TDS Time Machine | Oh, Canada...
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What is the main topic of this episode?
Last night's huge news coming out of Canada.
Drake has released a video for his hit song Hotline Bling.
What the hell, Drake?
Who is Justin Trudeau and why is he significant?
What the actual hell were you doing there? What are those dance moves? Like, you're holding every single mixed-race person back. Do you know how hard we've worked to be called black, and then you do this to us, Drake? You're gonna get our black status revoked dancing? What are those moves? What is he doing? I hope this was a joke. So last night was big news for fans of Canadian rappers, but it also had a little something for fans of obscure Canadian trivia. A national election took place. Now, for most Americans, Canadian elections are sort of like hockey. It's clearly an intense contest, but nobody knows who's playing. or what the rules are. So, uh, let's make this condescendingly easy. Sort of like when they used that, uh, puck, the glowing puck in the NHL, where they try to trick us into watching it. Yeah, that's what we're gonna do. The Canadian elections. Who won and what was the score?
the Liberals winning in a landslide. Justin Trudeau will be the next prime minister.
Justin Trudeau, head of the Liberal Party, similar to the Democrats. He's the son of one of Canada's most famous prime ministers, Pierre Trudeau. Justin plans to raise taxes and run a $7 billion deficit to kickstart the recession-bound economy, and he says help the middle class.
Aww. A $7 billion deficit? Aww. That's so adorable. America would probably drop $7 billion on a clock that calculates their deficit, which is $439 billion. Take that, you fiscally sound-minded moosebangers. Of course, Trudeau's policies weren't necessarily his most attractive feature.
He is 43 years old. He's a very good looking young man.
He's undeniably a good looking guy. He's a very handsome man.
He is very, very good looking. I think in America, he might just win the election on his looks alone.
Yes, his looks alone could win him the US election because looks are everything in US politics. If you want to even be considered for president, you have to be smoking hot. Trudeau's Liberal Party defeated Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper, whose campaign was plagued by brutal Canadian-style criticism.
Satirical song that's gone viral on social media. It's called Harper Man, and it does sum up the desire for a change in government. Who's the king of secrecy? Harper Man, Harper Man. Who has slashed the CDC? Harper Man, it's time for you to go.
There is no coming back from that. President Trump has made this one of the hardest times to be a refugee in America. So where do these people without a country turn? Well, Desi Lydic reports.
I'm here on the border where people are sneaking across, desperate to escape a country where they don't even feel safe anymore. But what if I told you that country was America? Right? This part's America? That's right. Last year, over 20,000 people illegally snuck out of America and into Canada. It started when Trump began revoking temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
Why are refugees leaving America for Canada?
The Trump administration has so far announced it would also end this temporary status for migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Haiti.
All of this, not to mention Trump's feelings about immigrants in general.
Are they ISIS? Is this a Trojan horse?
has prompted a new wave of refugees seeking asylum in Canada, where their king in the north, Prime Minister Jon Snow, is all like... You're safe at home now. 90% of asylum seekers are crossing along a small section of the border, about 25 miles north of the town of Plattsburgh. So I headed there to meet a local coyote. My contact told me to meet him here. I gave him the code name She-Wolf Blitzer.
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4 chaptersSpeakers
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Trevor Noah 5 min
Desi Lydic 4 min
Narrator 3 min
Protester 1 min
News Reporter 1 min
Commentator 1 1 min
Donald Trump 1 min
Justin Trudeau
Announcer
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