The Western Standard's Derek Fildebrandt and Corey Morgan Ganaford discuss the dumbest thing Justin Trudeau has ever said, and the candidates who could have said it, but didn't even bother to write it.
00:01:28.000It is, I think, the dumbest thing I've ever heard Justin Trudeau say, and that is, I mean, there is a video vault the size of the Library of Congress on that to go through, and Justin Trudeau is at the NATO summit right now, and our allies are extremely angry at Canada for being complete deadbeat freeloaders on defense.
00:01:54.400A lot of pressure to increase defense spending.
00:01:57.580And Justin Trudeau goes to the microphone and gave a written, prepared speech at length going on and on and on about how Canada is defending NATO by putting a carbon tax in place on its people.
00:02:13.120That we are fighting climate change, and that is the most important defense that we can make.
00:02:19.140God help us if Russia raises its carbon tax.
00:02:24.400Elizabeth May, a federal Green Party leader, says she is running again as the leader of1.00
00:02:30.980that party because baby boomers, quote, effed the planet.0.97
00:02:38.580I'm trying to keep it a little more family friendly than...1.00
00:02:40.360There's six words you can't say on television, that old routine...
00:02:43.120That's one of them, yeah, that's one of them.1.00
00:02:44.840Yeah, but yeah, she's running again because baby boomers effed the planet.1.00
00:02:51.160She said that in front of the National Press Theater. I mean, she's nothing if not colorful, green, green, green, colored green.1.00
00:03:00.040So it's an interesting remark we're going to get into there.
00:03:04.760Saskatchewan, many of you know, we've got a lot of people from Saskatchewan here, is they refuse to collect the federal government's carbon tax ever since they brought in an exemption that most mostly just applied to Atlantic Canada and screwed everybody else.
00:03:21.160By not collecting the carbon tax, they've brought their natural gas rates for consumers down to the second lowest in Canada and have cut their consumer rate by 25%.
00:03:36.160And as you see, all of us dressed up here for the Calgary Stampede.
00:03:39.820And Pierre Polyev was in town barnstorming through, gave a beleaguer the metaphor a little bit more, gave her a barn burner of speech at the annual conservative barbecue.
00:03:51.660You know, he did. And one of the interesting things about Mr. Polyev is that it's absolutely off the cuff.
00:04:00.880There were no bat wings. There was no piece of paper on a podium. He just stood there and let it out.
00:04:06.360I mean, I realize that this is a stump speech, and he has given something like it before.
00:04:10.480Well, we're going to get into it when we talk about that topic.
00:04:27.540And the candidates for the dumbest thing Justin Trudeau has ever said is, I mean, it'll take you longer to go through it than mapping the human genome.
00:04:42.540But there is a new serious candidate for the dumbest thing he has ever said.
00:04:49.980And unlike many of the dumb things he said, this was not off the cuff.
00:04:54.640off the cuff. This was prepared remarks, speech written by people like yourself. You were a
00:05:03.040speechwriter for... Not exactly like me. No, but you know, you were chief speechwriter for Stephen
00:05:08.320Harper. He ostensibly has at least a nominal equivalent in his office, paid a bunch of money
00:05:17.360to write things that make him sound smart. And this is what they came up with. Let's roll at
00:05:24.380some of the highlights addressing a global problem like climate change requires a global response
00:05:31.660a global response which we've been coordinating in close partnership with our 31 fellow member
00:05:37.820states in nato our government has been a strong advocate for ensuring that climate change is an
00:05:44.460integral part of nato's agenda and that together we act to make it a reality in 2021 the alliance
00:05:53.900published the NATO Climate Change and Security Action Plan, a plan which recognized the risks
00:06:00.860that climate change poses to NATO and pledged to take action to address those challenges.
