Roy Green Show

Death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Guest: Sheila Copps. Former Liberal MP and Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Jean Chretien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Guest: Stephen Ledrew. Former president of the Liberal Party of Canada and friend of PM Mulroney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Guest: Preston Manning. Former leader of the Reform Party. Wrote tribute op ed to Brian Mulroney.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux released his Supplemtary Estimates for 2023-24 and has said federal employees salaries and benefits topping $67-Billion is "worrisome." Also: the PBO stated and as Global News reported "the federal government's carbon price could generate more than $5 billion from the federal sales tax over the next seven years, but none of that is directly earmarked for climate programs."  Does the PBO stay with his analysis of 2022 that as the carbon tax reaches $170 per ton in 2030, lower income households should continue to receive rebates, but middle and upper-class households should be expected to pay hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, resulting in a net loss. Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary budget officer. News Israel's war cabinet was briefed on Paris talks with mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. over a ceasefire deal in Gaza which would see the return of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in

It is expected the federal government's long promised Online Harm Bill may be introduced as early as this coming week.- As well, the Senate bill requiring age verification before explicit online material can be accessed is expected. Many experts and privacy advocates have deep concern. David Fraser. One of Canada's leading privacy lawyers, international internet law expert and partner at McInnes Cooper, Halifax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Eric Kaufman of Buckingham University in the U.K. is Canadian and commissioned a Maru poll of Canadians view of woke policies, finding the views of Canadians largely mirror those represented in Britain and the U.K. In a National Post op ed professor Kaufman writes "the structure of Canadian public opinion indicates that there is considerable potential for right-of-centre parties to increase the salience of culture war issues. Guest: Professor Eric Kaufman, Buckingham University, U.K. and Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux released his Supplemtary Estimates for 2023-24 and has said federal employees salaries and benefits topping $67-Billion is "worrisome." Also: the PBO stated and as Global News reported "the federal government's carbon price could generate more than $5 billion from the federal sales tax over the next seven years, but none of that is directly earmarked for climate programs."  Does the PBO stay with his analysis of 2022 that as the carbon tax reaches $170 per ton in 2030, lower income households should continue to receive rebates, but middle and upper-class households should be expected to pay hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, resulting in a net loss. Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary budget officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News Israel's war cabinet was briefed on Paris talks with mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. over a ceasefire deal in Gaza which would see the return of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel. - Meanwhile in Tel Aviv police broke up a protest calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel. Joins us from Tel Aviv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two years ago today the Russian military was 24 hours into its invasion of Ukraine and experts were predicting a quick end and the fall of the Ukraine military and government. Today, the war continues increasingly difficult for Ukraine, but with Russia having suffered massive losses of soldiers killed or wounded, as well as huge losses in military equipment. Yesterday Prime Minister Trudeau in Kyiv committed to Canada's continued support for Ukraine. Guest: Borys Wrzesnewskyj, former Liberal MP with strong ties to Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quite the week in Ottawa and we review with the editor of Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Editor: Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber is suing the federal government and has entered a statement of claims for Ottawa using the Emergencies Act to freeze his bank accounts and credit and debit cards and making the lives of the Barber family, as well as operating their Saskatchewan trucking business exceedingly difficult. The lawsuit follows the Federal Court ruling the Trudeau government violated the Charter rights of all Canadians by invoking the Emergencies Act. According to Barber's lawyers by freezing the bank accounts, credit and debit cards the federal government violated Section 24 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Guest: Chris Barber, owner of C.B. Trucking in Saskatchewan. & Eva Chipiuk. Alberta lawyer representing Barber in his lawsuit against the federal government. Further significant developments during the parliamentary committee hearings concerning the ArriveCan app. Also Information Commissioner investigating allegations of destroyed ArriveCan related documents.  Gues

