No “Day One” Trump Tariffs
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Candace Malan talks about the swearing in of Donald Trump as President of the United States. She also talks about Chrystia Freeland's disastrous launch of her campaign for Prime Minister, and the latest on the Liberal leadership race.
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Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show. Welcome to the podcast today.
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I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Hope you spent lots of time with your family and
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with your loved ones. Well, it is an exciting day in the world of news. And that is because
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as you probably know, it is Joe Biden's last day in office and it is Donald Trump's first
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day. He is being sworn in as president, as we speak, as I am recording this. And everyone
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around the world is watching with anticipation, with concern, especially us up here in Canada,
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worried about the impact of a Trump presidency. But before we get into all of that, and we
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will, I think it's important to just sort of stop and appreciate the moment that we're
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living in. We witnessed something truly remarkable with Trump coming back. So many people thought
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that he was just completely unelectable, that it would never happen again after all of
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the events that happened, especially in around January 6th, 2021, which I always thought was
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very much blown out of proportion. But the way he acted was not presidential at moments.
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And I don't think anyone would have guessed that we would be back here seeing him sworn in
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as president. There's always a lot of pomp when it comes to the American traditions and the way
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that they celebrate their democracy. And I think today it's just kind of fun to watch,
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whether you're American or not, whether you love Trump or hate him, the pageantry is always
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something. And so it's fun to watch the inauguration. And so talking about Trump, the question that
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everyone is dying to know is, will Trump bring in the economy crippling tariffs that he has
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threatened? Well, the answer is that no, not on day one, as he previously pledged. He had said that
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it was going to be one of his initial executive orders. That has not happened yet. That did not
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happen. So Dustin Trudeau may have dodged a bullet, but the war, of course, is far from over.
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We'll talk about all of that. We're also going to talk about the lawsuit by the JCCF, the Justice
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Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, to try to get Parliament back in session, to try to force
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our own transfer of power, our own election up here in Canada. So we'll give you an update on that.
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Before we get to any of that, I want to give you the latest news when it comes to the liberal
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leadership race. So what's going to happen? Who is going to replace Justin Trudeau as the leader of
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the Liberal Party and therefore will become our next prime minister, whether we like it or not? Well,
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Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau's sort of right-hand man, his deputy prime minister, finance minister
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before that, she was a foreign affairs minister. Chrystia Freeland officially launched her campaign
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in Toronto on Sunday. And I'm sorry to say, but Chrystia Freeland, it was a disaster. It was a
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disaster. I guess we could have predicted that because pretty much everything that this woman
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touches becomes a disaster. She's a bit of a hot mess over there. Almost to the point where you feel
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bad for her. Almost, almost, not quite, but almost feel bad for her. So this is what happened shortly
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after taking the podium. Chrystia Freeland's speech was interrupted by a group of, you guessed it,
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pro-Palestinian protesters. Let's play that clip. In my office in Ottawa, I have a beautiful painting
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this woman was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. Presumably she has a team, she has some staff,
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she has security. How is it that when Mark Carney introduced his intention to run as leader of this
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party, they wouldn't even let journalists into the room? That's how tight the security was. That's how
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closely things were vetted. They literally did not let journalists into the room unless you
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worked for a government media company. As our own Isaac Lamoureux learned, Kian Bextie and many
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others, including journalists from the Western Standard, were not allowed into the room because
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security was so tight. And here we have Chrystia Freeland. Somehow they didn't catch the people
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standing right behind her with a giant banner. I mean, can we show this banner? It says Freeland,
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our Deputy PM Gravedigger. Like, how on earth do you get a banner of that size into the room? You
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could tell the room isn't very packed. There's not that many people at this event. It was a pretty
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small, pretty sad event. And yet somehow they managed to have that huge banner rolled up in
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someone's pocket or hidden inside someone's jacket and actually were able to unscroll it and put it
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up behind Chrystia Freeland. You saw it at the very end of that clip that I played that she didn't
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realize that. You know, someone was in her face. They took that person away and she didn't realize
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that there was more. There was a group of them and that someone was behind her holding that sign.
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What a terrible, terrible look. And again, it's kind of ironic because these protesters are of the
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left. They're part of her coalition. I think that the Liberals have been completely cynical about
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Canada's immigration plan. They've even let in Gaza and refugees, for goodness sake.