00:06:07.020In 2022 and 2023, Canada co-led a climate change working group with Denmark and Norway to identify
00:06:15.020and establish NATO's climate research priorities. And we spearheaded the NATO Climate Change and
00:06:22.060Security Centre of Excellence, which we were proud to launch last year. It will be housed in
00:06:27.980downtown Montreal. This centre serves as a critical research platform to ensure that NATO
00:06:34.700allies and partners are equipped with the information they need to succeed in a climate
00:06:40.060changed world, to plan for and adapt to and mitigate the security risks and impacts caused
00:06:48.300by climate change, and to forge strong partnerships with organizations like the Munich Security
00:06:54.460Conference and the CDA Institute that are committed to addressing the security challenges posed
00:07:00.380by the climate crisis. So today I'm excited to celebrate with you all the important milestone
00:07:08.380for the center. Woo! That! That's a cooker, isn't it just? You know, that almost tops if a man
00:07:17.580says he's a woman then he's a woman we were talking about different things that mr trudeau has
00:07:24.300said to excite us all so the question there's a lot of questions about that the first one i would
00:07:29.260ask is all right we're spending more money what did you get for it like in the he he accused the
00:07:35.660harper administration of underspending under one percent well that was true of the last year we'd
00:07:41.340just come off the afghanistan campaign and there were some things that we were not spending that
00:07:46.380we had been spending in the previous years but all right what did you get for your money did
00:07:52.780you get a whole bunch of new ships did you get an f-35 fighter plane i don't believe you did
00:07:58.140we have a single submarine that can submerge well we bought them before uh i mean we need
00:08:03.980to do but they still well they don't go underwater whatever they do the thing is we do not have a
00:08:10.220bunch of new military equipment which is really what that two percent is all about and the other
00:08:16.300thing that we don't have is people recruitment is plummeting because they have made the armed forces
00:08:23.500into a social justice enterprise the social justice league yeah so there you go it's uh
00:08:31.020it's it was absolutely pretty shameful i don't don't blame the you know mike johnson the speaker
00:08:35.980of the house they actually called it shameful now johnson is third in line because president
00:08:41.420the vice president if they're both killed mike johnson is effectively president so the third
00:08:46.860highest guy in the united states accused canada of riding on america's coattails and said it was
00:08:52.060shameful i reckon you'd find a lot of canadians who would say yes to that you know actually uh
00:08:57.020just uh just the other week i took uh i was a family uh family cottage uh out east and uh
00:09:04.700saw my cousin i haven't seen my cousin for about 12 years since he last time i saw him was just
00:09:09.500days before he went to boot camp and went into the artillery as a bombardier and, you know,
00:09:18.480proudly served in the forces. And I asked him why he left. He said, same reason as everybody else.
00:09:24.440It's not the army anymore. It's a social justice daycare. This is a guy who was not political
00:09:31.040before he left. Didn't care about any of this stuff. And, you know, we don't have an army,
00:09:37.040Air Force and Navy. We've got a weird social justice league that incapable of defending us
00:09:44.860from Denmark if they stormed Hans Island or something. So let's go to Trudeau's remarks
00:09:52.360more specifically here, Corey. I mean, politicians are going to put the best spin on things possible
00:10:01.380And, you know, they they want to answer the question they want to answer, not the one that was asked.
00:10:08.340And everyone's asking Canada, like, when are you going to put on your big boy pants?
00:10:13.480And, you know, you're I think someone put it this way.
00:10:15.980Canada is riding a first class in a first class train with a third class ticket right now.
00:10:23.340We're the laughingstock of data over just so far below our commitments we've made as a country.
