Rebel Roundup dissects Canada’s economic and political chaos: Doug Ford’s 25% U.S. tariff threat backfired after Trump’s retaliation warnings, exposing weak leadership amid a $200B trade deficit; Mark Carney’s cabinet shuffle drops climate critic Stephen Gilbeau but keeps unelected Melanie Joly as foreign minister, prioritizing gender parity over competence. A 5% oil cap risks 54,400 jobs and $20B GDP loss by 2032 while China’s emissions surge, yet U.S. producers fill gaps—highlighting Canada’s self-inflicted energy crisis. Meanwhile, UBC Okanagan blocks conservative clubs over "exclusionary" views, despite its conservative-leaning student body, as polls show young Canadians fleeing Trudeau’s high-tax policies for Poilievre or even Trump. The episode underscores Canada’s vulnerability to U.S. pressure and ideological drift in institutions. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hey, good morning, good afternoon, everybody.
No, I think it's afternoon everywhere now.
No, it's still morning in BC.
I'm Sheila Gunread, and I'm the host of our news and opinion live show, Rebel Roundup.
I'm joined by a rotating cast of co-hosts.
Today is my friend and colleague, Tamara Ugolini.
Tamara, how's it going?
Hey, Sheila, pretty good.
Thanks.
How are you?
We're getting hit with a big snowstorm today, like delayed flights kind of snowstorm.
So we had like a taste of spring, just enough to make this snowstorm really hurt right now.
The fake spring Canada.
Yeah.
We always have a fake spring.
It's a it's a one that just makes your hopes get up and then they get dashed right back into oblivion.
We've got a ton of things to talk about today.
Tariff mania is unpredictable.
Things change oftentimes while we're on the show.
Like Doug Ford's going to cut off electricity to the United States.
And then by the end of the show, it's like, no, Doug's not.
He had a mean phone call.
So now he's not.
So why don't you tell us, Tamara, I'll let you do that.
Tell us how people can get involved in the show and support the work that we do on the two separate platforms.
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And as Sheila mentioned, we have a ton of things to talk about today, including this never-ending, I'm calling it a political ping pong, a tariff ping-pong, where it's like, I'm going to serve you with this 25% hike on whatever.
And then retaliatory measures are taken.
And as we've seen with Ontario Premier Doug Ford in recent days, as soon as Trump so much as posts on social media, in this particular instance, he posted on Truth Social with an even more aggressive retaliatory measure onto Canadian, I think it was steel and iron, was it?
Aluminum.
And so immediately, it wasn't even that phone call yet by the time that Ford already had backpedaled on his tariff threat on U.S. electricity heading into the United States.
And so we have Trump really doubling down here.
And Ford, unfortunately, looking pretty weak, I would say.
It took less than a day to get him to flip-flop as he's been so notoriously coined now, flip-flop Ford.
And so there we were just showing the post where I think that was the post where Trump threatened more aggressive measures onto Ontario and Canada tariffs.
And then of course, Ford immediately backpedaled and flip-flopped where he, and we'll get into some of the more kind of like detailed rigmarole that's happened in the last few days.
And I mean, we've discussed this on the other live streams.
But Trump is really coming out and he's saying here.
We have this post here from Truth Social where he says that Canada needs America.
America does not need Canada.
And so this is really, I mean, I don't know why anyone is really surprised because Trump campaigned on an America first model.
And so he's quite literally just following through on his campaign promises.
He wants to bring everything back into the U.S. for manufacturing and otherwise.
And he's taking pretty aggressive steps to try to do that.
Well, and it shows how the Liberal government, and I will include Doug Ford in that, are just reactive.
They don't have a plan to deal with this.
They have no strategy to deal with Trump.
They're just like, okay, he did something.
We have to do something now.
And then by three hours later and 90 minutes later, it can quickly change.
And Canadians are caught in the middle.
Like Canadians who have any sort of money invested in stocks don't know what they're supposed to do from day to day.
If you're in one of these affected industries, by which I mean almost all of them, you don't know what's going to happen with your job from day to day.
And there are certain industries Team Canada seems to care about in these trade and tariff wars, and certain industries Team Canada thinks are just perfectly sacrificial.
I'll point out canola.
Nobody is talking about banning the dollar store right now and not buying Chinese-made products, but China just slapped 100% tariff on Canadian canola.
And canola, whatever you think about seed oils, and boy, I sure think a few things about it.
It's a major Canadian export.
It is actually Canada's largest agricultural export.
The largest producing provinces, as we talked yesterday on the show, Alberta and Saskatchewan, I think Saskatchewan produces 50% of the nation's canola.
Alberta produces a little over 30%.
It's billions and billions, I think over $20 billion into the Canadian GDP.
That's all going to evaporate.
Why?
Because Justin Trudeau slapped a tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles because he was trying to protect the foreign-owned electric vehicle plants that he had heavily subsidized in Ontario and Quebec.
And Team Canada is not talking about that.
They're only talking about the steel workers right now.
