Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 149

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines. We are joined by Rachel Parker and Jason Lavigne to discuss the swearing in of Mark Carney as the new Prime Minister of Canada. Cornerstone Forum ‘25https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone25/Text Shaun 587-217-8500Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcastE-transfer here: [e-mail] Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.caEmail: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]

Welcome to the Masha. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand and fall to fly. Of all of my impulsive plans, popping locking salsa dances on demand. I follow leading off the map to stop the chatter, scream happily. Welcome to the Masha.

Welcome to the MASHU. For the most part, I really like military guys. But I'm not going to say it because the thing, but come on, guys. Every once in a while, you'll have something that just blows me away. Like it's always, oh, well, when is this happening? You know, everybody's got to jump in T minus 30 seconds or the rendezvous. Is it T minus five hours? Mathematically, that doesn't make sense.

It would be T plus 30 seconds or T plus five hours. T minus 30 seconds is 30 seconds ago, okay? Like, I don't know how many crayons you have to. eat to think that this is the right way of doing things. But if I had to guess, I would say all of them. Morning twos. Morning, Sean. I've got a new face this morning.

I got irritated with my beard last night. So it's off. And then, of course, it's like minus like 20 today. And I'm like, oh, it's so cold. But this weather is just a bathroom. Yeah. Well, I was like, I don't know. I was tired of it.

It was like plus two. And then typical March weather. It snapped the other way. Anyways, welcome to the mashup, everyone. 149. Thanks for hopping in this morning. We got a couple of guests hopping on this morning. We got a whole bunch of stuff going on this morning.

You know, like Carney being sworn in as we speak. I don't know where that sits just yet. But welcome everybody. They purposely scheduled it during our live stream. They did. They knew we were going to be on. They're like, you know, we should time this out with the most popular news show on under the sun or at least in Canada.

Morning, Jim. Happy Airborne Friday to Jim there and the rest of the military men. We appreciate you guys tuning in. So that's pretty cool. Paradoxie. Yeah, great for you to be on. Kevin Damon, the green crayons are the best. What?

Oh, okay. And Trisha Rue. Jim says next time I'm with twos, I'll bring out the crayons and show them how it works. You're going to need quite a lot of crayons to explain this one to me, Jim. Um, if you're, if you're just, uh, hop it on, make sure to, uh, like share, um, I don't know, two's probably got something maybe like share, go on a trip to Europe telling people about us rather than dealing with domestic issues. Yeah, isn't that, isn't that right? Hey, yeah, that's kind of the way she goes. Um, do we have a story on the coup six and a half here before we

bring in our first guest? I don't know. It's, oh, wait, I got to, I don't have it set up to present. Give me half a second here. Yeah. That's how our morning's going this morning too. Your isn't even set up to present if and when it happens either. So don't even give me that. It's true. Neo-Nazi killers freed child attackers given bail

scenes from Canada's justice system. Cases from just the last 40 days being given to rapist killers and child attackers. Tristan Hopper who we've been trying to get on for the past

couple weeks, but he's harder to get on than an NDP thinking hat. This is one of the things he penned here. And yeah, he was just writing this. And he's like, there's so much here that I have to just limit it to the last 40 days. And these are, these are all the people who get off far easier than mischief. All right. Well, let's, let's do this. Let's slide into our first, well, he's bringing up Airborne Friday.

Happy Airborne Friday. I already said it once, but let's bring on our first guest. listening. Yeah, isn't that funny, folks? Do you think Tews is ever listening? No, no, twos is in his own head. We're going to bring on our first guest. We got an independent journalist Rachel Parker joining us this morning. Rachel. Good morning, everyone. Can I say that your intro song for your mashups is so clean and sleek? I feel like whoever made that needs to come, help me out with some things on my channel. Hey, Kevin, you hear that? Rachel, Rachel's reaching out. you'd like your guy.

We have, on this side, Rachel, we, we, we have quite the audience, quite the talented audience. And I, I'd love to sit here and say, we, we, we, uh, masterminded that. But we just kept saying we need a new intro song. We need a new intro song. We need a new intro song. And, you know, eventually, uh, our audience delivered because they're amazing. So I think the best part of it was the really like sleek and sexy woman's voice that came in that, you know, this is the Friday mashup.

I could never recreate that. my voice is a little bit too low for that. But it was nice. I enjoyed it. If you do it, the trick is you get like an Australian chick or something like that. You know, with like a little bit of an accent, that'll, yeah. That makes sense. It'll just kind of a new level of classy.

Yeah. I think it's the most attractive accent, but maybe that's just me. Australian? No one thinks that, but you just so I know that. But no one else thinks that. It's definitely British. okay I'm sorry you said British oh yeah Australian is like kind of like a Australian is okay that's like the lower class

British so but like a nice classy British action Australian is like it's like kind of heck and they're actually very difficult to understand I find I'm really get going I'm married to an American and specifically Minnesota and I find their accent quite attractive. That's just me. Maybe that's, that's bias, I guess. A nice southern drawl. I could go for that as well. All right. Well, I got a lot of love for the southern draw. I'll give you that one. This took an unexpected turn. Let's, can we focus on some news here, folks? Okay. All right. Carney being sworn in this morning. Rachel, you were one of the, we had a big old live stream on this. And we've talked a lot about

Kearney, but you know, always appreciate different perspectives. What do you think of the new soon to be or maybe even as we speak, Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney? I mean, honestly, I feel like we traded one global ill for another. I don't think that very much is going to change. I think, yeah, I think that it was basically the same people that installed Justin Trudeau, the same people that were around him, kept him in for so long, that were helping Mark Carney get elected and that will now be guiding Mark Carney. I mean, he's brand new to politics.

He doesn't really know what he's doing. So essentially, it's going to be Justin Trudeau's advisors who are going to be advising him that are still going to be making the same decisions for Canada. Toronto's son columnist Brian Lilly commented on this, you know, after the liberal leadership race, in an ex-space, he basically said, I reported during the liberal leadership race that, you know, staff for Justin Trudeau, his right-hand men, were making calls to cabinet minister on behalf of Mark Carney. That's why we saw, you know, the liberal cabinet, the liberal caucus, they came out and they rallied behind Mark Carney because they knew this was the next installment. Their new leader, a lot of us have felt that it wasn't really a contest. It wasn't really a fair leadership race.

It seemed more of like an installment because there were so many candidates who were disqualified, I'm sorry, so many people who wanted to vote in the contest, who were disqualified from voting with only, you know, around 150 people in Canada, even casting the vote from Mark Carney, who will now be the next prime minister as he's being sworn in as we speak. I think a lot of Canadians have concerns about that process. They didn't feel that it was fair. And I think there's arguments to be made that Canada, in a lot of senses, has a rather silly system in that when a party decides that it can swap out their leader, that, you know, that leader can essentially become the premier of the province or the prime minister of Canada without the broader citizenship ever voting for that individual.

Of course, you know, a lot of liberals like to say, well, we saw the same thing in Alberta with Danielle Smith. she was voted as the United Conservative Party leader in a leadership Congress, and then she automatically became premier that, of course, you know, a few months later we did have that general election, which she won and then formed government. But I would say it is a bit of a silly system in Canada. I'm frankly a bit uncomfortable with it, whether you're looking at it from the right or the left. I just think it's a bad system, and I think a lot of Canadians have concerns about it. You can argue that is just a system we have. Fair enough, but I think it's also legitimate

to criticize the system. So I think the system that we have in place, It was bad. And I think a lot of Canadians to a broad extent have concerns with how the liberal leadership race was conducted far more than Canadians ever had concerns with the United Conservative Party leadership race that saw Danielle Smith elected. And so I suspect, you know, he's been installed by the Liberal Party. They picked him as their next candidate. They did everything in their power to ensure that he would be the next prime minister of Canada. It's essentially going to be more of the same from him. And of course, the conversation now turns to when are we going to have election. I know a lot of people in the freedom movement think, oh, he's, he's not going to have a

quick election. They're going to delay it. I still think that we are going to see a election pretty soon because he's in a bit of a honeymoon period right now. And that's not going to last. So I think it would actually be advantageous for him to have a quick general election while Canadians haven't really got a chance to know him. He's also a very, very poor public speaker, as we've been witnessing. So I just don't see him having, being able to create the same enthusiasm that Justin Trudeau was able to create for himself back in 2015. And I do think it is going to be a very tight election. I don't think that it is a shoe in for the conservatives like many of us thought towards

the end of 2024. Well, I think you're right. And I've been saying this for a while is regardless of what the polls are saying, you still have liberals dropping like flies. Or actually at this point, it would probably be more accurate to say that flies are dropping like liberal cabinet ministers. they're just Mark Holland just announced

the other day. I guess we could just skip ahead to the rats fleeing the sinking ship of the week, but Mark Holland, the idiot with the bow tie is not running for re-election. And then, yeah,

you're absolutely right about Mark Carney and we got a clip. I can show you here. This is Mark Carney looking like a complete dufus at a steel or aluminum factory. So here's Here's this.

We understand. I understand. I respect President Trump's concern for American workers and American families. So for those of you listening and not watching, he has one earplug in and not in the other ear. And the earplug he has in is halfway out anyway. He's got a brand new hard hat with a chin strap on. In fact, every single person there for him has hard hats with three. chin straps on in this indoor factory where nothing's going on.

The thing people don't ever talk about is that when you're doing these press conferences in the middle of a factory, nothing's happening in the background. Nobody's getting any work done. There's no hazards. There's no moving equipment. So hard hats are completely unnecessary. Safety glasses, reflective vests, all of this pageantry that they wear to try and look like they're one of the people that's so.

brand new. It's shiny. None of it. None of it actually plays in this scenario. And this is, this is him in his, I think, first press conference since he won it being exactly what you were saying, Rachel, where he's sucking. It's also just funny to me in that clip that you've pulled up with a hard hat on, how ill-fitting that hard hat on, that hard hat that he has on is. It's just so small for his head that it just juts up really high into the air, making him look even more ridiculous. and he would otherwise look. So yeah, I feel like they kind of threw that together last minute. It was a really bad choice.

The other funny thing that I caught from that clip is, you know, one of the things that I think a lot of people would agree on about Justin Trudeau is that he's essentially an actor. I mean, he was a drama teacher before he went into politics. And you see him really leaning into that as a politician. He knows how to be theatrical. He's constantly pulling out the crocodile tears. He knows how to appeal to emotion.

and he's done that to rally his base very effectively. The same cannot be said of Mark Carney, who, as I said before, is a really poor public speaker. And when you caught him in that public appearance, you can see Karina Gold, who also ran to be the Liberal Party leader who won about 3% of the vote coming in. I believe it was second last. And she's just standing back there eyeing him as he's talking. And he's, you know, it's kind of awkwardly getting through his announcement.

and you can just see she's just sitting there thinking, I could do this so much better than you. She's just so irritated with how poor of a public speaker he is. I also remember when that event was hosted, that we actually saw complaints from the media that they had asked the cameras not to follow him around as he went to talk to steelworkers at the plant in DeFasco plant in Hamilton. And then they also said, yeah,

and then they also said that they weren't given an opportunity to ask questions. When you listen to the press conference, I listened to it earlier and there's kind of pauses, and I couldn't quite make out if that was reporters asking the questions or if it was just him kind of pausing

between the statements. Either way, you know, he's obviously shying away from the media because he's still kind of building up his media skills. It does take a long time to accrue those and, you know, the media, especially if you're conservative, generally twist things that you say.

And so I think they're being his team around and they understand, you know, know, he's brand new. He's a poor public speaker. We really got to help him along as much as we can. We've got to really baby him. And I think they're going to be really limiting media opportunities for him. And, you know, you saw the mainstream media get really upset about this. But I just said, you know, they're getting the exact same treatment that us independence have gotten, you know, from Justin Trudeau. And now from Mark Carney, who had everyone that he wasn't 100% sure would give him favorable coverage removed from every single one of his events. And watching that, you know, I know his independence, it happens to us quite free. and it's frustrating and people watch it and they're like, oh, yeah, that sucks.

But it actually is a little scary to me that we live in a country where if you dare to think something or if you dare to criticize a leader, you're not even allowed in the same room as them. How dare you even attempt to breathe the same air as them? This is the direction that we're headed in as a country. And it seems like it's actually going to be a lot worse under Mark Carney than it was under Justin Trudeau, who was no fan of media freedom, let's be clear. And that's something that I am extremely concerned about.

I think that the ability for reporters to get questions in at press conferences, meaningful questions that the Canadian people want and deserve the answers to is going to get smaller and smaller. You don't think that's going to backfire for them? Doing the Joe Biden campaign strategy? I think we've seen some. I mean, I saw Stephanie Levitts. I want to say that she's with the Toronto Star now.

I'm not sure. they all kind of change around every few years. And she basically said, you know, he needs to be taking questions from the press. And so, yeah, yeah, I think we'll see the mainstream media start to come out and criticize him. But I don't know. How much influences the mainstream media still have would be the question that I would ask. I think that a lot of politicians have learned that they can speak directly to the people that they want to speak to through platforms like social media. And they don't use the media the same way that they used to.

They don't have the same reliance on the media. to get their message out as they used to. And so I think that we'll see him kind of give them just enough. And they'll kind of grumble and complain quietly. And, you know, he'll essentially throw them a few bones here and there, which is basically what the federal government does to keep people happy is gives them the bare minimum to get by. This actually extends to pretty much any federal government policy right now.

So I think we'll see him, we'll see him do a little bit. But, you know, he's going to be, have, I think, extremely low transparency even during the general election campaign, because I don't think the staff around him trust his ability to, you know, politic essentially because he's so new at it and because he is, as I said, a very poor speaker. It's interesting when you think about it. Like his career has essentially been political. You know, even though it like you don't get to the top of the Bank of Canada and the Bank

of England by being good at your job. You get there by playing the game. And it's interesting how, you know, you've got this concept of not even corporate per se, but public sector politics and how actual politics deviates from that. It's going to be really interesting. I imagine that he's probably going to do really well in terms of managing his people. But I think you're totally right in the sense that he's going to be totally out of his depth

when it comes to standing in front of a podium. Well, because public opinion is everything in politics. It seems to be to our detriment how political parties like the conservative party make all their decisions. You know, we so often, we're waiting for them to say something. We're waiting for them to say something on an issue that everyone has been talking about for like a week. And finally when they see the poll results to come in. When finally they see the poll results and they're like, oh, public sentiment is actually high enough that we can comment on this without losing support. They'll come out and say it.

And so that is, you know, you can argue whether or not this is a good or bad thing. but so much of politics has also become, and I would argue this is actually a really bad thing, has become about the specific party leader, not the individuals who are putting their name forward. I mean, if we look at the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party, everyone in that party has to say what the leader wants them to say. It's not really about talking about issues that are going to,

that matter to their constituents, that matter to their local riding. It's about talking about broader issues that the leader wants them to talk about. And, you know, MPs are really boots, strapped on what it is they can say. And if you see them step out of line, then they're forced to issue an apology. And sometimes they're even removed from caucus for daring to voice an opinion on something that the leader hasn't signed off on. And so, you know, the person at the top, they wear a lot of responsibility for setting the tone and the message of the party. In many senses,

it becomes a popularity contest. And so that's why how the public views Mark Carney is going to be so important for the liberal party. And because, you know, for the reasons that I've just mentioned, I suspect that we're going to see that translate into an early election. Let's not like Canadians, we don't want them to lose essentially their honeymoon period. And we're going to see very carefully and very curated media appearances with Carney moving forward with, I suspect, very limited opportunity for questions. I think you're right. And then the other thing to take into account is that if the liberals call an early election, then that means that they can't go into an election having lost a vote of confidence. And so it's it's going to be the classic you can't fire me.

I quit situation, I think. Well, that's interesting. So then do you think that like the next election, do you think that it will be a conservative government? That's going to be tricky. The polls are interesting. And I'm skeptical of some of them, like Eco's, for example, who basically has, has the liberals winning. somewhere around 8,000 seats in the next election. But they are showing definitely a bit of that honeymoon period.

And I think that if I was, if I was a liberal strategist, I would be looking at it and saying, yeah, that's, that's it right there. This is the latest Ecos poll, although technically Frank Graves had pulled this poll back. He'd somehow rescinded it or decided he wasn't, he was going to unrelease it. But yeah, it's. It's quite an interesting turn of events. NDP having zero seats, which is good news in my opinion. But it's just silly.

You look at some of the seats in Western Canada with the liberals just taking on a huge chunk of the prairies is baffling to me. I can't see that. But if I was a liberal, I would say, let's get this election done as soon as possible. Because to quite a few of your points, no, there is a honey. moon period with the new prime minister and also we need to get this election done before people realize how much Carney sucks. Yeah, and before he actually has to start answering questions on policies, like, okay, you know, he said that he was going to change the carbon tax.

I think I saw that it was going to be canceled now, but he's just going to implement another program that's more of the same. And eventually he's going to actually have to announce decisions on that. And I think they want to kind of sweep him in and make sure that they form government before that happens. and probably makes the most sense for the liberals to hold an election sooner rather than later, because, you know, you were just kind of pointing out in the polling. I mean, at the end of 2024, the conservatives had a 20-point lead on the liberals.

And by any metric that I've seen, you know, their margin of how that's drop might be as considerable as that Ecos poll that you just showed. But the numbers are narrowing out. And I think that this election is going to be an night fight. And the other thing that I sense right now, and I was talking about this with my husband, and David Parker, just the other day is, you know, the conservatives, I think, really seem to be floundering right now. And once you begin to flounder, you start to make poor decisions. And I even said to my husband, like, I'm not entirely sure what the conservatives messaging is right now. And I follow this stuff for a living.

Is it still that it's a carbon tax election? Is it still that it's Canada first? They kind of seem to be switching back and forth between the two. If I don't know for certainty what the Conservative Party messaging is right now, I doubt that most people do. That's a really big problem. And, you know, if the conservative sentence that their momentum is floundering, they're going to start making poor decisions because people tend to make bad decisions when they're under pressure. I think we can probably say we saw this with Andrew Shear and Aramotul. So, you know, the Conservatives still have a real shot here, but they need to get their act together very quickly.

