Western Standard - Freeland’s allegiance, free helicopter rides and 'Team America： World Police'

00:00:00.000 good day welcome back to the pipeline happy new year today's january 7th

00:00:29.200 2026. I'm Derek

00:00:31.460 Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and this

00:00:33.420 is the first Pipeline

00:00:35.260 of 2026. I've

00:00:37.360 missed you all very much. I've also missed

00:00:39.360 my dear colleagues here,

00:00:41.220 former Western Standard Opinion Editor, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:43.480 You're never cold.

00:00:45.500 I was busy doing nothing.

00:00:47.760 So was I. Yeah. I'm glad you

00:00:49.380 didn't cold. I like you not that much.

00:00:51.500 I really liked doing nothing for

00:00:53.440 a while. It was great.

00:00:55.500 And I also missed our dear friend

00:00:57.440 Corey Morgan, Senior Western Standard Columnist

00:00:59.560 It has been a long break, like I said

00:01:01.120 I enjoyed the break but I was getting restless

00:01:03.120 I was ready to come back

00:01:04.260 Now actually doing work while I'm here

00:01:07.600 I'm trying to reestablish habits

00:01:09.180 some muscle memory of actually working

00:01:11.040 but I'm happy to be back

00:01:12.860 Locked in my house

00:01:15.720 with kids for that long

00:01:17.480 I love them but this time

00:01:19.340 you're going back to school

00:01:21.020 Okay

00:01:22.800 Well I mean

00:01:25.560 there's never news over the break

00:01:26.820 Nothing happens, right? That's why we don't need any reporters working. It's not like, I don't know, Canada's former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, is going to sign up working for a foreign government while a sitting member of the Canadian Parliament.

00:01:43.640 Oh, yeah, Donald Trump goes, kidnapped a guy. Kidnapped the president of Venezuela.

00:01:50.760 Just another Christmas.

00:01:51.840 Yeah.

00:01:52.400 Okay, we'll get to free helicopter rides in a bit.

00:01:55.280 We're going to start the first one there.

00:01:56.720 Chrystia Freeland.

00:01:59.020 So this was, you know, one of Trudeau's best girls.

00:02:05.260 Former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, etc.

00:02:10.660 I think she was Foreign Affairs, right?

00:02:12.560 We didn't actually say it for a while.

00:02:14.760 Yeah, no, we're thinking of...

00:02:16.520 What's her name? 1.00

00:02:17.920 Another idiot. 1.00

00:02:18.600 Julie. 1.00

00:02:18.760 Anyway, she is still a, she was in one of Carney's cabinets.

00:02:27.820 She's a member of parliament right now for Canada, I should clarify.

00:02:32.180 Member of parliament for Canada, but she is also now the economic advisor or whatnot for Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.

00:02:41.840 So for those following along at home, Ukraine is this whole other country that is not Canada.

00:02:48.060 It has its own citizenship.

00:02:49.720 It has its own parliament.

00:02:51.140 It has its own territory.

00:02:52.980 That territory is under dispute at the moment,

00:02:54.800 but it has its own territory.

00:02:56.540 It's this whole other country.

00:02:59.360 I love Ukrainians.

00:03:00.640 Who doesn't?

00:03:01.120 We got a lot in Alberta here.

00:03:04.400 I'm broadly sympathetic to Ukraine.

00:03:06.340 I'm not all in.

00:03:07.200 I don't think it's worth World War III over,

00:03:08.660 but I'm broadly sympathetic.

00:03:12.000 And Canada has no formal alliance with Ukraine.

00:03:15.580 They're not a part of NATO.

00:03:17.100 uh we have no formal alliance otherwise we'd be of war explicitly at least with russia uh but now

00:03:25.180 christian freeland is now an official employee or working for in an official capacity the

00:03:33.700 government of ukraine she's not the canadian representative to ukraine on economic issues

00:03:38.700 which i'm sure would be effectively amount to the same thing but it's not a canadian appointment

00:03:43.420 to represent Canada to Zelensky advising him on economics

00:03:47.160 because everybody knows Chrystia Freeland has all sorts of great economic advice

00:03:51.820 coming from her time in the Trudeau government to impart on Ukraine.

00:03:55.700 They can give Ukraine advice on smart economic policy and how to fight corruption.

00:03:59.820 That'll be brilliant.

00:04:00.720 They can give her Maduro. He needs a new job.

00:04:02.660 Yeah.

00:04:03.860 But anyway, it's not that.

00:04:04.840 She's not Canada's special representative to Ukraine on economic development or something.

00:04:10.220 No, she's working for Ukraine. 0.99

00:04:11.780 while she is a sitting member of parliament that blew up pretty quick she is announced

00:04:19.000 she will eventually in a few weeks resign her seat in parliament um i don't know i i'm not

00:04:27.920 one to throw around the treason word lightly and yeah i mean ukraine's not a hostile government

00:04:33.120 to us but it is a foreign government to us and it is so it's not our government it's not our 0.70

00:04:38.160 country and we're not even in a formal alliance with them i think we'd be having a different

00:04:43.980 conversation if she had become the economic advisor to vladimir putin certainly well you

00:04:49.380 know i'm kind of surprised that it's happening with mark carney at the helm i mean just think

00:04:54.380 about it it's what brookfield management his his company supposing that somebody had walked into

00:04:59.300 the office one day while he was there and said you know what it's been great here at brookfield

00:05:04.600 but I'm going to go and work for so-and-so.

00:05:08.700 They're not paying me, and I'm not leaving here,

00:05:13.380 but I'm sure you'll understand.

00:05:15.880 He would not take that.

00:05:17.220 He would not accept that.

00:05:18.720 And no employer would.

00:05:19.580 It's the definition of a conflict of interest.

00:05:20.880 Exactly, and that's what this is.

00:05:23.560 He is evidently content with this arrangement.

00:05:26.980 So really, you have to ask,

00:05:29.380 why would this be a good thing for Mark Carney

00:05:33.260 to allow.

00:05:35.820 Now, I think that once

00:05:37.440 the... I think she dropped this

00:05:39.380 on him on Christmas Eve,

00:05:41.660 was it not? So we'll

00:05:43.400 terribly assume he wasn't really

00:05:45.080 awake at the switch at that point.

