Carney Lied about Anti-Trump ads - BC and Ontario stop ads!
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Summary
Three incompetent Canadian politicians get their comeuppance for a $75 million anti-Trump ad in the United States, and no one seems to be a bit mad about it. Doug Ford, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and British Columbia Premier David Eby are all in hot water for their part in this whole mess.
Transcript
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So much comedy in our world is based on characters who seem blissfully ignorant of the consequences
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And the story in Canadian politics we are going to talk about today is exactly this.
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Three incompetent Canadian politicians who didn't think that the obvious thing that
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was going to happen would happen because apparently reality does not apply to them.
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I, of course, I'm talking about Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
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These guys thought that their elbows-up political stance was just going to give them benefits
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and there was not going to be consequences to, you know, doing stupid things like running
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a $75 million anti-Trump ad in the United States in the case of Doug Ford.
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So we got to take this thing from the top and go over the timeline and what just happened
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today because it is hilarious and it is quite enjoyable watching these people get their comeuppance.
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They think that they can just assign themselves their own effect for the thing that they do.
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Well, I'm going to run this ad and it's going to have a good outcome because I said so.
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Anyways, but before we get into it, guys, I just need you to like this video, subscribe to the channel if you are not yet a subscriber,
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And then, of course, leave a comment on what you think about this whole situation.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford, yes, he is technically a conservative, a progressive conservative with heavy emphasis on the progressive,
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decides that the way that he is going to try and help Canada get a better trade deal with Trump's administration in the U.S.
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is to run an advertisement using audio clips of President Ronald Reagan condemning tariffs.
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Basically, it is an anti-Trump ad and he spent $75 million on it,
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an amount of money that is completely absurd if you actually know how little is spent on Canadian advertising campaigns.
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$75 million is more than what all of the Ontario provincial parties spent on the Ontario election in February of 2025.
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And we spent that, Ontario spent that, to get what done?
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Nothing but have Donald Trump flip the trade negotiation table and basically require an apology
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and probably more concessions from Canada to even getting back to negotiating.
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I have no clue why Doug Ford thought this was a good idea other than he wants to gird up his favorability ratings by going elbows up
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and hoping a bunch of very liberal Ontarians think he's a great guy for sticking it to Donald Trump.
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And obviously, Mark Carney and his federal liberal government knew they were going to run these ads from Ontario.
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In fact, Ford had then later said, oh, of course Carney knew I was doing this.
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Carney later confirms he knew he was going to do it.
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And then Carney threw Doug Ford under the bus by saying, well, I told Ford not to do it.
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Ford had previously indicated that Carney was cool with him doing it.
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But Carney, after having to apologize to Donald Trump for these ads,
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because Canada would clearly not put up with a Republican governor running ads in Canada to go after Mark Carney,
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And then Carney basically said, well, it was never my idea.
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And now we have Doug Ford coming out and saying that Carney's a liar.
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And now they're squabbling between each other over something that was clearly stupid in the first place.
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And it's obvious that Carney didn't actually tell him not to do it.
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You think if Carney really wanted him not to do it, that Ford would just do it anyways?
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We will be getting to Premier David Eby's role in all this from British Columbia later,
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because he also wanted to do the same thing as Doug Ford and was just recently stopped today.
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But here's Ford being interviewed by the media on what Carney had said,
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you know, being that he told Ford not to do it.
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Well, I'm not going to get into he said, he said.
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Back and forth, I don't think the people of Canada want that.
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I know one thing, we're united on getting a deal.
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I have asked him to focus on many areas, but especially on the auto sector.
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And I know he's doing his best to get that back to the table.
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You don't want to correct the public record here?
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And he said that he asked you specifically not to run the commercial.
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Well, again, I'm not going to go back and forth.
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I had a different recollection of our conversation.
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He can say, oh, I don't want to do a he said, he said.
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Well, you're doing it because you're saying that I have a different recollection
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This is why I support the new blue party in Ontario.
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Because if your conservative party, the PCs, become so indistinguishable from the liberals,
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you might as well just vote for a different conservative party
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and hope the PCs, if they lose, actually turn themselves into a real conservative party again.
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Do you think that the Ontario Premier would end up running an ad unless the federal government
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was at least not going to say anything about it right away?
