The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 02, 2025


Trudeau is too weak to fight the trade war! Liberals are not ＂Team Canada＂


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

174.99467

Word Count

5,203

Sentence Count

357

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Justin Trudeau announces Canada will be retaliating against the Trump administration's 25% tariffs on $155 billion worth of U.S. goods. I talk about why this is a bad idea and why Canada should not be kicking back.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I wanted to make this video to respond to the entire U.S. Canada
00:00:07.360 tariff situation and talk about how Canada's politicians have utterly failed this country.
00:00:13.840 We are in such a weak position right now and it's not because of the U.S. and Donald Trump.
00:00:19.660 Yes, does the tariffs make life harder for Canadians? Sure, but so many of the problems
00:00:25.180 that have led up to this are mostly on our side of the border and it feels like the whole Team Canada
00:00:31.640 op that's going on right now is trying to paper over the fact that it's mostly been Canadian
00:00:37.460 politicians making life difficult for Canadians. Do I agree with Donald Trump putting tariffs on us
00:00:43.780 like this? No. At the same time, there's been a lot of unreasonable behavior on both sides of the border
00:00:50.360 and no, it's not unpatriotic to say that. I am a Canadian patriot. The difference with other people
00:00:57.540 who are just saying that Canada's right and the U.S. is wrong is they are what I would call a Canadian
00:01:02.340 nationalist, which is different than a patriot. A patriot wants our country to be better in the
00:01:08.460 best way possible for the long run. A nationalist just wants to say Canada's right, even when we
00:01:14.820 aren't right. I want to get into what Justin Trudeau said in his announcement today and then move on to
00:01:19.920 some other issues I don't think enough people are talking about. But before we get into that, guys,
00:01:24.900 remember to like this video, subscribe to the channel. I'm trying to get to 100,000 my mid-December.
00:01:30.740 Really appreciate it. If you share this video or if you subscribe, if you're not yet subscribed,
00:01:35.780 leave a comment on what you think about the whole situation. But without further ado, let's talk about
00:01:42.160 Justin Trudeau's announcement. Now, I'm going to say, honestly, wasn't too bad in the sense that Trudeau
00:01:49.180 kind of did moderate himself. He didn't act like he's a big man in the room who can take on the U.S.
00:01:55.220 He did have a more subtle tone, which was, you know, a decent move. The problem is, again, it doesn't
00:02:02.540 matter how good Trudeau's announcement was. He's not really the prime minister right now. Parliament
00:02:08.420 is not sitting. In fact, also the B.C. legislature, which is one of the other primary problems in Canada
00:02:15.000 right now, because that is where all of the drug trafficking is happening, or at least the plurality
00:02:20.240 of it, they're also not meeting because David Eby and the B.C. NDP want to be on like a 200-day
00:02:26.720 vacation. It's utterly ridiculous what's happening in British Columbia right now. But I just want to
00:02:32.300 play this 43 seconds. Trudeau talked about how like Canadians and Americans need to be friends and
00:02:38.060 we've always had a good relationship and we rely on each other for things. And that's all fine and good.
00:02:42.640 But let's get to really the meat of what he was after today.
00:02:46.260 The actions taken today by the White House split us apart instead of bringing us together.
00:02:55.540 Tonight, I am announcing Canada will be responding to the U.S. trade action with 25% tariffs against
00:03:04.560 $155 billion worth of American goods.
00:03:09.040 And that is approximately, based on what people have calculated, 30% of American exports into Canada.
00:03:17.740 This will include immediate tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods as of Tuesday, followed by further tariffs
00:03:26.860 on $125 billion worth of American products in 21 days' time to allow Canadian companies and supply chains
00:03:35.780 to seek to find alternatives.
00:03:38.400 And this is actually not that bad of an approach because, again, the problem with doing a tariff-for-tariff,
00:03:45.460 like dollar-for-dollar approach, is that it ratchets up attention so high that we cannot place ourselves as the reasonable ones.
