. We're going to go straight into an interview today and I'm so pleased to be
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joined by the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith. Danielle Smith, thank you so much for joining the
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program. It's great to have you. My pleasure and congratulations on your new venture. I'm looking
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forward to seeing it grow. Thank you so much, Premier. Okay, so I want to talk about your
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recent diplomacy and your advocacy. Typically, the Premier of Alberta wouldn't be a diplomat going
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down to foreign capitals and advocating on behalf of the country, but frankly, you have done a better
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job. Our viewers and our subscribers tell me that they feel like you represent Canadians more than
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any other federal leader on the stage. So I'm wondering, Premier, if you could take us behind
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the scenes a little bit to your recent trip to Mar-a-Lago. You were down in Washington, D.C.
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for the inauguration. I believe you were there again last week with the other premiers. So tell
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me, what was it like to meet President Trump and what do you think has been the most impactful and
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productive of these meetings? I had an opportunity to go to Mar-a-Lago at the invitation of Kevin O'Leary
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and so we were able to be at a table that was right next to the president and then the next day went to
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a golf club and went to many, many inauguration events when I was down there and then you're
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right, also returned just last week to be there with the premiers and this is the first time all
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13 premiers have been down. So I think that part of the reason is that what I've observed is that
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if we're going to be able to have somebody at the table to go toe-to-toe in negotiations, we need
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someone with a four-year mandate. We have a prime minister who's going to be there another 17 days
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followed by another prime minister who may be there another 30 days or longer followed by after an
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election, perhaps a third prime minister. And so if we want to maintain the diplomatic relationship and
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start building those ties, it's really going to follow those of us who do have a mandate and who do have
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relationships with governors and members of Congress to have some influence on the people who are
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assisting the president in his decision making. What I would say about what I've learned in the
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trips that I have taken is that I think this is a president who's going to be making a lot of the
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decisions of his administration directly. And maybe that's not going to surprise anyone after seeing
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his first few weeks on the job with the number of executive orders that he's written before he's had
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a cabinet in place without having to put legislation through Congress. I think he's going to be the kind of
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president who does a lot of these kinds of executive orders. And what we need to do is make sure that
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those who share our common interests are armed with the information so that they can influence his
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decision making. And that's part of what I've done is why I've built relationships with the secretaries of
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energy and interior, various members of the Senate, other governors who are influential on the
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president. And I'm beginning to see some signs that our message is breaking through.
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Well, that's great. One of the interesting tidbits that I learned in reading a Calgary Herald
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column written by Rick Bell was he said that the evening that you met President Trump, he was in
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the ballroom, there's hundreds of people there, everyone wants to talk to the president. And he,
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President Trump walked into the room, this is according to the recounting by Rick Bell, and he said that
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President Trump beelined to you, that he was so keen and so interested in talking to him, pleased to meet
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you, that he went right to you. And I, you know, I think that that really shows Premier how serious he
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is about trying to improve the relationships with Canada and trying to make a deal with us.
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Well, I had let a few members of the administration know that I was going to be there. And so they put in
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a word to let the president know. And I was pleased that he was able to come over and share a few
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words. What I wanted to know, because we had heard a lot of discussion in the press about, I think he
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had just recently said, we don't need Canada, we don't need your autos, we don't need your timber,
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we don't need your oil and gas. And I thought, well, is that really true? Does he really not want our
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oil and gas? And I wanted to get to the bottom of whether or not that was the case. And so I asked him,
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pretty frankly, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada? They told me yes. So that says to me
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that whatever our current issues that we have with the president are, I think that we can begin the
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discussion once again, of how Canada can assist with American energy dominance. I think that's
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one of the messages that was well received and clearly got through. And I'll give you an example
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why I think that's the case is, when you look at the initial tariff that was being threatened to come
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and I believe it was February 4, it was to apply 25% across the board. But some of our allies,
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whether it was with them within the administration, or the American Petroleum Institute, or the
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refiners, were able to make the case that America benefits from being able to get oil and gas at a
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discount so that they can upgrade it in their refineries and provide low cost energy to Americans,
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and then also be able to export their WTI internationally. One of the arguments I've made is
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the Americans consume about 21 million barrels a day of oil, and they only produce 13 million
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barrels a day. So they need to get the rest from somewhere else. And if you're looking for heavy
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oil, there's not a lot of good places to get it from. They can get it from Venezuela and Iraq and Iran,
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or they can get it from us. And so I think that that argument had some resonance. But when you look
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at how we wrote up the order as well, that would have provided a lower tariff, it wasn't just oil and gas,
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it was energy resources, which he has defined in his declaration of an energy emergency to include
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critical minerals. Every province has critical minerals. It includes electricity. Many of our
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provinces also export electricity. So if we can make that argument and be successful, I think we can be
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successful on a number of fronts. We can make the same argument about our integrated food system,
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the same argument about how they can benefit from timber to create lower lumber prices to have
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cheaper housing, and how we can talk about intermediate goods, like auto parts, as a way
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of being able to lend themselves to building out the U.S. auto industry. So I think we just have to
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be prepared to make the argument directly, have advocates in the United States, make friends,
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and hopefully chip by chip be able to have that kind of influence so that we can continue to enjoy
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Some say the bubbles in an aero truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
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Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light. Rich, creamy, chocolatey aero truffle.
