Candice Malcolm and Rachel Parker join me to talk about the latest in the trade war, the liberal leadership race, and the recent comments from Canadian conservative leader Pierre Polyvencic about deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally.
00:18:10.380Just to put this into context, like Selena Gomez was the up and coming when I was really young.
00:18:15.440Like I watched her first ever music video and was obsessed with it.
00:18:19.060I was probably like 12 or something at the time.
00:18:21.440So I was always a really big Selena Gomez fan.
00:18:23.720As I've gotten older and all these Hollywood celebrities have gone woke, it's like can be at times, depending on the celebrity, sometimes I'm able to sort of like compartmentalize their politics versus liking their stuff.
00:18:33.380But the truth of the matter is she actually hasn't really put out anything very good.
00:18:36.420So it's pretty easy just to throw her in the camp of people that I don't take seriously or care for the artwork that she puts out.
00:18:41.960The questions that come to my mind when she put this video is one thing.
00:18:48.140What about people like Lake and Riley who were raped and murdered by illegal immigrants?
00:18:52.100Again, you know, to Charlie Kirk's point, she also had no tears for Lake and Riley or for the many other women of America who were raped and killed by illegal immigrants.
00:19:00.300And the other thing that really caught my attention there when she's going, my people.
00:19:28.220Those are the people that are being prioritized right now.
00:19:31.380So for any American to have tears for the fact that illegal hardened criminals who have raped Americans, who have stolen from Americans, and to have tears for that just shows how disingenuous this is.
00:19:44.400Because, as I've said, this isn't the, she's talking about the children.
00:19:48.440These aren't the people who are being prioritized right now.
00:19:50.600It's the people who have criminal records that have been on ICE's, you know, ICE has been paying attention to them for a number of weeks, if not years now.
00:19:58.120They haven't had the powers to do anything about it.
00:20:00.120Those are the people that are being deported, and everyone in America should be celebrating that.
00:20:05.200And it just shows, like, I kind of wonder, like, where does Selena Gomez get her news from?
00:20:09.460Like, what, like, is she just so out of touch that she really believes all the sort of hoaxes and memes that, like, ICE is, like, breaking down doors to schools and pulling kids away?
00:20:18.960To your point, it's literally the gang members.
00:20:21.440It's the ones who have taken over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, or, you know, the people who have been convicted of crimes who are part of these gangs.
00:20:30.880Like, it just seems to me, like, really, I kind of, like, wonder, like, I'm worried about her.
00:20:58.340But to your point, you mentioned this earlier, Rachel, that even the libs in Canada are coming around to the idea that we need to start deporting people who shouldn't be here.
00:21:06.760And so we're talking, of course, about Ruby Dalla, who is a former MP from Brampton, which is a very dense immigration population area in the GTA.
00:22:36.660And as I said, I think the important thing here is that we're seeing a big narrative shift in Canada, that it is becoming popular and normal to talk about deportations for illegals.
00:22:46.260And as we said before, with Pierre Polyev even taking that a step further.
00:22:49.120So I think that this is refreshing to see.
00:22:51.220I'm also really enjoying watching the sort of disaster that the federal leadership race is unfolding before us, because there's absolutely no way for them to enforce who's registering to be a member of the liberal party, which would be one thing if it was just voting for the leader of a new party.
00:23:06.260But you're also voting for the next prime minister of Canada at the same time.
00:23:09.540So it certainly is adding a lot of ethical questions.
00:23:12.480But now we're seeing, you know, a lot of organizers across the country essentially attempt to co-opt this leadership race.
00:23:18.960We saw that, you know, everyone was throwing their support behind Arian Chandra, who is now removed from the leadership race because he said he didn't speak French and he said he didn't think that.
00:23:40.300And I was like, I suspect that he might be removed from the race because of that.
00:23:44.280But you have to kind of wonder the timing of it all.
00:23:46.280I mean, he made those comments quite a while before.
00:23:49.060And then all of a sudden we see all these people signing up for the liberal leadership race, attempting to co-opt the movement to vote him in.
00:23:54.640And then the party comes out and announces that he's actually going to be removed from the race.
00:23:58.300So I'm kind of sitting back watching this and saying, how many people did sign up for the liberal leadership race to vote for him?
