Juno News - Carney admits he’s CLUELESS on U.S. trade deal

00:00:00.000 Canada is less than two weeks away from getting hit with a 50% tariff increase in its exports to the United States.

00:00:13.000 Starting August the 19th, the tariffs will affect $20 billion in Canadian exports.

00:00:19.000 Prime Minister Carney won't say whether he thinks a negotiated deal to stop those tariff hikes is likely.

00:00:26.000 We're now two weeks from President Trump's threatened 50% tariffs on Canadian goods.

00:00:31.880 How likely is it that you'll be able to fend those tariffs off?

00:00:37.080 We're in the middle of negotiations.

00:00:39.340 And Minister LeBlanc, Janet Charette, who's our chief negotiator,

00:00:44.600 are in Washington as Ambassador Wiseman, obviously there,

00:00:48.000 in a series of meetings related to this.

00:00:51.240 I'm very involved in this as well.

00:00:53.980 And we'll see.

00:00:54.720 While relations between the two countries don't seem to be getting much better,

00:00:58.900 Prime Minister Carney used a breakdown in his teleprompter to take a shot at President Trump.

00:01:04.440 I would like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function.

00:01:13.800 Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.

00:01:17.060 well president trump meantime credits tariffs for a resurgence in u.s manufacturing

00:01:25.020 he says dealing with canada is nasty business we've been screwed by tariffs used against us

00:01:31.660 for years by china by japan by south korea by germany by everybody by canada canada's nasty 0.98

00:01:39.840 they are they're nasty people think canada they're nasty people i love the people but they're nasty 0.98

00:01:45.820 nasty leadership. A former Canadian intelligence officer says U.S. diplomats are undermining 0.98

00:01:52.920 national unity in Canada. Former CSIS officer Michael Juneau-Katsua told CBC that while China

00:02:00.440 and Russia are still threats, the behavior of some Americans is alarming. We've already

00:02:06.940 identified several foreign states that are trying to mingle with our Canadian internal politics.

00:02:15.820 They have different objectives. For some of them, like Russia and China, it's a question of creating disturbance within the border.

00:02:25.360 It's a question of trying to divide the society and to distract Canada and Canadian federal government from supporting, for example, Ukraine against Russia or to pay attention to the imperialist intentions of China in the subregion of Southeast Asia. 0.51

00:02:47.500 But the more alarming element is probably coming from the U.S.

00:02:52.560 The U.S., we've seen politicians, we've seen lawmakers, we've seen also even political diplomats right here in Canada acting already in support of a division, creating some stirs, and that is coming from the U.S., quite disturbing for us.

00:03:14.380 Well, Juna News has reached out to U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra regarding that comment and welcomes a response.

00:03:20.720 A conservative leader, Pierre Polyev, says Islamic terror networks in Canada are the real threat.

00:03:27.540 We don't want them to bring their terror to this country. 0.93

00:03:30.600 We want to deport the IRGC, get the terrorists out of our country. 0.98

00:03:34.920 They're not welcome here. 0.87

00:03:36.580 The IRGC is the Islamic Revolutionary Armed Guard of Iran,

00:03:41.080 and the Liberals have left them into Canada, at least 700 agents.

00:03:45.140 There's been at least two shootings in the last several months, according to U.S. court filings by the FBI.

00:03:51.600 Two shootings that we know of by the IRGC.

00:03:55.580 You know, we're seeing shootings of the U.S. consulate in Toronto, Jewish places of worship, and delis. 0.63

00:04:02.720 And I believe the IRGC is behind a lot of this. 0.82

00:04:05.240 Court filings suggest that I'm right. 0.96

00:04:07.120 That's why we need to deport all the IRGC from our country and restore safety to Persians, Jews, all Canadians.

00:04:15.960 This country is for Canadians, not for terrorists. 0.81

00:04:18.720 100%.

00:04:19.400 Napali have recently visited an Iranian-Canadian-owned boxing gym.

00:04:24.520 The attack on that gym may have come from a pro-Iranian terror group.

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00:05:35.720 you're prepared. It's better to be safe than sorry. Our guest today is Carla Treadway. She's

00:05:41.040 a political commentator and host of the Sovereign Sphere podcast, coming to us from Kenora, Ontario.

00:05:48.380 Welcome, Carla. Hey, thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on. Let's play an example of some of

00:05:54.680 your recent work. In this case, a satirical take on what it must be like being Prime Minister Carney's

00:06:01.500 speech writer. Say the word catalyze in every speech. People don't really know what it means,

00:06:10.320 but it sounds really smart. Start every speech with the world is more dangerous and divided.

