The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 26, 2026


Ford Retreats: Stops Attacking Trump - Is Carney Going To Make A Deal?


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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.020 I found it really funny over the past few days when people were saying that if you were criticizing
00:00:10.920 Doug Ford for trying to get into a bun fight with President Donald Trump, then you don't
00:00:15.800 support Canada and you must be secretly hoping America wins this tariff war. No, it was just
00:00:21.580 always a very stupid thing for Ford to be doing. My evidence? He has now been basically told to
00:00:27.440 shut up because either we're probably going to go back to the negotiating table and actually
00:00:31.600 try and hammer out a proper deal or at the very least it wasn't helping and they're scared of
00:00:37.440 what donald trump was going to do in response to doug ford trying to throw rhetorical haymakers at
00:00:42.780 him this was him a few days ago when he was talking tough and then we're going to jump
00:00:48.140 forward to him on cnn walking it all back okay i was just wondering you sound a little more
00:00:53.080 a dude that you did this morning on the radio when you said donald trump could kiss your ass did the
00:00:57.960 prime minister tell you to ask you to tone it down a bit no he didn't i'm not going to comment but
00:01:04.600 he wasn't against that and i have a lot of real estate on my ass so he has a lot of room to kiss
00:01:09.640 my ass so i just do good good job doug ford yes he has a fat butt and that's supposed to mean
00:01:18.680 something or whatever uh doug for uh you know donald trump can kiss my butt okay thanks kevin
00:01:26.480 from home alone why did we make you premier of ontario like again how is this helpful and you'll
00:01:32.580 have people say well donald trump is rude and okay and how does this actually get us to a deal
00:01:39.880 and this is my problem with people like doug ford mark carney and a lot of the other premiers except
00:01:44.740 for Scott Moe and Danielle Smith. They don't seem to know what a good deal is or a bad deal. And
00:01:51.160 they don't understand what an effective tactic and what an ineffective tactic is. They just do what
00:01:56.340 feels right. So Carney was about to sign a trade deal and was going to accept 25% tariffs on
00:02:02.480 aluminum and steel. He thought that was good. That was actually the bad part of the deal that we need
00:02:06.760 to adjust lower. But the thing he thought was bad was that the Americans wanted us to get rid of
00:02:12.240 cultural language regulations like Bill C-11 and Bill C-18, and also, hey, stop integrating so
00:02:19.000 closely with Communist China. That was Carney's red lines, which makes me have no faith in him
00:02:25.120 actually being able to get a good deal. If he does get a good deal, it's not going to be because of
00:02:29.560 Mark Carney. It's going to be because someone forces him to sign on to a much better deal.
00:02:34.420 But now let's jump over to Doug Ford on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, where he now is heavily walking
00:02:41.480 back what he said and saying that we need to turn down the temperature. The fact that this guy is
00:02:45.980 going to say that it got heated on both sides is so ridiculous. Just own what you did. Stop saying
00:02:51.840 it was on both sides then when you're the one who threw the on fire bag of dog crap into the dance
00:02:57.820 floor. It sounds like your frustration with President Trump and his tariffs policy against
00:03:03.680 Canada's escalating. Would it be wiser to take the temperature down a bit right now between these two
00:03:09.620 long time great allies and this is being asked by wolf blitzer who is a died in the wool democrat
00:03:17.780 he does not like donald trump at all if wolf blitzer is suggesting that maybe you're going
00:03:23.540 a little too hard you're probably going a little bit too hard and by the way for all those canadians
00:03:27.940 out there who think well well doug ford and carney are being smart they're going to try
00:03:32.020 and get donald trump to lose the midterms and then they can get a better deal with democrats
00:03:36.660 It's like, well, he's still going to be the president. And historically, Democrats are more pro-trade protectionism.
00:03:43.720 If, let's say, Kamala Harris was president right now, she would probably be doing potentially some of the same things.
00:03:49.940 Or if she became president right after Trump now, she'd keep it all in place because blue voting steel towns like this sort of thing.