They need to figure out their messaging. It obviously can't be that it's a carbon tax, a lot. election because even if I believe that Mark Carney will implement some sort of carbon pricing system, the general Canadians, the moderate Canadians are going to say, what do you mean? He said he's canceling that program. Why are you campaigning on this? So they need to figure out what their messaging is yesterday. They need to move forward with that they need to be extremely clear. They need to repeat it 100 times. It needs to be something that resonates with Canadians because they are really close to losing the momentum here. And once you've lost the momentum, it's very hard to get it back.

I think the best example of that was, was it 20? The arrow tool was running against the liberals, and everyone thought he was going to be the next prime minister of Canada. And then around Labor Day, there was a bit of a shift. And next thing we know, you know, we're on to another liberal government. So the conservatives need to get their act together very, very quickly. And this is always like my biggest complaint about conservatives is when you criticize a conservative party, whether federally, whether provincially, and you have all these conservatives come out and say,

well, that means you want the liberal. to win or that means you want the NDP to win. It's like actually, no, it doesn't. I have my fair share criticisms of the conservative party of Canada. I don't think they're any savers, but obviously I think that they are the best thing for the country right now. Do I think that they are going to be able to totally reverse the decline that we've seen? I don't know if I believe that, but they will at least delay it significantly by hopefully 10 years or so. But I think, you know, we can kind of help them along and maybe actually help them have a fighting chance at this by pointing out, here's what we're hearing from conservative voters and from moderates

who are not sure what your messaging is, who feel you need to get your act together. And, you know, hopefully they listen to that and they act on it. Well, I think, I think it's probably fair to say that, um,

that they really have adopted the aeron-Otool Andrews here, um, um, strategy lately. It almost seems like there was almost like a change in personnel in their comms department. where about a month, maybe six weeks ago, everything just changed. And it's been noticeable everywhere.

I've heard a lot of people talk about it. Rachel, thanks for hopping on with us this morning. Any final thoughts before we let you out of here? I'm just going to comment quickly on the last comment there is I think part of the reason we saw the messaging change is the panicking that we're seeing inside the conservative war room. They've seen the liberals polling has gone out because of this terror for with Trump. They've seen that the liberals are resonating. with their base because of how they've attacked the Americans of the Trump.

And they thought, oh, let's do the same thing. It's working for them. It's costing us poll numbers. And I think we're seeing it have the opposite effect on the conservatives because their base is very different than the liberals. And they would be wise to remember that. Thanks for having me, guys. Thanks. There you go, Rachel Parker.

Always sharp. Always sharp. Just hits the nail on the head and steps out. Well done. Yeah. And thanks for having me. I'm out of here. I'm like, wow, I wish twos would do that.

Two's always. Hey, thanks for having me, Sean. I'm out of here. I'm out of here. I tell you what, I got booted out. I'm like, what the heck is going on on my side? And it just boop. And you know what it is?

I'm sure this is what it was. It's the 800,000 tabs I had open because Toos built me a document this morning, folks. It is like, you know, twice the height of me, essentially, which, I mean, in some circles is tall and other circles, it's not that bad. And I mean, in my world, when twos is rattling off the amount of things we've got to get through today, let's get to it. and when our next guest cops, and we'll,

uh, we'll, uh, we'll, we'll, uh, will bring them on. Okay. Next on the,

next on the docket. BC legislation would give government sweeping powers to respond to Trudeau. Or, pardon me, not Trudeau threats, Trump threats. Trump threats. I just,

I get them all mixed up all the time. Yeah, it's fair. This is, this is a wild story. I was, I actually reached out to, uh,

a couple different people in BC, trying to get somebody on to talk about this, uh, you know, because it's Vaughn Palmer who writes, this is his story. Not the one you have up, but a different one. He quoted,

In Extraordinary Times, we need extraordinary powers, Ebby told reporters referring to Bill 7, the Economic Stabilization Tariff Response Act. And Palmer writes, in 41 years of covering BC governments, I've not seen a legislation as arbitrary and far reaching this side of the Federal War Measures Act.

The only limitations on cabinet's power are regarding the legislative obligations to consult and accommodate the interests of indigenous people, which cannot be overridden. Eddie Eby and Sharma also referred to the legislation as time limited. And then Palmer quoted not all that much. It would be in effect until May 28, 2027, well in the third year of Eby's four-year term. Yeah, basically the NDP are trying to pass a thing, basically just moving them into a fast-paced dictatorship,

which, I mean, given how slow everything moves in Canada in the government, That's kind of a refreshing idea to have people like that have it is terrifying because they're just going to make nothing but bad decisions. And if I feel like they shouldn't have it, then I feel like nobody should have it because I mean, that's kind of the rule is, you know, regardless of what you think about a policy, you got to picture it in the hands of your worst enemy. And I think that for a lot of people in Canada, the NDP are their worst enemy. Well, they're pretty close. They're on a serious party, although in BC they certainly are. Just barely. Just barely.

Wow. I mean... They're two died suddenlys away from a minority government, Sean. True. Very true. Very true. And do you want to show that... Before we bring in our next guest, you want to show the Scott Moe video, the canola tariffs?

Sure. I had to delete a whole. All right. So, Scott Moe, Premier's Saskatchewan. You can tell by the accent, but here he is. what you said yesterday, you said in the next, you know, if the Chinese chairs go through in a week, that it would decimate the canola industry in Saskatchewan. Can you elaborate on that statement? It'll close crushing plants. I can't be more clear. And the people that will be working in those plants

will not have a job for a period of time. More impactful than that. And I would really hope that anyone that is running for the Liberal Party of Canada or any party in the next election listens to these next words. More impactful than a temporary loss of jobs in the canola crush industry is the markets that we are losing. The markets that we are losing are going to be incredibly hard to build in the first place and they're going to be incredibly hard to regain. And so I don't know that those jobs will immediately come back. This is the reason that I ask Prime Minister-designant Carney to reach out, make his first engagement with the government of the government of China to find a way through

these very, very disastrous counter tariffs that have been in that have been implemented that are going to have an impact on Western Canadian families. So for those of you who aren't familiar with it, we covered it, I don't know, two, three months ago, something like that when it first broke, is that Canada introduced a bunch of tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, which is the stupidest thing you could imagine, because these are the same people who couldn't even manufacture a half-deas and supervirus. Do you honestly think that vehicles that you are going to put yourself and your loved ones in and drive down narrow fucking roads with oncoming traffic and various inclement weather conditions and all of that stuff with a lithium bomb underneath you? Do you think you're really going to go with a no-name brand that you have no understanding of from the same fucking country that makes everything in our dollar stores?

this is a tariff on something that no one's going to buy anyway. This is, this is the boycott of American beer times a thousand. You think like, oh, yeah, well, we don't need American beer because it's junk. Well, we're going to boycott it anyway. Well, no one's buying it regardless. This is that turned all the way up to 11.

Nobody is going to buy, uh, what is that, a Huawei car? Do they even make cars? I don't know. You're going to buy a car with a, an insignia on the side of it that you can't even read and you're going to put your friends and family inside of it and just cruise down the road hoping everything's going to be fine you don't

need it anyway you don't need these you don't need these tariffs but the chinese response to it is oh well you guys want to install tariffs to protect ontario and fucking quebec well we're going to respond by decimating the prairies what do you think of that well If anybody knows the liberals, they don't see anything wrong with anything like that. Like, oh, oh, you guys are going to respond by decimating Western Canada?

You're taking our jobs. Come on. This is exactly the best possible situation that Trudeau's team, because it's still Trudeau's team, could have possibly hoped for. It's interesting. It's probably the most nervous I've,

or animated. Maybe Scott Moe's been in a long time. Right? Like he's, he's quite animated in that video. Isn't he? Am I wrong on that? He is. He is. And you're like, where the hell has this guy been for like five years? Well, I would agree. It's actually almost like he woke up one morning and realized, oh my God, we're in trouble. You're like, uh, this guy? Yeah, new here? I don't know. We got another guest to get off. We'll probably do a little bit of rapid fire with him as well and get his thoughts on Kearney being sworn in today, but independent journalist

host of the Jason Levine show. Jason Levine is going to hop in with us now. Jason, you were, well, morning. Thanks for hopping on. Good morning. How are you? Well, I mean, well, thanks. I think we're doing okay. I don't know. Like, I mean, that's an it.

You guys are animated as well, not just Scott Moe, but you guys are going for it this morning. Good morning. Well, welcome to the Friday. This is the show. Yeah. Tews is always animated. And we try and pull them down sometimes, although Lots of the comments that are about to come in are like, no, you got to go full twos. We're waiting for that.

They're pumping them up. They're trying to get them lit. What do you think, Jason, of, I don't know. I mean, you watched part of the live stream on Sunday night. You were text. Well, after we got done it, I checked my phone and I had a whole bunch of texts and everything from people trying to reach out to see if they could hop on. You weren't the only one. You wanted your thoughts to be heard on, on Carney being the next prime minister of Canada.

Today it's being confirmed. What are your thoughts on today's and the let me, I don't know, the last couple months lead up here? Well, I think we're just scratching the surface, just scratching the surface of the type of pain that is going to be coming to Canada. Because I do strongly believe, and I've been saying it's for over a year and a half, Mark Carney's goal, his legacy that he's trying to leave behind as a leader on the global stage is to ensure that Canada, future resources, and our output is tied to global. global, global banking and some sort of control on a global level. So we're just seeing the beginning of this.

And Mo's not wrong. He's going to destroy markets that are hard to rebuild, that we're hard to build to begin with. And there's going to be a lot of shifts in Canada. Certain products are being gone. Certain products we're going to have to start manufacturing so we can have it back. And this is going to be a turning point for Canada. Either we're going to take a bunch of knees because economically this is going to be very difficult, especially for international trade, or we're going to step up, roll up our sleeves

and start filling some of those gaps permanently. So we are a little bit more prepared and continue to grow our own economy and not be so vulnerable to market conditions that are global. I can't hear you, Tews. You muted yourself. Yeah, I was... That was a tariff that was put in place on two.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you look at the response by most other countries to this, and it's exactly what we've been talking about for weeks. We talked about this exact same thing. Two weeks ago with Franco Tarasano, we're like the best thing to do would be to say, we're going to respond by doing zero percent tariffs. And if the U.S. doesn't back down,

we're going to double them to zero percent. And then we're going to triple them to zero percent. We've got, this is a thread by Rupa Supermania. Australia will not retaliate against Trump's stealing aluminum tariffs. Just go down to like her sixth one. It just, it summarizes it so good. Japan, Brazil, Mexico.

So to recap, not retaliation. not retaliating Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Australia, UK, retaliating Canada in the EU. I mean, do you need to, I mean, that's right there. How often economically speaking is the EU on the right side of things? Look, we got to zoom out a little bit. What else are we also teaming up with the EU on, the Ukraine war? So we're also taking that side with them too.

So the economic war, the actual physical war, the both of them, Canada's siding with the EU. And this is going to be part of the NATO. There's going to be part of our contributions there. This is a bigger picture. I see O'Reillian, you know, coming to life here. There's going to be forever war, economic and actual kinetic. And Canada is going to be against the U.S. on both of those.

And that's going to cause the 40th parallel to become a very, very difficult border in the future. And I do not want to see this happen. I would love to see us. I'd be far friendlier with the U.S., work a lot better with the U.S., And if national security is a genuine concern for the U.S., let's address that because it would also be a concern for Canadians as well if we're having national security issues. But something bigger is at play here. I think this is basically brick, U.S., and now a third group, which will be EU and Canada, kind of teaming up here. You've had on a lot of different guests, Jason.

Just recently you had wrath and party and forgive me a couple others in there, Drew Barnes and the other. one space is my name. I text you. Cameron Dave, Davies. Yeah, I'm like, who the heck is this person? He's awesome. Yeah, it was a really interesting conversation. Where do you lean on this, you know, like it started out as Can the 51st State, right? And then, and then, you know, as you start to discuss that, I think Albertans get closer and closer to, you know, that would make zero sense for us, but Alberta may be going its way. And then Bruce Party adding in and on and on the conversations go, you've been. been staring and talking to a lot of different people.

Where do you come down? Republic of Canada would be my ideal goal. We get there peacefully through resolution instead of revolution. I'd love to see Canada decide to drop the monarch, go ahead and go about it ourselves, be big boys and big girls and put on those big boy and big girl pants and really take control of our entire country. And that includes electing our head of state and making sure that we have continuous government, elected government.

I do not like this idea that somebody can be appointed, a little party election. You can wipe away 60% of the votes and then get somebody in there. Like, I don't like any of that. And I absolutely want to have an opportunity to redo the way that Canada is structured on a republic level. Like accountability, let's have some recall, let's have some elected senators. Let's really learn the lessons from the U.S. Make it slightly better. You know, Canadianize it a little bit, more democracy.

And then run with that. That's what I would love to see. Because I think Canada, the entire country, is by far the most oppressed on an economic level than any other country in the world. And our future potential is higher than any other country in the world. So I would absolutely love to see us all work together under a republic. If we can't get to there, statehood looks pretty good. But I don't want to just jump from one bad relationship to another and just quickly join the U.S. because I certainly wouldn't want to be facing like Kamala Harris as a leader or anything like that.

I would love to see us be far more independent, but ideally as the Republic of Canada, that can't happen, the Republic of Alberta. I don't know. I mean, it's funny when you think about like, you know, the idea of Kamala Harris and you say, okay, well, what if we joined up with the U.S.? And then we'd be in a situation where we had no vote in the way the direction of the country goes. But that's basically where we're at right now. One thing about this free trade, though, is that if you have, if you were to do a SWAT analysis, you were to imagine Canada as a company rather than a country and you were going to look at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The biggest weakness in terms of economics, aside from the red tape, would be the fact

that so many of our proverbial eggs are in the U.S. basket. If you had a company, if you took over a company that did the entire 80% of the Pareto distribution with one client, you would say, okay, the first thing we need to do is we need to figure out how to build up our smaller clients and get more new clients. And that's the writing's been on the wall about that forever where you just say, look, this is, this is crazy that we would just ignore this, this, this, this, this, this. weakness that we have and never shore it up. No, I agree completely. And what I would do if I was a CEO of Canada, the corporation, if we were kind of talking on those levels, is I would also make sure that that relationship was stronger and we had more power by providing more value to them as well.

So the U.S. market. So we're not so dependent on just like a one-sided relationship. So yes, open up additional clients and markets and expand on those and focus on those, but also make sure that we can continue to provide. more leverage with the current partner. Because the last thing you want is all your eggs in one basket, but you also want to make sure that you have your hand on that handle as well. And it's not just the other side that controls basically our fate.

We need to be stronger with innovation and provide a lot more to our partnership around the world. And I actually think Alberta specifically is very, very well positioned to become an intellectual hub of the world when it comes to energy development, future energy development, current and future. and we actually have that ability. And also on agriculture, we can become an intellectual hub for a lot of this stuff where we provide so much value on that level, innovation and invention, that we can't be ignored anymore.

We are kind of like the brain trust of the world when it comes to energy and agriculture and resource development too. Canada is sitting in a position where we can become basically the lab of the whole world. We have cold weather, hot weather. We can do a lot of testing here. we can really become a place where the whole world comes to, to test things out, work on things, and do innovation. If I was in control, Canada would be a global leader in innovation,

and we would maintain that lead forever. And if we did that, it would be kind of like picking on the nerd in the classroom. Do you really want to pick on the one that can really help you think through things and work on things? Probably not. Sure, we're only like one-tenth of their market, but I think we are far more prepared and able to become an intellectual partner for the U.S. and the rest of the world.

And we have that here in Alberta. It's sad to me that we're not building up the infrastructure for innovation. Instead, we're just kind of building up infrastructure for energy, but not so much innovation. There is some because, you know, the oil sands. There's a lot of stuff being worked on there to try and make it cleaner and better. So that's exactly what I'm talking about. I think we could become world leaders on intelligence. Well, part of the problem is we got, we had Justin Fancy Sox, Trudeau, as our,

as our world leader. Now we have Mark Carney. And you just go, I don't care how innovative any provinces in that country right now, you got to deal with the federal government. And everything you hear about our federal government, whether you're talking from the intelligence community all the way up to just politicians, were a joke. Because, I mean, it was Shane Getson on here, how long ago to's,

it said anywhere they go. And you're watching probably Daniel Smith, probably where I think we can all agree, probably the closest. anywhere she goes, she's welcomed in, they want to have conversations, they want to work through this, but they got to deal with

the leader in charge on a lot of this stuff. And that was Justin Trudeau. Now we got, you know, as of today, Mark Carney being sworn in. But I mean,

Alberta just signed a memorandum of understanding, which technically is just an intent to do something down the road with Japan. So Japan, who wanted to get our natural gas, and then, Trudeau, you know, parroted his same talking points that he said to Germany, which is that

there's not a business case for it. Daniel Smith is kind of setting the stage at least somewhat, at least getting the surveys done before the ground gets straightened out to actually have really good trade with Japan over that. And maybe I'm just slightly cynical. And if Shane's watching, he's like, It's a memorandum of understanding and it's so much more important or something. Maybe that, maybe that's alluding me. But it is a first step.

If I read the article correct, though, around the memorandum of understanding, it's been there since 2017. This is well before Daniel Smith's time. And she just, it's just a, I don't know, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. And it's a good thing to keep those ties tight because in the stories, it just talks about, you know, they do. this kind of photo op, I think, Tews, and maybe Jason, either one of you can correct me if I'm wrong here. When I was reading it, it looked like it was

2017 is when the first memorandum of standing was signed, and they've been doing this, you know, reaffirming their commitment to this goal. But in the meantime, it's Seinfeld. Nothing actually ever happens. But I think, you know,

we were speculating. I think there's, I think there's things that happen. I think there's trade going on between the province of Alberta and, Japan. I don't think it's I'm not trying to crap on this. I just also think that it's a photo op and it's a good

thing and when you look into it, it's been there for a lot longer than Daniel Smith. And maybe listeners will correct me. Maybe I'm wrong. Now, these are always complicated, right? What we get in the media and news about these situations is always just the surface level stuff. And

what's actually going on behind the scenes, rarely do we actually hear about it. And I do absolutely believe there's going to be a lot of interference, maybe even with our U.S. partners in some of these kind of deals because they don't want to see us grow maybe to that point where I was talking about where we have a lot more leverage against them so that they can't push us around. I think it would be best for Canada to really start focusing on Canada first and ensure that we're going ahead and starting to prosper and nurture these kind of relationships all over. I think it would be best if Canada kind of

started to demand our leadership and it's going to be very tough under Carney to go ahead. and put us first. This is a message that I want to make sure that people hear, because if we don't start doing that, and this is not racist by saying, I think Canada should take care of itself. I think we have to, because we kind of got ourselves caught with our pants down, and we didn't learn our lesson during COVID. So when there was lockdowns globally, there was supply issues, we had problems there. We should have kind of woke up and say, look, we're kind of too tied to too many foreign markets. We need to start doing some more things here. And that's part of the relationship in negotiations we should be doing with other countries.

What can we provide you? What can you provide us so that all of us could be a little bit more self-sustaining, a little bit more independent and not be so vulnerable to market conditions like this? At any point, a meteor right can hit the earth and really mess things up. And a whole bunch of countries are going to be suffering from that. We all should be kind of focused. We all should be focusing on basically how can we kind of, you know, have our base needs take care of to be health care. That would be jobs, have our base needs. And then let's look at the luxury or additional things and start trading.

on that, but not being able to sustain ourselves and keep jobs going against in our agricultural markets, for example, is a problem. And Mo's not wrong on this one. It's going to be very difficult to rebuild those markets, rebuild those trust, especially when other markets are opening up and our previous clients or customers are now seeking their solutions from somewhere else. We have to start thinking different. And this is actually an opportunity. I don't really see this as necessarily a big problem for Canada. This is an opportunity that we should be grabbing the bull by the horns on and recognize if we just got a little bit more independent on a global market and a little bit more national

oriented, we can survive this and then we can survive even worse later on. That's what we should be thinking about. Like, can you imagine that your household, you had no ability to, let's say, store water and prepare yourself there. And as soon as the water is off, you're in trouble. So this is kind of where I'm headed with this. start, let's start building wells. Let's make sure that we can supply ourselves on the base needs that we have so that we don't run into these kind of problems, especially on healthcare and medicine.

And let's take care of that. And this is the opportunity. We can become innovators and leaders when it comes to medicine research, for example, because we're doing it here now. And not to doing things like the Winnipeg Lab and shipping things that are bad to the world. Let's focus on things that Canadians need and make sure that we have our base needs. It's not great viruses that are going to kill everybody. Just pointed it out there. They did a poor job of killing everybody, I think. So I would say that economically speaking, from a government perspective,

one of the easiest ways to do that would be to increase tariffs across the board. I mean, that's what the states did in their fledgling years to build up their local industries so that they could get away from getting everything they needed to build the country shipped from Europe. Does that mean you're advocating for tariffs? No, like there's another way to look at that. There's also subsidies. Like when you subsidize industries, you're also giving them an unfair advantage. What I'd love to see is a pure open market that's fair with fair trade and fair market across the board.

And that means even don't subsidize markets. For example, the job market here, if you're an immigrant to Canada, you have your employment subsidized, which harms Canadians who don't have their employment subsidized. Got to stop doing that. We have to have free markets and not just use the label. a free market and tell people to free market. Genuine free markets. So remove restrictions, remove barriers, remove tariffs, remove subsidies.

Let's start chopping all of those problems down so that we kind of have to be forced to be fair to each other, work with each other, and provide better product. The best way to compete is to compete. Sincerely, the better at competing you are, the better you are at growing your markets, not propping it up with subsidies or putting tariffs on to kind of protect, use protectionism for your market. Genuine, full free market is where I think we need to go. And if we continue to muck around with the levers of a free market and you no longer have

that, you see the consequences of it. We're not self-reliant. We're reliant on too many other people. Raw minerals and materials coming from one place. And if they shut it down, we're in trouble. Markets where we're put in our energy that we rely upon on the income. If they'll shut down, we're in trouble. We need free market.

And it would be great if the whole world decided to do. this. But if we can start here in Canada, for example, remove restrictions between provinces. Provinces are free to open up and develop their resources. If we start actually taking the chains off of Canada within Canada, I think you're going to see industry and innovation just explode within our border. I absolutely know we can make products for Quebec, Quebec can make products for us. We've got to remove a lot of these restrictions. And if we do do that, Canada itself would become a powerhouse, even at one-tenth of the U.S. size. Any final thoughts, Jason, before we lay you out of here?

I am absolutely pleased that you guys keep doing these shows because the number one way that we fix this democracy is media. We have to get media back. Let's make media great again. Because if we do that, then these kind of conversations, ideas, and our future leaders will be able to hear this kind of stuff. And this is where we really need to fix the problem. And thank God for people like you and twos who are,

doing that because this is the crack in the dam. And the more that we could open up independent media and share our messages out there, the more people will think about alternative ideas that the mainstream and other media is not providing to us anymore. Yeah. Amen to that. I think it's really interesting how you just, you look at what is being said in the mainstream media.

And you're like, what if just you guys had somebody who had actually worked a day in their life? Or what if you guys actually had somebody from the other side of the country talking on this panel because what you're saying is just inherently bizarre. And so, yeah, it's, it's great that it's a crack in the dam. But they're the one who left a nice little perfect spot for us to put that wedge in to get it started. For sure.

They've exposed themselves. Yeah. This isn't us being like, oh, hey, you know what? We should do this. This is a response to them. 100%. And this is not an easy life. Like, I wouldn't have chosen this for my even worse enemy.

me to go get yourself into media because boy, do we get it from all sides? And it's very difficult. And it's not very rewarding. None of us are. You know what I did yesterday, though? Here's a little side story. I got the phone. It always, you know, people always text me.

And I love all the text folks. But yesterday, I'm like, you know what? I just slid it over and put it on do not disturb for the day. And the only people can get through that are my family. So I'm like, it texted me once all day long. He's like, do you want to go for lunch? I'm like, yeah, I do. And then halfway through lunch, I'm like,

I haven't. I should maybe check my phone. Maybe there's some things going on there. But yeah, getting it from all sides is an interesting world to live in. That is for sure. And when you get talking anything to do against Team Canada these days, you get a lot of applause, but you're certainly getting a lot of the other side too. Either way. Jason, appreciate what you're doing. I got to say this. If you've been paying attention on this side, the conversations with different people around Alberta independence, that type of thing. your recent conversation that I alluded to with party and wrath and Drew Barnes. And forgive me one more time. The other guy's name alludes me. Cameron Davies. Yeah, it was very fascinating. I thought if people are interested in that type of discussion, they should go check you out. Either way, thanks for hopping on this morning.

My pleasure. Thanks for the invite. And keep up to good work and keep up to fight, gentlemen. You too. There you go. All right. We've, well, Jason Levine, okay. I do mean it.

The show was interesting because it spurred me on and reach out to Bruce Party again because I'd read his articles. It's just just sharp. Anyways, really interesting. The memorandum, I just want to get this out there before we hop on to the plethora of stuff we have to do. I want to make sure that I don't talk out of my, yeah, like a liberal. Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Premier Daniel Smith and Itchro Takahara, chairman and CEO of the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security,

while the two met at the Ciro Week Energy Conference in Houston, Texas. The agreement is meant to renew the two parties' commitment to deepen cooperation in the responsible development of Alberta's oil, natural gas, hydrogen, ammonia, resources, collaborate to advance carbon capture, utilization, and other emissions, reduction, technologies, and work together to identify, support, job-creating investment opportunities. Now, when I scroll down in this article 2, it says, Alberta and Jogmec, which was previously known as the Japan oil, gas and metals national corporation first signed an MOU in 2017 and it was renewed, then renewed in 2021.

That's where I get that 2017, 2021, and now they're renewing it again. So it's attracting money to technologies here in Alberta, correct? I think that's what it's trying to do. Here's the thing I don't do we get. And I don't know, maybe we got to have shame back on to explain this to me like, like I'm a child. But why are governments the ones signing these agreements? You'd think the government should just be like, hey, look, here's some rules. They're very basic.

Follow them and go nuts. And then the actual trade agreements and things like that ought to be signed between companies. I don't understand in the entire context of this why it's important for a government to be trying to build up these trade relationships. It should be that you know, you're going over there and you're saying, hey, I'm making a bunch of widgets. Do you guys want to buy them? Okay, cool. We're going to sign a contract. That seems to me to be the practical way to do this.

and yeah the the big sweeping agreements between countries and between provinces and things like that the significance of them and and why their their entire to borrow from the frog eaters their entire raison de trey completely all right shall we shall we hop into rapid fire sure rapid fire news let's start with dallas brodie uh i wish i had written down more on this just other than she got removed but i i had everything go off my screen, too's. So I had the pictures of it going to come up. Nope, not today. That's okay.

So Dallas Brody, Dallas Brody had said that there hadn't been any bodies found in the Camloops grave. Correct. And a bunch of the Camloops First Nation took Umbridge with that. And they called her a denialist and said that, you know, this isn't the way forward with truth and reconciliation, despite the fact that I, unless. something has happened since we went live. The truth of it is is that zero bodies have been discovered. And so now she's been kicked out of the,

the BC Conservative Party for this. And then you follow fast forward a couple days later. And then you've got John Ronstad talking about how UBC Okanagan wouldn't allow a conservative group, a conservative student organization to exist. And they said there's no appeal to it. You're just straight up not allowed. Everybody get out.

And he says, this is the inevitable result of out of control radical leftist activism in BC's academia. No woke activist student council should be allowed to determine which political party students can join or associate with. EBCO students must be allowed to opt out of union dues for their broke woke union. Do you think what he's writing that? You just like, does the entire irony of this totally elude him? Well, that's what I wonder. As he's sitting there writing that, you're like, John, you realize you just got rid of Dallas Brody, right? Yeah.

Oh, maybe no. So that's that. But BC, even more in BC this week, BC government excludes Tesla products from EV Charger Rebate Program. So as everybody knows, the NDP, who is not a serious. party cares deeply about the environment and there is no planet B and we need to do everything we can because we only have 12 years left to save the world just like we've only had 12 years left to save the world actually the last 17 years and so now now that there's only 12 years left there everything's on the table but they don't agree with what Elon Musk is doing in the United

States now for those of you who haven't been paying attention what Elon Musk has been doing in the United States is getting rid of bloated stupid government spending. And of course BC NDP can't stand for this because the NDP literally lives and breathes on bloated stupid government spending. Financial constraints means the end of the Regina Folk Festival. So according to the festival's board of directors, this year's event has been canceled and the organization is in the process of dissolving. yeah so apparently they never really recovered from uh um COVID they said but uh I mean let's be practical

here um the whole idea behind Folkfest is that it's it's this novel way to actually see and you know experience different cultures but we have plenty of that in Canada already it's it was there was there was a market need for it at one point we're like oh you There's no market need anymore, too? I think it would be really interesting to know about all the other countries and how they do things. And now you get to see it on a daily basis. They're like, oh, part of their glorious culture is that they cut holes in the floors of semis and shit through them. All right.

Well, that's good. You know, Mark Holland resigns, Minister of Health. I know you brought that up earlier. You always, you go like, man, are the liberals going to try and figure out a way to win this? And then, you know, you got rats fleeing sinking ship of the week. Mark Collins is just the latest in a whole landslide of liberals getting the heck out of the way. But here's another thing. Like when we were talking and I just, I blanked on this stuff when we were talking about it with Rachel.

So I apologize. But there's a couple really concerning things as far as the liberals go and their reelection prospects. One of them, this is Jim Kramer saying Mark Carney could be a terrific leader for Canada, Lord knows both sides need one. Jim Kramer. Now, for those of you who don't know Jim Kramer is, he is a, he's a markets analyst who is basically famous for getting everything exactly wrong. He said to buy Bitcoin a month ago, and it's since crashed.

And anytime he says something, you do the exact opposite. There's actually a stock ticker that tracks doing the opposite of what Jim Kramer. says and it does almost as well as Nancy Pelosi does. That's how far off base this guy is consistently. And then the other thing, I don't know if anybody else picked up on this and I don't have it in front of me to show you guys, but I was crunching the data on the liberal leadership votes by rioting and almost all of the lowest turnout ridings, Yorkton was in there, but almost all of the lowest turnout ridings were in fucking Quebec,

which means that they presumably are going to do very poorly in fucking Quebec, and fucking Quebec counts for a significant number of the seats in Parliament. So they've got an uphill battle. Heist of the week. We got two. We got two this week, okay? One is, it's like Christmas. One in Nova Scotia.

they took an excavator and literally hammered into a Scotia bank. So that's one. This is, you know, I complain sometimes because because people, excuse me, the people performing these heists in Canada, they're just classless. There's no imagination. There's no panache. These guys literally ripped open the front of a Scotia bank with a fucking excavator. And it's beautiful. The audacity of these motherfuckers.

Didn't it say they got caught to, like I didn't read that they found them. I'm like, how did they roll up an excavator there and just like roll through the wall and then just carry on with life? I mean, it could have been really serious.

If there was, you know, next door to a construction site or something like that. Yeah, do we got anybody out of Scotia that knows more about the story? Because I'm like,

I'm curious. Like, did they get away with the money? Did they get caught red-handed? Did they do this in daylight? Did they do it at night on a weekend? They roll it up from, you know, from a couple miles away. Was it sitting in the parking lot?

There's just so many questions. I have so many questions. But the audacity is noted. Yeah. Yeah, it's beautiful. And then the other one, piglets stolen after being left to starve to death in controversial Danish art exhibition. Yeah, this is a heartwarming theft.

Three piglets, which were being allowed to starve as part of a controversial art exhibition in Denmark that had drawn international attention have been stolen. stolen artist said on Wednesday, Chilean-born Marco Aversidi said he'd be aiming to raise awareness of the suffering caused by mass meat production with his art installation that opened last week in Copenhagen. Pigglets were being denied food and water and would have been allowed to starve. So his whole thought process was to starve. Piglets. To show people about, yeah. Animal cruelty. Correct. It doesn't compute. And so anyway, somebody said

So Batman came in and saved Prevail. Yes. And somebody came in and heisted the three Three little piggyies out of their house and presumably they're being fed now. And then once they're big enough, they'll be killed and eaten.

Yeah. Yeah. Goofy news. Yeah. He, she, who will not be named, gave the finger to Trump Tower. I'm shocked that twos even wants. Oh my God.

There's. she has twos is going to be what do you're going to do to all right i would just like to point out that you know she who will not be named this this live by the sword die by the sword um rule that you find in life where if you're intentionally misquoting people and intentionally misrepresenting what they say for clicks and likes and engagement and things like that it stands to reason that at some point something like that might happen to you and so All somebody really has to do is zoom in on this photo, like this one here. And now you've got a picture of she who will not be named flipping off a black man.

And it's every bit as valid as the majority of her TikTok videos about stupid floofy shit, where she's intentionally misleading people and taking things out of context. And hey, if you zoom in over here, look at this. is this a symbol for white power? I would say that if anything, this is a symbol for white power. Next one. This one's kind of funny.

So Shear was talking about how Carney's getting a pass from the Canadian media. And he said, remember that Canadian media refused to report on Trudeau's blackface. It took foreign media to expose it. And then John Iveson, he, I don't know.

Sometimes he's on the right side of things, but not terribly often. He says, what bullshit? I was on Andrew Shear's campaign plane the night that story broke. It was everywhere for the duration of the campaign. Hardly the media's fault if when presented with an empty net, Andrew contrived to strip over his laces. Now, did Shear miss an empty net as far as beating the fucking liberals after they'd have four years to fuck everything up? Yes.

Yes. But like I remember Warren Concella talking about this exact thing, where they knew that this existed, but they never really went around looking for it and they never tracked it down. And it was international media that broke it. And so for everybody who's forgotten about this, Canadian media knew that there was at least one, but probably several photos of the prime minister wearing blackface in the middle of the Me Too movement and decided not to try and track it down.

And it wasn't until it was reported in the states that they actually did it. anything with it and it's the exact same thing where CBC themselves confirmed that they had the the story about Trudeau being the Coakeney Groper and decided to squash it and not run it because they didn't

think it was newsworthy and it wasn't until somebody else broke the story later that it was talked about. So yeah. Is that what it? Is that was the nickname the Coquinee Groper? Well, it's, I mean, I remember the story. I just know I don't remember. But if I say Coquney Groper, everybody

knows what I'm talking about, right? Yeah, they do, but I don't know if I ever, was that how it was that? That Cocheney Groper. It was a big thing for a while. Coquony Groper. Anyways, Union says Pride flags banned from Eminton Public Library. Library disputes claim. This is funny because, I mean, on the one hand, this would be awesome. You know, maybe they're just going to pray the gay away or, you know, pride come with before a fall.

But they've got this news article where they're saying that the pride flags are being banned and no the pride flags are not being banned. And this lazy fucking reporter, Karen Mulcahy, couldn't even be fucked to walk down the street to the fucking library and say, are there any gay pride flags here yes or no? This is the most basic of investigatory journalism that you could possibly imagine. She probably wouldn't even have to go into the building to get to the bottom of this story. and yet she's declining to. This is what our government subsidizes.

A man. Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, what I was going to say, collaborative work leads to gun arrest. I was moving on. Okay. Can we move on? Yeah.

Okay. Police officers in 43 division, collaboratively with the Ontario provincial police to help arrest a man alleged to have been a drug dealer and seized two handguns. Yes. Here's the article.

or pardon me, here's a picture of it. Now, this is, this is really interesting. So he's got a bunch of weed. There's some pills, some coke and meth, a couple scales, a little bit of cash laid out, including a whole bunch of $2 bills. Why the fuck does a drug dealer have a whole bunch of $2 bills? Now, keep in mind that they haven't,

it's been almost 30 years since the last one was printed. And somebody got busted. with a brand new looking looks like a Glock I can't quite tell from the angle. I think that's a Smith and Wesson beside it that looks very well worn and a whole bunch of $2 bills. Yeah. American Airlines plane catches on fire at the Denver airport. Man, every week we got a new plane doing something that it shouldn't be doing. Yes.

Feminist burned down the patriarchy. Yeah. At what point are we going to say that maybe we want competent people operating and repairing the planes that we trust with our lives? I don't know. Now, excuse me. I mean, some people are going to say, well, we don't know for sure that it was caused by DEI. But if the last 17 of them were caused by DEI, I'm just going to assume that this one was. And even if it isn't, I stand by what I said, because the last. 17 of them were DEI. The actor playing grumpy in Snow White says he's disappointed in the world for the backlash that caused the Premier to be scaled back.

One main reason they switched to CGI dwarves is because actors with dwarfism complained they weren't exclusively using actors with dwarfism. Yeah, that would have been Peter Dinklage who did that. Now, the interesting thing is that this is a pivot. This is one of those intentionally misleading things. I think it would probably be fair to say that the premier, both in Europe and in the states, got scaled back or canceled entirely in the case of the U.S. one, probably more because Rachel Ziegler, the snow white, the Latina snow white in this, has been very openly pro-Palestine, while the other star in this movie, Gal Gadot, is literally Israeli. and so they've been butting heads over that. And then also the fact that this movie has every appearance of going to be sucking huge.

This looks like such a bad movie. And also Rachel Ziegler can't really get in front of a camera without making an ass of herself. So they're taking that away. But they're saying it's because we're the problem. It's because we're backlashing against it. Not because they've got a shitty idiot leading this that they don't want to give any camera time to and also because it's going to go straight to VHS. That's how bad it is.

That it's not even going to go straight to Disney Plus. This movie is going to go straight to fucking VHS. Please let this work. Now, I wouldn't let me do anything. Okay, well, that's all right. I got you here. Well, I just want. Okay.

Yeah. I just wanted, I just remember when we were looking at this and seeing the first picture of the, uh, who the dwarfs were going to be. Remember when we were talking about that? Yeah. A year ago, and we're like, Oh, it was like two years ago we were talking about that. This movie's been delayed multiple times.

True, true. And we were looking at it. Like, this doesn't make any sense. Well, yeah, because they got, they basically had one of every possible nationality. I get there was only seven of them, but go with it for a second. They had one of every possible nationality, but not a single actual dwarf. Correct. And a woman in there.

Actually, they had two women. And the seven, you can't really assume. with Disney these days. But yeah, so they had Snow White and the seven dwarves and none of the dwarves were being actually played by dwarves because they felt it was more important to represent diversity and have marginalized communities in the movie

than actually have, you know, a diverse set of people in a fairly marginalized community who have their one fucking movie that they could bank on having at least seven starring roles in. Kelly Lloyd, DEI dwarves, a hundred and ten percent. Okay, climate insanity, a new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP 30 climate summit. You can't make it up.

You can't make it up. So the same people who fly to a cop in private jets want to do a little bit of driving. But they don't want to do it when it's in Scotland or, you know, Egypt or whatever. they've got to wait for the one in fucking Brazil because it's not like, it's not enough to know that you're flying a private jet to save

the world and it's not enough to know that it's, this is exactly the kind of thing where people like, want to eat endangered species because it's eating an endangered species. Like I want to eat endangered species because I'm curious what they taste like, but they're like, oh, this tastes so much better

because there's only seven of them left in the universe. This is that. being applied to road building for environmental virtue signaling. Ottawa seeking buyer for a Quebec battery plant as parent company goes under. The first phase of this project was said to be $7 billion investment with Ottawa providing $1.34 billion in capital and Quebec, 1.37 billion. Yes.

Now, those were the promises and not all of them came to fruition or not all of them are verified to have come to fruition. But at a minimum, Canada has given them $510 million. Probably more, but it can't be verified. Our governments spent $510 million on a factory that never even got fucking built for a company that is going through bankruptcy protection. This is EVs. And we're worried about China coming in and swooping on them? Get the fuck out of here.

New legislation proposed by Alberta government would make hunting in a wheelchair legal and permit kids as young as 12 to use guns without adults around. Making hunting in a wheelchair legal. Isn't that what I said? Okay, maybe I heard you wrong. Legal.

Legal. Yes. Making it legal. You can shoot in a, yes, hunting in a wheelchair is legal. You can shoot from a wheelchair. Sure. Not, yeah, yeah. I don't know exactly.

exactly where you were going to go with the, uh, the verbiage you were going to use? What do you think about the 12 year olds? When you were 12, how many years had gone by since you were able to walk around in the pasture with a 22 and zero adult supervision? Well, I would say this, that, uh, at like four, I was shooting squirrels. So pretty young, too, is pretty young. Yeah. Yeah, this is, this is silly. Like I looked at this. And then it's funny because this is, this tweets from the breakdown, um, who, who's currently going through a little bit of litigation over some stuff. UCP, 12-year-olds don't have the capacity to understand the risks of gender-affirming care. We must protect them.

Also, UCP, unsupervised guns for 12-year-olds is totally reasonable. Well, you know what? I was unsupervised with a gun at 12 years old. Many guns, in fact. And I never shot my dick off. But the other thing that's interesting, I didn't realize this. How crazy is it that it was illegal to hunt if you were in a wheelchair until this past? Because it called it a motorized vehicle.

Well, not even just motorized. It just, it was a quote unquote vehicle. And so if you were somebody who enjoyed hunting and had limited or no lower. Well, I think of my defense partner. Shut up to brew forever you're at. He's paralyzed from the waist down. And he's a farmer, ranchman. he does cattle and to get around the farm he's in a motorized wheelchair right it's it's it's

i don't know it's like got tracks and everything right so this is just saying he can go hunt and i'm like well that dude's probably already hunting he's more a cowboy than than uh 99.9% of the population so but what a stupid rule cool yeah i agree you're you're you're oh well you're a paraplegic yeah you're not allowed to hunt like just just stupid. This is the kind of stupid shit that we talk about when we talk about the unnecessary red tape in this fucking country. And good for them for getting rid of it. Trudeau proposes way forward on 24 Sussex problem during his final days in power in a letter to public service and procurement minister Jean-Vez-Duclos. Trudeau asked the minister to develop a proposal with

options for a new official residence for the prime minister by January of 2026. A hundred million dollars. Now, let's just go back into the the way back machine. Let's just revisit 2015 for a minute when Trudeau said that it was going to cost a bajillion dollars to fix 24 Sussex.

And Brian Baumler, the reality TV home improvement guy, says, you know what? I'll just show up. I'll bill you the materials and I'll do a show out of it. Why couldn't we do that? Why? Why couldn't we

do that now? All he's got to do is just put everything on his Home Depot card. He brings it all in. He hammers it all up. A little bit of mud and tape and painting. Bada bada boom. We get it for cost. Somebody gets a fun TV show, but it's by far the

most effective use of taxpayer dollars because all you're doing is paying for materials. I would say, is a pretty good discount. If Justin Trudeau was living in it, I'd have no problem with it with a leader of a state of a country, I think you need maybe a little less eyes on it. and a little less promotion of what the heck is actually going on for secrecy purposes and everything else.

I mean, it's not like they're going to say, it's not like they're going to say, here's the secret compartment where the, where the turret comes out. I realize you're literally going to have a TV. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Nenshi. Let's talk to Nenshi. I don't want to talk Justin Trudeau. That guy can just get out of it. I don't want to talk to Trudeau.

Get out of here. I want nothing to do with you anymore. Nensi. All right. Here. No show Nichi. The leader opposite, Mr. Speaker who is somewhere maybe in this building. or maybe not.

Hey, I'm right here. Call the by election. Now, what they're talking to is the fact that Nenshi has been leader of the MLA. And he's not a sitting MLA. He's a leader of a not a serious party to use. And then he's not an MLA. And he's also, yeah.

And so anyway. What more do we need to say? So he's saying, call the by election. He's saying to the UCP, you keep saying, where is he? where is he, he's not here, but you're not calling a by-election for me to win. And then here's a great fact check. There was a by-election in December. Why didn't you run then?

Yes. Omar Algebra, Minister of Transport. Today, the government of Canada announced several key measures to help the Syrian people build a stable country that respects all of its citizens, 84 million in humanitarian aid, easing economic sanctions, restoring diplomatic relations. now just out of curiosity do you know the name of the political party that's currently in charge of Syria right now? No

it's it's actually kind of a common name they've got sort of a multinational presence it's fucking Al-Qaeda the first thing we're going to do when Mark Carney takes over is to send $84 million to literally

fucking al-Qaeda and we're also going to send 270 to Bangladesh we announced 350 you're cutting out

you're cutting out we announced 350 plus million dollars in foreign aid despite the fact that the economy's in shambles despite the fact that people are broke we do not have the fucking money for this this is the liberals

meet the new liberals Same as the old liberals. You know what I was saying leading up to this? That it doesn't matter who wins that liberal election. It doesn't. It's they're all the same person and they're all going to be equally fucking horrible. This, this is exactly what I was talking about. This may be the best headline.

Death defying neuroscientists turned only fans model confronts life with memory loss after brutal bike accident caused by a pigeon. That is hands down the best headline I think I have ever seen in my life. And of course, we had to mention it. But yeah, so anyways, this chick who's actually pretty hot. Yeah. She gets it. Do we need to even talk about this story?

I just read that everybody gets the gist. Yeah, okay. There's the headline and that's it. The Brazilian woman who went viral after refusing to give up her pre-selected window seat to a crying trial says she has officially filed charges against the airline and the passenger, uh, passenger, sorry,

who filmed her. So yeah, there was a crying baby in her seat when she got on the flight. And so she got the kid to move. Because that was her seat and not the other seat. And the kid was all upset because it wanted a window seat, but it didn't pay for the window seat. She paid for the window seat.

