The Candice Malcolm Show - What everyone’s missing about Trump’s 51st state “threat”

00:00:00.000 hi and welcome to the candace malcolm show i'm your host candace malcolm and it is so great to

00:00:12.880 be back here happy 2025 this is my first show of the year actually my first show in about nine

00:00:18.960 months i've been on maternity leave i welcomed my husband i welcomed our fourth child back in may

00:00:25.360 my original plan was to be on maternity leave for a full year come back in may what i thought was 1.00

00:00:30.960 going to be in time for the federal election uh well everything changed sort of by the end of

00:00:35.920 december early january here and you know watching the news unfold this week i really couldn't stop

00:00:42.160 myself i couldn't hold back i wanted to jump back in the phrase so we're bringing you the candace

00:00:46.480 malcolm show here and just super excited uh to be back so we have a lot to get to today i'm going to

00:00:53.120 cover trump's recent comments on canada supposedly becoming the 51st american state i'm going to talk

00:00:59.760 about the response the hysterical response uh from our national leaders and the commentary class

00:01:05.920 including justin trudeau's rather embarrassing appearance on cnn last night with jake

00:01:10.640 tapper uh basically we're going to talk about what everybody is missing when it comes to donald trump

00:01:16.720 and how he negotiates uh later in the show we're going to talk a little bit more about

00:01:21.280 justin trudeau and his completely selfish cynical plan to pause parliament to prorogue it this is

00:01:27.680 probably the most consequential and important time perhaps in our country's history certainly

00:01:33.760 in this century and what does our prime minister do he prorogues parliament for selfish personal

00:01:40.000 partisan reasons to try to save his sad sorry party from getting wiped out in the next election quite 0.96

00:01:46.880 pathetic we're going to talk about that and finally the end of the show we'll talk about canada

00:01:50.800 what does it mean to be canadian and at this point is our country worth saving worth defending so 0.64

00:01:57.440 really excited uh to be back and we've got a great show for you today please don't forget to like this

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00:02:11.600 newsletter so you'll never miss a news story okay let's get going here folks let's talk about donald trump

00:02:18.080 and let's talk about his proposal and if he is actually serious because he has been kind of

00:02:23.760 leaning in on this joke well what we thought was a joke that he wanted to annex canada and he wanted

00:02:29.280 to make canada the 51st state i think a lot of it has to do with trolling this is kind of what trump

00:02:35.360 does best right like think back to 2015 and 2016 when he was running for leadership of the republican

00:02:41.680 party he wasn't really seen as a serious candidate but what he did was he kind of like picked apart the

00:02:46.400 other candidates he mocked them he made fun of them he made a joke out of them to the point where

00:02:50.800 we couldn't really take them seriously anymore right like think back to jeb bush um calling him

00:02:55.920 low energy jeb it just completely took the energy out of his campaign it mocked him in a way that he

00:03:01.440 really deserved to be mocked and he did to all the other candidates and that's kind of the beauty

00:03:05.360 of trump and his marketing and so we're seeing this pressure applied to justin trudeau and let me just

00:03:10.560 tell you my opinion i think it's hilarious i i love it i love seeing justin trudeau sort of

00:03:16.160 humiliated by donald trump i love having donald trump sort of put him in his place here you have 0.60

00:03:21.120 our canadian prime minister who is as arrogant as they get he really does think that canada belongs

00:03:26.560 to him and that he sort of personifies canada he is canada's one in the same um there's many many of

00:03:32.480 us canadians who just don't feel that way we don't see ourself and our country when we look at

00:03:36.960 justin trudeau when we hear him speak and when we see what he does he doesn't represent us and so to

00:03:42.800 have someone who is as arrogant as justin trudeau be kind of slapped down and put in his place by

00:03:47.600 someone who is much more powerful much more vocal much more famous than him it's sort of like you

00:03:54.000 know that's exactly what justin trudeau deserves and i think that we need more of that right we need

00:03:58.000 to be able to laugh at our politicians laugh at our leaders because it takes their power away so

00:04:02.960 i for one have just personally enjoyed laughing about this whole thing and laughing at just trudeau

00:04:08.560 there's more to what trump is doing and we'll get to that a bit later but here we had donald trump

00:04:13.520 at a press conference earlier this week this was on tuesday afternoon he was fielding questions on

00:04:17.920 just about absolutely anything this is one of the things that trump does he can talk about anything

00:04:21.440 and he loves to field questions and just go off on tangents on every issue it's quite impressive

00:04:27.120 so at this press conference he talked about everything from ukraine to american domestic policy he was

00:04:32.800 asked about greenland and how he wanted to annex greenland and talked about the panama canal and

00:04:37.840 then the question of canada came up and this is sort of what everyone wants to know like are you

00:04:41.680 serious are you actually going to take canada is that what you're proposing to do and will it be

00:04:46.720 military so let's watch that clip of donald trump being asked about canada mr president if you were

00:04:52.880 working under the assumption that you're serious about making canada the 51st state of the united states

00:04:58.160 the leader of the conservative party in canada said under no circumstance it will not ever be the

00:05:03.360 maybe he won't win but maybe he will i don't know you would suggest listen i don't care what you're

00:05:07.920 supposed to say real fast you're considering military force to acquire panama and greenland are you

00:05:14.400 also considering military force to annex and acquire no economic force because canada and the united

00:05:22.000 states that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at

00:05:29.280 what that looks like and it would also be much better for national security don't forget we

00:05:33.600 basically protect canada but here's the problem with canada so many friends up there uh i love the

00:05:41.440 canadian people they're great but we're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we're

00:05:47.600 spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of canada we we lose in trade deficits we're losing

00:05:53.920 mass we don't need their cars you know they make 20 of our cars we don't need that i'd rather make

00:05:58.400 them in detroit we don't need the cars we don't need their lumber we have massive fields of lumber we 0.99

00:06:04.720 don't need their lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know restrictions on 0.98

00:06:10.400 but i can do that with an executive order we don't need anything they have we don't need their dairy 0.99

00:06:15.840 products we have more than they have we don't need anything so why are we losing 200 billion dollars

00:06:21.280 a year and more to protect canada so there's donald trump being pretty straightforward pretty

00:06:28.480 honest from an american perspective talking about what do they gain from the relationship and could

00:06:34.000 they possibly just do it on their own like yes canada has tons of national resources we have an auto uh

00:06:40.160 system the the manufacturing corridor where products go back and forth across the border and

00:06:45.760 both sides are mutually dependent on the other side but trump is saying well we can just build our own

00:06:50.000 factories we can use our own softwood lumber uh we can have our own natural gas like we don't need

00:06:54.960 all this stuff from canada um so if the if the relationship isn't benefiting us we have leverage

00:07:00.720 here right and the point about national security like canada doesn't defend itself that is completely true

00:07:06.320 and completely fair canada needs to spend more money on our own national military national defense um

00:07:13.040 and good for trump for pointing that out because maybe we do need internal pressures uh to do things

