Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. February 7th, 2025

In a recent op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail, personal finance columnist Rob Carrick says we have to put ourselves on an economic war footing that ‘accepts sacrifice’ in the weeks and months to come. What exactly does that mean, and what happens if we don’t fight that battle? He joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 1. Oh, and speaking of those tariffs, they might be a part of U.S. President Trump’s endgame. Prime Minister Trudeau was caught on a hot mic earlier today, admitting what some of us probably knew. He says those ’51st State’ musings from Trump are not a joke, and they are very real. Is all of this tariff talk making you feel less patriotic? Daniel Béland, a Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, checks our collective pulse.