What everyone’s missing about Trump’s 51st state “threat”
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Summary
Today we cover Donald Trump's comments on Canada supposedly becoming the 51st American state, the hysterical response from our national leaders and commentary from the commentary class, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's appearance on CNN with Jake Tapper, and why we need to laugh at our politicians.
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hi and welcome to the candace malcolm show i'm your host candace malcolm and it is so great to
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be back here happy 2025 this is my first show of the year actually my first show in about nine
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months i've been on maternity leave i welcomed my husband i welcomed our fourth child back in may
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my original plan was to be on maternity leave for a full year come back in may what i thought was
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going to be in time for the federal election uh well everything changed sort of by the end of
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december early january here and you know watching the news unfold this week i really couldn't stop
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myself i couldn't hold back i wanted to jump back in the phrase so we're bringing you the candace
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malcolm show here and just super excited uh to be back so we have a lot to get to today i'm going to
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cover trump's recent comments on canada supposedly becoming the 51st american state i'm going to talk
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about the response the hysterical response uh from our national leaders and the commentary class
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including justin trudeau's rather embarrassing appearance on cnn last night with jake
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tapper uh basically we're going to talk about what everybody is missing when it comes to donald trump
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and how he negotiates uh later in the show we're going to talk a little bit more about
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justin trudeau and his completely selfish cynical plan to pause parliament to prorogue it this is
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probably the most consequential and important time perhaps in our country's history certainly
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in this century and what does our prime minister do he prorogues parliament for selfish personal
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partisan reasons to try to save his sad sorry party from getting wiped out in the next election quite
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pathetic we're going to talk about that and finally the end of the show we'll talk about canada
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what does it mean to be canadian and at this point is our country worth saving worth defending so
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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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newsletter so you'll never miss a news story okay let's get going here folks let's talk about donald trump
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and let's talk about his proposal and if he is actually serious because he has been kind of
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leaning in on this joke well what we thought was a joke that he wanted to annex canada and he wanted
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to make canada the 51st state i think a lot of it has to do with trolling this is kind of what trump
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does best right like think back to 2015 and 2016 when he was running for leadership of the republican
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party he wasn't really seen as a serious candidate but what he did was he kind of like picked apart the
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other candidates he mocked them he made fun of them he made a joke out of them to the point where
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we couldn't really take them seriously anymore right like think back to jeb bush um calling him
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low energy jeb it just completely took the energy out of his campaign it mocked him in a way that he
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really deserved to be mocked and he did to all the other candidates and that's kind of the beauty
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of trump and his marketing and so we're seeing this pressure applied to justin trudeau and let me just
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tell you my opinion i think it's hilarious i i love it i love seeing justin trudeau sort of
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humiliated by donald trump i love having donald trump sort of put him in his place here you have
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our canadian prime minister who is as arrogant as they get he really does think that canada belongs
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to him and that he sort of personifies canada he is canada's one in the same um there's many many of
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us canadians who just don't feel that way we don't see ourself and our country when we look at
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justin trudeau when we hear him speak and when we see what he does he doesn't represent us and so to
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have someone who is as arrogant as justin trudeau be kind of slapped down and put in his place by
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someone who is much more powerful much more vocal much more famous than him it's sort of like you
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know that's exactly what justin trudeau deserves and i think that we need more of that right we need
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to be able to laugh at our politicians laugh at our leaders because it takes their power away so
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i for one have just personally enjoyed laughing about this whole thing and laughing at just trudeau
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there's more to what trump is doing and we'll get to that a bit later but here we had donald trump
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at a press conference earlier this week this was on tuesday afternoon he was fielding questions on
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just about absolutely anything this is one of the things that trump does he can talk about anything
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and he loves to field questions and just go off on tangents on every issue it's quite impressive
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so at this press conference he talked about everything from ukraine to american domestic policy he was
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asked about greenland and how he wanted to annex greenland and talked about the panama canal and
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then the question of canada came up and this is sort of what everyone wants to know like are you
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serious are you actually going to take canada is that what you're proposing to do and will it be
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military so let's watch that clip of donald trump being asked about canada mr president if you were