And I've done some digging on that too, which we'll talk about in a little bit.
But as Jamara said, Trump said he would do this.
And the Canadian government is just only reacting in a frenzy.
They have no plan whatsoever.
And you can see that every single day.
Yeah.
And I mean, the other thing too is that we don't even have a functioning federal government.
This is a federal government issue, first and foremost.
Like this, these negotiations should be happening on the federal level.
The provinces obviously have a say and they should be incorporated and included in these negotiations.
But ultimately, it's up to the federal government to undertake this work.
And we don't have one right now.
We have a completely prorogued parliament.
We have a selected by a very few Liberal Party member prime minister being inaugurated tomorrow, Mark Carney.
And we have no one here to represent Canadians that they've actually voted for en masse to do this very important negotiation work.
So this is pretty much a political dumpster fire in Canada.
And you have Doug Ford trying to kind of like puff up his chest and seem like he has left and then embarrassingly have to backpedal within a day, not even a day.
I think it was like 12 hours.
But I'm learning, and I think a lot of Canadians, and maybe even Americans as well, are learning as this process unfolds and as it continues and the pith the ping pong happens back and forth is that the U.S. has actually faced very aggressive tariffs from Canada for a long time.
And Trump is really trying to highlight that.
And we have a clip here to share where Trump says basically that the U.S. has been ripped off for years with tariffs on various goods.
No, I'm not.
Look, we've been ripped off for years and we're not going to be ripped off anymore.
No, I'm not going to bend at all aluminum or steel or cars.
We're not going to bend.
We've been ripped off as a country for many, many years.
We've been subjected to costs that we shouldn't be subjected to.
In the case of Canada, we're spending 200 billion a year to subsidize Canada.
I love Canada.
I love the people of Canada.
I love, I have many friends in Canada.
The great one, Wayne Gretzky, the great.
Hey, how good is Wayne Gretzky?
He's the great one.
But we have, I know many people from Canada that are good friends of mine.
But, you know, the United States can't subsidize a country for $200 billion a year.
We don't need their cars.
We don't need their energy.
We don't need their lumber.
We don't need anything that they give.
We do it because we want to be helpful.
But it comes a point when you just can't do that.
You have to run your own country.
And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state.
We don't need anything they have.
As a state, it would be one of the great states anyway.
This would be the most incredible country visually.
If you look at a map, they draw an artificial line right through it.
I want to just share that they don't need anything we have.
Meanwhile, we do export a substantial amount of electricity into oil and gas.
Oil and gas as well, yes.
But if Ford were to follow through with his threat, and then the U.S. has to outsource somewhere or else or become more energy independent, which I think is the end goal anyway, but this could definitely expedite that process and give us less time to kind of figure it out and sort out what we're going to do thereafter.
Then if the U.S. gets cut off and Ford follows through with this really aggressive and egregious threat, then that just ends up hurting us in the long term because now we've lost a major energy consumer and customer from our financial back pocket.
This is also a customer relationship.
And yes, it's larger economies at play.
And I'm certainly not an economist, but I think that whenever I worked in the service industry or in any sort of job industry, you're taught the customer is always right.
And maybe there's room for that not to be the case, but you certainly want to keep your customers happy.
And what you're seeing here happening is that that, well, that certainly just isn't happening.
And I think you and Lee's probably discussed it on previous live streams over the last few days.
But the White House press secretary, I think we posted it on March, I think it was from the March 11th presser that they did.
I was actually shocked at how many tariffs, the percentage of tariffs that are placed on.
I was just going to say, American cheese and butter face a 300% tariff, you know, and there's other tariffs from India and Japan imposes a 700% tariff on rice, which to the U.S., which I thought was also crazy.
Yeah, I wrote this up yesterday, and there's a clip in there that we posted on YouTube of the press secretary going through.
She had a little chart, a tariff chart that she was sharing.
And so this is really just Trump holding true to his America First campaign platform, in my view.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of that trade deficit, by the way, with the United States is oil and gas.
Now, I think it's like $100 billion of the $200 billion trade deficit is oil and gas imports from Canada, like 80% of that oil coming from Alberta.
Now, it is not a trade deficit if we are selling something to you at a substantially reduced market price because we're forced into what's called a monopsily, only having one customer for our product, thanks to Justin Trudeau.
So, you know, I get the strife with ag products.
I get the strife with steel.
But I don't understand the oil and gas problem because I mean, they're getting it to us on the cheap.
And, you know, the second we get an export pipeline, that changes because now all of a sudden we have two customers and we don't have to sell at a reduced market rate to the Americans.
So I don't know.
I think Trump should be careful what he wishes for there.
But again, he did.
He's not the prime minister of Canada.
He has no obligation to be nice to us.
Like everybody seems to forget that.
His job is to make America better for the people who voted for him and not just the people who voted for him.
That's the liberal way of thinking.
We only, I'm only the governor of the people that voted for me.
His job is to make life better for all Americans.
And his vision is to repatriate manufacturing and industries to the United States.
Full stop.
