The MeidasTouch Podcast - Furious Canada Humiliates Trump’s Despicable Ambassador

Episode Date: November 28, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Canada humiliating Trump’s US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra in front of the entire world. Get 30% OFF your first order + FREE shipping @IndaCloud with code: MEIDAS at https://Indacloud.co Visit https://meidasplus.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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That's gofundme.com. Gofundme.com. Canada is furious and it is getting underneath the skin of the Trump regime. Trump's United States ambassador to Canada. Pete Hoekstra, this dude is like crumbling before our eyes. He spoke at a manufacturing conference in Canada. And he's like, all right, I'm just going to get myself into trouble. You know, I don't understand why you all get mad in Canada about when we want to conquer you and call you the 51st state.

What are you getting mad about? and then he starts to like yell at Canada and he points his finger and he starts wagging it at Canada. I don't know, Hoekstra. I don't think Canada's going to like this here. Play this clip. It will restart. The question is when. Neither of us know. It seems like the, you know, I've got suggestions that I think can get it restarted, but it's it's not going to be easy. Okay. Here, I'll just get myself in trouble. No, no, I go ahead, I'll go somewhere else. But let me tell you, I mean, I go around the country and people will say, Pete, you just

don't understand why we're so mad about the 51st state. It's kind of like, yeah, you're right, I don't. Okay. Well. And then I read, you know, all I can say is to my Canadian friends is you don't understand, because I read the media and I listen to other discussions. you know, the president got mad about an ad. Well, I've been in this business for a while,

and I know people who've been in it longer than I have, and I asked them, okay, the ad that was run by the government of Canada. Oh, that's not the government of Canada. It's Ontario. It's kind of like, I'm sorry, we don't go through that, you know, slicing and dicing.

It's kind of like, no one can ever remember a like circumstance where a foreign government came into the United States and they were talking about $54 million of ads American dollars, so real money. Just a joke, just a joke.

Okay, lighten up. That's the quote they're going to remember. Yeah, that's going to get me into trouble. But, you know, targeting the President of the United States and his policies 10 days before an election and a couple of weeks before a Supreme Court case would be heard in front of the Supreme Court. I'm sorry, that does not happen in the United States of America. You do not come into America and start running political ads, government-funded political

ads and expect that there will be no conceit. It's the government coming in again at control. And expect that there will be no consequences or reaction from the United States of America in the Trump administration. It has, as far as we can tell, it has never happened in America before. And if Canada wants to insert itself and create a new precedent, that you, you're going to participate in our electoral politics through advertising, targeting the President of the United States and his policies, I just, I would, I would suggest that you seriously consider whether that is the best way to try to achieve your objectives in the United States of America.

By the way, this guy may be the worst ambassador to Canada, like quite literally ever. What a clown. What a buffoon this guy is. And then he's like, and I don't even know why. I think the Canadian people like China better than the United States. I wonder why, Hoekstra, because of people like you and Trump and the whole regime. Here, play this clip. I don't find it in the media.

I'm not sure I always see it. in the political world, the public, I think China is now more viewed more favorably than America. It's kind of like, okay, all right. Wow. And you want to know what's happening this Thanksgiving weekend? You want to know if people are traveling from Canada to the United States or if this boycott now is crippling the United States because of the stupid actions of people like Hoekstra and Trump and this idiotic regime that has been so. utterly disrespectful to Canada. Let's find out what if Canadians are traveling to the United States.

Hint, they're not. Here, play this clip. Let's bring in CDV John Venevali Rao in Toronto with more on that. Hi, John. Sandy, here at Pearson and Toronto, it's a busy time for travel to the United States with U.S. Thanksgiving on Thursday. But this year, the travel numbers are likely to be down as many Canadians continue to choose to avoid going to the U.S.

of Canada-U.S. relations being talked about this past weekend in Halifax at an international security conference, several American senators calling Trump's tariff some mistake, and noting how many Canadians are responding negatively to them on a personal level. But the deeper problem is the cultural break. The idea that Canadians now don't think of Americans as their friends and their neighbors, but as an adversary. One of the things that I think is very important about us being here, a bipartisan delegation, is to make it very clear to our Canadian friends that we're your friends. And we're going to do everything we can to put things back to the wonderful relationship that we've always had with Canada. How many travelers say they are feeling uncomfortable about going to the states this winter?

