thePodcast: Special post-election edition -- NDP collapse helps keep ESG champion Carney in PMO

May 04, 2025 00:43:44
thePodcast: Special post-election edition -- NDP collapse helps keep ESG champion Carney in PMO
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thePodcast: Special post-election edition -- NDP collapse helps keep ESG champion Carney in PMO

May 04 2025 | 00:43:44

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Show Notes

For the week of May 4, 2025: Two guests on this week’s edition of thePodcast, to discuss winners and losers of Canada’s April 28 federal election.  Daniel Westlake, an assistant professor of political studies at the University of Saskatchewan, ponders what is next for the NDP.  Leader Jagmeet Singh resigned after voters abandoned the NDP, en masse, for the Liberals, led by former central banker and Brookfield Asset Management chair Mark Carney.  Then, Desiree Fixler, the London-based greenwashing whistleblower.  Sustainable finance expert and ESG critic Fixler explains why Canadian taxpayers should be worrired about Carney, a technocrat and net zero […]

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