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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on up there now that current question.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I think many Canadians are wondering the same thing for
themselves right now. Basically, all the drama arose on Monday
when our deputy prime minister, her name is chrispher freeand
penned her resignation letter and it was sort of a
nice in the back, not just for a little bit
of context. Obviously, in Canada we have a prime minister,
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not a president, and we don't have anything. We don't
have anyone with the same level of power that your
vice president would have in America. Instead, what often happens
is the prime minister will appoint himself a deputy prime
minister that's essentially his second, his right hand beneath him.
And so Justin Trudeau had appointed Christy Freulan as his
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deputy prime minister, and she's also the Finance minister. She's
been in this role for a number of years now.
She was first elected with Justin Trudea back in twenty
fifteen and has been really a key staple in his
cabinet ever since. She also held the Foreign Affairs portfolio
pro period, and she's taken a lot of bullets for
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Justin Trudeau. Over the years were a lot of egg
on her face to help the Prime minister escape you know,
scandals and controversy. And even in the last number of years,
Canadians has been very upset with the Finance Center. She
was the individual who announced that the Trudeau Liberal government
would be freezing Canadians Bank's accounts to those who were
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involved with the Freedom Convoy back in twenty twenty two.
Oh way, sure you remember that as it was?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, I do, and I've last I've got the audio
for it. Two handlets. Let's let's remind folks, because she
laughed as she was doing this.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
It was just in city have been frozen, and more
accounts will be frozen. Accounts have been frozen, accounts have
been frozen.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It just so, I mean, I couldn't believe what I
was watching at the time. I was this, you know,
communist China or was it Canada? And I know folks
inside the country just as shocked by it as well.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Exactly, And I think a number of us remain shocked
and almost traumatized that this dark period happened in our
nation's history, and in many senses, we're still living under it,
because we are living under the government that passed these policies,
and at that time I was a reporter up in
auto I was in that press conference when that was announced.
I covered the freedom called a very very closely. Never
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see anything like it in their country, and in a
lot of senses it does for a lot of Canadians,
I think, raise a sense of national pride and national
unity and patriotism when we think about it, and we
think about the truckers and the people that came to
Autawa to protest for our civil liberties, and then just
the response of the government that hate freedom loving Canadian
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and hates people who want the ability to choose what
they're going to put in our own bodies. So that
is something that has really defined Canada in the years since.
And Christy Frilland is unlikable and as unpopular as Justin
Trudeau himself. So in the context of her resigning, just
to get back into that a little bit, she essentially
put forward her resignation letter and said that her and
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the Prime Minister had been disagreeing over the past couple
of weeks, and she said that the Prime Minister had
on Friday asked her to step down from the role
of Finance and that they were going to move her
into the sort of a vague US Canada trade relationship role,
so she would act as a negotiator as she has
in the past. So that's very interesting in and of itself,
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because we know that US President elect Donald Trump doesn't
like Christie Freeland. We've known that for some years. He
said that when they were renegotiating NAFTA, because she was
a lead negotiator on that file at the time, and
Donald Trump come out and said, we do not like
Canada's a negotiator. So it was interesting that Trudeau thought
that would have been a good role for her, considering
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the tension between her and President elect Trump. And then
in the letter, Christopheren basically went on and said, you
know that Trudeau needed to get focused on the economy
and he needed to stop with the political gimmicks, and
that they hadn't really agreed as to how to approach
the tariffs and Donald Trump. So that's really where the
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Trump angle comes in, because you know, Canadians and Canadian
politicians have been sort of in panic mode over this
threat of twenty five percent tariffs of all Canadian goods
entering the US market and understandably. So it is a
massive text. And we have politicians like my Premier hand Alberta,
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who's been saying we need to
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address the border irritants so that we you know, we
don't see the threat of tariffs coming in. And then
we have other politicians who seemed to be taking this
issue quite a bit more likely politicians like Justin Trudeau.
