Ezra Levant warns Mark Carney’s unelected Liberal leadership could bypass democracy, citing a rushed process where 14-year-olds and foreign voters pick Canada’s next PM—mirroring Trudeau’s 2013 rise. Carney, a WEF-linked globalist with ties to Brookfield and Bloomberg, faces accusations of prioritizing carbon taxes over working-class issues while Trudeau’s decade blocked pipelines like Keystone XL and Energy East. Ontario/Quebec gasoline could hit $2/L if Carney follows Jolie’s false energy threats, while military failures under Trudeau—recruitment drops, retention crises—highlight systemic neglect. The Freedom Convoy’s ouster of "fake conservatives" like O’Toole paved Polievre’s path, exposing Liberal-NDP collusion to delay elections and avoid accountability on border chaos and pharmacare. [Automatically generated summary]
Before I go, I just want to mention one last thing before I let you listen to the podcast.
You know, nowadays, it feels like censorship is creeping into every corner of our lives, whether it's the news we access, our posts on social media, or even how we choose to manage our families' wealth.
With companies like BlackRock amassing substantial voting power through passive investing, it's up to people like you to take back the power of your investments by working with a firm that shares your values.
That's why we have partnered with Rocklink Investment Partners.
Rocklink with a C at the end is independent, which means they have the freedom to invest without being influenced by the globalist agenda.
They focus on creating portfolios of excellent businesses, not on ESG and DEI or the latest woke trend.
Call them at 905-631-5462 or email them at info at rocklink.com.
That's rocklink with a C. Info at rocklink.com.
All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, will Mark Carney become our next prime minister in March without ever having won an election?
It's January 13th, and this is the Eds for Levant Show.
Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
Hi, everybody.
I'm filming this monologue on my laptop on Sunday because on Monday, I'm going to be traveling to Calgary and back.
I was just out there on Thursday and Friday.
I've been going full tilt.
There's no time to record the show tomorrow, so I'm doing it now, but I'll be back on Tuesday.
It's incredible how much news there is these days.
You know, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin once said there are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen.
And even a commie can be right about that.
I want to talk to you a bit about Mark Carney, the World Economic Forum big shot.
He left Canada to run the Bank of England, and he's now decided to come back to Canada to favor us with his amazing leadership qualities.
And we should be so grateful to him.
Feels a little bit like Michael Ignatieff.
Remember him?
The Harvard professor that the Liberals tried to run in 2011 against Stephen Arper.
He was aloof.
He was elitist.
He left Canada because he was bigger than he could fit into our country.
And he thought he'd come back to do us little people the favor of leading us.
He got crushed in the election, less than 19% of the Liberal Party's worst showing since Canada was started.
Ignatieff lost his own seat mercifully.
And of course, he then proceeded to go back to Harvard.
And then the Central European University, which is a university paid for and set up by George Soros.
Michael Ignatieff's Return00:03:38
You can't make this up.
He really just came back to Canada to see if he could collect us.
But I'll give Michael Ignatiev credit.
At least he ran for an election in a 2006 by-election and then the 2008 general election.
He won.
And then, of course, he was thrown out in 2011.
Michael Ignatiev was wooden and he was condescending and snobby, but he managed to earn the support of ordinary people in Etobicoke before he was thrust into the top job.
He didn't just waft his way into it.
And that's what Mark Carney, another master of the universe, wants to do.
Mark Carney wants to go straight to the top job in Canada before he even runs for Dog Catcher.
I'll give you the details in a moment, but first I just have to show you something about a totally different subject that I know you haven't seen if you rely on the mainstream media.
So I'm going to take a detour.
I will come back to Carney.
I just wanted to show you this.
You probably heard that half of Los Angeles is on fire.
The fancy half, the luxury half, Malibu, Santa Monica, places like that.
Devastating, and the fire department just isn't there.
It's not there.
And where it is there, there's no water.
There's no water at the fire hydrants.
There's a massive water reservoir in LA, but it's empty.
So these beautiful houses just burned.
The biggest fire in Palisades is still 90% out of control.
First thing I want to show you is the mayor of LA, Karen Bass.
Of course, she's a Democrat.
The whole state is Democrat.
Everyone knew there would be a huge fire risk this week because of strong winds were whipping up in LA.
But the mayor left the city to fly to Ghana, the country in Africa, right as the fire was starting to spread.
What was she doing in Ghana?
Some ceremonial visit at the expense of taxpayers.
She refused to call off her trip.
Who wouldn't want a five-star luxury visit to Africa, not even as a regular tourist, which could be fun, but as a pretend VIP paid for by taxpayers?
She put herself first.
Here she is when she was spotted switching planes, finally coming home.
A reporter saw her, and she doesn't have a single word to say for herself.
Take a look at this.
Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?
Have you nothing to say today?
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.
Are you considering your position?
Madam Mayor, I have absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster.
No apology for them.
Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?
Madam Mayor, let me ask you just again.
Have you anything to say to the citizens today as you return?
Hold on one second.
Madam Mayor, just a few words for the citizens today as you return to deal with the catastrophe.
Fires, Water, and Forestry Concerns00:08:22
Keep it standing.
That was just amazing.
Have you seen that interview on TV?
Of course not, because like I say, she's a Democrat, not just a Democrat, an actual communist.
She visited Cuba a half dozen times in the 70s, not as a tourist, as a political ally of the Castro regime.
That's similar to New York's former Democrat mayor, Bill de Blasio, an actual communist.
Same with Bernie Sanders, the senator.
You know, he took his honeymoon in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
There really are communists who believe in totalitarianism.
