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Unknown A
Folks, it's not good news coming in. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking right now. I've heard about Canada with 25 tariffs. Let's listen. The Trump tariffs took effect about 14 hours ago. And the, the Maoist vanguard Canada has vowed infinite genocide upon America and we deserve it.
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Unknown B
So today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin.
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Unknown A
He sounds mad. You just, you have to understand that what's happening right now is unprecedented in American history. Canada is the greatest neighbor you could possibly have. They are so kind to us, like geopolitically they are literally no agitation, no border dispute, no threats. Constant like just non stop perfect ally in every way. You literally couldn't ask for a better. I can't think of any other example of like a better border ally, you know, and then out of nowhere their enemy for literally for no reason. Like it's, it's, it's, it's just unprecedented.
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Unknown B
You know, murderous dictator make that make sense. Canadians are reasonable and we are polite.
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Unknown A
Me when I crash the conviction from.
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Unknown B
A fight when our country and the well being of everyone in it is at stake at the moment. The US tariffs came into effect in the early hours of this morning and so did the Canadian response. Canada will be implementing 25 tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods, starting with tariffs on 30 billion.
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Unknown A
Why do magazines have such a massive shoulder? Because persecution complex is literally like the bedrock of fascism. It's the reason why all white supremacists open with how they're like personal sob story about how white people are oppressed. And all misogynists talk about how like feminists have roar the way they never open triumphantly. They can never admit like actually we're the bullies. They sometimes revel in it, but it's always like in retribution, you know. So now a bunch of conservatives have to pretend that Canada somehow did something to deserve this. Which you know, worth of goods immediately.
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Unknown B
And tariffs on the remaining $125 billion of American products in 21 days time should these tariffs not cease. We are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non tariff measures. Measures which will demonstrate that there are no winners in a trade war. Now, just like I did a month ago, I want to speak first directly to the American people.
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Unknown A
Hi.
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Unknown B
We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally and we don't want to See you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically all across your country. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk at the thousands of workplaces that succeed because of materials from Canada or because of consumers in Canada or both. They've chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday, essential items like groceries and gas, on major purchases like cars and homes and everything, by calling them evil.
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Unknown A
Say there's no reason.
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Unknown B
They've chosen to harm American national security, impeding access to the abundant, critical minerals, energy, building materials, and fertilizers that we have and that the United States needs to grow and prosper. They've chosen to launch a trade war that will first and foremost harm American families. They've chosen to sabotage their own agenda that was supposed to usher in a new golden age for the United States. And they've chosen to undermine the incredible work we've done together to tackle the scourge that is fentanyl, a drug that must be wiped from the face of the earth.
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Unknown A
Thanks for clearing that up.
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Unknown B
So on that point, let me be crystal clear. There is absolutely no justification or need whatsoever for these tariffs today. Now, the legal pretext your government is using to bring in these tariffs is that Canada is apparently unwilling to help in the fight against illegal fentanyl. Well, that is totally false. Let's look at the facts.
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Unknown A
Our border. This is actually pretty good, by the way. You know, I'm glad that he's being specific with it. I'm glad that, like, the overriding message here is essentially, like, me when I have to shoot my dog because I'm bored or something. You know, like, how obvious it is that this is being done for no reason. You know, will this just affect America or will the rest of the world be negative? Nothing just affects America.
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Unknown B
Already safe and secure.
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Unknown A
I just cringe at the evil fennel. I mean, we do have a fentanyl epidemic that has killed lots and lots and lots of people. Yeah, this is what a competent lid looks like. Hold the on. Okay? You people, you have goldfish brain, okay? This is Justin Trudeau we're talking about. All right, let's not, like, Blaze the Man just because he's rising to the, you know, to the occasion here.
