The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberals⧸NDP are incapable of working with Trump on border security

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It seems like the Liberals, the NDP, and the legacy media in Canada

00:00:07.060 is out to convince me that we must have banned common sense recently and I didn't hear about it

00:00:12.980 because they are acting so irrational and unhinged in response to President-elect Donald Trump

00:00:18.960 announcing a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada. You know, that sounds terrible on the surface,

00:00:25.120 a 25% tariff. That's irrational. Trump only wants to put a 10% tariff on Chinese products. Well,

00:00:31.660 if you actually see what Donald Trump said, it's not just a blanket 25% tariff that he's going to

00:00:37.460 put in place on January 20th when he takes office. It's a 25% tariff if we don't do the most obvious

00:00:44.400 thing on the planet and help secure the border with the U.S. in cooperation with the U.S. By the way,

00:00:52.040 Donald Trump doesn't think that Joe Biden's been doing a good job in the border. So it's not like

00:00:56.620 he's going to enter office, do nothing to secure the border from the U.S. side, and then just blame

00:01:01.080 Canada and Mexico for not doing it all for them and then placing a 25% tariff on us. That's not

00:01:07.000 what happened. But if you look at whatever the Liberals are saying and the NDP are saying and

00:01:13.000 then the legacy media, you would think that Trump is just going to start swinging. He's just going to

00:01:17.620 start putting in place tariffs all over the place. And it's strange to see so many people on the left

00:01:22.660 and actually the right too now using this as a moment to say, you know, John Turner was right.

00:01:28.300 We shouldn't be trading freely with the U.S. This is bad for Canada, even though it's been a massive

00:01:34.960 boon for Canada to have free trade with the U.S. The only reason free trade has been technically bad

00:01:41.460 for Canada has been on a domestic level that we are a bad country to invest in right now,

00:01:47.120 which means we end up siphoning a lot of jobs down to the United States, who then sends them

00:01:52.080 back to Canada to be sold rather than being made in Canada, sold in Canada, as well as shipped into

00:01:57.480 the United States. This is an issue that is driving me up the wall because it seems like everyone is

00:02:02.620 pretending to not know what they know in order to score political points for whatever agenda they

00:02:07.800 currently have. But this is what the media headlines look right now on this issue. CBC says rattled by

00:02:15.000 Trump's tariff threats, Canada's leaders point fingers at each other. CTV News. Looney tanks after

00:02:20.620 Trump threatens tariffs on Canadian goods. The Guardian. Trudeau calls emergency meeting over

00:02:26.160 Trump's Canada tariff threat. Global News. After Trump vows 25% tariff, here's what Trudeau,

00:02:32.080 Polyev, and Premier say. Financial Post Goldman predicts significant hits to U.S. from Trump's

00:02:38.960 Canadian tariffs or Canada tariffs. Okay. Did anyone read what Donald Trump actually said? It was about

00:02:47.300 securing the border, something that we can easily do before January 20th. I don't expect that Trump

00:02:53.440 thinks that if there's a single, you know, migrant who walks over the southern or northern border that

00:02:58.240 he's going to implement the 25% tariff, if we just act serious about this serious issue that we haven't

00:03:04.340 been taking seriously and the U.S. hasn't been taking seriously over the past several years, we can

00:03:09.140 easily avoid the tariffs. And this is not like, oh, well, Trump's trying to lump us in with Mexico.

00:03:14.560 It's not like we're sending over millions of people over our border into the U.S. Yes, granted,

00:03:20.360 but we also send in 10 times as many terrorists. Terrorists see Canada as a very easy place to operate

00:03:27.000 from, a very comfortable place to operate from. So people who are on terrorist watch lists to sneak

00:03:32.640 into the United States, they go through Canada, not Mexico, and they only know of the people that

00:03:37.860 they actually catch. Catching people sneaking over the Canadian border is obviously significantly more

00:03:43.960 difficult than the Mexican border since there is just natural barriers along the Mexican border that

00:03:49.280 allows for border patrol to actually see people coming over and catch them more easily. Canada is just

