The Candice Malcolm Show - The World is Laughing at Canada

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and welcome to The Candice Malcolm Show. Happy Friday, everybody.

00:00:11.540 Hope you have a great weekend lined up here. It's Friday. We've got a lot of news to catch

00:00:17.160 up on today, but because it's Friday, we're also going to have a bit of fun. So yesterday,

00:00:22.000 I sat down with financial journalist and author Diane Francis about her 2013 book,

00:00:27.960 Merger of the Century, Why Canada and the United States Should Become One Country. It was a super

00:00:34.120 interesting, rather provocative interview, and I hope you will go and check that out. One of the

00:00:39.180 things that Diane Francis mentioned, and she's an esteemed journalist, very well respected across 0.95

00:00:44.340 the country, across the aisle, and she made the point repeatedly that Justin Trudeau is a disgrace. 0.50

00:00:50.720 He has become a punchline, a joke for the rest of the country and the rest of the world. She called 0.96

00:00:56.100 him a woke joke, and I think that is entirely correct. Canadians care a lot about our international

00:01:01.240 reputation. We care a lot about what people are saying about us and what people think about us,

00:01:06.020 and the fact that Justin Trudeau is out there embarrassing us day in and day out is just a

00:01:12.140 national disgrace. It really, truly is. The world is laughing at how woke and how pathetic he is,

00:01:18.280 but they're also laughing at Canada. They're also laughing at our country and how dysfunctional it is, 0.99

00:01:24.460 and I think that one of the major news stories highlighting this dysfunction and putting it out

00:01:29.460 for everyone to see is this meeting that happened this week on Wednesday, meeting of the premiers and

00:01:36.340 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussing what they were going to do with Trump, with the 25% tariffs

00:01:42.860 coming through, and notably, Daniel Smith refusing to sign on to this agreement, refusing to go along with

00:01:51.500 what the Team Canada approach that Justin Trudeau is trying to usher in. So on Wednesday, Daniel Smith

00:01:57.900 put out a statement rejecting Justin Trudeau's ideas. She had a long post on X. I'll just read

00:02:04.620 part of it to you, just explaining why she was not joining in on this joint statement. She wrote,

00:02:11.960 I had a constructive discussion with my fellow premiers on how best to deal with the threat of tariffs

00:02:16.220 from incoming US administration. We agreed on several strategies and I look forward to working

00:02:20.860 with them. However, federal government officials continue to publicly and privately float the idea

00:02:26.480 of cutting off our energy supply to the US and imposing export tariffs on Alberta energy and other

00:02:32.760 products in the United States. Until these threats cease, Alberta will not be able to fully support the

00:02:38.620 federal government's plan in dealing with the threatened tariffs. Alberta will simply not agree

00:02:44.220 to export tariffs on our energy or other products, nor do we support a ban on exports of these same

00:02:50.660 products. We will take whatever actions are needed to protect the livelihoods of Albertans from such

00:02:56.740 destructive federal policies. And so we reported on this at True North, just saying that Daniel Smith

00:03:06.940 is refusing to support these potential tariffs. We're already getting tariffs one way

00:03:13.260 from Trump potentially as soon as early next week when Trump is sworn in and inaugurated. Why would

00:03:19.620 we put additional tariffs and further harm our own economy? That is sort of the point coming out of

00:03:25.740 Alberta. We're already suffering through a cost of living crisis in this country. And if the Americans are

00:03:31.440 going to try to teach us a lesson in saying, you know, we want you to change your supply management

00:03:36.260 regime. We want you to focus on your border. We want you to carry your own weight when it comes to 0.56

00:03:41.180 military spending. The reaction should not be a trade war. I want to read this excellent analysis

00:03:47.940 by Dan Knight, because this is really turning into a Alberta versus Canada debate, where many,

00:03:54.180 many Canadians and even many conservatives from other parts of the country are saying that Alberta

00:03:58.880 is wrong and that we should all be on one united page. Dan Knight just made an absolute excellent

00:04:03.760 point here. And I do want to read a little bit from his post here. Dan Knight's a journalist and he is

00:04:11.500 a commentator. He has a subsec and really, really excellent stuff. So he's talking about what Trudeau

00:04:17.440 is proposing to do, which is essentially $150 billion countermeasure plan to include the possibility

00:04:24.120 of crippling Alberta's energy sector. And so he says, why wasn't Alberta there? Because Premier Danielle

00:04:29.760 Smith isn't an idiot. Trudeau's plan includes export levies on Canadian oil, a move that would 0.93

00:04:35.700 essentially tell Alberta to torch its own economy to help Trudeau look tough on Trump. Alberta exports

00:04:42.020 $13.3 billion of energy to the U.S. every month, making it the lifeblood of the country's economy.

