Carney Ignored by Trump after failure to secure Trade Deal!
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In the middle of what I assumed was going to be a slow news day, I ended up in a press conference being held by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Kelowna, British Columbia where he said something very revealing about Canada's relationship with Donald Trump.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. In the middle of what I assumed was going to be a very slow news day,
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I ended up tuning into a press conference being held by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Kelowna,
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British Columbia, where he said something very revealing about Canada's current relationship
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with the United States and Donald Trump. I want to get into the details in just a second here,
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but basically, Carney hasn't been speaking to Donald Trump. He hasn't spoken to him since the
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August 1st deadline, and the evidence suggests he probably hasn't spoken to him directly since the
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Oval Office meeting a couple of months ago. And then we wonder why we didn't end up getting a trade
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deal signed by the guy who claimed that he knew how to deal with men like Donald Trump. So I want to
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show you a couple of things that happened in this press conference, but before I get into it, I just
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are not yet a subscriber. I'm going to start this off before we get to the Donald Trump part with how
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this press conference was opened up by who I believe is the liberal MP for the Kelowna riding,
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who ends up kicking this press conference off with a land acknowledgement, which I always find
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endlessly annoying. But I need you guys to listen to it for a very important reason.
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Hello, everybody. Thank you. Thank you for coming today. I think it's important that
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we start by a land acknowledgement. So I'd like to acknowledge we're on the traditional and unseated
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territory of the Silks Okanagan people. I have driven by this lumber mill, I don't know,
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100, 200 times going to Vancouver, going to Penticton. I've never been inside. It is unbelievable in
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there. You see a blend of old school moving wood around to technology that's maximizing every piece
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of the lumber that goes through there. It's pretty incredible. Okay, that was a completely empty
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comment at the end, but I just wanted you to hear this guy talk because you'll probably never see much
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of him during this parliamentary session. But why unseated territory? The territory is quite literally
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ceded from First Nations to the province of British Columbia and Canada. I don't understand
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why progressive politicians feel the need to literally make things up just to virtue signal.
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British Columbia is not like Alberta. There's not even really treaty areas. It's pretty much just
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public land or privately held land with small areas of title land. But if you believe in the fantasy
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that is created by DRIPA or UNDRIP, all of this land is still unseated First Nations territory
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because we're basically just going to pretend it is. And that's the problem. Mark Carney is standing next
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to his MP here saying this. Maybe he's not the Kelowna MP. Maybe it's the guy to the right. I don't know.
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Most liberal MPs are completely interchangeable with one another because they just follow the leader
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in the most dogmatic way possible. But he's sitting next to a guy saying this stuff. Basically saying
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that it's their territory still and they have control over it. And we think that Mark Carney
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is going to get any major project built. He keeps going to First Nations conferences,
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Inuit leaders, and saying that, oh yeah, we're going to try and get major projects done with you
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guys, but we need your full consent first. We need to do a full consultation. Meaning it's not going to
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happen. It is what I've said in other videos, outsourcing saying no. He's saying, I'd love to
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have a project. This is the same thing that Wob Canoe and David Eby do, the terrible premier of
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British Columbia. They will just say, oh, of course I want a project. But these people are saying no.
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Those people, I'm not trying to be rude, but they don't matter for this project being approved.
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You just have to approve it. You are simply outsourcing to somebody that you know will say no,
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or you know will hold up the project so long it basically gets defeated by the process.
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You're just outsourcing them doing that so you don't have to do it. So you can pretend to be the
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yes guy while also letting someone else take the fall for being the no person. If anything,
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it's the most insulting thing you could possibly do to First Nations. Finding First Nations lefty
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activists in order to say no to projects, which is going to cause a lot of Canadians to think that
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First Nations are against economic development, which most of them are in favor of. It's just the
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activists on the band councils who say no to things all the time. Well, that gets under my skin.
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And by the way, guys, if you live in the province of British Columbia, please join the 1BC party. I
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will link that party's website in the description below as well as pinned to the top of the comments.
