The Candice Malcolm Show - Get ready for Canada’s first unelected WEF Prime Minister (with Keean Bexte)

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you

00:00:09.720 for joining us today. We've got a great show lined up for you today. So yesterday on the podcast,

00:00:15.520 we talked about Mark Carney, the former central banker, and I predicted that he would become

00:00:20.840 Canada's next prime minister. Now, I know that's not what people want to hear. Everyone thinks

00:00:25.460 and everyone wants Pierre Polyev to be Canada's next prime minister. Polyev recently did an

00:00:30.280 interview with Jordan Peterson, and the YouTube headline was Canada's next prime minister. But

00:00:36.540 that's not actually true. Given what has happened and unfolded in the last few weeks here, we know

00:00:40.940 that Pierre Polyev won't be Canada's next prime minister. Whoever replaces Justin Trudeau as the

00:00:46.020 leader of the Liberal Party will be. It's sort of a fun little flaw in our political system, which means

00:00:51.360 that the person who will become our prime minister is whoever the Liberal members vote, and that person

00:00:56.940 will just automatically become prime minister, take over the party. And at this point, all signs are

00:01:02.100 pointing to Mark Carney as the person who will likely get crowned the next prime minister. Now, of course,

00:01:09.560 Mark Carney does not hold a seat in our parliament. He has never been elected by anyone for anything.

00:01:14.780 So we might face a situation where we get our first unelected prime minister, and how fitting that it's

00:01:21.440 someone like Mark Carney, a member of the global elite, a proud UEF board member. Of course, we've had

00:01:26.560 other situations in our history where we've had prime ministers who have replaced their party leader

00:01:31.520 and stepped in, most memorably, Kim Campbell, who replaced Brian Mulroney and took over just to get

00:01:38.480 decimated in the election back in 1993. But at least Kim Campbell say a lot about her. One thing 1.00

00:01:45.540 that at least she was, was an elected member of parliament, at least somebody had elected her,

00:01:50.600 the people of Vancouver Centre. But Mark Carney hasn't been elected. He hasn't been elected by anybody.

00:01:57.720 Now, it's kind of interesting to have someone like that, that might become our prime minister without

00:02:03.420 any kind of a political mandate, without any kind of legitimacy. As prime minister, I've seen a lot,

00:02:09.480 been reading a lot recently online, people making dark predictions, speculating that, hey, maybe this

00:02:14.980 guy will try to extend his power, have some kind of a power grab, where he tries to, I don't know,

00:02:20.740 make a deal with Jagmeet Singh, invite Jagmeet Singh to be part of his cabinet or merge the two parties.

00:02:25.760 So rather than Jagmeet Singh following through on his pledge, where he said that he would immediately

00:02:32.400 call an election, that he would immediately vote against the Liberals the next time the parliament

00:02:36.360 was in session. Who knows, maybe Mark Carney will be able to make some kind of a deal, where rather

00:02:42.920 than having election right away, we might have to wait until October or set election date. But wait,

00:02:48.340 there's even more fine print there. And that is that Canada doesn't really have set election dates.

00:02:53.740 The October 2025 date is written out in Elections Canada Act. But that's legislation that can be

00:03:00.280 changed. And our constitution doesn't actually require an election only every five years. So

00:03:04.760 it's possible that he could extend even further. This is all just sort of speculating. But it is

00:03:10.160 just when you thought that the dystopian nightmare of this liberal government was coming to an end.

00:03:14.400 The reality is, it might just be the start of the next chapter for Canada. So I'm really pleased to

00:03:20.760 welcome a guest here to talk much more about this. I'm joined this morning by Kian Bextie.

00:03:25.800 Pete Kian is an Alberta journalist and editor in chief over at The Counter Signal. Kian,

00:03:31.360 good morning and welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.

00:03:34.720 Yeah, right on. So Kian, what do you make of Mark Carney, his appearance the other night there on

00:03:40.320 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the fact that, you know, if he's running,

00:03:44.120 I think all signs are pointed to him being the next prime minister of Canada.

00:03:47.840 Yeah, every other candidate seems to be fumbling the ball. But you know, he's doing his own share of

00:03:52.540 that too. What's concerning is what you mentioned it being dystopian, that this guy comes out

00:03:58.020 supposedly as an outsider and is likely going to become leader of the Liberal Party. And by a result

00:04:05.200 of that becomes our prime minister. I'm not a member of the Liberal Party. I don't think you are. And I

00:04:10.340 don't think the majority of Canadians are. And they certainly haven't cast a ballot for Mark Carney yet.

00:04:15.000 He's going to have the opportunity to govern a G7 country just because the Liberals chose,

00:04:21.540 Liberal insiders chose him. So when he bills himself as an outsider, that's even more hilarious,

00:04:26.940 right? Like Justin Trudeau's closest allies are aligning himself with him on the back end of his

00:04:34.020 campaign. So himself, him calling himself an outsider is the biggest joke of all, I think.

00:04:39.960 Well, there's sort of two big takeaways from that interview that he did with Jon Stewart. The first

00:04:43.980 was that your point, he's calling himself an outsider. Everybody knows that he's been advising

00:04:47.880 Justin Trudeau for the last five years. And even before that, he was running the Bank of Canada,

00:04:52.100 right? So the person who's in charge of printing our money and making our monetary policy,

00:04:55.880 not exactly an outsider. He had that role in the UK as well. So really like a power broker.

00:05:01.000 The other interesting thing that he said, and I want to play this clip, is Mark Carney accused

00:05:06.160 Pierre Polyev of seeing opportunity and tragedy. I think this is a bit of a revisionist history,

00:05:11.760 right? Because with the WEF, with these sort of global elites, the whole time during COVID,

00:05:17.840 they were talking about the opportunity of COVID as a way to change the entire economy and roll out

00:05:23.860 this whole new green, new deal and green infrastructure. And yet, you know, here he is

00:05:28.600 accusing Pierre Polyev of doing the thing that he did. So let's play this clip of him talking about

00:05:34.240 Pierre Polyev.

00:05:34.820 There is a type of politician. There's, you have a few of them here in the United States. I think

00:05:40.740 we just... Stop it.

00:05:41.760 Yeah. Uh, they had a lot in and around Brexit.

00:05:45.940 Yes.

00:05:46.400 And, uh, we have Mr. Polyev, uh, in Canada. A type of politician who's, you know,

00:05:50.900 tend to be lifelong politician.

00:05:53.420 Really?

00:05:53.980 Tend to worship the market. They've never actually worked in the private sector.

00:05:57.760 Right.

00:05:57.960 Um, and they see opportunity in tragedy, like you just had with the California fires,

00:06:04.080 these horrible fires.

00:06:05.160 Correct.

00:06:05.520 And they see opportunity in tragedy to push an agenda that here's one they prepared earlier.

00:06:10.900 Right.

00:06:11.080 And they, and they fit it in. And so, uh, whether it was Brexit here often, you know,

00:06:15.700 the star of the beast type approach. So Pierre Polyev, when COVID started, his reaction was,

00:06:22.660 hmm, this is a good time to cut spending and cut taxes. Everyone's just been pushed out of a job.

00:06:29.540 Nobody's got worked. So let's cut the taxes on the work they don't have. And let's take away the

00:06:34.100 social safety net when everybody's vulnerable.

