Juno News - July 16, 2025


Carney CAVES to Trump, admits tariffs are here to stay


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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you
00:00:12.020 today, folks. We're going to do more of a news show today because there are a lot of updates
00:00:16.760 coming down the pike. We have heard from Prime Minister Mark Carney, and well, let's just say
00:00:21.740 his message is quite a bit different than the one that we had during the election campaign.
00:00:26.060 We're going to talk about Trump's tariffs as well, and there is a New York Magazine article that's
00:00:30.960 gone viral about how furious Canadians are. We're going to dive into that a little bit later in this
00:00:36.060 show, but first, let's start by talking about the trade war updates. So as you know, as we talked
00:00:42.140 about on the show with Chris Sims on Monday, President Donald Trump has again changed his
00:00:47.820 mind and again decided to go back to the on-again, off-again tariffs while they're back on again.
00:00:52.520 So last Thursday, President Trump took to Truth Social to announce that the United States will
00:00:57.940 implement pretty much an across-the-board 35% tariff on Canada. I'm going to read a little bit
00:01:04.360 from the letter that he posted. This was July 10th, which was last Thursday. He basically says, folks,
00:01:10.480 that instead of working with the United States, Canada has retaliated with its own tariffs. And so
00:01:16.680 starting on August 1st, 2025, we will charge Canada a tariff of 35% on Canadian products sent into the
00:01:24.240 United States. He goes on to say that if Canada retaliates again with more tariffs, well, then we
00:01:29.920 will get another 35% tariff. I want to specifically talk about what President Trump mentions in this
00:01:35.120 letter because I think it's important. He says, I must mention the flow of fentanyl is hardly the only
00:01:39.800 challenge we have with Canada, which has many tariff and non-tariff policies and trade barriers,
00:01:45.300 which cause unsustainable trade deficits against the United States. Canada charges extraordinary
00:01:50.040 tariffs on our dairy farmers up to 400%. And that is assuming our dairy farmers have access to sell
00:01:57.000 their products to the people of Canada. Now, I hate to say it, folks, but President Trump is right.
00:02:02.340 So there has been an issue in Canada with supply management. This is something that conservatives like
00:02:08.140 me have been talking about for, oh, I don't know, a decade or longer now. This was an issue during the
00:02:12.960 Harper government as well. Many conservatives want to do away with the supply management quota system
00:02:18.260 that benefits a handful of farmers in Quebec and Ontario. And it seems to me that this is one of
00:02:23.460 the issues that President Trump is raising and saying, hey, it's not fair that you have this quota
00:02:28.480 system that you don't allow us to import our dairy. And so we're now basically facing a situation,
00:02:35.820 folks, where a small handful of industry insiders are holding the rest of the country hostage,
00:02:41.080 basically saying, we want our privilege. We want our special government quota. It's basically like
00:02:46.020 a communist quota. And because of that, we're going to, what, de-industrialize our entire country
00:02:51.680 because President Trump issuing these tariffs, they will be devastating to the Canadian economy.
00:02:56.880 That's a bit of an aside. And so at the time when President Trump issued this rather shocking
00:03:02.200 statement, Mark Carney, our prime minister, was on vacation. And rather than coming back and getting to
00:03:08.860 Ottawa and rolling up his sleeves, Canadians elected him for that purpose, Mark Carney was on vacation
00:03:13.680 in an undisclosed location. And he did not return to work. Instead, he said, hey, folks, we're going
00:03:18.160 to have a virtual cabinet meeting next week to deal with this. Well, the cabinet meeting was held
00:03:22.900 yesterday in Ottawa on Tuesday. And here is what Mark Carney had to say when he was entering
00:03:29.760 Parliament for the first time since Trump issued this new tariff.
00:03:33.020 The first thing to say is the government has consistently stood up for Canadian workers
00:03:37.440 and businesses throughout these negotiations. We'll continue to do so. I expect that the
00:03:43.200 discussions will intensify between now and the end of the month. And we'll be working hard
00:03:48.000 on that. At the same time, we need to recognize that the commercial landscape globally has changed.