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Feel the aero bubbles melt. It's mind bubbling.
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So I love that approach, and I think that that is the way to go. But it seems, Premier, that so many
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people, particularly federal politicians, have taken Trump's words. And yes, he uses very bombastic
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terms, like this idea that Canada would be the 51st state, or that there's going to be some kind
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of annexation. They take that very literally, and sort of use it as a kind of a wedge issue in
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politics to say that, you know, this is a serious threat. The Americans are our enemies now. And,
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you know, Canada needs to stand up against this. I don't see that approach from you at all. And I'm
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wondering, like, what do you think, do you think Trump is literal when he says that he wants Canada
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I don't know what his intention is. When I spoke with Dominic LeBlanc, who was at that initial
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table in Mar-a-Lago when they went down with the Prime Minister, he said it was accepted by the
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table as a joke. Everyone laughed at the time. But the fact that it keeps getting repeated,
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it becomes less funny with each repetition. And you can clearly see that Canadians are getting
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frustrated with being disrespected. I mean, I don't like seeing the US National Anthem booted
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hockey games. I think the National Anthem is there to honor our veterans, men and women in uniform who
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fight for our countries. And we fought many, many wars and shed a lot of blood with our American
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compatriots. So I don't like seeing that. And that's been kind of the outcome that has resulted
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from that. But what I do think is that the positive side of Canadians deciding to come together
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has been, look at what has changed. We now have politicians of all stripes talking about building
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pipelines east and west and north. We've talked about accelerating our own permitting process so
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that we can develop our critical minerals. We've talked about tearing down all of the interprovincial
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trade barriers and creating comprehensive mutual recognition agreements so that we can trade more
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with each other than we do with our southern neighbors. So I think that the fact that we've
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had a positive outcome with us really taking stock of what it means to be Canadian, that I think is
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important. I think it makes us stronger. I think we can turn to the positive. I think we can find new
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markets. And I think we have to be prepared to do that. I don't know if this recalibration with this
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president is going to be a short-term issue or if it's going to be something that lasts his entire
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presidency, or if it's going to be something that if there is a Republican presidency to follow,
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that this might be the new reality of dealing with our American neighbor for the next decade or more.
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But if that is the case, then we've got to take some action to ensure that we've got diversified
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markets, that we are also able to trade more with each other than we are with our southern neighbor.
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And I think that that's going to be a very healthy conversation for us to have.
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I want to ask you because we've heard from several leading sort of academics more on the
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conservative side, people like Jordan Peterson. He had a great op-ed or essay in the National Post
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basically saying that Canada has to respect Alberta more because maybe Trump can offer
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something more than what you're getting in Canada. Bruce Party, a professor at Queens,
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has written something similar. And we had David Haskell, a professor from Wilfrid Laurier,
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on the show yesterday. And he talked about the idea that Alberta is not getting a very good deal
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in Canada right now. And maybe perhaps Trump and the Americans can offer something more appealing
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to Americans. The survey show almost 50% of young men would take American citizenship if offered to
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them. I think the number is highest in Alberta in terms of people who would be interested in this.
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Do you take the idea seriously at all? I can tell you why people feel that way.
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Because I know that the federal government likes to say, oh, well, Trans Mountain Pipeline got built
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and Coastal Gas Link got built. And those two things are very true. But you know what both of those do
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demonstrate is just how much stronger we are when we're able to build those kinds of big projects
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to have more diversified markets. And it was not easy getting there. And in fact, yes, we got those
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two built. But we have 176 billion in proposed projects that got cancelled. Multiple LNG projects.
