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PM Carney gives different speeches to different audiences?Which one is to be believed?Does this serve Canada?

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Canadians want cheaper gas, a government that tells the truth about the economy, and a future worth staying for. Ottawa is offering a digital safety commission with the power to censor political content, a central bank governor who prefers the word "weak" to "recession," and a high speed rail project with 13 vice presidents and no train.The Bank of Canada held rates for a 5th consecutive meeting while its governor admitted the economy hasn't grown in a year, refused to call it a recession and acknowledged his forecasts have been wrong on inflation, on "transitory," and on the recession he said wouldn't happen. Bill C-34 would give a new federal commission the power to order platforms to block content deemed to undermine political, economic or social stability. And 50% of Canadians would now seriously consider joining the European Union. When half the country is looking for the exit, something has gone badly wrong.Today on The Really Big Show:►The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate at 2.25% for a 5th consecutive meeting, with Governor Tiff Macklem admitting the economy "hasn't grown really in the last year," refusing to call it a recession and preferring the word "weak," one day after Statistics Canada confirmed 2 consecutive quarters of contraction►Macklem's credibility is under scrutiny after wrongly predicting in 2020 that inflation would stay below 2%, in 2021 that inflation was "transitory," and in April 2026 that there would be no recession, with his own response being "did we get everything right? No"►Culture Minister Marc Miller has tabled Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, banning Canadians under 16 from social media platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and X, with platforms facing fines of 3% of global revenue or $10 million for non-compliance, while the bill gives a new federal Digital Safety Commission the power to order platforms to block content deemed to undermine "political, economic or social stability"►Miller acknowledged the bill involves "trade-offs" on Charter rights, saying "we're failing our children, enough is enough," as critics warn the content removal powers extend well beyond child safety into political speech►Pierre Poilievre reaffirms a future Conservative government will cancel the $90 billion Alto high speed rail project, calling it a "pie-in-the-sky Liberal boondoggle," as Alto has spent $265.9 million of its $4.3 billion budget, employed 13 vice presidents and paid $2.76 million in bonuses without breaking ground►Poilievre is calling for zero federal tax on gas and diesel for the rest of 2026, eliminating the fuel excise tax, the Clean Fuel Standard and the GST on fuel to save Canadians approximately 25 cents per litre, or $1,218 annually for a family of four, at a cost of $5.25 billion to the federal treasury►India's High Commissioner to Canada says global investors ►Energy expert Heather Exner-Pirot warns that while Canadian heavy oil has hit a $35 per barrel breakeven, new greenfield developments require $55 to $65 per barrel to clear investment hurdle rates, a gap that regulatory uncertainty is making wider►126,000 temporary foreign worker permits were issued for skilled trades in 2025 alone, nearly identical to the 127,000 skilled trades workers who were unemployed that same year, as the program cost taxpayers a net $509 million to administer over 5 years►A new poll finds 50% of Canadians would seriously consider initiating a formal process to join the European Union, more than double the 20% who would consider becoming an American stateWhen a government's response to public discontent is a commission with the power to remove content that undermines political stability, is it solving the problem or protecting itself from it? Let us know what you think in the comments.The Really Big Show: The thinking Canadian's daily briefing, independent and informed.

On this episode of The Really Big Show, Jim Csek and Iain Burns tear into the layers of institutional incompetence piling up across the country. We break down the absolute shocker out of the aviation sector, where an Air Canada pilot managed to fly commercial wide-body jets for nearly 17 years without a valid commercial license right under the nose of Transport Canada regulators.We also dive into the "Alto Pig"—the $90 billion high-speed rail Crown corporation that has managed to hand out millions in executive bonuses while failing to lay a single mile of track—and look at the Liberal cabinet's quiet preparation for a third regulatory swing at controlling your internet access. Plus, we look across the Atlantic where the UK is facing a full-blown border crisis as Belfast burns under Keir Starmer's watch.

