Mark Carney (4:56)

I have the pleasure of being here with Lana Payne, president of Unifor, who we'll speak to in a moment. Lana and I were just having a meeting, a prescheduled meeting to discuss the situation in our economy, how we can work together across a range of industries, forestry, aerospace, automobiles and beyond. During the course of that meeting, President Trump announced 25% tariffs against our auto industry. And this is a direct attack, to be clear, a direct attack on the very workers that I stood in front of, uniform workers I stood in front of this morning at the Ambassador Bridge, a bridge that is a symbol and a reality up until now of the tight ties between our two countries, ties of kinship, ties of commerce, ties that are in the process of being broken. We will defend our workers, we will defend our companies, we will defend our country, and we will defend it together.

Unknown Host (6:10)

All right, now I got to share with you what went down in Toronto with Charlie Angus and protesters. So Charlie just joined a group of protesters. We're seeing protesters Across Canada. If you're living in Canada, you know, these are going up everywhere, these protests at the American consulates, in front of American businesses, wherever you're having these spontaneous protests take place. So here's Charlie Angus. He meets these protesters and he goes, we in Canada will never kiss the gangster, gangster ring of this authoritarian Trump regime. Let's play this one first. Let's play it.

Charlie Angus (6:44)

We will never, ever, ever be the 51st state. And why we will never kiss that gangster's ring. I don't care how many times they try and tell us that we can't stand on the streets of our own cities. This is our city, this is our country, this is our democracy, and we will defend it. Elbows up, Elbows up.

Unknown Host (7:03)

Now, just to show you what this protest look like, here you see the protesters doing the elbows up chant. By the way, Charlie tells me a lot of Midas Touch fans in this protest. And I want to say what's up to all of you? What's up to all the Canadians protesting. Thank you for standing up and showing a great example, not just in Canada and the rest of the world, but also right here in the US you inspire us with your courage and your strength. And I just so look forward to the day when we get rid of this Trump regime and we could all rejoice and celebrate together. That's what I look forward to. But here are some of the Canadians protesting in front of the American Consulate in Toronto. Play this clip.

Charlie Angus (7:57)

Elbows up, Elbows up, elbows up, elbows up.

Unknown Host (8:03)

Right, now, here's the moment where you can see the Toronto police officer goes up to Charlie Angus and the group and says, you know, look, the people up there in the American Consulate, they don't want you standing here there. He doesn't say this, but they're too big of snowflakes. And then Charlie Angus is like, all right, like, he's being polite. We're a polite people. We'll protest from there. Here, play this clip.

Charlie Angus (8:26)

Charlie Angus Ruben. Nice to meet you.

Ruben Gunnish (8:28)

I'm part of the police liaison on the outside of the barriers.

Charlie Angus (8:33)

On the outside of the barriers, yeah. Okay, can you just explain what. What the concern is? I mean, we're all very. Because we. They'd asked us not to stand on there, which was their property, and we said, yeah, we've been making sure nobody but you guys got bikes on their property. I wouldn't want one of them taking your bikes out. You know, you don't know what they're gonna do up there. So. Yeah, than every other protester. Okay, so you're asking if we're just on the other side of the barricades, that's all. Okay, what's your name? Ruben Gunnish. Ruben. Charlie Angus. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Okay, folks, we're gonna go on the other side of the barrier, okay? We're gonna help Toronto police here so that they don't have to deal with the people upstairs. So we're just gonna. We're gonna walk over. But this is still our city. This is still our street. But since we were asked politely, which is how we do things in Canada, being polite, I think is a good reason to help out. The American are not being polite. They're all hiding in their windows and. Pierre, come on down. Pierre, come on down. I came to see you. Like, what are you doing up there, Pierre?

Unknown Host (9:37)

Now, here, Charlie Angus talks about the strength of Canadian democracy. Let's play it.

Charlie Angus (9:43)

Elbows up, elbows up. I don't care how many times they try and tell us that we can't stand on the streets of our own cities. This is our city, this is our country. This is our democracy, and we will defend it.

Unknown Host (9:56)

Oh, this was a great part of this Toronto rally where Charlie Angus says, yeah, we're dei. We're diversity, equity and inclusion. Yeah, we're the original antifa. We hate fascists. Our parents and our grandparents fought the fascists and we kicked their fascist asses. Play this clip.

Charlie Angus (10:13)

Want to thank you for letting me crash your rally, by the way. But that's Canada. Wherever we go in Canada is home. And any community I've ever been in. For the first time, I felt I was at home, because that's who we are. Because we are about decency, we are about inclusion, we are about tolerance. And that is why Donald Trump hates our guts. Yeah, he wants to get our water and he wants to steal our critical minerals. But fundamentally, he cannot stand that there is a nation of diversity, equity and inclusion on his border. Now, we know DEI is like the latest thing that freaks them out, kind of like antifa. What, being an anti fascist? I come from a long line of anti fascists. My uncles kicked Nazi butt all over Europe. They were antifa before I was born. But they tell us that diversity, equity, inclusion is something they hate. Well, in Canada, we are a nation of diverse people. We believe in equity and we believe in inclusion. So all the Americans over there with their dui, they can hate us and they can tell us they don't want to see us on our streets, but these streets belong to us. This country belongs to. To us. What gives me Hope is the incredible optimism and determination of every Canadian that I meet.

