Carney calls Canada's ties with U.S. "weaknesses we must correct"

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[00:00:00]Conservative Party leader Pierre Palv has accused the prime minister of seeking an end to Canada's trade relationship with the United States. In a video released on the weekend, Prime Minister Carney said Canada's reliance on the United States has become a weakness.

[00:00:20]>> The world, as I said earlier, is more dangerous and divided. US has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression.

[00:00:30]Many of our former strengths based on our close ties to America have become our weaknesses. Weaknesses that we must correct. Workers in our industries most affected by US tariffs in autos, in steel, in lumber are under threat.

[00:00:45]Businesses are holding back investments restrained by the p of uncertainty that's hanging over all of us. The US has changed and we must respond.

[00:00:54]>> Well, Polyv responded with this post.

[00:00:56]The prime minister's video is another illusion. He says he wants a permanent rupture with our biggest customer while he keeps 90% of his personal investments in the United States. Conservatives believe that Canada's economic problems are largely self-inflicted and want an end to liberal taxes, deficits, and regulations that undermine economic growth. Alv did get a rousing welcome in Winnipeg when he attended the UFC match Saturday.

[00:01:40]He was also spotted chatting with Dana White, CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

[00:01:48]Meanwhile, a top economic adviser to President Trump says Carney's move to pivot towards China is insane. Commerce Secretary Howard Letic says China has no interest in importing manufactured goods from Canada. He says, "Prime Minister Carney's economic pivot away from America will fail.

[00:02:08]>> We are a $30 trillion economy, right? We are the consumer of the world." Okay.

[00:02:14]Carney has a problem with us. He gets on a plane and he goes to China. Does he think China's the Chinese economy is gonna buy his stuff? China is entirely an export-driven economy, right? So, what do you do? He came back and said, "Oh, we'll take their electric cars." I mean, is this nuts?

[00:02:35]>> Negotiations aimed at renewing the USMCA CUSMA trade deal have made little progress so far, but Treasury Secretary Scott Besset did post this picture of himself with Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne after a meeting Friday and he says, "We discussed the conflict with Iran, energy markets, and ways to build on progress made on our critical minerals collaboration." CBC News host Rosie Barton is accusing the Conservatives of being in denial over the Carne government's majority government. Conservative Andrew Sheer pushed back, suggesting the opposite is true. Let's listen.

[00:03:15]>> I understand that you you don't want this change to happen, but it it does, and I say this with respect, it does sound a little bit like you're in denial that the majority has happened. Um, and and I I I understand you don't like the way it's happened, but but this is where we are right now. It's a slim majority, so we'll see how long it lasts. But I So what other I mean, you were speaker of the House of Commons. There are other things that you can do to uh make sure you are able to have a check and balance on the government, are there not?

[00:03:44]>> Well, first of all, I would say no one's in denial. If if anyone's in denial, it's it's it's the government that is uh refusing to accept the results of the last general election.

[00:03:54]>> So far, four conservatives crossed the floor to join the Liberals along with one new Democrat. And CBC analysts have suggested that leader Pierre Palv must bear responsibility.

[00:04:05]Our guest today is Jeff Eively, a Nova Scotia man, former military who was fined almost $29,000 for walking into the woods after a sweeping provincial ban on doing so due to dry conditions and the threat of forest fire. On Friday, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court struck down the ban as unconstitutional. Jeff joins us today.

[00:04:28]Welcome, sir.

[00:04:30]>> Thanks for having me again, Mark.

[00:04:31]Appreciate it.

[00:04:32]>> And congratulations. This would be a load off. I mean, I'm sure you could find better things to do with $29,000 than to give it to the provincial government or any government for that matter.

[00:04:42]>> Any government. Exactly. Yeah. Uh I I'm sure I can put my money to better use than um these obviously inept clowns.

[00:04:51]>> How long did it take for all of this to play out? because you've been working with the uh Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, correct?

