PJ The Belt - Canada IS NOT READY For What Trump Just Did..

00:00:00.000 if you've been watching the news in the past 48 hours you've probably heard that apparently

00:00:10.820 mark carne is preparing canada for an american invasion yeah an invasion because apparently

00:00:16.920 that's where we're at now this country has a ton of real problems to deal with people can't afford

00:00:22.480 homes they cannot afford their groceries crime is worse than ever but don't worry about any of that

00:00:29.520 Instead, focus on the fact that Carney is apparently preparing for Donald Trump to send the U.S. military across the border.

00:00:39.240 And thank God for that, eh? I was starting to get worried.

00:00:42.960 Blame Trump. Elbows up. Blame Trump. Elbows up.

00:00:52.060 And this, to me, is the perfect example of what Elbows Up has become.

00:00:57.220 it's not even a funny slogan anymore like a slogan to make fun of it's a political lifeboat

00:01:03.680 anytime the conversation starts getting a little too uncomfortable for the liberals anytime people

00:01:09.580 start looking around canada and asking um guys what's going on in this country somehow some way

00:01:16.500 donald trump magically appears in the picture again it's like beetlejuice you say his name

00:01:22.580 three times and cbc has another entire week of programming trump this trump that trump trump

00:01:27.940 trump and boom we're back elbows up save canada the americans are coming quick somebody find a

00:01:35.140 canadian flag and put it behind mark carney we begin with an extraordinary revelation mark carney

00:01:41.060 telling the new york times he looked into the risk of the u.s using military force against canada

00:01:47.380 something that's getting a lot of attention this morning carney's interview with the times comes

00:01:51.620 of course at a tense moment between Ottawa and the White House. The trade war has intensified,

00:01:56.160 Canada and the U.S. hitting each other with tariffs and trade bans. Kearney also tells the

00:02:00.640 Times he's working to reduce Canada's reliance on trade with the U.S., rethinking things like

00:02:05.660 whether to buy military equipment, including F-35s. Trump, of course, has never let up on

00:02:10.720 his threats to make Canada a 51st state, and he's calling Kearney governor on social media,

00:02:15.940 taunting him with something he first used against Prime Minister Trudeau.

00:02:21.520 Carney points to those 50 first state threats in his discussion with the Times.

00:02:27.280 Because God forbid we spend too much time talking about the people

00:02:31.040 who have actually been running Canada for the past 11 years.

00:02:35.480 No, no, no. That would be crazy.

00:02:38.200 Why talk about 11 years of liberal governance

00:02:41.200 when you can just talk about Donald Trump again, right?

00:02:44.020 And now we've reached the invasion chapter, if you will.

00:02:48.740 Mark Carney is apparently preparing.

00:02:51.440 But preparing for what exactly?

00:02:53.420 Are we putting the elbows extra high?

00:02:56.340 Is there a secret plan?

00:02:58.180 Do we have a map somewhere?

00:03:00.240 Because let's be serious for about five seconds.

00:03:03.520 If the United States actually wanted to invade Canada, what exactly is stopping them?

00:03:08.400 And before somebody loses their liberal mind, they don't want to.

00:03:12.700 That's the point. How do I know? Because they're not doing it. If they actually wanted to do it,

00:03:18.960 what exactly is stopping them? That's how I know.

00:03:22.040 For those who are reading the New York Times, is this what we want them to be reading?

00:03:26.740 That Canada is preparing for a potential invasion? Now I'm taking some liberties by even saying that,

00:03:32.760 but I can't believe it, quite frankly, that the opportunity that was there, that Chachi referred

00:03:38.100 to for our prime minister to say listen here's why we don't think tariffs are a great idea

00:03:42.880 here's why you know we we want to cherish this great relationship that we have we're so thankful

00:03:48.420 that we have american forces embedded with the canadian forces we're so grateful for the

00:03:53.020 relationship that we've had now for 200 years where we've been on the same side of the battlefield

00:03:57.380 that to me would have been a much more positive you know response nevertheless you know i don't

00:04:03.900 disagree that you get cornered and you get into these interviews and and things come out and then

00:04:07.840 you have to try to explain them away but look you know the whole narrative around we say something

00:04:15.560 they say something they react and how they react is important here because you ask a steel worker

00:04:21.220 in hamilton or somebody in a lumber mill in bc those are the reactions that are important at a

00:04:26.780 time like this getting back to the discussions about how we get rid of these tariffs that to me

00:04:32.820 should have been the principal message and the principal strategy if there is a strategy the

00:04:38.000 elbows up strategy david i've played some hockey you want to hurt your team go on the ice and start

00:04:43.080 throwing elbows around and see what happens you're in the penalty box it hurts your team i think that

00:04:48.340 hurt our team tonight this entire thing has the feel of a fire drill for a fire that doesn't exist

00:04:53.980 and yet watch how fast the media runs with it you can almost hear the producers guys we've got it

00:04:59.860 trump canada invasion let's put together a little story here quickly and put it on the screen

00:05:05.360 because nothing gets the old elbows up crowd fired up quite like another round of donald trump is

00:05:11.820 coming for canada and the funniest part is one of america's top military guys was actually asked

00:05:17.200 about this kind of scenario at a press conference and he couldn't help but laugh because what else

00:05:23.320 what he do i mean would you obey an order to launch military action against canada

00:05:27.900 um i i'm yeah i i find that i find that scenario to be uh absolutely and utterly preposterous

00:05:39.520 uh and so uh i follow the i follow the orders of the commander-in-chief but uh that is a

00:05:48.760 needlessly emotional question would you ask me please also what my attack plans are for the

00:05:54.280 martians imagine being a senior american military commander and somebody seriously asks you about

00:06:04.420 invading canada you're probably looking around the room like is this a real question but here's

00:06:10.820 the thing in canada it is this is prime time material serious business up here north of the

00:06:17.540 border mark harney's preparing the media is reporting the elbows are up everybody's in a

00:06:23.500 panic and in my view that's the whole game keep the story south of the border focused on the usa

00:06:30.160 keep the anger pointed at trump keep all the blame directed south keep people talking about america

00:06:36.740 because the second the conversation comes back to canada things get a lot less comfortable for

00:06:42.680 the liberals the people start asking questions right what's happening here in this country who's

00:06:47.340 been running our country is life actually getting better and that's the conversations the liberals

00:06:53.180 would probably much rather not have what i'm going to do is essentially it's a quote within a quote

00:06:58.180 because the new york times adds context to it for an american audience so i'm going to read you

00:07:02.240 what they quote him as saying and then i'm going to in there quote the way they put the context

00:07:06.780 around it this quote i think i have or rather you have a responsibility in these roles to look at

00:07:13.480 extreme risk said mr carney a former central banker for britain and canada who approaches

00:07:18.600 the world by meticulously assessing worst case scenarios and drafting responses he added that's

00:07:24.860 just risk management it's not a base case but we would be irresponsible not to prepare so here we

00:07:32.900 go again another trump story another crisis another round of elbows up another reason for

00:07:39.920 the media to spend three days talking about what might happen instead of what already has and

00:07:45.700 continues to happen to this day here in Canada. At some point, you have to stop blaming the guy

00:07:52.000 across the border for everything happening on this side of the border. Canada has real problems,

00:07:58.020 real ones, and turning Donald Trump into the boogeyman every time the news cycle gets

00:08:02.800 uncomfortable doesn't fix a single one of them. Well, except maybe for the liberals, right? But

00:08:09.040 hey at least we're ready for the invasion right elbows up everybody if you support these videos

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PJ The Belt - September 25, 2026

Canada IS NOT READY For What Trump Just Did..

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