The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 22, 2025


Danielle Smith is fixing Canada-US relations while Nenshi nags her


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Wyatt Claypool explains why Team Canada is a scam, and why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is the only one who is actually doing her job. He also gives his thoughts on the "anti-Canadian" reaction to Danielle Smith's stance on trade with the US.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I had to make this video today because I am being driven up the wall by all the lefty politicians and politicos attacking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for frankly doing her job.
00:00:16.260 In fact, Danielle Smith may be the only Premier actually doing her job because she is actually trying to protect Alberta jobs and Canadian jobs by single-handedly quarterbacking Canada's relationship with the incoming Trump administration.
00:00:32.940 All the other Premiers across the country are already trying to blame shift the United States for absolutely everything they did wrong themselves as the Premiers of their province and this also includes Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government now trying to blame shift the US for all the problems that Liberal policy has caused.
00:00:53.680 It's kind of like the forward version of how Trudeau always blames Harper for things that Trudeau does.
00:01:00.040 Now he's going to attempt to blame Trump for the bad economy, which was already bad, before tariffs even come into place.
00:01:07.460 And by the way, tariffs don't even have to come into place if our country and our Premiers were acting more like Danielle Smith.
00:01:15.780 I'm not even one to just give random praise to Danielle Smith.
00:01:19.980 I have made videos calling out the UCP government for not cutting taxes, for not cutting wasteful spending.
00:01:26.420 In fact, actually adding a lot of wasteful spending to the budget, around 10 to 13% increase in spending overall.
00:01:33.560 But on this issue, she is doing a very admirable job.
00:01:37.760 And there are so many wackos out there who think that her actually trying to reach out to Trump and his people is like high treason or something.
00:01:48.500 Anyways, before we get into it, I just want to remind you guys, like this video, subscribe to the channel.
00:01:54.740 We're trying to get to 100,000 by mid-December, and I guarantee most of you watching this are not yet subscribers, so go do that.
00:02:01.600 And also, you can leave a comment if you have anything to say on the topic.
00:02:05.420 I always try and scroll through and see what people think about, you know, the different things I talked about and respond to people when, you know, it feels appropriate.
00:02:14.500 Usually, there's like 100 and plus comments, 400 comments, so I don't always get to them all.
00:02:20.020 But I'm going to start off with this comment made actually at me by this guy, Mark Marison, who attacked me for my video talking about why I think Team Canada is a scam, in which I also defended Danielle Smith.
00:02:33.360 I was basically talking about, like what I was saying earlier in this video, that this whole Team Canada thing just seems like a silly way of all these really ineffective premiers and Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government wrapping themselves in the flag and saying,
00:02:49.160 let's ignore all the bad policy decisions that we've all made.
00:02:53.780 Now, let's just say that, let's just sort of clear the ledger, pretend we're all doing a great job because we need to fight the Americans now, even though we could just do basic border security, 0.90
00:03:04.880 and then the ball would be in the U.S.'s court to justify whether or not tariffs should still go on us.
00:03:10.680 I really don't think they would even try and pursue it at that point because they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
00:03:14.880 But instead, all the premiers are like trying to go on a war footing, and that's why Team Canada scamp.
00:03:20.760 All these people who have been blocking pipelines everywhere, raising taxes on their own people, blowing out their budgets with massive spending, now are horrified by the potential of a tariff if we don't do basic border security.
00:03:34.320 That's pretty much it.
00:03:35.120 But Mark Marison here says, this is a loony fringe, this is loony fringe politics created by terminally online Canadians who love Donald Trump.
00:03:46.000 Does pure poly of approve of this kind of politics? 0.99
00:03:49.060 Is he like trying to, you know, call my dad on me?
00:03:51.700 What is this?
00:03:52.680 Yeah, I don't, I generally like Trump and his policies.
00:03:55.540 He does a good job as president.
00:03:57.340 But like, what are you talking about?
00:03:59.180 And my response to this, and we're going to get to the Daniel Smith stuff in a second, and especially the crazy thing that Nahad Nenshi said against her, the leader of the Alberta NDP.
00:04:11.020 My response was thus.