00:03:54.800 like a wide open border with very few patrols going through to make sure that people aren't trying

00:03:59.740 to cross over. We have a massive drug problem in this country, one that we should be domestically

00:04:05.000 solving, and then also making sure that it doesn't start to infect the U.S. as well. This is mostly a

00:04:11.060 British Columbia issue because David Eby thinks drugs are cool and doesn't actually crack down on the

00:04:17.000 illegal distribution of drugs in that province, which makes it a massive hub for fentanyl sales and

00:04:24.080 shipping it over the border. We just had two major drug busts nearby the U.S. border in small towns and

00:04:32.260 farms in British Columbia that were manufacturing massive amounts of narcotics, and do you think that

00:04:38.900 they were just nice enough not to try and ship into the U.S.? They probably were. So do I want a 25%

00:04:45.140 tariff to hit Canada? No. But I've had this happen all day to me, where you're accused of not being

00:04:51.660 patriotic enough if you think that we shouldn't just be saying, oh, the U.S. is wrong and evil and

00:04:56.760 terrible for even threatening this. We should resist them and fight back like Jagmeet Sing Sing.

00:05:02.040 It's irrational. No. We should be doing what we should have already been doing and be thankful for

00:05:08.120 the fact that, guess what? If we do this, we don't have a tariff hit us. So if anything, it's actually

00:05:13.040 kind of good that Trump is forcing our politicians to actually do the right thing. And I will give

00:05:18.760 credit to Danielle Smith here and Doug Ford, even though I do have criticisms for them quite

00:05:25.340 often. They are actually saying, yes, let's cooperate with the U.S. and figure out how we

00:05:29.760 can secure the border to avoid any sort of trade crisis, because that would be an economic crisis

00:05:35.220 for Canada if we had a 25% tariff. So I just want to go through some of the stuff that people have

00:05:41.300 been saying, here's Jagmeet Sing Sing, Trump's proposed tariff will hurt Canadian workers,

00:05:46.160 but I won't stop fighting to protect jobs in this country. Today and every day, I stand with

00:05:52.080 Canadian labor, which represents over 3 million workers throughout Canada. This is my promise.

00:05:57.400 And then he goes on to say, the NDP will always have their backs and let them negotiate and

00:06:02.220 whatever, collective agreement, collective agreement, something, something, something.

00:06:05.140 This has nothing to do with the trade issue. How about we have, yeah, you know what? Jagmeet

00:06:11.780 Sing really likes unions. How about you get more people hired into border services, which I believe

00:06:17.480 are unionized. And then we have them patrol the border, we get drones, and we make sure that we

00:06:23.300 actually keep tabs on who may or may not be going over the border. Sounds good to me. And I've had

00:06:29.380 people saying, well, you know that they're like, the amount of drugs that come over the southern

00:06:33.400 border is way more than the Canadian border. The problem with that is it's seized drugs. The thing

00:06:39.580 is that we don't have good monitoring on the Canadian border. So we're only, we only seize a small

00:06:44.840 minority of the drugs or the US only seizes a small minority of drugs coming over the border from Canada

00:06:49.860 compared to Mexico. But the Mexican border is like lined with agents, even under Biden. Anyways,

00:06:55.980 but Jagmeet's so performative. So many of these politicians are trying to be performatively

00:07:01.040 patriotic over this issue when they've done nothing to make Canada a more prosperous country and make

00:07:07.040 us better on trade with the United States. If Canada lowered taxes right now, we would be doing

00:07:13.260 way better on trade with the United States. I've had people again on the right say that free trade is

00:07:18.680 bad because it sent you a Canadian jobs down into the US. No, Canada's crappy economy,

00:07:25.240 bad tax codes and regulations sent jobs into the US. Guess what? Even if we want full art autarky,

00:07:32.160 and you can only make and manufacture everything and get the raw materials from within Canada,

00:07:36.860 we would still chase, we would still chase jobs and people over the border into the US 0.99

00:07:41.460 because no one wants to live where the economy sucks when there is a country very similar to Canada

00:07:46.660 right over the border. So how about we actually fixed our economic situation domestically,

00:07:52.140 rather than saying free trade was a mistake because now Trump wants us to implement border

00:07:57.200 controls. My goodness. And again, Trump wants to partner with us on this. He's not saying do my job

00:08:02.940 for me. He's wanting to increase the US's border protections and have us do the same. It's so obvious

00:08:10.000 we should be doing this. But here's Justin Trudeau reacting to all this on CTV News.

