00:01:37.320Obviously, it needed some adjustments after the end of the Cold War, but it has been one of the most effective military alliances in the world.
00:01:44.760The second is our economic relationship with Europe, which is through the trade agreement, CETA.
00:01:50.660of which 10 European nations have yet to still ratify internally.
00:01:54.920If there was ever a priority to ensure Canadian market access to Europe,
00:01:58.520it would be to ensure that CETA is fully ascribed and that once those corridors of tradeway have been built,
00:02:05.020that we put things on that corridor to Europe.
00:02:08.700The issue has been for Canada is our own productivity.
00:02:12.080We have not repealed the anti-development legislation.
00:02:14.860We have not done the pro-investment things that we need to in this country to unlock
00:02:18.880trillions of dollars of commodity strength. Because we haven't been able to produce,
00:02:23.280we can't ship. And until we fix our domestic regulatory tax and approvals processes,
00:02:30.560then these agreements are nice on paper, but not animated with the things that Canadian can put on
00:02:34.840it. So I don't understand why we need to add, in addition to the military and economic partnership,
00:02:39.340a political relationship with the European Union.
00:02:42.340I don't understand why the prime minister believes that somehow denying a relationship
00:02:48.220and fulfilling a partnership with the United States, as we should focus on,
00:02:51.640should be replaced by becoming the European Union's 28th state or first associate member
00:02:56.540or whatever terminology that describes a political partnership.
00:03:00.480All the industries he described, critical minerals, AI, energy, etc.,
00:03:05.040are things that are included in the present economic relationship.
00:03:08.760So for me, there's many things that are problematic with this, not to mention that the European Union itself has a lot of turmoil internally.
00:03:17.800They have high standards for being part of the monetary union and the political relationship.
00:03:22.380It comes at a cost to nations' sovereignty, their immigration, their regulatory environments.
00:03:28.120And I have to think that if somehow Canada has afforded all these elite access opportunities that are outside of CETA,
00:03:34.460many European Union nations will say, well, what are we in it for? Because we had to do a lot to
00:03:40.100get the same stuff. So I think this is actually a lot of posturing. I think it's a lot of
00:03:46.620stuff that's designed for the press. I think it denies mom, dad, and uncle and aunts and people
00:03:53.020across this country real solutions on how they're going to pay their bills, on how they're going to
00:03:58.680pay for their groceries, on how they're going to make it through to the end of the year. I think
00:04:02.800our country deserves a lot better than some performance on a global stage and actual results
00:04:06.920in the lives of people. All right, let's queue up cut one. We have the Prime Minister at the
00:04:10.620European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Play cut one. Yesterday, President von der Leyen
00:04:16.780spoke of moving beyond CETA to an alliance for the future, opening the door to Canada
00:04:23.800to become the European Union's first associate member. Canada welcomes this ambition.
00:04:31.560So how does a company hearing this based in Canada with ties to the United States, with trade routes, all of that, then say, OK, how the heck am I going to market my product now in Europe and I got an ocean to cross before I can ship anything?
00:04:48.740I mean, 70% of our trade is with the United States for a reason.
00:04:52.120Trade diversification is good, Jamie, whether it's to Europe or to Asia.
00:04:55.400These are things that we absolutely should be pursuing.
00:04:57.720But absent resolving a deal with North America, which today is costing two and a half million Canadian families directly certainty in their lives and uncertainty in their jobs, as well as hundreds of thousands of people across our ridings, across our communities, who literally this year in the next months are going to be laid off or their businesses are going to move to the United States, not focusing on the United States relationship, not driving it or not having a plan for how we come to a
00:05:27.700permanent deal with the United States for North America, for Canada, while flirting with this
00:05:32.560idea of Europe that is so far away, as you point out, and very difficult to accomplish. If you
00:05:39.300want to get energy to Europe, we have to build the pipelines to be able to get energy. If you
00:05:42.420want to get critical minerals to Europe, you need to unlock the regulatory burdens to get those
00:05:47.640critical minerals out of the ground, partner with First Nations and into the markets that they
00:05:51.280deserve. If you're going to partner with technology in Europe, whether it's satellites or other
00:05:56.520other opportunities. Well, we need to produce the critical minerals and the advanced industrial base
00:06:02.060that actually builds those things to get them to market. So there's a lot of domestic decisions
00:06:05.980that need to be made. Kind of sounds like our arguments for the past 10 years. I know it sounds
00:06:10.380repetitive and it's sad to feel that way, but here's the lost decade that Canadians now have
00:06:15.940to confront. And whether it's a liberal government pretending that it could be a conservative one,
00:06:20.560but not fulfilling the actual steps it needs to, or a conservative one ready to do the job today.
