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WHAT GOOD LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE!
Canada Today: Carney SHUTS DOWN Reporters in London with Fiery Replies
WHAT GOOD LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE!
Canada Today: Carney SHUTS DOWN Reporters in London with Fiery Replies
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bJ-nWLOosw
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
- 0:00
- Prime Minister Mark Carney has just
- faced one of the toughest press
- conferences of his career and he didn't
- back down in London, UK, with reporters
- pressing him on everything from Donald
- Trump's tariff threats to Canada's role
- in Ukraine and even the Middle East.
- Carney came out swinging. This wasn't
- routine diplomacy. This was Carney's
- message to the world that Canada is done
- playing defense, that we're no longer
- waiting on Washington and that Canada
- will set its own course. And it started
- with one of the most dramatic moments of
- the entire press conference. When a
- reporter accused him of jetting around
- the world but achieving nothing, Carney
- delivered a blunt and fiery rebuttal.
- Good morning, Prime Minister. Jeremy,
- CTV News. Uh, conservatives say you are
- jetting around but getting nothing done.
- Uh, you've met with uh, numerous leaders
- 1:00
- while you've been here, but you're not
- signing a new deal or making, you know,
- announcing a new partnership. What have
- you achieved uh, tangibly for Canadians
- during this trip?
- Yeah, look, uh, there's a couple things,
- Jeremy. Um, one is that, and I would
- look at what we've done over the course
- of the last 10 days in Mexico, in New
- York, in Ottawa, in London. um major
- trade deal with uh the fourth largest uh
- population uh economy in the world. Uh
- Indonesia, a country that's on track to
- be the fifth largest economy in the
- world over the next two decades. The
- first major trade deal for that country
- with Canada. that's comprehensive signed
- a deepening of the partnership with
- Mexico very specific set of uh
- objectives objectives that are going to
- be uh and and uh partnerships that are
- going to be tracked and built on over
- the course of next 3 6 n months
- consistent with the review of KUSMA with
- the United States. uh crucial.
- 2:03
- Prime Minister Starmer and I uh agreed a
- series of economic and security measures
- uh back in June. This meeting was
- designed to go through progress on those
- measures, make sure we're on track on
- everything from digital to agriculture
- um and that the defense cooperation and
- security cooperation uh arrangements are
- lining up. also to coordinate strategies
- uh on Ukraine, on the Middle East, the
- meetings in Europe or sorry in New York
- and here uh and Ottawa for that matter
- with the past,
- current and future presidents of the
- European Union are necessary to trans
- help translate the agreements in June
- with the European Union, the framework
- agreements for opening up further market
- access in Europe including in digital
- and those defense partnerships which are
- crucial for driving our economy forward.
- 3:02
- Um that's to make sure that those
- translate agreements translate into the
- action and the and the detail there.
- That exchange set the tone. Carney made
- it clear that he wasn't going to let
- critics dismiss Canada's global role.
- But the real flash point came later when
- the discussion turned to Donald Trump's
- new tariff threats. This was the moment
- everyone was waiting for. Would Carney
- cave to US pressure or would he stand
- his ground? His answer left no doubt.
- Prime Minister Katherryn Cullen, host of
- CBC's The House. Uh, we may be in
- London, but I've got a question about
- the United States. Sir, it's
- unescapable. Why didn't you communicate
- to Canadians that you were fully
- dropping non- sectoral retaliatory
- tariffs? So, not just KMA compliant
- goods, but non-CMA compliant goods.
- Also, if you have any thoughts about how
- Donald Trump's latest threats for
- tariffs on furniture and pharmaceuticals
- uh are likely to affect Canada.
- Uh I mean the first question is a
- rounding error. The KUSMA compliant. No,
- 4:01
- come on. The KSMA compliant is uh for
- example for Canada it's more than 97% is
- KUSMA compliant. It's it's effectively
- the same thing. Uh it's just more
- straightforward. We did it that way. it
- the classes of goods. Uh there are
- classes of goods where we did keep uh
- retaliatory tariffs on uh related to uh
- 232 uh tariffs for example on uh on
- steel um uh and aspects of autos. Uh we
- are one of very few countries that have
- uh still have retaliatory tariffs on uh
- with the US because in those areas we
- are engaged in negotiations. First point
- uh with respect to the announcements
- well form of announcements in the last
- 24 hours uh as you as you know but just
- to make clear we haven't seen any of the
- details of those announcements. There's
- no executive order there's no formality
- 5:00
- yet around those announcements. Um so
- and so I hesitate to be too
- conclusive uh about what I say. Um I I
- would I would note on pharmaceuticals
- that um the vast vast majority the the
- what what the announcement suggested the
- true social post suggested was with
- respect to patented pharmaceuticals. Um
- the vast majority of Canadian
- pharmaceutical exports to United States
- are generic pharmaceuticals. So on the
- face of it would not be affected by
- this. In addition, there was a
- distinction between companies that
- are building or plan to build um uh
- plants in the United States and many of
- the producers in Canada have operations
- in the United States. The global
- companies, they have activities. Uh so
- in both of those respects, the actual
- application of that pharmaceutical
- tariff, which admittedly is very high at
- 100%,
- could be could be modest. After
- 6:02
- addressing Trump and trade, Carney
- pivoted to the bigger picture. Canada's
- place in a world on fire. On Ukraine, he
- underscored Canada's frontline role in
- training soldiers, reminding the world
- that Canada isn't just an observer. It's
- a leader. On trade, he pointed to deals
- with the European Union, Mexico, and
- Indonesia.