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Unknown B
Far less than 1% of fentanyl flows and less than 1% of legal crossings into the United States comes from Canada. But we acted because we know we can always do better. We responded to concerns, including from the President, by implementing an ambitious $1.3 billion border plan. A border plan that includes generational investments in new AI and inner imaging tools to stop the flow of fentanyl in its tracks. Stronger coordination and information sharing with American agencies, along with the deployment of drones, helicopters, and additional personnel to keep our borders secure. Now, a month ago, as part of an agreement with the United States that paused the tariffs, we made further commitments. We appointed Kevin Brasseau as our Fentanyl czar. A man who dedicated his multi decade career in law enforcement to combating organized.
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Unknown A
Trudeau should grow a trade war beard. Yes, that's what we need. We need like every leader that's embattling America in the trade war through the Zelensky thing, where like, rather than in a suit, you're not in a suit, you're in like a Henley. Yeah, you have to look like, punished, you know, Punished. Trudeau punished. Honor, like get all them on it, you know. Can we talk about how this whole blank czar bit is. Holy shit. It's not a bit. It's just a term to refer to, like an informal advisor and supervisor over top. It's not a bit. It's not an official government position. It's just.
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Unknown B
It's not a bit crime networks and drug trafficking. We designated seven drug cartels, sick evil groups who cynically profit off the pain and suffering of people on both sides of the border as the terrorist organizations that they are. And just yesterday, we launched a new joint operations partnership supported by a $200 million investment.
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Unknown A
Bosher claims that strong economic ties buying country together is proven wrong. And if fascism charge, well, you realize like you're literally on the other side of right on this one. Like this proves my point perfectly. The, the fact that we had strong economic ties with Canada means there's an enormous amount of suffering and friction associated with detaching from the country. Whereas if we didn't have strong economic ties to begin with, none of this would even be possible and we would just drift away with no pull apart. This is the point we're seeing the consequence of that intertwining of that mesh. Yeah, we rely on the energy, you.
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Unknown B
Know, between Canada's security and law enforcement agencies. A partnership that will enhance the coordination of information and intelligence in order to thwart criminal gangs involved in the illegal fentanyl trade. Critically, our actions are working as the US states, as a US Customs and Border Protection, just acknowledge there was a 97% drop in fentanyl seizures from January compared to December to a near zero low of less than half an ounce seized in January.
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Unknown A
That is crazy.
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Unknown B
All the further enforcements and actions we've taken at the borders. In sum, we stepped up. We engaged closely and constructively with the president and his administration. We did everything we promised. We stuck to our word, and we did it because we believe in working together to protect our citizens. Now, I want to speak directly to one specific American. Me. In the over eight years you and I have worked together, we've done big things. We signed a historic deal that has created record jobs and growth in both of our countries. We've done big things together on the world stage, as Canada and the U.S. have done together for decades, for generations.
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Unknown A
This is really funny.
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Unknown B
And now we should be working together to ensure even greater prosperity for North Americans in a very uncertain and challenging world. Now, it's not in my habit to agree with the Wall Street Journal, but, Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We two friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see. And now, to my fellow Canadians, I won't sugarcoat it. This is going to be tough. Even though we're all going to pull together, because that's what we do. We will use every tool at our disposal so Canadian workers and businesses can weather this.
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Unknown A
He's, I think, like the thick sarcasm should be of it. I know for people in chat who need its own indicators. He's being sarcastic when he praises Trump here. It's pretty clearly not sincere.
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Unknown C
Storm.
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Unknown B
From expanding benefits and making them more flexible to providing direct supports to businesses, we will be there as needed to help Canada. Make no mistake, no matter how long this lasts, no matter what the cost, the federal government and other orders of government will be diplomatic.
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Unknown A
He's not being diplomatic. Can you guys really not? Can you really not read it? Did you not see him, like, smiling? We've done big things. It's not diplomatic at all. It's actually a pretty, like, condescending tone.
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Unknown B
We will defend Canadian jobs. We will take measures to prevent predatory behavior that threatens Canadian companies because of the impacts of this trade war, leaving them open to takeovers. We will relentlessly fight to protect our economy. We will stand up for Canadians every single second of every single day because this country is worth fighting for. Ah, here we go.