00:24:04.700Was it actually making the leadership uncomfortable?
00:24:06.880And now we're seeing those same people who are now saying they're going to vote for Ruby.
00:24:11.380And, you know, it actually seems like she has some great common sense policy.
00:24:14.360So I'm curious to see how this all shapes up and to see what kind of support she ends up landing in the liberal leadership race.
00:24:20.740I mean, certainly she's not part of the establishment.
00:24:22.780You know, you have Mark Carney out there pretending that he's not part of the establishment when we all know he is very much an insider.
00:24:27.940Ruby Dolly kind of disappeared for a while and hasn't been in there.
00:24:30.880She's probably a lot more in touch with what people think and believe.
00:24:34.100And the fact that even in her community of Brampton, she's hearing and she's supporting this idea that you got to deport people.
00:24:39.480And she says half a million in that video.
00:24:41.160The number is so much larger of people who have come to this country, made asylum claims, most of them very bogus.
00:24:46.520They don't show up for the court hearings or their case gets rejected and they don't show up for their deportation order.
00:24:51.540Trudeau also said that he was going to cancel the visas and presumably deport or he asked them to leave all of the student visas and all of those students that they brought in that have just created an unbelievable cost of living crisis.
00:25:05.820So, look, I agree that it's amusing to watch the Liberal Party implode and watch a total disaster show that Justin Trudeau has left in the wake.
00:25:14.360I have a hard time finding it amusing in the context of the fact that Canada doesn't have any leadership.
00:25:27.700And, you know, it would be fun to watch the party implode and the leadership race happen in this way if it weren't so dire for the country.
00:25:39.060Ruby Dolly put up a graphic on her X page saying this is what real change looks like.
00:25:43.620The graphic, I'll read it for the listening audience.
00:25:46.660It says, Ruby Dolly will, let me say it again, Ruby Dolly will deport every illegal immigrant living in Canada as prime minister.
00:25:56.100Now, if you just read that and didn't quite understand that she's running for prime minister, it kind of sounds like she's saying that she would deport every illegal immigrant living in Canada who is also prime minister.
00:26:06.760You had Tristan Hopper over at the National Post pointing this out not to be pedantic.
00:26:11.020This is technically saying everyone who is in the country illegally and also prime minister would be deported.
00:26:16.000A couple of other people making this joke.
00:26:39.760But yeah, I think a bit of inside baseball there.
00:26:44.800You know, actually speaking of foreigners, because you're talking about that, the Foreign Interference Inquiry is set to release its report, its final report today.
00:26:53.820So a lot of us are very interested in this, the final report from the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Canadian Elections, led by Commissioner Hogue, set to be released today.
00:27:04.780So it's coming out, it's probably out now, I haven't had a chance to look into it and dissect it, but we will for sure on tomorrow's show.
00:27:11.920The inquiry conducted in two phases examined the foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections.
00:27:19.820The initial report found no significant outcome, but this report coming out today, or that's out today, is expected to provide recommendations to improve protection from foreign meddling.
00:27:46.580I hope this is one of those issues that if Pierre gets elected, he will expose who those 11 MPs are, because Canadians deserve to know which of our representatives are actually representing a foreign adversarial state.
00:27:59.360You know, the liberal leadership race is just absolutely ripe for abuse because of those ridiculous rules.
00:28:29.580The country's already, you know, really fallen apart over here.
00:28:33.200I don't know if you're noticing, but you literally have foreign adversaries funding MPs in this country.
00:28:38.620You know, so what's your take on this whole report?
00:28:42.700Well, I think the question is whether the liberal party will take it seriously and if they will implement some of the recommendations in their ongoing leadership race.
00:28:51.660It's not too late for them to do so, and that could show, you know, a real effort that they care about Canada's national sovereignty and they're taking these claims seriously, but we haven't seen that from them up to par.
00:29:01.980And you're certainly correct that the liberal leadership race is just ripe for foreign interference because there's absolutely no safeguards surrounding it.
00:29:09.060I had Brian Lilly on my show a couple weeks ago, and he was warning about the same thing as soon as the leadership race was announced.
00:29:15.240It was evident to a lot of people that there was no safeguards around the election and that China wanted to get involved in it.