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working under the assumption that you're serious about making canada the 51st state of the united states
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the leader of the conservative party in canada said under no circumstance it will not ever be the
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maybe he won't win but maybe he will i don't know you would suggest listen i don't care what you're
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supposed to say real fast you're considering military force to acquire panama and greenland are you
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also considering military force to annex and acquire no economic force because canada and the united
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states that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at
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what that looks like and it would also be much better for national security don't forget we
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basically protect canada but here's the problem with canada so many friends up there uh i love the
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canadian people they're great but we're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we're
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spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of canada we we lose in trade deficits we're losing
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mass we don't need their cars you know they make 20 of our cars we don't need that i'd rather make
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them in detroit we don't need the cars we don't need their lumber we have massive fields of lumber we
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don't need their lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know restrictions on
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but i can do that with an executive order we don't need anything they have we don't need their dairy
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products we have more than they have we don't need anything so why are we losing 200 billion dollars
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a year and more to protect canada so there's donald trump being pretty straightforward pretty
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honest from an american perspective talking about what do they gain from the relationship and could
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they possibly just do it on their own like yes canada has tons of national resources we have an auto uh
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system the the manufacturing corridor where products go back and forth across the border and
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both sides are mutually dependent on the other side but trump is saying well we can just build our own
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factories we can use our own softwood lumber uh we can have our own natural gas like we don't need
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all this stuff from canada um so if the if the relationship isn't benefiting us we have leverage
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here right and the point about national security like canada doesn't defend itself that is completely true
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and completely fair canada needs to spend more money on our own national military national defense um
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and good for trump for pointing that out because maybe we do need internal pressures uh to do things
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like boost our own military and to eliminate a lot of the sort of protectionist measures that we have
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in areas like dairy like supply management so everything trump is saying there is truth to it
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uh but we don't like the way that he's saying it is basically what's happening in canada so if you
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look at the way that our national leaders have replied it's just it's been very much in unison
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there's not a lot of distinctions let's go through how people have replied it'll start with our prime
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minister justin trudeau uh because his uh his response is quite telling he writes there isn't
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a snowball's chance in hell that canada would become part of the united states workers and
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communities in both their countries benefit from being each other's biggest trading and security
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partner i kind of like the joke i kind of like the line not a snowball's chance in hell
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uh but here's justin trudeau trying to be a tough guy right trying to be strong and powerful and
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say like i can go eye to eye with trump well no you can't justin you can't because you didn't right
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you didn't over the last administration you didn't get the deal that was needed for canada you've
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destroyed our country economically like it's not your time so just like sit down and be quiet and
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that is pretty much the response that we saw my favorite one came from elon musk the owner of twitter
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now known as x and he just replied girl you're not the governor of canada anymore so it doesn't
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matter what you say just reminder you step down you're not going to be leading the country anymore
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you're not going to be leading these negotiations with trump so just keep your mouth shut and be
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quiet i love that we also had pierre polyev jump in with a super strong response but again pierre is
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taking trump at face value so he's replying uh as if trump is really serious about canada being annexed so
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this is what pierre polyev has to say he says canada will never be the 51st state period we are a
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great and independent country we are the best friend to the u.s we spend billions of dollars
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and hundreds of lives helping americans retaliate against al-qaeda's 9-11 attacks we supply the u.s with
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billions of dollars of high quality and totally reliable energy well below market prices we buy
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hundreds of billions of dollars of american goods our weak and pathetic ndp liberal government has failed
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to make these obvious points i will fight for canada when i'm prime minister we will rebuild our
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military take back control of the border to secure both canada and the u.s we will take back control
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of the arctic to keep russia and china out will axe attacks slash red tape rapidly greenlight massive
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resource projects to bring home paychecks and production to our country in other words we will
