00:01:39.020In Canada because, you know, a lot of Canadians are saying, well, we didn't do anything wrong and suddenly Donald Trump, you know, put tariffs on us.
00:01:45.880We put tariffs on everybody in the world.
00:01:47.840There are two countries that have retaliated against America.
00:02:04.420In the New York Times last week, Krista Freeland did a very, really good article on the necessity
00:02:10.080to be prepared to retaliate against the Americans.
00:02:13.920Scotty Greenwald, who was the former head of the Canada American Business Council,
00:02:19.520wrote an article saying, I love America, but from Canada's perspective,
00:02:24.980you've got to be prepared to now hit back at the Americans.
00:02:29.200Doug Ford has been saying this for quite some time.
00:02:33.020You're seeing that from David Eby in British Columbia.
00:02:36.360So you're starting to see a consensus of putting pressure on Carney.
00:02:41.000if nothing gets resolved by that deadline, that it may be that Canada is going to start,
00:02:47.880or at least they're trying to give the prime minister the backbone to be able to retaliate.
00:02:52.660So here's the real story. The Trump administration isn't trying to go after Canadians individually.
00:02:59.020They're going after a globalist, China-aligned, liberal machine that is running Canada into the ground.
00:03:05.380The problem is when Washington swings at Mark Carney, regular Canadians are going to get hit too, unfortunately.
00:03:13.400Workers, farmers, energy industry, manufacturing, everybody's getting hit because Mark Carney wants to play globalist leader on the world stage while Canada's economy gets dragged into the middle of a fight we never had to be in and can't possibly win.
00:03:30.600And we need to be very wary about pivoting to China at the expense of the U.S.
00:03:37.700Geography matters, and we are neighbours and we share a continent, and that's not going away.
00:03:42.900And so we have to find some way of coexisting with these so-called great powers,
00:03:47.220but coexisting from a position of being strong enough to ensure that we have sufficient autonomy
00:03:52.600in our decisions, being able to protect our national interests,
00:03:59.360not crossing red lines that we impose that these are interests we're not going to sacrifice.
00:04:04.460You know, with China and Russia in particular, we've seen them drawn even closer together.
00:04:10.620China is underpinning Russian war crimes in Ukraine through many dual-use technologies,
00:04:17.300even some signal-use technologies, such as providing a great amount of their nitrocellulose
00:06:13.660And the main reason is that without Canada, Canada's infiltration by the CCP is not something the United States wants on its border.
00:06:23.260So absolutely, Canada is essential for the United States in defense of the continent.
00:06:28.100Without it, the CCP comes in, increases the threat level, and becomes an existential threat.
00:06:36.000They're not an existential threat now.
00:06:38.440I believe that that's a growing threat.
00:06:40.500I think that beyond kinetic, in a hybrid war sense, absolutely, they're a threat.
00:06:45.980However, should Canada take further steps with the CCP, we don't know where that could go.
00:06:54.420From Chinese boots on the ground to munitions to that military-type support,
00:07:01.060that's a bigger concern, I think, for the United States than the hybrid warfare pieces at this moment.
00:07:06.500It's been building for the last 30 years.
00:07:08.400You know, the United States has recognized that the CCP is infiltrating Canada, and that threat level has increased substantially.
00:07:15.600It's only been recently that the U.S. administration has taken steps to identify it and call Canada out and say, you need to fix what's going on in your country because we're worried about you.