00:03:54.900 It's changed in a fundamental manner. And we will continue to focus on what we can most control,
00:04:00.500 which is building a strong Canadian economy. And that's part of what we'll be discussing
00:04:06.060 in the cabinet today. And a strong Canadian...
00:04:08.180 So you have the sort of boring diplomatic answer there. Now, interestingly, he is pressed
00:04:14.320 a little bit. And now speaking in French, he has a slightly different message. So speaking
00:04:19.580 in French, this is transcribed, but it is in French. He basically just says there's not a lot
00:04:24.260 that we can do. These tariffs are going to happen and we're just going to have to deal with it.
00:04:27.420 So let's play that clip. There is not a lot of evidence right now. And with regards to negotiations
00:04:40.620 for any country or any jurisdiction to have a tariff-free agreement. So there you go. Kearney
00:04:47.980 tells Canadians that a tariff-free deal with the United States is unlikely. But wait a minute,
00:04:52.620 wait a minute, we just fought an entire election where Mark Kearney and the legacy media told us
00:04:57.500 that Mark Kearney was the one who can roll up his sleeves and negotiate that he's the one that can
00:05:01.820 deal with this crisis. And that if anyone can talk to President Donald Trump and talk him off the ledge
00:05:06.540 on these tariffs, it would be, Mark Kearney, a slightly different message, much more somber,
00:05:11.260 much more realistic to basically just say, yeah, we're going to have to deal with this. We're going to
00:05:15.900 have to pivot and what figure out different trading partners. Well, first of all, it's a little too,
00:05:20.940 too little too late. I mean, it's like we could have built out a huge trading network of partners
00:05:26.220 and been selling our energy and, and doing all kinds of things over the last decade. That's not
00:05:29.980 the policy that the Trudeau liberals pursued. And now we're stuck. I mean, the Americans were married
00:05:36.540 to them geographically, right? We can't move our location. They are the biggest market in the world.
00:05:41.900 And so much of our economy is set up to trade with them. So it's not like we can just turn around
00:05:47.660 and, and, and change our partners. Pierre Polyev, leader of the conservative, took to social media
00:05:53.340 yesterday to rightly call out the prime minister for basically just shrugging your shoulders and
00:05:58.380 saying, well, there's not much that can be done here. So here's what Pierre Polyev had to say on X.
00:06:02.380 The prime minister is now conceding that American tariffs on Canada will be part of an eventual deal,
00:06:07.900 another unilateral concession from a man who said he would never back down to US President Donald
00:06:14.620 Trump. That's exactly right, folks. We were told that Mark Carney was going to be fighting and,
00:06:20.380 you know, to his last breath against President Trump to make sure that we don't get stuck with
00:06:24.540 these tariffs. And yet that's not what's happening. I'm going to do a little bit of a flashback here,
00:06:29.660 back to February, uh, 2025, February 16th, just earlier this year, during a leadership campaign
00:06:35.500 interview with the CBC's Rosemary Barton, Carney literally said that he was the one he should be
00:06:42.140 prime minister, that he was a person for the job because he will be able to negotiate with President
00:06:47.420 Trump because he's a good negotiator and that he would get a deal done for Canada. Let's remind you
00:06:51.980 of what that looked like. It would be helpful for Canadians to know exactly what you would do when
00:06:57.100 it comes to tariffs. So why, why are you being so reticent to talk about that? Because I'm a good,
00:07:00.700 because I'm a good negotiator. Uh, I have negotiated a number of situations in the past.
00:07:04.940 I know how to manage crises. I know what you do in the order you can control things.
00:07:10.060 So a little bit of a different tone, uh, back then. And, you know, he said, just trust me,
00:07:15.660 trust me, folks, Canadians. I've done this. I've been here before. I'm a good negotiator.
00:07:20.940 And we did write enough Canadians, 46% of the population decided to give this guy a chance and
00:07:26.620 say, okay, go ahead. Uh, we trust you to negotiate with President Trump. And look,
00:07:30.620 I'll concede that President Trump's not an easy person to negotiate. He's quite erratic.
