Ezra Levant exposes Justin Trudeau’s proroguing Parliament as a ploy to dodge accountability, dissolving it until March 24th while avoiding Question Period and confidence votes amid 16% approval ratings. Michael Chong’s Foreign Interference Commission testimony revealed lax leadership rules favoring candidates like François-Philippe Champagne (alleged Chinese mortgage ties) and Mark Carney. Levant warns Trudeau will exploit the delay for patronage, document destruction, and foreign influence—potentially extending Liberal rule to October 2025—while CBC journalists allegedly avoid scrutiny to protect future careers. Listeners’ letters accuse him of corruption, economic failure, and undermining democracy, with purchasing power parity data showing Canadians worse off than U.S. states under Harper. The episode underscores Trudeau’s authoritarian tactics and the urgent need for democratic oversight before the next election. [Automatically generated summary]
When I woke up today, I thought Trudeau was resigning.
When I first heard his speech today, I thought he was resigning.
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He's delaying his resigning through some trickery.
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Justin Trudeau's Resignation Drama00:06:09
Tonight, don't be fooled.
I was for a minute.
Justin Trudeau has not actually resigned.
It's January 6th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
Hello, my friends.
Earlier today, the big news was Justin Trudeau was resigning.
I bought the hype.
I bought the headline, including when I first listened to Drudeau say it.
But after I watched the tape a second time, I realized, no, no, no.
He's not actually resigning.
He's delaying the resigning.
He's rigging the process.
He's kicking the can down the road.
Here, watch Sheila and I talk about it on today's live stream.
Big news this morning, obviously, is Justin Trudeau had a very substitute drama teacher moment where he was very emotional.
And he said that he's quitting, but not actually quitting.
He's rigging it so he can stick around for almost three more months.
It's just the 6th of January.
And he has announced that he's going to be prime minister until March 24th.
And to make sure no one can do anything about it, he's dissolving parliament.
He is removing any accountability from himself or his government.
No question period, no committees, no nothing.
And most importantly, no ability for the MPs to vote non-confidence in him.
He's just telling them, thank you very little.
We'll see you in March.
And he's basically making the entire country wait so the Liberal Party can choose a successor to him.
So even on March 24th, when he graciously puts down the crown, it's not going to be an election then because then there's going to be a new liberal leader who's going to try and stretch it out as long as possible before calling an election because that new leader will want to brand themselves and do a few things first.
So I think they're effectively buying themselves six months more of liberal government.
The latest opinion polls I saw last week by Angus Reid shows that Trudeau and his government are at 16 percent in the polls.
I doubt that a new leader will change that much, given that every single liberal candidate is complicit in this government.
Even Mark Carney has boldly supported, you know, carbon tax hikes, globalism.
So, this is not a day for democracy.
This is an anti-democratic day.
Let's play a couple of clips to show people how it went today.
And then, Sheila, I'd love to get your reaction.
Olivia, let's say.
I'm full of opinions on this.
Right on.
Let's just play a few clips back to back, bam, bam, bam, and then let's chat about it.
Olivia, do you want to roll video number one?
Friends, as you all know, I'm a fighter.
Every bone in my body has always told me to fight.
It's a lie.
He's not fighting here.
He's ducking.
He's dissolving Parliament.
He doesn't have to fight.
He's a liar.
I care deeply about that.
And I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of Canadians.
That's not true.
He's just stolen 90 days as Prime Minister.
Despite best efforts to work through it, Parliament has been paralyzed for months after what has been the longest session of a minister.
Because he's illegally withholding documents.
That's why this morning I advised the Governor General that we need a new session of Parliament.
She has granted this request, and the House will now be prorogued until March 24th.
Over the holidays, I've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family about our future throughout the course of my career.
Any success I have personally achieved has been because of their support and with their encouragement.
So last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today.
I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.
Last night, I asked the president of the Liberal Party to begin that process.
This country deserves to be available.
By the way, I correct myself.
That doesn't necessarily mean he's gone on March 24th, does it?
I'm not having to fight internal battles.
