This year has been marked by the U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach to foreign policy. From the seizure of the Venezuelan president in January to the ongoing war in Iran, the U.S. government is unashamedly entering into a new era of American Imperialism.

Political scientist Gabriel De Roche, Madelaine Drohan, senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Policy, University of Ottawa, politics and philosophy professor Thomas Ponniah and rabble’s own parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg discuss how progressives north and south of the border can respond to the so-called Donroe Doctrine.

About our guests

Gabriel De Roche is a political scientist and public opinion survey researcher working on global, national, and local projects with a particular focus on the politics of climate change and the clean energy transition. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and currently works at The 2035 Initiative at UC Santa Barbara where he is the Director of Polling and Survey Research and a Postdoctoral Fellow. He is also the founder and principal of a public opinion consultancy, Pluriel Research. Based in Santa Barbara, California, and Toronto, Ontario, he is the co-host of the Canadian podcast, Culture Lab, a show about how the zeitgeist shapes our political culture.

Madelaine Drohan is a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Policy, University of Ottawa. She is a former Canada correspondent for The Economist, and a former foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail. During her long journalism career, she covered politics, economics, and business in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Europe. Her latest book is: He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada. She lives in Ottawa.

Thomas Ponniah is a co-writer of Unholy Trinity: the IMF, World Bank, and WTO, co-editor of Another World is Possible: World Social Forum proposals for an Alternative Globalization, co-editor of The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change Under Chávez, and contributor of 76 articles for rabble.ca.

Karl Nerenberg is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker, working in both English and French languages. He is rabble’s senior parliamentary reporter.

About Off the Hill

Since 2019, Off the Hill has been rabble.ca’s live political panel. Through this series, we break down important national and international news stories through a progressive lens.

This webinar series invites a rotating roster of guest activists, politicians, researchers and more to discuss how to mobilize and bring about progressive change in national politics — on and off Parliament Hill.

Our Off the Hill series has seen some changes in recent months! Check out those changes here.

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2025 was a busy year in news. The year started off with Justin Trudeau announcing his resignation as Prime Minister; a Liberal leadership race led to a new government under Prime Minister Mark Carney, which was followed by a federal election.

That election saw the NDP reduced to just seven seats in the House of Commons. Jagmeet Singh stepping down as leader kicked off a leadership race that culminated in the election of Avi Lewis as leader earlier this year.

All of this happened in front of the back drop of an increasingly belligerent US government under President Donald Trump. Canada felt the effects of tariffs against its economy and direct threats to its sovereignty.

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