00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.240An article came out yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that I believe was trying to cast Prime Minister Mark Carney in a positive light,
00:00:15.400but ended up just revealing that he has been secretly trying to undermine not only Canada's relationship with the United States,
00:00:23.520but Europe's relationship with the United States.
00:00:26.200This article was originally reporting on a meeting that supposedly happened early into 2026 between European leaders discussing what to do with Donald Trump and the rupture in their relationship with America.
00:00:41.040And at one point, Carney is mentioned as having been texting leaders, basically telling them not to try and cozy back up with America, to basically stay separate.
00:00:52.640Well, there's not really a rupture in a relationship if Mark Carney is going around trying to make sure the rupture isn't repaired. That sounds like he is actually the one causing the rupture.
00:01:05.240this is going to do, doubtless to say, great things for our attempt to get a trade deal with
00:01:12.840the Americans. Reports coming out of the Wall Street Journal that Mark Carney is running around
00:01:17.680like a weasel texting world leaders telling them not to be friendly with Donald Trump and the
00:01:22.900Americans. But I just want to read this section of the article, and then I want to actually get
00:01:27.200into a video clip of U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoogstra discussing trade with Mexico and trade with
00:01:34.600Canada. But first, this article says, several participants mentioned a man who wasn't in the
00:01:40.880room. Mark Carney, the new Canadian Prime Minister, had been regularly messaging Europe's major
00:01:46.920leaders using a British phone number from his time in London, trying to persuade them that, quote,
00:01:53.340the old America isn't coming back, unquote. Now on the heels of a blistering speech at the annual
00:01:59.560Davos gathering, his arguments were gaining ground. Canada, said the Prime Minister of Spain,
00:02:06.260quote, is openly saying what we should do. Now, that's not a very good look. Maybe you're not
00:02:15.700getting what's happening here, but Carney is using his old burner phone that he had when he
00:02:21.800was the governor of the Bank of England, and he is texting the major European leaders, basically
00:02:28.840saying, yeah, America's not coming back. They're not going to be kind and friendly anymore. Don't
00:02:34.160bother trying to partner with them. And later on, they also mention what the prime minister of
00:02:41.460Spain is referring to when he says that Canada is openly saying what we should do is that we should
00:02:48.400form this middle powers alliance to cut America out of the global system. Of course, that middle
00:02:55.620powers sort of dynamic that Carney has cooked up in his mind still, for some reason, includes
00:03:01.400communist China. But don't think about that. Don't worry about that. That's not concerning.
00:03:06.960But that's also something, the whole middle powers alliance that he was talking about
00:03:11.520at the World Economic Forum in Davos is something that Carney now denies he ever advocated for,
00:03:18.140even though it's on video. And we wonder why we can't get a trade deal with this guy
00:03:24.620leading the parade. He's just completely not only incompetent to actually getting Canada leverage so
00:03:31.440that we can properly negotiate with America, not just making concessions, but also being able to
00:03:36.880make demands. But at the same time, he's weakened the country's economy. He's going around slagging
00:03:43.540the United States, not only publicly, but saying worse things behind the scenes, basically telling
00:03:50.120other countries to not speak to america and the funny thing is since january of 2026 when this
00:03:57.140article was being written about although it only came out yesterday that like all these other
00:04:02.080countries have actually mostly improved their relationship with america yes the iran war caused
00:04:07.240some rifts with european leaders but regardless of what they rhetorically think about each other
00:04:12.720these european countries are like moving forward with the united states whereas canada is stuck in
00:04:18.180elbows up mode, where to our own detriment, we don't actually want to try and repair the
00:04:24.640relationship. Now, people are going to say, well, Trump was the problem. That's why there's a
00:04:29.340rupture in the relationship. Okay. Okay. Let's just say that's true. Now, I think Canada had
00:04:35.980been basically, I think it's a little bit more of a it takes two situation than many people say in
00:04:41.820canada well let's say it's a hundred percent america's fault maybe possibly the best thing
00:04:48.220that we should be doing is not running around to european leaders and trying to be the country
00:04:53.540telling everyone not to be friendly with the united states that doesn't look very good when
00:04:58.280we come to the negotiating table and the american negotiators are going to like be bringing this up
00:05:03.840that hey as a part of the negotiations can you stop can the leader of your country stop texting
00:05:11.120the Prime Minister of Spain and the Chancellor of Germany to not be friendly with us, to not trust
00:05:18.360us, that's kind of a bad look. It creates a trust problem between Canada and America,
00:05:23.840while Canada is telling everyone else not to trust America. But anyways, now I want to get in
00:05:30.300to this video with Pete Hoogstra on Global News, talking about the current state of trade
00:05:36.640negotiations with Mexico and then Canada, because this is very telling of the whole situation.
