{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6516db58c8d4ce0011023666/6ab6c2c5cf7654f56ad59fe6?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Canada’s Premiers Are Taking The Fight To America","description":"<p>John Capobianco of FleishmanHillard joins Stephen LeDrew to ask whether Donald Trump and the Canada-U.S. trade dispute are changing the traditional relationship between the Prime Minister and Canada’s Premiers.</p><p><br></p><p>Normally, Ottawa speaks for Canada internationally while Premiers concentrate on their provinces. But Doug Ford, Wab Kinew, David Eby, Tim Houston and others have increasingly taken their own messages directly to Americans.</p><p><br></p><p>Capobianco argues that rather than undermining Mark Carney, this could actually strengthen Canada’s negotiating position. Carney can remain the chief negotiator while Premiers voice the anger and frustration Canadians feel — creating something resembling a national good-cop, bad-cop strategy.</p><p><br></p><p>The conversation also looks at whether Premiers should spend even more time appearing on American television and building direct relationships with governors and state officials.</p><p><br></p><p>Is this just a response to Trump — or the beginning of a different kind of Canadian federalism?</p><p><br></p><p>Topics Covered:</p><ul><li>Premiers stepping onto the international stage</li><li>Whether they strengthen or undermine Carney</li><li>Doug Ford’s confrontational approach</li><li>A Canadian good-cop, bad-cop strategy</li><li>Provincial anger over U.S. trade</li><li>Taking Canada’s case directly to Americans</li><li>Premiers appearing on U.S. television</li><li>Building relationships with U.S. states</li><li>Federal-provincial cooperation</li><li>Whether Trump is changing Canadian government</li></ul>","author_name":"Stephen LeDrew"}