# Melissa Lantsman: 'I think Canadians are going to wake up and demand results'

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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: 2026-05-24T16:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

The Really Big Show sat down with Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman for a conversation covering the state of Canada in 2026: antisemitism on the rise, a military without backpacks, a media that serves the government, an immigration system that stopped working, and an economy strangled by ideology.We spoke about:► The Canadian military readiness crisis: 20,000 personnel short of full complement, military housing units declared unfit for habitation by the auditor general, the Snowbirds grounded until the 2030s, and a procurement system where buying a helicopter takes longer than building one.► The Online News Act and the captured media landscape: Lantsman commits to repealing the Online News Act, calls the CBC's structural conflict of interest exactly what it is, and praises independent media for asking the questions the parliamentary press gallery will not.► Canada's regulatory labyrinth and squandered prosperity: the story of a country with the food, the oil, the critical minerals, and the human talent to be the wealthiest nation on earth, choosing poverty through ideology and bad policy.► Antisemitism in Canada: Lantsman's grandparents survived the Holocaust and her parents came to Canada because it was the safest place in the world to be Jewish. She says she can no longer make that claim with the same confidence today, and explains why 10 years of Liberal government accelerated the crisis rather than contained it.► The immigration system that was once the most admired in the world and what went wrong when targets were set well above half a million a year without the homes, doctors, or infrastructure to support it.► The Liberals' shameless political operation: Lantsman's frank assessment of how the Carney switcheroo worked, what conservatives can and cannot…

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