Trump announces a delay in imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico until February 1st. Justin Trudeau and the rest of Team Canada are quick to point the finger at Doug Ford for the delay. But is it really Doug Ford or Justin Trudeau who is to blame?
00:05:52.640How many Americans should die of fentanyl and other opioids entering their country from Canada without saying something about it?
00:06:00.500Our government has already acted to address the concerns raised by the president about border security with an over $1 billion comprehensive border plan.
00:06:51.240Working in unison with Team Canada, as Team Canada, with business leaders, organized labor, civil society, indigenous leaders, and premiers from coast to coast to coast,
00:07:02.740We are prepared for every possible scenario.
00:07:07.400In fact, just last night, I spoke to Premier Ford in his capacity as chair of the Council of the Federation,
00:07:13.400and he reiterated his unwavering commitment on behalf of Canadian premiers to working all together.
00:08:34.340These are the total violent crimes that have occurred per year since Trudeau took office in 2015.
00:08:41.460So this is going to have some Harper overlap, too, there.
00:08:44.180But these are all criminal code violations, violent criminal code violations.
00:08:49.0602015 in Canada, all across the country, there are 382,115 incidents of violent crime.
00:08:56.240These are going to be things that people actually get arrested and charged for or just reports because naturally you don't catch everybody.
00:09:03.080That's just how crime statistics are compiled.
00:09:56.240We just found two drug labs very close to the U.S. border in British Columbia.
00:10:02.060There are these like sort of like fake farming facilities that when they went in, they were like the biggest drug busts in Canadian history.
00:10:07.780They just caught a truck driver who came from Canada, who's not a Canadian citizen, but he's worked for a trucking company in Canada.
00:10:15.100He was just caught in Arizona with massive amounts of drugs in his truck.
00:10:29.560Yes, Mexico is also a bigger country in terms of population.
00:10:32.280They are a poor country that has more interactions along the border because people want to get into the U.S.
00:10:37.200where Canada is a decently comfortable middle class country where people don't try and run over the border.
00:10:42.820Yes, so we have less migrants over the border.
00:10:45.160But with all the decriminalizations, all the hydromorphone pills everywhere because of David Eby,
00:10:49.840do you think that some of the stuff isn't getting into Washington state, isn't traveling down to Oregon, isn't getting into Idaho or Montana?
00:12:45.500But he did this absurd thing where he went to Danielle Smith, or he was talking about her,
00:12:49.700he said, I understand that you care about your province and the oil and gas industry means a lot to you guys.
00:12:55.520And he does this rambling thing about how, you know, provincial sovereignty and autonomy matters, but country comes first.
00:13:03.660So you're saying all that doesn't matter compared to you.
00:13:05.560And he's like, I understand it because we have an auto sector and you have an oil and gas industry.
00:13:09.800And I got mad the other day because I'm like, no, do not compare those two because the oil and gas industry can survive without subsidies.
00:13:16.620The auto industry cannot because of how crazy high income taxes, business taxes, regulations are both in Canada as well as Ontario specifically.
00:13:26.580These are not equivalent. Your subsidy industry is not like our oil and gas industry that actually produces pure profit for the country.
00:13:35.440But Doug Ford wants Alberta to shut off the taps of energy going to the U.S. if he wants to start a trade war.
00:13:43.620Danielle Smith doesn't. She's been actually cleaning up her backyard, but everyone else hasn't.
00:13:49.120And they're wondering, well, why isn't Alberta patriotic like we are willing to sink the country over something extremely stupid?
00:13:56.560Here's Danielle Smith talking about the.
00:14:01.040I'll get to this maybe part a little bit later, but I want to jump over to a statement because it was made a little bit longer ago.
00:14:07.260I thought John Rustad did a really good job on this issue, and he just released another statement today talking about why we need to actually get serious on this issue of trade.
00:14:16.740So John Rustad was going after David Eby for effectively trying to antagonize Trump, again, probably to pop up his polling numbers because he's deeply unpopular post-election.
00:14:27.100And Rustad's entirely right. Yes, seriousness does not mean, you know, aggressive, assertive.
00:14:32.700It means acting like an actual trade partner. It means acting like an ally.
00:14:38.020Guess what? Trump doesn't probably actually want the tariffs to go in place.
00:14:41.960Yes, he likes tariffs, but he likes tariffs on China.
00:14:45.740He's upping the tariffs on China right now.
00:14:48.200But do you really think that he's going to have an equivalent tariff on Canada and China?
00:14:53.840Trump's upping the tariffs on China to like 20 percent, 30 percent.
00:14:57.820Do you really think that Trump is going to have an equivalent size tariff on Canada?
00:15:03.000The northern states are going to be ticked at him in the midterm elections if that happens.
00:15:07.480Think of how much energy and farm products that go into the U.S. from Canada go to those northern states and are like the main source of like cheap grains, energy, softwood lumber, all this stuff.
