00:01:18.000Captain Elbows Up is here to save the day.
00:01:20.920apparently all we have to do is keep our elbows up while the canadian economy continues to go down
00:01:27.140the toilet and before i get into what i think really is going on here i want to take a second
00:01:32.380to thank everybody who's been supporting this channel we're getting closer and closer to 100
00:01:36.500000 subscribers and i gotta tell you it means a lot to me that so many of you keep coming back
00:01:41.400to hear these conversations so to everybody who's already part of this community thank you
00:01:46.120Now, here's what really bothers me about this whole thing, and I want you to pay attention to this because I think there's something much bigger going on here.
00:01:55.160When those trade negotiations fell apart back in August, what was the story?
00:02:00.760What was the story that Canadians were being sold at the time?
00:02:04.520Canada walks away from a deal with Donald Trump.
00:02:08.160Mark Carney stands up to the Americans, right?
00:02:11.120Mark Carney defends Canadian sovereignty and apparently he was also defending Quebec's French
00:02:17.200language. Now, hold on a second, because I don't think that framing right there was an accident.
00:02:23.680Not for one second. And I'll tell you why. I don't believe Mark Carney does anything without a
00:02:28.920reason. Nothing. My grandfather used to tell me that there were three professions that you should
00:02:34.480never trust. Lawyers, politicians, and bankers, or the tax man, depending on which day you asked him.
00:02:41.880Well, Mark Carney's two of those three things. He's a banker and he's a politician. So you'll
00:02:47.000have to forgive me if I'm a little cynical about the guy, because this isn't Justin Trudeau we're
00:02:52.380talking about here. This isn't some silver spoon drama teacher who stumbled his way into the
00:02:57.840prime minister's office because of his last name. This guy's a former central banker. He's been
00:03:03.300involved in some of the biggest financial institutions in the world. He understands
00:03:08.600money, he understands markets, and he certainly understands political calculations. So when I see
00:03:14.920Mark Carney walk away from negotiations with Donald Trump and then present himself as some
00:03:21.160kind of national hero for doing it, I have questions because the media certainly didn't
00:03:27.000seemed to have too many. Oh, no, no, no. They ate the story right up. What a hero. What a patriot.
00:03:34.780Mark Carney stood up to the big bad orange man south of the border. Everybody gave him a round0.99
00:03:39.180of applause. But I want you to hold on just a second because there's one very important detail
00:03:44.700missing from this whole story. What exactly was in that agreement? Seriously, what was in it?
00:03:51.840What was so unacceptable that Canada had to walk away from the negotiating table?
00:03:56.120Because we've heard all this talk about sovereignty, right? About French language rights, about standing up for Canada. But where are the actual terms? Where's the proposal? Where's the documentation about the accord? Where is it? Canadians need to understand what was said and what was offered.
00:04:14.720If those terms were really that terrible, if Donald Trump was demanding something so crazy that no reasonable Canadian government could possibly accept it, then wouldn't releasing that information actually help Mark Carney's case?
00:04:28.140I mean, think about it. If the Americans were making insane demands, show us. Let Canadians see it. Let everybody know exactly what we were being asked to give up.
00:04:40.380Because I'll tell you something. If I saw an agreement that was clearly terrible for Canada, I'd be the first guy to say, yeah, walk away. But that's not what we're getting, is it? We're getting the trust me, bro, approach. Just trust Mark Carney. Trust the government. Trust the same people who promised us a deal back in 2025 and still haven't delivered one.
00:05:04.420And it's like, give me a break. Seriously, give me a break. And here's where this gets even more
00:05:11.500interesting, because the American side has offered a completely different account of what happened
00:05:18.040during those negotiations. There have been claims that Canada was prepared to accept the terms
00:05:23.640before the negotiations fell apart last minute. Now, I'm not saying we should automatically
00:05:28.260believe everything that comes out of Washington either, but that's exactly my point. We've got
00:05:34.140different accounts of what happened. And Canadians are the ones paying the price. We just lost 68,0000.97
00:05:40.900jobs yesterday. So why shouldn't we be demanding more information? Why shouldn't we know what
00:05:46.820exactly was offered, what was on the table? Mark Carney represents us, doesn't he? He's supposed
00:05:52.820to be working for Canadians, not the other way around. And transparency and accountability should
00:05:58.020mean something in this country. Now, I understand that trade negotiations can involve confidential
00:06:03.700information fine then explain what can be disclosed the red lines what made the deal
00:06:12.780unacceptable but don't again don't go back to the whole trust me bro thing because that's just not
00:06:20.080gonna work man it's it doesn't work but here's the deal what if mark carney doesn't actually
00:06:26.140want this confrontation to end what if this whole elbows up business has become more politically
00:06:32.140valuable to him than an actual trade deal with the United States. Think about that for a second.
00:06:38.480Because if Mark Carney makes a deal with Donald Trump and the relationship between Canada and
00:06:43.520the United States starts to improve, what happens then? Well, suddenly the big bad orange man south
00:06:50.120of the border isn't such a useful boogeyman anymore, is he? Suddenly you can't blame every0.52
00:06:55.180single problem in Canada on Donald Trump. Suddenly Canadians might start actually asking questions
00:07:01.000of their government. That's what I find so convenient about this whole thing,
00:07:05.760because as long as Donald Trump is the enemy, as long as Canadians are being told to keep their
00:07:11.440elbows up, there's always somebody else to blame. Something goes wrong? Blame Trump. If business
00:07:17.840closes? Blame Trump. Canadian economy struggling? Well, that's Donald Trump's fault. Meanwhile,
00:07:24.720Mark Carney gets to present himself as the guy defending Canada from the very confrontation
00:07:29.740that he's supposed to be trying to fix.
00:07:32.920And don't even get me started on the fact
00:07:35.060that this is all benefiting the company
00:07:37.940that he used to represent, Brookfield.