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The countries around Gaza don't want Gaza and refugees because of the trouble that they can bring.
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And yet Canada, with open arms, is allowing them to come in and giving them welfare checks when they
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get here. These people should be supporting the Liberals, you would think. But the reality is
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that no one is ever far extreme enough for these activists and they're going to keep pushing and
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pushing. And so they really just created a mockery of Chrystia Freeland. The fact that they had that
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photo behind here. Our friends over at Canada Proud pointed out something interesting about these
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protesters, which is just that they've been harassing Canadians with zero consequences for a year and a
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half. But when they annoy Chrystia Freeland, 10 seconds later, the response is different. They
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get booted out of the room. And again, just having that banner back there, again, amateur hour, bad start
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to a bad campaign. Couldn't have happened to a worse person. Chrystia Freeland, it didn't get much
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better from here, folks. She's just not a very capable politician. She's not very polished, not at all like
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Mark Carney. Here she is. This is a funny ex-user that I like to follow called Ryan Garrison. He has
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great content. He posts this video of her saying, this is Chrystia Freeland's Kamala Harris moment.
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You have no, when you know, I have no idea what to say. So you just repeat it and pretend no one
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notices. Okay, let's play this clip. You're ready to fight, aren't you? I can feel it!
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That is so great. That is so, so great. We are ready to fight, aren't we?
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I don't know if her teleprompter froze there or something like that, but she says,
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we're so ready to fight. And we're just going to fight. And we're ready to fight. Fight,
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fight, fight. Fight, fight, fight. Okay. Okay, there. Kind of some, you could see some overlap
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between her and Kamala Harris, even just with the situation that Trudeau realizes that there's
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no chance that he can win the election. So he dumps it onto his sort of number two, and she's
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just wildly unprepared as a candidate and not a very inspiring person. You could totally see it
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happening. Again, okay, let's go to this. Stephen Taylor, political commentator, he pointed this out.
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Not a lot of, not a lot of interest in Chrystia Freeland. Not a lot of interest. So during her speech,
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during her big, big announcement that she'd been teasing for weeks and weeks and weeks,
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she only had 98 viewers. Yes. Only 98 people were watching the stream as it was happening. So
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not a lot of people in the room, not a lot of people online, not a great start. Well, don't worry,
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not to fear. Chrystia Freeland does have one big fan in her corner fighting for her, and that is none
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other than the Globe and Mail's Andrew Coyne. So Andrew Coyne, of course, praised Chrystia Freeland.
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Here is his tweet on the matter. He said that she really captured the public mood better than Mark
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Carney. So Andrew Coyne is giving nothing but flattery to Chrystia Freeland. I guess he knows
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where his bread is buttered. And he's just praising her campaign video that she released, which
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really not a lot to compliment in this video, but I'll play it for you. Let me know what you think
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in the comments. Here's the video. I want to let you in on a little secret. Donald Trump doesn't
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like me very much. Canada. We don't like their representative very much. I'm a tough negotiator.
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During the first Trump administration, I fought hard to protect Canadian jobs, the Canadian economy,
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and our way of life. And we won. I left Trudeau's cabinet because I know what we need to do
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to win that fight again. Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies think they can push us
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around. Trump thinks we're for sale. But he can take what isn't his. We're not going to let him.
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We're a proud country. The true north. Strong and free. A country of smart, caring, and hard-working
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people. A country that gets big things done. A country worth fighting for. But Pierre Polyev,
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he'll bow down to Trump and sell us out. This moment matters for all of us. I'm running to be
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leader of the Liberal Party and our next Prime Minister. I'm in this to fight for you. To fight
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for Canadians. To fight for Canada. Join me. Join the fight.
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I think she said the word fight about 80 times in that video. She just kept repeating the word
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fight, fight, fight, fight. Okay. A couple things to pick up on that video there. She talks about how
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Trump has his billionaire buddies. I'm sorry, that's a bit rich. Coming from Chrystia Freeland,
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she wrote a book that sort of helped launch her career called Plutocrats. And during her time,
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profiling the richest, most powerful people in the world, she buddied up with them and became
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friends with a bunch of them. Most notably, of course, George Soros. So here, Melissa Rogers
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had this tweet saying, Chrystia Freeland started working with George Soros in 1990. Together they
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worked to manipulate Ukrainian politics. Soros also funded the Ukrainian legal reform, which Chrystia
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Freeland's mother led. They will do whatever it takes for Ukraine to flourish. This is the mandate,
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not Canada. I pointed this out in some of my investigative writing when Chrystia Freeland
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first sort of surfaced and when the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened, that it's so weird.
