Has democracy failed in Canada, or is the country being steered toward a managed decline by a political class that values global optics over local stability?

Economic winter is upon us as Liberals tout ‘sunny ways,’ yet the data tells a chilling story: a shock loss of 84,000 jobs has sent the unemployment rate soaring to 6.7%, with long-term joblessness now gripping nearly a quarter of the unemployed. While the government maintains that the industrial carbon tax has no impact on your grocery bill, the reality on the ground is a crumbling industrial base. 

Honda has just joined the big three automakers in a massive EV pullback, forecasting their first annual loss in 70 years, even as Mark Carney doubles down on his Beijing trade deal to scrap tariffs on Chinese imports. From the "shameful" lack of transparency regarding the Kuwait base attack to the proposal to scrub emails from access-to-information requests, we are witnessing a nation at a crossroads—where foreign aid and global "climate paths" take priority while Canadian workers are left out in the cold.

It’s a heavy end to the week as the numbers finally catch up to the rhetoric—thanks for joining us to wrap up this Friday session, and we'll see you back here on Monday.

Chapters:

00:00 – IntroductionEconomic 
04:30 – Shock Jobs Report: 84,000 Job Losses & 6.7% Unemployment
11:30 – Young Canadians Squeezed: Foreign Labour, Students & Youth Joblessness
18:00 – Government Job Boom, Private Sector Bust
23:30 – Mark Carney’s Spin vs. Economic Reality
30:00 – Energy Policy: Canada’s Squandered Oil & Gas Advantage
38:30 – Industrial Carbon Tax & Food Prices
44:00 – EV Mandates, Honda’s $15.7B Loss & Auto Sector Collapse
52:00 – China, EVs & BYD: Carney’s High‑Risk Bet
59:30 – Iran War & Trade: Canada’s Leverage with the U.S.
1:05:00 – Kuwait Base Attack: Secrecy, Spin & Military Readiness
1:12:00 – $37.7M to Lebanon: Aid Abroad vs. Crisis at Home
1:18:00 – Immigration & Social Benefits: What Canadians Really Think
1:25:00 – Stand on Guard Act: Home Self‑Defence vs. Liberal Pushback
1:32:00 – Dental Plan Audit, Access to Information Erosion & Dental Program Bloat
1:39:00 – Nova Scotia Wind Farm:  ‘No Conspiracy’, but did Liberal insiders profit?
1:44:00 – Critical Minerals: China’s Grip on Antimony & Strategic Weakness
1:50:00 – Housing Crisis, Family Formation & Gregor Robertson blames Iran
1:56:00 – Health Care at Breaking Point & Mass Immigration Pressure
2:02:00 – Media, CBC & Accountability: Who Works for Whom?
2:08:00 – Closing: Canada’s Crossroads – Prosperity or Managed Decline?

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