The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney in DECLINE- Liberals fumbled trade situation!

00:00:00.440 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I think it's safe to say at this point that the political

00:00:05.980 honeymoon for Prime Minister Mark Carney is officially coming to a close. It doesn't mean

00:00:11.880 that he still won't have a decent approval rating or the Liberals won't be able to lead

00:00:16.900 the Conservatives in the polls, but it's going to become much harder for the Liberals as

00:00:21.540 this artificial wave of goodwill wears off, and it's wearing off much faster than it

00:00:27.100 has for previous Prime Ministers or re-elected governments, because the Liberals have been

00:00:32.860 messing up so badly in the past three months. Not that every little screw-up is cataclysmic,

00:00:39.620 but it's just been dumb decision after dumb decision, stupid stumbles here and there, 1.00

00:00:44.560 just unforced errors that, even to the elbows-up crowd, have been making it seem like maybe 1.00

00:00:50.280 Carney isn't the man with the plan. Maybe he isn't the man to lead us through a crisis,

00:00:54.580 because I have no clue what he's doing week to week. And I think the things that put the nail

00:01:00.080 in the coffin for the honeymoon were the Air Canada fiasco, and now Carney calling up Trump

00:01:06.000 and reducing reciprocal tariffs trying to get to a trade deal, because these are some very

00:01:11.880 not-so-elbows-up things. And by the way, we should be attempting to make a deal with the Americans 0.85

00:01:18.000 and President Trump, but the way that the Liberals are going about it makes Canada look really weak,

00:01:23.560 and we could have done this months ago, because what we ended up doing is just reducing our

00:01:29.840 reciprocal tariffs, eliminating a bunch of them, in order just to get the Americans to talk to us

00:01:35.520 again. This is exactly what happened with the digital services tax. We implemented the tax out

00:01:42.000 of nowhere that even the Biden administration was saying that we shouldn't do, and then what ends up

00:01:48.240 happening is that we then have to rescind it just to get Trump to come back to the table after he

00:01:53.620 left saying, well, I thought we were negotiating to lower tariffs, and then you basically put

00:01:57.580 a tariff on American big tech companies out of nowhere. And same thing just happened now. We have

00:02:03.320 to drop a bunch of tariffs just to get the Americans to pay attention to us so that we can't actually

00:02:07.920 lower these tariffs in order to gain some leverage so that they lower their tariffs. We gave them

00:02:13.720 something just so they would talk to us again. But anyways, I want to get into a little more detail

00:02:19.300 on what's going on inside the Liberal camp, how they're trying to spin this, and how I don't believe

00:02:24.020 it's going to work. But before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show,

00:02:28.980 make sure to leave a like on this video, subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber, and leave a comment

00:02:34.500 on what you think about the situation. And then I would also like to mention that if you live in

00:02:39.760 British Columbia around the Abbotsford area, we are having our inaugural town hall for the

00:02:45.720 1BC party in Abbotsford September 13th. I will be there if you just want to swing by and say hi

00:02:51.780 and learn about the 1BC party. We are basically trying to not only take on the BC NDP, but also

00:02:58.520 the Greens and the Conservatives. We are out to beg the whole crowd and actually bring real reform to

00:03:03.800 the province because apparently the BC Conservatives lost interest in actually being Conservative a few

00:03:09.280 months ago. But anyways, now let's get on to the show and talk about how Carney and the Liberals are

00:03:16.100 trying to spin this. So this was a post on the Prime Minister's own X account, and it reads,

00:03:23.040 throughout our negotiations with the United States, the objectives of Canada's new government

00:03:27.380 have been consistent. Protect Canadian workers and their families, reinforce the competitiveness

00:03:32.720 of Canadian businesses, and build the strongest economy in the G7.

00:03:37.820 The thing about this that's already kind of annoying to me is he says build the strongest

00:03:43.000 economy in the G7. I thought we already had that because under both Trudeau and when Carney first

00:03:48.220 became Prime Minister, they kept quoting the fact that, well, you know, Canada has the strongest growth

00:03:53.260 in the G7 when they're just talking about raw GDP and our actual GDP per capita has been going down

00:03:58.960 for several quarters in a row. But I want to get to some other parts of that statement. He's saying that

00:04:04.980 we need to protect Canadian workers. Well, that's kind of contradicted by how they behaved in the

00:04:11.340 Air Canada situation. And by the way, I actually sympathize with both Air Canada and the flight

00:04:17.260 attendants. It's a bad system. And it's a bad system because of government taxes and regulations, 0.58

00:04:23.300 which is hilarious, because right after saying he wants to protect Canadian workers and their families,

00:04:27.800 he then says reinforce the competitiveness of Canadian businesses.

00:04:31.100 Canadian businesses are not competitive. Why do you think Air Canada operates with a 5.7% profit

00:04:37.980 margin and flight attendants cannot be paid unless the plane is actually in transit? Yes, flight

00:04:44.200 attendants are paid like $90 an hour while the flight's in transit. But with all the downtime,

00:04:48.760 it ends up making it not as worth it as you would think. So we had that whole situation basically spurred

00:04:54.880 on by terrible federal and provincial government policy. Some provinces also have high corporate

00:05:00.620 tax rates that hurt the airlines. But it's bad. We have an uncompetitive economy. That's why we have

00:05:08.420 these situations where workers aren't being paid very well. And the companies are not exactly profiting

00:05:12.900 hand over fist. And so and so I think this just whole thing just reads as very weak. Again, he's like

00:05:20.000 throughout the negotiations with the United States. What do you mean that throughout the negotiations,

00:05:24.740 the negotiations kept stopping because we weren't protecting Canadian workers, we weren't trying to

00:05:29.560 defend them from the tariffs, we would show up in the negotiations. And from the readouts that we got

00:05:34.500 from people like Howard Lutnick and President Donald Trump himself, it sounded like the Canadian

00:05:39.680 negotiators were not even really negotiating, they'd show up and say we're like PB&J, we're better

00:05:44.540 together, we should not have tariffs. And they're like, Okay, well, what are you willing to offer us?

00:05:48.620 Nothing. And then the negotiations break down. And Trump basically said, Well, negotiations,

00:05:53.640 I don't even know that there is any negotiating going on. And then that's when everything ended

00:05:57.600 after August 1. And now we're crawling back, not because Carney realizes that we probably should be

00:06:03.080 like, you know, working more closely with the United States that we should try and negotiate some

00:06:07.500 sort of win win solution to all this. It's because he needs a political win before the summer closes out

00:06:12.540 because it's been a bad summer. That's all you can say about it. Cataclysmically bad?

00:06:17.040 Maybe not. But enough. It's been bad enough to hurt his honeymoon. His honeymoon is over because of

00:06:23.840 things like not having a budget, being $92 billion in the red with the deficit, having Bill C-5 pass

00:06:31.840 the Major Projects Act, but then immediately promising every single indigenous group that he's

00:06:36.660 not actually going to hammer through major projects like pipelines. And he's having premiers quit on him

00:06:41.520 left and right saying that they're actually not going to approve a pipeline. So that's dead.

00:06:44.660 Maybe he'll get one through, and I would like it if he got one through, but I'm not that confident.

00:06:49.260 He has a very minor tax cut he's trying to pass, and that's it. And now his cabinet's full of a

00:06:54.500 bunch of incompetent people. Housing minister had record high increases in housing prices when he was 0.72

00:06:59.460 the mayor of Vancouver. Our public safety minister, Gary Amasangari, doesn't even know what a gun

00:07:04.520 license is. It's just not being done well. We're recognizing a Palestinian terror state, and yes, Gaza being run by

00:07:11.560 Hamas and the West Bank being run by the Palestinian Authority and Fatah is in fact a terror state. I 0.68

00:07:17.300 don't know what else would be if those weren't. But regardless, yeah, it's not been a great summer,

00:07:22.240 and that's why we are approaching the Americans. And then the liberals released the video of him

00:07:27.200 talking. For the life of me, why? If you, maybe there's just a comedian in the liberal staff,

00:07:34.420 why would you ever release a video, if you're in the liberal party, of Carney talking about what he's

00:07:41.780 doing here? The video starts out with him just with the most disappointed face on the planet.

