Poilievre says he's a 'tough guy' who can take on Trump

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In a Fox News interview Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he thinks it's 'easier' to deal with a liberal leader in Canada. In response, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said he's a 'tough guy' who can take on Trump.  Read more: www.cbc.ca/1.7487589  »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/1RreYWS  Connect with CBC News Online:  For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage: http://bit.ly/1Z0m6iX Follow CBC News on TikTok: https://bit.ly/3TnHioe Follow CBC News on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1sA5P9H Find CBC News on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1WjG36m Follow CBC News on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1Z0iE7O Subscribe to CBC News on Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3leaWsr  Download the CBC News app for iOS: http://apple.co/25mpsUz Download the CBC News app for Android: http://bit.ly/1XxuozZ  »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» For more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.

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00:00So, Karina, let's start with Polyev's visit to Sudbury, Ontario.

00:03Yes.

00:04So, he was in Northern Ontario to talk about how to develop and do it more quickly Northern

00:11Ontario's Ring of Fire, which is a source, a great source of critical minerals, if only

00:17we could get to it and extract them.

00:20But in light of Donald Trump's comments about not only Canada, which he made to Fox News,

00:28but on Pierre Polyev himself, Polyev clearly saw it fit to bring it up in terms of a response

00:35to what was said.

00:36So, let's back up a moment.

00:37U.S. President Donald Trump was on Fox News, and the host, Laura Ingram, suggested to Trump

00:45that the Liberals here in Canada were more likely to win the election now, at least that's

00:51what she said based on polls that she was looking at.

00:55And wouldn't that mean that Canada, under the Liberals, would be more hostile to the

01:00U.S. going forward?

01:02Here is part of Trump's response.

01:05The conservative that's running is stupidly no friend of mine.

01:09I don't know him, but he said negative things.

01:10So, when he says negative things, I couldn't care less.

01:13I think it's easier to deal, actually, with a Liberal.

01:17And maybe they're going to win, but I don't really care.

01:19It doesn't matter to me at all.

01:22So this comes on the heels of Trump saying a couple weeks ago that Poliev was not a MAGA

01:28guy, which I think came on the same day that he also tried to help Wayne Gretzky out of

01:34the quagmire that was going on with Wayne Gretzky and trying to defend Wayne Gretzky,

01:40that he believed in Canadian sovereignty.

01:44So Poliev, at that point, responded saying he agreed with Trump that he was not a MAGA

01:49guy and making sure that that differentiation was there.

01:54Again, today, as I mentioned, Pierre Poliev bringing up his response to Trump's comments

02:02on him.

02:03Have a listen to what he had to say.

02:05The president said that having a Liberal prime minister would be easier for him to deal with,

02:11just as he threatened once again to make us the 51st state.

02:16And you know what?

02:18From that point, it's true.

02:21I'm a strong leader.

02:23I'm a tough guy to deal with.

02:24I'm firm in my convictions and I'll always put Canada first.

02:29By contrast, in 10 years, the Liberals have blocked resource projects, hiked taxes and

02:35driven a half trillion dollars of investment to the US.

02:40Now this comes after weeks of the Liberals saying that Pierre Poliev likes Donald Trump,

02:47admires Donald Trump, echoes many of the things that Donald Trump has said.

02:51In fact, they've run ads, at least on social media, that show something that Donald Trump

02:58says and then something that sounds very similar that Pierre Poliev says.

03:02So there's that narrative out there.

03:05And as we head into a very potential election campaign where the whole issue of who can

03:12stand up to Trump best will likely be a key factor in the election, framing Pierre Poliev

03:20as like Donald Trump is obviously not a good framing for the Conservatives.

03:27So if voters take Trump at his word, this is not a symmetry that's there, that he doesn't

03:33like Pierre Poliev, and there's nothing to see here.

03:38A more cynical voter might see Trump's words more as an effort to help Pierre Poliev by

03:45distancing himself from him.

03:47So I leave it to our viewers to decide how they interpret those comments.

03:52And at the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney is back in Ottawa.

03:56Much of his focus today relates to Canada-US relations.

04:00What's he doing?

04:01So he is chairing the Prime Minister's Council on Canada-US Relations.

04:06That is a group of business leaders, union leaders, former politicians that was convened

04:14in January by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

04:18Now this will be Mark Carney's turn to or first turn to chair that council and discuss

04:25obviously his vision and strategy as well as what they think about that going forward

04:32in terms of those relations.

04:33He is also going to be meeting with his cabinet committee on Canada-US relations.

04:41And so we do hope to hear from some cabinet ministers going into that meeting this afternoon.

04:47And you want to bet that some of them will be asked, Andrew, about the rampant election

04:52speculation and perhaps what day we might expect that call to come.

04:57I'm not sure, though, that they will answer.

05:00Probably not.

05:01But you never know.

05:02We might get hints.

05:03This is CBC's Corinna Roman, live in Ottawa.

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