The Candice Malcolm Show - June 14, 2021


Trudeau embarrasses Canada on the world stage (again)


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Candice Malan talks about Justin Trudeau wearing a mask at the G7 summit and the boozing he and his entourage were caught doing. She also talks about the fact that Trudeau is the most senior of the leaders at the summit, and why he wants to be the next German Chancellor.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:07.680 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:09.460 Today's podcast, I'm going to talk about the G7 summit, which our prime minister attended
00:00:14.540 over the weekend.
00:00:15.880 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was showing off his privilege while he jet-set over to
00:00:20.520 London for this international summit.
00:00:23.360 Unlike the lowly Canadians that Trudeau rules over, he doesn't have to worry about going 1.00
00:00:27.880 into mandatory detention upon his return to Canada.
00:00:31.740 Mandatory detention, that's what his loving media euphemistically referred to as hotel
00:00:36.280 quarantine.
00:00:37.300 It's kind of like a hotel, except for if you leave, you get fined, and you could go to jail.
00:00:42.740 Now, Trudeau doesn't have to worry about that.
00:00:44.320 He doesn't have to worry about catching COVID-19 at one of these facilities, or the prohibited
00:00:48.800 cost that this would add to his trip.
00:00:50.820 He doesn't have to worry about missing work or losing pay.
00:00:53.640 And apparently he doesn't have to follow the same social distancing rules as the rest
00:00:57.840 of us.
00:00:58.760 Rules are for the little people, right? 1.00
00:01:00.840 Well, first, Trudeau played up the whole wearing a mask thing, just like his finance minister
00:01:05.320 Chrystia Freeland did the week before.
00:01:07.860 He was awkwardly the only G7 leader to wear a mask while also being outside, while also social
00:01:14.260 distancing.
00:01:15.240 It's all a bit much, even for the king of virtue signaling himself.
00:01:19.240 I appreciated this post by U.S. Congressman Dan Crenshaw and his take.
00:01:24.540 He says,
00:01:25.440 Hey, Alexa, show me a group of irrational people who are afraid to get each other sick, even
00:01:30.220 after being vaccinated.
00:01:31.880 And then Alexa shows him this weird G7 promotional video where UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is
00:01:38.560 doing this weird new handshake, greeting the leaders of each of the world's most powerful
00:01:43.540 nations alongside their spouses.
00:01:45.500 And you can see Trudeau, he is the only one wearing a mask.
00:01:49.420 So why is Trudeau wearing a mask?
00:01:52.080 Is it because he's irrational, as Dan Crenshaw suggests?
00:01:54.960 Or is it because he's playing up the whole security theater optics around COVID?
00:02:00.480 Perhaps it's because Trudeau is the only G7 leader not to be fully vaccinated, which
00:02:04.840 in and of itself is pretty embarrassing, probably even more embarrassing than Trudeau wearing a
00:02:09.040 mask outside while socially distancing.
00:02:11.940 Well, I'm going to say this was all security theater because later, after the official videographer
00:02:16.400 had left, Trudeau and company were spotted boozing it up.
00:02:20.140 None of them were wearing masks.
00:02:21.340 None of them were social distancing.
00:02:22.860 And they were all breaking Canadian rules about the maximum number of people allowed at a
00:02:26.920 social gathering.
00:02:28.240 Oops.
00:02:28.560 We know that if this was happening at home, if this was Ontario Premier Doug Ford, the
00:02:33.600 media would have absolutely roasted him for it, just like they roasted Alberta Premier
00:02:37.760 Jason Kenney last week because, what, he was caught sitting outside at a table.
00:02:42.780 It looks like he was socially distancing, doing a work meeting with his colleagues.
00:02:47.020 Well, of course, the media have different standards for conservatives.
00:02:49.700 Well, luckily for Trudeau, the media don't play that kind of role of judge and jury.
00:02:53.580 And they just kind of let it slide because, after all, Trudeau is a liberal.
00:02:58.260 And when it comes to embarrassment for Canada and our hapless prime minister, it doesn't
00:03:02.180 stop here.
00:03:03.140 I want to point your attention to this interesting story that came out in Bloomberg because it
00:03:07.140 gives us a little window into some of the dynamics that are happening at this summit.