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I work in caucus with them. I'm obviously not an MLA, but I'm an advisor on communications and policy
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for the leader, Dallas Brody, and for the house leader, Tara Armstrong. Tara Armstrong actually
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being a Kelowna area MLA or a lake shore cold stream or lakefront cold stream. I always get that
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wrong. But let's now jump in to the section where we are talking about Donald Trump. And I will make
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a video later on about BC politics and going in depth on that. It's such a mess right now. We just
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had some BC conservative MLA also from Kelowna. Gavin do release this article talking about how as
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conservatives, we need to basically build things, not destroy them. And it's like this 2000 word, I don't
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know how long it is, but it's just, it was too long for how little he said. He just goes on and on in this
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like Andrew Coyne-esque article about how conservatives need to conserve things, which means that we shouldn't
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be blowing up institutions in British Columbia if we end up getting in government. So he's basically saying as one
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of the people who frankly is probably one of the most, the top five most powerful MLAs in the BC
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conservatives right now, he's saying, don't worry if we get in, we will touch nothing. Because apparently
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that's what conservatives are supposed to do. Liberals set up broken institutions and Gavin Dew-esque
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conservatives or Andrew Coyne-esque conservatives will just defend them. They will defend them to the
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hilt. Institutions that are broken. That's why the BC conservatives are now mostly in favor of DRIPA.
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They are now effectively in favor of SOGI with some adjustments, which is just the caretaker
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nonsense that Andrew Coyne ends up advocating conservatives do. Liberals create something
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and conservatives tinker with it, fix it up a little bit, shine it, and they keep it safe until
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the liberals come back in and make it even more insane. But now here is Mark Carney being asked a
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question from a journalist about has he talked to Donald Trump or not? And he just flat out says no and
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then starts talking about subsidies. Next question, CBC. Hi, Prime Minister Carney,
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Brady Strachan, CBC Kelowna. Have you spoken to Donald Trump in recent days? And will you retaliate
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with more counter tariffs, including on American steel or counter measures or lift counter measures
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already in place? Thank you for the for the question. I haven't spoken to the president in recent
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days where we'll speak when when it makes sense. We with respect to steel specifically,
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I'm going to stop it there before I let him go through on talking about subsidies to steel and
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softwood and whatnot. You what we're going to talk when it's appropriate to talk. And again,
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he didn't even ask, have you spoken to him since August 1? He's just saying, have you spoken to him
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recently? I consider recently being like the last week or two. And again, evidence suggests he has
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not been speaking to Donald Trump because his schedule has been full, but full of stuff that
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I really don't care if the premier of the prime minister does or not hosting these premier meetings
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where they all sit in a circle and they say we should do something and then they don't do something
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or going around and meeting the premier PEI or going to the Northwest territories or going to a
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Vancouver bride parade where he took a photo with a man wearing a dog fetish mask. I'm going to make
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that an aside later in this video. Prime minister shouldn't be taking photos with weirdos, but he's
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been obviously had a full enough schedule where he probably hasn't had the time to sit down for a
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couple of hours and get a call with the president. And when he's saying, well, I'll talk to him when
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it's appropriate. Appropriate was well before August 1st. It's deeply appropriate now to give a call.
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What are you waiting for him to call you? He's not. He's signing trade deals with other countries.
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He doesn't really need to deal with Canada considering that he can just force us to become
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USMCA compliant with our goods, which by the way, costs money in order to avoid the 35% tariff.
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It costs a lot of money to become USMCA compliant. Do you know how I know? Before December when Donald
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Trump was threatening tariffs on Canada, if you were not USMCA compliant, you would basically have to pay
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anywhere from like a 5% to 10% tariff. It depended on the product and whatnot, but it was a small
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tariff, single digit tariff. And in 2024, only about 35% of firms in Canada exporting to the US even
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bothered becoming USMCA compliant with their goods. I know people keep saying CUMSA. You should say
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CUMSA because that's the Canadian way of saying the agreement name. I'm sorry, USMCA sounds better.
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I'm not going to say CUMSA every single time. But it tells you how much it costs to become USMCA
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compliant, considering that when companies were paying, let's say even just a 5% tariff. A 5%
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tariff was worth paying compared to getting USMCA compliant. So even with Carney saying in this press
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conference, well, you know, 80% of our goods are already USMCA compliant. Okay, good. So we're going to
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avoid a 35% tariff. But that means we're at least paying more than 5% extra for all these products
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because all the extra regulatory burdens from all the extra sourcing burdens for material and labor
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in order to create a product that is USMCA compliant. It's still going to cost our consumers
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more. Yes, you can avoid the 35%, but you're still paying potentially 7% or 8% more in order to become
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USMCA compliant. So and then there's other things that can't become USMCA compliant, like softwood,
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lumber, aluminum, steel, all those things. But here and also auto as well. I'll let Mark Carney keep
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going on. We announced a comprehensive approach on steel two weeks ago, which included support,
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significant support for repositioning, significant support for by Canadian and
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with respect to say catalyze, you know, you want to say catalyze, if I can draw some distinctions with
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respect to softwood lumber, obviously, the core of the demand domestically, not all of it, but the core
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of the demand or much of the increase in demand can be through our new approach to home building in this
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country. With steel, the defense procurement comes into play. The broader infrastructure investments is
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part of our, our, our, our building can't national projects of national significance and the
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requirements we'll have around those. So we had those out. So our strategy now that we don't have
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a tariff agreement, we don't have a agreement to avoid tariffs. And by the way, he later goes on to
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say, and we're, I'm going to get to this ridiculous media question asked to Carney, which like, honestly,
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was kind of dumb question to ask from this one reporter we're going to get to later. But his strategy
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for how to make up for the economic losses that we are going to suffer. Yes, tariffs are going to hurt
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the American consumer quite directly, because they're paying more for anything coming from Canada,
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that's not USMCA compliant, although they still have to pay more because again, it costs money in
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order to become USMCA compliant. And it's not a one time cost. That's an ongoing cost, obviously.