00:07:18.080 like boost our own military and to eliminate a lot of the sort of protectionist measures that we have

00:07:22.640 in areas like dairy like supply management so everything trump is saying there is truth to it

00:07:28.800 uh but we don't like the way that he's saying it is basically what's happening in canada so if you

00:07:33.040 look at the way that our national leaders have replied it's just it's been very much in unison

00:07:39.040 there's not a lot of distinctions let's go through how people have replied it'll start with our prime

00:07:43.760 minister justin trudeau uh because his uh his response is quite telling he writes there isn't

00:07:49.840 a snowball's chance in hell that canada would become part of the united states workers and

00:07:54.880 communities in both their countries benefit from being each other's biggest trading and security

00:08:00.560 partner i kind of like the joke i kind of like the line not a snowball's chance in hell

00:08:04.320 uh but here's justin trudeau trying to be a tough guy right trying to be strong and powerful and

00:08:08.720 say like i can go eye to eye with trump well no you can't justin you can't because you didn't right

00:08:13.920 you didn't over the last administration you didn't get the deal that was needed for canada you've

00:08:20.240 destroyed our country economically like it's not your time so just like sit down and be quiet and

00:08:25.440 that is pretty much the response that we saw my favorite one came from elon musk the owner of twitter

00:08:31.040 now known as x and he just replied girl you're not the governor of canada anymore so it doesn't

00:08:37.200 matter what you say just reminder you step down you're not going to be leading the country anymore

00:08:42.400 you're not going to be leading these negotiations with trump so just keep your mouth shut and be

00:08:46.800 quiet i love that we also had pierre polyev jump in with a super strong response but again pierre is

00:08:53.440 taking trump at face value so he's replying uh as if trump is really serious about canada being annexed so

00:09:01.120 this is what pierre polyev has to say he says canada will never be the 51st state period we are a

00:09:06.960 great and independent country we are the best friend to the u.s we spend billions of dollars

00:09:12.000 and hundreds of lives helping americans retaliate against al-qaeda's 9-11 attacks we supply the u.s with

00:09:17.600 billions of dollars of high quality and totally reliable energy well below market prices we buy

00:09:22.800 hundreds of billions of dollars of american goods our weak and pathetic ndp liberal government has failed

00:09:28.880 to make these obvious points i will fight for canada when i'm prime minister we will rebuild our

00:09:33.440 military take back control of the border to secure both canada and the u.s we will take back control

00:09:38.800 of the arctic to keep russia and china out will axe attacks slash red tape rapidly greenlight massive 0.97

00:09:45.200 resource projects to bring home paychecks and production to our country in other words we will

00:09:51.040 put canada first amen to that again pierre is just so strong and he totally is just right on point here

00:09:58.560 this message is not directed to donald trump like donald trump doesn't care about this he reads this

00:10:03.120 and it doesn't speak to him but pierre is speaking past trump he's speaking to the canadian people he's

00:10:08.000 trying to sort of re-spark that hint of patriotism and nationalism uh that canadians might be feeling

00:10:13.680 right now and this is a super solid message but again i don't think it's gonna it's not gonna get very

00:10:20.400 far uh with trump just saying canada will never be the 51st state uh period that's not gonna appeal to

00:10:26.640 trump i want to go through the rest of the leaders here so let's see what jagmeet singh said the leader

00:10:32.000 of the ndp and again jagmeet singh is not an important person or at least he shouldn't be but

00:10:37.120 just because of the situation we find ourselves in canada where this man holds the balance of power

00:10:41.920 this man has propped up a terrible liberal government for the past several years in the 0.64

00:10:46.880 worst interest of canadians really just putting himself first because he wants this bloody pension

00:10:51.440 that he's gonna get um he became powerful and he shouldn't be and soon he won't be 0.98

00:10:56.160 anyway jagmeet singh had this to say cut the crap donald no canadian wants to join you we are 0.97

00:11:02.400 proud canadians proud of the way we take care of each other and defend our nation your attacks will 0.99

00:11:07.680 hurt jobs on both sides of the border you come for canada's jobs and americans will pay the price

00:11:14.160 again this is weak sauce this is weak again like jagmeet singh's trying to pretend that he's on equal 0.98

00:11:19.360 footing to donald trump cut the crap donald like speaking to him by his first name probably trying to 0.99

00:11:24.800 like diminish him um by calling him by his first name it just falls flat it's pathetic it's just 0.99

00:11:31.840 not it's not even right no canadian wants to join you well in fact jagmeet singh i think there's plenty 0.83

00:11:37.200 of canadians out there who are actually excited about the potential of joining the united states

00:11:41.760 who actually piques their interest and they believe that their life could possibly be better under the

00:11:45.920 united states so he's claiming he's making a statement that's not even true i'm sure even ndp supporters

00:11:50.720 don't agree with this anymore and and and then this goes to something i'm going to talk about a

00:11:55.840 little later in the program jagmeet singh sort of defines canada he says we're proud canadians

00:12:00.480 proud of the way we take care of each other and our nation so he he kind of defines canadians as being

00:12:06.160 more like we take care of each other read into that like we're more socialistic we're more communistic

00:12:10.720 we believe in like more uh more equality or egalitarian society which i just i don't think that

00:12:18.480 that's part of our national identity i think that he would like for that to be the case uh but i

00:12:22.480 don't agree with that next we have elizabeth may of the green party who um definitely wins like the 1.00

00:12:29.680 most unhinged response uh i'm going to play a video here uh where she offers a different deal

00:12:35.840 to donald trump so let's play that clip i don't want to belittle mr trump but on the other hand

00:12:40.960 hey donald have we got a deal for you you think we want to be the 51st state yeah but maybe california

00:12:48.960 would like to be the 11th province how about it california oregon washington you're you've got

00:12:57.840 geography in common goes and not only that we've already got a carbon trading system between california

00:13:03.440 and quebec we've got some strong alliances on our west coast from british columbia there's been a

00:13:09.680 a lot of academic papers on the idea of cascadia so california governor in newsom and washington

00:13:16.880 state jay inslee and newly elected governor of oregon tina kotak how about it want to put a

00:13:22.480 referendum to your citizens because this is what you deal have we got a deal for you this is what

00:13:26.160 you get free health care universal free health care no more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off

00:13:31.520 the medicaid list and their parents are in the news because they're trying to do a gofundme so they

00:13:35.360 can get their daughter to a doctor okay so there's the crazy lady uh elizabeth bay i i do appreciate

00:13:43.200 that she's she's mocking donald trump and kind of taking it as seriously as i think donald trump is

00:13:47.600 taking it like yeah sure you want to make us uh a 51st state how about you become the 11th province

00:13:52.640 instead and then she brings up the old idea of cascadia uh which is a little dear to my heart i grew up

00:13:57.520 in vancouver and i remember i became interested in this project this idea that there's a political

00:14:02.400 movement to sort of merge or to create a new country on the west coast uh spanning from british

