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00:00that President Trump's goals and motives in Canada were to economically crush the
00:08country in order to annex it. I know you've only been in power for a few days
00:13but I'm sure you've had briefings and meetings and I wonder ahead of this
00:18phone call with President Trump do you share Prime Minister Trudeau's
00:23assessment or have you made your own personal assessment about what President
00:27Trump really wants from Canada? Well I think what first and foremost I think
00:32what President Trump wants he wants several things one is he wants to end
00:37the fentanyl crisis in the United States I respect that he wants good high-paying
00:42jobs in America he wants more investment in America he wants repatriation of many
00:47American industries and firms to the United States so and I fully respect that
00:54I think he will respect that as Prime Minister of Canada I want to end the
00:59fentanyl crisis in Canada I want to grow good high-paying jobs in Canada and of
01:05course I want to protect with my colleagues and reaffirm and reinforce
01:12our sovereignty of all of Canada so that's the starting point for the
01:18discussion. Just listening closely to your answer previously it sounded like
01:31you may be changing and listening to what you said last night about the
01:35limits of retaliatory tariffs for example it sounds like maybe you are
01:40nuancing your strategy vis-a-vis President Trump by perhaps leaving trade
01:46talks to others we know you have authorized these conversations to happen
01:50in Washington DC as early as this week at USTR level are you going to be trying
01:57to focus more on positive things that you can talk about with President Trump?
02:01I wouldn't necessarily have that characterization what I'm what I'm
02:10saying is several fold the first and I'll go back to where you started with
02:14your previous question which is we are focused on building this economy today's
02:21announcement is of course about sovereignty it's about protection but
02:24it's also about building the economy here in Nunavut we are going to build
02:28Canada. Canada is strong and it's going to get stronger we can give ourselves
02:33more than anything that President Trump or other trade partner can take away
02:39okay that's a basic point and that if there is a misconception of that in the
02:44United States I'm not saying the president has that misconception but if
02:47there's a misconception of that we are going to disabuse that misconception
02:51we're going to grow this economy because that's good for Canadians good for a
02:55better for a future and we can do it and we're going to do it. In terms of
03:02discussions what I'm saying is that there have been there are a series of
03:09trade initiatives from the U.S. such that they've called into question the
03:17validity of USMCA since you're in New York Times how you would refer to it
03:22USMCA and that means that we should have a broader conversation a broader
03:26conversation about our commercial relationship which also involves a
03:29conversation about our security relationship with the United States so
03:34I'm less interested in reacting to every initiative putting on the table that we
03:42want to have that broader conversation it won't happen overnight there's no
03:45magic one meeting that is going to unlock things and so and of course we
03:49have regular conversations with the U.S. on a variety of issues but the big
03:54issues around trade are going to be need to be taken more comprehensively and they
04:00will be taken from a Canadian perspective from a position of strength
04:05we can take time we're going to get stronger and these if these initiatives
04:11are going to weaken them