Juno News - January 21, 2026Trump TORCHES Carney over WEF speech
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Trump says Canada has not been very grateful to the United States for defending its northern neighbor. Prime Minister Ford also takes a shot at Prime Minister Mark Carney for his comments at the World Economic Forum. And the union representing thousands of auto workers in Canada is ripping plans to import Chinese electric vehicles.
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Well, President Trump took a shot at Canada's Prime Minister over Mark Carney's comments to
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the World Economic Forum yesterday. Trump said Canada has not been very grateful to America
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for defending its northern neighbor. He says Canada only exists because of the United States.
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We're building a golden dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending
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Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also,
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but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful. But they
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should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark,
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the next time you make your statements. A day earlier, Carney blamed what he called
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the great powers for using their economic clout to bully smaller nations like Canada.
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Carney didn't refer specifically to the United States and China, but his comments
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were clearly directed at them. Today, Trump said Denmark has failed to provide security for
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Greenland, and so it's up to America to do it. It's the United States alone that can protect this
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giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that
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it's good for Europe and safe for Europe and good for us. And that's the reason I'm seeking
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immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States,
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just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history, as many of the European
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nations have. They've acquired. There's nothing wrong with it. Many of them. Some went in reverse,
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actually. If you look, some had great vast wealth, great vast lands all over the world.
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They went in reverse. They stuck back where they started. That happens too. But some grow.
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But this would not be a threat to NATO. This would greatly enhance the security of the entire
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alliance, the NATO alliance. George Ann Burke will be our guest today. She'll be joining us shortly with
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her take on Trump's speech. Now, former Liberal Cabinet Minister Chrystia Freeland denies that
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while sitting as an MP, he was also working for Ukraine, engineering a foreign aid package to that
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country. That would be a clear conflict of interest, she told Rebel News. It was the Prime Minister's
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decision to hand over two and a half billion dollars in aid to Ukraine.
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I disclosed it to the ethics commissioner immediately.
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Are you sure about that? Because you didn't tell the Prime Minister for two days.
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I told the Prime Minister as soon as I spoke to him, as soon as I could speak to him.
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Why did you keep it secret from the public, though, until the president of Ukraine tweeted it out?
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Are you sure it wasn't because you guys were shipping two and a half billion dollars out and
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it would be odd to have you on both sides of the deal?
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That was a decision of the Prime Minister. And let me just say, I think Canada should be proud
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I don't think that's the question. You were on both sides of the deal, is the question.
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I wasn't on both sides of the deal. I actually wasn't at that meeting with the Prime Minister.
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But in any event, let me be very clear. Ukraine is fighting for Canada's security.
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Now, Freeland had nothing to say about the appeals court ruling finding the government's use of
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emergency powers to end the trucker protest unconstitutional. Shoe, of course, was a big
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part of that. Now, the union representing thousands of auto workers in Canada is ripping plans to import
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Chinese electric vehicles. Lana Payne, president of Unifor, says too many auto workers sell their
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Automakers that build and assemble vehicles and support jobs in Canada should be rewarded as long
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as they live up to their commitments to the workers of Canada. But the free ride has to end for companies
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that enjoy full access to our markets while investing nothing in Canadian production.
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Today, more than 40% of the cars and trucks sold in Canada are made by automakers with zero,
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absolutely zero manufacturing footprint here. That is not sustainable. The China deal just made that
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situation worse. Any credible federal auto policy must come down to a simple rule. If you want to sell
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vehicles in Canada, you need to build in Canada and employ Canadian workers. This is our message
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as a union. Now, Premier Ford, who was also on hand there, also took a shot at Prime Minister Carney's
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agreement with China on EVs. Let's listen. And if the Chinese are serious about making investments
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and creating auto jobs here in Canada, then show us proof. Canadian auto workers can't feed their
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families with hypothetical commitments about investments that might happen five years
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or a decade from now. They need concrete investments that will create jobs now and support Canadian
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workers and their families. And we are joined by George Ann Burke, who is a communications expert
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and a political strategist with Pathway Group. Welcome once again, George Ann.
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Well, I think he said he didn't say anything that surprised me, to be very honest with you.
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He said he wasn't going to attack Greenland. I know some people were surprised. I was not.