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Unknown Host (13:03)

And here I think Charlie Angus captures it all wonderfully. Where he goes, you know, one of the things with Canon is we're being role models to the rest of the world right now. We're showing Europe how to do it, we're showing Australia how to do it, New Zealand, we're showing people in Africa, Central America, South America, Mexico, wherever. We've shown the model of how you stand up to the gangster Trump regime. Here, play this clip.

Charlie Angus (13:31)

What gives me hope is the incredible optimism and determination of every Canadian that I meet. I don't have to ask where you're going to be. Between Vimy and Vichy, I know where you'll be. You'll be standing on the ridge of freedom with the rest of us. You are the leaders of this movement. It's not the politicians, it's ordinary Canadians. The boycott that you launched in your own actions is being heard around the world. And the rest of the world is heard following what we are doing in Canada. That's why they hate us. If they can make us break, they can break the rest of the world. And I just want to say, in conclusion, I'm getting messages from Australia, messages from Scotland, messages from Denmark and France and all over the United States who Say that they want to stand like Canada, to be strong. This is what we're doing. We are a role model for the world. That's why we're not going to break. That's why they hate us. That's why we are going to continue. And that's why we will never, ever, ever be the 51st state and why we will never kiss that gangster's ring. I don't care how many times they try and tell us that we can't stand on the streets of our own cities. This is our city. This is our country. This is our democracy. And we will defend it. Elbows up. Elbows up. Elbows up. Elbows up. Elbows up, elbows up, elbows.

Unknown Host (15:06)

Powerful stuff. I got to get Charlie back on and ask him about this. Great work, Charlie. Angus, great work. To all the protesters out there. We see you all. We're grateful for you. We here stand in solidarity with you. And I want to show you this moment at the recent hearing in the Senate where Senator Heinrich from New Mexico, Democratic Senator, he does a great job questioning Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. Or for her, it's unintelligence or what, just giving our secrets away to foreign adversaries at this point. I mean, based on their reckless sloppiness and dangerousness. But here in this questioning, the Senator's, Like I noticed in your recent report, when you were saying about the dangers of fentanyl, you didn't mention that Canada was involved in any dangers by giving fentanyl. So how do you square that with all of Donald Trump's lies? Why wouldn't you put that in your report? Oh, because it's a lie. It's a Putin style lie. It's when Putin says denazification to conquer Ukraine or to try to take it over and unlawfully invade a sovereign territory. This is Donald Trump's version of denazification. Oh, they're killing everybody with fentanyl. You know, Trump learns from Putin. I mean, you know, he takes his orders from Daddy Putin and Daddy Elon. Take a look at what went down here. Play this clip.

Ruben Gunnish (16:30)

I want to ask you, Director Gabbard, something on a very different track here, which is I very much agree with the the conclusion of the ata, that foreign illicit drug actors are a major threat in the United States. And many of you have spoken to this today. Is the IC wrong in its omission of Canada as a source of illicit fentanyl in the ata? I was surprised, given some of the rhetoric, that there is no mention of Canada in the ata.

Unknown Host (17:09)

Senator, the focus in my opening. And the ATA was really to focus on the most extreme threats in that area. And our assessment is that the most extreme threat related to fentanyl continues to come from and through Mexico.

Ruben Gunnish (17:27)

So the president has stated that the fentanyl coming through Canada is massive and actually said it was an unusual and extraordinary threat. And that was the language that was used to justify putting tariffs on Canada. I'm just trying to reconcile those two issues. Is it an unusual and extraordinary threat or is it a minor threat that doesn't even merit mention in the annual threat assessment?

Unknown Host (18:00)

Senator, I don't have the numbers related to Canada in front of me at this time. I'd like to get back to you on the specifics of that answer.

Ruben Gunnish (18:07)

It's less than 1% of the fentanyl that we, that we are able to interdict. But if you have different information, I would very much welcome that.

Unknown Host (18:19)

Great stuff. Proud that I can show you this incredible courage from the Canadian people. We have a huge international audience here on the Midas Touch Network. A huge Canadian audience. The number one podcast in Canada, the number one podcast in many European countries as well in Australia. Big presence there. Big presence in New Zealand and throughout the world. And so we, we're seeing what you're doing. Canada and Canada, strong. Elbows up. That's now a rallying call to the rest of the world. Thanks to you. History is going to remember the courage that you all showed. We're grateful for all of you Canadians. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas. Check out the Midas substack for ad. Free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now@midasplus.com.