Ezra Levant argues Trump’s executive order on women’s sports could force Maine to comply or face up to $5B in federal funding cuts, with Janet Mills vowing legal battle. At CPAC, JD Vance and Trump’s return spark excitement, mirroring Reagan’s 1980s impact, while Murano warns of "deep state" disruptions amid trillions at stake. Levant’s Deal of the Century book pushes Canada’s oil sands as a U.S. energy lifeline, freeing military resources like the Fifth Fleet—though Murano doubts Trump’s focus. Listeners question Trudeau’s monorail funding and a hostage coffin mix-up, hinting at broader systemic failures as Trump reshapes policy with unprecedented speed. [Automatically generated summary]
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But I want to show you a great video of Donald Trump sparring with the left-wing feminist governor of the state of Maine.
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Oh, it's classic.
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Tonight, Donald Trump makes an all out assault on environmentalist extremism.
It's even better than Ronald Reagan.
It's February 21st, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Hey, check this out.
It's from a meeting of Donald Trump with the U.S. governors, Democrats and Republicans both.
And Trump heard that one of his executive orders about keeping men out of women's sports was being ignored in the state of Maine.
So take a look.
The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way.
That's good.
But I understand Maine, isn't it Maine here, the governor of Maine?
Are you not going to comply with it?
I'm complying with state and federal laws.
Well, we are the federal law.
Well, you better do it.
You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't.
And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports.
So you better comply, because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
I'll see you in court.
Every state ...
Good, I'll see you in court.
I look forward to that.
That should be a real easy one.
And enjoy your life after, governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
Every state has a responsibility to comply with Title IX, to have an obligation, a legal obligation.
That voice in the background is Janet Mills, the governor of Maine.
She says she'll see Trump in court.
I'm sure she will.
And I'm sure she will be able to keep men in women's sports if it's very important to her.
Sure, she can.
But I'm equally sure that Donald Trump will do what he promised he would do, stop sending federal money to Maine if they don't comply with his executive order.
So either one could actually win no matter what the court says.
Remember this?
Administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.
From now on, women's sports will be only for women.
In recent years, the radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology.
We're honored to be joined today by many incredible advocates for women's sports, including the brave swimmer at the forefront of this battle.
And Riley Gaines is a person that I've been watching with my action this afternoon.
We're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and riskier federal funding.
There will be no federal funding.
With this executive order, the war on women's sports is over.
We are restoring sanity and common sense, defending the rights and safety and pride of the American people, including our great, great, great female athlete.
That was an incredible visual image.
All those young women and girls around Trump, like he was a grandpa or something, protecting them because no one else would.
No left-wing feminists would.
It was just amazing that Trump took the women's vote because he was protecting women against men.
Even more amazing is that it's a Democrat woman, a feminist, the governor of Maine, who would be against that.
It's so weird.
It's so upside down.
I've never been to Maine, actually.
It's a small state, 1.4 million people, just a little bit bigger than Calgary.
It's the whitest state, if I'm reading my statistics correctly.
And I mentioned that only because that's sort of a classic recipe for what are sometimes called luxury beliefs.
There's not a lot of poverty in Maine.
There's not a lot of social friction in Maine.
There's not a lot of crises.
Everything's pretty good in Maine.
There's a lot of room for virtue signaling because of that.
So they can afford to care deeply about global warming and whatnot, except for that the whatnot here includes letting physical men box or wrestle against women, letting physical men into change rooms with women.
And Trump is here to say no to that.
Trump ended, as you saw, his statement there with a kind of threat.
That's how Trump operates with people who challenge him.
The threat was more of a prediction that if she's on the wrong side of that issue, she won't win again.
Now, I'm not sure if she's planning to run again.
Her term is up next year when she'll be almost 79.
Not sure if she'll run again.
I mean, Trump is almost at the exact same age, but he seems to have unlimited energy.
But I think Trump is right.
Is Maine so left-wing?
I'm not even going to say liberal because the liberals, a true liberal would be for women's spaces and women's rights.
Is Maine so left-wing, so radical, that's a better way to put it, that they'll go so far as to be anti-feminist, and by that I mean to let men dominate women's sports?
I'm not so sure that it is.
