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EP669: TL Nuggets #197 – A Time For Choosing
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“Pierre Poilievre has said it beautifully. If we unleash our energy sector, we don’t have to rely on the United States.”
This Friday edition of The TTLR comes from Ezra Levant’s Rebel News, featuring our very own Nicky Billou. Ezra and Nicky explore the lines between business and national identity. Government policy and media complicity are undermining Canada’s ability to thrive—especially for freedom-minded entrepreneurs. From energy independence to tax reform and the unchecked influence of tech monopolies, this episode will challenge you to stop supporting systems that work against their values. For entrepreneurs, this isn’t just politics—it’s survival strategy.
Some main points covered are media bias vs truth, policies that hurt Canadian business, the need for political unity and the power of podcasting for businesses and politicians to reach the masses. This episode is aimed squarely at a future where Canadians and Canadian businesses can truly come first.
Visit https://www.eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.
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Transcript
Canada's Energy Independence
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Pierre Polyabas said it beautifully, unleash our energy sector, we don't have to rely on the United States. How crazy is it, Ezra, for us to have 75% of our business go to one customer? It is the best customer in the world, and we're right next to them, but i mean we've had literally prime ministers and presidents come to our country from Japan, from Germany, and say, please sell us your natural gas, and Trudeau said no, there's no case for it.
Introduction to Thought Leadership Podcast
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Speaker
Welcome to the Thought Leader Revolution with Nikki Ballou. Join the revolution. There's never been a better time in history to speak your truth, find your freedom, and make your fortune. Each week, we interview the world's top thought leaders and learn the secrets of how they built a six to seven figure practice.
00:00:47
Speaker
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Nicky Ballou's Book Discussion
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Speaker
Our next guest is Nicky Ballou, and he has been on the show before, my friend David Menzies covered the guest host.
00:01:04
Speaker
And Nicky has brought a couple of his books with me. One of them is called The Great Patriot Protest and Boycott Book, The Priceless List for Conservatives, Christians, Patriots, and 80-plus million Trump Warriors to Cancel cancel Culture and Save America.
Consumer Choices and Freedom
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Nicky wrote that with Wayne Allen Root.
00:01:22
Speaker
Nicky, great to see you on the show. Welcome back. That's basically... Put your money where your mouth is, isn't it? Absolutely. Don't buy from companies that mock you or hate you.
00:01:34
Speaker
Bottom line, you know, why would you support somebody who is against everything you stand for? and Well, one answer is because they own everything. Like, i I loathe Facebook. I loathe Google. But what am I going to do without them?
00:01:49
Speaker
Well, you know, there's some alternatives to both. um i'm It's not easy to work outside of those ecosystems, but they do exist. I mean, I use ah Brave as my default browser. I don't use Google.
00:02:05
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I do my best to be on Rumble rather than YouTube. Yeah, Rumble is so dedicated to free speech. And thank God for Elon Musk's i changes to Twitter.
Conservative Concerns in Canada
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100%. I mean, X is a fantastic platform right now. And it's a place where you can do ah a lot of good and do well.
00:02:23
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Now, this book, obviously, as you can tell by the cover, was written with an American theme. Have you thought about doing a book like this in Canada? Because, um i mean, some of the products in the States that look really freedom-oriented, we just can't get up here.
00:02:36
Speaker
yeah And I think Canadians might be shy, because if you're a pro-conservative, pro-freedom Canadian, you probably want other conservatives to know about it, but you might be worried that's going to paint a target on your back for the hard left or even the government to maybe audit you.
00:02:50
Speaker
Do you think that's a factor in Canada? It absolutely is, 100%. But you know what? um There's an election coming up right now, federally, and we've got a chance to get rid of the people that are running this government. And I i really hope that my fellow Canadians are going to do the right thing and kick out the liberals and bring in a sane government. you know Before Justin Trudeau, you could have disagreed with the liberals, but you had the sense that they had the country's best interests at heart. I mean, jean crit I think of Jean Chrétien that way. I mean, ah disagreed with him, but for example, let me give you the example of the oil sands. Yeah.
00:03:28
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Jean Chrétien did not kill the oil sands. In fact, he sort of helped give birth to it. He sort of protected it from the environmentalists, even within his own caucus. It's hard to imagine that now, but... Impossible, actually. Yeah, I mean...