00:04:13.120 Mark Marison thinks I am the loony fringe for rejecting the fake patriotism games of Justin Trudeau and Dunford.
00:04:20.220 In fact, I actually want Canada to succeed more than these people, virtue signaling on how pro-Canada they are.
00:04:28.160 All these guys puffing up their chests and wanting to fight a trade war with the U.S.
00:04:32.220 instead of trying to find a way to meet in the middle, are the same people who support our current unaffordable, high tax, high regulation, and anti-oil and gas status quo.
00:04:42.160 You're not going to believe this, but I agree with me.
00:04:44.280 But I thought that was just a good way of putting it.
00:04:46.140 All of these people saying, well, if you're not going to join with the other premiers, then you're not on Team Canada.
00:04:52.240 Then you don't support Canada.
00:04:53.840 No, you guys don't support Canada because you consistently do things to make life worse for the people who live in Canada.
00:05:01.280 So pipe down a little bit while Daniel Smith is doing the right thing.
00:05:04.980 Then I just wanted to highlight this other post that was made by the journalist, more so propagandist on behalf of any left-wing fashionable position there is at the moment.
00:05:17.860 Max Fawzet, who has literally changed its name to Carbon Tax Max on X because this is some lame trend with a bunch of lefties these days.
00:05:26.120 And he is commenting on this article by Don Braid that says, Premier Smith's efforts help avert tariff for liberals invited.
00:05:35.780 Absolutely, I agree with Don Braid's take.
00:05:38.680 And Maxwell Fawzet, Carbon Tax Max here says, has a column ever aged this poorly in less than a day?
00:05:47.440 What are you talking about?
00:05:49.640 Oh, it's because Trump then announced that he might still put tariffs on us on February 1st.
00:05:54.640 Do you think that Daniel Smith has been making it more likely or less likely that tariffs were going to be put on Canada?
00:06:01.720 More likely or less likely?
00:06:03.440 Is Daniel Smith making it more likely that tariffs are going to be put on Canada than David Eby, than Doug Ford, than any of these other premiers?
00:06:13.140 I think not.
00:06:15.220 I genuinely, this might shock you guys.
00:06:18.140 I think that the person who is trying to go on a war footing with the U.S. and doesn't want to deal with all the fentanyl in his province in British Columbia might be the bigger problem than Daniel Smith,
00:06:30.040 the lady who has already spent money to secure the border tighter along the Alberta U.S. border, than David Eby, the guy who lets drugs go everywhere.
00:06:38.640 Maybe, maybe, maybe I'm just crazy.
00:06:41.800 But now let's move on to the reactions by Daniel Smith's detractors more around Canada.
00:06:50.460 Then I will later get to what Daniel Smith has said herself on this matter.
00:06:56.860 I just want to jump to what her leadership opponent in Alberta has said, Nahid Nenshi, the Alberta NDP leader.
00:07:05.340 In this ex-post, and we'll watch the video in a second, he says,
00:07:10.000 The only shareholders that matter are Burtons.
00:07:12.600 We need to address the existential threat to Alberta workers and consumers that has emerged with President Trump and is impending tariffs.
00:07:21.080 We need tough, hard, pragmatic solutions.
00:07:23.360 But instead, we have a premier with no plan.
00:07:25.480 And then he goes on, but I will get to the video because he pretty much sells all that stuff here.
00:07:30.840 It is not very good.
00:07:32.420 I want to spend a minute with you today to talk about what's on everybody's minds.
00:07:36.300 Trump, tariffs, and Premier Danielle Smith.
00:07:39.140 It may sound funny to put the premier on that list, but this is actually the problem.
00:07:43.160 The premier suffers from what we call main character syndrome.
00:07:46.340 She wants to be the center of attention. 0.99
00:07:49.180 And we spent far too much time talking about Premier Danielle Smith and her various parties and balls she's going to,
00:07:54.960 and not enough time talking about a very existential threat to Albertan workers, to Albertan consumers.
00:08:02.800 This is really the pot calling the kettle black.
00:08:06.600 Naha Nenshi is easily the most narcissistic person that there is in Alberta politics right now.
