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Episode #241: Hub Roundtable: Ambitious Immigration Targets & EV Bidding Wars
Season 1, Ep. 241
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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 and the Linda Frum and Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the Century Initiative's ambitious target to accelerate Canada's population to 100 million by 2100 by ramping up immigration targets. We also talk about the bidding wars between the Stellantis EV battery plant and the federal and Ontario provincial governments regarding subsidies.
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