Juno News - Trump TORCHES Carney over WEF speech

00:00:00.000 Well, President Trump took a shot at Canada's Prime Minister over Mark Carney's comments to

00:00:09.800 the World Economic Forum yesterday. Trump said Canada has not been very grateful to America

00:00:16.720 for defending its northern neighbor. He says Canada only exists because of the United States.

00:00:22.820 We're building a golden dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending

00:00:31.180 Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also,

00:00:36.920 but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful. But they

00:00:42.380 should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark,

00:00:49.100 the next time you make your statements. A day earlier, Carney blamed what he called

00:00:54.080 the great powers for using their economic clout to bully smaller nations like Canada.

00:01:00.000 Carney didn't refer specifically to the United States and China, but his comments

00:01:03.680 were clearly directed at them. Today, Trump said Denmark has failed to provide security for

00:01:10.240 Greenland, and so it's up to America to do it. It's the United States alone that can protect this

00:01:16.960 giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that

00:01:23.860 it's good for Europe and safe for Europe and good for us. And that's the reason I'm seeking

00:01:28.680 immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States,

00:01:34.940 just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history, as many of the European

00:01:40.720 nations have. They've acquired. There's nothing wrong with it. Many of them. Some went in reverse,

00:01:46.360 actually. If you look, some had great vast wealth, great vast lands all over the world.

00:01:53.340 They went in reverse. They stuck back where they started. That happens too. But some grow.

00:02:00.840 But this would not be a threat to NATO. This would greatly enhance the security of the entire

00:02:07.540 alliance, the NATO alliance. George Ann Burke will be our guest today. She'll be joining us shortly with

00:02:12.640 her take on Trump's speech. Now, former Liberal Cabinet Minister Chrystia Freeland denies that

00:02:18.500 while sitting as an MP, he was also working for Ukraine, engineering a foreign aid package to that

00:02:25.220 country. That would be a clear conflict of interest, she told Rebel News. It was the Prime Minister's

00:02:31.080 decision to hand over two and a half billion dollars in aid to Ukraine.

00:02:35.760 I disclosed it to the ethics commissioner immediately.

00:02:39.640 Are you sure about that? Because you didn't tell the Prime Minister for two days.

00:02:42.940 I told the Prime Minister as soon as I spoke to him, as soon as I could speak to him.

00:02:47.420 Why did you keep it secret from the public, though, until the president of Ukraine tweeted it out?

00:02:52.440 It wasn't finalized.

00:02:53.620 Are you sure it wasn't because you guys were shipping two and a half billion dollars out and

00:02:58.900 it would be odd to have you on both sides of the deal?

00:03:03.020 That was a decision of the Prime Minister. And let me just say, I think Canada should be proud

00:03:10.280 to support Ukraine. And...

00:03:14.160 I don't think that's the question. You were on both sides of the deal, is the question.

00:03:17.420 I wasn't on both sides of the deal. I actually wasn't at that meeting with the Prime Minister.

00:03:21.000 But in any event, let me be very clear. Ukraine is fighting for Canada's security.

00:03:30.100 Now, Freeland had nothing to say about the appeals court ruling finding the government's use of

00:03:35.320 emergency powers to end the trucker protest unconstitutional. Shoe, of course, was a big 0.81

00:03:40.400 part of that. Now, the union representing thousands of auto workers in Canada is ripping plans to import

00:03:46.540 Chinese electric vehicles. Lana Payne, president of Unifor, says too many auto workers sell their

00:03:53.200 cars in Canada without building anything here.

00:03:57.460 Automakers that build and assemble vehicles and support jobs in Canada should be rewarded as long

00:04:04.720 as they live up to their commitments to the workers of Canada. But the free ride has to end for companies

00:04:11.960 that enjoy full access to our markets while investing nothing in Canadian production.

