The Alex Pierson Show

Jodi Wilson Raybould is not a Conservative, why would she join the party. She shouldn’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson for ON Point is Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founding lawyer of Lexsage - a boutique international trade law firm, to discuss the possibilities of a global trade war. In the past few years global trade has been brought into question. Overseas, Brexit has more questions than answers, and things aren't much better here in North America. American and Chinese tariffs have been introduced on Canadian goods with no sign of being removed. At this point it seems like we're at a stalemate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you get for speaking your truth in Justin Trudeau's Liberal party - you get fired. Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are now both out of the liberal caucus and will sit as independents. Both Wilson-Raybould and Philpott received minimal support from liberal party members who questioned their ethics. If ethics were of concern, then how come the liberals still support Justin Trudeau? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman in for Alex Pierson is joined by Jean Twenege, Author of I-Gen, to discuss how Americans are having less sex then ever. U.S. adults reporting no sex in the past year reached an all-time high in 2018. But among the 23 percent of adults — or nearly 1 in 4 — who spent the year in a celibate state, a much larger than expected number of them were 20-something men, according to the latest data from the General Social Survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman is in for Alex Pierson and he is joined by Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre to discuss how Conservatives are launching their fourth filibuster of the past year and their second over Liberal limits on the probe into the SNC-Lavalin scandal that has been engulfing the government for the past two months. But this time, their filibustering member is flying solo. In a press release Monday, the Conservative Party announced that finance critic Pierre Poilievre would kick off a “marathon speech” during debate on a motion asking the House of Commons to approve the federal budget in general: the motion is in effect a precursor to the introduction of a budget bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman who is in for Alex Pierson is joined with Craig Damian Smith, Associate Director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. They discuss how Canada and the United States are closer to redrawing the Safe Third Country Agreement covering asylum seekers, as Ottawa looks to stem the flow of refugee claimants crossing between authorized points of entry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson is Mark Calzavara from the Ontario Council of Canadians. Mark was with the Grassy Narrow Protesters at Wednesday night's event when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mocked the protesters. Trudeau built his political campaign on reconciliation, but those efforts were not reflected in his comments. Mark Calzavara speaks about Trudeau's comments as well as the Liberal government's reconciliation efforts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are bombshells and then there are what we heard today. We knew we were getting an updated statement from Jody Wilson-Raybould, but what we are learning from the secret recording moves the SNC-Lav scam to a whole new level. The tape backs Wilson-Raybould's allegations that she was pressured to get a deal done for SNC Lavalin. It doesn't just back JWR's allegations, it proves that everything she stated in her initial testimony was factual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson for ON Point is Colonel Lee Hammond, the man behind the GoFundMe page for Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Norman is facing a David vs. Goliath fight against the government to defend himself. To fight the seemingly endless funds of the government, Norman is dealing with massive legal fees. To help Vice-Admiral Norman, Colonel Hammond started a GoFundMe page to raise $500,000 to help pay for legal counsel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Nations people are drinking poisonous water, but apparently Trudeau can find a good punch line out of it. The very people that Prime Minister Trudeau built his political campaign around are the ones he's now mocking. If this is how he talks in his personal life, can we really trust what he says in his public life? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dave Perry, Former Homicide Detective to discuss 22-year-old Chinese national who was kidnapped from a Markham parking garage has been found safe in Gravenhurst. York Regional Police Const. Andy Pattenden told reporters Wanzhen Lu walked up to a home on Doe Lake Road before 9 p.m. on Tuesday to ask for help. “He knocked on the door of the residence and a homeowner found him there and called police right away,” Pattenden said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lisa Raitt, Deputy Minister of the Conservative Party to discuss The Manitoba Bar Association (MBA). It has has issued a blistering statement in support of a top judge after reports relayed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s concerns about him when Trudeau’s ex-attorney general recommended the judge be elevated to Canada’s highest court. On Monday, leaks by anonymous sources to CTV News and The Canadian Press suggested that Jody Wilson-Raybould had recommended Glenn Joyal, chief justice of Manitoba’s highest trial court, be made chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), despite not holding a seat on that bench. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid ongoing talks between the Ontario government and the City of Toronto about uploading the TTC’s subway system, newly released documents from the province raise the possibility of major changes to several transit projects. Toronto city council is set to vote during its meeting on Wednesday on whether to spend $2 million towards hiring additional staff and obtaining third-party advice as negotiations continue between the province and the city. However, on Tuesday, officials posted additional letters and reports relating to the upload discussions on the city’s website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Moscrop, author, political theorist, contributor, Washington Post and MacLean's, to talk about his latest book "Too Dumb for Democracy". The book covers an array of topics, across several international political landscapes. From Brexit, to Donald Trump and even Ford Nation, the book asks why me make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Matthew Fisher, long-time foreign and war correspondent, resident visiting scholar for foreign military policy at Massey College at the University of Toronto, to take a closer look at China's expanding ban on Canadian canola imports. Earlier this month, Winnipeg-based Richardson International Ltd. had its export permit revoked and now Regina-based Viterra Inc has also seen it's shipments banned as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It will come to the surprise of few that politicians are anything but nice to each other. Once inside the halls