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Ontario Premier Doug Ford trades insults with Trump, tells him to 'kiss my ass' · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: This morning, while on Toronto radio station News Talk ten ten,
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  Speaker 1: Doug Ford was asked about this latest tear threat from
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  Speaker 1: the US take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he can kiss my ass as far as I'm concerned,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go at him full steam, and we
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  Speaker 2: by four hundred percent more cars than anyone in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I have an idea, We'll get Danielle Smith on
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  Speaker 2: board so the cars that they're manufacturing won't be able
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  Speaker 2: to fill up because we'll be controlling the oil and
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  Speaker 2: the gas going down there. And maybe what we should
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  Speaker 2: be doing is charging him triple on their triple on
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  Speaker 2: the podash, on the uranium, on our medals.
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  Speaker 1: This energy threat seemed to catch the attention of the
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  Speaker 1: US President, who not too long after that interview posted
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  Speaker 1: on true Social saying lots of bluster from Doug Ford,
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  Speaker 1: who is the premier of the Canadian province of Ontario,
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  Speaker 1: but who is better known as the less charismatic, intelligent,
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  Speaker 1: and overall unimpressive brother of the late great Rob Ford.
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  Speaker 1: Trump went on to say without the United States, Canada
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  Speaker 1: couldn't survive. It's where they get all of their money,
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  Speaker 1: and because of their current bad leadership, primarily Governor Carney
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  Speaker 1: and his flunky Ford, they will not be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This was posted in the middle of a press conference
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  Speaker 1: while Ford was taking questions. Ford was asked about these
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  Speaker 1: jabs from the president, and things got personal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't respond to a dictator like President Trump, bully
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  Speaker 3: like President Trump. He's the type of guy in school
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  Speaker 3: that would take your lunch money one day, take your
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  Speaker 3: took off your head the next day, and then steal
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  Speaker 3: your running shoes. I'm not gonna take any advice off
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  Speaker 3: a guy that's the king of bankruptcies. You know your
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  Speaker 3: own people, President Trump don't even like you, and they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna speak loud and clear when it comes to the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: And if I was allowed to, I'd be down there
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  Speaker 3: door knocking. I've dealt with guys like you my whole life,
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  Speaker 3: and guess what, you all become losers because you're a loser.
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  Speaker 3: I have more courage, more brains in my baby tow
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  Speaker 3: than he has in his whole body. I've been in
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  Speaker 3: this game a lot longer than he has. I got
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  Speaker 3: a skin on me like an alligator. And you think
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  Speaker 3: an insult from him hurts me, well, bring it on buddy,
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready bring it on. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: real estate on my ass, so he has a lot
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  Speaker 3: of room to kiss my ass.
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  Speaker 1: Rob it's getting it's getting quite ugly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Inviting the President of the United States to uh to
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  Speaker 4: uh uh guests post post a peck on his posterior
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  Speaker 4: was not on my bingo card this morning. In any
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  Speaker 4: normal world, and the normal world, if we weren't in
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  Speaker 4: the parallel universe, they would probably be kindred spirits. We
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  Speaker 4: have two unusually flaxen haired populist conservatives uh who are
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  Speaker 4: very good at articulating complex things in very simple ways
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  Speaker 4: that connect with people. The question we have to ask
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  Speaker 4: ourselves again is what is the aim here? Is the
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  Speaker 4: aim to come to an agreement or is the aim
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  Speaker 4: to torch the relationship? And I don't know that either
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  Speaker 4: one of the men in that exchange. We're trying to
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  Speaker 4: move towards a negotiating table. We have to remember, however,
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  Speaker 4: Ontario bears the disproportionate burden of these tariffs. There is
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  Speaker 4: an existential threat to the industrial base of Ontario. That's
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  Speaker 4: an existential political threat to Doug Ford in his Conservative
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  Speaker 4: government as well. We have to keep that in mind
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  Speaker 4: when we think about the emotion coming from Doug.
