The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney FLEES from Questions about Screwing Up US Trade Talks!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.220 As time goes on, more and more evidence is coming out proving that Prime Minister Mark Carney and

00:00:12.020 his Liberal government are not actually trying to get a trade deal signed with the United States.

00:00:18.020 The Liberals know that fighting between Carney and Trump is good for their political prospects,

00:00:23.660 so Canadians can economically suffer, so that Mark Carney is benefited at the ballot box by

00:00:29.780 getting into tiffs with the Americans. There's a new article out from Politico, which in fact is

00:00:36.060 a more left-wing publication, detailing how the liberal negotiators have been screwing up trade

00:00:42.720 talks with the Americans. They get close to signing a deal, and then suddenly the Canadian negotiators

00:00:49.800 pull out something out of their hat just to throw things into chaos once again, or Carney let

00:00:55.620 somebody like Ontario Premier Doug Ford start running anti-Trump's ads in the United States,

00:01:01.480 which obviously Canadians would never put up with if a Republican governor was doing the same thing

00:01:06.740 to Carney by running anti-Carney ads in Canada. But the Politico article points to something that

00:01:13.880 no one actually has heard about yet that actually disrupted the trade talks, and that is Melanie

00:01:19.960 Jolie, the industry minister, threatening to sue Stellantis in the middle of trade talks.

00:01:26.660 That's not provocative at all. Obviously it is, but that's what the liberals wanted to do. Be

00:01:32.400 provocative, throw the trade talks back into chaos so that Carney could get into another tiff with

00:01:38.300 Trump to increase his polls. Now, Carney is getting kind of uncomfortable on the U.S. trade

00:01:44.240 issue these days, and I think it's because he fears that people are going to figure out what

00:01:47.800 he's doing. And if they do figure out what he's doing, well, this moves from being his best issue

00:01:53.120 right now politically to being one of his worst. If people figure out the magic trick that he's

00:01:58.000 trying to pull off here and all the magic goes away, well, now he's just an incompetent prime 0.97

00:02:02.400 minister getting into dumb play fights with Trump in order to benefit himself politically. 0.93

00:02:07.920 But in just a second here, I want to show you a scrum from Parliament 0.92

00:02:11.020 where a journalist tried to ask him about this, and then he immediately fled the scene.

00:02:15.760 Although I do want to play a little bit of the earlier section of the tape 0.86

00:02:19.220 because he says something stupid on another file I also want to comment on.

00:02:23.040 After that, I'm going to talk a little bit about the details from the political article, 0.95

00:02:26.460 and then I want to play you guys a particularly embarrassing moment

00:02:30.560 from the House of Commons during question period.

00:02:32.920 For some reason, members of the government also sometimes ask their own ministers questions. And newly minted Liberal MP Marilyn Gladju, one of the floor crossers, was asking a question to one of the Liberal ministers. I don't care which one, it doesn't really matter.

00:02:50.040 and she is shaking like a paint shaker it is so weird watching her pretend to be a liberal because

00:02:57.900 you can tell that while yes she voluntarily crossed the floor probably for attention

00:03:02.700 there is something in her body biologically that is rejecting the words that she is saying but

00:03:08.500 we will get to that tape later it's absolutely hilarious but first let's talk about this scrum

00:03:14.560 with Mark Carney. It was very short. He had asked, answered a question about some renovations

00:03:20.400 on Sussex Drive earlier in this clip. But now we're just going to get to first him talking

00:03:25.000 about the major projects office and then fleeing the scene once the Stellantis question gets brought

00:03:30.700 up. Because the important thing is that we respect the law. This is rich. So the media

00:03:44.540 is asking him about slow project approvals, about how there's no real big major project that's been

00:03:50.680 fast-tracked so far. The whole point of the new major projects office was to, in theory,

00:03:56.440 fast-track a project, that a project from square one immediately is on the fast lane,

00:04:01.460 it gets through all of its approvals, and gets shovels on the ground as soon as possible.

