• Canada could have been better prepared for this trade war if we'd learn the lessons of COVID

  • Feb 14 2025
  • Length: 1 hr
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Canada could have been better prepared for this trade war if we'd learn the lessons of COVID

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  • In this episode of On the Ledge - your DAILY Ontario politics podcast, we're joined by Daily Bread Food Bank CEO Neil Hetherington, Sheila Regehr from the Basic Income Network and pollster, John Wright.

    It's clear the trade war with the US is going to have a serious effect on Canada's economy. That's going to mean lost businesses, lost jobs, lost productivity. But the costs go beyond employment numbers. It's likely we'll see another sharp increase in the number of working poor and more Canadians sliding into poverty. Would we have been better prepared for that pressure if governments had paid better attention to the lessons of the global pandemic? We said we'd "build back better". We didn't. Now what?

    But we first, we chat with TIm Hudak, Partner at Counsel Public Affairs. He was in Washington DC when Canada's first ministers were in the US capital.
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