Mark Carney introduces a federal export tax against Western Canadian exports. It s the latest chapter in the Canada-U.S. trade war, and it s a direct attack on Western Canada's oil, potash, and uranium exports.
00:00:54.400Before the Liberals swapped out Justin Trudeau for Mark Carney,
00:00:57.440the former Prime Minister, made clear that he was willing to consider an export tax against
00:01:02.480Alberta oil and Saskatchewan potash and uranium, perhaps even British Columbia light natural gas.
00:01:08.800But Trudeau was a dead man walking, and what he said mattered little when he had just one colour
00:01:13.840full sock out the door. But at a campaign stop yesterday, his replacement Mark Carney put a
00:01:19.600federal embargo against Alberta and Saskatchewan exports right back on the table. Curiously,
00:01:26.320nobody has mentioned an export tax against say i don't know ontario autos or quebec airplanes
00:01:32.080of course they haven't those are the industries most at threat from u.s tariffs and they also
00:01:37.360happen to be in the place places with the votes that will decide if canada has a liberal or
00:01:41.520conservative government on april 29th carney is leaning into a tried and true liberal strategy
00:01:48.960screw the west we'll take the rest it's been used many times before but never so successfully and
00:01:55.120and divisively as in 1980, when Trudeau I ran on a platform of controlling Alberta's oil for the
00:02:01.360benefit of eastern industrial and consumer interests. It culminated in the National Energy
00:02:06.300Program, which sent Alberta into an economic depression. Ever since, Albertans, and Westerners0.88
00:02:12.720more broadly, have sought to aggressively elbow our way into better democratic representation,
00:02:17.860like with the Reform Party, or to firewall off predatory federal intrusions, like the Alberta
00:02:24.060sovereignty act mark carney is hinting strongly that he will use the west's economic drivers
00:02:30.780like natural resource extraction to prop up those in the east it's the ugliest manifestation of1.00
00:02:35.980so-called team canada and it could work as it has before pier poliev would be put in the
00:02:42.380uncomfortable position of having to defend the freedom of the west to export its products
00:02:46.540while sounding less militant than carney and protecting the interests of the east
00:02:51.340Whatever the cost to Westerners, Kearney would be able to position himself as the defender of Canada,
00:02:56.360at least as the more valuable voting blocs in the East might see it.
00:03:00.520If our Eastern neighbours were to endorse such a plan,
00:03:03.520it would be a democratic mandate to wage open war against the West's primary industries.
00:03:09.800And Westerners should treat it as such.
00:03:13.320Westerners should not accept it, no matter how Easterners vote.
00:03:17.020They are free to vote for whatever confiscatory, economically suicidal, and illiterate plan they wish.
00:03:24.160But we, Westerners, are under no obligation to accept it.
00:03:27.900The oil, gas, potash, and uranium in Western Canada do not belong to the federal government.
00:03:34.100It belongs to Westerners, and it should accept no further federal overreach to control them.
00:03:40.120Further compromise and appeasement of Ottawa is pointless.
00:03:44.060We compromised with Pierre Trudeau to protect our resources in the 1982 constitutional amendment.
00:03:49.180We compromised to appease Quebec nationalism and special status in the 1980s and 90s.
00:03:54.700We compromised our reform party era demands for equal senate representation in the name of building
00:04:00.060a pan-Canadian conservative coalition. We accepted, however unwillingly, the carbon tax,
00:04:05.660the west coast tanker ban, emissions and production caps, and no more pipelines legislation of just
00:04:10.940the last decade and we did it all while paying far more into canada than we ever got out westerners
00:04:17.420have compromised without end for national unity and prosperity somewhere along the way our
00:04:22.860interests should count for something the prosperity and freedom of westerners should not be mere
00:04:28.140collateral to the interests of others an export tax on western products amounts to a federal embargo
00:04:35.420of western exports that's something that only a hostile foreign power does like the british
00:04:40.780blockade of boston harbor after the boston tea party if ottawa imposed any export embargo on
00:04:47.580western products to the united states we must respond with an immediate export embargo of our
00:04:53.420own against ottawa and if ottawa persists in waging an economic war against the west
00:04:59.180we will have to consider more drastic measures won't we we're gonna change things up a little
00:05:06.700bit today canada is going through a federal election right now but just uh weeks ago
00:05:13.300germany had a federal election and yeah regular viewers will know that i'm i pay a bit more
00:05:20.280attention to uh to german politics than the average alberton uh but it's it's very important
00:05:25.580What's happening in Europe is much of what is happening here in Canada right now, and in some cases, what we can expect to happen, because they are further down the road on some of these fronts in terms of destroying rational energy policy, in terms of mass migration and what that's doing to the demographics of Western and Central European countries.
