'Trump Means Disaster': Canada's Ford Thanks Trump For New Canadian Growth Due To Tariffs

Next month will mark two years since President Trump was re-elected. It's been two years of crisis, chaos from the White House, ripped up trade deals, tariffs, threats of annexation, and economic force. Through it all, there's been a growing realization. Canada's relationship with the United States has changed permanently. We can no longer depend on what has been the most durable, prosperous, and secure economic partnership the world has ever known. We need to be prepared for the long haul. We need to plan as if tariffs are here for good. We need to ensure that Canada's future is in Canadian hands now and always. You know, when I was looking at the sponsorships, and I thought, wow. And a lot of people would say, you know, this is a room of a lot of powerful people. I disagree. This is a room with people with massive responsibility and even our government. But I always say when you surround yourself with really smart, bright people, you can do powerful things. and that's exactly what we're going to do in this room moving forward as we fight the guy down south. So my team said, no matter what, do not get off the speech. Well, there you went. I just went off the speech. And I promised him I'd stick on the speech. And it's great to be back here today with my great team of ministers. I see Minister Thompson there. Thank you. Minister Beth and Fauldy, you know we are so fortunate to have the greatest finance minister prudent fiscal manager this province has ever seen and thank you for your leadership and i'm going to get into everyone else's portfolio as i go through Minister Canjun and McCarthy and Smith and Letcher Energizer Bunny i'll talk about in a little bit uh Dunlop and as i mentioned Thompson and Tangri and PA Friend and all the other elected officials here today because i always say you know we can't do it without all three levels of government and we're here today for our annual state of the province as well as my good friend former premier of Newfoundland Labrador uh Andrew Furey we're still good pals you know Andrew as you know i think i went through 39 i think Quebec was 40 premiers and sometimes you lose contact with the other premiers but with Andrew we've never lost contact he was a strong ally when he was around the table and he continues to be a strong ally so Andrew I can't wait to sit down and talk about the future of our province and the future of our country and how the great men and women are going to help continue to build Ontario. Next month will mark two years since President Trump was re-elected. It's been two years of crisis, chaos from the White House, ripped up trade deals, tariffs, threats of annexation, and economic force. Through it all, there's been a growing realization. Canada's relationship with the United States has changed permanently. We can no longer depend on what has been the most durable, prosperous and secure economic partnership the world has ever known. We need to be prepared for the long haul. We need to plan as if tariffs are here for good. We need to ensure that Canada's future is in Canadian hands now and always. That's why last year we brought our plan to protect Ontario to the people of this province with a promise that we would protect workers and families and a clear goal to make Ontario the most competitive place in the G7 to invest, do business and create jobs our plan to protect Ontario is fortifying our industrial base including our auto steel and manufacturing sectors to build and unleash growth ready sectors of the future critical minerals nuclear data centers artificial intelligence defense industries advanced manufacturing life sciences and agri-food and food processing we've put our plan into action and we're seeing the results take mining as one example and i have to call out Minister Lecce he's doing an incredible job in mining and energy and we're going to get to energy in a minute ontario is blessed with a massive supply of critical minerals needed to make everything from the cell phone in your pocket to the latest and cutting-edge defense equipment and the MRI machines that may end up saving your life. The critical mineral deposits in the Ring of Fire region alone will add 22 billion dollars to Ontario's economy and create 70,000 jobs in every part of the province from northern mines to factory floors. And the best part is, President Trump can't do a thing about it. It's up to us, and only us. As long as we get out of the way, meaning government getting out of the way, and get building. That's what our government is doing. Last year, Ontario signed a historic partnership agreement with the federal government to achieve one project, one process, one decision, ending unnecessary and costly duplication and cutting approval timelines in half. As a result, we broke ground on an all-season roads to the Ring of Fire this summer with construction on track to finish five years ahead of schedule. And we were up there, Minister Lecce, myself, and the Minister of Transportation, Pramit Sarkaria. It was incredible. The same relentless approach to cutting red tape and speeding up approvals has taken Ontario from 20th most attractive place for mining investment in 2018 to second in the world and first in Canada last year. But we're not content with second place. As I told the governor of Nevada, we're coming after you. You don't have as many critical minerals, but we're going to take the number one spot by next year. we aren't just focused on mining across the entire provincial government we're working to speed up all approvals to create the most competitive business environment