The Andrew Lawton Show

Free to Fly Canada has filed a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of aviation employees harmed by the federal government’s vaccine mandates. According to the lawsuit, Transport Canada’s vaccine mandate harmed unvaccinated employees through termination, suspension, and “coerced early retirement.” Greg Hill of Free to Fly Canada, one of the representative plaintiffs in the lawsuits, joins True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss. Also, Andrew’s Wednesday interview with Maxime Bernier has sparked debate online about whether it was fair to ask Bernier whether he is pro-life or pro-choice. What do you think? Plus, another edition of Fake News Friday and Andrew breaks down last night’s Alberta election debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New figures show Gov. Gen. Mary Simon expensed $38,000 on clothes in a 16-month period, including ceremonial clothing and casual wear – this despite making over $340,000 per year. True North’s Andrew Lawton points out that this office keeps breeding entitlement among its occupants. Also, Chrystia Freeland thinks it’s “fear-mongering” to ask about the debt. Plus, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier joins to talk about his campaign to get back into the House of Commons in the upcoming Portage—Lisgar byelection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A London, Ontario library is banning free speech talk being hosted by an academic freedom group from renting its theatre, despite having a commitment to “intellectual freedom” and opposition to censorship. This type of no-platforming is becoming more and more common, however. True North’s Andrew Lawton discusses with Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship president Mark Mercer. Also, weeks after we learned Volkswagen is getting $13 billion in taxpayer subsidies to build an electric vehicle battery plant, Stellantis is halting construction on its Windsor factory because it wants more money from the government. Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thousands of pro-life activists gathered on Parliament Hill for the annual March for Life yesterday, prompting a wave of virtue signalling statements and videos from Liberal MPs talking about how important abortion rights and bodily autonomy are. These are the same Liberals who endorsed a vaccine mandate for the public service, True North’s Andrew Lawton says. Also, Catherine Swift from the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada on how Trudeau’s climate policies are jacking up electricity prices. Plus, a poll from Leger for SecondStreet.org finds a majority of parents would want to be notified if their child asks the teacher to be identified by a different gender. Is this even controversial? Colin Craig from SecondStreet.org weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The longtime king of cable news ratings, Tucker Carlson, has announced he'll be relaunching his show on Twitter just a couple of weeks after being abruptly fired by Fox News. Elon Musk has positioned Twitter as being a platform for content creators and free speech. Despite claims by journalists and media outlets that they'd be boycotting the platform, most have remained. Even CBC, which stopped tweeting after its accounts were labelled "government-funded media," has resumed. True North's Andrew Lawton weighs in on the future of independent media. Also, Canada has finally expelled the Chinese diplomat at the centre of accusations of intimidating Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Brian Lee Crowley joins to discuss the China-Canada relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among the nearly two dozen policy resolutions passed by Liberal members at their party’s convention on the weekend was one calling on the government to restrict “disinformation” and ban online content whose source can’t be “traced.” True North’s Andrew Lawton says free speech is on its way out, especially with Ofcom, the CRTC of Britain, coming down today on broadcaster Mark Steyn and author Naomi Wolf. Also, True North’s Rachel Emmanuel joins the show to give an update on the Alberta election and the NDP’s decision to continue campaigning while the province declares a State of Emergency due to the ongoing wildfires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The World Health Organization has finally acknowledged that Covid is no longer a “global health emergency,” ending more than three years after the organization first declared the virus a crisis of global proportions. True North’s Andrew Lawton says those behind the most draconian Covid measures have tried to rewrite history. Also, former UCP candidate Caylan Ford is releasing a new documentary chronicling her ordeal with cancel culture and media misrepresentation. She joins Andrew to talk about the film, “When the Mob Came.