The World is Laughing at Canada
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Summary
Join Candice as she talks to Diane Francis about her new book, Merger of the Century, why Canada and the United States should become one country. She also talks about Alberta s refusal to join Team Canada in the latest meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump, and why that's a good thing.
Transcript
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and welcome to The Candice Malcolm Show. Happy Friday, everybody.
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Hope you have a great weekend lined up here. It's Friday. We've got a lot of news to catch
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up on today, but because it's Friday, we're also going to have a bit of fun. So yesterday,
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I sat down with financial journalist and author Diane Francis about her 2013 book,
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Merger of the Century, Why Canada and the United States Should Become One Country. It was a super
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interesting, rather provocative interview, and I hope you will go and check that out. One of the
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things that Diane Francis mentioned, and she's an esteemed journalist, very well respected across
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the country, across the aisle, and she made the point repeatedly that Justin Trudeau is a disgrace.
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He has become a punchline, a joke for the rest of the country and the rest of the world. She called
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him a woke joke, and I think that is entirely correct. Canadians care a lot about our international
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reputation. We care a lot about what people are saying about us and what people think about us,
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and the fact that Justin Trudeau is out there embarrassing us day in and day out is just a
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national disgrace. It really, truly is. The world is laughing at how woke and how pathetic he is,
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but they're also laughing at Canada. They're also laughing at our country and how dysfunctional it is,
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and I think that one of the major news stories highlighting this dysfunction and putting it out
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for everyone to see is this meeting that happened this week on Wednesday, meeting of the premiers and
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussing what they were going to do with Trump, with the 25% tariffs
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coming through, and notably, Daniel Smith refusing to sign on to this agreement, refusing to go along with
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what the Team Canada approach that Justin Trudeau is trying to usher in. So on Wednesday, Daniel Smith
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put out a statement rejecting Justin Trudeau's ideas. She had a long post on X. I'll just read
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part of it to you, just explaining why she was not joining in on this joint statement. She wrote,
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I had a constructive discussion with my fellow premiers on how best to deal with the threat of tariffs
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from incoming US administration. We agreed on several strategies and I look forward to working
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with them. However, federal government officials continue to publicly and privately float the idea
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of cutting off our energy supply to the US and imposing export tariffs on Alberta energy and other
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products in the United States. Until these threats cease, Alberta will not be able to fully support the
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federal government's plan in dealing with the threatened tariffs. Alberta will simply not agree
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to export tariffs on our energy or other products, nor do we support a ban on exports of these same
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products. We will take whatever actions are needed to protect the livelihoods of Albertans from such
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destructive federal policies. And so we reported on this at True North, just saying that Daniel Smith
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is refusing to support these potential tariffs. We're already getting tariffs one way
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from Trump potentially as soon as early next week when Trump is sworn in and inaugurated. Why would
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we put additional tariffs and further harm our own economy? That is sort of the point coming out of
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Alberta. We're already suffering through a cost of living crisis in this country. And if the Americans are
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going to try to teach us a lesson in saying, you know, we want you to change your supply management
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regime. We want you to focus on your border. We want you to carry your own weight when it comes to
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military spending. The reaction should not be a trade war. I want to read this excellent analysis
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by Dan Knight, because this is really turning into a Alberta versus Canada debate, where many,
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many Canadians and even many conservatives from other parts of the country are saying that Alberta
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is wrong and that we should all be on one united page. Dan Knight just made an absolute excellent
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point here. And I do want to read a little bit from his post here. Dan Knight's a journalist and he is
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a commentator. He has a subsec and really, really excellent stuff. So he's talking about what Trudeau
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is proposing to do, which is essentially $150 billion countermeasure plan to include the possibility
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of crippling Alberta's energy sector. And so he says, why wasn't Alberta there? Because Premier Danielle
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Smith isn't an idiot. Trudeau's plan includes export levies on Canadian oil, a move that would
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essentially tell Alberta to torch its own economy to help Trudeau look tough on Trump. Alberta exports
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$13.3 billion of energy to the U.S. every month, making it the lifeblood of the country's economy.
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But sure, let's just gamble that away because Trudeau needs a distraction from his sinking legacy.
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But Alberta's refusal isn't just about this plan. It's about years, years of Ottawa treating Alberta
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like the Black Sheep of Confederation. Remember the Northern Gateway pipeline? Trudeau killed it.
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Energy East, dead too. These projects could have given Alberta access to global markets.
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Instead, Trudeau left the province landlocked, dependent on the U.S. and completely vulnerable
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to economic extortion like this. And now, after all that sabotage, he expects Alberta to unite
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behind this plan, please. He says, don't get me started on Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act,
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or what we call the No Pipelines Bill. This masterpiece of legislation basically made it
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impossible to build anything that moves oil. So Dan Knight just really hammering home this point
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of just how Alberta has been treated under this liberal government. After almost a decade of bill
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after bill, measure after measure, trying to intentionally destroy Alberta's economy, Canada's
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energy, making the oil sands seem like there's something wrong with them, that it's something
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embarrassing that we need to shut down, just completely devoid of reality, really. I mean,
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just take a look around the world. Take a look at what China's doing. Take a look at India. Take a look
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at the number of coal plants that are built every year, the emissions going up, up, up. Here we have
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Canada, a drop in the bucket with our responsibly developed oil and gas sector, the highest environmental
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standards in the world. And yet Trudeau treated it like it was an embarrassment and he did everything
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he could to kill it. And now here we are in this hour of need when our weaknesses are being exploited
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and used against us. And Trudeau has the gall to tell Alberta to basically cripple its own economy
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to save face. It is just absolutely ridiculous. I'm going to read a little bit more from Dan Knight
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here. He says, and then there's Quebec. Oh, Quebec, the province that spent years wagging its finger
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at Alberta, calling its oil sands dirty energy, blocking pipeline projects that could have helped
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the whole country. Meanwhile, Quebec gleefully cashes in billions in equalization payments heavily
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subsidized by Alberta's wealth. That's right. The same people who call Alberta the bad guys are more
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than happy to take their money. And now Trudeau wants Alberta to step up and take one for the team.
