Liberals harass US musician Sean Feucht amid Trade talks!
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Summary
Wyatt Claypool talks about the situation with Sean Foyt and his situation with the Canadian government and how they are treating him and his music. He also gives his thoughts on whether or not he should have been allowed to perform in Canada.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. We have to talk about the Sean Foyt situation in Canada.
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It seems like liberals in this country are dedicated to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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I'm actually going to correct myself. No, liberals will find victory, they will kidnap victory,
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and they will find some defeat jaws to throw victory within. We somehow lose in situations
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when there wasn't even an ability to win or lose within them. For some reason, the Canadian
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federal government, as well as many liberal municipalities around the country, are harassing
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a U.S. musician, pulling his permits all over the place saying he can't be here on a work visa even
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though he's just doing free concerts. At the same time, we are trying to sign a trade deal with the
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United States. I don't even know if Mark Carney's trying to sign a trade deal, honestly. If he
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posts a photo tomorrow on social media of him having dead skin eaten off his feet by guppies
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at some spa, I would not be shocked because he is doing anything but dealing with the trade issue
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with the United States. He's even making sounds about how, well, I don't really care about the
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August 1st deadline because I just want to sign the best deal for Canadians, which for some reason,
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the best deal does not include getting it done before we might suffer through months of 35%
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tariffs on all of our non-USMCA agreement goods. But what do I know? Maybe I just don't know how
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trade negotiations work and not actually engaging with them and then harassing U.S. musicians is the
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right way of doing this. So I'm going to take this thing from the top. I'm going to give you my very
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idiosyncratic view on it because I know a lot of people in the aftermath of Sean Foyt being
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effectively harassed by the government is now loving on him and he's fantastic and he's a freedom
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fighter. I don't think you have to do that with everyone who the government wrongs. You can be a
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good or bad person and be wronged by the government. What I care about is, did the government do something
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wrong? And the government, municipally, federally, are absolutely doing something very wrong.
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So in a second here, we're going to start breaking that down. But just a reminder, guys, if you like
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a comment on what you think about this situation. But now let's get into it. And I first want to start
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with this tweet from Michael Barrett, a conservative MP. And he says, you don't have to agree with Sean
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Foyt to be concerned. When the CBC and government censor, worship, or suppress dissenting beliefs,
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they violate the freedom of religion and expression guaranteed in section two of the charter. That's
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deeply illiberal. And I absolutely agree with Michael Barrett. And again, why I mentioned that
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one thing before about how you don't have to love on everyone that's attacked by the government,
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I mean that from the perspective, I think a lot of people see a situation like this,
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and they say, well, do I like Sean Foyt or do I not like Sean Foyt? It doesn't matter. Frankly,
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the more I read about Sean Foyt and listening to some of his music, I really don't like him. I don't,
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this is not really the type of Christian music I listen to. I'm a Christian. I prefer classic hymns.
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I really don't like Christian rock or whatever. It's not, I don't really like it. I don't really
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consider it worship music. And when I look into his background, he seems like a typical mega church
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type guy in the US where I think between 2022 and 23, the revenue to his tour, his sort of touring
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quote unquote ministry went from like 250,000 to 5 million. Then he started getting antsy about how
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I'm actually a church, not just a touring act. So I can't be taxed. And it's like,
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yeah, that's typical mega church kind of behavior, but that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether
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Sean Foyt is the best person you've ever met, or he's actually secretly a scoundrel.
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I don't think he's either of them. I think he's just someone I don't particularly like the music
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of, and I don't really like maybe the way he manages his business, but that doesn't matter.
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He has freedom of expression within Canada. But Wyatt, he's an American. Americans don't have
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freedom of expression because they're not Canadian citizens. Well, permanent residents have freedom
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of expression. Other refugees have freedom of expression. Why wouldn't a visitor have freedom
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of expression? And the Canadian government was immediately acting hostile towards him.
