WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:23.559 Thank you for listening to Pictures Media Radio, Welcome to 2 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:29.760 Policy and Rights the Show, US Welcomer Policy, Human Joys. 3 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.600 Good evening everyone. It was good to be here in 4 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.560 London today. It was important for Canada to be there 5 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:06.200 with allies as we discuss the importance of standing united 6 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:12.200 in defense of Ukraine and in pushing for a durable 7 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:16.680 and lasting piece in Ukraine. We all have important roles 8 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:20.040 to play and we've recommitted today to continue to do that. 9 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:29.319 In the rules, Prime Mister Stormer mentioned the Coalition of 10 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:29.719 the Willing. 11 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.519 What role will Canada play that coalition? 12 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.719 Canada has been one of the strongest countries in support 13 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:41.680 of Ukraine from the very beginning. For over ten years now, 14 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.439 we've been training Ukrainian defense forces. We're up to close 15 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:50.560 to forty thousand Ukrainian troops that we have trained over 16 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:54.400 the years. Were continuing to play a significant role in training, 17 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:58.680 as is the UK who is our primary partner in that. 18 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.480 We've also invested close to twenty billion dollars in supports 19 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.759 for Ukraine, military, economic, and other and we're going to 20 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.879 continue to be there to support Ukraine as necessary, with 21 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.240 whatever it takes, for as long as it takes because 22 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:18.520 Ukraine is not just defending its own territories, defending the 23 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:23.759 very principles and values that underpin all of our democracies. 24 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.080 So as we look at what's going to be necessary 25 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:29.800 in the coming years, I can assure you that Canada 26 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:31.000 and Canadians will be there. 27 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.599 Welcome back to policy and rights. Here in Depictions Media Radio, 28 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:44.360 I'm your host, Michael Kloggs. As Friday ended, we all 29 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:49.039 got word of a fight that happened in the Oval 30 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.360 office in the White House, or maybe not actually in 31 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:57.840 the office itself, but it did happen in the White House, 32 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:05.919 and it was after live on American television, and it 33 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:16.439 was promptly broadcasted on the White House YouTube channel as 34 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:25.599 mister Zelensky was defending himself against bullies in the Trump administration. 35 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:32.000 It kind of all started with, sadly, with some blogger 36 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:37.240 making a comment about mister Zelensky not wearing a suit. 37 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.479 It's pretty certain that that person making a comment about 38 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.000 why he doesn't wear a suit was planted there by 39 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:52.560 mister Trump in order to demean mister Zelensky and demean 40 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:56.560 him as a leader. This is a man that took 41 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:01.199 up the torch for Ukraine and is to his country 42 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:09.120 against odds that we can't even imagine, with Vladimir Putin 43 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:14.960 at the helm of the Russian Federation. The war has 44 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:21.040 continued over a number of years, three years to be exact. 45 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:21.959 And. 46 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:29.199 The Ukrainian soldiers have managed to actually hit territories and 47 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:35.759 targets inside the Russian border. They managed to push at 48 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:42.759 some point push the Russians back across the border, and 49 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:54.439 have defended themselves against innumerable attacks and inhumane acts of 50 00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:05.759 destruction that were caused by the Russian soldiers. We have 51 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.519 heard on the on the United from the United Nations, 52 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:14.160 the United Nations Security Council about how these are lies 53 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:25.639 proposed by the uh Western Powers. In the same conversation 54 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:31.680 on the he ultimately turned into Donald Trump saying, either 55 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:38.360 either mister Zilinki Zelenski jumps on and signs the deal 56 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:42.879 that mister Trump has in front of him, or he 57 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:47.079 holds no cards. He is ultimately going to cause World 58 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:55.279 War III and the destruction of Ukraine. The only way 59 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:58.240 he will have cards is is if he signs the 60 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:03.439 deal right there, The only way he would ever have power. 61 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:12.879 Mister Trump, mister Rubio, and mister Vance tried to demoralize 62 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:20.879 a person who stood strong against the bullies and is 63 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:24.399 continuing to stand strong and has a history of standing 64 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:30.240 strong against bullies, including Vladimir Putin. Mister Trump and his 65 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:38.120 married little men displayed on Friday who they truly are 66 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.360 aligned with, who their true allegiance actually belongs with, and 67 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:50.839 it isn't the American people, it is Vladimir Putin. He 68 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:54.480 put his cards on the table instead of holding him 69 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:05.600 holding them to his chest like he usually does. Of course, 70 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.360 when mister Zelensky left the White House and he got 71 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:14.279 to Europe, he was greeted with open arms by the EU. 72 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:20.560 And with that being said, you heard already a statement 73 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:26.160 from Justin Trudeau as we opened the show saying that 74 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:36.439 Canada will stand by Ukraine. Okay, So it's now a 75 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:44.279 few days later and mister Trump is still denouncing mister Zelensky, 76 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:52.920 saying he is attempting to defame him and by calling 77 00:07:53.000 --> 00:08:00.720 him different names about and saying of that that his 78 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:08.839 leadership is weak and he is going to fall. The 79 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:11.519 truth of the matter is is that mister Trump, by 80 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.839 laying all of his cards on the table and revealing 81 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:18.519 who he's truly aligned with, he opened up the door 82 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:25.160 for the European Union to truly open its eyes and 83 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:30.759 see that maybe for the next four years, we need 84 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:40.000 to keep the United States at a distance. Other former 85 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.759 presidents have made statements about the display that happened on Friday, 86 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:59.440 and it isn't favorable. This isn't about democrats versus Republicans 87 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:05.559 any longer. This is about a fascist autocrat trying to 88 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:14.080 conquer and take over the American people. So we're gonna 89 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:17.799 move forward into the show, and we're gonna hear statements 90 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:22.200 from mister povier As and and we're also going to 91 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:25.759 hear a interview that was done or a segment of 92 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:30.279 the interview that was done in Vancouver, BC by the 93 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:35.559 Vancouver Border Trade on Friday about the tariffs and how 94 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:42.200 Canada can defend itself against the tariffs and what does 95 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:46.039 it what does the tariffs in both of in both 96 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.159 of their eyes, What do these same tarrors mean to 97 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:55.000 the American people? To my American friends that are actually 98 00:09:55.039 --> 00:10:00.799 listening to this, be warned that if tar go up, 99 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:06.039 prices that you pay for a thing, for certain goods 100 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:08.080 on the shelves and the stores that you that you 101 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.679 like to buy are going to go up. Inflation is 102 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.480 going to go up in America if the tariffs go up. 103 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:20.120 Here's a reason why he why mister Trump keeps dangling 104 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:26.720 it and then moving the target. He knows because he 105 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.000 has said several times that he is a businessman, he 106 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:36.919 is not a politician, and he knows that if the 107 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.679 tariffts go up too far, that the prices on the 108 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:44.240 shelves through the American people are going to go up. 109 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:50.080 It's going to cost you more to live because the 110 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:56.759 United States cannot be self sustained. It doesn't have enough 111 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.679 oil and gas. It doesn't have enough lumber, it doesn't 112 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.720 have any aluminum to be had within the borders of 113 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:10.960 the United States. It's not an existent or it is limited. 114 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:20.279 He knows this. He's telling you a story so that 115 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.960 he gets you on its side. But is that story 116 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.960 going to truly serve you something to think about as 117 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:35.320 we listen to the next two statements from the Canadian 118 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:43.399 Minister of Foreign Affairs, and we listen to the opposition 119 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:50.000 leadership of the Canadian government with the Conservative Party, mister 120 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:56.559 Pierre Polvier, So why don't we get started, listen to 121 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.440 what they have to say, and think about what mister 122 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:08.600 Trump is truly doing and what his economic strategy really 123 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:10.399 means to everyone's pocket. 124 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:17.000 Thank you very much everyone for being here today. I'm 125 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:21.639 in politics to bring home Canada's promise, a very simple promise. 126 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.639 You work hard, You've got a great life in a 127 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:31.080 beautiful house on a safe street, protected by a solid 128 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:36.080 border and brave troops under a proud flag. That promise 129 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.919 has been broken now for several years after the Carney 130 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.159 true to liberals, doubled housing costs, doubled the national debt, 131 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.879 doubled food bank lineups, doubled gun crime, pushed half a 132 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.799 trillion dollars of investment out of Canada to the US, 133 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.600 and gave us the worst economic growth in the G seven. 134 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.679 Now they're seeking a fourth term in office, but more 135 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:03.799 media lee. On Tuesday, we're faced with yet another possible 136 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:08.279 threat of tariffs. Mister Trump, the President of the United States, 137 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.960 has threatened that tariffs will kick in on Tuesday. We 138 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.279 don't know if he's going to pull back again, but 139 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.279 if the tariffs do happen, we must retaliate, and we 140 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.120 must use the revenues, mostly almost exclusively, to cut taxes 141 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:25.360 for Canadian workers and businesses to bolster our economy against 142 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:30.360 those tariffs. Regardless of what the President does, though we 143 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.600 can't rely on him, and we can't rely on the 144 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:37.879 Americans anymore. We've learned our lesson from ten years of helplessness. 145 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:40.679 We need to take back control of our economy and 146 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.480 bring home a strong, self reliant and sovereign nation. Simply put, 147 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:47.799 we need to bring it home. We must bring home 148 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:52.080 our jobs, our resources, our production, our supply chains. We 149 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.600 must not only harvest our resources, but we must build 150 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.440 l ANDNG plants and ports that can get those resources 151 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:03.399 to over sees markets. That means tax cuts and green 152 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.159 lighting massive resource projects to bring home our jobs, businesses, 153 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.200 and money, and to become less dependent on the Americans. 154 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.639 It means rejecting the radical keep it in the ground 155 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.879 environmental agenda that Mark Karney has advised on Justin Trudeau 156 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:22.320 over the last five years. That is why over a 157 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.039 month ago, I called on the government two immediately one 158 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.600 repeal the liberal No New Pipeline's Law C sixty nine, 159 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:34.519 a law that is blocked mines, pipelines, power dams, LNG 160 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:39.639 plants that would make us more independent from the United States. 161 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:44.879 Two immediately convene premiers to remove not talk about removing 162 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.960 but remove exemptions in the Canadian Free Trade Deal so 163 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:52.320 Canadians can trade between provinces. Three pass a bring it 164 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.879 Home tax cut on work investment, home building, energy, and 165 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.440 making stuff in Canada. Four Imediately remove red tape and 166 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:04.600 taxes to boost home building. Wouldn't it be a wonderful 167 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:10.279 way to help our beleaguered lumber business and our loggers 168 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:13.960 to start building some homes If we were to ax 169 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:17.720 the federal sales tax and get a deal with provinces 170 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.440 and municipalities to take their taxes off, we could build 171 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:23.679 hundreds of thousands of extra homes, creating jobs for our 172 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:29.039 tradespeople and boosting demand for our domestic lumber that President 173 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:33.799 Trump is threatening and that President Brydon already tariffed. But 174 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.480 despite asking for all of these things over a month ago, 175 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.600 nothing has happened. The Liberals have done precisely nothing in 176 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:44.360 the last month to make us less reliant on the Americans. 177 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.480 They shut Parliament so that we were not even able 178 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:51.039 to pass any laws or more importantly, repeal the devastating 179 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.759 laws and taxes that they had originally put in place. Instead, 180 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.480 Liberals have spent the last three months raising money from 181 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:01.840 Mark Kearny and fighting for power within their own party. 182 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:05.879 So today, as we speak, the no New Pipeline's loss 183 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:10.039 C sixty nine is still in place. All liberal tax 184 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:14.519 increases are still in place. Trade barriers within the country 185 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.559 are still in place. The federal sales tax is still 186 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.879 in place on new homes. The Carney true to liberal 187 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:25.279 policies that have doubled housing costs, doubled food bank use, 188 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.080 doubled the debt, gave us the worst growth in the 189 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.480 G seven, and pushed a half trillion dollars out of 190 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:34.960 our country to the United States, all still in place, 191 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:39.159 speaking and pushing money out of Canada. We know that 192 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.720 is exactly what Mark Karney did when he backed down 193 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:47.279 to Donald Trump. On October twenty sixth, twenty twenty four, 194 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:53.039 Donald Trump threatened tariffs against Canada to take our jobs. 195 00:16:53.840 --> 00:17:01.960 Six days later, Mark Karney announced the Brookfield headquarters would 196 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:06.279 move from Canada to Trump's hometown of New York City, 197 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:12.000 giving Canadian jobs to Americans. And we all know, no 198 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:15.319 matter what the corporate big wigs tell you, that when 199 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:20.039 the headquarters goes, the jobs and the money will follow. 200 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:23.720 Soon after, Mark Karney did exactly what Trump wanted. He 201 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.880 backed down and sold out our country when Canada was 202 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.359 under attack. He did it while he was acting as 203 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:34.359 Justin Trudeau's economic advisor. When asked why he moved the 204 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.720 headquarters out of Canada, he said he had nothing to 205 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.119 do with it, that the decision was made after he 206 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:44.440 left the company in January. Yet documents show that the 207 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:49.119 decision was made in October of last year at a 208 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:54.680 meeting that he chaired, where the decision was unanimous, meaning 209 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:57.440 he agreed with it, and then he recommended it in 210 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.839 writing to his shareholders confronted him about his falsehood. He 211 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:07.680 now says he should have been more precise. But here's 212 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:12.799 the thing. He was very precise. He said, and I 213 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:20.000 quote the decision, the formal decision of the board, happened 214 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:24.119 after I ceased to be on the board. Again, the decision, 215 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:30.160 the formal decision of the board, happened after I ceased 216 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.720 to be on the board. That is a very precise statement, 217 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:38.200 precisely the opposite of the truth. The formal decision happened 218 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:42.279 in October, three months before Mark Karney left, and he 219 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:46.519 chaired the meeting. Now he told this to all of 220 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:50.640 you the media. Here, we're here today, Let's digest that 221 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:57.039 for a second. He sat at that mahogany table, grasping 222 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:02.599 the gavel and recorded the DECI which he agreed with 223 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:08.200 to move the headquarters to New York from Canada. And 224 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.240 then just the other night, when you asked him about it, 225 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.960 he looked all of you in the eye and he said, 226 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:18.759 the board made the decision before, excuse me, after he 227 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.079 left the company and he had nothing to do with it. 228 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.279 Are you ever going to believe anything he tells you again? 229 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.119 Don't you think he should come before you and explain himself. 230 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.119 Mark Karney has to come before Canadians and explain. He 231 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.680 needs to explain why he lied and why he sold 232 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:41.759 out our country, why he failed to put Canada first 233 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:46.000 when we were under attack. He needs to apologize to Canadians, 234 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:49.559 not only for lying, but for putting his personal profits 235 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:53.960 ahead of our country. Mark Karney put himself first instead 236 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:57.720 of putting Canada first. We need action to protect our 237 00:19:57.759 --> 00:19:59.720 country and its people, to take back control of our 238 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.279 eccho noomic future, and to protect Canadians from greedy corporate 239 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.480 executives who would ship our jobs abroad, and to bring 240 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.240 home the promise of Canada. We have a common sense 241 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:13.599 plan to do it. Conservatives will ax taxes, we will 242 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:16.839 build homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. We 243 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:21.480 will cut bureaucracy, consultants, corporate welfare, and foreign aid to 244 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:25.160 bring down liberal deficits, taxes and inflation. We will repeal 245 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:28.519 anti development laws like C. Sixty nine and rapidly green 246 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:33.039 light minds, pipelines, factories, LNG plants and other highly profitable, 247 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.799 profitable projects. We will lower taxes on work, energy, investment, 248 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.200 home building, and making stuff in Canada. We'll take the 249 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:43.039 GST off new homes to build thousands of new places 250 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:45.359 for young people to live. We will ax the carbon 251 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.519 tax for a real for everyone and forever. We will 252 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.359 reject plans by Carti to bring that tax back. We 253 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:54.480 will simplify our tax code so that our businesses spend 254 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:57.319 more time hiring workers and serving customers in less time 255 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:00.839 filling out forms. We will sell our natural gas in 256 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:05.079 India and other overseas markets to displace dirtier forms of energy. 257 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:12.279 We will actually confront Putin by displacing his energy dominance 258 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:16.359 in Europe with Canadian natural gas, with energy plants that 259 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.920 will get the projects up and running and out the door. 260 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:21.720 So that we can bring home powerful paychecks for our 261 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:24.319 people in this country. So the choice for Canadians will 262 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:29.000 be simple. Do you believe that the Trudeau Carni Liberals 263 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:37.880 deserve a fourth term of hiking taxes, doubling housing costs, 264 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:42.440 blocking resource projects, and making us hopelessly dependent on the Americans? 265 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:48.279 Are you ready for real common sense change to ax taxes, 266 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:53.200 green light big projects, secure our borders and our military, 267 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:57.319 and put Canada first. And in the end, we will 268 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:59.880 bring home the promise of this country where hard work 269 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:03.279 gets you a great life that buys you a beautiful 270 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.559 home on a safe street, protected by solid borders and 271 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:12.359 brave soldiers under a proud flag Canada. Let's bring it home. 272 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.079 As we take our seats, I remind everybody they can 273 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:24.799 log on a slide dot com and to submit and 274 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:28.359 vote from questions. Minister, we have known each other for 275 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:31.279 a long time. I've been in this role five years 276 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:33.759 and when your previous portfolio, you were one of the 277 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:36.440 first to reach out and to really connect with us 278 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:39.119 and find out what was happening on the ground in 279 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:43.279 Greater Vancouver during COVID, and so I've had the opportunity 280 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:47.519 to watch you evolve in this role of yours now, 281 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:50.200 and you know, quite just on a personal note, I 282 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:52.319 don't think that you would have envisioned that it would 283 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:55.720 have been quite all of this when you were appointed 284 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:56.799 for an hears minister. 285 00:22:57.480 --> 00:22:58.640 Maybe we'll just start. 286 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:01.480 With a few personal reflections and you can give some 287 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:05.519 remarks about where things stand in this precise moment, on 288 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:09.000 this precise day in regards to Paris, because it has 289 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.039 been just such an ever changing situation. 290 00:23:12.119 --> 00:23:15.640 Yeah, well, I'm happy to see you again. You and 291 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:20.400 I worked a lot on creating the first economic development agency, 292 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:23.720 a regional development agency for the Pacific, which is called 293 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.880 Pacific n You needed a kibot clause to make that happen. 294 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:29.039 That's pretty funny. 295 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.920 So I was just T telling BRIGANDT beforehand. When when 296 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:37.279 Prime Minister Trudeau appointed me foreign minister back in twenty 297 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:42.960 twenty one, I was calling different former foreign ministers, and 298 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.680 one of which well known it is called John, and 299 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:50.559 I'll call Jean like, okay, so what are your. 300 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:52.839 Comments, what are your advice? What do you think? He said? 301 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:56.200 You know, Melanie, it's create, it's very prestigious, but you'll 302 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:57.039 never be in the media. 303 00:23:57.640 --> 00:23:59.759 You know, nothing will happen. 304 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:02.680 Uh, So I was like, okay, well, thank you. And 305 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:05.400 then four months later, uh the war in Ukraine started. 306 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:09.440 And then from there, of course we know uh there 307 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:14.400 were the October seventh uh that were in Gaza. I. 308 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:18.039 It's you know, the entire Middle East living. 309 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:21.480 On UH tensions with with China. We had our own 310 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:25.039 issues also with India. It just never stopped every day, 311 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:27.319 and now we know it is. 312 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:31.799 Uh the question uh of what is the US. 313 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:35.680 Role in the world v you know, the bilateral relationship 314 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:43.480 between US and and and them, but also fundamentally, the geopolitical. 315 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:47.039 Technomic plates are moving so fast. I'm sorry, yep, are 316 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:48.400 moving so fast, and. 317 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:52.720 Uh it is there's a fear of uh, the the 318 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.559 changes creating a vacuum which could lead to us to 319 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:00.200 be in a very dangerous world. And we we are 320 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:02.599 indeed living in a much more dangerous world than four 321 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:07.680 years ago. So, but we can organize ourselves. We can 322 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:10.400 make sure that we defend our interests. It's not as 323 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:13.720 if the arc of history is just something that we 324 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:16.400 cannot have an impact on and we can't bend. 325 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:19.400 But to do so, we need to be organized. And 326 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:21.319 so let's talk about the tariffs. 327 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.240 Okay, so yesterday. 328 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:25.279 Yeah, well, let maybe back it up. 329 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:27.680 We thought March fourth was going to be the deadline, 330 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:29.200 and then we thought it was a pri second, and 331 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:31.880 then we were told yesterday it is March fourth. So 332 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:36.359 I have not seen Twitter in the last hour or so, 333 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:39.279 so I don't know if it is changed. So let's 334 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:43.000 assume that that tariffs could be imposed on March fourth. 335 00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:46.799 Let's talk about the Team Canada approach and the efforts 336 00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:50.640 that your government has undertaken to try to alleviate the 337 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:52.079 imposition of these tariffs. 338 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:52.359 Yeah. 339 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:55.240 So there are three executive orders that we have to 340 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:58.480 bear in mind. That's why the date seems a bit conflicting. 341 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.559 But for President Trump to talk about a date, he 342 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:07.200 actually is linking it to an executive order he assigned. 343 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:10.519 So the first one we're referred to is the one 344 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:13.319 link to the fact that there is a crisis at 345 00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:19.039 the border quote unquote, and that you know, we need 346 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.480 to address the fentanyl issue. So we came up with 347 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.160 a very strong border plan one point three billion dollars 348 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:27.160 that we invested in. 349 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:28.079 We have a new. 350 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:33.720 Borders are and that's why this executive order, which was 351 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.359 scheduled to be in January was paused for thirty days, 352 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:40.680 and that's the more March fourth date. 353 00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:43.400 And so when you hear in the media that we're 354 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:46.960 talking a lot about border security, it is linked to 355 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:50.359 that executive order, and that is a threat of twenty 356 00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:55.440 five percent tariffs against Canadian products and ten percent oil 357 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:55.880 and gas. 358 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:58.160 So that's the first executive. 359 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.359 Order, and to be frank, we came up with a 360 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:03.599 border plan because we believe we needed to do it 361 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:05.599 for us because we know the US is a net 362 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:10.039 exporter also of legal drugs and also of irregular migrants, 363 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:12.319 so we need to do to make sure that. 364 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:13.559 Canadians were safe at home. 365 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:19.559 Second executive order is linked to steal an aluminum, and 366 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:24.279 that's twenty five percent triffs and steel in aluminum. This 367 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:29.279 is a This is an executive order that actually President 368 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.759 Trump signed back in the days and during his first mandate, 369 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:38.400 and it was an executive order that President Biden's also signed, 370 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.079 but we had an exemption and the European Union had 371 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:41.680 an exemption. 372 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:45.160 So the date for that is March twelfth. 373 00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:49.279 And then there's a third one and last one which 374 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:52.319 is affecting all countries in the world having a trade 375 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:54.720 relationship with the US. 376 00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:55.960 On inauguration Day. 377 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:59.799 On January twentieth, President Trump signed an executive order asking 378 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:04.200 all federal agencies to report to the Commerce Secretary to 379 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:11.640 study all the different reciprocal relationship trade relationships with the US. 380 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.319 So when you hear reciprocal tariffs, it's linked to that 381 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:19.640 executive order. And what the White House wants to do 382 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:23.319 is to be able to do a deal with every 383 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:27.480 single training partners. When they negotiate with US, they don't 384 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.759 only talk about trade guides. They actually talk about a 385 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:35.920 series a flurry of different aspects of different topics. And 386 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.119 so it is the case for US, but it is 387 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.319 the case also for many other countries in the world. 388 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.119 So over the last many weeks, most I would say 389 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:47.519 almost all of the cabinet, the federal cabinet, has been 390 00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:51.160 in Washington, DC. Yourself has been there, my minister, So, 391 00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.519 how successful do you think those discussions are? And I 392 00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:59.640 hesitate to call them negotiations because it's unclear what the 393 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.359 end game is, But how do you what's your sense 394 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.880 on how much progress you're seeing? 395 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:08.319 Yeah, so I've been five times to the US Washington 396 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:12.519 and Marlago. Uh, and I've had many, many different conversations 397 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:16.799 with the Trump administration itself, So Howard Lutnik, who's the 398 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:21.279 Commerce Secretary, who's also talking to Minister LeBlanc, who is 399 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:28.880 a key part of the discussions negotiations, and so I'm 400 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:31.160 in touch with the White House, but I'm also in 401 00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:35.480