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Give me a break. Danielle Smith saw this nonsense for what it was exploitation. She flatly refused to
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sign on to any plan that includes export levies on energy restrictions. And you know what? Good for
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her. She said the federal officials are floating the idea of cutting off energy supply to the U S
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imposing tariffs on Alberta energy until these threats cease. Alberta cannot support federal
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government's plan. Translation, Alberta is done being Ottawa's doormat. Good for her. Great analysis.
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I'll just finish up by reading here. He says, here's the reality. Alberta isn't at the table because
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Ottawa hasn't earned the right to ask them to be. You don't treat a province like an ATM for nearly a
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decade and then expect them to roll over when you need a favor. Danielle Smith stood up and said
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enough and frankly, good for her. So here's the real question. How long does Ottawa think it can
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keep exploiting Alberta before the province decides it's had enough? Because let me tell you, when
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Alberta's done, it's not just the energy sector that's going to feel it. It is the entire country
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that is just so eloquently put, completely agree. It's like, again, all of a sudden, you know,
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the same industry that Trudeau hasn't attacked and demonized for 10 years. And now all of a sudden,
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it's Canada's bargaining shit. It's Canada's, it's the pride of Canada. Derek Fildebrandt at the
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Western Standard had a great tweet kind of just summing this up. He said that Alberta's dirty oil
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has suddenly become Canadian energy. Exactly. Exactly. Now that the prime minister can use the oil
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and use it to help benefit himself and his legacy, he's more than happy to, you know, claim that it
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belongs to the entire country and it's the pride of the country. So Pierre Polyev was asked about all
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of this. And again, he just pointed out how completely disunited our country is, how much,
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how ridiculously fractured we are, how under Justin Trudeau, Canada has just become incredibly fractured
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and not united. Here is Pierre Polyev pointing that out. Morning, Andrea McPherson, Global News.
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Your reaction to Daniel Smith's refusal to decide, to sign that joint agreement on the tariff
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retaliation plan by the premiers and the impact you think that will have on Canada's battle against
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the tariffs? Yes. I mean, like I said, the, I think the first thing President Trump will do when he
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takes office is to send a bouquet of flowers to the Liberals of Freeland, Kearney and Trudeau who
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have weakened and divided our country and given him the upper hand. They force, the Liberals have
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forced Canadians to sell 100% of our oil and gas to the Americans at discount prices, which has put us
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in this position of weakness. It'd be nice if we had pipelines and export terminals that could take our
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energy to Asia and Europe without going through the United States. But of course, the economic radicals
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of Trudeau, Freeland and Kearney blocked those projects because of their radical ideology. And
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they have made us more and more dependent on President Trump. And my approach will be exactly
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the opposite. I will, I will quickly approve energy projects to send our energy to the rest of the world
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without relying on Americans. And we will make our country more self-reliant and independent. I will
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also unite our country. The Liberals are trying to divide one province against another, Canadian
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against Canadian, right at our moment of maximum vulnerability. This is because we do not have a
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functional federal government. So we have effectively 10 different foreign affairs ministers,
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one from each province, trying to fight separately. If we had a carbon tax election now,
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we could elect a strong, stable, national majority government that would stand up for all Canadians,
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all industries, in all provinces. And that's what we need to do.
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Pierre is obviously right. He's making a lot of sense there. As much as the media would love to talk
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about how Danielle Smith is being selfish and how it's in Alberta versus the rest of Canada debate,
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the reality and the thing that we should all be talking about is how we got into this mess,
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the absolute dystopian nightmare that we find ourselves living through, where we have a
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government, a totally dysfunctional government that has destroyed our economy in so many ways.
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And we have this pathetic lame duck leader representing us. Justin Trudeau is the one that
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is going to be talking to Donald Trump on January 20th when Trump is sworn in. And why is it that
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Trudeau gets to represent us after the mess he's made? And the fact that he's already essentially
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resigned, like he shouldn't even be there. And rather than talking about that, rather than talking
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about what the liberals have done to this country, the media get a pass, and they get to pretend that
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this is all Danielle Smith sort of acting out of turn and being selfish. And like, how dare she put
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Albertans before the rest of Canadians? Well, Danielle Smith supports Pierre Polyev. She shared his video
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on X just basically saying, I agree 100% with Pierre Polyev. You know, it was also interesting
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because the media took that response that I just showed you of Pierre Polyev and said that he was
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trying to dodge the question that he didn't answer, that he wasn't clear about whether or not he supports
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Danielle Smith at all. No, he just cut to the chase. He just cut past the BS and explained the real
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problem, which is that Trudeau has completely divided the country. And it's a total joke. Like we have
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10 different people negotiating on behalf of Canada rather than just the one Prime Minister. And if we
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had a Prime Minister who had a political mandate, that would be the case instead of the total mess
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that we have. Here is Justin Trudeau, who was asked about this yesterday, and he just continues to divide
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the country. It is pathetic. Let's watch that clip. I think it's very clear that right now, Pierre Polyev,
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who wants to be Prime Minister for all Canadians, has a choice to make. Either he stands
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up to fight for all Canadians alongside all premiers and the federal government that are doing that,
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or he chooses to stand with Danielle Smith, Kevin O'Leary, and ultimately Donald Trump.
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He's just so unbelievable. He just loves to divide. It's always about dividing.
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Justin Trudeau, how dare you just say that you're standing up for all Canadians? You haven't stood up
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for all Canadians for a very, very long time. And for you to sit here and accuse Pierre Polyev of not
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standing up for all Canadians, it's pathetic. It is pathetic. But don't worry, Justin Trudeau still
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has a lot of fans propping up his position and his point of view. I'm talking specifically about the
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CBC, who are still unwavering in their love and support for Justin Trudeau. I want to play this clip
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from at issue journalist Althea Raj, making a point that just really makes you scratch your head.
