Althea Raj

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678 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Jun

Althea Raj’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Reporter's Notebook -- Should AI-Created Characters Be Allowed in Canadian Political Ads? · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

Basically, he's like the deputy minister of the prime minister's office.

So he's the guy who is in charge of the public service and the implementation of the government's agenda.

And usually Mark Carney of the prime minister goes to this event, closing event.

But in this case, he was swapped in.

He was heading to Europe and he was swapped in for Michael Sabia.

And Sabia probably to some viewers and listeners is familiar because he was also the deputy minister at finance when Christy Freeland was there.

And business leaders basically done every job in this country.

But in that speech, he talked about, you know, what the government is planning to do.

And it's kind of this strategy, which is like, obviously, build Canada strong and what they're focused on in terms of using natural resources to diversify the Canadian economy more broadly, double electricity.

electricity production, focus on AI adoption, commercialization in Canada to help productivity, trying to be a stronger economic partner to help with our leverage with the United States, strengthen the United States, the relationship with the United States, focus on the North.

He talked about a package of regulatory reforms.

So these are changes that the government planned to introduce in the fall that would speed things up in a dramatic way.

And I think to a lot of business people, this message resonated and sounded like, well, this sounds like a super great plan.

I think of like boomers who are looking for stability.

Yes, you know, somebody who's economically focused, hand on the tiller, this is great.

But when you think about young people, for example, who don't feel any connection to the government or feel like the government is not focused on the things that they care about, affordability, finding secure employment, how to pay the rent.

It feels like the government is kind of allowing itself to be vulnerable in terms of being portrayed as a government that cares about making rich people richer.

And not about, you know, selling off, for example, selling off public infrastructure.

You know, this government has talked about ports and airports, selling them off, talked about impact assessment changes that affect environmental rules.

I think the government and the Liberal Party specifically is at risk of losing the yellow coral coalition that they spent 10 years building.

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