of the House of Commons or Queen's Park, in many cases, the gloves are off and decorum is usually tossed out with them. A recent interaction between PC MPP Roman Baber and former Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has renewed calls for decorum inside the provincial legislature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dave Perry, Former Homicide Detective and Global News Radio Crime Expert to discuss how Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said he demands answers from the federal government after Peel Regional Police announced that a woman with multiple sexual assault convictions will be living in the city. Peel police said 36-year-old Madilyn Harks, formerly known as Matthew Harks, was moved to the area of Main Street and Queen Street by the Correctional Service of Canada earlier this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Charles Ortel, Investor and writer specializing in economics to discuss that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. According to the U.S. attorney general’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — though Mueller stopped short of exonerating the president on obstruction allegations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tanker ban that will further kill the oil sands and the Liberal led senate to cut Alberta out of the conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson for ON Point is Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, to talk about the Humboldt Broncos bus crash sentencing. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was given eight years in prison for killing 16 people in the bus crash last year. The sentencing was tough compared to past cases, but was it tough enough? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Finance Critic, to talk about Jody Wilson-Raybould's letter to the Justice Committee. She has texts, emails and other written statements that would fill in the holes left by Gerry Butts and Michael Wernick. Wilson-Raybould's submission to the committee could be published to the public, but it may take a while. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to vehicular killings in this country, we aren't serious enough. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was given eight years for killing 16 people in the Humboldt bus crash last year. Six months per life taken. In legal circles this is considered a tough sentence, but considering he is eligible for parole after only three years, the sentence seems much too soft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freelance photojournalist, Andrew Collins joined ON Point to talk about a police investigation at Brock University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every time you think the SNC Lavalin scam is fading out of the public eye, something new happens. Former Minister, Jane Philpott, broke her silence in a scathing new article in Maclean's. She states that there are many more things herself and Jody Wilson-Raybould have to say, but Prime Minister Trudeau is trying to shut them down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lou Berkovitz, Global News Radio Real Estate Expert to discuss the the new mortgage incentive, Home Buyer’s Plan boost under 2019 budget. Can’t afford to buy a house? The government may take on part of the cost. That is the gist of the boldest proposal that Budget 2019 puts forth to help more middle-income Canadians fulfill their homeownership dream. Under the new CMHC First-Time Home Buyer Incentive, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation would use up to $1.25 billion over three years to help lower mortgage costs for eligible Canadians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Linsday Lobb who is a Police Liason with the Canadian Centre for Child protection and they discuss yesterday's Amber Alert. A father sought by police after his five-year-old daughter became the subject of an Amber Alert will not be facing charges in the case, police said Wednesday. York regional police Const. Andy Pattenden said the 25-year-old man was taken into custody when the girl was found safe Tuesday afternoon within about an hour of the alert being issued. Pattenden said the man was released later the same evening without charges, and added that police do not currently anticipate laying any in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The devil will be in the detail….. And the details are pretty flimsy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Ian Lee, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business at Carlton University, to take a closer look at the new budget and determine what the Trudeau Liberals got right, what they got wrong and how this latest budget will affect the everyday Canadian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Murray Rankin, NDP MP for Victoria, British Columbia, former justice critic and justice committee member, to discuss Tuesday's Justice Committee meeting in Ottawa. Opposition MPs briefly stormed out of the the meeting, after reporters were given a document outlining a Liberal motion to discuss hate crimes the morning after publicly calling for an end to the SNC-Lavalin investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's federal budget day and the Trudeau Liberals are using it as a tactic while playing identity politics, in an attempt to turn the page on the SNC-Lavalin affair. Adding onto it all is the Liberal-majority House of Commons Justice Committee, who says they've heard enough and do not feel it necessary to recall any further witnesses, including former A.G. Jody Wilson Raybould. The question now is if the former Attorney General is kept silent, how honest is her truth? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ales is joined by Belgard, Executive Director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network who has been has been studying the far-right and anti-Muslim movement and he says ignoring it is nothing short of dangerous.We know that these Neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups hate Jews but are they both devolving at the same time? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Norman Levine, Managing Director at Portfolio Managemnt Corporation to discuss how the Trudeau government will take steps in Tuesday’s federal budget to make home-buying more affordable with changes affecting supply, demand and regulation. Finance Minister Bill Morneau has promised the budget will focus on ways to help improve housing affordability for Canadians, and particularly for millennials, who are now in their mid-20s to late-30s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sure, point the finger of blame at Scheer, but all politicians play footsie with extremism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Imam Tawhidi, best-selling author who focuses on national security, militant Islamism and anti-semitism. Alex and the Imam talk about how the hatred is spread by identity politics, social media, and an increasingly polarized world. At the end of the day, the Imam believes these events need to unite us, bring us together and teach us to become people who love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is no excuse or justification of the terror that happened in New Zealand. The politicians