00:04:19.660 Today, more than 40% of the cars and trucks sold in Canada are made by automakers with zero,

00:04:27.700 absolutely zero manufacturing footprint here. That is not sustainable. The China deal just made that

00:04:37.640 situation worse. Any credible federal auto policy must come down to a simple rule. If you want to sell

00:04:48.280 vehicles in Canada, you need to build in Canada and employ Canadian workers. This is our message 1.00

00:04:58.160 as a union. Now, Premier Ford, who was also on hand there, also took a shot at Prime Minister Carney's

00:05:04.400 agreement with China on EVs. Let's listen. And if the Chinese are serious about making investments

00:05:10.340 and creating auto jobs here in Canada, then show us proof. Canadian auto workers can't feed their

00:05:18.000 families with hypothetical commitments about investments that might happen five years

00:05:24.080 or a decade from now. They need concrete investments that will create jobs now and support Canadian

00:05:31.960 workers and their families. And we are joined by George Ann Burke, who is a communications expert

00:05:37.560 and a political strategist with Pathway Group. Welcome once again, George Ann.

00:05:41.780 Thanks, Mark.

00:05:43.060 You heard the speech by President Trump.

00:05:45.340 I did.

00:05:45.720 What's your take on it? What do you think?

00:05:48.240 Well, I think he said he didn't say anything that surprised me, to be very honest with you.

00:05:53.600 He said he wasn't going to attack Greenland. I know some people were surprised. I was not.

00:05:58.260 That was never his intention to, you know, bring the military into Greenland. He might have jokingly

00:06:03.980 said something like that, but he would not do that. He did point out, I thought it was very

00:06:08.060 interesting. He gave them a bit of a history lesson in two areas. One, that the United States

00:06:13.100 has been purchasing land since its inception. It would not be as big a country as it is if they

00:06:19.600 hadn't bought land, the Louisiana Purchase and from Mexico and this one and that one and

00:06:23.900 Alaska. Okay. So we know that's not an unusual thing. And the second thing is that apparently

00:06:30.300 there were several presidents, not just the one that they keep quoting and keep talking about

00:06:35.840 or the purchases they keep talking about, but several attempts to purchase Greenland. And at one

00:06:42.660 time, Greenland was under the United States supervision. I want to say during World War II

00:06:48.460 and maybe somewhat before. And the U.S. returned it to Denmark or, you know, released, relinquished

00:06:56.100 control. So this is not new news. And everybody's, that's because nobody knows history. So they all

00:07:02.900 freak out. Maybe they should read their history before they open their mouths and understand where

00:07:07.820 he's coming from. He actually does know the history of the United States vis-a-vis Greenland. He also

00:07:13.800 knows the history of the United States vis-a-vis land purchases. And this is not weird. It's only weird

00:07:19.840 if you don't understand how the country's worked almost since the day it was born.

00:07:23.680 And there was a jab taken at Prime Minister Carney following his speech yesterday, suggesting that

00:07:31.540 Canada has not been very grateful. And that certainly came out. That lack of gratitude came

00:07:36.640 out in his speech yesterday, in Carney's speech yesterday, in which he really attacked what I

00:07:42.380 believe was both China and the United States by calling them the great powers. This is an old term.

00:07:47.720 It used to be the great powers were Britain and France. Right. 0.71

00:07:50.580 Now I guess he's talking about China and the United States and these countries using their

00:07:56.440 economic clout to bully middle powers like Canada and smaller nations who really, you know,

00:08:03.740 can't compete with those nations. What did you make of that?

00:08:08.140 Well, I don't know if I actually would have used the word grateful. I mean, I know he's very annoyed

00:08:15.640 with the way that Carney has spoken and the way he's behaved and even is more annoyed at Doug Ford

00:08:21.220 for the way he's behaved and how he's interfered in international at his US to Canada issues. He's not

00:08:28.280 the prime minister of the country. He's a premier of a province. So I know he's annoyed at that, but

00:08:32.980 it isn't really about gratitude. It's very short sighted. You have, I don't, someone keeps pointing out to me

00:08:41.260 and I'm like, you know, you're right. China's 11,000 kilometers away from Canada. Qatar is about 0.92

00:08:49.120 like a huge distance, not that different in the other direction from Canada. Who's he going and

00:08:54.700 making deals with? People across oceans away from Canada to do business with. When just across 0.94

00:09:03.040 an imaginary border, you know, a line on a map is the United States, the single largest

00:09:09.640 business partner Canada has ever had in its history. Why would you purposely try to annoy

00:09:16.560 and aggravate and poke at the president of the United States? You don't have to like him,

00:09:21.960 like him, not like him. I mean, whatever. But you have to do business with the United States.

