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Tap The Maple | Bakes On Things

Hosted By Chris Baker

Tap the Maple is an independent Canadian political commentary show covering Canadian politics, the economy, affordability, government spending, taxes, trade, elections, and the decisions shaping our country’s future. Hosted by Chris Baker (Bakes), we go beyond the headlines to examine what government policies mean for your wallet, your freedoms, your family, and the future of Canada. From Parliament and party leaders to housing, inflation, jobs, and the cost of living, Tap the Maple delivers

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00:33:48

The Canadian Stories We NEVER Hear About

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2026/10/11

Canada, you NEED to see this. 🇨🇦 This Thanksgiving, we're travelling across the country to share six remarkable Canadian stories about kindness, compassion, generosity and hope.A therapy dog in London, Ontario, has reached an incredible milestone: 1,000 visits bringing comfort to people who need it most.In North Bay, a telephone that isn't connected to anything is helping grieving families find comfort.And from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, ordinary Canadians are doing extraordinary

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00:21:22

Donald Trump Didn't END These Jobs LIBERAL POLICY DID

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2026/10/10

Canada lost 68,300 jobs in September after losing 41,700 in August 110,000 fewer people employed in just two months. But the most revealing detail in Canada’s jobs report is WHERE the losses happened.Education, health care and social assistance together lost 58,400 jobs. The report says employment losses were not significantly higher in industries facing the United States. So how much can Ottawa explain by pointing at Donald Trump, and what demands answers from Canadian leaders?In this episode of

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00:24:48

Something SMELLS FRASER About Liberals Latest MAID...

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2026/10/09

Canada's MAID controversy just took a remarkable political turn. Mark Carney's Liberals voted against a Conservative bill intended to permanently prevent medical assistance in dying when mental illness is the sole underlying condition. Then the Liberal government announced plans to pursue essentially the same restriction through its own legislation.So why vote against the Conservative proposal?Bill C-218 was defeated 187–141, despite broad agreement on maintaining the mental-illness

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00:22:08

Brookfield Wants Your Pension | They Found A Way To...

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2026/10/08

What was Carney’s role in the original proposal? What role did Ottawa play in advancing the current arrangement? What can Brookfield earn—and how were the Prime Minister’s financial interests handled?On this episode of Tap the Maple, Bakes examines the timeline, the pension partnership, the Ethics Commissioner’s testimony and the financial terms Canadians deserve to understand.We follow the documented record:• Brookfield’s original Canadian investment-fund proposal• The structure of the CPP

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00:21:18

CARNEY BOUGHT WHAT?!

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2026/10/07

Mark Carney promised to “Buy Canadian.” A Toronto Star investigation identified an estimated $7.8 billion in federal contract awards to American-controlled corporations under his government. You changed your shopping, but what did Ottawa change?On this episode of Tap the Maple, Bakes goes beyond the hypocrisy headline to examine the bigger question: does Carney’s economic strategy deliver what Canadians were asked to sacrifice for?The Star examined approximately $25 billion in federal contract

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00:28:49

Can't Find A Doctor! Canadians DANGEROUSLY Taking...

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2026/10/06

Canadians are searching for family doctors accepting new patients, ER wait times, walk-in clinics, virtual care, and even Googling their own symptoms when they can't get timely medical advice.What does that say about Canada's health-care system?In this episode of Tap the Maple, Bakes follows one ordinary Canadian through the increasingly complicated process of simply trying to see a doctor.According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, roughly one in six Canadian adults doesn't have

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00:19:07

EVICTED: While Newcomers Pour In, Canada's Retirees...

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2026/10/05

Could your Canadian retirement income actually buy you a better retirement outside Canada?Millions of Canadians spend their working lives assuming they’ll collect CPP, possibly OAS, use their savings and retire right here at home.But what happens when you compare the cost of housing, groceries, utilities, transportation and everyday life in Canada with retirement destinations abroad?In this episode of Tap the Maple, we put Canadian retirement under the microscope.How far could your Canadian pension

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00:20:55

Liberal Government BURIED $243 Billion?!

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2026/10/04

Canada's Alto high-speed rail project was supposed to cost between $60 billion and $90 billion. Now the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the baseline could reach $113 billion, and its uncertainty analysis contains an astonishing upper-tail number: $243 BILLION.And that's only the beginning.The proposed Kingston route isn't included in the baseline estimate. The final route isn't settled. The PBO estimates every additional year before construction begins could add roughly $1.5

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00:23:18

Canada LOST...THEN FOUND 383,000 People… Now Carney...

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2026/10/03

Canada's population numbers just underwent a staggering revision, and the timing couldn't be more important.Statistics Canada initially estimated Canada's population fell by more than 102,000 people in 2025. Revised estimates now show the population actually GREW by more than 280,000.That's a swing of roughly 383,000 people.At the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney is already discussing when Canada could resume a “controlled increase” in population growth, even though temporary residents remain

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00:21:23

WHAT A JOKE: A Nobel Prize for Carney? For WHAT,...

