Speaker 1: It's nice Eyes.
Speaker 2: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks very much. We heading into the fourth
Speaker 3: and final hour here on a Wednesday night, and god,
Speaker 3: was it cold today. It's unbelievable. Hey, here's what I
Speaker 3: would like to talk about this hour. And whenever I
Speaker 3: do this, I'm kind of rolling the dice a little bit,
Speaker 3: and if it doesn't work, I'm going to go on
Speaker 3: to something else. I'm gonna be really honest with you. Okay,
Speaker 3: but I was I follow from afar Canadian politics. I'm
Speaker 3: not an expert in Canadian politics. I know that Prime
Speaker 3: Minister Trudeau has been up there now for about seven
Speaker 3: or eight years, the son Justin Trudeau, the son of
Speaker 3: Pierre Trudeau, the head of the Liberal Party in Canada,
Speaker 3: and he has has said that he is going to
Speaker 3: resign or has reasons as the head of his party,
Speaker 3: which is the equivalent of the Democratic Party in Canada,
Speaker 3: and that there will be an election. And I had
Speaker 3: a couple of texts with friends of mine up in
Speaker 3: Canada who was suggesting that it's perhaps going to follow
Speaker 3: as night follows day, that the power in Canada will
Speaker 3: swing back to the Conservative Party. Now, the Conservative Party
Speaker 3: is not exactly the Republican Party, Liberal Party, not exactly
Speaker 3: the Democrat, but they're analogous. And certainly it's ironic that
Speaker 3: Pierre Trudeau not Pierre Trudeau, justin Trudeau has decided to
Speaker 3: step aside because his whole numbers have tanked, have tanked
Speaker 3: at the same time, he had to go down to
Speaker 3: Mari Lago, or he didn't have to, but he went
Speaker 3: down to Mary Lago to pay homage to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: After the election in November didn't quite work for him.
Speaker 3: Trump kept the president elect, kept calling him governor as
Speaker 3: if he was the governor of the fifty first state.
Speaker 3: So what I'm hoping for is some of you who
Speaker 3: are listening in Canada tonight, and I know there are
Speaker 3: many listeners at nightside in Canada tonight, well pick up
Speaker 3: the phone and give us a call. Six one seven
Speaker 3: two five four ten thirty or six one seven ninety
Speaker 3: three one ten thirty. Give us a call and tell
Speaker 3: us what the political temperature is in Canada. And we
Speaker 3: know what the weather temperature is. It's cold everywhere. I'm
Speaker 3: sure that anyone who's listening to me tonight, if you
Speaker 3: step outside, it's going to be somewhere around ten degrees
Speaker 3: either ten degrees for real or ten degrees windshow factor.
Speaker 3: But I'd love to know what the political temperature is
Speaker 3: in Canada now. Apparently parliament has been suspended in Canada
Speaker 3: until March, and that's interesting because I guess that is
Speaker 3: the period of time that the Liberal Party in Canada
Speaker 3: will have that a period of time to pick their
Speaker 3: new leader, and then there will be an election schedule.
Speaker 3: I guess the election has to be scheduled no later
Speaker 3: than next October, and whether or not Canada will follow
Speaker 3: what has happened in America and elect a conservative prime minister,
Speaker 3: kind of like a Brian Mulrooney. I don't know how
Speaker 3: many of you remember Brian mulroney, but he was prime
Speaker 3: minister when Reagan was president, when George Bush was president,
Speaker 3: and he was very effective prime minister. But like anything else,
Speaker 3: their time in office winds down and the economy goes
Speaker 3: in one direction or the other and it's time for
Speaker 3: a change. We do the same thing in this country.
Speaker 3: We move back and forth between democratic and Republican presidents,
Speaker 3: and they move back and forth between liberal which is
Speaker 3: the equivalent of Democrats, or a conservative, which is the
Speaker 3: equivalent of Republicans. They call them liberals and conservatives. That's
Speaker 3: probably what we should do in this country as well,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless that's the way it works up there. So
Speaker 3: I'd love to know what your thought is about the
Speaker 3: decision of the Prime Minister of Canada, who for a
Speaker 3: while was a darling in Canada. Then he ran into
Speaker 3: problems a couple of years ago with the truck remember
Speaker 3: the big truckers strike up there. He has I think
Speaker 3: been pretty arrogant as prime minister. He, as I say,
Speaker 3: came from a political family, probably felt all along that
Speaker 3: he was destined that his destiny was to be a
Speaker 3: prime minister, and he did become a prime minister for
Speaker 3: seven years, had a fairly good relationship with Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: and maybe he saw the writing on the wall. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to to open up the phone lines, and
Speaker 3: I hope that as many of you who might be
Speaker 3: listening in Canada tonight, and believe me, some of you
Speaker 3: I know by name. I'm not going to call you out,
Speaker 3: but I'd love to know. Maybe you can give us
Speaker 3: some information, you can teach us a little bit. My
Speaker 3: belief is that the timetable, if you will, is the
Speaker 3: Liberal Party has until some time in March to pick
Speaker 3: a new leader, and then when Parliament returns in March, reassembles,
Speaker 3: goes back in the session. Whatever phrase you use. In Canada,
Speaker 3: Parliament will set an election date. And your election is
Speaker 3: different than ours. We vote by states, and we have
Speaker 3: the electoral college, a popular vote in the various states.
