EZRA LEVANT ｜ Carney's unholy alliance with Doug Ford kills U.S. trade talks
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Did Doug Ford's 75 million dollar attack ad against Donald Trump actually fail? Or was it just a political stunt? Or did it have a chance to work? And what should we do about it now?
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hello my friends what an explosive controversy doug ford's 75 million dollar attack ad against
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donald trump well that didn't end well and now canada's paying the price but did ford mean to
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fail i'll look into that possibility i'd like you to get the video version of this podcast i want
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government and it shows tonight trump suspends all trade talks with canada blaming a tv ad campaign
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by doug ford but what's really going on it's october 24th and this is the as with the vance show
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shame on you you censorious last night u.s president donald trump announced that he was
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suspending all trade talks with canada he said he was doing this in reaction to an ad campaign
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that premier doug ford from ontario was running in the united states an excerpt from a speech by the late
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president ronald reagan about tariffs here's an excerpt from that speech from that ad high tariffs
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inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars then the
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worst happens markets shrink and collapse businesses and industries shut down and millions of people lose
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their jobs throughout the world there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all
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nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition america's
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now reagan really did say those things he believed in free trade and lower tariffs
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we know that because he negotiated an enormous free trade deal with canada and he deregulated the u.s
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economy but reagan said other things too in the same speech too about how tariffs can and should be used
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for temporary purposes if foreign trade is skewed in certain ways obviously those parts were left out of
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the speech now news reports say the government of ontario has spent 75 million dollars on that ad now i i
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honestly find that hard to believe that is so massive i mean for comparison the national uh firearms
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association the national rifle association excuse me only spent 10 million dollars in the last election
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cycle is this ad really multiple times more costly elon musk a staggering expenditure of a hundred million
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dollars in the last election did ontario really spend 75 million now some people are cheering at trump's
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reaction they say it proves how effective the ad was well yeah i mean it did get a reaction if that's
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what you mean by effective but i'm not sure that's the same as effective in terms of getting what canada needs
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i mean bob ray canada's top diplomat at the un was gleefully retweeting american political enemies of
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trump who were cheering for the ad now i'm not a master diplomat myself but it seems to me that if you're
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trying to persuade trump to change course and be more solicitous towards canada joining his partisan enemies
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in a good laugh at trump might not be something you want your top diplomat in new york doing on twitter but
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i don't know what do i know but what should canada do now should the ads keep running is that a good
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idea does anyone think it is does anyone think that donald trump is just moments away from collapsing
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and giving canada everything we need seriously other than some partisan cheering does anyone think this
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ad actually worked does anyone understand why doug ford a provincial premier is mucking around in
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foreign affairs does anyone think he's better at that than our entire foreign affairs department in
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ottawa or the hundreds who work in the canadian embassy in washington dc i mean here's a few of
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doug ford's classic diplomatic moments these past months the dollars of contracts that we have with the
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us uh we are the largest purchaser of alcohol in the world we buy over 3600 products from 35 states
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i talked to the governor of kentucky and uh mitch mcconnell don't touch our bourbon i'm going after
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absolutely everything and i don't want to uh we we keep the lights on the 1.5 million homes and
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manufacturing in new york in michigan and in minnesota if he wants to destroy our economy and our
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families i will shut down the electricity going down to the u.s and i i'm telling you we will do it
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it's unfortunate i would rather ship you more electricity ship you more critical minerals i
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want to ship you more energy more potash to keep your farmers going and uranium that you use for uh
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your nuclear power uh it comes through from saskatchewan over to ontario and and it's going to be a
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massive massive problem uh i'm telling you we love the americans love americans i love the u.s
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everyone does and not one american friend when i lived there for 20 years i've talked to all of
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them hardcore republicans are saying this is the biggest mistake uh president trump has done and
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we're dead against it i have yet to find more supports them if they want to try to annihilate
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ontario i will do everything uh including cut off their energy with a smile on my face
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so and i'm encouraging every other province to do the same quebec manitoba bc we all have to act in
