Western Standard - Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau's worst moments of 2022 and how Poilevre can win in 2023

00:00:00.000 well hello again welcome to another episode of ottawa exposed with david creighton i'm the senior

00:00:18.080 parliamentary columnist for the western standard and i'm really really happy to be here again

00:00:23.200 this week we've got lots to discuss probably well i hope you all had a merry christmas i want to

00:00:29.040 start off the broadcast by saying i hope you spent time with friends and family you got recharged

00:00:34.720 because we're in for a big 2023 i think we can all agree to that there's possibility of an

00:00:39.840 election we'll get to that later but i want to open up with some of the worst moments of prime

00:00:46.800 minister justin trudeau in 2022. you know he's never as predictable as you think when he's done

00:00:57.120 the worst he always goes that one step further and goes and makes he makes you sick and that's 0.58

00:01:03.840 exactly what trudeau did in 2022 and i wrote i wrote a column that this week that encapsulated

00:01:10.880 i think some of the the worst moments there's so many but it they weren't just moments that were

00:01:17.360 funny or ridiculous they are also moments that were terrible policy and of course he began the

00:01:24.080 year with terrible policy when the freedom convoy came to ottawa what was justin schruder's reaction

00:01:30.400 well he fled the city and i said jokingly at the time he probably watched uh the entire matrix

00:01:38.000 series but it could have been true because we learned recently that he loves that kind of

00:01:44.800 of film and in television and his his favorite television show is something called the boys

00:01:50.720 which is about a bunch of vigilantes should be anathema to justin trudeau going after corrupt

00:01:57.600 superheroes now i've never seen it have no plans to but it shows you where the man's mind was and

00:02:02.480 probably was there in february where he disappeared uh talked about having another bout of covid

00:02:09.040 and came back and refused to meet with any of the truckers any of the protesters who were

00:02:15.120 in ottawa peacefully protesting against vaccine mandates and then he invokes the emergencies act

00:02:23.120 on february 14th now good grief that was valentine's day and of course i that's why i always

00:02:29.200 remember the day that he invoked the emergencies act it was valentine's day that was an act of

00:02:34.560 really sick symbolism really sick symbolism but of course that's what trudeau is all about

00:02:42.000 and he came down hard on these protesters and of course we learned recently in this year in

00:02:48.160 interview that he had no other reason to come down so hard on these protesters but because

00:02:53.620 they disagreed with him had nothing to do with public safety they disagreed with his policies

00:02:58.520 on COVID-19 his his vax policies they had a right to disagree but Cherto said no they cannot be out

00:03:06.100 there spreading this misinformation and he went even further and called them nazis and and

00:03:12.460 misogynists and racist and basically smeared a whole bunch of blue-collar workers who were out

00:03:19.360 there trying to make a statement but that was definitely his worst moment of 2022 i want to

00:03:26.400 get to a more comical moment but of course everything trudeau does comically has tragic

00:03:30.920 consequences and that's exactly what happened he was in london for the queen's funeral queen

00:03:37.120 elizabeth ii's funeral it was a state funeral trudeau was obviously there representing canada

00:03:42.940 she was our queen she she had died after after 60 years on the throne she had just celebrated

00:03:50.860 her diamond jubilee and trudeau was was in london and on the eve of the funeral what does justin

00:03:57.220 Trudeau do? Well, what do you expect a narcissistic individual like Trudeau do? Well, we learned he

00:04:03.300 was not only a gifted blackface performer who had been doing that sort of thing for years,

00:04:09.940 but he was also a third-rate piano bar singer. And he's in this, he's sitting around the piano

00:04:16.580 looking a little bit worse for wear. We don't know if he was drinking or not. It's hard to tell

00:04:21.920 with Justin Trudeau because he does think sober. A lot of people wouldn't think of doing it unless

00:04:27.020 they were drinking but here he is on the piano and one of his friends is tinkling the ivories

00:04:34.940 and he's singing bohemian rhapsody by the 1970s band queen now there seems to be an awful

00:04:45.100 correlation here between singing a song from a band named queen and going to queen's funeral

00:04:53.020 the next day i don't know if justin trudeau was trying to read something into this or

00:05:00.700 portray something who knows what kind of contrivances this man uses or even thinks of

00:05:08.620 because he didn't formally tape this this this rendition of bohemian rhapsody somebody