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He was coming in to Canada. And whether he was doing a free tour or it was originally going to
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be a paid tour that he turned into one when they denied him a work visa to be able to tour here
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briefly, for some reason, we're just doing this apparently because we just like don't like him.
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I don't know why. They're just specifically targeting this guy. Is it because he's a Christian?
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I don't know. It doesn't really matter to me. I don't really need to turn this into,
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is it that this is like persecution or not? I'm sensitive to that as a Christian. I just don't
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really want to turn it into is Sean Floyd, the champion of all Christians. Now, it's not really
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a road I particularly want to go down. But this is the dumbest possible thing you could do during a
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trade negotiation, as I've been saying. And I think that is the key thing to remember. It's both
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extremely illiberal. And at the same time, it's also just extremely stupid to do from a pragmatic
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perspective right now, even if you're a liberal who doesn't particularly care about expression
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rights for things you dislike. Sean Floyd here himself says, I've been in touch with senior White
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House officials, and they are watching what is unfolding with blatant Christian persecution Canada.
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We're keeping all receipts too. And it's been pretty bad. They've had people like setting off
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smoke bombs at concerts he's been at. Here is a clip from when he was at a church in Montreal.
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You had some like Antifa freaks run into the room and throw some of these smoke flares into the room
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in order to disrupt the event. It was like pro-Hamas people, which really demonstrates that the
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nominee cause is real, that you have people who are like far left Euro-Palestine people, Antifa,
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and also like, I guess, LGBTQ activists who are all joining together in order to attack
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common enemies. So this is what it looked like.
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Oh, come on. Oh, for some reason, this clip keeps giving me trouble. I'm gonna try and get this one
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going. Every time I want this one to play, it ends up messing with me.
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Yeah, and so they had this event constantly being disrupted. These smoke flares thrown at him,
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like you can see at the start that he's holding up. And guess what happened after that? The city of
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Montreal is fining the church that hosted him $2,500. Why? Because they didn't have a permit.
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A permit to do what? A free concert on their own property? Within their own property. It wasn't like
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this was exactly spilling out into the streets and they didn't have a permit for that. It's their own
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property. And I guess they're saying because it's an outside musician and you need to have a permit
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to do some sort of like, I don't know, maybe there's like a noise issue because it's in a packed,
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dense city. I don't know. But it's obviously illegitimate. You have the mayor of Montreal
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attacking him. It's dumb. And they're doing it on diversity grounds that he doesn't believe in
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left-wing diversity type causes. Ergo, he shouldn't be allowed in the city. And they're blatantly doing
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it on the grounds that he's just not a good person. So he's not allowed here. And again, I'm not,
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I'm not defending him saying, no, he actually is a good person. I'm not really caring about that
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angle because it doesn't really matter. The whole point is who cares? Let's pretend he's like some
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satanist. He's allowed to be here. He can do a concert if he wants, if a private venue wants him,
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even if he wants to go to a public venue. If a citizen of Canada, if someone who's a resident
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to that city is getting the permit to have him come in, what's the problem here? But we not only
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have municipalities pulling permits, we have Parks Canada pulling permits. So the federal government
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can't even pretend to be ignorant. Well, I don't know why the cities are doing this to a US
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musician during trade negotiations. It's their own federal institution pulling permits and saying
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that he can't do events on Parks land. But here is a leftist, of course, attacking Michael Barrett
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and anyone who's supporting Sean Foyt, basically acting like this is somehow deeply evil. She says,
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the fact that conservatives are going all in for Sean Foyt tells me they're either too stupid to
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research what they're advocating for, or they're generally comfortable defending someone who
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opposes Jewish and Muslim folks serving in government. Wow. Okay. I'm not even sure if that's
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true. Doesn't really matter. Again, doesn't really matter. By the way, Rachel Gilmore, who's perfectly
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fine palling around with anti-Semites all the time. She doesn't care. She doesn't care if people are
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anti-Semitic around her. She partners with some of the most crazy people I've ever seen.