So it was a big exit from Christie on Monday.
She's been told she was going to remove from the
position of Finance minister on Friday. She guess she saw
led over the weekend and on Monday released this resignation
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letter sort of niceing Trudeau in the back on the
way out, causing a political storm up in Ottawa on Monday.
And one of the most interesting to admits reflections I
heard about it is basically the Trudeau government is a
government in improv They had no plan on Monday. They
did not know that Christopherun would be resigning. The Prime
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Minister's office did not know that Christie Falun would be
resigning until they saw that letter. They did not know
who was going to be the next finance minister because
the man that they had tapped for the position, allegedly
Marc Carney. He then was releasing leek saying that he
wasn't actually that interested in the job, and so they
quickly had to go around the Liberal MPs they hadn't
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tried to find someone to take that role, bring them
into the scorn and all the exact same day they
were supposed to be releasing a fall economic update, and
eventually they had one of their MP's just table the
economic update and they didn't actually do the proper budgetary
release that they would normally go over and have a
presentation and have reporters ask questions about it. So it's
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really just been a government in panic mode. And Trudeau
has been extremely low in the polls about the past
two years now and it's not getting any better, and
so everyone's kind of looking at this and saying, is
this finally the end of Justin Trudeau?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So I guess the question that it just remains to
be seen here, But is this Trump effect? It's kind
of what we're looking at. Is this thing going international
is just to switch up, to shake up and what
may come here going to have a bigger impact on
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the rest of the world. I know Trudeau has definitely
been very vulnerable. I think there are a lot of
world leaders that have had those cracks, but he certainly
has in a lot of ways, kind of the way
that Biden Biden has here, all the pressure that came
from times of COVID and all the rest of it
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have really shown people who we're dealing with in a
number of different ways, a kind of an opportunity to
be able to shine a light on who these people
are and what they really want to do.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Exactly. And not only has the COVID nineteen pandemic accid
in that, but the way that our economy is strugle.
Our economy is far worse off in Canada, that is
in the United States. The way that the Trudeau government
has been bailing in immigrants from all over the world, well,
Canadians can barely afford a house, while the weight lines
for doctors and at hospitals are astronomically. He might have
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seen that headline the other day that a man went
into the hospital he was assessed as non emergency. After
waiting six hours in a Canadian hospital emergency room to
see a doctor, he still had not seen a doctor,
so he gave up and went home as many of
us would, and he later died that night because when
he came into the hospital first place, he should have
been treated as an emergency patient and seen right away.
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This is the situation that we're dealing with in Canada.
Canadians have been sidelined by our federal government. We are
treated as second to the immigrants that we welcome into
our country, to the asylum seekers that we pay to
house in hotels, and Canadians are fed up with it.
We want to be able to afford homes again. We
want to be able to go see our family doctors.
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There isn't even enough schools anymore to house all the
students who are coming into the country. So Canadians are
really really set up with this government. And that is
one of a number of reasons. Another one firearms. The
Trudeer government is targeting law abiding firearms owner. It's very
difficult to get a firearm in this country. People who
are firearms owners legally have gone through a number of
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measures to be able to have a permit and to
be able to hold their firearms. And the truder government, arbitrarily,
without passing legislation, made a rule they were going to
be confiscating a number of variations of firearms that people
possess legally, and in the most recent iteration they added
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more of these firearms to the list. These are guns
that are used for sports shooters, These are guns that
are used by hunters to protect their livestock. These are
guns that are used by hunters and farmers. So this
was just a total arbitrary decision that was made. And
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the Tutor government also have the goals to say that
they were maybe going to be stealing these weapons, which
is what it is. They're going to be stealing Canadians
legally acquired property. And they actually have the goal to
say that they were maybe going to be sending the
guns to the Ukraine to help in to help aid
Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Like total propaganda, the
joke that Ukraine would go and the Ukrainians would go
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and they would open a barrel, they would see a
number of of hunting rifles.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right, So I had to kids in camp. It's just
because it's so fake, right, So two people, they don't
buy that, do they. It's just it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What's propaganda? I think people who don't know anything about
firearms could maybe see a world in which that would happen.