00:06:38.320 So I just, I can't get over the fact that he, he, he accused Pierre Polyev of seeing an opportunity

00:06:44.020 in a crisis. This is Mark Carney. Okay. Let's go back because it's not that hard to find this

00:06:48.940 stuff, right? Back in 2020, Mark Carney wrote an op-ed in the Guardian saying the world must seize

00:06:54.220 this opportunity to meet climate change. The, the, uh, an op-ed that he was written alongside other

00:06:59.640 central bankers. It says former central bankers, we believe the pandemic offers a unique chance

00:07:04.480 to green the global economy. He called in this, in this article, Kian, he said, this crisis offers 0.73

00:07:10.760 a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebuild the economy. And that was his whole shtick. Let's green

00:07:18.600 the economy. Let's change everything. We, we, you know, we shut down the economy because of the

00:07:23.460 COVID crisis. We can do the same thing, uh, for climate change, a bit of hypocrisy. What's your 0.72

00:07:28.080 take on all this?

00:07:29.540 The, uh, typical great reset insider. I mean, Mark Carney is as close to the world economic

00:07:36.020 forum, uh, as anybody. Um, he's close to every single global elite you could imagine. Uh, he's

00:07:44.340 friends with the British monarchy. He's close friends with Jelaine Maxwell. Um, now of course,

00:07:51.660 Diane and his wife, um, is, is really the activist, um, that, that has historically, um, been working

00:08:00.860 with, with people like the Eurasia group. Think Jerry Butts, like Justin Trudeau's closest political

00:08:05.600 confident. Um, these, this whole family is looped in with every concern about global influence in

00:08:14.000 Canadian government that we've had, whether it's from climate change, um, to wealth redistribution

00:08:18.980 and using and co-opting crises like, um, the, the, the COVID pandemic and also, you know, this,

00:08:26.340 the, the, the climate hysteria to change how our society operates economically, socially. Uh,

00:08:32.780 he's built right into it all with everyone that he knows. Uh, and now he's using this opportunity,

00:08:37.400 as you mentioned, as it's a, it's a perfect moment for him to seize power, uh, and start

00:08:43.520 governing how he and Klaus Schwab and all of his friends in Davos have wanted Canada to be,

00:08:48.940 to be governed, uh, for a long time. It just, it feels like a perfect storm, right? It's like

00:08:53.540 you have these sort of dark shadowy forces and I get that they will accuse people like us of just

00:08:58.040 being total conspiracy theorists and any complaints about WEF and what these global elites say and do,

00:09:03.880 uh, is, is just, you know, for cranks and, and tinfoil hat people. Uh, but the reality is they,

00:09:08.560 they themselves say it. They say it openly. Uh, they're very proud about the fact that,

00:09:13.220 you know, they believe that climate change is such a crisis that we have to, you know,

00:09:17.880 ban soccer moms from driving SUVs, or we have to find a way, uh, to change people's lifestyles. 1.00

00:09:24.260 Like these, these global elites in Davos flying in on their private jets. I mean, it's all cliche,

00:09:28.200 but it's, it's actually true. And you can find clips over and over again of Mark Carney

00:09:33.540 talking about this kind of out in the open. It just seems like, it seems like a villain. It seems

00:09:37.980 like it's written straight out of central casting, this guy coming in, um, kind of a smooth talker.

00:09:43.020 He looks like a banker, but I don't know, maybe we're overlooking his charm. I don't know. I don't

00:09:47.980 see it personally. I see a Michael Ignatieff 2.0, like a stiff, um, unlikable banker. Uh, but you know,

00:09:54.720 he was getting a lot of cheers on the daily show. I don't, I don't know if that's fake or real.

00:09:59.500 Do you think that this person can will appeal to Canadians?

00:10:04.200 Well, let's be clear. Cheers on the daily show are fake. Uh, those people are preselected liberals

00:10:10.060 who are going to cheer, uh, for whoever Jon Stewart tells them to cheer for. Um, and when it comes to

00:10:17.100 his legitimacy, whether or not people are going to, you know, go along with it in Canada, who knows?

00:10:23.520 Uh, he's pulling right now pretty well among, uh, liberals, but then again, who are liberals?

00:10:30.580 You know, anyone can get a membership as we saw, uh, there was Xi Jinping signed up for a liberal,

00:10:36.440 uh, membership and is going to be able to vote whoever that is. I mean, it's obviously not the

00:10:42.040 president of China, but, uh, the, the electorate that is going to choose the next prime minister of

00:10:47.560 Canada is shady at best and concerning, highly concerning at worst. Um, you know, mentioned

00:10:54.400 Xi Jinping, there's actually an election process for him that gets local representation to choose

00:11:00.560 who the president of China is through the national national people's Congress in China. I mean,

00:11:05.460 I'm not saying that the dictator in China, uh, is this super, uh, liberal democratic figure,

00:11:12.560 uh, but there's comparisons to be drawn that liberal party insiders are going to select our

00:11:18.740 prime minister. Yet we, you know, we like to pride ourselves in being this democratic country, but

00:11:23.680 the shady electorate that chooses who has executive control of our country, us not knowing who that is,

00:11:30.620 what makes it up. And, uh, frankly, non-citizens being able to join in and choose that it is so 0.72

00:11:37.000 concerning to me that it's it, this isn't even a Mark Carney issue for me now. It's a systemic issue

00:11:42.480 with the liberal party that I'm concerned about. Well, it's making a complete mockery of our

00:11:46.880 country as, as if, uh, nine years of liberal rule wasn't bad enough to completely denigrate

00:11:52.320 any sense of national pride or what it means to be Canadian. Uh, you're right. We have a situation now

00:11:58.400 where anyone like literally anyone can vote, uh, in the liberal leadership race is completely unsecured.

00:12:05.840 And, uh, because of that, you could have all kinds of bad actors. You mentioned Daryl Butts,

00:12:11.120 um, kind of behind the scenes. So, you know, just, just, uh, to fill everyone in, you know,

00:12:15.920 Mark Carney's painting himself as an outsider. We all laugh and know that's not true. Um, and one of

00:12:21.280 the things that points that is that Justin Trudeau's best friend and closest advisor and college friend,

00:12:27.680 Daryl Butts, who was pretty much the architect of Trudeau's policies, especially around climate change,

00:12:34.000 um, anti pipelines, anti energy, shutting down, uh, oil sands, uh, that all came from Daryl Butts.

00:12:40.640 And we now learned that Daryl Butts is working for Mark Carney. I want to play this clip,

00:12:44.800 Kiana, get your reaction to it. Kevin O'Leary was on power and politics on CBC with David Cochran

00:12:50.640 the other night and mentioned this and watch the CBC host here, bend himself into a pretzel to try to

00:12:57.200 defend, uh, Gerald Butts here against, uh, Kevin O'Leary's claims. Let's play that clip.

00:13:03.600 He's in another three to $400 billion into Canada. Who doesn't want to do that? The only guy I know

00:13:09.600 that doesn't want that is Gerald Butts. And I think we've had enough of him. Well, I mean,

00:13:14.320 like Gerald Butts has been out of government for a long time. So I, I mean, he's Oh, wait a second.

00:13:18.800 Wait, that's not true. Well, it is. I mean, no, he works with,

00:13:22.160 he works with the umbrella. Let me correct you when there was a majority mandate by Trudeau and

00:13:27.920 he had it in the first mandate, but let's put all the policy in place. Sure.

00:13:31.680 Daniel Smith had to litigate that policy in October, 2023 to get me to bring back $70 billion into

00:13:36.800 Canada. Gerald Butts is the antichrist of Canada. Oh, okay. Well, look, you know, Mr. Butts is,

00:13:42.480 is a private citizen. Now he's not in public life. He does not control the government. He hasn't been

00:13:47.360 since. So anyway, but I, but I want to move on a second. Isn't he backing the liberal leadership

00:13:52.800 right now? Didn't I hear Carney is going to bring him in behind them? Well, he, that's an unholy union.

