The West Block – Episode 8, Season 12
: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, thank you so much for joining us today.Mercedes Stephenson
Joining me now to talk about this midterm elections and what they will mean for the United States as well as Canada is David Frum, he’s a well-known political commentator, author and staff writer at The Atlantic. Nice to see you, David.: You know we just heard Joe Biden there talking about his concerns about democracy. He says democracy is on the ballot. What does that mean?: This may seem strange to Canadians, but there’s no American equivalent to Elections Canada.
: Two things, I think Canadians need to worry about very immediately. The first is that the Republicans are arriving with a view to try to force the Biden administration to spend less, which is a fair thing to want to do and that they’re going to use a fight over the debt ceiling to try to insist on this. The world saw this happen in 2011, in another one of these standoffs and it very nearly ended in a default on the obligation of the U.S.
And it was a big week at the Emergencies Act Inquiry: High profile convoy organizers revealed disorganization behind the protest lines. We also learned that the convoy received leaks from a law enforcement.: “Obviously someone would have been in a room, or got a memo, or an email saying this is what we’re doing Friday night, and then they would call someone and say hey, phone so and so and let them know this is what’s going.
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