Sheila Gunreed and Lise Merle dissect Trump’s $155B tariffs on Canada, citing 1M+ jobs at risk and Trudeau’s 25% retaliation—$30B immediate, $125B in 21 days—as reckless, while Doug Ford’s LCBO alcohol ban and energy threats are mocked as ineffective. Pierre Poilievre’s "stabbed in the back" rhetoric is criticized for escalating conflict instead of leveraging U.S.-Canada ties to oust Liberals, who they blame for economic decline and fentanyl super labs producing 44-66 lbs weekly. The episode warns Canada’s aggressive responses could backfire, deepening trade tensions and harming ordinary citizens amid Trudeau’s fading political relevance. [Automatically generated summary]
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Oh, hey, good morning.
Good afternoon, everybody, depending on which part of this beautiful country that you're in for both of your hosts today.
It's still morning.
I'm Sheila Gunreed, the regular host of Rebel Roundup.
It's our daily news and opinion show where you get our hot takes, our spicy takes, and sometimes our cold takes.
And joining me today is Lise Merle, beloved Rebel News contributor from beautiful Regina, Saskatchewan.
Lise, how's it going?
Well, hello, my darling, Sheila Gunreed, and hello, Rebel Fam.
What an absolute packed show we have for you today.
The world has not slowed down.
The world is just speeding up and our snow globes are being shaken on every front.
And we're here to help you unpack it and make sense of it all.
I already see in the Rumble chat, somebody says they're too foul-tempered to participate.
So she's just going to watch while doing housework.
So me too.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Common sentiment.
Common sentiment.
But no, it's great to be here.
And yeah, what a day we have to unpack, Sheila.
Yeah, this is a wild and historic day.
I'm actually feeling slightly privileged that we get to host this show to help everybody sort of digest what's happening here.
We'll be the peptobismol on the stomachache of what the liberals have done to our economy thanks to their inaction on the border.
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I mean, everything is tainted if government money touches it, generally speaking.
We've got just a jam-packed show today, but let's start with what's happening.
President Donald J. Trump proceeds with, this is from the White House, this is their fact sheet, proceeds with tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.
Now, thankfully in Alberta, we're skating, sort of, with the 10% tariff on Canadian oil and gas.
I don't know how long that'll stick, considering it's going to rise the price of the pump for the Midwest.
And I don't think Trump wants that because that's something that'll hit people first.
And you got to go to work.
You just got to go to work.
So he says, while, and this remains true, while President Trump gave both Canada and Mexico ample opportunity to curb the dangerous cartel activity and influx of lethal drugs flowing into our country, they have failed to adequately address the situation.
I don't substantially disagree.
The flow of contraband drugs like fentanyl into the United States through illicit distribution networks has created a national emergency, including a public health crisis, like a real public health crisis, by the way, not like the other one that we just went through.
Mexican drug trafficking organizations, the world's leading fentanyl traffickers, operate unhindered due to an intolerable relationship with the government of Mexico.
We can go, we'll just skip through that.
There's a growing presence of Mexican cartels operating fentanyl and nitazine synthesis labs in Canada, the super labs.
A recent study recognized Canada's heightened domestic production of fentanyl and its growing footprint within international narcotics distribution.
Canada-based drug trafficking organizations maintain robust, here we go, super labs, mostly in rural and dense areas in Western Canada.
This is true, 100% true.
Some of which can produce 44 to 66 pounds of fentanyl weekly.
That's enough to kill everybody in Alberta, by the way.
Last year's northern border fentanyl seizures, though smaller than Mexico's, could kill 9.5 million Americans due to the drugs.
Potency, proof of Canada's growing role in the crisis.
Fentanyl seizures at the northern border in the first four months of this fiscal year are quickly closing in on what was seized the entirety of fiscal year 2022.
Both nations' failure to arrest traffickers, seize drugs, or coordinate with U.S. law enforcement constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to America's security, demanding action to enforce accountability and protect Americans' lives.
He told us what he was going to do to us.
He actually delayed the tariffs to give us time to do something about it.
Daniel Smith valiantly tried here in Alberta, but we can't carry the load for this entire nation.
And here we are.
No, this should not come as any surprise to us whatsoever.
Instead of addressing this head on, our prime minister went on a vacation to Europe to churn up support for the Ukrainian war, the meat grinder of the Ukrainian war.
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Everybody, every single loser that's gunning for his job right now is on a cross-country backpatting tour.
And this did not come as any surprise at all.
If they were at all interested in working in the best interest of Canadians, they would have been on this full time in Washington or at Mur-a-Lago or wherever the people are that are making these decisions.
And the truth is, they weren't interested in working on behalf of Canadians.
They weren't.
This is not their priority.
Their priority is to keep antagonizing the United States on behalf of their elite, you know, NATO countries of the world and keep promoting a war that nobody here asked for or be wants.
Yeah.
It's wild.
Justin Trudeau's, Justin Trudeau's response was staggering, staggeringly off base.
Justin Trudeau failed to secure our border, failed to stop fentanyl, failed to meet our NATO commitments, failed to make us more productive.
He failed to make or he failed to respect our trade agreements.
And he went as far as to mock and insult Trump for the last four years.
That post is from Marty up north on X, and I thought it was perfect.
And thanks so much, Marty.
But he absolutely 100% right.
I would just like one adult in the room at this point.
Like I would just, I would be happy with one adult from Canada in the room to take on this file.
But this, again, this antagonistic and really off-base approach is not going to serve us.
It is, as a matter of fact, it's going to harm us.
Nobody, not a single person except Daniel Smith.
And to some extent, late to the game, Scott Moe thought we need to bring the heat down.
We need to bring the heat down.
Instead, they just ramped it up and up and up.
And I've got my own theories for that, which we'll talk about in a little bit.
But let's stay on what Trump has to say here.
Now that he's ripped the band-aid off, now all of the grievances against Canada are coming out.
You know, we may as well point out some other things that the Americans have problems with us.
So Trump says Canada doesn't allow American banks to do business in Canada, but their banks flood the American market.
That doesn't seem fair, does it?
Now, I think that's not entirely true.
I mean, the American banks, some of them do do business here, but it's really onerous to do business here.
I mean, it is that way for Canadian companies.
The regulatory requirements.
Yeah.
The regulatory requirements in Canada are so much greater than those in the United States.
And that's why we don't have reciprocal banking in Canada like they do in the like Canadian banks do in the United States.
Now, Donald Trump, now the poaching and the phishing starts, right?
So he says that I think this is, sorry, was this on Truth Social?
That's his own social media platform.
He says, if companies move to the United States, there are no tariffs.
Well, isn't that good news for Mark Carney, who moved Brookfield Asset Management to the United States back in November, or at least that's when the shareholder vote was.
