Will US-Canada relations ever be the same again?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump announced this week 25% tariffs on US car imports, a move that will impact neighbours Mexico and Canada. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has called the tariffs "unjustified" and said it marked the end of "deep ties" between the two countries.
Canadian journalist and podcaster Jordan Heath-Rawlings joins Sarah and Anthony today to assess how Trump's policies have flipped Canadian politics on its head.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUEST: • Jordan Heath-Rawlings, Host of the Elbows Up podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, AmeriCasters. There are more of you now with us than ever before, and we'd like to try to keep it that way. |
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| 0:17.4 | You know that old cliche about the global economy when they say, if America sneezes, the world catches a cold? |
| 0:23.1 | Well, Donald Trump and the American economy seem to be running around barefoot in the rain right now, |
| 0:27.9 | doing whatever they can to catch some kind of virus, because there's a very strange self-inflicted wound going on, |
| 0:34.9 | as they've decided to put 25% tariffs on all cars that America buys from |
| 0:39.7 | abroad and have pretty much tanked the stock market while they're doing it. And this is just the |
| 0:45.1 | start of Donald Trump's tariff war. So on America's, we're going to be discussing the impact on |
| 0:50.6 | the global economy and we'll be talking about the impact on America's two closest allies. What does this mean for the United Kingdom? What does it mean for its relationship |
| 0:58.4 | with Canada? Where do both of those countries go from here? Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 1:05.8 | AmeriCast from BBC News. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. |
| 1:11.7 | You're gambling with World War III. |
| 1:13.9 | President Trump's message is very simple. |
| 1:16.0 | We are done being taken advantage of. |
| 1:17.8 | Mr. President, in the name of our God, have mercy upon the people. |
| 1:22.1 | We're scared now. |
| 1:23.0 | Are you supportive of these onesies? |
| 1:25.3 | I'm supportive of vaccines. |
| 1:26.9 | What is happening? |
| 1:28.0 | Like, this is not America. |
| 1:29.8 | This is a terrible nightmare. |
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