00:04:06.080 And so far, the Liberal government has just been giving small fast-tracks to projects that are

00:04:11.220 like small expansions to pre-existing projects that were already two or three years deep into

00:04:16.320 their approval process. And now he's like fast tracking the last few months of it all. And he

00:04:21.360 is now saying, well, we, we, we still have to follow the rule of law. We still have to follow

00:04:26.160 the law. Well, that's the point of fast tracking is that you're going to suspend regulations

00:04:32.360 in order to move the project faster. Like listen to him explaining himself here.

00:04:39.740 because because the important thing is that we respect the we respect the law and and the

00:04:45.180 designation requires consultations in advance of designation we're moving forward at speed but

00:04:50.060 we're doing it in the right way consultation with indigenous partners with provinces with all state

00:04:55.100 so to get the designation of a project worth fast tracking you first must go through the

00:05:01.820 consultation process and follow the law and consult with first nations and all that stuff

00:05:06.220 that doesn't sound very fast to me but maybe i'm just a particularly persnickety commentator but

00:05:14.300 that's just something i wanted to quickly comment on right there and now they will try and get into

00:05:18.780 the stellantis question and he will turn into speedy gonzalez here political reports on minister

00:05:23.640 jolie's comments blowing up jerry talks yeah so political reports on minister jolie's comments

00:05:29.620 blowing up jerry talks doesn't want to answer that now you could say well maybe he was already

00:05:34.840 leaving the room. Prime Minister Carney has sometimes spent, you know, several minutes in

00:05:39.820 the hallway answering reporter questions. You move on because you know the big questions that are

00:05:44.780 floating around in the media. Some people start mentioning, you know, major projects. Okay, it's

00:05:49.820 safer question. He'll kind of answer that, although he still screwed that one up. And he knows the

00:05:54.200 other big question of the day is what Melanie Jolie had done to Stellantis. And then he jets

00:05:59.480 out of there. But what did Melanie Jolie do to Stellantis? Well, in this Politico article, 1.00

00:06:06.700 it describes the fact that she had basically threatened to sue Stellantis out of nowhere

00:06:11.580 during the trade talks. Now, remember, Politico is a very left paper, not like communist left,

00:06:18.300 but it's like a center-left establishment publication. And right here it says,

00:06:24.400 while the public fallout over the ad made headlines, and they mean Doug Ford's anti-Trump

00:06:28.720 ad in the United States. It was a finer policy detail out of Ottawa, particularly around autos

00:06:34.060 that alarmed Detroit. On October 15th, the day after Ford announced the anti-tariff ad, Canada's

00:06:39.260 industry minister wrote to Stellantis chief executive officer Antonio Filosa, threatening

00:06:44.420 to sue the company over its decision to move its cheap production plant from Brampton, Ontario,

00:06:49.660 to Belvedere, Illinois. They were going to sue them and basically try and extract every subsidy,

00:06:54.940 every grant that they have ever given Stellantis

00:06:57.860 for moving one of its many production streams

00:07:02.100 to the United States.

00:07:03.680 And by the way, guys,

00:07:04.680 that had nothing to do with tariffs.

00:07:06.900 They were just suing them for moving production pre-tariff.

00:07:10.680 These were threats that were made,

00:07:12.220 or this was something that was pre-existing,

00:07:14.680 that they were already moving their company.

00:07:17.460 And then they were going to start,

00:07:19.400 they were going to threaten them 0.94

00:07:20.660 to basically keep them in the country. 0.88

00:07:23.740 What?

00:07:24.260 And as as this article goes on, it starts just describing the fact that like all the it was the specifically the auto manufacturers who ran to the White House to tell Trump to basically cut off this trade deal because the Canadian government was acting in a very high handed fashion, suddenly trying to reduce the amount of vehicles that the American companies were allowed to import into Canada tariff free.

00:07:48.660 because underneath all this,

00:07:51.160 the thing is that American officials

00:07:52.980 and Canadian officials know

00:07:54.160 that they don't actually want

00:07:55.400 to hurt their own economies

00:07:56.320 by putting tariffs on everything.