Speaker 3: Everybody I think now understands the US the election of
Speaker 3: a president popular vote is important, but the most important
Speaker 3: vote is the electoral college vote up there. It's a
Speaker 3: parliamentary democracy, as I understand it, and so you have
Speaker 3: I don't even know how many members of parliament there.
Speaker 3: I could look it up and maybe someone up there
Speaker 3: can tell me. Uh. And the majority then forms the government,
Speaker 3: and sometimes you have minor parties, just as that as
Speaker 3: happens in countries like England and France and Israel and Germany. Uh.
Speaker 3: And sometimes a party does not have the strict majority. Uh,
Speaker 3: and they need to work deals with minor parties. And
Speaker 3: it's a little more complicated in Canada than it is
Speaker 3: in the US, I think, although one could argue we're
Speaker 3: pretty complicated to So the numbers yeah, six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 3: four ten, thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten, thirty.
Speaker 3: If you are American and you want to comment on
Speaker 3: Trudeau's decision to leave not only again as as the
Speaker 3: Prime minister eventually, but as the leader of his party
Speaker 3: right now. I'm not telling you not to call, but
Speaker 3: I would love to hear from as many Canadians listeners
Speaker 3: as possible. And if you guys don't want to talk
Speaker 3: about this subject, if it's beyond the capacity or the
Speaker 3: interest of my audience, then we'll move on to something else.
Speaker 3: Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,
Speaker 3: nine three one ten thirty. This is a bit of
Speaker 3: a challenge. Let's have at it. We'll take a break,
Speaker 3: coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, well, we haven't that what you would call
Speaker 3: overwhelming reaction to my proposal that we talk about the
Speaker 3: implications of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation as Liberal
Speaker 3: Party leader. However, we have my friend Daryl from New Brunswick, Canada,
Speaker 3: my most loyal Canadian listener. Come on, you folks up
Speaker 3: there in Canada, let's hear from you. We you were
Speaker 3: not the fifty first state yet maybe you never will be.
Speaker 3: I suspect you won't be, but we'd love to learn
Speaker 3: a little bit more about your politics up there. Hey, Daryl,
Speaker 3: appreciate you calling in.
Speaker 2: How are you any Dan? I haven't been able to
Speaker 2: get reception, so I had to actually call in because
Speaker 2: they might be jamming it right. No, But happy New Year.
Speaker 3: Happy new you. You mean you have a tough time
Speaker 3: getting us recently.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, we've had a few storms up here, as
Speaker 2: you guys bet as well, and uh so that could be.
Speaker 3: Part of the week. Just yeah, Joe, we've just had
Speaker 3: really cold weather. I mean we we we had a
Speaker 3: little bit of a snowstorm before Christmas and and and
Speaker 3: it got real cold and the ground was covered with
Speaker 3: snow and then we had some rain in the fifties
Speaker 3: and everything melted away. But since the weekend, it's been
Speaker 3: cold down here. I mean it is, we're we're kind
Speaker 3: of in an ice box right now.
Speaker 2: And I suspect that it's around minus twenty six celsius
Speaker 2: here and I can't. Okay, then you a hormometer, Well
Speaker 2: you know you could.
Speaker 3: Just read tell me minus twenty six celsius. That means
Speaker 3: you're down around what we would call zero fahrenheit, right
Speaker 3: because you're you're, you're.
Speaker 2: You're zero thirty two is zero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, so.
Speaker 2: Your mind us. But if you have any local government
Speaker 2: people running for elections saying they filled all the potholes,
Speaker 2: they've done it when it actually freezes.
Speaker 3: Oh good, well yeah, so uh snow, well you do.
Speaker 3: You have snow on the ground, A lot of snow
Speaker 3: on the ground.
Speaker 2: We got a little bit, but it's more ice because
Speaker 2: of everything froze, so all the potholes are filled. Right. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 2: it's the comedy of it as well.
Speaker 3: Right, I got you, I got you. So, uh tell
Speaker 3: us about Justin Trudeau and what's going to happen when
Speaker 3: you finally get around to having an election.
Speaker 2: We have been asking uh Justin to uh step back
Speaker 2: for quite a while and uh because in my opinion,
Speaker 2: I've met a bunch of other prime ministers prior to
Speaker 2: that in the military part of our duties, right, and
Speaker 2: with that, he has had no responsibility, uh to take
Speaker 2: upon himself.
Speaker 3: Never he never served in the Canadian military.
