The Evan Bray Show - Vicki Dutton and Jason Childs - February 4th, 2025

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As Canadians prepare to respond to the United States, Evan welcomes Vicki Dutton, farmer and operator of Dutton Farms in Paynton, Sask.and recipient of the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG) Pulse Promoter Award, to discuss the honour and her thoughts on Canada's agricultural trade dependency on the U.S. Loonie's dollar value is plummeting and with 25 per cent tariffs coming into effect today on most Canadian exports, Evan welcomes University of Regina economist, Jason Childs, to give us a crash course in what tariffs are, whether we've seen a trade war like this one before and what could be in store for our Canadian dollar.
4 Feb 2025 12PM English Canada News Commentary

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