Ezra Levant calls Chrystia Freeland’s December 17th announcement a "betrayal" of Justin Trudeau, exposing Liberal infighting amid housing costs, inflation, and a $62B deficit—breaking Trudeau’s $40B cap. Freeland’s rushed book Chrystia signals leadership ambitions, while Trump’s looming 25% tariffs by January 20th threaten Canada’s economy. Levant blames Trudeau’s authoritarianism and corporate subsidies for overspending, warning Canada risks becoming a "failed state" like Europe unless radical reforms—like privatizing crown corporations (e.g., Canada Post) or defunding the CBC—replace his policies, with Milei’s Argentina as a potential model. Trudeau’s survival hinges on opposition disunity, particularly Singh’s cautious stance, but Levant hopes his eventual exit could spark recovery. [Automatically generated summary]
Boy, I'm still digesting what happened in Parliament.
What a move by Christia Freeland.
I despise her and Trudeau in equal measure, but she sure knifed them in the back.
Just incredible.
What a pleasure to see.
I want to tell you what I think is going to happen over the next few weeks and months.
By the way, spoiler alert, I don't think Trudeau is going anywhere until he's thrown out by voters months from now.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
After yesterday's detonation by Chrystia Freeland, how exactly are things going to play out?
I'll give you my predictions.
It's December 17th.
This is the Ezra Levant show.
Options on the Table00:09:59
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Just incredible, Justin Trudeau being given a body blow by his own right-hand woman.
Sort of incredible to see.
And the scheming behind it was just delicious that she waited until the morning of the budget update to make the announcement.
But really, the chutzpah of Trudeau to tell her on Friday, you're going to deliver the worst budget in history, and then I'm going to immediately fire you and give you some token job.
Basically, go out and wear this atrocious budget, and then I'll demote you.
What did he think was going to happen?
Anyhow, it's sort of interesting to watch.
So what did Justin Trudeau do?
Well, yesterday, he dodged question period, and he dodged it again today.
I mean, why would you think he would go to answer such impertinent questions, first of all, from the opposition, and second of all, from the media?
But he has his priorities.
Last night, he gave a fundraising speech.
Imagine being the kind of person that donates more than $1,000 these days to hang out with Justin Trudeau.
I mean, really, unless you're part of the liberal Hamas caucus, some lobbyist or someone with a contract with the government, who would do that?
Here's Trudeau with his favorite people, those making him rich.
Thank you all for being here tonight.
It's obviously been an eventful day, and it has not been an easy day.
But I wanted to come here tonight and speak with you, dedicated, devoted members of the Liberal Party, because you, not me or any other politician, are the beating heart of this movement.
You are the ones that never shy away from knocking on doors, from making phone calls.
Kier Polyev is uninterested in building more homes, delivering vital supports, creating good jobs, or even, as we saw with his opposition to our GST tax break, he's opposed to even cutting taxes.
That's a given with the Conservative Party.
But what makes Polyev different is that he's willing to actively bet against Canadians and Canada.
He says Canada is broken while actually trying his damnedest to break it.
See, we're not living in simple times.
The world is increasingly complex, unstable, and dangerous.
And in this new global reality, we must all pull together.
I love this country.
I really do.
I trust Canadians.
There is no place I'd rather be than Canada, and it is the absolute privilege of my life to serve as your prime minister.
Now, Canada is the best country on earth, but it's not perfect.
That's why I wake up every single day thinking about how to make this nation work better for all Canadians.
That mission to consistently put in the work so that we're living up to our ideals and values, that's at the core of what makes us liberals.
And it's why you show up here, even on the toughest days, as a party.
You know that the only thing that ultimately matters is fighting like hell every single day to make life better for Canadians, and that's what you do.
Well, Parliament is about to rise for the Christmas season.
Expect a very long break from them.
And during that break, lucky for Trudeau, there is no way to have a non-confidence vote, to vote for the fall of the government.
And frankly, even if there was such an opportunity, I would bet he would win it.
I mean, Jagmead Singh and other pension grabbers, they want to make sure the election doesn't come before they are fully vested.