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Unknown A
All right, while the prime minister is speaking French, I want to bring in CNS Paula Nut and she joining us from Ottawa.
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Unknown B
No, no, we are doing.
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Unknown A
Switch back to English. Excuse me, Vice President. Advance right now.
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Unknown B
I want to listen very clearly that in terms of Taking action on fentanyl. We are doing everything yesterday there is.
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Unknown A
Not exacerbate the problem.
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Unknown B
I don't care where Mexico can do to avoid these tariffs. I'm underlines very clearly what I think a lot of us have suspected for a long time that these tariffs are not specifically about fentanyl, even though that is the legal justification he must use to actually move forward with these tariffs.
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Unknown A
The Prime Minister, Dustin Trudeau of Canada and saying that honestly, really based on him, it was. It's a good, it's a good bit, you know, let's pull a bear saying at 12:01am President Trump stabbed America's best.
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Unknown D
Friend in the back.
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Unknown A
It must really suck when you've branded yourself as Canadian MAGA and then the leopard eats your face and you're like, wait, hold on. We have an identity beyond that. What is Canadian conservatism if not American conservatism? Like, we will resist Donald Trump, but without transgenders. Is that what the speech is? My message to the president is this.
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Unknown D
Canada will fight back.
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Unknown A
We will defend our people and our economy and we will put Canada first. There is no doubt that our economy will. I think that as of today, and this polling isn't even taking into account the post tariff economic situation, but as of today, the primary aggregate polling data place for Canada's upcoming election now has the highest probability is a coalition government run by the Liberals. Yeah, we've seen this grow closer and closer over time, but I think that like the most likely possibility between the Liberals and the ndp, a successful coalition government. And it's only gonna go up. It's only gonna go up. Meanwhile, I think Doug Ford has threatened to strap himself to a rocket and launch himself at the White House. He said they're going to quote, burn it down again.
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Unknown E
Yeah, they're nervous because of President Trump. We have to make sure you have two choices here, folks. We roll over as a country and just let them run over us, or we fight like hell like we've never fought before. I'm taking option two. I'm fighting like hell and we're gonna protect Canada. He's underestimating the Canadian people, the resilience of the Canadian people and the strength of the Canadian people. I said, number one, I don't start a tariff war, but we're going to win this terraform right off the hop. I've directed the lcbo, we're the largest purchaser of alcohol in the world, to remove every bit of US alcohol off the shelves. I know my good friend, the governor of Kentucky. He's losing his mind right now. I said you better talk to your president. Mitch McConnell, senior senator from Kentucky. They're losing their mind. We purchase over a billion dollars of alcohol, 3,600 products, 35 states.
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Unknown E
It's gonna hit them. We call them the kitchen table issues. Then we're gonna cancel Starlinks right away from Elon Musk. Not that $100 million makes a difference for them, but its principle I've directed the procurement of over $30 billion of goods not to go to the US to make sure we buy Ontario first. And if we can't find it in Ontario and we can't build in Ontario, we go across the country. I'm asking politely.
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Unknown A
I do maintain that like America is unique in that we have the most fake patriotism in the world. Because it seems like if you go to Canada, Mexico, Germany, Britain, whatever the like patriots there, whether or not they're on the right or wrong side of politics. I'm not defending them like based on their positions, but there seems to be a lot of authentic like it. We ball, we defend our country. American conservatism is the most like disingenuous. Like you know, America first, but all of our merchants is made in China. America first, but like we're actually sold out to Russian oligarchs. America first, but here's 50 trillion to Israel. Like we act. We don't actually have patriots in this country. It's crazy. We really need to reclaim patriotism, you know, because Republicans are so, so, so open to that line of attack before.
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Unknown E
I, until I implement it. Every retail store, when you go look at the shelf market, has the price we need to see.
