00:00:00.000I need to show you guys two pieces of media today that I believe represents why Canada is failing.
00:00:08.440We have a lot of people in this country who don't know anything about anything,
00:00:14.320and yet they speak with a lot of confidence and authority without having any of the facts on their side.
00:00:21.300So first I want to show you guys a cartoon that I think represents the way that a lot of elbows-up liberals think,
00:00:29.000and then I want to cut over to an interview many of you have probably already seen segments from
00:00:33.900from CBC News with Rosemary Barton talking to U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer.
00:00:40.300So we'll be getting to these two things in very quick order. I just want to remind you guys
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00:01:08.220slightly nicer to me these days, so shout out to YouTube there. But let's get into the cartoon
00:01:13.900before we go over to the CBC segment. So this cartoon, which I'm not going to show you any of
00:01:19.580yet, comes from this account called Idiocracy. So apparently they make their own original cartoons.
00:01:25.560Hey, good for them. And their bio reads, politics and public life without the team jerseys.
00:01:31.880Facts over spin. Accountability over allegiance. No party gets a free pass. And it's a relatively
00:01:37.700new account based on its low amount of followers and whatnot. Or maybe it's been around for a while
00:01:43.260and just nobody likes them. Who knows? Idiocracy is a reference to the whole idea of like,
00:01:49.580You know, society is being held down by how stupid other people are, which is really funny when you actually see this person's take on the Canada-U.S. trade dispute.0.98
00:02:02.400Now, there are a lot of things that the Americans have done, in particular President Donald Trump and Howard Lutnick, that I don't like.0.99
00:02:09.480I don't like the trade war. It's stupid.1.00
00:02:11.620At the same time, because we have a delusional government led by Mark Carney, which has a lot of delusional supporters, our response to this whole thing has been very, very poor.0.99
00:02:25.800We could have probably had a good deal made by the end of last year, probably by the midway point of 2025, but the problem is that elbows up politics does not allow Canada to act rationally.0.97
00:02:39.960Now, people are going to say, Trump's a liar.0.93
00:04:33.060As I pointed out in my own post-response to this, I thought this was a good encapsulation of the whole thing, I said here,
00:04:41.940This is how liberals see the tariff dispute. They genuinely have no clue about the economics of the situation, it's just about schoolyard drama to them.
00:04:51.72068% of our exports outweighs 22% of our exports. We need to figure this out and focus on getting a deal with low or 0% tariff rates.
00:05:00.760All the cultural stuff and bun fights with the USA is a detriment to our own success.
00:05:07.020We don't need to like Trump or America to understand 78% is bigger than 22%, and there is a low ceiling on how much the 22% can grow over time.
00:05:18.300Absolutely, obviously I agree with myself here, but that is not something that's exactly a unique point that I've been making.
00:05:24.740many rational people in all of this. Mark Warner, other conservative content creators,
00:05:32.160Pierre Poly of conservative politicians all across Canada. We have been pointing out that you don't
00:05:37.980have to like the United States to not get bogged down in nonsense. And you need to focus on what
00:05:45.540we actually need in the situation, which is low tariff rates. I don't care that Donald Trump made
00:05:51.900a joke about renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. It's kind of funny. It also doesn't
00:05:58.920matter one bit. And Pierre Polly, I've had the right response to this, which I'll probably cover
00:06:04.220in another day. It's its own saga. But he had the right response. Is it silly Trump saying this? Yes.
00:06:10.280It also doesn't matter because no one can actually just change the name of Lake Ontario.
00:06:15.060So how about let's not get distracted and focus on actually working on our strategy to get a good
00:06:21.440trade deal. But now I'm going to jump over to the CBC segment between Rosemary Barton and1.00
00:06:27.040Jameson Greer. Because I'm going to be up front. I don't agree with a lot of stuff that Jameson
00:06:31.520Greer here says. But when you listen to Rosemary Barton responding to him, you realize she has no
00:06:39.700clue about anything at all whatsoever. She doesn't understand the trade situation. Jameson Greer,0.55
00:06:47.440I don't agree with many of his points he makes on trade, but he does make Rosemary Barton and liberals look like hypocrites by pointing out that Canada does many of the same things as America.
00:06:59.020Canada has the same problems as America that we pass our own policies to try and mitigate.
00:07:05.760Now, I don't think tariffs are the right response, but the liberals have no leg to stand on when they basically act as if the U.S. is being unfair here or what they're doing is irrational.0.96
00:07:16.200They simply think that saying that the U.S. is being stupid and irrational and mean to Canada is somehow an argument that gets us to a win.0.98
00:07:24.520So listen to this while they get into it on tariffs.
