PJ The Belt - July 30, 2026


Trump CRUSHES Mark Carney with ONE EXECUTIVE ORDER


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00:00:00.000 The president is poised to unleash new tariffs, fresh tariffs on dozens of countries soon as this
00:00:05.720 week, we're told, as the president has imposed a 50% tariff on some Canadian goods, including cars,
00:00:11.700 alcohol and dairy products. What is the trade discrimination that is at hand causing the
00:00:18.340 president to hike tariffs here on Canada? Well, I think it's something that we've discussed with
00:00:23.780 our Canadian colleagues for a long time, and they haven't done anything about it. They're
00:00:28.480 highly discriminatory on dairy products. U.S. alcohol and beverages have been removed from
00:00:35.200 Canadian shelves. So, you know, this is really just a reciprocity in terms of what they've done
00:00:42.140 to our great U.S. companies. So the USMCA, are you looking to update that? I don't care. I mean,
00:00:48.540 I don't really want to. I'd rather have I'd rather be independent. Here's the thing. Mexico
00:00:53.560 and Canada need us. We don't need them. The United States is not interested in negotiating
00:01:00.780 with Canada anymore. They're moving on and no longer view this country as the ally it once was.
00:01:07.580 President Donald Trump has indicated he has zero, zero intention to meet with Canada's prime
00:01:13.160 minister. Really an unprecedented situation where the two countries barely speak to each other,
00:01:18.860 let alone negotiate a deal. Let's get into the video. Everything's on the table if there's no
00:01:24.300 agreement, depending on the outcome of the negotiations, yes. U.S. President Donald Trump
00:01:29.340 says he'll bring in punishing new tariffs within a month. Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes that can
00:01:34.280 be avoided, but in the meantime, Canada will accelerate trade diversification, set up programs
00:01:39.920 to help sectors that could be hurt by new tariffs, and perhaps consider counter tariffs. But Carney
00:01:46.120 declined to provide many details. If these tariffs or other measures come into force
00:01:51.580 and there's a full range of things that we can do in that regard, we don't need to respond
00:02:00.060 in advance. In fact, I think it would be counterproductive at this stage to respond in
00:02:05.200 advance. Some premiers want to push back hard on Trump. We're a strong country. We're a sovereign
00:02:10.000 country and we need to fight tooth and nail. We can't fight on our back foot all the time.
00:02:16.880 We have to take the offense. Ontario's Doug Ford wants dollar for dollar counter tariffs,
00:02:21.960 but other premiers want to dial down the heat. Alberta's premier, for example, says she's
00:02:27.300 bullish that negotiations will work as Republicans try to rebuild support ahead of this fall's
00:02:33.060 midterm elections. It's a $30 trillion economy versus a $2 trillion economy. Canada needs a deal
00:02:41.580 way more than the U.S. does. As much as Carney will lie to the Canadian people and have them
00:02:47.560 become all delusional thinking, oh, we're going to show the Americans. Numbers don't care about
00:02:52.860 your feelings or your ideology. Economics doesn't care. We will lose the automotive manufacturing
00:03:00.120 industry. The president of that industry said only two weeks ago, if we don't have tariff-free
00:03:05.700 access for exports of cars, manufactured cars, we are going to exit the industry like Australia did
00:03:11.800 in 2017. So we must have an agreement with the United States with as few tariffs as possible.
00:03:19.500 The U.S. is over 10 times larger. They're over 32 trillion GDP in U.S. dollars. We're about
00:03:26.380 to just over $2 trillion, $2.5 trillion in U.S. dollars.
00:03:29.900 We are much more dependent when you look at the actual percentages of GDP.
00:03:35.100 We are far more dependent on the United States than the United States is on us.
00:03:38.740 It is absolutely essential for Canada to negotiate a new trade agreement with the United States.
00:03:45.960 It would be, I believe, catastrophic for Canada if we no longer had full tariff-free
00:03:54.020 or mostly tariff-free access to the American market.