I just want to play it again.
Here's Jagmead Singh the other day, being asked repeatedly, will you vote no confidence?
He kept saying Trudeau should resign, but he's not going to do anything about it.
This was one of my favorite scrums of all time.
People realizing, I don't know, is Jagmead Singh this dumb, or is the media dumb for letting him get away with it for years?
Remember this?
Right now, Canadians are struggling with the cost of living.
I hear it everywhere I go.
People cannot find a home that they can afford.
They can't buy their groceries.
And on top of that, we have Trump threatening tariffs of 25%, which put hundreds and thousands of Canadian jobs at risk.
And instead of focusing on these issues, Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are focused on themselves.
They're fighting themselves instead of fighting for Canadians.
And for that reason, today I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to resign.
He has to go.
Will you declare no confidence in the Liberal government as soon as possible?
All tools, all options are on the table.
People are hurting.
People are struggling.
And so all options are on the table.
Just to clarify, you're calling for him to resign, but you are not willing to vote no confidence in his government.
How do those two things connect?
All options are on the table.
All options.
That's not an answer to the matter.
What does this mean for your support with the Liberals, though?
How can you say he needs to resign, but then you're not telling us what you're going to do for non-confidence?
Telling you that all options are on the table.
We're on the Fez.
Will you support the Fez?
And also, are you willing to continue to support the Liberals if there is a different leader aside from Trudeau?
Right now, that's not in front of us.
There's no votes in front of us, but we will take each vote.
And right now, literally everything's on the table.
I was just saying, I'll pause this moment.
I'm just saying that all options are on the table.
So why are you holding out the option to still support this government?
I understand that you're saying that you might, you know, trigger a confidence vote, but why are you still holding out the option?
What is the glimmer of hope that you're seeing to possibly support the Fez or possibly support this government in some other way?
Depends on the votes.
And so I want to make it very clear.
Justin Trudeau has to go.
He has to resign.
And because of that, all options are on the table.
And we'll look at each vote and we'll make a decision.
But now all options are on the table.
Paul Wells, go ahead, Paul.
The people behind you, sir, the people behind you is a parliament.
The government continues to govern as long as MPs continue to have confidence in the government.
You have no say over who the leader of the Liberal Party is.
Will you support the government or are you withdrawing your support from the government?
With respect to that, I said that all options are on the table.
That means everything is possible.
But what is clear, given what we have seen, Justin Trudeau and a liberal government that are focused on themselves, they are infighting at a time when people cannot even do their groceries.
They can't even find homes that are affordable.
And we've got the threat of Donald Trump and 25% tariffs that mean hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk.
Because of that, I'm saying very clearly that Justin Trudeau has to resign, all options on the table.
But look, even if Jagmeet Singh suddenly thought that an election was in his interest, because that's the thing, he'll probably get wiped out too.
Even if a majority of MPs objected to Trudeau now, there's no instrument.
There's no way to get it done.
And if you think that Trudeau is going to resign out of some sense of duty, I think you misunderstand him.
He is impervious to peer pressure because he doesn't think he has peers.
Justin Trudeau thinks he is morally and cosmically superior to the rest of us.
He looks at his fellow MPs not as allies who are in the trenches with him, but people he has blessed with his sanction to run for the liberals.
He looks at every single person in his government and he says, you're there because of me.
Your power is because of me.
Your fame is because of me.
Your riches are because of me.
You aren't, you don't even deserve me.
The idea of peer pressure doesn't work on a guy who thinks he's superior to you.
He disrespects the media even worse.
There's this CBC host.
I love the fact that I can never remember his name.
That's how it ought to be.
He's so unimportant in the big scheme of things.
I first noticed him, I think his name is Cochran or something, in one of the campaigns where Trudeau was giving freebies to journalists.
And some journalists declined to take it because you don't take a free handout from a politician you're covering.
Well, not this guy.
He took the free poutine from Justin Trudeau.
And watching Justin Trudeau just sort of relish that moment of you are so easily bought off was something I'll never forget.
Take a look.
Liberal Party always supports the CBC.
Who's going to chase me?