Speaker 2: No, No, he his father was well to do. And
Speaker 2: you know, just like other people, you know, once they
Speaker 2: have certain people in their family, they can live off
Speaker 2: the name possibly, but we're not going to do a
Speaker 2: bashing on in Trudeau. But he is not a leader, right,
Speaker 2: who are the Conservatives?
Speaker 3: I mean, did the Conservatives have a front runner Pierre Poliev?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: And he is actually from the West.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I've spent time in the West as well for
Speaker 2: quite a number of years, and he has everything more
Speaker 2: in sequence.
Speaker 3: When you said the West, are you talking about Ottawa?
Speaker 3: Are you talking about Calgary, because that's a huge difference.
Speaker 2: Uh, No, Alberta, Manitoba, Oh, you name it.
Speaker 3: That is the West. Okay, that's uh. We been here
Speaker 3: in New England, as you might know, Daryl, We here
Speaker 3: in New England, think of uh oh, places like New
Speaker 3: Jersey is west, you know, anything outside of New England
Speaker 3: only kidding?
Speaker 2: So no, they the furthest I've been up is towards Alaska.
Speaker 2: So but uh that was when I was working on
Speaker 2: the drawing rings. Right.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's that's interesting. How old the guy is he?
Speaker 3: How is he he's he's Trudeau's age or older?
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, Trudeau is about I think he's around fifty.
Speaker 2: I think I'm not sure. Okay, he just doesn't have
Speaker 2: his own plane, so that's probably why he didn't resign,
Speaker 2: right so because he still wants to.
Speaker 3: Jump around here and there, right so so do so
Speaker 3: as the as the as the prime minister of Canada,
Speaker 3: he's got the equivalent of Air Force one. He's got it.
Speaker 3: He's got it. Okay, fine, yeah, well, look, as I
Speaker 3: understand that, what was I understand that, And as I say,
Speaker 3: I want to hear what would you tell me? I
Speaker 3: know you were joking a little bit there is that
Speaker 3: he has resigned as the head of the party. But
Speaker 3: someone's got to be prime minister and he can't resign
Speaker 3: as prime minister until you get a new prime minister. Right.
Speaker 2: Well, no, he could have. He could have given it
Speaker 2: to the deputy, just like you guys have the VP
Speaker 2: okay and the House and all that stuff, right, But
Speaker 2: he elected to keep himself on as the guy in
Speaker 2: charge until they re elect somebody else. But when you
Speaker 2: mentioned about he progued government until twenty four March. The
Speaker 2: reason he did that is the House will sit when
Speaker 2: that comes back to on the twenty fifth, and because
Speaker 2: we still have to pass our budget. Yeah, otherwise the
Speaker 2: government would have no ability to spend.
Speaker 3: So okay, so let me we have we're in the
Speaker 3: same situation, by the way, with our debt ceiling. But
Speaker 3: that's another story. So let me ask you this. They
Speaker 3: come back in March, do they have to have a
Speaker 3: vote of no confidence or the fact that he has
Speaker 3: resigned as the Liberal leader, does that avoid that? And
Speaker 3: do they just they'll announce an election date.
Speaker 2: What that does is there is going to be an
Speaker 2: election date because all three what we have is multiple
Speaker 2: parties and so what we have is the Quebec Law.
Speaker 2: We have the NDP New Democratic Party and the Conservatives
Speaker 2: and the Green Party, but they really are non existent.
Speaker 2: So all these people collectively are going to actually vote
Speaker 2: in no confidence, vote against Liberals for the continuance of
Speaker 2: putting things in disrepair.
Speaker 3: So they will. So what I'm trying to understand, Darryl,
Speaker 3: and help me out because my question is probably not
Speaker 3: as good as they should be, and I appreciate I'm
Speaker 3: you calling in. They will have to have a no
Speaker 3: confidence vote, which then will formally challenge him as prime
Speaker 3: minister or challenge basically call for a new election of
Speaker 3: a prime minister. When do you think they will set
Speaker 3: the election date. I think they have to do it
Speaker 3: at least by October, as I understand it.
Speaker 2: It'll probably be immediate. What will happen is because what
Speaker 2: I'm getting at is here we have the ability just
Speaker 2: like Britain where if you have one party to support
Speaker 2: another with a multiple parties yep, and if you have
Speaker 2: enough vote then you can actually keep the government going.
Speaker 2: And that's what the NDP has been doing right right.
Speaker 3: So now a government with some of the money, we
Speaker 3: get that. That's a lot that happens in a lot
Speaker 3: of the parliamentary democracies. Absolutely, we understand that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what's going to happen is they're going to
Speaker 2: call ano no confidence vote and therefore at least the
Speaker 2: money will be able to be spent to pass to
Speaker 2: run the country. But after that, the Governor General will
Speaker 2: call the election because the no confidence vote will actually
Speaker 2: say that the people do not have confidence in the practice.
Speaker 3: And totally get that, totally. So let me ask you,
Speaker 3: in your opinion, when will Canada elect a new prime minister?
Speaker 3: Will give me a rough idea of the date of
Speaker 3: the election.