00:14:07.920 columbia all the way down to california it's kind of an interesting theory uh although as soon as i

00:14:11.600 looked into it i realized that there's like nothing there there uh there's not actually a political

00:14:15.600 movement it's run by a bunch of kooks and of course it never got anywhere probably because

00:14:20.480 elizabeth may's idea there of like a left-wing environmental utopia uh just would never work like 0.99

00:14:26.320 the idea that hey come to canada and you have this great free health care uh just you know don't

00:14:31.200 don't uh don't look too closely at the details forget the fact that um in british columbia right

00:14:35.840 now they are literally sending sick kids down to washington state to get cancer treatments because

00:14:42.080 the line the queue in canada is so long we've all seen our health care system just completely uh

00:14:47.520 deteriorate uh post-covid and the reason is just because it is a controlled socialist system so

00:14:53.600 there's limited resources and that leads to queuing that leads to rationing of care this is stuff that we've

00:14:58.880 been talking about for a long long time and everyone's seeing that so this idea that canada's

00:15:03.360 golden health care is part of our national identity and it's like the appeal why other people would

00:15:07.760 want uh to leave the united states and come to canada just it's not true it doesn't hold true it's like

00:15:12.560 based on a 1990s myth about canada being a superior country because of our health care system and then

00:15:18.080 we watched our health care system decay uh and fall apart over the last 20 years and people are still

00:15:23.760 saying it but it's just not true and everyone knows uh that it's not true all right i want to

00:15:28.080 pivot to uh premier of ontario doug ford who had a response to this which i actually think this is

00:15:35.280 probably the best way to reply to donald trump uh doug ford he he spoke about this several times

00:15:41.280 um over the week i'm going to play a clip that he did on fox news with jesse waters sort of giving an

00:15:46.080 alternative idea uh and countering trump's uh proposition so here's that clip what's your problem with

00:15:53.280 the united states absorbing canada well first of all uh jesse you know i i love the u.s i love

00:16:01.520 americans and i i get it you know president-elect trump is a real estate tycoon he's made billions

00:16:09.440 but that property is not for sale as simple as that but i have a better idea jesse why don't we create

00:16:15.040 fortress amcan and make sure it's the richest wealthiest most prosperous jurisdiction in the

00:16:21.680 two countries anywhere in the world we have the critical minerals we have the energy we have the

00:16:26.000 electricity that america needs and there's only one place i'd want to sell it to and that's the u.s

00:16:31.840 i i get it you you say you say that americans don't have a problem with canadians and we don't but it

00:16:37.120 seems like you have a problem with us because if i were a citizen of another country and i was a

00:16:42.720 neighbor of the united states i would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the united states of

00:16:48.320 america that's what everybody else in the world wants american citizenship for some reason that's

00:16:54.080 repellent to you canadians and i find that personally offensive premier well you know something jesse

00:17:02.080 we're proud canadians just like there's proud americans and if we join together uh and and take

00:17:09.040 on the world with a great trade deal between us i think that'd be fabulous no one could stop us

00:17:14.000 i think that could possibly be the most like stereotypical interview between an american

00:17:19.680 like a brash americans kind of like a new york style just write your face i'm offended by the

00:17:23.920 fact that you don't want to be american and then you have like you know kind of like nice kind bumbling

00:17:29.200 uh doug ford there being like well you know we like you guys but uh we like our our self too we

00:17:34.080 like being canadian eh um and i think it did uh pretty much sum up uh what what a lot of people are

00:17:40.880 thinking i'm not a huge fan of doug ford i haven't really liked much of what his government has done

00:17:45.280 but i think on this he sort of strikes the right tone which is like hey there is a deal to be made

00:17:49.280 here there is a partnership that is very potentially beneficial especially to canadians to help us

00:17:54.960 through this economic hangover that we're going to have to when we finally deal with justin trudeau's

00:18:00.240 out of control spending and the printing of money that has happened over the past several years

00:18:04.400 um why don't we join forces why don't we build this big fortress that's has better security that has

00:18:09.840 freer flowing energy like basically creating a stronger uh trade zone i would even argue that

00:18:15.440 canada should go ahead and get on to the us dollar and allow our economy to be like really opened up

00:18:21.200 to competition from the united states without actually going so far as to merging so i think i

00:18:26.960 think doug ford kind of hits the nail on the head here by saying let's kind of further integrate our

00:18:32.560 economies and our national security our military uh while keeping our cultural sovereignty and our

00:18:38.000 cultural heritage i think that's that's kind of right on the mark um what is right not right on

00:18:43.440 the mark is the way that the sort of elite classes in canada have responded like if you think that

00:18:49.040 the political leaders response was over the top uh just wait until you see what some of the liberal

00:18:54.640 journalists and pundits in canada have had to say over this the sort of pearl clutching and the feet

00:18:59.920 stomping has been hilarious and and so delicious so i want to show you a couple of examples of that first

00:19:05.200 we're going to go with warren kinsella who's a long-time liberal strategist not a fan of trudeau

00:19:10.240 but a liberal nonetheless here he is writing in the toronto sun and he writes if you support trump

00:19:17.760 over canada get the hell out pretty succinct pretty straightforward i mean i thought we weren't

00:19:24.400 allowed to tell one another uh to get out of canada i thought that that was sort of out of bounds in

00:19:29.040 our political uh culture certainly when conservatives say that to anybody who wasn't born in canada

00:19:33.760 like if you don't like it here get the hell out uh we're called racists and bigots and accused of

00:19:37.920 all kinds of nasty things uh but i guess a liberal can say it to someone who might be more prone to

00:19:43.760 accepting a pro-american message so uh that's that's pretty uh on the mark uh for a liberal i'll move on

00:19:50.720 here to stephen marr who is kind of a freelance mainstream media guy who writes in all kinds of

00:19:56.400 publications um he writes this time for canadian leaders to set aside partisanship to respond to

00:20:03.680 this and they're trying to reset what the ballot box question will be what is the next election

00:20:09.040 about right like most canadians want an election based on how terrible justin trudeau mismanaged

00:20:15.680 the country how bad our country has suffered under liberal rule under the sort of unleashing of a woke

00:20:21.360 agenda that's just damaged us in every possible way that you can imagine um and then you see liberals

00:20:26.560 trying to like re uh readjust the conversation to say like no no that the the question in the election the

00:20:33.360 ballot box question is not whether you want more terrible disastrous economic policy from the

00:20:38.480 liberals the real question is who will defend our sovereignty who will defend us from the united

00:20:43.280 states um don't let them do that don't let them switch the issue and make it about this because

00:20:49.360 liberals have a natural advantage there right like all of our national symbols have been designed by

00:20:54.320 liberals it's like our our flag is like the liberal party flag uh they got rid of our red ensign and

00:21:00.480 replaced it with that they replaced everything they even changed the lyrics of our national anthem

00:21:05.680 to make it more politically correct so when it comes to the sort of national identity thing liberals

