The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 21, 2025


Trudeau⧸Ford ＂Team Canada＂ is a SCAM - Putting Canada in Danger!


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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?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:03.620 This Team Canada stuff by Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford is absolutely exhausting me.
00:00:10.420 It's a complete scam to try and excuse the poor leadership of people like Ford and Trudeau
00:00:16.340 and try and blame it on people not gathering around the flag like Danielle Smith and John
00:00:22.820 Rustad and Pierre Polyev because are you siding with Donald Trump on the 25% tariffs?
00:00:30.000 Obviously, nobody actually is and the tariffs wouldn't even be on the table if it wasn't
00:00:36.620 for people like Justin Trudeau, but because Doug Ford and Trudeau's liberals are trying
00:00:41.880 to win an election here, they are going to try and form this stupid Team Canada coalition
00:00:47.940 and make themselves the figureheads of it to fight back against Donald Trump and the Americans.
00:00:54.400 All this is so stupid.
00:00:55.540 So yesterday, at the start of the day, it was announced that Trump was not going to
00:00:59.760 put tariffs on Canada and Mexico on day one, which was something that he had previously
00:01:05.000 promised to do and now he's pushed it back to February 1st in this video we are about
00:01:10.140 to watch.
00:01:11.160 And all of it is not because Trump wants to tariff us.
00:01:14.960 He has not been using the rhetoric he uses against China of China ripping the US off on
00:01:20.280 trade, he has purely been talking in the realms of border security, border security and fentanyl.
00:01:27.300 That is his concern with Canada and Mexico.
00:01:30.120 And for some reason, Ford and Trudeau and other people like Jagmeet Singh and David Eby want
00:01:36.300 to go on a war footing against the US and figure out what we're going to do to retaliate when
00:01:41.520 we just have to do the most basic of border security that we should have been doing for
00:01:46.480 decades.
00:01:47.600 Anyways, before I show you the clip of Trump and we're going to be watching a lot of clips
00:01:51.160 today, mark my words, this might be a long episode.
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00:02:11.500 But here is Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office on the first day of his second term
00:02:16.000 talking about the US and Canada and his 25% tariff threat.
00:02:20.480 We're thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada because they're allowing vast numbers 0.92
00:02:27.500 of people, Canada is a very bad abuser also, vast numbers of people to come in and fentanyl 1.00
00:02:33.040 to come in.
00:02:34.100 When do you think you would enact those?
00:02:35.760 I think February 1st.
00:02:37.400 Are you planning any of your notes for that?
00:02:39.300 I think we'll do it February 1st.
00:02:41.720 25% on both, sir?
00:02:43.100 Sir, on each.
00:02:44.000 And you'll notice there that with Trump talking about the US, like talking about Canada and
00:02:51.180 Mexico, he doesn't say because they've been taking advantage of us on trade and they deserve
00:02:56.440 these 25% tariffs and I'm punishing them.
00:02:59.100 No, it's February 1st.
00:03:01.000 So there's some time here.
00:03:02.760 If he wanted it right away, he'd put it in right away.
00:03:05.120 So he is given a timeline.
00:03:06.680 We have 10 days, not a lot.
00:03:08.400 But he probably wants Canada and Mexico to come to the table and say, here, we've put
00:03:14.480 $100 million on the table to better patrol our unguarded border, put drones in the air,
00:03:22.100 install better scanners for trucks to detect drugs and illegal weapons.
00:03:27.420 In fact, that would help Canada because a lot of illegal weapons come into Canada from
00:03:31.200 the US.
00:03:31.940 So there's tons of benefits here for Canada to just do the thing that Trump wants us
00:03:36.260 to do.
00:03:36.600 And it's not, oh, but we can't just do things that Trump demands of us.
00:03:40.880 Okay, should he demand it this way?
00:03:43.040 Maybe not.
00:03:44.120 Okay, it's happened now.
00:03:45.820 And now what are we going to do?
00:03:47.260 And the way that people like Justin Trudeau are trying to frame this and talk about it
00:03:51.720 is extremely unproductive.
