Juno News - February 04, 2025


Tariffs: A manufactured crisis? (Ft. Viva Frei)


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In the hours leading up to yesterday's announcement that we were getting a one month reprieve from President Trump's 25% tariffs on Canadian cars, Canadian YouTuber Viva Frey joins me to discuss why Justin Trudeau waited so long to make the announcement.

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00:00:00.080 Canada has obtained a one-month reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff last night
00:00:05.820 after promising to invest $200 million in fighting organized crimes and drug,
00:00:11.540 additional pleasures to appoint a fentanyl czar and designate drug cartels as terrorists.
00:00:17.480 But in the days and the hours before that phone call between Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump,
00:00:23.100 Canadians were faced with a truly terrifying reality,
00:00:25.980 that our leaders are entirely unfit and unserious to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
00:00:33.540 Joining me today to discuss is Canadian YouTuber Viva Frey, who has fled to Florida.
00:00:38.720 I'm Rachel Parker. Welcome back to The Rachel Parker Show.
00:00:55.980 Hey everyone, I'm Rachel Parker. Welcome back to The Rachel Parker Show.
00:01:00.680 We are going to be joined by Canadian YouTuber Viva Frey.
00:01:03.940 I'm sure you guys are familiar with his content online.
00:01:06.300 To break down what went on in the days and hours leading up to yesterday's announcement
00:01:12.360 that we were going to see a one-month delay in those tariffs.
00:01:15.820 So as you guys know, we were expecting to see 25% tariffs coming into effect today.
00:01:20.740 That has been delayed by about a month.
00:01:23.520 And for the energy industry here in Alberta, those tariffs were actually reduced to 15%,
00:01:28.120 which is, or sorry, rather 10%, a 15% reduction for the tariffs that we were going to be seeing in other industries.
00:01:34.180 So we're going to dive into all that today.
00:01:36.660 Viva, I want to start by asking you right off the hop,
00:01:39.940 you know, Trudeau had this phone call with Donald Trump.
00:01:42.220 He committed to investing $200 million.
00:01:45.220 What took him so long?
00:01:46.340 He ended up investing the money anyways.
00:01:48.440 He ended up getting that one-month delay.
00:01:49.880 Why do you think he waited until basically the last possible second to make this investment and delay those tariffs?
00:01:57.340 I mean, the short answer is he's an idiot, but he's an idiot with a big ego who thinks that he is more valuable than he is as a leader.
00:02:06.940 And he thinks that in order to feign his own value as a leader,
00:02:11.080 he can hide behind what he claims and rightly believes is the value of Canada,
00:02:15.100 but overstating or at least overnegotiating the power of Canada versus the United States,
00:02:20.780 hiding behind that to try to make himself look like the savior.
00:02:23.560 Oh, I'm the holier-than-thou out here defending Canada's good reputation with America.
00:02:28.380 The reality is he acknowledged the problem.
00:02:31.480 This is the reality.
00:02:32.300 He acknowledged the problem a month ago, two months ago, when he said, you know,
00:02:35.360 we've got to tighten up the border issue.
00:02:36.900 He acknowledged the problem of rampant immigration fraud or immigration issues in Canada.
00:02:42.540 When he said, we've got to tighten down on these student visas because 5% of these students are not showing up for classes.
00:02:47.420 You've got terrorists crossing over the border into the U.S. from Canada.
00:02:50.460 So he acknowledges the problem and then pretends that it's not a problem in order to negotiate on a false pretext
00:02:57.320 with someone who is a much bigger stick in the negotiation discussions.
00:03:02.620 So he's just, overall, he's an idiot.
00:03:04.520 He needs to manufacture scandals so that he can have scandals to manage while he's prorogued parliament
00:03:10.000 so that he can somehow create a problem that he can then resolve and then say, look at me, I'm a great leader.
00:03:14.840 I negotiated with big bad Donald Trump.
00:03:17.240 So you're saying, you know, he's essentially positioning himself and positioning the Liberal Party
00:03:22.740 to gain favour with Canadians during their leadership race and ahead of a general election with this crisis.
00:03:29.940 He's definitely jockeying that way.
00:03:32.480 And what better way to, you know, have a crisis to manage than to manufacture other problems
00:03:38.240 out of this negotiation strategy?
00:03:41.740 When you have Chrystia Freeland come out and talk about imposing a 100% tariff on Teslas
00:03:47.580 in a country that's supposed to be going green, that's not doing, you know, that's cutting down on domestic energy production,
00:03:54.300 penalising the green energy alternative.