I cannot be the best option.
He just blamed internal battles, not himself.
He just said, I'm leaving because, oh, those guys, those quarrelsome fellows, they're the problem.
That's why I didn't do anything wrong.
I haven't done anything wrong in nine years.
He ends as he began.
He's never apologized for a thing.
He's good at apologizing for what Canadians do.
He does that to differentiate himself.
I'm deeply embarrassed for the genocide of this country.
Translation, I'm morally superior.
He'll apologize for anything anyone in the past has done, which is sort of an oblique way of saying I'm better than anyone in history.
I'm better than you.
I'm better than the mere people.
He manages to put himself outside of things as if he's not the primary actor in all of this.
I'm resigning because of their infighting.
Yeah, everything that he does is a learning moment for the rest of us and never him, right?
So for the next three months, we've got a prime minister nobody wants, including his own party.
He'll rule by fiat, I guess.
And we're in the middle of a trade or tariff war with a president who regards him as an absolute joke.
And what is our prime minister doing?
Throwing the decision of who the next prime minister is back into the hands of the people who put him into power.
The Liberal Party cannot be trusted.
Leadership Contests Chaos00:03:41
And actually, we know from the Public Order Emergency, or not the Public Order Emergency Commission, wrong commission under the Liberals, the Foreign Interference Commission, that the Liberal Party leadership race can be contaminated by foreign interference because you don't have to be a citizen and you don't have to put up any membership dues to be a member of the Liberal Party.
I actually have that clip from Michael Chong saying that, that China could still have their man running the show.
They haven't fixed any of that.
You're so right.
Let's take a look at that clip.
Mr. Chong, just a couple of questions.
At paragraph 20 of your interview summary, we don't need to go there, but you recall that you said that nomination rules are vulnerable to foreign interference.
Is that right?
That's correct.
And the Commission has heard evidence that rules for nomination contests are similar to those for leadership contests, because if you're a registered member, you can vote in a leadership contest.
And I wondered if you, the concerns that you have about nomination contests would also apply to leadership contests.
Yes, the concerns I have about nomination contests apply to leadership contests.
In fact, my concern about leadership contests are even greater than my concern about nomination contests.
And here's why.
The nomination contest is not the end of the matter.
When a person is elected or selected as the candidate for a registered political party, there is then a subsequent, very important step, which is the election or by-election to elect that individual to the House of Commons.
No such second step exists for the election of a party leader.
And so if the vulnerabilities that have been exposed in testimony today and yesterday are in place for the election of a leader of a party, particularly of a party that has the majority of seats or commands the majority of support in the House of Commons, we are heads of government in this country, including prime ministers and premiers, to this foreign interference.
I think of my late colleague, the Honorable Jim Prentiss.
When Jim Prentiss was appointed Premier of the province of Alberta, he was a private citizen.
He was no different than anybody walking down Wellington Street today who was appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of the province of Alberta to be full premier of that province.
He did not have a seat in the Legislative Assembly of the province of Alberta.
He had simply been elected as leader of the Alberta PC party.
And what has happened in recent decades, both at the provincial and the federal level, is that party caucuses have deferred the election, the selection of party leaders to the registered political parties.
And so we could have a situation here in Canada where a prime minister resigns from office.
The registered political party conducts an election for the leader.
That election, if subject to the same kind of rules that some of the parties have outlined here today and yesterday at the Commission, would result in the appointment of a prime minister who does not have a seat in the House of Commons and who was elected through a process that was significantly compromised by non-citizens and by foreign state actors.
And so that's you know what?
It's an excellent point.
And there's a lot of leadership campaigns that are revving up right now.
Dominique LeBlanc, Christia Freeland, Mark Carney.
Prime Minister's Compromise00:03:43
I think that there's a few joke candidates too.
I bet you Melanie Jolie.
I think François-Philippe Champagne.
Who else do you think?
Christy Clark, I think.
Right, Christy Clark from BC.
And then there'll be some absolute kook candidates.
Not that the ones I've just listed are particularly sober-minded.
So they're all busy.
