Volkswagen was first to get a large cheque from Ottawa. Chrysler (Stellantis) was next to get a handout. It's only a matter of time before the next Corporate Welfare Bums are heading hat in hand to Ottawa. Justin Trudeau keeps recklessly spending taxpayer money with no accountability from anyone. Except, today we are joined by Jay Goldberg of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation - an organization working tirelessly to shed light on this out of control spending. He joins Stephen LeDrew to unpack this for Three Minutes.

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The Trudeau Liberals are determined to intervene in every aspect of everyone’s life. Policies to allow the state to parent your children. A free drug policy that is killing more Canadians every year. A “Fighting Climate Change” tax that is doing nothing for climate change, while impoverishing hard-working Canadians. When will this madness stop?

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The current drug policy in Ottawa is not working! The evidence is the increased number of overdose deaths in Canada. Meanwhile policy is being made in Ottawa from what appears to be cherry picked data to suit idealogue views. Adam Zivo is a columnist with the National Post - he has done some digging on how this has come to be. He joins Stephen LeDrew for Three Minutes.

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It seems that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is following in the footsteps of his Father Pierre Elliott Trudeau. At the beginning of both of their political careers they were beloved by the nation and their party. By the time he was done in Ottawa Pierre Trudeau couldn’t be elected local dog catcher … are we reaching the point in Justin’s career where he is at the same place as his father? Patrick Gossage is the former Press Secretary to Pierre Elliott Trudeau - and he joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss for Three Minutes.

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Jay Goldberg is with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Every year they give out awards for the worst examples of Government Waste - the Teddy Awards. This year one of the recipients was Justin Trudeau's Government through the Mission Cultural Fund - which was paying seniors around the world to share their sex stories on camera. Jay joins Stephen LeDrew to unpack some more eggregious examples of Government Waste for Three Minutes.

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Three major Canadian Cities - Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto have announced their plans to cancel or scale back their Canada Day celebrations. This under the guise of not offending people - but, when you ask who has demanded these celebrations be scaled back it’s rarely anyone from the groups who are being spared the (supposed) misery from Celebrating our Nations birthday. Brian Lilley is a columnist with the Toronto Sun, he joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss this for Three Minutes.

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Stephen shares the story of Jennifer Kaplan - She is the mother of a young girl. She is divorced from the father of her child. The child was allegedly sexually abused by her father. He has been charged and is waiting for his day in court. Except - there is no one available to hear the case. In Canada, if you go too long between being charged and having your case heard - the charges are thrown out. In this case we may be allowing a monster to walk free.

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Meet Holly Doan - she is the publisher of the Blacklock's Reporter and independent media outlet that reports on what is happening in Ottawa. She exists through the sale of subscriptions, and does not take any Government handouts. How does her organization continue to exist - while legacy publications like the Toronto Star continue to lose money on the taxpayers dime. She unpacks this with Stephen LeDrew for Three Minutes.

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Today we are joined by Patrick Gossage, the former Press Secretary for Pierre Elliott Trudeau. On this show we have often been critical of the quality of journalism on the Main Stream News in Canada. Patrick joins Stephen LeDrew to talk about the lack of professional journalism in Canada holding bad government to account. Other than Bob Fife at the Globe and Mail - is there anyone who can get Canadians to pay attention to what is happening in Ottawa?

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With all the headlines surrounding the news that Volkswagen got massive cheques from The Justin Trudeau Liberals and the Doug Ford Conservatives - it was only a matter of time before the next corporation lined up asking for money. Chrysler (Stellantis) came to government hat in hand recently and it looks like they will be getting their own payout. Why haven't our politicians learned that corporate welfare doesn't work? Geoffrey Turner is a former PC Candidate, and a Tax Lawyer - he joins Stephen LeDrew for Three Minutes.

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