00:10:31.380spent on defense and his answer just going into um when i first saw this video i thought
00:10:38.100this was just uh kind of a quick little deflection like well you know uh climate change is important
00:10:43.860and i was like i rolled my eyes a bit but then the video kept going and he kept on talking and talking
00:10:49.220and as you see is it is very apparent he might even believe this he might actually believe the
00:10:58.180the words coming out of his mouth that Canada is defending NATO, keeping the Russians and the
00:11:05.420Chinese at bay and the ran at bay by taxing people's home heating and gasoline. Do you think
00:11:17.360he actually believes this or is this just pure deflection? I think he does. I think he's in a
00:11:23.020cloistered, delusional world of his own making now. I mean, it's a reflection of a lot of what
00:11:27.440we've been seeing in his politics in general. Even liberals are saying, this guy has got to get out
00:11:32.880of here. We're done with him. It's not working. We're going to lose our jobs. And instead of
00:11:37.480listening or examining, he's just gathering more nodding heads around himself who will
00:11:42.840still continue to act as his political fluffers for him and keep him imagining that he's popular
00:11:50.520and on the right course. I mean, he's ignoring other things. Senators, what was it? Over 20
00:11:56.000senators a week ago sent a letter, they don't do this very often, before the NATO summit stating,
00:12:01.860Canada, you have to start pulling your weight. We've had it with this. Yes, this is the opportunity
00:12:07.500for you to say you're going to do something. And instead, he drifts off answering a question that
00:12:13.700nobody asked him into something that's completely irrelevant to the summit. Who is going to
00:12:20.160appreciate what he just said there, aside from maybe Greta Thunberg? But he believes his own
00:12:25.020garbage. He's been drinking his own bath water, and it shows it when he's ostensibly represented
00:12:31.280Canada at NATO. It's an embarrassment. Nigel, even his kind of natural allies around the NATO
00:12:36.240table that are still there, you know, you got Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz,
00:12:45.080you know, all left or center-left major leaders in NATO. They have essentially given a figurative
00:12:54.960eye roll to this. And they're all global warming crusaders. You know, they take it maybe almost as
00:13:01.320seriously as he does. But they understand that they're saying, well, that's nice. But how about
00:13:08.960some guns and some ships and some planes? Because a carbon tax, you know, doesn't scare Russia very
00:13:16.340much. This isn't even being received at all seriously by his own ideological allies within
00:13:25.380NATO. They're telling him to pony up guns, not talk of carbon taxes. Well, you wouldn't expect
00:13:30.360them to, would you? Really? I mean, that is not an argument that any of those people who you have
00:13:35.760just mentioned would want to advance and take credit for, because it's just plain wrong. And
00:13:41.720some of it is, apart from the fact that that is philosophically flawed at a foundational level,
00:13:48.440it's not even honest. I mean, he'll say that we're now spending more money on defense. We're up to
00:13:55.020one point, whatever, 3% or whatever it was that he said. Well, actually, one thing that they do now
00:14:01.660is that they count veterans affairs under defense spending. So they added $7 billion and said, oh,
00:14:08.280spending more money on defense but it didn't buy it look don't get me wrong veterans watching
00:14:13.160veterans deserve what deserve their uh their pensions matters but it doesn't count as
00:14:17.720but it is a country today it it is not a defense expenditure in the sense that buying a fighter
00:14:24.520plane or even a parcel of new rifles is a defense expenditure and yet uh they just puts out this
00:14:31.240number and expect oh well i'm spending more no they're not it's also worth noting that our real
00:14:36.600GDP hasn't grown under most of the time Trudeau's been in power so you know spending as a proportion
00:14:42.680of GDP I mean GDP is not growing very much so actually you know the the denominator is making
00:14:49.960the number artificially big we're we're behind where we were relative to global GDP 10 years ago
00:14:55.880oh and this is a should have been a relatively easy spend I mean if you're concerned about
00:15:00.120Ukraine and things like that still participation in NATO is that deterrent effect it's showing
00:15:05.080where you're at. Trudeau hasn't hesitated to give direct cash and equipment and things to Ukraine,
00:15:11.400which people can debate whether or not that's a good idea or not. But Canada could do its part by
