00:00:16.860They've been very, very bad to our farmers in particular.
00:00:19.920So here we go again, ladies and gentlemen.
00:00:22.220Another escalation with the United States.
00:00:24.740More Canadian businesses suffering and caught in the middle.
00:00:27.980And right on cue, Mark Carney and the liberals have their favorite political prop back, Donald Trump, of course, because starting Tuesday morning, really tonight at 12.01, right after midnight, the United States is set to ban a bunch of Canadian products, including alcohol, dairy products, motorcycles from entering the country at all.
00:00:48.720And I don't mean tariffs. I mean not coming in at all. And you already know how Ottawa is going to sell this. Trump is attacking Canada. Trump is hurting Canadians. Trump is the problem. And Mark Carney is just the brave Canadian statesman standing between us and the evil American south of the border.
00:01:05.740it's like give me a break because i think mark carney has figured out something extremely useful
00:01:11.600for himself about this whole trade situation as long as canadians are angry at donald trump
00:01:17.880they're not looking at him they're not looking at mark carney they're not talking about 11 years of
00:01:23.240liberal government they're not talking about the cost of living they're not talking about housing
00:01:28.000government spending they're not asking why canada has become such a nightmare to build anything in
00:01:34.640or to be able to afford anything they're talking about trump and politically that's pretty
00:01:40.220convenient every time trump escalates or responds to something canada's doing carney gets another
00:01:46.520opportunity to put on the captain canada costume and the hat walk up to a podium and tell everybody
00:01:52.600how he's standing up to the americans meanwhile here's the part that makes this absolutely
00:01:57.500hilarious. Carney's investment account is like 90% invested in the United States. And I want you
00:02:05.020to let that sink in for a moment. Captain Canada has invested 90% in the country he's supposedly
00:02:11.140fighting, the United States of America. You can't make this stuff up. The guy lecturing Canadians
00:02:17.900about reducing our dependence on America had an investment account overwhelmingly filled
00:02:24.500by company count with the United States. Headquarter businesses, all really in the U.S.
00:02:32.420And I thought we were supposed to reduce our dependency on the United States, but for his
00:02:36.680investment portfolio, well, that's different, right? The point is the optics and the hypocrisy
00:02:42.300because Carney himself understands exactly what America represents for Canada. Opportunity,
00:02:49.580capital markets money that's why this whole performance drives me crazy america is apparently
00:02:56.140this horrible economic dependency that canada needs to escape from right until it's time to
00:03:02.140invest then suddenly america doesn't look so bad now does it on canadian trade tomorrow uh you're
00:03:07.500gonna have a ban of certain items can you still have a trade deal or an agreement with canada
00:03:13.900or could more items be added to that list well they want to have a deal with us they call us
00:03:17.980all the time the problem is that they've treated the united states very unfairly they have been
00:03:22.400one of the worst countries in the entire world you know we get along with china we get along
00:03:27.460with the people and we make good deals but canada has been really very difficult to deal with1.00
00:03:33.280actually and they've and they've charged our farmers 400 percent tariffs and more and they
00:03:38.440they take advantage of us they feel entitled and you know they get 95 percent 95 percent of the
00:03:47.160business they do they do with the united states with us it's a tiny fraction of that number it's
00:03:52.180not a big number at all and yet uh you know we give them military we give them ice breakers they
00:03:59.040want ice breakers we work with them we buy ice breakers we have a lot of we have 11 of them right
00:04:04.840now under construction and they want to know if they can use our ice breakers so many things
00:04:09.920and they feel entitled and you know they're not a state uh there's nothing they have that we need
00:04:16.120we have more energy than they have we have all the lumber you could possibly use we have everything
00:04:22.040we have we don't need and they have to treat our country with respect they've been very very bad
00:04:28.200to our farmers in particular and now we're watching the same government act completely bewildered
00:04:33.400that the united states has finally started pushing back on canada when it comes to trade barriers
00:04:39.480trump's argument really isn't difficult to understand you restrict our products we restrict
00:04:45.080yours you protect your market okay well then we'll protect ours in kind you don't give American
00:04:51.560companies fair treatment then don't automatically expect unlimited access to American consumers you
00:04:57.940can disagree with it but what exactly is confusing about it Trump has been saying the exact same thing
00:05:04.800for years America first it's practically tattooed across his forehead at this point the whole MAGA
00:05:12.140thing is America first. Yet somehow Ottawa keeps behaving like every new American trade action
00:05:18.520is an unexpected natural disaster. Who could have possibly seen this coming? Everybody. Everybody
00:05:25.900could see it coming that was paying attention. And instead of figuring out how to deal with the
00:05:30.640Americans, how to deal with President Trump, Carney gets political mileage out of the fight.
00:05:35.940And that's what Canadians should be cynical about. Because the worse this relationship gets,
00:05:41.340the easier it becomes to blame the problems at home here in canada on washington and the liberals
00:05:47.740desperately need somebody else to blame they don't want to run on their 11-year record they
00:05:52.220don't want to have to defend that they've been in government since 2015 at some point the whole
00:05:56.800the previous government it's stephen harper's fault runs out of steam so now they need a new
00:06:01.980villain right they can't blame pierre poliev he's not in power he's never been in power as a prime
00:06:07.820minister so they blame donald trump investment problems trump affordability issues trump
00:06:13.900pointing south and hoping that no one remembers that they've been in power for so long
00:06:19.640and meanwhile canadian businesses are the ones getting hammered not mark carney he's going to
00:06:24.920be fine his cabinet they're all going to be fine bureaucrats in ottawa they're going to continue
00:06:30.340getting their paychecks it's the distiller the farmer the manufacturer the worker they're the
00:06:36.540ones who will eventually get crushed when politicians turn economics real numbers into
00:06:42.400theater and here's where i have a serious problem with the way this entire story is presented by
00:06:48.060the media we're constantly told that america started this america is attacking us america
00:06:53.340is being unfair okay then let's talk about canada's barriers too because canada has protected
00:06:59.780industries for years american alcohol has faced restrictions american dairy has faced
00:07:05.800enormous levels of tariffs. American companies have complained for decades about Canadian market
00:07:12.880access. And now there's finally an American president willing to say, you know what? Enough
00:07:17.320is enough. You want access to the American market? We want access to your market too.
00:07:22.520And that's only fair. That's all Trump has been saying for many years now, since 2016.
00:07:27.240And what sounds insane is believing that Canada should be able to protect whatever
00:07:31.680industries it wants to protect while America is somehow an evil regime if it decides to do the
00:07:38.520same thing for their industries. You guys, again, the hypocrisy is palpable here. That's what's0.91
00:07:46.060happening. That's what the CBC tells you every day is that Trump is the most difficult, most evil0.99
00:07:51.100president that has ever sat in the Oval Office south of the border simply because he wants to
00:07:56.980protect his people, which is what he was elected for. And another thing Canadians need to remember
00:08:02.800is that Mark Carney said he was the best guy to deal with Donald Trump. He was going to get us
00:08:06.640the best deal possible. There would be no tariffs if we voted for Mark Carney. Thankfully, I never
00:08:11.920drank the Kool-Aid. I never voted liberal and never will, but he made that promise. And we're
00:08:17.620actually in a much worse position than we've ever been before when it comes to our relationship with
00:08:22.720the United States. We've never been in a worse position when it comes to negotiating with the
00:08:27.180Americans than we are today. And that's just factual reality, no matter how you view it,