And in the meantime, are they fine losing up to $5 billion a year, which is what a curse research tells me the feds pay to Maine every year?
That works out to about $4,000 for every man, woman, and child, or around $14,000 a year for a family of four.
Now, I doubt that Trump would be able to cut everything off, but even if it was only a tenth of that, would every family in Maine lose, give up $1,400 a year because their hardcore left-wing virtue-signaling luxury beliefs governor wanted men to be able to wrestle with or play rugby against girls?
Or maybe she's just anti-Trump.
Maybe she doesn't actually believe in that.
I don't know.
But here's what I think.
I think that Maine is more sane than their governor.
I mean, I just think of what Steve Jennings, he's such a great spokesman.
He's on CNN.
Here's what he said the other day about Trump and these 80-20 issues.
Trump is like the 80-20 president.
He gets on the right side of all these 80-20 issues.
Democrats knee-jerk and take the 20.
And then what happens?
Today, CBS News poll this morning, Donald Trump's sitting at a 53% approval rating, the highest he's ever recorded in that survey.
Why?
Because Democrats are taking the wrong side of all of these obvious issues, number one.
And number two, they're giving him an enormous amount of latitude to move fast and break things, which I heard used in a pejorative fashion.
But when you're talking about the government, that's what people want Democrats for Trump to do.
So, yeah, in the last election, I checked the governor of Maine was elected 56% to 42%.
So that's a fair spread, 14%.
But it's not like 70-30 or anything.
If the number one issue in sleepy little Maine is men in women's sports teams and men in women's change rooms and men in women's prisons, I don't know if I'd be so sure to bet on the Democrats, especially if their incumbent governor runs again, and especially if Trump manages to punish the state for her, I'm going to call it anti-feminism.
But here's my point, besides showing you that wonderful, wonderful video.
Trump is so good on his feet.
But here's my point.
Could we get this same sort of thing happening here in Canada?
If Pierre Polyev were elected prime minister, could we ever get to a position where our prime minister would come face to face with an intransigent opponent?
In this case, someone who seems to be violating a legitimate federal order.
And would Polyev say, I'm going to punish you with the full force of the law?
I don't care that you're a governor.
Because, and I'm not an expert, but I think it's fair to say that Canada's prime minister actually has more power within our system than the U.S. president has in their system.
Not in all regards.
But I mean, just, let me give you one example: the appointment process.
We've just seen Trump's nominees go through a vetting by the Senate.
One of them was withdrawn.
I'm talking about Matt Gates.
We don't have any vetting of cabinet picks or of judges in Canada in the same way that they do in the U.S. That's just one example.
I think the Canadian prime minister actually, in many ways, has a lot more power in Canada than the U.S. president does in their system.
So I think a lot of people around the world are looking at Trump moving fast and breaking things, as Scott Jennings said.
And I think a lot of people in Canada and the UK and Australia and around the world are thinking, hey, why can't that be us too?
If Pierre Polyev wins this year, and I think he will, he should take Trump's approach, move fast, break things, ignore the media, and do so many things so fast using his executive authority that the liberals don't have time to react to the latest thing because he's already moved on to the next thing.
It's the only way he'll be able to fix what's so deeply broken.
Stay with us.
More ahead, a feature interview with our friend Mark Murano.
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Donald Trump has a war on all fronts.
He is making so many announcements every day.
It's putting all of his critics on the back foot.
By the time they respond to one thing, there's another thing.
It's like whack-a-mole squared.
And it's so hopeful.
It's clear that Trump has been thinking about things for years, plotting what he would do even minute by minute on his first day.
And it feels like every day since.
The pace of things is incredible.
And so I see this headline in Politico, which, by the way, received $8 million worth of, quote, subscriptions, basically money laundered to it by the Biden administration.
That's one of the discoveries of Trump's inquiries into waste.
But here's the headline in Politico: Trump's 30-day climate assault.
Trump has done more to unravel U.S. climate policy in the past 30 days than during the entirety of his first administration.
And we find that story where we always find our stories about global warming and the like on our favorite website, climate.com.
Joining us now is the boss of Climate Depot, who is at the CPAC convention.
I believe that's in Washington.
It's the great conservative convention.
