Foreign Interference, Interest Rates, Health Funding – March 8, 2023

University of Ottawa associate professor and security expert Michael Kempa discusses the latest developments on foreign election interference allegations involving the Chinese government. Economists Pedro Antunes (Conference Board of Canada) and Armine Yalnizyan (Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers) analyze the state of Canada’s economy and the Bank of Canada’s decision to keep its benchmark interest rate at 4.5 per cent. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos discusses the federal government’s latest health-care agreements with the provinces and concerns about private health-care delivery within the universal public system.