The Candice Malcolm Show - No “Day One” Trump Tariffs

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show. Welcome to the podcast today.

00:00:11.040 I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Hope you spent lots of time with your family and

00:00:16.000 with your loved ones. Well, it is an exciting day in the world of news. And that is because

00:00:20.640 as you probably know, it is Joe Biden's last day in office and it is Donald Trump's first

00:00:26.360 day. He is being sworn in as president, as we speak, as I am recording this. And everyone

00:00:32.020 around the world is watching with anticipation, with concern, especially us up here in Canada,

00:00:38.200 worried about the impact of a Trump presidency. But before we get into all of that, and we

00:00:42.920 will, I think it's important to just sort of stop and appreciate the moment that we're

00:00:48.080 living in. We witnessed something truly remarkable with Trump coming back. So many people thought

00:00:54.160 that he was just completely unelectable, that it would never happen again after all of

00:00:58.420 the events that happened, especially in around January 6th, 2021, which I always thought was

00:01:04.300 very much blown out of proportion. But the way he acted was not presidential at moments.

00:01:10.920 And I don't think anyone would have guessed that we would be back here seeing him sworn in

00:01:16.000 as president. There's always a lot of pomp when it comes to the American traditions and the way

00:01:22.200 that they celebrate their democracy. And I think today it's just kind of fun to watch,

00:01:26.520 whether you're American or not, whether you love Trump or hate him, the pageantry is always

00:01:32.140 something. And so it's fun to watch the inauguration. And so talking about Trump, the question that

00:01:38.240 everyone is dying to know is, will Trump bring in the economy crippling tariffs that he has

00:01:44.700 threatened? Well, the answer is that no, not on day one, as he previously pledged. He had said that

00:01:50.960 it was going to be one of his initial executive orders. That has not happened yet. That did not

00:01:55.660 happen. So Dustin Trudeau may have dodged a bullet, but the war, of course, is far from over.

00:02:02.260 We'll talk about all of that. We're also going to talk about the lawsuit by the JCCF, the Justice

00:02:07.100 Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, to try to get Parliament back in session, to try to force

00:02:11.640 our own transfer of power, our own election up here in Canada. So we'll give you an update on that.

00:02:17.560 Before we get to any of that, I want to give you the latest news when it comes to the liberal

00:02:22.180 leadership race. So what's going to happen? Who is going to replace Justin Trudeau as the leader of

00:02:27.880 the Liberal Party and therefore will become our next prime minister, whether we like it or not? Well,

00:02:32.760 Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau's sort of right-hand man, his deputy prime minister, finance minister

00:02:38.360 before that, she was a foreign affairs minister. Chrystia Freeland officially launched her campaign 0.94

00:02:43.560 in Toronto on Sunday. And I'm sorry to say, but Chrystia Freeland, it was a disaster. It was a

00:02:50.140 disaster. I guess we could have predicted that because pretty much everything that this woman 1.00

00:02:53.680 touches becomes a disaster. She's a bit of a hot mess over there. Almost to the point where you feel 1.00

00:02:59.380 bad for her. Almost, almost, not quite, but almost feel bad for her. So this is what happened shortly

00:03:04.300 after taking the podium. Chrystia Freeland's speech was interrupted by a group of, you guessed it, 0.99

00:03:11.180 pro-Palestinian protesters. Let's play that clip. In my office in Ottawa, I have a beautiful painting

00:03:18.900 of a Canadian flag.

00:03:21.420 New by two.

00:03:48.700 Unbelievable. I don't understand. I mean,

00:03:51.400 this woman was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. Presumably she has a team, she has some staff,

00:03:56.280 she has security. How is it that when Mark Carney introduced his intention to run as leader of this

00:04:02.680 party, they wouldn't even let journalists into the room? That's how tight the security was. That's how

00:04:07.400 closely things were vetted. They literally did not let journalists into the room unless you

00:04:12.120 worked for a government media company. As our own Isaac Lamoureux learned, Kian Bextie and many

00:04:19.720 others, including journalists from the Western Standard, were not allowed into the room because

00:04:24.480 security was so tight. And here we have Chrystia Freeland. Somehow they didn't catch the people

00:04:30.420 standing right behind her with a giant banner. I mean, can we show this banner? It says Freeland,

00:04:36.360 our Deputy PM Gravedigger. Like, how on earth do you get a banner of that size into the room? You

00:04:43.240 could tell the room isn't very packed. There's not that many people at this event. It was a pretty

00:04:47.480 small, pretty sad event. And yet somehow they managed to have that huge banner rolled up in

00:04:54.440 someone's pocket or hidden inside someone's jacket and actually were able to unscroll it and put it

00:05:00.340 up behind Chrystia Freeland. You saw it at the very end of that clip that I played that she didn't 0.99

00:05:05.260 realize that. You know, someone was in her face. They took that person away and she didn't realize

00:05:09.520 that there was more. There was a group of them and that someone was behind her holding that sign.

00:05:13.600 What a terrible, terrible look. And again, it's kind of ironic because these protesters are of the 1.00

00:05:19.600 left. They're part of her coalition. I think that the Liberals have been completely cynical about

00:05:25.480 Canada's immigration plan. They've even let in Gaza and refugees, for goodness sake. 0.99

00:05:30.820 The countries around Gaza don't want Gaza and refugees because of the trouble that they can bring. 1.00

00:05:35.740 And yet Canada, with open arms, is allowing them to come in and giving them welfare checks when they

00:05:39.720 get here. These people should be supporting the Liberals, you would think. But the reality is

00:05:44.680 that no one is ever far extreme enough for these activists and they're going to keep pushing and

00:05:49.960 pushing. And so they really just created a mockery of Chrystia Freeland. The fact that they had that

00:05:54.740 photo behind here. Our friends over at Canada Proud pointed out something interesting about these

00:06:01.100 protesters, which is just that they've been harassing Canadians with zero consequences for a year and a

00:06:06.640 half. But when they annoy Chrystia Freeland, 10 seconds later, the response is different. They

00:06:11.260 get booted out of the room. And again, just having that banner back there, again, amateur hour, bad start

00:06:18.740 to a bad campaign. Couldn't have happened to a worse person. Chrystia Freeland, it didn't get much

00:06:24.620 better from here, folks. She's just not a very capable politician. She's not very polished, not at all like 1.00

00:06:32.520 Mark Carney. Here she is. This is a funny ex-user that I like to follow called Ryan Garrison. He has

00:06:39.460 great content. He posts this video of her saying, this is Chrystia Freeland's Kamala Harris moment.

00:06:45.000 You have no, when you know, I have no idea what to say. So you just repeat it and pretend no one

00:06:49.200 notices. Okay, let's play this clip. You're ready to fight, aren't you? I can feel it!

00:06:59.080 That is so great. That is so, so great. We are ready to fight, aren't we?

00:07:05.040 And so, with your help, we are going to fight!

