The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberals pretend Carney wasn't embarrassed by Trump on Trade Deal (DST)

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and happy Canada Day today, everyone.

00:00:05.820 I think this is a particularly good video topic to be covering on Canada Day,

00:00:10.820 because I want to show you some liberals who, in the aftermath of Mark Carney and his liberal government

00:00:17.280 caving to Donald Trump on the digital services tax, are still coping about it and pretending like maybe Carney actually won,

00:00:24.580 or at least maybe Trump didn't win. 0.94

00:00:27.680 It's silly. This is what I mean when I say that liberals are Canadian nationalists, 0.84

00:00:33.220 and conservatives, for the most part, are Canadian patriots.

00:00:36.760 I, as a Canadian patriot, recognize that this country is great in many ways, and it's not great in other ways.

00:00:42.620 But we can be great in those other ways if we actually change our policies, if we change our attitudes.

00:00:48.880 A liberal nationalist just thinks that we're better than the U.S. at all times because, well, we're not the U.S.,

00:00:55.740 and that makes us good, even though so many of these liberals have been parroting post-nationalist rhetoric for a decade,

00:01:02.960 talking about how Canada really isn't even a country.

00:01:05.760 We're like the city of London writ large.

00:01:09.280 It's just a bunch of people showing up to hang out for as long as it benefits them to be here until they move on.

00:01:14.580 sans any respect for history, who cares about the culture, just live in your enclave in a particular city

00:01:21.640 and engage in nobody else that you don't want to engage with.

00:01:25.300 But let's talk about some of these takes of people pretending like Mark Carney still got a half W

00:01:30.700 when, in fact, he took on a full L.

00:01:33.360 But before I get into it, guys, I just want to remind you,

00:01:35.660 hey, if you like this channel, make sure to leave a like on the video,

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00:01:45.140 and drop a comment on what you think about this whole situation.

00:01:49.760 And I'm going to be using some examples of some small online social media users

00:01:55.780 who are still pretending like Carney won,

00:01:58.100 but many of these people are serious individuals.

00:02:00.680 This is Markham Hislop, who runs Energy Media in Alberta.

00:02:05.520 It is a green energy, like, promotion organization.

00:02:09.440 It's funded by green energy companies.

00:02:11.760 I'm not sure if they get government money.

00:02:13.400 But I thought that this was incredible.

00:02:15.900 The man is going to start the topic off basically saying,

00:02:19.400 well, I thought Mark Carney and the liberals looked really weak caving to Donald Trump.

00:02:23.220 And by the way, they should cave to Donald Trump.

00:02:26.200 Someone in the last video thought, I'm like, why?

00:02:28.240 So you thought he should get rid of the digital services tax,

00:02:31.220 but then when he does, you mock him for caving?

00:02:34.000 I'm like, yes, because he shouldn't have done it in the first place.

00:02:38.180 The liberals were pretending like they weren't going to have to get rid of the tax.

00:02:41.480 They were just going to stick it out and weather the storm of Trump,

00:02:45.260 and they were going to keep the digital services tax and get a trade deal.

00:02:49.100 The digital services tax is already bad.

00:02:51.400 So then when they implemented it and then they had to drop it,

00:02:53.920 of course I was going to make fun of them for eventually having to do the right thing

00:02:58.440 that we all knew that they were going to be forced to do.

00:03:01.040 But take a look at the take that Markham Hyslop has on this.

00:03:05.120 So let's talk about the digital services tax.

00:03:07.720 This, when I heard the announcement that the Canadian government had rescinded its implementation of it,

00:03:14.940 because Trump, you know, made a big deal of it and said that he would suspend the negotiations

00:03:21.500 over the new trade deal, I was kind of annoyed because I saw that as the Canadian government

00:03:27.000 capitulating to Trump, which has not been its style so far.

00:03:32.060 You know, Prime Minister Mark Carney has done a very good job of holding his own and better.

00:03:37.980 Then I read a little bit more and I realized that this is more strategic than a capitulation

00:03:43.760 because Canada up until...

00:03:45.760 I love this. I love this so much.

00:03:48.920 No, they didn't. This is not strategic.

00:03:53.340 They strategically got punched in the face.

00:03:56.460 This is not a good strategy, at least from my perspective over here.