00:05:43.160He can speak openly about everything that's going on in the negotiations with Mexico,
00:05:47.500but Canada, it's still radio silence where we are currently at in trade negotiations.
00:05:54.000It's almost like we're going nowhere fast.
00:05:57.280We and the Mexicans believe that we have made significant progress at initially a 30,000
00:06:04.420foot level saying, okay, these are the things that are important to the U.S. These are the
00:06:09.580things that are important to Mexico. Directionally, this is where we want to go. This is how we see
00:06:15.620the framework of an agreement. All right, now let's sit down and let's have the technical details
00:06:20.700worked out on these issues. And to do that, we got to sit across the table from each other
00:06:27.620and fill in the details. And that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. We've had two
00:06:32.100rounds of negotiations with Mexico to try to fill in the details. We have another one set for later
00:06:39.260on in the month of July, with a possibility of having one or two more rounds of talks
00:06:45.460in August. So significant progress at 30,000 feet saying, here's where we both want to go.
00:06:51.820This is directionally the issues that we want to address. We're kind of in alignment,
00:06:57.680what we want to accomplish. Now let's fill out the details. We haven't gotten to that point with
00:07:03.480Canada. So no significant progress with Canada. There's maybe been some progress, but not the
00:07:09.180significant amount of progress that says, OK, we know exactly where we're going. Now let's fill
00:07:15.480out the details. LeBlanc says the change means there's no more predictability between the trading
00:07:21.280partners. LeBlanc adds he's unsure how U.S. trade representative Jameson Greer intends
00:07:27.540to structure talks for the annual review, but bilateral talks could help reduce U.S. tariffs
00:07:33.440on Canadian goods that fall outside Kuzma's protections, including those on steel, aluminum,
00:07:38.880and softwood lumber. Apparently, Minister LeBlanc is just the minister of I don't knows. He doesn't
00:07:46.000know how anything's going at any particular time because what Pete Hoogstra is describing is that
00:07:52.280like like he said like Mexico and the Americans it's not like they're about to be done no one's
00:07:57.120expecting that trade deals get done in like a month I've never advocated that we can get this
00:08:03.140all firmed up in a week I've maybe said that we can like come to basically an agreement and then
00:08:07.560you had to fill in the details over time but we know where we are going but like Mexico actually
00:08:13.240has a direction. What Pete Hoegstra is then describing is that if Canada's progress is
00:08:19.660significantly way worse than Mexico, that means that we aren't even at 30,000 feet yet. We don't
00:08:27.520even know the direction that we want talks to be going into. We have no clue what we are actually
00:08:33.040going to do when it comes to, you know, things like supply management. We don't know what we're
00:08:38.480going to do about lumber, steel, aluminum, zero clue. We don't know what we're willing to give up
00:08:45.400or what we want America to give up. So how has this not just been a giant practice in futility?
00:08:53.240Mark Carney has, I think, been basically trying to make sure we don't get a deal with the United
00:08:59.160States. I think there's something ideological in the man's heart that hates America so much
00:09:04.500that regardless of what the U.S. did, what Trump said, okay, he said some bad things. I don't like
00:09:09.760the initial tariffs. They also don't like our supply management tariffs, to be fair, and they've
00:09:13.700been going on for like 40 years at this point. But let's just say, okay, I don't like anything
00:09:18.260that they've done. But the adult thing, the thing that Mark Carney promised to be the adult in the
00:09:24.480room, he should be willing to try and meet in the middle to get a deal. But he acts as if he is
00:09:30.860like he's acting this high-handed way while he is running the weaker economy with less military
00:09:37.280power and a smaller population and he's acting as if the americans are going to have to come to him
00:09:42.620and just offer everything and then we'll maybe give them like the smallest of concessions
00:09:47.000in response the whole everything that mark carney is doing right now in my opinion is directionally
00:09:54.980meant to keep Tox bogged down in the mud. Same thing with his pipeline plans. I really don't
00:10:01.860think he actually has his heart in building a pipeline. That's why we end up with a pipeline
00:10:07.900timeline for the southern route to the west coast of like 10 years. I believe that Danielle Smith,
00:10:14.960the premier of Alberta, is fully sincere about wanting to build pipelines. Obviously,
00:10:19.140that's like her brand. I think she likes building pipelines. She's having to work with Mark Carney,1.00
00:10:24.400And I think that she's having to happy talk her way into a deal that at best is going
00:10:29.980to be another decade until we actually are moving any substantially larger amount of
00:10:35.940oil and gas, at which point we'll actually probably need to double our pipeline capacity
00:10:40.840again, because every time we drag our feet and make it very late until we actually build
00:10:45.800a new project, at that point, the demand that we're trying to meet is not actually met by