Because all these people knew.
Every single liberal, well-connected operative and all these liberal cabinet ministers, they knew from the very beginning.
And I asked Premier Daniel Smith about this at our year-end interview.
They knew they could not campaign against the Conservatives on their own record.
So they thought we'll pivot and we'll campaign against Donald Trump.
One million Canadian jobs be damned.
And those are the numbers.
One million Canadian jobs are at stake right now.
I think it's probably more, but each one of those is a Canadian family.
So let's just say four to five million people are going to be directly touched by this.
And the Liberals thought, okay, that's the cost of doing business.
And their well-connected friends like Mark Carney, they started moving their companies out of Canada back in advance.
This was the plan from the very beginning.
Absolutely, yes.
Absolutely.
Yes, Sheila.
That is exactly what happened.
This was a result of a pre-prescribed plan that the liberals came up with in an effort to hang on to power.
They saw the writing was on the wall with the polls over the last two years, seeing them sink deeper and deeper and deeper down in the polls.
I mean, the liberals and the NDP together couldn't take on the conservatives as of about a month ago.
I mean, on one hand, it is brilliant.
On the other hand, it is devious and destructive and unforgivable, unforgivable, especially when parliament is paroked and we do not have a functioning government, especially when tensions are so, so hot internationally in terms of what's happening in Russia and Ukraine.
What we need is temperate people to make good decisions on our behalf.
And it doesn't seem as though if you put all of these people together in a room, they'd be capable of doing that even once.
It is.
I mean, it is just soul-crushing to watch unravel.
Yeah, it did not have to be this way.
It did not have to be this way.
And Trump campaigned on it.
He campaigned on this.
They had lots of lead time to deal with this.
And the liberals never did because it serves them.
These are a million Canadian jobs, a million Canadian families just thrown on the bonfire to keep the liberals warm.
It's absolutely outrageous.
And yeah, nobody, not a cooler head prevailed.
Even this week, they could have done something drastic, especially after seeing what Trump and JD Vance did to Zelensky.
Now, whatever you feel about whether or not Zelensky deserved it, and I gave my opinions yesterday on the show after watching the full 50-minute exchange of the slow burn before the Americans actually said anything about Zelensky's petulance.
But whatever you feel about that, everybody knows that Zelensky is the Western world's darling.
He's the media darling.
And Trump and JD Vance didn't give a damn.
America felt disrespected and they mulled him like a hungry bear in front of the world to see.
So did our politicians think that anything different would happen to us, especially when the Western world has sort of lost patience with the liberals and their nonsense here in Canada?
Yeah, no, no, that's exactly right.
Did they think that they were going to these arguably Zelensky was much more tactful and showed a lot more contrition than Canadian politicians have in these last couple of days.
I mean, it is wild for them to think that they could publicly call Donald Trump dumb, call his policies inane, insult him and his frustration.
Compare him to Nazis.
Go ahead.
Like, I'm just saying, they've compared him to a Nazi several times this week.
Like, we had Kearney or Freeland.
They're indistinguishable at this point.
I think they just wear different sized ladies' pantsuits.
They both decided that they're Churchill, which would make the enemy the Nazis.
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You know?
That's ridiculous.
But even Conjuring that language, that language that takes everybody with even a rudimentary knowledge of world history into a wartime, into a wartime headspace.
Christian Freeland suggesting that Canada should partner with Great Britain and France, nuclear-capable countries against the United States.
This is madness.
It is madness.
And there's no ability. for Canadians to be able to stop this.
None.
Zero.
Zilch.
Nothing.
It is wild what is happening.
And just a heads up, viewers, just a heads up, probably later we're going to show the face and voice of the Prime Minister of Canada.
I see you in the group chat.
I see, I see how you hate him.
However, it is so important for us to document these events in these moments in live time because what happens later, we'll be able to make sense of by looking back on what's happening today.
So just please forgive us in advance.
And just real quick, Sheila, I see a whole bunch of people being like, who is that lady with Sheila?
Who is that lady with Sheila?
I'm Lise Merrell.
I'm a writer and mom of six from Saskatchewan and Sheila's bestie in real life.
So hello, hello, everybody watching.
And now you know who I am.
So this is, you're just witnessing what me and Sheila do all day, every day for fun.
And welcome.
We are so happy to have you here.
Yes.
So anyway, let's continue, Sheila.
Yeah, and you're just to be clear, you're not just some walk-on.
Like you, you're a broadcaster from Saskatchewan for years.
The most important thing you do is as a mom of six, but you recently, in efforts to hold the school system to account in Saskatchewan, you ran for the school board there.
Got actually pretty close to winning considering the political interference of the unions and the school boards there.
And yeah, so parental rights activist and also former broadcaster and our Tuesday host.
And we're working on something else in the background to hold the people in Saskatchewan to account.
But that's just a hint.
We'll get to that in a second.
Let's just bring up that tweet from Justin Trudeau because this is Justin Trudeau put on his bad idea jeans this morning.
I think he has many pairs.
This one, he says, the moment U.S. tariffs came into effect, bad idea genes.
So did the Canadian response.
Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155 billion of American products with starting with $30 billion worth of goods immediately and the remaining $125 billion in 21 days time.
Bad idea genes.
Why?
Because Trump has said repeatedly, I will put reciprocal retaliatory tariffs on everything that you do.
So if you add 25%, if you respond to 25% to mine, you're getting 50.
And this is what, so Trump said, please explain to Governor Trudeau of Canada that when he puts on a retaliatory tariff on the U.S., our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase by a like amount.
So Trudeau just hammered back with 25.
He's going to get 50.
We do not have the size of economy to respond in any sort of effective way.
Truly.
We just don't.
Truly not.
Their economy is tens and tens and tens of times larger than ours, as is their consumer base.
And what is so staggering is watching our federal government, in addition to our provincial governments, saying, well, quickly, we've got to get all of our decks in a row and we've got to remove barriers to interprovincial trade.
And we have to create an economy for all of our products.
And we're going to, and meanwhile, every Canadian is going, you guys have had nine years to do this.
You guys have had nine years to put up these safeguards, and you didn't.
What this is, is a staggering example of our federal and provincial governments not being able to read the room.
They assumed that Trump would never win again.
They assumed that he was a one and done president and that he was going to be when he was shown the door in 2020.
And we know what happened in 2020, you know, those of us know.
But when they assumed that they were never going to have to deal with him again and drastically overplayed their hand.
Now we in Canada are in an intrinsically delicate position where it doesn't appear as though anybody in the provincial government or anybody in the federal government knows what to do at this point.
And even this will even go so far as Pierre Polyev most recently saying, you know, he's going to take the same hardline approach as the federal government and as many of the provincial premiers when the rest of us, especially in Western Canada, are seeing this as a play to those Eastern Canadian voters.