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For a lot of conservatives, especially Western conservatives who were really upset by a Bloc
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Quebecois bill just a few months ago that aimed to carve out supply management from any future trade
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deals, it's rather convenient that when it starts to be about oil, they've completely changed their
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tune because the rationale is the same. You should not purposefully say out loud to the person negotiating
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on the other side of you. I'm unwilling to touch this. That's not how you have a strong negotiating
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hand. That's the point of the prime minister. So according to Althea Raj, let's just get this
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straight. Quebec's supply management, right? A government program that issues quotas and rations
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and distributes dairy. So a government socialist scheme in Quebec that they want to protect
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is the same thing as Alberta's free market energy system. You can't even make that up. How is that
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even the same thing? One is a government contrived program. And when you have free trade, you're not
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supposed to have these protectionist programs in place. So obviously the Americans would want the
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Canadians to actually have free trade in order to have a free trade agreement. On the other hand,
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you have Alberta's energy, which is like I read earlier from Dan Knight's post, the lifeline of the blood
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of the Canadian economy. Like everything in our economy, so much of our economy is connected to
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natural resources like energy and oil and gas. Just a very confused point. But like we know that
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CBC journalists will say anything to make Justin Trudeau look good and to slam the other side,
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namely mostly conservatives. A side note, because yes, the CBC still loves their man. They'll still
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stand by their man, Justin Trudeau. Not all the press feel that way. Interesting, a user on
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X that I follow, Contrarian Tribe, he pointed this out, posted some questions from the Trudeau
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press conference there, the one that I just showed you a clip from. And he says that the questions,
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well, they actually weren't showing very much love. The journalists in attendance weren't showing a lot
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of love for Justin Trudeau. I think we soured on him a little bit. So I'm going to play you a bit of that
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clip. If you're not seeking re-election, you're not running in the Liberal leadership, respectfully,
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why are you here in Windsor? This essentially feels like a campaign whistle-stop visit of our
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wonderful city. Why spend all this money on security and travel if you're not campaigning?
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The job of a prime minister is not first and foremost to campaign.
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As you reflect on your legacy, how do you feel knowing that the consumer carbon tax is all but
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I am not spending any time right now reflecting on my legacy. I'm very much focused on continuing to do
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Why do you believe you're effective right now in helping lead Canada's response to the tariff threats
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when the other side, the Trump administration, knows you're on your way out the door and might not
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ultimately be the person they're going to be dealing with and trying to sort this out?
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Canada's had an election in 2021 that sent me into the prime minister's office once again.
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Has there been any indication from the Trump administration that the border measures you
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introduced could be enough to stop the tariffs?
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I can say that the border plan that we've put forward and the measures we put forward have been
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very well received by different members of the American, incoming American administration.
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Why are you here, prime minister? Why are you talking to us? Why are you going to Washington?
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Nobody wants you anymore. Nobody wants you there. And even the press, even the government-funded
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press, the official legacy media bought and paid for by the Trudeau government, they're even willing
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to say it. Kind of amusing to watch Justin Trudeau, um, um, um, his way through pretty basic questions
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there. Okay. Speaking of the free press and the bribe press, Mark Carney announced his leadership
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yesterday up in Edmonton. And guess what? He let it be known where he really believes and where he
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stands on a free press and free speech. So pretty blatant here at his campaign announcement. He just
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refused to let any independent journalists into the building, even those accredited by the Alberta
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legislature, even local journalists like our own Isaac Lamoureux, who lives in Edmonton, who registered
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to go to this event. As soon as he tried to walk in the door, the thugs working on the Carney campaign,
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in addition to the paid police officers who were there, uh, had them escorted out. So here is, uh,
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how we were reporting it yesterday. Um, basically that police told Lamoureux that he was not allowed
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to enter the premises after contacting the organizers who refused True North entry. Shortly thereafter,
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Lamoureux was asked to leave the, by the organizers after organizers told police that he was not welcome.
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There's, uh, some footage here by Kian Bexty of the counter signal. Kian was a guest on our show
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earlier this week. Go check out that episode if you haven't already. Uh, but here is Kian's videos,
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um, showing some thugs, just basically not letting him in and the police rather politely. Uh, you can
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see how, sorry, how polite Kian is being with the police, uh, who are enforcing these rules that,
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that they cannot perform journalism, um, on the great Mark Carney. Let's play that clip.
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Is it incredibly frustrating for us at True North? Look, one of the number one rules is it's
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that they're just a random guy who's identified themselves. It's just random. A random dude came
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up and said that this fellow as well. We're just, if some, if we have to leave, I'm happy to leave,
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but nobody is from whoever's book this has told us that they're actually an authority figure. Just
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people that I think don't like us. So. Okay. You are trespassing. So you can leave the property.
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Okay. Is it incredibly frustrating for us at True North? Look, one of the number one
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rules of journalism is that you don't want to make yourself the story. And I actually really
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agree with it. And I don't like it when our journalists become the story. I don't like it when
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I myself, or when Andrew Lawton, or when one of our younger reporters like Isaac becomes the story. I
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would so much rather just actually get to go and perform journalism. Like I would much prefer Isaac
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just be let into the room to report, ask your questions, just treat him like a journalist because
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he is one, um, rather than this whole thing that seems to happen every time there's a liberal event
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where they pretend that anyone who comes from an independent organization, anyone who's not funded
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by the government through the government bailouts, anyone who's not part of CBC, uh, somehow they don't
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deserve a spot to be in there. It really does go against the very foundational principles of a free
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society. I'm not just being hyperbolic, uh, like hyperbolic here. It's incredibly important for
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journalists to be able to question a political leader, especially in a situation like this where
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Mark Carney, you know, the WEF elite, the global elite who brags about, you know, going to Davos and
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being part of the WEF and being part of the in crowd, um, that he wouldn't even take questions from
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reporters that he, he doesn't recognize you as journalists, unless you come from the CBC or one of the
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other selected media companies. This is a guy that's going to become prime minister in all
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likelihood without getting voted in by the people. The man doesn't even hold a seat in the house of
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commons. You would think that he would try to at least be open to hearing from Canadians, but instead
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he's showing us who he truly is on day one. And it is just really unfortunate. Uh, we've been through
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this before. For those of you who've been following True North for a long time, you'll remember back in
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2019, I sued the Trudeau government. I sued the leadership debate commission because they wouldn't
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let Andrew Lawton report. We actually won that lawsuit. We got a court order that demanded that
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they let Andrew Lawton into the building. I was so proud of that. And I was proud to see Andrew in
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there asking questions of his prime minister, of Justin Trudeau, as the press are supposed to do.