00:03:41
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I'm not going to say he was pro-oil sense, but he at least didn't attack it. He let it grow. That's unthinkable now. It's completely unthinkable right now. And I got to tell you, ah if we elect another liberal government, I don't think it's hyperbole to say the candidate as we know it may cease to exist.
Political Dynamics and Leadership
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I think you could be right now. Before we came in here to the studio, you were talking me a little bit about the PPC. And I interviewed Maxime Bernier just the other day. and the CPC. And what are your thoughts on that? Because I always ask Maxime Bernier the same question, which is because we don't have a proportional representation system. And we don't.
00:04:19
Speaker
I mean, I've been to countries where if you get 5% of the vote, you get a seat. Yeah. And they spread it out. So you can get... But in Canada, you could get 30% in every riding, come in second in every riding, and get theoretically, and get zero seats.
00:04:35
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So i I put it to Maxime Bernier. You may be an idealistic choice, but how can you make the case that you have a possibility of winning? And I'm not saying it in a mean way.
00:04:46
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i just want him to answer the essential challenge of his predicament. And I'm not sure if he persuades me with his answer. What's your view Because I know you've been a PPC supporter. Sure. I voted for them in the last election.
00:04:57
Speaker
I've interviewed Maxime on my podcast as well. I love Maxime. I think he's an amazing man. i think the ideas that he has are the ideas that we need to be implemented in Canada. And I said to him when I had him on my show that I believe you've moved the Overton window in such a way that the conservatives right now have become far more conservative than they were two, three, four, five years ago, certainly under O'Toole and under the previous leader to before him. Yeah, Andrew Scheer. Mr. Scheer, right? he's easy he's He's a forgettable guy, no question about it.
00:05:27
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Sorry, Mr. Scheer. But the truth of the matter is that in this particular election, voting for the PPC carries great risks with it. It's a close election, let's face it, right? yeah The polls are showing that Carney's ahead. I just don't believe the polls.
00:05:42
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I think the Kamala effect is in place right now here in Canada. And I'll tell you why. Whenever Pierre has a rally, thousands of Canadians are flocking to go see him.
00:05:53
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This is not a typical political rally for Canada. I mean, in Toronto, when he was at the Pan Pacific Hotel, I had a friend of mine who showed up two hours early and he still couldn't get in. He still couldn't get in. There were thousands of people lined up behind him.
00:06:06
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In Hamilton, he had
Economic Policies and Energy Sector
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5,000 people to come and see him speak. This has happened in the US with Donald Trump, but it certainly hasn't happened in Canada. So that tells me that there's an appetite for change.
00:06:18
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But the truth of the matter is, a lot of people are thinking, OK, Carney's a change from Trudeau. But he isn't. He isn't. He was Trudeau's key economic advisor. Trudeau's green energy policies are essentially a download from Carney's brain.
00:06:32
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And Carney has said that he has no intention of repealing Bill C-69, right, which is the pipeline bill. How do you reconcile keeping Bill C-69 with your plans to build infrastructure in Canada? Do you plan to repeal Bill C-69?
00:06:48
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ah We do not plan to repeal Bill C-69, to answer your question correctly. That is... the death knell of Canada's economic prospects energy is what's gonna make Canada be able to stand independently strong and free Pierre Polly have a set it beautifully if we unleash our energy sector we don't have to rely on the United States how crazy is it Ezra for us to have 75% of our business go to one customer don't you think that makes zero sense do you run your business like that
00:07:19
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Well, I mean, it is the best customer in the world, and we're right next to them. But I take your point that had we built those pipelines to open water, we could be selling... i mean, we've had literally prime ministers and presidents come to our country from Japan, from Germany, and say, please sell us your natural gas. And Trudeau said, no, there was no case for it.
00:07:37
Speaker
So they'd ink a deal with Qatar, or they'd ink a deal with other... It's it's really crazy. Yeah, I know. I mean, i I wrote a book called Ethical Oil. Well, let me let me ask you You mentioned the Kamala Harris, and I think that's a great analogy.
00:07:51
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Because Joe Biden was looking like he was going to blow up, and the Democrats did an emergency, pushed that emergency button, replaced him with the Kamala Harris. Same with Trudeau. Kamala Harris...
00:08:03
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Pretty quickly, it it people could see through her, that she was she wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. She wasn't likable at all. And I know there was a lot of reasons she didn't work, but what started with an elation that they got rid of Biden soon turned to disaster Hasn't happened that way yet for Mark Carney. He's still having a honeymoon in the media, I think. They had a few prickly questions for him about Paul Chang, that's a candidate who called for the kidnapping of a democracy activist.
00:08:33
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But other than that, I feel like the media are really dedicated to Carney. He's not as dumb or as bad as Kamala Harris. no I'm worried that he might stick. You know, he might, but I'll tell you what I think is going against him.
00:08:47
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He's facing the single greatest campaigner we've seen in Canadian politics in the last 40 years, in Pierre Polyev. That guy goes on stage in front of a camera and he's electric.
00:09:00
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He makes his cases powerfully, cogently, in complete sentences and paragraphs, and he is hammering Carney very effectively. Case in point, Carney doesn't pay Canadian taxes.
00:09:14
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He makes wonderful videos with Mike Myers, who, by the way, is now an American citizen, not Canadian anymore. So oh that that's a whole different conversation. But he's not paid taxes in this country.
00:09:24
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He's basically gone to offshore havens like the Bahamas and Bermuda and avoided paying Canadian taxes.
Conservative Unity and Media Bias
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He was the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management, who moved their headquarters out of Toronto to New York City to avoid paying Canadian taxes.
00:09:38
Speaker
That's a case that Paulie has made very effectively and he's hammering it every chance he gets. Now, people are saying in the lamestream media, as I like to call them, the regime media, that no, this is a mistake and he should be focusing on Trump. I disagree.
00:09:52
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He needs to hammer Carney. He needs to hammer him hard and needs to hit at his credibility. And I'm waiting for the debate. I think the debate is going to make a big difference. You remember the election back in 1993, Kim Gamble had taken over for Brian Mulroney.
00:10:04
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The conservatives were leading the liberals. Then there was a debate. After the debate happened, within four days, the Conservatives tanked. And I think that could happen again.
00:10:17
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And the reason I'm coming here on your show is because I want to implore your audience, because a lot of your audience are patriots. They believe in Canada. They want to see change.
00:10:28
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But many of them are sick of the Conservative Party, because the Conservative Party has let them down again and again and again. But here's what I want to say to you. This time, we've got a real conservative in charge of the Conservative Party. You can't say that Pali Ab is like Andrew Scheer or is like Erin O'Toole.
00:10:44
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And this time, really, you can't waste your vote on a protest vote because that vote could be the difference between Carney getting in and the Conservatives taking over and making Canada great again.
00:10:56
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Canada has to come first. Canada will not come first under a Carney government. He's proven that in his private life, and he's going to act just the same way as Prime Minister. You make a good case for him, but you know that old saying, if a tree falls in the woods and no one's around here, it doesn't make a sound.
00:11:13
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And the media is so energetically supportive of him. First of all, they're ideologically sympathetic to him. Second all, they don't like Polly Ev. They find them his personality grating. Polly Ev is being mean to them. And and Mark Carney, just to look at him, he looks prime ministerial.
00:11:31
Speaker
He's a banker. If anything, he's boring, but I think that's good. That helps him. So... But the real thing is, like, I think of Donald Trump. And he did the Joe Rogan podcast. He did a lot of... He did comedy podcasts.
00:11:43
Speaker
So he went around the raging media. He did. And some of those audiences were huge. I forget the number who listened to him on Joe Rogan, but it was in the tens. Yeah, it was... so I mean, some of those were foreigners, but it was so large.
00:11:56
Speaker
And he was speaking to people who normally aren't watching your newscast. Now, look at Pierre Polio, and I agree with you, his messages are strong. Yeah. But that's not what the CBC, I was listening to the CBC for two hours yesterday as we were on a road trip, and they were just talking about the flaws in the campaign, the campaigns, the wheels are coming off, there's mutiny, like they were just talking about gossipy stuff.
00:12:19
Speaker
They weren't talking about the news of the day. And here's my question to you, Nikki. Where's our equivalent of the Joe Rogan podcast? Where's our equivalent of going around the regime media? Because I'm worried that it's not happening enough.
