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Chapter 1: What was Canada's historic win in World Cup Soccer about?
Are you ready for Good Talk? And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here, along with Chantal Hébert and Bruce Anderson. This is our last Good Talk before our summer break, although we will be back once in July and once in August. I'll give you the dates on that. A little later on. Let's talk about today, as always, as we complete the season before the summer hiatus, as we call it.
And I got to tell you, you know, I'm still in Scotland. I'll be back soon. By Canada Day, to be back in Canada, but I'm still in Scotland right now, and they're soccer crazy here, as they are in many parts of the UK and Europe. Scotland won its game the other day, and the place, like, went nuts, and still is that way.
Chapter 2: How did the Canadian soccer team's victory impact national pride?
It continues to celebrate days later. But I got up in the middle of the night here. I wanted to watch what would happen to Canada in Vancouver in the game against Qatar, and And it was an incredible night. It made me think back to the 70s where I was assigned by the National Desk to go do a story on soccer and its growing involvement with Canadians, especially young kids.
I mean, I'm sure, you know, Chantal, you probably took your kids to soccer. You're probably taking your grandkids to soccer. Bruce, you too, I know I have. But you never thought, at least in those days, that it would ever reach the point where we, Canada, would be in a World Cup game and win, and not only win,
little bit but win convincingly six nothing in that game last night before a packed house and i'm sure canadians watching from coast to coast to coast suddenly devotees to soccer um so i wanted to spend just a moment on it um because i'm sure people are talking about it everywhere in canada um what did you make of it bruce
Chapter 3: What were the cultural implications of Canada's win in soccer?
Well, it was great. Pardon me. A bit of a cold lingering. So if I hack in a cough today, you'll forgive me. But I loved watching the game. I thought it was a great experience as a Canadian to kind of see the amount of motion that's been building up around this team and Canada's participation in Canada. What I think has some degree of controversy around it, this year's World Cup.
I think all of that goes away when Canadians see a Canadian team get on the field and do its best. And last night's game was terrific from that standpoint. I think a couple of things that stood out for me, this is such a demonstration of all the different parts of the world.
Chapter 4: How did the Prime Minister's attendance at the game influence public perception?
Obviously there are some countries that aren't represented. There's I think 47 in total, but it gives the viewer
The fan, a sense of the degree to which people from all different walks of life, from all different parts of the world can get together, can compete, can shake hands and walk away from an event like this, can experience the idea of competition, but also a set of standards, a code of behavior, a code of conduct and discipline.
So the cultural mosaic thing that we've been talking about, the Prime Minister's been talking about in the last little while, really kind of comes through for me as I look at the crowds in the stadiums across the different games that I've been watching this week. And the second thing, and the only other point for me is...
When all else seems like it can fail us in terms of bringing people together, because politics can become so divisive and so polarizing, music, sports, recreational activities that people share in common, those are things that really...
Just kind of get over that fence and take us to a place emotionally where we're not thinking in terms of what is the person sitting next to me who's enjoying this spectacle, who's just cheering as lustily as I am. What's their political kind of perspective on something? Instead, there was a real sense of Canadian-ness and you could kind of feel it through the screen.
Sense it in the way in which the coverage was handled and obviously see it in the huge, huge crowd at BC Place.
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Chapter 5: What controversies surrounded the G7 meeting involving Donald Trump?
Yeah, you know, the PM was there. Not dressed in a suit like, you know, some of the other suits around there were dressed last night to sort of officially be there. He looked like he was ready to hit the field and take position if they needed an extra player. Chantal, what did you make of it?
Under intense jet lag, I would say about Mark Carney, considering that he left the G7 in France to make his way all the way to Vancouver. So lots of flying and lots of, I suspect, not really knowing what time it is anymore. Yes, people were watching. Of course, they were watching in Montreal. I think there are... interesting aspects to this.
Chapter 6: How did the Canadian government respond to the G7 discussions?