00:21:10.480 do have a natural advantage there and that's why they would much rather talk about that as opposed to

00:21:15.360 all the terrible things that are happening in canada right now and so you see people like steve marr

00:21:20.240 kind of taking the lead on that uh next we had andrew coin who is a cbc talking head and national

00:21:26.800 post uh columnist and just generally grumpy person um he writes this uh some need to decide whether

00:21:33.840 their allegiance lies with canada or with trump uh so i guess that's like a warding out to conservatives

00:21:42.560 pretty ironic given that andrew coin andrew coins questioning our allegiance in our country

00:21:48.640 uh well at the same time on x here where he posted this you can see that he has four flags

00:21:53.840 next to his name right there are four flags we have ukraine israel uh that's a georgia flag

00:22:00.080 and then the final one i think that's moldovia is that right yeah moldovia so like in what world

00:22:05.200 is this guy who doesn't even bother to put a canadian flag in his bio when he's clearly really into

00:22:11.360 flags uh he doesn't bother to put the canadian one and yet he's lecturing us um saying that our

00:22:16.400 allegiance must lie with canada um and not on trump so that was quite amusing i want to read one

00:22:22.800 reply to andrew coin's tweet because i think it really hits the nail on the head and it's a bit

00:22:27.920 more somber um really telling people like andrew coin why it is that so many are actually taking

00:22:35.360 serious this idea um that canada might be better off uh with the united states so this is julian

00:22:41.920 rochelle i believe his last name is rochelle uh apologies if i'm mispronouncing that but he is a

00:22:47.680 prolific writer and author and he writes neither mr coin canada versus trump is a false choice

00:22:54.160 fallacy my allegiance is to my family my friends and my community to protect them from what canada

00:22:58.960 has become perhaps you don't understand how deeply we have been betrayed by our country

00:23:04.160 and how thoroughly the government has obliterated the social contract between the government and its

00:23:09.680 people for that matter uh can you even define what this thing called canada is anymore other than a

00:23:15.920 tax and regulatory system that is plundering us at every turn from my perspective it looks a lot

00:23:21.920 like a government for the benefit of the governors and their friends with us as a voiceless surf what

00:23:28.400 cultural values does canada represent what principles does it preserve the border is a national

00:23:33.920 line where one culture stops and another begins can you identify what it is being canadian that you value

00:23:39.680 so much other than just the fact that you're not american he goes on and on but i think that kind of

00:23:44.960 sums it up a lot of canadians feel deeply betrayed by their government by their ruling class they

00:23:49.600 don't feel like the people in power represent them in any meaningful way and they've kind of abandoned

00:23:55.680 the idea of a of a canada it's sad to say uh but so many canadians are feeling that way and that's

00:24:01.120 something that the elites and certainly the liberals uh in this country just do not understand it's kind

00:24:07.440 of it's kind of an interesting thing that happens i know in the us there's tons of polling on

00:24:11.840 patriotism and sort of love for country and what you see is that republicans are pretty much always

00:24:18.160 patriotic they always love their country regardless of who's in power uh whereas the democrats it shifts

00:24:23.440 right when there's a democrat president like when president obama was in power democrats were super

00:24:28.640 proud like there was a very high percentage of democrats who said i am proud to be an american

00:24:33.440 and then as soon as donald trump was in office that number like plummeted so they're the democrats

00:24:38.080 um allegiance to the country is really dependent on who is in power uh whereas the republicans are

00:24:43.200 always patriotic uh dips a little bit obviously but but more or less all always patriotic um i

00:24:49.040 wouldn't say the same thing is true about canadians and conservatives i haven't seen the polling numbers

00:24:53.680 but just from my experience interacting with conservatives in canada over the last decade while

00:24:58.240 justin trudeau has been in office i don't think that there's that kind of universal um unflappable

00:25:04.720 patriotism and love for canada um seeing what a prime minister and a leader like justin trudeau

00:25:10.400 has been able to do in the last nine years it doesn't really give you a lot of assurance and

00:25:15.280 give you a lot of confidence that your country can withstand even the worst of the worst of political

00:25:20.480 leaders like like if you see how much canada has fallen apart over the last decade under justin trudeau

00:25:25.200 it's hard to really have faith that canada um you know that our constitution that our system of

00:25:30.240 government is so strong that it can preserve our liberties i mean it didn't right it failed on its

00:25:35.040 face even if you think the chart of rights and freedoms is a good document that there's good

00:25:39.760 points in there it's like well it's not being interpreted it's not being read properly it's not

00:25:43.760 being preserved it isn't it wasn't it didn't so it's very hard for many people on the political right

00:25:49.040 um to maintain that faith and that hope and that optimism in canada after living through uh what we have

00:25:55.680 lived through and it kind of gets back to that sort of defining question that we keep struggling with

00:26:00.480 here like what does it mean to be canadian what does that even mean what is it that we're fighting

00:26:04.880 for what are our shared values do we have any if you listen to people on the political left and liberals

00:26:10.240 the things that they're proud of are like left-wing policies um things that i don't like that i don't

00:26:14.720 agree with i don't want universal health care because i think it's a crappy system i don't like free

00:26:19.680 abortions i don't like unlimited abortions i don't like that policy i don't like the fact um that we

00:26:23.680 can't own guns to protect ourselves like like all the things that these lefties define canadian as

00:26:28.880 are things that we don't even actually agree on that most canadians don't agree on and so that

00:26:33.760 that's sort of where this this whole thing is coming i want to get to a few more takes we had

00:26:38.480 prime former prime minister stephen harper he chimed in on social media as well and posted on twitter

00:26:44.640 um basically just saying that you know he meant this when he said it and he still means it today

00:26:49.840 talking about his hope and belief in canada he says yeah here it is true when i said it

00:26:54.880 and still true today this was a video a campaign video that stephen harper and the conservatives

00:26:59.920 put out back in 2011 kind of capturing the hope of canada the hope of what our country means and and

00:27:07.200 what we stand for i think this is part of the reason why stephen harper won that election back in 2011

00:27:12.560 this is this is sort of one that you know the mark part of the greater marketing and the pitch to

00:27:17.520 canadians back then that really appealed to them and capture the imagination of the canadian people

00:27:21.920 it's almost sad to look back at this 2011 13 years ago about how little hope that we still have in

00:27:28.240 the country so let's play this clip canada is and always has been our country and we want canada to be

00:27:39.520 a true north that is as strong and as free as it can be in every way that matters the best country in the

00:27:46.480 world that's why we're here that's why we strive that's why we serve

00:27:53.920 canada must reflect the true character of the canadian people

00:27:58.960 honorable in our dealings faithful to our commitments loyal to our friends

00:28:05.200 by turns a courageous warrior and a compassionate neighbor

00:28:10.240 it is our purpose that canada must be great

00:28:13.200 it must be great for all canadians it must be a country of hope

00:28:17.360 and an example to the world and only when it is these things when canada

00:28:22.480 is all that it can be only then can we say that our work is done

00:28:31.200 just an amazing video like that just that that makes me uh just feel so patriotic canada is so