00:13:57.520 Okay. All right. Well, look. An unholy. I would agree with that. What are your thoughts?

00:14:05.600 Yeah, I think, I think Kevin O'Leary hit it out of the park. Jerry Butts has never left government. He's

00:14:11.760 been working for the Eurasia group. I actually went down to New York to chase after him to ask him

00:14:17.200 a few questions about some strange contracts that were awarded to him sole source. So like

00:14:21.520 the question is, how is he getting paid? Right? Because he and Trudeau are obviously still good

00:14:25.840 friends. It's not like he hasn't been advising Trudeau on when he should resign or what he should

00:14:30.560 do or if he should stay on. That's just a total, total fabrication of reality. If you, if you really

00:14:35.840 think that Justin Trudeau is not talking to Gerald Butts anymore. Now, is he getting paid by the prime

00:14:39.840 minister's office? Well, he's not getting a salary from the prime minister's office, but he has been

00:14:44.000 getting a lot of sole source contracts from the Canadian government. So either way,

00:14:48.240 the taxpayer is still paying the Eurasia group. Mark Carney through Diana, you know, has

00:14:56.480 a very close personal connection with him as well. And now I hear that is news to me that he's

00:15:01.520 officially going to be helping on the campaign. But again, not really a surprise because he is the

00:15:06.800 continuation of Justin Trudeau. He is the brains behind Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau wasn't running the

00:15:12.080 government for the last nine years. He's had people behind him. And now those people have

00:15:16.240 realized that the puppet that they've been using isn't really popular. So they want a new puppet.

00:15:21.520 The only problem is I don't, I don't think Mark Carney is going to

00:15:25.360 go along with everything that they say and want as much as Justin Trudeau would have, because there's

00:15:30.880 actually, I think some, um, some IQ there, but he's still going to be pushing the agenda of the

00:15:37.520 people that got him elected and that's going to be Jerry Butts. I don't know if Katie Telford has 0.93

00:15:42.640 announced her support yet or if she will be doing that, but, uh, you know, they're all the same

00:15:47.200 people to me. Well, I'll just, uh, point out some reporting from the Toronto sun. So Brian Lilly,

00:15:53.040 uh, had a report and he reported that Mark Carney is officially part of, uh, sorry, that Gerald

00:15:58.000 Butts is officially part of Mark Carney's team. Uh, he writes in the sun that the former top advisor,

00:16:02.480 Gerald Butts is part of Carney's team while other close Trudeau, um, advisors, including chief of

00:16:07.600 staff, Katie Telford are also making calls on Carney's behalf. You had Warren Kinsella, who is a

00:16:14.240 liberal insider. Um, he had this tweet, uh, earlier this week, Kian, where he just said, Mark Carney is

00:16:20.480 the team Trudeau candidate. His campaign is being run by Butts, Telford, et cetera. Carney equals Trudeau.

00:16:26.800 So according to those in the know, um, it's, it's the same team. And, you know, just to go back to

00:16:32.640 that CBC interview, I mean, this is kind of what we've come to expect from the CBC. They're just

00:16:36.800 basically liberal, uh, talking heads that are defending the party in any way. And the thing

00:16:41.360 that infuriates me, Kian, is this idea that Gerald Butts is a private citizen, so we should just leave

00:16:46.240 him alone. So remarks like what, um, Kevin O'Leary said, calling him the antichrist of Canada,

00:16:52.000 an unholy alliance, it's completely true. Uh, but according to the CBC, you're just,

00:16:55.600 you're not allowed to even talk about them because they're private citizens now. So, so this is how

00:17:00.080 it works. If you're a liberal, uh, you get to come into the country, govern, have unbelievable

00:17:04.960 amounts of power, dismantle Canada's economy, destroy the middle class, destroy your economy. 0.84

00:17:10.560 And then you just get to walk away with the private contracts and people can't even talk about you

00:17:16.880 in the news because somehow that's offside because you're a private citizen. It's just infuriating.

00:17:20.880 It just drives me absolutely crazy. Yeah. And, you know, I think that the main concern for a lot

00:17:26.400 of people right now, when they see people like Mark Carney gaining, um, popularity and, um,

00:17:34.000 us going into a federal election this year, hopefully, um, the main concern I think that's

00:17:39.440 on people's mind is affordability and what's going on, uh, what's going to be going on in the grocery

00:17:44.480 store and when they check out with their groceries and, you know, care has, has promised to ask the

00:17:49.680 carbon tax and we're not really sure where Mark Carney stands on that right now. Um, in the past,

00:17:56.400 he has vehemently supported Justin Trudeau's carbon tax. In fact, he said that it should be at $170

00:18:02.880 per ton, which is astronomically high. Um, so he has supported in the past. Has he changed that? Has he,

00:18:09.760 um, thought long and hard about it and decided that maybe it wasn't the best route? Well,

00:18:14.640 really it doesn't matter because if you have people like Jerry Butts running your campaign,

00:18:19.120 doing your policy, um, at the end of the day, they're going to be going hard on, uh, this,

00:18:25.440 this wealth redistribution, uh, climate hysteria model that we know Jerry Butts, uh, all too well for,

00:18:32.480 uh, he, since leaving the PMO, uh, his favorite word to use on Twitter has been climate denier.

00:18:38.880 Anyone who wanted to, um, to disagree with Justin Trudeau's carbon tax or their climate agenda in

00:18:47.520 whatever shape that it takes on any given day, uh, they're, they're compared to a Holocaust denier,

00:18:53.360 which is just, uh, absolutely gutter politics, but, um, it goes to show where Jerry Butts's motivations

00:19:00.800 lie. And from extent, uh, you know, extending from that, you can see where, uh, Mark Carney is going

00:19:06.560 to look to and from what perspectives he will govern in either his short time in office or his

00:19:11.600 long time in office. Well, I think that that's worked for the liberals in the past, in some

00:19:17.120 respect, like using this issue of climate change as a leverage, sort of using it as a weapon, um, 0.98

00:19:23.280 saying that if you don't agree with us, it's because you're ignorant and, and you don't believe 0.97

00:19:27.520 in science or something like that. I feel like times have changed key. And I don't, 0.98

00:19:31.600 I don't know that that argument holds water anymore. I think when we're facing an economic

00:19:36.240 situation, like we are, where inflation is out of control, you can draw a direct line from

00:19:41.360 inflationary policies to Mark Carney, um, in his roles as, you know, the governor of the Bank of

00:19:46.720 Canada and then the governor of the Bank of England, uh, printing money, spending, borrowing.

00:19:50.960 Uh, we're, we're, we're just dealing with so many real problems in our, in our economy,

00:19:55.280 whether it be mortgages, cost of groceries, a rampant crime that has come from mass unchecked

00:20:00.640 immigration. Um, I don't, I, I feel like climate change is like a luxury issue and it's, it's just

00:20:06.480 not top of mind, um, for Canadians. Can you see any scenario where that changes?

00:20:15.440 You know, like I said, people are concerned about how much their groceries cost when they check out.

