The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney's LIES Destroy Canada's Position on Trade!

00:00:00.000 No shock at all that Prime Minister Mark Carney lied about why the Canada-U.S. trade talks fell apart.

00:00:06.960 He tried to claim it had something to do with the French language and Canadian culture, and it just doesn't.

00:00:13.980 And I know a bunch of liberals are going to come out of the woodwork and say, 0.99

00:00:17.580 Well, Trump's a liar. Well, Trump's very unreasonable. 0.99

00:00:21.500 Okay, he is. He does lie a lot. He does exaggerate. And he can be very unreasonable. 0.92

00:00:27.220 So why does it help Canada for Prime Minister Mark Carney to lie and be unreasonable and draw red lines around really weird things that are obstacles to getting Canada a good deal?

00:00:40.160 Canadians want low tariffs, low steel and aluminum tariffs, lower auto tariffs, and to have no softwood lumber tariffs.

00:00:47.960 And so Carney lying about why a deal fell apart and why we started talking doesn't help us one bit.

00:00:55.440 here is what they posted the day after the deal fell apart last week trying to make this all about

00:01:02.260 sovereignty in canada's languages so i'm just going to read through this because obviously

00:01:13.580 it was in french we don't really need the audio here but i'm going to read translate what he is

00:01:19.080 saying in french for those who are not looking at the screen the captions he said there is there

00:01:25.260 has clearly been a new attack by the americans on canada so we've been attacked you attack in a war

00:01:34.380 this is not good at all it wasn't our choice we were there we were ready to work out

00:01:43.500 a comprehensive agreement that was fair for both countries we seemed to be on the verge

00:01:51.900 of having a comprehensive and fair agreement with the americans but they changed their mind

00:01:59.420 including threats to the french language and culture the quebec culture and the canadian

00:02:08.700 culture this is unacceptable it's never acceptable therefore this is the end

00:02:15.740 of this phase of the negotiations now remember this was his pre-planned statement that he wanted

00:02:24.800 to make in french this wasn't what he was saying to a reporter they caught him off guard he said

00:02:30.620 the wrong thing that was the pre-planned statement claiming and this is the claim he kept making the

00:02:36.140 strongest he had said some other things about heavy medium and heavy trucks having a higher

00:02:41.320 tariff applied to them than smaller cars okay that's a problem i'd also have i would like all

00:02:45.820 the tariffs on every type of auto to be the lower seven percent rate that's a rate that's acceptable

00:02:52.320 to me yes i'd like it to be zero but we can compensate for a seven percent auto tariff

00:02:57.360 by giving basically auto manufacturers in canada a three percent corporate tax cut

00:03:01.840 it will make up for the losses on those exports perfect we can handle it now we should be caring

00:03:08.180 about the steel and aluminum tariffs that were going to be 25% still. I've also heard 15%. But

00:03:13.860 regardless, let's get those lowered. But how does it benefit Canada to be harping on the French 0.99

00:03:19.840 language and Canadian culture, something that the Americans did not even actually threaten?

00:03:25.720 Now, I am no fan of one of the trade representatives, Howard Lutnick from the United States. He's a big

00:03:32.280 fan of protectionism. I'm not a protectionist, which is why I don't like the Trump tariffs as

00:03:38.260 well as I don't like things like supply management and our interprovincial trade barriers that we

00:03:44.540 have in this country. Very hypocritical that we've moved zero muscles to actually solve that problem.

00:03:50.300 At the same time, we're really mad about the American tariffs. I'm not saying we shouldn't be

00:03:54.960 or we have to solve our interprovincial trade barriers before we can have a problem with them.

00:03:58.860 My problem is, or what I'm saying is, let's handle them both right now rather than having speeches about how interprovincial trade barriers are bad without actually changing any of the taxes and regulations that prevent interprovincial trade.

00:04:12.040 It is still easier to trade into the United States than between some of the two provinces.

