00:03:27.060Well, why didn't he do it on Columbia?
00:03:29.600I mean, he could have just kept the tariffs on Columbia, but he's removing them now that they complied.
00:03:34.300If we complied and we did anything, at the very least, if he placed the tariffs on us, if we did everything he asked for, he'd have no leg to stand on.
00:03:42.620And he'd look really bad in front of people who live in the northern Midwest, who are the main people being affected by the increase in prices from the tariffs.
00:03:51.380Because they're going to have to pay tariffs on all the food, oil and gas products, softwood, lumber that you bring into states like Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Michigan, Minnesota.
00:04:06.520All those countries are really not going to like this.
00:04:09.920But the thing is that we gave Trump a great reason to put them on us because the best Trudeau did was he says, oh, we'll invest a billion dollars in a plan to secure the border.
00:04:19.840It's like, just do it. Smith did it in five seconds.
00:04:23.020She got 10 cold weather drones, 50 more sheriffs, got a bunch of dogs, got a bunch of narcotic scanners, and then four narcotic scanners.
00:04:33.880And Trudeau has a semblance of some form of a plan for a plan that we're going to look into over the next 10 years to see if we'll implement it.
00:04:41.820I somewhat agree with this from Dennis Thompson.
00:04:52.400Liberals can't win against Pierre, so they're going to prolong election to wear Pierre down.
00:04:56.780I think that they think the longer that like a Mark Carney is in as prime minister, assuming it's Mark Carney, that the longer he's in, the more name recognition he gets and maybe the tighter the polls will get because Mark Carney will cut his teeth on being the anti-Trump guy.
00:05:13.840And there is a sort of anti-Trump derangement syndrome in Canada that is strong enough you'll get a lot of older voters, especially who don't actually work anymore.
00:05:25.980They watch the news all day that they will vote for Carney because I watch CNN and you see the things Trump's doing.
00:05:33.440Well, he can't let Pierre in because Carney told me he's Canadian, Pierre.
00:05:36.820There is that kind of personality in Canadian politics that's extremely hard to get through to, and they just don't want people to get through them.
00:06:00.540That is so many Eastern Canadian pensioners, people who have extremely expensive homes that they bought decades ago, but they're going to complain about the size of their pension, even though they have more than enough money to actually retire on.
00:06:15.160Or if they don't, that's kind of on them.
00:06:38.300And I think that I think what needs to happen is there needs to be more people going around giving good information to relatives and friends who believe mainstream narratives.
00:06:48.940Did Trump act fully reasonably in this situation?
00:06:53.060When he opened it up with 25% tariffs, unless you do this, it actually gave Canadian politicians an out by focusing on the 25% tariff section of what he said.
00:07:03.800Ignore all the border security, drugs, and defense stuff that he mentioned about NATO spending and about other things that we have to do.
00:07:11.360Scott Moe rightfully focused on the NATO spending.
00:07:15.540We don't spend enough on our defense, and they're flipping the bill for us.
00:07:18.940But politicians like David Eby, Doug Ford, you know, Wob Canoe, Justin Trudeau, and all the maritime premiers, they basically said, like, they're going to tariff us?
00:07:33.280It's like, guys, listen to his statement.
00:07:35.800Do I agree with the exact reason that he's doing this?
00:07:41.140No, but, like, I don't agree with the exact 25% threat right up front.
00:07:47.440But I can't, in good conscience, pretend I don't get it.
00:07:51.920Pretend that he hasn't been seeing the same reports that Canadians have been reading in the National Post and whatnot of the Chinese government working with gangs and other people dealing fentanyl products into Canada and laundering money.
00:08:05.800There was reports that Hezbollah, that Hamas, uses Canada to wash money and get it into the United States because Canada has no – we do not check anything.
00:08:17.500And so it's so easy to run terror front groups, drug rings in this country because nobody ever looks.
00:08:25.040So when Trudeau says, well, we're going to – we have a plan to secure the border, but Trump should know only 1% of fentanyl going into the U.S. is seized on the Canadian border.
00:08:34.780It's like, yeah, because we don't look for it.
00:08:38.380Again, I was watching Frank Vaughn's video before I went live here.
00:08:42.440You guys should go look up Frank Vaughn.
00:08:44.860He mentioned – and it's a real fact.
00:08:46.980I had heard it before he said it, but it reminded me.
