Charlie Angus
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
After 60 some days of your chaos, you ripped up your European treaties. You sold out the people of Ukraine. You've acted in a disgraceful manner towards our allies. You're running a chainsaw through American democracy. But you've made it clear that Canada is your number one enemy, your next door neighbors. So here's the thing. You're threatening us with tariffs. You're going to bring him in.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
You're going to bring us to our knees. And then you start panicking because we don't back down. And now you're trying to hem and haw and change what you said just a couple of days ago. We don't care. It doesn't matter.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
until you bring all the tariffs off until you start stop harassing us and threatening our border the the punishment is going to keep coming from canada because we realize right now that canada has become the number one line of resistance to you and your regime so uh since you've backtracked, we've upped the ante.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Really interesting statistic I saw was that flights to the US in February were down 40%. Now they talked in January about a 10% drop causing, I don't know, 15,000 jobs right off the top. A 40% drop is extraordinary. And then you add to that the fact that February is a really, really cold month in Canada. People love going south to the US, and they're not.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
They're going either to Mexico or they're staying home to do tours in the summer through Canada. So this is having a huge effect. And this is the power of the boycott. The boycott will start putting pressure on the governors. It'll put pressure on red state and blue state legislators to start standing up and saying, this is an insane thing.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Why would the United States consider its number one enemy in the world? to be not China, Not North Korea, not Vladimir Putin, but their next door neighbors in Canada with an integrated market, which is the most successful marketing arrangement in the world today. Why would they blow that up? That's something Donald Trump is going to have to explain to the American people.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
Well, I really don't want to waste a lot of time trying to deconstruct the idiocy that exists in Donald Trump's brain. But wasn't it just a week ago we were going to get a 30-day pause? And a week ago wasn't the threat fentanyl, the supposed narco state that Canada is? And now he's focused on steel imports and aluminum.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
So again, to the American industry that's dependent on massive access to steel and aluminum through all the sectors of the American economy, well, you might want to call Donald tomorrow because he's just thrown you for a loop. He's certainly thrown our communities for a loop in the steel and aluminum sector. But I think what's really fascinating is that nobody in Canada is surprised.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
I mean, did anyone believe this guy? His word could be trusted. He's a criminal.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
will never, ever, ever be the 51st state and why we will never kiss that gangster's ring. I don't care how many times they try and tell us that we can't stand on the streets of our own cities. This is our city. This is our country. This is our democracy. And we will defend it. Elbows up.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
Charlie Angus. We're very nice to meet you.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
On the outside of the barriers?
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
Okay. Can you just explain what the concern is? I mean, we're all very, you know, because they'd asked us not to stand on there, which is their property, and we said, yeah, and we've been making sure nobody, but you guys got bikes on their property. I wouldn't want one of them taking your bikes out, you know? You don't know what they're going to do up there, so.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
Okay, okay, what's your name? Ruben, Charlie Angus. Okay, thank you, thank you. Okay, folks, we're going to go on the other side of the barrier, okay? We're going to help Toronto police here so that they don't have to deal with the people upstairs. So we're just going to we're going to walk over. But this is still our city. This is still our street.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
But since we are asked politely, which is how we do things in Canada, being polite, I think, is a good reason to help out. The American are not being polite. They're all hiding in their windows. And Pierre, come on down. Pierre, come on down. I came to see you. Like, what are you doing up there, Pierre?
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
I don't care how many times they try and tell us that we can't stand on the streets of our own cities. This is our city. This is our country. This is our democracy.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
But that's Canada. Wherever we go in Canada is home. And any community I've ever been in, for the first time, I felt I was at home. Because that's who we are. Because we are about decency. We are about inclusion. We are about tolerance. And that is why Donald Trump hates our guts. Yeah, he wants to get our water. And he wants to steal our critical minerals.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
But fundamentally, he cannot stand that there is a nation of diversity equity and inclusion on his border. Now we know DEI is like the latest thing that freaks them out, kind of like Antifa. What, being an anti-fascist? I come from a long line of anti-fascists. My uncles kicked Nazi butt all over Europe. They were Antifa before I was born.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
But they tell us that diversity, equity, inclusion is something they hate. Well, in Canada, we are a nation of diverse people. We believe in equity and we believe in inclusion. So all the Americans over there with their DUI, they can hate us and they can tell us they don't want to see us on our streets, but these streets belong to us. This country belongs to us. What gives me hope
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
is the incredible optimism and determination of every Canadian that I meet.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
What gives me hope is the incredible optimism and determination of every Canadian that I meet. I don't have to ask where you're going to be between Vimy and Vichy. I know where you'll be. You'll be standing on the ridge of freedom with the rest of us. You are the leaders of this movement. It's not the politicians. It's ordinary Canadians. The boycott that you launched in your own actions
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
is being heard around the world and the rest of the world is following what we are doing in canada that's why they hate us if they can make us break they can break the rest of the world and i just want to say in conclusion i'm getting messages from australia messages from scotland messages from denmark and france and all over the united states
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
who say that they want to stand like Canada to be strong. This is what we're doing. We are a role model for the world. That's why we're not going to break. That's why they hate us. That's why we are going to continue. And that's why we will never, ever, ever be the 51st state and why we will never kiss that gangster's ring.
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Furious Canada Destroys Trump After Auto Tariffs
I don't care how many times they try and tell us that we can't stand on the streets of our own cities. This is our city. This is our country. This is our democracy. And we will defend it.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Well, I do want to say that I've been feeling for a long time that this mega maple thing in Canada was going to run its course. The fact that it's dropped as dramatically as it has. Thanks, Donald. You've done us a favor because Pierre Polyev and his politics are toxic. It's hate politics. It's the pitchforks politics of blame and hate and rage.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
And I always felt that Canadians weren't going to go there. But once Elon Musk tells Canadians how much he likes Pierre Polyev, well, you can bet.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
that that's going to kill the conservative brand and they don't know what to do right now so they're scrambling uh whether or not mark carney is going to be fully ascended i don't know but what i think is we're going to see the conservative numbers in canada drop a lot more because people are looking at project 2025 they're looking at the rage and destruction that donald trump is unleashing and the alienation that he's creating around the world and canadians are thinking okay
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
So if this is what MAGA looks like, there's no damn way we're going to vote for it in Canada. So he's certainly damaged his allies in Canada. But then who are his real allies? It looks like his real allies are North Korea and Russia. You know, there would have been a time that any American leader who wanted to side with Russia and North Korea would have been
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
obviously identified as a traitor to the nation and a traitor to American values. And now CNN say, no, he's being unorthodox. So Donald's picking his allies in the world, and it's certainly alienating his real allies, and Canada is not going to go down that road with him.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Well, the great thing about Canadian democracy is people can bring petitions forward to Parliament on anything. They can bring it on highway safety. They can bring it on natural health products. Sometimes a petition gets 500 or 1,000 or 6,000 people to sign. What you need is a parliamentarian who's willing to bring it forward.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
So when I saw this petition about stripping Elon Musk, who's never been a Canadian, of his citizenship, I thought, okay, I'll support that. Now, I know for a fact that a petition does not have the legal power to strip a citizenship from anybody, nor should it. But what this does is it sends a message because Canadians in their DNA hate extremists and fascists. It's bread in our bone.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
I call it the Juno Beach from D-Day gene that's within all Canadians. So when we see Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration, when we see him supporting far-right extremists in Germany, when we see him saying that Canada isn't even a real country, just like Putin said Ukraine wasn't a country, you can bet the Canadians think, this guy doesn't represent anything of our values.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
You know, I think the thing in Canada is we're just getting really tired of this. This guy's a convicted felon. He's a sexual predator. He just keeps poking us. He turned what could have been a really fun game. I mean, nothing better than a good hockey rivalry. He turned it into a hate fest, and Canadians were determined we were going to win that. What I sense on the ground right now is,
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
So what's happened? was a petition that I thought might get a couple of thousand signatures. I don't know, we're above the 300,000 mark, which is unprecedented. We will be perhaps the largest petition in Canadian history, and it's sending a message to our government that we don't wanna have any dealings with this guy.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
We wanna make sure that our election system cannot be interfered with by X. We don't want any more deals with Starlink. We don't want Tesla and the douche-panzers that he's bringing over the border. Canadians are sending a message. So this petition has gone off like wildfire. And what it reminds, I think it's really important to understand, ordinary Canadians are way out front on this fight.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Politicians are catching up. They're still scratching their heads. They're not sure what they should do. Ordinary Canadians get it. We're in a fight for democracy. We're in a fight for our values. And we're in a fight against tyranny. And when that fight's on the table, that's when Canadians show up.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
It's really important. I think what Midas Touch has been doing in Canada is really important work because, again, nothing against the traditional media, but I think they live in a box and they're uncomfortable stepping outside the box, but we know that we're dealing in very dark times. We're dealing with you know, basically fascist threats. And so people are looking for clear answers.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