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That was never his intention to, you know, bring the military into Greenland. He might have jokingly
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said something like that, but he would not do that. He did point out, I thought it was very
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interesting. He gave them a bit of a history lesson in two areas. One, that the United States
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has been purchasing land since its inception. It would not be as big a country as it is if they
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hadn't bought land, the Louisiana Purchase and from Mexico and this one and that one and
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Alaska. Okay. So we know that's not an unusual thing. And the second thing is that apparently
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there were several presidents, not just the one that they keep quoting and keep talking about
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or the purchases they keep talking about, but several attempts to purchase Greenland. And at one
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time, Greenland was under the United States supervision. I want to say during World War II
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and maybe somewhat before. And the U.S. returned it to Denmark or, you know, released, relinquished
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control. So this is not new news. And everybody's, that's because nobody knows history. So they all
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freak out. Maybe they should read their history before they open their mouths and understand where
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he's coming from. He actually does know the history of the United States vis-a-vis Greenland. He also
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knows the history of the United States vis-a-vis land purchases. And this is not weird. It's only weird
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if you don't understand how the country's worked almost since the day it was born.
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And there was a jab taken at Prime Minister Carney following his speech yesterday, suggesting that
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Canada has not been very grateful. And that certainly came out. That lack of gratitude came
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out in his speech yesterday, in Carney's speech yesterday, in which he really attacked what I
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believe was both China and the United States by calling them the great powers. This is an old term.
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It used to be the great powers were Britain and France. Right.
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Now I guess he's talking about China and the United States and these countries using their
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economic clout to bully middle powers like Canada and smaller nations who really, you know,
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can't compete with those nations. What did you make of that?
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Well, I don't know if I actually would have used the word grateful. I mean, I know he's very annoyed
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with the way that Carney has spoken and the way he's behaved and even is more annoyed at Doug Ford
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for the way he's behaved and how he's interfered in international at his US to Canada issues. He's not
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the prime minister of the country. He's a premier of a province. So I know he's annoyed at that, but
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it isn't really about gratitude. It's very short sighted. You have, I don't, someone keeps pointing out to me
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and I'm like, you know, you're right. China's 11,000 kilometers away from Canada. Qatar is about
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like a huge distance, not that different in the other direction from Canada. Who's he going and
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making deals with? People across oceans away from Canada to do business with. When just across
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an imaginary border, you know, a line on a map is the United States, the single largest
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business partner Canada has ever had in its history. Why would you purposely try to annoy
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and aggravate and poke at the president of the United States? You don't have to like him,
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like him, not like him. I mean, whatever. But you have to do business with the United States.
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I remind people that, yes, we do export things from Canada to the US, mostly things like natural
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resources. The automobiles that we export to the US are by the good graces of the US auto industry,
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which by the way, is apparently not going to be so much anymore. But the truth is that Canada
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imports a lot more US stuff than they export in terms of quantity and types of things,
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because Canada doesn't really manufacture anything. Canada doesn't really produce anything.
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I'm going to wait to see what the shelves look like in the stores if he keeps this up.
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People are not going to be able to buy their favorite US products, whatever they are,
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if they continue, if he continues to harass and poke at and treat with disrespect the president of
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the United States. Like I said, he doesn't have to like him. Donald Trump doesn't care if he loves
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him or doesn't love him. He just wants to do business. If he wants to make a deal and he wants
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to sit down and be a normal human being and have a discussion, fine. If he doesn't, okay, then you're
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going to get the other Donald Trump, the guy that people don't like, because he will do what's best
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for the United States. And that might not be what's best for Canada.
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I've often stated that I wish we had somebody in charge of Canada that was really looking after
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our interests rather than globalist interests or somebody else's interests or Brookfield's
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interests. But it just seems like we're last on the list in terms of the priorities of some of
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our politicians. One of the things that Trump did talk about was the success in his view of these
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tariffs, because so many of these automakers and other manufacturers now moving their plants
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to the United States, opening up new plants, building new plants. It's going to just lead
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to an explosion in the number of people working in these fields. It's great to see somebody
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encouraging manufacturing in the United States, unlike there's been in that country for quite
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some time. He also mentioned that it's kind of coming at Canada's expense. He was talking
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about Canada amongst the nations in which automakers are deciding to move their operations.
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Maybe that's one of the reasons why so many are concerned in Canada. But, you know, if I want
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to extend this over to China and the EVs, I mean, in a way, Doug Ford is saying the same thing. He's
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saying if you're going to sell vehicles to Canada, well, have some kind of a manufacturing footprint in
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this country. To me, that's not much different than what Trump is talking about. What do you think?
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I agree. And I think that he's correct. And as I said to you a little bit earlier, put this on your
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calendar. I said Doug Ford's right. He's the job of our elected officials in Canada is to put Canada
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first on everything. And that means even when you're doing business with another country, your primary
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concern will be how is this going to affect Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, you know, whatever,
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all the provinces, how is it going to, how are they going to be affected? How are the working people in my
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country going to benefit from whatever it is I'm doing? Okay. This is not the way, it's clear to me that
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this is not how Mark Carney thinks. Mark Carney, I think, has a long and well-deserved reputation as a
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globalist. He is not interested in Canada as a sovereign entity, no matter, even if he uses those words, his actions
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belie that. And I think that people are beginning to see it and they're concerned about it. Ford was
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rightfully angry. He's having enough problems with the EV business. As you know, the US moving
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Stellantis, you know, back into the US that, that was a big blow. And now importing Chinese EVs with
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no payback to the Ontario auto industry, the EV industry, which he was trying to build in Ontario,
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I'd be pretty mad too. So I guess maybe all of his sucking up to him that he did and all of the
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nasty stuff that went on during the last election against the conservative candidate and, and the
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love affair, the bromance that was going on between Carney and Ford, maybe it wasn't all worth it.
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wasn't worth it at all because Carney, not really his friend. Well, apparently not. And now the union
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representing thousands of auto workers in Canada Unifor also ripping into these plans to import Chinese
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electric vehicles. We had a clip from Lana Payne, who's the president saying, you know, too many
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automakers sell their cars in Canada without building anything here. Again, reflecting some of the
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statements that we've heard from Ford. I just don't know if Canada has the environment, the economic
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environment where people want to operate here. This is a part of the big problem. We have carbon taxes.
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We have a ton of red tape in this country. I mean, yes, we've got good skilled workers, but our labor
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costs are probably a lot higher than they are in a lot of nations. So we may want those manufacturing jobs
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to stay in Canada, but I don't think the government, either the provincial government or the federal
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government are doing a whole lot to make it attractive as a place to stay without, of course,
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handing over billions of dollars in subsidies. So I think this is a big problem as far as auto
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manufacturing is in Canada. What do you think? Yeah, I completely agree. I think that the
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environment, the business environment and not don't restrict it to just the auto industry, because
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I'm hearing this from, sorry, Mark, I'm hearing this from business people. That's, I had this set up
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really high here. So I guess it wasn't, was too high. The business people all over Canada and every
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industry are concerned because it's getting harder and harder to do business. And you can't attract
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investment to Canada because the investment environment is terrible. The regulations, the red
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tape, as you pointed out, the, the whole business environment is so negative right now. And when you
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compare it, you know, to the U S that's doing everything in its power to get people to come in,
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they're, they're, they're offering them all kinds of incentives. They're making it easier. They're
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removing the barriers. They're, you know, lowering costs of doing business like energy costs, which is,
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by the way, a huge factor in Ontario, energy costs are very high. So any business, which is an energy
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intensive business is going to be looking not once or twice, but three or four times before they make
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a decision. I think about the AI business, which uses a huge amount of energy. If they have to depend
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on what we have here, I don't see how they move into this province and make it cost effective.
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Um, the U S uh, Trump said, well, you know what, you can build your own energy facilities. We'll
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help you with that. We'll support it. And that way you're not going to break the grid, which is,
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you know, has its own problems, but you'll supply your own energy and we'll help you do that.
