Juno News - Trudeau’s disastrous policies are BLOWING up in our faces

00:00:00.000 I think that Canada needs to be more action oriented. So the Trump administration has made

00:00:05.340 it quite clear. So the other day we had Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnig, and he was

00:00:11.660 speaking to a U.S. Senate hearing. He made it pretty clear what the Americans are planning to

00:00:18.040 do. So he says here that there's going to be basically a two-phase implementation of the

00:00:24.060 tariffs. They're going to have an emergency action that will be implemented as early as Feb 1,

00:00:29.040 which is this Saturday. And the purpose of that is to mitigate the fentanyl crisis and to stop the

00:00:34.560 flow of deadly drugs into the United States. And then they said that they're also looking to study

00:00:39.100 and implement something on Feb 1, or sorry, on April 1st. This was what the executive order on day one

00:00:44.840 of Trump's administration focused on, which is, you know, we're going to study something and see if we

00:00:49.320 can come up with a better tax policy and tariff policy. So that's phase two. Let's play this clip.

00:00:54.060 We have this clip of Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnig. The big tariff view is going to

00:01:01.580 be studied, and the president launched that in an executive order where he asked the Commerce

00:01:07.020 Department and the USTR to study the tariff model long-term. The short-term issue is illegal migration

00:01:15.900 and worse, even still, fentanyl coming into this country and killing over 100,000 Americans.

00:01:22.220 There's no war we could have that would kill 100,000 Americans. The president is focused on ending

00:01:29.140 fentanyl coming into the country. You know that the labs in Canada are run by Mexican cartels. So

00:01:37.320 this tariff model is simply to shut their borders with respect. Respect America. If we are your biggest

00:01:44.760 trading partner, show us the respect. Shut your border and end fentanyl coming into this country. So

00:01:50.760 it is not a tariff per se. It is an action of domestic policy. Shut your border and stop allowing fentanyl

00:01:59.640 into our country, killing our people. So this is a separate tariff to create action from Mexico and 0.82

00:02:08.360 action from Canada. And as far as I know, they are acting swiftly. And if they execute it, there will

00:02:14.440 be no tariff. And if they don't, then there will be. But it's an action-oriented model. That's not

00:02:20.600 the ordinary tariff. The ordinary tariffs need to be studied and examined. And that would start,

00:02:26.520 as the EO said in April. So we're talking about two tariffs here. And he says that if there's swift

00:02:33.320 action, we won't bring in the tariff on Feb 1. So in that regard, what Danielle Smith is saying is

00:02:39.560 absolutely right. That we need to take swift action here. We need to show the Americans that

00:02:43.400 we're serious. We don't want fentanyl in our country either. We don't want terrorists in our country

00:02:47.720 either. You know, we have, what, three days here, gentlemen, to try to avoid, you know, economy

00:02:54.440 crushing tariffs here. What do you think we can do?

00:03:00.120 Well, I think one thing that is worth noting as well is the border issue goes both ways. Now,

00:03:06.840 I am on the idea that, yes, something definitely needs to be done on that front. But, you know,

00:03:14.040 we just saw as well the big cocaine bust that happened in Toronto there with the $83 million

00:03:19.320 worth of cocaine being seized. Was it more?

00:03:25.000 Oops, we can't hear you there, Jonathan.

00:03:28.360 Go ahead. So with that, either way, things are going both directions. Even a lot of the illegal

00:03:36.360 firearms that are in Canada, it was the Peel Regional Police said 90% of the illegal firearms

00:03:42.840 they come into contact with are come from America. And the other 10%, they just don't know because the

00:03:48.840 serial numbers are scrubbed. However, they also believe those come from America as well. So I am

00:03:55.960 of the mind that Danielle Smith has the right approach, which is a diplomatic approach and going,

00:04:00.760 hey, you know, this border issue goes both ways. And maybe we need to stop. Well, both governments have

00:04:07.320 facilitated the open border policies for the last four or five years. And so we need to first deal

00:04:14.680 with that issue that those policies have created. But that's going to take a team approach, not

00:04:19.880 necessarily just America pretending like there's nothing on their end, and that it's all coming from

00:04:25.720 Canada south. It's going both ways, for sure.

00:04:31.560 Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, obviously, we're on the same page there. But in terms of like,

00:04:35.240 what can we do in the next few days, I'm of the opinion, we're sort of set up for failure here,

00:04:39.240 because government moves slow. It's what it is, like we have increased the size of government,

00:04:43.320 direct federal workforce under Trudeau by 42%. But this country hasn't gotten any better,

00:04:48.680 nothing's moved lower, not more efficient, we're actually just burning more, more, more money.

00:04:53.480 So when you look at an issue like this, that, you know, agreed team approach, and it's going to be,

00:04:57.480 it's, it's, it's, it's, it's complex. It's not just, I agree with the idea of a border czar,

00:05:02.440 obviously, if it's going to be liberal, I think there's going to be some, some, some issues there.

00:05:07.320 But that's only one step, right? These people are looking for a solution to stop this thing,

00:05:11.560 which is all the fentanyl trafficking and the illegal migration. We can't, we can't do that

00:05:15.960 in three days, we can't turn that tap off or on that quickly, because our government doesn't really

00:05:19.880 have a handle on these things. So unfortunately, I think whatever our best efforts are going to fall

00:05:26.360 short, no matter what. And I do think we have sort of a foundational issue here, because

00:05:31.960 our liberal government, our federal government is trying to go to war with, with Trump over this,

00:05:35.480 and it's an unwinnable tariff war, very much bigger player, there's no chance. So I think

00:05:40.840 that their perception of the whole thing is still off. Like, I think 10%, 20% of their effort,

00:05:45.960 like in not about mobilization, but just in terms of how they're politicking, 20% of the politicking

00:05:51.720 effort is towards the border and the fentanyl and the other 80% is about managing these tariffs

00:05:56.360 and this tariff war. I think they're, I think they're just, I think their efforts are going

00:06:00.120 in the wrong direction in a lot of ways for something that's very complex and will take

00:06:03.000 more than, well, three days to solve. So I think we're, I think we're between a rock and a hard

00:06:07.160 place here, to be honest with you. Well, and I just, sorry, I just want to add one perspective

00:06:11.000 there as well, is that you've got Doug Ford and Trudeau both claiming that they're ready to

00:06:17.080 put forward pandemic style spending of stimulus in order to save the economy, right? Well,

00:06:22.200 okay, to, to Jonathan's point about it being 20% of the focus being on the border, I'd say it's

00:06:27.800 almost even less than that, because if they put 1.4 billion towards the border security, and then on

00:06:36.680 the other aspect, they're talking about 10s of billions into stimulus spending. So they're saying,

00:06:41.960 right, this is what we're willing to a lot for a trade war. This is what we're willing to a lot

00:06:47.160 for the actual problem.

Juno News - January 31, 2025

Trudeau’s disastrous policies are BLOWING up in our faces

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