00:03:53.920 And my theory is, and this is going along with the scam of it all, is that Trudeau wants
00:03:59.740 us to be tariffed.
00:04:00.720 Doug Ford wants us to be tariffed.
00:04:02.520 Because then they get to seem like patriotic heroes fighting it back against Donald Trump.
00:04:08.340 When in fact, we could just try and see eye to eye with them.
00:04:11.360 The way Danielle Smith has been doing, she's been doing a very good job on this.
00:04:15.280 She has been quarterbacking Canada's actual representation to the US.
00:04:19.760 But then you have people like Trudeau here, who like briefly pays the faintest of lip service
00:04:25.660 to the idea of border security, and then immediately goes on about how we have to retaliate.
00:04:30.540 President Trump also repeated his concerns about the border.
00:04:33.580 While less than 1% of fentanyl and illegal immigrants that enter the United States come from Canada.
00:04:41.460 Okay.
00:04:42.660 No.
00:04:44.100 The amount of people and drugs caught is only about 1% from Canada.
00:04:50.340 The thing is that we have the longest unguarded border on the planet with the US.
00:04:56.280 And we do basically nothing to make sure that guns and fentanyl and people are not going over the border.
00:05:04.660 The thing is that if you actually look at those who illegally enter the US from Canada,
00:05:10.960 they are 10 times more likely to be on the terror watch list than people entering from Mexico.
00:05:17.600 We have way more people who when they are deciding to smuggle themselves into the US and they're on a terror watch list,
00:05:23.580 well, why not just walk through the border between Manitoba and the Dakotas and nobody's ever going to notice?
00:05:32.540 That's the problem here.
00:05:34.140 But Trudeau is going to pretend, see, it's not even a really big deal.
00:05:37.400 Why are you belittling the problem?
00:05:39.860 Think about how many people in the US are allowed to die from fentanyl.
00:05:44.040 It's bad enough we let our own people die from fentanyl and we decriminalize drugs in places like Toronto and British Columbia.
00:05:51.200 And we have our own people dying.
00:05:52.640 How many Americans should die of fentanyl and other opioids entering their country from Canada without saying something about it?
00:06:00.500 Our government has already acted to address the concerns raised by the president about border security with an over $1 billion comprehensive border plan.
00:06:10.720 Have you done it yet?
00:06:11.960 Or is it a plan?
00:06:13.140 That's the thing I don't like.
00:06:14.420 Like, Daniel Smith has been putting money in to increase border security along ports of entry as well as unguarded parts of the border.
00:06:22.380 What I'm hearing from Trudeau is we're talking about it.
00:06:25.440 We have a plan, a billion dollar plan.
00:06:28.040 Okay, but implementation is what you need.
00:06:30.160 Put people on the border.
00:06:31.860 Put drones along the border.
00:06:33.360 My goodness.
00:06:33.700 We're already working collaboratively to keep our citizens safe on both sides of the border.
00:06:39.800 Of course, if the president does choose to proceed with tariffs on Canada, Canada will respond.
00:06:48.240 And everything is on the table.
00:06:51.240 Working 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,
00:07:02.740 We are prepared for every possible scenario.
00:07:07.400 In fact, just last night, I spoke to Premier Ford in his capacity as chair of the Council of the Federation,
00:07:13.400 and he reiterated his unwavering commitment on behalf of Canadian premiers to working all together.
00:07:21.180 You guys are both idiots. 0.80
00:07:23.120 And every premier who links arms with Doug Ford is just enabling Doug Ford to try and win re-election.
00:07:28.600 That's all Doug Ford wants out of all of this.
00:07:30.640 Doug Ford could be like Daniel Smith and say,
00:07:33.220 Okay, well, we've increased border security along Windsor or along any other ports of entry in Ontario,
00:07:39.920 and we put some drones in the air.
00:07:41.600 And so now it's on you guys that if you guys put up tariffs, then we will have to retaliate because we've already done what you've asked.
