➡ Trump’s controversial discussions on Canada, including his unpredictable tariff policies, have left many confused. Amidst this, China has imposed 100% tariffs on Canada’s agricultural products, causing concern. Meanwhile, Canada’s political landscape is changing rapidly, with the rise of the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau bringing challenges to Canadian sovereignty, economic stability, and cultural identity. Amidst this chaos, Conservative leader Pierre Puliev and People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier are seen as potential leaders who could restore sanity to the nation.
➡ The text discusses the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, which is about Chinese influence in North America, particularly Canada. It highlights concerns about Chinese infiltration into Canadian institutions, money laundering, and interference in elections. The text also mentions the potential threat to Canada’s Arctic region due to lack of defense and Chinese interest. It suggests that Canada may need to align more closely with the United States to form a ‘Fortress North America’ in response to these challenges.
➡ The article discusses the potential continuation of the Trudeau era and its implications, including the lack of funding for indigenous communities and excessive spending on foreign affairs. It also mentions the possibility of a Conservative government under Pierre Poliev, who aims to increase defense spending and tackle Canada’s debt and infrastructure issues. The text also highlights Alberta’s dissatisfaction with the current political situation, hinting at the possibility of it becoming a separate state. Lastly, it introduces the Richard Sarat show, a platform for Canadian insights and analysis.

So we spend $200 billion a year subsidizing Canada. We don’t have to do that. And frankly, the way that gets solved is Canada should honestly become our 51st state. We wouldn’t have a northern border problem. We wouldn’t have a tariff problem. They don’t have much. They spend very little, as you know, the least of almost anybody on military, and we spend the most of anybody on military. Trump’s discussion on Canada has been quite controversial, to say the least. Trump’s unpredictable tariff policies have been leaving Canadians on edge. And here in the States, many of us are a bit confused about what Trump is actually trying to accomplish with both his tariffs and his taunts.

While the media engages in its usual fear mongering about Trump’s tariffs on Canada, ironically, they’re unusually silent about a significant elephant in the room, and that’s China’s recent imposition of 100% tariffs on Canada’s vital agricultural products. So who’s fueling this chaos and confusion? Well, I think a lot of the blame has to be laid at the feet of the legacy media. Of course, they continue to stoke fears at every angle. But the media’s silence on China’s aggressive tactics while targeting Trump’s strategic tariffs raises questions. Meanwhile, Canada is facing a political landscape that’s rapidly changing and deeply concerning.

The rise of the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau over the last decade has brought unprecedented challenges to Canadian sovereignty, economic stability, and perhaps most especially, cultural identity. We’re seeing an alarming trend where mainstream media and government narratives collide. Suppress dissenting opinions. Every day, Canadians are sounding alarms over inflation, increase in taxes, and a government that seems more concerned with appeasing globalist agendas than protecting its citizens interests. This spiraling madness has fueled a growing sentiment among the population that enough is enough. So who are the leaders in Canada that may be able to restore the nation to a place of sanity after nearly a decade of Trudeau? Well, many are pointing to Conservative leader Pierre Puliev, who’s had many iconic moments silencing the woke media.

I’m sure many of you remember he’s the fellow who decimated a liberal reporter while calmly munching on an apple. Or others have appointed to Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party, the Canadian equivalent to maga. Well, joining us today is Richard Surret. Richard is a talk show host and insightful cultural and political analyst who’s here to unravel the real story behind the chaos and offer insights that have directly benefited many Canadians. Make sure to Click on the link below to tune in to Richard’s broadcast. They’re awesome. I’ve been on, I have had the honor of being on them many times.

And now he’s on mine. So, Richard, welcome. Great to see you, my friend. Hey, Dr. Steve. What a, what a real thrill this is for me. Thank you so much. Well, the thrill is mine. Thank you. Yes, it’s really awesome to have, I guess instead of having reciprocal tariffs, we’re having reciprocal appearances on each other’s show. So it’s great seeing again, my friend. Always, always a pleasure. My. We live in interesting times, do we not, Richard? Well, yeah, it’s a Chinese curse. It’s, It’s a Chinese curse. Make you live in interesting times. Exactly. It is a curse.

