WEBVTT - Future of Canada - January 7th, Hour 2 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.240 Height our two Sean Hannity Show toll free. Here is 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.280 our number. It's eight hundred and nine point one, Shawn, 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.559 if you want to be a part of the program. So, 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:13.320 the issue of Canada being the fifty first state Panama, 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.720 whether or not they are allowing Chinese control over the 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:21.200 Panama Canal without which, without the help of the United 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.320 States would not exist, certainly one of the worst deals 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.840 ever made by an American president and ratified by the 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.240 US Senate, I think in history has taken center stage 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.839 and Donald Trump Junior arriving in Greenland saying well, it's 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.400 time to make Greenland great again. And this is what 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:48.120 he said, pins in. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.559 You love and I can go up there with his 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.080 two very talented friends. 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.600 And the other the other gred blood of other people. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.160 So I just want to say that we're very it's 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.800 a very special place. It's need security for itself, but 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.160 it also needs security very much for the world. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.800 The location really you see the people that the ships 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.160 sailing around. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.120 And then not the right chans and then not the 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.600 ships you want to know about. So we need security 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.000 in the car country. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.160 Deson and all the world desent. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:33.400 So strategically, look, thank you everybody. Yeah, we're learning a lot. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.480 It's been great, actually, incredibly beautiful place. The people are incredible, the. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.760 Welcome was uh spectacular. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:41.560 Uh, it's pretty amazing. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.560 Well last break. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.039 Were you got a good time everybody, and we're going 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.120 to treat you well and you know that and just 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:49.240 take care of yourself. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:50.240 Thank you, Oliver. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:56.680 You anyway, So that was the trip, Don Junior Maid 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.160 and President Trump calling into it. It seems to have 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.120 some people just it's a little shock and awe, which 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.080 we told you was going to happen. A lot of 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.400 people didn't listen to us, Like a lot of people 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.680 didn't listen to the lead up of the election. I've 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.440 made the argument that I think that legacy media is dead. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:20.320 Those people ABC, NBC, CBS, MSDNC, Fake New, CNN, The 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.880 Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, they're all dead 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:30.720 because they spent nine long years and they had one mission, 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.600 one fixation, one focus, and that was to hate all 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.840 things Donald Trump and to basically be an extension of 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:45.080 all things liberal, radical democrat. Their press office, and they 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.840 didn't tell people the truth. They didn't tell people the 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.640 truth about what was happening at our borders. They didn't 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.480 tell people the truth about the economy. They didn't tell 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.600 people the truth about why you were paying a buck 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:00.480 buck fifty more per gallon per gasoline. They just moving 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:05.280 forward with their woke agenda. They were not exactly transparent 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.520 when it came to Joe's cognitive decline. They weren't transparent 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.600 about the war in Ukraine. And they're sending billions and 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:16.359 billions of dollars rather than de escalating that situation, or 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.239 the lack of support for Israel for that matter, and 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.000 they paid a very dear price. You know, people ask 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:23.960 me all the time, what about the future of media. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.519 I was on the ground floor of a transformation, which 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.519 was talk radio and then the Fox News Channel, which 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.600 continues to do well thanks to all of you. And 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.640 I think now with social media and the developments with 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.840 meta in particular today, I think they're very relevant. The 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.160 President addressed that in his press conference, as I mentioned earlier, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:52.040 and social media in general, podcasting in general. It's a 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.400 new world out there, and I think those people that 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.960 will survive and thrive are going to be people that 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.640 tell the truth. Such person that was bucking that trend 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.400 throughout the entire twenty twenty four election cycle and saying 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.680 things that his former colleagues, former friends at Big Networks 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.080 didn't particularly like. Is Mark Cowpert. And he's the editor 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.840 in chief of this new interactive video platform. It's called 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.520 two Way, and it's growing by leaps and bounds. And 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:21.880 it's great to have you back. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.799 How are you, Sean, Thank you for the kind words, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.600 Happy new year. Great to be back with you. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.880 One thing that we did, the two of us individually, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.720 and then we compared notes on every single day. And 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.800 this is what I never understood about the media in 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.960 this election is we were getting early voting numbers and 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:46.440 there were nowhere near the numbers that Democrats had had 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.320 in twenty twenty. For example, on election Day, I went 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.479 on I went on with with Dana Perino and Bill 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.760 Hemmer at nine o'clock in the morning that morning, and 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.960 I said, starting out today, Kamala Harris has a math problem. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.720 He's down set one hundred thousand votes from where Joe 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.600 Biden was in twenty twenty. She need a massive turnout, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.960 a historic turnout in Philly Alleghany County for her to 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:12.040 catch up. He's down forty five percent in Wisconsin and 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.320 she would need a massive turnout in cities like Milwaukee 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.680 for her to make up background, it would have to 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.480 be a historic turnout. All day long, I was calling 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.679 my friends and sources and all these locations and finding 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.279 out they were not getting historic turnout. And we saw 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.840 it coming. And I remember even writing you once or 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.400 texting you and saying, am I missing something here? And 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:35.560 you told me I was not. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.000 Now I mean election day. You're right, it was emphatic. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.800 But even two weeks out when early voting started, I said, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.320 about three days into the sort of the first trons 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.040 of early voting, I said, if things stay like this, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.840 we won't need election night. Well know, on the morning of, 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.920 And as you say, our colleagues, for some reason, just 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.680 decided to ignore the data. This isn't about rooting for 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.280 Trump or having a gut feeling about Mega. It was 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.200 just the mass, and for some reason they wanted to 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.480 buy the Democratic spin that well, the late deciders were 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.560 going to go decisively for Harris. No evidence of that 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.000 either during the campaign or on election day, or you know, 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.120 these are not votes that matter because they're just Republicans 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.440 voting early who would have voted on election day. I 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.120 found it all very confusing. Because again it was just 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.200 straight reporting and it wasn't hard to find. You could 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.880 even find Democrats who said, we're super worried because what 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.600 makes everybody think we're going to have a superhuman turnout 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:35.400 on election day? 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.480 Well they would have, they would have. That would need 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.560 to be historic. And the interesting thing, if you want 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.520 to say it's interesting, is the madness continues even to 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.720 this day. I mean, yesterday was January sixth, and if 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.400 you turn on a lot of legacy media, all they 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.560 wanted to do, like on ABC and that hard hitting 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.520 news show, the view, they're comparing January sixth to the cost, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.360 and they're doing it on you know, pretty much every 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.400 single channel. And they seem to have doubled down on 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.920 stupid and they learned nothing from this campaign. And I 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.000 assumed that the American people will continue to distrust them 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.600 because they've given them no reason to trust them. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.280 Well, the ongoing story that I find the most just 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.440 sort of incredible from the press point of view is 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.360 the Biden mental acuity issue. You read piece after piece 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.920 about Joe Biden's final days, Joe Biden's legacy, Joe Biden's 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.360 you know, maneuvering to make certain decisions in the final Fortnite, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.080 and the articles don't mention his cognitive decline or the 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.440 fact that he was unable to he was forced to 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.400 give up the nomination because he had no chance to win. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.920 And I said, since election day, if the press doesn't 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.120 come clean on not just the failure to cover it, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.680 but its role in the conspiracy to cover it up, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.320 how could they possibly expect to have credibility going forward? 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:05.360 And yet that continues, it continues, It's barely mentioned, and 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.840 when it is mentioned, it's mentioned as a political issue, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.200 as opposed to the national security issue and the credibility 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.160 issue of a White House, which to this day says 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.360 Joe Biden has no cognitive decline. Joe Biden is perfectly 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.080 capable of doing the job. Joe Biden didn't give up 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.680 the nomination because he had a cognitive decline. He gave 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.640 it up for unspecified their reasons about the good of 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:32.240 the country. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.480 It was before the twenty twenty election, correct me if 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.079 I'm wrong. Wasn't it before then when Joe said, we 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.199 hold these truth to be self evident, that all men 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.480 and women, his words, not mine, were created by all 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.360 you know, Oh, the thing, the thing you know God, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.280 Joe the creator of everything, endowed by their creator Joe 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.760 the Creator of everything. But I was they ignored moments 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.160 like that, and when I criticized them, and I'm I'm 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.960 a conservative. I don't even know where you stand politically. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.120 To be honest with you, I've never asked you. But 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.319 I mean, I was excoriated for pointing out something's wrong here. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.280 Well, I'm just an old fashioned reporter. I'm for the 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.440 public interest. Look, you're right, there were things leading up 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.520 to twenty twenty. He couldn't have won with that COVID. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:27.640 COVID allowed him to hide. But in twenty seventeen, I've 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.760 told this story before. In twenty seventeen, I saw him 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.640 to a book tour event, and this is after he 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.199 left the office as vice president, well before he announced 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.520 he was running. And I said, after the book event 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.720 to my wife, I'm so glad he's out of public life. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.960 I'm so glad he'll never be asked to do anything 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:47.920 again that involves speaking in public, because he was exactly 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.840 the way he is now. He'd lost his train of thought. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.320 It was a book event, he was being questioned by 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.760 a very friendly interviewer, and he could barely get through it. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.600 He was glassy eyed, he was lethargic, as I said, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.599 lost train of thought. This was three years before he 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.360 ran the first time. So the notion that this is 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.880 some sort of secret, you know, you read these stories now. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.800 And Wall Street Journal wrote the story that got a 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.640 lot of attention that say, behind the scenes, people say, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.840 you know this was happening to seventy. You don't need 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.880 behind the scenes. It was all happening in public. And 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.760 yet again, not only did the media not write about it, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.760 they covered it up, and then they still having something 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.200 clean about their role in the cover up. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.280 It's so true. Did you see Meet the Press this 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.120 weekend and Chuck Schumer's questioning on this very topic, he 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.719 got very defensive when asked about whether he knew that 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.959 Joe was incognitive decline. The answer is we know for 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.000 a fact they all did, and that they all covered 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.680 it up. They all lied about it. New York Post 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.599 has a piece today, Well, what about the people that 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.040 covered this up? Don't they have didn't they have an 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.360 obligation of the country to tell us. New York Post 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.920 had an editorial today, Stop lying, Chuck. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.520 It was unfortunate. You know, he's a skillful guy, and 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.040 he finessed his way through. I give credit to the 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.160 interviewer for asking, but she let him get away with 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.079 giving an answer that makes no sense. You know, George Clooney, 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.800 to his credit, belatedly acknowledged what he saw at a 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.600 fundraiser late in the campaign that led him to call 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:26.560 join them. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.520 Well, was it really to his credit or do you 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.679 suspect as I do that I got a call from 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.079 his friend and I know their friends, Barack Obama, and 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.520 was asked to do this as part of this coalition 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.840 that was created to basically kick Joe out of Obama 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:42.960 Pelosi and Schumer. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.120 Was it was part of that effort. But but you know, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.880 I like to give credit for effort, and he spoke 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.520 out before others were still unwilling to speak out. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.840 You know what it was weeks after he had praised 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.079 Joe Biden. I don't give him as much credit as 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.319 you do. He had been with Joe Biden that some 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:05.160 fundraiser praising. Yeah, now, so I think it was the 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.640 expediency part of a plan. They didn't think he could win, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.520 and it was all about winning at that point. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.440 I agree, and I was going to make that point 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.079 which is those who did it did it not because 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.800 they suddenly said, you know what, the country deserves a 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.200 president who can do the job. It was because they 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.199 thought not only that he would lose. And this is 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.160 a particular concern to Speaker Pelosi that it would drag 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:33.360 other Democrats down. But they're politicians, right, and Biden's politician. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.839 They're going to act out of self interest. It's the 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.520 press whose obligation is not to hurt Donald Trump and 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.520 prop up Joe Biden. Their obligation is to sakeguard the 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.560 public interest and to tell the truth to the American people. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.679 It's the press whose behavior, to me is more outrageous 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.880 and more requiring of explanation than the politicians. The politician said, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.040 this guy's got impairment, but we don't want Trump to win, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.960 and if he steps aside, it will probably be here 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.720 and she can't win, So we're going to prop him up. Irresponsible, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.120 but again political behavior. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.880 All right, quick freak. We'll come back more with Mark 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.920 Calpern on the other side. Your calls coming up. Eight 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.080 hundred and nine to four one, Shawn our number if 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.480 you want to be a part of the program. As 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.080 we roll along this busy News Tuesday, and we continue 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.360 now with our friend Mark Halpert is with us. In 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.040 two thousand and seven, I declared journalism is dead, and 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.120 now I officially have declared legacy media is dead. How 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.880 do your former colleagues at these major networks treat you? 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:33.880 I'm just curious. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.240 I mean the one where my friends treat me fine. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.360 I don't have tons of interaction with just kind of 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.600 the rank and file, but they a lot of them 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.240 watch two Way and they like to Way because they 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.600 recognize that that it's not it's the ideology is part 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.640 of it, but it's also just quality. It's it's authenticity, 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.679 it's journal You were telling. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.679 Truth that they were not willing to step forward and 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.680 tell themselves on that stuff. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.960 They ignore it because very few of them are willing 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.240 to even confront it. They pretend it doesn't exist. They 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.439 pretend there's not liberal media buys. It's bizarre. I've doubted 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.120 in my whole career. I worked with a few people 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.480 like Peter Jennings who acknowledge it existed. You know, Michael 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.280 Jordan used to say he didn't endorse Democrats because Republicans 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.360 buy sneakers too. I don't understand the place that's in 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.000 the business of selling news that says, you know what, 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.320 We're not interested in selling it to half the country. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.800 We're gonna We're gonna cut our market share in half. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:34.120 I don't get that. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.920 You know, more liberals watch that watch cable news, watch 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.520 Fox News than any other cable channel. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.200 The Fox numbers are so big. More of everything watches 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:44.800 Fox News. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.040 Well no, but I mean it's it is interesting and 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.040 oh I know, uh, but they do allow conservative voices 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.880 like mine. But I'm also a truth seeker and I 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.040 tell truth and sometimes I have to tell truth that 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.840 I don't even want to tell about, uh, Conservatives and Republicans. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.480 But I just you know, I owe it to my 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.760 audience to always be truthful. But anyway, Mark Alprin, Happy 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.720 new year, my friend, God bless you and keep up 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.600 the good work. We're going to pay very close attention 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.120 to your work throughout the year. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:15.880 Thank you, sir. Good to talk to you. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.680 Take care all right, it's getting very interesting what is 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:26.480 happening with Canada and Little Justin now being out? There 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:31.360 was an interesting National Review Canada's Financial Post article on 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.080 how Canada and their economy has gone to hell under 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.880 Little Justin Trudeau not a fan of his. It looks 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:44.640 like Canada is on track to move dramatically to the center. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.080 Donald Trump addressed it today. I thought it was very 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:53.760 very interesting that he would literally be very interested in 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:58.560 in joining forces with Canada. And anyway, here's what the 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.480 President said earlier today and what he said about justin. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:08.080 Trudeau said, you're considering military force to acquire anima in Greenland? 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.640 Are you also considering military force to. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:16.320 Annex acquire no economic force? Because Canada and the United States, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.960 that would really be something. You get rid of that 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.320 artificially drawn line and you take a look at what 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.800 that looks like, and it would also be much better 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.840 for national security. You don't forget. We basically protect Canada. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.960 But here's the problem with Canada. So many friends up there. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.160 I love the Canadian people, They're great. We're spending hundreds 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.800 of billions a year to take care of Canada. We 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.520 lose in trade deficits, we're losing mass. We don't need 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.920 their cars. You know, they make twenty percent of our cars. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:48.880 We don't need that. I'd rather make them in Detroit. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.000 We don't need anything, So why are we losing two 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.920 hundred billion dollars a year and more to protect Canada. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.880 And I said that too, as I called them Governor Trudeau, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.640 I said, listen, what would happen if we didn't subsidize you, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.840 if we didn't because we give them a lot of money. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:06.399 We help them. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.280 As an example, we're buying icebreakers, and Canada wants to 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.000 join us in the buying of icebreakers. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:12.960 I said, you know, we. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.840 Don't really want to have a partner in the buying 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.560 of icebreakers. We don't need a partner. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.920 It's over fifty three billion more dollars in goods and 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.960 services that come into Canada each year then we export 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.760 to Canada. That's how big the trade deficit is. On 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.080 top of that, you can really make the argument that 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.119 but for the United States and its military might, Canada 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.480 would not be doing as well. The US provides millions 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.040 of dollars in foreign assistance to Canada every year, and 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.240 we now have seen in just the last number of years, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.359 for example, on the issue of the border, the border 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:58.160 patrol chief at the Northern Border has said they've apprehended 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.479 nearly twenty thousand illegals from ninety seven countries in fiscal 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.200 year twenty twenty four. That is higher than the prior 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.800 seventeen years combined, which is unheard of. They're not doing 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.639 their part in terms of controlling the border. On the 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.240 local front. If you go before the pandemic, the Canada's 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.960 national income per head, which was the equivalent to about 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.040 eighty percent of America's in the decade before the pandemic, 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.399 is will be just seventy percent this year, according to 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.480 the economists, and it further goes on to say the 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.800 gap between the Canadian and American economies has now reached 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.600 its widest point in nearly a century. The US continues 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.120 to be on track to produce nearly fifty percent more 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:43.360 per person than Canada will, and the Financial Post goes 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.840 on to say nearly three million people living in Canada 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.960 have some type of temporary immigration status, with two point 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.240 two million arriving in just the past two years, and 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.760 temporary residents now represent a wopping six point eight percent 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.720 of the country's total population of forty one point three million, 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.600 up you know, from three point five percent in twenty 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.359 twenty two. They do nothing to control their borders and 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.320 they have a problem there anyway. Joining us now is 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:14.000 John Baird. He's the former Canadian Foreign Minister John Welcome 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:15.400 to the program. Glad you're on board. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.119 Great to be with you. Sean. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.000 First of all, we love our friends to the north. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.280 We love Canada like you. I have a shared passion 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.639 for a hockey Every Canadian that I know does, I 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.240 assume you do. I hope I'm right in my assumption. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.760 But on so many levels, I would argue that the 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.159 problems that Canada is facing our self induced based on 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:42.199 the policies that Justin Trudeau espoused in the country. Am 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:42.560 I wrong? 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.000 Well, Canada is not a broken country, but we've got 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.560 a broken government. Everything. Everything is going wrong here, whether 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:54.800 it's incompetent, macroeconomic policies, high taxes, big get woke and 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.879 put the correct leadership, cost of living going out of control. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.600 That's why we in Canada need a change into the government. 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.960 And it all started to accelerate on Monday when True 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.560 threw in the towel. He did not retire because he 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.280 wanted to. He retired because of the Conservative Party here 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.680 and we have a five party system, Sean at five 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.720 party system with first past the post, the Conservative parties 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.280 leading by ten or twenty five percent and just about 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.920 every public opinion poll in the last eighteen months. So 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:26.280 the change will be coming to Canada. We can rebuild 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.720 the rebuild the economy and make it give it the 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:30.679 government that it deserves. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.159 What do you think about and do you understand President 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.920 Trump's position about the trade deficit which is massive, the 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.840 problem at our northern border, which you're also experiencing internally 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.879 in Canada, and your military reliance on the US. 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.760 Yeah, let me say the number of things. One is, 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.840 obviously the United States is our closest friend. We think 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.880 that we consider each other almost like family. We can 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.760 step up and do a better job. Let's look at 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:03.280 those trade I mean, the trades surplus is almost entirely 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.760 oil and gas, which goes to US refineries, which creates 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.560 literally tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of jobs. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:12.320 Not a good thing for the United States is it 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.840 gives the United States power with respect to energy and 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.360 oil and gas. But on defense, we've done our share 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.880 of the heavy lifting. You know, during the war in Afghanistan, 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.080 we suffered more casualties and just about any other country 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.480 out of the United States and the United Kingdom because 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.160 we were doing our share of the heavy lifting. In Canada, 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.240 Heart Province the toughest area within the United States, within 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.080 the Afghanistan. When the President Obama was targeting ISIS, Canada 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:38.399 was one of the only countries that was in the 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:42.199 United Kingdom to bomb IIS targets in both Syria and Iraq. 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.040 But we can do better. We can step up our 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.080 game and be a better partner on security and defense. 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:50.760 And that includes obviously doing our part to raise our 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.359 defense spending. And that's where the United States can help us. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.480 You know, obviously the US is like Canada, has a 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:00.159 lot of has a lot of military procurement economy, and 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:01.639 there's a lot we can get. You know, when I 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:03.800 was in government, we got the and I was a conservative. 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:05.680