This week, Worldview is canvassing the thoughts of prominent Canadians about the recent U.S. election and America’s growing participation in the global rise of populism.

On Thursday, we spoke with noted Canadian public relations adviser James Hoggan. The author of I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up, writes that the most world’s biggest threat is a “smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization that [stifles] our ability to solve problems collectively.”