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- 0:03Speaker 1: So Canada from Brian Lilly. On Friday, the Carnee Liberals
- 0:09Speaker 1: told the Trump administration they would not delay the Digital
- 0:12Speaker 1: Services Tax for thirty days while trade negotiations proceeded. So
- 0:17Speaker 1: Trump canceled further trade talks. After ten pm Sunday night,
- 0:22Speaker 1: Ottawa time, the government announced the DSD would be paused.
- 0:30Speaker 1: So this is that celebrated the much celebrated negotiated negotiation skills,
- 0:36Speaker 1: negotiation skills of Mark Carney. So hold on a second,
- 0:41Speaker 1: listen to this though.
- 0:43Speaker 2: My strength is I know how the world works. I
- 0:45Speaker 2: know how to get things done. I'm connected. I can
- 0:48Speaker 2: deliver for the country in my week.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Hold on, what do you say?
- 0:52Speaker 2: My strength is, I know how the world works. I
- 0:54Speaker 2: know how to get things done.
- 0:55Speaker 1: After ten pm Sunday night, Autawa time, the government announced
- 0:59Speaker 1: the DST would he paused. So it kind of feels
- 1:02Speaker 1: like he doesn't know how the world works. Why would
- 1:05Speaker 1: you give yourself this unnecessary black eye, this very public
- 1:09Speaker 1: humiliation If you know how the world works, He certainly
- 1:13Speaker 1: doesn't know how Donald Trump works. And obviously this wasn't
- 1:17Speaker 1: going to go over well. The Biden administration hated this
- 1:21Speaker 1: right because this was a Trudeau policy that you know
- 1:24Speaker 1: by Republican Democrats alike hated this in the United States.
- 1:30Speaker 1: That was no secret, right, this was not was this
- 1:34Speaker 1: supposed to be some sort of leverage against Trump because
- 1:38Speaker 1: it didn't work. It very predictably didn't work because we
- 1:42Speaker 1: don't have the same leverage over the United States that
- 1:44Speaker 1: the United States has over us. So these silly little
- 1:49Speaker 1: games don't They don't mean anything, and they can only
- 1:52Speaker 1: result in humiliation. So they've been talking to to the
- 1:57Speaker 1: Canadian government behind the scenes. In fact, let's listen to this.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Well, you know, we spoke with the Prime minister about
- 2:04Speaker 3: this at the G seven meeting last week. We urged
- 2:07Speaker 3: them to delay. You know, they were setting a multi
- 2:08Speaker 3: billion dollar tax bill to our big high tech companies
- 2:13Speaker 3: on the thirtieth of June, and we said delay it
- 2:15Speaker 3: for thirty days while we're negotiating, and they refused to.
- 2:19Speaker 3: And the digital service tax is an extra territorial, really
- 2:22Speaker 3: almost criminal act. Right, They're taxing American companies who don't
- 2:26Speaker 3: necessarily even have a presence in Canada. So it's a
- 2:29Speaker 3: three percent of revenue tax, not profits revenue.
- 2:32Speaker 1: So Canada is extremely dependent on the United States economy, right,
- 2:37Speaker 1: and of course it is because it's the largest economy
- 2:39Speaker 1: in the world. We're right next door, actually incredibly fortunate
- 2:43Speaker 1: to have this position. Right, How many countries around the
- 2:47Speaker 1: world would love to switch places, all of them. You've
- 2:50Speaker 1: got the biggest economy in the world. Right there, You
- 2:54Speaker 1: make that work. The Carney government knew, they knew this
- 3:00Speaker 1: was not going to fly in the United States. And
- 3:01Speaker 1: they knew that because even Biden was dead set against it.
- 3:05Speaker 1: Democrat Republican. It was a bipartisan issue in the United States. Right.
- 3:11Speaker 1: They didn't like this, they didn't want this. What happened
- 3:13Speaker 1: here was entirely predictable. Right. Trump says, well, all the
- 3:18Speaker 1: trade negotiations are off because of this thing, because of
- 3:21Speaker 1: this digital services tax. What did Carnie say again? I'm sorry,
- 3:25Speaker 1: what did Carnie say again? Let's listen to that one
- 3:28Speaker 1: more time.
- 3:29Speaker 2: My strength is I know how the world works. I
- 3:31Speaker 2: know how to get things.
- 3:32Speaker 1: No, you don't. You don't know how the world works.
- 3:34Speaker 1: You don't know how to get things done, clearly, clearly,
- 3:38Speaker 1: I mean, how could you How could you have miss
- 3:41Speaker 1: read how could he have miss read Trump this badly?
- 3:45Speaker 1: It's just baffle, Like, I mean, the most predictable thing
- 3:48Speaker 1: in the world would be. Trump would say, well, if
- 3:50Speaker 1: you're not getting rid of this, the negotiations are over
- 3:53Speaker 1: and obviously we can outlast year, so you're just gonna
- 3:57Speaker 1: have to deal with that. How could Cardie not foresee
- 4:00Speaker 1: himself getting this very public black guy getting this this
- 4:05Speaker 1: humiliation not only for himself but for the entire country.
- 4:09Speaker 1: This should have been done. The DST should have been
- 4:12Speaker 1: canceled before, before before it became a you know, before
- 4:17Speaker 1: he turned Canada into and himself into an international laughing stock. Right,
- 4:22Speaker 1: it is the right thing to stop the DSD. It
- 4:25Speaker 1: was stupid, it was ill conceived. I mean, it was
- 4:28Speaker 1: from Trudeau for God's sakes, right, But why subject yourself
- 4:32Speaker 1: to the public humiliation. I mean, that's really what it
- 4:35Speaker 1: comes down to, right after all of the elbows up, and.
- 4:41Speaker 2: My strength is I know how the world works, I
- 4:43Speaker 2: know how to get things done.
- 4:44Speaker 1: I get don't though you see get don't. That's the thing. Now.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Though there's a lot of cope from liberals in Canada,
- 4:51Speaker 1: of course, none of them are actual liberals. The Liberal
- 4:53Speaker 1: Party in Canada is not a liberal party. It's an illiberal, illiberal,
- 4:58Speaker 1: radical leftist party. Now on, and so are the people
- 5:01Speaker 1: that vote for it. But they're all going into deep
- 5:04Speaker 1: cope mode about well, this is just negotiations, right, this
- 5:08Speaker 1: is just actually it's a brilliant strategic move. This is
- 5:10Speaker 1: just tactics. Really, being publicly internationally humiliated is a tactic. Really,
- 5:18Speaker 1: it seems like a fairly poor tactic. This is something
- 5:22Speaker 1: that if he really understood how the world works, he
- 5:24Speaker 1: could have anticipated. It's just, you know, I think Carney's actually,
- 5:30Speaker 1: I mean, this is astonishing to say. I think he's
- 5:33Speaker 1: actually even more embarrassing than Trudeau was. I think that
- 5:37Speaker 1: Mark Carney is a real smart tard. He's supposed to
- 5:40Speaker 1: be smart, but he's actually a tarred Carney is ending
- 5:45Speaker 1: the nonsensical Digital services tax after US President Trump canceled
- 5:49Speaker 1: all ongoing negotiations with Canada because of it. Trump wins again. Yeah, yeah,
- 5:54Speaker 1: here's the official release. I don't know how much did
- 5:58Speaker 1: Canadians really want to pay three percent more for Netflix
- 6:03Speaker 1: or Amazon Prime or whatever? Not that much of uh
- 6:09Speaker 1: love my seven Wood said, of course, Canada rescented the tax.
- 6:12Speaker 1: It was a stupid tax dreamt up by Trudeau, unbelievably
- 6:16Speaker 1: supported by Carney, and stupidly defended by Freeland. I mean,
- 6:21Speaker 1: what it's really about is that a growing desperation to
- 6:25Speaker 1: extract as much money as possible for the terrible, ill
- 6:30Speaker 1: conceived plans of the Liberal Party generally. Right, the national
- 6:34Speaker 1: debt was doubled under Justin Trudeau. That debt is becoming
- 6:38Speaker 1: a serious problem in Canada. Right. We're now paying more
- 6:41Speaker 1: just to service the interest on than just the interest
- 6:45Speaker 1: on the debt that is sent out in transfer payments
- 6:48Speaker 1: for healthcare to the provinces every month. Right, so the
- 6:54Speaker 1: debt is becoming a problem now. Of course, Mark Karney,
- 6:57Speaker 1: we know even though he hasn't put out a budget,
- 6:59Speaker 1: refused to put out a budget. He did say, well,
- 7:02Speaker 1: you know, it's summer break. I mean, we can't be
- 7:05Speaker 1: expected to put out a budget when it's summer break.
- 7:08Speaker 1: I mean, hey, it's summer, come on. But we do
- 7:11Speaker 1: know that he's going to be increasing the deficit, so
- 7:14Speaker 1: that means growing the national debt more. So, I get
- 7:17Speaker 1: it's just another embarrassment. This is the elbows up, This
- 7:22Speaker 1: is the elbows up that all those Liberals voted for.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Elbows up was a lowest idiotic, lowest common denominator ploy,
- 7:32Speaker 1: lowest common denominator plea appeal to ignorant and gullible voters,
- 7:39Speaker 1: And that's all it was. He knows that we need
- 7:42Speaker 1: to have a deal with the United States, he knows
- 7:45Speaker 1: that we're going to have to give concessions. Why go
- 7:49Speaker 1: through with the ridiculous charade of the pretending to be tough,
- 7:54Speaker 1: pretending to have leverage that he doesn't have. It's just
- 7:57Speaker 1: dumb and he had to back down immediately. Anyway, that's
- 8:01Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say about that. Please like, share, and subscribe.
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