00:28:37.200 beautiful too what a beautiful beautiful landmass that we have beautiful country and we do have these this

00:28:42.000 sort of greater national identity that can't really be defined uh but again like looking

00:28:48.560 back at the optimism of 2012 2011 um comparing it to the hellscape that we see before us here in 20

00:28:55.600 25 it is just such a stark uh difference to go back even further um on the nostalgia front

00:29:01.600 i noticed that uh toby lukey who's the uh ceo and founder of shopify uh he posted on twitter um

00:29:07.840 but he wanted to go back even further he says um can we have this canada back and he posted a video

00:29:15.120 of a beer commercial uh from the 1990s uh that many of us uh who were growing up in that time remember

00:29:22.240 like like this commercial i hadn't watched it in years uh but this commercial very much was my belief

00:29:28.480 of what canadian identity was back as like a naive high school um student uh in the 90s uh thinking of

00:29:35.600 canada when i look back at it now i have a different feeling of it so i'll play it for you here and

00:29:40.560 then i'll share my thoughts on this video so here is the beer the most molson beer commercial i think

00:29:45.760 from the 90s hey i'm i'm not a lumberjack or a fur trader and i don't live in an igloo or eat blubber

00:29:56.400 or own a dog sled and i don't know jimmy sally or susie from canada although i'm certain they're

00:30:01.840 really really nice i have a prime minister not a president i speak english and french not american

00:30:10.560 and i pronounce it about not a boot i can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack i believe in

00:30:16.800 peacekeeping not policing diversity not assimilation and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal

00:30:23.760 the tooth is a hat but chesterfield is a coach and it is pronounced said not city zed canada is the

00:30:31.840 second largest land mass the first nation of hockey and the best part of north america my name is joe and

00:30:40.640 i am canadian wow doesn't that bring you back uh i will still say i get like tangs of patriotism watching

00:30:48.720 that but i also cringe because it's just so superficial and if that's really if that's all

00:30:53.760 we have that's the difference between what it means to be canadian uh versus american that we pronounce

00:30:58.320 some words differently we have different lingo and then all this total nonsense i'm sorry total

00:31:03.360 nonsense about how we don't police we peace we peace keep um you know i i'm sorry that just doesn't

00:31:10.400 doesn't mean anything right like america is the force that keeps the world safe because when america is

00:31:16.000 strong everyone else is afraid of america and they behave better right we've seen this on the world

00:31:21.280 stage when trump was in office everybody was afraid of him because he was so erratic and they just didn't

00:31:26.080 know what he was going to do so there were no wars there were no escalations things calmed down um and 1.00

00:31:31.440 then when you had biden who was a blithering idiot in office showed total weakness on so many fronts 1.00

00:31:36.880 starting with the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan and then all the world leaders looked at 1.00

00:31:41.920 that and said hmm um this is what we're dealing with here now is probably our chance and that's

00:31:46.800 why you saw uh russia invade ukraine that's why you saw hamas um wage an atrocious attack on israel um 0.80

00:31:56.240 it's because when america's weak everyone's emboldened right so this idea that americans are just

00:32:01.920 police agents that are like policing the world um that's actually kind of a good thing um and then

00:32:07.760 the whole idea of canadians being peacekeepers doesn't really mean anything and it didn't at the

00:32:11.600 time so um yeah that was like a fun time to be canadian sorry the commercial came out in march

00:32:16.480 2000 um and it does bring back memories but i don't think it really means anything it doesn't really

00:32:23.280 show anything deeper about what it means to be canadian i want to get to ben shapiro's reaction

00:32:28.880 here because ben jumped in and he's kind of taking this about as seriously as i think you should so he

00:32:34.000 had some viral uh posts on x kind of responding to all this so he replied to justin trudeau's there's

00:32:40.640 not a snowball's chance in hell that canada would become part of the us he replied to this saying

00:32:45.520 when we take canada you will be expelled to panama to work in the canal uh ouch that's that's pretty

00:32:52.240 painful uh next he responded to pierre pauliev's tweet about uh canada will never become a 51st state

00:32:58.320 period and he said we'll call off the planned invasion if you were like pm we'll make no such

00:33:04.400 guarantees if fidel's fidel castro's son remains pm and finally he posted uh this map which i thought

00:33:12.080 was hilarious uh for those of you who missed the news uh trump announced that he's not going to call

00:33:16.240 it the gulf of mexico anymore he's going to start calling it the gulf of america you can see in the

00:33:21.040 bottom of your screen there so here ben posted a new map of north america in in trumpland what it

00:33:27.120 would all look like according to donald trump so canada becomes a 51st state uh greenland up there

00:33:31.600 becomes trump land uh the atlantic ocean just becomes the anti-european moat you got the gulf

00:33:37.600 of america down there and then mexico just becomes the other side of the wall this is all just in good

00:33:44.400 and i think this is hilarious and about right oh and then he also had a little tweet uh under there

00:33:49.360 saying oh yeah and reclaiming the panama canal uh we're renaming it the south mississippi river so 0.85

00:33:54.880 this is kind of going with the meme um that americans are kind of ignorant about the world outside their

00:33:59.600 borders and they just like you know it's like america not america and uh i i think that's uh

00:34:06.400 pretty pretty funny okay i want to get to justin trudeau because he didn't stop at that tweet he

00:34:12.320 decided to uh further inject himself into the story and double down on things and so he was on cnn

00:34:19.040 yesterday afternoon with jake tapper on a show on the lead and they had an in-depth interview again so

00:34:26.560 many of us just want justin trudeau to go away just stop man just just leave it alone you've

00:34:31.040 already you've already resigned you're not we're not gonna be prime minister soon like just go away

00:34:35.680 stop trying to speak for us we don't like you we don't want you to speak for us anymore uh but alas

00:34:41.760 here is justin trudeau so first i want to show a clip um of how justin trudeau defines being a

00:34:47.680 canadian so let's watch that clip president-elect trump uh has been uh needling you a bit calling you

00:34:54.080 uh governor trudeau talking about making canada the 51st state did you have any interaction with

00:34:58.400 him today no not not today uh but that's not going to happen uh canadians are incredibly proud of being

00:35:05.360 canadian uh one of the ways we define ourselves most easily is well we're not american um there is uh

00:35:12.320 such a depth of pride that that's not actually an issue such a depth of pride and yet our superficial

00:35:19.680 prime minister can only the only way he can define canada and what he claims that so many canadians

00:35:25.280 uh say is that we're just not american like like the only identity that we really have the way that

00:35:30.800 we define our identity is just that we're not american um that's not very compelling justin that's not

00:35:36.880 very that's not really evoking patriotism and like a strong uh connection to our country that we that

00:35:43.920 we have to hold on to uh pretty superficial pretty dumb uh but that's what we should expect uh next

00:35:50.080 i want to play this clip so jake tapper just set it up jake tapper's asking justin trudeau why he's so 0.88