00:07:34.220 And yet he has pointed to the same handful of issues over and over again, saying,
00:07:38.940 these are my problems. My problem is number one with the flow of drugs, which we know that's a
00:07:43.340 real problem. We've had Sam Cooper on this program many times, the leading investigative journalist
00:07:47.900 in Canada and probably in the world, the subject matter expert who has exposed what
00:07:53.740 President Trump is talking about. And then on the other hand, Canada is not a Boy Scout
00:07:58.540 when it comes to trade. We have all kinds of subsidies, all kinds of schemes to benefit
00:08:03.980 Canadian industries. And that is what President Trump is talking about. When he's talking about
00:08:07.260 400% dairy subsidies, he's talking about supply management, right? And so rather than Canada really
00:08:12.540 trying to address these issues, uh, we, we put in the central banker who said he's going to negotiate,
00:08:17.340 that he's the one he can negotiate. And yet here we are midsummer. Most people are, you know,
00:08:22.620 enjoying the summer outdoors, maybe at the cottage, maybe at the cabin, maybe at Lake Country,
00:08:26.940 and they're not really paying attention. And meanwhile, our prime minister is just
00:08:31.020 shrugging his shoulders saying, so tariffs are just going to be a part of a part of the life,
00:08:35.500 um, with me as prime minister and with President Trump as leader of the US. And again,
00:08:41.020 that's not what Canadians voted for. So this is interesting. Agnes, Angus Reid put out a survey
00:08:46.780 yesterday, Canadians split on whether Mark Carney can deliver trade deals,
00:08:51.660 head down or elbows up, Canadian divided. 46% of Canadians are now confident that Carney can
00:08:57.500 deliver a good deal for Canada. Meanwhile, 45% say they're not confident. So again, 46%
00:09:04.140 is pretty much what, uh, got Mark Carney elected. It's all it takes in this country to become prime
00:09:09.020 minister. And so those 46% of Canadians voted for the guy, I guess they're still confident that he can
00:09:14.460 deliver a good deal for Canada. Um, interestingly, 53% of those not confident say that the Carney
00:09:22.540 government is poorly qualified to deal with the Trump administration. And so you can see on the
00:09:28.460 left there, it says, um, which of the following would you say is closer to the reason you're not
00:09:33.580 confident? So again, 53% of Canadians say that they're just not confident that President Trump,
00:09:40.140 uh, that, that, that Carney can deal with President Trump. Only 47% are confident. And you know,
00:09:45.820 the reason is, do you think it's the Trump administration is too predictable? Those are
00:09:49.420 the blue lines or that the Carney government is just poorly qualified. More Canadians say
00:09:53.980 that the Carney government is just poorly qualified to deal with them. So we're sort of setting ourselves
00:10:00.140 up for failure when we have this person, Mark Carney, who's never led anything. He's never been elected
00:10:06.700 anything prior to becoming the leader of our country. And he was basically put into office,
00:10:12.380 um, installed by the liberal party, by the legacy media elites. They painted the narrative very early
00:10:17.980 on that said that only Mark Carney can deal with President Trump. And all of a sudden Canadian
00:10:23.740 patriotism became like the current thing, right? Like everyone was suddenly okay with waving the
00:10:29.340 Canadian flag. Remember back during the trucker convoy when the legacy media and the Laurentian elites
00:10:34.060 tried to tell us that it was actually racist to fly the Canadian flag. But if you're flying the
00:10:38.460 Canadian flag, it was because you were a radical bigot or an anti-vaxxer or one of the crazy truckers.
