00:00:00.000Here's the thing. Mexico and Canada need us. We don't need them.
00:00:05.600We, unfortunately, need it. And so there is no other option.
00:00:10.760And the prime minister has acknowledged that himself in the change of tone, change in message he's gone from last year's election campaign to a speech in New York where it was about making America great again with a Canada strong.
00:00:21.900Hey everybody, how's it going? You know things are starting to get real for the government of Canada and Mark Carney when even the CBC, the government broadcaster, the people that they pay to manipulate Canadians and basically brainwash the population with liberal propaganda is starting to admit that the liberal government of Canada is in deep trouble and that they're having to come to terms with the reality that Canada needs the United States a heck of a lot more than the United States ever needed Canada.
00:00:49.340I mean, you can do all the elbows up you want to do, you can ban all the U.S. alcohol you want to ban, but when math and reality kicks in, you've got to come to terms with that.0.62
00:01:01.120This is the right moment to sort of continue on with pursuing Kuzma. Do we need to have a bigger, broader conversation about whether this is even worth it?0.74
00:01:33.800And so they are forced to play on the playing field that Donald Trump has set.
00:01:37.780that is just the state of play. I think it's really important to note and emphasize everything
00:01:45.260that we're hearing, your reporting, my reporting, all the reporting we're seeing, all shows that
00:01:50.620this is not a return in any way to normal. Canada is making concessions for less pain, not no pain.
00:01:56.460They are concessions to have still some form of tariffs. It's just not as bad. And to the question
00:02:01.600of the premiers that you started the conversation on, Donald Trump, you know, for all his faults,
00:02:06.580is smart. The 338 tariffs that are threatened to come in a week and a half target BC, Ontario,
00:02:12.240and Quebec. So if those premiers say, no, our booze ban stays in effect, then those same premiers
00:02:18.340are looking at a 50% tariff that decimates some of their key industries. And so he has them
00:02:23.520cornered in many ways. The prime minister says there are positions of strength like Canada has.
00:02:28.520He keeps those cards close to his chest. So we're just seeing what's in public. And I would say,
00:02:33.320These are flashbacks for you more than for me, Katie, but they are much more careful in what they share and what they leak privately even or even what meetings they acknowledge compared to the last round that we saw in 2016, 17, 18.
00:02:45.760And the factual reality here, regardless of anybody's feelings or anybody's sentiment against Donald Trump, is that 75% of Canada's exports, that is every single export, everything from energy, petroleum, gas, oil and gas, to lumber, to steel, 75% of everything Canada produces goes south of the border.
00:03:11.400Three quarters of Canada's economy heavily depends on the United States economy,
00:03:17.100which is, by the way, the biggest economy, the most successful economy in the world.
00:04:08.240It's just a very different situation in Canada and, of course, because Canada is so reliant on the U.S. economy.
00:04:14.960Even though the Americans are reliant on the Canadian economy as Canada being their biggest customer, it's just not the same sense of urgency.
00:04:22.360So it doesn't nearly get as much attention.
00:04:24.800Now, we have heard businesses, unions and some lawmakers come forward to say, listen, we don't find these tariffs helpful.
00:04:33.520We want to be able to plan for the rules of the road. And that's why they want to ensure that Kuzma gets renewed, that they that there are some that businesses know what the rules are going to be related to trade so they can make decisions around staffing, investments and sales, those kinds of things.
00:04:48.960And so I don't know if I would describe it as pressure on the Trump administration. But, you know, Donald Trump is looking for ways to try to make life more affordable for Americans at a time as they're heading toward the midterm elections.
00:05:01.680the thing is tariffs and trade it doesn't necessarily get that kind of it's those dots
00:05:10.500are not necessarily connected when it comes to American media coverage yes there are stories
00:05:15.600about tariffs but it's it's not sort of the same kind of coverage we do here in Canada so again
00:05:19.700it isn't the same kind of urgency or the conversation isn't the same in the U.S. as it
00:05:25.640he is here in Canada. Donald Trump is known to trust his gut and do what Donald Trump is going
00:05:31.280to do. And so I think something that Canadians need to keep in mind heading into next week,
00:05:36.620where even if a plan is presented to the president with a number of different options for him to
00:05:41.760consider, Canadians just need to remember Donald Trump is going to Donald Trump. And if he likes
00:05:47.380the options, maybe it works. Maybe he wants changes. You know, you don't know until the
00:05:52.740final deal is signed when it comes to Donald Trump. No matter how much Carney tells you that
00:05:57.200we're going to show the Americans that we're going to somehow retaliate and make them suffer,
00:06:03.960in the meantime, the United States is really 10%, I think, is Canada, 10 to 15%. So it's a heck of a
00:06:12.000lot less. It's not nothing, but it's a heck of a lot less. There's a reason why Americans don't
00:06:19.980even really pay mind to Canada. Well, Canadians, most Canadians, especially those on the left,
00:06:25.900talk about Donald Trump all day and we got to show him. And just the Trump derangement syndrome
00:06:30.940is insane because they know the reality. And so it's like a teenager in denial, right? Just a
00:06:38.940teenage girl in denial. I hate him. I love him. I hate him. I love him. Except here, it's just,0.99
00:06:44.020I hate him all the time, but I can't stop talking about him. Right? So now you got the CBC and
00:06:49.520their anchors having to come to terms with the reality that canada better make the concessions
00:06:56.060you know for all the elbows up talk mark carney has been given concession after concession to try
00:07:02.820to get a deal and at the end of the day president donald trump has been signaling forever that if
00:07:08.280canada wants free trade and full access to the american economy continued access because forever
00:07:13.640canada had free trade access to the united states but canada happened to be one of the most
00:07:17.540protectionist countries against the united states because a lot of us people here north of the
00:07:22.880border think that canada is open to the united states but not so i mean generally speaking yes
00:07:29.220but there's some very tricky very protectionist things that bother donald trump and and americans
00:07:36.440for a very long time it's just democrats have just kind of they don't care about the economy
00:07:40.260generally speaking so they never focused on it but one of the prickly things that donald trump
00:07:44.800has gone after from his first term in 2016 and that he's denounced is the dairy cartel here in
00:07:51.280canada canada by the way imposes a 250 to 300 percent tariff on many of our dairy products they
00:07:58.900do the first uh the first can of milk they do the first little carton of milk at a very low price
00:08:05.760but after that it gets bad and then it gets up to 275 300 percent so when they're figuring what's
00:08:12.280Canada charging, they say, oh, about 2 percent, 3 percent. But take a look at what happens down
00:08:17.680the road when you look a little bit. It's not a pretty picture and we don't like it and it's not
00:08:22.360fair. It's not fair to our farmers. It's not fair to our country. We got a communist Soviet era
00:08:28.100practice called supply management that has bothered Donald Trump. And basically what it is,
00:08:33.200is a group of farmers, industrial farmers, mostly based out of Quebec. They produce a certain quota
00:08:41.980of milk and dairy products and eggs and you know poultry and such and they don't allow
00:08:47.360more than a certain very limited amount of U.S. product into Canada so it's basically
00:08:54.700protectionism not allowing American farmers to access the U.S. they're not letting the market
00:08:59.940compete and let the best producer with the best quality product and best bang for your buck
00:09:05.320win which is a win-win it's good for the farmers because the best will be the one surviving and
00:09:11.920It's good for consumers, for you and I, because we'll pay less for product.
00:09:15.640I don't know when was the last time you went south of the border, but you'll find out that up here in Canada for 30 eggs, we'll pay $12, $13.
00:09:24.900South of the border, you'll find 30 eggs for $7, half the price.