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put canada first amen to that again pierre is just so strong and he totally is just right on point here
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this message is not directed to donald trump like donald trump doesn't care about this he reads this
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and it doesn't speak to him but pierre is speaking past trump he's speaking to the canadian people he's
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trying to sort of re-spark that hint of patriotism and nationalism uh that canadians might be feeling
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right now and this is a super solid message but again i don't think it's gonna it's not gonna get very
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far uh with trump just saying canada will never be the 51st state uh period that's not gonna appeal to
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trump i want to go through the rest of the leaders here so let's see what jagmeet singh said the leader
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of the ndp and again jagmeet singh is not an important person or at least he shouldn't be but
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just because of the situation we find ourselves in canada where this man holds the balance of power
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this man has propped up a terrible liberal government for the past several years in the
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worst interest of canadians really just putting himself first because he wants this bloody pension
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that he's gonna get um he became powerful and he shouldn't be and soon he won't be
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anyway jagmeet singh had this to say cut the crap donald no canadian wants to join you we are
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proud canadians proud of the way we take care of each other and defend our nation your attacks will
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hurt jobs on both sides of the border you come for canada's jobs and americans will pay the price
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again this is weak sauce this is weak again like jagmeet singh's trying to pretend that he's on equal
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footing to donald trump cut the crap donald like speaking to him by his first name probably trying to
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like diminish him um by calling him by his first name it just falls flat it's pathetic it's just
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not it's not even right no canadian wants to join you well in fact jagmeet singh i think there's plenty
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of canadians out there who are actually excited about the potential of joining the united states
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who actually piques their interest and they believe that their life could possibly be better under the
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united states so he's claiming he's making a statement that's not even true i'm sure even ndp supporters
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don't agree with this anymore and and and then this goes to something i'm going to talk about a
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little later in the program jagmeet singh sort of defines canada he says we're proud canadians
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proud of the way we take care of each other and our nation so he he kind of defines canadians as being
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more like we take care of each other read into that like we're more socialistic we're more communistic
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we believe in like more uh more equality or egalitarian society which i just i don't think that
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that's part of our national identity i think that he would like for that to be the case uh but i
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don't agree with that next we have elizabeth may of the green party who um definitely wins like the
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most unhinged response uh i'm going to play a video here uh where she offers a different deal
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to donald trump so let's play that clip i don't want to belittle mr trump but on the other hand
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hey donald have we got a deal for you you think we want to be the 51st state yeah but maybe california
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would like to be the 11th province how about it california oregon washington you're you've got
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geography in common goes and not only that we've already got a carbon trading system between california
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and quebec we've got some strong alliances on our west coast from british columbia there's been a
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a lot of academic papers on the idea of cascadia so california governor in newsom and washington
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state jay inslee and newly elected governor of oregon tina kotak how about it want to put a
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referendum to your citizens because this is what you deal have we got a deal for you this is what
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you get free health care universal free health care no more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off
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the medicaid list and their parents are in the news because they're trying to do a gofundme so they
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can get their daughter to a doctor okay so there's the crazy lady uh elizabeth bay i i do appreciate
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that she's she's mocking donald trump and kind of taking it as seriously as i think donald trump is
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taking it like yeah sure you want to make us uh a 51st state how about you become the 11th province
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instead and then she brings up the old idea of cascadia uh which is a little dear to my heart i grew up
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in vancouver and i remember i became interested in this project this idea that there's a political
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movement to sort of merge or to create a new country on the west coast uh spanning from british
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columbia all the way down to california it's kind of an interesting theory uh although as soon as i
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looked into it i realized that there's like nothing there there uh there's not actually a political
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movement it's run by a bunch of kooks and of course it never got anywhere probably because
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elizabeth may's idea there of like a left-wing environmental utopia uh just would never work like
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the idea that hey come to canada and you have this great free health care uh just you know don't
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don't uh don't look too closely at the details forget the fact that um in british columbia right
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now they are literally sending sick kids down to washington state to get cancer treatments because