00:07:19.200 I don't know if her teleprompter froze there or something like that, but she says,

00:07:26.320 we're so ready to fight. And we're just going to fight. And we're ready to fight. Fight,

00:07:32.120 fight, fight. Fight, fight, fight. Okay. Okay, there. Kind of some, you could see some overlap

00:07:38.160 between her and Kamala Harris, even just with the situation that Trudeau realizes that there's

00:07:43.800 no chance that he can win the election. So he dumps it onto his sort of number two, and she's

00:07:48.720 just wildly unprepared as a candidate and not a very inspiring person. You could totally see it

00:07:53.880 happening. Again, okay, let's go to this. Stephen Taylor, political commentator, he pointed this out.

00:08:00.920 Not a lot of, not a lot of interest in Chrystia Freeland. Not a lot of interest. So during her speech,

00:08:07.520 during her big, big announcement that she'd been teasing for weeks and weeks and weeks,

00:08:10.860 she only had 98 viewers. Yes. Only 98 people were watching the stream as it was happening. So

00:08:18.440 not a lot of people in the room, not a lot of people online, not a great start. Well, don't worry,

00:08:25.460 not to fear. Chrystia Freeland does have one big fan in her corner fighting for her, and that is none

00:08:31.000 other than the Globe and Mail's Andrew Coyne. So Andrew Coyne, of course, praised Chrystia Freeland.

00:08:37.300 Here is his tweet on the matter. He said that she really captured the public mood better than Mark

00:08:46.820 Carney. So Andrew Coyne is giving nothing but flattery to Chrystia Freeland. I guess he knows

00:08:52.940 where his bread is buttered. And he's just praising her campaign video that she released, which

00:08:59.460 really not a lot to compliment in this video, but I'll play it for you. Let me know what you think

00:09:06.520 in the comments. Here's the video. I want to let you in on a little secret. Donald Trump doesn't

00:09:12.960 like me very much. Canada. We don't like their representative very much. I'm a tough negotiator.

00:09:18.780 During the first Trump administration, I fought hard to protect Canadian jobs, the Canadian economy,

00:09:24.820 and our way of life. And we won. I left Trudeau's cabinet because I know what we need to do

00:09:30.300 to win that fight again. Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies think they can push us

00:09:35.280 around. Trump thinks we're for sale. But he can take what isn't his. We're not going to let him.

00:09:42.580 We're a proud country. The true north. Strong and free. A country of smart, caring, and hard-working

00:09:50.960 people. A country that gets big things done. A country worth fighting for. But Pierre Polyev,

00:09:59.180 he'll bow down to Trump and sell us out. This moment matters for all of us. I'm running to be

00:10:10.580 leader of the Liberal Party and our next Prime Minister. I'm in this to fight for you. To fight

00:10:17.600 for Canadians. To fight for Canada. Join me. Join the fight.

00:10:27.820 I think she said the word fight about 80 times in that video. She just kept repeating the word 0.97

00:10:32.020 fight, fight, fight, fight. Okay. A couple things to pick up on that video there. She talks about how

00:10:38.420 Trump has his billionaire buddies. I'm sorry, that's a bit rich. Coming from Chrystia Freeland,

00:10:42.600 she wrote a book that sort of helped launch her career called Plutocrats. And during her time,

00:10:47.600 profiling the richest, most powerful people in the world, she buddied up with them and became

00:10:52.060 friends with a bunch of them. Most notably, of course, George Soros. So here, Melissa Rogers

00:10:58.400 had this tweet saying, Chrystia Freeland started working with George Soros in 1990. Together they

00:11:04.000 worked to manipulate Ukrainian politics. Soros also funded the Ukrainian legal reform, which Chrystia

00:11:09.420 Freeland's mother led. They will do whatever it takes for Ukraine to flourish. This is the mandate, 1.00

00:11:15.880 not Canada. I pointed this out in some of my investigative writing when Chrystia Freeland

00:11:20.860 first sort of surfaced and when the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened, that it's so weird.

00:11:26.940 I mean, Chrystia Freeland described herself as a Ukrainian national. That's how she described

00:11:31.220 herself. She's a nationalist. She's a nationalist for Ukraine, not for Canada. She probably thinks

00:11:37.200 being a nationalist in Canada means that you're a racist. And yet she herself described herself

00:11:41.520 that way. So, you know, very close friends, friendship, admiration for George Soros. And yet

00:11:48.580 somehow she's accusing Trump and Pierre Polyev of being the ones with billionaires. And her whole

00:11:54.660 entire pitch to Canadians in that video was that Donald Trump hates her, was that she would do a 1.00

00:12:00.900 better job negotiating with Donald Trump because Trump doesn't like her. I'm sorry, that is not a good

00:12:06.020 pitch to Canadians. Regardless of what Andrew Coyne thinks, Andrew Coyne is wrong on this issue,

00:12:10.460 just like he's wrong on a lot of things. Having the incoming prime minister or incoming president

00:12:15.860 who's threatening tariffs against your country hate you is not going to help our country. We need

00:12:22.400 someone who can go down and speak to Trump, who speaks his language. We need like a Trump whisper

00:12:26.960 at this moment in time. And so if your whole pitch is that Trump doesn't like you, I'm sorry,

00:12:33.220 I don't want you negotiating on my behalf. I don't want you there. You're not a good person

00:12:37.380 to lead our country if the person who you're negotiating with hates you, especially someone

00:12:42.600 like Trump, who can be a bit erratic. We don't want him holding an irrational grudge against you

00:12:47.760 and taking it out on our entire country. And again, falling back on her negotiating NAFTA, 0.97

00:12:54.760 again, I'm sorry, but that was embarrassing. Chrystia Freeland representing us. That was back when she was

00:12:59.340 a minister of trade. It was embarrassing. It was embarrassing. First, she showed up with these

00:13:05.240 weird t-shirts that she made. She went down to Washington. She was wearing this weird t-shirt

00:13:09.720 that said, keep calm and negotiate NAFTA. I'm sorry, but what kind of grown adult woman wears a 1.00

00:13:16.100 t-shirt, like a graphic tee? This is something you do in high school. Or maybe like if you're a member

00:13:20.200 of a sorority, you wear like cute matching t-shirts. But you're the representative of Canada

00:13:25.120 going down to negotiate and you show up in like a crappy homemade t-shirt in your professional

00:13:31.000 capacity. That was just incredibly bad, incredibly embarrassing. I wrote about this at the time I was

00:13:38.420 writing in the Toronto Sun. So I had an article that was talking about how she, she, she gave a

00:13:45.200 deranged speech. I'm sorry. She was given this really ridiculous award by foreign policy magazine

00:13:50.280 diplomat of the year. And she gives a speech just ripping into Trump and talking about the new world

00:13:56.400 order and how it has to like deal with dictators and, and authoritarians, obviously talking about

00:14:02.920 Trump. Um, the other side, the Americans took note of that. They saw that she was out there bashing 0.98

00:14:08.980 them, bashing the Americans and they didn't like it. They didn't like it very much. Um, here she is

00:14:14.800 again out there, this, this clip six in my mind, um, of how kind of cringe she is. So here she was 1.00

00:14:21.680 talking about how trade negotiations are kind of like going into labor and having contractions and

00:14:28.280 having a baby. Here's this clip. It's never over until it's over. Uh, it, uh, when I was giving birth,

00:14:39.600 one of my midwives said, you never know how long the labor will be, but you know that each contraction 0.54

00:14:47.820 is one contraction closer to the baby being born. And if I could use such a personal metaphor,

00:14:54.760 uh, that seems to apply to trade negotiations. I'm sorry. That is just wildly inappropriate.

