After catching you up on the news of the week in the Briefs segment, Amanda Lang checks in with David Paterson, Ontario’s representative in Washington, D.C. for a lookahead to trade discusses between the two countries and Mexico

The number of Canadian consumers and businesses filing insolvencies is rising, so Amanda Lang spoke with Andre Bolduc, the chair of the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals for an update. And with parts of Canada’s housing market showing weakness, we check in with Mathieu Laberge, senior vice-president of housing economics, CMHC for his outlook.

After catching us up on the news of the week in The Briefs, Amanda Lang speaks with Beth Burke, CEO of the Canadian American Business Council for a look of the state of the economic relationship between Canada and the U.S. headed into a second Trump presidency.

After a by the numbers look at just how interdependent the economies of Canada and the U.S. are, Amanda Lang checks in with Ian Bremmer, founder of The Eurasia Group, about what Trump’s win suggests about the path for America in the next few years, and what should be top of mind for Canada.

There are challenges ahead for Canadian business, but Goldy Hyder, the CEO of the Business Council of Canada says there are plenty of opportunities too, if we can stop putting the puck in our own net. And in her Takeaway, Amanda Lang says anxiety over an uncertain future is natural, but a new era south of the border is a good time to reflect on all the things Canada has going for it.

A price on carbon is widely accepted by economists as an efficient way to measure the harm done by carbon and to encourage behavioural change, but is it the best route given that it comes with a real cost to consumers and the economy? Amanda Lang checks in with Chris Ragan, the founding director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University for his thoughts.

Rick Smith, president of the Canadian Climate Institute and Ken Green, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, lay out the arguments in favour and against Canada’s carbon tax system.

Nik Nanos, chief data scientist of Nanos Research, tells Amanda Lang what Canadians tell pollsters they think about the political issue that is the carbon tax. And in her Takeaway, Amanda Lang says the ongoing debate should not distract us from the need to tackle a complicated issue head on.