And so she sat in her seat that she paid for. And the child sat in the seat that presumably the parents paid for. and yeah, it ended up being this giant thing where people were shaming her online and somebody was recording it and making her look to be a heartless bastard when really it was just I paid for this seat. Why should I give it up? And that was it. That was it. Liberal government, unsure how to repeal April 1st carbon tax hike. This is just beautiful.

We can't. repeal the April 1st carbon tax hike because our bureaucracy is so laden with red tape that we can't navigate it ourselves in a three week window. We have three weeks to get to the bottom of this. A third of the country works for the fucking government. And there isn't a single one of us here who can figure out how to not make this happen. That's really the defense you're going with. that's why this can't happen.

That is the best reason you can come up with why we're going to do the carbon tax hike April 1st. Do any of these people say anything out loud before they release statements or talk to the media? Toronto Pearson's named one of the North America's best airports for customer service. Toronto Star headline. Yes. Now, again, Wayback Machine.

Gotta love that Way Back Machine. I don't know if anybody remembers this or not But as far as customer service goes This happened like three fucking weeks ago Now for those of you listening and not watching There is a plane upside down on the tarmac at this very goddamn Oh shoot I did it airport Zane

And also The work being done to with the airlines in order to get flights actually on time or not delayed as much. Just curious if there's any work happening there. Yes. So we've seen almost a doubling in terms of improvement on on-time performance since last year. And that is a reflection of all the work that we've done to all the delayed flight. That's a thing of beauty. My university, Samantha Smith, British journalists.

My university has been forced to send out an email. telling students to stop urinating and defecating in the communal showers. Yeah. I mean, why do you need Folkfest when it comes to you? WNBA star Angel Reese says she will sit out basketball games if she doesn't start getting paid more, saying she and other female basketball players deserve it. Well, you know what? That's the beautiful thing about the WMBA,

is if they do all decide to sit out, they've got a lot of seats to choose from. Elizabeth May. We've already gone over the Ecos poll. Let's go to Elizabeth May video here. Here's our legally Elizabeth May. What shall we ever do without the fearless green leader? There isn't anywhere to go with this.

I just want you to listen to it and just appreciate the lunacy. We need to have a government that remains solid. Team Canada that can say to Donald Trump, go pound sand, go suck eggs. although as I said, I now realize there's a tariff on sand and they may not be able to afford eggs. Reminds me of his attitude towards women. He's a serial misogynist, sexual abuser rapist. He's in the White House.

What's you want to do? Take Greenland out to buy expensive furniture? Take Greenland into the dressing room? I'm sorry. Every time I hear Trump saying he's going to get something one way or another of another sovereign nation in my head, I'm here. Yeah, I just grab them by the... I wouldn't put it past Trump at all.

I mean, we've seen Musk interfere. in the German elections to support neo-Nazis. Okay. What's to say that Trump and Musk's ideas? Let's just get some rage farming going and see if we can get a segment of Canadian society that likes the idea of a 51st state. We need to have a government that remains.

So that is Elizabeth May, a little bit unhinged. Elizabeth May, part for the course, I think. I think that's exactly who she's been. I don't think she's on. I think that's what you're getting. And the day she's basically doesn't come with a hinge. Right. The day she steps down, you know, it's going to be sad because we're going to just be like, well, who's going to be at the front of the old green party, you know?

So for anybody wondering where all the American booze went in British Columbia? Quebec won't accept a pipeline. Francois Blanche, leader of the block. At the end of his interview says $7 billion went to the west. I was kind of curious what two's had to say about this. Well, I would just like to see some receipts on that. It's really interesting because I don't remember getting $7 billion. Do you remember getting $7 billion?

And so this this totally eludes me. I'm confused as to it. But he also says that there is zero economic benefit to Quebec for a pipeline. And now I think, okay, fair enough, fair enough. You know what? When you're right, you goddamn frog, you are right. if there's zero economic benefit, obviously we can take it out of equalization formulas. Because if it doesn't benefit you, it's at best neutral, but more than likely it harms you.

And if it's harming you, we should take natural resource calculations out of equalization. And if you have any issues with it, we can point to this exact fucking clip where you said that there is no economic to fucking Quebec for a pipeline. Amazon has new flags, too. You froze up on me. I don't know, are you still there?

Okay, I was just yelling about the frog, man. Yeah, yeah, I heard it all. Amazon has new flags. It's funny because I was sitting in an dressing room on Sunday night with a bunch of hockey boys and they were asking me what I'd just come from and it would have been the live stream and they were saying, oh, what happened?

I said, oh, we got a new prime minister and they said, all right, well, we'll just switch out the flags. said I kind of chuckled. And of course, Amazon's, you know, people have already switched out the flags as well.

Oh, I think it's great. I just love capitalism. All right. High school runner, yes, you're going to show the video? Go ahead.

A high school runner who was accused of attacking another runner in the head with a baton says it was an incident, accident, sorry, it was an accident, and wants people to think her feelings,

you know, should be considered. Alia, uh, Alia, Everett says the video, is just one big misunderstanding. I'll let you decide.

Here's the video. And she comes around the bend. Yeah, she's crying on the one side while she's describing how difficult it's been for her as the victim of this. She's the one who swung the baton. And just as she comes around the corner, you see her taking a big old wind up. So you're physically hurt,

but you're not thinking of my mental right. It's just going off of one angle. She is raining down. You know that part in Avengers, where Thor, he gets the eye and then he gets that new, he gets the axe instead of the hammer, and he comes down with the rainbow blast.

He comes out with just a big kabum. And there's the big explosion all around him. That's literally what she did with the baton to this other runner's head. and she's crying about how mean everybody's been to her because of it. Eminton man plans to move to BC after he wins $30 million at a lot of $6.49 in in Emmington. I want to get out of here. That's exactly it.

I just, I wouldn't pick BC, but hey, what do I know. But just think about the beauty of this for a second. Like, oh, you actually have the financial freedom to do what you want.

What are you going to do now? I'm going to get the fuck out of this place. And what a lot of people are thinking. You missed one with, here's a tweet from Sharitist. He was pointing out, so Bruce Fanjoy is the liberal,

the liberal running against guy in Toronto or Ottawa Carlton, which is Pierre Polyev's writing. And so he says, a hashtag Carlton resident just shared with me her experience with Pierre Polyev when he came to her door.

She asked him a couple of questions that Pierre didn't like. Then he said, can I speak to the man of the house? A whole bunch of hashtags. And then this guy pointed out, Bruce, you pointed the exact same thing at exactly a year ago. And here's the tweet. A Carlton resident shared with me her experience with Pierre Paulyev when he came to her door. She asked a couple questions that Pierre didn't like. Then he said, can I speak to the man of the house a whole bunch of hashtags?

So I just, I found it hilarious this. somebody came back with the receipts. What was the next one you wanted to go to? We have the final one was RC&P federal investigators seized 27 tons of contraband cigarettes, dismantle criminal networks involved. 27 tons of cigarettes. That's a lot. Cigarettes aren't very heavy.

It's a lot. That's a lot of cheap smokes. Yeah. Maybe we could get away. Here's the thing is, if you do you. regulate all of this stuff, nothing they did is illegal anymore. And the fact that it's so high taxed and regulated creates an opportunity for a black market for this shit.

Happy news, too's. Happy news. Well, has there been any happy news this week, Sean? There has. There has. You're going to bring it up on the screen, but we, I mean, we've been talking about this for 149 mashups, like literally. And finally, vindication.

Here it is. So, yeah, this goes on for another minute. But that was Trudeau's official final sendoff. No flowers. Goodbye. No. Yeah. Just get the fuck out of here.

And don't let the door. It only took 149 mashups, twos. We finally got him. Hey, we finally got him. Yeah. But it's not as though he left empty handed. Oh, God. Here's him.

here's him walking out with his brand new chair from the House of Commons. And just in case that, just in case that face looks familiar, it's the same face he made when he was wearing blackface in a turban. Oh, man. All right. Mashup 149. Any community notes here?

Yeah. Yeah, we got one. Obviously, twos has one. I'm annoyed because I can't seem to get anything. on my side to work. I'm just like, you know what, you suck 149. It's been a great show. There we go. Bye, bye, Trudeau party with special musical guest, Jesse Gans, Dan Cognit, Dylan Hanson, in the rough cuts. Friday, March 21st in Weyburn. It's a fundraiser at the Legion.

Free entry, all drink proceeds in 50-50. Dang, that's a good idea. Wayburn Legion 47. That's a good idea. That's a damn good idea. Yeah. That's a good. That's a good idea. I've been talking Harpen, Cornerstone Forum, May 10th. Yeah. See you all there. That's all I got today. My computer's driving me nuts.

So I can't, I'm just, I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed, you know? It's all good, brother. We got a new prime minister today. Gippie Kaye. We got our next target. So let's talk about that. Meet the new boss.

Same as the old boss. That's right. King Carney now in. Tews 149 in the books. Thanks, everybody for hopping on today. Thanks a lot for tuning in. Yeah. We'll catch up to you next Friday.

Same time, same place. Probably added in a few new guests. And certainly there was going to be a lot of stupidity happening in the next week. I'm certain of it. What do you say, Tews? I don't know. I feel like maybe this is just a turning point for the country. And there isn't going to be anything stupid to talk about next week.

Mm-hmm. All right. Well, catch you next week, folks. Tews, till then. See you. Welcome to the Mashup. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side, I sit to stand and fall to fly.

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