Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Europe is improvising electricity with plug-in solar panels from the hardware store. Canada keeps chasing the same green virtue signalling that hollowed out their grid — and Jim and Iain want to know: when do we stop pretending this ends well?
When a manufacturing economy can't keep the lights on, "stupid policies" stop being a slogan. They become a living standard. Tristan Hopper's productivity trap, capital flight, and the natural-gas reality Ottawa still can't say out loud — it's all here.
Chapters:
0:00 Europe's energy crunch hits home
0:37 Plug-in solar — making up for lost capacity
1:25 Improvising power when the grid fails
2:13 Stupid policies haunt ordinary people
3:00 Canada's productivity trap
4:01 You can't glide on past living standards
4:37 Uncertainty bombs and capital flight
5:49 Peel back the green veneer
7:01 Natural gas and the war for survival
8:01 Thanks for watching
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Full live show (Aug 27, 2026) — US media asks: Why is Canada so poor?
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Europe is improvising electricity with plug-in solar panels from the hardware store. Canada keeps chasing the same green virtue signalling that hollowed out their grid — and Jim and Iain want to know: when do we stop pretending this ends well?
When a manufacturing economy can't keep the lights on, "stupid policies" stop being a slogan. They become a living standard. Tristan Hopper's productivity trap, capital flight, and the natural-gas reality Ottawa still can't say out loud — it's all here.
Chapters:
0:00 Europe's energy crunch hits home
0:37 Plug-in solar — making up for lost capacity
1:25 Improvising power when the grid fails
2:13 Stupid policies haunt ordinary people
3:00 Canada's productivity trap
4:01 You can't glide on past living standards
4:37 Uncertainty bombs and capital flight
5:49 Peel back the green veneer
7:01 Natural gas and the war for survival
8:01 Thanks for watching
———
The Really Big Show: The thinking Canadian's daily briefing, independent and informed.
🔴 Live every weekday at 9AM PST
📍 Independent. Unapologetic. Canadian.
👉 Support the show: thereallybigshow.ca
Subscribe | Share | Comment — help us grow independent Canadian media.
Full live show (Aug 27, 2026) — US media asks: Why is Canada so poor?
youtube.com/watch?v=hFtV3uzdm_w