But I think the busiest place in the country right now in terms of the liberal leadership is the embassy of the People's Republic of China.
And they are probably right now taking bids, taking offers.
Let me remind you about something astonishing.
Olivia, see if you can Google this while in real time.
Francois-Philippe Champagne, he's this little guy from Quebec who's had a few different portfolios.
I think one of his first portfolios was the foreign affairs minister.
Okay.
He disclosed in his ethics disclosure that he had a mortgage from a government bank in China.
So one of his apartments, because he's got many, of course, he had, I think it was like a million dollars loaned to him by a Chinese government bank, an obscure Chinese government bank that does not do normal.
Yeah, there it is right there.
And this is, I think, a CBC story.
Champagne says he refinanced Chinese mortgages.
So this is when he got out of it after it was all over.
He calls it up.
He was caught.
Yeah, after he was caught.
But how do you even do that?
Like, Sheila, I mean, you, I presume you have a mortgage.
I have a mortgage.
You go to your regular bank or you go to a mortgage broker.
There's mortgage brokers who specialize if you're a little bit hard to, you know, if you're tough to get a mortgage, they'll get you maybe a higher rate.
Like there's probably 100 companies in Canada that lend mortgages.
The big banks, credit unions, like it's such a standard loan.
And because it's secured with property, it's an easy loan to make.
How do you even think to yourself, I'm going to go to a government of China bank that does not normally give home loans.
And I'm going to get a mortgage from them.
And I'm going to be the foreign minister of Canada at the same time as I owe the Chinese government a million dollars.
That's Francois-Philippe Champagne.
So normally I would say he's a joke, a quack.
He's going to come in last place.
But he is, as far as I know, the leading contender for the People's Liberation Army, People's Republic of China, Communist Party of China candidate.
So don't be surprised if on election day, Francois-Philippe Champagne gets his payoff.
Yeah, I mean, we saw the foreign interference on such a low level.
You know, why wouldn't they meddle at a higher level?
We saw them trucking in foreign students from out of a riding to vote for Handong, who's just a backbench.
But China wanted their man.
And so this is now China's opportunity to have their man in the prime minister's office, either with Champagne or somebody else.
And as Michael Chong points out, this person does not have to be a sitting MP.
It's the choice of the liberals.
And that's why what Justin Trudeau has done is so dangerous.
After nine years, nine years of arresting his critics, censoring his critics, and subjecting Canadians to all their, all of Justin Trudeau's petty tyrancy, he still won't let Canadians have their say.
Foreign Interference Threat00:10:27
And he's doing this in such a compromised way.
I just want to get back to a clip that I just see on our list of clips here, Sheila.
One of my favorite moments, I mean, Justin Trudeau had a voice I always called his just the tip voice, sort of like a voice that you would use on a date.
Like he gets into just the tip mode.
And I just think, oh my God, does anyone still buy that?
And he had that sort of fake emotional substitute drama teacher voice today.
It sounds like a university professor grooming one of his students into a sexual relationship.
That's what it makes me feel like.
I don't really watch This Hour's 22 Minutes, but there's a guy on there, I suppose I could call him a comedian, who does the Trudeau impression.
He actually has that Justatip voice down pretty well.
I'll give him credit.
He doesn't do a bad job of impersonating Trudeau because he's got that substitute drama teacher voice.
Here's Trudeau with the Justatip Voice talking about his greatest regret.
This is clip number three, Olivia.
If you could play that clip.
I think it's two.
Clip two.
We got elected in 2015 to fight for the middle class, and that's exactly what we've done over the past years.
We reduced their taxes.
We increased the benefits to families.
We made sure the economy was focused on working for everyone and not just a few.
And that has changed, that has dropped poverty rates in Canada, that has brought more people into the workforce, that has moved us forward on reconciliation in a way that has deeply improved the opportunities and success of Canadians despite the incredibly difficult times the world is going through right now.
There's lots more work to be done, and I know that this party and this country and Canadians will keep doing it.