00:29:20.840There's not really going to be anything stopping them.
00:29:23.100So the liberal party has an opportunity here to do the right thing and to implement some of these recommendations in their leadership race to ensure that it's actually Canadians who are voting for their next prime minister.
00:29:33.320I mean, even a simple rule change would probably help in that regard.
00:29:37.040And, you know, there should be some credentials that you might have to show, although I know the liberal party doesn't really like the idea of ensuring that Canadian citizens are the ones voting in their elections or certainly in their leadership races.
00:29:48.180But they have an opportunity to prove that this is an issue they care about.
00:29:51.440We know that Justin Trudeau has been hammering Pierre Polyev for not obtaining the security clearance that he would need to, you know, receive that rapport on who those 11 MPs were.
00:30:01.380And, you know, he's been trying to say that Pierre Polyev simply couldn't obtain that security clearance.
00:30:06.360That's seen sort of the rumors we've been seeing spreaded by Trouvenon.
00:30:08.760And, you know, hopefully we will see a Pierre Polyev government.
00:30:12.060Hopefully we will see those MPs' names come forward.
00:30:14.520I think it's a disservice to Canadians that information of such national security and importance to Canadians is being withheld from us.
00:30:20.720But it's seeming like time and time again we really have more of a ruling class in Canada.
00:30:25.020It doesn't seem like our politicians exist to serve us, but it's seeming more and more like Canadians exist to serve their ruling class.
00:30:32.060I mean, I just don't understand how you can continue to be a member of parliament if we found that you take money from foreign adversarial state.
00:30:47.840And I don't even care what political party they're affiliated with.
00:30:50.620Like, those people should not get to serve in public office in Canada.
00:30:54.380I really, really hope that this report, you know, allows Canada to make some progress here because right now it is a bit of a joke how weak and insecure our system is.
00:31:05.980Okay, Rachel, let's talk about the latest when it comes to the Libs and Trump's tariffs.
00:31:11.380So I want to talk about this report that was in the Globe and Mail this morning.
00:31:14.240This is just so typical Ottawa, so typical, like, the way that liberals react to threats.
00:31:19.360Anytime there's an issue, it has to be a national strategy.
00:31:22.680So the Globe and Mail basically just reporting that Ottawa is planning pandemic-level relief for workers and businesses if Trump imposes tariffs.
00:31:34.260So anytime there's a problem, the federal government will sweep in with a national plan, a national plan, pandemic-level relief.
00:31:42.040Let's just, like, pause for a second here.
00:32:06.420And we will pay everybody again if Trump imposes these tariffs.
00:32:09.940So according to the Globe and Mail's report here, it says that the federal government is planning a multibillion-dollar pandemic-style bailout for workers and businesses.
00:32:17.600If U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods as early as Feb 1, two sources say.
00:32:24.780The sources said that some of the measures, such as waiving a one-week waiting period for employment insurance benefits, do not require parliamentary approval.
00:32:32.320Of course, an author always going to find ways, Rachel, to do things without actually getting the consent of the governed here.
00:32:37.820It says the bulk of potential spending on new programs, not laid off workers and businesses affected by tariffs, will require legislative approval, which will not take place until parliament resumes all the way into March.
00:33:10.480Well, to your point, we can't afford this.
00:33:12.980We're still paying for the pandemic relief that was offered a few years ago.
00:33:17.300I mean, our children's children's children is going to be paying for it.
00:33:20.560Canadians have never felt their dollar being worth less.
00:33:23.400Now the government wants to print even more money.
00:33:25.880It's like Canadians are going to be paying for these tariffs over and over again because it's like we're going to be paying for the retaliatory tariffs.
00:33:30.980We're going to be paying for the higher cost of goods.
00:33:32.380We're going to be paying for it and that our money is going to be costing even less.
00:33:35.420So there just really seems to be no end for the suffering of the Canadian people and our absolutely valueless dollar right now.
00:33:41.040But the thing that probably irks me even more than this is Parliament is prorogued.
00:33:45.600So how is the government getting permission to print this money and to spend this money?
00:33:49.180It's the same thing that we're seeing right now with the capital gains tax increase.
00:33:53.860It's that that was never debated or passed by Parliament.
