The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 02, 2026


Carney Crawling Back To Trade Talks - Complains About Trump ＂Memes＂


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11 minutes

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2,164

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00:00:00.000 I don't need a big intro to what happened here. You guys probably already saw it, and you probably already know it's extremely embarrassing.
00:00:09.280 Prime Minister Mark Carney is effectively trying to beg Donald Trump to get back to the negotiating table to get a trade deal conveniently right after the Liberals won the by-elections,
00:00:21.120 but he's having to still pretend like he's tough by telling Trump to stop doing memes.
00:00:27.660 I remember when he was previously saying that we are cutting off trade talks and we're going to wait until Donald Trump, the Americans, come to us.
00:00:35.580 They have to come on their hands and knees saying they want to talk again and they're going to give us a great deal.
00:00:41.000 But now the goalposts have subtly shifted to Mark Carney saying, don't post a meme for 24 hours and I'll come back to you.
00:00:50.660 Like, what are we doing here, people?
00:00:52.880 We're going to watch a little bit of his little quick interview scrum on CPAC here.
00:00:58.640 It's going to eventually get to the memes quote, but there were several comments he made here that were just not great.
00:01:05.500 But I just quickly want to remind you guys before we get into the video, if you like the channel, make sure to leave a like on the video.
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00:01:18.940 But here we go with our Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
00:01:22.540 On Saturday, you said that the Americans were attempting to limit Canada's ability to do trade deals.
00:01:30.180 That was a part of the negotiation.
00:01:31.480 On Friday, they were doing that.
00:01:33.100 Can you give us the specifics on what products or any details?
00:01:36.780 It was a broader, well, once you introduce on a broad range of products in manufacturing sectors,
00:01:44.880 then once you carve out those areas and potentially have those limitations,
00:01:50.040 limitations that weren't well explained with limitations that were introduced late in the
00:01:54.760 negotiations once you have those as you can appreciate with virtually any country that we
00:02:00.460 either have a free trade deal with or we are negotiating with think of the ASEAN countries
00:02:05.280 think of India many others the Philippines Thailand Mercosur they all have manufacturing
00:02:11.800 sectors they're all would be affected by these measures and plus Canada is a sovereign state we
00:02:16.980 will strike free trade deals with the countries we wish to strike free trade deals. Again, he's
00:02:22.380 trying to sound tough here by saying, well, you know, the Americans are being high-handed by
00:02:26.920 trying to limit who we trade with, say who we can sign free trade agreements with and who we can't.
00:02:33.280 Literally, the Kuzma agreement that we have with America, USMCA to them, they require our permission
00:02:40.660 for free trade agreements with other countries outside of Canada and Mexico. The whole idea
00:02:46.000 is that within these trade agreements, it wasn't just a free trade agreement.
00:02:49.760 Within it are certain guarantees, like let's say if America wanted to buy 90%,
00:02:55.020 80% of our potash from Saskatchewan, we can't strike another deal
00:02:59.960 that gives away 40% of the potash to somebody else.
00:03:03.380 That is why basically these measures exist.
00:03:06.500 You can't just demand that, you know, like Carney can't be confused
00:03:10.980 that they would want some stipulations on who you're signing free trade agreements with
00:03:14.460 because it undermines the free market access they have with us.
00:03:18.760 That's why you have these things.
00:03:20.160 But he's playing dumb mostly just so he can have his line about how,
00:03:24.200 you know, they're not going to tell us who to have free trade agreements with.
00:03:27.880 It's like, dude, get out of here.
00:03:29.340 Of course they are.
00:03:30.180 We can, in theory, tell them who they shouldn't be having free trade agreements with.
00:03:35.560 Prime Minister, what do you make of U.S. Cabinet secretaries insulting the Canadian military?
00:03:42.140 It's beneath their office.
00:03:43.800 Sir, are you going to lead your party in the next election?
00:03:45.080 American officials have been mocking Canada's military, its cadets.
