The Charlie Kirk Show - O Canada! When a Democracy Becomes a Dictatorship

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00:00:02.000 It's a pretty amazing moment when a civilization decides to go a different direction.

00:00:08.000 From a republic to a dictatorship or to a dictatorship to a democracy, whatever that might be.

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00:01:32.000 Something that has always confused historians, and something that almost every high school social studies student or college history student will learn is the transition from Rome, for Rome, from a republic to an empire.

00:01:45.000 This is something that people have studied in great detail, and the question is usually posed in an essay format, sometimes in an AP world history or sometimes in a just world history context.

00:01:58.000 Why did Rome go from a republic to an empire?

00:02:04.000 There are many reasons why that gets articulated.

00:02:07.000 Of course, the tension of the Roman Senate, the corruption there within, the inability to make decisions, and of course, the breaking up of the Roman triumphant.

00:02:18.000 Julius Caesar, who came from the Gaul region, crossed the Rubicon, declaring effectively Roman civil war.

00:02:27.000 Julius Caesar won, governed for a couple years, and of course was killed by his friends, best articulated in Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar.

00:02:38.000 Beware the Ides of March.

00:02:40.000 The words still resonate with us to this day.

00:02:44.000 After Julius Caesar died, there was a question of what was Rome going to become.

00:02:52.000 Well, Caesar Augustus, Caesar's nephew and heir, a very ambitious man, he decided to consolidate support.

00:03:02.000 He allied with Mark Antony, of course, who was also a once friend of Julius Caesar, his uncle.

00:03:10.000 And he was victorious.

00:03:13.000 He also had an affair with Cleopatra, separate issue for a different time.

00:03:18.000 But then the Roman Senate decided to basically suspend its operation.

00:03:23.000 And in 31 BC, Caesar Augustus, who was then followed by Tiberius and many others, became Rome's first emperor.

00:03:32.000 And like that, the Republic was dead and the empire was born.

00:03:37.000 Now, this fascinates historians for a lot of different reasons.

00:03:41.000 Because the question that those of us in the West ask is, how could you turn your back on representative government and go towards a dictatorship?

00:03:51.000 How could you go from something that is enlightened to something that is more primal?

00:03:55.000 How could you go from something that is cultured to something that is more tribal?

00:04:00.000 How could you go from something that is more organized to something that is more chaotic or centralized?

00:04:08.000 This is a question that, if you have a good teacher, you wrestle with.

00:04:13.000 And then the conclusion is like, well, thankfully, we have moved past that.

00:04:17.000 Thankfully, in the year 2022, we no longer have to go through the kind of arc of going from a republic or a democracy, let's just use representative government as a filler to a dictatorship.

00:04:29.000 And so, but seldom, almost never, do you get to see a country in real time go from that type of representative government to an empire overnight?

00:04:40.000 We're actually used to the opposite.

00:04:43.000 We're used to the opposite of these fairy tales of southeastern Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia shedding the dictatorships and going to representative government.

00:04:55.000 We're used to the Arab Spring, where we're supposed to believe somehow that Libya is going to be Louisiana just because we got rid of Muammar Gaddafi.

00:05:02.000 We decided to drag him through the streets.

00:05:05.000 The narrative that is usually told in the West is that because of us and our superior values, we go from, we help liberate people from dictatorships into democracy or into a representative government.

00:05:20.000 But happening right now on our northern border, the opposite story is unfolding.

00:05:26.000 It is the Roman story.

00:05:28.000 In Canada, you have officially seen a country that was once a representative government to a dictatorship.

00:05:38.000 In the last 48 hours, Justin Trudeau has announced extraordinary war powers for 30 days, including the power to prohibit public assembly, travel, and use of specific property.

00:05:51.000 Justin Trudeau is now officially gone to war with his citizens.

00:05:57.000 Now, what's so interesting is that as we fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria and Libya, as we tried to spread democracy across the entire planet, we did so for 20 years and spent $5 trillion and thousands of lives and hundreds of thousands of damaged lives to try to spread democracy.

00:06:15.000 We have now seen the very ideology that we were sworn to try to eradicate, the very menace we were trying to displace, come to our own border in Ottawa.

00:06:27.000 Justin Trudeau is mobilizing the shock troops all throughout Canada.

00:06:33.000 He has full rights to shut down bank accounts, arrest people on demand.

00:06:40.000 Justin Trudeau is emperor of Canada.