They just use democracy as the tool to get power since they can't quite seize it outright in other ways yet.
So that's the mayor.
Let me show you the head of water for LA.
That's a big job because it's pretty dry down there.
Did you know that the head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Janice Quinones, she has a staff of 11,000 people.
And I guess they all just sort of forgot to make sure there was water in the fire hydrants.
I'm actually kidding.
They didn't forget they knew they just didn't care.
They had other priorities.
Coming from the communities.icom, seeing what I've seen through my career in utilities and through the military.
I've been in the Coast Guard 19 and a half years now, so I got six more months to qualify for my 20 years, which was my original goal.
Wow.
Congratulations.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's important to me that everything we do, it's with an equity lens and social justice and making sure that we right the wrongs that we've done in the past from an infrastructure perspective and that we involve the community in that process.
And this utility is serious about it, is authentic about it.
And so I'm just super excited to be part of that movement.
So she makes $750,000 U.S. a year.
That's more than a million dollars a year Canadian.
She had one job, water.
But they stole the water right out in the ocean for environmentalist reasons.
They're now actually destroying dams to do even more of that.
It's all in the name of diversity and global warming.
And here are the, so assured the mayor, assured the head of water, and here are the three women all named Kristen who run the fire department in LA.
That has a huge job.
This is a tweet by Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist.
I swear I thought it was a joke.
It's not.
They're all lesbians named Kristen.
I want to tell you, I don't care about the race or sexuality of firemen or firewomen or fire they thems, whatever.
I just want to know that they can do the job.
You know, can you come to the fire with water?
Can you lift someone out of there if they've succumbed to the smoke?
But they can't do it.
They cannot do it.
$750,000 for the water boss who forgot about the water because she was focused on diversity.
And then, well, here's one of those top fire people.
This is a real video.
Take a look.
You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call that looks like you.
It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.
Is she strong enough to do this?
Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire, which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
You agree with her?
It is the most important thing when your house is on fire that the fireman who shows up looks like you.
Is that the most important thing?
But that doesn't even make sense since every household looks different and they don't match firemen to burning houses by race.
That's crazy talk.
That's crazy in a whole bunch of different ways.
But look at that.
She says, if she is not strong enough to save her husband, because she's a diversity hire as a woman, well, what's your husband getting into trouble first in the first place?
Why did you go have that stupid fire?
Not very smart of you, was it?
That was a real interview that she did on purpose.
That was not a gaffe or misspeaking.
So they've got the three top fire Kristens and the top water boss and the mayor.
And every single one of them is focused on everything other than fighting fires, going to Ghana, racial and gender quotas.
They actually sent a lot of their firefighting equipment to Ukraine.
But the sad thing is most of the people whose homes burned, well, they're Democrats.
They voted for this.
Not all of them, of course.
But if you live such a luxury life that imaginary things like woke, DEI, and global warming posturing are more important to you than the actual safety of your family and your house.
Well, I think this is what they call chickens coming home to roost.
By the way, it just so happens that Donald Trump called this out a long time ago and was ignored, of course.
Do you see this?
And you've seen what happened.
You've talked about the forest fires.
Now we're permitting and cleaning up these forests so it will reduce the threat of forest fire as well as creating jobs in these communities.
We have to do that in California, yes, sir.
California is a mess.
We're giving billions and billions of dollars for forest fires in California.
There's no reason for those fires to be like they are.
They're leaving them dirty.
It's a disgraceful thing.
Old trees are sitting there rotting and dry.
And instead of cleaning it up, they don't touch them.
They leave them.
And we end up with these massive fires that we're paying hundreds of billions of dollars for to fix.
And the destruction is incredible.
So I think California ought to get their act together and clean up their forests and manage their forests because it's disgraceful.
They said, we have no water.
I said, do you have a drought?
No, we don't have a drought.
I said, why don't you have no water?
Because the water isn't allowed to flow down.
It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north.
More water than they could ever use.
And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean.
Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured.
I could have water for all of that land, water for your forests.
You know, your forests are dry as a bone.
Yeah.
Okay.
Dangerous.
That water could be routed.
You know, you could have everything.
Not only dangerous, billions of dollars a year they spend on forest fires.
And you know, there's a case with the environment.
They're not allowed to rake their forests because you're not allowed to touch it.
And all they have to do is clean their forest, meaning rake it up, get rid of the leaves, get rid of, you know, leaves that are sitting there for five years.
They'll certainly get rid of the dead fall.
And get rid of the trees that have fallen.
It's not just the mayor or the fire chief.
It's the governor.
It's the whole state of California.
If you thought that airport video with the mayor was bad, look at this.
The governor, Gavin Newsome, just lying.
Governor, you got a second?
Governor!
Governor, I live here, Governor.
That was my daughter's school, Governor.
Please tell me what you're going to do.
I'm not going to hurt him, I promise.
I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter.
Can I hear it?
Can I hear your call?
Because I don't believe it.
I'm sorry.
There's literally, I've tried five times.
That's why I'm walking around to make this.
Why is the president not taking your call?
Because it's not going through.
Why?
Let's get it.
Let's get it.
I want to be here when you call the president.
I appreciate I'm doing that right now.
And it's to immediately get reimbursements, individual assistance, and to help yonder devastating home here.
I'm so sorry, especially for your daughter.
I have four kids losing.
Everyone who went to school there, they lost their homes.
They lost two homes because they were living in one building another.
Governor, please tell me, tell me, what are you going to do with the president right now?
We're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Why is there no water in the hydrants, Governor?
It's all literally.
