Well, folks, welcome back to Michael and us. I'm Luke Savage.

Will Sloan, and we are using the same mic on this episode. I should just say that off the top.

I don't know how the sound quality is going to be. It might be good, it might be bad. Might be vintage. Imagine you're listening to this episode on an old record you found in a crate somewhere. Imagine you're listening to like a Robert Johnson blues album. You know, it's a little crinkly, but it's got the soul. Yeah, sorry, it's my fault. I brought my microphone, but I left the cable at home. So we were in the studio with one microphone.

We're in the Dalton-Miganti headquarters this week.

We're not at the Gore-Liberman studios,

and the Dalton-Migente headquarters only had one chord for one mic.

So that's the current situation, but listen, it'll be fine.

We played it back. It sounded okay.

So, Luke, what's on your mind?

Well, I've had a note for a few weeks to talk about the state of Canadian politics on the podcast.

Take off to the Great White North.

Boo.

Now, that song is, that song is banned.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I hate it when when we use that, although I know many listeners

are a fan. But yeah, look, so it's been a while since we've had a, I don't know, an update on

Canadian politics on this podcast. And I made a note a few weeks ago of a particular clip in

question period, which is, you know, the daily grilling of the government that happens.

Monday to Friday, really, it's Monday to Thursday because no one important ever shows up on

Friday. You know, it's always basically a performance, but it is a good way to get the tempo,

kind of get the, get the mood, get a sense of kind of what the state of play is, what narratives,

you know, the parties are trying to advance. Now, I'm going to play

the clip in question in a second. But, you know, the main piece of context to know right now is that

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