Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Canada is punishing itself, not only unnecessarily, but stupidly. Catherine Swift of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada sits with Jim Csek and Iain Burns as 50% U.S. tariffs land and Ottawa talks "war" with Parliament still on holiday.

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0:00 Catherine Swift joins the show
1:07 A year and a half of horrible uncertainty
3:37 Recall Parliament now
5:55 10 million Canadians with food insecurity
7:43 Washington vs the parliamentary gallery
11:07 "We're gaining on the US"
14:38 Best fiscal position in the G7?
17:13 Steel, cars, and Doug Ford
18:54 China: the 800-pound gorilla
24:10 Manufacturers moving south
26:58 Supply management and special interests
31:50 CPP and Brookfield buy American
38:19 What manufacturers actually want
42:01 Canada should be a manufacturing powerhouse
44:59 Punishing ourselves, stupidly

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