00:05:51.600it's very important so i'm going to ask you to follow along with me and unplug from the canadian
00:05:56.960election for just a few minutes because i've got a really interesting guest with us today
00:06:01.320we're going to have on christine anderson now she's the member of a member of the european0.98
00:06:06.280parliament uh with the afd the alternative for germany or alternative for deutschland
00:06:13.380she is from hesse which for those of you who don't know is the province or lander in germany
00:06:20.200that encompasses frankfurt uh beautiful city i'm sure most of you have probably just stopped at the
00:06:24.840airport but you should get out and stretch your legs from time to time when you're there
00:06:28.440um so uh we're going to bring in her in right now uh guten abend and uh willkommen frau anderson1.00
00:06:36.120uh via the uh western standard uh yeah thanks for having me we're very glad to have you um
00:06:46.120So, you've actually got some background with Canada. We're going to get to there in a bit. We're going to work our way through.
00:06:52.720So Germans just had a federal election or Bund to elect a new Bundestag, essentially the German version of the House of Commons.
00:07:09.200And the AFD was pretty much unanimously considered the big winner to a lesser extent.
00:07:16.880the Union, which is the kind of sister parties of the CDU, CSU, and maybe even Die Linke a bit,
00:07:24.240who significantly increased their vote share. That's the, for lack of a better term, the
00:07:30.080Communist Party. Yeah. You know, I don't want to name call because your party gets name called as
00:07:35.120well. But I think they're pretty, they're very openly Marxist party. They're quite unashamed of
00:07:39.780it. Germans voted significantly to the right. One of the biggest wins of the right in the history0.93
00:07:50.040of the Federal Republic, I think it's very fair to say. First place was the, what's generally
00:07:55.860described as the traditional Conservative Party, and the CDU, CSU, for most of its history, I think
00:08:00.860would fairly be described as that. It moved very significantly to the left, particularly under
00:08:07.320Angela Merkel's chancellorship, which opened up space among more traditional conservatives for
00:08:12.500the AFD. AFD is a new party that came out of the Eurozone debt crisis and then evolved taking on
00:08:18.320the mass migration issues when Angela Merkel threw open the borders to Germany and to Europe.
00:08:24.600CDU came in first here. Let's actually put up the election results graphic here,
00:08:29.100just so people get a sense here. Let's put that up, John. So you'll see there the first place
00:08:33.920party is the cdu or union uh which is the ever so barely conservative party but still has i think a
00:08:42.500lot of uh residual support from its tradition of being a conservative party in germany second place
00:08:47.640was the uh afd alternative for deutschland uh which is a more robustly conservative party it's
00:08:54.760it's made up of libertarians uh conservatives nationalists it's uh it's it's a mix of things
00:09:01.520as most parties are. And for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,
00:09:07.820the Social Democrats, the SPD, fell to third place. Now, Germans voted for a significant turn
00:09:18.420to the right. The big issue, I think it's fair to say, Christine, was migration. People wanted
00:09:23.280very decisive action on migration. There were an endless stream of terrorist attacks
00:09:30.520in uh in in Germany even during the election campaign itself uh it's it was the issue that
00:09:39.780people were voting for um but there's a weird unwritten unofficial rule in Germany uh called
00:09:47.320the uh the Braunmauer uh translates roughly as firewall meaning to keep the so-called I'm putting
00:09:55.660in quotes, far right out of any governing coalition, or even relying on its votes to
00:10:00.640pass a bill or a motion or anything. We'll get into how fair or appropriate the label of far
00:10:06.860right is in a little bit here. But this means that even though Germans voted for an ostensibly
00:10:12.740center-right conservative party, and a further right conservative party, for lack of a better
00:10:19.640term, a clear majority of Germans voted for that, and they have a clear majority in the Bundestag,
00:10:24.060They're not going to actually get that, even though it's a clear majority of seats. They're going to get the Union barely center-right party with the SPD Social Democrats, a center-left-to-left party. What is this doing in Germany when Germans vote very clearly, decisively for a very big change in direction and not much seems to actually be changing?
