Ezra Levant analyzes Canada’s April 29 election, where Mark Carney’s Liberals won a minority despite Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives securing 41.4%—their highest vote share since 1988. Foreign interference, including CCP influence and Carney’s ties to Xi Jinping (a $250M loan, WEF-aligned policies), reshaped the race, while Poilievre’s working-class appeal drew young voters away from leftist parties. Carney’s "anti-Americanism" and globalist agenda risk deepening Canada-U.S. divisions, yet Poilievre’s momentum suggests a potential Conservative victory within a year—if strategic shifts avoid alienating allies. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, the morning after the big election, it's April 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
Shame on you you censorious bug oh hi everybody I hope you tuned into our live stream last night.
Chairing the Stream00:06:16
I was in this chair for eight hours straight.
My friend Sheila Gunread was in her house, and we had a series of guests throughout the evening.
But most importantly, we followed the election, and our hearts went up and down.
I think in my own case, I was sort of demoralized by the polls over the last few months, so I was bracing for the worst.
And while the conservatives didn't win the election, it was not the worst.
The worst would have been a Mark Carney majority government with the conservatives dashed.
That's actually how it looked for a little bit a few weeks ago.
I didn't quite believe the polls, but I didn't want to, yeah, I didn't want to, you know, imagine my way out of reality.
When 10 different pollsters are saying the same thing, I think you have to bend to reality.
But I got up this morning, even though we were up super late last night.
By the way, about a million people watched our live stream last night between Rumble and YouTube.
It was the largest live stream we've ever done, which was pretty cool.
I got up this morning because I was sort of excited and my brain was turning about what I had seen.
And I took the liberty of writing some notes.
And I first shared it with the team.
And then I thought, heck, I'm going to do a little video about it.
So here with is my sort of six-minute summary of why I'm feeling glass half full about the election rather than glass half empty.
Here, take a look at my thoughts that I wrote this morning.
So why did Pierre Polyev lose the election last night?
After all, under him, the conservatives received a higher vote share than any party has received since 1988.
41.4%.
That was enough to give Brian Mulroney a majority government.
But Mulroney was fighting against a divided left.
The most important factor in this election was Jagmeet Singh happily euthanizing the NDP, taking it down to just 6.3% and only seven seats.
Singh had thrown in the towel years ago.
It was obvious, and he was a de facto liberal.
It'll be interesting to see what patronage he receives from Mark Carney as a thank you.
The Green Party went even further, officially canceling nearly 100 of their own candidates explicitly.
so as not to split the left-wing vote.
They wanted it all to go with the Liberals.
Left-wing Canadians don't actually need the NDP or the Green Party anymore.
Canadians are about to learn just how radical Mark Carney is on everything from net zero environmentalism to foreign policy.
He didn't need to keep up the anti-Americanism in his speech last night when he won.
I mean, the election was over.
But Mark Carney chose to because he actually believes in realigning Canada with China.
As I've been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.
Never.
But these are not idle threats.
President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.
That will never.
That will never, ever happen.
Just as he did when he chaired Brookfield Asset Management.
I've called Carney Trudeau 2.0, but smarter and harder working.
Now that's true, and Carney has most of the same team as Trudeau, including the disgraced Rasputin figure, Gerald Butts.
But Carney and his extremist wife are deep ideological activists, whereas Trudeau was more of a cliche-spouting mascot.
If it helps to understand Carney, know that the company he chaired, Brookfield Asset Management, has a trillion dollars under management.
It's like BlackRock and just as ideological and dictatorial.
By the way, has any Canadian media outlet other than Rebel News reported that Mark Carney was interrogated last year by congressional staff accused of extorting coal companies?
I believe Polyev will actually win the next election.
The Trump challenge will resolve itself one way or another.
Carney's thin-skinned, domineering personality is already showing itself.
He'll soon find out that running a caucus and running a confederation is a bit different than being a corporate oligarch where everyone says yes, sir.
I'll give Trudeau this.
He could be charming, and his wife was embarrassing but harmless.
