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The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
Whether or not it falls apart, it's been on the verge. There's been talk that there's been calls for him to step down. Canada's heading into an election season, whether it likes it or not, in 2025. But the breaking news of yesterday, where people thought yesterday was the day, is that yesterday they were supposed to table their budget to account for the spending for the next year.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And Chrystia Freeland, who you all know, she goes by many nicknames. Some call her Twitchy McGee because in every video, she's like bouncing around like a possessed troll. But she was the Minister of Finance. And she was supposed to table the budget, which was supposed to announce something of a deficit of like $40 billion. And two hours before they were supposed to table it, she resigns.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And she resigns, and apparently whoever was supposed to replace her by law refused to take the position. And so there was no minister of finance for a certain period of time. But she puts out a letter. That is scathing, a scathing rebuke of Justin Trudeau about how in light of Trump's threat for a 25% tariff, they no longer see eye to eye.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
She was offered a position, another position in the cabinet. And she said, no, I'm better off just stepping down. And then they spent the entire day like a bunch of clowns in parliament arguing back and forth as to whether or not they should just basically trigger another election because it's clear Justin Trudeau has lost control of his own government. So there were calls for him to resign.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
as there have been for a while, but his government's in shambles, period. And the only question is, what's going to happen? They're recessing for Christmas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
There was talk as to whether or not he might prorogue, which is end the session, and then start a new session in the new year, or whether or not there's just going to be a no-confidence vote, and they're going to trigger an election earlier than what would be the legally required limit in 2025 anyhow.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
Hopefully I'm not going to screw this up because I think at this point I know more about American politics than Canadian. It's a parliamentary system. Every four years, you have an election by law. And we have a multi-party system. It's not like a two-party system. And so basically throughout all of these 300 ridings, 338 ridings across Canada, you vote for a party.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And then whichever party gets the majority or the most votes, because you could have a minority government, which is what Trudeau has had since 2021, they basically elect their leader. So you don't elect a president or you don't elect a prime minister directly in Canada. It goes by a party system where you vote for the party, the party appoints their leader, and that's the prime minister.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
We've got many parties, so it's not a two-party system, but it's sort of effectively a two-party system. You got your liberals, your conservatives, what they call the NDP, that's Jagmeet Singh's party, the New Democrat Party, which are, I mean, even more fascistic in many ways than the liberals. Then you've got some smaller parties, the Green Party. We've actually got a Marxist party.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
I think we've got a pot party. We've got the Bloc Québécois, which is a federal party. It means it's federal, like the federal government here, representing basically the interests of Quebec as a province to separate from the federation. you have an ironic sort of federal party that the goal of which is to pull the province out of the federation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And you have your elections every four years, unless what we have is called a, a non-confidence vote where basically the, you know, the government says we no longer have faith in this particular government trigger an election and see if you can, a government or a party can eke out more of a minority or more of a majority position. So basically,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
By law, every four years, there's going to be an election, and they have to have one in 2025 regardless.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
They could have, or I should say the government, the system could have called a non-confidence vote any time since 2021, but there has been something of a de facto coalition between the NDP, which is left of the liberals, and the liberals, which has been maintaining this liberal minority government in power since 2021.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
By the way, Charlie Kirk, I worked, I worked, I ran in 2021 for the People's Party of Canada in my riding Westbound NDG. which went liberal by over 50-some-odd percent. So that's the basics. It's not a presidential system. You don't elect a prime minister. You elect a party that then appoints the prime minister.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And you can have the party say, we no longer have confidence in this government, trigger a new election, which they haven't done because of this unholy alliance between the two evil parties, the liberals and the NDP. And what you had yesterday, that people, I don't know if anybody was watching, basically it's like the C-SPAN of Canadian politics, CPAC.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
You can watch the live debates in Parliament, and it looks like a cheap foreign soap opera at like three in the morning, where you see Pierre Poilievre, who's the leader for the Conservatives, bickering back and forth with the Liberals. Why don't you just trigger a new election?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And the Liberals are saying, we're going to table a bill, we're going to do good for the government, and yada, yada, yada. And the bottom line is,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
many people suspect that they are not triggering an election, or at least the NDP, which has coalesced with the liberals, because some select members of the NDP want to secure their federal pension, and they need to wait for a certain number of years in federal office before they get that pension.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And so a lot of them have basically this alliance with the devil to maintain the government until they get their pensions, then they'll trigger an election when Trudeau and the liberal party will get smashed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
