00:30:42.460But this kind of concept of Alberta becoming a 51st or 50th and a half state.
00:30:49.680I see no enthusiasm for that notion. What I have seen is the opposite. I have seen so many
00:30:56.660canadians and and albertans in particular uh reaching out and saying we got to put canada first
00:31:04.100okay so you just heard what she said that was today by the way at a press conference
00:31:12.340here's our friend jeffrey rath jeff rath of rath and company lawyers in calgary it's been very
00:31:20.540active in the freedom movement these past four years and listen to what jeff has to say
00:31:24.480Well, there's a group of Albertans that are working together right now to put together a delegation to go to Washington to talk to the Trump administration about Alberta petitioning for U.S. statehood.0.98
00:31:34.460It's quite evident that we're being governed by idiots in Ottawa who don't understand that we can't afford a trade war with our largest trading partner.0.92
00:31:43.040And rather than simply apologizing to President Trump for not meeting our NATO commitments and not adequately securing our border,0.99
00:31:49.740apparently the Trudeau government has decided to declare a trade war and run up trillions of dollars in costs like they did during COVID on a made-up emergency.
00:31:58.120So there's a number of us in Alberta that have had enough and want to go speak with the Trump administration about the benefits of Alberta joining the United States.
00:32:08.760I wonder if they'll be successful in getting a meeting with some of Trump's people.
00:32:13.040and who would be in that Alberta delegation,
00:32:16.480and would they be representative of the entire province?
00:32:19.640This is the thing, and this is something we've talked about on this show before.
00:32:23.360How do we negotiate something like this?
00:32:26.160And these conversations on this show go back like three years, you know,
00:32:31.560and we're talking about the difference between a de facto and a de jure government,
00:32:35.280and can the people really gain the power?
00:32:40.440And the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway that I have gotten from all of these conversations that we've had is simply that we, us, the people who are already awake and know what's going on and want to take control back for ourselves, the people, and not through any forceful means, at least not now, how do we do this?
00:33:06.540how do we convince these other people who are sleepwalking around booing
00:33:11.620u.s national anthems at hockey games and basketball games and virtue signaling with
00:33:16.820you know people are going to be some of these sleepwalkers are going to be confused as to which
00:33:20.960flag they should be virtue signaling with on social media over the next week huh should i
00:33:25.620put the canadian flag up or should it be the ukraine flag who do i stand with today somebody
00:33:30.380tell me please because they don't have any of their own feelings inside but then again maybe
00:33:35.920they do we just haven't gotten to them yet they won't let us they won't let us get there
00:33:40.560or they don't want to get there themselves because that would mean actually thinking
00:33:46.340for themselves instead of letting somebody else do it i don't know what the answer is
00:33:51.440except to say that we need to keep talking about it and i believe that now we need to get louder
00:33:57.920than ever i mean what person what what educated person out there even with an eighth or ninth
00:34:04.080grade education wouldn't understand that the united states could crush canada economically
00:34:10.520militarily in two days or less do they honestly think that canada can win a trade war with the
00:34:19.360united states in in the current situation that we're in do they or are they just saying that
00:34:25.900because they think it's a cool thing to say do they then again maybe they do because these are
00:34:31.280the same people who think we should keep funding ukraine because ukraine can win a war with russia
00:34:35.400which is ridiculous of course they can't russia has advanced as far as they want to advance in
00:34:42.600this war and the only thing in my opinion they're doing right now is holding on to their claims of
00:34:49.400the ukrainian areas of donbass and crimea that's what they wanted in the first place it gives them
00:34:55.980access to the black sea and they believe that that is rightfully their land anyhow and 90
00:35:01.980percent of the occupants of those lands believe that too so what's the problem here oh i get it
00:35:10.860the warmongers want to keep warren so they can keep making the money and they can you know yeah
00:35:17.740keep laundering and keep the wheels spinning let's throw this up on the screen here from
00:35:23.580From Juneau News, Canada has, in fact, imposed retaliatory tariffs against the U.S.