00:03:53.400 Are we the reasonable ones?
00:03:56.400 Well, not really, and I'm going to get into that further.
00:03:58.400 But it is generally smart not to kick Canadians in the face by ramping up tariffs to a dollar-for-dollar amount.
00:04:04.080 I, unpopular opinion, would actually prefer we don't tariff the U.S., and that's not because I'm weak or I want the U.S. to win.
00:04:11.840 In fact, we would win if we didn't tariff them because their people would complain about their higher prices
00:04:17.560 while Canadians could keep buying stuff for the lower prices whenever an American product happens to be cheaper than other alternatives.
00:04:25.160 And so that's the approach I would take, but at least this is moderate.
00:04:29.800 But, again, the kind of man behind the curtain right now, the sort of thing that nobody kind of wants to acknowledge but we have to acknowledge,
00:04:38.080 is, is this guy really the prime minister right now?
00:04:41.940 Not really.
00:04:43.400 Even all his ministers, are they really the ministers?
00:04:47.300 Is Chrystia Freeland or Mark Carney, if they take over as prime minister,
00:04:51.260 Mark Carney, who wouldn't even have a seat in parliament, are they going to keep any of these people on?
00:04:56.700 That's the problem.
00:04:58.080 Donald Trump does not respect any of these people.
00:05:00.920 Should he respect them to be nice?
00:05:02.840 Maybe, but it doesn't matter.
00:05:04.440 And that's honestly my answer to a lot of people saying,
00:05:07.780 well, Trump's not being reasonable.
00:05:09.220 Well, maybe if we do increase border security or military spending, he still won't take off the tariffs.
00:05:14.240 Well, frankly, that doesn't matter because we don't know what he would have done
00:05:18.440 if we didn't have a government that has been insulting him for the last four years
00:05:22.580 or a government that has had its prime minister ostensibly resigned but not until March
00:05:28.260 and that we're not sitting and there's a liberal leadership race that's going on.
00:05:32.060 We can only deal in the reality that we're currently in.
00:05:34.960 And so many people want to kind of unpeel their minds and try and find the real secret reason why Trump is doing this.
00:05:40.820 His officials keep saying it's border security and NATO spending.
00:05:44.800 I think we can generally trust Trump's officials more than we can trust Trump
00:05:48.520 because Trump tends to bloviate a bit and he'll say something that he doesn't quite mean.
00:05:53.360 He'll say that we have a big trade deficit with Canada, but that's the thing he'll bring up.
00:05:57.540 But his officials who have the official readout of what Trump really wants from this
00:06:01.680 will keep saying it's border security and military spending.
00:06:05.160 And right now, in as much as they can actually do,
00:06:08.680 Alberta Premier Daniel Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe have been doing a good job
00:06:13.820 of visually and theatrically showing how much more security they're putting on the border.
00:06:19.660 Some people have said this, and I think it was actually J.J. McCullough who said it, who's right.
00:06:23.800 Actually, no, it wasn't J.J. McCullough. It was somebody else.
00:06:26.400 Although J.J.'s had some good points about all this.
00:06:28.500 He's mentioned that the problem with all this is that it's going to justify
00:06:31.540 other premiers and Trudeau and the liberals diving deeper into socialism,
00:06:36.320 more corporate welfare, higher taxes, more subsidies to random industries,
00:06:41.680 you know, more relief programs and more random things that we can't afford.
00:06:47.180 It's going to incentivize all that because we've got to be Team Canada right now.
00:06:50.800 That's what Doug Ford, the supposed conservative Ontario, is proposing.
00:06:54.700 And that's why I keep telling people, if you live in Ontario,
00:06:57.580 don't reward Doug Ford's complete nonsense with his early election
00:07:01.260 and pretending he's protecting Canada when he is, in fact, really shirking his duty
00:07:06.240 to increase border security at the time when that is the thing
00:07:09.620 that we could potentially avoid this thing by ramping up.