00:10:49.520Well, yeah, that's just the problem. So most of the voters in Germany, they feel completely betrayed. Because looking at the election results, the majority of the German people actually voted for a blue and black coalition, meaning the Christian Democrats, and my party, the AFD, but they're not getting that.
00:11:13.160And so it's not only the biggest betrayal of the German voters, it's also the fastest betrayal.
00:11:22.920So not 24 hours after the results had come in, the president of the Christian Democrats,
00:11:32.160he already kind of backstabbed what he kind of went back on what he had promised,
00:11:38.180that he would significantly reduce mass migration,
00:11:41.860which actually is an invasion at this point,
00:11:44.760by promising that he would close the borders.
00:11:49.940And like I said, 24 hours after the results had come in,
00:14:24.920might no longer foot the bill for our defense
00:14:27.800So now we have to do something. Right. So and then they realized that the newly elected Bundestag, if they were to come up with an amount to, you know, prop up our our defense spending, they can't because the Constitution prohibits that right now.
00:14:47.640they pulled in a ceiling uh as uh how deep germany can go into additional debt so and they
00:14:54.840figured this is not going to work out so but then looking at well we need to change the constitution
00:15:00.040but then they realized with a newly elected bundestag they wouldn't have the the required
00:15:06.000two-third majority and so just uh if i understand what happened is before the new bundestag is sworn
00:15:12.440in exactly there's a there's a lame duck uh bundestag and it's not really supposed to do
00:15:17.800anything other than uh essentially minding the shop but in an unprecedented way they changed
00:15:23.160the constitution before the new bundestag is sworn in post-election that's that's that's what
00:15:28.280happened right right so the the new one was already elected but it hadn't been summoned yet
00:15:35.480so they decided to call to summon the old on this tag who had clearly not been elected
00:15:43.080in the way it is composed and they changed the constitution um so they can have additional debt
00:15:52.200uh and up to wait for it 1.5 trillion euros yeah this is only for germany right and uh
00:16:04.920and frederick um merits the uh presumed next chancellor a very almost certainly next chancellor
00:16:12.040he ran against that literally days earlier right like he was against that in his own election and
00:16:16.840then yeah throughout democracy to do it with the left-wing parties that was one of his major uh
00:16:23.880campaigning points right we need to reduce the debt the debt and the ceiling we pulled in
00:16:28.760uh so we can't have any more additional debt he he campaigned on that he was gonna not touch it
00:16:35.800but here we are right and that happened with like a week after uh the election results came in so
00:16:44.280yeah the german people they feel betrayed and um so but what this idiot also did and i'm0.93
00:16:52.440specifically speaking about friedrich mertz and yes i'm calling him a complete idiot um what he0.90
00:16:58.280also did during campaigning he made it very clear to everyone that that is actually one of the
00:17:05.560promises he kept um he will not even speak to my party no matter what the outcome he will not speak
00:17:12.760to us so i want to talk i want to sorry so he he told the social democrats and the green party
00:17:23.080that look you know uh i'm pretty much at your mercy you can you know demand whatever you want
00:17:29.880from me and i will have to do it because i want to become chancellor and that's what they did
00:17:35.880that's exactly what they did so that's what i want to ask about here with the uh the bon
00:17:40.520brown mawa the firewall uh there were some cracks that it's not broken but there were some cracks
00:17:47.000in the firewall uh right before the election on some migration reform bills where merits was trying
00:21:52.320And you see a tiny few specks of red for the Social Democrats, SPD, and green for the Green Party.
00:21:58.440uh there's a pretty stark uh geographical divide uh you know we often see not uniformly but often
00:22:08.380in the former communist uh countries of europe uh they're voting for more nationalist more
00:22:15.720uh more right-leaning parties in the former communist areas uh and and we're seeing that
00:22:23.320even within Germany itself, almost an internal border there.
00:22:27.400And there's also a huge generational divide.
00:22:31.220Young people, particularly young men, voted AFD.
00:22:36.460Did very well with young women as well,
00:22:38.280although young women skewed to Die Linke, the former communist party.
00:22:42.680So there's kind of two big divides I was observing
00:22:46.540in the breakdown of the German election I'd like you to speak to.
00:22:49.880One is the East-West divide, CDU-AFD, actually three divides, generationally, young people voting AFD, older people voting for union and the leftist parties, and among young men and young women, young men skewing AFD, young women skewing Die Linke, which translates literally as the left.