00:03:57.380 I try to be an optimist about Canada
00:03:59.180 because we're the wealthiest country on Earth per capita
00:04:03.560 in terms of what everybody in the world wants,
00:04:06.060 including energy, rare minerals, water, paper, you name it, energy.
00:04:10.980 And unfortunately, there's no other way to put it
00:04:14.980 because the numbers tell the story.
00:04:17.280 Over the last decade, we've been in an economic coma
00:04:21.140 because of bad policy.
00:04:23.540 Bad management, bad government, bad decisions.
00:04:26.520 And, you know, I really don't need to say more than I have about Justin Trudeau. 0.99
00:04:34.240 I've given him the name the Idiot King, and I believe that shows respect, actually, 0.98
00:04:40.420 because he was very successful in terms of how long he ruled with absolutely no executional skills, 1.00
00:04:49.400 but he was an idiot. 1.00
00:04:50.220 and so both are true at the same time and I mean no disrespect when I say that 1.00
00:04:55.740 and a lot of people have you know said to me how can you disrespect the Prime
00:04:59.680 Minister and I said I can tell the truth and you can read the numbers and here we
00:05:04.620 are the bottom of the G20 by every measure you want after 10 years they're
00:05:10.860 doing this for political game they're left-leaning they know that their
00:05:13.960 delusional base is gonna be very happy yeah stick it to Trump while the Canadian
00:05:19.200 economy continues to fall apart.
00:05:21.620 That's the reality of what's happening here.
00:05:23.440 The big rationale for tariffs globally is that the world screws us, and they do it under
00:05:29.000 the rules of the World Trade Organization, which we are a member of.
00:05:33.140 The rules say that they can charge us higher tariffs than we charge them.
00:05:38.160 It's screwy.
00:05:39.520 And we wind up with huge trade deficits, we lose jobs, wages go down.
00:05:44.300 So that's the subtext.
00:05:45.300 Now, Canada, going back to the first term, Chris, when Donald Trump got elected in 2016,
00:05:52.640 Wilbur Ross and I were designated as the guys to start negotiating with Canada before we got a trade representative.
00:06:01.140 And I can tell you that of all the people that I've dealt with on trade, Canada, love the people,
00:06:07.580 but they're negotiating with some of the most dishonest people I've ever met. 0.94
00:06:11.120 They stab you in the back.
00:06:12.280 And what they're doing with this particular set of tariffs is they have these enormous dairy tariffs, like triple-digit dairy tariffs they refuse to back down on.
00:06:24.180 They're screwing us in terms of hard alcohol.
00:06:28.260 We have good alcohol distillers. 1.00
00:06:30.520 And they're screwing us on auto parts. 0.56
00:06:32.240 And they're doing it in a discriminatory way, which is why we're using this thing called 338 to the point where they're doing stuff to us at the same time that they're inviting the Europeans in wide open to their market.
00:06:46.580 So the president says, no, this this is not cutting it.
00:06:50.380 And so what we did was we put tariffs on the three things in question.
00:06:54.820 But because of the way it works, we had to throw in a few things like hockey.
00:06:58.420 Donald Trump plans to impose 50% tariffs, new 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian products.
00:07:08.540 The Kuzma exemptions do not apply to goods that are on this list.
00:07:13.360 In 2018, when we redid NAFTA, one of the new provisions we forced Canada and Mexico to take
00:07:19.480 was their own prohibition on forced labor.
00:07:22.760 So in USMCA, we obligated them to do that.
00:07:25.600 A few years later, we're finding that they aren't actually enforcing that.
00:07:29.640 We could dismantle the U.S. if we wanted to, if we all worked together.
00:07:34.120 Canadian households are absorbing an estimated $2,300 to $2,700 in higher annual costs
00:07:40.640 since the tariffs came into effect.
00:07:42.740 The 50% tariff that Mr. Trump is wanting to put on
00:07:45.140 is still less than what every other province puts on us in Canada.
00:07:49.440 And so, you know, the illusion or the free trade illusion
00:07:52.240 that's coming out of Charlottetown is really just that.
00:07:55.240 I mean, this is just taking what they had said they were going to do last year and they're just regurgitating it.
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