00:20:19.200 And you're right about it being a luxury issue. Um, but people like Jerry Butts there,

00:20:25.840 we can't underestimate the rhetoric that they use and the means that they have to influence

00:20:30.560 public opinion. Um, they are going to be interested in this topic because it's worked for them in the

00:20:35.840 past. They've had a few of these like niche issues, right? Like calling everyone that disagrees with

00:20:41.040 them racist. Um, you know, saying that if, if you don't agree with the carbon tax and then you're a

00:20:47.600 a denier and every hurricane and fire that has ever happened is a result of you personally not

00:20:53.760 wanting to pay more taxes, which it has been compelling to accessible liberal voters in the

00:21:00.080 past. But now these accessible liberal voters and even young people, especially young people

00:21:04.400 who you would think would be the most motivated to hear the message of the liberals because they

00:21:10.640 have the longest future on this planet. They're not really listening anymore in the same way in the

00:21:14.720 United States as, um, you know, record numbers of young people voted for Donald Trump. We're

00:21:19.520 seeing the same polling in Canada that young people are actually supporting the conservatives

00:21:23.680 in really on numbers that have not been seen in my lifetime. So this, you know,

00:21:31.200 who knows what will happen over the next few months, right? Anything can happen,

00:21:34.560 especially once the rip drops, poll numbers are just going to start going crazy. Um, and we have

00:21:39.600 no idea how things are going to turn out and really what the ballot box question will be.

00:21:45.040 Pierre wants that to be the carbon tax, but maybe Mark Carney can pull something out of the hat.

00:21:50.720 Yeah. Well, okay. I'll just give a quick update to the audience on the liberal leadership race. So

00:21:54.960 we heard yesterday that Francois-Philippe Champagne will not be running. He sort of teased his idea that

00:21:59.920 he might, he might be running. Uh, it turns out he's not running. I don't think anyone cares or anyone

00:22:04.480 thought that he stood a chance. Uh, Christy Clark, who at some point kind of seemed like she could be a

00:22:09.200 front runner. It seemed like she, her campaign was picking up steam, um, until she did that disastrous 0.98

00:22:13.600 interview on the CBC last week, uh, caught herself in a lie, a stupid lie. Like, I don't understand why 1.00

00:22:19.200 you'd lie about whether or not you were a lifelong member of the liberal party or not. Uh, anyway,

00:22:23.920 Christy Clark announced yesterday on Tuesday that she would not be running for the liberal leadership

00:22:29.440 race. Um, and she took a chance to really attack Pierre. It seemed like kind of a character. You

00:22:35.920 know, the thing about Christy Clark is that she's pretended to be a conservative for the last number 1.00

00:22:40.000 of years. Um, and here she just kind of goes a little crazy in my opinion. Um, Pierre Polyev would

00:22:46.880 rather attack Canada. They call it Donald Trump, um, basically just calling him an extremist. We don't

00:22:52.320 need governor Polyev, uh, sort of annoying. Uh, I've seen Christy Clark at so many conservative

00:22:58.000 events over the past, like five, six years. And I was always kind of like, Hey, I thought you were

00:23:01.280 a liberal. I guess you're kind of becoming more conservative. Turns out she's not at all. Uh, we

00:23:06.880 all have a couple of other, uh, possible contenders. We hear that Christy Freeland is set to announce

00:23:11.600 her race possibly on Friday in Montreal and Karina Gould told global news that she's set to run and that she

00:23:19.840 will announce. So, you know, I, I don't have a high hope that any of these candidates, uh, will stand a

00:23:27.040 chance against someone like Mark Carney, uh, maybe Chrystia Freeland, but I don't know. I don't know

00:23:32.240 that she can really handle a leadership race. I don't know that she can distance herself from Trudeau,

00:23:36.400 given that she was his deputy prime minister. Uh, what do you, what do you think, Kian? 0.85

00:23:42.160 Yeah. You know, um, talk about just to mention what you're saying about Christy Clark, like

00:23:47.520 the Hindenburg, it was, it was nice to be able to see something so disastrous, so fast.

00:23:52.160 I just blew up. Um, and you know, before that CBC interview, I would have thought that she would

00:24:00.400 have been, um, a more likely alternative to at least Chrystia Freeland. Um, because you know that

00:24:07.040 there's, you know, you know that there's going to be, she, you know, she, you could say that she

00:24:11.520 actually was the outsider that Mark Carney says that he is. Um, it was a bit of a mask off moment

00:24:16.880 for her when she started lying like that though, because it, you know, I've been to the same

00:24:21.440 conservative events as you and we've seen Christy Clark there, but it's got to be a little vindicating

00:24:25.920 for people like John Rustad in BC and his upstart BC conservative party to know that, yeah, really,

00:24:32.000 there hasn't been a conservative party in British Columbia in all this time, including when the

00:24:36.720 liberals who build themselves as the de facto conservative party while they were in government,

00:24:41.920 um, uh, before the NDP, there hasn't really been a conservative option there in a long time,

00:24:48.080 but it's part and parcel for liberals to lie. So it's not a surprise that Chrystia was, 0.79

00:24:51.760 or not Chrystia, I'm sure Chrystia as well, but, um, Christy Clark was caught in a lie. Um,

00:24:58.560 you know, we'll, we'll, we'll have to see how it turns out for the people that actually stay in the

00:25:02.480 race, um, because it has not been going well for most of these candidates. And it's, you know,

00:25:06.640 it's great to see, um, you know, when, as I'm sure, you know, as a publisher of a conservative

00:25:12.400 outlet, I was concerned when Trudeau was leaving that we were going to lose our biggest target,

00:25:18.560 um, our biggest content generator, because he was making so many mistakes. Um, but in fact,

00:25:23.840 you know, now we just have a ton of, uh, smaller targets to go after because of all of their lies,

00:25:29.120 just building and building and building. And you mentioned Karina Gould running as well,

00:25:33.520 which is sad a little bit because she's not even going to win her own riding. So

00:25:38.080 if she wins the leadership of the liberal party, which I don't think that she will, because she's

00:25:43.280 not really, uh, inspiring candidate. And I don't think has the machine behind her to actually win. 1.00

00:25:50.960 She would just lose in her riding. She would have to kick someone out in Montreal to run there. 0.96

00:25:55.280 Uh, if she actually wanted to be in the house of commons. So, um, really this is shaping up to be a

00:26:00.320 race between Mark Carney and Christia Freeland. Um, will Christia Freeland having exited, uh,

00:26:07.840 stage left to Justin Trudeau's cap from Justin Trudeau's cabinet just a week before it blew up

00:26:12.800 be enough to separate her from his record. At the end of the day, both of these candidates

00:26:17.840 share the burden of Justin Trudeau's record. In my opinion, um, Mark Carney can't get away with it.

00:26:22.480 He's been advising Justin Trudeau for so long. He now has Justin Trudeau's advisors advising him on how

00:26:28.000 to run. Uh, and Christia Freeland, as you know, if you saw Justin Trudeau's resignation speech,

00:26:33.440 he was saying, Oh, you know, she's been involved in every decision that this government has made.

00:26:38.240 And I'm really great friends with her. It was sort of like the hug of death to give her as he departed,

00:26:44.000 uh, which I'm sure was intentional. Both of these people were the disaster of the liberal party that

00:26:48.480 they, that Canada has had to deal with over the last nine years in different ways and in different

00:26:54.080 amounts. But at the end of the day, neither of them are going to be a good prime minister. But

00:26:59.440 as you mentioned earlier, one of them will be, um, whether it's, it's Mark Carney or Christia Freeland,

00:27:05.360 there is going to be a prime minister before Pierre Polyev, um, assuming he wins. Um, and the fact

00:27:12.800 that it's going to be an unelected person from a shady constituency that we don't actually know the

00:27:18.480 electorate from, um, man, that's, that's gotta be concerning to every Canadian.

