Juno News - January 16, 2026


Doug Ford BLASTS Carney over Chinese EV deal


Episode Stats

Length

24 minutes

Words per Minute

171.83347

Word Count

4,159

Sentence Count

231

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

PM Carney slashes EV tariffs on China, a desperate sellout of Canada s auto industry. In return for that, China will lower its levies on canola and other products. Reaction has been swift and negative to the deal announced by Prime Minister Carney.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Reaction has been swift and negative to the deal announced by Prime Minister Carney.
00:00:10.000 This headline by Dan McTague in a column he wrote,
00:00:13.800 Carney slashes EV tariffs on China, a desperate sellout of Canada's auto industry.
00:00:20.840 Prime Minister Carney announced he's lowering tariffs on almost 50,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles.
00:00:26.680 In return for that, China will lower its levies on canola and other products.
00:00:32.620 Ontario Premier Doug Ord blasted the decision.
00:00:35.780 First of all, anyone who buys these cars, they won't be allowed to go to the U.S.
00:00:40.060 You know, cybersecurity. I call it the spy car that they're bringing in.
00:00:44.400 And they won't be allowed to get over there.
00:00:47.100 And it's going to tick off the Americans. 80% of our autos are going down there.
00:00:51.960 I believe that, speaking to the auto sector, speaking to the supply chain as well,
00:00:58.060 they were coming up with a collaborative agreement.
00:01:01.580 But now throw China in here for what?
00:01:04.420 They aren't going to manufacture here.
00:01:06.640 So it's just a terrible, terrible, miscalculated decision by the Prime Minister.
00:01:11.720 Now Carney was asked how he intends to sell the deal to Canadians and to our American allies.
00:01:17.120 Let's listen.
00:01:17.660 How big an entry into the market you expect it really is.
00:01:21.460 And how do you intend to explain it to the U.S. in allowing that entry?
00:01:28.920 And separately, how do you intend to explain it to Canadian car makers who fear any softening on Chinese EVs?
00:01:35.700 Let's put this in context.
00:01:37.060 49,000 vehicles, which is the cap on Chinese electric vehicle exports to Canada that's part of this agreement.
00:01:47.160 That's less than 3% of the size of the Canadian auto market.
00:01:52.240 And in many respects, the most important element is the beginning of discussions
00:01:56.960 and expectation of Chinese investment in Canada and partnership in Canada to produce vehicles over time,
00:02:04.480 so to partner with Canadian firms.
00:02:06.080 I mean, we're building a new part of our car industry,
00:02:12.880 building cars of the future in partnership,
00:02:16.140 bringing affordable autos for Canadians at a time when affordability is top of mind,
00:02:24.160 and doing it at a scale that allows for a smooth transition in the sector.
00:02:32.420 In an ominous choice of words, he describes the agreement as part of the new world order.
00:02:37.700 Here he is explaining what he means by that.
00:02:40.200 Yesterday when you met with Premier Li, one of the things you said in the public remarks was
00:02:45.900 this partnership with Canada and China, this new partnership,
00:02:49.420 sets us up well for the new world order.
00:02:52.020 What did you mean by that?
00:02:53.260 What is the new world order?
00:02:54.720 Well, it's a great question, Brian,
00:02:56.720 because I think the world is still determining what that order is going to be.
00:03:01.780 Like the architecture, the multilateral system that has been developing these
00:03:06.980 is being eroded, to use a polite term, undercut, use another term.
00:03:14.080 So the question is, what gets built in that place?
00:03:17.380 Now, critics of the deal say importing Chinese EVs
00:03:20.500 will make Canada a national security threat to our U.S. allies.
00:03:25.680 Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev says it was just last year
00:03:29.020 Kearney described China as our greatest threat.
00:03:32.960 Kearney appeared to smirk when he was asked about whether he still believes that or not.
00:03:38.700 Let's watch.
00:03:39.520 Less than a year ago, you said that China was the biggest security threat to Canada.
00:03:44.280 Do you still believe that?
00:03:45.780 The security landscape continues to change.
00:03:51.800 And in a world that's more dangerous and divided,
00:03:55.420 we face many threats.
00:03:59.160 That's the reality.
00:04:00.700 Well, the threat environment has increased.
00:04:06.180 The risks have multiplied.
00:04:09.040 So too has our resilience and our engagement,
00:04:12.260 which is protecting Canadians on balance.
00:04:15.960 But is that threat from China still exist?
00:04:17.420 I'll refer to my previous answer.
00:04:22.360 Next question.
00:04:24.140 Dan McTague will be on hand shortly to talk about the EV tariff deal.
00:04:28.900 While the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the use of the Emergencies Act
00:04:33.780 to end the trucker protest was unreasonable,
00:04:37.280 today's ruling upholds a lower court decision
00:04:39.900 that found there was no national emergency
00:04:43.620 justifying the use of the Emergencies Act.
