Based on what has been leaked out about trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada, it doesn't sound like Canada is going to be able to diversify its trade with the United States. In fact, it looks like the deal is more protectionist than ever. I discuss why this is bad news for Canada.
00:00:03.140Based on what's been leaking out of the trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada,
00:00:08.500it doesn't sound like Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals are really that committed to their former elbows-up positions.
00:00:16.140I want to break down one of the details from these leaks for you today and discuss why it's so bad for the country.
00:00:23.720I think we should trade as much as possible with the United States.
00:00:27.780It makes both countries better if you are able to purchase products from one side of the border that are cheaper there than they are on your side of the border.
00:00:35.460But the way that Mark Carney and the Liberals are going about this is entirely wrong.
00:00:40.800They portray themselves as being people who are going to stand up for Canada and diversify our trade around the world, and that's not happening.
00:00:49.340But anyways, before I get into it, guys, I just quickly want to remind you, if you like the channel, make sure to drop a like on the video.
00:02:08.440People briefed on the negotiations say the United States would be guaranteed first right of refusal on Canadian resources.
00:02:14.980This is quite a prize at a time when countries around the world are scrambling to line up their supplies.
00:02:21.440Yeah, so effectively, the U.S. gets to get first bidding rights on anything that Canada is planning on exporting.
00:02:31.880So they get to decide whether we have to basically go to them first in order to see if there's anyone who wants their supplies for a price that they negotiate
00:02:41.100before we are allowed looking around the international scene.
00:02:45.620This is going to slow down Canada diversifying its trade because you must go and negotiate with the U.S. before you try and develop new markets.
00:02:56.100This is quite literally the opposite of what Mark Carney and the liberals had run on in 2025's federal election.
00:03:04.380Again, the whole idea that Mark Carney ran on was that we're too reliant on the United States.
00:03:09.620They're threatening our sovereignty, and so we're going to go off to Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Japan,
00:03:17.940and we're going to go see if we can do some trade with them instead.
00:03:21.720And now, already before a deal signed, it has already been guaranteed that the U.S. is going to, like our oil and gas industry,
00:03:29.700get way more, like, get first dibs on absolutely everything, and we're not going to actually have an open competition for our resources first.
00:03:39.900They get to purchase them at market values, at whatever market value we agree to, before, and if they refuse,
00:03:47.660then you can go try and get a higher price elsewhere, but we first must go and ask them if they want it.
00:03:52.660I don't even know what to say about that.
00:03:57.440It's just patently absurd, and everyone who is pushing the yellows up narrative should be criticizing him right now,
00:05:28.100An act respecting certain measures related to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting the other related security measures.
00:05:37.420And I will say, first off, a lot of stuff in this bill is perfectly fine.
00:05:43.420It is making things like the, it's not byproducts, but it's like the components of fentanyl making those like illegal substances or controlled substances.
00:05:55.220So you can't just take the, like, you can't just take the supplies to make fentanyl over the border and say, well, it's not fentanyl yet, so you can't stop me.
00:06:02.540They can stop people with the precursors to fentanyl, and they can schedule that as a controlled, or they can make that a controlled substance and charge someone for trying to move over the border with it or from trying to import it who is not allowed to have it.
00:06:17.440There's some other good stuff about trying to actually tighten up patrols, you know, increasing, you know, increasing screenings at the border.
00:06:24.840There's absolutely some, some fine stuff in the bill.
00:06:29.020At the same time, there are things in the bill that don't really have anything to do with border security, like I guess it does, but I'll just get to it.
00:06:54.520You don't want people like shipping in fentanyl precursors or trying to, you know, send weapons over the border through the mail.
00:07:02.140But I would say that how about we first start to try and enforce the law in our own country, getting rid of things like Bill C-75, the soft on crime bail reform law that the liberals passed under Justin Trudeau.
00:07:17.480And Bill C-5, which lowers sentencing for people carrying illegal handguns, like not just a model of handgun the liberals are trying to ban, but like an actual illegally obtained handgun.
00:07:38.120We are going to have like, well, here, I'll just read this part.
00:07:42.000Yeah, so this is the part about the mail.
00:07:48.080It says, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, has expanded abilities to intercept and search communications, including mail, to address security threats.
00:08:01.580And what people also interpreted that to mean is that they would be able to, at the border, be able to request that you open up your phone and download its contents to know who you've been communicating with and whatnot.
00:08:16.540Also, bad guys don't follow the law, and they are going to be able to find ways around this.
00:08:20.800And it's going to turn into a program where you're just going to be reading random people's mail and opening their packages.
00:08:26.560Another aspect of Bill C-2 that is kind of concerning, I can see the merits behind it, but I can also see a lot of demerits behind it.
00:08:35.640They are now going to cap all cash transactions under like over $10,000.
00:08:42.060If you make a $10,000 donation somewhere in cash, you try and purchase something for $10,000 in cash, like a car, you can no longer do that.
00:08:50.800Or at least you have to have the whole thing fingerprinted and you have to have like basically a government bureaucrat sign off on it being legal before you can transact that way.
00:08:59.540And I understand criminals deal in cash.
