YOU TELL 'EM CHARLIE
Ben Blanchet
Updated Sun, January 5, 2025
Canadian lawmaker Charlie Angus (NDP Timmins) on Saturday bashed “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary after he claimed he’d meet with President-elect Donald Trump to help broker a deal to create an “economic union” between the United States and Canada.
“As Mar-a-Lago moves to Washington, we’re watching a grifters parade,” said Angus, a member of the left-leaning New Democratic Party who serves in the Canadian Parliament, in an interview with Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network.
“We’ve got loser billionaires like Kevin O’Leary coming down to talk to Trump and saying he’s going to cut a deal to sell out Canada,” he continued. “We’ve got losers on Fox talking about taking over, making us the 51st state. We all know what that’s about — this is all about diversion.”
Angus then went on to say that Trump is coming into office and bringing “maximum chaos, maximum havoc” to Americans, “so he’s looking for a punching bag.”
“And there’s these nice, quiet Canadian neighbors that they’re threatening to take over. ... But the thing is, Donald, it’s not going to work and what you’re doing is you’re creating chaos for your own people,” he added.
Angus has sharply criticized Trump’s “deranged” attacks on his country, including his threats to impose a 25% tariff on all goods entering the U.S. from Canada, him mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “governor,” and speculating what life would be like if Canada became “our 51st state.”
In a recent op-ed for Canada’s National Observer, Angus urged the country’s politicians to stand up against Trump.
O’Leary, a native Canadian who is among the businessmen who have cozied up to Trump since his election win, baselessly claimed in a Fox Business appearance last month that at least half of Canadians are “interested” in an economic union for the two countries and “erasing” the border between them.
Just 6% of Canadians indicated that the country should join the U.S. in a survey published last month by the Angus Reid Institute, a not-for-profit public opinion research group in Canada.
In otherappearances on Fox Business, O’Leary has emphasized that Canadians don’t want to give up their sovereignty but said last month on the network that such a deal could include a common joint currency, “a couple” of seats on the Federal Reserve Board for Canadian bankers and an “EU-like passport” for the two countries.
He also said that nobody wants Trudeau to help negotiate a deal between the countries, so he wants to go to Mar-a-Lago himself to help get it done.
“I’ll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them will trust me on this deal,” O’Leary said.
He told Fox Business on Friday that Trudeau and other Canadian officials who Trump recently met at Mar-a-Lago are about to be “wiped off the face of the map” in Canada’s November election and suggested that the president-elect should “wait” on moving forward with his ideas.
Angus, in his interview with Meiselas, invited O’Leary to “go to the states.”
“We’ll wrap you up in ribbons and bows and we’ll call it even because the guy’s a grifter,” he said.
Check out more of Angus’ interview on the MeidasTouch Network below.
Ben Blanchet
Updated Sun, January 5, 2025
Canadian lawmaker Charlie Angus (NDP Timmins) on Saturday bashed “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary after he claimed he’d meet with President-elect Donald Trump to help broker a deal to create an “economic union” between the United States and Canada.
“As Mar-a-Lago moves to Washington, we’re watching a grifters parade,” said Angus, a member of the left-leaning New Democratic Party who serves in the Canadian Parliament, in an interview with Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network.
“We’ve got loser billionaires like Kevin O’Leary coming down to talk to Trump and saying he’s going to cut a deal to sell out Canada,” he continued. “We’ve got losers on Fox talking about taking over, making us the 51st state. We all know what that’s about — this is all about diversion.”
Angus then went on to say that Trump is coming into office and bringing “maximum chaos, maximum havoc” to Americans, “so he’s looking for a punching bag.”
“And there’s these nice, quiet Canadian neighbors that they’re threatening to take over. ... But the thing is, Donald, it’s not going to work and what you’re doing is you’re creating chaos for your own people,” he added.
Angus has sharply criticized Trump’s “deranged” attacks on his country, including his threats to impose a 25% tariff on all goods entering the U.S. from Canada, him mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “governor,” and speculating what life would be like if Canada became “our 51st state.”
In a recent op-ed for Canada’s National Observer, Angus urged the country’s politicians to stand up against Trump.
O’Leary, a native Canadian who is among the businessmen who have cozied up to Trump since his election win, baselessly claimed in a Fox Business appearance last month that at least half of Canadians are “interested” in an economic union for the two countries and “erasing” the border between them.
Just 6% of Canadians indicated that the country should join the U.S. in a survey published last month by the Angus Reid Institute, a not-for-profit public opinion research group in Canada.
In otherappearances on Fox Business, O’Leary has emphasized that Canadians don’t want to give up their sovereignty but said last month on the network that such a deal could include a common joint currency, “a couple” of seats on the Federal Reserve Board for Canadian bankers and an “EU-like passport” for the two countries.
He also said that nobody wants Trudeau to help negotiate a deal between the countries, so he wants to go to Mar-a-Lago himself to help get it done.
“I’ll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them will trust me on this deal,” O’Leary said.
He told Fox Business on Friday that Trudeau and other Canadian officials who Trump recently met at Mar-a-Lago are about to be “wiped off the face of the map” in Canada’s November election and suggested that the president-elect should “wait” on moving forward with his ideas.
Angus, in his interview with Meiselas, invited O’Leary to “go to the states.”
“We’ll wrap you up in ribbons and bows and we’ll call it even because the guy’s a grifter,” he said.
Check out more of Angus’ interview on the MeidasTouch Network below.
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