00:07:27.580Okay, and I will get to some of the issues that certainly Canada has raised in the media.
00:07:32.260But I also want to point to the fact that the president himself was asked yesterday in an interview whether you guys, the U.S., had added some things at the last minute.
00:08:00.520The reality is the last time the president spoke with Prime Minister Carney was Tuesday night and there was some meeting of the minds.
00:08:06.860And so the Canadian story has been, well, it was later in the week that things were added.
00:08:12.500And that's, you know, we felt, you know, the president, we all felt so comfortable that there was a meeting.
00:08:17.480There were agreements on specific rates, specific percentages, et cetera.
00:08:21.660Hard to hard to change those things after a given time.
00:08:26.200So but the thing is that this is what the media has been running with the entire time, that Mark Carney is a hero.
00:08:31.500And he walked in there to negotiate a good deal.
00:08:34.400And it was only because of Trump and Lutnik and Greer that the whole thing fell apart because it's a really nice storybook.
00:08:42.500thing. It's a really good storybook encapsulation to what many liberal Canadian nationalists would
00:08:48.720like to think happened. It didn't. In fact, the fact that Carney was agreeing to the percentages
00:08:55.200in terms of tariff rates in the original deal, it's insane. 25% on steel and aluminum is not
00:09:01.680acceptable. And yet he thought that was a fine, acceptable part of the last deal that he walked
00:09:07.600away from but he walked away because of phantom issues around the french language canadian culture
00:09:15.260and china what sorry we're going to sacrifice 78 of our of our exports obviously they're not
00:09:24.660all going away but it damages the quality and profitability of those exports in order to
00:09:30.300protect 5% of our exports with China, to slightly grow them to 5%, maybe 6%, maybe 7%. You're not
00:09:39.020replacing America. You just can't. None of these countries are relocating to our southern border0.79
00:09:44.420anytime soon. But now they're going to be getting into the medium and heavy truck issue, which was
00:09:49.520one of the other points that Mark Carney had brought up as unacceptable to Canada, and that's
00:09:54.140apparently why you walked away. Okay, well, let me go through some of the things that the Prime
00:09:58.320Minister and the Canadian government has raised as issues, some of which they say Secretary
00:10:03.240Lutnik added sort of at the end as well. But I'll go through the issues to start. First of all,
00:10:09.000the issue of excluding medium and heavy duty trucks from this deal. That would have an enormous
00:10:15.820impact on Canada, as I'm sure you would understand. It would be job losses, plant closures.
00:10:22.220Given that, is the goal of the Trump administration to remove auto manufacturing
00:10:27.260from Canada entirely? Because I think that was the fear from the Canadian government.
00:10:31.540Well, just a couple of things here. The U.S. goal in its entire trade policy,
00:10:35.040because remember, it's global. It's not like Canada alone or something. We are trying
00:10:38.800to re-industrialize 25 years of suffering from globalization where we lost 5 million jobs,
00:10:44.26070,000 factories. So with respect to this issue of medium and heavy trucks, for weeks when I've
00:10:49.720been speaking with my Canadian colleagues, I've been clear about what we believe we could deliver,
00:10:53.860including about autos we have a we have a section 232 measure on autos and pickup trucks
00:11:00.360and and there is a separate action on medium and heavy trucks that is separate and distinct and
00:11:05.880different the economics are different the way it operates is different etc the effective tariff
00:11:10.300rates are different and so to kind of bring that in at the end and say well you know when we say
00:11:15.480autos we really mean everything from a you know a little escort to the the biggest truck you can
00:11:19.580you can think of. So it's less a matter of excluding it and more a matter of, you know,
00:11:24.700an effort. And I understand. I understand why the Canadians, you know, want to have as much
00:11:27.800as they can get and try to expand concessions from the U.S. But we are focused on doing what's
00:11:33.000good for America and accommodating Canada to the extent we can. Yeah. And I get what you're trying
00:11:38.320to do from an industrial policy perspective. But of course, and you're applying it to all
00:11:42.280countries, certainly. But the integration between Canada and the U.S. is different. And that's what
00:11:46.900makes the impacts as you would well know so much more severe so now here's the thing at the same
00:11:54.860time Jameson Greer is actually speaking the language of deal making what is good for America
00:12:02.060whereas the thing is that the way that Canada has been approaching us the way that Rosemary Barton
00:12:06.540is the way that cartoonist was the way that Prime Minister Mark Carney is is it feels like you've
00:12:11.680been unfair to Canada maybe it is unfair to Canada I don't think that saying that they're
00:12:17.440being unfair is going to get us a deal I don't think saying that they're not a good friend and
00:12:21.780we're going to go friend friends elsewhere it's going to get us a good deal and Jameson Greer is
00:12:25.540going to get into something a little bit later that kind of exposes the hypocrisy of this all
00:12:29.440because in part Canada only has auto auto manufacturing in our country because we've
00:12:34.820done similar measures to what America has done now that doesn't mean I'm a fan of tariffs at the end
00:12:39.360of the day, you only need to tariff outside goods if your own economy is over-regulated
00:12:44.520and over-taxed and companies want to go overseas in order to produce products there. Because
00:12:49.840ideally, they'd love to produce products in the country that they're going to sell them
00:12:53.460in because then you don't have to build them in one place and then ship them off somewhere
00:12:56.640else. It's easier to build them in the location where right outside the door you can sell
00:13:01.700it right away. In Canada, the United States, the root cause of a lot of economic problems
00:13:06.700on a lot of job losses has been over-regulation, over-taxation, really bad labor laws. That is why
00:13:14.100Rust Belt states ended up losing a lot of jobs over time. It just was not economic to keep jobs
00:13:19.660there. It was a headache. The amount of union power in the area was really annoying for the
00:13:24.200auto manufacturers, so they started going elsewhere. One of the countries was Canada.
