U.S. Officials Just Gave Carney His LAST WARNING — Canada's in Deep Trouble..
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In Davos, President Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau clash over Canada's response to the latest round of U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States. The two countries trade barbs, but only Canada and China have been the only ones to retaliate in a significant way.
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I understand that you're upset with the response that Canada made.
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I'm not upset. I'm not upset. It doesn't bother me.
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Okay, you don't view the response from Canada positively.
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There were only two countries that responded in a strongly negative way.
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Really? And I ask with great respect because, yes, you did apply tariffs to other countries,
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but you initially applied 232 fentanyl-associated tariffs to Canada.
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But from where I sit, it seems like you're frustrated with the idea that when Canada got punched, they didn't just lay there.
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That, you know, Canada can have whatever response it wants.
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While the Trump administration is clearly losing patience, what's Mark Carney doing?
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Talking smack in Davos, picking petty fights over U.S. tariffs.
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Tariffs that were imposed on all countries all over the world, by the way.
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And yet only Canada and China decided to escalate.
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No other country, not Japan, not Australia, not the entire European Union, no other country except Canada and China.
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They, like China, retaliated against the United States.
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Two countries in the world retaliate against us, People's Republic of China and Canada.
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The removal of the alcohol from the shelves in Canada by certain provinces was not capricious or arbitrary.
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It wasn't intended to be an insult to American producers.
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The fact that this is a two-way street and certain actions have consequences is an important point in negotiation.
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The Prime Minister yesterday made that point as well.
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This is a two-way street and we won't be bullied and we won't be dictated to.
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provinces except for alberta and saskatchewan banning american alcohol even though canadian
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liquor is still selling in the u.s without an issue politicians talking about replacing the
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u.s market with china the middle east and who knows what else i'm sorry but that's not a plan
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that's an economic fantasy you don't just wake up one morning and replace the united states of
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america your neighbor the largest economy in the world the country that has kept entire
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industries in canada alive for decades and yet this government acts like they can just swap out
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america for china through some secret backroom conversation that nobody's even allowed to know
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about does the visit of china's foreign minister wang yi later this week paved the way for a visit
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by president xi jinping and you've said previously that there are guardrails in place in canada
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against foreign interference yet you're on your government has not released publicly the rcmp
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mou signed with chinese police why is that uh well we don't make a habit i'll answer the
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second part of the question first uh we don't make a habit of releasing uh security documents
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with uh with other governments for reasons of operational security that is standard practice
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for this government previous governments as well so i don't see a reason uh to change that in uh
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in this circumstance so thank you for that question but that's that's our policy and that's
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what we that's what we stay to uh i look forward to uh the visit of uh china's foreign minister
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tomorrow um i will have a chance to to meet with him uh it'll be a valuable exchange of views and
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i i appreciate his arrival thank you i think we have to realize that some of these initiatives
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the prime minister is looking at with china may have to be tossed in the negotiating discussion
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on kusma because the u.s relationship is critical to our economy china is very important for
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agriculture in a couple of sectors but we cannot run into the arms of china because the u.s is
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giving us challenges they put china first they put illegal aliens first and everybody else first
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but you but we put you first by a lot but at long last you finally have a president who is putting
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workers first putting pennsylvania first and putting america first we're doing that and
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we're doing it like nobody's ever seen before now here's the part that makes this even worse
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while mark carney is down there pretending like he suddenly wants a closer relationship with the
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the Americans, the U.S. is looking at Canada like, yeah, we don't trust these people anymore.
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And from Washington's perspective, why would they? Because while Canada was publicly attacking Trump,
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there were reports surfacing about agreements tied to Chinese security cooperation behind the
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scenes. Think about how crazy that looks to the Americans. You've got Canadian politicians talking
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about a new world order, talking about pivoting away from the United States, getting closer with
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China. That's exactly why American officials keep warning that Canada has become one of the least
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reliable U.S. allies. Because from their perspective, Canada spent months becoming
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hostile towards America. More hostile than most countries around the world. And now suddenly,
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Carney wants a reset because the Canadian economy is in big trouble. And Kuzma, NAFTA 2.0,
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may be cancelled. Go figure. But what I do know as the trade guy is that Canada retaliated.
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The only other country in the world who retaliated on tariffs was the Chinese.
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And so if the president's going to take an action and the Canadians retaliate,
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the United States needs to maintain the integrity of our action, the effectiveness that we have to go up to.
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You're talking about the things that the former prime minister, Trudeau, put in place, not the current prime minister.
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Hi, my name is Rob Buffum. I work at CTV and my questions for the prime minister.
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So on behalf of a colleague, and it relates to Kuzma,
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President Trump, as you'll know, has made a range of comments on how he feels about Kuzma,
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including yesterday talking about his preference for it terminating immediately i guess they want
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to know you've obviously been in frequent conversation with the president what are
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your thoughts as to whether he actually wants to see it extended for 16 years keep it for 10 or get
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rid of it right away does trump want to get rid of it right away i know uh no look i think uh look
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as you say i had a number of conversation with the president in parallel in the last few days
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at the g7 on a range of issues including uh some of the commercial aspects uh the uh but you know
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there were very detailed uh a series of technical conversations that slightly diminishes them i just
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call it that way but minister leblanc who's responsible for this our chief negotiator
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ambassador greer uh who is the u.s trade representative uh we continue to work through
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a number of issues which are all related it's no secret the president in recent years has not been
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the biggest fan of Kuzma or other trade deals. But there are specific things that we can work
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together on. So here's the real story. The Trump administration isn't trying to go after Canadians
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individually. They're going after a globalist, China-aligned, liberal machine that is running
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Canada into the ground. The problem is, when Washington swings at Mark Carney, regular Canadians
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are going to get hit too unfortunately workers farmers energy industry manufacturing everybody's
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getting hit because mark carney wants to play globalist leader on the world stage while canada's
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economy gets dragged into the middle of a fight we never had to be in and can't possibly win and
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now the united states is basically telling canada this is your last warning pick a side because you
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can't keep backstabbing america while expecting to still have a strong relationship with it how
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long do you hope usmca negotiations or reviews go on well it's not something that's to me i think
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it's better without it i mean to be honest with you i'm not a big fan of it i liked it because
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it got us out of nafta in other words after six years you had a closet got us out of nafta
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that's the thing i liked about it most we do better without an agreement