00:06:11.900So this is a straightforward but important executive order to direct Secretary Burgum and the Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information Service to reflect that the lake, once known as Lake Ontario, will, from the state forward, be known as Lake America.
00:06:28.440This is a lake that has most of its volume in the United States.
00:06:31.880The deepest parts of the lake sit in the United States territory.
00:06:36.760And the thing is, I want to contrast the two stunts here.
00:06:39.500This is obviously stunned by Donald Trump. He doesn't take what he's doing seriously here.
00:06:44.940He put out an AI video and he did a little signing in the office with staff members who probably work in the next rooms over.
00:06:52.060They brought a little bristle board with the map relabeled America.
00:06:57.600Stuff that probably cost them in total a few hundred bucks or whatever to do.
00:07:02.680But when it comes to Doug Ford, we probably spent, as taxpayers, I'm not in Ontario, but I'm saying as Canadian taxpayers, it's all coming out of one pool since Ontario does get a lot of federal transfers.
00:07:14.480How much money did we spend doing this?
00:07:17.240Hundreds of thousands, maybe if not a million dollars, because you could say that shouldn't cost a million dollars.
00:07:23.260A Canadian provincial government will figure out how to make it more than a million dollars to hire all the consultants, do a focus group, have a marketing team, figure out the best, you know, exact font that they're going to put on the sign, and then bringing out the sign and paying the unionized labor to put it up and whatnot.
00:07:40.120maybe they've done this elsewhere what did this actually accomplish because doug ford keeps doing
00:07:46.040this in in and out game where he'll attack donald trump and then by the next day he will have like
00:07:52.960said hey everything got a little heated let's be friends again i want to get to what mark carney
00:07:58.080said about all this in a little bit his was frankly more embarrassing than uh than than what
00:08:04.220doug ford did because he kind of like undermined the country in his own response but i want to
00:08:09.320highlight this piece of news uh being posted about by kirk lubomov a couple days ago he says
00:08:15.880donald trump just doubled america's oil reserves u.s entered an agreement with venezuela for 65
00:08:21.060billion dollar billion of uh for 65 billion of barrels this will take a decade to hit full
00:08:27.760production but you have to start somewhere and imports will keep increasing securing supply for
00:08:32.640years. And why I talk about this is to highlight the seriousness that America puts into actually
00:08:40.920finding other markets to replace Canada with compared to what Canada does to try and replace
00:08:46.860the United States. Because America, if it starts importing cheap Venezuelan oil, they may not even
00:08:53.400need to buy as much Alberta oil. So the fact that we've been dragging our feet for over a decade
00:08:59.520in not building eastern or western pipelines is unforgivable and mark carney cannot come out of
00:09:06.040the woodwork and say well i'm starting to build a western west coast pipeline yeah except under
00:09:11.300justin trudeau you were advising against it and now you're saying yes but your plan might also
00:09:16.140take up to 10 years to build a pipeline to a port area that doesn't have the capacity for it and the
00:09:21.760port's going to have to be updated too america is getting big things done and i'm not just saying
00:09:27.180they're getting big things done because they're bigger than us. They're getting substantial
00:09:30.300things done. The thing is, Mark Carney, every time he goes around the world and signs a new
00:09:34.980agreement, it doesn't result in anything. Because other than signaling to basically the elbows up
00:09:42.840liberal base, these things aren't actually meant to, you know, there's no deliverables attached
00:09:47.500to it. Mark Carney doesn't know actually how to deliver deliverables. His entire career has been
00:09:53.540sitting on like you know the being the chair of Brookfield Asset Management or being at the Bank
00:09:57.760of England or the Bank of Cannes or Goldman Sachs he's never built anything he just knows how to
00:10:03.020effectively network move money around and that's it and when in terms of like you know when it's
00:10:09.640at Brookfield he's really good at putting his mouth underneath a subsidy pipe that is what
00:10:14.980Brookfield always lived off of government subsidies government grants and getting an inside lane for
00:10:21.520a government contract or some other investment idea that heavily relies on the government
00:10:26.840guaranteeing profitability, like in the green energy markets back when Justin Trudeau was
00:10:31.860prime minister, although it is still continuing under Mark Carney.
00:10:36.460But now I want to jump over to what Mark Carney said about the whole Lake Ontario thing.
