The Roy Green Show

Today’s podcast:

Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber is suing the federal government and has entered a statement of claims for Ottawa using the Emergencies Act to freeze his bank accounts and credit and debit cards and making the lives of the Barber family, as well as operating their Saskatchewan trucking business exceedingly difficult.

The lawsuit follows the Federal Court ruling the Trudeau government violated the Charter rights of all Canadians by invoking the Emergencies Act.

According to Barber's lawyers by freezing the bank accounts, credit and debit cards the federal government violated Section 24 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Guest: Chris Barber, owner of C.B. Trucking in Saskatchewan.

& Eva Chipiuk. Alberta lawyer representing Barber in his lawsuit against the federal government.

Further significant developments during the parliamentary committee hearings concerning the ArriveCan app. Also Information Commissioner investigating allegations of destroyed ArriveCan related documents. 

Guest: Michael Barrett, CPC shadow minister for Ethics and Accountable Government

Former NHL (Buffalo Sabres) and Team Canada goaltender Don Edwards parents were murdered by George Lovie in 1991 near Hamilton, Ontario. Lovie had been dating Don's sister Michelle and when she stopped seeing him Lovie sexually assaulted Michelle. Then, armed with a rifle, he waited for Michelle under the porch one morning. When he emerged Michelle ran to her parents home with Lovie chasing her. Lovie broke into the home and shot to death Donna Edwards, then stabbed Arnold Edwards, several times shouting "how do you like me now?"

                George Lovie has been living under day parole for some time. Two nights per week at a Correctional Service Canada halfway house and five nights a week at an apartment he has rented. The Edwards family remains very much fearful of Lovie who had a hearing scheduled for March 8 during which the National Parole Board was to hear his appeal for full parole. A great deal has happened in the past few weeks in the case.

Guests: Don Edwards and his wife Tannis.

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A class-action lawsuit has been launched in Quebec over issues with the Arrivecan app that resulted in thousands of Canadians being instructed to quarantine when they should have been exempt. The class action is open to anyone who travelled to Canada while the app was mandatory for entry (November 21, 2020 to October 1, 2022).

Guest: Jeff Orenstein, lawyer at Consumer Law Group in Montreal where the class action suit has been launched.

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The federal NDP and Liberal Party agreed to forming/funding of a national pharmacare program. For millions of Canadians the issue is far more basic. These Canadians often cannot obtain a prescription (or diagnosis) of their serious, even life-threatening illness.  

At present more than 6 million people in Canada are without a family (primary care) doctor. Some patients are dying.

That number will soon reach 10 million, or 25% of the current national population. Family doctors under huge pressure are moving to other medical disciplines or retiring. Where should the emphasis be? Pharmacare or securing sufficient numbers of primary care physicians?

Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President: Canadian Medical Association.

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Is this the time to increase private healthcare delivery options in Canada? How does anyone answer "no" with more than 6 million Canadians having no primary care physician? If the answer is "no" is it so truly to protect Canada's public healthcare system, or to protect political capital? Our guest argues Canada's public health care was once the envy of the world, but no longer. He has for decades fought in court and in the court of public opinion for patients to have greater options to seek and obtain the care they immediately require.

Guest: Dr. Brian Day, Founder, Cambie Sugery Centre, Vancouver. Author of the soon to be released book "My Fight For Canadian Healthcare: A Thirty-Year Battle to Put Patients First." Former president of the Canadian Medical Association.

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Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber is suing the federal government and has entered a statement of claims for Ottawa using the Emergencies Act to freeze his bank accounts and credit and debit cards and making the lives of the Barber family, as well as operating their Saskatchewan trucking business exceedingly difficult.

The lawsuit follows the Federal Court ruling the Trudeau government violated the Charter rights of all Canadians by invoking the Emergencies Act.

According to Barber's lawyers by freezing the bank accounts, credit and debit cards the federal government violated Section 24 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Guest: Chris Barber, owner of C.B. Trucking in Saskatchewan.

& Eva Chipiuk. Alberta lawyer representing Barber in his lawsuit against the federal government.

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Further significant developments during the parliamentary committee hearings concerning the ArriveCan app. Also Information Commissioner investigating allegations of destroyed ArriveCan related documents. 

Guest: Michael Barrett, CPC shadow minister for Ethics and Accountable Government

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Former NHL (Buffalo Sabres) and Team Canada goaltender Don Edwards parents were murdered by George Lovie in 1991 near Hamilton, Ontario. Lovie had been dating Don's sister Michelle and when she stopped seeing him Lovie sexually assaulted Michelle. Then, armed with a rifle, he waited for Michelle under the porch one morning. When he emerged Michelle ran to her parents home with Lovie chasing her. Lovie broke into the home and shot to death Donna Edwards, then stabbed Arnold Edwards, several times shouting "how do you like me now?"

                George Lovie has been living under day parole for some time. Two nights per week at a Correctional Service Canada halfway house and five nights a week at an apartment he has rented. The Edwards family remains very much fearful of Lovie who had a hearing scheduled for March 8 during which the National Parole Board was to hear his appeal for full parole. A great deal has happened in the past few weeks in the case.

Guests: Don Edwards and his wife Tannis.

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Today’s podcast:

Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is attempting to walk back his statement "there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge thed road network" to a Montreal conference earlier in the week. Also stated the federal government wants to get Canadians out of our cars and trucks and living in high density urban areas. Premiers Ford and Smith immediately challenged Gilbeault. - Also the Liberals rebranded the 'Climate Action Incentive Rebate' as the 'Canada carbon rebate.'

Guilbeault is also hinting at changes to be announced concerning his energy dictates for provinces, as what he has proposed is receiving heavy pushback from particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Trudeau government continues to claim 80% of Canadian households paying the carbon tax will receive more money in rebates than they pay for carbon taxation. Not so according to Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux in interviews with us.

Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy.

The aforementioned Stephen Guilbeault stated in Canada's parliament that Dalhousie University professor Sylvain Charlebois had stated there is no evidence the carbon tax is negatively affecting food pricing in Canada. Professor Charlebois immediatley pushed back declaring he had never such a thing.

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois, Director Agri Foods Lab at Dalhousie University 

This was a heaveily debated issue 30+ years ago and it's back. NDP sponsored children's rights legislation, Bill 273, would ban spanking of children at home or using force on children at school by supervisory adults (teachers) received support for a second reading in parliament by a 208-115 vote. Section 43 of the Criminal Code (introduced in 1892) and most recently amended by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004, permits parents to spank judiciously, not in anger and with age consideration of children. The Canadian Teachers Federation opposes the NDP bill/ What about parents? And how does a prominent criminal lawyer view the proposed legislation? (It has been argued parents forcing a child into a children's car seat might run afoul of no corporal punishment legislation.)

Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal lawyer and media commentator.

The federal Liberals and NDP are attempting to negotiate a national pharmacare program in order to keep their political alliance alive and prevent a snap election.

Is that a sound basis for a program securing pharmaceuticals for Canadians dealing with a need for medications including significant, even life-threatening illness? Would a national pharmacare program be funded sufficiently that the newest and most effective drugs for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses become and/or remain available, or would a pharmacare bureaucracy be underfunded or over-regulated to the point pharmaceutical companies would not make the most recent and effective/expensive drugs available to Canada and Canadians?

Guest: Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president of the Ontario Medical Association and author: When Politics Comes Before Patients.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

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The federal Liberals and NDP are attempting to negotiate a national pharmacare program in order to keep their political alliance alive and prevent a snap election.

Is that a sound basis for a program securing pharmaceuticals for Canadians dealing with a need for medications including significant, even life-threatening illness? Would a national pharmacare program be funded sufficiently that the newest and most effective drugs for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses become and/or remain available, or would a pharmacare bureaucracy be underfunded or over-regulated to the point pharmaceutical companies would not make the most recent and effective/expensive drugs available to Canada and Canadians?

Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious dieases specialist, assistant professor University of Toronto School of Medicine. Former member of the Ontario committee to evaluate pharmaceuticals

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What is the mood of Canadians today, toward the state of the country and the political parties vying to form the national government? An election could be called at any time this year and must be called by the fall of next year. Abacus polling shows if a federal election were held today Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives would secure a significant majority government, while the Liberals and NDP are neck and neck. How firm is that polling information?

Guest: Eddie Sheppard. VP Insights, Abacus Data.

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