Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau's worst moments of 2022 and how Poilevre can win in 2023
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Summary
In this episode of Ottawa Exposed, senior parliamentary columnist David Cote talks about some of the worst moments of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's tenure as Prime Minister of Canada from 2011 to 2017. From the blackface scandal, to the anti-vaccine protests, the vanquishing of anti-vax protesters, to his bizarre rendition of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral song, there's a lot to discuss.
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well hello again welcome to another episode of ottawa exposed with david creighton i'm the senior
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parliamentary columnist for the western standard and i'm really really happy to be here again
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this week we've got lots to discuss probably well i hope you all had a merry christmas i want to
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start off the broadcast by saying i hope you spent time with friends and family you got recharged
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because we're in for a big 2023 i think we can all agree to that there's possibility of an
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election we'll get to that later but i want to open up with some of the worst moments of prime
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minister justin trudeau in 2022. you know he's never as predictable as you think when he's done
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the worst he always goes that one step further and goes and makes he makes you sick and that's
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exactly what trudeau did in 2022 and i wrote i wrote a column that this week that encapsulated
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i think some of the the worst moments there's so many but it they weren't just moments that were
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funny or ridiculous they are also moments that were terrible policy and of course he began the
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year with terrible policy when the freedom convoy came to ottawa what was justin schruder's reaction
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well he fled the city and i said jokingly at the time he probably watched uh the entire matrix
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series but it could have been true because we learned recently that he loves that kind of
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of film and in television and his his favorite television show is something called the boys
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which is about a bunch of vigilantes should be anathema to justin trudeau going after corrupt
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superheroes now i've never seen it have no plans to but it shows you where the man's mind was and
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probably was there in february where he disappeared uh talked about having another bout of covid
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and came back and refused to meet with any of the truckers any of the protesters who were
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in ottawa peacefully protesting against vaccine mandates and then he invokes the emergencies act
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on february 14th now good grief that was valentine's day and of course i that's why i always
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remember the day that he invoked the emergencies act it was valentine's day that was an act of
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really sick symbolism really sick symbolism but of course that's what trudeau is all about
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and he came down hard on these protesters and of course we learned recently in this year in
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interview that he had no other reason to come down so hard on these protesters but because
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they disagreed with him had nothing to do with public safety they disagreed with his policies
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on COVID-19 his his vax policies they had a right to disagree but Cherto said no they cannot be out
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there spreading this misinformation and he went even further and called them nazis and and
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misogynists and racist and basically smeared a whole bunch of blue-collar workers who were out
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there trying to make a statement but that was definitely his worst moment of 2022 i want to
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get to a more comical moment but of course everything trudeau does comically has tragic
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consequences and that's exactly what happened he was in london for the queen's funeral queen
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elizabeth ii's funeral it was a state funeral trudeau was obviously there representing canada
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she was our queen she she had died after after 60 years on the throne she had just celebrated
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her diamond jubilee and trudeau was was in london and on the eve of the funeral what does justin
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Trudeau do? Well, what do you expect a narcissistic individual like Trudeau do? Well, we learned he
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was not only a gifted blackface performer who had been doing that sort of thing for years,
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but he was also a third-rate piano bar singer. And he's in this, he's sitting around the piano
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looking a little bit worse for wear. We don't know if he was drinking or not. It's hard to tell
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with Justin Trudeau because he does think sober. A lot of people wouldn't think of doing it unless
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they were drinking but here he is on the piano and one of his friends is tinkling the ivories
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and he's singing bohemian rhapsody by the 1970s band queen now there seems to be an awful
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correlation here between singing a song from a band named queen and going to queen's funeral
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the next day i don't know if justin trudeau was trying to read something into this or
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portray something who knows what kind of contrivances this man uses or even thinks of
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because he didn't formally tape this this this rendition of bohemian rhapsody somebody
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at the hotel had an iphone and recorded it put it on youtube twitter facebook the following day
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and it was all over the world and once again justin trudeau was disappointing us as he always
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seems to do so this was it reminded me of his antics in india when he was over there every day
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you know dressed in traditional indian clothing with his whole family dressed up that way
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standing in front of the camera preening for these photo ops and justin trudeau it's always
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about justin trudeau he had to make the queen's funeral about himself even even if it's about how
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ridiculous justin trudeau is he just needs to be the center the focus of the news and this was this
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was just an incredibly embarrassing event for canada but i want to move on to a couple of other
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things and a lot of a lot of ridiculous things happened at the g20 conference in bali and and
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trudeau of course was at the center of these as well every time he leaves the country he seems
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to get into trouble you know if one of my colleagues at the western standard equipped
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maybe somebody should take away his passport for a while so he can just embarrass canada
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inside canada and not go overseas and advertise it but he was at the g20 summon he was asked about
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the extermination of the Uyghurs in China now these are these are Muslim people within China
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that the Chinese Communist government are killing putting in concentration camps just like Hitler did
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and killing them through overwork exhaustion starvation or by other means we're not exactly
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sure how many are dying and how exactly they are dying but we know this is an extermination policy
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Now, would Justin Trudeau label this a genocide?
