Show Segments

8:30 – The House of Commons justice committee heard evidence Wednesday from Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s former principal secretary, along with Michael Wernick, clerk of the Privy Council, on the SNC-Lavalin affair. Both men strongly denied they applied any inappropriate pressure on then-Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to drop the prosecution of SNC. Canadian Press Reporter Jordan Press joins John to help analyze the testimony heard yesterday.

LIVE: Jordan Press, Canadian Press reporter.

8:50 – National Post Columnist Tristin Hopper says the Trudeau government may have been breaking the law by acting to protect the jobs at SNC-Lavalin, according to a law they passed themselves. He joins John now to discuss the SNC file.

LIVE: Tristin Hopper, National Post columnist.

9:00 – Bug’s Day: The HOUR OF RAGE!

10:00 – Political scientist Greg Poelzer joins the show to give his analysis of the testimony we heard from Gerald Butts and Michael Wernick, and what he expects will happen in coming days.

LIVE: Greg Poelzer, PhD in political science, Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability and Fulbright Scholar at the U of S.

10:30 – Throughout the SNC-Lavalin scandal, we’ve seen various communication strategies at work from the Liberals and their political opponents. Would the whole thing have gone away if Justin Trudeau’s communication strategy had been better? Barry McLoughlin, president of McLoughlin Media and crisis communication expert, joins John to help analyze the comms strategies we’re seeing in action from both sides of the aisle.

LIVE: Barry McLoughlin, president of McLoughlin Media and crisis communication expert.

11:00 – Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a legal expert and former Saskatchewan judge, addressed the justice committee two weeks ago. She’s since called for an RCMP probe into the matter, and said Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick should be relieved of his duties if he is in any way involved. We’ll hear her legal analysis of the testimony from Wernick and Butts next.

LIVE: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, former Saskatchewan judge, Law professor, and director of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia.

12:00 – Lee Gordon is co-founder of “Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel,” a non-profit organization that’s created a network of public schools in Israel serving both Jewish and Arab children. After starting in 1998 with 50 students, the organization now educates more than 1,850 students at six campuses and “making a growing impact in Israel for Jewish-Arab partnership and coexistence.” Gordon will be speaking about “Hand in Hand” at Congregation Agudas Israel in Saskatoon Monday evening, but first he joins John to discuss his work.

LIVE: Lee Gordon, co-founder of “Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel.”