[00:04:59]>> Yes, sir. Um, so I think the date that I actually defied the ban was the 8th of August and we just got our decision last Friday, like you said. Um, the uh court proceedings themselves really only ran the course of about three days. We had um two civil liberties organizations, the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Justice Center for Constitution Freedoms with two separate cases. Um one judicial review uh was submitted on the part of the CCA in the uh the CCF um in the public interest and then one in my private interest that was the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. Um, and then on the last day, we heard the government's case. And actually, I the the decision came back quicker than I thought. Uh, the judge said that he was going to need some time to consider all the arguments, so I thought we'd be waiting a lot longer.

[00:05:53]>> Yeah. And what a precedent setting case.

[00:05:55]I mean, assuming it's not appealed, could it be appealed further up the line or is that it?

[00:06:01]>> Well, um, I guess there's always the the possibility that they will try. just in reading the decision. My my personal opinion is it doesn't really leave any room for appeal. It's a rather succinct decision. It's only 17 pages long. Um and the the really telling piece of it is uh the legal test that was applied in this case where um our uh charter protected right to liberty was engaged um and we're dealing with an admin administrative decision is called the door a test. And the first step in the test is to determine whether the decision maker actually considered our rights before issuing the proclamation.

[00:06:43]And uh there's absolutely no evidence that they did. In fact, in their own uh DNR briefing to the minister under the heading legal, the only things they considered was the possibility of being sued by industry. So they permitted industry to enter the woods and just threw the little guy under the bus. And what was the reaction by the province?

[00:07:05]>> You know, I haven't heard any comments from the province yet, so they're pretty quiet, I think.

[00:07:11]>> Well, I mean, they've got to come up with some kind of response at least. I mean, maybe the media wants to just forget it. And, uh, I think I seem to recall that when you did that, the media targeted you, saying it was your fault, that you were being selfish or something like that. Was Do you remember it that way? There was quite a bit of that.

[00:07:31]Scott Reed went on CTV and said that I was a make Maple MAGA selfish guy. Uh yeah, I mean I only spent my entire life uh you know serving Canada in in the Canadian Armed Forces. Uh I'm not sure what Scott Reed ever did for this country. I'm thinking nothing. Um so so there was some of that. uh CTV like you know I was interviewed by Judy Tren and they uh they did everything they could to well you know they weren't as bad as Globalist News. Globalist News were really the worst offenders. Um they called me a right-wing politician and went to uh great lengths to make sure that my veteran status was omitted from the uh from the the report that they did. Even though like I had this background and I was wearing a tank top and wearing my camo hat, I was doing everything I could to look veteran AF.

[00:08:19]Um but they they still managed to to whitewash that component of it. So there it was a bit of a mixed response. Um but uh um you know I I think over time people have kind of come around a little bit and some scales have fallen from eyes and I hope that the the reception this time around is going to be a little better now that we have a favorable decision.

[00:08:39]>> Did the media go down the middle this time or did they subtly or unsuttly criticize the judge's decision? Uh, so far so good. I've only seen a few articles written on it and they're not too bad. Um, and I did an interview with CTV Atlantic, Jesse Thomas, this morning. He reported on the court proceedings um, actually really fairly. I was I kept uh posting about it and just saying like wow this is this is what we need to see more of in Canadian uh media is is this kind of like just straight down the line balanced reporting. Um so I was happy to speak to Jesse again this morning. I'm going to be going into the CBC radio studio here in Sydney tomorrow morning for an interview with them. Um and you know I I have had I think better luck with some of the local boys. So um you know I'm optimist. cautiously optimistic when I'm dealing with the mainstream press.

[00:09:41]>> And what about your friends and neighbors? I mean, there might have been, from what I recall, some of them who did not approve of what you were doing at the time. Have they come around?

[00:09:54]>> Uh, you know, as far as the public reception has been going, like online, there's still a few trolls here and there. There were a lot of trolls the first couple of days and they kind of faded away rather quickly. Um, and now, you know, overwhelmingly I see a lot of support and when I'm out in the community, I've actually had strangers come up to shake my hand and and tell me like, I really appreciate what you did.