00:15:24.140And Trump would lose representation in the midterms in those northern midwestern states if he screws around too much like this, if he's unreasonable.
00:15:31.760If we actually did the border stuff, he would have no incentive to do the tariffs because all these northern states would look at it and say, Canada did what you want.
00:15:40.340And now you're punishing us because our prices are going up as the tariffs.
00:15:44.200So anyways, but John has a good perspective on this.
00:15:47.680Hi, John Rustad here with the Conservative Party of British Columbia and on a beautiful, sunny day here in Vancouver.
00:15:54.040Tomorrow, Monday, is the day that President Trump takes over.
00:15:59.480There is the threats of the tariffs that are going to be happening between the United States and Canada, in particular British Columbia.
00:16:06.360We have a government both federally and now provincially with David Avey that are threatening to expand this trade war.
00:16:14.000The results of that would be absolutely devastating.
00:16:16.620We need to be doing everything we can to try to work with the Americans, to try to make sure we protect our borders, stop the flow of fentanyl into this province, deal with our port issues.
00:16:29.400He's not identifying this as a problem where we need to do something for the Americans.
00:16:33.800He's pointing out that there is fentanyl pouring into British Columbia, often from China, because there's no port security anymore.
00:16:43.460They just don't give a crap what comes into the province, and if they catch you with the stuff, well, it's decriminalized that the police aren't going to take it that seriously.
00:16:52.540Yes, there are certain limits on how much you can be carrying on you, but still, it means that the province overall has heavily de-emphasized doing anything about drugs anywhere.
00:17:02.540I'll let Hymns talk a little bit longer here.
00:17:06.740The damage that will be done, tens of thousands of jobs could be lost, the amount of revenue that would be lost as a province, but most importantly, the damage this would do to our resource sectors, to all of the sectors that are doing trade with the United States, is just immeasurable.
00:17:22.420I was just at the Natural Resource Forum in Prince George, the truck loggers here in Vancouver.
00:17:27.060I'm now attending the mining conference here in Vancouver this week, and I can tell you, all of them, all of those sectors are extremely worried about what is to come.
00:17:37.260David Eby is putting at risk the people in this province by threatening a trade war instead of actually figuring out how you work with the Americans.
00:17:45.900That's where I'd probably disagree with John, but naturally, you don't want to sideswipe other provinces as the BC opposition leader, because Ford has also been ramping up the rhetoric, as we know.
00:18:03.660But now I want to get to a response to John that I thought was absolutely insane from this Mark Marison guy, and this is why Canadian nationalism can be very annoying.
00:19:07.820So here we have, this is a good interview here with Vashi Capellos at CTV News roasting Jagmeet Singh.
00:19:18.580I give her a lot of credit because she is pointing out the hypocrisy of politicians like Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the federal NDP, for thinking that in this trade war, they're just going to be able to use Alberta's energy sector as leverage.
00:19:31.880When Alberta never asked for any of this, and I thought in this country we were supposed to have a certain, we were supposed to have a strong federalism where provinces get to get to at least to some extent choose what they do.
00:19:46.340And so the thing is that, yes, they can levy tariffs on our oil and gas, and Alberta would, or the buyers of Alberta oil would have to pay that.
00:20:07.420I think Premier Smith's point, though, at some instances has been, and I certainly do understand the criticism that you're levying, but it has been like we're so reliant on sending our stuff to the U.S., including oil,
00:20:21.900because there has not been any sort of, you know, will at the level of the federal government for building pipelines or other ways to get this product to other markets.
00:20:31.980I mean, your party, and you specifically, Mr. Singh, have opposed the building of pipelines, including TMX and the federal government spending money on that at every step of the way.
00:20:42.560Do you not, you know, is there not some culpability there in the fact that we are so vulnerable as an export market when it comes to our energy to just the U.S.?
00:20:50.460And I'm going to get to his response in a second, but I just want to point out, this is why Team Canada is such a scam.
00:20:57.540All of the people on Team Canada don't actually care about Canada.
00:21:01.540These are the same people who called Canada post-national state.
00:21:05.340They're the same people who attack the oil and gas industry in Alberta and in Saskatchewan and Newfoundland.
00:21:12.260They don't actually care about Canada unless they get to be anti-Trump at the same time.
00:21:17.780Their nationalism is all about how left-wing they seem.
00:21:21.020And because Trump is on the right, now they're willing to be patriotic Canadians because they get to flex how left they are.
00:21:27.720This is why I don't care about any, I don't, that's why I'm like, I'm not trying to like side with Trump here.
00:21:38.160We can easily meet those concerns and we can head off this trade war at the pass.
00:21:42.420But all these people are doing the bare minimum to head it off because I feel like they genuinely want the trade war because it might help them.
00:21:49.380It might make them seem like tough guys.
00:21:52.900There's no doubt that diversification is important.
00:21:55.280We need to be able to produce more in our own country.
00:21:57.900We need to refine more in our own country.