00:06:45.000 And if you go back into the writings of the once Roman Republic, this is exactly why Julius Caesar said he needed power.

00:06:53.000 Julius Caesar said there are uprisings all across Rome.

00:06:57.000 People are hungry.

00:06:58.000 They're upset.

00:06:59.000 It was the Roman equivalent of the trucker protests of the farmers that came to Rome and started to burn buildings.

00:07:06.000 The only difference is the trucker protests are far more peaceful in today's time.

00:07:10.000 Cut 38.

00:07:13.000 Trudeau says, we'll always defend the rights of Canadians to peacefully assemble and have freedom of expression, but these blockades are illegal.

00:07:20.000 Play Cut 38.

00:07:21.000 The federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations.

00:07:35.000 Cut 37.

00:07:38.000 The deputy prime minister and minister of finance says, we are just going to stop the money flow.

00:07:45.000 Now, thankfully, she doesn't even know how to do this. 1.00

00:07:48.000 Good luck regulating cryptocurrency.

00:07:49.000 Only way you could regulate cryptocurrency this way, based on every expert I know in the crypto world, is to literally shut down the power, which I don't think is out of the realm of possibility because these truckers really have Trudeau on the ropes.

00:08:01.000 Play Cut 37.

00:08:03.000 First, we are broadening the scope of Canada's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use.

00:08:18.000 These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.

00:08:27.000 The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act.

00:08:43.000 So you might hate the truckers, you might not like what they stand for, but there's something much broader at play here.

00:08:50.000 It's not even about vaccines, okay?

00:08:52.000 It's not even about free speech.

00:08:55.000 It's about the death of a system of government that is right next to America.

00:09:01.000 So we go and invade Iraq because we don't like Saddam Hussein's form of government.

00:09:06.000 We go and occupy Afghanistan for 20 years because we don't like the fact that there are goat herding child molesters in the hills of the Kandahar Valley that don't allow eight-year-olds, eight-year-old girls to read. 0.96

00:09:20.000 We go and try to have a proxy war against Bashar al-Assad, almost stumbling into a war with Russia because we don't like his form of government.

00:09:28.000 Hillary Clinton gets like super excited. 0.91

00:09:31.000 She gets like a real high level of pleasure to like displace Muammar Gaddafi and turning Libya into a civil war.

00:09:40.000 But what does our ruling class do when the phantom or the ghost or the spirit of Muamm Qaddafi comes to Ottawa?

00:09:53.000 We're going to seize your crypto assets because we don't like your politics?

00:09:57.000 Yeah, that's just the way it is.

00:09:59.000 You are seeing a historical event of a civilizational model of a representative government become an empire.

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00:11:07.000 You know, usually when governments change their form or their structure, it's network news.

00:11:14.000 Remember, like the fall of Saigon with the helicopter imagery or the Iranian revolution or when Saddam Hussein's statue was drug through the streets or even in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over Kabul again.

00:11:29.000 Typically when governments decide to transition from one philosophy to the other, again, either from primal to enlightened or enlightened to primal or from culture to tribal or from chaos to organized or from separate parts to centralized, that's usually a really big deal.

00:11:48.000 Usually, network news say, wow, they're deciding to go a different direction.

00:11:52.000 This is worth communicating to the general population.

00:11:55.000 That sort of change is usually really compelling.

00:11:58.000 It sells newspapers.

00:11:59.000 It rates really well.

00:12:02.000 So when Canada decides to be a completely different form of government, why is the entire Western media silent?

00:12:09.000 Well, that answer is easy.

00:12:12.000 Because if the media actually did a full court press on Canada deciding consciously to metamorphosize its entire governmental structure, it would be really unpopular.

00:12:24.000 People in Manhattan would say, oh, you know, I was all for this kind of COVID mandate thing, but I'm not really sure if I'm okay with Canada becoming Cuba.

00:12:35.000 So let's go a level deeper here when it comes to the philosophy of what's happening in Canada.

00:12:42.000 And I think one really important piece of tape to kind of set up this argument is Cut 36.

00:12:48.000 When Justin Trudeau said in an interview that he admired China's basic dictatorship, play Cut 36.

00:12:56.000 There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we need to go green as fast as we need to start investing in solar.

00:13:15.000 I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting.

00:13:24.000 Now, everyone kind of jokes.

00:13:25.000 I think Stephen Harper was the opposition party candidate, if I'm not mistaken, that's right.

00:13:30.000 Yeah.