00:07:47.820 It's like someone served him Merlot and he asked for Cabernet Sauvignon. He looks just unhappy. And

00:07:55.140 this is the face that we are putting on announcing this is some big win, as if it's not us crawling back

00:08:02.120 and trying to make a deal that we should have made three months ago from a far weaker position than

00:08:07.300 we used to be. Let's be absolutely clear. Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United

00:08:17.500 States. That's apparently why we need to renegotiate right now. And while it's different

00:08:24.660 from what we had before, it is still better than that of any other country.

00:08:33.120 So as we work to address outstanding trade issues with the United States, it's important,

00:08:38.340 it's vital. We do everything we can to preserve this unique advantage for Canadian workers,

00:08:44.720 Canadian businesses.

00:08:46.040 You know what he's doing here when he's talking about we need to, I don't think we need to watch

00:08:50.140 on anymore with that. When he's talking about how we need to preserve this unique advantage,

00:08:55.180 this unique trade relationship with the United States, he's setting the goalposts for himself

00:09:01.100 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

00:09:09.440 flames, which was never going to happen. So he's basically patting himself on the back for waking

00:09:15.020 up on the morning and breathing in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. He doesn't know what

00:09:21.540 he's talking about, acting like, oh, well, we I'm trying to walk the tightrope and make sure that

00:09:27.640 while we while we deal with these excess issues, we don't ruin the great trade deal that we currently

00:09:32.060 have. That was never in question. The whole point is cleaning up around the edges in which we can do

00:09:38.680 by potentially putting supply management on the table or fixing some other policy issues

00:09:43.100 elsewhere. And then we can ask the US to drop their tariffs, hopefully down to zero. And by the

00:09:49.160 way, no one actually be really good. I saw David Eby, the premier British Columbia, tweet out with

00:09:54.840 us yesterday, like, oh, well, you know, we need to we need to get a deal so that we can get, you know,

00:09:59.680 the economic damage being done to Canadian workers can be like erased. It's like, you're the main reason

00:10:05.080 why Canadians suffer in British Columbia. It's your provincial government taxes and regulations.

00:10:09.820 Same thing on a federal level. It's like all these people who are pretending like Donald Trump

00:10:13.960 is the one who did the most damage to the Canadian economy over the past 10 years

00:10:17.880 is delusional. It's the Canadian government and the provincial governments for the most part

00:10:22.540 who have been making life more difficult for Canadians. I'm not also not sure if I mentioned

00:10:27.280 earlier for that Abbotsford event on the 13th of September. There's a link description below

00:10:31.740 comments at the top. I was thinking about that and it was bothering me if I actually mentioned that

00:10:35.700 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

00:10:41.220 on this issue to the kind of reaction that we've seen online to a lot of this. Both the coat from

00:10:47.880 liberals saying, no, no, no, he's actually, Carney is totally consistent on this issue. And then also

00:10:54.700 the people who are actually slagging him, including, actually, let's start off with this one, because I

00:11:00.000 find this one funny. He's getting attacked by NDP, Premier of Manitoba, Wab Kanu, who was typically

00:11:08.980 supposed to be seen as like an ally of Mark Carney. And this is from the CBC Manitoba. And it says,

00:11:15.220 is this elbows down? Manitoba Premier questions Carney's removal of retaliatory tariffs. And his

00:11:21.640 quote here is saying, quote, I'm not a fan of this move. Is this elbows down? I think Canadians want to 1.00

00:11:26.820 see a stronger response to Donald Trump, Kanu said. And so yeah, Carney's put himself in the worst

00:11:32.920 possible position. The expectations from his own base, or from the left side of his base, were sky

00:11:39.860 high. And then he delivered, like not, he hasn't been good enough to actually make a deal fast. I

00:11:46.660 would have been happy if he was in the Oval Office, and he says, well, after the cameras turn off, I want

