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What did Vance say about Pierre Poilievre · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: So US Vice President Jade Vance weighed in on trade
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  Speaker 1: talks with Canada at a fundraising event this week. These
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  Speaker 1: details come from reporting from our colleagues at the Canadian Press.
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  Speaker 1: According to audio provided to the Canadian Press, Vance called
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Carney a very sweet guy. But Vance
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  Speaker 1: said Carne comes in and puffs his chest out and says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to like out tough Donald Trump. Vance went
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  Speaker 1: on to say it's hilarious because Carney presents this as
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  Speaker 1: some victory for Canada when fundamentally like they climbed down
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of issues. Vance then turns the attention
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  Speaker 1: to Pierre Poliev, calling the Conservative leader a non entity
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  Speaker 1: in trade talks. But Vance said his longtime friend, Conservative
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  Speaker 1: MP Jamil Davanni has been helpful, saying this random MP
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  Speaker 1: who has a good relationship with us, has been a
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  Speaker 1: pretty effective advocate. Poliev was asked about Vance's comment about
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  Speaker 1: Javanny earlier today.
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  Speaker 2: I told all my members of Parliament to use every
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  Speaker 2: single contact they had to fight for Canada and Canadian jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And I reiterate that to any of our MPs or
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  Speaker 2: any Canadian if you have contacts south of the border,
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  Speaker 2: use those to put pressure to fight for tariff free
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  Speaker 2: trade so that we can protect our industries and have
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  Speaker 2: renewed access to the biggest and most lucrative market anywhere
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  Speaker 2: on Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel, I'm gonna come to you. J.
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  Speaker 3: Jd Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Jd Vance says Mark Carney tried to out tough Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of that framing and how that
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  Speaker 1: might play back here at home?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I'll touch on Peer Pauliev because I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure that's what people are wondering about. But could you
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  Speaker 4: imagine if Pierre Pouliev just marched down to Washington and
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  Speaker 4: said I'm going to actually get involved firsthand in these negotiations.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he'd be slaughtered at home for doing so.
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  Speaker 4: And what Pierre has made clear since the beginning of
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  Speaker 4: these negotiations is that Mark Carney is the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 4: and he's here to support him. We knew Jamil Giovanni
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  Speaker 4: was down in Washington. We've been talking about it for months,
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  Speaker 4: and it's no surprise that that jd Vance, who he
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  Speaker 4: has a long relationship with, would recognize that. And it's
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  Speaker 4: nice to know that you know that relationship is making
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  Speaker 4: inroads on those negotiations. It is surprising to hear him
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  Speaker 4: talk so off the cuff about Mark Karney, especially when
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  Speaker 4: we as Canadians have very little insight into the role
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  Speaker 4: the Prime Minister is making in Washington, and so it's
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  Speaker 4: a little nerve wracking to hear him address our prime
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  Speaker 4: minister and our chief negotiator there in such terms. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, we can't expect anything from this American administration.
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  Speaker 4: They are pretty off the cuff, and I think that's
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  Speaker 4: what I chalk this up.
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  Speaker 1: To, Dono. I mean, in terms of the comments that
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  Speaker 1: Advance made about pure palliav Caliman, a non entities.
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  Speaker 3: One to be a.
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  Speaker 1: Restrained, as Pierre Pouliev has framed himself as being, is
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  Speaker 1: non intervening. You know, in terms of the trade talks.
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  Speaker 1: It's another thing to be called a non entity by
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  Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States. So your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on what that tells us about the state of the
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  Speaker 1: Conservative Party.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, jd Vance thinks of Mark Karney's hilarious. I
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  Speaker 5: think Jady Vans is hilarious. I don't think he thinks
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  Speaker 5: much about the Conservative Party. I don't think the Conservative
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  Speaker 5: Party is a factor in this, nor should they be
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  Speaker 5: there in the opposition. But I think what he's doing
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  Speaker 5: is probably on behalf of his friend, whether his friend
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  Speaker 5: Jamille Gevenni asked him to do it, or he's doing
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  Speaker 5: it on his own. He's trolling Pierre Pouliev. That's what
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  Speaker 5: he's doing. I don't think it has any purpose in
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  Speaker 5: terms of the negotiations or where are we standing in
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  Speaker 5: terms of will a deal be signed tonight or not.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's completely on the side of that. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's just a matter of him trolling Pierre Poliev.
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  Speaker 5: And then Polyev was put in a position where it's
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  Speaker 5: an obvious question media is going to ask, and it
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  Speaker 5: demonstrates the weakness of Polyiev, of any opposition leader. They
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  Speaker 5: can't get involved directly. But then he says, anybody who
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  Speaker 5: knows anybody in the States, go down and help us
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  Speaker 5: get a zero tariff deal with the US, which is
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  Speaker 5: also ridiculous. So sort of in a corner.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know that.
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  Speaker 5: I feel bad for him, but I don't know how
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  Speaker 5: he would get out of that.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, Laura, how do you think Pierre Poliev handled that
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  Speaker 1: when he said sort of pivoted in that question that
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  Speaker 1: he faced about Hey, your guy's down there and his
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  Speaker 1: best friend the Vice President is saying these things, and
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  Speaker 1: peer poly So like say, hey, you know, if he
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  Speaker 1: can help, then that's great. What do you think about
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  Speaker 1: how he handled it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, I think he handled it kind of
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  Speaker 3: the best way that he could. I'm not sure it
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  Speaker 3: would be helpful for mister Polyev to be complimented by
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration. That might be worse in some respects.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe being called non entity is actually the best thing
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  Speaker 3: that could happen to him. I think I think JD.
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  Speaker 3: Vance's comments from the Canadian perspective, from from the public's perspective,
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  Speaker 3: is just a window into the arrogance of of President
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  Speaker 3: Trump and his and his inner circle. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we there's clearly been some issues within the Conservative caucus.
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  Speaker 3: There's been some caucus management issues. There were some questions
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  Speaker 3: at the time whether mister Giovanni had sought permission to
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  Speaker 3: go down to Washington. I'm not sure it's a blessing
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  Speaker 3: for for mister Vance to be complimenting him, whether that's
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  Speaker 3: helpful to mister Polyev. But I think the answer of
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  Speaker 3: I know, we need all hands on deck and everyone
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  Speaker 3: should be down there trying to help. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that's unhelpful, particularly for the Conservative cause. And I think
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  Speaker 3: this is this is a moment of opportunity for the
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  Speaker 3: opposition to to to to really question and to question
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  Speaker 3: critically the Carnei government's approach here. And so I do
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  Speaker 3: think that the ball is in the Liberal government's court
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  Speaker 3: now to to explain that the contours of this deal
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  Speaker 3: and why they have made certain decisions well.
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  Speaker 6: Created just on this. I mean, of course, the leader
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  Speaker 6: of the opposition is a non entity and trade deals,
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  Speaker 6: because every leader of the opposition is a non entity
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  Speaker 6: and trade deals. This is the job of the federal
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  Speaker 6: government in consultation with the provincial governments and with all
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  Speaker 6: the sectors. So it's not really an insult because I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, it's not like when Sita was being negotiated.
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  Speaker 6: You know, the leaders of various leaders of the oppositions
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  Speaker 6: were at the table, and that it's just not the
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  Speaker 6: way these things are done. But this secret recording, this
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  Speaker 6: Jamil Billy elogy, like, do we think that was secretly
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  Speaker 6: recorded or do we think that was strategically recorded? Because
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  Speaker 6: how do these comments by the Vice president at a
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  Speaker 6: US fundraiser magically end up in the hands of the
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  Speaker 6: Canadian press. Isn't that an interesting chain of events and
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  Speaker 6: series of custody. It's almost like somebody wanted to suck
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  Speaker 6: up the Trump, denigrate Mark Kearney, dismissed Pierre pauliev and
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  Speaker 6: praise the random MP who spoke at my wedding. You know,
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  Speaker 6: not me, but you know Jay Vance's wedding in a
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  Speaker 6: way that makes him look helpful and useful, the other
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  Speaker 6: guy weak, and the other guy not relevant. So it
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  Speaker 6: is it seems like a play to help mister Giovanni
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  Speaker 6: raise his profile. The risk with that is this is
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  Speaker 6: a deal that threatens the auto sector and jimil Giovanni
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  Speaker 6: represents an auto riding So if he is getting credit
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  Speaker 6: for a deal that could cost jobs to his constituents,
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  Speaker 6: how helpful is this one way or another. So there's
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  Speaker 6: everything with the United States and with this administration is
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  Speaker 6: double edge, and there's one edge is sharper than the other,
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  Speaker 6: and it's usually to the detriment on the Canadian side.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone and our special guest given their insights on this.
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  Speaker 1: The Power Panel Today, David Cochrane, Rachel Siegel, Jonathan Kayalis
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  Speaker 1: and Laura Stone