00:35:55.200 unpopular why he's so hated in canada why he resigned and interesting to get into the mind of our prime

00:36:00.160 minister uh to to think about what he thinks the problem is so here uh here is that clip in a time of

00:36:07.040 crisis responsible politics is around focusing on things that actually make a real difference in people's

00:36:12.640 lives we delivered ten dollar a day child care we're delivering a dental care program that provides

00:36:18.080 dental free dental care to people who don't have coverage we're moving forward on putting a price

00:36:23.280 on pollution that puts more money in the pockets of eight out of ten canadians of middle-class canadians

00:36:28.160 these are policies that you know are not short-term they're policies that will have a deep impact in

00:36:34.640 the well-being of canadians and of our country for years to come now you can take those policies like

00:36:40.240 a child care policy and say oh see that's just about wokeness and about you know women's rights 1.00

00:36:45.200 well no it's about getting more women into the workforce at a time where uh we need economic 0.98

00:36:50.240 growth that's what it is but when you get a con you know a a a i was gonna say conflagration but at

00:36:57.760 least a an intersection of of both uh you know right-wing policy right-wing uh attacks and social media

00:37:07.200 you end up with a lot of misinformation disinformation and responsible governments

00:37:12.400 have to stay focused on the policies that are making a difference and that's what we've been doing

00:37:16.720 unbelievable unbelievable so justin trudeau defends his terrible policies and says they're actually

00:37:22.560 good for the country for the long term um mentioning that you know him introducing government daycare

00:37:29.440 isn't just about being a feminist it's about forcing more women back into the workforce which is 1.00

00:37:33.520 supposedly good for the economy so he's really doubling down on his total nonsense things that

00:37:38.480 aren't even true and then he steps back and rather than having any kind of reflection on being sort of

00:37:44.320 self-critical or self-aware he says that the reason that he's unpopular is a combination of right-wing

00:37:54.080 anger and social media which creates misinformation and disinformation so we're like right back to 2021

00:38:01.520 with the thought police where you know the the only the only thing stopping justin trudeau from like

00:38:07.120 universal love and praise um is just like dangerous shadowy forces and misinformation and disinformation

00:38:13.440 these vaguely uh defined terms basically if you criticize justin trudeau you're far right uh and

00:38:19.040 you're pushing misinformation and disinformation so i don't i don't know why i had any expectation that

00:38:23.520 justin trudeau would grow as a person and be more honest and forthright uh no he's just gonna go back to

00:38:29.520 his garbly nonsense again and again and stick with that uh to the very end the reality is canada is

00:38:36.240 facing a bit of a crisis we're facing a genuine crisis and at a time where we are dealing with an

00:38:42.960 incoming president who wants to impose a terrifying tariff which will destroy our economy even more you

00:38:48.960 know we have an economy that's in shambles and it will be like the death blow it will be like you know

00:38:54.240 the the end of things um rather than having a responsible government in place to deal with that

00:39:00.960 look at the situation that justin trudeau has left we have no parliament parliament has been prorogued

00:39:07.200 we have no finance minister the finance minister resigned we never even got our fall economic outlook

00:39:12.640 we don't we don't have anyone running the books we don't have a finance minister at the moment um and we

00:39:18.800 we we we don't really have a prime minister we have a prime minister who's lame duck on his way out

00:39:23.600 about to leave us behind um it's it's it's just absolutely wild the situation that trudeau

00:39:29.680 has left the country and the fact that he's still being entertained in polite society the fact that

00:39:35.280 there aren't just like thousands of canadians out there demanding that he resign in a proper way

00:39:40.880 and call an election and let canadians have a choice on the future of our country it's beyond me

00:39:45.760 like canadians are not angry enough i i know canadians are paying attention canadians are

00:39:49.840 finally paying attention in a way that i wish they had been for the last nine or ten years

00:39:54.480 but we need to we need to get more animated about it we need to make demands that no no no we're not

00:40:00.320 going to put up with this we need another trucker convoy we need we need people to descend onto ottawa

00:40:05.040 and say no to the prorogation no to allowing things to happen to benefit the liberal party we want

00:40:10.320 a country we want a government we want a prime minister uh we want an election i i think that that

00:40:15.120 that's the message that needs to be heard loud and clear i'm not hearing that enough i want to get

00:40:21.600 to kevin o'leary because he's been making a lot of noise over this whole exchange i think he

00:40:26.560 understands donald trump in a way that many political leaders are missing and so here was

00:40:31.760 kevin o'leary an interview where he basically just said everyone needs to relax about donald trump

00:40:36.880 and just start negotiating and i think he really he really gets it so let's play this clip

00:40:41.360 he also says he wants to make us the 51st state and he said that several times uh online and in

00:40:47.440 press conferences kevin as you know uh canadian leaders they've spoken out against this idea

00:40:52.240 justin trudeau says quote there's a snowball's chance in hell of this happening pierre pauliev

00:40:56.960 has said canada will never be the 51st state period now you of course ran for the conservative

00:41:02.480 leadership back in 2017 had you won would you be willing to make canada the 51st state and become

00:41:09.040 a governor rather than be a prime minister no no one said we have to do that you know what i've

00:41:14.960 been telling people when you understand how trump works we've been listening to him for 12 years

00:41:20.880 you have to distinguish between the noise and the signal the noise is we're buying canada and

00:41:26.960 everybody's becoming an american and there's governors no no no no the signal is let's explore an

00:41:33.360 economic union if you don't understand that you don't understand trump and what i'm trying to point

00:41:37.120 out to people is look and first of all let's go back to the list i don't give a damn what trudeau

00:41:42.720 says nobody cares anymore he's gone and that's very important for canadian people very important

00:41:47.280 he was the worst manager in canadian history and wiped out the net worth of almost every canadian

00:41:52.560 25 of our population lives in poverty now and that's exactly right kevin o'leary just cuts to the

00:42:00.160 chase and says this is the part that i love about what he said that that it's not like ignore the

00:42:04.880 ignore the noise and focus on the signal right ignore the bombastic claims and the the jousting

00:42:10.720 and the jokes about governor uh that were all just really meant to put justin trudeau in his place so

00:42:15.600 that trump would have a better negotiating hand and trump has been wildly successful about let's

00:42:19.440 remember like you could draw a direct line from donald trump's 51st state comments and trudeau's trip

00:42:24.960 down to mar-a-lago uh to him resigning on monday um so trump has had that effect and that's part of the

00:42:32.080 brilliance of of how trump governs down in the states i want to just point out because one thing

00:42:37.040 that i remember back in 2015 i'll admit i was no fan of trump at the beginning and i didn't want him

00:42:42.080 to be the republican nominee or candidate uh back in 2016 uh one of the early people who sort of was

00:42:48.720 came around to trump became an advisor um is billionaire investor peter teal who was the founder of paypal

00:42:54.320 early investor in um facebook and just sort of like a main uh prominent figure in the silicon valley