00:33:57.180And yet the CRA just said, well, you know, it was introduced.
00:34:01.280So we're going to go ahead and enforce it anyways.
00:34:03.540We've done some similar things in the past.
00:34:05.660Now, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is actually taking the CRA to court over this, saying you have no right to implement this tax hike that the MPs have not passed or, as I said, even debated.
00:34:18.900And I certainly hope they will be fruitful in their efforts.
00:34:22.680But it's again, time and time again, as I just said, the Canadian people, we elect officials.
00:34:39.760That's that's the kind of thinking that got us into this problem.
00:34:42.300OK, so Chrystia Freeland, who's running for a liberal leader on Monday, she outlined her plan to protect the economy against Trump, which includes dollar for dollar retaliatory goods.
00:34:53.640So she put out this post here just basically saying what what what she would do in terms of, to your point, you know, taxing Canadians on the money that we send out and taxing it through the money that we get in.
00:35:07.240I don't think a trade war is a solution, but it seems to be the way that these liberals are going.
00:35:10.480Likewise, you had Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie talking about how diplomacy can work.
00:35:17.480So this is a clip from her on Monday telling reporters how she thinks that we should negotiate with the Americans.
00:35:24.620When it comes to preventing tariffs, this is our number one priority and we're working at it every day.
00:35:31.720Now we believe that diplomacy can work and that's why we're having private conversations and we won't negotiate on, you know, in front of of the public.
00:35:43.940We believe that our arguments are strong.
00:35:46.940I think that I've had numerous conversations where the reaction was actually very positive.
00:35:52.940But meanwhile, there's still a lot of work.
00:35:55.940This administration in the US is very unpredictable.
00:35:58.940So we have to be ready and working on both fronts.
00:36:01.940Like I was saying, preventing tariffs and at the same time working on our resistance.
00:36:05.940Rachel, do you have faith in these people?
00:36:08.940Do you have faith that they are going to be able to negotiate and stop Trump?
00:36:13.940But I just want to point out a couple of things.
00:36:15.940First and foremost, if you listen to Melanie Jolie frequently, she basically always has the same talking point when she's being interviewed, which is I'm not going to tell you the plan right now.
00:36:25.940I'm not going to negotiate in front of the public because they don't have a plan.
00:36:45.940And the other thing that I would say is when she talks about diplomacy, you guys are not being diplomats in the way that you should be.
00:36:52.940You're talking about the need for diplomacy, then why aren't you doing that?
00:36:55.940Why did you choose to hold a caucus retreat to the expense of Canadian taxpayers rather than going down to D.C. during the inauguration and doing everything you can to get meetings with the top officials and make the case for Canada?
00:38:22.940I'm trying to get as many signatures as possible so that I can personally deliver this petition to the Governor General to demand an election.
00:38:31.940We deserve a government that has a mandate to be down there negotiating with Trump on our behalf, not this ragtag group, especially not Justin Trudeau.
00:38:41.940You know, it's I think that the point that they weren't down there, they weren't working the room.
00:38:47.940You know, Danielle went to Mar-a-Lago.
00:38:49.940Danielle Smith went to the inauguration.
00:38:52.940And it's not just about glad handing with Trump.
00:38:55.940I know like so many liberals and people on the left, you know, were accusing Danielle Smith of being an appeaser, you know, appeasement to Trump or being a traitor or undermining the attempts.
00:39:06.940It's like, well, at least she was there.
00:39:08.940She was making an attempt to befriend these people.
00:39:10.940And that is what diplomacy is all about.
00:39:13.940But I think Danielle took, you know, she was the one that took the risk and took a step out there.
00:39:19.940You know, at first, I think a lot of Canadians were surprised to see that.
00:39:22.940And now more and more, she's not a lone wolf on the provincial response.
00:39:26.940So True North is reporting that we've seen provincial shifts when it comes to tariffs.
00:39:32.940Smith no longer a lone wolf on provincial response to tariffs as Quebec and Saskatchewan shift.
00:39:39.940So Smith's sentiment was recently echoed by Quebec progress.
00:39:43.940Mayor Francois Legault, who said any retaliatory action involving energy exports south of the border should first require the approval of provinces and those affected regarding energy.
00:39:53.940I think it's important that it affects a province that this province has to give its consent first.