If I have one regret, particularly as we approach clip number three, that one regret thing is fine, and he talks about some BS issue he's never really cared about.
I want to show you his heartbreak over the fact that I think he knows Pierre Polyev is going to be prime minister this year.
Play for me clip number three, because this is where he gets his most sensual, most romantic.
And remember, ladies, he's single right now.
Oh, I feel like someone's licking the inside of my ear.
It's disgusting.
Play clip number three, Olivia.
Yeah.
Pierre Polyev's vision for this country is not the right one for Canadians.
Stopping the fight against climate change doesn't make sense.
Backing off on the values and strength and diversity that Canada has always, always worked to pull itself together on is not the right path for the country.
Attacking journalists, the CBC institutions, that's not what Canadians need in this moment.
We need an ambitious, optimistic view of the future, and Pierre Polyev is not offering that.
And I look forward to the fight as progressives across this country stand up for the kind of vision for a better country that Canadians have always carried,
despite the tremendous pressures around the world to think smaller, to veer towards the hard right, and to be less ambitious for what we can be and do as a country when the world really needs Canada.
That's not an answer, though.
Yes or no?
Is there another leader that's not?
You know what?
There was some real reporter questions for the first time I've ever seen in my life.
Now that he's no longer in a position to appoint them to the Senate, actually, what am I saying?
I shouldn't say that.
He's got three months to make all the appointments he can.
He's going to jam through everything.
Expect his barber, all six of them, to get appointments to the Senate, to whatever he can.
He is going to be taking every ally, every friend, every date he's had.
Anyone who gave him five grand or 50 grand or 500 grand, he is going to go nuts like the divorced dad that he is.
He's going to go cuckoo in the next 90 days in a flurry of patronage and corruption, the likes of which we have not seen.
And that acting he showed there of his dramatic thespian-ness is, you know, even the reporters don't buy that.
It was nice to see a little bit of that today.
For the first time today, I think I heard real questions in nine years from regime journalists.
Sort of sad.
Well, after a few hours passed, I cogitated about things and me and Sheila connected again.
Here, watch my interview or our conversation, rather, a few hours later.
That was some of our live reaction this morning to Justin Trudeau.
At first, I sort of took the bait and I said he resigned, but he didn't resign at all.
He says he will resign.
Now, he might or might not keep his promise, but he gave no specific date.
I was listening, I suppose, not carefully enough the first time when he said the parliament is prorogue till March 24th.
And I thought, oh, that's when the resignation kicks in.
No, he didn't say that at all.
He said he'll resign when the Liberal Party has a new leader.
We don't know when that is.
So the interests of the Liberal Party comes first.
He will be the prime minister for months longer if he likes.
The only thing about March 24th is that people will be stopped from voting no confidence against him.
And by the way, Jack Meet Singh has shown himself endlessly malleable.
He might well agree that, well, there's a new Justin Trudeau and I like what he's done and it's critical that we all come together under Donald Trump's threat.
Or if there is a new liberal leader, well, we have to give them a fair chance to get their feet under them.
Justin Trudeau is not yet gone.
Joining me now to talk more about this.
It's my friend, Sheila Gunrid.
Sheila, how you doing?
I'm doing okay, I guess, all things considered.
I think I bought the hype a little bit too much in the first hour there.
So when you and I were reacting in almost real time, I think it took me a while to sort of figure out what was really going on.
This is just a guy managing to give himself three months without any press conferences, without any question period, three months of really holidaying, enjoying the perks.
And my prediction, Sheila, is he's going to try and ram through as many patronage gigs as possible.
He's going to be ramming through as many checks to his buddies, corporate contracts to his buddies, and just shredding and shredding and shredding any documents.
It's going to be like Hillary Clinton on speed, just deleting things.
I think he's basically given himself a three-month staycation.
Yeah.
I mean, on one hand, I'm sort of glad that they wiped out all the work that they had tried to do.
When liberals are working, your civil liberties are disappearing.
By proroguing parliament, they have successfully murdered Bill C-63 and the pandemic bill that they were trying to ram through that would sort of force control of the food chain over to the government.
