Brian Lilley Podcast

Donald Trump threatened Canada with tariffs and then blinked. Listen in shock and horror as Brian says something nice about Justin Trudeau and his team and then warns of the future.

While Trump says no tariffs for now he has tied it to NAFTA and militry spending. If Trudeau screws this up we are in trouble. Aaron Gairdner, Warren Kinsella and Carlo Dade weigh in.

And Doug Ford blasts the Ontario PC Party leadership for not extending the voting period.

So the night before a young man was about to be acclaimed a candidate in a provincial nomination race I invited him on my radio show. I had never met the man but I had stuck up for him before. In fact, if you were to ask Jeremy Roberts, no single person in the media did more to raise the issue of voting irregularities in the Ottawa West-Nepean PC nomination than me.

So I invited him in to speak with me about the old nomination being overturned and him being acclaimed. I felt it was important to at least remind listeners why the party re-opened the nomination and allowed Jeremy to run again. He disagreed.

Like so many young politicians with no life experience he decided that being on message track and not acting like a human being was the way to go. It wasn't. I wanted to re-cap the past and move on to the future. I've been an ardent critic of the Ontario Liberals and the Liberal MP that Jeremy will be up against in particular.

I cut the interview short and showed Jeremy the door because I am tired of politicians that want to use the airwaves to sell something but never answer simple questions. If that is what you want I can set you up with the ad department and you can buy an ad.

This is an example of how a politician should never handle an interview and a warning to the rest, if you want to come on the air, answer my damned questions.

Brian opens the show talking about the myth that women in Canada make 69 cents on the dollar to men. While there is a wage gap, actual, reliable statistics show it is much smaller than that. These are facts the government and activists won't like.

Also on the show, you won't believe what someone paid to bring Bill Nye the Science Guy to Ottawa. Hint, it likely involved your tax dollars.

A new poll shows the Ontario Liberals are about to flame out in the next election. And a guns and gangs summit actually focuses on criminals and not duck hunters.

All that and more.

Brian opens the show talking about how Trudeau's Liberals have taken race and identity politics to the next level and abandoned MLK's vision of people judged by the content of their character rather than the colour of their skin. They want it to be all about race.

Also on the show, Brian throws an Ontario PC candidate out of his studio for refusing to answer a simple question and use the air time as his own advertisement. Phil Gurski on terrorists wanting to live in Canada after they are caught elsewhere. Chad Hallman on foreign interference in the election. Megan Shaw on Mulroney's latest event. Hartley Lefton on the PC voting system and challenges. All that and listener calls.

Justin Trudeau isn't just failing on NAFTA and with Trump's tariffs, he is stepping in it with every trade deal he touches. Listen as Brian explains what is wrong with Trudeau. He also speaks to trade expert Carlo Dade on Trump's tariffs and past tariffs. Senator Linda Frum on why fellow members of the upper chambers are blocking her bill to block foreign funding in Canada's elections. Ray Heard on Trudeau's poll numbers and why they are slipping and Dom Santaguido on what needs to be done to fix the Byward Market.

Gerry Ritz served as agriculture minister for eight years under Stephen Harper and has a keen understanding of international trade in one of the biggest components of Canada's economy. As India slaps Canada with even bigger tariffs on agriculture products, Ritz says it is clearly in response to Trudeau insulting India over the conspiracy theory that India is behind a plot to embarrass Trudeau over his invitation to a would be assassin to two receptions.

After a week of Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government insulting India, the government of Narendra Modi has struck back. India has boosted tariffs from 40% to 60% on some key agricultural products. In the midsts of that Trudeau and his cabinet continue to defend briefing journalists but not elected MPs on the Indian conspiracy. Also on the show, the PC Leadership race, the senseless boycott of hiking and paddle boarding gear over guns, a women's bureau at city hall and more.

On Wednesday night in Ottawa the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party held a packed house debate at the Shaw Centre. Listen to the full debate in this special edition of Beyond the News. You can hear the full debate, the immediate reaction from PC Party supporters, the scrums with the candidates and more.

Listen as Brian responds to Trudeau's budget and his admission that the national security advisor is blaming India for his invitation to a terrorist at dinner. On the show, Bloomberg Ottawa Bureau Chief Theo Argitis on what is in the budget, COnservative MP Pierre Poilievre with reaction and lawyer Solomon Friedman tries to convince Brian that he is wrong to be upset the Omar Khadr's lawyer just got appointed to be a judge.

Listen as Brian explains why Trudeau's big blunder in India was using the supposedly "non-partisan" National Security Advisor to spin media on a conspiracy theory that the Indian government was out to get our PM. It is worse than Trudeau changing outfits more often than Britney Spears. Also, a Carleton prof critical of Trudeau gets threatened, Patrick Brown resigns....Brian has the inside scoop, and the terrifying crash in the Rockies.