Heather Exner-Pirot: Resources, Prosperity, and Canada’s Future | The Canadians Ep. 24

Heather Exner-Pirot is a political scientist, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and one of Canada’s leading voices on energy, natural resources, and the North. We discuss Canada’s extraordinary resource wealth, the changing politics around developing it, and what resource projects can mean for Indigenous and remote communities. From there, the conversation broadens into questions of economic growth, national ambition, and Canada’s place in a changing world. This is a conversation about what Canada has, what we’re willing to build, and the kind of country we want to become. Heather’s Links X: https://x.com/ExnerPirot Articles: https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/cm-expert... Macdonald-Laurier Institute Energy Program: https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/category/... The Canadians Links Website: https://www.thecanadianspodcast.ca/ Support Page: https://buymeacoffee.com/thecanadians Follow us on X: https://x.com/TheCanadiansPod Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/75wxT42... Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... Conversation recorded on August 10, 2026 Opening Song: Aria 51 by MicroBongo Soundsystem, used with permission.