00:40:00.940Likewise, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois said absolutely no to an embargo on Canadian oil, of course, because the oil that Quebec gets from Alberta actually goes through the United States.
00:40:12.940So any embargo would just shut off all of central Canada from Sarnia all the way up to Montreal.
00:40:16.940So anyone suggesting that, I'm sorry, but they're an idiot and you shouldn't listen to them.
00:40:20.940Likewise, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has come out supporting something more similar to Daniel Smith.
00:40:28.940He's expressed his desire for a similar approach on the issue.
00:40:30.940He said Saskatchewan is most certainly not supportive of export tariffs and will be working actively to ensure an export tariff couldn't be applied on Saskatchewan products.
00:40:40.940So Danielle Smith taking the lead and others are following.
00:40:46.940I think that Danielle really went out on a limb with her approach to the trade war and Donald Trump's threat of tariffs.
00:40:55.940And she was pretty roundly criticized for that.
00:40:58.940We saw the establishment media really going after her.
00:41:01.940She was accused of being a traitor, really horrible things.
00:41:04.940And I think that it's paying off for her, not only on the home front, but also nationally.
00:41:09.940So let's start by talking about Alberta first.
00:41:12.940Certainly her approach to advocate for Alberta and Alberta's interests first is what the Albertan people want.
00:41:18.940We elected a premier to stand up for our interests, not to stand up for Ottawa, especially at a time when there was so much friction between the province of Alberta and the federal government,
00:41:28.940who has seemed really not to be vested in or care about our economy and to continuously attack Alberta's energy.
00:41:35.940And the point that Danielle Smith made was we tried to expand our exports to go west or to go east.
00:43:22.940And then we can maybe look at, you know, not implementing these tariffs.
00:43:25.940But right now, Canada is in a very, very weak position.
00:43:28.940And I think for the people who are criticizing Donald Trump for the economic impact that we're about to feel from the tariffs are severely misguided.
00:43:36.940It is right that he would do the best by his country and that he would protect our national interests.
00:43:43.940I just wish that we had a prime minister who also cared about protecting our national interests.
00:43:47.940And there's no way that Canada is vetting when it comes to national security.
00:43:50.940We just don't vet the way that the Americans do.
00:43:52.940We used to and we should, but we certainly do, which is why we end up with terrorists.
00:43:56.940And to your point, I mean, we reported this in True North, that the number of people on terror watch lists sneaking into the United States from Canada is five times more than Mexico.
00:44:08.940So, yes, Mexico has far more people coming through the border.
00:44:11.940But when it comes to the actual terrorists, there's actually significantly more from Canada.
00:44:16.940Let's go back to Danielle Smith, though.
00:44:18.940She was on with Vassie Capellos on Sunday evening, talking about how she wants to avoid a trade war.
00:44:25.940So, you know, this is her kind of marquee position that we don't want to do a tit for tat.
00:44:29.940It's not a good idea to have a trade war with a trading partner who's so much bigger than you, so much more powerful than you and can more easily, you know, have tariffs without without such a big notice.
00:44:44.940So let's play this clip of Danielle on CTV question period.
00:44:49.940I always think that you should try to avoid a fight, especially when you've got, you know, a bigger a bigger adversary that you're fighting against.
00:44:56.940The American economy is ten times the size of Canada.
00:44:59.940And if we get into some kind of tit for tat retaliatory tariffs, neither country is going to benefit from that.
00:45:06.940And Canadian consumers are going to be harmed.
00:45:08.940That's why my approach has been what can we do to avoid the fight?
00:45:11.940That being said, I think we all know, based on previous experience, that having a proportionate response is what is normally expected when these kinds of things occur.
00:45:20.940And so I know that the federal government is working on what that proportionate response would look like.
00:45:25.940I hope we don't have to roll it out at all.
00:45:27.940I hope we can avoid tariffs altogether.
00:45:32.940This is the same interview a little later on.
00:45:34.940She talks about how Albertans are just not going to accept an export tax on their products.
00:45:39.940I've asked the federal government on I don't even know how many occasions over the last number of years about those extra markets and building capacity to them.
00:45:47.940But even putting that aside for a moment, we're in the moment we're in.