00:07:46.740 That would be a perfectly fine response.
00:07:48.620 But they have lip service to the thing they actually want.
00:07:51.100 And then they spend like 90% of their time talking about how they're going to retaliate.
00:07:54.980 This is an important and challenging moment for Canada and for Canadians.
00:08:02.820 And we know there will be many such moments.
00:08:06.640 Through all of it, I want to be clear that we have Canadians' backs.
00:08:12.440 That's why I'm leaving, effective almost immediately.
00:08:16.100 I'm leaving in March, so don't blame me for any of this, guys.
00:08:19.520 I want to show you something, too, because that irked me.
00:08:22.820 And I already had a tab open related to this, even though I didn't think I was going to be using this for the video.
00:08:27.700 When he talks about he's already doing a lot to try and keep people safe on both sides of the border.
00:08:32.560 By the way, violent crime incidents.
00:08:34.340 These are the total violent crimes that have occurred per year since Trudeau took office in 2015.
00:08:41.460 So this is going to have some Harper overlap, too, there.
00:08:44.180 But these are all criminal code violations, violent criminal code violations.
00:08:49.060 2015 in Canada, all across the country, there are 382,115 incidents of violent crime.
00:08:56.240 These are going to be things that people actually get arrested and charged for or just reports because naturally you don't catch everybody.
00:09:03.080 That's just how crime statistics are compiled.
00:09:06.020 The 382,000.
00:09:07.860 Now, let's go to 2023.
00:09:11.860 572,000.
00:09:13.780 That is a little bit of an increase.
00:09:16.180 In fact, let's just figure out how much of an increase that is.
00:09:21.980 Like, what is the percentage that 2015 is of our current year?
00:09:28.300 382.
00:09:30.840 I am obsessed with this right now.
00:09:33.500 Sorry.
00:09:35.760 We only had 66% of the crime rate in 2015 that we currently do in 2023.
00:09:43.300 So it's gone up by a full third.
00:09:46.740 Absurd.
00:09:47.580 And he's going to say, oh, no, I'm cracking down on crime.
00:09:50.620 I'm trying to keep people safe on both sides of the border.
00:09:53.060 You're not.
00:09:54.120 You're not at all.
00:09:55.060 We have bail reform.
00:09:56.240 We just found two drug labs very close to the U.S. border in British Columbia.
00:10:02.060 There are these like sort of like fake farming facilities that when they went in, they were like the biggest drug busts in Canadian history.
00:10:07.780 They 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.
00:10:15.100 He was just caught in Arizona with massive amounts of drugs in his truck.
00:10:20.100 I think there's a problem here.
00:10:22.220 Oh, it's not as big as Mexico's.
00:10:26.000 What does that mean?
00:10:27.220 What do these words even mean?
00:10:29.560 Yes, Mexico is also a bigger country in terms of population.
00:10:32.280 They are a poor country that has more interactions along the border because people want to get into the U.S.
00:10:37.200 where Canada is a decently comfortable middle class country where people don't try and run over the border.
00:10:42.820 Yes, so we have less migrants over the border.
00:10:45.160 But with all the decriminalizations, all the hydromorphone pills everywhere because of David Eby,
00:10:49.840 do 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?
00:10:55.980 I think that there probably is.
00:10:58.240 And definitely we probably have a lot of hubris.
00:11:00.900 We don't check into it.
00:11:01.880 By the way, if it is true that Canada is not part of the problem at all,
00:11:06.320 then let's just prove it so that it would look really silly if Trump was to then try and put tariffs on us.
00:11:12.040 Because what we're doing here is all the rhetoric is making it look like we're the guilty party by basically saying,
00:11:19.360 OK, we'll maybe check into that, but we're going to tariff you hard back.
00:11:22.180 Like, well, he asked you for something.
00:11:23.680 And your response is, we're going to tariff you as well.
00:11:26.200 Here's Doug Ford threatening that he's going to stop letting, like, American liquor products come onto LCBO shelves.
00:11:33.380 Absolutely silly.
