# What's Canada's biggest challenge right now? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/what-s-canada-s-biggest-challenge-right-now Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/what-s-canada-s-biggest-challenge-right-now.md Podcast: [The Evan Bray Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843) Published: 2026-06-08T15:46:00+00:00 Episode link: https://iono.fm/e/1683890 Audio file: https://dl.iono.fm/epi/prov_519/epi_1683890_medium.m4a?p=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/episodes/what-s-canada-s-biggest-challenge-right-now Duration seconds: 1129 ## Resource Several challenges are facing Canada right now: we're in a "technical recession," 51st-state talks have resumed, and Alberta separation talks haven't slowed down. This is all while the CUSMA review lingers less than a month away. Brian Lilley, political columnist for the Toronto Sun, joins us now to discuss what you should be keeping an eye on in Ottawa and beyond our borders. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/episodes/what-s-canada-s-biggest-challenge-right-now/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/what-s-canada-s-biggest-challenge-right-now.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.