Podcasts about attorney general jody wilson raybould

Duff Conacher speaks with guest host Vernon Ramesar about an application filed in a provincial court in Ottawa on February 19th in an attempt to hold Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accountable for "...pressuring, and directing others to pressure, then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin in 2018..."

This week Canadians found out at parliamentary ethics committee hearings that the RCMP never tried to interview Justin Trudeau as part of the SNC-Lavalin scandal probe. Democracy Watch continues to demand the RCMP Commissioner and a key RCMP officer reveal why it performed a weak "lapdog" Trudeau cabinet/SNC Lavalin investigation and why the RCMP is still hiding 2,200+ pages of investigation records in violation of the Access to Information Act. As well, why the RCMP's national command "rolled over and didn't prosecute anyone."  Then parliamentary ethics commissioner Mario Dion convicted the prime minister of an ethics violation for interfering with federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould.  The RCMP was to investigate obstruction of justice and intimidation of a justice system participant. As well, Democracy Watch engagement on ArriveCan upheaval. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder of Democracy Watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Podcast Utah state legislation likely to pass the state legislature within the next week-plus will require children under 18 to receive parental consent in order to log onto websites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, as well as fan fiction sitesd or similar online services. The same applies to all social media. A legal challenge has caused the legislation to be redrafted.  Our guest has spoken with legislators in two dozen other U.S. states interested in similar legislation and not unlike the 'Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act' legislation under consideration in Canada which would require a user to verify his/her age before being able to access pornography websites. We speak with a state legislator prominent in creating the Utah law.   Guest: Jordan Teuscher. Utah State Representative   In October of 2023, the federal government removed the carbon tax from home heating oil for three years, a measure most beneficial to Atlantic Canadians. Justin Trudeau though has refused to provide a similar carbon tax carveout for Canadians heating their homes with natural gas or propane, used by the majority of residents in the prairie provinces. This week Saskatchewan's minister responsible for provincial energy utility announced the province will not remit the carbon levy on home heating fuels to Ottawa, understanding this may lead to fines and potentially prison time for executives of SaskEnergy.  We speak with the premier of Saskatchewan. Guest: Scott Moe. Premier. Saskatchewan.  This week Canadians found out at parliamentary ethics committee hearings that the RCMP never tried to interview Justin Trudeau as part of the SNC-Lavalin scandal probe. Democracy Watch continues to demand the RCMP Commissioner and a key RCMP officer reveal why it performed a weak "lapdog" Trudeau cabinet/SNC Lavalin investigation and why the RCMP is still hiding 2,200+ pages of investigation records in violation of the Access to Information Act. As well, why the RCMP's national command "rolled over and didn't prosecute anyone."  Then parliamentary ethics commissioner Mario Dion convicted the prime minister of an ethics violation for interfering with federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould.  The RCMP was to investigate obstruction of justice and intimidation of a justice system participant. As well, Democracy Watch engagement on ArriveCan upheaval. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder of Democracy Watch. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Justice minister and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould is not just angry–not just determined to improve the lives of indigenous people. She's all that, but we discover she's also a hoot! She dishes on how hugs from prime minister Justin Trudeau made her skin crawl. And she gets personal about her hubby, her sister, not being able to have kids, and trying to function on 3 hours sleep a night. Jody, aka Puglass, is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation and lives in Vancouver and Cape Mudge where she is about to publish a follow up to “Indian” in the Cabinet. She talks to us about the SNC-Lavalin affair and why it's sometimes important to be difficult. Oh, and Wendy is accused of paying to get an interview. 