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It's sad that here we are six years later and we're still fighting these same battles. Um, but this is the
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mindset of the liberals, of the global elite. They don't care. They don't care. They're going to fund
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the journalists that they approve of and the other ones are just going to be pushed right out. So, uh,
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we'll get to a little bit about what happened at the actual debate. Uh, Carney delivers a speech.
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I don't know. I, I don't, I don't see it. This guy is not impressive to me. Um, he's just a very boring,
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dry, low energy candidate. He's a banker. I don't know how he's going to appeal to Canadians or how he
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thinks he's going to appeal to Canadians. Here's a little bit about what his speech looked like
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yesterday. Old times, my friends are over. Our times are anything but ordinary.
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The system, it's not working as it should. And it's not working as it could. People are anxious.
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No wonder. Too many are falling behind. Too many young people can't afford a home. Too many people
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can't find a doctor. And then we're living through the two biggest technological revolutions
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since they split the atom. And our climate is changing in ways that threatens livelihoods
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from Fort Mac to Fort Smith. And then on top of that, as George just mentioned, in just four days,
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the United States will swear in Donald Trump as their 47th president. A man who threatens economic force
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on his closest, most steadfast allies, including Canada. No.
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I'm really getting some strong Jeb Bush vibes from this guy, like kind of reminds me of low energy Jeb,
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where he has to beg the audience, like, please clap, please clap. That was the applause line. Please clap.
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Um, really. And, and, and the picture that he's painting there, this doom and gloom picture, it's like,
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yes, Canada is in a terrible situation because of your policies, because of the policies that you
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were advising to Justin Trudeau to spend, spend, spend, print money to get their way out of the
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COVID disaster that they themselves created by shutting down the economy. It is all your fault.
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It's all the fault of liberals. They call themselves liberals, but they're actually socialists,
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green socialists. And now they're pretending that all of this whole situation was just handed to us.
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It was totally outside of our control. And now we're going to have to have some hard times because
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of it. Um, not compelling at all. And I will point out something kind of amusing that was going around
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on social media. I don't know if you noticed it there, but Mark Carney's logo, um, on his, um,
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on the, uh, stand that he was talking to, you know, here he goes, I'm in, and he's got this,
00:25:10.620
this flashy little logo and M with a Canadian flag underneath. But, uh, oh, whoever designed his logo,
00:25:17.580
it turns out that they actually just copied it from an Alberta bank med credit. Look at that.
00:25:23.900
It is the exact same. I wonder if, uh, AI created it. Like they just like plugged in Mark Carney and
00:25:29.100
said, Hey, create a logo. And they even have the same initials MC there. I think it's so funny. So,
00:25:34.940
um, whoops, Mark Carney accidentally stole a logo from a local bank and the bank pointed out on social
00:25:41.340
media. It was pretty funny. They're, um, saying it's a beautiful logo. We're apolitical. Stop
00:25:48.700
trying to don't, you're gonna, you're gonna destroy our brand, man. Like we're in Alberta. We don't want
00:25:53.100
anyone to think that we're liberals. We have nothing to do with you and we don't want to. So, uh, whoops,
00:25:59.020
a little bit of a gaffe to start off the campaign there for Mark Carney. Well, Mark Carney, uh, decides to
00:26:05.980
take jabs at Pierre Polyev here, uh, saying that somehow Polyev is not going to be able to negotiate
00:26:13.580
very well with Donald Trump. The idea of him negotiating is laughable. Um, and then he kind
00:26:19.260
of takes a little shot at Daniel Smith here. Let's play that clip. Let me tell you one other thing.
00:26:25.820
In these times, sending Pierre Polyev to negotiate with Donald Trump
00:26:31.660
is the worst possible idea. I can think of one other politician I might not say.
00:26:47.900
Oh, so funny. So edgy, so bold. Uh, it's funny because I'm assuming that he's talking about Daniel
00:26:54.060
Smith there. Uh, but all I could think was Justin Trudeau. Like the one person that you really don't
00:26:58.300
want sitting down with Donald Trump is Justin Trudeau because Trudeau is just so bad and so
00:27:02.460
pathetic and he's ruined Canada and everybody knows that. Um, I would much rather have Pierre Polyev.
00:27:07.980
Much, much, much rather. I don't, I don't know why the audience thought that was funny to even think
00:27:12.140
of Polyev with Trump. Um, the funny thing to me would be imagining Justin Trudeau trying to be Mr.
00:27:17.020
Tough guy, um, with Donald Trump, just not, not going to happen. Um, interestingly enough,
00:27:23.820
when it came to policy, Mark Carney didn't really make it clear whether or not he was going to
00:27:28.860
continue down the road of the carbon tax. We know that for years and years and years,
00:27:33.980
Mark Carney has been a huge advocate of the carbon tax. Um, you know, this is his campaign
00:27:38.620
announcement. You would think that he would have a very clear answer to this question, but when he's
00:27:43.660
asked about whether he would scrap the carbon tax, he, he didn't really say, he couldn't really
00:27:48.140
give a clear answer. Here is this clip. If you were going to take out the carbon tax,
00:27:54.940
you should replace it with something that is at least, if not more effective.
00:27:59.420
And by effective, it's not just having the same impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
00:28:06.140
but it's making our companies more competitive. It's creating jobs. It's ensuring that Canadian
00:28:11.580
households are made whole in terms of their finances, because perception may be
00:28:18.620
that it takes out more than the rebate provides, but reality is different. And Canadians will miss
00:28:26.220
that money. So you need a comprehensive approach. You need a comprehensive plan, not just a soundbite
00:28:32.540
that fits on a lectern. And that, again, is the difference between me and some others.