00:15:02.020 Like I say this as a, as a, as a mother of four and someone who actually, my last child was born at

00:15:08.580 home, uh, not in a hospital, not with any medication. Hearing her in a professional setting,

00:15:14.460 talking to reporters. She was down in Washington, talking to the press, the American press and the

00:15:19.700 Canadian press and talking about giving birth and having contractions and working with a midwife.

00:15:25.160 It is just weird. It's inappropriate. It makes everybody stop. Instead of thinking about the trade,

00:15:32.100 the political situation on the ground, they're now picturing you going through labor. I mean, I get

00:15:38.300 that Trudeau is a feminist and he likes having women in his cabinet and he likes putting women out there

00:15:43.820 and they probably told Chrystia Freeland to play up the fact that she's a woman because it makes 1.00

00:15:48.460 liberals, uh, like Trudeau better that he has a woman in a high position. They're negotiating on

00:15:53.320 behalf of Canada, but you probably shouldn't talk about that kind of stuff in a press conference in

00:15:58.380 front of the press when you're trying to talk about trade. It's just, it's just not right. It's

00:16:02.480 inappropriate. It's weird. It's cringe. Um, that's what we're going to have to expect from

00:16:07.080 Chrystia Freeland. And again, I mean, let me know what you think. Maybe I'm wrong on this,

00:16:10.600 but I think the pitch that Trump doesn't like you is kind of disqualifying in this moment,

00:16:16.060 in this moment of politics, when we need a representative to go down there and speak to

00:16:21.940 Trump and negotiate a deal and save our country from economy crippling tariffs, having someone

00:16:27.380 that he hates. I just don't think it's a good idea. Now, maybe I'm missing something. Um, but I

00:16:33.000 don't think so. I don't think that Chrystia Freeland is the right person. Even the liberals know that 0.71

00:16:37.320 even their own audience isn't really interested. Not a lot of people at her launch. The few people

00:16:42.180 that were there, some of them protesting, not a lot of people watching online, uh, not a lot of

00:16:47.220 hope there. Uh, let's give you an update on the other candidate who is running. That of course is

00:16:51.900 Mark Carney. Part of his big pitch is that he is this global elite who has had a lot of positions of

00:16:57.920 power. Uh, well, that might not necessarily help him here. We had the former UK prime minister,

00:17:03.980 Liz Truss, warning Canadians, basically pleading with Canadians, not to go with this guy. She writes

00:17:10.760 after printing too much money at the bank of England, promoting disastrous net zero policies

00:17:17.120 and backing the labor MP, Rachel Reeves, who was a far left globalist pro lockdown, pro vaccine,

00:17:24.840 pro everything, um, growth, killing economic plans. It seems like Mark Carney wants to inflict

00:17:30.760 these terrible ideas on Canada. Resist Canadians, resist. So, uh, speaking from the prime minister

00:17:38.580 who worked with the guy, resist, do not go for this guy, uh, says former PM Liz Truss of the UK.

00:17:46.220 I noticed this as well, again, from Melissa Rogers. I showed another one of her tweets.

00:17:50.540 Uh, she posted this on X over the weekend, just saying to understand Mark Carney, look at the 15

00:17:56.800 people that he follows on Instagram. He only follows 15 people and it's pretty illuminating

00:18:01.560 as to who it is that he's interested in, who he gets influenced by. Uh, of course, Gavin Newsom,

00:18:08.540 who has been just absolutely disastrous when it comes to dealing with those LA fires. Um, who,

00:18:15.100 who else do we have on this list? Uh, Justin Trudeau, of course, the liberal party, of course,

00:18:20.500 but also, uh, another sort of left-wing authoritarian there. Um, Jason in Arden,

00:18:26.940 the former prime minister of New Zealand, who was absolutely disastrous, maybe one of the few

00:18:31.560 countries in the world that was even stricter and more harsh against people who didn't want

00:18:35.520 to take the shot. Um, and that was New Zealand, um, as well as of course, Gerald Butts, who is, uh,

00:18:42.740 reportedly working on his campaign and the radical, radical environmentalist, Stephen Gilboe. So,

00:18:50.260 yeah, I think we're going to have to expect much of the same, uh, from Mark Carney as what we have

00:18:56.020 got from Justin Trudeau. And much like Trudeau, Mark Carney doesn't seem to like the press that

00:19:02.320 much. Doesn't seem to want any independent voices to cover his work. Doesn't seem to have a lot of

00:19:07.140 time for hearing the other side of the story and doesn't have much regard for the truth as well.

00:19:12.180 So here we have liberal MP, George Chahal, the one who hosted Mark Carney's, uh, event, his,

00:19:18.600 his, uh, announcement last week that he was running. And here he is on the news telling

00:19:24.840 the Canadian public that all local journalists had access to the event. That of course is not true,

00:19:29.720 but the truth doesn't really matter around here. So let's play that clip.

00:19:33.800 It's not as though this happened overnight. There's been lots of speculation that Mr. Carney would run.

00:19:37.520 He couldn't even answer the most basic question, which was, will you not pursue a consumer price

00:19:43.000 on carbon? He said, you know, he, he sort of alluded to the idea that there could be other things,

00:19:47.160 but that would have to replace it, but he, he wouldn't be specific. Isn't that problematic?

00:19:52.280 Well, no, I think he clearly stated what his plan will be moving forward in the days and weeks ahead.

00:19:57.080 He will be outlining his ideas and his plan for Canada. And I think that's important that

00:20:02.040 until launch today, we, we've seen that, uh, all the local journalists had the opportunity to ask

00:20:07.240 him a number of questions, but a lot of our constituents here in Edmonton got an opportunity

00:20:12.120 to meet him and ask him those questions as well. So no, it's not true. All local journalists were

00:20:17.720 not admitted because again, True North's local journalist, Isaac Lamoureux was not allowed in

00:20:22.600 the building. So not telling the truth there, George, not telling the truth there, Mark Carney.

00:20:27.560 Okay. Who else do we have in the race? Karina Gold also made her announcement over the weekend

00:20:32.680 that she would also be joining the campaign. Now I wouldn't say that her event was

00:20:37.160 as disastrous as Christia Freeland, but I can't say it went very well either. Uh, at her own

00:20:42.920 campaign launch speech, uh, she just let the cab right out of the bag and said that Canadians don't 1.00

00:20:48.120 trust the Liberals. Canadians have lost trust in our party. Let's play that clip.

00:20:52.120 And I'll be very honest with you, Rosie. Canadians don't trust the Liberal Party of Canada right now.

