The MeidasTouch Podcast - Furious Canada Inflicts Pain on Trump He Never Expected

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Canada standing up powerfully to Donald Trump as he crashes the markets. Thanks to HIMS! Start your free online visit today at https://hims.com/meidas for your personalized ED treatment options. 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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If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Elbows up. Canada is fighting back. They're showing how you lead the resistance and opposition at an international scale against Donald Trump. They've showed the rest of the world how it's done. Take a look at this right here. How about them flights from Vancouver to Phoenix, or really anywhere from Canada into the United States? Where are all the passengers?

Boycotting, going elbows up, going over the boards, throwing the gloves off. They ain't coming. They ain't coming. You know why? Because Donald Trump's threatening annexation. Donald Trump's not just engaged in trade war, but using language of real war. The Putin denazification language where Putin used that as a pretext for his unlawful invasion of Ukraine. Canada. Oh, they're smuggling the fentanyl to kill the Americans. Total lies, total defamation against Canada and Canada standing up. By the way, sit back and relax, Canadians. Enjoy your Chapman's only ice cream, some Chapman's only Canada's finest right here, ice cream bars. Take a look right there. Got some other Canadian snacks right here ice cream bars take a look right there got some other Canadian snacks

right here buying Canadian take a look at the headline from the Financial Times U.S. vacation hot spots brace for slump as angry Canadians cancel trips Trump's threats of annexation and tariffs hit the country's largest international tourist market. I think we're past the part of bracing. I think we're now at the part of the film where the pain is being felt because of Donald Trump's deranged regime. You know, and when I read these Financial Times articles, these are the same people who were saying, oh, we still expect that under Donald Trump, there's going to be financial growth. We, there may be a little bit slumpy.

You know, all of these people's financial predictions are always like so inaccurate and incorrect here. But, you know, you take a look right here and there's like, who's this person right here who's quoted? This guy from the travel industry is like, well, we expect there to be about a Adam Sachs. We expect there to be, you know, maybe a $9 billion drop, a 20% decline in travel from Canada. It ain't going to be a 20% decline in travel from Canada, okay? It's going to be a 75% to 80% decline in travel, at least. Right now, the Canadian boycott is going so strong. I think you want to take these numbers and probably 10 to 15x them in terms of the loss that's going to be

felt by the American tourism industry, whether it's, you know, I mean, Vegas is getting crushed right now. Florida getting crushed right now. We've heard from people, places like Maine and others, business down 85 to 90 percent. This article from Axios. Canadian snowbirds are selling their U.S. homes right here. And Canadians are saying, we ain't going there. You know, in addition to the fact that Donald Trump is threatening war.

So good reason not to come here. If you show up here, there's measles outbreaks. Another person died of measles in the United States. So you get these new pandemics coming back that were treated with vaccines based on an anti-vax head of the health department here. Or you've got here in the Trump regime, they may send you to ICE detention centers or send you back or send you out to El Salvador concentration camps. You never know what's going to happen with the Trump regime.

You have a tattoo, you know, maybe you have an autism awareness tattoo and they go, oh, autism awareness tattoo. That equals six points. They make up these weirdo formulas. Six points. I guess that makes you trend de Aragua. No due process. It's the most insane regime that we have here in the United States. By the way, take a look at the bread aisle right here. This person goes, I sell bread. Is this a little overkill with all of the baked in Canada? That ain't overkill right there. That's fantastic.

Take a look at Canadian sharing this as well. Not an American strawberry in sight, Mexican and Canadian only. I want to share with you this. Prime Minister Mark Carney gave an incredible speech in Oakville, Ontario. Here he was speaking and outlining skilled trades workforce right here. Great speech, but here are the portions where he talks about the United States. He lays out here the retaliation against the U.S. He makes it clear, since they're in this transition kind of state with the pass-off from Trudeau to Carney, what the powers and authorities are. But Prime Minister Carney saying,

no, we're retaliating and they're going to feel pain. Watch this. Counter-tariffs and other counter-tariff measures. We are putting it in place. So the cost to American-based manufacturers has changed dramatically with the tariffs that we have put in place. We do that with regret in the sense of we're responding to unjustified, illegal, and misguided tariffs in the United States. Vehicle production in the United States, vehicle purchases in the United States, economic activity in the United States, jobs in the auto sector in the United States, all of those are going to go down. They are going to go down.

The U.S. is harming themselves with these tariffs. It takes some time for that to filter through, just like it took some time for the to filter through just like it took some time for the impacts of brexit to filter through to the uk economy but i have seen this movie before i know exactly what's going to happen this is what's going to happen to them the americans are going to get weaker we are going to stand by our workers we are standing by our companies we are building new trade relationships we are going to stay strong and get stronger. Here, Prime Minister Carney in giving the speech.

By the way, the snap elections you all know are April 28th. And for our other international viewers, the system in Canada is you vote for the party. It's the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party are the big parties there. You also have the New Democratic Party, Green Party, other parties in Canada as well. But the two biggest parties right now, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, many expect Liberal Party is going to win based on Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party going full like maple MAGA before all of this, you know, before Trump gave the ultimate FU to Canada and threatened war. Poliev was following the Trump playbook. He sent Danielle Smith from Alberta to Florida even recently to like work, you know, try to interfere with the elections.