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But with our strategy, apparently, is more government subsidies, it's more government projects.
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And even Mark Carney's own housing minister, the former mayor of Vancouver, talked about how the
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new housing approach is not going to affect home prices over the next few years. Well, okay, well,
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how many houses are you really building if you're not going to be affecting the prices? Because they
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are kind of restricting immigration a little bit more, although they are throwing around renewals for
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TFWs, and students like their candy. So the problem is, is like, if your housing strategy is going to be
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so mild, that you're not even going to affect the housing prices, because they're deeply afraid of
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their 55 plus voting demographic. If you're watching this video, when you're above the age of 55,
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you're probably conservative, if you've been watching me for 12 minutes and 30 seconds. But the thing is,
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disproportionately older voters are voting liberal, and the liberals are almost handicapping
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their own housing strategy in order to serve people who already own their own homes, who might
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be outwardly concerned about the prices going down. Even though if your home price goes down by 20%,
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which is not even what is required, but even if your house price went down by 20%, if you bought your
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house, like many people above the age of 55 did, like 10, 20, 30 years ago, your house is still worth
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way more than when you purchased it. So that's a small, that's not even a sacrifice. Your house is
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a bubble right now. Your housing price is a bubble, and we should be letting some air out of it so that
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new people can purchase homes. So we're going to apparently economically recover, because we're going
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to take our steel and softwood, and we're going to jam it into our modular home building projects,
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in which modular homes don't really, because they're modular homes, don't really need that many
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building materials, and a lot of it's prefabricated materials. I guess we're going to be using softwood
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lumber and steel to build them. Okay, well, those were already not very attractive houses, so the
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liberals are going to have a big youth backlash. It's not really going to make up for the amount of
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steel and aluminum and softwood that we were previously exporting to the United States. 80% of what
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we produced was going to the US. We're not going to be, we're not going to be sucking all that up
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with a few major building projects, few major infrastructure projects, modular homes, and
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whatever else they want to do. And we, our economy is already 44% government-related spending. I believe
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it's like 35% direct government spending, and then the rest of it is like the government paying a company
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to do something. We can't get any more government-based without basically becoming a socialist
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economy. But I will let Mark Carney finish his remarks here, then I want to jump to the next
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...plements there, plus some industry repositioning. So we feel, look, it's a challenging position.
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We have put in place a series of measures, and I would add one other thing, which I think is
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relevant. I know it's relevant for Canada, but I would submit that it's very relevant for the United
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States. We've also put in place the toughest measures against foreign steel that could be
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dumped into Canada or trans-shipped through Canada to other markets. So again, I just wrapped that into
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And that's the funny thing. We have tariffs against other countries because we don't want them dumping
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steel into our economy. You know, we don't want China or Russia or Iran. I'm not sure if Iran does
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any steel-based anything. But we're trying to prevent steel dumping into our economy. At the
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same time, we also have supply management tariffs against dairy and chicken products from outside
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our country, which disproportionately are going to affect farmers within the United States along the
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border of Canada. And it also hurts our own farmers who don't get to be part of the CODA system.
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We say all that, and then we're, like, offended by the tariffs in the US. And by the way, tariffs are bad
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in general, unless it's for national security reasons against, you know, China and Iran or any
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other terror state or communist dictatorship. I'm fine with that. But in general, we shouldn't want
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tariffs. But it's always weird when we criticize the implementation of tariffs from the United States,
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but then we never look back at our own tariffs that we have on other just products in general or
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specific countries. And we're like, but those are okay. But now I need to get over to possibly what is
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the dumbest question asked in this entire press conference by a local journalist trying to craft
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the narrative that, and this she's, I think she thinks she's playing into the liberal narrative
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because it's probably a liberal journalist acting like, well, it doesn't really matter that we didn't
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get a trade deal signed because Donald Trump's crazy.