Well, for one, it's kind of a consolation prize for the way that the hockey season ended with no Canadian team at the end. So there is that. There is also the fact that it shows that soccer has become something that Canada does, which was not the case, you are right, decades ago. I remember being assigned to cover Les Jeux de la Francophonie. So that took place in Morocco. The first Francophonie
organization games and that would be 1989 in that area or 1990 and they the Canadian team did okay but I remember I was working with sports people but not doing sports one of the producers who knew more about this listened to my news reports about you know how the Canadian team had done etc and said this
is one of the events that will put soccer on the map more in Canada, because we are talking about soccer and the Canadian team. What I found interesting, you hear all kinds of things, obviously, reports around the event. Do you know which country in the world has the most players on the field
Chapter 7: What challenges does the Canadian government face in international relations?
in this cup and you totally understand that by that I mean there's not one team that's got more players than all the others. One country has produced more players by far among all of the teams in this tournament and it is France. which is really interesting.
And they have players, obviously their own team, they have players spread out, which kind of tells you something about the reach of La Francophonie, that their players have spread out to so many teams across the world, not just Canada and Belgium or Switzerland. So it's a really interesting kind of way to present the world in a different shape than the way we tend to see it these days.
Yeah, you know, man, that team, the Canadian team, is really a reflection of the country because there are players from all across. There's a lot of players from Quebec. In fact, you know, one of the best was, you know, badly hurt last night. I think his leg was broken, and so he's out of the tournament, and that's a problem for Canada.
But they look, you know, listen, we're not going to get carried away here.
Chapter 8: What are the future implications for Canada after the World Cup victory?
You don't see them playing Argentina or England or France in the final. But, you know, they got a real good shot at winning their group and moving on to the, you know, the next part of all this. So good for them and good for Canadians who are realizing that we are a player now in soccer or football, as it's called by, most of the world. And, you know, good for us and good for them.
All right, let's move on to things, politics. The prime minister might have had fun last night. I was trying to figure out whether he, and not just him, but his counterparts were having fun at the G7 because, I don't know, that scene, and it wasn't just Carney, it was that scene where
You know, Trump brought out some version of the peace deal, as he calls it, some peace, some deal, to sign at the table. And they all applauded him and clapped for him and shook his hands and, I don't know, patted him on the back, whatever. And you know full well that most of the people in that room, just like most of the people in the world who've watched this last four months...
think this whole Iran war thing was a disaster of epic proportions and that Trump screwed it up, should never have gone there. And yet here they were applauding him and the prime minister was very specific what he said in an interview and then I think again in closing statements, that the war was worth it. Now, was this just a part of...
The old tradition of, you know, sucking up to Trump because there are a lot of bigger things on the table for them, for their countries. What was going on there? Chantal, you start here.
I think it goes beyond sucking up to Trump because he's there and, you know, the sucking up would involve the birthday gifts. We apparently gave one or the dinner at Versailles that the French president organized for the president. I'd say that's sucking up. That's also a way to make sure Donald Trump doesn't leave until the end of the meeting because he wants his dinner at Versailles.
But I think the six other members of the G7 all have a compelling interest in having Donald Trump put an end to his adventure in Iran. And on any basis at that point, yes, I think everyone understands that this is a disastrous ending to a disastrous adventure, but I don't think anybody believes that there would be an end game that would be great.
So they want normalcy in as much as possible to be restored, oiled and tankers to go back to the strait and possibly the US moving on after Mr. Trump has claimed victories. Prime Minister Carney is a bit More forward on this in the sense that he is not only, it's easy to say at the G7 summit with Donald Trump in the room, great work.
It's another thing to be giving interviews saying how the war was worth it and how great this deal is. I think Mr. Carney called it a game changer. I can only assume that up to a point the prime minister is expending political capital, because he is, to earn some IOUs to try to unlock some other files with the Trump administration.
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