00:35:33.060Canada's hit the U.S. with a retaliatory tariff in response to the Trump administration implementing 25% access across-the-board tariffs on Canada Tuesday.
00:35:43.920By the way, Mexico is, I believe, doing the same thing.
00:36:43.420Our tariffs will remain in place until the U.S. trade action is withdrawn
00:36:47.240And should U.S. tariffs not cease, we're in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures.
00:36:57.860Non-tariff measures? What would that be?
00:37:08.760Trump's punitive tariffs were said to be in response to Canada's poor border security and the flow of fentanyl coming into the U.S. from the north.
00:37:15.640trudeau said 1.3 billion dollar border plan choppers boots on the ground more coordination
00:37:21.320haven't seen that yet but we do have a fentanyl czar apparently in canada although we haven't
00:37:25.740heard one word from him despite canada only being responsible for about one percent blah blah blah
00:37:32.280blah blah uh canadian importation of fentanyl to a near zero low of 0.03 pounds seized by yeah
00:37:39.620That's the thing. That's only what they're seizing.
00:37:43.300We know, because of Sam Cooper's work,
00:37:45.580that there is a huge network of fentanyl distribution going on in Canada,
00:37:50.940and of course it flows outside of Canada as well.
00:40:36.460So Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, who people allege is actually in bed with the Mexican drug cartel somehow, and not literally, figuratively.
00:40:47.000I only just heard that a couple of days ago, and I can't verify it, but it's a story that's going around.
00:40:54.180Anyway, Scheinbaum joined Canada and China, which was also hit Tuesday with a doubling of duties on goods to 20% and promising to respond to tariff hikes imposed by the Trump administration.
00:41:05.960There is no motive or reason nor justification that supports this decision that will affect our people and our nation, she said during a daily news conference in Mexico City, signaling she would announce U.S. products to be targeted by Mexico on Sunday.
00:41:22.080you see when you say motive or reason or justification you make it sound as though
00:41:29.260he's targeting you on purpose and he's not all he's doing is protecting what he believes is
00:41:36.520a fair trade deal or what should be a fair trade deal and he's sick and tired of the united states0.53
00:41:43.260being made a chump of by almost every country in the world and he has said that before0.68
00:41:48.180And when you're talking about having a debt like the United States has, which is, oh, about $36 trillion, you've got to start getting that money back somehow.
00:41:59.380so he creates doge and elon musk heads that up and he's been going through all the files and
00:42:06.720they've been finding billions and billions of dollars in wasted money or misspent money through
00:42:12.260usa id and through uh the irs down there and and people are complaining about it somehow
00:42:20.260he's only trying to get your tax dollars back and that's what this is all about
00:42:27.240he is trying to enrich his own people through doge through tariffs that's what he's trying to do he is
00:42:34.500trying to equal the playing field economically across the world and the people there screaming0.96
00:42:39.620and yelling that he is a beast and a monster it's amazing manitoba has responded to the u.s
00:42:47.500tariffs i think i told you this earlier and they've taken all the american booze off the0.95
00:42:52.900shelves of the uh liquor marts in canada so after all this after all this screaming and belly aching
00:43:02.800and moaning instead of just rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work which is what
00:43:06.680we should have done when did trump first actually bring up the idea of tariffs it was during the
00:43:12.080election campaign right it was october he started talking about tariffs well you know tariffs might
00:43:17.360be an idea and then maybe even earlier september he's talking about tariffs these tariffs and then
00:43:23.120he wins the election in november and that's when canada mexico china all of the countries affected
00:43:30.960by these increased tariffs should have started planning something but no instead what do they
00:43:39.740do they virtue signal they travel around the world they start talking about viva ukraine all
00:43:47.400of these things and then maybe you know when trump was going to slap the tariffs on back in january
00:43:53.400they started talking a little bit about it but then it went away for a month when we got that
00:43:57.180reprieve trudeau went on that tour of europe that he's been on just gets back and here comes trump0.88
