00:00:24.960And the president would say, well, these guys are our partners, fine.
00:00:27.600I'm good with the bilateral with them.
00:00:29.680forget about it imagine a man whose portfolio is invested 92 percent in a country he pretends to
00:00:37.600hate and then he wins an election on attacking that very same country doing everything in his
00:00:43.600power to keep the country he was actually elected to run in a state of managed decline as he lines
00:00:49.920his pockets his popularity stays high as he and the media manipulate the population into hating
00:00:55.800their neighbor and blaming 11 years of failure and decay on their liberal rule on a foreign
00:01:01.900president. If you guessed Canada's Mark Carney, congratulations. You're one of the few not
00:01:08.320affected by the anti-American delusion that has taken over Canada. It's a very petty argument that
00:01:14.380the Canadians are making. We have huge trade with Canada, whether it's fabricated copper, aluminum,
00:01:20.060steel, energy, all these things are a very important partner. They're a five eyes partner.
00:01:23.600I serve on the House Intelligence Committee. And yet to be so petty, to have their government-run alcoholic beverage operations say no more American distillery and winery items should be on the shelves, this is petty. You're talking about pennies versus hundreds and hundreds of dollars, or maybe we could call it millions versus billions. And why they're doing this is, look, Canada, we're just asking for them to investigate. But what is Canada doing?
00:01:52.300They're undermining the United States. And it's important, you know, Ed, when I was in Jameson Greer, our U.S. trade representative, in front of our Ways and Means Committee, you know, once those tariffs were implicated, I asked Jameson, has anyone retaliated against us other than Canada?
00:02:06.380And you know what? Only two countries in the entire world have retaliated against the United States based on tariffs, and that is China and Canada.
00:02:16.380How can that be? How can our very best ally and closest friend to the North, you know, reflect so much, used to actually reflect so many of our values?
00:04:06.600also concerns me that Mexico is willing to provide the sorts of concessions and offers that Canada
00:04:12.660can't. And the president would say, well, these guys are our partners. Fine. I'm good with the
00:04:16.860bilateral with them. Canada, forget about it. So here we are, no deal, no plan, just excuses.
00:04:24.620While Ottawa chases trade with Beijing, they forgot our biggest and most important partnership.
00:04:30.120And Trump said no more one-sided deals, no more backroom games.
00:04:35.720Canada had every chance to secure stability, and instead they gambled it away.
00:04:40.680Canada put a charge on some of our companies,
00:04:44.720and Canada's been a very difficult country to deal with over the years.
00:04:49.280You know, we hear Canada, we have a great relationship with the people of Canada,
00:04:52.900but it's been very difficult, and they put a charge, and they were a little bit early,
00:04:57.080we found out about it so and we have all the cards we will every single one we don't want to
00:05:02.400do anything bad but uh they have uh economically we have such power over canada and it's not going
00:05:10.160to work out well for canada and so i said we're going to stop all negotiations with canada right
00:05:15.480now until they straighten out their act is there anything canada can change your mind about the
00:05:20.940situation well no they put a tax on uh companies that were american companies that they shouldn't
00:05:25.920very severe tax. And yeah, I guess they could remove it. They will. But I don't really I mean,
00:05:33.620it doesn't matter to me. We have all the cards. We have all the cards. You know, we do a lot of
00:05:39.280business with Canada, but relatively little. They do most of their businesses with us.
00:05:44.520And when you have that circumstance, you treat people better. They've had farmers that are
00:05:50.700getting like 300, 400, 200 percent in tariffs. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. We have
00:05:56.220cases, you don't read this and the people don't report, but they charge us 400 percent on some
00:06:03.520dairy products. 400 percent. Nobody writes that. And it's not fair to our farmers and we've got
00:06:11.440to protect our farmers. Hi, my name is Rob Buffum. I work at CTV and my questions for the Prime
00:06:15.540Minister. So on behalf of a colleague and it relates to Kuzma, President Trump as
00:06:20.400you'll know has made a range of comments on how he feels about Kuzma
00:06:23.220including yesterday talking about his preference for it terminating
00:06:26.460immediately. I guess they want to know you've obviously been in frequent
00:06:30.720conversation with the president. What are your thoughts as to whether he
00:06:33.240actually wants to see it extended for 16 years, keep it for 10 or get rid of it
00:06:37.380right away? Does Trump want to get rid of it right away?
00:06:41.660I know. No, look, I think, as you say, I had a number of conversations with the President in parallel in the last few days of the G7 on a range of issues, including some of the commercial aspects.
00:06:54.520But there were very detailed, a series of technical conversations. That slightly diminishes them, I just call it that way.
00:07:03.720but Minister LeBlanc, who's responsible for this, our chief negotiator, Ambassador Greer,
00:07:52.800The president, in recent years, has not been the biggest fan of Kuzma or other trade deals.
00:07:59.200But there are specific things that we can work together on, and including, I'll just put on the table, since we're in British Columbia and we're talking housing, on forest products, which we continue to press with the Americans. Thank you.