Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yew. Last night's huge news coming out of Canada.
Speaker 3: Drake has released a video for his hit song hotline Blink.
Speaker 2: Who's to call Me all Myself?
Speaker 4: Day Night?
Speaker 5: When you need Mine?
Speaker 6: What the hell, Drake? What the actual hell were you
Speaker 6: doing there? What is it one of those dance moves
Speaker 6: like you just you're holding every single mixed race person back.
Speaker 6: Do you know how hard we've worked to be called
Speaker 6: black and then you do this to us?
Speaker 7: Drake?
Speaker 2: You're gonna get how black status revoked dancing?
Speaker 5: What are those moves?
Speaker 4: What is he doing?
Speaker 2: I hope this was a joke. So last night was big,
Speaker 2: big news for fans of Canadian rappers, but it also
Speaker 2: had a little something for fans of obscure Canadian trivia.
Speaker 2: A national election took place. Now, for most Americans, Canadian
Speaker 2: elections are sort of like hockey.
Speaker 8: It's clearly an.
Speaker 2: Intense contest, but nobody knows who's playing or what the
Speaker 2: rules are. So let's make this condescendingly easy, sort of
Speaker 2: like when they used that puck, the glowing puck in
Speaker 2: the NHL where they try to trick us into watching its. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what we're gonna do the Canadian elections, Who won
Speaker 2: and what was the score?
Speaker 5: The Liberals winning in a landslide.
Speaker 2: Justin Trudeau will be the next prime minister.
Speaker 7: Justin Trudeau head of the Liberal Party, similar to the Democrats.
Speaker 7: He's the son of one of Canada's most famous prime minister's,
Speaker 7: Pierre Trudeau. Justin plans to raise taxes and run a
Speaker 7: seven billion dollar deficit to kickstart the recession bound economy.
Speaker 7: And he says, help the middle class ow.
Speaker 2: A seven billion dollar deficit. Wah, that's so adorable. America
Speaker 2: would probably drop seven billion dollars on a clock that
Speaker 2: calculates their deficits, which is four hundred and thirty nine
Speaker 2: billion dollars. Take that, you, fiscally sound minded moose bangers.
Speaker 2: Of course, Trudeau's partes weren't necessarily his most attractive feature.
Speaker 2: He is forty three years old.
Speaker 7: He's a very good looking young man.
Speaker 9: He's undeniably a good looking guy.
Speaker 5: He's a very handsome man.
Speaker 1: He is very very good looking.
Speaker 7: I think in America he might just win the election
Speaker 7: on his looks alone.
Speaker 2: Yes, his looks alone could win him the US election,
Speaker 2: because looks are everything in US politics. If you want
Speaker 2: to even be considered for presidents, you have to be
Speaker 2: smoking hots. Trudeau's Liberal Party defeated Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper,
Speaker 2: whose campaign was plagued by brutal Canadian style criticism.
Speaker 10: Satirical song.
Speaker 11: It's gone viral on social media.
Speaker 4: It's called harper Man and it does sum up the
Speaker 4: desire for a change in government.
Speaker 6: Who's the king of secrecy?
Speaker 4: Who has slashed the CDC?
Speaker 6: There is no coming back from that.
Speaker 2: President Trump has made this one of the hottest times
Speaker 2: to be a refugee in America. So where do these
Speaker 2: people without a country turn? Well, Daisi Lidik reports, I'm.
Speaker 10: Here on the border where people are sneaking across, desperate
Speaker 10: to escape a country where they don't even feel safe anymore.
Speaker 10: But what if I told you that country was America?
Speaker 5: Right? This part's America, that's right.
Speaker 10: Last year, over twenty thousand people illegally snuck out of
Speaker 10: America and into Canada. It started when Trump began revoking
Speaker 10: temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The
Speaker 10: Trump administration has so far announced it would also end
Speaker 10: this temporary status for migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Haiti.
Speaker 10: All of this not to mention Trump's feelings about immigrants
Speaker 10: in general. Are they iss?
Speaker 6: Is this a trojan horse?
Speaker 10: Has prompted a new wave of refugees seeking asylum in Canada,
Speaker 10: where they're a king in the North. Prime Minister John.
Speaker 8: Snow is all like you're safe at home now.
Speaker 10: Nine of asylum seekers are crossing along a small section
Speaker 10: of the border about twenty five miles north of the
Speaker 10: town of Plattsburgh. So I headed there to meet a
Speaker 10: local coyote.
