Doug Ford Calls For BOYCOTT Of WRONG COUNTRY

Hello everyone, welcome back. Let's get

right into the story for today. Doug

Ford, the premier of Ontario, has just

given a speech where he urged all

Canadians to boycott Chinese EVs. And in

this video, I'm going to explain to you

how that's a very simple-minded, stupid

position to have. And I think it's just

driven by politics. And I say that

because I don't think that Doug Ford is

stupid enough to not really understand

how the auto industry works in his own

province. But I'll let you be the judge

of that. you leave your comments in the

comment section and I'm going to explain

why this is just a really dumb position

without using inflammatory rhetoric or

just shouting at the clouds. I'm going

to give you some facts and basically

Doug Ford's position and I'll almost

quote him word for word here. Let me

paraphrase. He says that these EVs from

China will be roving surveillance

vehicles, spy vehicles in amongst us,

spying on us and allowing China to gain

a foothold selling their vehicles in

Canada will hurt Canadian auto workers

and will really hurt the Canadian auto

industry and eventually will be flooded

by these vehicles and the Chinese will

take over. But Doug, you're the premier

of Ontario and I assume you've probably

spent some time in Toronto, Ontario's

biggest city. And if you have, have you

ever taken a ride in one of these? Well,

probably not because you get driven

around in a large Ford. But this is a

TTC bus. It's the electric bus. Guess

who makes this bus? Well, that would be

BYD, who recently opened its first plant

in Canada. BYD opens first Canadian bus

assembly plant. The 45,000q foot

facility in New Market, Ontario is the

first electric bus plant to open in

Ontario in a generation. While the New

Market facility is BYD's first Canadian

assembly plant, the company is already

active in the Canadian market with buses

on order or in operation in Toronto,

Victoria, Longale, St. Albert, and Grand

Prairie. The new plant will first focus

on assembling buses for the Toronto

Transit Commission, the TTC, the

company's largest transit operator. The

agency will receive 10 pure electric

buses with an option for 30 more. Should

the people in Ontario boycott riding on

the TTC electric buses? Are those buses

spying on us? I can't believe that Doug

Ford does not know that the largest

Chinese EV manufacturer, the largest EV

manufacturer in the world now, has an

assembly plant in his own province. And

it's not a stretch that this company

when they start selling cars into our

market, if those cars gain demand, if

consumers demand those, it's not a

stretch that they might expand their

operations. may be expanding that

particular plant or building additional

manufacturing plants in Ontario if the

demand is high enough in our country.

There's workers in Ontario that as we

speak have jobs working for the company

that you're telling your citizens to

boycott right now. Now, I know it's a

lot easier to just be negative, to

identify an enemy and try and rally your

support being the guy that's going to

fight the enemy. Let me take a different

approach here. Picture it behind me. Do

do you recognize what this is? This was

one of the first Hondas that was sold in

Canada in 1973.

Comes from Japan. And when these cars

first arrived in Canada and started

driving in our streets, the uh reaction

was exactly the same. What are these

cars doing here? These tiny cars,

they're terrible. They're Japanese. Why

are we letting the Japanese sell cars in

our Canadian market? You let them get a

tow hold in our market and they're going

to destroy our industry. And why are we

buying cars from Japan? We just had a

war versus Japan. We had to defeat them.

In 1945, World War II ended. In 1973,

these cars showed up. Less than 30 years

later, people were saying, "Why should

we support the enemy? We had to fight

them. And now we're going to let them

take over our automobile market. They

have cheap labor over there, and they're

making these tiny little cars, and

they're going to flood our market."

Let's fast forward from 1973 to 2026.

Honda Civic, Canada's bestselling car.

This is from the Honda Canada website.

Honda as well as Toyota being one of the

top selling car companies in Canada. And

not just selling in Canada,

manufacturing in Canada, employing tens

of thousands of workers in Ontario. It's

the same story. And you can go back and

find clips from the 1970s, politicians

saying, "Don't buy those Hondas. Boycott

those Japanese cars. they're going to

ruin our North American auto industry.

Now, it's important to know that

pre2024,

before Canada implemented the 100%

tariffs on the import of Chinese EVs,

and we did that to follow the United

States, when then President Joe Biden

put 100% tariffs on imports of Chinese

EVs. We followed suit. Before that

happened, we were already buying lots of

EVs manufactured in China. It just

happened that all of them were Teslas

because Tesla is a company that wants to

sell its product globally and their

largest manufacturing facility is in

China. But when we imposed those 100%

tariffs, we were no longer able to buy

Teslas made in China without paying a

100% tariff. So after we put those

tariffs in place, Tesla just shipped

their vehicles from their factories in

Germany to Canada. So now we've removed

these 100% tariffs and we're back to the

way it was in 2023 and we've put a cap

on the amount of vehicles that we can

import from China. The cap is 49,000.