00:04:45.700 The court found the Liberal government infringed
00:04:49.100 on the charter rights of the truckers
00:04:51.040 to stage a peaceful protest.
00:04:53.220 Christine Van Gein of the Canadian Constitution Foundation
00:04:56.860 posted this on X.
00:04:58.600 This is a complete repudiation of the Trudeau government's position.
00:05:02.540 The Trudeau government had taken the galling claim
00:05:05.380 that cabinet is owed near total deference
00:05:09.340 about whether an emergency exists.
00:05:11.540 Accepting this position would have extremely serious implications
00:05:16.360 and would lead to future abuses of this powerful law.
00:05:21.880 We're now joined by Dan McTague,
00:05:24.240 former Liberal Member of Parliament.
00:05:25.980 He spent 18 years on the Hill
00:05:27.480 and now he's with Canadians for Affordable Energy.
00:05:30.320 Welcome, Dan.
00:05:31.560 Good to be here, Mark.
00:05:32.820 I was also going to say four or five years in the automotive sector
00:05:35.160 working for a tiny little company called Toyota Lexus.
00:05:37.320 So, you know, a little bit of this file.
00:05:40.000 Exactly.
00:05:40.780 And that certainly adds to your expertise
00:05:44.320 on this particular issue of EVs coming in.
00:05:48.020 We're going to get, I guess, 49,000 plus from them
00:05:51.160 and then it's going to steadily go up,
00:05:52.780 I believe to about 70,000.
00:05:54.420 I think that was the number that was given
00:05:55.920 by the Prime Minister over the next few years.
00:05:59.320 A reaction has been, well, negative in some quarters
00:06:03.520 from those who feel we still need protections.
00:06:07.180 You heard what Premier Ford had to say.
00:06:09.480 What's your take on it?
00:06:10.980 Well, I wasn't a big enthusiast of the Hyundai Pony
00:06:13.940 when it came out in 1984.
00:06:15.360 Cheap cars, but they were garbage.
00:06:17.060 And I think this is not only going to be a question
00:06:19.020 of bad consumer choices forced upon us
00:06:21.920 by really a country that doesn't play
00:06:25.100 by the same kind of rules that we do,
00:06:27.280 both economically in terms of trade,
00:06:29.800 human rights, environmental.
00:06:31.020 I think it was a desperate move by Mark Carney
00:06:34.780 and his El Bozo cohort to basically sign a deal
00:06:38.880 with a nation that represents,
00:06:40.580 and I'll put my old foreign affairs hat on,
00:06:42.800 a real veritable threat to our security.
00:06:45.860 I find it interesting that the Doug Fords
00:06:48.140 and the Flavio Bopis of this world
00:06:49.940 are disappointed in expressing their outrage,
00:06:53.240 but they should have known that before engaging
00:06:55.360 in trying to enforce unworkable, unrealistic,
00:06:58.960 unreliable, costly vehicles down our throats.
00:07:02.180 Look, China had a 15-year advantage.
00:07:03.840 I was there in 2007, actually, ironically,
00:07:06.520 talking about the Canadian Uyghurs
00:07:07.980 and trying to press the Minister of the Interior
00:07:11.160 at the time.
00:07:12.120 I went with several other MPs
00:07:13.440 to push that issue of human rights.
00:07:15.420 But the irony is that, you know,
00:07:16.900 some 18, 19 years later, China got it right,
00:07:19.300 and they can dump, they can subsidize,
00:07:20.940 they can build without any due regard
00:07:22.920 to the kind of restrictions.
00:07:23.820 They are going to displace thousands of jobs,
00:07:26.640 thousands more jobs here in Ontario,
00:07:28.240 and likely lead to a situation
00:07:30.240 where the other shoe is going to drop.
00:07:31.780 I don't think the Americans are going to stand back
00:07:33.600 and watch this.
00:07:34.240 This is the Trojan horse.
00:07:35.580 You've damn well opened up the gate,
00:07:37.080 you've let them in,
00:07:38.060 and now you've got a real problem,
00:07:39.300 and it's a little bit like a virus.
00:07:42.300 Once it gets in and it penetrates,
00:07:44.460 it creates a real problem for other countries.
00:07:46.840 So not only economically,
00:07:47.960 but I think for the United States,
00:07:49.640 Canada is going to understand
00:07:51.180 what it's like to mess around and then find out.
00:07:53.360 And I'm not using that term light loosely.
00:07:55.940 The reality is that I don't think,
00:07:58.280 while we may have been concerned
00:07:59.800 about Mark Carney and Donald Trump
00:08:02.300 having promised that he could cut a deal,
00:08:04.360 maybe he couldn't.