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Northern Gateway, which would have been the most important pipeline to get a Canadian product
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international. The Energy East Pipeline, which would have helped to support energy security and
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independence for Ontario and Quebec rather than having to rely on the U.S. and international for most of their
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product. When Keystone got cancelled, we didn't have any defence from our national level of government.
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Big oil sands projects like Tex Frontier Mine also got cancelled. So these are the things that really cut to
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Albertans is that the number of ways in which the federal government has interfered with our ability to develop
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our resources and get them to market. And the fact that we're now having a new conversation is
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important because one of the reasons why I took great umbrage to the various politicians musing about
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throwing an export tax on Alberta exports as a way of generating revenue for Ottawa is it's how dare you
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after everything that you have done to try to kill this industry, keep it in the ground, tax us out of
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existence, regulate us out of existence. And I'll think that it's some kind of a playing chip to play
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when it's convenient. That is just not going to be on in Alberta. The reason why we sell so much product
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to the United States is because our neighbours and other provinces wouldn't let us sell it to them.
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And I've been very clear about that, that if we actually want to change the way this country works,
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part of it comes down to let's build these big nation building projects. Let's build pipelines,
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transmission lines, and let's support each other in getting products to market. And I'm pleased to see
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that we're beginning to have that conversation. It's one that's overdue.
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Well, I want to bring in Mark Carney into the conversation because it looks like he's going to
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be the new prime minister selected by liberal insiders to lead the country. And he has long
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believed, I mean he wrote a book in 2021 called Values, very committed to the green agenda, very committed to
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the concept of carbon tax. I think that carbon taxes aren't politically popular right now,
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so even liberal leader candidates are saying that they would do away with them. But then
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Mark Carney says that he would propose an industrial carbon tax as well. So how do you think Mark Carney
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plays into this equation? And do you think that will hurt or will it benefit the discussion with
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President Trump in that administration? Well, I don't know. I keep hearing that the
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Liberals are a feminist party. There's three women running. Don't you think that maybe one of the
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the women might be chosen as the successor? All kidding aside, Mark Carney is no friend of Alberta.
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He is the architect of the net zero banking policy and alliance, which was designed to stop funding oil
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and gas projects. It was designed to stop insurance companies from insuring oil and gas projects. The
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offensive agenda that we have, whether it's emissions caps or net zero electricity rags, all generate
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from from Mark Carney, who's been pushing that agenda for a long period of time. So if you think that I
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would meet the potential of his leadership with any enthusiasm, let me tell you, I think I think he'd be
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even worse than what we see out of out of Justin Trudeau and and Stephen Guibault, because he's been the one
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who has been advocating for these policies internationally and causing us such great harm.
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So that's going to require I mean, I think any politician now who aspires to lead this country
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has to realize that there's certain things that are not on accelerating and inflating the price of energy,
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which is making everything more expensive for everyone from groceries to home home heating to home
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electricity, that is not on anymore. Punishing one region of the country out of some ideology that
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is being led by international bodies, that is not on anymore. Pitting one province against the other,
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not on anymore. And so I don't know if the if the Liberals are going to be able to shift in their
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perspective, or if the or if that particular leadership candidate will be able to shift in his
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perspective. But you shouldn't be surprised to hear me say that the political leader that that most
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allies with the aspirations of Albertans is actually Pierre Polyev. And I think that that the kind of
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commentary he's talking about making us proud to be Canadian again, saying we need a new trading
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partner, each other, those are the kind of things that we all want to that we all want to hear.
