The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - 267. Trudeau vs. Canada | Rex Murphy

Episode Date: July 4, 2022

Rex Murphy is a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters. He was the regular host of CBC Radio One's Cross Country Checkup, a nation wide call-in show, for 2...1 years, before stepping down in September of 2015. He currently writes for The National Post, where his articles are published weekly.In this episode, Rex Murphy and I discuss the strange times in current Canadian politics, the perpetual scandals of Justin Trudeau, media censorship and the appalling Bill C-11, fascism on the Left, Zoom parliament, and much more. Thanks for watching.—Chapters—[0:00] Intro[3:24] Trudeau's Irresponsible Roe v. Wade Comments[9:21] Strange Political Times in Canada[10:33] Zoom Parliament[14:19] Talking Across the Aisle In Person[16:50] Fascism on the Left[22:41] Bill C-11: "The Online Streaming Act"[35:35] Trudeau's Perpetual Scandals[42:50] Interference with the RCMP[46:04] Trudeau's Overweening Narcissism[50:20] An Appetite on Display[58:38] Trudeau's Unprecedented Spending[1:03:25] Killing Alberta Oil[1:04:25] Dependance on Russian Oil[1:06:03] How the Green Movement Empowered Putin[1:10:33] A Panoply of Utopian Nonsense—Again[1:15:03] Communism in Eastern Europe[1:15:45] Communist Parallels in the Progressive Movement[1:20:34] "The Great Reset" and Trudeau[1:21:21] Who the Hell is Klaus Schwab[1:26:00] Closing Comments—Links—Follow Rex Murphy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rexmurphy1Follow the RexTV Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Ri...Read Rex Murphy's articles at The National Post: https://nationalpost.com/author/rmurphynp/Read Rex Murphy's book, 'Canada and Other Matters of Opinion': https://amazon.com/gp/product/B0031TZ...// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co... Donations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate // COURSES //Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com // BOOKS //Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-... Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m... // LINKS //Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Blog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blog Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcast // SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to episode 267 of the JBP Podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson. In this episode, dad sat down to talk with Rex Murphy. Rex is a longstanding and acclaimed Canadian journalist. He's a writer for the National Post, where his articles are published weekly. This is his sixth time coming on the show to talk with dad. They're beginning to make it a habit,
Starting point is 00:00:20 discussing the increasingly restrictive bills that have been and continue to be proposed and passed by the Canadian government. In the past, they've talked about the problems with Bill 67 or the racial equity bill. In this episode, they talk about the disaster of Bill C-11, called the Online Streaming Act that threatens online censorship and challenges freedom of speech and expression. They also talk about the Trudeau government's effect on Canadian politics, the negative change in Canada's international reputation because of Trudeau, Zoom Parliament, Fascism on the political left and more. It's
Starting point is 00:00:56 a strange time right now for Canada. Thank you for listening and enjoy the episode. Hello everyone. I'm here today with Mr. Rex Murphy, which is always a pleasure. Rex is a Canadian commentator and author primarily on Canadian political and social matters. He was the regular host of CBC radio ones cross country checkup, a nationwide call in show for 21 years before stepping down in September of 2015. He is perhaps Canada's best recognized and most admired and indeed most loved journalist, pleasure to see you Rex. I'm glad we have a chance to talk
Starting point is 00:01:46 again. I think we should go over that mile part where you mentioned most loved it. I think there are three dogs and two cats. Yeah, well, it's hard to it's hard to believe if you're loved, but it's definitely the case. So I wanted to talk to you today about the Trudeau government and just exactly what's going on. I thought might give you a bit of background about exactly why I thought we should talk again. So I've been traveling through the US and Europe for the last three months. I think 40 cities in the US and then 14 cities in Europe. And I've noticed, I've talked with a lot of people about their attitude towards Canada and how that's changed as a consequence of Trudeau.
Starting point is 00:02:28 And so in the US, what I noticed in particular was that people, whether they were Democrats or Republicans, were very unhappy with Trudeau's treatment of the trucker convoy and also shocked, I would say, that he blamed it on the Americans, especially on the conservatives, and also appalled that he froze bank accounts. That was not a wise move. And then in Europe, I would say Canada's international reputation has taken a vicious hit. People are shocked, I would say, again, what happened around the Chakr-Konvoy, specifically the freezing of the bank accounts, but also there's a fair bit of buzz about the new bill
Starting point is 00:03:11 C11 and the internet censorship. And so I don't think Canadians really are aware of how vicious I hit the reputation of our country has taken under our current prime minister. And so I thought I would talk to you about the peculiar times that we seem to find ourselves in in Canada. My sense is that we get a scandal every week and have for about six months that under normal circumstances would be sufficient to bring down a government. Yeah. Well, I pick you up on a couple of things before I go to the actual scandal point. Well, I pick you up on a couple of things before I go to the actual scandal point. In reference to Canada's standing either in the US or in Europe, even within the last
Starting point is 00:03:52 three days with the decision Roe versus Wade, Mr. Trudeau was in Marwanda, which is not near Quebec. When he commented on the operations of the Supreme Judiciary of the United States, I'm probably the most electric issue in American politics. And here's what he had to say. I actually brought the paper with me. I'm only quoting a small bit of it. Here he is commenting on it. This is very important. He's commentinging on the Supreme Court, one-third of the constitutional government of the United States, an equal party to Congress and the executive. And this is a prime minister in a separate country.
Starting point is 00:04:36 And here's his first response to the decision. The news coming out of the United States is horrific. I pause there. He's not never mind the particular issue. He's saying that the operation, judgment, determination, and rumination of a court, of a judiciary, of due to due decatur of the United States, the constitutional balance part,
Starting point is 00:05:00 he's commenting on the operation of the essential element of government and especially on the judges And he's calling it horrific number two. He goes on now. He's going to what he would call substance My heart goes out to the millions of American women who are now set to lose their legal right to an abortion The last phrase is patently false, but the biggest thing there is, who was he to play the Bill Clinton empathizer to the constituents of another nation? Now, if you were telling me he's earned a bad reputation in the United States because of blaming American right-wing authorities for bringing money into the convoy, which
Starting point is 00:05:48 was proven false. The majority, and by far, of the money that went into the convoy, came from ordinary donors in Canada. But every time Trudeau has a problem in Canada, he looks to the right-wing of the United States as his convenient villain. But what do you think he's going to do now when the people in the United States and in the government? Democrats should be pissed with this as well.
Starting point is 00:06:13 He's saying that the United States Supreme Court is an agency of horrific decisions and implying that they're deliberately bringing great pain to American women and stirring up anger. I've tapped that off by pointing out one other thing. You've already had a night of rage. You've had people storming the private houses of the US Supreme Court. You've had an institution burnt down. You've had the legislature, I think it was an Arizona invaded so that the police had to get... Well, you know, if it were a reverse situation, words of encouragement
Starting point is 00:06:53 from an outside prime minister saying that the decision was horrific and that is going to cause anger on an issue this hot, that was grotesquely irresponsible. And if we're going to blame people's actions on public words, which is a liberal thing to do, that part of the mayhem that we're going to see in the United States over this decision comes from encouragement from our dilatant prime minister here in Canada. Well, I also don't understand it strategically in some real sense because it looks self-evident that the Democrats are going to face a catastrophic electoral defeat in the fall. And that means that the Trudeau government, assuming it lasts the next two or three years,
Starting point is 00:07:39 that it's hypothetically likely to last, is going to be dealing with a much more conservative ally on the Southern front. And the steps taken to alienate all those people, especially after he also blamed the Maga type Republicans for funding the trucker convoy to destabilize Canadian democracy. Just doesn't seem like the most diplomatic or wise thing to do when you're dealing with people who are well crucial to us on the trading front. Let's say and not say nothing of defense Well one thing you don't look for in the pronouncement of Trudeau is wisdom That's a ridiculous effort to begin with and we'll give you no results whatsoever What you should look for and which is given evidence of
Starting point is 00:08:22 Over the last seven years that what he might lack in intellectual sweep, he more than compensates by a certain instinct of cunning. And the reason for slamming Roe vs Wade is that he thinks he's found yet another issue, even though it's in another country, and even though the addition determinations of the US Supreme Court have no valence or relevance to Canadians. Nonetheless, it's the kind of, yeah, he calls it's kind of raw meat to use an expression he likes a lot when he applies it to the consumer. Kind of raw meat you throw out.
Starting point is 00:08:58 I found it even more annoying that here you are in Rwanda on your way to a castle in Bavaria being hit by this RCMP scandal, and you've got to jump out of your chair three minutes after the Supreme Court decision is announced to let the world know you think their deliberation was horrific to stir up the already angry hard leftist in the United States and detract from any attention being paid to issues in Canada like inflation, gasoline prices, food prices, the closing of powerment, but I won't go on with those until we get to them. Let's start with the issue of the strange political times that we seem to be in Canada and perhaps touch on the collusion of the
Starting point is 00:09:45 NDP and the media in producing that because my sense is, as I mentioned before, that in over the span of my life, one of the great advantages of a parliamentary system is that when a government, especially one that doesn't have a strong majority, becomes continually scandal-ridden that the the president is for Parliament to dissolve and for an election to take place. Now, I know we just had an election that was completely unnecessary, but we have a situation in Canada where the liberals have moved radically to the left. They've supplanted the NDP who are supporting them constantly in what is essentially a coalition government. And we have the horrible fascistic spectacle of the Canadian government radically
Starting point is 00:10:33 subsidizing the legacy median Canada in general. And the CBC and specifically to the tune of $1.2 billion a year to produce no audience and a set of facts that are entirely convenient to the Trudeau government. And so we have this perfect storm, especially if you add to that, the fact that Trudeau has essentially got had Parliament for two years, partly, partly as a consequence in principle of the COVID scandal, but they just announced this week or last week that virtual parliament is going to continue for another year, which this is just every week. There's something else the Trudel government does that I find so preposterous and unbelievable
Starting point is 00:11:19 that it makes me think that there's something wrong with the way that I'm looking at the news. What the hell is going on with the virtual parliament? What is this? Well, I'll take the virtual parliament first, but I am going to circle back to another thing that you've all, not several things you've already mentioned. I thought, for what is worth, and as far as I can think, I thought that even when the pandemic was fresh and we didn't have a clear understanding of its true risks or its true range or whether the vaccines or other
Starting point is 00:11:53 emoluments were going to be available, I thought that even then when at least the grocery store clerks were still on the job and at that time by the by the way, so were the much praised truckers. Mr. Trudeau himself came out to say, we must thank them for bringing our food and our medicines in the beginning of this pandemic. I thought even then that the idea that the people who had been elected to the highest office that this federal business country can offer,
Starting point is 00:12:22 the House of Commons in a time of emergency, that's when they do meet. And even if there was some element of risk involved, that's when they do meet. Now that was at the beginning. Now you drop down two years and the vacillating regime of COVID, they went up and went down, they changed, they changed that. Wear a mask, don't wear a mask, these are good, these are good. Take one vaccine, take two vaccines, take two more booster shots, stay six feet apart, don't pick, yeah, after two whole years, when they finally can see
Starting point is 00:12:55 that their own mismanagement can't continue forever. The idea that as he closes down Parliament on June 22, 2022, in not coalition, in collusion with Mr. Singh, he announces in advance that there's already gutted, eviscerated, disemboweled Parliament of the last two years, is now going to have another full year with people sitting in their washrooms in some cases, going on Zoom. There's a side point to this. It's important to make it. Just because you have the MPs talking to each other by some teleconference, that's not
Starting point is 00:13:37 parliament. The reason that parliament stands and the reasons that parliament always were, they are places of assembly. The Newfoundland House, for example, actually wears the etymological force. It is the house of assembly. And why do you talk of assembly? Canada is vast. Its geography is almost its defeat.
Starting point is 00:14:01 And therefore, because of its vastness, the various regions, personalities, and cultures of those regions are vastly dissonant, different to use the Trudeau term, diverse. It's important for MPs from all over the country to be in one place for a continuous time to have interaction, response, and mutual communication, even if it's argument. They have to learn from each other the whole of the country. You don't do that with a Zoom on your bookcase. Well, one of the things I've been thinking about on the Putin front is that one of the consequences of the COVID lockdowns is that world leaders haven't had a chance to meet face-to-face.
Starting point is 00:14:48 And now we've substituted Zoom for that. And Zoom is a narrow channel. Now I've been in Washington too. And increasingly, the congressmen in Washington don't move to Washington. And 40% of them sleep in their offices. They don't have apartment buildings. And so they haven't built the social communities in Washington that would enable the Democrats to talk to one another or the Democrats to talk to the Republicans across the aisle in
Starting point is 00:15:16 the social interactions that you have if you generate a shared community. Exactly. And so this rush to substitute narrow channels of electronic communication merely out of convenience we have absolutely no idea whatsoever that what that will do to the parliament and it could easily destroy it Well, I tell you what It already does it to parliament zoom parliament is a ghost It is the ghost of a dead Parliament the notion of again that the
Starting point is 00:15:48 a ghost of a dead parliament. The notion of again, that the 300-plus MPs being forced by the nature of the country to be in Ottawa, to be in one huge building, to share the same chamber, to meet each other informally, that's how they informed themselves of the range and nature of the country. Number two, as you just point out, once you get there, you get this interaction, the fraud politics of the United States are partially because these people don't simply meet. It's very easy to form enemies on Twitter and Facebook and via Zoom. But if you sit down and have a meal, even with a person who wildly disagrees with you, and you have to exchange the normal human curses, you suddenly modify this visceral response that you throw out so rudely on this ghost network of Twitter and Facebook and so on.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Well, what you, what you seem to see on the electronic communication front is that differences get highlighted and similarities vanish. And it is definitely the case that if you sit down with someone for a meal or if your kids are on the same baseball team, that you find out that you're really about 90% the same and 10% different. And when the channels of communication are narrowed, that inverts and flips. And then we also could add to that, Rex, the fact that, well, parliaments of check on executive power. And we could use some checks on Trudeau's power, but when you and I were much younger, and maybe only about 20 years ago, the press was also an independent check.
Starting point is 00:17:24 And now the press is in the pockets of the government. And I called that fascist earlier. And I meant that. What we're seeing worldwide is a fascist enterprise, weirdly enough, on the left side, that involves a collusion between media, technology, and government, and fascism, the root of the word fascism, the root of the word fascism means to bind together. Right. Exactly. The central element of a fascist state is collusion of the elites, let's say, and the eradication of any checks and balances. And that sort of, that's reminiscent to me of the desirability of that is reminiscent to me of Trudeau's express admiration for the
Starting point is 00:18:02 Chinese Communist Party and its efficiency in moving forward, let's say, on the environmental front, something that he's expressed, explicit admiration for. And so, and I would also say that's hurting Canada's international reputation in ways that Canadians just don't seem to realize, including among moderate liberal types. Well, let's go first with the media. And the fact that the media, the main media in this country, the legacy column about you will, have accepted a devil's handshake.
Starting point is 00:18:34 It simply cannot be otherwise said that the press, the media, the instruments of inquiry, skepticism and test can be directly subsidized by the one major institution, the whole government, which in many ways they are charged by their very nature to investigate, to be skeptical about, to inquire, to collide with, to contest. And the idea that in this soft environment, you accept huge sums of money. And by the way, the traffic between the news media and the political media,
Starting point is 00:19:12 how many journalists ends up as aides to the ministers? Well, Mr. Trudeau's chief aide Ben Chin began on a Toronto media station. The cross-currence between journalism and politics, that's one thing. Now by the way, in addition to the money, that's a really big thing and it should be a shock to any journalist. There's another thing that gives you an even deeper and I think in certain ways, a more worrisome collusion. And that is that the mindset of the majority and I'm not one of these And that is that the mindset of the majority, and I'm not one of these conspiracy people about the press, but I know it enough from 25 or 26 years in it, that the mindset, the
Starting point is 00:19:51 mentality, the tendency, the major media offices of parliamentele, and are already in tune with the agenda of the government. They are constantly either indirectly, subtly, or not so subtly, actually supporting the government and making themselves the opposition to the opposition. It is really quite remarkable with the RCNP scandals, with emergency act, with truckers, with inflation, with oil, that peer polyver who is still an outsider looking in, gets a lot of hits. He's going to tear apart into the apart. Whereas the giant media, it's because they share the agenda.
Starting point is 00:20:33 They share the social identities business. They certainly share the diversity thing, the obsession with racialists as politics, and of course the absorption entirely on the idea of sexual and genderly and proletariat and other words all of the social justice issues, the press and the parliament are in the same place. So yeah, being paid for his fascism and finally, I trude him with the China thing. That's very good. When he was not yet leader and when he felt he could relax so easily. And talk about these things, that's
Starting point is 00:21:06 what we call the Kinzi gaff. You say the thing you really mean. And in his case, you know, if we were China, I could turn the environment around on the dime. The real thing there, not so much the dictatorship of China, it shows that he has a fondness for the ability to merely operate by fiat. And if you study the last five and six years, and in particular, the period from COVID on, COVID was a continuous fiat that completely gutted the civil rights, the charter of rights. He has people of fire, he has people. And then when the convoy comes, he calls them racists, homophobes, besogilists, a fringe minority that should
Starting point is 00:21:45 not note this word, that should not be tolerated. His infancy for China basically constitutes one element of the personality. He does not like opposition. He guts Parliament to make sure that there isn't any, and he makes a deal. He makes a deal with his co-signer mister sing so that there will never be a confidence motion and if he wants to have parliaments zoom for another year mister singas there with the ready salute
Starting point is 00:22:13 and the genuiflection to give it to him well the uh... the this this certainty of compulsion let's say that drives true to four It seems to be rooted in his false moral sense that because he's concerned like the other members of the Davos world economic forum, et cetera, with the long term health of the planet, whatever that means, that nothing that gets in his way could possibly be regarded as ethical or moral.
Starting point is 00:22:45 And so and the press, who's now more than ever made up of political, globalist, utopian wannabes, do everything they possibly can to collude and to move that agenda forward. And then we could add to that, Rex, I went through this new bill, C11, because I'm one of people whom, whom it will hypothetically affect, although I have a number of maneuvers up my sleeve, so to speak, to bypass that entirely. And I know Canadians don't understand this, but let's say that the new media, which is the internet itself, was capable of producing some of the opposition to the globalists in Trudeau that the legacy media have abandoned.
Starting point is 00:23:28 And I'm thinking of people like, say, Russell Brand, who's on the left and not just mentioned, you know, any of the conservative commentators in the United States. But now what the Canadian, what the, what the Bill C11 has done is basically and this is unbelievable I can't believe I read it correctly. They basically defined all internet content of any sort as subject to the same CRTC Canadian radio and television
Starting point is 00:24:01 Corp. What is it corporation? I don't remember the last word of that acronym. That doesn't really matter. No, it doesn't matter. They've defined them as broadcasters that are equivalent, let's say, to CBC or CTV. Now, the reason that those broadcasters are different was because the government had to parse up the airwaves because the airwaves were actually a scarce resource.
Starting point is 00:24:21 Now, and the internet is not a scarce resource. And now, as far as I can tell, reading the, reading Bill C11, which is an unbelievably vague document, if a internet service provider, a private one, so a small business person, like me, let's say, doesn't broadcast in French and English and in indigenous languages and to any diverse range of people with disabilities and highlight Canadian content, then the government can do what it needs to do to deprioritize their distribution, and they'll do that by putting pressure on the search engine providers like YouTube and Google or just stopping them all
Starting point is 00:25:06 together. And I read this bill and all of it, again, wrecks too. The bill is couched in all this diversity, inclusivity, and equity terminology, which it's the same solution to every problem, right? And so not only do we have this massive press collusion with the government that's absolutely unconscionable in a western democracy. And, but we also have now the government clamping down more viciously than in any other developed country on the freedom for Canadians to get access to all of the, all of the information on the internet, not just that produced by Canadians. I'm inclined to believe that this idea that these A-intellectuals, it's mainly a shell
Starting point is 00:25:51 on capital that I don't care how congestending that sounds, but it mainly is. That they somehow or other have been given Vatican-like infallibility to judge what is correct and is not correct, to make decisions that will hold back, by the way, the whole idea of disinformation and misinformation, coming out of the mouths of this government. I mean, the daredegradest purveyor of confusion, and evasion, and the law,
Starting point is 00:26:22 the idea that they then are going to be the kind of grandmouse or Mrs. Grundee, as it used to be called in the 19th century, and protect the tender sensibilities of minds that are better than their own. I'm tired of people, and I'm sure you are too, because it's getting so cliched to bringing up George Orwell, but because he put the stamp on it and gave the template. The idea that a central authority runs, thought, and speech, and makes judgments on what is and was not, and under the banner of diversity, inclusion, and equity, which is really a hidden ideology, pumped up by vast self-righteousness and granting pseudo-infallibility to those
Starting point is 00:27:09 who are sensitive. We know this is not the case, Mr. Trudeau, got rid of his only aboriginal female minister. There's equity, there's diversity. They confuse, this is a big point too. They confuse either at Davos, which you referenced or at any other high meeting, with saying that you are virtues is the same thing as being it. And there's a hidden, not a hidden, there's a blatant arrogance attached to any government that thinks that in the modern communication system that it should have any business outside of the exact things that are defined by law as incitement and real rabbit hate. They will call hate something they simply don't like. It's not an easy emotion to define. C11 as Michael Geister and I know you follow him. Michael Geister is the professor
Starting point is 00:28:02 of communication who most and most articulately and most deeply is warning over and over to give this bunch that can't issue a passport that have a pay system for their own civil servants that's three or four years misfunctioning that can't let passengers walk out of a Pearson airport within less than 24 hours. Should suddenly have the government of the thoughts and reactions and speeches and positions and films and talks like this, like yours. It's absurd, but it's more than that. This is truly frightening.
Starting point is 00:28:42 I mean, what is this gulping for more power than you need? Well, it's the imposition of an ideology and go back to your China point. Here's the reason that he may really admire China because China, it happens to become anism in that case. China is fired only as was Russia by an ideology, by a set of narrow ideas from which no deviation, no criticism under penalty of exile or death is allowed. Not as hard over here, but DIE is an ideology, and ideology makes those claims and fills those who hold it with a completely, a completely unacceptable level of moral certitude, not
Starting point is 00:29:27 certainty. NLC 11 is a disaster and you'll want one more quick point. It is shameful. It is shameful to the essence that the main Canadian press are not as one voice and a one intense voice saying, we're not having this. We are simply not having this. You are not going to rule on what is information and not information. You are not going to rule on the presence of citizens, on the new channels of communication, and seeing you've already fouled the official or legacy means to some serious degree. We're certainly not going to allow you to put a pillow over the mouth
Starting point is 00:30:11 of the only possible new exchanges that we have. It's a terrible idea, an ide- my part from arrogance, righteousness and the belief in his own infallibility, I can't see why, but, Maria, why aren't the MPs even in his own party saying, Justin, you're dreaming, you're out of touch. We don't want to go there. We're not following you on this. Where's the courage of any of these caucuses? They hand wave about diversity, inclusivity, equity, the environment. And then in Bill C. 11, they add the protection of the Canadian culture to that.
Starting point is 00:30:49 And which sounds like something taken out of like 1979 or 1980. It's such an outdated idea. And one of the other terrifying things about Bill C. 11 is that we won't, in Canada, if this is actually enforced with the collusion, let's say, of Google and YouTube and so forth. And the forced collusion in some sense, because those companies are not going to break the law, Canadians won't even know what information is being hidden from them, because the laws will take the form of invisible algorithms that merely deprioritize at the listing of content that doesn't meet the
Starting point is 00:31:27 impossible criteria that have been laid down. And Bill C. 11 is basically written in a way that allows the government to interfere with the promulgation of any information that they deem unacceptable for any reason, because there are so many restrictions on what you're allowed to do now that there's no possible way that any member of the alternative media can meet the criteria. It's just not possible. And it won't just be YouTube broadcasters and podcasters. It's going to be people who provide all sorts of services online because the bill is written
Starting point is 00:32:02 in such a vast manner that the provision of any services on the internet. And we're talking about the internet here, right, which is something people really depend on, that that'll all fall under the invisible auspices of a tiny codery of ideologically adled bureaucrats and algorithms. There are so many points to making this. As long as this is 2022, I haven't got the year exactly right, but 1637, 1640 or somewhere near that, it was Milton wrote Ariel Pagidica, which was an empowerment of great bit, was
Starting point is 00:32:36 deciding then that, you know, Skirlis pamphlets usually of a religious orientation, had to be prohibited, had to be censored. And of all the great speeches about free expression, the value of books, the value of publication, of all the defenses of real free speech and real free thought, the area of Pagetica is classic. And as Milton says, whoever knew truth to be defeated in an open contest Now that's 1637. This is 2022 And how it can come to pass That a government with a military power With the ability to imprison we were making
Starting point is 00:33:22 Fun off or scared by the big tech companies. Google, slanting, and search machine, Twitter deciding who should be banned and who should not be banned, who should be suspended and who should not be suspended. We didn't like it when the private enterprise operators, did they make deals with China? How does Google and Facebook and Twitter working those? We said, my lord, couple of guys from the tech valley, ruling which thoughts can get on platforms and which cannot. We thought that was pretty bad.
Starting point is 00:33:57 But now you have, as Michael Geist said, this is an alarming thing because Geist is a very common individual. He's a solid intellectual. And on this subject in particular, he knows what he's saying. We have the only legislation in this arena that parallels, get ready for it, North Korea. You plied all this out. And by the way, there's another reason why- Well, that's a new first for Canada.
Starting point is 00:34:26 Yeah, but what must hide this together? Why do you think he thought it was very useful to have a Zoom Parliament for another year? Because the gathering together of all the people who might wake up to this and who might because of personal interaction across the lines might see that this is not a step too far. This is a gigantic leap between mountain peaks too far. No, he wants to probably close down or, as I said, emasculated so that he could bring in in his life.
Starting point is 00:34:56 This is his last term. I'll make that a declarative statement. Whatever big moves he wishes to make. But again, in this particular case, we've had it, as I said, we go back to further, Milton even, you don't let power determine information, thought, and speech. I mean, if Donald Trump were president and decided to regulate the Internet, 910s of the world would fly up, just going to go on about how horrific the justice system of the Supreme Court is, while up here he plays a game halfway between
Starting point is 00:35:32 animal firm in 1984. By the way, as you point out, there are so many scandals that one gulps and swallow as the other. He has a scandal management that is better than any other Have a fresh scandal and then we killed the previous one It's hard to follow them. Yeah, well exactly well you you asked a little earlier What scandal we should perhaps focus on most intently and it is very difficult to To do that when they're coming at you at a mile a minute when you have like 15 things that have been done in the last six months that should have caused the collapse of the government.
Starting point is 00:36:10 But I would say the worst thing that Trudeau did, it's a hybrid between invoking and then rescinding the emergencies act for no reason whatsoever. Then he relied on the information provided to him deceitfully by CBC who retracted it and then worst of all freezing the bank accounts and interfering with the Bitcoin exchanges because Churchill established a precedent now that should terrify Canadians of any political engagement whatsoever, which is that if you happen to be peripherally involved with a demonstration, no matter how legal the demonstration is at the moment, and you donate money that, first of all, you'll be tracked, and that's
Starting point is 00:36:51 bad enough, like that's terrifying enough, but not only tracked, but that all your ability to interact with the entire economic system, because it's not just freezing your bank accounts, right? It's freezing your mortgage, it's freezing your visa, it's making it impossible for you to withdraw any cash. It's putting your family at risk. It's to compare this to what the Chinese are doing with the social credit system is no leap. And that's a terrible conspiratorial thing to say, but it also reflects a deep underlying reality. And I'm telling you, I can't tell you how many people have expressed shock and dismay to me throughout the United States and through Europe about the fact that Trudeau well implemented the Emergencies Act and suspended civil liberties and then froze the bank accounts, especially because Canada has had a great reputation
Starting point is 00:37:45 on the financial front for 150 years. The integrity of our financial system, including our banks, has been one thing that Canada really got right. And now, what would you think if you were a foreign investor or anyone seriously considering doing business with Canada, when you know now that if you're a Republican and heaven forbid a Trump supporter but a Republican even that your views are now deemed so extreme that it's meat and just to declare them an emergency and to steal all your money with no trial, with no due process of law, completely arbitrarily on behind the scenes.
Starting point is 00:38:26 No, the Scotiabank apologized about two weeks ago. I don't know if any of the other big banks did. No, they haven't. But they said, they did it under duress. Well, that's because they're bloody cowards and they're foolish as well. First of all, because they've taken a catastrophic hit to their international reputation.
Starting point is 00:38:42 Well, I go, I'm just gonna start at the get-go back to where you began yourself. The imposition of revocation, before ratification of the emergency act that had them at seven to eight days of life, we have not had yet. We didn't have it then, that's for sure. We have not had yet the list of circumstances that justified, that's a really big word, just gave justice to the action that justified the imposition of the equivalent of the war measures that, because that's what it was, to completely suspend the Charter of Rights
Starting point is 00:39:19 on a philosophic basis alone, he basically nullified the entire civil liberties of the entire population of this entire country because some trucks were parked on an automobile street. That's only the first part. You mentioned the CBC reports that have been dismissed and that he relied on them. I'm not sure that's entirely the case. He may have had some of his own spin masters pass the stories on the ZBC in the first place. I have no idea what that was true or not. But we had other instances where you had an arson attempt in a building in Ottawa which
Starting point is 00:39:54 was dramatically enhanced by news coverage and Mendocino or whatever his name is, use that they're going to burn down buildings and lock the doors of people, can't get out, we need an emergency act. You had all sorts of fabricated faults or totally misleading assertions during a pseudo crisis and then you had the capstone that these people who drove 2500 miles in February across the Northern landscape to protest a given government issue. Actually, we're there and had to be paid attention to because they wanted to overthrow the Canadian government. That statement is so extreme that it is beyond laughable. And so when he holds it back before the Senate
Starting point is 00:40:47 gets a chance to ratify it, the legislation says you must have an inquiry. When you call out the highest, the most lethal, the thermonuclear legislation of any government, he can't avoid having a committee set up. And I think it was last week or ten days ago that Kristia Freeland, who was the deputy deputy prime minister, because Jagmead Singh is the official deputy, he's finally before a parliamentary committee. And when they
Starting point is 00:41:17 ask her questions, either about the RCMP or about this or about that, discord and righteousness and smugness of response. The idea that the greatest invasion of civil liberties it has been passed by, with so mellow a response. And that gives them the appetite then, if I can call up the Emergency Act and call a group of savvy common-sense citizens, fringe minority racists, if I can set one part of the community against the other. And that division, there's where the appetite comes from Bill C11, got away with the Emergency Act, well obviously I can bring in legislation that is even more toxic. Oh yes, I can interfere with our CMP investigations because it's not justified because it was for political
Starting point is 00:42:27 convenience because he extemporized a narrative that these were villains and Americans and were being funded by dark right wing forces outside the country. That's the worst because it can found so many issues together. Well, it's also a stunning accusation. Yeah, it is. Levy to against 50% of the population of our greatest ally to the South. People in principle that he has to work with us certainly is going to have to work with when the fall comes. And so that's just, well, that's just another example of his stunning lack of wisdom and
Starting point is 00:43:03 his carelessness with his actions. So, so let's, let's talk a little bit about a bit more about the interference with the RCMP. I'd like you to make some comments about that if you would. Well, that's that again, people who know Canadian politics. I want to apologize, but I'm not I regret. That is not so fascinating that the people who listen to the range of viewers that you have may not be as we would wish on them, but nonetheless. Well, it's a good example of fascist collusion, though, I would say. Well, that's a threat to everyone in the West.
Starting point is 00:43:40 Yeah, but it also has a great precedent. The biggest scandal in terms of principle in terms of something fundamental something to reach it to the rule of law Came a couple of years back when he had an attorney general. I mentioned here already Rable Rape the indigenous lady from BC. I get a your name fooled up my head for just a second She Took a stand at SNC level and should not get special provisions. And she was, was, was the attorney general. And yet people from his PMO office, himself, the highest civil service, cabinet ministers kept pressing, kept pressing her to change her mind. She warned the prime minister. If you are attempting to influence an attorney general who was a singular position in any cabinet,
Starting point is 00:44:35 if you are attempting to do it, this is terrible. So for eight or nine months, she resisted. She said no, the rule of law can't be politically interfered with. Now this was a prime minister on his office in AIDS and ministers attempting to bend the operation of justice in Canada. Eventually, Mr. Rayboot gets fired or basically leaves herself, and another fine female captain minister went with her. But after a bit of a flutter, even though he denied any influence, he said in the Globe Mail, the story is false.
Starting point is 00:45:11 It was proven to be true. Jump ahead two years. And now you find out that after the worst bas casually of that kind in Canada, the murder of 22 people in Nova Scotia, that the Prime Minister's office and his political aides are pressuring or asking or telling the head of the RCMP, Brenda Lucky, to get information from the investigators in Halifax because they were bringing in gun control legislation next week.
Starting point is 00:45:40 In other words, they wanted to absorb some of the emotional context and a high sensitivity of a singular tragedy so they could advance a political agenda and didn't mind pushing, and she didn't mind agreeing to put pressure on a Halifax investigation. Now you hear back that Mr. Labnick, all the relevant cabinet ministers. Oh no, mr. Trudeau Had a really fine to think we put no undue influence Under RCMP the only one word and that sentence you have to pay attention to it's on you right exactly Yeah, yeah, well Rex this is all a pattern as far as I'm concerned. Yes.
Starting point is 00:46:25 And I'm speaking as a clinician here, although I hesitate to do so, but I've been watching Trudeau for a long time. I found it appalling. I found what he was doing appalling right from the beginning because Trudeau was enticed into running for leadership as a consequence of what I would describe as a successful appeal to his overweaning narcissism, he had none of the education or ability or experience necessary to do something as complex as lead a modern country. And it was obvious to all, and it should have been obvious to him, that the single reason that he was picked by the utterly cynical liberals who chose him
Starting point is 00:47:05 was, first of all, his pleasant personal appearance and perhaps not first and foremost, but first and foremost, his name, Trudeau, the dynastic name, the fact that he already had broad scale marketing and sales appeal. And that was enough for him to justify to himself becoming Prime Minister. And then, you know, maybe you don't want to dam someone for that because just because he was pure Trudeau's son doesn't mean he doesn't have ability. And so it would be possible that someone like that could take the humble approach and decide that while better him than some evil conservative, let's say,
Starting point is 00:47:45 and that he could carefully learn to be competent and to do a good job. But instead, he leapt into the fray immediately appointing 50% of his cabinet as women, even though they were only 25% of the MPs, and thereby perhaps fatally impairing the qualifications and competence of the cabinet. perhaps fatally impairing the qualifications and competence of the cabinet, and then doubling down on his idiot ideology, D.I.E., let's say diversity, inclusivity, and equity, plus a bit of environmentalism on the side and hatred for the energy industry. And he's been fiddling that fiddle ever since. And this theme of narcissism, which I think is apt. Hermiates everything that he does, the admiration for China,
Starting point is 00:48:28 the dismissiveness that he manifests when he's ever asked questions, the overweaning legislation like Bill C11, that he passes without a second's consideration for the fact that maybe we could use some checks and balances in the governmental system. On the off chance, we might not be 100% right about all our ideological presuppositions. The fact that he basically ignores parliament and now that he's made it virtual. And then we could add to that is another one, Rex, which I think is very interesting. The fact that he denied unvaccinated Canadians, about 6 million of them, the right to travel, which is a big deal in a country like Canada,
Starting point is 00:49:05 and a big deal in other countries as well. But not only did he do that, but then when every country in the world virtually had released people from the COVID mandates and relaxed the impositions they put on the rights, he did not release Canadians from that travel ban until months after there was every bit of evidence that it should have been done.
Starting point is 00:49:27 And all I can say about that was that that was that was sheer bloody narcissistic malevolence. There was zero excuse for that. And the mere fact that he didn't rescind that policy months ago, that in itself should have been enough for the government to fall. And if Jagmeet saying had an ounce of spine or sense and he has neither, he would not be supporting this government in the manner that he does it, especially given the punitive NDP. What would you say affiliation for the common working man, which is a complete bloody bunch of rubbish that those days are long gone.
Starting point is 00:49:59 All the union guys are out of the NDP. We have an elite set of utopians whose presuppositions make the liberal idiocy look like, well, look, look almost like nothing in contrast and the self-righteousness and moralizing that goes along with that. And so Rex, why do you think Canadians have found themselves in this position? And why isn't there more broad-scale outrage outrage if not rioting in the streets about what's happening at the federal government level? Well, there are two or three things that I could say that are, I think, fairly relevant in this context.
Starting point is 00:50:36 The first thing is that when he first came in, by the way, whether it's narcissism or not, that being as it is a clinical nationalism poetic term. I don't think there's much doubt of it if you're using it in just a conventional lay language. Why you would install as the leader of the country? Well, it came also because the liberals had been so ill advised when they picked up, for example, Mr. Deon or the traveling political salesman, Mr. Ignatius, who left his identity within hours of losing and never even said goodbye. Sometimes the appetite
Starting point is 00:51:10 for novelty triumphs over any prudence or consideration of forethought. But having seen them for the first term and having seen the glorious appetite for display and for the gesture, whether it's doing some yoga stand on a bench or making sure that you show up in the right mood at a certain event or attending the Pride Parade. There's no symbolic gestural action that he ever avoided and he signaled he signaled time and time it is a it is in the early days Especially it was a government of signals that he was also a semi-sileverty Vogue magazine in a thing on him And the Canadian press had a wonderful way I never understood how supine they could be so quickly
Starting point is 00:52:03 They talked about when we were having some dissatisfactions with the US, that he was on a charm offensive, and that a charm offensive with disarmeter, Mr. Trump or whoever it was, that he was dealing. Now you asked a deeper question. In the early days, yes, you could put it up. Why are Canadians more resistant? Well, two or three reasons are quite solid, especially as these things have accelerated and intensified, meaning the invasions of government into areas where it should not be
Starting point is 00:52:34 long. There was this two years of the regime that more than any other provincial and federal governments imposed. You had the economy knocked it to bits. We do not have an inventory of the tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of independent and small businesses that gas for air, that wait it for the next in-breath merely to see if they could make another day in the last two years. You had relatives unable to see their elder parents or or elder relatives. You know, you had social, economic, psychological, and medical obsessions and anxieties
Starting point is 00:53:17 that went from the from the primary from the intimate exchange of mother, father, daughter, son to the broad scale. And during that particular period, I think everyone was somewhat off-balance. And once again, the news media were not doing your job. They were all online. We must close everything down. And you could have an announcement in the beginning of the pandemic, as I've already referenced, that masks are bad.
Starting point is 00:53:42 Actually, that came from time. And two months later later that you must wear them and no one in the media wanted to collide those two contradictions and say, well, are you really as expert as you say? That's the first reason. COVID took away a lot of the energies that might have been invested in the public sphere and paying attention to politics because so many other strains that are much more intimate and close were at play. Secondly, and I think this is really, really telling that in the present five and six
Starting point is 00:54:14 months when this thing really has gave come to new levels, whatever was the deal that the NDP would traditionally is really the oppositional, not the conservatives. The NDP are the ones that really put the bite on the liberals. So remember, the War Measures Act was the fore-runner of the emergency act. What was the name of the man who even in a dense genuine crisis, you could make a case that the apprehended insurrection of the War Measures Act could be just as it make a case. And it was popular, especially in English Canada in that time, who stood up against it, who took the flag, who took the bad public relations,
Starting point is 00:54:55 it was Tommy Douglas, the leader of the new Democratic Party, saying it went too far, true, Mr. Trudeau, the elder, should not have that power. In a new world where you didn't have a genuine crisis, and when the emergency act was invoked in my judgment for spite and partisan reasons, Jag Maitsen had already guaranteed Justin Trudeau would have no parliamentary interference. I don't know what's to do. They talk about dental plans and a few things to the NDP won. But I don't know the internalities. What was the discussion? What went on between Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Singh that he would oblige that meaning thing
Starting point is 00:55:36 for the next three years and preserve them from criticism? This is the telling rule. It's quite stunning, isn't it, that thedp can enter into a pact with the devil let's say and none of us even know why no it's like what's in it for you jag meet oh nothing well well nothing doesn't seem like a very good bargain so what the hell's going on behind the scenes where are the i this is the is a really good question Where are the, this is a really good question. The NDP does have some fairly vigorous and occasionally aggressive MPs. They certainly can take on the Tories when they want, and by the way, they love taking on the Tories.
Starting point is 00:56:17 That's a big cock is more or less relatively speaking. Where are the NDP does have that moral kind of aura. And people who join the NDP like to believe, at least, that there is a morality driving then that is of a different scale or of a pure value than the other parties. Why are the letting Mr. Singh so desecrate the central image of the entire? Why aren't some of the MPs in the party talking about it? And I also ask when it comes to the RCMP thing or the emergency act why aren't liberals liberal MPs even some
Starting point is 00:56:53 ministers will some rainbow did it why is it that we're not hearing from individual MP they've been elected by a constituency. They do have autonomy if they want to use it. They talk about caucus discipline. There's only discipline in the caucus if you accept it. And if you think a prime minister or a captain minister has stepped over the line, or the leader of your party is reducing the reputation of your party, then an MP in the NDP or an MP's in the liberal caucus will say, hey, Mr. Trudeau was going to fire with the information legislation. He went far too far with the Emergency Act and is attempt to put division, especially against the working class of Canadians during the
Starting point is 00:57:38 trucker protest. That was both unsimly. We don't have opposition from the media in the main. And obviously, with Mr. Singh guaranteeing Mr. Turo, that's how Mr. Turo could cancel Parliament for next year. This is the central dynamic of our entire political moment of our time. And I have not seen one major interview, from one major interview, from one major presence on the Canadian media scene, sit, jagged, mead, sing down, 30 minutes, and let's have the
Starting point is 00:58:13 story. You will have not seen it. Yeah, well, that's unbelievable. And, well, maybe it's partly the fragmentation of parliament. And so all the MPs feel isolated. And then I know from talking to conservative MPs who didn't exactly distinguish themselves in terms of their courage over the last four years, either that as individuals, they're all terrified of being isolated and mobbed.
Starting point is 00:58:36 And the fact that parliament is fragmented and that the media and the new media for that matter is more than capable and willing to mob. We could use the former attorney general as case in point. Yep. Means that people on the on the MP side, the backbenchers are cowed in a way that I think is unparalleled. So let's turn Rex because it's very difficult to cover all the scandals. And we haven't even touched on another one that's major beyond belief, which is that Trudeau has run up more
Starting point is 00:59:05 debt in his short time in office than every single prime minister in Canada managed in total since the founding of the state. And the consequence of that has been an incredible inflation asset inflation, especially in the housing market and an unparalleled level of inflation. And you can add to that the consequences of his idiot energy policies, which have emboldened Putin, and which have also produced an unparalleled increase in energy prices across Canada. And so we were also, and then that's not enough, that's not enough. No. So in the past year, I have tried to buy for what it's worth. A new car, a couple of small boats, just fun boats.
Starting point is 00:59:49 And I know that's a luxury item, but that's not the point. A snowmobile, I've tried to make a vinyl record, and I've tried to get Penguin Random House to put out a double edition of my book. Penguin couldn't do it because there's a cardboard and paper shortage. The vinyl record industry has an eight to 12 month delay. You can't get a snowmobile, you can't get a small boat and no one can buy a car. And the reason for that is the supply chains are so disrupted that we, that it's cataclysmic. One in five container ships are trapped in ports at
Starting point is 01:00:24 the moment because the ports can't keep up with the demand. We have no idea how badly fragmented the supply chains are, and that's going to produce a catastrophic outcome, especially come fall because we're going to have a very difficult time moving enough food around the world to say nothing of enough goods. So we have a massive debt. We have an inflation that's starting to get out of control. Yeah. We have a housing bubble that's no joke. And we have, and we have supply chain disruptions,
Starting point is 01:00:53 the magnitude of which have never been seen before, at least not in the last 30 years, and that pose a threat to the integrity of the entire world economic system. And so that's also seems to be a bit of a problem that Trito has had a major hand in producing. And that's along with his stated disinterest in financial matters because he said that explicitly, has no real interest in economic matters. You'd never guessed that. In 2015, he said, I can almost quote, I'm looking straight at the eye now and I'm speaking to you honestly, as I always do, this is what he was going to have 10 billion dollar deficits per year, that by 2019, we will return to a balance by 2019. Now again, pretty COVID, we can understand spending of a considerable magnitude beyond any promise during the regime of COVID.
Starting point is 01:01:46 But the extent to which this government wildly, and we never did seek because again, he was operating from the cottage. He was walking down the steps of the Rideau Hall cottage rather than going to Parliament all alone, and a little cover of media people under a canvas tent and he was throwing out billions this way and billions that way. If you do not think that the billions upon billions upon billions that were flushed out without scrutiny, the auditor general did not have adequate means to survey them and they said that and they asked for other people. We're going to have our harvest of scandals in years to come, but that's not the main point.
Starting point is 01:02:32 The point that you are making, that the spending levels of debt and deficit were well over a trillion dollars. And the Bank of Canada has already jacked up the interest rate twice. I talked to a financial man just yesterday. It's going to be worse and worse and worse. We have had a holiday from economic reason during this period. And he has overspend, Stephen Harper was correct. The spending during COVID may have been necessary, but this was overkill.
Starting point is 01:03:03 I would say overkill with magi, and it was not governed. They're even now trying to get back serve payments from one million Canadians. When it illustrates rise and people who have houses and mortgages start to learn what it is like to be in previously normal times, Inflation hits at the worst possible moment. Two full years of economic devastation because of COVID, because of the regime. They closed down things that didn't have to be closed. They killed businesses. We're going to see tremendous devastation across.
Starting point is 01:03:40 And then the Deg the the the Degie Havd against Alberta oil. That is the most that is criminally Jupiter. We are depriving not only Alberta, but the Canadian treasure during the now the return prices of natural oil and gas highest almost ever. And we have made them sorry Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Singh, Elizabeth May, and the capital of professional environmentalists have made poor Alberta as the schedule of oil and gas industry a demonic presence. How do you reach the level of political insanity that you kill a primary resource of your own country? You just you estranged and angered, justifiably angry, they are justifiably angry, a whole province or two.