So that's the good news.
But the bad news is nothing has changed.
So Justin Trudeau is still a prime minister.
The liberals are still the governing party.
And our choices right now are Justin Trudeau or eventually a person who propped him up in the last nine years as he inflicted the pain that he has onto Canadians.
You know, I saw already a new website, Canadians for Carney.
That didn't take Mark Carney long at all to set up.
He was waiting in the wings.
There'll be others.
Christia Freeland, I haven't seen her campaign website yet, but it's surely afoot.
I've seen Mohamed Faki, the patronage appointment.
Yeah.
He's telling his followers to get engaged because remember the rules of the Liberal Party.
You don't have to be a citizen to be a member.
You can be as young as 14.
So literally 4.9 million people in Canada who are here on a temporary basis, temporary workers, temporary students, refugee claimants, people who are not citizens, they can vote.
There's almost 5 million of them.
And even kids, like 14, you can't drink, you can't drive, you can't enter into certain contracts, but you can choose the Prime Minister of Canada before Canadian citizens can go to an election.
It's so gross and it's so Trudeau, isn't it?
Well, and these people will be low liability interlopers because there is absolutely no bar for entry.
As you say, they don't have to be citizens.
They can be as young as 14 and there's no money changing hands.
So you can become a member of the Liberal Party without ever having to pay a membership due, which is how other parties manage who's actually invested in the system, but also how they manage where the money and motivation is coming from.
The Liberals could have a leader that is chosen completely by non-citizens, and it might even be a leader who's not even an MP, if that's who they choose to run.
Elon Musk Debunks Russian Claims00:06:07
So this is ripe for foreign interference.
Yeah, I don't think we're going to see that.
I saw a clip.
Carney.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, I don't even know where he lives.
Where's his home residence?
Yeah.
I mean, his last big job was being the Bank of England governor.
Yeah, it's going to be amazing.
You're going to have Iran, Hamas operatives.
You're going to have Chinese operatives.
And I saw a clip posted by one of our friends over, I think it was Countersignal, from the Halifax Security Conference that's there every year.
It's sort of interesting military security conference.
And Chris Alexander was talking about Russian interference and Elon Musk is Russian interference.
I don't think so.
In fact, Elon Musk not only was the largest donor, largest private donor to Ukraine of satellite services.
He is also, I mean, people don't talk about this a lot.
We all know about Starlink.
That's the residential.
I'm on it right now.
Yeah, you're on it right now.
But there is a second half to his company.
Did you know this, Sheila, called Star Shield?
Have you ever heard of that?
Nope.
Well, I don't think you see it talked about 1% of the time you see Star Link talked about.
That is the Pentagon's contract with SpaceX.
It's not just happy, chit-chatty satellite internet that Elon Musk is sending into the sky.
It is military satellites.
Of course it is.
So, to claim that Elon Musk, one of the largest military contractors in America, the free speech booster and the friend of Ukraine is a Russian asset is stupid and a lie.
And the point for me to make this is there is about to be an ocean of foreign interference in Canadian politics, but you won't think you won't see idiots like Chris Alexander.
Here's a clip of him at the Halifax conference.
I think this is actually a few weeks ago.
We need to push back.
We gave them the gift of these unregulated platforms that they have flooded with their assets.
I mean, Musk has turned it into a weaponized, a weapon of war for Russia and to some extent China, his platform.
The scale, people still don't even, Musk doesn't even know the scale of it.
He's just making money.
Regulators have no clue.
Elections Canada is trying to get a grip on election spending and advertising in Canada, which is fully regulated in this country.
Absolutely nothing to say about social media.
It is a joke.
We have turned ourselves into a doormat.
We will not get our politics back until there is regulation, effective efforts, intelligence security efforts to counter propaganda, and we go on offense against the countries that are doing this.
Yeah.
All of these people who defame conservatives as Russian spies or who I don't even know the latest smears, we are about to have more foreign interference than ever in our history.
And you're not going to hear a peep about it from the official regime journalists.
