PJ The Belt - U.S. Officials Just Put Canada ON NOTICE..

00:00:00.000 You do not come into another country and run political ads against the president of the United States.

00:00:06.040 We don't come into Canada and run political ads against the prime minister or political party in Canada.

00:00:14.900 That's not appropriate behavior.

00:00:20.100 Foreign countries do not go into other countries and do political ads.

00:00:24.640 advocating for certain candidates, especially during an election season. Canada decided to do

00:00:32.600 that in the United States. As far as I can tell, and I've talked to historians and all of that,

00:00:36.880 it's probably the first time in American history that a foreign country came into the United States

00:00:42.640 of America and tried to influence our politics and our policies through electioneering. 0.97

00:00:50.780 You got politicians talking tough and paying lip service like Doug Ford while doing very little to actually help the situation and quite the opposite, making it worse.

00:01:02.220 Watch.

00:01:02.740 We're going to make sure that we inflict as much pain as possible to the American people without inflicting pain on the Canadian population.

00:01:12.980 So if I'm hearing you're saying you're going to run attack ads basically against what he's doing in the States.

00:01:16.640 Well, I wouldn't call them attack ads.

00:01:17.960 I'm going to call them information ads.

00:01:19.660 And they're going to inform the great people of the United States, you know, how it could be and having two great nations and how it might be if these tariffs continue to go through.

00:01:32.560 As far as I'm concerned, it's unacceptable.

00:01:35.580 I mean, Canada would argue that we were in sort of unprecedented times.

00:01:38.680 We felt as though we were bullied.

00:01:40.060 There was talk about a 51st state.

00:01:41.740 You do not come into another country and run political ads against the president of the United States.

00:01:47.680 We don't come into Canada and run political ads against the prime minister or a political party in Canada.

00:01:56.520 That's not appropriate behavior.

00:01:59.000 Is the president coming to Canada saying you could be the 51st state and you probably should?

00:02:03.260 That doesn't seem appropriate either.

00:02:04.940 Well, I think that discussion, as I've talked about the 51st state, if you want to talk about the 51st state from my perspective,

00:02:12.720 that's a discussion between the president and Mark Carney.

00:02:15.960 And you have said that you think it's a good discussion, that they should have.

00:02:19.740 I didn't say that should be a good discussion or a bad discussion.

00:02:22.540 That's for the two of them to have, not for me to weigh in on that.

00:02:26.540 I've got enough to do without worrying about a 51st state.

00:02:30.340 And that's a decision that's made at the top levels of government.

00:02:34.020 Again, to me, it seems like these people either don't know what the hell they're doing

00:02:38.380 or their goal is for this trade war to continue indefinitely.

00:02:42.280 What kind of negotiating tactic involves buying attack ads against the person you're trying to negotiate with?

00:02:49.540 Especially if that person you're dealing with is Donald Trump.

00:02:52.600 In what world is that a good idea?

00:02:55.080 I'm not a politician and even I know that.

00:02:57.660 What do you make of the fact that the White House, the U.S. administration, seems to have such a deep dislike for you?

00:03:03.800 And do you think that your interventions make any difference?

00:03:06.980 Well, you know something?

00:03:08.480 I just love the American people.

00:03:10.780 I love the U.S.

00:03:11.600 I've said it a thousand times, no matter what broadcast I'm on, the reception I get when I go down there is second to none.

00:03:18.940 If the president feels, for one reason or another, you know, he made his comments to the chamber,

00:03:25.860 I can tell you, Ross Perot Jr., he's a class act, and we'll reschedule it at a later date.

00:03:32.940 But you're going to have to ask the chamber if that's the case.

00:03:38.140 We've got some breaking news out of Washington.

00:03:40.080 Megan Costella has the story. Megan? Kelly, we just heard from U.S. Trade Representative

00:03:45.700 Jamison Greer that the United States is not renewing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement for

00:03:50.640 another 16-year period. Now, today was the deadline for all three countries to say they

00:03:55.100 wanted to renew and extend the deal for another 16 years. Canada and Mexico had formally said

00:03:59.820 they wanted to do that. We expected the U.S. to do this. And crucially, Kelly, this does not mean

00:04:05.140 that the agreement falls apart immediately. But this will kick off what we expect will be a pretty

00:04:09.320 intense renegotiation between the three countries. Some talks have already kicked off between the

00:04:13.660 United States and Mexico in a formal way. They're also in touch with their Canadian counterparts as

00:04:18.540 well. And there's likely to bring some big policy changes, likely around the automotive sector,

00:04:22.500 some rules of origin, maybe some labor disputes, particularly with Mexico. What this does now,

00:04:27.620 Kelly, is this sends the USMCA into something like a 10-year countdown clock. After 10 years,

00:04:33.600 if the three parties haven't by then agreed to renew the deal, that's when it would fall apart.

00:04:37.700 But for now, it kicks off this renegotiation. We'll get annual reviews and we expect a lot more engagement among the three parties between now and while they continue to work these issues out.

00:04:46.900 The United States just issued a final warning to Canada. And no, this is not just another little trade dispute. This is the American government basically saying we are done playing games with Mark Carney.

00:04:59.500 U.S. officials at the highest level have clearly lost patience for Canada, and America now sees Canada as a hostile and broken partnership right beside China.

00:05:09.380 Think about that for a second.

00:05:10.980 Canada, on their globalism arc Carney, is now being talked about in the same breath as China when it comes to loyalty and trade frictions with the United States.

00:05:19.940 And the sad part is regular Canadians are going to pay the price for this.

00:05:23.760 Not because they asked for it, at least not all of them, but because the liberal government keeps picking fights with our biggest customer, our most important relationship while flirting with the very regimes America is trying to destroy.

00:05:37.780 I know the guy. I know the way he negotiates.

00:05:39.900 When was the last time you spoke to the president? And as you diversify trade away from the U.S.?

00:05:44.940 Who cares? I mean, it's a detail. It's a detail. I spoke to him. I'll speak to him again when it matters.

00:05:50.660 We need the the Canadian government to fight on our behalf. It's not going to happen here in Ottawa. It's going to happen in Washington.

00:05:56.660 We need a timetable. We need to start to work together. Is this a two to three month plan? Is this a six month plan? Is this a one year plan?

00:06:04.660 My answer will be different for each one of those scenarios.

00:06:07.660 Because you have to admit and come up with the reality that what you're asking of us is to stand to the front line of a trade war with the United States.

00:06:16.660 States and we are the front line. As we prepare for this, we are preparing for the risk of our

00:06:23.380 businesses, we're playing and gambling with the future of our employees and we don't know really

00:06:28.100 how long this is going to go. So you ask for what my answer is for what support, I ask you

00:06:33.300 tell us what the plan is because you're asking us to toe the line right now and we really don't

00:06:39.240 know how long it's going to be. If you tell me it's July, we'll probably be okay. If you tell

00:06:44.700 me it's going to go much longer than that then we need to come up with some

00:06:47.940 serious measures to be able to support these companies because right now Canada

00:06:51.420 and the United States for all the reasons I put down are the two ugly

00:06:55.100 sisters and what's leaving is never coming back so I asked the question how 0.97

00:07:01.620 long do you want us to hold the line it's not going to work out well for 0.91

00:07:04.380 Canada they were foolish to do it and so I said we're going to stop all 0.94

00:07:08.460 negotiations with Canada right now until they straighten out their act 0.98

00:07:14.520 your mind about this? No, they put a tax on companies that were American companies that

00:07:19.740 they should have very, very severe tax. And yeah, I guess they could remove it. They will. But I

00:07:26.660 don't really I mean, it doesn't matter to me. We have all the cards. We have all the cards. You

00:07:31.440 know, we do a lot of business with Canada, but relatively little. They do most of their businesses

00:07:36.540 with us. And when you have that circumstance, you treat people better. They've had farmers that

00:07:43.020 are getting like 300 400 200 percent in tariffs nobody's ever seen anything like it we have

00:07:49.260 cases you don't read this and the people don't report but they charge us 400 percent on some

00:07:56.220 dairy products 400 percent nobody writes that and it's not fair to our farmers and

00:08:03.400 we've got to protect our farmers

PJ The Belt - July 04, 2026

U.S. Officials Just Put Canada ON NOTICE..

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