00:23:15.860Those are kind of the three big divides I've observed from the election results.
00:23:19.880Do you maybe want to speak to those three?
00:23:44.860Well, on that divide that you touched upon, as far as the divide between East and West is concerned, there is a very good reason for that.1.00
00:23:56.080So in the eastern German parts of Germany, the former GDR, they have lived through communism.
00:24:06.800They have lived through totalitarianism and they recognize the signs.
00:24:12.080They have they're very sensitive to these censorship that's going on and how things are framed in the media.
00:24:21.060They learned how to read a newspaper. It's not important what the newspaper says.
00:24:26.560The more important part is what doesn't it say? And, you know, how do you need to read to be able to read between the lines?
00:24:33.540So they are recognizing all of that. And what they are seeing is it bears all of the hallmarks of the Soviet totalitarianism that they lived under in the communist regime, right? Whereas in the West, I usually, I mean, I was born and raised in Western Germany myself, but I usually refer to us, we are just spoiled, rotten brats.
00:24:58.180We no longer put any value on freedom, democracy and the rule of law.
00:25:03.140For some reason, we seem to have forgotten that it wasn't that one fine day the sky opened up and boom, you know, it fell down and there it was.
00:25:16.380Our fathers and forefathers had to wrestle it from the former elites.
00:25:20.960And they literally spilled their blood over making sure that we, as their children and children's children, would enjoy freedom, democracy and the rule of law.
00:25:32.020So and now we're just sitting here and we are so utterly afraid of being called right wing extremists, you know, Nazis, whatever, that we would not even dare to to to act in our best interest on on our, you know, on our behalf.
00:25:51.080Just kind of like how they went down in Great Britain with the gang rapes, right?
00:25:58.220The authorities knew that there were Pakistani men, you know, by the hundreds, I don't know,
00:26:04.860raping thousands and thousands of British girls.
00:26:07.800But no one said anything because they were afraid of being called racist.
00:28:57.440I'm proud to say in Alberta, we were the only place in Canada
00:29:00.100that literally overthrew its government because of COVID.
00:29:03.760But you had come, and there was significant controversy in the media around it.
00:29:09.440You were pictured in a photo with three federal Conservative MPs.
00:29:13.980It was denounced by the Liberals, by the Socialist NDP party we've got here, by the media, and then eventually even by the Conservative leader, Pierre Polyev, as racist, right-wing extremist.
00:29:30.780uh now most canadians know very little about your party the afd um they maybe know slightly more
00:29:39.140because the election just took place and afd made big global news but they still know very little
00:29:43.540about it but the media in canada and across the world seem to have adopted the language used
00:29:51.260in german media just saying far right or uh far right extremist uh rekt uh stress
00:29:58.640i butchered that one um but right-wing extremist uh racist fascist uh you know all the traditional
00:30:07.740insults get thrown at anybody to the right of a liberal generally um the german media uses that
00:30:13.900language to describe your party um and the rest of the media outside of germany that know almost
00:30:19.900nothing about the afd just said well if the german establishment media says that i guess we're going
00:30:24.600to use that language too um what why do you think it is because i i with with maybe a few differences
00:30:35.180here and there i don't think there's a huge difference between say the afd of today and say
00:30:41.340helmet cole's cdu of of 30 years ago there's some differences uh in some ways he was more right wing
00:30:47.680than the AFD. But, you know, it's not, it doesn't appear to be wildly outside the mainstream of
00:30:58.160German politics. It's just that the CDU kind of gave up its place as the main party of the right.
00:31:05.860So, you know, why do you think it is that the German media attach the right-wing extremist
00:31:13.860and racist label to your party um i mean i think it's fairly described as a nationalist party that
00:31:19.860term probably has less of a pejorative connotation in english than in german but yeah uh i think it's
00:31:25.860i would describe it as a nationalist party but i would say that's a good thing um why do you think
00:31:30.900you know but you know these those harsher labels like racist fascist extremist get attached to
00:31:36.180your party and what do you think you know you and your party can do to to shake that um there
00:31:43.140actually isn't anything we can do to shake this um because i mean you know our program if you read
00:31:48.940our program and you're right it is um it actually resembles the program that the christian democrats
00:31:54.860that is the former conservative party here in germany they came in first in the last elections
00:31:59.680and it pretty much resembles their their program um what has happened however is there has been a
00:32:07.320traumatic shift to the left in the last decades um i mean even with the christian democrats and
00:32:14.540angela merkel i mean she must have been the best green chancellor germany ever had
00:32:19.840for those of you don't know germany never had a green chancellor but the angela merkel from
00:32:26.900the christian democrats she was in fact a green chancellor she um gave up on every single principle
00:32:34.360that the christian democrats um still held at that point right so she tore down all the the
00:32:42.000nuclear power plants she ripped open our borders wide open and now we have the marriage for all1.00
00:32:48.040and you know that slippery slope now we have the self self id for the transgender uh confused i
00:32:55.740want to call them um so they can just self id so she pretty much relinquished any kind of holy
00:33:03.600crown they still held in the Christian Democrats.