Everybody knew what he was going to do.
Canada should have been ready, but we had our government cheering for Kamala Harris.
So here we are.
Well, and what it's really highlighting for me at least is how weak our leadership is across the board in Canada.
You mean we had Premier Danielle Smith from Alberta down there trying to take on the country's negotiations because we don't have a federal government who's functioning and capable and competent right now.
And so really, we need strong leadership here in Canada, similar to what you're seeing with Donald Trump.
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And we sadly just don't have that.
And that's paving the way for us to be bullied and get, you know, have things done to Canada and the Canadian people that maybe aren't justified or are unjust.
And so weak men create hard times.
And that's what Canada is in at this moment.
Exactly.
And I saw the Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick complain about this, saying, Look, I would much rather negotiate with a fully functioning Canadian government chosen by the people as opposed to all the premiers negotiating individually.
Like what a schizophrenic response we're having to this.
It's bizarre.
It's like negotiating with all these little tiny countries.
And if we are going to be forced to negotiate that way, then why are we a confederation at all?
Well, and as we have Mark Carney being implemented into the prime minister position, never elected, not even like he's never been elected by anybody or voted by any Canadian to hold a seat in the House or be a parliamentarian.
And here he is being inaugurated as of tomorrow to the highest position, political position in Canada.
So, hopefully, there's an election called immediately as soon as parliament resumes at the end of this month, because I think this is a complete affront to democracy and clearly shows that the Liberal Party of Canada just has no respect for the Canadian voters.
I mean, as we've seen the last few years, as they have maintained this coalition with the two fringe minority parties, the NDP and the Liberals, and now they've selected the next leader of the country who has never been elected by any actual Canadian resident.
Yeah, it's, you know, it's a quirk of our parliamentary system that allows the party leader of the party that has the most seats in the House of Commons, regardless of whether or not the party leader holds a seat, to be the prime minister.
We had this like for a very short time in Alberta.
We had an unelected premier named Jim Prentiss.
But very quickly after he became the leader of the party, he called an election.
Also, we weren't currently in an existential crisis.
So that makes the things a little bit different.
You know, parliament is so prorogued that it's dysfunctional.
And the Americans are threatening to annex us economically.
And we don't even have an elected prime minister right now.
It's crazy.
Political dumpster fire, as I said.
Completely.
And meanwhile, we're being threatened with these increasing tariffs.
Mark Carney has taken to X to say that he has a message for steel and aluminum workers.
They have his full support now and for the future.
We are going to build big things in Canada, he says, and we need every one of you.
And it's funny because in the comments there, I see Dacey Media and others are throwing to a clip of him from CTV News.
This is exactly the one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Where he says that people are buying steel.
Yeah.
Like, yeah, he's like, what even is steel?
The skeleton of society, but that's okay.
He doesn't think people want steel.
He doesn't know what people use it for.
Does he think we just like go to the store, the grocery store and buy steel?
Like, this is how out of touch he is.
But we'll show this full clip because he says he's against tariffs on steel, right?
Like, oh, I'm against Trump's tariffs on steel, but he's talking about his own climate tariff on steel here.
Because what the big companies are producing, by and large, are not products that we are consuming.
There's some element of that, but by and large, you know, a steel company, how much steel are you using these days, Todd?
I mean, not as much, not as much.
So anyway.
How much steel are you using up there?
A lot.
I have no idea.
He just has no idea.
I think Trump beat him to the tariffs and the taxes that he wanted to implement.
And he's going to.
That's his solution for hiding the carbon tax is just move it upstream.
So when you're like, why the heck are housing prices going up?
Why are vehicle prices going up?
Why are my appliances too expensive?
It's because of the carbon tax that Carney wants to move off your power bill so you can't see it.
And then you won't be mad about it.
It'll just be like, why the heck is everything so expensive?
Because he's moving it upstream.
So then they just pass it along to the consumer along the way.
And then don't worry, the liberals will sell it back to you as though you get it all back every three to six months in a rebate, which we find out later.
And I mean, for anybody who has some ounce of critical thought, knows that that isn't actually representative of the truth.
Meanwhile, so I guess Luttnick, then the commerce secretary reached out to Ford to try to de-escalate this tension.
Ford referred to it as being given an olive branch.
And so no, they're headed.
He walked into crosses butt with an olive branch from Luttnick earlier this week.
Like, it wasn't an olive branch, it was more like a switch across his butt cheeks.
Let's watch this.
Sorry, go ahead.
Before we get into that, if all it takes is for Trump to post on Truth Social that he's going to up the tariffs and issue immediate aggressive retaliatory measures, if that's all it takes to get Ford to flip-flop, then how absolutely weak is your leadership?
I think that just highlights how Ford is.
And the fact that there's no plan.
Is this Luttnick talking about what he did to Trump?
I think it is.
Let's watch.
It is not chaotic.
And the only one who thinks it's chaotic is someone who's being silly.
He said reciprocal tariffs.
Nobody expected him to announce 50% tariffs this morning.