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unison out east they rely on our energy they need to feel the pain they want to come at us hard we're
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going to come back twice as hard so i appreciate the uh question sorry i'm getting a little passionate
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today about this because that guy drives me crazy down south i'll tell you and 41 million other canadians
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we also uh need to learn more about uh about where the government's retaliatory tariffs i'm a strong
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believer in retaliatory tariffs you you can't uh let someone hit you over the head with a sledgehammer
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without hitting him back twice as twice as hard in my opinion now i've never met trump myself but
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i'm not sure if threatening to illegally cut off electricity contracts from canada that go to
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millions of americans in the northeast i'm not sure that's the kind of thing that wins over this
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particular u.s president there's no way that doug ford and mark carney two best friends as they
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constantly remind us aren't operating as a tag team here there's no way that mark carney didn't sign off on
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this and the regime media loves it but activity and insults are not a substitute for a strategy
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here's mark carney this week saying that our trade relationship with america is dead what the old
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relationship we had with the united states based on deepening integration of our economies and tight
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security and military cooperations is over so so it is dead or or you want it to be dead is he pronouncing
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it dead does he not know that sometimes negotiations have dramatic moments in it that are just posturing
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and puffery is it his preference that our trade relationship be dead how does that square with his
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promises to work with trump i don't think mark carney has a clue i think he's a classic case of
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over promise under deliver being promoted to the level of his incompetence you ever heard that phrase
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before that's why he keeps going on these junkets overseas he hates being in question period or
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answering reporters even his own government reporters he hates parliament and any other mechanisms
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designed for transparency and accountability he prefers foreign meetings the sort he mastered
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when he was a director of the world economic forum no opposition no accountability no free press no
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ethics registry no lobbyist registry mark carney's constant foreign trips are an attempt to recapture
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that world of luxury and no accountability but canada is in a crisis how do you solve a problem like
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trump carney made that the ballot question in the election he claimed he was the trump whisperer but
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but it never looked convincing to me he bashed trump and insulted trump on the campaign trail but then
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he was obsequious and submissive during their meetings and so far absolutely nothing has been achieved by
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the way doug ford has said he will suspend the ads but only after this weekend's world series game
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carney has now taken to boasting about the canada u.s free trade deal that was negotiated years ago claiming that
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status quo as some sort of personal achievement but look carney has actually not achieved anything and
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if you think about it he's never actually been a business executive in the arena solving problems he was
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a chairman of brookfield which is a figurehead a meeting chair a spokes model he was an analyst at
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goldman sachs same thing he was a critic he was a voyeur he was a consultant but never a doer
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those jobs are very different from actually running a business and leading any random
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owner of a convenience store has more business experience than mark carney tell me one thing
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that carney has accomplished in 225 days as prime minister that's how long it's been
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now compare that to what trump has done in 225 days or a little bit less a little bit more sorry
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carney brought a fresh list of buzzwords to the pmo that trudeau didn't use transformational
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catalyzing decisive action generational ai you know he sounded really fresh for about 30 seconds until it
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became clear he just mixes and remixes that jargon in every statement like trudeau's word salads there's
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nothing under the words there's nothing in the suit there's no there there first thing we need
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uh is to recognize that we need to use scarce dollars to the maximum effect uh this isn't
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just about bigger volumes it's about using scarce public dollars to maximum effect um and that is
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catalyzing financial instruments using risk mitigation tools to better allocate risk between
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the public and private sector i will just refer for speed uh to the agenda of the private sector
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investment lab uh and what the world bank has been doing on risk management the second point
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is crowding in institutional capital through originate to distribute models there's a lot
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of words there what it basically means is recycling the balance sheets of our international financial
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institutions so they are there catalyzing the new lending once it matures it's parked off to other
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holders they can hold it for the long term and it's all about action new action at the uh mdbs the third
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point is strengthening the structures processes governance of the institutions to put it into
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plain words uh the shareholders should be looking at key performance indicators that are directly tied of