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Because if Carney wanted Ford not to run the ads,
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he could have made a public statement preempting the ad,
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saying, I've told Doug Ford not to run this ad campaign in the United States.
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He didn't because he knew that the ads were coming.
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but was too much of a coward to do the stupid thing himself.
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To move forward, to get a deal, to protect jobs,
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and protect the economy of Ontario and of Canada.
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I know, I've talked to him this morning through text message.
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and that's protecting Canadian jobs, Ontario jobs,
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the steel sector, the auto sector, life sciences, and manufacturing.
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Are you able to share your recollection, Premier?
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Again, I'm just not going to go down that avenue.
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He's already said that you have a different recollection to Mark Carney.
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Because obviously if it's different, you're saying that he's lying,
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or at the very least that Mark Carney's delusional
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He called me from Asia a couple of times and said, pull the ad.
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And I said I wasn't going to do it until we're going to pause the ad on Monday.
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It was 12.4 billion impressions around the world.
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I love the fact that four Republicans jumped over
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There's a lot of politicians in the U.S. who don't like the tariffs.
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But if anything, Doug Ford has set back the anti-tariff movement in the U.S.,
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because now he's created this whole thing where are you now going to side with Doug Ford,
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a Canadian premier, attacking the president, running ads against us,
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trying to counter-signal us with taxpayer Canadian money,
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Because, again, we would call it election interference
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if Texas Governor Greg Abbott or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
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to go after Mark Carney and basically say that his policy is bad
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau would call him an idiot for this and whatnot.
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Ended up getting, rejuvenating the talks with the Democrats and Republicans down in the U.S.
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that a tariff on Canada was a tax on American people.
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What was the prime minister's tone when he asked you a couple of times to pull the ad?
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But the president was going to give us a terrible deal,
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And we weren't going to go down that rabbit hole of getting a terrible deal.
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I always say no deal is better than a bad deal.
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I want the Amcan fortress, American-Canadian fortress that we can...
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So he's already now saying that Mark Carney was also a bad negotiator
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And we would have had that bad deal if Doug Ford hadn't Leroy Jenkins-ed into the room
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and just started going off about Ronald Reagan metaphorically in his ad campaign.
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I agree that Carney was negotiating a bad deal.
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Also, I don't think Doug Ford knows how to get to a good deal.
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You're not going to get to a good deal as Canada,
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like disproportionately smaller economically in terms of our power,
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Our economic per capita power is worse than the U.S.
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We were not going to be able to run an ad like that
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and force the Americans into signing a better deal.
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You're going to get to a better deal with the Americans
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by engineering a win-win scenario for Donald Trump.
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Because Donald Trump has the midterm elections coming up.
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You're not going to have a deal that doesn't make him look good
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You can still get something that's good for Canada,
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But now we need to bring in David Eby into the story,
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So I'm going to go over as well and look up a clip of 1BC leader,
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Dallas Brody, going after him and his government in the legislature.
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I, of course, work for 1BC in the legislature in British Columbia.
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But Dallas Brody had already preemptively said that Doug Ford just got slapped around.
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You think you're going to run your own ad and have a different outcome?
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And so Eby, though, even after Ford was told to pull his ad,
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started talking tough about how he was going to run his own advertisement.
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And I got to give a shout out to Dan Cameron here,
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because he does a great job editing together some clips here
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and just demonstrating the comedy of the whole situation of Eby talking tough
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Because Carney obviously was going to beat him to death with a shoe
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Again, people could say, well, who cares if Donald Trump gets mad?
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Well, you can say that he shouldn't be mad about it
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That doesn't change the reality of us needing to form a win-win deal
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in order to get something across the finish line.
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B.C. Premier David Eby says the province will go ahead
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with its own anti-tariff ads aimed at the American public.
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First of all, let me say that I support unambiguously
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Premier Ford's advertisements in the United States.
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It is absolutely essential that we talk to Americans
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Hi, Prime Minister McKenzie Gray with Global News.
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Did you apologize to Donald Trump about Ontario's anti-tariff ad?
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The President was offended by the act or by the ad, rather.
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B.C. is set to roll out its own sort of anti-tariff ads
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Given the reaction after Ontario did its own ads,
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the talks with the U.S. have stopped right now.
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Are there any concerns that the federal government has
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Is this something that maybe the two of you spoke about today?
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And did you maybe even ask B.C. to rethink rolling out those ads?