True Patriot Love - Don’t Leave Canada This Summer (Here’s Why)

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

True Patriot Love - March 10, 2026

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

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