And it's been really amazing in my journey as a member of parliament, particularly representing a large working class constituency, ordinary working class voters stopped me in the grocery store, they're watching the Midas touch, because they understand the seriousness of this issue. So to support the get rid of Elon Musk out of Canada petition, I mean, all you got to do is
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
type in Elon Musk citizenship petition, and it'll take you to it. We're adding thousands and thousands of members or petitions by the day. And I'm hoping some of our American friends might think of a similar petition because look at the chaos he's causing with Doge. This guy is not any of our friends. He's not a friend of democracy. Let's kick his rear end back to South Africa.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
is whether he brings tariffs or not, we're in this to win and we're in this to push back. So every time Donald pushes us, it actually is destroying what's left of mega maple in Canada. And it's making everyone else say, yeah, okay, he wants to fight. I'm up for it. I got little old lady grandmothers who are telling me they're going out to do whatever they got to do.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Well, I guess if you're Canadian, you know how important Wayne Gretzky was to us. You know, when Wayne Gretzky was traded from Edmonton to L.A., my wife was giving birth. During the birth, I was upstairs cheering for L.A. because we felt that the betrayal of his team and selling him to L.A., that we had to support L.A. because we loved Wayne Gretzky.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
I came down when my wife was just about to give birth to say that Wayne had scored. Okay, maybe I'm not a great dad. But I shouldn't have admitted that. But that's how important Wayne was to us. People are really angry at Wayne. And so every time Donald touches something, he turns it to crap.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
So the simple thing for Wayne is, Wayne, if you're quiet about Canada being a 51st state, you're a traitor. It's Vimy or Vichy, as we say in Canada. Vimy Ridge was the great battle Canadians fought. Vichy were the collaborators. So, Wayne, if you don't want Donald speaking for you, then you speak up and you tell Canada that you believe in Canada as a nation, because if you don't,
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Canadians feel that you've totally betrayed them. Canadians are not in a forgiving mood right now. And Canadians have shown they're willing to fight for our nation because this is about our sovereignty. So it's a simple message to Wayne. Don't ask Donald to tell Canadians that you want to be quiet. You stand up and tell us whether or not you're a traitor or you believe in Canada.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
I think every Canadian wants to hear that answer. And we haven't heard that from Wayne, the great one yet.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Well, Donald, you're telling us that we're getting the tariff threats, blah, blah. Canadians are saying, okay, bring it on. You want to fight? We're going to fight. But you have made America sign up with Russia and North Korea. At one point, that would have been considered the act of an absolute traitor.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
How do you defend to the American people your absolute betrayal of your allies, 80 years of American leadership on the global stage that you're willing to give that up to kiss up to Putin? If you think that Canada is going to break right now, you're in for a big shock. It's going to hurt us. We know it's going to hurt. But we're ready because we are a unified nation. We have values.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
We're a democratic country. We believe in the rule of law. And you don't believe in any of those things, Donald. So I don't know. Maybe you're going to have to call Vladimir and get an opinion on whether you should bring tariffs in or not. But you bring in the tariffs. We're coming at you. We're going to come at you hard.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
And my message to the American voter is you're going to be in for a big surprise of the damage that your leader is doing economically, socially, geopolitically, and, of course, democratically. So, Donald, it's in your court.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
We can't tell you not to bring tariffs, but if you bring them, we're coming at you, and we're going to come at you in the Canadian way, which is what we've always done when push comes to shove. We don't back down. We never have, and we'll never, ever kiss the gangster ring.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
They're going to fight because Donald just doesn't get it. The more he pushes, the more determined we are to push back.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
What really surprised me from the get-go, I think the European leaders were shocked by what Vance had done in Munich because it was a real threat to democracy. It was a promotion of far-right extremism. And people in Europe have deep memories of what it means to suffer far-right extremism. So on the surface, there was this attempt
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
to hope that the Americans were just bluffing and Trump was just being Trump. But it became really clear as the meetings went on. I was certainly very vocal in pushing for a clear position. And I think that that aided many of the allies started coming up to me. So Latvia, the Baltic states who are on Putin's front line are feeling right now that they're being sold down the river. We're seeing...
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
In Germany, the fears of the far right, we're seeing advances, interference in the Romanian election system. People understand that this is now a threat to their way of life.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
And as we are meeting, we actually have word coming out from Saudi Arabia, I mean, the most despicable anti-democratic place on the planet where we have a convicted felon and an indicted war criminal trying to carve up Ukraine. That was happening while we were supposed to be as NATO allies talking about a plan for Ukraine. So... This was a total slap in the face.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
And I don't think the mega morons who came here fully understand how much damage they have done to America on the world stage.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Well, you know, there's I've been meeting with the Democrats. The American Democrats have been, I mean, tiptoeing around. I think they're just they're shell shocked like everybody else. Some of these MAGA guys just thought they were just being funny. And one of them came up to me and I had my Canadian pin in.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
He had met me before and tried some really stupid jokes about Elon Musk that didn't go down very well. And he said, hey, Canada, and he went to touch my lapel. And I said, don't you ever touch the Canadian flag. And he said, whoa, whoa, I'm just joking. And I said... you'll die before you ever touch a Canadian flag. And I said, and we're not joking.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
And then everyone sort of backed off and then he vamoosed out of the room. So I don't even know what his name was, but you know, we're not like that as Canadians, but I thought you need to understand how far you pushed us. And you need to understand how dangerous it is that what you're doing right now in promoting Vladimir Putin to destroy Western democracy is
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Your leader, and I don't think this guy's bright enough to know that Trump is now in league. You know, the two gangsters of the modern world are in league to try and destroy Ukraine. That is simply cannot be allowed to happen. The Ukrainian people have suffered too much, and they are all of our front line right now in the fight against tyranny.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Donald Trump has kissed up to the gangster Putin from the get-go. When we saw the horrific violence unleashed against the Ukrainian people, Donald Trump thought this was a sign of a savvy genius. To attack a leader like Zelensky, who has more moral fiber in his little toe than Donald Trump has in his entire body and his entire cabinet, is outrageous.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
I think we've witnessed the most extraordinary week in European politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall. But that was a good story. What we've seen over the last week, beginning with the disaster in Munich with JD Vance, total attack on European democracy, and then followed up here at our NATO meetings with all of America's key allies,
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Vladimir Zelensky has shown the world what democracy means. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. Those two men shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence. But this is what I would leave you with, because it was said to me by one of my Eastern European colleagues who came up after they had heard that Donald Trump is now calling for regime change in Ukraine. She said to me,
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
The Ukrainian people survived the Haldimor. The Ukrainian people survived Stalin. The Ukrainian people survived Chernobyl. They've survived Putin. Do you think that Donald Trump is going to break the Ukrainian people? So Donald, just briefly, Just put a sock in it for now.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
You need to understand that the damage that you're doing to help your criminal buddy, Vladimir Putin, will pay in the long term enormous damage to democracy, to your allies and to the world. And the world will be forced now to treat America the way we treat Putin.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
And we are going to all have to pick up our game dramatically to defend democracy, whether it's in Ukraine or whether it's in our own countries.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
you know canada has the largest ukrainian diaspora in the world ukrainian canadians are a huge pop part of our population so there is a deep emotional link so i think what putin did in his attack on zielinski and his attack on the the people of ukraine remind canada that he's looking at us the way putin looks at ukraine so
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Right now, the boycott is the front line of defense because we know once the job losses start to mount, once the economic pressures start hitting in places like Tennessee where it's already happening, Kentucky where it's already happening, all the border states, then that's when the lesser militant red state MAGA people are going to start calling on Trump. So this is our first line.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
But what's been really encouraging is we're seeing the people around the world are saying, hey, if Canada can do this, we can do it too. So we are encouraging people across the world. And we've seen actually some really interesting numbers coming out of the United States of ordinary Americans who are now boycotting the companies that have openly supported Trump.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
So I think this is a really important tool to have. This is not the be-end art. We're dealing with a very, very dangerous and volatile situation. But ordinary people, whether it's in Canada, whether it's in Minnesota, or whether it's in Germany, can make choices based on what they're going to buy and what they're going to not buy, where they're going to visit and where they're not going to visit.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
And that's going to come down to whether or not we believe in Western democracy and values of decency and human rights, or we believe in the gangster state of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. I think we know what the answer is.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Well, thank you so much for having me and just to also say thank you for the work you're doing because a lot of ordinary people are looking for facts. They're looking for information and you're certainly providing it. So thank you so much.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
that they flushed 75 years of diplomacy, hard work, commitment to the rule of law and international diplomacy. They just flushed it down the toilet while Trump And Vance and the mega morons here took the time to kneel down and kiss the feet of Vladimir Putin. Things will not go back to what they were. And Europe now is very much cast adrift from the United States.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
And certainly Canada is looking to where our place in the world is. And we're looking more to Europe now than to our closest neighbor.