00:44:02.420again with more tariffs and here comes it's ridiculous they talk they're full of hot air
00:44:09.460they don't do anything man we should have been building factories we should have been digging
00:44:15.920pipelines we should have been doing everything we could to diversify ourselves we should have
00:44:20.980been looking for new trading partners out there nope we should have called up japan and germany
00:44:26.200and said hey hey you know we've got some uh natural gas you guys i i know i said there was
00:44:30.320no business case for it uh a couple of years ago but i think there is now even though we have no
00:44:36.540real way to get it to you or to process it for that matter because we didn't oh
00:44:44.000so after all of this commerce secretary howard lutnik suggested today and this is a couple of
00:44:52.940hours ago that trump could compromise on canada and mexico duties and will probably announce a
00:45:00.760tariffs packed with canada and mexico he said on fox business that a compromise with the two
00:45:08.020countries which have just become subject to these tariffs could be unveiled as early as tomorrow
00:45:14.660now we're not saying that the tariffs are going to go away but maybe trump could be convinced if
00:45:22.020the conditions are right and mexico and canada decide to capitulate to what trump wants him to
00:45:27.540do then maybe he could ease the tariffs off or maybe push them back and you want to know what
00:45:32.980after everything that i have said to you guys here tonight about canada being a bunch of cry
00:45:38.960babies and about how we can do better and how we need to be more self-sufficient anyhow the bottom
00:45:44.500line is what trump is doing even though i i tend to agree with it because i like the fact that he's
00:45:49.300standing up for his country he's america first don't forget again and that means he's not aiming
00:45:54.780anything specifically at us or Mexico or France or Germany or Japan or China. It's just that he's
00:46:00.960protecting his own country. He could have taken a bit longer. I mean, if you're going to kick your
00:46:07.020kid out of the basement, give him a couple of months to go find a job and get his shit together0.99
00:46:14.880before you send him out into the world. And in this case, because we're talking about a country0.98
00:46:21.220here maybe he could have given us a year i am putting tariffs on in one year these tariffs will
00:46:30.580be 25 across the board maybe we can exempt oil and gas at some point but for now in one year's time
00:46:38.880tariffs are going on do what you need to do to get ready for it and in one year i'm not saying
00:46:46.220we could do everything in canada in one year like build all the lng liquefaction plants and
00:46:51.400pipelines and whatnot but we could get started at least so this does seem kind of a sudden move
00:46:59.040then again we've been a layabout son on the couch for the last 70 years depending completely and
00:47:06.720totally on our parents for everything and uh we got a rude awakening and this is something that
00:47:12.820we should have been expecting for many many many many years even militarily you know canada is and
00:47:19.720again like i show you this picture guys and i know it's funny right but it's it's an easy way to get
00:47:25.280the message across to people people who don't understand exactly the difference between the
00:47:31.180united the size and scope of the united states economy versus canada so this is a great way to
00:47:39.180do it people get this right that's exactly how it looks that's what it is that is the difference
00:47:48.460between our two nations yeah we're great friends and we play together a lot of times and we fight
00:47:55.540together a lot of times but ultimately we are both our own thing and when push comes to shove
00:48:51.380So the post-war change in the Cold War,
00:48:54.760despite the Navy's extraordinary contribution to the war effort,
00:48:58.300Prime Minister of the Day William Lyon Mackenzie King
00:49:00.640It always suspected that the Royal Canadian Navy was a mere instrument of the British Admiralty at that time.
00:49:06.020We were much more closely tied to the U.K.
00:49:09.960Nevertheless, his government approved a small permanent navy of two aircraft carriers, two cruisers, 12 destroyers in 1945.
00:49:17.580Tens of thousands of sailors departed the navy after their wartime service.
00:49:21.880Among the fewer than 6,500 who remained,
00:49:24.760Relations between officers and men soured under the pressures of adjusting to peacetime and struggling with shrinking budgets.