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And in one of his classic Trudeau-esque moments,
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that he's not somebody who can make that judgment call.
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He's not qualified to say whether it's a genocide.
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Well, when was Justin Trudeau ever unqualified in his own mind
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He routinely smears Canadians as racist and misogynistic, sometimes Nazi-like if they don't agree with him.
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Yet he can't label what's going on in China as a genocide.
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This pops up increasingly in his dialogue with the Chinese.
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He's always very careful about criticizing the Chinese.
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so this was followed by an actual argument except it was quite one-sided with chinese dictator
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xi jinping now xi uh obviously was upset that trudeau was leaking some of his conversations
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private conversations with the chinese dictator to the canadian media and xi was quite upset about
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this and he dressed down trudeau publicly with the cameras are on and and it was very embarrassing
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and trudeau just sort of sat there or stood there smiling taking this dressing down this
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operating from this chinese dictator and then he sort of turned and walked into the men's room it
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was a classic scene leaving his chief of staff there to just sort of watch with her mouth hanging
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open i don't know if trudeau went into the men's room to relieve himself to throw up or to just
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disappear but clearly he was not comfortable standing there any longer so that was the uh
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that was the third incident uh the fourth i named in the column was trudeau's refusal to sell
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liquid natural gas to germany now this happened last august germany asked canada we're going to
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need lng liquid natural gas because we can't get enough oil out of russia due to the war with
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ukraine so what does trudeau say no there's no business case for it now this is a monumental
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failure of judgment but the sort of thing we expect from justin trudeau this is the man who
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routinely says we need green energy even though it's not available in any sort of quantity to
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satisfy the industrial needs of a modern society this is the man who said we don't need pipelines
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except if they benefit him politically so he decides no we're not going to sell natural gas
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to the germans and there's no business case for well actually there's probably billions of dollars
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of a business case there but trudeau is so incredibly dense in terms of economics this
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is a man who styles himself as an economist although clearly knows very little about even
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the basics he refuses to sell the gas so what does germany do they go elsewhere they go to mexico
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and they put a terminal on the ocean so they can transport lng to germany they can actually start
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importing gas could have done it from canada we have vast supplies of natural gas that we could
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have sent to germany and we could have been making a lot of money a ton of cash on this but truda
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once again decided it was it was his way not the right way so that was that was the fourth ridiculous
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thing he did that year the fifth event incident that i mentioned in the column i think is quite
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tragic because at the emergencies inquiry uh investigation he he was on the stand on the last
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day and he he was there for about eight hours and he read his talking points when the government
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lawyers were there he did his best to look like he was unshakable but he lied or he he lied or he forgot
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because he was asked that did why did you call the protesters the people who came
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to ottawa as part of the freedom convoy why did you call people who disagree with your vaccine
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policy names and trudeau said i never called them names and he said that with the camera uh rolling
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this was recorded and and i i broadcast it to the world as far and wide as i could
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he of course did call the freedom convoy people he did call the unvaccinated names
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he he started out by calling the whole freedom convoy like a fringe movement you know a very a
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very dangerous extremist movement he suggested they were violent he suggested they wanted to
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take over the government and of course he called the unvaccinated names he called them racist and
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misogynistic and we have that of course on tape in a in both languages he said it in english and
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he said it in a in a french broadcast as well so that is what justin trudeau did in 2022.
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i would really be hard-pressed to find some triumphant moments for justin true in
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2022 it was not a happy year for justin shirt he just said it was not a happy year for canadians
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who have suffered from his carbon tax who have suffered from his half his high gas prices who
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have suffered from inflation and who are suffering increasingly from his his social reach he wants
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censorship he wants to take over social media he wants to suppress the new media in this country
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as as much as he wants to enrich and subsidize the mainstream legacy media and this is very
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dangerous so it's not been a good year for canadians under justin trudeau but i'll tell
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you it's been a very good year for albertans under daniel smith and i touched on this in my second
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column of the week i think daniel smith has done one hell of a good job leading alberta because
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there was a bit of a hangover after jason kenny retired from politics a lot of us who knew jason
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kenny and i'm one of them uh i thought he was going to do a lot better especially during the
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pandemic but he became so authoritarian uh putting people in jail locking down the economy that he
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disappointed a lot of principled conservatives they're coming back to the united conservative
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party under danielle smith because she's serious she's taking this very seriously she ran on an on
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a very conservative agenda she ran for under the alberta sovereignty act and that's the first order
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of business she had when she became premier she passed the alberta sovereignty act she means
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business with ottawa she means to strike out as a province and as she's become a beacon and a symbol
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of provincial autonomy provincial rights by doing this and she's not asking for anything quebec
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already didn't get over over decades beginning with the quiet revolution and through those
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decades where quebec threatened to separate the federal government retroceded a lot of rights it
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had taken away from quebec and gave them back during this period now alberta needs to do the
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same thing and danielle smith is doing that she's demanding that alberta have the rights the
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constitution already gives it and believe me if you think the alberta sovereignty act is radical
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it was pierre trudeau actually who wrote the notwithstanding clause into the constitution so
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provinces could opt out of federal legislation they don't like there's nothing new or radical
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And I call her the Margaret Thatcher of Alberta
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because she's come under tremendous pressure from interest groups,
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They don't like her because she means what she says,
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I didn't mean what I said when I ran for the leadership of the UCP.
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she says i mean when i said i'm going to follow through in this and alberta is going to prosper
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now she's slightly behind in the polls to rachel notley's ndp in alberta but you watch that change
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the latest poll had 25 undecided now that means that's probably 25 largely conservative voters
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who are fed up with jason canney and said i'm not going to vote for him again but they're looking
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at daniel smith and saying hey here's a principal conservative who means what she says and she's
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going to go through with and do what she promised as someone who ran in a leadership race you know
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richard nixon the former u.s president the late richard nixon used to say you run to the right
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in primaries when you're running for party leadership and you run to the center in a
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national election daniel smith is saying you run for the truth you run for what's right whether
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you're running for the leadership of a party or whether you're running for premier of a province
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so expect daniel smith to stay firm on these issues she's not going to cave to the national
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media that want her out of politics they don't like her because she's not part of the status
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quote and she is challenging the pusillanimous justin trudeau and she's going to win that fight
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because i tell you she's got the guts she's got the moxie she's got the intelligence to do it
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and i and justin trudeau doesn't i the irony of this of course is that while his father
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pierre trudeau spent his entire political career trying to build up a a very central strong
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government that would rule the provinces like fiefdoms justin trudeau by simply by being so
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weak he's allowing the provinces to maintain and really for the first time reify their provincial
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autonomy which they already have in law so i'm going to turn to my third column of the week
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which was all about peer poly of and the conservatives now there's all kinds of talk
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as i mentioned at the offset of this broadcast about a provincial or federal election occurring
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in 2023 now that's entirely possible justin trudeau has told his caucus get ready for an election in
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the spring of 2023 now why would he do that well because he's up in the polls comparatively
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relatively speaking and he knows the potential for a huge economic breakdown
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not just a recession but a possible depression is entirely possible in the latter part of 2023
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so he wants to get re-elected he's also looking at the collapse of the ndp the federal ndp under
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jagmeet singh because in a recent by-election mississauga the ndp vote collapsed to the point
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of it being a tertiary not even the third party a tertiary party fighting for the scraps with with