00:03:56.980 I mean, it's like the government's tactic or at least bad government's tactic is hurry up and do something,
00:04:02.680 even if that something is tremendously stupid, tremendously counterproductive.
00:04:05.700 But, you know, they create a problem and then they think that they've solved the problem that they've created
00:04:09.980 and now they get to campaign off, look what we've done, we've solved the problem.
00:04:14.020 Oh, what's that? We have an EV shortage down in Canada?
00:04:16.760 Oh, well, we'll go buy it from China, even if those cars tend to burst into flames.
00:04:19.960 But we've solved the problem that we've created, which was the result of another problem that we've created
00:04:23.800 in the first place, which is rampant immigration problems in Canada that is posing a national security threat
00:04:29.460 for America.
00:04:30.240 And Trump knows it, he's not stupid.
00:04:31.480 So when Trudeau announces this investment in protecting the border, I mean, on my part,
00:04:37.920 I see it as an acknowledgement that he is, you know, he's sort of being forced to acknowledge
00:04:42.020 that the federal government, the Trudeau Liberals, they've made a lot of mistakes on the border
00:04:46.420 and Canadians are not feeling safe.
00:04:48.100 Noticeably, our southern neighbours are noticing the issues here on our border.
00:04:51.800 But you're saying he's actually positioned himself really way to make it seem like he's solving a crisis
00:04:55.440 when in fact he was one who created this problem to begin with.
00:04:58.020 He created it, he acknowledged it publicly, and then when Trump says, well, fix the problem
00:05:03.840 or we're going to impose tariffs, he comes out holier-than-thou, high and mighty, says,
00:05:07.580 how dare you impose tariffs?
00:05:08.940 We're, you know, the US's biggest trading partner.
00:05:11.520 We are equal at a table when we're not, and people have to acknowledge that
00:05:15.220 and be able to negotiate from that position.
00:05:17.320 And so it's just, it's an implausible position that he takes,
00:05:20.860 which contradicts a position he took barely two months ago.
00:05:23.540 The main argument is that it's America's border to protect.
00:05:27.940 So if you happen to have terrorists crossing in at an 8 to 1 ratio from Canada to the US,
00:05:33.040 then from Mexico to the US, despite the fact that the amount of illegals crossing
00:05:38.020 is greatly disproportionately higher in the Mexican side, you've got a problem.
00:05:43.720 And Trudeau acknowledged that problem where, I don't know what percentage of Canada
00:05:48.540 is now born outside of Canada, where you have millions upon millions of temporary student visas
00:05:54.000 that are being given to these students coming from adversarial countries,
00:05:57.200 and many of them are defaulting on their visas and not showing up to classes.
00:06:01.460 And then you have the, if it's 8 to 1, 6 to 1, whatever, a disproportionate amount of
00:06:06.380 people on terror watch lists being intercepted, crossing into Canada, into the US.
00:06:12.380 People are going to say, it's America's border to protect.
00:06:15.060 They're in control of it.
00:06:15.880 Yeah, it's Canada's problem that is creating a national security threat for America. 0.51
00:06:20.220 And so Trump will deal with it the way he thinks he's going to deal with it.
00:06:22.300 Tighten up your border, have some increased surveillance on your end of it,
00:06:25.340 and don't create a problem for us to manage.
00:06:27.880 That's not what we're here for.
00:06:28.700 That's not what good brothers do.
00:06:30.380 And so what did Trudeau do?
00:06:31.620 I mean, he did what he should have done from the first second, which is, yes, we have a problem.
00:06:36.020 Yes, it's the result of bad policy, but that would have meant acknowledging further his bad policy
00:06:39.880 and conceding on it.
00:06:41.240 But he ends up doing what he needed to do from the beginning, what he was always going to do from the beginning,
00:06:44.960 except now it's only a one-month reprieve.
00:06:47.300 And so in a month time, they might actually have to start renegotiating some of their trade agreements with America,
00:06:51.720 which might have been Trump's end goal all along.
00:06:55.340 But congratulations, you took the bait and you played right into it.
00:06:58.480 So you got a one-month reprieve to fix the problem, and then we're going to have to have some further discussions.
00:07:02.540 That leads into what I wanted to ask you about next, which is, you know, the actual reason that Trump had this threat of tariffs
00:07:10.420 that we still see hanging over Canada for another month.
00:07:13.040 Now, basically, everyone has a different opinion as to what Trump is doing here.
00:07:17.700 Some people say it is pretty clear-cut.
00:07:19.440 Canada does have big issues with their immigration.
00:07:22.000 Canada has too many terrorists in it.
