Christia Freeland (4:45)

Well, look, there have been more flip flops than we can keep track of here in Canada. But what we do know is, you know, the Prime Minister is right. The Wall Street Journal is right. These dumbest tariffs in history. This is utterly self mutilating. It's really a perverse approach, Anderson, because America is hurting itself moving in this direction. The President is killing the US Stock market. Your stock market is actually performing worse than the stock market in Europe or in Canada. You're going to raise the prices on gas, you're going to raise the prices on groceries, you're going to make electricity more expensive. And all for what reason? Because Canadians aren't nice enough? I mean, come on, this is just utterly Absurd. America is hurting itself. And the end result has been to do something which is really hard to do, antagonize Canadians. There is this wave of patriotism in Canada right now, the likes of which I have never seen in my life. We started off being really hurt by this because we know that we are really good friends to you, really good neighbors. We know that so much of America's prosperity has been built on the foundation of having Canada, the best neighbor in the world to your north. But now I would say Canadians are getting really angry.

Ben Miceli (6:14)

Now. I want to share this with you as well. This is Mark Carney, also running for leadership. Many believe that Carney is the front runner, but I think it's still anybody's game for the race of leadership in the Liberal Party. Here's what Carney has to say. Let's play it.

Mark Carney (6:31)

Our economy is very strong. Look, it is. This is a serious situation and it will cause pain to our workers, pain to our companies, pain to our economy for a period of time. My government, if I am prime minister, will do everything we can to alleviate that. But we're strong. We are strong. And I would say, I would say as well, our economy is stronger than the American economy in the medium term, and we are going to be stronger than the American economy, particularly if the US Government continues to pursue these types of policies because we are looking to expand our trading relationships. We do have opportunities to build this economy. We do have a better balance sheet than the United States. We do have a people who are united and determined to move forward.

Ben Miceli (7:18)

And as I mentioned the polling, the, the Conservative Party is on a downswing. The Liberal Party is surging when people expected the Conservative Party to have been able to form a government several months ago. The whole dynamic has changed because of Donald Trump there with the Liberal Party surging ahead. Also, as I told you, consumer confidence is up, up, up, because Canadians are standing united, unlike here in the United States where consumer confidence is plummeting essentially to all time low. And we're hearing from other Canadian leaders, authors, celebrities, you know, you name business leaders, all talking about the unified boycott that is still going on. You saw the report that I did where Jack Daniels is saying, even beyond retaliatory tariffs, the fact that Canadian provinces have taken all of the booze, American booze off their supermarket shelves and grocery store shelves, that has actually been even more harmful to these liquor suppliers, to Kentucky Bourbon, for example, Jack Daniels and others, and even the retaliatory tariffs. Now wait until we start getting the data about the tourism boycott we all know how powerful that boycott is. It hasn't showed up yet in the financial data just because it'll probably pick up in the March and April data. But Canadians ain't traveling to the United States. They're canceling their vaca vacations. They're canceling their rentals. And those in the United States who would rent out to Canadians or who are run travel agencies here or are involved in the tourism, you know, Canadians are canceling everything. I predict that It'll be about 50 to 75% of Canadians who will be participating in the tourism boycott unless they absolutely have to come here. I think they're just like, why would I come to this place where idiocracy prevails? And look, talking about idiocracy, I mean, it's just stuff like this. You have Pete Hegseth banning photographs. Our Secretary of Defense, if it has the word gay in it, and not realizing the Enola Gay, the World War II bomber has the word gay in it, and that they're banning photos of the Enola Gay. I mean, it's just the stupidest stuff happening here as well. I mean, talk about the Gong show here in the United States. You have the Army Corps of Engineers being sent by Donald Trump to drain reservoirs in California into farmland, frankly run by right leaning Republican farmers in land that's nowhere close to Los Angeles and Southern California because Donald Trump believed that you can turn on some like faucet that somehow connected to Canada and that the water would flow and stop the fires which had already stopped in Los Angeles. So Donald Trump dumped reservoirs that were needed for summer for these farmers into random farmland and like central and Northern California, I mean, it is the height of stupidity right now. I showed you this, by the way. This is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from earlier in this week saying we are not backing down. Play this clip. There are obviously conversations ongoing right now with the US Administration, but as I've said a number of times, we will not be backing down from our response tariffs until such a time as the unjustified American tariffs on Canadian goods are lifted. Here is Prime Minister Trudeau again giving a great response to Trump changing his mind on tariffs at the end of last week. Let's play it. Foreign affairs Minister yesterday called all of this a psychodrama. How did what, how do you characterize it Thursday? And here's my buddy, by the way. You all know him by now, Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus. Here was an incredible speech, just to give you a short portion of it, that he gave in Ottawa about how Canadians have stayed united, how they've stood up, how they were prepared. And now the American economy is tanking because of the stupidity of the Trump regime.