00:08:16.840 I had a good call with Donald Trump last night. Again, we obviously talked about

00:08:22.260 laying out the facts talking about how how the intense and effective connections between our two

00:08:29.620 countries flow back and forth. We talked about some of the challenges that we can work on together.

00:08:35.100 It was a good call. It's it's this is something that why can't he just commit to the border

00:08:42.320 protections? This is something Polyev did. Polyev came out and said, hey, I'm not even wanting to

00:08:47.720 please Donald Trump. That's not my job. I want to please Canadians. And we should be securing the

00:08:53.120 border and making sure that drugs and guns aren't coming over it because that's the US side of the

00:08:57.680 problem. We have a lot of illegal guns from the United States that then get sold into Canada and

00:09:02.980 just smuggled over the border and sold to gangs. It is not it's not normal law abiding gun owners who

00:09:08.460 are the problem. Surprise, surprise, it's gang members. But Trudeau can't do it because his

00:09:13.780 progressive base doesn't want him say anything too cooperative about Donald Trump. We can do

00:09:19.380 laying out the facts, moving forward in constructive ways. This is a relationship that we know takes a

00:09:27.460 certain amount of working on. And that's what we'll do. Is the working on going to include border

00:09:31.440 security? That's all we need to say. And it would cost us a drop in the bucket in terms of the budget.

00:09:36.100 We could probably do this for like less than a couple hundred million just to have more border

00:09:41.500 protections, drones, whatnot. We could cancel a lot of really stupid foreign aid to easily pay for

00:09:46.840 this, if not a lot of stupid domestic programs. Like Polyev did the right thing in calling out Trudeau

00:09:51.820 wanting to put on energy caps on Canada's energy industry and like raising the carbon tax and

00:09:58.100 raising like all these all sorts of different taxes at the same time that America actually wants

00:10:03.140 more of our oil and gas than ever before. And he now wants to literally kneecap us in trade

00:10:08.360 negotiations by saying we can't trade oil and gas to you because we've hit our cap. My goodness.

00:10:15.880 One of the really important things is that we'd be all pulling together on this. The Team Canada

00:10:19.980 approach is what works. That's where putting aside partisanship, that's where I reached out

00:10:26.000 immediately to Doug Ford to agree with him that we would have a First Minister's meeting this week to talk

00:10:32.260 about the United States. Talked with Francois Legault and some other premiers as well.

00:10:37.700 There's work to do, but we know how to do it.

00:10:40.640 If you know how to do it.

00:10:42.000 Good call with Donald Trump last night.

00:10:44.000 Why doesn't he just say that? Oh yeah, we're just going to increase border protections. We're

00:10:48.580 going to work with the US to secure the border. Yeah, there are probably some issues and we're

00:10:51.940 totally okay with cooperating over that. You don't have to be like, you don't have to like bend the

00:10:56.620 knee or anything. Nobody's asking for that. I want Canada's leadership to be strong. I don't want them

00:11:01.940 to, you know, prostrate themselves for any world leader. What they should be doing is just agreeing

00:11:08.040 to do the common sense thing and saying, yes, it's good that Donald Trump's also going to increase

00:11:11.780 border protections. We will too in cooperation with them. And guess what? No 25% tariff. It's

00:11:18.700 so easy. But let's move on to some more clips of Canadian politicians trying to score points. Or here's

00:11:25.500 Polyev. And he was obviously Polyev's also trying to score points. All politicians are.

