PJ The Belt - July 16, 2025


Canada BETRAYS America! - Minister Sides With China & EU, INSULTS the USA!

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retaliatory tariffs
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8 minutes

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1,348

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79


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Learn English with Navarro. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally showed up to work after a long and undeserved vacation on the taxpayers' dime. Seems he finally got the memo that our crumbling economy here in Canada is kind of his responsibility to fix. So he made an attempt at providing an update on the latest developments when it comes to American-Canadian trade talks. As expected, it was mostly blather and platitudes, with very little specificity on whether he will address the concerns of Canadian industry or the long-standing demands from the U.S. that have led to a standstill in the negotiations. We ll be taking a look at the statements he made.

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00:00:00.000 We're trying to make sure that ultimately, while the U.S. is becoming weaker, we will become stronger and we will diversify and turn ourselves towards Europe.
00:00:10.100 Canada is the only country on Earth, along with China, that has imposed so many counter tariffs.
00:00:16.360 Canada has been a very difficult country to deal with over the years.
00:00:19.920 All right, so this guy finally showed up to work after a long and undeserved vacation on the taxpayers' dime, of course.
00:00:32.500 Seems he finally got the memo that our crumbling economy here in Canada is kind of his responsibility to try to fix.
00:00:39.220 So he made an attempt at providing an update on the latest developments when it comes to American-Canadian trade talks.
00:00:45.820 As expected, it was mostly blather and platitudes, very little specificity on whether he will address the concerns of Canadian industry or the long-standing demands from the Americans that have led to a standstill.
00:00:59.360 We'll be taking a look at the statements he made.
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00:01:09.940 Thank you and back to the video.
00:01:15.820 I'm going to reach my office first.
00:01:18.760 Well, look, first thing to say is that the government has consistently stood up for Canadian workers and businesses throughout these negotiations.
00:01:31.220 We'll continue to do so.
00:01:32.880 I expect that the discussions will intensify between now and the end of the month, and we'll be working hard on that.
00:01:39.860 At the same time, we need to recognize that the commercial landscape globally has changed.
00:01:46.480 It's changed in a fundamental manner, and we will continue to focus on what we can most control.
00:01:52.520 Well, the commercial landscape has indeed changed.
00:01:55.760 The Americans have a leader now who's putting their country and their people first for a change.
00:02:00.500 And in doing that, he's revealing to the world many of the unfair and one-sided trade practices that have become commonplace when it comes to trading with the United States.
00:02:10.560 You have many countries around the world that would impose tariffs on American products going into their territory, while their exports would enter the United States tariff-free.
00:02:19.660 Now, how is that fair?
00:02:20.620 This is something Trump somewhat tackled during his first term, but it's something he's focused on heavily during his second presidency.
00:02:28.740 Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. were supposed to have a free trade agreement, meaning that there'd be no tariffs or protectionism between the three countries.
00:02:36.940 However, in the case of Canada, there's an industry that Trump has taken issue with for a long time, and that is Quebec's dairy industry, what we hear called the dairy cartel, which is protected under supply management laws.
00:02:49.880 These laws limit access to the Canadian market for American producers.
00:02:55.260 Now, how's that free trade?
00:02:57.060 You either have protectionism or you have true free trade.
00:03:01.120 But Canada is trying to have its cake and eat it too, in order to protect a small but well-connected group of Quebec farmers who lobby the government to protect their profits.
00:03:11.340 This is a big part of why a deal hasn't been reached yet.
00:03:14.080 We take good note of the comments made by the president, and of course we'll let the prime minister continue his negotiations, and we'll not negotiate in public.
00:03:26.960 These have been the answers that I've been giving to every single question since the beginning of the negotiations.
