The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)

February 1 is the day Donald Trump declared the U.S. will impose import tariffs on Canadian products. In the meantime, leaders at the federal and provincial level have been debating responses to those tariffs. One idea that has cropped up again... and it's by no means a new one... is bringing down interprovincial trade barriers. Why do they still exist and what could easing them mean for the Canadian economy?

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A record 77 Indigenous candidates are seeking office in the 2021 federal election. We invite three of them to discuss their priorities. The Green Party's Lorraine Rekmans is a candidate for Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes; Chippewas Kettle and Stony Point First Nation Chief Jason Henry is an NDP candidate for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex; and Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, chair of truth and reconciliation at Lakehead University, is a Liberal candidate for Simcoe North. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seventeen Canadians died every day in 2020 from opioid overdoses, yet there has been relatively little discussion about it during this election. What are the plans from the parties to address it? The Agenda examines the opioid crisis and what needs to happen to end this epidemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ahead of the federal election, we look at the various party platforms on climate change. With guests Mark Jaccard, professor of sustainable energy and director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University; Charles DeLand associate director of research at the C.D. Howe Institute; Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada; and the Globe and Mail's Adam Radwanski. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erin Kelly, CEO of Advanced Symbolics Inc., joins Nam Kiwanuka to discuss what Polly, the AI pollster has to say about the issues Canadians care most about during this election, and what will get them to the polls on Sept. 20. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.