00:06:19.820 we're preparing for the new world order no wait slow that down say like this new world order

00:06:31.740 for effect if journalists ask you a hard question shame them look inside yourself

00:06:41.660 pretend oil and gas is evil unless it's the carbon neutral oil that brookfield is invested

00:06:56.380 say tragedy on the horizon to scare them about climate change

00:07:04.420 i forgot let me be clear

00:07:09.960 Let me be clear. And today he was taking a shot at Trump over the teleprompter issue. You'll remember a while back, I think it was a speech to the World Economic Forum. Trump had his teleprompter break down. And then today Carney's broke down and he said, but unlike a certain world leader, you know, I don't think it's a conspiracy.

00:07:35.660 Mind you, Trump also lost use of this escalator while he was on it.

00:07:39.920 But I'm sure these are just wild coincidences.

00:07:42.940 Right. I actually just reviewed that event because I couldn't quite remember what happened.

00:07:48.040 It is actually very suspicious that the elevator or the escalator got turned off like halfway and then him and Melania had to walk. 0.97

00:07:58.580 There's actually a pretty high chance that Trump was right.

00:08:02.800 like all these bad things were only happening to him is that a conspiracy who knows well yeah

00:08:09.280 i would suggest that there's a lot of people who think you know this only happened to trump right

00:08:15.080 the teleprompter only broke down during trump's speech and the escalator only broke down during

00:08:20.340 when trump was actually on it so let's just say it looks pretty suspicious but i hear arnie uh

00:08:26.840 you know his teleprompter broke down and so i guess he saw fit to take a shot at trump

00:08:31.660 but the one thing about uh trump is that you know when the teleprompter breaks down he just keeps on

00:08:37.500 talking i mean you know he doesn't collapse his speech doesn't stop dead because the teleprompter

00:08:43.880 is not working i mean that guy knows uh how to go off the cuff he does it all the time even when

00:08:49.700 the teleprompter is working the guy the guy could do that's right well and that that moment was a

00:08:55.840 perfect example, actually, of Carney's strategy. Instead of answering questions or instead of

00:09:02.660 speaking about something articulately, let's just point the fingers at Donald Trump. That was his

00:09:07.940 whole entire campaign strategy. Look at Orange Man Bat and don't pay attention to anything that

00:09:13.420 we've done. Well, you're out in Kenora. I mean, is that still flying a year and a half after

00:09:20.760 Carney took over? I mean, are people still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt?

00:09:28.000 It's such a mixed bag here in my small town. We have a lot of First Nation communities around us

00:09:35.280 who tend to support the NDP. We are a conservative leaning riding. So we usually have a conservative

00:09:43.500 government in charge. There's lots of blue collar workers. There's lots of rednecks. 1.00

00:09:48.940 and there are a lot of social services so i find that the people that work for the government they 1.00

00:09:56.700 they tend to lean left but lucky for us we do tend to always vote in a conservative government which

00:10:03.340 is rare you know i i think it's great that you're uh you're in a fairly remote area i mean you're

00:10:12.200 an island right and out in kenora you're not in toronto or vancouver and yet here you are uh quite

00:10:21.960 um pronounced in your ability to reach a lot of people thanks to the internet thanks to having a

00:10:27.160 great podcast so what is that like i mean you know without the internet none of this would have

00:10:32.760 happened you know a lot of the uh influencers that we've seen online over the years people like

00:10:37.160 yourself uh coming into the fore and having yourself heard you know all of this has come

00:10:42.920 about in recent years just really as a result of the ability of the internet to reach everybody you

00:10:49.720 know so that must be kind of a neat thing for you to be able to live on a small island

00:10:55.240 uh you know in western ontario near kenora and to be able to reach as many people as you do

00:11:02.360 a hundred percent um to be able to talk about geopolitics you know there's there's so many

00:11:08.440 opportunities that have come from this work um not just in the online space like i physically

00:11:13.880 travel to a lot of different events across canada i recently emceed an event out in el salvador

00:11:20.360 where we were talking about reclaiming health and wealth sovereignty so lots of opportunities

00:11:25.400 have sprung from this never thought i'd be doing this work and it all kind of came around the

00:11:30.920 covet era when my business was forced to be shut down for almost two years and you know i i thought

00:11:38.760 owning your own business was your ticket to freedom my husband and i are both entrepreneurs

00:11:42.600 we also have a construction company and uh that reality was shattered for me when i saw how

00:11:49.240 vulnerable uh we were to the government and and these decisions and that's what started the show

00:11:54.360 that's what started me just asking better questions. I used to be a left-leaning individual

00:12:01.500 until I started looking at outcomes and data and asking better questions. So yeah, it's been a ride,

00:12:09.260 but I've met some fantastic people in the space because of it. And how do you see things now that

00:12:15.560 Carney's been in there for a while? I mean, he came in making a whole lot of promises. A lot of

00:12:20.680 People were, you know, expecting great things from this guy, considering the jobs that he has had and, of course, the hype around him.