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OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
Well, we talked on a previous show about what will happen in Ottawa and within four days, Toledo and Lansing, Bowling Green will start going down. And the day after the tariffs were announced, he immediately backed down on auto. Why wasn't he taking advice from the big automakers in the first place of the chaos that he would cause?
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OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
Now in agriculture, it's going to be another big area with $73 billion shared trade. This is a totally integrated market. And Donald promised lower grocery prices in his first hundred days. Americans like Canadians have already seen the shocks of inflation, the shocks of post COVID.
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OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
Once he starts messing with that market and he's saying some things in Kuzma are protected and other things aren't, nobody knows it's creating uncertainty and it's making it very difficult for suppliers on both sides of the border. So I think what American farmers are waking up to is the fact that Canadians are no longer buying their products
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OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
We're just not going to participate in this abusive relationship. You threaten us, we don't buy your products. How about that?
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Fed Up World Leaders Smack Down Trump in Public
Well, I really don't want to waste a lot of time trying to deconstruct the idiocy that exists in Donald Trump's brain. But wasn't it just a week ago we were going to get a 30-day pause? And a week ago wasn't the threat fentanyl, the supposed narco state that Canada is? And now he's focused on steel imports and aluminum.
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Fed Up World Leaders Smack Down Trump in Public
So again, to the American industry that's dependent on massive access to steel and aluminum through all the sectors of the American economy, well, you might want to call Donald tomorrow because he's just thrown you for a loop. He's certainly thrown our communities for a loop in the steel and aluminum sector. But I think what's really fascinating is that nobody in Canada is surprised.
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Fed Up World Leaders Smack Down Trump in Public
I mean, did anyone believe this guy? His word could be trusted. He's a criminal.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
You do your worst, because Canadians will do their best. We are true, north, strong, free, and it's elbows up time. Ladies and gentlemen, Canada will never bend. We will never kiss the gangster's ring.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
But I want to compare what's happening in Canada to the dumpster fire USA. Because what we've seen in just 60 days is that Donald Trump has burned up the great American century.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Good morning. I'm Charlie Angus here on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Nation, Parliament Hill, Canada, to talk about where we stand with the latest threats from Donald Trump. Once again, he's huffing and puffing and threatening to blow our nation away.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
And like last time, as soon as Canada stands up and shows that we are not afraid, suddenly the mega crews start backpedaling and maybe there's going to be a deal in the works. Maybe they're going to have something figured out. Maybe, maybe not. I'm not here to give anyone false hope because Canadians understand that this is not a trade war we're talking about. This is a war by other means.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
A war of disinformation and ridicule, questioning our right to exist, our sovereignty, our borders, very much the way Vladimir Putin launched his disinformation war in the years leading up to the brutal invasion of Ukraine. It's a siege war. He's poking us and trying to see if there's divisions, if there's fear.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
What he's learning very quickly and what the world is learning is that Canadians know what is at stake and we will not bend or break. Because Donald Trump believes we have no right as a nation and we will always be there for our nation. But I want to compare what's happening in Canada to the dumpster fire USA. Because what we've seen in just 60 days is that Donald Trump
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
has burned up the great American century. He's burned through his alliances with key allies. He's burned through Americans' leadership role on the international stage with his disgusting attack on President Zelensky and his willingness to put America on side with North Korea and Russia. So this is how the great American century ends. It's not with a bang or with a whimper.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
It's like some kind of tacky roadshow from the World Wrestling Federation. And now Donald Trump has decided to go further by blowing apart the greatest economic trade relationship in history, plunging our nation and our people into chaos. But what he's really doing is making America weaker. more divided, more alone.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
And we know that Canada will stand up and Canada will push back and American jobs will suffer and the American economy is suffering. So now the world looks to Canada and wonders, well, just who are these Canadians? Do they have what it takes to stand up to the proud boys in Washington? They're learning very quickly that yes, we're a nation that we like to squabble.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
And we like to disagree with one another. But when you come at us, we come back hard. Call it our Juno Beach gene. Canadians understand what's ahead. They know that this is going to be hard. They know that people will suffer and that there will families who will be hurt. There's no getting around that. but they also know the Canadians will stand together just as we've always stood.
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I want to give a shout out this morning, and it's why I'm here, to the amazing leaders who are on the front lines defending Canada. The countless Canadians who've been reaching out to me about canceling vacations to Arizona, canceling honeymoons in South Carolina, canceling business trips and conventions in Vermont and Florida. People who've taken a personal cost.
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Now that might not seem like a big deal, but these are the decisions being made at kitchen tables across our nation to stand with Canada or to give in. I want to give a shout out to the moms and the grandmoms who call me from all across this nation, who tell me they take that extra time in the grocery store to make sure that nothing from the United States ends up in their grocery baskets.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
A big shout out to the Canadian artists who are boycotting South by Southwest in Texas this year. The biggest music festival for Canadian artists A decision that will cost their careers, but they would rather stand up for Canada. than be divided. And I want to give a special shout out to the new Canadian voices that I heard on CBC yesterday.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
The people, first generation Canadians in Scarborough, who are on the lowest part of the economic rung, who they know when economic hard times come, they're going to take the first hit. And they talked about how proud they were. how they felt more unified as being Canadian than ever before. And that's the issue that I'm here to point out.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Because in America right now, Donald Trump and the mega crew want to have a nation run by white men for white men. And they think that makes them tough. And they look on us and think we're weak because we're decent and we're democratic and we're inclusive. But that is our strength. Because we're not afraid anymore. about what pronouns someone uses. We're not angry by who someone marries.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
We come together across racial lines. We celebrate our linguistic diversity. We celebrate our regional diversity. We celebrate the fact that we are settler population on the indigenous territories of this nation. And yeah, we get a lot wrong. And yeah, we're a work in progress, but when push comes to shove, we are indivisible. We stand together. We are one.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
It's that diversity that makes us strong. So I want to thank everybody who's been pulling their load and to say to them, Whether or not this tariff war ends tomorrow or whether Donald comes up with some bogus reason that he's scored a victory, you know what's at stake. This is just the beginning. The next four years will determine our future as a nation. And I know the Canadians will be strong.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Because as Winston Churchill said, we will mete out for you everything that you try to throw at us and we will go one step further. Donald, you do your worst because Canadians will do their best. We are true, north, strong, free, and it's elbows up time. Ladies and gentlemen, Canada will never bend. We will never kiss the gangster's ring.
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to talk about where we stand with the latest threats from Donald Trump. Once again, he's huffing and puffing and threatening to blow our nation away. And like last time, as soon as Canada stands up and shows that we are not afraid, suddenly the mega crew start backpedaling and maybe there's going to be a deal in the works. Maybe they're going to have something figured out. Maybe, maybe not.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And that's deeply offensive to us. It's deeply offensive to our friends in Europe. It's deeply offensive to our friends in Australia and Japan and elsewhere. So we're now, as the prime minister said, we're having to look elsewhere for the kind of alliances and agreements and understandings that we used to have with our nearest neighbour. If our nearest neighbour doesn't respect the rule of law,
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
for its citizens, how's it going to respect the rule of international law? And it certainly doesn't respect us as Canada. So we have no choice. We have to make decisions and we're going to make decisions that benefit our region and our people first.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And here's what Angus told me as well. Let's play it.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
I think in Canada, the conversation for some time has been, how do we share information with an unstable supposed ally who's now our enemy? I mean, what are they, on some kind of group chat talking about international secrecy? We've seen with Mr. Pete Hegseth and his crowd. You think anybody's going to be sharing that kind of information when there's such a disregard for it?
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
So what it's doing is it's making America weaker, and it's making America more vulnerable. And we're having to really make serious decisions. Like on the F-35, there's a huge conversation going on in Canada right now. We understand. We have to retool our defence system because now suddenly we have a hostile neighbour.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And are we going to buy the massively expensive F-35 from American procurement when We don't know whether or not written into the codes will be stuff that Donald Trump or the United States can override to undermine our defenses. So now we have American contractors coming to Canada and saying, listen, honest to God, we will work with you.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
We'll do it outside of the United States to keep your contracts. Whereas we're saying, well, we'll do it domestically or we'll do it in Europe. And the United States procurement machine is a huge economic driver, but we just can't trust them right now because we can't trust a neighbor who's threatening our sovereignty.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And finally, Angus told me this.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
Well, Donald, in three months, you have turned your nation into a spectacle of disgrace. Your abuse of the rule of law, your abuse of your citizens, your kidnapping and detentions, we are watching.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
your treatment of your neighbours, the fact that you think that Canada is the nastiest country you've ever dealt with, when you kiss up to Vladimir Putin, a war criminal, and you hang out with Bibi Netanyahu, who's under indictment, and you hang out with North Korea, and you think Canada is your nastiest neighbour, Donald, what you're doing is a grift on the American people and on the long tradition of American democracy.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And we don't trust you. And we know we can't trust you. So we are going to do what we have to do. My only concern, Donald, is how are you going to explain it to the American people when their car prices go up, when they can't sell their products, when nobody is going to come and visit in Florida, Arizona, Nevada, places that people travel to, even New York? We love New York.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
We're not going there. Donald, how are you going to explain the collapse of these important economic markers in your country just over ideology and just over your idiocy? That's something you need to explain to your people, Donald. As for Canada, we're talking amongst ourselves, and we are going to build another future, and it ain't going to be with you.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
But I think there's something deeper, Ben, that Canadians are really focusing on right now, which is watching our nearest neighbors slip into totalitarianism. When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see people at universities being grabbed, detained, rendered, and kidnapped.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And then we see Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security boss, doing this really disgusting video in front of half-naked men in an overcrowded El Salvadorian prison cell. We're looking at a nation that we don't understand anymore, and we don't want to be like that nation. And we are thinking, If we go down the road with this regime, we're talking about the disappearance of the rule of law.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Once again, he's huffing and puffing and threatening to blow our nation away. And like last time, as soon as Canada stands up and shows that we are not afraid, suddenly the mega crew start backpedaling and maybe there's going to be a deal in the works. Maybe they're going to have something figured out. Maybe, maybe not. I'm not here to give anyone false hope.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Because Canadians understand that this is not a trade war we're talking about. This is a war by other means. A war of disinformation and ridicule, questioning our right to exist, our sovereignty, our borders, very much the way Vladimir Putin launched his disinformation war in the years leading up to the brutal invasion of Ukraine. It's a siege war.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
He's poking us and trying to see if there's divisions, if there's fear. What he's learning very quickly and what the world is learning is that Canadians know what is at stake and we will not bend or break. Because Donald Trump believes we have no right as a nation and we will always be there for our nation. But I want to compare what's happening in Canada to the dumpster fire USA.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Because what we've seen in just 60 days is that Donald Trump has burned up the great American century. He's burned through his alliances with key allies. He's burned through Americans leadership role on the international stage with his disgusting attack on President Zelensky and his willingness to put America on side with North Korea and Russia. So this is how the great American century ends.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
It's not with a bang or with a whimper. It's like some kind of tacky roadshow from the World Wrestling Federation. And now Donald Trump has decided to go further by blowing apart the greatest economic trade relationship in history, plunging our nation and our people into chaos. But what he's really doing is making America weaker. more divided, more alone.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
And we know that Canada will stand up and Canada will push back and American jobs will suffer and the American economy is suffering.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
You know, I think the thing in Canada is we're just getting really tired of this. This guy's a convicted felon. He's a sexual predator. He just keeps poking us. He turned what could have been a really fun game, I mean, nothing better than a good hockey rivalry, he turned it into a hate fest, and Canadians were determined we were gonna win that. What I sense on the ground right now
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
is whether he brings tariffs or not, we're in this to win and we're in this to push back. So every time Donald pushes us, it actually is destroying what's left of mega maple in Canada. And it's making everyone else say, yeah, okay, he wants to fight. I'm up for it. I got little old lady grandmothers who are telling me they're going out to do whatever they got to do.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
They're going to fight because Donald just doesn't get it. The more he pushes, the more determined we are to push back.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
We're getting the tariff threats, blah, blah. Canadians are saying, okay, bring it on. You want to fight? We're going to fight. But you have made America sign up with Russia and North Korea. At one point, that would have been considered the act of an absolute traitor.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
How do you defend to the American people your absolute betrayal of your allies, 80 years of American leadership on the global stage that you're willing to give that up to kiss up to Putin? If you think that Canada is gonna break right now, you're in for a big shock. It's gonna hurt us. We know it's gonna hurt, but we're ready because we are a unified nation. We have values.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
We're a democratic country. We believe in the rule of law. And you don't believe in any of those things, Donald. So I don't know. Maybe you're going to have to call Vladimir and get an opinion on whether you should bring tariffs in or not. But you bring in the tariffs. We're coming at you. We're going to come at you hard.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
And my message to the American voter is you're going to be in for a big surprise of the damage that your leader is doing economically, socially, geopolitically, and, of course, democratically. Donald, it's in your court.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
We can't tell you not to bring tariffs, but if you bring them, we're coming at you, and we're going to come at you in the Canadian way, which is what we've always done when push comes to shove. We don't back down. We never have, and we'll never, ever kiss the gangster ring.
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Trump Loses All Control as His Regime Nosedives
But I think there's something deeper, Ben, that Canadians are really focusing on right now, which is watching our nearest neighbors slip into totalitarianism. When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see people at universities being grabbed, detained, rendered, and kidnapped.