00:43:00.480 back in 2016 he was like the only one who was out there defending trump and willing to be part of

00:43:05.680 his advisory team and peter teal gave us a much better framework of how to think about trump and

00:43:11.440 how to look at trump and i think it's worth going back to that today because it's still true i think

00:43:16.160 would help a lot of canadian leaders to understand um this one important point about donald trump which

00:43:22.240 is that you have to take him seriously but you don't always have to take him literally so let's play

00:43:26.800 this clip from peter teal i think uh you know i think one thing that should be made distinguished

00:43:32.400 here is that you know the media always is taking trump literally it never takes him seriously but

00:43:37.440 it always takes him literally i think a lot of the voters who vote for trump um take trump seriously

00:43:44.080 but not literally and so when they hear things like the muslim comment or the wall comment or things

00:43:50.320 like that it's not uh the question is not you know are you going to build a wall like the great wall of china

00:43:55.440 or you know how how exactly are you going to force these these tests what they hear is uh we're going

00:44:01.760 to have we're going to have a saner more sensible immigration policy and i think that you can also

00:44:09.040 take that line of thinking to apply it to this 51st state thing like take take take the ideas that

00:44:15.520 he's talking about very seriously but don't take the words that he's using as literally as we are like

00:44:21.120 i really don't think that trump is planning to annex canada i don't think that he wants to issue

00:44:25.440 economic warfare and i don't think that he really wants canada to become 51st it doesn't even really

00:44:30.000 make sense for a republican to want that everyone knows that canada would be a very blue state if it

00:44:35.600 were a state it would be adding two democrat senators um to something that's already you know very close

00:44:42.160 balance of power in in every election between republicans and democrats like like republicans don't want

00:44:48.400 more democrats they don't want more electoral electoral college seats um that look like

00:44:52.560 california so like they wouldn't they wouldn't actually want us um but if you if you look past

00:44:57.360 the the sort of words and you think more about the broader meaning like let's create a partnership

00:45:02.160 let's let's work together let's create a better partnership um i think it's just better for canada if

00:45:07.680 we had better integration um in things like national security and our economy um less regulations in canada

00:45:14.560 less restrictions and really just let's like unleash the power of the free market in both countries together

00:45:20.480 at the same time like when i look at the united states i'm actually super optimistic about what's

00:45:24.400 going to happen down there under trump i think that the idea of doge and eliminating the size uh

00:45:29.280 reducing the size of government and eliminating a lot of waste having business-minded people go in

00:45:33.920 and look at that like look at what elon musk has done to so many big successful companies he's

00:45:38.640 really he really understands um how to make a big company work uh take that mindset put it in

00:45:44.320 government and you think about what the economy is going to do when you get rid of a lot of these

00:45:49.200 regulations and rules um that just tie things up i mean trump has even floated the idea of eliminating

00:45:54.720 income tax like some of these ideas are just like so exciting and so interesting and so innovative

00:46:00.400 that you almost just want canada to be part of it when you look at canada you don't see that same

00:46:04.240 optimism you don't see it uh what you see is a country that's just really in shambles especially

00:46:09.120 from an economic perspective but also social and cultural the impact of mass immigration unchecked

00:46:14.880 immigration no no attempts to integrate uh crime just spilling out in every direction uh not to

00:46:21.040 mention all the crazy woke things that are happening in our government like i read a story

00:46:24.640 about a man in quebec who murdered three people and rather than going to the u.s prison he wants to 0.88

00:46:29.280 go to a woman's prison of course because it's canada and nothing makes sense and everything's ridiculous so 1.00

00:46:34.000 you know over there we have things getting back on track um and making more sense and canada's 0.84

00:46:40.000 still a mess so i think that's why this this message as crazy as it is and as out there as it

00:46:46.000 it appeals to canadians because we kind of want to be part of what trump is bringing in in some ways

00:46:52.480 that excitement um that regrowth in the economy that innovation and i really do think that uh canada

00:46:58.240 needs to be more open to a better deal and a better partnership uh with the united states okay i

00:47:03.680 want to talk about the latest on trudeau um what he has done how he has left our country and not

00:47:09.520 from a policy perspective not so much on his years of governance but what happened on monday when he

00:47:14.160 announced his resignation sort of kind of that he's stepping down um he's not stepping down immediately

00:47:19.440 he's stepping down in the future and he's using a tool of governance known as prerogation something

00:47:25.120 that most canadians don't really know that much about um or really understand and so i want to go through

00:47:31.680 that a little bit uh true north uh was reporting here about how two canadians are legally challenging

00:47:39.120 trudeau's decision to prorogue parliament so we can hop on over to the justice center for canadian

00:47:45.760 uh for constitutional freedoms um and basically they are just challenging the government and saying

00:47:51.600 what prime minister justin trudeau is doing here what he's asking the governor general to do

00:47:55.760 is actually illegal um they are saying that there's no reasonable justification for prorogations

00:48:01.680 so let me just read a little bit from the story it says when parliament is prorogued the parliamentary

00:48:05.920 session is terminated and all parliamentary activity including work on bills and in committees

00:48:11.280 immediately stops among its many grounds arguing that trudeau's decision to advise the governor

00:48:16.720 general to exercise her prerogative power to prorogue parliament that's quite a mouthful 1.00

00:48:21.440 um all the way to march 24 2025 this application argues that the decision to prorogue parliament

00:48:28.000 was incorrect unreasonable or both the court application which they filed today contends

00:48:33.760 that the prime minister's decision to prorogue was not made in furtherance of parliamentary business

00:48:38.720 or the businesses of government but in service to the liberal party of canada and so i think this

00:48:47.040 is incredibly important a lot of canada talking about this this is incredibly relevant because

00:48:51.840 the purpose of prorogation is so that the prime minister can have a bit of time to ensure that he

00:48:57.360 can have the confidence of the vote you need the confidence of the house of commons in a vote in order

00:49:02.320 to remain prime minister at this point we know that justin trudeau doesn't have the confidence

00:49:06.240 he's in a minority government being propped up by the ndp and remember back over christmas

00:49:12.400 jagmeet singh the leader of the ndp party made it perfectly clear that he was no longer willing

00:49:17.120 to prop up the prime minister he was no longer willing to vote in favor of them and he said

00:49:21.360 that at the next confidence vote the government would fall they would vote against it forcing an

00:49:25.840 election so the governor general knows this and according to our system you're not supposed to

00:49:30.880 just be able to prorogue parliament for any old reason it has to be for this specific reason and the

00:49:36.320 idea is that that that's just not why trudeau is doing it and it is possible that a federal judge

00:49:42.320 could overturn the decision of the governor general could actually say no this is not

00:49:46.800 a fair and good use of prorogation and you can't do it in which case the house would go back in

00:49:52.320 session in january and we would have an election triggered right away we would go right into an

00:49:58.000 election i want to show you a little bit of howard anglin's piece howard anglin is a brilliant lawyer

00:50:03.920 and he is also the former chief of staff to prime minister stephen harper among other things

