THE GLOBAL EXCHANGE PODCAST

January 22, 2025

For this episode of the Global Exchange podcast, Colin Robertson moderates a panel of prominent experts on their first takeaways from the Inauguration and considerations for how Canada should respond to the coming storm.

Guests:

• Martha Hall Findlay is the Director and Palmer Chair, of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.
• Glenn Williamson is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Arizona Business Council.
• Bernard Etzinger is a former Canadian diplomat with assignments in New York, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC.
• John Parisella is a Senior Advisor, Business Outreach at NATIONAL Public Relations and a former delegate general in New York City and Washington D.C. for the Government of Quebec.

Host:

• Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Read & Watch:

• "Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World" by Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, and Michael Spence
• "The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization" by by Peter Zeihan
• "Autocracy, Inc." by Anne Applebaum
• "Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't" by Jim Collins
• "Pod Save America"
• "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty" by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
• "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present" by Fareed Zakaria
• "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• "The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis" by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey
• "Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants" by Dr. Joanne Liu
• "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Larson
• "Confronting Illiberalism: A Canadian Perspective" by Peter MacKinnon