Trump Trade Pressure Builds as Carney Won’t "Leverage" Energy...Instead Turns to Europe

through the official powers of those

bodies. There's not a lot they can do to

direct the terms of the Canada, Mexico,

US agreement.

>> He's not using our leverage. Welcome

back to Muslim Loose. My name's David.

Today, we've got a report from the

Canadian press highlighting that Mark

Carney won't use our energy and critical

minerals to negotiate with Donald Trump

in getting a deal. We've got the

governor of Colorado who says the

midterms won't be giving Carney any more

power to negotiate against Donald Trump

if Trump does lose power in the American

government. Even the CBC is bringing up

that there's lack of transparency in

these negotiations. We got a bunch of

other stuff. Let's jump into this.

Starting this episode off, we got this

article in the Globe and Mail. US to

begin guiding ships through the Straight

of Hormuz Monday, Trump says. This

article goes on to say, Trump said in a

social media post on Sunday that neutral

and innocent countries have been

affected by the Iran war, and we have

told these countries that we will guide

their ships safely out of the restricted

waterways so they can freely get on with

their business. Hopefully, this brings

prices down. We've also got the Global

Mail reporting Alberta separatists

reached deadline for collecting

referendum petition signatures. The

group behind the petition, StayFree

Alberta, plans to formally submit

signatures on Monday and said they

already have gathered the nearly 178,000

signatures required under provincial

law. With that, this would go to a

referendum in October. We got some

polling data coming here from Le. We've

got Liberals at 48% and the

Conservatives at 37%. We've got CTV news

with this one. PM Carney to meet with EU

leaders as Canada and Europe face

growing trade tension with Trump. Prime

Minister Mark Carney will head to Yean,

Armenia this weekend for a brief stop as

a guest at a meeting of the European

political community. The gathering will

bring together European Union and non-EU

countries including the United Kingdom,

Norway, and Switzerland. It marks the

first time Canadian Prime Minister has

been invited to the forum. That's not

the only place he's going. CTV has

confirmed Mark Carney is not only going

to Armenia, he's going to meet with

Zalinsky in Ukraine. He's going to meet

Pedro Sanchez in Spain, Georgia Maloney

in Italy, Donald Tusk in Poland, and

meet with the European Union Parliament

President Robera Matsola. We got

Conservative Raquel Dancho posting this.

Minister Jolie will be testifying before

industry committee to answer

Conservative questions on Liberal

government's EV strategy. We can see

here on our comments.ca government

website. So, this is happening today. We

can see federal government's electric

vehicle EV policies. I bring that up

because now we are seeing Chinese EVs in

Canada. These have been spotted in

Toronto. Here are some more of them.

This one here and some more Chinese EVs.

We got Juno News posting this. Justice

Wagner refuses to recuse himself from

emergencies act appeal. Wagner claims he

previously stated negative comments on

the Freedom Convoy won't affect the

appeal process. So he was critical of

the Freedom Convoy, but he is not

recusing himself from the Emergencies

Act appeal. You would expect he should

have to recuse himself as this appears

to be a direct conflict of interest, but

this is technically allowed. Wgner

claims he previously stated position

won't affect Liberals request to appeal

a previous decision that its use of the

Emergencies Act was unconstitutional.

What a story. We've got this story from

the Canadian press says Canada won't

leverage energy and critical minerals in

trade talks. Prime Minister Mark Carney

speaks during a trade union event in

Gatau, Quebec on Wednesday, April 29th,

saying that he's rejecting the notion

that Canada will use energy and critical

minerals as leverage. If he used it as

leverage, he'd be able to get a deal. So

what exactly is he doing? Donald Trump

wants to make a deal. It's quite clear

they want to get back at the table and

solve this trade dispute that we have.

Carney keeps putting this off. Trump

just went ahead and did a pipeline deal.

The pipeline's mostly built on our side.

Now, while Trump is not really including

Carney all that much in this, he has to

get approval from the Canadian

government and Tim Hodgson, Mark Carney

for this pipeline to go forward.

>> Uh the pipeline that the president uh

approved is at a very early stage. Uh

it's an approval for a pipeline to cross

the border. there are a number of

incremental steps that they have to

achieve. Um we've seen in the past the

US approves pipelines and then cancels

pipelines. We can't develop our trade

strategy on that assumption.

>> So you can see Tim Hodgson is

downplaying this pipeline going forward.

It seems that kind of language hints to

me that he he doesn't want that to go

forward. So the beginning of this clip

he says a very early stage

>> very early stage.

>> So I wonder if this is going to be

another pain point between Mark Carney

and Donald Trump. We have some news

that's just coming in. Prime Minister

Mark Carney says Canada will not use

energy or critical minerals as leverage

in trade talks with the United States.

Now, the Prime Minister made the remarks

in an interview with the Canadian press.

Carney said he doesn't consider those

sectors as leverage since Canada is not

talking about stopping any sort of

existing trade. In the interview, Carney

also said that he thinks the existing

Kusma agreement will largely remain

intact through the upcoming negotiation

process.

>> With that, we've got the governor of

Colorado on CTV here. This is Jared

Polus basically saying that the midterms

don't really affect Carney's ability to

negotiate. That seems to be one of the

strategies that's been put out there

that Carney was delaying. So, Donald

Trump, if he lost power during the

midterms, that Carney would be able to

get a better deal. But he's basically

saying that branch of the government

isn't going to be affected even if Trump

loses power.

>> Do you think that um Congress will be

able to um increase the amount of

pressure they place on the uh on the

administration following the midterms?

And I asked because I I know there was,

for example, one Republican

representative from Colorado who voted

when there was a vote about removing

Canadian tariffs in favor of that. Not

all the people representing Colorado

did, but this one individual was among

those who voted with Democrats. Like I

if the if the midterms do result in a

different balance of power in Congress,

do you think there will be additional

pressure? Like they will use that

additional power to leverage pressure on

on the president.

>> Um sadly, having served in Congress 10

years, I I can I I have to tell you

that's not really the way our system

works. We give tremendous authority to

the executive in negotiating these kinds

of agreements. pressure, yes, but I

don't think this president gives into

that pressure. I think it's more

important to figure out what he wants in

these relationships. Uh having Congress

in the hands of the the Democrats very

likely to occur in the November

election. Certainly the House, uh the

Senate is is kind of up for grabs

through the official powers of those

bodies. There's not a lot they can do to

direct the terms of the Canada, Mexico,

US agreement. Uh can they apply

rhetorical pressure? Sure. But it's just

not the same as the kind of prime