And of those 49,000, half of those have

to be vehicles which will be priced less

than $35,000

sales price. So now going forward, half

of those 49,000 EVs that we can buy from

China now with a much lower tariff might

end up being Teslas, but half of them,

what is it? 24,500 of them must be

priced less than $35,000. There's no

other option in Canada for a consumer to

buy pretty much any car under $35,000,

let alone an EV. There's no EV

replacement. And what Doug Ford is

suggesting to uh boycott Chinese EVs,

there's no threat from those 24,500

Chinese EVs priced under $35,000

um on vehicles that we manufacture in

Canada. We don't manufacture those here.

We manufacture mainly larger cars and

SUVs. So really, Doug, what you should

be saying, you should be saying boycott

US vehicles. boycott vehicles made in

the United States and instead buy

vehicles that are made in Ontario. I

know that Doug Ford before the election

was a huge supporter of the now

president of the United States and was

shocked when that president took over

and immediately took aim on Canada and

now he's targeting Canada's auto

industry as his number one target to

destroy to try and get manufacturing to

go back to the United States. I know

Doug was surprised about that. So, he

may not want to come out and say, "Let's

boycott US vehicles." If you want a

softer tone, say, "Let's buy vehicles

made in Ontario instead of the United

States. Choose Canada. I choose Canada.

Let's do that." So, if you live in

Ontario and you want to buy an SUV

because you need something a little

larger, something with some space.

You're probably not going to be

interested in a small 35,000 Chinese EV.

You might be interested in something

like this, a Ford Escape. The Ford

Escape is made at Ford's Louisville

assembly plant in Louisville, Kentucky.

Another choice that you would have, a

vehicle that competes against the Ford

Escape, is uh pictured here, the Toyota

RAV 4. The Toyota RAV 4s are primarily

manufactured in Canada, Woodstock, and

Cambridge, Ontario. So Doug, if you want

to be the champion for the auto industry

in your province, why don't you tell

your citizens to make smart decisions

and buy vehicles that are made in

Ontario and publish the list of vehicles

that are made in your province and urge

consumers to choose those instead of

other vehicles? Why Why are you

expending energy picking a fight with a

Chinese company? And Doug, don't you

understand that this Chinese company is

not our enemy? This Chinese company

wants to sell their product here and

potentially manufacture in our country.

The enemy is the United States. They're

the ones that want to destroy our

industry. Their president has made it

abundantly clear over and over and over

again that he doesn't want his country

importing cars from Canada. He wants to

destroy our industry. And this is one

thing that again, I'm sure Doug Ford

knows this, but he's acting like he

doesn't. Canada is not an exporter of

vehicles. We are not a net exporter. We

are a net importer of vehicles. Does

that sound strange to some of you? Uh

because I I know that Canadians always

we always underestimate ourselves. We

think, well, we're a small market. Uh

you know, we can't really make a

difference. Canada is just a little

country. No, we're not. We're one of the

largest consumers of automobiles in the

world. We're a net importer. Let me show

you this chart that I've used previously

in some of my videos. And it shows

country by country the value of

exported, value of imported and the

trade balance in thousands of US dollars

of vehicle and and and all car parts and

everything associated with uh the

automobile industry country by country.

And look at the third column here. This

is the trade balance. You can see that

Germany and China and Japan are the

three automotive exporting superpowers

on earth. And if you look at what these

numbers mean, Japan being the perfect

example, Japan exports $151 billion

worth of automobiles and automobile

parts per year exports and only imports

$23 billion worth. They have a massive

trade surplus because Japan exports cars

and they don't import very many. The

United States is the opposite. They're

the largest importer of vehicles. They

export quite a bit and they're a large

economy. They export 144 billion worth,

almost all of that to Canada and Mexico,

but they import much more than that.

Almost 400 billion worth, giving them a

massive trade deficit in the auto

industry. Canada, it may surprise you,

our auto industry exports 58 billion

worth per year. Most of that, almost all

of that going to the United States, but

we import more than that. We import $90

billion worth of automobile and parts,

giving us a trade deficit in the

automobile industry. The United States

wants to take this $ 58 billion worth of

exports that we now have. They want to

manufacture these in their own country

by destroying our automobile business.

