“AMERICA IS TIRED OF TARIFFS!” Canadian Leader Pierre Poilievre Reacts to U.S. Midterm Results

Americans hate tariffs. A tariff on Canada is a tax on Americans, and that's why I've been working to leverage our single biggest asset in these talks, and that is the goodwill of the American people. What a beautiful morning, and in a few days we will have a budget. Job one for the budget is to save you money. Save you money by getting rid of all taxes on gas and diesel. Save you money by reducing the cost for truckers to bring you food to your grocery store, building building supplies for your future Home. Save money for young couples who want to buy a home, for single moms who want to buy groceries, for small businesses who are paying too much for supplies. Save you money, save you money, save you money. That's our mission as conservatives and it's our demand for the budget. After a year and a half of Mark Carney, everything's worse. You go to a grocery store, nothing costs less, even though he promised he would be judged by the prices of those grocery stores. Home building is down, not doubled as he promised. I missed. Habitat for Humanity says that we are the country with the largest share of our population who believe they will never own a home, the largest share of 22 polled countries. Terrible reports this week, very sad. I'm from The Salvation Army, which is a third of Canadians, are skipping meals or cutting portions because they can't afford groceries after a year and a half of Carney. We have the Toronto Food Bank said that one in eight children are now depending on Food Bank use. Never has it been so bad. Mark Carney is out of touch. His spending is out of control. Canadians are out of money. He's a big talker. But where are the actual results? And then, you know, we look south of the border, and the result yesterday demonstrates Americans hate tariffs. A tariff on Canada is a tax on Americans, and that's why I've been working to leverage our single biggest asset in these talks, and that is the goodwill of the American people. Every American I've met on my journeys there wants the tariffs gone so that we can help lower the cost of gas, groceries, housing, vehicles, and other things. So we've been calling on the Prime Minister to use this leverage. He has not yet done so. I will be going back to the United States to continue the pressure to fight for tariff-free trade as part of the Team Canada approach because we will always put Canada first. We actually don't know where Mark Carney stands on any of this. A week ago he said he can wait two and a half years to get a deal. Of course he can wait. He's got 91% of his investments in the US. He profits off of all of that. But enough with the political theater. Later, I'm dead. He says he's going to wait two and a half years, and then he waited two and a half days to call the president and put out a tweet. More headlines without deadlines. So what he's got to do is take advantage of the immense leverage that Canada has had all along with the goodwill of the American people. to get tariff-free trade with our biggest market in the world. And we as Conservatives will keep fighting for that, putting our country first. In conclusion, our priorities are to save you money, save your job, keep you safe from crime, get immigration under control, and put Canada first. Can you talk about leverage? Can you talk about leverage? Do you see the midterm results as a way to leverage a better deal for Canada, or is it a risk that Trump lashes out and goes the other way? Nobody controls President Trump. I think it was really silly for Mark Carney to claim he could handle the president and control what he does. Nobody knows exactly what he will do. What the midterms did do is reconfirm. What I said all along, which is we have massive leverage in the form of the goodwill of the American people. I mean, Americans hate these tariffs. Everywhere I went in the States, and it didn't matter if it was Texas or Detroit or New York, Democrat, Republican, worker or business, union or management, everybody hates the tariffs. We've got to use that goodwill. to pressure for tariff-free trade. This is what I say, we're not China, we're not Mexico. The American people have grievances with those countries. They don't have grievances with us. We're probably the most popular country inside the U.S. with American people. I'm asking for the Prime Minister to leverage that. And I'm here to say to him, I will work with you to do that. Given that most of these tariffs are done at the executive level, I'm wondering, how do you actually think that this new change in the makeup of their Congress will help? It's, it's, it depends how the president makes his political calculations, but one thing is for sure, any president, first or second term, early or late mandate, needs as much... Goodwill from the population to get anything done. And we have that goodwill on Canada's side. So what I'm saying is let's leverage that goodwill to pressure the administration and Congress to remove all the tariffs, lower the cost of living for Americans, but also boost jobs and business for long-struggling Canadians. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the OneIndia app now.