00:11:51.260 to sign a deal with you right now for a, on a trade deal. And the US should have a very open

00:11:56.280 relationship because we, although we are two separate countries, are one big economy, that

00:12:01.420 would have been a good thing. And I would have given him praise for it. But after that friendly

00:12:04.800 Oval Office meeting, he didn't follow up on it. And then the trade deal died. And now he's trying

00:12:08.320 to revive it. And he's having to put things on the table just to revive the talks. And so he's like,

00:12:14.680 like the Air Canada situation, pick the worst of both worlds. Should the flight attendants been 1.00

00:12:19.420 forced back to work? Sure. At the same time, drop corporate taxes, or at least drop corporate

00:12:24.280 taxes specifically for airlines, and then tell the airlines that they must start paying at the flight

00:12:28.420 attendants more on the spot, but you will make it much easier for them to pay them better. That would

00:12:34.060 have actually been the real solution, but he took the worst possible solution. He looked like he was

00:12:37.720 doing things on behalf of Air Canada as like a stooge for them, forced the flight attendants back, and

00:12:42.760 just kind of vaguely said that maybe we should try and fix the deal for them. It just made him look

00:12:47.740 terrible. But now I want to go to some of the more like online or not online content. We'll start off

00:12:54.100 with Pierre Pauly of here first on his reaction to what Mark Carney has done here with this trade deal

00:13:02.200 being kind of, I guess, brought back.

00:13:04.880 By now, 160 days in, we'd have new markets, new projects to get our goods overseas so that we could

00:13:13.220 negotiate a deal. And you asked me whether I would have, my goal would be to have tariffs gone

00:13:18.320 on both sides of the border. I would have gone to the president respectfully and said,

00:13:23.120 you really, you remove your tariffs, we remove ours. Let's sign a, an agreement that restores the

00:13:30.840 great free trading relationship that our two countries had for decades and that worked for

00:13:36.000 both nations. That is what Prime Minister Carney promised during the election. And that's what I

00:13:40.860 would have delivered in his place. Now there's people denying that Carney promised this. And

00:13:46.600 people can say, well, he never said it in literal words that he was going to get this kind of an

00:13:51.020 outcome. But the problem is, is that when it was like, it's like saying, well, he never promised to

00:13:57.180 put out a budget. Okay, but when you're the man with the plan who can guide us through a crisis,

00:14:01.840 and you know how to deal with Donald Trump and all this other rhetoric that Carney's using.

00:14:04.780 Come on, the implication is that you got you have, you know, a portfolio of stuff you want to,

00:14:11.540 you want to get done right away. And you're going to go down to Washington and get this thing solved

00:14:15.100 fast. And all the and all and all like the flipping around and fussing around with nonsense.

00:14:20.860 No, he doesn't have a plan. But we have this Mark Levesque here saying, there is absolutely no basis

00:14:27.100 to the view that Pierre Polyev or anybody else for that matter could have done better in dealing with a

00:14:32.020 psycho. And the fact that he would likely have been catering to the pro-Trumpers, who are more

00:14:37.080 than 40% of it makes base makes me even more skeptical. Sorry, do pro-Trump conservatives want

00:14:46.140 the tariffs to remain? I don't think so. I'm not sure where what planet Mark Levesque lives on. And

00:14:53.100 this man used to be like some sort of a policy advisor, I believe. What was he? Former chief

00:14:58.740 economist at the public sector pension investment board. So a man who shouldn't have shouldn't be 1.00

00:15:04.860 having low IQ takes is having a very low IQ one here. Say, oh, anyone else would have done as bad

00:15:10.220 as Carney did. Sorry, what Polyev just described, and you could say, well, maybe Polyev wouldn't have

00:15:15.560 done it. Well, he can claim whatever he wants right now, because he's not the one screwing up.