00:13:28.620And in the midst of all this, have we ever thought of the fact that maybe instead of whining at the
00:13:32.540United States, we need to out-compete them anyways and lower our taxes and regulations to build up
00:13:38.880our auto sector and make ourselves more competitive, which would also give us more0.74
00:13:42.920leverage at the negotiating table. But we've never gotten off of square one of just feeling
00:13:47.840like this has been unfair. And by the way, Janice Charette, who is our top lead negotiator
00:13:54.280in the United States or Canada, the National News Watch here is saying from a CBC article,
00:14:01.220What went wrong with U.S. trade talks? According to Canada's chief negotiator, Janice Charette, disputes U.S. claims that Canada's last-minute demands derailed negotiations.
00:14:12.560How is that even possible? How is it even, oh, she's disputing that the U.S. claims that Canada's last-minute demands didn't derail things.
00:14:21.520then show us the actual deal and how it was changed why is it that our top our lead negotiator0.55
00:14:30.620is getting into this stupid bun fight over why talks failed do you know why talks failed Mark0.94
00:14:37.900Hardy stopped talking he literally wrapped up the talks and pulled out of them I would say0.98
00:14:43.900that is why talks fell through not the other side apparently bringing that last minute like
00:14:50.060up making last minute demands. It sounds like whoever made the last minute demands, the decisive
00:14:54.940action was still Carney walking away. But now let's get back to this Jameson Greer, Rosemary
00:15:00.480Barton interview, because he starts enlightening her on the history of Canada's auto sector.
00:15:06.060Just to go back to whether you understand that Canadians and the Canadian government might see
00:15:12.700that exclusion on those trucks as a sign that the United States is not interested in having an
00:15:19.260integrated auto production industry? Well, I certainly think, and I don't think this is any
00:15:24.340secret, we believe that the process of globalization for the United States, of integrating with other
00:15:29.920economies, even our close neighbors with whom we trade a lot, we think that has had some negative
00:15:34.980effects, especially in places like Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Again, we saw
00:15:40.220five million manufacturing jobs go away. And a lot of those went to Mexico and China, Vietnam,
00:15:44.700Tom, you know, someone to Canada. But I have to say, too, I mean, Canada, they've done the globalization thing and you've lost half, you know, half a billion manufacturing jobs over the past 20 years.
00:15:54.960So it's not it's not something where the United States alone is having a challenge.
00:15:58.060No, except in this issue. And I'll move on after this. But in this issue, Canada remains the largest customer for U.S. cars, for American built cars.
00:16:05.300So so it's not like you're not getting anything out of that integration in the industry.
00:16:09.560But to his point here, why are we letting China strong arm us into dumping electric vehicles into our economy in which they stole a lot of the intellectual property and R&D research that went into building those cars?
00:16:25.460So we, they threaten us with tariffs, 100% tariffs on seafood and canola, and we are now going to permanently take our tariffs off of their cars for only for like forever.
00:16:39.660And they are going to agree to take the canola and seafood tariffs off for like a year or two so that they can dump cheap cars in our economy that are only cheap because of their theft.
00:16:49.420Now, why is she not mad at China for taking Canadian jobs, but she's mad at the United States?
00:16:54.920This is the disconnect. And again, this doesn't mean defending tariffs. I don't like tariffs unless they are used for national security reasons, which I think they're justified against countries like China, Iran. You can you can name a dictatorship out there that we probably shouldn't be trading with.