00:45:50.940I've also asked ministers in the past week if they would do the same thing that people are threatening over oil with auto exports, which would have an equally proportionate impact on Ontario.
00:45:59.940And they said, yes, like they're not they're not making it a national unity crisis.
00:46:11.940Maybe logistically, like you say, both are not really great options, but they're not saying, no, I would never do that.
00:46:16.940Well, I think the problem that we saw is that we were getting together as a group of premiers and the prime minister saying, let's not negotiate this in public.
00:46:25.940And I did my part saying, let's focus on the things that we know the Americans care about national security and border security.
00:46:31.940And everybody else went off freelancing.
00:46:33.940And the thing they kept returning to was punishing Alberta and punishing energy.
00:46:36.940So I just wanted to make sure that we get back to talking about the things that unite us rather than divide us.
00:46:42.940And so Albertans are just simply not going to accept an export tax on this product.
00:46:48.940They're not going to accept the federal government blocking the export of this vital product.
00:46:53.940And I don't think that that demonstrates the Americans that we are a reliable trading partner, which is what we are trying to do.
00:46:59.940Danielle Smith is just 100% right there.
00:48:59.940I want to show you one more clip of our friend Danielle Smith there,
00:49:01.940who is down on American television talking to News Nation's Laura Ingalls.
00:49:05.940So this accusation that somehow Smith is selling out Canada.
00:49:08.940She puts that to risk, saying that best friends should never move in together.
00:49:13.940So really just taking the idea of a merger right off the table. Let's play that clip.
00:49:16.940Do you think that Trump should acquire Greenland and Canada?
00:49:21.940I think we want to continue to be best friends with the United States.
00:49:26.940There's a phrase that best friends shouldn't move in together.
00:49:28.940We have a very strong long term relationship with the United States.
00:49:32.940It's been terror free for much of it in the last number of decades.
00:49:35.940We know that we support the Americans and their aspiration for energy dominance, which is connected to national security.
00:49:42.940Part of the reason why the Americans have been able to export so much oil internationally to achieve their targets and achieve the support of their allies is because Canada backfills.
00:49:54.940We have a heavy oil that goes into U.S. refineries to keep prices low for American consumers.
00:49:59.940And then that allows the Americans to export their product around the world.
00:50:03.940You make the same case on all the critical minerals.
00:50:05.940I mean, we're watching as China is trying to cross to cut off the critical mineral supply chain to the United States for germanium and gallium and antimony.
00:50:13.940We've got all of that in Canada. We've got uranium, which we think would be a great partner for the United States in providing that security.
00:50:20.940So I think we've got a partnership that works and we want to maintain that.
00:50:23.940Great response there. But I want to ask you, Rachel, I've been talking about this quite a bit on my podcast.
00:50:29.940What is the response that you're hearing from folks in Alberta when it comes to this idea of a merger?
00:50:33.940Because I remember we did an event at True North Nation.
00:50:36.940Well, we do it every year, but I was there two years ago and there was a group of kind of noisy fellows with these hats on that said Alberta USA.
00:50:44.940And they were really big on Alberta becoming the 51st state.
00:50:46.940I think most people in the room didn't agree with them, but they certainly wanted to talk about their ideas to everyone.
00:50:52.940I think that there's especially among young Canadians.
00:50:55.940So your generation, I think, like 18 to 30 year olds had the highest number, like 40 percent, saying that they would potentially move to the United States if they were offered citizenship.
00:51:04.940What's your take on the seriousness of that, whether you think that it's an offer that it would pique the interest of Albertans?
00:51:12.940And then you can respond to what Danielle just said in that clip.
00:51:15.940There's definitely a small but vocal minority of people here in Alberta who like the idea of Canada joining the United States or at least even Alberta joining the United States.
00:51:26.940I did show on this. I sort of said, I don't think that this is a good idea.
00:51:30.940And what I always go back to is I just don't really want to be under an even bigger federal government.
00:51:35.940I think that the fact that our countries are so big and we have a federal government who has so much power over what's happening in a place so far away is one of the big problems that we see in Canada.
00:51:44.940And I don't think that joining the United States would solve that.
00:51:47.940And even while you might like their very effective Republican president now, there's not always going to be a Republican president in the White House.
