The Candice Malcolm Show - Trump launches ECONOMIC WARFARE on Canada

00:00:00.000 Okay, hi, Candace Malcolm here, and please be joined with Kian Beckson from The Counter-Signal.

00:00:05.440 And we're here to deliver some bad news, folks. Trump did it. He has followed through with what

00:00:11.580 he said he was going to do. It was not a bluff. He wasn't just, you know, off the cuff. He was

00:00:19.680 saying what he was going to do. And it came today. So Trump took to True Social today and let it be

00:00:27.900 known that 25% tariffs will be imposed starting on Tuesday, 25% on all goods other than oil. Oil

00:00:36.980 will be down to 10%. And Trump says that if Canada retaliates, that the tariffs will increase. So we

00:00:44.300 are waiting for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to speak. He's supposed to speak at 6.30. He's supposed

00:00:48.680 to be at 6.00 Eastern. Then it got bumped to 8.30. It's 9.07. And we're still waiting for our Prime

00:00:54.880 Minister who said he resigned, but he's still the Prime Minister for some reason. We are waiting

00:00:59.820 for him to come out and tell the nation what is happening and what his response will be.

00:01:05.920 Kian, thank you so much for joining us on this broadcast. What do you make of all of this so far?

00:01:12.080 Yeah, no problem. Trudeau being late is just like perfect for him right now. He's been completely AWOL,

00:01:17.520 not just since he announced his resignation, but really since he took office. It's the perfect

00:01:23.140 metaphor. Trudeau's leadership is the reason we're in this position. Trump does what he says

00:01:27.680 he's going to do. He always has. From his first term to his second term, he's always followed

00:01:33.380 through. And a lot of people, a lot of CBC pundits right now are going to be telling us

00:01:37.380 that Donald Trump is the enemy. Now, like, look, I like Donald Trump. Do I like what he's doing to

00:01:43.120 Canada right now? Absolutely not. But the reason he's doing this is because he's putting America first

00:01:49.160 and he sees Canada as weak. He sees Justin Trudeau's leadership, or should I say lack thereof,

00:01:55.780 over this past week while the world was watching, while our American neighbors were gearing up for

00:02:00.380 serious trade talks. What was Trudeau doing? Absolutely nothing. His itinerary was literally blank

00:02:06.580 for two of the last three days. Not one meeting, not one strategy session to counter this looming

00:02:12.860 disaster. It's been like he's been on vacation while the economy was on the brink. Trump's decision

00:02:17.860 to impose these tariffs. It's just it's not just out of thin air. It's a direct result of Trudeau's

00:02:23.400 failure to manage to engage seriously with this new administration. Do you remember when Trudeau

00:02:29.460 went to Mar-a-Lago? Instead of coming back with concrete plans, or even a hint of what was what was

00:02:35.420 actually discussed, we got radio silence as Canadians as the stakeholders of that meeting, we got nothing.

00:02:41.760 Trudeau has been more focused on looking good for photo ops than actually doing the hard work of

00:02:46.480 diplomacy, and we are the ones that are about to pay the price. What about the drug prices? Trump's

00:02:52.080 been talking about fentanyl constantly, about drugs pouring over our borders into their borders. Now,

00:02:57.840 granted, it's been going both ways, but what is Trudeau's response been? Crickets. His strategy

00:03:03.680 has been hoping that the problem will go away if he ignores it long enough, but the newsflash is it's not

00:03:10.180 going to work like that with Donald Trump. Well, you know, it's interesting, Kian, because when Trump,

00:03:15.080 or sir, when Trudeau went down to Mar-a-Lago, that was when the 51st state meme started coming out,

00:03:20.500 that's when Trump started talking about it. And Trump said over and over that he asked Justin

00:03:24.960 Trudeau what would happen if we put on 25% tariffs. According to Trump, Trudeau said it would destroy

00:03:32.200 our country. It would end Canada. That doesn't really seem like a very good negotiating strategy.

00:03:38.080 Like, if you're really down there, and you think this guy is serious, and you think that he wants to,

00:03:43.480 you know, send a message, he thinks that, you know, the drugs are a major problem,

00:03:48.760 the illegal immigration is a major problem. He is seriously concerned about these things. And what

00:03:52.840 does our prime minister do? He goes straight up and says, our greatest weakness, like, if you

00:03:58.280 impose these tariffs, we won't exist as a country anymore. Like, no wonder Trump is going to

00:04:03.180 pick up on that and push that in, because Trudeau told him that. Like, I don't understand why Trudeau

00:04:09.600 would have said that in the first place. I think the media is not making nearly a big enough deal

00:04:13.700 out of the fact that Trudeau said that, because I think he was really actually setting Donald Trump

00:04:17.860 up. And if you look at, you know, Melanie Jolie, the foreign minister was down in Washington,

00:04:23.140 DC, Kian. And what was she doing? She was meeting with Democrats. She was meeting with liberal Democrats,

00:04:28.480 and posting smiley selfies and pictures of herself on X with these Democrats. It's like,

00:04:35.520 hello, do you understand anything about partisan politics? Like you going down and meeting with

00:04:40.640 Democrats doesn't help at all. That's not diplomacy. That's not at all diplomacy. What Daniel Smith was

00:04:45.640 doing was diplomacy, trying to cut a deal. Folks, we've got one eye on the podium here. Justin Trudeau

00:04:52.320 is supposed to address the country. He was supposed to have come out a couple of hours ago. We don't know

00:04:57.460 what he's going to say. But one thing is clear, Kian, that Donald Trump has said that any retaliatory

00:05:02.500 measure will be met with harder and stronger tariffs. So from my perspective, I'm terrified,

00:05:10.500 like 25% coming in on Tuesday will be devastating. Our economy is already incredibly weak, right? After

00:05:16.880 10 years of Justin Trudeau printing money like, you know, there's no tomorrow, inflating the economy,

00:05:22.240 like, the economy is on the rails, falling off the rails. And the idea that, you know, the strongest

00:05:29.420 leader in the world, the strongest country in the world is threatening tariffs, and threatening to

00:05:34.060 possibly double them again, or who knows, I don't think retaliatory tariffs are the way to go. But that

00:05:39.560 seems to be where we're headed. It seems to be sort of the unanimous position of, you know, Canadian

00:05:45.520 politics. Now, I don't want to get too deep into reading the responses. We will go through them.

00:05:50.060 We'll react. Trudeau's on. Okay, let's go to Trudeau then.

00:05:53.140 We are closing 25% tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States and 10% on Canadian energy.

00:06:00.600 The decision that should the elect to proceed with should take effect on Tuesday, February 4th.

00:06:07.600 This decision puts a historical economic relationship in danger, a relationship that has been the

00:06:15.260 source of so much richness, prosperity and possibility of the two sides of the border.

00:06:24.200 Tonight, first, I want to speak directly to Americans, our closest friends and neighbours.

00:06:32.500 This is a choice that, yes, will harm Canadians, but beyond that, it will have real consequences

00:06:40.220 for you, the American people.

