The MeidasTouch Podcast - Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Canadian leaders across all political parties, and at the federal and provincial level, uniting in Ottawa to deliver a powerful message to Donald Trump. Wildgrain: Wildgrain is offering our listeners $30 off their first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to https://Wildgrain.com/MEIDAS to start your subscription. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You had the premiers with the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, all joining together and talking about things like retaliatory tariffs and how to hit back hard against the United States when Donald Trump imposes 25% tariffs across the board. Now, even conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, was actually one of the people leading the charge. Now, Doug Ford previously said that his support of Donald Trump and MAGA was unwavering. He said that during the first Trump administration, but now he's wearing a new hat, quite literally, saying that Canada will never be America. Let me show you what he said

about retaliatory tariffs as he was next to Prime Minister Trudeau and the other premiers of the various provinces. Let's play it. We also need to learn more about where the government's retaliatory tariffs. I'm a strong believer in retaliatory tariffs. You can't let someone hit you over the head with a sledgehammer without hitting him back twice as hard, in my opinion. So you see right there the hat he's wearing now canada is not for sale in a press conference that he gave uh shortly thereafter in ottawa here is what he had to say here play this clip and uh but nothing is more important than standing united nothing's more important than keeping every tool in our toolbox no matter if it's energy or other commodities, high-grade nickel from Ontario,

great aluminum from Quebec, you know, potash from Saskatchewan. And these are the tools that we have. You don't negotiate through weakness. You negotiate through strength. And these are the tools that we need to move forward and make sure that we have tough retaliatory uh tariffs to to defend the country now i thought this was a powerful moment of this meeting between prime minister justin trudeau

that's at the federal level, Prime Minister Trudeau from the Liberal Party. And then you had the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and the other premiers who are there at the provincial level, kind of like the governors, if you will, from my American counterparts in Canada. And here's what Doug Ford says. He goes, look, you're never going to see in America what you're seeing here right now in Canada. You're never going to go and see in the Oval Office Democrats and Republicans uniting with Trump to attack Canada. He goes, we're uniting Green Party, NDP, Orange Party, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, you name it, BQ, whatever, we are uniting against Trump. And this is a powerful move from someone who used to be very favorable to Trump. Listen to what he says here. Play this clip. Sitting down and we have a robust conversation. We may agree or disagree, but we're coming out united.

I can tell you, spending a lot of time in the U.S., you would never see a group of Democrats and Republicans sitting here collaboratively. I promise you one thing, President Trump's office, a whole bunch of Democrats and Republicans saying, how can we attack Canada? It's not happening. We have the greatest not happening we have the

greatest country we have the greatest elected officials the greatest democracy in the world that we can sit here from one extreme to the other extreme to in the middle and i've always said i don't care about political stripes i don't care if you're from the orange party the blue party or the red party we're going to be united we We're Canadian. We're going to get this done. Now, one of the things, though, that Doug Ford pointed out as well, and I'll show you these clips here as well, is that there was one of the premiers of Alberta, Danielle Smith, who humiliated herself. A total disgraceful move. She went to Mar-a-Lago trying to divide and conquer against the other provinces in Canada. She was trying to cut a side deal with Donald Trump just for Alberta, the oil industry there,

and her people to screw over the other provinces. So she's someone who Donald Trump's trying to use to divide and conquer. But get this. First off, she told the press that she was going on vacation with her husband. And then it turns out that she was actually at Mar-a-Lago. But when she read, oh, and then she was hanging out with Kevin O'Leary and far right wing podcaster Jordan Peterson. It was, oh, you mill, embarrassing, pathetic.

And then when she returned, it was more pathetic because not only did she not get a deal, but Donald Trump told her, go pound sand, get the hell out of here, essentially. And so she then said, actually, he's going to do 25% tariffs on us and he's going to do it to everything, including crude oil. No one's exempt. Yeah, duh. That's what we tried to tell you before you made a fool of yourself going there. Ridiculous. So this is from this meeting, though, where you have Doug Ford, you have Prime Minister Trudeau. Let me share with you what goes on here. First, let me play this clip. Let's play. You know,ald trump is a brilliant negotiator that's what he's done his whole life that's exactly what he's done and he's sitting there with a big smile on his face

thinking wow i'm gonna divide and conquer remember one thing united we stand divided we fall we need to be united now here's another clip of for. Let's play it. I understand Danielle Smith has posted online her sort of reaction to this and why she's trying to communicate saying she can't support what's going on today because the idea is still being floated about putting an export tariff on our oil and gas. So what's your reaction to that? Why were you unable to bring her on board with this? Well, you know, that's what's unique about our group. You know, everyone has their interest at heart. And I respect Premier Smith.

I respect that she's concerned about protecting her energy. And that's her choice. That is her choice. But I have a little different theory. I have a different theory that protect your jurisdiction, but country comes first. Canada is a priority. And I don't believe in jeopardizing one sector or another. Premier Smith's oil is Ontario's auto sector. Right. So again, we all have different views and we can respect each other's views. But at the end of the day, when the tariffs come, it's going to affect Albertans. It's going to affect people from BC and Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, all the way down the road. No one's exempt from that. And all I believe in, you know, if it comes to that, let's have the tools in our toolbox to react, to send a strong message. But it's not going to be

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Yes, he does say that. But it's not at the expense of everything else. He's just pointed out that he's a Canadian first, as much as he's passionate about Ontario. And I think that's something that we all share across across this table of saying, you know what, the interest of this country means we're going to have to look at everything we can and we'll make sure that it's fair across the country. But nothing can be off the table if the U.S. continues to choose to move forward with these punishing tariffs on both Canadians and Americans.

Again, this is an Ottawa unprecedented unity here we're seeing from these Canadian leaders to fight back against America, to fight back against Trump. And look, on day one, Trump does 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and Europe. They're going to hit us freaking hard here in America. I mean, Trump, literally all he has to do is just coast on Biden's economy right now. He could play golf and just take credit for things. That's all he had to do. He's not going to do that. He's going to implement his idiotic tariffs, have trade wars against our allies.

They're going to retaliate. Our industries are going to suffer here. Then he's going to go, oh, wait a minute. So you're telling me tariffs aren't taxes on them? They're actually taxes on our own country? And then what's he going to do? He's going to have to give government handouts to these various industries to try to prop them up after their markets are shut down internationally. And then what's going to happen? The debt's going to balloon.

We've seen this story before in Trump administration one with not the same level of tariffs. And he wants to do that on day one? We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. And I'm glad you like that our Canadian coverage is increasing here. Keep watching for more. Thanks for watching. Love this video?

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