that play identity politics and pit one group against another only add fuel to the fire. It was Muslims at a mosque in New Zealand today, but a couple months ago it was Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and in 2015 it was Christians at a church in Charlottesville. No matter the religion, there is no excuse for this hate-fueled terror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gaddafis lost Libya in 2011, when rebel fighters captured and killed longtime dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. But the family still holds a small patch of territory in Canada’s largest city. Global News investigative reporter Stuart Bell dug deep into this story, and join's Alex to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Budget 2019 will be like the Bachelor. A rose for every lady… and the same empty suit in the end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Patricia Adams, an economist and the executive director of Probe International to discuss how Trudeau is making Canada safe for corruption again with the SNC-Lavalin case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Stephen LeDrew – Lawyer, broadcaster and former President of the Liberal Party of Canada. & Mike Van Soelen – Managing Principal at Navigator, a public relations and crisis communications organization. Topics include: Global News obtaining a letter sent by Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MPP, Randy Hillier, several countries banning the Boeing 737 plane, Omar Khadr spending $3 million of his settlement on a strip mall in Edmonton and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson for ON Point is Paul Davis, expert on social media safety, to discuss the impending cellphone ban in classrooms. The Ontario government argues that devices in classrooms are distracting students from their studies. Will schools, teachers and principals be able to ban students from using cell phones in September? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The only thing that's correct about our corrections system is that it's royally screwed up. How else can Canada's youngest serial killer be upgraded to a medium security prison. Cody Legebokoff killed four women by the age of 20, but somehow he's been upgraded just a few short years into his life sentence. This is the fourth time in the past few months that a serial killer has been upgraded from a maximum security prison, which shows just how correct our corrections system truly is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Duff Conacher, Coordinator of Democracy Watch, an Independent an Non-Partisan Organization that advocates citizens participation in Public and Government Affairs. They discuss the new federal government actions, Bill C-76 and how it will not stop secret fake online election ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex discusses the ongoing controversy over allegations of attempted political interference by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his senior officials in the case of SNC-Lavalin have anti-bribery officials from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development “concerned.” And the anti-bribery officials there warned on Monday they have sent a letter to Canadian authorities noting they will be following the case closely. “The OECD Working Group on Bribery is concerned by recent allegations of interference in the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin that are subject to proceedings in the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights,” said the OECD in a statement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Bruce McIntosh, Activist and Advocate with the Ontario Autism Coalition to discuss how school boards will get additional money to support students with autism. Ontario’s education minister announced Monday that as hundreds of kids may soon enter school because they will get less funding for therapy. Autism and education advocates said the announcement does little to address a problem of the government’s own making an attempts to turn teachers into therapists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Bob Richardson – Senior Counsel at NATIONAL Public Relations & Peter Shurman – Broadcaster, businessman and former Conservative MPP Topics include: Supreme Court turning down SNC Lavalin's bid for a judicial review of the case, Lisa Macleod, the Minister on the autism file, is now on 24/7 security following the arrest of a woman who has uttered threats towards her, American players for women's soccer team file a federal discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. soccer federation and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dalton McGuinty has come out of his hole to take more of your green. As McGuinty's buddy Gerry Butts took centre stage at the SNC Lavalin scam justice committee hearing, McGuinty was pushing another one of his green schemes, this time in the form of a book. He's touring the university scene promoting his new book titled, Climate Change: Can We Win This? Be Honest, attempting to gain as many social justice warriors on his side as he can. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: John Mraz, Former Liberal War Room Director & Bill Hutchinson, Former Broadcaster, Journalist, and Seneca Professor Topics include: Taverner out as OPP commissioner, Ontario to build new GO station at Woodbine Racetrack with private company, Scheer makes election promise to remove GST from home-heating bills, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined with Jason Lietaer, Conservative Strategist and President of Enterprise Canada to discuss Ron Taverner's decision to withdraw from consideration for OPP Commissioner. In a short letter sent Thursday afternoon to the Community Safety Minister, Sylvia Jones, Taverner said the decision to withdraw stemmed from the controversy surrounding his appointment and to protect the integrity of the rank. The 72-year-old Toronto police superintendent is a family friend of Premier Doug Ford, and his appointment set off accusations of political interference in the hiring process for the province’s top policing job. Taverner, who had been in law enforcement for 51 years, said in the letter that he was grateful to have the confidence of the government and believed his experience and skills would have served the public in the best possible way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got the other side of the store but now we have even more questions and Jody Wilson cannot answer them. Did Gerald Butts do the job that needed to be done today? Alex is joined by Melissa Lantsman, Conservative war-room strategist with Hill and Knowlton, a Global Public Relations Consulting Company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Matthew Fisher, a former longtime foreign and war correspondent, Visiting Scholar in Defence and International Affairs at the University of Toronto's Massey College, to discuss the cancellation of Richardson International's registration, meaning it can no longer ship seeds to China. The Winnipeg-based agriculture handler contributed to the $5 Billion worth of canola that was shipped from Canada last year, with half of that directed towards the Asian marketplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices