00:00:34.300President Trump has dropped a hammer and basically told the Liberal government in Canada that they're not getting a deal anytime soon.
00:00:41.300This all comes shortly after President Trump cancelled all negotiations with this country due to some anti-tariff ads being purchased by the government of Ontario.
00:00:51.000Doug Ford apparently thought it was a good idea to attack the person that you're trying to negotiate with.
00:00:57.260President Trump was on Fox News earlier this morning once again throwing cold water on updating the current North American free trade agreement.
00:02:41.940Canada, under globalism, Mark Carney, is now being talked about in the same breath as China
00:02:46.960when it comes to loyalty and trade frictions with the United States.
00:02:50.900And the sad part is, regular Canadians are going to pay the price for this.
00:02:55.160Not because they asked for it, at least not all of them,
00:02:58.380but because the liberal government keeps picking fights with our biggest customer,
00:03:02.120our most important relationship, while flirting with the very regimes America is trying to destroy.
00:03:08.520Canada U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and this country's chief trade negotiator are heading back down to D.C. this week for meetings.
00:03:17.540And this longtime Canada U.S. relations expert says Trump's latest comments show that this country should be treating this trade war like a war.
00:03:27.060It's not because you wish to exacerbate the trade war with tit-for-tat retaliation.
00:03:32.180that's not working. And it's not that you want to, you know, do something dramatic that'll hurt
00:03:37.860your own economy, but the U.S. has to be convinced that you're willing to. That's, I think, where we
00:03:43.060are. With just three weeks left before Trump's 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian exports come
00:03:49.480into effect, there's little clarity on the minister's game plan. I think he owes our country
00:03:54.760some transparency. And new data indicates the renewed tariff threats are casting a fresh chill
00:04:01.560on already frozen business investment.
00:04:04.580Holding back on business investments today,
00:04:06.640whether it's investing in machinery and equipment, R&D, or people,
00:04:11.100means delayed in future growth and wages and productivity later on.
00:04:42.980We're right now building more car plants that at any time in our history,
00:04:47.200Toyota just left Mexico, they're building, they just announced,
00:04:51.540they're building $12 billion worth of plants in the United States,
00:04:56.080all because they want to avoid tariffs.
00:04:58.380They have no tariffs if they build their product here.
00:05:01.140Yeah. So the USMCA, are you looking to update that?
00:05:05.140I don't care. I mean, I don't really want to. I'd rather have I'd rather be independent.
00:05:09.700Here's the thing. Mexico and Canada need us. We don't need them.
00:05:15.120The deal is important for them. It's not important for us.
00:05:18.680How Canadians view the United States, a threat or cautiously in 2024, which is 26 percent.
00:05:24.580Ally or friend, 73 percent. Now these numbers inverse, flip around the rosy.
00:05:30.020look at this okay now 74% look at that up nearly 50 points now say Canadians say that the US should
00:05:37.300be viewed as a threat or cautiously the ally or friend down through the floor down the St. Lawrence
00:05:42.460River now just 22% of Canadians say they should view the United States an ally or a friend that
00:05:48.380is down what is that 51 points Canadians not liking the way things are going under the
00:05:53.660administration of Donald John Trump from understanding you know some of the campaign
00:05:57.980was pushing positive narratives about you why do you think that China um the PRC seems to like you
00:06:06.080why are they praising you I have absolutely no idea and I um I yeah I have absolutely no idea0.59
00:06:13.400and I think well I'll leave it at that um now let's talk about who's driving this Canada China
00:06:21.840pivot. Mark Carney, the same man who led Brookfield Global Assets, who may still be
00:06:29.220financially tied to that company, and who has long-standing business ties that benefit from
00:06:35.360deals with China. Whether it's lowering canola tariffs, big electric vehicle imports, or broad
00:06:42.580investment partnerships, Carney is profiting. But that's not even his biggest gain. Politically,
00:06:50.280Carney's using this fight with the United States as a distraction. He doesn't want to run on a
00:06:56.040decade of liberal failure, taxes, debt, energy crisis, economic decay, none of that. He wants
00:07:04.040the campaign to be about hate for Donald Trump. He's turning every criticism of Trump into his
00:07:10.800platform, trying to convince Canadians that this is a struggle against American coercion,
00:07:17.040Even as the evidence points towards him using this Trump fight to cover for his own political weaknesses and Brookfield related economic deals.