Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Canada. I welcome Conrad. Here's John Bachelor.

Canada. I welcome Conrad Black writing at the National Post about Canada's future.

Conrad, the author most recently of the political and strategic history of the world, volume one from

antiquity to the Caesars, that means to Caesar and his adopted son, Augustus,

is the close of the Roman part, but we're 2,000 years later, so we're

going to turn to another governance that's Canada in the future.

By September of 2025, it will be a general election in Canada and Conrad has written a column about what needs to be done if there is a change in government.

Mr. Proleverever leads the Conservatives.

They look very good in the polls.

So let's raise the bar for what he must achieve.

Conrad, a very good evening to you, the shocker of your column to me, an American who lives with a civil service of about 2 million,

is that in Canada the public sector employees are 4.1 million.

4.1 million is 10% of your population. How did this happen? What does Canada think of having essentially a protected class?

I think the country is appalled by it and I've had I've had a great number of

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