00:08:05.360 But the erratic behavior
00:08:06.540 of the president of the United States
00:08:08.080 is for very, very different reasons
00:08:09.620 about the realignment of geopolitics.
00:08:11.900 Rather than talking about the things
00:08:13.060 that we could have talked about,
00:08:14.300 getting more oil to Asian markets,
00:08:16.140 including China,
00:08:17.180 helping to finance and build that pipeline
00:08:19.360 with controls and restrictions
00:08:21.520 of benefit Canadians,
00:08:22.960 Mark Carney chose the net zero nonsense again.
00:08:25.480 And this actually gives him reason
00:08:26.980 to want to push and shove these,
00:08:29.300 you know, unreliable,
00:08:31.180 over-glorified golf carts,
00:08:33.200 or call it what they are,
00:08:33.960 four-slice toasters on wheels down our throats
00:08:36.040 at a tremendous cost to the Canadian economy.
00:08:38.700 And in a day like today,
00:08:40.580 that is that cold.
00:08:41.340 Do you think these things work out well?
00:08:42.580 I can tell you something, Mark.
00:08:43.940 I accidentally left my little phone out
00:08:45.420 this morning, ion-lithium battery.
00:08:46.880 Two and a half hours later, we're dead.
00:08:49.260 So, well done, Canada.
00:08:51.040 Your Elbozos have created a real problem
00:08:53.220 that's going to be,
00:08:54.380 that's far worse than the solution
00:08:55.740 we were trying to achieve.
00:08:57.340 You make such a great point
00:08:58.500 about what could have been.
00:08:59.980 I mean, we could have cut an energy deal
00:09:01.440 with China,
00:09:03.080 built out that much-needed pipeline
00:09:05.880 to the West Coast
00:09:07.320 through Northern BC,
00:09:09.720 and brought in billions upon billions
00:09:12.140 of dollars into this country
00:09:13.760 by selling energy,
00:09:15.680 our energy to China.
00:09:17.120 Instead, we go for this.
00:09:18.940 You know, we basically make ourselves vulnerable.
00:09:22.620 And to your point earlier,
00:09:24.660 these vehicles are basically computers on wheels,
00:09:27.760 which means, you know, surveillance.
00:09:30.940 You know, I don't think I'm wearing
00:09:32.380 a tinfoil hat today,
00:09:34.860 but I would have to be very suspicious
00:09:37.140 about the kind of things
00:09:38.400 that China puts in these vehicles
00:09:40.280 to keep track of people,
00:09:42.940 especially in the West.
00:09:44.500 And it's going to irritate our relationship
00:09:47.520 with the United States.
00:09:48.380 Now, you see this
00:09:49.020 as a national security threat.
00:09:50.760 Can you elaborate a little bit on that?
00:09:52.600 Well, very much so.
00:09:53.560 It is, you know,
00:09:54.380 China has created a situation
00:09:56.040 where almost everything
00:09:56.940 that they've invested in comes with,
00:09:58.620 whether it's the 5G,
00:09:59.920 whether it is the, you know,
00:10:01.920 the alarm systems that we have
00:10:03.500 that various people use,
00:10:05.060 Tick being another example.
00:10:06.960 You don't have to go very far
00:10:08.460 to recognize just how serious
00:10:11.060 a security threat China has become.
00:10:13.000 And notwithstanding its economic power
00:10:14.900 and might, wherever it's gone,
00:10:17.020 it certainly wants to command and control.
00:10:19.020 And, you know, for the liberals
00:10:20.000 pushing bills like C6, C5, C9,
00:10:23.620 that are actually trying to create
00:10:25.300 some degree of censorship,
00:10:27.100 as well at the same time,
00:10:28.780 limiting the ability for people
00:10:31.000 to err publicly
00:10:32.300 through the various modes of freedom
00:10:34.320 that they have,
00:10:35.060 It seems to be glove and hand fit.
00:10:38.380 The Mark Carney China approach
00:10:40.500 is now to make of Canada
00:10:42.520 a far less, you know,
00:10:45.340 zone that could be seen
00:10:47.400 as a place that enjoys
00:10:48.960 and protects and envies
00:10:50.700 and values its freedom.
00:10:53.540 This is a very serious security threat
00:10:56.060 because, of course,
00:10:56.980 we were members of various organizations,
00:10:59.780 Five Eyes being just one of them,
00:11:01.300 but we were once considered
00:11:03.280 a very trusted partner.
00:11:04.660 In my time as Privy Council
00:11:05.900 and Foreign Affairs,
00:11:06.580 as we were part of Five Eyes,
00:11:08.280 we were seen as the go-to,
00:11:10.220 although not necessarily
00:11:11.460 with a massive might,
00:11:12.800 but our economic power
00:11:14.420 and our military power
00:11:15.660 were always second
00:11:16.640 to our collective ability
00:11:18.600 to provide the weight,
00:11:21.180 if you will,
00:11:22.040 of being able to punch
00:11:22.920 above our own weight
00:11:23.860 when it came to matters
00:11:25.240 dealing with diplomacy,
00:11:26.840 security, and reliability.
