Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

When the German pharmaceuticals firm, Byer, 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 Byer, 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 rich world 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 going to be tested.

Our colleague, Madeline Johan, 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,

we took on a challenge that I think was a pretty important one

of, say, of recognizing that Western democracies around the world had a struggling middle class.

A middle class that felt that it wasn't part of the growth that was going on around them.

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