00:08:12.540 This man thinks he is absolutely the smartest person, not only in the room, but in the county.
00:08:20.580 This man thinks that everyone is a little bit beneath him, and he's going to have the gall to say that Danielle Smith has main character syndrome.
00:08:28.480 Maybe it's because she's the premier and gets attention because she's the premier,
00:08:32.120 and you don't because you're some washed-up mayor who then became the head of a completely listless NDP in Alberta.
00:08:41.300 Like, what's your point here?
00:08:43.060 But he's going to try and say that now she's actually doing harm.
00:08:46.760 Farmer or a rancher or someone in the retail trade,
00:08:50.620 whether you're just someone who wants to be able to afford food, which is all of us,
00:08:54.640 we are facing a threat to our economy from the incoming U.S. president that is unlike anything else we can describe.
00:09:00.920 Times like this call for tough, hard, pragmatic solutions.
00:09:06.060 What we have...
00:09:07.920 How is trying to divert the trade war bad?
00:09:12.900 ...is a premier who just wants to be in the middle of everything.
00:09:16.340 So you know what?
00:09:17.100 Her entire plan was, if she could only use her right-wing networks to get into Mar-a-Lago and talk to Trump,
00:09:24.480 in the 30 seconds she had with him, she would convince him to abandon his entire economic policy.
00:09:29.520 And he told her to go pound sand. 1.00
00:09:31.660 She met with him multiple times, and it didn't look like she'd talked to him for more than, like, two seconds,
00:09:37.560 considering she was there with him and Jordan Peterson at one point.
00:09:41.700 I doubt Trump looked at Jordan Peterson, took a phone with him, and said,
00:09:43.960 Now, screw off.
00:09:44.820 I'm pretty sure that those two probably talked to each other for an extended period of time.
00:09:48.660 And then Daniel Smith being there was probably able to endear herself a bit.
00:09:53.220 And again, all this is marginal, but guess what?
00:09:56.060 It's helpful.
00:09:56.700 By the way, Trudeau should be doing this.
00:09:59.220 He tried, and then he looked like a...
00:10:01.280 But because he's been insulting Trump for the last four years, and like John Bolton said,
00:10:05.840 Trump thinks he's a big Twinkie, that he didn't really want, you know,
00:10:09.860 he didn't really want to treat with Trudeau, because Trudeau's, you know, a loser.
00:10:13.840 He's on his way out.
00:10:15.100 And so Trump didn't take him seriously.
00:10:16.960 And so Daniel Smith has filled that gap.
00:10:19.500 Isn't this a good thing?
00:10:20.720 But apparently it's not a good thing.
00:10:22.200 That was never going to work.
00:10:25.000 And it exposed the fact that the Premier has no plan.
00:10:27.900 After she was finished with her meetings at Mar-a-Lago, she sort of just went back to
00:10:32.100 her talking points.
00:10:33.400 If only we cancelled the Korean electricity regulation, then Trump will love us again.
00:10:37.140 Come on.
00:10:37.900 Nobody believes this.
00:10:39.380 And the fact that the Premier could not spend a day of her vacation to meet with the other
00:10:44.200 Premiers and the Prime Minister in person.
00:10:46.380 Thirteen people there in person in one video screen.
00:10:49.340 Of course she wasn't going to be able to get her points across.
00:10:52.360 Now she's at the inauguration.
00:10:54.640 Sorry, why would it have been better for Smith to go into a room with a bunch of other
00:11:00.340 Premiers, some from the territories, as if they really matter to all of us.
00:11:04.580 No shade at the territories.
00:11:06.720 But she was supposed to show up there and have Doug Ford dictate to her and have David Eby
00:11:12.300 go on about how, you know, like, you know, we have to, like, arm up.
00:11:16.200 We have to, like, get tough.
00:11:18.460 And then you have Jagmeet Singh trying to probably creep his way into the meeting and talk about
00:11:22.520 how we need to be on a war footing and have retaliatory tariffs.
00:11:25.840 Daniel Smith would be the only person with a brain in the room, maybe outside of Scott
00:11:30.740 Moe. 0.93
00:11:31.080 Scott Moe seems like a decent man.
