Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host Jason Paulman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

When the German pharmaceuticals firm BIRD bought the agricultural giant Monsanto last

year, it had one big worry.

The weed killer roundup, Monsanto's star product, was suspected of being carcinogenic,

and faced a pile of lawsuits.

We examine how BIRD, the company that invented aspirin, is dealing with the headache.

And the president of Mongolia will be at the White House today.

But meanwhile, there's a group of Mongolians on a rather different diplomatic mission.

We meet a touring band that's bringing the country's traditional instruments and the

ancient art of throat singing to metal music.

But first, in recent years, many Western nations have turned away from liberalism.

But there's one country that remains a notable exception.

As a lot of the ritual has turned towards populism, Canada very much hasn't.

Brooke Unger is the economist's America's editor.

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been kind of a poster boy for global liberalism.

He faces a general election in October in which his version of liberalism at least is

Our colleague, Madeline Drowhand, sat down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month

to discuss the upcoming election.

He laid out what he thinks is at stake.

Whether or not we get to continue on the track we laid out to Canadians in 2015, I mean,

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