00:04:48.500 But sure, let's just gamble that away because Trudeau needs a distraction from his sinking legacy.

00:04:53.500 But Alberta's refusal isn't just about this plan. It's about years, years of Ottawa treating Alberta

00:04:59.620 like the Black Sheep of Confederation. Remember the Northern Gateway pipeline? Trudeau killed it.

00:05:04.840 Energy East, dead too. These projects could have given Alberta access to global markets. 0.56

00:05:11.440 Instead, Trudeau left the province landlocked, dependent on the U.S. and completely vulnerable

00:05:16.540 to economic extortion like this. And now, after all that sabotage, he expects Alberta to unite

00:05:23.620 behind this plan, please. He says, don't get me started on Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act,

00:05:30.140 or what we call the No Pipelines Bill. This masterpiece of legislation basically made it

00:05:35.080 impossible to build anything that moves oil. So Dan Knight just really hammering home this point

00:05:41.840 of just how Alberta has been treated under this liberal government. After almost a decade of bill

00:05:49.900 after bill, measure after measure, trying to intentionally destroy Alberta's economy, Canada's

00:05:56.300 energy, making the oil sands seem like there's something wrong with them, that it's something

00:06:00.760 embarrassing that we need to shut down, just completely devoid of reality, really. I mean,

00:06:05.520 just take a look around the world. Take a look at what China's doing. Take a look at India. Take a look

00:06:09.600 at the number of coal plants that are built every year, the emissions going up, up, up. Here we have

00:06:14.740 Canada, a drop in the bucket with our responsibly developed oil and gas sector, the highest environmental

00:06:22.480 standards in the world. And yet Trudeau treated it like it was an embarrassment and he did everything

00:06:27.740 he could to kill it. And now here we are in this hour of need when our weaknesses are being exploited

00:06:35.280 and used against us. And Trudeau has the gall to tell Alberta to basically cripple its own economy

00:06:41.760 to save face. It is just absolutely ridiculous. I'm going to read a little bit more from Dan Knight 0.99

00:06:46.560 here. He says, and then there's Quebec. Oh, Quebec, the province that spent years wagging its finger

00:06:52.180 at Alberta, calling its oil sands dirty energy, blocking pipeline projects that could have helped

00:06:58.300 the whole country. Meanwhile, Quebec gleefully cashes in billions in equalization payments heavily

00:07:04.900 subsidized by Alberta's wealth. That's right. The same people who call Alberta the bad guys are more

00:07:09.860 than happy to take their money. And now Trudeau wants Alberta to step up and take one for the team. 1.00

00:07:16.940 Give me a break. Danielle Smith saw this nonsense for what it was exploitation. She flatly refused to 1.00

00:07:23.600 sign on to any plan that includes export levies on energy restrictions. And you know what? Good for

00:07:30.500 her. She said the federal officials are floating the idea of cutting off energy supply to the U S

00:07:35.380 imposing tariffs on Alberta energy until these threats cease. Alberta cannot support federal

00:07:41.920 government's plan. Translation, Alberta is done being Ottawa's doormat. Good for her. Great analysis. 1.00

00:07:49.500 I'll just finish up by reading here. He says, here's the reality. Alberta isn't at the table because

00:07:55.520 Ottawa hasn't earned the right to ask them to be. You don't treat a province like an ATM for nearly a

00:08:01.480 decade and then expect them to roll over when you need a favor. Danielle Smith stood up and said 1.00

00:08:07.120 enough and frankly, good for her. So here's the real question. How long does Ottawa think it can

00:08:12.860 keep exploiting Alberta before the province decides it's had enough? Because let me tell you, when

00:08:18.040 Alberta's done, it's not just the energy sector that's going to feel it. It is the entire country

00:08:23.980 that is just so eloquently put, completely agree. It's like, again, all of a sudden, you know,

00:08:29.700 the same industry that Trudeau hasn't attacked and demonized for 10 years. And now all of a sudden,

00:08:35.100 it's Canada's bargaining shit. It's Canada's, it's the pride of Canada. Derek Fildebrandt at the 0.99

00:08:41.760 Western Standard had a great tweet kind of just summing this up. He said that Alberta's dirty oil

00:08:47.900 has suddenly become Canadian energy. Exactly. Exactly. Now that the prime minister can use the oil

00:08:54.620 and use it to help benefit himself and his legacy, he's more than happy to, you know, claim that it

00:09:01.120 belongs to the entire country and it's the pride of the country. So Pierre Polyev was asked about all

00:09:07.720 of this. And again, he just pointed out how completely disunited our country is, how much,

00:09:15.280 how ridiculously fractured we are, how under Justin Trudeau, Canada has just become incredibly fractured

00:09:21.420 and not united. Here is Pierre Polyev pointing that out. Morning, Andrea McPherson, Global News.