Who's that?
We want to slow him down.
Yeah, well, that guy got a promotion, obviously.
And you can see why the other day before Christia Freeland detonated, this same liberal government journalist, the same guy who took the free poo team, he was mad that Pierre Polyev, the leader of the opposition, was daring to oppose Trudeau, that he wasn't repeating Trudeau's message track.
Just incredible.
Barroom Napoleon Strategy00:06:12
Do you remember this?
So, Kate on it, like all the national leaders get together in the cabinet room.
That's where they met, apparently.
And they were all asked to not say things like the border is broken.
And in about 45 seconds, Pierre Polyev says the border is broken.
And then he leaves off question period about the broken border.
This is exactly the sort of thing they're all being asked not to do because it helps the U.S. news cycle and helps the president-elect's argument.
You know what?
The worst of all, do you know that phrase is a lovely phrase?
I think it's a British phrase, a barroom Napoleon.
Have you ever heard that?
You know what a barroom Napoleon is?
You could probably imagine that.
It's someone at the pub who's opining very loudly.
And the more he drinks, the louder he gets and the stronger his views are.
And I'll do this and I should do this.
And he's just a barroom Napoleon.
He's not actually a fighter in the world.
He's just someone who likes to hold court and say things very loudly and very passionately, but nothing ever comes from it.
The Liberal Party is full of barroom Napoleon, barroom, not ballroom, barroom Napoleons.
I mean, a number of them have tweeted or signed a letter, but you don't see any of them actually quitting the Liberal Party.
Even Christia Freeland has not quit the Liberal Party.
In fact, she said she's going to run again.
She wants to be the leader.
So you have these barroom Napoleons talking tough about quitting, but they won't.
You don't even have a mechanism for them to call a question, to put the question.
It's just not going to happen.
And the governor general will not act just because there's gossip out there.
Justin Trudeau has the confidence of the House of Commons.
Prove me wrong.
You can't.
So Parliament's about to go on a very long break.
They always get longer holidays than the rest of us.
They get huge summer holidays.
They always get weeks off where you and I get days off.
So they're about to break for a month, maybe a month and a half.
We will be back in January.
And by the way, you might recall that's the deadline for Donald Trump to say Canada has to get its house in order.
That's when the tariff deadline is.
Donald Trump's inauguration will be on January 20th.
And he said he expects the border problem to be resolved by then.
Mexico said, no problem.
They got on it right away.
Trudeau, well, that's the whole point here is Donald Trump's tweet saying that border better be fixed is sort of the first domino in a series of dominoes that actually led to the crisis yesterday.
Isn't that funny?
Donald tweets are so, Donald Trump's tweets are so powerful.
But like I say, Justin Trudeau probably likes the idea of a trade war with the United States because that way he can run against Trump instead of running against Polyev.
That way he can blame Trump's tariffs instead of his own economic mismanagement.
I think it's going to be a disaster.
I think it's going to make everything worse in the country.
And I do not think he will actually win for Trudeau.
But I think that's his strategy.
So back to these liberal barroom Napoleons and the ones too afraid to say anything.
I think if you're a liberal, unless you are in the ultimate liberal heartland of downtown Montreal and downtown Toronto, you're going to get blown away.
If you are a liberal MP, you know it lights up.
Like I say, on Monday night, they had a 60%, 6% in the by-election in BC.
The conservative candidate got 66%.
That's such an astonishingly high number.
Granted, it's a by-election, but what a good temperature taking.
Remember, BC, Trudeau used to claim that was his home away from home.
They hate him out there.
You know, if you're a liberal MP, it's lights out.
I saw a new poll by David Coletto, my favorite pollster, because he leans liberal.
11% approval in the latest poll, just absolutely falling off a cliff.
11% of Canada.
You have to gather nine Canadians before you find the ninth one who says, yeah, I approve of Trudeau.
So do you want to end your lovely career now or in six months?
That's the real question.
If you're a liberal MP.
If you go to the polls now, if you get all tough with Trudeau and say you got to leave, and if you vote non-confidence, all right, you're in a vote in 35 days, really.
