00:00:00.000And Donald Trump, he's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses, and we cannot let him succeed.
00:00:09.300The Canadian government has rightly retaliated and is rightly retaliating with our own tariffs that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impact here in Canada.
00:00:21.080Canada Strong will help make America great again.
00:00:25.220Well, let's not waver. Let's not buckle to President Trump's threats.
00:00:28.500Let's let's be strong as we have been. And I think the president has to realize if he doesn't, the midterms aren't going to turn out too well for him.
00:00:38.440My message to everyone, we love Americans. We love the U.S.
00:00:42.600Well, would you look at that after spending the better part of a year attacking Donald Trump over and over again, attacking his administration, talking about how Canada was going to stand up to America, fight back against tariffs and show Washington that we don't need them.
00:00:58.500Now they're all heading into the United States, basically begging for a deal.
00:01:24.740The USMCA review, basically NAFTA 2.0, is approaching.
00:01:30.680Tariffs are still hanging over Canada's head and the Canadian economy is struggling.
00:01:35.580So all of a sudden you have these politicians who seem to have discovered that the Canadian economy couldn't survive without a deal with the United States.
00:01:43.720The Premier's focus here in Washington is what he calls Fortress North America.
00:01:49.080Doug Ford comes to D.C. with a message that echoes what we saw from federal U.S.-Canada
00:01:54.240Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc last week.
00:01:56.940A full renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade deal will benefit economies on both
00:02:18.520And a source tells CTV News he will meet lawmakers, including some high-ranking members of Congress.
00:02:23.860Tonight included a reception with Ross Perot Jr., the American billionaire chair of the board at the United States Chamber of Commerce.
00:02:31.000An industry source tells us the focus there is more broadly Canadian bilateral issues rather than Ontario-specific.
00:02:38.340And Ford has a history of controversy in U.S.-Canada trade negotiations.
00:02:42.500After this ad featuring Ronald Reagan in October, President Donald Trump called off talks with Canada.
00:02:49.520We're going to ramp up the ads. We spent tens of millions of dollars, but now the ads are going to be a little different.
00:02:56.380They're going to show, you know, before he was elected, and then when these tariffs come, and if we don't get a tariff deal,
00:03:04.780they're going to be assembly line shut down, jobs are going to be lost, unemployment's going up.
00:03:09.380So if I'm hearing you're saying you're going to run attack ads basically against what he's doing in the states.
00:03:13.420Well, I wouldn't call them attack ads.
00:03:14.740I'm going to call them information ads.
00:03:16.660This is what makes this whole thing kind of funny.
00:03:20.040Doug Ford spent months talking smack about Trump.
00:03:23.600We were told Canada was going to fight back.
00:03:25.860We were told that America needed us more than we needed them and that we could stand up to Washington and win.
00:03:32.780but now dog ford is down in washington groveling bootlicking and basically begging for a deal at
00:03:40.220the same time other provinces are doing the exact same thing even politicians who build their
00:03:45.000political brand around opposing trump are suddenly having to face reality i mean it makes sense once
00:03:51.420you get past all the slogans and all the political theater reality is pretty simple canada needs
00:03:58.080access to the American market, more than the other way around. And Canada cannot afford years
00:04:04.460of economic conflict with its largest trading partner. The tough talk sounds great at a liberal
00:04:09.600convention, but reality is a whole other ballgame. Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta all have
00:04:15.900offices here in Washington. Three of those provinces are right here inside the Canadian
00:04:21.060Embassy. When half a dozen Manitobans met with U.S. officials to talk trade this week, it was a first
00:04:29.360in history. Manitoba produces about eight and a half million pigs every year. Three million of
00:04:34.600those are exported live into the United States. Those exports are at risk if we don't have the
00:04:40.120protection of the trade agreement. They signal that even though the president signed the agreement
00:04:44.500six years ago, he's not attached to it. So there are some irritants that need to be worked out.
00:04:49.840Manitoba is the newest province at the embassy.
00:04:52.620Ontario and Alberta have had representatives here for one and two plus decades.
00:04:57.200But in this trade war, the four provinces in D.C. meet bi-weekly around this table.
00:05:03.160Ontario's representative says it's been effective.
00:05:05.940We hope that that helps our federal government on things like doing trade agreements
00:05:09.900because so many of the things that are in the American interest really rely with our domain of the provinces.
00:05:17.480One of the things I do is like to show them oil sands.
00:05:21.140The reps spend a lot of time scene-setting to Americans.
00:05:24.360Alberta's brings this oil sand sample to meetings.
00:05:27.580Nathan Cooper says the issue of Alberta separatism hasn't played a significant role in talks.
00:05:33.100On occasion, I'll hear from members of Congress,
00:05:37.020more so out of an interest of what's actually happening there.
00:05:40.380But it very quickly moves on to the key issues that we all face together,
00:05:45.020which is largely energy and agriculture.
00:05:47.480If the United States is willing to do it, I hope they are, because I think it's in their self-interest.
00:05:53.160And so let's get it done by Labor Day.
00:05:55.280I'm hopeful that if we get to a point in time where we find a pathway forward with a new trade agreement with the United States and Mexico,
00:06:01.860that it would be the type of event where we'd actually get a ribbon cutting in the middle,
00:06:05.060where the president and the prime minister meet in the middle and we celebrate a binational relationship and the trade agreements that we have in place.
00:06:11.040I hope that that still happens once we get to the end of an upgraded KASMA.