Tim Hudak
Former Member of Provincial Parliament of OntarioWikipedia
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Sep 16, 2026
Sep 16 · 4 Mentions
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
lawyer, executive director of Animal Justice.
John MooreHOST
On round one, Tim Hudak is here, former leader of Ontario's Conservatives.
John MooreHOST
He's now at Council Public Affairs.
John MooreHOST
Vandana Katar is here, and Vandana is a political strategist, former advisor to Prime Minister...
Vandana KattarPANELIST
He has a company that also brings in investments.
Vandana KattarPANELIST
And I think it was good for the prime minister and overall gives credibility to the whole investment summit.
John MooreHOST
Tim Hudak, there was some score settling, but on balance, it was backing up the prime minister's initiative.
John MooreHOST
And quite notable, the former prime minister said that Canada was right to walk away from the negotiations with the Americans.
Tom MulcairGUEST
And, you know, the, the civil servants up there haven't yet had their last word because M- Mr. [laughs] Mr. Duhaime, the head of the Conservatives, is simply saying, "I'm gonna cut tens of billions of dollars from the provincial budget, and I'm gonna fire tens of thousands of civil servants." And well, he, he tries to coach it better than that, but it can't, it can't come out any differently than that.
Tom MulcairGUEST
I remember a guy named Tim Hudak running in Ontario, uh, against Kathleen Wynne.
Tom MulcairGUEST
Looked like he was going to be able to beat her because, uh, you know, sh- the Liberals had been there for too long and they were unpopular, and he came up with this boneheaded idea to fire 100,000 public servants.
Tom MulcairGUEST
Not just civil servants, but you know, all of, everybody who gravitates around the, the Ontario government.
Tom MulcairGUEST
... a slight shift in Quebec City, a shift of three or four points, and, you know, the, the civil servants up there haven't yet had their last word because M- Mr. [laughs] Mr. Duhaime, the head of the conservatives, is simply saying, "I'm gonna cut tens of billions of dollars from the provincial budget, and I'm gonna fire tens of thousands of civil servants." And well, he, he tries to coach it better than that, but it can't, it can't come out any differently than that.
Tom MulcairGUEST
I remember a guy named Tim Hudak running in Ontario, uh, against Kathleen Wynne.
Tom MulcairGUEST
Looked like he was going to be able to beat her because, uh, you know, sh- the liberals had been there for too long, and they were unpopular.
Tom MulcairGUEST
And he came up with this boneheaded idea to fire 100,000 public servants.
Jerry AgarHOST
That still works out.
Jerry AgarHOST
Um, and now Tim Hudak, you can hear him laughing there, joins me on the latest, and that's the Buffalo Bills making a strong statement as they right in the sun in the ongoing trade war.
Jerry AgarHOST
What are they going to do? For their opening home game, they are hiring the Barenaked Ladies, Canadian legends, to sing the Canadian national anthem, which is interesting because I saw some people online this morning saying, "Well, it's not that big a deal.
Jerry AgarHOST
The Sabres do it." No, the Sabres play Canadian teams.
Jerry AgarHOST
[laughs] The Buffalo Bills do not.
Jerry AgarHOST
They are effectively, for Southern Ontario, the local NFL team, and I know no bigger fan than Tim Hudak.
Jerry AgarHOST
Good morning.
Tim HudakGUEST
Hey, good morning, Gerry Agar.
Siobhan MorrisGUEST
Youngest MPP ever elected to provincial parliament.
Siobhan MorrisGUEST
He made quite a splash back when he replaced Tim Hudak, as you said, back in, I can't remember, in 2018.
Siobhan MorrisGUEST
And so now he is elevated eight years and he gets his first full cabinet post.
Deb HuttonHOST
Yeah, interesting stuff.
Kathleen WynneGUEST
And, you know, obviously we're not privy to those conversations, but a lot of the scenarios are not pretty for the Canadian plants, that's for sure.
Dave TraffordHOST
We keep hanging our hopes on the midterms, uh, uh, you know, here in Canada thinking, "Okay, once, once the midterms happen and if, and if in fact, you know, the, as the polls suggest, uh, Trump loses control of Congress, et cetera, things are gonna be better." I harken back to comments that, you know, Tim Hudak has made on the podcast in the past.
Dave TraffordHOST
You had to get something before the midterms because if in fact the Democrats take control of the House and the Senate, they're gonna be s- just full on with impeachment of the president, and that's just gonna take up all the oxygen, all of the bandwidth that they've got, the political capital, whatever it might be.
Dave TraffordHOST
That in fact our trade dispute, our trade war is just not even gonna be off the side of the desk.
John MooreHOST
So it's why it's on the list for...
John MooreHOST
Tim Hudak in a couple of minutes on the morning brief, but also on the roundtables.
John MooreHOST
But a poll finds nearly half of Canadians think a federal election should be called if a new Canada-U.S. trade agreement is reached.
John MooreHOST
So I guess they want there to be a voter's verdict on that deal.
John MooreHOST
And the thinking is that Progress Toronto, which is this left-wing machine, it's very NDP-oriented and very effective, that they are orchestrating things so that...
John MooreHOST
The mayor is just, there's nothing standing in her way if she wins.
John MooreHOST
Tim Hudak joins us for the morning brief, former leader of Ontario's Conservatives, now a partner with Council Public Affairs.
John MooreHOST
Good morning, Tim Hudak.
JudyAUDIENCE
I'm not convinced that in two weeks from now we'll have the booze back on the shelves and, you know, there'll be another 40% tariff coming because of some other reason, right? That's just my opinion.
Jim RichardsHOST
I wonder if Tim Hudak would buy it.
Jim RichardsHOST
That's what really people want to know.
Jim RichardsHOST
Or Jerry.
Jim CsekHOST
And, uh, look, the, the one province that has figured it out, because they have what the world wants...
Jim CsekHOST
Literally, when Mark Carney and Tim Hudak say, "We have what the world wants." Well, of course we do.
Jim CsekHOST
It's called energy.
Jim CsekHOST
They figured it out, and they're, and they're utilizing it.
Aug 19 · 4 Mentions
John MooreHOST
Tracy Wilson is with the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights.
John MooreHOST
Well, on a busy, busy Wednesday morning, we are joined by Tim Hudak.
John MooreHOST
He's the former leader of Ontario's Conservatives, now a partner at Council Public Affairs.
John MooreHOST
Dave Trafford, chief executive producer at Story Studio Network.
Dave TraffordGUEST
And 75% of the forest product that we produce here in Canada gets exported to the United States.
Dave TraffordGUEST
so if there are still tariffs involved there it's going to effectively kill that industry in british columbia and and so you know does that get addressed so there are so many more questions here worms in the can i'm not dancing yet john i'm not really quite convinced that we've got something to celebrate except that we're breathing more easily today than we were 12 hours ago
John MooreHOST
Tim Hudak, one encouraging sign, I would think, is Donald Trump likes to think of everything as win-lose or win, you know, I did this.
John MooreHOST
And also, he's quite subject to the last person who whispered in his ear.