Associate Minister of Transportation Stan Cho talks to Steve Paikin about sharing the role with Caroline Mulroney, fare integration across the GTHA, restoring the Northlander train service, the status of the Eglinton Crosstown rapid-transit line in Toronto, and why Ontario can never bring infrastructure projects to fruition on time and on budget.

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Ahmed Hussen is Canada's minister of housing, and diversity and inclusion, and the Liberal MP for York South-Weston. He discusses what the federal government is doing to esnure safe and affordable housing for all.

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Canada's population grew by more than one million last year, almost all of that thanks to immigration. Half of the new immigrants chose to settle in Ontario. But amid housing shortages and a strained health-care system, is this the destination they're expecting? And is the province doing enough of the right things to make this work - for them, and for those already here? For insight, we welcome: Alfred Lam, executive director of the Centre for Immigrant and Community Services; and Board Chair for OCASI, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants; Deena Ladd, executive director of the Workers' Action Centre; Mike Moffatt, senior director at the Smart Prosperity Think Tank and an assistant professor at Western University's Ivey Business School; and Mikal Skuterud, economics professor at the University Of Waterloo and director of the Canadian Labour Economics Forum.

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Experts and advocates on both sides of the debate hoped an ongoing legal and environmental standoff between the Michigan and Canada over Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline would be on the table for President Biden's meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau. It didn't make the cut, and with the environmental review for Line 5 extended to 2025, the replacement of tunnels in the Straits of Mackinac has been delayed further. Enbridge's senior vice president of Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability talks to Steve Paikin about Line 5's role in Canada's energy transition and economy, the safety of the Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, and global energy supply.

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Since the Ring of Fire's mining potential was discovered in 2007, several companies have tried to find the path to make the opportunities there a reality. To bring us up to date on why the mineral deposit's potential and why it's so important, we welcome Frank Smeenk, CEO of KWG Resources.

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Recently, a contingent travelled to Toronto as part of the First Nations Land Defence Alliance to push back on mining development in the province. In part they are reacting to excitement over a massive deposit dubbed the Ring of Fire, more than 400 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, that is rich in nickel, chromite, and other critical minerals. While a new deal between the province and two First Nations could be the beginning of a permanent road to the site, not all First Nations communities support this development. For insight we welcome: Chief Rudy Turtle, Grassy Narrows First Nation; Cecelia Begg, head councilor of Big Trout Lake First Nation; Chief Wayne Moonias, outgoing chief of Neskantaga First Nations.

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The United States and Canada recently announced amendments to the Safe Third Country Agreement which apply across the entire length of the shared border, meaning asylum seekers who are apprehended attempting to cross at unofficial ports of entry will be turned back in both directions. To discuss the changes, we welcome experts in Canada-U.S. relations, an in the history of migration and domestic policy. What does this mean for the relationship between the two countries? What is Canada's role in refugee migration from the Western Hemisphere. How will this affect asylum seekers?

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He was once perhaps the most influential lobbyist in the country. Prime ministers, premiers, and more than a thousand chief executives listened attentively to his advice. In fact, at one point, someone referred to him as the ,de facto prime minister of the country,, and it wasn't meant as a compliment. Thomas D'Aquino chronicles his time trying to influence public policy in Canada in his new memoir, "Private Power, Public Purpose: Adventures in Business, Politics, and the Arts."

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Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a nationally televised address: "When there's an opportunity to avoid civil war through dialogue, I, as prime minister, am taking a time out for dialogue." Such words highlight the seriousness of the situation, after massive, protracted protests in Israel just won a delay to a controversial overhaul of the judiciary. It's drawn attention to the domestic issues involved, and from allies on the outside looking in. For insights into this crisis, we welcome Yaakov Katz, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post and Janice Stein, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management and founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

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Earlier this month, the Thunder Bay Police and the OPP seized more than 1,000 purportedly fake Norval Morrisseau artworks. Fraud related to the Indigenous artist's work was explored in TVO's documentary, "There Are No Fakes." Northwestern Ontario Hub journalist learned how owners of Morrisseau's art can authenticate it and she shares that information with us.

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