00:07:58.740 The levies do hurt the economy. 1.00

00:08:00.380 So because a lot of Canadian

00:08:02.480 and American auto manufacturing

00:08:04.100 is kind of a mixed market

00:08:05.380 where a lot of the work

00:08:06.620 is both done in America and Canada,

00:08:08.400 you'd kind of let cars go through

00:08:10.120 without having to tariff them

00:08:11.800 because it kind of is an American

00:08:13.320 and Canadian product combined.

00:08:15.780 But then suddenly in the middle of trade talks,

00:08:18.660 Francois-Philippe Champagne and the industry minister, Melanie Jolie, just put a hard cap on the amount of vehicles that were allowed in from the United States tariff-free.

00:08:27.680 Remember, Stellantis is an EV manufacturer.

00:08:31.460 That is what they specialize in, is EVs.

00:08:34.180 And at the same time that they are trying to restrict the amount of Stellantis EVs coming into Canada, they sign a deal, Chikarni does, with China to allow at least 49,000, 47,000 Chinese EVs into Canada.

00:08:51.640 And that's just starting. It's going to increase from there.

00:08:53.860 And so now the Americans are saying, OK, well, what's the point of you removing tariffs on us when you're already basically trying to replace us in your own economy with cheap Chinese dumped EVs?

00:09:07.220 So the thing is, now the only upside to this deal is for you guys to remove tariffs so that you can buy our vehicles and your, like, basically Americans aren't going to be able to move as many vehicles into Canada if we're just dumping and letting China dump vehicles into our economy.

00:09:24.180 And so the Americans are like, well, what's even the point of signing a deal with you guys at the same time you're screwing around with talks with China?

00:09:32.280 Regardless, though, the Canadians know this is obviously provocative.

00:09:37.980 I want to just move on to here.

00:09:40.980 Jolie didn't respond to the claim, neither did Canada, U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc,

00:09:46.700 though his office said in a statement he has a goal of getting the best deal for Canadian workers and families.

00:09:52.440 So it's saying Jolie didn't respond to requests for comment about whether or not she actually knew that this was going to be considered provocative.

00:10:01.640 And it says here, one of the officials based in Canada said Jolie's actions inflamed a very

00:10:07.280 important ally, noting that U.S. automakers have been key partners in making the case for

00:10:12.140 integrated cross-border supply chains. It's, quote, it's not going to be Canadian politicians

00:10:17.920 or Canadian businesses that convince U.S. lawmakers or President Trump to eliminate tariffs and get

00:10:22.960 back to free trade, the Canadian official said. It's going to be American businesses, and we have

00:10:28.200 to be very, very careful in how we treat those partners. So Melanie Jolie, while Stellantis and

00:10:35.440 GM, while Stellantis and General Motors, we're basically doing her job for her. We're doing

00:10:40.600 Dominic LeBlanc's job for them, advocating to Trump on why we should be removing tariffs, 0.92

00:10:46.560 because it's basically a mixed economy anyways. Suddenly, Jolie and Francois-Philippe Champagne 0.99

00:10:52.880 and Dominic LeBlanc just hit them with a rod and they basically start punishing Stellantis and GM

00:10:58.940 out of nowhere and like hurting them way more than the Americans are even hurting Canadian auto

00:11:04.500 manufacturing. And then they're like, well, what the hell is the point of us helping you guys when

00:11:09.240 you're just hitting us in the middle of us helping you? And that is what gave Trump a pretext. And

00:11:15.140 the Ford ads in America gave Trump a pretext to just shut off the trade talks. And I think that

00:11:22.120 this is what Carney and Melanie Jolie wanted. They don't want an actual deal getting signed.

00:11:27.060 And so at the 11th hour, because they said this deal was like 12 days away from getting done in

00:11:31.480 October. At the 11th hour, they suddenly announced that they might sue Stellantis for all the money

00:11:36.700 back. Any money that the Canadian government has ever given them or given them a tax break on,

00:11:42.020 suddenly we're going to sue you. Even if you think, well, maybe they should hand back the money.

