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From The New York Times, I'm Michael Balmoro.

This is The Daily.

In recent days, the United States proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and called into question the reliability of any deal.

In a dramatic decision, the Prime Minister of Canada has abruptly cut off negotiations with the U.S.

and delivered a message to President Trump that virtually no other world leader before him has dared to convey.

That he'd rather engage in a prolonged and ugly trade war than submit to an unfair trade deal with this White House.

In short, they asked too much and they offered too little.

Today, my colleague, Canada Bureau Chief Matina Steves-Gridnev,

on the American demands that led to the breaking point and Canada's plan to withstand economic warfare with no end in sight.

Why does it feel like today Mark Carney is going to war?

Because we're attacked.

You're at war when you get attacked.

It's Tuesday, August 25th.

Matina, welcome back.

Always a pleasure.

So good to be back, Michael.

So I want to disclose something, which is that I have a cold, and as a result, I sound very gravelly.

And just for listeners who are public health-minded, I'm going to acknowledge that you and I are not in the same room.

You are in Canada.

That is correct.

I am in Toronto.

You're in New York.

You are so safe.

I am so safe.

I am sorry that you have a cold, and I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you.

But no one was infected in the making of this daily episode.

No one in Canada, certainly.

Nobody in Canada.

You have enough problems as it is.

So, Matina, it feels like Canada, the country you cover for The Times, has officially had enough.

They are done with the United States.

Yeah, I think that's a really good way of putting it.

I think both the Canadian government and, frankly, the majority of Canadians are really done with the Trump administration.

And that's why, over the past few days, you may have heard the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, come out and say,

we're done with talking, we're walking away, we're now in a trade war with the United States.

Right.

It had all the earmarks of divorce.

Sure feels that way.

Maybe if we're going to be optimistic, let's say trial separation.

But in all seriousness, I've been really closely following President Trump's commercial policy, economic policy with other countries,

his fights with allies, and how so many of America's allies have fallen into line for him.

And Mark Carney has decided to do something totally different.

He's taking a massive bet, but he's just decided to walk away from President Trump

and take the risk of enduring President Trump's economic and political targeting

because he feels that President Trump is not going to make a good and fair and lasting deal with him.

The pain and the terms are not worth it, and he's prepared to risk the country's economy on it.

I mean, if you had to summarize the bet that Prime Minister Carney is taking here, how would you describe it?

I think Mark Carney is betting that his policies to make Canada stronger at home

and build Canada's relationships with other countries in Asia and in Europe

and to grow its economy and trade relationships are enough to keep Canada afloat and keep Canada growing,

even as he turns his back on the United States.

Well, just explain how Carney gets to the point where he's willing to risk the entire Canadian economy and,

as you say, do something that no other world leader really has been willing to do, which is to stand up to President Trump and say,

basically, go fly a kite.

I'm just not even going to participate in this game.

Because I think most people have lost track of exactly how it is in this very bumpy trade relationship.

We got to this very public and potentially catastrophic breaking point.

I mean, as soon as President Trump comes back into office, I'm sure you'll remember because it wasn't really that long ago was like 18 months ago.

He starts this policy of tariffs against basically every country under the sun, including, maybe you'll remember this,

this island that is only inhabited by penguins.

I remember it from you.

And the Trump administration has been clear that ideologically they're doing this

because they believe this is the way to bring jobs and revenues back home,

especially in key industries like the auto industry or the steel industry that they feel globalization has weakened.

And Canada is very directly targeted, but quickly you see many countries,

smaller, bigger, traditional allies, let's say Britain, the European Union, countries in Asia,

come one after the other and make concessions in exchange for small improvements to their tariff regimes, like mini deals.

But Canada holds out under Carney.

And Carney sort of speaks about that in a way that's much bigger than the economy.

And he develops a sort of doctrine, if you will, especially through this fetid speech he gave in Davos in January this year.

For decades, an American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system,

collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

This bargain no longer works.

Where he sort of frames this as a matter of survival

in an era where Trump is just changing what America does in the world.

And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions, that they must develop greater strategic autonomy.

And he says for our country to survive to survive and for your countries to survive, all those countries that have long depended on the United States,

we need to band together and we need to look out for ourselves outside the US.

Let me be direct.

We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

And he says, nostalgia is not a policy.

It's over.

We all need to adapt to this new reality.

And Carney just holds out.

And among America's major allies, he holds out by far the longest.

And just remind us what holding out against a pretty well-known vindictive President Trump

when it comes to trade wars means for Canada over these past 18 months.