00:15:16.040spending that money here and building its own defense force and taking part in NATO exercises
00:15:21.880and things over there, which would be ostensibly more effective. And he could fulfill, but he would
00:15:27.000prefer to cherry pick where he wants to spend these resources rather than put it into our
00:15:32.600domestic defense it's just disconnected from reality yes yeah i don't know this this is
00:15:38.520this one is uh like i mean if he was you know older i i could have been convinced this was
00:15:47.240just a senile biden speech like it was just crazy which is it was off off the map yeah
00:15:55.160you know one of the arguments that he made was that um climate change is going to cause
00:16:02.400rising sea level and that's going to flood our military facilities i mean i i don't know who
00:16:10.160goes over that and i mean there's a fact check well maybe that our submarines will finally get
00:16:15.200underwater well that's true close the hatch guys there's a you know there is such a thing as a fact
00:16:20.960check is this literally true and then there's just a reality check and that's the one that doesn't
00:16:25.120seem to have been done here because long, you know, long before a skymalt is under 20 feet of
00:16:32.800water, we're going to have sorted things out with a number of foreign powers who are bad for
00:16:38.520business. It's just, I mean, who looks at this stuff before he gives it?0.54
00:16:46.580Yeah, I think he's lost the plot a long time ago and it's just getting increasingly sad and
00:16:51.880delusional now all right uh speaking of uh sad delusional and past the prime elizabeth may1.00
00:16:58.840i mean for a hard lefty i got a weird soft spot for her because it's crazy as she often is1.00
00:17:07.340she's a rare genuine politician that speaks her mind and she did that uh she spoke her mind uh0.97
00:17:16.600I think it was, uh, I think, was it yesterday?
00:17:41.780Baby boomers have f***ed this planet.1.00
00:17:44.060I mean, she's talking about her. She has another grandkid coming. I mean, I don't know how she's going to tell the grandkids to watch their mouth when they start using foul language around the house at Christmas.1.00
00:17:57.260But, yeah, because boomers, F you see something, something, ED it up.1.00
00:18:29.560Steph and Dion tried it, got slaughtered.
00:18:31.820Justin Trudeau gets elected without a plan for carbon tax, but then gets one.
00:18:35.180And then it becomes established, so established, in fact, that Erdo Toole ran as a pro-carbon tax candidate as conservative leader.
00:18:43.140The last federal election, obviously lost.
00:18:47.300Many of us couldn't vote for a party, but that's carbon tax.
00:18:50.100But she has gone from seeing government tax go from non-existent to so-existent that even the Conservative Party campaigned out at the last election to 2024, where its death warrant has all been signed.
00:19:05.320Do you think she's maybe just very angry that kind of her life's career's work is about to come to a crashing halt in about a year?
00:19:14.280I don't know. She'll always find something else to, you know, a windmill to tilt at.
00:19:17.560I mean, she's always been a kooky activist, and she's still a kooky activist.
00:19:21.440She's got her little base of support there in BC that will re-elect her no matter what the David Suzuki types, the champagne socialists.
00:19:29.080And she'll say those just ridiculous sort of statements.
00:19:32.360That's the leisure somebody has when you're not seriously actually thinking you're going to form government or do something.
00:19:38.800I mean, it got her a bunch of ink when really, otherwise, who really cares what Elizabeth May says?
00:19:43.160I mean, if she just kept on putting out rational, basic statements, nobody's really going to pay attention.
00:19:48.460So if she tosses something like that out, well, we're talking about it.
00:24:39.000And, you know, I have to say there is a place, maybe one
00:24:44.340or two seats in Parliament for people who've got a particular issue that they really want to bring
00:24:49.220forward, because maybe it is important. But she has been totally eclipsed. By the way, so has the
00:24:54.740NDP. By the Liberal Party, it's just like the Borg has absorbed everybody. You know, they cannot
00:25:02.580resist. So why would you need a Green Party? Why do you even need the NDP? Well, actually,
00:25:07.860Single-issue candidates, actually, I'd say there's probably at least several dozen of the people who are mostly focused on a single issue.
00:25:17.860They just tend to run in bigger parties.
00:25:20.460You know, the conservatives, you'll have, you know, some people who are mostly just concerned with just abortion or something.
00:25:26.620You'll have, you know, parties will have some global warming stuff.