Starting point is 01:04:41 And at the same time, when Mr. Putin, who scorns the green philosophy, and then that one, he's actually right, uses the the the general flexion to greenism of Europe and Canada to amass the power to use his gas, his oil, as a leverage to control Germany and to influence the operations of Europe. He couldn't be in Ukraine today if the green fantasy Right, and now to threaten the UK with nuclear destruction that was and then let's also point out shall we that one of the consequences of the sanctions so so heroically placed on moot and by the idiot west is that the rubble is at its highest level ever and
Starting point is 01:05:24 polically placed on moot and by the idiot west is that the ruble is at its highest level ever and because oil prices have shot through the roof rushes actually arguably in some ways in better economic shape after the sanctions than they were before yeah that's just bloody brilliant as well and this issue about uh... what's happened on the Russian front is anybody with any sense looking at this up to say 10 years ago, new perfectly well, that by dampening down oil and gas exploration in North America and in Europe, that we were playing into the hands of the worst impulses of the Russians. If you had to have your head buried in the sand or somewhere else to not notice that, absolutely explicitly and to hand wave about idiot environmentalism, while at the same time producing this potentially
Starting point is 01:06:05 fatal dependence on Russian largesse and goodwill is an abdication of political responsibility that you'd have to look at history a long time to find an example that would supersede. I wish and I wish with utter futility again, the guardians of our public discourse, the official and powerful press, would now forsake their deep and intimate marriage with the Green movement that they've had for 20, 25 years. If you watch TVO Ontario, you've seen an inconvenient truth, which was Al Gore's flush on the topic, about a hundred times. CBC is officially, if it hasn't said so, I would loud, is officially a green piece activist
Starting point is 01:06:53 network. I would like to see now then say, okay, this embrace of this virtuous signalling hollow ideology has empowered the most dangerous dictator on the earth, the one with nuclear weapons. It has impoverished, at part of the reason for the inflation in our food at the present moment, is because of the energy crisis brought on by the fatuous pursuit of energy sources that can't work, don't work, aren't it developed and don't have the structure or infrastructure even if they were?
Starting point is 01:07:28 I'm reading about the possible energy shortages in Europe at the present moment. I'm hearing of possible ratcheting of energy. We're hearing of the backups in the ports of Europe. You mentioned the cargo ships. All of this confluence comes to a central point that the obsession, the false virtuous obsession with this manic, fatuous ignorance of global warming has perversely twisted the central policies of most Western governments.
Starting point is 01:08:02 Canada should be energy independent. Canada should be selling its own by other standards well-managed oil and gas. It's certainly cleaner than Nigeria's or Venezuela's. And Canada natural gas is a lot cleaner than the coal that the Chinese are burning and we might point out that they share the same atmosphere as us. Cole has made a significant comeback. If that just China is also India, it is also in Germany. Because now that they realize that they are in a strangle loop held with one hand by Mr. Putin, they're saying, and by the way, the great Paris agreements, which was almost like the Council of Dicea for Greenpeace, even the nations that signed that piece of folly are now saying they may have to retreat. But the biggest and the worst, we said never again and we talk about horrors.
Starting point is 01:08:55 The biggest and the worst was you gave Mr. Putin the leverage into power through your self-seeking pseudo-virtuous policies to be a new tyrant, to risk an invasion of another country, and to basically laugh. And by the way, when Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau and the castel in Bavaria make jokes about Vladimir Putin, I think the guy in the Kremlin has been laughing well before them on much more substantial grounds. By the way, it is also not seemingly for the leaders of six democratic countries to behave like a bunch of adolescents in a locker room talking about who's jet is bigger or smaller,
Starting point is 01:09:40 and also to basically mock the most precariously placed individual on the globe, Mr. Putin. Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau, Katherine McKenna, and this is X Greenpeace building the scalar. We have four radical activists impressing their personal philosophy on a nation and the cost of that externally empowering a dictator internally breaking up Canada and overall. Depriving ourselves of our own energy independence at a time when they starting to look very good, increasing the prices of food, fertilizers being shortened. There is no policy that is so embracing and has been so recklessly dangerous as global warming.
Starting point is 01:10:31 And that's his principle, Paulus. You began by wondering about what was the problem. You know something? I think this make believe I'm going to save the world. That obsession in this particular prime minister is probably the most lethal semi-idea that he has. Yeah, I think that's right. Well, I should also point out that part of the reason that Putin has been able to garner public support on his side in Russia is because he's been
Starting point is 01:10:58 beating the radical leftist warning drum for 15 years and very very very very directly and I read many of his speeches and To what degree he believes what he says is open to question as it is for all of us But I've been inclined to note that in historical times for example people like Hitler wrote down very much exactly What they planned to do and then did it. So it's perfectly reasonable to assume that if someone says something over and over, there's at least part of them that means it. And Putin has, has frightened his people into believing that the ideas that are obsessing
Starting point is 01:11:39 the West, the radical leftist ideas that are obsessing the West are akin in some sense to the ideas that destabilized Russia at the end of the Zara's enterprise and are obsession with diversity, inclusivity, equity, and this bizarre combination of sexual freedom and restrictiveness in addition to our globalist utopian idiot environmentalism actually constitutes something akin to an existential threat to the Russians. And the Eastern Europeans, by the way, are somewhat accepting of the same idea because they see these ideas in the West and they think how the hell can you guys go there when we just
Starting point is 01:12:14 got out of that mess. And so not only do we have an economic crisis and a political crisis and now a war that's precipitated by this idiot environmentalist doctrine, If you take the entire panoply of utopian nonsense, full moralizing utopian nonsense, the people who have an authoritarian bent like Putin are able to weaponize that in a very effective way to generate public support for their policies. And we can't even have an intelligent conversation about that now because people say even to bring that up is too pro-Russian. You also can't have a conversation about any of those particular issues because if you
Starting point is 01:12:49 talk about the following of surgical intervention and transgenism, you're a bigot. If you talk about any of the other ancillary matters that come under that redict, look at the school board agendas of Ontario schools. By the way, this is the side point. In the essay, I don't know if you publish it or not yet, when you were mentioning Dostoevsky and in particular, the devils, when people adopt these facturists and saw how or other overwhelmingly intense attitudes,
Starting point is 01:13:18 they call them ideas, but are more attitudes. The people of the world who have had experience, the people who have gone through the Eastern Europeans who had to live under the dark umbrella of communism. Those who have escaped tyrannical regimes, that lady you had on from South Korea, when they come over here now and they see what we're doing with our freedoms, which is essentially turning them upside down and mocking them and under the name of political correctness or wokeism, insisting, pushing, propagandizing, evangelizing, these toxicly stupid ideas and perverting the education system into being cutan and the warriors of the world as Edward
Starting point is 01:14:00 Lutbach calls them. They're laughing their heads off because they know this is a form of almost collective dimension. We have you wrote about it. We had the Supreme Court, the most recent one, the nominee, a black female. And so she was advertised. She would be the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. She was asked at her own hearing, what is a woman? And she said, I can't answer that. She has, I'm not an individual. In 2022, 2222 years since Aristotle and Plato
Starting point is 01:14:37 and Christ himself, in the most sophisticated society that the world has ever known, a fully educated person who is also a woman is asked, what is a woman and tells you she can't do? You have a six-foot-six swimmer with hairy legs and other appendages beating women. You had a 29-year-old skateboarder yesterday, from the day we're taping this, be to 13 year old girl. And you're supposed to be too shy to say that if you've been 29 years, a man and romping about with all your genes and testicles and everything else, you can't wake up the next morning about simple declaration, suddenly become a woman.
Starting point is 01:15:18 These things are in their mat. I was in Austria and Romania and Estonia and most of all, Albania. And I should say a few words about Albania on this front. I mean, the communist catastrophe under the Stalinists was widespread and horrible beyond comprehension and the worst of that occurred in Albania. And that's really saying something.
Starting point is 01:15:45 It is. That place has 110,000 bunkers underground to hide the population from fictitious enemies. It was an absolutely horrific nightmare of a place possibly trumped only by North Korea and perhaps not. And all the Eastern Europeans I talked to, and these were classic liberals and conservative types in the Christian Democrat sense of the word, are up all by the grip that the progressive
Starting point is 01:16:12 doctrine held by a very tiny proportion of radical seems to have around the throats of the West. And the fact that it's compelling us into making, well, foreign policy decisions, let's say, on the energy front that are so absurd and self-defeating that, well, foreign policy decisions, let's say on the energy front that are so absurd and self-defeating that, well, that we may have talked ourselves into World War three, because, you know, when World War one started, everybody thought the bloody nightmare would be over by Christmas. I think it started in the fall, if I remember correctly.
