The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk - What Should We Learn From The CBS "60 Minutes" Disaster?
05 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Are you ready for Good Talk? And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here, along with Chantelle Hebert and Bruce Anderson. It's your regular Friday Good Talk. You know, last week, I don't know what came over me. It was something at the beginning of the show. For some reason, I didn't do the normal, are you ready for Good Talk? And I said something else, and I didn't think about it again.
Until the letters started coming in. Now, I don't want to overstate things. But there were a few. Saying, you can't do this. The program starts. Are you ready for good talk? Clearly, both Bruce and Chantel looked... puzzled as to why that was not normal.
It was disappointing. It just got off the wrong foot.
Well, some of the writers were disappointed. Eric Ott, a guy from Winnipeg, who I don't know, but he sent a letter saying, my friends and I rely on that opening because some of us record it and send it to each other. Are you ready? And we ship the program around. So I thought, I better not do that again. We can't afford to lose anybody. And so that's why we're back to, are you ready?
After a one-week absence. I bet you're both so happy to hear that. That feels right.
I can see it. We totally noticed we were off our game for 50 minutes after that. So not ready for that change. No consultation, as usual.
Yeah, I know. It was an ad-lib change. But you'll be happy to know that Eric, the now famous Eric Ott from Winnipeg, also joins the throng that says, Chantal is a national treasure.
Oh, give me a break. I always feel worried.
That's the way I wrote back to him. I said, give me a break. We're tired of this.
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Chapter 2: What progress has been made in Canada-US trade discussions?
We dropped counter tariffs. We dropped legislation. We are backing off on this. The administration is happy we're doing it. Will that be followed by what could be qualified as progress rather than movement is my only question.
Okay.
And we don't know that today. No, we don't.
We don't. Under that affordability umbrella, there is also the realization that for a lot of Canadians should take a very hard look at their subscriptions because there are people, you know, and I see it, people write about it. to me, about how they got suckered into so many subscriptions over time on different, different things.
And we're not just talking about the major streaming services, but all kinds of different subscriptions that they don't even realize until they look at their credit card how much they're spending each month that's automatically being deducted because they haven't canceled something or what have you. Anyway, that's a side issue in a sense.
Sounds like you just did a little bit of housekeeping on your own.
I try to stay ahead of it and I'm surprised sometimes. I go, I don't even remember subscribing to this.
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Chapter 3: How does the Prime Minister describe the current trade situation?
I certainly don't remember saying, oh yeah, just take it off me every month. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself.
No, but I see your point because in the old days, you'd get one bill and you'd say, this is costing me too much. And it makes no sense. I'm not using these. I never go to these stations now. It's all spread between small amounts. So one at a time, it doesn't take, or make a real dent until you take the time to do what you described. And then you think, wow, this is quite beyond.
It is. And it's also these rates have gone up tremendously since they initiated a bargain placement places to get you hooked. And now they're, you know, triple figure numbers for some of these subscriptions. Anyway, in terms of concessions, This once again, I'm not stating anything, I'm just asking here, was it a concession on the
In a way, the environmental front, it was something Elizabeth May has been pushing for, that everybody agrees that getting projects going, especially major projects in Canada, takes a long time because of all the different hurdles you've got to jump, some of which are environmental, some of which deal with dealing with First Nations on certain things.
And there's been a push to relax some of those rules. And the government didn't just appear, it said it was going to relax some of them. And they were just nailing down exactly which ones. But they're now indicating that they're going to not necessarily cancel those, but pause the look at them longer to see what impact they're having. Now, is that...
Is that a concession to Canadian companies or is that part of the overall concessions or concession that's being made right now on the trade front?
I think the initial timeline was too short. Separate from any leverage negotiation, trying to make people happy in Canada while they are somehow unhappy about other things. I think just realistically, two things. The timeline was too short to convince Canadians that due process had been in the works on both. How you speed up projects, there were two things.
two different relaxing some environmental rules, but also speeding up the process. So to extend until July 22nd kind of makes sense, especially since not only was the timeline so short, but it was supposed to be followed up by legislation. right away.
And it's really hard to argue that you would be listening to what people are saying and come up with legislation before the House rises, which was virtually never going to happen. So basically, the government is rightly, and with support, I noticed, from the Alberta Petroleum Association, from the business side of this, not just the environmental side, more time to try to get it right.
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