PJ The Belt - July 15, 2026


Trump just WENT NUCLEAR on Mark Carney


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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks on the impact of the Trump administration's new trade tariffs on Canada and the USMCA, and why he's not looking to renew the trade deal with the United States.

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00:00:00.000 And you know what? Only two countries in the entire world have retaliated against the United States based on tariffs, and that is China and Canada.
00:00:10.240 We're trying to make sure that ultimately, while the U.S. is becoming weaker, we will become stronger and we will diversify and turn ourselves towards Europe.
00:00:20.320 Canada is the only country on earth, along with China, that has imposed so many counter tariffs. 0.79
00:00:26.320 These people are insane. They're insane. They're crazy. I think they're purposely trying to sabotage the longstanding relationship that Canada and the United States have had for well over 100 years. Nothing else explains it. They're not that dumb. I'm sure some of them are really stupid, but not all of them are that dumb. And Mark Carney is part of that too. He's getting cozier and cozier with China, getting closer to Europe, talking about Canada. 1.00
00:00:56.320 joining the European Union, a union that is collapsing, falling apart. In every sense of 0.77
00:01:01.940 the word, the euro is falling apart, just like the Canadian dollar is. As people are talking about,
00:01:07.740 oh, we're going to stand up to Trump and show the Americans. Sure, you're going to show
00:01:11.340 a $30 trillion economy with a $2 trillion economy smaller than Texas, one state.
00:01:19.140 We take good note of the comments made by the President, and of course we'll let the Prime Minister continue his negotiations, and we'll not negotiate in public.
00:01:31.860 These have been the answers that I've been giving to every single question since the beginning of the negotiations.
00:01:38.120 What I wanted to emphasis today is, as minister in charge of industries and of the economy, is we are not alone in this world.
00:01:50.480 We need to be closer to our allies.
00:01:53.060 And that is why today is so important.
00:01:56.000 It's been only 15 days that the prime minister signed an agreement with the EU to make sure that not only, of course, that we have free trade agreement,
00:02:04.540 but that we are very closely aligned on the fence and on all our industrial policies.
00:02:12.960 And we're trying to make sure that ultimately, while the U.S. is becoming weaker,
00:02:18.120 we will become stronger and we will diversify and turn ourselves towards Europe.
00:02:23.020 Canada is the only country on earth, along with China, that has imposed so many counter-terrorists.
00:02:29.260 So we have had already a very strong response.
00:02:32.540 How confident are you that you'll be able to renew the USMCA, and what more do you expect from Canada at this point?
00:02:39.440 Well, I'm not looking to renew it. I don't, you know, I mean, I made the deal, and the primary reason I made the deal is that NAFTA was the worst trade deal I've ever seen, and I made it better, but I had the right to terminate, and, you know, with NAFTA, we didn't have the right to terminate.
00:02:53.040 i had to get these senators to approve that deal that was a tough thing congressman too
00:02:59.040 nafta had no termination so i mean i've never said this before but i'll tell you what my thinking was
00:03:05.120 nafta was a disaster for our country the worst trade deal ever made by far nafta was the worst
00:03:11.680 trade deal we ever had usmca did one thing that i loved after six years it comes up for renewal
00:03:20.160 I don't know that I'm going to redo it because to be honest with you the United States does much
00:03:27.440 better. We don't need anything that Canada has. We don't need anything that Mexico has but they
00:03:32.500 need everything that we have. Meanwhile Trump's been saying the exact same thing about Canada
00:03:37.020 from the moment he got elected. If your economy is so dependent on the United States for survival
00:03:42.420 then maybe you should just become part of America. He's been telling Canadian politicians the same
00:03:48.220 message for months if you truly want free trade then open your market the president understands
00:03:55.900 that we need to open the markets canada is not open to us they need to open their market unless
00:04:02.220 they're willing to open their market they're going to pay a tariff let's have real free trade where
00:04:07.180 there's no tariffs on your side or our side but there's an issue canada is very protectionist
00:04:14.380 while the government complains that trump policies are protectionists they do the exact same thing
00:04:19.500 here tariffing american exports into canada as high as three to four hundred percent especially
00:04:26.460 when it comes to dairy all to protect the quebec dairy cartel so if seven months ago the possibility
00:04:32.860 like the the the 10 000 foot view of what what is possible was possible why is it not possible to
00:04:40.220 arrive at a similar 10,000-foot point of view right now?
00:04:46.520 On a Canadian part, I don't think folks recognize the impact of what happened in October and
00:04:54.720 November.
00:04:55.520 The president and the prime minister, I think they really believe leaving on October 7th.
00:05:01.360 We've got a framework for an agreement here.
00:05:03.320 We just need our teams to go back and fill it out a little bit.
00:05:08.140 And that was the perception that we were well on our way to making that happen.
00:05:13.220 I think the prime minister has even said that it was very, very close to having an agreement.
00:05:17.760 And then, you know, poof, it's all gone.
00:05:20.420 So if I'm hearing you're saying you're going to run attack ads, basically, against what he's doing in the States.
00:05:24.080 Well, I wouldn't call them attack ads.
00:05:25.400 I'm going to call them information ads.
00:05:27.080 And they're going to inform the great people of the United States, you know, how it could be and having two great nations.
00:05:35.720 and how it might be if these tariffs continue to go through.
00:05:39.980 As far as I'm concerned, it's unacceptable.
00:05:42.920 You'll see some of the presidents that were the most successful were believers in tariffs.
00:05:47.880 And I even see foreign countries now that we are doing very well with taking ads.
00:05:53.340 Don't go with tariffs. They're taking ads.
00:05:55.140 I saw an ad last night from Canada.
00:05:57.380 If I was Canada, I'd take that same ad also.
00:06:00.560 But they're actually on television taking ads.
00:06:03.120 Again, to me, it seems like these people either don't know what the hell they're doing or their goal is for this trade war to continue indefinitely.
00:06:12.000 What kind of negotiating tactic involves buying attack ads against the person you're trying to negotiate with, especially if that person you're dealing with is Donald Trump?
00:06:21.720 In what world is that a good idea? 0.56
00:06:23.500 In reality, they've never gotten back on track the same way that we've had progress with the Mexicans. 1.00
00:06:33.120 I'm getting to an agreement. 0.99
00:06:34.920 I guess, Ambassador, what I'm trying to determine is why.
00:06:36.860 And I know the reason identified by the president at the time,
00:06:39.480 and there's debate about that,
00:06:40.520 but it was around this Ronald Reagan ad put forth by the premier of Ontario.
00:06:43.580 The prime minister apologized for that, right?
00:06:45.800 The prime minister criticized, in essence, the premier for doing that.
00:06:50.060 He represents the federal government.
00:06:51.640 Why was that not enough to re-embark,
00:06:54.600 or at least at this point, all these months later,
00:06:57.140 sort of enter into this with the goodwill that existed seven months ago?
00:07:00.760 Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the discussions have been going back and forth.
00:07:05.360 Every one of the meetings, you know, early on when the president and the prime minister met,
00:07:10.960 right after the prime minister got elected, I think it was within two weeks he was at the White House.
00:07:16.140 They met again at Kenanaskis, and then we met on October 7.
00:07:20.860 I don't know the detailed discussions, but in every one of those meetings,
00:07:25.660 as the meeting came to a close, the president would say, make us an offer.
00:07:30.080 Make us an offer.
00:07:31.800 Obviously, at the third meeting there, you made an offer.
00:07:36.200 The prime minister came in prepared, and we basically accepted that offer and said, yeah, let's move forward.
00:07:43.660 My gut feel on this is that maybe there was, perhaps there wasn't an offer that was enticing enough to really say,
00:07:50.780 okay, yeah, this is really, really good.
00:07:52.700 Let's go back and let's work these things out.
00:07:54.820 We're going to ramp up the odds.
00:07:56.600 we spent tens of millions of dollars but now the odds are going to be a little different
00:08:00.820 they're they're going to show you know before he was elected and then when these tariffs come
00:08:07.020 and if we don't get a tariff deal they're going to be assembly line shut down jobs are going to
00:08:12.700 be lost unemployment's going up and and inflation's going up again i don't want to do this