00:03:11.780 So here's the headline.
00:03:12.940 It says, with Merkel gone, Canada's Trudeau wants to be dean of the G7.
00:03:17.800 So the article is about how German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down from politics.
00:03:22.400 You won't be running for re-election.
00:03:24.360 That leaves Canada's Justin Trudeau as the most senior of all the leaders, senior, just
00:03:28.500 meaning that he has been the leader for the longest.
00:03:31.460 Trudeau has been in office since 2015, giving him about six years as leader.
00:03:35.780 And that is the longest of the pack right now.
00:03:37.920 Well, unfortunately, according to this Bloomberg story, while Trudeau is trying to position
00:03:41.500 himself as the new elder statesman, no one is seeing him that way and no one is seeing
00:03:46.920 him in that role the same way that they did see the German Chancellor.
00:03:50.100 Just because Trudeau has been the prime minister for longest doesn't mean that he's the most
00:03:53.520 experienced.
00:03:54.220 He's actually probably still the least experienced.
00:03:56.740 Joe Biden, who was a senator for decades, served as vice president under Barack Obama.
00:04:01.700 You have Boris Johnson, who's the UK prime minister, who before becoming prime minister
00:04:05.720 was the mayor of London.
00:04:07.320 So most of these people have actually had longstanding careers where they've accomplished stuff.
00:04:11.840 Trudeau in his life before being a politician didn't really do much.
00:04:14.660 We know that he was, what, a bouncer at a nightclub.
00:04:16.860 He was a whitewater rafting instructor.
00:04:19.860 He taught at private school for a couple of years.
00:04:21.680 He didn't really have a career.
00:04:22.640 He didn't really do much.
00:04:23.660 And so while most of these other world leaders earned their reputation, Trudeau just kind
00:04:27.420 of inherited his.
00:04:28.720 And that might be good enough for a minority of Canadians, but it doesn't seem to cut it
00:04:32.940 in these global elite circles.
00:04:35.020 So let me read from this Bloomberg report.
00:04:37.260 It says,
00:04:37.580 So I'm just going to say this is a little embarrassing.
00:04:52.060 In other words, Trudeau's comms staff at this summit is trying to spin to the media that
00:04:57.440 Trudeau is the elder statesman.
00:04:59.220 He is the leader of the pack.
00:05:00.760 And his own entourage started calling him dean.
00:05:04.500 But it seems from reading this article that their efforts have failed.
00:05:07.620 And Trudeau is still only seen as a marginal figure.
00:05:10.340 It said it right there.
00:05:11.240 He's a marginal figure.
00:05:12.800 Ouch.
00:05:13.340 And it gets worse for Trudeau.
00:05:14.660 The article goes on to say,
00:05:15.860 As Brexit flared up on the sidelines of the gathering, Trudeau offered his services as
00:05:21.040 a mediator.
00:05:22.160 Canadian officials say the 49-year-old prime minister in power since 2015 genuinely believes
00:05:27.700 that he can help the UK and the European Union find a solution to their trade dispute.
00:05:33.040 So he has this very high opinion of himself.
00:05:35.640 But Bloomberg goes on to report,
00:05:37.580 No one has taken him up on the offer, it seems, even as Brexit tensions boil over the
00:05:43.680 last days of the summit.
00:05:44.960 So again, nobody really sees Trudeau as a useful figure in all of this, despite Trudeau's own
00:05:50.440 grandiosity.
00:05:52.040 But we are told that this happened.
00:05:53.940 So it says,
00:05:54.880 The host, Boris Johnson, did, however, tap him to lead a high-stakes discussion on China
00:05:59.440 and how to counter its growing economic and strategic might.
00:06:03.380 A Canadian official said it was in recognition of his experience.
00:06:06.560 Trudeau certainly has experienced the wrath of Beijing.
00:06:10.200 So again, I'm not sure that Trudeau's experience is the kind that his spinner should be
00:06:14.660 boasting about, because when it comes to China, Trudeau's Canada is really more of a cautionary
00:06:20.040 tale.
00:06:20.460 And the Bloomberg report certainly alludes to that, saying that some Canadian official
00:06:24.540 was praising Trudeau, saying that this was in recognition of his experience.