00:10:44.860 And that, that wasn't something that mainstream Canadians and polite society should do. Well,
00:10:48.860 suddenly it flipped and we got Canadian patriotism back. This is a sort of an anecdote, but I was
00:10:54.060 talking to a friend of mine who lives in Ottawa. He lives in the Glebe, which for those who don't know,
00:10:58.620 it's a very sort of progressive hipster, cool area populated. Again, this is Ottawa. So most of the
00:11:04.620 people who live around here work for the federal government, their civil service. And he was telling
00:11:08.620 me about how people just love to have lawn signs and signs in their windows and hanging all kinds
00:11:14.460 of stuff from their houses. When you're walking through this nice, um, sort of old development,
00:11:18.940 old growth, um, neighborhood in pretty, pretty central Ottawa. And so he went back and he said,
00:11:23.820 you know, in 2020, the current thing, it was COVID, right? So everybody had signs up saying,
00:11:28.860 thank you, nurses, thank you, frontline workers, and sort of having solidarity around the fact
00:11:33.660 that we were just going to shut down our entire economy and thanking the people who were still
00:11:37.180 going to go to work. Next summer rolls around 2021. What was the zeitgeist? It was Black Lives Matter.
00:11:41.980 So you saw a lot of BLM flags and posters. And then you also had the 215 unmarked graves story,
00:11:48.780 which of course we know turned out to be quite the hoax. But anyway, at that time,
00:11:53.100 2021, it was Every Child Matters and people wearing orange, uh, waving orange flags. Uh, 2022,
00:11:59.100 just, you know, flip the switch, Ukraine. Everybody put the Ukraine flags out. It was blue and yellow
00:12:03.340 everywhere. He said that in 2023, that it kind of evolved into like pride progress and gay pride and
00:12:09.740 all that kind of stuff had taken over. And then, you know, 2024, the next thing was Palestine. So out
00:12:15.580 with Ukraine flags, out with pride progress, in with the Palestine flags. And fast forward to this year,
00:12:20.140 2025, what did we get? What did we get? Canada flags. The current thing became Canada and Canadian
00:12:26.220 patriotism came back in style. And let me tell you, the left wing boomer crowd just absolutely
00:12:32.700 flocked to it. They were so pumped and so thrilled to finally be able to be proud Canadians again,
00:12:37.820 because for the past four or five years, the elites and the institutions and the opinion makers
00:12:43.260 that they follow told them that being Canadian was racist, that if you were a proud Canadian,
00:12:49.020 it was because you were a colonial settler, that your family members, your ancestors probably engaged
00:12:54.220 in genocide, that Canada is an illegitimate country. And interestingly, a lot of the left wing boomers
00:12:59.260 still hold this, this belief. They still believe that Canada is somehow an illegitimate country.
00:13:04.220 And yet, in the face of the Trump trade debacle, they were allowed to be proud Canadians again.
00:13:11.820 And I think they'd probably took it a little far another anecdote, I was talking to a friend who
00:13:15.260 went out to Stratford, which is where they have a big Shakespeare festival every summer, they do a lot
00:13:19.660 of plays and shows. And so my friend went out there. And she said that, of course, before the play began,
00:13:25.100 they did a land acknowledgement where they basically say that Canada is an illegitimate country,
00:13:28.780 and that we're living on stolen land. But then right after that, they sang the national anthem.
00:13:33.580 And she said that they've been going to Stratford for 25 years, and she's never heard them sing the
00:13:37.820 national anthem before show. But this year, she asked someone about why the national anthem was
00:13:42.620 being sung, and was basically told it was, you know, to push back against the Americans, and to say,
00:13:49.740 you know, we're asserting our sovereignty by singing the national anthem before a play. So, you know,
00:13:55.500 being a Canadian patriotism is now like, you know, it's not just because you love your country,
00:14:00.540 and you've always loved your country, and you've always been here for your country.
