Trudeau Tariff Speech - How Do We Get Out Of This Madhouse？
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Summary
Justin Trudeau delivers an impassioned speech in response to the Trump administration's new 25% tariffs on $155B worth of Canadian exports to the United States. The Prime Minister speaks about his pride in being a Canadian and how he feels about standing up for his country.
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Tonight, I am announcing Canada will be responding to the U.S. trade action with 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods.
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And I hope to God, for myself and for everybody watching this, we do not have to relive Justin Trudeau's speech over and over and over again.
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I'm going to go through some of the clips. I recorded it live.
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And there were things that stood out that I'm stunned this man had the gall to say.
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And I'm going to say something about the premiers and what they should have done.
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Now, did you wake up thinking about this this morning?
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I've been doing these videos for about six weeks.
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Talking about Canadian politics and things like that.
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But a lot of Canadians are waking up thinking about this situation with the United States and tariffs coming in and economic hardship.
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Because, folks, I've never been through this before.
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But do you think Americans were waking up thinking about this today?
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A lot of them are rejoicing in what Donald Trump's doing for their country.
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But here's what was trending this morning when I woke up.
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And since Donald Trump put in the tariffs, lots of reaction.
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Dear Donald, here's my brunch menu listing a whole bunch of things that are from Ontario and Canada.
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Do you really think Donald Trump woke up concerned about what Justin Trudeau said last night?
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No, apparently the CBC says that Trump's just going to come back with harsher tariffs now that we've got 25% tariffs on their goods now.
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And he stood up after getting hit in the ear with a bullet and went, fight, fight, fight.
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Do you really think Donald Trump is concerned about what Justin Trudeau said last night?
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And apparently, according to Trudeau, we are too.
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Likely these people right now are the same people who rejoice when we start tearing down our history, our statues.
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And these are the type of people who probably call you a settler when you stick up for your country.
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Tonight, I'm prouder than I've ever been to be a Canadian.
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I thought that was pathetic last night that we could even be in the situation.
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And we have a twit like Justin Trudeau speaking on behalf of our country.
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And then whether you like Trudeau or not, his speech tonight was perfect and powerful.
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Note for the day, it's Alberta's oil, not Canada's.
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If you want to be an effing mega moron, move to the damn states.
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This is how the majority of Eastern Canadians perceive Alberta.
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Beyond that, they want us to be good little players on Team Canada without an actual, say,
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And that's the other thing that hasn't really been discussed much.
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Daniel Smith, a week or so ago, said a national unity issue could be coming.
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Now, if you're a proud Canadian and you want the country to stay together, you should be
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calling for Parliament to resume and election immediately.
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And as far as I'm concerned, I really am not a proud Canadian anymore.
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The separation movement here in Alberta is likely to grow from this.
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And when he talks about they want our money and our resources, I mean, here's the layout
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Alberta puts so much money into equalization payments.
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They've got to start pulling up their socks over there and stop shutting down our resource
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I'm going to get to that in just a moment with what Trudeau said last night.
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See if you feel that way when you're living in the 51st state.
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And so those are just some of the things you're hearing online and the reaction to what Trudeau
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I think a lot of those people who are proud of themselves right now, we're not conservatives
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But there is an ulterior motive to what happened last night.
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I've seen more people over the last week or so saying this is a play for poll numbers for
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And yes, folks, I do believe that the economy is at stake right now and at risk because the
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Let's take a look at some of the clips from Justin Trudeau last night.
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Let me assure you, I'm not going to play the whole speech from last night.
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With his speech and answering questions, it went on for about 32 minutes.
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So I'm going to play a clip from the beginning of his speech and one near the end because this
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I'm sure many of you are anxious, but I want you to know we are all in this together.
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This trade action by the Americans and our response is going to have real consequences
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for people, for workers on both sides of our border.
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He started off his speech by saying, we're all in this together.
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This is a man and a party, the Liberal Party, that has done everything over the last nine
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Man versus woman, gay versus straight, black versus white, on and on and on.
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I don't think Canadians should be in this predicament at all, but it's because of him
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And then he goes on to say, we won't back down.
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Well, we're damn right we're going to back down.
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We have to back down sometime because the United States won't back down.
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It's going to come to a point where we have to capitulate.
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How high the Liberal poll numbers have to go before Justin Trudeau will finally back down
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Now, I want to talk about something he said about our minerals.
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Justin Trudeau said this about our critical minerals.
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As I've said before, if President Trump wants to usher in a new golden age for the United
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States, the better path is to partner with Canada, not to punish us.
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Canada has critical minerals, reliable and affordable energy, stable democratic institutions,
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shared values, and the natural resources you need.
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I was passively listening to his speech last night because his voice is like nails on
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You know, and I couldn't stand looking at the screen.
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There's Dominic LeBlanc still babysitting Trudeau.
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And Melanie Jolie, they stand like mannequins behind him.
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And then he said, we have critical minerals that the Americans need.
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After spending 10 years demonizing and obstructing our natural resources and our energy, Trudeau
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is bragging about how valuable they are to the Americans.
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And that's exactly what I thought when I heard him say that.
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And we're stuck right now, victim to tariffs from the United States of America, because we
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don't sell stuff to anybody else, about 70 to 80% of all of our exports go to the United
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I mean, this was a story that came out on January 30th.