00:07:23.760 The Americans are seeing that, and they want Canada to tighten up its border and its security, as you said.
00:07:28.560 But I also think that there's another side to the argument here, which is that Donald Trump wants to return jobs to America.
00:07:35.920 He wants to bring manufacturing back to America.
00:07:38.720 And so I think with something like, you know, auto manufacturing,
00:07:42.060 we see these parts and the vehicles going back and forth from Canada and the United States.
00:07:45.860 Well, with tariffs, that becomes very difficult.
00:07:47.780 We saw initial reports saying that the cost of some vehicles would increase by $3,000 if these tariffs went into effect.
00:07:54.280 So to me, I'm thinking, I think that this is a bit to sort of return manufacturing jobs to America.
00:07:59.320 And now you're saying it looks like Trump might want to, you know, renegotiate some of the trade deal
00:08:04.220 that the Americans have with Canada.
00:08:06.440 So what do you think is one of his end goals here?
00:08:08.360 Is it to bring back manufacturing jobs and other types of job energy jobs to the states? 0.95
00:08:12.400 Or is it just to get a different trade deal with Canada?
00:08:15.820 I mean, it's going to be a combination of all of it.
00:08:18.720 Whether people think he's evil or whatever, Trump is not dumb.
00:08:22.720 And if anybody still thinks he's dumb, they haven't watched his three-hour interview or his three-hour podcast with Joe Rogan.
00:08:29.620 He's not dumb.
00:08:30.660 He's actually quite strategic and he's actually quite intelligent.
00:08:33.540 He might be a bit of a bully, but you might also have to learn how to negotiate with someone who you think is a bully
00:08:39.400 because punching them is not going to work.
00:08:41.840 Whether or not he wants to bring manufacturing back to America, he wants to not be reliant on foreign countries.
00:08:47.600 He wants to stop being exploited as well by foreign countries.
00:08:51.020 And he's America's president.
00:08:52.500 He's not Canada's president.
00:08:53.720 He's not there to do any favors.
00:08:55.200 And so when he comes in and says, fix up your border, stop it with the fentanyl, stop it with the smuggling of drugs,
00:09:01.900 or we'll impose a tariff.
00:09:03.680 The smart thing to do, if you think it's pretextual, which I think people are right to think it is,
00:09:08.560 the smart thing to do is not to play into it.
00:09:10.580 And so, okay, fine.
00:09:11.660 No problem.
00:09:12.440 You're right.
00:09:13.100 What's the big deal?
00:09:13.760 Let's do this.
00:09:14.680 And then you don't give him the pretext to say, you didn't do it fast enough.
00:09:17.740 Now we're going to renegotiate some of our free trade agreements, which free trade might be more beneficial for you than for us.
00:09:23.860 And we're a little bit fed up with Canada, you know, riding the coattails of America in all respects, economy, defense.
00:09:30.780 It's exactly like what he did in Europe with, I'm going to block now, not NAFTA, but, oh, geez, the European, NATO.
00:09:40.960 Sorry, NATO.
00:09:41.980 It's like, you guys have been taking advantage for a long time.
00:09:45.260 I'm going to use this as a negotiation tactic, mess around, and then we'll have further discussions about that,
00:09:49.660 which you're dependent on more so than us.
00:09:51.840 So undoubtedly, there might be some trade agreements that he wants to revisit, wants to renegotiate,
00:09:56.620 that he negotiated them back in the day.
00:09:58.640 Too bad.
00:09:59.160 Times change.
00:09:59.780 But if it was pretextual, congratulations, you played right into it.
00:10:03.040 And that goes for Justin.
00:10:04.840 That goes for Jagmeet.
00:10:05.880 And that, unfortunately, also goes for Pierre Poilievre, who really royally screwed up what was an easy thing to exploit
00:10:11.500 for his own political profit while nurturing a relationship with, you know, the president.
00:10:16.180 And he might be the next prime minister, probably will be.
00:10:18.900 He's screwed up sort of wooing that relationship early on.
00:10:22.540 I want to get to a little bit about some of the Canadian leaders' response.
00:10:26.020 But first, I have to ask you, because obviously you're in Florida right now.
00:10:29.020 You know, over the weekend when it was announced the tariffs were coming, in the circles that I was in,
00:10:34.740 it was all anybody could talk about.
00:10:36.940 Like, people who never talk about economics, people who never talk about politics were freaking out about it.
00:10:42.980 Everyone was talking about it.
00:10:44.220 And I was like, is this what Americans are doing?
00:10:46.760 Like, are Americans as, like, freaking out about these tariffs as it was in Canada?