Charlie Angus (11:25)

Once again, he's huffing and puffing and threatening to blow our nation away. And like last time, as soon as Canada stands up and shows that we are not afraid, suddenly the MAGA crew start backpedaling. And maybe there's going to be a deal in the works. Maybe they're going to have something figured out. Maybe, maybe not. I'm not here to give anyone false hope, because Canadians understand that this is not a trade war we're talking about. This is a war by other means, a war of disinformation and ridicule, questioning our right to exist, our sovereignty, our borders, very much the way Vladimir Putin launched his disinformation war in the years leading up to. To the brutal invasion of Ukraine. It's a siege war. He's poking us and trying to see if there's divisions, if there's fear. What he's learning very quickly and what the world is learning, is that Canadians know what is at stake. And we will not bend or break because Donald Trump believes we have no right as a nation, and we will always be there for our nation. But I want to compare what's happening in Canada to the dumpster fire USA, because what we've seen in just 60 days is that Donald Trump has burned up the great American century. He's burned through his alliances with key allies. He's burned through Americans leadership role on the international stage with his disgusting attack on President Zelensky and his willingness to put America on side with North Korea and Russia. So this is how the great American century ends. It's not with a bang or with a whimper. It's like some kind of tacky roadshow from the World Wrestling Federation. And now Donald Trump has decided to go further by blowing apart the greatest economic trade relationship in history, plunging our nation and our people into chaos. But what he's really doing is making America weaker, more divided, more alone. And we know that Canada will stand up and Canada will push back, and American jobs will suffer, and the American economy is suffering.

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Ben Miceli (16:02)

Folks, we're seeing headlines throughout like this one. Trump's policies have shaken a one solid economic outlook. The bank stocks here are down 7 to 12%. The Wall Street Journal headlines are how tariff wars are risking sinking the United States into Great Depression. Donald Trump is also killing a $52.7 billion semiconductor chips act, destroying red states and blue states alike. And what does the Trump administration have to say about this? About Canada? Just pathetic. What name calling? Here you have Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson calling a Trudeau a numbskull. Play this clip.

Scott Besson (16:41)

As President Trump has said many times, tariff is his favorite word. I would say the reciprocal is probably his second favorite word. And I think we have to be open to the idea. If you want to be a numb skull like Justin Trudeau and say, oh, we're going to do this, then it's going to, tariffs are going to go up. But if you want to sit back, have a discussion with the Commerce Department, ustr, they all have my phone number, too. I am happy to have a discussion with our foreign counterparts.

Ben Miceli (17:13)

Well, guess what, Scott Besant, Trudeau just ate your lunch. The Canadians just went elbows up and they made you look like a fool, pathetic and weak. And now you have Scott Besant over here saying, you know what, things may be bad in the United States, but guess what, we're just detoxing. The economy is detoxing. Here, here, play this clip.

Scott Besson (17:38)

We're trying to get rates down. And you know, could we be seeing that the, this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit? Sure. And look, there's going to be a natural adjustment as we move away from public spending to private spending. The market and the economy have just become hooked and we become addicted to this government spending. And there's going to be a detox period. There's going to be a detox.

Ben Miceli (18:08)

Guy looks and sounds so freaking arrogant. Oh, we're just detoxing. Just detoxing. Shut up. You were handed a Goldilocks economy and you threw that Goldilocks economy into the ground. And then you have shows like this, Maria Bartiroma on Fox saying, it's a recession, the recession's coming, but it's Biden's recession. Play this clip. That's by the way, that's why I said earlier it would be Biden's recession. And I know the haters out there will slam me later.

Christia Freeland (18:36)

The other day you were nuts on.

Ben Miceli (18:39)

Me, on Twitter, on X. I said, well, all that, so utterly pathetic. Great work, Canada, standing up to the pathetic Trump regime. You've also showed the world what you can do when you stand up. You have showed how weak and pathetic Donald Trump is, what he does as a cornered little rat, no offense to cornered rats. Great work. And to all of our Canadian supporters out there, we know there are millions of you, this is the most watched podcast in Canada. We stand with you against the Trump regime and we look forward to the day when we will be allies again, when we will be best neighbors and best friends again. This is a passing period. We stand up to that cornered rat. No offense to cornered rats. This Trump fascist regime. We stand up to bullies. And until they rip this microphone from my very hands, there will be fearless reporting here at the Midas Touch Network and highlighting your great work. Hit subscribe let's get to 5 million subscribers. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth over lies collection@store.midas touch.com All 100% USA Union made.

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