00:11:34.440 And I talked to the great governor of Kentucky, and I remember in the last tariffs, we threw on the bourbon.
00:11:42.100 First thing out of his mouth is, don't touch my bourbon.
00:11:45.540 And I said, governor, that's a serious business down there when you touch with their bourbon.
00:11:50.780 It's like messing with their LCBO.
00:11:52.300 So I said, you know, governor, you've got to talk to your president, because the first thing we're doing, we're getting your bourbon.
00:12:00.220 And I've sent a direction to the LCBO, these tariffs come, to clear off every bit of U.S. alcohol off the shelves.
00:12:08.000 Let's start promoting more Ontario-made wines and the vodkas and spirits.
00:12:14.940 That's what we need to do.
00:12:16.240 We're the largest purchaser of alcohol in the entire world.
00:12:20.340 They will feel the pain.
00:12:21.440 I will make sure I communicate this to our other premiers that they should be following suit.
00:12:27.400 And he had this absurd statement the other day.
00:12:29.940 One, again, dude, how about you just say, hey, we've put up, we've increased the amount of border guards by 50%,
00:12:37.240 and we have drones monitoring undefended parts of the border so we can monitor if people are trying to cross.
00:12:43.700 That would be a better statement.
00:12:45.500 But he did this absurd thing where he went to Danielle Smith, or he was talking about her,
00:12:49.700 he said, I understand that you care about your province and the oil and gas industry means a lot to you guys.
00:12:55.520 And he does this rambling thing about how, you know, provincial sovereignty and autonomy matters, but country comes first.
00:13:03.660 So you're saying all that doesn't matter compared to you.
00:13:05.560 And he's like, I understand it because we have an auto sector and you have an oil and gas industry.
00:13:09.800 And 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.
00:13:16.620 The auto industry cannot because of how crazy high income taxes, business taxes, regulations are both in Canada as well as Ontario specifically.
00:13:26.580 These are not equivalent. Your subsidy industry is not like our oil and gas industry that actually produces pure profit for the country.
00:13:35.440 But Doug Ford wants Alberta to shut off the taps of energy going to the U.S. if he wants to start a trade war.
00:13:43.620 Danielle Smith doesn't. She's been actually cleaning up her backyard, but everyone else hasn't. 0.68
00:13:49.120 And they're wondering, well, why isn't Alberta patriotic like we are willing to sink the country over something extremely stupid?
00:13:56.560 Here's Danielle Smith talking about the. 0.84
00:14:01.040 I'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.
00:14:07.260 I 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.
00:14:16.740 So 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.
00:14:27.100 And Rustad's entirely right. Yes, seriousness does not mean, you know, aggressive, assertive.
00:14:32.700 It means acting like an actual trade partner. It means acting like an ally.
00:14:38.020 Guess what? Trump doesn't probably actually want the tariffs to go in place.
00:14:41.960 Yes, he likes tariffs, but he likes tariffs on China.
00:14:45.740 He's upping the tariffs on China right now.
00:14:48.200 But do you really think that he's going to have an equivalent tariff on Canada and China?
00:14:53.840 Trump's upping the tariffs on China to like 20 percent, 30 percent.
00:14:57.820 Do you really think that Trump is going to have an equivalent size tariff on Canada?
00:15:03.000 The northern states are going to be ticked at him in the midterm elections if that happens.
00:15:07.480 Think 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.
00:15:22.980 They need that stuff.
00:15:24.140 And Trump would lose representation in the midterms in those northern midwestern states if he screws around too much like this, if he's unreasonable.
00:15:31.760 If 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.
00:15:40.340 And now you're punishing us because our prices are going up as the tariffs.
00:15:44.200 So anyways, but John has a good perspective on this.
00:15:47.680 Hi, John Rustad here with the Conservative Party of British Columbia and on a beautiful, sunny day here in Vancouver.
00:15:54.040 Tomorrow, Monday, is the day that President Trump takes over.
