"He's A Bully!" | Why Trump Isn't Budging On Canada... He Named Names

their leadership from Trudeau to the current leadership.I mean, in all fairness to them, they need us to survive.

Okay, I've officially reached my breaking point.Let's call out the BS, shall we?I'm done with the hypocrites.Yeah, I see right through you, all those people who don't actually want to fix a thing.You just want to look like you're fighting it.Those have very different outcomes.

And not overreact to the crazed orange menace.

I'm Jasmine Lane.Be sure to like this video, share it, comment your thoughts down below as we go through the insanity of the day.And also subscribe to the channel.Join us, our growing community of common sense, rational thought.Who knew that was so hard to come by these days?President Trump has said Canada can't survive without America.

And thus far, Mark Carney has actually just done a lot to prove his point.Jameson Greer gave some commentary earlier today about what Canada's negotiating actually looks like.And it's honestly not that surprising.This is kind of exactly what I expected.It explains a lot.And before we get into all of that, I'd like to start off with a tribute to the most under -reported story right now, Anne Widdicombe.

And if you really can't take it, become a hermit.

while she was at home eating lunch.

counterterrorism police on suspicion of the commission preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.The investigation, though, is still live and continuing as counterterrorism detectives try to piece together the full extent of what happened on that day and any possible motivation.

And regardless of what you thought of her politics, Anne was somebody who spent three decades in British public life.She was with the Conservative Party, she was with Brexit, the Reform Party.She always showed up and said what she believed in, and she advocated for others to do the same, to discern information, to debate people in facts and truth, and figure out where you stand, to say what you believe.And she took all of that, the smears, the character assassinations, the rumors, everything.She took it all on the chin, and she kept fighting for what she believed in.which was predominantly for you to be free.

That no matter how much we may disagree with somebody, we should defend to the hilt their right to say it.And that is something that I have believed all my life.That you succeed by defeating your opponent, not by wishing him away.You get nowhere by trying not to hear what is being said.Not to hear.the other arguments.

Free speech is for all, not for the privileged few.

I want you to hold on to that idea today and every day.Everything Anne fought for in that regard.Principles being applied consistently, even when it is inconvenient to you.Because we're going to be talking about the consequences that come when you do the polar opposite of that.

Everyone, just take a breather.Don't overreact to Trump.We know he's voluble.We know he's unpredictable.So let's just play our cards in our own national interest and not overreact to the crazed orange menace.

Ah, man, if only the messenger could follow his own advice in the same sentence.Oh, yes.Calm, cool heads, everybody.Don't overreact.Yet he cannot resist.He has no self -control, a maximally inflammatory label for Trump in the same breath.

Hmm.That tells you something, by the way, about how baked in the theatrics are in this story.And credit where credit is due, Scott Reed nailed something on the head there, which is to do things based on our own national interest.That is absolutely correct.So correct, in fact, that it's exactly why he loathes Donald Trump as much as he does, because our government has been doing the opposite.Because if we were actually doing what was in Canada's best interest, and we had results to show for how successful that strategy was, there would be no need to call the President of the United States of America a crazed orange menace.

The fact that he is, and the establishment frequently calls the United States of America every name in the book actually just proves the point that we're not doing what he just said we should.Should have voted conservative, Scott.I don't know what to tell you.

As the president has imposed a 50 % tariffs on some Canadian goods, including cars, alcohol and dairy products.What is the trade discrimination that is at hand causing the president to hike tariffs here on Canada?

Well, I think it's something that we've discussed with our Canadian colleagues for a long time, and they haven't done anything about it.They're highly discriminatory on dairy products.U .S.alcohol and beverages have been removed from Canadian dairy products.So

So this is really just reciprocity in terms of what they've done to our great U .

S.company.And I'm sorry, but if I have to suffer through watching this entire segment so you don't have to, you can bear with me for a minute and 10 seconds more of it, okay?

Because I have a lot of points to pick apart with Scott Reid, because everything about it is just It's so flawed.Like, Donald Trump is like the guy who punches you in the gut, and when you put your hands up to protect your face, he says, hey, hey, hey, that's out of bounds.How dare you try to protect yourself?

