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Trump calls Doug Ford a flunky. Ford fires back · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: A new week and a new reality. Once unimaginable, a
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  Speaker 1: trade war with the United States is now firmly in place,
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  Speaker 1: and today there is an escalation intensions between Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. In the last hour, while
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  Speaker 1: Doug Ford was speaking at an event in Hamilton, Ontario,
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  Speaker 1: Trump posted this on social media on true social lots
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  Speaker 1: of bluster from Doug Ford, who is the premier of
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian province of Ontario, but who is better known
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  Speaker 1: as the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of
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  Speaker 1: the late great Rob Ford. America has been carrying Canada
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  Speaker 1: for decades, but no longer. It's where they get all
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  Speaker 1: of their money. And because of their current bad leadership,
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  Speaker 1: primarily Governor Carney and his flunky Ford, they will not
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  Speaker 1: be allowed to keep taking advantage of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all because of their failed policies and inept leadership.
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  Speaker 1: The days of ripping off our farmers and other businesses
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  Speaker 1: are over. The CBC's Katie Nichols enjoys Me live from Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Katie Trump is taking aim direct aim at Mark Karney
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  Speaker 1: and Doug Ford. Tell us about the back and forth
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  Speaker 1: that's been unfolding because it's been quite an extraordinary day.
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  Speaker 1: And the personal tax between Doug Ford and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: something else, but also Governor Carney, now that's been brought back.
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  Speaker 2: That's the rubicon, right, that's the respect rubicon. So you
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  Speaker 2: may recall that was a term that Donald Trump, the
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  Speaker 2: US President, used in describing a former Prime minister, Justin Trudeau,
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  Speaker 2: and so he has invoked that same burn now sort
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  Speaker 2: of demoting him to a governor. So what does that
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  Speaker 2: tell us about the relationship and maybe the lack of
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  Speaker 2: respect currently between the Trump administration and Canada right now?
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  Speaker 2: And then of course you have Ontario Premier Doug Ford,
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  Speaker 2: who has been quite pugilistic in his words today, one
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  Speaker 2: point telling private radio that the US president could kiss
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  Speaker 2: his I don't need to fill that in for you.
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  Speaker 2: And we got more of that flavor from doug Ford
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon. He periodically referred to the US president as
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  Speaker 2: as a loser. He talked of himself, Premier Ford, as
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  Speaker 2: having alligator skin and said, you know, kind of come
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  Speaker 2: at me. He called the US President a school yard bully,
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  Speaker 2: and he also suggested that Democrats and independents should should
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  Speaker 2: how they should vote in the upcoming mid terms. He
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  Speaker 2: suggested that the US president might not even last his
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  Speaker 2: full two years should the House and the Senate go
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  Speaker 2: to the Democrats. So some again fighting words coming from
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  Speaker 2: the Ontario premier after this sort of sort of slew
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  Speaker 2: of increasingly escalatory posts from the US President, including one
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  Speaker 2: this morning in which he appeared to float a new
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent tariff on autos and steel starting in January
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty seven. But that fifty percent number is
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  Speaker 2: already in play, so we did reach out to the
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  Speaker 2: White House for clarity as to what it is the
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  Speaker 2: US President means by that, as well as to the
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  Speaker 2: US Trade Representative. So far we've not heard back on that,
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  Speaker 2: but certainly does not augur well for getting both sides
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  Speaker 2: back to the table. These types of escalatory remarks, and
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  Speaker 2: we've also heard from members of the Trump administration today
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  Speaker 2: equally pugilistic, including a moment where the Vice President jade Van,
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  Speaker 2: speaking in Maine, appeared to make a Freudian slip or
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  Speaker 2: was it, in which he sort of referred to Canada
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  Speaker 2: as a state and not a country. He quickly corrected himself,
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  Speaker 2: but he let that moment hang there and have that
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  Speaker 2: laugh so Andrew, that's sort of where things lie, and
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  Speaker 2: there is pressure I want to point out from conservatives circle.
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  Speaker 2: So the Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal. Something that has
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  Speaker 2: been notable is that not a lot of American outlets
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  Speaker 2: have necessarily been picking up on the finer points of
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  Speaker 2: the trade war. But here it is, as we've seen
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of days, that this is escalated
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  Speaker 2: on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. But
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  Speaker 2: also you see the editorial sort of invoking the dumbest
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  Speaker 2: trade war revisited. This is a callback to an earlier
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  Speaker 2: editorial in which they were quite critical of the Trump's
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  Speaker 2: early tariff wars as a bit of a self own
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  Speaker 2: as something that was in essence also harming Americans. It
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  Speaker 2: makes many of the same points about this escalating trade
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  Speaker 2: war with Canada and calls out some of the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration's own sort of claims about a trade deficit and
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  Speaker 2: points to the fact that America buys so much oil
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  Speaker 2: and petroleum products in Canada and it actually helps American
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  Speaker 2: oil production that sort of thing and sort of blows
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  Speaker 2: a hole in some of the Trump administration's arguments for
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  Speaker 2: this escalating trade war.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about four or five million barrels of oil
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  Speaker 1: that goes to the United States from Canada and Mark Karney,
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, said they wouldn't want to lose that.
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  Speaker 1: They need that. I mean, it's not something you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not it's not a gift. It's something that they
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  Speaker 1: that they need.
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  Speaker 3: But it was interesting to see the US President also
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  Speaker 3: threaten the flow of Canadian oil that happens to go
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  Speaker 3: through the US. We'll see how electricity and electricity from
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  Speaker 3: Canada to the US.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all sort of very interconnected. Katie, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: CBC's Katie Nicholson live in Washington,