00:01:06.620Film actor, did 50 movies, you know, was the governor of California, right?
00:01:14.280Got shot by Hinckley in 81 or whatever it was.
00:01:18.180You know, he was quite a character, you know, and I think there's so many stories.
00:01:23.740You know, after he got shot and they rushed him to the hospital, he looked up and he said to the surgeon, you know, I hope you're Republican.
00:01:57.860Still talked about to this day, you know, but left consequences, high deficits, wage inequalities.
00:02:03.840There were some things about Reaganomics that weren't so pretty.
00:02:06.220But, you know, he was in a tough time, right?
00:02:08.620The world was seeing crazy inflation and interest and all these things happening.
00:02:14.540And he needed to react to probably unprecedented waters, right?
00:02:17.960But he did truthfully believe that free trade between Mexico, Canada, and the United States was the way to go.
00:02:25.200And he was a champion of it until he passed away.
00:02:28.580You know, and I got to tell you, it's a funny thing.
00:02:30.180The thing I remember the most about Ronald Reagan, because living in the States for years, they used to tell this crazy story about how he went to, he loved slippers.
00:02:56.740But, you know, those were the characters that actually had the vision to create this and to figure out that as North Americans, we needed to work together.
00:03:05.740And real quick, I mean, for people who don't realize it, towards the end of Jimmy Carter's administration in the late 70s, the American economy was in very, very tough shape.
00:03:16.580Then you had the Iran hostage scandal.
00:03:32.740And Reagan basically grabbed the country by the bootstraps and found a way to turn things around.
00:03:38.300Was trying to find ways to get things built, to get the economy going, to make money move back and forth for the betterment of the United States.
00:04:22.740You know, the end of his career was not so great in the fact that, you know, the hotel room and, you know, Fred dissed in the bag of 300,000 and the autobus scandal, right?
00:04:46.000He was the one, and the signing, you know, you mentioned to me, Kretchen, who came right after.
00:04:53.220So, you know, it's interesting because Mulroney did a lot of the heavy lifting on it, and then, you know, GST, I think GST was the killer for him.
00:05:10.240But, you know, interesting because that was the thing that was the nail in the coffin politically and then the side scandals that happened after.
00:05:17.600But, you know, did a yeoman's task to get us to where we are today and where we have been.
00:05:25.000And, you know, so then Kretchen and Bill Clinton, who you mentioned earlier, right, step up.
00:05:31.580And the Mexican president, I'm trying to think who it is, it'll come to me in a minute.
00:05:40.080So they step up and they sit down and there was a negotiation between, it was Mulroney and Bush and Salinas who did 14 months of heavy lifting on this, right?
00:07:41.240So, and I was throwing a party at the Preakness and I had a bunch of governors coming to this party because they all want to come to the Preakness.
00:07:51.980So they're coming to this party and the table that was sitting across the way from me was a bunch of celebrities and rock stars.
00:09:55.760Met him again in a more casual setting in Little Rock.
00:09:58.360And same thing, like just the room just buzzed, right?
00:10:01.760So, so it's interesting because Chrétien, you know, the other day when he was sitting with Harper and getting, you know, that they were having the conversation.
00:10:17.120You know, there's a gentleman, you know, a French Canadian, you know, he was paralyzed on one side.
00:10:23.900You know, he started off, did so well, you know, his background, became prime minister and went on to befriend, you know, at that time, Bill Clinton, you know, no matter, forget his Monica, forget all the stuff about Epstein.
00:10:39.780I mean, you know, he eclipsed all of that and still is probably one of the most popular presidents in the U.S. history, like people still today, you know.
00:10:50.120No, but I think I would agree with you, Paul.
00:10:53.040However, the revelations of the Epstein files is tarnishing his image and legacy.
00:11:00.540I mean, I mean, to go there that many times, it is tarnishing.
00:11:04.940I will say this about Jean Chrétien, who was the little guy from Schoeningen, he is still very respected on Parliament Hill amongst all political parties, and his voice and presence still carries a lot of weight in Canadian politics.
00:11:19.980Well, it doesn't have the baggage of a Bill Clinton.
00:11:24.580But, you know, it's interesting, and to Chrétien, you know, we've talked about it on previous shows, you know, having that ability, which we, you know, coming from Calgary, we talked about the other day.
00:11:35.500A leader has to have the ability to just walk among the common people, to just get out and have a conversation and listen and talk.
00:11:42.940And, you know, both of those guys did, you know.
00:12:20.920Tell the story about that, because for the younger people, they probably don't remember the trucks with the symbol.
00:12:25.020Yeah, so after everything happened with NAFTA, when you would do a road trip in Canada, the United States, you would see tractor-trailers, and they all had the three flags.