Ugh, I love me a clean -cut, single -cause theory.Donald Trump is just picking a fight with Canada as a distraction.and pressure valve for his Iran gas price problem.However, unfortunately, that's strictly the interpretation that's not demonstrated as a fact with any verifiable evidence to suggest such.Sure, it's a plausible political theory, I guess, but I don't even know about that because the exact same reasons that the US administration has been talking about for implementing these new tariffs are actually the same things they've been talking about long before the Iran war happened.And of course, of course, Scott Reid wraps it in the very typical sympathetic to Ottawa framing.

It's unsurprising, unlawful, unjustified.Canada, we're just this poor, sorry countryeverybody just does things to.But we're really strong, but things always happen to us.But we're sovereign, and it's just not our fault, and it's out of our control, and we're just trying to bat away punches.Yeah, you can't have all of those, so pick a side.

Either you're a victim or you're a victor.Victors behave very differently than this, so I'm pretty sure you're going with victim.

The U .S.posture has largely been, don't you dare stand up for yourself.We'll retaliate against your retaliation.And they sort of demand capitulation from Canada on a lot of issues.And when you look at the range of concessions that the federal government has made since Mark Carney became prime minister, on agreeing to split revenue earlier on the Gordie Howe Bridge, on dropping the digital services tax, on dropping the order by the CRTC to force U .

S.streaming companies to pay more for Canadian content.Well, Jameson Greer, the U .S.trade representative, at a conference in Aspen last week that Canada gets no credit for any of those concessions.take a bad decision and create a bad situation, you don't get credit for cleaning up your mess.

So that's the dynamic they're dealing with.No credit for concessions to this point, no real sort of respect for the historic partnership and the relationship, and now a countdown clock with a tariff deadline looming that will impose tariffs on $28 billion of the Canadian economy, hitting a lot of small and medium -sized enterprises.This could really cost them all of their U .S.business, because 50 % is just an utterly crippling tariff rate.

I'm really tired of the framing, which is always that the government, the liberal government, Mark Carney himself, that they are the victims of Donald Trump.No, actually, the businesses used as a pawn in your anti -American grandstanding game, those are the victims.The businesses, who the liberal government will tell you they're fighting,for, that have 88 to 90 percent responded back in various polls and said that USMCA is the single most important thing for the government to figure out because the US is their biggest partner.In fact, about 80 percent of those same people polled said, if we can even just get America and not worry about a trilateral with Mexico right now, that's fine by us.And those people have had to watch as the prime minister takes a new trip every couple of days to go make a big announcement and some photo ops in a foreign country that's across the world and sign an MOU for an investment potential deal that may or may not ever come to fruition that doesn't help them at all.

in a country of which they have not invested the R &D in to actually trade with them, that you haven't invested the infrastructure in to actually trade with them, or do any of the groundwork that it takes to trade with them internationally.you can't diversify into a country that you are not built to sell to.And that's some really important nuance of these international signing ceremonies, that everybody just, oh wow, Mark Carney, he's the best, they just fawn over, is the fact that those things benefit the large resource sectors and large exporters that have existing global logistics.They benefit whoever hired the lobbying firm to get them that contract.They do not benefit the small manufacturer whose entire business model was built on trucking to the same state at the same time every single week.And here's the thing about these big international signing ceremonies, a handshake with the country on the other side of the world sure it might make for a good headline in CBC, maybe even a good press conference.

But it does not do a single thing for the retired veteran who's making birdhouses in rural Saskatchewan, who's about to be wiped out by a 50 % tariff that destroys the only customers he's ever had.

They're very, very tough on us over the years, for many years.And no other president's done anything about it.I love Canada.I love the people of Canada.Many friends that live in Canada.But their leadership from Trudeau to the current leadership, I mean, in all fairness to them, they need us to survive.

Without us, there's no way they can survive.So, but they've been very, very tough over a period of the last 50 years, actually.

