The Roy Green Show

Ottawa investing $1 billion in nuclear energy. (Darlington, Ontario)

Guest: Dr. Chris Keefer. President: Canadians for Nuclear Energy.

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This week's Rouleau Commission developments from the perspective of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Surprises? Shocks? Anything heard to support fedgov invoking of Emergencies Act?

Guest: Cara Zwibel. Lawyer and Director of the CCLA's Fundamental Freedoms Program.

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Canada's delegation to the Queen's funeral spent almost $400,000 for hotel rooms in London alone. Postmedia story by Brian Lilley.

Guest: Brian Lilley. Political Columnist, Toronto Sun.

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Today’s podcast:

On Monday Canada's premiers called for new and sustainable healthcare funding partnership with the federal government through the Canada Health Transfer. - Meanwhile the Canadian Medical Association alerts: "Critical family physician shortage must be addressed." Some 4.8 million Canadians have no family doctor.

Guest: Dr. Lawrence Loh. President: College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Food insecurity in Canada. Almost 6 million Canadians living in food insecurity, including 1.4 million children last year. And today? - It's income and not cost of food which is the greater problem says our guest. - Also says food banks are not the solution to the greater issue of food insecurity.

Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and lead investigator for PROOF, a research program which studies household food insecurity across Canada.

State of readiness of the CAF as the threat to Canada's claims of Arctic sovereignty will likely be tested. - Also CAF nowhere near its personnel requirements. - Our military hardware is insufficient, old and not what CAF members need to defend Canada and/or project military strength through our NATO alliance. - The PBO projects cost for Canada's 15 new warships to be $88 billion. Last year's estimate was $77 billion. Fedgov set budgeted for $60 billion. - We're woefully behind in our NATO commitments and being held to account by NATO and the U.S.- As well, the level of international threat. Putin this week watched his nuclear forces drill for the first time since the Ukraine invasion. Now says he won't need to use nukes.

Guest: Vice-Admiral Mark Norman (ret'd). Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff.

RCMP investigating 3 reported Chinese police stations in Canada. China has a history of kidnapping individuals it wants to subjected to the country's justice system.

Guest: Peter Humphrey. Former Reuters journalist, then owner of a corporate risk assessment firm in China. Arrested with his wife, imprisoned, faced a series of bogus charges, held in terrible conditions for 23 months before being deported to the U.K. after major international pressure. China's external TV station just find 100,000 British pounds for airing a forced confession by Humphrey.

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Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

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On Monday Canada's premiers called for new and sustainable healthcare funding partnership with the federal government through the Canada Health Transfer. - Meanwhile the Canadian Medical Association alerts: "Critical family physician shortage must be addressed." Some 4.8 million Canadians have no family doctor.

Guest: Dr. Lawrence Loh. President: College of Family Physicians of Canada. 

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Food insecurity in Canada. Almost 6 million Canadians living in food insecurity, including 1.4 million children last year. And today? - It's income and not cost of food which is the greater problem says our guest. - Also says food banks are not the solution to the greater issue of food insecurity.

Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and lead investigator for PROOF, a research program which studies household food insecurity across Canada.

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State of readiness of the CAF as the threat to Canada's claims of Arctic sovereignty will likely be tested. - Also CAF nowhere near its personnel requirements. - Our military hardware is insufficient, old and not what CAF members need to defend Canada and/or project military strength through our NATO alliance. - The PBO projects cost for Canada's 15 new warships to be $88 billion. Last year's estimate was $77 billion. Fedgov set budgeted for $60 billion. - We're woefully behind in our NATO commitments and being held to account by NATO and the U.S.- As well, the level of international threat. Putin this week watched his nuclear forces drill for the first time since the Ukraine invasion. Now says he won't need to use nukes.

Guest: Vice-Admiral Mark Norman (ret'd). Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff.

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RCMP investigating 3 reported Chinese police stations in Canada. China has a history of kidnapping individuals it wants to subjected to the country's justice system.

Guest: Peter Humphrey. Former Reuters journalist, then owner of a corporate risk assessment firm in China. Arrested with his wife, imprisoned, faced a series of bogus charges, held in terrible conditions for 23 months before being deported to the U.K. after major international pressure. China's external TV station just find 100,000 British pounds for airing a forced confession by Humphrey.

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Public Order Emergency Commission hearing continued this week, with Ontario premier Doug Ford and ON deputy premier Sylvia Jones creating headlines for refusing to comply with a Commission summons to testify. Ford and Jones are challenging the summons in federal court.

Guest: Ari Goldkind. Lawyer and media commentator from Toronto.

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James Topp is the Canadian military reservist who spoke out against the forced removal of hundreds of unvaccinated CAF members while in uniform. Topp was facing 2 charges for doing so. Now facing four additional charges of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline laid by the CAF under the National Defence Act. Topp also walked across Canada protesting vaccine mandates for military personnel and federal employees. CPC leader Pierre Poilievre walked with Topp in Ottawa.

Guest: Phillip Millar. James Topp's lawyer.

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