Western Standard - Ottawa Exposed： Ego-driven Trudeau talks to Canadians from an alternate universe

00:00:00.000 well welcome to another edition of ottawa exposed with david creighton i'm david creighton i'm the

00:00:17.760 senior parliamentary correspondent for the western standard and i'm here today to tell you what's

00:00:25.440 really happening in Ottawa. There's always something going on. I hope you guys all had a

00:00:31.900 safe and happy New Year's Eve. It was so boring at our house that my cat called the SPCA.

00:00:41.400 But seriously, we're into a very interesting year politically, and I want you all to be here

00:00:48.000 every week to understand what's going on here in Ottawa. I'll do my best because my job is

00:00:55.000 to tell you the truth and that's what you're going to get from this correspondent and there's

00:01:02.620 a lot of things to discuss today but I want to start off by saying this is my fourth broadcast

00:01:07.400 and the first three have just gone through the roof and I want to thank you for your support

00:01:13.160 I don't think we've seen numbers like this at the Western Standard so far

00:01:16.860 and it's wonderful to be part of this experience and I'm thanking you all for tuning in again today

00:01:23.740 for listening to what I have to say because I've been doing this for quite a few years

00:01:28.580 and I've never had so much fun as I'm having right now writing daily and broadcasting every

00:01:37.440 week about what's going on and I want to thank the Western Standard for the opportunity and

00:01:42.080 the audience to talk to because we are dealing with some very exciting times I want to lead off

00:01:48.680 with my last column of actually 2022 was part of the end of the year review and i want to compliment

00:01:57.160 our opinion pages editor nigel hannaford for rolling out all of the end of the year columns

00:02:02.200 from all of our columnists in such a fantastic way there is never a dull moment there is never

00:02:07.640 a day without something really interesting to read about and what did i choose to do my end

00:02:13.560 to do your column about well guess what george orwell and why george orwell continues to be

00:02:21.560 so relevant to people today he is so relevant because he wasn't necessarily aligned with any

00:02:30.600 political party he he voted for the labor party in his lifetime he wasn't particularly

00:02:36.680 pledged to any particular philosophy, although he called himself a socialist.

00:02:43.800 What he really was dedicated to was the truth. And if that truth got in the way of his preconceived

00:02:50.920 notions of the ideology of the moment, of what was popular at the moment, it didn't matter to

00:02:58.220 George Orwell. He spoke the truth. He wrote the truth. He went to Spain to fight in the Spanish

00:03:03.480 civil war he certainly wasn't there to fight for the fascists but he wasn't going to fight for

00:03:08.280 stalin stalinist russia either so he chose a third team to fight for and he really stood up

00:03:17.480 for the truth throughout throughout his lifetime and i thought it was it was a very apropos to

00:03:23.400 finish off 2022 by talking about orwell because we are living in orwellian times i say it all

00:03:29.000 all the time in my columns i probably say it too much and i and i probably should

00:03:35.640 say it less but but george orwell of course was not just the author of 1984 and that's probably

00:03:42.280 how most people remember orwell that's probably how they're first introduced to orwell that was

00:03:48.120 his best-selling book his most popular book and unfortunately the last book he ever wrote

00:03:54.360 uh he was only 46 years and he died and or in 1984 he called it that because he started writing

00:04:01.240 in 1948 he just reversed the numbers but it describes of course a very dystopic society

00:04:08.040 in the future where the state controls not only how we speak and how we write but how we think

00:04:17.000 it's not good enough for the for the state that control your speech they want to control your

00:04:21.560 thought and that's where we're going in trudeau's canada that's where we're going because he wants

00:04:26.680 to censor the internet to the point where we can't say what we want to say and everything

00:04:34.040 that he deems to be inappropriate he's going to call hate speech or he's going to call

00:04:40.440 misinformation these are deadly terms these are toxic terms because they can mean literally

00:04:46.280 anything the state the trudeau government deems them to mean so if he thinks my my speech my

00:04:54.520 writing is hateful because i'm critical of his policies he can say it's hate speech if he doesn't

00:05:01.800 agree with my opinion on something he can say that's misinformation we're going to banish it