Speaker 2: As we're going on to start in March twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: that's when they because they'll have what thirty one thirty
Speaker 2: five days to go from there, because what they're doing
Speaker 2: with parroguing government stalling.
Speaker 3: I got that. No, you've already explained. What they're doing
Speaker 3: is they're given what they're going to trying to.
Speaker 2: Give them the Liberal What they're doing is they're given
Speaker 2: the Liberals the ability to elect a new leader.
Speaker 3: No, I get that. I've already explained that, Darryl. Please
Speaker 3: listen to my question and help me out. So March
Speaker 3: twenty fifth comes the no confidence vote. How long we
Speaker 3: always have elections every four years? Okay, it's I can
Speaker 3: tell you the date of the next election in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight. All I gotta do is look at the
Speaker 3: calendar and find the first Tuesday after the first Monday. Okay.
Speaker 3: So my question to you is when do you think
Speaker 3: the election will actually be held. It won't be held
Speaker 3: on March twenty sixth, because there's going to be a campaign.
Speaker 3: How long do you think Just give me a date,
Speaker 3: give me an idea.
Speaker 2: What is your thought or look in spring it's normally
Speaker 2: it's within thirty one to thirty five days or whatever. Okay,
Speaker 2: So may may may, yeah, correct.
Speaker 3: Okay for enough, all right, Daryl, I appreciate you taking
Speaker 3: the time to call you the one Canadian listener who
Speaker 3: was called I'm totally disappointed that most of the other
Speaker 3: Canadian listeners do not want to share the point of
Speaker 3: viewing it. But I appreciate your friendship and I appreciate
Speaker 3: your calling. Thank you, Darrel, appreciate it much. Well.
Speaker 2: The other Canadian listeners might be still shaking their heads
Speaker 2: and hearing led Zeppelin, right.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I would hope that they'll listen if
Speaker 3: I would hope that they'll listen in to Night's Side.
Speaker 3: So you're telling me you haven't been able to listen
Speaker 3: to my show recently.
Speaker 2: Uh, well no, I actually had it up until you
Speaker 2: switched over to the Justin Trill thing and then the
Speaker 2: signal went.
Speaker 3: So you're listening on the radio or you listening on
Speaker 3: the app.
Speaker 2: I'm just listening on my mak Makita construction radio if
Speaker 2: there's a plug there.
Speaker 3: Good enough, fair enough, Okay, Well, I there's no reason
Speaker 3: that you should have lost us. But I thank you
Speaker 3: for joining us. Thanks, thanks, Darrel. Appreciate the call. Have
Speaker 3: a good one. Helped me out more than I can
Speaker 3: I can I can say thanks, all right, thanks Daryl,
Speaker 3: have a good one. All right. We're going to go
Speaker 3: to a newscaster in about two minutes. And I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you real quickly if if those of you,
Speaker 3: if if our signal is not getting into Canada tonight,
Speaker 3: I'm really upset. But if you're up there listening tonight
Speaker 3: in Canada, I would hope that you would help educate
Speaker 3: us here in America as to what's likely going to
Speaker 3: happen in Canada. We do know, and Daryl has helped us,
Speaker 3: and he has helped us explain and understand that there
Speaker 3: will be no confidence vote in Trudeau. He'll go through
Speaker 3: that embarrassment and that will set the stage for an election,
Speaker 3: which Daryl said would be somewhere in the vicinity of
Speaker 3: thirty one to thirty five days, which would mean sometime
Speaker 3: in May. It's going to be fascinating to think that
Speaker 3: Canada will follow the US. I mean, Canada is a
Speaker 3: very different form of government than the United States. It
Speaker 3: is a very it's a socialist government. You have a
Speaker 3: lot of the medical programs up there Cradle Grave, you
Speaker 3: have high taxation, you have a lot of benefits, medical benefits.
Speaker 3: But also in Canada, you can't just you can't get
Speaker 3: to see a doctor quickly. And that's part of the problem,
Speaker 3: uh that I guess you do have the ability if
Speaker 3: you want to pay exorbitant sums in Canada to have
Speaker 3: your own private doctor. But if you're going to rely
Speaker 3: upon the government health services, you know you'll get you'll
Speaker 3: get treated eventually. And I guess if you have an
Speaker 3: emergency and go to a mergency room, but if you're
Speaker 3: looking to have some form of elective surgery or some
Speaker 3: surgery that can be being can be put off, it
Speaker 3: could take a few weeks, maybe even a few months.
Speaker 3: So not a perfect system, very expensive system, but that's
Speaker 3: that's kind of what is built into the Canadian form
Speaker 3: of government. So taking a break, if you want to
Speaker 3: talk about this great dial now forever hold your peace.
Speaker 3: Six one seven, two, five four ten thirty six one
Speaker 3: seven nine three one ten thirty and triple eight nine
Speaker 3: two nine, ten thirty. I don't even know if the
Speaker 3: triple eight number makes it easier for my Canadian listeners.