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I mean, Chrystia Freeland described herself as a Ukrainian national. That's how she described
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herself. She's a nationalist. She's a nationalist for Ukraine, not for Canada. She probably thinks
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being a nationalist in Canada means that you're a racist. And yet she herself described herself
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that way. So, you know, very close friends, friendship, admiration for George Soros. And yet
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somehow she's accusing Trump and Pierre Polyev of being the ones with billionaires. And her whole
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entire pitch to Canadians in that video was that Donald Trump hates her, was that she would do a
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better job negotiating with Donald Trump because Trump doesn't like her. I'm sorry, that is not a good
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pitch to Canadians. Regardless of what Andrew Coyne thinks, Andrew Coyne is wrong on this issue,
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just like he's wrong on a lot of things. Having the incoming prime minister or incoming president
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who's threatening tariffs against your country hate you is not going to help our country. We need
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someone who can go down and speak to Trump, who speaks his language. We need like a Trump whisper
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at this moment in time. And so if your whole pitch is that Trump doesn't like you, I'm sorry,
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I don't want you negotiating on my behalf. I don't want you there. You're not a good person
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to lead our country if the person who you're negotiating with hates you, especially someone
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like Trump, who can be a bit erratic. We don't want him holding an irrational grudge against you
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and taking it out on our entire country. And again, falling back on her negotiating NAFTA,
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again, I'm sorry, but that was embarrassing. Chrystia Freeland representing us. That was back when she was
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a minister of trade. It was embarrassing. It was embarrassing. First, she showed up with these
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weird t-shirts that she made. She went down to Washington. She was wearing this weird t-shirt
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that said, keep calm and negotiate NAFTA. I'm sorry, but what kind of grown adult woman wears a
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t-shirt, like a graphic tee? This is something you do in high school. Or maybe like if you're a member
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of a sorority, you wear like cute matching t-shirts. But you're the representative of Canada
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going down to negotiate and you show up in like a crappy homemade t-shirt in your professional
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capacity. That was just incredibly bad, incredibly embarrassing. I wrote about this at the time I was
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writing in the Toronto Sun. So I had an article that was talking about how she, she, she gave a
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deranged speech. I'm sorry. She was given this really ridiculous award by foreign policy magazine
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diplomat of the year. And she gives a speech just ripping into Trump and talking about the new world
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order and how it has to like deal with dictators and, and authoritarians, obviously talking about
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Trump. Um, the other side, the Americans took note of that. They saw that she was out there bashing
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them, bashing the Americans and they didn't like it. They didn't like it very much. Um, here she is
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again out there, this, this clip six in my mind, um, of how kind of cringe she is. So here she was
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talking about how trade negotiations are kind of like going into labor and having contractions and
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having a baby. Here's this clip. It's never over until it's over. Uh, it, uh, when I was giving birth,
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one of my midwives said, you never know how long the labor will be, but you know that each contraction
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is one contraction closer to the baby being born. And if I could use such a personal metaphor,
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uh, that seems to apply to trade negotiations. I'm sorry. That is just wildly inappropriate.
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Like I say this as a, as a, as a mother of four and someone who actually, my last child was born at
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home, uh, not in a hospital, not with any medication. Hearing her in a professional setting,
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talking to reporters. She was down in Washington, talking to the press, the American press and the
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Canadian press and talking about giving birth and having contractions and working with a midwife.