00:05:06.840 from the internet that's not acceptable folks and the liberal government is going through with with

00:05:11.240 bills to do this suppress this and i thought it was time to remember that orwell was already there

00:05:18.040 before us he was he was already there before us and orwell said in 1984 very interesting line

00:05:26.040 because doesn't this remind you of where we are today who controls the past controls the future

00:05:33.400 who controls the present controls the past and have you noticed how the trudeau government's

00:05:39.800 constantly trying to reinvent the past always apologizing for things that happened in the past

00:05:45.640 because they can control the past and the present they will control the future and they control it

00:05:52.200 through speech they control it through the way we communicate and right now the way most canadians

00:06:00.440 are getting their news and are communicating with others unofficially and officially

00:06:07.720 is through the internet and we've learned lately how twitter was controlled by officials in the

00:06:17.080 u.s government by the by the fbi by the justice department we know social media is tainted with

00:06:22.520 control and we know trudeau wants to control that internet in canada and this is a very very

00:06:28.680 dangerous thing so we need to remember that orwell told us how some in animal farm how

00:06:35.880 some animals are more equal than others that's the society that justin trudeau envisions where

00:06:42.520 some animals some people are more equal than others the elites are more equal than the masses

00:06:49.160 that's why he hates populism so much because it empowers people to stand up and say i will

00:06:55.560 not be suppressed that's why he hated the freedom convoy so much because people stood up and say

00:07:01.880 we will not be forced to do something against our will and to lose our job because we made

00:07:07.400 that decision that's why trudeau hated that so much i want to move on to one of my favorite

00:07:14.680 columns of the week and i think it was apropos because it was about justin trudeau's new year's

00:07:21.160 day statement to canadians now if you go through justin trudeau's statements over the over the

00:07:28.120 years he's been prime minister they're often innocuous anodyne sometimes incomprehensible

00:07:36.360 he wrote at once about christmas and it was difficult to decide whether he was talking

00:07:43.000 about christmas or a non-christian holiday he has that tendency but his new year's message

00:07:49.560 this year was quite interesting because i thought it sounded like a man living inhabiting another

00:07:54.360 planet or living or inhabiting an alternate universe that doesn't correspond with the one

00:08:02.120 most canadians are living on this is how he wrote quite quite interesting he says for instance we

00:08:09.880 have a lot to be thankful for in this past year we got back to doing the things we love like gathering

00:08:14.520 with friends and family as our economy reopened we experienced one of the strongest economic

00:08:20.120 recoveries in the g7 creating more jobs than we lost to the pandemic i find that very hard to

00:08:26.600 believe you wander down your main street how many of those restaurants are still closed or haven't

00:08:31.960 reopened we're just losing one of my favorite pubs in town the heart and crown is closing i just read

00:08:38.200 yesterday couldn't make it through rolling lockdowns and trudeau's still threatening lockdown 0.88

00:08:44.680 so my goodness what a hypocrite as we welcome the world back to canada over the summer to share the 0.96

00:08:51.160 natural beauty that we are all so proud of trudeau gushes forgetting that of course he was the one 0.98

00:08:56.760 who shut down the economy he was the one responsible for now trudeau always has challenges

00:09:02.520 there's challenges in trudeau's life he doesn't like to describe anything in his life as is

00:09:07.160 anything but a challenge but he says this year also had challenges but when things got hard we

00:09:12.680 were there for each other i don't think trudeau was there for each of us let's see we rolled up

00:09:19.000 our sleeves looked out for our neighbors and supported each other well the only thing trudeau

00:09:24.760 rolled up his sleeve for was to get another jab of the covet 19 shot and he insisted we keep getting

00:09:31.320 these vaccinations two wasn't enough three wasn't enough now we should be getting we should be

00:09:37.080 getting them for the rest of our lives according to trudeau and his health minister trudeau did

00:09:41.800 not roll up his arms for canadians this year when the freedom convoy rolled into town he ignored

00:09:46.760 them he disappeared and as we learned what he likes to do on his spare time is binge watch

00:09:52.920 television he loves a series called the boys which is about a group of vigilantes looking out

00:09:59.160 for corrupt superheroes and if that sounds ridiculous to you it does to me too i haven't

00:10:03.240 seen the show but when you learn that justin trudeau's favorite material is science fiction

00:10:09.080 and horror his favorite author is stephen king for instance uh his favorite movie is a science

00:10:15.320 fiction movie he seems to really live in another place than the rest of us and i i believe he

00:10:24.120 he he does this in his personal life and he he also imposes this on his professional life and

00:10:30.520 this is why he doesn't seem to be living in the same space as the rest of us and i love how he

00:10:35.320 concludes his statement to Canadians. And remember, this is his New Year's Eve statement here.

00:10:39.780 As we look ahead to the new year, the government of Canada will continue to build an economy that

00:10:44.040 works for all Canadians. Really? We will keep attracting historic investments, and here's the

00:10:51.500 kicker here, in our electric vehicle supply chain, from critical minerals to manufacturing, which

00:10:58.440 are already securing tens of thousands of jobs across the country, and we will continue to be

00:11:02.700 there for people by making life more affordable well justin trudeau you have not made life more

00:11:07.960 affordable for canadians and i'd like to know exactly what you're talking about when you say

00:11:12.180 electrical vehicle supply chain are you talking about batteries for electric cars because guess

00:11:17.820 what batteries are we're running out of batteries because we can't get enough of the materials

00:11:23.700 and minerals to make them and we're using child labor around the world to obtain those those

00:11:31.260 minerals in those materials so i thought that was something justin trudeau wouldn't support

00:11:37.260 so we don't have enough batteries for these electric cars and the very

00:11:42.300 idea of an electric car is founded on fossil fuels did you ever think of that

00:11:47.900 justin trudeau i probably hasn't he thinks when you plug this this electric vehicle in

00:11:54.060 it's a magic source of power what is it actually well it's electricity which is produced by

00:12:02.540 coal-fired plants in many cases not magic fossil fuels create the power to generate electric cars

00:12:12.700 so there's a huge contradiction here but what trudeau if you know trudeau thinks he's going

00:12:17.660 to make money off green energy he missed one of the biggest opportunities in canadian history last

00:12:24.300 year when he turned down germany's offer to buy canadian liquid natural gas lng he said there was

00:12:31.500 no business case for it now he lost billions of dollars in sales real sales not these kind of

00:12:41.260 ephemeral sales that are part of the green energy plan which by the way china has already

00:12:49.500 cornered the market on they have already they're already producing the windmills

00:12:55.100 and the solar panels that are part of the green energy deal so does truder really think he's going

00:13:01.340 to make commensurate money from batteries for electric cars where is his mind in all of this

00:13:11.260 of course it's fantasy because he's writing to us he's speaking to us from an alternate universe

00:13:17.420 and that's something we always have to remember about justin trudeau he's not living in the same

00:13:22.220 place we are he is living with elites he's has his entire life he grew up as an elite in elite

00:13:30.060 family his father was prime minister he continues to live in the world of elites and this is

00:13:36.460 something we cannot ever forget and this is why he hates populism so much because it empowers people

00:13:42.780 real people who he doesn't really ever get to meet and has no desire to meet

00:13:49.020 i wanted to cover my third column now which is a very dangerous phenomena and we learned recently

00:13:55.420 that during the negotiations that were going on during the Freedom Convoy

00:14:03.260 and before Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act,

00:14:09.080 Trudeau's parliamentary secretary said that the government,

00:14:12.540 that the cabinet had pissed away its credibility, his own words, his own words.

00:14:18.340 Now, surely Justin Trudeau realized that he had pissed away his own credibility as well

00:14:25.220 by lying by stretching the truth by not telling canadians what's really happening so the solution

00:14:34.260 instead of putting cabinet ministers and the prime minister in front of the microphone to explain

00:14:39.220 the situation to canadians use the military use police officers use people in uniform to do it

00:14:48.340 to justify it to to parrot those talking points and to give substance and credibility

00:14:58.420 to words that have no truth or validity and i remember this happening when i was still in

00:15:05.620 uniform and the chief of defense staff general maurice barry was forced to conduct the news

00:15:11.540 conference to explain why then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien could not go to a funeral for the late

00:15:20.420 King Hussein in Jordan. Now, Chrétien had his own personal reasons for not going. He made a choice

00:15:28.220 not to go, but he was embarrassed politically by it. So he forced the military to concoct a fiction,

00:15:34.940 a tale that the military could not have flown him there in time.

