Mark Carney was asked about Donald Trump predicting that Canada would apologize within weeks and drop its tariffs, and about a senior White House adviser telling Canadian lobbyists to get out of Washington. Carney laughed out loud. "I take note of both comments," the prime minister said.

David Menzies, Tamara Lich and Joe Anidjar, leader of the Canada First movement, weren't amused on Friday's Rebel Roundtable.

"Here is a man that had based his whole campaign on rage baiting and hate mongering against President Trump," Lich said, wondering why if Ottawa is negotiating in good faith, the Liberals won't release the deal they walked away from. "The arrogance is just off the charts."

Canadia First leader Joe Anidjar agreed. Carney promised a quick deal with the Americans, he noted, and instead has been "trying to throw us into the arms of the EU."

Menzies pointed to the economy. Unemployment, food bank usage and homelessness are all up, with a tent city "around the corner" in almost every town, yet the Liberals keep rising in the polls. He suggested turmoil with Trump may simply work better for the Liberal Party than a deal would. "Are you better off today than you were 10 or 11 years ago?" he asked.

Lich answered with an example from her own family. 

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A can of baby formula now costs more than $70. Her 34-year-old daughter, a single mom, moved in for what was supposed to be two months in 2023. "She can't afford to leave our home," Lich said. Anidjar said his activism has cost him opportunities, friends and family, but that he refuses to hide his face. 

"If you believe in something and if you stand by something, you face it right on," he said.

The panel then played Trump's latest remarks accusing Canada's leaders of taking advantage of the United States, including tariffs of up to 400% on American farm products. Menzies said the president has a point. Supply management for dairy, chicken, eggs and turkey keeps prices artificially high, he said, and tariffs on some U.S. dairy products exceed 300%.

"Does it make me a traitor to Canada to say, you know what, the president has a point here?" he wondered.

"You're not a traitor. You just have common sense," Anidjar replied. Trump's responsibility is to Americans, he said, and Canada's government should be governing for Canadians instead of for itself.

Lich added that Canada's interprovincial trade barriers make it easier for some industries to trade with other countries than with other provinces.

"As long as I've been alive, they've been talking about reform for that," Menzies said. "That's all it is. Talk."