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Join former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, David Vigneault, and Hoover Senior Fellow, H.R. McMaster, as they discuss the Canadian federal election results, trade, and the potential for a common agenda for the future of the US-Canada alliance. Reflecting on Prime Minister Mark Carney's victory in the Canadian federal election in April 2025 and President Trump's recent controversial comments on Canada as the ‘51st state', Vigneault provides his thoughts on the importance of the US-Canada relationship and outlines a positive agenda of cooperation between both countries in areas including North American defense, intelligence cooperation, missile defense, supply chain resilience and energy security. Vigneault discusses Canada's relationship with Mexico, the dangers associated with conflicts in South Asia, including the current conflict between Pakistan and India, and how best to secure critical infrastructure, sensitive technologies, and intellectual property from hostile countries such as China. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS David Vigneault is the former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, also known as CSIS. Under his leadership, CSIS elevated awareness of vulnerabilities in sectors critical to Canadian innovation and sovereignty—ranging from biopharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence to aerospace and quantum computing. Prior to CSIS, Vigneault served as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Security and Intelligence in the Privy Council Office. He also held roles in the Canada Border Services Agency, the Communications Security Establishment, and the Department of National Defence. In August 2024, Vigneault joined Strider Technologies—a U.S.-based strategic intelligence firm—where he guides security strategy across public and private sector domains. H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He was the 25th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.

Tonight, Alexander Dalziel is interviewed on The Brian Crombie Hour. Alexander has been a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute since 2023. Before that, he spent over 20 years in Canada's national security community, advising senior decision-makers across government and Canada's allies while holding positions at the Privy Council Office, Department of National Defence, and Canada Border Services Agency. He writes on geopolitics and geoeconomics, concentrating on the Arctic. Alexander talks about his article: “Canada's slow steps forward in Arctic defence and security”. 

For this episode of the Global Exchange podcast, Colin Robertson talks with Hon. Adrew Leslie, Vincent Rigby and Vadm. (Retd.) Mark Norman about the meaning of the defence relationship between Canada and the United States, and the current status of this central component of bilateral relations. // Participants' bios - The Honourable Andrew Leslie is a former Member of Parliament for Orléans and retired LGen of the Canadian Forces. - Vincent Rigby was a longtime member of the Canadian Civil Service, with roles at the Privy Council Office, Global Affairs Canada, and Public Safety Canada. He was most recently National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Government of Canada from 2020 to 2021. - Vadm (Retd) Mark Norman had a 39-year career with the Royal Canadian Navy, reaching the rank of Vice-Admiral in August 2019 // Host bio: Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson // Read & Watch: - "Memoirs", Pierre Elliot Trudeau: https://www.amazon.ca/Memoirs-Pierre-Trudeau/dp/0771085885 - "War: How Conflict Shaped Us", Margaret MacMillan: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609692/war-how-conflict-shaped-us-by-margaret-macmillan/ // Recording Date: August 14, 2024.

Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, the Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter about Bank of Canada Govenor Tiff Macklem yesterday said Canada's economic future is uncertain and warned there ''will always be new shocks'', the Privy Council Office plans a nationwide video conference this fall ''to reaffirm values and ethics'' for federal employees. All this and more! GUEST: Tom Korski - Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter X(formerly Twitter): @mindingottawa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this episode of the Global Exchange podcast, Colin Robertson talks with Tim Sargent and CGAI Fellows Lawrence Herman and John Weekes about Canada-US trade and the upcoming review of the CUSMA. This podcast is associated with the work of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations, an initiative supported by The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. // Participants' bios - Lawrence Herman is a trade law specialist having served in the Foreign Service and then in private practise. He is a Senior Fellow and member of the National Policy Council of the C. D. Howe Institute - A foreign service officer, John Weekes served as Canada's Chief Negotiator for the NAFTA and then as our Ambassador to the World Trade Organization before a distinguished career in the private sector. - Tim Sargent is Senior Fellow and Director of Domestic Policy at the Macdonald Laurier Institue. A career public servant he held Deputy Minister and Associate Deputy Minister positions at Fisheries and Oceans, International Trade, Finance, and Agriculture and AgriFood, as well as senior positions at the Privy Council Office. // Host bio: Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson // Read & Watch: - "The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics", by Alexander Herman: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/parthenon-marbles-dispute-9781509967179/ - "Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats: Canada's Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy", edited by John R. English and Patrice Dutil: https://www.ubcpress.ca/statesmen-strategists-diplomats - "No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers", by Robert Lighthizer: https://www.amazon.ca/No-Trade-Free-Changing-Americas/dp/0063282135 - "Innovation in Real Places – Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World", by Dan Breznitz: https://politics.utoronto.ca/publication/innovation-in-real-places-strategies-for-prosperity-in-an-unforgiving-world/ // Recording Date: August 6, 2024.

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Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, the Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter about the Privy Council Office managers used the n-word on the job and subjected Black employees to ''tokenism'' and ''harassment,'' a hundred percent of people questioned in Privy Council focus group research says cabinet is ''headed in the wrong direction'' on immigration, Parks Canada managers two years ago acknowledged they failed to take full precautions to save Jasper, Alta from wildfires, documents show. All this and more! GUEST: Tom Korski - Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter X(formerly Twitter): @mindingottawa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode Matthew Mendelsohn joins Nate on the podcast to discuss the issue of wealth concentration and its threat to democratic stability. They discuss practical solutions to address wealth inequality, trust in democratic institutions, the role of the federal public service and the need for a competent and responsive government.Matthew's extensive background includes serving as the Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Results and Delivery) in the Privy Council Office of Canada, where he played a key role in developing and implementing the federal government's policy agenda.His work focused on achieving measurable results and improving government performance, particularly in areas related to inclusive economic growth, tax reform, and public service effectiveness.Nate and Matthew explore the concept of inclusive growth, which focuses on equitable and sustainable economic growth benefiting both communities and individuals. They also highlight progress made on Indigenous issues and the need for transparency and risk-taking in the civil service.Watch on YouTube: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.uncommons.ca