Today is Tax Freedom Day, arriving later than ever, as Canadians spend more of their income on taxes than on food, shelter and clothing combined. Canadian officials are privately telling Reuters that the only real card Canada holds in trade talks is tariff-free access to the American market through CUSMA, the same relationship Carney spent a year telling Canadians he was pivoting away from.The Financial Times reports Carney is now willing to accept tougher conditions to trade in North America after more than a year of giving Washington the cold shoulder. The pivot is not a strategy. It is a concession. Meanwhile the Deputy Defence Minister failed to disclose a conflict of interest until after a meeting took place, the Alto Crown corporation paid $2.76 million in bonuses to 100% of its staff for a train that has not broken ground, and the Carney government is introducing a social media ban for Canadians under 16 while 4.4 million affordable homes remain unbuilt and homelessness is up 22% since 2017. The priorities are not adding up.Today on The Really Big Show:►Today is Tax Freedom Day, arriving later than ever, as Canadians now spend more of their income on taxes than on food, shelter and clothing combined►Reuters reports Canadian officials privately acknowledge the main appeal Canada offers prospective trading partners is not Canadian resources or markets but tariff-free access to the U.S. through CUSMA, directly undermining Carney's pitch of building an independent middle powers trading bloc►The Financial Times reports Carney is now "willing to accept tougher conditions to trade in North America" after more than a year of giving the U.S. the cold shoulder, as Canada remains frozen out of CUSMA talks and Washington signals displeasure at Carney's deepening ties with Beijing►A defence start-up whose chief lobbyist is the brother of Deputy Defence Minister Christiane Fox secured a private audience with Carney to pitch drone technology, with Fox only disclosing the conflict after the meeting took place, weeks after she was already cited by the Ethics Commissioner for using her office to hire her husband's cousin into an $80,000 federal management position►The Carney government is set to table an Online Harms Act banning social media for Canadians under 16, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Facebook, as child safety advocates warn Canadian children remain among the least protected in the Western world►Federal Housing Advocate Marie-Josée Houle warns it will take over 1,000 years to eliminate homelessness at current construction rates, with a deficit of 4.4 million affordable homes, chronic homelessness up 22% since 2017, and the average Canadian household spending 52% of income on housing►Pierre Poilievre says Alberta separatists are "rational people with legitimate grievances" and warns critics that dismissing them "will only worsen the divide," while personally opposing independence and calling for different government policies in Ottawa rather than a different country►The Gordie Howe International Bridge between Ontario and Michigan is set to open this week, paid for entirely by Canadian taxpayers, after Trump threatened in February to block it "until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them"►Finance Minister Champagne announced $150 million loans per airline to offset Iran war fuel costs, but WestJet called it "market-distorting" and Air Canada said its balance sheet is strong enough to handle the crisis without government help, as WestJet noted Ottawa forgave roughly $380 million in COVID loans to Air Transat last year

►The PBO has cut Canada's 2026 growth forecast to 1.1%, with Scotiabank projecting 0.8% and BMO projecting 0.5%, as real GDP per capita remains below pre-pandemic levels, labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021 and business investment has fallen for 5 consecutive quarters►Statistics Canada reports Canada added 88,000 jobs in May and unemployment fell to 6.6%, driven entirely by full-time work, but critics note the surge coincides with FIFA World Cup hiring in Vancouver and Toronto, raising questions about whether the gain reflects structural improvement or a temporary spike that will reverse in August►Ontario recorded its worst non-pandemic quarterly job losses since the mid-1970s as Canada enters a technical recession, with the only consistent employment growth coming from government payrolls rather than private sector hiring►Finance Minister Champagne is accused of misleading Canadians on the 2025 deficit after the Parliamentary Budget Office revealed the true shortfall was $71.8 billion versus his claimed $66.9 billion, with analysts calculating a 99% chance the government will miss its ongoing fiscal targets►Parliament has not balanced a budget since 2007, with ongoing deficits now the largest in Canadian history outside the pandemic and the PBO estimating less than 1% chance the deficit-to-GDP ratio will decline every year through 2031►Over 12 million Canadians receive a one-time top-up payment today under