Juno News - Carney SQUEEZED as China demands tariff relief

00:00:00.000 if the chinese want to sell evs in ontario they can build those cars in ontario he urged prime

00:00:13.040 minister mark carney to maintain tariffs on chinese electric vehicles bound for canada

00:00:18.400 let's listen but you said the other day though that if the chinese automakers came in and

00:00:23.520 invested in a plant hired ontarians made products here you'd be open there there's a difference

00:00:28.480 there you can't just dump cheap vehicles here if you want to open up a plant and i'm not speaking

00:00:35.040 to our uh for our american friends or for the president but if they're willing to come here

00:00:40.880 invest in a plant just like gm stelantis ford volkswagen honda toyota and come here and

00:00:46.640 manufacture and create jobs and create parts here well now we're on a whole different page

00:00:51.200 but if you want to just come here and dump vehicles that will hurt americans and canadian jobs

00:00:56.400 in my opinion it's unacceptable well carney is in china for trade talks and the chinese have called 0.99

00:01:01.280 for canada to drop auto tariffs in exchange for china ending levies on canadian agricultural products

00:01:08.720 and seafood foreign affairs minister anita anand had this to say about the negotiation are you optimistic

00:01:15.280 for a deal that would reduce chinese levies on canola the conversation has been productive

00:01:22.400 the negotiations are still continuing we are here to represent all sectors of the canadian economy

00:01:31.040 and the work continues over the next number of days we are going to be as i said ensuring that all

00:01:40.560 stress sectors of the canadian economy are brought into the negotiations and the conversation

00:01:47.120 meantime manitoba premier wab canoe is asking premier ford not to pull crown royal whiskey

00:01:54.560 off the shelves of provincially run liquor stores i'm calling on premier ford to stop his plan when

00:02:01.280 it comes to lcbo taking crown off the shelves now we know that uh he's got his issues with the agio

00:02:08.080 but here in manitoba we're very very proud of this iconic canadian brand that is putting putting

00:02:14.160 people to work in this community for many many years to understand premier ford has his uh you

00:02:20.480 know different priorities that he's working on but when we're talking about team canada we have to stay

00:02:25.760 united across the provinces and having a team canada approach can't mean targeting jobs in another

00:02:32.640 province so i'm encouraging premier ford to change his mind i know he's done a lot of press conferences

00:02:38.720 on this already but coming to you from the place where crown royal puts food on the table for many

00:02:44.880 canadian families i think it's the right move here premier ford threatened to punish crown royal

00:02:50.480 over the company's decision to move its bottling plant out of ontario meantime the future of canada's

00:02:56.480 free trade agreement with the united states and mexico appears very much in doubt when asked about

00:03:01.760 if president trump called the usmca irrelevant to build their product in the usa you don't think

00:03:07.680 you're going to renegotiate usmca well i can it's uh expires very shortly and we could have it or not

00:03:15.280 it wouldn't matter i think they want it i don't really care about it so it might go away uh

00:03:23.280 uh no real advantage to us it's irrelevant to me canada would love it canada wants it they need it

00:03:33.280 because we don't need canada product that's the thing you know i want to be a nice person but we

00:03:37.440 don't need i want to build the cars here not in canada we used to build cars in canada now the canada

00:03:43.520 cars the canadians are moving here to build cars same thing with mexico same thing with japan japan's

00:03:50.320 paid us billions and billions of dollars for the privilege of making cars here and selling

00:03:56.480 cars now trump also weighed in on the future of greenland the prime minister of that arctic island

00:04:04.240 says he prefers to maintain ties to denmark instead of relinquishing control to the united states trump

00:04:10.000 says too bad for him on greenland sir the premier of greenland said today we prefer to stay with denmark

00:04:18.160 do you see that as the final word who said that the premier of greenland well that's their problem

00:04:26.000 that's their problem i disagree with them i don't know who he is don't know anything about him but

00:04:31.760 that's going to be a big problem for him do you want to see democracy up says greenland could fall

00:04:36.880 under chinese and russian control if the united states doesn't take over control of the island

00:04:42.800 well quebec premier francois legault is stepping down after two majority government victories legault

00:04:48.480 is leaving just months ahead of the next provincial election polls suggest his party the caq is about

00:04:56.720 to lose big time the separatist party quebecois more dramatic pictures out of iran suggest the protests are

00:05:05.280 gaining momentum spurred on by president trump who posted this on truth social iranian patriots keep

00:05:12.880 protesting take over your institutions save the names of the killers and abusers they will pay a big price

00:05:22.160 an estimated one million iranians have taken to the streets of tehran amidst reports of massacres

00:05:28.320 at the hands of government troops let's listen

00:05:41.760 you're joined by george ann burke she's a communications expert and political strategist

00:05:58.080 with pathway group welcome to the show george ann thank you mark good to see you a million people

00:06:04.080 hitting the streets in tehran again so that's not slowing down of course there's been terrible reports

00:06:11.520 of massacres at the hands of government troops it seems like iran is teetering on the brink and now

00:06:19.440 we have the new york post reporting that iran has issued an assassination threat against trump

00:06:24.880 posting video of the butler pennsylvania attempt on trump's life with the headline this time it will not

00:06:32.640 miss the target i mean i think they're getting a little desperate what do you think um yeah i think

00:06:41.120 it's very interesting i i heard a report an unofficial report this morning that um the u.s is getting

00:06:49.040 ready to move into iran and part of that probably came from the fact that they did instruct u.s

00:06:54.880 personnel in the middle east to leave um on those on military bases um which that's families not the

00:07:02.880 actual personnel but the families and so forth which tells me that they expect trouble and um i saw the

00:07:10.080 threat just about 10 minutes ago someone sent me a copy of this um uh this time it won't miss threat

00:07:17.840 um and yeah big talk but i don't think that i mean they're not going to do that but the fact is that

00:07:25.200 it's that we are in a very very bad time um i speak to a lot of people who are connected to iran

00:07:31.600 and have families still there they're terribly worried but on the other hand they really

00:07:36.000 they'll they actually will take some losses to get rid of the ayatollah and the gang they're willing 0.98

00:07:44.720 to suffer some consequences um in order to get freedom back and um the people that i know mostly

00:07:52.800 i would say would like to see the shah um you know the king return um and he's been very uh i think very

00:08:01.600 smart he's done a lot of interviews on uh american media which um in which he said i i want the people

00:08:08.960 of iran to decide how they want their country run i'm willing to come back and be there to be a

00:08:13.680 steadying force to get things kind of organized and whatever they decide to do is good with me

00:08:18.800 and i think that's a smart approach for him to take um and that is actually what the people want i i

00:08:23.840 don't know that every single person says they want to be a monarchy again but on the other hand it

00:08:28.400 depends on what kind of a monarchy it is um he's a he's a very modern uh western educated and uh

00:08:37.040 broad thinker uh very smart man i have a lot of respect for him uh they could do a whole lot worse

00:08:42.320 than him as leader now iran is an ally of both russia and china is there a danger that this could

00:08:50.240 expand and get way beyond iran to the point of being a potentially

00:08:57.760 dangerous situation globally so it's interesting i had a meeting this morning that i mentioned to you i

00:09:03.120 was going to with a uh very prominent political figure here in my area and we talked about iran

00:09:11.760 and the china russia you know triangle uh of evil that we have there um and it was interesting he had the 0.94

00:09:20.720 view that russia and china are not interested in bailing out iran they have completely different

00:09:27.360 agendas they let they'll be happy to stir up trouble you know they're happy to stir up trouble together

00:09:33.760 but um i don't think that they're interested in well he doesn't think they're interested in actually

00:09:41.200 going to leap to the defense of the mullahs uh maybe russia will take them

00:09:45.760 in if they want to come and live there um china will make noises but china is always very self-interested 0.94

00:09:52.880 right now they're busy uh planning their meeting with mark carney to see if they can replace the

00:09:58.000 venezuelan oil that they just lost with canadian oil makes another good reason that makes me happy not

00:10:03.760 to be living in canada anymore um but there's you know there's there's all kinds of twists and turns

00:10:10.080 that can happen there and as i said to someone this morning uh one of my iranian friends i said i'm

00:10:14.960 praying every single day for the well-being of this country of iran i'm praying every day for the health

00:10:21.520 and the safety of the president of the united states because i know that he he is on the right side of

00:10:26.640 this in terms of the way he thinks about it and and so forth and i know that the the deaths and the

00:10:34.160 and the slaughter that is happening there is distressing to the nth degree to him and he

00:10:38.800 would like to find a way to stop it the question is finding a way to do it which will not embroil the

00:10:44.560 u.s in a long battle which none of us want no americans want it nobody really wants it it's not

00:10:50.160 not the ideal situation but enough to dislodge their government and then let the people decide what

00:10:56.240 they want to do the shock and return if he wants um and go back i think he'd be safe to go back there

00:11:04.080 and maybe help lead the country into the future it's a very different situation in iran than you

00:11:10.160 find in many other countries it happens to be um has a history of education a history of innovation a

00:11:17.440 history of business success um and a history of of tolerance and and civilized values which they

00:11:26.160 would love to return to hopefully these 40 or plus years of rule by these mullahs hasn't completely 1.00

00:11:33.040 destroyed all of that i doubt that it has when you see what's going on in the streets um i think the

00:11:38.640 people have maybe the women have had to put their hijabs on but that it didn't actually um teach them to be 1.00

00:11:46.720 obedient to any of these guys they did it with resentment so i suspect that there there will be a big

00:11:52.800 change if in fact they can dispatch this government yeah and it's a question about how long this

00:11:58.720 government of the regime can hang on because once they instruct their troops to start firing on people

00:12:07.520 and to your point earlier a lot of the iranian people have reached the end here they're willing to

00:12:13.760 lay down their lives in order to house this horrifically uh authoritarian government and in

00:12:21.520 amidst all of that we have wild wildly divergent numbers in terms of people already dead reports

00:12:28.960 of massacres i've heard 2000 i've heard over 12 000 i've heard i saw 70 000 today i mean you know i

00:12:36.240 don't know um i i don't actually believe 70 000 but i don't think that the 12 000 number is insane

00:12:42.320 because we've seen massive numbers of body bags and and pictures of um people who have been killed and

00:12:49.600 their large large numbers and it's been going on for a while it isn't just the last three days that

00:12:54.080 this has been happening um this this battle has been at least a month and um you know i i don't

00:13:01.920 i don't know how long they can hold on i think that they've been economically damaged pretty seriously

00:13:07.280 over the last little while um partly thanks to sanctions and other things um but is it enough for

00:13:16.560 them to be able to back down and say just can't do this anymore the military is beginning to turn

00:13:21.680 against them and there has been some talk that there have been a number of defections from the

00:13:26.160 military to the people and when that happens i think they're in trouble i think they're in big trouble

00:13:32.560 when they when the military writ large moves in that direction i think it will be over for them

00:13:38.480 yeah that's what it'll take it'll take basically a military takeover yes the mullahs arrested i don't

00:13:45.280 know if there's been any discussion around offering them asylum i don't know where russia or what well

00:13:52.320 the chit chat is russia but who knows how true that is i russia's done it before they did it with

00:13:57.200 assad why wouldn't they do it with these guys you know it's no trouble for them no skin off their nose so

00:14:02.720 they they give them a place to live and that's all they do for them um but whether they want to get

00:14:08.560 involved in that or not i don't know the fact is that um the mullahs better hope there's a place for

00:14:13.920 them to go because otherwise they will be finished and i mean literally finished i mean if you think

00:14:20.320 if it happens and i hope it happens soon imagine that we will have gotten rid of maduro you know

00:14:27.200 in venezuela so venezuela now taking baby steps towards freedom with their interim government still

00:14:33.840 in place but now opening the prison doors you know and releasing political prisoners and that sort of

00:14:40.480 thing you've got potentially what's going on in iran you've got cuba now possibly teetering on the brink

00:14:47.360 i mean you know the move towards freedom in some of these countries is really exciting and donald trump

00:14:55.200 is the one who's kind of lighting the fuse uh he is and um i think it's very interesting i'm finding it

00:15:02.480 kind of in a twisted way making me smile that the left that is so big on you know freedom freedom

00:15:10.400 freedom uh you know they haven't said moo about iran they've been deadly silent and the only reason

00:15:17.120 is because it's donald trump doing it they are perfectly willing to let uh a terrorist regime like

00:15:23.680 maduro continue uh if donald trump tries to take them down they'd be happy to leave the communists in

00:15:30.800 in cuba probably because they like them anyway but no matter what they've done to the people there

00:15:36.240 if donald trump was the one to remove them and so forth and so on and you can apply that to any

00:15:41.280 country including iran um but fortunately um as i said to someone this morning that i was meeting with i

00:15:50.560 said uh they don't understand the guy if they think it bothers him that that they don't like him he

00:15:56.240 doesn't care he's going to do he's got an agenda he's going to do what he's going to do he's going

00:16:01.600 to uh go ahead with whatever he thinks is the right thing to do he knows he's got three years to get

00:16:08.480 this stuff under control um one of the stories i heard this morning not related to iran came from scott

00:16:15.440 besant who is becoming rapidly one of my favorite people in that cabinet he said that 10 percent

00:16:22.480 of the u.s budget of seven trillion dollars is stolen every year stolen it's trillions of dollars

00:16:33.040 that have been stolen from the american people and they're onto them now this is what's interesting

00:16:39.200 this is what he was saying we're onto it he said they tried to backfill documents and all that he said

00:16:45.280 we put a stop to that he said we are that's how we know what we're talking about here so you have

00:16:52.400 these guys are ready to unmask the all of the bad stuff and it isn't just foreign affairs it's

00:16:58.960 actually things right in the united states um that have held the u.s back from being the best it could