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A courier? Barb Aguirre? Kelowna courier? Do you feel the US under the Trump administration would
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honor any trade agreement that Canada could negotiate, seeing that they're a perceived
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unreliable trade partner? What is that? What kind of question is that? Like, well,
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it doesn't even matter that you failed on trade because Donald Trump is so unreliable.
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And again, I think she thinks she's helping the liberal narrative by asking that question. But
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it puts Carney in this really awkward position where like, what do you want me to do? Agree that
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the guy on the other side of the border is unreliable? Like, yeah, he's going to love that.
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But this is the kind of elbows up mentality that you get with a lot of these like, liberals in the
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media. The idea that we it doesn't matter what we do, we can always just say that Trump is
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unreliable. So it literally doesn't matter that we're being unreliable. It doesn't really matter
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that we're not trading, we're not negotiating a trade deal in good faith. We're not we're not off
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putting anything on the table to get a better deal. We're not even threatening anything to get
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a better deal. We just kind of sit there and say, can you do something for us? Even in this press
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conference, I think he actually says it in this answer. So I want to spoil it. But he basically
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says he's like, no, he's like has no priority on trying to get a trade deal signed.
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I think this, you know, when you're in a negotiation like this, and it's a very fluid one,
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you're looking for real win win opportunities that that make an agreement reinforcing.
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I actually fully 1000% agree with that. When you are negotiating any deal, especially one with
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Donald Trump, who winning is like one of his favorite words, you are trying to create a win
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win scenario, you get something, and they get something, or at least they perceive that they
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got something. So maybe Trump on a political level just wants to make it look like Canada,
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you know, bent the knee a little bit, and he gets to go into the midterm election saying,
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look, my tariff strategy worked, even if basically nothing changes. But the problem is,
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as he goes on here, he doesn't really describe a willingness to make it a win win. He just
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basically acts like a win is whatever we want. And the funny thing is what he wants isn't even
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exactly good for Canada. Again, supply management isn't even good for our own country. And if this
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guy and the elbows up crew really cared about the economy, really cared about Canadians,
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especially young Canadians, why not lower taxes? Oh, but they did lower taxes. Why have they reduced
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income taxes under $50,000 by 1%? Who cares? It's literally a rounding error, even for people only
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making that much money a year that you don't even pay taxes on the first $18,000. And you're going to
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have the rate reduced for the rest of the 32,000 down to the rate is going to go down by 1%. So the
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average person is going to save, what is it like 250 bucks, 300 bucks. I know they said, oh, you could
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save up to $500. I don't know what household that you get, like, I guess you have to be making exactly
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$50,000 with a bunch of other potential reductions that you're allowed to have. But anyways, I'll let
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this keep going. First, that's the first point. So looking at those areas where the US, the president
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personally puts a very high emphasis on. So the president cares deeply about cross-border flow of
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fentanyl, ending the scourge of fentanyl. So do we. I would actually say we actually kind of already
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achieved our goal on this one. We said we will up security on fentanyl. We did it. But then he will go
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on to belittle the issue once again, like the liberals have been doing saying only 1% of seizures
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are on the Canadian side of the border. And then I have to tell you like a little story, because I
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just crossed the border from Montana to BC going back to Alberta yesterday. And I saw our border
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security up close. Our CBS agents are great, by the way. But obviously, they do not have the resources
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to police everything. We are in the process of cracking down on fentanyl. We've got a thousand
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more RCMP personnel coming on board. We have a thousand more border agents. We've got better
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surveillance technology. We're cracking down on transnational gangs. We're doing all those
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things first and foremost for Canada. But actually, it helps solve the issues with the United States
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issues, which to be absolutely transparent, Canada is a rounding error for relative to other sources
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of other. I know they're talking about seizures, but seizures are not all the fentanyl coming over
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the border. Do you really think that all these super labs, which are have been busted, not that far
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away from the US border from the Washington state border? Do you think those are just the noble fentanyl
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dealers who are making the stuff, but they would never violate an international border to walk a
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duffel bag full of fentanyl over and hand it off to somebody to go sell it in Seattle and Portland or
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anywhere else in the United States? That would never happen. We would, they would never. These are noble
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Canadian fentanyl dealers who only sell onto the East, into East Hastings. Obviously, they're going to be
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selling into the US. And when Canada's like, we only found 50 grams of it or whatever this last year,
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and there was pounds and pounds of it, kilograms coming from Mexico. It's like, okay, I have no
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doubt they seize a lot over Mexico. And I don't have any doubt that Mexico is a bigger problem than
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Canada. I also don't think 1% of seizures coming from Canada really represents the problem. Because
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like Carney is admitting, effectively by upping our security, our security wasn't really all that tight
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along the border. And I was going over the border yesterday, and there was some random guy dropped off
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from a car. I guess that guy didn't want to have to go over the border, just dropped his friend off.
