Canada TRAPS TRUMP with BRILLIANT MOVE: "They did WHAT?!"
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00:00You had said to me some time ago that this is running really deep in Canada.
00:05I've since learned that from all my Canadian family and friends.
00:08But it's deeper than anything I ever recall in terms of disputes between Canada and the
00:12United States, which by the way have been going on since the creation of Canada.
00:16There's always been disputes.
00:17Yeah.
00:18Oh, no, for sure.
00:19I'd say I've never seen my country like this ever before.
00:26Canadians have been galvanized.
00:27The level of attachment to Canada, even in places like Quebec, which has variously at
00:34times tried to secede from Canada, the attachment to Canada there is well over 80%.
00:39We've never seen anything like that.
00:42But it's born out of a sense of anger and betrayal.
00:45And that is the motivating factor in Canada right now.
00:48We've been punched in the nose by our very best friend and we're trying to figure out
00:51why.
00:53Any answer to the why?
00:55Initially, Donald Trump said it was because of the border in Fentanyl.
01:00Now on those issues, we have no disagreement with Donald Trump.
01:03Every border should be secure and Fentanyl, if we had a magic wand, would disappear from
01:07the face of the planet tomorrow.
01:09The problems on the Canadian border, however, are minuscule.
01:14Doesn't mean we shouldn't attack it.
01:16Doesn't mean we shouldn't do something.
01:17We stepped up with over a billion dollars to help essentially CBP take care of the problem
01:23on the American side.
01:25You see, the issue is, we have Fentanyl coming from the United States into Canada.
01:31We also have illegal immigrants coming from the United States into Canada.
01:36And of course, vice versa.
01:38This is a problem that both countries have to work on.
01:41This is not a Canada problem.
01:42This is a Canada-United States problem.
01:45Everything can always be made better.
01:47The punch in the face thing is interesting because it's not just the trade, it's this
01:50territorial discussion.
01:51Let me tell you what President Trump said on Thursday at the White House.
01:55He said, Canada only works as a state.
01:58We don't need anything they have.
01:59As a state, it would be one of the great states anywhere.
02:01This would be the most incredible country visually.
02:03If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it.
02:05We don't need their lumber.
02:06We don't need their energy.
02:08We have more than they do.
02:09We don't need anything.
02:10Now, there will be a little disruption, but it won't be for very long.
02:12But they need us.
02:13We really don't need them.
02:15And we have to do this.
02:16I'm sorry.
02:17End quote.
02:19I'm glad he said he was sorry.
02:21Look, facts matter in a case like this.
02:25Let's take aluminum.
02:27The United States produces 14% of its aluminum use.
02:32Where are they getting the rest of it?
02:33Well, they're getting 60% from Canada.
02:36I kind of think the United States needs Canada.
02:40Interesting too, Ali, that Alcoa, which is an American company but has aluminum smelters
02:43in Canada, has said that as a result of the tariffs, they may take all that aluminum
02:49that they're making in Canada that originally came to the United States and sell it elsewhere
02:54in the world where there are no tariffs.
02:56So what we're looking at here is not just a price disruption, but a supply disruption
03:00as well.
03:01Right.
03:02Which we just saw a little bit of during COVID, and it caused prices to spike.
03:04Absolutely.
03:05And that's just one small area.
03:07We provide 60% of the nickel that the Department of Defense uses for the security of the United
03:12States.
03:13So I would just submit that maybe, you know, the briefers in the White House might want
03:17to do a little bit more work to find out exactly what it is that the United States takes from
03:22Canada, buys from Canada, and similarly what we buy from the United States.
03:26Look, this is a trading relationship that is over a trillion dollars a year.
03:31That is $2.5 billion every single day.
03:35And it's been like that for a very, very long time.
03:38It is the most dynamic economic relationship in the world, bar none.
03:45Why do we want to fool around with that?
03:47The irony is that for all the criticisms Donald Trump has about the Canada-U.S. trade agreement,
03:51the current one, he's the other side of it.
03:54He was there.
03:55He negotiated.
