00:09:22.100And in the background you can hear the sound of a gentle breeze, maybe some water lapping the shores, but apparently where Brian Lilly is right now, this weekend, you cannot hear black flies or mosquitoes.
00:09:36.200And I don't know how he's pulled that off, but he has.
00:09:39.480And look, all I'm happy about is that I'm not hearing construction noise at 7 a.m., which is what I get at home.
00:09:46.420I'm not hearing nonstop sirens or crazy people out on the crazy and or drunk stone people out on the street in the middle of the night screaming, fuck you!
00:10:05.380I was up at my cabin where you have been and stayed and getting the boats in the water.
00:10:12.500And the black flies and mosquitoes were wearing biker jackets and driving Harleys.
00:10:16.860Here on Georgian Bay, I'm a bit up from Wasaga Beach, up in tiny.
00:10:26.520I've seen no one pooping on the beach.
00:10:29.460But Ontario Premier Doug Ford, for people that are from Ontario that know Wasaga Beach, Doug Ford made a great – this isn't on our agenda, but let me just make the pitch because I grew up loving Wasaga Beach.
00:10:43.240He's going to make Wasaga great again.
00:10:45.100I think he'd hate me using those words.
00:10:48.120But a place was devastated by a fire a bunch of years ago.
00:10:51.620It's the longest freshwater beach in the world, and they're investing money to bring tourism back to the area and make – like, part of the reason people were pooping on the beach, no public toilets.
00:11:47.740And, you know, there were a lot of people like myself, like yourself, looking at and saying, okay, here's the good, the bad, and the ugly, as with every cabinet.
00:11:54.780I said at the time there's some good appointments, like Kim Hodgson, who's going to be the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, a guy who actually wants to get things built at a time when we need to get things built.
00:12:07.520He made some good noises, and the next day Stephen Giegbo comes out and poops on the beach with his – no, we don't need more pipelines.
00:12:15.920And, by the way, we're going to be at peak oil in two years, and so we don't need to, you know, have any more oil projects.
00:12:22.900Because peak oil is something that environmental zealots, like Giebo – and look, we all want clean water, we all want clean air, beautiful, pristine land, but –
00:15:38.860Other than that, it's been a very different Poliev.
00:15:42.620I'm told that he, as well, that he has been reaching out, that he – there is an attempt to set up a meeting with Doug Ford.
00:15:50.480Ford, I suggested they go to Ford's favorite Etobicoke Italian restaurant, Postaccino.
00:15:56.020And a friend of mine said, no, they've got to go fishing.
00:15:59.700And that way you're stuck in a boat for four hours and you have to actually talk and no one can say, oh, you know what, it's been 45 minutes.
00:16:22.780You know, Don Davies of this non-party party is supposed to be the leader.
00:16:27.320Then all of a sudden we started to hear people, including from, you know, Jenny Kwan, who's like a big, big name in the NDP circles, saying, not so fast.
00:16:36.600We don't like how this was – how it happened.
00:18:09.720That's what I try to put out of my memory.
00:18:11.240Final thing, I just got back from Israel.
00:18:15.300You've been writing some very stirring stuff about what's been going on on the issue of Israel and anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism.
00:18:26.460We had another terrible, terrible event in Toronto, marching down major streets in Toronto,
00:18:32.260and people sitting on restaurant patios being attacked and subjected to abuse and the police doing nothing.
00:18:42.240And, you know, we've got then the President of the United States accepting a multimillion-dollar gift from the banker of Hamas.
00:18:50.840And Israel's looking, to me, pretty alone these days.
00:18:54.860Wanted to get your take on it as well.
00:18:56.420Well, on the incident that happened in Toronto, Mayor Chow views the people that do those sorts of things as her crazies.
00:19:04.640Thankfully, Toronto police did make an arrest after the fact, and they did intervene after a bit of time where people were harassing, you know,
00:19:12.680people just trying to have a meal on a patio in nice weather.
00:19:16.160They didn't intervene after a bit of time.
00:19:18.320But Mayor Chow views them as her crazies, and she knows they vote for her.
00:19:24.100Mayor Demkew knows that those people vote for her, and he takes his marching orders from Mayor Chow.
00:19:49.200As far as Donald Trump and the Qatari jet, I'll say two things.
00:19:55.460If you weren't screaming about Qatar funding the American university system and turning places like Colombia into little Hamas outposts over the past few years,
00:20:39.300Qatar, but, you know, Qatar, 40, what is it, 40 million for this jet, but it's been billions into the U.S. educational system.
00:20:50.720They are the bankrollers of not only Hamas, but they are, I've had some terrorism experts tell me they are more coercive than Iran.
00:21:02.620If some of what Trump is doing can bring them into our side and not be doing that, okay, that's good, and sometimes diplomacy is greasy and weird.
00:27:41.020But the two-tiered cabinet system is kind of interesting, I suppose.
00:27:45.680But, Carl, I guess your takeaways from either the cabinet makeup or, I guess, their ability to communicate this week.
00:27:52.380Well, Mark Carney saw the mirage when he pretended he was different than Justin Trudeau.
00:27:58.260You know, his cabinet at first, his first iteration before the election was shrunk, signaling that he was going in a different direction.
00:28:08.060But here we are today with basically 39, you know, which is the same as Justin Trudeau had before, if you include the parliamentary secretaries, which are basically ministers without the title.
00:28:50.420And then you add to that the fact, the decision that weren't mentioned about the budget, which to me means that this government is following true with the Justin Trudeau budgetary policies.