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The Ricochet Podcast

Dealing with Canada

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It's Justin Trudeau's last day. A time to rejoice for the friends of liberty to our north. But the economic spat between the US and Canada has had the unwelcome consequence of restraining the latter's Conservative Party momentum. Thankfully, Ezra Levant returns to the Ricochet Podcast with a solution, which he laid out in a recently published book with a title that shows he knows how to speak our language: Deal of the Century: The America First Plan for Canada’s Oil Sands. He explains his pitch to the president and brings us up to speed on the political scene of our dearest neighbor. 

Plus, Steve and James talk taxes, the Columbia University crackdown, and Lee Zeldin's big moves at the EPA.





- Sound from today's open: Trudeau's farewell & Ezra Levant seeking answers from Black Rock's CEO in Davos in January

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0:00.0

You know, this is another reason why Canada, the United States can't unify, because, you know,

0:04.1

you have these problems, right? It's incompatible technical issues.

0:08.7

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

0:16.4

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

0:21.4

It's the Rickusay podcast. I'm James Lillin, joined by Stephen Hayward, and we're going to be talking to Ezra Levant about what?

0:27.6

Oh, Canada. So let's have ourselves a podcast.

0:31.7

This may be my last day here in this office, but I will always be boldly and unapologetically Canadian.

0:39.3

My only ask is that no matter what the world throws at us, you always be the same.

0:46.3

Why are you running away from simple questions? Just answer a question. Have you talked to President Trump yet?

0:52.3

I push me.

0:53.3

When was the last time you answered a question that

0:56.0

you didn't know was coming?

0:58.1

Welcome, everybody. It's the Rikoshae podcast

1:00.0

number 7332. I'm James Laleckson, a beautiful

1:04.3

proto-spring day in Minneapolis. I'm joined by Stephen

1:06.8

Hayward in California, I presume. I must of course, you're off in

1:10.0

Bruges or in Peru or somewhere, you peripatetic fellow in California, I presume, unless of course you're off in Bruges or in Peru

1:12.2

or somewhere, you peripatetic fellow. No, I'm at home today and where it's pouring rain,

1:17.6

so you have better weather than I do. That's good. Charles C.W. Cook is not with us due to

1:22.4

a joyous family occasion. So in his absence, we will attempt to, you know, say things in that,

1:29.2

in that accent that somehow, that somehow makes us sound smarter than we actually are.

1:33.5

And that's the one thing I envy Charlie for, among many other things, like the fact that he's in

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