That's how long a campaign is.
Do you really want to do that now over Christmas time because Christia Freeland chose this time?
Or do you, instead of having a random start of the campaign, do you want the timing of your own choosing?
Now, look, you're still going to lose.
But at least if it's later, you get your pension vested.
And Trudeau and his friends in the Poutine media will help him with his campaign.
They will see spending and other astonishing promises more than you have ever seen in your life.
If Trudeau can rack up a $62 billion deficit this year, imagine what he would do in a campaign.
Why wouldn't he announce $100 billion?
Why not?
Why not say it?
I mean, either he keeps the promise or he doesn't, but he'll say whatever he needs to say.
And that's just on the money side.
I don't know how he can wring anything more out of abortion or guns or transgenderism or some forced crisis, but whatever button, panic button there is, he'll push them all.
Now, it's funny because Christia Freeland, who I think is really the only possible contender for leadership, even though she is a personal disaster, she is so unlikable.
She was the woman who ordered the bank account seized under the Emergencies Act.
She's the one who's on the board of governors of the World Economic Forum.
She has been the right-hand woman for every disastrous decision Trudeau made.
There is no difference between the two of them.
Just like Kamala Harris could not say how she's different in any way from Joe Biden.
Well, in the case of Christia Freeland, that's 10 years of saying ditto and me too.
To pretend that they had some last-minute disagreement is a bit of a joke.
Now, I don't know if you saw this book online.
I hadn't heard of it till yesterday.
A new book called simply Christia, like Hillary or Kamala.
A loving biography was set to be released in February.
Now, the publisher is speeding that up.
They're releasing it now.
What a loving biography.
That's her campaign book.
She was planning on pulling that trigger in February.
Ottawa's Fiscal Heist00:16:14
Now, I really think they are going to drag it out a little bit.
I mean, not just there's no pressure on Trudeau to do the right thing, but he loves being prime minister, not the actual work of governing, but the accoutrements, the perks.
He loved going to that Taylor Swift concert.
He loved hanging out with teenage girls.
They're his favorite, trading friendship bracelets.
He loves going on private jets, including to beach holidays.
Hey, where do you think he's going this Christmas?
He loves that luxury lifestyle.
He's not taking Sophie around anymore, but he's taking his kids on private jets.
Who wouldn't want to?
He loves the perks and he lives for the authoritarianism, for the self-congratulations, for the adulation, for the power.
That's why he went to the donor dinner last night.
He loved it.
He'll let Dominique LeBanc try and do the hard work.
I don't know what work he could possibly do.
Everything's falling apart in the country.
But I think this will all end soon, and it'll end after a campaign where the only people for Trudeau are the CBC, other bailout media, lobbyists, and Islamists.
I mean, tell me another demographic group who would support Trudeau.
I think Pierre Polyev will have a huge win, perhaps too huge a win.
What do I mean by that?
Sometimes a coalition can be too big.
You have too many disparate groups within a coalition.
You'll get differences of opinion that might paralyze you.
Sometimes it's good to have a majority, but not a huge majority, because you need to be able to make decisions that won't offend, that will offend sometimes someone.
And look, if Pierre Polyev wins, even with a huge majority, his problems will be huge as well.
Not just the deficit and the taxes and the trade war with the United States, but the other issues, housing, inflation, groceries, et cetera, the price of energy.
4.9 million illegals.
There are 4.9 million people in Canada today who must, by law, leave within the next 12 months and two weeks.
That's not going to happen on its own.
How's Pierre Polyev going to deal with that?
And through what systems?
The systems are rigged.
The Senate is dominated by liberals and they don't care.
They can't be subject to election.
They'll block for Trudeau.
The courts will do much of the same.
Civil servants will do much of the same.
There's other interest groups like immigration scammers, not just the lawyers, but the colleges.
But a huge mandate.
I don't know, maybe Polyev is up to it.
He needs to be bold, like Donald Trump, Canadian style, but he needs to take a hatchet to things, not just a scalpel.
I mean, if it doesn't happen in the first year, if Pierre Polyev doesn't make the big changes in the first year, it likely will never happen.