The whole thing's horrific. Anyway, here's Prime Minister Carney right here talking about how, look, there's this, this isn't going to be easy for Canada, but America will feel more pain here. Watch this. But there are future job cuts, higher inflation, and likely an American recession ahead. So we're going to protect our workers. We're going to fight back. We're going to build, we're going to get stronger, they're going to get weaker, we're going to get a deal in the end. On the G20? It's a more general question than that. But I think the government's strategy that La stratégie du gouvernement que nous mettons en œuvre, c'est de se battre contre les tarifs, avec les contre-tarifs canadiens, y compris pour le secteur automobile. Et ce n'est plus le cas que les véhicules américains pourraient être vendus au Canada sans tarif. Ça déjà change. OK, première chose. Deuxièmement,

de protéger les travailleurs canadiens et les entreprises canadiennes, y compris JM au Canada, avec le financement favorable et d'autres initiatives. There are several. In total, it's about $20 billion. Final point. We are fighting a new Canadian industry with a strategic response fund. Okay. Mr. Carney, last week, or actually earlier this week, as Prime Minister, you spoke about

putting in place a framework in which you can help or convince auto manufacturers to stay in Canada, to fend off, to protect them from Canadian tariffs. I am wondering about this framework. When is it going to be in place? This is a fast-moving process. As I mentioned, this plan could be closed in weeks before the election. What can you do now in terms of adding pressure? Are you going to put in any punitive penalties? Thank you for the question. So, as you know, Judy, during an election period, what a government can do is more limited, a so-called caretaker period, which does exist now. What we did

as a government in anticipation of this, to the maximum extent that we could in advance of the election is have authorization to put in place tariffs, counter tariffs and other counter tariff measures. We are putting it in place. So the cost to American based manufacturers has changed dramatically with the tariffs that we have put in place. We do that with regret in the sense of we're responding to unjustified illegal and misguided tariffs in the United States. Vehicle production in the United States, vehicle

purchases in the United States, economic activity in the United States, jobs in the in the auto sector in the United States, all of those are going to go down. They are going to go down. The U.S. is harming themselves with these tariffs. It takes some time for that to filter through, just like it took some time for the impacts of Brexit to filter through to the U.K. economy. But I have seen this movie before. I know exactly what's going to happen.

This is what's going to happen to them. The Americans are going to get weaker. We are going to stand by our workers. We are standing by our companies. We are building new trade relationships. We are going to stay strong and get stronger. When your car breaks down, you take it to a mechanic with no hesitation. You need it, and it's not something that most guys can fix themselves. And men should think the exact same way about ED. But the reality is you might be hesitant to seek help. Thankfully, through HIMSS, you can get access to personalized ED treatments without stepping outside your door. HIMSS is changing men's healthcare by providing you with access to affordable sexual health treatments from the comfort of your couch. HIMSS provides access to a

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Not only by believing in ourselves, but by investing in each other, in our skills, in our talent, in our people. And together, we Canadians will build Canada strong. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'd be happy to answer your questions. And this is from Carney's speech as well. Let's play it. We are facing the biggest crisis of our lifetimes. And as we saw, unfortunately, once again,

I'm going to say last week, but I think it was just earlier this week. It's just earlier this week. It's the same week. President Trump is trying to fundamentally restructure the U.S. economy. And in the process, he's reshaping, disrupting really, the international trading system that we've known all our lives and rupturing, rupturing the global economy. Now, let me share with you this as well recently from Canadian foreign minister from the Liberal Party. Here's her forceful statement responding to the Trump tariffs. Play this clip. In Canada, what we've said is we we take stock of what the

U.S. has done. And at the same time, we know that the relationship will never be the same again. And that's my message to Europeans. The relationship with the US will never be the same. They want to do things differently. We're the biggest client of the US by far. We buy more from the US than the UK, France, China and Japan combined. So for anybody that has been in business before, when you treat your client, your best client, the way we've been treated, well of course it means that you want fundamentally to change the way you're operating. What we've said is we understand that President Trump is taking decisions for his own administration and his own people.

But he also respects strength. And we've made sure that there were counter tariffs on American products back in Canada. We are now at $60 billion worth of counter tariffs. We announced new counter tariffs on auto yesterday because we think that it is ultimately the best way to get to a good deal eventually. We're putting maximum pressure on the Trump administration and at the same time we are finding off ramps. And the only people on earth that will be able to really have President Trump change course are the Americans themselves. And the Americans now understand that tariffs are a tax on them. For no reason other than Donald Trump hates this photo,

I'm sharing with you the portrait that was hanging in Colorado of Donald Trump. This is Kinzinger, former Republican Congress member, courageous Adam Kinzinger, standing up to Donald Trump, posting that. And while Donald Trump is imposing these tariffs, crashing the world markets right now, this was him returning to D.C. last night on Sunday night. And here he was bragging about how great he was at golf over the weekend. So as the markets are tanking and crashing, Trump's saying he's great at golf. Here, play this clip.

How are you? Any questions? How was the golf tournament? Very good. Because I won. It's good to win. You heard I won, right? Did you hear I won?

Just to back it up over there, I won. What's your handicap these days? I like to win up there. I want. What's your handicap these days? I like to win very low. I have a very low handicap. Okay, let's go. Sir, Chinese foreign. Back up a little. Sure.

The Chinese foreign ministry said that the market has spoken. There you have it, folks. Deranged, demented, dangerous. Canada, we stand strong with you here at the Midas Touch Network. By the way, we have 100% Canadian-made maple Midas gear, 100% Canadian-made Canadian manufacturing. If you go to store.midastouch.com, store.midastouch.com, 100% made in Canada, store.midastouch.com. Check that out in Canada. Store.MidasTouch.com. Check that out as well to all of our Canadian viewers and listeners.

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