Now it’s interesting because you and I have been talking about particularly these populous trends together for what now? It’s been a couple of years. If you don’t mind, let’s start with the media’s coverage in all this, particularly what appears to be, seems to me for me, a double standard. So they’re fear mongering over Trump’s tariff threats, all the while ignoring China’s very significant 100% tariffs on Canadian agricultural products. So why do you think this double standard exists and what really is going on with these tariff discussions? Well, in terms of the legacy media, or the lamestream media, as I call it, or the bought and paid for media, they’re basically carrying, they’re carrying water for the liberal government.

In fact, they’re subsidized. Most of the media up here is subsidized by the federal government. And then of course, we have the state broadcaster, the cbc, which is like, imagine if the taxpayers were paying for cnn. Yeah. And then they, and then, then CNN turns around using your taxpayer money and telling, and telling you how much, how horrible you are as a conservative. That’s the CBC. $1.4 billion. And then they hit us over the head. So they’re, they’re, they’re basically, they’ve been captured. It’s, it’s a massive subsidy going into the lamestream media. So they’re propping up the liberal government.

And Pierre Poliev, if he forms the next government, he’s promised to defund the cbc. So we’ll keep our fingers cross that. Yeah, it’s interesting though with China because as you say, they’ve, they’ve retaliated because we, we slap tariffs on their electric vehicles. So we’re slapping a vehicle or a tariff on an electric vehicle from China that nobody wants so that we can protect our EV industry here so that we’re forced to buy evs that nobody can afford, which is just a complete, you know, it’s a ridiculous paradox. So in retaliation, The Chinese have, sl. Have slapped 100% tariffs on many of our agricultural products like soy and, and canola oil and pork.

It’s a huge market. It’s a huge market. And, and it’ll have devastating consequences on our, on our farmers. And as you say, though, nobody’s talking about it because we’re all focused on the orange man is bad. And, and this is really what is, is has given the Liberal Party new life. Unfortunately, it’s been kind of a gift to the Liberal Party because up until President Trump mentioned 25% tariffs, Pierre Poliev and the Conservatives were up by about 20 points in the polls. Now, depending on the pollster, there are some outliers. Yes, there’s some response bias and there’s some push polls, but depending on the pollster, the Conservatives either have maybe a 10 point lead, which is still fairly comfortable, or in some polls, the Liberals are up by 3 or 4.

Now, you would expect a bit of a bounce because the Liberals have just had a leadership convention and Mark Carney has been shoehorned and there’s a lot of shenanigans. We could talk for hours about this. Yeah. And because of our parliamentary system, not only is he now the Liberal leader, he’s also Prime Minister as of tomorrow when he’ll be sworn in. And so unfortunately, the next election is going to be who hates Trump more? Mark Carney and the Liberals or Pierre Poliev, who’s been really kind of painted into an awkward corner here? Because I think Pierre Poliev and Donald Trump would see eye to eye in a lot of things.

Absolutely. But he can read the room, he sees the polls. 80% of Canadians are basically, you know, wanting to fight back. Yeah. And so Poliev, he reads the tea leaves. He has no choice, unfortunately. He’s got a, you know, go along with this. But it really is silly because there are so many other things that we should be debating in an election. I mean, many of the economic problems, most of the economic problems in this country are self inflicted. Yeah, we have. Sorry, go ahead, Steve. No, I was, I was going to ask you about that.

I was going to ask you about. Because I’ve talked to you a little bit about this in many ways. You know, I think even Jordan Peterson said something like this, that did that. That in many respects Trump is sort of calling out the last 10 years of Canada’s own self infliction, as it were. And I, I, I, I’m curious if you could address that while at the same time addressing if, if you, if you know, what is Trump actually trying to accomplish here? What is, you know, what’s his name from Shark Tank O’Leary. Kevin O’Leary, Canadian.

You know, he said Trump doesn’t want Canada to be actually the 51st state, but he does want the, the economies to combine. He wants, he wants the mass market of United States combined with Canada’s second to none resource, natural resources. So what’s your take on what Trump is actually trying to accomplish, especially in light of some self inflicted wounds in Canada? Right. Well, ostensibly it’s about fentanyl that’s supposedly pouring across the border from Canada. And we’ve had some major fentanyl labs just busted by the RCMP. Now they’ve apprehended about, I think it was 47 kilograms or 47 pounds of fentanyl at the border, which doesn’t seem a lot like a lot compared to the Mexican border of course, which is, you know, where most of the fentanyl is coming, coming from.

But, but if you consider, I think it’s, is it 2 grams is enough to kill a person. Wow. So we’re talking about, you know, potentially something like, I don’t know, 9 million lives that could be destroyed by 47 pounds. That’s how much has been apprehended. Who knows really the real number that’s coming across the border. I don’t think that’s really the reason. He also talks about illegals coming across. And it’s true, we don’t know who’s in this country, let alone who’s slipping from our country into your country. I mean that’s a whole other matter. I think this is really kind of a Monroe Doctrine 2.0.

And the original Monroe Doctrine of course was from the 1820s was to stem any European influence into North America. I think Monroe Doctrine 2.0 is about Chinese influence in North America and Canada has a China problem. Even our own RCMP and csis, that’s our version of the CIA, our civilian spy agency has noted for decades Chinese infiltration into this country in all of our institutions. Huge amounts of, of Chinese drug money and, and money laundering happening in this country, particularly in Vancouver. And then we had an investigation, official hearings into Chinese interference in our elections. And getting back to the Liberal Party, for example, their nomination process for their MPs in the individual ridings.

I mean it’s the Wild West. You don’t even have to be a citizen. And in one particular writing, the member of Parliament, Han Dong, in the writing of Don Valley north, or I call it the People’s Republic of Don Valley north, they were shipping in Chinese foreign students and telling them how to vote. So, and then we have, so we have a situation where we don’t know, for example, in the last leadership vote who was voting for Mark Carney, were these 14 year old Chinese students. Was it, you know, under the direction of Beijing? It’s this the way the system is currently set up with the Liberal Party.

You could have foreigners. Right. Basically voting for the leader and electing in this case the next prime minister. And also we have the Arctic, which we, you know, is pretty much undefended in, in, in northern Canada. And obviously Donald Trump is very concerned about that. Yeah. And, and China has, you know, they’re sending scientific vessels up there and so forth. They would love. Via Russia, right? Yeah, yeah. They want control. They want, they’ve already invested heavily in, in China, Canadian resource companies in the far north. We’re sort of giving that away. So I think that is a large part of what this is really all about.

Kind of a Monroe Doctrine 2.0 to me. Canada is like that. It’s like Yellowstone, the TV series. We’ve got this huge ranch and it’s great if you can keep it. We don’t spend the money on the defense. On defense. I don’t think we can keep it under current circumstances. Unless of course we, we saddle up with the United States and we become sort of Fortress North America, which ultimately I think is what we need to do in a very hostile multipolar war world. Right. Fortress North America. Right, Fortress North America. I love it. I love it.

Yeah, yeah. Again, the whole 51st state thing is everyone’s like, yeah, that’s not going to happen. But some, some kind of renewed civilizational relationship seems to be in the cards. Yeah, that’s, which is really very exciting in many respects. So you’ve got you. I think your Elections are what, 60 days away? How far away are the two months or so? We don’t, well, we don’t know because we, we don’t really have set. Oh, I thought they were set. I was, I was incorrect on that then. Well, I, I think they have to occur by October 26th of this year.

But, but there may be a loophole where they could extend it up until October of 20, 20, 26. So a year and a year and a half from now and and, and Mark Carney, he wrote a book called values back in 2021 and he talks about, and this is what makes this guy so sinister and scary and he’s a big advocate. He’s a member, a board member on the wef. Oh yeah. Wasn’t he, wasn’t he in Europe? Didn’t he have to fly back? He hasn’t been in Canada, as I understand it, for the last several years.

That’s the other question. Does he, is he even qualified as a resident? Would he even be allowed to vote in his own leadership race? Nobody seems to know where he’s been for the last 10 years. He’s got three passports. But if you read his memoir, I guess Values he talks about. I mean he’s a big, big fan of top down government control and he. Imperialism. Yeah. The way the government responded to covet. He’s a huge fan of that and he would, he would do it again in a heartbeat for climate. He’s a climate zealot and he would, I don’t think he would hesitate to invoke emergency powers like we saw up here.

You remember the trucker convoy in response and, and all the debanking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don’t think he would hesitate to use the trade war as an excuse to invoke the, some sort of an emergency power and suspend elections. Oh my. Wow. Yeah. That’s been the one disappointment on my end is just seeing poiev’s and the Conservatives polls getting cut in half ever since Trump started, kind of, you know, started with the taunts as it were. So for, for, for an, for here, for us in the United States, you’ve got two real major, seems to me, two real major kind of conservative leaders.

