True Patriot Love - March 10, 2026


Don’t Leave Canada This Summer (Here’s Why)


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Vacationing in Canada? How about spending time in one of the parks in this country? Why not stay in Canada? In this episode, we talk about the reasons why you should vacation in Canada and why you don t need to go anywhere else.

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00:00:00.000 okay well you maybe your vacation was altered to this year i know for my partner and i we are
00:00:08.880 supposed to go to cuba and donald trump got that cancelled and mexico's out and now we're looking
00:00:15.040 at extreme gas prices so where do we fly where do we travel how about we stay home in canada
00:00:20.960 enjoy what this great country has to offer to talk more about it as always thrilled to be
00:00:24.800 joined by brady how are you brady well it didn't get canceled because of him we had it bought
00:00:29.760 through air transat and all of a sudden they had no aviation fuel we got an email saying
00:00:34.720 your vacation's canceled he did it you don't like him at all right well i didn't cancel my vacation
00:00:42.400 i'm just starting to i'm catching a vibe here jim um well i have we have some family friends who
00:00:47.840 were stuck in puerto vallarta when they had the war between um the cartels and the mexican
00:00:52.400 government they weren't very happy about the cartels either thanks for having me on your show
00:00:57.120 yeah the pleasure pleasure brady do you want to talk about vacationing yeah okay so as of this
00:01:02.000 week you could book your campsite at provincial parks and national parks in canada it started
00:01:08.560 march 1st and we are actually quite spoiled in canada from coast to coast beautiful country
00:01:15.120 on lakeside in the forest and so if you're like i'm not comfortable flying somewhere i'm not
00:01:20.720 comfortable traveling somewhere outside of canada why not book some time in one of our parks in this
00:01:25.680 country well i'll tell you right now and it's probably because i've been busy very busy on and
00:01:30.560 off in my life but i've never vacationed outside of canada the only place i've ever actually i've
00:01:34.720 been outside of canada but the only time i've ever vacationed has been in canada i loved pei
00:01:40.160 i love out west so it's just there's so much to see here on such a vast nation that i feel like
00:01:47.040 yeah i get it the sun the beach the ocean right but you can still see the ocean you can still
00:01:51.360 have sun go to newfoundland go to you know go out to bc like you can see the ocean and be part of
00:01:56.480 it absolutely you don't need to go to cuba right but why did you want to go to cuba in the first
00:02:01.760 place what was the thing that was attracting you to going to cuba leaving canada and going to cuba
00:02:05.520 for us it was it was not america okay it was warm my wife had lost her mother and we thought
00:02:11.600 she needs a mental health break um we've had such a number of friends have been to cuba the people
00:02:17.840 and canadians get along so well it was a good price like it's perfect you get a quick getaway
00:02:24.000 we're going to be gone like six days get some sun bit of a break from winter it's been a long winter
00:02:28.320 in canada and and we were packing all the extra stuff they suggest um you can bring school supplies
00:02:34.320 and toiletries for the people that work in the hotel for their families so we're all excited
00:02:38.560 about that so that was the reason we were thinking of going now what if anybody watching doesn't
00:02:43.280 understand why you can't go to cuba now as a canadian why can't you well they they have an
00:02:48.880 embargo donald trump is an embargo on oil and supplies to the country and they ran out of
00:02:54.560 aviation fuel oh my goodness and then they're running out of supplies in the hotels and so
00:03:00.320 basically the tourism industry in cuba has been just crippled because of that so you've had to