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That's really where I think Canadians are at right now. Well, I think one sort of silver lining of this
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all is that suddenly everybody wants more interventional trade. Everyone's for pipeline. Just I want to ask you a
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final question, because we had Mark Carney last week in Kelowna speaking to an audience,
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and he said that he would take any measure possible to grow the economy to get projects
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done. He even said he would use the emergencies act if necessary to get pipelines built. And then
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a few days later, he was speaking on French CBC. And he was asked by the host, would you force Quebec
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to have a pipeline? He Mark Carney said never, he said never four times in the interview. So he is
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literally the oldest trick in the book, speaking one thing in Western Canada in English, and saying the
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exact opposite thing in the same in the course of a week, the exact opposite opposite thing to the
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French audience in Quebec. What do you what do you think about Quebec and the idea that they can veto
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national projects and that, you know, a Liberal Prime Minister wouldn't, you know, use use the powers
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to try to encourage that to happen? Well, I'm glad he got busted on that, because you can't do that. You can't
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promise one thing in one part of the country and another in another part of the country just to be
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popular and try to sneak in to getting elected. So if he keeps doing that, I hope that you and
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the independent media keep calling him out on that. But I would say that my conversations in Quebec,
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and I always joke with Premier Legault every time I see him, I keep telling him every time I see you,
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I'm going to encourage you to develop your own vast natural gas resources, so that you can not only feed
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your own people with a solid supply, but you can also export it internationally. And I can assure you
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that I raise it with him every time. I think that the conversation with Quebec has to maybe start
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from a different point. What were the reasons why there was such opposition to Energy East?
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And part of it was that it was going through Montreal, which may well be, aside from Vancouver,
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the most progressive, green-oriented municipality that we have in the entire country. So is there a path
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of lesser resistance? Could we look at a different route? Could we go up to Quebec City? Is there,
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or Bête-Cômeau? Is there other places that we can find a route that satisfies Quebecers' concerns about
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some of the environmental issues, but also allows them to meet their energy needs? That's the challenge
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that I'm putting out to the industry, is let's find a route, let's find a corridor, let's find a way that
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we can talk about it from an area of mutual interest. Maybe we need to be looking at how
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Indigenous bands are going to be able to own a portion of a pipeline like that so that they can
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get a revenue stream. Maybe Quebec needs to build a new refinery so that they can get the benefits of
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those upgrading jobs, which they already have in Montreal. Maybe those are the ways that we should
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start having the conversation this time, is talking about mutual benefit. And maybe we might get further
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next time around. That's what I'm hoping to do, is I don't think that there should be a veto. I think
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that we are well past that. If we're going to act like a, if we're going to be a country, we have to
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start acting like a country. But that also means trying to find a way to identify the issues that
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are causing the conflict and see if we can resolve them. And I'm committed to trying to do that.
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Excellent. Well, just final thing, Premier Smith, I saw a clip of you speaking French, and it had a lot
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of people wondering, does Premier Smith have federal aspirations? Is there any chance that
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you're going to get into federal politics one day? There isn't. But I'll tell you one of my grave
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concerns. One of my grave concerns is that I see the rise of the Bloc Québécois federally, and I see the
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rise of the Parti Québécois provincially. And I want to be able to monitor what is being said in Quebec,
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so that if there are any misconceptions or misapprehensions about how Alberta feels about
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about Quebec or the ways in which we want to work with Quebec, that we can correct those.
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So I don't know if I'll ever be fluent enough to be able to speak to francophones in their own
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language. But I think it is important for us, especially now when we're facing a potential
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threat from the United States that is causing disunity. I don't want to see a threat from the
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Bloc and the Parti Québécois causing disunity as well. So that's part of what I'm preparing for.
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There's going to be an election there in 2026. And if I can do my part to help communicate
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Alberta's view and why it is we think we're stronger together and why I think that we need to
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cooperate on some of these big issues, I want to be able to do that.
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Excellent. Well, Premier Smith, thank you so much for joining The Candace Malcolm Show.
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Thank you for your time. We really appreciate it.
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And wow, we were so lucky to have the Premier on. Really enjoyed that interview. And I hope
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you did too, folks. OK, we've got a few more news stories that I would like to get to today.
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It's Fake News Friday. We used to do Fake News Friday every week on the show, but we've been so
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busy. Last week we had Pierre Polyev on on Friday and this week we had Danielle Smith on, but I will
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get to some of it a little bit later in the show. First, I want to talk about the hockey. I want to
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talk about the updates with the game last night with Canada and the US facing off in the Four Nations
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finals. We talked about it earlier in the week. There was a game in Montreal. The fans booed.
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I don't like it. I think it's disgraceful when hockey fans boo national anthems because you're
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not just booing the politics. You're not just, you know, saying you are displeased with the
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leadership of the country. You're disrespecting everybody in the country, including the brave
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men who fought and died for our freedoms, for our collective freedoms in Canada and the United States.