In the latest episode of The Food Professor podcast, hosts Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois are joined by the esteemed Dr. Ian Lee, an Associate Professor at Carleton University. Together, they delve into a series of pressing topics in food and agriculture, leveraging Dr. Lee's extensive knowledge and experience. The discussion covers competition in the food industry, the anticipated impact of the Code of Conduct, and Canada's economic outlook.The episode kicks off with a crucial conversation about the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) and its potential implications for Canada. The hosts then turn their attention to Statistics Canada's food basket pricing, a topic of significant interest and debate, questioning whether it underestimates or overestimates the real costs. They reference a Toronto Sun column penned by Sylvain that highlights some discrepancies in the pricing.Attention shifts to the upcoming US Farm Bill, which is anticipated to allocate $1.4 trillion over ten years, juxtaposed against Canada's comparatively modest $3.5 billion Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) over five years. The hosts also correct a previous claim regarding Amazon's "just walk out" technology, clarifying misconceptions about the system's operation.The conversation further explores the evolving landscape of automation in meatpacking, highlighting Smithfield's initiative to deploy robots for tasks like rib pulling, significantly reducing waste and reassigning workers to less physically demanding roles. This shift toward automation, exemplified by Smithfield's strategy to reassign about 500 employees annually, marks a transformative phase in food production, aiming for higher efficiency and worker safety.Lastly, we touch upon the wine industry's challenges, noting a significant surplus in California's bulk wine market, showcasing the broader economic and logistical complexities facing today's food and agriculture sectors.Statistics Canada PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL/POSTMEDIAhttps://www.wsj.com/business/meet-the-robots-slicing-your-barbecue-ribs-338a7794?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1About IanI am an Associate Professor at Carleton University in the Sprott School where I started in 1988, teaching the 4th year and(later) the MBA Strategic Management capstone course, as well as related courses such as International Business Strategy, from then to now. After dropping out of grade 12 in 1971, I worked at a series of minimum wage jobs for 3 years in the early 1970s. In 1974, I started with an American financial services multinational as a credit manager trainee eventually becoming a Branch Manager in several branches in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. I was then recruited in 1977 by Canada's oldest bank (that predates Canada by a half century), where I was given outstanding training in banking, economics and management by British bankers. I was employed at the BMO Main Office Branch (4thlargest in all Canada at that time) at 144 Wellington and Sparks opposite Parliament Hill and beside the National Press Club (Parliament subsequently acquired, refurbished and renamed the branch as Sir John A. Macdonald Building for Parliament Hill receptions). As Loan and Mortgage Manager in my mid 20s, I dealt with cabinet ministers in the Trudeau Government, Senators, MPs, national journalists, Supreme Court judges, deputy ministers, national NGOs and staff of embassies including the Chinese and USSR Ambassadors, as well as national institutions such as the Bank of Canada. And in that capacity throughout those years, I evaluatedpersonal and corporate financial statements and lent millions and millions of dollars in demand loans, consumer loans, mortgage loans and business loans.  After completing my entire undergraduate degree on a part time basis in the evenings over 10 years while employed full time, I resigned from the bank to enroll full time in a master's degree in public policy in 1982 at Carleton University. However, I completed the second year of the master's degree full time in evenings in 1983-84 as I accepted a position as a full time policy analyst with Canada Post Corporation in Corporate Finance and Banking, Head Office. Upon graduation in 1984, I resigned from Canada Post to enroll in the PhD program in the public policy stream at Carleton University graduating in 1989. My 850 page PhD thesis was titled: The Canadian Post Office: Origins, growth and decay of the state postal function, 1765-1981. While completing my PhD, I was employed for one summer in 1985 in the Privy Council Office, Machinery of Government.Shortly after starting with the Sprott School on a tenure track in 1988, the Berlin Wall came down in October 1989. Then in 1990-91, Carleton University School of Business was awarded $3 million by Foreign Affairs Canada to establish a Canadian Business School in Poland at theprestigious Central School for Planning and Statistics – later renamed the Warsaw School of Economics. In April 1991, I became the first western professor to teach in a university in a former communist country under an OECD country funded business management program. I have continued to teach at Warsaw School of Economics (in the EMBA since 1997) where I have had a bird's eye view of the remarkable transformation of Poland from an impoverished, corrupt centralizedsocialist economy managed by the elite nomenklatura to a remarkably vibrant prosperous decentralized democratic country in transition.Since 1990, I have taught approximately 100 times across the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans, mostly in EMBA programs, in many different countries ranging from Poland to Russia to Iran to Ukraine to Cuba to Romania to Slovenia to Latvia to Czech to Argentina to Croatiato Mexico and after 1997 in China – always inAmerican or Canadian universities in partnership with a local university. I taught a number of times for the University of Washington (Seattle) with ASEBUSS in Bucharest, Romania; Katz Graduate School U Pittsburg in Prague; SUNY Buffalo with Riga Business School, Latvia; Carnegie-Mellon with IMI-Kiev, Ukraine; Carleton Sprott School with Qeshm Institute in Qeshm and Tehran, Iran; University of Ottawa in Hong Kong; Carleton Sprott School with Donghua University in Shanghai; UQAM at Warsaw School of Economics; Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship, Warsaw; Czech Management Center, Prague; IEDC, Bled, Slovenia; Zagreb, Croatia.These extensive international teaching experiencesover a third of a century, provided a much deeper understanding of non-western, often authoritarian, frequently deeply corrupt, state centrally planned or administered countries sometimes transitioning to western, rule of law, decentralized economies and societies.From 1996-98, I was appointed as Supervisor of the Bachelor of International Business in the Sprott School to address significant structural issues that emerged after this innovative new program had been operational for 2 years. In 2007, I was appointed as Chair of the MBA Restructuring Committee that led to the replacement of the former thesis based master's degree with a brand new professional MBA degree. We benchmarked key competitor MBA programs and completed extensive consultation with all relevant stakeholders that led to the proposed new structure including 50 new MBA graduate courses. I was then appointed the new MBA Director from 2007-2010 to implement the new program including staffing 50 new MBA courses with permanent faculty and contract instructors.I completed two sabbaticals in the USA: at American University in Washington DC in 1995 and Cal State Monterey Bay one hour south of Silicon Valley from 2001-2003. I am presently a member of the Carleton University Board of Governors, 2016-2019. I am also a member of the Sprott School MBA Committee, Carleton University EURUS Advisory Board and the Carleton University Graduate Appeal Committee since 2010.During the past 50 years, in addition to visiting every Canadian province, I completed road trips through 43 of 50 US states and visited 8 of 14 US Presidential libraries. I have visited most West, Central and East European countries including living for 2 years each at RCAF 3 Wing, Zweibrucken, West Germany andRCAF 1 Wing, Marville France in the mid 1950s (where my father flew F-86 Sabre jets and later F-104 Starfighter jets).Over the years, I appeared extensively in the media including CBC, CTV and Global National News, CBC TV On the Money weekly on The Roundup, and Power and Politics and CBC Radio Syndication. I am a weekly regular on CFRA Rob Snow program and Sirius-National Post Radio as well as the Corus Radio Networkin Toronto. Over the last 10 years, I published 45 Op-Eds in the Globe and Mail, New York Times, National Post, Financial Post and Ottawa Citizen concerning contemporary public policy issues as well as research monographs for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute concerning Canada Post, supply management, alternative payment instruments, deficits and the retirement income system.Since 2008, I appeared by invitation before House of Commons and Senate finance, banking, industry and trade committees 25 times concerning public policy debates. I have been invited by Global TV to attend every federal budget lockup as one of their expert witnesses since 2008.I have published multiple times in the annual edition of How Ottawa Spends concerning Canada's retirement system, the PBO, deficits, corporate income reform and the Liberal downsizing of 1995-97 and the Conservative Government downsizing of 2010-15. The Food Professor #podcast is presented by Caddle. About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph's Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre's Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa. About MichaelMichael is the president and founder of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and media entrepreneur. He has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career. He has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions and participated worldwide in thought leadership panels, most recently on the main stage in Toronto at Retail Council of Canada's Retail Secure conference with leaders from The Gap and Kroger talking about violence in retail stores, keynotes on the state & future of retail in Orlando and Halifax, and at the 2023 Canadian GroceryConnex conference, hosting the CEOs of Walmart Canada, Longo's and Save-On-Foods Canada. Michael brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, Pandora Jewellery, The Shopping Channel and Retail Council of Canada to his advisory, speaking and media practice.Michael also produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including the award-winning No.1 independent retail industry podcast in North America, Remarkable Retail, Canada's top retail industry podcast; the Voice of Retail; Canada's top food industry and the top Canadian-produced management independent podcasts in the country, The Food Professor, with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois. Rethink Retail has recognized Michael as one of the top global retail influencers for the fourth year in a row, Coresight Research has named Michael a Retail AI Influencer, and you can tune into Michael's cooking show, Last Request BBQ, on YouTube, Instagram, X and yes, TikTok.Available for keynote presentations helping retailers, brands and retail industry insiders explaining the current state of the retail industry in Canada and the U.S., and the future of retail.