00:10:50.100 Because it felt like all anybody could talk about over the weekend.
00:10:52.680 Well, it was all anybody could talk about.
00:10:56.600 But the tenor of the discussion over, you know, south of the border was much different than north of the border.
00:11:01.400 South of the border, the sentiment is, you can go to the big, you know, X accounts.
00:11:05.820 The sentiment was, we don't need your stuff, Canada.
00:11:08.560 You need ours.
00:11:09.840 We don't need your defense.
00:11:11.280 In fact, quite clearly, your defense is just creating liabilities for us.
00:11:14.280 But you need ours.
00:11:16.060 The sentiment up in Canada is, yeah, this will cripple us.
00:11:18.920 The sentiment up in Canada is, and Pierre Poilier puts out a great seven-minute video
00:11:22.460 highlighting the weaknesses of the Canadian economy.
00:11:26.040 How, you know, it's true, you should be, Canada should be doing more interprovincial business.
00:11:30.700 You know, but the problem is, you don't generate wealth by trading money internally.
00:11:35.040 All you do there is actually give your cut to the government.
00:11:37.260 The way you generate wealth is by bringing in wealth and business from abroad.
00:11:40.840 But the bottom line, it will be much harder on Canada than it will on the U.S.
00:11:46.380 The U.S. should be more independent.
00:11:48.760 The U.S. should bring back manufacturing.
00:11:50.600 Whether or not it increases the price of goods.
00:11:53.380 You know, when they talked about the Colombian tariff, and then, you know, the idiots like
00:11:57.760 AOC and all of the other Democrat morons out there, like, well, now we're going to pay
00:12:02.540 more for coffee.
00:12:03.120 Well, first of all, there's alternatives.
00:12:05.380 It's not like there's only one brand out there.
00:12:07.060 There are alternatives, and even if you end up paying more for a specific product, when
00:12:12.260 the jobs are being created to make that product domestically, people are going to have more
00:12:16.820 money to spend in the first place.
00:12:18.080 So it's a bit of the push and pull and, you know, a little bit of the pain at the beginning
00:12:21.660 when prices go up, but then so do wages.
00:12:23.960 And so people become more employed, and you become independent and not exploited by foreign
00:12:28.700 countries like Canada and not left to the mercy of adversarial countries like China and
00:12:33.280 India.
00:12:33.500 So bringing back the manufacturing has some short-term costs, but it has some long-term
00:12:37.160 gains.
00:12:37.940 But true, Canada is much more vulnerable to a tariff war than America is, which is why
00:12:43.960 having idiots like Chrystia Freeland talking tough, when they won't suffer any of these 1.00
00:12:48.600 consequences, it's very nice.
00:12:50.980 They use the everyday Canadian as the fodder and the victim of their terrible policy, but
00:12:56.720 they get to feign strength that they don't actually have.
00:13:00.200 So you've told us about the American response.
00:13:02.660 I want to show you guys a little bit of the Canadian response.
00:13:06.120 We saw some videos of Canadians at sports games over the weekend booing the American
00:13:10.900 national anthem, which is something that I haven't seen before.
00:13:14.180 And I was actually, maybe, you know, maybe it was mistaken or maybe just naive, but I was
00:13:19.000 actually quite surprised to see this.
00:13:20.480 So take a look at this clip, you guys.
00:13:21.860 Rachel, if I may ask, you look young.
00:13:49.820 How old are you?
00:13:51.300 I'm 27.
00:13:52.420 Yeah.
00:13:52.800 So you are maybe too young to remember.
00:13:54.360 It's not the first time Canadians have booed the national anthem of the American national
00:13:58.700 anthem at sporting events.
00:13:59.840 I'm 45.
00:14:00.700 I remember it.
00:14:01.360 It happens periodically.
00:14:02.940 It's typically a knee-jerk reaction to policy, the Iraq war back in the early 2000s.
00:14:09.000 So it's not, it's nothing new.
00:14:10.340 It's just, it's, it's stupidity because it's an ultimate, they do it only because they feel
00:14:16.240 it to be the ultimate act of disrespect, but A, it's juvenile and B, it's counterproductive.
00:14:22.040 But more to the point, look, part of the Canadian identity, and people might not like
00:14:28.360 this and call me whatever names you want, but I'm from Quebec where it's even more true
00:14:31.760 than out West.
00:14:33.420 Part of Canadian identity has always been defined as being not American.
00:14:36.720 You know, Canadians have the quintessential stereotypes of, they hold the stereotypes of 0.98
00:14:41.940 Americans, brash, rude, you know, ill-informed and whatever. 1.00
00:14:46.100 Not, not that, not that all Canadians are any better, but that is the stereotype.
00:14:50.280 It's the international stereotype.
00:14:51.720 So Canadians have always sort of defined themselves as being not American as though that's a, you
00:14:56.480 know, a feature, a selling point.
00:14:58.620 So it's nothing new, but it's, it's, it's disappointing.
00:15:02.280 It's juvenile.
00:15:02.960 And they don't understand that, that Trump is not there to rectify or remedy their own
00:15:09.240 failed government.
00:15:09.980 And if there's anyone to boo, it's not the Canadian national anthem.
00:15:13.380 It's Justin Trudeau.
00:15:14.340 It's Chrystia Freeland.
00:15:15.160 It's Jagmeet Singh.
00:15:16.260 And to a lesser degree, but nonetheless, it's Pierre Poiliev.
00:15:20.260 Yeah.
00:15:20.820 I mean, it feels very misguided to me because as you said, it should be Donald Trump's interest
00:15:24.900 to prioritize America.
00:15:26.460 I mean, that's what his slogan was.
00:15:27.860 America first, make America great again.
00:15:29.620 We know that these are things that are important to him.
00:15:31.760 Why should we be angry at another president for prioritizing his country?
00:15:35.020 I'm actually angry at our political leaders for not prioritizing Canada and for succeeding
00:15:40.420 at getting good deals for Canada for a very long time.
00:15:43.140 So let's kind of look at some of the responses throughout the country in various provinces
00:15:47.460 over the weekend.
00:15:49.340 Ontario Premier Doug Ford, I think is probably looking the silliest of everyone.
00:15:53.740 We have a clip of him making some of his announcements that he's eating now.
00:15:59.260 We'll go ahead and you guys can hear exactly what he had to say about what he plans to do
00:16:04.220 to fight back against the Americans. 0.87
00:16:06.020 Tomorrow, President Trump's tariffs against Canada go into effect.
00:16:11.520 And I'm just so disappointed in him.
00:16:13.820 We need to maximize our points of leverage and use them for maximum impact.
00:16:19.080 Tomorrow, the LCBO, which sells nearly a billion dollars worth of American beer, wine, spirits
00:16:25.740 and seltzers every year, will remove all U.S. products from its shelves and wholesale catalog.
00:16:33.960 Starting today and until U.S. tariffs are removed, Ontario was banning American companies
00:16:40.600 from provincial contracts.
00:16:42.800 They only have President Trump to blame.
00:16:45.500 We've gone one step further.
00:16:46.940 We'll be ripping up our contract with Elon Musk's Starlink.
00:16:51.700 Ontario won't do business with people hell-bent on destroying our economy.
00:16:57.100 Yeah, this is where he announces that they're...
00:17:00.140 Like, I don't want to make fun of the gentleman behind them, behind Ford, because I don't know
00:17:03.400 who they are.
00:17:04.380 But this looks like a dodgeball team of the incompetent.
00:17:07.920 Like, you got Doug Ford.
00:17:09.980 I don't know what the jerseys are about, but, you know, I'm presumably celebrating something
00:17:12.800 good.
00:17:14.260 When I talk about stupid, and you know, like, in battle, sometimes, in arguments, you sometimes
00:17:19.700 say things that you can't take back after the argument is over.
00:17:22.580 This argument is over because Canada buckled, I should say buckled, they caved, they did what
00:17:27.700 they needed to do, they should have done from the beginning.
00:17:29.480 They did it a day or two too late.
00:17:31.440 But when Doug Ford comes out and says, yeah, you know, not only are we going to impose tariffs,
00:17:36.880 whatever, we're going to ban Starlink from operating in Ontario?
00:17:40.580 I mean, first of all, you don't get to take that back after the fact and say, oh, sorry,
00:17:44.300 I was just negotiating.
00:17:45.560 Ha ha, wink, wink, nudge, Elon.
00:17:47.500 Who the hell does Doug Ford think he's punishing?
00:17:50.640 Is he punishing Starlink and Tesla, sorry, Tesla, Elon Musk, by denying it the market of
00:17:56.360 Northern Ontario?
00:17:57.320 No.
00:17:58.060 Doug Ford, I've been using the word idiot a lot.
00:18:00.020 He's ill-informed and short-sighted, I should say, is only penalizing people living in rural
00:18:06.100 areas of Ontario that need Starlink to get the internet.
00:18:09.000 So congratulations.
00:18:09.800 Oh, we'll find an alternative.