00:15:39.540 And they had the CDS at the time appear before the cameras and tell this grand lie.

00:15:46.920 And, of course, it was just Jean Chrétien's way of evading responsibility.

00:15:54.040 Now, Justin Trudeau apparently is all for this.

00:15:57.780 And look for more of this in 2023.

00:16:00.420 You'll see fewer cabinet ministers up there telling stories.

00:16:03.300 and you'll see more generals and you'll see more police officers and more public servants that

00:16:10.720 people are supposed to trust issuing those government talking points now this is very

00:16:17.480 dangerous you know and we've we have seen this already and it's not healthy for a democracy

00:16:24.180 but very little of what Justin Trudeau is doing right now is healthy for a democracy he is clearly

00:16:30.940 working towards more self-enggrandizement,

00:16:35.320 more authoritarian government.

00:16:38.920 And believe me, this is something to be very concerned about.

00:16:42.580 Something to be very concerned about

00:16:44.380 because Justin Trudeau is there for Justin Trudeau.

00:16:50.360 Now, is there going to be an election in 2023?

00:16:55.400 And the question is, can an ego-driven politician,

00:16:58.860 a narcissistic politician like Justin Trudeau, actually accept the rejection of the electorate.

00:17:08.560 Now, I believe there will be an election in 2023. I could be wrong. Justin Trudeau can change his

00:17:15.580 mind. He has already indicated to his caucus that there's going to be an election in 2023.

00:17:22.100 Get ready for it, he said. Be prepared. Now, it's true, any caucus of any cabinet should always be ready for an election.

00:17:30.300 But when the prime minister indicates that they had better be ready, it's a good indication that he has got something planned.

00:17:38.000 Now, why would Justin Trudeau want an election in 2023?

00:17:41.460 Because he knows the latter half of that year, of this year, is probably going to be worse.

00:17:48.960 we could be into a heavy recession by that time we could be into stagflation in a very serious

00:17:57.600 ways interest rates are going to continue to climb and if you remember what happened with

00:18:03.440 interest rates under his father when they exceeded 20 percent people lost homes they lost livelihoods

00:18:12.400 they lost lives in some cases interest rates can decimate and destroy a society and trudeau knows

00:18:21.680 those interest rates are going to continue to climb in 2023 trudeau also suspects that the

00:18:27.520 ndp vote has collapsed now you might recall he's in an informal coalition with the ndp right now

00:18:36.000 he and jagmut singh the leader of ndp have a an agreement of sorts ndp is supporting the

00:18:43.760 liberal government trudeau thinks that's worked out on his behalf and that he has virtually

00:18:48.880 captured the ndp vote he probably looked at this recent by-election in mississauga

00:18:55.680 where by the way only 25 of the electorate showed up but he looked at that where the

00:19:00.400 liberal exceeded 50 just exceeded 51 of the vote and the ndp did not even get five percent of the

00:19:07.920 vote in that by-election conservatives got over 35 so there's really a two-way race even though

00:19:13.360 there are five parties participating now trudeau's looking at that and saying ah

00:19:18.960 the ndp vote has collapsed and it's gone to the liberals certainly this informal coalition has

00:19:27.440 hurt the ndp politically there's no question about that but is all the ndp vote going to the liberals

00:19:34.560 i don't believe so i think there's an old-style blue-collar vote in the ndp that is sick and tired

00:19:43.120 of socialism that doesn't work and is sick and tired of the social re-engineering that the ndp 0.92

00:19:49.840 is so fond of so fond of pronouns so so fond of of the transgender politics where biological males

00:20:00.800 are allowed to compete against females because they just say they feel like a woman 0.98

00:20:07.840 this is obviously nonsense and it should not govern how sports are conducted in this country

00:20:14.320 and it's a slap in the face of women everywhere women have to adjust to this new reality no they 1.00

00:20:21.760 don't because it's not reality it's fantasy and the ndp voter is sick and tired of this nonsense

00:20:30.400 being thrown in their face and i believe a lot of that ndp vote that populist ndp vote is going

00:20:38.560 to the opposition leader, Pierre Polyev in the Conservative Party of Canada,

00:20:42.980 and Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada,

00:20:46.180 because they're sick of these slogans, and they're sick of social re-engineering.

