Show Segments

8:30 – Saskatchewan’s Energy and Resources Minister Bronywn Eyre spoke before a senate committee last week in opposition of Bill C-69, a bill which would overhaul the environmental review and approval process for many major projects in Canada. Eyre called on Trudeau to consider the job losses in the resource sector, saying the federal government must help struggling industries “whether it’s potentially SNC-Lavalin or whether it’s the oil and gas sector.” Eyre joins John now to discuss C-69 and how it might impact Saskatchewan’s resource industries.

LIVE: Bronwyn Eyre, minister of energy and resources for Saskatchewan.

9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session

10:00 – A group called Prairie Freedom Movement has purchased billboard space in Alberta and Saskatchewan asking if the west would be better off leaving Canada. The group’s spokesperson Peter Downing says Ottawa is not representing western interests and is transferring our wealth to Quebec and other parts of the country. He’s also said Justin Trudeau is currently the biggest driver in western separatism. Downing joins John now to discuss western separation and the motives behind the billboard campaign.

LIVE: Peter Downing, spokesperson for Prairie Freedom Movement.

11:00 – We’ve heard a ton of reactions to the SNC-Lavalin affair, but what are people saying in Quebec where SNC is based? Les Perreaux, Globe and Mail reporter in Montreal, says there is a lot more ambivalence about the scandal in Quebec than the rest of Canada. He joins the show now to tell us what he’s been hearing around the province where the scandal seems to have originated.

LIVE: Les Perreaux, Globe and Mail reporter in Montreal and former StarPhoenix reporter.

12:00 – Kishore Mahbubani, professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and former representative for Singapore at the United Nations, says the world is changing in ways the West doesn’t understand or accept, particularly when it comes to the rise of China and India as major economic powers. In his recent book “Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation,” Mahbubani argues that the west needs to admit its decline to set itself up for long-term strategic success. He joins John now to discuss what he sees as the decline of the western world and what we can do about it.

Prof. Kishore Mahbubani, professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and former representative for Singapore at the United Nations.