00:13:30.000 But this is a sentiment that is widely held amongst Western liberals.

00:13:36.000 Now, before he decided to just lose his mind and become a really cantankerous person, one of the most important pieces of literature that articulates this is liberal fascism.

00:13:44.000 Jonah Goldberg, I give him credit every time I mention it because it was one of the most important political books written over the last 40 years.

00:13:51.000 And I think he misunderstands, obviously, Trump.

00:13:53.000 I'm not getting into Jonah Goldberg.

00:13:55.000 It's not worth it.

00:13:55.000 But the book is really good.

00:13:57.000 Now, if you want to know one of the key characteristics of fascism, it's very simple.

00:14:03.000 If you want to write it down, you're like, how do you spot a fascist?

00:14:06.000 Selective enforcement.

00:14:09.000 Selective enforcement.

00:14:13.000 So Trudeau, deep down, he has this inclination to try to liberate groups that have allegedly been oppressed.

00:14:20.000 He's all about liberating LGBT groups, all about liberating black groups, all about liberating indigenous groups.

00:14:29.000 But within the DNA of a Western liberal is a totalitarian waiting to get out.

00:14:40.000 Most liberals, not all, not like Dave Rubin, not Glenn Greenwald, those people deserve to be complimented, not Russell Brand, not Joe Rogan, who is whatever, but he's probably more classical liberal than not.

00:14:57.000 Outside of those people, but the card-carrying People that are aggressively liberal, the entire live and let live bumper sticker, the I'm not going to interfere with your life.

00:15:10.000 I'm going to do whatever we want to do, which Trudeau kind of ran on.

00:15:14.000 Trudeau kind of ran on a very Canadian, Woodstock-y, I'm not going to get in the way of you doing your business.

00:15:21.000 You know, we're all Canadians together.

00:15:24.000 But the warning that we have always put forward, we being constitutionalists and conservatives, is that we know that within these liberal advocacy groups, it quickly goes from, let's go and free the disadvantaged groups, which is obviously a bunch of nonsense, to let's go seek revenge against the people that we consider to be oppressors, like that.

00:15:49.000 And the issue is that the people that Trudeau has always been wanting to crush have decided to show up on his doorstep.

00:15:58.000 Is that the domestic war that Trudeau has dreamed of, he just said that in that clip?

00:16:02.000 I've always admired China, is that they preempted him. 0.98

00:16:06.000 Is that the truckers, they struck first.

00:16:10.000 They knew what was coming.

00:16:11.000 They went all in.

00:16:12.000 They knew that their livelihood and their traditions and their values, it was just a matter of time before they were crushed.

00:16:19.000 They forced Trudeau's hand.

00:16:21.000 And so now Trudeau has made a decision.

00:16:23.000 He's decided to invade his own country using an equivalent of martial law against his own people.

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00:16:36.000 We have inflation.

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00:16:38.000 Interest rates are at zero.

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00:17:34.000 With us right now is Ezra Levant, who's been on our show a couple times throughout the last few weeks, covering what's happening in Canada.

00:17:40.000 Ezra, how are you hanging up?

00:17:41.000 Fine.

00:17:42.000 It's very strange.

00:17:43.000 I got in my car, drove to work today.

00:17:45.000 Things look the same on the streets.

00:17:47.000 You wouldn't know that civil liberties have been suspended using the modern version of the War Measures Act.

00:17:56.000 I want to tell you, this Emergencies Act has never been used before in Canada, not on 9-11, not in the year 2014 when our parliament itself was attacked by an ISIS terrorist.

00:18:10.000 But this peaceful truckers' rebellion that we've all seen, moms and dads, and Canadian flags and street parties dancing, Trudeau has used that as the pretext to suspend our civil liberties.

00:18:24.000 And the first reaction many people have is: what's the problem?

00:18:29.000 There has literally not been a single act of violence.

00:18:33.000 What do they need to suspend civil liberties for?

00:18:37.000 Is there some riot?

00:18:38.000 Is there some insurrection?

00:18:41.000 No.

00:18:43.000 There was a bridge between Detroit and Windsor that was blocked.

00:18:48.000 Okay, the police cleared it with no incident.

00:18:50.000 Very peaceful.

00:18:51.000 There was some loud horn honking in Ottawa.

00:18:54.000 A judge said no more use of air horns in the city.

00:18:57.000 It disturbs the residents.

00:18:58.000 Okay, they complied.

00:18:59.000 So what do they need basically martial law for?