Speaker 3: If if no one wants to talk about Justin Trudeau,
Speaker 3: we will move on to something Mills. But right now
Speaker 3: I'm going to move on to the news. My name's
Speaker 3: Dan Ray. This is Nightside. Don't fail me now, coming
Speaker 3: back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: All Right, tomorrow night at nine o'clock, we will have
Speaker 3: Harvey Silverglate with us. Harvey, great thinker, great lawyer, a
Speaker 3: founder of the Foundation Fire and we're going to talk
Speaker 3: with Harvey. We talked last week about the guy down
Speaker 3: in New Orleans was obviously radicalized by some of the
Speaker 3: ISIS web isist websites, and whether those icist websites are
Speaker 3: on the dark web or regularly out there. I was
Speaker 3: raising the question of how do we basically take these
Speaker 3: people who are exposing themselves to this and should they
Speaker 3: get a visit from the FBI? So someone said, well,
Speaker 3: what do you think Harvey's going to think about it?
Speaker 3: And I said, let's go ahead and let's invite Harvey on.
Speaker 3: So Harvey will be on tomorrow night. Also, as a
Speaker 3: quick note of personal privilege, I just want to note
Speaker 3: the passing of a friend of mine over the weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to go into details, but a good
Speaker 3: friend of mine from Charlestown, Richie Craven, who I had
Speaker 3: the pleasure of for a period of time playing hockey
Speaker 3: with him at Boston State College, who's a really good defenseman.
Speaker 3: He actually after he graduated from Boston State College, played
Speaker 3: a fifth year of college hockey, went up to play hockey.
Speaker 3: And McGill loved the Bruins, loved his family, loved his teammates,
Speaker 3: and he was a real good friend who ran into
Speaker 3: some medical troubles.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And the medical troubles overtook him. And the reminder, if
Speaker 3: you're in Charlestown, and if you if you're in Charlestown,
Speaker 3: you know who Richie Craven was. He will be waked
Speaker 3: tomorrow at the car Funeral Home and then his life
Speaker 3: will be celebrated in funeral mass on Friday. UH. Really
Speaker 3: good guy, someone who loved life, lived it to the fullest.
Speaker 3: I and kept in touch. You know, one of those
Speaker 3: friends from college who you kept, who you keep in
Speaker 3: touch with. Uh. And we would have breakfast occasionally, and
Speaker 3: Richie always had. He was a bundle of energy, just
Speaker 3: an absolute bundle of energy. And to think that he's
Speaker 3: no longer with us is to me frightening and it's
Speaker 3: sobering because none of us get out of this place alive.
Speaker 3: And I just wanted as a small tribute, I mentioned
Speaker 3: his name tonight. He was a loyal listener of this program.
Speaker 3: He and I agreed on both are our love of
Speaker 3: the Bruins and our love of politics. He could talk
Speaker 3: politics with the best of them, and somebody who was
Speaker 3: well read, well rounded, and competed in hockey. I was
Speaker 3: talking with a mutual friend of ours tonight, long after
Speaker 3: most of us have put our skates away. Richwood was
Speaker 3: in senior leagues until he probably hit the half century
Speaker 3: mark at least. So again, Richie Craven, rest in peace.
Speaker 3: You deserve it. Your family has been very supportive of
Speaker 3: you the last couple of years, and I know it
Speaker 3: hasn't been easy for you, and it won't be easy
Speaker 3: for all of your friends to say goodbye to you
Speaker 3: in the next couple of days. But know this, you'll
Speaker 3: be remembered by a lot of people in the next
Speaker 3: few days and well into the time that we have left.
Speaker 3: Richie Craven of Charlestown, Boston State College Defenseman. All right,
Speaker 3: we got a couple of our callers from from Canada,
Speaker 3: so I'm appreciative of that. It's good to know that
Speaker 3: Penelope has joined us from Ottawa, where of course Parliament sits.
Speaker 6: Hi, Penelope, how are you good evening?
Speaker 4: I can't sleep, so I may as well call in.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty good.
Speaker 3: I've talked to you before, if I if I recall.
Speaker 4: No, you haven't, but really we should have called before
Speaker 4: when you first I called.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Tell us, you know, for a
Speaker 3: Canadian perspective, what should we as Americans know about what's
Speaker 3: going to happen up in Canada in the next few months.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm cheating a bit. I found a BBC
Speaker 4: site and they're telling me the numbers. Apparently we have
Speaker 4: three hundred and thirty eight members of Parliament that's in
Speaker 4: the House.
Speaker 3: And thank you very much for cheating. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So when the No Continent's motion has brought, the
Speaker 4: Liberals will need the backing of a majority of them
Speaker 4: and their seventeen seats short of that, and so far
Speaker 4: the NDP has backed them and given them enough to
Speaker 4: keep going over the hall lately, but the NDP leader
Speaker 4: has said that he's going to vote against the Liberal
Speaker 4: Party when that No Continent's vote happens. So parliament will
Speaker 4: be will fold. When will there be an election? I
Speaker 4: say it will be in June. They never have a
Speaker 4: elections in July and August because they don't want to
Speaker 4: interrupt people with their summer holidays.
