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Welcome to Bill’s weekly Canadian politics news live discussion! In today’s breaking news update, Canadian politics has been rocked by the news of Prime Minister Carney’s call to majorly boost Canadian military reserves with a 300,000 strong “citizens’ army” of volunteer part-time military members, a visionary call not seen since WWI, according to some. Let’s talk to our Canadian listeners and see how they feel about it.

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