00:05:16.940 at the hotel had an iphone and recorded it put it on youtube twitter facebook the following day

00:05:26.320 and it was all over the world and once again justin trudeau was disappointing us as he always

00:05:32.020 seems to do so this was it reminded me of his antics in india when he was over there every day

00:05:39.480 you know dressed in traditional indian clothing with his whole family dressed up that way

00:05:46.420 standing in front of the camera preening for these photo ops and justin trudeau it's always

00:05:52.800 about justin trudeau he had to make the queen's funeral about himself even even if it's about how 0.92

00:05:58.240 ridiculous justin trudeau is he just needs to be the center the focus of the news and this was this

00:06:04.460 was just an incredibly embarrassing event for canada but i want to move on to a couple of other 0.96

00:06:10.160 things and a lot of a lot of ridiculous things happened at the g20 conference in bali and and

00:06:16.720 trudeau of course was at the center of these as well every time he leaves the country he seems

00:06:21.760 to get into trouble you know if one of my colleagues at the western standard equipped

00:06:26.480 maybe somebody should take away his passport for a while so he can just embarrass canada

00:06:30.800 inside canada and not go overseas and advertise it but he was at the g20 summon he was asked about

00:06:38.240 the extermination of the Uyghurs in China now these are these are Muslim people within China 1.00

00:06:45.560 that the Chinese Communist government are killing putting in concentration camps just like Hitler did 0.94

00:06:52.060 and killing them through overwork exhaustion starvation or by other means we're not exactly

00:06:59.400 sure how many are dying and how exactly they are dying but we know this is an extermination policy 0.93

00:07:05.800 much like Hitler had against the Jews.

00:07:08.800 Now, would Justin Trudeau label this a genocide?

00:07:12.760 And in one of his classic Trudeau-esque moments,

00:07:16.520 he stumbled and stammered and tried to suggest

00:07:20.560 that he's not somebody who can make that judgment call.

00:07:24.620 He's not qualified to say whether it's a genocide.

00:07:27.620 Well, when was Justin Trudeau ever unqualified in his own mind

00:07:32.260 to make a judgment call that anybody?

00:07:33.980 He routinely smears Canadians as racist and misogynistic, sometimes Nazi-like if they don't agree with him.

00:07:42.340 Yet he can't label what's going on in China as a genocide.

00:07:46.260 Why? Because he's afraid of the Chinese.

00:07:48.600 This pops up increasingly in his dialogue with the Chinese.

00:07:53.900 He's always very careful about criticizing the Chinese.

00:07:58.080 so this was followed by an actual argument except it was quite one-sided with chinese dictator

00:08:06.920 xi jinping now xi uh obviously was upset that trudeau was leaking some of his conversations

00:08:14.060 private conversations with the chinese dictator to the canadian media and xi was quite upset about

00:08:20.740 this and he dressed down trudeau publicly with the cameras are on and and it was very embarrassing

00:08:27.920 and trudeau just sort of sat there or stood there smiling taking this dressing down this

00:08:33.360 operating from this chinese dictator and then he sort of turned and walked into the men's room it

00:08:39.360 was a classic scene leaving his chief of staff there to just sort of watch with her mouth hanging

00:08:45.600 open i don't know if trudeau went into the men's room to relieve himself to throw up or to just

00:08:49.920 disappear but clearly he was not comfortable standing there any longer so that was the uh

00:08:57.600 that was the third incident uh the fourth i named in the column was trudeau's refusal to sell

00:09:03.040 liquid natural gas to germany now this happened last august germany asked canada we're going to

00:09:09.040 need lng liquid natural gas because we can't get enough oil out of russia due to the war with

00:09:16.960 ukraine so what does trudeau say no there's no business case for it now this is a monumental

00:09:24.480 failure of judgment but the sort of thing we expect from justin trudeau this is the man who

00:09:30.480 routinely says we need green energy even though it's not available in any sort of quantity to

00:09:36.400 satisfy the industrial needs of a modern society this is the man who said we don't need pipelines

00:09:41.920 except if they benefit him politically so he decides no we're not going to sell natural gas

00:09:47.120 to the germans and there's no business case for well actually there's probably billions of dollars

00:09:51.600 of a business case there but trudeau is so incredibly dense in terms of economics this

00:09:57.760 is a man who styles himself as an economist although clearly knows very little about even

00:10:04.000 the basics he refuses to sell the gas so what does germany do they go elsewhere they go to mexico