00:15:59.480 There is the threats of the tariffs that are going to be happening between the United States and Canada, in particular British Columbia.
00:16:06.360 We have a government both federally and now provincially with David Avey that are threatening to expand this trade war.
00:16:14.000 The results of that would be absolutely devastating.
00:16:16.620 We 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.
00:16:27.460 And that's right.
00:16:28.360 That's correct, too.
00:16:29.400 He's not identifying this as a problem where we need to do something for the Americans.
00:16:33.800 He's pointing out that there is fentanyl pouring into British Columbia, often from China, because there's no port security anymore.
00:16:43.460 They 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.
00:16:52.540 Yes, 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.
00:17:02.540 I'll let Hymns talk a little bit longer here.
00:17:04.360 We're not creating a trade war.
00:17:06.740 The 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.
00:17:22.420 I was just at the Natural Resource Forum in Prince George, the truck loggers here in Vancouver. 0.99
00:17:27.060 I'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.
00:17:37.260 David 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.
00:17:45.900 That'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.
00:18:03.660 But 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.
00:18:19.520 I am a Canadian patriot.
00:18:20.860 I want this country to be better in the best way possible every day.
00:18:25.620 But there are so many people who think, oh, so you're giving credence to what Donald Trump said?
00:18:30.760 Are you unpatriotic?
00:18:31.760 Do you hate their country?
00:18:33.660 It is basic logic out the window when it comes to whether we like Canada or not.
00:18:39.040 I hope it doesn't, but tweets like this make it seem like it is.
00:18:42.880 Mark Marison here says, this is an unwise, unpatriotic tweet.
00:18:47.860 No one in Canada started this unnecessary trade war.
00:18:50.900 If you're not on Team Canada, John, you're on Team Trump.
00:18:54.040 Yes, if you're not with us, then you're with the terrorists here.
00:18:59.180 Yeah, an absurd thing to say.
00:19:01.040 No, wanting a good relationship with the U.S. is not like pro-U.S.
00:19:07.300 Ridiculous.
00:19:07.820 So here we have, this is a good interview here with Vashi Capellos at CTV News roasting Jagmeet Singh.
00:19:18.580 I 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.
00:19:31.880 When 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.
00:19:46.340 And 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.
00:19:55.840 That is on the U.S.
00:19:56.880 But now politicians like Ford and Singh and Trudeau want Alberta to then just shut off the taps completely and just not sell to the U.S.
00:20:04.960 Well, that's going to do great things for our economy.
00:20:07.120 President.
00:20:07.420 I 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,
00:20:21.900 because 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.
00:20:31.980 I 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.
00:20:42.560 Do 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.?
00:20:50.460 And 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.
00:20:57.540 All of the people on Team Canada don't actually care about Canada.
00:21:01.540 These are the same people who called Canada post-national state.
00:21:05.340 They're the same people who attack the oil and gas industry in Alberta and in Saskatchewan and Newfoundland.
00:21:12.260 They don't actually care about Canada unless they get to be anti-Trump at the same time.
00:21:17.780 Their nationalism is all about how left-wing they seem.
00:21:21.020 And because Trump is on the right, now they're willing to be patriotic Canadians because they get to flex how left they are.
00:21:27.720 This 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.
00:21:36.040 I'm saying he has some concerns.
00:21:38.160 We can easily meet those concerns and we can head off this trade war at the pass.
00:21:42.420 But 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.
00:21:49.380 It might make them seem like tough guys.
00:21:52.900 There's no doubt that diversification is important.
00:21:55.280 We need to be able to produce more in our own country.
00:21:57.900 We need to refine more in our own country.
00:21:59.800 The fact that we have got such an incredible wealth of critical minerals, but we're not actually building the batteries in our country.
00:22:05.640 We're not actually refining those products with our timber as well.
00:22:09.640 We log, but we don't refine or add value to the raw goods that we produce in our country.
00:22:15.820 So maybe that has to do with our high taxes and regulations, Mr. Singh.
00:22:20.120 I'm just putting it out there.