00:17:09.760But where is the outrage to China? Where is the outrage to communist dictatorships and other just authoritarian countries that crush their own people for low labor costs in order to try and take Canada's manufacturing industry and bring it over there?
00:17:26.720No point has the CBC ever talked about this, but they're deeply angry at the United States.
00:17:31.840And Jameson Greer is about to reveal that Canada, in fact, did what America did to start our auto sector in the first place.
00:17:38.260Well, remember, you know, back in the back in the 60s, Canada did a very Trumpian thing.
00:17:42.820And they said to the big three, the American big three, if you're going to sell in Canada, you have to build factories here.
00:17:48.320And at the time, you know, the big three had a lot of influence.
00:17:51.720They said, fine, we'll do this. We think maybe we can do some things cheaper up there.
00:17:55.220If there's going to be this approach from the Canadian side says you have to build here to sell here.
00:17:59.880So so that that was not like a natural economic growth.
00:18:02.900That was a deal. The Canadians did a very savvy thing.
00:18:05.160And now, after many years of the auto pact, NAFTA, USMCA, we have been able to see we still need to have, you know, we have a big gap in our manufacturing employment here.
00:18:18.620OK, I'll move on to another issue that the prime minister raised.
00:18:21.700And that, of course, she's going to move on.
00:18:23.420Now, we don't need to watch any more of this.
00:18:24.700But of course, Rosemary is going to move on.
00:18:26.620Because how does a liberal actually argue against that?
00:18:29.420Pierre Elliott Trudeau did the same thing Trump did back in the 60s and 70s, and he is a hero to
00:18:36.760the left. So Trump does it now, and he is a villain who is trying to annex us, he's trying
00:18:42.580to de-industrialize us, and I don't like tariffs. I'm just saying that you cannot fight back against
00:18:48.540tariffs. You cannot drive towards a good deal carrying your hypocrisy baggage with you. You0.95
00:18:55.160can't say, no, no, no, our supply management tariffs, those are perfectly fine. That's just
00:18:59.700to protect the Canadian market. How do you think they justify their tariffs? Dummy, come on. You
00:19:05.480can't keep saying that ours are okay, but theirs are not okay. You have to figure out a way of being
00:19:10.960able to trade these two things. Is it that complicated? This is why Canada fails, because
00:19:17.560we have people like Rosemary Barton, who have a lot of influence over Canadian politics and how
00:19:23.760liberals think we have people like prime minister mark carney who has an indistinguishable position
00:19:30.000to somebody like rosemary barton and the really low resolution version of it in that cartoon
00:19:35.360they simply just see this as america bad and we're fighting back against bad americans0.66
00:19:40.480it's 1814 let's go burn down the white house get a grip people get a grip i am calling you to0.99
00:19:48.640adulthood so that you can actually figure out how the world works rather than playing dumb politics0.98
00:19:55.280about how can america doesn't want to be your friends anymore so we're going to go be friends0.80
00:19:59.500with the eu and japan and india it's like oh my goodness shut up and by the way i noticed how the
00:20:06.280cartoonist didn't put china into that friend group because that would be a little bit too much of a0.53
00:20:11.640tell if we started just you know signaling that we're very close with communist china why don't
00:20:17.780we get rid of the EV dumping deal in Canada and then we could probably get auto tariffs even lower0.84
00:20:23.000because the Americans would say, huh, okay, you're no longer going to let the Chinese EVs in. That
00:20:27.920means it's not going to spill over into our economy. We don't feel like that's as much
00:20:32.840of a threat to us anymore. Okay, maybe we'll take the heavy truck tariff down from 15% down to 10%.
00:20:40.440Okay, I can maybe accept that. Fair enough. We can give our own manufacturers in those areas a big
00:20:45.500tax cut to make up for the losses fair enough on steel and aluminum we can probably find another
00:20:51.840way around on that get rid of bill c18 get rid of bill c11 get rid of supply management or at least
00:20:58.020half the strength of supply management's quota system and and taxes at the border because trump
00:21:04.080is right 300 400 dairy tariffs are pretty crazy and i know there's a quota where some american
00:21:09.700dairy can get into canada and people say we'll see americans don't even fill their side of the
00:21:14.280It's like, yeah, because people don't want to bother having to engage with that bureaucracy to get some of their dairy across the border. Of course they don't. And then if they go over quota, they owe 300% tariffs on their stuff. Nobody wants to engage in the system.
00:21:27.280And it's costing Canadian families who make less than $70,000 a year 1.5% of their household income just to pay for the amount of cost that the supply management regulations add onto those basic necessities of chicken, eggs, dairy, cheese, and some other products as well.
00:21:46.360I've been told that beef and pork also have its own system that is similar to supply management.