If you don't really think it through, you think, oh, maybe,
you know, maybe Ukraine does want those firearms, not realizing that,
you know, weapons are standardized for a reason. So the
Trudeau government is really a government that's at the end
of its reign. And there you know, that's why we're
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seeing a lot of these sick political tactics to try
to garner attention, and they obviously have lost the Canadian
people because of the policy that they are putting out
is really not resonating. It's tending to have quite a
bit of the opposite effect. And so the interesting tibit
with Christopher and resigning is, you know, it's really an
acknowledgment of her trying to save her own political career.
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Jesse Trudeau is going to go down in a ball
of flames. She is jumping off of that ship before
it is too late. And she is at the same
time knowledging that when there is a Liberal leadership race,
she's most likely going to be putting her name for it.
And this is really the disacto star of the Liberal
leadership campaign, and she is signaling that she will be
a contender. And I just saw an interesting t had
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been online was that there was actually the Liberal Party
in Canada Christmas party last night, if you can actually
believe that, And I'm seeing some sort of first hand
accounts that the line for photos at that party was
actually longer for Christie Freeland than it was for Canada's
Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So what happens next and how soon will it happen?
If Trudeau's got to go?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well Trueau has said that he plans to stay on
as the Prime minister and as the leader of his
party for the time being, but he also said that
he is going to reflect on his future. I think
a lot of people are thinking he will decide to
step down because there doesn't seem to be a passboard
for him anymore. The calls coming for him trees I
are mounting from within his cabinet, from within his caucus,
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as well as from former Liberal on peace who even
served underhand but have since resigned. So I would be
surprised if he sees a passpoor to stay on, and
hearing speculation that he could step down before Parliament returns
typically returns at the end of January. They're on breaks
now for the Christmas holidays and it extends well onto January.
So while people are saying he will not be returning,
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when the House of Commons comes back in late January,
he will step down and we will see a Liberal
leadership race. Another reason that this theory seems to be
true is because the opposition leaders in the House of
Commons also calling on Trudeau to step down the block
of black clause saying he stepped down. That's one of
our opposition parties, the leader of the NDP is calling
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on trudeaut to step down. And if if these opposition
parties decided to have the vote of non confidence they
could actually bring down the government, then that would trigger
a federal election here in Canada, which, let's be clear,
is what the Canadian people really want. The Liberals are
down twenty points in the polls, trailing their Conservatives, they
have been for sometimes for some time. What Canadians really
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want and what they really deserve at this point is
a federal election. But obviously the Liberals are going to
do what they can to hold onto power, and if
that means having a leadership race versus a federal election,
and that will probably be the avenue they pursue Rachel Parker.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
She's got the latest from Canada, True North Center, the
shows that host the Rachel Parker's Show and Rachel and
the Republic both there where else can folks find you?
Obviously on X A great follow there, Rachel.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, well I'm on X. The name is Rachel Parker.
May use your name is at Emmanuel Underscore Rah, just
because when I made my account I was not married,
so a little bit of a distinction. There quite hard
to change your use name on X, as I'm sure
you know. And then we have our website, True nor
Trunor Center for Public Policy, but you can find all
of our content on YouTube. I do a little bit
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of the America coverage. I was actually at the assassination
attempt of US President elect Donald Trump and Butler Pennsylvania
because I was on the campaign trail this summer. I
know we talked a little bit about that justin when
it all went down. Yeah, you can find all our
content on YouTube under True North.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I'll have to have it back on and talk about
the latest updates and maybe that story one of these
days too. Rachel. Always a pleasure. Thank you so much
for taking the time to be here.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
With us today Thanks so much,