Speaker 3: Summer holidays have to be very important. That's a very
Speaker 3: interesting point. We of course don't have elections, although we
Speaker 3: do have some primaries. They used to have presidential primaries
Speaker 3: as late as sometimes in June. But but you're right,
Speaker 3: we don't have important elections in July or August as well. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's good information. Tell me, tell me more.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: So the way it works up here is that the
Speaker 4: leader of the party with the most vote, with the
Speaker 4: most writings that they win, becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.
Speaker 4: And that's the way it goes. We don't have any
Speaker 4: electoral college or anything like.
Speaker 3: You have no popular vote. Basically, it's like our congress.
Speaker 3: Your parliament is our congress.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then we have we have a Senate, which
Speaker 4: is appointed by the government in charge. So Trudeau has
Speaker 4: been appointing a number of people, including a lawyer from
Speaker 4: the town that I practice in and chief now a
Speaker 4: senator in Ottawa and it's a lifetime appointment. Ken Dryden,
Speaker 4: the hockey player, was made a senator at one point
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: So now is that an honorific or is that an
Speaker 3: actual position? That has responsibilities and obligations.
Speaker 4: Well, they have responsibilities. They can initiate bills. You can
Speaker 4: have bills that are that are put forward from either
Speaker 4: the House of Commons or from the Senate. And if
Speaker 4: they're from the Comments it's C dash and there's a
Speaker 4: number attached to each bill that comes forward, and if
Speaker 4: it's from the Senate, it's an S dash. And and
Speaker 4: so the way that Pierre Paaldiev is the leader of
Speaker 4: the Progressive Conservative figure that one out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit of an ore on there, Penelope.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So he's the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party
Speaker 4: and if the election was held tomorrow, he would have
Speaker 4: a clear majority, meaning that he would not have to
Speaker 4: band together with another minor party to get enough seats
Speaker 4: to hold sway in anything that he wanted to push through.
Speaker 4: And so we tend to follow you guys, whatever the
Speaker 4: it's global. Everything is moving now more towards the right. Yes,
Speaker 4: and yeah, so we're going back that direction. And I'd
Speaker 4: like to follow the old thing. If you don't vote
Speaker 4: liberally in your twenties, you're heartless, and if you don't
Speaker 4: vote conservative in your forties or brainless.
Speaker 3: Yes, I believe that that was once attributed to Winston Churchill.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, and I love talking to
Speaker 3: another barrister, a member of the bar. Yeah, you Canada.
Speaker 3: Actually your head of state is the King of England.
Speaker 4: That's the honorary, honorific head of state is the King. Now, yes,
Speaker 4: and with the King, are you still.
Speaker 3: Are you still a commonwealth?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, we're part of the British Commonwealth.
Speaker 3: Okay, good enough, Okay, So not likely that you're going
Speaker 3: to become the city. Not likely you're going to become
Speaker 3: the fifty first day.
Speaker 4: No, God bless them. I had ancestors that came to
Speaker 4: New England in the sixteen hundreds and fought in the
Speaker 4: Revolutionary War and then eventually made their way up here.
Speaker 4: And here we are, and here I'll stay.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, Penelope, I loved your call. Thank you
Speaker 3: for listening to Night's side. I don't know how often
Speaker 3: we have you the pleasure of your company, but please
Speaker 3: call again that it was a very fun. I just
Speaker 3: want to add one thing, and I want to make
Speaker 3: sure that it makes sense to you for Americans who
Speaker 3: might not understand how a parliamentary democracy formulates. If you
Speaker 3: compare it to our you know what, you would have
Speaker 3: considered to be sort of like the House of Commons,
Speaker 3: our Congress. If we had our elections similar to you,
Speaker 3: as a parliamentary democracy, our prime minister would be Mike Johnson,
Speaker 3: the Speaker of the House, because he would have the
Speaker 3: majority number of votes, assuming that all the Republicans would
Speaker 3: support him, which is maybe a question, but that is
Speaker 3: kind of the way it would go. There would be
Speaker 3: no Donald Trump, there would be no jd. Vance having
Speaker 3: run a national election. Mike Johnson would become the prime minister,
Speaker 3: therefore the actual head of government at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, no, we don't have a specific We
Speaker 4: can't vote specifically for the prime minister. The politician. Trudeau's
Speaker 4: a politician that has a riding in the Montreal area
Speaker 4: and the people in his Montreal I mean, it could
Speaker 4: happen that as leader of the Liberal Party, he would
Speaker 4: he would be pushed to the prime minister role and
Speaker 4: still lose his seat, and then that would be a
Speaker 4: big quandary. But if he wasn't voted in his own
Speaker 4: in his own riding, has that.
Speaker 3: Happened, has that happened before? Or no?