00:08:49.020Only 1% of C-cans of, you know, of the specific shipping containers, shipping cans are actually checked when they come into a Canadian port, especially in British Columbia coming from China.
00:09:04.120Only less than 1% of the containers are even checked for illegal substances, drugs, guns, or anything.
00:09:13.680Do you think that our drug dealers are such virtuous people that when they get fentanyl products into our country that then can be made into other opioids and whatnot?
00:09:24.200Because they don't literally ship in fentanyl pills.
00:09:26.340They ship in the components, and then those components are brought in by drug gangs who then manufacture them.
00:09:32.420They just shut down two drug labs, like, five kilometers from the U.S. border in rural British Columbia.
00:09:39.300And do we think after they're done making that stuff that these are virtuous drug dealers who would never bring it into Washington State?
00:11:53.640I don't see, uh, GameBurn says, Seven says, I don't see Polyev exhibiting leadership right now.
00:12:07.420Has he done something in the last few days I've missed?
00:12:10.340Well, with Polyev, it is a tough, and this is where, this is where it becomes a tough conversation.
00:12:15.000He does have to work in the environment that there are Eastern Canadian pensioners who, if he even acknowledges Trump has a point, they're going to freak out and cry.
00:12:28.260And so he has to move slowly, and he has to stay stuff that isn't going to mess with, tick anyone off.
00:12:35.180And in a certain sense, him saying neutral stuff and watching this trade war blow up in the liberals' faces is better than him doing what Doug Ford wants him to do and join Team Canada,
00:12:45.300or what the liberals want him to do and, you know, denounce Danielle Smith and now Scott Moe as well.
00:12:50.700If he just sits back and says, well, I'm going to let the government do what it's going to do, and I don't think they're doing it right, perfectly fine,
00:12:57.960because I think this is a kind of one of those no-win scenarios for Pierre.
00:13:02.320So, yeah, that's to answer Jocelyn here, what you think Pierre's next move is.
00:13:07.560And I think that his next move is, I would say that he should probably go after the Trudeau liberals as having not acted serious in this situation
00:13:16.500and made us look foolish by not really addressing the border in any adequate manner,
00:13:22.760and then giving Trump an excuse to put in place the tariffs.
00:13:26.760That's the way I think Polyev needs to talk about it, that he has given him the excuse to put in place, you know,
00:13:34.660he has given Trump the excuse to put in place the tariff.
00:13:42.360Adam Solvey says, I'm sorry this country is dead.
00:13:44.960I read the comment section of the legacy media after the tariff story broke,
00:13:49.040and so many people are blaming Trump and not Trudeau's incompetent government.
00:17:32.380Lisa Cotto says Pierre doesn't want the liberals to seal his campaign, which is why he's laying low.
00:17:36.920That is also a good theory too, that Pierre Polyev doesn't want to make a stance, a hard stance, and then just have Mark Carney swipe it right now.
00:17:46.060Because Polyev has no ability, and this is the problem with being in opposition sometimes, you have no ability to take credit for anything.
00:17:52.560Even the NDP, and they've had a lot of effect on liberal policy.
00:17:56.760They've had tons of effect on liberal policy because they've been pushing the liberals to spend more and make programs bigger and whatnot.
00:18:03.440The problem is they get no credit because they're not the government.
00:18:06.440They are just an addendum to the government.
00:18:10.180If you're the opposition, you get zero credit for doing anything right.
00:18:13.900Plus, if it doesn't work out because the government implements it wrong, they could say, hmm, see, we tried what Polyev said and it didn't work, even though they were the ones who screwed it up.
00:18:21.680And yeah, I'd agree, fentanyl has killed thousands here too, and that's the stupid thing about all these premiers saying, oh, I'm on Team Canada, we're Team Canada.
00:19:05.600That is, and I think what happens here, is that him basically taxidly backing what Daniel Smith and Scott Moe are doing is perfectly fine.
00:19:15.020He can jump up and basically see, say I was right, I see they were right.
00:19:19.280I didn't want to, I didn't interview her with them because it's the premier's job and the prime minister's job to negotiate with the United States.
00:19:26.220And Melanie Jolie messed it up so bad.
00:19:28.200Imagine showing up two days before or three days before the tariffs are going to get implemented.
00:19:33.840Three days before, when this was announced back in early December, now they show up?
00:19:38.880Now they're actually swinging by to have a conversation about this?
00:28:36.600But I think we saw what happened with him.