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It is just weird. It's inappropriate. It makes everybody stop. Instead of thinking about the trade,
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the political situation on the ground, they're now picturing you going through labor. I mean, I get
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that Trudeau is a feminist and he likes having women in his cabinet and he likes putting women out there
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and they probably told Chrystia Freeland to play up the fact that she's a woman because it makes
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liberals, uh, like Trudeau better that he has a woman in a high position. They're negotiating on
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behalf of Canada, but you probably shouldn't talk about that kind of stuff in a press conference in
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front of the press when you're trying to talk about trade. It's just, it's just not right. It's
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inappropriate. It's weird. It's cringe. Um, that's what we're going to have to expect from
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Chrystia Freeland. And again, I mean, let me know what you think. Maybe I'm wrong on this,
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but I think the pitch that Trump doesn't like you is kind of disqualifying in this moment,
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in this moment of politics, when we need a representative to go down there and speak to
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Trump and negotiate a deal and save our country from economy crippling tariffs, having someone
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that he hates. I just don't think it's a good idea. Now, maybe I'm missing something. Um, but I
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don't think so. I don't think that Chrystia Freeland is the right person. Even the liberals know that
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even their own audience isn't really interested. Not a lot of people at her launch. The few people
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that were there, some of them protesting, not a lot of people watching online, uh, not a lot of
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hope there. Uh, let's give you an update on the other candidate who is running. That of course is
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Mark Carney. Part of his big pitch is that he is this global elite who has had a lot of positions of
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power. Uh, well, that might not necessarily help him here. We had the former UK prime minister,
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Liz Truss, warning Canadians, basically pleading with Canadians, not to go with this guy. She writes
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after printing too much money at the bank of England, promoting disastrous net zero policies
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and backing the labor MP, Rachel Reeves, who was a far left globalist pro lockdown, pro vaccine,
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pro everything, um, growth, killing economic plans. It seems like Mark Carney wants to inflict
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these terrible ideas on Canada. Resist Canadians, resist. So, uh, speaking from the prime minister
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who worked with the guy, resist, do not go for this guy, uh, says former PM Liz Truss of the UK.
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I noticed this as well, again, from Melissa Rogers. I showed another one of her tweets.
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Uh, she posted this on X over the weekend, just saying to understand Mark Carney, look at the 15
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people that he follows on Instagram. He only follows 15 people and it's pretty illuminating
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as to who it is that he's interested in, who he gets influenced by. Uh, of course, Gavin Newsom,
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who has been just absolutely disastrous when it comes to dealing with those LA fires. Um, who,
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who else do we have on this list? Uh, Justin Trudeau, of course, the liberal party, of course,
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but also, uh, another sort of left-wing authoritarian there. Um, Jason in Arden,
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the former prime minister of New Zealand, who was absolutely disastrous, maybe one of the few
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countries in the world that was even stricter and more harsh against people who didn't want
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to take the shot. Um, and that was New Zealand, um, as well as of course, Gerald Butts, who is, uh,
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reportedly working on his campaign and the radical, radical environmentalist, Stephen Gilboe. So,
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yeah, I think we're going to have to expect much of the same, uh, from Mark Carney as what we have
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got from Justin Trudeau. And much like Trudeau, Mark Carney doesn't seem to like the press that
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much. Doesn't seem to want any independent voices to cover his work. Doesn't seem to have a lot of
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time for hearing the other side of the story and doesn't have much regard for the truth as well.
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So here we have liberal MP, George Chahal, the one who hosted Mark Carney's, uh, event, his,
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his, uh, announcement last week that he was running. And here he is on the news telling
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the Canadian public that all local journalists had access to the event. That of course is not true,
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but the truth doesn't really matter around here. So let's play that clip.
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It's not as though this happened overnight. There's been lots of speculation that Mr. Carney would run.
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He couldn't even answer the most basic question, which was, will you not pursue a consumer price
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on carbon? He said, you know, he, he sort of alluded to the idea that there could be other things,
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but that would have to replace it, but he, he wouldn't be specific. Isn't that problematic?
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Well, no, I think he clearly stated what his plan will be moving forward in the days and weeks ahead.
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He will be outlining his ideas and his plan for Canada. And I think that's important that
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until launch today, we, we've seen that, uh, all the local journalists had the opportunity to ask
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him a number of questions, but a lot of our constituents here in Edmonton got an opportunity
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to meet him and ask him those questions as well. So no, it's not true. All local journalists were
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not admitted because again, True North's local journalist, Isaac Lamoureux was not allowed in
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the building. So not telling the truth there, George, not telling the truth there, Mark Carney.
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Okay. Who else do we have in the race? Karina Gold also made her announcement over the weekend
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that she would also be joining the campaign. Now I wouldn't say that her event was
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as disastrous as Christia Freeland, but I can't say it went very well either. Uh, at her own
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campaign launch speech, uh, she just let the cab right out of the bag and said that Canadians don't
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trust the Liberals. Canadians have lost trust in our party. Let's play that clip.
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And I'll be very honest with you, Rosie. Canadians don't trust the Liberal Party of Canada right now.