00:27:24.240 Yeah. We've got, we've got a lot of problems in our country and, you know, as much as I think that

00:27:28.880 the Canadian public will focus in on the economy during the election, I think that that will be

00:27:33.280 the ballot box question. You know, who can, who could better manage our economy? Uh, look at the

00:27:38.800 disaster that liberals have created here. And I think things are going to get a lot worse, Kian,

00:27:44.000 on January 20th. I think that Donald Trump, just based on what Danielle Smith

00:27:49.120 said after her meeting at Mar-a-Lago and her, uh, her discussion with reporters on Monday morning,

00:27:55.440 where she said that the tariffs are coming, there's not going to be any carve outs. It's going to be

00:28:00.320 across the board on day one at one of his first executive orders. I think that if anything, that

00:28:06.080 might be, um, helpful to the liberals to say that, you know, there may be the ones that have to negotiate

00:28:12.240 with Donald Trump, uh, regardless of what happens, it won't be Pierre Polyev and the conservatives

00:28:17.920 down there negotiating. It will be Justin Trudeau and the liberals and whoever replaces Justin, uh,

00:28:23.920 Trudeau. What do you think first, what's your prediction? What do you make of it all? What do

00:28:27.920 you think is going to happen, um, after these tariffs take place? And what do you make of incoming

00:28:33.040 president-elect Donald Trump? Yeah, you know, the Donald says a lot of things and what he actually

00:28:40.800 does, uh, tends to be slightly different. He does follow through, but the shape of these tariffs might

00:28:47.280 be different than what a lot of Canadians are expecting. Um, certainly the premier of Alberta

00:28:52.160 has been putting in the legwork to make sure, um, that it's not a complete disaster come January 20th.

00:28:58.240 Um, look, Canadians should be scared. Um, Justin, uh, Donald Trump does not respect the administration

00:29:05.040 of Canada. Um, the fact that he's just joking, um, or maybe serious about Justin Trudeau, uh,

00:29:12.000 being a governor of the 51st state, you know, whatever your position is on becoming an American,

00:29:18.080 you should be disappointed that our prime minister has not been able to command the respect of his peer.

00:29:24.160 Um, Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump are peers and Donald Trump knows that Justin Trudeau is a joke.

00:29:30.160 Um, by extension, the liberals and their leader, their current women and their future ones that

00:29:35.760 hold the bag for him are responsible for every tariff that is put on this country in whatever form

00:29:41.760 they are put on, uh, this country. It's not coming out of the blue as much as I think the liberals would

00:29:47.360 want us to think, uh, it's because they're seen as weak that this is happening. So, you know,

00:29:52.800 as I mentioned, Daniel Smith went down to Mar-a-Lago hope, you know, what, what she says that the

00:29:58.560 tariffs are coming, uh, following that conversation. So I hope that she has actually been able to

00:30:04.160 move the needle a little bit. I think that it would be a huge win if energy exports, um,

00:30:09.200 were exempted from that tariff because these tariffs, you know, they're going to hurt Americans

00:30:16.000 as much as they would hurt Canadians. Like it's, it is just raising taxes on both the seller and the

00:30:21.280 purchaser of goods. So nobody's really benefiting there. Uh, and the prices at pump of American

00:30:28.400 states that rely heavily on Canadian bitumen, uh, is it's going to be a sticker shock for sure.

00:30:35.040 So if energy prices could be exempt from these tariffs, that would be a huge win for Danielle

00:30:40.080 Smith. Um, you know, she was, she was, uh, liberals were really angry that she went down there to speak 0.72

00:30:46.320 with Donald Trump, which is a joke because of course, Justin Trudeau went down there to kiss

00:30:51.040 the ring a while ago and it didn't work out well for him. So it's only, uh, it's only fair that

00:30:56.800 Danielle gets her time to actually try and protect Albertan businesses that are going to bear the huge 0.96

00:31:02.800 cost and burden of Justin Trudeau's foreign policy failure here. So, um, energy exports, if they could

00:31:10.000 be exempted, that would be great. I think tariffs are coming one way or another and hoping on,

00:31:16.000 uh, a goodwill change of heart last minute is a fool's errand and it will result in disaster.

00:31:22.240 But because Justin Trudeau's cabinet has been completely AFK and because Justin Trudeau has

00:31:27.120 been spending most of his time doing a reputational media rehab tour down in the United States and not

00:31:33.600 actually doing their jobs, Canadians are going to be the ones left holding the bag of these failures. 0.92

00:31:38.560 And I don't think that, uh, any leader, any incoming leader carrying the liberal party standard is

00:31:44.400 going to be able to recover from the sheer anger that Canadians are going to throw their way

00:31:50.160 when these tariffs come and businesses start closing down.

00:31:53.200 It's kind of a convenient scapegoat though, right? Like I think you're completely right that this,

00:31:57.200 this policy and the potential tariffs are a hundred percent the fault of Justin Trudeau.

00:32:01.520 He was seen as weak. He spent the last Trump administration just basically mocking and putting

00:32:06.320 down Trump every chance he could, including, including Chrystia Freeland who went down to

00:32:10.480 Washington for NAFTA talks and couldn't resist speaking on an anti-Trump panel the night before

00:32:15.280 the negotiations, which the NAFTA negotiators took note of that. They, they noticed and they

00:32:19.360 remembered that. Um, and so yes, uh, Trudeau went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring and made things

00:32:25.200 worse, right? It was after that visit that the 51st state, uh, thing came out right before it was just

00:32:30.960 tariffs. And then after that it was like, actually, no, we're going to just annex your country and this

00:32:36.240 guy's going to become a governor, uh, which, which was funny, right? He was putting, uh, Trudeau in his

00:32:40.320 place. Um, Danielle Smith went down there and looked like she was actually building inroads. Like I saw 1.00

00:32:45.680 that as diplomacy and I could see why it would anger the libs. It seems like they just, the, the, the

00:32:51.760 government, the left, the establishment in Canada doesn't have a good answer. They don't have a good

00:32:56.560 strategy to deal with Donald Trump and hearing some of the things that are being floated key in

00:33:01.680 like the idea of a possible energy embargo against the United States, which Melanie Jolie wouldn't

00:33:07.280 rule out when she was asked about it. Um, I, I just, I got to play this clip, um, of the press

00:33:12.640 conference with Danielle Smith, where a reporter asks her this question and she just puts these

00:33:18.480 liberals in their place. Uh, let's play this clip. Yesterday, uh, foreign affairs minister,

00:33:24.160 Melanie Jolie talked about it was asked specifically if in negotiations with Trump, um, Canada would

00:33:32.880 consider an energy embargo on the United States. And I want to, um, as leverage, what do you think,

00:33:42.720 what do you make of what she said? Well, first of all, it's, uh, oil and gas is owned by the

00:33:50.720 provinces, principally Alberta, and we won't stand for that. And you should never, ever threaten

00:33:56.720 something you cannot do. And I, I would encourage the minister to look at a map of where line five

00:34:05.280 goes. Line five comes down through Michigan to get to Sarnia. And then that feeds the bulk of the

00:34:14.480 supply needed for Ontario and connects with line nine, which feeds the bulk of the product needed

00:34:21.520 for Quebec. And so if you cut off that line, you are cutting off Ontario and Quebec.

00:34:29.840 Okay. I just want to show you, cause we pulled the map. I mean, I, I love when Danielle gets into

00:34:34.480 that mode and she, she really, you know, these are our resources. They belong to the province.

