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No, no, no. I had to share that with you. I said you've got nothing to be afraid of. I've had many people calling me saying they're petrified and being on your show because you're pretty darn sure.
But I've got to tell you right now, I'm only a 45-minute drive away from where you are. Or at least it would be a 45-minute drive if we didn't have about 5 billion people living in this area. That's right. But as the girl flies, I'm just minutes away from you.
So tell us about, share with us what your impression is of this campaign, what's likely to happen tomorrow. My impression is that the campaign is a train wreck. You know, I just think that Trudeau has done so many things to give the sheer an opportunity, not because it's sheer, just to give, you know, the other party, which is the Conservative Party, the natural opposition party in this case, and the next natural national governing party, the opportunity, I think that the liberals were giving it to the Conservatives on a silver platter based on all the things that you talk about every weekend with Canadians. And I just think that the sheer campaign has managed to not react well to certain distractions, perhaps create some other distractions.
I don't have to list all of them because they're also things that you talk about. In any case, I just think that it's turned into a train wreck for the Conservatives. I think this was theirs for the taking. Now, they still might win a small minority or, you know, we'll see how all that transpires.
I don't have to tell you if they only win by a few seats. They end up not winning, and we can discuss that. But I think this was their election to lose. You know, when you have so many Canadians, people I've talked to, and I feel the same way for the first time in a long time, Charles, people ask me how to call this election, I have no idea.
None. Zero. And it's a reflection, I think, of the kind of campaigning that's gone on. Well, you know, Canadians have their issues.
They tell us all the time. You know, they care deeply about the management of the economy. They care deeply about taxation. They care deeply about environmental issues, whether they're for or against it, but, you know, mostly environmental activists are about it, or people who are running the NDP and the Greens.
The point is that many Canadians are engaged in those issues, and I don't have to tell you that health care, which is, you know, the ultimate glue of our social contracts, so is there really a ballot issue? I don't think so. I really don't think so. I voted last Monday, and what I did was what I said I would do.
I decided based on the last four years, not on the last five and a half weeks. And that's the only way that I could vote. And again, I keep hearing people say, I don't know how it's going to turn out. I can't predict how this is going to turn out, because there really isn't a hard ballot issue.
And boy, there were so many opportunities. My guess is this is a warm-up act, not the main event. I just think the main event is coming a year from now, a year and a half from now. I just think when we look back on it, this will be kind of a warm-up act that nobody would enjoy very much.
What's your sense about what may happen if, what kind of response would there be in the prairie provinces? I asked Errol what the word was about what would happen, and he used the word wild yesterday and today. Well, I'll tell you, it'll be a unity problem. I mean, you know, I love every inch of this country, and I've worked in just about every inch, and just about every inch is a former stomping ground of mine.
So I feel for the country, and I feel for all of the country. So it just makes me sad. The idea that one party ends up with more seats than the other, but doesn't get a chance, doesn't at least get the first chance to govern, that drives me crazy. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
What are you looking for tomorrow night? What will Charles Adler be looking for? Well, I'll be looking for, and I know this sounds like a broken record, but I'll be looking for 9.05, you know, looking to see how 9.05 works, only because, you know, it's the billboard. I mean, you're in it.
I am. You're basically at ground zero of the future, and how people in the 9.05 area decide who's going to be sitting in Ottawa is who's going to be sitting in Ottawa. I mean, I'd like to think that, you know, we won't know until, you know, British Columbia polls are closed and all of that. I'd love to see that.
It almost never happens that way, and maybe tomorrow it will. But, you know, at the focal point, it's still 9.05. 9.05 still matters. Always will.
It's just a numbers game. That's where people live, and that's where people don't seem to have as much loyalty to either of the two major parties. I think I've come to this conclusion that we've now reached the end of the same old, same old. We can no longer continue doing things the way we've always done them.
We've run up against the wall, and the same old, same old, whether it's first past the post or whether it's just the way we approach things, we can't continue anymore. There's too much division, too much regionalism. We need to have more, and as you say, love for the country. We've reached the end of this particular road, and it's a good thing.
Ultimately, whether it's from the red team or the blue team, you know, there has to be somebody who can just do that national voice thing where the person isn't seen as a westerner or an easterner or a social conservative or another kind of conservative, a blue liberal or a red story. I hope so. We'll look for you tomorrow night, my friend. Thank you so much for the time.
I thought it was just a funny phone call that I had at the beginning of the topic. I thought it was hilarious. No, I said, you don't have to be scared of me. He's a good guy.
He's a good human being. Been a friend of mine for years. He scares me. By the way, when people meet me, why they're never scared?
Because I'm never as homeless as you are. Thanks for joining me today, my friend. All the best. Charles Adler.
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