John Iadarola on the jobs at stake if USMCA breaks down
Democracy Watch's Damage Report clip on a business council's warning drew comments more than ten times faster than usual, many of them written from north of the border.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 120,855 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (8,830).
Trump's Canada Disaster Gets WORSE As Colossal Job Consequences Revealed
Canada has been the subject that moves Democracy Watch lately, and a third segment about it in little more than a week has pulled well ahead of everything else on the channel. Democracy Watch reposts clips from The Young Turks network's shows. This one comes from The Damage Report, where John Iadarola takes up a report from the Canadian American Business Council.
The report's warning, as quoted in the description, is blunt. If the free trade deal known as USMCA in the United States and CUSMA in Canada breaks down, Canada would lose more than 100,000 jobs and the United States more than twice as many. The description also covers Washington's refusal to renew the deal in its current form, which would leave it facing a review every year, and the 50 percent tariffs Donald Trump threatened against Canada. The title, "Trump's Canada Disaster Gets WORSE As Colossal Job Consequences Revealed," sets the tone in the network's usual style.
The clip passed 80,000 views within about eleven hours. For a channel whose longer clips usually start far more quietly, that is a different kind of day. The comments arrived even faster, at more than ten times the pace of a usual first day. Many commenters introduce themselves as Canadians and list what crosses the border southward: oil, potash for American farms, steel and aluminum, and electricity from Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec feeding states from Minnesota to Maine. Others point to the trade deals Canada has been making with other countries. One recalls Mark Carney's line that agreements with the US are signed in pencil.
A second Damage Report clip from the same day also ran well past the channel's usual start. In it, Iadarola and Sharon Reed cover Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder, losing Minnesota's Republican primary for governor to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth. It drew less than half the Canada clip's crowd. Rebel HQ segments with David Shuster, posted the same day, are still in the thousands. Even with two fast starts, the channel as a whole is drawing fewer daily views than usual, so the lift belongs to these two clips more than to the whole lineup.
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- Channel
- Democracy Watch
- Subscribers
- 149,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,702,886
- Channel views, pace per day
- 161,239 (on a normal day: 207,629)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 79,538 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 120,855
The numbers
The clip's start, and its comment count, stand well apart from what a longer Democracy Watch upload usually does on its first day.
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Commenters mention the potash American farmers buy from Canada. Which Canadian province is the world's largest potash producer?
Saskatchewan holds huge underground potash deposits and produces more potash than any other region in the world.
