Carney Lost Again - Apologizes to Trump for Reagan ads!
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Summary
Well, the inevitable has happened. Prime Minister Mark Carney had to apologize to Donald Trump for Doug Ford's stupid Ronald Reagan ad that he ran in the U.S. to the tune of $75 million, which is far more than the amount of money spent in an Ontario provincial election.
Transcript
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Prime Minister Mark Carney had to apologize to Donald Trump
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for Doug Ford's stupid Ronald Reagan ad that he ran in the U.S.
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because that isn't even how much money is spent in an Ontario provincial election.
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That is far more than is spent in an Ontario provincial election
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when you pool all the money that all the parties spend combined.
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well, maybe Doug Ford's right about what Ronald Reagan had said
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People say, well, is Donald Trump wrong to be so protectionist?
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and all the other premiers not liking the tariffs
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You actually need to negotiate to get to a better deal.
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when you're the weaker party in the negotiation.
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Canada does not have the population or economic power of the United States.
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So the way you are going to get to a win-win scenario
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is not the same way as if you were on the other side
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and had a population above 330 million people like the U.S. does.
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We have a population of around 41, 42 million people.
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And when you take all the temporary foreign workers out of that,
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Oh, anyways, we are going to get into the tape of Mark Carney apologizing to Trump
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Obviously, Trump was not present, but he was asked about the ads and what had gone on.
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after Doug Ford had previously thrown him under the bus.
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And we still have British Columbia Premier David Eby
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planning on running his own anti-Trump ads in the U.S.
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which means that we are still talking about Canadian politics.
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one, I'd like to say it's great to be back in the studio.
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And of course, leave a comment on what you think about all of this.
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I assume that you guys will have a lot of your own thoughts.
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But here is Mark Carney at his press conference today,
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apologizing to Trump when asked by reporters about it.
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Hi, Prime Minister Mackenzie 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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And it's not something I would have done, which is to put in place that advertisement.
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I'm the one, in English, I'm the one who is responsible in my role as Prime Minister
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for the relationship with the President of the United States.
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And the federal government is responsible for the foreign relationship with the U.S. government.
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The problem is here, things didn't just happen.
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It wasn't like somebody accidentally knocked over the candy bowl and things fell on the floor.
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You don't accidentally, you don't kind of do a bit of an oopsie
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and run a $75 million anti-Trump attack ad in the U.S.,
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which is more than many American state elections cost their own parties.
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This is something that, even if it's Doug Ford who did it,
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you would have, I would have, if I was Carney, preemptively come out and said,
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Ford's planning on running this stupid ad, and I condemn him for it,
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even before it hits American airwaves, so people know that this is not you,
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but Carney is also responsible for not stopping him,
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and then kind of being mealy-mouthed about whether or not he supported the ads after the fact.
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Doug Ford said that he viewed the ad with you in advance of it going to air.
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Since you're the person that's solely responsible for negotiations,
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did you inform Mr. Ford that this is something that you did not want to go forward with?
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So he just basically blithely tries to pretend like, well, you know, it ended badly,
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Except Doug Ford had effectively said that Carney was fine with it because he never stopped him.
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So, like, right here, I'll just jump over to a news article from CTV News.
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And he says, Carney says he told Ontario Premier not to rent anti-tariff ad.
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Do you know how we know he didn't tell him not to do it?
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Because, again, D.C. Premier David Eby is planning on doing literally the same thing,
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and we have not gotten a strong condemnation by Mark Carney.
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We have not gotten the federal liberals to even release a press paper saying that they don't support this.
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This was at a press conference that I was actually present for since I worked for the 1BC party in the legislature,
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This was Eby standing next to Randeep Sarai, a liberal MP and federal attorney general,
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Sean Fraser, announcing that, yes, he's going to rerun his own ads, and he supports Doug Ford's ads.
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The entire idea behind Premier Ford's advertising campaign, although I acknowledge ours was of a decidedly different scale,
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is to get the message out to Americans about the impact of tariffs on Americans.
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The only people paying the additional 10% that the president announced the other day are Americans.
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And getting that message to Americans as well as American decision makers is crucial.
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We are going to exercise all of our ability to get the word out, including advertising to Americans.
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So with that, I'm very much looking forward to our emergency meeting with the federal government.
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But again, he was there with federal officials.
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Carney and his people have known that David Eby has been talking about this for more than a week.
