Welcome everybody, Crystal Kylan and friends.

Today we're going to be talking to David Dole, also known as the Rational National.

He's a Canadian brother, and he is going to give us a detailed breakdown of exactly what went down in the Canadian election.

Of course, as you all already know,

this is a colossal rebuke of Trump because Trump was talking about making Canada the 51st state.

And he also declared a trade war on them where he put a higher tariff on them than on like 90% of the countries in the world, basically everybody except China.

Yeah.

So there was this big backlash and there was this,

you know, reviving of Canadian national pride. And so he'll have all the details as to how

we got there. Talk a little bit about Mark Carney. I'm also a little curious about NDP,

the further left party and why he thinks they sort of collapsed in a sense. Yeah, I'm curious about

that as well. Yeah. If there's anything Yeah, I'm curious about that as well.

Yeah.

And if there's anything to learn from that for our politics as well.

My theory is they're becoming more Americanized there and you have negative polarization.

And when there's negative polarization, the flight to safety is like, I just got to vote for the people who have the best chance of defeating the conservatives.

And the conservatives say the same thing in the other direction. Yeah it's like a lesser

yeah it's like a lesser evil. It was Trump was unifying. Yes was unifying for them. You saw

actually similar dynamic in France remember that uh rescued Macron uh well do so say that again

say that again say his name. Macron Say his name. McCrome.

One more shot.

She took French classes, so she's got the, she's got the, you know, little twang, it's not a twang, but you get the point.

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