00:34:39.120 Look at a map, never, ever make threats. You can't do, uh, let's just show this map. This is

00:34:43.600 courtesy of our friend, Mark Nixon on X. And he, he just, uh, let's zoom right in on that map. So this

00:34:50.480 is how, uh, oil flows in North America. And if you look at that red line, so the oil and gas from

00:34:56.240 Alberta does not go straight into Ontario, Ontario, uh, Sarnia, Toronto, and Montreal are all on that line.

00:35:04.000 They get their oil from Alberta. Yes. But it goes through the United States. So in what world,

00:35:10.000 on what planet could you even have an embargo? If you go oil, if you stop selling oil to the Americans,

00:35:16.560 you will cut off central Canada. You will cut off the vast, the vast majority of Canadians who live in 1.00

00:35:22.320 that region. Like how stupid do you have to be to propose something like that? And I loved when Danielle 1.00

00:35:27.680 Smith said, look at a map, because I don't know that these people actually have looked at a map. I

00:35:31.920 don't know that these people actually understand how our energy and resources flow in North America.

00:35:37.440 Kian, as an Albertan, what do you, what do you make of all this?

00:35:40.800 Well, you know, uh, when Melanie Julie said that, uh, obviously not understanding how pipeline

00:35:45.440 infrastructure worked. Um, me as an Albertan, having joked in the past about wanting to turn

00:35:51.120 off the taps to BC and Ontario, if their voting record didn't improve, I thought that it was pretty

00:35:56.240 hilarious that the liberals finally agreed with me. But I also, I also, you know, Daniel Smith is right

00:36:02.720 that it would cause chaos for Eastern Canada. Um, so it, it sort of shows how short sighted the

00:36:10.560 liberals have always been, but I loved that video of Danielle there. Um, and you can see the difference

00:36:17.040 in leadership, uh, and competency between her and Justin Trudeau. Just imagine Justin Trudeau actually

00:36:22.800 getting into the details and the nitty gritty of any policy. And imagine Justin Trudeau trying to

00:36:27.360 explain how pipeline infrastructure works. Like he, he doesn't actually think things at,

00:36:33.280 think about things at that level ever. And knowing that Daniel Smith actually, uh, knows what's going

00:36:39.040 on and has been willing to go engage with, um, counterparts that are not really her peers, um,

00:36:45.040 has given me a little bit of confidence going into January 20th. Uh, because if this,

00:36:49.840 if we just said, you know what, the federal government, they're responsible for dealing

00:36:53.600 with foreign countries, uh, let's just let them do their job. We would be in a huge world 1.00

00:36:59.520 in for a world of hurt come January 20th. Um, if nobody had gone down there to at least

00:37:06.720 share our side of the story, uh, and try to build inroads and build a friendship, as you mentioned,

00:37:12.400 you know, Justin Trudeau has only made things worse with Donald Trump. And it even goes to when he

00:37:18.400 was saying that Kamala Harris should have won, um, because that's what would have been good for

00:37:22.640 progress if the woman candidate one, which is just so hollow to, to, to think that that's how 0.98

00:37:29.200 these world leaders actually operate. Um, Donald Trump definitely took note of that. Um, if we

00:37:35.920 thought he was taking his foot off the gas pedal a little bit, that would have just pressed it to the

00:37:40.080 floor after he heard that. So Daniel Smith is obviously a friend of Donald Trump's administration,

00:37:46.160 not just him, but people in the administration she was building in roads with. And once they

00:37:51.200 sit around the cabinet table on January 20th, after the inauguration, and they start signing

00:37:55.840 executive orders, uh, and they start creating this, um, this external, um, revenue service that

00:38:03.040 Donald Trump has been talking about, maybe, maybe some of that goodwill that Daniel Smith has put forward

00:38:10.000 to, um, the folks at Mar-a-Lago and eventually at DC, maybe that will pay off for Canadians. Uh, 0.96

00:38:16.560 and if it does, they really only have the premier of Alberta to think.

00:38:20.400 Yeah. And it might be our last best hope at this point. So, uh, thank goodness that Daniel Smith went

00:38:26.400 and did that. Ken, I talked to a lot of people and I read a lot of comments online.

00:38:31.440 This is something that surprised me. I think that Donald Trump went after Canadians kind of where it hurts.

00:38:35.680 Like we, we are a proud people. We do feel a sense of patriotism and pride. Um, it's, it's kind of lost

00:38:43.040 at the moment because Canada is doing so badly. And I know that so many people have made the difficult

00:38:48.000 decision to up and leave Canada and to go pursue other opportunities, move their businesses to the

00:38:53.120 United States. I've even heard of people moving down to places like Mexico and Costa Rica. We reported

00:38:58.320 on a true North families moving down to South America. Um, you know, I, I, I see a lot of 0.89

00:39:04.160 sentiment that's not talked about in the Canadian media of people who think that there might be an

00:39:08.720 opportunity, um, who actually would get excited at the idea of Canada and joining the United States

00:39:14.000 that at this point they would trust Donald Trump and that administration more than they would trust

00:39:19.280 the Laurentian elites that have gotten into us into this terrible mess. Uh, and potentially with

00:39:23.680 someone like Mark Carney, uh, on the horizon set to become the next prime minister, uh, could make

00:39:29.520 things a lot worse. What are you seeing? What are you hearing? Uh, what's your sense on, uh, whether,

00:39:35.120 whether Canadians would actually be like possibly better off in a deeper union with the United States?

00:39:41.040 Well, I think a deeper union with the United States is a great idea. Um, I, I really think that that

00:39:47.200 is a huge opportunity for Canada. And I think that a lot of people saying that they want to be American

00:39:53.600 and they want to be the 51st state. What they're really saying is they want someone like Donald

00:39:58.640 Trump to be our prime minister. Um, there's some pros to being American, right? They have a first

00:40:04.240 amendment. They have a second amendment. They have a constitution that protects the individual

00:40:09.840 liberty of the person. We don't actually have an equivalent. The charter of rights and freedom,

00:40:13.840 uh, in Canada is an invasive and ineffective document that doesn't actually protect landowners.

00:40:19.680 It doesn't protect speech and it doesn't protect, um, firearms rights, along with a ton of other

00:40:25.440 very important things. There's some, there's some protections in it that Americans don't have, but

00:40:29.040 by and large, the American constitution is better than the Canadian constitution. Um, so people want

00:40:34.880 that. Um, but, and, and they want someone like Donald Trump to be their leader. Um, but going, uh,

00:40:41.280 becoming American comes with a lot of, a lot of baggage as well. Um, the amount of three letter

00:40:46.960 organizations that they have regulating things in the United States that would immediately come

00:40:51.840 and have jurisdiction over Alberta or whatever province, uh, permutation comes and joins the United

00:40:57.760 States. Um, they would then have jurisdiction over, over that. And it's a lot of red tape to just assume,

00:41:03.920 um, just having a first and second amendment doesn't really make that worth it. The logistics of

00:41:10.240 becoming a new country is absolutely insane. But like I said, I think it really is just them

00:41:15.200 saying, wow, we have terrible leadership here. Americans are getting good leadership.

00:41:21.520 We want that. Would they be saying that though, if Barack Obama was the, about to be the president

00:41:26.960 of the United States? I don't, I don't really think that they would if Joe Biden had won a second

00:41:30.720 term, would they be saying that if Kamala Harris had won, would they be saying that the answer is no,

00:41:35.120 they wouldn't, they want someone like Donald Trump to be our president. And in four years,

00:41:39.040 uh, five years, Donald Trump is not going to be president anymore. In fact, it's likely to be

00:41:43.680 a Democrat. If, um, if trends continue that historical trends in the United States continue,

00:41:49.760 um, you know, it's likely that a Democrat wins. So it would be short-sighted to move over right now.

