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The Canada-U.S. trade deal developments and the CPC's bizarre week
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In this paid subscriber-only edition of The Roundtable, Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer discuss the current state of the Canada-U.S. trade deal, arguing it represents a fundamental shift from free trade to managed trade with permanent tariffs. They examine why Canada delayed negotiations only to accept terms similar to those secured by Europe and Japan months earlier.
In the back half of the show, they focus on the Conservative Party's recent abandonment of fiscal conservatism. They critique the party's apparent commitments to increasing Old Age Security and defending supply management, arguing these positions betray core conservative principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility. The two explore whether bond market pressures might force a return to fiscal discipline, and question what purpose a political party serves if it abandons its foundational principles while still losing elections.
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Daphne Liang - Editor
Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer - Hosts
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