Today's guests: Neil Bisson, Director - Global Intelligence Knowledge Network / former Intelligence Officer at Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Alan Barnes/former member of the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat of the Privy Council Office in Ottawa, and currently a senior fellow of the Centre for Security, Intelligence and Defence Studies at Carleton University - Dominic Cardy, Interim Leader - Canadian Future / Independent New Brunswick MLA E. Clayton Cornelious, Veteran Broadway actor/(Tony-nominated) producer/investor / plays Paul Williams in “Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Radley: Documents obtained by The Canadian Press through access-to-information law show government officials in the Privy Council Office discussed a Conservative private member's bill launched in response to convicted killer Paul Bernardo's transfer to a medium-security prison, noting it would likely never hit Parliament. Today, Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years, in a bid to be the first nation to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole – a region believed to hold coveted pockets of water ice. A recent piece in The Conversation presented the argument that Canadians are unprepared for natural hazards. The article itself built on the work of the University of Waterloo's Partners for Action, a research initiative that seeks to empower Canadians to become flood resilient. In the U.S. the FCC has taken steps toward regulating Deepfake technology. Where is Canada on this? The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has officially banned fighting. Will other leagues follow suit, and what does this change mean for the game? It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast! Guests: Tony Baldinelli, MP for Niagara Falls. Daniel Perry, Consultant, Summa Strategies. Dr. Elaina Hyde, Director Allan I Carswell Observatory, Department of Physics & Astronomy, York University. Julie Wright; Director, Partners for Action. Carmi Levy Technology Analyst & Journalist. Ian Kennedy, Writer for The Hockey News, Analysis for Yahoo-dot-C-A Sports, Author of ‘On Account of Darkness: Shining a Light on Race in Sport' Steve Pomeroy, of Focus Consulting Inc; Industry Professor, McMaster University; Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC) and Senior Research Fellow, Carleton University; Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE). Host – Scott Radley Content Producer – William Erskine Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan News Anchor – Dave Woodard Want to keep up with what happened in Hamilton Today? Subscribe to the podcast! https://megaphone.link/CORU8835115919

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about David Johnston's testimony as he is being asked how he came to his decision not to have an inquiry, the Department of Public Safety issued a false security bulletin claiming it had ''confirmation'' Freedom Convoy protestors ransacked federal office buildings, the Privy Council Office in a secret memo said Covid vaccine injuries and deaths ''have the potential to shake public confidence'' and must be carefully managed with ''winning communication strategies.'' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: City councillors in Brantford, Ont., have given thumbs up to a Hamilton Bulldogs plan to relocate to their city next season. Scott has a quick chat with Kevin Davis, Brantford's mayor, about the current state of affairs. U.S. President Joe Biden exhorted Congress Tuesday night to work with him to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation as he delivered a State of the Union address aimed at reassuring a country beset by pessimism and fraught political divisions. Brian Karem, political analyst for CNN, discusses the speech with Scott who, spoiler alert, ended up watching the majority of the address. National security officials drafted a warning for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his office more than a year before the 2019 federal election, alleging that Chinese agents were “assisting Canadian candidates running for political offices,” according to a Privy Council Office document reviewed by Global News. One of Global News' finest investigative journalists joins Scott for that and more on China's so called “weather balloon.” It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast! Guests: Kevin Davis, Mayor of the City of Brantford. Brian J. Karem, Political Analyst for CNN, White House Reporter, Columnist for Salon.com and The Washington Diplomat, and host of ‘Just Ask the Question' Podcast, Author of the new book Free The Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It. Sam Cooper, Global News national investigative journalist. Dr. Frank Feuten, Structural Geologist with Brock University. Dr. Kerry Bowman, Bioethicist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine with the University of Toronto. Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. Andrew McDougall, Assistant Professor in Canadian Politics and Public Law with the University of Toronto. Daniel Perry, Consultant, Summa Strategies. Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley Show on 900CHML Columnist for the Hamilton Spectator. Host – Scott Thompson Content Producer – William Erskine Technical/Podcast Producer - William Webber Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan News Anchor – David Woodard Want to keep up with what happened in Hamilton Today? Subscribe to the podcast! https://megaphone.link/CORU8835115919

Ambassador Deborah Lyons (BA'71, DLitt'15) is a diplomat with 21 years of professional experience in political affairs, international cooperation and economic development. Her most recent assignment was as Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, having served prior to that as Ambassador of Canada to Israel and before that as Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Ms. Lyons has held several senior positions with Canada's Department of Global Affairs, including as Deputy Ambassador at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategic Policy and Planning and Chief Strategist, and directorships covering commercial relations, international finance and technology. She has also worked with Canada's Department of Natural Resources and Privy Council Office and owned and managed an environmental consulting firm. Ms. Lyons is from Miramichi, New Brunswick and graduated from UNB in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.  In this episode:    Deborah's account of being in Afghanistan during an extremely challenging transition period of the American withdrawal of troops and takeover by the Taliban.  Why she's such a fan of the United Nations and why she wanted to be in Afghanistan at that time.   The progress she saw in the country prior to the Taliban takeover and her feelings on the state of women in Afghanistan today.  Her insights on the future for women in Afghanistan, and on engaging and educating women for global societal stability.  What Canada and Canadians can and should do to help support women in Afghanistan.  Deborah's two realities - that formed who she is.   Her thoughts on next steps in her career and role in diffusing the growth of divisive hate speech and discourse in Canada and around the world.   Her advice on how we move forward in a changing world.  Links and resources:    UN Announcement  UN Farewell statement  Deborah's Twitter  Thanks to:    Our alumni host, Katie Davey  Music by alumni artist, Beats of Burden   Our alumni Affinity Partners, TD Insurance and Manulife    To listen to UNBeknownst and for more info on the podcast, the hosts and how to subscribe to new episode alerts, visit our website.

How much do the Liberals know about their own carbon footprint? As it turns out, the answer is pretty much nothing. The same crowd that can speak with absolute certainty about the amount of carbon tax you need to pay to keep the global temperature from rising beyond 1.5 degrees from pre-industrial times has no interest in tabulating their own greenhouse gas emissions. We learned today through a series of government responses to Opposition order paper questions that the same furious attention paid to the tailpipe of your SUV has not ever been paid to the jet engine of Trudeau's Challenger fleet. https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1577780670385954816?s=20&t=hLy6iwQZRUG7hcBrvmMfMQ Conservative MP Garnett Genuis (my own MP) discovered that the Privy Council Office has never run the numbers on Trudeau's carbon footprint for his work or personal travel. Then fellow Conservative MP Gerard Deltell found out that Environment and Climate Change Canada has not calculated the carbon footprint to send an army of Canadian delegates to last year's UN climate change conference in Sharm El-Shaikh, Egypt. They don't even try to tack these things. We do, however, know these high-flying hypocrites have spent at least $622,000 on flights to the Egyptian resort town — and that number is expected to rise. An order paper question by another Conservative member of Parliament, Clifford Small, revealed that for any liquefied natural gas project to go ahead in Canada, the company proposing it must calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of the project and also the fuel source it promises to offset. Only your emissions are making the oceans boil! Their emissions are the cost of doing the business of saving the planet. That's why they need all those private jets. https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1621446155572764677 As David Menzies always says: Rules for thee, but not for me! It's the Liberal way. GUEST: Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (@CosminDZS on Twitter) from True North joins us to discuss his incredible access to information expose, “The Fertilizer Files”. https://twitter.com/cosminDZS/status/1620958863326588929