Mark Carney doesn't have emotional intelligence, and his wife is like Lady Macbeth.
More important than personality, all of the issues that caused people to hate Trudeau, housing costs, mass immigration, taxes, wokeism, all those issues are going to continue under Carney.
And people will see that Carney's cabinet is largely the same as Trudeau's was.
There has been no real change in the liberals.
Polyev's achievements include realigning the conservatives, making it the party of the working man, something that will accelerate as the public slowly realizes just who Carney is and who he listens to.
Carney hasn't given up his belief in net zero deindustrialization or other World Economic Forum obsessions.
You know, there's a reason the mainstream media don't want you learning about the World Economic Forum or what Carney did there as a board member.
Imagine you're a 25-year-old who can't afford to buy a house and you're watching Carney's boomer dance last night and his wife's Elaine Bennis moves.
The World Economic Forum is like the Bohemian Grove, but for Europeans and leftists, there's a different temperament amongst the little people.
Expect Carney to keep his promise to lavish money on the CBC state broadcaster, partly as a reward for their service these past months and partly to start campaigning for the next election that could come within a year.
Don't be surprised if, as a corollary, Carney reintroduces Trudeau's C-63 Online Harms Act censorship bill.
Carney's Political Gambit00:15:31
You've already seen how they treat rebel news.
They want citizen journalists to know their place.
Rebel News played a role in this election.
As you know, we had 318 million views and impressions during the campaign.
In the riding of York Center, for example, we helped drive out the pro-Hamas MP, Yaara Sachs, a bright spot in a gloomy night.
It's going to be an interesting year.
There are a lot more stories to tell, and the regime media won't tell them, so we at Rebel News will.
There's also more need than ever for rebel style of activism, especially our civil liberties litigation.
We have a track record of beating the liberals in court, especially when it comes to their censorship and bullying.
We're going to need to do a lot more of that, and frankly, I'm going to need your help to do it.
I'll share more thoughts later, but the results last night were not as disappointing as I feared.
Come on, don't mope.
Pick yourself up and get going.
Surely you can see how close we are now.
For Rebel News, I'm Ezra Levant.
Hey, to follow all of our reporting on Mark Carney, including our investigative journalism, go to thecarneyfiles.com.
What do you think?
Do you think I'm deceiving myself just to cope?
Or do you think perhaps Pierre Polyev is on the precipice of a strong majority?
I guess time will tell.
It's too easy of an answer.
By the way, I got a lot of calls from Americans today who were interested in what happened.
I mean, Americans are focused on other things, the war between Russia and Ukraine, the situation with Iran, the Abraham Accords Part II, China, Europe.
There's so much that the Americans think about that Canada really isn't in the top 10.
But they started to pay attention to our country during the trucker convoy, and they got Justin Trudeau's read pretty quick.
So I did a few interviews.
I'm not going to show you all of them because they went on rather long, but let me show you an excerpt from my visits with Charlie Kirk, who is a very influential Republican conservative activist, really focuses on young people.
I was really glad to have a chance to talk with him.
And then my old buddy, Alex Jones, who is so smart and so well-read.
Frankly, he could be doing these monologues.
He really understands Canadian politics.
So without further ado, here's a couple of clips from my day talking to Americans.
We're going to dive deeper into the Canadian results here with my friend Ezra Levant from Rebel News.
Ezra, great to see you.
You actually have a glass half full interpretation of the Canadian election results.
Tell us about it.
Thanks.
I mean, you got to, if you're a conservative in a left-of-center country like Canada, you always got to be looking for the silver lining.
And let me tell you what it is.
The Conservative Party of Canada, led by Pierre Polyev, got the highest vote count of the Conservative Party in a generation.
The last time the Conservatives got this many votes, it was 1988.
Trouble is, we have a multi-party system.
It's not the U.S. style two-party system.
So Pierre Poly of the Conservative ran a working-class conservative campaign that focused on things like reducing immigration, reducing inflation, reducing the...
It was actually something that I think American conservatives would like.
Trouble is, the left-wing parties all joined together.
