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Hub Roundtable: Is Canada broken?

Executive director Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the growing sense that Canada is "broken" and its consequences for the country's political culture. They also cover this week's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos and whether the ongoing salience of political populism in the United States and elsewhere is a sign that we are living in a post-Davos world.


The Roundtable features Hub executive director Rudyard Griffiths and Hub editor-at-large, Sean Speer. The Roundtable is produced and edited by The Hub’s content editor, Amal Attar-Guzman.


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