00:03:58.120 Trump is doing this protectionist stuff to try and win Democrat territory.
00:04:01.760 But now let's listen to Doug Ford responding to Wolf Blitzer here.
00:04:06.660 I think so of all things got a little heated it got a little personal yesterday between the
00:04:13.320 president and myself but I want to make a deal a good deal for the American people good deal for
00:04:18.700 the Canadians and we're the two greatest countries in the world we're each other's number one
00:04:23.740 customer and it's time to get back to the table and let's negotiate a fair deal because it's
00:04:30.880 hurting uh the u.s it's uh hurting canada and we just want to make sure that we have a fair uh deal
00:04:38.560 such a different tone though things got a little heated things that got a little bit personal
00:04:43.860 between me and the president yes but you clearly started it and you can say well he started with
00:04:48.680 the terrorists okay but in this particular scenario when we're trying to get a trade deal
00:04:54.320 which apparently doug ford cares about it was not helpful and like i don't know what happened to him
00:04:59.440 He sounded so subdued there, like right before he went on CNN, Mark Carney stopped him in the hallway and like injected some like lithium into his neck and said, please just shut up for a little bit so we can get a good deal.
00:05:10.780 I don't even have faith in Mark Carney, but Mark Carney isn't Doug Ford levels of stupid about his rhetoric.
00:05:17.620 Mark Carney is kind of a he's a weasel.
00:05:20.680 He knows how to phrase his anti-American rhetoric in such a way where he can like walk it back later.
00:05:25.540 Oh, I didn't mean that.
00:05:26.460 When I said we need to have middle powers and, you know, walk away from the great power rivalry, I wasn't saying anything anti-American.
00:05:34.200 I was just saying, you know, smaller countries should trade more with each other.
00:05:37.480 He always phrases stuff in a safe way where Doug Ford absolutely does not.
00:05:42.060 And one of the very delicious things that followed right after Doug Ford did a big walk back of his fight with Donald Trump is he was walking through the halls of Queens Park and was being asked about why he was doing this.
00:05:54.600 and just skidded on by,
00:05:56.340 because it's kind of awkward that he ended up
00:05:58.440 kind of, I guess, surrendering,
00:06:00.920 going weapons down that quickly.
00:06:05.420 Thank you, everyone.
00:06:07.540 Thank you so much.
00:06:09.660 Thank you, everyone.
00:06:11.140 You're going to marry me if you're not serious today.
00:06:14.040 Thank you.
00:06:17.300 Oh, he wants to talk tomorrow, guys.
00:06:19.640 You got embarrassed.
00:06:21.600 Yes, you looked good in front of your people.
00:06:23.080 It's going to boost up his polls a little bit.
00:06:25.000 I've already seen his approval ratings jump up after he got into the fight with Donald Trump.
00:06:28.900 Same thing with Mark Carney after he walks away in Abacus Data's polling set.
00:06:32.400 And I trust them.
00:06:33.420 I'm not saying this is fake.
00:06:34.420 It's real.
00:06:34.960 It's just sad that it's real.
00:06:36.460 They get into a fight with Donald Trump.
00:06:38.180 They throw buns at each other.
00:06:39.700 They walk away from the negotiating table rather than just saying, hey, regardless of who was making last minute demands, let's extend this for another week and let's hammer out a deal.
00:06:47.900 Instead, we walked away because Carney wanted that little boost to his approval rating so he could run around saying, well, I'm the people's champion because I said no to a deal.
00:06:57.920 And it's like, that's great and all, but can we have a prime minister who gets a deal?
00:07:03.140 Again, I'm never saying sign something bad.
00:07:05.900 I want you to sign something good.
00:07:07.700 But he has to first realize what good and bad mean, and he needs to negotiate for value.
00:07:15.640 That's all we want.