00:05:49.600 So... But he's had time to

00:05:51.360 think about it. And the only

00:05:53.360 thing he can think about is the fact that it's actually

00:05:55.340 handy to have that vote

00:05:57.240 for as long as it's there

00:05:59.400 until I can recruit another

00:06:01.380 member of the conservative party to cross the floor and take her place so the whole thing stinks 1.00

00:06:08.340 really badly but at the very basement level that anybody can get at this is a simple conflict of

00:06:16.660 interest she's taken her job with the ukraine good luck to her i hope she does well i hope she's

00:06:20.660 made if she's going to give them economic advice let it be to buy all your good stuff in the calendar 0.73

00:06:24.900 suffered enough in ukraine oh well you know

00:06:27.300 okay so i i you know just just a shameful thing i mean

00:06:34.840 uh is she a dual citizen for ukraine i don't ever so no her parents are ukrainian yeah

00:06:42.520 i mean because she was born in alberta yeah she's she's born in alberta uh she's canadian

00:06:49.220 but I mean

00:06:51.240 this is

00:06:52.220 diaspora politics is supposed to at least

00:06:55.520 keep a veneer of loyalty

00:06:57.720 to the country of which you are a member

00:06:59.800 of parliament to

00:07:01.200 like the deputy prime minister until very

00:07:03.720 recently like the veneer

00:07:05.580 of loyalty to Canada first

00:07:07.300 when you're playing this diaspora politics

00:07:09.620 even beyond the I mean I don't

00:07:11.680 think it goes as far as treason perhaps unless it was a

00:07:13.660 hostile as you said country with us but still

00:07:15.700 the ethics are just out the window

00:07:17.660 bad. And even if this was the private market, if I had said, Hey, I'm going, I got a good gig down

00:07:23.260 at the national post. Oh, but I'm going to keep collecting the check here. I'm not going to do

00:07:26.600 anything here. Even I just expect you to keep paying me while I go work for the competitor.

00:07:31.640 Uh, how quickly would the coffee cup hit my head as you're throwing me out the door with my neighbor? 0.73

00:07:35.760 I have fired people for that. So she, it's just, it's robbery. You aren't doing your job. You're

00:07:43.160 not doing the job. You're getting six figures and an incredible pension to do. You aren't even in

00:07:48.320 the country. There's one of the problems with accountability in the Canadian system because

00:07:52.680 we don't have a mechanism to fire her. Only she can do that to herself, which I understand with

00:07:58.840 an MP. It should be difficult to take one out of office, but this is a point. You can't say,

00:08:04.560 I'm going to kick it down the road and not do my job for a few months for the sake of carning.

00:08:08.120 What you're seeing here is actually the liberal mentality.

00:08:11.720 Their basic assumptions about how things ought to work in their favor.

00:08:16.920 You think this would have flown with Harper?

00:08:18.760 No.

00:08:19.240 They would have gone bananas.

00:08:20.660 Yeah.

00:08:21.080 And as I said, it wouldn't have flown with Mark Curry if he was still at Brookfield and she was an employee there.

00:08:27.020 So that's the only thing that makes any sense to me, and it may not be the whole answer,

00:08:31.080 is that he just wants her around for the sake of her vote for a little longer.

00:08:34.480 You know, it should matter if we're friendly with Ukraine or not.

00:08:39.240 At least it shouldn't be the decisive factor.

00:08:42.780 It should be maybe an aggregating factor if it's a hostile regime or not.

00:08:45.800 But you've got to remember, the Canadian federal government,

00:08:48.100 until extremely recently, did not consider the People's Republic of China

00:08:52.040 to be a hostile foreign actor.

00:08:54.460 When all the Chinese foreign interference stuff came up, 0.91

00:08:58.480 Trudeau's first reaction was, you're racist. 0.99

00:09:00.900 You're racist. 1.00

00:09:01.460 Everybody who's talking about Chinese foreign interference, you're racist against Chinese people. 0.96

00:09:05.660 Actually, most people blowing the whistle were Chinese who were being bullied and coerced by the People's Republic. 0.64

00:09:13.760 But, you know, the Trudeau government was very, very friendly with China.

00:09:19.740 Maybe not to the extent we're friendly with Ukraine, like sending weapons, sending money, that kind of thing.

00:09:24.560 But still very, very friendly with China.

00:09:26.640 China was not as explicitly then seen as a hostile actor.

00:09:34.040 This isn't election interference, but it's worse.

00:09:39.380 We've got a sitting member of Parliament who is working for a foreign... 1.00

00:09:44.320 Like, how is this legal?

00:09:46.120 How is this legal?

00:09:47.960 I guess it is.

00:09:51.760 As soon as she's run this through the conflict, Ventress Commissioner,

00:09:54.140 I assume a lawyer is saying this.

00:09:56.580 The other question is,

00:09:57.600 I've got to think that Carney probably isn't thrilled with this.

00:10:03.360 She seems to like doing things over Christmas.

00:10:05.200 I mean, it was true, though, where she, you know,

00:10:06.480 at Christmas time, she cut the legs out from when you had them, too.

00:10:09.840 It's the Freeland's Christmas surprise.

00:10:11.320 Yeah, I guess.

00:10:12.520 But as Nigel said, though, I mean, Carney should be saying,

00:10:16.460 well, you know, Pooper hit off the pot. 0.91

00:10:19.320 We either got to get you out of that seat and run a violation 0.92

00:10:21.420 if you want to show yourself as principal,

00:10:22.780 but he'd rather take the

00:10:24.620 egg on his face and say, well, we just can't

00:10:26.760 afford to have that seat become vacant before

00:10:28.700 it's time, so please, we'll

00:10:30.780 keep paying you. Well, Parliament's not sitting right now.

00:10:33.060 She should resign immediately. You can call

00:10:34.820 a by-election immediately. He actually doesn't

00:10:36.880 need to seat at this exact moment. Parliament's not

00:10:38.760 sitting. True enough. There's

00:10:40.700 no immediate budget vote. They've already done the budget

00:10:42.600 vote.

00:10:46.140 I actually don't think that makes sense.

00:10:49.200 He doesn't need to. If there's a time

00:10:50.760 for it, it's now. Unless there's an emergency sitting

00:10:52.580 or something but uh yeah he didn't he doesn't need it right now he not desperately he could

00:10:56.960 just quickly call it he'll get get one of his buddies from brookfield put him that's a safe

00:11:01.080 seat in downtown toronto okay great he's got another yeah it's not like that'll seat's gonna

00:11:05.080 go conservative anyway no it's a solid liberal seat so he gets to put like you know some some

00:11:09.820 guy from brookfield or wherever he gets to bring in someone from the outside maybe someone a little

00:11:14.400 more competent finance that champagne and uh you know like this is actually a good opportunity for

00:11:21.200 My guess actually is that she wants to keep it for some reason.

00:11:25.080 And what's Carney going to do?

00:11:27.300 Okay, so as for her reasons, I gather that this is an unpaid position for a while.

00:11:34.940 And she's got to wait until around about July before she starts working for the Rhodes Trust, which will be well remunerated.

00:11:42.380 So this is a simple matter of cash flow for Ms. Freeland.

00:11:47.120 Very, very strange thing.

00:11:48.800 the um what's the betting by the way that uh as the conservative convention comes up here in

00:11:55.880 calvary in a couple of weeks time there's a couple of more conservative mps who've been

00:12:01.700 to to cross the floor just to muddy the waters for the different subject but it has to do with

00:12:09.200 you know the number of people you have on the floor in the house of commons under your label

00:12:13.940 I'm not in the caucus.

00:12:15.140 That's a good question.

00:12:16.220 I'm not in the caucus, but I just say the math is very strong for Carney.

00:12:22.120 This, the next guy to cross the floor, has massive leverage.

00:12:25.260 He can ask for a lot.

