Carney in DECLINE- Liberals fumbled trade situation!
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It's safe to say that the political honeymoon for Prime Minister Mark Carney is officially coming to a close. It doesn't mean that he still won't have a decent approval rating, or the Liberals won't lead the Tories in the polls, but it will become much harder for the Liberals as this artificial wave of goodwill wears off.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I think it's safe to say at this point that the political
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honeymoon for Prime Minister Mark Carney is officially coming to a close. It doesn't mean
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that he still won't have a decent approval rating or the Liberals won't be able to lead
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the Conservatives in the polls, but it's going to become much harder for the Liberals as
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this artificial wave of goodwill wears off, and it's wearing off much faster than it
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has for previous Prime Ministers or re-elected governments, because the Liberals have been
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messing up so badly in the past three months. Not that every little screw-up is cataclysmic,
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but it's just been dumb decision after dumb decision, stupid stumbles here and there,
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just unforced errors that, even to the elbows-up crowd, have been making it seem like maybe
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Carney isn't the man with the plan. Maybe he isn't the man to lead us through a crisis,
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because I have no clue what he's doing week to week. And I think the things that put the nail
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in the coffin for the honeymoon were the Air Canada fiasco, and now Carney calling up Trump
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and reducing reciprocal tariffs trying to get to a trade deal, because these are some very
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not-so-elbows-up things. And by the way, we should be attempting to make a deal with the Americans
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and President Trump, but the way that the Liberals are going about it makes Canada look really weak,
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and we could have done this months ago, because what we ended up doing is just reducing our
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reciprocal tariffs, eliminating a bunch of them, in order just to get the Americans to talk to us
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again. This is exactly what happened with the digital services tax. We implemented the tax out
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of nowhere that even the Biden administration was saying that we shouldn't do, and then what ends up
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happening is that we then have to rescind it just to get Trump to come back to the table after he
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left saying, well, I thought we were negotiating to lower tariffs, and then you basically put
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a tariff on American big tech companies out of nowhere. And same thing just happened now. We have
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to drop a bunch of tariffs just to get the Americans to pay attention to us so that we can't actually
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lower these tariffs in order to gain some leverage so that they lower their tariffs. We gave them
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something just so they would talk to us again. But anyways, I want to get into a little more detail
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on what's going on inside the Liberal camp, how they're trying to spin this, and how I don't believe
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it's going to work. But before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show,
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make sure to leave a like on this video, subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber, and leave a comment
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on what you think about the situation. And then I would also like to mention that if you live in
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British Columbia around the Abbotsford area, we are having our inaugural town hall for the
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1BC party in Abbotsford September 13th. I will be there if you just want to swing by and say hi
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and learn about the 1BC party. We are basically trying to not only take on the BC NDP, but also
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the Greens and the Conservatives. We are out to beg the whole crowd and actually bring real reform to
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the province because apparently the BC Conservatives lost interest in actually being Conservative a few
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months ago. But anyways, now let's get on to the show and talk about how Carney and the Liberals are
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trying to spin this. So this was a post on the Prime Minister's own X account, and it reads,
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throughout our negotiations with the United States, the objectives of Canada's new government
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have been consistent. Protect Canadian workers and their families, reinforce the competitiveness
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of Canadian businesses, and build the strongest economy in the G7.
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The thing about this that's already kind of annoying to me is he says build the strongest
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economy in the G7. I thought we already had that because under both Trudeau and when Carney first
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became Prime Minister, they kept quoting the fact that, well, you know, Canada has the strongest growth
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in the G7 when they're just talking about raw GDP and our actual GDP per capita has been going down
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for several quarters in a row. But I want to get to some other parts of that statement. He's saying that
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we need to protect Canadian workers. Well, that's kind of contradicted by how they behaved in the
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Air Canada situation. And by the way, I actually sympathize with both Air Canada and the flight
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attendants. It's a bad system. And it's a bad system because of government taxes and regulations,
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which is hilarious, because right after saying he wants to protect Canadian workers and their families,
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he then says reinforce the competitiveness of Canadian businesses.