00:06:41.620I can't explain why he is not active with the urgency
00:06:44.240or with the spirit of engaging the whole country, including the opposition,
00:06:47.940but it is coming at a material cost in the lives of every Canadian.
00:06:51.580Unfortunately, I say this with no joy,
00:06:54.900I guess data from developed nations just come out, so the OECD, the global forecasting for most of the world, developed world, leading economies are forecasted to go up.
00:07:10.840Unfortunately, Canada's isn't going as fast as I'm sure, to your point just a second ago, that many in our communities would like to see because their jobs and their livelihoods are on the line.
00:07:21.820the federal government, liberals, will go out and say, well, it's because of tariffs and foreign
00:07:27.520wars. But every other country on that OECD list are dealing with similar pressures.
00:07:33.280Every other country came to ground on a relationship with the United States,
00:07:38.480a relationship on new terms that have held. Now, these tariffs that the President Trump
00:07:42.860is imposing upon Canadians are completely unjustified, and we should fight them tooth
00:07:46.960the nail and get the best possible deal for the country. What I have heard from representatives,
00:07:52.720including from the European Union ambassador to Canada, is that the new terms that are negotiated
00:07:57.120by Washington are actually held, too. Of course, we should be thinking through what happens if
00:08:02.000Washington decides to change the terms of the deal again. This is a tragic point in the relationship
00:08:07.540that Canadians now have to accommodate in how we do a deal. The reason I say all this is because
00:08:12.820Every other country in the world has come to live in the reality we now must live in.
00:08:17.760Every other country in the world has made decisions to unlock their economic potential to varying degrees and are making steps forward.
00:08:25.460Our country remains an outlier, not just because of our proximity to the United States, but because our government is incapable of making the decisions to get out of the way.
00:08:34.500And as long as that happens, as long as another day in Parliament passes without passing transformational legislation, the prospects for our people today, the prospects for the next generation are growing increasingly bleak.
00:08:48.980One of the questions most people, I think, are asking themselves,
00:08:51.960what does this new relationship with the European Union mean?
00:08:55.480What does it have to do with immigration?
00:13:52.660At the risk of immaturity, what should I say?
00:13:54.240do as I say, not as Heidi, like that, that Patti Hadou. I mean, COVID trauma memories notwithstanding,
00:14:02.260these liberals have always used international emergencies to control the debate. They create,
00:14:09.600sometimes appropriately, a big picture about a massive risk to our people and our country.
00:14:16.700But what is not appropriate is when they say that they are the only purveyors of one idea and one
00:14:23.120opinion, and every other idea is either seditious or traitorous. You'll recall that this prime
00:14:28.080minister, at the height of COVID protests in Canada, described protesters as seditious in
00:14:34.280writing in the Globe and Mail. The Supreme Court has now ruled how obviously wrong-minded all of
00:14:40.580that was. How many lives have been destroyed because of that is unknown, and certainly something
00:14:45.760our country still has to atone for. But what has resulted in is a generation of broken trust.
00:14:50.260We now have people across this country who don't trust politicians, which is, I mean, probably fair minded generally, but they don't trust the press.
00:14:57.740They don't trust the health authorities. They don't trust the courts. They don't trust the news.
00:15:02.340They don't trust the academy. They don't trust the universities. They don't trust anything.
00:15:06.700And rebuilding that trust will be a generational project for genuine leaders.
00:15:10.740And the more that these types of ministers exploit international crisis to gaslight Canadians and diminish the debate in our country,
00:15:18.460the more they diminish the foundations of what our whole democracy was built upon.
00:15:23.320We're a century and a half-year-old democracy centered in parliament
00:15:26.120through wars and depressions and hard times.
00:15:28.680We have endured and succeeded and thrived because we are a parliament.
00:15:32.600And that parliament provides a rich array of perspectives from across this country
00:15:36.360so that the government can make better decisions.
00:15:39.340For us, it's an act of loyalty not to criticize the government for criticism's sake,
00:15:43.800especially in crisis, but to offer an opportunity to think of a different idea
00:15:48.020to make the best decision for the people of this country.
00:15:51.580And so, you know, as I watch the prime minister
00:15:54.720and his same cabinet from Trudeau-era COVID control freaks.
00:16:00.700Yeah, even in that camera shot, they were all.