00:18:12.460 We'll go to China.
00:18:13.380 We'll ask Hawaii for a few more towers up north.
00:18:15.960 And some might say that looks like it was the end goal all along.
00:18:19.280 It's not Trump trying to renegotiate NAFTA.
00:18:21.180 It looks like it's Canada trying to cozy up to China, which creates an even greater national 0.97
00:18:25.080 security threat for America.
00:18:26.480 But it's bottom line.
00:18:27.360 It's stupid negotiation.
00:18:29.080 And now that the deal is sort of done and Trudeau has recognized a problem, what does
00:18:33.360 Doug Ford do?
00:18:34.020 Walk that back?
00:18:34.860 Sorry, Elon.
00:18:35.900 No harm, no foul.
00:18:37.860 Yeah, exactly.
00:18:38.760 Now, Doug Ford, he said he wanted to cancel that contract with Starlink.
00:18:41.660 I believe he said that decision is now on pause amid the tariffs.
00:18:44.980 Meanwhile, there's 15,000 rural Ontario homes that are waiting for internet that just, I guess,
00:18:51.740 have to continue waiting.
00:18:52.600 And I have to ask, you know, Doug Ford came out with this big, strong show saying we're
00:18:56.620 not going to be doing business with American companies.
00:18:58.740 No more American contracts are allowed here in the province.
00:19:01.600 Like, it feels a little bit like communism to me.
00:19:03.640 I think that should be the decision of the business owners to decide for themselves.
00:19:07.220 And, you know, even the not having purchased for American alcohol, like American alcohol
00:19:11.320 is taken on the shelves.
00:19:12.160 Like, you know, Ontarians and Canadians can decide on their own how they want to respond
00:19:15.360 to this stuff.
00:19:15.920 If they don't want to buy American anymore, I mean, okay, fair enough, but it does feel
00:19:20.020 a little bit misguided.
00:19:21.440 And so it was a very childish response.
00:19:22.820 But I have to ask, you know, we saw Chrystia Freeland also target Tesla.
00:19:26.500 Sure, they're saying that they want to target and punish American companies.
00:19:29.320 But do you think that what they're actually looking to do is to punish Elon Musk because
00:19:34.200 he is a part of the Trump administration?
00:19:36.500 There's no question.
00:19:37.480 But they are so they are such a bunch of filthy hypocrites that they say they love the
00:19:42.480 environment, but they hate Donald Trump more.
00:19:44.700 And so how are we going to show our love for the environment and green energy?
00:19:47.640 We're going to impose 100% tariff on Teslas.
00:19:50.400 I mean, the amazing thing is you apply this mutatis mutatis to the COVID response, to the
00:19:57.260 Russian sanctions, taking Russian vodka off the shelves of Canadian liquor stores.
00:20:02.760 I mean, it's how you brainwash the masses.
00:20:05.260 And that's all that they're trying to do.
00:20:07.100 But I mean, it is just it's a government.
00:20:11.480 And I would say they are not trying to just penalize America.
00:20:14.920 It's like they're trying to rationalize and justify their continued ongoing relationship
00:20:18.960 with China.
00:20:19.700 And when you appreciate the amount of business that China, the Chinese Communist Party is
00:20:25.920 doing in Canada, buying up minerals, buying up energy sources, having their towers there,
00:20:31.180 despite the security concerns.
00:20:32.620 And what does the Canadian government decide to do?
00:20:36.000 Pick a fight with its most reliable trade partner, its geographic neighbor, and one that
00:20:42.340 provides its own national security.
00:20:45.780 Some might say it's almost by design.
00:20:47.620 But if you were trying to do it and make it look like they're trying to make it look like
00:20:51.980 it's transformed, you do nothing different.
00:20:54.040 But no, they want to go green.
00:20:56.140 They want to cripple the West in terms of energy production.
00:20:59.620 And then they want to impose a 100% tariff on Teslas, which sort of limits the possibilities
00:21:04.740 of what type of electric vehicles they're going to be able to bring in and what trade partners
00:21:08.900 are going to benefit from that decision to boycott America.
00:21:11.560 Mind you, wasn't it just like a few years ago that people who bought Teslas were eligible
00:21:16.260 for like a massive $20,000 rebate?
00:21:19.040 I think it was like, I don't know what it was because I, you know, but it was like 8,000.
00:21:23.260 I thought it was 8,000, but it was several thousand dollar rebate because they wanted
00:21:26.280 to promote green energy.