He needed to break some guy in Ontario who said he was going to tax American energy 25%.
The president of the United States in the White House says, oh, no, you won't, and breaks him.
Breaks him in what?
By a tweet and a truth.
And you think that's chaotic?
You know what I think that is?
I think that is the thank God we have a president who's taking care of us.
Because if you were in one of those states and you thought your energy prices were going to go up 25% and you said, where's the president?
And all of a sudden he came down like thunder to make that end, you'd say, cool.
I'm glad that's the guy in the White House.
And that's what we've got.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And that's holding true to his campaign promise of putting America first.
And all it took was for Trump to post on Truth Social saying, nope, we're going to hit you back immediately.
And Ford backpedaled.
And he sounded, I think we have a clip here of Trump saying like, oh, he got an olive branch.
No, that didn't sound like you got an olive branch at all.
And they don't even respect Doug Ford enough to call him by his name.
The Premier of Ontario, some guy in Ontario, that's how much they respect you.
Yeah.
Doug Ford.
And you know what?
Wouldn't it be great?
Like, yes, as a Canadian, I don't like these tariffs.
I don't like tariffs.
I'm a free trade kind of person.
I don't, I think it is a real disaster that the largest trading partnership to ever exist on the face of the earth between two friends that it has fallen apart this way.
I think it is just an absolute scandal and it falls squarely around Justin Trudeau's neck.
It really does.
I hate that it is this way.
I hope the conservatives will be able to fix this.
I hope they temper their rhetoric so that they don't go in there poisoned in negotiations.
But, and as like I said, as a Canadian, I don't like what Trump is doing to our economy.
Wouldn't it be great if we had leadership who cared about us the same way Trump seems to care about his people, that he'll do anything to help them?
And I love how Trump talks about us Canadians.
He says he cherishes us.
He says we're beautiful.
Trudeau calls us genocidal crazy people and fringe radicals and people with unacceptable viewpoints and opinions if we don't agree with him.
I feel a lot of love from Trump towards us.
I would really like it if our government had talked about us that way once.
Colonizers with no national identity.
Right.
Genocide errors.
Yeah.
And so anyway, Premier Ford said that this, he calls this an olive branch.
And, you know, take that for what you will after hearing Lutnick speak yesterday.
But I don't know.
Ahead of this clip here, Ford just sounds so deflated and defeated to me.
Let's have a listen.
Yeah.
There were some quotes from the inner circle of Trump more or less declaring this a win yesterday.
So what are your thoughts?
Is this a win for Trump or how do you back from that?
You know, they want to call it a win.
Whatever.
They're playing politics.
But here and there, what happened yesterday very clearly, Secretary Luttnick called me.
I didn't call him.
Put an olive branch out.
And only a foolish person would decline or hang up on someone and say, I'm not listening.
We said, well, that's fine.
We need a meeting and we need it right away.
He agreed.
He said, fly down tonight, fly down tomorrow, the next day.
We're bringing Minister LeBlanc with us and the ambassador to have that conversation, to sit down and see what their requirements are, what their needs are.
I always say when you have your largest customer, you listen to your largest customer in business.
And we'll sit there and listen and make sure that we bring that information back and sit around the table.
It's the federal government that's leading this, not myself.
They're going to lead the negotiations.
We'll have a very loud voice in that conversation, along with all the other premiers.
So you're managing expectations at this point.
At what point do you potentially bring it back to more surcharges and the other tools in your toolbox, as you say?
Well, we're seeing what's going to happen.
I know Dominic LeBlanc is out right now talking about the $29, $30 billion, the retaliatory tariffs.
Our message down there tomorrow is let's stop this.
It's going to hurt both economies.
It's American people that are going to get hurt.
Canadians are going to get hurt.
Yeah.
He says the feds are leading this, but who and where and how?
Because we don't have effective leadership on the federal level.
And then Ford is almost like kind of saying that it's a good thing that Lutnick called him.
I didn't call him, he says.
He called me.
But it's like, but why wouldn't you call him?
You know, why would why are you taking to these presser events and rhetoric online and escalating tensions?
And he posted this, so I'm going to post that.
This is so high school drama when you have real economies and lives at stake with how you are negotiating on this front.
And you're not just calling them up and saying, hey, can we have a conversation?
You're waiting for the other guy to reach out to you.
Like this is such petty, dramatic nonsense that where are the adults in the room to say, you know what?
Let's go, let's face this.
Let's go head on and let's go toe-to-toe about how we're going to find some reasonable, tangible solutions on how we address this tariff war, because it's obviously not benefiting either of us, just hitting people back on social media and speaking to the media who then, you know, inflate and conflate the issue and make it even worse.
So the fact that Ford didn't take that first step to reach out to Lutnick or Trump and say, hey, what's going on here?
Can we have a meeting and try to negotiate a fair deal?
Right.
Instead, he's just sitting back and spewing rhetoric and threats out of his yin yang and then waits for them to reach out to him.