So for sure, Canada's been hurting over the last 18 months.

President Trump has taken hefty tariffs against really core Canadian industries, steel, aluminum, softwood, lumber, autos.

And Canada is almost in recession, despite huge efforts to keep it growing and to keep the economy going.

But Carney's decided

that he's going to stick to a policy of retaliatory tariffs the only country to do this other than China.

And he decides at certain points to roll those back a little bit.

But overall, Canada keeps those policies in place.

And one thing that really distinguishes Carney's approach to

that of other countries is that he's not going to the White House seeking marginal improvements on specific tariffs.

Instead, he's holding out for a big discussion on the whole thing and improving everything in their relationship.

He definitely doesn't want to be seen to be begging for minor concessions.

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He thinks it's extremely injurious for the Canadian economy.

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It's bad for the Canadian psychology.

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And it's bad for him personally to be seen going back to the White House cap and hat, like so many other leaders have.

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And so he tries to pick the right moment to approach the White House and say, all right, this is a good time.

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Why don't we sit down and really make a better deal for both our countries?

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Concessions on both sides and something we can both go home and feel good about.

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And that moment, the right moment, according to Carney, comes just a few weeks ago toward the end of July,

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when Trump threatens more tariffs on Canada, tariffs on several slightly odd Canadian goods like cheese,

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hockey sticks, feathers were on that list.

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A bit weird.

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Feathers?

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Yes.

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Like for pillows?

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Oh, hats?

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I don't know.

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But he finds that that moment is a good opening to sit down

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and the Canadians go to the US side and say, okay, let's talk.

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Let's see if we can make a deal.

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But not a little deal that just, you know, scraps those tariffs you're threatening us with.

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A real deal that improves the general terms of our relationship in a lasting way.

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And how do those talks go?

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I mean, at first, it seems like they go really well.

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The U.S side is open.

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President Trump, our sources tell us, tells his officials, all right, go see if you can cut an agreement with the Canadians.

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And a Canadian delegation goes to Washington and they try to work out solutions to all their disputes and roll back tariffs.

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And the Canadian side offers lots of concessions.

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Such as?

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For example, the Trump administration had been very upset that Canadian provinces,

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most of the country really, had pulled U.S liquor off of the shelves and it was banned from sale.

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You couldn't get a California white in Canada, really, Michael, a tragedy.

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How could you even make it through the day?

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I know, right?

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And this is not a ton of money.

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It's like a $1 billion industry or so for Canada to import this stuff.

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But it's a big deal because it's a real gesture of resistance.

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And the Trump administration just wants that policy revoked.

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And so the Canadians are like, okay, for the right trade deal, we will do that.

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They also want to change the quotas of American cheese that Canadians allow into the Canadian market.

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Canada has quite a protectionist system for its dairy products.

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And so the Canadians are like, okay, let's talk about it.

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This is something we may be able to work things out on.

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And so I think there's a lot of goodwill there.

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Both sides told us that talks were happening in good faith despite the general negative atmosphere.

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And they make progress.

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So when do things go so sideways?

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Really, last week.

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And as ever, it all kind of falls apart in the last moment.

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It really felt at the beginning of last week that things were close to a positive outcome.

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I mean, it got so far down the line that President Trump sort of posted that there was a deal, all caps, exclamation mark.

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And the Canadians were a bit more circumspect, but they were also positive.

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Lots of progress has been made.

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The work continues.

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And Trump gave them an extension to keep talking for three

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extra days all the way to midnight Friday just to seal that deal.

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And our sources, together with Anna Swanson, our colleague who covers trade, have given us a really detailed,

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granular look into what happened in those 48 hours up until the very last minute where everything kind of fell apart.

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And what's really fascinating is that if you put the Canadian account

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and the U.S account from the officials we spoke to side by side, they're not really in disagreement.

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But fundamentally, the Americans thought that what they had put on the table for Canada was a really good deal, the best deal in the world.

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They had made lots of concessions.

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But for the Canadians, it just simply wasn't good enough.

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And the reason for that were a number of really fundamental issues on which Canada just was not prepared to compromise on.

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Like what?

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Let me give you a few examples.

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One really important element

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that came in quite late in the game was an American

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insistence on having a say on the terms of Canada's trade agreements with other countries.

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The US basically wanted Canada to follow the exact tariff policy

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that it would take out on other countries with its own partners.

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To make that more concrete for you, Canada is working on a trade deal with Brazil.

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And if the Trump administration in a few months wanted to put on new tariffs on Brazilian steel, Canada would be committed to doing the exact same thing.

