585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing

585.穿着首相服装的社会活动家

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2024-04-25

52 分钟
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Justin Trudeau, facing record-low approval numbers, is doubling down on his progressive agenda. But he is so upbeat (and Canada-polite) that it’s easy to miss just how radical his vision is. Can he make it work?

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  • Hey, there.

  • It's Stephen Dubner.

  • We recently published a three part series on immigration, mostly about the economics of immigration.

  • The first two episodes were focused on the US and part three on Canada, which has recently turned the volume way up on immigration.

  • They now take in half a million new permanent residents a year in a country of around 40 million.

  • For that episode, we interviewed a variety of people, including Canadas Immigration minister Mark Miller.

  • There is no doubt that we have.

  • Made a conscious decision to be an.

  • Open country and a country that needs to grow.

  • The reality is, we don't have much of a choice.

  • Miller's point was that Canada, like many high income countries, has an aging population and a need for more workers in many sectors of the economy.

  • We did ask Miller about the pressures that immigration is putting on Canada, especially when it comes to affordable housing, access to healthcare, and potential mismatches between immigrants and jobs.

  • But after we put out that episode, a lot of our canadian listeners wrote in to say the pressures were even greater than we knew, especially because Canada wasn't taking in just a half million new permanent residents a year, but nearly 700,000 international students and 750,000 temporary foreign workers.

  • So we decided to revisit some of these questions not with the minister of immigration, but with his boss, the prime minister.

  • You can invite half a million people into your home every year if you're Canada.

  • Today on free economics radio, my conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

  • And we go way beyond immigration.

  • We discuss whether to drill, baby, drill.

  • We talk about how Canada is reconciling its brutal history with its indigenous population.

  • We hear why Trudeau isnt a big cannabis user, even though he legalized it, and what he might do if he loses re election next year.