00:28:37.900
I don't do a little leak. I don't do a soundbite, do a comprehensive plan that addresses all the
00:28:43.180
aspects. And you'll see that in the coming weeks. So I don't know if anyone told Mark Carney, but he
00:28:48.940
is running for prime minister. The point of that is to be able to communicate to people. And so, yes,
00:28:53.900
sometimes you need soundbites. Sometimes you need to be able to explain your policy in a few words so
00:28:58.380
that people can understand it and people can hear it. No, no, that's beneath Mark Carney. So he's just
00:29:02.940
going to give some sophisticated discussion, totally nonsensical as well. The idea that somehow
00:29:09.180
a tax on our industry makes us more competitive and makes us create more jobs that doesn't actually
00:29:15.580
happen because other countries don't care about this kind of thing. China and India and Russia and Iran,
00:29:20.940
Venezuela, none of them have carbon taxes. They don't care. They don't care. So when we implement this
00:29:26.540
kind of thing, we're just harming ourselves, but Mark Carney is too sophisticated, um, for all of that.
00:29:32.860
And, uh, whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops. Let me just, uh, turn off my phone ringer here. Sorry, guys.
00:29:40.220
Someone's calling me and I need to be able to turn it off. And where is it?
00:29:46.060
Sorry about that. Someone's calling me and I missed the call. Okay. So, so basically where was I here?
00:29:58.300
Um, Carney won't say whether or not he supports the carbon tax, uh, but we know that he has for a
00:30:03.820
very long time. So Pierre Polyev jumped in on this and sort of amusingly started trolling Mark Carney,
00:30:10.700
uh, saying, Hey, let's have some fun. Every 20 minutes, I will post some quotes from Mark Carney
00:30:15.580
supporting the carbon tax, including demands that the tax go even higher. That's why we call
00:30:20.780
him carbon tax Carney hold onto your wallets. And while Mark Carney was making this announcement,
00:30:27.340
Pierre made good on this promise and just put, um, you know, post after post after post quoting
00:30:34.460
Mark Carney in the past. He has been the biggest champion of carbon tax. His only criticism of
00:30:39.580
Justin Trudeau's carbon tax is that he wishes that it was higher. He wishes that there were
00:30:45.420
more taxes and that it has to be much, much higher to change people's behavior. And so
00:30:51.660
really just keep, keep it going. So, you know, he might try to run on a campaign of getting rid
00:30:57.260
of the carbon tax or changing the carbon tax is sort of what he was alluding to in that speech.
00:31:02.220
But the reality is that he believes in it. He supported it. Um, it has been, that that's
00:31:09.020
enough, Sean, you don't need to show them anymore. Um, that's enough that, that, that, that he, he,
00:31:14.380
he'll never explain to Canadians why it is that he's changed his position, why it is that he supported
00:31:20.140
carbon taxes for all those years. And now he's against them. I think that's the onus is on Carney to
00:31:26.380
explain that change of heart. Uh, of course it didn't take the conservatives long to release
00:31:30.940
an attack ad. And so, uh, moments after Carney made his announcement, the conservatives were
00:31:36.940
ready with this ad. Mark Carney is back from Europe and speaking as a European to continue
00:31:43.180
what Justin Trudeau started a steady increase in the price of carbon. Carbon prices have been applied
00:31:48.220
sparingly. They've been set far too low. He even called Trudeau's carbon tax a model for others.
00:31:54.780
So no matter what he calls it, effectively a shadow carbon price or price on pollution,
00:31:59.900
you're going to keep paying in some form of carbon tax, carbon tax Carney. He's just like Justin.
00:32:10.460
So yeah, he's going to have to explain. All right, let's move on. Christia Freeland is also in the race
00:32:15.660
and, uh, she was supposed to announce on Friday that she was in while she posted this on X saying that
00:32:21.580
she is in, but her formal announcement, I guess, is going to come this weekend. So it says official
00:32:28.460
launch Sunday and it says, uh, Christia Freeland today issued the following statement regarding the
00:32:33.660
liberal party leadership race. I'm running to fight for Canada. So she's in, even though she's not
00:32:40.780
actually doing an announcement. I wonder why I wonder if they had to totally change their strategy,
00:32:45.740
given that Mark Carney, uh, came out ahead of her and announced, uh, so they're throwing something
00:32:50.780
together, uh, for Sunday. I think that she will also be running far, far away from her own record
00:32:57.260
and her position in Justin Trudeau's government. She was a deputy prime minister. She was a finance
00:33:01.820
minister. She was Trudeau's right-hand man throughout the entire ordeal. And the fact that
00:33:07.500
she will probably be running as a change agent, as someone different, I imagine that she'll also
00:33:12.700
abandon the, uh, carbon tax. It was sort of hinted to in the national post article here. It says that
00:33:19.660
Freeland plans to replace the carbon tax with something else. So even the person who shepherded
00:33:25.900
it in, who advocated for it, uh, side by side with Justin Trudeau now recognizes that it has been a total
00:33:32.380
disaster for the economy and the country and is backing away. Uh, interestingly, she also is
00:33:38.940
setting this up kind of as a fight of Canada versus Alberta versus the United States here.
00:33:44.620
Um, so it seems like they would rather, uh, run against Donald Trump or Danielle Smith than Pierre
00:33:49.500
Polyev probably because Polyev is such an effective politician, but here is what she posted on X.
00:33:55.020
She wrote, I'm a proud daughter of Peace River, Alberta. That makes me a proud Canadian. I stand together
00:34:00.380
with all of Canada in the face of Donald Trump's threats. Pierre Polyev, are you going to stand
00:34:04.940
up for Canada or are you going to stand with Danielle Smith? So playing up her Alberta roots
00:34:11.100
there, even though, as I mentioned, she represents the urban riding of Rosedale University in downtown
00:34:18.220
Toronto. So about as far away as you can get from Northern Alberta where she grew up. So we will continue
00:34:26.140
to cover the liberal leadership race on the show. We'll be back on Monday with much more of
00:34:30.220
that. All right, let's change focus a little bit. We used to do a segment called Fake News Friday
00:34:35.020
on the show. And I think it's fun to highlight some of the sort of worst things that happen in
00:34:41.500
the Canadian media. This story gave me a little chuckle. Uh, CTV basically tells Canadians to lower
00:34:48.220
their standards of living. So they post this article on X. It says seven ways to help you. What does it say?