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That seems very unusual in the sense that it suddenly seems like the U.S is asking Canada, and I'm being a little facetious here,

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but to basically operate as a 51st state to force U.S trade policy on another country is to take

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that country's ability to negotiate trade deals away.

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And certainly that is how the Canadian side saw it.

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They saw it as an encroachment into their sovereignty,

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particularly at the time where they're trying to make trade deals with other countries to help their economy because their closest ally, the U.S., has slapped tariffs on them.

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Take it away from them.

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And so they find that unacceptable.

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Another really specific issue that came up that we discussed with our sources was

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that the United States wanted Canada to remove certain laws that require U.S streaming companies operating in Canada to favor Canadian content.

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Shows that are made in Canada, including shows that are in the French language and made in Quebec.

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Now, this is just the holy grail of Canadian politics, the protection and promotion of the French language,

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because it is the language spoken in Quebec and in other provinces.

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And it's just a foundational thing in the bilingual of Canada.

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Very, very important.

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The concession that was being asked would sort of translate, for example, in, let's say,

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Netflix surfacing a Quebecois show higher up on your screen

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if you were based in Canada when you went online to watch a show.

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Which makes a certain amount of sense.

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It's also what the U.S streamers do in the European Union, where they sort of tailor the offering promoted for the local market.

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So the Americans were saying to the Canadians,

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we don't want any streaming service to show that kind of preference for French language, Canadian content.

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In streaming, we want you to operate, again, more like the U.S.

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They didn't say anything about the French language.

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They just said, we think this is a matter of free speech

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and no one should be telling our streamers what they put where and in what order.

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Interesting.

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Right?

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But for the Canadians, this was vital.

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And if nothing else, I think both sides kind of agree that the U.S just didn't have a lot of regard,

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didn't have a lot of time for that kind of sensitivity, which was clearly so, so important to the Canadian side.

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And one of the real points of contention that we reported on exclusively, and it hasn't been reported previously in these talks,

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was that the United States wanted Canada to cancel a program

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that he had put in place to help its industries suffering from U.S tariffs called Buy Canadian,

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which basically told Canadian government entities to prioritize buying Canadian products for public sector projects like,

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you know, Buy Canadian Steel to build this bridge which actually is a program that exists in many countries, including the United States.

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And the U.S asked Canada to cancel this program without offering to remove the tariffs

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that the program was supposed to be sort of countering at home.

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And I think that really irked Canadians.

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And the math was not adding up for the Canadian side.

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They were constantly running the numbers on the proposed improved U.S tariffs on some of their goods.

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I'm talking steel, aluminum, autos.

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And they kept going back and saying, well, you have to improve this because it doesn't matter if you cut your tariffs on SUVs to 15 percent.

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Because under this regime, we're soon not going to have an industry making SUVs because it's not enough.

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So Canadians determined that this deal was still going to cost them key industries,

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like their automaking industry, and therefore was not tolerable.

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That's right.

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I think they could see that perhaps there would be some relief in the short run, but still not enough to make those industries viable.

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And ultimately, too, there was something that really highlighted the lack of trust underpinning these talks.

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And that was that the Canadian side repeatedly asked for some assurances that the new tariffs wouldn't be revised,

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that basically that the U.S would stick to its agreement.

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And officials told us that at no point did the U.S make any such commitment.

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In fact, they insisted that they retain all the power to change their tariff policy,

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even on goods covered by this agreement against Canada, at will.

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So, objectively speaking, I'm not a trade expert, but I'm listening to you carefully.

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This is not sounding like a good deal for Canada.

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It is kind of impinging on its ability to do trade deals on its sovereignty.

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It's potentially putting key industries out of business.

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And it is implying, if not explicitly stating, that it could all be torn up by President Trump at any given moment and made worse.

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I think that's a fair summary, and I think that's definitely how the Canadians see it.

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The American negotiators would say, that's still the best deal we're offering anyone right now, so you should take it.

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And you should say thank you.

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But by quarter to 11 Friday, Mark Carney has decided that he's not going to go for it.

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And we find out that he's walked away.

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Good morning, everyone.

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Bonjour tout le monde.

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And the next morning, he addresses the Canadian public in this sort of quietly seething, but really, really resolved press conference.

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For over a year, Canada has worked intensively

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and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal.

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We've been pragmatic, patient and persistent.

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And he says, we tried, but I had to walk away from a bad deal.

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We were not prepared to compromise Canada's sovereignty or to undermine our key industries.