00:04:00.100 It feels like they're just losing and now they're making excuses for why they're losing.

00:04:04.920 No, there's not a strategic thing.

00:04:07.980 Taking somebody off, making them flip the table in the negotiation,

00:04:11.120 and then you sheepishly having to rescind the law or to get rid of the tax in order to come back

00:04:17.000 and say, can we keep talking?

00:04:19.040 Trump is still wanting us to get rid of our supply management system, which we should.

00:04:23.360 It's bad for the Canadian economy in general.

00:04:25.840 This isn't... There's no strategy here.

00:04:27.360 Trump is still driving for that.

00:04:28.920 If anything, he has more leverage because now he knows that if he puts pressure on Carney,

00:04:33.300 he might actually get rid of it.

00:04:34.560 So, 2023 had been...

00:04:36.700 Well, it still is part of this larger OECD organization of economically developed countries

00:04:42.800 and G20.

00:04:45.040 And they're putting together the one pillar agreement.

00:04:47.820 So, there will be a digital tax, services tax basically,

00:04:51.320 but it'll include this broader group.

00:04:55.660 And they were having trouble getting the agreement together.

00:04:59.220 And it was going slower than anticipated.

00:05:01.380 Canada just got tired of it and said, nah, you know, last year they said, nah, we're going to...

00:05:05.420 We'll introduce our own tax.

00:05:07.080 And when this other agreement comes into effect,

00:05:09.880 we'll then stop our tax and we'll become part of this other larger group.

00:05:15.680 So, really, what did he give up?

00:05:18.780 Sir, where is the strategic win here?

00:05:21.160 He's basically just saying, well, it wasn't that bad of a loss because the OECD may have come up with their own tax.

00:05:26.140 The OECD can't come up with a tax.

00:05:28.360 The OECD can maybe come up with the concept of a tax.

00:05:31.600 Canada would then still have to pass it,

00:05:33.240 in which America would still slap us for doing it, rightfully so. 0.99

00:05:36.600 By the way, this is a tax on Canadians.

00:05:38.620 It's a tax on the online services that you use.

00:05:41.380 It's a tax on your Netflix subscription, your Amazon purchases, Uber, Apple.

00:05:49.720 What else is there?

00:05:50.740 Like, Google.

00:05:51.960 It is a tax on literally everything online.

00:05:56.020 So, yeah, this was very good that we got rid of it for our own sakes.

00:05:59.940 And that's why we should be getting rid of supply management.

00:06:02.200 So, that was him doing that.

00:06:03.280 And he just keeps rambling about how it's like, oh, well, actually, the tax is very good.

00:06:07.900 But we don't need the tax, but we'll get the tax back.

00:06:10.560 And it's like, we're not going to do that.

00:06:12.460 The problem is, it's the digital services tax and whatever the OECD would come up with

00:06:17.280 is effectively a tax on the Americans because they're the ones with all the big tech firms.

00:06:22.500 But now, you guys have to look at this.

00:06:25.080 I know it's a small account, but I found this hilarious.

00:06:27.960 This guy, Canadian Fletchy, who I can guarantee you is serious. 0.99

00:06:32.000 I went through his timeline.

00:06:33.840 This is not a satire.

00:06:34.900 This was posted, as you can see, on the 30th of June, 2025, because they don't say 2024

00:06:41.900 next to it.

00:06:42.640 It means it's the current year.

00:06:44.240 And he says, hee, hee, hee, hashtag elbows up.

00:06:48.160 And he has this meme here where he has Donald Trump coming over. 0.93

00:06:51.240 He says, you're nasty, Canada.

00:06:52.840 I'm not trading with you anymore. 0.97

00:06:54.620 And then Mark Carney doing the face, giving the thumbs up.

00:06:58.820 And then Trump freaking out while Carney speaks with the rest of the world.

00:07:02.540 And Trump says, I have all the cards.

00:07:05.060 They are still posting this as if Carney is holding out against Trump 24 hours after he

00:07:11.960 had already caved.

00:07:14.000 These people just actually have an image of what the liberal government and Mark Carney

00:07:18.980 are like in their minds.

00:07:20.300 And they will just assume that that is going on.

00:07:23.380 That is what I've been seeing with a lot of takes.

00:07:26.180 Carney obviously lost.