00:25:30.920But, you know, you've got, you know, a number of members of parliament who are just concerned about, you know, the cause of Hamas and anti-Israel stuff.
00:25:43.020So, you know, single issue MPs actually, I think they exist in far greater number, probably a few dozen at least.
00:25:49.420They just tend to land more successfully in the bigger parties that align maybe with their issues.
00:25:55.000Well, then they've got to sign on to a number of other things as well and at least have an opinion and be prepared to defend them.
00:26:00.080But for Elizabeth May, I don't know who takes her seriously anymore, other than the voters of Saanich.
00:26:08.840I'm actually not convinced that her constituency is safe.
00:26:11.980That area has voted Reform Party in the 90s.
00:26:15.320I think that was Gary Lund's seat, right?
00:27:44.780And the Liberal ministers said something, I think, to the effect of, well, maybe they should elect some more MP, Liberals, and then they can be in the tent and ask for these things.
00:27:55.540That triggered a pretty immediate backlash from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Bowe, who said, okay, well, we're just going to give ourselves an exemption here on home heating fuel.
00:28:07.920Mostly natural gas, you know, west here.
00:28:10.820So we're just not going to collect it.
00:28:11.840Saskatchewan was able to do that where Alberta wasn't because Saskatchewan for very silly
00:28:19.440reasons is still mostly got all these crown corporations running things that most of the
00:28:24.480world realizes the private sector should probably do. In this one very unique set of circumstances
00:28:31.120I'm kind of envious that Saskatchewan had a crown corporation because unlike a private corporation
00:28:36.000the federal government can't really do much about it. It's a government entity so that it's not
00:28:39.840not collecting the carbon tax. And yeah, the news just came out from SaskEnergy and the
00:28:46.920government there. They've now brought their natural gas and home heating fuel rates down
00:28:52.400to the second lowest in Canada, and a 25% commodity rate cut. Corey, and this comes
00:29:03.260just, I think it was just yesterday, they succeeded in getting a stay from the courts.
00:29:08.800The federal government is trying to garnish the accounts, the bank accounts of the government of Saskatchewan as if, you know, there's someone, you know, some guy who doesn't pay his credit card bill or something.
00:29:19.180Papa Trudeau wants you to pay your bill.
00:29:25.000I think we're getting here, Corey, a pretty politically useful data point that Paul Yev will be able to point to in the next federal election,
00:29:33.320saying, on this one item that Saskatchewan did not follow through with Trudeau's policy on,
00:29:40.680here's how much money it saved people. Now let's do that everywhere. Yeah, it hurts. I mean,
00:29:46.380the beginning of the end of the carbon tax really was when Trudeau made that exemption for Atlantic
00:29:52.880Canada, because that was his admission that, yes, it is actually harming the pocketbooks
00:29:57.340of average Canadians. I mean, if it wasn't harming them, then the exemption wouldn't do
00:30:01.300any good. So it showed that he's just basically, they've been lying for a long time, saying that
00:30:06.720it's revenue neutral, saying that it doesn't harm people paying their bills. And that inspired
00:30:10.980Scott Moe, who, as you said, is the only one kind of utility empowered to be able to say,
00:30:15.540well, we're just not sending you that anymore, and we're not going to do it.
00:30:19.380And the injunction was interesting. This is an interesting standoff, and it's one that
00:30:22.760Polyev can play with, because he's not directly in the midst of it. But it's showing, you know,
00:30:27.200again, to more Canadians that this carbon tax is harming them in paying the bills. And people are
00:30:31.660struggling all over with, you know, utility costs on top of their mortgages and rent and everything
00:30:38.020else. So it's a battle that Polyev is going to benefit from and utilize. And we'll see where it
00:30:44.580goes. It's an interesting standoff. I mean, there's other ways the federal government can punish
00:30:47.480Saskatchewan. They could start cutting transfer payments, but that looks pretty rough. You know,
00:30:51.140if they cut a hundred million from the health transfer, Moe is going to go off the rails,
00:31:35.960You know, in Calgary, we have a company called NMAX.