the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, which the CRA confirms is simply the existing GST rebate renamed and increased by 25%►Abacus Data finds 43% of Canadians have cut back on home heating or cooling to save money, while 38% say they have been forced to choose between paying energy bills and covering other household expenses►Canadian vehicle sales fell for an 8th straight month in May, down 1.7% to 184,000 units, with the only relief coming from resilient U.S. demand for Canadian-built vehicles►The Alberta pipeline approval process has been delayed again as MOU implementation stalls, with TC Energy CEO François Poirier's permit streamlining initiative adding months to the timeline despite promises of efficiency►Canada's inclusion on a U.S. forced labour tariff list of up to 12.5% is particularly pointed given Carney's decision to allow 49,000 Chinese EVs annually with components linked to Uyghur forced labour camps in Xinjiang, the exact source of goods the U.S. is using to justify the new tariffs►Carney's AI for All strategy targets $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new jobs over 5 years while acknowledging Canada ranks 44th of 47 countries on AI literacy and only 12% of Canadian businesses currently use AI, well behind Nordic leaders at 29 to 42%►University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist says the AI strategy lacks detail and is contradicted by the government's own actions, noting the same day it was released the Liberals pushed ahead with Bill C-22, which he says "quite frankly actively undermines" the privacy protections the strategy claims to prioritize►Treasury Board executive Brian Gear testifies Canadians' faith in public institutions is in decline as the Lobbying Commissioner discloses more than a dozen individuals breached the Lobbying Act but none have been charged or publicly named across 19 RCMP referrals, with the last prosecution dating to 2017►Leger poll finds 73% of Albertans want to remain in Canada while only 15% support independence, yet 57% consider the separation movement "very or somewhat serious," as Treaty 8 Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi threatens to blockade Alberta highways if the October referendum proceeds without First Nations consultation Let us know what you think in the comments.

Canada is in a recession its own government refuses to acknowledge. The Prime Minister skipped Question Period for the 4th consecutive day to wear a hard hat at a photo opportunity. And China's intelligence-linked state newspaper is celebrating Carney's pivot away from the United States in language nearly identical to his New York speech. Jim and Iain make sense of it all today on The Really Big Show.While the Bank of Canada tells Canadians not to put too much weight on the recession data and the Foreign Affairs Minister claims Canada will be the fastest growing G7 economy hours after the recession was confirmed, Guangming Daily, identified by intelligence experts as the preferred newspaper of China's Ministry of State Security, published a glowing essay praising Carney's push for Canadian autonomy from Washington. It follows a 2025 CCP influence operation that ran covert WeChat campaigns casting Carney as the ideal Canadian leader to stand up to Trump. The question of who benefits from Canada's current direction is not rhetorical.Today's show covers:►Carney skipped Question Period for the 4th consecutive day since the recession was confirmed, taking a 15-minute photo opportunity at a construction site in his riding wearing a hard hat, as Poilievre called him "the only G7 leader to cause a recession" who refuses to answer a single question from Parliament or media►Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand claimed Canada will be the fastest growing economy in the G7 this year, hours after Statistics Canada confirmed the country had entered a technical recession, as the Bank of Canada Deputy Governor told Canadians Canada is "not really" in a recession despite meeting the standard textbook definition►Statistics Canada reports Canada's national poverty rate stands at 11%, affecting 4.5 million Canadians, up from 7% in 2020, with 1 in 5 Canadians experiencing food insecurity and Nunavut recording the highest rate at 31.7%►Liberals voted 193 to 134 against blocking the CRTC's tripling of the streaming levy to 15%, confirming cabinet has the power under the Broadcasting Act to reject the order but chose not to use it, directly contradicting their earlier claim of powerlessness►CBC was flooded with viewer outrage after former host Travis Dhanraj testified managers explicitly blocked Conservatives from air, threatened to pull him off for booking a Conservative MP, and eventually forced him out, with CBC's editor in chief responding the network aims for balance "over time, not in every story"►Guangming Daily, identified by intelligence experts as the preferred newspaper of China's Ministry of State Security, published a glowing essay celebrating Carney's turn away from the United States