00:06:28.540 And the reporter kind of pushes back, saying that Trudeau's only experienced the wrath of
00:06:33.440 Beijing.
00:06:33.740 So what exactly has Trudeau accomplished when it comes to China?
00:06:37.780 So we have the high-stake fugitive situation, the two Michaels, who were basically arbitrarily
00:06:42.660 arrested in retaliation to the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou when she landed in
00:06:48.520 Vancouver.
00:06:49.360 The two Michaels are being held in inhumane conditions.
00:06:52.220 And Trudeau doesn't really seem to know what to do.
00:06:54.420 A group of senior liberals put out an open letter urging Trudeau to essentially participate
00:06:59.820 in a prisoner's swap.
00:07:01.820 Doesn't seem like Trudeau's going to do that, but he hasn't really done anything to help
00:07:05.500 save these two Michaels.
00:07:07.260 Trudeau was also caught allowing the Chinese Communist military to be stationed in Canada,
00:07:11.760 where they were doing winterized military training.
00:07:14.300 Can you imagine that?
00:07:15.460 And even when this news became public, Trudeau's officials actually pushed back and they defended
00:07:20.440 this project and defended the move, stating that rolling it back could jeopardize relationship
00:07:25.840 with China and it could offend China and therefore worsen the feud with Canada and China over
00:07:31.840 Meng and the two Michaels.
00:07:34.020 Look, if I was looking for advice on how to deal with China, an adversarial country, a communist 1.00
00:07:39.120 dictatorship, a country that's committing genocide and spying on the world, I certainly wouldn't
00:07:44.280 go to the guy who once said this.
00:07:46.540 There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is
00:07:57.020 allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to go green
00:08:01.920 as fast as we need to start investing in solar.
00:08:05.240 And despite all this, Trudeau still has a very high opinion of himself.
00:08:08.760 It really shone through during a press conference that Trudeau is giving at the end of the G7
00:08:13.440 summit.
00:08:14.300 Watch this exchange where a friendly BBC reporter asked Trudeau a question about what exactly
00:08:19.900 he has accomplished at this summit.
00:08:22.220 I'm going to walk you through this clip because there's quite a bit to unpack.
00:08:25.700 So first, here's the question, which is definitely a little bit snarky, but just watch how Trudeau
00:08:31.040 reacts.
00:08:31.560 The G7 in Cornwall risks being forgotten in the way that most G7 summits are forgotten.
00:08:38.060 Beyond the beach and the barbecue and the Royal Banquet, what do you think the world
00:08:43.180 ought to remember from this summit that will make a real difference?
00:08:47.020 So you can tell he is annoyed.
00:08:49.660 He's used to the subservient reporters in the Canadian press gallery, most of whom are
00:08:53.760 on his payroll.
00:08:54.920 And he's annoyed with the tone of this reporter's question.
00:08:58.500 Keep in mind, the question itself is still a softball.
00:09:00.900 He's basically saying, hey, Trudeau, tell us what you've accomplished, which is an easy
00:09:04.620 question for a politician to answer.
00:09:06.180 So that's exactly the kind of question they want to get.
00:09:09.000 But Trudeau is still annoyed that anyone would even suggest or hint at the idea that these
00:09:13.200 G7 meetings weren't the most important thing on planet Earth.
00:09:17.060 So watch what Trudeau says.
00:09:19.240 I can't help but think back to our G7 summit in Charlevoix that was made famous from a tweet
00:09:27.440 from an airplane.
00:09:28.100 Okay, so first Trudeau mentions the summit, the G7 summit that was held in Canada and Quebec
00:09:33.560 a few years ago.
00:09:34.620 And who could forget that summit?
00:09:36.400 The big news coming out of that conference was the feud between Donald Trump and Justin
00:09:41.840 Trudeau.
00:09:42.660 Basically, what happened was that Trump showed up just after he had announced a 25% tariff
00:09:47.500 on Canadian steel and another 10% tariff on Canadian aluminum.
00:09:51.140 Well, apparently Trudeau didn't even bring up these tariffs in person.
00:09:55.380 But then after Trump left, he held a press conference where he did talk about it.