00:09:08.560But a lot of people are, I would say, rightfully concerned that by putting such a low cap on it of $10,000, you are eventually going to be able to move into the idea that all cash is actually dangerous.
00:09:21.720There is potential for money laundering with cash, so we have to go to pure digital currency because Mark Carney throughout his career has been a big proponent of central bank digital currency, CBDCs.
00:09:37.020He has been quoted in many articles on this topic to the point where other people who are in charge of central banks, because he was usually sounding off about this when he was like the head of the Central Bank of England, they would even react to his opinions on CBDCs as if it's like very odd because his opinions are extremely maximalist on CBDCs.
00:09:59.540He thinks they're fantastic, and people are thinking that this aspect of Bill C2 is a very easy way of putting his foot in the door and justifying digital currencies because we've got to crack down on money laundering.
00:10:11.180Again, I go back to Bill C75 and Bill 5 and his allowance of decriminalization of drugs around the country.
00:10:17.440Why do we need extra security measures around reading people's mail and restricting their abilities to use cash when we're not even keeping the criminals on our own streets committing crimes in front of police officers locked up for more than 24 hours?
00:10:33.980We should try and get that done first before we start increasing these other measures which allow the government to act like a police state and like invade your own privacy, slow you down at the border to download your phone and all this other stuff.
00:10:47.760I think we should probably do the basics and then we can ratchet it up from there if we still have a rampant crime problem.
00:10:54.580I really don't think we'll have a rampant crime problem if we just upgraded sentencing and held people if they are repeat offenders or violent offenders.
00:11:05.120There's this lie that, you know, mass incarceration in the 90s and early 2000s didn't do anything but it just put a lot of people in prison.
00:11:13.240It actually worked incredibly well because if someone commits a crime and you lock them up and then they get out and they commit another crime and you lock them up harder,
00:11:20.980it turns out that causes less crime because there are more criminals, you know, the people who commit crime in prison rather than out on the streets.
00:11:30.160There's this asinine argument I sometimes hear from people where they'll say, well, locking people up doesn't deter other people from committing crime.
00:11:40.420It's like, when did I care about deterring other people from committing crimes by locking up another criminal?
00:11:47.680You lock up criminals and part of my background is research in crime during my master's degree.
00:11:54.060The point of locking up criminals is to lock up that particular criminal.
00:12:00.240I'm not locking up Dave for a violent offense because it's going to dissuade Bill from committing a violent offense.
00:12:06.920I'm locking up Dave to lock up Dave and if Bill's stupid enough to also commit a violent offense, we'll lock him up too.
00:12:15.800You incapacitate criminals from being able to continue.
00:12:19.200I think it's like 3% or no, it's not even 3%.
00:12:22.540It's like a couple hundred people in any given city, depends on the size.
00:12:27.340If it's a city like Calgary, it may only be like 100 or 70 people or I believe it was New York City.
00:12:33.420300 people in New York City commit like over 30% of all of the shoplifting offenses, of all the retail thefts.
00:12:41.580If you incapacitate those people and you lock them up for years, those people will stop committing retail theft.
00:12:49.800Hopefully that's not a crazy concept for people to consume there.
00:12:53.280Anyways, now I just want to move on to one other thing because I found it funny and I knew it was like the stars aligned and one of the dumbest people I know was citing one of the other dumbest people I know and I needed to talk about it.
00:13:07.460So if you don't know who this person is, Guy Filica here is a pro-drug activist.
00:13:15.020He is a pro-safe injection site, safe supply activist.
00:13:19.680Apparently, or he's a recovering drug addict who thinks that because there was all these safe injection sites when he was recovering and they personally helped him, that means the programs are good.
00:13:31.740And he is, let's not even say an advocate, he is a shill for them, even though he recovered way back when drugs were not nearly as hard as fentanyl and other things that can like permanently cripple you for life.
00:13:45.960He also had a rap sheet a mile long that he was able to get off of.
00:13:49.780He even made a joke of holding how long his rap sheet was that a lawyer got him off of, which included domestic battery and stuff like that.
00:13:57.100He likes to make a big joke about the fact he used to beat women, but whatever.
00:14:01.140This guy, for some reason, is in the mainstream in Canada, a respected member of the media who gets to sit on panels and talk about why we need to jam more drugs down people's throats using safe supply to fuel the drug trade.
00:14:16.280But this guy was sharing this video from Dr. Richard Wolff, or it's not his account, but it's an account called At Commie Trash.
00:14:27.500Dr. David Wolff, I'm not sure if you know this, is a communist, is a Marxist economist, which is an oxymoron.
00:14:35.200And Guy Felica says, we are all closer to becoming homeless than becoming a billionaire.
00:14:40.220It's true what they say, without poverty and massive inequality, you can't have billionaires.
00:14:45.000I'm just going to play this clip, and you probably already know it's economically illiterate.
00:14:51.720What he just wrote there is illiterate.
00:14:55.060It demonstrates that either he's lying or maybe the drugs truly affected Guy Felica's brain this badly.
00:15:00.980He doesn't even know that that is completely stupid.
00:15:04.560Sorry, are people in Africa poor because there are too many billionaires in their countries?