And that is so disheartening as well, because the last thing we want, the last thing that we wanted, was a fight with our dearest neighbor and closest friends in the United States of America.
What would have made sense is to nip this in the bud right at the beginning.
They did not.
Like I said, they had other priorities over this last month, gallivanting around Europe, doing this circus sideshow of a leadership, of a leadership, a leadership race for the Liberal Party of Canada, all while they would just, they would feed us to the wolves.
It's crazy.
It is this, this without question, is the craziest week to be alive ever in Canada.
This is just wild.
It is wild.
The Liberals have done some really terrible things, like really terrible.
I could list them for days.
It's part of my job, actually, documenting it.
But this, I think, is the worst thing that they have ever done to Canadians.
And I include the carbon tax and the killing of pipelines and all of that, because they sacrifice or could sacrifice, were willing to sacrifice 1 million Canadian jobs.
That's single Canadian jobs.
So again, I reiterate that's a family behind every single one of those jobs to save themselves in the polls.
Like a million Canadian jobs to buy and probe parliament, you know, prorogue parliament in the middle of this tariff emergency.
While they can't pick a lane, they're talking about this is like a wartime.
They're claiming to be Churchill, that they would use emergency measures, but not enough to get your butts back to work.
Like not enough to get your butts back in the seat.
They should have been.
The second Trump was like, yeah, you're going to get tariffs.
That should have been the end of it.
That should have been the end of prorogation.
But for the Liberals, that would not have allowed them to run a leadership race.
They would have ended up falling in an election, and we would have had somebody better suited and better tempered to deal with Trump.
Somebody without all the baggage of nine years of Trump bashing, by the way.
But the Liberals, to save themselves, they couldn't do that for Canadians because they love themselves more than they love this country.
You just brought up a really interesting point.
With Pierre Polyev coming out with really strong language against the United States and sort of taking the same approach as the federal government, you know, that doesn't bode well for being able to negotiate with Trump, regardless of the outcome of our next federal election.
Like it doesn't position him from a place of, you know, neighborly goodwill or any kind of loyalty to our closest friends and neighbors in the United States.
Like this is going to have long-lasting, really profound, profound outcomes for the country, for the nation of Canada, for our economy, and for our peace and prosperity.
And none of it is good.
Yeah, like Danielle Smith is taking the approach that a good relationship with the Americans is good for both of us.
I wish Pauliev had said, like, look, I am running to lead Canada.
I am a Canada first guy.
Of course, you want that.
Like, you want your leader to be Canada first instead of Justin Trudeau being world first, instead of Canada first.
We've lived through somebody who does that.
But he also should say, look, the Americans have some great points.
I don't have a latent anti-Americanism living within me.
I don't have nine years of antagonistic rhetoric against the Americans.
I am the person best suited to advance Canadian interests, address the concerns the Americans have raised with us, because that's in the best interest of Canadians.
There are other ways to move this forward and to position yourself as the guy who's not the liberals to show like the liberals have failed in dealing with Trump and their chickens have come home to roost and the tree is tall and the branches are bendy because it's just covered in chickens.
But we're not making that point quite yet.
Hopefully they will.
I mean, honestly, honestly, we've got to do a pretty hard course correction and read the room as it pertains to this trade war.
I don't want to call it a war, but hell, if Christia Freeland is calling in the nukes from Britain and France, we'll call it a war.
But we do need calmer heads to prevail and we really do need to concentrate on the good working relationships that we've enjoyed with the United States since someone has to point out that the liberals have made it impossible for Trump to negotiate with them.
They are the wrong people.
He doesn't like them.
It's the same problem that Ukraine has with Zelensky now.
How do you send Zelensky back to the United States and say like, ooh, Mulligan, I was a little bit hot there.
Like, you can't do that.
So something has to change.
And the liberals are not the right people to be dealing with Trump right now.
He really dislikes him, especially Freeland.
But Mark Carney, I mean, his comments when he was no better.
He's just as bad.
No better.
As a matter of fact, I think that he would be arguably more dangerous to negotiate, especially a multi-year deal on behalf of Canadians when he has never had a single vote cast for him by Canadians, when he is untested, untrusted, and unwanted.
Having Mark Carney negotiate on our behalf would be an unmitigated disaster.
And honestly, short of a miracle.
Well, I think that's who we're going to get.
That's who we're going to get, sadly.
I mean, but it just does show the corruption, the corruption of our election system in Canada and how this was not only allowed to happen, but designed to happen like this against us, against our best interest.
I mean, that we are not a serious country.
I will just fall back on that.
We are not a serious country.
Got more things broken in this country than we have working at this time.
And uh and and, no matter what happens, no matter what happens, if the liberals are negotiating on our behalf with Donald Trump, we are in a in for a world of hurt.
Uh, Rand Paul, Uh Republican says uh, and he's a very free market.
I would suggest uh, more of a libertarian than even a Republican.
He says U.s.
Tariffs inevitably bring Canadian, Mexican and Chinese tariffs, which means higher prices for lumber steel, aluminum and more expensive homes and cars.
Now I think Trump has looked at this and said for a time, uh, until uh, manufacturing ramps up in the United States, and that could take years.
But that is also what he campaigned on.
He campaigned in turning the rust belt back to the chrome belt.
He campaigned in repatriating jobs that were lost to overseas.
Um, this is what, this is what he promised he would do.
And uh, I don't know why anybody is surprised by it.
Well they, you know.
The reason why they're surprised by it Sheila, is because they had they had so written him off that they weren't paying attention to what he was saying.
Like they immediately write everything he, Donald Trump, says off as, as you know, hysterical and far right and you know not, misinformation and disinformation.
They were so busy working inside their own validation circles that they missed the writing on the wall in front of their faces, and this is what this is.
What's really, really obvious in this time is they were so interested in advancing their own, you know, their crazy green initiatives in chasing carbon tax, in bringing in 5 million new Canadians to Canada.
And not dealing with any of the issues, not dealing with any of the issues that that brought, that they missed the writing on the wall that was right in front of them.
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of them.
I mean, it is just an unmitigated disaster and unforgivable as far as I'm concerned unforgivable.
Do you know?
What I think too, is some of it is culture shock.
So they are used to uh and this happens on the left and the right politicians laying supine on the floor pleading for someone to like them um, and that's why they were so like, dumbfounded with how Jd Vance and uh Trump treated Zelinsky, and so they are shocked that a politician is doing exactly what he said he would do as quickly as he said he would do it,
and so they're like, what what what, what?
I thought we had years.
I thought we had years.
I thought this would be like Stephen Harper's hidden agenda that was so hidden we haven't found it in the 10 years since he's been gone.