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And he says, we've been attacked and we're going to retaliate.

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We're going to take out more counter tariffs against the United States.

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The gap between partnership and competitor, unfortunately, has remained too wide in recent days.

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We cannot accept what they've offered, and we will not give what they've asked.

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So, he basically puts the country on a war footing.

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We'll be right back.

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And Tina, what exactly is Prime Minister Carney's plan for what is now looking like a no-holds-bar,

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very prolonged potentially trade war against the U.S.?

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And how does he ever see it working out well for Canada?

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You earlier started to hint a little bit at his strategy,

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but just talk us through the details of what you call the bet that he is attempting here.

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Well, I think, Michael, he's going to try and do two things.

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The one is really focus at the economy at home, trying to protect those hurting from those tariffs and build up the economy.

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And the other is focus in a laser sharp way on ways in

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which Canada can inflict pain on politically important places in the American economy through the counter tariffs that he's taking out.

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Okay, let's talk about those one by one, starting with how he can protect Canada's economy

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and Canadians from what will be the probably outsized impacts within Canada of ratcheting up a trade war.

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Yeah, so he's already said there's going to be pain.

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He's under no illusions that these tariffs and counter tariffs are going to hurt Canadians.

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In fact, he said so explicitly in his address on Saturday, but he also said we're going to do whatever it takes to protect you.

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And so he's planning public spending to support the industries and the workers that are going to be hurting.

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He's not detailed what that's going to look like.

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I'm speculating here, but it could be bailouts or injections of cash.

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In some of these businesses, it could look like employment security schemes.

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It could look like improved borrowing terms or tax relief.

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But he has said he's going to be there

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and he's going to put the country's budget behind those pain points in the Canadian economy economy.

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That's really interesting because that does sound like war footing.

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The economy will be oriented, it sounds like, around buttressing industry, borrowing potentially large sums of money to help something like the auto industry.

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I mean, we've seen bailouts in the US.

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They're very expensive, but they can work.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And especially in crisis moments like this.

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And not to carry on too far with the war metaphor,

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but he will also continue looking for allies outside the United States to support the Canadian economy.

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Just in a few weeks' time, in mid-September, he's organizing a massive investment conference.

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I'm talking the biggest funds, the biggest banks, the biggest sovereign funds in the world, coming to Toronto to find ways to invest into the Canadian economy.

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Prime Minister Carney is continuing his travel globally to cut new trade deals.

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I think he's due in Brazil soon.

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He's talking with Mercosur, the Latin American trading bloc.

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And that doesn't necessarily mean these entities would be taking a position against the United States,

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but they would be supporting new sources of revenue and investment for the Canadian economy.

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How supportive, based on your reporting, are Canadians of Carney's approach to this, the decision to walk away from these talks

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and their confidence in his ability to protect them from the fallout of doing that?

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I mean, extremely supportive.

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Right now in Canada, Mr. Carney basically walks on water.

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A poll released on Sunday by Angus Reid, a nonpartisan independent Canadian public opinion company,

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shows that 76% of Canadians support the prime minister's decision to walk away from the negotiating table.

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That's huge.

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That is many, many more Canadians than voted for him, right?

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So this isn't a partisan issue anymore.

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Right.

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76% of a country basically never agrees on anything anymore.

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Absolutely.

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But it's worth saying it will only go downhill from here, right?

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In the same poll, actually, Canadians expressed a lot of concern about their livelihoods, about the economy, about the industry,

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and about the country's continued safety when it's in such an intense antagonism with the United States.

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And so I think as that pain starts to bite, that support is going to start coming down.

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And the prime minister is aware

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that there's a window in time for him to make things better

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and really demonstrate to the Canadian public that he knows what he's doing.

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I want to return to what you described earlier as Carney's

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plans to use retaliatory trade tactics to target politically sensitive areas in the U.S.

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I'm guessing that Carney knows well that this is a midterm election year in the U.S.

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He understands how that works.

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What might that retaliation look like?

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And what is he hoping it leads to in the U.S.?

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Right.

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I think the prime minister has been really careful.

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He doesn't want to antagonize the American public.

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He believes the American public can be an ally for Canada in this situation.

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Because most Americans don't really understand why Trump is targeting Canada.

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But he does believe

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that he has a window of opportunity to take out retaliatory tariffs against the United States focused on areas,

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mostly in red states and industries, that are going to then go to President Trump and ask him to stop it with Canada.

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And cry uncle and say, do whatever it takes to stop this.

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What would be an example of the kind of retaliatory action

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that Carney could take that would lead to that kind of conversation with Trump in theory?

