In this episode, I talk about the insanity that is Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government's relationship with the United States and how they are trying to create a "patriotism trap" by getting into fights with President Donald Trump and his administration.
00:08:58.400Now, notice that we just signed a deal with the Chinese.
00:09:03.000We're not fighting for our values against the communists.
00:09:06.540We're fighting for our values against the implied enemy of the United States because he did name check the United States in this speech.
00:09:13.160We have to get to some of these absolutely insane parts where he starts saying stuff that honestly makes him sound like he's Michael Scott from The Office,
00:09:22.160where it's like, you know, Canada is prosperous because we're Canadians.
00:09:26.180Here's this line where he's obviously attacking the United States.
00:09:30.740Canada and the United States have built a remarkable partnership in the economy, in security, and in rich cultural exchange.
00:09:41.040But Canada doesn't live because of the United States.
00:09:47.180Canada thrives because we are Canadian.
00:09:55.600I'm sorry, but that's vapid and stupid.
00:09:58.640Canada thrives because we are Canadian.
00:10:01.820It's like, well, World War I and World War II called, and we wouldn't exist probably without the United States.
00:10:07.820And I'm not saying that we need to just be bending the knee constantly, just constantly just praising them for all the stuff they do.
00:10:15.100But let's have a little bit of humility here.
00:10:17.780We can even think some of these things.
00:10:19.500Say, oh, Canada genuinely does have a lot of its own value and a lot of its own unique capacity for achievement that even the United States doesn't have.
00:10:27.600Every country has unique positives that they have that pretty much nobody else has.
00:10:32.480But these speeches are to try and poke the U.S. in the eye because Carney wants a majority, and he wants it to be that if you don't vote for him, it's like you don't really like being Canadian.
00:11:13.840But if you just transplanted his policies into some random generic Canadian politician and made them prime minister, that person would be wildly popular because the economy would be doing great.
00:11:27.840We would be getting a lot of stuff done.
00:11:29.580The health care system would get reformed.
00:11:31.880But no, we got to we got to sit here and just talk about what Canada is great because we're Canadian or whatever.
00:11:36.080And goodness, can the guy not wipe that spot off the side of his mouth before he speaks?
00:11:43.840Oh, it's just going to go into the French of it all.
00:11:54.980But like, again, why are we doing this?
00:11:57.740And it's not because it's not benefiting us in terms of our like it's this is not making us like actually have a better relationship with the United States, make it more likely we're going to get a trade deal signed.
00:12:07.520He is now in the era of his prime ministership where he is trying to not it's not just that he doesn't care.
00:12:13.280We've gone from I'm the Trump whisperer.
00:12:23.120And then we went to the who cares era.
00:12:25.400And now we're in the era where he literally doesn't want the deal signed, because if he gets the deal signed, then he's going to look like a sellout phony.
00:12:33.240And he wants to seem as anti-American as possible because he thinks that will drive people to vote for him.
00:12:38.700Now, there's when I said that this could blow up in his face.
00:13:02.240You never come back to the exact same location in the exact same manner that you did.
00:13:06.860And effectively, the liberals rolled their tanks through this territory last time trying to beat the conservatives by doing this patriotism play back in 2025.
00:13:17.420And now they're going down the same road.
00:13:19.640And although I would say they are doing it skillfully, the thing is that Polyev and the conservatives could easily ambush them on this issue.
00:13:26.260And I'm going to get to Polyev a little later.
00:13:28.040I actually think he's making a genius maneuver right now in order to put the, basically, make the patriotism trap end up ensnaring Carney himself.
00:13:39.180But now let's just get to this post I just want to talk about.
00:13:42.240Because, of course, Laura Babcock loves this.
00:13:44.480The Liberal Party posted this yesterday, and it's literally his quote.
00:13:49.160Canada doesn't live because of the United States.
00:13:51.000Canada thrives because we are Canadians.
00:15:09.360It's like, well, yeah, because like America still like funds most of NATO and it does the vast majority of troop deployments whenever they've been needed.
00:15:19.620I'm sorry it hurts the Germans' feelings, but it's just true.
00:15:25.000Laura Babcock here then says, I am so enraged by what Trump said.