00:11:30.020 But he actually had a good statement. He actually knows what he's doing on this issue and knows not

00:11:36.100 to make this about how pro-Canadian patriotic he is. He is patriotic, but he's not patriotic to the

00:11:42.400 stupid extent that he won't even agree to do common sense things in partnership with the US because he

00:11:47.280 can't agree with the US. My goodness. President Trump has the right to put his workers and his

00:11:54.560 nation's security first. I will put Canada's workers and Canada's security first. We need a

00:12:03.660 prime minister with the strength and the smarts, the brains and the backbone to stand up for this

00:12:09.980 country, to rebuild our security, our military and our economy. That is what I will do.

00:12:16.180 So let's bring it home. See, perfect, perfect statement. I'm not requiring anything more than

00:12:22.500 that, that yes, Trump wants us to put, you know, increased security. Yes, we will do it for ourselves

00:12:28.320 because that's a good thing for us to be doing anyways. And again, and the problem again is Trudeau

00:12:34.420 has been caught out because so much of this has to do with the fact that he's failed in government.

00:12:39.600 Here's a great clip. I always want to plug the people who do the clipping because it is very helpful

00:12:44.200 when you're making videos that people have a lot of stuff pre-clipped on their own Twitter feeds.

00:12:48.900 Government.exe is corrupt is a really good account if you're ever looking for clips from,

00:12:54.040 you know, question period and other sort of like press conferences and whatnot. But here's Jagmeet Singh

00:12:59.660 flexing his muscles and puffing out his chest. Donald Trump's threats of tariffs could threaten

00:13:05.280 hundreds of thousands of Canadian mortgage paying jobs. The only thing a bully responds to

00:13:12.080 is strength. So where's our plan to fight back? Where is the war room? Where is a concrete plan

00:13:19.020 to bring our issue before Kuzma? Why isn't the prime minister fighting like hell for Canadian jobs?

00:13:24.860 The speaker, rather than panicking, we're engaging in constructive ways to protect

00:13:31.620 Canadian jobs like we have before. I don't think the idea of going to war with the United States is

00:13:39.060 what anyone wants. Why am I having to agree with Justin Trudeau here? Justin Trudeau isn't even

00:13:45.060 performing well on this issue at all. Pure Poly is doing a way better job than him. But even here,

00:13:52.260 even Trudeau's very weaselly non-answers about what he's willing to do in order to avoid the 25% 0.85

00:13:59.020 tariffs, even he has to like mock Jagmeet Singh there because Jagmeet Singh is like, we need a war

00:14:04.020 room. We need to fight back. It's like, why? We don't. And some people have been saying that,

00:14:11.100 well, this is the US bullying Canada. We shouldn't do it just because they put a gun to our head.

00:14:16.540 I've had multiple people literally say this whole gun to our headline, including people on the right.

00:14:22.840 Well, you know, we shouldn't just have to jump because the US says so. Guys, it's a trade agreement.

00:14:27.400 Even a free trade agreement will have stipulations like stop letting terrorists walk into our country.

00:14:33.460 Stop letting fentanyl flood into our country. That sounds reasonable to me, just as we should have

00:14:39.720 been saying for the past forever, although our border security sucks too, so we don't really,

00:14:43.800 it's hard to point fingers. We should have been telling the US, hey, you guys should be cracking

00:14:48.400 down on gun smuggling into Canada or we might have to implement tariff. That is playing hardball.

00:14:55.000 That is how you actually negotiate. You have an achievable goal and you have something that you

00:15:00.460 will do if the achievable goal is not met. And it's a reasonable and moral goal as well.

00:15:05.100 Not just like we want what we want and we'll hurt you if you don't give it to us.