00:11:32.980 But, like, she'd have been, like, one of two people in that meeting who would have suggested
00:11:37.220 maybe we should actually try and, like, you know, come to a middle ground.
00:11:41.880 Later, I'm going to read a post where Daniel Smith makes the right, right, well, has the
00:11:46.780 right perspective on saying that what we should be doing is trying to propose some sort of
00:11:50.820 a win-win solution that doesn't require any tariffs at all, that we secure the border and
00:11:56.020 maybe we can rework a trade agreement that benefits both sides of the border.
00:12:00.220 That sounds good.
00:12:01.260 But apparently, no, Nahed, because he is such a just, like, belabored bureaucratic mind in
00:12:09.140 politics, oh, she should have been with the premiers, because if we talk and negotiate 1.00
00:12:14.080 with our allies, then we will come to some, like, mutually good agreement between all of
00:12:19.920 us.
00:12:20.200 No, the problem with talking to the premiers is most of them are the problem.
00:12:24.200 Most of them are the problem.
00:12:25.480 Justin Trudeau is especially the problem as prime minister.
00:12:28.600 So Daniel Smith is supposed to show up and talk to all those children?
00:12:32.580 No.
00:12:32.880 She's got access to important people, and she's busy taking selfies at balls and parties
00:12:39.460 with important people, none of whom have posted that they met her.
00:12:43.520 So she's had no impact on them.
00:12:45.800 What we...
00:12:46.520 Sorry, aren't there, like, a lot of very powerful people in this world and in Canada and the
00:12:53.880 U.S. who, they don't really post that many photos of themselves.
00:12:57.080 Does he think that her going around talking to people doesn't matter unless they posted
00:13:02.500 a selfie with her?
00:13:04.760 And then she might be the most shallow man I've ever seen in my entire life.
00:13:09.240 Like, oh, they didn't post a selfie with Premier Daniel Smith?
00:13:12.440 I'm like, yeah, she's probably an obscure figure to them.
00:13:14.840 That doesn't mean that her being there isn't a good thing.
00:13:18.420 The president of Georgia was there, not the state, the country.
00:13:23.040 And she was invited by the Republicans, and she thought it was worthwhile to show up there
00:13:28.640 while there was literally a corrupt Russian party trying to take over the country basically
00:13:34.240 by ballot box stuffing, and she's trying to be an ally of Trump, which is a good thing.
00:13:39.040 So somebody in an international crisis thought it was a good idea to show up and talk to Trump
00:13:44.140 and talk to Trump's officials.
00:13:45.560 So why would it be a bad thing for Daniel Smith to do it?
00:13:48.660 Because apparently everyone, so, wait, wait, so sitting in a room of 12 other just random
00:13:55.100 premiers, and when I say random, obviously they're not random people, but just people
00:13:59.000 who have different interests, different perspectives, aren't going to agree, have their own political
00:14:04.240 motivations in wanting to antagonize the U.S., that's a good meeting where stuff's getting
00:14:08.620 done because I guess we're all going to take a selfie at the end of the meeting, and that
00:14:12.500 means it was good and that people respect each other.
00:14:15.140 But if Smith goes and talks to U.S. senators, U.S. House representatives, goes talks to people
00:14:20.520 on Trump's team, that's bad.
00:14:22.800 What she actually should be doing is trying to influence representatives who would then 1.00
00:14:26.280 say, hey, do not put tariffs on Canada, I am a representative from North Dakota, I'm
00:14:31.660 a representative from Montana, Idaho, please do not do this.
00:14:36.120 There are a lot of northern state Republicans who are not going to be cool with Trump putting
00:14:41.140 tariffs on.
00:14:41.820 So if we do basic border security, those people can then go to Trump and say, they did their
00:14:46.060 job, now don't punish us because we get a lot of our food, we get a lot of our minerals,
00:14:50.240 our lumber, our oil and gas from Canada.
00:14:53.880 But, you know, let's get back to Nancy, I'll let him make his point.
00:14:56.900 We need to do is sit down with industries, with stakeholders, what I've been doing over
00:15:01.320 the course of the last month, to really understand how they're going to be impacted, and what tools
00:15:05.900 can help them, and what tools will hurt them, and if there are tools that will hurt them,
00:15:09.480 how we mitigate those, we need to be focused.