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Canadian businesses are not competitive. Why do you think Air Canada operates with a 5.7% profit
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margin and flight attendants cannot be paid unless the plane is actually in transit? Yes, flight
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attendants are paid like $90 an hour while the flight's in transit. But with all the downtime,
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it ends up making it not as worth it as you would think. So we had that whole situation basically spurred
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on by terrible federal and provincial government policy. Some provinces also have high corporate
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tax rates that hurt the airlines. But it's bad. We have an uncompetitive economy. That's why we have
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these situations where workers aren't being paid very well. And the companies are not exactly profiting
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hand over fist. And so and so I think this just whole thing just reads as very weak. Again, he's like
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throughout the negotiations with the United States. What do you mean that throughout the negotiations,
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the negotiations kept stopping because we weren't protecting Canadian workers, we weren't trying to
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defend them from the tariffs, we would show up in the negotiations. And from the readouts that we got
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from people like Howard Lutnick and President Donald Trump himself, it sounded like the Canadian
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negotiators were not even really negotiating, they'd show up and say we're like PB&J, we're better
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together, we should not have tariffs. And they're like, Okay, well, what are you willing to offer us?
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Nothing. And then the negotiations break down. And Trump basically said, Well, negotiations,
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I don't even know that there is any negotiating going on. And then that's when everything ended
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after August 1. And now we're crawling back, not because Carney realizes that we probably should be
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like, you know, working more closely with the United States that we should try and negotiate some
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sort of win win solution to all this. It's because he needs a political win before the summer closes out
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because it's been a bad summer. That's all you can say about it. Cataclysmically bad?
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Maybe not. But enough. It's been bad enough to hurt his honeymoon. His honeymoon is over because of
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things like not having a budget, being $92 billion in the red with the deficit, having Bill C-5 pass
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the Major Projects Act, but then immediately promising every single indigenous group that he's
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not actually going to hammer through major projects like pipelines. And he's having premiers quit on him
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left and right saying that they're actually not going to approve a pipeline. So that's dead.
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Maybe he'll get one through, and I would like it if he got one through, but I'm not that confident.
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He has a very minor tax cut he's trying to pass, and that's it. And now his cabinet's full of a
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bunch of incompetent people. Housing minister had record high increases in housing prices when he was
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the mayor of Vancouver. Our public safety minister, Gary Amasangari, doesn't even know what a gun
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license is. It's just not being done well. We're recognizing a Palestinian terror state, and yes, Gaza being run by
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Hamas and the West Bank being run by the Palestinian Authority and Fatah is in fact a terror state. I
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don't know what else would be if those weren't. But regardless, yeah, it's not been a great summer,
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and that's why we are approaching the Americans. And then the liberals released the video of him
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talking. For the life of me, why? If you, maybe there's just a comedian in the liberal staff,
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why would you ever release a video, if you're in the liberal party, of Carney talking about what he's
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doing here? The video starts out with him just with the most disappointed face on the planet.
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It's like someone served him Merlot and he asked for Cabernet Sauvignon. He looks just unhappy. And
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this is the face that we are putting on announcing this is some big win, as if it's not us crawling back
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and trying to make a deal that we should have made three months ago from a far weaker position than
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we used to be. Let's be absolutely clear. Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United
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States. That's apparently why we need to renegotiate right now. And while it's different
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from what we had before, it is still better than that of any other country.
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So as we work to address outstanding trade issues with the United States, it's important,
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it's vital. We do everything we can to preserve this unique advantage for Canadian workers,
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You know what he's doing here when he's talking about we need to, I don't think we need to watch
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on anymore with that. When he's talking about how we need to preserve this unique advantage,
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this unique trade relationship with the United States, he's setting the goalposts for himself
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so low. It is so easy for him to score on this net because all he has to do is not have USMCA go up in
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flames, which was never going to happen. So he's basically patting himself on the back for waking
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up on the morning and breathing in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. He doesn't know what
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he's talking about, acting like, oh, well, we I'm trying to walk the tightrope and make sure that
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while we while we deal with these excess issues, we don't ruin the great trade deal that we currently
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have. That was never in question. The whole point is cleaning up around the edges in which we can do
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by potentially putting supply management on the table or fixing some other policy issues
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elsewhere. And then we can ask the US to drop their tariffs, hopefully down to zero. And by the
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way, no one actually be really good. I saw David Eby, the premier British Columbia, tweet out with
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us yesterday, like, oh, well, you know, we need to we need to get a deal so that we can get, you know,
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the economic damage being done to Canadian workers can be like erased. It's like, you're the main reason
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why Canadians suffer in British Columbia. It's your provincial government taxes and regulations.