Uh they, I think.
I think that's what a lot of the problem is.
They're like Wait, he's actually doing what he campaigned on.
Oh, dang.
Now, what do we do?
And I think it's catching the media flat-footed, but it's catching the world flat-footed.
But this is to use the language of Alex Jones, the new world order, I think.
This is it.
It's happening.
We are watching an American dismantling of the new world order right now.
And they're just not sure, quite sure what to do.
But again, what a, you know, what a blessing it is that Donald Trump had a full four years to be able to observe all of the rotten parts of the corrupt government in the United States to be able to come back swinging the way he did.
Oh man, that meeting was just incredible.
That meeting was whoa.
I mean, this, so Zelensky is a man.
Zelensky is a man who is used to meeting with world leaders who just gently cup his testicles.
Okay, just gently cup them.
And just baby him and praise him and tell him what a good now, whether Zelensky even knows that all of those world leaders are just interested in getting in on the take of a wildly corrupt Ukraine is who knows?
Who knows what his motivation is?
But this is a man who was not being, who was not used to being treated with any kind of truth or authority in his life.
This is, I mean, obviously not.
But grossly missing those on his, I love the, I love the ambassador to the Ukraine just like sit, sit, like slunking lower and lower in her chair, just wanting the earth to open up and swallow her whole.
Like I felt her in that moment.
It was such a disastrous moment.
But I mean, what a telling moment for us.
What a telling moment for us.
We got to witness what diplomacy looks like when they're at the private lunches after typically.
You know what I mean?
We only get the glossed over version where they have their official flags in the background and they have all of their little people behind them and they have their lines all set up.
That was a, that was an incredible, unvarnished moment to be able to witness.
And I want more public, publicly accessible meetings between leaders like that.
Like I want more of this in our lives.
Like genuine level accountability, this level of transparency.
Do you know what Trump said in that meeting?
He said, I'm glad that everybody got to see this.
He said that towards the end.
He's like, yeah, I'm glad everybody got to see this.
My immediate reaction was Zielinski aside and his ingratitude at the moment.
I thought, good golly, what's about to happen to Mark Carney?
Like, what is about to happen to Mark Carney?
It's going to be public dismantling of him.
I mean, the funeral director vibes coming out of Mark Carney meeting the alpha male bull energy of Donald Trump.
Oh, it'll just be great.
Actually, I kind of look forward to that.
I can't.
I do.
I mean, that's the upside.
That's the upside of the pain that we're all about to experience thanks to the liberals' mismanagement is that we'll get these little glimpses of reprieve when we watch our the funeral director of our economy getting absolutely ragdolled by President Trump.
I mean, please, please put Carney in the yellow chair, Trump.
Please put him in the yellow chair.
Have all the cameras there.
Be ready to go.
We can't wait to see it.
I mean, if there is a silver lining to this, that will be it.
And I think that these days we have to look for silver linings.
We must, because it is so easy to get to get dragged down by all of this.
I mean, by every world event that we're being bombarded with.
For those of us that are very, very engaged, we need those little silver lining moments and things to look forward to.
So I also look forward to the boiled potatoes of the at issue panel clutching their pearls and flinging themselves on the fainting couch as they deal with Mark Carney's dismantling at the hands of President Trump.
Now, let's move on to this National Post article.
I know we've got some chats.
We'll get to it right after this, and we probably have a rebel ad probably to get to also.
So Trump's big issue is the border.
Canadian officials, border officials say they weren't sure what Trump wanted them to do.
Stop the trafficking of fentanyl.
Like just your job, I guess, probably, right?
Tristan Hopper, he's actually quite good lately.
He says whatever fentanyl and illegal migration existed was curbed dramatically in the recent weeks.
Okay, yes, but also no, because we still have the super labs just in BC.
We still have people getting pulled over inside of Saskatchewan, inside of BC with kilograms of fentanyl.
And so what are we doing about that?
Because a lot of that is not for domestic use.
When you have kilograms of fentanyl enough to kill the entire province of Alberta, that's not staying here.
So where's it going?
That's right.
That's exactly right.
No, it originates somewhere else and that makes its way across the country.
And the argument that, you know, they've made significant increases in fentanyl busts in these last couple weeks and that should be considered a win.
It's like, well, no, guys.
Like that just goes to show you how little you were doing on this file before your hand was forced.
And it wasn't forced by anybody in Canada.
It was forced by Donald Trump.
It was forced by Donald Trump.
So, I mean, I mean, this just continues to be a disaster just unfolding in front of our eyes.
And, well, we're all captive audiences, aren't we?
It reminds me of the attitude of someone who's trying to like fit into their wedding dress.
So you buy it two sizes too small and then you don't do anything about it until a week before your wedding.
And you're like, all right, no problem.
I'll lose 15 pounds this week.
That is exactly what the border officials have done, you know?
Yes.
Yes, exactly that.
Exactly that.
But nobody, I mean, there was no expectation and there was no accountability before.
So why would, I mean, why would they put themselves out and put themselves in danger by busting these guys?
If they're, you know what I mean?
If there wasn't any appetite for it, nobody was demanding it of them.
Why would they?
I can't fault the guys that are stationed on the outer posts of our long and sort of barren border, unguarded border.
But man, to say that they've, you know, they've really, they've really done a good job these last couple of weeks.
It's just going to show you what a bad job you've been doing over the last couple of years.
Yeah, like I don't, I'm not holding the CBSA agents accountable for the nonsense and lack of work being done by Justin Trudeau's former babysitter, Dominic LeBlanc, as public safety minister on the issue.
We've got a couple of two, three chats and then an ad read from our friends at Sticker Pack.
We'll hit a Rebel News ad break and then we'll go into the laundry list of stupid things Trudeau has said today about the tariffs.
Because again, he is trying to make it worse.
And I think it's self-serving for him to try to make it worse.
And he also says that he's maybe I won't be leaving.
And I'm like, what has this all been for?
So we've got Roly Poly Oli.
Haven't seen that name in a long time.
Trudeau's Alignment Crisis00:15:19
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Trudy needs to go.
Well, he's hinting that he might stay on a little bit.
Apparently, he says that there's things to do, whatever that means.
Then we've got, go ahead.
Please, no, like, please, no, no, God, no.
Like that office meme.
Like, no, please, God, no, no, no.
Change the locks.
Change the locks on the PMO, please.
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Yeah, you and about a million other Canadians.
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We feel that so hard.
Yeah.
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Daniel Smith needs to have a talk with Pierre.
Yeah, you know what?
I think they do.
I think Pierre Polyev is, but for sure, appealing to the mushy Toronto folks who only care about the cost of living, but they're going to care real hard about the cost of living right away, especially when Ontario is just absolutely crushed by these tariffs and Trudeau just continues to make it worse and worse and worse.
