Michael Adams On The Trucker Convoy, Immigration, And The Evolution Of Canadian Values
The latest episode of the Huddle ‘Insights’ podcast features a fascinating interview with one of Canada’s most distinguished market researchers, Michael Adams, the Chairman and Co-Founder of Environics Research.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Adams provides listeners with a data-based analysis of the diverging differences in values between Canadians and Americans through the pioneering work done by Environics in social values research.
He also talks about some of the differences by region within Canada and provides a surprising finding regarding Atlantic Canadians’ openness to immigrants.
The conversation will also be of interest to those seeking a better understanding of current events, including the Freedom Convoy. Adams points out that the vast majority of Canadians support vaccines and restrictions to tackle the pandemic.
“As for the Freedom Convoy, they’ve done their cause a disservice. They probably united the other 90 per cent in saying, ‘what is going on with these people?'” says Adams.
“We’re all sick of Covid and we do want those restrictions gone, but we want a data-driven scientific, medically sensible way of gradually getting rid of these restrictions so that we don’t have [more outbreaks] like we’ve had a couple of times so far.”
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The “Insights” podcast combines the experiences of an economist, David Campbell, and a social scientist, Don Mills, to explore the challenges and opportunities facing Atlantic Canada, to promote data-driven decision-making among policymakers, and to encourage a wider dialogue and debate leading to greater prosperity for the region.