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course to the sustainable development goals but also absolute volumes of capital that are moving
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right now is the biggest crisis in mark carney's short tenure doug ford with no constitutional authority
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let alone the approval of canadians especially from outside his province has become the de facto
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negotiator with trump and ford's style is a combination of insults like calling trump a tyrant
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and an unconvincing attempt to out bully trump my number one job is make sure we protect the people
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of ontario i need to protect the communities against that tyrant south of the border which drives me
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absolutely nuts and we'll always be there to protect the families and businesses who call our province
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home ford is normally despised by the regime media in ontario but they love his anti-trump outburst so
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they made him canada's face in the u.s while carney runs away imagine making a statement in french which
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carney did today so the americans can't understand it and then running away without answering any questions
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carney is hiding and letting doug ford his sole provincial ally fill the gap look the problem
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with the ad wasn't the ad it was that ford was trying to hustle trump and hustle commerce secretary
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howard lutnik and and was spending that money campaigning during an election year it's always
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election year down there they correctly the americans correctly have identified ford as carney's attack dog
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don't they know that trump always engages in tit for tat if you push him he pushes back of course
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they know that but as foreign minister anita anand announced the other day they're all fine with this
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after all they seek to realign canada towards china seriously she just said that she had a great meeting
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with the chinese not so good with the americans but the chinese lover now i don't know how to negotiate
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with trump to save ontario's auto factories i don't know i don't know if it's possible but i didn't
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promise millions of canadians that i had a secret ability to connect with trump like carney did occam's
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razor suggests an explanation here maybe this is exactly what carney wants for a decade at the world
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economic forum mark carney has been promoting decarbonization he's been promoting stakeholder
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capitalism that is socialism he was the u.n climate ambassador he laid an industry movement to debank
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oil companies his wife diana fox is even more extreme than carney is going to be the carney
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is actually fine with all this in fact that he's glad he can blame an external bogeyman for it all
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the de-industrialization of ontario the de-marketing of the oil sands the de-linking
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of canada to the u.s moving towards a more china-centric world defying western alliances
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putting the u.n and palestine ahead of traditional bilateral relationships with the u.s
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israel and nato countries oh and by the way don't forget that mark carney refused to sell any of his 600
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different stocks when he became prime minister only five percent of his companies are canadian we don't
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know his net worth no regime journalists have bothered to ask him he's an oligarch we just don't
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know if it's a hundred million dollars or a billion dollars but the strange fact is he refuses to sell
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his stocks suggesting that running canada is not his sole priority getting richer is and look at those
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stocks he is personally bearish on canada his last act at brookfield was to shut down the canadian head
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office and move it to new york city mark carney will make money by canada doing poorly show me an
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error in my thinking this is a very difficult time right now you can blame doug ford and he deserves
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some of the blame but this is all mark carney's plan stay with us for more on this
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you know it's incredible how mark carney and doug ford are handling things and i'm not saying that
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it's easy to handle trump and i'm not saying that trump's objections are all in good faith i think he is
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perhaps overreacting although if it's true that the government of ontario is spending 75 million
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dollars on this ad and i find that such a staggering sum it's almost defies belief that would affect
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political campaigns in the united states i mean imagine if trump spent 25 75 million dollars in a
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canadian political cycle it would be considered outrageous so maybe trump is uh i don't maybe he's
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not flying off the handle maybe it is in good faith you dump 75 million bucks as i mentioned earlier
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the entire nra ad spend in the last presidential election was just 10 million dollars imagine being
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seven and a half times that um but what is the right approach to take i mean is it even possible to
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negotiate with donald trump or you just have to sit and take terms i think it is possible to negotiate
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with him other countries have managed to achieve that in fact other countries seem to have a be
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favorite pets of donald trump i refer to naive bukele of el salvador and even javier mille of argentina
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trump has gone beyond the call of duty to prop them up to support them to shower them with praise and
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actual useful things for some reason mark carney who billed himself as the trump whisperer has failed
