00:00:21.300That's something you shout when you're angry.
00:00:24.180Well, here's the reality that nobody in Canadian media seems willing to say out loud.
00:00:28.360if this thing turns into a full-blown economic showdown with the united states
00:00:33.040canada doesn't stand a chance period and saying that doesn't mean you hate canada
00:00:38.740it means you understand numbers basic math america has a market of hundreds of millions
00:00:45.480of people a massive industrial base enormous buying power really the biggest economy in the
00:00:51.740world and they can absorb a whole lot more damage than our economy can. Canada's winning hand was
00:00:58.680never being stronger than America. Our winning hand was being the neighbor that America wanted
00:01:04.160to do business with. That was the golden ticket right there. Easy access to the biggest market
00:01:10.200in the world right next door. And now we've got politicians acting like putting that relationship0.93
00:01:16.080in jeopardy it's some kind of act of national courage and nobody embodies that better than
00:01:23.180Doug Ford and Mark Carney because every time these people get near a microphone it's like
00:01:29.780they think they're cutting a wrestling promo for WWE or something Trump this America that
00:01:35.420we'll hit them back we'll make them pay everything is on the table and then the media eats it right
00:01:42.060up look at Doug Ford look at Mark Carney look how tough they are standing up for Canada okay but can
00:01:48.220we stop cheering for five seconds and ask whether any of this actually makes any sense because Ford
00:01:54.880is talking about using electricity oil uranium potash critical minerals basically every important
00:02:02.140thing we sell to the Americans as a weapon against them and again this isn't some guy yelling from
00:02:08.880the cheap seats at a hockey game. This is the premier of Ontario and the prime minister of
00:02:14.380Canada. The one leads a province that has a lot to lose from a broken relationship with the United
00:02:20.900States than really almost anywhere else in the world. Ontario builds things that Americans buy
00:02:27.660on a daily basis. The auto sector exists inside a North American supply chain. Businesses on both
00:02:35.400sides of the border have spent decades building a system where parts, materials, energy, and finished
00:02:42.080products move back and forth multiple times. And DocsFord's brilliant idea is to start turning
00:02:47.580pieces of that system built over decades into threats. And that's where this gets dangerous,
00:02:53.240because there's a huge difference between having something your customer needs and reminding your
00:02:58.600customer that you might take it away every time you get into an argument with them. Think about
00:03:03.860that. If America relies on something Canada provides, that's an advantage for Canada. But
00:03:10.220the second we start saying to them, do what we want or we'll cut you off, we've given the United
00:03:16.180States a reason to stop relying on us, to not buy from us altogether. And once that bridge is burnt,
00:03:22.860there's no fixing it. Let's look at electricity, for example. I mean, sure, Ontario can make life
00:03:28.180more difficult for some American customers. No one's saying that Canada has zero leverage here.
00:03:32.740We absolutely have some leverage. But what happens after the day we use it? That's the question. Because Washington doesn't just sit there forever saying, please don't turn off power. Can you please turn it on again?
00:03:46.320they start asking why is it that we're dependent on this people in the first place they find other
00:03:52.880sources they build capacity they invest in infrastructure they remove roadblocks and
00:03:58.460they're faster than us at doing that they spend whatever it is they have to spend so that the
00:04:03.040next time Doug Ford gets angry on television they don't have to give a damn about it and now
00:04:08.400the thing that once gave Canada influence is completely worthless and that right there is
00:04:14.040the thing these politicians don't seem to understand. Leverage is most valuable when the
00:04:20.200other side wants to keep doing business with you, not when you've convinced them that they need to
00:04:25.840move on from you altogether. And it's the same story with our oil, our uranium, our minerals,
00:04:31.440our potash, everything. These should all be reasons America would want Canada closer to its
00:04:37.880economic orbit for the next 50 years we should be saying to the americans you need energy we got it
00:04:44.920you need uranium we got lots of it critical minerals from a stable country as opposed to china
00:04:51.480come north let's make a deal that's how you turn your natural resources into generational0.94
00:04:58.680leverage instead these guys are running around like their goal is to destroy the long-standing
00:05:04.520relationship between canada and the united states but what happens if they actually accomplish that
00:05:10.440because america still has a massive internal market and canada still needs somewhere to sell
00:05:16.680what we produce and that brings me to the part i find absolutely insulting we're now being told
00:05:23.160that canadians may have to sacrifice that's that word that liberals love to use in this country
00:05:30.120sacrifice funny how easy it is for them to say it when someone else is the one having to pay the
00:05:36.840bill when a factory cuts a shift it's not dog ford or mark carney sacrificing when a trucking
00:05:43.640company loses contracts it ain't mark carney sacrificing when a small business can move
00:05:49.240product across the border anymore when a farmer gets squeezed when a family's cost of living
00:05:55.800goes up. Carney ain't worried about that when somebody gets handed a pink slit.
00:06:00.840That's the sacrifice they're talking about. You and I, your job, my job, our paychecks,
00:06:07.600your standard of living, so they can stand in front of a camera in front of a Canadian flag
00:06:12.680and tell you how courageous they are asking millions of Canadians to pay the price for
00:06:18.320their bravado. Maybe one day they'll wake up and be responsible for a change and explain to Canadians
00:06:23.620the price that we're going to be paying for their bs because seriously what's the end game here
00:06:30.200walk me through it we keep escalating they escalate we keep escalating some more
00:06:36.780we keep threatening exports we keep telling trump that we're going to make america hurt
00:06:41.800that we're not gonna you know that we're somehow going to show the most powerful country on earth
00:06:46.320what it is like to mess with canada seriously what are we expecting here and what's the end
00:06:51.340game seriously what are we expecting here do we expect for trump to throw his hands up in the air
00:06:56.320and say ah canada has won we surrender you know the united states decides that its entire trade
00:07:02.840policy is going to be based on fear of doug ford and mark carney i mean come on we are going to
00:07:09.760hurt them back that's not a plan that's not an end game that's something you shout when you're
00:07:16.680angry. If you're going into a fight with someone three times your size, more like 12 times your
00:07:22.860size, really, maybe the objective shouldn't be to prove that you can land a punch. Maybe the
00:07:28.540objective should be to make sure that the fight never happens in the first place. That's what
00:07:34.400smart countries do, which is why no other country besides Canada and China have retaliated against
00:07:42.640the United States, not the European Union, not Japan, not Italy. I guess they're part of the
00:07:49.640European Union. Another major economy has retaliated against the United States, except
00:07:55.920for communist China and I guess communist Canada under liberal Mark Carney. This is not going to
00:08:03.780end well. If you enjoyed this video, remember to like and subscribe. I appreciate all of your
00:08:08.280comments. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one. Peace.