That is, that, in addition to everything else we've already discussed, is textbook weak leadership and irresponsible leadership.
Yeah, he just admitted to an act now think later strategy, which I don't think is the best strategy when dealing with the world's largest economy.
He seems like a man who has been absolutely tone-checked.
Okay.
Like he is a man who just got in a world of trouble.
And I think they threatened him with something much worse than, okay, than whatever we know about.
I think Howard Luttnick basically told him, drop these tariffs or we will drop the hammer on you.
He says that the feds are leading.
Well, for the last little bit, Doug Ford has been trying to lead.
And look what just happened to him.
Howard Luttnick does not respect him.
He calls him some guy from Ontario who needed to be broken.
And it looks like he did get broken.
That is not the aggressive swagger that we saw from Captain Canada, Doug Ford, earlier in the week.
This is a man who is shell-shocked.
Like his eyes look like he's a man who stared into the heart of darkness and saw what it meant for him.
He's, I mean, but what's the alternative?
Now we've got Dominic LeBlanc and Melanie Jolie headed down there.
God help us all.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And really no mandate for either of them to be conducting this work.
Parliament is parogued as it stands right now.
And there's an elect as you know, I suspect that there will be an election called as soon as parliament is back into functional business.
And I guess they're there representing the Canadian people.
So God help us all.
Yeah.
I think that was a good time.
I think now's a good time to hit a rebel ad break.
I think we're halfway through the show and I think we're moving into new topics.
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Mass Shooting Update00:02:41
Any update on the mass shooting up there last week?
There was never suspect descriptions originally.
Were they not identified or were they an inconvenient identity?
Any arrests?
The sad thing about the state of affairs in Canada is your comment leaves me scratching my head.
Which one?
Which one?
I'm not even aware of the mass shooting, whether is it the one that happened in Pickering?
There was a Pickering one.
There was a Scarborough pub one March 11th.
The other one, I think, was the same day or the day before.
Or was there actually another one last week?
Yeah.
So which one?
Because they're taking my duck hunting guns away.
You guys are going to be fine and safe.
They're taking my duck hunting guns away.
So whatever.
You guys are going to be good.
But yeah, this is a headline from Trudeau's Canada.
One day after a mass shooting took place inside a pub in Scarborough, Toronto police arrested and charged two men who were allegedly plotting a murder in Pickering.
Between this and the meth labs, drug labs, fentanyl labs blowing up in suburbia, this is what it's like to live in a major city in Trudose Canada.
If you take out certain cities in the United States, our crime rate is actually higher per capita than the United States.
But the liberal gun grabbers, they won't tell you that stuff.
Yeah.
So there's two people who have at least been arrested and maybe we'll find out more.
Maybe, maybe not.
But, you know, unfortunately, shootings are just becoming commonplace.
And again, as Sheila mentioned, it's the legal gun owners who are the problem.
Don't you know?
The ones that are vetted and run through the RCMP system every single day.
Every day.
Those guys.
You have to go after them because the illegal crime, the crime and illegal drug smuggling, well, you know, that's just kind of all par for the course.
Yep, I go and get my hunting license and then it's the same people as me who then go spray bullets into a crowded pub in Scarborough.
That's what the liberals would have you believe.
Speaking of which, I think we have a message from our friends at the National Firearms Association we can get to right now.
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All right.
Mecha.
Justin Trudeau.
I didn't watch this.
I wanted to react, Cole, to this.
I didn't watch it.
I just saw him like at his desk.
I think his sleeves were rolled up.
Yep.
So he's pretending to work.
That's how you know.
I haven't watched this.
Let's react together.
I am so proud of Canadians.
I'm proud to have served a country full of people who stand up for what's right, rise to every occasion, and always have each other's backs when it matters most.
This may be my last day here in this office, but I will always be boldly and unapologetically Canadian.
My only ask is that no matter what the world throws at us, you always be the same.
Oh my gosh.
I can't.
I on, like, it's, yeah, I had to keep it in.
You know that saying when you puke in your mouth, that's how I feel.
I listen.
When he talks, yeah, like I don't like listening with an earpiece to him talk because it feels like the inside of my ear is being licked by a hobo.
Like I don't, it's so gross.
I just hate it so much as something, but the tone and tenor of his voice that just grosses me right out.
He's really good at speaking moistly.
Remember when there was that compilation of Trudeau during the mask mandates when he was telling people not to speak moistly.
And that is quite literally how he speaks.
This is just more, and I posted this to X, just such paternalistic weirdness on his way out the door.
Just has to reiterate from as though he's some sort of like fatherly figure.
I am just so proud of you as he's literally destroyed the basis of Canada, left us in economic turmoil, has morale at an all-time low across various sectors,
including just the everyday general Canadian, and has taxed us more than any other previous administration, where our taxes now comprise of more than our basic living necessities, like food, shelter, and clothing combined.
And so Trudeau is leaving Canadians with a message that he's so proud of them.
Yeah, because we've persevered through your horrible governance.
Yeah, I guess we can really get through anything.