A class-action lawsuit has been launched in Quebec over issues with the Arrivecan app that resulted in thousands of Canadians being instructed to quarantine when they should have been exempt. The class action is open to anyone who travelled to Canada while the app was mandatory for entry (November 21, 2020 to October 1, 2022). Guest: Jeff Orenstein, lawyer at Consumer Law Group in Montreal where the class action suit has been launched. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal NDP and Liberal Party agreed to forming/funding of a national pharmacare program. For millions of Canadians the issue is far more basic. These Canadians often cannot obtain a prescription (or diagnosis) of their serious, even life-threatening illness.   At present more than 6 million people in Canada are without a family (primary care) doctor. Some patients are dying. That number will soon reach 10 million, or 25% of the current national population. Family doctors under huge pressure are moving to other medical disciplines or retiring. Where should the emphasis be? Pharmacare or securing sufficient numbers of primary care physicians? Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President: Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is this the time to increase private healthcare delivery options in Canada? How does anyone answer "no" with more than 6 million Canadians having no primary care physician? If the answer is "no" is it so truly to protect Canada's public healthcare system, or to protect political capital? Our guest argues Canada's public health care was once the envy of the world, but no longer. He has for decades fought in court and in the court of public opinion for patients to have greater options to seek and obtain the care they immediately require. Guest: Dr. Brian Day, Founder, Cambie Sugery Centre, Vancouver. Author of the soon to be released book "My Fight For Canadian Healthcare: A Thirty-Year Battle to Put Patients First." Former president of the Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber is suing the federal government and has entered a statement of claims for Ottawa using the Emergencies Act to freeze his bank accounts and credit and debit cards and making the lives of the Barber family, as well as operating their Saskatchewan trucking business exceedingly difficult. The lawsuit follows the Federal Court ruling the Trudeau government violated the Charter rights of all Canadians by invoking the Emergencies Act. According to Barber's lawyers by freezing the bank accounts, credit and debit cards the federal government violated Section 24 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Guest: Chris Barber, owner of C.B. Trucking in Saskatchewan. & Eva Chipiuk. Alberta lawyer representing Barber in his lawsuit against the federal government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Further significant developments during the parliamentary committee hearings concerning the ArriveCan app. Also Information Commissioner investigating allegations of destroyed ArriveCan related documents.  Guest: Michael Barrett, CPC shadow minister for Ethics and Accountable Government Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former NHL (Buffalo Sabres) and Team Canada goaltender Don Edwards parents were murdered by George Lovie in 1991 near Hamilton, Ontario. Lovie had been dating Don's sister Michelle and when she stopped seeing him Lovie sexually assaulted Michelle. Then, armed with a rifle, he waited for Michelle under the porch one morning. When he emerged Michelle ran to her parents home with Lovie chasing her. Lovie broke into the home and shot to death Donna Edwards, then stabbed Arnold Edwards, several times shouting "how do you like me now?"                 George Lovie has been living under day parole for some time. Two nights per week at a Correctional Service Canada halfway house and five nights a week at an apartment he has rented. The Edwards family remains very much fearful of Lovie who had a hearing scheduled for March 8 during which the National Parole Board was to hear his appeal for full parole. A great deal has happened in the past few weeks in the case. Guests: Don Edwards and his wife Tannis. Learn more abo

Today’s podcast: Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is attempting to walk back his statement "there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge thed road network" to a Montreal conference earlier in the week. Also stated the federal government wants to get Canadians out of our cars and trucks and living in high density urban areas. Premiers Ford and Smith immediately challenged Gilbeault. - Also the Liberals rebranded the 'Climate Action Incentive Rebate' as the 'Canada carbon rebate.' Guilbeault is also hinting at changes to be announced concerning his energy dictates for provinces, as what he has proposed is receiving heavy pushback from particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan. Trudeau government continues to claim 80% of Canadian households paying the carbon tax will receive more money in rebates than they pay for carbon taxation. Not so according to Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux in interviews with us. Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians f

The federal Liberals and NDP are attempting to negotiate a national pharmacare program in order to keep their political alliance alive and prevent a snap election. Is that a sound basis for a program securing pharmaceuticals for Canadians dealing with a need for medications including significant, even life-threatening illness? Would a national pharmacare program be funded sufficiently that the newest and most effective drugs for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses become and/or remain available, or would a pharmacare bureaucracy be underfunded or over-regulated to the point pharmaceutical companies would not make the most recent and effective/expensive drugs available to Canada and Canadians? Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious dieases specialist, assistant professor University of Toronto School of Medicine. Former member of the Ontario committee to evaluate pharmaceuticals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the mood of Canadians today, toward the state of the country and the political parties vying to form the national government? An election could be called at any time this year and must be called by the fall of next year. Abacus polling shows if a federal election were held today Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives would secure a significant majority government, while the Liberals and NDP are neck and neck. How firm is that polling information? Guest: Eddie Sheppard. VP Insights, Abacus Data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices