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Episode #193: Hub Roundtable: How to stop worrying and love the Emergencies Act
Season 1, Ep. 193
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Each Friday, you can listen to our Hub Roundtable featuring The Hub's editors analyzing the big issues of the week in Canada. Our Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor at large Sean Speer engaged in twice-weekly conversations with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future. The Frum Dialogues feature the insight and wisdom of leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum, who weighs in every second Friday on global and Canadian news events. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.
This week’s Hub Dialogue roundtable discusses Commissioner Paul Rouleau's report on the invocation of the Emergencies Act last year in the wake of the Freedom Convoy protests across the country. We also look at reports of a CSIS document that outlines Chinese interference in the most recent Canadian election.
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