00:03:05.280 to take a step back from cuba so are you planning something in canada now are you 100 yeah so that
00:03:10.860 is exactly where we've in and with everything going on and dan mctag's conversation about the
00:03:16.220 world affairs and how long it's going to last you know brady we are looking squarely at we're going
00:03:20.860 to focus on canada spending time here now you had mentioned pei a few years ago our family were at
00:03:26.400 fundy national um it's not funny that's fundy national park is on the bay of fundy but it's
00:03:32.960 the one that overlooks there's a great park that overlooks in um pei you overlook the gulf of st
00:03:39.580 lawrence oh yeah i actually have seen that i don't know the name off the top of my head it's been
00:03:42.920 cavendish cavendish cavendish cavendish yes and about half an hour 40 minutes outside of new
00:03:47.600 glasgow yes and you cross the bridge and in cavendish you're right on the ocean you can book
00:03:52.540 a campsite and walk from your campsite through the sand dunes to the ocean and it's beautiful
00:03:58.020 in the summer and fundy national park um near st john new brunswick in the bay of fundy when the
00:04:03.780 tide goes out you can walk on the ocean floor for over a kilometer because the tide goes out that
00:04:10.020 far wow it's amazing it's amazing and so i mean going from east to west we're so spoiled with
00:04:17.940 parks and nature even northern ontario people don't talk about northern ontario and along lake
00:04:23.140 superior it's stunning like going stunning going up past uh new liskard and all that yes oh my
00:04:28.900 goodness the mountain like terrain is so beautiful like we don't we just don't talk about this enough
00:04:35.700 our oldest daughter lives in edmonton and there's a national park just east of edmonton
00:04:40.020 and they have elk and caribou and bison just walking around the park yeah when you're there
00:04:46.580 um forget bc and tofino along the ocean that's like a whole nother level of beautiful where you
00:04:52.100 can just walk along the pacific ocean so for a lot of people who have fears of their their their
00:04:57.220 safety of their family safety um they're upset with america they don't want to give them money
00:05:02.500 we can keep the money in canada keep supporting a canadian tourism and and maybe enjoy what the
00:05:09.220 country has to offer a lot of the canadians just real quick brady yeah you'll hear stories that
00:05:14.500 they know their city vancouver um calgary winnipeg toronto montreal and they know other places but
00:05:21.940 but they've not really traveled in Canada.
00:05:23.700 Maybe this is a time in our history
00:05:25.240 for people to travel more in Canada
00:05:27.220 and get to know what the country's all about.
00:05:29.360 And let's say people, like, and to your point, Jim,
00:05:32.640 when you were saying, like, you know,
00:05:33.560 maybe people don't want to go to the States
00:05:35.040 and give them money.
00:05:35.840 Let's say a guy like me who has,
00:05:37.340 I have no heat with the States right now at all.
00:05:39.560 I don't have a horse in the race enough
00:05:41.160 to be able to actually take heat.
00:05:42.920 I've got a lot of heat with our own country right now.
00:05:44.720 I love this country, but my anger is focused towards that.
00:05:48.100 But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop
00:05:49.080 spending money in Canada.
00:05:50.120 Right. So let's say there is people that are just like, I can't afford or take a risk or go to the United States right now.
00:05:55.680 So I'm going to stick in Canada. Where are they going? Where are we sending these people?
00:05:59.440 Where are suggestions that you would give people to check out in Canada that they may have not seen?
00:06:03.940 Well, right away, I would start thinking about the Maritimes.
00:06:07.640 To me, it's one of the gems of this country. Beautiful people.
00:06:12.620 There is so much nature along the ocean.