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Same thing on a federal level. It's like all these people who are pretending like Donald Trump
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is the one who did the most damage to the Canadian economy over the past 10 years
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is delusional. It's the Canadian government and the provincial governments for the most part
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who have been making life more difficult for Canadians. I'm not also not sure if I mentioned
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earlier for that Abbotsford event on the 13th of September. There's a link description below
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comments at the top. I was thinking about that and it was bothering me if I actually mentioned that
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or not. So sign up if you want to come and say hi to me and join 1BC. But I want to move on now
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on this issue to the kind of reaction that we've seen online to a lot of this. Both the coat from
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liberals saying, no, no, no, he's actually, Carney is totally consistent on this issue. And then also
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the people who are actually slagging him, including, actually, let's start off with this one, because I
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find this one funny. He's getting attacked by NDP, Premier of Manitoba, Wab Kanu, who was typically
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supposed to be seen as like an ally of Mark Carney. And this is from the CBC Manitoba. And it says,
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is this elbows down? Manitoba Premier questions Carney's removal of retaliatory tariffs. And his
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quote here is saying, quote, I'm not a fan of this move. Is this elbows down? I think Canadians want to
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see a stronger response to Donald Trump, Kanu said. And so yeah, Carney's put himself in the worst
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possible position. The expectations from his own base, or from the left side of his base, were sky
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high. And then he delivered, like not, he hasn't been good enough to actually make a deal fast. I
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would have been happy if he was in the Oval Office, and he says, well, after the cameras turn off, I want
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to sign a deal with you right now for a, on a trade deal. And the US should have a very open
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relationship because we, although we are two separate countries, are one big economy, that
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would have been a good thing. And I would have given him praise for it. But after that friendly
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Oval Office meeting, he didn't follow up on it. And then the trade deal died. And now he's trying
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to revive it. And he's having to put things on the table just to revive the talks. And so he's like,
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like the Air Canada situation, pick the worst of both worlds. Should the flight attendants been
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forced back to work? Sure. At the same time, drop corporate taxes, or at least drop corporate
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taxes specifically for airlines, and then tell the airlines that they must start paying at the flight
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attendants more on the spot, but you will make it much easier for them to pay them better. That would
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have actually been the real solution, but he took the worst possible solution. He looked like he was
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doing things on behalf of Air Canada as like a stooge for them, forced the flight attendants back, and
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just kind of vaguely said that maybe we should try and fix the deal for them. It just made him look
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terrible. But now I want to go to some of the more like online or not online content. We'll start off
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with Pierre Pauly of here first on his reaction to what Mark Carney has done here with this trade deal
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By now, 160 days in, we'd have new markets, new projects to get our goods overseas so that we could
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negotiate a deal. And you asked me whether I would have, my goal would be to have tariffs gone
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on both sides of the border. I would have gone to the president respectfully and said,
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you really, you remove your tariffs, we remove ours. Let's sign a, an agreement that restores the
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great free trading relationship that our two countries had for decades and that worked for
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both nations. That is what Prime Minister Carney promised during the election. And that's what I
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would have delivered in his place. Now there's people denying that Carney promised this. And
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people can say, well, he never said it in literal words that he was going to get this kind of an
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outcome. But the problem is, is that when it was like, it's like saying, well, he never promised to
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put out a budget. Okay, but when you're the man with the plan who can guide us through a crisis,
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and you know how to deal with Donald Trump and all this other rhetoric that Carney's using.
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Come on, the implication is that you got you have, you know, a portfolio of stuff you want to,
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you want to get done right away. And you're going to go down to Washington and get this thing solved
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fast. And all the and all and all like the flipping around and fussing around with nonsense.
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No, he doesn't have a plan. But we have this Mark Levesque here saying, there is absolutely no basis
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to the view that Pierre Polyev or anybody else for that matter could have done better in dealing with a
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psycho. And the fact that he would likely have been catering to the pro-Trumpers, who are more
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than 40% of it makes base makes me even more skeptical. Sorry, do pro-Trump conservatives want
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the tariffs to remain? I don't think so. I'm not sure where what planet Mark Levesque lives on. And
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this man used to be like some sort of a policy advisor, I believe. What was he? Former chief
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economist at the public sector pension investment board. So a man who shouldn't have shouldn't be
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having low IQ takes is having a very low IQ one here. Say, oh, anyone else would have done as bad
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as Carney did. Sorry, what Polyev just described, and you could say, well, maybe Polyev wouldn't have
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done it. Well, he can claim whatever he wants right now, because he's not the one screwing up.
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But but Polyev at least described actually trying to like, you know, directly engage, get this thing
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done, make this a top priority. And Carney's acted like this is like some back burner thing he'll get
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to when he wants to, which, again, like he's been really giving a workout to the elbows up people
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because he's been making them throw them up and down every other week saying, oh, we're working
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with the U.S. He's like having a friendly meeting with the U.S. And then I'm going to throw in
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counter tariffs back. So I dropped the counter tariffs halfway through the election without telling
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anybody. And when we didn't get to a deal, it's OK. But are we going to raise are we going to raise
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our tariffs when the U.S. raised them to 35 percent? Well, no. So he's like it's been
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Carney somehow finds that he triangulates with his star maps and with his telescopes and charts
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trying to find he brings out his sextants and finds the most stupid position he can find on any
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issue so that everyone hates him equally. I need to jump over now to just, again, the sheer amount of
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people who are very upset about everything that's been going on with Mark Carney on this issue and all
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the people trying to defend him. This is a great one.