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2026/10/02

Mark Carney, the Nobel Peace Prize, TIME Person of the Year—and a veteran tribute clip that raises an uncomfortable question: what does honour actually mean?Footage circulating from an Edmonton Oilers game appears to show Carney remaining seated while people nearby stand during a tribute to a Canadian Army veteran. Canadians deserve an explanation.Meanwhile, speculation about international recognition has prompted a much bigger debate: what has Carney accomplished to deserve it?In this Tap the Maple

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00:20:47

What They Left Out Changes Everything

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2026/10/01

Canadian media, Mark Carney, LNG Canada and the proposed West Coast pipeline: what happens when the headlines leave you with an impression the full timeline challenges?Feeling misled goes deeper than disagreeing with a news story. You trusted someone to give you enough information to make up your own mind.In this episode of Tap the Maple, Bakes checks the records behind Carney’s big energy announcements—and examines how political claims gain credibility when newsrooms repeat them without enough

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00:23:48

Trump Just BANNED Canadian Products… But Nobody Is...

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2026/09/30

Donald Trump has just taken the Canada-U.S. trade war somewhere extraordinary: the United States is now BANNING certain Canadian products from entering the country.Alcohol. Dairy products. Motorcycles.Nearly US$1 billion in Canadian imports are affected.But instead of asking the same question we've been asking for months, “What is Trump doing to Canada now?”, today we're asking something much more uncomfortable:Why Canada?Because Donald Trump deals with Mexico too.Mexico shares the same

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00:16:25

Carney’s New Plan Exposes a MASSIVE Problem With His...

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2026/09/29

Bill C-39 promises “one project, one decision, in one year.” But Mark Carney promised to fast-track Canada’s major projects last year. What happened to them?The government says 27 nation-building initiatives have been referred to its Major Projects Office, representing $200 billion in potential investment. In this episode of Tap the Maple, Bakes follows the difference between a project being announced, referred, approved, funded and built.We examine when Bill C-39’s one-year clock actually starts,

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00:18:27

The TRUTH About America Searching Your Phone at the...

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2026/09/28

CTV warned Canadians that U.S. border officials can search their cellphones without reasonable suspicion. That's true, but once you look at the actual U.S. policy, the court case behind the story and CBP's own statistics, the picture becomes very different.More than 420 million travellers were processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in FY2024. Electronic devices searched: 47,047, less than 0.01%.And that's only the beginning.In this episode of Tap The Maple, Bakes digs into the

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00:20:27

Upsetting Daddy: Carney’s New PBO Just Gave Him a BIG...

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2026/09/27

Mark Carney says Ottawa is on track to balance its operating budget ahead of schedule.But Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office has just released an analysis that raises some fascinating questions about what “balanced” actually means.The federal government now separates spending into operating and capital categories, and the PBO says some of those classifications “appear contradictory.” Even more importantly, the PBO explains that changing how expenditures are classified can affect the operating

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00:23:45

Carney’s U.S. Invasion Story Has One Huge Problem

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2026/09/26

Mark Carney told The New York Times that Canada prepared for the “extreme tail risk” of American military action under Donald Trump.There is one enormous problem: Trump had already been asked directly whether he would use military force against Canada, and he said no.So why did Canada’s prime minister resurrect the image of an American invasion during a major interview with an American newspaper while attending the United Nations in New York?Why did Canadians hear this supposed revelation through

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00:25:41

The WORLD Is Worried About Canada's Behaviour

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2026/09/25

Canada’s “Elbows Up” movement began as a patriotic response to Donald Trump, American tariffs and threats against Canadian sovereignty. But has it now crossed the line from patriotism into Canadian extremism?A businessman visiting Canada from London, England used those exact words: “Canadian extremism.”At first, the description sounded outrageous. Then we examined the movement itself: government-approved slogans, emotional propaganda, media amplification, collective blame, economic punishment and a

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00:21:10

The Carney Family's $0 Job Raises BIG QUESTIONS

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2026/09/24

Diana Fox Carney has been appointed Canada's Ocean Envoy, and the government says the position is UNPAID. But does a zero-dollar salary answer every financial question surrounding the prime minister's spouse?On today's Tap the Maple, Bakes examines Diana Fox Carney's new role, the 2027 Our Ocean Conference in Halifax, and the financial and ethical questions surrounding an appointment that intersects with international investment, climate policy, and the Carney household.The Our Ocean

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00:28:00

Trump Found a Way to Replace Canada — And It Could...

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2026/09/23

Donald Trump may have found a way to weaken one of Canada’s strongest remaining trade advantages: potash.Canada currently supplies roughly 80% of the potash imported by the United States and produces nearly one-third of the world’s supply. That gives Saskatchewan enormous economic importance—and gives Canada something Washington genuinely needs.But Belarus was once responsible for roughly one-sixth of global potash production. If Trump restores Belarusian access to American or global markets, Canada

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00:25:41

Parliament Is BACK… And Carney Has Some Explaining to Do

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2026/09/22

Mark Carney's $500 BILLION investment ambition is facing a major test as Canada's Parliament returns. With new corporate tax incentives, faster project approvals, proposed labour-law changes and a federal budget approaching, what will Canadians actually get?Welcome to Tap the Maple.The Liberal government has laid out an ambitious economic agenda. Ottawa wants to attract private capital, accelerate major projects, strengthen supply chains and encourage new investment in Canadian

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