There's not a lot of evidence right now, and with regards to negotiations for any country or any jurisdiction, to have a tariff-free agreement with the United States, there's not much evidence that Canada can get a deal.
00:00:00.000There's not a lot of evidence right now and with regards to negotiations for any country or any jurisdiction to have a tariff-free agreement.
00:00:17.780Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel Wednesday, July the 16th, 5.03 a.m. with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:24.280I hope you're having an awesome day today. I certainly am.
00:00:28.260I don't normally start my videos with a clip, but I just had to today.
00:00:32.580Mark Carney addressing his media, and I say it's his media because they worship at the feet the man stands on, suggesting that, well, Canada really can't make a deal with the United States and we're going to have tariffs.
00:00:46.300Here's an article right here from the Globe and Mail.
00:00:48.880Carney changes messaging, says chances are low for a tariff-free trade deal with the United States.
00:00:54.060Folks, you could have had things differently.
00:00:55.960Now, people are just going to say, how would it have been any different with Pierre Polyev as the prime minister?
00:01:01.740Well, I guess we're not going to know, are we?
00:01:04.600You could have had things differently.
00:01:06.220You could have voted differently on April 28th because this isn't the only way the wheels are falling off the Carney government.
00:01:37.000But Kate Harrison, she was on the CBC.
00:01:40.720I'm going to let her lay this whole thing out for you.
00:01:43.440She absolutely slays Carney and his government and the weak response he's had so far to tariffs from Donald Trump in the United States of America.
00:01:53.320I'm getting very confused, Catherine, about where to put my elbows.
00:01:56.280They're up and they're down, and if they keep moving that way, we're going to look like a bunch of chickens.
00:01:59.580The Prime Minister has an expectation management problem.
00:02:29.860If tariffs are the reality and other countries have them as their reality, what are we doing to systemically make investment in Canada better?
00:02:38.460So far, the proposal has been to expedite energy projects to, oh my goodness, two years.
00:02:43.500While other jurisdictions are moving faster than that.
00:02:46.320The U.S. is changing things like their corporate tax rate, or they're at least looking at systems to attract more business investment.
00:02:52.580And that's totally absent the tariff conversation.
00:02:54.880So, we seem to be very focused on, you know, how we might tax bourbon and ketchup a little bit more to hit back against the Americans and not addressing some of the big challenges that exist for Canada's economy to thrive.
00:03:27.960It was the fact that we put tariffs on bourbon and Harley-Davidson's and playing cards and Heinz ketchup and cherries and a number of other things.
00:04:36.200Now, the solution for Mark Carney, up until right now, up until this point, up until the last couple of days has been, become the greatest economy in the G7 because we're going to become an energy superpower.
00:04:49.720Now, Ontario First Nations are bringing the federal and provincial governments to court, pushing back against new laws to fast track infrastructure projects.
00:05:00.860Details of the constitutional challenge have not yet been made public, but indigenous communities have said the new laws infringe on their rights, including the duty to consult.
00:05:11.680Ottawa recently passed Bill C5, allowing the federal government to bypass certain existing legislation for major projects.
00:05:20.360So the solution to the tariff issue, which has now fallen apart, was to build things.
00:05:25.900And now it doesn't look like that's going to happen either.
00:05:29.720Kate Harrison talks about two years to expedite projects.