00:15:10.360Are people in China not as well off as the people in the United States because there are too many Chinese billionaires?
00:15:20.820Billionaires per capita are higher in the U.S. than China.
00:15:24.080In fact, some countries in Scandinavia have the highest per capita billionaires, and yet they're better off than Canada and the United States.
00:15:31.080And by the way, Scandinavia is not socialist at all, in case someone tries to bring that up.
00:15:35.420They have lower corporate taxes than Canada and the U.S.
00:16:32.040They will give you a product that you pay for because you have made the calculus in your mind that that object that they are selling to you will give you more value than the cash that you are handing them over.
00:16:44.700Or you're an irrational person, but most people are rational most of the time.
00:16:50.240And so when you go to a grocery store and purchase food, it's because that grocery store can supply you food better than you could supply yourself going out into the woods and foraging.
00:17:00.300But I guess this is an alien concept to Dr. Richard Wolff.
00:17:05.840Roughly three and a half billion people.
00:17:57.860If you look at all the statistics of the World Health Organization, the bottom half of our population are people who die way earlier than they need to.
00:18:08.160Because their diets are no good or they don't have enough food in the first place or they can't get to a clinic to have little problems that are easily solved by modern medical methods taken care of.
00:18:20.420But it's so how does how is that a billionaire's fault?
00:18:26.140What do they was about to go into the clinic and get some like assistance and like Jeff Bezos steps in the way, you know, Tim Cook steps in the way and says, stop right there.
00:18:35.940Give me that five bucks you're about to use to go get a checkup.
00:18:45.340Capitalism, free markets have risen more people out of poverty than anything else in human history.
00:18:52.980And he's going to be mad because it hasn't actually gotten everyone out of poverty.
00:18:57.200What, the Soviet Union get people out of poverty?
00:18:59.460What did Mao's China cause people to stop starving?
00:19:02.420The only time people actually started doing better in China was when they started embracing limited capitalism so that people could actually, you know, buy and sell goods without it all being rubber stamped every step of the way by the government and sold at a government store.
00:19:17.700It's unspeakable what happens to the lower half.
00:19:20.880If we took half the wealth of the richest, and they would still be the richest, and made it available to the bottom half, it would transform their lives, literally.
00:19:31.480Now, there's no moral or ethical justification for this situation.
00:19:39.000Well, if you gave them the money, you just took half the richest people in the world's money, and you gave it to the bottom half, their lives would be transformed.
00:19:46.640I'm like, no, businesses would collapse.
00:19:49.900The economy would fail, and those people would not have opportunities extended to them.
00:19:56.300But these people truly believe, these people who advocate extremely high taxes, believe that you can just simply minus off some money from them and give it to that guy.
00:20:05.560And that guy is proportionately better off because of that, even though there is nothing to actually keep generating that money year after year.
00:20:13.500And if you start making it harder for someone to actually hold on to the money that they earn, you're going to stop generating as much.
00:20:20.340And you're not going to be able to take as much money from that person and give it to another person.
00:20:24.340And so how do you actually make people better off?
00:20:29.580Productivity is the thing that nobody can do an end run around.
00:20:33.080You have to be productive, or you're not going to be able to have wealth in any way, shape, or form.
00:20:39.200People have a lot of money because their activities in life have been highly productive.
00:20:44.260Yes, there are some people who just inherited a lot of money, but as a very dwindlingly small amount of individuals on this planet, you need productivity in countries.
00:20:53.120There's no way, was Richard Wolff going to take half of Elon Musk's money and then just give it to the country of, like, you know, Togo is what I keep going back to.
00:21:04.040Equatorial Guinea is poor because of too many billionaires.
00:21:07.940Equatorial Guinea is poor because there is one dictator who takes all the oil and gas money and then doesn't actually let other people have their own ability to enter the market and work and, you know, trade their labor or even start their own businesses for resources.
00:21:22.640It's the government oil and gas company, and nobody else can get in the business.
00:21:32.520Anyways, hopefully you don't mind when I respond to things that are kind of like not Canadian politics-based, but they just annoy me.
00:21:38.140Guy Filica gave me a perfect insertion point because I got to sideswipe him, then sideswipe Dr. Richard Wolff, who I cannot stand at all.
00:21:46.100He is just one of the most open communists you'll see in academia, who, by the way, you'll even find people who are supposed to be, like, moderate liberals platforming people like Dr. Richard Wolff.
00:22:14.440His entire – I've seen someone rip apart his first doctoral dissertation because it was just full of nonsense, where he claims that the British Empire killed a bunch of people, killed 1.5 million people in Kenya.
00:22:28.380Because at one point, they estimated the population at 4 million, and then, like, a few decades later, they estimated it at 2.5 million because they got better at estimating it.
00:22:36.360But because they got better at estimating it, that means 1.5 million people were fictionally murdered.
00:22:41.960He's an idiot, and that's how he tries to attack capitalism, through means like that.
00:22:46.360That's just a taste of how ridiculous this person is.
00:22:50.180Anyway, so that should be it for me today, guys.
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00:23:17.560Sonia Sharp is the only person I will accept currently in this race to become mayor.
00:23:21.860Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.