Well, uh, take us through some of your issues with, uh, with that announcement.

Well, you know, as you mentioned, it's, it's further privatizing a system that is already pseudo-privatized.

So I, I think the best place to start is, is to understand how our airports work today.

Um, you know, back in the 1990s, uh, they were partially privatized by the Chrétien Martin governments, uh, and handed over to airport authorities that are these not-for-profit organizations whose job it is to run the airport.

They pay money back to the federal government, you know, to the tune of, of, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars over, uh, over many years.

And, uh, in return, they basically operate the, the airport, charge consumers who, who use it, um, and, and, you know, charge airlines, uh, various fees in order to make improvements, to expand it, et cetera.

And you know, the, that system has its critics for sure.

Yeah.

And most don't know that the government is funding all this money there like Pravda in Russia.

You do what I say.

I mean, you know, we also don't take any government money, not that it's even being offered to us.

But I do think that there is a need in Canada right now for independent outlets of all different kinds of stripes who have a direct connection to the people that they're trying to serve.

You know, the way we make our money is through subscriptions.

We have to do a good job of...

according to our listeners, according to our readers, and not according to a government bureaucrat and, you know, we're fulfilling a certain kind of mandate.

CBC, you know,

Canadians believed him.

I think the contrast between Trudeau is a major factor here.

And also, you know, Canadians were clearly in a more conservative mood in the last few years after Trudeau.

And Carney, in a lot of ways, has been governing like Stephen Harper.

I think he is the clearest kind of legacy of Harperism that we see out there.

And so, you know, I'm a lefty.

You know, this is, Carney, I'm not a big fan of him personally because my politics kind of differ from him.

When Donald Trump is still

And most people sit there and say, okay, well, how is it going to impact my life? And why are we spending taxpayer dollars on it? Do you have the answers to that?

I mean, I think it's a good question and a question a lot of Canadians are asking.

More and more people are seeing AI show up in their everyday life, whether it's a Google search all of a sudden being summarized.

Or if you talk to people in white-collar workplaces, they will tell you about the horrors of Microsoft Copilot.

Yes.

i don't think canadians really feel that this is helping them out all over the place yes and

I look at a picture now, but was that AI generated?

It's ridiculous.

Why is that?

You know, steel is an essential industrial product.

It gets used in everything, you know, buildings, boats, trains, pipelines, like anything that you can think of.

It's kind of one of the iconic industries of the industrial revolution, right? And, you know, here in Canada, there's...

mostly in Southern Ontario, about 23,000 Canadians who work directly in the steel industry.

And according to the Canadian Steel Producers Association, another 100,000 jobs are supported by that.

But the thing is that steel production in Canada and the U.S. has been in decline for the last 50 years.

Can you explain a little bit about America's aluminum situation?