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Brian Bateson said, after Carney's latest surrender to Trump, liberal hacks are frantically trying to
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explain why the entire liberal election campaign was based on one big lie to Canadians. It is
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irrelevant whether de-escalation is the correct negotiating strategy. And I agree with that. I
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actually think we should be de-escalating, but it's more the lie. But Brian here goes on to say,
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the liberals spent the last eight months saying the opposite and accused anyone who disagreed with
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them of being a traitor to the country. And now after telling the electorate they would be elbows
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up until victory, they are on their knees before Trump surrendering without gaining a single
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concession to the benefit of Canada. There was indeed a national betrayal, a betrayal of voters by the
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useless liberal government. And he's responding to this individual who's saying,
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Pierre Polyev appears to define handling Trump as taking him on aggressively. The American and global
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landscape is littered with casualties of that approach. The reason I believe Carney is best
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equipped to handling U.S.-Canada trade and other relations is that he understands the mix of
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economics, finance, and business trade and diplomacy that the task requires. He seeks common ground
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agreement rather than pouring gasoline on a fire. This situation does not call for Polyev's pugilism,
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far from it. I love that we have liberals out here like this Rick Anderson person. Is he anyone of
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note? Doesn't really matter to me. Just some political guy. But the idea like Polyev appears
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to define handling Trump as taking him on aggressively. No, no. Pierre defined it as taking him on directly.
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You know, talking to him one-on-one, going to Washington, having meetings, trying to get to a
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resolution as quickly as possible, putting things on the table, making, you know, making demands,
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but also giving some concessions. You know, a bit of back and forth trying to create a win-win
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scenario for both countries. That's not aggressive. You know, what was aggressive was the liberal
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campaign of saying, our relationship with the U.S. is over. We're going to go off to Europe. We're going to
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trade with Lithuania. We're going to, instead of doing stuff with the U.S., we're going to send more
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stuff to Montenegro. We're going to trade more with, we're going to trade more with the Italian
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island of Sardinia. That was the liberal approach, was pretending that we were just going to replace
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the U.S. We're going to trade more with China. China doesn't even want to trade with us, apparently,
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because they slapped a 75% tariff on our canola oil. But that was the liberal campaign. Elbows up.
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What does elbows up mean other than aggression? It is literally an illegal hockey move.
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What are you talking about? But let's get to some other people here. Some people mad at
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Karni, again, some people trying to justify it. And I do agree with Rupa Supramania's take here,
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who says, don't care for elbows up, down, stale jabs, but why were these self-harming tariffs in place
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to begin with? And why weren't they lifted sooner? Why did it take the U.S. Ambassador
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raising the issue on a podcast for it to get attention? And that was the thing that actually
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happened. I believe the U.S. Ambassador Hoogstra went on Jasmine Lane's show and just brought up
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actually that, in fact, a lot of the Canadian tariffs are currently higher on the U.S. than
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they are on Canada. So it's a bit hypocritical as the Canadian officials are going around acting like
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they've been attacked, especially since supply management tariffs have blocked American farmers
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from sending dairy products or chicken into the country for decades now. And yeah, it's weird how
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it's like the liberal government's only finding out the Americans are serious, or that maybe they
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aren't entirely correct about the situation based on what gets posted on Twitter. They can talk to
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them one-on-one. It's like they don't even have the information until someone else finds it for them.
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This Roddy guy who's changed his name recently, Rob Favre as leader of a COLA, leader of COLA,
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says, no ego just Canada. This is why I voted for Mark Carney. Apparently Rod here, who actually has
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a very big account for a liberal anonymous influencer, apparently he voted for Mark Carney for the
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constant flip-flopping. That's what Carney wanted out of this relationship. This, yeah, this is a funny
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one. This guy named Canadian Politico says, the fact Polyev referred to Trump by his official title
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and not Mark Carney as his official title tells you all that you need to know about him. This isn't
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pathetic anymore. It ventures on traitorous and insulting. It's traitorous that Pierre Polyev says,
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President Trump, and then he just says, Mark Carney. Yes, this is traitorous. Pierre Polyev should
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be put into the stocks and have rotten fruit thrown at him because he didn't use the honorific for Mark
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Carney, a man that very few people are, a lot of people are quickly learning to not respect.