You got Pulia and the Conservative Party proper. And then you have Maxim Bernier of the People’s Party, which, which as I understand sort of broke off from the, from the Conservative Party. They, they have different approaches. How, Richard, what’s your sense? How, how would you contrast both their approaches and their visions for Canada’s future? Well, just a bit of history here. Maxime Bernier, we call him Mad Max. He was in the Conservative Party. He was a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. And then in 2018, the Conservatives had a leadership race. Maxine Bernier was running.

I voted for Max, many people did. And there was some ballot box shenanigans, let’s say, and he just lost by a sliver. Instead we got Andrew Scheer who was then followed by another Conservative light by the name of Aaron O’Toole. Many in the Conservative base are very, very skeptical, even of Pierre Polyev, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Max quit the party after that and said the Conservative Party is intellectually and morally bankrupt, and then he formed the People’s Party. Unfortunately, it’s very, very difficult to, to start a party, a third party or a, a fringe party, if you will, in this country.

It’s not, it’s not like Europe where a party can form and, and overnight, you know, gain traction and maybe even form the opposition. In a couple of election cycles, he’s still struggling. He’s around 3 or 4%. So still, it’s still very, very peripheral party. Yeah, it is, it is. So Max, I, I’ve gotten to know Max a little bit. I’ve had him on my, my Daily show probably a dozen times at least. And we did a comparison after Donald Trump’s inaugural address and compared his policy platform, your presidents, with Max Bernier’s on immigration, on defense, on wokeness, all.

They just, they align almost perfectly. Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah. I always saw maxims very much and the, and the people’s part very much sort of the Maga party proper, whereas the, Whereas the Conservatives, your, Your Tories are very much like our kind of establishment rhino Republicans. Right. Is that, Is that a, do you think that’s a good comparison? I think it’s an excellent comparison. I think Pierre Poliev might be a little bit better than Mitt Romney. Yeah, I’ll give him, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I mean, he’s just. Before Trudeau resigned and before the trade war talk started, he was starting to talk.

The talk, at least he was talking about, you know, no men in women’s safe spaces. Right. And that took a lot of, you know, we had to hammer away at that for a while, but finally he started to talk a little bit more openly and loosely, and we were encouraged in the conservative base. Yeah. But then the trade, the trade war started and he’s retreated and now he’s. Again, he’s in this position of having to say, yes, Orange man bad. I agree. Right, right. Which makes him sound like Trudeau. They were like, from, just from our, from the southern ears, we’re like.

They’re the same. Well, they’re facing the same threat, as it were. And so, so, yeah, yeah, that, for me, that’s the big. That’s the big. You know, I’ve been, I’ve been championing polio just because I, I see him realistically as having a, as having a chance in a way that Maxime doesn’t. But, but, so, yeah, that’s been the one drawback for me. But looking ahead, and this is fascinating with potential particular what you’re talking about with the China connection, how do you see Canada’s political landscape evolving, say, in the next five years? So we’ve got the United States under Trump’s influence.

We’ve got this rising multipolar world. So there’s going to be like, you’re talking about sort of this North American sort of fortress in the midst of that world, I think developing. You got China’s growing aggression and just, just the overall transition away from the decade of Trudeau. What do you see? Well, I think there’s kind of the fork in the road that we’re at right now. And if it’s Mark Carney and the Liberals who managed to somehow eke out another victory, and we’re looking at another, let’s say, four years, even in a minority government situation, the ndp, which is a Socialist party, and the Green Party, would prop up the Liberals as they’ve done for the last three and a half years.

So we would have a continuance of the Trudeau era, which is with all its intended, you know, wokeness. And I mean, you’ve got usaid, we’ve got the Foreign Affairs Ministry up here, you know, spending $11 billion in the last three years on, what was it, gender studies in Botswana or something? I can’t remember. Isn’t it crazy? And yet, you know, they don’t have money. We still have, you know, our indigenous brothers and sisters on reserves who don’t have safe drinking water. So if it’s a continuance of Carney and the Liberal Party governance, then I just, I think things will go south here very quickly.