Is it going to be different next time?
It has to be.
Has to be.
Of course.
What are you going to do?
You would fill the hydrants.
I would fill them up personally.
You know that.
I literally have to fight.
I would fill up the hydrants myself.
I wouldn't.
I actually.
But would you do that?
I would do whatever I can.
Biden's Liberal Party Controversy00:16:02
But you're not.
I see the.
Do you know there's water dripping over there, Governor?
There's water coming out there.
You can use it.
I appreciate it.
I'm going to make the call to address everything I can right now, including making sure people are going to be able to do it.
I'd like to make sure you do.
Can I have an opportunity to at least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing?
Thank you.
Could somebody have a contact?
Can I have your contact information?
You know, they say a conservative is a liberal who is being mugged.
Do you know what I mean by that?
It's easy to be soft on crime when it happens to other people, not so much when it happens to you.
That's why San Francisco is political swinging back a little bit.
All the tech millionaires can no longer insulate themselves from the disaster on the streets of homeless people and drug addicts and crime.
Well, your multi-million dollar house burning down, that's a pretty big moment of being mugged by reality.
I wonder if they're going to still keep voting for all the Christians, though.
I just want to mention that because that video of the black lesbian fire chief saying her job is about race and sex, not about saving lives, it's just the absolute logical conclusion of DEI.
I mean, I'm surprised they're not sending in firefighters in wheelchairs.
I mean, why are they so ableist?
All right, I just have to show you that crazy video.
But back to Canada.
By the way, we have the same left-wing fire policies too.
Wildfires in Alberta and Jasper this year were made all worse because eco-extremists like Stephen Gilbeau refused to cull the forest to remove dead trees that are just fuel waiting for a spark.
They slashed firefighting spending, just like the LA Liberals.
Canada's liberals don't actually know how to do anything.
They just know how to do woke.
I keep thinking about that one kilometer stretch of the California high-speed train, $100 billion project, decades late, still not running.
They actually were so proud, they put out a press release celebrating that disconnected, incomplete, like one-kilometer stretch.
Did you see that?
They're proud of that.
I think that's just absolutely perfect.
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, the guy actually knows how to build things.
I've never met a Democrat or a Canadian liberal who has.
All right, let me get back to my real topic today, which is Mark Carney, your next prime minister, if things go as they are.
And I think he falls into the category of someone who's never actually done anything, but he's wafted to the top.
When Trudeau first announced his resignation, it was vague.
He said he'd resign after the party chose his successor, but he didn't say when that would be.
And he announced it at the same time that Parliament was going to be dissolved until March 24th.
And it's shameful that our partisan governor general allowed that.
Trudeau wanted Parliament dissolved so MPs couldn't vote non-confidence in him.
That's his main priority.
But of course, it also means Parliament cannot meet to discuss or debate or vote on anything else.
All the bills in the House of Commons were vaporized.
And that's a good thing when it comes to atrocious laws like Bill C63, the censorship law.
But it also means the parliament can't deal with the threat of tariffs from Trump or the real problem, Trump's real point, which is, you know, he wants us to get a stronger border between us, to stop illegal drugs and illegal immigrants.
That's one of the worst things that's going on right now.
Instead of just saying, sure, we'll stop illegal things at the border, frankly, we should do that on our own accord.
Thanks for giving us a kick in the behind.
We're assuming that, no, we're not going to stop illegal drugs or illegal migrants.
We'd rather have a showy trade war with Trump because that does well with the liberal base or something.
My point is, the actual problem to solve is the border, not ignore that and prefer a devastating fight over tariffs.
Trudeau, of course, won't even talk about this.
He's hiding from journalists.
His last interaction with Canadian media was on the CBC State Broadcaster, their government comedy show called This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
You know, not really funny, but of course they're never going to ask him a question, so it was safe for him.
Since then, he's gone on a few U.S. shows.
He's gone on CNN and MSNBC.
Those are hardcore left-wing shows.
You go on there when you want a softball interview, not to communicate to Trump and his government.
Listen to Trudeau complain about why he resigned.
Nothing that he did, just right-wing social media.
Did you see that?
But when you get a, I was going to say conflagration, but at least an intersection of both right-wing policy, right-wing attacks and social media, you end up with a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and responsible governments have to stay focused on the policies that are making a difference.
And that's what we've been doing.
Yeah, I wonder who he means.
Anyways, the Liberal leadership race is now on.
They have announced that March 9th is when voting ends and the result will be known.
But candidates only have until January 23rd to announce their candidacy.
That's just 10 days from now.
It's a $350,000 entry fee, too, by the way, which will discourage some candidates.
So it's really compressed.
But here's the crazy part.
The deadline to register to vote as a member of the party is January 27th.
So all the candidates have two weeks to sell memberships.
By sell, they don't actually cost anything, which I think is crazy.
Also, anyone can just sign up.
It's as easy as clicking like on Facebook would be.
Liberals claim they've tightened it up a little bit until last week.
Even foreign nationals could join.
I don't think they've done anything to audit existing members who signed up under that rule.
For all we know, there are 100,000 foreign citizens who will choose the next Liberal leader who will immediately become the next prime minister, by the way.
It's just as nuts.
No money, no auditing.
You can vote as young as 14 years old.
You can join the Liberal Party at 14 and choose the next prime minister before Canadians have a vote on it in an election.
There really is not time to go door to door, is there?
It's all going to be online.
I bet at the Chinese embassy, they've opened up a special situation room to mobilize people to join and not just people, fake people, robots, to interfere.