00:20:57.880 And I think that's because, uh, over the past couple of years in particular,

00:21:01.880 we've gotten further away from the grassroots and talking about the things that Canadians care about.

00:21:08.120 Wrong clip there. Well, that was her later that day telling Rosemary Barton that, uh, 0.98

00:21:12.920 Canadians have lost trust in the Liberal Party. She said pretty much the same thing at her launch

00:21:17.800 campaign. So let's play the clip of her at her launch, uh, saying that Canadians have lost trust

00:21:23.080 in her party. We have a big challenge ahead of us. Canadians have lost trust in our party.

00:21:31.800 And if we are going to be able to keep building our country, we must rebuild our party.

00:21:39.000 I became a Liberal at the age of 14 because I believe in Canada. I believe in who we are as a

00:21:54.440 people. I believe in the promise that we represent for the entire world. The Liberal Party of Canada

00:22:02.040 is not a hobby for me. It's not a side project. It is something that I have been working for my entire

00:22:09.720 life like so many of you in this room and Liberal Party members across the country.

00:22:17.320 She's speaking some truth there. I'll give it to her for that. That's kind of the kind of speech

00:22:22.040 that you give after you've lost an election, right? That's the kind of thing that you say

00:22:25.800 after your party has been obliterated in an election and you say, okay, let's have some hard truths,

00:22:31.480 some hard conversations. Uh, this is why we lost. Let's rebuild our party. It's time to rebuild our

00:22:36.120 party. It's a little bit awkward to say that when your party is still in power and when you're running to

00:22:42.280 try to lead that party. I know those clips. I can just wait. I know that those are going to end up in

00:22:47.560 conservative attack ads because having a Liberal front runner say the truth, let it out of the bag,

00:22:53.320 that saying that Canadians don't trust us. Nobody likes the Liberals anymore. We have to rebuild our

00:22:57.240 party. Uh, that's not going to help them. It's true. It's entirely true, uh, but not going to help

00:23:03.560 them. Okay. I want to get to the big, big news of the day, which is that Donald Trump is being

00:23:08.760 inaugurated and I think it's a good time to pause. Look, first of all, just say that this is a Canadian

00:23:14.680 show. This is a Canadian podcast. True North is a Canadian news outlet. And the thing that we'd like

00:23:19.400 to do is focus on Canada, talk about the things that matter in our country. If you want to get

00:23:23.640 the American news and you can, there's so many great podcasts. I know that you'll probably be

00:23:27.720 over there listening to the guys at the daily wire or Megan Kelly, or one of the very many great sources

00:23:33.160 of news, uh, down in the States to hear what's happening down there. And I'm not going to try,

00:23:38.200 to provide any special insight on, uh, Donald Trump, but I do think it's important that we,

00:23:44.680 pause and sort of recognize just how disastrous Joe Biden was for the United States. And by virtue

00:23:51.880 of that, the entire world, because what happens in the United States is so consequential around the

00:23:56.040 world, having a weak president down there hurts everybody. And there was a Twitter thread that I

00:24:02.280 saw, which was Joe Biden's disastrous presidency in 25 photos. And so I want to kind of walk us through,

00:24:10.920 uh, just how bad it is partially because look,

00:24:15.160 a lot of this stuff was happening in Canada. A lot of this stuff, there's a lot of overlap

00:24:19.480 between Trudeau and Biden. And that is why it's important to walk us through it. So let's go

00:24:25.160 through this, uh, thread. So the, the, um, the, the author on Twitter here is a gentleman called Ben

00:24:32.280 Q and he says, Joe Biden's disastrous presidency in 25 photos. Here's 40, 25 photos that show the story of

00:24:39.880 the Biden years. So the first one here is just a flashback to the socially distanced cabinet. Just

00:24:47.640 remember this, remember that this happened. This, this was our lifetime. This wasn't that long ago.

00:24:51.480 This was part of Joe Biden's legacy. Here they are with their ridiculous masks on with their chairs,

00:24:58.680 exactly six feet apart. Remember that keep three meters apart. Uh, that's science. Trust the

00:25:03.880 science. Um, and that is just incredibly ingrained as part of his legacy, part of the embarrassment

00:25:10.760 of his time in office. Okay. Let's move on to the second one here, which is just gas prices. Gas prices

00:25:17.480 rose massively in 2021, of course, because of high inflation, inflation that came from huge increases

00:25:25.480 in government spending and the printing of money, the government spending went to basically just pay

00:25:30.680 everyone to keep the economy going while their disastrous policies had shut it down. And again, exactly

00:25:37.240 same thing. Number one and number two, exactly the same thing were happening under Justin Trudeau.

00:25:42.280 Of course, our, our gases and leaders there's is in gallons, but tells the exact same story. I could

00:25:47.720 be saying the same thing, um, about Justin Trudeau. Okay. The next picture here heading north. Uh, this says

00:25:55.400 Guatemalan authorities were pushing back on the migrant caravan nearly. Um, you know, this is what would

00:26:01.480 happen. These individuals are just pushing their way into the United States and having an open border,

00:26:06.920 completely unguarded border. You know, you just, you don't have a country anymore. If you don't have

00:26:11.560 a border, you don't have sovereignty. If you don't have control over your territory, you can't be a

00:26:15.960 country. And it is just unbelievable. Both Trump, both Trudeau and Biden just fully embrace the policy

00:26:21.960 of letting whoever wants to come in, come in like all of these young military aged men welcome into the 0.99

00:26:28.600 country. No worries. Everyone can come collect your welfare, collect your benefits. And we're going to be one

00:26:34.840 happy, uh, shining, happy family, a big post national state here, uh, happened in the United States,

00:26:41.880 happened in Canada. Uh, here's one thing that doesn't, didn't happen in Canada. Um, we, we didn't

00:26:47.760 have a kind of declining cognitively impaired leader. Here's Joe Biden, sadly showing his age where he

00:26:55.320 couldn't walk up the stairs of air force one, failing to make it up the stairs. I mean, look,

00:27:01.400 we got our own problems with Justin Trudeau. Um, fortunately, uh, being in the decline, uh,

00:27:07.880 in terms of his age and ability is not one of them. Um, although I'm sure some in the comments

00:27:12.440 will probably point out the fact that there's other types of declines happening with Justin Trudeau.

00:27:17.080 Uh, next photo here is the Afghanistan withdrawal. I think this moment, uh, really, really, I mean,

00:27:24.920 it was, it was horrifying to watch, horrifying to see how it all unfolded and it really changed the world.