00:22:21.680 Maybe being a much higher tax jurisdiction than the U.S. is a bad thing.
00:22:27.980 That's a serious concern that we've had.
00:22:29.980 The liberals and conservatives have been in power since the beginning of this country.
00:22:32.600 And 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.
00:22:42.280 But, Mr. Singh, I'm asking you about oil, right?
00:22:44.760 You have been opposed to pipelines that would allow for Canada to export its oil to other places other than the United States.
00:22:53.360 Is that a mistake?
00:22:54.740 I mean, I don't think that's relevant right now to the question of...
00:22:57.300 It's not relevant.
00:22:58.760 Vashi, I can't believe you.
00:23:00.240 You're asking me hard questions.
00:23:01.700 Don't you realize I am Jagmeet Singh?
00:23:04.940 How dare you ask me a question about my inconsistency?
00:23:08.380 ...tariffs being imposed on Canada and in response to us being willing to do whatever is necessary.
00:23:13.920 And I disagree with Daniel Smith, who's prematurely pulling back a potential tool.
00:23:18.240 I think in negotiating, you need to have all your tools ready to go and you escalate them as necessary.
00:23:24.480 We need to respond if there are tariffs.
00:23:26.660 We're tariffs in kind.
00:23:27.580 We also need to make it clear, I think, to the workers that might be impacted that we will have their back, that we will support them.
00:23:34.020 So that's my focus.
00:23:34.880 Yeah, I guess from my perspective, the relevancy is more in the medium to long term, right?
00:23:41.900 And oil is one aspect of it.
00:23:44.040 But essentially, we're in a place where four years after we thought there wouldn't be another Donald Trump, there is one.
00:23:49.140 And we're incredibly vulnerable to the prospect of any tariffs because of our reliance on the U.S. as an export market.
00:23:55.060 And 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.
00:24:06.920 So she was giving him a third attempt to try and answer this question.
00:24:10.940 Well, I mean, I wouldn't focus on just one product.
00:24:12.840 I 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.
00:24:25.000 You 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.
00:24:34.180 You were helping Trudeau for like the last, not even two years.
00:24:37.300 That's when they signed the agreement.
00:24:38.460 But he's been propping up the government since 2019.
00:24:40.400 You could have done anything during this time to make it work, to make Canada's economy work better by reducing tax and regulations.
00:24:48.280 But Jagmeet Singh is allergic to anything that is a free market solution because he is a socialist.
00:24:54.000 Anyways, so now I'm going to jump to Daniel Smith's interview yesterday.
00:24:58.820 I thought it was quite good, her statements on all this.
00:25:02.620 She's on CNN here.
00:25:03.840 So 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.
00:25:13.180 And I think she is taking a purely common sense position and stance on how to deal with the U.S. right now.
00:25:20.020 You know, we spoke to Dominic LeBlanc this morning and we were talking about the first minister's meeting.
00:25:26.720 And 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.
00:25:34.360 Presumably Alberta was the grade that they didn't quite get.
00:25:37.260 And then you have Premier Ford saying that it left him with the impression that maybe you weren't putting Canada first.
00:25:44.700 You're putting Alberta first.
00:25:46.160 What do you say to that?
00:25:46.980 Well, 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.
00:25:54.940 I'd never go out and say we should stop selling aluminum to Americans as a way to make a point to hurt Quebec.
00:25:59.960 And 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.
00:26:10.060 I take a different approach.
00:26:11.180 Let's stop fighting with each other.
00:26:13.160 Let's maybe try to remove some of the internal trade barriers.
00:26:16.080 Maybe my fellow Premiers can stop blocking pipelines when we...
00:26:19.360 Another great point.
00:26:20.640 That is, again, why Team Canada is a scam.
00:26:24.040 How is it that we have interprovincial trade barriers that are at times tougher than our trade barriers with the U.S.
00:26:29.860 if we're so united and we're so much on the same side?
00:26:33.380 We're obviously not.
00:26:34.620 This is all such short-term political gamesmanship going on right now.