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joining me now to talk about this and to talk about how different provinces have had different
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tactics we're joined by keith wilson king's council we know him as a freedom lawyer from alberta but he's
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got a lot to say about canada and alberta too keith great to see you again uh good to be on you know
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danielle smith i think has taken the right approach i saw her in washington dc i was down there
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for trump's inauguration and there was danielle smith working the rooms going to receptions and
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she had booked a boardroom in a hotel in central dc and one after the other there were all sorts of
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industry groups and politicians coming through and she was selling them on canada not berating america not
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fighting trump but trying to say look here's how we work together it was quite something to see
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uh i don't i don't know if any of the other provinces did the same but they certainly criticized smith
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for being too friendly to trump looks like she had the right approach all along am i wrong
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you're not wrong and what's so spectacular about what's happening particularly with what doug ford and
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the ontario government has done to antagonize president trump um and really assault insult him
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and offend him um is that you know what are we talking about here we're talking about trade right
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well trade involves a seller and a buyer it involves a customer 75 of ontario's trade is with one
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customer the united states of america you don't antagonize customers you don't insult customers if
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you have any modicum of intelligence that's what's so stunning here is that 400 000 jobs in ontario
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are dependent upon um having a good relationship with the customer called the united states of america
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america and uh what sensible intelligent leaders do is they don't take out ads uh insulting the
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head of the customer they rent as danielle smith did a ballroom at a hotel and they invite people
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in and they have cocktails and they get to know them and they get to understand what their needs and
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concerns are and how you can better meet those so you can sell more stuff to your customer
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yeah hey i want to put to you two possibilities and if there's a third one you tell me
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sure um look there is a permanent diplomatic corps in washington dc at our embassy and obviously in the
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department of foreign affairs in ottawa a lot of them are focused on the u.s relationship so there are
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lifelong diplomats who i would say most of them are non-partisan they have they have a lot of enduring
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relationships with staff and and probably congressmen and senators so you have a lot of people
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who could probably say well this is how we do it this is how we did it under both harper and trudeau
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like i i truly believe that a lot of the diplomats are non-partisan i believe that maybe i'm a fool but
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i think so but it seems to me like mark carney and doug ford are completely ignoring any advice any norms
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like running a 75 million dollar ad campaign denouncing him as a tyrant doug ford threatening
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to turn off electricity so here's my two theories theory number one instead of taking normal diplomatic
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advice from the pros they are getting extremely bad advice from someone else who in my opinion maybe hates
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trump and thinks that they can be the trump buster where no other country in the world has succeeded
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in doing that so explanation number one is that this is the canadian government and the ontario
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government following really dumb advice they mean well but boy are they misguided here's explanation
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number two keith and you tell me if i'm what you think of this or if there's a third explanation
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explanation two is so outrageous part of me doesn't even want to say it but it it fits what if doug ford
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and mark carney actually want a battle with trump because domestically it keeps enough people voting
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liberal or for doug ford or whatever in the coming recession ford can blame donald trump for all
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the hardship as opposed to his weak leadership these past years carney can say i've always told
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you we have to pivot towards china we have to decarbonize de-industrialize sorry to see the so
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theory one whoa they're getting bad advice but they really want to help canada they're just doing it
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wrong theory two they actually want trump to punish us to tariff us to move the auto sector down there
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to devastate our economy the worst the better so they can say trump did this to us
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never vote for pierre polyev he's too trump-like vote mark carney vote for doug ford the trump fighter
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like theory two is that these guys are are not so stupid that they realize calling trump a tyrant
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will irritate them they're not stupid they're just too clever what do you think of those two theories or do
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you have a third theory well i have a blended theory i think both of those things can be true at the
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same time and think about this you know look what's happened to venezuela you know second largest reserve
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of oil in the world and their money became so worthless that it litters the streets um and so
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chavez and then maduro they explain away the failures of socialism not as the failures of socialism but