Like the CSIS says they did in 2019 and 2021, when they interfered in at least 11 electoral districts in Canada.
Now I'm sure China is gaming the whole country online in two weeks.
I bet they've got an artificial intelligence and AI app designed to do this.
I mean, they haven't given all the details, but given the compressed time, I'm sure voting will either be online or perhaps by phone.
There's no time for snail mail, and obviously nothing's going to be done in person.
And since there's no payment, you don't have a credit card.
You need a real credit card with a real name.
That's a form of ID when you think about it.
No credit card necessary.
So you just have to type something on a website.
You don't think Chinese AI is going to game that?
Do you think the Chinese AI can outsmart the Liberal Party?
Yeah, I'm guessing.
In fact, I don't think they have to outsmart the Liberal Party.
I think the Liberal Party is fine with having the government of China rig the rules.
They haven't done anything about the 11 MPs who were elected in Chinese interference districts.
We'll see.
I mean, I think it really comes down to two big names, Christia Freeland and Mark Carney.
I don't think DC's Christy Clark is a serious candidate.
Freeland, as you know, has been Trudeau's right-hand woman since the beginning.
She was deputy prime minister and really the de facto PM.
Trudeau never really did any work.
He just schmoozed and did the photo ops and handed the heart parts off to her.
I'll give her this.
She had a work ethic.
I don't think she was particularly bright, but she did the work.
When she quit, I think it was astonishing to her whole caucus.
I think all the liberal MPs knew that Trudeau really had no clue to do what to do without her.
Not that she was clever or popular.
She was just essential to the operation.
Name any other cabinet minister who you could fairly say did a good job about anything.
But Stephen Gilbeau, Melanie Joli.
They're all are Canadian versions of those fire Karens, fire Kristens, hired for some demographic reason, DEI.
I mean, imagine Melanie Joli as prime minister.
I don't think anyone can.
So Christy Freeland will have lots of connections in Canada with MPs in the riding.
So give her this.
He is A relentless campaigner who is known throughout the party on the ground.
And that would matter if Chinese AI wasn't a part of this.
But like I say, it's all going to come down to computerized voting.
I mean, right now, she's leading the few opinion polls I've seen.
I've seen three polls.
She's ahead in all of them, but not by much.
Because although she had that one moment of defiance against Trudeau, that comes after nearly 10 years of obedience to Trudeau.
She sold every Trudeau policy from the carbon tax to high immigration to being pro-Hamas to stripping Sir John A. McDonald off our $10 bill.
She owns every liberal scandal.
The fact that she is not as hated as Trudeau is simply because he was more ubiquitous than her.
He was the top target.
She was like the vice president.
You know, the worst moment, speaking of vice presidents in the Kamala Harris campaign, and I think Democrats acknowledge this now, was when she went on the view and was asked if there was any difference between her and Joe Biden, if there was any policy she would disagree with Mo.
And remember that?
Here's how it was said.
If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?
There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.
Listen, I plan on having a Republican in my cabinet.
Oh, I got a list.
Yes, right.
You asked me, what's the difference between Joe Biden and me?
Well, that will be one of the differences.
I'm going to have a Republican in my cabinet.
Because I don't feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea.
She said, no, she thought it would be good for her to take credit for being Joe Biden's mini-me, but to voters, it meant she was complicit in everything he did wrong.
Don't do that if Biden is hated.
Don't do that if Trudeau is hated.
Trudeau is at 16% in the polls.
If you are the number one Me Too girl for Trudeau for 10 years, saying you're Trudeau's right-hand woman is not going to help you.
So that's Christy Freeland.
You'd think she's well known, but she's never really been vetted by the regime media and she's never really had a hostile media interview in her life.
I think she's as off-putting it as Kamala Harris was.
No cackle, laugh, but plenty of condescension and words salad.
I think she's deeply unlikable.
Compare that to Mark Carney.
I hear he's going to be announcing his campaign very soon.
He looks and sounds good.
I hear he's going to be lunching in Edmonton, actually, trying to get a small town appeal.
He looks and looks and sounds good.
He is still artificial, but he's better at it than I think Christie Freeland.
You know, this Oilers jersey picture is a little bit lame and forced.
So is this skating on the canal?
I think he's got that ignatio stiffness to him, but he's a good talker, is what I mean.
Better than Freeland is.
She's got kind of Tourette's, I think.
Here is Mark Carney last year taking a bit of a shot against Freeland when talking to me.
He was Canada.
You could have him arrested.
Did you see that?
Your rival, Christy Freeland, had one of our reporters arrested.
She did, I think.
She didn't say a word against him.
If the police tried to arrest me.
That was the wrong thing.
It was absolutely the wrong thing.
Thank you for saying that.
Look, freedom of the press.
Look, I've been.
I've been a public figure in Canada, been a public figure in the UK.
I know you got to answer tough questions.
And you guys, you know, you ask tough questions, and that's it.
So who exactly is Mark Carney?
Well, we'll talk more about that tomorrow.
He's the consummate World Economic Forum man.
He's been on their board too.
But unlike Christie Freeland, who is on their board at this moment, Mark Carney has become a master of the universe himself.
He's the chair of Brookfield.
He's the chair of Bloomberg LLP.
These are billion dollar or trillion dollar companies.
He really is a master of the universe.
And like Ignatiev, he seeks to collect Canada as a little bauble.
You know, listen to him tell a liberal MP that he knows how the world works.
He's one of the high priests.
You got to trust him.
One of the knocks on me that the opposition makes or part of the opposition makes the WEF global elite.
Exactly.
I'm a WEF global elite.
