The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

It is understandable that most of the discussion of David Johnston’s report on foreign interference has focused on his recommendation to not hold a public inquiry. Yet his conclusion that there are “serious shortcomings in the way intelligence is communicated and processed from security agencies through to government” deserves much more scrutiny.

For Canadians, this finding – along with revelations that ministers sometimes do not have access to classified systems in their offices, that binders of intelligence may be going unread, and that, even when intelligence is addressed, policymakers may simply not understand what is being presented to them – should be alarming.

So how can Canada’s policymakers and security agencies work better together?  

GUEST: Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University

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Canadian troops in Latvia are grappling with a gear and equipment shortage that’s starting to get embarrassing.

GUEST: Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University

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The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which is the primary financial backer of LIV Golf, have announced a treaty and potential merger, ending two years of civil war in professional golf.

GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Journalist for The Toronto Star and The Guardian 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser says India is among the top sources of foreign interference in Canada, a public designation Ottawa has largely limited to authoritarian states.

ALSO: Wildfires in Nova Scotia

GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish (HEW-ish) Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

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Yasir Naqvi has joined the race to become the next leader of Ontario’s Liberal party.

The Ottawa Centre MP and former provincial cabinet minister announced his run Saturday, saying he wanted to vie for the job because he feels “the promise of Ontario is slipping away” amid education and health care cuts made by the Progressive Conservatives. He also singled out soaring housing and grocery costs as issues plaguing the province and its residents.

GUEST: Yasir Naqvi, Candidate for the Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party

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The federal prison service will review its decision to move notorious killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security facility, but its reason for the controversial transfer remained secret Monday.

Leaders from across the political spectrum expressed shock and outage at the Correctional Service of Canada's decision to move the murderer and serial rapist from Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security penitentiary near Kingston, Ont.

GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·        Johnston hired crisis communications firm

·        Trudeau continues to stand by Johnston

·        Is Poilievre wasting his chance to become PM?

·        And more…

GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University

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A Chinese warship came within 150 yards of hitting American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon, during a rare joint Canada-U.S. mission sailing through the Taiwan Strait, the latest aggressive military move from Beijing in the South China Sea.

ALSO: International priorities

GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network

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Two reports dropped within six weeks of each other revealed deep systemic failures in Canadian policing that go back half a century.

Are we ready to act on the policing problem here in Canada?

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

GUEST:  Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·       MPs vote for David Johnston to resign as rapporteur

·       Singh slams Johnston’s refusal to drop role

·       Breakdown in how intelligence is shared

·       Etc…

GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill

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Is it time to abolish the Catholic school system in Ontario?

GUEST: Michael Coren, Author and Anglican Cleric

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford have reached a tentative deal with Stellantis to save its Windsor battery factory that could be worth more than $13 billion in subsidies, the Star has learned.

That means the French parent company of Chrysler, Jeep and Fiat might receive even more Canadian tax dollars than Germany’s Volkswagen is getting to build a similar electric-vehicle “gigafactory” in St. Thomas, near London.

GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University