So Pierre Polyev got about 41.5%.
And you're thinking, well, that's terrible because in the two-party American system, it would be.
But believe it or not, that's the highest any politician has got in Canada in 30 years.
But the Socialist Party fell down to 6%.
All of it went to the Liberals.
The Green Party did a trick.
They canceled over 100 of their candidates to stop splitting the vote.
So what happened is the Liberal candidate led by a World Economic Forum board member named Mark Carney, he squeaked past Pierre Polyev, and he formed a minority government.
What does that mean?
He didn't get most of the seats in the parliament.
So there's a chance we'll be going back to the polls sometime this year.
It's not a disaster.
It feels bad because as recently as four or five months ago, the Conservatives were looking to cruise to victory with the majority.
But I'll be candid with you, Charlie, and you know me, I'm the biggest Trump booster in Canada.
Donald Trump's heckling and his banter about the 51st state, that spooked some people who had thin skin or didn't understand what to make of it.
And I think that probably drove 5 or 10% over to the Liberals.
So Glass Half Full is best conservative results in a long time.
The new Conservative Party is very attractive to young people and working class people.
The bad news is the Liberals squeak past them.
And I hate to say it, it was that Trump banter that hurt some feelings.
Yeah, so let's dive deeper into this and examine it.
So first, that sounds like it was a French playbook where there were, meaning in France, they did something similar where the Liberal parties kind of all combined together.
I have to imagine, though, it's just a little bit different than American politics, where was it not cost of living and mass migration and cultural cohesion that was a bigger issue?
Was this really a referendum on President Trump externally?
I mean, walk us into the elements here.
Well, there was a generational divide, which was so interesting.
Historically, the Liberal Party gets the young voters.
Justin Trudeau won in 2015 in part on his promise to legalize marijuana.
Trudeau tried to come across as young and hip and cool.
And he got the young vote.
This time around, young people really tilted towards the Conservatives for the reasons you say.
It's tough to find a house you can buy in Canada.
Mass immigration has driven down wages and pushed up housing costs.
So immigration was the subtle driver of all, not so subtle driver of all these things.
Crime is a huge crime wave in Canada.
In many ways, we're now actually more violent than the United States, which has never happened before.
And finally, we have big pro-Hamas street marches, things that, I mean, occasionally you see them in the United States, but they're a weekly thing in Canada.
So yes, immigration was at play, but it was a generational thing.
Young people feel a little bit hopeless.
They can't buy a house.
They can barely afford to get ahead.
And they see that mass immigration is driving those things.
Whereas boomers and seniors, they've already got their home paid off.
So they don't care if house prices rise.
That's good for them.
They don't really pay income taxes because they don't work anymore.
And I think that they're oblivious to some of the street battles in Canada over race and ethnicity diaspora politics.
So the boomers and the seniors could afford the luxury political belief of being offended by Donald Trump.
Like imagine that is driving your vote for your prime minister.
Who's going to push back at Trump's heckles?
That is not a serious reason to vote for someone because, like I say, it's a luxury belief you can only afford if everything else in your life is going right.
Young people didn't really care about the Trump tweets, but boomers and seniors, especially liberal-minded boomers and seniors, they cared a lot.
So it's a luxury belief to be so offended at Trump that you can basically crap on your kids' future.
And luxury beliefs are something we talk about a lot on this program.
Okay, so you are rather hopeful, actually, about the future of Canadian politics based on your analysis and your interpretation.
Just kind of let's take a step back.
What does an election look like?
Is there a lot of money being spent?
How much money was spent on this?
Was it campaigning across the country?
I know that it was a rather truncated or a rather compressed election season.
So educate us on what Canadian elections look like.
Canadian elections, there's a five-week period where everyone goes full guns.
Now, obviously, everything before that, there's sort of have the campaign in mind, but there's an intensity of those last five weeks.
In Canada, the government has nationalized leaders' debates.
So there was an official government-run leaders' debate halfway through, and typically people really pay attention to those.
But, you know, there is a lot of money being spent.