If we have a Conservative government, I think Pierre Poliev would, will prove to be a good partner with the United States. He’ll meet with Trump. He wants to bring our defense spending in line with NATO at least, or more Perhaps, you know, 2% of GDP, I think it is. But we’re, we’re below that right now. So Pierre Poliev may not be the best choice for us, but he’s the most, you know, probable, most practical alternative. But I, you know, we have a lot of, we have a lot of serious structural issues up here. I mean, we just don’t have the infrastructure.

We don’t have pipelines. We still have interprovential trade barriers. You know, we’ve got, we’ve got huge, huge debt problems. So Polyev is going to have to tackle that. And then the question is, will the Canadian, will Canadian voters be patient as he tries to undo all of this damage from the last 10 years of Liberal governance? It’s almost like they, they, they’re ready, the Liberals are ready to exit the house, but they’re setting it on fire before they leave. And it’s like here, you’re, you’re here to clean up the ashes. Good luck with that. Yeah, yeah, we face that too.

Those last few months of Biden telling Ukraine, yeah, sure, send attack M missiles into Russia, sure, go right ahead. You know, it’s like, what are you doing? Exactly. Why? Oh why? Yeah, just burn it all down. Just a quick question. I read, I was very briefly. Did you read about the, the delegation from Alberta? I think it was Alberta who came to D.C. yeah. Just. Yeah, yeah. So what, what was the, can you just give us the scoop on that? Well, actually, I don’t know if the delegation has, has formally met yet with Trump officials, but Jeffrey Rath is his lawyer.

He’s part of something called the Prosperity Project in Alberta. They have more signed up members than the ucp, which is the governing party in Alberta, the United Conservative Party. They have more members that want out than the, the governing party. And they just had it. I mean, Alberta has a long list of grievances with what they call the Laurentian elites, Ontario and Quebec politicians Y. Because of, you know, transfer payments, for example. Alberta is the economic engine now. They send money to Ottawa, which is basically now just a giant change purse and then they distribute the money to poor Newfoundland and, and poor Quebec.

They, they cook their books so they make themselves look like a have not province. Right. Alberta, sending money to Quebec so that they can lavish all of these social programs, like $10 a day childcare for Quebecers. So Alberta is just fed up with the transfer payments with an unelected Senate. And they’re just, they’re just tired going back to the, you know, the early 80s with Pierre Trudeau and his National Energy Program and so forth. They’ve had it. So if there is going to be a 51st state, it’s probably going to be Alberta. And maybe they’ll drag Saskatchewan with them.

Oh yeah, Saskatchewan, absolutely. I could see that. Well, it’s so for people don’t know, you know, Alberta is often referred to as the Texas of, of Canada. Right. So, and it is interesting that we do have, it’s a, it’s a little bit on I right now, but we had. When we have liberal administrations in dc, Texit becomes very hot. I’ve had Dan Miller on the show a couple of times. The president of the Texas National Party and so interesting. I just. Yeah, I found that very interesting. Same kind of dynamics going on between Texas and Alberta.

Very interesting stuff. Richard, I love your show. How can people stay in touch with you and what you’re doing and the like? We’ll have some links down below, but let us know where, where they can find you. Yes, thank you. The Richard Sarat show airs up here in Toronto on Saga 960, but for American listeners, they can stream it live at Saga 960-am-ca. That’s S A U G A Saga for Mississauga where the transmitter is located. But they can also listen to the podcast, the Richard Sarat Show. It’s available everywhere. The Richard Sarat show and my YouTube channel, just a brand new YouTube channel where I post some interviews and my monologues.

That’s at richardserret 64 and it’s syret sy r e double t gang. That’s it. 64. Absolutely wonderful stuff. Again, I really encourage you guys because everybody here, you guys were. We’re very interested in civilizationalism. We’re very interested in the rising multipolar world. If you want a very insightful, patriotic Canadian insight, Richard is the best. I love Richard show and his analysis is spot on. And, and I think you’re going to get just a richer perspective, civilization perspective, what’s happening in the world. Very populist, very nationalist, very traditionalist. And so that’s why we love you, Richard. And you probably you might even hear me on there every once in a while.

So we got to get you back on, Steve. Yes, yeah, absolutely. Anytime, my friend, Anytime. Thank you for coming on. Thanks for this. Yeah, hopefully I, I love this kind of great North American power rising up. There’s something going on there that, that I think is. Is very doable. So, yeah, before we know it, we might be neighbors. Thank you. God bless you, Steve. God bless you, Richard. Thank you. Thank you so much. God bless.
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