And there won't be any fact-checking from the regime journalists either, because they know that the gravy train with biscuit wheels is just rolling out of the station without them.
You look at those sullen boiled potatoes over at the CBC on those panels today.
They know that the free ride is about to be over.
I think they've known that for a long time.
That's why they work so hard to polish whatever nonsense that Justin Trudeau is saying.
But while conservatives are being called Russian operatives, you're not going to hear any reasonable balance coming from the so-called professional journalist class in this country.
You know, I don't know those steps of grief or whatever it is, denial, bargaining, grief, acceptance.
I don't know that.
I think they're around step three.
Yeah.
And I think today the reality sort of came home from him that their dream is almost over, but it's not over yet.
So Sheila, Andrew Coyne, Rosemary Barton, the guy from Newfoundland who took the free poutine, Aaron Wary, all those CBC hacks, it's over enough for them to get over their grief and start crying.
A lot of them looked like they had been crying today, but they know they have about 90 days to make a casual inquiry of the boss and say, look, if I really dig in for you, will you give me that Senate appointment in this province?
Or will you let me have a luxury condo in Manhattan like Tom Clark did?
There are so and they'll invent new perks and patronage gigs.
Sure.
And they'll sole source contracts.
They'll hire Rosemary Barton for half a million bucks a year in a sole source contract.
I mean, the amount of just sheer raiding the treasury, it's like a run on the bank.
It's like they're going to, it's going to be looted because they all know they've got about 90 days, maybe 120 days, to just wring out everything they can.
And that's the Trudeau way.
Oh, there are plenty of Charles Adlers in waiting right now in the mainstream media.
And we're going to see a replication of what it was like when Justin Trudeau first took power.
All the mainstream media journalists who elevated him, who just glossed over his nonsense and his stupidity, they know that it's their time to shine.
So when Justin Trudeau first took power, remember, he was hiring all sorts of CBC hacks to be communications advisors to him and the Liberal Party.
And we're going to see that all replicated on the way out the door.
They're just going to raid the Treasury.
Let me throw one last thing.
I heard today at the press conference, there were a few questions from the media party that were the toughest questions I've ever seen them ask in nine years.
Trudeau's Media Replication Crisis00:07:44
Here's a quick clip.
It doesn't even matter what they were about, just to see people pushing back at non-answers, people a little bit exasperated with the word salad.
Here, just use a little sample of that.
We need an ambitious, optimistic view of the future, and Pierre Polyev is not offering that.
And I look forward to the fight as progressives across this country stand up for the kind of vision for a better country that Canadians have always carried,
despite the tremendous pressures around the world to think smaller, to veer towards the hard right, and to be less ambitious for what we can be and do as a country when the world really needs Canada.
That's not an answer, though.
Yes or no?
Is there another leader that could beat on?
Absolutely.
This prorogation will take us only into March, and there will be confidence votes in March in the passing of supply that will allow Parliament to weigh in on confidence in a way that is entirely in keeping with all the principles of democracy and the workings of our strong institutions.
Don't you think this is undemocratic because you're not allowing Parliament to express its lack of confidence in your government while your party is looking for a new leader?
Shouldn't you just call an election?
Don't you think that would be the better approach?
And my point for showing that is it's nice to see that for the first time in nine years, but I think that's going to go away, not just for people trying to suck up for jobs, but let's fast forward to when China and Iran choose the next liberal leader.
And let's just say it's Christia Freeland.
She's sort of the odds on favor, but don't count out the others.
You're going to see all these journalists say, aha, it's Christia Freeland.
So it's not Trudeau.
So I have all new sucking up to do.
Go, girl, boss.
We can do this.
You were wronged by Trudeau.
And this is your vision.
Like, you're going to see a whole new set of rationalizations by which the media party can fall in love all over again with the liberals, even though Christia Freeland was literally on their team for 99.9% of everything they did until her own dignity was in question.
I don't know.
I think that this is definitely not a resignation.
Trudeau will be in there at least three months.
Wouldn't surprise me if he's in there for six months.
I wouldn't be surprised to see this go all the way to October 2025.