00:10:43.240Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, says the name Lake Ontario comes from the
00:10:47.920Wendat word, Ontario, which apparently means, or appropriately means, the lake is beautiful,
00:10:55.540the lake is big. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada
00:11:01.560and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is
00:11:05.860changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments,
00:11:09.940their homonyms. Canada also knows that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario, then,
00:11:15.460now and always and always doing this kind of like pre-colonial signaling oh it's actually
00:11:21.700it's not good because it's a canadian word it's not good because it's a it's a name canada has
00:11:26.740chosen uh it's a good because it's it's a first nations word it's a wendat word that's what makes
00:11:33.140it valuable that i love the subtle baking in of everything that's good about canada is not actually
00:11:40.160canadian it has nothing to do with the deliberate choices of canadian institutions to build up the
00:11:46.320country and individual canadian entrepreneurs and you know and heroes you know forging this country
00:11:53.120out of out of like the the wilderness it's always whenever it comes to a liberal always comes back
00:11:59.040to it was you know an indigenous person had done it at their ergo it's good you should just say
00:12:06.800Canadians call it Lake Ontario and thus it will always be Lake Ontario in Canada and the rest of
00:12:12.620the world. Trump can do what he wants, but it doesn't really matter. I'm going to give, I want
00:12:16.500to jump over to what Peter Pauly have said about this, because I know some people are saying he
00:12:20.740shouldn't have said anything. Don't engage in the debate at all. Guys, it's the reality of politics.
00:12:25.280You do have to say something because there are sensitive voters out there, even many who vote
00:12:29.400conservative, who are mad at Donald Trump for the Lake America thing. They think it's offensive.
00:12:36.800they grind their gears in some way. So Polyev had to say something. And I think what he actually
00:12:42.260said was the correct response. Polyev here said, Lake Ontario is and always will be Lake Ontario,
00:12:49.880and no executive order will change that. It belongs to President Trump to, it doesn't belong
00:12:54.360to President Trump to rename on a whim. Our two countries have real issues that impact our people.
00:13:00.600Instead of responding to stunts and distractions, Canadians must stay focused on what we can
00:13:05.000control making our economy strong and affordable at home and using our leverage to fight tariff
00:13:09.820for to fight tariffs abroad absolutely again some people can say uh it's playing into the
00:13:17.260the mainstream media game in canada of having to respond to the lake ontario thing sure sometimes
00:13:23.460yes it is a bit of a legacy media game where they're trying to see who's going to be patriotic
00:13:28.240and stand up to like america thing just because it's a political game doesn't mean you sometimes
00:13:33.180don't have to play you see doesn't mean that sometimes you don't have to play it you do have
00:13:37.860to play into the game sometimes and i think that that was better than mark carney saying it was
00:13:43.460from an old when that word does donald trump not know that and doug ford going out there with his
00:13:48.480paunch and and unveiling a billboard saying lake ontario now and always it's like wow wow i can
00:13:55.060feel the trade agreement getting getting close i can it's at my it's at our fingertips now this
00:14:00.000trade agreement because we've stood up to donald trump and called him like an idiot or whatever
00:14:06.780a loser like doug ford did and then walked it back and whatever he's doing now it's all just
00:14:12.100so embarrassing that this is stuff that apparently we think is i don't know necessary to talk about
00:14:20.260like deeply important but that's really it they don't think it's important for can to get a trade
00:14:26.860deal but they do think it's important to oppose Donald Trump's AI memes that took him like maybe
00:14:33.24010 seconds to put out we have wasted so much time on something that literally does not matter and
00:14:40.700so many liberal politicians all over Canada and Doug Ford is a liberal politician just because
00:14:45.960he's the progressive conservative premier of Ontario doesn't mean that PC policies are not
00:14:51.660very, very liberal. But every liberal politician across Canada had to sound off about this.