00:07:27.240 But then it turns into, well, maybe this is a broader strategy.

00:07:30.580 It's, I can tell you, it's not a broader strategy.

00:07:33.020 Here was, here was the White House.

00:07:36.240 This is the White House's interpretation of it.

00:07:38.500 Again, Canada, U.S. are allies. 1.00

00:07:40.680 But they're taking the victory lap and dunking on us for having done something this stupid, 0.99

00:07:45.480 having implemented a tax that the Biden administration had been telling us not to implement. 0.99

00:07:49.880 By the way, it's a 3% revenue tax.

00:07:53.100 It's not like, you know, 3% on specific types of transactions online.

00:07:59.220 It is a 3% tax on all revenues generated within Canada.

00:08:03.540 I had people go, like, I saw people saying, well, this was true.

00:08:08.640 Like, it's only 3%.

00:08:09.860 Corporations can't pay 3%.

00:08:11.760 It's 3% on top of the 25% to 30% they already pay in corporate taxes in Canada.

00:08:17.880 Of course, the 3% matters. 0.99

00:08:19.780 What's your profit margin if taxes keep going up?

00:08:23.020 First, what's the president's reaction to this?

00:08:25.420 Can you tell us more about his call with Prime Minister Carney over the weekend?

00:08:30.000 How did he get Carney to drop it?

00:08:32.040 And also, what's the impact on American tech companies, given this latest progress,

00:08:37.400 as the president says he has been fighting for American tech companies?

00:08:40.560 It's very simple.

00:08:41.680 Prime Minister Carney in Canada caved to President Trump in the United States of America.

00:08:46.940 And President Trump knows how to negotiate, and he knows that he is governing the best country

00:08:53.520 and the best economy in this world, on this planet.

00:08:56.740 And every country on the planet needs to have good trade relationships with the United States.

00:09:01.220 And it was a mistake for Canada to vow to implement that tax.

00:09:04.560 That would have hurt our tech companies here in the United States.

00:09:07.720 The president made his position quite clear to the prime minister, and the prime minister

00:09:11.940 called the president last night to let the president know that he would be dropping that tax,

00:09:16.280 which is a big victory for our tech companies and our American workers here at home.

00:09:21.360 They're not backing up Carney, saying, oh, well, we had a disagreement, something happened. 0.99

00:09:26.520 They don't give a crap anymore. 0.98

00:09:27.900 The thing is that that's how tired the American government is at this point. 0.98

00:09:31.720 They're not going to pretend like it was just a mutual situation.

00:09:37.760 Like, you know, like, what am I trying to say here?

00:09:41.680 Basically, like, they're not trying to soften the blow on Canada, because Canada truly actually

00:09:45.920 did piss them off on this one.

00:09:47.100 I need to go find this one video from Peter Julian, the NDP MP. 0.97

00:09:52.320 I have to go look it up manually, because, of course, the man blocks me because he's a complete coward.

00:09:56.960 But, again, all these people basically saying this is bullying from the Trump administration

00:10:02.920 and that we need to be elbows up right now.

00:10:06.060 It's like, guys, you're going to throw away our entire trade deal on economy for a digital services tax,

00:10:13.180 which, yes, is going to bring in billions of dollars in revenue.

00:10:15.800 It's also going to hurt our relationship with the United States.

00:10:18.860 It's going to hurt our own tech firms, even though we don't have the biggest ones.

00:10:21.820 It's going to hurt our consumers.

00:10:22.800 But the thing is that we only care about government revenues or what liberals are patriotic about in this country.

00:10:28.740 But here's here's Peter Julian from the NDP.

00:10:32.620 Mark Carney surrendered to Donald Trump on the digital services tax.

00:10:35.920 This actually means that American companies would have paid a little bit of tax for the billions of dollars of profits that they get from Canada.

00:10:44.600 No, OK, no, they're not paying a tax on their profits.

00:10:48.860 It's a tax on their revenue, which comes before profit.

00:10:51.980 Well, this would have meant that they would have to pay tax on the billions of dollars they generate in Canada.

00:10:56.300 They have to file corporate taxes in Canada.

00:10:59.900 You can't be taking it.

00:11:01.540 You can't be generating sales within Canada and then put a tax on them.

00:11:07.160 You Amazon Canada operates in Canada.