00:15:29.280He is a vile human being and a threat to humanity.
00:15:32.860Much more on tomorrow's OSHO, Canada's pro-democracy podcast.
00:15:36.560Yes, her pro-democracy podcast, which frequently condemns freedom of speech because she doesn't like what other people say.
00:15:43.880But she is pro-democracy because whatever she wants is democratic.
00:15:47.960In fact, this is actually why North Korea calls themselves the Democratic Republic of North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
00:15:57.220It's because, well, the people are in charge, quote unquote, in terms of it's a communist government.
00:16:04.120Basically, Laura Babcock comes from the exact same frame of mind.
00:16:08.540I want to get to another clip right here.
00:16:10.780All the things that Carney said in this speech were vapid to the point where, like, I don't know who this appeals to.
00:16:19.720And if this does appeal to you, like, stop.
00:16:22.780A strong and united Canada stands up for families and workers and protects those who are most vulnerable, whether they're a newcomer, a person with a disability, or a member of the two-spirited LGBTQI plus community.
00:16:36.780He almost fumbled that one at the end.
00:16:40.060It's very unnatural to say, but he is fully turned back into 2015 Justin Trudeau.
00:16:47.480He already has his own version of the Canadian as a Canadian as a Canadian line.
00:16:52.580And now he has his own version of diversity as our strength.
00:16:55.760We're standing up for the two-spirit, two-SLGBTQ plus AI Z plus sign community.
00:17:25.660I just want to make sure I get it right.
00:17:26.820So we have Caitlin Harrison here going after Carney for the fact, rightfully so, that he had promised to get a trade deal with the United States, and now we're not doing that is the easiest way of saying it.
00:17:39.120So, Kate, just going back to the issue of not having a trade deal, and I know a lot of people would prefer to have this settled.
00:17:45.540But, you know, the UK and the EU did have whatever they have.
00:18:50.780So how do you reasonably get a deal with an administration that is acting like this and treating its partners like this?
00:18:57.640I mean, I just don't know what the path is.
00:18:59.960How is this guy the neutral interviewer?
00:19:02.640He just keeps, like, poisoning the well harder.
00:19:05.320You start by getting back to the table, and the prime minister was elected to do just that.
00:19:10.740He said he was the right guy for the job in order to get back and have, again, his words, a new economic and security partnership with the United States.
00:19:20.040I know the last nine, ten months has been disruptive.
00:19:24.520For decades and decades and decades before that, we had a stable and secure relationship with our largest trading partner.
00:19:30.320Going to Davos and giving a speech, talking about a significant break in that relationship, that serves as the grounds to, again, pursue, not just, we're not just talking about trade diversification, but rewriting the nature of relationships that we have with countries, including, up until nine months ago, our enemies.
00:19:50.720There's a difference between diversifying and then that wholesale shift that the prime minister is, I think, making the case for today.
00:20:00.040We have to remember that the U.S. is going to exist long after Donald Trump.
00:20:05.520Our relationship with them is very, very close.
00:20:08.760The prime minister was elected to try and get a resolution there, and that should remain part of the focus.
00:20:14.440So, and speechifying and then not even meeting with the man while there, to me, doesn't advance the prime minister's apparent objective of getting back and getting to the trade and negotiation table.
00:20:27.200And that's a great, another great point I actually forgot to make so far, is that in Davos, Mark Carney basically sped home.
00:20:34.820He did not want to meet with Donald Trump.
00:20:36.400Donald Trump was there the day he was there as well.
00:20:38.820He could have met with him, and he just didn't.
00:20:41.280And it's like, well, is this, like, the statesman that Laura Babcock really thinks is, like, going to stand up to Donald Trump?
00:21:09.640And effectively, the liberals are just getting rid of the idea that we even need guardrails when we talk with the American, sort of with the Chinese, that we don't actually need to be careful with how we engage with them.
00:21:20.360Even though they are our biggest national security threat, apparently we do not actually need guardrails in closening our relationship with the people that Carney said was the biggest national security threat to the country.
00:21:32.480But what Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party ended up doing here was that Polyev actually put out a video where he kind of went mild on Mark Carney in a strategic way.
00:21:45.020I think most people understand what he's doing here, which is nice because I've seen previous tweets where people are, like, criticizing how Polyev goes about it.
00:21:51.480It's like he's being strategic, and maybe it's cynical politics, but it's very good politics.
00:21:57.620So Polyev released this 12, 13-minute video, you know, 12-and-a-half-minute video.
00:22:02.720And he says here, the Prime Minister told Davos he wanted to close the gap between rhetoric and reality.
00:22:10.400And we'll just play a little bit of this video, just like a minute of it, because I think he goes about it quite well, of demonstrating there is a gap between Carney's rhetoric and the actual reality of how he governs.
00:22:21.800The Prime Minister's crafted and eloquently delivered speech at Davos has been widely noted, and I want to start by offering my own praise.
00:22:29.320The Prime Minister is right to restate what many have said for years.
00:22:33.960Canada must become more self-reliant, less dependent, and work with like-minded countries to advance our interests.
00:22:41.000And Conservatives are, as always, willing to work with him to turn these words into results.
00:22:46.900What stood out most to me was when he pointed out, quote, the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
00:22:57.060If liberal words and good intentions were tradable commodities, Canada would already be the richest nation on Earth.
00:23:05.480Unfortunately, after a decade of promises and grand speeches, liberals have made our economy costly and dependent, more so than ever.
00:23:15.420After nearly a year as Prime Minister, Mark Carney has made things only worse.
00:23:21.520The deficit has doubled, food inflation has doubled that in the States.
00:23:24.980Housing costs have also doubled, the worst in the G7.
00:23:28.980No pipelines are approved, anti-development laws removed.
00:23:32.920The military has a massive recruiting and equipment shortfall.
00:23:37.820There's still no free trade between provinces, no crime laws have been passed.
00:23:41.420And the Prime Minister's signature promise of negotiating a win with the U.S. is unfulfilled.
00:23:48.580Indeed, U.S. tariffs have more than doubled on Canada, while Mr. Carney's promised counter-tariffs have vanished along with his elbows.
00:23:56.660And I'm going to end it there, but it goes on with more examples of the areas where Carney has talked tough and then not actually delivered.
00:24:06.840I think the Conservatives going towards the next election need to be running this as their advertising campaign.
00:24:12.720There are other ad strategies they could be using.
00:24:14.900I think they need to really go after the China issue.
00:24:17.060But this one, they should basically just be running 30-second rhetoric and reality ads.
00:24:23.980It starts off with Paulyov always saying that, you know, Carney said some really good stuff at the WEF, but he mentioned rhetoric and reality.
00:24:32.540And now let's go back to Canada and look at what the reality is compared to what Carney's rhetoric has been.
00:24:37.460And just keep hammering those points over and over again, because the thing that you need people to do, because I don't think it's just a reality in Canada that there's a lot of anti-Trump voters.
00:24:48.060You have to prove that Carney is not the guy who's standing up to him.
00:24:52.380In fact, we have jobs and investment going to the United States because he's so pathetic and weak.
00:24:56.940You know, he does his whole elbows up thing and then goes at Trump and thumbs his nose at him and gets into stupid scraps that hurt our relationship.
00:25:05.120But he's not making us more self-sufficient.
00:25:07.220He's just making us more isolated and poor because we don't have a good economy because the taxes, regulations are too high.
00:25:21.840I have to cover the 1BC, UBC thing yesterday.
00:25:25.640Basically, a bunch of far-left communists attacked a 1BC discussion event at the University of British Columbia campus.
00:25:32.840And the campus administration let it happen.
00:25:35.820And of course, the BC conservatives did not mention it at all because they don't like actually acknowledging any of the good things that 1BC does.
00:25:43.680And people could say, well, aren't you guys just agitating out there?
00:25:46.900If walking onto campus is agitating, I guess we are agitators.
00:25:50.800But the whole point is that this is not how things should be.
00:25:53.260And it's good that people like Dallas Brody and Francis Widdowson go out there and prove that this is how bad campus culture has deteriorated over time.
00:26:03.040Anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for watching.
00:26:06.120And I'll see – I'm really messing up this last part.
00:26:09.000I'm going to see you in the next video.