But also, is he really proud of us?
Because I feel like he crap-talked us for like 10 straight years.
Our oil industry was dirty.
We were climate criminals.
And then we were unacceptable fringe radicals with bad viewpoints or whatever it was.
We were genocide errors.
We committed a genocide, he'll have you know.
I don't feel like he actually is proud of us at all.
I feel like he spent the last 10 years trying his best to browbeat most of us into submission to break Canadians.
And he was not successful in that.
And perhaps that he's through some strange inversion of introspection, he's seeing that he wasn't able to break us.
And so now Trudeau is so proud and having each other's backs.
And I'm like, didn't you freeze Canadians' bank accounts when they opposed you politically and took to the nation's capital to protest how your government was acting?
Like, how was that having anybody's back?
Ask a Westerner how Trudeau has had our back these last 10 years, blocking our industry, getting tariffs stuck on our agricultural sector.
And I'm not just talking about the most recent canola ones.
When he pranced his way through India, we came home with a pulse tariff.
Like it just is non-stop with Trudeau.
And now he says, we've got your back.
Yeah, you put a knife in it, maybe.
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I just, what is he talking about?
Just go away.
We have your back by selecting the next prime minister that nobody actually voted for.
So good luck, I guess.
And don't let the door hit you on the way out, Trudeau.
Now let's talk about how serious Trump is with his American expansionism.
I think there will be America and then Greater America, which may include Panama and quite possibly Greenland and Canada economically.
The Trump White House has asked the U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal.
Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force.
Again, I don't think anybody has to do anything by force because the United States is such an economic behemoth that they can bring you to your knees in many, many other ways.
As well, as Doug Ford just learned with one phone call the other day in a tweet.
So, yeah, it says the U.S. Southern Command is developing potential plans that vary from, okay, I read that part.
Whether military force is used, the officials added, this is quite the statement.
Whether military force is used, the officials added, depends on how much Panamanian security forces agree to partner with the United States.
And it's all to diminish China's presence there.
Well, and the Panama Canal is also a massive source of illegal human trafficking.
And so I think regaining control and doing away with some of these, the radical rebel groups that have control of those, that space is going to obviously ripple into increasing the border security of the United States.
And that is the other thing that Trump has campaigned on is America first, tightening up the border, getting rid of the illegal aliens and illegal immigration that is resulting in crime, violence, and drug and drugs on the street.
And the Panama Canal is a major source of that.
Well, and there's another added layer in all of this.
Guess who paid for the construction of the Panama Canal?
The Americans.
So they've got a financial investment in it, you know, like it's over 100 and some years old.
But you know who should be paying close attention to this and checking himself before he wrecks himself?
David Eby in British Columbia, because he is proposing tariffs, not just proposing, bringing forward legislation to enact tariffs, tolls, I guess, essentially, on American goods that are traveling through British Columbia to Alaska.
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Now, guess what the trade route is for that?
The Alaska Highway.
It goes from the United States to Alaska through British Columbia.
Guess who paid for that?
Also the Americans.
So David Eby should be watching this with great trepidation because he's trying to pull this.
He's going one step further than Panama is.
Panama is just saying, like, look, we're not going to crack down on China doing whatever China does here.
David Eby's going one step further and tariffing American goods on a highway they built.
Oh, and you know, I'm jumping ahead a little bit here, but is this, this is the same premier that wasted $118,000 on a party for bureaucrats.
Premier David Eby wasted this, had an outlandish party.
I mean, I don't know, I had a wedding for under, for a fraction of that cost.
But he decided to spend at least $117,841 hosting the Premier's Innovation and Excellence Award in Victoria on November 26, 2024.
And this is according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
The event invoice includes charges for French 75 cocktails costing $21 each, a three-course dinner, $99 per person, bottles of flavored sparkling water costing $7,000.
You know, my good sir, let me introduce you to the ninja thirsty.
It bubbles the water for you.
I wouldn't suggest the soda stream because I realize that David Eby is in the NDP and Soda Stream products are made with Palestinians and Israelis working side by side in peace and harmony and he can't have that.
So yeah, that's outrageous.
$7.50 for sparkling water with quadruple bubbles in it.
And room rentals, of course, costing $14,000.
The list goes on here, but it's funny.
I think this is the Canadian Taxpayer Federation, Binda, said that they have saved $14,000 by hosting the reception five minutes away at the legislature or down the road at government house.
And this came just three weeks after British Columbia Premier David Eby announced or published rather his fall economic statement that showed projected deficits up by $1.5 B billion dollars.
So yeah, thanks, David Eby.
I'm sure you're really into how to be fiscally responsible and respect taxpayer dollars.
Yeah, it's typical.
I saw some pictures the other day of his liquor store shelves because they pulled the American booze off the Dell.
Sure, show those Americans.
You won't get the booze you want to drink as a BC consumer in some sort of bizarre care of war.
I think the only people being punished are British Columbians.
But this is, again, the schizophrenic response of the Canadian officials to this.
It just doesn't make any sense.