00:04:17.560 uh but let's check out what howard letnick had to say alec just a couple days ago when this was put

00:04:24.380 to him that apparently america had basically demanded the dismantling of french language laws

00:04:30.560 and for you know to like crush canadian culture long at least 10 times in the last month i spoke

00:04:40.180 I spoke to Mark Carney twice in the 24 hours before this ended twice I have texts back and

00:04:49.500 forth with Mark Carney I have a long-standing relationship with him from when he worked at

00:04:53.620 Goldman Sachs way back when let alone when he was at the Bank of England so I've known him a long

00:04:57.280 time so it's easy for me to communicate with him right we Canada has the best trade deal in the

00:05:04.100 world before we started we negotiated and can't canada was going to have the best trade deal in 0.95

00:05:10.300 the world i really don't like this line from the trump administration it's really dumb when they

00:05:14.700 keep saying canada has the best trade deal with america certain aspects of it are more favorable

00:05:19.980 than for other countries certain aspects are not he's basically saying well no other country really

00:05:24.900 has kuzma other countries have to play pay like a flat rate on all their exports into the united

00:05:30.180 States, where Canada has a lot of tariff-free trade, and the tariffs are only on certain

00:05:34.960 supplies.

00:05:35.500 It's like, okay, I get that.

00:05:37.520 If we were Japan, if we were another island nation in Asia, the same distance away from

00:05:42.420 America, yeah, we would have the best deal.

00:05:44.740 But we do 78% of our trade, so relatively speaking, it's not the best deal.

00:05:49.220 Your deal is only as good as much trade you do with the United States.

00:05:53.260 So that's the problem there.

00:05:55.420 So that's just one thing I always get annoyed with that the Americans say.

00:05:58.380 It's just not true.

00:06:00.180 and it's it was it was as not true as when mark carney was saying that canada still has the best

00:06:05.740 deal i was calling him out the time when he was saying that too because it's dumb no we do 78

00:06:11.160 of our trade we need a very very good deal before it's worth our while a better deal than japan or

00:06:18.200 a better deal than england is not a good deal for canada because we just trade way more with them

00:06:24.000 than anyone else on the planet. And what happened was that Canada walked away. We had a deal. We

00:06:30.800 shook hands. The president announced it, right? Everybody was positive. Canada made the decision

00:06:35.400 for political purposes. They wanted to walk away. This is politics only. If you think I

00:06:43.600 ever said the words French, do I care about how the Quebecois speak? I mean, what could matter 1.00

00:06:52.920 less to america we don't care so the fact is we never brought those words up this is manufactured

00:06:59.800 and that's why the president put out a truth saying it was a complete lie right and so what

00:07:03.960 the americans are saying is their only problem with cultural policies is that the american

00:07:08.520 companies don't want to don't want to have to pay for it so other additional taxes that get put on

00:07:13.560 american uh tech companies or american basically importers to basically pay for french laws to be

00:07:20.600 able to pay for subsidized canadian state subsidized media that's something they don't

00:07:26.200 want to participate in they're not saying you can't even i i think they even said they don't

00:07:29.800 even really care about the algorithm on netflix whatever if in quebec they want to boost french

00:07:34.840 content up on netflix made in canada sure the american companies shouldn't have to pay for it

00:07:40.040 and even though again i think howard lutnik at times can be a very dishonest actor i really don't

00:07:45.560 agree with his ideology on on trade he's very much anti-free trade i'm very pro-free trade but

00:07:51.240 based on the fact pattern based on just circumstantial evidence i don't really think

00:07:56.280 the americans ever cared about the french laws it's pretty minor yeah they probably want to get

00:08:01.080 rid of bill c11 and bill c18 because those things do affect american companies mostly c18 because

00:08:06.760 it's like trying to extort facebook 50 million dollars at least a year to be given to the legacy

00:08:12.600 media companies, or they cannot host news in Canada, that's something they probably want to

00:08:18.380 get rid of. And we should get rid of it. We should get rid of it even outside of the trade talks. But

00:08:22.840 right now, we can get rid of it and maybe even lower another one of the tariff rates a little

00:08:27.200 bit more by getting rid of it, and we won't touch it. But the idea, again, that the Americans,

00:08:31.140 that was like the main thing they cared about, undermining the French language, nonsense. 0.62

00:08:37.200 Nonsensical. We don't need to listen to any more of that. We'll talk more about other trade details

00:08:41.340 in the future. I just want to focus on this kind of French and Canadian cultural aspect,

00:08:46.300 because one person I was really happy to come out and see speak on this was Yves-Francois Blanchet,

00:08:53.160 the leader of the Bloc Québécois, who was not putting up with this at all. I have grown to

00:08:59.980 appreciate Blanchet in many ways. Again, he's almost like a Howard Blutnik figure in the sense

00:09:04.740 that when it comes to Canadian politics, I just do not agree with the positions of the Bloc Québécois.

