Canadian politics commentator Rob Breakenridge joins the Canada Day long weekend to make a distinction most people skip: the country is not the same thing as the people running it, and one can be worth celebrating while the other deserves serious scrutiny.

A piece Rob wrote a year ago on Alberta's secrecy creep turns out to be more relevant now than when he wrote it. Delayed access to information requests, redacted documents, topics quietly pulled from committee agendas — Rob walks through how governments limit what Canadians can see, and why most of it happens in plain sight.

With trade uncertainty, provincial tension, and a new federal government still short on deliverables, Rob lays out what he's watching in the months ahead — and why how people feel about this country depends heavily on what happens next.

Topics: secrecy creep, government transparency, Canadian politics, national unity, access to information

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Originally aired on 2026-07-02