00:28:38.480Stephen Harper was probably even a smaller figure than Paul Martin.
00:28:43.640Stephen Harper was not as big of a force of personality as Pierre Polyev, especially in 2004.
00:28:49.160And even then, Paul Martin could only barely hold on to a minority government, and he didn't have the caked-on scandals that the liberals have.
00:28:57.000And the thing is, Carney's involved in all of them.
00:28:59.700And it's so easy to lay fire down on Carney.
00:29:02.740The great thing, here's something that the National Telegraph did in 2023 that's really paying off here.
00:29:11.240It was during the conservative leadership race.
00:29:13.660We got Pierre Polyev to take his stance.
00:29:16.580It's the only reason he took the stance.
00:29:18.020We got Pierre Polyev as a leadership candidate, and he has consistently kept reaffirming it since becoming leader, that he is going to ban the Bank of Canada from pursuing a central bank digital currency.
00:29:30.380That is a great policy for going up against Mark Carney, who is like the godfather of central bank digital currencies in the West.
00:29:40.540That guy is a central bank digital currency missionary, and he should be absolutely hung on that.
00:29:56.600They can directly put, like, excess taxes on you for various things because you will have a central bank connection into your bank account.
00:30:06.780Taz2070 says, good evening from Northern Ontario.
00:35:03.140I don't understand what worth people get from his channel.
00:35:05.420He doesn't have an elementary school understanding of Canadian civics.
00:35:08.900And again, it's because a lot of these...
00:35:10.480Some of these guys start channels around the convoy.
00:35:13.200They get automatically 150,000 subscribers because they were covering the convoy every single day, even if they weren't even on the ground.
00:35:20.520And naturally, like tons of people were following them for really rudimentary coverage.
00:35:25.080And then since then, as long as they throw Justin Trudeau bad and Polly of Good in thumbnails, they end up getting views.
00:35:31.960Even though past them cheerleading, there's not really much going on.
00:35:36.040And yeah, Pleasant Valley Picker says, many channels are clickbait crap.
00:36:31.540Like his personal life isn't exactly amazing.
00:36:33.920At the same time, you always have to see evidence.
00:36:36.500And I find so often whenever people push out lies like the losers and suckers lie that Trump called World War II veterans losers and suckers.
00:36:44.700Like, does that actually sound like Trump, the guy who ran over to pick up a soldier's hat to put it back on his head?
00:36:51.940I don't think that guy hates soldiers.
00:37:13.940I do think you are partially correct there, Stefano, that it does give Canada an opening that maybe this allows for pressure to be put on people like Doug Ford and other premiers in the long run.
00:37:28.900Even Danielle Smith, who's been doing a good job on trade, but even she needs pressure put on her to lower income taxes, lower business taxes, just lower spending on nonsense.
00:37:38.840And we'll figure out what we actually what works, what doesn't work.
00:37:43.320Let's manufacture things in this country we actually want, like the EV factories, the battery plants that Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau have been going in on together.
00:38:55.700That's how it happened to me a few times where I've, like, started watching someone, and then I was watching somebody else, and then I just saw them happen to do an interview together.
00:39:04.720Uh, but yeah, J.J. likes the show because I try and keep everything from being too over-the-top.
00:39:31.440Dan Freeman's show says, hey, Wyatt, I saw a video that Brian Lilly posted talking about the liberals preventing an election until September of 2026.
00:39:42.600It would probably require them to go to court because based on Canada's charter slash constitution, elections happen every five years.
00:39:51.300But through legislation, it was changed that elections through the election, I think it's like the fixed election date policy or act or whatever, I'm not sure what it was called, that we're supposed to have votes every four years.
00:40:05.860And so, you know, we, they could technically say, well, in the condition we're in, we can't have one right away.
00:40:12.440We need to move back three months because during a trade war, this is a good enough thing to, for us not to, you know, it gives us reason that we can't have this done right now.
00:40:53.700Even Scott Moe up until recently, when he finally joined with Daniel Smith, everyone with everything Trump's been doing.
00:41:00.020This is what people like John Bolton have been pointing out, who is not a fan of Trump.
00:41:03.560He used to work in the Trump administration.
00:41:05.640I am actually decently, I kind of like John Bolton, one of my more unpopular opinions.
00:41:10.860Even Trump, when he did his Joe Rogan interview, kept calling John Bolton an idiot.
00:41:14.280And then at one point he's like, but everyone was terrified of him when he was standing behind me.
