Steven Guilbeault resigns from the Liberal caucus today. China's foreign minister arrives in Canada tomorrow for the first visit in 10 years. And Ottawa is announcing an LNG deal with Germany from a facility that has not yet made a final investment decision.

Join Jim Csek and Iain Burns as they make sense of it all.The Liberal coalition is fracturing over climate, the trade relationship with Washington is deteriorating while Mexico moves ahead without Canada, and a Buy Canadian policy that allows fully foreign-owned companies to qualify as Canadian suppliers is being defended without irony.

The announcements keep coming. The details keep undermining them.

Today on The Really Big Show:

►Carney calls Alberta's independence referendum a "dangerous bluff", as Smith fires back that this is a decision for Albertans, not Ottawa, and confirms she will campaign for Alberta to remain in Canada

►Carney confirms the Clarity Act does not apply to Alberta's October referendum, describing it as "a question about a question," but warns any future binding independence vote would require a clear majority well above 50% plus 1

►Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault resigns from the Liberal caucus today over Carney's climate policy rollbacks, with sources saying he will remain as MP until the House rises to protect the government's slim majority

►Conservative MP Branden Leslie tables a motion demanding public release of the letter signed by 14 Liberal MPs expressing concern over Carney's environmental rollbacks, a letter CBC obtained but whose signatories the party refuses to name

►Ottawa is set to announce an LNG supply deal with Germany from the Ksi Lisims facility in B.C., four years after rejecting Germany's east coast LNG request, with Ksi Lisims yet to receive a final investment decision

►U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer warns Canada has taken a "different" approach to Trump's tariff policy and says it is "hard to see where that ends," as Mexico begins formal CUSMA renegotiation talks while Canada has yet to officially engage Washington

►Apple warns Bill C-22 would force companies to break encryption by inserting government backdoors into their products, saying it is something the company will never do, as Conservatives, NDP and Bloc all oppose key provisions and the government signals amendments are coming

►Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives in Canada tomorrow for a 3-day visit, the first Chinese foreign minister to do so in 10 years, as CSIS has linked China's disproportionately high diplomatic presence in Canada to espionage, foreign interference and intimidation of Canadian politicians

►Federal managers confirmed Carney's Buy Canadian policy allows 100% foreign-owned companies with a Canadian address, a GST number and one employee to qualify as Canadian suppliers, with officials unable to confirm whether that employee must be Canadian

►Labour Minister Patty Hajdu says cabinet wants better relationships with unions despite invoking Section 107 of the Labour Code 10 times in 2 years to quash legal strikes by email, bypassing Parliament entirely, a record now subject to Federal Court litigation

►Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Nicolas Vincent and a Commons committee report both conclude immigration-driven competition is a key factor in Canada's youth unemployment crisis, with job creation down to 6,000 per month from 34,000 in late 2024 and the ability to find work at its lowest point in 30 years

►74,000 rejected asylum claimants remain eligible for federal health benefits, with taxpayers spending $38.79 million on counselling and $12.41 million on home visits for asylum claimants in 2025 alone

►Canada lost its WHO measles-free status in November 2025 after an outbreak killed 2 Canadians, yet a Public Health Agency memo downplayed the designation as "merely a classification"