Clinton Jaws - CBC Rosemary Barton Destroys Mark Carney In Heated Exchange

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

CBC Rips PM Of Canada A New One With This Simple Question

With Canadians not being aware of what potential conflicts of interest you've sought to avoid? What possible conflict would you have? Stephanie, I'm complying with the rules. I'm complying with the rules in advance. Pompfying out. Are you saying you are not open? Rosemary. Yes.

There's no possible conflict of interest in your assets. It's very difficult to move you. Look inside yourself, Rosemary. Open yourself, Bob Rosemary. You start from a... Clinton Jaws, please subscribe. I'm watching Carlin. Oh, this guy. This guy. He can't even speak. Terrible communication skills. I got to give it to

Rosemary Barton. She goes at him. She actually interrupts. There's a... They've taken turns question. I've never seen this before. I've honestly never seen this before. I'm wondering if I'm missing something. But they're taking turns, right? The media is taking turns asking him questions. This girl is asking him a question. Rosemary Barton doesn't like how he responds to it, so she just bursts in. She doesn't even wait her turn. I don't even know if she had a turn.

And I'm like, is that Rosemary Barton? Sure sounds like her. You can actually see Carney for the first time here, I think. You can see a little bit of underlining anger, maybe a possible anger issue. I don't know if it's that or if it's just frustration. BZ gets flustered. It's cringy, it's awkward,

It's everything that you want to see. Before I start this, about a month ago, take a look at this. You are not yet subject to ethics requirements. I don't have any power, Rosie. No, but would you put anything out there for Canadians to better understand your business dealings and your financial picture before you're elected? Obviously, I'm going to comply with all the ethics guidelines,

conflicts of interest guidelines, blind trust, all... But during an election, before you have a seat, would you be willing to show Canadians? what they're dealing with and what you've been dealing with. Well, let's be clear. Okay. I was UN Special Envoy for Climate Action. I was chair of Bloomberg, chair of Brookfield,

on a number of philanthropic boards and did a lot of charity and other work. So that's all disclosed in the public domain. I will immediately subject myself if I am elected liberal leader. Of course, I'm going to immediately subject myself to all the ethics guidelines, conflicts of interest guidelines, other guidelines, in order to pursue. And this is what happens today.

He can't handle the media. He doesn't know how to handle the media. He doesn't know how to handle questions. And let me tell you something. It's the easiest thing in the world to handle a question when you're truthful. As a cop, I was petrified when I had to give evidence in court. But my trainer told me, Clint, you got nothing to worry about. All you do is tell the truth.

That's the easiest thing in the world. But we're Canada. We don't need other people to come to our aid. Come on. We don't need anybody. Sorry. It's not necessary to have two countries, we're not in Canada or Canada for.

Okay. I don't think it'd be helpful that they come out and say something. We have other thing. Look, when, when. I feel like the guy's on a verge. The verge of busting a nut. I got to show this just because he rips Pierre Poliav here. starts talking about clean and green.

Nobody cares about it anymore, man. Now, what we are doing is changing that system or improving that system so that the price that's paid can, and the price that's paid can be reduced by so-called carbon credits that are allocated. We're adding additional ones. We will be adding additional ones that ensure that the polluters are paying to reduce. so that Canadians can receive support to reduce their own emissions. So it's a more efficient system. It works better for the large polluters.

It works better for Canadians. And it also is a system that recognizes the new trading reality. So we have to be able to connect the dots, something that the opposition is totally incapable of doing. I knew it. Proving themselves totally incapable of doing. So on the one hand, we have our largest trading partner, as we've been discussing, attacking us, putting tariffs on us. On the other hand, we have the opportunity to diversify trade. Guess what one of the requirements is to diversify trade to the European Union.

Guess what one of the requirements is to diversify trade to the United Kingdom? Guess what one of the requirements will be to diversify trade to emerging Asia. Tell me. Is to have a form of price on carbon. So we are able to think one step ahead. We're able to go out and see the world. We're able to help Canadian companies prepare. We got it made. And you know what's going to happen? What's going to happen?

Five years, ten years from now. What? If I have the pleasure of being in front of you. Oh God, don't say that. You'll be asking me the question, if we didn't do this, if we didn't help our companies get more prepared, the Americans are going to start caring about this again. They have elections every four years. Do they?

