David Moskrop
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28 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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All right. Elbows up. Elbows up. People on social media, in some cases, have put little emojis in their profiles with hashtags that say elbows up.
And it comes from Mike Myers going on SNL, and he's wearing a Canada's Not For Sale shirt, and he puts up his elbow and Mal's elbows up, in reference to the hockey expression that basically means, you know, get ready to fight, get ready to stand up for yourself. And some people liken it back to hockey legend Gordie Howe, who was quite famous for throwing elbows.
Well, this is it. I mean, I think every time Trump opens his mouth and starts beaking off about the 51st state or threatening another round of tariffs, it comes back. Even if it settles a little bit, it comes back. And I think the suspicion and the anger and the sense of betrayal that is expressed culturally and politically is
is going to lead to a remaking of public policy that's going to lock in those changes. Because once you said, okay, well, I'm going to start shipping goods and services to other countries. I'm going to make my business plans based on that. I'm going to build a bigger east-west electricity grid instead of running it north-south.
I'm going to build pipelines to ship oil and gas east-west and out on the ocean instead of to the south. Well, then you're kind of locked into that new arrangement because it's expensive and difficult to change it. And so, as Mark Carney, the prime minister himself, has said, you know, the relationship has fundamentally changed for good. And I think a lot of people feel that way.
And are people mournful of it? I think mournful is exactly the right word because that's how I feel. Millions of us really deeply love Americans, but don't love what the American administration is doing to our country and our relationship. And it feels like those ties that bind have been severed by that administration.
And yeah, we're mourning that loss because it kind of feels like losing a family member. I can't even share for the Red Wings anymore. Do I have to be a Habs fan? No, God knows I'm not going to be a Leafs fan, but do I have to be a Habs fan? Yeah, I know. There is a kind of light jokey side to this, a kind of spy versus spy side to it.
But then you start digging and you're like, oh, the Trump tariffs could decimate entire industries and put cities out of work and industries out of work and drive Canada into a recession and people would lose their homes. And you're like, that jokey bit stops at the water's edge. And so the cultural expressions are going to reflect that. And so maybe that means getting a Habs jersey.
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