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Podcast: The LeDrew Three Minute Interview
Episode: Manufacturing Collapse: How Ottawa Caused It
Description: Catherine Swift, President of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada, joins Stephen LeDrew to deliver a blunt assessment of the crisis facing Canada’s small and medium manufacturers. She explains why businesses are closing, shrinking, or fleeing to the United States - and why it’s not a global problem but a uniquely Canadian failure.Swift contrasts Canada’s 5% decline in real manufacturing output since 2018 with a 10% increase in the U.S. over the same period, and argues that endless regulations, crushing taxes, and government-driven bureaucracy have created an economy where private-sector growth is nea...