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Podcast: Brian Crombie Radio Hour
Episode: Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1478 - The 1988 Federal Election with Dan McCarthy, & Murray Simser
Description: Tonight on The Brian Crombie Hour, Brian interviews Dan McCarthy and Murray Simser for a fascinating discussion on a question first raised during the 1988 federal election. In that year’s leaders’ debate, John Turner famously warned:“Once a country yields its economic levers, once a country yields its energy … once a country yields its agriculture … once a country opens itself to a subsidy war with the United States … then the political ability of this country to remain as an independent nation — that has gone forever, and that is the issue of this election.”They explore whether Turner was right...