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And I think that's because, uh, over the past couple of years in particular,
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we've gotten further away from the grassroots and talking about the things that Canadians care about.
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Wrong clip there. Well, that was her later that day telling Rosemary Barton that, uh,
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Canadians have lost trust in the Liberal Party. She said pretty much the same thing at her launch
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campaign. So let's play the clip of her at her launch, uh, saying that Canadians have lost trust
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in her party. We have a big challenge ahead of us. Canadians have lost trust in our party.
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And if we are going to be able to keep building our country, we must rebuild our party.
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I became a Liberal at the age of 14 because I believe in Canada. I believe in who we are as a
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people. I believe in the promise that we represent for the entire world. The Liberal Party of Canada
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is not a hobby for me. It's not a side project. It is something that I have been working for my entire
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life like so many of you in this room and Liberal Party members across the country.
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She's speaking some truth there. I'll give it to her for that. That's kind of the kind of speech
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that you give after you've lost an election, right? That's the kind of thing that you say
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after your party has been obliterated in an election and you say, okay, let's have some hard truths,
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some hard conversations. Uh, this is why we lost. Let's rebuild our party. It's time to rebuild our
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party. It's a little bit awkward to say that when your party is still in power and when you're running to
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try to lead that party. I know those clips. I can just wait. I know that those are going to end up in
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conservative attack ads because having a Liberal front runner say the truth, let it out of the bag,
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that saying that Canadians don't trust us. Nobody likes the Liberals anymore. We have to rebuild our
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party. Uh, that's not going to help them. It's true. It's entirely true, uh, but not going to help
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them. Okay. I want to get to the big, big news of the day, which is that Donald Trump is being
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inaugurated and I think it's a good time to pause. Look, first of all, just say that this is a Canadian
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show. This is a Canadian podcast. True North is a Canadian news outlet. And the thing that we'd like
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to do is focus on Canada, talk about the things that matter in our country. If you want to get
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the American news and you can, there's so many great podcasts. I know that you'll probably be
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over there listening to the guys at the daily wire or Megan Kelly, or one of the very many great sources
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of news, uh, down in the States to hear what's happening down there. And I'm not going to try,
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to provide any special insight on, uh, Donald Trump, but I do think it's important that we,
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pause and sort of recognize just how disastrous Joe Biden was for the United States. And by virtue
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of that, the entire world, because what happens in the United States is so consequential around the
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world, having a weak president down there hurts everybody. And there was a Twitter thread that I
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saw, which was Joe Biden's disastrous presidency in 25 photos. And so I want to kind of walk us through,
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a lot of this stuff was happening in Canada. A lot of this stuff, there's a lot of overlap
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between Trudeau and Biden. And that is why it's important to walk us through it. So let's go
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through this, uh, thread. So the, the, um, the, the author on Twitter here is a gentleman called Ben
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Q and he says, Joe Biden's disastrous presidency in 25 photos. Here's 40, 25 photos that show the story of
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the Biden years. So the first one here is just a flashback to the socially distanced cabinet. Just
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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
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,
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,
00:30:07.400
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
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
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
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
00:36:12.120
absolute disaster these two were. Wow. Wow. Kamala Harris takes over as the democratic nominee
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.
00:37:37.000
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,
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
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
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,
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
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?
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
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,
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
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
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like a fork in the road right now. We have to decide which direction we are going to take as a country.
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Are we going to continue doing what we've done to get us into this absolute mess? This idea that, I mean,
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we're basically on the way to Venezuela. Canada will be Venezuela in 10 years if we continue down this
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path. Or can we find a way to force an election to vote in a new party, get a new political mandate,
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and make some serious, serious changes? I really do hope for the latter. I think Canada doesn't have a
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lot more time. I don't know that we can survive another eight or ten years in an administration
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like that of the Justin Trudeau government, just how disastrous things have been and how quickly
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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,
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enough about politics, enough about the world and what's happening over there. I want to bring it back
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to home now and talk a little bit about myself. I don't usually talk too, too much about myself and
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my family on my podcast. I like to be a fairly private person. But I did mention that my husband
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and I were celebrating our 11th marriage anniversary. We did so over the weekend. It was really good.
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You know, what happens when you, when you first have kids, you kind of have to readjust like your
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entire life and you have to readjust all of your expectations as well. And there can be some
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resistance. I remember the first time we celebrated our wedding anniversary after we had kids.
