Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Sue Smith is a Montreal journalist and broadcaster.

• Radio-Canada reports this morning that Mark Carney’s so-called green funds used a Bermuda tax shelter to evade paying taxes back at home
• Carney has also apologized after mistakenly referring to the wrong university and mispronouncing the name of Nathalie Provost
• Quebec’s Finance Minister Eric Girard presented the 2025-26 budget yesterday, which focuses on increased spending to bolster the economy amid potential US tariffs
• Enrollment into the Canadian Armed Forces has increased since the start of the trade war launched by Donald Trump, as well as annexation threats