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Erica Ifill, who is this black lady who works for the Hill Times, who writes the most unhinged
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things about white people and Israel and the West in general I've ever seen. Like talking about how
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white people want to make out with their own dogs and that white people hurt their own children and
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whatnot. It's like if you replaced, again, white people in her tweets with Jews, she would sound like
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Adolf Hitler, which is why I sometimes cloically call Erica Ifill Black Hitler. But here's someone
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else. Here's a senator in Canada who's actually somebody who attacked me one time in a press
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progress article because apparently I don't care about trans or gay kids being bullied because I
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don't think that it's an epidemic like was being claimed because I merely said that, oh,
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white doesn't care about all these kids being bullied. No, I disagree with the premise that there
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is this spate of people being bullied and oppressed all over the place. But Dr. Christopher Wells, a
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Canadian senator from Alberta appointed by Justin Trudeau on the way out, says this quote unquote
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concert should be should not be allowed or to be held at any publicly owned facility, let alone the
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Alberta legislature. Pull the permit like other cities have done. There should be no space for hate
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on any public property. So we've made this insane left wing activist, a senator in Alberta, and he is
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saying that this guy should not be allowed to have a concert on the Alberta legislature grounds. It's a
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public place. If someone got the permit fairly, it should go through. Unless there is something actually
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publicly horrifying about his presentation in which it is inappropriate either in word or in visual, there is
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no reason to pull it. Again, not the type of concert I would ever want to go to. I wouldn't even endorse
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other people to go to it. Again, not my kind of worship music as a Christian. I prefer classic hymns, not
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this kind of poppy worship music trying to sound like regular rock or whatever. Not my thing. But again,
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there's nothing I've seen that's actually wrong with this. And where's Mark Carney stepping in saying,
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hey guys, what the heck's going on? We have a charter of rights and freedoms and applies to this guy too.
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It applies to speech you like and speech you don't like. Because if it only applies to speech
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you like, well, what's the point? Because it's not hard to prevent people from trying to shut things
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down that they like. You have to stop them from shutting things down that they do not like.
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But again, all these people are saying, well, he shouldn't even be in the country. He doesn't
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have a work visa and he's obviously working and this is illegal. You guys, the liberals let ISIS back
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into the country. Like we let ISIS back in. We let 17,500 people with criminal records immigrate to
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this country. We let, we have ministers, our minister of public safety, the man with the
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incomprehensibly long last name that I can never say on the fly. That guy wrote a letter in favor of
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letting a guy involved in the terrorist group, the Tamil Tigers into Canada. He did that. People knew
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about it. He was still appointed as minister of public safety, but Sean Foy is where we draw the
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line. Disgusting, can't handle it, do not like it. ISIS, come back in. We'll give you like an AA
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style meeting about terrorism, Terrorist Anonymous, where you come in and you just say, oh, I don't like
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that terrorism thing anymore. All the, you know, the, all the, I don't like that. Ooh, I liked it for a bit.
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It can get addictive. You do it, but you hate every moment of it. And then you come back and
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you just want to get a job as a bag boy at a grocery store again. That's really where my calling
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is now. It's not because the US wrecked our crap and now we have to find a way of not dying. It's
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because I, I repent of my, all that stuff I was doing wasn't cool. But anyways, so yeah, going into
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the trade angle of this, this is really stupid. This is, this is a great look. And we're going to
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have US politicians sounding off about how you can't trust Canada. And if they don't want to like,
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you know, treat Americans properly, then why should we sign a deal with them anyways? And they could
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put trade talks with us on pause. Now, do I think the US should do that? What do I think that would be
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fair? No. At the same time, I don't, again, I say this all the time and I want to bring up the tweet
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I made on this. I was, it was a response to Kevin Vuong. Not that Kevin Vuong had said anything wrong.
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I think he just did a really good job of displaying these stats. He's showing that US tariffs with Japan
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and the EU are currently 15%. Canada's are currently 25 on non-USMCA goods, and it's going to be 35%
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after August 1st, 50% on aluminum and steel. And my response to this, just the numbers,
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was to basically say that liberals are missing the point when conservatives criticize the government.