00:15:20.380 But but Polyev at least described actually trying to like, you know, directly engage, get this thing

00:15:25.180 done, make this a top priority. And Carney's acted like this is like some back burner thing he'll get

00:15:29.980 to when he wants to, which, again, like he's been really giving a workout to the elbows up people

00:15:36.240 because he's been making them throw them up and down every other week saying, oh, we're working

00:15:40.640 with the U.S. He's like having a friendly meeting with the U.S. And then I'm going to throw in

00:15:43.680 counter tariffs back. So I dropped the counter tariffs halfway through the election without telling

00:15:47.340 anybody. And when we didn't get to a deal, it's OK. But are we going to raise are we going to raise

00:15:52.840 our tariffs when the U.S. raised them to 35 percent? Well, no. So he's like it's been

00:15:57.040 Carney somehow finds that he triangulates with his star maps and with his telescopes and charts 0.97

00:16:04.460 trying to find he brings out his sextants and finds the most stupid position he can find on any 0.97

00:16:10.760 issue so that everyone hates him equally. I need to jump over now to just, again, the sheer amount of 0.96

00:16:17.360 people who are very upset about everything that's been going on with Mark Carney on this issue and all

00:16:22.820 the people trying to defend him. This is a great one.

00:16:29.320 I really like this guy's take on it.

00:16:33.120 Brian Bateson said, after Carney's latest surrender to Trump, liberal hacks are frantically trying to

00:16:39.800 explain why the entire liberal election campaign was based on one big lie to Canadians. It is

00:16:45.580 irrelevant whether de-escalation is the correct negotiating strategy. And I agree with that. I

00:16:49.740 actually think we should be de-escalating, but it's more the lie. But Brian here goes on to say,

00:16:56.020 the liberals spent the last eight months saying the opposite and accused anyone who disagreed with

00:17:01.260 them of being a traitor to the country. And now after telling the electorate they would be elbows

00:17:05.800 up until victory, they are on their knees before Trump surrendering without gaining a single

00:17:10.460 concession to the benefit of Canada. There was indeed a national betrayal, a betrayal of voters by the

00:17:15.540 useless liberal government. And he's responding to this individual who's saying, 0.84

00:17:19.740 Pierre Polyev appears to define handling Trump as taking him on aggressively. The American and global

00:17:25.880 landscape is littered with casualties of that approach. The reason I believe Carney is best

00:17:31.600 equipped to handling U.S.-Canada trade and other relations is that he understands the mix of

00:17:36.740 economics, finance, and business trade and diplomacy that the task requires. He seeks common ground

00:17:43.700 agreement rather than pouring gasoline on a fire. This situation does not call for Polyev's pugilism,

00:17:49.100 far from it. I love that we have liberals out here like this Rick Anderson person. Is he anyone of

00:17:56.040 note? Doesn't really matter to me. Just some political guy. But the idea like Polyev appears

00:18:03.200 to define handling Trump as taking him on aggressively. No, no. Pierre defined it as taking him on directly.

00:18:11.440 You know, talking to him one-on-one, going to Washington, having meetings, trying to get to a

00:18:16.740 resolution as quickly as possible, putting things on the table, making, you know, making demands,

00:18:21.580 but also giving some concessions. You know, a bit of back and forth trying to create a win-win

00:18:25.440 scenario for both countries. That's not aggressive. You know, what was aggressive was the liberal

00:18:30.340 campaign of saying, our relationship with the U.S. is over. We're going to go off to Europe. We're going to

00:18:35.360 trade with Lithuania. We're going to, instead of doing stuff with the U.S., we're going to send more

00:18:42.180 stuff to Montenegro. We're going to trade more with, we're going to trade more with the Italian 0.99

00:18:46.940 island of Sardinia. That was the liberal approach, was pretending that we were just going to replace

00:18:51.960 the U.S. We're going to trade more with China. China doesn't even want to trade with us, apparently,

00:18:55.940 because they slapped a 75% tariff on our canola oil. But that was the liberal campaign. Elbows up.

00:19:02.260 What does elbows up mean other than aggression? It is literally an illegal hockey move.