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the line the queue in canada is so long we've all seen our health care system just completely uh
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deteriorate uh post-covid and the reason is just because it is a controlled socialist system so
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there's limited resources and that leads to queuing that leads to rationing of care this is stuff that we've
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been talking about for a long long time and everyone's seeing that so this idea that canada's
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golden health care is part of our national identity and it's like the appeal why other people would
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want uh to leave the united states and come to canada just it's not true it doesn't hold true it's like
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based on a 1990s myth about canada being a superior country because of our health care system and then
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we watched our health care system decay uh and fall apart over the last 20 years and people are still
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saying it but it's just not true and everyone knows uh that it's not true all right i want to
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pivot to uh premier of ontario doug ford who had a response to this which i actually think this is
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probably the best way to reply to donald trump uh doug ford he he spoke about this several times
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um over the week i'm going to play a clip that he did on fox news with jesse waters sort of giving an
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alternative idea uh and countering trump's uh proposition so here's that clip what's your problem with
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the united states absorbing canada well first of all uh jesse you know i i love the u.s i love
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americans and i i get it you know president-elect trump is a real estate tycoon he's made billions
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but that property is not for sale as simple as that but i have a better idea jesse why don't we create
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fortress amcan and make sure it's the richest wealthiest most prosperous jurisdiction in the
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two countries anywhere in the world we have the critical minerals we have the energy we have the
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electricity that america needs and there's only one place i'd want to sell it to and that's the u.s
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i i get it you you say you say that americans don't have a problem with canadians and we don't but it
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seems like you have a problem with us because if i were a citizen of another country and i was a
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neighbor of the united states i would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the united states of
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america that's what everybody else in the world wants american citizenship for some reason that's
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repellent to you canadians and i find that personally offensive premier well you know something jesse
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we're proud canadians just like there's proud americans and if we join together uh and and take
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on the world with a great trade deal between us i think that'd be fabulous no one could stop us
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i think that could possibly be the most like stereotypical interview between an american
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like a brash americans kind of like a new york style just write your face i'm offended by the
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fact that you don't want to be american and then you have like you know kind of like nice kind bumbling
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uh doug ford there being like well you know we like you guys but uh we like our our self too we
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like being canadian eh um and i think it did uh pretty much sum up uh what what a lot of people are
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thinking i'm not a huge fan of doug ford i haven't really liked much of what his government has done
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but i think on this he sort of strikes the right tone which is like hey there is a deal to be made
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here there is a partnership that is very potentially beneficial especially to canadians to help us
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through this economic hangover that we're going to have to when we finally deal with justin trudeau's
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out of control spending and the printing of money that has happened over the past several years
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um why don't we join forces why don't we build this big fortress that's has better security that has
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freer flowing energy like basically creating a stronger uh trade zone i would even argue that
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canada should go ahead and get on to the us dollar and allow our economy to be like really opened up
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to competition from the united states without actually going so far as to merging so i think i
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think doug ford kind of hits the nail on the head here by saying let's kind of further integrate our
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economies and our national security our military uh while keeping our cultural sovereignty and our
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cultural heritage i think that's that's kind of right on the mark um what is right not right on
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the mark is the way that the sort of elite classes in canada have responded like if you think that
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the political leaders response was over the top uh just wait until you see what some of the liberal
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journalists and pundits in canada have had to say over this the sort of pearl clutching and the feet
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stomping has been hilarious and and so delicious so i want to show you a couple of examples of that first
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we're going to go with warren kinsella who's a long-time liberal strategist not a fan of trudeau
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but a liberal nonetheless here he is writing in the toronto sun and he writes if you support trump
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over canada get the hell out pretty succinct pretty straightforward i mean i thought we weren't
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allowed to tell one another uh to get out of canada i thought that that was sort of out of bounds in
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our political uh culture certainly when conservatives say that to anybody who wasn't born in canada
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like if you don't like it here get the hell out uh we're called racists and bigots and accused of