[00:10:19]Um, I had somebody just a couple of weeks ago pull up on the side of the road while I was coming to the park with my dog and they were like, are you Jeff?

[00:10:26]And I was like, yeah. And they were like, I loved what you did. So, um I think that by and large, um regular people are are pretty grateful for uh my act of civil disobedience um and pretty happy to see the government getting put in its place for a change.

[00:10:45]>> But if you hadn't pushed back, then there would have been no nothing really um serving as a buffer against government overreach like this.

[00:10:55]I mean, what does it say about the fact that you were you stood up, you used civil disobedience against what turned out to be massive government overreach?

[00:11:06]I mean, this should send a message hopefully not only to other people in your province, but right across the country. What do you think?

[00:11:15]>> Well, uh, I I certainly hope that it does. I I I hope maybe there's some, you know, educational benefit in it in terms of the civic duties that we all uh have and um you know, it it does our democracy is is only healthy so long as it's not a spectator sport. Um so yeah, it does take citizens getting engaged.

[00:11:39]We're always one generation away from letting it all slip away. So um I I think that uh this kind of civic engagement is the kind of thing that um is expected of citizens has always been expected of citizens and um in terms of what what I would expect from public officials and politicians. I hope that they take the lesson from this and that it is not that they need to double down harder next time and build a legal fortress to make sure that they can get away with more in the future. Um, I hope they do the honorable thing and and start uh leading instead of uh all of this demagoguery and tyranny all the time. Um, and I hope that citizens in Nova Scotia, especially those who uh whose livelihoods were impacted, particularly in the tourist industry last summer, I I hope that they sue the government for damages. Um, there need to be some consequences for this. I think that um we uh we should have consequences for politicians who violate our rights. uh that should involve jail time in Canada. Like if you're going to violate the highest law in the land, then um you know, I think you should pay the consequences. And in the military, like the expectations are higher the higher up the uh chain you go and we tend to impose stiffer penalties on higher ranks. So, you know, if you're the the the highest rank in the country, if you're the prime minister and you're violating our rights, I think that you should suffer a more severe punishment um than than somebody lower down the food chain. I think you should see jail time.

[00:13:07]So, you think Premier Houston or maybe uh the cabinet minister over this and face potentially like a criminal prosecution?

[00:13:19]>> Well, that's not the way the the law is set up in Canada right now. But I I think that um the kind of necessary reforms that we should implement um would involve something like that. Like even for these ethics violations that we see at the the federal level, it's a joke. they just they slapped them with a $500 fine or something like that and they're laughing all the way to the bank. I think if we made them spend, you know, like even for an ethics violation, if you got to spend 30 days in jail, um, and we can make a public spectacle of it and humiliate you, then we would see a lot fewer ethics violations.

[00:13:56]>> Well, who should face criminal prosecution as a result of what happened here?

[00:14:01]>> I mean, the the law is structured as it is right now. It's um nobody will like there won't be any criminal prosecutions. But um I I think that we we would have to bring in reforms that would put these decision makers uh in legal jeopardy whenever they step outside the law as they did with this proclamation banning us from the woods.

[00:14:26]>> Okay. So you're not suggesting that the premier or anybody else should be charged and go through that process because there are there are not the legal frameworks in place that would allow that to happen. Is that right?

[00:14:42]>> No, there aren't. And even if we wanted to do like an intermediate step to that, I think that the decision maker who stepped outside the law when issuing this abusive proclamation, um I think he should be unshielded from liability because what's going to happen right now is we're going to sue ourselves. So people who um whose livelihoods were impacted, they're going to be paid by the taxpayer if they win a settlement. Um and and the people who did this to us won't face any consequences. So I think they should be unshielded from liability and personally liable for damages.

[00:15:18]>> Fair enough. I mean if the decision had gone the other way or for instance you never did what you did, it would have set a dangerous precedent. I think the government would almost certainly have used it again. I mean it's one step away from climate lockdowns. This could have been a disaster if you had not done what you did. bear.

