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Canada is being sold a pipeline that doesn't exist, Chinese EVs built by forced labour, and a sovereign wealth fund that does nothing the stock market doesn't already do. Jim Csek and Iain Burns get into all of it today on The Really Big Show.

Today's show covers:

-Politico reports it was Joly's threats to sue Stellantis, not Ontario's Reagan ad, that killed U.S.-Canada trade talks in October 2025, with a deal nearly done on oil, steel, aluminum and uranium before talks collapsed

-The Oil Sands Alliance warns Ottawa and Alberta that regulatory gridlock and the industrial carbon tax are putting Canada's energy superpower ambitions at risk, with no major greenfield oil sands project sanctioned since 2013

-B.C. Premier David Eby says the proposed Alberta-to-Pacific pipeline is no further along than a year ago, calling the discussion "much hype and not a lot of material reality"

-Joly defends opening Canada's EV market to 49,000 Chinese vehicles annually on affordability grounds, refusing three times to answer whether Chinese factories use forced labour, despite MPs being told workers earn as little as $3 an hour with aluminum linked to Uyghur forced labour camps

-Canada's debt interest payments are projected to hit $80 billion annually by decade's end, equal to $1,901 per Canadian per year, while the PBO flags the Liberals' capital spending definitions are too vague to verify any return on investment

-Immigration minister Lena Diab confirms her department cannot confirm whether 800 confirmed fraud cases identified by the Auditor General have left Canada or where they are

-Stay Free Alberta submits 301,620 signatures, well above the 178,000 threshold required to trigger consideration of a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada

- The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to decide whether Aboriginal title can be declared over privately held land, creating a direct conflict between rulings from B.C. and New Brunswick courts- The Privy Council spent $1.6 million in focus groups identifying CBC and Canada Post as areas for savings, while cabinet raised CBC funding to a record $1.6 billion annually

- A Sechelt mother was banned from school property and had child protection services called on her family after verbally objecting to a land acknowledgement at her daughter's drama performance

- Is Canada's energy future being killed by the same government promising to build it?

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