00:12:26.720 Now, he might not get the cabinet post that day,

00:12:28.420 so it doesn't look as cynical and transactional as, say, Belinda Stronach

00:12:32.500 when she did in 2005 or whatever that was.

00:12:36.620 But, you know, it'll happen in six months.

00:12:39.620 But, like, okay, six months you're going to get a cabinet.

00:12:41.480 This guy gives them their majority.

00:12:43.300 He's going to get leverage.

00:12:46.300 There's going to be, you know, there's all sorts of guys who are in swing seats.

00:12:48.920 Will they have a chance to keep their seat as a liberal? 0.97

00:12:52.140 Damn good chance. 0.97

00:12:53.000 And also remember, there's the other side of the ledger. 0.98

00:12:55.000 They're still working the NDP.

00:12:56.480 The NDP guys are even more right for the plucking.

00:12:58.840 That party is pretty dead.

00:13:01.040 They have pretty abysmal chances.

00:13:03.380 So if you're a new Democrat, you're probably going to.

00:13:04.940 I remember the polling was showing that the NDP were on the uptick.

00:13:08.300 Now that doesn't mean they're going to be an effect.

00:13:09.640 Not grand resilience, but the party is bankrupt.

00:13:11.480 I mean, if I were to be, you know, Machiavellian and, and, and do the, the, the nasty political

00:13:16.140 plays, if I were Kearney, well, then I, where I would be sitting strategically, if I had

00:13:21.980 negotiated a couple of MPs in the bag over Christmas, I wouldn't want to announce it

00:13:25.980 right now. I want to do it a week right before the conservative conference. I want to own

00:13:29.820 the news cycle because that's all they'll be able to talk about during the conference.

00:13:33.420 Any messaging they had, any plans they had for the conference will be gone. And so I

00:13:38.720 wouldn't be surprised if he's got a couple in the pocket already.

00:13:40.860 So once he's got a couple more over across the floor from the Conservatives,

00:13:44.780 then she's free to go.

00:13:46.200 Yeah, that could be the time, too, where you take out the trash.

00:13:48.400 Fine, we've brought these two in.

00:13:49.780 And, oh, by the way, Christian, you can go.

00:13:52.180 You can go to do something, yeah.

00:13:53.100 You can go now.

00:13:54.380 Yeah, I think the timing of that would be smart if the Lippos can't.

00:13:58.240 Now, I guess the downside to that is word leaks out.

00:14:02.920 It's bad news.

00:14:04.380 You don't want word leaks out.

00:14:05.080 If you lose the.

00:14:06.020 Also, the guy might wiggle off the hook by then.

00:14:08.420 Maybe the MP who's going to cross gets cold feet.

00:14:10.760 But maybe they don't know who each other are, right?

00:14:13.940 It's not like they all sat in a group.

00:14:16.080 I doubt they all sat in the waiting room to go outside the Prime Minister's office.

00:14:19.700 Chicken number.

00:14:20.720 Yeah.

00:14:21.520 You know, who wants a cabinet spot?

00:14:23.140 Who wants to join?

00:14:24.180 I doubt that was it.

00:14:25.500 We'll be done at the table.

00:14:26.680 Back room.

00:14:27.180 We'll be done at the table.

00:14:28.080 The holidays are ideal because you have so many of those social functions and things

00:14:32.940 going on where you can have informal meetings and get-togethers all over the place.

00:14:37.240 It's the best time for it.

00:14:39.360 Yeah.

00:14:40.460 I mean, Kanye's going to get his majority.

00:14:42.280 It's going to happen. It's going to happen from

00:14:43.860 conservatives, more conservatives, or

00:14:45.780 some Democrats.

00:14:47.580 It's going to happen.

00:14:49.880 These guys will always justify it.

00:14:51.620 There's always some way.

00:14:53.420 Constituents tell me they want me to join Mark Carney.

00:14:56.420 We've heard this play

00:14:57.920 a hundred times before, and

00:14:59.820 if it's to your team,

00:15:02.920 this just shows we're

00:15:03.980 winning and we're doing things right,

00:15:05.900 and that we're on the march, of course

00:15:07.720 conservatives are good. That's why everyone wants to join

00:15:09.960 the conservatives. And when it's the other way,

00:15:12.040 oh, they're traitors. There should be a

00:15:13.920 by-election. They betrayed the people.

00:15:15.940 They betrayed the party.

00:15:17.880 It always depends on

00:15:19.940 which direction it's going.

00:15:21.620 Well, sometimes more than others, Derek.

00:15:23.640 I know you're going to justify once to the

00:15:25.880 conservatives right now.

00:15:27.440 Just speaking in very general terms,

00:15:29.900 you get one person gets a crisis of

00:15:31.860 conscience, and decides they must

00:15:33.700 cross the floor. Okay.

00:15:35.540 We don't like it, but it happens.

00:15:37.220 When you have a number of people orchestrated to cross the floor in sequence, well, then that's a different kind of political maneuver and one that doesn't make these people look very good.

00:15:49.580 And I'm not bashing floor cross.

00:15:50.820 Actually, the ability to floor cross is a critical part of our system.

00:15:55.360 Our leaders are already far too powerful in the ability to leave your caucus.

00:15:59.000 I've been out heavily for writing and saying that before, but there's truth to it.

00:16:02.540 That is one of the only remaining checks on the power of leaders in the Canadian parliamentary system.

00:16:08.980 It's one of the only things.

00:16:10.800 Look, in B.C., now they didn't leave.

00:16:14.980 It was the threat of, you know, they were going to lose the majority of caucus.

00:16:18.740 They've got to rust that out.

00:16:20.180 The ability to leave caucus when you have a leader doing bad things and a party doing bad things, it's necessary.

00:16:26.460 It gets abused all the time for, oh, this has nothing to do with the cabinet post I'm getting

00:16:31.320 or this committee appointment etc and it never has anything to do with that i mean so there's

00:16:36.920 there's always a principle they resign and as mp and fight the election again under a different

00:16:44.680 flag how about that no i i don't know because you'll technically we're still not electing

00:16:49.720 parties we're electing mps we know that's not the case in reality but it's one of the only checks

00:16:53.560 we have on a leader at this point so anyway two across the floor we can before the convention

00:17:01.320 Okay. You read it here first.

00:17:04.700 So, speaking of rides,

00:17:06.020 let's talk about free helicopter

00:17:08.080 rides in Venezuela.

00:17:10.960 Better explain the joke.

00:17:13.260 Well, for the...

00:17:14.060 It's funny. I think it's a joke

00:17:15.440 that younger people get

00:17:17.160 who were not around when it was taking place.

00:17:19.640 Older people who were around when it was taking place tend not to get it.