00:09:27.120 Your reaction to Daniel Smith's refusal to decide, to sign that joint agreement on the tariff

00:09:33.620 retaliation plan by the premiers and the impact you think that will have on Canada's battle against

00:09:39.140 the tariffs? Yes. I mean, like I said, the, I think the first thing President Trump will do when he

00:09:45.120 takes office is to send a bouquet of flowers to the Liberals of Freeland, Kearney and Trudeau who

00:09:51.500 have weakened and divided our country and given him the upper hand. They force, the Liberals have

00:09:56.760 forced Canadians to sell 100% of our oil and gas to the Americans at discount prices, which has put us

00:10:04.640 in this position of weakness. It'd be nice if we had pipelines and export terminals that could take our

00:10:10.360 energy to Asia and Europe without going through the United States. But of course, the economic radicals

00:10:17.520 of Trudeau, Freeland and Kearney blocked those projects because of their radical ideology. And

00:10:24.920 they have made us more and more dependent on President Trump. And my approach will be exactly

00:10:30.400 the opposite. I will, I will quickly approve energy projects to send our energy to the rest of the world

00:10:37.240 without relying on Americans. And we will make our country more self-reliant and independent. I will

00:10:42.840 also unite our country. The Liberals are trying to divide one province against another, Canadian

00:10:48.880 against Canadian, right at our moment of maximum vulnerability. This is because we do not have a 0.66

00:10:54.520 functional federal government. So we have effectively 10 different foreign affairs ministers,

00:11:00.400 one from each province, trying to fight separately. If we had a carbon tax election now,

00:11:06.100 we could elect a strong, stable, national majority government that would stand up for all Canadians,

00:11:11.700 all industries, in all provinces. And that's what we need to do.

00:11:16.500 Pierre is obviously right. He's making a lot of sense there. As much as the media would love to talk

00:11:21.620 about how Danielle Smith is being selfish and how it's in Alberta versus the rest of Canada debate, 0.90

00:11:26.880 the reality and the thing that we should all be talking about is how we got into this mess,

00:11:31.200 the absolute dystopian nightmare that we find ourselves living through, where we have a

00:11:36.420 government, a totally dysfunctional government that has destroyed our economy in so many ways. 0.99

00:11:41.800 And we have this pathetic lame duck leader representing us. Justin Trudeau is the one that 0.99

00:11:47.300 is going to be talking to Donald Trump on January 20th when Trump is sworn in. And why is it that

00:11:53.640 Trudeau gets to represent us after the mess he's made? And the fact that he's already essentially

00:11:57.900 resigned, like he shouldn't even be there. And rather than talking about that, rather than talking

00:12:02.180 about what the liberals have done to this country, the media get a pass, and they get to pretend that

00:12:07.700 this is all Danielle Smith sort of acting out of turn and being selfish. And like, how dare she put 1.00

00:12:13.100 Albertans before the rest of Canadians? Well, Danielle Smith supports Pierre Polyev. She shared his video

00:12:21.500 on X just basically saying, I agree 100% with Pierre Polyev. You know, it was also interesting

00:12:28.120 because the media took that response that I just showed you of Pierre Polyev and said that he was

00:12:34.380 trying to dodge the question that he didn't answer, that he wasn't clear about whether or not he supports

00:12:39.860 Danielle Smith at all. No, he just cut to the chase. He just cut past the BS and explained the real

00:12:45.420 problem, which is that Trudeau has completely divided the country. And it's a total joke. Like we have

00:12:50.340 10 different people negotiating on behalf of Canada rather than just the one Prime Minister. And if we

00:12:56.780 had a Prime Minister who had a political mandate, that would be the case instead of the total mess

00:13:02.320 that we have. Here is Justin Trudeau, who was asked about this yesterday, and he just continues to divide

00:13:08.060 the country. It is pathetic. Let's watch that clip. I think it's very clear that right now, Pierre Polyev, 0.99

00:13:14.720 who wants to be Prime Minister for all Canadians, has a choice to make. Either he stands

00:13:20.240 up to fight for all Canadians alongside all premiers and the federal government that are doing that,

00:13:26.680 or he chooses to stand with Danielle Smith, Kevin O'Leary, and ultimately Donald Trump.

00:13:35.560 He's just so unbelievable. He just loves to divide. It's always about dividing.

