Canada: neighbor to the north. Canada: controversy. Canada: election.
And I welcome a Canadian, Jonathan Hartley, a Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Canada—and most importantly the host of a podcast, Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st century, at the Hoover Institution.
He comes to us from Stanford University campus right now. Canada is in the news. Mark Carney is the new nominee-to-be for the election of 2025. He is now the Premier of Canada after his success in convincing the Liberal Party to advance him to number one.
He's importantly a central banker (Bank of England, Bank of Canada) and most recently was managing a very large real estate firm, Brookfield.
The conservatives are led by a man named Pierre Poilievre, and he comes from the west of Canada. He speaks excellent French, but he's something of an English-speaking cowboy as well.
So we have two contrasting visions for the future. Poilievre represents the resource-rich Alberta and the West, where the oil comes from. And Mr. Carney represents himself as a man concerned with the future, net-zero, and sees Canada as a launching platform for green technology around the world. Having framed the election, we now go to the themes that are in common or in contest between the United States and Canada.
First up is tariffs. These last days there’s been such turmoil. How would you characterize the debate about tariffs right now between the Trump administration and now we have to say the Carney government.
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