Richard speaks with a retired firefighter who has launched a private prosecution case against Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, alleging the PM and several of his advisors obstructed justice by interfering with Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're wondering if anyone's going on summer vacation. In Ottawa, the news keeps coming even as we're counting down to a fall election. In the United States, the special counsel is back in the news despite his best efforts. In the U.K. there's a new sheriff in town, and he's going to make people do what he wants on Brexit (apparently). And finally, not to disturb your calm, but the rent is pretty damn expensive here in Canada, and we have the data to prove it now.  This Thursday, July 25, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss: See More Butts. Gerald Butts is back in the national conversation three months after he resigned as consequence of the SNC-Lavalin affair. While that may be good news for the Liberals election strategizing, it's bad news for optics because Butts was one of the architects of the strategy to lean on former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould. We'll talk about that, plus the lack of strategy for Attawapiskat and the decrepit status of 24 Sussex in our latest round of pre-election news. (Finally) It's Mueller Time! It's been months since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III delivered his final report investigating foreign interference in the 2016 election, and a month, in Trump-adjusted terms, is like five years. Still, Democratic House members, some of whom are eager to impeach Donald Trump, are hoping that Mueller will help them build a case they can take to the American people, but did the old-fashioned institutionalist Mueller give the Dems the boost they need, and what comes next? Boris the Boss. In spite of all common sense, a small number of Conservative Party members in the U.K. have elected Boris Johnson as their leader, and the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Johnson, a rabid pro-Brexiter, will now face the same conundrum as his predecessor Theresa May in trying secure a Brexit deal everyone can get behind, while still being willing to Brexit with no deal and thus tanking the U.K. economy in the process. So why Boris, and can he succeed where others have failed on Brexit? The Rent Really is Too Damn High! A report last week indicated that Canada's got some pretty big issues with housing, and if you feel like you can't afford the rent anymore, you're probably right. In very few areas of this country, and certainly not in Toronto and Vancouver, are you able to afford the rent on even a one-bedroom apartment while earning minimum wage. It's just further proof that the gulf between the rich and poor is widening more and more, so is there anything that can be done through government policy? Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday. ***Programming Note: There will be no new episodes of Open Sources Guelph on Thursday August 1, and Thursday August 9. We'll be back with new live episodes on Thursday August 16.

Alex is joined by Duff Conacher, Democracy Watch, to discuss comments made by former Treasury Board President and ousted Liberal MP Jane Philpott. After being kicked out of the federal Liberal caucus, alongside former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, Philpott said she was stunned by her removal while stating the entire SNC-Lavalin scandal could have been contained. According to Philpott, all it would have taken was a clear apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

CBC Power and Politics host Vassy Kapelos breaks down the secretly-recorded phone call between former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould and former Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick - as the SNC-Lavalin controversy grows.

This week we take a look at the latest audio and written submissions to the Justice Committee by former Attorney General Jody Wilson Raybould.  Plus the latest in the trade dispute between Canada and China and the tense relations between the government and Indigenous Peoples. Guest: Randy Boissonnault, Liberal MP; Bob Fife, The Globe and Mail; David Akin, Global News; Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of B.C. Chiefs

We've heard from the key players in the SNC-Lavalin scandal. There's former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould, who said she was subjected to inappropriate pressure by the Prime Minister's office to intervene with the corruption case against engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. On the other side, Prime Minister Trudeau, his former principal secretary Gerry Butts and the Clerk of the Privy Council, all of whom say nothing outside the normal functioning of government happened. Today, we take a step back and navigate five lingering questions about the SNC-Lavalin scandal with CBC senior reporter David Cochrane.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that an "erosion of trust" and "lack of communication" with his former justice minister led her to resign and accuse him of applying inappropriate pressure in a corruption prosecution — a dispute that has shaken his government.But the prime minister made no apologies as he discussed the issue at a nationally televised news conference.Former Justice Minister and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould told a parliamentary committee last week that Trudeau and senior officials tried to pressure her into instructing prosecutors to avoid criminal prosecution of Montreal-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin and instead require it to pay fines for alleged bribery in Libya.The case has led to the resignations of two high-profile Cabinet ministers and his top aide, as well as opposition calls for him to step downTrudeau and his aides deny doing anything wrong, saying they were only pointing out that prosecution could endanger thousands of people's jobs because a conviction would make the company ineligible for government contracts."In regards to standing up for jobs and defending the integrity of our rule of law, I continue to say there was no inappropriate pressure," Trudeau said.The prime minister said Wilson-Raybould told him on Sept. 17 that she was declining to seek a remediation agreement, which would allow the company to pay a fine instead of facing criminal prosecution. But Trudeau said he and other officials felt she was still open to arguments on the issue because such an agreement would be possible until the last moments of a trial."We considered that she was still open to hearing different arguments and different approaches on what her decision could be," Trudeau said."What we see now is that she wasn't prepared to change her mind."Trudeau said Wilson-Raybould did not come to him to express her concerns about inappropriate pressure and said he wishes she had. He said situations were "experienced differently and I regret that.""I am obviously reflecting on lessons learned," he said. "There are things we have to reflect on and understand and do better next time."Wilson-Raybould was demoted from her role as attorney general and named veterans affairs minister in January as part of a Cabinet shuffle. She resigned weeks later.Wilson-Raybould has said she believes she was demoted for failure to give in to the pressure.Trudeau's former chief aide Gerald Butts denied that in testimony to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday. He said the shakeup, which involved several other Cabinet posts, was due to other factors.Trudeau said he tries to foster an environment where his lawmakers can come to him with concerns, but one of his Liberal party colleagues, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, took issue with that, tweeting, "I did come to you recently. Twice. Remember your reactions?"Caesar-Chavannes, who is not running for re-election, did not elaborate and did not immediately return messages seeking comment. She has issued messages of support for Wilson-Raybould on Twitter.Other Liberal lawmakers have rallied around Trudeau in an election year.

