January 21, 2026 • 18 mins
“Mark Carney isn’t leading Canada—he’s flying it into turbulence while pretending he’s the pilot we need.”
Today’s episode of The Rant Network dives into the uncomfortable truth behind Canada’s political direction as Prime Minister Mark Carney racks up air miles instead of solutions. From bungled trade relationships to questionable alliances with China and Qatar, Canadians are still waiting for the prosperity they were promised. With inflation high, young people struggling, and interprovincial barriers still intact, the government’s priorities seem wildly out of sync with everyday reality. As world leaders gather in Davos and Carney trades speeches for strategy, the gap between political optics and Canadian hardship only widens. It’s time to ask the real question: who is he really working for—Canada, or himself?
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SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
Hey everybody and welcome back.
The music is because I don'thave the track for our theme
song, so a little bit of musicto let you in, but an epic sound
this morning as the worldleaders gather at the Living
Mount Forum in Davos.
So an annual affair, a gettogether of major businesses,
(00:24):
business leaders, politicians,and really people who are
getting to talk about worldaffairs.
And what's fascinating is rightnow, the one thing that's on
everybody's lips going to Davosis simple.
Donald Trump's threat to takeover Greenland.
And yes, Stewart and I rantedabout it on Monday, and uh
Stewart is not here today.
(00:45):
And I'm not here to talk aboutthe position of the of Mr.
Trump and what he has decided todo rather than focus on the
Canadian angle, which we don'tget to do very often.
And the question becomes, MarkKearney, it's gonna be almost
it's gonna be almost a year thathe's been in power.
And the question becomes now,what's up?
(01:08):
What's up?
Why is it that Mr.
Kearney, in his since hiselection promises, said he was
gonna deal with the UnitedStates, he's gonna fix the
problem, and nothing's beenfixed.
There's a method to the madness,ladies and gentlemen.
There really, really is a methodto this madness, and the madness
just doesn't stop.
(01:29):
Welcome back to the RentNetwork.
My name is David Solomon.
Stuart Brisgale is out.
He's on an assignment today.
We let him go once in a while.
What we do around here is wejust love to put to surround
about all kinds of stories,politics, culture, society, you
name it, we're in it for a longhaul.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isall about stuff that people
don't want to talk about inpublic channels.
(01:51):
You won't hear this on liberalnews because of the rah-rah
matters.
You won't hear it on a lot ofdining room tables because
people are afraid to talk aboutit.
We are not.
So if you love us, great, stickaround.
This is not for you.
I'll see you again somewhere.
But in the meantime, sit backand relax.
As today, I'm gonna dissect alittle bit of Mark Kearney as
(02:12):
Prime Minister of Canada.
Now, trade has been a problem inCanada.
Justin Trudeau ruined ourrelationship with China, ruined
the relationship with India evenmore.
And Mark Kearney inherited areal big economic mess that his
(02:33):
predecessor had left behind.
Kearney was touted as theeconomic genius.
He was gonna fix the problems,and then the Canadians bought in
to his stuff.
Well, should I call it rhetoric?
Should I call it BS?
I'll leave that to you.
His resume is really impressive.
(02:54):
Governor Bank of Canada,Governor of Bank of England, led
Brookfield.
He's got a really good solidresume.
And you would say, you knowwhat, this guy could be a CEO.
And that's what he does.
He walks around like a CEO, notlike a prime minister.
And what Mark Kearney has saidfrom the beginning, in a quiet,
(03:15):
non-aggressive manner, is thathe was gonna fix all of the
problems brought on by Trudeau,but also brought on by Donald
Trump.
See, Mark Kearney employed atactic that is very, very common
in politics.
When things are good, I takecredit.
When things are bad, I'm gonnapoint the finger at somebody
else because I cannot beresponsible.
(03:36):
Mark Kearney was not in Canadianpolitics officially until 2025,
until he was elected primeminister.
So he sat back and said, wasn'tme.
You can't blame me for what I'veinherited.
But I can fix the future.
I will fix our relationship withthe United States, I will open
up new trade barriers, new tradeopportunities, and we will first
(03:57):
go on to become a prosperouscountry.
But what he did instead was takefrom Pierre Polyev and the
Conservative Party many of thosepolicies and said, it's mine.
They're mine.
Take full credit and startputting some of these in place.
But even that, even those thingswhere he said, Oh, we're gonna
(04:19):
build more homes, but we'regonna put more bureaucracy in
place.
That made a hell of a lot ofsense.
Inflation is still high, thingsare not going well, our economy
isn't in rough, unemployment isstruggling, young people are not
able to afford homes, youngpeople can't find jobs.
And Mark Carney says, Whoa,whoa, but think things are
better.
Look at me, I've made it better.
(04:41):
Mark Carney has the only thingthat he's done made better is
his air miles.
He's been traveling.
Yes, he should travel and meetpeople to negotiate appropriate
deals.
But let's start from the very,very beginning.
Where does Canada have favorabledeals?
Where does Canada, ladies andgentlemen, have opportunities to
(05:04):
be part, you know, to benefitfrom in their um in the
countries that we we do businesswith?
Where are we, folks?
Where is it?
Where are the um where are whereis the opportunity to do better?
(05:24):
Instead, what Mark Kearney hasbeen doing as prime minister has
been going around claiming thathe's looking for, like I said,
those great opportunities, thosegreat, you know, uh um, you
know, those great um uh umcountries that we can work with,
and instead of our primeminister going and really making
(05:52):
a difference with what mattersto Canadians, he's flying around
trying to find all this kind ofgoodie goody goodies.
So let's talk about it.
We have a free trade agreementwith South Korea, Ukraine,
Israel, Chile, Colombia, CostaRica, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway, Switzerland, Honduras,Jordan, Panama, and Peru.
And what does Mr.
Carney do?
(06:12):
Shit on Israel.
Yep, that's right.
All he cares about is to be onthe Gaza board and to ensure
that humanitarian aid, that'shis only priority, ensure that
primaritarian aid gets throughto the Palestinians, but who
cares about Israel?
Who cares about disarming Hamas?
Want to know where Mr.
Carney's priorities are?
(06:33):
Watch.
We have preferable agreements aswell with countries like Mexico,
the European Union, Australia,Singapore, Vietnam, United
Kingdom, and so many others.
Why aren't we going there?
Why aren't we dealing with thesecountries to find better
opportunities for us?
No, I'll tell you where he goes.
He goes to Qatar.
That's right.
Critic criticizing Donald Trumpfor going to Qatar and being,
(06:54):
you know, suckers.
The comedia has land-based theliving hell out of Donald Trump
for going to Qatar.
Now, yeah, he accepted a plane,but it was even before that.
Qatar is a terrorist state, andyet here he's making deals.
Forced investment into, as theysay, forced investment in the
United States.
(07:15):
I don't like it.
I don't like what Donald Trumpdid because they're they're a
terrorist state.
So Carney can criticize on onehand, but then he runs to Qatar.
And what's in it for Canada?
Let's wonder.
What is Qatar gonna do?
Oh, they'll invest in Canada.
Are you paying attention?
You ran to a terrorist state togo and negotiate so that you can
(07:38):
what this is the question I askmyself is what is Mr.
Kearney's real priority here?
And then Mr.
Prior, Mr.
Prime Minister did one morething.
How is it that last year Mr.
Kearney called China, quote, thebiggest security threat before
(07:59):
the election?
And then all of a sudden, heannounces a strategic
partnership just a few weeks agowith it.
He agreed to 50,000 EVs, andwhat does that do to Canadian
auto security, auto jobs?
What does that do for theCanadian auto sector?
Our auto sector is decimated nowwith a pro with the challenges,
and you agree to import 50,000made Chinese EVs.
(08:25):
What this is your deal?
Oh, yeah, don't worry about it.
We made a deal for the canolaoil and other Canadian goods.
Don't worry about it, not aproblem.
There's no guarantee that therewon't be tariffs on those.
There's no guarantee that youknow that things are gonna
happen like that and beimmediately.