00:09:59.800 So that led to Trump tweeting about it.
00:10:02.160 And that was what Justin Trudeau was referring to.
00:10:04.660 Trump left the G7 summit early.
00:10:06.700 He was heading to South Korea, where he was about to facilitate an historic meeting between
00:10:11.980 North Korean and South Korean officials.
00:10:14.080 So kind of heading off to more important business while Trudeau was left presiding over this
00:10:18.880 G7 summit, which frankly, no one even really cares about.
00:10:22.320 And Trump was mad that Trudeau was saying these things behind his back.
00:10:25.840 So Trump said this,
00:10:26.980 PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our G7 meetings, only to give
00:10:32.120 a news conference after I left saying that US tariffs were kind of insulting and he would
00:10:36.960 not be pushed around. 0.95
00:10:38.400 Very dishonest and weak.
00:10:40.100 Our tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy.
00:10:45.420 So those are fighting words and things only got worse for Justin Trudeau because he was
00:10:49.380 then caught on a hot mic bashing Donald Trump, basically acting like a mean girl in a high
00:10:54.840 school cafeteria, gossiping about Trump to the other world leaders.
00:11:10.100 So if anything, it was Trudeau's immature behavior that derailed the summit for Canada, took over
00:11:25.980 the news cycle, not so much Trump's tweets.
00:11:29.420 But not in Trudeau's mind.
00:11:30.800 To him, he is a super serious world leader who is out there saving the world.
00:11:35.200 Let's go back to this clip where Trudeau tells us all about how important he is.
00:11:40.200 But what actually resulted in that G7 in Charlevoix was a commitment that saw millions, if not
00:11:48.860 actually billions of dollars flowing to girls' education around the world. 1.00
00:11:53.680 Investments that have made a real and tangible difference in the lives of thousands upon thousands
00:12:00.280 of women and girls in countries around the world.
00:12:04.180 We move forward on an oceans charter to fight plastics in the oceans that have actually had
00:12:10.660 real impacts.
00:12:11.780 We've moved forward.
00:12:12.940 We move forward on many partnerships that, no, didn't make the headlines the next day,
00:12:18.240 but has been part of a steady working effort by G7 members to have a positive impact on the world.
00:12:27.160 And I don't know what you will all be writing about tomorrow, but I can tell you the work
00:12:32.660 we got done here today at a time where the G7 is more united than ever before, more focused
00:12:39.260 on the responsibility we wield collectively as some of the world's leading economies, not
00:12:46.460 just to our own citizens, but to citizens around the world during a time of dueling crises
00:12:53.120 of the pandemic and climate change.
00:12:56.880 The impacts of this G7 will be felt long after the newspapers you write for will have been
00:13:05.060 used to wrap fish.
00:13:06.260 So that's just Trudeau being Trudeau. 0.86
00:13:07.860 He's so arrogant and he goes on and on and on about how important he is, how there's these
00:13:12.960 dual crises of COVID and climate change. 0.85
00:13:15.740 But don't worry, gang, Trudeau is on it and he's going to save the planet.
00:13:19.340 And he took that weird shot at journalists because I guess he doesn't like the headlines
00:13:23.580 that come out of these G7 conferences.
00:13:25.880 And he kind of just concludes by saying that his legacy will be long lasting while the newspaper
00:13:31.620 headlines sort of fade.
00:13:33.360 And he took a weird shot saying that newspapers are only good for wrapping fish.
00:13:37.700 And then he has this little smirk at the end because he's so proud of himself for having
00:13:41.780 that really lame joke.
00:13:43.520 Look, it looks to me like Trudeau is just compensating here.
00:13:46.560 He's trying to emphasize how important and how successful he is because basically the
00:13:51.220 opposite is true.
00:13:53.060 Once again, Trudeau misses the mark.
00:13:55.060 He ends up sort of embarrassing himself, sort of embarrassing Canada on the world stage. 0.94
00:13:59.540 And once again, Trudeau is either too arrogant or just too naive to even notice. 0.78
00:14:04.680 Thank you so much for tuning in. 0.83
00:14:06.020 I'm Candace Malcolm and this has been The Candace Malcolm Show.