00:07:12.820 Again, you'll have people say, well, what happens if Trump doesn't remove the tariffs
00:07:17.760 even if we ramp up border security?
00:07:19.900 Well, that doesn't matter if we haven't checked, if we haven't called his bluff first.
00:07:25.860 If we actually, since December, when Trump first announced he might put tariffs on us,
00:07:30.580 if we quickly ramped up border security, showed that we had drones on the border
00:07:34.520 and all this stuff, guess what?
00:07:36.460 Trump loses his argument because now he would have to say,
00:07:39.620 I was lying and I just wanted to tariff you anyways,
00:07:42.200 which in northern U.S. states that rely on a lot of Canadian imports,
00:07:47.080 they would be a little bit ticked.
00:07:48.560 And then the Republicans would lose a ton of support in the midterms.
00:07:52.140 That is the real pressure point that Canadian politicians have.
00:07:56.880 Do what Trump generally wants if he's right about some things.
00:07:59.960 And he definitely is right about drugs and border security in Canada
00:08:04.300 and our lack of defense spending.
00:08:06.960 And then if he's lying, then you could basically go to his own people and say,
00:08:10.820 he was lying and he's about to make your life more expensive
00:08:13.680 simply because he wants revenues out of Canadian trade items,
00:08:17.220 which are going to make life way worse if you live in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho,
00:08:21.660 the Dakotas, Tennessee, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, all those states, Utah, all the way down to Louisiana.
00:08:31.640 Even Louisiana's main export import market is Canada.
00:08:36.480 Anyways, I thought this was a great take from J.J. McCullough
00:08:40.000 because right now Canada and Mexico are for some reason like uniting on this issue,
00:08:46.740 even though our border security issues are way different than Mexico.
00:08:50.780 We do have serious border concerns just as we actually have issues with U.S. border security.
00:08:56.740 The U.S. has issues with our border security,
00:08:58.900 but it's not even in the same universe as the type and scale of the issues with Mexico.
00:09:03.460 And in response to this post that Polymarket Intel said that Mexico and Canada
00:09:09.620 to announce details and joint retaliatory tariffs against the United States,
00:09:14.640 J.J. says, being linked to Mexico has caused enormous damage to Canada's interests.
00:09:19.820 The absolute last thing Trudeau should be doing right now is anything suggesting
00:09:24.100 we stand arm in arm with Mexico or whatever, but I bet he will.
00:09:28.460 And I, again, even though Trudeau's announcement wasn't terrible,
00:09:31.960 if he does stuff like this, that is the worst possible thing he could do.
00:09:36.720 I'm going to, before I go back to Trudeau,
00:09:38.640 I now need to jump over to British Columbia Premier David Eby,
00:09:43.560 who, let's be clear, is one of the main problems in this entire situation.
00:09:49.440 Where do you think the ports are that the U.S. has problems with?
00:09:53.500 It's all in British Columbia.
00:09:55.080 All the big drug labs are in British Columbia.
00:09:57.440 The amount of drugs being seized in British Columbia,
00:10:00.160 and that's with our very weak enforcement, is nuts.
00:10:04.760 Frank Vaughn has been doing a great job on his YouTube channel,
00:10:08.740 calculating out with very reasonable standards,
00:10:12.160 how big the market in illegal drugs and money laundering is currently in Canada.
00:10:17.620 He estimates it at around $236 billion a year.
00:10:22.300 That's not directly calculated into our GDP,
00:10:25.460 but in terms of the scale of seizures going on and what their estimates are,
00:10:30.400 how many people they catch and how many people they don't catch,
00:10:33.360 and all of the money laundering that goes on,
00:10:35.780 literally from terrorist groups laundering money through casinos in Canada
00:10:39.540 and through the real estate market and whatnot.
00:10:41.280 Hezbollah from Lebanon has been caught money laundering in Canada,
00:10:47.580 and not much goes on.