00:07:17.000 value value for canadians is represented by low tariff rates right now the auto tariffs
00:07:23.620 it's seven percent on most cars and i think heavy trucks it's 15 okay i don't like the 15
00:07:30.040 if we can let's try and get it all down to seven or maybe heavy trucks 10 when it comes to steel
00:07:35.540 and aluminum it's 25 apparently i've heard other sources saying it was actually going to be
00:07:40.060 on certain quota levels it was going to only be 10 or 15 or whatever but let's try and get that 25
00:07:46.240 down to 12 down to 10 that would be great what we need to stop doing though is drawing red lines
00:07:53.440 around things canadians do not need like if mark carney is watching this video you want to follow
00:07:59.460 me for a second here because there will be a point that you need to absorb canada does not
00:08:05.900 need a deal with china canada does not need a deal with any other country that is not the united
00:08:14.280 States. It's not because I love the United States so much I like the United States. It's because
00:08:19.740 we trade with them 78% in terms of our exports. We trade a lot with them. If the United States
00:08:26.780 told me, hey, you guys can't, I'm the Prime Minister of Canada. Hey, why, I don't want you
00:08:32.020 and Canada trading with Ireland. I would say, sure, whatever. We barely trade with them anyways. Okay,
00:08:37.680 we'll wait until Trump's gone and then we'll start trading with them again. For now, we won't
00:08:41.280 Because you care about that 78%. Stay focused and get to the things that Canadians care about. But instead, Carney is getting all offended about America not liking us integrating with China more, who Carney himself said was our biggest national security threat.
00:08:58.920 He is being tripped up by Trump saying no bilingual cheerio boxes,
00:09:04.640 or at the very least American companies shouldn't have to pay for the bilingual cheerio boxes.
00:09:08.780 That is apparently a deal breaker for Carney.
00:09:11.260 C-11, C-18, deal breakers for Carney, things that Canadians don't like.
00:09:14.960 And at the same time, everything in a negotiation has value.
00:09:20.180 If the other side cares about it, it has value to put on the table.
00:09:23.480 So why in the name of Saeed, I don't even know who Saeed is, I'm just throwing a name out, who in the name of Chekhov decided that we're going to get rid of the DST, the digital services tax, the streaming tax, and give half of the net revenues on the Gordie Howe bridge, which Carney lied about.
00:09:45.360 That's why we don't trust him on what's in the deal until we see the official deal. Why in the name of all that is like right in this world did you get rid of those three things when you weren't even at the negotiating table and you could take those things that were valuable to the United States to get rid of and say, okay, if you want these three things, maybe with us getting rid of the Chinese EV deal and getting rid of C11, C18,
00:10:15.060 You need your tariffs down to 7% across the board, or if not outright eliminated like we were going to get for softwood, which makes it so insane that David Eby is backing Mark Carney on this, when the only thing that David Eby should care about here is softwood tariffs, and Jameson Greer apparently was offering 0% softwood tariffs.
00:10:34.100 like what are we doing why are we mucking around with things that we do not care about uh i want
00:10:43.200 to play this clip too this was from uh i believe it was actually from today although it looks like
00:10:48.160 the original clip i played of doug ford doug ford uh being reported by table salt here just in doug
00:10:54.660 ford discovers that canadian oil is shipped through the u.s back to canada quote i have to give credit
00:10:59.340 to Danielle Smith, she came up with these ideas
00:11:01.320 to reroute Canadian oil through Canada.
00:11:04.900 I thought
00:11:05.520 it went up to 700 subscribers
00:11:07.260 there, like, you know, 95.7,
00:11:09.760 but instead it's just disconnected from the internet.
00:11:12.320 But yeah,
00:11:13.100 apparently Doug Ford has just found out
00:11:15.340 that you can't just cut off oil to the United
00:11:17.380 States without cutting off oil
00:11:19.280 to Canada as well.
00:11:22.580 You can't even
00:11:23.380 tariff it, because it has to go through American
00:11:25.180 borders, where you would have an export
00:11:27.200 tariff on it, and then they would probably tariff you back
00:11:29.220 when you try and ship back into your own country but let's check this clip out on monday she's
00:11:36.000 obviously still opposed to that idea from your point of view how did that conversation go and
00:11:40.280 is there anything you think you can do to get her on board with your approach well we had a great
00:11:45.760 conversation we get along quite well we may disagree on on certain items but i'm going to
00:11:49.780 be flying out there to pay her a visit you know this is why we we need uh you know the the pipeline
00:11:56.820 We've needed this for, for God, 50 years going from west over to east.