03:56He was the one who said, I don't really like NAFTA, so we're going to make this new deal,
03:59which he made.
04:01Not only did he make it, Ali, but the USMCA, as it's now called, was brought onto the world
04:08stage by the president in his first administration and called the best trade deal that the world
04:13has ever seen.
04:14And his signature was on it.
04:15Now suddenly he's got a problem with it.
04:18You know, I could go on, you know, list after list after list of things that we hear and
04:23we go, well, wait a minute.
04:24That needs to be corrected.
04:25Dairy, for example, is a big concern.
04:30We buy three times more dairy from the United States than the United States buys from us.
04:36American dairy products coming into Canada, completely tariff-free because there's a ceiling.
04:42After that ceiling, you pay tariffs.
04:44US producers have never even reached that ceiling.
04:48So we don't understand why this is even being brought up.
04:52I mean, as I said, we've got a tariff-free agreement for 99% of the stuff that goes back
04:58and forth between the countries.
05:00That keeps prices low for Americans.
05:01It keeps prices low for Canadians.
05:03It means that we can do more.
05:05We can build more.
05:06We can become more prosperous.
05:08The moment you start throwing in tariffs, not only do you have a trade issue, but then
05:12you've got an issue between the countries, and in our case, an existential threat.
05:18We don't need to be liberated by a foreign power.
05:21We don't need to be subjugated by a foreign power.
05:24We kind of like our freedom.
05:25We are the true North, strong and free.
05:30All right, we've got some breaking news to bring you on the global tariff war that was
05:34launched by Donald Trump.
05:37Canada has just announced a series of retaliatory measures, including 25% tariffs on a variety
05:44of American goods.
05:45Here's the Canadian finance minister breaking it down.
05:48Today, I am announcing that the government of Canada, following a dollar-for-dollar approach,
05:56will be imposing, as of 12.01 a.m. tomorrow, March 13, 2025, 25% reciprocal tariffs on
06:07an additional $29.8 billion of imports from the United States.
06:15This includes steel products worth $12.6 billion and aluminum products worth $3 billion, as
06:23well as additional imported U.S. goods worth $14.2 billion for a total of $29.8 billion.
06:34The list of additional products affected by counter-tariffs includes computers, sports
06:39equipment, and cast iron products as examples.
06:44These tariffs are in addition to Canada's 25% counter-tariffs on $30 billion of imports
06:51from the United States in response to U.S. tariffs put in place on March 4.
06:57Canadian officials are not mincing any words in their response to the Trump administration.
07:03Listen to this.
07:05This is much more than about our economy.
07:09It is about the future of our country.
07:13Canadian sovereignty and identity are non-negotiable.
07:17This needs to stop.
07:18This is hurtful for workers.
07:20This is hurtful for industry.
07:22This is hurtful for the competitiveness of North America.
07:26Canadian steel and aluminum are essential for North America.
07:32The former U.S. Ambassador to Canada and the former Michigan Governor James Blanchard is
07:36joining us right now here in the Situation Room.
07:39What's your reaction to what's going on?
07:41I mean, for me, as a kid growing up in Western New York, Buffalo, on the border with Canada,
07:46it's hard for me to believe that U.S.-Canadian relations are in a crisis like they are right now.
07:51Yeah, it's really goofy stuff.
07:52It's totally unnecessary.
07:55Our relations with Canada today are the worst in modern history.
08:00It's not just tariffs.
08:03It's the constant insults by the White House calling it the 51st state.
08:08It's the Vice President saying that in the last few decades, Canada has treated us very badly.
08:14We've had this fabulous partnership and alliance all my life, and it's been seriously damaged
08:23these last month and a half, two months.
08:25It's not just the tariffs.
08:26It's also the vocal, the verbal statements.
08:29When you hear the President or the Vice President refer to the Prime Minister of Canada and
08:32you were the U.S. Ambassador to Canada as a governor, as if Canada is a 51st state,
08:39what do you think?
08:40Well, it's an insult to Canada.
08:41Canadians find that as insulting as tariffs.
08:44The tariffs, of course, are totally unnecessary and are going to be inflationary and harmful.
