Mark Slapinski - March 20, 2026


Trump’s War Is Hitting Canadians At The Pump

Hosted by
Mark Slapinski
Mentioned
Donald Trump Fat Boy Fresco
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

189.86

Word count

684

Sentence count

11


Summary

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A war on the other side of the world that's just a headline for most people? For most people, they only start to care when it affects their pocketbook. Gas prices are up again, and it's all because of a president that they didn't elect.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 gas prices are up again and donald trump's chaos is a big part of the reason
00:00:04.880 conflicts in the middle east they don't just stay there they show up at the pump and other countries
00:00:10.000 gas prices are already pushing towards a dollar seventy at some stations and canadians are really
00:00:15.280 feeling it gas prices continue to rise in calgary now pushing close to a dollar seventy a liter at
00:00:20.240 many stations a war on the other side of the world that's just a headline for most people
00:00:25.120 they only start to care when it affects their pocketbook
00:00:30.960 now the lie that some right-wing podcasters in canada have been pushing
00:00:34.720 is that donald trump is not our problem and anything and everything bad that happens in
00:00:39.120 this country is because of the liberal government now after donald trump joined israel's bombing
00:00:43.840 campaign in iran the iranian government shut down the important strait of hormuz
00:00:48.720 where 20 percent of the world's oil flows through american officials already warned
00:00:52.880 that Iranian retaliation to the war could disrupt regional shipping and energy flows.
00:00:58.100 Several reporting by Reuters suggests that the closure of the strait is pushing oil prices higher
00:01:03.000 and is leading to inflation worries. That shock is already leading to oil prices going higher
00:01:07.780 and Canadians are already seeing it at the pump. When a major oil producing region gets hit,
00:01:14.000 it doesn't just stay there, it affects the whole world. The unfortunate part is that's going to put
00:01:18.900 more pressure on the cost of living and gas was only the first thing to take a hit when the price
00:01:23.520 of gas goes up that means higher prices for shipping groceries and a higher cost of living
00:01:29.160 in general now Canadians were already stretched pretty thin before and this threatens to push a
00:01:34.420 lot of people off the edge this is landing in a country where a lot of people don't have much of
00:01:39.100 a margin left did you know that over 60 percent of Canadians skipped a meal in the last six months
00:01:44.880 because they couldn't afford to eat and that was before the war in Iran took its toll on gas prices.
00:01:50.960 Check this out. Some Canadians are consciously making hard choices to save money. If it's not
00:01:56.280 on sale we're not buying it. Like Fresco and like Walmart are like the places to go I find and like
00:02:00.960 if you go to Farm Boy or like anywhere else it's just like insane. A new survey from debt relief
00:02:05.480 firm Spurgle finds in the past six months just over 60 percent of respondents say they skip meals
00:02:11.200 or reduce their portions now the most vulnerable canadians are going to feel this especially hard
00:02:16.640 on top of that people that rely on their cars to make money uber drivers cab drivers truck drivers
00:02:22.640 they're also going to feel this really hard and really fast unfortunately for canadians they're
00:02:27.680 being forced to absorb the prices of a war that they didn't start and is being driven by a president
00:02:33.840 that they didn't elect and this is what the people that say that trump doesn't matter to canada
00:02:38.320 constantly get wrong it never ceases to amaze me just how obsessed liberals in canada are with
00:02:45.680 donald trump these people will accuse everybody who disagrees with them for oftentimes incredibly
00:02:51.520 valid reasons as just being this insane trump supporter person as though one that's even a bad
00:02:58.080 thing he's a democratically elected president or two that even has anything to do with literally
00:03:03.920 anything happening in our country which it doesn't trump's chaos it doesn't just stop at the u.s order
00:03:10.400 it doesn't just stop in the middle east canadians like you or me we pay for it too now i want to
00:03:16.640 make it really clear this is much bigger than just a bad day at the pump this isn't just another
00:03:22.160 headline this is what happens when you have an american president that's completely unhinged
00:03:27.440 and decides to cause chaos in a major oil-supporting region.
00:03:31.280 So yes, Trump isn't just America's problem, he's everyone's problem.