Dig Deeper: Reimagining Political Lobbying to Enhance Democracy

By Ashwin Nair

In this episode of Dig Deeper, host Ashwin Nair talks to Dave Meslin, author of Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up, about the links between corporate lobbying, grassroots political influence, and the strength of democracy in Canada.

Ashwin Nair

Ashwin Nair is a third-year student currently majoring in Materials Engineering and minoring in Political Science. As an Indian-Canadian who grew up in Hong Kong, his areas of interest include Canadian & Quebec politics, Indian subcontinental affairs, and Hong Kong-China relations, as well as antiracism, feminism, taxation & wealth redistribution policy, and environmentalism.