So this $ 58 billion almost all of which

goes to the United States, they want to

reduce their imports by that amount so

that their trade balance is less

negative. That's why they're attacking

our industry. So it would make much more

sense and have much more of an impact,

Doug, if we could convince Canadians to

switch their decisions in the following

way. buy a car that's manufactured in

Canada instead of a car that's

manufactured in the United States

because we are a net importer. Let's

stop importing their vehicles, the ones

that are made there. Let's buy a car

that's manufactured in Canada. That'll

increase demand for those vehicles that

are manufactured in Canada. That will

have those manufacturers expand their

production in Canada to supply that

demand. And if part of that demand uh

ends up being some lowerc cost EVs,

then that's great. Then we can have

another car manufacturer, possibly BYD,

expand their facilities in Canada and

create more jobs. If we buy more of our

own vehicles, we'll have to manufacture

more and that will grow our auto

industry and that'll create more jobs.

And Doug, your constant insults and

beratement of the Chinese, a country

that when they negotiate is so focused

on uh respect and not being pushed

around and not being ridiculed. Um they

don't need spy vehicles. They don't need

electric spy vehicles to know what

you're saying. You're on television

saying these things. And when you say

these things, the Chinese, I guarantee

can hear you and are listening to you.

And I wouldn't be surprised if you've

already uh done your province a

disservice because if if BYD eventually

does decide to uh increase manufacturing

in Canada, it's a possibility just out

of being disrespected that they may set

up their facility say in Vancouver,

which would be a perfect location if

they're going to import a lot of their

uh parts from overseas across the

Pacific or possibly in Quebec. So Doug,

you're picking a fight with the wrong

country. I I know you want to appear

strong and you want to like be fighting,

you know, to be Captain Canada and be

out there swinging. Uh, but I think he

must understand how our automobile

industry works. He must understand all

the things that I've mentioned this in

this video. But I think it would just

not be popular for a conservative uh

politician to accept this without push

back. And it would be very unpopular for

a conservative politician to call out

the United States and and call for a

boycott on their vehicles to be anti- uh

American and anti- bombastic buffoon

leader down south. It's sad, but uh most

of the people that think that the

president of the United States is doing

a good job or most uh Canadians that are

very pro-American at this point with all

that's going on sit as conservative

voters, not progressive conservative

voters. It's that um core right-wing

base, especially in Alberta, and I'm

sure there's some in Ontario. And you'll

see the uh leader of the opposition,

Pierre Polyv, is also kind calling these

things spy vehicles and this is a

terrible deal and China's going to take

over our industry, scream at the at the

clouds. Everything's broken and

everything's terrible because um they're

catering to their voters and and this is

just a sad thing to do. Doug, you have

to set this aside. uh stop playing

politics and start working with the

prime minister, which you have been uh

very well up till now, and instead of

attacking uh the Chinese and saying to

boycott them, what what you should be

doing now is engaging in discussions

with the very company that's likely to

set up manufacturing and encourage them

to do it in your province. There's

already a manufacturing facility in New

Market that you have representatives of

BYD North America here in Toronto that

you could go talk to. Invite them to

meetings, start negotiations now. If if

you said in the past, Doug Ford said in

the past, if they're interested in

building their cars here, let's talk.

Well, Doug,

go talk. The the ball's in your court

now, you should start talking to them.

You should accelerate this, right? you

should be having meetings with the the

officials from that company and working

out a deal to get them to start

manufacturing sooner rather than later.

Grow your business instead of picking

fights all the time. And I find it so

ironic. Let me kind of close with this

because uh the United States imposed

tariffs on Canada, specifically our auto

industry, attacking our auto industry.

And Doug Ford was the guy that ran the

ad in the United States using their

former president, Ronald Reagan, the ad

explaining why tariffs were terrible.

Message brought to you by the province

of Ontario, running it in the in the

United States, trying to convince the

current administration that tariffs are

a bad idea. What are you doing attacking

us? And now that same guy is saying,

"Keep the tariffs on China. keep those

tariffs on those Chinese EV imports.

Maybe China should run an ad in Ontario.

Run the same ad with Ronald Reagan, who

Doug Ford respects, and just change the

ending of the ad and say, "Message

brought to you by the government of

China." Run that ad in Ontario during

the Stanley Cup finals. Doug, I think

you missed the whole point here, but I'm

interested in your comments in the

comments section. Let me know what your

point of view is. I tried to show you

some factual data here and explain some

things without inflammatory rhetoric.

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