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The Evan Bray Show - Dr. Fletcher Barager - February 26th, 2025

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The reprieve from the threat of tariffs was nice while it lasted, but next week it seems as though financial penalties on Canadian goods, imposed by the U.S., could be unavoidable. Dr. Fletcher Barager, associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba, joins Evan to consider the economics and has changed in the past several weeks on the tariffs issue.
26 Feb 2025 10AM English Canada News Commentary

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