00:11:10.880 Is this is this guy delusional?

00:11:12.880 This isn't like some overseas like software company that doesn't actually have any physical presence within the country.

00:11:20.860 And so they may not actually file corporate taxes, but they can generate sales from Canada.

00:11:25.080 These people file taxes.

00:11:27.000 They pay more taxes than most Canadian companies.

00:11:30.060 What are they talking about?

00:11:31.180 Well, just paying a little bit more, a little bit more.

00:11:34.080 Canada's economy is dying because constantly people are like, well, why can't you do a little bit more?

00:11:38.080 A few more regulations, a few more taxes.

00:11:39.620 Why can't you do what?

00:11:41.040 It's just a little bit.

00:11:42.000 It's just 3 percent.

00:11:43.300 Carney ran on reducing income taxes under $50,000 by 1 percent and pitched that as like a is like a great economic policy.

00:11:51.460 1 percent tax reductions in a tax bracket where you don't even pay taxes on the first $18,000.

00:11:56.620 But we're all supposed to think, oh, it's just 3 percent when it's corporate tax rates.

00:12:00.440 But there's more.

00:12:02.120 The Carney government has also been subsidizing these American web giants to the tune of over a billion dollars a year in indirect advertising supports.

00:12:11.040 That means that we pay twice for these companies that have been taking massive profits out of Canada.

00:12:17.340 We need a government and a parliament that will stand up for Canada.

00:12:21.040 Tomorrow's Canada Day.

00:12:22.380 We need a government that is elbows up, that will stand up to Donald Trump.

00:12:25.740 Every time someone says elbows up, it like ages them by like 15 years.

00:12:30.180 Like Peter Julian to me right now is like the guy at the end of like India and Jones and the Last Crusade, like Donovan.

00:12:36.240 He's just like he's just like falling apart, like like just like skins like shriveling up and whatnot. 1.00

00:12:42.380 As soon as he said that, it like took all the life out of him.

00:12:45.120 My goodness.

00:12:45.560 It's like also he's just saying that he's acting like, oh, and the Canadian government pays them billions a year.

00:12:50.800 It makes it sound like they're literally subsidized in the in the in the sense that like we pay Google to even be here or something like that. 0.99

00:12:58.580 No, the government advertises on their platforms and apparently using their service is now a subsidization to Peter Julian because Peter Julian is stupid. 1.00

00:13:08.880 That's as that's as simply as I can put it, Peter Julian doesn't know what he's talking about and he's a sitting MP and he's been there a little bit too long to be saying stupid crap like this. 1.00

00:13:18.680 I love this thing. 0.99

00:13:20.080 This is, again, a big liberal account.

00:13:23.160 These people, this person usually gets a lot of engagement, not on this one because it was embarrassing.

00:13:27.360 It doesn't even matter that they're anonymous accounts, because oftentimes big like anonymous accounts have more reach than people who actually put their like real name and face on their profile.

00:13:37.740 Yeah.

00:13:38.880 This person reacting to Table Salt, who's a, you know, they do a lot of clipping of Canadian news and whatnot in Canadian news press conferences.

00:13:47.460 Table Salt says by cutting a seven billion dollar tax on Canadians, Donald Trump has done more for Canadians than any Canadian politician has in over a decade with one tweet.

00:13:57.480 And, you know, fact check partially true that he actually has helped Canadians bottom lines better than any Canadian politician has by complaining about the DST.

00:14:06.300 And this GatorGum person, and this tweet did not do well, but this person has tons of tweets where they have thousands and thousands of likes and like hundreds, high hundreds of engagements.

00:14:16.900 I love that in response to this, this person says, hey Grok, which is the AI on Twitter, because if you tag it, it will answer questions.

00:14:25.620 Hey Grok, is the DST a tax on Canadians?

00:14:30.100 I believe what they meant.

00:14:31.360 Does this save Canadians tax money at all?

00:14:33.980 Is the $7 billion tax savings for Canadians an accurate statement or absolute misinformation?

00:14:39.760 This person thought that a 3% additional tax on companies that are involved in digital services and goods that operate in Canada, this person is unaware that Canadians may have to pay higher costs.

00:14:59.620 This is why people will vote for the left in this country, people who genuinely need to, like, Google whether raising taxes will raise prices.

