Canada pulled out of trade talks with the United States this weekend rather than accept a bad deal, and Lesley Kelly and Jimmy Zoubris reacted from opposite directions before landing somewhere unexpected. Lesley admits she felt punked reading the headlines the next morning. Jimmy assumed it was posturing until the details came out, then changed his mind entirely.

The Demand That Actually Killed The Deal

Money wasn't the sticking point that ended these talks. A repeated demand around language and packaging, dismissed by one side as a minor cost issue, gets read by both guests as the clearest sign of bad faith in the entire negotiation, tangled up with a national unity conversation neither side can afford to ignore right now.

What Doug Ford Actually Said On Live Radio

An Ontario premier's blunt comment to the American president made headlines fast, and Jimmy Zoubris and Lesley Kelly dig into what it revealed, about Doug Ford's political instincts, about Trump's own thin skin, and about whether saying the quiet part out loud actually helps Canada's position or just feels good to hear.

Topics: Canada US trade talks, Doug Ford Trump exchange, Canada trade negotiation collapse, French language trade dispute, Canadian political strategy

GUEST: Lesley Kelly | highheelsandcanolafields.com

GUEST: Jimmy Zoubris

Originally aired on 2026-08-24