00:26:39.520 I propose them to either the West or East Coast.
00:26:42.380 And maybe this should be a moment of reckoning for us as a country.
00:26:46.080 That 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.
00:26:54.300 So 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,
00:27:00.560 whether that's to America or whether it's off the West Coast or whether it's off the East Coast.
00:27:04.020 So 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.
00:27:11.520 And 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,
00:27:17.680 a constructive conversation with each other and then a constructive conversation with our American friends.
00:27:22.200 So for sure, that conversation is not today.
00:27:23.820 There are enough things for people to talk and worry about today.
00:27:26.200 But yeah, she's been doing a great job.
00:27:29.260 And again, you guys know I am not one to heap praise on Danielle Smith when it isn't absolutely deserved,
00:27:36.840 because I think that she also needs to be reducing income taxes and business taxes in Alberta, regulations, wasteful spending. 0.93
00:27:43.640 Spending's gone up by more than 10% to 13% since she's become premier.
00:27:47.520 I think there's a lot of stuff we need to be slashing.
00:27:50.500 But on this specific issue, she's been great.
00:27:53.220 And now I need to cut over to this article from the Taiyi in British Columbia,
00:27:58.420 one of the most absurd things I've ever read in my life.
00:28:01.740 So this article by this writer, David Clemenga or whatever,
00:28:09.080 it says,
00:28:09.640 Daniel Smith's dangerous sabotage of Team Canada.
00:28:13.040 Oh, she's so unpatriotic. 1.00
00:28:15.640 Listen to this.
00:28:16.400 It just starts, I knew as soon as I hit the second sentence,
00:28:20.460 we needed to talk about this today.
00:28:21.800 So I'll make it bigger on screen.
00:28:24.660 It starts off saying,
00:28:26.700 If Alberta Premier Daniel Smith intends to defy an all-party, all-province national consensus
00:28:32.800 on how to respond to Donald Trump's tariff threats,
00:28:35.640 she should call a provincial election and get a mandate to do so.
00:28:39.160 So it's not a consensus if everyone's not even on board.
00:28:42.060 By the way, Scott Moe was barely on board.
00:28:44.320 He showed up to the meeting, but he has been very wary about agreeing fully with what Trudeau and Ford are doing.
00:28:50.200 But here's the second sentence.
00:28:51.640 This is demonstrating what Team Canada is all about.
00:28:54.480 It's about leftism.
00:28:56.120 It is about Canada uniting along basically a banner of leftism.
00:29:03.440 He says, this David guy, this writer, who is David Clemenga, says,
00:29:08.640 After all, notwithstanding the disproportionate number of mega-ideologues and Alberta separatists
00:29:16.120 in her United Conservative Party caucus and cabinet,
00:29:19.120 most Albertans are loyal Canadians who put their country first.
00:29:22.960 What is he possibly talking about?
00:29:25.840 Which mega-ideologues, which Alberta separatists are currently in the UCP caucus and cabinet?
00:29:33.360 Name one.
00:29:34.940 And this isn't to say that none of them are, like, conservative
00:29:37.660 or would be maybe, like, Republicans if they were in the U.S.,
00:29:41.400 but which of them are, like, mega?
00:29:43.920 Or unless he means make Alberta great again, which I have no problem with that.
00:29:47.700 But it's demonstrating the sick mind behind people who think that it's unpatriotic
00:29:52.540 for Alberta to actually have its own interests.
00:29:55.200 This is why I get driven up the wall whenever I see articles coming out saying,
00:29:59.220 Oh, you know that Alberta's the province that most other provinces see, like, dislike the most?
00:30:05.360 Yeah, maybe it's because we over here live in reality,
00:30:08.560 and so many other provinces are very upset about the reality that we live in
00:30:13.000 and are wondering why we don't join them in their fictitious world.
00:30:16.980 But this article goes on to say,
00:30:18.440 We Albertans have been learning to live with oppositional defiant disorders
00:30:23.440 as a form of government ever since Smith became premier in 2022.
