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610 CKTB| From Diplomacy to Coercion: US Ambassador’s F-35 Gambit · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: And whatever she talks, she almost runs out of breath
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  Speaker 1: because she's talking so fast and she's so angry. And
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  Speaker 1: Pete Hextra, the ambassador in Ottawa, he's the same guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like these guys get up and take angry pills
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  Speaker 1: every morning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I think they're, you know, taking marching
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  Speaker 2: orders from the top brass, which is the President of
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: the United States, who says we want to do trade
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  Speaker 2: here and that's the end of the story. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, I mean taking off the partisan lens that
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  Speaker 2: we have as Canadians. There's nothing wrong with the United
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  Speaker 2: States prioritizing trade access now putting on the partisan hat
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  Speaker 2: right now as a windsor right. This is the worst
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  Speaker 2: decision that we've ever seen. It's harming us, it's hurting us.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen Brampton shutting down and shuddering their stillances plant.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen this all up and long the four to
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  Speaker 1: one corridor. It's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: But now we've got the US ambassador that we purchase
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  Speaker 2: the f thirty fives if we want to get a
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  Speaker 2: trade deal, if we want and presumably if we want
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  Speaker 2: to renew the USMCA. The terrible terrible phrasing, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 2: But they're they're they're they're implicitly suggesting that if you
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  Speaker 2: want to do the renewal of which happens in next year,
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  Speaker 2: bend over. And that's a really big problem that we have.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, I mean, we're talking about hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: thousands of workers up and down the four oh one
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  Speaker 2: corridor and we kind of have to play the game
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  Speaker 2: of the battered wife because it's better to be under
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: a shelter than not, I guess is the only analogy
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  Speaker 2: I can get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know he you know, with the fighter jets,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing, you know, the gun to Canada's head, saying
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  Speaker 1: you don't buy it. You're not going to get a
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  Speaker 1: trade deal. You don't come into a country as a
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  Speaker 1: diplomat and put a gun to your host country's heads.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't understand that. And now you know, after
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  Speaker 1: Ford ran those commercials in the US, Pete Huksbrow ran
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  Speaker 1: into the trade representative for Ontario at a meeting up
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  Speaker 1: in Ottawa, and people who saw their exchange was like
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  Speaker 1: Hawkstra was just dropping the F bomb after f bomb
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  Speaker 1: after f bomb and pointing at this guy putting his finger,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the guy's chest. This isn't how diplomacy works,
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  Speaker 1: no diploma.
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  Speaker 2: Diplomacy should be like you know, and behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine with a handshake and a glass of like
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: eighteen year old whiskey or something like. That's what I
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  Speaker 2: see when I see diplomacy. The British man in the
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  Speaker 2: background that's taking notes and well they're a good chat.
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  Speaker 2: That's excellent. Yes, yes, yes, I don't see it playing
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  Speaker 2: out this way. But I mean, we've got a reality
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  Speaker 2: TV show star who's the president of the free world,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess we all have to play his game
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  Speaker 2: and we're all just participants or viewers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do we get rid of this guy? I'd
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  Speaker 1: like him to go back home? But you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I've said that many times before. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to happen. And I guess you know, when
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  Speaker 1: Carney at the G twenty and South Abrica was asked
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  Speaker 1: to be, you know, spoken to Trump lately and he says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: who cares? I mean not just like throwing fire on
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  Speaker 1: you know the Pete hwksper gat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Carney is like a really bad salesperson. He was
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  Speaker 2: great when he ran for the office, and he defied
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  Speaker 2: my expectations. I'll be honest, I thought he was just
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  Speaker 2: gonna be like a stoic banker. But his personality now
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  Speaker 2: is shining through, and his disdained ship, if I can say,
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  Speaker 2: for the his his mutual counterparts and for those below him,
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  Speaker 2: really shows and it really comes across. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand what the motivation was for him to go out
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  Speaker 2: of his way at the G twenty and say those words,
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  Speaker 2: but like it's really stupid, this dumb move.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well he also said I'm very busy. I'm very busy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh of course, of course, naturally, how about he set
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  Speaker 2: up his constituency office.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. That still hasn't happened. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know I always say to people, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: who say I'm busy, I'm really really busy. I always
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  Speaker 1: say this to them. If it was really difficult to
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  Speaker 1: be busy, nobody would be. So that's that's just a
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  Speaker 1: lame excuse.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: My other thing is, could you imagine if the Canadian
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  Speaker 1: ambassador to the United States was talking about the United
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  Speaker 1: States as Hawkstra is talking about Canada. I mean, she
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  Speaker 1: would be kicked out of the country. Trump would put
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  Speaker 1: up with that.
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  Speaker 2: No second, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: But do we have do you do you have nukes? No,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have any nukes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's what I thought. So I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 2: we can't go swinging around. Uh you know the the
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  Speaker 2: trouser belt, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how many Christmas cards mister huckster is going
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  Speaker 1: to be getting this December.
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  Speaker 2: How about this, jean you want to you want to
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  Speaker 2: do a mutual joint Christmas card? You and I both
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  Speaker 2: sign it and we say go after yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all in. I love it. That'll be great.
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  Speaker 2: I think you and I can affect foreign policy by
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  Speaker 2: doing so.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, send me a DOCU sign perfect. Let's get right
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  Speaker 1: on that. Perfect. John. Always love talking to you. You're
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  Speaker 1: You're one of a kind, and we'll talk to you
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  Speaker 1: next Tuesday. Again.
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  Speaker 2: Jeanie, you are the most beautiful person on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and I can't I've never seen you so
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  Speaker 2: that that speaks wonders.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go. That's why I'm on the radio
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  Speaker 1: face for radio. Okay, thanks a lot. John Aletke joins
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: us every Tuesday with his wild takes on everything happening.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: We love having him on the show. He's a good guy. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: A break for the ten o'clock