Mark, great to see you.
I see you have a smile on your face now.
You always do, but I think it's because you're in the middle of the best news that freedom advocates on the energy file have had ever.
Ever.
Yeah, let me unpack this in a way.
If you just let me explain where I'm coming from.
I have been in politics since 1980 as a young kid.
My brother worked in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign and later his inaugural committee.
But I was a volunteer in the fall of 1980 at Ronald Reagan's headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, just across the bridge.
And I did media for Reagan.
I would do real-to-reel tape.
Governor Reagan spoke about his tax cuts and send it off to like Detroit radio station at the time.
I would cold call all these producers.
It was very, very eye-opening experience for me.
Anyway, I say that to say that in my lifetime, I don't know of any president who could be more consequential than Donald Trump.
And I'm including Ronald Reagan in that.
I'm including even pre my lifetime, JFK.
I think you'd have to go back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to get as consequential as what Donald Trump is doing.
And I'm talking broadly.
He's the most consequential president of our lifetime.
But beyond that, on the specific focus, as you mentioned, the political article on climate, energy, the environment, it has been, here's another embarrassing revelation.
This is not another one, but here's an embarrassing revelation.
I work with a team.
We came up with a top 10 list for Donald Trump to do as president.
And it was everything from withdraw the United Nations from the Paris Agreement, submit it to the Senate, go after the endangerment finding, which we think is happening in the process of happening at this moment as we speak, which is CO2 can be regulated as a pollutant.
We're going to hopefully statutorily get that killed in the United States.
And going through everything from all the energy restrictions.
But here's the part that's in my lifetime, I can't even believe.
We, as activists, and as Benny would say, utopian vision, trying to get things, you know, giving politicians a vision, we aim too low.
Because as you mentioned, in the first 30 days, Donald Trump has exceeded everything he did in his whole four years the first time around with much better cabinet picks this time.
And I don't even want to say, let me rephrase that.
They're not necessarily better cabinet picks, but the framework upon which they're working, and this is important, is they are serving Donald Trump and his vision.
There's no rogue cabinet members who we had last time who just sort of were dragging the ball.
I mean, everyone is on the same page and they're like corporate men.
I say corporate yes men, but they're corporate men doing the company policy and the company policy is make America great again.
So it is just absolutely shocking.
Engineer, you think back to JFK and all his speeches and inspiring.
We weren't inspiring enough.
I mean, we should aim too low.
And it's incredible.
This morning, Trump is telling people that they're not going to be sending U.S. delegations to these UN climate summits anymore.
They're the first time in my lifetime.
I've been to 23 of these or 22 out of the last 24, 21 elections.
And every single time there's been a U.S. delegation.
And secondly, there's now a bill in both the House and the Senate by Marsha Blackburn and Mike Lee and Roy Chip Roy of the House to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.
Wow.
I mean, it is like boom, boom, boom, boom.
He's talking about actually abolishing departments like education, stuff that Ronald Reagan talked about, but never even got off the ground.
So I am blown away.
So I don't want to be hyperbolic, but I know I am being hyperbolic.
Well, it's amazing.
You know, I read that political article because the political article, of course, was saying this in a critical way.
You and I are jeweled, but the other side is ashes.
Let me just read three things that stuck out.
You already alluded to one or two of them.
The core EPA, that's the Environmental Protection Agency, finding from 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger human health.
And we have the same BS regulation in Canada.
CO2 is natural.
I'm exhaling it now.
Plants breathe it in.
It's plant food.
It's the stuff of life.
Without carbon, almost everything we do and eat and use is carbon.
The idea that it's evil is such a bizarre thing, but that's in our laws.
I mean, to undo that keystone foundation stone.
Let me just rattle out two more things, then I'll throw right over to you, Mark.
In the first term where Trump was president, he waited four months to withdraw from the Parrot climate agreement.
He did it day one this time.
And finally, he's, I'm just quoting from the political article, quote, net zero 2050 is a sinister goal, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told conservative leaders.
So all of these sacred cows, he's just doing away with them.
And he's doing it all at once with a great speed.
Sorry, you were about to say something and I interrupted you.
Go ahead, Mark.
