Heather Cox Richardson
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6,928 appearances
79 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nice country you got there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.
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Letters from an American was written and read by Heather Cox Richardson.
It was produced at Soundscape Productions, Dedham, Massachusetts.
Recorded with music composed by Michael Moss.
August twenty fourth, twenty twenty six.
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On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney instructed Canadian negotiators to walk away from talks with officials from the Trump administration over new tariffs of 50% Trump had imposed on $28 billion of Canadian products.
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Kearney explained in a statement that last-minute changes in the U.S.
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proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic.
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and called into question the reliability of any deal.
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He has a point.
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From july first, twenty twenty until Trump's second term, the US, Canada, and Mexico traded under the United States Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.
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Negotiated under the first Trump administration, USMCA replaced the nineteen ninety four North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and was similar to it, creating one of the world's largest free trade zones.
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The trade zone reinforced the close alliance between Canada and the US, enabling people in both countries to enjoy the longest demilitarized border in the world, stretching more than five thousand miles, more than eight thousand kilometers across the entire North American continent.
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Canada and the US have shared military and defense capabilities, with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, operating since nineteen fifty seven to detect aircraft or missiles, especially those coming over the North Pole, that could prove a threat to the United States.
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NORAD's Santa Tracker originally was a way to make Americans aware of what NORAD did.
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But as soon as he won reelection in twenty twenty four, Trump began to emphasize that he intended to use economic force, specifically tariffs, to pressure Canada into joining the US as its fifty first state.
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He began to exercise that threat the day he took office for the second time, saying he would put twenty-five percent tariffs on Canada.
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This violation of his own trade agreement reflected the administration's abandonment of the principles of free trade and defensive alliances put in place after World War II, replacing that system with one favored by autocrats like Russia's President Vladimir Putin, in which strong countries imposed spheres of influence in their regions of the world.
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Since then, Trump has sought to use the extraordinary economic power of the United States to force Canada and other countries into subordinate relationships.
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The recent threat against Canada came after Trump's previous tariffs either were struck down or expired.
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