08:48But yeah, I mean, to say a 51st state is like saying you don't count.
08:52You're an appendage to us.
08:55No, everything they're doing appears to be designed to destroy our fabulous relationship.
09:02I'm spending more time on Canadian television and radio telling the Canadians that the White
09:08House does not speak for 90 percent of Americans, that Canada is our most reliable, trusted,
09:13and best ally.
09:14It isn't just the economy and autos.
09:16I grew up in Detroit, or agriculture.
09:19It's cultural.
09:20It's relatives.
09:21It's tourism.
09:22It's everything.
09:23Yeah.
09:24I mean, it's really crazy when you think about it.
09:27When you hear Trump say this isn't really a trade war that he's launched against Canada,
09:33it's a drug war that he's launched because of the illegal drugs pouring into the United
09:37States, he says from Canada.
09:40Yeah.
09:41Fentanyl, less than one percent.
09:43There probably are more drugs going north and guns going north.
09:46By the way, in terms of migrants, I think there are more people going north these days
09:50than south.
09:51This whole trade dispute is a manufactured dispute.
09:56It's made up.
09:57It's make-believe.
09:58We have a manufacturing surplus with Canada, by the way.
10:02We have an auto surplus with Canada.
10:04The only deficit we have with Canada is energy, and we want that energy.
10:09Canadian natural gas hates homes in Detroit.
10:12We have been an energy self-sufficient wolf since the first term of Barack Obama.
10:19Mr. Trump says we have an energy emergency.
10:21No, he may cause one.
10:23No, we're energy self-sufficient.
10:25It's growing.
10:28Everything we do with Canada has been a positive relationship.
10:31We're going to cut the ribbon on a new modern bridge in Detroit, the Gordie Howe International
10:36Bridge next fall.
10:38That is going to be a celebration of our relationship, both families and tourism, agriculture, autos,
10:46manufacturing.
10:47We have an integrated economy with Canada, and we also have an integrated cultural relationship
10:51as well.
10:52People don't necessarily appreciate, including people who live on the border with Canada,
10:56how much electrical power, for example, emerges from Canada into the United States and helps
11:02Americans, in Michigan, in New York, and other states as well.
11:06Even New England, by the way, Quebec, could shut down New England.
11:11What we have here is Canada, again, taking revenge on Trump.
11:14They've been doing it all week, and it's going to continue.
11:16Now, look, I've got to be honest, to some degree.
11:20We're not doing enough in Canada, which is a sign that it could get worse for Trump.
11:25Because the liberals under Carney have been giving tax cuts to billionaires in Canada.
11:31They've cut a scheduled tax that was coming under Justin Trudeau, and it was a good move.
11:38A lot of the billionaire bootlickers in Canada that love Trump, the billionaires in Canada,
11:43they love Trump.
11:44It's got a big tax cut.
11:46But it's a sign that it could get worse for Trump if Canada has only pulled a small amount
11:52of the shots.
11:54Right now, we need to see more.
11:56The NDP in Canada, the party most stridently opposed to Trump, has been calling for Trump
12:05to be banned from Canada.
12:07I know he's already kind of technically banned, because he's a felon, and felons can't come
12:10to Canada without special permission.
12:13You can come, but you usually have to write the government in advance and say, look, I'm
12:17a felon, but can I please get special permission to enter?
12:21Maybe my felony was 40 years ago, and I'm a better person, and I haven't had any crime
12:25since.
12:26The government might give you special permission, but if you show up at the border with a felony
12:30on your record, they're going to send your ass back.
12:33That's what they should do to Donald.
12:35It looks like they're going to let him in.
12:37But the point, guys, is Canadians are pissed, and they are pissed as conservatives, even
12:44liberals, socialists, we're all angry.
12:49And if anything, what Canadian people understand this in the States, because Trump is a maniac,
12:55people are telling him to calm down.
12:57But in Canada, because our government was the one attacked, we didn't start this, Canadians
13:03are demanding for our government to get angrier and more aggressive against Trump.
13:10Canadians are not going to back down, guys, and they're going to win this fight.