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Unknown A
I know Western European countries have a very low percentage of people who say they would fight if they were invaded. That's what I'm talking about though. I'm talking about like actual love your country in the politicians who claim to represent it, you know, and I just think we have a very, very fake. Of course every American is going to say they would fight the defend. They've all seen Red Dawn. Whatever they say, that's bullshit, right? You know, you know who actually did sign up to fight and defend? Ukrainian people. But no one's out there, you know, prior to 2022, nobody was out there talking about like, you know, Ukrainian loyalty, Ukrainian patriotism. People rise to the moment if they're.
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Unknown E
Needed, you know, flag on that price. A lot of people can't pick it up and scan it.
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Unknown A
So please, please, consumerist and performative.
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Unknown E
Yeah, we're Going to legislate it. I'll tell you this. Uranium for the US comes from Saskatchewan. I've had deep conversations with my good friend, closest ally, Scott Mo, the premier of Saskatchewan. That uranium goes over to Port Hope, Ontario to get processed from Port Hope. It goes down to get enriched down to the US I will not and cannot speak for Scott Moe. He's a patriot, he loves Canada. But if we got a stockpile our high grade nickel here in Ontario and sell to the world, so be it. And as for uranium, I'll leave that up to Scott to decide. The potash that fertilizes all their farming communities as President Trump is going after our dairy farmers, we're sending them fertilizer. 87% of it is going to the US and yeah, can they try to get potash everywhere else? They can, but they can't get it up the Mississippi river, so they're stuck with Canadian potash.
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Unknown E
Can they get uranium? Yeah, if they want to cozy up to Russia, which I see President Trump doing, you can try to get uranium there. But why would you do that? We want to ship more uranium, more potash, more nickel, more energy and build an am can fortress. I can for the life of me figure out why this guy's attacking his closest neighbors, allies and friends. A tariff on Canada is attacks on Americans. And I'm going to repeat that on NBC, cnn, Fox News, cnbc. I'm going to be hammering the airwaves to get that message to the Americans. They're going to get hurt. It's the wrong decision. But if they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything, including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. And I'm encouraging every other province to do the same. Give back Manitoba, BC we all have to act in unison out east.
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Unknown E
They rely on our energy. They need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard. We're going to come back places hard.
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Unknown B
About the Starlink deal.
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Unknown A
Holy base, man. We love our conservative Maoists. I mean, Maoists are conservative.
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Unknown B
So why not cancel that right now, given what the President displayed in the Oval Office. You've been a strong supporter of Ukraine. We know that. Starlight, a problem with Starlink in Ukraine and Mr. Musk, why not send a message right now to the Ukrainian people and to people in Canada and say this deal is dumb, not doing business with this guy.
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Unknown C
I'm not going to start a terraform.
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Unknown E
I'm not going to be the one.
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Unknown C
Pokes the line per se.
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Unknown E
But I can assure you he comes.
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Unknown A
Out, they're really united on this man. Alberta Premier says she supports Trudeau's responses from foolish terrorists. They're all falling in line that every, all of the. Even the more dipshitty of the Conservative provincial premiers are like, you know, I'm willing to set aside our previous differences and disagreements, you know, in actuality, like, I will wholly commit the resources of my province to the destruction of the United States of America. But finally, united Canada.
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Unknown F
We read in Politico that Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatened to shut off his province's electricity exports to the United States and block shipments of Ontario's high grade nickel, which he said provides 50% of U.S. supplies.
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Unknown A
Jesus.
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Unknown F
He added, if they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do anything, including cutting off their energy. This is energy to the United States. With a smile on his face.
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Unknown A
I need action. I need it to happen. Destroy this blighted country.
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Unknown F
With us now is the man, I guess, behind that smile, Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario in Canada. Premier, thank you so much for being with us. Okay, what?
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Unknown A
Yes, yes. Give me the. Give me the plummeting Dow Jones tracker right there. I love that. So here we are coming live with the Canadian premier who has threatened to, quote, reduce Washington, D.C. to ash and piss on it. In the corner, here we have the plumbing market.