Well, no, I was just going to say, well, before we even get to the policy, the other thing that's stunning me as a longtime Trump observer, and I've been observing, I've been in terms of politically, I've interviewed him in 1999.
Let me rethink, I think 1999 at Sting's Rainforest concert.
And he was, you know, he was always in America first, but he was just there as a celebrity to support the save the rainforest.
And then I saw him later, I was rushing about this TV show.
I met him.
I saw him on Capitol Hill one time.
But I just want to say that whatever happened last year, and I think it's the threat of jail and getting shot at, this is the best version of Donald Trump, at least politically, that anyone has ever seen.
I mean, he is mature.
He's focused.
He's not making any kind of rookie mistakes.
He's not derailing his own agenda.
It's just amazing.
And that's the first thing I want to mention.
Now, in terms of this political article, first of all, the sinister goal of net zero, that's what I've been saying for a decade now.
And it's the same thing.
I say it's Soviet style central planning rebranded and saved the planet.
And to have our energy secretary, remember, just to contrast.
You want to talk about yin-yang, Ezra.
We had Jennifer Granholm with Biden's energy secretary.
She did a video with Bill McKibben, the climate activist singing about keep oil in the ground right before she became energy secretary.
You got to keep it in the ground, singing and dancing.
Like, this was our energy secretary.
And what could better do that?
One of the things the political article was hilarious because they said just as the extreme weather is getting worse, Trump is pulling out of all these climate facts.
Like somehow if we had stayed in and he had allowed this, like the weather would get better.
Like it's truly modern witchcraft.
The media has not gotten the message that they are completely anti-science and embarrassing themselves.
You know, there's so many things you said there.
I want to get back to what you mentioned earlier about how Trump's cabinet appointments are Trump's men.
And some people say, oh, they should think for themselves.
I remember Howard Lutnick, who is the head of the transition for Trump and now Commerce Secretary, was asked, well, do you want a couple of Democrats in there?
He said, what are you talking about?
If the CEO of a company has a vision, the CEO appoints vice presidents and delegates the vision.
It's an order.
Like you elect the president.
He's the head of the executive branch and everyone in the executive does what he says.
Anything else would be undemocratic.
They're only hiring Republicans.
Yes.
What a shock.
The Republican president is going to hire Republicans who are going to be fidelity to him, his policies, and him, because he's the CEO.
Why would you pick someone who's going to try to go the other direction?
That would be silly.
And we saw it with all these generals.
They just, they thought, I knew better than him.
I knew better than him.
That's just not true.
They went the wrong way.
And that's what was the mistake.
You can see that in every department.
And it may sound flattering that they all say President Trump has authorized me, President Trump, but they're always remembering where their source of executive power comes from.
Lee Zeldon, the EPA administrator, interesting guy from New York, ran for governor, came very close to winning in New York.
To watch that guy in action, he is battle trained and bruised himself.
In his own way, he was like a mini Trump.
And like so many people who have been given this opportunity, he's taken advantage of.
What I like about Lee Zeldin is he's focused on EPA stuff for sure, but he's also focused on finding wealth, fraud, corruption.
And not only does that put the bad guys in the deep state on the back foot, but it actually defunds them.
I think he's discovered a $2 billion shell organization that was going to find climate extremism, like just off the books.
They're not just doing positive stuff, they're defunding the deep state as they go.
And I am enjoying, I can't wait to read the news every day.
Every day is a month's worth of news in a day.
Back to you.
Go ahead.
Exactly right.
And you mentioned it's just a form of shock and awe, to use another phrase, where they, you have the Democrat chairmanship meeting.
This was about, I guess, three weeks ago now, where they literally like, we have to have one candidate from each gender, and then we have to have a non-binary.
I mean, it's like they're still like, they've lost their voice.
I've never seen in my lifetime the opposition so steamrolled and flat.
You had Dakeem Jeffries, the Democrat House minority leader, basically say, what are we going to do?
We have no leverage.
We can't do anything.
I mean, they are just steamrolled by this.
But I wanted to mention two cabinet appointees to support what you said about Lee Zeldon.
Lee Zeldon just seems to be coming into his own.
