In this episode, we talk about the situation in the U.S. and how to deal with it. We also talk about why it's not as important to have a majority anymore and why the Liberals are making a fatal mistake.
00:00:00.000Come July, if we don't have Kuzma in place or we don't have an agreement, we drop out our exports, unemployment skyrockets, like the potential outcome of this is horrendous.
00:00:11.100I appreciate what you're saying, but this isn't, to your point about not being normal times in the U.S., this isn't normal times in Canada.
00:00:17.960So I think where I'm going with this is what usually could be like a Trudeau era where, quite frankly, you gain majority or you do a compact with the NDP, that was fine, right?
00:00:30.000Then you could do whatever you want, spend whatever you want, kind of create these silly programs, give money all over the world, travel, whatever.
00:00:37.940July comes, regardless of who you might do.
00:00:40.360And that's why it's not as important to have a majority anymore.
00:00:44.560And I think where the Liberals are making a little bit of a strategic error right now is if everything falls out in the middle of the summer, Canadians are not going to care who's really in power or who has votes.
00:00:57.680Canadians are going to be clamoring at the door saying, you need to fix this.
00:01:03.060You know, you can't let gas go up because we're we're an oil and gas rich country.
00:01:12.260We're very conservative and we're very quiet most of the time politically.
00:01:17.280But when your unemployment rate skyrockets over 10 percent, when your gas price goes over 250, then you're going to start to see a different Canadian come out.
00:01:26.400When seniors who are the majority support for the liberals all of a sudden see their home equity go to like 10% of what it was pre-COVID, then they're going to be like, hmm, but you know, Paul, I'm not good with this, right?
00:01:41.260a logical accounting standpoint you're like that doesn't make sense but they have that and if they
00:01:46.620have the majority even if the people are upset they'll go well we got three years before we have
00:01:51.740to worry about it and they can put the commercials out in the social media post and go on cbc and ctv
00:01:58.780and let you know don't worry we'll ride this out together elbows up and we'll be fine
00:02:03.100and they'll that's the the fatal mistake we're making at this point whether it be politically
00:02:08.220or just as a society as canadians there is a bottom and quite frankly if the u.s decides to
00:02:15.180just walk away for a short period of time regardless of how many other export deals
00:02:19.660you can knock down, it really isn't going to, it's not going to help.