00:31:38.200For those who are watching from elsewhere, that's the people we get our natural gas from.
00:31:43.800And to their credit, they're very good at breaking out everything that you're paying for.
00:31:47.940So all the stupid little extra taxes, levies, charges, whatever it is that you can see how little you pay for energy and how much you pay for just about everything else.
00:31:58.920The Hannaford household has this year, the first six months, paid $424.77 in carbon tax.
00:32:16.100So for the year, it's going to be north of $800 because it's going up, not down as we go ahead.
00:32:21.880And so to that, you have to add what you're paying in carbon tax on gasoline that you put in the truck.
00:32:30.940And, of course, you can see it reflected through the price of your groceries because all the truckers and the farmers and everybody who has anything to do with bringing you food is also passing it on through.
00:32:42.260But just taking that $800 a year, you know, folks, you know what your annual income is.
00:32:50.140If that's an $80,000, if you have a household income gross of $80,000, that $800 is probably going to be pretty typical of what you are spending on.
00:33:38.540I'm sorry, it's just so funny with their liquor store.
00:33:41.540Whenever I go, like, so I was just back visiting family just the other week, and, you know, I never feel so superior and snobby as when I strut into an LCBO and, you know, look at, you know, here's the government-approved stuff.
00:33:58.300It's got very limited hours, very limited service.
00:34:03.540I was a student when I was in university, I went to Carleton University in Ottawa.
00:34:07.400Remember, we wanted to go get some beers and liquor for New Year's Eve.
00:34:13.420And the liquor store in downtown Ottawa closed at 11 o'clock on New Year's Eve.
00:34:19.260And there was a lineup, like, almost around the block.
00:34:56.760Sell the things, get rid of it overnight.
00:34:59.840In Alberta, we, you know, we turned these parasites
00:35:03.740of the state working in government stores
00:35:07.120into entrepreneurs overnight because tons of these stores were just bought by the people working
00:35:10.560into them they became they became capitalists overnight and then they became the defenders
00:35:15.520of the private system um and just i don't know why ford doesn't go that way it's it's actually
00:35:22.400politically easier than going piecemeal but yeah they're on they're on strike again one of the big
00:35:27.280demands is that they stop private sales of liquor because only the government uh could do anything
00:35:32.160right. And it was a Robin Urbach had a great column. Just the other day, just the opposite
00:35:40.720of the union is making Doug Ford's case for him that no, they shouldn't have a monopoly.
00:35:48.160And, and I think the headline was there was some activist organization that was saying that
00:35:55.520alcoholics like street people were going to be dying if they couldn't get their access because
00:36:00.960they were drinking something else you know i mean how many times have i said i'll try if i don't get
00:36:04.960a drink but uh the and probably as many times as derek but um you know i i had i had to laugh at
00:36:13.440that the whole thing is obvious a union shop protecting its turf pushing back at the first
00:36:22.160sign that there may be a problem down the road like you said you should just do it it works great
00:36:27.680or bend it off. Ford's got a simple win here. I mean, talk to any Albertan over 50 who got to
00:36:35.620endure the warm beer from the cranky overpaid bums in the Alberta government stores, which were
00:36:42.020six to a city the size of Calgary that closed at four on a Friday afternoon. Ask any and say,
00:36:48.380would you like to go back to that? And you even the hardest of lefties. No, no, those days are
00:36:54.620gone. This was a positive evolution. It's done. So Ford, you know, I don't think the Ontario
00:37:01.480government has the marijuana stores, does it? They tried to. So when Kathleen Wynne was in power and
00:37:08.720cannabis was legalized, she was going to essentially build ill CBO style bricks and1.00
00:37:13.640mortar government drugstores. Not a single one got built. There was a period where Bonass,1.00
00:37:23.580Little tiny neighborhood in the west end of Calgary had more cannabis shops than all of Ontario, because Alberta didn't do it the way Ontario was.
00:37:37.520And that was under an NDP government here, because in Alberta, even the NDP knows, yeah, the government should probably not be selling the liquor and the drugs.