00:06:43.820 As I have consistently said, tariffs against Canada will put your jobs at risk, potentially

00:06:52.340 shutting down American auto assembly plants and other manufacturing facilities.

00:06:57.540 They will raise costs for you, including food at the grocery stores and gas at the pump.

00:07:05.380 They will impede your access to an affordable supply of vital goods crucial for U.S. security,

00:07:12.800 such as nickel, potash, uranium, steel and aluminum.

00:07:19.260 They will violate the free trade agreement that the President and I, along with our Mexican

00:07:24.920 partner, negotiated and signed a few years ago.

00:07:29.880 But it doesn't have to be this way.

00:07:34.080 As President John F. Kennedy said many years ago, geography has made us neighbours, history

00:07:41.480 has made us friends, economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies.

00:07:52.160 That rang true for many decades prior to President Kennedy's time in office and in the decades

00:07:58.120 since.

00:08:00.240 From the beaches of Normandy to the mountains of the Korean Peninsula, from the fields of

00:08:06.080 Flanders to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you.

00:08:15.240 During your darkest hours, during the Iranian hostage crisis, those 444 days we worked around

00:08:23.200 the clock from our embassy to get your innocent compatriots home.

00:08:29.160 During the summer of 2005, when Hurricane Katrina ravaged your great city of New Orleans.

00:08:36.000 For mere weeks ago, when we sent water bombers to tackle the wildfires in California.

00:08:44.440 During the day the world stood still, September 11th, 2001, when we provided refuge to stranded

00:08:53.660 passengers and planes. We were always there, standing with you, grieving with you, the American

00:09:04.180 people. Together, we've built the most successful economic, military and security partnership the

00:09:13.900 world has ever seen. A relationship that has been the envy of the world.

00:09:21.220 Yes, we've had our differences in the past, but we've always found a way to get past them.

00:09:29.100 As I've said before, if President Trump wants to usher in a new golden age for the United States,

00:09:36.820 the better path is to partner with Canada, not to punish us. Canada has critical minerals,

00:09:47.060 reliable and affordable energy, stable democratic institutions, shared values and the natural

00:09:54.620 resources you need. Canada has the ingredients necessary to build a booming and secure partnership

00:10:03.180 for the North American economy. And we stand at the ready to work together.

00:10:10.920 Let's take a moment to talk about our shared border. Our border is already safe and secure,

00:10:17.540 but there's always more work to do. Less than 1% of fentanyl, less than 1% of illegal crossings

00:10:27.260 into the United States come from Canada. But hearing concerns from both Canadians and Americans,

00:10:35.260 including the American president himself, we're taking action. We launched a $1.3 billion border

00:10:43.800 plan that is already showing results. Because we too are devastated by the scourge that is fentanyl,

00:10:53.740 a drug that has torn apart communities and caused so much pain and torment for countless families

00:11:00.540 across Canada, just like in the United States. A drug that we too want to see wiped from the face of this

00:11:07.980 earth. A drug whose traffickers must be punished. As neighbours, we must work collaboratively to fix this.

00:11:18.860 Unfortunately, the actions taken today by the White House split us apart instead of bringing us together.

00:11:31.740 Tonight, I am announcing Canada will be responding to the U.S. trade action with 25% tariffs against $155 billion

00:11:42.860 worth of American goods. This will include immediate tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods as of Tuesday,

00:11:53.740 followed by further tariffs on $125 billion worth of American products in 21 days' time to allow Canadian

00:12:02.940 companies and supply chains to seek to find alternatives.

00:12:07.820 This evening, I am announcing Canada's report, 25% on $155 billion worth of American goods.

00:12:19.820 On Monday, $30 billion worth of American products will be touched by these tariffs. And in 21 days,

00:12:27.820 this will be the case for $125 billion worth of American goods.

00:12:38.700 Like the American tariffs, our response will also be far-reaching and include everyday items such as American beer,

00:12:48.700 wine, wine and bourbon, fruits and fruit juices, including orange juice, along with vegetables, perfume, clothing and shoes.

00:12:58.940 It will include major consumer products like household appliances, furniture and sports equipment,

00:13:05.500 and materials like lumber and plastics, along with much, much more.

00:13:11.260 And as part of our response, we are considering, with the provinces and territories, several non-tariff measures,

00:13:20.540 including some relating to critical minerals, energy, procurement and other partnerships.

00:13:27.740 We will stand strong for Canada. We will stand strong to ensure our countries continue to be the best neighbours in the world.

00:13:38.060 With all that said, I also want to speak directly to Canadians in this moment.

00:13:47.340 I'm sure many of you are anxious, but I want you to know we are all in this together.

00:13:55.660 The Canadian government, Canadian businesses, Canadian organized labour, Canadian civil society,

00:14:02.620 Canada's premiers, and tens of millions of Canadians from coast to coast to coast are aligned and united.

00:14:12.700 This is Team Canada at its best.

00:14:15.900 President Obama, Canadian Absolutely we have the best to build demand that you are now thinking about our

00:14:20.300 investments in the world.

00:14:25.420 We are united and united.

00:14:27.740 They have long supported our approach.

00:14:30.140 We are also youthful bos twins to help people track their products and invite us to safely

00:14:40.060 make businesses easier for consumers who are outside, never enough.

00:14:41.980 That was Justin Trudeau responding in kind with 25 percent tariffs. Trudeau says that Canada will impose tariffs 25 percent on $155 billion worth of U.S. goods.

00:15:02.560 So here we are, Kian. We have now officially entered a trade war. We're not going to try to de-escalate. We're not going to try to strike a deal with Trump. It seems that Trudeau is, again, I have to I have to stop and just say, you know, this guy resigned.

00:15:18.160 You know, I woke up on January 6th with a notification and then I saw Justin Trudeau with my own eyes telling us that he was done, that he was resigning, that he wasn't going to be our prime minister anymore.

00:15:28.940 And yet we still have to listen to him. We still have to hear him go out there with his drama, you know, big boy voice speaking sternly to the Americans, talking down to them.

00:15:38.680 Like, you know, he said during his message, the whole thing that he's going to address at first the message to the Americans.

00:15:45.440 And then he gives us all the sap, quoting John F. Kennedy, trying to like play up a nostalgic, you know, love for one another.

00:15:53.320 I'm sorry, it's not going to cut it. You know, it's 2025. Trump is issuing, you know, he's ushering his country into the golden age and he sees Canada as an impediment and he is smacking Trudeau around.

00:16:05.900 Trudeau doesn't understand that. He is about a joke. Like, I know that it's supposed to elicit like patriotism and pride and like, yeah, we're on the same side.

00:16:13.800 When I hear Justin Trudeau speak, I just feel like so ashamed that he is the one that is representing us, that he is the one speaking for us.

00:16:21.200 I don't want him to be our prime minister anymore. He needs to resign. We need an election.