00:15:12.680 So he's already surrendered.
00:15:13.720 Nenshi's plan is how about we just raise a really big white flag, and then we just talk
00:15:19.580 about what, how to save the furniture.
00:15:22.240 Nenshi is already on the how to save the furniture point of this plan.
00:15:28.100 He does not care about mitigating or trying to avoid the tariffs.
00:15:32.460 He just wants to jump straight to, okay, well, how do we make sure that the whole, you know,
00:15:37.380 the whole province's economy doesn't go up in flames.
00:15:39.760 Focusing on the things that we think will help move the U.S. administration, and the things
00:15:44.320 that will help the Canadian economy through this, including, for example, building up our
00:15:49.680 export markets, including ensuring that we have access for our resources, whether oil and
00:15:54.540 gas or agricultural, outside of the United States.
00:15:57.680 Right now, I don't see the Premier doing any of that.
00:16:00.860 I'm sorry, sorry, this guy, sorry, Humpty Dumpty here is going to make it so that we have
00:16:07.340 more access to export markets, to Asia, to Europe, you know, South America.
00:16:12.080 This guy's going to be the one to do that?
00:16:14.680 I don't think so.
00:16:15.880 He seems to be pretty flat-footed when it comes to understanding the other governments
00:16:21.300 around Canada and how they're not very cooperative.
00:16:24.180 Here's an article from the Calgary Herald from 2019.
00:16:28.800 Calgary Herald is not at all a very conservative outlet, so they should be giving Nenshi a pretty
00:16:35.240 fair shake on this one and, you know, presenting his position fairly.
00:16:40.100 This article is headlined,
00:16:42.560 Nenshi sits down with Prime Minister, says there's willingness to improve C-69.
00:16:47.160 Of course, Bill C-69 is the, basically, the no more pipeline bill, and then there's also
00:16:52.880 Bill C-48, the no more tanker bill.
00:16:54.940 C-69 basically allows anyone to challenge any pipeline project, basically making it impossible
00:17:00.700 to finish them.
00:17:01.480 And this line really galled me.
00:17:04.260 It's crazy that he said this.
00:17:06.400 He says,
00:17:06.780 What I certainly heard is that there is willingness to make Bill C-69 and Bill C-48 better, Nenshi
00:17:13.540 told Post Media following the meeting.
00:17:15.960 I think that the government really understands the challenges that are in front of them and
00:17:20.240 the very real risk that we have when it comes to Western alienation, and that was really my
00:17:25.680 goal.
00:17:26.300 So what did, so how did that work out, buddy?
00:17:29.980 You know, bold strategy, Cotton.
00:17:32.800 Let's see how that played out.
00:17:34.380 It didn't.
00:17:34.900 It didn't, because it's almost like you're talking to people who don't actually care
00:17:39.240 about making Alberta happy.
00:17:41.820 That was, again, the most absurd comment I heard from Ontario Premier Doug Ford in all
00:17:48.580 this debacle, was that, well, yes, the Premier standing up for her province and her oil and
00:17:54.060 gas industry, that's all good, but Canada comes first.
00:17:57.400 Easy off the lips, Dougie boy, considering that you are not the one having your industry
00:18:05.260 used as the sacrificial lamb in this entire trade war that doesn't even need to happen,
00:18:12.000 because he was proposing to basically make it so that Canada will shut off the Alberta
00:18:16.740 oil and gas taps to the U.S. for leverage.
00:18:19.520 Sorry, is Doug Ford being told, or is he going to tell his auto industry, no selling cars into
00:18:25.400 the U.S.?
00:18:26.480 No, of course he's not going to do that.
00:18:28.640 That's insane.
00:18:30.100 That's irrational.
00:18:31.740 And yet everyone's attacked.
00:18:33.360 But, you know, Nenshi thinks that these are the premiers that he was going to work with
00:18:37.920 to get pipelines built, to get tankers off the West Coast.
00:18:41.740 He's delusional, if he thinks this.
00:18:45.100 He's delusional in 2019, and he's still delusional in 2025.