in language nearly identical to Carney's own, following a 2025 CCP influence operation that ran covert WeChat campaigns casting Carney as the ideal Canadian leader to stand up to Trump►A Senate human rights committee voted 7 to 1 to criminalize public statements that "condone, deny or downplay" the Indian Residential School system, with offenders facing up to 2 years in prison under an amendment to Bill C-9, as the full bill returns to the Commons if the Senate adopts the amendments►Federal managers told a Commons committee they never authorized a $10 million charge by Indigenous Languages Commissioner Ronald Ignace for a 4-day Ottawa conference, admitting the internal audit only began after anonymous whistleblower complaints and that the department had given the office "a blank cheque"►Canadian judges in Ontario and Quebec have publicly criticized a two-tier justice system in which non-citizens convicted of serious crimes receive reduced sentences specifically to avoid triggering deportation, as Liberals voted down a Conservative bill in March that would have prevented the practice

Canada is in a technical recession. The Prime Minister was in New York telling Americans that "Canada Strong will help make America great again." And the first Chinese-made EVs under Carney's 49,000-vehicle tariff deal have arrived off the coast of Vancouver. Join Jim and Iain as they wrap up the week with the latest in Canadian news.Real GDP has now failed to grow for 2 consecutive quarters and business capital investment has fallen for 5 consecutive quarters. The pipeline Carney and Smith announced requires more than $100 billion in total private sector commitment with no confirmed builder, no approved route and no final investment decision. And a Labour Minister who quashed a legal strike by claiming a medical emergency has been caught by access to information records that show no such emergency ever existed.Today's show covers:►Statistics Canada confirms Canada has entered a technical recession after real GDP was unchanged in Q1 2026, following a 0.2% decline in Q4 2025, with business capital investment falling for a 5th consecutive quarter and the household saving rate at its lowest since early 2024, though April is tracking a 0.4% rebound►Carney told the Economic Club of New York that "Canada Strong will help make America great again," arguing Canada's energy and critical minerals make it a more valuable partner than rival, with U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra responding that "a lot of Americans can get behind that kind of message"►Imperial Oil's CEO says the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline will require more than $100 billion in total investment including production growth, shipping commitments and the government-mandated $16.5 billion Pathways carbon capture project, with no confirmed builder, no approved route and no final investment decision►The first Chinese-made EVs under Carney's 49,000-vehicle import deal have arrived off Vancouver, with a ship carrying Lotus luxury EVs starting at $119,900 moored outside the Port since Sunday, as U.S. lawmakers from Michigan propose banning Chinese-connected vehicles from the United States and cite Carney's tariff cut as a direct CUSMA irritant►Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank CEO told a Commons committee that food bank visits hit a record 4.1 million last year, feeding 1 in 10 Torontonians, with the fastest growing demographic being employed, post-secondary educated Canadians aged 19 to 44 who have "done everything right"►Canada needs 480,000 new homes annually but only 247,000 are expected this year, construction starts are projected to fall another 18%, and the government's $13 billion Build Canada Homes program will produce just 5,200 units annually according to the PBO►Labour Minister Patty Hajdu insists she quashed Air Canada's 2025 strike to prevent a medical emergency, but access to information records show no such emergency existed, Air Canada's own letter cited lost tourism revenue, and her deputy minister told a Commons committee he has no record of any such briefing►The Lawrence Bishnoi gang delivered a letter to Abbotsford police boasting it had 1,000 soldiers willing to carry out shootings in B.C., with RCMP testimony confirming every individual identified in the investigation is either a temporary foreign worker or international student "relatively new to Canada"►Conservative MP Chak Au told a Commons committee that shoplifting has hit $9.2 billion annually, up from $5 billion in 2019, with violence in shoplifting incidents up 76%, while Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree said he was "not an expert on shoplifting" and did not agree it constitutes a national crisis►Liberals claim they lack the authority to overturn the CRTC's decision to triple the mandatory Canadian content levy on streaming platforms to 15%, despite having created the regulator's expanded mandate through their own Online Streaming Act in 2023Let us know what you think in the comments.