00:19:07.580 What are you talking about? But let's get to some other people here. Some people mad at

00:19:14.220 Karni, again, some people trying to justify it. And I do agree with Rupa Supramania's take here,

00:19:22.140 who says, don't care for elbows up, down, stale jabs, but why were these self-harming tariffs in place

00:19:28.160 to begin with? And why weren't they lifted sooner? Why did it take the U.S. Ambassador

00:19:32.240 raising the issue on a podcast for it to get attention? And that was the thing that actually

00:19:37.860 happened. I believe the U.S. Ambassador Hoogstra went on Jasmine Lane's show and just brought up

00:19:44.680 actually that, in fact, a lot of the Canadian tariffs are currently higher on the U.S. than

00:19:48.860 they are on Canada. So it's a bit hypocritical as the Canadian officials are going around acting like

00:19:54.320 they've been attacked, especially since supply management tariffs have blocked American farmers

00:19:59.220 from sending dairy products or chicken into the country for decades now. And yeah, it's weird how

00:20:06.640 it's like the liberal government's only finding out the Americans are serious, or that maybe they

00:20:12.260 aren't entirely correct about the situation based on what gets posted on Twitter. They can talk to

00:20:17.960 them one-on-one. It's like they don't even have the information until someone else finds it for them.

00:20:21.880 This Roddy guy who's changed his name recently, Rob Favre as leader of a COLA, leader of COLA,

00:20:29.980 says, no ego just Canada. This is why I voted for Mark Carney. Apparently Rod here, who actually has

00:20:36.860 a very big account for a liberal anonymous influencer, apparently he voted for Mark Carney for the

00:20:43.060 constant flip-flopping. That's what Carney wanted out of this relationship. This, yeah, this is a funny

00:20:50.520 one. This guy named Canadian Politico says, the fact Polyev referred to Trump by his official title

00:20:56.760 and not Mark Carney as his official title tells you all that you need to know about him. This isn't

00:21:02.680 pathetic anymore. It ventures on traitorous and insulting. It's traitorous that Pierre Polyev says, 0.99

00:21:09.820 President Trump, and then he just says, Mark Carney. Yes, this is traitorous. Pierre Polyev should 0.72

00:21:17.000 be put into the stocks and have rotten fruit thrown at him because he didn't use the honorific for Mark

00:21:23.240 Carney, a man that very few people are, a lot of people are quickly learning to not respect.

00:21:29.480 And this is another post by Pierre Polyev outside of the press conference. He says,

00:21:35.200 no wonder President Trump wanted Mark Carney to win. Investment is pouring out of our country,

00:21:40.660 43 billion lost in three months, and 63 billion since Carney became prime minister.

00:21:46.420 And investment down, elbows up. And a lot of that investment is going to the United States. And

00:21:51.720 it says from the National Post, from our partners at Financial Post, post haste Canada suffering major

00:21:57.200 capital drain as foreign investors go MIA. And that's why we need to fix our current problems with

00:22:05.760 taxes. We have our taxes on a provincial and federal level and municipal are crazy high in

00:22:12.560 the country. Regulations are high. So as liberals pretend like our economic woes were from the American

00:22:19.320 tariffs, which even they will then say at the same time aren't hurting us that bad. It's in fact,

00:22:24.680 they can pretend all they want that all of our issues are over the southern border, but they are

00:22:28.960 in fact within our own borders. It's our bad immigration policy, economic policy, regulations.

00:22:34.900 Everything about this country is just repellent to foreign investment. And of course, I don't support

00:22:40.280 like China buying up mines and whatnot, or foreign buyers buying up houses and leaving them completely

00:22:46.580 empty in Vancouver. But we still want people investing in actual productive venture.