00:30:29.700 The trouble is that it isn't funny anymore now that she's become a serious national problem.
00:30:35.220 We need a government in Alberta with a clear mandate
00:30:37.440 if we are to step outside the national consensus
00:30:40.020 in what is potentially the gravest economic crisis
00:30:42.960 our country has faced since the Great Depression.
00:30:45.560 I dare Nahed Nenshi to run on a platform for the Alberta NDP
00:30:51.300 of cutting off oil and gas shipments.
00:30:55.940 I dare him to do that.
00:30:58.380 Even Nahed Nenshi, who is a complete self-important dweeb,
00:31:02.380 is not stupid enough, he is not overeducated enough
00:31:05.900 to think that that would be a good idea for the province
00:31:08.620 to cut off oil and gas shipments to the United States to make Doug Ford happy.
00:31:13.240 I don't want to make Doug Ford happy.
00:31:15.120 That is in fact one of the things I least want to do in life.
00:31:18.320 Doug Ford is a terrible premier.
00:31:20.220 He is not a conservative at all.
00:31:21.800 It is just that he happens to possess the progressive conservative party of Ontario at the moment.
00:31:26.620 He is just a progressive.
00:31:28.300 He is effectively no different than the liberals in the NDP.
00:31:31.620 And I'm not going to do what Justin Trudeau wants
00:31:34.860 when he's not even going to be in office in like a couple months.
00:31:38.340 He is not going to be the prime minister,
00:31:40.320 and he's not even running for re-election.
00:31:42.140 But we're going to link arms with that guy.
00:31:44.920 We're going to link arms with him because he obviously knows the secret sauce on how to lead Canada.
00:31:51.380 By the way, if you live in Ontario, vote for the new blue party of Ontario.
00:31:55.740 It's a party that is actually conservative.
00:31:58.320 It's running on the simple idea that maybe the PC party should actually fulfill the promises it made in 2018.
00:32:05.040 And so it's a party based around doing the things that PC members would have actually wanted the government to do.
00:32:10.560 But anyways, this is just frustrating to watch because we, I actually think, the chances of a trade war,
00:32:18.640 the chances of tariffs being put on Canada if Canadian premiers and the prime minister were all acting rational is 0%.
00:32:26.500 We are now at a stage where I think there's probably about a 50% chance of tariffs coming on,
00:32:32.180 and it has nothing to do with Trump being unreasonable.
00:32:35.240 Should he have said that he's going to put on 25% tariffs?
00:32:38.600 No.
00:32:38.900 Well, he said it now, and now it's Canada's turn to do the right thing, to make the right moves here.
00:32:44.600 And we're pretending we don't know the rules of the game,
00:32:47.600 and we're pretending that we don't even know what Trump's asking us to do
00:32:50.660 or what we could do to reach across the aisle to make him actually say,
00:32:54.780 you know what, fair enough, they tried, let's work together.
00:32:58.140 We're not doing any of that because we want headlines.
00:33:00.880 We want to seem patriotic.
00:33:03.840 It's not patriotic to flush your economy down the drain
00:33:06.840 for the political prospects of a very unpopular premier like Doug Ford and David Eby.
00:33:13.900 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys.
00:33:16.900 Remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel,
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00:33:24.180 And I'll be back next time.
00:33:25.840 I'll probably have to talk about Team Canada sometime before February 1st
00:33:30.780 because this keeps getting dumber as time goes on.
00:33:33.780 It keeps getting more self-sabotaging.
00:33:37.240 Pierre Poliev has been doing a good job on this.
00:33:39.340 He has basically taken the same stance as John Rust did,
00:33:41.800 that he doesn't have to agree with everything that Trump says,
00:33:45.200 but our initial knee-jerk response to say trade war
00:33:48.760 is the dumbest thing we could possibly do
00:33:50.940 and we need to be able to actually see eye-to-eye with the U.S. administration
00:33:55.220 if we're going to be able to actually work with them.
00:33:58.900 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys.
00:34:01.700 Have a good one.