00:13:40.020 Justin Trudeau, how dare you just say that you're standing up for all Canadians? You haven't stood up

00:13:44.000 for all Canadians for a very, very long time. And for you to sit here and accuse Pierre Polyev of not

00:13:49.680 standing up for all Canadians, it's pathetic. It is pathetic. But don't worry, Justin Trudeau still 1.00

00:13:54.880 has a lot of fans propping up his position and his point of view. I'm talking specifically about the

00:14:00.360 CBC, who are still unwavering in their love and support for Justin Trudeau. I want to play this clip

00:14:05.240 from at issue journalist Althea Raj, making a point that just really makes you scratch your head.

00:14:12.900 For a lot of conservatives, especially Western conservatives who were really upset by a Bloc 1.00

00:14:19.820 Quebecois bill just a few months ago that aimed to carve out supply management from any future trade

00:14:25.560 deals, it's rather convenient that when it starts to be about oil, they've completely changed their

00:14:32.040 tune because the rationale is the same. You should not purposefully say out loud to the person negotiating

00:14:39.280 on the other side of you. I'm unwilling to touch this. That's not how you have a strong negotiating

00:14:45.280 hand. That's the point of the prime minister. So according to Althea Raj, let's just get this

00:14:50.920 straight. Quebec's supply management, right? A government program that issues quotas and rations

00:14:58.120 and distributes dairy. So a government socialist scheme in Quebec that they want to protect

00:15:04.480 is the same thing as Alberta's free market energy system. You can't even make that up. How is that

00:15:10.660 even the same thing? One is a government contrived program. And when you have free trade, you're not

00:15:15.780 supposed to have these protectionist programs in place. So obviously the Americans would want the

00:15:20.180 Canadians to actually have free trade in order to have a free trade agreement. On the other hand,

00:15:25.580 you have Alberta's energy, which is like I read earlier from Dan Knight's post, the lifeline of the blood

00:15:32.400 of the Canadian economy. Like everything in our economy, so much of our economy is connected to

00:15:38.300 natural resources like energy and oil and gas. Just a very confused point. But like we know that

00:15:45.100 CBC journalists will say anything to make Justin Trudeau look good and to slam the other side,

00:15:51.520 namely mostly conservatives. A side note, because yes, the CBC still loves their man. They'll still

00:15:56.600 stand by their man, Justin Trudeau. Not all the press feel that way. Interesting, a user on

00:16:03.040 X that I follow, Contrarian Tribe, he pointed this out, posted some questions from the Trudeau

00:16:09.700 press conference there, the one that I just showed you a clip from. And he says that the questions,

00:16:14.400 well, they actually weren't showing very much love. The journalists in attendance weren't showing a lot

00:16:19.560 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

00:16:24.600 clip. If you're not seeking re-election, you're not running in the Liberal leadership, respectfully,

00:16:31.120 why are you here in Windsor? This essentially feels like a campaign whistle-stop visit of our

00:16:36.900 wonderful city. Why spend all this money on security and travel if you're not campaigning?

00:16:45.120 The job of a prime minister is not first and foremost to campaign.

00:16:49.420 As you reflect on your legacy, how do you feel knowing that the consumer carbon tax is all but

00:16:55.120 dead?

00:16:56.100 I am not spending any time right now reflecting on my legacy. I'm very much focused on continuing to do

00:17:03.420 the work as prime minister.

00:17:04.880 Why do you believe you're effective right now in helping lead Canada's response to the tariff threats

00:17:12.140 when the other side, the Trump administration, knows you're on your way out the door and might not

00:17:16.720 ultimately be the person they're going to be dealing with and trying to sort this out?

00:17:22.620 Canada's had an election in 2021 that sent me into the prime minister's office once again.

00:17:30.080 Has there been any indication from the Trump administration that the border measures you

00:17:34.420 introduced could be enough to stop the tariffs?

00:17:37.040 I can say that the border plan that we've put forward and the measures we put forward have been

00:17:42.440 very well received by different members of the American, incoming American administration.

00:17:49.100 Why are you here, prime minister? Why are you talking to us? Why are you going to Washington?

00:17:54.060 Nobody wants you anymore. Nobody wants you there. And even the press, even the government-funded

00:17:59.440 press, the official legacy media bought and paid for by the Trudeau government, they're even willing

00:18:04.760 to say it. Kind of amusing to watch Justin Trudeau, um, um, um, his way through pretty basic questions

00:18:11.700 there. Okay. Speaking of the free press and the bribe press, Mark Carney announced his leadership

00:18:17.160 yesterday up in Edmonton. And guess what? He let it be known where he really believes and where he

00:18:23.940 stands on a free press and free speech. So pretty blatant here at his campaign announcement. He just

00:18:30.060 refused to let any independent journalists into the building, even those accredited by the Alberta

00:18:36.180 legislature, even local journalists like our own Isaac Lamoureux, who lives in Edmonton, who registered

00:18:42.780 to go to this event. As soon as he tried to walk in the door, the thugs working on the Carney campaign,

00:18:47.440 in addition to the paid police officers who were there, uh, had them escorted out. So here is, uh,

00:18:54.160 how we were reporting it yesterday. Um, basically that police told Lamoureux that he was not allowed

00:19:02.100 to enter the premises after contacting the organizers who refused True North entry. Shortly thereafter,

00:19:07.360 Lamoureux was asked to leave the, by the organizers after organizers told police that he was not welcome.