00:14:03.100 It's really a political symbol to push back against the Americans and Trump, which is,
00:14:08.540 in my mind, a little silly, right? Like, if you love Canada, you should be here for the country,
00:14:12.860 no matter how bad things get, no matter, you know, what happens. These people were not here
00:14:17.420 for the country over the past five years, they were the ones that were accusing us of all kinds
00:14:21.580 of heinous things. And now all of a sudden, they want to see, they want to be the face of Canadian
00:14:26.220 patriotism. So I have to tie it to this New York magazine piece that has been going viral on social
00:14:32.060 media. Canadians are furious. Trump accomplished what was once considered impossible. Our northern
00:14:37.340 neighbors have united against us. And you can see the cover of this New York magazine piece,
00:14:44.220 you have no idea how furious Canadians are with the angry beaver choking the bald eagle there. And I mean,
00:14:53.020 I would just cross out that word furious and write gullible. You have no idea how gullible Canadians
00:14:59.020 are, because so much of this elbows up movement is just so inherently contradictory, right? The idea
00:15:05.900 that Canadians are going out of their way to avoid American products, and that they're buying only made
00:15:11.900 in Canada items. And yet, I mean, there was like a really famous meme that was going around during the
00:15:16.700 election that kind of perfectly sums it up. You have Hudson Bay, Canada's oldest company going out of
00:15:21.100 business going bankrupt, because Canadians don't shop there anywhere. And you have a lineup of old
00:15:25.980 white boomers lining up at Walmart. And they're all saying elbows up shop Canadian Canadian only products,
00:15:31.980 you know, well, well consuming their goods from a large American outfitter, right? Like Canadians,
00:15:37.340 at the end of the day, are going to buy what's cheaper, and what's better, but then they want to have
00:15:41.420 the facade of, oh, we're only buying Canadian, right? Like, I think this perfectly was summed up by a very
00:15:47.980 famous liberal commentator posted on X the other day, he said, you know, if you're still buying
00:15:53.740 American products, and you're a proud Canadian, you have to give your head a shake, like there's
00:15:57.580 something wrong with you, right? And yet, he literally said this on Twitter on X, which is a
00:16:02.700 American social media platform, right? So they want to performatively boycott American goods, and they
00:16:08.700 want to get the credit for it for being a good Canadian. And yet, of course, like their daily lives are
00:16:13.180 so intertwined with the American economy, that it's actually quite impossible not to and it's just
00:16:19.820 sort of like this frenzy, right? I think, I think in some ways, it's like Canadians want permission
00:16:25.020 to love their country again, right? They were told for four years that being Canadian is racist,
00:16:29.100 basically. And they just they want to, they love Canada deep down. And now they finally have that
00:16:34.060 like social permission. And that's all well and good. But this whole kind of idea that you should
00:16:39.980 sell off your American property. And like, how dare you visit your family members in the United
00:16:43.900 States or go on a vacation? And how dare you shop at an American store? And, and every time I go to
00:16:48.540 the grocery store, it's like, you know, the Canadian products have the big made in Canada,
00:16:53.420 sticker right on it. And then it'll be like, you know, twice the price of like the American
00:16:58.540 good that's right next to it that you're probably going to end up buying because at the end of the day,
00:17:02.300 Canada is so expensive. Thanks a lot, in large part to liberal government policies where there's print
00:17:07.420 money out of control and drive up inflation, that you know, at the end of the day, you probably
00:17:12.140 are going to want to buy the cheaper item, but you want to do the performative thing. And you want to
00:17:16.940 show the Americans, the sad reality, though, this, this was a funny meme that was shared, is that,
00:17:24.140 you know, while Canadians really, really care about the trade issue, and we want the Americans to know
00:17:31.660 that were really, really furious at them, the Americans don't really care, right? The idea is that
00:17:38.540 there's so much going on in their country, and Trump is doing so many things, you might like, not like
00:17:43.340 one or two of them, but you might really, really like five or six of them. And the Canada trade issue
00:17:47.660 is such a small component of it. And so if we could just show this meme, this was shared. So you know,
00:17:54.140 the Canadians up top saying, I feel bad for you. And there we have the madman, Don Draper, replying,
00:18:00.540 well, I don't think about you at all. And I think that's exactly right. Canadians are very
00:18:04.860 preoccupied and obsessed with this feud, and the Americans are just living their life, and it
00:18:09.660 doesn't really have a big impact on them, sadly. So, folks, that's all the time we have for today.
00:18:15.660 But really, I think if you're going to love Canada, you should do it every day, every, all the time,
00:18:20.460 and not just when, you know, you're, you're furious with the American presence doesn't really,
00:18:25.900 shouldn't really define us as a country. All right, folks, thanks so much for tuning in.
00:18:29.260 We'll be back again tomorrow. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm Show.
00:18:31.900 Thank you, and God bless.