Wyatt Clunis rants about Canada and the U.S. trade negotiations and why they are a complete waste of time. He also discusses the Reagan ad and why Doug Ford is to blame for it.
00:02:32.260And I've said this in so many videos, but it's true.
00:02:34.400Carney won't let Melanie Jolie and Dominic LeBlanc talk about many areas of policy that the Americans want us to alter in order for them to sign an agreement.
00:02:43.780And we think we're going to come to an agreement.
00:02:45.500The only way we're going to do it is giving massive concessions where we agree to buy hundreds of billions of more U.S. goods.
00:02:53.420That's the only way we're going to get to an agreement if we don't get rid of things like supply management and our restrictive media laws and other regulations that the Americans don't like.
00:03:03.160And guess what? If we did some of those things, we could demand things back from them.
00:03:06.840We could try and get to a zero tariff situation.
00:03:10.820But let's go first to city news coverage of Mark Carney in Asia.
00:03:15.140I really like the rosy image of what Carney is doing here, even though we are getting nothing.
00:03:21.560Also, I'm not really sure what's in the middle of the table.
00:03:23.500Whoever did the table design for this meeting really needs to be fired.
00:03:26.860Here in Kuala Lumpur from Carney speaking to reporters about the whole imbroglio over this ad.
00:03:33.560Listen to what Carney had to say about it.
00:03:36.340There were a series of very detailed, very specific, very comprehensive discussions, negotiations on the areas I just listed to in response to the previous question, up until the point of those ads running.
00:03:53.860He's basically trying to claim that we were right there for an agreement.
00:04:10.440You don't do something unexpected and stupid in the middle of a negotiation because it may give your opponent in the negotiation a rhetorical reason to walk away from the table and demand something from you.
00:04:20.220And that's what Trump's doing. And I always hate the rhetoric people have of, well, this is unfair for the Americans.
00:04:30.400And so he is going to try and get as much for the U.S. as possible.
00:04:34.480Now, I think free trade is actually better in the long run for the United States rather than trying to get these concessions out of countries with protectionist policies.
00:04:41.640But, hey, we're dealing with the reality of the situation right now.
00:04:45.280And so much of the Canadian trade establishment, media establishment is out there basically complaining about the rules of the game being the way they are.
00:04:56.020Hey, guys, how about we stop complaining about the rules and we just try and play the game and actually get something out of it?
00:05:01.920It's so bad at what we've been doing here.
00:05:03.920Now, those specific sectors he's talking about, steel, aluminum and energy, those are the three sectors that both sides had agreed to keep negotiating on after Carney visited the Oval Office a few weeks ago and met with Trump there.
00:05:17.420That meeting seemed to have gone well, seemed very cordial.
00:05:21.540But there was a commitment that they're going to sort of focus these negotiations on those particular sectors and leave kind of the larger, broader discussion about the U.S. MCA, the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement for later and trying to get those things dealt with first.
00:05:37.120But as we say, that meeting is not going to happen.
00:05:39.120And this, as I mentioned, has become really national news in the United States because it's brought up Ronald Reagan's comments about Trump's policy.
00:05:46.660Reagan, of course, a beloved president, still revered by a great many Republicans, although mega Republicans, maybe not so much.
00:05:54.600So quite obviously, this was a question, a subject that reporters were going to put to Trump on the plane when he had a little brief gaggle, as they call it, in the United States, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo.
00:06:06.020Listen to what the president had to say on that flight.
00:06:08.600They all knew exactly what the end was.
00:06:11.540The prime minister knew, everybody knew.
00:06:14.460I don't want to meet with him. I'm not going to be meeting with him for a while.
00:06:17.700I'm very happy with the deal we have right now with Canada.
00:06:46.220We're going to get to Doug Ford a little bit later.
00:06:48.260But it resulted in this post from Donald Trump last night, just when he was about to sit down for dinner with a bunch of leaders in Asia, including Mark Carney.
00:06:58.680And Donald Trump basically just says that he's not interested in talking to Mark Carney.
00:07:04.100And at the same time, you know, Carney's trying to pretend that he's in Asia to sign agreements in Asia.
00:07:10.120But he's not really there for that purpose.
00:07:12.360He's there because Donald Trump's there.
00:07:14.280Because really, there's no benefit to Canada to signing some vague agreement with Indonesia.
00:07:19.240There's no benefit to signing something with Korea.
00:07:22.000Should we trade more with those countries?
00:07:25.060But goodness, the thing is that obviously the real prize here is a deal with the Americans.
00:07:31.680And no matter how much the liberals pretend like, oh, well, while Trump is mad about what we're doing right now, if Trump can be mad about the ad, we're going to keep signing new agreements.
00:07:43.100But Trump, shortly before the dinner, said, for those that are asking, we didn't come to South Korea to see Canada.
00:07:49.740And I don't doubt that this had been, this was posted as a result of Canadian officials attempting to see if they could get Trump into a breakout room to talk to Mark Carney to see if they could sort of firm everything up again.
00:08:04.380But no matter what the liberals say, they weren't close to an agreement.
00:08:08.500Yes, they had something on steel and aluminum and energy, but they still didn't have anything on softwood.
00:08:18.760And frankly, Trump really doesn't need to sign something for those other areas because part of his congressional re-election plan for next year is trying to gird up the steel industry in places like Pennsylvania to make sure more Republicans can win re-election.