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An estimated $670 billion of investment lost in ditched resource projects since Trudeau became
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prime minister, and he had the gall to say that last night in front of the nation and
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And Justin Trudeau seems to be like a parrot or just repeating the same thing over and over
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Here is what he had to say about the border when asked about it.
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We have one of the strongest, more secure borders in the world between Canada and the
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As I said, less than 1% of fentanyl going into the United States come from Canada.
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Less than 1% of illegal migrants going into the United States come from Canada.
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And that's why we've invested $1.3 billion in strengthening our borders.
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You can go back and watch videos I did five, six weeks ago and saying, if you want to solve
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this issue with Donald Trump and not have tariffs coming in, close the damn border.
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But Trudeau continues to talk about the 1% thing.
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He seems to think that when he says it, Donald Trump's listening and Donald Trump is not listening
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Well, Donald Trump has a border czar and we need one as well.
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Just like Danielle Smith, my premier has suggested.
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The border czar in the United States is Tom Homan and his job is to secure the border.
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It's to get the people who they're illegally in the United States out and ensure that people
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He was on with Tucker Carlson and this is what he said about our border.
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I don't have it off the top of my head, but I know the number, depending on what sector
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you look at, is 600% to 800% increase on the northern border, specifically in upstate New
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And I still have a home up there, so I'm very familiar with that area.
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And I talk to border patrol chiefs up there all the time.
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And the problem with the northern border, a lot of SIAs come through the northern border.
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They can afford to fly to Canada and cross the northern border, which is wide open because
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So a lot of Indians, a lot of Pakistanis, a lot of Turkish come through the northern border.
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So Trudeau's not listening to what Donald Trump's saying, and that's what he needs to do to solve
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I'll try to find a link and put it in the description.
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But he was talking about Trudeau going on and on about spending, what is it, $1.6 billion
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And he said, we have two Black Hawk helicopters.
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And he says, if they start in the middle and go out with maintenance and all the time
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fueling and whatnot, it'll take three weeks for both of them to get to the end of the
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border on either side of the country because it's 8,000 kilometers long.
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Don't you think that somebody trying to break into the country will just wait until the
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So this is a real issue and Trudeau is ignoring it and he needs to start listening or this is
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Now, the other thing he was asked about was recalling Parliament.
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And he also talks about supporting Canadians in this one.
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We need to sit down and discuss this with our elected officials.
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And Trudeau doesn't seem to think that's a problem at all.
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As you can see from our strong response package, as we spoke about with premiers this afternoon
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and have for many weeks, we have the tools to be able to support Canadians through this
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This is a moment for Canadians to pull together, including Canadians of all different political
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I'm not a person who really likes to rely on government all that much, but I think we
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need a functioning government right now when we don't have one.
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I've been saying that for quite some time since the first time they sat down to talk to Trudeau
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Then he talks about we have the tools to support Canadian citizens.
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If this goes on for very long, they've talked about pandemic type relief for this terrorist
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That means giving you money and probably clawing it back like they did with those CERB payments.
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So the last thing I really want to get into here, and then I'll just kind of sum up,
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was somebody asked him about talking to Donald Trump.
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And one question was really missed by the reporters after he answered this.
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What does it tell you about your relationship with President Trump that you've been trying
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to get a hold of him and he hasn't been speaking with you?
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I think this is a time where we've all remarked on just how active President Trump has been
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in engaging with a wide range of topics in his first weeks in office.
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As you all know, I've had many, many good and substantive conversations with President
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But the question that was missed after this was, when was the last time you spoke with
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He sent people down to Washington, but they haven't been speaking with the right people.
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When was the last time you spoke with Donald Trump?
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Because that would have given us an indication on how hard he was working on resolving this
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Because the question he should have been asking Donald Trump is, what do I have to do so
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And can you push it back for a couple of weeks so we can put all of those measures in place
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But again, this is a way to raise poll numbers.
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And it'll be interesting to see how the poll numbers go up or down over the next week.
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The other thing that's interesting about this is Pierre Polyev has been campaigning since
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he became the leader of the Conservative Party about a carbon tax election.
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They have neutered him when it comes to that issue.
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I mean, it's certainly in the back of Canadians' minds, but this is all about tariffs now.
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$155 billion in tariffs, $30 billion now, the rest in 21 days.
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So this is going to go on for at least three weeks.
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It'll go on at least until March 9th when they pick a new leader.
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And God knows what's going to happen after that.
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Now, as far as the premiers go, I said this in a video not long ago.
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Now, the premiers should have just basically called for an election when they first sat
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down to talk to him, the first Team Canada meeting with Trudeau.
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We're not talking to you unless we have an election.
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They should have stood strong last night and told Trudeau that we don't see you as the
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You need to recall parliament now or we're not talking to you.
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Unfortunately, a lot of these people in, like David Eby in B.C., I mean, he's restricting
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purchases or bringing anything into B.C. from red states, from Republicans.
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And Doug Ford is running on the same issue that Trudeau is using to bring up the Liberal
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So, really, we've got no unity when it comes to our premiers.
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Danielle Smith is the only one who's been standing strong on this all along.
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I think we're really in deep trouble right now.
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And the fact that people think that Trudeau is some kind of hero for standing up last night
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really sickens me and it should sicken you as well.
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I don't know what I can do to soften the blow coming in from south of the border in Donald
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Now, if you're interested in seeing a video, this will really piss people off who like
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