Carney sidelined in a $30B US-China deal, and The Elevate Report takes off
Josh's day-old take on Ottawa being left out of the Washington-Beijing trade pact is moving almost as fast as his entire channel usually does in a day.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 123,702 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (10,926).
“They Left Us Behind!” | Trump Closes $30B China Trade Deal As Carney Gets Sidelined
The Elevate Report is a daily show about Canadian politics, hosted by a man the channel simply calls Josh. Its newest episode, "“They Left Us Behind!” | Trump Closes $30B China Trade Deal As Carney Gets Sidelined," started at roughly eleven times the pace a new upload usually manages here.
The timing makes it stand out even more. The channel as a whole is having a slower day than normal, running at about half its usual daily pace. That leaves this single video, on its own, moving nearly as fast as the whole catalog usually does.
The chapters show the plan. The episode opens with President Trump signing the deal with China, turns to American attention shifting toward the Canadian border, and ends on a CBC clip in which a Democratic operative advises Canadians to wait it out. Josh's source list reaches further. It cites the food economist Sylvain Charlebois in the Toronto Sun, arguing that Canada's boycott of American alcohol is about to backfire. It also points to the show's pushback on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, the CBC's long-running satire. The tags lean on CUSMA, the Canadian name for the North American trade pact, which is the question underneath all of it.
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- Channel
- The Elevate Report
- Subscribers
- 174,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 64,566 (on a normal day: 126,176)
- Video published
- September 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 45,836 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 123,702
The numbers
The figures show a first day far outside the routine for this channel, on a day when everything else was running quieter than usual.


