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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country with over 250,000 student members, over 150 full-time staff, and a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide. Charlie is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world. He is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which regularly ranks among the top news shows on Apple podcast charts.
Charlie Kirk Analyzes Canada's Election Disaster as Trump Hits 100 Days in Office
Charlie Kirk examines the stark contrast between President Trump's first 100 days and Canada's election results that saw Liberal Mark Carney defeat the Conservative Party. Kirk explores how Canadian baby boomers prioritized anti-Trump sentiment over their children's futures, choosing a World Economic Forum board member despite soaring housing costs and mass immigration destroying opportunities for young Canadians. With only 2% of Trump voters expressing regret, Kirk argues Americans should express gratitude for dodging the fate of their northern neighbors. Rebel News founder Ezra Levant joins to discuss the Conservative Party's surprisingly strong showing, Chinese interference in Canadian politics, and why the absence of free speech protections makes Canada's media landscape unrecognizable to Americans.
At the 100-day mark of the Trump presidency, some Americans are getting restless about the pace of deportations and arrests. But Charlie Kirk argues that looking north to Canada provides immediate perspective on just how fortunate Americans are. While some want to air grievances, Kirk insists there's a massive difference between legitimate concerns and unproductive whining.
The Trump administration has spent every day fighting for the American people and reconfiguring the US government to represent the country's interests. Meanwhile, Canada has just elected a disaster in the form of Mark Carney, a World Economic Forum board member who represents everything wrong with globalist governance.
Canada's 16 years of liberal government has resulted in a steep decline characterized by exploding housing prices and an incomprehensible immigration flood. The election of Carney as prime minister reveals patterns eerily similar to voting behaviors in America, with a disturbing generational divide at the heart of Canada's problems.
The Generational Divide That Doomed Canada
Canadian voters over 60 overwhelmingly supported Carney because they believed he was good at dealing with Donald Trump. Younger voters, facing impossible housing costs and wage suppression, wanted to reduce the cost of living but were outvoted by their elders.
Kirk doesn't mince words about what this reveals: Canadian baby boomers don't care about the future of Canada. This represents a fundamental breakdown of the intergenerational social compact that built Western civilization. Traditionally, the West was built on the principle that the current generation would sacrifice so that future generations could have better lives. That's how you build a country, how civilization improves, and how you leave a legacy.
The COVID lockdowns provided a window into this perverse moral shift. Both Canada and America embraced a philosophy of sacrificing youth to save the old. Young people were masked, isolated, made more suicidal, more addicted to alcohol and drugs, and less likely to be part of a community. All so older people could avoid a virus that wasn't nearly the threat people believed it to be.
Kirk describes this as a soft form of child sacrifice, a complete inversion of Western values where older generations are willing to see young people have worse lives so they can have a better five years.
How Canada Chose Globalism Over Its Own Future
Mark Carney defeated the Conservative insurgency despite the Conservative Party holding a massive lead just six weeks earlier. President Trump's tariffs against Canada actually helped the Liberal Party, as Canadian voters associated Trump with conservatives and chose to stay liberal.
Canada is bringing in a million people per year through mass migration, a policy that will destroy the country. Canada is literally falling apart, with average home prices tens of thousands of dollars higher than in America, despite Canada having nothing but space and lower incomes. This is a choice, not an inevitability.
Canada now finds itself in an irreversible death spiral, held captive by environmentalism, mass migration, and critical theory. It represents every destructive dynamic imaginable packaged together. Meanwhile, the right-wing revolution happening in America shows that change is possible when free speech remains a birthright and everyday citizens rise up to demand it.
Trump Voters Have No Regrets
Despite media narratives claiming Trump voters regret their choice, polling shows only 2% of Trump voters would change their vote. This remains true despite constant media stories about supposed Trump voter regret. The numbers are similar for Kamala Harris voters, suggesting that if Americans could redo the 2024 election, the results would be virtually identical.
This polling underscores that Americans understand what they have in President Trump and his administration. Looking north to Canada with its newly elected globalist prime minister provides all the contrast needed to appreciate the fight happening in Washington.