Canada is about one-tenth the size of the U.S., and we probably had one-tenth the size of the budget.
But the campaigns have their campaign jets, and it's all about IDing your vote and get out the vote.
Obviously, a lot of the campaigning is digital.
So it's very much like an American campaign.
In fact, the liberals typically have campaign advisors from the Democrats.
Let me tell you a quirky thing.
Mark Carney and another candidate named Evan Solomon, they're basically run by a globalist lobby group in New York called the Eurasia Group.
It's sort of weird how that's in New York City, but it was sort of running the campaign for the Liberal Party in Canada.
Justin Trudeau's former mentor works at the Eurasia Group, and that's where Mark Carney, the prime minister, his wife works.
Like this little office in New York is basically being the puppet master for Canada.
It's a little bit weird.
There's a lot of foreign interference in our election, I should mention.
In the last election, the Chinese Communist Party was found to be interfering in 11 different districts.
This election, it was even worse.
In fact, one candidate had to step down because he was a Chinese-Canadian candidate who said, if you kidnap my opponent and take him to the Chinese consulate, you'll get a million-dollar bounty.
I know what I said just sounded insane, but he said it three times.
And finally, he resigned as the candidate to be replaced by another Chinese Communist Party candidate, a police officer, Chinese-Canadian police officer, who would attend Chinese Communist Party events in his police uniform, sing communist songs.
Like the hand of China is very apparent in our politics.
In fact, our new prime minister, Mark Carney, you may know that he was the chair of Brookfield Asset Management, which is like a slightly smaller blackrock.
He's met with Xi Jinping.
He's done huge business deals in China.
He took a quarter billion dollar loan from China.
So we have a real China problem in Canada.
There are great, loyal, freedom-oriented Chinese Canadians fighting against that.
But the Mark Carney government is as pro-China as you can get.
Let me throw one last thing at you, Charlie.
Canadian politicians were sort of heckling back at Donald Trump.
I know you didn't hear it because it was for Canadian domestic consumption.
It was sort of, can you prove who is the toughest to stand up to Trump?
That was a campaign thing to juice the turnout that we talked about, those sensitive boomers and seniors.
But last night, after the votes were counted, Mark Carney, the new liberal prime minister, the former World Economic Forum board member, the former chair of Brookfield Asset Management, he takes the stage for his acceptance speech.
Campaign's over now.
Now he has to think like a prime minister.
He goes extra hard at Donald Trump.
He says that Canada and the U.S. will never have the same relation again.
He will reorient Canada.
If he gets his way, he will realign us with communist China.
So it wasn't just a campaign trick.
It wasn't just a way.
His anti-Americanism wasn't just a tactic.
He deeply believes in it.
This guy is the ultimate globalist.
I think I told you before.
He has three passports.
He has a home in the United Kingdom, a home in New York City.
I don't think he's actually been back in Canada for more than a few weeks.
I flew to the Isle of Man two weeks ago because he had set up a shell company with a straw man director there.
I don't even know what country he pays his taxes in.
We are dealing with someone who truly is the World Economic Forum.
But I mean, just so quick, though, and it's just, I have the 30 seconds.
We'll pick it up after the break, though.
All that is true.
Then, how was the Canadian polity so bamboozled by this guy?
Is it because you don't have free speech and you don't have alternative media to be able to get this message out?
There's some anti-Americanism in Canada.
Our media is so concentrated, it would be as if PBS was larger than all other media combined.
That's our CBC state broadcaster.
And I say again, despite all that, Pierre Polyev did exceedingly well.
It just wasn't good enough given the France-style trick you mentioned, where they all unified behind the lefty.
It was close, though.
The Liberal only beat the Conservative by 2%.
So don't write us off yet, Charlie.
That's why I'm not gloomy.
Glass half full.
I think Polyev will win it within the next year, and we'll be smiling again.
So now the policies of the globalists that have destroyed Canada, it's horrible.
I think we got a bad economy when they're so rich, resource-wise.
Now the bad guys get to pose as the good guys, as Ezra Rovant politely, respectfully warned on this broadcast.
