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Fall 2017 Insider's Guide GG Politics Payette has the right stuff Dinner is ready, but to be the next GG, say the guest list isn’t fellow astronauts finalized fall 2017 Page 16 4 Page 10 4 insider’s guide Public Policy Two new opposition leaders prepare for fall face-off with the PM Page 9 4 NAFTA Lobbyists say NAFTA and taxes to top this fall’s House agenda Page 12 4 In the House Fall session will be the start of high- stakes, high-risk, gloves-off atmosphere September 18 2017 Page 6 4 Style Did you know every Thursday is Bow Tie day in the House? Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured last month on the Hill, will host the third Page 20 4 round of NAFTA renegotiations in Ottawa from Sept. 23-27. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia The Hill Times 2 THE HILL TIMES INSIDER’s GUIDE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 Comment Canada-U.S. relations Capitol Hill town house. You may have seen Bannon’s recent interview with Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes, which raised more questions than it answered about why a man with only one torso insists on wearing two shirts at the same time. It’s a globalized world after all Those of you old enough and still in suffi- cient possession of a functioning pre-relentless- firehose-of-lies hippocampus will recall that glo- balization has been repurposed to mean and political entities,” Trump said. “It is our cor- balization last played a starring role in a divisive The globalization of something it didn’t used to. rupt political establishment that is the greatest political narrative during the anti-globalization corruption, confusion, Trump’s astonishing performance in power behind the efforts at radical globaliza- World Trade Organization protests that shut opinion polls throughout the Republican tion and the disenfranchisement of working down the 1999 Seattle ministerial and dogged collusion, cruelty, and presidential primary and 2016 election people. Their financial resources are virtually the Doha round until it collapsed under the cynicism is flourishing, campaign, aside from normalizing what in a unlimited. Their political resources are unlim- weight of its own tactical intractability. In the saner era would have been a slow-day-fea- ited. Their media resources are unmatched. past decade, as the world has (so far) adapted to and the president of the ture fringe candidacy, gave his thoughts and And most importantly, the depths of their im- the ways in which the internet has revolution- United States is doing pronouncements a seriousness they would morality is absolutely unlimited. Our political ized everything, globalization has become more never have been imbued with otherwise. establishment has no soul.” of a fact than a process. nothing to fight that. Such is the power of winning that if you Trump’s anti-globalization position is a can hijack democracy and make a reality- Such is the power of winning that if misdirectional dodge on the causes of both show bully president of a superpower, inequality and manufacturing job loss, to next thing you know people are seriously you can hijack democracy and make which automation is a much more serious submitting designs for a see-through, solar- a reality-show bully president of a threat. It is also part of an anti-interna- powered wall on the U.S. Mexico border tionalist, inward-looking, wall-building, and pondering the survivability of nuclear superpower, next thing you know unwelcoming, protectionist, small-thinking winter along Puget Sound. people are seriously submitting de- geopolitical retraction that only serves the Trump’s deployment of globalization as signs for a see-through, solar-pow- same global competitors and interests from a fear-inducing bogeyman and all-purpose which he claims to be rescuing America. juju for anti-immigrant, isolationist, white ered wall on the U.S. Mexico border Those interests are very much in favour supremacist, nationalist ire made for a fas- and pondering the survivability of of globalization as long as it serves them. cinating element of his campaign rhetoric. The globalization of corruption, confusion, Lisa Van Dusen During a speech in Florida in October nuclear winter along Puget Sound. collusion, cruelty, and cynicism is flourish- ing, and the president of the United States What Fresh Hell 2016, among other occasions, Trump blamed globalization for a list of economic and Trump’s shamelessly projection-riddled is doing nothing to fight that. social ills—from outsourcing, to inequality, to aversion to globalization is often attributed to Lisa Van Dusen, associate editor of Policy ONTREAL—As tends to happen with political amorality—so ironic that it basically the shadowy influence of former White House Magazine, was a Washington columnist for Mwords that get tossed into the post- amounted to him running against himself. adviser and anthropomorphic unmade bed The Ottawa Citizen, Washington bureau truth Trump-o-lizer, “globalization” has “It’s a global power structure that is Steve Bannon. 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