00:10:09.040 and they put a terminal on the ocean so they can transport lng to germany they can actually start

00:10:16.720 importing gas could have done it from canada we have vast supplies of natural gas that we could

00:10:22.240 have sent to germany and we could have been making a lot of money a ton of cash on this but truda 0.64

00:10:27.200 once again decided it was it was his way not the right way so that was that was the fourth ridiculous

00:10:35.040 thing he did that year the fifth event incident that i mentioned in the column i think is quite

00:10:42.400 tragic because at the emergencies inquiry uh investigation he he was on the stand on the last

00:10:51.600 day and he he was there for about eight hours and he read his talking points when the government

00:10:58.880 lawyers were there he did his best to look like he was unshakable but he lied or he he lied or he forgot

00:11:08.240 because he was asked that did why did you call the protesters the people who came

00:11:14.160 to ottawa as part of the freedom convoy why did you call people who disagree with your vaccine

00:11:18.880 policy names and trudeau said i never called them names and he said that with the camera uh rolling

00:11:28.880 this was recorded and and i i broadcast it to the world as far and wide as i could

00:11:35.200 he of course did call the freedom convoy people he did call the unvaccinated names

00:11:41.680 he he started out by calling the whole freedom convoy like a fringe movement you know a very a

00:11:48.960 very dangerous extremist movement he suggested they were violent he suggested they wanted to

00:11:54.480 take over the government and of course he called the unvaccinated names he called them racist and

00:12:01.040 misogynistic and we have that of course on tape in a in both languages he said it in english and

00:12:06.720 he said it in a in a french broadcast as well so that is what justin trudeau did in 2022.

00:12:15.120 i would really be hard-pressed to find some triumphant moments for justin true in

00:12:21.760 2022 it was not a happy year for justin shirt he just said it was not a happy year for canadians

00:12:28.160 who have suffered from his carbon tax who have suffered from his half his high gas prices who

00:12:33.200 have suffered from inflation and who are suffering increasingly from his his social reach he wants

00:12:39.760 censorship he wants to take over social media he wants to suppress the new media in this country

00:12:46.640 as as much as he wants to enrich and subsidize the mainstream legacy media and this is very

00:12:54.160 dangerous so it's not been a good year for canadians under justin trudeau but i'll tell

00:12:59.040 you it's been a very good year for albertans under daniel smith and i touched on this in my second

00:13:04.800 column of the week i think daniel smith has done one hell of a good job leading alberta because

00:13:11.280 there was a bit of a hangover after jason kenny retired from politics a lot of us who knew jason

00:13:17.360 kenny and i'm one of them uh i thought he was going to do a lot better especially during the

00:13:22.640 pandemic but he became so authoritarian uh putting people in jail locking down the economy that he

00:13:29.680 disappointed a lot of principled conservatives they're coming back to the united conservative

00:13:34.880 party under danielle smith because she's serious she's taking this very seriously she ran on an on

00:13:41.280 a very conservative agenda she ran for under the alberta sovereignty act and that's the first order 0.99

00:13:47.840 of business she had when she became premier she passed the alberta sovereignty act she means

00:13:52.800 business with ottawa she means to strike out as a province and as she's become a beacon and a symbol

00:14:01.440 of provincial autonomy provincial rights by doing this and she's not asking for anything quebec

00:14:07.360 already didn't get over over decades beginning with the quiet revolution and through those

00:14:13.280 decades where quebec threatened to separate the federal government retroceded a lot of rights it 0.56

00:14:20.000 had taken away from quebec and gave them back during this period now alberta needs to do the

00:14:25.280 same thing and danielle smith is doing that she's demanding that alberta have the rights the 1.00

00:14:32.560 constitution already gives it and believe me if you think the alberta sovereignty act is radical

00:14:39.280 it was pierre trudeau actually who wrote the notwithstanding clause into the constitution so

00:14:44.880 provinces could opt out of federal legislation they don't like there's nothing new or radical

00:14:50.880 about the Alberta Sovereignty Act.

00:14:52.740 Quebec's been doing it for years.

00:14:54.180 It's already really in the Constitution

00:14:56.140 as part of the notwithstanding clause,

00:15:01.320 which has been used by Quebec in the past,

00:15:05.720 as they always do.

00:15:06.880 They're not afraid to use it.

00:15:08.200 Alberta has those rights already.