00:16:25.760 Like, I know it's not going to happen right now because we're in the midst of this and this is going to, you know, Trudeau is going to use this to continue to promote the liberals.

00:16:34.360 It's all like so much of the reaction that we're seeing from politicians right now is all about their own political careers and pushing for their own elections and their own, you know, Mark Carney saying this, Pierre Polyev saying this.

00:16:44.420 And, you know, deep down, it's all just about them trying to win an election. It's not actually what's best for Canada.

00:16:49.260 It's such a shame that we are here at this point. Trudeau barely even mentions the major issue that Trump has talked about, which is immigration and fentanyl and drugs.

00:17:01.480 Yes, he mentioned it in passing, but obviously he hasn't done enough, Kian, to address those issues.

00:17:06.700 If he had, we wouldn't be in this position. Here we are, February 1st.

00:17:11.240 Trump said he was going to impose these tariffs and here they are.

00:17:13.940 And I think it's just going to be absolutely devastating for our economy. Our economy is already incredibly weak.

00:17:19.800 People are suffering so much from this cost of living crisis that has come from Justin Trudeau's taxes and his inflationary policies.

00:17:26.540 And now we're going to have another 25 percent each way.

00:17:29.500 Like this is just going to be absolutely deadly for our economy.

00:17:32.360 And the idea that Canada can engage in a trade war with the United States, I'm sorry, our economy is just absolutely minuscule compared to theirs.

00:17:39.840 It is, you know, we're one tenth of the size of the population, much less than that as a percentage of their economy versus ours.

00:17:46.780 Like we don't stand a chance. This isn't going to go well for us.

00:17:49.680 I don't understand. Kian, what do you think?

00:17:51.600 I'm trying to not lose my marbles after having to listen to yet another impassioned, brainless speech from our prime minister.

00:18:05.340 After hearing that, it becomes more and more clear that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are using this as a sort of October surprise

00:18:13.040 and are intentionally tanking the economy to profit politically off of the backs of Canadians who are now going to have to pay in untold levels of economic pain

00:18:26.940 so that he can stand there with Melanie Jolie and Dominic LeBlanc, who looks like an absolute clown, by the way.

00:18:33.740 They look like they're in shell shock, that they don't understand why this is happening.

00:18:38.360 And I know exactly why it's happening.

00:18:39.940 Folks, this is what happens when you elect a leader who is more interested in virtue signaling than actual governance.

00:18:47.200 Trudeau's blank itineraries this week are a metaphor for his entire term.

00:18:53.020 Empty, devoid of substance, and completely out of touch with the needs of Canadians and Americans.

00:19:00.280 He said that Canada has always been there for America, talking about the streets of Kandahar

00:19:07.320 and the peaks of the Korean Peninsula, going on and on about how Canadians have been there for Americans.

00:19:13.300 And it's true, they haven't been.

00:19:15.240 But the prime minister that does not get to claim any of that is Justin Trudeau.

00:19:23.160 He has been nowhere to be seen when it comes to building the relationship between Canada and the United States.

00:19:30.320 When he's not taking partisan potshots, as you mentioned, talking about how Americans are actually stupid because they didn't elect a woman and shatter the glass ceiling.

00:19:39.840 And that's where progress really would have been seen.

00:19:42.460 And gosh, if only Americans were as smart as us Canadians who have gender balanced cabinets and, oh, it's 2015 and blah, blah, blah.

00:19:49.760 And then he takes credit for sending water bombers down to the United States.

00:19:54.200 That wasn't Justin Trudeau.

00:19:55.340 That was the government of Quebec.

00:19:57.260 That was Daniel Smith who actually sent Albertan firefighters down to Los Angeles to help save Americans.

00:20:04.040 But Justin Trudeau is taking credit for that.

00:20:07.900 So all of Canadians, to all the Canadians that are going to be feeling the pinch because of these tariffs,

00:20:14.260 the CBC is going to be blaming Donald Trump, every left wing pundit is going to say that we are the victims here.

00:20:23.180 And, you know, to be fair, the everyday Canadian, they are the victim.

00:20:26.220 But we're only a victim because we've been we've allowed ourselves to be victimized by political incompetence like Justin Trudeau.

00:20:34.580 Justin Trudeau's negligence has put our economy in jeopardy.

00:20:38.560 And it's high time that we demand better leadership than this.

00:20:42.740 This is embarrassing that we we sit here for two hours waiting for this moron to come out on stage and speak these platitudes.

00:20:50.500 He said nothing outside of the fact that he's going to destroy the Canadian economy on principle because he doesn't like Donald Trump.

00:20:57.000 And he's unwilling to do what needs to be done to protect our borders, to protect Americans from fentanyl that's coming through Mexico to Canada and into the United States and also to protect Canadians.

00:21:07.080 He didn't really care when Roxanne Road was spilling hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants from the United States of Canada.

00:21:14.440 He doesn't care about borders at all.

00:21:15.900 He said it wasn't even an issue in the speech that he just gave.

00:21:19.020 And then he said, oh, but we did invest a billion dollars.

00:21:21.420 And now we're seeing progress just directly contradicting themselves.

00:21:25.580 It's tough to put into words how brain dead this prime minister is.

00:21:29.760 He really is in it for the polling numbers.

00:21:32.260 And I think that he is using this situation to benefit his party and his own legacy.

00:21:37.800 And it's embarrassing and it needs to stop.

00:21:40.580 Well, I completely agree with so much of what you said there, Kian.

00:21:43.140 I couldn't help when he came out there and he started giving his speech like he just to me, he's always a drama teacher and he's always got the flair and he's always it's always fake and phony.

00:21:51.940 I all I could think is this guy's relaunching his political career like he's not done yet.

00:21:56.260 He's going to he's going to put his hat in and run for leader of the Liberal Party.

00:22:00.160 I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he just changed his mind and said, you know, times are too important and figure out a way to stick around.

00:22:07.200 Because that's obviously, you know, he's all about himself, loves the sound of his own voice, loves to go out there and be in front of the camera and give his best blue steel there.

00:22:17.760 So, folks, for anyone just joining us, I'm Candace Malcolm, joined by Kian Bextie of The Counter Signal.

00:22:24.220 So earlier today we had major breaking news.

00:22:26.860 Donald Trump announced that there were 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports coming on Tuesday.

00:22:34.160 The only slight difference from the 25 percent across the board tariffs which he had promised was that we learned that oil will be tariffed at only 10 percent.

00:22:42.720 So maybe you can you say thank you to Danielle Smith for that one, for her efforts.

00:22:48.900 I assume that her efforts are what led to that carve out of 10 percent.

00:22:53.680 Not great still, but at least it's not the full 25 percent.

00:22:58.120 Trump said that if Canada retaliates, the tariffs will increase.

00:23:01.520 Well, lo and behold, our prime minister, who just won't go away, who resigned, but somehow he's still prime minister, came out and spoke to the nation and said that Canada will, in fact, respond with retaliatory tariffs.

00:23:14.360 So we haven't yet heard Trump back.

