Episode Details

A report in the Globe and Mail says Canada is offering concessions to get a trade deal. Canadians and pundits aren’t happy with the idea. Is it just a trial balloon or is Carney willing to pay the political price to reduce tariffs? 

Meanwhile, rolling back Trudeau’s digital policies targeting tech giants is one concession Carney seems happy to make. But how will it impact Canadian media funding?

Plus, Canada continues to scale back its peacekeeping efforts, and a crime wave hiding in new StatsCan data.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Kallan Lyons (Associate Producer and Fact Checking), Imogen Sayers, (Mixing and Mastering), Tristan Capacchione (Senior Production Supervisor), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Harrison Lowman

Photo: Jolanda Flubacher, World Economic Forum

Further reading: 

• Ottawa discussing trade concessions with U.S. in return for some tariff relief, sources say - The Globe and Mail
• Making concessions to get a trade deal when the public’s in a fighting mood - The Globe and Mail 
• Concession Carney faces his Neville Chamberlain moment - The Globe and Mail
• Carney would rather concede to Trump than risk short-term economic pain — The Globe and Mail
• Dispatch from the Front Lines: No deal. - The Line
• Follow the Money All the Way to Mark Carney’s Canada - Bloomberg
• Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation - Marc Edge
• Canada’s Big Tech shakedown failed. Now Carney retreats in the face of American pressure - The Hub
• Canada cuts its UN peacekeeping forces as it tilts to Europe and Indo-Pacific - The Globe and Mail
• The case of the misleading fall in crime rates - The Globe and Mail

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