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And that's, I think, a really terrible idea.
Again, did you not see what happened to Zelensky?
But we'll have that clip when we get back.
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And trust me, Trudeau doesn't want you to see this.
Okie doke.
Let's talk about Trudeau.
Again, from the very beginning of all of this, I've said we need to bring the heat down.
We have to quit calling Trump names.
He's had four years, well, plus, to ruminate on the people who have crossed him.
And I think, in no small part, the liberals are on that list.
Freeland Trudeau, for sure.
Melanie Jolie, I bet she's in there too.
But today, Trudeau walks out and says Trump's dumb.
Okay, great.
Let's watch.
Now I want to speak directly to one specific American, Donald.
In the over eight years you and I have worked together, we've done big things.
We signed a historic deal that has created record jobs and growth in both of our countries.
We've done big things together on the world stage, as Canada and the U.S. have done together for decades, for generations.
And now we should be working together to ensure even greater prosperity for North Americans in a very uncertain and challenging world.
Now, it's not in my habit to agree with the Wall Street Journal, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do.
We two friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see.
Good grief.
What was he thinking?
Like, just when you think it can't get any worse, Justin, Justin, shows up somebody runs his mouth like a moron in front of the Canadian press.
You think that Donald isn't going to, like, and P.S., that's meant as an insult.
His title is President Trump.
That's what Justin should be calling him in public, but instead, you know, dumbs it down to Donald.
I want to talk to one MacDonald.
I mean, this, you don't think that President Trump is going to see this?
And absolutely go ballistic?
He is.
He is.
Yeah, he is.
This is not going to be received well.
No, he's.
He's going to get fired as governor.
He's going to get fired as governor.
They're going to primary him.
Again, like who thought that was a good idea?
I'm almost speechless.
First of all, the irony of somebody as idiotic as Trudeau, calling anybody dumb, but let alone Donald Trump, let alone Donald Trump.
I mean, the band was a billionaire before he came into office.
He successfully navigated the culture to get elected once.
Then he successfully navigated the culture to get elected a second time.
And like he's got keen political instincts.
Trudeau calling somebody dumb, Mr. I don't think about the economy.
The budget will balance itself.
He's going to grow the economy from the heart outward, is what he also said.
We need to rethink concepts as complicated as space and time, he said one time.
And I thought this has caused me to rethink how I spend my time listening to Justin Trudeau because I was getting stupider from it.
The man is an absolute idiot, the stupidest man to ever lead the country, for sure.
No, by a country mile, Sheila, by a country mile.
This is a man who was elected on his good looks and nice hair in 2015 by a bunch of women who were suckered into a toxic relationship with an abusive, gaslighting piece of garbage.
And for him, for you to say that Donald Trump is dumb.
Oh, oh, well, I mean, that's just par for the course.
That is par for the course for him being, and let's not forget, he's coming off of the last one calendar week in gladhanding his way around Europe with Kier Starmer, with Emmanuel Macron, with Vladimir Zelensky.
And so he's coming off like, you know, large and in charge.
This, you know, what this might be, you know what this likely is?
This is likely a repeat of what he just heard in the last week.
So if Trump is wondering how these other world leaders refer to him, you just got a perfect front row seat.
The way that Justin Trudeau just described him is how everybody else is talking about him.
So it's, I mean, it's just wildly inappropriate.
And again, dropping all of the balls and is going to make Canada pay for it.
But how totally disrespectful.
Like, what an arse.
What an arse.
You know what?
And this is more just Justin Trudeau's projection, right?
He's a feminist, but he's the guy groping women.
He is an anti-racist, but he's the guy who did blackface so many times that he can't recall how many times.
Trump's dumb, but it's Justin Trudeau is a serious quantum mechanics thinker and definitely not a himbo snowboard instructor debutante who found his way to the highest office in the land thanks to his last name.
Definitely as somebody else that's stupid.
No, no, he's not.
He's not at all a Nepal baby, Sheila.
The most coddled person.
No, he's not.
He's not a Nepal baby.
Nope, we're not suggesting.
Of course we are.
Of course we are.
This is a man who observed for his entire life, his entire life, how these things work, how the Laurentian elites operate, and how best to swindle the people of Canada, especially Western Canada.
And man, has he done a good job?
Has he done a good job at failing us as a country?
Let's go into, well, this is a Trudeau lie.
Trudeau says Trump is working, sorry, talking positively about working with Putin while taking aim at Canada, America's closest ally, partner, and friend.
Let's watch this and then I'll tell you why he's completely lying.
So today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada.
Their closest partner and ally, the closest friend.
At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator.
Make that make sense.
Canadians are reasonable and we are polite, but we will not back down from a fight.
Not when our country and the well-being of everyone in it is at stake.
At the moment, the U.S. tariffs came into effect in the early hours of this morning, and so did the Canadian response.
Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods, starting with tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods immediately and tariffs on the remaining $125 billion of American products in 21 days' time.
Our tariffs will remain in place until the U.S. tariffs are withdrawn and not a moment sooner.
And should these tariffs not cease, we are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures.
Measures which will demonstrate that there are no winners in a trade war.
You only have seven days to have to listen to his smarmy, gross, slimy voice talking to us like we are children and saying all the wrong dumb things to antagonize the United States.
Sorry, Sheila, go on.
No, that's pretty much it.
But like this idea that Trump is aligned with Putin is insane.
What Trump said was he actually Trump said, I'm sort of aligned with the world in the interests of peace.
So this is directly from that meeting with Zelensky.
And I remember him saying that, but this is the quote, I'm not aligned with Putin.
I'm not aligned with anybody.
I'm aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world.
I'm alive with the world and I want to get this thing over with, meaning the war.
He's not aligned with Putin.
And those talking points are so old and so washed up and so debunked.
Like we know that that was their go-to line in 2020, that, oh, you're colluding with the Russians.
Oh, this is Russian disinformation.
I mean, those amongst, I don't know anybody that hasn't been accused of being a Russian agent in these last couple of years.
I mean, it is such a lazy attack.
But I mean, it's a predictable attack.
It's an absolutely a predictable attack.
He's falling back on the tactics that did work in 2020, but we are all now smart enough to be able to call out and say, this is absolute baloney.
But you're right, Sheila.
He did say, I'm on the side of America and I'm on the side of the world and peace.
And that is what we should all be striving towards.
If your elected officials aren't on the side of peace, well, then you have to wonder how they're benefiting from being in the business of war.
Well, I know how they're benefiting.
BlackRock sells the weapons and then they repair the country after the war.
They do both.
They've sort of closed the supply chain on themselves there.