00:33:07.620So with this shift to the left, you know, any kind of reasonable policy, any kind of
00:33:17.360common sense even, appears to be now totally out there, you know, like extreme, whatever.
00:33:25.260So on top of that, the majority of the people in public media in Germany, they are predominantly from the green and the left party.
00:33:38.180So no wonder there is no media pluralism anymore.
00:33:42.340I mean, I remember when I grew up, you know, if you read in the newspapers, they're all covered kind of like the same story.
00:33:49.660But they had different angles, different perspectives, different conclusions.
00:33:54.060They highlighted, may have highlighted, you know, different aspects of it.
00:33:58.800So you had a wide variety, you know, when you read like, let's say, four or five different
00:34:04.720newspapers, you actually got a full picture and you could make up your own mind what might
00:34:51.140Remember? Then it's a threat to our democracy. The same lines everywhere. They're literally reading from the same script. So with the public media in Germany, it's by the way, it's funded by the German people. They call it democracy contribution, right?0.65
00:35:16.280so but we have the same thing here yeah yeah we are paying to be lied to we are paying to be
00:35:23.900gaslighted we are paying to be manipulated and we are paying to be frowned upon stigmatized
00:35:31.300ostracized called names that's actually what the german people are paying for because that's what0.99
00:35:36.700they're seeing every day in the in the public media and on on tv uh the the legacy media this
00:35:43.720is how insane this is at this at the time but the thing is this like i said it's not only happening
00:35:49.980in germany it's happening in every single western democracy like i said they were literally reading
00:35:56.180from the same script and these attacks on freedom democracy and the rule of law we are seeing this
00:36:03.080everywhere whether it's germany france italy great britain canada the united states australian
00:36:09.960news every we are seeing it everywhere and this is really frightening because the point is this
00:36:16.680you know had there been one or two or three states going rogue somehow you know falling off the trail
00:36:22.360and uh betraying civil rights and fundamental rights and all of that um eventually the people
00:36:30.280would have had the hope eventually you know the world community is going to step in and put a stop
00:36:34.920to it. But who do you think is going to bail us out? No one. If they're all in lockstep, if they're
00:36:41.160all doing the same thing, there isn't going to be anyone coming around to bail us out this time.
00:36:48.080We're screwed completely. So it's up to the people. They need to understand what is happening,
00:36:54.720and not just in their country, but in every single Western democracy. And they need to step up and
00:37:00.320And they need to make their voices heard and need to protest because otherwise, if they succeed and we do slip in a fully blown totalitarian regime, considering the technological means they have at their disposal nowadays, we are not talking about 70 years of Soviet Union.
00:37:20.580We're not talking about 40 years of GDR. We will then be talking about a very, very long time if we'll be able to overcome it at any point. I don't even I don't even think that is that is possible. So we really need to get our we really need to get on this and we need to fight this already.
00:37:43.980Well, that's very much why I wanted to speak to you was because I see Europe and Germany as very much a canary in the coal mine.0.77
00:37:53.260Germans, at least in large measure, I think, woke up to the danger they are facing in the election they had.
00:37:59.040Not that it seems to have done any good because the same people will largely remain in power regardless of the election.
00:38:04.860but uh i very much appreciate uh you joining uh joining us today uh uh frau anderson and uh
00:38:13.740actually i've always wondered anderson is not a very german name it sounds very english you
00:38:17.580must you must have some english roots right no it's my married name ah okay well uh thank you
00:38:25.580very much for joining us i think it's uh been very insightful into what's taking place in germany
00:38:29.500taking place in germany uh right now and very relevant to canadians going through uh through
00:38:34.300through their own election uh as we speak uh thank you very much for joining us today
00:38:40.380uh thank you so much for having me i enjoyed it
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