00:18:49.200 You know, I was asked in a press conference this week if the Premier was doing the right
00:18:52.720 thing because President Trump is the most important stakeholder.
00:18:55.940 Here's the thing.
00:18:56.740 President Trump may be Danielle Smith's most important stakeholder, but she works for us.
00:19:02.540 So the only stakeholder...
00:19:03.740 Okay, well, in this situation, he is a very important stakeholder.
00:19:08.040 Like, as much as we want to be sentimental about sitting around someone's kitchen table
00:19:13.300 and asking them what matters to them, you know, we should probably care about the guy
00:19:19.120 that we actually need to get over this trade issue with.
00:19:22.740 Builders that matter are Albertans.
00:19:24.960 And let's remember, every Albertan is also a Canadian.
00:19:29.700 This is a time for Canada to show its strength together.
00:19:32.940 Canada is worth fighting for, and we shouldn't be undermining this nation for our own interests.
00:19:39.320 For Premier Smith, perhaps the most important stakeholder is President Trump.
00:19:42.700 What we don't need is a Premier who wants to be the centre of attention.
00:19:46.100 What we need is a Premier who is going to get the job done for Albert.
00:19:49.820 And with Albertan New Democrats, better is possible.
00:19:52.580 How's that Green Line project working out for you, Nenshi?
00:19:56.880 Remember that Green Line project you tried to get off the ground Calgary
00:20:00.020 and it stalled out multiple times because there wasn't the money available,
00:20:03.540 the logistics sucked with it?
00:20:05.800 No. Stop. 0.96
00:20:07.880 It's so... It's such pathetic rhetoric.
00:20:10.760 Oh, she's trying to be the centre of attention. 1.00
00:20:13.080 We need somebody who's going to be working for Albertans and fighting for us
00:20:16.140 and not undermining us.
00:20:17.720 No. You actually have political interests in the economy tanking in this province.
00:20:22.720 Because unless the economy tanks, you have no ability to actually win the next provincial election.
00:20:28.220 There is still an angle for the NDP to win even if the economy stays fine.
00:20:32.980 But Nenshi does have a lot invested in the economy tanking
00:20:36.640 because when the economy tanks, that's usually when you get big changes in government.
00:20:41.140 So I do not trust this guy as far as I can throw him.
00:20:45.180 And, yeah, it's just gross to me.
00:20:49.080 Anyways, I want to get over to the things that Daniel Smith has actually said on this issue
00:20:53.520 because I thought her statements were very rational, very reasonable.
00:20:57.200 Let's start off with this answer she has from this interview.
00:21:02.120 And you tell me if this lady sounds like she's just doing this for the shallow TLC-style attention. 1.00
00:21:09.400 The next move, how does Alberta further respond to help the rest of the country or does it not?
00:21:15.860 And what happens if no carve-out?
00:21:17.940 Well, I haven't been asking for a carve-out.
00:21:20.320 I've been asking for recognition that this important trade relationship means Canada should get a carve-out.
00:21:26.300 That Canada has got a special integrated relationship with the U.S.
00:21:30.620 that Canada buys more U.S. goods and services than any other country in the world.
00:21:35.840 That Canada is able to singularly be able to provide that security to the United States.
00:21:42.540 And that's, again, I think we have a very strong case to make with oil and gas as one component.
00:21:48.760 But whether it's uranium or germanium or any of the other critical minerals, we've got a very strong case to make.
00:21:54.660 And so that's why I say let's go in with some confidence.
00:21:57.420 And I think that's the true Team Canada approach.
00:22:01.080 I don't anticipate a carve-out.
00:22:02.800 I never have.
00:22:03.680 But I have been asking for Canada to have a carve-out on the basis of this special relationship.
00:22:08.220 But apparently, Danielle Smith is just very self-centered about Alberta. 1.00
00:22:12.680 She's only looking out for the interests of Alberta.
00:22:14.620 She's the only one who is trying to avoid this worst-case scenario right now.
00:22:21.740 It's pathetic that we can't have one other premier.
00:22:25.780 Here's a great – sorry, this is maybe not the post I wanted.