00:17:22.360 Well, when you're talking about free helicopter rides,

00:17:24.460 we're talking about

00:17:25.380 Pinochet, the anti-communist

00:17:28.260 leader,

00:17:29.240 or dictator if you will

00:17:31.420 of Chile

00:17:32.500 and he

00:17:35.000 was known for giving free

00:17:37.280 helicopter rides over

00:17:39.240 the Pacific Ocean to communists

00:17:40.800 he would pick them up a helicopter and

00:17:43.020 they would just go for a ride

00:17:44.420 the communists slipped out

00:17:47.320 and fell into the ocean

00:17:48.340 the Guatemalan government used to do that as well

00:17:51.100 I visited Guatemala at the end of the 80s

00:17:53.380 and there was still that proxy

00:17:55.320 war going on

00:17:56.100 people just disappeared

00:17:57.960 Did Argentinian and Junta do something similar with the Argentinian government background?

00:18:04.420 They had kind of a Latin America technique.

00:18:07.560 It's kind of a Latin American thing, but Pinochet was the one most known.

00:18:11.280 He really perfected the art of free helicopter rides.

00:18:16.040 So, you know, when the United States comes in and scoops up Maduro in the middle of the night in a helicopter,

00:18:23.000 I was pretty surprised that he, you know

00:18:25.740 they didn't say, ah, the guy was all sweaty

00:18:27.660 and wearing some pajamas, he fell out of the helicopter

00:18:29.760 somewhere over the Gulf

00:18:30.920 but they brought him back alive

00:18:33.420 so, you know

00:18:35.700 Corey, you and I, we

00:18:37.180 certainly set the cat among the pigeons

00:18:39.480 with our commentary on this when it happened

00:18:41.780 there's no room for nuance in this

00:18:43.800 the world

00:18:45.900 is an objectively better place

00:18:47.460 without a communist dictator like Maduro

00:18:49.780 in charge of the Venezuelan people

00:18:52.200 talk to any like i don't know a ton of venezuelans but all the ones i know

00:18:55.960 you know they're they're having a little uh they don't mariachi bands are mexican but particularly

00:19:01.400 that any diaspora population and because they had to run from their homeland yeah because the people

00:19:05.400 like him this is good for the venezuelan people generally but i'm actually pretty skeptical of

00:19:12.400 this you know world police thing and america just comes in and does its thing if yeah yeah

00:19:18.560 That was a Team America song, wasn't it?

00:19:21.340 Yeah, let's play the song.

00:19:22.480 Play the song, John.

00:19:23.300 Well, you can't...

00:19:24.180 America!

00:19:25.260 You'll have to bleep it.

00:19:26.540 Yeah.

00:19:26.700 I don't know.

00:19:27.340 Okay.

00:19:33.620 I mean, what a classic.

00:19:35.800 When I first watched it, you know, Bush was still around.

00:19:37.980 I watched it unironically.

00:19:40.340 Then a couple of years later, I was like, ooh.

00:19:43.400 Yeah.

00:19:44.200 They're making a point here that I...

00:19:45.700 Oh, it's a point that's salient today, actually, very much so.

00:19:48.560 Are they the world police?

00:19:49.880 Is that the role that he should be taking on?

00:19:52.840 Was, was Monero presenting such a threat to the United States?

00:19:56.340 And again, it's not, that's where the discussion, unfortunately, goes off the rails immediately.

00:19:59.880 Oh, you're defending him?

00:20:00.920 No, I'm not.

00:20:02.520 I'm just, is this the appropriate way to deal with it?

00:20:05.580 And maybe it is, but we should be hoping to discussion on it.

00:20:08.520 And right now that discussion's a little heated.

00:20:10.200 So, Nigel, I hold several mutually exclusive and contradictory opinions at the same time on this.

00:20:21.240 You know, Trump, if this was Bush or Obama, if this was anyone going back to Woodrow Wilson,

00:20:28.320 they would say this intervention is about making the world safe for democracy or some highfalutin idea.

00:20:35.020 and it's not it's raw politics and power uh for for one thing or another it's it's serving some

00:20:42.400 kind of agenda and they would always try to cloak it in flowery language of a liberal democracy and

00:20:49.100 you know america's pretty cynical about that now very rightfully so i think iraq was kind of

00:20:55.540 finally finished that off we're not that's we're gonna be a america first is supposed to be about

00:21:01.760 pragmatic. You know, it's the tractors saying, well, they're isolationists. No, there's a big

00:21:08.000 difference between isolationists, which is we pretend that the oceans, the world stops at the

00:21:12.380 oceans, the coasts, and the world doesn't exist. And that pretty much doesn't exist in America.

00:21:17.680 It almost never really has. America first is America shouldn't be embroiled and fighting

00:21:22.520 other people's wars and playing world policemen, but American power can be used for American

00:21:26.460 interests and trump he did not say yeah we did this for tomorrow he's like yeah we're gonna take

00:21:32.140 their oil we're gonna we're we're we run venezuela now and we're we're gonna take back the oil uh

00:21:38.700 now actually have to and he does have a minor point on that not a minor point yes at some point

00:21:42.320 hugo traves had nationalized american oil assets which is stealing so america actually does have

00:21:48.460 a claim to some of that oil. They stole it.

00:21:51.920 Anyway,

00:21:52.380 it was very cold

00:21:54.660 transactional language.

00:21:58.600 Taking the oil. And then, you know,

00:22:00.360 other members of the administration tried to

00:22:02.340 walk it back and

00:22:04.300 soften it. But,

00:22:05.840 I don't know, is this

00:22:08.660 like

00:22:10.520 Roosevelt on steroids that

00:22:12.420 America is now going to, in a very

00:22:14.320 muscular way, exercise this dominance

00:22:16.580 of the hemisphere? All right.

00:22:19.380 Absolutely.

00:22:21.120 When you were talking about America and the world policemen,

00:22:23.840 I thought, well, no, no, no, this has got nothing to do with being the world police.

00:22:28.220 This is looking after things on the home front.

00:22:30.600 Don't forget, it's not just the oil, although that's what we're focused on at the moment.

00:22:34.680 It's also the drugs.

00:22:36.140 It's also excluding from the Chinese.

00:22:38.540 The drugs were a bit, but it wasn't mostly the drugs.

00:22:41.200 That's what they got.

00:22:41.820 That's what they're charging them.

00:22:42.840 I disagree with you on that.

00:22:44.520 Okay, but then they would have been in Mexico first, Columbia first.

00:22:47.880 Venezuela is a part of it, but they're not the fair guy.

00:22:49.780 They're next.

00:22:51.380 That's some of the discussion, yeah.

00:22:54.380 I'll believe it's about drugs

00:22:55.660 when they go in and start murdering.

00:22:57.300 Well, I don't know. Has the price of an e-ball gone up yet?

00:22:59.340 Ready?

00:23:00.700 I didn't hear. What?

00:23:02.280 He's asking if the price of Coke has gone up yet.

00:23:04.800 I imagine the price of oil comes down,

00:23:07.800 the price of Coke goes up.

00:23:09.020 Well, the issue for us, of course, here in Alberta,

00:23:11.320 is what is this going to do?