One of Justin Trudeau's most trusted ministers is resigning from cabinet, citing the ongoing fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair. Treasury Board president Jane Philpott spells out her reasons for quitting in an open letter to the prime minister yesterday.  She says she's lost confidence in the way the Trudeau government has handled the matter. In a speech in Toronto Monday night, Trudeau took a moment to talk about the controversy that is rocking his government to its very foundations. Meanwhile, a new poll exclusive to Global News finds 62% of Canadians believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lost the moral authority to govern because of the SNC Lavalin affair. The Ipsos poll found that more than half believe Trudeau should resign, with a majority agreeing there WAS political interference. Most respondents are going as far to say the RCMP should investigate the matter.  Another 67% are choosing to believe former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould over Trudeau. Can Prime Minister Trudeau do anything to mitigate this crisis? How is the opposition using the SNC-Lavalin scandal to their political benefit? Guest: Alise Mills Senior Associate at Sussex Strategy Guest: Maria Dobrinskaya BC Director, Broadbent Institute Former co-chair of Vision Vancouver

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How will the powerful testimony of former federal Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould affect Canadians just months out of a federal election? Particularly when it is combined with the weak rebuttal of by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? Guest: Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos polling and author, along with John Ibbitson, of ‘Empty Planet' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Scheer declared he was "sickened and appalled" in the wake of the parliamentary justice committee testimony by former federal Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould then immediately called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign. Guest:  Andrew Scheer, Leader of the Conservative Party See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WILSON-RAYBOULD FALLOUT Charles Adler joins the show to talk about the fallout from the testimony of former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould. ALBERTA MEN'S ATTITUDES ON GENDER EQUALITY A recent attitude survey shows changing attitudes in Albertan Men about gender equality. CAMPAIGN FINANCE How will the next provincial election look with new campaign finance rules in place? Global News's Heide Pearson has some answers. DAVID AKIN ON THE TRUDEAU BRAND Chief Political Correspondent for Global News, David Akin recently published an analysis of the Trudeau brand as it stands today. CANADA WINTER GAMES Alberta set a record number of wins at the Canada Winter Games yesterday. We'll talk to one of those athletes.

Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by /Thread panelists Shannon Proudfoot of Maclean's and David Reevely of The Canadian Press. Topics include: key takeaways from former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould's testimony to the House of Commons Justice Committee about the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair, Michael Cohen's revelations about his time representing U.S. President Donald Trump, and Canada's plans to journey to the moon.

