Fake Conservative Doug Ford backs Mark Carney (A Rant)
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Summary
Wyatt Claypool explains why Doug Ford's plan to impose a 25% tariff on all electricity imported into the United States backfired within 24 hours of being announced. He also explains why the U.S. should not be taxing Canadian dairy, cheese, softwood and other products.
Transcript
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As if to validate my point about people not voting for the Ontario PC Party in their provincial election
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and instead voting for the New Blue Party of Ontario,
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Doug Ford has come out and effectively backed Mark Carney.
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Obviously, premiers don't really endorse federal politicians,
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but Doug Ford is heavily signaling that he will work very well with Mark Carney.
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He is not even the Prime Minister yet, but he's saying he wants to have meetings with him.
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He's a very smart guy, and this in the midst of Doug Ford also making a complete fool of himself,
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trying to pick a trade fight with Donald Trump and immediately backing down within 24 hours.
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Am I in favor of Donald Trump putting tariffs on any Canadian products?
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No, I'm also not in favor of Canada having its supply management system
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that does in fact put tariffs not only on products coming between provinces in Canada,
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but it also puts tariffs on products coming into Canada like dairy, cheese, softwood lumber, and all that stuff.
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Stuff that we can easily compete with the world markets on.
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We have wide open space, but we have too high a taxation rate.
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Before I get to Doug Ford kissing up to Mark Carney,
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by the way, the Ford PCs hate the CPC and Pierre Polyev,
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I just want to start off with this trade issue.
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Thank you for Rebel News for clipping this stuff.
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Obviously, as a one-man band here, it is difficult for me to go get all the clips,
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so I am always very grateful for all the different individuals and networks
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for doing the clipping of the public domain information.
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Before I play the video, guys, remember, like the video, subscribe to the channel,
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because he said he was going to put a 25% tariff on all electricity imported into the United States.
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I'm going to do a bit of an explanation on why that was dumb on its face,
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but here is Doug Ford reacting to the fact that Donald Trump
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was then going to up the steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada to 50%.
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Well, just a little while ago, I had an opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnick.
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And Secretary Lutnick has sent out an olive branch to us to come down
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and immediately meet with him, meet with the whole trade administration,
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Rather than waiting until April 2nd, threats going back and forth, tit for tat,
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I've agreed to suspend temporarily, and we always have that tool in our toolkit,
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I'll be heading down to Washington along with Dominic LeBlanc,
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Yes, this clip also, by the way, goes on for three and a half minutes.
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This is a long way of saying Doug Ford messed up and he is having to walk it all back.
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By the way, I actually don't mind the general idea of retaliatory tariffs.
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If the U.S. is going to put unfair tariffs on us, we should tariff them back.
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Does the U.S. have some points about our border security, fentanyl,
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I still think tariffs are bad for the North American economy in general.
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But the problem is, so that's for me saying that you can sometimes use retaliatory tariffs
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if you're trying to get the other person back down.
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The problem is, in Canada, we do not have the bandwidth
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to put retaliatory tariffs on the United States,
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because our tax are too high, our regulations are too high,
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and what the government always wants to do is that we slap retaliatory tariffs on,
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and then we're going to subsidize the affected industries.
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As soon as you put on retaliatory tariffs, we are all paying higher prices.
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What you should do, if the U.S. puts a tariff on you,
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you should have already low enough taxes and regulations that you can weather the storm
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and let their own people in America get mad at their government
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because they're paying the artificially high prices,
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and if need be, we can always use some tricks around trying to block their trade goods
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The problem is, Canada is not in a healthy position.
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B.C. and Ontario are the most hypocritical provinces,
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having the highest combined provincial and federal tax rates in the entire country,
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and yet they're trying to, you know, big dog the Americans that we can make you back down,
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and Doug Ford can't even keep up with it for more than 24 hours,
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because this is all demonstrating that this guy is a complete simpleton.
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By the way, you know that Doug Ford is now basically pairing himself up with Mark Carney?
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that he's going to have a great time working with him.
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Here's him congratulating Mark Carney on winning what was effectively a WWE-style fake liberal leadership race.
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but the point is that his opponents were not actually trying.
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It was like a car race where Frank Bayless, Karina Gould, and Chrystia Freeland
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were capped at only driving 50 kilometers an hour,
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yet Carney could drive as fast as he possibly wanted to.
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I want to begin by congratulating Mark Carney on winning last night's leadership race
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In doing so, Mark Carney will be our next Prime Minister.
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As Premier, I look forward to a renewed federal leadership,
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as well as time when we all sit down and have a great discussion.
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And it's never been more important to build big things here in Ontario
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and across our country, including and especially the Ring of Fire.
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By the way, do you know that he still has never done an event with Pierre Polyev?
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Ford's winning coalition in Ontario involves a lot of federal liberals
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The only reason he really wins Ontario elections by his massive margins
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is because the NDP and the liberals have the worst leaders
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in these last three cycles that Ford has run with.
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who couldn't have been an elected dog catcher if she tried.
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Even if the PC party burst into flames in the 2018 election
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and all their candidates died in a fiery plane crash,
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they would have still won because people hated the Ontario liberals so much.
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the fact that people actually thought he could beat Ford
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and the idea is that you can't vote for the new blue party
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because Del Duca wouldn't probably believe he could actually win.
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who ran the most comatose dead-on-arrival campaign I have ever seen a liberal leader run.
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She actually had potentially momentum to tap into,
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but because she sucks at politics, she fell apart.
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She was such an old, worn-out political figure by 2018, 2022.
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who looks like she is just Bonnie Crombie's doppelganger with less charisma.
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And then they had Mike Schreiner all three times.
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I don't even know what Mike Schreiner's reason to exist is.
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Basically, he is the anti-establishment liberal or NDP guy
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who agrees with them on pretty much everything,
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but attaches like a green symbol to everything.
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It's a green rhetoric attached to liberal and NDP policy.
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But Doug Ford here is trying to line up behind Mark Carney
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and signal to his base that you should think about going with him.
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Because, again, he has never said anything good about Pierre Polyev,
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and he has, in fact, actively avoided being seen with any conservative leader
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because Andrew Scheer at the time kind of snubbed him,
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and Ford was never much of a conservative in the first place.
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So he is very, very upset with the federal conservatives,
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and so he's going to now, like, sideline them in his mind.
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To do so, the federal government needs to get out of our way.
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They need to get behind these nation-building projects
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so we can build a more prosperous and secure future for Canada.
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I also want to thank Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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to put party and ideology aside for the good of the country.
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that Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau disagreed on.
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You might say, well, they disagreed on the carbon tax.
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He just didn't like that the federal government
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that he was challenging the federal consumer carbon tax in court,
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he was also passing his own industrial carbon tax.
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There are two carbon taxes currently in Ontario.
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We are four years away from the next Ontario election.
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because they're actually trying to do something right.
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a man whose name is synonymous with voter fraud,
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tried to jam the carbon tax into the PC platform
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And so because there was so much fraud going on
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They don't even really do party conventions anymore
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to try and box them out of their own policy areas.