The Trudeau government has announced that by 2035, every major passenger vehicle sold in Canada will need to be electric. However, as first reported by True North, the Alberta government has come out swinging, saying that they may use the Sovereignty Act for the first time to oppose it. Plus, a firearms group is pointing out that after denying his government's latest firearms ban would affect hunters, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has conceded it does exactly that. And despite Trudeau's assertion that he was never briefed about the Chinese government interfering in Canada's electoral system, it was revealed that an unredacted Privy Council Office document warned the government about Chinese operations in Canada in February 2020. Tune into the final episode of The Daily Brief for 2022 with Anthony Furey and Jasmine Moulton!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News story by Sam Cooper, December 13: Secret 2020 Privy Council Office memo found 'active foreign interference network' in 2019 election referencing the Chinese Communist Party. Guest: Sam Cooper. National online journalist, investigative, Global News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: 2022 year-ender and '23 look-ahead including possibility of a federal election interview with the Conservative Party of Canada leader. Guest: Pierre Poilievre Global News story by Sam Cooper, December 13: Secret 2020 Privy Council Office memo found 'active foreign interference network' in 2019 election referencing the Chinese Communist Party. Guest: Sam Cooper. National online journalist, investigative, Global News. Global News: Hockey Canada member branches to vote on slate of nominees for 9 board vacancies. Also, year-ender review of the Hockey Canada scandal in 2022 and what must be done to responsibly address the safe sport issue in Canada. Guest: Allison Forsyth, ITP Sport. Mutiple Canadian skiing championships and represented Canada the Olympic Games. Was herself sexually assaulted by the national ski team coach after which Alpine Canada requested Allison Forsyth not reveal publicly what had taken place. 2022 year-ender interview concerning federal spending and other fiscal matters as assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Officer. One headline: Liberals did not show fiscal restraint in fall update. Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary Budget Officer. Federal International Trade Minister Mary Ng was determined to have contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by the parliamentary Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion. Consequences? An apology. Our guest demands more significant consequences for such action. In 2002, then Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien accepted the resignation of federal defence minister Art Eggleton from cabinet for an ethics violation. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder, Democracy Watch. Democracy Watch calling for action against Minister Ng. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor 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

Debates around fiscal arrangements are always at the heart of federal-provincial relations in Canada. These days, health care funding and the Canada Health Transfer are even front-page news. Just a few months ago, equalization and Alberta's demand for a fair deal that were making waves. In this episode, we do a deep dive into fiscal federalism: the current state of it, its history and how we got here, as well as the challenges ahead. The conversation is moderated by Antoine Brunelle-Côté, Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet at the Privy Council Office. He is in conversation with Trevor Tombe, Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary and a Research Fellow at The School of Public Policy; and Mary Janigan, a journalist and historian, and author of the recent book, The Art of Sharing: The Richer versus the Poorer Provinces since Confederation. This episode was recorded during an online event held by the Canada School of Public Service and is the second instalment of a partnership between the school and the IRPP's Centre for Excellence.

Chinese-Canadians, in an internal Privy Council Office poll, say cabinet must “stand up” to China's Communist Party, even if it brings worsening relations. “Canada was not currently doing enough to speak out against human rights issues,” citizens of Chinese ethnicity told federal pollsters. Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter, joined us with the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is that time of the week where we dig deep into all things Ottawa and lots of questions are being asked about why former Immigration Minister, Marco Mendicino, and the Privy Council Office backdated documents in an apparent bid to mislead a federal judge in a trademark dispute. And he won't talk. And it appears the records now seem to be blacked out. Except the date and email addresses. Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, joined us and said that the big question is - why would the minister issue a fake order in council? That and more on today's Blacklock's Check In.

Rob was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Engineering degree from Carleton University. Rob began working in Satellite Communications with the Department of Defense, moving on to Canada's CF-18 Fighter program as a technical specialist in Electronic Warfare. After selection for executive development, Rob worked alternately on exchange in Australia where he earned a Graduate Certificate in Management, the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board Secretariat and other federal departments before moving into the Security and Intelligence community where he finished his career as an Associate Assistant Deputy Minister. Rob lives in Greely with his wife, Carole and several remote-control aircraft. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Rob was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Engineering degree from Carleton University. Rob began working in Satellite Communications with the Department of Defense, moving on to Canada's CF-18 Fighter program as a technical specialist in Electronic Warfare. After selection for executive development, Rob worked alternately on exchange in Australia where he earned a Graduate Certificate in Management, the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board Secretariat and other federal departments before moving into the Security and Intelligence community where he finished his career as an Associate Assistant Deputy Minister. Rob lives in Greely with his wife, Carole and several remote-control aircraft. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

In this session, originally recorded on January 26, 2022, we asked Matthew Mendelsohn, a public policy entrepreneur, researcher, strategic advisor and public sector executive, to share his five good ideas on the best ways to influence the decisions governments make. Matthew provides an overview of lessons he has learned during his time in government, advocacy, consulting and policy think tanks. Read the full transcript at https://maytree.com/five-good-ideas/five-good-ideas-to-influence-public-policy/. Five Good Ideas 1. Political science matters – interests, institutions, ideas, identity, and incentives all constrain outcomes 2. Understand the political process, the bureaucratic process, and the issue 3. Relationships and trust are capital 4. Stories matter to help frame problems and solutions 5. The announcement is the end of the beginning – details and implementation matter Resources David Evans and Markus Goldstein: 8 lessons on how to influence policy with evidence – from Oxfam’s experience. Overseas Development Institute: 10 things to know about how to influence policy with research. Antje Dun: How to frame issues for social change impact. Pedro Barata: Five Good Ideas for getting your issues on the public policy dance floor Sherri Torjman: Five Good Ideas about policy About Matthew Mendelsohn Matthew Mendelsohn is a public policy entrepreneur, researcher, strategic advisor, and public sector executive. He has been using public policy to deliver economic and social impact for 25 years. He is currently a Visiting Professor and co-founder of First Policy Response at Ryerson University in Toronto and a Senior Advisor to Boston Consulting Group’s Global Public Sector Practice. From 2016-2020 he served as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet in the Privy Council Office, where he led the Prime Minister’s Results & Delivery Unit and the Impact & Innovation Unit. During his time in Ottawa, he also co-led the Government of Canada data strategy, oversaw advice on digital and platform governance, and designed Impact Canada, which developed Challenges and outcomes-based funding initiatives for the government. Prior to his role in the Privy Council Office, Matthew was the founding Director of the Mowat Centre, a public policy think tank in the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto. During that time, he published and spoke about government transformation, democratic institutions, social and economic policy, and federalism. Matthew is a former Deputy Minister and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet with the Ontario government and a former Senior Advisor in the federal government’s Privy Council Office where he led the polling unit. He was a chief architect of the 2015 Liberal election platform and a member of Prime Minister Trudeau’s transition team. Matthew received his B.A. from McGill University and Ph.D. from the l’Université de Montréal and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. He was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University for 10 years and has been an active board member for many non-profit

It's that time of the week where we take a look past the veil into the stories that don't get the attention they deserve in Ottawa. Alex Pierson checks in with Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter Tom Korski. Alex and Tom talk about Senator Denise Batters finding out she was kicked out of the Conservative Caucus over voicemail, and how Erin O'Toole looks after it. They also talk about how the Privy Council Office conducted a poll that may have directly influenced why we had an election, and why Charles Robert, a Clerk of the House of Commons who is off duty following allegations of incompetence and pro-liberal bias. Let's get talking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode we chat about a whole host of issues relating to Canada / China relations. We discuss how China bullies Canadian companies operating in China, the case of the two Michael's, China's AI race, China's movement towards totalitarianism, and the need for Canada to stand up for itself in the face of Chinese hostility. We also chat about China's surveillance state, their social credit system, and what Canadian strategy towards China should look like going forward. Margaret McCuaig-Johnston is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Science, Society and Policy and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa where she has been lecturing and writing on China's science and technology policies since 2013.Over a 37-year career in the public service, Margaret held senior management positions in the Governments of Canada and Ontario.  Most recently she was Executive Vice-President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; prior to that she was Assistant Deputy Minister Energy Technology and Programs at Natural Resources Canada; and her first Assistant Deputy Minister appointment was at the federal Department of Finance. She has also had management positions at Industry Canada, the Prime Minister's National Advisory Board on Science and Technology, the Ministry of State for S&T, and the Privy Council Office (the Prime Minister's department).