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rather the oppressive and uh trade interference and unfair trade activities by the united states with
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tariffs and sanctions right so it provides cover for their policy failure in the in venezuela it
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provides cover for their ideological mess and their leadership failures um so it could be the case that
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carney and um um ford and eb and others see themselves as somewhat protected uh by being able to blame
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trump but i also think in the first instance this was glaring incompetence and and a really good
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illustration of the incompetence is the execution and what i mean by that is they made a one they took a
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one minute clip from president reagan from a five minute and ten second radio address and what and
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they they took them a minute in the middle and at the beginning of the address uh reagan was talking
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about the need to use tariffs to achieve fair trade specifically japanese semiconductors because
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they were flooding the market we wouldn't have a silicon valley today we probably wouldn't have a
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google we wouldn't have a meta we you know etc had reagan not used tariffs significant tariffs to curtail
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the flooding of semiconductors into the american market in 1987. he used tariffs uh president reagan did
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on motorcycle parts he used it on steel he used it on grain and um and then
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so they took the middle minute so the first part of is is president reagan talking about the importance
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of him having the power to impose tariffs to achieve fair trade to protect american interests
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and at the last minute or two is him talking again about the importance of him right president
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reagan at the time not being blocked from using tariff powers look at the parallel to what's happening
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right now the the the the left and the progressives the democrats are trying to convince the supreme
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court of the united states to block president trump from using tariff powers so then he sees this ad
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that's cherry-picked edited taken out of context and he becomes furious and rightly so regardless of your
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views on the issue right uh and the merits of trump and trade and all these things you've got to
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acknowledge and fairness that that was dirty pool so this is a i think this is incompetence in the extreme
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and unfortunately canadians are going to suffer because of this it's just blows my mind you know
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75 percent of the trade from ontario is to the united states over 400 000 jobs
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and and uh premier ford and carney are just engaging in such reckless economic behavior
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yeah and ford constitutionally historically by custom would not be leading the charge would
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not be the lead spokesman would not be the point man for an international negotiation he's a provincial
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premier he's obviously doing this with carney's approval now carney said call it off so he's calling
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it off in a couple of days but it it's sort of crazy like why what next uh the mayor of toronto or
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the mayor of vancouver running attack ads in the states it's just such but ezra but wait a minute
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it's not that they're calling it off you know well how is it 75 million right because they bought
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a whole bunch of time for the world series oh my gosh i did oh and i i couldn't so they're still
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going to yeah go ahead they're still going to run it over the world series trump's going to see that
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oh my god you know what i'm thinking how do you how do you 75 million i've never heard of an ad
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by that large you know it's it's seven and a half times what the nra spent in the last
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presidential election elon musk's enormous gift of 100 million dollars it's almost as big as that
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and that helped change the election this is so i can imagine trump is saying who's attacking me
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that guy who threatened to turn off electricity that guy like i can imagine why he blew a circuit
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it's but but as if i just could one important detail here yeah trump knows now as of a few hours
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ago with premier ford's announcement this in the afternoon of the friday that um he's going to
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continue to run in the ads until monday right he knows that he's going to run them at the super bowl
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right is trump going to sit there and do nothing right i guess we're going to find out wouldn't surprise
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me if he says no you're not pal you're stopping those ads now wow so what are his options i don't
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know i'm starting to think about that but i don't think this is over by any stretch and if if trump was
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angry yesterday he's going to be even more angry i would suspect as will his supporters in the united
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states as will his cabinet as well as trade negotiators if doug ford and mark carney continue
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to insult and offend and antagonize by running these outrageously misleading ads misleading ads
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uh knowingly misleading that was a conscious decision to edit them the way they did and run them during
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the super bowl yeah wow wow wow wow well you know what doug ford has done is he's got himself on american
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tv and you know so many different canadians look down to the states as the big leagues and it's true i mean
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we're one-tenth the size and whether it's in sports or in music like or comedy uh or business they are