00:11:46.560 Well, a lot of that money was used to bring the companies to Canada in the first place. They had

00:11:50.660 been operating in Canada for a while, you're not going to make them pay you every penny

00:11:54.360 of subsidy or tax break that you've ever granted them. 1.00

00:11:58.340 That's stupid. 0.99

00:11:59.460 And even, let's just say, even if you should do that, even if it's the right thing to do 1.00

00:12:04.660 on like a moral, ethical level, you're in the middle of a trade talk.

00:12:08.220 You don't bring that up out of nowhere and tick off the auto manufacturers helping you.

00:12:14.200 And then in January, when we signed that deal with China, we basically said, we don't really

00:12:20.180 care about getting a deal done on autos. Go screw yourselves. We don't care anymore. We're going to 0.99

00:12:24.520 work with China. And now Trump and the Americans and the American auto manufacturers have so much

00:12:30.020 less reason to actually work with you. And now Trump is trying to just negotiate directly with

00:12:35.700 Canadian aluminum and steel manufacturers and processors and say, hey guys, know what I'll do

00:12:41.240 for you? You can have zero tariffs, but just make sure, just propose a plan to make your next

00:12:46.040 expansion, your next corporate expansion, production expansion, is going to be somewhere

00:12:50.260 in the United States, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, Idaho. I don't know where

00:12:56.080 they process and manufacture steel and aluminum products, but you get my point. He's now just

00:13:00.840 going around Carney because Carney, Melanie Jolie and Dominic LeBlanc are useless. And in response 0.97

00:13:06.800 to Trump doing that, as we had covered yesterday, suddenly the liberal government in Canada is

00:13:12.180 just saying we'll bribe you if you stay here we will give you 1.5 billion dollars steel and aluminum

00:13:17.400 and copper uh processors if you don't leave it's not tariff relief it's a bribe to make sure that

00:13:24.780 those companies don't go work with the americans because the americans are reasonable to work with

00:13:28.780 the canadian officials are not reasonable to work with and the only thing that the carney government

00:13:32.860 can do now is simply throw money at the problem to try and get it to go away which is kind of

00:13:38.060 their only move on most things but anyways i'm almost done in this video i just want to quickly

00:13:43.680 cover this last little video of like maryland glad you trying to like be a team player for the

00:13:53.380 liberals uh i'm simply this clip right here um mark nixon uh did this clipping for everybody so

00:14:00.640 thank you to him sorry i had to bring this up on screen here this is just weird like the whole

00:14:07.340 thing is just weird when you watch this. So sometimes liberal MPs, even if they're part of

00:14:12.800 the government, are allowed to ask their own ministers questions. And they're always the

00:14:16.200 dumbest, most canned questions you've ever heard on the planet. But Marilyn Gladju somehow makes 0.99

00:14:22.300 it even weirder by looking like she is like, I don't know, having a gun pointed at her the entire 1.00

00:14:27.900 time. I'm proud to be part of a government that's committed to defending Canadian trade and ensuring

00:14:33.980 We're strengthening our economy and creating more opportunities in my riding of Sarnia-Lambton-Bukeswanong and across the country.

00:14:51.980 Did the Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State for Small Business and Tourism

00:14:57.560 update this house on the historic progress we've made to diversify Canadian trade?

00:15:05.440 What the heck was that? What was that? That was so weird.

00:15:09.600 Like, my comment at the time of seeing this kind of mirrors what I said a little bit beforehand.

00:15:14.860 But I said last night when I first saw that clip,

00:15:17.640 glad she was so twitchy here it's like someone is holding her dog hostage until she finishes

00:15:22.620 the scripted question she was handed there was nothing organic about it is this really what 0.97

00:15:28.080 she wanted her political life to be obviously she just wanted the attention of crossing the floor 0.87

00:15:33.100 and now as i had mentioned before it's like her own biology is like rejecting the words she is 0.99

00:15:38.120 saying and she's like shaking around like a paint shaker like can the minister of women and gender

00:15:43.660 Equality and the Minister of Small Business, please give me an update on how this government 0.50

00:15:49.260 is making historic investments in the, like, what is going on here, lady? Give this person some,

00:15:55.640 like, Ritalin, my goodness. Anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 08, 2026

Carney FLEES from Questions about Screwing Up US Trade Talks!

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