00:12:29.400 And I can't help but think that there's a lot of people who are being let down by this.

00:12:33.700 And yet now he's managed to pull together a majority government through the use of, you know, floor crossings rather than winning it the old-fashioned way, the way most politicians or prime ministers get their majorities through the electorate.

00:12:49.900 What's your take on what we're seeing so far from this government?

00:12:53.720 In the beginning, I was trying to reserve a sliver of positivity for Carney, thinking, well, you know, he is a businessman.

00:13:03.340 Maybe he will come in and do the right thing.

00:13:06.300 I was waiting. I was watching.

00:13:09.220 But the evidence seems to point to him just being here to make himself wealthy.

00:13:17.340 Every single decision that he makes directly benefits a company that he's invested in.

00:13:25.220 So there's that. There's the reasons for him just getting personally wealthy. But the other reason

00:13:30.720 is I don't think he's here to make a strong and sovereign Canada. I think he's here to dismantle

00:13:37.900 that idea, to continue along the Justin Trudeau post-national idea of a state. And he wants to

00:13:45.420 dismantle the idea of Canada being sovereign and wants us in relationship with China,

00:13:51.300 in relationship with the EU. You can call it globalism. You can call it this multipolar world.

00:13:58.000 And I think that's actually a big reason why he's not getting this deal with Trump.

00:14:03.740 Trump is standing against all of that. Trump is here to make America strong. Whether you like his

00:14:10.480 method or not is up for debate, but that's his agenda. Make America strong, break free from

00:14:17.020 this globalist vision where Mark Carney is doing the complete opposite. And I don't think the

00:14:23.800 decisions that he's making right now are doing anything good for Canada whatsoever. He's making

00:14:28.680 very foolish decisions. Whether you like Donald Trump or not, whether you like what's happening 0.99

00:14:34.340 in the United States, the United States is our neighboring nation. If that was Iraq next door, 1.00

00:14:39.840 We should be making peace with them. It's a fool's errand to think that we can have stronger 1.00

00:14:44.980 relationships with countries across the ocean. It's just not tangible. And I think we've taken 0.82

00:14:50.720 that relationship for granted. I think the U.S. has done a lot for Canada, militarily, economically,

00:14:57.580 and it's time that Canadians kind of put down their arrogance, drop their short-sightedness,

00:15:05.240 and think about the long-term plan here.

00:15:07.300 Trump's a temporary problem,

00:15:08.640 but Carney's burning down that bridge

00:15:11.500 as fast as he humanly can.

00:15:14.220 And I think we're going to be in a whole lot of trouble

00:15:17.040 because of it.

00:15:18.720 Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to unpack

00:15:21.100 about what you just said,

00:15:21.980 because I think it makes a lot of sense.

00:15:24.120 Because right now, when you look at so many

00:15:26.020 of these projects that remain on the back burner,

00:15:30.140 when this guy came in,

00:15:31.380 they were supposed to be fast-tracked, you know?

00:15:33.220 hundreds of projects that could be moving forward, and yet it's government, it's regulation that is

00:15:39.600 standing in the way of these projects coming through. Now, some people could dismiss it as

00:15:43.060 government incompetence, but I don't think so at this point. I think there's something intentional

00:15:48.840 and nefarious about the fact that Canada just can't seem to move forward, and that, to your

00:15:55.280 point, so many of the decisions we make seem to be aimed at hurting the country, you know, like

00:16:00.800 doubling the size of the national debt and increasing carbon taxes. All these things

00:16:06.360 are stumbling blocks to our economic growth. And that's the direction they want to go in,

00:16:11.340 you know, under the guise of saving the planet from climate change. So none of this makes sense.

00:16:17.260 And I no longer buy the fact that it's incompetence because even an incompetent

00:16:22.520 government can occasionally do something right. These guys make sure that whatever they do

00:16:27.880 ends up screwing the Canadian people. What say you?

00:16:31.980 Oh, yeah. I mean, even the narrative that like what he's doing is to protect the environment.

00:16:36.180 Like he'll say that out of one side of his mouth and then he'll say, okay, but I support data

00:16:40.660 centers. Let's put a bunch of data centers. So he seems to tailor his message based on who's 0.82

00:16:46.540 listening. And again, all decisions just really point back to his bank account and that's it.

