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Trudeau’s former right-hand man thinks Trump 2.0 ‘will be harder’
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Trudeau’s former right-hand man thinks Trump 2.0 ‘will be harder’

When Donald Trump shocked the world by getting elected in 2016, Gerald Butts was the most important adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and played a key role in the tumultuous but ultimately successful negotiation of the USMCA. Stephen Maher sat down with Butts to discuss the prospects for Canada under Trump 2.0.

The world’s largest plastic waste pyramid is revealed in Egypt ahead of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh.
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What to expect from COP27: “It’s pretty grim”

This year's big climate summit kicks off over the weekend in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. And the mood is ... not good.

Eurasia Group’s Gerald Butts: US climate change debate has moved from finger-pointing to solutions
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Eurasia Group’s Gerald Butts: US climate change debate has moved from finger-pointing to solutions

Five years ago, for the US president to say it's time to move away from fossil fuels sounded like an episode of The West Wing. Not anymore, says Eurasia Group Vice Chairman Gerald Butts. In his view, the climate debate in the West has (finally) moved from who's responsible, to what we're going to do about it — "much more productive ground." Butts admits the enormous inertia in the US political system that'll fight change on climate, but ultimately believes that "when you take the very long view, the direction of travel of has set in."