Inside Canada's Election: A Conservative Performance That Wasn't Enough
Ezra Levant, founder of Rebel News, joined Kirk to provide a glass-half-full interpretation of the Canadian election results. The Conservative Party of Canada, led by Pierre Poilievre, received the highest vote count for Conservatives in a generation. The last time Conservatives got this many votes was in 1988.
Poilievre ran a working-class conservative campaign focused on reducing immigration, reducing inflation, and addressing concerns that American conservatives would recognize and support. The problem is Canada's multi-party system allowed left-wing parties to join together against him.
Poilievre received about 41.5% of the vote, the highest any politician has achieved in Canada in 30 years. But the Socialist Party fell to 6%, with those votes going to the Liberals. The Green Party cancelled over 100 of their candidates to stop splitting the vote. This France-style tactic allowed Mark Carney to squeak past Poilievre and form a minority government.
Because Carney didn't win most of the seats in parliament, Canada may return to the polls sometime this year. Levant argues that Trump's banter about the 51st state likely drove 5-10% of voters to the Liberals, particularly among voters with thin skin who didn't understand the nature of the comments.
Young Canadians Versus Boomer Luxury Beliefs
The generational divide in Canadian voting represents a seismic shift from historical patterns. The Liberal Party traditionally wins young voters. Justin Trudeau won in 2015 partly on his promise to legalize marijuana, positioning himself as young, hip, and cool.
This election saw young people tilt heavily toward Conservatives for obvious reasons. It's nearly impossible to find an affordable house in Canada. Mass immigration has driven down wages while pushing up housing costs. Canada is experiencing a huge crime wave and is now actually more violent than the United States, which has never happened before. Pro-Hamas street marches have become weekly occurrences in Canadian cities.
Young people feel hopeless about their economic futures. Meanwhile, boomers and seniors who already have their homes paid off don't care if house prices rise, which actually benefits them. They don't pay much in income taxes since they're retired. They remain oblivious to the street battles over race, ethnicity, and diaspora politics.
These older Canadians could afford the luxury political belief of being offended by Donald Trump. They voted for who would push back against Trump's comments, which is not a serious reason to vote for someone. It's a luxury belief you can only afford when everything else in your life is going well. Young people didn't care about Trump's tweets, but liberal-minded boomers and seniors cared enough to sacrifice their children's futures over it.
The Structure of Canadian Elections
Canadian elections feature a five-week intensive campaign period, though obviously campaigning happens before that. The government has nationalized leaders' debates, with an official government-run debate occurring halfway through the campaign that typically receives significant attention.
Canada is about one-tenth the size of the United States, and campaign budgets reflect that proportion. Canadian campaigns have their jets and focus heavily on identifying voters and getting out the vote. Much of the campaigning is digital, making it similar to American campaigns.
The Liberals typically employ campaign advisors from the Democrats. Mark Carney and another candidate named Evan Solomon are essentially run by a globalist lobby group in New York called the Eurasia Group. Justin Trudeau's former mentor works at the Eurasia Group, as does Carney's wife. This New York office essentially serves as puppet master for the Liberal Party in Canada.
Chinese Communist Party Interference in Canadian Politics
Foreign interference represents a massive problem in Canadian elections. In the previous election, the Chinese Communist Party was found interfering in 11 different districts. This election was even worse.
One candidate had to step down after saying three times that anyone who kidnapped his opponent and took him to the Chinese consulate would receive a one million dollar bounty. He was replaced by another Chinese Communist Party candidate, a Chinese-Canadian police officer who would attend Chinese Communist Party events in his police uniform and sing communist songs.
The hand of China is very apparent in Canadian politics. Mark Carney, as chair of Brookfield Asset Management (described as a slightly smaller BlackRock), has met with Xi Jinping, done huge business deals in China, and took a quarter billion dollar loan from China. The Carney government is as pro-China as you can get.
There are loyal, freedom-oriented Chinese Canadians fighting against this influence, but they face an uphill battle against the establishment.