00:22:54.680 But of course, the liberal premier of Ontario, and I know he is technically the progressive

00:23:01.180 conservative, but he should really drop the conservative title from his party. By the way,

00:23:06.480 if you live in Ontario, go and join the new blue party. The PC party is a complete waste of time at

00:23:10.440 this point. Doug Ford says, I spoke with Prime Minister Mark Carney following his announcement to

00:23:15.980 stress the need for an agreement with the United States that provides relief to our tariff impacted

00:23:21.140 sectors, including steel, auto, forestry, and copper. If the federal government can't achieve

00:23:26.340 that, they need to hit back hard against the UF tariffs and provide additional support for the

00:23:31.000 workers and businesses in these sectors. And notice how Doug Ford, although the previous statement we

00:23:37.940 read was pretty short, he sounds a lot like Wob Canoe, that he thinks that we need to be more

00:23:43.720 aggressive on counter tariffs and that we need more support for workers, more subsidies.

00:23:49.100 This man is supposedly a conservative. And I think that anything you read from him,

00:23:54.840 even if it's not terrible, it's just not conservative.

00:23:57.520 And I just want to quickly jump over to another, I want to jump over to another question that

00:24:04.960 Polly have asked, answered at his, at his recent press conference. And I thought this was a good

00:24:11.080 jab at Carney when it comes to the current industrial carbon tax and Carney's supposed commitment to the

00:24:17.160 Canadian economy.

00:24:18.400 Mr. Polly, on steel and aluminum, the federal government has not yet matched the tariff rate

00:24:23.440 on steel and aluminum. The U.S.'s is currently at 50%, while ours is at 25%. Would you like to see

00:24:28.400 them raise that up to 50% and match the U.S.'s rate on steel and aluminum?

00:24:31.760 Well, my preference would be to see the Americans lower their tariffs so that we can reinstate free

00:24:37.000 trade. But one tariff that I will be cutting for sure, and I will push the Prime Minister to cut for

00:24:43.520 sure, on our steel and aluminum is the industrial carbon tax.

00:24:47.920 See, this is Pierre Polly of 2.0. And if he keeps this up and

00:24:53.040 actually runs a language like this in the next election, I'm 100% on board. I would vote yes on 1.00

00:25:00.240 a Pierre Polly of leadership review in Calgary. Hopefully, I'll be there as a delegate. But he

00:25:05.040 has been moving right on the right policies and has come to more conservative stances. I like that

00:25:11.520 his stance on this is now, no, it's not higher. We don't need like stronger counter tariffs. We need to

00:25:16.800 find a way of getting to no tariffs on both sides. There's no point in ratcheting up the tension when we

00:25:22.160 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

00:25:33.600 add into his new version of a tariff, a carbon border adjustment, which is an industrial carbon

00:25:39.840 tax on any goods entering the country from a country that does not have an industrial carbon tax

00:25:45.360 on the particular if it applies to the particular good that was produced. So any energy products

00:25:49.920 coming from another country or any products that have not been impacted by industrial carbon tax

00:25:55.520 must have it applied as soon as it comes into Canada. But I think Polly of by taking the low tax

00:26:01.360 position on this is taking the more conservative approach than the conservative campaign did in the

00:26:06.640 general election. I find it astonishing. Well, Donald, I understand Donald Trump's

00:26:11.840 priority is to bring to take Canadian jobs and move them to the United States. He's been very

00:26:17.680 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

00:26:29.680 with Trump tariffs, but with Carney's tax carbon tax, we need to get rid of the industrial carbon tax.

00:26:35.200 And if Mark Carney will adopt the Canadian Sovereignty Act, then that will include the

00:26:40.560 total elimination of the entire carbon tax, including for steel and aluminum.

00:26:46.480 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

00:27:00.000 particular stance, not exactly on the industrial carbon tax, but around taxes in general.

00:27:06.000 If you're the Liberals and you're pretending to be elbows up, you're all out for Canadians. You just

00:27:11.600 want to protect Canadians. Why are you taxing our own corporations into complete irrelevancy

00:27:18.160 compared to their American counterparts? We're uncompetitive because of our taxes. We should

00:27:22.640 lower, we should eliminate the industrial carbon tax. We should lower corporate taxes by 20, 25%.

00:27:28.080 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 1.00

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,

00:27:48.720 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, 0.99

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

00:28:23.920 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,

00:29:03.120 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 0.96

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

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. 1.00

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

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 23, 2025

Carney in DECLINE- Liberals fumbled trade situation!

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