“A senior person said to me: ‘This is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end, it’s just the end of the beginning.’ And I thought that sounds serious.”
Wayne Swan, former Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer of Australia during the Great Recession, joins Mike Moffatt to discuss Australia’s response to the financial crisis with the benefit of a decade of hindsight.
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“Canada historically has had a pretty competitive corporate tax position. The Trump tax cuts turned what had been on average an eight point advantage to a seven point deficit. So we went from being far better than them to far worse than them overnight.”
Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by National Post reporter Marie-Danielle Smith and The Logic reporter Murad Hemmadi to break down a few of the week’s top headlines. Topics include: Toronto’s failed Amazon HQ2 bid and tax competitiveness, alleged Facebook coverups, and Celine Dion’s bizarre TV advertisement promoting her new gender neutral kids clothing line.
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“Success and failure in any kind of large scale complex envirotechnical system – they’re not always opposite from one another. In some cases failure is a symptom of success.”
“The inequality story looks pretty different at the very top, in the middle, and at the bottom of Canada’s income distribution.”
Lars Osberg, professor of economics at Dalhousie University, joins host Mike Moffatt to discuss his most recent book The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%.
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“The fact that a politician could be extorted for 50,000 euros is very worrying, the fact that he opened himself up to that through naked pictures is doubly worrying.”
Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by iPolitics reporter Marieke Walsh and Buzzfeed’s news curator and social media editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss political sex scandals, the U.S. midterm elections, and the Maclean’s “resistance” photo shoot.
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“I think Trump spends so much time criticizing the media because he knows how important it is. I think it’s actually an acknowledgement of its importance when he says we’re ‘fake media,’ ‘enemies of the people.’ I don’t like it but I don’t think the response on our part should be defensive, I think the answer is just more reporting.”
On this special edition of 2020 Live, Canada 2020 welcomed two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and associate editor at the Washington Post Bob Woodward who spoke about the U.S. midterms and Donald Trump’s presidency with The Globe and Mail’s editor-in-chief David Walmsley.
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“The theory of the framers of the constitution was that they wanted members of the House of Representatives to be elected every two years so that they were directly and closely responsible to the people.”
Bill Owens, former U.S. congressman and now senior advisor in the public policy and regulation practice at Dentons, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain the United States’ midterm elections while providing a crash course on the structure of the American government.
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“If you’re concerned about Statistics Canada, I would multiply that by 100 and say you should be thinking about what Google knows about you, what your bank knows about you and then when we start thinking about privacy rules, apply that information to your opinions.”
Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by National Post reporter Stuart Thomson, senior consultant at Earnscliffe Strategy Group Mary Anne Carter, and producer Aaron Reynolds. The group unpacks Statistics Canada’s plan to obtain Canadians’ financial data from banking institutions, Mark Zuckerberg’s requested attendance from a joint parliamentary hearing, and Google employees’ global walkout.
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