00:34:54.620
Seven ideas to help you break free from living to paycheck, from paycheck to paycheck. And you can
00:35:00.540
see the reach of this post. Put that back up, Sean. Um, at the bottom there, you can see how many
00:35:07.340
views it's had. This thing was viewed over 6 million times, 6.4 million views. Holy smokes,
00:35:13.820
that is big for a Canadian publication like CTV. Well, it wasn't good news for CTV. The reason that this
00:35:20.940
post got shared so widely and so much is one of the ideas to help you break free from living from
00:35:27.180
paycheck to paycheck was, here it is, number seven, just reduce your standard of living.
00:35:34.780
Just reduce your expectations, lower your expectations, Canadians. One of the biggest
00:35:39.580
mistakes you can make is having too high of a standard of living. So for all of you Canadians,
00:35:46.140
Canadians, I know you, you think you live in the first world. I know you think you live in a Western,
00:35:50.540
a rich Western liberal democracy. Uh, but the reality is under Justin Trudeau, it's become a
00:35:55.260
third world. It's become a third world. It's become Venezuela. And so all you have to do is just reduce
00:36:00.860
your standard of living. Well, uh, news for CTV, we're all doing that. Uh, not voluntarily though.
00:36:06.300
Um, so many Canadians, uh, you know, even Olivia Chow, the mayor of Toronto suggested that, uh, one way to
00:36:12.380
deal with the, uh, crisis of a standard of living is just to skip one meal, just to skip a meal a day
00:36:19.260
or skip a meal a week. And that will help you make ends meet in Canada. So the blowback was so bad
00:36:25.660
that CTV had you take the article down. It is now no longer on their website. Uh, Canadians did not
00:36:31.900
appreciate being told to lower your standard of living. And again, this goes back to the theme of the
00:36:38.060
show, I think, which is that it's no wonder that the world is laughing at us. Canada has become a
00:36:43.100
joke under Justin Trudeau, under his insane woke policies and the world noticed the world reacted.
00:36:49.180
It's a little bit refreshing to hear some Americans notice what's happening in Canada. Like it's so
00:36:55.260
obvious to them from the outside, looking in at what a disaster Justin Trudeau has been. So it's a little
00:37:00.780
bit vindicating for Canadians who have opposed Justin Trudeau from day one, like myself, uh, to hear
00:37:06.540
Americans finally kind of open up and speak the truth when it comes to Justin Trudeau. So we're
00:37:12.460
going to go through a few examples here, starting with none other than Joe Rogan. So here is what
00:37:18.220
Joe had to say after he heard the news that Justin Trudeau is stepping down.
00:37:23.020
Oh, you're thinking to Justin Trudeau doing blackface.
00:37:25.580
You know, he just retired retired. Yeah, that's crazy.
00:37:28.780
Well, he, he's stepping down till they find they're gonna have to find a replacement and then he leaves.
00:37:33.820
I liked him better when he was black, but that, that was very brief.
00:37:39.420
Ouch. Uh, that stings. We also had American, uh, journalist and podcaster, Megan Kelly, uh,
00:37:46.140
I think really speaking for all women when she describes how she feels as a woman, uh,
00:37:51.100
looking at Justin Trudeau and hearing from him. Let's play that clip.
00:37:53.740
Justin Trudeau has turned himself into a punchline. He is when I picture if feet feckless man,
00:38:03.340
I picture Justin Trudeau. I couldn't think of somebody less attractive to me as a woman
00:38:10.460
than that man. I, I can't stand the sight of him. I'm thrilled. Our friendly neighbors in our evil top
00:38:19.340
hat as Michael Knowles calls Canada have come to their senses and effectively forced him to this
00:38:25.580
decision. I think, uh, Megan Kelly speaks for all women. I would say all women. Uh, it, it is funny
00:38:33.100
to the point where if I play a clip of Justin Trudeau on my show, the comment section will be like,
00:38:37.740
I had to turn off your video, Candace. Cause I cannot stand the look of him. I cannot stand the
00:38:41.900
sound of his voice. There's nothing about him that I like. And I think Megan Kelly, uh, kind of summed it
00:38:47.260
up there as funny. She calls Canada, America's evil top hat. I remember when I first heard that
00:38:52.140
I was kind of offended. I was like, Hey, what did we do? Right. And then you hear Michael Knowles,
00:38:56.140
who's an American, uh, Christian commentator who, who kind of explains his perspective on why Canada
00:39:02.140
is America's evil top hat. And you're kind of like, okay, I agree with that. Like all of the worst work
00:39:07.820
policies, um, that are destroying America are also being tested and tried up in Canada, uh, with a lot
00:39:13.820
less, uh, pushback. So you can't, you can't fight with him on that one. It's completely true. Uh,
00:39:18.780
speaking of the daily wire, we also heard from Matt Walsh over there. Here is what he had to say
00:39:23.340
on the situation. As a result, after a decade of self-loathing, Canada is now predictably falling
00:39:29.500
apart. Justin Trudeau has resigned. Parliament has been suspended. Their whole government has basically
00:39:35.180
collapsed. Canada is, uh, sputtering along, barely staying alive in the cold, like a stray cat that
00:39:42.380
everyone ignores. But there's some good news now for Canadians. Finally, at long last,
00:39:48.060
against all odds, they may soon have a nation to call their own.
00:39:55.100
So there you go. Uh, we also heard from Ben Shapiro. Ben does a decent job explaining what
00:40:00.620
is happening in Canada and the need for Pierre Polyev to step in. Let's play that clip.