00:09:26.800 I remind people that, yes, we do export things from Canada to the US, mostly things like natural

00:09:34.460 resources. The automobiles that we export to the US are by the good graces of the US auto industry,

00:09:39.980 which by the way, is apparently not going to be so much anymore. But the truth is that Canada

00:09:47.380 imports a lot more US stuff than they export in terms of quantity and types of things,

00:09:55.200 because Canada doesn't really manufacture anything. Canada doesn't really produce anything.

00:10:00.960 I'm going to wait to see what the shelves look like in the stores if he keeps this up.

00:10:06.580 People are not going to be able to buy their favorite US products, whatever they are,

00:10:10.960 if they continue, if he continues to harass and poke at and treat with disrespect the president of

00:10:18.140 the United States. Like I said, he doesn't have to like him. Donald Trump doesn't care if he loves

00:10:23.280 him or doesn't love him. He just wants to do business. If he wants to make a deal and he wants

00:10:28.200 to sit down and be a normal human being and have a discussion, fine. If he doesn't, okay, then you're

00:10:34.480 going to get the other Donald Trump, the guy that people don't like, because he will do what's best

00:10:39.480 for the United States. And that might not be what's best for Canada.

00:10:43.100 Yeah, well, we're different countries.

00:10:44.580 I've often stated that I wish we had somebody in charge of Canada that was really looking after

00:10:51.600 our interests rather than globalist interests or somebody else's interests or Brookfield's

00:10:56.900 interests. But it just seems like we're last on the list in terms of the priorities of some of

00:11:01.560 our politicians. One of the things that Trump did talk about was the success in his view of these

00:11:07.240 tariffs, because so many of these automakers and other manufacturers now moving their plants

00:11:12.140 to the United States, opening up new plants, building new plants. It's going to just lead

00:11:18.080 to an explosion in the number of people working in these fields. It's great to see somebody

00:11:22.780 encouraging manufacturing in the United States, unlike there's been in that country for quite

00:11:28.500 some time. He also mentioned that it's kind of coming at Canada's expense. He was talking

00:11:32.780 about Canada amongst the nations in which automakers are deciding to move their operations.

00:11:38.000 Maybe that's one of the reasons why so many are concerned in Canada. But, you know, if I want

00:11:44.380 to extend this over to China and the EVs, I mean, in a way, Doug Ford is saying the same thing. He's

00:11:49.920 saying if you're going to sell vehicles to Canada, well, have some kind of a manufacturing footprint in

00:11:56.480 this country. To me, that's not much different than what Trump is talking about. What do you think?

00:12:01.000 I agree. And I think that he's correct. And as I said to you a little bit earlier, put this on your

00:12:07.580 calendar. I said Doug Ford's right. He's the job of our elected officials in Canada is to put Canada

00:12:16.200 first on everything. And that means even when you're doing business with another country, your primary

00:12:22.740 concern will be how is this going to affect Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, you know, whatever,

00:12:28.600 all the provinces, how is it going to, how are they going to be affected? How are the working people in my

00:12:33.420 country going to benefit from whatever it is I'm doing? Okay. This is not the way, it's clear to me that

00:12:41.480 this is not how Mark Carney thinks. Mark Carney, I think, has a long and well-deserved reputation as a

00:12:48.200 globalist. He is not interested in Canada as a sovereign entity, no matter, even if he uses those words, his actions

00:12:55.960 belie that. And I think that people are beginning to see it and they're concerned about it. Ford was

00:13:04.360 rightfully angry. He's having enough problems with the EV business. As you know, the US moving

00:13:11.640 Stellantis, you know, back into the US that, that was a big blow. And now importing Chinese EVs with

00:13:19.080 no payback to the Ontario auto industry, the EV industry, which he was trying to build in Ontario,

00:13:26.360 I'd be pretty mad too. So I guess maybe all of his sucking up to him that he did and all of the

00:13:33.640 nasty stuff that went on during the last election against the conservative candidate and, and the

00:13:39.160 love affair, the bromance that was going on between Carney and Ford, maybe it wasn't all worth it.