John Barrett is too, but I don't have to.
He's campaign co-chair.
That never comes up.
And, you know, when he's banned his ministers from going to World Economic Forum events to cater to conspiracies.
And you've been a board member for over a decade.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've rolled off the board, but that's absolutely right.
I'm a board member there, and I used to go there with Prime Minister Stephen Harper when he was there and et cetera.
But let's be clear what my international experience.
I understand how the world works.
I know other world leaders.
I know people and understand.
I know people who run some of the world's largest companies that understand how they work.
I know how financial institutions work.
I know how markets work.
And I know the good and bad of that.
I've experienced it.
I've had to, in some of my roles, discipline it, discipline the financial system, discipline with others, the world's largest banks, the Wall Street banks in America after the crisis.
So I understand how the world works.
I'm trying to apply that to the benefit of Canada.
So I'm not going to run away from the fact that I understand how things work.
Does he really know how the world works, though?
I mean, he's the world's biggest carbon tax advocate.
He's for DEI woke corporate governance in the world of corporate governance.
That's called ESG, environmental, social, and governance.
He's never lived a normal life.
I mean, right out of high school, he went to Harvard and then to Goldman Sachs.
And then after working for a bit in the Department of Finance, he became the head of the Bank of Canada.
And then he went to become the head of the Bank of England.
Now, his chief goal has always been to push climate policies and other World Economic Forum priorities.
He is, I think, accurately called the world's leading carbon tax advocate.
I actually don't think he knows how the world works, as in what it's like to be a farmer or a factory worker or a waiter or one of 99% of ordinary things.
I don't think he knows how to actually do anything.
I think he would have run the LA Fire Department as a woke DEI playground.
I think the thing he knows how to do is to schmooze with CEOs at conferences and how to manipulate numbers on a balance sheet and how to tweak GDP by opening up mass immigration.
I think he does know that.
That's the stuff he's an expert at.
But I don't think he knows anything about real life, real people, real problems.
And the fact that he says he does and he sneers that conservatives don't and Pierre Polyev doesn't.
And the fact that he won't take ownership of the Canadian economic disaster, even though he's had an influence on it for years.
I mean, remember, he's been Trudeau's economic advisor for months.
I think it shows he thinks the way it is at the World Economic Forum is the way the world ought to be.
I actually don't think he knows anything about the world.
He's anti-populist, of course.
He's one of the masters of the universe.
Jagmeet Singh's Short PM Tenure00:02:42
I personally think he's the worst possible candidate for the times and for the troubles that our country has right now.
I think the whole world, the pendulum is swinging back away from that wokeism.
But here's the thing.
There is a very real chance he will win on March 9th.
Electronic voting, online voting, anyone could win.
And if he does win without a seat, he'll be the first prime minister.
Sorry, he'll still, pardon me, he'll still be prime minister on March 9th.
Even if he doesn't have a seat, you can be the prime minister without a seat in parliament.
Trudeau said he's going to resign.
It'll be 15 more days until Parliament resumes on March 24th.
That could be the first time MPs vote non-confidence in him.
That's not a lot of time to be a PM.
He'll use that time to put his personal stamp on things, to make some appointments, to introduce a cabinet, to make some announcements, to change some policies.
But the main point is on March 9th, while Parliament is prorogued, if he wins, he will be slipped right into 24 Sussex Drive.
No Canadian election with citizens and adults voting.
He'll be selected by this bizarre liberal process of children and permanent residents and anyone who can activate a computer account.
He'll be selected, not elected.
And you know what?
I can absolutely imagine Jagmeet Singh being persuaded to give the new guy a chance to continue supporting Carney, propping him up like Jagmeet Singh has propped up Trudeau so many times until October, when the election is now tentatively scheduled.
So if Carney can negotiate with Jagmeet Singh, and he would give him anything for this, Carney wouldn't just have two weeks as an unelected prime minister.
He would have seven months, more than half a year.
That's a long time to put your imprint on the world.
Mark Carney, the World Economic Forum Prime Minister, to replace Trudeau and to beat Freeland themselves World Economic Forum Masters.
What we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets.
So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of this cabinet or even more, half of this cabinet are for our actually young noble leaders of the world.
Oil And Gas Tariffs00:14:56
My friends, don't be so sure that we're going to be in an election in the spring.
I think there is a 50-50 chance we will have Prime Minister Mark Carney ruling over us without an electoral mandate, without a seat in parliament for more than half a year first.
Let's go to the CTV news clip, because it feels as though the liberals are actively trying to sabotage anything that Premier Smith is trying to do.
Unbelievable.
And it goes, I think, to Ezra's theory that the Liberals would much rather campaign against Donald Trump as the economy killer than they would against Polyev.
Let's hear from Jolie because she says everything's on the table, but I'll tell you, sister, it ain't.
So stay in your lane, lady.
Anyways, I'll be quiet.
These tariffs are applied as he has threatened them to be, which we don't know the case.
He hasn't announced that, you know, the specifics of it.
He's saying 25%.
I was interviewing six economists, the top six economists, the chief ones for all the big banks the other day.
And collectively, they said the hit to the economy, we're looking to the tunes of millions of jobs.
You're looking at a 3% contraction and essentially an immediate recession.
So it's in that vein against that backdrop I ask you about what retaliation would look like.
Is your government prepared to cut off supplies of energy, for example, to the United States?
What I can tell you is everything is on the table.
And that's the conversation we will have, the Prime Minister, Minister LeBlanc and myself with the Premiers next week.