And a lot of this is, these are politicians to begin with, you know, whether Doug Bergham, as I was mentioning, Doug Bergam and RFK, along with Lee Zeldon, but not RFK, but Lee Zeldon was a congressman and Doug Bergam is a governor.
They have to deal in balance and all that.
But now they're given a singular central focus.
And you can almost say, like, wow, they really are rising to the occasion.
Doug Bergham, by the way, is going against some of the things he's advocated.
He's advocated for net zero standards.
I'm just telling you, this is the Interior Secretary.
He's advocated for net zero standards stricter than California.
He was trying to do it as a sort of an accounting trick, an ideological game where he embraced the climate agenda, but his solution wasn't cutting back on energy.
His solution was carbon capture and storage.
And that's just beyond.
That's just an accounting trick.
That's a real Enron trick.
And Canada's tried to do that too.
Canada's oil patch.
It's busy work.
It's fake.
Yeah, I don't like that either.
You know what I love is how you're right.
In the past, conservatives had to make these moral bargains, put water in their wine.
But Trump is all about the opposite.
He's about going as distilled and pure as you can be.
And that's how he operates as a negotiator.
Remember, Donald Trump is a master negotiator.
I went back.
I ordered, I couldn't find my old copy, so I reordered Art of the Deal and I started reading it again.
And that's a good read to remember how Trump operates.
He always goes as far as he can.
He likes to destabilize the other side by going so far and being adamant about it and using the media for it.
And then maybe he'll get half as much as he asked for because he went so far in his original demand.
It's it's astonishing how much he got done.
And by the way, working with Elon Musk is so incredible.
I just hope that that's like a binary star.
You have two high energy personalities, two alpha dogs.
And by the way, I think Elon Musk is probably going to be the single most effective person in the Trump administration other than Trump himself.
If he can keep up what he's doing, I mean, I don't want to say he'll cut the size of government by 80%, which is what he did at Twitter.
But I'm not even kidding when I say he could cut half the government in half if he keeps going to the pace it's going.
I'm impressed.
Yes.
What I like about it is, first of all, everyone's deriding it.
The media, oh, he's got teenagers working for him.
No, he's got people outside the system who don't give up.
Bleep.
And they're coming in.
And other interesting thing he said, and this is astute of Elon Musk, a man who can't, you know, as Oda Mitchell doesn't necessarily pick up on social cues.
He picks up on human nature.
The agencies that balk the loudest at him and his team getting involved in, those are the ones he actually expands the investigation because he figures if they're this upset, they must have something to hide that they don't want us to see.
In the case of places like USAID, they were able to actually dig deeper and deeper on that.
And I think Elon Musk and what he's doing, this is like a circuit break.
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Again, Ronald Reagan tried to cut budgets in the 1980s.
You can read David Stockman, his management and budget director, who basically just said, we failed.
I mean, we ended up with deficits and he just never was able to cut the social spending at the time.
It wasn't, it was a different era.
1990s, Bill Clinton came up with Al Gore and the reinvent government initiative and they talked all about it with more gimmick, but apparently that even reduced the size for about a year.
What I think Elon Musk and Donald Trump need to think about is permanence.
They need to make it so that the next president or even the next Congress in two years can't come in and expand the spending and just we go on like this was just a momentary pause.
Historically, that's literally what happened.
Or there's some kind of major war that just blows it all to pieces.
Remember, before 9-11, the United States through the last, the late 90s under Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress had budget surpluses.
We had generally peace and then 9-11 came and blew everything to hell.
So you always have to, you know, there's no permanence when it comes like that in Washington.
There's always things that can come reset everything, but Donald Trump needs to just keep this going.
Again, I've never seen anything like this.
And I'm excited about RFK Jr.
I like that Donald Trump told him to stay off of the environment and climate issues generally.
But to focus on health.
And I love it.
And it feels so inclusive in a good way.
I don't use the word inclusive like affirmative action.
He's bringing in people who would not have traditionally seen themselves as Republicans or Trump people.
He's talking about moms who were worried about what their kids are eating and people who were like, he raises a good point.
Why is America spending so much on health, but getting such poor results?
And I've never met him.
Maybe he's a really good trickster, but I've never met a politician who feels as genuine and truly public service oriented as RFK Jr.