00:27:31.160 Because seeing how weak the Americans were, seeing how absolutely chaotic and disorganized this was, 0.98

00:27:38.040 the idea that they would just leave and leave so many people behind, leave so much resources behind,

00:27:44.440 military, uh, everything. It just showed the absolute weakness of Joe Biden. The fact that he was willing

00:27:51.720 to do all that without a plan, it just seemed completely ham-fisted. And again, it showed, it showed,

00:27:57.800 it showed the world that now's the time. Now's the time. We have a weak president, a sleepy old man

00:28:03.240 in office, uh, never should have been elected. A lot of really questionable things happened around

00:28:09.080 that 2020 election that allowed for this man to become president. And now, now's your chance. If, if

00:28:14.680 you're any kind of, uh, you know, uh, adversarial state, uh, looking to get the upper hand in terms of

00:28:22.440 regional stability or, uh, hegemony, regional hegemony, now's your chance. And you can draw a

00:28:27.880 direct line from that Afghan withdrawal to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to Hamas's war against

00:28:34.280 Israel. Um, you know, when, when, when the United States is weak, the world is unstable. Um, and we

00:28:39.960 definitely saw that. Okay. Let's skip ahead here to another photo of Joe Biden with the vaccines,

00:28:46.760 the vaccine mandate, much like in Canada, the United States introduced a vaccine mandate via

00:28:53.560 executive order, wasn't voted in, wasn't, it didn't come from Congress. It came from Biden

00:28:58.360 and it was later ruled unconstitutional, uh, because in the United States, their constitution

00:29:04.840 is actually something that's binding that is upheld by the courts over there. Uh, unlike in Canada,

00:29:11.240 where again, our charter and freedoms, our chart of rights and freedoms did nothing, did nothing to

00:29:16.200 protect us from a tyrannical government during COVID. I mean, what is, is, is the constitution even

00:29:22.280 written worth the paper it's written on if it can't protect you? The, one of the very first things in

00:29:27.160 the Canadian chart of rights and freedom is the right to freedom of religion. And yet churches were closed,

00:29:33.000 right? We have the, you, we're supposed to have a freedom of mobility in our charter. Uh, and yet

00:29:38.680 the government prevented you from basically leaving your house in many circumstances. You couldn't get

00:29:43.240 on a plane, couldn't get on a train, couldn't get on a bus if you didn't have the jab. Um, and again,

00:29:50.840 really, really, really unbelievable, uh, what happened with regards to governments, um, just out of

00:29:56.520 control, out of control. Okay. Let's, uh, move on to the next one here. As I alluded to with the Afghan withdrawal,

00:30:04.120 um, Putin goes rogue.

00:30:07.400 And invades Ukraine turns into a horrific war. One of the most devastating wars of the 21st century.

00:30:14.120 Um, million, a million people or more have been killed and billions and billions and billions of dollars

00:30:20.680 have gone to further that war, to fund the war effort, to continue the fighting and the misery

00:30:27.240 in Ukraine. That's definitely part of Joe Biden's legacy. Uh, next we have Joe Biden's Supreme Court

00:30:34.200 nominee, Katanji Brown Jackson, famously saying that she is not a biologist because she was asked

00:30:42.040 to define a woman. And according to this brilliant legal scholar, you can't define what a woman is unless

00:30:49.320 you're a biologist and she is not a biologist. Therefore, she does not have to answer the

00:30:54.200 question and no, she cannot define what a woman is. I think that that is just a photo that we will

00:31:01.160 remember, um, and think of when we think of Joe Biden and his time in office. Uh, speaking of that,

00:31:09.000 I I'm going to pull up a tweet that I saw, um, when it comes to this issue, because I believe one of the

00:31:15.640 first things that Donald Trump did do was an executive order plainly stating, um, that men are

00:31:22.520 men, women are women. Behold, this is, uh, from Megan Kelly's X. It says executive order written by

00:31:28.760 Trump issued on the first day here is a government wide, um, establishes government wide that biological

00:31:35.240 reality of two sexes is clearly male and female. All radical gender ideology, guidance, communication 0.57

00:31:42.520 policies are to be removed. Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and that women

00:31:47.240 can be men when enforcing laws protects against sexual discrimination. Woman means an adult human

00:31:53.720 female. The executive order directs that government identification like passports and personnel records

00:31:58.760 will reflect biological reality and not self-assessed gender identity. Wow. So big change there down in the

00:32:07.560 United States. Uh, I hope that that means that Canada will be next. I hope that Canada will go

00:32:12.360 down the same path. Okay. Let's go to the next photo here. Sean, the freak show, the freak show,

00:32:18.040 this is back to Joe Biden's legacy, the 25 pictures that defined his presidency. Here we have the non-binary 1.00

00:32:25.400 deputy secretary of, um, uh, sorry, Sam Brinton and his transgender assistant secretary of health,

00:32:36.680 Rachel Levine posed for photos. So yes, these are actually administered. These are actually

00:32:41.240 officials in the Biden administration, very confused men pretending to be women. They're

00:32:48.280 definitely part of his legacy. Next we'll move on to the fentanyl crisis. And again, this is part of

00:32:54.600 Canada's legacy as well. This photo depicts homeless encampments continue to expand across the United

00:33:01.320 States and most cities, notably in California. Many of the homeless or addicts hooked on fentanyl,

00:33:08.120 smuggled in by Mexican drug cartels and much of it made in China. Um, that's again, could say the same 0.99

00:33:15.640 thing about Justin Trudeau could say the same thing about Canada. Okay. Let's move on to the political

00:33:23.400 persecution. Uh, this is about January Sixers, uh, inside images from inside a federal prison show how Biden

00:33:31.000 regime is torturing January six protesters through the use of prolonged solitary confinement. Meanwhile,

00:33:38.280 hundreds more are convicted on long sentences for the so-called insurrection, absolutely

00:33:44.680 unconscionable treatment over there. And again, some similar overlaps. I know that the media tried to

00:33:50.280 portray Canada's freedom convoy as our version of January six. They lied and said it was an insurrection.

00:33:56.520 They went out of their way to use undue force, uh, really just a stain on Justin Trudeau's time in

00:34:02.680 office. Same thing happened down in the United States, but then things started to turn around.

00:34:08.760 Biden used lawfare against Donald Trump. Um, it was kind of funny, right? During the campaign,

00:34:15.240 you heard a lot in the U S about how Donald Trump was going to use the government and use the power of

00:34:23.240 the government against his political enemies, um, that he was going to lock people up. Um,

00:34:28.120 and then of course the irony is that was literally what the Biden regime was doing against Donald

00:34:32.680 Trump. So Biden regime moves forward with the prosecution of his political adversary and the

00:34:38.200 leader of the other party, Donald Trump, who was leading at the time in the polls for the Republican

00:34:42.360 nomination on phony charges. Well, it all backfired, right? Cause after this photo was taken

00:34:47.880 after the raid on Mar-a-Lago, after this photo was taken, that was when Trump was back that put Trump

00:34:53.880 back. Uh, so many Republicans who were sort of loop warm on him, unsure about him, didn't really

00:34:59.720 know if they wanted to go for him. They were all in after this. It's like, once you declare war against

00:35:05.080 our guy, it just makes you double down and want him even more. And so this was sort of part of the

00:35:10.280 turning point. A couple more photos here. Which one do we have next here, Sean? Um, we've got Hunter

00:35:18.200 Biden, Hunter Biden. Oh, Hunter arrives at court ahead of his trial on tax fraud and illegal immigration

00:35:25.400 charges. Of course, he would later be pardoned by his father, despite repeated promises by old Joe

00:35:30.840 that he would not do that. But of course he did. Um, next we have, what do we have next here, Sean?