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  Speaker 1: Ford, Kate, do you think Premier Ford is hurting or
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  Speaker 1: helping the Canadian cause with rhetoric like that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're dealing with a really thin skinned person
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  Speaker 5: in the White House. I don't think name calling, to
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  Speaker 5: Rob's point, is how you get back to the table.
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  Speaker 5: And it seems to me that a number of premiers,
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  Speaker 5: not just Premier Ford, but a number of premiers are
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  Speaker 5: prioritizing the political high and the dopamine had of heading
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  Speaker 5: back against Donald Trump over what might be in the
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  Speaker 5: best interest of their province. There's something else that I
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  Speaker 5: think the premiers in particular need to be very careful
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  Speaker 5: about doing, and that's putting on the table for countermeasures
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  Speaker 5: or threats around energy supply, assets and resources for which
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  Speaker 5: they do not control. If Daniel Smith had put had
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  Speaker 5: suggested publicly that removal of the French language packaging labeling requirements,
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  Speaker 5: anything really to do with Quebec cultural sovereignty was on
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  Speaker 5: the table and something that the Prime Minister should consider,
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  Speaker 5: premiers would rightly be outreached. I think it is irresponsible
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  Speaker 5: to ask Daniel Smith and Scott Moe to leverage their
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  Speaker 5: own energy assets without considering what's those in your own province.
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  Speaker 5: That's how you have more division in this country and
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  Speaker 5: not how you try to get back to the table
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  Speaker 5: and approach things in a unified manner.
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  Speaker 1: And they've repeatedly ruled it out right. This is not
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  Speaker 1: the first time for it has floated this idea and
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  Speaker 1: they say that's just it's not going to work. It's
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  Speaker 1: a non starter for us. VONDONA. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister's office thinks of this heated rhetoric from
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  Speaker 1: Doug Ford. Do you think that they're cheering him on,
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  Speaker 1: they're happy about him going toe to toe with Trump
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  Speaker 1: and saying he's a loser in the King of Bankruptcies
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  Speaker 1: or are they quite concerned about the prospect of Ford
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  Speaker 1: again poking the bear.
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  Speaker 6: I mean concerned, I wouldn't say, because they're focused on
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  Speaker 6: like what is next right now. But I don't think
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  Speaker 6: they're cheering him on, like I don't think they're going
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  Speaker 6: to see this as helpful. I think you know, Doug
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  Speaker 6: Ford has had a number of political issues that have
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  Speaker 6: come up that have hurt his pulling numbers, but he
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  Speaker 6: was really strong when he first came out as Captain
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  Speaker 6: Kenda when the arras first came arise, So I think
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  Speaker 6: he's trying to pull that again. I did think he
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  Speaker 6: went a step too far, and you know, we know
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  Speaker 6: what has happened when he put his ad up as well.
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  Speaker 6: So while fighting the Americans on the trade pieces and
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  Speaker 6: the economy is fine, and I think he just want
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  Speaker 6: to do that. And while he may feel like he's
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  Speaker 6: speaking the way Ontarians feel, most Ontarians don't have a
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  Speaker 6: mic that can get to a Trump in that same way,
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  Speaker 6: and there's impact there. So anything that makes it difficult
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  Speaker 6: for Canada and the US to come together as allies
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  Speaker 6: again or to find ways to work together given the economy,
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  Speaker 6: I get, you know, the auto sector is a huge
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  Speaker 6: piece of this. But at the same time, going that far,
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  Speaker 6: I think, to this president can can do something that
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  Speaker 6: can damage relations. So I don't think anyone's cheering it on,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I don't think that is helpful. And I
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  Speaker 6: do agree with Kate's point that bringing in resources from
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  Speaker 6: other province isn't going to help the federation. I think
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  Speaker 6: I think, you know, premiers are united right now, but
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  Speaker 6: if they start muzzlinging and trying to point their sector
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  Speaker 6: over someone else's sector. You know, that's not going to
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  Speaker 6: help Prime Minster Carney to get a final answer to
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  Speaker 6: this demand