00:49:32.740After three protests by ships, crews in 1949, Rear Admiral E. Rolomengai presided over a commission that urged the Navy to modernize its customs as a way of improving relations between non-commissioned sailors and officers.
00:49:52.020The RCN maintained a force of three destroyers in Korean waters during the Korean War.
00:49:58.180After Korea, the growing tensions of the Cold War gave the Navy renewed purpose, along with a rise in the defense budget.
00:50:03.920By the late 1950s, much of the RCN was dedicated to a growing anti-submarine role as part of Canada's contribution to NATO to a continental defense.
00:50:12.720New ships such as the Saint Laurent class of anti-submarine destroyer escorts were introduced at the time.
00:50:19.200But the Navy had a limited role during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
00:50:24.380But as the 1970s arrived, the Navy continued its role in anti-submarine warfare,
00:50:31.700though it dwindled in size and was compromised by increasing maintenance and fuel costs for the aging fleet.
00:50:38.820On its golden anniversary in 1960, the RCN had boasted a fleet of some 50 warships crewed by 21,500 sailors.
00:50:47.300By the 1970s, other than the aging Saint-Laurents,
00:50:50.120the Navy had only one operational support ship
00:50:53.060and three Oberon-class training submarines acquired in the mid-60s.
00:51:00.600So this all happened during the late 50s, 60s, and 70s
00:51:04.460as our military just started to shrink.
00:51:07.020As both Soviet and American incursions into Arctic waters
00:51:10.520provoked concern about Canadian sovereignty,
00:51:13.280the Navy proposed to create a nuclear-powered submarine fleet
00:51:16.360to enhance its ability to assert power in the North.
00:51:19.680But public outcry dashed these plans in the 1980s.
00:51:25.760People started whining, yelling, complaining, moaning.
00:52:17.880Their equipment is absolutely amazing.
00:52:20.640They've got the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on the planet.
00:52:23.820And why? Because they know, look at the size of this country.
00:52:26.540They have to be able to protect themselves.
00:52:28.940but canada for some reason decided no we're not going to do that we're not going to do that
00:52:40.400we've got the united states to protect us so we'll form something called norad with them make
00:52:47.480it look like we're actually doing something so we'll go staff some uh watch shack up on the dew
00:52:54.680line with some of our personnel so we can keep an eye on whether there's Russian craft coming over
00:53:01.680the top of the Arctic Circle. But other than that, the Americans can do it.
00:53:10.500And so our Navy dwindled, our Air Force dwindled. And I'm not sure if you guys have,
00:53:14.800I think I put this on the show last week or maybe the week before,
00:53:17.600Or when you want to compare the sizes, just in terms of equipment, you know, Navy ships that we have, aircraft that we can use, versus the United States, it's laughable.
00:53:44.280Okay, so at what cost has the United States decided that they're going to take care of us, or we decided?
00:53:52.620I don't think that's in any treaty anywhere, that the United States is obliged to take care of Canada in case there's an incursion into our land, except for the NATO agreement.
00:54:05.580It's not like there's a special agreement between the United States and Canada, but it's in the United States' best interest.
01:00:14.820No American, their main audience, knows who they are.
01:00:17.420But over in Europe, things are getting pretty dicey over there.
01:00:24.380German government has launched an initiative to target conspiracy thinking.
01:00:28.580It's a new advisory office aimed at supporting those affected by conspiracy narratives, misinformation, and disinformation.
01:00:45.380Announced in Berlin last week, the Advisory Compass Conspiracy Thinking Initiative was backed by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs and the Interior Ministry.
01:00:56.580Outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Fazer of the Social Democratic Party
01:01:01.140warned that conspiracy narratives were deliberately spread to divide society
01:01:05.260and erode trust in independent science, free media, and democratic institutions.
01:01:11.800A show like this, I imagine, would be targeted by the German government