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Trump Loses All Control as His Regime Nosedives
And then we see Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security boss, doing this really disgusting video in front of half-naked men in an overcrowded El Salvadorian prison cell. We're looking at a nation that we don't understand anymore, and we don't want to be like that nation.
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Trump Loses All Control as His Regime Nosedives
and we are thinking if we go down the road with this regime we're talking about the disappearance of the rule of law and that's deeply offensive to us it's deeply offensive to our friends in europe it's deeply friends offensive to our friends in australia and japan and elsewhere so we're now as the prime minister said we're having to look elsewhere
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Trump Loses All Control as His Regime Nosedives
for the kind of alliances and agreements and understandings that we used to have with our nearest neighbor. If our nearest neighbor doesn't respect the rule of law for its citizens, how's it going to respect the rule of international law? And it certainly doesn't respect us as Canada. So we have no choice.
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Trump Loses All Control as His Regime Nosedives
We have to make decisions and we're going to make decisions that benefit our region and our people first.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
Our neighbors are no longer our allies. We are dealing with a regime next door to us that is ignoring the international rule of law and we have to take this dead serious.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
That symbol that has been in war zones, that symbol that has been as Canadians went to fight famines in other countries, that symbol of openness and inclusion that is the direct opposite to the politics of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. This week, we saw the shameful actions by Donald Trump to negotiate with Vladimir Putin, another gangster, to sell the people of Ukraine out.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
Mr. Putin thinks that Vladimir Putin is a savvy genius and he detests our country? Well, he's sending us a very clear message of the kind of man he is. Our neighbors are no longer our allies. We are dealing with a regime next door to us that is ignoring the international rule of law, and we have to take this dead serious. As a nation, with our political leaders, but with ordinary Canadians.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
So what do we do right now? Well, I'm extremely encouraged by the incredible response we've received from the Pledge for Canada that's now just in the space of two weeks, had over 62,000 people sign up.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
People from across the political spectrum, former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, former Attorney General Alan Rock, former Premier Danny Williams, but also the incredible artists and indigenous activists and labor activists and ordinary people across this country who said that there's a value to our nation that we're willing to defend.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
And I also want to encourage and thank the ordinary people who on their own began the boycott of all things American. Now, some might think, well, you know, if you just choose not to go down to Tennessee this year, who's going to notice? Well, right now we're seeing the American tourism industry is in full on panic. There are now over $2 billion in travel that is at risk.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
That's 140,000 American jobs. That's if just 10% of Canadians cancel their trips. It's still too early to say how many are canceling, but from the evidence that we are gathering, it's much, much higher than 10%. And it's about sending a message, sending a message to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who said Canada was going to learn a lesson. Oh, really? Texas is going to teach Canada a lesson?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
Well, we've got $400 million worth of travel that goes to Texas, Mr. Abbott. How about we teach you a lesson and say we've got better places to go than Texas? If that's your attitude of Canadians, we will not go. Hell no, we will not go. The boycott is going to target many, many areas of the United States that are very vulnerable right now. Kentucky has already started to speak up.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
about the huge losses that they're facing in Kentucky bourbon and Kentucky whiskeys because their number one market is Canadians. So when Canadians stop buying, it's sending a message.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
And we know this is the only way right now that Americans are going to be able to put pressure on Donald Trump because what's at risk here is the future of an international order where we respect the rights of countries to be independent. We respect the international rule of law. We respect our neighbors and borders, and this is something Mr. Trump is saying he will not respect.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
So on this festival where we celebrate Canada as a nation and our flag, I am encouraged. I want to thank Canadians. I want to say we are strong. We do not bend. And we will never, ever, ever kiss the ring of that gangster from Mar-a-Lago. So let's celebrate the 60th anniversary for Canada and our flag in a way that we have never done before. Thank you. Merci.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
Good morning and happy Valentine's Day. I want to say this morning how much I love my country. We don't tend to do that in Canada. We think that that's kind of gauche. We don't feel we need to say how much we love our country. But when we see the criminal gang that has taken control in Washington telling us we do not have a right to our nation, well, oh yeah.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
Not only am I going to love my country and its values and the people from one end of this beautiful nation to another, but I'm going to work with those ordinary Canadians to defend our right to continue to exist as an independent nation. And for this, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Canadian flag, I encourage Canadians to reflect what that symbol means.
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World Leaders DESTROY Trump as he SCREWS AMERICA
We are here this morning, my friends, as an unlikely group with leaders from across the political spectrum who've come together with cultural leaders, artists, academics, athletes, labor activists, and indigenous militant activists. We represent the incredible regions of our beautiful country. And we are here for one reason, our nation, our beloved Canada is under threat.
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World Leaders DESTROY Trump as he SCREWS AMERICA
It is an economic threat, but it's also a threat to our values of decency and inclusion. It's a threat to our sovereignty and our very future as a nation. The threat comes, of course, from the President of the United States, a convicted felon, a known predator. He's threatening massive tariffs to try and break us as a people.
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World Leaders DESTROY Trump as he SCREWS AMERICA
But the threat is also being driven by the hate algorithms of the oligarchs like Elon Musk, And there is the threat from people in our own country who would sell out our birthright to appease the gangster class from Mar-a-Lago. That is not going to happen.
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World Leaders DESTROY Trump as he SCREWS AMERICA
President, will tomorrow's tariffs include oil? Will tomorrow's tariffs be inclusive of Canadian crude?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
Well, I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school because when you say that someone doesn't have a right to have a country, that's an act of war. When you rip up arbitrarily trade agreements and threaten and say you're going to break a country, that's an act of war. And Canadians have responded in kind. The boycott that Canada has launched against the United States is punishing.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
We were told in January a 10% drop. in Canadian travel to the United States would cost 140,000 jobs. We're seeing at least a 40% drop now. And we're getting these nightmare stories of ICE detention centers, of people who are traveling across the border to fix their visa or that, who've been strip searched, chained, kept in deplorable conditions.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
Is Donald Trump really trying to destroy the tourism industry in the United States? And then like three days before St. Patrick's Day, picks a fight with the Irish. Of all people, you're going to pick a fight with the Irish on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, throwing 200% tariffs and then 200% tariffs on France. I mean, that's the last bottle of bourbon that will be sold in a generation in Europe.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
So what we're really picking up here is not just the... rising level of resistance in Canada. I've been on a tour through the industrial heartland of Canada and the resistance is so much stronger than I could have even dreamed. But we're picking up now, the rest of the world is watching Canada and following our strategy, which is to just disengage and to disengage economically.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
So the United States has become a much weaker country. force on the stage of the world. If people aren't buying products, if people aren't traveling, if people aren't willing to buy anything American right now, that's hurting so many American businesses who are basically collateral damage in Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance's idiotic campaign to please the mega voters. It's
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
hurting us to some degree, but it's right now we think the impact on the average American business that has always had good relations with people in their markets, they're getting punched in the face right now because of what Donald Trump's doing.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
Again, I've started this elbows-up resistance tour, and I've been down along the Highway 401 corridor, which in Central North America, this is the industrial belt that feeds the auto sector. It feeds manufacturing. Many of the communities that live along this sector, they rely on parts coming in from the U.S., and they ship parts to the U.S. So there's a lot of uncertainty there.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
steel operations that actually import from the US, but then export to the US to other markets. I've been talking to a lot of people who are deeply uncertain, but what I also get is the sense of rage that Donald Trump is trying to rip this up and trying to divide communities that, you know, from my regions like London, Oshawa, Windsor, that have been tied to Detroit, to Lansing, to Toledo.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
There's a real anger right now, but at the rallies that I've been at, I've never seen numbers like this. I've never seen people as willing to go to the wall because they actually, and this is really important to understand, Canadians get that this threat against us is an act of war.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
So we're not picking up guns yet, but we are really forming up into lines in terms of resistance to making sure that we are not buying. and doing the outreach to wherever we have to do to build solidarity. So when we see the resistance starting in Europe, there's a lot of, um, engagement now with France, with Ireland, with European countries to say, this is the model.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
You have to make the United States pay a huge economic price for the stupidity that Donald Trump has unleashed. And I don't think given the chaos, whether he's picking a fight with China or He's picked a fight with Canada. He's picked a fight with Ireland. He's picked a fight with the EU. He's picking a fight with French wines.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
You cannot sustain this kind of rage and stupidity with that many enemies. So Canada might be number one in his gun sights, but we look around and we think, hey, this guy's fighting with everybody right now. It's not sustainable for the American economy.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
Well, we saw two really important indicators last week. Was it Mr. Lutnick, the Baghdad Bob of trade negotiations for the United States, who said that Canada wasn't showing that we were grateful? Are you kidding me? You've threatened our nation and you said we're not being grateful? And then he said we're acting like Ukraine. Well, in Canada right now,