00:23:13.460 We've got, what,

00:23:14.540 50 million barrels of oil

00:23:17.360 going to be leaving venezuela ending up in the coast refineries uh that's actually where alberto

00:23:24.080 lowe goes so alberto lowe is going to be at a bit of a discount and not that this is the subject of

00:23:30.980 this segment but if you want to feel mad with anybody again feel mad with mr trudeau who

00:23:37.120 canceled arbitrarily talk about arbitrary we should already northern gateway should be right

00:23:42.780 there and we should be pumping oil through that to new customers because it's going to be difficult

00:23:46.780 when you have got a steady stream of oil coming from Venezuela.

00:23:50.600 Thankfully, the Venezuelans have been such economic illiterates 1.00

00:23:55.440 for so long that it's, some of the estimates I've seen,

00:23:57.960 it would take about a trillion dollars and a decade

00:24:00.620 to get Venezuela's production up to our levels.

00:24:06.020 So thank God for communism.

00:24:07.940 It's the only thing saving Alberta right now.

00:24:10.300 I mean, what, just what next?

00:24:12.500 I mean, that's just kind of the thing kicking off the air.

00:24:14.560 There's Trump being Trump, though.

00:24:15.840 Oh, we'll get into it.

00:24:16.940 Yeah.

00:24:17.380 We'll get into it.

00:24:18.180 There's a helicopter thing that just that...

00:24:20.080 I remember when Trump said, we don't need your oil.

00:24:23.720 Russ going into Tuzma negotiations.

00:24:26.500 Oh, yeah.

00:24:27.020 He's got another...

00:24:27.980 He's going to say, hey, don't need your oil.

00:24:30.700 I got it from Venezuela.

00:24:32.200 Getting a little back...

00:24:33.060 It's going to take them some time, though.

00:24:34.120 ...to possible ethics of this, though.

00:24:35.720 And the fact that he did bring him back, he brought him alive,

00:24:37.940 he's putting him on trial and going through a period of process.

00:24:41.400 I mean, we go back to kind of the last time the Americans did something similar

00:24:44.200 when they got Osama bin Laden.

00:24:46.160 And here's where the only time

00:24:47.100 when I really throw my tin hat on,

00:24:49.720 because I still don't believe

00:24:52.200 that they killed him there.

00:24:53.720 It's this weird that, 0.76

00:24:54.680 oh, we shot him and we just whipped him off

00:24:56.100 and dumped him into the ocean 0.91

00:24:56.880 because we didn't need any other evidence

00:24:58.040 and everything else.

00:24:58.580 Everybody else forget about it.

00:24:59.520 We'll just move on with life.

00:25:00.840 I got a strong, it's a little weird.

00:25:02.000 I got a strong suspicion

00:25:03.100 that perhaps he went somewhere

00:25:04.320 for a very uncomfortable month or two

00:25:06.060 just to make sure they could get

00:25:07.560 every other bit of information

00:25:08.760 on Al-Qaeda out of him

00:25:09.800 before he did eventually disappear in the ocean.

00:25:12.600 The Americans aren't above and beyond that, perhaps.

00:25:15.880 Or CIA or Mossad or the other side about other countries that do those sorts of things.

00:25:18.920 They took some fingernails before the drug. 1.00

00:25:20.380 Yeah, either.

00:25:21.540 I can't be wrong.

00:25:22.260 That's certainly, but it just, it was odd.

00:25:24.600 They didn't.

00:25:25.160 I think they did kill bin Laden, but did they get him right then? 0.99

00:25:28.240 Who knows?

00:25:29.040 Yeah, but there was no effort to, this wasn't an assassination attempt.

00:25:32.260 They didn't just take a drone and blow up his bedroom or he didn't fall out of a helicopter

00:25:36.840 or, you know, choke on a green bean on his first day in prison or anything of the sort.

00:25:42.500 So I think they are still trying to frame themselves a little bit of saying this is a police action versus a power play.

00:25:48.540 It is an act of war.

00:25:49.740 I mean, snatching the head of state, an illegitimate one who obviously rigged several elections.

00:25:56.860 He's illegitimate, but he is the head of state, according to their law,

00:26:00.520 because obviously their judicial system is corrupt, but that judicial system recognizes him as the president.

00:26:05.380 That doesn't mean he's legitimate, but it means he's legal, and those are different things.

00:26:10.640 I think we've got a legal government that is a legitimate tip, but he is the head of state, and snatching him is an act of war.

00:26:20.620 America committed an act of war.

00:26:23.440 The question is, is it justifiable?

00:26:25.800 They're not doing it on the grounds of democracy.

00:26:28.040 I think the byproduct, I mean, still way too early to say.

00:26:32.140 We don't know how it's going to develop in Venezuela.

00:26:33.960 are they going to have a new you know some legitimate elections at some point that are

00:26:38.560 overseen by international observers very possibly but we don't know uh i imagine

00:26:44.940 probably wants to get there at some point but um uh that's a he's seen that as a byproduct

00:26:53.340 and and he's and he's not doing the bush and obama and clinton thing where he's just like

00:26:59.080 we're doing this for democracy and blah blah blah we're doing it for them say no we're doing it for

00:27:03.420 us and at least that is and it's offering a chilling effect to other countries that are

00:27:10.280 obstinate or or dictators as well this didn't go like bay of pigs or even the iran attempt to

00:27:15.160 rescue hostages this went without a hitch i mean it's quite a gamble if their special forces had

00:27:19.720 landed in there and they'd been pushed back and lost a few members and and it not a single american

00:27:24.920 it could have turned into a catastrophe obviously their intelligence was amazing uh so you know that

00:27:32.240 every dictator right now is looking around

00:27:34.160 their rooms. I'm not sure it's just dictators.

00:27:36.040 Greenland and Denmark, we're going to get there, but

00:27:38.160 I'm not sure it's just dictators.

00:27:40.020 So, I mean, it's making them sweat, though.

00:27:42.280 I mean, where else is the next CIA agent?

00:27:45.540 They're going for

00:27:46.320 Trudeau at Katy Perry's apartment.

00:27:48.560 Oh, God, I think they've got him on a leash already.

00:27:50.940 They're just keeping occupied

00:27:52.080 with a pop star. I won't have to worry about him anymore.

00:27:56.680 I don't know.

00:27:59.800 There's a lot going on here.

00:28:01.860 than the bigger picture i we didn't stay there but keeping the chinese out of central america 1.00

00:28:08.020 is a very big thing for trump uh yeah the oil is a big thing the drugs are a big thing

00:28:14.500 but you may remember two years ago there was quite a fufara that uh the chinese that gained

00:28:21.060 effective control of the panama canal uh they had their people running it at each end and obviously

00:28:27.460 everything that went through went through with the with the uh blessing of the government of china

00:28:33.060 that's not a place that's not a situation that the americans can tolerate yeah and so here is

00:28:38.740 another situation that that production was going straight to china so now they're scrambling to

00:28:45.460 find another 400 000 barrels a day of oil from the world market uh they've got a problem and

00:28:52.900 And they know they're not going to be able to do what they want to do in Central America.

00:28:59.060 So, yeah, you know, it's an act of war.

00:29:02.340 That's what nation states do, unfortunately, if they are powerful enough.