00:35:38.840 The debate, the debate, this will sort of go down in infamy as the worst performance ever by a

00:35:44.680 debater. I don't think it's ever happened that someone has performed so badly in a presidential

00:35:48.760 debate that they've literally had to drop out. Um, but that's what happened this, uh, in this campaign,

00:35:54.360 2024, the debate effectively ended his candidacy for president. Biden showed himself to be every bit

00:36:00.360 as demented as his critics had worn, very sad, um, but very true. And we all saw it. And then they

00:36:06.840 plopped in a replacement candidate here, Kamala Harris, bringing back the joy. What a, what an 1.00

00:36:12.120 absolute disaster these two were. Wow. Wow. Kamala Harris takes over as the democratic nominee 1.00

00:36:19.160 and chooses Tim Waltz as a running mate with a promise of restoring joy to politics. The campaign

00:36:25.240 turns out to be a catastrophic failure. You could see it happening with Chrystia Freeland. You could see,

00:36:31.800 you could see the parallels. And then of course, Donald Trump wins with the greatest political

00:36:36.760 comeback ever. And that brings us to today where he is being sworn in as the 47th president,

00:36:43.960 the greatest, greatest comeback in political history. I think that's exactly right. Trump

00:36:49.880 posted this video on his true social, and I want to go ahead and play it for you because it's really

00:36:56.520 remarkable what has happened in the United States. So here's that clip message to hold in your hearts

00:37:02.600 today. It's this never, ever give up FBI raid at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, deadly force

00:37:11.000 being authorized. Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Donald J. Trump has been indicted.

00:37:20.600 Jack Smith has again indicted former president Trump over the course of your life. You will find that

00:37:26.200 things are not always fair. You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve.

00:37:32.920 Take a look at what happened.

00:37:37.000 But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. Never, ever, ever give up.

00:37:46.440 The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely

00:37:53.960 determined to prove them wrong. CNN projects that Donald Trump has been elected president.

00:38:00.840 Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. Relish the opportunity to be an outsider

00:38:10.680 because it's the outsiders who change the world. 250 million Americans are not garbage.

00:38:18.440 And it'll make a real and lasting difference. The more that a broken system tells you that you're

00:38:25.320 wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. You must keep pushing forward.

00:38:34.920 I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United

00:38:40.360 States of America. So just remember that. Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people

00:38:48.120 who care about you. America is beginning a new chapter. Our best days are yet to come. I can promise you that.

00:38:58.760 What an incredible message. What an incredible leader. And I know that most Canadians don't

00:39:11.800 like Donald Trump. Most Canadians don't. You know, they tell pollsters anyway that they would not vote

00:39:17.240 for Trump, that they would have voted for Kamala Harris, even many conservatives, which is tough to

00:39:21.960 understand. But you could see just the difference in style, right? The Americans are so much more brash, 1.00

00:39:27.080 so much more in your face. Their patriotism is just so much more out in the open. Many Canadians

00:39:31.640 find that distasteful. I personally find it inspiring. I love that about Americans. I love the

00:39:37.000 fact that there's this new resurgence in patriotism, in love of country, in even just the whole like USA,

00:39:44.840 USA, USA chants that break out. I remember those from like the 90s and then they kind of seem to

00:39:50.200 disappear for a couple of decades. And now they're back. And seeing sort of the excitement,

00:39:55.160 the optimism for the future, the idea that America is going to go through another golden age,

00:40:00.280 just the idea that the best days of their country lie ahead and are not behind. And it's genuine.

00:40:06.040 When you hear it, you think, yes, that's possible. Yes, it's true. And it's so exciting.

00:40:11.240 When you hear it about Canada, I mean, you don't really hear any of that stuff about Canada.

00:40:14.920 And it's tough to even get in the headspace where you would feel optimistic for your country and for

00:40:20.040 your future like that, like you see down in the United States. And that's why I've been talking

00:40:25.080 about this on the podcast, that I think Canadians should get on board. They should get on board.

00:40:29.400 Trump is doing something amazing in the United States. Whether you like him or you hate him,

00:40:33.720 you can't deny the fact that he is a consequential person. The fact that it was the hand of providence

00:40:39.880 that saved that man's life when he was being the assassination attempt. The fact that the bullet

00:40:45.080 missed his head by mere millimeters and he turned his head at that exact moment. I mean,

00:40:50.200 what an unbelievable thing to have happened. And I think that with that energy and excitement,

00:40:55.880 like Canada needs to be involved. Canada needs to somehow strike a deal. I'm not saying that we

00:41:00.440 should be absorbed or annexed or become American. But I'm saying that why wouldn't we want to try to 1.00

00:41:06.920 get in on that, try to emulate that, try to bring back our own patriotism and our own excitement for the

00:41:12.200 future, unleash the free market and have our own economic heyday. I think that that's what I want.

00:41:19.000 I don't know if that's what many Canadians want. But that's what I want. And if if Trudeau was smart,

00:41:25.480 well, first of all, if Trudeau was smart, he would just call an election and allow for a new government

00:41:29.400 to go down there and negotiate with Trump. But instead, he is sending down his own motley crew of

00:41:37.640 characters down to be part of this new Canada-U.S. Relations Council. So here is True North reporting

00:41:45.480 that Jean Charest, who remember, he ran for leadership of the Conservative Party. Well, it turns out he's

00:41:51.400 back on Team Liberal again, former Liberal Premier of Quebec, along with Rachel Notley and many others.

00:41:57.560 They're the ones going down. They're the ones going down to represent us. So Trudeau found

00:42:02.360 a crew of left wing liberals to go down there and try to talk to Trump's team. That's just not going 0.89

00:42:09.560 to work. It's not going to go over very well. If he had some sense, he would find the people who

00:42:14.520 already have the connections with the incoming administration. People like Jamil Javani. Jamil

00:42:19.480 Javani is a member of parliament on Pierre Polyev's team. He represents a riding just outside of Toronto.

