True Patriot Love - April 20, 2026


Canada Took It Too Far

Hosted by
Shara Micucci Mike Wixson
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Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

204.77

Word count

289

Sentence count

10

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with the author of the new book "Breaking the Mold: How Canada is Changing the World" to talk about how Canada is breaking the mold on how to do something poorly, and why it's a good thing.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 One example being on drug policy. So harm reduction is not our idea. It comes from the UK, but nobody has gone as far on harm reduction as we have. So just every mid-level Canadian city has a safe injection site. That's unlike anywhere else in the world.
00:00:16.600 I think that's a really good example, and it actually came up in our house over the weekend.
00:00:21.300 As I had to explain to my wife, who is from Mexico and did not see the progression of how we got here, 0.99
00:00:28.460 explaining to her that, yes, there's a place where you can go and inject drugs,
00:00:33.960 and the drug dealer is just down the street, and there's people there to help you.
00:00:37.540 She said it's just unfathomable that we would have even gotten to that point.
00:00:42.780 meanwhile like you point out yeah maybe in some hippie corner of europe they tried it what we
00:00:47.900 don't find out is yeah they gave up on it six months in and they've gone a different way
00:00:52.100 we make the mistake and we stick it out yeah it's also it was able to get entrenched uh more in
00:00:58.400 canada um basically so my thesis i didn't have this thesis going into the book so i thought i'll
00:01:02.640 just write these you know if it's uniquely bad in canada i'll write about it so there's no chapter
00:01:07.280 about like blowing up the debt because everybody's kind of doing that so we'd only got a chapter
00:01:11.040 if it's something in which Canada is breaking the mold on how to do something poorly.
00:01:16.720 And my thesis at the end of this, and again, I didn't have it going into it,
00:01:20.240 was Canada just had no imagination for...