Juno News - August 05, 2025


Mark Carney promised to be the "Trump whisperer"


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

182.25256

Word Count

267

Sentence Count

23


Summary

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Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
00:00:00.000 And here is how Mark Kearney responded.
00:00:01.920 He was in Vancouver at the Pride Parade.
00:00:04.600 And he said, in response to U.S. tariff hikes, he said that Canada is strong.
00:00:08.240 We'll continue to try to do something constructive with the Americans.
00:00:11.600 Let's play that clip.
00:00:12.540 It's, look, Canada is strong.
00:00:16.440 We can give ourselves far more than anyone can take away.
00:00:19.600 We're building this great country.
00:00:20.740 I just met with the premier, building B.C., building Canada, building in a Canadian way,
00:00:25.760 building sustainably, building together, building positively.
00:00:28.680 And that's what we're going to do.
00:00:29.400 And yes, we will come to something with the Americans, something constructive with the Americans.
00:00:33.720 So this is, you know, speaking of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, the steady hand, the economist, a competent leader.
00:00:40.500 We were promised that with Mark Carney. We were promised that he, you know, he has a PhD in economics.
00:00:44.620 He's a central banker. He's a steady hand.
00:00:46.900 And instead, it seems to me, Alexander, that we're getting something more like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flamboyantly at a pride parade.
00:00:54.200 I don't know if they intentionally had this, but this picture really went viral of Mark Carney embracing a man in a pink thong.
00:01:02.980 I just I can't believe that we are at a place in our world and our civilization where it would be appropriate for the prime minister of a G7 nation, a former central banker, an economist to be embracing, physically touching, you know, a man that looks like he's about to participate in some kind of a I don't even want to say.