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all kinds of nasty things uh but i guess a liberal can say it to someone who might be more prone to
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accepting a pro-american message so uh that's that's pretty uh on the mark uh for a liberal i'll move on
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here to stephen marr who is kind of a freelance mainstream media guy who writes in all kinds of
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publications um he writes this time for canadian leaders to set aside partisanship to respond to
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this and they're trying to reset what the ballot box question will be what is the next election
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about right like most canadians want an election based on how terrible justin trudeau mismanaged
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the country how bad our country has suffered under liberal rule under the sort of unleashing of a woke
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agenda that's just damaged us in every possible way that you can imagine um and then you see liberals
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trying to like re uh readjust the conversation to say like no no that the the question in the election the
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ballot box question is not whether you want more terrible disastrous economic policy from the
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liberals the real question is who will defend our sovereignty who will defend us from the united
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states um don't let them do that don't let them switch the issue and make it about this because
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liberals have a natural advantage there right like all of our national symbols have been designed by
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liberals it's like our our flag is like the liberal party flag uh they got rid of our red ensign and
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replaced it with that they replaced everything they even changed the lyrics of our national anthem
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to make it more politically correct so when it comes to the sort of national identity thing liberals
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do have a natural advantage there and that's why they would much rather talk about that as opposed to
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all the terrible things that are happening in canada right now and so you see people like steve marr
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kind of taking the lead on that uh next we had andrew coin who is a cbc talking head and national
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post uh columnist and just generally grumpy person um he writes this uh some need to decide whether
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their allegiance lies with canada or with trump uh so i guess that's like a warding out to conservatives
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pretty ironic given that andrew coin andrew coins questioning our allegiance in our country
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uh well at the same time on x here where he posted this you can see that he has four flags
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next to his name right there are four flags we have ukraine israel uh that's a georgia flag
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and then the final one i think that's moldovia is that right yeah moldovia so like in what world
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is this guy who doesn't even bother to put a canadian flag in his bio when he's clearly really into
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flags uh he doesn't bother to put the canadian one and yet he's lecturing us um saying that our
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allegiance must lie with canada um and not on trump so that was quite amusing i want to read one
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reply to andrew coin's tweet because i think it really hits the nail on the head and it's a bit
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more somber um really telling people like andrew coin why it is that so many are actually taking
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serious this idea um that canada might be better off uh with the united states so this is julian
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rochelle i believe his last name is rochelle uh apologies if i'm mispronouncing that but he is a
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prolific writer and author and he writes neither mr coin canada versus trump is a false choice
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fallacy my allegiance is to my family my friends and my community to protect them from what canada
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has become perhaps you don't understand how deeply we have been betrayed by our country
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and how thoroughly the government has obliterated the social contract between the government and its
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people for that matter uh can you even define what this thing called canada is anymore other than a
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tax and regulatory system that is plundering us at every turn from my perspective it looks a lot
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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
00:28:13.200
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
00:31:31.440
then when you had biden who was a blithering idiot in office showed total weakness on so many fronts
00:31:36.880
starting with the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan and then all the world leaders looked at
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
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
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
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
00:36:45.200
well no it's about getting more women into the workforce at a time where uh we need economic
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
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
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
00:46:34.000
you know over there we have things getting back on track um and making more sense and canada's
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
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that a little bit uh true north uh was reporting here about how two canadians are legally challenging
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trudeau's decision to prorogue parliament so we can hop on over to the justice center for canadian
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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
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is actually illegal um they are saying that there's no reasonable justification for prorogations
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so let me just read a little bit from the story it says when parliament is prorogued the parliamentary
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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
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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
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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
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is incredibly important a lot of canada talking about this this is incredibly relevant because
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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