00:10:48.700 The IRGC was doing it.
00:10:50.400 Tons of people do it.
00:10:51.100 The CCP does it all the time.
00:10:52.960 A lot of Indian gangs do it.
00:10:54.560 It's nuts.
00:10:55.860 But this is what Premier David Eby said in response to this whole situation,
00:11:00.320 not looking weak at all,
00:11:02.320 and I am being heavily sarcastic for people who aren't picking up on that.
00:11:05.900 Today we're at a crossroad,
00:11:07.480 and the journey ahead won't be easy,
00:11:09.580 but there is no place on earth I would rather be to face this threat
00:11:13.660 than right here in British Columbia.
00:11:16.120 I don't even know if he's in British Columbia.
00:11:17.820 The man's been on vacation so much.
00:11:19.260 He could be green screened in.
00:11:20.480 I wouldn't be surprised.
00:11:22.060 We have everything we need to succeed.
00:11:25.220 Abundant natural wealth and clean and cheap energy.
00:11:29.260 A diversified economy and access to global markets.
00:11:32.340 And our most important resource of all, you.
00:11:36.760 You and your tax dollars that you're giving to me to subsidize nonsense.
00:11:40.980 By the way, our access to global markets is also tied in with the problem.
00:11:45.400 So many Chinese goods,
00:11:47.240 so many Chinese shipments brought into Canada
00:11:49.020 have less than a 1% shipping container inspection rate.
00:11:53.440 And I even had a disagreement with Anthony Koch on this.
00:11:56.020 I agree with Anthony Koch on tons of things.
00:11:57.880 But he said, well, what's the shipping container inspection rate in the United States?
00:12:02.340 And I said, and this is, again, the key phrase I've been using,
00:12:05.780 it doesn't matter.
00:12:07.200 Because right now the situation is the U.S. having a problem with our lack of security.
00:12:11.900 And so we can't just say, well, what's your shipping container inspection rate?
00:12:15.360 That's their own business.
00:12:16.720 The problem is they're saying that way too many drug supplies are getting into Canada,
00:12:20.860 being manufactured into hard opioids,
00:12:23.440 and then being moved over their border.
00:12:24.840 And then you'll have someone like Trudeau undermine himself on other occasions by saying,
00:12:28.780 you know, they only seize about 1% of the fentanyl coming into the U.S. through Canada.
00:12:33.900 But that neglects that the fentanyl coming in through Canada is usually of the highest potency rate.
00:12:39.500 They're not catching that much of it.
00:12:41.220 All we are calculating is how much they catch.
00:12:43.340 And we do not defend most of our border.
00:12:46.280 And we do not inspect most vehicles coming over the border.
00:12:49.060 And then some people will then say, well, you know, it's the United States' responsibility
00:12:52.960 to monitor what's coming into their country.
00:12:55.700 And again, that's another situation where I say it doesn't matter.
00:12:59.200 Because the United States is mad that they're the only line of defense, it seems.
00:13:03.960 And things just pass through our ports without notice.
00:13:07.940 Drugs are manufactured with not that much crackdown in Canada.
00:13:12.480 And then they're able to be walked over the border over reserve land
00:13:16.460 or just put into the, you know, into the headrest of a truck.
00:13:20.040 And that they just do not have the capacity to stop every single truck and look at the drugs.
00:13:25.480 They can do a little bit.
00:13:26.420 But unless they want it to take hours for every single truck to move across the border,
00:13:31.080 they would like for Canada to do a little bit of enforcement before it becomes their problem.
00:13:37.320 That's the real problem here.
00:13:39.580 But I'll let David Eby finish.
00:13:41.620 He makes the weirdest threat in this later on.
00:13:44.460 The people who call this beautiful place home.
00:13:47.300 British Columbians are hardworking, highly skilled, and resilient.
00:13:51.080 Through this uncertainty, our government will be there to stand up for you and your family.
00:13:56.420 Didn't you kick out unvaccinated nurses and doctors when they wouldn't comply with ridiculous mandates?
