It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

Rick Mercer

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I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.

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I think when Justin Trudeau tweets - and Justin Trudeau tweets just like Donald Trump tweets. He occasionally just tweets things. And when he tweets that we're welcoming everyone, I mean, we're not a utopia for immigration as well. I mean, we have all sorts of issues that are very similar to the United States.

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Canadians want to know that our trade with the United States will continue and that we won't get into any kind of trade war with the United States.

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I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

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The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

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And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

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The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

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You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

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Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

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And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

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I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work... by Rick Mercer

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

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In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

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Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.

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I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are... by Rick Mercer

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

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On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

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And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

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This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.

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