It's kind of a neat little gimmick that they do.
And it's real interesting for Justin Trudeau to talk about, you know, somebody being Russian friendly when we know that the Chinese keep trying to get the liberals elected.
I mean, it's just wild.
It is just wild.
Like, yes, the disparity between, yes, between those two things.
Exactly that, Sheila.
We have a rumble rant.
You want me to read it?
Booing Trudeau Talks00:08:55
Sure, please.
Yeah.
Well, this is from P. Schofield 10.
He says, looks like Polyev is now talking about a stab in the back.
That should be interesting going down the road, should he win.
That's exactly what we said.
I mean, honest to goodness.
It doesn't position him for real success with the American administration.
It just doesn't.
Yeah, we've got another one from you to Bercy gives us five bucks.
What did he have to do on the world stage with Donald Trump?
How disrespectful of Justin Trudeau to call the president by his first name?
That.
That.
I mean, this was Justin Trudeau's little barb to get back at Donald Trump for calling him Governor Trudeau for all of these months.
I mean, that must sting.
That must sting a little nepotistic man with a giant, shiny ego to be taken down a notch like that on the world stage.
But when you're negotiating with somebody who has infinitely more money and resources, the small brain approach that we and brains, yes, and love from the electorate, it's the wrong, it's the wrong approach to take.
Yeah.
We've got another chat, and then we'll do one more clip from Trudeau and then we'll talk about this thing that the chat touches on because I have a very long memory because I'm an old, old, old woman.
And I just want to talk about how irresponsible Doug Ford is being right now.
So when Ford talks about shutting off Michigan's electricity, he should take note that line five gas goes through there that supplies Ontario and Quebec.
Yes, of course.
Daniel Smith pointed this out when they first floated this idiotic thought bubble that, oh, we're going to stop energy exports to the United States.
And Daniel Smith says, the heck, you're blocking our oil and gas.
And then they said, oh, we'll just stop electricity exports.
And then the reciprocal tariff would be, well, then we'll stop line five, which comes from Alberta, but goes through Michigan and it supplies Ontario and Quebec with oil and gas.
So all that is to say, enjoy your $6 a liter fuel, if indeed that ever happens.
And I think Doug Ford's going to make sure it happens to you, unfortunately.
So fill your jerry cans, is what I'm saying.
Oh, we've got another one here.
L DZ gives us a buck.
We're all going to lose here.
Exactly, including Trump and the U.S. Time for Alberta to go it alone.
Neither U.S. nor Canada.
Look.
Just quick correction.
Quick correction.
Alberta and Saskatchewan.
They are sisters.
Okay.
You know what?
They tried to keep us apart at the beginning.
We were going to be our own province.
And some liberal in Ottawa was like, no, having them united will create too much of a land mass.
And they didn't know we had resources yet, but they were worried that we might have people and all the food.
We have all the food.
We have very little people, which is fine.
I kind of like that way, but we have all the natural resources.
It's the best.
It's not having all the people.
A fun fact: Sheila has the province of Alberta tattooed on her right-hand ring finger, and I have the province of Saskatchewan tattooed on my right ring finger.
So we're sisters.
We're sisters.
Alberta does nothing without Saskatchewan, LDZ.
Okay, we are going together.
We used to be the pro, we were proposed as the province of Buffalo.
And in a last-minute decision by bad people in Ottawa, they did their best to keep us apart, even though you couldn't find two places more similar on the face of the earth.
There's no reason why there's an arbitrary line through the middle of Lloyd Minster saying that's a Saskatchewanian and that's an Albertan.
It's again keeping us apart.
Let's watch this Trudeau clip about booing the American national anthem.
Instead of, well, you know what?
Let's watch it and then I'll give my remarks because what a jerk.
But Canadians, Canadians are hurt.
Canadians are angry.
At you.
At you.
We're going to choose to not go on vacation in Florida or Old Orchard Beach or wherever.
We're going to choose to try to buy Canadian products and forego bourbon and other classic American products.
And yeah, we're probably going to keep booing the American anthem.
But let me tell Americans, we're not booing you.
We're not booing your teams.
We're not booing your players.
Yeah, you are, idiot.
We're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us.
Right.
So that's why you don't boo the anthem.
You boo the policy.
And we're angry, but we're Canadian, which means we're going to stand up for each other.
We're going to fight.
And we're going to win.
No, we're not.
Stop it.
We're not going to win.
We're not.
We're not going to win.
And I'm just going to call it right now, Sheila.
I'm going to hate to see it.
And it's going to be disastrous.
But it is but a couple days until we see American flags being burned on the streets of Canada because that is always the trajectory.
That's the trajectory.
And he, like an idiot, just gave them permission to keep booing the anthem at sports games.
And do you know how intrinsically offensive that is to Americans to have their national anthem, their beloved national anthem, booed?
I mean, oh my God, these people, these people.
Revolting.
Revolting.
He could have taken this moment to say, we are not going to boo your national anthem anymore.
He could have taken this time to be an actual leader and say, look, if you want to boycott American products, I like how they always say, like, we're not going to go to Florida, but they never say we're not going to go to California.
I wonder what the political reason for that is.
We're not going to, we're going to boycott Florida orange juice, but we're definitely not going to boycott citrus from California because the politics are self-serving in California.
But he could have been a leader here and said, look, we are not going to, or I would like it if Canadians did not boo the American national anthem.
Plenty of Americans died alongside Canadians in wars and that and they fought under that flag for American interests.
And we would never, we would never boo that.
We should never.
But instead, he's like, yeah, we're, you know what?
Yeah, we're probably going to keep doing it.
I can't believe this guy's in charge of the country.
You know what, Toronto?
You've got a lot to apologize for for foisting this guy onto us when he's, you know what, we're probably, we're probably going to keep booing the national anthem.
Embarrassing, ridiculous, embarrassing.
You know, and think about this.
When Trump talks about Canadians, he's like our beloved resident, our cherished residents of our 51st state.
He talks like he loves us.
And now think about how Trudeau talks about Americans.
No, exactly that.
Exactly that.
And when Trump talks about Putin and when Trump talks about Zelensky, what I hear so much is a dad that is 100% inept at keeping the peace within a family because let's not forget this is a guy with five kids, right?
And for all intents and purposes, all of those five kids, despite having three mothers, all get along and have great relationships.
This is a guy that knows how to create great relationships.
And then on the other side of the family, we have Justin Trudeau with how many brothers and sisters?
How many brothers?
What's his name?
Kyle, what's his name?
Kyle Kemper over there in the United States.
That is a situation that needs some deep rabbit holing by us, Sheila Gunread.
But Trudeau doesn't have a family situation that he could keep together in any situation either.
And somebody who thrives on being a villain and being wrong and fighting all the wrong fights.
