What will the top issues be in the election？
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All signs point to an election underway in Canada on the federal political scene. What does that mean for the future of our nation? How will we deal with the pandemic, the vaccine passport controversy, and the China pandemic?
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all signs point to an election underway in canada on the federal political scene
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what do you think are the issues that the election's going to be fought over and different
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question very similar but different question what do you think are the issues that the election
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should be fought over because look let's be honest there are the issues of long-standing
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consequence ramification things about the future of our nation that we really need to talk it over
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i'll give you a couple ideas of those in just a moment but we also always know that elections
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not always but often turn into things of much lesser consequence you got the political party
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war rooms in the mix and they are just just obsessing over the little minutia nuts and bolts of what this
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campaign literature says and let's take this proposed public policy and totally misrepresent it
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and just you know blow up the whole idea about it get people focused on that they focus on the bozo
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eruptions so there's a candidate running in some writing even if the person won they'd probably be
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a backbencher not a big deal but we still obsessively focus over you know something they posted on
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facebook a number of years ago i mean they love the game to be played that way and it'll be curious to
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see if the various parties and you know all the different campaigns press releases advertising if
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it goes along that narrative if the media follows along if that's what they do or if they do manage
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to stick with the big picture conversations and have those conversations i hope it's the latter but
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who knows we could always focus on the small stuff that doesn't matter when it comes to the big picture
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conversations i i think there are two two major ones that i really hope we can focus on here in
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canada one is speaking of big picture the past year and a half it's kind of been the wildest times for
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for most people in their life assuming they haven't you know gone abroad to participate in armed conflict
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or you know much older canadians who are around for world war ii but what we've seen in this pandemic
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here the laws that we've had on the books people calling the cops on their neighbors just because they
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had their aunt and uncle over for dinner at a certain point when that was against the law and so forth
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and very divided i mean a lot of canadians deeply divided still today this debate over domestic vaccine
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passports i mean it is it is so divisive and the things that people want to see happen in society
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moving forward compared to what other people want to see happen i mean it doesn't bode well
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for the nation right now so what does this all call out for that calls out for leadership someone to
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chart a path forward and talk about these big issues where do we go from here when it comes to the
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pandemic how do we rally the nation how do we unify in perspective not just exploiting the
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differences but really lead us out of this go from strength to strength i mean pick up on the
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momentum and get something positive for the prosperity and the well-being of all canadians
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rather than just you know trying to mire in fears of subsequent lockdowns and all that vaccine
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passport stuff it's just such such an awful divisive conversation that's what we need leaders
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to lead on another issue related issue of course what to do with canada and china the relationship
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with that rising global superpower none other than president joe biden at a g7 recently sitting down
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with the other world leaders trudeau among them and saying come on guys we got to get on the same page
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we gotta get tougher on china and of course china recently saying to the whl no second probe on the
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origins of covet 19 we don't need that we don't want to be a part of it that is unacceptable
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because this most traumatic of of time that we have had this past year and a half china very much
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involved in the origins of that to what degree still unknown that's what the who wants to find
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out previous polling showing that canadians are less and less supportive of china i mean it's a it's
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a small percentage it's like less than 15 now have a positive outlook on china and we got to forge a
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path forward a positive path forward on that we really need leadership because there's so many
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connections between canada and china in many respects in positive ways in terms of all of
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these great dissidents coming from china living in canada really contributing to our society
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absolutely fantastic scenario going on there and we need to welcome more people more distance from
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china anyone from hong kong who wants to come from taiwan and so forth i mean lots of good stuff on
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that front and then when it comes to distancing ourselves from the chinese communist party having its
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tentacles in canada in so many respects that's also where we need leadership on so two big picture
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conversations where to go next with covet 19 discussion unifying way not divisive way and then
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of course dealing with the china file how to get that relationship right and not just the years but the
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decades ahead will those be big picture conversations in the election i hope so i hope we're not just focused