00:23:16.480 You know, Trudeau just spoke moments ago declaring that Canada will impose a 25 percent tariff on our American neighbors in response to Trump's 25 percent.

00:23:25.720 He said that they will apply to one hundred and fifty five billion dollars worth of goods and that 30 billion of those will go into effect on Tuesday.

00:23:34.160 So on Tuesday, Canada's economy will go into a major tailspin.

00:23:40.840 It's going to be scary, folks.

00:23:43.720 Premier Ontario, Premier Doug Ford has said that this will be devastating for the industry, the auto industry, the North American auto industry.

00:23:52.780 And basically, this is uncharted territory.

00:23:56.660 So we have some of the statements here.

00:24:00.000 So we'll first let's go through what Donald J.

00:24:03.180 Trump said.

00:24:03.900 This is what he posted on to his True Social.

00:24:06.700 I think we have the graphic.

00:24:07.620 He says today I've implemented a 25 percent tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada, 10 percent on Canadian energy and a 10 percent additional tariff on China.

00:24:15.780 This was done through an international emergency economic powers act because of the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our our citizens, including fentanyl.

00:24:28.800 We need to protect Americans.

00:24:30.180 And it is my duty as president to ensure the safety of all.

00:24:33.300 I made a promise on my campaign to stop the flood of illegal aliens and drugs from pouring across our borders.

00:24:39.140 And Americans overwhelmingly voted in favor of it.

00:24:43.060 Just a side note here, Kian.

00:24:44.900 When I listen to the legacy media, when I turn on CBC or when I listen, when I read the newspaper, I barely hear anything about these issues.

00:24:52.900 Like when the mainstream media look at Trump, they just think, you know, this is all about his imperial desire to rule over North America.

00:25:01.940 This is manifest destiny.

00:25:03.520 He wants Canada to be the 51st state, like tying it all back to Trump the man and Trump the, you know, MAGA the movement.

00:25:10.880 And they don't talk about the thing that Trump has said that he cares the most about, which is stopping illegal aliens from crossing the border, stopping that flow.

00:25:18.860 And, of course, deadly fentanyl.

00:25:21.800 Look, all you have to do is look at Sam Cooper.

00:25:23.920 Sam Cooper is one of the best, if not the best investigative journalists in the country.

00:25:27.200 And he has uncovered an unbelievable web of basically like Chinese mob, mafia in Canada, mostly in British Columbia, you know, tied into all kinds of money laundering.

00:25:40.120 Canada is absolutely full of money laundering.

00:25:43.720 And to the point where our institutions like like the fact that we let other countries get away with this kind of stuff in our country.

00:25:51.140 And, yes, there are fentanyl labs and, yes, they're being distributed like British Columbia has become the world headquarter in some ways of fentanyl.

00:25:58.980 It's being distributed all over the world from Canada.

00:26:02.280 And we don't we don't have a handle on it.

00:26:04.860 We can't stop it.

00:26:05.780 And it's barely discussed.

00:26:07.460 Trudeau hardly mentioned it.

00:26:08.860 We do have a problem with illegal immigration.

00:26:11.020 We do have a problem with fentanyl.

00:26:12.760 We do have a problem with nefarious and adversarial regimes being able to operate in our country without any consequence.

00:26:21.540 I mean, there was a foreign interference election study commission studied it for months and months and months.

00:26:28.780 For two years, we heard about how there were traitors in our parliament and how they were going to come out with something strong.

00:26:34.120 And then, you know, comes out with a whimper and nothing to see here.

00:26:37.480 And whoops, no, no interference, just some naughty bit or just some, you know, unwitting behavior.

00:26:44.680 And that's and that's it.

00:26:46.220 And we move on like like we're not actually addressing the major problems in our country.

00:26:49.680 Our country is falling apart.

00:26:50.760 This isn't Donald Trump that is destroying our country.

00:26:53.180 Our country has been destroyed by Justin Trudeau.

00:26:56.360 And I just, you know, seeing him come out and give that speech like he just needs to go away.

00:27:02.760 He needs to go away.

00:27:03.440 He broke the country.

00:27:04.560 He's not going to be the one to fix it.

00:27:06.280 We need to move on.

00:27:07.840 Kian, what do you think?

00:27:10.220 It stems from a complete lack of focus and discipline from our federal government.

00:27:16.600 You know, just today, the Liberals announced for 41 million.

00:27:23.300 Let me look at 41 million.

00:27:25.380 I think it was dollars towards an initiative supporting advancing equality for the quote to S LGBTQI community.

00:27:35.000 With that money, they could have leased dozens of Black Hawk helicopters for a decade and patrolled the border, cracked down on drugs, cracked down on human trafficking.

00:27:48.600 But no, this is what they thought.

00:27:50.680 This was this was a press release from the Liberals today.

00:27:53.680 I just I couldn't believe what I was saying.

00:27:55.280 We did a story on it because I was just in shock that they were just so out of touch with what Canadians need right now.

00:28:02.180 It's we don't need to advance to S LGBTQI equality right now when our economy is about to unravel at the seams completely and totally.

00:28:12.700 It's it's it's not just Trudeau.

00:28:15.540 It's the entire liberal apparatus of government that is responsible for this disaster.

00:28:22.000 I have to say it as much as I hate Trudeau and think that he is, you know, very responsible for the situation we're in.

00:28:31.040 It is the entire liberal bureaucracy that is out of touch, not in focus and not focused on dealing with the issues that Canadians really and North Americans at large need support and answers for.

00:28:45.140 Justin Trudeau, I tweeted this.

00:28:47.140 It went kind of pretty, pretty widespread today that Justin Trudeau and and Carney, the whole all of the Liberals, they want you to think that this is happening because Donald Trump is mean.

00:28:57.720 But it's actually happening because the U.S. and all of our other allies have been very clear about this, that they've lost confidence in us as a country.

00:29:06.840 They don't see us as a peer anymore.

00:29:09.240 They see us like Mexico.

00:29:11.300 They see us like China.

00:29:12.820 We're failing at the basics and you can't be partners with a country that is a danger to itself.

00:29:20.360 Justin Trudeau said that we're this bastion of democracy and we're super trustworthy on that front.

00:29:25.780 But you said it perfectly.

00:29:27.460 You know, there's traitors in our parliament and we're we're not strong enough to drag them out by their toes and string them up.

00:29:36.160 It's really unfortunate that we are are willing to sacrifice what it means to be Canadian at the altar of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals.

00:29:44.420 Well, I think so many Canadians are done with it.

00:29:47.180 And, you know, just looking at the polls, I mean, Trudeau is finished and nobody wants him out there negotiating for us.

00:29:54.620 He's doing a terrible job.

00:29:56.220 He shouldn't even be there.

00:29:57.380 And, you know, it's interesting to see the other candidates sort of jockeying position.

00:30:03.680 Mark Carney put out his own video right around the same time as Justin Trudeau was speaking.

00:30:08.660 And again, it's just electioneering.

