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Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Trump's new tariff threat_ It's unfortunate he took this avenue · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: This week. There's also seen increase intentions between the United
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  Speaker 1: States and Canada, most especially because the US today imposed
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  Speaker 1: a new ten percent duty on Canada. In all, sixty
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  Speaker 1: countries are being hit with a tariff that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: similar to what the Supreme Court said was illegal back
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  Speaker 1: in February. But it's an obscure law that the President's
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  Speaker 1: now exercising, and it may be challenged. There is an
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  Speaker 1: even bigger battle now over fifty percent tariffs on Canada
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  Speaker 1: that are set to take effect on August nineteenth. They
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  Speaker 1: cover a wide range of Canadian goods as you see there,
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  Speaker 1: including honey, liquor, cement, dairy products, and yes, hockey sticks.
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  Speaker 1: In response, Canada held a ribbon cutting ceremony today for
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  Speaker 1: the new Gordi Howe International Bridge that's set the run
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  Speaker 1: between Windsor and Detroit, but there was no presence of
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  Speaker 1: the United States at this opening. It's set to open
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. The two countries planned to celebrate the opening
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  Speaker 1: of this key economic artery, so earlier today we spoke
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  Speaker 1: with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, good friend of the takeout
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  Speaker 1: here every so often, about the new bridge, the tariffs
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  Speaker 1: and much more. Premiere for it. Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're standing on the Canadian side of the
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  Speaker 1: Gordy how Bridge, named for the hockey great that is
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  Speaker 1: set to open next week. This was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: an international celebration of a pretty historic infrastructural and economic achievement.
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  Speaker 1: It is not going to end up that way, as
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  Speaker 1: there won't be a joint US Canadian ceremony, but there
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  Speaker 1: was a Canadian one today and I want to call
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  Speaker 1: out the fact the President a little while ago on
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  Speaker 1: truth Social said Canada disinvited the United States of America
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  Speaker 1: to the opening of the Gordy how Bridge, which is
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  Speaker 1: fine considering they are paying substantial tariffs to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: But the original deal on the bridge, which was terribly
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  Speaker 1: negotiated by a previous administration, no longer stands. We change
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  Speaker 1: the terms of the deal so that the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America now gets fifty percent of the profit. Is
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  Speaker 1: that your understanding of what this deal is?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not quite, but it's close. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, Ed, first of all, thanks for having
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  Speaker 2: me on. This is going to create jobs on both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the border. We have over probably fifty two
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars US going back and forth in trade, two
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  Speaker 2: way trade. It's going to give an opportunity to create
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  Speaker 2: tens of thousands of jobs on both sides of the border.
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  Speaker 2: So we're happy it's getting open on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that even the building of a bridge couldn't
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  Speaker 1: bridge the divide between the United States and Canada right now,
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  Speaker 1: what does that say about where relations are between the
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  Speaker 1: two countries. And the fact that leaders can't seem to
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  Speaker 1: get together and even celebrate something as significant as this, Well, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Been bumpy, but let's just remind the great American people,
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  Speaker 2: which I absolutely love. I say it every time. Canadians
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  Speaker 2: love Americans. I know Americans love Canadians. We didn't start
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  Speaker 2: this trade wark. President Trump decided to go after a
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  Speaker 2: close as ally and friend is number one customer in
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  Speaker 2: the entire world, and yes, the US is our number
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  Speaker 2: one customer. It's unnecessary. We have to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: there's certainty that will create jobs and opportunities and production
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  Speaker 2: and lower cost of goods. Well, that was a total
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  Speaker 2: opposite is happening right now. And President Trump ran on
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  Speaker 2: lower and cost of goods, they're going up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: campaign on certainty, anything but certainty in both countries right now,
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  Speaker 2: and it's unfortunately he took this avenue with his closest
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  Speaker 2: friend and ally.
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  Speaker 1: And there is set to be another round of this now,
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  Speaker 1: starting in mid August, new tariffs on about twenty billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars of Canadian goods if I'm reading things correctly, Do
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  Speaker 1: you have any sense yet of how or what specifically
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  Speaker 1: in Ontario's economy would be affected by these new tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what's going to affect the American people.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be fourteen billion dollars of taxes and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to create less jobs and higher cost So
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  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate that President Trump decided to tear if his
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  Speaker 2: own country and tax his own country. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure that we create more opportunities, more jobs,
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  Speaker 2: and that's just not happening under President Trump right now.
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  Speaker 1: Is there some element though, of the Ontario economic sector
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  Speaker 1: that's going to get hit hardest by this potentially, Well.
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  Speaker 2: We have to see exactly what are going to be tariffed.
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  Speaker 2: But I've told the Prime Minister dollar for dollar, tariff
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  Speaker 2: for tariff, and who does that hurt? It hurts the
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  Speaker 2: population in the United States, hurts the population in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: In Ontario. This does not work. Protectionism does not work
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  Speaker 2: anywhere in the world. We're the two two greatest countries
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  Speaker 2: in the world, the largest open border in the world,
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  Speaker 2: two close as our allies, and we didn't start this war.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump decided to economically attack Canada. They're your number
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  Speaker 2: one customer. Give you an example. Just Ontario loan ed
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  Speaker 2: nine million Americans wake up every morning to produce a product,
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  Speaker 2: the widget or service for for Ontario alone, not including
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  Speaker 2: the rest of Canada. And now there's gonna there's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs if this,
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  Speaker 2: these tariffs continue to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So why, then, suggested the Prime minister, let's go dollar
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  Speaker 1: for dollar on this. Why not try to tone it down?
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  Speaker 1: Well opposed to.
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  Speaker 2: Tone it down? When when when someone comes up and
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  Speaker 2: punches in the face, not once, not twice, ten times,
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  Speaker 2: you have to stand up to that person. Someone in
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  Speaker 2: the schoolyard wants to take your lunch money, You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: fight back. And have encouraged the Prime minister to fight back,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it in Ontario and people talk about the liquor,
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  Speaker 2: the billion dollars. We're the largest purchaser of liquor in
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  Speaker 2: the world. I would love to have the US liquor
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  Speaker 2: back on our shelves, the wine, the bourbons, but not
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  Speaker 2: until you get rid of the tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that. So it
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  Speaker 1: takes it again the total limit nation of this for
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  Speaker 1: you to start buying bourbon or California wine again for
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  Speaker 1: Ontario liquor stores.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Since this trade war began, we have seen the Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't his scope if you will, economically and even
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  Speaker 1: from a defense standpoint, with visits to Europe, Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 1: most recently China as well. I'm curious most especially if
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  Speaker 1: you think this latest round of tariff battles draws Canada
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  Speaker 1: even closer to China economically.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say China at all. What I'd say is countries,
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  Speaker 2: our allies around the world. We're diversifying our trade with
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  Speaker 2: increased trade and excess over one hundred percent in the
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  Speaker 2: European Union in other areas. And these are jobs that
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  Speaker 2: once came from the United States that now are being
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  Speaker 2: shipped overseas, and we're being more self sufficient. Any products
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  Speaker 2: that we need we're starting to produce here so again
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  Speaker 2: President Trump thinks it's helping the American people. Anything helping
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  Speaker 2: the American people is driving up cost. All you have
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  Speaker 2: to do is look at the cost of a home,
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  Speaker 2: look at the cost of groceries in the US, look
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  Speaker 2: at the cost of gas. So cost is going up,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going down ever since he started this trade
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  Speaker 2: war with Canada.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Premiere Doug Ford of Ontario. To be continued,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, But congrats on the bridge. We'll see if
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  Speaker 1: it opens to Stedield next week.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And I just asked senators, congressman
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  Speaker 2: and governors contact them to talk to the president because
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  Speaker 2: one day you're going to rely on these jobs and
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  Speaker 2: you won't have a job if he continues with these
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  Speaker 2: trade wars. Thank you, thank you,