00:11:29.100 Canada's always stood up
00:11:30.280 and measured up.
00:11:31.440 Now, it looks like
00:11:32.340 it is a vassal state of China
00:11:34.240 and for Canadians
00:11:35.180 to have voted for this,
00:11:36.720 knowing this is likely
00:11:37.560 what's going to happen
00:11:38.320 and for Mark Carney
00:11:38.960 to celebrate this,
00:11:40.060 look, if Doug Ford's
00:11:40.940 no longer on your side
00:11:41.880 and Donald Trump
00:11:42.700 definitely is not on your side
00:11:43.860 and Flavio Volpe
00:11:44.980 is not on your side
00:11:46.060 with the automotive sector,
00:11:47.720 I can only imagine
00:11:48.500 that unions won't be
00:11:49.280 very happy about this
00:11:50.140 when people in Cambridge,
00:11:51.740 when people in Oakville,
00:11:53.240 when people in Oshawa,
00:11:54.660 when people in Windsor
00:11:55.440 get the pink slips,
00:11:56.560 not just in the automotive sector,
00:11:57.920 but as you're seeing
00:11:58.500 right across this country.
00:11:59.440 This is a very maddening deal.
00:12:01.960 It is based on insanity
00:12:03.160 and for Canadians
00:12:04.120 to go along with this,
00:12:05.100 if anybody still thinks
00:12:06.040 this is a great idea,
00:12:07.400 maybe you should spend
00:12:08.680 a bit of time in China
00:12:09.640 and recall what happened
00:12:10.800 at Tiananmen Square
00:12:12.100 just a few years ago.
00:12:13.580 Now, when the Prime Minister
00:12:14.820 was asked about this,
00:12:16.120 he said,
00:12:16.540 well, we're only talking
00:12:17.600 about 3% of the total
00:12:19.600 auto industry in Canada.
00:12:22.320 You know, yes,
00:12:23.080 it's going to be
00:12:24.080 a stepwise increase
00:12:25.240 in the number of EVs
00:12:26.580 allowed into Canada,
00:12:27.980 but it's just
00:12:30.060 a small portion
00:12:31.000 and therefore
00:12:31.520 we shouldn't be worried.
00:12:33.360 But you don't agree
00:12:34.800 with that, I'm sure.
00:12:36.200 3% is usually the margin
00:12:38.240 that companies
00:12:39.780 have to operate within.
00:12:41.060 And of course,
00:12:41.600 they're being faced
00:12:42.300 with tariffs.
00:12:43.140 The end of the U.S.-Canada-Mexico
00:12:45.800 trade agreement,
00:12:46.480 the USMCA,
00:12:47.420 I don't like calling it
00:12:48.100 because it's a really
00:12:49.380 stupid remark,
00:12:50.400 by the way,
00:12:50.780 but if we're prepared
00:12:52.220 to go down this road
00:12:53.300 of saying,
00:12:54.080 oh, it's only 2%
00:12:54.640 or 3% increasing every year,
00:12:56.480 it also underscores
00:12:57.960 Mark Carney's devious attempt
00:12:59.620 at maintaining
00:13:00.540 electric vehicle mandates.
00:13:02.060 That is to say,
00:13:02.760 the ones that are still here
00:13:03.720 who don't have to worry
00:13:04.700 about 75,000,
00:13:05.740 80,000 of these vehicles
00:13:06.820 coming in,
00:13:07.980 is nevertheless
00:13:08.740 going to displace
00:13:09.660 given the tight margins
00:13:11.340 that exist in manufacturing.
00:13:14.160 What's going to be built
00:13:15.020 in Canada?
00:13:15.720 I mean, the reality
00:13:16.380 is that the Americans
00:13:17.000 are closed their doors.
00:13:18.460 They have to
00:13:18.960 because if any of that
00:13:20.300 gets here,
00:13:20.780 and we're not just
00:13:21.480 talking about imports,
00:13:23.120 what if the next step
00:13:24.200 in all this,
00:13:24.980 and maybe Mr. Carney
00:13:26.060 would like to answer
00:13:26.860 a question from the media
00:13:27.880 about what's the next step,
00:13:29.380 taking over a couple
00:13:30.140 of plants in Canada
00:13:30.980 and building more of these
00:13:32.240 and because you're dealing
00:13:33.320 within the wall of Canada,
00:13:34.900 within the wall
00:13:35.480 of the old automotive sector,
00:13:36.960 you can move from
00:13:37.680 40,000 imported
00:13:39.200 to 400,000 built.