00:14:02.860 All this is so silly.
00:14:04.060 And this is why I hate Team Canada.
00:14:05.940 All the Team Canada people were the ones kicking you in the face for years.
00:14:09.220 But no, no, no.
00:14:10.160 Link arms with us so that we can pass more socialist policies that in fact will not help the economy.
00:14:15.020 As proud British Columbians and Canadians, we will meet this moment together and come out stronger on the other side.
00:14:24.140 Together we'll fight, not fold.
00:14:27.020 Be resolute, not roll over.
00:14:29.960 Because that's just who we are.
00:14:32.040 Here in the true north, strong and free.
00:14:35.460 Oh, this wasn't the clip, but I could probably just tell you what it was.
00:14:39.720 He announced that he was going to put, he was going to demand that BC liquor stores stop carrying liquor manufactured in Republican majority states.
00:14:54.020 Yes, that is how asinine human Gumby here is.
00:14:58.740 Gumby, the premier of British Columbia.
00:15:00.740 No, that's foolish.
00:15:03.940 That's really weak looking.
00:15:05.740 It doesn't even matter if it exerts some pressure on them.
00:15:09.060 We look really weak and petty by doing it that way.
00:15:12.200 That we're making it about Republican versus Democrat in the states.
00:15:15.680 And in fact that we are in favor of Democrat states in Canada, but we are not friendly with Republican states.
00:15:21.980 It ends up antagonizing the very people who are Donald Trump's allies.
00:15:27.420 And it gives them some incentive to harden their backs as well and not let up on the tariffs.
00:15:33.180 Even if we meet NATO spending goals and we ramp up border security.
00:15:37.860 It's just patently foolish.
00:15:41.040 Anyways, we got this other clip of Justin Trudeau talking about how we're all in this together, guys.
00:15:48.040 We're all going to take on Donald Trump and the U.S. together.
00:15:51.340 And now, again, the thing that is going on here is none of these people, Doug Ford, Justin Trudeau, David Eby, a lot of the other premiers except for Scott Moe and Daniel Smith, none of them have earned this.
00:16:05.020 None of them have earned this unity moment because they're all divisive.
00:16:09.940 They've all been overtaxing us, overregulating us, locking us down, mandating medical treatments for people, all this sort of stuff.
00:16:19.040 But now it's time for us to all to come together.
00:16:21.620 I also want to speak directly to Canadians in this moment.
00:16:26.180 I'm sure many of you are anxious.
00:16:29.260 But I want you to know we are all in this together.
00:16:33.900 He's not even in it together.
00:16:35.060 He's leaving in March.
00:16:36.000 The Canadian government, Canadian businesses, Canadian organized labor, Canadian civil society, Canada's premiers, and tens of millions of Canadians from coast to coast to coast are aligned and united.
00:16:53.640 This is Team Canada at its best.
00:16:57.140 At its best?
00:16:58.020 You're not leaving.
00:16:58.820 You're leaving.
00:16:59.700 Again, I can't.
00:17:01.200 The nerve of this man.
00:17:03.020 We're all Team Canada, guys.
00:17:04.480 By the way, I got a mojito that has my name on it somewhere in Jamaica.
00:17:09.280 And here's a great moment from a committee meeting, a clip that Dan Lloyd, the conservative MP, posted about just how much organized crime there currently is in Canada.
00:17:21.140 Again, Frank Vaughn, I might not agree with every point he makes, but he generally has it on the mark when he talks about Canada just having way too much money laundering and drug trafficking going on.
00:17:32.660 Like, per capita, much more than the U.S., and there's borderline no enforcement.
00:17:38.100 The U.S. kind of resents the fact that they already pay for our military, basically, because our military has just become a DEI program with pencils instead of bullets.
00:17:47.620 And now they're going to be expected to deal with the fact that David Eby and people like Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow are just letting opioids run free, and then we're just supposed to tell the Americans, you know, not that much of it's coming over your border, especially considering a singular package of fentanyl, which a guy was just caught with eight kilograms of it.