00:40:06.780
And Justin Trudeau has been an awful prime minister. And the fact that he has lasted as long as he has,
00:40:12.300
is simply because of, of the system itself. And by the way, the, the original fall off for Trudeau
00:40:18.300
certainly had something to do with the convoy protest, right? The freedom convoy that started
00:40:22.220
in early 2022, that started to have an impact on him. And now, of course, he is facing down a Trump
00:40:27.580
administration that is not friendly to him. President Trump has called him the governor of
00:40:31.420
the 51st state and suggested that perhaps the United States ought to annex Canada. You know,
00:40:36.140
we would be greeted as liberators, but we don't even have to because Polyevre is fantastic. I don't
00:40:39.900
know if you've watched any tape of Polyevre. He is absolutely steady, steadfast, ideologically
00:40:47.340
coherent, excellent on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy, a true classically
00:40:52.460
conservative leader, probably even more right-wing than Stephen Harper was. Stephen Harper was the
00:40:57.820
prime minister of Canada about a decade ago. You are seeing a whole new spate of conservative
00:41:05.340
right-wing leaders across the world because of the reaction to the left.
00:41:09.820
And so you see some respect there towards Pierre Polyev in stark contrast to Justin Trudeau. And you know,
00:41:16.620
you might kind of expect a American conservative like Ben Shapiro to like a fellow conservative
00:41:21.980
in Pierre Polyevre. I want to show you this clip, which is interesting because it is The Daily Show,
00:41:26.060
the same Daily Show that had Mark Carney on to sort of, you know, prop him up, lick his boots right
00:41:31.420
before he's announcing that he might become prime minister of Canada. Just a few days earlier,
00:41:36.220
before Jon Stewart was back from vacation, there was a guest host, Desi Liddick, and she kind of had a
00:41:41.660
different take and a different opinion on Pierre Polyevre. So let's show that clip.
00:41:47.580
By the way, this isn't the first time he's mentioned this. He's been tweeting about
00:41:50.860
making Canada the 51st state for months now. Side note, I'm impressed that he currently knows
00:41:56.060
there are 50 states, but surely Canada's not going to just take this. Prime Minister Trudeau,
00:42:02.620
tell him what's up. I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister.
00:42:10.300
Well, welcome to the United States, Canada. But no, Trudeau didn't resign just to make it easier
00:42:17.660
for Trump to take over Canada. The fact is he resigned because he's very unpopular now. And if
00:42:22.700
he ran again, he'd have to face this guy, Pierre Polyevre. He's the leader of the conservative party,
00:42:29.020
and based on this interview, he's a pretty intimidating dude.
00:42:32.780
On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you're obviously taking the
00:42:41.740
Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess.
00:42:50.300
Certainly you tap. A lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the
00:43:05.180
Well, you're the one who asked the question, so you must know somebody.
00:43:19.420
Admittedly, pretty funny stuff there on The Daily Show.
00:43:22.620
But again, you can see how differently they treat Pierre Polyevre and not in a negative way.
00:43:29.500
This is my favorite meme of the week came courtesy of Kian Bexty with the idea of America inviting
00:43:42.060
The guy says, you have this Chad looking guy with the American headband looking at a pretty girl
00:43:50.460
And then you have Ottawa step in and say, she's not interested.
00:44:05.180
Earlier in the week, I was talking about the horrendous forest fires in Los Angeles and the
00:44:10.620
incredible bravery that we have been seeing from firefighters.
00:44:13.980
Just some incredible clips of planes and helicopters doing really incredible maneuvers
00:44:19.580
there to try to put out those horrendous flames and the fires.
00:44:23.660
I described a video of a Canadian bomber filling up water from the Pacific Ocean and I didn't have
00:44:29.660
the clip at the time, so I wanted to play you the clip, but I'm not just going to play you the clip.
00:44:33.340
I'm going to play you this other clip of a guy watching it that went viral.
00:44:42.140
Him reacting with just so much like masculine excitement for the bravery of these men who are
00:44:51.980
I hope we blurred out all the bad language, just a little bit of bad language.
00:44:55.900
I think we might've, I think we've got it all covered up, but I'm going to play this clip
00:45:15.740
Watch, he's going to skim it right across the Pacific, son.
00:45:57.500
And he just lifts up and flies off into the damn sunset.
00:46:09.660
You have to love the enthusiasm and appreciate that energy.
00:46:23.100
And that is that those are not indeed American bad asses.
00:46:33.580
The water bombers are Canadian CL415s provided by Quebec and Ontario.
00:46:42.060
And so despite the enthusiasm and the excitement there, just a little fact check.
00:46:48.300
Colin Rugg, who's a journalist on X, tweeted this.
00:46:51.420
He said, who has the heart to tell him that it's a Canadian bad ass?
00:47:01.180
Those are Canadians, actually French Canadians.
00:47:04.140
So here is another post just pointing out the crew of these planes.
00:47:09.900
The pilots are Pascal de Cloux, Sébastien Marquis, Christian Paquette, and Eric Bergeron.
00:47:16.220
So really hats off the skill required to do those kind of maneuvers.
00:47:20.940
Like you said, the Pacific Ocean is incredibly choppy, right?
00:47:23.980
To go down, pick up the water, and then lift off again, you know, over and over and over again.
00:47:32.940
God bless these men, you know, for putting themselves in harm's way like that to help protect other people.
00:47:42.620
I want to talk a little bit about Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald.
00:47:50.860
And, you know, one of the most painful things that we've seen happen over the last five or six years under Justin Trudeau is the complete effort by the woke mob to erase our history and to denigrate our entire past.
00:48:04.620
To say that celebrating our first, our country's first Prime Minister is beyond the pale.
00:48:09.420
To see the statues get toppled, the streets renamed, the schools renamed, take John A.'s name off of everything.
00:48:16.780
The effort by the extreme left, the cult of the left, the far left woke mob to erase our history.
00:48:26.860
And what I noticed this year on Sir John A.'s birthday is that there are now efforts to combat that, that there's more and more people willing to speak up and voice their support for a person like John A. MacDonald, our appreciation for him.
00:48:44.620
We would likely be Americans if it weren't for Sir John A. MacDonald.
00:48:48.780
And it's really a great point that is worth making.
00:48:54.620
He said, today we honor Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada's first Prime Minister.
00:48:58.380
On his birthday, a nation builder, he brought Canada together through Confederation and the Pacific,
00:49:03.820
and the Canadian Pacific Railway, laying the foundation for a strong and prosperous country.