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And this is another post by Pierre Polyev outside of the press conference. He says,
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no wonder President Trump wanted Mark Carney to win. Investment is pouring out of our country,
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43 billion lost in three months, and 63 billion since Carney became prime minister.
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And investment down, elbows up. And a lot of that investment is going to the United States. And
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it says from the National Post, from our partners at Financial Post, post haste Canada suffering major
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capital drain as foreign investors go MIA. And that's why we need to fix our current problems with
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taxes. We have our taxes on a provincial and federal level and municipal are crazy high in
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the country. Regulations are high. So as liberals pretend like our economic woes were from the American
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tariffs, which even they will then say at the same time aren't hurting us that bad. It's in fact,
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they can pretend all they want that all of our issues are over the southern border, but they are
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in fact within our own borders. It's our bad immigration policy, economic policy, regulations.
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Everything about this country is just repellent to foreign investment. And of course, I don't support
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like China buying up mines and whatnot, or foreign buyers buying up houses and leaving them completely
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empty in Vancouver. But we still want people investing in actual productive venture.
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But of course, the liberal premier of Ontario, and I know he is technically the progressive
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conservative, but he should really drop the conservative title from his party. By the way,
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if you live in Ontario, go and join the new blue party. The PC party is a complete waste of time at
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this point. Doug Ford says, I spoke with Prime Minister Mark Carney following his announcement to
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stress the need for an agreement with the United States that provides relief to our tariff impacted
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sectors, including steel, auto, forestry, and copper. If the federal government can't achieve
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that, they need to hit back hard against the UF tariffs and provide additional support for the
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workers and businesses in these sectors. And notice how Doug Ford, although the previous statement we
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read was pretty short, he sounds a lot like Wob Canoe, that he thinks that we need to be more
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aggressive on counter tariffs and that we need more support for workers, more subsidies.
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This man is supposedly a conservative. And I think that anything you read from him,
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even if it's not terrible, it's just not conservative.
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And I just want to quickly jump over to another, I want to jump over to another question that
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Polly have asked, answered at his, at his recent press conference. And I thought this was a good
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jab at Carney when it comes to the current industrial carbon tax and Carney's supposed commitment to the
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Mr. Polly, on steel and aluminum, the federal government has not yet matched the tariff rate
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on steel and aluminum. The U.S.'s is currently at 50%, while ours is at 25%. Would you like to see
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them raise that up to 50% and match the U.S.'s rate on steel and aluminum?
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Well, my preference would be to see the Americans lower their tariffs so that we can reinstate free
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trade. But one tariff that I will be cutting for sure, and I will push the Prime Minister to cut for
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sure, on our steel and aluminum is the industrial carbon tax.
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See, this is Pierre Polly of 2.0. And if he keeps this up and
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actually runs a language like this in the next election, I'm 100% on board. I would vote yes on
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a Pierre Polly of leadership review in Calgary. Hopefully, I'll be there as a delegate. But he
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has been moving right on the right policies and has come to more conservative stances. I like that
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his stance on this is now, no, it's not higher. We don't need like stronger counter tariffs. We need to
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find a way of getting to no tariffs on both sides. There's no point in ratcheting up the tension when we
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should be trying to find an off ramp right now. And yes, our main issue with costs in this country
00:25:27.600
is taxes on our own side of the border, like the industrial carbon tax that Carney now wants to
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add into his new version of a tariff, a carbon border adjustment, which is an industrial carbon
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tax on any goods entering the country from a country that does not have an industrial carbon tax
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on the particular if it applies to the particular good that was produced. So any energy products
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coming from another country or any products that have not been impacted by industrial carbon tax
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must have it applied as soon as it comes into Canada. But I think Polly of by taking the low tax
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position on this is taking the more conservative approach than the conservative campaign did in the
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general election. I find it astonishing. Well, Donald, I understand Donald Trump's
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priority is to bring to take Canadian jobs and move them to the United States. He's been very
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blunt about that. What I don't understand is why Prime Minister Carney would help him do it
00:26:22.800
with an industrial carbon tax on our steel and aluminum products. So our workers are not only hit
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with Trump tariffs, but with Carney's tax carbon tax, we need to get rid of the industrial carbon tax.
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And if Mark Carney will adopt the Canadian Sovereignty Act, then that will include the
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total elimination of the entire carbon tax, including for steel and aluminum.
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And this is something I just thought of now. It's actually not, I hope it's not coincidental
00:26:54.000
that it was only a couple of weeks ago that I talked to someone on the Polly of team about this
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particular stance, not exactly on the industrial carbon tax, but around taxes in general.