00:18:09.100 I think, I believe, he was actually highlighted as a great citizen by the CBC at one point.
00:18:14.420 That's enough to, like, kill entire cities in the U.S. It's crazy.
00:18:18.100 How many, to the RCMP, how many people do you estimate are involved in the production and distribution of fentanyl in Canada?
00:18:27.080 Do you have, like, a ballpark estimate?
00:18:28.880 Is it 1,000 people? Is it 10,000 people?
00:18:31.200 I don't have a ballpark figure on it.
00:18:37.020 So, you have no idea how many people could possibly be involved in the fentanyl trade in Canada?
00:18:41.980 There is a significant group, a significant number of organized crime group, but if you're asking for a specific number, I can't give you a specific number.
00:18:49.300 How many organized crime groups are involved?
00:18:50.860 That's serious.
00:18:51.620 Over 4,000 organized crime groups in Canada, as assessed by the Criminal Intelligence Service.
00:18:57.160 See, maybe you weren't able to hear that that well, but there are 4,000 criminal organizations operating in Canada today, because this was just back in December of 2024, this question was asked.
00:19:09.540 There are over 4,000 criminal gangs.
00:19:11.880 You could say that there's probably as many criminal gangs in the U.S., if not more, but the problem is, again, it's the enforcement.
00:19:18.460 It's the fact that these organizations really don't fear the police.
00:19:21.380 I've heard that the fentanyl seizure rate in Canada, in terms of how much fentanyl is being able to be taken off the streets compared to how much has been sold, and I believe they calculate this based on how long an organization was selling before they cracked down on, and the timetable of how much was then recovered and how much was sold.
00:19:41.360 They think that the rate for fentanyl seizures in Canada are as high as 1 in 30, in terms of for every 1 fentanyl pill taken off the street.
00:19:50.000 There's 30 that are distributed, all the way down to just 1 is taken off the street per 97 on.
00:19:57.320 That's ridiculous.
00:19:59.900 That's disgusting.
00:20:02.040 But here's, let's just, we should highlight them anyways.
00:20:05.400 Let's be nice to the man and talk about what his response to all this is, because I don't think he put out a video.
00:20:11.780 But we have federal NDP leader here, Jagmeet Singh, saying,
00:20:15.680 Today, Donald Trump has unleashed tariffs on Canada that will hurt all of us and Americans.
00:20:21.720 Now it is time for Canadians to stand strong and stand together.
00:20:25.240 Our values and solidarity will not crumble in the face of Donald Trump's economic attack.
00:20:29.920 New Democrats will be there to protect workers, to make sure there is help for everyone impacted by these tariffs.
00:20:37.660 Canada strong.
00:20:38.540 Canada is united.
00:20:39.500 I love these socialist politicians, who as soon as the issue is Donald Trump putting taxes on Canadian exports, or I guess imports from Canada,
00:20:50.640 suddenly they realize that taxes are actually very bad for economic growth and stability.
00:20:56.000 But Jagmeet Singh has never flinched at increasing taxes on increasing capital gains inclusion rates,
00:21:02.820 which thankfully they're canceling in the light of the economic, like the trade war that we might be starting.
00:21:08.820 It's funny how they kept saying that it wasn't going to hurt the economy to increase the capital gains inclusion rate.
00:21:15.640 But as soon as we're in a trade war, they immediately know that we should probably nix that.
00:21:19.500 We need to nix a lot of stuff.
00:21:21.480 Piro Polyev was right in a post I was looking at the other for a little bit ago,
00:21:26.000 saying that Canada needs to be, like, basically just axing every single stupid anti-energy policy that we can find if we're truly serious about trying to expand people's access to cheap energy in this country.
