The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·       Johnston penned an Op Ed that makes waves

·       Foreign interference in Canada’s election is part of new Cold War

·       And more…

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

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The unexpected pick up in Canadian inflation last month — even if it turns out to be a blip — is a fresh reminder that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is facing a more perilous economic policy landscape going forward, with difficult trade-offs on the horizon.

With the world entering a period of scarcity, is Canada’s economy on the right track?

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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Topics Include:

·        6 pillars of debt ceiling deal

·        DeSantis has a “lovability” problem

·        And more…

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·        Peel Region split

·        Foreign Interference

·        Tent cities & housing the homeless

·        And more…

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

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David Johnston’s astonishing decision — to conclude that Canada does not need an inquiry into Chinese interference in our democracy — will be remembered for what it doesn’t do, not what it does.

GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty (3 times)

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Farmers in Ontario are rallying to fight a government bill that would loosen the rules around farmland protection in the province, a move farmers say would result in more homes being built on prime agricultural land and could also threaten the very fabric of rural life. 

Bill 97 — or the Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act — is aimed at drastically reshaping development rules to address housing affordability and supply in the province. 

GUEST: Richard Lyall, President, Residential Construction Council of Ontario.

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford called Bonnie Crombie’s Liberal leadership run a “slap in the face” to the residents of Mississauga.

“My first reaction is what took you so long?” Ford said Wednesday while at an unrelated news conference in London Wednesday morning. “She’s been campaigning for five years.”

Crombie officially announced Monday that she has formed an exploratory committee to look into running in the Ontario Liberal Party leadership race. It’s the next logical step for the politician, who in early May could be seen rubbing elbows with high-profile politicians and strategists at the Liberal National Convention in Ottawa.

GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News

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It’s easy to see what Volkswagen and Stellantis get out of the billions in subsidies that Canada is dangling in front of them for domestic Battery plants. But what does Canada and Ontario get in return?

GUEST: Dr. Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University

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Special rapporteur David Johnston found in his first report on foreign interference that Canada’s public safety minister does not have access to top-secret emails that national security officials use to share intelligence — including regarding potential threats against MPs.

It was just one example of glaring information-sharing problems within the government that Johnston said must be addressed.

GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s National Security program, and former CSIS analyst

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

A public process is required on the issue of foreign interference, special rapporteur David Johnston says, but not in the form of a public inquiry.

Instead, Johnston announced Tuesday that he plans to hold "a series of public hearings with Canadians" to shine more light on the "problem of foreign interference" and inform the public and policymakers on the threat it poses, and ways to address it with urgency.

GUEST: Will Stewart, Senior Vice President, National Lead, Public Affairs + Advocacy, Hill+Knowlton

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Canadians have racked up more household debt than any country in the G7 making the country vulnerable to global economic crises, according to a report released Tuesday by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Aled ab Iorwerth, CMHC’s deputy chief economist, writes in the report that since 2008 Canada’s household debt-to-GDP ratio has been ballooning despite it dropping in the U.S. some 25 per cent over the same period.

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

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Ontario says it will appoint "facilitators" to look at whether cities and towns in six regional governments could become independent, but the heads of at least three of those municipalities say they're not interested in a breakup.

The Ontario government announced its plans for other regional municipalities on the same day it tabled legislation to break apart Peel Region and turn Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon into independent cities.

In a news release on Thursday, the province said facilitators will look at Durham, Halton, Niagara, Simcoe, Waterloo and York Regions. All six are upper-tier municipalities.

GUEST: Jim Diodati, Mayor, City of Niagara Falls.