Ezra, you were absolutely right.
What's the lay of the land?
Can this be salvaged?
What do you think Trump should start doing?
Well, I got bad news and I got good news.
You saw the bad news.
Here's why that acceptance speech by Mark Carney is scary.
I understand that he campaigned as an anti-American to get votes.
There's Trump derangement syndrome in Canada.
There's a streak of anti-Americanism that goes back to the U.S. Revolutionary War.
Where did the royal loyalists go when they lost to George Washington?
They came up to Canada.
So anti-Americanism has been under the surface in Canada for a long time.
I had thought that Mark Carney was just stoking that anti-Americanism till the election.
But what you saw there was his speech after he won.
So he really is in his heart an anti-American.
And remember, when he was the chair of Brookfield Asset Management, which is a slightly smaller BlackRock, he was totally in bed with China.
Did you hear what he said there?
Our relationship with America is over as we know it.
He wants to realign Canada towards China.
And there was more of his speech.
He talked about replacing American trade with foreign trade.
And he's talking about things like energy.
Canada has an enormous amount of oil and gas.
China's been sniffing around.
I'm worried Mark Carney is going to try and reorient our country towards him.
And that's what you warned of a month ago.
He said Trump needs to come in and make an oil deal right now to block that.
Yeah, I mean, Canada right now, I'll be candid.
Bernier's China Pivot00:14:43
The reason we have a trade surplus with America, it's not nefarious.
It's because you guys buy oil from us.
And my point is, better to buy oil from Canada, when, by the way, it's often U.S. firms pumping the oil, than to buy it from OPEC countries.
First of all, you don't have to have the Pentagon patrolling the Persian Gulf sea lanes.
You just have a U.S. also refines most of it.
So it's a good deal.
Yeah.
So that's the bad news.
And I think you know Mark Carney quite well.
You know, for example, that he's got three passports, Irish, American, sorry, Irish, British, and Canadian.
You know that he's a globalist tax evader.
You know that he's, for example, hung out with Ghylaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficker.
You know that his wife, her family, bizarrely, is in Epstein's black book.
You know that Prince Andrew, a client of Jeffrey Epstein, threw a party for Mark Carney at Buckingham Palace and picked up the tab.
Those are alarm bells.
There might be some innocent explanation for it, but we haven't heard it.
So this guy truly is an anti-American World Economic Forum actor.
That's the bad news.
But can I tell you some good news?
I have to be an optimist, Alex, because I live in Canada.
If I was a pessimist, I'd flee this place a long time ago.
I want to stay and fight.
And so a guy like me needs hope.
Let me tell you why I have a little bit of reason for hope.
Number one, the conservative candidate in Canada, his name is Pierre Polyev.
He actually got the highest vote for any conservative candidate since the 80s.
The only reason that wasn't enough to push him over the top is that all the opposition parties on the left united around the liberals.
It was like in Macron's, France, where the minor parties all withdrew their candidates so that they had a unite the left plan to beat Le Pen.
I don't know if you followed that, but they did that in Canada.
Yeah, for people that don't know, it's not a two-party system.
You got a whole bunch so that you do this uniting all these other parties to win.
Yeah, we have a parliamentary system.
So typically you get 40% of the vote.
You've won it because there's five parties in parliament.
What happened is the Green Party, they canceled 100 of their candidates.
The Socialist Party called the NDP, they basically stopped campaigning.
So even though the Conservatives had a record vote last night, it wasn't enough to beat the total united leftists.
But it came within 2%, Alex.
There's one more thing I want to tell you, and I think you might appreciate this.
One of the things that Donald Trump has done for the U.S. Republican Party, he's made it a working man's party.
He's a billionaire himself, but he's a blue-collar billionaire in his sensibility and his friendships.
He's at home with a steel worker.
He's at home with a construction worker.
Pierre Polyev, that's the Canadian conservative, has managed to do the same thing.
He's made the Canadian Conservative Party a party of the working class and incredibly a party of the young.
When Justin Trudeau became PM 10 years ago, he did so in part by promising young people he'd legalize marijuana.
It's not a great policy, but it was how he appeared hip to the kids.
Pierre Polyev now dominates young people, their vote, rather, because in Canada, you can't afford a house.
Our mass immigration has driven down wages and pushed up accommodation.
So Pierre Polyev, he came so close last night, and he's within two points of winning.
And he's got the young people and he's got the working class.
And so Mark Carney won last night.
It's true, but he didn't win a majority.
And in a parliamentary system, if you have a minority government, that means there's a risk you could fall as a government.
There could be an election anytime.
I'm trying to keep my hopes up because we've got to stop Mark Carney before he does Canada in.
He wants to put us in a Chinese orbit.
He wants he.
I don't know if you know what his main job was before he came back to Canada.
He led something called the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, G-Fans, basically forcing companies to get rid of any fossil fuels he wanted.
Sure, Jimmy, he's a major ESG enforcer.
So if Pierre Polyev lost his own seat in the Canadian election, they're calling it humbling, but you're saying they have the biggest showing ever.
A, what does that mean?
And then, B, a lot of people didn't support him because they're saying he's not really a conservative, but I guess you know him well.
What do you think?
Look, I've known him for 25 years.
In fact, they tried to hang that around him.
There were stories as relevant as Pierre Polyev's mentor.
I'm not his mentor.
We did work together 25 years ago.
And here's what I can say about that.
He's been a conservative his whole life.
I've known him for 25 years.
I'm not going to pretend to be close to him.
The liberals would use that against him.
It's not true that I'm close with him, but I know him well enough to know that he has been a conservative advocate his whole life without changing his mind or his view.
And yeah, he lost his seat.
That's a hassle.
It's a small problem.
He is, let me give you an example in the World Economic Forum.
He has announced that no member of his party will go to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
That's what he has to say about globalists.
He has announced that he'll cut foreign aid and use it on Canadian projects.
He has announced the end to woke is.
Sure.
What do you think of Maxime Bernier, though?
And a lot of, I just know when I talk to Canadians and open the phones up, a lot of them say that Polyev wasn't that good.
But I mean, I know you're a really smart guy, and I trust you.
I like Bernier.
I like the fact that he stood up against the COVID pandemic lockdowns.
I like the fact that he believes in free speech and zero immigration.
But Alex, last night he got 0.7% of the vote.
Maxime Bernier is a good egg.
He's got a good heart.
I like him.
I like his style.
But he gets like libertarian party-level votes.
And that's because the conservatives know that the main conservative party had a better chance of winning.
Yeah.
And listen, Pierre Polyev is not perfect, but he is the most conservative leader we have had in Canada in a generation.
He did the best of any conservative in a generation.
There are only two choices for Prime Minister, him or Mark Carney.
So voting for Maxime Bernier is a luxury that I don't think Canadians.
I understand, but at the same time, he's eloquent and he did win votes to be the party leader, which they ignored before.
So I see why he's upset.
But he has done some good, at least on his speaking tours, educating people about the globalist.
And he should do more of that.
He should be like, I don't know, like Charlie Kirk, going around the country, giving speeches, debating, encouraging people.
But there is a place for Maxime Bernier for sure.
And you're showing some great pictures of him.
That's his place.
Well, let me ask you this then.
What I'm getting from what you're saying is just like Labor was able to do a parliamentary manipulation in the UK and get in, but now they're more unpopular than ever.
So it's causing an awakening.
And you're saying this was the best showing ever for the conservatives in Canada, vote-wise, that if Trump's misstep, you know, making it about sovereignty of Canada, driving people into the liberals' hands, as soon as people figure out that it's, oh, oh, wait, it was the globalist and the WEF candidates and people like Trudeau and now Carney that are doing this, that as long as Trump stops the nationalistic attacks on their sovereignty,
That Trump could come up with a new form of rhetoric to approach this and actually be instrumental in helping the Canadians unseat the WUF party.
I try and understand what Trump is doing.
And here's my thinking.