00:08:34.840He's only going to sign an agreement with Canada if he can get a big win-win out of it.
00:08:39.560And when I say a big win-win, it's because I don't think that Trump genuinely just wants to see Canada hurt.
00:08:44.340If Canada proposed a good win-win trade proposal, a trade deal, we could probably get there.
00:08:52.300But the thing is that Canada, the Canadian officials, have been pitching themselves as we're going to get in there and sign the best deal for Canada.
00:09:00.540And we have not been willing to put anything on the table that Trump could go and market back home as a win for himself.
00:09:07.580Really, we've just been pitching stuff that if Trump signed it, he'd look like a complete fool in front of his own electorate, thinking he got absolutely nothing for all that turmoil.
00:09:15.600So, yeah, but now let's jump over to Doug Ford, who is also trying to throw Mark Carney under the bus a little bit and also pick a fight with Pete Hoogstra, the U.S. ambassador in Canada.
00:09:28.260You know, great strategies all around.
00:09:30.280Let's start fighting between ourselves and also trying to fight the American ambassador that Trump really likes, Pete Hoogstra.
00:09:36.640Back to the Reagan ad, how do you know the Prime Minister and his chief of staff saw this particular ad before you moved ahead with airing it?
00:10:48.280There's a lot of other things that the Americans have concerns about.
00:10:50.640How about we figure some of that stuff out?
00:10:52.800We get back to a zero tariff situation.
00:10:55.120And then what we also do is that we team up against China in order to try and be able to soften the blow that China,
00:11:04.080that would be like the economic blow to trading loss of China,
00:11:07.460because it's an enemy state and Canada and the U.S. together can kind of insulate each other from the economic damage of not trading with China as much.
00:14:36.780It doesn't matter if it's Trump doing it or if it's like the, you know, it's the governor of Arkansas, the governor of Texas, governor of Florida, governor of Montana.
00:14:44.620If they ran an ad in Canada, we would call it foreign interference.
00:14:48.480We would, although we don't really care when China does it, but we would be lighting our hair on fire.
00:14:54.160And the idea that now he's going to tell Pete Hoekstra that he has to apologize for his reaction, you should probably not swear at people.
00:15:00.900I think you should probably apologize if you ever are rude to somebody.
00:15:03.960But, goodness, on the macro scale of what's going on, the premier calling on him to apologize is making this a bigger thing than it needs to be, a bigger thing in a situation where we're not exactly in the right here.
00:15:17.400Again, we should be trying to get a win-win scenario.
00:15:20.600Whereas Ford and Carney and now David Eby wanting to run his own ad in the U.S., what they're wanting to do is we want to win for Canada and we want Trump to get on his knees and apologize to us.
00:15:31.280And I want to slap him across the face for just good measure, you know, like button up my shirt and leave the room and just call him some pathetic, disgusting man on the way out.
00:15:41.280It's like, you're not going to get to a deal acting like an arrogant frig.
00:15:46.000How about you just try and actually negotiate a win-win scenario with Trump because that's what he wants.
00:15:51.380If he can walk away and say, hey, that was all worth it, then it's good.
00:15:55.780And we can still get a win-win out of this.
00:15:57.840You could negotiate out some, you know, make a solid rhetorical pitch that this is the deal of the century to Trump and that he can sign it.
00:16:06.420And then he could go into the midterms having benefited and then the dairy farmers in the Midwest can now ship dairy products into Canada.
00:16:13.360By the way, it would help the Canadian consumer because dairy products would actually go down in price.
00:16:17.760In fact, it would help the dairy farmers who are currently quoted out of the system and they can barely produce any milk because of the stupid Soviet-style quota system we have in this country.
00:16:27.860We could get a lot of, there are so many negotiating options.
00:16:31.020But Carney's draw, drew on so many red lines around major topics of contention for the Americans.
00:17:01.020But we look like complete fools chasing Trump around Asia right after we keep pulling this whole thing off of like, oh, well, it was a great success what we did with the Reagan ad.
00:17:11.380And we were right there almost ready for a deal and we just need one more chance at it.
00:17:15.420But we don't really need a deal like Carney keeps saying, oh, we actually already had the best deal.
00:17:19.660Who could have guessed we'd have the best deal as their biggest trade partner?
00:17:23.040Who could have seen that we have the most robust trade agreement with the U.S. compared to somewhere like Cambodia?
00:17:31.100The problem is, though, that when 70% of our trade is with them, little areas of friction can cause a lot of hurt in our own country.
00:17:39.480And we don't seem serious about actually signing an agreement to get there.
00:17:43.120I'm not saying we have to be desperate and sign whatever is put in front of us, but we have taken all the cards out of our own trade negotiators' hands and said, you only have one card.
00:17:51.480And it's demanding they sign the agreement.
00:17:53.740It's like, well, who could guess why we're going to lose this card game?
00:17:57.520Anyway, so that should be it for today's video.
00:18:00.400I'll probably be back later today if there's time.
00:18:02.880We'll have to talk more about the couch and Richmond situation, but until then, guys, make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel if you are not yet a subscriber, and leave a comment to one what you think about all this.
00:18:16.260I will hopefully be back later or tomorrow.