And that's a conversation also I'll take to Republican senators and key Republican decision makers in Washington next week, because this is indeed a decision that would be taken by President-elect Trump that would have devastating impacts on Canadians.
And so for those who are watching us right now, it is important to understand that the threat is real.
And we're calling every okay, I think that's good because she said something completely erroneous there and Premier Daniel Smith quickly corrected her.
So she basically said everything's on the table, including cutting off the supply of energy to the United States.
Energy is not within the federal jurisdiction.
So she thinks that she is going to either outbound tariff Alberta oil and gas, Saskatchewan oil and gas, or maybe even what do you guys produce out there?
Electricity.
Outbound tariff, Ontario electricity.
Premier Smith had a quick response to that.
It's the last clip there, Olivia Efron, Premier Smith, warning the feds to stay in their lanes.
Daniel Smith loves a good lawsuit as much as our boss does.
And she's pretty winning against the federal government.
So let's hear from her.
Yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie talked about, was asked specifically if in negotiations with Trump Canada would consider an energy embargo on the United States.
And I want to, as leverage, what do you think, what do you make of what she said?
Well, first of all, it's oil and gas is owned by the provinces, principally Alberta, and we won't stand for that.
And you should never, ever threaten something you cannot do.
And I would encourage the minister to look at a map of where line five goes.
Line five comes down through Michigan to get to Sarnia, and then that feeds the bulk of the supply needed for Ontario and connects with line nine, which feeds the bulk of the product needed for Quebec.
And so if you cut off that line, you are cutting off Ontario and Quebec.
So I would encourage the ministers to either understand how our integrated pipeline system works and start looking at ways that we would be able to practically respond because there's no point in making empty threats that cannot be executed on.
So there are other things I'm sure that we'll all talk about collectively, but let's just remember how integrated our markets are with the Enbridge system, the TC Energy System, that we have a product going back and forth across the border every single day.
And we cannot do anything that harms Canadians in such a substantial way.
So I just don't take that as a credible threat.
I'm sure that the U.S. administration won't either.
So we should talk about things that we actually can do as opposed to empty threats.
If they were to proceed down that path for some reason, what would be Alberta's response?
Well, they will have a national unity crisis on their hands at the same time as having a crisis with our U.S. trade partners.
We just won't stand for that.
And I don't think Ontarians in Quebec should stand for that as well.
They shouldn't be standing by and listening while a federal minister talks about cutting off their energy supply.
That's just not on.
That makes no sense.
You know, Sheila, isn't it wonderful to see an adult in the room who understands the issues, opining honestly about it?
And first of all, I just want to go back to Minister Jolie.
When she begins her response to Vashi Capello's with the phrase, everything is on the table.
That phrase, thanks to Sell Out Singh, has been completely bastardized because for the last several weeks, he has been stating all the time with his opening remarks, everything is on the table.
Well, not everything, because, you know, Sell Out Singh isn't going to cast a non-confidence vote against these liberals, which he has proven over and over again.
So everything is on the table.
It's kind of like when you see a consumer product new and improved, it means nothing anymore.
It's neither new and it probably hasn't been improved.
But I will say this, Sheila, I think what the Premier is getting at, and I totally believe this, if Canada, if the provinces are going to get into a trade or tariff war with the United States of America, we are going to lose and we are going to lose badly, badly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you think, like listening to Premier Smith talk about energy issues, she is someone who deeply understands the issue right down to where a specific pipeline feeds to and where it goes, where the feedstock goes and where the refined product goes or at least the upgraded product goes.
She understands the entire supply chain, upstream and downstream on these pipelines.
Do you think Melanie Jolie even knows what line five is or line nine or when it was reversed, where it feeds to?
She is running her mouth about stuff she doesn't understand and it's willing and her actions will devastate Ontario and Quebec.
Can you imagine $2 a liter for gasoline in Ontario coming up because you don't have access to oil and gas through line nine and line five?
By the way, where is Doug Ford on this?
He should be saying, oh my goodness, Melanie, shut my friend Melanie, shut your mouth because you're going to cause economic devastation for the people of Ontario and Quebec.
Where's the Quebec Premier?
Actually, he's not too bad on this issue, but where is he to say the feds do not speak for us?
They should not consider blocking energy exports to the United States because that will harm Quebecers.
Where are these two premiers on this?
Well, first of all, Sheila, to answer your question, yes, I can imagine $2 a liter because we're only about 40 cents away from it right now.
Oh, yeah.
And secondly, what you said about Daniel Smith knowing the nuance and the nitty-gritty of where pipelines go, where they lead to, and does Melanie Jolie have a scintilla of that knowledge?
And this is a fantasy which will never be fulfilled.
But wouldn't it be great if a mainstream media reporter put Melanie Jolie on the spot and said, tell us about line five.
Tell us about, you know.
Show me line five on a map if you wouldn't mind.
And, oh, you know, wouldn't that be a very awkward moment?
So bad it's good.
But we'll never see the mainstream media ask those kind of questions, folks, because, you know, that's impolite.
We don't want to embarrass blackfaces, liberals.
Well, the ones that are still with the party and still intending to run that is.
Let's go to one more clip on Danielle Smith, where she warns that tariffs are likely to start on January 20th.
So in the olden days, Trump, as one of his first jobs in office, approved Canadian pipelines, was like, let's go, let's trade with our friends, the Canadians.
This time, he's going to slap tariffs on us.
Let's go to this clip.
I think we need to be prepared that tariffs are coming.
That seems to me to that the, I mean, I think we've all seen the biggest irritant to the United States are trade deficits, which they believe they have.
I don't actually believe they have a trade deficit when you take out energy.