00:12:02.360 And we're going to work on that.
00:12:03.900 We're going to work collaboratively with Alberta and Premier Wob Canoe.
00:12:09.520 We have to get his approval and Scott Moe and everyone has to work together.
00:12:13.720 I'm confident that's going to happen.
00:12:15.980 But Premier Smith came up with some great ideas.
00:12:19.400 right now we're getting our fuel and our natural gas coming down to the U.S. and coming back up
00:12:26.780 to Canada. Craziest thing I've ever heard in my life. It's so funny that he doesn't know how oil
00:12:31.920 and gas products go from Alberta to his province because again yeah you can't exactly ship it all
00:12:38.360 on trains or all on trucks. You know the more efficient route right now is going through the
00:12:42.660 United States then coming back up into southern Ontario to where the majority of the population
00:12:46.360 is. The fact he doesn't know this is just proof positive that we are being led by morons. And I
00:12:53.440 guess the one thing, we don't need to listen to any more of that clip. I will give Trump some
00:12:57.460 credit here. All these politicians, Trump, Carney, Doug Ford, David Eby, Susan Holt, Wobcanoe,
00:13:03.300 they're all, everyone except Scott and Danielle, they're all in the doghouse. I've created a dog
00:13:07.440 house. I've placed them in that doghouse. But if I was to tell Donald Trump that he's done one
00:13:12.660 thing right he has made some liberal politicians realize the value of having a proper economy
00:13:18.600 of having a pipeline that goes from west to east or east to west from you know alberta the west
00:13:25.340 coast or the east coast oh my goodness at least donald trump has at least gotten them to acknowledge
00:13:29.660 that much now are they actually going to do it i don't have that much faith in them because that
00:13:34.020 requires long-term commitment to a good idea and these people only ever have long-term commitments
00:13:39.200 to horrible ideas by the way isn't it really funny that we are currently upset that america
00:13:46.100 is tariffing us which we should be i don't like tariffs but we're so upset about that but where's
00:13:51.140 the day-to-day outrage that basically canadian provinces tariff each other and block each other's
00:13:56.300 trade we literally have internal trade barriers that mark carney has had 10 000 meetings on
00:14:00.920 meetings about with the premiers and nothing has happened and then we're going to go down
00:14:05.920 to the United States and like wag our finger at them like, oh, can't believe you would tariff us.
00:14:10.340 Don't you realize that increases costs for consumers, your own consumers? Well, what do
00:14:14.840 our tariffs do? What do our crappy regulations do? This is a Mark Warner point. He was on CBC and
00:14:20.740 says, we always like to tell Americans, oh, you know that your costs on your grocery shelves are
00:14:25.920 going up because of these tariffs. Why don't we acknowledge the same truth when it comes to
00:14:30.500 supply management, our internal trade barriers, and our counter tariffs? It's all affecting us.
00:14:35.920 It's not saying that there's no value in retaliatory tariffs as long as you're using it as leverage to try and get back down to zero tariffs, but that never feels like what the liberals and leftist premiers are actually trying to do.
00:14:47.520 They just hate Donald Trump.
00:14:49.680 And wanting the United States to lose in this scenario is a very different thing than wanting Canada to win.
00:14:57.320 I want Canada to win.
00:14:59.680 A lot of the other creators, pretty much all of them, are also on board with that.
