Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show trying to make sense of Trump’s tariff policy. Rudyard argues that Trump is not concerned with stock market losses if it means keeping promises to his voter base and reworking the American economy so it benefits blue-collar workers. However Janice and Rudyard agree: tariffs are not going to bring their jobs back and will end up making everyone poorer.

On the second half of the show, Rudyard and Janice turn to Canadian politics and the election of Mark Carney as Liberal Party leader, thus becoming Prime Minister of Canada. As much as we criticize politics in the US, here we have a PM who does not have a parliamentary seat, was not elected by the Canadian public, and is now representing Canada on the world stage. Meanwhile Canada’s premiers are stepping in to negotiate trade deals with Washington while Ottawa takes a backseat. What is happening here?