This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Conrad Black, distinguished biographer,

writing at the National Post about what just happened in the United States, the election of Donald

J. Trump, now president-elect of the United States. However, it also involves what we're observing in Germany,

Deutschland, and what we expect to observe in Canada soon enough for the next national elections,

which is a change of weather. Sometimes it's called the cancel culture. Sometimes it's called

woke. Sometimes it's called green. But in any event, the

recommendations for all three have proved to be not true. Conrad, a very good evening to you,

writing about first the United States. Mr. Musk and Mr. Ramoswame are taking on the U.S. government that has been administering the state as if it's all about several acronyms.

DEI is one of them. W. O.K. is another.

And then there's the matter of the question of green.

There are all these names for them.

But that was the Biden administration.

And as I understand it from your recent column,

you're expecting that the Trump administration will not only reverse that language,

but will demonstrate to the American people that they were misled.

Is that correct?

Good evening to you.

Yeah, good evening to you, John. Well, that's my belief and that, in effect, is what the

president and president-elect, meaning with a hyphen between them. We're talking about Trump here.

You know, what he's promised. He has been absolutely consistent in his view that there is no convincing evidence that we

really are suffering any significant warming of the world, and there's no excuse whatever

for inflicting the economic penalties on the public that a big move to electric cars and, you know, taking away

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