Pierre Poilievre: The Economy Is About to Collapse! America Is Making a Huge Mistake!

Trump threw the election and then

thereafter said that

>> Canada should honestly become our 51st

state

>> which is never going to happen.

>> Pierre Polyv, leader of his majesty's

loyal opposition. There's a significant

probability that you could be Canada's

next leader and your team said I can ask

you whatever I want.

>> Okay.

>> So it appears that the United States

have made the decision to kind of go it

alone in the world

>> and that is a very big strategic

mistake. In Canada's case, we have

everything the United States needs if

they treat us like a friend. So, for

example, we have the fourth biggest

supply of oil. And if you look at the

leading five, which of these countries

do you think the United States can most

rely on?

>> And I'm looking at the third vial there

in the row, Iran.

>> Mhm.

>> Has Trump taken the right course of

action?

>> The Iranian government has been

extremely hostile and very dangerous to

Canada. They are the leading world

sponsor of terrorism. And there's no

doubt in my mind that the only reason

that they are enriching uranium is for

the purpose of developing a weapon. And

there's a far greater risk to them

having a nuclear weapon than even North

Korea. So the initial actions were

definitely necessary.

>> But how do you think this plays out? And

if Trump had called you and asked for

your support, would you have given it?

>> Well, let let's put it this way.

>> What is the thing that you're most

concerned about?

>> We're overt taxing our population. We're

punishing initiative. We have 20,000

immigrant doctors who can't work in

medicine. Wages have been destroyed.

Young people can't start a family in

this economy. And that is why the

working class across the Western world

is so angry. The good news is we can

reverse all of that.

>> And the other thing that I actually was

really keen to talk about is this.

>> Wow.

>> I can see the emotion in your face.

>> Yeah.

>> It's still there.

>> Yeah. I hadn't thought about that in a

while.

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Pierre Polyv, leader of his majesty's

loyal opposition. There is so much I

want to talk to you about. I think you

have a truly fascinating formative

childhood. One of which I've I've really

seldom seen on this show, especially

when the person rises so high in their

political ambitions. But I think the

most appropriate thing to start with

because it's just front of mind for me

at the moment is what the hell is going

on in the world?

And I mean that's genuinely I'm I'm up

all night trying to figure out if we're

on the verge of World War II. What's

going on with all these alliances we

used to have? What is going on in the

world?

>> The history of starts really in the

post-war period with a massive increase

in the power and the wealth of the

United States. They unleashed the

capitalist system. They effectively

buried the Soviet Union just by out

hustling, out producing and out

outgrowing until the Soviet Union

collapsed. And then a new authoritarian

power snuck up on the United States.

China went from having 80% of its

population living on one less than a

dollar a day to being the second biggest

economy in the world. At the same time,

uh, the American working class has been

thoroughly screwed over by relentless

money printing that has inflated their

cost of living while also inflating the

wealth of of a small group of elites.

And I think this resulted in a major

push back. Now, some of that was

justified. That push back is justified,

but I also think some of it is very much

unjustified. Tariffing countries like

Canada makes no sense. uh if you're the

United States, you should want more

friends, more trade with those friends.

And that's one of the reasons why I've

been touring the United States to make

the case for Canada and to remind our

American friends that they are stronger

working with countries like Canada and

the United Kingdom than they are pushing

those natural allies away.

>> It appears that the United States have

made the decision to kind of go it alone

in the world. I mean, I was at Davos and

I saw what Trump said. I saw a variety

of things in the leadup to there talking

about taking Greenland, turning Canada

into one of the United States 51st

states. Is that what he said? 51st

state.

>> That's never going to happen.

>> It seems to be very adversarial. And

through my childhood and through my

adulthood, over the last 30 years, the

US has always been the strong ally, not

an individualistic isolated force in the

world. What's what's going on here?

>> I think that is a very big strategic

mistake. Uh I think America would be

better off working with the the

traditional Western alliance that helped

win the Cold War. Uh we had a very big

menace as a nuclear armed Soviet Union

that was expansionary. Its empire was

pushing eastward into Europe and the

response of the United States was to

build a strong NATO alliance and then to

unleash its economy to just outproduce

the Soviets and bring them to their

knees. In Canada's case, we have

everything the United States needs uh if

they treat us like a friend. We have the

fourth biggest supply of oil.

>> You can see it here.

>> That's right. We could uh maybe pull

that over here. This is the oil reserves

by country. As you can see, Canada is

number four. And after us is Iraq and

then the United States. But if you look

at the leading five, which of these

countries do you think the United States

can most rely on? Is it Venezuela, Saudi

Arabia, Iran, or Iraq? No, it's Canada.

It works very well with American

refineries and we sell it to the United

States at enormous price discount.

Furthermore, we could build up an

enormous reserve of this oil so that if,

god forbid, the straight of Hormuse were

to be closed, just a random example,

you're from the American America's

friends in neighboring Canada would have

a couple hundred millions barrels that

are already produced and ready for use

uh if uh if it's needed. So this is

really uh kind of rocket fuel for the

Canadian economy, but it's strategically