And Alex, you correct me if I'm wrong.
Here's what's on Trump's plate in terms of foreign policy.
War between Russia and Ukraine, possible war with Iran, Abraham Accord's part two, dealing with China, European Union, Brazil, like the Mexican border.
There's so many.
I've just listed five or 10 foreign policy things, each of which is more important than Canada.
I don't think Trump is spending a lot of intellectual bandwidth on Canada because we're not a crisis.
So I think he came up with that one-liner, you should be our 51st state, because it really jabbed Justin Trudeau.
And Trump likes to do that with people.
But what he didn't know is he.
100% Trudeau came down to Mar-Lago.
He made the joke.
Everybody loved it.
And then Trump just, you know, he's a ham.
He started just making the joke more.
But then you and I were like, that's not going to be funny to Canadians.
Please stop.
You know, because some Canadians found it an indecent proposal.
It would be like asking a married woman to go on a date.
If she was ready to divorce her man, maybe she would.
But if she loved her husband, it would be, it would come across as impertinent.
He should have sold it as an alliance against the globalists.
And then we'd have conservatives in right now.
I mean, let's just say.
I want us to get back to being best friends.
I want America and Canada to be like Batman and Robin.
I know we're the junior partner, but we can be best friends.
And that's got off track.
And here's the thing.
Trump did it accidentally.
Well, here's the issue.
If we don't have an alliance with Canada, the ChiComs are.
And that is untenable.
That's why Canada is important, people.
Some of my listeners, I see them comment.
Why are we hearing about Canada?
Well, you better care about Canada because the ChiComs do.
Let me give you four reasons to care about Canada.
Number one, we're a laboratory for bad ideas.
Universal California to our north.
Exactly.
Number two, we are geographically between you and Russia, between you and Chinese hot air balloons coming over, the Arctic.
So we are part of your security plan, whether we or you like it or not.
And like Russia, you've got shit tons of resources.
We should be working with you.
That was my next point.
We've got so much oil.
We rival Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
And our free trade agreement that Donald Trump negotiated personally contains a side letter giving Americans preferential access to our oil.
You don't have to tell me about Canada.
Do you know where my East Texas family, but they've had a lot of kids and a great family?
I mean, Jerry Earl's probably got like, I don't know, like 15 grandkids and like a whole bunch of kids.
A whole bunch of his family works up in Canada and they go up and visit and they love it and they're making good money and they're happy.
So I got a lot of family employed up in Canada.
I want to come back into the American orbit.
I want to stay an independent country.
But if we're in the American orbit, that is where we belong.
We don't belong in a European orbit or in a Chinese orbit.
I got a video clip.
I'm sorry I didn't think of it for today's show of Mark Carney saying at a World Economic Forum panel.
He said, I'm a European.
That's how he thinks of himself.
I think of myself as a proud Canadian who loves America.
And I don't see a contradiction in that.
Mark Carney thinks of himself as a globalist, a European, and an anti-American.
That's what makes me nervous.
You heard him.
He's not campaigning anymore.
And he's saying we are breaking away from America.
You don't want that.
You want us close and we can be best friends again.
We just got to tone down that one barb that Donald Trump was using because for whether it's reasonable or not, Canadians were sensitive to it.
Well, that's why they don't like the WF party is they started figuring out Trudeau was selling him out to China.
And so then, again, instead of going with the truth, Trump did the joke and now it's backfired.
And I love his jokes.
That's half the fun of Donald Trump is his personality.
His rallies are really, they could be stand-up comedy shows.
He's just such a great entertainer.
But the joke here scared people.
And you know how close it was last night?
It was 41% to 43%.
So if just 1% moved, they would have been tied.
I think that joke might have moved 5% of the country.
Oh, 100%.
Trump handed the globalist victory in Canada.
And I know he didn't mean to do that.
At least I hope he didn't mean to do that.
And there's so many better ways to be friends and allies.
Look, I think we're going to get along more or less anyways.
I think Mark Carney doesn't control all the levers of power, and there will be other levels of friendship.