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We need to respect one another and it goes both ways. So last night the game was in Boston
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at the TD Garden. I do like to note that the arena in Boston is called the TD Garden. I don't know
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if they know that their arena is named after Toronto Dominion Bank, but I had a good chuckle at that one.
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Anyway, the stakes were pretty high and we saw a lot of politicians weighing in. A lot of it was in
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good fun. I like this kind of good faith, good fun back and forth. So you had before the game,
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz posted this on X. Winner gets to keep Canada. Deal, deal, Senator Cruz.
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Uh, we should have taken the deal because, uh, well, you probably know who won the game.
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Uh, Ted Cruz, by the way, born in Calgary. So I think he's, uh, cheering for the wrong team there,
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Senator Cruz. But anyways, he says winner keeps Canada. I had a pregame interview with a YouTuber
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and commentator, Benny Johnson, vice president, JD Vance, um, responded. And here is what he had
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to say. Canada made the mistake of booing team USA. And then they got their asses kicked
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team USA, Canada again today. Rematch a message of encouragement for team USA versus Canada.
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Absolutely. Well, you know, we'd like you to kick their asses again because you don't
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boo the United States of America and to Canada. If you guys don't win, the tariffs are even higher.
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No, I'm kidding. Good, good fun. Good fun there. And you know, I, uh, I, uh, I like,
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I like the back and forth barbs. I think it's fun. It's part of the game and don't, don't,
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don't boo the national anthem folks. They, we booed their anthem. So I think
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we kind of had it coming, uh, at a press conference in Toronto yesterday, conservative
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leader, Pierre Polyev was asked by True North's own Noah Jarvis, what, uh, we should be focusing
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on and whether or not he liked the fact that the Canadians were booing the national anthem.
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Here's what that looked like. At the next four nations face-off match and at future,
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future sporting events, should Canadians boo the American anthem or refrain from doing so?
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I would focus on cheering on Canadians. I want Canadians to win. I enjoyed the game.
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Unfortunately, did not enjoy the outcome when I sat down with my little boy Cruz,
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it was his first, uh, in-person hockey game. Uh, and, uh, my wife, uh, Anna was there.
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My retirement plan is for a little Cruz to become an NHL hockey player. Uh, so, uh,
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we wanted to get him started early on that. I would just encourage everyone to remember that our
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disagreement is not with the American people. It's with the American president's
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unjustified threats of tariffs. And let's focus on building our own country up.
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So we, we should all be friends guys. Let's just all be friends. Um, and of course, uh,
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the Americans gave it right back. So the national anthem was played. It was played by
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Grammy award-winning Canadian singer, Chantelle Krevyazic. Remember her? She performed the national
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anthem. I'm going to play you the clip and I want you to spend a specific notice, take specific notice
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to the lyrics because Chantelle Krevyazic decided to change the lyrics of Oh Canada,
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which in and of itself is a absolutely disgraceful, disrespectful sign to the Canadian people. Okay.
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So it's bad enough that we had the Americans booing our national anthem, which they did,
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which I don't like. I didn't like when the Canadians did it. I don't like it when the Americans do it.
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A little bit of tit for tat. I'm not saying that it's unwarranted because we kind of deserve it,
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guys. They did it. We did it to them. They do it to us. Uh, but also pay attention to the lyrics
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So she says in True Patriot Love that only us command. That's not the, those aren't the words.
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Those aren't the lyrics, but she decided to change it. I guess that was a little protest saying that
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only us command, only we get to command our country. In other words, not, not you, President
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Trump. Uh, look, I, I, I don't like this. I don't like it when they changed the national anthem.
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Remember the Canadian tenors did it way back then to make some point about black lives matter or
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something. And it basically finished them at their career as performing artists, because we don't like
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that, right? The, the, the national anthem is supposed to be dignified. And the only, the only reason I
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give Chantel Kraviesek a little bit of, of, of rope here and credit here is because Trudeau already
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kind of ruined this part of the national anthem, right? Remember, uh, for over a century, Canadians,
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English Canadians sang this song and we sang in all thy son's command, right? When I go to a hockey
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game, I still sing in all thy son's command. I teach my children the original lyrics in all thy son's
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command. Um, they, they changed it several years ago. Um, one of the first, uh, one of the first acts of
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the Trudeau government and they changed it because apparently all thy son's command was sexist. So
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they changed it to in all of us command, which just sounds bad. And so she, so Chantel Kraviesek
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changed from all of us command to only thy command. Lame, terrible, not good. Okay. Let's get back to
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the game because it was actually a great game. It was a great game. It was very, very exciting. And it
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ended up with Canada defeating the Americans 3-2 in overtime. Doesn't this bring you back to the 2010
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Olympics when Sidney Crosby scored the gold medal goal in overtime? Well, this time around,
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it was none other than Connor McDavid, one of the great young or current Canadian hockey players,
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one of the greatest, uh, Canadian hockey players of all time, certainly one of the best in the NHL
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today, uh, for the Edmonton Oilers. Here he is scoring the game winning goal.