00:12:34
Speaker
Paulieff should come on your program. I'd love it if he would, but i I know for a fact I'm not the biggest. He should come on every single Canadian podcast that he can. Interesting that you should say this. One of the books that I wrote is called Get Booked and Get Paid. It's all about how to leverage podcast guesting in order to grow your business.
00:12:54
Speaker
But when I go and I do talks in front of business groups like Entrepreneurs Organization and others, I talk about the fact that love him or hate him, Donald Trump has completely disrupted the political game by going on podcasts.
Canada-US Relations and Political Critique
00:13:09
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Him going on podcasts, I estimate Ezra won him an extra 4 million votes. He won just over 77 million votes. Kamala won just under 74 million votes.
00:13:22
Speaker
The margin of victory, okay, was less than the number of additional voters that he got as a result of going on podcasts. I hope Mr. Paulyev is listening to this particular interview.
00:13:37
Speaker
Mr. Paulyev, go on every major Canadian podcast that you can. go on Ezra's show, go on other show. You went on Jordan Peterson. That was good. That got a lot news. But it was a while ago. yeah Do it again. yeah Do it again. Do it again.
00:13:52
Speaker
Do it again. And keep hammering at this charlatan marketer that is Mark Carney. Mark Carney doesn't believe in Canada. Mark Carney doesn't love Canada. And how do I know it?
00:14:03
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Because of what he does. Don't listen to what a man says. Watch what he does. He pays taxes. through Bermuda the Bahamas. He moves his companies to America.
00:14:14
Speaker
If he was a Canada first guy, he wouldn't do this. Pierre Poliev has put all of his investments in Canadian companies. That speaks. That speaks powerfully. And I got to say this.
00:14:25
Speaker
I got to say this to my American friends. I'm a big fan of Donald Trump. One of my books was endorsed by Donald Trump. I'll get you a copy of that one on True Social. was because of Wayne, not because of me, but it was still endorsed by Donald Trump. It's pretty cool. I think he's the greatest.
00:14:38
Speaker
But honestly, he's not doing those of us that want to see a great Canada any favors by this 51st state crap talk. He's got to cut that out. Listen, Canadians are a polite people, but nobody should mistake our politeness for weakness.
00:14:54
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We are the soldiers who helped win World War II. After the raid in Dieppe in France, when all the Canadian soldiers were massacred by the Germans, We wanted payback.
00:15:06
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When the D-Day landings took place and the Germans knew they were gonna lose, they were prepared to surrender to American soldiers. They were prepared to surrender to British soldiers. They were not prepared to surrender to Canadian soldiers because Canadians from the high command on down had said, give no quarter, kill every one of these sons of guns.
00:15:24
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And the German soldiers were these small, metrosexual type dudes who were 5'7", 5'8". The Canadian soldiers were 6'3", raw boned.
00:15:33
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Boys from Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and they smash the Germans to pieces. And what happened after 9-11, Ezra? Canada opens its doors to America. The people of Gander and Newfoundland took all those stranded American travelers and brought them into their own homes.
00:15:49
Speaker
Who was the first country to say, we're going to fight side by side with you in Afghanistan? It was Canada. Canada is a great country. Canada is a strong country. Canada is a country with good men, powerful men like you, and our soldiers who've always stood up for what's right and for for freedom.
00:16:07
Speaker
And Mr. Trump, Mr. President, I love you, but cut this crap about the 51st state out and stop saying that you'd prefer to deal with a liberal. Because let me tell you something, Those people are antithetical to everything you and the MAGA movement stands for.
00:16:22
Speaker
The conservatives in Canada are much more ideologically aligned with you. They're the ones who are likely to grow our military. They're the ones who are likely to shut the border down to fentanyl traffickers. They're the ones who are likely stand shoulder to shoulder with America if push comes to shove and there's another military confrontation.
00:16:38
Speaker
That's what I have to say. Well, there you have it. Nicky Ballou. Nicky, what's the best way for people to see your work? Brother, I'm at Nicky Ballou anywhere and everywhere on social media. But if you want to get my books, go on Amazon. And I've got a couple of podcasts. One's called The Thought Leader Revolution. You've been a guest on that.
00:16:57
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Check me out that way. Nicky Ballou, B-I-L-L-O-U.
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