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The guy's walking around with a duffel bag and pulling a suitcase. And he tries to walk over the
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border. It would CBSA agents didn't stop him. Well, who's the people who stopped it were the other
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people in line saying like, you can't do that? What's wrong with you? And the guy started arguing
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with them. And eventually, like when the person said, like, you know, that you could get like,
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you know, imprisoned, because it looks like that person was like, trying to make a very insistent
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point at him. And he was arguing back and forth. He eventually went back the other way. I'm not sure
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where he ended up going to. A CBSA agent didn't even see him. He could have just kept going. And
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there was no sign of a CBSA agent coming out to be like, hey, you know, hey, settle down there,
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you know, go back in line. You're walking over, but you still have to go over a normal port of entry.
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We just don't really have proper border security in this country. And part of it is the challenge of
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having like the biggest border, the biggest undefended border on the planet. At the same time,
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you know, it's great we're putting up drones and sheriff's officers and other people to patrol it,
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you know, identify where guns are coming over and fentanyl stuff we should already care about,
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because I don't want illegal guns getting into Toronto and whatnot. Anyways, I'll let this keep
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going into that country. But that's an example where we will continue to do things in a win-win way.
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In the sector, in the steel sector, in the auto sector, we firmly believe, and the auto companies
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would absolutely reinforce this, is we are essential to the competitiveness of the American
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auto sector. How do we reinforce that? That's part of what we're talking about. Last point,
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and there's many others to make, but, and I read it. It was such an asinine point. We need to let,
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we need to remind the Americans how important we are. It's like, okay, I don't doubt that the
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negotiators know that it's probably better for the American economy not to have tariffs on Canada.
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At the same time, Donald Trump's priority is trying to get us to remove supply management,
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which he is still not mentioned in this entire press conference, despite Trump mentioning it
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a few times already, that he wants that at least softened or completely eliminated so that, you
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know, Wisconsin cheesemakers can send their product in Canada. We are only, we keep talking about how
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we need to sit down, look them in the eyes and say, you know, we're important to you. I think they
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know that they're important to us, or we're important to them, you know, vice versa. The problem is,
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what actual win are you giving them? References in my remark. You see these countries making
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commitments for investments in the United States. Canada is the second largest investor in the
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United States today. Okay. And I've already seen this. So he just starts reiterating that point
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over and over again. We need to, all these countries are making investment promises with
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the United States that they're going to buy up a certain amount of cars, or they're going to buy
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certain amounts of defense equipment and whatnot. Does he realize that that undermines all the trade
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deals he's been signing in Europe and in Asia? There's all these Asian countries that even though
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the U S is going to put like a 10% tariff, 15% tariff on their imports, they are also making a
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promise that they're going to buy more American stuff. So why are we, we cannot, our, we're,
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our export policy, our export strategy to Europe and Asia is being undermined by the fact that those
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Asian countries need to save money so that their companies will buy more stuff from the United States.
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They won't even have anything left over to buy stuff from Canada. And again, we think,
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we think, we seem to think sitting around reminding the U S that Canada is still North of them is going
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to be enough. Should it? Maybe. I don't think it really matters though. And that's the thing is that
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whenever people are like, well, the Trump shouldn't have done this to us and it's bad and all that.
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Okay. Well, what are we going to do about it? And if we don't, if we don't have that,
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if we don't know what we're going to do about it, well then there's no point in complaining.
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And so I want to make a final point today. And it's a bit of a silly one. It's kind of a follow
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along on yesterday. Can the prime minister's security, please stop letting people in fetish
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gear and not wearing pants, walk up to him, hug him, take a selfie. They should be tackling this
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guy and like deporting him. Just kidding. But like, you know, I might like, can we have some decorum
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around the prime minister and any elected official stop taking photos with freaks. If you're wearing a
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fetish dog mask in public, I'm sorry, you are now a freak in my mind. That's weird. And this is just
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like, you think that the media would be reporting on this. It's not like the most pressing issue,
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but the fact that a man wearing a thong and then this guy comes and takes a photo with the prime
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minister at a pride parade should probably tell you that maybe politicians should either not go to
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these events or that their security should basically be like, you know, like linebackering these
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people away. Like, dude, get out of the way. If you are here, not act, not wearing a suit and tie,
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you're not taking a photo with the prime minister because it's the prime minister. I don't like Mark
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Carney, but I don't want Mark Carney being undermined by weirdos that make the country overall look bad.
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