00:15:09.320 Of course it will.

00:15:10.620 Does this person think sales taxes don't increase taxes?

00:15:14.300 Does this person think their own income taxes, the corporate taxes, don't increase taxes?

00:15:19.720 Of course they don't.

00:15:20.640 They vote liberal.

00:15:21.440 They think that this is just, you know, doesn't matter.

00:15:24.700 This is just, we're just taxing companies.

00:15:26.580 Why would, why would consumers have to pay more?

00:15:28.200 We're taxing Amazon.

00:15:29.580 Why would consumers who use Amazon have to pay more?

00:15:31.820 We tax the company, not the users.

00:15:33.960 It's, oh my goodness.

00:15:36.500 I love the cope here though. 0.96

00:15:38.520 Again, this person 16 hours ago yesterday says, if you are actively rooting for the leader of a foreign country over the best interest of your own country and those that live here, you are an absolute traitor.

00:15:50.260 It was the best interest of us to have a 3% digital services tax that, what, is it going to make our lives better?

00:15:56.820 Is my life going to get 3% better? 1.00

00:15:59.420 No, it's stupid. 0.99

00:16:01.160 Even, is my life going to get better? 1.00

00:16:03.920 Period.

00:16:05.040 No.

00:16:06.120 But this person genuinely just thinks, again, liberals and NDP people, and especially the politicians, they are patriotic based on government revenues.

00:16:15.200 If something increases government revenues, it's very patriotic.

00:16:17.980 If it lowers government revenues, very unpatriotic. 0.79

00:16:21.200 You may be a traitor.

00:16:22.640 And the person goes on to say, oddly enough, I have a feeling many of those folks are 51st staters. 0.90

00:16:28.220 Like 1% of people are 51st staters, maybe.

00:16:31.420 Who wrapped themselves in Canada's flags, called themselves patriots, and saying, oh, Canada, while they occupied our capital, not that long ago.

00:16:39.780 They occupied the capital because the truckers showed up not wanting to have their careers ruined over needing to get a vaccine, despite the fact that it didn't stop the spread.

00:16:48.940 And they do the most isolated work imaginable.

00:16:54.580 Outside of the people who, like, sit in lighthouses, a trucker interacts with nobody.

00:17:00.240 And these people think that you are not patriotic if you are a trucker and you don't want to get vaccinated or lose your job.

00:17:08.380 I think that this is a great take from Pierre Polyev.

00:17:10.980 He says,

00:17:40.980 The government must take energy action to bolster Canada's economy, fully repeal the no pipelines law, goes on and on with all these other things.

00:17:50.220 The one thing I wish you would say, though, is the government needs to repeal supply management.

00:17:57.340 The thing is, I know from the Conservative Party's perspective, you don't want to take off Quebec because there are votes in Quebec.

00:18:03.020 Okay, there are votes in Quebec.

00:18:04.380 They're not your votes.

00:18:05.620 Those are bloc and liberal votes.

00:18:07.560 You're not going to win anything there.

00:18:08.840 The ridings that the Conservatives win in Quebec are anti-supply management ridings.

00:18:15.460 They're the ridings that mainly border with the United States in New England.

00:18:20.420 They're the places that are very free market oriented.

00:18:23.000 They are not the dairy areas.

00:18:24.580 You should be, if you want to win seats in Ontario and in British Columbia and in other areas where the Conservatives aren't completely wiping the floor with the Liberals already.

00:18:34.140 If you want to make gains in Manitoba, get rid of supply management.

00:18:38.740 We have Albertans and we have people in Saskatchewan, people all over the country being arrested because they produced milk out of the dairy quota system. 1.00

00:18:48.600 It's stupid. 1.00

00:18:49.840 And it's obviously holding the country back. 1.00

00:18:51.640 Another one, I love these.

00:18:55.400 Another one from GatorGum.

00:18:57.020 The person can't help themselves yesterday.

00:18:59.880 How partisan has our country become when today when the Prime Minister pulls a move that was the right call for likes and agrees with and all their feeds are trying to slam and insult him because he's a liberal?

00:19:12.700 It's absolutely amazing to watch.

00:19:15.100 He did the right thing.

00:19:16.720 He only did the right thing because he was previously doing the wrong thing and you were insisting it was the right thing.

00:19:22.480 And GatorGum in this post says, if you've been discussing the negotiations and trade deals today, you should watch this.

00:19:27.900 Love, hate are somewhere in between Carney.

00:19:29.820 You should listen and critically think about what he's saying.

00:19:32.500 This is a process.

00:19:34.360 He appears to have a very firm, mature grasp on what he is doing here.

00:19:37.680 I love GatorGum specifically because when I made a video yesterday, I covered them on the day before or before we had rescinded the tax.

00:19:47.020 They were like, we're not going to rescind the tax.

00:19:49.000 You can't trust Donald Trump.

00:19:50.560 You can't rescind the tax because you can't trust his word.

00:19:54.120 It was very incoherent.

00:19:55.600 And then the day after when the tax was rescinded, they're like, maybe this is a strategy and they're still doing it.

00:20:00.780 This is a process.

00:20:02.620 We're not owned.

00:20:04.020 We didn't take a massive L.

00:20:05.540 Well, we're we're actually just in the process right now.

00:20:09.120 That's why Carney's getting slapped around and looking just whipped about it.

00:20:13.340 Did you get anything in exchange for?

00:20:15.300 We have we have to be clear.

00:20:17.700 It's part of a bigger negotiation.

00:20:20.300 I love that.

00:20:21.420 A journalist asked him, did you get anything in exchange for getting rid of the DST?

00:20:25.120 Well, this is a bigger negotiation.

00:20:26.600 There's a process.

00:20:27.320 It's something that we expected in the broader sense that would be part of a final deal.

00:20:34.400 We're making progress towards a final deal.

00:20:36.700 Why did you implement it then?

00:20:38.600 If it was going to be part of the broader deal, don't implement and say we will implement if you don't do this.

00:20:43.600 And even then, you shouldn't implement.

00:20:45.140 It's bad for Canadians. 0.91

00:20:46.520 You shouldn't be putting more taxes on consumers.

00:20:48.780 And it is absolutely a tax on consumers.

00:20:50.600 But, yeah, even you can just even just tell, again, I don't want to be the body language guy.

00:20:54.580 You can even just tell he's irritable.

00:20:56.800 He's not happy.

00:20:57.740 This is not a man who's trusting the process.

00:21:00.440 He is he is being drug along through the process by Donald Trump, the Americans, because they legitimately do hold the cards here.

00:21:08.120 To be done, to be clear.

00:21:09.420 And as I just said, which answers the translation question, as I just said, is a question of timing in terms of the date for the final negotiations and when the tax was coming in into effect.

00:21:20.440 And, you know, it doesn't make sense to collect tax from people and then remit them, remit them back.

00:21:25.500 So it provides some certainty.

00:21:27.660 And as I just said, negotiations have restarted.

00:21:32.020 We're going to focus on getting the best deal for Canadians.

00:21:36.060 We're making progress.

00:21:37.440 There's more to do.

00:21:38.340 And we'll keep you up.

00:21:40.100 A man full of confidence right there.

00:21:42.720 Am I right?

00:21:43.380 That guy looked like he was ready to take on the world.

00:21:45.980 Again, the thing is, people do not are not great.

00:21:51.040 These people are just not seeing what everyone else is seeing.

00:21:54.520 And again, I'm not trying to, like, attack people who are just like random accounts online, but it's indicative of what a lot of these people believe.

00:22:01.860 Here is our favorite lore, Babcock.

00:22:04.460 And this has nothing to do with it, but it's hilarious.

00:22:06.340 All these people who are apparently very patriotic.

00:22:09.440 Jackson Hinkle here.

00:22:10.720 If you don't know, he is the guy who runs the American Communist Party.

00:22:15.000 And he says right here, this is what China looks like.

00:22:17.540 China is winning. 0.99

00:22:19.060 Wow, China has galaxy lights?

00:22:21.100 I know that China had galaxy lights.

00:22:23.240 Now we have to move to China, guys.

00:22:24.780 They have galaxy lights.

00:22:25.880 They have lights on things.

00:22:27.840 Okay.

00:22:28.560 Yeah, some of their big cities look, like, futuristic and cool.

00:22:32.460 China is still a very poor and rural country overall.

00:22:36.840 And Laura Babcock says, when I was in Tokyo in 1990, it was lit up like a video game.

00:22:40.800 North America is so far behind.

00:22:43.660 We're far behind because we are not a communist system that has lights on things.

00:22:48.280 These people are easily duped by propaganda.

00:22:52.580 I want to jump now to, again, our favorite, Miss Rachel Gilmore.

00:22:59.280 I know I just said that Laura Babcock is our favorite, but I'm cheating on Laura Babcock a little bit here.

00:23:04.580 And I'm saying Rachel Gilmore is our favorite.

00:23:06.360 I'm skipping ahead past the point in the press conference where Caroline Leavitt here, the White House press secretary, was saying that Kearney caved.

00:23:17.340 I want to get to Rachel Gilmore trying to explain how the tax even worked. 1.00

00:23:21.480 ...stopping that tax, which is a big victory for our tech companies and our American workers here at home.

00:23:27.440 So I guess we're here now.

00:23:30.500 Let me tell you what happened here, what smarter people than me had to say about this when I spoke to them today, and why this is really mortifying for our country.

00:23:38.920 I get that...

00:23:39.440 It's mortifying for our country that we don't have a more bloated tax system.

00:23:45.720 And to be clear, Rachel Gilmore does not have to clarify she spoke to people smarter than herself.

00:23:50.880 If she spoke to anybody, it's a good chance it was someone smarter.

00:23:54.400 Saying that might upset people, but it's just the reality.

00:23:58.960 I'm sorry.

00:23:59.640 Stick around and I'll tell you why.

00:24:01.280 So first off, the digital services tax, or the DST as I'm going to call it in this video, was announced in 2020 to make sure that huge digital companies, I'm talking companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Uber, and many more, actually pay taxes on revenues generated from Canadians.

00:24:20.160 They do.

00:24:24.720 Does she think that they just don't file taxes?

00:24:26.720 People on the left very easily buy into this idea like, oh, these corporate oligarchs and billionaires aren't paying their taxes.

00:24:33.500 They pay more taxes than almost any other business right now.

00:24:37.100 The big tech firms pay massive taxes.

00:24:39.980 Do you think that Amazon isn't filing corporate tax in Canada?

00:24:43.000 They have warehouses here.

00:24:44.760 Do you know how quickly we would start repossessing their warehouses if they just said, no, we're not going to pay taxes on anything?

00:24:51.400 They pay a lot of taxes.

00:24:52.780 This is a cash grab because the Canadian government thought they could get away with a tax that mostly only affected American firms other than like places like Shopify.

00:25:02.660 The tax mostly only applies to American companies who are selling in Canada.

00:25:07.120 And so what they were trying to do was basically pass a tax where the amount of people in the country who would start complaining at them right away was going to be very minimal.

00:25:16.760 It was going to hurt consumers, but the average consumer doesn't really notice right away that this content, they hear digital services tax and that it's on companies.

00:25:24.820 They're like, oh, it's on the company.

00:25:26.440 Most people aren't going to immediately think, well, wait, so this is going to make my, you know, Netflix subscription, my Uber rides cost more every time I order on Amazon.

00:25:34.720 People don't really make that immediate connection.

00:25:37.040 The Canadian government was being weaselly and trying to get more money out of them.

00:25:40.080 It was going to be a 3% tax on money these companies make from Canadian users and customers.

00:25:46.680 And the first payments from these digital giants, yeah, they were supposed to start today.

00:25:50.960 And no, it's not the first payments.

00:25:52.900 They were going to have to be paying all the way back from 2022 up till now.

00:25:56.780 And again, they already pay taxes.

00:25:58.840 Given this tax is retroactive to 2022, these massive digital companies were set to pay the Canadian government about 2 billion U.S. dollars.

00:26:07.620 But that's not happening anymore because on Friday, Trump threw a mantra.

00:26:11.360 And he said that because of our DST, which he called an egregious tax.

00:26:15.380 The U.S. is...

00:26:16.220 Yeah, it's effectively a tariff just on their companies.

00:26:19.140 If they had a specific industry that was only in their country that we did not have in our country and we pass a tax on that industry, we're basically tariffing them.

00:26:28.240 We're saying that that company bring their product into our country to sell, they had to pay taxes on that.

