Andrew Scheer criticizes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for his recent deal with China and calls for him to go back to the way things were before he struck a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Davos, Switzerland.
00:00:00.000Renewed isn't quite what Mark Carney said that he would be able to achieve during the election when he said he was the guy with the magic wand that could fix all of this.
00:00:08.880Conservative MP Andrew Scheer just ripped apart Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during a recent interview with CBC.
00:00:15.720Carney is under a lot of fire from Conservatives and even the American president for a recent deal he made with Communist China.
00:00:21.940Now Scheer is the former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:00:24.960He's been in politics for a while, so he has a lot of experience criticizing liberal policies and dealing with woke journalists.
00:00:31.440Let's listen to what he had to say right here.
00:00:33.300Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer joins me now from Regina. Nice to see you, sir. Thanks for coming on.
00:00:39.400So you heard the Prime Minister's speech in Davos.
00:00:41.640He said the old order is not coming back and he encouraged middle powers like Canada to bend together in the face of coercion from great powers.
00:00:50.800Do you agree with Carney's assessment that this long-standing U.S.-led, rules-based international order is over?
00:00:59.160Well, there's no doubt that President Trump is dramatically changing the nature of global affairs
00:01:05.060and talking to historic allies in a much more aggressive and in some cases hostile way.
00:01:11.380But what was frustrating about that speech is that it came on the heels of a visit by Prime Minister Carney to China,
00:01:19.720where he talked about establishing a new world order with a communist regime.
00:01:24.220And Scheer made some great points right here.
00:01:26.640Carney going over to a communist country and announcing the beginning of a new world order,
00:01:31.680that's not going to win anybody over on our side.
00:01:34.500Of course, conservatives by their very name like to conserve.
00:01:39.160So they're not going to be open to this frightening, scary idea of a quote-unquote new world order.
00:01:45.920Now, I have a theory on why Carney used that exact term,
00:01:49.940and I have a theory on why he said that, but we'll get into that later in the video.
00:01:53.620First, let's see what Andrew Scheer had to say.
00:01:56.100But before we get into this, I want to remind you of being heavily censored around YouTube.
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00:05:22.880Now, if Trump goes through with his recent threats of tariffing Canada at 100%, that's going to hurt Carney.
00:05:29.080But the good news for us is that it'll help us in the long term.
00:05:32.340Unfortunately for us, I don't think Trump and Carney are going to get a deal.
00:05:36.140Based on what I'm seeing, I just don't think that's going to happen.
00:05:39.180But anyway, let's listen to what Shira has to say, and then I'm going to give you some more points at the end.
00:05:43.340You and Trump are aligned on one thing at least, sir, and that is this China question he just posted on True Social not too long ago about Carney saying Carney voted in favor of doing business with China, who will eat them up within the first year.
00:05:57.500We also know Trump was not a huge fan of what the prime minister said in his speech in Davos.
00:06:03.200He said that, you know, we're not very grateful to the United States in terms of the military support that they provide, that Canada lives because of the United States.
00:06:13.620What's your take on how this has gone?
00:06:15.860Do you think that it was wise for Carney to rankle the president, or is it important for us to branch out and really take a stand as to what this country is standing for in this tumultuous era?
00:06:25.760Well, I know that Mark Carney would love to always have this conversation in the framing against Donald Trump, but it's conservatives who are aligned with Canadians about being very cautious with how Canada deals with China.
00:06:39.440Canadians don't appreciate when our citizens are imprisoned illegally like the two Michaels faced.
00:06:44.660Canadians don't like it when the Chinese embassies open up illegal police stations across the country that intimidate and harass Canadian citizens.
00:06:52.240Canadians don't like it when the communist regime interferes in our election.
00:06:57.620And as it relates to diplomatic relations and trading relationships, conservatives have always believed that we need to diversify our trading relationships.
00:07:07.420That's why the previous conservative government signed dozens of free trade deals all over the world, South America, Europe, Asia, all to make sure that we were not too dependent on the United States.
00:07:18.380What Mark Carney's liberal policies have done is made us more dependent by canceling big energy projects, making it so that the U.S. continues to be our most important customer on energy, by imposing an industrial carbon tax on Canadian manufacturers, something that American manufacturers don't face, hurting our ability to export products around the world.
00:07:38.540And again, we're about a year into Mark Carney's mandate.
00:07:46.660He's got a major projects list that none of them have actually proceeded.
00:07:51.680He promised to solve these tariff deals.
00:07:54.080He promised a deal on U.S. tariffs by the end of July.
00:07:56.780And he called the communist regime in Beijing the most serious national security threat facing Canada.
00:08:03.880And then he goes and talks about a new world order and strengthening cooperation.
00:08:08.840I think Canadians have a lot of, rightfully have a lot of questions about what that means for our economy, for our national security interests.
00:08:15.200I mean, I guess the prime minister would say he has signed that deal with China.
00:08:18.580There's been other arrangements with Europe.
00:08:22.480There has been some progress on some of these trade files.
00:08:24.900And we actually saw some news from the Globe and Mail today that traffic through the port of Montreal is way up as trade with Europe is actually at a level it hasn't been in a long time.
00:08:34.540So he would point to that as some points of success.
00:08:37.320But I take your point about maybe there needs to be more done.
00:08:40.760And one thing that you are proposing in your party is this Canadian Sovereignty Act.
00:08:44.880You're going to table it in the House next week.
00:08:47.200Tell me what's in that legislation and what your party hopes it will do to help Canada as we grapple with these changes right now.
00:08:53.300Yeah, well, thanks very much for that question.
00:08:55.720Just very quickly, though, some of the things you mentioned are MOUs, you know, preliminary agreements, not actually implementation of actual deals.
00:09:03.940But on the Canada Sovereignty Act that our leader is proposing, there's a lot of great stuff in there.
00:09:10.560And if Liberals had to listen to us years ago, we wouldn't likely even be having this nature of a conversation right now.
00:09:16.600What we're calling for is, first of all, for the Liberal government to remove those Liberal laws, like the ban on West Coast oil and gas shipping, the No More Pipelines Act.
00:09:27.200We're calling on them to remove that industrial carbon tax that adds huge layers of costs on our manufacturers.
00:09:33.100It also helps drive up the cost of food.
00:09:36.000Farm equipment, food processing, fertilizer, all gets more expensive when that industrial carbon tax keeps going up.
00:09:43.200We're calling on the government to abandon their plans for the fuel standards tax.
00:09:46.980That's going to add about 17 cents a litre.
00:09:49.560So in addition to removing bad Liberal laws, we're also proposing wonderful Conservative ideas to kickstart the economy to really provide some rocket fuel.
00:09:57.800Like, we're calling on the government to implement a capital gains tax exemption when those capital gains are reinvested in the economy.
00:10:06.340We hear this from coast to coast, from small businesses to large businesses.
00:10:10.580Access to capital is very difficult to find in Canada.
00:10:13.740A lot of that investment dollars flows to the United States after 10 years of Liberal government.
00:10:17.900So what we're saying is, if a Canadian invests in Canada, let's make that capital gain tax-free.
00:10:23.500That's going to open up a huge pool of capital to really kickstart, provide some rocket fuel to our economy, see those jobs numbers go up again.
00:10:31.260So that's just a sample of what we're calling on the government to do our first week back in Parliament.
00:10:36.580It's just another example of how Conservative solutions are concrete and real, in stark contrast to the rhetoric we see from Carney and the Liberals.
00:10:43.260Speaking of job numbers, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev will face potentially a leadership review.
00:10:48.540We know members will be voting next week in Calgary about whether to have a leadership review, whether to continue with Pierre Polyev.
00:10:55.720There's been a lot of talk in this town, Andrew, I'm sure you know, about percentage points and what figure Polyev needs to get to keep his job after that vote in Calgary.
00:11:04.820What is the percentage that's going through your mind?
00:11:07.400What would you like to see him achieve from members?
00:11:55.940I expect we're going to see a lot of people at conventions that have never been to a political convention before and may have voted for the first time in the last election because of Pierre Polyev's inspiration.
00:12:06.640We're not quite where we want it to be.
00:12:09.320But what we need to do is build on that success, and I'm confident that members are going to see that in Pierre, and we'll see what happens in Calgary.
00:12:18.380Like I've said before, there is zero doubt in my mind that Polyev will remain the leader of the Conservative Party and eventually become the next Prime Minister of Canada.
00:12:27.060I've been saying that for a while now, and I'm not going to budge on it.
00:12:30.880I don't care what anybody says, even on our side.
00:12:33.720Polyev is going to stick around, and he will win.
00:12:36.600We just have to let him cook a little bit.
00:13:39.180That being said, I'm still 100% confident in Polyev and his ability to win the next election.
00:13:44.340However, he's going to need a good team, and he has to be very careful how he plays his cards, especially in the next few months.
00:13:51.460I'm going to put some talking points out there.
00:13:52.900Whether the Conservatives, activists, choose to use them, that's up to them.
00:13:56.620One thing you can really nail a card on was the fact that during the debates, he said that China was the biggest threat to Canada.
00:14:02.720It hasn't even been a year, and it seems that Carney has done a complete 180 on that one.
00:14:07.420And I think Conservatives can also fairly call out Carney for overselling his ability to deal with Donald Trump.
00:14:13.920I think there's a clear difference between what he sold Canadians and what Canadians actually got during trade negotiations, or lack thereof.
00:14:21.380The narrative that many Conservative influencers are peddling, that Carney is somehow getting into bed with China, that's not entirely accurate, and pushing that is not going to win over voters to our side.
00:14:31.760I want to make it clear that nobody, including Carney, is saying that they endorse the actions of the Chinese government, or that Canada should allow China to annex us and make us part of their country.
00:14:43.720Really, all that happened in China was that Carney was opening the door for China to sell EVs in our country in exchange for the Chinese government to reduce tariffs on our canola products.
00:14:55.560Back to Carney's comments on the New World Order.
00:14:58.600My interpretation, and this is just speculative, is I think he was trolling.
00:15:02.580He knows that those words really get a rise out of people, and I think that's why he used them.
00:15:07.020I'm not necessarily saying that to defend Carney.
00:15:09.520I just want my viewers to have good information.
00:15:11.940So rest assured, Canada is not a threat of being annexed by China.
00:15:16.360But whatever happens, I'm still 100% confident that Polyev will be the next Prime Minister of Canada, and if we're lucky, it could happen soon.