00:03:33.200 What I wanted to emphasize today is, as minister in charge of industries and of the economy, is we are not alone in this world.
00:03:45.560 We need to be closer to our allies.
00:03:48.140 And that is why today is so important.
00:03:50.440 It's been only 15 days that the prime minister signed an agreement with the EU to make sure that not only, of course, that we have free trade agreement, but that we are very closely aligned on the fence and on all our industrial policies.
00:04:07.340 And we're trying to make sure that ultimately, while the U.S. is becoming weaker, we will become stronger, and we will diversify and turn ourselves towards Europe.
00:04:18.280 We saw the prime minister push the deadline for these negotiations to August 1st.
00:04:23.120 I'm wondering why that strategy and why not, for instance, more counter tariffs in this case?
00:04:28.960 So, as I mentioned, we'll make sure that the negotiations continues.
00:04:34.000 Canada is the only country on earth, along with China, that has imposed so many counter tariffs.
00:04:39.980 So, we have had already a very strong response, and we want to make sure that while we are putting pressure on the American administration,
00:04:52.420 that at the same time, we're creating, well, first, we're protecting jobs while creating jobs.
00:04:57.840 And we're making sure that we're doing this economic diplomacy, which usually would not necessarily be the case in a normal world,
00:05:11.780 but we're not in normal times.
00:05:14.360 And economic diplomacy is more important than ever, and that's why we need to make sure that while the U.S. is closing its market
00:05:24.040 and really taking its own path regarding protectionism, that we, as a stable and democratic country, continue to have open markets, including with the EU.
00:05:37.040 If you were unable to make out what the Frenchie was saying, she was bragging about Canada being one of the only two countries, along with China,
00:05:44.720 to impose so many tariffs on the United States as retaliation.
00:05:49.880 Let that sink in for a second.
00:05:52.220 Amongst all the countries in the world, allies or otherwise, Canada and China are the only two countries
00:05:59.520 that have imposed retaliatory tariffs to such a scale against America.
00:06:04.500 She also went further by stating that America is becoming weaker, and as this happened,
00:06:09.720 Canada will continue to align itself with the European Union.
00:06:13.680 Yeah, that's the Canadian Liberal government for you.
00:06:17.640 Then they wonder why Trump continues to impose tariffs.
00:06:21.240 They would rather see the Canadian economy completely destroyed than address their protectionism of the Quebec dairy lobby.
00:06:28.280 And here's the facts.
00:06:29.640 As much as the elbows-up crowd would like to think otherwise,
00:06:34.600 Canada needs America a heck of a lot more than America needs Canada.
00:06:38.280 And this is true in both trade and defense.
00:06:42.400 But you really cannot expect much less from liberals.
00:06:45.700 Having an inability to comprehend factual reality and logic seems to be a prerequisite for them.
00:06:52.680 Here's a video from Fox News where they interview the Secretary General of NATO,
00:06:57.580 and they ask him how important the United States is to the Defense Alliance,
00:07:01.880 along with how Trump is viewed by European leaders.
00:07:04.620 How is President Trump seen around the world by world leaders you deal with?
00:07:10.160 I think he's very well respected.
00:07:12.080 And I thought in The Hague, at the summit, 31 leaders.
00:07:15.300 So the 32nd, of course, is the U.S.
00:07:17.460 In itself, by the way, bigger than all the other 31 combined.
00:07:20.540 That is how powerful this country is and this nation is and your military.
00:07:23.380 But the other 31 leaders really recognizing, hey, this is somebody who is absolutely clear what he wants to achieve,
00:07:30.880 is committed to NATO, but he is extremely frustrated about the fact that we were not paying up,
00:07:36.060 and now we are paying up, and therefore this commitment to NATO is ironclad.
00:07:40.300 You raise some eyebrows when you use the term daddy.
00:07:43.460 Yeah, I probably should have said father or the grown-up in the room.
00:07:48.020 But you know, and this is the fun part about President Trump,
00:07:50.720 he came back to the White House and immediately there was this video released,
00:07:54.160 Daddy is home, and you'll see the T-shirts with daddy on it.
00:07:57.580 So he laughed about it.
00:07:58.420 He laughed about it, and that is why I like him so much,
00:08:00.920 because he has that humor and that light touch, and he's a great man.
00:08:04.300 All right, thanks for watching.
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00:08:15.860 Peace.