00:15:10.680 And Daniel Smith is simply standing up

00:15:12.900 for what she needs to stand up for.

00:15:14.880 And I call her the Margaret Thatcher of Alberta

00:15:18.740 because she's come under tremendous pressure from interest groups,

00:15:23.720 the mainstream media, the opposition, NDP,

00:15:27.420 and people who just don't like her.

00:15:30.280 They don't like her because she means what she says,

00:15:33.300 and she says what she means.

00:15:35.260 She's following through.

00:15:37.160 She has not thrown the unvax to the wind.

00:15:40.680 She has not come in and said,

00:15:41.980 I didn't mean what I said when I ran for the leadership of the UCP.

00:15:46.540 she says i mean when i said i'm going to follow through in this and alberta is going to prosper

00:15:51.580 now she's slightly behind in the polls to rachel notley's ndp in alberta but you watch that change

00:15:58.860 the latest poll had 25 undecided now that means that's probably 25 largely conservative voters

00:16:08.460 who are fed up with jason canney and said i'm not going to vote for him again but they're looking

00:16:13.180 at daniel smith and saying hey here's a principal conservative who means what she says and she's

00:16:18.300 going to go through with and do what she promised as someone who ran in a leadership race you know

00:16:26.620 richard nixon the former u.s president the late richard nixon used to say you run to the right

00:16:32.060 in primaries when you're running for party leadership and you run to the center in a

00:16:39.580 national election daniel smith is saying you run for the truth you run for what's right whether

00:16:46.380 you're running for the leadership of a party or whether you're running for premier of a province

00:16:51.420 so expect daniel smith to stay firm on these issues she's not going to cave to the national

00:16:57.740 media that want her out of politics they don't like her because she's not part of the status 1.00

00:17:04.140 quote and she is challenging the pusillanimous justin trudeau and she's going to win that fight

00:17:11.340 because i tell you she's got the guts she's got the moxie she's got the intelligence to do it 0.99

00:17:16.220 and i and justin trudeau doesn't i the irony of this of course is that while his father

00:17:21.180 pierre trudeau spent his entire political career trying to build up a a very central strong

00:17:29.900 government that would rule the provinces like fiefdoms justin trudeau by simply by being so

00:17:36.860 weak he's allowing the provinces to maintain and really for the first time reify their provincial

00:17:46.620 autonomy which they already have in law so i'm going to turn to my third column of the week

00:17:53.900 which was all about peer poly of and the conservatives now there's all kinds of talk

00:17:59.740 as i mentioned at the offset of this broadcast about a provincial or federal election occurring

00:18:05.820 in 2023 now that's entirely possible justin trudeau has told his caucus get ready for an election in

00:18:13.100 the spring of 2023 now why would he do that well because he's up in the polls comparatively

00:18:20.060 relatively speaking and he knows the potential for a huge economic breakdown

00:18:27.260 not just a recession but a possible depression is entirely possible in the latter part of 2023

00:18:33.900 so he wants to get re-elected he's also looking at the collapse of the ndp the federal ndp under

00:18:41.820 jagmeet singh because in a recent by-election mississauga the ndp vote collapsed to the point

00:18:49.500 of it being a tertiary not even the third party a tertiary party fighting for the scraps with with

00:18:55.660 the other parties at at that end of the spectrum and trudeau senses that his deal with the devil

00:19:04.220 his pact with jagmeet singh is going to pay off by ndp voters going to vote for liberal because

00:19:11.580 if if trudeau can deliver with jagmeet singh is promising why bother vote for the socialist

00:19:18.140 liberal candidate namely justin trudeau so he's he's banking on that but he's not banking on

00:19:25.980 canadians looking around and saying am i better off than i was four years ago now ronald reagan

00:19:33.340 one of my political heroes in his debate with jimmy carter and just prior to the 1980

00:19:40.220 presidential election then governor ronald reagan turned to to the audience and asked

00:19:49.540 are you better off now than you were four years ago speaking about the four years of jimmy carter

00:19:56.880 president jimmy carter democrat jimmy carter and of course americans resoundingly said no they

00:20:02.780 weren't better off peer poly of needs to enunciate that same question to canadians are you better

00:20:10.200 off now when you were under the last four years of justin trudeau under the last two years of

00:20:15.000 veston trudeau are you better off are you paying more for everything or and is justin trudeau