00:15:08.720 Here's something reasonable that we would launch. And here's something that we might have to do if

00:15:12.300 you don't give it to us because you are negatively affecting us through lack of security. It's so simple

00:15:18.440 people, but instead, so many people instead want to set our hair on fire instead of getting anything

00:15:23.900 done. Here's a, yeah, here's a, here's a great comment by Anthony Koch. He's also very much

00:15:29.080 worth a follow and X. He says in quoting people, like, you know, he's doing a fake quote about all

00:15:35.640 the people complaining about what Trump had said. He says, why are the Americans concerned about illegal

00:15:40.840 immigration from Canada? This is why. And then Anthony quote, quotes the article, feds expect 4.9

00:15:46.880 million with expiring visas to voluntary leave Canada next year. Yet you think the US isn't a little

00:15:53.120 bit concerned, even in a just slight minor hypothetical way that those 4.9 million people

00:15:59.260 might just leave the country through the Southern, our Southern border into the US and then disappear.

00:16:05.400 That is a risk. Also a big risk for Canada is once all these visas, these temporary foreign worker and 1.00

00:16:11.680 student visas expire, how are we getting rid of them? How are we getting rid of anyone who shouldn't be 1.00

00:16:16.620 here? Who's no longer taking education, whose work visa has expired and they, we don't have any room for 1.00

00:16:22.660 them in our labor force anymore because we just don't. Oh, oh, but why? They're working jobs.

00:16:27.940 Canadians won't work. Guess what? If Canadians don't want to work them, then they will just raise 1.00

00:16:32.920 the wage for that job. And then that person will then take the job. I say, I grant the fact that we

00:16:39.140 also like companies are on a budget crunch in terms of how high their taxes are. So I'd want to severely

00:16:45.800 limit the amount of temporary foreign workers as well as new permanent residents on top of lowering taxes

00:16:51.680 so that Canadians might work those jobs that Canadians won't work because you can pay them more 0.72

00:16:56.880 because companies have more money left over at the end of the day. What a concept. What a concept

00:17:02.080 that if people have more money in their pockets, they're able to do more stuff and they are not

00:17:06.780 restricted on their options. But yeah, I totally agree with Anthony Koch there. It's a great point to be

00:17:12.940 making. Here's Kevin Vong, the best MP in parliament by my measure. He's currently the independent MP for

00:17:19.680 Spadina, Fort York. And he said this just now. In 2023, the U.S. Border Patrol stopped 484 suspects

00:17:27.680 on the U.S. terror watch list from entering the U.S. from Canada, six times more than Mexico. How did

00:17:34.380 people on the U.S. terror watch list enter Canada in the first place? Canada must not be a safe harbor 0.86

00:17:39.500 and forwarding operating base, a forward operating base for terrorism. Absolutely correct. And good 1.00

00:17:45.280 thing we have MPs like Kevin Vong and conservative MPs who have been pointing this stuff out. Now, I just

00:17:52.260 want to take a second to talk about free trade a little bit. I hate the stupid talking point that if Canada

00:17:58.400 is currently not benefiting as much as the U.S. on trade, that this means free trade is poisoned. Guys, if we

00:18:05.100 stopped having free trade with the U.S., we would be poorer. Yes, we are lagging behind the U.S. severely,

00:18:12.040 but it has nothing to do with free trade. It has to do with our own economic weakness. Guess what?

00:18:19.140 North Korea doesn't trade with a lot of people. It's extremely poor. I know that's a hyperbolic

00:18:24.200 example, but just grant it to me for a second here. When you don't trade with countries who can

00:18:30.080 do certain things cheaper than you could ever do, that is a good net benefit to the country. Canada could

00:18:36.700 do a lot of stuff way cheaper than the U.S. if we lower taxes and regulations. We refuse to do it,

00:18:43.240 and then we blame the U.S. for out-competing us. There's a difference between legitimately being

00:18:48.880 out-competed and illegitimate. Yes, I don't want free trade with China because China is, one, a hostile

00:18:55.460 foreign country, and two, it's not a legitimate actor in the economy, in the international economy.

