Canadian government inefficiency is not really about failure. It is about expectation. Matt Gurney has one example that makes that distinction impossible to ignore: Canada and the UK both needed new military pistols. The UK did it in two years for 20 million pounds. Canada spent a hundred million dollars staffing an office on a ten-year timeline and called that the plan.

 

What does it feel like to realize a problem you assumed was about execution is actually about imagination? The British knew they could do it faster and cheaper. It did not occur to Canada to try. That is the sentence that lands, and it lands on every major file: defence, immigration, a payroll system that cost billions and still does not work.

 

The Carney agenda is becoming clear, Matt Gurney says. So is the mud. And OpenAI shutting down Sora while Disney pulls a billion-dollar deal is the kind of story that explains why the AI conversation is not going away.

 

Topics: Canadian government inefficiency, Mark Carney agenda, OpenAI Sora shutdown, military procurement Canada, AI deepfake video

 

GUEST: Matt Gurney | readtheline.ca


Originally aired on 2026-03-24

Canadian government inefficiency is not really about failure. It is about expectation. Matt Gurney has one example that makes that distinction impossible to ignore: Canada and the UK both needed new military pistols. The UK did it in two years for 20 million pounds. Canada spent a hundred million dollars staffing an office on a ten-year timeline and called that the plan.
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What does it feel like to realize a problem you assumed was about execution is actually about imagination? The British knew they could do it faster and cheaper. It did not occur to Canada to try. That is the sentence that lands, and it lands on every major file: defence, immigration, a payroll system that cost billions and still does not work.
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The Carney agenda is becoming clear, Matt Gurney says. So is the mud. And OpenAI shutting down Sora while Disney pulls a billion-dollar deal is the kind of story that explains why the AI conversation is not going away.
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Topics: Canadian government inefficiency, Mark Carney agenda, OpenAI Sora shutdown, military procurement Canada, AI deepfake video
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GUEST: Matt Gurney | readtheline.ca
 Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-03-24

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