In this episode, PJ reacts to an interview with Stephen Guilou, a radical climate activist who supports Alberta independence and wants to see the province secede from Canada. He also talks about the Canada-U.S. trade deal, and why he thinks Canada should be the 51st state.
00:02:43.620Obviously, you want to start talking about these Canada-U.S. negotiations because they are so front of mind for so many Canadians on the digital services tax.
00:02:51.300Did Canada get anything in exchange for rescinding this tax?
00:02:54.980Well, first, people need to understand I'm not part of those group of ministers that are negotiating daily with members of the U.S. administration.
00:03:41.080And I think what the prime minister and the negotiating team are trying to do is to make sure that we come to a good place.
00:03:46.960And it may be bumpy before we get there, but there's a lot of things that are on the table.
00:03:54.340And I think looking at one specific element and saying, oh, my goodness, you know, what just happened here and losing sight of the big picture.
00:04:01.600At that point, you may be aware of the U.S., the White House Press Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, said today, Canada caved.
00:04:07.840Pierre Polyab is out there saying you guys are elbows down.
00:04:10.440This was a core pitch to Canadians during the last election campaign, right?
00:04:23.940Again, I think that we will be judged on what the end result will be.
00:04:28.700Can we make sure that all of those tariffs, whether it's steel, whether it's aluminum, are gone, that we protect Canadian jobs, that we protect the Canadian economy?
00:04:37.600And I think that's what Canadians will judge us on and not, you know, whether this or that particular aspect of it was in or out of the deal.
00:04:45.960Donald Trump continues to talk about supply management as a frustration, as a Quebecer, certainly an issue that you're very politically aware of.
00:04:52.660The U.S. ambassador told us that if that was the only thing holding up a deal, he's pretty sure Mark Carney could find a way to work around the law.
00:05:00.640The parliament just passed that one put forward by the Bloc Québécois, protecting the supply management sector.
00:05:06.640Supply management, for those of you who don't know, especially those of you south of the border, because you guys don't have that, you guys have a real free market.
00:05:14.520Supply management is basically protections for mostly the province of Quebec, surprise, protections for their dairy industry.
00:05:22.400It also includes poultry and other elements there, but it's mostly for the Quebec dairy industry.
00:05:28.640And it is so stringent, it is so authoritarian, that recently I read that they arrested a man, a farmer, because he was, I think his chickens were producing excess eggs.
00:05:46.600And so he was selling it in his neighborhood, he was selling it to his community, and they either fined him or arrested him.
00:05:54.500And this is nothing new. I made a video about this before, about supply management.
00:05:58.920You guys can find it. I'm going to put the link below, or I'm going to put the link somewhere here on the screen, where Trump, that's his biggest thing that irritates him the most is the supply management.
00:06:08.680And honestly, if Trump was able to get rid of that for Canadians, just like the digital services tax, he'll be doing us a major favor.
00:06:16.220As much as the lefties and those, the communists, there's nothing Trump can do that they won't come up with something to, you know, Trump can cure cancer, and they'll say, hey, you took my right to have cancer.
00:06:27.540Back in March, we now have a motion that's been adopted by Parliament, both the House and the Senate, on this issue.
00:06:37.920This is important, not just for Quebec. It's important for many parts of the country, and we will stand by it.
00:06:44.480And so I just want to be crystal clear about what you are saying there.
00:06:47.460The ambassador is saying, if it all came down to this, Canada would solve this.
00:06:52.240And you're saying, if it all came down to this, Canada would stick by the supply management sector?
00:06:56.540As I said earlier, I'm not part of the negotiating team. I'm not at the negotiating table.
00:07:02.620What I'm saying is that the Prime Minister has been very clear that supply management is not on the negotiating table.
00:07:09.580Yeah, you are the minister responsible for Canadian identity, and of course we know that part of this conversation about what's happening with the United States very much sort of touches on that.
00:07:18.260The ambassador suggested that the Prime Minister had implied this 51st state business was a term of endearment.
00:07:24.200I suggested that those were perhaps not the words Mark Carney had used, but Ambassador Hoekstra said, in essence, it's a compliment if Donald Trump wants Canada on his team.
00:07:33.660He only works with people he likes. If he wants you to be the 51st state, it means he likes you guys.
00:07:38.700With all due respect to the President of the United States, we've had a long-standing relationship with the United States of America, whether it's economical, whether it's social.
00:07:52.640I mean, lots of people go to the United States, lots of Americans come here.
00:07:55.940We have friends there, we have family, vice versa, but we're different.
00:07:59.640We have, our culture is different. We have two official languages.
00:08:04.240We value and promote indigenous cultures in this country.
00:08:09.780We see the world in a very different way.
00:08:11.880When he says that they see the world differently, yeah, I mean, the United States is an open free market where freedom is more valued.
00:08:19.780They have the most robust constitution in the world, and in Canada, they jail pastors during COVID.
00:08:26.400They, you know, froze people's bank accounts for donating to a protest, to a democratic protest.
00:08:35.520Yeah, they see the world very differently.
00:08:38.460The United States obtained its independence by fighting the King of Britain.
00:11:11.700Pompier pyromane, we would say in French.
00:11:13.560The reality is that this federal government and the previous federal government have worked hard to create the best possible conditions for all Canadians.
00:12:00.420They're just spewing BS all day with our tax dollars.
00:12:05.100This is why you really have to watch alternative media.
00:12:07.640It's not that Alberta, it's not that Alberta has to thank Trudeau for growing its production during the time of its government.
00:12:16.280It's that Alberta was so resilient that despite all the attacks from the liberal government, including big time because of this guy here, Gibault,
00:12:25.780despite of their efforts to destroy the Alberta energy industry, Alberta still managed to grow.
00:12:32.160That speaks to the resilience of Alberta and the fight that the government of Alberta has put up against them.
00:12:39.760They've taken them to court in regards to multiple laws, including C-69, the carbon tax, and a bunch of others, dozens of times.
00:12:48.380Sometimes they've won, sometimes they lost.
00:12:55.060It's that Alberta is so resilient and the spirit of Alberta is so strong that our industry managed to still thrive despite of your efforts to hinder it and destroy it.
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