00:42:26.200 And Jamil actually has a personal connection to the Trump administration. He went to law school with

00:42:31.240 J.D. Vance, and they've been great friends and good buddies for the last 15 years. Here is a picture

00:42:36.840 of Jamil Javani with his friend, his close personal friend, J.D. Vance. It's incredible. And Jamil Javani

00:42:44.120 is down there for the inauguration right now. Why wouldn't you put Jamil on that council and get him

00:42:49.960 as part of the negotiations to reach across the aisle and put a conservative out there? That's who is

00:42:55.000 going to speak the same language as Donald Trump. You also had Danielle Smith down there. Justin

00:43:01.240 Trudeau is picking fights and trying to make enemies of Danielle. But Danielle is actually, 1.00

00:43:07.000 the premier has negotiated and she's made inroads. Here she is at a black tie event down in Washington,

00:43:15.240 D.C. the other night. And she says, honored to see my good friend, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum,

00:43:21.400 who is the nominee for the U.S. Interior Secretary and head of the Energy Council,

00:43:26.120 as well as Chris White, nominee for U.S. Energy Secretary, wishing them both all the very best as

00:43:31.560 they go through their confirmation hearings and look forward to working with them to secure North

00:43:36.680 American energy dominance. Again, why wouldn't you include someone like Danielle Smith, who actually 1.00

00:43:42.200 has the friends, who's down there working the room, making friends, posting about it, trying to make

00:43:48.280 those inroads? Why would you send her top political adversary, Rachel Notley? That makes no sense. It

00:43:55.480 makes no sense to have Rachel Notley down there rather than Danielle Smith. Who else is in Washington? 0.99

00:44:01.560 Well, none other than Kian Bexty of the counter signal. Man, this guy's got an uncanny ability

00:44:07.480 to just find politicians. Here he is with Ted Cruz down in Washington. You'll remember Kian Bexty

00:44:14.440 tracked Justin Trudeau down when he was hiding from the press, hiding from reporters. Kian somehow 1.00

00:44:19.480 found a way to find Justin Trudeau on a beach on Vancouver Island. He did something similar when he

00:44:24.680 found Greta Thunberg when she was in Canada. Kian's just incredible journalists. So check him out

00:44:31.880 down at the counter signal. He's going to be reporting everything that's going on down in D.C. during

00:44:37.160 the inauguration. Well, we did get some good news, folks. We did get some good news, and that is that

00:44:43.160 there are no tariffs coming in yet. So this is Paul Vieira of the Wall Street Journal, who is reporting

00:44:49.800 that despite the fact that Trump said that on day one he was going to issue an executive order, including

00:44:54.520 a 25% tariff on Canada, he writes this, President-elect Donald Trump is planning to issue a broad

00:45:01.680 memorandum Monday that directs federal agencies to study trade policies and evaluate U.S. trade

00:45:08.480 relationships with China and America's continental neighbors, but stops short of imposing new tariffs

00:45:15.280 on his first day in office. So this is a win. This is a win. Trudeau dodged a bullet. I don't think it is

00:45:23.040 because of his counsel there. I don't think it is because of his cabinet who are down there trying to,

00:45:29.200 I don't know, trying to win over their American counterparts. I think it is probably more to do

00:45:36.480 with the advocacy work of people like Danielle Smith, perhaps Jamil Giovanni as well. But so far,

00:45:42.480 no tariffs, just a report studying it, which means that there's going to be some sort of second,

00:45:46.480 sober second thought before any rash tariffs come in, which is very, very good news. BlackBerry co-founder

00:45:54.400 Jim Basile, he warned Canada that we are sleepwalking into a Trump tariff crisis. And I think it's just

00:46:02.640 incredibly important to put the right people in place. It is incredibly important, which is why we need

00:46:09.920 an election. We need to have an election. We need to get the House back in session. And we need to have an election.

00:46:17.280 So I want to give a quick update on that because the JCCF, the Justice Center for Constitutional

00:46:24.240 Freedoms, as you know, we reported on this earlier on a previous episode about how they are trying to

00:46:30.320 force parliament back in. They say that Trudeau's effort to prorogue parliament was actually

00:46:34.720 unconstitutional. Well, an update on Saturday, they announced that a federal court had granted an

00:46:40.960 expedited hearing on the case in the decision to prorogue parliament. Chief Justice Crampton cited the

00:46:47.200 matter's urgency, the risk of mootness under standard timelines, and the public interest in

00:46:52.640 resolving the issue promptly. And so because of all this, we learned that the new hearing will take

00:46:59.680 place in Ottawa on February 13th and 14th. Now, I know some of you might chuckle at that because

00:47:07.440 if you think of an expedited hearing, you think about urgency in this matter and how there's quick

00:47:15.200 timelines here and there's public interest, you would think, hey, today is January 20th. If this

00:47:20.400 was such an urgent matter, why aren't we hearing the case today? Why isn't there a federal judge

00:47:26.480 hearing this right now, this trial right now? Well, I guess expedited and quick in Canada means

00:47:33.280 three weeks rather than waiting all the way till the end of March, which is what they're asking for,

00:47:39.200 what Trudeau has asked for. So we will continue to report on this. Hopefully, we'll even have a

00:47:43.680 reporter down in Ottawa to report on that case and that trial because it is incredibly important.

00:47:49.840 And we will bring you more on that. When it comes, I think that, I mean, really, an election couldn't

00:47:59.120 come fast enough. An election couldn't happen soon enough, just given what we're dealing with,

00:48:06.000 the absolute disaster that is Justin Trudeau, the joke of his cabinet ministers and his US

00:48:14.880 envoy that's down there, his US-Canada Relations Council being the ones who are going to be

00:48:22.640 representing us. It's just, it's not good for Canada folks. It's not good. As I just said, 0.98

00:48:29.360 it's an exciting day in the world. It's an exciting day for our American cousins and neighbors that they

00:48:35.440 are welcoming in this new era. And I think even a lot of people who really didn't like Trump back in

00:48:40.240 2016, even people who didn't vote for Donald Trump this time around, recognize the excitement of the

00:48:46.640 moment in bringing in a new politician, a new administration that thinks differently, that has

00:48:52.080 different ideas, that isn't completely tied to the status quo and the way that things have been in

00:48:58.240 the past. And there's some excitement in that. I mean, Trump may fail. Trump may not be able to

00:49:03.760 live up to his own expectations and what he wants, but he's willing to take risks and do things

00:49:09.120 differently. And that is exactly what we need in Canada. Things have gone incredibly downhill in Canada.

00:49:16.800 So just thinking about what Canada looked like 10 years ago before Justin Trudeau came into office

00:49:24.160 back in 2015, I saw this Twitter post comparing Canada and what has happened over the last 10 years

00:49:32.320 with Justin Trudeau in office. It says when he took, in 2015, the dollar was at 0.75 US. Today is at 0.69.

00:49:40.880 The national debt was $630 billion back then. It's now 1.3 trillion.

00:49:45.840 The average home costs $450,000. Now it's $725. The average gas price was $1 a liter. Now it's $1.50

00:49:54.800 a liter. And this is crazy. The price of gold was $1,400 per ounce. And today it is nearly $4,000

00:50:04.160 per ounce. And not to mention the fact that 25% of Canadians live in poverty. This is according to

00:50:11.680 a Twitter account, an X account called Government is Corrupt. So this is a video from a news report

00:50:19.520 from CTV back in 2024 about the number of Canadians living in poverty. Let's play that clip.

00:50:25.440 We begin this morning with a concerning new look at how many Canadians are struggling with the rising

00:50:32.240 cost of living. One in four people living in poverty in this country. Those numbers coming 0.88

00:50:38.400 from Food Banks Canada. It found the poverty rate is actually higher than the 10% estimated by StatsCan

00:50:45.280 using metrics out of Europe. The report says 25% of Canadians cannot afford two or more household

00:50:52.800 essentials, putting them below the poverty line. That includes 30% of 18 to 30 year olds, 44% of

00:51:01.280 single parent families, and 42% of renters. So I think Canada is at a sort of moment of truth. It's

00:51:09.600 like a fork in the road right now. We have to decide which direction we are going to take as a country.

