One of the big issues that has really galvanized people has been what we call the carbon tax.

The liberals went along with what was wanted by the World Economic Forum and the Rio Summit and the Paris Summit saying all carbon is bad.

The best way you deal with that is put a big tax on it.

And of course that's had all kinds of negative, very negative effects,

especially on people's individuals' buying power.

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Welcome to Outstanding, where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and the

ideas that shape us. I'm your host, Joseph

Backholman. This is another exercise in taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

And this time, we're going to kind of do that about Canada. As you know, Trump 2.0 is mixing

it up with everyone. Panama, Denmark, China, Mexico, Canada. He's using tariffs to try to get candidate to do things

that they haven't been doing recently on the border. How big of a deal is that? Well, and even as

Canada reckons with new leadership from an old neighbor, they're having their own debates

internally about the best path forward as a nation.

How similar are those debates to the debates we're having here in the U.S.?

And what does that tell us about the direction of the West and the world?

Joining me now to help us better understand what's going on north of the border is Stockwell Day.

He's a former Canadian politician started in Alberta and also served in

the Canadian Parliament. He remains an observer of Canadian and global politics as well,

and he joins us to provide the Canadian perspective, Stockwell. Thank you for taking some time today.

Yeah, good to be with you. Well, first off, you know, kind of COVID now, a lot of changed in the world.

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