00:51:55.940Imagine being led by Joe Biden. I mean, it's not always going to look as good as it is until you need to think about these things in a broader context than in just a moment and a place in time.
00:52:05.940And so while I would say that there is a small minority of people who support that idea, what I'm actually hearing even more of is the feelings of Western alienation that are growing.
00:52:15.940There is and there will always be a separatist movement in Alberta.
00:52:19.940And I can feel and hear that separatist movement is really growing traction right now, especially when you hear things like Ottawa saying they're going to shut off the taps or they're going to impose a export levy.
00:52:30.940Separated separatism in Alberta has always been around.
00:52:35.940I remember growing up and learning about, you know, the West wants in led by Preston Manning.
00:52:39.940And what I'm hearing right now is the West wants out.
00:52:42.940And I know that there are separatists who are organizing.
00:52:44.940And I think that if we continue to see this trend from a federal government, that movement will only pick up steam.
00:52:49.940Now, if we see a conservative government be elected, the separatist movement will certainly wane, but it will never go away.
00:52:55.940And so I would say that that's the broader trend of what I'm seeing with these negotiations with America and the trade where that we're seeing is that Alberta.
00:53:02.940A lot of Albertans are just tired of federalism and they don't trust the federal government to get the job done anymore.
00:53:08.940I think that Danielle Smith had, you know, a pretty effective way of responding to that question with, you know, her little analogy about not moving in with a best friend.
00:53:15.940And obviously she would be renounced as a traitor if she said that Canada or Alberta should join the U.S.
00:53:24.940And as I've said, I just I don't think it's a good idea.
00:53:26.940I'm not really interested in being guided by a bigger federal government.
00:53:30.940And look, a lot of people say, oh, America and Canada, they're so similar.
00:53:34.940And I mean, sure, if you compare Canada and the United States to say to a place like Japan or China, then we are quite similar.
00:53:40.940But having spent a significant amount of time in both countries, I do believe that they are very different and that each of the country has significantly different attitudes.
00:53:47.940And so I don't think that it would be a seamless cultural blend.
00:53:50.940And I think that Americans and frustrated Americans and Canadians would be quite frustrated with each other, actually, and the different cultural attitudes that come with each nation state.
00:54:00.940Well, it does depend on the region, right?
00:54:02.940Like I grew up in Vancouver and whenever I meet someone from Seattle, like it's like they're like a long lost sibling.
00:54:08.940Like it's like we have the same kind of ethos and values when it comes to like nature and being outside and being connected to nature.
00:54:15.940And you're growing up in the Pacific Northwest, like commiserating over the terrible rainy weather.
00:54:19.940Like I think that there are certain parts of the country that are quite similar.
00:54:23.940And then other parts that are like wildly different.
00:54:25.940Like I think the example would be like Montreal and like Dallas, Texas.
00:54:30.940Like, you know, there's nothing a lot.
00:54:32.940There's not a lot in common between those two places.
00:54:34.940So I definitely see your point and probably agree with it.
00:55:36.940Maybe he's interested in music and not interested in politics like his dad and his grandpa there.
00:55:41.940But I kind of feel sorry for him because I just know that the people online do not like Justin Trudeau, that people do not like him.
00:55:48.940And they will take out their rage and anger on his son.
00:55:52.940Remember that Justin Trudeau posted this on Instagram back in October of 2024.
00:55:58.940He said that a dad's number one job is to embarrass his son.
00:56:03.940And then he talked about how him and his son visit a runway up in the north.
00:56:08.940I think we have a video of this just showing their embarrassing antics here.
00:56:12.940I think Justin Trudeau is at the point in his career where everything he does will get trolled and there will be nasty nasty comments.
00:56:18.940And you kind of feel sorry for the sun for what is going to come, I'm sure, with this.
00:56:24.940I know that the Economic Times is already covering this.
00:56:25.940Economic Times of India reported on the story and look at the photo that they included there.
00:56:30.940A very, very embarrassing picture that Justin Trudeau posted wearing an oversized pink hoodie with his son wearing an undersized tight pink t-shirt.
00:56:55.940It's a very big picture that Justin Trudeau posted wearing an oversized pink hoodie with his son wearing an undersized tight pink t-shirt going to the Barbie movie last year.