00:49:08.380
Without his vision, Canada would not exist today.
00:49:13.100
Likewise, there's this great video circulating on social media, a heritage moment.
00:49:18.780
I remember watching these heritage moments while you were, you know, watching TV as a kid while they're back.
00:49:31.180
Mr. MacDonald, do you plan to bribe the entire delegation?
00:49:34.700
Our methods may differ, Mr. Brown, but our objective is the same.
00:49:42.300
We must convince the Maritimes of there will be no Confederation.
00:49:49.420
How long before they look to our borders again?
00:49:55.820
Just imagine, to the east, the Atlantic provinces, then upper and lower Canada,
00:50:03.740
A new country made one by a railway from sea to sea.
00:50:17.020
The Charlottetown Conference set Confederation in motion.
00:50:23.500
MacDonald became Canada's first Prime Minister.
00:50:30.300
Even just the fact that people were circulating that and that was put out by the government.
00:50:34.140
Interesting that they sort of say right out the whole purpose of Canada was to stop the Americans,
00:50:43.260
The Americans were fighting a civil war at the time.
00:50:45.820
And the Canadians were afraid that if they didn't unite, the British didn't unite as its own entity
00:50:52.060
in North America, they would get consumed and absorbed into America.
00:50:56.220
So the very purpose of our country was doing what Justin Trudeau is still trying to do today,
00:51:02.220
which is keep Canada together and keep the Americans out, essentially.
00:51:08.220
And the second thing was what it was that united the country was a huge, ambitious,
00:51:14.060
natural resource, basically plan to build a railway so that you could get resources to and from
00:51:19.980
the West Coast so that you could connect the country via rail.
00:51:23.420
You know, the criticism that many people in Western Canada have of Sir John A. Macdonald
00:51:29.340
was that Canada was created sort of as an economic colony.
00:51:32.620
Like the West was really just brought in to service Ontario and central Canada.
00:51:38.060
But remarkable still just that they were able to build such an audacious project.
00:51:43.740
You imagine trying to build something like that today and it would just get blocked by any number
00:51:48.700
of these sort of radical left wing, Gerald Butts designed policies meant to make it so that you
00:52:00.540
Thinking about the vision of Sir John A. back then, I think he would be disappointed to see Canada
00:52:10.540
We can't create one solid, you know, we can't come together to show, you know, unity towards the
00:52:22.220
You have one province that has been severely mistreated for, you know, a decade, but much,
00:52:27.580
much longer because it's really been since the first Trudeau was in office.
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And finally saying, you know what, we're just not going to do it.
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We're not going to allow you to sacrifice us again because we're sick of it.
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And again, I know I pointed this out on almost every show this week, but if you just look at
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a map of the pipelines and you just see how central Canada gets its oil, it gets its oil
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from a pipeline that goes through the United States.
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So the whole idea of putting extra tariffs on oil going into the United States, it doesn't
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make any sense because it would be Ontario and Quebec that would pay the severe price,
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An embargo on the U.S. oil going into the U.S. would also essentially be an embargo
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Have you thought through how disastrous this would be to actually implement a policy like that?
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And, you know, to the point that Althea Raj was making in that clip that I played earlier
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from Add Issue Power in Politics, it's just about being on the same page for negotiating
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That's playing into Justin Trudeau's strategy that says, you know, I will unleash any kind of
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economic warfare against you if you do this to us.
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I don't think Trump's going to respond to that.
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I think Trump would call him on his bluff and be like, yeah, buddy, go ahead.
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Good luck with that because you're going to cut off oil to your own population centers
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But to take it back to Sir John A., I think that he had a vision for this country that is worth
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reflecting on, worth remembering, and worth teaching to the next generation.
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And that's why I'm super proud of True North and our journalist, Lindsay Shepherd, who has written
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a book on this topic about Sir John A. It's called A Day with Sir John A. And it's a kid's book,
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a delightful child story about a young boy who gets transported through time to get to spend a day
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with Canada's first prime minister. It is really, really fun, beautiful illustrations there as well.
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Lindsay did a great job. I love the book. I've got four little kids. Some of them are a bit too
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young for it, but my five-year-old, nearly six, absolutely loves it. And I think it's just so
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important to teach children positive stories about our past, positive lessons, because especially if
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your kids are in public school in Canada, but heck, even if they're in a private school, the woke
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ideology has gotten everywhere. It has absorbed us, and they will be hearing the other story,
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the other side of the story at school. And so, you know, you have to combat that at home.
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And I think Lindsay's book does a great job of teaching young Canadians, young children that,
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hey, our prime minister, you know, he might, history might not be remembering him too kindly
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right now, but he actually did tremendous things for our country. And indeed, our country wouldn't
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be here without him. And in, you know, the face of this entire thing, this threat from Trump,
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this threat from the United States about being absorbed and annexed into the United States,
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my husband, Kaz, tweeted about this, and he made a great point. He said, you know who argued best for
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Canada independent from the United States? Sir John A. MacDonald. Maybe this government should have
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spoken up when his statues were being torn down. Maybe our history and heritage of freedom is something
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we should hold proudly. And that is 100% correct. It's rich to hear from this government, the same
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government that has been telling us for years that Canada is genocidal, like literally genocidal,
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trying to erase our past, trying to change our symbols, even changing the words of our national
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anthem, telling us that there's kind of something wrong with being Canadian. And now all of a sudden,
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out of nowhere, it's all flipped around. And they're raw, raw, raw Canada, we need to be
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independent. Well, you guys haven't been making a very good case for that. Over the last decade,
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you really haven't. And it's hard to take it from you today. Okay, so we salute and honor Sir John A.
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And I hope people continue to teach the positive messages from his heroic role in helping create this
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country. We would not be here without Sir John A. All right, folks, I'm going to wrap it up and
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leave it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's been great. This is our first full week back
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on the Candace Malcolm show. It's wonderful to be back. Wonderful to be with you. Looking forward to
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catching up on Monday, all the news on the show. Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend and God bless.