He's going to have to spend some of that huge political capital.
He'll have a ton.
He'll have the biggest election result in Canadian history, I predict.
And he's going to need it for the hard work ahead.
Stay with us.
An interview with our friend Franco Teresano.
Next.
Yesterday, Ottawa was the center of attention for the whole country as the deputy prime minister and finance minister detonated herself just hours before the fall economic update, sort of a mini budget, an update on the budget.
Her political machinations stole the spotlight and led to cabinet shuffles and even a comment by Donald Trump, who seems to side with Justin Trudeau ahead of Christian Freeland, who he called toxic.
I think he's just poking around with what he calls Governor Justin Trudeau.
The whole country was talking about politics and will Trudeau resign and will Jagmeet Singh continue to support him.
But lost in the shuffle was the budget update itself.
An astonishing $62 billion deficit.
What else is in there?
Who's mining the store while the liberals fight amongst themselves?
Joining us now to talk about this is you know who, our trustworthy friends because they don't take any government money.
I'm talking about the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and their outstanding leader, Franco Terrazano.
Franco, great to see you.
I know, like all of us, you were focused on the political intrigues, but you also looked at the actual budgetary documents themselves.
Tell us that story, because we already heard the politics.
What's in the numbers?
Well, just when you think Justin Trudeau's budget couldn't get any worse, he proves you wrong.
And I'm glad we're actually talking about the numbers, the dollars and cents, because this budget update was a disaster.
So all year you had Trudeau and company saying they won't exceed their fiscal guardrail, a $40 billion deficit.
In and of itself, that's insane.
A $40 billion deficit.
Then what do we learn from the budget update?
We learned that Trudeau drove through his own fiscal guardrail by more than $20 billion.
So he ran a $62 billion deficit last year, which is nuts.
How?
How did he do it?
I mean, I can guess, but you tell me, was it like, what did he spend it on, I guess is what I'm saying?
Well, look, I can tell you what the government claims, and let's poke some holes through it, right?
The government claims that there is some one-time expenses that nobody could have foresaw, which is why the budget blew through the guardrail of $40 billion to $62 billion.
But like, none of that even passes the slightest sniff test.
So, number one, even without those unexpected expenses, well, they still would have blown past the $40 billion deficit.
Number two, this year's deficit is supposed to be about $48 billion.
So, even without those one-time expenses this year, they're breaking the fiscal guardrail.
Number three, Ezra, as you are well aware of, this isn't the first time that Trudeau has blown through a budget target.
You'll remember all the way back in 2015, he promised these tiny little baby deficits of less than $10 billion and a balanced budget by 2019.
Well, of course, we now know today that Trudeau missed that balanced budget by $20 billion in 2019.
But more to the point, Ezra, like what happens when a one-time expense comes up for any prudent family or business?
Well, you cut back spending elsewhere to deal with that issue.
But that's not what's going on with Trudeau.
They're spending like drunken sailors on so many different things that they should be able to find savings in every single area of their budget.
Can you give me an example of one of these so-called one-time unexpected expenses?
I mean, they have entire office buildings full of economists and bureaucrats and people studying and calculating.
The idea that they just have a whoopsie of $20 billion is unacceptable and unbelievable.
But what are they pointing to as an excuse?
Like it sounds like the great train robbery or some sort of heist.
Yeah, well, so I have to be upfront.
Like I'm not a lawyer, so this one's a little bit difficult, but the biggest expense, the bulk of it, had to do with some legal issues over Indigenous expenses.
Like that was the big ticket item that the budget update pointed to.
But, you know, even if you take that for granted, we already kind of poked through those holes of the government's claims in the previous QA, right?
In the sense that even if you remove that big ticket spending expense that they couldn't get to the point.
Yeah.
There's still $48 billion deficit this year.
You know, it's madness.
And I just don't get it.
I heard now.
Let me move into the realm of political gossip because I heard that, of course, Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, former Bank of England governor, big shot at the World Economic Forum, big shot at the end, like the ultimate globalist.
I heard he was considering taking the position.