00:13:44.080 wasn't worth it at all because Carney, not really his friend. Well, apparently not. And now the union

00:13:51.360 representing thousands of auto workers in Canada Unifor also ripping into these plans to import Chinese

00:13:58.240 electric vehicles. We had a clip from Lana Payne, who's the president saying, you know, too many

00:14:03.680 automakers sell their cars in Canada without building anything here. Again, reflecting some of the

00:14:10.400 statements that we've heard from Ford. I just don't know if Canada has the environment, the economic

00:14:16.480 environment where people want to operate here. This is a part of the big problem. We have carbon taxes.

00:14:21.840 We have a ton of red tape in this country. I mean, yes, we've got good skilled workers, but our labor

00:14:28.320 costs are probably a lot higher than they are in a lot of nations. So we may want those manufacturing jobs

00:14:33.760 to stay in Canada, but I don't think the government, either the provincial government or the federal

00:14:39.200 government are doing a whole lot to make it attractive as a place to stay without, of course,

00:14:44.640 handing over billions of dollars in subsidies. So I think this is a big problem as far as auto

00:14:49.280 manufacturing is in Canada. What do you think? Yeah, I completely agree. I think that the

00:14:53.840 environment, the business environment and not don't restrict it to just the auto industry, because

00:14:58.080 I'm hearing this from, sorry, Mark, I'm hearing this from business people. That's, I had this set up

00:15:05.200 really high here. So I guess it wasn't, was too high. The business people all over Canada and every

00:15:13.360 industry are concerned because it's getting harder and harder to do business. And you can't attract

00:15:18.800 investment to Canada because the investment environment is terrible. The regulations, the red

00:15:24.160 tape, as you pointed out, the, the whole business environment is so negative right now. And when you

00:15:34.400 compare it, you know, to the U S that's doing everything in its power to get people to come in,

00:15:39.440 they're, they're, they're offering them all kinds of incentives. They're making it easier. They're

00:15:44.160 removing the barriers. They're, you know, lowering costs of doing business like energy costs, which is,

00:15:50.960 by the way, a huge factor in Ontario, energy costs are very high. So any business, which is an energy

00:15:57.600 intensive business is going to be looking not once or twice, but three or four times before they make

00:16:04.240 a decision. I think about the AI business, which uses a huge amount of energy. If they have to depend

00:16:11.360 on what we have here, I don't see how they move into this province and make it cost effective.

00:16:16.240 Um, the U S uh, Trump said, well, you know what, you can build your own energy facilities. We'll

00:16:22.800 help you with that. We'll support it. And that way you're not going to break the grid, which is,

00:16:28.800 you know, has its own problems, but you'll supply your own energy and we'll help you do that.

00:16:34.080 That's very smart. Um, we don't have that kind of thinking in Canada. Canadians generally tend to be 0.99

00:16:39.920 very risk averse and you have a government that is, has very narrow view of how you incentivize

00:16:47.840 people to do business. Um, I, you know, I'm, I'm down here in Florida living here now, but I'm very,

00:16:54.240 very worried for my friends in the business world in Canada. I feel bad for them because they're

00:16:59.520 struggling and they're trying to decide how do I stay in business? Some of them are saying they're

00:17:04.640 going to close down. Some of them are thinking, well, you know, I had to put a footprint somewhere

00:17:09.200 where I can make money. It's sometimes it's some other places in Canada. Sometimes it's not in

00:17:14.960 Canada at all. It's looking at other countries. And, um, if I were the prime minister, I'd be real

00:17:20.320 worried. Maybe he's not talking to real people. Maybe that's the problem. You talk to the people

00:17:25.280 at that, you've got a whole different view of the world. You know,

00:17:27.440 I want to ask you, I should have asked you this earlier when we're talking about

00:17:33.440 uh, Trump's speech in reference to Kearney and the lack of gratitude. Do you think Canadians in

00:17:39.360 general are not thankful to the United States that they really get it on the issue of defense? I mean,

00:17:45.280 we have saved billions of dollars over the years because we have, you know, Uncle Sam protecting us.