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
We're thinking we'll be Ukraine any day if Donald Trump's a two-bit Putin. So that was the first message. And then Peter Navarro came out and said, hey, Canada, settle down. Stop talking about taking the gloves off and hitting us. We think that cooler heads are going to prevail. Great. You don't want us to hit you? then stop this idiocy.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
Because if you're freaked out now, Pete, wait till you see when we actually not only drop the gloves, but... And people in Canada have said to me, Charlie, you left out the other part. It's the bench-clearing brawl moment where we all go over the board. So, Pete, I feel bad that you're feeling a little upset now. I get that you're getting kind of freaked out that Canada's getting angry.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
We will put our gloves back on, but you... tone it down dramatically, or we are going over the boards, we're dropping the gloves, we're going to pull a jersey over your head, and we are going to do the classic Canadian bench clearing brawl, which at the end of the game is going to be a lot of people hurt, but we will still be standing.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
Well, Donald, how many fights can you pick before you really prove to the world that you lose every single one of them? your fight against Canada that you, I mean, you've kissed up to Putin. You bowed down to him. Like you're like some obedient boy scout. This guy is a war criminal. This man is a disgrace. You've kissed up to North Korea. And yet your biggest threat in the world is Canada.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
Cause you thought we were easy. You thought we were going to roll over and we haven't. And it's freaking you out. That's why you're sending Pete Navarro out there. So Donald, like we want to go back to, to working with our neighbors. We want to go back to working with the communities on the other side of the border that we've worked with for generations who are our friends, who are our neighbors.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
But if you're going to make them our enemy, well, Donald, we're going to fight you the whole way and you're going to lose. You can't keep control of your economy as it is, Donald. It's starting to turn into a total circus. You've got to understand, Donald, that the economy is something bigger and broader and smarter than your stupidity right now.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
So if Canada is going to be the front line, and we've always said, whenever there's a dirty job in the war, whenever it was a thankless job, whenever the job had no glory, well, if defending democracy and defending the international rule of law has become a thankless job, give it to Canadians, because we're going to do that job too. job, Donald.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
And we are going to stand on the other side with our heads held up high. So it's up to you, Donald. Do what you're going to do. But we're ready.
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Trump Suffers Badly as It All Backfires on Him
Well, we saw two really important indicators last week. Was it Mr. Lutnik, the Baghdad Bob of trade negotiations for the United States, who said that Canada wasn't showing that we were grateful? Are you kidding me? You've threatened our nation and you said we're not being grateful? And then he said we're acting like Ukraine. Well, in Canada right now,
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Trump Suffers Badly as It All Backfires on Him
we're thinking we'll be ukraine any day if donald trump's a two-bit putin so that was the first message and then peter navarro came out and said hey canada settle down stop talking about taking the gloves off and hitting us we think that cooler heads are going to prevail great you don't want us to hit you
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Trump Suffers Badly as It All Backfires on Him
then stop this idiocy because if you're freaked out now pete wait till you see when we actually uh not only drop the gloves but and people in canada have said to me charlie you left out the other part it's the bench clearing brawl moment where we all go over the board so pete uh i feel bad that you're feeling a little upset now i i get that you're getting kind of freaked out that canada's getting angry uh we will put our gloves back on but you
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tone it down dramatically or we are going over the boards we're dropping the gloves we're going to pull a jersey over your head and we are going to do the classic canadian bench clearing brawl which at the end of the game is going to be a lot of people hurt but we will still be standing
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promised to ban the AR-15. That's the weapon that was used to murder 26-year-old children at Sandy Hook. And yet on Thursday, the Conservative leader was tweeting that the government wasn't going after the AR-15, but hunting rifles. So little wonder he gets endorsed by Alex Jones, who's notorious for taunting families of children murdered by the AR-15.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
So will the minister confirm, is the government going after hunting rifles, or the AR-15, or is this the Conservative leader being the, quote, real deal of disinformation for the likes of Alex Jones?
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
We have a couple of bulwarks to protect democracy in place that are really important. And it's one of the reasons we haven't gone so far down the mega rabbit hole. Number one is our Supreme Court is nonpartisan, scrupulously nonpartisan. allowed our judicial system to be overtaken in the way the Supreme Court in the United States has been completely turned over to the far right.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
You need an independent judicial system, because the independent judicial system has called out our prime ministers in the past. In fact, the last Conservative government had numerous battles with the Supreme Court on laws that just weren't constitutional. So that's a really important bulwark that we still have. I would imagine it'll be attacked soon enough. The other is electoral financing.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
I represent a region that's bigger than the United Kingdom. I run my entire campaign for about $100,000 because there are campaign limits. Corporations cannot donate upfront. So that allows a level playing field and allows people like me, a kid from a mining town, to actually run and represent people that I couldn't probably be able to do in the United States.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
What's concerning me, there is a lot of dark money appearing, and it's certainly on the platforms. We saw that with X. And we see it with Meta, Facebook, the amount on my political page, the amount of toxic memes, hate memes against trans people, against climate change, attacking our prime minister. Who's paying for that? And how is that money being spread? It's an enormous online campaign.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
That's what worries me. the inability, the unwillingness to call out that. Certainly, you probably saw the crazy convoy of the great White Lives Matter protests that occupied our capital for weeks and weeks and weeks with disinformation and crazy.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
How much of that was driven by offshore bot farms and Russian disinformation is a huge question, but people are tiptoeing around it because they don't wanna take on the rage mob. But these are things that are threatening our democracy added to the kind of language that Trump is bringing in on everything from vaccinations to migrants. It will put a lot of stress on our nation.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
And we need to stand up and say, no, you're not gonna go down that road, but we have to protect the institutions that we have.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
But I think the issue of defending democracy is no longer within our individual borders. That's what we've learned from the Steve Bannon playbook. They have no intention on the far right of focusing on an election here or there. They're using strategies globally to undermine democratic rights. We're in a time of crisis. We're in a time when we need to learn from each other and work together.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
So having a platform like yours, getting information out to people and information that's not disinformation, but conversation is a really, really important thing at this time.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
I think we need to remember who we are at this time. At a time of such great uncertainty, people don't seem to know what's up and what's down. It's like, wait a minute. Remember what our grandparents went through. I think of my late father-in-law, 17 years old, went on the Navy convoys to get supplies to Murmansk and then ended up in the battle at Japan.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
My uncles, who left at 17, 16, they worked in the mines. My aunt. and sisters in that who worked on the polio wards when they were dealing before vaccines. These were tough people. They gave us our values. We have to be tough now. And we have to be tough, especially when you've got hair the colour of mine, for the young generation. They're suffering a lot of stress right now.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
They should be looking to us to stand up to them. So when a convicted predator like Donald Trump thinks he's going to slap us around, I don't think so. We've got to have backbone. Nobody else is going to come and save us. This is my message for my friends in the United States. We've got to start rebuilding at the grassroots. We've got to start rebuilding our communities.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
We've got to start rebuilding our networks. We've got to make ourselves resilient to hate and resilient to grifters.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Well, we talked on a previous show about what will happen in auto when within four days, Toledo and Lansing, Bowling Green will start going down. And the day after the tariffs were announced, he immediately backed down on auto. Why wasn't he taking advice from the big automakers in the first place of the chaos that he would cause?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Now in agriculture, it's going to be another big area with $73 billion shared trade. This is a totally integrated market. And Donald promised lower grocery prices in his first hundred days. Americans like Canadians have already seen the shocks of inflation, the shocks of post COVID.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Once he starts messing with that market and he's saying some things in Kuzma are protected and other things aren't, nobody knows it's creating uncertainty and it's making it very difficult for suppliers on both sides of the border. So I think what American farmers are waking up to is the fact that Canadians are no longer buying their products
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
We're just not going to participate in this abusive relationship. You threaten us, we don't buy your products. How about that?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
I think to be honest, when it started, we were determined, but we were frightened because we knew we were going to be in for a real big fight ahead of us and it would cost a lot. And I remember I got a beautiful message from a former section leader, Canadian soldier who'd been in Afghanistan, who said to me, you know, I kept telling my guys and my gals, you know, don't be afraid of what's to come.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
you know, trust each other and you'll be fine. That was the feeling then. Now there's a real different feeling, which is a sense of determination and real unprecedented pride. We had massive rallies just yesterday in Quebec. They call themselves the mothers at the front outside the American consulate on international women's day.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
I can't keep up with the amount of songs that are being written about Canada right now. It's either, it seems that, you know, we're all in the trench together and we're all, having a great Canadian party. People are really determined to do this and do this in a right way and do this kind of joyfully and defiantly because let's face it, Trump, J.D.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Vance and MAGA and Elon Musk, they're creepy people. You don't want them as neighbors. And we like the people that we've got here. So there's a real...
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Well, Donald, it's become really clear after 60 some days of your chaos, you ripped up your European treaties, you sold out the people of Ukraine, you've acted in a disgraceful manner towards our allies, you're running a chainsaw through American democracy, but you made it clear that Canada is your number one enemy, your next door neighbors. So here's the thing.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
transformation happening of solidifying the resistance people getting stronger in it and people saying okay now let's go to the next step and that's going to be the pressure on our political leaders to be willing to up the ante rather than to backtrack because charlie these creepy people the musks the jd vans the trumps the stephen millers i mean you in canada
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Well, I think I may have to thank Donald Trump for one thing, which is to really show us what was in store for us because Megan Maple was ascendant. Pierre Palliev and the Conservatives have run on this, the politics of snide and cynicism and degrading their opponents. And Canadians were, I think, unsure, they were tired, they were cranky, and it was working. So here's an example.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Pierre Polyev's been in Parliament for 20-some years. He's never had a real job outside being a political attack dog. And the only time I ever remember Pierre Polyev ever bringing forward legislation was his promise to get rid of vaccine mandates, that he was going to stand up for people's right not to get vaccinated. Well, Now we see RFK Jr.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
and the chaos he's causing and the measles outbreaks and Canadians are saying that is not good public policy. That's the policy of an ideological idiot. And so then we look at MAGA Maple here in Canada and we say, is that what we were in store for if we voted for this ideology, this kind of constant snide, mean negativity? No, we don't want that.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
So I'm not saying we're out of the woods yet, but it certainly made it much more difficult for the megaforce, which was getting pretty strong here, to actually hold its own now because people can see what Donald Trump has done. They can see what his ideologues are doing. And we realize that democracy has to do better than go to the lowest common knuckle-dragging denominator.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
You're threatening us with tariffs. You're going to bring him in. You're going to bring us to our knees. And then you start panicking because we don't back down. And now you're trying to hem and haw and change what you said just a couple of days ago. We don't care. It doesn't matter.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
The boycott is so much in force now. It is something that everyone is engaged in. And I read a really interesting fact that they said, you know, all it takes is about six weeks of changing your buying habits to change them forever. I know that Jack Daniels was getting whiny that we didn't just impose a tariff. We took it off the shelves. No American booze in any of our liquor outlets.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
And, you know, my region, Ontario, is the biggest purchaser of booze in the world. Not signed, perhaps, on people of Ontario, but we buy a lot of Kentucky products, Tennessee products. We're not buying it. And even if they put it back in the shelf, people aren't buying it. And a really interesting statistic I saw was that flights to the US in February were down 40%.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Now they talked in January about a 10% drop causing, I don't know, 15,000 jobs right off the top. A 40% drop is extraordinary. And then you add to that the fact that February is a really, really cold month in Canada. People love going south to the US, and they're not. They're going either to Mexico or they're staying home to do tours in the summer through Canada. So this is having a huge effect.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
And this is the power of the boycott. The boycott will start putting pressure on the governors. It'll put pressure on red state and blue state legislators to start standing up and saying, this is an insane thing. Why would the United States consider its number one enemy in the world
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
to be not China, not North Korea, not Vladimir Putin, but their next door neighbors in Canada with an integrated market, which is the most successful marketing arrangement in the world today. Why would they blow that up? That's something Donald Trump is going to have to explain to the American people very soon.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Until you bring all the tariffs off, until you stop harassing us and threatening our border, the punishment is going to keep coming from Canada because we realize right now that Canada has become the number one line of resistance to you and your regime. So since you've... backtracked, we've upped the ante.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Well, Donald, we know the ideology behind MAGA, that you believed you could create an American empire. You could just plunder resources that didn't belong to you. You could rip up treaties like the Border Treaty, like the Great Lakes Treaty. You could act like a gangster state. And you guys were all feeling pretty bullish doing it.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
But it was all predicated on the notion that Canada would collapse.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
then when we didn't you got confused and then so you huffed and puffed and threatened even higher tariffs and then we we said we'll go higher and we'll go higher still this is the thing that you donald wasn't expecting and so now you're going to have to rethink this if the number one source of resistance to your regime right now are the people of canada you're in big trouble because you don't know how canadians are when we go from being nice
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
to going to the point that you're going to pay a price. So here's the thing, Donald. If you want to go all the way, we're already there. We know we are going all the way. But you told us we don't have the right to even have a country. And when you say that, Donald, well, as we say in Canada, that's when we drop the gloves. That's when we go over the boards. And that's when we go elbows up.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
And that's the slogan of this movement. Elbows up right in your face, Donald. So make a decision. Where are you going to go with this?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Whether it's going to be energy exports, whether it's critical minerals, Canada will not back down at this point. So just you need to do a rethink because this is not going to work well for you.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
And Canadians are just hunkering down. Bring it on, Donald. Whatever you're going to do, you're going to do. We're going to do what we're going to do. And it ain't going to be pretty.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Well, this is a really important point because It's going to hurt us. I mean, we're an integrated market. America's number one export market is Canada. And Canada's number one export market is the United States. It makes sense. We're trading nations. So we understand that we're going to be hurt.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
But since Donald's put the fact that he doesn't believe we're a real nation on the table, and we're seeing very Putin-like reactions,
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
abuse towards our borders and our national security and our right to even exist canadians understand okay we're in this for the long haul as for the united states the impacts are going to they've already started from the massive boycott that's happening of all american products and american vacation destinations which canadians love to go to the united states in the winter and they're not going but the i think one of the big
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
big areas, it's going to shock America and it's going to shock the Trump administration is what's going to happen in the auto sector. I mean, everybody pays attention to the tech bros, but auto drives the economy. The system is set up cross-border between the United States and Canada in such an intricate manner.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
From what we're hearing from people who are very, very aware of how integrated the market is between the United States and Canada, within four days, Four days. Whether or not Canada even retaliates. Within four days of the tariffs being put on, plants like Toledo and Lansing, Michigan start to go down. Bowling Green starts to go down. So Canada is going to take a hit.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
I think right now, after the horrific abuse that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance subjected a genuine war hero, President Zelensky, to in the White House while having some troll from the Russian media there to watch it. Canadians are really sickened in their stomach. I mean, we've been ready for a fight.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
But once you start shutting down auto plants, you are doing massive damage to the economy. So again, Donald, what's your endgame here? What are you trying to do? What's this big victory you're going to score? Once you mess with Otto, you are messing with America's economy. You're certainly messing with Canada's economy, and you're not going to come out on the winning side of this.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
I think this first 40 or 50 days of the Trump madness have been the end of the American century. I don't know how else to put it. When I was in Europe, I felt that. We see that Norwegian suppliers are refusing to fuel American ships anymore. America is now suddenly isolated on the world stage. And to what benefit? It's certainly to the benefit of Putin. It's certainly to the benefit of China.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
But when America is fighting its number one ally, like Canada, and making us as angry as we are. And again, I think our Canadian viewers and our American viewers will generally sense that Canadians don't tend to get angry.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
really angry we are seriously angry now and this is a lasting anger it's not going to go away if donald backs off or he gives tariffs on one thing but not the other i don't think anything's changing here people are really uh this is a profound
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
line in the sand that's been crossed because it's about our right to exist as a people and Canadians are very very we become kin very quickly when you suddenly attack one of us but what he's done is he's attacked the world Certainly Vladimir Putin, I bet there's champagne corks going off in the Kremlin every night. I bet in Beijing they're doing the happy dance right now.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
America is now very, very isolated and very alone. And I think a lot of ordinary Americans who are going to be traveling are going to be picking up a lot of animosity for stuff they probably had nothing to do with. This is about Donald. This is about J.D. Vance. This is about the abuse that they gave President Zelensky. This is about... doofuses like Pete Navarro and Robert Kennedy Jr.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
and the whole gang of cretins that they brought in and allowed to take over what was supposed to be our shining light on the hill.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
We've been knowing that this guy's going to come and try and push us around and we've been getting ready for it. But we saw that. We saw that at the same time that Pete Navarro, the crackpot economic guru that Donald Trump's been listening to, saying that they were going to redraw our borders. That's an act of war.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Well, Ben, since so many of my working class voters up in Northern Ontario watch you speak, They expect that you understand what elbows up means. So we are just going to go that you guys totally get elbows up. Elbows up refers to Gordie Howe from Floral, Saskatchewan, who's leader of the production line of the Detroit Red Wings. Gordie was the sweetest guy on the planet. But when Gordie...
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
did Elbows Up, it meant people got black eyes and people lost teeth. So last night, or Saturday night, when Mike Myers is on Saturday Night Live, and he's like, everybody loves him in Canada. There's so many great Canadian actors and comedians and artists who are in the United States. And to us, we get it that they're going to the big leagues, but we always consider them hometown boys.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
So when Mike Miles' Elbows Up, that message to Canadians was, don't be polite. Don't hope for the best. You do what you have to do and do it the way Gordy would do it, which means people are going to get black eyes. People are going to lose teeth. And so for the doofus leaders like JD Vance and Pete Navarro and the Trump gang, they're going to be in for a real shock.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Mike sent the message and that's message. I've been hearing it all day. Elbows up, elbows up, elbows up. I've been talking to like capitalist businessmen, uh, who travel the world who tell me never going back, never spending a dime, elbows up. So Mike sent a message on SNL last night.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
It was the secret code, but the code has been well received and everybody in Canada feeling really good about Mike Myers right now.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Well, Donald, you had to bring a guy from the Russian state media in to watch you try and beat up President Zelensky, and you thought that would make you look good? It made you look like the crook and the cheap hood that you are. It's sickened us in our stomachs, but I've been talking to people all over the world who are sickened in their stomachs by what you tried to pull off.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Zelensky is a man that you will never be in a million years. He's a genuine hero. So Donald, where are you going to go with this? Are you going to continue to be the puppet and the bootlicker of Vladimir Putin, another criminal, a guy whose economy isn't one-fifth or one-tenth of what the United States is? Is that what you're going to give up?
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
because the rest of the world understands now very clearly who you are. And we understand who heroes are, and you're not one of them. So right now in Canada, the emotions and the commitment that we're feeling towards the people of Ukraine and for the people of our country, Donald, man, you brought us all together. So congratulations for that. for what you've done to your nation, come on.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
It'll take decades if ever the people can rise up out of the swamp that you've dragged it into, Donald. It's just, man, you're the art of the deal. Come on. In what world?
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Thank you so much for having me. Great on the show. People are watching back home.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
So suddenly this fight that we're seeing in Canada is feeling very different right now. And it's feeling like we are going to a different place. And it's really made Canadians much more determined. So the Trump. But tariffs. Yeah, maybe they're coming. Maybe they're not. Maybe he's shouting. You know, this whole thing we've been told he needs to look like he's got a victory.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
He's got to win something. It's like it's like those relatives that you have who are like gambling addicts who like basically sold the house and they come back and they want a thousand bucks and they said they won something. Trump is crazy. is selling America's reputation. He's selling their relations. He's selling out thousands of jobs with this economic uncertainty.
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Trump has DISASTROUS Christmas as MAGA IMPLODES
Watching some of the response in the US media, CNN stated, oh, he's just teasing. What, teasing about taking over other countries? But then they said that, hey, it'd be a great deal for Americans. It'd be bigger than the Louisiana Purchase. There's no such thing as teasing when you're threatening the sovereignty of independent nations.
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Trump has DISASTROUS Christmas as MAGA IMPLODES
And I think for a lot of us, we just thought Donald sort of acted like the buffoon, but he wasn't that stupid. But here's a man who, when Putin launched his murderous war in Ukraine, praised Putin, said he was savvy, said he was a genius, and he has one of his Putin trolls taking up one of the key places in his new administration.
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Trump has DISASTROUS Christmas as MAGA IMPLODES
So his disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty sent, I think, a very, very chilly message. His attacks on Panama, his attacks on Greenland, his attacks on Canada are sending a message that he doesn't respect the international order in terms of the rights of nations. And we have to start taking that, I think, a lot more seriously.
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Over the last three months, our nation has faced an unprecedented threat from our nearest neighbor, a threat to our borders, a threat to our sovereignty, a threat to our very right to exist as an independent democratic nation. Donald Trump thought we were going to be an easy mark, that we'd be a pushover. Oh, how wrong he was. And now Canada's standing up to him,
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has made Canada the front line in the defense against the MAGA ideology. So no wonder Donald Trump and MAGA are feeling pretty angry at Canada. But what concerns me is the targeting of Canadian citizens who are crossing the border to work or to visit. We have seen too many stories Of citizens being pulled out of airport lines and being fingerprinted and deported as though they were criminals.
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Citizens being kidnapped through illegal detention by ICE. And it's not just Canadians. We see the attack on backpackers, students, doctors, professors. I am here today. to say to Canadians to avoid travel to the United States, if at all possible, and to call our government to stand up for our Canadian citizens who are being denied their rights by arbitrary detention in the United States today.
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Canada must stand up for our citizens and for the rule of law. Because what we're seeing, for example, with cops pulling over the folk duo Cassie and Maggie to harass them for being Canadian is not the actions of a democratic nation. People whose phones are being seized and searched for any kind of incriminating evidence that they're somehow progressive or woke.
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That's not the actions of a democratic nation. That is the creep of totalitarianism. That is the creep of fascism. And we need to call that out.
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I mean, now someone who knows a little bit about this, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder. Charlie, it's great to see you.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
So yes, they are neighbors, but we have stood up to them. We're in a different situation with Donald Trump. a convicted predator who's seriously undermining the democratic process in the United States, and he thinks he can just push us around. He insults us.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
The Conservatives seem to like it because he's insulting our prime minister, but he's not really insulting the prime minister, he's insulting Canadians calling us the 51st state.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
You know, once there was a Canada that had a flag that didn't need to be waived. The flag that represented who we are, we didn't boast about.