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610 CKTB | The Comeback Delusion: Why Canada Risks Being Dunked on the Global Stage · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: He's Gene Malliance on six ten CKTV, Niagrez, Dudes and Tom.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, it is time for Littke has a take,
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  Speaker 2: and this morning, John Litke has a new take on
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  Speaker 2: comparing the chaotic chio political map to the front page
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  Speaker 2: of the sports section, the start of the World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: the New York Knicks win, and the White House UFC fight.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, John, Good morning Gene. This is the only
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  Speaker 1: way I can talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Before Okay, well, listen, the New York Knicks won their
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  Speaker 2: first NBA championship in decades. It was a really unbelievable comeback.
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  Speaker 2: But we're tying it into the gea political map now.
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  Speaker 2: And you say, Mark Carney and the liberal elite are
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  Speaker 2: suffering from a dangerous comeback kids kick Nicks delusion, a
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  Speaker 2: comeback kid Knicks delusion. There explain that one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Knicks ending their multi decade championship drought with
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  Speaker 1: that wild fourth quarter rally. It's great. I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: would make a great Hollywood movie, let alone real life.
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  Speaker 1: But when we're talking with the real world of geopolitics,
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  Speaker 1: the sheer failure of Mark Carney's leadership has actually been
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  Speaker 1: really astounding. And I've done a sort of about face
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  Speaker 1: about it, really, after reflecting on how tragic it's been
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  Speaker 1: with the Gordy Howe Bridge being stalled and looking at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, into the new week of things now with
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  Speaker 1: everything behind us, Carne built his entire political brand on
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  Speaker 1: one arrogant premise. Quite frankly, he said that he was
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  Speaker 1: the lone technocratic savior sophisticated enough to contain Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: But if we look at the scoreboard, we're over a
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  Speaker 1: year into his ten year as Prime Minister. Trump is
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  Speaker 1: more unconstrained than ever, and Canada is in a weaker
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  Speaker 1: position than we've been in generations. The liberal elite are
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  Speaker 1: trailing on productivity, completely missing in action on the border
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  Speaker 1: control or the file. They're starving our military, but they're
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  Speaker 1: looking in the mirror and they're genuinely believing that their
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  Speaker 1: resumes will trigger that epic last minute comeback. But you
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  Speaker 1: can't coast on old prestige when you're getting blown out
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. This is just arrogance, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to all pay the price.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we look at your three arenas, the twenty two
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  Speaker 2: six World Cup, the New York Knicks win, and that
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  Speaker 2: while UFC White House Fight last night I love this
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  Speaker 2: one guy too. He thanks Jesus, He thanks Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: on his birthday, and then and then said, and remember, Michelle,
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  Speaker 2: Obama is a man in any event, starting with the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty World Cup across North America. You say our leaders,
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  Speaker 2: in comparison have a house league mindset when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to national security, wiset well, Ottawa.
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  Speaker 1: Is approaching global security gene like it is a weekend
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  Speaker 1: house league soccer tournament where the ultimate goals are handing
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  Speaker 1: out participation trophies, keeping things polite, and you know they
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  Speaker 1: want to of course win reelection. To me, this is
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  Speaker 1: a joke. The International Order is not a friendly match
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  Speaker 1: governed by referees with whistles or handing out yellower red cards.
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  Speaker 1: It's a multi trillion dollar fraud being run by bad
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  Speaker 1: faith bullies and autocrats. And while our establishment is busy
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  Speaker 1: policing language or parsing syllables and managing our national decline
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  Speaker 1: by actually talking about it on the stage like Mark
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  Speaker 1: Carney's been doing over the past couple of weeks, while
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  Speaker 1: you know, do something please. Are our adversaries, though, are
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  Speaker 1: literally playing for keeps. We're treating fundamental sovereignty sort of
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  Speaker 1: as a hobby sport. We're not going to be respected
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  Speaker 1: on the global stage like this. I mean, Brian Lilly
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  Speaker 1: was just talking about this a moment ago. We're being
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly systemically dunked on by authoritarian regimes. You smell weakness.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're calling out what you terms are cardboard military
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  Speaker 2: and creative accounting. So you think Autawa is cooking the
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  Speaker 2: books when it comes to our NATO commitment?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, we're running a structurally bankrupt military,
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  Speaker 1: is what it seems. They're literally holding asset fire sales
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  Speaker 1: that was just reported last week to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: surplus land and buildings, but is that really surplus? When
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the military, they're ordering troops to return
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  Speaker 1: basic rucksacks and gear because of critical shortages. This is
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  Speaker 1: an embarrassment. But how is Ottawa fixing it? Optics? Cheap
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  Speaker 1: politics and creative accountant trying to count domestic Arctic infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: upgrades towards NATO obligations to artificially inflate our defense spending.