00:21:59.800The fact that we have got such an incredible wealth of critical minerals, but we're not actually building the batteries in our country.
00:22:05.640We're not actually refining those products with our timber as well.
00:22:09.640We log, but we don't refine or add value to the raw goods that we produce in our country.
00:22:15.820So maybe that has to do with our high taxes and regulations, Mr. Singh.
00:22:21.680Maybe being a much higher tax jurisdiction than the U.S. is a bad thing.
00:22:27.980That's a serious concern that we've had.
00:22:29.980The liberals and conservatives have been in power since the beginning of this country.
00:22:32.600And they've certainly failed on that front to develop a more developed economy, an economy that adds value to the raw resources that we have.
00:22:42.280But, Mr. Singh, I'm asking you about oil, right?
00:22:44.760You have been opposed to pipelines that would allow for Canada to export its oil to other places other than the United States.
00:23:44.040But essentially, we're in a place where four years after we thought there wouldn't be another Donald Trump, there is one.
00:23:49.140And we're incredibly vulnerable to the prospect of any tariffs because of our reliance on the U.S. as an export market.
00:23:55.060And I was just asking about whether or not oil should only go there or if there, you know, there's some, if it's been, you know, short-sighted to essentially oppose getting oil to other places so that we're not so vulnerable.
00:24:06.920So she was giving him a third attempt to try and answer this question.
00:24:10.940Well, I mean, I wouldn't focus on just one product.
00:24:12.840I think in general, my response to that is in general, the previous governments, both conservative and liberal, have not built an economy in Canada where we do more than just take out raw materials.
00:24:25.000You know, you can't say, well, we have to become more a country where we do more than just take out raw materials from the ground and ship it to the U.S.
00:24:34.180You were helping Trudeau for like the last, not even two years.
00:24:37.300That's when they signed the agreement.
00:24:38.460But he's been propping up the government since 2019.
00:24:40.400You could have done anything during this time to make it work, to make Canada's economy work better by reducing tax and regulations.
00:24:48.280But Jagmeet Singh is allergic to anything that is a free market solution because he is a socialist.
00:24:54.000Anyways, so now I'm going to jump to Daniel Smith's interview yesterday.
00:24:58.820I thought it was quite good, her statements on all this.
00:25:03.840So she is talking specifically about the way that the rest of Canada's leaders and premiers have been sort of positioning themselves on this issue.
00:25:13.180And I think she is taking a purely common sense position and stance on how to deal with the U.S. right now.
00:25:20.020You know, we spoke to Dominic LeBlanc this morning and we were talking about the first minister's meeting.
00:25:26.720And he said, you know, we got a grade of 12 out of 13, which is like an A-plus grade, but it's not perfect.
00:25:34.360Presumably Alberta was the grade that they didn't quite get.
00:25:37.260And then you have Premier Ford saying that it left him with the impression that maybe you weren't putting Canada first.
00:25:46.980Well, I can tell you, I would never go out publicly and say we should stop selling car parts as a way of making a point to the Americans and hurt Ontario.
00:25:54.940I'd never go out and say we should stop selling aluminum to Americans as a way to make a point to hurt Quebec.
00:25:59.960And it hurt me that they felt that they could make that same argument that Alberta should sacrifice our interests in order to try to advance some kind of trade war.
00:26:34.620This is all such short-term political gamesmanship going on right now.
00:26:39.520I propose them to either the West or East Coast.
00:26:42.380And maybe this should be a moment of reckoning for us as a country.
00:26:46.080That part of the reason all of us look North-South is because areas of the years have made it very difficult to do business East-West.
00:26:54.300So maybe that's what we should be talking about is how to help each other so collectively we can sell our products to the world,
00:27:00.560whether that's to America or whether it's off the West Coast or whether it's off the East Coast.
00:27:04.020So maybe that's a far more constructive conversation to have than how do you sacrifice one province's interests in order to be able to protect the rest.
00:27:11.520And unfortunately, we don't have to have that conversation today because we don't have tariffs and we have the ability to have both of those conversations,
00:27:17.680a constructive conversation with each other and then a constructive conversation with our American friends.
00:27:22.200So for sure, that conversation is not today.
00:27:23.820There are enough things for people to talk and worry about today.
00:27:26.200But yeah, she's been doing a great job.
00:27:29.260And again, you guys know I am not one to heap praise on Danielle Smith when it isn't absolutely deserved,
00:27:36.840because I think that she also needs to be reducing income taxes and business taxes in Alberta, regulations, wasteful spending.
00:27:43.640Spending's gone up by more than 10% to 13% since she's become premier.
00:27:47.520I think there's a lot of stuff we need to be slashing.
00:27:50.500But on this specific issue, she's been great.
00:27:53.220And now I need to cut over to this article from the Taiyi in British Columbia,
00:27:58.420one of the most absurd things I've ever read in my life.
00:28:01.740So this article by this writer, David Clemenga or whatever,