00:38:12.840it's uh it's nearly as dumb as a trudeau defense speech all right um well let's speak of a
00:38:20.920talk about a different speech uh stampede season right now i'm about stampeded out uh i mean it's
00:38:28.840it's fun but it's uh it's it's hard on you it's hard when you get older
00:38:34.280hard enough at my age i can i can just imagine um so uh you and i went to go see the uh
00:38:42.440polyab speech there's the big annual conservative stampede barbecue down at heritage park uh every
00:38:49.160year it's one of the big fundraising events for that party every year um and the leader always
00:38:56.360comes and speaks and uh this is a pretty good one i mean i don't think he said anything particularly
00:39:01.800uh new i mean we've heard hundreds of polyab speeches they're more or less different but
00:39:08.760But the tone of this one was particularly aggressive.
00:39:13.400Took a pretty direct shot at Calgary Mayor Jody Gondek.
00:39:17.560He's actually kind of, I've never seen a federal leader do this before.
00:39:20.020He likes to go around to cities that have left-wing mayors and bash their mayor in their city.
00:39:26.000Well, it's kind of a good reason to do that, because one of the characteristics of left-wing mayors is that they tend to see their city,
00:39:33.460other cities like them, as kind of the new political center of culture.
00:39:38.460And this has been talked about at the World Economic Forum and other places where people who mean well for humanity at other people's expense tend to gather and sort out what they're going to do next.
00:39:51.580But the idea is that the city is really the place where all the big decisions should be made.
00:39:57.600Well, no, that's not what our Constitution says.
00:39:59.840and it but it is the basis upon which mr trudeau for example can go to the mayor of calgary and
00:40:05.260say we'll give you 200 million dollars but you have to change your rezoning laws well i don't
00:40:10.160know that anybody wants the federal government getting that involved in the rezoning laws in
00:40:16.240the city where they live but that's how it works so really it is a good thing that somebody is
00:40:21.880calling the mayors and the federal government on this kind of behavior good here i mean i'm a big
00:40:28.400supporter anyway, but what he was on the right track there.
00:40:33.120He was also in the stampede parade, riding a horse, I think
00:40:36.920alongside his wife. I mean, not surprising that a conservative
00:40:40.620leader is going to get a pretty warm welcome in Calgary, but it
00:40:43.400was, it was a particularly warm welcome. Justin Trudeau, as far
00:40:47.580as I know, has never, even at the height of his popularity when
00:40:50.780he elected 2015, was smart enough not to go in the parade. I
00:40:56.000it's Calgary. So normally he'd fly into town generally unannounced publicly and go to a small
00:41:04.880curated very controlled event. I remember last year there was no notice given to the press
00:41:10.800he just showed up at Calgary MP George Chahal's he had like a pancake breakfast or something for
00:41:18.400liberals only and he came in did a little thing and left immediately. Only friendly left-wing
00:41:24.900press were quietly tipped in advance, and he was gone. And so it's low risk, and he can say,
00:41:30.840I was in Calgary, I was at the Stampede, sort of, you know, snap a picture. This time, he's not even
00:41:36.980doing that. The media is actually catching on to the reason, some of the legacy media is catching
00:41:41.280on to the reason you gave, like a week or two ago for this, which makes sense that he's a rebel.
00:41:47.620So George Charles is a rebel. The one and only MP from the Liberals here, basically, is kind of
00:41:52.900encouraging Trudeau to resign. So it doesn't encourage him to come out. Yeah, so he's not
00:41:56.800coming at all. And I think also part of it, I mean, it's just, it was smart politics, do your
00:42:02.000quick in and out show that you were there, but he's had a point to this little gain out here now
00:42:05.880anymore. Well, they're going to lose Chahal's seat very, very likely. I think that's pretty
00:42:10.880good money at this point. There's nothing electorally for him here. If he shows up to
00:42:15.680anything, and it's not the most curated, protected event, which he's kind of lost now with Chahal