00:29:06.340 If they're not powerful enough, then they form a League of Nations or a United Nations organization and try to moralize about it.

00:29:14.060 But in the end, the international court, if you want to take it that far, can only enforce a judgment if it has the backing of the largest nations.

00:29:22.220 Makes right.

00:29:23.240 I mean, pretend this is about international justice or anything like that.

00:29:26.780 We have 80 years of liberal international moralizing about this.

00:29:30.860 Actually, we go back to the end of the First World War and the link of the nation. 1.00

00:29:33.540 At the end of the day, it's all bullshit. 0.98

00:29:37.160 I mean, it's nice. 0.99

00:29:38.260 I mean, the world is nicer when we go by that, but we don't ever actually go by it.

00:29:43.320 We just kind of pretend to. 0.99

00:29:44.480 And maybe it does give us more norms to go with some guardrails, but end of the day, it's all bullshit. 0.99

00:29:50.100 The world courts and all that, too. 0.92

00:29:51.820 It's funny, some of the people decrying, though, what Trump did with Maduro are the same ones who were saying that Netanyahu should be arrested if he steps foot outside of Israel.

00:30:00.760 Actually, with what I saw he's doing with the Christians in Israel, I'm actually kind of coming around to that.

00:30:05.000 I've seen it with Tony, but he's doing to Christians there.

00:30:08.000 I'm coming around to that now.

00:30:09.380 Either way, the ability to take a leader into custody for another state is the question.

00:30:17.060 Well, this is a whole other thing.

00:30:18.240 That's like going to Israel and stashing of Netanyahu.

00:30:20.300 Oh, yeah.

00:30:20.640 that's an act good luck on that

00:30:23.060 good luck

00:30:24.240 you know could it get to the mediterranean before they

00:30:27.340 stop you know yeah um

00:30:29.260 okay so

00:30:31.280 we can take the we'll take this a bit more broadly

00:30:33.620 zoom out

00:30:34.980 America team America here

00:30:37.280 um

00:30:38.880 some of this stuff

00:30:41.480 like I you know we talked about Iran

00:30:43.680 you know when Iran happened back in 1.00

00:30:45.540 October so

00:30:46.960 I

00:30:48.860 I was not for that one, because I don't think that was America's interest.

00:30:52.380 There was no evidence, still no evidence really provided.

00:30:56.360 Nothing solid, at least.

00:30:57.660 It's buried 600 feet deep.

00:30:59.300 Yeah, but I don't trust governments with just saying,

00:31:03.340 the evidence is down there somewhere, and you're going to trust me.

00:31:05.240 They said that in the Gulf War, too, didn't they?

00:31:06.920 Yeah, I've just not taken anyone's word for it anymore.

00:31:11.560 We've just seen that abuse enough.

00:31:13.220 But I don't think that was in America's interest.

00:31:15.040 That was other interests.

00:31:16.960 Venezuela is America's 1.00

00:31:19.900 interest now is it the right thing to do

00:31:21.800 is it nice no

00:31:23.060 it's not but is it the right thing to do

00:31:25.960 from an America first

00:31:27.780 national self interest perspective

00:31:29.660 I mean time will tell

00:31:31.560 but very possibly

00:31:33.080 but this is now being applied very

00:31:35.560 aggressively elsewhere you've got

00:31:37.400 you know we talk about Panama 1.00

00:31:38.620 America built the damn thing 1.00

00:31:41.520 there's a pretty strong argument for it actually Panama 0.99

00:31:43.460 exists as a country because of America they formatted

00:31:45.140 because he's doing you.

00:31:46.580 He grabbed Noriega, so that's... 0.95

00:31:49.980 Iron Maiden had a hand 1.00

00:31:51.540 in that as well, if I recall.

00:31:53.260 Give the credit where it's due. They were blasting Iron Maiden

00:31:55.340 outside when they were...

00:31:56.880 That's pretty America. 0.67

00:32:00.680 That's America.

00:32:02.120 But then, you know,

00:32:02.520 we were saying earlier, it's not just

00:32:05.500 dictators. It's got friendly, like,

00:32:07.600 can you think of a more benevolent

00:32:09.500 country in the world, the Denmark?

00:32:11.980 At least for the last thousand years.

00:32:13.740 The first ones in Denmark, Canada, Sweden, they just don't stir the world a lot.

00:32:18.740 They're in the Canadian club of these benevolent, don't-bothering...

00:32:22.700 The nice guys, yeah.

00:32:23.640 Yeah, like the super nice guys.

00:32:26.120 Now, the last time Denmark was at war, they actually have the record, to this day, for being the shortest...

00:32:33.260 When they were attacked by Germany in the Second World War, I think it was literally a matter of hours.

00:32:36.760 They literally just dropped paratroopers on the presidential palace and the war was over.

00:32:40.540 I think it was the shortest invasion in world history.

00:32:43.740 And I imagine an American invasion of Greenland would go similar.

00:32:48.520 It would be an unopposed.

00:32:50.420 There is no point in fighting an American carrier rolls off the coast of Greenland.

00:32:57.160 I'm sorry, guys, it's over.

00:32:59.100 It'd be like if they came for us.

00:33:00.920 But this is their NATO partner.

00:33:03.140 If America took an aggressive military action against Greenland,

00:33:07.220 technically, that's an act of war against NATO.

00:33:10.600 Yeah, that's a different line cross.

00:33:12.120 But Ukraine attacked NATO when they blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

00:33:15.060 So technically we should be at war with Ukraine for that. 0.65

00:33:19.900 But I read a...

00:33:21.120 Send them Christy Freelands. 0.62

00:33:22.540 I mean, it's opened up so much discussion.

00:33:24.900 And part of it is everybody's got to speculate.

00:33:26.840 What is the big plan in the orange man's head?

00:33:29.300 And it's hard to try and guess what he's really looking at.

00:33:31.980 As you said, I mean, somebody wrote a good piece, actually.

00:33:34.080 I think it might have been The Globe.

00:33:35.140 I do read that.

00:33:36.160 But on...

00:33:38.300 Well, if he went into Greenland, it might be the end of NATO.

00:33:40.580 And if it's the end of NATO, then we've got some other bigger issues going on throughout the rest of Europe.

00:33:47.200 There's a lot of, you know, ripple effect that comes from these actions.

00:33:51.160 You may be right about that, but I personally do not think that the object is to make Greenland the 51st state or the 52nd or the 53rd.

00:34:01.020 What are they going to do with the continent that's covered by ice?

00:34:06.560 It actually is pretty small.

00:34:07.880 It only looks big because of water.

00:34:09.200 It's actually quite small.

00:34:10.360 It's a lot of real estate covered by us.

00:34:13.640 You can't do anything with it except on a few little coastline clubs.

00:34:17.520 So the deal is going to be, we need this and we need that.

00:34:20.940 There's where we're going to put our bases.

00:34:23.220 But they already have the bases there.

00:34:24.520 There's been an American military presence there.

00:34:26.960 So you're in the middle of the Second World War.

