The Roy Green Show

Federal Liberals backed into a corner by opposition parties and without the votes to pass Bill C-21 remove amendments banning assault-style rifles, hunting rifles and shotguns.

Guest: Tony Bernardo. Executive Director: Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

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We track the history of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada as the federal Liberals add legislation delaying mental health as a determinant for MAID.

Guest: Chris Considine. One of Canada's most successful and prominent lawyers who represented Sue Rodriguez ground-breaking physician assisted death requests at the Supreme Court of Canada where the court ruled against by a 5-4 margin on September 30, 1993. Chris Considine has represented many patients who requested medical assistance in dying since the Sue Roderiguez case.

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Canada's Health Care. Next week PM Justin Trudeau and the premiers will work toward a new funding model with billions more dollars flowing from Ottawa to the provinces in a formula similar to what Paul Martin promised would fix healthcare for a generation 3 years ago. How will additional billions of dollars directed by the federal government to its provincial counterparts, to be administered by the same bureaucracies improve a terribly broken delivery healthcare delivery system?

and remember in 2005 the Canadian Medical Association approved a motion calling for the availability of private health insurance and services when timely public healthcare is not available.

Guest: Dr. Brian Day. Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver. A private care surgical centre. Dr. Day's legal case that each Canadian must have the option to purchase prvate health insurance may be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.

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The Chinese weather, no make that surveillance balloon continues its trek high above the United States and particulary where U.S. nuclear missile silos are located (Montana). The U.S. sent out an F22 Raptor fighter plane to observe the balloon over which tensions between China and the U.S. have sufficiently been raised that American Secretary of State Antony Blinken has canceled his planned trip to Beijing.

Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Author Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures.

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The federal government has been silent about this until now. Canada's Innovation Minister is committing to bring forward new national security guidelines to better protect the newest science and technology from falling into the control of China as Ottawa vows to curb Canadian university research with Chinese military scientists. 

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Global News reports: Mendicino says national security "at no time" threatened by China-linked RCMP contract.

AND: The Balloon. What was Canada's response to the China surveillance balloon traversing Canadian airspace? We called in the Chinese Ambassador for a stern chat.

Guest: Margaret McCuaig-Johnston. Senior Fellow, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa. Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Advisory Board Member, Chjina Risks Institute, Member, Canada U.S. Commission on China.

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The Montreal Economic Institute has tracked the effects of the Supreme Court of Canada granting Quebeckers (and only Quebeckers) the right to purchase private health insurance in the so-called 2005 Chaouili Decision. Quebec is consistently now the province with the highest public approval for mixed and private healthcare in Canada according to the Montreal Economic Institute.

France and Sweden are examples of how private companies and non-profit organizations account for a significant percentage of care providers in government-run insurance plans.

Guest: Renaud Brossard. Senior Director Communications, Montreal Economic Institute.

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Controversy continues over a statement published by Canada's Special Representative on Islamaphobia, Amira Elghawaby concerning Quebecers and the province's Secularism Bill 21 with Elghawaby writing a majority of Quebecers appear to be swayed by "anti-Muslim sentiment." Quebec premier Francois Legault and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet wanting Elghawaby removed from her position and in Blanchet's case the position itself entirely removed. The Quebec National Assembly has adopted a motion calling on the federal government to end Ms. Elghawaby's mandate.

Guest: Julius Grey. Prominent Montreal civil rights lawyer and member of a group of highly profiled Quebecers icalling for Ms. Elghawaby to "be given the opportunity to assume and pursue the mandate for which she was appointed."

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Canada's housing market has become our national obsession, and with good reason. Years of skyrocketing prices are now meeting surging mortgage rates, and the result is some of the least affordable housing in the world. What's driving that affordability crisis, and what comes next?

On this episode of Free Lunch by The Peak, we speak with Mike Moffatt, a Senior Director at the Smart Prosperity Institute and Assistant Professor at Ivey Business School. Mike argues that a lack of supply is the key driver of expensive housing in Canada—we get into the details of why that is and some of the ways our dysfunctional housing market warps our economy.

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Russia under new pressure as increasing military armament from the West will arrive for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Battle tanks approved, long range missile systems and fighter planes under consideration.

Guest: Ambassador Olexander Scherba. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. Author: Ukraine vs Darkness.

Mass shootings continue unabated in the U.S. Some 40 mass shootings in 2023 already. We speak with Christian Heyne, vice presidnet of Policy and Programs at Brady United (United Against Gun Violence), one of the most influential national anti gun violence/crime organizations in the United States. Jim Brady, a gun owner and President Ronald Reagan's Press Secretary survived a gunshot to his head during an assassination attempt on President Reagan. Jim Brady and his wife Sarah worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass the bipartisan Brady Bill which ensured background checks were cafried out on gun sales in the U.S. Today Brady continues to work with gun owners and non-gun owners to end America's gun violence epidemic.

Guest: Christian Heyne. VP Policy and Programs at Brady United. Heyne's own family has been impacted by gun violence. On Memorial Day 2005 Christian's mother was killed while his father survived multiple gun shots by a man with a history of violence.

Tom Caldwell is chairman of Caldwell Securities in Toronto. Seats on the NYSE and TSX. Caldwell in an audio visual presentation on Caldwell Securities website raises the question of whether today Canada remains a country we are proud of. - Caldwell asks what are the objectives and ambitions of government politicians. Answers politicians are preoccupied by gaining votes through photo opportunities. - As well, Caldwell says we have in many ways ceased to be country. - Questions our post-secondary education institutions. Says we don't debate any longer, but rather attack ideas. - Canada no longer seen as a destination for investment. - Argues people outside Canada view us differently and not as a dependable ally and/or economic partner. - Caldwell argues political parties foist people on us who aren't leaders.

Guest: Tom Caldwell. Chairman. Caldwell Securities.

The conversation black fathers in the United States have with their sons over interaction with U.S. police. In the wake of the brutal beating by five Memphis police officers on Tyre Nichols which resulted in the death of Nichols and the firing of the five officers who also face murder charges, the issue of the conversation black fathers have with their sons over how to engage U.S. police officers in the event the sons are faced with direct police scrutiny is being discussed. We speak with a black father about that conversation he had with his son. A conversation he first shared on RGS a number of years ago.

Guest: Ron Miller. Vice-president for Online Learning at Southwest Baptist University. Former Associate Dean and professor at Liberty University and President of the No Walls Ministry in Virginia. Ron served in the U.S. Air Force and and leads the RonsReflections.net website.

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Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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Russia under new pressure as increasing military armament from the West will arrive for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Battle tanks approved, long range missile systems and fighter planes under consideration.

Guest: Ambassador Olexander Scherba. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. Author: Ukraine vs Darkness.

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