00:21:27.760 But it's just, it doesn't cause you to look at Chrystia Freeland and understand that she's
00:21:32.840 an ideological traitor, but also something of an ideological terrorist in terms of you agree
00:21:38.220 with me, or we will actually destroy the earth in response to disagreeing over politics.
00:21:44.180 That's what she's doing.
00:21:45.680 That's what she's saying.
00:21:46.820 And we will ally ourselves further with the Chinese Communist Party because Trump is even
00:21:52.540 worse than the Chinese communists.
00:21:54.280 I mean, once you understand it, you'll understand what type of government we're dealing with.
00:21:59.020 And I've been giving Pierre Poiliev a bit of a hard time because he needs to be better
00:22:03.240 in terms of dealing with this and not playing along to the same game.
00:22:08.240 But I think he does it because he looks at the Canadian public and says, this is, this
00:22:11.660 seems to be what they're digesting.
00:22:12.860 So I'll give them a little bit and then I'll, you know, and then I'll give a little bit
00:22:16.040 back in terms of the politics to Justin Trudeau.
00:22:18.360 But it's, it's pervasive throughout the Canadian government.
00:22:22.020 And, and I, you know, they, Pierre and the conservatives or the so-called capital C conservatives
00:22:26.260 have to have their feet held to the fire a little bit to not just play along with
00:22:29.640 this game, which is descending further into the hole, but just slower than with, uh,
00:22:34.420 Chrystia Freeland, uh, destroying Canada for the benefit of Ukraine and Justin Trudeau
00:22:38.320 destroying Canada for the benefit of China. 0.99
00:22:40.920 So you've mentioned Pierre Poiliev a few times now.
00:22:43.320 You've taken issue with the way that he responded to the threat of tariffs.
00:22:47.920 Can you explain a little bit, you know, what did you think that he did wrong?
00:22:50.540 What would you rather have seen him do?
00:22:52.340 I, I mean, I put out a tweet and I said, all he had to do was say, we will diligently work
00:22:57.640 with the Trump, with the Trump administration to secure our border, period.
00:23:00.480 And it's, it would be politically and ideologically consistent because he's been complaining
00:23:05.440 about, uh, Trudeau's immigration policies.
00:23:08.440 He's been complaining about the, the, the fentanyl crisis in Canada.
00:23:11.740 He's been complaining about the illegal drug trade in Canada and the decriminalizing of
00:23:15.680 drugs in Canada.
00:23:16.580 So he's complaining about a problem that he then turns around and says Trump is unjustified
00:23:20.920 imposing these tariffs.
00:23:22.300 It's politically inconsistent.
00:23:24.300 In fact, all he would have had to have done was nothing would have been better than what
00:23:27.520 he did do, but what he, all he had to do from a political savvy point was to say, we will
00:23:32.980 diligently work with the Trump administration to protect the border and to prevent the flow
00:23:37.500 of fentanyl into America.
00:23:38.440 The, the, the American argument to that, or at least the counter argument to that is very
00:23:42.220 little fentanyl actually crosses the border from Canada into America compared to, from
00:23:46.180 the South into America.
00:23:47.080 They say it's like 1%, whatever it's 1% too much.
00:23:50.760 Uh, so, and you don't have to tolerate any.
00:23:53.360 Um, so all, all Pierre had to say was, we'll work diligently with the Trump campaign and
00:23:58.120 Justin Trudeau pro end this proroguing of parliament, get back into this business so
00:24:02.120 that we can fix this.
00:24:03.140 And then he, you, some people call it suck up.
00:24:06.120 Other people will just say strategically aligns with Trump and uses it as a political cudgel
00:24:10.360 against, uh, the liberal administration and, and the, uh, the NDP.
00:24:14.000 But, you know, he, he tried to please both sides and in doing so, I think you piss off
00:24:18.380 everybody.
00:24:18.760 He's like, Oh, this is an unjustified and unjustifiable tariff.
00:24:21.420 No, it's not.
00:24:22.200 Uh, and if, and if you think it is play politics a little different, and then he puts out a
00:24:26.220 seven minute video showing how lamentable the Canadian economy is, how stupid Canadian, 0.95
00:24:31.240 uh, internal policy is, which ironically enough shows how, uh, devastating a tariff war with
00:24:38.100 America would be for the Canadian economy and the Canadian people.
00:24:41.000 In contrast to Pierre Polyev who, you know, admittedly did seem to have a bit of an unforced
00:24:47.060 error there.
00:24:47.540 He's usually quite slow and measured in his response.
00:24:49.760 He did take a while to respond.
00:24:51.080 And when he did, I think what he said surprised a lot of us.
