Donald Trump has a new deal with Canada, and it's not a good one. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford have very different reactions to it, and there's a lot to be said about it.
00:06:59.240He thinks he can still keep playing his game, keep going to Taylor Swift concerts, boogieing away, trading friendship bracelets with little girls.
00:13:12.360Prohibit a provincial enforcement or implementation of the federal emissions cap.
00:13:17.240Protect Alberta oil and gas facilities on essential infrastructure under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
00:13:22.320Restrict unauthorized entry to oil and gas facilities, including by federal officials or contractors.
00:13:28.820What this means, folks, is that the oil and gas companies don't have to listen to the federal government because the provincial government has usurped that responsibility, making them free to do their business.
00:14:14.960These actions could include an immediate constitutional challenge in the courts, a ban on provincial bodies enforcing the cap,
00:14:23.620labeling oil and gas production facilities as essential infrastructure subject to the Alberta Critical Infrastructure Defense Act,
00:14:32.000prohibiting the entry of all individuals into these facilities except those licensed to enter by the Alberta government,
00:14:38.680and declaring all information related to greenhouse gases at these facilities to be owned by Alberta's government with data reported or disclosed at our discretion.
00:14:50.120This is not a complete list of everything we plan to do, but it's a sign of things to come.
00:14:55.680It shows how we will respond if the federal government forces us to do so.
00:14:59.740If the motion passes, we'll act fast to get ready for Ottawa's destructive cap.
00:15:31.300What she's doing here is reiterating point by point and agreeing with point by point with what Paliyev had just said earlier that day.
00:15:44.120She's saying we need to seal the border, stop the carbon tax, spend some money on defense, do the things that Trump is highlighting, and we don't need a tariff war.
00:15:58.460We're not going to need to start a trade war with the United States if we get our fiscal and national security house in order.
00:16:22.000I mean, I think that the U.S. has legitimate issues that they have raised with us, and we've got to address those legitimate issues.
00:16:29.240I don't think that we can say, yeah, but, because, quite frankly, the American economy is the strongest in the world.
00:16:35.860They can produce a lot of what they need to consume.
00:16:38.420We are very reliant on them, and they are in the position of being able to dictate terms.
00:16:45.980And so I suppose we could punish ourselves with tariffs, but I would say, why don't we take the approach of trying to figure out how to solve the things that are the trade irritants to them?
00:18:37.020I mean, we've asked for in Alberta more 24-hour border crossings working in conjunction with our counterparts.
00:18:42.920In Alberta, we're bordered entirely by Montana, the Montana governor, Gianna Forte.
00:18:47.500And I wrote a joint letter asking for that so that we could have more border protection and more border observation for longer hours.
00:18:55.100We need a dedicated border patrol team that may include, since we've got such a long order, maybe it includes some drone technology so that we're able to monitor what is happening, where the sites of entry are.
00:19:09.120When we apprehend people, we need to send them home.
00:20:21.880It's in Canada's interest, as Daniel Smith just said, to seal the border, to stop fentanyl from coming across the border, from stopping illegals from coming across the border, from having a national defense that's credible.
00:20:36.000So we can at least defend Canada, not Ukraine, defend Canada.
00:20:41.500And I find what this MP says very interesting.
00:20:44.060Border crossings, except for the smugglers.
00:20:46.880It suggests that the border could be even less watertight than it is today.
00:20:51.180The message Ottawa should be sending is to deploy resources in support of agents and the RCMP.
00:20:57.260Tracking smugglers at the longest land border is a game of cat and mouse.
00:21:02.200And when the cat's away, the mice will play.
00:21:04.140When Quebec sends the Quebec police to take over border management from the federal government, is it really time to cut back on border services?
00:21:13.140Thank you, the Honourable Minister of Public Safety.
00:21:16.240On the contrary, Mr. Speaker, it's the time to support our RCMP and services and border services to work with, we have always, we've always done with authorities, with police in Quebec.
00:21:31.980It's a joint effort between Canada's law enforcement and our U.S. partners, and that's exactly what our government has done since the beginning.