In this episode of The Global Exchange, you will hear Red Lipman, Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, and Scott Simon discuss how to include Taiwan in international organizations This episode is an extract from CGAI's webinar on Canada-Taiwan relations, made possible thanks to the support of our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, and thanks to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. Read our Taiwan series: www.cgai.ca/2021_taiwan_series Participants Bio: Over a 37-year government career, Margaret McCuaig-Johnston served at the assistant deputy minister level at Canada's Department of Finance, Natural Resources Canada, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and has had senior management positions at Industry Canada, the Prime Minister's National Advisory Board on Science and Technology, the Ministry of State for Science and Technology, and the Privy Council Office. For the last seven years of her government career, Margaret was a member of the Canada-China Joint Committee on Science and Technology. She has had close relations over the years with China on other matters such as energy technology, manufacturing, industrial development, industry associations, and think-tanks. She has visited China more than a dozen times since 1979. https://www.asiapacific.ca/about-us/distinguished-fellows/margaret-mccuaig-johnston Scott Simon (Ph.D., McGill University, 1998), Co-holder of the Chair of Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa, has lived in Taiwan for ten years and returns annually for field research. His research interests include Indigenous rights, development, the contribution of Taiwan to the Indo-Pacific, Taiwan's international status, and Canada-Taiwan relations. He has written three books and numerous articles about Taiwan. He does policy-oriented research as member of the Centre for International Policy Studies and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa, and as Senior Fellow at Ottawa's Macdonald-Laurier Institute. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/1024 Ted Lipman's career has spanned over 40 years as an Asianist; in diplomacy, philanthropy, academia and culture. One of a handful of Canadian students in China during the Cultural Revolution, after completing studies at Peking University in 1976, Ted embarked on a 35 year diplomatic career. Highlights include appointments as Canadian Consul General in Shanghai, Minister/DCM in Beijing, Director/HOM of Canada's trade office in Taipei, Director General for North Asia at Global Affairs HQ and Ted's last diplomatic assignment, Canadian ambassador to both North and South Korea. Ted was also a visiting diplomatic fellow at the UBC Institute of Asian Research (Korean Studies). https://www.cgai.ca/ted_lipman Colin Robertson is a former diplomat, and Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson Recording Date: 17 August 2021. Give 'The Global Exchange' a review on Apple Podcast! Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Rob was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Engineering degree from Carleton University. Rob began working in Satellite Communications with the Department of Defense, moving on to Canada's CF-18 Fighter program as a technical specialist in Electronic Warfare. After selection for executive development, Rob worked alternately on exchange in Australia where he earned a Graduate Certificate in Management, the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board Secretariat and other federal departments before moving into the Security and Intelligence community where he finished his career as an Associate Assistant Deputy Minister. Rob lives in Greely with his wife, Carole and several remote-control aircraft. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.comFor Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many other!That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Rob was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Engineering degree from Carleton University. Rob began working in Satellite Communications with the Department of Defense, moving on to Canada's CF-18 Fighter program as a technical specialist in Electronic Warfare. After selection for executive development, Rob worked alternately on exchange in Australia where he earned a Graduate Certificate in Management, the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board Secretariat and other federal departments before moving into the Security and Intelligence community where he finished his career as an Associate Assistant Deputy Minister. Rob lives in Greely with his wife, Carole and several remote-control aircraft. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv. The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv. Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many other! That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Episode 96 - Canada is not normally seen as an intelligence powerhouse and is not blessed with the same intelligence 'culture' as some of its key allies (US and UK primarily). Who does intelligence analysis and how good is it? About my guest Greg Fyffe:Greg Fyffe was executive director of the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat in the Privy Council Office from 2000 to 2008. He is currently president of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies.About the host Phil Gurski:Phil is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. and Programme Director for the Security, Economics and Technology (SET) hub at the University of Ottawa's Professional Development Institute (PDI). He worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) from 2001-2015, specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalisation.►Check Phil's latest book ''The Peaceable Kingdom'' - https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/the-peaceable-kingdom/►Website - https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/►Twitter - https://twitter.com/borealissaves►LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-gurski-8942468/►Email - borealisrisk@gmail.com

Rob was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Engineering degree from Carleton University. Rob began working in Satellite Communications with the Department of Defense, moving on to Canada’s CF-18 Fighter program as a technical specialist in Electronic Warfare. After selection for executive development, Rob worked alternately on exchange in Australia where he earned a Graduate Certificate in Management, the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board Secretariat and other federal departments before moving into the Security and Intelligence community where he finished his career as an Associate Assistant Deputy Minister. Rob lives in Greely with his wife, Carole and several remote-control aircraft. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X’ Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.comThe ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Rob was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Engineering degree from Carleton University. Rob began working in Satellite Communications with the Department of Defense, moving on to Canada's CF-18 Fighter program as a technical specialist in Electronic Warfare. After selection for executive development, Rob worked alternately on exchange in Australia where he earned a Graduate Certificate in Management, the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board Secretariat and other federal departments before moving into the Security and Intelligence community where he finished his career as an Associate Assistant Deputy Minister. Rob lives in Greely with his wife, Carole and several remote-control aircraft. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv. The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

The Government of Canada hired an entire new “sub group” of public servants to investigate Canada's economy and develop a plan to take Canada's economy into the future. The group has been named “Canada Beyond 150”. The group is supported and promoted by existing public sector monoliths such as The Privy Council Office and Policy Horizons Canada. One would think that if tax payers, knowingly or unknowingly, invested $100's of millions of dollars onto planning for our countries economic future, we certainly could do better then producing a roadmap which is nothing more than a flagrant roadmap to communism. You have got to give our civil servants some credit though, they did provide us the courtesy of rebranding communism to something much more palatable. Today we call communism the “access economy” and the Government of Canada is extremely proud of themselves for this accomplishment.The Canadian Government seems determined to create an environment with soaring inflation and debt. Of course expecting a free market capitalist approach to solving these problems would simply be too much to expect from our public servants. Instead a plan specifically focussed around state ownership of the means of production and land/real estate, and simply renting access to such services to the citizens represents a much more “equitable” approach to our government.Citizens access to assets and services is to be solely determined based on ones social credit scores, which are presumably defined by the same government deciding which class of assets you will be permitted access to. So, freedom of speech is to be replaced with a social credit score, which in turn will determine your “class” of citizenship and the level of assets you will have access to.Linkages between ownership and social status are unstable, inequitable and of course racist. Earning what you generate is not longer desirable or equitable or fair. As such, the government will now determine which class of assets you are entitled to, based on variables like group identity along with your assigned social credit score.Home ownership and other wealth is to be distributed based on a complex array of equity and diversity and inclusion formula.You will own nothing, and you will be happy...Ladies and gentlemen, I present you Canada's communism *cough* Canada's “access economy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit andrewrouchotas.substack.com

Professor Kevin Milligan of UBC joins us once more for a discussion of his time at the Privy Council Office during the pandemic and a quick look at the macroeconomic outlook.

Kevin Page joins Nate to discuss fiscal responsibility, stimulus and recovery spending, and fiscal anchors or what the Fall Economic Statement described as “fiscal guardrails.”Kevin is currently president and CEO of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa, but no doubt better known as Canada's first Parliamentary Budget Officer, from 2008 to 2013.For his work in that role, he's been described as an “unlikely hero.” And while it's a job he's said nobody wanted, himself included, he's also described it as “the best five years of my public service career,” - a career that included 27 years of experience in the public service including the Department of Finance, the Treasury Board Secretariat, and the Privy Council Office.Over the last five years, Nate has relied upon Kevin's advice and guidance in reviewing federal budgets and scrutinizing spending, and that continues in this conversation. 