00:41:56.480 What, what Canadians need is a good deal and a good partnership and friendship with the Americans.

00:42:01.360 It's the closest friendship in the world. Um, it's the most economically productive friendship

00:42:06.320 in the world. And we just need a leader to make that case to Donald Trump. He wants to make a deal.

00:42:12.000 This is who Donald Trump is. We need a prime minister who will make a deal for Canadians to

00:42:16.800 make us all better off Canadians and Americans. We're the closest country in the world countries

00:42:20.800 in the world. And we deserve better than the leadership that we've had between Joe Biden and

00:42:25.280 Justin Trudeau over the last four and nine years respectively. And one side of the borders,

00:42:30.560 fixing that problem come January 20th, Canadians just need to make the same change.

00:42:35.840 Yeah. And sooner the better. I completely agree. And I appreciate what you just said. There's two

00:42:39.440 things that sort of excite me and really made me interested in the sort of Donald Trump movement

00:42:43.920 that was different this time around, uh, than it was back in 2016. Uh, the first one is the sort of

00:42:48.960 make America healthy again movement with Robert F. Kennedy. I think that's really exciting. And I think

00:42:53.520 Canada could definitely have downstream effects from that. Like if Americans are re sort of re-examining

00:42:59.200 what it is that they're eating and the things that are making them sick and trying to change

00:43:02.480 the focus of the country to having healthy, strong citizenry, rather than like a sick, obese, uh,

00:43:08.400 culture hooked on like drugs and, and all kinds of pharmaceuticals. Um, I hope that Canada picks up

00:43:14.560 on that as well. I don't see a lot of it in Canada. Um, the other thing, Kian, is immigration. 0.99

00:43:18.800 And I think that the United States and Canada both need incredibly hawkish immigration system.

00:43:24.400 And when I see Donald Trump coming in saying, I'm going to secure the border, I'm going to close

00:43:28.480 the border. We're going to mass deport illegals. Um, I don't hear that equivalent on the Canadian 1.00

00:43:33.520 conservative side. And I think it's just absolutely necessary. Like we've reached a point, especially

00:43:38.640 in the GTA is it's, it's kind of hard to describe how different it feels in Toronto, how much you just

00:43:45.200 don't feel like it's Canada anymore. And, and the crime, the horrendous crimes like carjackings and

00:43:50.400 home burglars, I honestly, I can't imagine anything more terrifying than armed men coming

00:43:55.120 into your house in the middle of the night. Like, like it's, it's just unbelievable. The

00:43:59.520 things that are happening in Canada right now, we don't necessarily even feel safe and protected.

00:44:04.320 Um, if Canada were to forge some kind of an agreement, I know Kevin O'Leary has been talking

00:44:08.880 a lot about having like a shared, you know, national military space and, and having greater protection

00:44:15.680 and having more of an open flow border between Canada and the U S Canada needs to fix its

00:44:19.920 immigration system. Maybe that would take an outside, you know, agreement with the United States,

00:44:25.040 have them help us take over parts of our immigration system to mass deport the people 0.99

00:44:29.760 who shouldn't be here. Cause it seems like Canada has a very big problem, uh, when it comes to just

00:44:33.760 not even being able to deport the criminals in our country. Yeah. It's an interesting theory, uh,

00:44:40.080 similar to what the Europe, not that I'm a fan of the European union, but their Shenzhen area that they

00:44:45.520 use to actually control who is, and who is not allowed in the European, uh, union and in that

00:44:51.440 zone is an interesting, it's an interesting idea. It's not something that I've thought deeply about

00:44:56.160 in America, but it certainly could solve some problems if we adopted Donald Trump's, hopefully

00:45:03.280 hawkish immigration policy. You know, Elon Musk has not, Elon Musk, I think needs a lesson in what

00:45:09.920 has happened to Canada, um, his support of H1B visas, um, at all costs. Um, I mean, effectively

00:45:17.040 that's our, that, that is what has caused so much chaos in Canada. That is the inflation. Um, and I

00:45:24.480 guess it depends who's toggling the controls of these programs, but really, um, the entire cultural

00:45:30.080 fabric of Canada has changed over the course of Justin Trudeau's nine years. And especially over the last

00:45:34.720 four years, uh, because of people coming in for, um, for, uh, education with educational visas and,

00:45:42.400 uh, temporary work permits that then eventually stay and protest when they're told to leave.

00:45:47.360 Uh, it has completely changed this country. And now Pierre Paulyev is saying that, well, we need to

00:45:52.080 ax the tax, uh, stop the crime, fix the housing and saying all these things, you know, we need to fix

00:45:57.840 all of these issues. And the one thing that he doesn't talk about, as you mentioned is immigration,

00:46:01.760 but that really is the original sin of the Trudeau government that has caused all of these

00:46:07.200 problems from the housing crisis to crime. Uh, I mean, it's not the people that, um,

00:46:14.880 it's not the families that have homesteaded on this country for a century that are breaking into cars,

00:46:21.440 stealing them and, and murdering a family of four on their way to, you know, um, go move that car

00:46:28.800 onto a shipping container and send it to Africa. Uh, it is the people that have been brought in 1.00

00:46:33.280 by Justin Trudeau. Not that they're all bad. Um, but there has been absolutely no care or concern

00:46:39.120 to decide, hmm, does this person really need to be in Canada? Are they going to help our country

00:46:43.440 economically, or are they going to be, uh, eventually on the cycle of bail that Justin Trudeau has created

00:46:49.040 for people? So, um, I hope that when Pierre Paulyev says these things that he wants to stop the crime,

00:46:55.760 he wants to fix housing. I hope that, and it's so hard to trust these people to do the right thing

00:47:02.480 because, you know, Aaron O'Toole said he was going to do the right thing. And then he did the opposite.

00:47:06.720 But I think that Pierre is one of those people that has such a strong record of being a strong

00:47:13.120 conservative that he's going to run on these issues that are, you know, easy to talk about

00:47:18.960 fixing the housing, stopping crime. Uh, and then when he gets in, he's going to be doing a root cause

00:47:24.000 analysis and actually solving the problem. That's what I hope. Um, and I think that he's done the

00:47:29.600 political calculus that maybe he can't run yet on, on re-migration necessarily, but once he gets into

00:47:37.200 office, he's going to see, oh, well, this is the root cause. And I ran on fixing, uh, stopping crime

00:47:42.000 and fixing houses. And, and it's going to mean that people need to go home. I hope so. I hope so.

00:47:47.920 One, one, one more clip I want to share with you, Kian was, uh, Stephen Harper recently did a podcast

00:47:53.680 with a commentator, Gabe Grossman, and he, he just sort of outhand rejects the idea of, uh,

00:47:59.600 Trump's comments. He seems quite offended by it. And he, he goes through this as a clip,

00:48:03.840 he sort of tries to debunk a lot of what Trump is saying. So I'm going to play this clip and then,

00:48:09.680 um, I'll come back and, um, just a few things that, uh, Harper said here that I just don't agree with

00:48:16.240 at all. Um, and then we'll, we'll wrap it up after that. So, uh, let's play this clip of Stephen Harper.

00:48:21.920 I understand that, you know, Donald Trump may want some changes in trade arrangements, but I'm,

00:48:28.320 I must admit to being shocked by some of the things he said. They're, they're just not so, um,

00:48:35.880 you know, first of all, we, we don't actually sell dairy into the United States or sell almost none.