00:21:40.720 But again, that probably won't happen, because people like Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland and Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May,
00:21:48.040 and I could just keep going down the list of every single left-wing politician, David Eby,
00:21:52.100 they all really still value the abstract idea of fighting climate change more than they care about you being able to put food on your family's table.
00:22:00.900 Here is another clip from the Justin Trudeau press conference.
00:22:05.100 What does it tell you about your relationship with President Trump that you've been trying to get a hold of him and he hasn't been speaking with you?
00:22:13.220 I think this is a time where we've all remarked on just how active President Trump has been in engaging with a wide range of topics in his first weeks in office.
00:22:26.940 As you all know, I've had many, many good and substantive conversations with President Trump over the past months,
00:22:35.140 where we've highlighted the work that we can do.
00:22:38.560 Our ministers and officials have been engaging, in many cases like today, multiple times a day.
00:22:45.140 No, Melanie Jolie was not.
00:22:46.880 She actually only showed up to Washington, D.C. to try and divert this issue, like, three days ago.
00:22:52.080 It was so late in the game.
00:22:53.700 And what is he talking about?
00:22:54.600 We're talking about things that we can build on and we can be just constructive on.
00:22:59.460 Like, just say whether or not you actually made commitments on the border or on defense spending.
00:23:04.980 What was he asking you in person?
00:23:07.200 And what did you deliver?
00:23:08.720 Because Trudeau, if he actually shows that Trump is acting in bad faith, which I'm not sure if Trump is or not, he could destroy him.
00:23:16.140 He could show, here, Trump's a liar.
00:23:18.540 I already said I'll do this, that, and everything he wanted.
00:23:21.220 And he then said, I don't care.
00:23:22.500 I'm tariffing you anyways.
00:23:23.480 He would actually win the situation.
00:23:25.880 The problem is that Trudeau has not been engaging in good faith, at least from my perspective.
00:23:31.500 Perspective, he is not.
00:23:33.020 It's always, I have a plan to secure the border, but let's not do this tariff business.
00:23:37.940 I'm like, then actually secure the border.
00:23:39.380 Stop talking about it.
00:23:40.540 Or else you can't really call his bluff with their counterparts to talk through these issues, to move forward on areas of mutual concern.
00:23:50.600 We will continue to engage, and I will continue to be there to work with President Trump as we've worked together in the past.
00:23:59.140 What do you mean you're going to be there?
00:24:01.380 You're leaving, again, as I keep saying, in March.
00:24:05.120 Why would Trump get on the phone with you when he, one, already doesn't have any respect for you, and two, you know you're leaving?
00:24:15.800 Why would he get on the phone with you?
00:24:17.280 You are literally not the person that he really needs to be talking to at this point.
00:24:20.680 In fact, he should probably be talking to Freeland or Carney or Polyev instead of Trudeau.
00:24:27.840 But yeah, and here, this is the most absurd claim that he ended up making.
00:24:32.020 I mean, you're not even going to believe this.
00:24:35.740 President Trump said in the executive order that it's about the border and fentanyl.
00:24:41.260 Do you think that this is what it's about?
00:24:46.980 We have one of the strongest, more secure borders in the world.
00:24:54.240 What, compared to, like, Syria and Iraq?
00:24:57.480 Between Canada and the United States.
00:24:59.040 As I said, less than 1% of fentanyl going into the United States come from Canada.
00:25:04.760 Less than 1% of illegal migrants going into the United States come from Canada.
00:25:10.380 But why are there 10 times as many people caught in the United States on the terror watch list who entered through Canada than Mexico?
00:25:20.400 Obviously, we don't have economic migrants for coming from Canada, going into the United States.
00:25:25.300 But isn't it kind of scarier that somebody's coming from Canada to the U.S.?
00:25:29.480 Because they're definitely not showing up to try and take advantage of welfare programs or get a job or whatever.
00:25:34.760 They are coming for specifically non-economic reasons.
00:25:38.080 They're sneaking over the border.
00:25:39.920 And this guy is just belittling.
