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Chapter 1: What was the impact of Trump's tariffs on Canada?
i'm here with canadian member of parliament charlie angus charlie last week donald trump back down he was trying to bully canada he imposed the tariffs the american markets started to crash then donald trump withdrew the tariffs canada didn't budge canada still has retaliatory tariffs on right now charlie what's your message to donald trump and his regime who may be watching this now
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.
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.
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.
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.
Charlie, you talked about in previous interviews how the Canadian people were prepared if Donald Trump imposed tariffs, that they understood it could be tough, but they were ready for it. And you said, what I'm warning the Americans, though, is that you aren't prepared. You aren't being told the truth about tariffs and the markets are going to crash.
Do you feel that what you said back then when you and I started talking a few months ago now seems to be pretty prescient, doesn't it?
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?
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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Chapter 2: How did Canada respond to Trump's economic threats?
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%.
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.
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
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.
Well, it's either the height of negligence or seeming more as Donald Trump moves closer or is already moving the nation to the access of evil. It feels intentional, wanton, malicious about why you would go and do that if you actually want to inflict harm.
Charlie, your final message right now to the Trump regime as we start another week with Canada staying strong and Donald Trump and his regime flailing. Your final message.
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.
But it was all predicated on the notion that Canada would collapse.
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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