Your hosts, Lynn, Terry, Marie-Claude and Marc (Video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_1-20190301-WIE10 A scandal is shaking Canada's federal political landscape and the governing Liberal party of Justin Trudeau Former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould said she faced inappropriate pressure to interfere in a criminal case against a Canadian engineering firm. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press) A scandal at the highest level of government in Canada has rocked the ruling Liberal Party of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Elected with the slogan "real change", many are now doubting the sincerity of that slogan or others promoted by the Prime Minister. The claim is that the Liberals exerted pressure on their own member, Attorney-General Jody Wilson Raybould regarding a criminal case against the giant SNC Lavalin engineering firm. Opposition members are calling for a police investigation, a national inquiry, and even the resignation of the Prime Minister. Lynn spoke to Kim Speers, assistant teaching professor at the University of Victoria to discuss public testimony of Jody Wilson Raybould Unpleasant incident for a disabled woman at a major grocery store chain Linda Rolston decided to stand her ground after her local No Frills grocery store told her to shop somewhere else because her disability was slowing everybody down. (Linda Rolston) A woman with a disability was chastised by the manager of a grocery store, part of a major chain, for taking too long to pack her purchases. She was told to shop elsewhere in future and offered $100 to not come back. A complaint to the CBC resulted in the issue becoming widely known in a special report called "Go Public". Terry spoke about the case with  Queen’s University professor Mary Ann McColl, who is also the Academic Lead with the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance. Having fun with an award winning music and dance video about quantum physics University of Alberta’ doctoral student Pramodh Senarath Yapa has just been announced as the 2018 overall winner of the international Dance Your PhD competition (supplied-via U Alberta) Doctoral studen Pramodh Senerath Yapa, deals with the highly complex world of quantum physics, but when he heard about the international competition called Dance Your PhD, he knew he had to enter. Gathering friends and writing the music and choreography to explain how supercooled electrons react in conjunction with "dirty" conditions in wire and how to control them, he put together his 11 minute video in six weeks. In the competition against 50 others from around the world he came out on top. He also plans to enter again with a subject of superfluids. Marc spoke to Pramodh by mobile phone in Alberta. Watch The Link, 2019 March 1 Images of the week window.jQuery || document.write('

Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by /Thread panelists Shannon Proudfoot of Maclean's and David Reevely of The Canadian Press. Topics include: Key takeaways from former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould's testimony to the House of Common's Justice Committee about the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair, Michael Cohen's revelations about his time representing U.S. President Donald Trump, and Canada's plans to journey to the moon.

Alex is joined by Michael Taube, Washington Post columnist and political commentator, to talk about the recent Liberal cabinet meeting in which, former Attorney General Jody Wilson Raybould, outlined her concerns over the handling of the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. One day later, Jody Wilson Raybould rose and spoke in the House of Commons saying she hopes to have her solicitor-client privilege waived in order to "speak her truth".

The Roy Green Show Podcast - Yesterday Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs and CPC leader Andrew Scheer participated at a pipeline capacity increase rally at Moosomin, Saskatchewan. The point was to draw attention to the controversial Bill C-69 which will create major changes to review of proposed energy projects. Meanwhile, the Saskatchewan court challenge of the Trudeau government's imposition of a carbon tax on the province is currently underway. And Premier Blaine Higgs insists the Energy East pipeline construction issue must be revisited as his province experiences daily the importation of hundreds of thousands of barrels of foreign oil for New Brunswick refineries like the Irving refinery in Saint John. Premiers Scott Moe and Blaine Higgs join Roy to start the podcast, and discuss these issues. What does happen when an MP refuses an offer or refuses to buckle under pressure from the party leader and party whip who demand that MP end a personal practice? The story of former Liberal MP Michelle Simson answers that question. She was posting all of her MP expenses online, and she was sanctioned by party leadership for refusing to end this practice. Michelle joins fellow former Liberal MP Dan McTeague, to discuss the current state of the Liberal party and how she was handled. We touch base again with the organizers of the 80+ strong United We Roll truck convoy which left Red Deer, Alberta earlier in the week and now is in Ontario. The convoy is making its way to Ottawa for a protest rally on Tuesday, to alert the federal government to the economic plight of many thousands who work in the Western Canadian energy sector and to challenge Bills C-69 and C-48. And if a parliamentary ethics commissioner finds wrongdoing what is the actual penalty? Parliamentary ethics commissioner Mario Dion has announced an investigation into whether Justin Trudeau/the PMO pressured former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to persuade federal prosecutors to not go forward with a criminal trial of SNC-Lavalin. Former Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Brian Peckford writes on his blog: "As usual we go through the motions, trying to maintain that such 'motions' constitute real accountability. The falsity of it all is breathtaking." - Guests: Scott Moe. Premier of Saskatchewan Blaine Higgs. Premier of New Brunswick Michelle Simson (sanctioned former Ontario MP) Dan McTeague, former Ontario Liberal MP on the issue of party discipline Glen Carritt, convoy organizer Mark Friesen, who assisted in organizing the convoy Brian Peckford, former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Nation to Nation: As the scandal involving the Prime Minister’s Office and former minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould continues to grow by the day, everything that led up to it erupting last week is now getting a closer look. That includes Wilson-Raybould’s involvement in the failed Indigenous rights framework that fell apart late last year.

