Justin Trudeau’s Exit and Canada’s Rocky Future in the Trump Era
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Nora Loreto on how political disarray in Canada’s political elite in the face of MAGA taunting.
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Justin Trudeau’s Exit and Canada’s Rocky Future in the Trump Era | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet Heer and Nora Loreto on how political disarray in Canada’s political elite in the face of MAGA taunting.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Canada on January 6, 2025.
(Dave Chan / AFP / Getty Images)Donald Trump has repeatedly talked in the last two months about wanting to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. While this bluster is unlikely to lead to any real territorial expansion, it is having the effect of destabilizing some long-held allies of the United States. In Canada, Trump’s threat of a tariff war and annexation was a precipitating cause of the already-unpopular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation.
While the Canadian political elite has been rattled by Trump, they don’t have any effective response for defending their own sovereignty. In truth, Canada’s national sovereignty has already been weakened by decades of neoliberalism, a point made by Canadian journalist Nora Loreto. For this episode of The Time of Monsters, I talked to Nora about Trump’s threats and Canada’s disarray.
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Fighting Monopoly Power w/ Zephyr Teachout / The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Donald Trump is practicing crony capitalism on an unprecedented scale, with the government greenlighting major mergers that benefit the president’s friends (most notably the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger). I spoke to Zephyr Teachout, who teaches constitutional law at Fordham, about this worrying development. We take up the long history of anti-monopoly politics going back to the American revolution and the trust battles of the late 19th century as well as the possibility state governments can fight the new wave of consolidation. Zephyr has often written on his subject for The Nation, notably in two recent articles.
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