You know, what gets me with those photos of the plastic tape, like all the booze taped off and it's all being wrapped in saran wrap.
And then it reminds, it's very reminiscent of the COVID era when all non-essential goods were quarantined off and saran wrapped, like birthday cards and kids' shoes.
I remember I couldn't buy shoes or clothes for my kids because it was deemed non-essential.
And I'm like, do you realize that they grow an inch every month?
But I'm like, why can't we get plastic straws?
We can cordon everything off in the store and in grocery stores with saran wrap, which is not recyclable, by the way, but we can't get some recyclable plastic straws up in here.
What is even going on?
Where is Stephen Gilbeau when you need him to denounce radical plastic usage?
My goodness.
Now, our next chat, I'll get to our next super chat in a second because it's relevant to the thing we're going to talk about right now.
This is Melanie Jolie.
The first minister, no, sorry, not the first ministers.
The first ministers are our premiers.
The foreign ministers of the G7 are meeting right now in Quebec.
And down the road, the G7 leaders will meet in Alberta in June, beautiful Kenanascus, which will, of course, inspire Trump to want to take us over more because what a gem that part of Alberta is.
But so Rubio is standing right beside Melanie Jolie in this.
And I know Rubio tweeted yesterday that he was on his way and basically there's a new sheriff in town.
I also imagine that a lot of things are going to change between the foreign ministers meeting now and a couple of months down the road in Cananascus and Alberta, I think, because that'll be Trump coming to Alberta.
And quite likely, more than likely, from my lips to God's ears, Pierre Polyev will be the prime minister of the country.
But our chat here, I want to get to this because it's relevant because it discusses the G7.
Granite Man gives us two bucks and says, Rubio going to hammer all these idiots and Jolie.
I think, like, I think Rubio's the right guy to be there doing this.
I think he's going to have all the pressure from the other six to say, like, what are you guys doing with the tariffs?
And I think we'll be lucky.
We'll be lucky if we get away by the end of tomorrow without more tariffs because Jolie is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, if you know what I mean.
And yet we have leaks from the media that Kearney's new cabinet, who was never elected or voted in to do this work by any normal Canadian, but rather by the few of the Liberal Party of Canada, his new cabinet will keep her in this position.
And so I suppose we'll see how this unfolds.
But you would think it's a great opportunity if Mark Carney wanted to show some strong leadership to place someone a little bit more strong, a little bit stronger in such a position in order to negotiate.
I mean, who got us into this mess?
You're going to continue to lean on them to continue on with those negotiations when how did we end up here exactly?
He'll shuffle, I guess, Stephen Gilbeau from the environment file.
And apparently, Immigration Minister Mark Miller will be out of cabinet entirely.
That's what the star is reporting anyway.
He's going to, I guess, he's indicated or his team has indicated that they will have a much smaller cabinet than Prime Minister Trudeau's current 36-member team, with seven of them indicating they're not running again.
So Jolie will remain in gender parity.
Will they have gender parity?
Because I'm reliably informed by the Liberals themselves that this is a really important thing that you have to have, regardless of who is elected or the talent pool.
You're supposed to have equal parts men and women serving on the cabinet.
So I look forward to see if Mark Carney continues that unhinged and irresponsible tradition of putting people in positions they neither deserve nor are capable of fulfilling.
But diversity is exactly a DEI cabinet.
However, I'm very happy to see the absolutely toxic loser, Stephen Gilbeau, being shuffled out of environment.
He is the climate radical.
So that was the ministry for him.
But he continues to lose in court against Alberta.
And he is a flake and a crazy person.
And he was terrible on the Jasper file, terrible on the emissions cap.
And Carney is doing the one thing that Alberta has asked Justin Trudeau to do for a very long time.
And that was to fire Stephen Gilbo.
So I guess in that regard, that's like a wink at Danielle Smith that maybe things will be different.
However, I'm not sure.
I think that is just like a little bit of sleight of hand.
Well, and meanwhile, the parliamentary budget officer came out with a, as Danielle Smith puts it, a scathing analysis showing that the oil and gas cap will, as we have already been saying and sounding the alarm on, hurt Canadians.
It will cut oil and gas production by 5%, which she says will result in over 245,000 barrels a day.
It will eliminate 45,400 jobs from Canada's economy and 54,000.
Thank you.
54,400 jobs from Canada's economy and cut 20 billion from our GDP by 2032.
All well, global emissions increase at the same time and the largest offenders like China run away all the way to the bank.
Yeah, it's not a cap on emissions.
They say it's a cap on emissions, but Daniel Smith has always rightly called it a cap on production.
Because once you get to a certain emissions target, you can't produce over that.
Well, that only stops Alberta from producing.
But as sure as heck, it doesn't stop North Dakota from producing and they share a common oil field with Saskatchewan.
So, Saskatchewan can't produce, but right across the border in North Dakota, they can fill the gap, and West Texas can fill the gap, and Venezuela can fill the gap, especially with regard to heavy oil, which the American refineries need because they are fitted to deal with Alberta's heavy oil.