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Unknown F
Your plans and how far are you willing to take it?
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Unknown C
Well, well, first of all, I have to tell you, Canadians love Americans. We love the US it's one person that's causing these problems. I've talked to senators and Congress people and governors, Republicans and Democrats. Not one of them agree with them. I'm Talking to business CEOs, the largest companies. They totally disagree with us.
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Unknown A
And President Trump, man, watching Trump's Fox News speech and watching the marketplace, that was honestly incredible. You rarely get to see stuff line up that well. Um, did you guys see that? It was, it was a cut from the, the Fox News coverage of his live announcement. Whereas he announces he's actually, actually doing the tariffs this time. You can see the Dow.
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Unknown B
So we're going April 2, but very.
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Unknown G
Important tomorrow, tariffs, 25% on Canada and 25% on.
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Unknown A
Yep, right as he says it now, the economy is wacky and on a.
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Unknown C
Mandate, the lower cost to create more jobs. This is going to do exactly the opposite. The auto sector, we buy over 400% more autos than Mexico, 200% more than anywhere in the world. And, you know, he put up a smokescreen. It keeps moving the goalposts. Well, the market is Speaking loud and clear. The market is going to go downhi foster them.
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Unknown A
Just to be clear, Doug Ford is actively sabotaging our health care system to privatize themselves. Yeah, again, it's not about glazing the guy, okay? This is like a Winston Churchill situation. Massive piece of shit. I'm not going to, you know, in the, you know, in the matter of fighting them on the beaches, you know, I'll defer to his words.
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Unknown C
The American bobsled team and we're going to continue seeing in the US plants close, assembly lines shut down in the auto sector. They may last five, maybe eight, eight days before the parts that go back and forth across the border eight times. This is unnecessary and we do have to retaliate. And I apologize to the American people. It's not you, it's your president that's causing this problem. We're the number one customer in the world to the United States. We had a great relationship. I want to continue on with that relationship. But I will use every tool in our toolbox to send a message to President Trump that this is the wrong thing to do. When Warren Buffett comes out and says this is basically insanity, you have to listen to someone like Warren Buffett.
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Unknown A
Conservatives are unironically better at fighting fascism than protecting the. Well, conservatives and neolibs are basically the same thing. The real difference is that the American political system has been captured almost in its entirety by capital. Like capital has a greater influence here than on any country on earth. We are the center of the world, business, wise, global reserve currency, et cetera, et cetera. You know, there is no like, there is no. It's not even a matter of how democratic it is. It's that there's no government through which more money runs than the United States. The federal government. This is the reason why, by the way, there are so many honest, genuine, earnest, authentic politicians on both sides of the aisle. By the way, once you go down to the state and local level, not saying there aren't plenty of pieces of shit, disingenuous, corrupt mother.
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Unknown A
There are, but it's very, very different because it's the federal government through which the enormous economic current flows. But this is bad for the bourgeoisie as well. Well, unless you want to deliberately cause a recession to further the accumulation of capital, the hands of a smaller, smaller group of people, which is what they're trying to do. But yeah, in other countries, if you go to like Germany, France, Canada, we're seeing. I think that the. There are a lot more. I'm not going to call them like better politicians or better people. I would say that there are people driven by more earnest conviction. You know, from what I've seen, even in like British Parliament and Britain's, it's a dying country. I'm not defending Britain, but if you look at that, if you look at the behavior of like French parliamentarians or in Germany, I think you genuinely see, you know, you see, if nothing else, you see people who care a little more.
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Unknown A
Their personality is a little more invested into it. In our country, though, like, everything is assumed by capital.
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Unknown F
So some of the thinking inside the administration goes something along the lines of, in the United States, we can withstand more pain than you can in Canada. So how much pain can you withstand here?
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Unknown C
Well, we have the lowest debt in the G7, the United States, more debt than anyone. He wants to come.
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Unknown A
Also, like, Canada has free health care. I mean, sure, they're housing markets, but you know, just in terms of being able to weather like, you know, hardship, better education. Yeah, he's debt flexing. True. He's debt flexing. The real reason is that the Canadian people, the Canadian people are willing to weather hardship and the American people are not. That's. That's it. It's literally that. Thank you. Just imagine how much suffering you would be willing to put up with if you felt it was for a good cause. You know, imagine how much you would be willing to sacrifice at the grocery store, the big box, or what. You know, your purchasing habits if you thought it was being done for like a necessary good. How much discontent was there back in World War II when people were getting, like, rationed their food? You know, it was hard to make clothes because of fabric shortages.
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Unknown A
Everything was being used for the war effort. The God's honest truth is, for the most part, people considered it their patriotic beauty. And they were right to. Right. It was a total war effort. Everything went to the war machine so we could win over there in Europe. And it was for a good cause. Controversial position these days, but the Nazis were bad and I'm glad we participated in beating their ass into the ground. They were willing to put up with rations nowadays. What are Americans willing to sacrifice anything for? Fat, stupid, lazy, entitled mother, don't believe in anything. Socially disconnected. We deserve to suffer.
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Unknown C
Get a tax break. I put a tax break through. He's relying on two Congress people. He loses two people, that's it. These tax breaks aren't going. And the American people create job losses. Inflation's going up, the market's dropping, Gas prices are going up, groceries are Going up for what? We have a very fair trading balance. And if we exclude the energy, the oil that we ship down 4.3 million barrels a day to keep cars going. The US has a $55 billion surplus on everything else. On manufacturing, I'm fine with that. 55 billion is fine, but we're number one customer to 20.
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Unknown A
Unfortunately. Europeans are treatless too, though. No, they're not. You can look at like, any data when it comes to, like, consumptive habits, where their money goes, the. The average debt of a citizen, like how much they run up in the credit bill. It's not even close. Americans are a different species compared to Western Europeans.
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Unknown C
Eight states. I've directed our office to take off all the alcohol. We're the largest purchaser of alcohol in the world. We sell up to 30. We buy from 35 states, 3,600 products over a billion. They're coming off. We directed our team to pull off the $30 billion of contracts and not use any American companies. And again, I apologize to the American people. But the red states. That people have to start calling their senators, their governors and congresspeople to stop this insanity that one person's causing.
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Unknown F
What do you understand the demands to be. On the one hand, we've heard over the last few weeks, it's cracking down the border, going after fentanyl distribution. Now the President saying he wants much of the manufacturing returned to the United States. What do you think the Ask is?
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Unknown A
The rhetoric has been extremely good here. Like 100%. Yeah, the rhetoric here of like, listen, your country is being held hostage by lunatic. The suffering will continue until you oust him. Listen, okay, Unlimited economic genocide against the United States of America will continue until you fix your shit. Essentially, like, this is a you problem.
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Unknown C
Well, you can't in the auto sector. And no one knows what the Ask is. It depends on what he wakes up and eats in the morning. And that changes. You can't unscramble an egg that's been made since the 1960s in the auto pack and expect plants to just open, open up. We buy as many cars as we sell down, down to the U.S. it's been working. It's a great, great system that we have right now with all the auto sectors, but It'll only last eight to maybe 10 days at the max, and then you're going to see auto plants being shut down. I wish we knew what the President wanted. We need to sit down and move forward on the USMCA and put this behind us.
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Unknown F
I ask you, you know very Briefly, how upset, how mad are Canadian? Canadians are usually the types to get angry, but how mad are Canadians this morning?
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Unknown A
They're really pissed.