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If you're the Liberals and you're pretending to be elbows up, you're all out for Canadians. You just
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want to protect Canadians. Why are you taxing our own corporations into complete irrelevancy
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compared to their American counterparts? We're uncompetitive because of our taxes. We should
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lower, we should eliminate the industrial carbon tax. We should lower corporate taxes by 20, 25%.
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And if the Liberals come back at you and say that, oh, well, you're the corporate guys,
00:27:32.720
you're just trying to serve the corporations. It's like, yes, because I'd rather have Canadian
00:27:37.680
corporations doing better Canadian businesses, small and large, than American businesses. I want
00:27:43.040
to outcompete them in friendly competition. Let's see who the best, may the best man win,
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and we will just both, on both sides of the world, lower our taxes. Because I'd love for Canada and
00:27:53.200
the US to both be more powerful. Because guess what? That makes bad countries around the world, China,
00:27:59.200
Russia, Iran, North Korea, less powerful because they can't economically compete. I don't want communist
00:28:06.000
dictatorships doing well around the world. I don't want authoritarian post-Soviet states doing well.
00:28:12.880
And so how about we stop kneecapping ourselves and driving economic development out there?
00:28:18.640
But anyway, so this is great. I'm happy that hopefully the Conservatives liked the advice that
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I gave them on that. Not that it's unique, but it's what needs to be done. Hopefully,
00:28:28.960
other people are echoing the same thing, honestly. Again, let's read some of these
00:28:35.760
more COPE posts from liberals now. So we have this GatorGum person. Again, you'll look at the
00:28:41.280
person's views and likes on their posts. They do pretty well for just throwing out random posts.
00:28:46.240
Oftentimes, these anonymous accounts have more influence than former politicians who tweet constantly
00:28:53.200
or even current politicians. This GatorGum person says right-wing Twitter needs to decide if they
00:28:58.640
support counter-tariffs or not because every time Carney makes an announcement about them,
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they flip their opinion depending on what he has to say. And no, we do not. We have criticized how
00:29:10.000
weak this looks to say, oh, counter-tariffs on, counter-tariffs off. Let's negotiate. Actually,
00:29:14.960
let's not negotiate. That's what we're criticizing. It's the flip-flopping. And I don't like counter-tariffs.
00:29:20.400
It only hurts our own people. We should just be lowering tax on our side of the border and being
00:29:24.480
as competitive as possible. But again, we are criticizing the flip-flopping, the position
00:29:30.640
changes by Carney and his liberal government. And again, this is all contributing to a sense that
00:29:37.360
Carney doesn't really know what he's doing or he oversold himself, which is hurting him. It's going to
00:29:43.120
be ending his honeymoon. I think we are already going to see it end. We've already had abacus datas.
00:29:48.560
David Colleto announced that the poll he is releasing tomorrow for abacus is going to show
00:29:53.520
the conservatives marginally ahead. I assume that means it could only be like 0.3, 0.5%. But that's
00:29:59.920
significant. He hasn't had, even though he's a pollster that tends to show much tighter races
00:30:05.200
than other ones, although he also tends to be a much more realistic pollster, he hasn't had the
00:30:09.920
conservatives actually leading a poll since March. And now in August, after the liberals won,
00:30:16.080
and they should be in a honeymoon period and they should be on top of the world for an entire year
00:30:19.840
before everything starts, you know, usually the negativity starts up in a year when things haven't
00:30:24.480
been done as fast as people want. We're already seeing the conservatives overtake the liberals
00:30:29.120
in some polls, and it's only been a few months of them in office. But here now is this guy named
00:30:35.040
Peter Ratcliffe, forever Canadian. And again, some random guy, it's not like he's a famous politician,
00:30:41.120
but 3,400 likes. I don't think the man's using bots or anything. I think this is genuinely just
00:30:47.360
a lot of people agree with him online. But he says, it disturbs me that CBC, especially power in
00:30:54.960
politics, doesn't respect our prime minister when speaking about him. They use Carney a lot and not
00:31:00.000
Mark Carney. Well, I guess there's a point of pure poly of that other person said he, you know,
00:31:04.800
he's a traitor for not saying the honorific and just saying Mark Carney. So I guess the CBC is now
00:31:08.960
double traitors for just saying Carney. But he then goes to say, respectfully, please refer to him
00:31:14.720
as Prime Minister Carney or Prime Minister Mark Carney. Show respect. The guy, goodness. Guys,
00:31:24.800
just admit that you're embarrassed by what's been going on recently. That's really what you mean.
00:31:29.440
Things have been not going so hot for Carney, and now you're focusing on anything else. It's like all
00:31:34.640
the people who are attacking Polly of today, because let's be clear, Carney's not having a great week.