00:19:04.000 Well, last night it became terribly and horrifically clear.

00:19:10.000 Trudeau and his deputy prime minister, whose name is Christia Freeland, have announced that they intend to seize the bank accounts of their political opponents without any due process, without any court orders.

00:19:28.000 And I know what I'm saying must sound astounding to you, but they said this in the press conference, that they will treat donors to the truckers as if it was terrorist financing, and they will authorize and direct banks to seize those accounts, and they will hold the banks harmless from any lawsuits in reply.

00:19:57.000 This is a move they would use in Caracas.

00:20:01.000 This is what they would do in a police state, a banana republic. 0.98

00:20:05.000 They would take away the funds from the peaceful political opponents of the ruler.

00:20:11.000 There is no national security crisis in Canada.

00:20:15.000 Everyone has seen the Truckers Rebellion.

00:20:17.000 They're boisterous and noisy, but they have committed no crimes.

00:20:22.000 At least they've been charged with no crimes.

00:20:25.000 Trudeau used it as a pretext to basically, it's hard to imagine a coup by someone already in office, but the coup is he just took away our civil rights.

00:20:36.000 That's the coup.

00:20:37.000 Well, and so, Ezra, I made an argument earlier this hour that seldom do we get the opportunity to witness a country go from a representative form of government to a dictatorship.

00:20:52.000 That kind of transition is very rare, actually, in human history.

00:20:56.000 The most famous example that we talked about on this show that is studied by historians is Rome, obviously, that went from a republic to an empire. 0.91

00:21:04.000 And we've been actually accustomed by the Western propaganda press to believe the opposite is always happening, that we're liberating Syria so they can become a democracy or whatever stupid experiment they're doing.

00:21:15.000 But, Ezra, is it hyperbole or out of the kind of realm of reality to say that Canada very well might be transitioning its form of government at this very point? 0.61

00:21:26.000 I mean, signing the War Powers Act because a bunch of people are partying in the streets?

00:21:30.000 Am I off base here?

00:21:31.000 Well, I mean, if you look at the requirements in the law, there are four examples of a threat to the nation that are used to trigger this emergency act.

00:21:43.000 But they are, I mean, it's very clearly laid out.

00:21:45.000 They include things like a foreign act of espionage that endangers the state, serious violence, like not just a little bit of violence, but massive, serious violence that seeks to overthrow the government in like a revolution.

00:22:05.000 There's none of that.

00:22:07.000 There's none of that.

00:22:09.000 In fact, the law specifically protects peaceful dissent, which is what these truckers are.

00:22:16.000 So for Trudeau to say we have a national security threat, which it clearly doesn't, and to immediately announce he plans to seize the financial bank accounts of his political enemies, what is that other than, I mean, there's lots of jokes, is Fidel Castro actually Justin Trudeau's father?

00:22:39.000 There's such a family resemblance.

00:22:41.000 And of course, Trudeau's mom visited with Fidel many times.

00:22:47.000 I don't know if I believe that Fidel is actually the biological father of Justin Trudeau, but I deeply believe that he's the father figure, the role model for Justin Trudeau.

00:22:59.000 Trudeau has many times admired, publicly expressed his admiration for Castro.

00:23:06.000 Remember, Trudeau said China is the country he most admires.

00:23:09.000 Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, went to Soviet Russia, went to Siberia with his sons and said, This is the land of the future.

00:23:20.000 Trudeau's, Justin Trudeau's brother made a documentary film produced by the dictatorship of Iran.

00:23:29.000 That same brother, Alexander Trudeau, wrote a book about China published by the Chinese government as propaganda.

00:23:37.000 This is a family that admires authoritarian power.

00:23:43.000 Justin Trudeau sees himself as a tyrannical leader who is restrained by nothing.

00:23:52.000 And so if he can seize power, he will.

00:23:55.000 I have no doubt that he really will seize the finances of his political opponents.

00:24:02.000 I see today that Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster has taken the list of donors to Gibson Go that was doxxed.

00:24:12.000 I'm not sure if you're up to speed on that.

00:24:14.000 GoFundMe raised $10 million.

00:24:16.000 They were pressured by Trudeau into canceling.

00:24:19.000 So the truckers went to Gibson Go.

00:24:22.000 They raised about $10 million.

00:24:25.000 Then an Ontario court froze those funds.

00:24:28.000 And then Gibson Go was hacked.

00:24:31.000 And all the donor details were published.

00:24:34.000 Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster is going through that hacked list of donors, emailing them, asking them to explain themselves.

00:24:46.000 I don't know.

00:24:47.000 Is that to set them up for having their bank account seized?

00:24:50.000 I don't know.

00:24:51.000 But they certainly are acting like a state broadcaster in places like North Korea or even Russia.

00:24:58.000 I think that Canada is really teetering on the brink.

00:25:01.000 It'll be interesting to see if there's any resistance to this.

00:25:04.000 The socialist party in our parliament called the NDP, that used to stand for the working class.

00:25:11.000 You would think they'd be on the side of the truckers.

00:25:13.000 They say they support Trudeau's crackdown and they're going to support his state of emergency.

00:25:18.000 These are dark days.

00:25:20.000 Let me ask a technical question.

00:25:22.000 What does it look like on the ground then in Ottawa?

00:25:24.000 He's sending in the stormtroopers?

00:25:25.000 Are people being arrested?

00:25:27.000 What's happening?

00:25:28.000 Well, that's the thing.

00:25:29.000 The answer is no, because those truckers are not committing crimes.

00:25:34.000 Are they committing some parking infractions?

00:25:37.000 Sure.

00:25:38.000 And they've handed out a lot of parking tickets, but those aren't crimes.

00:25:41.000 So this national emergency, you're not going to see.

00:25:45.000 That's the thing.

00:25:45.000 There was no problem to solve on the streets.

00:25:48.000 So I don't know if the truckers will be.

00:25:50.000 By the way, the Ottawa police chief resigned today, which is sort of ironic because it was Trudeau that created the mess, and the police chief resigned over it.

00:26:01.000 There is no need for a military or paramilitary solution on the streets of Ottawa because all it is is like a noisy blog party.

00:26:09.000 I think that was just the excuse for Trudeau to get financial information about his enemies.

00:26:13.000 I don't know.

00:26:14.000 This is new territory.

00:26:15.000 None of us have ever been here before.

00:26:17.000 But when Trudeau says he admires dictators, we ought best to believe him.

00:26:23.000 He's acting like one.

00:26:25.000 I just, I don't know what kind of response there will be from the Canadian people.

00:26:29.000 I know lots of amazing Canadians, and they're not, I mean, they're obviously not happy about this, but they don't really know what to do.

00:26:36.000 And I mean, in America, we have a Bill of Rights.

00:26:39.000 I know you guys have something similar, but it's nowhere near as robust as what we have in America for First Amendment protections.

00:26:45.000 Is that right, Ezra?

00:26:47.000 Yeah, I mean, your Bill of Rights starts with the first amendment is freedom of speech.

00:26:52.000 Our section one in our Constitution is a caveat that all the rights that follow are subject to reasonable limits.

00:27:01.000 So the substantive freedoms start in Section 2.

00:27:04.000 Section 1 up here says everything we're about to say, every freedom we're about to enshrine, we can take back from you.

00:27:11.000 So yours, the default is freedom.

00:27:14.000 Ours, the default, is state power.

00:27:17.000 That's the difference in our constitutions.

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00:28:21.000 Is it true that four provinces are not supporting this?

00:28:23.000 How does that work in Canada with the state-based versus the federal?

00:28:27.000 Well, the Emergencies Act requires the prime minister to consult with the provinces.

00:28:34.000 So that's just a quick phone call.

00:28:36.000 He doesn't need their permission or approval.

00:28:39.000 So Quebec, the second largest province, the French Canadian province, they say we don't want this.

00:28:45.000 Alberta, my home province, says they don't want it.

00:28:47.000 But it doesn't matter because this is a federal act that gives Trudeau the power.

00:28:52.000 And just because these provinces are saying, no, you're crazy, everything's under control.

00:28:57.000 We have local police taking care of it.

00:28:59.000 That doesn't stop Trudeau legally.

00:29:01.000 And what he really wants, like I say, I don't think he needs mounties to go and crack some skulls on the street.

00:29:10.000 I mean, he might do that, but I doubt it because there's actually no crime problem.

00:29:14.000 We've all seen the dance parts.

00:29:16.000 It's basically a festival.

00:29:18.000 I don't think police would do violence to those happy, peaceful protesters.

00:29:24.000 Trudeau wants this to do what his deputy prime minister announced they would do.

00:29:31.000 Tell banks to say, give us all the information about Canadian citizens who were donating to our political opponents.

00:29:39.000 And let me tell you who Trudeau's deputy prime minister is.

00:29:43.000 I don't think any Americans would know her.

00:29:45.000 Her name is Christia Freeland.

00:29:47.000 For about 25 years, she's been a biographer of George Soros.

00:29:52.000 She sits as a governor on the World Economic Forum.

00:29:57.000 So if you go to the World Economic Forum in Davos, if you go to their website, type in Christia Freeland, you'll be shocked to see that she's not just a member, she's one of the governors, as she also sits as the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister in Canada, Trudeau's heir apparent, the second most powerful cabinet minister.

00:30:17.000 Some would say even more powerful than Trudeau because he doesn't really get involved with the substance of government.

00:30:23.000 You'll remember that video of Klaus Schwab boasting that not only is Trudeau one of his young acolytes, but half the Canadian cabinet is too.

00:30:34.000 Well, Christia Freeland is the Klaus Schwab key person in the Trudeau government.

00:30:41.000 This is not a speculation or a conspiracy theory.

00:30:44.000 It's on their website.

00:30:47.000 The idea that you would plug in to the Canadian banking system and get every financial detail about Trudeau's political opponents.

00:30:59.000 And those that irritate you, you can seize or freeze their bank accounts without a due process.

00:31:05.000 That is the definition of the Chinese social credit system.

00:31:09.000 And it's coming to Canada through the World Economic Forum's Christian Freeland using the Trucker Rebellion as a pretext.

00:31:17.000 That's what's happening.

00:31:18.000 So are Canadians going to fight back against this?

00:31:21.000 I mean, what does it look like from this point forward?

00:31:24.000 Well, our version of the ACLU, for the first time in two years, woke up and spoke out.

00:31:29.000 And I'm pleased they did because they've been silent for two years during the lockdown.

00:31:33.000 But our version of the ACLU, called the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, just said this is too much.

00:31:38.000 This is too far.

00:31:39.000 The largest and most left-wing newspaper in the country, it's called the Toronto Star.

00:31:45.000 To my surprise, today their editorial is, this is not a good thing.

00:31:48.000 This is a sign of Trudeau's failure.

00:31:51.000 Good.

00:31:51.000 There have been some columnists who are sympathetic to Trudeau saying this is too far.

00:31:58.000 But I say again, Charlie, who cares?

00:32:01.000 He's got the power.

00:32:03.000 You can have every journalist squawking.

00:32:06.000 You can have every premier squawking.

00:32:09.000 But Trudeau has the power in his hands.

00:32:11.000 A man who idolizes and studied Fidel Castro, a man who boasts that China is the country he most admired.

00:32:19.000 Do you think he cares what some columnist says?

00:32:22.000 Is there a check and balance or no?

00:32:24.000 Is he just a dictator?

00:32:25.000 There is a check and balance, but it's weak and it's slow.

00:32:29.000 This has to be renewed after 30 days, and I fear it will be.

00:32:32.000 Well, that's my question.

00:32:33.000 It's a structure problem, right?

00:32:35.000 And it's the structure of government matters a lot.

00:32:37.000 And now he basically can be Caesar Augustus and just do whatever he wants to do.

00:32:43.000 So it's a question of the will, right?

00:32:44.000 And so it's a question of whether or not the people on the ground are going to enforce the orders, right?

00:32:49.000 It's a question of whether or not people are going to comply.

00:32:52.000 And that's the only way you could break apart.

00:32:54.000 He might have the power in his hands, but he needs thousands of shock troopers to actually put the handcuffs on people.

00:32:59.000 He needs tens of thousands of people to support this kind of infrastructure.

00:33:04.000 And I'm not so sure because that requires muscular people.

00:33:07.000 10 seconds, Ezra.

00:33:09.000 Only if he's going the cop route.

00:33:11.000 But I'm telling you, he's going the social credit banking route.

00:33:15.000 That's smart.

00:33:15.000 He's not going to knock heads.

00:33:17.000 He's going to get your banking data.

00:33:19.000 That's right.

00:33:20.000 Okay.

00:33:20.000 We're going to have to have you back, Ezra.

00:33:21.000 Thank you so much.

00:33:22.000 God bless you.

00:33:23.000 Stay safe.

00:33:24.000 Be thankful we have the U.S. Constitution, everybody.

00:33:27.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:28.000 Email us directly, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:30.000 If you want to support our show, go to charliekirk.com slash support.

00:33:35.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:33:36.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 15, 2022

O Canada! When a Democracy Becomes a Dictatorship

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