Elizabeth May delivers an over 9-minute tirade, labeling Donald Trump as a bully.
She advises Carney on strategies to succeed in the tariff war, emphasizing the importance of "keeping elbows up." May advocates for the implementation and collection of a digital tax. Additionally, she proposes the creation of 5% yield Canada Savings Bonds, allowing Canadians to buy potash and prevent it from being exported to the U.S. May also references Sarah Palin in a boxing ring, along with many other topics.
Live Reporting by Elizabeth May
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- We have here, of course, communication from President of the United States Donald Trump, who uses social media as his weapon of choice with late-night rants. This one is extremely unusual, being allegedly a letter to our prime minister.- We know that Prime Minister Mark Carney has made every effort to engage in good faith with Donald Trump, I think.
- Mr. Trump doesn't know the meetings of good faith, nor does he understand the concept that once you've signed a treaty with a country and mean something, he really likes signing things.-The letter is almost a parody of abuse of power. "It is a great honour," he starts. "A great honour. We'll send you this letter, which is full of threats and lies." Well, thank you very much, Mister Trump, as the leader of the Green Party of Canada, as a member of Parliament, and as a Canadian who was outraged by the continualthe abuse and aggression we were receiving from up a bit, what remains a great neighbour, and aware that hours
- I sometimes feel like Sarah Palin. I wake up and think of it as I can see the United States out my window. I see Mount Baker in Washington State to the east.- and I think all of us as Canadians understand that our disputes are not with the people of the United States of America but with the current administration, and the decisions of that administration are a threat.-not just to the North American economy but indeed to the global sense of international law and, I understood, order of the world to a world trading system, two decades of work in establishing something like geopolitical security
- That's been thrown out the window, so why I asked you here this morning is what I would love to see our prime minister do in response.- I think there's no question in my mind. I take a lot of everybody who was here for the election. Okay, you can know that the ballot question moved to who can best deal with Trump, and we rallied around the call of "Elbows up.
" I added to that "Arms outstretched" because I do want our neighbours to the south to know that our dispute is not with them as individuals.-us- But we have to do what's required now to protect our economy, and we have to make sure the US knows that we're not going to cower in a corner and hope that someday they'll be nice to us if we give them all our lunch money. We're dealing with a bully, or one might say we're dealing with a pirate, since I'venever seen anything like this in history.nine states itself Let me say I've never seen, there's never been in the history of the United States of America, a president who so abused power as to aggrandize his personal wealth without concern for whether that would be seen as offensive to the sensibilities of people who understand what it is to be an elected official in a democracy.- Radek Nation- So what can we do? There are things we can do, so I've suggested this today to pry Mr. Carney's first step. The digital sales tax was passed by parliament.
We so far have essentially press releases and mentions that we're going to remove it, not collect it. We're collecting it. I would urge that the prime minister make- It's clear the digital sales tax should be collected. It's not merely an opportunistic move because these corporations are based in the United States; they have been enriching themselves.- While robbing us, they have hit different sectors of our economy in ways that have been damaging to the fabric of life in Canada, including through undermining our housing and access to affordable housing through things like Airbnb. Phase 2 undermines the institutions of democracy, particularly in journalism, through things likelike the ability to have classified ads under to gg and craigslist that have replaced the number one source of revenue for most of the newspapers in Canada
- We accepted a lot of what was digital as benign, and it's very clear, and we're not the only country around the world that sees this, that we need to get a hold of this, so I think reversing the earlier decision to appease Trump by ruling the date of the digital services tax parliament hasn't revealed the law. The laws are there; we collectivelydigital services tax It augments as the prodigy budget officers found it gets his billions of dollars a year, but it also maintains coherence and allyship with the other nation-states within the OECD that are doing the same thing. We mustn't cave.
Elbows up, digital sales tax. We also can show- Oh, the United States, we are not powerless.- Trump has said There's nothing in Canada.that the United States needs, so let's take him at his word. Is it hardly a hostile act to say, We're not sending you some of those resources; we'll start with a strategic reserve of potash? It happens that that's one of the Green Party planks that was reviewed by the parliamentary budget office. We know exactly what it costs to do this; we know exactly how it can be set up.and we know that the benefit will be that Canadians will be able to buy bonds to invest in what we're calling not Canada Savings Bonds but Saving Canada Thoughts and get a guaranteed five percent rate of return on your investment, absolutely only available to Canadian individuals, not to bang.- Sir Brokers, and this will be an investment fund that can fire up the potash so the potash producers are not disadvantaged by Trump's ten percent tariff, the existing tariff on potash, but we know that he, in the United States, farmers, particularly that whole group of corn ethanol producers who have- Deep roots in the US Republican Party that represent anothervulnerable fleshy spot in Trump's bullying tactics.
We need to bite deep there so that he feels some pain and decides that it will be a good idea to start actually reducing terrorists in Canada to get some relief from us about whether we're going to lie.- Let them have and sell potash back to the United States. For now, we protect the potters and producers by buying it into a strategic reserve for Canadians, and again, Canadians can help us raise the funds to do that. Again, I stress that this was caused by the parliamentary budget office during the twenty-twenty-five election at the request of the Green.
- Hi, so we're confident that these moves will make sense, that they're doable, that they're strategic, and that they can be done quickly. From what was clear, could use of all a politically programmed lazy day, Kiva, my shit lately, and a man asked him, As yet, Trump has news of only a lazy two days off.a- Part of your whole parliament, he was terrified of commerce. Yeah, do the bush a pint of Monty. Ah, monsieur, just look at it. It's cyclical. It sits in a dilemma for CBC practical use of all easy days. He that Marsha, we have ideas that will work, and we know this. Strategic reserves for natural resources are a way for- Canada is not relying solely on retaliatory tariffs and wants to make it clear if and when the Green Party was with Team Canada on board for every retaliatory tariff, but let's face it, when you're in a ring with a bully and the bully is ten times your size, if your plan is every time they land a punch- We're going to land of Hunchback.- You're not going to win in that ring.- We need to be more strategic and go for the places that really will create some pain in places that Trump will notice, like his Republican base. He is damaging the US economy. How much will MAGA voters notice? But they will notice, particularly in the Republican corn regions, if their economy is- They can't get access to Canadian potash, and Mister Trump may not know it yet, but the United States actually does need our resources. This doesn't advance any wow delays as asked to Canada, and as for the snatcher outcome potash, we'll see some aluminium. Please see the pottery we did was usedon live.-a strategy key song Take it, it's a said don't. Naxal said, Don't know, man, to fail a decision on cancer, so I'm hoping that we can encourage Mr. Carney to look at some of these approaches again. In fact, it's a digital sales tax. I would hope that when voices as diverse as
- Nobel Prize winner and economics professor Joseph Stiglitz tells the candidate, "You made a mistake. Don't back down on the digital sales tax," and our former minister of foreign affairs, Loi, says, "That's where the saying 'Don't back down' comes from."a go for the digital sales tax and the leading experts inunderstanding the connection between the digital media and democracy People like Taylor Oh, and I'm a McGill Centre on Democracy and Media, said the digital sales tax makes sense; we should apply it; we should do it.