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We still had this mindset, my husband and I, like, let's go away for the weekend. Let's go like,
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you know, stay at a hotel. I think we drove like a mile away from our house. We had my mom, grandma
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staying with our baby at the time. And we went to try to have like a romantic weekend away.
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I was still nursing the baby. And so it didn't really work out as planned. We were going to go away
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for two days. We ended up spending one night and then waking up early the next morning and going
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home to be with the baby. And so, you know, the whole idea that you, that, that you can kind of
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continue doing your life as you did before kids, it just doesn't really happen. It doesn't really
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make sense. And I think now, you know, here we are celebrating 11 years. We've come to terms with the
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fact that our kids dominate our lives and we don't even try to go away for a weekend. We did, we did manage
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to get out for a nice lunch together. And that was about as much as you can expect when you have
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four little kids. But I think, you know, I, again, I don't, I don't like to talk about it all the time,
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but I think marriage is absolutely the most important institution in Canadian society.
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I think that if you don't put family at the center of the world and your world and the country,
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the only thing that else that can fill that void is government. And so strong families,
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strong marriages, strong families create strong communities and strong communities are what can
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resist against government tyranny. And so again, like I define myself as being a social conservative
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and the way that I define that is simply that I believe that families and marriage is the most
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important institution and that families are the central institution in society, not government.
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You know, again, families create communities, churches create communities and strong communities
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are what stop tyrannical forces in government. I actually proud to announce that I contributed
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an essay to a new book on marriage. The book is called I Do Why Marriage Still Matters written by
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Andrea Morozik and Peter Von John Mitchell, who worked for the Cardus Institute. This is an initiative of
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Cardus. And it was just an absolute pleasure working with these folks. An incredible book. I got to read it
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before it was published. And again, I have an essay in there talking about my own personal views on
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marriage and my own situation. I'm going to read a little bit from the synopsis here because I think
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it's just so important and it's worth reading. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this book.
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It says, for many today, marriage is a nice thing, but not necessary. I Do is a book to help you
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reconsider the central importance of marriage, not simply for the couples involved, but for all of us.
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Plenty of research suggests that a good marriage encourages health, wellness, and happiness,
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and the goodness of marriage extends into our communities. To this, the retort comes quickly.
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Well, that's the result of good marriages. Yet, instead of nurturing good marriages,
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we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Marriage is not the solution to every problem.
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It remains, however, an ideal to which we can still aspire. The book connects the dots between
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statistics, public policy problems, and people's experiences. Better understanding of the attributes
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of marriage allows each one of us to invest deeper meaning into our relationships, as well as enhancing
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and creating stronger communities. The authors equip readers with the language and logic of marriage
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using secular research. But by imagining that marriage still matters, we can learn to properly support
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and nurture marriage for the good of the world. Absolutely so important, such an important message,
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not just because I was reflecting on this as recently celebrating a wedding anniversary, but there's
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some really shocking data out there on Canada. I mean, if you just look at the plummeting birth rate
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alone, I think the last time I checked, Canada's birth rate is now 1.3. 1.3. Keep in mind that
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replacement is 2.1. So we're almost at half the rate that we would need to maintain the birth rate
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of our society to maintain our population, which really just means that each generation is half the
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size of the previous one. Each generation is half the size of the previous one, and that the population,
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naturally, if it weren't for immigration, would be cut in half every hundred years. So really,
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I mean, we need to do everything we can to try to encourage people, Canadians, to have more children.
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Canadians, marriage is just one of the ways that we can do it. I think there's a lot of other public
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policy ideas that have been floated and can work to various extents. But really, it comes down to a
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much more fundamental problem, which is that people just don't believe in the future, that they don't
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have the optimism, they don't believe that the world is heading in the right direction, and they don't
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want to have kids. And that's very alarming. So I think everything that we can do to try to
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encourage people that it's still worth doing, it's still worth in taking on these kinds of
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responsibilities can lead to just so much happiness and joy. So I won't go on too much. I'll leave it at
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that. But I do recommend that everyone pick up a copy of this wonderful book. And I'm hoping to have the
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authors on the podcast in the future to go into more detail on it. All right, folks, I'm going to leave it at
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that. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a wonderful day. I'm Candice Malcolm. Thank you for