And this is what we've been saying all along.
You can't say you can only produce up to a certain amount, but also say, no, no, it won't affect jobs.
Do you understand how jobs work?
You know, like if you only give people so much work to do, and that's the amount of work that they can do, they don't continue to get paid.
They get laid off.
They have to go home.
They don't work for the government.
It's like, it's like people who have never seen a car making the rules of the road when you're dealing with government bureaucrats trying to understand what it's like to work in the private sector.
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And I think we are running up against the clock, but maybe we can get to a few of these extra little tidbits that we had pulled aside here.
We got to the EB1, which is really fun.
What about this one out of UBC?
It's their Okanagan campus.
Yeah, they denied it.
Yeah.
And I was looking, I peeked into it a little bit further too, because I thought, anyway, this comes from Jonathan Kay, who posted to X that the student union at Okanagan's UBC campus denied an application for a student conservative party club.
And amazingly, the students' union VP Internal flat out admitted that the decision was made on the basis of partisan political considerations.
And so he posted the email there.
And of course, it's a he, him, his student union vice president.
But he's, but basically, you know, it's clarifying the board's decision.
There were differing opinions among the directors.
Some were in favor of ratifying the club, considering Kelowna's conservative presence, right?
So they acknowledge that there is one and the opportunity for political debates featuring various perspectives.
However, of course, concerns were raised and some directors were concerned that certain views associated with the party, particularly those regarding the black and LGBTQ plus communities, could make students from these groups feel excluded or unwelcome.
So that was their response.
And of course, then Jonathan Kay posts here that they have a young liberals of Canada group.
And let me just pull up the webpage that I found because I thought it was really interesting that they have a whole Pride Resource Center at the Okanagan campus.
And so in the Pride Resource Center, which was established in 2003.
So this is like a, you know, a long-standing thing.
It's not new.
And oh, this wasn't the proper link.
Anyway, in there, and I don't have the link handy, but they have a pride resource center, a sex positivity center, and a lesbians for livable futures community.
And so I posed the question.
I said, because the UBC actually has an equity and inclusion office.
And so I wonder what their response would be to this very exclusionary stance taken by the Okanagan campus.
But maybe I think they might just be nervous that a conservative member, a conservative party club may actually outnumber their pride resource center, their sex positivity center, and their lesbians for livable futures community combined.
Combined.
I think that a conservative party club would outnumber those.
And I mean, hey, if that's the case, then why not?
Let it just speak for itself.
Like, why do you have to take these weird stances and deny people the ability to have a club if that's what they so desire?
Well, that's the thing.
You have the freedom of association, don't you?
So apparently everybody else has one.
And, you know, it's interesting that it's happening on this particular campus because the Okanagan is one of the most conservative places in all of British Columbia.
Dan Albus is the MP there.
He's about as conservative as you can get.
They've got Norm Letnick.
He's one of the MLAs.
The other one is Tara Armstrong, who's so conservative she left the Conservative Party of British Columbia because they weren't conservative enough this past week.
But here's the real problem.
And it goes directly to your point, Tamara.
Canadian youths, which is like the voting age youth, now support the Conservatives more than any other party, a development not seen in decades.
This is from the Fraser Institute.
According to an abacus poll, 36% of Canadians between 18 to 29 years would support the Conservatives versus 27% for the NDP, which holds the power in British Columbia, and a paltry 19% for the Liberals.
Nor is support for Polyov's Conservatives just a backlash from the failing futures of youths under the Trudeau regime.
And Enveronics poll found that young people in Canada would vote for Trump more than any other group.
28% of Canadians between 18 to 34 preferred Trump versus 13% for those 55 and over and 27% between 35 and 54.
And then it goes through the reasons why young people are conservative.
And so, yes, it goes to your point.
They don't want this club to be full of young conservatives.
And young conservatives are not just like yokels like me and my kids.
It's not rural shooting prepper types like me.
It's young people who just want to own a house, have a healthcare system that they might want to use one day.
People who want to be able to access a healthcare system that won't offer them made.
Kids that don't want to step over a drug addict on the way to play soccer.
Like it's not extremists, as the left would call me.
It's just severely normal people who want a little bit of what it used to mean to be a Canadian in their life.
Yeah.
And I mean, if we want to talk about extremists, you can go and you can view for yourself the lesbians for livable futures.
Oh, it looks like they're actually scrubbing their pages because I posted this on X and it's already, that's why I couldn't find the link.
It looks like they're scrubbing some of these pages.
So, for anybody who wants to quickly try to archive some of this stuff, but yeah, they have a sex positivity center where they destigmatize and celebrate sex, sexuality, and sexual health, offering a safe space.
Like, no, this is yeah, this, and these are young, like these are young teens heading off, you know, for the first time away from their parents, first time away from their house, exercising some independence.
And they really need to be part of a sex positivity center club, and yet they can't have a conservative party member club.
This is just so bizarre and clearly not inclusive or tolerant.
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