00:02:57.540And what's frustrating in this, Andrew, is if you zoom out and sort of remove yourself from the politics that surround Parliament Hill, they're both right.
00:04:30.300It's the primary adversary of the United States
00:04:33.640And its entire global strategy is to undermine American power using economic dependencies and technological infiltration.
00:04:42.840And now Canada is letting Chinese electric vehicles in, which U.S. security agencies have already warned can function as data collection and espionage platforms.
00:04:53.020They're flooding into the Canadian market, basically turning Canada into a backdoor entry point into North America.
00:05:00.580And that's why Trump is threatening 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods. Because from Washington's point of view, this is no longer about trade. This is about China using Canada as a vassal state to bypass U.S. security and economic defense systems.
00:05:18.680and once you hit that level you're now officially in intervention territory economic first for sure
00:05:26.800but security is likely to follow and that's why this is escalating very quickly and so i said
00:05:34.620we're going to stop all negotiations with canada right now until they straighten out their act
00:05:40.020is there anything canada can change your mind about the situation well no they put a tax on
00:05:44.940companies that were American companies that they shouldn't verse a very severe tax and
00:05:50.720yeah I guess they could remove it they will but I don't really I mean it doesn't matter to me
00:05:56.460we have all the cards we have all the cards you know we do a lot of business with Canada but
00:06:02.140relatively little they do most of their businesses with us and when you have that circumstance you
00:06:08.400treat people better. They've had farmers that are getting like 300, 400, 200 percent in tariffs.
00:06:16.340Nobody's ever seen anything like it. We have cases. You don't read this and the people don't
00:06:21.000report, but they charge us 400 percent on some dairy products. 400 percent. Nobody writes that.
00:06:30.520It's not fair to our farmers and we've got to protect our farmers. I wonder if we would be in
00:06:35.980recession if it had not been for a trade war inflicted by donald trump oh listen so two things
00:06:41.480on that one i think you're entirely right we probably would not it's hard to actually meet
00:06:45.660the standard of a recession of two back-to-back quarters because even if you have one month of
00:06:49.680decent growth it offsets it the other thing to remember in all of this though is that we were
00:06:54.780very weak coming into this we were weak before the trade war began that weakness has been going
00:07:00.040on for a decade or more we need to address that and nothing anybody's saying should offset that
00:07:04.980Now, let's talk about who's driving this Canada-China pivot. Mark Carney, the same man who led Brookfield Global Assets, who may still be financially tied to that company and who has longstanding business ties that benefit from deals with China.
00:07:22.900Whether it's lowering canola tariffs, big electric vehicle imports, or broad investment partnerships, Carney is profiting.
00:07:36.120Politically, Carney is using this fight with the United States as a distraction.
00:07:41.120He doesn't want to run on a decade of liberal failure, taxes, debt, energy crisis, economic decay, none of that.
00:07:49.640He wants the campaign to be about hate for Donald Trump.
00:07:53.760He's turning every criticism of Trump into his platform, trying to convince Canadians that this is a struggle against American coercion, even as the evidence points towards him using this Trump fight to cover for his own political weaknesses and Brookfield related economic deals.
00:08:13.760If you support this channel, remember to hit subscribe. YouTube doesn't like conservative channels like this one, but if you do, again, please remember to subscribe. It's completely free, and I will keep bringing you videos and reports like this one. See you in the next one.