00:48:40.660 Um, so that, that, that's not true. Um, Canada, it is true that Canada presently has a modest trade

00:48:48.580 surplus with the United States. The reason Gabe we do is because you buy so much of our oil and gas.

00:48:55.860 In fact, you buy it at a discount to world markets. It's actually Canada that subsidizes the United

00:49:01.060 States in this regard. And, um, you know, so maybe, maybe, uh, my response is maybe Canadians, 0.52

00:49:09.300 if Mr. Trump feels this way, should be looking at selling their oil and gas to other people.

00:49:13.700 Um, we, uh, we certainly want, have always wanted to do some of that. Maybe that was the time to do

00:49:18.900 it. And when we talk about subsidizing Canadian defense, I, I don't know what he's talking about.

00:49:24.660 We have a shared defense of North America. United States does that because in the vital

00:49:28.820 electricity, you want Canada to be a neutral country. Um, you know, I, I, I, I kind of don't

00:49:36.740 understand. I just don't understand that. I don't understand that. Are you, there's many things he's

00:49:41.780 saying. He, even when you talk about migrants, first of all, there's no major migrant flow from

00:49:46.340 Canada to the United States. There's, you've obviously got an enormous problem on the Southern

00:49:50.340 border. I, by the way, I'm completely sympathetic with Donald Trump's position on this. I thought the

00:49:54.500 policy of open borders of the Biden administration was, was, was disgraceful. I mean, I think it was

00:50:01.540 a violation of president. I know Joe Biden personally, I like him, but it was a violation

00:50:06.420 of his fundamental duties for the country. Um, and of course, President Trump wants to change that.

00:50:11.860 There is no migrant flow happening from Canada to the United States in any significant numbers. And

00:50:18.180 I'm going to tell you right now, drugs, guns, crime, most of those things flow north, not south.

00:50:23.620 A lot more flows into Canada from the United States than flows out of it. So like, I have a real problem

00:50:28.900 with some of the things Donald Trump is saying. It doesn't sound to me like the pronouncements of

00:50:33.780 somebody, you know, I say wants a better deal or whatever fine, but it doesn't sound to me like

00:50:38.820 the pronouncements of somebody who's a friend, a partner, and an ally, which is what I've always thought

00:50:44.020 the United States is. Now, I think many Canadians will sort of agree with Harper's sentiment there,

00:50:49.860 that they just, that, that, that the way that Trump is talking is sort of out of line with our

00:50:54.100 historic friendship. Um, but some of the things that he specifically said there, I just want to

00:50:58.580 mention because he, you know, he's making the point about dairy subsidies saying that we don't

00:51:02.340 really sell our dairy to the U S but that's obviously not the issue. The issue is that we don't

00:51:06.500 allow imports from the U S. So Canadians could get much cheaper prices on dairy and, and much more

00:51:12.100 selection. Um, if we didn't have all of these rules and regulations, he says that Canada sort

00:51:16.500 of subsidizes us with our oil. Well, the reason that Canada sells oil to the U S at a discount

00:51:22.180 is because we want them to buy it, right? Like we do that on purpose so that they'll buy more of our

00:51:26.660 oil. Um, the comments there, the U S military, um, doesn't really protect Canada. They only do so in

00:51:33.060 their own interest. I mean, it's just kind of weird to hear Harper say that when we all know that

00:51:38.340 Canada does not pull its weight, it does not contribute its fair share when it comes to the

00:51:43.380 military or military has absolutely been hollowed out. Um, and that's only gotten worse under Trudeau.

00:51:48.660 Um, and then finally he said that there's no migrant flow, um, from Canada. Now, maybe that was

00:51:54.100 true when he was prime minister, uh, but that's just not the case anymore. Uh, I reported this for

00:51:59.140 True North back in November. Um, this is using U S data. So according to the U S customs and border

00:52:05.860 protection since 2022, 1,155 individuals on the terror watch list were caught trying to enter the

00:52:13.860 United States illegally through its Northern border can compare that to just 199 terrorists coming in

00:52:21.460 from the South. So five times as many terrorists coming to the United States from Canada, um, than

00:52:27.700 the United States. Um, I don't know how you can argue that there's no flow of people coming in from

00:52:32.420 Canada. It's just, it's just not true. Yeah. When it comes to apprehensions at the Northern border,

00:52:37.700 it can reach up to a thousand people per month. Um, I know you mentioned it was over a thousand

00:52:42.580 terrorists. That must've been in a larger period of time. Um, it's, it's, it's, it's the concern is not

00:52:51.940 necessarily even the volume, although that is a problem. Um, the volume is not the same. It is the

00:52:57.780 quality, shall we say of these migrants that are illegal migrants that are coming across. And

00:53:02.580 Canada has a huge problem as I know that you are aware of, um, you know, we're having caliphate 0.99

00:53:08.420 meetings in Mississauga to establish an Islamic caliphate. Um, these people that Justin True 1.00

00:53:14.180 has brought in under the guise of, I don't even know why, like there's no, no, no economic argument

00:53:19.380 to having these, like these, these religious colonists to come in and then pontificate and 0.98

00:53:27.380 and send their people down to the United States. The issue is, is the people that we're sending, 0.80

00:53:30.820 not necessarily the volume. So Harper's definitely wrong about that. Um, which is unfortunate,

00:53:34.980 you know, he's right. We don't, we don't export a lot of dairy. Um, I mean, that's our own fault

00:53:38.980 in our own failed supply management system. Uh, we could, and we should export a lot of dairy 0.99

00:53:42.820 to the United States, but we don't. Um, the issue about, uh, exporting oil at a discount,

00:53:47.220 kind of true, but again, it's also our own fault because we haven't in the past had

00:53:51.300 a lot of westward or eastward pipeline capacity to sell to other countries outside of the United

00:53:56.260 States. So, uh, where he definitely is wrong. There is about, uh, the problem at our border.

00:54:01.060 You know, it's, you know, it's not just a one way street though. We do get a ton of American

00:54:07.780 migration, illegal migration through places like Roxham road and others across the border. It's just

00:54:13.060 the fact that it's so, uh, uh, so permeate, uh, you know, people can go wherever they want and

00:54:19.540 that's a problem. There needs to be some sort of control, um, either as a, you know, a fortress

00:54:25.220 North America approach, or we need to clean up the border itself. If we're not willing to clean,

00:54:30.740 clean up and take care of our external, external, external, um, continental borders.

00:54:36.820 Absolutely. And I, and I really do think that if the United States is, is real about cracking down

00:54:42.260 like Trump promises, it's just a perfect opportunity that we have to do it at the

00:54:46.580 same time as the United States. And maybe, maybe a poly of government could use that as an excuse 0.98

00:54:50.740 to the Canadian people. Like, look, we don't want to do this, but we have to do it. If we want to

00:54:54.260 continue our partnership, uh, with the United States, these people all have to go and maybe that

00:54:58.580 would help them on, on a political, uh, front. Well, Kian Bexy, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much

00:55:03.140 for joining the show. Really appreciate your insights. Uh, go check Kian out over at, uh,

00:55:08.260 this, sorry, uh, over at The Signal. Awesome. Yeah. Folks can go to supportthesignal.com if

00:55:14.980 they want to check out the work that we're doing. Um, it's been a pleasure to be here. Thanks, Candice.

00:55:19.620 Okay. All right. Thank you so much, Kian. And to the audience, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:55:24.900 I'm your host, Candice Malcolm. This is The Candice Malcolm Show. We'll be back again with all the news.

00:55:29.540 Thank you. And God bless.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 15, 2025

Get ready for Canada’s first unelected WEF Prime Minister (with Keean Bexte)

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