- proof that Canada is diversifying and
- creating new corridors of growth.
- Through it all, the message was
- unmistakable.
- Canada is no longer a bystander in
- global affairs. We are taking the hits,
- shaping the debates, and standing tall
- in the face of uncertainty.
- Now, the world is undergoing a number of
- fundamental shifts that are challenging
- all of those premises. New technologies
- have brought distant threats to our
- doorstep.
- Power has become multipolar.
- 7:00
- Authoritarianism
- is resurgent. And consensus within many
- democracies has fractured.
- This is not a slow transition. It's a
- rupture.
- And the mission of our new government is
- to ensure that Canada will not just be
- able to endure the impact of these
- shifts, but to prosper through them. In
- the first four months, we cut taxes on
- incomes, incomes for more than 22
- million Canadians. We cut taxes on
- capital gains. We removed all federal
- barriers to interprovincial trade in a
- move towards one Canadian economy. We
- passed landmark legislation to fasttrack
- major projects in energy, artificial
- intelligence, critical minerals, and
- trade infrastructure to new markets.
- We've launched Build Canada Homes to
- help double the pace of home building,
- building at a pace not seen in Canada
- since the end of the Second World War.
- This week, we launched the second phase
- 8:02
- of those negotiations.
- Last week in Mexico, I worked with
- President Shinbomb to launch a new
- Canada Mexico action plan to build fresh
- economic opportunities for our workers
- and businesses.
- Earlier this week, the president of
- Indonesia and I announced Canada's first
- ever bilateral trade deal with an AAN
- country, reducing or eliminating tariffs
- on 95% of current Canadian exports to
- Indonesia.
- Yesterday I met with the prime ministers
- of the United Kingdom of Australia, of
- Spain and Iceland. We discussed
- deepening defense cooperation to enhance
- our collective security.
- 9:01
- Morning, Prime Minister Vanovich, CBC
- News. How has US President Donald
- Trump's apparent backing of a Ukraine
- victory changed the calculus of the
- coalition of the willing, if at all? And
- specifically, what I'd like to know is
- whether this will make the coalition
- bolder, such as deploying trainers
- without a ceasefire, is that in the
- cards?
- The last part of your question, sorry,
- the deploying
- trainers without a ceasefire.
- Well, okay. So let me answer the last
- part and then to the broader um Canada
- is uh is one of the leading trainers of
- um trainers you said yes training
- Ukrainian troops we are one of the
- leading trainers of Ukrainian troops we
- work closely in fact it's something I
- discussed with the prime minister prime
- minister uh we work alongside our uh UK
- colleagues uh in doing that um we will
- continue to do that in a ceasefire not
- your question But in in a ceasefire
- situation, one of the most important
- 10:00
- things will be to scale up that activity
- even more because the first line of
- defense will be a reinforced Ukrainian
- uh army regardless of the nature of uh
- of the ceasefire or any any peace
- agreement. Uh so that's the first point.
- The second to go to your broader uh
- question uh we very much welcome uh
- President Trump's position as we have
- welcomed his engagement from the start
- in this conflict. Uh he's played uh as
- usual a decisive role in uh in shaping
- uh potential outcomes to the concept. We
- have been clear from the start as a
- member of the coalition of the willing.
- Well, Canada will do our bit that
- ultimately some form of US backs stop to
- any security guarantee of Ukraine uh
- that is provided by the coalition of the
- willing uh will be will be necessary.
- This London press conference wasn't just
- about answering reporters. It was about
- sending a message to allies,
- 11:01
- adversaries, and Canadians at home.
- Canada won't be pushed around. Carney's
- words were fiery, sometimes
- confrontational,
- but they revealed the heart of his
- strategy. Build at home, diversify
- abroad, and never again allow Canada's
- prosperity to depend on decisions made
- in Washington. The old world order is
- over. A new one is emerging, and Carney
- is determined to put Canada at the
- center of it. This is Canada Today.
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