00:13:41.140 I think it is a good night
00:13:42.340 for the Canadian auto sector
00:13:44.000 and of course,
00:13:45.200 for those who thought
00:13:46.040 it was great,
00:13:46.580 Mark Carney was the man
00:13:47.400 with the plan.
00:13:47.940 You better decide
00:13:49.580 how you're going to pay
00:13:51.120 your next mortgage,
00:13:52.300 your next rent,
00:13:53.140 and your next food bill.
00:13:54.680 One of the things
00:13:55.680 that Doug Ford said
00:13:57.240 was that it might hurt
00:13:59.560 our exports
00:14:00.220 to the United States.
00:14:01.120 In other words,
00:14:01.680 the U.S. can see this
00:14:02.700 as kind of a hostile move
00:14:04.380 on the part of Canada,
00:14:06.780 basically an enemy,
00:14:08.580 to your point,
00:14:10.560 a national security threat,
00:14:12.020 and that that might be
00:14:14.180 the only excuse
00:14:15.460 that Trump needs
00:14:16.720 to say, you know,
00:14:18.440 to kiss the USMCA,
00:14:20.100 Kuzma, goodbye.
00:14:22.320 I mean,
00:14:23.180 certainly,
00:14:24.300 he was already
00:14:25.140 saying that,
00:14:26.720 you know,
00:14:26.860 I could take
00:14:27.320 or leave this deal.
00:14:28.660 It doesn't matter to me.
00:14:30.000 Canada wants it.
00:14:31.360 Me, I don't care
00:14:32.660 one way or the other,
00:14:33.940 but I think this might
00:14:35.100 push it all the way over
00:14:36.360 to forget it.
00:14:37.580 It's over.
00:14:37.800 Well, this goes
00:14:39.480 well beyond Trump.
00:14:40.580 This is more than
00:14:41.200 just the Republicans
00:14:41.960 being upset at China.
00:14:43.100 This is a firm decision
00:14:44.700 taken by Congress
00:14:45.800 and the White House.
00:14:46.700 Doesn't matter
00:14:47.100 who occupies it.
00:14:48.400 China is a threat
00:14:49.220 on a number of fronts,
00:14:50.460 not just geopolitically.
00:14:51.640 I mean, look what
00:14:51.980 they're doing in the Philippines,
00:14:53.140 in the Taiwan Strait.
00:14:54.540 Do you think this is
00:14:55.260 a normal that you would
00:14:56.400 want to lie yourself
00:14:57.420 with a nation
00:14:58.020 that has ambitions
00:14:59.220 to increase
00:15:00.760 in a very hostile way
00:15:02.220 its presence in the world?
00:15:03.460 Do you think
00:15:03.740 it's doing these things
00:15:04.720 out of the goodness
00:15:05.740 of its heart?
00:15:06.160 And remember, Canadians,
00:15:07.720 80% of your trade
00:15:08.780 is with the United States.
00:15:09.560 It's not with China.
00:15:10.620 But if you want it to be China,
00:15:12.040 then get ready
00:15:12.540 for a few things.
00:15:13.500 And the consequences
00:15:14.180 are well beyond anything
00:15:15.340 any woke voter,
00:15:17.420 you know, engaged in
00:15:18.700 just back in April
00:15:19.560 when it was elbows up.
00:15:21.380 We have trade errors
00:15:22.200 between our interests
00:15:22.920 and the United States.
00:15:23.640 We sit down
00:15:24.100 and get them to negotiate.
00:15:25.100 But rather than spending
00:15:25.760 four days in Washington
00:15:26.800 going over this,
00:15:27.800 Mr. Carney was too busy
00:15:28.840 kissing the ring
00:15:29.920 of the very people
00:15:30.900 that lent money
00:15:31.780 to Brookfield,
00:15:32.540 his company,
00:15:33.300 just a few months ago.
00:15:34.120 Same company
00:15:34.620 that basically
00:15:35.600 got the heck out of Canada.
00:15:37.100 What are we doing
00:15:38.160 in this nation
00:15:38.780 by allowing this man
00:15:39.840 to make deals
00:15:40.880 and come up with things
00:15:41.700 that are going to harm
00:15:42.440 the direction,
00:15:43.460 the future,
00:15:44.320 the security,
00:15:45.300 and our well-being?
00:15:46.540 This is not acceptable.
00:15:48.260 It wasn't that long ago
00:15:48.920 we had balloons
00:15:49.480 flying over the country.
00:15:50.340 We had to get the Americans
00:15:51.000 to shoot one down.
00:15:51.840 I have to ask a question.
00:15:54.020 Are Canadians so willing
00:15:55.040 to give up on the freedoms
00:15:56.280 and the democracy
00:15:57.220 and the standard of living
00:15:58.160 that they enjoy
00:15:58.860 in favour of a hegemony,
00:16:01.680 a superpower that is trying,
00:16:04.020 even those who walk around
00:16:05.380 with little Ukrainian flags
00:16:06.980 on their little stickers,
00:16:08.240 hey, who's supplying Russia
00:16:10.180 with the kind of ammunition
00:16:12.040 and the financing
00:16:13.500 and buying the oil
00:16:14.660 is doing the same thing in Iran.
00:16:16.600 We're dealing with a very dangerous
00:16:18.240 and very lethal arrangement here.
00:16:21.400 And that's why being
00:16:21.980 a vassal state of China
00:16:23.180 is going to have
00:16:24.060 significant consequences.
00:16:25.700 Get ready, Canada,
00:16:26.800 because you have just signed away
00:16:28.320 and likely signed
00:16:30.560 the death warrant
00:16:31.560 for the future of this country,
00:16:32.740 not only in terms of the standard
00:16:34.500 in which you live in,
00:16:35.580 but in fact,
00:16:36.360 the nation's very integrity itself.
00:16:38.420 I'm very worried
00:16:39.260 about this nation
00:16:39.920 and I have never been more worried
00:16:42.000 as I woke up this morning
00:16:43.140 to this news.
00:16:44.460 Yeah, I think a lot of people
00:16:45.300 are brainwashed, frankly.
00:16:46.960 I mean, they're,
00:16:47.560 they're being conditioned
00:16:49.440 into thinking
00:16:50.520 that Donald Trump
00:16:51.480 is the devil
00:16:52.300 and that therefore
00:16:53.980 China is a better option.
00:16:56.580 You know,
00:16:56.800 they have no
00:16:57.480 critical thinking skills
00:16:59.580 that would allow them
00:17:01.320 to look at this situation,
00:17:02.600 you know,
00:17:03.800 with any kind of objectivity
00:17:05.520 and say,
00:17:05.900 wait a minute,
00:17:06.460 you know,
00:17:07.160 Trump isn't always
00:17:08.080 going to be president,
00:17:08.920 but there's a good chance
00:17:10.620 that China is going to continue
00:17:12.400 being a dictatorship
00:17:13.440 for a long, long time.
00:17:15.320 We were spied on by China.
00:17:17.560 They stole our intellectual property.
00:17:21.520 They destroyed a,
00:17:23.560 you know,
00:17:24.320 Canadian company,
00:17:26.560 Nortel
00:17:27.060 and probably others
00:17:28.400 acquiring,
00:17:29.620 you know,
00:17:31.520 their technology
00:17:33.000 and then co-opting it,
00:17:35.980 basically stealing it
00:17:37.100 and then producing products
00:17:38.240 that were a lot cheaper
00:17:39.740 because, of course,
00:17:40.500 they have also access
00:17:41.980 to much cheaper labor.
00:17:43.240 They also have access
00:17:43.980 to forced labor,
00:17:45.560 even slave labor
00:17:46.360 if you throw it
00:17:47.680 with the Uyghurs.
00:17:50.060 And so,
00:17:51.320 at least there was no talk
00:17:53.020 of them manufacturing
00:17:54.380 these EVs in Canada
00:17:56.560 until,
00:17:58.180 well,
00:17:58.400 at least in that announcement
00:17:59.320 that we heard.
00:18:00.860 So,
00:18:01.180 no moves on that front.
00:18:03.120 Makes me wonder
00:18:03.800 if that was almost
00:18:04.840 a little bit of a
00:18:05.880 move to try
00:18:08.140 and distract people.
00:18:09.060 Well,
00:18:09.480 let's make them think
00:18:10.520 that China's going to
00:18:11.340 build these cars here
00:18:12.460 and then announce
00:18:13.400 that we're lowering
00:18:14.940 or,
00:18:15.740 you know,
00:18:16.160 almost dropping
00:18:17.100 the tariffs.
00:18:19.000 And so,
00:18:20.240 yeah,
00:18:20.520 I think people,
00:18:22.280 there are Canadians,
00:18:24.420 sadly,
00:18:25.100 who think
00:18:25.720 that jumping in bed
00:18:27.120 with China
00:18:27.660 is a better option
00:18:28.780 than dealing
00:18:30.740 with Trump.
00:18:32.060 I really do.
00:18:33.860 Well,
00:18:34.440 you know,
00:18:34.920 it'll be interesting
00:18:35.580 to see.
00:18:36.320 I don't think China
00:18:36.940 has to build a new plants
00:18:37.900 to simply take over
00:18:38.720 the ones that will be
00:18:39.340 abandoned over the next
00:18:40.160 little while,
00:18:40.600 especially in the auto sector.
00:18:41.740 We are going to see
00:18:42.640 a significant devolution
00:18:44.400 of investment.
00:18:45.180 We've already seen it.
00:18:46.100 Investment has dropped
00:18:46.840 to almost zero.
00:18:48.060 We see building equipment
00:18:49.500 or investments
00:18:50.700 in new equipment,
00:18:52.140 a sign of productivity
00:18:53.300 in the economy
00:18:53.920 has pretty much cratered.
00:18:56.200 If this was a desperate
00:18:57.360 move by Mark Carney,
00:18:58.920 I can't think of a more,
00:19:00.340 you know,
00:19:01.500 wrong player
00:19:02.880 in order to make
00:19:03.560 that kind of a deal with.
00:19:05.140 And as a result,
00:19:06.400 you know,
00:19:07.140 Canadians are going to regret
00:19:08.000 what they did back
00:19:08.740 in April.
00:19:10.620 Now,
00:19:10.860 they did it three times
00:19:11.840 in 2015,
00:19:12.680 2019,
00:19:13.300 and 2021,
00:19:14.100 all for their reasons.
00:19:15.420 But to have compounded that,
00:19:17.720 I can't,
00:19:18.400 you know,
00:19:18.980 I can't say I feel
00:19:19.820 any remorse
00:19:20.380 for Canadians
00:19:21.220 who have made a decision
00:19:21.980 that is effectively
00:19:22.760 going to eclipse
00:19:24.640 their standard of living,
00:19:26.200 their well-being
00:19:26.760 and the way of life.
00:19:27.980 They voted for this.
00:19:28.780 They wanted this.
00:19:29.340 And yes,
00:19:29.740 does it take brainwashing?
00:19:30.900 Does it take people
00:19:32.280 who have been subject
00:19:33.560 to this kind of narrative
00:19:35.320 for some long time
00:19:36.640 to believe this?
00:19:37.240 Of course it does.
00:19:38.300 But I can't believe
00:19:39.180 that there are Canadians
00:19:39.820 that won't stand up
00:19:41.100 and say,
00:19:41.580 if you won't do it,
00:19:42.860 then maybe we'd be better off
00:19:44.360 trying to do it on our own.
00:19:45.340 I think a lot of Canadians
00:19:46.120 are going to take those matters
00:19:47.180 into their own hands.
00:19:48.120 And I think what we're going to see
00:19:49.440 is a nation
00:19:50.640 that is going to see,
00:19:51.660 you know,
00:19:52.040 real fractures
00:19:53.380 and real cleavages
00:19:55.720 between regions
00:19:57.280 of the country
00:19:57.900 that are going to say
00:19:59.040 we'd better cut a deal
00:20:00.640 on our own.
00:20:01.960 I'm waiting for you
00:20:02.720 to shoot and drop.
00:20:03.540 America will not be silent
00:20:04.720 about this.
00:20:05.320 I think this has even shocked them.
00:20:07.840 And regardless of whether
00:20:08.800 we think that we've,
00:20:10.360 you know,
00:20:10.600 we've put a,
00:20:11.240 they put a red,
00:20:12.880 you know,
00:20:13.640 blanket in front of
00:20:15.080 or a red flag
00:20:15.900 in front of a bull,
00:20:17.280 we're going to get it
00:20:18.520 pretty good here.
00:20:19.220 And I think that's,
00:20:20.100 you know,
00:20:20.580 it has a lot to do
00:20:21.440 with how Canadians
00:20:22.280 have ignorantly voted
00:20:23.320 for the past several elections,
00:20:25.180 but most importantly,
00:20:26.000 the last election.
00:20:27.200 You've wanted this man.
00:20:28.100 You knew what he was about.
00:20:29.620 He didn't accomplish anything,
00:20:31.060 but what he has now done
00:20:32.180 is can't collide Canada
00:20:33.760 with a very dangerous dictatorship
00:20:35.620 and an authoritarianism
00:20:37.820 on a scale
00:20:38.500 that we have never seen
00:20:39.660 in human,
00:20:40.620 in human existence.
00:20:42.200 There's the New World Order
00:20:43.500 comment.
00:20:45.020 Can you believe this?
00:20:46.900 I mean,
00:20:47.220 what was he thinking?
00:20:48.560 That word evokes
00:20:50.140 everything that people
00:20:51.620 have been fearful of,
00:20:52.720 but he said so casually,
00:20:54.060 even Scott Moe,
00:20:55.320 the Premier of Saskatchewan,
00:20:56.280 looked over,
00:20:56.720 what are you talking about?
00:20:58.560 Words have meaning.
00:21:00.320 The tyranny of words,
00:21:01.420 understand them.
00:21:02.380 Mark Carney is not bluffing.
00:21:04.280 He is bringing,
00:21:05.120 he's bringing the Canadian,
00:21:06.620 the nation,
00:21:07.440 our culture to its knees
00:21:08.860 to abide by his view
00:21:11.520 of world domination
00:21:13.240 by a handful of players.
00:21:16.000 By doing so,
00:21:17.400 we've basically
00:21:18.040 thrown away geopolitics
00:21:19.660 and we've thrown away geography
00:21:21.500 and our great relationship
00:21:23.180 that's lasted
00:21:23.900 hundreds of years.