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the other parties at at that end of the spectrum and trudeau senses that his deal with the devil
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his pact with jagmeet singh is going to pay off by ndp voters going to vote for liberal because
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if if trudeau can deliver with jagmeet singh is promising why bother vote for the socialist
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liberal candidate namely justin trudeau so he's he's banking on that but he's not banking on
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canadians looking around and saying am i better off than i was four years ago now ronald reagan
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one of my political heroes in his debate with jimmy carter and just prior to the 1980
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presidential election then governor ronald reagan turned to to the audience and asked
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are you better off now than you were four years ago speaking about the four years of jimmy carter
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president jimmy carter democrat jimmy carter and of course americans resoundingly said no they
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weren't better off peer poly of needs to enunciate that same question to canadians are you better
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off now when you were under the last four years of justin trudeau under the last two years of
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veston trudeau are you better off are you paying more for everything or and is justin trudeau
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reaching his hand into every area of society is he threatening censorship is he taking away your
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guns to the point of this being a gun-free society with no right to self-defense is that what justin
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trudeau is up to and i think the question can be answered with no i'm not better off than i was
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four years ago i'm not better off than i was two years ago and that question is going to haunt
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justin trudeau in the next federal election you know what else pierre pauliev needs to do and i
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hope he watches this broadcast again i refer to ronald reagan who presented a positive principled
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conservatism he talked about america as a shining city on the hill he talked about free enterprise
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as something that liberates people liberates their talents liberates their ability to make
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money without the state doling it out he said conservatism was a positive place to be
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it was a great place to be because it was all about freedom individual freedom
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not mandates not the government telling you what you can watch on the internet not the government
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coming to your house and confiscating your weapons not the government trying to take over your life
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and trying to tell you how to run your life ronald reagan was all about individual freedom and that's
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what pier paulia needs to express in this next election positive positive conservatism he cannot
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just expect to win by bashing justin trudeau as tempting as that is and as often as i do that
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he cannot win the election simply by doing that he has to present the same positive policies that he
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presented when he ran for the leadership of the conservative party of canada this year and what
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was why were those crowds there why why did he attract so many people who were youthful blue
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collar workers women minorities new canadians why were they attracted to peer poly up because he
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talked about individual freedom and he said canada needs to be a the home of freedom canada needs to
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be a place where businesses can operate without huge regulations where taxes can be cut and where
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the money can be made by individual canadians and not by the state because the state doesn't make
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money it takes money away from us that's what pier polio talked about while he was running for
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leadership and that's what pier polio needs to talk about again in the next election if we have
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one in 2023 and i personally think it's a good bet we are going to have one and we have to watch
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very carefully what the liberals tried to do to the conservative party they will try to portray
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peer poly of his extreme it's dangerous there's the words they love extreme and dangerous but
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poly is to fight back in a positive way and i want to hear him talk about selling off the cbc again
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he needs to talk about that because that's not an extremist position it's a normal position
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most canadians want to see the cbc support itself and get out of the get out of its parents bedroom
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and go to work for goodness sake stop accepting 100 subsidy from the state and we need to cut the
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subsidies to other media off too under a conservative government if that is and if
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they don't do that they're making a terrible terrible mistake and that would that leads
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me to my pitch at the end of this broadcast is that support the new media and the western standard
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is the new media we do not accept a cent not one cent of government subsidy not a cent from this
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federal government from this cradle government because when you accept money from the government
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you're going to start talking their party line you're going to allow yourself to be used by the
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government because you want that money to continue to be pumped in to your media outlet
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we need a return to free expression free speech and free media without government interference
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and if pauliev can deliver that we need to support pauliev in the next election
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because we need a change we need a change from justin trudeau we need somebody who's talking
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have a happy new year's eve and a safe and happy new year's eve and we're going to bring in the
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new year and hope for change in 2023 but the only one who can bring that change is you
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but we can do much better, much better in 2023.