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A tale of two Canadas: Canadians' pain was Mark Carney's gain
Apr 15, 2025
As Trudeau's economic adviser. Carney was supposed to be working for Canadians but his advice to Trudeau made you poorer while he lined his own pockets and the pockets of his rich friends, at the same time he advised Trudeau to raise taxes on Canadians taxes that he knew he wouldn't have to pay after he stashed his company's funds in exotic Caribbean tax havens.
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hello I'm Michael Barrett I'm the
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conservative candidate for leads
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Grenville Thousand Islands Rita Lakes
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Thank you for coming this morning I have
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the honor of hosting Pierre Polyv today
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for our Canada first
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announcement After the lost Liberal
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decade wages are down but the cost of
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housing groceries and everything else is
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up Canadians now spend more on taxes
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than they do on clothing rent and food
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If you're a nurse a carpenter or a
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retired senior on a fixed income the
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Canadian promise seems like a distant
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memory Under the Liberals we've had the
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worst housing inflation in the G7
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While regular inflation means that
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families will spend over $800 more on
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food this year than they did in
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2024 But for well-connected Liberal
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insiders life has never been so
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good It's a tale of two
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Canada Over the last 5 years everyday
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Canadians have suffered from Liberal
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inflation But believe it or not some
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liberal insiders secretly love inflation
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Why because if you own a lot of assets
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inflation causes their value to
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soar Remember it was Mark Carney who
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advised Trudeau to open up the spending
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taps making everything more expensive
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for
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Canadians Why would he do that well
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here's a clue In 2022 while most
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Canadians were watching the value of
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their paychecks collapse under an
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avalanche of inflation Brookfield CEO
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wrote to his shareholders to gloat about
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how much money they were making off of
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inflation Brookfield CEO said and I
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quote "Many of our infrastructure
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renewables and real estate assets are
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positioned to benefit from inflation."
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End quote And in 2023 he wrote to
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shareholders again to say that quote
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"The stress in the market is our sweet
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spot." End
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quote Your pain was his gain As
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Trudeau's economic adviser Carney was
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supposed to be working for Canadians but
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his advice to Trudeau made you poorer
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while he lined his own pockets and the
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pockets of his rich friends
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At the same time he advised Trudeau to
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raise taxes on Canadians taxes that he
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knew he wouldn't have to pay after he
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stashed his company's funds in exotic
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Caribbean tax
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havens This is not the first time that
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Mark Carney has been accused of
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conflicts of interest In the UK when he
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was acting as an adviser to the Labor
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government he lobbyed a Labor minister
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for government subsidies for heat pumps
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that would enrich a heat pump company
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owned by Brookfield The chairman of the
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company even admitted that quote "Mark
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is working on our behalf in government."
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End quote
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Meanwhile here in Canada Carney's
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conflicts touch everything from nuclear
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energy to real estate to tax policy to
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his dealings with the Chinese government
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and shadowy Bermuda tax havens
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Incredibly we still don't know whether
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or not Mark Carney actually pays taxes
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in Canada And now as prime
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minister the current conflict of
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interest rules don't even require him to
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sell his assets in
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Brookfield Now he's gotten away with
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just moving his assets into a so-called
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blind trust but the only people who are
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left blind are Canadian voters We can't
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see what assets are in the trust but
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Mark Carney knows because he put them
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there
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Now Mark Carney doesn't want to talk
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about any of that That's why as soon as
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the media started asking him tough
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questions about it he suspended his
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campaign and rushed back to Ottawa He's
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been hiding from the public for three
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straight days now He's hiding from
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scrutiny over the fact that he's already
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the most conflicted and compromised
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prime minister in Canadian history from
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revelations about his cozy relationship
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with the Chinese government cash stashed
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in offshore tax havens and his history
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of lobbying governments he's supposed to
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be advising to benefit his employers and
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his own financial interests
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This is
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the prime minister who leads a Liberal
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party that's made up of ministers and
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caucus members who are responsible for
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the series of ethical scandals that have
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have tarnished Canadians confidence in
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our democratic institutions like the $60
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million arrive scam the billion dollar
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green slush
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fund the Canada Student Service Grant
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where they tried to give a billion
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dollars to liberal insiders at the Wii
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organization Mark Carney doesn't want
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you to think about any of that That 87%
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of the cabinet that he
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appointed were the same cabinet
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ministers that advised Justin
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Trudeau He's running on one election
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promise only
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that he can deal with Trump So how's
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that going two weeks ago he said that he
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made progress with Trump Last week he
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said that quote "He can handle Trump."
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End
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quote That's an actual quote from him
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But there's no evidence whatsoever that
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Mark Carney can control or influence
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anything that Donald Trump does The fact
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is that while the rest of the world is
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getting pauses on Trump's tariffs there
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are more tariffs on Canada
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today than when Mark Carney became prime
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minister Now that's Mark Carney's actual
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record of dealing with Trump
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He can't hide from that record anymore
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than he can hide from his own conflicts
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and liberal record of broken
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promises After the lost liberal decade
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with costs and crime up and our economy
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down and under America's thumb and with
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liberal insiders profiting profiting off
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their government's decision it's clear
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that the Liberals don't deserve a fourth
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term
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It's time to put Canada first for a
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change with a new Conservative
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government that will axe taxes will
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build homes unleash resources stop crime
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and bring home jobs to stand up to Trump
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from a position of strength
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Pure polyv is the only one who can bring
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that change to
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