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Unknown C
They're absolutely livid. They're furious because we look at the United States as our family. We're one big family. We've stood shoulder to shoulder in wars and every other crisis there is. We love the American people, but unfortunately, the President has gone sideways on ourselves and, you know, we power Ontario powers 1.5 million homes and businesses in New York, in Minnesota. I've talked to all three. I want to ship more electricity, I want to send more, more critical minerals. But I will not hesitate to use every tool in our toolbox to protect ontarians and Canadians across the board. I've never seen patriotism run so wild across our country. Right now, the grocery aisles, people refuse to buy American products. This. This is not right. We love America. We love the people. And the President needs to be stopped. Simple as that.
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Unknown A
I just, I love it. I love the rhetoric. It's as much as I could ask for. Yeah. Trump, in response to the reciprocal tariffs from Canada, has threatened to put a double extra super duper tariff on Canada. Please explain to Governor Trudeau of Canada that when he puts on a retaliatory tariff on the United States, our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase by like amount, so 50%. So he's threatening a 50% tariff on imported goods from Canada, which would be. Mr. President, you're a genius. Do it, do it, do it. You have the ability to essentially unilaterally do this. So, yeah, please. Such a crybilly. Like I said, fascism is always built upon, like, permanent agreement. You're always the victim. You're always the crybully. Did you see the Trump Admin suggesting raising chickens to combat egg prices? Victory gardens. We are so back. Trump Admin says Americans should farm chickens to combat egg prices.
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Unknown A
Sure. Oh, man. $3.42 for a dozen eggs in January 10th to $8.03 on February 26th. Incredible. Yeah. This is how you get bird flu to jump to humans. Oh, wait, I didn't even think of that. Yeah, Bird flu is being spread by wildfowl or wild birds. They could move, like, to the chickens in your stock and you wouldn't even know. You would have no way of testing for it. Genius. Doing mas. We're going to have to kill the goddamn sparrows again, Mother. He was right. He was right all along. God damn it. That's what I get for doubting him. He was just too. Early.
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Unknown G
Impact.
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Unknown H
Dramatic and dramatic. I. I I sold over for a customer, $80,000 truck. It's $100,000 now. So he's not gonna buy the truck. It's gonna sit on my lot and you know the higher interest rates we're paying right now for floor plan. And nobody's gonna buy the truck because it just had a $20,000 price increase.
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Unknown A
Right.
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Unknown G
Kelly Blue book will put the number up. They say the average vehicle will go up by about $3,000. Does it sound right to you?
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Unknown C
No.
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Unknown H
No, it will not. We don't have the broad stroke, we don't have the linear, the tight strokes. But to me it's a 25% tariff. So that affects our parts that come from these countries and a whole bunch of our cars.
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Unknown G
And you've been basing your business model on free trade. Basically, this is what the American Automakers Policy Council says.
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Unknown A
Maria.
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Unknown G
In response to this, they say our American automakers invested billions in the US to meet the requirements of the current free trade agreement. They shouldn't have.
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Unknown A
Somebody earlier in chat asked if there is another class divide between the bourgeoisie and the oligarchs. And I actually think that's a really. I think that's true. Yeah. You know, times have changed in the past 150 years. There is definitely a distinct class interest for the top, like 0.00,000, you know, like literally like a few hundred or maybe a few thousand oligarchs and their political consultants to the people, like the co conspirators on top. And then below that you have, let's, you could probably say like maybe 1 to 5% of America is like bourgeois in like small business ownership sort of way. It's kind of blurry lines these days the way stock ownership works. But you know, wherever you want to draw that line, there's definitely a line here. You know, that's crazy. Yeah. Don't buy any new cars, I guess. Or don't buy cars at all.
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Unknown A
Get on a bike, you know what, walk, actually never leave the house.
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Unknown D
We're going to look at presidents at this point in their presidency.
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Unknown A
Right.
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Unknown D
And the word here that I would use to describe Trump is awful. In fact, the only person who does worse than Trump does right now with a plus one not approved rating is himself back in 2017 when he was at minus eight. So he's sleeping better than he was.
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Unknown I
I was going to say. You could put it another way. He's making gains.
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Unknown D
He's making gains, but he's doing worse than everybody else.
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Unknown A
He really is a record setting President.