With the latest numbers from stats can showing in October, return trips by car from the U.S. were down 30% compared to a year ago. And by air, they fell 24%. That trend expected to continue. Yeah, if we can stay clear, we certainly avoid it. If there is a possibility of some resumption of normalcy, I think it's going to take a really long time. I mean, some of the cuts have been pretty deep. And the Canadians say their top reason for avoiding the U.S. is a resolve to stand up for Canada.

Still, some of those U.S. senators remain optimistic. The damage to relations can eventually be fixed, with one of them, an independent, calling the tariffs ridiculous. Sandy. Okay, John, thank you. All right. Now let's hear from Prime Minister Carney's speech right before Thanksgiving, once again reiterating the relationship with the United States is over. Here, play this clip. We know the world's changing. We know that this decades-long process of our ever closer economic relationship between Canada and the United States has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities. particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the United States.

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episode. And then right here we hear more from Prime Minister Carney right here, talking about how they're focusing on investing in Canada first and building out Canada, play this clip. The core of the strategy in budget 2025 is to unleash $1 trillion in total investments in Canada over the course of the next five years. alone will increase our GDP by over three and a half percent, or $3,500 for every Canadian worker, more than twice what's being taken from us. Now to help get there, we must protect our workers and our industries who are most exposed

to U.S. tariffs. That means in steel, aluminum, auto, and lumber sectors, help them bridge to the future. from Prime Minister Carney right here, talking about the actual real trade deals, free trade deals that he's been doing in Asia and throughout the rest of the world, while Trump's like 18 trillion, 21 trillion, Canada's actually really doing deals. Here, play this clip. You've said that you want to get the best deal for Canada and that you're not rushing to any sort of deal. Do you get the sense that other countries regret the deals that they've made with President Trump?

That's a question for them. It's, look, I think this is what I'll say about other countries. Every country wants to do a deal with Canada. Or if they have a relationship with Canada, they want to deepen that relationship with Canada. And this is a real opportunity for us. Of course, we want to further improve the existing trading relationship with the United States.

We stand ready to re-engage. when they are but at the at the same time we're going to do a few other things first and foremost build this build this economy to be masters in our home met she and invest to make sure our strategic industries are there when we need them and then secondly to develop those commercial relationships abroad and i think you're seeing given the scale of agreements that we're concluding and launching and the time frame and i'll make one last point and then pass to your colleague if i may which is you know when we're announcing these free trade deals for example with india the start of the intention for negotiations or with thailand or the philippines as

two recent three recent examples the intention is to conclude conclude these in a year okay this is not let's have a five to eight year long process let's focus let's take the opportunity let's diversify let's build out and that that itself will start to seal we have to conclude these obviously but we want to have and a final point on if i can sorry i think i've already beyond my final point but this is one of the many reasons why we want to make sure that we maintain the capacity uh in our steel industry um in our lumber industry in our aluminum industry in other strategic industries and the workers as much as possible in in their roles and their jobs because demand is coming we're creating that demand and and and that's a big part of what this

announcement today is about and more from prime minister carney right here let us play it you've announced tariffs today on the u.s for the first time or they'll affect the u.s but the first time since you you pulled back retaliatory tariffs, how do you think this will affect the prospects of a trade deal with the U.S., and are you worried about retaliation? So I think the first thing to say is that what we have done is to put in place adjustments to remissions and tariffs on certain steel derivative products, as you know. And so these are products that, derivatives is a fancy name for products that are substantially comprised of steel.

And it is a much more targeted level of that steel than, for example, the United States has done with their steel derivatives, which is quite broad application. The U.S. looks to calculate the proportions in steel. That approach is global. It's global. It's not targeted at the U.S. okay so that's the first thing that's very important so it's a global approach which is creating some space for Canadian steel producers to fill it first point second

point with respect to the changes we're making in tariffs so for non-free trade countries going from 50% to 20% the sort of tariff rate quota this is Bloomberg so I can talk like that right and and for free trade countries going from 100 to 75% the US is not included in that So there's no change in the tariff for the U.S. or for Mexico in that regard. So I think that answers the question. On ending the remission, I'm wondering why you chose January 31st, and is this an attempt to add pressure to the U.S.? No, no. Or is it in acknowledgement that you're not going to get a dealing with Congress?

I'm going to reinforce, I'm going to reinforce. It is a global approach. It is a global approach. And what it is, January 31st, is a judgment based on our working. with companies that use these products and the time in which you can take Canadian companies to ramp up and fulfill that demand. Powerful, powerful stuff right there. Let me know what you all think.

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