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The John Batchelor Show

#CANADA: "NOT FOR SALE." GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#CANADA: "NOT FOR SALE." GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1900 HAY RIVER

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.5

The New York Times headline tells the big drama of the day at the White House.

0:16.5

Carney tells Trump that Canada, quote, is not for sale, end quote, during visit to the White House.

0:23.3

The Canadian Prime Minister meeting with President Trump days after being elected on an anti-Trump platform

0:29.1

as relations between the two allies are at a historic nadir.

0:34.4

This is the New York Times editorial page.

0:37.3

No, this is the New York Times reporting

0:39.4

from the White House. I welcome Gregory Copley, publisher and editor of Defense and Foreign Affairs,

0:46.6

a very proud member of the Commonwealth. He's an Australian national. We will speak to the Australian

0:51.7

election soon enough, but we begin with Mr. Carney at the White House.

0:55.9

Gregory, saying you're not for sale is a very clever presentation to a man whose bulk of his career was spent in real estate development.

1:05.5

Mr. Trump answered very quickly and adroitly. Never say never. Fine. What is driving this story? My understanding is that

1:15.7

Canada is about 40 million people. It's been blessed by God with natural resources in all directions,

1:22.7

especially towards the formerly frozen north. It has a devoted, devoted public in all areas that I'm

1:31.1

familiar with, and I talk to Canada twice a week. In addition to that, it has a record to be

1:38.4

admired of how it's come in and help the Commonwealth in its struggles of the 20th century and ready for the 21st.

1:46.6

The Canadian people are built with the same bricks that the U.S. people are built with.

1:52.0

Immigants from Europe, immigrants from Asia, immigrants from Latin America.

1:56.0

So is there a natural driver to this, or is it just the rhetoric of one president?

2:04.9

Good evening to you.

2:06.7

Good evening, John.

2:07.4

Well, I do think that it's the rhetoric of one president.

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