Rudyard Griffiths

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3,430 appearances 35 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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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

Is that by involving the provinces early on in things like booze, American booze on their shelves, giving them, in a sense, important levers to press on and off to pull forward or backwards in this trade negotiation, the provinces now have a say. voice-verified

And the premiers, if you look at their poll numbers like you look at the the prime minister's poll numbers, especially in an embattled Doug Ford, at least an embattled Doug Ford a few weeks ago voice-verified

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This trade war is good for them. voice-verified

Might not be good for us economically, but it's good for them politically. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Janice the tariffs as we talked about put politicians at the center of the economy. voice-verified

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It was one of the reasons it took decades to get rid of them uh in in the in the twentieth century. voice-verified

This is catnip. voice-verified

And and let's I mean Donald Trump loves it. voice-verified

He loves the CEOs coming in and genuflecting to him and trying to get, you know, carveds and exemptions. voice-verified

But let's also understand that it's tariffs this tariff war in a way privileges in part this current federal government's arguments about what the Canadian economy should look like, which is more state intervention, more public subsidies, uh, more voice-verified

Public capital being poured into public-private partnerships. voice-verified

Uh there'll be this big investment summit coming up uh in the next week. voice-verified

So I I'm concerned here, Janice that the incentive structure. voice-verified

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

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