00:22:30.500 Just a second, guys.
00:22:32.520 Technical difficulties late in the video.
00:22:36.920 Yes, here we go.
00:22:37.980 Danielle Smith says here, we all know that if there are tariffs imposed by the U.S., then there would have to be a proportional response by our country.
00:22:50.640 I do agree with that.
00:22:51.700 If the U.S. does put on tariffs, we will have to say, well, we don't want to do this, but we have to.
00:22:57.160 And then you'd have to tariff them back to make it clear that this is not workable in the long run.
00:23:03.540 She says, however, when you have a dispute with your best friend and ally, it is entirely counterproductive to escalate matters by talking about retaliation.
00:23:15.620 How tough we are and how we plan on hitting our friend if they hit us.
00:23:19.540 It is a far wiser approach and much more Canadian one, I might add, to diplomatically identify their concerns through a face-to-face engagement and work with them on negotiating a win-win for both the U.S. and Canada.
00:23:33.640 Absolutely correct.
00:23:35.200 Yes, talk about retaliations will, like, fuel further retaliations.
00:23:41.180 The U.S. president is clearly concerned about border security, achieving energy dominance, and strengthening their share of defense of our continent.
00:23:50.340 Our two countries clearly have shared interests in all of these areas.
00:23:53.900 So let's start there and move forward with a mature discussion, as friends should.
00:23:58.460 We need to lead with diplomacy rather than bravado, bluster, and escalation.
00:24:03.220 I will continue to do so.
00:24:05.400 Perfect statement.
00:24:06.820 Absolutely perfect.
00:24:07.920 And yet, we have people out there, like David Eby, who are only talking about fighting.
00:24:14.620 Just, you know, we've got to get ready for what we're going to do to the U.S.
00:24:18.800 Guys, I'm sorry, I'm not unpatriotic, but we're not going to beat the U.S.
00:24:23.380 By the way, I just want to quickly show this headline, which is absolutely insane.
00:24:28.660 We have this radical trans activist.
00:24:32.000 I forget what the person's name is.
00:24:34.060 What is it like?
00:24:35.040 It doesn't matter.
00:24:35.740 They say a prominent trans activist wants Canada to update its travel safety guidelines for the United States, following President Donald Trump's executive order limiting gender expression to male and female.
00:24:47.020 Yes.
00:24:47.660 You know, you can't travel to the U.S. now because the U.S., with Donald Trump in charge, is now, like, rational.
00:24:55.280 It now believes that there are men and women and that's it.
00:24:58.040 Okay, I guess we should, you know, never travel to Montana again, never go on vacation to Florida.
00:25:05.040 Disneyland is now off limits because, oh my goodness, there's logical thinking in the United States.
00:25:10.660 Here's David Eby on this issue.
00:25:12.500 It's moments like these where you have a choice.
00:25:17.000 You can surrender and give up, or you can stand up.
00:25:23.180 Surrender in this case is David Eby stop having drugs flowing all around the country.
00:25:29.320 David Eby is so threatened by, like, public safety, by, like, people not dying in Vancouver.
00:25:36.080 If there is a way of making B.C. safer, he considers that surrendering.
00:25:41.920 We need basic border security, less fentanyl traveling everywhere, and that's a deal breaker to David Eby.
00:25:48.200 That would be surrendering his mind, so we had to figure out how to fight back.
00:25:52.400 And for British Columbia, we're going to stand up.
00:25:55.520 We're going to respond to tariffs.
00:25:58.740 And keep in mind, this is not a fight that we wanted.
00:26:01.300 It's not a fight that we picked.
00:26:02.480 And, in fact, we think this is going to hurt Americans as badly as it does Canadians. 0.76
00:26:07.180 No, it's going to hurt us worse.
00:26:09.080 That's why you shouldn't be doing this.
00:26:10.940 By the way, just pointing it out, yes, is there more fentanyl probably coming into the U.S. through the Mexican border?
00:26:17.480 Yes.
00:26:18.260 David Eby at a different time said, oh, or actually, as Justin Trudeau said, only 1% of fentanyl that comes into the U.S. is from Canada.
00:26:25.340 Well, obviously, there's not a lot of border guards along the U.S.-Canada border.