00:21:25.180 We are now on our own
00:21:26.120 and to a larger extent,
00:21:27.420 even more dependent
00:21:28.300 than we were
00:21:28.960 as a vassal state
00:21:30.180 of China.
00:21:31.340 Well done,
00:21:32.060 Canada.
00:21:33.580 Now,
00:21:34.220 your column,
00:21:35.180 Carney
00:21:35.480 slashes EV tariffs
00:21:37.500 on China,
00:21:38.180 a desperate sellout
00:21:39.360 of Canada's auto industry.
00:21:41.040 How can people
00:21:41.600 access that content?
00:21:43.700 Yeah,
00:21:44.140 affordableenergy.ca.
00:21:45.500 It's the latest press release
00:21:46.560 I put this morning.
00:21:47.880 Ironically,
00:21:48.300 I thought there was
00:21:48.720 already something
00:21:49.280 that we went to presage
00:21:50.420 what the Chinese were all about.
00:21:52.060 X went down,
00:21:52.900 Twitter went down,
00:21:53.560 no one could get anything
00:21:54.640 posted for about an hour
00:21:55.900 this morning.
00:21:56.680 I thought,
00:21:57.080 well,
00:21:57.140 that was a real sign.
00:21:58.500 But important that people
00:21:59.620 look at that
00:22:00.160 because it states
00:22:01.680 a couple of things
00:22:02.680 about where we are
00:22:04.060 with respects to
00:22:05.060 our relationship
00:22:06.060 with the rest of the world.
00:22:07.300 Now we have aligned
00:22:08.340 ourselves very much
00:22:09.900 in the orbit
00:22:11.120 of communist China.
00:22:13.680 And while some
00:22:15.140 people may think
00:22:15.620 it's a great thing
00:22:16.360 and it's a chance
00:22:16.960 for us to thumb our nose
00:22:18.440 at Donald Trump
00:22:19.260 and those who won
00:22:20.380 electorally,
00:22:21.580 something that the Chinese
00:22:22.620 are unfamiliar with,
00:22:23.520 the Chinese government,
00:22:24.560 we've now just opened the door.
00:22:26.000 Look,
00:22:26.180 there'll be another election
00:22:26.920 full of interference.
00:22:28.120 All of these things
00:22:28.640 are going to be tolerated.
00:22:30.100 We have now become
00:22:31.460 really the plaything
00:22:33.060 of China.
00:22:34.200 Once it gets its foot
00:22:35.220 in the door,
00:22:36.040 as a true origin horse,
00:22:37.780 they will ransack
00:22:39.500 this place on a scale
00:22:40.660 that you have never seen.
00:22:41.780 But you know what?
00:22:42.720 You voted that way
00:22:43.600 and you forgot
00:22:44.600 about your kids,
00:22:45.900 the traditions of this country,
00:22:47.460 the honour of this country.
00:22:48.820 You threw it away
00:22:49.580 because you were mad
00:22:50.420 at Donald Trump
00:22:51.040 and you happened
00:22:51.440 to disagree with this politics.
00:22:52.960 Your narratives
00:22:53.540 and your parochial positions
00:22:56.920 that you've taken
00:22:57.600 with respects to
00:22:58.460 the brainwashing
00:22:59.860 and the years of propaganda
00:23:01.180 on the left
00:23:02.220 and net zero
00:23:03.420 and DEF
00:23:05.160 and all sorts
00:23:06.200 of other weird stuff,
00:23:07.440 ESG,
00:23:08.300 you're not going
00:23:09.160 to pay for this.
00:23:09.920 And unfortunately,
00:23:11.120 it's our children,
00:23:11.920 grandchildren,
00:23:12.240 we're going to pay
00:23:13.180 for your very,
00:23:13.960 very bad
00:23:14.360 and selfish,
00:23:15.540 narrow-minded decisions.
00:23:16.940 Well done,
00:23:17.560 those of you
00:23:17.920 who voted Liberal
00:23:18.540 and NDP.
00:23:19.400 You brought this
00:23:19.920 upon Canada.
00:23:20.820 Thanks for helping
00:23:21.480 Deconstructed.
00:23:23.160 Thank you,
00:23:23.740 Dan McTague.
00:23:24.540 Appreciate you coming
00:23:25.260 on the show.
00:23:26.180 Thank you.
00:23:26.640 Thanks for having me, Mark.
00:23:28.640 And that is it
00:23:29.500 for this edition
00:23:30.320 of Straight Up.
00:23:30.920 Appreciate you tuning in,
00:23:31.860 my friends.
00:23:33.020 Let's do it again soon,
00:23:33.920 shall we?
00:23:34.380 Bye-bye for now.
00:23:42.240 Bye-bye for now.