00:17:04.720 be um and uh andrew wilkow who i do tend to listen to fairly often he's i was listening to him when i was

00:17:12.560 on my way home and he said he is the most transformational president in my voting lifetime he's

00:17:19.120 been voting since 1990 he said i was too young to vote for reagan so i can't count him but he said

00:17:25.040 this man is doing more in his time than any other president more meaningful things than any other

00:17:32.560 president in his lifetime and and i i've lived longer than he has and i would include as long as i've

00:17:40.160 been voting and that's a really long time so um he's he's astounding he's he's brave he's got a lot

00:17:47.840 of courage um because it takes courage to do the things that he's doing he's bucking every single

00:17:53.920 you know entity that's been there forever and has been has thought that they could just do whatever

00:18:00.560 they want well not anymore he's on top of all of it with the time we've got left i'd like to hit carny

00:18:07.040 and in china now you're hearing american reaction to carny's visit to china what are you hearing yeah

00:18:15.440 actually in this meeting i was in this morning they were like what's he gonna do go try to replace

00:18:20.880 the venezuelan oil for china and i said i wouldn't be surprised i said he's anti-oil but he's also

00:18:28.400 very pro himself and pro brookfield and pro wef and globalist and they can find a way to make money

00:18:35.680 for themselves they'll do it so um and endear themselves to the chinese great even because

00:18:42.000 they figure that they'll fill the gap that they now have with the us and it's very it's as of yesterday

00:18:47.760 even more serious i think that people realize the us is not interested in doing any business with

00:18:52.640 canada that was very clear i think usmca will not be renegotiated if it is it's going to be to

00:18:58.560 the disadvantage of canadians there'll be no point in it um trump isn't inclined to have that that

00:19:04.960 that agreement he has never liked it um so things are going to change pretty dramatically canadians

00:19:10.880 better wake up because they uh buy a lot of stuff from the united states they only sell a few things

00:19:17.840 to the us i think they think more of themselves than they should um they buy a lot of stuff and

00:19:23.120 if they continue this they're going to find their shelves pretty empty uh around the country if the

00:19:27.440 us doesn't have any interest in selling to them which they may not i mean they may or they may not

00:19:32.560 uh but right now if they're going to team themselves up with china they're going to position

00:19:36.080 themselves as an enemy of the united states and that will not be smart it'll be a disaster i mean

00:19:42.160 you've got china or trump now playing hardball with greenland yeah i'm saying too bad if the prime

00:19:48.880 minister of greenland doesn't like the idea of becoming a u.s territory the fact is that either we take 0.52

00:19:56.960 over greenland or the chinese and the russians will do so because they're already sniffing around and 1.00

00:20:04.880 denmark is in no position to defend greenland and we talked talked about their dog sleds that was pretty

00:20:11.920 pretty little blow there but okay yeah so if that happens i mean it's not hard to imagine a scenario

00:20:19.200 where where canada would face i mean some kind of action that would put us i mean already economically

00:20:29.680 we are challenged by what has happened and with trump in an expansionist move mood um i don't know

00:20:39.440 where does this where does this go after the only the only thing he's worried about is the arctic

00:20:45.520 um and if he doesn't feel that canada is protecting the arctic which we're not okay canada is not doing

00:20:51.920 that um then that's something they ought to be worried about he may just he might be willing to move

00:20:56.640 troops up there um to safeguard it from the russians and the chinese who are very interested in the 1.00

00:21:02.800 arctic and have been very um aggressive there so that's one thing that i think people ought to be

00:21:09.040 looking at if they're going to look at something he's not not interested in taking over canada like

00:21:13.600 that's the last thing he needs is a headache of 40 million left-wing people um so or whatever it is

00:21:19.440 not 40 million but whatever a lot of left-wing people he doesn't need it um but he does worry about

00:21:24.640 the north and he said that clearly and i don't know what the problem is why canadians don't get

00:21:29.360 it that that is one of his big concerns and they should be concerned about it too unless they don't

00:21:34.240 really care about their own security which can't see straight canada a lot of people in the country

00:21:40.720 sadly can't see straight when it comes to trump so that's right and separate the man from the issue

00:21:48.160 that's right it's a big problem yeah trump arrangement syndrome reigns supreme up there

00:21:53.920 what's that trump arrangement syndrome reigns supreme it does it does we've got a terminal

00:22:00.400 case of it up here oh yeah 100 thank you george and appreciate you coming on the show you're very

00:22:06.800 welcome great to see you mark and that is it for this edition of straight up appreciate you tuning in

00:22:12.160 my friends let's do it again soon shall we bye bye for now

Juno News - January 14, 2026

Carney SQUEEZED as China demands tariff relief

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