00:16:52.620 Yeah. And then you've got Trump coming out. Interestingly enough, he was crediting tariffs

00:16:59.420 as a plus in terms of America because he's repatriating manufacturing jobs to that country,

00:17:05.780 which has lost millions of them over the decades. And then he came out and described Canada as

00:17:10.660 nasty. He says, dealing with Canada, Canada is nasty, love the people, but nasty leadership. 0.98

00:17:17.400 What do you make of that? 1.00

00:17:19.400 Yeah, I think Canadians have been mean and arrogant. 0.99

00:17:22.840 And look, so has Trump. 1.00

00:17:24.380 I'm not going to say that Trump is behaving diplomatically.

00:17:28.340 He's not.

00:17:29.500 Somebody should take away his phone.

00:17:31.900 The man should not be tweeting.

00:17:33.800 He just says whatever he wants.

00:17:35.940 Sometimes that's entertaining too.

00:17:37.920 So is Trump behaving diplomatically?

00:17:40.300 No. 1.00

00:17:41.300 But Canadians are acting just as foolish. 1.00

00:17:45.140 Just as foolish. 1.00

00:17:46.080 and at the end of the day this whole narrative that like we're at war with the united states 1.00

00:17:51.220 there is no war when the other person is 10 times stronger it's foolish and my fear is that

00:18:01.160 again we're not thinking long term uh who knows what trump could do next like let's say that

00:18:08.820 we're in a real predicament let's say that it's world war three what if america says too bad

00:18:14.840 Canada, you're on your own. We're not protecting you. There's a very good chance that something

00:18:19.880 like that could happen. And then Canada is really going to see how vulnerable they were.

00:18:24.500 We're really taking this situation for granted. And yeah, tariffs suck. But we've also been 0.98

00:18:30.300 tariffing the United States for a really long time. And unfortunately, the mainstream media

00:18:35.280 just isn't giving the average Canadian the right information about tariffs, about how we've impacted

00:18:43.460 the United States about how we've benefited from the United States. So, you know, Canadians are

00:18:48.160 making very emotional decisions instead of practical ones. And we might have to make some 0.96

00:18:53.780 concessions in order to benefit from this relationship that we've always had with the

00:18:58.300 United States. Now, where you are geographically, it's probably not far from the U.S. border, right?

00:19:05.440 Yeah, we can actually boat from our house all the way to Minnesota. So that would be the closest

00:19:11.040 estate to me. Have you had much contact with Americans and have you talked to them about any

00:19:16.200 of this stuff? Americans are not thinking about us at all. At all. It's a non-issue. They're not

00:19:27.040 concerned about us. And it makes sense. Their media isn't painting Canada as anything. They're

00:19:37.160 not talking about us as a victim. They're not talking about us as an aggressor. But what happens

00:19:42.280 if you open up CBC or CTV? It's nothing but Donald Trump and poor us and we're victims. So no wonder

00:19:49.920 why Canadians are so inflamed right now. You know, all of our problems existed way before Trump ever

00:19:57.260 took power. And obviously that's the thing that they're trying to avoid. The work that we actually

00:20:02.280 have to do in our own country to be strong in the first place like trump didn't make us vulnerable

00:20:09.080 he took advantage of our pre-existing vulnerability yeah absolutely and now we're in a position where

00:20:16.340 people are wondering what's it going to take to get some real changes in canada you know we had

00:20:21.080 a change not really a change in government liberals were still in power they had you know a new leader

00:20:27.540 And so a lot of conservatives are wondering, well, when are we going to get our shot?

00:20:31.560 And so with some infighting in the conservative party, what do you see as the future in that

00:20:37.540 regard?

00:20:39.060 I want to put all my eggs in the conservative basket, and I'm going to continue to cheer

00:20:44.200 them on.

00:20:44.720 But I think conservatives need to be a little bolder, a little braver.

00:20:50.160 I'm at the point, too, where there's so much change that needs to be done, and it's going

00:20:55.240 to take a while to flip this economy around and actually get building again. It has me wondering

00:21:02.020 if we can even do this through democratic means anymore. I'm still always going to participate.

00:21:08.240 But what I mean by that is I think we need someone like Mele or Bukele who comes in with 0.52

00:21:15.240 a blowtorch and says, this entire system is so broken. The Senate's got to go. Your elected

00:21:22.960 officials have to go like, we need a fresh start and none of this is working. So that's what I

00:21:28.860 mean by boldness. I think we need to get to a point and we're getting there where it is so bad

00:21:34.940 that Canadians are actually willing to accept someone that is willing to finally do something

00:21:39.660 drastic. All right. How do people find you online, Carla? You can find me on YouTube or Spotify,

00:21:48.820 Apple at The Sovereign Sphere or on X at The Sovereign CEO. Fantastic. Well, thank you so

00:21:56.160 much for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Appreciate you, Mark. Thank you.

Juno News - August 07, 2026

Carney admits he’s CLUELESS on U.S. trade deal

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