Trade deal talks between Canada and the United States have been ongoing since October 2025. Since then, there has been no progress, and now the pressure is on the Liberals to get a deal signed. In this episode of the National Telegraph, Wyatt Claypool takes a look at why the deal has not been signed, and what the problem is.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.600We need to talk about just how badly the Mark Carney liberals have been failing on U.S. trade.
00:00:13.600It's like the liberals just assumed that Canadians were eventually going to forget that they ever
00:00:18.480promised to get a trade deal signed with Trump and the Americans, but in fact, Canadians have not.
00:00:24.620It was like the one big promise that Mark Carney made during the last federal election,
00:00:30.000Yes, he did promise other things, but this was like the big keystone promise.
00:00:35.260He has dealt with Donald Trump before, so you can trust him to get a trade deal signed with the Americans.
00:00:41.260And then he blew past two of his own deadlines to get a trade deal signed, and that was back in July of last year.
00:00:49.140And here we are in April 2026, still with no trade deal.
00:00:54.420And the liberals are getting really antsy now since the conservatives had changed their messaging on this issue a couple months ago and became more aggressive on it. The media says that the conservatives pivoted their trade position. They did not. Basically, Polyev went from just saying that they haven't gotten a trade deal signed, now pivoting to saying, what are you guys actually doing to get it signed?
00:01:16.020He's now more focused on the details and making proposals for what the liberals could be doing
00:01:20.780better. And that has put pressure on the liberals to prove that they actually know what they're
00:01:25.100doing on this issue, since no one has heard any details of what they've gotten up to.
00:01:29.800And now the pressure is really, really on since U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoegstra revealed
00:01:36.260on Jasmine Lane's podcast that since October 2025, the Canadian negotiators have basically
00:01:43.680not engaged with the Americans whatsoever. Yes, they've chatted, but that's a far cry from
00:01:49.900actually negotiating. And it all goes back to Mark Carney. He doesn't want to get a trade deal
00:01:55.420signed. He wants to pretend he wants to get a trade deal signed. But like I've been predicting,
00:02:00.700the business liberals are starting to rebel a little bit. Not inside of the liberal caucus,
00:02:06.140but in terms of the voter base. The liberals rely on a certain type of voter I call the business
00:02:11.500liberal. Maybe when it comes to social or cultural issues, they tend to be more socially liberal or
00:02:18.620just more neutral. But when it comes to issues of the economy and business, if you suck at the0.99
00:02:24.280economy, they will go over to the conservatives. And that's why you now see the liberals going out0.57
00:02:29.620in the media and making all sorts of excuses for the lack of movement on trade, and now also
00:02:34.400striking this new advisory council to, I guess, pantomime that they have momentum. It's all just
00:02:41.060a way of making it seem like they're serious while acting completely unserious. In just a second here,
00:02:47.560I want to take you guys through a few clips. First of the Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc speaking on
00:02:52.780CTV News and falling all over himself, and then we are going to get to some CPAC interviews in the
00:02:58.200halls of the Parliament, and we can see sort of what the discourse is like on both sides of the
00:03:03.880aisle. But before we get into this first clip, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the
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00:03:39.780channel member. Anyways, so here we go with Dominic LeBlanc on CTV News being pressed
00:03:45.100on why we have not actually why, you know, why apparently there's been no momentum since October
00:03:51.260on trade. It's not the same circumstance as October, but to say that there are no conversations
00:03:58.400or I forget the exact phrase the ambassador said. No serious negotiations. So you disagree with
00:05:00.040Well, but Secretary Lutnik or Ambassador Greer, if they didn't think there was some benefit, they're not going to have 45-minute meetings, one-hour meetings, schedule other meetings with us if they didn't think it was serious.
00:05:12.260So, like, it's serious in the sense that we're discussing serious issues with them in active conversation.
00:15:09.360But in this last election, they went with Carney and the liberals because Carney seemed, at least on the surface level, more credible when it came to dealing with Donald Trump.
00:15:17.820Now that Polyev is the one actually making suggestions saying, hey, how about we leverage the new China deal, tear it up in favor of getting at least tariffs removed on autos.
00:15:26.640And then he can do the same thing with other pieces of leverage. And especially if you cut taxes massively and you cut regulations massively, you would strengthen your own position domestically to the point where the Americans might not feel that they're in as good a position to demand more concessions.
00:15:42.640concessions. So Pauliova is now the one who sounds way more credible than Carney on this issue. And
00:15:47.980that's why you see Carney reaching for credibility tools like this new council, having Dominic LeBlanc
00:15:54.900go on shows trying to basically gird up this idea that no, no, no, we're talking. What do you want
00:15:59.700us to do to sign a bad deal? It's taking a long time because we're trying to cook up perfection.
00:16:03.900To which I would say, stop looking for perfection. It's something that's good. But the problem is the
00:16:08.620liberals are going to hide behind perfection to disguise the fact that they haven't gotten anywhere.
00:16:13.760They haven't even gotten to anything good. They haven't even gotten to a deal at all, good or bad.
00:16:18.580That's the problem we have here. So I think that the line that Paulyov is on, he just needs to keep
00:16:23.520pushing this and getting more aggressive and asking every single day, why won't you let me do it for
00:16:29.600you? Let me be the person who leads the Canada U.S. trade talks. I can get this done. Focus on
00:16:35.220other stuff, I'll do this. Because he can't even, Carney, can't even get interprovincial trade
00:16:39.980barriers down. Dominic LeBlanc, in my last video, in one of the clips I showed, demonstrated that
00:16:45.640he doesn't know when we're actually going to remove any of the interprovincial trade barriers.
00:16:49.720He says, oh, well, we've gotten rid of the federal ones, which might be true in a limited sense.
00:16:54.600The problem was never from the federal government when it came to interprovincial trade,
00:16:58.280although it kind of is because all the anti-pipeline policies in a certain sense are
00:17:02.480an anti-interprovincial trade barrier that they won't get rid of.
00:17:07.000But Paul, you can just say, you guys go deal with that.
00:20:00.980I'm being a bit silly, but still, you should do that.
00:20:03.660But overall, Mark Carney is, at least on this issue, on the ropes.
00:20:07.340Obviously, he's not about to collapse and his government's going to fall apart.
00:20:10.480But Carney is looking really weak on this, which demonstrates or it kind of kind of raised the question, why isn't the media asking more questions to liberals on this issue?
00:20:20.660They've kind of started to. But overall, none of the media, like most of the hosts, most of the politics hosts on the major legacy media, like like programs are actually asking the questions other than Vashi Capellos.
00:20:36.320I wanted to bring up this clip of James Moore talking on the CBC because he makes a good point here.
00:20:42.160The media is currently having a love affair with the Carney liberals.
00:20:46.820Look, I mean, there's a bit of a love affair going on as well.