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Although we all know that Mark Carney is not actually trying to negotiate a serious deal.
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If you hadn't heard me say it before, I'm going to repeat it now.
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Carney is so incompetent in this trade deal negotiation that he has literally drawn red lines, metaphorically,
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around topics that his own trade representatives are not allowed to bring up.
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So when Dominic LeBlanc and Melanie Jolie go down to the U.S. to talk trade with the Americans,
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they are not allowed to talk about supply management.
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They are not allowed to talk about Canadian media laws.
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They are not allowed to talk about other duties that Canada has on other products.
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And so it means that the negotiations can't really go anywhere because the Americans have
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made it clear that they would like to see our supply management system at least softened
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so that their dairy producers, that their poultry producers can sell into the Canadian market.
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And I understand there are some people who are going to say, well, that's unfair.
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We can't let the Americans into our market because they have different dairy standards or they
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I don't even, I don't like ultra pasteurized dairy products, but if you want to, you could
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always have a Canadian standard that American products can only come into Canada if they
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But Canadian companies also receive subsidization, both direct subsidies and indirect subsidies.
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In fact, the Canadian dairy farmers may actually get higher subsidies than the American
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ones, especially with the floor that is placed on dairy and poultry prices.
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What it means is that you have must buy dairy for a specific price at the supermarket that
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would never be accepted in the United States where milk prices can go much lower than they
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Anyways, but now that I'm done with all that, we need to move on to another aspect of all
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Actually, I will maybe even bring up a clip of one BC questioning the forest minister in
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British Columbia's legislature a bit later in this video.
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Tara Armstrong, our house leader, went after Ravi Parmar because the BC government has been
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loving this Trump trade situation because BC's economy sucks right now.
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And it's because of bad domestic government policies.
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It has nothing to really do with Trump and the Americans.
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But if we had a functioning economy in British Columbia, if the taxes were lower, if the
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regulations were lower, if they got rid of stupid policies like RIPA, the one, the
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Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, which holds up major projects, it would
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And the Trump tariffs would just be considered an annoyance.
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The reason why the forest industry is being really hurt badly by the tariffs in BC is
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because the BC government has already been kicking the forest industry in the ribs for
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And now the tariffs could actually risk sinking the rest of the industry.
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Literally, since the NDP got in in British Columbia, the forest sector has fallen 43%.
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And now they're going to try and blame Donald Trump for tariffs that he's only implemented
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But before I move on to all that, guys, we need to check in with our friends over at
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Because didn't you guys know that all of this really shows you that pure poly is a bad guy.
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I love Laura Babcock's show, The O Show, because they are so nakedly artisan.
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They are so liberal that it doesn't matter what happens, it's always pure poly is fault,
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In this clip, this guy from a show nobody watches who Laura is having on is arguing that
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That's that's what this whole trade situation has uncovered is that poly is bad.
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Pierre is still of the position that he would have negotiated something already.
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And Canada, listen to me very carefully, the only tariff free deal that was ever on the
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So if Pierre says he would have negotiated a tariff free deal and we'd have it done already,
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Not only are they trying to say that pure poly wouldn't have been able to sign a better
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This actually means that Polyev is secretly in favor of the 51st state because he has
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decided in his mind that's the only zero tariff agreement.
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I'm not even sure Polyev exactly promised a zero tariff agreement.
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Actually, being good at negotiations is bad because we have arbitrarily decided on this podcast
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with maybe like a thousand listeners per episode, that that would then result in the 51st state.
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Again, if Carney signs a deal, like, of course, they'll say it's possible for Carney to sign a
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But if Polyev does it, that means you're still, that means it's bad because he's somehow pleasing
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Oh, he's so sad and so surprised that Canadians are fully energetic about the U.S.-Canadian
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relationship because your country threatened us, Ambassador, threatened our economy, threatened
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And when you assured us that the 51st state thing was going to go away, it didn't.
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I'm not diplomatic, but I don't pretend to be one as a day job.
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So I highly recommend go back to whatever you were doing before Trump tapped you for this
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Let Canada work with someone who understands the righteous anger of Canadians against the Trump
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Who could wonder how the liberals are able to still maintain a government with people like
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There are so many people who doesn't matter what happens.
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They are on side with the liberals no matter what.
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Hopefully someday she finds the lithium that rolled under her couch that she's supposed to
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You can tell that her husband is a producer at the CBC.