00:19:01.360 It lowers the value of the yuan just to be able to undermine, just be able to outbid people on

00:19:07.720 manufacturing. It basically will suffer losses just to try and take over your industry. That's

00:19:14.680 the problem with China, is that it's basically making power moves, not economic moves, and we

00:19:19.660 should be trying to prevent them from gaining more power on the global stage. With the U.S.,

00:19:25.320 it's not our, it's not, what are we trying to do, prevent the U.S. from being powerful? That seems

00:19:31.000 like a stupid thing to do in a world where the U.S. is, like, the most natural, like, good hegemonic

00:19:38.020 force on the planet. Oh, I don't like hegemony. It means the U.S. technically controls a lot of what

00:19:43.340 goes on in the world and gets a lot of say. Better than Iran, better than China, better than a lot of 0.67

00:19:48.880 countries from having a lot of say about what goes on. So, when it comes to the U.S. and Canada, it has nothing

00:19:54.860 to do with free trade stealing our jobs. No, it has to do with Trudeau stealing our jobs through taxes

00:20:01.140 and regulations and those jobs moving down to the United States where it's actually cheaper to

00:20:05.840 operate. It's only our fault for not lowering taxes. And, again, it's concerning to me when I

00:20:13.380 see people on the right, like Harrison Faulkner at True North, saying that free trade is bad and John

00:20:19.280 Turner was right and we should go back to when John A. MacDonald and Robert Borden were the prime

00:20:24.260 ministers and we didn't have barely, you know, we didn't have much trade with the U.S. at all.

00:20:28.160 That's foolish in my mind. And it is finding, it's taking a symptom of a problem and blaming it on

00:20:33.960 free trade. This would be like blaming free markets on the Great Depression because we had

00:20:39.040 relatively free markets before the Great Depression hit in 1929 when it was really the Federal Reserve

00:20:45.420 of the United States that kicked off the whole problem, which was running as a bloated government

00:20:50.660 institution that was tinkering in the economy. Even if overall tax and regulations were low,

00:20:55.860 the Federal Reserve was meddling through too much money printing as well as not actually kicking in

00:21:01.260 the reserve money when the crash happened like they were supposed to. But you will now have people

00:21:06.880 say, you know, free trade is bad because the U.S. might put a tariff on us.

00:21:10.520 OK, well, that one, we can easily avoid the tariff. And two, is it good that we then go look inwardly

00:21:20.340 and then we have even higher costs and less wealth because we now have to manufacture everything in

00:21:27.480 Canada? I know they're not advocating that zero trade with the U.S., obviously, although maybe some

00:21:32.300 of them are crazy enough to say that on the left and the right. But if we only are doing piecemeal

00:21:37.260 trade agreements, everything is still going to get much more expensive because we become a country

00:21:42.100 that is very difficult to deal with. I don't mind if we don't technically have one big free trade

00:21:47.280 agreement, but we have free trade agreements on different industries. That's fine with me.

00:21:51.600 Well, let's have an agreement. Let's use the fact that and like we could easily get to a better

00:21:57.220 situation where we can start selling like our products into the U.S. and like dairy and soft lumber

00:22:02.620 and whatnot. But we just need to be able to play ball and not feel like our protectionism is OK,

00:22:09.600 but not the U.S.'s. We don't even have free trade within Canada. I don't want to have to be locked

00:22:15.060 into only being able to trade within Canada because trading within Canada already sucks because of the

00:22:19.980 hyper protectionism between provinces and their industries. My goodness, can people be rational?

00:22:26.520 I hate this idea that because free trade was what came right before we started losing jobs,

00:22:33.700 that it was free trade's fault, not our bad policy's fault, not our bad tax code's fault,

00:22:38.800 not our bad corporate tax and personal income taxes' fault, not our regulations' fault. It's the

00:22:43.600 fact free trade existed. Oh my goodness. Anyways, so and actually there was some really stupid points

00:22:50.780 somebody made yesterday where they told me that, well, free trade forces us to be binded to the

00:22:56.580 United States. We're binded to the United States in the same way I am binded to eat vegetables because

00:23:03.280 I want to get more nutrients. Yeah, we could technically be not binded to the U.S. and not get

00:23:08.380 any of the benefits of trading with them, but it's a mutualistic relationship. We trade with them

00:23:14.040 because we get more benefits than we lose by doing so. That's it for me today, guys. That's my rant.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 27, 2024

Liberals⧸NDP are incapable of working with Trump on border security

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