This episode of The Global Exchange features two presentation from our Annual State of Trade Conference held virtually on February 9th, 2021. Stephen Tapp presents on the latest economic trends of the past year, and Deputy Minister John Hannaford outlined what role the government of Canada is taking to facilitate trade in the COVID era. This podcast is made possible with the support of the Business Council of Canada, Earnscliffe Strategy Group, and Export Development Canada. Participants Bio: As the Deputy Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Research and Analysis Department at Export Development Canada, Stephen Tapp helps oversee EDC's forecast and survey of Canadian exporters, briefs senior management on global trade developments, and helps guide corporate strategy. Before joining EDC, Stephen was a Research Director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy. His research was awarded the Doug Purvis prize for Canadian economic policy and has been published in academic journals, such as the Canadian Journal of Economics and Canadian Public Policy.  On December 7, 2018, the Prime Minister appointed Mr. Hannaford as Deputy Minister of International Trade at Global Affairs Canada. Prior to taking this position, Mr. Hannaford was the foreign and defence policy adviser to the Prime Minister and Deputy Minister in the Privy Council Office. Mr. Before serving in the Privy Council Office, Mr. Hannaford extensively served in the foreign service. In addition to his work as a public servant, Mr. Hannaford has been an adjunct professor in both the Faculty of Law and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.  Host bio: Colin Robertson is a former diplomat, and Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, https://www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson What Mr. Tapp and Deputy Minister Hannaford are reading: Richard Davies, Extreme Economies, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250170507 Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653196/caste-oprahs-book-club-by-isabel-wilkerson/ The Global Exchange is part of the CGAI Podcast Network. Subscribe to the CGAI Podcast Network on SoundCloud, iTunes, or wherever else you can find podcasts! If you like our content and would like to support our podcasts, please check out our donation page www.cgai.ca/support. Recording Date: 9 February 2021. Give 'The Global Exchange' a review on iTunes! Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

On this episode of the Defence Deconstructed Podcast, David Perry talks to the Department of National Defence's ADM Infrastructure and Environment, Rob Chambers, about the management of Canada's defence buildings, greening initiatives, and indigenous relations. Participant Bio: - Robert Chambers has been appointed Assistant Deputy Minister (Infrastructure & Environment) in June 2019. He has been a federal public servant for 20 years, serving in the Privy Council Office, the Department of Finance, and Treasury Board. (https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/organizational-structure/assistant-deputy-minister-infrastructure-environment/biography.html) Host Bio: - Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry) What Rob Chambers is reading: - Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results: https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/Mastering+Leadership%3A+An+Integrated+Framework+for+Breakthrough+Performance+and+Extraordinary+Business+Results-p-9781119147190 - Gregory Kesler and Amy Kates, Leading Organizational Design: How to Make Organization Design Decisions to Drive the Results You Want: https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/Leading+Organization+Design%3A+How+to+Make+Organization+Design+Decisions+to+Drive+the+Results+You+Want-p-9780470589595 More on the Departmental Energy and Environment Strategy: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/dees.html Recording Date: 22 Oct 2020 Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network and is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

Today's guests: Dr. Frederic Dimanche, Director - Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Ryerson University   Greg Fyffe, Former Executive Director of the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat in the Privy Council Office (2000-2008) and the current President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies Rick Ross, Cult specialist & deprogrammer / founder and executive director  The Cult Education Institute / author: "Cults Inside Out"    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Libby Znaimer is joined by Dr. Barbara Messamore, an associate professor of History at the University of Fraser Valley and author of a book about Canada's governors general, as well as Nora Jenkins Townson, Founder & Principal of Bright and Early and Anoushka Zachariah, an Associate of Levitt LLP (Employment and Labour Law). The Privy Council Office has hired a private firm to investigate allegations of a toxic work environment at Rideau Hall. Governor General Julie Payette has come under fire for alleged workplace harassment of her employees. There are also allegations surrounding her spending. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come out saying that the country has an "excellent" governor general and that there is no desire for Ottawa to look into ousting her at this time. So, what does a review of alleged workplace misbehaviour actually look like? And what are the protocols around disciplining the person who holds this office? Libby and the panel weigh in. Listen live, weekdays from noon to 1, on Zoomer Radio!

On today's Defence Deconstructed Podcast, we are broadcasting a recording of the “Keeping Canada Strong at Home and Secure in North America” armchair discussion with Deputy Minister, Department of National Defence Jody Thomas from our 29 Jan. 2019 Modernizing North American Defence conference. Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network and today's episode is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). This conference was made possible by the MINDS program from the Department of National Defence. Subscribe to and rate the CGAI Podcast Network on iTunes, SoundCloud, or wherever else you can find Podcasts! Bios: - Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. - Jody Thomas: appointed Deputy Minister of the Department of National Defence (DND) in October 2017. Before becoming Deputy Minister, she has had broad and varied experience working at senior levels in the Public Service, including as Senior Associate Deputy Minister for DND, Chief of Business Planning and Administration with Public Works and Government Services Canada's Atlantic Region, and multiple positions at the Victoria Office of Passport Canada. In 2010, Ms. Thomas joined the Canadian Coast Guard as Deputy Commissioner of Operations, leading the development and implementation of the Coast Guard's strategic and operational policy frameworks. From September 2014 to January 2015, until she became Commissioner of the Coast Guard. She also served as Special Advisor to the Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations) at the Privy Council Office. Ms. Thomas currently holds a commission in the Naval Reserve. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University Related Links: - “Modernizing North American Defence” [Conference Program] (https://www.cgai.ca/modernization_of_north_american_defence) - “Aging Norad warning system can't detect Russian bombers in time, Canadian officer warns” [Canadian Press article] (https://globalnews.ca/news/6480258/norad-system-russian-bombers-outdated/) Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jay Rankin. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Thomas Quiggin, (M.A, C.D.)i an ex-military intelligence analyst, a court qualified expert on terrorism (criminal court and Federal Court) and is also a court expert on “intelligence collection and evidence” (Federal Court). He was a Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has 30 plus years of practical intelligence experience including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Bank of Canada, the Canadian Armed Forces, the United Nations Protection Force in Yugoslavia, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (War Crimes), the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (The Hague), and the Privy Council Office of Canada. He was also a qualified arms control inspector for the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and the Vienna Document. Tom Quiggin has also testified on multiple occasions to Senate and House of Commons committers as well as a Royal Commission (Air India Inquiry 2007) He also provided testimony to the Special Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism (2010). He has also given training sessions for the Canadian Department of Justice as part of the special advocates program with the focus being on intelligence and evidence reliability. Video Links YouTube http://www.youtube.com/c/YouTooMikeBullard BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/youtoowithmikebullard/ Audio Links Apple http://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/you-too-with-mike-bullard/id1474691095 Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/youtoowithmikebullard Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Iuax7gqcycyqy3rmdn44sg7p2pu?t=You_Too_with_Mike_Bullard Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=449446&refid=stpr Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4WtNKbjOZgKQbFhSb6PZBk?si=L_AVmYa3QvuEVO2zRcrpKA Sign up at http://www.YouTooMikeBullard.com Twitter: @YouTooPodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikeBullardsPage/ Minds: www.Minds.com/PossiblyCorrect Email: YouTooMikeBullard@gmail.com

Senior members of the Privy Council Office in Ottawa were frightened during the United We Roll protests of February 2019. They feared they could be attacked and ordered unprecedented security measures. So why are they so worried? Are they paranoid? Or do they know something we do not know? Is the corruption and racketeering inside the Government of Canada so bad they fear they could be attacked if the word leaks out. We take a look at corruption and racketeering inside the Government of Canada. Help support Operation: Kill Switch at www.OperationKillSwitch.com Apple Podcasts http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/quiggin-report/id1361779100?mt=2 SoundCloud www.soundcloud.com/quigginreport Stitcher Radio www.stitcher.com/podcast/quigginreport Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Ijozso2tqcinynbnixt5zm6nwga?t=Quiggin_Report Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2qNLS66w5JutxTAyknjQcV?si=qvbEe1GBSKanLne8_8ettQ BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/quigginreport/ Connect With us. Twitter: @QuigginReport Gab.ai: @QuigginReport Facebook: www.facebook.com/quigginreport Help Us Fight Back www.OperationKillSwitch.com