00:09:10.320 They can be very socialistic in their economics. Their cultural policy is very atheistic in the sense that I'm a social conservative. And then when they talk about protecting Quebec culture, they mean it in a very like a downtown Montreal, you know, more like, you know, atheistic, humanistic type, you know, non-religious, secular type way.

00:09:32.440 not that I'm some like you know like religious authoritarian but you get my point they're not

00:09:38.180 pro they're anti-pro-life and all this stuff that's you know I don't agree with their positions

00:09:42.440 but I can agree I can like I can kind of enjoy the consistency of Blanchett for not falling

00:09:48.740 into the patriotism traps that Mark Carney lays out so check this out from uh from Blanchett here

00:09:56.000 uh him saying that well you know the Americans can be lying but Mark Carney can be lying too

00:10:01.340 Howard Latnik accused Mark Carney to manufacturing this dispute over French during this negotiation.

00:10:10.340 What do you think about this?

00:10:12.480 English, Canadian culture, and American culture are carried, conveyed, presented, offered by the same huge USA-based companies.

00:10:25.080 Quebec is different.

00:10:26.540 Quebec is French.

00:10:28.040 Different language, different culture.

00:10:29.580 When there's a report in the New York Times, which we can certainly not suspect of being dishonest or not respecting the rules of the job of being a journalist, I tend to believe neither Mr. Nutnik or Mr. Carney, because they both have an interest in what people will believe or not at the end of the day.

00:10:59.580 I will rely on reporters, and mainly, I will rely on the only persons who carry Quebec culture, and it's the good judgment of Quebecers.

00:11:12.300 So, I really do appreciate Blanchette there kind of cutting through, like, in a very, sort of an obvious manner, but for a Canadian politician, it can sometimes be, like, daunting to come out and disagree with the Prime Minister when he's up against Trump.

00:11:28.040 You know, because that's what boosts Carney's popularity right now. He's up against Trump. Ergo, we're all supposed to like him in some way. And Blanchett doesn't play that game. And isn't it a little bit too Canadian storybook that when there's a dispute between Donald Trump and Mark Carney, of course, it has to do with francophones and the French language and Mark Carney standing up for bonhomme or whatever, you know, like, get out of here.

00:11:56.020 No, it doesn't. There's many things that Donald Trump cares about on this planet, and I don't think he cares to disrupt the French language's use in Quebec. I don't think he really cares about bilingual Cheerio boxes.

00:12:12.200 They even said, whatever, if you want multiple languages on the cereal boxes, it doesn't bother us. We're just not paying a 5% tax on all of our revenues in your country in order to pay for that, because that's ridiculous. 0.64

00:12:28.900 that's one way too much money to pay for what is a very minor thing that you want on the products

00:12:34.900 and two when it comes to the media subsidies why should it be americans out in arkansas out in

00:12:42.200 iowa in wyoming in new mexico paying so that you can make an unfunny cbc gem show that's really

00:12:51.300 like it's clearly nothing that's going on here is about that so can we focus on the mission i

00:12:57.620 appreciate Pierre Polyev coming out and saying this because I'm not sure if he's following

00:13:02.480 Blanchett's lead on this, although I think he'd rip off the bandage a little bit. You know, go

00:13:07.020 after Karim. Call him a liar on this. And so Polyev, responding to this Hill article that 0.98

00:13:12.100 reads, Trump, French language, not a factor in Canadian trade talks, The Hill. And it was

00:13:19.320 published a few days ago, so I think the Polyev conservatives realize this is a really good

00:13:23.060 string to pull on uh so he says here there's one way we can put an end to the speculation

