‘Tariffs can play a very effective role’: Oren Cass makes the strategic case for Trump’s using tariffs as a negotiating tool

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Justin Trudeau speaks with Donald Trump at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press.

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Oren Cass, the founder and chief economist of American Compass, a conservative think tank that is challenging traditional Republican thinking on the economy and influencing a number of younger Republicans including Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, and Vice President JD Vance.

Cass discusses how Canadians should understand the ongoing threat of tariffs, the ideas and impulses that are animating the Trump administration’s disruptive economic and foreign policies, and where Canada fits in the post-liberal international order.

You can listen to this episode on Amazon, Apple, and Spotify.

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