James Moore
speaker
3,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
James Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They like the drama.
They like the shit show.
You know, most of the rest of the world rolls our eyes, but the shit show is the show for a lot of people.
And Donald Trump knows that.
And so give them what they want.
And so coming to an agreement, you know, gives his critics the ability to show the inadequacies and the gray areas of the agreement effectively.
that can be exploited and then all of a sudden he doesn't look like quite the tough negotiator so and by the way that's not bad for canada it'll hurt people in the immediate term in the auto sector steel and aluminum wood other sectors um for sure but in the long term um canada benefits by a go slow approach in my view easy for me to say i know but but i but i believe that to be true okay we're going to take a quick break and then we'll uh we'll get to our second segment which is
Yeah, I always have to be careful about comparing country to country because so much of Canada is Section 9192 powers.
But actually, when you sister together federal and provincial debt, Canada's debt picture is actually significantly worse.
We have one of the worst debt dynamics, certainly in the G7.
You look at the amount of indebtedness, like government spending went from – I had some numbers here as well.
Government spending as a share of the economy went from 38% in 2014 to 44% in 2024, which is the biggest –
growth in government spending of any country in the G7 by a wide margin.
Debt servicing costs to Canada, right?
$54 billion a year.
The GST brings in about $21 billion a year.
So if people want a daily reminder of just the cost of carrying the scale of our debt right now,
you would have to more than double the GST in order to pay just the debt servicing costs.
So every time you buy something, you know what I'm getting at, right?
So as a visual imagination exercise of the scale of our indebtedness and what it looks like, that's a real problem.
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