I mean, it really does have the best of the Kennedys.
We've seen a lot of the worst of the Kennedys in recent years.
RFK Jr. in cabinet is amazing.
And I actually thought they were going to find a way to block him.
Remember, they blocked him in the Democrat Party.
He and Bernie Sanders tried to run in the primaries.
It's sort of incredible.
Trump has built this cabinet of stars.
Yeah, yes.
I would say this, though, and both you and I have talked about this.
I remember my first interview, probably on the COVID lockdowns, was with your program.
And I think it was like March 14th, 2020, 20.
Right.
You were on the curve.
I was nervous.
You could see the scam.
I couldn't see it yet.
Well, what I was going to say is that, looking back now, was probably the, had so many positives.
The fact that they overreached, did medical tyranny and bureaucratic public health tyranny on the public all over the world is probably the reason for Trump 2.0, probably the single greatest reason he was reelected.
And it's probably the single greatest reason that RFK Jr. came around.
He was red-pilled by it.
I mean, he won't even talk about climate anymore.
It's been hired by for totalitarian control by the U.S. World Health Organization, the World Economic Reform.
So you look back, COVID really, the lockdowns may not have been a bad thing because it red-pilled so many people that we were able to build this coalition.
It was painful as hell to go through, but it's something to consider when you look back.
Because of those tyrannical overreach, we were able to basically recapture our government and recapture Beroxy, at least here in America.
I think that's a very interesting observation.
Hey, I just published a new book called Deal of the Century, The America First Plan for Canada's Oil Sands.
Let me throw it at you.
I'll send you a copy of the book, Mark.
We just released it moments ago, really.
And Donald Trump loves tariffs, and I understand it because a lot of countries have a trade surplus with America.
He's saying, if you're going to sell stuff to us, build the factory here.
I get it.
But the oil sands, which is by far Canada's largest export to America, you can't just move the oil sands.
They're where they are.
You can't move Saudi Arabia's oil or Venezuela's oil either.
But when Trump says he's going to put tariffs on Canadian oil, I just think, well, it's not going to get the desired effect of moving the oil sands to America.
The customers are the U.S. refineries.
And if they don't buy Canadian oil, they're going to be getting it from, I don't know, Venezuela, if it's the same heavy oil as comes from Canada or some other OPEC place.
And the thesis of Deal of the Century is that Trump should think like the deal maker, like the real estate man, like he wants to buy Greenland.
He wants the Panama Canal.
Think of the oil sands as a real estate deal.
Lock it in.
Lock it in for 50 years.
There's 170 billion barrels there.
If the oil sands were to double production, which the Alberta premier, Daniel Smith, says she wants to do, that would displace all foreign conflict oil in America.
Right now, Canada produces about half of U.S. imports.
Why not double it?
Instead of pushing it away, pull it in.
And I reread the US-MCA trade agreement, and there's a special, they call it a side letter on energy.
And it gives America preferential access to Canadian energy.
And my thesis is Trump, instead of slapping, like I get the instinct to slap Trudeau around.
We all hate him.
He's going to be gone in a few weeks.
Don't push away the oil sands because you hate Trudeau.
Pull the oil sands closer.
Double the imports, ink a 50-year, $13 trillion deal for all of it.
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Like literally buy all of it.
Don't let China get a toehold.
So that's my case to America First Friends is, look, we all hate Trudeau.
He's going to be gone soon.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The opposite.
I agree with you.
Yeah.
I would tell you in Canada, I wouldn't worry too much necessarily about these tariffs.
I think this is all just a way of him to renegotiate and put his mark on trade agreements and deals.
I just can't see him ever going through with that on Canada at this point.
I just think it's, I don't want to use the word bluster, but it's a negotiating tactic.
But I absolutely agree with you.
Well, thank you.
I'll send you a copy of the book.
It's a short book.
It's less than 100 pages.
But I just feel like Trump is so focused on other bigger deals like Russia, Ukraine, Gaza, China, that I don't think he actually spends a ton of time thinking about Canada when, in fact, it would solve one of his problems.
Because one of the things I do in the book is I say, look, the amount of money the U.S. spends patrolling the Persian Gulf sea lanes to protect that oil, if you're sourcing your oil from Canada, you can free up your U.S. Fifth Fleet for other things.