00:24:53.720 Now, in contrast to that, we have here in Alberta, our premier, Daniel Smith, who I know a lot
00:24:57.620 of conservatives have felt very favorably towards the way that she's handled this response.
00:25:01.980 She's gone on to Mar-a-Lago.
00:25:03.320 She went to the inauguration.
00:25:04.820 She, she moved up some spending that they had planned to secure the border to show Trump that
00:25:09.800 she's willing to work with him.
00:25:11.280 And over the weekend when every other premier was panicking about tariffs and trying to,
00:25:14.940 you know, retaliate against the Americans, she was pretty quiet.
00:25:18.440 She said that she was disappointed in them, but you didn't see her freaking out and making
00:25:21.560 these sort of panic decisions.
00:25:22.960 You know, I feel like she came out the winner in this.
00:25:25.520 What are your thoughts?
00:25:26.520 Absolutely.
00:25:27.520 In fact, some are hypothesizing, uh, that the only reason it took Trump or that it was
00:25:31.020 delayed this long to impose the tariffs or to threat, to make the threat of tariffs was
00:25:35.580 because of Danielle Smith's politicking. 1.00
00:25:37.280 I don't always agree with her and there's some stuff that I've, I've needled her, uh,
00:25:40.240 on Twitter for it was objectively the proper response.
00:25:43.160 And to say that you're disappointed, uh, is not necessarily a jab at Trump.
00:25:47.840 Uh, sometimes you're just disappointed that things need to be done because of the state,
00:25:51.540 uh, you know, the current state of affairs.
00:25:53.140 So the disappointment is not necessarily in Trump's decision, but rather the fact that Trump
00:25:57.360 needs to make that decision, or at least that he's, you know, claiming that he needs
00:26:00.480 to make that decision.
00:26:01.320 So it was the only proper response.
00:26:03.880 It was arguably the reason why the threat of tariffs came a little bit delayed since
00:26:07.840 Trump took office.
00:26:08.480 But I mean, he's only been in office for two weeks now and it's a different world.
00:26:12.380 Uh, no, her, her response was clearly the right response because she's not interested 0.97
00:26:17.020 in creating crises to manage Doug Ford.
00:26:20.200 It's the easiest distraction from your current failed policy to create further, uh, uh, you
00:26:26.760 know, devastation that you need to manage.
00:26:28.800 The reality is that Ontario and the Canadian economy as a whole is in dire straits.
00:26:33.520 Uh, there are so many things in Canada that are broken now politically that the easiest
00:26:36.960 way to ignore them is to create another crisis to manage so that you don't have to look at,
00:26:40.940 uh, the healthcare system.
00:26:42.100 So that you don't have to look at, uh, medical assistance in dying now being like top five
00:26:45.860 killers in Canada.
00:26:46.660 Uh, so that you no longer have to look at the fact that you've got millions upon millions
00:26:50.340 of, uh, student visas who are defaulting on them, uh, not going to leave the country
00:26:55.000 voluntarily and that you've got political turmoil pretty much in every big city, rising
00:26:59.380 crime in every big city.
00:27:00.600 So manufacture a trade war with Trump so that you don't have to manage or address any of
00:27:04.560 these, uh, government created problems.
00:27:07.140 Well, it's a very astute point and you'd have to say, you know, like looking at it,
00:27:11.000 I would say that manufacturing this crisis is working because as I've said, it seems to
00:27:14.640 be the only thing people are talking about.
00:27:17.100 I know people who are not interested in politics at all.
00:27:19.360 They are even discussing it.
00:27:20.740 And now because the threat of tariffs is still hanging over us, it looks like we're going to be
00:27:24.160 talking about it for at least another month.
00:27:26.820 Viva.
00:27:27.820 Thank you so much for insight today.
00:27:28.820 I really appreciate it.
00:27:29.820 My pleasure.
00:27:30.820 Thank you for having me.
00:27:31.820 All right, everyone.
00:27:32.820 That was Viva Frey, Canadian YouTuber.
00:27:34.820 That is all we have time for today.
00:27:35.820 I'll be back with more content tomorrow, but let me know what you guys would like to hear
00:27:39.400 about.
00:27:40.400 As I said, we've been covering tariffs a lot.
00:27:41.400 We'll probably do a few more shows on them, but you guys might need a reprieve from discussing
00:27:45.560 this and want to hear about something else.
00:27:47.200 So let me know in the comment section below, be sure to take a look at those and consider
00:27:51.100 your ideas.
00:27:52.100 I hope that you guys have a great rest of your day.
00:27:54.100 I'll see you tomorrow.
00:27:55.100 God bless.
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