00:30:10.540 Like the Liberals would so much rather run an election on dealing with Trump and who's going to be like the stronger anti-Trump voice,

00:30:17.780 because that is harder for Pierre Polyev to manage rather than it be a referendum on the last nine years, which have been an absolute disaster.

00:30:26.740 Well, folks, thank you so much for joining us.

00:30:29.460 We threw this live stream together quite quickly.

00:30:32.660 You know, it's Saturday night, 930 my time.

00:30:35.080 I put my kids to bed and I was about to, like, crawl into bed and go to go to sleep.

00:30:39.240 And then I realized that all of this was happening.

00:30:41.260 I turned my computer like, oh, my goodness.

00:30:42.640 OK, I need to get on a live stream.

00:30:44.260 So I appreciate everyone watching us, Kian, always a pleasure for you to join the channel and the network.

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00:31:06.680 OK, so let's go back to some of the responses.

00:31:09.740 So we had Doug Ford just come out like really blunt.

00:31:14.220 You know, he was out on CNN.

00:31:15.460 He's out there trying to make the case.

00:31:17.200 I think he's probably a better person to make the case to Americans as to maybe why this isn't the best idea.

00:31:23.180 I would much rather Doug Ford be out there than Justin Trudeau.

00:31:26.040 And I say that as someone who has never voted for Doug Ford.

00:31:28.680 I'm not a big fan.

00:31:29.520 But on this front, I think he's a better communicator.

00:31:33.500 And I'd rather him be out there negotiating because he kind of speaks the same language as Trump and as many Americans.

00:31:38.940 But he he posted quite a somber message on X.

00:31:43.160 He said, I'm extremely disappointed that Donald Trump has chosen to walk away from a trading relationship that for decades has made life better for millions of workers on both sides of the border.

00:31:52.320 He goes on, he says, the coming days and weeks will be incredibly difficult.

00:31:57.800 Trump's tariffs will devastate our economy.

00:32:00.320 They'll put 450,000 jobs at risk across the provinces, Ontario.

00:32:05.740 Every sector and region will feel the impact.

00:32:09.320 He says, none of us want to be here.

00:32:11.420 But Canada and Ontario have faced down this kind of challenge before.

00:32:14.720 Each time we've emerged stronger, more united, more determined than ever.

00:32:18.600 So he's also, you know, he's running an election to recall, folks, that he's called an election in Ontario.

00:32:26.320 So he's decided that he's going to pull the plug early on his government and go for another four years.

00:32:32.560 And he's going to win a huge majority because there isn't really an opposition to him.

00:32:38.140 OK, let's go to Pierre Polyev.

00:32:40.160 Pierre Polyev also posted quite a lengthy response here.

00:32:45.720 He says, I'm going to get your opinion after this, Kian, because I don't know about this response from Pierre Polyev.

00:32:53.480 I think he's playing it a little too safe.

00:32:55.160 But here we go.

00:32:56.340 I'll give it a read.

00:32:56.760 He says, we must put Canada first.

00:32:59.520 That is why common sense conservatives condemn President Trump's massive, unjust and unjustified tariffs on Canada's already weak economy.

00:33:08.100 Canada is the United States' closest neighbor, greatest ally and best friend.

00:33:12.620 We shared the world's longest undefended border and fought alongside Americans in two wars, Korea and Afghanistan, where 158 of our brave men and women died, helping the United States avenge 9-11.

00:33:24.720 There is no justification whatsoever for this treatment.

00:33:27.440 The Liberals must put aside their partisan interests and recall Parliament now to pass the Canada first plan that will, one, retaliate with a dollar-for-dollar tariff, carefully aimed at maximizing impact on American companies while minimizing impact on Canadian consumers.

00:33:42.460 Good luck with that.

00:33:43.660 Two, put all the tariff revenues into help for affected workers and businesses.

00:33:49.020 Governments should not keep a dime of the new revenue.

00:33:50.960 Three, pass a massive emergency bring-it-home tax cut to bolster the economy, stop inflation, and save and create jobs.

00:34:00.140 Four, immediately scrap the Liberal Anti-Resource Law Bill C-69, greenlight LNG plans, pipelines, mines, factories, and port expansions.

00:34:08.740 I'm definitely for that one.

00:34:10.220 Number five, bring in truly free trade within Canada by knocking down interprovincial barriers.

00:34:15.480 That's a no-brainer.

00:34:16.140 Number six, rebuild our military and take back control of our borders to regain the confidence of our partners, assert our sovereignty, protect our people, and put Canada first.

00:34:26.020 We will protect our economy, defend our sovereignty, bring home production and paychecks, and never back down.

00:34:31.420 We'll put Canada first now and always.

00:34:34.160 So to me, that's a little bit like all the internal stuff.

00:34:38.020 It's like, yeah, definitely.

00:34:38.940 Like, why does Canada have so many trade barriers interprovincially?

00:34:42.960 That's such nonsense.

00:34:44.740 Yes, we need to have a better military.

00:34:46.740 Yes, we need to build more pipelines.

00:34:48.660 But Pierre is basically calling for the same thing that Trudeau just said, which is dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs there.

00:34:55.940 What do you think, Kian?

00:34:56.800 The difficulty here for Pierre is that he's listening, I think, a lot to the mainstream media.

00:35:07.440 And he's hearing them justify Trudeau's response and a Team Canada response.

00:35:15.260 And the mainstream media is always happy to tax people more.

00:35:19.460 And that is what a tarot is.

00:35:20.860 It's a tax.

00:35:21.560 I appreciate that Pierre said that he doesn't want the Canadian government to keep a dime of it.

00:35:27.260 That's going to be important that we watch and audit Justin Trudeau to make sure that he's not profiteering off this financially as well to cover up his deficit.

00:35:39.660 I wish that Pierre was a little bit more speaking.

00:35:44.700 You know, I think Trump responds to strength, and he responds to people who think like him.

00:35:52.000 You mentioned that about Doug Ford, and I think Pierre could learn a little bit about this.

00:35:56.040 This is not the time to agree that Justin Trudeau is on the right path here.

00:36:02.080 I think that we've analyzed why he's not.

00:36:05.260 These tariffs are going to hurt Canadians.

00:36:07.500 They're taxes on Canadians.

00:36:09.500 That's the problem here.

00:36:11.080 And I don't think that that's the way to go.

00:36:13.060 I think that there's anything but consensus on that outside of the Ottawa bubble.

00:36:18.720 When Canadians go to get the orange juice that they trust and drink every day and give to their kids, and they can no longer afford it.

00:36:27.680 You know, maybe, and here's the other thing.

00:36:29.320 Maybe if our economy was in a good position right now, we could stomach some tariffs.

00:36:34.200 But we can't.

00:36:34.960 The economy was already a dumpster fire before Justin Trudeau took this action.

00:36:40.340 And agreeing with him that this is the right course of action is just going to hurt Canadians more, which is deeply, deeply unfortunate.