00:26:29.760 And so a lot of fentanyl can get in the country completely undetected.
00:26:33.660 When you come from Mexico, the security gets extremely tight.
00:26:37.640 But we keep seeing drug busts happen that involve Canadian truckers bringing drugs into the U.S., heavy opioids.
00:26:44.600 There were opioid manufacturing facilities, like, kilometers away from the U.S. border.
00:26:50.900 Obviously, they're going to have problems with us.
00:26:52.600 And think about how many Americans have probably died from fentanyl that came in from Canada.
00:26:57.820 Legitimately, probably thousands, because fentanyl kills tons and tons of people, tons of people in Canada.
00:27:03.660 And there is no Canadian, there's no B.C. port patrol.
00:27:07.980 There's no B.C. port police that is stopping this fentanyl coming in from China, which is actually the main source of it all.
00:27:14.140 But we just seem to have a completely porous border when it comes to our sea border.
00:27:18.760 And then we just sort of throw up our hands in the air and say, well, we hope it doesn't get over the U.S. border.
00:27:23.540 Of course, it's going to go over.
00:27:25.320 But again, David Eby doesn't really care because he wants to turn this whole issue into something he gets to puff his chest out about.
00:27:32.760 But we're going to stand up.
00:27:34.220 We're going to support federal efforts to respond with targeted tariffs to make sure that the Americans understand that we will not surrender.
00:27:41.700 It's moments like we're not going to surrender.
00:27:46.760 Wow.
00:27:47.680 David Eby, such a strong man, such a strong man who all of his campaign promises are already going up in flames after winning the most marginal of victories that he could possibly win in a British Columbia provincial election.
00:28:01.160 The thousand dollar grocery checks are basically kaput at this point because his revenues didn't come in as well as he thought in 2024.
00:28:08.920 It turns out when you tax people to death, they leave the province.
00:28:13.140 And then he also has like 50 percent of ERs shutting down everywhere.
00:28:17.740 Drug deaths are increasing.
00:28:20.060 Violent crime is an all time high.
00:28:22.320 I showed that chart in another video.
00:28:24.400 It's remarkable how high crime is right now in Canada in terms of serious violent crime.
00:28:29.640 I should make a video on it at some point.
00:28:31.660 But it's manipulative.
00:28:32.900 Every time you see a chart, you see crime overall cases going down.
00:28:36.620 You know why that happened?
00:28:37.500 Because we decriminalized a bunch of things.
00:28:40.020 Because we don't enforce the law on certain issues anymore.
00:28:43.620 And so it doesn't get counted.
00:28:45.240 And by the way, other things that have gone down in time have mostly just become only happened because of technology.
00:28:53.020 You know, you're not really going to have a break and enter when everyone has ring doorbells.
00:28:57.300 You're going to kind of, you know, back off of doing stuff like that.
00:29:00.180 Those type of crimes have gone down.
00:29:02.320 Armed robberies have gone down.
00:29:03.940 But guess what's spiking shoplifting because you'll never get arrested and held for shoplifting.
00:29:10.000 You know what?
00:29:10.440 You know, tons of crimes there are for, you know, for like drugs.
00:29:14.560 Violent crime is up.
00:29:15.540 So the super serious crimes are higher.
00:29:17.300 But then criminals who are, you know, wary of being caught and actually held, they warp themselves to the law.
00:29:25.580 And yes, robberies are down.
00:29:27.460 Other serious property crimes are down.
00:29:30.000 But shoplifting is spiking.
00:29:31.640 It's crazy.
00:29:32.700 Shoplifting and violent crime and assaults are the three things that are up.
00:29:37.840 Yes, there are other things that are down.
00:29:39.640 Yes, overall traffic violations are down.
00:29:42.160 Other minor crimes are down.
00:29:44.000 You know, mischief charges are down.
00:29:46.040 But when it comes to serious things that actually make people fear for their lives going outside, those things are all up.
00:29:52.460 And especially in British Columbia, thanks to David Eby.
00:29:56.520 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys.
00:29:59.780 I know these episodes are longer, but I kind of get on a roll at some point.
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