00:20:21.720 reaching his hand into every area of society is he threatening censorship is he taking away your

00:20:28.360 guns to the point of this being a gun-free society with no right to self-defense is that what justin

00:20:36.680 trudeau is up to and i think the question can be answered with no i'm not better off than i was

00:20:43.480 four years ago i'm not better off than i was two years ago and that question is going to haunt

00:20:49.720 justin trudeau in the next federal election you know what else pierre pauliev needs to do and i

00:20:55.560 hope he watches this broadcast again i refer to ronald reagan who presented a positive principled

00:21:02.120 conservatism he talked about america as a shining city on the hill he talked about free enterprise

00:21:08.600 as something that liberates people liberates their talents liberates their ability to make

00:21:14.600 money without the state doling it out he said conservatism was a positive place to be

00:21:21.400 it was a great place to be because it was all about freedom individual freedom

00:21:26.280 not mandates not the government telling you what you can watch on the internet not the government

00:21:31.720 coming to your house and confiscating your weapons not the government trying to take over your life

00:21:37.080 and trying to tell you how to run your life ronald reagan was all about individual freedom and that's

00:21:42.840 what pier paulia needs to express in this next election positive positive conservatism he cannot

00:21:49.080 just expect to win by bashing justin trudeau as tempting as that is and as often as i do that

00:21:55.240 he cannot win the election simply by doing that he has to present the same positive policies that he

00:22:00.600 presented when he ran for the leadership of the conservative party of canada this year and what

00:22:06.120 was why were those crowds there why why did he attract so many people who were youthful blue

00:22:13.080 collar workers women minorities new canadians why were they attracted to peer poly up because he

00:22:19.240 talked about individual freedom and he said canada needs to be a the home of freedom canada needs to

00:22:25.480 be a place where businesses can operate without huge regulations where taxes can be cut and where

00:22:31.880 the money can be made by individual canadians and not by the state because the state doesn't make

00:22:37.720 money it takes money away from us that's what pier polio talked about while he was running for

00:22:43.400 leadership and that's what pier polio needs to talk about again in the next election if we have

00:22:49.160 one in 2023 and i personally think it's a good bet we are going to have one and we have to watch

00:22:54.760 very carefully what the liberals tried to do to the conservative party they will try to portray

00:23:01.560 peer poly of his extreme it's dangerous there's the words they love extreme and dangerous but

00:23:06.600 poly is to fight back in a positive way and i want to hear him talk about selling off the cbc again

00:23:13.320 he needs to talk about that because that's not an extremist position it's a normal position

00:23:18.680 most canadians want to see the cbc support itself and get out of the get out of its parents bedroom

00:23:26.680 and go to work for goodness sake stop accepting 100 subsidy from the state and we need to cut the

00:23:32.760 subsidies to other media off too under a conservative government if that is and if

00:23:38.520 they don't do that they're making a terrible terrible mistake and that would that leads

00:23:43.240 me to my pitch at the end of this broadcast is that support the new media and the western standard

00:23:51.000 is the new media we do not accept a cent not one cent of government subsidy not a cent from this

00:23:58.920 federal government from this cradle government because when you accept money from the government

00:24:03.400 you're going to start talking their party line you're going to allow yourself to be used by the

00:24:08.760 government because you want that money to continue to be pumped in to your media outlet

00:24:14.920 we need a return to free expression free speech and free media without government interference

00:24:23.480 and if pauliev can deliver that we need to support pauliev in the next election

00:24:29.240 because we need a change we need a change from justin trudeau we need somebody who's talking

00:24:34.600 a very different line and that's why so subscribe today if you see this broadcast read my column

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00:25:13.400 inertia so i want to say thank you for listening again today and i want to tell you tune in next

00:25:21.080 week because i'm going to be continuing to expose what's going on here in ottawa i want you all to

00:25:26.120 have a happy new year's eve and a safe and happy new year's eve and we're going to bring in the

00:25:31.240 new year and hope for change in 2023 but the only one who can bring that change is you

00:25:39.400 so get out and vote in 2023 support your candidates support the principles you believe in

00:25:46.520 because it starts with you at home you and your family so goodbye for now and god bless you all

00:25:54.520 and bless this year that was 2022,

00:25:57.620 but we can do much better, much better in 2023.

Western Standard - December 30, 2022

Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau's worst moments of 2022 and how Poilevre can win in 2023

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