00:26:33.420 Or whoever they're selling it to has to pay the tax on that, which means that they're going to be demanding lower prices from the actual seller from the U.S.

00:26:42.000 It's very basic.

00:26:43.680 Terminating, quote, all discussion on trade with Canada effective immediately.

00:26:48.520 Then at about 10 p.m. on this Sunday night of a long weekend, the day before those poor beleaguered broke boys like Jeff Bezos,

00:26:56.360 we're going to have to, God forbid, pay a little bit more tax to Canada.

00:27:00.620 The Canadian government sent out...

00:27:02.100 I genuinely don't think she knows what the corporate tax rates in this country are.

00:27:07.780 She probably just thinks because she's so left-wing that the corporations don't pay anything. 1.00

00:27:13.260 Or even if she does, I don't think she really cares about the profit margin.

00:27:17.480 Oh, Jeff Bezos makes a lot of money?

00:27:18.720 Okay, if you actually took his wealth and you redistributed it to everyone, everyone would get like five bucks.

00:27:25.000 Who cares?

00:27:25.960 Oh, he has money and I don't.

00:27:28.480 Okay, Rachel, try and hold down a job for like more than five seconds and maybe you can one day be Jeff Bezos too.

00:27:34.300 But maybe, you know, stop randomly slandering people.

00:27:37.700 Stop being incompetent.

00:27:38.720 And maybe you can hold down a job for more than a year.

00:27:40.600 A news release saying, quote, Canada would rescind the digital services tax in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States.

00:27:50.700 She tends to upload these things only in short parts because I think she like refuses to pay X for verification so she can put full length videos up. 1.00

00:27:59.880 But yeah, that was her take on it.

00:28:02.000 That this was bad that the Canadian government caved because, you know, now the American corporations aren't paying money. 1.00

00:28:08.060 And now we look weak, like we look weak because we're being stupid over a stupid tax. 1.00

00:28:12.340 That's why we look weak. 1.00

00:28:13.680 We could have looked strong by not implementing it.

00:28:16.140 We could even, even if you had it, I would have never passed something like that. 0.98

00:28:19.480 But even if you had it, like I became the prime minister and I had this tax from a previous government passing it, I could say I'll get rid of the stupid tax if you guys do this. 0.98

00:28:28.340 We never had it. 0.95

00:28:29.460 If Carney did get something like that during that interview, during that scrum outside of his office, he would have said that he got something out of it.

00:28:37.660 He didn't.

00:28:38.540 And that's the problem.

00:28:39.560 We get nothing from these guys because we keep putting ourselves in weak positions where we have no, we can't lift a finger to them.

00:28:46.420 We can't say anything to them because we're the ones in the wrong.

00:28:48.920 We are in the wrong.

00:28:49.860 That's not unpatriotic to say.

00:28:51.500 It's patriotic to want to cut taxes so that we can outcompete them so our businesses can grow larger than American businesses.

00:28:57.620 That's what you want as a patriot. 0.98

00:28:59.440 If you're a nationalist, you just want more of their tax revenues to dump into more stupid programs that nobody needs. 0.98

00:29:04.600 Anyways, though, so that should be it for me today, guys. 0.98

00:29:09.280 Again, happy Canada Day, everyone. 0.67

00:29:12.520 Hopefully we can actually one day, you know, take back this country, eliminate all these stupid policies, you know, actually change the system full scale to make it a much better country. 0.92

00:29:23.200 But I'm at least happy about Canada that we have the potential. 0.96

00:29:27.540 We've been great in the past.

00:29:29.020 We can be great again.

00:29:30.560 You know what?

00:29:31.120 The Canadian way of saying make America great again would be like Canada the way it used to be. 0.81

00:29:35.960 It's like that very upper middle class nervous way of saying make Canada great again.

00:29:40.380 That's just a random thought that popped in my head.

00:29:43.340 But have a great Canada Day, guys.

00:29:45.280 Hang out with friends and family.

00:29:46.680 You know, like the video.

00:29:47.540 Subscribe to the channel.

00:29:48.740 Comment.

00:29:49.240 It's your duty as a patriotic Canadian to do those sorts of things.

00:29:52.240 And I will see you guys later.

00:29:54.300 I'll see you guys later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 01, 2025

Liberals pretend Carney wasn't embarrassed by Trump on Trade Deal (DST)

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