00:17:53.760 And I just don't think that people get it because they're so fixated on Trump

00:17:57.680 that they don't understand. Historically speaking, all of this is happening within the context of

00:18:02.800 America, providing defense for Canada and, uh, you know, saving us, as I said, billions over the

00:18:10.000 decades from spending it, uh, you know, as if we were say Australia or some other country. What do you

00:18:15.120 think? So, um, when we moved to Canada, you know, it's close to 40 years ago, my husband, who is a very

00:18:22.720 left-wing guy, but nonetheless, he's not an idiot, believe it or not, uh, said to me, I don't 0.94

00:18:27.440 understand why Canadians even bother to have an army. The U S is doing, if anything happens to the 0.92

00:18:33.200 U S Canada is protected because the U S is going to protect itself. And that means Canada is going

00:18:37.360 to be protected. And maybe somebody heard him because the Canadian governments, one after another,

00:18:42.400 with very few exceptions have ignored and, and, uh, and not taken care of the Canadian military

00:18:48.560 because they haven't had to, it's taken for granted that the U S will provide security for Canada.

00:18:55.360 Um, of course there's a problem these days and it's a big one. And it's related to the Greenland

00:18:59.760 question, which is the Arctic is now right in the sites of Russia and China, right in their sites.

00:19:08.160 They're there. They're physically there. They are moving in wherever they can. They want Greenland. 0.95

00:19:13.600 They'd like Northern, the Northern part of, you know, the Canadian Arctic. And we're not prepared

00:19:18.000 to defend that in Canada. I can tell you that is a fact that Canada is not prepared to defend the

00:19:23.920 Arctic. That is one of Trump's biggest issues with Canada. He's told them, he said to them,

00:19:31.760 security, you know, the drug problem, the border problem, um, and, and a couple of other things,

00:19:37.520 but the big one, the big, big one for him is the Canadian Arctic. And he couldn't get any,

00:19:43.920 any kind of confirmation or any agreement or any real commitment to doing, to making significant

00:19:50.000 changes in how we protect that Canadian Arctic region, which is extremely important to, um,

00:19:59.120 the security of North America and of the Western hemisphere in general. Um, so I think,

00:20:06.240 um, Canadians, yes, they do take it for granted. It, and it was easy to take it for granted before,

00:20:11.760 but now they really take it for granted because if he says we need Canada to be on our side with

00:20:17.920 security, they're going to say, oh no, because Donald Trump wants it. Everything Trump wants,

00:20:22.240 it doesn't matter what it is. They're against it. Someone said, uh, the other day, if he found the cure to

00:20:27.680 cancer, they would want more cancer. Um, and I, and I think that's very sad and it's, uh, but it's,

00:20:35.040 it's very narrow-minded. I just, uh, I, I just had a little to and fro with a friend of mine on

00:20:40.080 social media, very good friend, someone I love dearly, who is on the other side politically.

00:20:45.520 Um, and I said, like your, your Trump arrangement syndrome takes over everything you do. Did you

00:20:51.280 not listen to his speech? Did you not hear what he said? Cause he was talking about Greenland and he

00:20:56.320 was talking as if Trump was going to move the troops in tomorrow. And I'm like, didn't you hear

00:21:00.400 what he said? He said flat out. That's not the goal here. I want to come to an agreement with them.

00:21:06.480 And he does. Well, if it means that they walk away from Denmark and instead align themselves

00:21:11.920 with the U S that's their decision. Um, but he's going to try to talk them into it. That's what he

00:21:16.160 wants. Well, you want to be crazy about it. Go ahead and be crazy. But the fact is that they don't

00:21:21.920 actually understand the history. Like I said, at the beginning of this discussion, um, they're too busy

00:21:26.160 hating Trump to bother to actually research and find out why he's doing what he's doing.

00:21:30.960 And what he's doing, by the way, would be great for Canada. Greenland's security would be great

00:21:38.480 for Canada. And I don't know why they don't see it. Yeah. And we'll have to see what happens during

00:21:45.520 the midterms. You know, the Democrats, I'm sure spending all their time salivating over the prospect

00:21:50.400 of taking over the house or, and impeaching Trump. Uh, you know, you just shake your head at

00:21:56.080 what's coming, but maybe that's a discussion for another day. It is. It is for sure. It's a

00:22:00.880 discussion of its own. Thank you, George. And great to have you again. Great. Good to talk to you.

00:22:09.120 And that is it for this edition of straight up. Appreciate you tuning in my friends.

00:22:12.560 Let's do it again soon. Shall we? Bye-bye for now.

Juno News - January 21, 2026

Trump TORCHES Carney over WEF speech

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