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  Speaker 1: But if we cut through that noise, our nora AD
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  Speaker 1: and Arctic spending should be script entirely from NATO calculations.
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  Speaker 1: NATO commitments should mean boats, boots, aircraft, personnel, not paving
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  Speaker 1: a runway and none of it and calling it a
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  Speaker 1: combat strategy. So this shell game can be played, But
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  Speaker 1: the real world order is breaking down outside of our house,
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  Speaker 1: and it's starting to creep inside as well. We've had
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  Speaker 1: state sponsored Iranian and Middle Eastern terror networks executing full
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  Speaker 1: contact neck operations and planning them here on Canadian soil.
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  Speaker 1: Some have been thwarted, others haven't been, Like with the
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  Speaker 1: Toronto police officer who just got shot last week. We've
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  Speaker 1: had multiple major terror attacks thwarted, which is great, but
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  Speaker 1: our streets are becoming a violent undercard for foreign conflicts
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  Speaker 1: because our domestic security apparatus seems to have failed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't mean to correct you, but it's
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  Speaker 2: something near and dear to my heart. That forty three
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  Speaker 2: year old police officer in Toronto wasn't shot last week,
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  Speaker 2: he was murdered. All it is, yeah, yeah, And so
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  Speaker 2: getting back to this UFC deal on the front lawn
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  Speaker 2: of the White House for a Trump's adieth birthday and
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  Speaker 2: a tie into July fourth in the US, it's two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth birthday. You always talk about Trump's cage
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  Speaker 2: match diplomacy, Now, is that a bad thing if it
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  Speaker 2: gets some results?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I mean, if anyone wants to
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  Speaker 1: under if you want to understand the raw, transactional reality
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  Speaker 1: of this administration, just look at that cage match fuel
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  Speaker 1: match that was on the White House lawn for the birthday.
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  Speaker 1: That looked like a cross between idiocracy and some kind
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  Speaker 1: of kleptocratic carnival, complete with massive corporate branding. But Washington
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  Speaker 1: is showing they're not playing by the rules of the game.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing it their own way. And is it yielding results?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, hours before the event started,
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  Speaker 1: seemingly the US and I ran hammered out the massive
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  Speaker 1: peace deal too, and the war opened the strait. And
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  Speaker 1: I will see if it works. But it'll only work
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  Speaker 1: if you have leverage, and the US does have leverage,
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  Speaker 1: more so than US frankly. But if you enter the
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  Speaker 1: octagon or the claw without muscle, you're not the headliner.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be the guy getting paid to take
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  Speaker 1: a dive.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's interesting. Well, listen, if our leaders refuse to
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  Speaker 2: step in and actually defend Canada's interests both meaningfully and successfully,
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  Speaker 2: and that means things like trade deals with the US. Figuratively,
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  Speaker 2: what happens when Canada actually enters the Octagon.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we won't get pushed around. Gene will be knocked
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  Speaker 1: out cold in the first round. I mean again, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at just our streets, the breakdown isn't just international,
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  Speaker 1: it is here. We had that in Montreal just this
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  Speaker 1: past weekend, the disbanding of a sixteen police officer unit
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  Speaker 1: because they were allegedly cutting the hair of racialized citizens
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  Speaker 1: to keep as trophies. The rod is running deep, and
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  Speaker 1: it's in our institutions, it's outside of our institutions. We
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  Speaker 1: have people who are committing crime crimes on our streets
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  Speaker 1: who know that the bail system won't keep them locked up.
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  Speaker 1: We put people into positions of authority who violate basic
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  Speaker 1: human rights and at least we're getting them out while
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  Speaker 1: while we are underfunding our military, starving our core institutions,
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  Speaker 1: and quite frankly overtaxing our citizenry. Right now, this is
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  Speaker 1: not sustainable. And if we're entering into these high stake
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  Speaker 1: trade negotiations with the United States and they just put
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  Speaker 1: on a fighting ring on their executive front lawn while
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  Speaker 1: our own internal security is fracturing like we are. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be showing up as a competitor. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be showing up in as a punching bag.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great take. Thanks, nice job this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Gim there he goes John Litkey. Litkey has a take.
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  Speaker 2: He always does.