00:19:13.800 There's, uh, some footage here by Kian Bexty of the counter signal. Kian was a guest on our show

00:19:19.340 earlier this week. Go check out that episode if you haven't already. Uh, but here is Kian's videos,

00:19:24.780 um, showing some thugs, just basically not letting him in and the police rather politely. Uh, you can

00:19:30.260 see how, sorry, how polite Kian is being with the police, uh, who are enforcing these rules that,

00:19:35.420 that they cannot perform journalism, um, on the great Mark Carney. Let's play that clip.

00:19:39.700 Is it incredibly frustrating for us at True North? Look, one of the number one rules is it's

00:19:45.140 that they're just a random guy who's identified themselves. It's just random. A random dude came

00:19:48.260 up and said that this fellow as well. We're just, if some, if we have to leave, I'm happy to leave,

00:19:54.200 but nobody is from whoever's book this has told us that they're actually an authority figure. Just

00:19:59.640 people that I think don't like us. So. Okay. You are trespassing. So you can leave the property.

00:20:04.320 Okay. Is it incredibly frustrating for us at True North? Look, one of the number one

00:20:09.480 rules of journalism is that you don't want to make yourself the story. And I actually really

00:20:14.420 agree with it. And I don't like it when our journalists become the story. I don't like it when

00:20:18.760 I myself, or when Andrew Lawton, or when one of our younger reporters like Isaac becomes the story. I

00:20:24.280 would so much rather just actually get to go and perform journalism. Like I would much prefer Isaac

00:20:29.700 just be let into the room to report, ask your questions, just treat him like a journalist because

00:20:35.640 he is one, um, rather than this whole thing that seems to happen every time there's a liberal event

00:20:41.460 where they pretend that anyone who comes from an independent organization, anyone who's not funded

00:20:46.680 by the government through the government bailouts, anyone who's not part of CBC, uh, somehow they don't

00:20:51.420 deserve a spot to be in there. It really does go against the very foundational principles of a free

00:20:56.860 society. I'm not just being hyperbolic, uh, like hyperbolic here. It's incredibly important for

00:21:02.360 journalists to be able to question a political leader, especially in a situation like this where

00:21:06.940 Mark Carney, you know, the WEF elite, the global elite who brags about, you know, going to Davos and

00:21:15.140 being part of the WEF and being part of the in crowd, um, that he wouldn't even take questions from

00:21:20.380 reporters that he, he doesn't recognize you as journalists, unless you come from the CBC or one of the

00:21:26.800 other selected media companies. This is a guy that's going to become prime minister in all

00:21:30.800 likelihood without getting voted in by the people. The man doesn't even hold a seat in the house of

00:21:36.160 commons. You would think that he would try to at least be open to hearing from Canadians, but instead

00:21:42.280 he's showing us who he truly is on day one. And it is just really unfortunate. Uh, we've been through

00:21:48.300 this before. For those of you who've been following True North for a long time, you'll remember back in

00:21:52.340 2019, I sued the Trudeau government. I sued the leadership debate commission because they wouldn't

00:21:58.280 let Andrew Lawton report. We actually won that lawsuit. We got a court order that demanded that

00:22:04.140 they let Andrew Lawton into the building. I was so proud of that. And I was proud to see Andrew in

00:22:09.580 there asking questions of his prime minister, of Justin Trudeau, as the press are supposed to do.

00:22:15.080 It's sad that here we are six years later and we're still fighting these same battles. Um, but this is the

00:22:20.940 mindset of the liberals, of the global elite. They don't care. They don't care. They're going to fund

00:22:26.140 the journalists that they approve of and the other ones are just going to be pushed right out. So, uh,

00:22:32.460 we'll get to a little bit about what happened at the actual debate. Uh, Carney delivers a speech.

00:22:37.640 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,

00:22:44.020 dry, low energy candidate. He's a banker. I don't know how he's going to appeal to Canadians or how he

00:22:50.120 thinks he's going to appeal to Canadians. Here's a little bit about what his speech looked like

00:22:54.380 yesterday. Old times, my friends are over. Our times are anything but ordinary.

00:23:05.880 The system, it's not working as it should. And it's not working as it could. People are anxious.

