In the Oval Office, President Trump and Canadian PM Mark Carney were asked about Trump's call to make Canada the 51st State in the U.S.
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00:00First date, if Canadians don't want it, would you respect that?
00:04Sure, I would.
00:05But this is not necessarily a one-day deal.
00:07This is over a period of time they have to make that decision.
00:10Yes, go ahead.
00:11Yeah, if I may.
00:12Well, respectfully, Canadians' view on this is not going to change on the 51st date.
00:20Secondly, we are the largest client of the United States in the totality of all the goods.
00:26So we are the largest client of the United States.
00:28We have a tremendous auto sector between the two of us and the changes that made have been helpful.
00:34You know, 50 percent of a car that comes from Canada is American.
00:38That's not like anywhere else in the world.
00:40And to your question about is there one thing, no, this is a bigger discussion.
00:46There are much bigger forces involved.
00:49And this will take some time and some discussions.
00:51And that's why we're here, to have those discussions.
00:54And that is represented by who's sitting around the table.
00:57Well, gee, the conflict is, and this is very friendly, we're not, this is not going to be like, we had another little blow-up with somebody else.
01:06It was a much different, this is a very friendly conversation.
01:10But we want to make our own cars.
01:13We don't really want cars from Canada.
01:15And we put tariffs on cars from Canada.
01:19And at a certain point, it won't make economic sense for Canada to build those cars.
01:24And we don't want steel from Canada because we're making our own steel and we're having massive steel plants being built right now as we speak.
01:31We really don't want Canadian steel and we don't want Canadian aluminum and various other things because we want to be able to do it ourself.
01:39And we, because of, you know, past thinking of people, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada.
01:46In other words, they have a surplus with us.
01:49And there's no reason for us to be subsidizing Canada.
01:53Canada is a place that will have to be able to take care of itself economically.
02:00I assume they can.
02:02I will tell you that Trudeau, when I spoke to him, I used to call him Governor Trudeau.
02:07I think that probably didn't help his election.
02:09But when I spoke to him, I said, so why are we, why are we taking your cars?
02:13Why are we taking your, we want to make them ourself.
02:16I mean, I said, and if the price of your cars went up or if we put a tariff, if we put a tariff on your cars of 25 percent, what would that mean to you?
02:28He said, that would mean the end of Canada.
02:30He actually said that to me.
02:31And I said, that's a strange answer, but I understand his answer.
02:36But, no, I mean, it's hard to justify subsidizing Canada to the tune of maybe $200 billion a year.
02:46We protect Canada militarily, and we always will.
02:49We're going to, you know, that's not a money thing.
02:51That's, but we always will.
02:53But, you know, it's not fair.
02:56But why are we subsidizing Canada $200 billion a year or whatever the number might be?
03:01It's a very substantial number.
03:03And it's hard for the American taxpayer to say, gee whiz, we love doing that.
03:08Thank you very much.
03:09We're going to have a very substantial number.
03:12Thank you very much.
03:13Why don't you know the party?