Carney's Anti-American Globalism Isn't Just Campaign Rhetoric
During the campaign, Canadian politicians competed over who could prove they were toughest in standing up to Donald Trump. This was designed for domestic consumption to juice turnout among sensitive boomers and seniors.
After votes were counted, many expected Carney to pivot to a more conciliatory tone toward America. Instead, he went harder at Trump during his acceptance speech. He declared that Canada and the United States will never have the same relationship again and that he will reorient Canada away from America.
If Carney gets his way, he will realign Canada with communist China. His anti-Americanism wasn't just campaign tactics but reflects his deep beliefs as the ultimate globalist. Carney holds three passports and has homes in the United Kingdom and New York City. He hasn't been back in Canada for more than a few weeks. Levant traveled to the Isle of Man two weeks before the election because Carney had set up a shell company with a straw man director there. It's unclear what country Carney even pays his taxes in.
Why Canadians Were Bamboozled
Despite Carney's obvious globalist credentials, Canadian voters elected him due to several factors. There's inherent anti-Americanism in Canada that politicians can exploit. Canada's media is so concentrated that it would be as if PBS was larger than all other media combined. The CBC state broadcaster dominates the information landscape.
Despite these obstacles, Pierre Poilievre performed exceedingly well. The race was close, with Liberals beating Conservatives by only 2%. The France-style tactic of left-wing parties unifying behind one candidate made the difference.
Levant remains optimistic that Poilievre will win within the next year because he's built an attractive coalition of young people and working-class voters that's relatively unique around the world.
The Free Speech Crisis in Canada
Canada lacks the robust free speech protections that Americans take for granted. Canadians are constantly fighting for even basic freedom of speech and press, and these battles are costly because Canada doesn't have a First Amendment. What exists is a weak copy subject to numerous limitations.
The government-run leader debates illustrate the problem. The government chooses who gets to attend, including which journalists can cover the event. Rebel News was twice banned from attending simply because of their conservative tilt. Twice they had to go to federal court to get court orders allowing them in.
Freedom of speech exists enough that occasionally independent media can win in court, but they're constantly running to courts because the political culture no longer values free speech.
Canada has Human Rights Commissions that weaponize complaints about mean tweets. Justin Trudeau introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, that would have made it literally illegal to hurt people's feelings. Truth, fair comment, and religious conviction would not be defenses. That bill evaporated with the election, but Carney is expected to reintroduce it.
Government Colonization of Canadian Media
Freedom of speech is the most important freedom because with it you can fight to recover all others. It requires giving your opponents the same freedom you want for yourself. In Canada, they're snuffing out free speech using both stick and carrot.
The CBC state broadcaster has a larger staff than all private media combined. Whatever private media exists receives about $30,000 per journalist yearly from the government. This means nearly all journalists are pulling for the Liberal government.
Only a handful of independent journalists remain. Soon Canada will only have government-funded journalists or government-banned journalists. This is not a healthy state of affairs.
Elon Musk has become the most consequential man in politics because he strengthened freedom of speech on social media. Donald Trump's victory fixed the censorship problem on social media, which benefits Canadians. If Trump had not won, Rebel News would be out of business because the free speech returning to social media would have been eliminated.
The Battle Continues
Despite the election results, Levant and Canadian patriots aren't giving up. Canada is their home, where their families have lived for generations. They fought during the extreme COVID lockdowns when Canadian truckers broke the fever and set an example for the world. Those truckers had no politician support and no super PAC behind them, just grassroots people saying enough is enough.
The Conservative leader received the highest vote his party has gotten in a generation and built a conservative working-class coalition including young people that's unique around the world. With Carney forming only a minority government, there's a real chance of another election within the year.
Levant's message to Americans: Don't give up on Canada and don't annex them. America already has a free trade agreement providing all the oil, gas, and minerals it needs. Trump's 51st state comments spooked Canadians and contributed to the Liberal win. Instead, Canada and America should be best friends again, with America as Batman and Canada as Robin, the junior partner in a vital friendship.
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