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There's nothing better, nothing better than watching a Canadian score the game winning goal
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in overtime against the Americans. Take that, take that. So yes, Ted Cruz, we will keep Canada.
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Thank you very much. And so after the game, prime minister, Justin Trudeau wrote the following on
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X. I don't like Trudeau, but I did like this. He wrote, you can't take our country and you can't
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take our game. Boom. Take that. Americans, uh, Mark Carney, not so well, didn't do so well. Mark Carney
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posted the following on X. He says, yeah, baby, Mac D the Messiah. What, what does anybody call
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Connor McDavid Mac D? I've never heard that before. Never heard that before. And of course,
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he didn't even smell McDavid properly. It's not Mac D with an A, it's just Mc D. So nice try there.
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It's kind of funny because, you know, there's a lot of consternation about Donald Trump and his
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use of social media. People say, you know, he's on there late at night, tweeting crazy things with
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all kinds, all caps and exclamation points. Sean, if we could put that tweet back up.
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But Mark Carney, who's supposed to be the strong, stable hand for Canada, the professional banker
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man coming in to take over our country, you know, 11, 1130 PM, you got the all caps, the several
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exclamation points, the misspelt Mac D, the Messiah, the lame hashtag. I don't know. This is,
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this is seeming kind of Trumpian to me. I don't, I don't think that that was quite the message,
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uh, that Mark Carney or perhaps his intern, I don't know who's managing the, uh, X account there. Uh, but
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not, not, not a very good message, of course, gets roasted in the comment section, uh, which is all
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pretty hilarious. Okay. I want to move on here and talk about the liberals. We talked about it earlier
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in the week. They're on their way out. Trudeau has maybe two weeks left in office and he's going to
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like spend all the money he can on the way out the door, um, announcing a ridiculous train bullet
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train project that I promise you will not get built. And if it does, it won't come in a budget
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at $3 billion. Uh, it's going to cost 10 or maybe a hundred times that to build what Trudeau proposed.
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Uh, that's not the only thing they're promising on their way out the door. So here we have the
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national posts. Liberals want to nearly double CBC funding as an investment in national security.
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So the liberals are proposing to increase the CBC's budget from the current $33 and 66 cents per
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Canadian, uh, up to $62 per Canadian. So if, if, if you didn't think you were getting enough, uh,
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value for your $33, get ready to have that double. You're going to have to pay double the amount to
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promote the God awful CBC, uh, I guess, should the liberals maintain their power.
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So at a news conference in Ottawa, minister Pascal St. Orange, the heritage minister proposed a plan
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to shield CBC funding from public accountability, locking it into legislation, bypassing budgetary
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oversight and political scrutiny. This is what a dictatorship looks like, folks. You cannot do this
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kind of thing. And the Trudeau government is just doing it on its way out. I'm so sick of this because
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what they're going to do is they're going to ask Pierre Polyev now, are you going to continue
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with this pledge to double the CBC? Of course his answer is no. So then the whole election will be
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fought over the future of the CBC. Are we going to defund it and get rid of it? Or are we going
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to double its budget? And it's impossible to have a fair and balanced press during an election campaign
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when one of the election issues is, will you fund the media company that most of the journalists work
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for? When you go to a typical news conference in any Canadian city, any political news conference,
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whether it be Ottawa or anywhere else, I'm telling you, the majority of the journalists in the room,
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in the press calories, in the press conferences, are government funded. In Ottawa, most of them work
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for the CBC because you have CBC and you have French CBC. And so they just comprise a huge portion
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of the journalists out there. They make the questions completely biased. They form the narrative.
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They copy whatever the liberals are talking about and ask those questions to conservatives.
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And this is what continue continually pushes the completely biased media landscape in the country.