And this is the problem that I have, is that there are way too many people, pundits who influence public perception and opinion, the media stories, what they focus on, politicians who obviously just want to look good for the press, that care more about appearing to fight for something than they do about actually fixing it.So no, Jameson Greer is not going to give you a pat on the back.when you removed a newly added irritant that was unnecessary to add in the first place.You should have just never added it to begin with.And no, they're not going to give you applause for concessions that were never part of the core list that you still haven't addressed to begin with.And I wonder that.

What on earth would the media in Canada talk about if Canada actually took actionon the very small list of genuine irritants that Trump gave them a year ago?And like, let's just really break this down, okay?Because Canada, in this situation, is going to be you.Let's say that your mom called you, she's running late from work, she has friends coming over for a dinner party, she's picking up food, and she really needs you to unload the dishwasher and set the table.So you say, of course, Mom, I'm on it.

She gets home from work, her friends are sitting in the living room, she looks at the table, there's no dishes on it.And you say, oh yeah, I actually, um, I swept the floor and I wiped down the bathroom counter instead.She'd be like, cool, thanks.but I kind of needed you to unload the dishwasher and set the table.

We are an energy powerhouse and we could dismantle the U .S.if we wanted to, if we all work together.No matter if it's the electricity, and I'm not speaking for the other provinces, I'm going to be very clear.The potash, the oil, we're their number one customer in the world.They need to feel the pain rather than us constantly feeling the pain.

So thank you, Doug Ford, for reconfirming what I already knew, which is that Canada actually doesn't have to be a victim at all.We could be a victor.Guess who's holding us back?Not Trump, our own government.

It's hanging on by a thread, right?And now they're kind of tightening the screws.How does this play out?Do you think that there needs to be more aid for this sector?Do you think we just kind of get down to business and negotiate with them for we avoid them entirely in 30 days.Like, where do we go?

What would you counsel the government to do at this point as they're staring down really what is a bad case scenario?

Yeah, I think the advice would be pretty consistent with what a lot of Canadians wanted from the government early on, which is to have the Prime Minister follow through on his promise to get back to the table and try and secure a better deal.It's not to say that we'rethat hasn't been thrown some curveballs from Donald Trump and I'm not suggesting that he's a predictable negotiator but in terms of the list of irritants that should not surprise anybody.What should surprise Canadians and I think concern Canadians is that this hope that as a strategy that the midterms might reveal something different or that maybe the U .S.would grow distracted, like that has clearly failed.

What is happening now is the U .S.applying pressure ahead of their political cycle to try and extract whatever concessions they can from Canada.And when you have, just yesterday, the prime minister all smiles at FIFA with the president to get kicked in the teeth today, as he has been, he has some serious questions to answer.To your point on you know, bailouts and incentives.We've been propping up a number of industries in Canada for the last 14 months as a result of tariffs.

I believe part of the discussion today is increased aluminum tariffs above and beyond what are already on the table.We cannot keep giving taxpayer bailouts to make up for the prime minister's inaction to actually get to the table and find a workable deal, which, I might add, is in the interest of both countries.This is not about giving in to whatever the U .S.actually demands of us.A stronger trading relationship between the two countries and that predictability is vital and necessary for Canada's economic success.

I would say that that is the case for our dairy industry as well.They're not looking to take all the quota.I think a lot of consumers might like some access to other dairy products, for example, from other countries.But we can't continue to approach things the way that we have been because clearly that is not meeting the moment.

We have to do what's in Canada's national interest.Okay, what does that mean in practice?Like, I've never actually heard somebody describe what that looks like.Is it Mark Carney intensifying negotiations?Is it Doug Ford or Premier Eby going full tilt?

Majority is going to be here in Ontario.That's why we can't roll over.We have to hit back.We have to, rather than be on our back heel, as I said, we have to go forward, take the offense.

There is not a chance in hell that US alcohol is going back on the shelf in British Columbia.And I'm proud of that.And I know the British Columbians support that.And the idea of the president that he can bully us into whatever he wishes is incorrect.We're strong.We are, despite our many debates, united as a country.

and we will continue to stand strong and we will build relationships with those countries at the national level, at the provincial level that want to have a relationship with us.

Well, a couple of points here.Number one, if we were actually strong as a nation, we wouldn't have to announce it.In fact, the U .S.would have never even tried to apply the tariffs in the first place.We also wouldn't have had to pull liquor off the shelves, removing the choice of our citizens.