I really would not be surprised by any of that.
By the time Trudeau rags the puck enough, pro-rogues, we're not going to see the NDP the aid of the conservatives to vote against Justin Trudeau and have the House fall on a confidence motion.
Why do I know that?
Because they didn't do it at least four times.
They didn't even vote for a confidence motion.
They used Jagmeet Singh's own words.
So I don't believe a single thing that guy says.
I think they're going to take a protracted and prolonged leadership approach to replacing Justin Trudeau.
And they're going to say it's a fulsome and robust competition.
And I think we're going to get all the way through to 2025 in October.
That's what I think.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Wow.
Well, Sheila, great to see you.
Thanks very much for joining me.
And I enjoyed the live stream too.
And you keep up the fight out west.
We have to get into election mode because Trudeau is.
I mean, that's what I mean.
We're in a new phase now.
It's shaping the battlefield in advance of the election.
And there's a lot to cover, and we're going to do it.
Thanks for your time.
Thanks, boss.
All right.
There you have it.
Sheila Gunread, our chief reporter.
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Well, that was Sheila and me talking about things after we had cogitated and ruminated on things for a while.
You know, I was thinking about things and it's just trickery and it's Trudeau evading responsibility and it's the media party being fooled and it's Trudeau avoiding question period and press conferences for three months and it's letting the Liberal Party choose the course of Canada rather than Canadian citizens.
It's gross every way you cut it.
I spent much of today thinking about what we're going to do and how we're going to cover things in the months ahead.
I had sent a memo out about a week ago.
We call it Campaign 2025.
But I put together some new thoughts and you can find them at the website calltheelection.ca.
It includes using our billboard truck.
We've actually just this morning, I talked to Andy Lee about signing her up on a special project to monitor Chinese language recruitment in the liberal leadership race.
We probably should get someone in Persian also because Iran is going to be heavily involved, I think.
So we're going to bulk up our team to give this proper coverage because the CBC won't.
Anyhow, lots of work ahead.
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your letters to me next.
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Your letters to me.
Frank Zibich says, disgraceful liar, the governor general, how much is she being paid?
The election should have been called.
Yeah, the governor general represents the king in Canada, doesn't represent Trudeau to the king.
And I think that Trudeau has such low credibility and he's so clearly just trying to evade a vote of confidence.
I think the governor general should have stood up to him.
But alas, Trudeau has corrupted so many different offices, including, I mean, frankly, Mary Simon is no worse than David Johnston, the previous appointee.
Next letter, rodent contamination breach says, First and Second Amendment for Canadians is a must.
More funding and discipline to the military and police, especially in cities.
Completely change the standards of law enforcement, military, raise them.
Quality of soldiers now are a joke.
Hard fist on cartels and gangs and the drug policies.
Canada must become strong and free again.
Also, investigate Trudy and his friends for corruption and crimes against humanity.
I think you go about 5% further than I would there.
By the way, we don't have a First Amendment or a Second Amendment.
Those are American constitutional features.
I think we do need a stronger constitution.
We don't respect freedom as much.
In terms of prosecuting Trudeau for crimes against humanity, I've always said I don't really support that kind of radicalism because if he's committed a crime, prosecute him for a real crime.
But don't recast his policy decisions, which are atrocious as crimes.
You know why?
Because if you put on the books that you can criminalize someone for radical ideas, you know that's going to be used against you and me, not against the Trudeau's of the world.
Next letter, Stephen James says, destroyed the middle class.
Complete opposite.
Yeah, I don't know if you remember this, but in the final years of the Harper administration, the average Canadian was actually earning on a purchasing power parity basis.
We were earning more than the average American.
It was the first time that had happened in memory, that we were actually richer on an individual basis than Americans.
Now we're so much poorer.
Our dollars are around 70 cents.
I saw the other day, and I want to go deeper on this, that we are now on average poorer than the poorest U.S. state.
I totally believe it, by the way.
Hopefully, Pierre Polyev will take a doge, Department of Government Efficiency approach to the government if and when he takes over.