Speaker 4: I don't think so I don't think so think.
Speaker 3: You know my favorite Canadian prime minister has been in
Speaker 3: my lifetime.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Brian mulrooney.
Speaker 4: He was good. He's the first first person I ever
Speaker 4: voted for because I turned eighteen just around that time
Speaker 4: and I was living in Alberta at that time as well,
Speaker 4: and it was very, very conservative leaning and they just
Speaker 4: absolutely hated Trudeau Senior.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, I do remember then. LP. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much. I loved your call. You're a breath of
Speaker 3: fresh air from the far North. And please continue to
Speaker 3: listen and keep calling.
Speaker 4: Okay, I will take care and thanks. Maybe you can sleep.
Speaker 3: Now, I hope you can't. Okay, Thanks very much. You've
Speaker 3: done this a great service. Thank you. I have Greg
Speaker 3: and Ontario coming up, Tim and Wilburn and Jim in
Speaker 3: Kansas City. I think Jim was with us earlier this week,
Speaker 3: So Jim hanging in there. We'll get to you, I hope.
Speaker 3: But we're going to go next to Greg and Ontario
Speaker 3: right after this break.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Greg and Ontario. Greg, thanks very much
Speaker 3: for calling in tell us something about Canadian politics that
Speaker 3: we need to understand.
Speaker 5: Hi, Dan, pleasure to talk to you. I just want
Speaker 5: to start off saying I am a lifelong bought some
Speaker 5: Bruins fan. Okay, I'm invested in Boston.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. How'd you become a Bruins fan?
Speaker 3: What'd you do? Grow up watching Bobby orr Or?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Actually you hit it on the head. When I was
Speaker 5: about eight years old back in nineteen sixty eight, I
Speaker 5: lived across from Detroit Windsor. My dad brought me to
Speaker 5: our first hockey game at the Old Olympia in Detroit
Speaker 5: to watch the Wings. Yeah, and I was like eight,
Speaker 5: I was starting to play hockey. Yeah. And then and
Speaker 5: I seen Bobby or play, Yeah, a rookie.
Speaker 3: So you weren't rooting for Gordie how Ted Lindsay, Alex Delvecchio,
Speaker 3: Terry Sawchuk or any of the Red Wings.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, yeah, they were all great players as well
Speaker 5: as you know obviously. Yeah, no, I was. I'm dying
Speaker 5: the wool Bruins fan man. And actually I'm glad i am,
Speaker 5: because I'll tell you what, living in Canada being a
Speaker 5: Bruins fan right now is glorious. Because I'm surrounded by
Speaker 5: Toronto Mapley fans. You could imagine when I walk in
Speaker 5: the room with a hat with Boston logo on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, the Maple Leafs. The Maple Leafs played pretty
Speaker 3: well the other night. I thought Matthews had a great
Speaker 3: goal at the end there where he was literally sprawling
Speaker 3: on the ice and somehow he put it. He put
Speaker 3: it into the empty net, almost like a pool shot.
Speaker 3: Did you see that goal?
Speaker 5: I did see that. Yes, I did see that.
Speaker 3: He's a good, strong player.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a great player. Like I think, well, between
Speaker 5: him and McDavid for the best two players in the league.
Speaker 3: Marty is not bad with the Leafs either, by the way,
Speaker 3: as I'm sure you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, oh, so many great players, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, McDavid had fun here in Boston last night. The
Speaker 3: Oilers shut out the Bruins for nothing, and he had
Speaker 3: he at least had one goal. I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: he had any assists. So Greg, let's talk a little.
Speaker 3: By the way, are you first time caller? Have you
Speaker 3: called before?
Speaker 5: We first time caller? I I just started picking your
Speaker 5: station up maybe a couple of weeks ago, and yeah.
Speaker 3: Well we're here. We talked football earlier this week. So
Speaker 3: we occasionally venture into the sporting round, but we're not
Speaker 3: a sports show per se. We mostly do politics carent events.
Speaker 3: So Penelope did a really good job running down, uh,
Speaker 3: your your elections that are upcoming. So let me push
Speaker 3: the push the envelope a little bit with you. What's
Speaker 3: gonna happen? Normally, Uh, Canada and the US tend to
Speaker 3: kind of vote the same way. I may I remember
Speaker 3: when Malrooney was was your prime minister was during Bush
Speaker 3: and Reagan's time. Uh, And obviously Trudeau has has has been,
Speaker 3: you know, prime minister with with Biden's time. But I
Speaker 3: also think Trudeau kind of became your Barack Obama, if
Speaker 3: you know, if what I'm saying, young leader, and after
Speaker 3: he was elected, after after Obama left office, what do
Speaker 3: you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 5: Well, thankfully he stepped down. He's resigned Trudeau as you
Speaker 5: as you know, and yeah, so he's finished. He had
Speaker 5: nobody in this country, very few people you talk to
Speaker 5: in this country right now will have anything good to
Speaker 5: say about Justin Trudeau. Paulie holds about a twenty point
Speaker 5: lead right now on him, and that's not going to change.
Speaker 5: So PAULI has like penelopees that you did a great
Speaker 5: job on explaining everything that. Yeah, yeah, and he's going
Speaker 5: to win. I think he's going to do a majority.
Speaker 3: So yeah.
Speaker 5: In this country right now, for the last but almost
Speaker 5: ten years under Trudeau. I'm sixty five, so I've seen
Speaker 5: a lot of prime ministers come and go. He's to
Speaker 5: me the biggest embarrassment to this country. He's done more
Speaker 5: harm to the fabric of the society in this country
Speaker 5: than any prime minister, hands down, which is a shame.
Speaker 5: He doesn't listen. He's a bit of a dict We
Speaker 5: we joke around here a lot. Well it's not even
Speaker 5: a joke anymore. We say that the one be little
Speaker 5: dictator because that's how we feel about this man. He
Speaker 5: treats us like children, speaks to us like children. So
Speaker 5: he's finished and he had it coming. So I don't
Speaker 5: feel anything more so empathy for for Justin Trude, who
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe maybe we can get Bobby or to run
Speaker 3: for I think you'd win. Bobby, by the way, is
Speaker 3: that great? Have you ever met him?
Speaker 2: Or No?
Speaker 5: I have not?
Speaker 3: No great guy. Next time I see him, I'll tell
Speaker 3: him you said hello, Okay, I promise you he's a
Speaker 3: great guy. Hi, Greg, I hope you'll continue to listen.
Speaker 3: I got a couple more folks who want to sneak
Speaker 3: in here, but thank you.
Speaker 5: If I could just say one quick thing, sure, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: I know you. You mentioned healthcare in this country, and
Speaker 5: I just want to say, I just want to say quickly,
Speaker 5: do not ever allow America to go down the social
Speaker 5: healthcare path. People who are any Canadian that says we
Speaker 5: have good healthcare has no idea matter of fact, Dan,
Speaker 5: I've had to go to Detroit, Michigan three times and
Speaker 5: spend money out of my pocket to get timely healthcare.
Speaker 5: And I need some orthopedic surgery done. I'm going to
Speaker 5: Germany to get it done because I've been waiting in
Speaker 5: this country for three years and not me alone, thousands
Speaker 5: and thousands of Canadians. It is an absolute disaster. Don't
Speaker 5: go down this path.
Speaker 3: Okay, Greg. I agree with you totally. You are going
Speaker 3: to love my show the more you listen to my show.
Speaker 3: Trust me.
Speaker 5: Okay, absolutely, Dan.
Speaker 3: Thanks Greg, and look forward to talking again. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Thanks great talking to you.
Speaker 3: Great to talk to you. Let me go to Tim
Speaker 3: and Wilburn. Tim next on nights.
Speaker 6: I go ahead, Hi Dan, Tim, I'm drinking my on
Speaker 6: of my night side cup again. Anyhow, the reason I called,
Speaker 6: I don't know much about the topic, but I want
Speaker 6: to give you my condolence about this. Ricky Craven guy,
Speaker 6: Richie Craven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great guy, Thank you.
Speaker 6: Anyhow, Tom, I set a prayer for him, and.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow I'll let him know that through mental telepathy.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, tell him Tim McMahon is praying for him.
Speaker 3: All right, Thanks, Tim, appreciate your time, Appreciate your call
Speaker 3: and your your sentiments. Thanks so much. Okay, Well, my friend,
Speaker 3: good night, Jim Ai Kansas City. Jim, going to get
Speaker 3: you in here. Only got about thirty seconds for you, buddy.
Speaker 3: I know you've been waiting, and I know you've been patient,
Speaker 3: and I apologize for that.
Speaker 1: Go right ahead, Jim, Jim, Hey damn yeah yeah. So okay. Well,
Speaker 1: I listened to Canadian radio a little bit, and it
Speaker 1: sounds to me like if it was until Trump took over,
Speaker 1: it was going the same exact way that it has
Speaker 1: been going for quite a while, which leads me to
Speaker 1: continue to believe that they don't really have a democracy.
Speaker 1: So with the other thing. The thing I kind of
Speaker 1: don't like what was going on is it seems like
Speaker 1: Trump in a sneaky way. It is continuing right on
Speaker 1: with this whole transcontinental Global Union saying where they want to.
Speaker 3: Make Beautyboddy talking about it a lot, Jim. I promise
Speaker 3: you we'll talk about this later this week or next week.
Speaker 3: And I'm really going to give an opportunity to chat.
Speaker 3: But I'm I'm flat out a time. I gave the
Speaker 3: Canadians a chance tonight.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, dog and cats a thanks.
Speaker 3: Good night. All right, we're done for the night. I
Speaker 3: want to thank everyone that did call, particularly Darryl, Penelope
Speaker 3: and Greg. I want to thank Rob. I want to
Speaker 3: thank Marita. I want to thank all of you who listened.
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