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the big time right and so you have all these politicians who are the premiers of their provinces
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but they know the the big game is down south and so even as doug ford realizes he's he's uh you know
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messed up a little bit wob canoe the premier of manitoba made sort of a copycat video and we'll just
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play it we won't play it with the sound up but i just want to show you like most canadians don't know
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who wob canoe is and i actually don't think he's that terrible i mean he's a socialist but he's actually i
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i think done his expectations were so low he's done better than that but this is how he's going
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to be famous this is how he's going to get an invitation on cnn and david eby the premier of
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british columbia here let me uh read to you eb's tweet like after this entire meltdown he says americans
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need to hear how tariffs raise prices we're making ads to defend british columbia and canada's forestry
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workers are wood faces higher u.s tariffs than russia absurd truth will win okay now i'm not saying
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any of those facts are inaccurate and i i don't know i mean if if we pay higher tariffs in russia
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that is absurd but to to double down on attack ads in the united states after trump's reaction
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i think eb and wob canoe just want to be internet famous they want to be the toast of the town on cnn
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they they want to maybe get invited on jimmy kimmel's show or something they are certainly not
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going to help the industries they claim to be rooting for they've lost the plot they're exploiting
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the trump derangement syndrome with their base they've lost the plot in that they've realized what
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they're playing with what they put into peril is average canadians jobs their ability to provide for
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their families that this is about trade and trade is about meeting the needs of a customer and being
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responsive to the needs of a customer it's not about screaming at them it's not about threatening them
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it's not about antagonizing them who could run a successful business when they become fixated on
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punishing and antagonizing and fighting with their customer yeah so they've lost the plot and
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unfortunately it will be canadians that suffer and this is a huge incentive for alberta separatists
00:31:28.040
yeah speaking of alberta here let me read the tweet put out today by danielle smith and i say
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again i saw her and and she was not obsequious she was friendly and complimentary and she is the most
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conservative of the canadian premier so that that was genuine let me read what she said she said
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i remain convinced that the path to a positive resolution with our us partners lies in strong
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consistent diplomacy and a commitment to working in good faith towards shared priorities such as
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north american energy dominance to that end i'm pleased to see ontario's ad campaign is being
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suspended as you point out not till the damage is done and i once again urge the federal government
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to continue negotiating to resolve these tariff issues and restore a free and fair trade agreement
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with the united states while diversifying and strengthening the canadian economy by unleashing
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our world-class natural resource sector so that was a tweet and of course the answer to strengthening
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canada's economy is say yes to the pipelines uh i mean you would immediately have tens of billions
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of dollars of construction jobs and you would have behind that tens of billions maybe hundreds
00:32:30.120
of billions over time more oil and gas jobs but mark carney's ideology is against that
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you know it's crazy that they were saying that she was the disloyal one she was the one that would wreck
00:32:41.720
everything she's the only one who has had the common sense here and i don't know it's it's sort of
00:32:47.000
crazy that these rogue premiers are what's up in donald trump's grill i bet that there are some
00:32:52.840
professional civil servants at our embassy in in washington and in you know fort pearson as they call
00:32:58.920
it pearson bunker in ottawa who are thinking what are these freelancers what are these kamikaze
00:33:06.200
pilots doing they're wrecking everything i i've got to think there's a lot of professional diplomats
00:33:12.600
who are pulling out their hair right now well and and it's pretty clear from the leadership that we're
00:33:18.200
seeing from premier smith here in alberta that she appears to be the only adult in the room at the
00:33:23.800
premier's table yeah like this when you compare the rhetoric and the screaming and the crybaby behavior
00:33:30.920
uh ford and and and and eb and wab canoe and compare it to the mature reason calm diplomatic tone
00:33:41.160
of recognizing the united states is the most important customer that canada has and will ever
00:33:47.000
have you know we're geographically advantaged we've seen over the last several months how countries around
00:33:54.120
the world have come to meet with the americans with president trump and the oval office to try and
00:34:00.200
get increased access to that market and we are better positioned than anyone else but maybe for mexico
00:34:09.000
and these guys are blowing it and it's canadians and our children that are going to suffer we're going
00:34:15.720
to see there is direct result of this is going to be inflation it's going to be increasing job losses
00:34:21.480
lower standard of living gutting out the middle class it's just spectacular that we have such
00:34:27.560
poor leadership in canada and that's why so many canadians want off or albertans rather so many
00:34:32.600
albertans want off the bus we don't need these idiots let me throw one last thing at you and i said
00:34:37.880
this in my monologue um mark carney presented himself as a man who knew how the world works that's
00:34:43.080
what he said and he always wore a suit and he looked the part and he was the former head of the bank
00:34:47.960
of england and the bank of canada and like he he had a great looking resume and he was the chairman
00:34:53.880