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It is so outrageous. It is so outrageous. This needs to stop. We don't want to have another election
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fought over whether or not the CBC will exist. I cannot wait. I hope Pierre Polyev follows through
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in his pledge and just defunds it, cuts it off completely. No more. The liberals, of course,
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will do everything they can to continue it. So let's show this CLIP news conference in Ottawa.
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And here is Pascale Saint-Anges talking about how they're basically going to enforce the funding
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Pascale Saint- The existence of our public broadcaster depends on a single line in the budget.
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Pascale Saint- I'm proposing that we remove the decision making around funding from the political
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cycles, whether it's the elections or the budget. Many countries around the world have chosen that
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path in giving their public broadcaster predictable, viable, and stable funding.
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Of course. Of course you would want to take it away from the political agenda because your
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party is about to lose. Your ideology has failed us. We don't want to fund the CBC anymore. So on the
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very last week of your government, you're going to try to hide budget funding and ensure that it's
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not a political realm. No, no, you cannot do that. The same press conference, by the way,
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Pascale Saint-Anges announced that she wasn't seeking reelection. So she's a lame duck politician on her
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way out. You don't get to make huge billion-dollar announcements when you've already said you were
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going to resign, when you're not involved in the political discussion, when your government is
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heading into an election. Wait until after the election. Make these pledges during the election.
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If you win, you'll have a mandate. You shouldn't get to do this at the very, very end of your mandate.
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And I want to throw in the Fake News Friday bit here because this is just so typical.
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Pierre Polyev was also giving a press conference almost at the exact same time
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as this when he was speaking in a grocery store. It was pretty amusing because he picked
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five journalists that would get to ask questions, or his team did, and they all happened to be from
00:33:21.820
the independent press. So it's a little bit of taste of their own medicine, right? When it's
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the Trudeau government and the liberals, they will absolutely refuse to speak to independent
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journalists. They'll go so far as to have our journalists arrested and charged with trespassing
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if they can for the crime of trying to ask questions of their government and of their prime minister.
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Pierre Polyev flips the script a little bit and says to the legacy media, no,
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you don't get to ask me questions. And they all like light their hair on fire. You can see
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all the consternation and tears on X complaining about this. Well, hello, we've been going through
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this for the last decade. So spare me a little bit. But anyways, the CBC is playing this press
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conference of Pierre Polyev and Pierre Polyev is on fire at this press conference. He's talking about
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among many things about how he's going to defund the CBC. So he's literally talking about how he's
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going to defund the CBC in this press conference. And what does the CBC do? They cut off Polyev's
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press conference mid-speech. You know, he's doing Q&A with the reporters and they cut him off to go to
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the Canadian heritage minister, Pascal Saint-Ange, so that she could deliver her like nonsense, nothing
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announcement that hopefully won't even go through. I want to play this to you. This is just so typical
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...artificially lower the deficits that people see reported. But that doesn't mean that Canadians
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Okay, well, we want to take you from Toronto to Ottawa. As you can see, Minister Pascal Saint-Ange of Canadian...
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...as our friend, the club reporter over there pointing it out. And it's just, it's hilarious.
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Like they, they don't want to hear what Pierre Polyev has to say. Pierre Polyev is about to be
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in the race for prime minister, right? He's one of the people running for prime minister. He's the
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front runner right now. Whenever there's an election, he has a very good shot of being prime minister of
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the country. So which one from like a news perspective, which one's more important? The future
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prime minister, hopefully, God willing. Or this like the nothing back like heritage minister that
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nobody cares about, who's literally announcing that she's not seeking office and that she wants
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to double the CBC's budget. The CBC, of course, chooses the liberal. That's just exactly what we're
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up against. It's so hilarious. And again, it's just completely typical. This shows you folks what we're
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up against, what the media landscape looks like, how the CBC can't even help themselves. They're so
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incredibly biased. Well, I really appreciate you tuning in on this Friday. I want to give a specific
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Let us know what you think of Juno news. This is the second week since our launch. And you know,
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so far we brought great interviews. I had Danielle Smith on the show earlier. We had Pierre Polyev last
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week. I caught up with Chris Sims, with Barbara Kay, with Professor David Haskell over at Wilfrid Laurier.
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We've got lots and lots more content for you. So let us know in the comments what you think. And we'll
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be back again on Monday with all of the news. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is Candace Malcolm Show.
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Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. God bless.