Anyway, I'll send you a copy of the book.
I'd love your view on it.
Great.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And congrats on the book.
Thank you.
Give me one last word from CPAC.
Has there been anything interesting that you've heard over the last day or so?
Well, we had JD Vance come speak here, and Donald Trump himself will be here tomorrow morning.
And this is a great crowd that likes him.
I think everyone even here is in shock and awe.
It's almost like, you know, these are, and again, I've been coming to this since the 80s, these events, actually early 90s, to be fair.
And it's amazing because no one's ever experienced a time like this where you wake up and are excited to see the news every day.
I mean, it's just incredible.
So everyone here is ecstatic.
It's almost like pinch me to see if I'm awake.
So you figure at some point, not just Democrats, but I think the deep state, as it were, you know, is going to is going to try to derail Trump.
They can't allow this to continue.
And I don't mean that in a sinister way.
I just mean it in a way it's going to be either they're going to try to break a news cycle and get him off and get him distracted or do something.
But I just can't imagine this being allowed to continue or the deep state was never as powerful as we thought, or maybe they've just been broken.
And that's what we could always hope for that option is that they've been broken, this whole unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy that has run Washington for decades.
You know, you're so right.
It feels jubilant right now.
I'm reminded of that old apocryphal story of King Solomon asking for a ring with an inscription that's always true.
And the inscription was, this too shall pass.
And in times of sorrow, it picked up his spirits.
But in times of elation, it brought him down to earth a little bit.
And it's so incredible what's going on right now.
I am starting, my natural worrier inside me is thinking exactly what you're thinking.
Are they going to do something to stop him, to stop Elon Musk, to stop RFK Jr.?
They've already tried to assassinate Trump several times.
It's so not only are trillions of dollars at stake, but the entire rise and fall of countries, of civilizations is at stake.
And I don't think that's too dramatic to say so.
So I just hope that we can continue on this.
And I'm saying this as a Canadian because I know we'll benefit from it as the whole world will.
Last word to you.
The last word is this.
Biggest thing Donald Trump's doing, you can talk all about all the actions he's taking, the man, is he's reframing the narrative and changing the narrative.
He's changing culture.
Just like in the 19 by the 1980s, Reagan changed the culture for the 70s.
Think of the free love hippies.
They were considered a political force viable.
By the 1980s, they were the butt of jokes, you know, like a hippie.
And, you know, they'd have, they were like a comedy, comic relief by that point.
And I think that's what Donald Trump has done.
He's going to make, you know, the woke, the Black Lives Matter, transgenderism, the climate actors.
They're going to be just losing all credibility in pop culture.
And that is what I think that shift in the paradigm, that shift in the narrative, you can't even put a quantify an impact on something like that.
We are a changed nation, I believe, just in the last 30 days.
Again, I could be drinking the Kool-Aid here.
And maybe I'm just too exuberant, but that's how I feel at the moment.
So I'll allow that I am too exuberant, but that's this is a change in culture and narrative, which to me is one of the most important things you can do.
Amazing.
Mark, it's great to see you.
And I think this is the best time for American energy and hopefully for Canadian energy, as you say that we've ever experienced.
Mark, great to see you.
And we'll let you get back to the conference there.
Thank you, Ezra.
Appreciate it.
All right.
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Your letters on the hostages.
Jeanette Rempel says the woman's body that was returned was not the children's mother.
She is not one of the known hostages.
I saw that insane news.
They put another anonymous woman's corpse in the coffin.
And the only explanation I can think for that is that they tortured or did such terrible things to the body that they were trying to hide that from the public.
I don't know.
That's my guess.
It's so atrocious, the whole thing.
A letter about Trudeau's monorail project.
Ken Vanderburg says he doesn't have the parliamentary authority to make any spending announcements.
Well, he can make all the announcements he wants.
I don't know if he can get the spending out the door without parliament reconvening.
The whole thing is so bizarre.
I mean, isn't he supposed to be gone by now?
Timothy Baker says, probably working with a Chinese-owned railroad manufacturer.
Well, I'd have to do some more deep research on the different consortium members, but one of them is SNC LabLand, just renamed.
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