Speaker 5: My contact told me to meet him here. I gave
Speaker 5: him the code name she Wolf Blitzer. Are you Daisy, Daisy? Yeah.
Speaker 10: Once we got our bad Tinder date out of the way,
Speaker 10: I learned that Bill is a cab driver here in Plattsburgh,
Speaker 10: and it's the cab drivers who ferry the refugees to
Speaker 10: the border. It's gotten so busy that even party shuttles
Speaker 10: have converted into migrant caravans, taking all these people right
Speaker 10: up to the border of Canada. You know, if Mayonnaise
Speaker 10: was a country, what the hell? America is the country
Speaker 10: where people sneak into right.
Speaker 12: Yes, because we had the American dreamas we're the American dream.
Speaker 5: And look at all this food, this Star's one person.
Speaker 4: Well, the American dream is still there, but you get
Speaker 4: doued by the process of the way it's supposed to
Speaker 4: be done.
Speaker 5: And now you go for the US and for the Canada.
Speaker 4: If I want somebody to come into my house, I
Speaker 4: want them to come through the front door, not.
Speaker 5: Through the back door. That's what I keep telling my husband. Yeah,
Speaker 5: well there you go. Except a birthday, except his birthday.
Speaker 10: Yeah, in Christmas, in Flag Day.
Speaker 5: I'll never forget Flag Day. What were we talking about?
Speaker 5: The right? You want them to go through the front door.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but these people can't go through the front door
Speaker 10: because of a quirk and Canadian law. If you cross
Speaker 10: at any official border crossing, your asylum claim will be
Speaker 10: rejected faster than a dick pic on LinkedIn. That's why
Speaker 10: asylum seekers are crossing the US Canada border and an
Speaker 10: illegal entry point on a dead end road where Bill
Speaker 10: and I were headed. Wow, this really is like a
Speaker 10: bad tender day.
Speaker 5: We are turning onto the rock Dam road right here.
Speaker 5: I mean, look at how beautiful this is. Why would
Speaker 5: anyone want to leave this? Okay, not exactly. This stretch
Speaker 5: of America right.
Speaker 4: At the end of this road is where they cross.
Speaker 5: Is that Toronto up there?
Speaker 4: No, it's not Toronto.
Speaker 5: That's the Canadian space.
Speaker 10: Before Trump, this was wilderness. But due to the flood
Speaker 10: of immigrants at this illegal entry point, the Canadians have
Speaker 10: built up a permanent presence, which includes the world's largest birdhouse.
Speaker 10: Between seventy to eighty asylum seekers arrived every day ready
Speaker 10: to cross with everything they can carry. On the other side,
Speaker 10: the Canadian police are standing their ground.
Speaker 1: This is not illegal board of entry to Canada. You
Speaker 1: want to enter Canada, I have to condi Costa.
Speaker 10: But then, like typical Canadians, they let them in anyway.
Speaker 10: I spoke with Armstrong, an asylum seeker fleeing Northeast Nigeria,
Speaker 10: where terrorist groups like Boko Haram are active well.
Speaker 3: In most East Langera.
Speaker 13: It's terrible right now, it's too much.
Speaker 3: For us to be and from Mendota espression.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to grow feel sif not to
Speaker 2: physic persecution, subs, freecy Banda.
Speaker 10: But Armstrong was already in America. Why not claim refugee
Speaker 10: status here?
Speaker 13: America is a witch culture.
Speaker 2: But what we do it is that right now we
Speaker 2: need a better life for ourselves.
Speaker 10: A better life. I remember when people used to say
Speaker 10: that about us.
Speaker 5: And you're hoping for better things than Canada.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pandas what should.
Speaker 10: Be to opportunity. We used to be the land of that,
Speaker 10: that's our brand, city on a hill, land of the free?
Speaker 10: Is Canada taking our place? As I watched Armstrong walk away,
Speaker 10: I thought about all we had been through these past
Speaker 10: fifteen seconds, and I realized he wasn't just going to Canada.
Speaker 10: He was breaking up with America. Well we've just been dumped. Well,
Speaker 10: there's one thing I know, it's how to handle being dumped.
Speaker 5: You know what, Yeah, it's not working out. I decided
Speaker 5: first before you decided. Hey what I was taken to him.
Speaker 10: I spent all day trying to convince people to stay.
Speaker 5: Any chance we can have a.
Speaker 10: Do over, Oprah, we're president, We're all these people really
Speaker 10: choosing America's boring cousin.