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That's very smart. Um, we don't have that kind of thinking in Canada. Canadians generally tend to be
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very risk averse and you have a government that is, has very narrow view of how you incentivize
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people to do business. Um, I, you know, I'm, I'm down here in Florida living here now, but I'm very,
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very worried for my friends in the business world in Canada. I feel bad for them because they're
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struggling and they're trying to decide how do I stay in business? Some of them are saying they're
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going to close down. Some of them are thinking, well, you know, I had to put a footprint somewhere
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where I can make money. It's sometimes it's some other places in Canada. Sometimes it's not in
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Canada at all. It's looking at other countries. And, um, if I were the prime minister, I'd be real
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worried. Maybe he's not talking to real people. Maybe that's the problem. You talk to the people
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at that, you've got a whole different view of the world. You know,
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I want to ask you, I should have asked you this earlier when we're talking about
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uh, Trump's speech in reference to Kearney and the lack of gratitude. Do you think Canadians in
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general are not thankful to the United States that they really get it on the issue of defense? I mean,
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we have saved billions of dollars over the years because we have, you know, Uncle Sam protecting us.
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And I just don't think that people get it because they're so fixated on Trump
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that they don't understand. Historically speaking, all of this is happening within the context of
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America, providing defense for Canada and, uh, you know, saving us, as I said, billions over the
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decades from spending it, uh, you know, as if we were say Australia or some other country. What do you
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think? So, um, when we moved to Canada, you know, it's close to 40 years ago, my husband, who is a very
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left-wing guy, but nonetheless, he's not an idiot, believe it or not, uh, said to me, I don't
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understand why Canadians even bother to have an army. The U S is doing, if anything happens to the
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U S Canada is protected because the U S is going to protect itself. And that means Canada is going
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to be protected. And maybe somebody heard him because the Canadian governments, one after another,
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with very few exceptions have ignored and, and, uh, and not taken care of the Canadian military
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because they haven't had to, it's taken for granted that the U S will provide security for Canada.
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Um, of course there's a problem these days and it's a big one. And it's related to the Greenland
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question, which is the Arctic is now right in the sites of Russia and China, right in their sites.
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They're there. They're physically there. They are moving in wherever they can. They want Greenland.
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They'd like Northern, the Northern part of, you know, the Canadian Arctic. And we're not prepared
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to defend that in Canada. I can tell you that is a fact that Canada is not prepared to defend the
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Arctic. That is one of Trump's biggest issues with Canada. He's told them, he said to them,
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security, you know, the drug problem, the border problem, um, and, and a couple of other things,
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but the big one, the big, big one for him is the Canadian Arctic. And he couldn't get any,
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any kind of confirmation or any agreement or any real commitment to doing, to making significant
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changes in how we protect that Canadian Arctic region, which is extremely important to, um,
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the security of North America and of the Western hemisphere in general. Um, so I think,
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um, Canadians, yes, they do take it for granted. It, and it was easy to take it for granted before,
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but now they really take it for granted because if he says we need Canada to be on our side with
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security, they're going to say, oh no, because Donald Trump wants it. Everything Trump wants,
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it doesn't matter what it is. They're against it. Someone said, uh, the other day, if he found the cure to
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cancer, they would want more cancer. Um, and I, and I think that's very sad and it's, uh, but it's,
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it's very narrow-minded. I just, uh, I, I just had a little to and fro with a friend of mine on
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social media, very good friend, someone I love dearly, who is on the other side politically.
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Um, and I said, like your, your Trump arrangement syndrome takes over everything you do. Did you
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not listen to his speech? Did you not hear what he said? Cause he was talking about Greenland and he
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was talking as if Trump was going to move the troops in tomorrow. And I'm like, didn't you hear
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what he said? He said flat out. That's not the goal here. I want to come to an agreement with them.
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And he does. Well, if it means that they walk away from Denmark and instead align themselves
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with the U S that's their decision. Um, but he's going to try to talk them into it. That's what he
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wants. Well, you want to be crazy about it. Go ahead and be crazy. But the fact is that they don't
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actually understand the history. Like I said, at the beginning of this discussion, um, they're too busy
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hating Trump to bother to actually research and find out why he's doing what he's doing.
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And what he's doing, by the way, would be great for Canada. Greenland's security would be great
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for Canada. And I don't know why they don't see it. Yeah. And we'll have to see what happens during
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the midterms. You know, the Democrats, I'm sure spending all their time salivating over the prospect
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of taking over the house or, and impeaching Trump. Uh, you know, you just shake your head at
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what's coming, but maybe that's a discussion for another day. It is. It is for sure. It's a
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discussion of its own. Thank you, George. And great to have you again. Great. Good to talk to you.
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And that is it for this edition of straight up. Appreciate you tuning in my friends.
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Let's do it again soon. Shall we? Bye-bye for now.