00:51:15.680 Are we going to continue doing what we've done to get us into this absolute mess? This idea that, I mean,

00:51:21.760 we're basically on the way to Venezuela. Canada will be Venezuela in 10 years if we continue down this

00:51:27.280 path. Or can we find a way to force an election to vote in a new party, get a new political mandate,

00:51:33.440 and make some serious, serious changes? I really do hope for the latter. I think Canada doesn't have a

00:51:40.160 lot more time. I don't know that we can survive another eight or ten years in an administration

00:51:46.240 like that of the Justin Trudeau government, just how disastrous things have been and how quickly

00:51:50.800 things have fallen apart. Okay. Well, we wish all the best to our American friends and neighbors

00:51:57.520 in this exciting day for their country and ushering in a new president. Okay, folks, I want to,

00:52:05.520 enough about politics, enough about the world and what's happening over there. I want to bring it back

00:52:10.960 to home now and talk a little bit about myself. I don't usually talk too, too much about myself and

00:52:15.840 my family on my podcast. I like to be a fairly private person. But I did mention that my husband

00:52:21.760 and I were celebrating our 11th marriage anniversary. We did so over the weekend. It was really good.

00:52:27.840 You know, what happens when you, when you first have kids, you kind of have to readjust like your

00:52:33.120 entire life and you have to readjust all of your expectations as well. And there can be some

00:52:37.520 resistance. I remember the first time we celebrated our wedding anniversary after we had kids.

00:52:42.560 We still had this mindset, my husband and I, like, let's go away for the weekend. Let's go like,

00:52:47.360 you know, stay at a hotel. I think we drove like a mile away from our house. We had my mom, grandma

00:52:51.680 staying with our baby at the time. And we went to try to have like a romantic weekend away.

00:52:58.480 I was still nursing the baby. And so it didn't really work out as planned. We were going to go away

00:53:02.920 for two days. We ended up spending one night and then waking up early the next morning and going

00:53:07.960 home to be with the baby. And so, you know, the whole idea that you, that, that you can kind of

00:53:12.840 continue doing your life as you did before kids, it just doesn't really happen. It doesn't really

00:53:17.240 make sense. And I think now, you know, here we are celebrating 11 years. We've come to terms with the

00:53:21.720 fact that our kids dominate our lives and we don't even try to go away for a weekend. We did, we did manage

00:53:27.720 to get out for a nice lunch together. And that was about as much as you can expect when you have

00:53:33.480 four little kids. But I think, you know, I, again, I don't, I don't like to talk about it all the time,

00:53:38.360 but I think marriage is absolutely the most important institution in Canadian society.

00:53:43.720 I think that if you don't put family at the center of the world and your world and the country,

00:53:50.200 the only thing that else that can fill that void is government. And so strong families,

00:53:55.720 strong marriages, strong families create strong communities and strong communities are what can

00:54:01.080 resist against government tyranny. And so again, like I define myself as being a social conservative

00:54:07.880 and the way that I define that is simply that I believe that families and marriage is the most

00:54:13.400 important institution and that families are the central institution in society, not government.

00:54:19.160 You know, again, families create communities, churches create communities and strong communities

00:54:23.640 are what stop tyrannical forces in government. I actually proud to announce that I contributed

00:54:30.200 an essay to a new book on marriage. The book is called I Do Why Marriage Still Matters written by

00:54:37.000 Andrea Morozik and Peter Von John Mitchell, who worked for the Cardus Institute. This is an initiative of

00:54:44.200 Cardus. And it was just an absolute pleasure working with these folks. An incredible book. I got to read it

00:54:50.760 before it was published. And again, I have an essay in there talking about my own personal views on

00:54:57.240 marriage and my own situation. I'm going to read a little bit from the synopsis here because I think

00:55:01.960 it's just so important and it's worth reading. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this book.

00:55:06.520 It says, for many today, marriage is a nice thing, but not necessary. I Do is a book to help you

00:55:13.240 reconsider the central importance of marriage, not simply for the couples involved, but for all of us.

00:55:18.520 Plenty of research suggests that a good marriage encourages health, wellness, and happiness,

00:55:22.680 and the goodness of marriage extends into our communities. To this, the retort comes quickly.

00:55:29.560 Well, that's the result of good marriages. Yet, instead of nurturing good marriages,

00:55:34.360 we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Marriage is not the solution to every problem. 0.99

00:55:38.600 It remains, however, an ideal to which we can still aspire. The book connects the dots between

00:55:43.880 statistics, public policy problems, and people's experiences. Better understanding of the attributes

00:55:50.280 of marriage allows each one of us to invest deeper meaning into our relationships, as well as enhancing

00:55:55.800 and creating stronger communities. The authors equip readers with the language and logic of marriage

00:56:01.720 using secular research. But by imagining that marriage still matters, we can learn to properly support

00:56:08.360 and nurture marriage for the good of the world. Absolutely so important, such an important message,

00:56:13.880 not just because I was reflecting on this as recently celebrating a wedding anniversary, but there's

00:56:20.520 some really shocking data out there on Canada. I mean, if you just look at the plummeting birth rate

00:56:26.600 alone, I think the last time I checked, Canada's birth rate is now 1.3. 1.3. Keep in mind that

00:56:33.560 replacement is 2.1. So we're almost at half the rate that we would need to maintain the birth rate

00:56:41.880 of our society to maintain our population, which really just means that each generation is half the

00:56:48.440 size of the previous one. Each generation is half the size of the previous one, and that the population,

00:56:53.800 naturally, if it weren't for immigration, would be cut in half every hundred years. So really,

00:56:59.880 I mean, we need to do everything we can to try to encourage people, Canadians, to have more children.

00:57:06.920 Canadians, marriage is just one of the ways that we can do it. I think there's a lot of other public

00:57:12.040 policy ideas that have been floated and can work to various extents. But really, it comes down to a

00:57:18.280 much more fundamental problem, which is that people just don't believe in the future, that they don't

00:57:22.520 have the optimism, they don't believe that the world is heading in the right direction, and they don't

00:57:27.320 want to have kids. And that's very alarming. So I think everything that we can do to try to

00:57:32.200 encourage people that it's still worth doing, it's still worth in taking on these kinds of

00:57:38.200 responsibilities can lead to just so much happiness and joy. So I won't go on too much. I'll leave it at

00:57:44.680 that. But I do recommend that everyone pick up a copy of this wonderful book. And I'm hoping to have the

00:57:49.000 authors on the podcast in the future to go into more detail on it. All right, folks, I'm going to leave it at

00:57:54.600 that. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a wonderful day. I'm Candice Malcolm. Thank you for

00:57:59.000 tuning in and God bless.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 20, 2025

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