Rudyard Griffiths

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3,754 appearances 38 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Friday Focus: Canada's trade war heats up and the Iranians escalate to de-escalate · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

Around these trade wars. voice-verified

uh certainly from my point of view enables a a heavy hand of the state and voice-verified

a a proactive role for politicians who are already inclined and primed to intervene. voice-verified

he's gonna give everybody five thousand dollars if they vote from the election and he made the the the completely incorrect comment that it would be paid for by the tariffs when the Supreme Court is voice-verified

has ordered him to refund those first round of tariffs. voice-verified

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I think so. voice-verified

And in fact these new tariffs uh that were announced, you know, are maybe a billion dollars in terms of uh Canadian imports. voice-verified

More significantly though, and this is what I want to go with you next, is the Trump government is threatening by the end of this month to ban uh Canadian companies from uh an important list in the United States that allows state state governments and the federal government voice-verified

to jump over normal procurement processes to access kind of low bid suppliers. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

That Janus is a fifty billion dollar a year annual hit. voice-verified

And it suggests to me what my concern is extending this trade war is that there are many more asymmetrical ways that the United States can hit us than we can hit them. voice-verified

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At four hundred billion dollars of goods that we send to the US each year, including oil. voice-verified

That is less than one and a half percent of the total GDP of the United States. voice-verified

So while voice-verified

We think our exports are super important and they are. voice-verified

the size of that economy at over thirty trillion dollars to me suggests Janice I I worry voice-verified

That the Trump administration is going to look for other voice-verified

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