Full Comment
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The anti-Trump radicals storming the U.S. Congress are not our friends
The anti-Trump radicals storming the U.S. Congress are not our friends
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Full Comment is Canada’s podcast for compelling interviews, controversial opinions and fascinating discussions. Hosted by Brian Lilley. Published by Postmedia, new episodes are released each Monday.
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- The anti-Trump radicals storming the U.S. Congress are not our friends · 54 minThe U.S. midterm elections on November 3 are the first big chance for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to rewire the way the United States works, with dozens of…
- What authors of the Alberta ‘firewall’ letter think of Smith’s referendum · 58 minTwenty-five years ago they rewired the province’s political thinking with their landmark “Alberta Agenda,” aka the “firewall” letter: a manifesto for the premier to assert…
- Will Canada sacrifice democratic Taiwan to China’s communists? · 54 minEven as our prime minister seeks favour and greater bonds with Beijing, the communist regime continues to threaten to invade the free, democratic and economically vital republic…
- The ‘disruptive’ professor who refuses to be censored · 60 minFrances Widdowson was fired from her tenured professorship at a Calgary university after criticizing Black Lives Matter. She has been arrested on other campuses when she tried to…
- Don’t wait up for history’s costliest hypothetical pipeline · 49 minIt’s another announcement from Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. And it’s about the same West Coast pipeline they’ve announced before. This time it’s…
- What was B.C.’s David Eby thinking by calling the maddest Canadian election ever? · 1 h 1 minIf you’ve got a majority government with two years left and an unpopular record to defend, calling a snap election might not seem like a great idea. But it did to B.C. Premier…
- It’s showy, it’s insubstantial, but Carney’s EU scheme is slick politics · 50 minThere’s no such thing as “associate membership” in the European Union and nobody knows what it means, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s proposal for it has proven to be a dazzling…
- How Conservatives can get their groove back · 1 h 1 minIt’s a tough time to be a federal Tory. The polls are demoralizing. Some MPs are quitting and some are going rogue. And the worse things get for Canada, the more voters seem to…
- If Carney and Trump are at war, why are they enjoying it? · 54 minPostmedia’s Political Hack team Tasha Kheiriddin and Stuart Thomson join Brian to assess the political spin contest over the collapse of U.S.-Canada trade talks. Despite economic…
- Diversity is not our strength · 46 minThings that divide us cannot possibly unite us. That much would seem obvious, but as Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard tells Brian, society has for decades now prioritized…
- Inside the mainstream media meltdown · 47 minTrust in legacy journalism is plummeting, and after years working inside the CBC, Tara Henley has a good idea why. The author of the new book, The Trust Spiral: Why the Media…
- A Canadian history of drinking, fighting and puking in Parliament · 52 minDetractors like to say that House of Commons decorum has never been worse than it is today, but don’t be so sure. Charlie Feldman is author of the new book, Unparliamentary…
- Canada’s ‘suicidal empathy’ hits its terminal stage · 43 minCivilizations die from suicide, not murder, as a famous historian once said. And Canada’s in the process of administering MAID on itself, says author and professor Gad Saad. He…
- Why U.K. conservatives need to imitate Canada · 51 minBritish politics has become a farce, with Andy Burnham now the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister in a decade. And no one knows what he really stands for or if he’ll even…
- A veteran cop explains what’s really happening inside Canadian policing · 55 minAs unit commander in the largest homicide squad in the country, Hank Idsinga has seen more than most people would ever want to. He discusses with Brian what it’s really like in…
- Hate has corrupted the world’s biggest charities · 48 minThe Red Cross, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF and more — they’re treated by governments and the media as neutral humanitarians working…
- Look what happens in Alberta when we let it do stuff · 48 minTwo new pipeline plans and an enormous $13-billion Meta data centre have been announced for Alberta in just the last few days. Brett Wilson, the veteran Calgary-based investor…
- Canada waited too long to rein in dangerous Big Tech platforms · 57 minBalancing protection for kids online while ensuring free speech and privacy for everyone else isn’t easy, which is why Ottawa has muffed it so many times, leaving Canada decades…
- Is Mark Carney bringing ‘mean’ back? · 1 h 0 minAs Liberal MPs moan anonymously that Prime Minister Mark Carney is a mean boss, his defenders say it’s just high performance expectations (unlike the last leader’s). But, as our…
- Here comes the big U.S.-Israel split · 49 minPresident Donald Trump’s deal with Iran is seen as a total capitulation to the Islamic Republic, and most of all in Israel, which fought alongside the Americans. Brian speaks…
- Ottawa’s building a backdoor to slide into our personal online data · 53 minTech firms and civil libertarians are sounding the alarm about “lawful access” legislation the Liberals seem hellbent on passing before summer. They warn that the backdoor it…
- Carney officially gives up on Canadian values for fear of losing the bigoted vote · 1 h 2 minA prime minister walks into a synagogue for an antisemitism speech and makes things worse. It’s not a joke, as our three guests all agree. Because Mark Carney and his government…
- Face it, some migrants are totally abusing our immigration system · 1 h 2 minWhat happens when you invite the migrants of the world, as former prime minister Justin Trudeau did, to flood into Canada? You end up with an avalanche of false refugee claims…
- Investor interest in Alberta going ‘nuclear’ over Carney’s messaging · 51 minAfter a brutal decade under Justin Trudeau’s draconian anti-development policies, there’s real optimism in the western oilpatch again. Paul Colborne, CEO of Calgary-based Surge…
- Canada’s too late now to save CUSMA from a Trump rewrite...or worse · 43 minThe growing sense about Mark Carney in Washington is that maybe he doesn’t actually want trade peace, as Tracy Moran, National Post correspondent in the U.S. capital, tells…
- This is why so many Albertans want to separate · 57 minIf you haven’t been paying attention to the Alberta separatism movement, you really should. It’s been making huge and rapid strides, with significant support and evidently enough…
- Carney looks more like Trudeau with every update · 1 h 0 minThey’re blowing windfalls. They’re setting up government agencies to subsidize favoured schemes. They’re dithering on infrastructure. And they shrug at Canada’s uncompetitive tax…
- Liberals are ‘hijacking’ the Charter, says Canada’s last living framer of the Constitution · 51 minFormer Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford is the one man still alive who was personally in the room with then prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau when provinces and the…
- Trump’s plan for Cuba isn’t what you’ve been told · 59 minIt’s running short of oil, electricity, food, medicine and currency, but Cuba’s communist regime is digging in as the Trump administration demands economic and democratic…
- Canada’s defence is still a mess despite Ottawa’s NATO-spending claims · 54 minIt’s not actually official that Canada’s defence budget meets NATO’s two per cent of GDP target, despite the press releases claiming so. Yes, spending has been going up, but what…
- Mark Carney is about to get hammered left and right by populism · 1 h 0 minCanada’s two national opposition parties, the Conservatives and NDP — now under Avi Lewis — are relentlessly focused on affordability and dismantling a system they say screws…
- The Supreme Court will just make stuff up to subvert the notwithstanding clause · 50 minIf you think the Supreme Court will be reluctant to rewrite the Constitution, as Ottawa wants it to by handcuffing Section 33, then you haven’t been paying attention, as Bruce…
- What happened to the Mark Carney who promised to make things better? · 56 minWhen he first became prime minister a year ago this month, Mark Carney vowed to improve affordability, build badly needed projects quickly and make Canada more resilient and…
- The former CBC host blowing the lid off its bias and dysfunction · 59 minTravis Dhanraj is not who you’d expect from a CBC critic. He’s not a conservative. He supports public broadcasting. As the host of Canada Tonight, he championed diversity. But as…
- Your private property may not be safe from Aboriginal-title court cases · 50 minConfusing messages are the only guarantee after the Cowichan ruling and the Musqueam deal. The August court case confirmed a First Nation band has “title” over B.C. land that…
- Trump’s Iran attack is also aimed at China · 52 minTehran’s nuclear-weapons race was a risk the U.S., Israel and others couldn’t tolerate, and its terrorism and brutality have only worsened. Its development of weapons that could…
- Canadian politics plays right into the Carney Liberals’ hands · 56 minA third Conservative crosses the floor. Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre runs damage control after one of his MPs goes off script on the trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump…
- Why are Liberals attacking efforts to end Trump’s tariff war? · 1 h 8 minNot many people can do what Jamil Jivani did — maybe not even the prime minister. In a whirlwind trip to Washington, D.C., the Conservative MP met Vice President JD Vance, the…
- Carney's China deal is deeper and more dangerous than tariffs · 38 minIt’s setting off alarm bells in the White House for good reason: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new “strategic partnership” with Beijing is bigger than just the diversification and…
- The Conservatives’ plan to outflank Carney in a snap election · 47 minBrian Lilley was live on the floor of the Conservative convention in Calgary, where the party gave emphatic support to keeping Pierre Poilievre as leader — and expectations were…
- Fighting with Trump is a Liberal strategy for a fresh election · 55 minThe bromance between Donald Trump and Mark Carney is over. The president is back to jeering at the prime minister after Carney’s “hegemon” speech in Switzerland. And Liberals are…
- The activist class is conspicuously quiet about Iran · 49 minUntold numbers of people demanding basic human rights have been killed by a corrupt, bigoted regime, but in the West there are no tent cities on campuses or raucous marches. As…
- What Venezuelans say about Trump’s incursion isn’t what we’ve been told · 59 minEmilio Figueredo and Freddy Guevara understand better than any western analyst the Venezuelan reality, the regime of dictator Nicolas Maduro, and the aftermath of his capture by…
- How the CBC lost its purpose · 45 minCanada once had a public broadcaster in the true sense of the word. Now we have a behemoth we pay nearly $1.5 billion a year for that almost nobody watches and doesn’t come close…
- BEST OF 2025: Don’t let police take away your right to self-defence · 57 minOver the holidays we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2025. Self-defence laws are back in the news, with Alberta’s government recently directing Crown prosecutors…
- BEST OF 2025: How a few rich dairy farmers are sabotaging Canada’s big, beautiful trading future · 57 minOver the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2025. As in July, Canada’s restricted dairy market was recently raised again by U.S. officials who say it…
- Carney helps Chinese interference make a comeback · 50 minAll the hostage-taking, election meddling and spy rings are being swept aside by a Liberal Prime Minister who, like the last one, seems only too eager to cozy up to China. That’s…
- Say hello to pro-pipeline First Nations in B.C. · 39 minListen to the premier of B.C., or the CBC, or the Association of First Nations and you’d think that Indigenous groups on the West Coast are determined to stop a new oil pipeline…
- No Western country seriously wants Ukraine to win · 44 minThe Trump administration has been lambasted for its proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war given its generosity to Moscow — yet Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he’s…
- Liberals are playing silly games with the military again · 54 minCanada’s reputation for politically driven flip-flopping over important military purchases is getting bad, especially given Ottawa’s plans to dramatically beef up our forces. But…