00:23:21.640 No wonder. Too many are falling behind. Too many young people can't afford a home. Too many people 0.95

00:23:29.740 can't find a doctor. And then we're living through the two biggest technological revolutions

00:23:37.340 since they split the atom. And our climate is changing in ways that threatens livelihoods

00:23:42.700 from Fort Mac to Fort Smith. And then on top of that, as George just mentioned, in just four days,

00:23:51.020 the United States will swear in Donald Trump as their 47th president. A man who threatens economic force

00:23:59.180 on his closest, most steadfast allies, including Canada. No.

00:24:07.420 I'm really getting some strong Jeb Bush vibes from this guy, like kind of reminds me of low energy Jeb,

00:24:13.980 where he has to beg the audience, like, please clap, please clap. That was the applause line. Please clap.

00:24:18.860 Um, really. And, and, and the picture that he's painting there, this doom and gloom picture, it's like,

00:24:23.900 yes, Canada is in a terrible situation because of your policies, because of the policies that you

00:24:29.580 were advising to Justin Trudeau to spend, spend, spend, print money to get their way out of the

00:24:35.260 COVID disaster that they themselves created by shutting down the economy. It is all your fault.

00:24:40.060 It's all the fault of liberals. They call themselves liberals, but they're actually socialists,

00:24:44.940 green socialists. And now they're pretending that all of this whole situation was just handed to us.

00:24:49.900 It was totally outside of our control. And now we're going to have to have some hard times because

00:24:53.980 of it. Um, not compelling at all. And I will point out something kind of amusing that was going around

00:24:59.420 on social media. I don't know if you noticed it there, but Mark Carney's logo, um, on his, um,

00:25:05.980 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.

00:26:43.260 It just came to me in the last 24 hours.

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 1.00

00:27:02.460 pathetic and he's ruined Canada and everybody knows that. Um, I would much rather have Pierre Polyev. 0.99

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 0.69

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.99

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, 0.83

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.

00:42:08.700 God damn it. God damn it. 1.00

00:42:10.300 Well, welcome to the United States, Canada. But no, Trudeau didn't resign just to make it easier 0.99

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

00:42:38.540 populist pathway.

00:42:39.740 What does that mean?

00:42:41.740 Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess.

00:42:48.220 What do you mean by that?

00:42:50.300 Certainly you tap. A lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the

00:42:55.340 Donald Trump book.

00:42:56.380 Probably like which people would say that.

00:42:58.140 Well, I'm sure a great many Canadians, but.

00:43:01.820 Like who?

00:43:02.780 I don't know who, but.

00:43:05.180 Well, you're the one who asked the question, so you must know somebody.

00:43:08.220 America's not getting Canada from him.

00:43:11.660 Get on your knees.

00:43:12.620 You're our province now.

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.

00:43:28.380 I want to show you a funny meme.

00:43:29.500 This is my favorite meme of the week came courtesy of Kian Bexty with the idea of America inviting

00:43:36.780 Canada to be the US, part of the US.

00:43:39.420 I think many Albertans can relate to this.

00:43:42.060 The guy says, you have this Chad looking guy with the American headband looking at a pretty girl

00:43:47.900 saying, hey, you want to join the US?

00:43:49.260 And Alberta goes, sure.

00:43:50.460 And then you have Ottawa step in and say, she's not interested. 0.96

00:43:57.420 Oh, oh, that's good.

00:43:59.100 I got to love the memes.

00:44:01.100 Okay.

00:44:01.420 I want to go on to this video.

00:44:04.140 I love this video.

00:44:04.860 Okay.

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.

00:44:37.420 This guy, I just love this guy.

00:44:39.420 It's like, it's not even an act.

00:44:40.860 It's so real.

00:44:42.140 Him reacting with just so much like masculine excitement for the bravery of these men who are

00:44:49.180 maneuvering this plane in an unbelievable way.

00:44:51.980 I hope we blurred out all the bad language, just a little bit of bad language.

00:44:55.260 Just a warning.

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

00:44:59.500 because I just love it so much.

00:45:01.260 Here is this clip.

00:45:02.140 Look at this American badass right here, son.

00:45:05.980 That is an American badass.

00:45:07.980 Look at the Pacific, how rough it is. 0.51

00:45:10.620 He don't give a son.

00:45:12.620 He's like coming down in there.

00:45:14.300 I got it, Captain.

00:45:15.740 Watch, he's going to skim it right across the Pacific, son.

00:45:19.820 And load that belly full of water. 0.53

00:45:22.940 That right there is an American badass, son.

00:45:27.100 Oh, baby.

00:45:28.860 Look at the concentration.

00:45:31.020 Look at the focus, son.

00:45:32.860 He's got a belly full, Captain.

