Western Standard - November 10, 2026


Why a Trump Exit Would Not Fix Canada US Trade

Hannaford Warns Conservatives About Walking Away Harper, Trump and the Problem With Political Legacies

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2 minutes

Words per minute

200.21

Word count

441

Sentence count

12


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 so uh it'll be interesting to see though that that fallout from the midterms in the states
00:00:04.400 there i mean you you can't avoid it there's no other way to polish it though guys it was a
00:00:09.520 trouncing and and it was a rough one uh a number of senators look at texas for crying out loud
00:00:17.120 they've now got a democrat governor they got a democrat senator
00:00:22.640 the republicans have got to reevaluate themselves whatever you might think if you're one of those
00:00:26.880 people who likes trump and i don't know how you do but whatever it's each their own he's not doing
00:00:32.320 any favors for the conservative minded in general and if they don't want a massive democrat majority
00:00:41.040 in two years from now when the time comes they've got to really examine who's going to lead their
00:00:45.920 party and in which direction and maybe trump got some things accomplished and whatnot changed the
00:00:50.560 tone fair enough but obviously at this point most americans have had enough of him and he is weighing
00:00:57.760 things down he could blame it on everybody else the irony of it saying oh if he was on the ticket
00:01:02.720 they would have won all of those come on guys let's get a little serious now whatever that's
00:01:06.880 the americans thing to deal with it's up to them it's up to their voters how that impacts us up here
00:01:13.040 i don't know i mean how do you predict anything donald trump does now he's got two more years
00:01:17.120 he's still got executive authority on trade and a whole number of things and he's going to be
00:01:22.800 crankier and probably more volatile than he's ever been. So I don't know if that's going to
00:01:27.780 bode well for us going forward or not. I know Carney's really trying to say that they're making
00:01:32.300 progress with their talks and such. Maybe they are. I hope so. This trade thing is just not good
00:01:38.280 for anybody on either side of the border. It really isn't. We've got to remember we get Democrats in
00:01:43.240 they aren't necessarily free traders either. It was the senior George Bush who brought in free
00:01:48.840 trade in the past, and it was President Biden who shut down the Keystone Line. So I don't think
00:01:55.860 we're going to get our problems all solved just once Trump's gone. We've got some other issues
00:01:59.340 to deal with, and hopefully we get some actual capitalists in for a change. That would be nice
00:02:04.420 to understand that you can't tax your way to prosperity, and expanding trade actually helps
00:02:09.680 both sides but maybe that's just a dream we'll see