00:06:15.160 there is an underrated national park that our family discovered a few years ago called BIC or
00:06:20.520 Le BIC National Park outside of Rimouski and it's where the salt water is Rimouski I've heard that
00:06:25.800 it's it's about an hour east of Quebec City okay on the St. Lawrence River on the south shore and
00:06:32.240 it's where salt water meets fresh water because the ocean and in the St. Lawrence is salt water
00:06:38.120 and then it turns to fresh water so what do you see when that well you see different sea light
00:06:42.680 depending on what part of the park you're in that's cool and it is stunning and it's it basically
00:06:47.480 there's like rabbits and other wildlife to just walk around and birds and it's one of those places
00:06:53.480 where you you can't do anything to the wildlife it's like a nature preserve so and then for a lot
00:06:58.760 of people in the spring and summer they'll go to mont tremblau or mont gabriel or the laurentians
00:07:03.800 north of montreal because it's so beautiful for hiking and camping so if you start going from
00:07:08.600 east to west of the country there is a spot in every province that is so good to visit and has
00:07:14.840 its own beauty and whether it's a day trip an overnight trip you can get cabins you can get
00:07:21.000 campsites you can book cottages there's so many different things to do and during the pandemic
00:07:27.320 some enterprising university students in canada came up with an idea there are so many city people
00:07:32.680 brady who are discovering nature so what they do is they have a pickup truck with a trailer and an
00:07:38.280 a-frame and they have canoes and kayaks so you go on their app or their website and say hi i'm jim
00:07:44.200 and brady and we've never been but we're gone to a gonkwin park can you bring a kayak they'll pull
00:07:50.440 up to your site drop off your paddles and your kayak and go when are you done we'll see you in
00:07:55.480 four days me and jim down the river with two pink two pink little kayaks enjoy the nature that's the
00:08:00.920 color i would order us we stick out like crazy right even if you don't have it there's places
00:08:06.760 in canada you can rent the stuff they'll bring it to your site wherever you're at and you can enjoy
00:08:12.120 and get out there and to me for your physical health your mental health peace of mind it's it's
00:08:17.720 fantastic brady now me and you are hippies and we're looking at all this stuff and being like
00:08:21.080 you know nature and the beauty of canada and let go trail walking and fishing and all of the the
00:08:25.960 things that canada offers let's say we're talking to a degenerate that wants to take a vacation what
00:08:29.960 indoor festivities or what like sporting festivities should they be going to well if they
00:08:34.760 they don't want the nature thing world cup oh yeah okay starting june 12th at bimo field
00:08:40.160 at bimo field in toronto and then bc place in vancouver the first time ever in our country's
00:08:47.200 history world cup soccer games are being played in canadian soil these cities are going to be
00:08:51.900 out of control it's almost like a world festival yeah yeah so think about june in two of the
00:08:57.580 biggest cities in the country with tens of thousands of tourists from all these countries
00:09:02.820 around the world it's almost like a whole festival yeah and and think about the vibe the food the
00:09:08.560 music um the partying all the bars and restaurants i i mean it's it's going to be a vibe it's going
00:09:14.220 to be a place to be this is what i'm saying so that we have we offer something for not only the
00:09:17.760 hippie guys like ourselves yes we offer something for the party guys too right and the party gals
00:09:21.500 well i'm a big fan of uh music festivals okay and um a few years ago i saw a motley crew at
00:09:27.600 ottawa blues fest how was that it was great my youngest daughter got it for me for a christmas
00:09:32.060 and i was blown away at ottawa blues fest how organized it is and they have an lrt that actually
00:09:38.140 works and you get off you walk about 200 meters and you're at the blues fest festival they have
00:09:44.700 a main stage and they have like an artisan area and vendor tents and then they have a side stages
00:09:50.620 so if you're an up-and-coming act so i know there was a band from newmarket called rubber tire peep
00:09:55.500 show that's trying to build their their audience excuse me what rubber tire peep show rubber tire
00:10:00.540 peep show that may be one of the greatest bands so they played one of the side stages and then so
00:10:07.100 my buddy it's his son so him and his wife and they were watching their son play but people
00:10:12.060 are watching the main stage and you don't you're not interfering with the sound the way they have
00:10:16.460 it set up we do we do festivals like no other like i know there's huge ones in europe and like you
00:10:23.020 get these massive festivals where 200 000 people are there every weekend like they seem to be
00:10:27.100 like more predominant in that side of the world but when we do it we got food trucks there's
00:10:32.460 dancing there's multiple stages there's different bands there's different types of music there's
00:10:37.100 literally something for everyone now oceaga in quebec this year is phenomenal you should see
00:10:42.220 their lineup uh there's country fests in moncton there's the shambhala music fest in bc so every
00:10:48.380 province has some really cool music festival there's the historic mariposa folk festival
00:10:53.500 and there's a great website called music festival wizard.com that's music festival wizard.com and
00:11:00.580 you can go to your province and your month and your weekend and it's every genre music every
00:11:05.100 genre of music so i know they have like um you know sort of the punk sort of skater music yeah
00:11:10.440 well the x-game style yeah yeah yeah they have that going on they have the hip-hop to the festivals
00:11:15.420 and the top 40 festivals mixed together yeah and then of course then there's carabana and the
00:11:20.760 jamaican and caribbean music festival which is one of the biggest anna was huge it's still big
00:11:25.960 no i mean like this past year was so big that the go train kept getting shut down and people have
00:11:30.580 heard me complain about the go train struggles but i understand for caribana they shut the whole
00:11:35.100 city down for that right so that's a thing you can check out of course the pride parades in
00:11:39.740 different cities in the country one of the biggest pride parades in toronto in the world in the world
00:11:43.740 that's what i mean like and i remember that from when i was a young guy the very first time i ever
00:11:46.760 to the big city just happened to be on friday and i was like what is happening this looks like the
00:11:52.840 i want to move here and become an actor and i gotta tell you if you've never um been there
00:11:57.880 and we we're gonna go again it's the butter tart festival in midland ontario which is a little
00:12:03.880 northern ontario community and it's right on the water i tell you it's tens of thousands of people
00:12:09.960 really family friendly and all these different butter tarts and cookies and that food it's
00:12:15.080 awesome i've heard i've heard various friends over the past couple years tell me about certain food
00:12:19.560 festivals that they're going to it never surprises me the maple syrup the ice cream oh like i love
00:12:25.560 taco fest and rib fest and all the classics too but these unique ones that kind of pop up in
00:12:30.280 different cities are hilarious when are we going to get like bubble tea fest and i'd be remiss if
00:12:34.360 i didn't mention especially for western canada they have a lot and some in northern ontario
00:12:39.160 they have some amazing indigenous powwows yes which are fantastic and i think is is something
00:12:44.680 all Canadians should experience at once in their life and get to know the indigenous people of
00:12:49.600 this country. But it's also a festival type thing with food and music and that. So there is no
00:12:55.280 excuse in this country as we get out of this long winter and start looking ahead to spring and
00:13:00.660 summer and fall between sporting events and music events, arts and cultural events, food festivals.
00:13:08.280 There's really something happening every weekend in basically every city in this country, Brady.
00:13:12.520 Well, then why are we leaving? Why do we always encourage everyone to get on a plane and go and spend their money abroad? I get it. Like I said at the beginning, the beaches, the unique animals. I think winter does something to us. I think it does. I think it just starts breaking us and we're like, we got to get out of here. But now that everything going on in the world. I want to stay home. I mean, I'm hearing that more and more. I want to stay home for a minute. And I don't mean I'm my physical home. I mean, let's stay in our country for a second until the rest of the world sorts itself out because as we're recording this, it is
00:13:42.500 chaos right now that the morning of the day we recorded this the u.s navy for the first time
00:13:47.940 since world war ii sank an enemy ship with a torpedo off the just off the straits of her moves
00:13:54.020 so the world as we know it in the persian gulf and all those countries i mean they're showing
00:13:58.980 people who are on vacation dubai scrambling to get flights out of there yeah they're actually
00:14:03.780 saying some of these cities in the other side of the persian gulf who are being targeted by iran
00:14:09.060 will have to go by land to other cities to safely get a plane back home i i thought scary i talked
00:14:14.660 to a friend that is in the middle of this over there yesterday and i'm not gonna out you but
00:14:19.780 i'm like you know it's dangerous you should probably think about coming home or going to your
00:14:23.060 you know the country the other country that you live in over there and he just said i'm good he
00:14:27.700 goes i've been through seven of these now so so he's lived the life he's a young guy and he's seen
00:14:34.420 he's seen this happen many a time nothing like this to the extent of what we're doing but it
00:14:39.940 seems to be a constant thing over there so yes let's stay home and encourage canadians to stay
00:14:43.540 home can i give you a couple of my hot spots yeah please please the yukon what do you know
00:14:48.500 about the yukon i've always wanted to go there it is amazing and isn't the sun set like 11 or 12
00:14:54.340 at night in the summer sometimes the sun and the light and it's the way the atmosphere is out there
00:14:59.460 has a mind of its own it's its own unique creature so when the thaw happens and we start seeing um
00:15:04.900 the beginning of the northern lights the northern lights get crazy towards the end of the summer and
00:15:08.500 the fall it still goes on in the end of summer it's never not going on out there oh look i thought
00:15:13.300 it was a winter thing it is a winter thing when you're seeing these crazy uh pictures that people
00:15:18.260 constantly posting right because it does contrast off of the sky a lot nicer in the winter there's
00:15:22.500 clear skies okay but when i was out there in august uh not this past august a few years ago
00:15:27.540 at nighttime no you're seeing purple streaks and green streets oh yeah it's always i heard i mean
00:15:32.180 it looks like online it looks stunning you might not see it so much in in white horse and in the
00:15:36.740 main parts but when you get out past like peli's crossing and you start going up towards dawson
00:15:40.820 and you're getting up towards the arctic circle and alaska's border right when you're way up there
00:15:44.820 that the second the sun goes down you're seeing it but dawson city i need to talk about for a
00:15:49.220 second yeah dawson city is the gem of canada really the actual hidden gem so it's the original gold
00:15:55.780 rush town i knew that right so but it still stayed preserved from when the gold rush had happened so
00:16:01.460 you have wooden sidewalks you have original saloons where the saloon player is playing with an open
00:16:06.180 saloon door all day long there's a what the cowboy there's a dog laying on the side while you can
00:16:10.580 just pet him while you're having you know you're out there just saying like what is happening
00:16:14.900 the streets are made of three quarters crystal quartz because it's just crystal quartz out
00:16:19.620 there everywhere on the top of this now they made the streets they just got paved in there
00:16:23.060 it just kind of that's what shows up after all the the dirt and everything kind of treads away
00:16:28.180 right you just start seeing the streets are shiny they have one of the oldest casinos in the world
00:16:33.140 called diamond tooth gerties they have some of the oldest cabins in the world that have been
00:16:36.980 preserved and restored called um klondike kate's you can rent them oh fantastic but if you're going
00:16:42.420 to start renting you need to call last year because the the yukon gets booked up dawson
00:16:47.300 city gets booked up very fast and i can only imagine it's getting booked up even crazier now
00:16:51.620 because of people now canceling their trips around the world but dawson city if if you have a minute
00:16:56.900 when you're done with this just google it you will love everything about it it is a long trip to get
00:17:01.620 out there if you're going from out east uh in canada but it's worth the travel one of the most
00:17:06.820 beautiful places in the world if you go to the moon which is basically a lookout over top of
00:17:11.380 the city your head feels like it's going to explode because you're as high as the clouds
00:17:15.220 i have pictures of me and my friends like taking pictures on our phone someone took a picture from
00:17:19.140 far away and the clouds we're in the clouds really you're in the clouds okay i'm gonna pick one
00:17:25.700 because i've been there a few times and the one that's always special to me is peggy's cove
00:17:30.260 peggy's cove yeah and um there's actually there are warnings that they now have security guards
00:17:35.060 it's no joke you never stand in the dark rocks because the waves come and make the rocks dark
00:17:41.780 by the shore okay and every ninth or tenth wave is a rogue wave and if you pulls you out you're done
00:17:47.620 you're gone so they have holy are you encouraging me to go there so what they've done is they built
00:17:52.580 um sort of with pressure treated with these walkways near the rock so you stay on the
00:17:57.780 walkways you can get the best photos ever um it is the most rugged natural beauty uh
00:18:05.140 ocean side view i've ever seen is peggy's cove nova scotia um it's just because there's all
00:18:11.060 now they've made it so it's very tourist safe okay it's really cool that just to drive there
00:18:16.100 from halifax i was getting worried that you were just trying to send me out there to lose me
00:18:19.780 you're sick of me in the newsroom now but the uh the salt you can smell the salt off the ocean that
00:18:25.780 that salt spray um the sun off the water it is such a cool vibe you need a little windbreaker
00:18:31.860 there's always a little bit of a wind off the water but it's fantastic peggy's cold it's fantastic
00:18:37.220 we're talking about pei i forgot to bring it up that if you've never seen red sand and red dirt
00:18:42.100 before it's incredible it is now my you don't bring out any clothing that you care about because
00:18:47.220 it will get red from the dirt everything's red i remember the very first time i washed my laundry
00:18:50.900 when i got back from there i ruined my entire washer it was just like everything was red all
00:18:54.900 my socks were orange for forever but it's it's beautiful and it's unique yeah now there's two
00:18:59.620 ways to get to pei by the there's the ferry which has been going forever and the confederation
00:19:04.420 bridge it's a beautiful bridge it's incredible it's an engineering marvel but here's something
00:19:08.340 you don't realize they have university students on either side of the bridge and if people get
00:19:13.460 freaked out there's all these old call boxes because it's so high up you call oh yeah and
00:19:18.900 they'll come up and help drive and they'll get in the car and they'll drive your vehicle over
00:19:23.060 and then they can go back to their station so they it's set up very tourist friendly it's it
00:19:28.020 and you're driving over the northumberland straits uh over the ocean to get to pi it's a fantastic
00:19:34.900 scene if anybody's been out to pei recently because i haven't been there in 10 years or so
00:19:38.500 even longer than that now um at one point they didn't have cans they didn't have any tin cans
00:19:43.620 you had everything was in glass bottles and it felt like when i was in the 80s and i'd go to a
00:19:47.620 grocery store and your pop would come in one liter bottles and i'm like what they're still
00:19:52.420 doing these returns like it was it's quaint yeah it feels like it feels charlottetown feels like
00:19:58.500 a little hidden gem inside of canada that yeah a lot of people have seen and they've heard about
00:20:02.260 but there's nothing like when you leave charlottetown and you start going into those rolling
00:20:05.620 hills man they called it a little mini scotland for a reason because it does look like a little
00:20:09.380 scotland yeah um i know for uh out west too i have some friends that have cottages in the lake of the
00:20:16.740 woods near the border of ontario manitoba and someone like winnipeg and they swear by too but
00:20:21.300 you had another place you wanted to mention alberta calgary yes okay calgary is becoming
00:20:26.660 i know that it's close to my heart because i was just out there recently but your short drive to
00:20:30.660 the you're right there at the rockies the people are so freaking nice in calgary that there should
00:20:36.740 be no reason why every person in canada isn't going out there and trying to you know maybe
00:20:41.940 win their trust back well you know bamf lake louise and jasper jasper you got some of the most scenic
00:20:48.580 spots in the world yeah and there is actually i can't forgive me but there's a golf course that
00:20:54.660 basically is in the mountains and when you my buddy sent me a photo of you golfing and the 0.84
00:20:59.140 rocky mountains are behind him while he's being off like it's almost too nice how stupidly beautiful
00:21:05.080 it is so yeah well while our directors crash the set out there i guess we'll let you wrap it up
00:21:10.080 jimmy um thanks for having me on man i love talking about uh places in canada that i need
00:21:14.080 to check out but peggy's cove i'm gonna go check out check it out now just a just a warning to
00:21:18.520 everyone if you are thinking about booking a weekend or a day a night at a national park
00:21:24.000 or provincial park in the country a lot of them the booking has started now yeah and you have to
00:21:28.800 start going online and picking your weekend picking your time uh for a site whether it's a
00:21:33.840 tent or a small trailer or whatnot uh right now and as you said like a place like a dawson city
00:21:39.100 or any other place start calling that has cabins start thinking now booking now stay in canada
00:21:44.680 let's support each other uh whether it's just day trips we can getaways uh the festivals and music
00:21:51.380 festivals we have a lot to offer this year and we can feel safe and sound in this great country
00:21:55.040 even a place like canada's wonderland they've upgraded their stuff constantly like take your
00:21:59.080 family out spend your money in canada oh the the f1 race in montreal yeah and there's actually this
00:22:05.200 year the indie race in canada has been moved to downtown toronto to markham so they turned
00:22:10.160 downtown markham for the uh indie race so i'm looking forward to that in august as well perfect
00:22:15.300 awesome thanks jim thanks guys