El Paso mass shooting (suspect Patrick Crusius admits targeting Mexicans). And remarkable experience at Dallas airport. From Gillam, Manitoba, from where he has been reporting for Global News, we're joined by GN reporter Joe Scarpelli. Gun violence and societal violence is a public health issue. So declares Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist, former hea of the World Health Organization's Intervention Development Unit and Professor of Epidemiology and Interventional Health at the University of Illinois/Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Slutkin is the founder of the international NGO Cure Violence launched in one of the most violent sections of Chicago and saw shootings reduced 67% in its first year.  The Cure Violence program has been adopted internationally (including in Canada - Halifax and Alberta). The federal Liberals have named their candidate to oppose now independent MP and former Liberal attorney general and Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould in the riding of Vancouver-Granville.  The Liberals candidate will be Taleeb Noormohamed, a previous Liberal candidate in a different Vancouver riding (he lost). Noormohamed also worked in the Privy Council Office during the terms of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin as Prime Ministers.  So what is likely to happen in Vancouver-Granville on October 21? Manitobans will hear in days when they will vote for their next provincial government. A precursor to October 21 federally? Conservative Premier Brian Pallister one of the six conservative premiers challenging Trudeau on Bills C-48 & C-69. - Guests: Jackson Proskow. Washington bureau chief, Global News. Joe Scarpelli. Global News Reporter. Dr. Gary Slutkin. Founder: Cure Violence. Named One of 16 Global Heroes by Together for Girls Safe Magazine.  Mike Smyth. Vancouver Province columnist an CKNW host. Richard Cloutier. Co-host of News on 680 CJOB and senior reporter Global News (from Winnipeg). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alex is joined by: Tasha Kheiriddin  Global News Contributor and Founder and CEO of Ellipsum Communications and Joe Mihevic Former Toronto City Councillor Topics include: VP Pence came to talk trade--- and he and our PM exchanged celebratory jabs, but while Pence is behind the Warriors, there is one trade he wants more than any other….. SB: Are the Raptors now Canada's team? The NBA announced today that multi-platinum selling recording artists The Tenors will perform the Canadian national anthem tonight ahead of Game 1 of the 2019 NBA Finals. Seriously, couldn't we do better than this??? The Tenors??!! Bill 66 passed in April. This is a piece of legislation that allows municipalities and school boards etc to break the decades long practice of giving the same construction companies being awarded big contracts because of their affiliation with certain trade unions. In Toronto alone--allowing competition would free up to 400 million in one year. Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will not commit to legislating an end to the -doing-nothing-will-they controversial Hwy. 407 lease, despite defending that tactic to break a contract with The Beer Store. Fedeli was asked if his government would be prepared to use legislation to back out of the 407 contract which sold the highway in 1999 for $3.1 billion. Doug Ford hates this deal. It is an awful deal--Should they look at getting out of it?  Despite the Liberal government's vow to crack down on ultra wealthy tax cheats, the CBC learns that the CRA has been making deals with a number of tax dodgers who used the now-infamous Isle of Man scheme to hide their money.. The scheme enabled clients to dodge tens of millions of dollars in taxes in Canada by making it look as if multimillionaires had given away their fortunes to anonymous overseas shell companies and get their investment income back as tax-free gifts.  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosted VP Pence today and raised concerns about what he called a “backsliding” on women's rights in the United States. Pence is one of the most prominent American abortion opponents. And when the question about abortion was asked it was 50 shades of awkward. This was nothing more than a stunt to play politics to his base? But embarrassing Pence isn't in our best interest? Meanwhile, Disney is weighing in… is this something a private company should concern itself with? Disney likely to stop filming in Georgia if abortion law takes effect. We learn that the Privy Council Office disclosed it conducted confidential polling related to an out-of-court settlement with SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. months before Liberal aides sought a deal with the company. Ipsos washired to do the polling for one million dollars...and the issue polled very badly--- most participants felt like corporate criminals could buy their way out of prosecution, that it was an issue fairness of the justice system when dealing with the rich and powerful. And yet,the Trudeau gov tried to quietly ram it through anyway.

One month in, no solutions, no real answers, no single timeline, no media focus, no point. Remember when the headlines screamed "illegal interference"? Well, since Jody Wilson-Raybould told committee flat-out that no laws were broken in her view, the revenue generators didn't drop it, they just switched to "improper". Remember when Michael Wernick was a "Liberal party hack"? Oops, it was Harper who brought him into the Federal government, lauded him for rock-solid ethics and that reputation on the Hill still holds. Remember when it must have been Gerry Butts who was overstepping and carrying out the evil agenda? A question - how many of Harper's Short Pants Brigade ever resigned over the myriad of overstepping in that PMO? That's right - zero. Politics makes impossible bedfellows when the enemy of my enemy is my new friend. I hope Elizabeth May regrets some of her recent statements that ignore convention, tradition and practice. Who exactly is this Charlie Angus? Not going to say anything regarding Lisa Raitt, Michael Cooper and Pierre Polievre because they have no shame when soundbites are involved. From illegality, to impropriety, to misogyny, to racism all of corporate media's efforts moving the goalposts have done scant little to move the public as national polling shows. Never mind the night and day difference in coverage between Quebec and the Rest of Canada. Postmedia, anyone? Now it's gone to the "SNC-Lavalin is evil, so never mind the details of what happened just take the light off Jody of Arc". And what of the former Minister's performance at Justice? Why did she order staff to sit on a report to Privy Council? Remember that Ministerial Letter? Results show this was not an over-achieving minister by that measurement. Let's get back to relevant facts, please.

The case of Canadian Admiral Mark Norman criminally charged with 'breach of trust' for allegedly leaking federal government secrets in order to assist a shipyard in Quebec with a $700 million contract to build a Canadian Navy supply ship. Admiral Norman's lead lawyer Marie Henein is threatening to call both Gerald Butts and Michael Wernick to the stand if records from the PMO and Privy Council Office – including the emails of Trudeau, Butts and Wernick and other communications concerning Admiral Norman – are not turned over.  How does a former Canadian military officer who knows Admiral Norman assess what is happening to the Admiral and former Second-in-Command of Canada's military? Guest:  Laurie Hawn. Former Air Force CF-18 pilot and member of parliament. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Shuvaloy Majumdar is joined once again by the venerable Ward Elcock, one of Canada most decorated public servants and a leading national security expert. The two discuss recent developments in Canada’s relationship to China, an issue now receiving unprecedented global attention in the wake of Canada's arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. The conversation locates this event in the broader context of China’s role as a rising power and the increasingly salient question of just how Canada ought to engage a country that is a key trading partner but no ally. A distinguished public servant of over 40 years, Ward Elcock served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for over a decade (1994-2004) as well as in many senior advisory capacities to the Privy Council Office on matters of intelligence and national security.

