# Liberals will face a reckoning when the truth wins out

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Podcast: [The Really Big Show with Jim Csek &Iain Burns](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-really-big-show-with-jim-csek-iain-burns-7118319)
Published: 2026-05-27T20:04:59+00:00
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Steven Guilbeault resigns from the Liberal caucus today. China's foreign minister arrives in Canada tomorrow for the first visit in 10 years. And Ottawa is announcing an LNG deal with Germany from a facility that has not yet made a final investment decision. Join Jim Csek and Iain Burns as they make sense of it all.The Liberal coalition is fracturing over climate, the trade relationship with Washington is deteriorating while Mexico moves ahead without Canada, and a Buy Canadian policy that allows fully foreign-owned companies to qualify as Canadian suppliers is being defended without irony. The announcements keep coming. The details keep undermining them. Today on The Really Big Show: ►Carney calls Alberta's independence referendum a "dangerous bluff", as Smith fires back that this is a decision for Albertans, not Ottawa, and confirms she will campaign for Alberta to remain in Canada ►Carney confirms the Clarity Act does not apply to Alberta's October referendum, describing it as "a question about a question," but warns any future binding independence vote would require a clear majority well above 50% plus 1 ►Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault resigns from the Liberal caucus today over Carney's climate policy rollbacks, with sources saying he will remain as MP until the House rises to protect the government's slim majority ►Conservative MP Branden Leslie tables a motion demanding public release of the letter signed by 14 Liberal MPs expressing concern over Carney's environmental rollbacks, a letter CBC obtained but whose signatories the party refuses to name ►Ottawa is set to announce an LNG supply deal with Germany from the Ksi Lisims facility in B.C., four years after rejecting Germany's east coast LNG request, with Ksi Lisims yet to re…

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