Canada back in China's sights and the TIFF debacle

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer discuss China’s announcement of another round of tariffs on Canadian canola exports and what it signals about the inherent risks for Canada in today’s great power competition between China and the United States. On the back half of the show, they shift to the controversy surrounding the Toronto International Film Festival's withdrawal of a Canadian documentary on the October 7th attacks, and what this controversy says about broader issues of free speech and discrimination, as well as the dependency of government funding from cultural institutions.

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CREDITS:

Amal Attar-Guzman - Producer & Editor

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer - Hosts

 

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