00:31:40.160
He's not having a great week. And so that's why you have people again, like here's another post from
00:31:44.400
GatorGum, coping really hard. We have Ryan Gerritsen here saying the elbows up slogan will haunt the
00:31:52.240
liberals forever. Whoever thought of it, I thank you. I love it. And GatorGum here says these guys
00:31:58.400
literally tweet all day about elbows and have no idea how ridiculous they actually look. They
00:32:03.840
think all parroting the same thing is actually clever, original, and a burn on Carney. Meanwhile,
00:32:10.080
it's the most ridiculous, predictable sheep behavior we've seen. Okay, well, it's predictable
00:32:16.800
people on right-wing Twitter would do this because the loss, the failure on Carney's part is so obvious,
00:32:24.480
so we're obviously all going to point it out. It's like, you know, we're not owned. We knew that you
00:32:29.840
were going to point and laugh at us when we fell on our faces. Parroting? Like, no. They talk about
00:32:36.640
elbows all day. They literally made, the liberals literally basically made their casual campaign
00:32:42.080
slogan. It wasn't like the official one, but like the kind of casual slogan of the campaign was elbows
00:32:46.160
up. So of course, the conservatives are going to use that as a punchline whenever they can.
00:32:51.760
Even the liberal papers will use it. Even lefties will say it. Wob Canu said, is this really elbows
00:32:58.400
up? Because obviously that's kind of a big, big thing with them is like, aren't you guys supposed
00:33:03.600
to be aggressive? And you're not being, or at least you like, you keep flip-flopping between being
00:33:07.600
aggressive and conciliatory and you're being conciliatory isn't even getting us anything because
00:33:12.080
you've done it so poorly. But GatorGum in another post says, there are a lot of people tweeting about
00:33:17.840
elbows and other ridiculous things right now, but nobody is articulating what they feel was weak or
00:33:23.040
wrong with today's announcement. Here are some particulars. So haters don't, so haters, why don't
00:33:28.080
you explain to us what you feel is bad here? And they go on to basically say that Canada was actually
00:33:33.520
had higher tariffs. Let's just read what they, what they think is really owning us all.
00:33:38.480
But here it says, while the move restores free trade on most of the goods traded between
00:33:43.360
the two countries, both Canada and the United States will continue to impose tariffs on each
00:33:47.280
other's steel, aluminum, copper, and vehicles, among other key products. This move matches
00:33:51.440
American policy as the United States has already exempted Canadian goods that fall under an existing
00:33:55.920
North America trade agreement. Okay, so the person's just admitting that Carney and the liberals were
00:34:01.840
doing something really antagonistic during the trade negotiations, which may explain why we didn't get
00:34:07.200
to a deal on August 1st, while the United States said, if any goods fall under USMCA, if you are
00:34:12.800
USMCA compliant, you will not have to pay a tariff. Whereas we were tariffing things that were even
00:34:18.160
supposed to be tariff free under USMCA. So we were kind of breaking that other trade agreement while the
00:34:24.160
US in imposing their 35% trade, they were still following the other rules on the products they said
00:34:29.920
would be exempted. So this person, I don't even know what their point is. It did look weak. We looked
00:34:36.320
like we basically got caught out because we were doing something that was actually antagonistic,
00:34:40.720
and we finally had to admit it. And then we just fell in line with what the United States was doing.
00:34:46.240
And by the way, things just being USMCA compliant still means that they cost more,
00:34:50.720
because there's a reason why, and I said this before in a lot of videos, there's a reason why
00:34:55.200
in 2024, only around 25-34% of products actually even bothered becoming USMCA compliant, because the tax
00:35:04.000
for not being USMCA compliant in the specific area, in the specific goods that it applied to,
00:35:10.880
wasn't really worth it for most companies. Like yeah, you pay 5-7% of the border for not being USMCA
00:35:16.000
compliant. But the cost of becoming USMCA compliant may cost you more than that 5-7%
00:35:23.360
tax that you're paying at the border, because you're gonna have to hire some people to do more
00:35:26.560
paperwork, you may have to source your labor from a different place, you may have to source materials
00:35:31.120
from a different place. So you know, for some companies, just pay the 5% extra and we'll move
00:35:35.760
on. And so we still are paying more in order to become compliant. But again, this person's just
00:35:41.440
missing the point and acting like, I don't even get their point. They're just flailing around.
00:35:46.880
Their post actually proves too much in a lot of ways. And we have Evan Scrimshaw here, a liberal
00:35:55.440
strategist saying, he's done about as well as anyone could reasonably expect in terrible conditions.