00:36:48.760 Paul Yepp started off saying, yeah, we've got to put Canada first.

00:36:52.580 Great.

00:36:53.280 That's a sentiment I can get behind, especially when you consider the context.

00:36:57.260 Trump's throwing these massive tariffs at us.

00:36:59.480 And what does Paul Yepp think that we should do?

00:37:02.440 Well, a Canada first plan.

00:37:04.400 He's been talking about that for a long time.

00:37:06.480 I like it.

00:37:07.940 He's condemning these tariffs.

00:37:10.180 Fine.

00:37:11.340 But because Canada is America's closest neighbor, their greatest ally, we can't forget that we are responsible for the situation that we have put ourselves in.

00:37:24.700 We have allowed the border to become this no man's land where drugs, cartel members, and thugs pour over without any care or any concern that the RCMP or FBI are going to attack them.

00:37:44.260 I think what Pierre should say is that this is a mutual problem, and he should lay out the solution for it for when he takes power and works with Donald Trump to solve the solution.

00:37:55.600 I mean, Pierre doesn't need to go through this and explain why Justin Trudeau is rightfully tariffing Canadians.

00:38:04.140 He needs to be explaining to Donald Trump why this is going to change when he takes power.

00:38:08.920 Because I think that these tariffs, you know, if Justin Trudeau wants to keep escalating, as Donald Trump has said to not do because the tariffs will increase, it's a trade war.

00:38:18.760 And the only way this changes is with a change in leadership at the very top of our government.

00:38:24.660 Otherwise, I think we're in for a hell of a ride for the next few months.

00:38:28.480 I couldn't agree more.

00:38:29.700 Okay, so we have BC Premier David Eby.

00:38:33.020 Just when you think that Justin Trudeau is the biggest joke in the country, you know, here you have a BC Premier stepping up and say, I'm going to outdo you, Justin Trudeau.

00:38:41.400 You're going to go one more.

00:38:42.100 So BC Premier David Eby declares that his first step in retaliating against the Americans is to tariff British Columbia liquor stores, the government liquor stores out west, and telling them to stop buying liquor from red states.

00:38:58.520 So you can still get your California wine, you can still get your whatever they produce in New York, your IPAs, but you can't get your Jack Daniels or your whiskey from Kentucky, you can't, you can't get red state alcohol.

00:39:14.680 So we're now even zeroing in even harder on Donald Trump and supposedly the Republicans have voted him in.

00:39:22.620 What a silly, silly thing to do.

00:39:25.260 I'll read Daniel Smith's response as well.

00:39:28.020 She wrote that, she says,

00:39:30.080 I'm disappointed with U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to place tariffs on Canadian goods.

00:39:34.740 This decision will harm Canadians and Americans like and strain the important relationship and alliance between our two nations.

00:39:40.220 Alberta will do everything in its power to convince the U.S. President and Congress, as well as the American people, to reverse this mutually destructive policy.

00:39:47.680 We note that reduced 10% tariff for Canadian energy, which is partially a recognition of the advocacy undertaken by our government and industry to the U.S. administration, pointing out the substantial wealth created in the U.S. by American companies, tens of thousands of American workers to upgrade and refine approximately $100 billion of Canadian crude into $300 billion of products sold over the world to the same companies.

00:40:15.240 So she goes on and on to talk about the benefits of the relationship and what she thinks Canada should be doing, including securing our borders against illegal immigration and drugs, moving both directions, achieving our nation's 2% of GDP NATO commitment by 2027.

00:40:31.200 She sort of reluctantly says she will agree with the federal, with federal Canadian government.

00:40:39.120 She says Alberta will work collaboratively with our federal government and fellow provinces on a proportionate response to be imposed, to impose, to, to the imposed U.S. tariffs through a strategic use of Canadian import tariffs on U.S. goods.

00:40:54.220 So she's sort of not fully coming around to this idea.

00:40:58.260 Remember, it was a few weeks ago that she refused to sign that joint statement by the premiers and Trudeau because she didn't want to jump ahead and say, yes, we're going to do retaliatory tariffs.

00:41:08.040 Here she's saying that she will work collaboratively with them with the strategic use of it.

00:41:13.260 So she's sort of reluctantly saying we're going to do it.

00:41:15.220 But I think that the message from Danielle there was much, much more on, on, on the money.

00:41:19.480 Like we have to continue negotiating.

00:41:21.860 We're going to continue to make the case, right?

00:41:23.360 Not getting up on your high horse and like explaining to the Americans how wrong they are, but saying, you know, we're going to continue to use diplomacy and make inroads.

00:41:33.340 And hopefully we can get past this.

00:41:35.340 Like nobody wants an economic war here.

00:41:38.200 And yeah.

00:41:39.200 Trudeau does.

00:41:40.400 He wants it.

00:41:41.840 He's thriving off of this.

00:41:44.520 Yeah, no, you're right.

00:41:45.700 I mean, seeing, seeing him get up there and, and give his speech, you know, I really do think that he's like already planning his comeback, his political comeback.

00:41:55.680 And you mentioned Daniel Smith, you know, I feel like she's the only adult in the room.

00:42:02.040 She is Team Canada.

00:42:03.800 She is the person that's put us in the, the only benefit, the only good thing that has come from this, you know, rewind a week, two weeks.

00:42:12.000 It was a 25% tariff on Canada, full stop, all goods.

00:42:17.100 We were wringing our hands, horrified at what that would do to the automotive industry, every industry out east, fishing and the energy industry.

00:42:28.500 And then that's when Daniel stands up and says, okay, I'm going to go down south.

00:42:32.040 I'm going to speak with the president.

00:42:33.260 And now here we are 10%.

00:42:35.060 That's 15%.

00:42:36.120 Now, 10% is going to be disastrous for, for Western Canadians to elect oil.

00:42:40.220 It's not going to be good.

00:42:41.960 You can see it in our dollar already.

00:42:44.040 People are preparing to not be buying that oil.

00:42:46.740 It's bad for our Forex.

00:42:48.280 It's going to be bad for our, our, the industries, both upstream and downstream in the oil and gas industry.

00:42:54.340 But at the end of the day, that 15% is going to save jobs.

00:43:00.400 There are an amount of jobs that now will not be lost thanks to the diplomacy that Daniel Smith has done.

00:43:08.660 Diplomacy is a weird word to use with a premier of a province in Canada.

00:43:12.700 It's almost unheard of in our system of government for a premier to be having diplomatic relationship with a foreign government, let alone the president of the United States.

00:43:23.440 But she saw the gap.

00:43:26.860 She saw the bubble, the leadership vacuum, and she decided to take action.

00:43:31.460 So I think credit where credit is due for her.

00:43:34.520 You know, Nahid Nenshi, the leader of the Alberta NDP, not to get too into Alberta specific politics here.

00:43:41.800 He was angry at Daniel Smith.

00:43:43.560 He said that this was her fault.

00:43:45.280 Mocha, if you could bring up his Twitter and show people what Nahid Nenshi was saying today.

00:43:50.980 She just tweeted it a few hours ago, saying that this is her responsibility, that because she went down south to speak with Donald Trump, these tariffs are now happening.

00:44:00.240 It's completely out of touch with any political sensibilities, any understanding of the diplomacy that Daniel was doing, Premier Smith was doing when she was down there.

00:44:10.020 I was down there with her, I interviewed her, I spoke with her, and she sounded serious, dead serious.

00:44:15.200 She was not happy to be there, but she knew that she had to be there.

00:44:18.920 And that's, you know, that's leadership at the end of the day.

00:44:23.260 Absolutely.

00:44:23.920 I mean, she's the only one that's doing it.

00:44:26.100 I sort of get strategically why Pierre Polyev doesn't get on a plane and go down to the inauguration and go down to Mar-a-Lago.

00:44:32.840 Like that would be kind of, I guess, political suicide to like many of like the red Tories who live in Ontario.

00:44:38.120 I don't know.

00:44:38.680 I would like to see Pierre engaging because I think that he needs to show Canadians and show Trump.

00:44:46.300 Look, this Trudeau government is on the way out.

00:44:49.320 They are incredibly unpopular and they have all but destroyed Canada.

00:44:53.120 Our economy is incredibly weak and they have weakened it.

00:44:55.620 They have destroyed it with their carbon taxes, with their anti-energy policies, their inflationary spending, with their open border immigration.

00:45:01.640 That's all going to end as soon as a conservative government comes in.

00:45:05.160 So why don't you wait?

00:45:06.360 You know, give us a few months.

00:45:08.580 We're going to have an election.

00:45:09.940 We're going to get it done.

00:45:10.980 Deal with me.

00:45:12.260 I'm going to be the prime minister.

00:45:13.440 Like that's what Pierre Polyev needs to be doing.

00:45:15.280 He needs to be speaking to Trump, speaking his language, making the case.

00:45:19.440 And, you know, when I see Pierre come up with this kind of thing, I think he's just being a little too cautious.

00:45:25.440 He's being a little bit too concerned about, you know, the people in Toronto who read the Globe and Mail, who, you know, are swing voters.

00:45:33.360 Look, at the end of the day, I think Pierre Polyev is going to win the next election, whether he wins a massive sweeping historic majority or whether he gets like a small, like, you know, squeaks through sort of like the way that, I mean, I hope he doesn't get a minority government.

00:45:51.220 But, you know, I think that at a certain point, like Pierre just needs to stop worrying about what the Laurentian elites in Toronto think and the people who read the Globe and Mail and the people who write for the Globe and Mail and just like go for what's best for the country.

00:46:06.540 Like Canada's in serious trouble. And like, I don't say this with glee.

00:46:11.320 I like this isn't something that like brings me joy to say, but like when I look at Canada and what has happened over the past 10 years and specifically what's happened in the last two years, like the country is not in a good shape economically, culturally, socially.

00:46:25.960 Like there's so much division. There's so much hate. There's so much, you know, so many people that are just totally demoralized.

00:46:33.280 And like, you know, you do surveys and you see that 50% of young men want to move to the United States.

00:46:38.700 Many do many go up and go. And it's not because they hit Canada. I'm sure a lot of those guys have Maple Leafs tattooed, you know, on their chest.

00:46:46.020 It's like at the end of the day, you go where there are opportunities and you need to be able to support your family, feed your family.

00:46:53.500 And you look around. I mean, I'm sorry, like cost a million dollars to buy a crappy house in Toronto.

00:46:58.140 Like, like there's nowhere to live in the city and it's overrun. I mean, like the rent prices are insane.

00:47:06.940 You've done stories at True North about basements in like suburbs where there's like 20 guys living in one basement and they're each renting a bed for like 200 bucks a month.

00:47:17.520 Like it's just absolutely out of control. Unbelievable. It's not even touching the crime, the drugs, the illegal immigration, you know, the terrorists, the really, really terrible people that should never be operating in our country.

00:47:31.000 The fact that there are all kinds of agents and officials from adversarial countries like China that are like operating in Canada completely without, you know, even notice, like it's not even an issue that we talk about, but it's happening.

00:47:47.360 There's just so many problems in Canada. And, you know, it's, I just don't think that now is the time to just say, okay, let's just get along and have this united team Canada approach.

00:47:58.220 It's like, no, I want to see the conservatives break out and take an approach much more like what Danielle Smith's doing.

00:48:06.220 She's, she's, she's not coming across as extreme in any way, by the way, she's, she's completely on track.

00:48:12.000 She's completely rational. Every time she speaks, it just, it makes sense.

00:48:16.180 I think Danielle Smith is really having a moment. I think, you know, I see a lot of people in the chat, like, they're like, let's like, she should be prime minister.

00:48:22.620 Let's, let's, let's like Danielle Smith. She, she really is showing, you know, she's thriving in this circumstance and it's, it's nice to see.

00:48:31.240 It's, it's definitely not time for politics as usual.

00:48:34.800 Danielle has, Premier Smith has read the room and she knows that she understands that.

00:48:39.500 I hope that Pierre does as well.

00:48:42.080 And my guess is that the calculus that's going through his head is that he sees that Donald Trump is going to be unpopular with Canadians and even his base,

00:48:53.880 because the mainstream media and Justin Trudeau are going to be effective at dodging the blame.

00:49:00.760 Trudeau will be effective at dodging the blame personally, and the mainstream media will help him do that.

00:49:05.220 But they've always hated Donald Trump. They've always loved Trudeau.

00:49:08.580 We, we know how this story goes. We've seen this movie before.

00:49:13.340 And Pierre is weighing his head. Well, do I go down and talk with Donald Trump?

00:49:18.020 And do I take some of the blame for this potentially politically personally for him?

00:49:22.580 If it doesn't get solved, the answer is, yeah, maybe.

00:49:26.260 But the problem is that we have allowed the mainstream media to define the narrative here already.

00:49:31.780 I mean, not you and I. We're obviously trying to share the news and the stories that the mainstream media tries to keep hidden and the angles that they want to bury under the rug.

00:49:42.540 But Canada has allowed the mainstream media to shape opinion on this before it happened.

00:49:48.780 They had a month of lead up time.

00:49:50.680 They knew Trump was coming into office. They knew these tariffs were coming.

00:49:53.980 They knew Justin Trudeau was weak.

00:49:55.460 And they set this up hook, line and sinker for Justin Trudeau to run away with.

00:50:00.860 And Pierre, unfortunately, I think, has been a little bit caught off guard with this preparation that they've all put together and executed pretty flawlessly to make themselves look like the heroes.

00:50:11.180 That's why I'm glad that we have platforms like this, like YouTube and X and our websites, the Counter-Signal and True North, so that people can actually get the news that they need an answer to.

00:50:24.180 I'm getting a...

00:50:27.180 But I'll try to swipe away from that.

00:50:30.320 People need to hear the story that the mainstream media wants to keep covered, which is why I'm glad that we have these platforms.

00:50:37.460 And as you mentioned earlier, likes and subscriptions help a long way to help the algorithm go and share this news with moderate Canadians who might be duped by people like Justin Trudeau and Rosemary Barton into thinking that this really is Trump's fault when it was brought on by the Canadian administration.

00:50:56.460 Absolutely. I mean, Justin Trudeau is to blame.

00:50:58.880 He's the one of the country.

00:51:00.520 And I mean, he just he has to go.

00:51:03.300 He has to go.

00:51:04.100 So Mercedes Stevenson, who's a reporter over at Global, is saying that senior government sources say that the White House has warned prime minister's office, Justin Trudeau, that if Canada implements retaliatory tariffs, the U.S. will hit Canada even harder.

00:51:21.660 So, you know, we saw this just last week with Colombia, right?

00:51:26.540 Like, Colombia, apparently in the middle of the night, decided that they weren't going to take a couple planes full of illegal criminals who have illegally been in the United States who are being deported.

00:51:38.020 They were supposed to go back to Colombia.

00:51:39.980 The Colombian president said, no, we're not going to take them.

00:51:41.760 And Trump, apparently from a golf course, like like texting in between holes, put out this order saying we're going to slap you with 25 percent tariffs.

00:51:50.220 We're revoking all the visas for you and all your family members, a bunch of other measures.

00:51:54.060 And this is a stop. We're going to double that tariff to 50 percent.

00:51:58.280 Like Trump means business. This is like F around and find out. Right.

00:52:01.540 And I think Justin Trudeau continues to F around.

00:52:05.340 He continues to kind of poke the poke the bear and say, OK, like, do you dare me to?

00:52:11.840 We'll do it. And you do it like playing this game of chicken as if we are two equals, like as if our tariffs are going to hurt them as much as their tariffs hurt us.

00:52:21.320 I mean, maybe if we were equal size with equal populations and equal economies, that might make a little bit more sense.

00:52:27.360 But it's just not the reality. Like Canada is so wholly dependent on the United States.

00:52:31.540 For our for our entire economy, like we need them. We need them.

00:52:37.240 And so playing these kind of games, especially when at this point, I get that he was elected.

00:52:41.560 He was elected three times, but he is not a legitimate prime minister right now.

00:52:45.340 He resigned. He he has no business being propped up the way that Jagmeet Singh has been propping him up.

00:52:50.740 I cannot believe that they allowed him to prorogue parliament, like to just press pause on our democracy.

00:52:56.620 This might be like the most consequential moment in this century for Canada.

00:53:02.620 Like I can't even think of a time that would be more important for politicians to be in Ottawa at work and to be debating and discussing a reaction, like to see our parliament in work, to have like Canadians had the ability to observe what's happening and to have some accountability from the opposition to the government.

00:53:24.640 But we can't because Trudeau pulled the plug on parliament.

00:53:28.080 He prorogued like it's unbelievable to me that these guys aren't even going to work like they're not even parliamentarians aren't even carrying out their business in parliament because Justin Trudeau wants to step aside so that Mark Carney can become the first World Economic Forum unelected prime minister.

00:53:48.580 It doesn't give you confidence. It just feels like the system is absolutely broken.

00:53:54.340 We need massive reforms. We need massive change.

00:53:56.800 We have basically an unelected prime minister right now who's appointing to an unelected body, the senator, the Senate, 10 senators that are going to be filled at some point before Trudeau leaves.

00:54:07.900 And it's all being held up by a governor general who has no accountability to the people.

00:54:13.240 Like what kind of system is this? No wonder our country is absolutely failing when this is the way that our institutions are set up.

00:54:19.780 They're set up to stop the people from having a say at a time when Canadians have a lot to say.

00:54:26.480 And it's just absolutely unbelievable, unbearable.

00:54:31.360 I think, I don't know, I'm not one of those people who thinks that Canada should join the United States or become the 51st state, but I totally understand why many, many people would.

00:54:41.480 Yeah, you know, you said, you said that this is going to do damage, and you're right, on a scale of 10 to 1, our con, every, every ounce of pain we hope to extract against the American government, well, every ounce that Trudeau hopes to extract is going to hurt us 10 times more than it would ever hurt them.

00:55:06.460 But there's simple concessions we can make here, and they should have been made a month ago.

00:55:12.480 He told Israel, he said, get this done, get the hostages back, get a ceasefire finished before I get into office, or else there will be hell to pay.

00:55:24.800 And guess what? They reached a deal that nobody thought they could.

00:55:29.140 He gave Justin Trudeau the same warning, fix the border, fix the crime, fix the drugs, and he ignored him.

00:55:38.960 He knew that this would happen, and he wanted to be in front of that podium tonight.

00:55:43.300 He wants to keep people waiting because he wants his moment to repair his legacy.

00:55:47.800 Rewind, just four months ago before Trump won his election, Trudeau's polling was worse than it had ever been,

00:55:54.600 and now he sees an opportunity to save his legacy, and he's doing that on the backs of Canadians.

00:56:01.500 It's pathetic.

00:56:03.200 We should never have let it happen, and the only way this changes, and I'm saying this to Jagmeet Singh now,

00:56:09.980 the only way this changes is if he follows through with his word and brings the government down at the earliest possible moment.

00:56:19.060 If he doesn't, it will be the biggest betrayal in Canadian history.

00:56:26.560 Well, we need to recall parliament.

00:56:29.940 We need to have parliamentarians at work, and Jagmeet Singh said that he was going to pull the plug as soon as it happens.

00:56:37.440 So, yeah, you know, it's just, it's unbelievable that these people are the ones that hold the balance of power, Kian.

00:56:46.660 And, I mean, Tuesday's going to be a rough day for the loony in the economy.

00:56:53.140 But at this point, you know, we don't have parliament.

00:56:55.340 Justin Trudeau was asked during his Q&A if he would bring back parliament, and he didn't really answer.

00:56:59.260 So, no surprise there.

00:57:01.820 Wouldn't be surprised at all if Jagmeet Singh continues to prop up this government because he's been doing it for the last two years inexplicably.

00:57:09.680 And it's just a rough, rough time for our country.

00:57:13.020 Well, folks, really appreciate you joining us here on a Saturday evening, 10 p.m. here in the Eastern Time Zone and 8 o'clock for you out in Alberta, Kian.

00:57:23.980 I appreciate you jumping on the live stream.

00:57:25.500 We're going to be back on Monday morning with my show, The Candace Malcolm Show, and we will have more analysis and provide all of the latest news and details.

00:57:34.540 So, folks, we're going to wrap it up.

00:57:36.080 I appreciate you joining us this evening.

00:57:38.880 Appreciate all your support.

00:57:40.700 Check out Kian Bexte's The Counter Signal.

00:57:45.740 And, Kian, thanks so much for joining us.

00:57:48.540 Thanks for having me.

The Candice Malcolm Show - February 02, 2025

Trump launches ECONOMIC WARFARE on Canada

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