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Unknown D
Plus 27 points on their net approval rating. Donald Trump is doing historically awful. The only person he beats is again, himself from term number one.
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Unknown I
How about on the issue that one he says he was most elected to fix, and he said he would do it on day one, which would be the economy.
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Unknown D
On the economy, while he beat himself on overall, but on the economy, he can't even be himself again. This is historically the worst. Going back and polling at this point in the presidency, the net approval rating on the economy, he's right now at minus four points. And term number one, he was at plus eight points.
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Unknown A
Historically, that's actually significant. Republicans usually do really well in the economic polling as well. For him to already be at minus four, that's huge. And it's going to get even worse. It's going to get a lot worse. Like, a lot worse than this. His whole relationship with this baseman. Yeah, it makes me wonder if one of the big reasons why his approval right now is higher than it was at this point in 2017 is because of the fact that he has, like, total consolidation from the Republicans or he didn't back in 2017.
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Unknown D
The average is plus 15 points. He is doing nearly 20 points worse than the average president when it comes to the economy. On net approval rating, he is doing awful, awful, awful week, week, week. And on the issue on which he was elected to, of course, by the.
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Unknown A
Way, I'm talking general approval, not economic approval. Are you covering the congressional address later? No, I'll just skip out on, like, a really important political event that my job is to cover.
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Unknown D
He is doing historically awful. This is not good. If this number holds, you can guarantee his overall approval rating will go down and it could take his entire presidency with him.
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Unknown I
And this also now can change very quickly because of tariffs. I mean, you have a lot of mixed reaction coming in from all, especially amongst Republicans, on what these tariffs are really going to mean.
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Unknown A
It's not really mixed in, like, any meaningful sense.
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Unknown I
I mean, can these tariffs help the president?
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Unknown D
I don't think they're gonna help the president, at least in the near term. And the reason why is, simply put.
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Unknown A
Look at the opposition.
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Unknown D
Americans oppose tariffs on Canada.
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Unknown A
Look at this.
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Unknown D
You got nearly two thirds of the country opposing it. On Canada, 64%. How about on Mexico? Nearly three fifths of the country at 59%.
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Unknown B
We're already.
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Unknown A
I'm actually really surpr by that. The fact that 59% of Americans disapprove of tariffs on Mexico because considering how bad we are to them, I don't know, that's pretty impressive. A timestamp of Trudeau speculating on Donald Trump's motivations.
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Unknown B
I'm just trying to remember what was that? Customer. That's right. I think in terms of what he wants. I heard he talked about banking again this morning in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because American banks are about 16American banks currently active in Canada holding $113 billion worth of assets in this country. So American banks are alive and well and prospering in Canada. It's an example of not really being able to see what it is that he wants, because even the excuses he's getting.
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Unknown A
It just occurred to me that I'm not interested in political analysis from a liberal. What are the chances that Trump removes these tariffs in a few days because of how unpopular it is? He's already committed too much. He's committed way too hard. Like, at this point, even if the nothing ever happens, folks wins and he pulls back, it's like huge political damage. Like, what the is he doing? You know, it's like at this point, the degree of commitment, he's doubled and tripled, quadrupled down. He can't. Even if he does, it would hurt him. You know, the knife's already in. Well, we'll see. While we're on can US Relations, Freeland, a former foreign minister, is suggesting meeting Dukes. Hell yeah, man. To deter a Trump threat. Yeah. America keeps threatening to invade. Why not? Hell yeah, man. Go for it. Have nukes? I don't give a shit.
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Unknown A
Canada is probably one of the less dangerous countries, like, in terms of, you know, nuclear possession of nuclear weapons, proliferation to Canada. There are worse countries that have nukes. India and Pakistan have had them for a while, and the world hasn't ended yet. Canada doesn't have nukes. No. Surprisingly few countries have nukes, mostly because a lot of them that could have nukes rely on the United States to be kind of like the global umbrella, you know, not. We are. We're not anymore.