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Liberals have offered up amendments to their sweeping firearms legislation, Bill C-21. The new changes will outsource firearms classifications to a committee rather than codifying the Liberals’ ban on specific models. However, firearms advocates point out that this doesn’t protect law abiding gun owners. Rod Giltaca of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights joins The Andrew Lawton Show to weigh in. Also, despite the Public Order Emergency Commission vindicating Justin Trudeau, there are still legal challenges of the Emergencies Act underway. Christine Van Geyn of the Canadian Constitution Foundation joins to discuss the “last guardrail of accountability” and her article in the C2C Journal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ontario trucker Harold Jonker must report to Ottawa next week to face four charges for his participation in the Freedom Convoy, which left Ottawa more than 14 months ago. Jonker, who has been an outspoken advocate for the freedom movement, will be charged with mischief, blocking a highway, and two counts of counselling an “uncommitted indictable offence.” Jonker joins True North’s Andrew Lawton live to discuss the charges, which he’s vowed to fight. Also, as predicted last week, the federal government has folded and is shelling out millions to bring public sector workers back to work. Plus, True North Alberta correspondent Rachel Emmanuel joins for an update on Alberta’s 2023 election campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Liberal government’s controversial internet regulation bill, C-11, has become law with “independent” senators ultimately voting in favour of it yesterday. When it comes into effect, the CRTC will have control over what content social media companies and online streaming platforms show to users, though the regulations are still yet to be worked out. True North’s Andrew Lawton says the importance of this can’t be understated as C-11 signals the death of the open internet. Also, True North founder and editor-in-chief Candice Malcom takes a break from her much-deserved maternity leave for a wide-ranging conversation about the changing tides of media and the future of True North. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s strike continues, and has escalated into blocks of government buildings and other infrastructure. Union president Chris Aylward even said striking public servants may go to ports of entry to maximize the economic impact of the labour action. In spite of this, no one in the federal government is talking about the Emergencies Act, True North’s Andrew Lawton points out. Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Franco Terrazzano joins to talk about the latest strike news. Also, a new docuseries exposes the truth about Canada’s assisted dying regime. MAiD in Canada producer Andrew Kooman and director Daniel Kooman join The Andrew Lawton Show to discuss the series, which you can watch here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal and Ontario governments are putting up $13 billion in subsidies to get Volkswagen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, working out to $4.3 million for each of the 3000 jobs the plant is expected to create. This is the largest piece of corporate welfare in Canada's history, but it's not clear how or if taxpayers can recoup that money. Macdonald-Laurier Institute domestic policy director Aaron Wudrick joins The Andrew Lawton Show to discuss. Also, Trudeau is practicing historical revisionism to gloss over his government's Covid vaccine mandate. Plus, is it time Alberta ditches the RCMP and starts its own provincial police force? Journalist Doug Firby from the C2C Journal joins to discuss his piece making the case for the Alberta Provincial Police, which you can read here: https://c2cjournal.ca/2023/04/crime-and-mismanagement-why-its-time-to-drop-the-rcmp-and-create-an-alberta-police/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A report prepared for Dr. Theresa Tam identifies “climate change” and “capitalism,” and “colonization” as part of a “public health emergency” in need of “collective social and political action.” True North’s Andrew Lawton points out the eerily similar language being used to talk about other political issues as were used to discuss Covid. Climate Depot’s Marc Morano joins the show to warn of the impending climate lockdown. Also, a multimillion dollar gold heist at Pearson Airport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leaked Pentagon documents reveal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told NATO officials privately that Canada was never going to meet the commitment it previously made to NATO to spend no less than two per cent of its GDP on defence. Also, lawyer Lia Milousis on the case of a mother fighting in court for the right to make vaccination decisions for her children when their father thinks otherwise. Plus, Andrew discusses the despicable case of a self-identified woman sexually assaulting a woman at a Windsor women’s shelter. All this and more on another live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada’s state broadcaster, CBC, is pausing its use of Twitter just one day after Twitter slapped a “government-funded media” label on its main account. CBC has condemned the label and asserted its “independence” as a broadcaster. Justin Trudeau has accused Pierre Poilievre of cozying up with “American billionaires” and attacking the media. Also, antisemitism was on full display at the Al-Quds Day in Toronto on the weekend. Yet none of the NDP politicians who want to ban protests at drag storytime hours have said a peep, True North’s Andrew Lawton notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, appeared before members of parliament to supposedly answer questions about China's