Starting point is 01:16:39 This won't take long. It's like, and it reminds me of someone, a workman whose sleeve is caught in a big industrial machine who thinks, well, it's just my sleeve. The rest of the party is still intact. It's like, that's just fine till the machine sucks the rest of you in. And we have a real possibility of that happening over the next year, let's say. And we should also point out, Rex, that there are reasonable projections that by the, by the winter of this year, there'll be 150 million people who don't have enough food. And that'll be mostly in North Africa and the Middle East.
Starting point is 01:17:12 And what that'll mean is tremendous, not only that starvation, privation and horror that goes along with so-called food insecurity, but we're gonna have a migration issue into Europe again that'll make the last one look like nothing. And so all this false moralizing, right, this false reputation enhancing, I'm going to save the planet by banning plastic bags, which actually turn out to be quite useful if you want
Starting point is 01:17:36 to carry things by the way. All of this false moralizing might have fatally compromised us already. Supply chain problems, massive increasing debt, for alluming fertilizer shortage, the Russians destroyed a major Ukrainian grain port two weeks ago. And the Russians and the Ukrainians, they provide a lot of the world's edible wheat and a tremendous amount of its fertilizer and other edible oils. We're really playing with trouble. And then we get the spectacle of the G7 leaders, as you pointed out today, sitting around the goddamn table, exactly like immature high school kids, cracking jokes about Putin and his macho posturing. It's like Jesus, Rex, you know,
Starting point is 01:18:18 well, that's on the international front. And our prime minister is the prime example of everything that's wrong that's got us into this mess It is such a coagulation it goes from Local things as I mentioned Jonathan Kay has a very good service going on his Twitter feed, which is very rare I'm not saying it's rare for Jonathan Kay. I'm saying it's rare for anything service to be on Twitter And then he keeps track of some of the school boards and their daily pronouncements on the things that most count to them.
Starting point is 01:18:52 I've talked to several people who have children in the schools in Toronto and outlying areas. And this vocation, this insane, extreme progressivism, identity politics, the revelation of sexual identity as being the only... You look at this and you say you're destroying a whole generation. Well, as I said, the kind of coagulation of all of these factors and all of the most prosperous governments and most technological governments in the world suddenly throwing away their own expertise, throwing away the common experience of centuries, degrading their own capacity in terms of providing food and energy. By the way, there's another element too
Starting point is 01:19:38 under the same impulse. This idea that a certain cohort of the present-day citizenry leaders can turn around over their shoulders and spit at and degrade all of the leaders that came before them as if they are the only generation. If you threw Justin Trudeau back to the period of John A. McDonald, he wouldn't have McDonald's competence. But do you think he'd think any differently? The West as a whole, our education system, universities, and especially politics and journalism.
Starting point is 01:20:13 I've never seen it so vagrant, so permeated by falsity and pretence, and by the engineering of attitude in place of ideas and the fair of contest, that if they hold a position, it has to be sacred and you're not allowed to confess it or you're all of those kind of the drowning of intellectual challenge in exchange that is then applauded. That's C11, that's wokeism, that's the universities, that's the school boards. Well so Rex, I spent yesterday reading about a third of Klaus Schwab's book, the great reset. I'd looked glanced at it briefly but I hadn't read through it, I read it in some detail only the first third. And it was quite a, it's a remarkably vacuous book. There really isn't an idea that's solid in the whole first third. There's a lot of hand waving about how the future might be optimized if the globally leads just got their act together.
Starting point is 01:21:20 And the pandemic crisis offers an opportunity for a massive reorganization, but it's very, very low resolution and vague, just as you'd expect, given that it's driven by an ideological agenda. And I want to say two things about that. The first is who the hell is Klaus Schwab and who elected him emperor of the world. Second, the fact that he's brought these that him emperor of the world. Second, the fact that he's brought these elite types to Davos repeatedly for their globalist conferences particularly appeals to people who have vague ideologies that can't be tested against the real world without failing and who also have a very powerful narcissistic drive. And so that's another bit of evidence in relationship to our prime minister about exactly what motivates him because he's certainly willing to put his allegiance to the
Starting point is 01:22:12 world's saving mission of the Davos types and the globalization that goes along with that and the tower of Babel that is necessarily built under that. He's certainly willing to prioritize that over such mundane concerns. Let's say as monetary policy. And so all that's pointing in the same direction. I was afraid when we first elected him that he might have a narcissistic twist because I couldn't understand how he could conscience running for leader given his lack of qualifications. And either meant he didn't know he was unqualified which meant he was too ignorant for the job to begin with or he did know and didn't care
Starting point is 01:22:50 and either of those are bad although you know he could have learned but didn't but and then when you combine that with the grooming that's taken place on at the hands of Klaus Schwab then you also see that narcissism in action And so anyways, I want to let you comment on that, and then maybe we'll wrap up. Well, I think the broadest point to come out to extend outward from Trudeau, and we have seen it in all true history, but in 20th century history, in the beginning of this one, that when people, for whatever reason or drive, attach themselves to a slender, but overwhelmingly large idea, global warming. And communism is a darker, but at the same time, not necessarily more than 11 and over time. And once they become, they think themselves the embodiment of this world-saving cause,
Starting point is 01:23:42 it obviously must feel that tremendous void in the personality that suddenly your life is empty and everything else but oh, well now I'm actually saving all the world and because I am saving the world, any objections, contest, arguments, or damage that it does, doesn't matter. But I'd like to, if we were at the rabbit point,
Starting point is 01:24:03 I'd like to just beer to a certain other thing. I've talked to a lot of men in Saskatchewan at a fairly big meeting. People involved in an old gas and farming in other places. I've been talking to people in Newfoundland. That list you provided, the various topics we've rushed through and haven't really had the chance to fully elaborate.
Starting point is 01:24:25 There are so many people in this country who have sunk, and not speaking economically all the rest through as well. They've sunk in the confidence that was almost a reflex when they dealt or thought about their country, Canada. There was always almost a hesitation and a voice when they would speak of their country, Canada. There was always almost a hesitation in the voice when they would speak of their country. But the shocks and the abuse, the invasion of or the importation of these strange alien
Starting point is 01:24:58 pseudo-academic fascinations from the various studies departments, the grievance mongers, and the woke fascists. The constant pushing of nonsense and ill policy at the general citizen has hurt the psychology of the general citizen. It has weakened the texture of the country. And as we're taping this, we're days away from Canada Day, I can't remember a period in which Canada Day itself
Starting point is 01:25:34 doesn't have, oh, I can't remember day, we will have so little of the easy exaltation and celebration that it used to, we celebrate secular things, pride day, with far more vigor and easy acceptance than we will have. In fact, I think it's in Winnipeg that they decided that maybe this year because we are such a people, people, and we are so evil, we won't have a cat.
Starting point is 01:26:01 You cannot constantly, constantly castigate your own country and its own history without reservation and posture with these silly philosophies without doing deep damage and I think psychological hurt to the citizens of the country. Well look Rex, I think that's a good note, although a very sad note to end on. I appreciate your time, man. And I appreciate your time. Litany of, it's a hell of a litany of catastrophe to run through in an hour and a half. And I think Canadians have a hard choice in front of them,
Starting point is 01:26:36 they can either wake up and see that they have a juvenile and unqualified juvenile occupying one of the most important positions in the administration, at legislation of the world, or they can face up and face the reality that that institution has become corrupt along with the press, let's say, and many other,
Starting point is 01:26:59 the education system in large part, that's a very difficult pill for, or the people who, like us, who are pointing to these things are just wrong and paranoid. I mean, those are basically the options they're in front of Canadians. Yeah, and by the way, they're facing those options when the economic strife and militaristic strife are going to preoccupy the attention so that they wouldn't want you to be able to get. We're into we're heading into a very hard period and make that a declaration.
Starting point is 01:27:29 Not a profit, but the combination of all these forces means the next two or three years in Canada or elsewhere are going to be like others we have not seen. Okay, Mr. Murphy. I imagine we'll talk again soon. Okay, sir, you take care.
Starting point is 01:27:46 You bet, you bet. Bye-bye. Okay, Mr. Murphy. I imagine we'll talk again soon. Okay, sir. You take care. You bet. You bet. Bye-bye.

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