00:50:09.680 and he had this piece over in the hub saying the governor general should not allow trudeau to prorogue

00:50:15.200 to hold a full leadership race and so basically saying that there's constitutional uncertainty

00:50:22.000 about whether or not prorogation is actually even legal in this circumstance again the purpose of

00:50:27.040 prorogation supposed to be brief so that the prime minister can regain and ensure confidence in the

00:50:32.720 house but if you go back to jagmeet singh's letter um he says no he says it doesn't matter who the

00:50:39.360 leader of the party is they're going to push for an election and so the liberal party's own constitution

00:50:44.960 says that a leadership race will take something like three months um and that's not a good reason to

00:50:50.800 prorogue um the parliament for so according to howard anglin he says the best way in our system

00:50:56.720 of government and our westminster system of government is to solve this issue through an

00:51:01.680 election let canadians decide it is up to the canadian people who governs them we live in a

00:51:06.960 democracy and this kind of puts it to the test we're at a point where we could reach a constitutional

00:51:13.440 crisis over what to actually do what is legal what is the precedent here we haven't really had a

00:51:18.800 situation just like this before in canada and so it would be a test of whether or not the governor

00:51:25.120 general and the prime minister actually had this power like in theory the governor general is

00:51:30.000 supposed to have the power to say no to trudeau like no you can't do this this is for selfish

00:51:34.400 partisan reasons it's not for the good of the country and it won't achieve the goal of you

00:51:38.720 having confidence in the house or your party having confidence house it's pretty nakedly clear

00:51:43.520 that the purpose of this whole thing is just to try to preserve the liberal party to get rid of the

00:51:48.880 very unpopular prime minister try to find anyone out there who's more popular uh just in the

00:51:54.800 hopes of saving some seats maybe having a hope that a new fresh leader of the party someone who's

00:52:01.280 seen as an outsider like maybe uh mark carney or maybe christy clark or maybe even christia freeland

00:52:07.840 um that that would be different enough to the canadian people that they would still be willing to vote

00:52:13.200 for a liberal government it's all partisan all the rationale is partisan it's not for the good of

00:52:19.520 the country and so here you have people that are putting party before country pretty blatantly pretty

00:52:25.600 clearly and the governor general is allowing for it so people like the canadian uh like the jccf and

00:52:32.480 like howard england are saying no don't allow that just stop it we're going to do this legal challenge

00:52:37.920 and hopefully we can force true doubt trudeau out sooner hopefully we can force these mps back to

00:52:43.520 work have a session of parliament at which point presumably jagmeet singh will force an election

00:52:48.960 and then it will finally be up to the canadian people to tell the government what we want what

00:52:54.800 we think to decide the future of our country to decide who it will be who will be negotiating

00:53:00.080 against donald trump from my perspective the sooner this can happen the better i mean today is january 10th

00:53:05.360 in 10 days from now president trump will be inaugurated and he says that this will be a

00:53:09.520 day one initiative that he will impose a 25 tariff on all canadian goods this is important we should 0.88

00:53:16.320 have a leader a competent leader that has been elected by the canadian people that have been chosen

00:53:20.560 by the canadian people uh to be at the table to negotiate so from my perspective the election should

00:53:26.160 have already happened uh unfortunately can't go back in time now is the time i hope that these parties

00:53:31.440 are successful and that they can force something different because the idea of waiting until

00:53:35.200 march to have an election or even just to go back to house knowing that there's a process that's

00:53:40.320 going to take several weeks after that to actually get a new government it means that we'll have

00:53:44.400 months and months and months of a lame duck trudeau government negotiating with donald trump that's

00:53:49.920 not what i want that's not what i don't think any canadian want it's not in the best interest of our

00:53:54.880 country so i think this shenanigans needs to end no prerogation let's just get them back to work

00:54:00.720 get an election and start fixing our country okay we will leave it at that before i end the show to

00:54:08.480 thank everybody who is sticking around and watching to the very end i thought i would end the show on

00:54:14.240 uh more of a personal note talk a little bit about myself and my family because as you know uh as i said

00:54:20.720 earlier in the show we welcomed our fourth child uh in the um in back in may um it's just like a truly

00:54:28.000 wonderful thing to be a mother to have these children and it's actually hard for me in many

00:54:33.120 ways to come back to work because i'm basically essentially just a stay-at-home mom i spend all

00:54:38.000 of my time with my kids i'm very involved in their lives for all of them i have a baby that's now what

00:54:44.480 seven months i have a two and a half year old a four year old and my eldest is turning six next month

00:54:51.040 and it's it's just a joy to be around them to get to spend time with them to watch them grow to see

00:54:56.480 them develop um to see them learn how smart they are and how wonderful it is to spend time with them

00:55:01.280 i really kind of leaned into being a mom not like in the trad wave kind of way but just getting really

00:55:06.720 interested in things like health and their well-being i try to bake and cook everything

00:55:11.680 we eat from scratch i started a vegetable garden over the summer and i'm starting to learn how to

00:55:17.680 grow more to get more into gardening i started making sourdough bread so i have my own sourdough

00:55:23.120 starter in the fridge which on the counter which is something the kids like love to be involved in

00:55:27.440 we bake every day we bake uh bread and muffins and all kinds of snacks and pastries and the kids just

00:55:34.000 love uh being involved in it and it is just so great to sort of like lean into that role like at 20

00:55:40.560 years old when i was in university i didn't think i would ever want to be a stay-at-home mom i always

00:55:45.040 thought that whatever career i pursued that would be like the most important thing in my life and my

00:55:50.480 journalism is incredibly important i'm incredibly pleased and grateful um for the audience for true

00:55:56.960 north and everything that we've been able to build um and you know from a professional perspective i

00:56:01.760 love my job um but there's just nothing that compares to being with your kids and having that

00:56:07.760 home environment and being able to spend time with them i just see it as such a gift i'm also super

00:56:13.280 lucky because i'm literally able to record this show and get back to work a little bit uh because my mom

00:56:19.280 lives with us she lives with our family and so we kind of have like a full-time grandma around and 0.99

00:56:24.640 the baby's with grandma right now and that allows me to you know bring a babysitter in to be with the

00:56:29.600 other kids and spend a few hours a day uh with you and working so i'm really looking forward to bringing

00:56:35.600 back the candace malcolm show uh bringing it um up to speed having you informed on everything that's

00:56:41.600 happening giving you the full news uh rundown um especially during the election it's gonna be such

00:56:46.160 an important time i'm gonna do my best to report the news and to fill it in with commentary uh we're

00:56:52.080 also still being uh doing my best uh to be a mom and uh fulfilling that sort of domestic household

00:56:58.480 role so i want to just give you a little glimpse uh into my personal life there again thank you so

00:57:03.520 much for tuning in thanks for watching all the way to the end don't forget to like this video

00:57:08.240 subscribe uh and check out our news over at tnc.news thank you so much and god bless

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 10, 2025

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