S8 Ep741: Preview for Later Today Conrad Black explains Canada's vast natural resources offer trade potential with China. However, he warns that while China seeks energy and metals, it cannot replace the United States as Canada's primary partner.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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Conrad Black explains Canada's vast natural resources offer trade potential with China. However, he warns that while China seeks energy and metals, it cannot replace the United States as Canada's primary partner.
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| 0:31.0 | Conversation with my colleague Conrad Black, I'm John Bachelor, about Canada and its prospects of doing business with China. |
| 0:38.6 | Conrad goes through all the materials, natural resources that Canada offers to a natural resource |
| 0:44.4 | poor countries such as China. Lots to do, lots of money to be made at the same time. China is not |
| 0:51.6 | in a position to replace the United States as a trading partner. |
| 0:55.2 | Here's Conrad to explain more of this tonight. Conrad Black. |
| 1:00.0 | You're absolutely right. We have all forms of energy, all forms of base and precious metals, |
| 1:08.6 | except for tropical things, all forms of agriculture and all forms of forest |
| 1:13.3 | products. We have all of it in almost unlimited quantity. And we have a strong corporate |
| 1:21.6 | sector and a long history of efficient, capable production in all of those fields. And indeed, our original trade |
| 1:31.7 | relationship with China, going back to the worst of the Cold War, when there were no diplomatic |
| 1:36.1 | relations with that country with China and either the U.S. or Canada, we sold them a great |
| 1:43.7 | deal of wheat and built up from there. |
| 1:45.4 | So all of that is possible. |
| 1:47.3 | It's all available and it's all suitable for discussion. |
| 1:52.0 | So I think there's general support of what Carney is trying to do. |
| 1:56.4 | But as I say, a sober view of how much China can replace the United States as an export and import market. |
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