Unsurprisingly, Prime Minister Mark Carney has screwed Canada over again with another stupid decision when it comes to negotiating a trade deal with the US. This time, he has appointed someone who isn't going to help at all, and I think this is deliberate.
00:02:23.200Our other people who have been talking with the United States are just not inspiring at all.
00:02:27.760And we are picking another deeply uninspired choice for the chief trade negotiator slot.
00:02:33.840Anyways, but before I go into more detail about all this, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video.
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00:02:56.080But in just a second here, I want to get into this article.
00:02:59.020And then we're going to jump over to some news clips and to an actually really good idea of who Mark Carney should have appointed that I saw when I was just looking at J.J. McCullough's feed yesterday.
00:03:13.040But now let's get into this article from the Globe and Mail.
00:03:17.300We're just going to read a little bit of it, but just to give you guys some flavor of what kind of individual we're talking about.
00:03:23.020Now, there's been some rumors on social media that this is somebody who would have advised Justin Trudeau to use the Emergencies Act to shut down the Freedom Convoy.
00:03:39.660Mark Carney has appointed Janice Charette, a former Privy Council Clerk and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, as Chief Trade Negotiator with the United States, barely four months ahead of a high-stakes continental free trade deal review.
00:03:53.800Ms. Charette will serve as a Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister and will also work closely with well-known financier and former Pension Fund Executive Mark Wiseman,
00:04:03.420who has replaced Kirsten Hillman as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. this week.
00:04:10.120Splitting the trade negotiator and Ambassador roles into two positions, Ms. Hillman's previously did both jobs,
00:04:17.200highlights the importance Mr. Carney is placing on a coming review of the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, set to begin on July 1st.
00:04:26.460The USMCA provides the foundation for the more than $1 trillion in Canadian-U.S. trade and has served as Ottawa's prime defense against Donald Trump's tariffs,
00:04:36.320with the agreement allowing more than 85% of Canada's exports to the U.S. to cross the border tariff-free.
00:04:43.100Over a 40-year career in the public service, Ms. Charette has twice served as Clerk of the Privy Council, the head of the public service, the Secretary to the Cabinet.
00:04:51.400She was also the High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2021, which is around the time that Ralph Goodale would have taken over.
00:05:02.620A lot of this, though, is, I guess, nice for her, nice that she has this kind of the credentials in her career that, you know, she's worked for.
00:05:13.020Why is this going to be someone that impresses Donald Trump?
00:05:18.660Why are the Americans going to take her more seriously than Hillman before?
00:05:25.280I don't think that they're really thinking this through.
00:05:28.080If they are, they're trying to pick people deliberately who look professional but are not going to rock the boat,
00:05:34.240and they're just going to follow Mark Carney's orders.
00:05:36.360If Mark Carney is not serious about getting a deal done, none of these people are going to push him to do it.
00:05:41.620But that is the reason why Mark Carney is effectively screwing us over here.
00:05:46.100We're just picking kind of the B squad to go in and just keep things feeling normal with the U.S.
00:05:53.560But the thing is, we don't need normal.
00:05:55.120We actually need to push the envelope a little bit right now if we want to get a deal signed.
00:05:59.880And so I want to jump over now to this clip from the CBC of them trying to hype up this choice.
00:06:05.320So it's the former, I think it's the former Privy Council clerk who's going to be speaking about her here in just a second.
00:06:14.300Mr. Justin Trudeau, and she gave us her perspective on this new role and what Charette brings to it.
00:06:20.600At different points, the government of Canada has had a unified role of ambassador, also co-appointed as chief trade negotiator.
00:06:29.240That's what we had most recently under Kirsten Hillman.
00:07:05.800And this is that was like a former person who's a trade negotiator, like a trade advisor or whatever.
00:07:11.280The other person I was trying to think of earlier with Dominic LeBlanc, all of these people are so forgettable.
00:07:15.900Outside of their failures, you don't really have much to say about them.
00:07:18.980But, yeah, it's just some person and they're going to be like, well, it's great for keeping continuity with Canada's trade policy or trade negotiating stance.
00:07:29.240Well, it hasn't been working, so maybe we need to alter it a little bit.
00:07:32.960And know who, in fact, was doing a really good job on this and got thrown under the bus for it?
00:07:37.500Well, it was Jamil Javani, who, when speaking to Breitbart News, got in trouble, apparently,
00:07:44.180because he said the truth that we can't keep having hissy fits over everything the Americans do if we actually want to get a trade deal done.
00:07:52.420We're, in fact, shooting ourselves in the foot.
00:07:54.360Here is tape of Jamil Javani saying that.
00:07:57.400We are shooting ourselves in the foot if we continue this anti-America, you know, hissy fit.
00:08:03.740And this is the kind of reason I'm trying to talk into our government and some of the liberals who have just gone way off the reservation on this.
00:08:11.520You know, the ball is in Prime Minister Mark Carney's court.
00:08:15.880I think it'd be awesome if we went down there together.
00:08:18.240I think we'd get a lot done working together.
00:08:20.640But he's got to decide whether that's something he wants to do or not.
00:08:23.420And after that, as I was saying, he was then torn to shreds by liberals, not legitimately, but they kept attacking him because apparently that was treasonous for him to go down in an attempt to speak to the Americans.
00:08:37.740Here's somebody on CBC commentating after that tape was played.
00:08:41.680I would hope his northern tour takes him into the Arctic if I were Pierre Polyev over the next little bit.
00:08:50.200Jamil Javani is not being a team player right now, right?
00:08:52.340The first time he announced his U.S. tour was the same day that Pierre Polyev was in meeting with Prime Minister Carney, which is a significant thing for the opposition leader to do and is supposed to be a reset.
00:09:02.860Instead, he was stepping on that message.
00:09:04.300Once again, this week is now even apologists for the Americans in some way, which to me is just not helpful.
00:09:09.680Yes, Mr. Jamil Javani is very, very intelligent.
00:09:12.160He's got many connections to the U.S. administration.
00:09:14.440I think he could be tremendously useful if he could be trusted.
00:09:17.080But it's the Jamil Javani show, which is very apparent.
00:09:28.520He was literally going to help Mark Carney.
00:09:30.920Oh, well, he wasn't helping him in the way that Mark Carney wanted.
00:09:33.600You mean because he wanted to get a trade deal done?
00:09:35.740Because that is the real reason why he was stepping on anything.
00:09:38.980He was stepping on Mark Carney's plan to not get a trade deal done while pretending to so that he could blame Donald Trump and then benefit electorally.
00:09:47.740To me, based on, I think, and all the people in this room.
00:09:50.460So how far can he be trusted to work with the prime minister or to advance anyone's interest?