00:41:17.780I'm like, yes, that's a good national security advisor.
00:41:20.760You are a good cop and he is the terrifying bad cop who stands behind you that makes people think you're very serious.
00:41:26.240But John Bolton, who's not a big fan of Trump these days, even he's been saying that Trudeau and all the Canadian politicians who are freaking out about Trump saying, talk about the 51st state and all this stuff, that they're reacting and it's doing exactly what Trump wants.
00:41:41.900He wants them to be irrational so that he can push forward the idea of tariffs, that he can justify them.
00:41:49.280I don't think Trump would keep tariffs on if we had acted properly, but he can get a few months of tariffs, of tariff revenues out of Canada.
00:41:57.180Why are people being stupid enough to not actually fix the border until maybe March or April?
00:42:02.260And then maybe also Carney wants this and Team Trudeau is basically sabotaging the government's response because he wants this to be a crisis that then allows the election to be pushed back because we have some border crisis, some border dispute, and he's too busy talking to Trump at summits and whatnot.
00:42:21.320But I don't think that Trump's going to respect Mark Carney either.
00:42:23.760I think Carney is the type of person that Trump would fire like day one in an administration, just some empty suit who loves regulations and policy but doesn't actually care about making people's lives better or easier.
00:42:38.580Genghis Tran, thoughts on the New Blue Party, on Ontario, anything on London specifically?
00:42:43.760I don't know if they have a London candidate yet, but obviously I really like the New Blue Party.
00:42:47.540One of the most underrated politicians in Canada, in my opinion, is Jim Carajalios.
00:42:56.900I absolutely encourage you all, vote New Blue if you're in Ontario, run for New Blue if you don't have a candidate.
00:43:02.420Even if you're just a paper candidate and you can only do door knocking like seven of the days of the election and other people who are volunteers have to do most of it,
00:43:11.180just have somebody's name on the ballot because there just needs to be a way for people to not vote for Doug Ford.
00:43:16.020Because Doug Ford, the Liberals and the NDP are the worst.
00:43:19.820I actually ideally would like to see a hung parliament after this election because I want it to be so dysfunctional.
00:43:26.500The Liberals, the NDP and the Ontario PCs can't get anything done because nothing getting done is the ideal situation in Ontario because all these people are ridiculously incompetent.
00:43:37.040We just need it so that we can wait a little bit.
00:43:40.980We can just hold them back, hold things like at neutral in Ontario while this crisis is going on.
00:44:44.360In Ontario, if the Ontario Party can grab up, like it did last time, 1.7% of the vote, and then the New Blue Party grabs 2.7%, and then the Populist Party grabs a few points, and then the Northern Ontario Party grabs a few points, then the Ontario PCs still look like the only option.
00:45:01.860So you're going to get default voters, default kind of sort of conservative voters, are going to say, well, I guess Ford's still good enough.
00:45:10.380We can't let the left win, even though Ford is the left.
00:45:13.260Ford and Bonnie Crombie and Merritt Stiles agree on everything.
00:47:32.840Maybe they're looking at some CTV news clips and then they see a video from, you know, Clyde Do Something or myself or Frank Vaughn or someone like that or Ryan Lilly.
00:47:41.000And by watching that, Ridge City News is a good one, that by watching that, they feel more in the know, oh, I didn't realize crime was that high.
00:47:49.280Oh, well, and I found that worked so well when I was running for my federal nomination in Calgary Signal Hill.
00:47:55.160Reminder for people who didn't remember that I ran for this.
00:47:58.540And because certain insiders didn't want me to win, Jenny Byrne, I was then removed from the race, ridiculously enough.
00:48:05.540Basically, they wanted someone else to win.
00:48:07.640And now they really hate me because I made sure that that person lost anyways because they didn't deserve to win.
00:48:12.900And I mobilized my people to vote against them.
00:48:14.540But what I found at the doors that was so effective was giving people data, talking to people for 20 minutes.
00:48:22.360You have to just talk with people for a long time to slowly break them out of their default opinions because people like easy, soft, default opinions.
00:49:11.920He's like, well, that makes sense on policy.
00:49:13.480And you're going to turn so many, especially young men in this next election, into lifelong conservative voters or at least lifelong more center-right voters.
00:49:22.940Maybe the conservative party blows it one day like in 20 years and you'll have to vote for a different party.
00:49:27.740But still, just teaching people the lingo that they need to know about what does a liberal believe, what does a conservative believe, and what actually works.
00:49:51.460It gives you such a surface-level understanding of anything that you will be less informed by the end of it because you will make all the wrong conclusions.
00:49:59.580They've been covering all this crap terribly.
00:50:05.300I think you're right to Karamatic here.
00:50:10.660This is making me think of that peer video he put on his channel or that video peer upon his channel.
00:50:17.320This is a comment from a while ago, so you might have been talking about something else.
00:50:20.700But I'm going to say Polioff has been doing really good issue-based mini documentaries he's been putting up on his channel.
00:50:27.160Maybe that's an influence of Aaron Gunn or someone like that, but that's very helpful.
00:50:35.300Flair Schillebeer says, I think the BC conservatives have a strong plan behind the scenes we haven't seen yet.
00:50:40.620I think that the BC conservatives are the one thing they need to do, and it's like them taking the stance on EB being a problem with the tariffs.
00:50:54.400Make it known that there's so many useless positions because you don't want to mention it in an election, and your opposition says, see, he wants to cut jobs.
00:51:02.460Make it very clear what kind of jobs need to be cut years in advance, and nobody can take you out of context.
00:51:30.340I guess technically the prime minister can just do things through his office because he might have the same powers as the president of the United States where they can just say,
00:51:37.280tariff on U.S. goods, and that's all you have to do.
00:51:40.960Yeah, McCullough is how you spell it there.
00:51:42.940So, J.J. McCullough, if you want to go look up the guy I was interviewing.
00:51:55.160Someone mentioned short, fat otaku, and I like that guy too.
00:51:58.780Even though, again, I wouldn't agree with that guy on Trump.
00:52:03.400Lane Train, thoughts on the Saskatchewan party?
00:52:05.860In this last election, they were definitely the best reasonable option.
00:52:09.720I know that Saskatchewan United is trying to become a thing, but I still think that the main way that there's going to be change in the Saskatchewan party,
00:52:19.600and there definitely needs to be some.
00:52:21.540The thing I saw a lot is that generally a pretty conservative party, but it's just they get too comfortable in government.
00:52:32.140It's corruption and whatnot, and I think that what needs to happen is in the next couple of years, probably Scott Moe needs to be swapped out with someone else.
00:52:39.620There needs to be a new leadership race.
00:53:03.620It's like it never actually is centrist, because a centrist party, a true centrist party, should be taking all the best ideas from the left and right.
00:53:11.160The problem with a centrist party is that, at least in my opinion, if you don't eventually conclude that the right tends to be correct about everything,
00:53:20.000I think you're just going to have the same bad liberal policy with a couple of bright points of conservatism.
00:53:26.160But always expanding government spending, always expanding entitlements and stuff like that is always going to end up in disaster.
00:53:34.520Centrists just get us to the bad place that the liberals put us in the long run anyways.
00:53:40.640Just as the liberals are the slower path to destruction than the NDP.
00:53:47.380Yes, based, and enough says, based David Edwards.
00:53:52.200David Edwards, thank you for the $5 super chat.
00:53:54.340J.J. is 100% right about the monarch and Quebec and 100% wrong about Trump.
00:53:59.580He went way overboard on the re-election, like crazy town over the top.
00:54:03.880Again, I think it's just because he personally, I think, and I think I could probably tell J.J. this one day,
00:54:09.120and I think you'd take it in stride well.
00:54:11.900I think that J.J. is what I would call an aesthetic moderate.
00:54:15.560He is a conservative, but he's also an aesthetic moderate.
00:54:18.580He doesn't like things that kind of are outside of his suburban conservatism.
00:54:22.860So because Trump is just a wild character.
00:54:26.220But on paper, when you look at her, Kamala Harris isn't.
00:54:29.520He sees her as the moderate and Trump as the radical, even though on policy, Kamala Harris had the far more radical policy.
00:54:36.400But it's just that Trump is so not normal, and he bends the norm so much that he just doesn't like that.
00:54:42.960And my problem, though, is that if you become too concerned about norms, you will eventually become Andrew Coyne,
00:54:49.880who will define socialism as conservative as long as it's the status quo.
00:54:56.220He is a status quo warrior, and that is it.
00:54:59.120Andrew Coyne is absolutely useless for politics because he would consider full-formed reform,
00:55:07.040like full-reform-minded policy to be too harsh.