I know Trudeau made him the special advisor for the economy.
From what I heard, he's sort of backing away from this bonfire.
I mean, whoever takes over, and it's Dominique LeBlanc, pretty much the only grown-up in cabinet, I think we can all say.
This is just thrown on top of him along with, oh, you know, public security portfolio.
He's got about half a dozen things because in her own way, Christia Freeland, even though she did a disastrous job, she was sort of the jack of all trades for Trudeau.
So it's all on Dominique LeBlanc.
There's no way one person can do this.
Who, I don't know if he's, I mean, I suppose they're going to go into an election before too long, anyways.
But if you were Mark Carney or if you were someone who is tasked with being the finance minister, put aside politics, how would you even go about getting out of this mess?
Like, let's say you were Donald Trump, a corporate turnaround artist, or let's say you were Elon Musk, a get-or-done entrepreneur.
What would a radical approach look like to try and fix this insane budget?
Because it is unsustainable.
It's going to sink us.
Well, it is unsustainable, right?
Like right now, interest charges on the debt are costing taxpayers more than a billion dollars every single week, right?
I mean, look, like in Canada, you pay a federal sales tax to cover interest charges on Trudeau's government credit card, right?
That's how bad things are.
And you kind of asked if I was Trump or Elon Musk or whatever.
Well, you got to kind of look at what Trump and Musk are doing.
The Department of Government Efficiency, right?
We don't need a newly created government department in Ottawa per se, but the mandate of Doge in the U.S. should be followed in Canada.
So number one, start with the little things.
I don't know.
Don't spend millions of dollars on government podcasts that nobody listens to.
Don't spend $8 million building a barn.
Don't spend more money on food in four days when you go over to Europe than what the average family spends on food in four years.
Then you got to do the big thing, right?
And the big thing is dismantling the bureaucracy.
Trudeau has added 108,000 extra government bureaucrats in less than a decade.
He has ballooned the size or sorry, the cost of the federal bureaucracy by 73% in less than a decade.
You have to cut the number of government employees.
Then you have to end corporate welfare.
Ezra, cut taxes.
Don't hand corporate welfare to multinational corporations.
And then you have to do some other stuff too, right?
Like getting out of the business of business, defund the CBC.
The government doesn't need a state broadcaster.
Privatize the Canada Post, right?
Why do we own a postal service?
Like it's the year 2024, almost 2025.
Sell via rail, right?
That crown corporation loses hundreds of millions of dollars every single year.
That is just a taste of some of the reforms that we need here in Canada.
You know what?
We need a DOGE, a Department of Governmental Efficiency.
And I would hope that the next prime minister appoints you, Franco, because you've got a nose for this stuff for digging around.
Can I share with you two contrasting things that happened in the last 24 hours?
Yeah.
Our dollar hit 69 cents briefly.
I think it's back above 70 cents.
It's around the lowest in years.
That's the world sort of giving their appraisal of the health of our entire economy.
And at the same time, and I mentioned this the other day, the president of the Japanese huge investment fund called Soft Bank goes to Mar-a-Lago, has a handshake with Donald Trump and announces he's going to invest $100 billion in the American economy with an aim of creating 100,000 jobs.
Obviously, he's not interested in the jobs per se.
He's interested in the rate of return in the company.
None of that is government money, Franco.
None of that is a taxpayer grant to some electric battery scheme that Trudeau cooked up.
The difference between investment is the way the Canadian government uses it, which means take taxpayers' money to give to some crony, versus attracting on your own merits a $100 billion investment.
It couldn't be clearer.
And I just wish we would choose the path of Trump or Javier Mile, the new president of Argentina.
I don't know if you saw, inflation is now completely broken and he turned a surplus for the first time in a generation.
If you can turn around Argentina, Franco, you can turn around Canada, don't you think?
Oh, yeah, totally.
I mean, like the bad news, we don't have to keep reiterating, right?
We talk about it all the time, and there's so much bad news coming from this government in Ottawa for taxpayers.
The good news is that Canada is not too far gone, not even close, right?
And we're not even close.
Like the market is so powerful.