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I see people do this all the time. And people I even like, Spencer Fernando has been saying this,
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both in articles and on video, that conservatives are people on the right, right-wing creators,
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attacking the Mark Carney government during these trade talks is somehow like, you know,
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unpatriotic. It's bad to criticize our own government right now. I like, again, I like Spencer
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Fernando. I just disagree with him on this front, or at least this level, that do I like the tariffs?
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No. At the same time, the tariffs are here. It's reality. We can't say, well, Trump shouldn't have
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done this. You know, yeah, we do have supply management tariffs on goods like dairy and poultry
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that prevent U.S. farmers from being able to trade into Canada. Yeah, but the U.S. tariffs are
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disproportionate, so they shouldn't have been done. Okay. Okay. Those things are true. You've said some
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true things. Okay. So now what? Well, now what? We can't just say elbows up, U.S. is being unfair,
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screw Donald Trump. Now what are we going to do? Because my perspective on the trade, and I can just
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read you my post. I think I at least had a really succinct way of putting it here. Sorry if you don't like
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me reading this, but I think this was just a good way of putting it. Of course, I agree that the way
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I put it is a good way of putting it. Narcissism. But I said, as a conservative, I'm not in favor of
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tariffs being put on Canadian imports to the U.S., but saying I don't like it doesn't change anything.
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What Canada can control is our response, and so far, Mark Carney's liberal government has been very
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guarded with things like supply management, which makes trade negotiations back and forth very
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difficult. We can complain all day long about Donald Trump being unfair to Canada and the tariff
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rates being disproportionate to the supply management tariff we have on U.S. dairy and poultry products.
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But that doesn't change the fact that to get to a good trade deal for Canada requires us putting
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some things on the table. And by the way, if we really care so much about the economic damage these
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tariffs could do to our country, we should try lowering taxes on our side of the border so that
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Canadians can keep some of their own money for a change. Liberals will move heaven and earth to
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not touch the current tax rates outside of an extremely minor income tax cut under $50,000 or
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scrap bad regulations and supply management. And I think that's really the main crux here is that we
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are basically using patriotism to ignore our own duty, our own duty to our country to trade the best we
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can. We have a smaller economy than the U.S., not just 10 times smaller. We are more than 10 times smaller
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than the U.S., even though we have more than a tenth of the U.S.'s population. Our economy is weak. I can't fix
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that tomorrow. And if you're going and if we were in a better position economically, if the liberal policy
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wasn't so bad, by the way, we could we could be way better in a trade negotiation with the U.S. because we'd have
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power. We could outlast them if they tried to tariff us to try and break us. And we would just lower our
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own taxes and trade freely with everybody else. And eventually, you know, getting towards the
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midterms, Trump will want to sign a trade deal to get out of the economic or to take people out of the
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economic pain imposed by tariffing Canadian products many Americans rely on. And we could get somewhere.
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We don't have that power right now because we've been making stupid decisions up till now on an
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economic front. And this Sean Foyt situation, although different from the tax and regulation
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issues we have and different from the supply management issue that is currently the main
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issue between the U.S. and Canada on trade, it's representative of bad decision making,
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symbolic decision making, attacking a U.S. musician that we don't like. For what? For a little bit of
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so people like Rachel Gilmore and Dr. Christopher Wells and other leftists will then, you know,
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cheer for the liberals. So, oh yeah, that serves him right. Okay, well, should the U.S. take this to
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heart and delay a trade deal with Canada over this? Probably not. But if they do, well, why did we make
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this move in the first place? We didn't have to do this. That's why I'm saying that it's like we not
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only, there was literally no win or loss in this situation. Nothing was going on. And we created
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a situation out of nothing in order to draw a defeat from. We really wanted, we really wanted
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the L. And so we created a situation so we could get an L for ourselves. So dumb. Anyways, so that
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should be it for this video, guys. Hopefully you didn't mind this format. I know it's not that
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different from my normal format, but it was a little bit of a more of a zigzagging overview on
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