The Roy Green Show Podcast - A Globe and Mail story declares anonymous sources revealed the Prime Minister's Office attempted to interfere with the duties of former federal Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, by pressuring her to intervene with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada and halt criminal prosecution of Montreal-based international engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, in favour of some type of remediation. Our first guest, Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer, is demanding a parliamentary emergency meeting over the Trudeau/SNC-Lavalin allegation. And later Roy speaks with David Butt, Criminal lawyer and former prosecutor, about the available options that would permit Jody Wison-Raybould to answer the questions about any suggested interference. Meanwhile, Democracy Watch has released a letter to federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion, insisting he delegate any investigation to a provincial ethics commissioner because Dion, in their words, was “chosen” by the Trudeau cabinet without consultation with opposition parties as required by the Parliament of Canada Act. Duff Conacher, the co-founder of Democracy Watch and adjunct professor of law and political science at the University of Ottaway, joins the show. Serial killer Bruce McArthur and Quebec City mosque mass killer Alexandre Bissonnette were sentenced yesterday. Both pleaded guilty, yet McArthur received no consecutive sentences, and Bissonnette's consecutive sentences were altered. McArthur will be eligible to request parole at age 91 and Bissonnette who was sentenced to life, will nevertheless be eligible for parole in 40 years at age 69. Many are asking, Why were there no clear-cut consecutive life sentences? Scott Newark joins the show to discuss these two cases, as well as that of Clinton Gayle. Gayle was convicted of first degree murder in the 1994 killing of Toronto police officer Todd Baylis and of attempted murder of Baylis' partner Constable Mike Leone.  The murder trial judge declared Gayle killed Officer Baylis in "execution style" with a shot from short range. Gayle becomes eligible for parole in June of this year.  There is a petition and national drive underway to keep him in prison for life. Scott Newark also weighs in on the news that Omar Khadr wants an Alberta youth court to declare his sentence to be expired. More incidents of wearing blackface are becoming public, following the allegation that Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam wore blackface in a law school yearbook. Governor Northam denies he is featured in the photograph but admitted to wearing blackface once while dressed as Michael Jackson for a dance competition. Today it's Canadian comedian Mark Rowswell, a.k.a. Dashan, who on admitted on Twitter that he wore blackface with his friends in high school while impersonating the band The Temptations. Rowswell says his drama teacher at the time suggested there was nothing wrong with the students wearing blackface. Guests: Andrew Scheer. Leader. Conservative Party of Canada. David Butt, Criminal lawyer in Toronto and former prosecutor Duff Conacher, Co-founder Democracy Watch, Adjunct profess of law and political science with the University of Ottawa. Scott Newark, former Alberta prosecutor, former executive director the Canadian Police Association, as well as the Ontario Office for Victims of Crime, now adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. Ron Miller of Lynchburg, Virginia.  African American and dean of the Helms School of Government at Liberty University. Author of 'SELLOUT: Musings from Uncle Tom's Porch' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alex is joined by Sean Bruyea, served as an Intelligence Officer in the Canadian Air Force for 14 years, to talk about the latest federal Liberal cabinet shuffle that see's the current Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, being re-assigned as the new Veteran Affairs Minister. Many are calling the move a demotion for Wilson-Raybould, while most veterans see the move as yet another placeholder taking the mantle.