00:45:35.580 And he's fixing to lift her back up, baby.

00:45:38.220 Holy smoke, son.

00:45:41.020 That is an American badass.

00:45:43.740 And here comes another one.

00:45:45.500 Balls of steel, son.

00:45:47.500 Balls of steel.

00:45:49.500 Look at him.

00:45:50.220 He's like, I don't give a .

00:45:52.220 We got a fire to put out.

00:45:54.220 Oh, son.

00:45:55.500 Thousands of gallons of water. 0.99

00:45:57.500 And he just lifts up and flies off into the damn sunset. 0.99

00:46:01.500 And here comes another one. 0.99

00:46:03.500 Holy .

00:46:05.180 Baby, look at him, son. 0.99

00:46:07.260 That is some bad asses, baby. 1.00

00:46:09.660 You have to love the enthusiasm and appreciate that energy. 0.95

00:46:17.100 Like, yes, this is truly, truly amazing.

00:46:20.140 Just one minor, minor point there, sir. 0.99

00:46:23.100 And that is that those are not indeed American bad asses. 1.00

00:46:26.140 They are Canadian bad asses. 1.00

00:46:27.980 So community notes did its thing on X there. 0.99

00:46:31.660 Readers added some context here.

00:46:33.580 The water bombers are Canadian CL415s provided by Quebec and Ontario.

00:46:39.420 The crews are also Canadian.

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. 0.97

00:46:51.420 He said, who has the heart to tell him that it's a Canadian bad ass? 0.92

00:46:55.420 So the replies were really funny. 0.99

00:46:57.500 That was what another one said.

00:46:59.420 Hey, sorry, not an American.

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.

00:47:08.860 They're all from Quebec. 0.87

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.

00:47:30.140 These people are incredible at their jobs.

00:47:32.940 God bless these men, you know, for putting themselves in harm's way like that to help protect other people.

00:47:40.300 Okay, final segment of the show here.

00:47:42.620 I want to talk a little bit about Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald.

00:47:48.860 It was his birthday last week.

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.

00:48:15.020 It is an absolute disgrace.

00:48:16.780 The effort by the extreme left, the cult of the left, the far left woke mob to erase our history.

00:48:25.500 It's been despicable.

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.

00:48:41.580 The fact that we would not be a country.

00:48:43.740 We would not be here.

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.

00:48:51.820 So we had Pierre Polyev making this point.

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.

00:49:10.940 Happy birthday, Sir John A.

00:49:13.100 Likewise, there's this great video circulating on social media, a heritage moment.

00:49:17.820 I used to love these growing up.

00:49:18.780 I remember watching these heritage moments while you were, you know, watching TV as a kid while they're back.

00:49:24.140 And here is one celebrating Sir John A.

00:49:26.460 So let's play that clip.

00:49:28.700 Careful, that champagne cost a fortune.

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.

00:49:37.580 My objective, sir, is honest talk.

00:49:39.980 And mine is to win.

00:49:41.020 Gentlemen, enough.

00:49:42.300 We must convince the Maritimes of there will be no Confederation.

00:49:45.820 Aye, George.

00:49:47.100 Today, civil war grips America.

00:49:49.420 How long before they look to our borders again?

00:49:51.500 Separated, the colonies are isolated and weak.

00:49:54.300 But united?

00:49:55.820 Just imagine, to the east, the Atlantic provinces, then upper and lower Canada,

00:50:01.020 across the prairies to the Rockies and beyond.

00:50:03.740 A new country made one by a railway from sea to sea.

00:50:08.140 Gentlemen, the time for union is now.

00:50:10.940 I ask you to take the dare.

00:50:17.020 The Charlottetown Conference set Confederation in motion.

00:50:20.700 On July 1st, 1867, Sir John A.

00:50:23.500 MacDonald became Canada's first Prime Minister.

00:50:28.220 So two things of note there.

00:50:29.260 Well, many things of note.

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,

00:50:41.180 was to make sure that they didn't get annexed.

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.

00:51:07.340 And that was the purpose.

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

00:51:56.700 can't develop natural resources anymore.

00:51:59.420 Canada's ground to a halt.

00:52:00.540 Thinking about the vision of Sir John A. back then, I think he would be disappointed to see Canada

00:52:07.580 at the point where the provinces are fighting.

00:52:09.660 No one can agree.

00:52:10.540 We can't create one solid, you know, we can't come together to show, you know, unity towards the

00:52:20.460 United States because we can't agree.

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.

00:52:32.140 And finally saying, you know what, we're just not going to do it.

00:52:35.100 We're not going to allow you to sacrifice us again because we're sick of it.

00:52:40.140 You've been doing it for far too long.

00:52:42.620 And again, I know I pointed this out on almost every show this week, but if you just look at

00:52:47.900 a map of the pipelines and you just see how central Canada gets its oil, it gets its oil

00:52:53.900 from a pipeline that goes through the United States.

00:52:56.620 So the whole idea of putting extra tariffs on oil going into the United States, it doesn't

00:53:03.020 make any sense because it would be Ontario and Quebec that would pay the severe price,

00:53:08.140 especially on an embargo.

00:53:09.500 An embargo on the U.S. oil going into the U.S. would also essentially be an embargo

00:53:14.780 on oil coming into Ontario.

00:53:16.700 So how do you explain that?

00:53:17.900 Like, what are you thinking?

00:53:20.460 Have you thought through how disastrous this would be to actually implement a policy like that?

00:53:25.580 I really don't think that they have.

00:53:27.260 And, you know, to the point that Althea Raj was making in that clip that I played earlier 0.79

00:53:30.940 from Add Issue Power in Politics, it's just about being on the same page for negotiating

00:53:35.180 and saying nothing is off the table.

00:53:37.340 I don't really see that being as helpful.

00:53:39.100 That's playing into Justin Trudeau's strategy that says, you know, I will unleash any kind of

00:53:44.460 economic warfare against you if you do this to us.

00:53:48.220 I don't think Trump's going to respond to that.

00:53:50.060 I think Trump would call him on his bluff and be like, yeah, buddy, go ahead.

00:53:53.420 You want to cut off oil to Canada? 0.76

00:53:55.420 Good luck with that because you're going to cut off oil to your own population centers 0.95

00:53:59.900 in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal.

00:54:02.220 Like, what are you thinking?

00:54:04.140 It's just, it's so brutal.

00:54:06.220 But to take it back to Sir John A., I think that he had a vision for this country that is worth

00:54:11.260 reflecting on, worth remembering, and worth teaching to the next generation.

00:54:15.740 And that's why I'm super proud of True North and our journalist, Lindsay Shepherd, who has written

00:54:21.660 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,

00:54:27.900 a delightful child story about a young boy who gets transported through time to get to spend a day

00:54:34.780 with Canada's first prime minister. It is really, really fun, beautiful illustrations there as well.

00:54:40.380 Lindsay did a great job. I love the book. I've got four little kids. Some of them are a bit too

00:54:45.180 young for it, but my five-year-old, nearly six, absolutely loves it. And I think it's just so

00:54:50.700 important to teach children positive stories about our past, positive lessons, because especially if

00:54:56.620 your kids are in public school in Canada, but heck, even if they're in a private school, the woke 0.59

00:55:00.940 ideology has gotten everywhere. It has absorbed us, and they will be hearing the other story,

00:55:06.700 the other side of the story at school. And so, you know, you have to combat that at home.

00:55:12.620 And I think Lindsay's book does a great job of teaching young Canadians, young children that,

00:55:17.900 hey, our prime minister, you know, he might, history might not be remembering him too kindly

00:55:22.540 right now, but he actually did tremendous things for our country. And indeed, our country wouldn't

00:55:27.420 be here without him. And in, you know, the face of this entire thing, this threat from Trump,

00:55:32.540 this threat from the United States about being absorbed and annexed into the United States,

00:55:37.980 my husband, Kaz, tweeted about this, and he made a great point. He said, you know who argued best for

00:55:43.900 Canada independent from the United States? Sir John A. MacDonald. Maybe this government should have

00:55:49.100 spoken up when his statues were being torn down. Maybe our history and heritage of freedom is something

00:55:54.620 we should hold proudly. And that is 100% correct. It's rich to hear from this government, the same

00:56:04.380 government that has been telling us for years that Canada is genocidal, like literally genocidal,

00:56:09.420 trying to erase our past, trying to change our symbols, even changing the words of our national

00:56:14.460 anthem, telling us that there's kind of something wrong with being Canadian. And now all of a sudden,

00:56:19.980 out of nowhere, it's all flipped around. And they're raw, raw, raw Canada, we need to be 0.99

00:56:25.180 independent. Well, you guys haven't been making a very good case for that. Over the last decade,

00:56:29.900 you really haven't. And it's hard to take it from you today. Okay, so we salute and honor Sir John A.

00:56:36.940 And I hope people continue to teach the positive messages from his heroic role in helping create this

00:56:45.020 country. We would not be here without Sir John A. All right, folks, I'm going to wrap it up and

00:56:50.620 leave it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's been great. This is our first full week back

00:56:54.940 on the Candace Malcolm show. It's wonderful to be back. Wonderful to be with you. Looking forward to

00:56:59.260 catching up on Monday, all the news on the show. Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend and God bless.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 17, 2025

The World is Laughing at Canada

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