Rudyard Griffiths

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3,754 appearances 38 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Rudyard Griffiths’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how far is Carney willing to bend for Trump? · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

The point is that I guess if you are a country, if you are a polity and you have a democracy and you have a government that's elected, i it sh it can and should have views on matched

Important issues uh that affect all of us in the digital realm, from AI through to social media through to matched

uh data storage and collection. matched

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You know, the y the utilities of the twenty first century. matched

They're as important, you know, as drinking water and an effective sewage system. matched

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If indeed we are going to, in the words of Jameson Greer, kind of harmonize our digital policies vis-a-vis American preferences with the White House that has been captured by big tech and big tech's big dollars that went into Trump's reelection bids, specifically through Elon Musk. matched

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some of the abolishment of of aspects of of current digital policy in Canada and a different approach, but that's just my view. matched

I guess I'm what I'm worried about here, Andrew, as a Canadian, as a citizen of this polity, is the extent to which we are renouncing sovereignty. matched

Just to play counterfactual, what if we had approached these threats as we approach the past uh threats by this president with targeted countervailing duties? matched

I mean, you and I discussed this before in in an interesting way. matched

Well, it's a slightly kookamie policy. matched

The extraction of US booze from a lot of provincial liquor stores matched

has seemingly had a disproportionate effect on the administration and its thinking, and it's now a concession that we can a relatively harmless concession that we can return to extract matched

from the United States, uh, better behavior, hopefully, you know, better terms on other issues that we care about. matched

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