Speaker 5: I don't think they're coming back.
Speaker 10: Maybe we should be reflecting or trying to grow from this,
Speaker 10: or we can just handle it like any breakup. Seriously, Canada,
Speaker 10: with Moehler's closing in, we're gonna change.
Speaker 5: I hope you're happy together.
Speaker 10: Only one person could pick me back up, which is
Speaker 10: because Canada is younger than us.
Speaker 5: We're still America. We still got it going on. We
Speaker 5: had the bomb.
Speaker 10: Don't say things like that, Bill makes it seem like
Speaker 10: we don't have it going on.
Speaker 4: Three weeks ago, north of the border, a new kind
Speaker 4: of test emerged.
Speaker 14: The truck or convoy has arrived in Autawa.
Speaker 5: This city, in the downtown core remains gridlocked.
Speaker 1: Some residents here say that they really can take no more.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 4: I traveled to Ottawa expecting to find some Canada nice
Speaker 4: but their messaging was a bit more. Course. These trucks
Speaker 4: shut down businesses and made roads impassable.
Speaker 5: Can I go?
Speaker 4: Can I go around here? How do I? How do
Speaker 4: I get around?
Speaker 5: But?
Speaker 4: How long were the protesters planning to paralyze Canada's eighth
Speaker 4: best city? David?
Speaker 5: How long you been here?
Speaker 4: I've been here to day one, holding down the ford
Speaker 4: pretty much.
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5: I'm coming in from New York.
Speaker 4: I go by Brooklyn's kindness on the same baby, you go,
Speaker 4: You're able to stay here up to two years. You're
Speaker 4: committed to be being here for two years? Yeah, because
Speaker 4: two years is nothing? Are you going to keep up
Speaker 4: the energy to be here for two years? People bring stimulants.
Speaker 7: The people bring it.
Speaker 4: I spoke a lot of weed.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, right, yeah, but that's just to calm me
Speaker 2: down and keep me, keep me centered.
Speaker 4: Are you wordy it all with weed? Paranoia? That might
Speaker 4: creep it?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, do you think the government is coming for you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Costantly there are do you like night a little tactics?
Speaker 1: They try to they move around.
Speaker 4: They move in, they add more. Are you paranoid?
Speaker 1: No? Sure?
Speaker 5: What kind of stuff do you haul?
Speaker 11: I haul everything in twenty twenty, I hauled from food
Speaker 11: to building supplies to medical supply.
Speaker 4: You have my end table that I ordered from Wayfair
Speaker 4: like three weeks ago.
Speaker 11: Is probably a city either in Montreal or Toronto or
Speaker 11: get order it's it would really like grain in my apartment.
Speaker 4: So what exactly was the point of interrupting the supply chain?
Speaker 4: So what is this all about?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 4: What is this all about?
Speaker 9: This is about our freedoms?
Speaker 4: Could you be any more generic?
Speaker 9: You know, if you are vaccinated, you get to do
Speaker 9: certain things. If you're not vaccinated, you don't. I don't
Speaker 9: think people should be divided. We should all be together united.
Speaker 4: We're setting up essentially a truck barrier to keep everybody
Speaker 4: together so they can be united.
Speaker 8: Yes, gotcha, Yeah, we might as.
Speaker 5: Well lock them in.
Speaker 4: It's certainly like a parent who locks the door and says,
Speaker 4: you guys are in here until the water runs out.
Speaker 4: You become friends or democracy crumpas.
Speaker 14: Yes, And if you're not vaccinated, you're literally a second
Speaker 14: class citizen in this country. I can't go to the restaurant,
Speaker 14: I can't go play hockey, I can't go watch the
Speaker 14: Ottawa Senators.
Speaker 5: We don't live in Germany.
Speaker 14: We don't live in Nazi Germany.
Speaker 12: Year, those days are overshow me, your papers don't happen anymore.
Speaker 1: That's a freedom that every should have.
Speaker 4: Is the Germany comparison a stretch here in Canada? No,
Speaker 4: are you afraid of cultural appropriation? Probably American cultural appropriation
Speaker 4: because we use the German excuse all the time. Oddly enough,
Speaker 4: that wasn't the only thing Canadians were appropriating.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I hate to use that slogan, but I don't
Speaker 12: make North America grade again.
Speaker 4: Then make North America great again. And I don't mean
Speaker 4: to use that guy's word, but it's true. To be honest,
Speaker 4: it wasn't even his. He's still from another guy before him.