00:03:48.840 You had Trump rename Lake Ontario.
00:03:51.860 And also some officials saying that Canada, the U.S. is not actually at war with Canada.
00:03:56.220 The U.S. is not actually at war with Canada.
00:03:58.640 What do you make of all this?
00:03:59.840 And what is your message to the U.S. right now?
00:04:01.600 What needs to happen next?
00:04:02.980 I believe we're getting into the memes comment here where they're talking about U.S. cabinet secretaries
00:04:08.100 and making fun of the Canadian military.
00:04:09.840 I think there was something out there where like a some sort of secretary was making fun of like obese soldiers or whatever in the Canadian military.
00:04:19.220 Whatever. This really shouldn't be coming up on the radar of the prime minister is just a giant waste of time.
00:04:24.280 But I do hope we can get into the meme comment here that he ends up making that Trump better stop doing memes or he won't talk to him.
00:04:31.100 Our message, our message first off has always been our plan has always been standing up for Canada first and foremost here at home, building Canada at home.
00:04:39.840 diversifying abroad everyone in the world wants to do more with canada um and we're doing that
00:04:45.040 in a way that's in the best interest of canadian workers canadian i like how we keep saying the
00:04:49.200 rest of the world wants to do more with canada at the same time the only reason our exports have
00:04:53.920 gone up is just because because of tariffs we are sending less to the united states and we're
00:04:58.560 saying more elsewhere the amount of actual like positive foreign investment has been extremely
00:05:04.880 low the amount of foreign investment we've been taking in has mostly just been in the category
00:05:09.280 of canadian assets losing massive amounts of value and another someone from another country coming in
00:05:14.880 and buying it no one's starting things from scratch in canada because the taxes and regulations are
00:05:20.400 too high even the qatar it wasn't qataris it was the uae he had made this ridiculous like oh it's
00:05:26.560 a 50 billion or 100 billion dollar deal where they're going to invest this money into canada
00:05:31.680 and then they came back and they said we'd actually have no clue what we even invested like
00:05:35.680 you know it was nice words but we actually don't see anything very profitable here and that whole
00:05:40.240 thing fell through families canadian businesses that's first um we have a pause there's a positive
00:05:46.800 opportunity that has always existed with the united states for a mutually beneficial trade
00:05:52.880 deal that respects canadian sovereignty which uh qui respecte les droits uh
00:05:58.480 Le droit de la langue française, those characteristics.
00:06:03.260 And when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough,
00:06:10.860 and start being serious about having those discussions.
00:06:14.580 He's the one pretending to be tough.
00:06:16.480 If you are telling another country, once the U.S. stops doing memes and stops throwing shade, then we'll talk.
00:06:23.180 But one, again, you've shifted the goalpost because previously the position was, is that he was going to wait until the U.S. approached him with a better deal.
00:06:33.380 Basically, I'm going to sit back and do nothing and let Donald Trump approach me because I'm the tougher customer of this entire thing.
00:06:40.900 And now it's shifted towards as long as they don't put out another video where they show Lake Ontario or as Lake America being protected by Canada geese renamed to Donald's ducks, then we will talk to them again.
00:06:56.060 It's like, okay, that is extremely weak, and it's also very – it's just kind of lame, the whole thing that we're going to have the prime minister of a country complaining about memes from Trump posting on Truth Social.
00:07:11.660 Like, this is stuff that you should really just be water off your back.
00:07:16.700 You shouldn't even care that it happened.
00:07:19.100 Even acknowledging that it happened kind of lets him win because now you're the one complaining about a joke.
00:07:26.060 You could have actually said before this, the jokes were really lame and dumb. I'm not going to pretend that they were not dumb. Some of them were definitely funny. You can go watch the videos yourself. But as soon as you vocalize that you're upset by memes, you've kind of become the joke here.