The Prime Minister's in-flight food bill for 3 trips was $195,400. It’s been confirmed that Canadians will never be told what is in the security agreement Carney signed with China. And Canada has fallen from 2nd to 19th in the U.S. News Best Countries rankings, dropping behind the United States for the first time. The contradictions are stacking up faster than the explanations. The cost per asylum claimant now exceeds the average Canadian salary. The Senate concealed 200,000 signed postcards opposing a hate speech bill in a warehouse. And Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says he believes Aboriginal title and fee simple title should co-exist on private property. Join Jim Csek and Iain Burns as they make sense of it all.Today on The Really Big Show:►The Canadian Taxpayers Federation reveals Carney billed taxpayers $195,400 for airplane food on 3 flights to London, Rome and Brussels, including $93,780 for a single Rome trip, more than double what Trudeau spent on the same destination in 2024►Food Banks Canada recorded 2.2 million visits in a single month, double the usage of 6 years ago, with 1 in 3 clients being children and nearly 1 in 5 being employed workers who still cannot afford groceries►Steven Guilbeault confirms he will resign his Montreal seat this summer, telling the House "the fight is not over" while hinting he is not alone, with 14 Liberal MPs having already signed a letter expressing similar concerns to Carney►Canada has fallen from 2nd place in 2023 to 19th in U.S. News and World Report's Best Countries rankings, dropping behind the United States for the first time, with the publication noting its reformed methodology now measures statistical indicators rather than perception►Canada has failed to reach a trade deal with the U.S. nearly a year after Carney promised one, with serious doubts growing about the fate of an agreement CBC calls "crucial to the Canadian economy"►Poilievre says Liberal MPs admitting they never read the Alberta MOU signals the pipeline is "all an illusion" and that Carney has told them it is never going to happen anyway►Canadians will never be told what is in the security agreement Carney signed with China's Ministry of Public Security, the same ministry that operated secret police stations on Canadian soil►China's foreign minister arrives in Ottawa for the first time in a decade as a new Montreal Institute for Global Security report warns of China's "systemic" interference in foreign countries, with its executive director saying Beijing has "murdered Canadian citizens, harassed Canadian citizens and stolen top intellectual property"►The total government cost per asylum claimant has hit $82,000 annually, more than the average Canadian salary of $68,000►Carney refuses to explain remarks caught on a hot mic telling Housing Minister Gregor Robertson "what are you doing, this is stupid, you've got an off-ramp, take it"►Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says he believes Aboriginal title and fee simple title should co-exist on private property, which is precisely what the Cowichan ruling declared, yet the federal government is simultaneously appealing that same ruling days after Liberals and NDP voted to reject a Conservative motion protecting private property rights►A former RCMP deputy commissioner told a Senate committee that organized crime is infiltrating Canada's West Coast fishery through fishing licences and crab quotas held by unknown beneficial owners►The Senate concealed 200,000 individually signed postcards opposing Bill C-9 in a Gatineau warehouse marked for destruction, with senators told only a sample box would be delivered to their offices before the voteThe Prime Minister spent more on airplane food for 3 flights than most Canadians earn in 3 years. Last month 2.2 million of those Canadians visited a food bank. Is there a clearer illustration of who this government is governing for? Let us know what you think in the comments.

The Liberal coalition is cracking, the housing market is hitting a financial inflection point, and Parliament just voted to leave property rights unprotected after a court ruling that has B.C. homeowners asking whether their homes are safe. Jim Csek and Iain Burns are here to bring you the day's news.The cracks are showing on multiple fronts simultaneously. Steven Guilbeault may be days away from leaving the Liberal caucus entirely. Insolvency filings are at their highest level since 2009. And the House Leader just told 44,869 Canadians who signed a petition asking MPs to be held accountable for lying that Parliament has no business policing political speech for truthfulness. Today on The Really Big Show:►CTV News reports Steven Guilbeault could resign from the Liberal caucus this week, escalating his earlier cabinet resignation over Carney's decision to roll back Trudeau-era industrial emissions regulations►A letter signed by 14 Liberal MPs expressing concern over Carney's environmental policy rollbacks was obtained by CBC News, which reported the contents but did not publish the names of the MPs who signed it►The Bloc Québécois has publicly invited disaffected Liberal MPs unhappy with Carney's environmental rollbacks to cross the floor and join their party►Liberals and NDP vote 199 to 139 to reject a Conservative motion to protect property rights, following a B.C. court ruling granting the Cowichan Nation Aboriginal title over 1,846 acres of privately owned land near Richmond, as property owners across B.C. ask MPs whether their homes and investments are safe►Equifax Canada reports Canadian insolvency filings jumped 18.8% in the first quarter of 2026 to the highest level since 2009, with homeowner insolvencies up 11%, mortgage delinquencies surging 52% in Ontario and 36% in B.C., as Equifax warns Canadians have hit a "financial inflection point"►The Privy Council's own focus group research finds most Canadians