[00:15:39]>> I think so. And and a lot of people have been making reference to the potential climate lockdowns. So, uh this is a good precedent to stand on when they try and do that.

[00:15:50]>> Fantastic. So, what's next for you? I mean, you just kind of bask in the glory. Do you write a book? Uh >> um someday, but the the war is not won yet. So, uh, the next >> and what's what's the next fight, Dave?

[00:16:08]Ask Jeff.

[00:16:09]>> Uh, the next fight is called Mayday Kids in Crisis. It's going down on the 5th of May, uh, 2026. We're going to Ottawa doing a parliamentary press gallery, 10:30 in the morning, uh, 100 p.m. rally on the hill and, uh, 6 p.m. town hall, uh, with a lineup of speakers, including experts and those with lived experience of the harms of gender ideology. The goal here is to bring an end to childhood medical transition. Um, every other like all these other countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, the US, they're all uh rolling this back, imposing tighter and tighter restrictions on uh puberty blockers, cross- sex hormones, and sterilizing surgeries for young people.

[00:16:55]Um, so we are an outlier. It's time for Canada to join the civilized world and start protecting our children because any civilization that doesn't protect its children is not going to be a civilization for much longer.

[00:17:08]>> Could there be legal action involved in that if the government does not take your demands seriously?

[00:17:16]>> Um, I think that that is is yet to come and it'll probably be against the doctors who did this. With everything that I understand about this subject, there never was any evidence to support medically transitioning uh young people because they feel uncomfortable with their gender because they have feelings of puberty. Basically, um there there never was any uh any good reason to do this. And we even saw um one of the doctors, Ketadorian from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, who was one of the first in Canada to medicalize young people for the purpose of biomedically transitioning to them to the other gender. She's now coming out and saying that this needs a full review. So that sounds something like what they did in the in the UK with the Cass review. Um but this this practice needs a full review in Canada and she doesn't believe that most of the people they are doing this to are actually being helped by it. So, I think that uh yeah, those doctors, hospitals, the medical system, anybody who was involved in this should be sued into a lifetime of poverty um and potentially I I think face uh face jail time for these egregious abuses. This is the second most evil thing to ever happen in Canada and it needs to stop.

[00:18:28]>> Yeah. Next to Well, they're both pretty bad in my view. I mean, anyway, that that's the direction that Canada's gone in. Um, >> has there been even one politician speak out on your behalf? Uh, >> oh god, no.

[00:18:45]>> You at all?

[00:18:46]>> No. No. Not that I'm aware of. No politician, I don't think, would ever openly would ever openly say that uh, you know, I I did a good thing here or set a good precedent. I I really >> disappointed by that.

[00:19:00]>> What's that?

[00:19:01]>> Are you disappointed by that?

[00:19:04]Uh yeah, but it it's kind of what I've gotten used to. Um I don't think that we really have leaders in this country. Um not on the conservative side either. It seems to be the case that they're watching the polls and doing their focus groups. And so it's kind of up to us, the citizenry, to um lead them in in the right direction. And that's what I intend in doing with this press conference in particular.

[00:19:30]>> Would you consider politics? Are you considering a run?

[00:19:34]>> I I did in in 2025.

[00:19:36]>> Um I I ran with the People's Party, but um I I don't I I actually uh since resigned from the People's Party, so I I wouldn't be running with them again. Um but I would definitely consider it again in the future. But right now, I think that for for what I'm doing, especially with this Mayday event and a lot of the kind of civic engagement uh civic uh that I that I want to do right now, I'm better off doing it unaffiliated. Um not with any political party and then, you know, I mean, we might see an election if we ever do again. It won't be for about another three years federally and probably another three years proincially. So, um, I I could see myself maybe stepping into either one of those arenas, but right now I think I'm just going to focus on my activism.

[00:20:20]>> Thank you so much for coming on the show, Jeff, and congratulations.

[00:20:23]>> Thanks for having me, Mark. Pleasure to talk to you again.

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