00:07:43.160 And again, this is all a goal shift. This is all a goalpost shift in order for him to basically go back to the table himself, not his stupid previous position the Americans were going to come up to us.
00:07:56.140 Because remember, he was the one who pulled out of the trade deal, basically not explaining really why he did, refusing to release the text.
00:08:04.040 But now he wants to go back, and so he shifted the goalpost to being about American memes, so that if Trump, I guess, doesn't put out a meme for 12 hours or whatever, I guarantee he'll make the timeline very short for how long the memes don't have to be posted for him to come back.
00:08:19.620 Then he can pretend like, see, I got Trump to do something. Now it's time for me to go back and sign a trade deal conveniently after I won the by-elections, after I got into another fight with Trump because it's good for my poll numbers.
00:08:32.760 We can have those discussions, but it's not constructive, but that's our democracy.
00:08:39.000 Are you going to lead your party into the next election?
00:08:41.700 I just led the party into two by-elections, and I'm very pleased that we won all three.
00:08:47.800 I'm pleased to have a remarkable caucus.
00:08:52.060 You know, I view my role, as my colleagues do, is to do our job.
00:08:58.280 We're sent to Ottawa for a reason.
00:09:00.420 We're sent here at a critical time.
00:09:03.620 I'm blessed by having three great colleagues who are going to be coming in from very different backgrounds.
00:09:09.320 So he's not even confirming that he's going to be leading the party into the next election.
00:09:13.560 This was another answer that kind of gone like semi-viral in the sense that it's weird when you're like the prime minister and you've only done not even a full term yet and you can't commit to doing another term.
00:09:25.420 Canadian prime ministers like Trudeau will do, what is it, three terms or so? He tried to go for a fourth term. Harper, I know not all of them were intact, but he was elected in 2006, 2008, and 2011.
00:09:39.540 He stuck around for three terms and had he even tried to getting in back in 2004 and also was an MP back in 1993 as well.
00:09:48.800 Like, people stick around for a while.
00:09:51.100 The fact that you're already willing to leave is, I don't know, just strange, especially because it does play into the whole idea.
00:09:58.420 Like, are you only prime minister because you want to, you know, puff up the assets of Brookfield Asset Management, then go back to being the chair or maybe now the CEO of that fund?
00:10:08.740 but whatever that doesn't really mean anything here uh but yeah the the main story here i know
00:10:14.480 it is about the memes because that's really funny to complain about the bigger thing again is the
00:10:20.280 fact that he's obviously indicating that he wants to get back to the table now which is an inversion
00:10:25.320 of what he was previously saying um i just want to put these on screen quickly just because it's
00:10:30.600 so stupid again these are the things apparently that we are complaining about we are complaining
00:10:36.380 about stuff like this, of Trump posting a bald eagle, like tackling a goose.
00:10:45.500 Like this is for some reason the things he cares about, beavers wearing MAGA hats and
00:10:51.820 have Trump hair and Canadian geese with Trump hair.
00:10:55.300 This is apparently why we currently cannot talk to them.
00:10:58.880 But if they stop doing this, for some reason that makes Carney really tough.
00:11:03.740 And then we'll go back and try and get a good trade deal with them after, of course, we won the by-elections, having gotten boosted up by fighting with Trump once again.
00:11:13.600 Anyways, I hope if we do sign a trade deal, if we actually do negotiate one, we can focus on the things that matter.
00:11:20.380 Because last time, we apparently shut the whole thing down because they wanted us to rip up the China deal, get rid of C-11, get rid of C-18, completely useless bills that no Canadians actually like, and rather than focusing on lowering tariffs.
00:11:36.420 That's really the thing that we should actually be doing.
00:11:38.780 Focus on lower steel and aluminum and auto tariffs, and then we can probably sign it.
00:11:44.120 Anyways, well, thanks for everyone for watching.
00:11:46.280 Just a reminder, again, make sure to like the video, subscribe, share, do all those fantastic things, and I'll see you guys all next time.