00:00:00.000Prime Minister Carney's plans for an alliance with the EU is setting off some alarm bells among those who see it as a possible threat to Canadian sovereignty.
00:00:14.000Let's listen first to what Carney had to say when asked about Canada joining the EU.
00:00:19.000We're not looking to become a member of the European Union.
00:00:22.000What we are looking and will begin discussions for unique alliance with the European Union,
00:00:30.000between Canada and the European Union. We share the same values, we have the same priorities,
00:00:35.000and we have very complementary strengths. We're stronger together and this is at a time
00:00:40.000where the world is more dangerous and divided and friends need to stick together at these times.
00:00:45.000What exactly does he mean by unique alliance?
00:00:47.860Given Carney's long-standing ties to Europe, Canadians can be forgiven for questioning the man's loyalties.
00:00:54.220Is he serving the interests of Canada or of Europe, where he spent many years living and working and visits frequently now?
00:01:01.740Is Canada being gift-wrapped as a colony to Europe while Canadians relinquish control over their own affairs, the bureaucrats in Brussels?
00:01:11.520Our guest today is Pierre Pauly, a leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:01:27.760We already have free trade with Europe.
00:01:29.560We have 99% of our products and services can enter the European market tariff-free.
00:01:37.140Thank you, Stephen Harper, for signing the Canada-EU free trade agreement.
00:01:42.160That's been in place for over a decade, so it can't really mean free trade.
00:01:45.980We already have that. I don't think it could mean a military alliance because we've been part of NATO for decades, and that includes 30 European countries.
00:01:56.960So that kind of alliance already exists. That leaves very little left for him to sign.
00:02:05.680You know, if he's talking about forcing Canadians to pay taxes to Brussels bureaucrats or to follow European Union laws that we never voted on or, God forbid, to bring European policies for immigration, that would be a disaster for Canada.
00:02:26.360We will never support forcing Canadians to pay European taxes, follow European laws, or welcome European policy on immigration that would further overwhelm our hospitals, housing, and jobs.
00:02:45.240What would that look like, European-style immigration?0.97
00:02:48.760Are we going to get the people that they don't want?0.68
00:02:51.780Maybe you could expand on that a little bit.
00:02:53.700Well, again, I don't know what he's proposing. All I can tell you is that we're a country. We should decide our own borders, our own immigration, our own tax levels, our own laws. That's sovereignty. And that is what we will as conservatives defend.
00:03:08.900But we're all left speculating because so far all we have are leaks from the Canadian and European governments to the Wall Street Journal, combined with wordplay by the Prime Minister.
00:03:23.280He won't show up in Canada's House of Commons to answer any questions.
00:03:27.800So we're all left wondering what he's talking about.
00:03:31.380We just walked away from a trade deal with the United States and immediately entered into talk with members of the EU aimed at allying our country to Europe in ways that we don't even understand.
00:03:45.820I mean, the Americans say that we're the ones who blew up the deal. Is it possible that Prime Minister Carney did that as a pretext to do what he wanted to do all along?
00:03:55.580And I realize we're entering the realm of the speculative here, but I can't help but ask and wonder, given what happened with the sudden end of trade negotiations with the United States, when everybody thought, or many of us thought, that there was a deal in place, including the president of the United States, and then poof, that falls apart, and next thing you know, we're cozying up to the EU.
00:04:18.160Does any of this raise alarm bells for you?
00:04:20.540well look the way to put that all the rest is for the prime minister to just release the text
00:04:27.140of the agreement that he had accepted and then then turned around and reject it um he he won't
00:04:34.040tell us he won't show us what's in that agreement so it's very hard for me to comment on whether it
00:04:38.640was a good or bad deal um we we know that he can release it because whatever confidentiality that
00:04:46.480one might claim exists in those conversations is over. Both governments on both sides of the
00:04:52.880border have been commenting very openly about what they say was in the deal, but we're getting
00:04:58.140conflicting reports. So either way, there is no confidentiality requirement or being practiced.
00:05:03.760So he can release the text and then let Canadians judge whether it was a deal that he should have
00:05:08.420walked away from. You were just in the United States. You spoke with members of the media,
00:05:13.760some of whom have close ties with President Trump, like Larry Kudlow, for instance.
00:05:19.720Were you offered any opportunity to have a chat with the president while you were down there?
