Will MAGA Make Canada Liberal Again?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Polls have narrowed as Canadians head to the ballot box. Mark Carney has led a remarkable fightback for the Liberal party, driven in no small part by a newfound sense of Canadian nationalism - determined not to be cowed by Donald Trump, disgusted by his overtures to turn the country into America's 51 state.
But with the election looking tightly contested, Jon's been on the Conservative party campaign trail in Oakville, Ontario, where "Maple Leaf MAGA" is also coming out in force - could Donald Trump have killed their chance of returning to government?
Later, Emily speaks to Sacha Lord - the chair of The Night Time Industries Association and former advisor to Andy Burnham - on what's going wrong with the British economy, and why Keir Starmer unfollowed him on X.
And, as Virginia Giuffre's family describe the ongoing pain and trauma she endured until she ended her life, Emily asks why it took her suicide for people to believe her account.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | So does the president, does the US still want to make Canada the 51st state? |
| 0:17.0 | I think the president has stated repeatedly. He thinks Canada would be better off as a state. |
| 0:21.8 | I mean, and he has said that based on what he was told by the previous prime minister, who said Canada can't survive unless it treats the U.S. unfairly intrigued. |
| 0:29.7 | That's America's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, being asked if Donald Trump still wants to make Canada a part of America. |
| 0:39.4 | He doesn't really want to say yes, but he does. |
| 0:43.2 | And that is having a massive effect here in Canada, where people are going to the polls today. |
| 0:49.8 | It has convulsed the general election here. |
| 0:53.2 | Is it going to be the biggest political turnaround in polling history where the Maga Party of Canada |
| 1:00.7 | effectively is destroyed by Donald Trump? |
| 1:05.2 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:09.8 | The Newsagents. It's John in Toronto, Canada. |
| 1:13.7 | It's Emily. And later in the podcast, we're going to be reflecting a little bit more on the life of Virginia Dufre who died this weekend. |
| 1:21.3 | She was Prince Andrews' accuser. And I guess our paths crossed in a rather unusual way. But here in Canada, it is polling day. It is |
| 1:30.8 | kind of bright blue skies outside. And Canadians will be going to vote in huge numbers if the early |
| 1:37.1 | voting is anything to go by. And the Canadian system is very much like our own. It's first past |
| 1:43.1 | the post. There are 343 constituencies. |
| 1:46.0 | You've just got to get a majority to get there. Now, two or three months ago, the Conservatives were riding high. |
| 1:52.4 | Justin Trudeau, massively unpopular. He resigns. Mark Carney comes in as his successor for the Liberals. |
| 1:59.1 | There's this populist leader called Pierre Poli Evra from |
| 2:02.1 | the Conservatives who is sort of Maga light, but, you know, a lot of the messaging sounds |
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