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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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
Trump’s Chaotic Foreign Policy w/ David Klion / The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
There’s an ongoing feud in the Trump administration between restrainers (advocates of a less hawkish foreign policy) and neoconservatives (advocates of militarism on multiple fronts). David Klion wrote about this conflict for the Nation but notes that the ideologies are less important than the fact that Trump is an impulsive bully who often changes his mind. I talked to David about this conflict and the larger incoherence of right-wing foreign policy.
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