Ep 88: Wars of trade and electoral reform

Canada and the USA go to war over steel, maple syrup and toilet paper. Meanwhile details emerge about BC’s fall electoral referendum and we check in on the state of the Ontario election with TVO’s John Michael McGrath. Check out our partner! BC Today is a brand new daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the episode for your code for 25% off of a subscription if you decide to continue. Start your trial at britishcolumbiatoday.ca Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts And find us some positive tweets on #bcpoli to share with us @politicoastpod and #BestOfBCPoli RSVP for Cambie Report live show on Monday, June 11 at The Emerald in Vancouver Correction from our emergency podcast: @PolitiCoastPod just listening to the emergency show. Harper’s govt made a loss on the GM share sale. pic.twitter.com/bWtt3xbU1w — Belseat (@belseat) May 30, 2018 Links Segment 1: Trade war, what is it good for? CBC story The Star story Government of Canada’s list of new tariffs Segment 2: Electoral reform to the moon at 13m22s BC Attorney General releases electoral reform referendum recommendations Electoral reform deep dive Segment 3: What the fuck Ontario? at 30m32s TVO’s The Agenda on Politics Ontario election CBC poll tracker Quick take at 1h0216s Indigenous groups express interest in Trans Mountain pipeline Best of BC Poli at 1h06m35s The presser with Horgan ends. He then shouts “Kinder Morgan!” into the microphone because, he says, he was surprised he didn’t have to say those words during the Q and A (It was weird) — Justin McElroy (@j_mcelroy) May 25, 2018 John Horgan just compared his PR referendum to JFK challenging his country to go the moon. As weird as that is I guess he could be correct if JFK and his cabinet ignored the engineers and scientists and built the rocket themselves. — Brad Zubyk (@Bzubyk) June 1, 2018