We actually buy more goods and services from the U.S. than they buy from us.
I'm happy to make this national bank report available to anyone who wants it that shows we actually have $58 billion in a trade deficit with the Americans when you take energy out.
That's why I wanted to have the assurance that the Americans are interested in getting more of our oil and gas, because I think oil and gas is going to be key to being able to get a breakthrough once tariffs do come in in getting them off.
I think if we maintain a strong partnership on energy, we make the case about how much the Americans benefit from that energy relationship, we demonstrate that we are a good trade partner, that we buy more goods and services from America than any other nation, and that we do buy more goods and services when you take energy out.
I think we can make that case.
But I feel like from what I have seen, that we, it's not my decision to make on tariffs, but we do need to be preparing ourselves for the fact that they're likely to come in on January 20th.
You know, Sheila, I mean, I want to defer to your knowledge because you live out in oil patch country and your husband is in the oil patch.
What I would be concerned about if I was a premier of an energy province like Premier Smith is with Alberta, is that we know in the first mandate of Donald Trump, for the first time in 70 years, he made the United States energy independent.
In fact, it was exporting energy thanks to the miracle of fracking.
So I'm just wondering, you know, when Daniel Smith says $58 billion trade deficit with Americans once you take energy out of the equation, given that the fracking miracle, it's going to be peddled to the metal.
Is that the wildcard here in terms of the U.S. not needing Canadian oil and gas exports?
You know, that, I think, is something that we will eventually have to deal with.
And federal government with foresight would have been working on that for the last 10 years, the way Stephen Harper tried to do that before he was voted out of office.
We had Northern Gateway, we had Energy East, Keystone XL.
These were all pipelines that the Harper government was fighting for.
It's also a reason why we should have listened to Japan when they pleaded for Canadian liquefied natural gas.
Now, twice.
Instead, Justin Shudeau has told these countries that are coming to Canada saying, please, if you wouldn't mind, sell us all your bountiful natural gas so that we don't have to rely on Gazprom and fuel the Russian war machine.
But he has said that there's no business case, if you can imagine that, for these trillion-dollar projects.
Yeah, trillion with a T.
No business case.
Maybe Justin Shudeau doesn't know what a trillion is.
Well, it's because The benefits of that business would land squarely in the laps of Westerners, and you just can't have that.
So, but it is something that we will have to deal with.
But for now, like I said, the Americans are buying Canadian oil and gas at a reduced price because we are in a monopoly with them.
So, we can't get world market prices for our oil and gas thanks to Justin Trudeau.
So, while it is a hindrance to Westerners, normally it is a good bargaining chip with the Americans that they can buy Canadian oil and gas for cheaper than what they can produce it there for themselves.
But that will change, especially with a pro-energy president being sworn in on January 20th.
So, one of the first things that Pierre Polyev has to do when he is thankfully finally prime minister is to get going on export pipelines to get us out of that monopoly with the Americans.
Let's get to Mark Holland and then we'll do the Christy Clark nonsense.
Mark Holland, who makes watching boring committee meetings exciting because he gets so heated and indignant that his stupid little bow tie is going to pop right off his neck and his head's going to fly off like a dandelion.
Aaron O'Toole's Convoy Controversy00:10:35
Anyways, he said there's no need for an election until October.
So, like I said last week, these liberals are going to rag the puck as long as they can.
And they are going to have the full cooperation with the NDP.
They're rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I think it's going to be a Mark Carney coronation.
And Christy Clark is helping that along.
But I think that's what's going to happen.
These guys are going to dodge a confidence vote.
The NDP are not going to help bring down the government.
And it's going to be October.
I'm sure of it.
Anyways, let's listen.
You know, we elect parliament for four years.
Everybody's, you know, let's have an election.
Let's have an election.
Why?
Like, every four years, you get a list of people.
We mean why?
Democracy is not going anywhere, folks.
Like, there's going to be an election, but we got stuff we got to get done.
And I certainly, if I was a constituent and somebody who cared about healthcare, I'd be talking to my MPs and say, like, really, you're going to cause an election in May or June instead of October because what?
You think it's better you might win more seats?
Right?
That's your calculus that it's better for your party to have an election now.
Like, we have a set election day.
Shouldn't we use the set election day?
Shouldn't we use the time we're given as parliamentarians to get things done?
And I can tell you, if I'm given to October, I'll get all the pharmacare deals done.
I believe that.
Now, Jeremy's sitting next to me, he can disagree.
And that'd be totally fair, right?
Because I got work to do and I don't want to put him in an awkward position.
But I really believe in this.
I don't believe in it because I'm a liberal.
I believe in it because I'm a Canadian because I think it's the right damn thing to do.
And so I think having that time is important.
And I'm hopeful that it's there, but I'll make use of any time I'm given.
Sheila, correct me if I'm wrong.
Mr., I'm all for set election dates.
Why didn't we go to the polls in 2021 again?
No, wait, it's even better.
Mr., I'm in favor of fixed election dates.
We go to an election every four years, okay?
Why would you go to an election when it's good for your party to win more seats?
That's exactly what he did in 2021.
But this is the government that just moved the fixed election date by one week to make sure these jerks get their pensions.
So, like, when they were moving the fixed election date and claiming that it was Diwali for the reason that they had to move it, then it was fine to move fixed election dates, but not now.
But also, he's signaling to the NDP: don't bring us down or you won't get your pharmacare deal.
Because that is the only thing the NDP have been asking for is this stupid national pharmacare deal.
And he's saying, don't bring us down or you're not going to get your pharmacare deal.
