Canada’s Doug Ford Reacts to US Midterm Results, Holds Mirror Up To Donald Trump After GOP Defeat

They can blame everyone they want, but President Trump has to look in the mirror, take responsibility for the results of last night. So we're united, and we're moving forward, and now I think this gives us a little more leverage. But again, I want to emphasize the war is not over, and we're going to have to keep fighting. Yeah. Great question. It's about building relationships. You know, I've been going back and forth with certain people. I ended up getting a message from a congressperson in Michigan, Democratic congressperson, happy as anything. And I said, let's continue building our relationship. We're our number one trading partner is Michigan. The auto sector down in the the U.S. has lost $110 billion because of the of these terrible tariffs and it's about uncertainty but the American people spoke and I couldn't be happier. They can blame everyone they want but President Trump has to look in the mirror take responsibility for the the results of last night. I'm willing to work with anyone. I know the new senator wants one thing. He wants jobs, he wants prosperity, he wants economic growth in Michigan, and so does the new governor, so we're going to continue building a great relationship. How did Canada go about... Doing a trade deal now or relieving the tariffs now that we have the results of last night. What's the first step? I think the first step is sitting down and building those relationships, as I mentioned. The governors have big say in the U.S. And President Trump has to start listening. You know, he lost a big election last night. He lost a lot of seats, no matter if it's in the Senate or in Congress. He has to start listening to the people. And that's going to be up to the Prime Minister to sit down with them. I know they've been talking over the last little while. And let's, you know, let's do everything we can to get rid of these tariffs and show prosperity in both countries. That's what will create opportunities in both countries by getting rid of these tariffs. Do you think we can still... I can't trust him as far as I could throw him. That's my personal opinion. Maybe the Prime Minister feels differently, but he has shown over and over again that he can't be trusted. He'll make a deal, he'll wake up in the morning, change the deal. And the tariffs in January are real. They're as real as I'm standing here. No matter if it's the auto sector, what we just saw a couple of weeks ago, maybe last week, about our waste. You know, he wants to tariff our waste, 50% tariff. But I've been saying, since I've been a city councillor, we have to be responsible for our own waste. We have to look at different methods of getting rid of our waste. And Copenhagen is one good example. I was reading up on how they're turning their waste into energy. And I always say, from trash to cash, I know we have that in Peel, which is being expanded. We have it in Durham region that's being expanded. That's what we have to do. And the Europeans are so much further ahead than we are on this. We have to take what works in Europe and adopt it here in Ontario and across the country. Yes. When we give out grants right across the board, there has to be some faith in the system because it's just not with OSAP on the private career colleges and universities. But what we have right now, we have KPMG in there. We have an OPP investigation. We're working with the Auditor General's office, feeding her as much information as we have. And we're going to catch these criminals, because that's all they are, a bunch of criminals. And I hope they go to jail. They go to jail and send a message. If you want to scam the taxpayers of Ontario, we're going to catch you, and you're going to jail. And they'll send a clear message, and then we reform the system in total. You know, there's certain areas that Non-Canadians are getting OSA. That needs to change. We need to protect the people of Canada, protect the people of Ontario, and make sure we have a better system. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yes, there is. Yeah, and we're doing that. So we've asked KPMG to prioritize low-risk colleges and universities. Let's get them back up and moving as quickly as possible. And that's our goal. Something we need in place. Yeah, so we're going to prioritize, just like you were mentioning, schools that we feel that are low risk. There is a school that we thought was low risk and they're having problems. So we're going to make sure we throw every resource we can. We're working with the staff, the public service as well. Our audit teams, their KPMG's audit teams, the OPP. But what I can't do, I can't jeopardize the OPP investigation because we want to recover this money and we want to make sure this investigation goes well and throw these people in jail. Well, so let's talk about this. Let's differentiate. These are private career colleges, not public career colleges that we put $6.4 billion in and save the sector. And all you have to do is talk to any CEO of any public or college or university. They're thanking us. This is the private sector. The private sector is the problem, not the public sector, Because in the private, okay, in the public sector... We saw online it's been going on even when I was when I was younger some people would abuse the system. We want to make sure that we have a system the people that need the funding are going to get the funding but this again goes back to making sure that we're spending the money to train. And make sure we teach jobs of the future to these students in the colleges and universities, no matter if it's public or private. And that's exactly what we're doing. No matter if it's STEM graduates, that will be up to 115,000 leading North America, making sure that we focus on areas of energy, be it nuclear or mining, manufacturing, and of course, AI as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It will eventually, but like I was saying earlier on, we can't jeopardize the OPP investigation or KPMG. But again, after we come up with the findings, hold on, before we come up with the findings. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the One India app now.