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Tucker Carlson documentary asks, 'Should the U.S. liberate Canada from Trudeau?'
Tucker Carlson, the Fox News television host and provocateur, has a new documentary coming out, and its central question is whether the United States should liberate Canada from tyranny, as it attempted to do in Libya and Iraq.
Canadians of a certain age will remember how those efforts went.
Concerted airstrikes levelled swathes of the countries. Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein was hanged (and the video of his execution leaked online). Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s strongman, was hauled from a drainage pipe and impaled on a stick or bayonet (mobile phone footage of that, too, was leaked.)
Either way, neither Iraq nor Libya are prospering, stable nations after America’s interventions.
Enter Canada.
In a teaser trailer for the new film, called O, Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is shown in the red favoured by communist propagandists, complete with a moustache that has a distinctly Assad-esque flair.
“For more than 100 years the United States has as a matter of official policy opposed dictatorships around the world. But what if tyranny arrived right next door?” Carlson asks. “Would we liberate the people living under authoritarian rule as we have around the world?”
The teaser features John F. Kennedy noting that the “cost of freedom is always high,” and then clips of Barack Obama and George Bush talking about America’s enthusiasm for military adventures abroad. That’s followed by footage of airstrikes.
Then, there’s Hussein saying “mankind,” then cutting to Trudeau’s quip about “we like to say peoplekind” back in 2018, which was roundly mocked for being a virtue signalling attempt, though it was more likely Trudeau teasing a woman who belonged to the World Mission Society Church of God.
The teaser also shows a few shots of Trudeau sticking his tongue out while wearing blackface, a scandal that rocked the 2019 federal election campaign, and from which the prime minister emerged remarkably unscathed.
The film, it appears, is actually largely about the government’s crackdown on the Freedom Convoy protests that crippled downtown Ottawa in 2022.
Edmonton-area pastor James Coates gets a cameo. So does Calgary pastor Tim Stephens. Both were arrested for violating COVID-19 public-health restrictions with their respective congregations. David Menzies, who works for the right-wing Rebel News outlet, is also featured: He was roughed up by Trudeau’s security detail in December 2021.
Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, who’s become a prominent anti-vaccine and anti-COVID-restriction crusader in recent years — and has been arrested for his agitating — is also given time on the program.
Following a clip of police on horses riding through the convoy protest in Ottawa, an old clip shows Kennedy intoning seriously that the “greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.”
“The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near,” concludes former president Bush.
It probably needs to be said: Canada is no dictatorship. While there has been considerable debate over the validity of COVID-19-era measures to protect public health, and the federal government’s use of emergency powers to crush protesters, the fact remains that the government could change in an instant.
Last spring, Alberta’s ruling conservative party democratically ousted a premier who many in his own party believed had been too aggressive in the fight against COVID-19, and replaced him with a premier who staunchly opposed public-health measures.
Trudeau’s federal government, as well, is in a minority scenario, and could lose the support of the New Democrats at any moment, prompting an election.
In other words, there’s probably no need for American drones to start blowing apart downtown Ottawa or sending Seal Team Six after Canadian politicians.
Carlson, who holds a top-rated nightly television spot on Fox News, is a prominent figure on the American right.
His prior effort at an original documentary was released in April 2022, and was about the “end of men.” It was roundly mocked, to the extent that Snopes had to confirm that clips posted online were in fact real.
Perhaps most famously, in the documentary, Carlson espouses the benefits of exposing one’s testicles to a heat lamp in order to boost testosterone levels.