Instead, we pork farmers arestill dinged at 25% for their
(08:50):
pork going to China.
unknown (08:52):
Mr.
SPEAKER_00 (08:52):
Carney, what did you accomplish?
More for Brookfield?
That you still we still we stillwon't release the numbers about
Brookfield?
The media gave you a pass.
Donald Trump had to prevent histax returns, and you had to you
had to analyze it, we had toshred it, and the Canadian media
bitched about that.
But Mr.
Kearney, uh, it doesn't reallymake a difference what Carney
(09:15):
has in his pocket.
Who cares where his money is at,where his wife is at, where the
finances are, doesn't matter.
We have a bad relationship withIndia, and if there's one thing
I will tell you is that Ibelieve that this is the right
approach, that Mr.
Kearney does need to get on aplane for India and fix that
(09:36):
relationship with thatgovernment.
The Indian government, we needthe Indian economy.
That is a massive 1.2 billion, Ibelieve, 1.3 billion people
market.
Opportunities abound forCanadians.
If the United States is not asopen, then India makes the most
(09:58):
sense.
Now, I guy, China, you would saythe numbers are the same, but
they don't play fair.
And you ran to China, XinJinping, and you made you're
trying to make an alliance, oris this the we're gonna screw
Trump alliance?
Because that seems to be whatCarney's doing.
Now, India, as I said, iscritical because since 2023,
(10:22):
Justin Trudeau destroyed ourrelationship over the so-called
slang of Hardeep Singh Ninjarhere in Canada.
Blaming India publicly killedit, killed our relationship.
unknown (10:35):
Mr.
SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
Carney has a chance to rebuild it.
And the Prime Minister is opento these ideas as in India.
But Canada has to really scratchits head and ask itself, what
are we really, really doing?
How are we promoting ourselveson the international stage?
I just listed a whole bunch ofcountries where we have free
trade agreements, where we haveyou know favorable agreements.
(10:57):
Why aren't we going back tothose favorable agreement
countries and negotiating betterdeals?
No, but that is not what is inMr.
Kearney's mind.
Mr.
Kearney is in it for Mr.
Carney.
Today he was in Davos.
Today he was at the WorldEconomic Forum, and today he
gave a very riveting speech.
Hey, listen, I gotta call it aspade a spade.
(11:19):
I give credit to Mr.
Kearney where credit is due.
He called out Trump.
And with Stuart not here to yellat me, let me tell you, he
needed to call out Trump.
Today we're not in a world whereyou're threatening your allies
the way Mr.
Trump did.
I want Greenland or else.
You're going to negotiate orelse.
And you're going to punishEurope and you're going to
punish Canada simply because youwant Greenland.
(11:42):
This is not the 19th centuryempires of Britain, France,
Germany, and the rest of theworld.
This is not the Ottoman Empirethat just goes in and just grabs
whatever they want.
We're in 2026.
It's a different world.
We do not want to return to anolder order.
But to sit here and deflex andsay, yeah, but you need us for
NATO and you need us for world,that's great, but that's not how
(12:04):
this works.
Unfortunately, the PrimeMinister is a good speaker.
Very much like Obama.
He could speak really, reallywell.
Smart guy, who's words likehedge money.
And that's important.
We should be, you know, showingCanada should take a step in the
(12:25):
right direction of being astrong leader.
We're not the United States, butwe are a member of the G7,
albeit at the bottom of that,but that does is not the point.
The point is that Canada canhave influence on the global
scale.
And Canada can be a good partnerto the US and to other
countries.
(12:45):
But Mr.
Carney decided he wasn't goingto meet Donald Trump in
Switzerland when they had thechance.
He hardly had a chance to sitdown and talk to him when they
were doing the World Cup draw.
It was all about optics for theWorld Cup.
Here's the thing (13:01):
we know Trump is a narcissist.
We know Trump wants a pound offlesh, and we know Trump wants a
victory on everything.
Kearney's not willing to give itto him.
Kearney's not willing to doanything.
Carney is that petty businessleader who says, I'm going to do
everything but what's right.
(13:21):
I'm going to work hard as hellto make me better, but I'm not
going to make him better.
Is that the game plan you wantto take, Mr.
Kearney?
Is that what's right forCanadians?
Our economy is struggling.
We are not productive.
We're losing on a global scale.
You getting on a plane to go toQatar to sign a deal is really
(13:44):
going to make the difference toCanadians today.
It's too expensive to buy gas,even though oil prices have gone
down.
It's too expensive to buy foodbecause we have tariffs between
the provinces that areabsolutely asinine.
We have protectionismeverywhere.
I can't buy alcohol in Albertaand bring it back to Quebec
(14:05):
without a tariff, a tax.
I mean, this is what we've gotin Canada.
Mr.
Pauliev said it during thecampaign that the best thing to
do was to dismantle theinterprovincial tariffs.
You said that was a great idea.
It's almost a year, Mr.
Ernie.
What are we doing about it?
Where are we at with it?
(14:25):
I'll tell you where we're at.
He's getting together with hisbuddies soon, and he's going to
sit there and talk about thesetypes of things.
But Canadians will continue tosuffer.
And he's like a good politician.
He'll try to do it in a roundway so that he can position it,
that he'll look like a herocoming election.
It doesn't matter about you andme people.
As Canadians, we are going tostruggle.
(14:47):
Mr.
Kearney's concern is forhimself.
You see it when it comes toGaza, you see it when it comes
to Venezuela.
You see it when it comes toGreenland.
You see it to all these kinds ofthings.
Mr.
Kearney has yet to stand up forCanadians in the right way.
The speech today, I said, wasgood.
It was a good shot across thebow.
We need to send more messageslike these to the United States.
(15:09):
But we need to fix things.
Not wait until an election tofix things.
Not promise that you needanother mandate.
Canadians are tired of hearingof that.
What they need is to see resultstoday.
Take a page out of Mr.
Trump's book, Mr.
Carney.
You and your party, I know youdon't want to do this, but I'm
going to give you a suggestionfrom a neophyte business person.
(15:33):
One thing that Donald Trump saidhe was not going to do tax on
tips, and he made it pass.
He put out a big beautiful billand he got it to pass.
You may not love everythingabout the big beautiful bill,
and you may not love everythingthe way that Donald Trump does,
but he got it done.
He got stuff done in his first100 days that people didn't want
(15:55):
to, that people couldn'tbelieve.
You gotta give the guy credit.
You may not like the approach,you may even think that it was
wrong what he did with Doge, buthe discovered billions of
dollars of waste that was goingto nonsensical programs that
your tax American tax dollarswas going to.
Canada has the same problem.
We have a tons and tons oflayers of bureaucracy that Mr.
(16:15):
Carney added to.
We have tons and tons of layerswhere business people in Canada
are down.
They don't want to startbusinesses here because they
know, especially in places likeQuebec and BC, it is brutal.
We're killing our own businesspeople with our taxes, our
bureaucracy, our stupidity.
(16:36):
Revenue Canada won't even answerthe goddamn telephone.
But instead, Mr.
Kearney is running to Qatar,he's running to China, he's
running to rogued nations,enemies of the state.
Let's make deals.
How's that gonna help you,people?
How are 50,000 electric vehiclescoming to Canada gonna help you?
(16:57):
Canola oil?
Great, that's market, maybe.
But what about the rest that youpromised to fix?
unknown (17:06):
Mr.
SPEAKER_00 (17:07):
Kearney, time is ticking.
You don't have a majority, andyou are dying to get that
majority so that you can stay inpower till 2029.
But let me tell you something.
The more the Canadians sufferand struggle, and as much as the
media is gonna try to push themessage away from Pierre Polyev
and the message away that Polyevis a Trumpist and that he's a
(17:27):
nutcase and that all he does isis a is a bulldog and he's a
bully and all that kind ofstuff.
And they're gonna try to labelhim the same way they're trying
to label you know Trump in a waythat's not working.
Canadians are looking at theirpaychecks, Canadians are looking
at their tax returns.
Canadians are wondering how muchmore can they squeeze out of me,
(17:49):
and you're doing nothing aboutit.
Let me remind you, Mr.
Carney.
I get it.
We don't have an election comingup, but maybe you should act
like one and start getting shitdone.
Thanks everybody.
Really do appreciate yourpatience for today.
Stuart will be back on Friday.
Wishing you a wonderful,wonderful rest of the week.
(18:10):
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Take good care of yourselves andremember you're you to come on
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Have yourself a wonderful,wonderful day.
Hey everybody and welcome back.
The music is because I don'thave the track for our theme
song, so a little bit of musicto let you in, but an epic sound
this morning as the worldleaders gather at the Living
Mount Forum in Davos.
So an annual affair, a gettogether of major businesses,
(00:24):
business leaders, politicians,and really people who are
getting to talk about worldaffairs.
And what's fascinating is rightnow, the one thing that's on
everybody's lips going to Davosis simple.
Donald Trump's threat to takeover Greenland.
And yes, Stewart and I rantedabout it on Monday, and uh
Stewart is not here today.
(00:45):
And I'm not here to talk aboutthe position of the of Mr.
Trump and what he has decided todo rather than focus on the
Canadian angle, which we don'tget to do very often.
And the question becomes, MarkKearney, it's gonna be almost
it's gonna be almost a year thathe's been in power.
And the question becomes now,what's up?
(01:08):
What's up?
Why is it that Mr.
Kearney, in his since hiselection promises, said he was
gonna deal with the UnitedStates, he's gonna fix the
problem, and nothing's beenfixed.
There's a method to the madness,ladies and gentlemen.
There really, really is a methodto this madness, and the madness
just doesn't stop.
(01:29):
Welcome back to the RentNetwork.
My name is David Solomon.
Stuart Brisgale is out.
He's on an assignment today.
We let him go once in a while.
What we do around here is wejust love to put to surround
about all kinds of stories,politics, culture, society, you
name it, we're in it for a longhaul.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isall about stuff that people
don't want to talk about inpublic channels.
(01:51):
You won't hear this on liberalnews because of the rah-rah
matters.
You won't hear it on a lot ofdining room tables because
people are afraid to talk aboutit.
We are not.
So if you love us, great, stickaround.
This is not for you.
I'll see you again somewhere.
But in the meantime, sit backand relax.
As today, I'm gonna dissect alittle bit of Mark Kearney as
(02:12):
Prime Minister of Canada.
Now, trade has been a problem inCanada.
Justin Trudeau ruined ourrelationship with China, ruined
the relationship with India evenmore.
And Mark Kearney inherited areal big economic mess that his
(02:33):
predecessor had left behind.
Kearney was touted as theeconomic genius.
He was gonna fix the problems,and then the Canadians bought in
to his stuff.
Well, should I call it rhetoric?
Should I call it BS?
I'll leave that to you.
His resume is really impressive.
(02:54):
Governor Bank of Canada,Governor of Bank of England, led
Brookfield.
He's got a really good solidresume.
And you would say, you knowwhat, this guy could be a CEO.
And that's what he does.
He walks around like a CEO, notlike a prime minister.
And what Mark Kearney has saidfrom the beginning, in a quiet,
(03:15):
non-aggressive manner, is thathe was gonna fix all of the
problems brought on by Trudeau,but also brought on by Donald
Trump.
See, Mark Kearney employed atactic that is very, very common
in politics.
When things are good, I takecredit.
When things are bad, I'm gonnapoint the finger at somebody
else because I cannot beresponsible.
(03:36):
Mark Kearney was not in Canadianpolitics officially until 2025,
until he was elected primeminister.
So he sat back and said, wasn'tme.
You can't blame me for what I'veinherited.
But I can fix the future.
I will fix our relationship withthe United States, I will open
up new trade barriers, new tradeopportunities, and we will first
(03:57):
go on to become a prosperouscountry.
But what he did instead was takefrom Pierre Polyev and the
Conservative Party many of thosepolicies and said, it's mine.
They're mine.
Take full credit and startputting some of these in place.
But even that, even those thingswhere he said, Oh, we're gonna
(04:19):
build more homes, but we'regonna put more bureaucracy in
place.
That made a hell of a lot ofsense.
Inflation is still high, thingsare not going well, our economy
isn't in rough, unemployment isstruggling, young people are not
able to afford homes, youngpeople can't find jobs.
And Mark Carney says, Whoa,whoa, but think things are
better.
Look at me, I've made it better.
(04:41):
Mark Carney has the only thingthat he's done made better is
his air miles.
He's been traveling.
Yes, he should travel and meetpeople to negotiate appropriate
deals.
But let's start from the very,very beginning.
Where does Canada have favorabledeals?
Where does Canada, ladies andgentlemen, have opportunities to
(05:04):
be part, you know, to benefitfrom in their um in the
countries that we we do businesswith?
Where are we, folks?
Where is it?
Where are the um where are whereis the opportunity to do better?
(05:24):
Instead, what Mark Kearney hasbeen doing as prime minister has
been going around claiming thathe's looking for, like I said,
those great opportunities, thosegreat, you know, uh um, you
know, those great um uh umcountries that we can work with,
and instead of our primeminister going and really making
(05:52):
a difference with what mattersto Canadians, he's flying around
trying to find all this kind ofgoodie goody goodies.
So let's talk about it.
We have a free trade agreementwith South Korea, Ukraine,
Israel, Chile, Colombia, CostaRica, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway, Switzerland, Honduras,Jordan, Panama, and Peru.
And what does Mr.
Carney do?
(06:12):
Shit on Israel.
Yep, that's right.
All he cares about is to be onthe Gaza board and to ensure
that humanitarian aid, that'shis only priority, ensure that
primaritarian aid gets throughto the Palestinians, but who
cares about Israel?
Who cares about disarming Hamas?
Want to know where Mr.
Carney's priorities are?
(06:33):
Watch.
We have preferable agreements aswell with countries like Mexico,
the European Union, Australia,Singapore, Vietnam, United
Kingdom, and so many others.
Why aren't we going there?
Why aren't we dealing with thesecountries to find better
opportunities for us?
No, I'll tell you where he goes.
He goes to Qatar.
That's right.
Critic criticizing Donald Trumpfor going to Qatar and being,
(06:54):
you know, suckers.
The comedia has land-based theliving hell out of Donald Trump
for going to Qatar.
Now, yeah, he accepted a plane,but it was even before that.
Qatar is a terrorist state, andyet here he's making deals.
Forced investment into, as theysay, forced investment in the
United States.
(07:15):
I don't like it.
I don't like what Donald Trumpdid because they're they're a
terrorist state.
So Carney can criticize on onehand, but then he runs to Qatar.
And what's in it for Canada?
Let's wonder.
What is Qatar gonna do?
Oh, they'll invest in Canada.
Are you paying attention?
You ran to a terrorist state togo and negotiate so that you can
(07:38):
what this is the question I askmyself is what is Mr.
Kearney's real priority here?
And then Mr.
Prior, Mr.
Prime Minister did one morething.
How is it that last year Mr.
Kearney called China, quote, thebiggest security threat before
(07:59):
the election?
And then all of a sudden, heannounces a strategic
partnership just a few weeks agowith it.
He agreed to 50,000 EVs, andwhat does that do to Canadian
auto security, auto jobs?
What does that do for theCanadian auto sector?
Our auto sector is decimated nowwith a pro with the challenges,
and you agree to import 50,000made Chinese EVs.
(08:25):
What this is your deal?
Oh, yeah, don't worry about it.
We made a deal for the canolaoil and other Canadian goods.
Don't worry about it, not aproblem.
There's no guarantee that therewon't be tariffs on those.
There's no guarantee that youknow that things are gonna
happen like that and beimmediately.
Instead, we pork farmers arestill dinged at 25% for their
(08:50):
pork going to China.
unknown (08:52):
Mr.
SPEAKER_00 (08:52):
Carney, what did you accomplish?
More for Brookfield?
That you still we still we stillwon't release the numbers about
Brookfield?
The media gave you a pass.
Donald Trump had to prevent histax returns, and you had to you
had to analyze it, we had toshred it, and the Canadian media
bitched about that.
But Mr.
Kearney, uh, it doesn't reallymake a difference what Carney
(09:15):
has in his pocket.
Who cares where his money is at,where his wife is at, where the
finances are, doesn't matter.
We have a bad relationship withIndia, and if there's one thing
I will tell you is that Ibelieve that this is the right
approach, that Mr.
Kearney does need to get on aplane for India and fix that
(09:36):
relationship with thatgovernment.
The Indian government, we needthe Indian economy.
That is a massive 1.2 billion, Ibelieve, 1.3 billion people
market.
Opportunities abound forCanadians.
If the United States is not asopen, then India makes the most
(09:58):
sense.
Now, I guy, China, you would saythe numbers are the same, but
they don't play fair.
And you ran to China, XinJinping, and you made you're
trying to make an alliance, oris this the we're gonna screw
Trump alliance?
Because that seems to be whatCarney's doing.
Now, India, as I said, iscritical because since 2023,
(10:22):
Justin Trudeau destroyed ourrelationship over the so-called
slang of Hardeep Singh Ninjarhere in Canada.
Blaming India publicly killedit, killed our relationship.
unknown (10:35):
Mr.
SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
Carney has a chance to rebuild it.
And the Prime Minister is opento these ideas as in India.
But Canada has to really scratchits head and ask itself, what
are we really, really doing?
How are we promoting ourselveson the international stage?
I just listed a whole bunch ofcountries where we have free
trade agreements, where we haveyou know favorable agreements.
(10:57):
Why aren't we going back tothose favorable agreement
countries and negotiating betterdeals?
No, but that is not what is inMr.
Kearney's mind.
Mr.
Kearney is in it for Mr.
Carney.
Today he was in Davos.
Today he was at the WorldEconomic Forum, and today he
gave a very riveting speech.
Hey, listen, I gotta call it aspade a spade.
(11:19):
I give credit to Mr.
Kearney where credit is due.
He called out Trump.
And with Stuart not here to yellat me, let me tell you, he
needed to call out Trump.
Today we're not in a world whereyou're threatening your allies
the way Mr.
Trump did.
I want Greenland or else.
You're going to negotiate orelse.
And you're going to punishEurope and you're going to
punish Canada simply because youwant Greenland.
(11:42):
This is not the 19th centuryempires of Britain, France,
Germany, and the rest of theworld.
This is not the Ottoman Empirethat just goes in and just grabs
whatever they want.
We're in 2026.
It's a different world.
We do not want to return to anolder order.
But to sit here and deflex andsay, yeah, but you need us for
NATO and you need us for world,that's great, but that's not how
(12:04):
this works.
Unfortunately, the PrimeMinister is a good speaker.
Very much like Obama.
He could speak really, reallywell.
Smart guy, who's words likehedge money.
And that's important.
We should be, you know, showingCanada should take a step in the
(12:25):
right direction of being astrong leader.
We're not the United States, butwe are a member of the G7,
albeit at the bottom of that,but that does is not the point.
The point is that Canada canhave influence on the global
scale.
And Canada can be a good partnerto the US and to other
countries.
(12:45):
But Mr.
Carney decided he wasn't goingto meet Donald Trump in
Switzerland when they had thechance.
He hardly had a chance to sitdown and talk to him when they
were doing the World Cup draw.
It was all about optics for theWorld Cup.
Here's the thing (13:01):
we know Trump is a narcissist.
We know Trump wants a pound offlesh, and we know Trump wants a
victory on everything.
Kearney's not willing to give itto him.
Kearney's not willing to doanything.
Carney is that petty businessleader who says, I'm going to do
everything but what's right.
(13:21):
I'm going to work hard as hellto make me better, but I'm not
going to make him better.
Is that the game plan you wantto take, Mr.
Kearney?
Is that what's right forCanadians?
Our economy is struggling.
We are not productive.
We're losing on a global scale.
You getting on a plane to go toQatar to sign a deal is really
(13:44):
going to make the difference toCanadians today.
It's too expensive to buy gas,even though oil prices have gone
down.
It's too expensive to buy foodbecause we have tariffs between
the provinces that areabsolutely asinine.
We have protectionismeverywhere.
I can't buy alcohol in Albertaand bring it back to Quebec
(14:05):
without a tariff, a tax.
I mean, this is what we've gotin Canada.
Mr.
Pauliev said it during thecampaign that the best thing to
do was to dismantle theinterprovincial tariffs.
You said that was a great idea.
It's almost a year, Mr.
Ernie.
What are we doing about it?
Where are we at with it?
(14:25):
I'll tell you where we're at.
He's getting together with hisbuddies soon, and he's going to
sit there and talk about thesetypes of things.
But Canadians will continue tosuffer.
And he's like a good politician.
He'll try to do it in a roundway so that he can position it,
that he'll look like a herocoming election.
It doesn't matter about you andme people.
As Canadians, we are going tostruggle.
(14:47):
Mr.
Kearney's concern is forhimself.
You see it when it comes toGaza, you see it when it comes
to Venezuela.
You see it when it comes toGreenland.
You see it to all these kinds ofthings.
Mr.
Kearney has yet to stand up forCanadians in the right way.
The speech today, I said, wasgood.
It was a good shot across thebow.
We need to send more messageslike these to the United States.
(15:09):
But we need to fix things.
Not wait until an election tofix things.
Not promise that you needanother mandate.
Canadians are tired of hearingof that.
What they need is to see resultstoday.
Take a page out of Mr.
Trump's book, Mr.
Carney.
You and your party, I know youdon't want to do this, but I'm
going to give you a suggestionfrom a neophyte business person.
(15:33):
One thing that Donald Trump saidhe was not going to do tax on
tips, and he made it pass.
He put out a big beautiful billand he got it to pass.
You may not love everythingabout the big beautiful bill,
and you may not love everythingthe way that Donald Trump does,
but he got it done.
He got stuff done in his first100 days that people didn't want
(15:55):
to, that people couldn'tbelieve.
You gotta give the guy credit.
You may not like the approach,you may even think that it was
wrong what he did with Doge, buthe discovered billions of
dollars of waste that was goingto nonsensical programs that
your tax American tax dollarswas going to.
Canada has the same problem.
We have a tons and tons oflayers of bureaucracy that Mr.
(16:15):
Carney added to.
We have tons and tons of layerswhere business people in Canada
are down.
They don't want to startbusinesses here because they
know, especially in places likeQuebec and BC, it is brutal.
We're killing our own businesspeople with our taxes, our
bureaucracy, our stupidity.
(16:36):
Revenue Canada won't even answerthe goddamn telephone.
But instead, Mr.
Kearney is running to Qatar,he's running to China, he's
running to rogued nations,enemies of the state.
Let's make deals.
How's that gonna help you,people?
How are 50,000 electric vehiclescoming to Canada gonna help you?
(16:57):
Canola oil?
Great, that's market, maybe.
But what about the rest that youpromised to fix?
unknown (17:06):
Mr.
SPEAKER_00 (17:07):
Kearney, time is ticking.
You don't have a majority, andyou are dying to get that
majority so that you can stay inpower till 2029.
But let me tell you something.
The more the Canadians sufferand struggle, and as much as the
media is gonna try to push themessage away from Pierre Polyev
and the message away that Polyevis a Trumpist and that he's a
(17:27):
nutcase and that all he does isis a is a bulldog and he's a
bully and all that kind ofstuff.
And they're gonna try to labelhim the same way they're trying
to label you know Trump in a waythat's not working.
Canadians are looking at theirpaychecks, Canadians are looking
at their tax returns.
Canadians are wondering how muchmore can they squeeze out of me,
(17:49):
and you're doing nothing aboutit.
Let me remind you, Mr.
Carney.
I get it.
We don't have an election comingup, but maybe you should act
like one and start getting shitdone.
Thanks everybody.
Really do appreciate yourpatience for today.
Stuart will be back on Friday.
Wishing you a wonderful,wonderful rest of the week.
(18:10):
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