00:13:28.900 the prime minister must release the deal and address canada's parliament first before he

00:13:34.400 heads to france to address the european parliament which is a wild aspect to all this that carney

00:13:41.060 will not address parliament and will not release any of the details of the plan that the deal that

00:13:47.040 he rejected he is instead going to jet off to the european union and apparently address his real

00:13:53.500 voters out there because those are the people he evidently cares more about during the negotiations

00:13:58.820 he was drinking an aperol spritz somewhere in tuscany and now he's going to go off to i don't

00:14:04.820 know berlin paris london or london's you know england's not in the eu anymore you get my point

00:14:12.560 well when's he gonna i don't know where he's going but like really really you're gonna go

00:14:16.280 to the EU now to address them, not us. Okay, I guess I always knew he didn't care about us all

00:14:22.580 that much, but this kind of puts a little bit of a hat on a hat. I'm going to address the Lake

00:14:27.320 Ontario, Lake America stuff a little bit later. I actually thought that Pure Poly had a really

00:14:32.460 good response to it all. And then there were some like really histrionic people like attacking him

00:14:38.160 as if he was being soft. Guys, no Canadian politician is going to say, haha, funny joke,

00:14:43.820 donald trump because guess what most canadians don't really want to follow the joke and as pure 0.69

00:14:50.780 if you're pure polyev what are you going to do tell people hey don't whine about it it's a joke 0.93

00:14:55.060 guys that's my job to tell people it's a dumb trump joke so don't freak out about it polyev

00:15:00.520 can say hey it's not going to change you're not you can't change the name of lake ontario 0.99

00:15:04.240 but we need to stay focused and this is a frivolous stupid fight over nothing that is what 0.95

00:15:09.260 he basically said whereas like mark carney went into like full woke mode of saying did you know 0.97

00:15:14.140 that lake ontario uh was once in an indigenous language called ba ba ba ba ba ba ba and it was

00:15:20.360 like oh my goodness mark shut up this is exactly like the french and canadian culture thing

00:15:25.500 everything is you just like flexing how canadian you are while holding up a little isaac brock 0.98

00:15:31.320 figure on your desk get out of here it's so lame that's the only word i can put to a lot

00:15:37.100 of the liberal kind of messaging and rhetoric around the trade talks. It's lame. Let's get

00:15:43.760 lower tariffs. If we're not willing to rip up a China deal to get the real things Canadians want,

00:15:50.680 I think that also shows who Chikarni cares about more than Canadians. Apparently he cares more

00:15:56.420 about the EU than Canadians and he cares more about China than Canadians because Canadians

00:16:01.900 want low aluminum and steel tariffs. We do not have the best deal in the world with the United

00:16:07.760 States because the rest of the world doesn't trade nearly as much with the U.S. as Canada does.

00:16:13.720 Even Mexico has all of South America to very easily ship products into. We don't. It's a

00:16:19.620 little more complicated for us. And so we should be fighting tooth and nail to try and lower those

00:16:25.460 tariffs. Everything else is superfluous. Holding on to China, holding on to supply management,

00:16:31.040 holding on to Bill C-18 is stupid, and doubly stupid is having made concessions before this 1.00

00:16:38.060 for nothing in return. But Carney was always obsessed with, I don't want to make a small deal. 1.00

00:16:43.300 Oh my goodness, you couldn't have at least used some of those previous concessions to make a deal

00:16:47.740 on one aspect of the tariffs, eliminate that, get that off the board, and then we can move for

00:16:53.380 a more medium or larger deal on the rest of it. But instead, because he only wants a large deal,

00:16:58.780 a great big deal, he ends up burning concessions for nothing because, well, you know, I don't even

00:17:05.660 know what his justification is. I was about to say whatever his, I was about to make fun of

00:17:09.120 whatever his excuse was, and then I remembered there is no excuse. But maybe I just don't

00:17:13.880 understand how politics works, people. Anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for

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00:18:17.200 content and you can't leave me alone with my like scraps in the corner but whatever so that's all

00:18:24.720 for today guys thank you for watching i'll see you all later

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 28, 2026

Carney's LIES Destroy Canada's Position on Trade!

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