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I'll give you an example of something we've already spoken about today, which is the ban of the sale of U.S alcohol products in Canada.

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We know that this has been very, very painful, for example, you know, for bourbon distillers in Kentucky.

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So we know

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that those industries have been in the administration's ear asking for the fight to be resolved

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and for the sale of their goods in Canada to be restored.

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And I think that's what Carney's hoping multiplied.

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And the Canadian officials are doing their homework.

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Where are industries based that are going to hurt Trump?

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So, for example, the prime minister mentioned a number of other categories of products, including household products that we know are predominantly made in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky.

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So that's really what they're looking for.

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They're looking for specific categories of products that are going to inflict pain in specific Republican pockets of support.

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It feels, Matina, like the wager Carney is making is grounded in a deeper truth.

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Because while Canadians overwhelmingly support Carney pulling out of these trade talks based on that poll you just mentioned, polling here in the U.S shows

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that a clear majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's trade war against Canada and more broadly of his entire

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approach to trade in the second term.

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So Carney's logic would seem to be that he can rally Canadians to make the sacrifices required to get through this,

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and they will support him because they think it's righteous.

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And if he can keep wounding President Trump politically, where it matters in the U.S., there's not going to be as much support for his agenda.

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But where that would seem to get tricky really fast is that it's probably hard to do that without antagonizing Americans, which you said was Carney's goal.

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How can you hurt American industry without hurting the Americans who work in those industries?

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Yeah, for sure.

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And I don't think that Mark Carney is motivated to not hurt Republicans.

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He's acknowledged that these counter tariffs are going to hurt Americans as well as Canadians.

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He said we are taking these measures reluctantly.

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We didn't start this.

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He keeps saying this.

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This isn't our war.

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We got attacked, but we got to fight.

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And so I think in that context, he wants to take that fight to the people who voted for Trump.

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And there are big, big tools he could use to inflict pain on the U.S that he's not going to use.

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He has said he's not going to use, even though he's under pressure to do so.

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The most important example of that is Canadian exports of energy.

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Canada is the single biggest source of imports for energy in the United States.

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There is an absolute dependence on these products.

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But imposing tariffs or restrictions on those exports to the U.S would hurt all Americans in some ways,

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feed into this spiral of cost of living crisis in the United States because of the oil crisis in the Middle East.

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And Carney doesn't want to do that because he doesn't want to turn the whole American public against him, particularly at a moment where a lot of Americans, I think, think he's doing the right thing.

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I'm just trying to understand what Carney's endgame is.

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If he's successful in punishing industries in Republican states,

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and if he's successful in winning American voters to his side, where does

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that ultimately get him in a punishing trade war led by

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a president who often is unmoved by appeals from either industry or consumers?

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I think two things.

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I think it helps him fund some of the measures back home

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because those tariffs are going to bring in revenues for the Canadian budget.

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But I also think it creates an atmosphere around the cause of Canada in the United States.

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And he stays firm.

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He stays resolved.

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We know President Trump may be angry with him right now, but appreciates a strong guy across him at the table.

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And he tries to take that to President Trump at a different moment in the future.

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But there is no doubt that Carney's playing the long game here.

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If he was playing the short game, he would have taken the deal on the table on Friday.

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Well, I'm glad you're thinking about Carney because that's where I want to end the conversation.

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We spend so much time on the show analyzing President Trump's behavior in these kinds of conflicts.

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And I'm glad that we're focused on Carney

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because that's how I want to end this conversation with what you think you and frankly,

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all of Canada is learning about Mark Carney from the way that he's handled this conflict.

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And it occurs to me that when he gave that speech in Davos many months ago,

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he was applauded by world leaders for declaring a kind of independence from the U.S.

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But those world leaders, basically none of them replicated his actual conduct of standing up to the U.S.

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He's quite alone in doing that and in having the backbone or the delusions, depending on which side you're on, that this will work out.

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So what would you say you're taking from how he's handled this?

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Yeah, I mean, I think it's important to remind people, Mark Carney was not a retail politician until a year and a half ago, right?

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He's a kind of career economist.

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So when he came to Canada age 60, he came home to do this.

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And I think he launched a really confident alternative vision for Canada.

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A Canada that would be independent of the United States.

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It would export all this incredible resources that it has.

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And it would not be that kind of stereotypical kind of like little cousin to the U.S meek and just polite.

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And it's a generational shift. But it's a gamble.

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if it takes too long to implement and if it just isn't enough to sustain the Canadian economy, it will be a very, very serious problem.