00:15:02.900 jasmine lane mark nixon the pleb northern perspective josh udall over at elevate chris
00:15:10.660 baked or unbaked on things i'm gonna miss some other people portuguese pie a lot of these other
00:15:15.520 individuals moose on the loose we all want canada to win us sometimes saying carny looks like he's
00:15:22.360 in the wrong here it's not because we want the tariffs to last or we want a bad deal we in fact
00:15:27.460 want a good deal and all these moronic consultants coming out and condemning the conservative content
00:15:34.580 creator because we are in fact calling balls and strikes you are not helping really all these
00:15:40.840 people just hate the creators because a lot of these people are losing power in the conservative
00:15:44.720 movement because they're not good at their jobs and they don't actually have much influence at
00:15:49.200 the average person and they're taking it out on creators by taking us out of context and pretending
00:15:54.080 that we are somehow siding with the americans no no i want the best deal for canada but that
00:16:01.500 requires some cold pragmatism and i can't wrap myself in the flag hard enough to get a good deal
00:16:07.960 i like the flag i like the country it's pretty great now let's make it better by actually having
00:16:14.420 a realistic view of how to get a trade deal anyway so where do i think we're going to end up on all
00:16:20.180 this i think that probably this was talked about on the stream yesterday thanks for everyone who
00:16:25.240 ended up tuning into the stream uh one guy made a prediction i think he's right that probably we're
00:16:31.140 going to be back at the table sometime in early september uh at the very least i think we're
00:16:35.820 going to see a lot of movement towards the table again in september because canada people are
00:16:40.880 saying well the new five percent tariffs aren't that bad 50 tariffs on five percent more of our
00:16:45.140 exports. Okay it's not that bad in a vacuum but we're not in a vacuum right now. All of this has
00:16:51.240 been happening on top of everything else that's been applied to Canada in terms of tariffs as
00:16:56.280 well as our own bad economic policy. We can't handle it because we weren't all we weren't
00:17:01.740 handling everything well before. Even before the tariffs we weren't in good shape. We're in trouble
00:17:07.120 here. That doesn't mean I want to just sign anything but we have to realize the position
00:17:12.280 we're in and start maneuvering towards a deal that's probably why doug ford was just backhanded
00:17:18.360 by somebody and told to shut up because obviously this bun fighting isn't helping and we need to try
00:17:25.640 and actually have a real strategy now my confidence in carny of knowing what we actually need at that
00:17:30.440 table is very low but if he actually cares about the country he will put things on the table that
00:17:36.440 we do not need or are even in fact detrimental to us like bill c18 in order to lower tariffs on all
00:17:43.080 the things that canadians actually need to be like need to be handled canadians live and die
00:17:49.720 in terms of their financial health on these major sector tariffs we need those lower no one's life
00:17:56.760 is made better by having bilingual cheerio boxes paid for by the american importers that is not
00:18:03.160 helping anyone i make all the cheerio boxes hungarian i don't care we will figure it out
00:18:08.920 we are resourceful people make it all in georgian i don't care it's that language up on that poster
00:18:13.960 back there looks like elvish i don't care we'll figure out how to eat the food just get the deal
00:18:21.240 that's it focus on value trade for value wait two years and then with you know president rubio we
00:18:27.080 can change all the stuff back later who gives a crap but let's try and not have as many canadian
00:18:33.000 and families go and solve it as possible. Okay, so with that being said, thank you guys for
00:18:38.820 watching this video. Make sure to like, share, subscribe. Consider hitting the join button and
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00:18:48.120 later today just on CTV News attempting to steal my money. Northern Perspective, Ryan and Tanya
00:18:54.140 Davies have got them to back off their videos. Very good work on them. They've been very tenacious
00:18:58.360 on this issue and been very very helpful and also pointing out creators like myself and portuguese
00:19:03.560 pie and other people who have been mistreated by ctv news but i'll be making my own video on it
00:19:09.640 just because i think i want to put a little bit more you know focus on this issue and specifically
00:19:14.380 call out some things that ctv news and bell media are doing that uh ryan didn't highlight not that
00:19:19.640 he was being not thorough it was just he didn't probably think it was useful to bring up but i do
00:19:23.900 want to talk about the aspect of this as basically pseudo legal theft that ctv news is engaged in
00:19:29.540 it's not just a little dispute on perspectives it's theft but again with that being said thank
00:19:35.980 you guys for watching i'll see you all later