00:25:41.960 The U.S. administration had a time where he's supposed to be looking across the aisle and saying,
00:25:46.160 aren't we allies, can't we work together, and saying only 1% of fentanyl over the border is from Canada.
00:25:52.200 No, 1% of fentanyl seized at ports of entry are from Canada because border security along the U.S.-Canada border is terrible.
00:26:01.840 I'm going to read you guys now what basically my suggestion on this whole situation was, what my whole read was.
00:26:09.020 I know I've been kind of giving it here, but I thought my approach seems perfectly rational.
00:26:14.620 We can have, as Canada and the U.S., a big win-win here, a win for Canada where we don't have tariffs and we also get other value.
00:26:22.780 I say, it's a bad argument to say that catching fentanyl coming over the U.S. border from Canada is the U.S. government's responsibility.
00:26:31.920 The American government is annoyed that Canada's ports are easy to traffic drug materials through to then be manufactured into fentanyl in a decriminalized environment like B.C. with little enforcement.
00:26:42.360 And after near zero serious enforcement is done on Canada's side of the border, the U.S. government is then expected to catch all the easily concealed and odorless fentanyl coming through ports of entry and the undefended border.
00:26:55.180 This is why 10 times as many people on the terror watch list enter the U.S. through Canada than through Mexico.
00:27:01.720 It's technically the U.S.'s responsibility to defend their border, but allies don't just let problems run rampant on their side of the border and then expect the other ally to figure it out if it threatens citizens on their side.
00:27:15.220 Security has become a joke on terror money laundering and drug trafficking in many jurisdictions of Canada.
00:27:21.180 By the way, there are big benefits to increasing border security and Canada could have taken a tough stance on the U.S. government by highlighting the issue of illegal gun trafficking in Canada.
00:27:33.220 They could then demand if Canada increases security on its side, the U.S. needs to crack down harder on gun traffickers on their side.
00:27:40.180 Instead, we are just throwing mud with the Americans and people are making arguments about how Trump's administration was not reasonable enough.
00:27:47.520 Was Trump reasonable? Not really, but we played into it by wanting to make this a full-scale schoolyard fight.
00:27:54.460 Danielle Smith and Scott Moe have taken a strong position that allows them to call the Americans bluff if they didn't take tariffs off since their promises are increasing security fast.
00:28:03.920 But the rest of the premiers and Trudeau are playing into Trump's hands by turning this into a pure power game that Canada cannot win.
00:28:13.080 I, of course, agree with me, but I think that is about the right take.
00:28:16.980 Right now, the U.S. can just point at us and say, you didn't do anything that we asked, so why would we work with you?
00:28:23.420 And on our side of the border, we keep saying, like, Neil Young lyrics as our arguments that we can get together, we can fight the man together.
00:28:33.680 And it's like, no, we can't if you're not willing to do anything to meet them halfway.
00:28:38.880 People keep thinking that, well, if you meet Trump halfway, then you're betraying Canada.
00:28:43.620 No, it's a trade negotiation with a much more powerful country.
00:28:48.240 I am not anti-patriotic to acknowledge that.
00:28:51.380 It's just reality, people.
00:28:53.020 I'm not trying to say that Canada sucks by acknowledging it.
00:28:55.620 I am simply saying that we can't beat them in a trade war, which is why it was good that Trudeau didn't exactly try and start a full-on trade war.
00:29:04.060 It's kind of a mild, cold trade war.
00:29:07.120 But it's just that we need to avoid this to help Canadians out.
00:29:10.900 It's not about standing up for Canada as a nation.
00:29:14.900 It's just not going to work that way.
00:29:16.220 We need to stand up for Canada and the U.S. as a positive alliance that actually listens to each other.
00:29:22.860 Because Canada keeps saying, U.S. isn't being reasonable, but at the same time, they have an argument that we're not being reasonable.
00:29:29.620 So how about we all try and be a little bit more reasonable?
00:29:34.180 Anyways, that's it for me in this video, guys.
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