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On the other hand, though, if it does work and if Canada is able to stand on its own two feet in a much more substantial way,

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and particularly by forging these relationships with other countries, what a powerful thing that will be too.

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And what an incredible sort of thing for the rest of the world to look at, it will mean that he took that risk and it paid off.

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But that is a very long-term project and the trade war is happening today.

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What you're describing sounds not just like an economic project, but a project to redefine the entire Canadian psyche.

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Yeah, I think he's doing nation building and identity building in Canada

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and he's asking Canadians to see the country the way he sees it.

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And so I think it is fascinating.

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It's not something we see a lot in the West.

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We don't see that happen.

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But it also right now means standing up to the superpower next door.

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And I think that's really, really hard.

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Well, Matina, thank you very much.

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Appreciate it.

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Thank you, Michael.

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On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward for now, with plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections.

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But it cautioned that the order was preliminary, and not a final decision on whether Trump's actions on mail-in ballots will be lawful.

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The court's three liberal justices dissented on the emergency ruling, with one of them warning that the decision would inject,

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quote, chaos and uncertainty into the midterm elections.

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And the Trump administration launched what it said was its most wide-ranging assault yet on Iran's economy,

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as it replaces military attacks, which paused nearly a month ago, with financial attacks.

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In the Second World War,

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D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions,

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including those in third countries.

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Today in that same spirit,

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we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said that the effort would begin with new sanctions against 60 entities

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that enable Iran to obtain weapons and sell oil, and suggested that the ultimate aim was the collapse of the Iranian government.

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To the ordinary soldiers supporting this regime, as more and more of your paychecks stop or are supposedly just delayed,

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ask whether your commanders are leading your country to triumph or to ruin.

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And recall that the Berlin Wall fell when ordinary soldiers decided not to shoot at their own people.

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But it's unclear how much impact the new policies will have.

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Previous rounds of sanctions have already crippled much of Iran's economy,

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and yet the government there has repeatedly found ways to finance its military.

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Today's episode was produced by Carlos Prieto, Diana Nguyen, and Shannon Lin.

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It was edited by Devin Taylor and Liz O.

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Balin.

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It contains music by Rohan Emisto, Pat McCusker, and Dan Powell.

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And was engineered by Chris Wood.

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Our theme music is by Wonderly.

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That's it for The Daily.

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I'm Michael Barbaro.

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See you tomorrow.

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情境再现：加拿大与美国的贸易博弈对话

这段视频呈现了《纽约时报》记者与加拿大 bureau 负责人的对话，围绕加拿大总理突然终止与美国贸易谈判展开。对话中涉及外交辞令、经济政策讨论等真实场景，是英语口语练习的鲜活素材。通过这类真实对话，学习者能直观感受英语在国际事务中的应用，提升实际交流能力，这也是看视频学英语的优势所在。

实用表达与搭配

cut off negotiations：终止谈判。如对话中“加拿大总理突然 cut off negotiations with the U.S.”，生动体现外交决策的果断。
trade war：贸易战。这一高频词汇在国际新闻中常见，搭配“engage in a prolonged trade war”表示“陷入长期贸易战”。
fall into line：妥协、顺从。文中提到“美国盟友纷纷 fall into line”，形象描述外交中的被迫妥协。
take a massive bet：下大赌注。用于描述冒险决策，如“加拿大总理 take a massive bet 选择对抗”。
endure economic targeting：承受经济打击。体现应对贸易压力的语境，是外交与经济报道中的常用搭配。

你的影子跟读挑战

影子跟读（英语影子跟读）是提升英语发音和流畅度的高效方法。现在就打开视频，选取对话中“Mark Carney has decided to do something totally different... prepared to risk the country's economy on it”这一段（约30秒），进行以下练习：
1. 先听3遍，注意说话人的语调、重音和停顿；
2. 逐句跟读，尽量同步开口，模仿发音和节奏；
3. 录音对比，检查是否跟上语速，发音是否准确。
坚持每天10分钟，利用专业的shadowing site资源，结合看视频学英语的方式，你的英语口语会显著进步。记住，影子跟读的关键是“即时模仿”，通过重复训练，让口腔肌肉适应英语发音习惯，逐步提升英语发音的标准度和流畅性。

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	has dared · I've been · have fallen
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	was infected · is only inhabited · be seen
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	something, which is · sensitivity, which was · today, which is

什么是跟读法？

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。

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你的影子跟读挑战

视频中的语法

什么是跟读法？