00:14:57.640And then you have people like Danielle Smith getting attacked because she's actually fairly
00:15:02.540serious about the trade situation and is telling people that, sorry, you can't just, you know,
00:15:09.300tariff or put export taxes on oil and gas leaving the country. It literally is not how it works. But
00:15:16.120like I showed in that cartoon yesterday from somebody who was depicting America and Canada
00:15:21.600fighting as some schoolyard drama and Canada just needs to go embrace its other friends around the
00:15:26.620world and everything's going to be okay you actually need to deal with the world as it is
00:15:31.200which Mark Carney was apparently a fan of before remember all of his uh speeches a year ago were
00:15:38.220about how we need to be clear-eyed about the world we need to deal with the world as it is not as we
00:15:43.620wish it to be but he always deals with the world as he wishes it to be he does the whole high school
00:15:49.720drama thing as if really canda wins at the end of the day if we if we you know you know put our chin
00:15:54.600up and we tell america no if we tell america it's in fact it's lake ontario it's not lake america
00:16:00.900this will somehow have the hollywood movie moment at the end where we get a trade deal and our
00:16:06.620economy booms or whatever and a bunch of liberals are saying oh my goodness conservatives were wrong
00:16:11.280about Canada's economy retracting. We had 0.8% growth in the second quarter of 2026, which yes,
00:16:18.640if that was annualized and you had 0.8 every quarter, you'd have 3.3% growth in 2026, which
00:16:24.540would be very, very good. But that's only because of oil and gas prices being higher for the second
00:16:30.200quarter. It's not because we've actually grown in any substantial way. We had very high oil and gas
00:16:36.520prices in that quarter. And as they are going to go down, we are going to have our GDP start either
00:16:42.420declining or flatlining once again. But here is Alberta Premier Daniel Smith throwing a cold
00:16:48.760bucket of water at the Liberals and explaining that you can't just put an export tax on oil and
00:16:55.880gas going into the United States from Alberta because it comes back into Canada through the
00:17:01.220United States. Disastrous. Can you explain the main concern you've got about the idea of even
00:17:07.240using energy as a weapon here? Line five goes through Wisconsin and Michigan before it makes
00:17:12.520its way to Sarnia. 50% of the oil at Sarnia goes into Ontario refineries and then about two-thirds
00:17:19.820of the oil that Quebec needs also comes by way of that route through line nine. Ontario Quebec used
00:17:25.520to get most of their natural gas from Alberta about 10 years ago. They switched to be getting
00:17:30.920it from the United States. Now two-thirds of the natural gas going into Ontario and Quebec comes
00:17:36.140from the United States. And so those would be the reasons is that we've got to think of what
00:17:40.400the counterpunch might look like. And if we could live with that, we can't. We can't shut down the
00:17:44.820Toronto Pearson Airport because they can't get aviation fuel. We can't shut down the Ontario
00:17:50.000and Quebec economies because they can't get gasoline and diesel. That doesn't make sense.
00:17:54.120So we should be talking about the things that we can do to support each other. And that's not one
00:17:58.180So what I learned from this is that premiers like Doug Ford and someone like Prime Minister Mark Carney and people like David Eby and Wabkanu, when they try and tell Saskatchewan and Alberta, just cut off oil and gas shipments to the United States, put a big export tax on it, really make them feel the pain.
00:18:17.180they don't know what they're talking about or they're lying they're lying by being super elbows
00:18:24.380up and saying we should go nuclear on the u.s put a 75 percent tariff on all oil and gas going into
00:18:30.240the united states and they know that their oil and gas comes up from the united states but they also
00:18:35.140know danielle smith isn't stupid enough to do it so they get to engage in the dumb rhetoric that
00:18:40.700makes them popular with the elbows up crowd knowing that danielle smith is going to be the bad guy
00:18:46.020she's going to be the bad parent and enter the room saying hey guys we can't eat ice cream for
00:18:51.440breakfast lunch and dinner in fact we need to be realistic and do things that are going to be good
00:18:57.100for us she's like having to be everyone's like she's like a mother in a household with an
00:19:01.700extremely irresponsible father who's like still mentally like 10 years old and doesn't actually
00:19:06.720think his decisions ahead of time it's like like oh my goodness Doug Ford and Mark Carney and some
00:19:12.880these other premiers are like homer simpson and we have basically danielle smith being a more
00:19:19.280intelligent marge trying to hold them back from destroying the entire family here you know let's
00:19:25.360just let's just cut off oil and gas shipments the united states let's just shut down our entire
00:19:30.020economy that would make the u.s mad let's start fires on our side of the border the smoke that
00:19:35.860goes down to the united states should truly annoy them it's like okay okay uh do we never think
00:19:42.420about how things affect us this is the whole problem with the trade war carney thinks he's
00:19:47.500brave and the media also do because he walked away from a bad deal why is the deal bad dummy
00:19:54.700he's had a year and a half do we never think about the fact that he's failed to get anything
00:19:59.780in the ballpark of good for a year and a half because he failed to actually be at the table
00:20:04.260negotiating the deal and or even he hasn't even really allowed his own team to negotiate a proper
00:20:10.020deal he keeps tying their arms behind their backs because he values supply management he values
00:20:16.660c11 and c18 those two cultural and media censorship policies he values the trade agreement
00:20:23.680with china that allows them to dump evs in our country evs created off of stolen technology and
00:20:30.240designs from the west he's more caring about preserving those things than getting aluminum
00:20:37.560steel tariffs from 25%, maybe down to 10. Something acceptable for Canadians, maybe down to 12.
00:20:44.300Something that we could make up with a corporate tax cut or some tax break for the affected
00:20:48.760companies. Rather than trying to get the auto tariffs on heavy trucks lower, we are instead
00:20:54.260going to try and, I don't know, fight for Netflix to have French CBC content at the top of the list.
00:21:04.580these are the things that apparently matter to our politicians more exemplified perfectly by their
00:21:11.420focus on lake america and not a good deal for canada anyways so with all that being said thank
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