It's putting pressure on the Canadian government. There's no question about that because there is going to be financial consequence if there's a tariff war or if there's a tariff imposed. It's not going to be a war when it's a lopsided, uneven fight. There are some people hypothesizing, musing that Trump told Trudeau to get rid of Chrystia Freeland.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
I don't see it that way because Krista Freeland, she's not a threat on her own and she wasn't a threat in the Trudeau government. What ended up happening is they threatened this tariff and Trudeau, because he's in a politically tight spot, he's unpopular like the liberals have never been unpopular before. And They're deciding to spend their way out of this unpopularity by giving $250 checks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
Charlie, appreciate this. The Liberal government just announced they're going to send everyone who makes under $150,000 a year a $250 check. They're going to temporarily suspend certain taxes on certain foods for two months in January 2025. And I think what happened is Christopher Freeland saying, this makes no economic sense.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
It looks like you're literally buying votes, which is literally what he's doing. And she's covering her own tushy by saying, I'm going to bail out. I'm going to jump this ship like the rat that she is. But I'm going to throw Trudeau under the bus as I do it, because I think everybody knows Trudeau's time in the party as the leader is over.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
They're all trying to cover their own butts and get ahead of the curve in terms of securing their own reelection. And so she throws Trudeau under the bus because Trudeau is effectively trying to buy the votes. to compensate for the political unpopularity of his position vis-a-vis Trump and vis-a-vis America at large.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
So I don't think Trump made any orders, but the threat of a tariff is causing the liberals to try to do stupid things to buy their way out of unpopularity and to bankrupt the country even more than they've already done over the last nine years of their rule.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
I am, my long-term plan is to stay here. I kind of like it more than, not more than I should. I mean, I love it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And the problem is I don't, I'm very skeptical as to the future of Canada because you, especially once you've escaped that, not the silo, but you've escaped the culture of Canadian politics, you come down to Florida, you come down to the free states of America and you appreciate a mentality of freedom, a zeitgeist, a spirit of freedom. And it's not to say that it doesn't exist in Canada.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
but there's too many Canadians who seem to be very happy to define themselves by not being American. And so even on the so-called conservative side, I don't see the conservatives as being the savior to Canadian politics like Trump, MAGA, and the populist movement was the savior to American politics. The conservatives, I don't see them as much different than the liberals.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
You know, they support endless wars in Ukraine. You got Pierre Poilievre wearing the Ukrainian flag, saying Slava Ukraini, you know... in speeches. You've got the Conservative Party of Canada voting unanimously to support the conversion therapy ban.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
You've got the Conservatives supporting censorship to a greater or lesser degree, not supporting the trucker protest until it becomes popular and then throwing them under the bus when it's no longer popular. So I don't see the same spirit on a large-scale populist movement that I see in America. And what's going to happen in Canada is it'll get worse.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
They'll get a bit of a reprieve with a liberal-lite conservative government. But the broader population of Canada and the spirit of Canada seems to be very content to define itself as not American, even if it's shooting themselves in the foot by doing it. So that's a very long winded answer to say I like the spirit of Florida.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
Well, it'll be the blue wave. No, hold on. Which one is it? The liberals are red, conservatives are blue. So it's actually inverted in Canada.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
If you consider conservatives to be right-wing, you will see that in the next election. I ran for the People's Party of Canada. It's even more libertarian, more constitutionalist than the conservatives. I don't know if I consider conservatives conservative, but you will see that wave. Then the only question is, what is that wave going to mean?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
That wave is going to mean liberalism at the speed limit. What might happen and I think what needs to happen is... I love that. It's not even mine. I think it's Michael Malice's. Or is it yours, Charlie? Someone said, OK, I think it's Michael Malice, but they said basically, you know, conservatives are liberals driving the speed limit. So I think what happens is there will be an election.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And by the looks of it, it might be sooner than later. There will be a conservative landslide to some extent. And then it's going to require some People's Party of Canada, PPC voices to get that conservative party to get true to its form, true to its roots, to get back and respect the
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
gun rights in Canada, because what we see right now is sort of even the conservatives are not fighting for gun rights. They're not fighting for self-protection rights. They're not, I mean, we'll see that. So you get a conservative party in power, mitigate the damage, and then get some sane constitutionalist voices to hold the conservatives' feet to the fire.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
That's the way I see it playing out in the long run. The only question is, is Trudeau's government over now? Are they going to trigger an election in early 2025? Or are they going to eke out their pensions and wait until September, October 2025?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
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The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
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