Speaker 4: I see the Q army on your head. Isn't que
Speaker 4: American thing? Trying to find JFK.
Speaker 5: Junior? Exactly?
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly what Q shit is going down here? You
Speaker 4: No Q is a usc Oh so this isn't like
Speaker 4: a Yankees hat.
Speaker 6: I got it?
Speaker 4: Okay. The Q thing might just be a fashion choice.
Speaker 4: But they're definitely reading the same Internet as many Americans.
Speaker 1: And it's more than just the fat past part the stuff.
Speaker 5: What else?
Speaker 1: The agenda twenty thirty is a good start.
Speaker 4: What's agenda twenty thirty?
Speaker 1: I try the world's hand. George on government. They want
Speaker 1: to sterilize us and only certain people can have kids.
Speaker 4: Really, you're afraid the government will sterilize you?
Speaker 1: Probably not me, but on the line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but in two weeks of the cab of a
Speaker 4: truck pissing in a mountain, duke can can't be too
Speaker 4: good for the spur production.
Speaker 1: Probably stare petty. So what's today for?
Speaker 4: So Margaret Atwood? Audio books are apparently a thing with
Speaker 4: Canadian truckers, and while shutting down a city seems to
Speaker 4: have many downsides. Hey here's me. Hey, hi, Yeah, and
Speaker 4: you've seen a prius around here? Some see an opportunity
Speaker 4: coming from literal gridlock.
Speaker 1: The truckers are bringing in customers.
Speaker 12: They're bringing in tourists from Montreal, from all across Canada.
Speaker 5: Everybody wants to check this out.
Speaker 4: This is essentially a tourist boom right now. You can
Speaker 4: feel the tourism in the air, right You can smell
Speaker 4: and it smells like amphetamines and uh drift or blood.
Speaker 4: The flood of eighteen wheeler driving tourists and their Canadian
Speaker 4: af outfits created legitimate tension with residents of the city.
Speaker 6: Don't want you hear.
Speaker 4: The downtown was shut and there was palpable anger directed
Speaker 4: at local media.
Speaker 11: If you can't us lies, they're still lying, guys, they're
Speaker 11: still lying.
Speaker 4: And even at the Daily Show, he wants this tyranny
Speaker 4: get a boot over here. We've been walking around here.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: There seems to be a real distrust of media here. Well,
Speaker 4: for sure, there's a lot of cameras up in your face,
Speaker 4: cameras on cameras. And while Canadian authorities have finally enacted
Speaker 4: emergency measures to try to clear the convoy, so far
Speaker 4: the trucks are still there and a well funded, never
Speaker 4: ending street party infused with misinformation and nationalism feels remarkably
Speaker 4: possible in our own land of the free. Where does
Speaker 4: this movement go from here?
Speaker 9: I believe it's going to be worldwide.
Speaker 5: It's going to come to America.
Speaker 9: Yes, definitely.
Speaker 4: This is inspiring the dickheads of America. Part of me,
Speaker 4: this is inspiring the dickheads of America.
Speaker 9: It's inspiring people people of America to join together to
Speaker 9: stand for freedom.
Speaker 4: Okay, if they do come to America, then maybe I'll
Speaker 4: finally get my feed end table.
Speaker 2: For normal G seven, Trump's Russia obsession would have been
Speaker 2: more then enough drama, But for President Trump, he was
Speaker 2: just getting started.
Speaker 11: President Trump stuns the world, pulling out of the G
Speaker 11: seven's official agreement and issuing a warning to allies. We're
Speaker 11: like the piggybank that everybody's robbing.
Speaker 13: This unprecedented friction with some of America's closest allies. The
Speaker 13: President his top aides are launching this all out assault
Speaker 13: against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Speaker 4: The President, en route to Singapore, accused Justin Trudeau of
Speaker 4: false statements and called him very dishonest and weak.
Speaker 2: So Trump went into the G seven for a run
Speaker 2: of the mill check in with America's allies and then
Speaker 2: came out full on beefing with Canada, the ned Flanders
Speaker 2: of countries. It's safe to say that no one expected
Speaker 2: this to go this way. It's like going into the
Speaker 2: doctor for a routine checkup and then coming out as
Speaker 2: a human centipede. I don't think this is covered.
Speaker 5: I don't think it is.
Speaker 2: And other G seven leaders were shocked by Trump's actions.