00:21:40.380We are going to reverse the conservative cuts with respect to the RCMP and border services, and we're going to continue to invest more to ensure that they have the necessary resources to do their important work.
00:21:53.720And it goes both ways, because I think what the Americans are...
00:21:59.760It's Dominic LeBlanc, looking as usual, like he just got off a three-day bender, trying to say, it's Stephen Harper's fault the border's porous.
00:22:11.160Conservative cuts that the liberals haven't noticed for nine years?
00:22:16.920You know, this is, he said this just before, a couple of days before Polly made his stunning announcement yesterday, which I say is probably the best political speech.
00:22:28.580And I wish I had more of it today to show you.
00:22:30.360I really wanted to, because I was impressed.
00:22:33.120I thought this was a seasoned, intelligent, focused, articulate, and well thought through response to Justin Trudeau's complete idiocy.
00:22:51.660Justin Trudeau gave you, I am so shaken, I can't express myself.
00:22:59.580Pierre Polly have thought about what to say, and he said it will.
00:23:03.800Observing, and your numbers show it, is that people have been coming to Canada with the purpose of sneaking into the United States.
00:23:10.700That's why we've gotten the attention of the border czar, is he's realizing that if they don't stop this, it's going to continue to get worse and worse.
00:23:18.700And it's up to us to be a good neighbor and to make sure that we continue to have the longest undefended border by doing what we can to prevent that flow.
00:23:28.580You see, encounters, as the CBC reporter, I can't believe he actually admitted, encounter means illegal crossing.
00:23:39.100That's another euphemism that these idiots like to use.
00:23:44.180Idiots meaning the politicians, the CBC, and the people who are supporting illegal immigration.
00:24:06.140Well, look, I'm going to lead from Alberta's interest.
00:24:09.240Alberta knows that we are the solution to the American energy security issues.
00:24:14.680And that is our strongest bargaining point.
00:24:16.780But we can't be bargaining from that position with things like an emissions cap and a production cap hanging over our heads.
00:24:22.880We can't be talking about how we're going to remain competitive if tariffs do come in, if he's continuing with a carbon tax that's going to add 61 cents a liter onto gasoline and diesel and the capital gains tax changes that he's making.
00:24:37.820We are just going to see a flow of businesses that are leaving from Canada and going into the United States.
00:24:43.360He needs to understand how serious it is, the policy measures that he's taken, and do a quick reverse on a number of them.
00:24:50.380Meet the Americans in the areas where they are concerned, alleviate those concerns, and then hopefully we can get on to talking about trade issues.
00:24:58.000Because I think that that's what's happening is the trade issues and the security issues are getting intermingled.
00:25:02.760We've got to address the security issues before we can have a reasonable discussion about trade.
00:28:14.600Anyway, what is the lesson here, folks?
00:28:19.960The lesson here is that Donald Trump has dared to link policy issues with tariffs.
00:28:30.020He's dared to link security with fiscal issues.
00:28:35.100He's dared to say, Canada, get your fiscal house in order and your national security house in order, or there's going to be consequences because you not having either of those houses in order is impacting the United States.
00:28:59.280He's talking about Team Canada, and he hopes all the premiers line up behind him because he's gutless.
00:29:06.200Or we can go Canada first, that Pierre Polyev is articulating.
00:29:10.700That's the strategy we need to go to, because that's the only thing at this point that matters, is saving Canada from Justin Trudeau and his policies.
00:30:12.800But Polyev has put his finger right on the pertinent facts and the pertinent point here, which is this is all about Justin Trudeau ignoring reality.
00:30:27.040Justin Trudeau will no longer be able to tax with impunity, to cut oil and gas production for his extremist environmental agenda.
00:30:40.600He will no longer be able to impose his ideology on Canadians.
00:30:46.180He will no longer be able to cut national defense and pretend he's not doing so.
00:30:50.680He will no longer be able to keep an open border and say, oh, it's Stephen Harper's fault.