of brookfield asset management which is huge he has a trillion dollars under under management but
00:34:59.080
he was the chairman not the ceo so he was the guy who would preside over meetings and and be high level
00:35:07.240
um more like a mascot than a roll up the sleeves guy like he was not in fact he traveled around going to
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conferences he was in the world economic forum he worked for the un like i i i'm not going to say
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it was just a ceremonial job but it was a largely ceremonial job i don't think he knows how to
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actually do anything he was an analyst at goldman sachs he i mean i if you could tell me what the bank
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of canada bank of england does then you're you're ahead of me um like he was just uh a resume guy a cv
00:35:37.240
guy a guy who was wafted up higher and higher and he's the kind of guy who would hang out
00:35:41.720
with gilaine maxwell jeffrey epstein's uh girlfriend i mean he was in those elite circles
00:35:47.720
but does he actually know anything has he actually done anything i put it to you that an average
00:35:54.920
corner store convenience store operator knows more how to solve problems and deal with things
00:36:00.920
than mr jet set and i think he said more than 200 days as prime minister and he has no bloody clue he
00:36:08.760
has no idea what to do if you listen to him it's all word salad he does not know what to do what do
00:36:16.120
you think of that well i've been watching him carefully both prior to him becoming prime minister
00:36:23.640
and since and what's become clear is that he's a good looking empty suit and not only that so he's book
00:36:33.320
smart but he's not street smart um but but there's two aspects to this one is let's look at brookfield
00:36:40.760
brookfield and you just mentioned the guy at the corner store and that guy at the corner store might
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have it might have been used to be a hair salon or a barber shop or a tax accounting office and he had
00:36:52.280
to remodel it and he had to stock it and he had to figure out how to advertise it he had to figure out
00:36:57.000
how to build a market and a customer base and balance a book and manage employees that's not what
00:37:02.280
brookfield does brookfield goes in other people do that heavy lift some guy builds an oil field
00:37:08.200
service company or an oil and gas company or some kind of manufacturing company or builds a residential
00:37:15.560
real estate company and then brookfield is essentially a hedge fund comes in and buys it up
00:37:20.760
right and then carves it up and squeezes it out and sells off pieces right so that's is it to the
00:37:26.920
extent he has experience beyond being a mystical banker right um that's it so he doesn't know how
00:37:36.440
to build a company from scratch he doesn't know how to actually build a customer base and get access to
00:37:43.080
markets and this is painfully obvious right when he says we're going to increase our steel sales to
00:37:51.560
um we're not going to sell steel to the united states anymore we're going to ship it all the
00:37:57.160
way across the world to europe well europe already has steel suppliers they're not going to say oh no
00:38:02.440
way canada you want it oh sure no problem we'll stop selling we'll shut our plants down we'll lay
00:38:07.320
all our workers off canada come on and take our market share no way not only that 75 of the steel in
00:38:13.320
europe comes from europe the 25 that doesn't comes from china russia um turkey that have far lower
00:38:21.080
environmental standards they're not worrying about decarbonizing their steel they're not paying that
00:38:26.360
they have non-union low wages and they don't have the shipping costs so this guy has demonstrated he
00:38:33.240
doesn't know what he's doing if he were serious at all if he were nothing more than a good looking
00:38:37.960
empty suit he would not be on a plane right now to asia he would be in ottawa he would be drafting bills
00:38:45.000
to repeal the emissions cap which is a production cap to incentivize investment of all kinds of things
00:38:50.360
including in our electricity grid that are soon going to be failing he would be repealing the tanker
00:38:55.480
ban he would be repealing the no more projects no more pipelines bill so that people and investors
00:39:01.800
could invest and build projects and build mines and build forestry projects pulp mills oil and gas
00:39:06.920
activities manufacturing facilities uh smelters and so on he would be repealing all of these laws that
00:39:13.720
are blocking development investment causing capital flight causing job loss and preventing growth in our
00:39:19.720
economy yeah you know you're so right about bookfield being about vulture funds in a way buying other
00:39:27.320
people's work i saw a little bit of that i don't know if you remember i went to the isle of man and then i
00:39:31.720
went to bermuda not as vacations but to try and track down these shell corporations if i had to tell
00:39:37.960
you what mark carney's specialties were i would say climate mumbo jumbo and evading taxes including
00:39:45.240
personally by the way i'm sure that's why he had an irish passport he loves the word analyze yeah to
00:39:51.720
catalyze and you know you when he starts talking about economics break it down it says nothing oh he's got
00:39:59.880
this list of buzzwords generational investment catalyze catalyze transform it you know it's like
00:40:06.440
justin trudeau but with 10 new words if you took those words out of any given speech of his there
00:40:11.240
would be nothing left correct keith wilson king's council great to catch up with you thanks for your
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time today good to see ezra all right you too stay with us your letters to me next
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hey welcome back your letters to me bernard jetzik says i've heard her referred to as a japanese
00:40:39.160
margaret thatcher you're talking about the new prime minister of japan yes i've heard that also and
00:40:44.840
in fact i've heard that she sort of looks up to margaret thatcher as a role model um i think
00:40:50.120
ideologically in terms of military and nationalism i think that's true japan of course being a very
00:40:55.560
different place but her immigration platform i believe is the most interesting thing about her
00:41:02.040
paul schofield says listening to mark carney's nonsense makes my ears bleed and yes ezra he is
00:41:08.280
lying i'm still trying to get a measure of the man i i think that keith wilson is exactly right mark
00:41:14.600
carney never actually ran a company brookfield is just about buying other assets that somebody
00:41:20.200
already made and it's true it's not like carney was in the office looking over balance sheets all
00:41:24.600
the time he was swanning around the world going to world economic forum meetings and un meetings
00:41:29.560
and his anti-carbon campaign mark carney is not actually a serious man he's a consultant he chairs
00:41:37.080
meetings and i don't think he has the foggiest clue of what to do if the goal is to save canada's auto
00:41:43.720
sector but if the goal is to decarbonize and de-industrialize and move canada into chinese
00:41:49.960
orbit in i think mark carney is actually the man that's our show for today until next week on behalf
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of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom