Tony Keller, columnist at The Globe and Mail, joins Stephen LeDrew for a wide-ranging discussion on Canada’s economic future, global trade, and the hard choices ahead.
Keller explains the lesson behind Airbus – how smaller countries cooperated to compete against Boeing – and why that example is now being raised in Canadian policy discussions. The conversation explores whether Canada can realistically diversify its trade away from heavy reliance on the United States while remaining economically integrated with it.
They also discuss Mark Carney’s approach to cooperation among smaller economies, Canada’s limited trade exposure to China, concerns around technology theft and surveillance, and whether carefully structured deals can avoid damaging Canada–U.S. relations.
This is a grounded, pragmatic conversation about trade, sovereignty, and what economic survival actually looks like for Canada in the years ahead.
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