It's going to die when you bring down the government because the conservatives are not going to do this.
So that was not a message for you and me and the rest of the Canadian voters.
That was a message for Jagmeet saying, saying, fall in line, you'll get your pharmacare deal.
But I thought everything was on the table.
No, nothing.
Okay, let's go to Aaron O'Toole.
Oh, no.
Please.
From nuggets to O'Toole.
Fire away.
Speaking of no nuggets.
I knew you'd like that, David.
Okay, so Aaron O'Toole, former leader of the Conservative Party, former member of Canada's military, in fact.
Anita Anand is deciding that she is not going to run for the Liberal Party leadership.
Is David dying?
Sorry.
Oh, goodness.
Can we cut David's mic so we don't have to hear him retching for life?
Are you okay?
Okay.
It's one of those, you know, the Danny Thomas line, my uncle from Cleveland's in town, where, you know, in the midst of a sip and just hearing you read O'Toole's tweet again, it just triggered me all over again.
I apologize to you, Sheila, and Ephraim and our viewers, but continue, Khaleesi.
It gives me a little bit of a touch of the dry heave, too.
So she's decided that she is not going to run for the Liberal Party leadership.
They're all doing this sort of performative nonsense where they're saying that they have discussed a potential leadership run with their friends and their allies and their supporters, but they have decided that it is just going to be just too much of a burden on them.
And they would like to thank you for the support that you actually didn't give them, their imaginary support.
And so they're all issuing these very bizarre letters.
Now, Anand was, of course, at defense.
And Aaron O'Toole weighs in and says, I saw the dedication that Anita Anand brought to national defense at a time when it was desperately needed.
She cared deeply about the CAF, their families, and the need for Canada to do more.
I wish her fair wins and following C's.
What the heck is he talking about?
She gave the military a crisis of recruitment, a crisis of retention, and tampons in the men's room.
That's what she did.
She gave us soldiers using food banks.
That's what she did.
So she might have cared deeply, but I don't think she did a damn thing for the military.
And it is going, she was part of the current decade of darkness that's happening in the Canadian military.
It's just a disgrace that Aaron O'Toole would say those sorts of things.
So, Sheila, the question arises then: is Aaron O'Toole a closet woke liberal or is he mentally ill?
I don't know.
I mean, I think back, was it last January or the one before?
The very first essay he put out there, which had him mocked savagely, was he was campaigning against those F. Trudeau flags.
Yeah, you know what?
Because even though the whole country has, well, I won't go there, but has been hard done by, shall we say, Justin Trudeau, Aaron O'Toole thought this was a little vulgar.
This was a little too risque.
I mean, what was this guy doing in the Conservative Party in the first place?
Like I said, if you are happy that Aaron O'Toole is no longer leading the Conservative Party of Canada, stop a trucker today and thank them.
Because if it were not for the Freedom Convoy and Aaron O'Toole's inability to see that the parade was marching and jump in front of it and lead it, he would still be the leader and Justin Trudeau would still be miles high in the polls because the Conservatives were not bringing something decent to the table as an alternative.
So thank you, Trucker, for Pierre Polyev.
That is an excellent point.
And it is my rebuttal to those lefties that say, oh, you and your so-called freedom convoy, they always put it in air quotes, you know, three weeks of making our life miserable in Ottawa.
And what did you accomplish?
What did you accomplish?
And I go, what you just said, we got rid, we took out the fake trash.
We took out Aaron O'Toole, the fake conservative, the real died in the wool, woke liberal.
That happened exactly like you said, because of his, you know, despicable performance in trying to have it both ways.
So yeah, that is at least one tangible thing that happened.
And you know what?
It's no small thing.
It's no small thing.
And if that's the only thing, it was worth it.
Well, thread the needle.
Yeah.
Convoy gets rid of Aaron O'Toole.
That gives us Pierre Polyev.
Polyev actually is a conservative alternative to Prime Minister Chustin Trudeau.
Polyev does this in the polls.
Trudeau does this.
Trudeau resigns.
You can thread the needle all the way back to the Freedom Convoy.
All the way back.
And Sheila, let us never forget, instead of going out on a path of glory, he meandered down a cobblestone road of, well, I guess decrepitude with Aaron O'Toole going to the house to his fellow conservatives, I'll be what you want me to be.
Just give me another chance, man.
Please.
It was, I couldn't even bear to watch it.
It was so awkward.
Also, I have another big problem with Aaron O'Toole, and that's who he decides to talk to.
He will not talk to conservative independent media.
He would sooner have them arrested, much like a liberal.
He will go on the podcast of Nate Erskine Smith, the vegan behind the pandemic bill, before he would talk to anybody from Rebel News.
It's an absolute disgrace.
That guy deserves to be in the dustbin of history, and he's putting himself there.
Wait one second, Sheila.
You forgot something.
It's the chronology.
He was more than happy to speak to Rebel News and take part in the independent press gallery debate.
Remember that?
When he wasn't yet the leader.
But once he became the leader, the mask came off.
Yeah, Andrew Shearer was a little bit like that too.
I should tell you that Aaron O'Toole is getting roasted by even Conservative Party members.
So I know Jenny Byrne just absolutely roasted him for that.
She's been great lately.
I love her during the campaign period.
She is just fierce and funny.
But Todd Dougherty, conservative MP, he's really good on the issue of addictions and drug treatment.
He's the conservative MP for Caribou Prince George, one of the most conservative places in the country.
This is so funny.
He says, like Christy Clark, Aaron O'Toole also bought a conservative party membership and pretended to be a conservative.