Carney score: last days of Canada’s campaign
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Canada’s sovereignty has loomed large in the federal election campaign, but beyond the show of national unity the country’s media and political landscape is riven with division. To counter China’s capabilities, America may have to start building ships in Asia (11:26). And how “The Economist” reported the defeat of the Nazis: a sample from our 1945 interactive archive (20:33).
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| 0:32.6 | The Economist Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:46.3 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:48.3 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:49.3 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:01.4 | America is determined to counter China's commercial and military capabilities, |
| 1:05.5 | but in some respects, like building ships, it has fallen far behind. |
| 1:10.3 | Now it faces a choice, we launch an industry that's been treading water for decades, or trust its allies in East Asia to help. |
| 1:13.6 | And the next installment of our series, Archive 1945, which combs through the Economist's back catalogue and retraces day by day the beginning of the end of the Second World War. First up, though. |
| 1:30.3 | Canada is just days away now from its national election. |
| 1:47.0 | Sarah Larniuk is an audio correspondent for the economist. |
| 1:51.0 | In early voting last weekend, a record number of Canadians turned out to cast their ballots. |
| 1:56.0 | Threats from Canada's southern neighbor have people fired up for politics, |
| 2:01.1 | whether it's coming out to vote or showing up and volunteering with various candidates' campaigns. |
| 2:06.6 | For a weekday morning, having a crowd like this come out to knock on doors and to spread the word. |
| 2:14.6 | In Oakville, Ontario, which is just outside of Toronto, I stopped by incumbent liberal candidate |
| 2:19.9 | Anita Anand's campaign office, and even on a Tuesday morning, it was completely packed with |
| 2:25.4 | two dozen people, ready to hand out flyers and go knock on doors. |
| 2:29.3 | We don't go negative. We are about the platform that we are running on and making sure that |
| 2:37.7 | people know that we're standing for Canadian sovereignty, Canadian economic independence. |
| 2:44.4 | That line really hit me. We're standing for Canadian sovereignty. To actually hear that needing to be said by politicians |
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