00:05:26.840No, and that wasn't my purpose. My goal was to speak to the American people. I believe our
00:05:31.380single greatest asset on the state side of the border is the hundreds of millions of Americans
00:05:38.380who love Canada and frankly who would benefit from buying our goods tariff-free. So I went and
00:05:45.840spoke to Mr. Kudlow's extremely brilliant economist and business commentator. He, as you point out,
00:05:55.300was in the previous administration and he basically said on air on a program that I1.00
00:06:03.000understand the president watches from time to time that the tariffs on Canada are stupid and0.95
00:06:08.260so i agree with him on that and i used the occasion to argue for tariff free trade there on0.96
00:06:14.660cnvc on bloomberg and got a great reception i went met with some investors and other business
00:06:22.820people in manhattan and they too agreed the tariff free trade is good for americans so
00:06:28.500it was a great chance to put the country first fight to save you money and save canadians jobs
00:06:35.380and that's what we did are we any closer to starting restarting talks um i've heard that
00:06:42.980maybe that's already happening what's your sense of where we are in terms of negotiations
00:06:48.900to try and get those uh discussions back on the rails
00:06:55.060well it's hard to know again because the prime minister won't speak openly about what he's doing
00:06:59.380but he claims that he's again speaking with the president so we're hopeful that that will lead to
00:07:05.380talks to get a deal to end the tariffs in both directions. But we encourage the Prime Minister
00:07:14.680to tell us where he's at when he's planning to get back to the table. He said that he's ready
00:07:19.180to do that. Great. And when is it going to happen? Let's be real. Crime is up. Repeat offenders are
00:07:26.100released on bail. Police responses are slower than ever. And in many places, law-abiding citizens
00:07:32.560are expected to just hope nothing bad happens.
00:10:16.400But then there has been foreign dollars invested here.
00:10:19.080Most of what's coming into Canada is just foreign takeovers that don't build anything new.
00:10:24.060So we do need someone like Prime Minister Harper, hopefully, to send a message to get things back on track.
00:10:29.200I have no problem with Mr. Carney holding a summit, but we've had a year and a half of speeches, summits and symbolic signing ceremonies, but no results for you.
00:10:39.100your grocery bill, your gas prices, your mortgage and rent payments. All of those things are worse
00:10:46.680today than when Carney took office. So he's got to plunk himself at his desk and do the things
00:10:52.600here at home that need to get done. Approve the 500 major projects that are sitting on the federal
00:10:59.320desk waiting for a permit. Get rid of the industrial carbon tax and the capital gains tax
00:11:04.460on reinvestments in Canada, bring permitting times down to a year, get taxes, set sales tax
00:11:11.920off Canadian made automobiles to save you money and save auto workers their jobs. These are kind
00:11:17.200of practical real world things that he could do for you, for Canadian, for the Canadian people.
00:11:24.180So, you know, fine, hold a summit, give a speech, by all means, do the occasional trip. But I think
00:11:30.480it's time for the prime minister to actually show real results in the in the lives of real people
00:11:34.920i've got a couple of minutes left before we let you go uh there was the airport announcement as
00:11:41.120well uh with partnerships posed partnerships with private investors who want to basically
00:11:49.840run the airports or may want to run the airports for airports uh in canada i don't know to the
00:11:55.660degree that might connect with the summit that we're holding right now. What are your thoughts
00:12:01.500generally about whether this is a positive move on the part of the government? We need to see
00:12:06.100details, but I'll tell you the criteria is very simple for conservatives. Does it save you money
00:12:10.660when you fly? Our number one priority is to save you money. Save you money in air travel,
00:12:18.380filling up your tank grocery shopping rent mortgages save you money now what are what is
00:12:26.460the deal is he we don't want a sweetheart deal that will profit corporate power brokers and
00:12:32.840liberal insiders but if he can get private investment that will improve air travel at a
00:12:39.780lower cost to passengers then then that's another story so let's get the details find out what he's
00:12:45.740actually proposing. And we'll take it from there because, you know, God knows we need to do
00:12:51.520something to save people money. I mean, he's talked about possibly modeling it on what we've
00:12:57.880seen in other countries. I know Australia did a similar thing back in the 1990s, offering 50-year
00:13:04.200leases, that sort of thing. And it's been a mixed bag in terms of whether people like it or not. So
00:13:09.820I guess to your point, we'll just have to wait to see. These are crown jewels. They're massive
00:13:15.000assets that have enormous commercial value. The fees they collect from the airlines are absolutely
00:13:25.040enormous. The real estate itself is worth billions of dollars. So we're going to be there asking the
00:13:32.180tough questions, protecting your assets. These things belong to you and every single Canadian,
00:13:37.440Mark. They don't belong to corporate power brokers and liberal insiders. They belong to
00:13:42.440the Canadian people, and we want to maximize the benefit to Canadians and, and save you money at
00:13:48.460the same time. Here, Paulio, thank you so much for coming on the show. We appreciate it. Great to be
00:13:53.120with you. Many blessings to you and your viewers. And you. If you enjoyed the show, we appreciate it.
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