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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now is Mary Young, Canadian Minister of Export Promotion,

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Speaker 2: International Trade and Economic Development. Minister.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you with us always you day, You're

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Speaker 1: always good to talk to you and new day and

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Speaker 1: new term.

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Speaker 2: This time it includes lumber. How are you looking at

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Speaker 2: the expanding list of tariffs.

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Speaker 3: Well, when the executive order first came into Canada very recently,

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Speaker 3: it included twenty five percent across the board on everything,

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Speaker 3: including well everything, and then ten percent on energy. What

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Speaker 3: we're pleased about is to be able to work with

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Speaker 3: the American administration to get a thirty.

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Speaker 1: Day pause on that.

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Speaker 3: And while at the same time working with the American administration,

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Speaker 3: we've been very clear terriffs are expensive for America. They

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Speaker 3: make no sense when seventy percent of what I export

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Speaker 3: in the United States, the United States takes adds value

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Speaker 3: to it and then helps them be more competitive with

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Speaker 3: their products. Adding a tariff just simply makes it more

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Speaker 3: expensive for Americans. Adding teriffs to Canadian exports simply means

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Speaker 3: that it's going to cost Americans more at the grocery store.

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Speaker 3: It's going to cost Americans more at the pumps. So

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Speaker 3: it makes no sense. We will continue to reiterate that message.

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Speaker 3: We've been very clear. We don't want to be here,

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Speaker 3: we don't want to initiate anything, but should there be

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Speaker 3: punishing tariffs on Canadian on Canada, we will respond accordingly.

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Speaker 3: But in the meantime, we are having conversations with the Americans,

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Speaker 3: as we do when you have a trading partner like

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Speaker 3: the one between Canada and the United States, where Canada

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Speaker 3: it's our largest trading partner, but we're pretty important to

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Speaker 3: the Americans as well. When I count thirty six American

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Speaker 3: states as my top customers, I sell more to them,

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Speaker 3: to those thirty six states than China, ben Japan, than

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Speaker 3: the United Kingdom and friends combined.

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Speaker 1: So we need to work on this together. That thirty

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Speaker 1: day pores.

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Speaker 2: You're in talks right now. How confident are you that

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Speaker 2: can be extended, that will be extended.

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Speaker 3: We are working very hard on that myself, the Prime Minister,

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Speaker 3: my cabinet colleagues. This is a really intentional effort to

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Speaker 3: work with the administration. One of the things that the

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Speaker 3: American that the American administration, including the President, have raised

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Speaker 3: concerns about, is how we can collaborate and do more

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Speaker 3: on boarder to make sure that at the border we

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Speaker 3: are indeed working more together. Despite Canada only having less

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Speaker 3: than one percent of fentannel going into the American Into America,

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Speaker 3: it too is just as a concern for Canadians. So

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Speaker 3: collaborating together to make sure that we are doing more

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Speaker 3: on our border is what we are doing. And we're

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Speaker 3: confident that that work is not only making progress, but

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Speaker 3: that we're doing that with the Americans. And this is

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Speaker 3: the testament of the Canadian American relationship as well, the

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Speaker 3: ability to talk through and work through what are sometimes

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Speaker 3: really tough issues. So we're committed to doing that on

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Speaker 3: our end.

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Speaker 2: You talked about how Canada exports more to the US

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Speaker 2: than any other country. We're talking about almost eighty percent

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Speaker 2: of your exports going to the US despite a trade

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Speaker 2: agreement with the likes of the EU. Why has it

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Speaker 2: been so difficult for Canada to diversifies trade.

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Speaker 3: Well, I always say, as the Trade Minister, negotiating trade

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Speaker 3: agreements are about it's like building a bridge.

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Speaker 1: But what you want is you need.

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Speaker 3: Your businesses to walk across that bridge. And I think

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Speaker 3: businesses really are reflecting on the importance of diversification. I

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Speaker 3: think that the meaning of diversification has a more greater significance.

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Speaker 1: It's why I'm here in Singapore.

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Speaker 3: I just led a trade mission to Australia, some two

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Speaker 3: hundred over two hundred Canadians that are here looking to

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Speaker 3: pursue opportunities in this market. Here in the Indo Pacific

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Speaker 1: I've taken hundreds and hundreds.

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Speaker 3: Of businesses on trade missions, whether it is here in

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Speaker 3: This is a really important place for Canada. We launched

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Speaker 3: our Indo Pacific Strategy at the end of twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 3: back by two point three billion dollar investment over five

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Speaker 3: Yesterday here in Singapore. I announced seven point three billion

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Speaker 3: dollars to build a Canadian trade gateway for nuclear energy.

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Speaker 3: This is really important because in the region, in all

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Speaker 3: of these discussions I've had with partners, energy security is

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Speaker 3: So we want to be a part of that solution.

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Speaker 3: So these are the kinds of things that we're doing

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Speaker 3: as a government, but we're doing it in partnership with

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Speaker 3: businesses that I would say, and I keep saying to businesses,

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Speaker 1: Show up, You've got to be here. Do these do these.

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Speaker 3: Transactions because they actually will be great for our trading

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Speaker 2: Minister. We keep getting headlines from Trump, and just today

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Speaker 2: that trade deal with China. He says it is a

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Speaker 2: possibility for a new trade agreement with China. It does

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Speaker 2: seem he's approaching China in a very conciliatory way. Instead

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Speaker 2: of sixty percent terrors, is ten percent terrors. Whereas when

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Speaker 2: it comes to a trading partner like Canada, he was

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Speaker 2: willing to go full force with twenty five percent. Is

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Speaker 2: there a hands a sense perhaps that Trump is trading

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Speaker 3: Well, I can't speak for the president for President Trump,

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Speaker 3: but what I would say for Canada is that you know, Canada,

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Speaker 3: you know, has everything it needs to be successful in

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Speaker 3: today's global economy and into the future. The United States

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Speaker 3: is our largest trading partner. We will continue to work

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Speaker 3: with the United States because it's.

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Speaker 1: Good for Americans.

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Speaker 3: I mean, millions and millions of jobs are dependent on

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Speaker 3: America's trade with Canada. The inputs that we send to

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Speaker 3: the United States actually create and have built these resilient

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Speaker 3: supply chains that are good, you know, that are good

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Speaker 1: I think what we need to keep doing is to

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Speaker 3: But Canada also has, through its current trade networks, access

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Speaker 3: to sixty five percent of the world's economy through trade

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Speaker 1: So I think the work.

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Speaker 3: We need to do and we need to keep doing,

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Speaker 3: in candad that I often say to people, we are

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Speaker 3: I think is also an advantage.

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Speaker 2: Is there a need for you to have a new

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Speaker 2: trade strategy under the Trump administration? I mean concession stone work.

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Speaker 2: We saw that with India and Ted for Ted is

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Speaker 2: not working either. Is there a way of relooking at

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Speaker 3: Well, I let's remember that the agreement we have today

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Speaker 3: was actually done by President Trump, and he touted this

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Speaker 1: But we did work through them.

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Speaker 3: We negotiated across the table and in President Trump's trade

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Speaker 3: of trade agreements you know, that the United States has

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Speaker 3: with the world, including in Canada, and including the work

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Speaker 3: understanding what that analysis will you know, will will come

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Speaker 3: forward with. But ultimately, I think that at the end

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Speaker 3: and and I think that's the uh, we that's the

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Speaker 3: take that approach and then adapt as we need.

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Speaker 2: Mind, the wind come from a multi level response instead

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Speaker 2: you know, a global response, let by perhaps Canada asially

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Speaker 2: even Europe. Should that be a multi level approach to

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Speaker 2: responding to Trump's terraces.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've certainly, you know, been talking to my colleagues

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Speaker 3: I was at the World Trade Organization. I'm here, of course,

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Speaker 3: in Singapore, our CPTPP partner. I was just in Australia

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Speaker 3: is something that we must stand up for and continue

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Speaker 2: TRUM reshaping the Global Trade Book. I'm just wondering, from

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Speaker 2: Canada's perspective, is China now a more important trading partner.

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Speaker 2: Is India now a more important trading pot.

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Speaker 3: Well, our Indo Pacific strategy had set out and this

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Speaker 3: the importance of this region in particular, that also includes

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Speaker 3: how Canada would work with China, and there you know,

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Speaker 3: we refer to it in the.

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Speaker 1: Strategies the Four Seas.

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Speaker 3: There will be opportunities where we should absolutely be collaborating together.

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Speaker 3: You think about climate change and how we can build

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Speaker 3: out solutions, including economic solutions that actually will fight climate change.

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Speaker 3: There will be issues where we're going to have to

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Speaker 3: challenge China because the values that are important to Canadians

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Speaker 3: are such that we need to do that. We can

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Speaker 3: also compete, I mean, take a look at AI, take

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Speaker 2: All Right, Menissa, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Perfect day to have you on the show. Mary and

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Speaker 2: Canadian Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development,