For example, the premier of the province of Alberta, that's the oil province.
She went to Trump's inauguration.
She has not said a hard word about Trump because she's a diplomat.
She wants to get the deal done.
So there are other forces in Canada besides the prime minister.
Look, I'm optimistic that within a year, we'll be able to fix this.
I don't think that Mark Carney's minority government.
I totally agree.
Ib Trump stops the rhetoric that helps the globalists.
Yeah.
And listen, I love Trump, and I like his bellicose style.
And it's needed for dealing with China, for dealing with the Middle East.
You need his strength.
But with Canada, you know, people thought the roughness was out of place.
And I say this as the only journalist in Canada whose company endorsed Trump in all three elections.
We've got the scars to show for being pro-Trump.
I think Trump needs to recalibrate here because I want to get back to being best friends and I want to get rid of Mark Carney.
Yeah, I want to have Canada not be the giant California of the North.
I mean, I'd love to freak California as well.
All right.
Just one minute on this, Ezra.
How do you see the trade war going in general, though?
Look, again, I wish I understood a little bit better.
Trump has a fair argument when he says we have too much dairy and poultry tariffs.
It's true.
And that makes food twice as expensive here.
You know, there was actually a smuggling ring that smuggled cheese across the border from Niagara Falls, New York, into Niagara Falls, Ontario, because it was so much cheaper on the American side.
You got to Google it.
The cheese smuggling.
It's crazy.
Trump's right on that.
Trump's right that American banks should be allowed to give mortgages in Canada.
I wish we had the competition in our banking sector.
I wish we had American cell phone companies.
We pay amongst the highest data rates in the world for cell phones.
All of these things are good for American business, but they're great for Canadian citizens.
I agree with all of that.
The trade surplus is in large part because of oil and gas.
You're going to have that trade surplus with whoever you buy it from until you get your own oil and gas industry.
Absolutely.
Yeah, there's not a one-size-fits-all here.
Since you mentioned your new prime minister, the globalist, that Trump's misstep has put into power here, here is Mark Carney saying he's not a Canadian.
is a European, meaning globalist.
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Mark, you look like you were about to.
Yeah, I was a tell.
As a European, you know, as a European actually.
Oh, you are.
Irish citizen.
Yeah.
So there you go.
Speaking as a European, I like to say falling.
And that's recent.
So he's not a Canadian.
He is a real globalist.
Wow.
So you guys literally have a usurper.
I don't think he has a Canadian driver's license or health card.
I think he literally moved back to Canada weeks ago.
He was interrogated by the U.S. Congress.
They were looking into his alleged extortion of fossil fuel companies.
And he said under oath to the U.S. Congress that he was a resident of the United Kingdom.
That was just a few months ago.
But I'm excited about the work ahead.
Yeah, I wish the Conservatives had won.
And yeah, I'm worried about what Mark Carney will do to the country.
But I feel like we're going to have another crack at things within the next year, that we won't have to wait four years.
And I think that Mark Carney might come apart faster than we think.
And I know Rebel News is really important right now to have that alternative point of view, to have a voice in the media that's not bought and paid for by the government.
I don't know if you saw my message the other day that Rebel News and For Canada, I added up all the views and the impressions that they got.
And it's about 318 million, 318, like a third of a billion almost, views and impressions directly from us.
That's such a huge number.
We really have the same footprint during the campaign as the CBC.
I know that's hard to believe, but their own rate card says they have 360 million views and impressions a month.
So we're 318 million just to drop behind them.
That's why they hate us so much.
And that's why we have to keep on fighting.
We have to keep journalisming.
We have to keep telling the other side of the story.
And you know what I like to do?
I like to sometimes drop the gloves and fight, often in court.
We have to keep doing that too, because I think that Mark Carney is going to try and do some of the things Trudeau has done in the past, including censorship.
Anyways, I feel energized.
I'm not going to give in to sorrow or despair.
I know my role.
My role is to lead a little team here to try and serve Canada and our supporters, and where appropriate, use our special skills to try and make a difference.