00:20:53.540 And believe me, the times are changing that way.

00:20:57.500 And you're going to see that evidence in the next election.

00:21:01.180 A lot of those NDP voters, I think, showed up for the Freedom Convoy.

00:21:04.240 They were populist types who were sick of the audible elites controlling how Canada is run.

00:21:13.740 I think it's very important that we recognize this.

00:21:17.540 Trudeau has no good reason to assume he's going to win that next election.

00:21:22.220 I know he survived them in the past.

00:21:24.740 He survived the blackface scandal in the middle of an election.

00:21:29.000 He couldn't even remember how many videos were produced.

00:21:32.080 he surprised he somehow survived the SNC-Lavalin scandal he lost an attorney general over that

00:21:39.820 but Trudeau marched on but the Teflon is wearing very thin the Teflon is wearing very thin my

00:21:48.960 friends and he's not going to survive this next election I tell you that because people

00:21:54.040 don't forget everything and these hijinks these shenanigans of his when he's overseas in India

00:22:00.880 printing before the cameras in traditional Indian garb.

00:22:05.240 Hey, I thought that was cultural appropriation, Mr. Trudeau.

00:22:08.280 Not when you do it or your family does it.

00:22:10.780 I don't think, and the family looked very uncomfortable, by the way,

00:22:13.600 because this is all about Trudeau's ego.

00:22:16.100 It's all driven by Trudeau's ego.

00:22:18.080 And what about Trudeau overseas on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral?

00:22:23.260 Well, what Queen meant to him was a 1970s band,

00:22:27.500 Then he decided to relax in a piano bar and serenade whomever was there with Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:22:37.820 Somebody was there with a smartphone, recorded it all, and shot it around the world.

00:22:43.620 And, of course, Trudeau Blase as ever.

00:22:47.200 But these things are going to come back to haunt Trudeau in the next election.

00:22:50.780 as is his acquiescence his surrender to china his refusal to say that the

00:22:57.740 the extermination of the uyghurs in china is not a genocide he hasn't got the courage or the guts 0.95

00:23:05.380 to call it what it is and it's a genocide his chinese masters would object to that 0.96

00:23:11.120 but justin trudeau thinks he's going to win this next election but he's going to be very sadly

00:23:16.840 mistaken and one of the reasons trudeau thinks he's going to win this next election is because

00:23:22.680 he has the media in his pocket the cbc is subsidized to the tune of 1.6 billion dollars

00:23:32.120 it is a government state agency trudeau went one step further as prime minister he's doled out 600

00:23:40.120 million dollars to subsidize the mainstream media the legacy media those media outlets that are

00:23:48.600 willing to accept taxpayer funded subsidies handouts in the operation of the news i'm proud

00:23:56.840 to say that the western standard is not one of those media outlets we do not accept a cent

00:24:05.960 not a red nickel of taxpayer funding as we conduct our business of collecting gathering

00:24:15.240 and distributing the news we are committed to telling you the truth we're not like those

00:24:21.320 mealy-mouthed reporters at those news conferences where trudeau and the pmo selects the journalists

00:24:29.240 who are allowed to ask ask the questions and they ask those softball questions about how did you 0.99

00:24:34.120 decide to wear those socks today mr trudeau no we're not part of that group we are part of the

00:24:40.040 group that george orwell was fighting for in his books and in his writings dedication devotion to

00:24:49.160 the truth and that's why i'm here every week as part of this broadcast ottawa exposed will continue

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Ottawa Exposed： Ego-driven Trudeau talks to Canadians from an alternate universe

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