Think back to 1986. The Soviet Union still exists; Ronald Reagan is president of the United States; Brian Mulroney is prime minister of Canada.

Recorded just two and a half years after Freedom Party of Ontario's (Canada) founding in 1984, this 1986 open-line radio debate between (then) Communist Party of Canada's leader William Kashtan and FPO's President Robert Metz illustrates how the essential nature of major political issues of our time have changed very little since then.

This is the June 20, 1986 broadcast of Radio CFPL's (980 AM - London, Ontario) Hot Line: an open-line talk show that was hosted by Wayne McLean weekdays during the 1980s.