And you see that in the results of his results of his initiatives and his policy decisions and his foreign policy announcements.
I mean, this is not a, this, again, this is not the kind of guy that we want negotiating on our behalf.
No, he's he just says whatever idiotic thing comes into his mind.
And then all of a sudden that becomes policy.
It's wild.
Doug Ford's Liquor War00:15:03
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Okay, let's start with the bourbon from Doug Ford.
Let's play this clip.
Apparently, the L CBO, according to Doug Ford's claims, although I don't necessarily think this is true, he says the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, where they pay people government wages to do minimum wage jobs as cashiers in liquor stores and steal wages from new Canadians, because I think new Canadians intrinsically in Alberta, they are the ones that are buying and running the liquor stores.
And so you're stealing the entrepreneurial Canadian dream from new Canadians when you have government running your liquor stores.
But, anyways, Doug Ford is weaponizing the L CBO to remove American products from its shelves.
To support the federal government's efforts, Ontario will also launch its first round of retaliation.
Starting today, LCBO, the largest purchaser of alcohol in the world, will begin removing U.S. products from its store shelves.
And as the exclusive wholesaler, American brands will no longer be available in LCBO catalog, meaning other retailers, bars, and restaurants in the province will no longer be able to restock U.S. products.
This is an enormous hit to the American producers.
Every year, the LCBO sells nearly $1 billion worth of U.S. wine, beer, cider, seltzers, and spirits, including more than 3,600 products from 35 states.
As of today, every single one of these products is off the shelves.
Well, you know, I guess if that's the only play you got, that's what you gotta, that's what you gotta do, Doug.
Like, if that's the biggest hit, get ready for parties in Ontario to suck.
Starting now.
And don't tell me, don't tell me that bootlegging across borders is not going to become a really, really popular thing in Ontario because it shouldn't be up to Canadian consumers if they can pay the 25% tariff on top of the regular prices to buy a premium American brand.
They should be able to do this.
I mean, this is such a sort of bush league.
bush league move by by Doug Ford.
But do we do we expect anything other from Doug Ford?
Yeah, I guess we're going back to the days of rum running and whiskey traders.
Like this is just so weird.
But I guess this, if this is all you got, this is all you got.
But imagine saying, okay, you're about to be hit with tariffs that are going to make you think about heating or eating.
A million Canadians are going to lose their jobs.
And here's the best I can do.
No Kentucky bourbon.
It's the best you could do.
And you know, you know what was so interesting about being in Ontario this December, Sheila, because me and Sheila were in Ontario together this last December, is the unavailability of booze.
Like there's there, well, I mean, on the prairies, on the prairies, everywhere.
It's everywhere.
It's legal in many jurisdictions to be able to drink in public, you know, in outside parks and do stuff.
This is not in Ontario.
I mean, it is locked down.
We had to walk more than one kilometer to get to some crazy little beer, crazy little beer garden that was all, you know, like it was just guarded and it was like, ooh, there's the liquor here.
Ontario's not a fun place.
Ontario's not a fun or serious place.
But I guess, again, going back to what Doug did, when that's the only card you have to play, that's what you're going to play.
So go.
Every time I'm in Ontario, I'm just bemused at the LCBO.
They have these like Taj Mahal stores, unnecessarily large, but I guess if you got all the money in the world, as in everybody else's money, taxpayers' money to build these things.
And then people there are making government wages, then they go on strike and you can't get your liquor.
And I'm like, in Alberta, new Canadians open up a beer store and it's open till 2 a.m.
It's open on the weekends.
The booze is affordable.
You got a great selection.
And I just, I don't know how it happens like that in Ontario.
I mean, they seem to be a pretty metropolitan place except for their prohibition era style of liquor control.
But again, I guess it serves Doug Ford's purpose now when he pulls all the bourbon off the shelf.
But again, this stuff was already bought and paid for, by the way, by Ontario taxpayers, right?
Right.
This is just going to be in a warehouse.
Right.
This is just going to get stockpiled in a warehouse and be available for the elites.
This is what's going to happen.
Like, this is the punishment that's being brought down against you.
But I guess, you know, I guess there is a silver lining there in that if it compels people to drink a little less and make better decisions, then that's not necessarily a bad thing either.
But punishing, punishing your own residents in Ontario with this, well, that's not a good look.
They should have consumer choice too.
And if they want to buy and support American brands, that's within their purview.
But I think that'll be an unpopular choice.
This is, I would say, this is right up there with David Eby from BC targeting just red states, just red states.
So he's going to go after, he's going to counter counter all of the products, the services and products coming out of only red states.
Right.
Oh, my God.
That's again, right?
Like, that's real helpful with Trump.
Just one adult at the table.
That's we'd be happy with one, just one adult at the table.
We have Danielle.
We do.
That's yeah, we do.
Now, Doug Ford, he also says that he's already informed American politicians that if Trump's tariffs persist, Ontario will apply a 25% surcharge on electricity exports.
We will not hesitate to shut off their power as well.
The Premier adds.
I think he said something about he would do it gladly, which is super villain-level stuff.
Anyway, let's watch.
I'm writing to every senator, every congressman and woman, and the governors from New York State, Michigan, and Minnesota, telling them that these tariffs persist.
If the Trump administration falls through on any more tariffs, we will immediately apply a 25% surcharge on the electricity we export.
We will not hesitate to shut off their power as well.
I'm encouraging my fellow premiers to follow suit.
Don't, attention, other premiers.
Don't listen to Doug Ford.
Don't follow his lead.
Don't do what he's doing.
Don't say what he's saying.
Let this man stand alone in his little piss and match with the biggest swing and you know what in America right now.
Let Doug Ford learn this lesson the hard way and let him learn it himself.
Yeah.
Yep.
I'm an old lady, as I said before, but let me just talk about how Doug Ford is failing as a conservative this time, not all the other times, just this on this one issue, because there are plenty of times where he fails as a conservative.
But conservatives know the cheap, reliable electricity is essential to the sustenance of human life.
We know that, right?
Like the other side is pro-expensive electricity, which makes people for it forces them into a situation where they have to choose heat or eat.
Now, cutting off, there's one thing to slap a tariff, which will hurt only poor people, because people who are wealthy can survive expensive electricity.
But poor people, this is who Doug Ford is targeting right now.
Poor Americans are going to be really forced with heating or eating.
It's still cold in the Northeast.
And this could, if he cuts off electricity exports altogether, cause rolling blackouts and brownouts in the United States.
And the reason I pointed out my long in the tooth status is because I remember in 2003 when I think three trees and a computer virus and quite possibly a squirtle, and I'm not even joking there, caused a major blackout in the Northeast.
And nearly 100 people died.
People were trapped in the subways.
Now, this happened in the summer when it was really hot and people couldn't get home.
Like, imagine traffic's already bad in New York.
Now, imagine that the traffic lights aren't working and the subways aren't working.
And 100 people are.
Oh, yeah.
Elevators.
Yeah, they were trapped in the subarbariat.
Elevators weren't working.
Like it was brought.
It brought New York to its knees.
It brought New York to its knees.
Nothing happened.
There was emergency after calamity after tragedy.
It was like the apocalypse.
It was something to behold.
And it really, it really shows the dependence that those super high-density populated urban areas have on energy dependence.
And what Doug Ford is doing here is signaling not only like maybe not even maybe not even an act of hostility, but could be considered an act of war by the United States.
When you have critical infrastructure, critical infrastructure that you're threatening to turn the taps off, oh, I mean, this just doesn't, I mean, it just doesn't play well.
It just doesn't play well.
I don't think this is going to work out in Doug Ford's favor or in Ontario's favor.
And I just wish, I just wish that their cooler heads would prevail.
I don't think we're going to get that, though, with Premier Reno.
Some of the blackout during that time was like anywhere from two to six hours.
The longest places were 29 hours, but it was like the end of the world.
It really was.
It was, what's that?
Anyways, apocalypse.
Apocalyptic.
It was like the last of us.
Like it was what it was crazy and it happened nearly instantly.
And so for people who are a little bit older like me, this is only 20 years ago.
What Doug Ford is threatening could jeopardize people's lives.
And even if, even if the American, even if it ever happens, and even if he does it and it works out to Ontario's favor, this is what I know about Doug Ford now, is that he will play with people's lives to win for political purposes.
And that leaves me with a very sour, sour taste about the kind of man that Doug Ford is.
That's what I think.
Yeah, agreed.
I have nothing more to add.
Agreed.
Seconded.
Carried.
Thank you.
Olivia tells me that we need to wrap up at 1220 or shortly after because they need the studio.
So let's go into this clip from Pierre Polyev, the conservative leader now reacting to the American tariffs.
Let's see if he disappoints.
At 12.01 a.m., President Trump stabbed America's best friend in the back.
My message to the president is this: Canada will fight back.
We will defend our people and our economy, and we will put Canada first.
There's no doubt that our economy will suffer, but so will yours, President Trump.
In fact, you're already paying the price with trillions of dollars erased in stock market value over the last month with these threats.
Already Americans are paying higher gas prices.
As at midnight, a new American gas tax kicked in on U.S. working class taxpayers and motorists.
Your workers will soon start losing jobs, jobs they had upgrading Canadian raw materials, which, by the way, you were getting at an incredible and ridiculous bargain.
And your businesses will be selling fewer products to your closest neighbor.
And that's only the beginning.
While Canadians are slow to anger and quick to forgive, once provoked, we fight back.
And we will fight back.
Okay, I could have done without the first statement.
Like the other half is relevant, but don't it's it's the middle part was so good, but the fighting back and the um overt aggression and antagonistic tone, we could all live without.
You could have put another intro and extro on that and have it had it been absolutely perfect.
Yes, agreed.
But again, I do believe that he is speaking to those to those liberal elites in middle Canada who really want this, who really want to be to create an issue with the United States of America and who won't suffer as much as Western Canadians.
Like, once again, reiterate, the liberals have failed on this file.
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They have taken an antagonistic and dismissive approach, an insulting approach to the incoming and now firmly ingrained American administration.
There was another way forward.
There was always another way forward.
The relationship requires a reset.
That's why we must demand an election.
Like there.
That's what could have been said there.
Instead, we'll punch back twice as hard.
No, we don't have the economy to punch back twice as hard.
Let's be realistic.
You know who's to blame here?
It's the liberals.
Yes.
Go after them and then signal to the Americans: we can work together.
We're going to fix this for your sake and for our sake.
We need a reset of the relationship and that requires everybody going back to work.
How much differently would that have come off had he said, President Trump, I need your help in ejecting these abject losers who have failed our country, who have made our people poor, who have sent them into homelessness and utter desperation.
President Trump, I need your help to solve this problem.
Help me get rid of this government and I will be the best guy to negotiate for you.
How are we with you?
Excuse me.
How much better would that have played?
Will it have played well?
We would have played well in Eastern Canada.
Yeah, they would have been screaming foreign interference.
So, I mean, you have to couch your language.
You'd have to say, like, President Trump, the liberals have failed on this file.
Yes.
We will.
We will work together with our Americans to make our nations, our respective nations, safer and more productive.
And closer.
Yeah.
And work to bring us closer.
Yes.
Yeah.
That would have been the language that everybody could have got on board for, but no, fight back.
We've got to fight.
White fight for white.
Whenever pushed, we'll push back harder.
No, just tone definitely.
We don't have the size.
We have to quit lying to ourselves.
I am pro-Canada too, but we have to quit lying to ourselves in saying we're going to fight back harder.
We do not have the economy to fight back harder.
We have to figure out something else.
And this antagonistic baloney is just going to crush our economy.
And as we, as was said, a million Canadian jobs.
You people should be acting like a million Canadian jobs are going to be vaporized.
Instead, you're acting like it's like a pushing match behind the garbage can at the elementary school.
Enough already.
True story.
Oh, we have another, we have another rumble ramp.
Want me to read it?
Sure, sure, sure.
One last one for the day.
So from Bill CF, $75 on a rumble round, he says, who do we vote for now?
I don't tell you who to vote for.
That's a great question, Bill.
You should answer that next time on the Rebel Roundup.
Yes.
Bill, I'll never tell you who to vote for.
I just, I call them as I see them.
I will champion a conservative when they've got great ideas and I'll criticize them like I am today when they are going astray.
And I think that's important for us to do because all the forces of the universe are pulling these conservatives to the left.
The CBC, the culture, the NGOs, the activists, even the electorate, the big cities, they're pulling them to the left.
It's my job to keep them honest from the right.
So that's what I will do.
I won't tell you who to vote for.
I won't endorse anybody.
I don't want to.
The only politician I ever endorsed was Lise when she was running for school board.
That's it.
You'll just get my honest opinion on politics as I see it.
That's it.
That's all I can say.
Us two.
Us too.
Okay, I think that's the show for today.
Lise, you want to do the thank yous?
Hey, everybody, thanks so much for joining us today on the Rebel Roundup.
It was a fabulous conversation, Sheila, as per usual.
And we will see you again tomorrow, same place, same time.
Thanks so much for being here, guys.
As we know, the Liberal Party is going to be picking a new leader over the weekend.
But when is it going to be your last official day as Prime Minister?
That will be up to a conversation between the new leader and myself to figure out how long a transition is needed.