00:36:00.720
Carney's done a good job. There's still more to be done, but buying us time will be good in the long
00:36:05.760
run. Buying us time, it's taken longer because they didn't make a deal sooner. Now we're again,
00:36:11.760
we had to give up something just to get them to come back to the table, something that we maybe
00:36:15.200
shouldn't have done in the first place. But still, we're having to take it away just to talk again,
00:36:20.080
which means that we could have been talking a long time ago. But he goes on to say, and the damage
00:36:25.120
has been significantly ameliorated compared to what might have been. Well, what might have been
00:36:31.200
is Polly of being the Prime Minister and getting this solved earlier. And now we have Sherry DeNovo,
00:36:36.960
who is a former Ontario NDP MPP, who says, can someone explain to the average Canadian why eliminating
00:36:44.880
all of our regulatory tariffs and getting nothing concrete in return from Trump is a good thing?
00:36:50.160
Mark Carney, if he's counting on USMCA, I don't like saying the Kuzma. If he's counting on USMCA
00:36:56.640
remaining forever, good luck. Chamberlain much? So apparently now Carney is a traitor in the eyes
00:37:03.200
of the left. And we have here Jason Scott saying, I love this post because he's just responding to
00:37:09.280
this Jin Lehi guy who is a conservative influencer online who says, a list of Mark Carney's major
00:37:16.240
accomplishments since becoming Prime Minister. And it's a gift where a guy flips through a blank book,
00:37:20.720
of course. And Jason Scott, who is some unhinged leftist in Alberta, says, Carney could eradicate
00:37:27.440
cancer and these fringe CPC accounts would still be, it was still crap on Canada. Pierre's dependence
00:37:32.640
on these rage baiting influencers are a symptom of why he lost in 2025 and he will lose again.
00:37:38.640
Carney could eradicate cancer. Well, okay, well, how about he does his job properly
00:37:43.200
properly first? And then we can talk about him eradicating cancer. Let's have him get a budget
00:37:48.560
across the finish line. Let's have him do that before we start talking about him actually achieving
00:37:53.840
anything outside of government. Let's have an achievement inside of government first.
00:37:58.000
Everything so far has been mostly platitudes. It's been mostly things that are immaterial.
00:38:03.440
Bill C-5, the Get Stuff Done Major Projects Act, in which, well, we're going to have to wait years to
00:38:08.880
see if he even gets something done. And so far, it sounds like he's walking back and he promised to
00:38:13.200
actually get a pipeline built. But there's another person called A.B. Gamble, New Dawn for Canada,
00:38:18.720
says Prime Minister Carney needs to spend more time addressing Canadians and answering reporters
00:38:23.280
unvarnished questions. He demonstrates strength, intelligence, and resolve. Really? In that press
00:38:30.000
conference, he looked irritated, uncomfortable, and he brought out the um and ah parade when he
00:38:35.840
was answering questions again. This Jill Canadian person then says, What bothers me is Polyev tore down
00:38:42.720
Trudeau with hatred. Trudeau left, yet Polyev is still here. He lost his seat, yet one pops up for him.
00:38:48.560
I think it's corruption. How is this corruption? Yet Polyev gets another shot. The CPC kicked out
00:38:54.400
an elected person just for Polyev. And I brought this one in here because this was tweeted 23 hours
00:38:59.760
ago, which means it was tweeted in the context of what Carney was doing. This is what I meant by,
00:39:04.480
they're trying to shift onto just attacking Polyev to distract from Carney obviously looking weak,
00:39:10.720
obviously flip-flopping, obviously breaking a lot of implied promises from the election.
00:39:15.840
Oh, he kicked out an MP from his seat. How did he kick someone out? He can't. Damien Kirk stood down
00:39:21.760
because the leader needs a seat. And that's just how Canadian parliamentary politics works, that
00:39:26.320
the leader, if he loses his seat, and that was a screw up on behalf of Polyev's campaign organizers,
00:39:31.760
people like Jenny Byrne. But once the leader's out, well, obviously, Polyev is still very popular at
00:39:37.200
the base. So we're going to find him a safe seat to sit in. And then Kirk's literally going to come
00:39:41.520
back and take a seat back in the next election. Polyev will then presumably move somewhere else.
00:39:47.360
He kicked out an MP. The guy stepped down himself. There's no way you can force someone to resign.
00:39:52.800
But these people, again, they just don't have anything. But anyway, so that should be it for
00:39:57.520
me today, guys. In this video, I know this one literally has gone on for more than 40 minutes.
00:40:01.840
I just felt like there was a lot to talk about here. Hopefully you liked it. Again, if you're in the
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