in the G7 we're attacking every single business facing permit in the government to see if it's necessary and how it can be streamlined and I believe my minister Andrea Kajan red tape and reduction is here she has done an absolutely incredible job and I'm going to explain that with her leadership we reviewed process now nearly 60 percent complete in less than a year we're cutting the time the province spends processing permits are you ready for this number by nearly 220,000 days not hours 220,000 days and this is on top of the 1.8 million hours and the 12 billion dollars we're saving families and businesses every year by slashing taxes and red tape we've also fundamentally reformed the province's species at risk rules and I believe minister Todd McCarthy is here you're doing an incredible job and we're also consolidating conservation authorities to bring consistency and common sense. We've eliminated the backlog of heritage assessments with more action coming this legislative session to reduce timelines from years to days after decades of government after government adding red tape. This is the tough hard work that government needs to do in order to create jobs and give businesses the confidence they need to invest. But that's not all we're doing. Our plan to protect Ontario is ambitious. If Ontario wants to attract the industries of the future, if Ontario wants to create the jobs of the future in defense, in advanced manufacturing, in agriculture, in artificial intelligence, we need the power that will fuel our economic growth. It's why we're building the largest nuclear expansion in the western world and securing Ontario's place as a global energy superpower we're upgrading and expanding existing plants at Darlington Bruce and Pickering and we're building the first small modular reactor in the G7 and the first new large-scale nuclear power plants in generations together our government's nuclear build-out will add 150,000 jobs and this is the next stat I love, and add $800 billion to our GDP. As it powers the industries and jobs of tomorrow, our plan to protect Ontario will also need workers, a lot of them. To make sure our economy has the skilled workforce it needs, we're investing more than $2.5 billion in skills training and development to train 1 million people. We're already at 750,000, but we will hit million mark and we're investing another 1.7 billion dollars to train an additional 70,000 students for good-paying jobs high priority fields like STEM healthcare in the trades including 1,100 AI master graduates every single year overall Ontario's workforce and work class force will add more than 125,000 graduates in STEM and artificial intelligence every year folks when I talk to our partners in the US around the world when I throw that figure of we're graduating 125,000 STEM graduates every single year they're dumbfounded they can't believe it so we have still the greatest universities greatest colleges anywhere in the world our plan to protect Ontario is also improving the services families rely on from health care to education that includes a 3.4 billion dollar primary care action plan uh led by Dr. Phil Pott and Sylvia Jones which i have to tell you uh minister jones is doing an incredible job i always say tell them what we're doing because we're we went from 50 billion to 101 billion in health care and we're improving it right across the whole sector which has already connected more than a half a million people to family doctors or primary care providers and is on track to connect everyone in the province by 2029. This is our plan to protect Ontario in action. It's a strong United Ontario, the economic engine of a strong United Canada. It's a province that rewards people who work hard. It's a province that has the economic strength to support world-class services and world-class infrastructure folks we're spending over 236 billion dollars on infrastructure we're building highways we're building roads we're building tunnels we're building schools right across our great province and we're going to continue to build and we'll never stop building and i know that puts a smile on my friend uh Joe Mancinelli from LiUNA, get those folks ready to go, which you have. You're training them, Joe. We appreciate your leadership when it comes to the skilled trades. It's a province that captures the attention and imagination of entrepreneurs and investors here at home and around the world as the best place to invest, create jobs, and do business. Make no mistake, Ontario and Canada are being challenged right now. In every corner of this province, workers and businesses are feeling the impact of President Trump's attacks on our country and our province. But we have everything we need right here to stand up, fight back, and unlock our province's full potential. As the legislature returns in the coming weeks, we will deliver the next phase of our plan to protect Ontario through an ambitious legislative agenda. It's an agenda that will continue supporting tariff-impacted workers and businesses as we fortify Ontario's industrial base. And it's an agenda that is at all times looking forward. I always say keep going forward, don't look backwards, keep moving that ball down the field a yard at a time. Ambitious in its vision to unleash growth-ready sectors and focused on doing what's necessary to protect Ontario for future generations. That's our plan to protect Ontario in action, and we will continue getting it done for you, for your families, for workers, for everyone. I want to thank you, and may God bless the people of Ontario. Thank you so much. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the One India app now.