Trump ruins Carney - Did Danielle Smith know it was coming？
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Summary
Donald Trump has called off all trade negotiations with the Canadian government regarding tariffs and digital services taxes. Canada has been a difficult country to do business with over the years and Donald Trump is fed up with it. He has now decided to go all in on Canada and force them to pay higher tariffs on their dairy products.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. It's 3 11 p.m. Friday,
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June the 27th. Enjoying a nice mug of tea this afternoon. Hope you're having a wonderful day.
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Big news breaking this afternoon you may be aware of. Donald Trump has just shut down
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all negotiations with Mark Carney, the Liberal Party in Canada regarding tariffs.
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I don't think this should come as any surprise, to be honest, but this is what Donald Trump
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sent out on social media today. Let me go over to the screen here. You can take a look at this.
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We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult country to trade with,
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including the fact that they have charged our farmers as much as 400% tariffs for years on
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dairy products, has just announced that they're putting a digital services tax on our American
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technology companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our country. They're obviously
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copying the European Union, which has done the same thing and is currently under discussion with us.
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Also, based on this egregious tax, we are hereby terminating all discussions on trade with Canada,
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effective immediately. We'll let Canada know the tariff that they will be paying to do business
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with the United States of America within the next seven-day period. Thank you for your attention
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to this matter. So the digital services tax went into effect, I believe, almost a year to the day
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ago. So it has been in place. Trump maybe just being told about it or was just waiting to lower
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the boom on Canada today because he has a flair for the dramatic, of course. And of course,
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in here he's talking about dairy products. Canada just entrenched in law supply management regarding
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dairy products. They can't even talk about it. They entrenched this in law, no doubt rubbing
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Donald Trump's nose in it, about a week ago. So the digital services tax has got to go
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because we need to negotiate with our biggest trading partner. Here's Donald Trump. Let me
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just move this video back here. Talking about this, I believe it's in the Oval Office just a few minutes
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ago. So Canada put a charge on some of our companies and Canada has been a very difficult
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country to deal with over the years. You know, we hear Canada. We have a great relationship with
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the people of Canada, but it's been very difficult. And they put a charge and they were a little bit
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early. We found out about it. So and we have all the cards. We will every single one. We don't want
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to do anything bad, but they have economically. We have such power over Canada. I'd rather not use it,
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but they did something with our tech companies today trying to copy Europe. You know, they copied
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Europe. It's not going to work out well for Europe either. So he goes on to talk about dairy products,
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400% tariffs on products and whatnot, things like that. So Donald Trump's pissed off, breaking off
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negotiations with Mark Carney, the great negotiator. People online saying Mark Carney has played this
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perfectly. Donald Trump is taking the ball and going home, but this will not pan out well for
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Canada. Rupa Subramanya, she sent out that initial tweet that I showed you from Donald Trump.
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And she has this to say, which I think is important. This is unfortunate and clearly Mark Carney messed up
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big time. For what it's worth, Pierre Polly have planned on keeping the digital services tax and supply
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management so unlikely that the outcome would have been different under a Polly of government. You know,
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I don't know whether that's the case. Despite the fact that Donald Trump said he didn't like Pierre
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Polly have and the conservatives over here during the election campaign, I think there would have been
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a better relationship between Polly have and Trump because they're more conservative and they could
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probably talk to each other better. And Pierre Polly have wouldn't have been spending all of his time
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over gavorting with his neighbors and his friends and the people he feels comfortable with over in the
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European Union. He'd have got down to business months ago to fix this problem.
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As I showed earlier this morning, I showed a video from December 2nd. That was the day that
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Trudeau went to Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump first floated out the 51st state. I believe Trump
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talked about these tariffs back in November, shortly after his election, before his inauguration,
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by a long shot. And the liberals have been dithering ever since. December 2nd is a long time ago,
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folks. We're flipping the calendar over to July, early next week. And what did we end up with?
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We ended up with a sit down around December 10th with a number of the premiers, not including Danielle
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Smith, who did her best to be diplomatic with the Trump administration, going down and talking
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to them, one of only a couple of people in the country that did that.
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Then we had Justin Trudeau resigning on January 6th, starting up a liberal leadership campaign.
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They dithered all the way through that. We got thrown into an election campaign. They've
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dithered all the way through that. Carney has spoken to him a couple of times, but has resolved
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nothing. Shows up on CNN. They call him the Trump whisperer. Well, it's not working out so well,
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is it? So, Sumbra Mania goes on to say, the Canadian political establishment, whether liberal
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or conservative, has invested in these self-harming policies that benefit highly entrenched groups
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at the expense of average Canadians. And I talk about it. I don't know how much the cream price
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here in Alberta has to do with the dairy cartel in Quebec, but I get pissed off about it. It drives
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up prices on everything. And I don't like paying too much for my dairy. I use a lot of dairy.
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Canada continues to screw itself over, especially when it could have used the classic blame avoidance
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mechanism to pursue radical reforms that benefit all Canadians. So, here we are.
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The tariff negotiations are over. Now, I don't find it surprising. I think,
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I don't know what Danielle Smith's relationship is with the Trump administration and Donald Trump.
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There's pictures of her with Donald Trump and with Kevin O'Leary and Donald Trump and talking to a
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number of people in the Trump administration. She obviously knows them. I'm not sure what her
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relationship with them is. But just within the last couple of days, she's floated out the
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Alberta Next panel. And we knew this was coming, but the timing is interesting to me.
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Smith was putting pressure on the Carney government with the Alberta Next panel. Now, I think this panel
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is unnecessary. I do think that Albertans need to be better educated when it comes to an Alberta pension
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plan. They've said they don't want it. I do. Regarding a new police force, people in the province
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say they don't want an Alberta provincial police force. Ontario and Quebec have had them for years.
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The OPP, the Société de Québec. Why not here in Alberta? But Daniel Smith says Albertans have had
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enough of Ottawa's economic attacks on our province and know it's time to take stand. I just get the
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feeling that Daniel Smith got a heads up about what Trump was going to do today. And she knew this was
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coming and launched Alberta Next right before this, because this kind of stuff is putting pressure
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on Donald Trump. Alberta, our home, pristine mountains and lakes, wide open pastures and fertile
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fields, unmatched natural resources, world-class cities, world-class people. So it goes on and on
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and it talks about Alberta having an Ottawa problem. So it puts pressure on Ottawa, on Mark Carney is what
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I meant to say. And then they came out with this video here, Alberta Police Service. This has come out.
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When's this? June 25th. The Alberta Next panel is touring Alberta,
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to hear from Albertans on how our province can better protect ourselves from Ottawa's economic
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attacks. And then we go over here and we've got the Alberta pension plan. The Alberta Next panel is
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touring Alberta to hear from Albertans on how our province can better protect ourselves from Ottawa's
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economic attacks. They all start off like that, Ottawa's economic attacks. The answer to all of this
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chaos with Donald Trump is Alberta independence. We don't need more panels asking us what we want out here,
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Premier Smith. What we need is movement to get the hell out of Canada, because this is chaos.
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And we're getting dragged down into this. I will say that this is a benefit to the independence movement.
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And this kind of stuff, as much as it bothers me that it's hurting my friends in Canada,
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it just gives me more reason to say, we got to get the hell out of this. Madhouse.
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So again, Donald Trump says, no more talks on tariffs. They're talking right now in Washington
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about making big plans, changes, getting rid of taxes on tips, taxes on pensioners over there,
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doing all this work right now. Our government's on vacation.
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