They cared a great deal about this three months ago. Now all of a sudden they don't care about it. They're going to care about it again. Good point. We have an enormous opportunity here in Canada. The United Kingdom has an enormous opportunity. France has an enormous opportunity, Europe has enormous opportunity, to leapfrog over American companies

where they're trying to turn back the clock and look inwards. We're going to take that opportunity. We're going to take that opportunity. It's going to create jobs, and it's going to create new markets for our country. Gets me excited. The monetary hit back, and how much do you think Canada can absorb, can we? Yeah, this is an important question.

It's a very important question. There is a limit, Tonda, given the relative size of our economy. economies to the extent to which we should match U.S. tariffs. Right now, what the government has proposed and with the 150 billion identified products are products that have, as I said earlier, maximum impact in the United States and limited, but not zero, it's limited impact in Canada that we can affect. And my commitment, my government's commitment, is that we will use all of the revenues from those tariffs to support Canadian workers that are affected by the U.S. trade actions.

Wow. Pierre-Poliev's commitment, as his commitment is, anytime anything changes, is he's going to use it to cut taxes. Yeah. So if you don't, if you aren't paying any taxes because you don't have a job, you're out of luck. Okay, we're going to go help those who are affected by it, as we should, as Canadians want us to, in my view. Now, so just to summarize on your question.

Summarize. limits. Then we'll see what happens April 2nd. We'll see what happens after that. We are not going to take an action that we think is not ultimately going to influence the United States. I'll get to it, guys. And certainly not one that is outright harmful to Canada, given the overall approach. So this will be very deliberate. And there is a limit, full stop. There is a limit to matching these tariffs dollar for dollar, given the fact that economy is a tenth the size of the United States. Okay, main event. We have responsibilities, not what others do.

Stephanie comes up first. Madam. Mr. Kearney, Stephanie Levitt's the Globe and Mail. We understand that you have now placed your assets in a blind trust, so you don't know what's happening to them going forward, but you knew what they were going into that blind trust. So what are they? Uh, look, Stephanie. Look, look.

I follow the rules. Guys, look. Look. I hate it when they say look. What are we looking at? Look, Stephanie. I follow the rules of the ethics commissioner. I'm following them well in advance of any of the requirements, as you know, because I know you know this. You know that these requirements come into effect in months. We're talking days after I became prime minister. So I'm complying with the rules of the Ethics Commissioner, going through the processes and all this things that are necessary.

And I will remind you, and I'll remind Canadians again, that the leader of the opposition cannot find it. And look at the questions this evening, you look at the nature of the discussions. Look at the nature of discussions I had, the President of France, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The leader of the opposition would not be capable of having those discussions. You can't do it. because the leader of opposition refuses to get his security clearance, something that it took me a few weeks to get. And he has been the leader of the opposition for three years.

So I comply with my responsibilities. I comply with the rules well in advance. But? And the leader of the opposition doesn't take his responsibilities at a time of, well, you should take these responsibilities in any time. But it's particularly remarkable, given the stakes in the... in global geopolitics at the moment. The rules say that those assets should be publicly disclosed within 120 days,

which means you'll campaign in a coming federal election, most likely within the next 120 days, and are serving as Prime Minister now, with Canadians not being aware of what potential conflicts of interest you saw to a goal? What possible conflict would you have? Stephanie, I'm complying with the rules. I'm complying with the rules in advance. Are you saying you are not going?

Yes. as I like in the private sector. There's no possible conflict of interest in your assets. It's very difficult to moving. Look inside yourself, Rosemary. Open yourself, Bob Rosemary. You start from a, you start from yourself, Rosemary. Look inside yourself, Rosemary. Get right in there. I mean, you start from a, you start from a prior of conflict and ill will. I have served in the private sector. I have served in the private I have stood up for Canada. I have left my rules in the private sector at a time of crisis for our country. I'm complying with all the rules. Your line of questioning is trying to invent new rules. I'm complying with the rules that Parliament has laid out and the responsibility

is the ethics commissioner. And I will continue to comply with those rules. A Biden. Let's put on a time to press conference. Thank you. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. There's a limit for the tariff. Just go. Doesn't stand a chance. Canadians are not this stupid. Okay, they're just not. They're not. Thanks for watching. Bye bye. Good job, Rosemary.