Because strength actually doesn't react like that.Literally any self -help book will tell you exactly that.Secondly, if we were united as a country, then riddle me this, 42 % of manufacturers who are already in the midst of a plan to leave or are starting to look into one, even though 96 % of them are covered under free trade, you also wouldn't have an exodus.at record high levels of high income earners, high taxpayers, well -educated and the brightest citizens of your country.I also just really want Canadians to start paying more attention to how words are being redefined, like strength is now redefined as defiance, because actual strength would show up in trade outcomes, right?Not in refusing to stock a product and standing firm rhetorically and calling that strength.

That's a really important distinction to make.As is David Eby and many other premiers and political commentators and the establishment of the left saying things to the effect of, We're just gonna focus on people who wanna work with us.Yeah, all these countries that are excited to trade with us.Here's the problem though, and I'm generalizing here, but there is a very big difference between the work ethic and drive of American citizens, the average one, compared to that of a Canadian citizen.And I think a lot of that comes down to the opportunity that you have, your household, how you're raised and all of that stuff.And I also do believe that it has to do with the ability of people to have big dreams and know that they can actually do it.

Like that inspires something in you in a way that a lot of Canadian youth have been totally robbed of and it is an absolute disgrace.Your environment completely shapes how you're going to turn out as a human and you become the company that you keep.So there's a reason why America represents the largest share of the global total when it comes to nations that produce millionaires.America currently holds 41%, if I'm not mistaken.Canada's nowhere on the charts there.And how does this connect to David Eby and what many other people have said about, we're just going to go with other countries who are excited to work with us?

Well, the problem is that lots of countries actually aren't that excited to work with us because Canadais very uncompetitive and therefore very expensive and slow compared to other nations that are hungrier than us, other businesses that are hungrier than us.And we see this actually in data as well.We have very low business investment, especially compared to the United States.Canadians usually spend far less on research and development and innovative technology, that sort of thing.And that limits the ability to scale into new markets, even if you wanted to pivot away from the United States of America tomorrow.

We have not invested the funds and the time into how we actually go about doing that.And the comfort trap is another big issue here, because Canadians are blessed with having close proximity to the largest market on earth, i .e.America.And resource wealth has also removed the pressure to build those harder international relationships in the first place.So dependency isn't an accident or even a recent failure.

It's the predictable result of not needing to try.And for the record, fair enough, right?We do have the U .S.Fair enough.Canada has been able to do fine with just that.

That's okay.And realistically, that is going to continue.long into the future, right?There's also the internal trade barriers, which even though promised to be removed, they still aren't.I mean, really with that, let's think about that for a second, because companies, as a result of the regulatory burdens that puts on them, they can't even easily scale within Canada, province to province.Let that one sink in.

How on earth do you expect to do so internationally?If businesses can't even grow big enough domestically, It's not going global, no matter how many partnerships you have.like that's just not how business works and again it goes back into that comfort trap it goes back into well where's the hustle culture in canada well you you literally have such a hard time doing some of these things that are so easy in other nations that it's like babies are just born to just be these superstars in America compared to Canada.

I'm not sure how the federal government reaches an agreement with an administration that, as far as I can tell, isn't talking to them.I don't see that the Americans have been engaging with Canada in trade conversations in any meaningful way.

Really?Well, here's what Jameson Greer had to say about that.

The proposals are generally for promises to discuss these issues, which we're already doing, not to actually change these things.They talk about collaboration on energy.We've never had tariffs on Canadian energy.We've always been open to that and that kind of exploration.So the types of things that have been in these proposals have always been, let's talk, let's keep trading in energy, things we already do.Things that do not fundamentally commit to resolve these issues, maybe just talk about them some more.

And for us, we want them fixed.

Yeah, I mean, the fact that Canada is all talk, no action, welcome to what we call the lost liberal decade.That's kind of how you get there, right?You say all the right things, but you do absolutely nothing.That sounds like Canada to me, unfortunately.I'm Jasmine Lane.Like, share, subscribe.

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