00:34:29.780 Well, now they want more.

00:34:31.060 Yes, and Denmark and Greenland have said they can have it.

00:34:35.400 Yeah, but they can also support the increase if you're paying the lease.

00:34:37.620 Hell, you can have it.

00:34:38.580 They haven't invited them to do it.

00:34:40.360 What I think this is, is Trump has got a big board, a big risk board sitting somewhere in the Oval Office,

00:34:47.720 and he wants to paint more stark stripes.

00:34:50.880 America looks bigger, cooler, more badass.

00:34:53.880 He wants to leave.

00:34:55.000 Like he sees in America. 0.83

00:34:56.920 Shaving bushes to make the tree look.

00:34:58.960 There's an insecurity going on.

00:35:00.560 And I don't even mean these words pejoratively, but this is about demonstrating American expansion,

00:35:06.560 manifest destiny over the hemisphere um making america look cooler america is growing again

00:35:13.600 it's not a risk for i think that's yes i think that's what he's doing there i like playing

00:35:18.400 strategy games and i like to paint the map of whatever country i'm playing here you know the

00:35:24.440 map looks bigger for me i've taken it over and i think that's what he's doing because america can

00:35:29.740 put all of the military installations and hardware and personnel that it wants in greenland they have

00:35:34.920 since, like, 1942.

00:35:38.480 There is no restriction on what America can do there, really.

00:35:41.420 He doesn't need to own it to do that.

00:35:44.040 I think it's just because it's cool.

00:35:47.020 Well, it is cool.

00:35:48.500 It is cool.

00:35:49.460 I'm sorry.

00:35:50.340 I was playing on words there.

00:35:52.560 The thing is that he is sending the message

00:35:54.860 that every time he does something extreme,

00:35:57.800 don't mess with me. 0.99

00:35:58.860 I will bomb your underground nuclear factory. 1.00

00:36:02.460 Don't mess with me. 0.99

00:36:03.660 I will have you out of your cottage and into a New York pen, and we will take your oil.

00:36:10.820 You know, everything he does is calculated to build a reputation of don't mess with me.

00:36:16.380 That is actually a very safe thing to do, because the one thing where wars really start,

00:36:23.220 I'm talking about the serious ones, is when people can't quite sure what the other side is going to do.

00:36:28.520 The First World War is a classic example of that. 0.60

00:36:31.040 the second world war you could make the same argument it would just take longer to do it

00:36:34.920 if he says to china stay out of taiwan the chinese are not going to invade while he is president

00:36:40.800 and all of these things contribute to that an image of irresistible force not to be trifled

00:36:48.160 with he might be that but actually the taiwan example i think might might be backwards trump

00:36:55.560 I don't think there's any grand

00:36:58.040 doctrine of Trump that you can really

00:37:00.180 That's what I mean, you don't know where he's

00:37:02.340 coming from. But I think one of the general

00:37:04.420 things he sees is he sees the world as

00:37:06.260 transactional, great

00:37:08.580 power, multipolar politics

00:37:10.480 and America should be the greatest pole of that 0.99

00:37:12.380 but he recognizes spheres of influence

00:37:14.500 and recognizing spheres of influence

00:37:16.220 arguably could have

00:37:18.460 maybe stopped

00:37:20.020 both world wars, maybe, hard to say

00:37:22.640 but the idea is, okay, Ukraine

00:37:24.680 that's russia's sphere of influence always has been nothing we can do about it so we're going 1.00

00:37:29.920 to write off ukraine but that's russia's sphere of influence taiwan we like taiwan but it's china's

00:37:37.480 sphere of influences ethnically chinese and he just wasn't intercepted two tankers that were

00:37:41.620 bound for russia weren't they in america's hemisphere yeah i was saying he's aggressive

00:37:47.060 on to the other side of the eastern europe line too but he's saying no no no uh russia you can do

00:37:53.040 what you want in Ukraine. Maybe he's 0.99

00:37:54.960 saying

00:37:55.360 tacitly that China can do what it wants at the time

00:37:58.860 maybe I'm reading too much of that one

00:38:00.640 but he's saying the western hemisphere

00:38:02.320 no one gets to play here. This is Monroe

00:38:05.000 doctrine on steroids

00:38:06.460 Venezuela

00:38:08.340 you're not being a proxy for Russia

00:38:10.820 and for China anymore. You

00:38:12.800 work for daddy Trump. That's what's

00:38:14.920 going on here. It's got a lot of panel on

00:38:16.960 all of this. Some western

00:38:19.060 hemisphere and America's the boss

00:38:20.780 so and as a result the other big powers

00:38:23.020 You get to do what you want in your backyards, but this is my backyard.

00:38:25.360 I think, broadly, I would agree that he has a view of spheres of influence,

00:38:29.980 but the Chinese are so obviously making the whole world their sphere of influence, 0.70

00:38:34.540 but especially around the United States, this is what concerns him.

00:38:38.280 But, yeah, there is a strong element of pushback,

00:38:40.760 and Taiwan, of course, is the point at which the Chinese could challenge him.

00:38:45.560 And I think if he says no, stay out of it, they'll wait until the next Democrat.

00:38:52.380 I don't know.

00:38:54.500 Well, you may be right.

00:38:55.360 But I don't think he sees Taiwan as America's national vital interest.

00:39:02.540 Is it worth World War III?

00:39:04.180 I don't think it is.

00:39:05.840 I'm sorry for Taiwan. 1.00

00:39:07.360 It's almost come to World War III because what he says will simply be taken.

00:39:10.780 It's not worth taking the risk.

00:39:12.620 We'll wait till the next Democrat.

00:39:15.360 Chinese do like thinking long term. 1.00

00:39:16.900 That's one thing to give to them.

00:39:17.980 They're the opposite of Trump.

00:39:19.360 Trump is like tomorrow morning the whole plan could be different.

00:39:21.920 A week is too long.

00:39:22.800 The Chinese can be thinking a generation ahead. 1.00

00:39:25.060 And if they've got to wait out an administration, it's just an administration.

00:39:29.460 But I just had to laugh on a similar subject with people who are uncomfortable or worried about the states unrealistically or realistically.

00:39:35.540 I don't know if you saw the Toronto Star headline that Ford now has to watch his back.

00:39:40.720 Doug Ford.

00:39:41.440 They're going to kidnap Ford.

00:39:42.080 That's going to the Toronto Star.

00:39:44.060 They're going to kidnap Ford?

00:39:45.040 They're going to come get Doug like they want him.

00:39:48.580 But this is the absurdity of Canada's legacy media.

00:39:51.300 I just, you know, it should have been a parting shot, but I already have one.

00:39:55.080 So I just, and it ties into this issue.

00:39:57.040 But the ludicrousness of people's responses to this whole affair.

00:40:01.320 It's just another reason to criticize Trump.

00:40:05.020 So that guy couldn't even do something good.

00:40:08.260 Never mind.

00:40:09.480 Trump cultivating the imagery. 0.99

00:40:11.200 I'm the crazy guy. 0.99

00:40:12.120 I'll do it.

00:40:13.220 You know, okay, you saw the, you know, remember Little Rocket Man, North Korea, Kim Jong-un.

00:40:18.100 Okay, he's been doing that.

00:40:19.240 And I get the strategy from that perspective, but Greenland, Denmark, it backfires there potentially.

00:40:28.220 Because, yes, in international politics, it's important that your adversaries believe you, that I am crazy enough. 0.84

00:40:36.420 I will come snatch you out of your presidential palace in the middle of the night. 1.00

00:40:39.340 I will bomb your ass. 1.00

00:40:41.600 But at the same time, trust from your friends and allies is important. 1.00

00:40:45.940 People have to believe your friendship is worth something, that your alliance means something, that your signature on this treaty means something.

00:40:54.580 And, you know, essentially, I doubt anyone would get killed in taking Greenland.

00:41:00.180 I would be utterly shocked if there was any kind of battle at all.

00:41:03.480 A landing boat hit a rock or something.

00:41:05.640 Yeah, you know, there'll be nothing.

00:41:08.700 but you know it could still be a non-violent occupation military action that kind of thing

00:41:15.940 those happen um how could nato survive that look i'm not shilling for trump i'm just saying that

00:41:23.940 this is this is his game plan i don't like you said they've had uh bases there for a long time

00:41:30.820 what's different about this one i don't know but uh maybe he's just negotiating a lower lease rate

00:41:35.960 Or maybe the message isn't for the Danes, it's for somebody else altogether.

00:41:41.560 Don't screw around with me because I'm, you know, you guys in NATO can go on.

00:41:46.160 I mean, NATO is largely obsolete in many ways.

00:41:51.100 And actually, you know, that foreign policy paper that the White House put out

00:41:55.360 roughly a month or so ago does look at Europe as now an unreliable partner

00:42:00.540 in the long term, that Europe

00:42:02.300 is undergoing radical

00:42:04.840 demographic replacement.

00:42:06.680 Europe is already almost

00:42:08.520 not European anymore, and it 1.00

00:42:10.520 is becoming increasingly

00:42:12.780 less so by the day.

00:42:15.380 And America sees that.

00:42:16.820 And okay, you're no longer our

00:42:18.560 brother that we know.

00:42:20.400 We're no longer going to share

00:42:22.000 common civilization very soon.

00:42:24.300 NATO is, in many

00:42:26.560 respects, obsolete.

00:42:28.160 This could be by intention. This could be

00:42:30.420 intentionally trying to just finally scupper nate though because it's it's already finished

00:42:35.160 the lazy you know kind of closure on it just is that 2026 is kicking off the whole world picture

00:42:40.420 is changing now we're in for a heck of a ride this year nothing happened over the break real

00:42:46.420 quiet on the news front okay gentlemen uh who wants first parting shot you go first gory huh

00:42:52.800 i just wanted to remind everybody of all those recalls that uh legacy media and some professors

00:42:58.420 and others were saying we're going to force danielle smith into a spring election out of terror 0.97

00:43:02.180 the most possible feasible one of them all was nicholas or i mean uh nicholaitis and it was the

00:43:09.780 one based on him being the education minister and teacher strike and it was a razor thin margin

00:43:13.940 mining yeah it was very close one that's conceivable not even vaguely close to making the

00:43:18.600 signature barrier it's going to fail and the rest will fail even more so obviously so that was just

00:43:24.600 a bunch of show and an abuse of the system and the bar that was set in the legislation is

00:43:30.820 appropriate i think if we did have a an axe murderer in the legislature then the bar would 0.98

00:43:35.100 be achieved but this wasn't enough thank you for demonstrating the efficacy of the legislation gill

00:43:40.500 uh better luck next time yeah that's a good one yeah so you know for my for my two panels i think

00:43:48.280 we're just we're about to see now whether carney is serious about a pipeline to the coast

00:43:54.060 after all this happened in venezuela we talked about it for half an hour

00:43:58.040 you know the case for getting an alternative export route has for alberto oil never been

00:44:05.820 more obvious so if something isn't on on the rails in 12 months we'll know without doubt that

00:44:12.940 his green values mindset is what animates him he's been just looking for a way to make it look like

00:44:20.580 he's serious but also to make it go away so i i i'm kind of pessimistic about that and i have to

00:44:28.440 say what has you know what has carney actually accomplished in 10 months can you think of

00:44:33.920 anything that's really he got you got rid of the liberals you saved the liberals all right well

00:44:38.460 thanks thanks very much for that now we got somebody we can criticize you know we could

00:44:42.880 have found something else no he's done nothing for for nine months uh except made plans it's like

00:44:50.480 somebody who is very unconfident of their ea job they spend all the time rearranging the desks so

00:44:55.920 now we've got a you know a ministry of fast track products but we've got no products so what's

00:45:02.560 there's the most disappointing tenure of office i came straight here from a meeting and i actually 0.94

00:45:08.800 didn't prepare mine but i've pulled one out of my arse and it feeds right into what we would say 0.80

00:45:14.240 about where is america going next we've got actually a pool you can't see it on the camera 0.97

00:45:19.200 here, but I've got kind of a

00:45:21.060 glass wall over there, and I like to

00:45:23.000 write out wagers I make with the staff

00:45:24.920 sometimes. This one, I'm

00:45:26.980 the house. I'm giving odds on what

00:45:29.060 country Trump will

00:45:31.180 make a significant intervention with

00:45:33.020 next. I'm defining it as

00:45:34.520 a significant act of war.

00:45:36.960 It doesn't have to mean a war actually breaks out, but an

00:45:39.020 act of war. It could be

00:45:41.120 major bombings. It can be

00:45:42.860 snatching the president out of the palace

00:45:45.040 or something. So I'm giving

00:45:46.940 one-to-one odds

00:45:49.040 Iran or Mexico 0.93

00:45:51.120 2-1 odds on

00:45:53.500 Colombia, Cuba and Panama

00:45:55.620 5-1 odds

00:45:57.540 on Greenland

00:45:58.420 and

00:46:01.300 15-1 odds on Canada

00:46:03.020 so don't sweat it folks

00:46:06.740 and I made a subcategory for Alberta

00:46:09.360 10-1 odds

00:46:10.280 now I'm not

00:46:12.160 that's not

00:46:13.120 I don't know how legitimate those odds are that I'm given

00:46:17.340 uh but the fact that i'm you know 15 to 1 the fact that it's like we're even talking not a

00:46:23.920 billion to one the fact that it's not a billion to one i would obviously not i'm going to win

00:46:29.800 the bet i'm willing to give 15 to one odds on canada i probably should give even better odds

00:46:34.940 but you know i'm not gonna collect pennies here but uh yeah the fact that it's not a billion to

00:46:39.680 shows you that we're in a very interesting new world all right cory we are nigel thank you

00:46:47.440 and uh john for running the show thank all of you for joining us today on the pipeline

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Western Standard - January 09, 2026

Freeland’s allegiance, free helicopter rides and 'Team America： World Police'

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