On today's 'Global Exchange' Podcast, we begin a new series on international trade diversification. Join host Colin Robertson in conversation with CGAI Fellow, and Vice-President of Policy, International and Fiscal Issues at the Business Council of Canada, Brian Kingston for a wide-ranging discussion on how Canada can diversify its trade regime, and how it can prioritize that process. Bios: Colin Robertson (host) - A former Canadian diplomat, Colin Robertson is Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Brian Kingston - Vice-President of Policy, International and Fiscal Issues at the Business Council of Canada. Prior to joining the Council, Brian gained comprehensive experience across the federal government through various positions at the Department of Finance, Global Affairs Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office. Brian is an Action Canada Fellow, World Economic Forum Global Shaper and alumnus of the 2015 Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference. Related Links: - "Hedging Our Bet: A Diversification Strategy for Canadian Trade" by Brian Kingston (https://www.cgai.ca/hedging_our_bet_a_diversification_strategy_for_canadian_trade) [CGAI Policy Update] - "The Security Dimension of a China Free Trade Agreement: Balancing Benefits and Risk" by Gordon Houlden (https://www.cgai.ca/the_security_dimension_of_a_china_free_trade_agreement_balancing_benefits_and_risk) [CGAI Joint Policy Paper] - "A Look at Canadian Trade: What Legislators Need to Do" by Colin Robertson (https://www.cgai.ca/a_look_at_canadian_trade_what_legislators_need_to_do) [CGAI Commentary] - "Beware of the Dragon: The Challenges of China's Assertive Posture" by Mathew Fisher (https://www.cgai.ca/beware_of_the_dragon_the_challenges_of_china_s_assertive_posture) [CGAI Policy Update] Book Recommendations: Brian Kingston: "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" by Hans Rosling (https://www.amazon.ca/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535394582&sr=8-1&keywords=Factfulness) | "Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)" by Phil Gaimon (https://www.amazon.ca/Draft-Animals-Living-Cycling-Dream/dp/0143131249/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535394725&sr=8-1&keywords=draft+animals) Colin Robertson: "The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War" by Benn Steil (https://www.amazon.ca/Marshall-Plan-Dawn-Cold-War/dp/1501102370/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535394746&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Marshall+Plan) | "The Year of the Snake: Murder in the Senate" by M.J. Trow & Maryanne Coleman (https://www.amazon.ca/Year-Snake-Murder-Senate-ebook/dp/B07FJ6JHZG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535394801&sr=8-1&keywords=Year+of+the+Snake) Recording Date: August 15th, 2018 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jared Maltais. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

MLI Munk Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy Shuvaloy Majumdar discusses Canadian national security and interests with Ward Elcock, former special advisor to the Privy Council Office and CSIS director.

In this episode, we take a look at the RFPs that were submitted for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) program and with the North Korea threat, Canada has set aside two bunkers at military bases.    Show Notes:  The Navantia Team  The Navantia team has made an announcement of the submission of its proposal.  The team, which is led by Navantia is comprised of Saab Australia which will deliver the Combat Systems Integrator (CSI) and CEA Technologies to provide other key elements of the proposed solution.  The team's solution is based on “the proven F-105 frigate design” for the Spanish Navy. This design coupled with capabilities of key Canadian companies will provide a ship that is ideally suited to Canada's requirement, according to the press release.  Navantia has a history of providing modifications of this design for many navies including the Norwegian Navy and, most recently, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).    Canada's Combat Ship Team has announced the delivery of its proposal  Comprising of BAE Systems, CAE, Lockheed Martin Canada, L3 Technologies, MDA and Ultra Electronics, Canada's Combat Ship Team's proposal is focused on the “Canadian doctrine” according to Rosemary Chapdelaine, Vice President and General Manager at Lockheed Martin Canada Rotary and Missions Systems (RMS).  The team which is headed by Lockheed Martin Canada is offering “the most advanced and modern” warship design from BAE Systems – the Type 26 Global Combat Ship – along with innovations from other leading companies in Canada. Lockheed Martin Canada will provide its world-renowned Canadian-developed combat management system, the CMS 330 to integrate with the Type 26.  Due to the North Korean threat Canada has open up two bunkers  The Privy Council Office, drafted an agreement with National Defence a year ago to open up bunkers on two military bases should the National Capital Region become "unviable," according to documents obtained by CBC News under access to information legislation.  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan was asked Wednesday what would happen should a missile land in Canada.   "When it comes to any type of foreign threats, we take them extremely seriously," he said. "We've been looking at North Korea right from the beginning when I was given this portfolio. I am very mindful of the country's missile testing that they have been doing. We believe that the diplomatic solution is the way to go, because I think that there is hope for it." 

The Roy Green Show Podcast   A hearing to determine whether bail conditions for Omar Khadr should be eased has been adjourned. Khadr's lawyer says the crown wasn't prepared.   Additionally, the Privy Council Office says it has launched an investigation into who leaked confidential information about settlement money paid to Khadr.   Guest: Scott Newark, former crown attorney and adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, former senior policy adviser to the Federal Minister for Public Safety - A study shows that illicit opioids in Hamilton are more responsible for opioids-related deaths than medical prescriptions.   Meanwhile, the 2017 Canadian Guideline for Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain has resulted in doctors dramatically cutting or completely withholding opioid prescription medication across Canada because they're fearful of losing their medical licenses.   Guest:  Professor Jason Busse, editor of the 2017 Canadian Guideline for Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain - Gasoline prices are spiking across Canada this weekend and it's not just due to Hurricane Harvey.   Guest: Dan McTeague, senior analyst at GasBuddy.com  - "Environmentalists have hijacked the indigenous agenda," says Joe Dion, chairman and CEO of the Frog Lake Energy Resources Corporation. The Corporation is fully owned and operated by the people of the Frog Lake First Nation.   Guest: Joe Dion, chairman and CEO of the Frog Lake Energy Resources Corporation, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company in Alberta See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A hearing to determine whether bail conditions for Omar Khadr should be eased has been adjourned. Khadr's lawyer says the crown wasn't prepared. Additionally, the Privy Council Office says it has launched an investigation into who leaked confidential information about settlement money paid to Khadr. Guest: Scott Newark, former crown attorney and adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, former senior policy adviser to the Federal Minister for Public Safety (Photo: Colin Perkel/The Canadian Press) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's 'Global Exchange' Podcast, we have two foreign policy experts in conversation with Colin Robertson to discuss their contribution to our new 'Foreign Policy Review' series. On the Podcast, Colin speaks to Kevin D. O'Shea and Ian Brodie about revitalizing Canadian diplomacy, and the role of press freedom in international affairs. Paper: Both papers mentioned in the Podcast are available at cgai.ca: -"Revitalizing Canadian Public Diplomacy" by Kevin D. O'Shea (http://www.cgai.ca/policy_review#Foreign%20Policy%20Collection) -"Freedom of the Press: A Soft Power Focus for Canada” by Ian Brodie (http://www.cgai.ca/policy_review#Foreign%20Policy%20Collection) Bios: -Colin Robertson (host) - A former Canadian diplomat, Colin Robertson is Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and a Senior Advisor to Dentons LLP. -Kevin D. O'Shea - retired from the Canadian public service September 2015 after nearly thirty-five years at the then Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and at the Privy Council Office. -Ian Brodie - Former Chief of Staff to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Recommended Books: -Kevin D. O'Shea - "Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs" (https://www.amazon.ca/Conquistador-Hernan-Cortes-Montezuma-Aztecs-ebook/dp/B001BANK3C/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476725674&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Conquistador+King+Mantezumi) | "When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944" (https://www.amazon.ca/When-Paris-Went-Dark-Occupation/dp/0316217441/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476725704&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=When+Paris+went+deark) -Ian Brodie - “The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America” (https://www.amazon.ca/Way-Back-Restoring-Promise-America/dp/1594038570) Give 'The Global Exchange' a review on iTunes! Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jared Maltais and Meaghan Hobman. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

On July 16, 2015 in Dawson Creek, BC, James McIntyre was shot dead by RCMP. The fifth shooting since April 1 in the region. We await the investigation report, which may take a year. There was a BC Hydro-Site C dam presentation that afternoon. Protestors were expected. Police responded as they do too frequently. This event brought forth Op Anon Down. For all the money being spent by Canada's spy and surveillance agencies to watch our "enemies" and to "protect" us, there seems to be some holes much closer to home for the powers that be. Mohammed Fahmy. Peter Munk. Barrick Gold. Nathan Jacobsen. Israel. ISIL. Secret Orders-In-Council of the Privy Council Office. The Prime Minister's Office. Expensive and partisan photo ops. Who is the common factor here? Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, current board member of Barrick Gold and the Friends of Isreal Initiative, John Baird. His surprise resignation from Cabinet, then politics altogether was an unexpected occurance. Op Anon Down can fill in some blanks for you, as they have proven to date. Let's discuss how far and deep the corruption goes in Harper's world. Expect Us.