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Lacron called Trump incoherent, and Angela Merkel said that
Speaker 2: trump pulling out of the deal was sobering and depressing,
Speaker 2: although to be fair, she is German, so everything is
Speaker 2: sobering and depressing to her. Yeah, she was probably at
Speaker 2: breakfast today, like I find this pancake man both sobering
Speaker 2: and depressing. Now, the reason President Trump went all push
Speaker 2: at TEA on Trudeau is because he claims that Trudeau
Speaker 2: was super nice to him in person. But then as
Speaker 2: soon as Trump left, Trudeau how the press conference, saying
Speaker 2: that Canada still planned to retaliate against the US's new tariffs.
Speaker 2: Because you see, Trump has a policy. You don't criticize
Speaker 2: him behind his back, all right, you also don't criticize
Speaker 2: him to his face. Side doesn't work either. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: write it down on a piece of paper and then
Speaker 2: rip it up into tiny pieces and someone will run
Speaker 2: by and pick it up. How it works, because if
Speaker 2: you do criticize Trump, he'll send his guys out on
Speaker 2: TV to let you know that it's.
Speaker 4: On the President's advisor's fiercely attacking Trudeau on the Sunday shows.
Speaker 3: He holds a press conference and he said the US
Speaker 3: is insulting. He really kind of stabs in the back.
Speaker 14: There's a special place in the hell for any foreign
Speaker 14: leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J.
Speaker 14: Trump and then tries to stab him in the back
Speaker 14: on the way out the door.
Speaker 8: Wow, there's a special place in hell for any foreign
Speaker 8: leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with.
Speaker 2: President Donald J.
Speaker 5: Trump.
Speaker 2: That is a serious threat and a very specific place
Speaker 2: in hell that sounds VIP as shit. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: like one person. All the thoughts in hell are gonna
Speaker 2: be like, damn, who's that doding in VIP. But still,
Speaker 2: the question is why on earth would Trump react in
Speaker 2: such an extreme way to a trade dispute with such
Speaker 2: a close and unthreatening ally. Well, according to Trump's economic advisor,
Speaker 2: this is all part of a greater plan.
Speaker 3: Potus is not gonna let Aadian prime minister push him around,
Speaker 3: push him Potus around, President Trump.
Speaker 5: That's on the eve of this.
Speaker 3: He is not going to permit any show of weakness
Speaker 3: on the trip to negotiate with North Korea, nor should he.
Speaker 3: So this was about North Korea, of course it was
Speaker 3: in large part.
Speaker 6: Of course it was in large part. Why was he
Speaker 6: doing that? Like it just watched the Tyler Perry movie.
Speaker 6: Our president will not get pushed around.
Speaker 2: He will not so in essence to win his Nobel
Speaker 2: Peace Prize with North Korea, Trump is going to start
Speaker 2: a war with Canada and really is brilliant and the
Speaker 2: man is playing some two dimensional chess. Let's kick things
Speaker 2: off with Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime minister and America's sexy
Speaker 2: upstairs neighbor. As Canada continues its battle against coronavirus, Trudeau
Speaker 2: has decided to become a little more hands on.
Speaker 10: Kids might be struggling a little bit with homework, but
Speaker 10: if they need little help, there's somebody who's ready to
Speaker 10: step in.
Speaker 12: Hey, kids, I know we're all going through a difficult
Speaker 12: time right now, and it's not made any easier by
Speaker 12: the fact that you have to do your homework around
Speaker 12: the kitchen table. Well, as a teacher, I want to help.
Speaker 12: If you've encountered challenges or problems that are really tough
Speaker 12: and you need a little extra help with why don't
Speaker 12: you reach out by responding to this message or using
Speaker 12: the hashtag.
Speaker 8: Okay, this is just adorable. Justin Trudeau is going to
Speaker 8: help Canadian kids with their homework. This is the sort
Speaker 8: of thing you can only get away with if you're
Speaker 8: Prime minister, because any other dude offering kids help on
Speaker 8: the internet, Yeah, this is getting a visit from the cops.
Speaker 8: And I really hope that he sticks to regular subjects
Speaker 8: like math and science, because the last thing we need
Speaker 8: is Trudeau branching out into makeup tutorials. But seriously, though
Speaker 8: this is great. In fact, I hope Trudeau inspires other
Speaker 8: world leaders to offer homework lessons, like Vladimir Putin. He'd
Speaker 8: be amazing at math. What is an easy way to
Speaker 8: solve myth problem? You form KGB, then puff myth problem disappear.
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