have resigned themselves to U.S. tariffs never being fully removed, with no consensus on whether Carney is on the right track despite his repeated promises to "get an even better deal"►Eby concedes the Pacific coastline is federal jurisdiction, not B.C.'s, a significant legal admission that could limit his ability to block a federally designated pipeline project under Bill C-5►Prime Minister Carney met with Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to advance a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement targeting conclusion by end of 2030, which would more than double two-way trade to $70 billion annually►Federal taxpayers have spent $97.8 million housing asylum claimants in hotels in Peel Region alone, with committee testimony confirming no criminal background checks are conducted before accommodation is provided and services can flow before eligibility is confirmed►Peel Police's Extortion Task Force dismantled an international criminal group targeting South Asian business owners, arresting 17 suspects facing charges including violent extortion, fraud and firearms offences►Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner challenged Tim Hortons in the House of Commons over lobbying records showing the company was still seeking expanded temporary foreign worker access as recently as October 2025, weeks before launching its "hire local" campaign targeting 10,000 Canadian workers►Five years after the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced ground-penetrating radar had detected what it claimed were 215 buried children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, no physical evidence confirming the claim has ever been presented►Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon says Parliament has no business policing political speech for truthfulness, responding to a Liberal MP's own petition signed by 44,869 Canadians calling for MPs to face court-ordered fact-checks and suspension for lying

95% of Canadians are feeling financial pressure. 52% of the average household's income now goes to shelter. And 47% say the country is on the right track, the highest figure since 2017. Jim Csek and Iain Burns try to make sense of a country where the numbers tell completely different stories depending on which ones you look at. The gap between how Canadians feel about their own lives and how they feel about the country's direction is not a contradiction. It is a portrait of a population that has learned to separate the government's narrative from their own reality. Housing is consuming more than half of household income. One in 10 Canadians is using credit cards to cover monthly expenses. And cabinet won't disclose the budget for a Governor General swearing-in ceremony while promising $60 billion in spending cuts.Today on The Really Big Show:►A survey finds 95% of Canadians are feeling financial pressure from rising food, housing, utility and gas costs, with 91% saying they have no control over their situation, 49% cutting back on essentials and 10% relying on credit cards to cover monthly expenses►A federal housing department memo calculated shelter costs now consume 52% of the average Canadian household's annual income, up from 38% a decade ago, with middle income families increasingly unable to buy homes and pushing rental demand higher►Abacus Data finds 47% of Canadians say the country is on the right track, the highest figure since 2017, with 76% saying the rest of the world is heading in the wrong direction and 80% saying the same about the United States specifically►Newfoundland's independent review panel declares the new Churchill Falls MOU with Hydro-Québec "not in the public interest," saying it echoes the terms of the 1969 contract widely considered the worst resource deal in Canadian history, as Premier Wakeham vows to renegotiate while Quebec warns it may walk away entirely►CPP Investments CEO says the Carney government's airport privatization plans represent "interesting opportunities," as the fund posts a 7.8% return and grows to $793.3 billion, with Ottawa and the pension funds jointly hosting an investment conference in September targeting $1 trillion in new capital►YouTube warns that the CRTC's new discoverability requirements will downgrade independent Canadian creators globally, cutting the foreign revenue that makes up the bulk of their income►Pearson Airport has seen corrupt baggage workers smuggling drugs through unwitting passengers' luggage, a quadrupling of immigration court filings since 2017, and organized crime networks operating across restricted areas, raising serious questions about security oversight at Canada's busiest airport►The Canadian Human Rights Commission says Parliament should withhold federal funding from municipalities that fail to build homes, echoing a Conservative campaign proposal Carney's government has since adopted, as Canada faces a shortfall of 4.8 million units►The Assembly of First Nations demands mandatory consultation on all future foreign trade treaties, arguing First Nations hold an inherent right to self-determination over any agreement affecting their lands and resources►Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's Treasury Board president and daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, is resigning from Doug Ford's cabinet and her York-Simcoe seat effective June 5, triggering a byelection alongside one already pending in Scarborough Southwest►CRTC research confirms a sharp generational split in how Canadians consume news, with over-55s relying on television while under-45s turn to social media, as Canadian broadcasting revenue continues a structural declineIf 95% of Canadians are under financial pressure how can 47% say the country is on the right track? Let us know what you think in the comments.The Really Big Show: The thinking Canadian's daily briefing, independent and informed.