Canadians, like let's put this into perspective here.
Let's think bigger picture.
Canada can and should be the most free and most prosperous country in the world.
We have abundant natural resources, diverse natural resources all throughout Canada.
We have a very skilled and educated workforce, and we are situated right beside the world's largest economy.
There is no reason outside of what our governments are doing to us that Canada should not be the freest and most prosperous country in the world.
And we can be.
All we need to do, and yes, it is this simple, is cut down the size and scope of government.
The government regulates too much, it taxes too much, and speaking of inflation, the central bank in Canada, the Bank of Canada, prints way too much.
You know, there's such an exuberance in industry in the United States.
So many things are now being considered possible again.
There's no way that $100 billion would have come in under Biden-Harris.
Donald Trump's signals to AI and to crypto have given a boost to that sector.
His signals to oil and gas.
I mean, you could already feel the engines revving up down there.
We could do that too.
We could.
And we could be like Javier Milli.
We could be like that president of El Salvador, Naeb Bukele.
If they just break with the past, in that case, they crack down on crime and also increase prosperity.
I don't know if Canada, if our leaders are bold enough, but if we don't do it, we're just the difference between Canada and the United States is going to continue to grow.
I don't know if you remember under Stephen Harper, there was this brief moment where the ordinary Canadian family had a higher income than the ordinary American family.
It was just like for about one year that was the case, largely driven by oil and gas, by the way.
Now we're poor compared to them.
I don't know, Franco, I just feel like we have to make some bold decisions that are very un-Canadian by cutting whole departments, privatizing whole industries, or we're going to get lost, left behind as Trump roars back.
Well, let me just show you the biggest contrast you can think of and how bad our government's economic policy, if you could even call it that, really is.
Right.
On the one hand, you have the Trudeau government putting taxpayers on the hook for about $30 billion to multinational corporations like Honda, Volkswagen, Stellantis, and Northvolt, taking money from Canadians and putting taxpayers on the hook for this corporate welfare to multinational corporations.
On the other hand, you have the Trudeau government hiking taxes on successful Canadian entrepreneurs, doctors, small businesses through its capital gains tax hike.
So hiking taxes on Canadians, giving our money to multinational corporations.
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That is the exact wrong way to try to grow the economy.
Yeah.
Wow, we are headed into a very momentous year.
This next year will be so strategic in terms of do we follow the path of prosperity or do we become sort of a European socialist, low-growth, failed state?
I think the stakes couldn't be higher.
Thanks for spending some time with us, Franco.
Hey, thank you, Ezra.
All right, there he is.
Franco Terrazano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, one of the good guys.
And I'm not kidding.
When I say Pierre Polyev, if he wanted someone to tackle government waste, you can't look within the system.
You don't hire a lobbyist.
You don't hire a bureaucrat.
You hire Franco.
Am I right?
I'm going to be making that recommendation when Prime Minister Polyev is invested.
We'll talk to you soon.
letters to me, someone named Squish says Freeland is a Canadian Harris.
Yeah, I think that she's more of a doer.
I mean, she does have that same word salad baffle gab talk, but you know, I disagree with everything she says, but she's got a better work ethic than Kamala Harris.
And like, I can't actually tell you anything Kamala Harris has actually done.
I can tell you a ton of terrible things that Christy Freeland has done.
Scramman says, this has given me actual confidence that we can delete this government from Canadian history.
When I know Trudeau has left the House of Commons for the last time, then we can begin to heal this battered country.
Well, that's what I talked about in my monologue today.
There are huge challenges, and Pierre Polyev is going to need all his courage.
John Harvey says, when she's done, is there any way for accountability or is she immune at that point?
Well, you can't really hold someone criminally liable for what they do as a politician, unless it's an actual crime, that is.
You can't sue someone for making this policy decision or that policy decision.
Now, you can sue the government for damages if they committed a wrong against you.
I think you'll see some lawsuits against the government for the seizing bank accounts, for example.
But I don't think any of that will redound personally to Christy Freeland.
I don't think she will be charged with crimes.
Well, that's our show for today.
Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.