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But and this is where I wanted to quickly jump over to the logging question that that was
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But we're now in a situation where Donald Trump, even after the apology, because the
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apology obviously was not just issued this morning.
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Carney just confirms that he had issued it previously.
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We're not even back to the negotiating table yet.
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And these people are still gormless enough to not realize what the game that Trump was
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I'm not saying it's a good game, because, again, it doesn't matter what I think.
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Trump knows every time he flips the table and the Reagan ad was a very good excuse to
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flip the table that Carney is not only going to apologize, but he's going to give them
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a concession before they actually start negotiating again.
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He's going to get to five percent defense spending.
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He is going to then also invest a hundred billion dollars more into the U.S.
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Oh, and then what's the third thing he's going to give him?
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He's already walked back the DST and the DST was bad.
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And there was a lot of other things that we've had to do.
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Because they still won't learn the lesson that every time they say or do something rhetorically
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stupid, the Americans get to extract a new concession.
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And again, I'm not saying that that's right or wrong.
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Maybe from the American perspective, that's the ideal thing to do.
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But from Canada's perspective, you should be trying to avoid
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these rhetorical moments where you give him an excuse to try and demand a new concession.
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Because at the end of the day, Trump is not going to do it without an excuse because
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or else all the other countries would think that he might do it to them.
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If he says it's because the Reagan ad, it's not like Japan thinks he's going to suddenly
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flip the table and demand a concession from them because they're not doing that.
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But anyways, now I need to show you guys this clip that came out of the BC legislature the
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other day with our one BC house leader, Tara Armstrong.
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It's this is the real reason why you have the BC government trying to run anti-Trump ads.
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They are looking for an excuse for why they suck at their job so much.
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I love this exchange because obviously I got to watch it live when it happened.
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Tara Armstrong, basically this is on supplemental, goes after the government for having ruined
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our own forest sector and is attempting to blame Donald Trump.
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And when it comes back to Ravi Parmar, the forest minister, to justify himself,
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he just rambles on and on because he cannot actually justify the bad policy the government
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Donald Trump can't destroy our forest industry because the premier already has.
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This government has destroyed this once mighty industry.
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It's so bad that paper mills in Port Alberni are importing fibre from, you guessed it, the United States.
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In the name of reconciliation, this government is refusing to issue cutting permits necessary
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While BC's allowable cuts decline, our neighbours over in Alberta have increased theirs by close
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My question, will the minister commit to increasing the allowable cut?
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The allowable cut is basically what is cut every year.
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Because the sawmills, the logging companies, will just cut what they're allowed to and they have to stop.
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And that has gone from like, what was it a few years ago?
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They used to be doing like 63 million cubic, like whatever it is, whatever the unit is.
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They've gone down 43% because of the cut rates going down.
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In fact, a lot, in major part, because of bad Indigenous policy.
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Minister Speaker, Forestry 101, I think it's an important thing for all members of the House.
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The government does not increase the annual allowable cut.
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The independent chief forester sets the annual allowable cut.
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Now that they've been called out for trying to blame Trump for their own policies, he's like, no, it's not our policies.
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It's the guy we hired to implement the policies.
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This guy has the political timing of a bowling ball going through a plate glass window.
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What I will do, Mr. Speaker, is work across government with all of my colleagues,
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Minister of Waterland and Resource Stewardship, the Minister of Environment,
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to ensure that we can move forward on a major project that the Premier has set.
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And that is to ensure that we can have a strong, sustainable forest sector that produces a harvest
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that creates jobs and prosperity in every corner of this province.
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It's been literally going down for the entire seven years the government has been in.
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Doing that on the coast, where we have seen a significant reduction of raw logs leaving our communities
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As an example, when we took government, over 6 million cubic metres worth of logs were leaving
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That's enough logs to build over 100,000 homes.
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Those numbers have gone down considerably since we took office.
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Another example in the interior, we are investing in value-added...
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Is he, like, proud that, like, we're not exporting as much?
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Like, what is he actually trying to get on about here?
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I know forestry is not exactly the most, you know, flashy topic to discuss.
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And this isn't a great example of just the lack of brainpower behind the average NDP minister
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And it's not much better federally with the Liberals.
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In my colleague from Castlegar's writing, we have a first-of-its-kind mass-timber modular
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housing facility, the first-of-its-kind in North America, here in British Columbia.
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We're going to build people tiny homes with the lack of wood that we're cutting down.
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I will be back with another one either later today or tomorrow.