interference in Canadian elections and what the government and Liberals new about it. Yet Telford's testimony was far more about what she couldn't say or claimed to not know, making it a big snoozefest. True North's Andrew Lawton breaks down the testimony that produced no news. Also, a discussion of history and civilization with Michael Bonner, author of the new book "In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present." Plus, another instalment of Fake News Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A majority of Canadians think federal and provincial governments are doing a bad job of tackling crime and addressing public safety. Two-thirds of Canadians, according to one recent poll, say they feel less safe than they did even a few years ago. True North’s Andrew Lawton says the crime wave shouldn’t come as a surprise after government pushed people to the brink during the pandemic. Also, Calgary Sun columnist Lorne Gunter joins to discuss the column of his that the Trudeau government wanted social media companies to censor. A sign of things to come? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The LGBT advocacy group Egale Canada is calling on the CRTC to ban Fox News from Canadian airways, citing a segment Fox host Tucker Carlson did on his show on what Carlson characterized as the trans movement’s targeting of Christians. True North’s Andrew Lawton says these calls will get worse when C-11 passes and the CRTC isn’t just governing TV and radio stations, but also online content. Also, a group of renegade Ontario lawyers is running in the Law Society of Ontario’s bencher elections to push back against the organization’s political overreach. Lawyer Lisa Bildy joins the show to explain why it matters not just to lawyers, but everyone. Plus, Justin Trudeau gives the worst financial advice ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Canadians grapple with rising food prices, the NDP has decided to go to war against grocery store profits. According to a recent survey, a small number of Canadians, 4.5%, think a government-run grocery store Crown Corporation is the answer. True North’s Andrew Lawton says this would be a great way to bring the efficiency of the passport office to grocery shopping. Also, Steven Guilbeault says Canadians should shut up about inflation because climate change is a bigger deal. Plus, Ontario’s NDP want to ban protests at drag shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal government is defending its use of the Emergencies Act in Federal Court this week, facing a challenge by the Canadian Constitution Foundation and Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The federal government has tried to dismiss the challenge as "moot," given the Emergencies Act is no longer in effect. True North's Andrew Lawton weighs in. Also, former CSIS intelligence officer Andrew Kirsch joins to discuss the leak of CSIS documents about China's interference in Canada's elections. Plus, Andrew sits down with Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights spokesperson Tracey Wilson about Justin Trudeau's war on gun owners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mass Casualty Commission has finally released its report on a Nova Scotia denturist’s 2020 killing spree that claimed 22 lives. Among its many recommendations, the report calls on government declare gender-based violence an “epidemic,” to “promote healthy masculinities,” to ban virtually all semi-automatic firearms, and to limit the amount of ammunition a person can own. True North’s Andrew Lawton discusses some of the biggest red flags in the report. Plus, an interview with Conservative leader Candice Bergen, dolphin news out of Dildo, Newfoundland, and a new format for Fake News Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland have tabled their latest budget, replete with so much spending the projected deficit is $40.1 billion – $10 billion higher than what they promised in the fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trudeau government has finally closed the loophole allowing migrants to illegally enter Canada to seek asylum. For years, Justin Trudeau has insisted it was a complicated problem to solve, yet during Covid it seemed rather easily. Now, Canada and US have amended the Safe Third Country Agreement, meaning illegal border crossers can be turned back. Immigration lawyer Kevin Wiener joins the show to discuss. Plus, conservatives gathered in Ottawa last week for the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference. CSFN president Jamil Jivani sat down with True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss the state of the conservative movement. Also, Premier Danielle Smith on Calgary’s protest ban and Justin Trudeau’s “Just Transition.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a special live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show from Ottawa at the Canada Strong and Free Conference! On today’s show, Andrew is hosting a panel with a diverse group of individuals to discuss the rising trend of cancel culture in Canada. Far too often, Canadians from all walks of life are being targeted and cancelled for simply having the “wrong opinion.” What can be done to address this alarming trend? How can we combat cancel culture? Joining Andrew on the show today are Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, lawyer Kathryn Marshall, and Conservative Values Tomorrow’s Leam Dunn and Noah Jarvis. Tune into a live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After immense pressure from the Conservatives, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Chief of Staff, Katie Telford, has agreed to appear in parliamentary committee to testify on recent allegations of Chinese interference in Canadian elections. This comes after Trudeau backed down on threats of turning a Conservative motion into a confidence motion. Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer joins the show to discuss a rambunctious 24 hours in Canadian politics. Plus, a citizen-led public inquiry looking into Canada’s Covid-19 response is underway in Truro, Nova Scotia. National Citizen Inquiry’s Michelle Leduc Catlin joins the show to give us an update on the inquiry. These stories and more on a live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volkswagen has chosen St. Thomas, Ontario as the site of its first North American electric vehicle battery plant. The federal and provincial governments haven't said what they had to pay to make this deal happen, though the Financial Times reported that Volkswagen put plans for a European battery plant on hold because the company claimed it could get $15 billion in subsidies for a North American plant. Macdonald-Laurier Institute senior fellow Philip Cross joins The Andrew Lawton Show to talk about this latest round of corporate welfare. Also, the Conservative party has disqualified a nomination candidate for the upcoming Oxford by-election. Pro-life political advocacy group RightNow says Gerrit Van Dorland was targeted because of his pro-life beliefs. Scott Hayward of RightNow weighs in on The Andrew Lawton Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia are proceeding with their trilateral AUKUS security alliance, with countering China’s growing influence at the top of the agenda. AUKUS represents three of the Five Eyes partners, with Canada and New Zealand kept on the sidelines. True North’s Andrew Lawton says this is because other countries simply don’t take Canada seriously. Also, Calgary City Councillors are debating a bylaw to ban protesters they don’t like. Constitutional lawyer Christine Van Geyn joins The Andrew Lawton Show to explain why it won’t fly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Alberta government has tabled a provincial firearms bill that will allow the province to decide how federal firearms laws are administered within Alberta. The bill could block municipal police agencies from confiscating firearms like those the government has recently prohibited. Alberta Chief Firearms Officer Teri Bryant joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to explain how the Alberta Firearms Act will work. Also, Justin Trudeau has announced two probes into Chinese interference in Canadian elections, just a few days after people who were raising concerns about Chinese interference in Canadian elections were racist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says that Liberals have “deep ties” to China and that a public inquiry is needed to find out what exactly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew about Beijing’s election interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Watch Poilievre’s exclusive sit down interview with True North’s Andrew Lawton. Plus, from two doses to three, to one every few months, the Canadian government has been fairly unrelenting in its quest to get everyone in the country vaccinated and boosted. On Friday, the Public Health Agency of Canada quietly amended its guidance to no longer recommend boosters for healthy Canadians under 65, at least for now. Is this a real course correction? Yes and no, as True North’s Andrew Lawton explains. Tune into a live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Through Bill C-18, the Trudeau government trying to force technology companies to pay news media companies for using their content. Except news companies willingly use tech platforms to share and promote their content. In response to Bill C-18, Google is trying out ways to limit access to news content, similar to what Facebook and other companies did to protest a similar law in Australia. Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to discuss. Plus, Trudeau's national security advisor has testified that the prime minister was briefed multiple times on Chinese interference into Canadian elections, despite downplaying such briefings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The China election interference story has only grown, with Justin Trudeau now accusing critics and CSIS of racism for raising concerns about a foreign power meddling in Canada's democracy. In this live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, Andrew discusses the scandal with Patricia Adams of Probe International. Also, in just a few weeks, Canada's conservative movement will be meeting in Ottawa for the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference. CSFN president Jamil Jivani joins for a preview of what we can expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know that China ran a sophisticated operation in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections to influence the results. In the most recent election, the Chinese Communist Party specifically wanted the Liberals to return to power, and Canadian intelligence officials knew. In spite of this, the Liberals have downplayed the extent of the interference, with Justin Trudeau saying today we should be more concerned about the Conservatives undermining democracy. Conservative member of parliament Michael Cooper joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to discuss. Also, a Milton man has been charged with second-degree murder after shooting someone who was trying to rob his house at gunpoint. Criminal lawyer Sam Goldstein joins the show to discuss the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At an NBA game in Utah, Canadian singer Jully Black changed the lyrics to O Canada, singing “our home on native land” instead of “our home and native land” to make a statement about Indigenous peoples. Since then, Black has been praised by the media and activists, prompting her to double down by claiming she sang the “facts.” True North’s Andrew Lawton says the ordeal demonstrates politicization is only okay if you have the “right” beliefs. Also, with the Public Order Emergency Commission’s final report published, civil liberties advocates are saying it’s still possible for there to be some accountability for the government’s use of the Emergencies Act. Canadian Constitution Foundation litigation director Christine Van Geyn joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to talk about the report and next steps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Public Order Emergency Commission has found that Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to react to the Freedom Convoy was appropriate. Commissioner Paul Rouleau also defended the freezing of protesters’ bank accounts and the conscription of tow truck drivers. In this live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, True North’s Andrew Lawton breaks down the report and brings in guests to offer their reaction and analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Brenda Lucki is retiring from her post next month in what she called today a “personal decision.” Lucki has been accused of interfering in the RCMP’s investigation into the Nova Scotia killing spree to support the Liberals’ gun control plans and she was unable to address key details during her testimony before last year’s Public Order Emergency Commission, which releases its final report next week. True North’s Andrew Lawton says Lucki’s quiet exit means a lack of accountability for her shortcomings on the job. Also, a new book by Marco Navarro-Genie and Barry Cooper casts a light on the “moral panic” that took hold of Canada over the Covid era. They join The Andrew Lawton Show live to talk about “Canada’s Covid: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic,” which is available on Amazon in its extended form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s been one year since Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to break up the peaceful Freedom Convoy protest underway on the streets in front of Parliament Hill. The move was unprecedented and extreme, but numerous polls have shown that a majority of Canadians supported it. Next week, the Public Order Emergency Commission will release its report examining the circumstances that led to the declaration. What are your thoughts about the convoy and the Emergencies Act one year later? True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in with his own and reads some of your questions and comments in this live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CBC chief executive officer Catherine Tait has said in an effort to "stay relevant," Canada's state broadcaster will be pivoting away from traditional radio and television broadcasts and adopting a streaming model. Except she offered no concrete plans for such a transition and said it won't happen within the next decade. In the same interview, Tait took aim at Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre's pledge to defund CBC, accusing him of "CBC bashing" and taking aim at the belief that CBC is a "mouthpiece for the Liberal government." True North's Andrew Lawton says CBC can't stay relevant when it is already irrelevant to most Canadians, who have to keep footing the bill for a service they don't use. Also, Justin Trudeau is giving provinces $46 billion more in healthcare transfers over the next decade, which premiers aren't happy with but are taking anyway. Former Ontario Medical Association president Dr. Shawn Whatley joins the show to discuss whether this money could be the cure for what's ailing Canadian healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The question of whether Canada is broken has become a contentious political debate between Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau. Poilievre has continued to point out the brokenness of Canada, which Trudeau claims is not just wrong, but offensive. True North’s Andrew Lawton says you have to be delusional to not see the system breakdowns taking place across the country, though he doesn’t think any politician can fix it. Also, former member of parliament Stella Ambler has launched a new watchdog group, Municipal Watch, which takes aim at costly and wasteful policies being pushed by municipal governments. She joins The Andrew Lawton Show to talk about the local battlegrounds of Canadian politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

German MEP Christine Anderson has made a name for herself in Canada from her outspoken support of the Freedom Convoy and opposition to Justin Trudeau. Next month, she’s touring Canada and meeting with politicians, though she says the real motivation for the trip is to meet with some of the “bravest people in the world” — the supporters of the Freedom Convoy. In this edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, Andrew talks to Christine about the freedom movement, European and Canadian politics, and why she’s taking a stand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The World Economic Forum’s 2023 annual meeting in Davos just wrapped up, with thousands of political, business and media elites descending on the Swiss alps to talk about “transitioning” away from oil and gas, eliminating carbon emissions, and adopting aggressive environmental policies – while all the limos and private jets lingered nearby. True North was in Davos covering the official programme and what was taking place on the sidelines. In this special edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, Andrew shares some footage from Davos and tackles the bigger picture issues that emerged during the conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True North's Andrew Lawton is once again live from Davos on day three of the World Economic Forum's 2023 annual meeting. Today, Andrew was given the cold shoulder by John Kerry, Tony Blair, and Chrystia Freeland. Freeland refused to answer whether her position with WEF puts her in a conflict of interest as a cabinet minister. But the day in Davos brought other developments, such as the Moderna CEO blaming public debate for low vaccination rates and an oil and gas CEO calling for higher carbon prices around the world. Andrew goes through the highlights from the last couple of days in Davos and weaves it together with the bigger picture in this live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the first time ever, The Andrew Lawton Show is live from Davos. True North's Andrew Lawton is in the Swiss mountain village reporting on the World Economic Forum annual meeting. He's already encountered Klaus Schwab, four presidents and prime ministers, and countless other global elites who claim they're here to find solutions to the world's problems through "cooperation." In this special edition of the show, Andrew talks about what he's seen on the ground in Davos, and also takes some of your questions about the summit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The theme of this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos is "cooperation in a fragmented world." The WEF says there are numerous crises unfolding, and world leaders need to gather together "in the spirit of improving the state of the world." True North's Andrew Lawton will be on the ground in Davos reporting on the meeting, which WEF founder Klaus Schwab says will have "unprecedented" attendance from world leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, and Trade Minister Mary Ng. In this episode, Andrew gives a primer on why covering the WEF matters, and what True North viewers can expect next week. Also, Duncan Crawford of the PEI Wildlife Federation joins the show to talk about the federal government's gun grab pilot project in Prince Edward Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the billionaires and global elites gather in the Swiss Alps next week, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland will be among them. Freeland, who sits as a World Economic Forum trustee, will be an honoured guest at this year's WEF Annual Meeting in Davos. True North's Andrew Lawton will also be there reporting on some of the "solutions" being proposed in response to the world's problems. Also, the federal government is doing a trial run of its gun confiscation plans in Prince Edward Island, plus Nicole Scheidl from Canadian Physicians for Life joins to talk about the doctors pushing back against Canada's euthanasia regime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadians had to withstand record inflation throughout 2022. Instead of offering a reprieve, the Liberal government hiked carbon taxes, kept printing money, and more importantly kept spending money. Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Franco Terrazzano joined True North's the Andrew Lawton Show for a wide-ranging chat about the last year and the year ahead through the lens of government accountability and respect for the taxpayers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the beginning of a new year, so True North's Anthony Furey and Andrew Lawton team up to talk about what's happening in politics and media in the coming year. Will Jagmeet Singh pull his support of the Liberal-NDP coalition? Will there be a federal election? Will the legacy media acknowledge why Canadians don't trust them? Plus, a preview on what's on True North's radar in 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Sun News Network went off the air in 2015, it looked like the end of conservative media in Canada. But Ezra Levant launched a new company from his living room. Nearly eight years later, Rebel News has 50 staff in sites around the world, and has influenced a wave of independent media. In this interview with True North's Andrew Lawton, Levant talks about why he chose media over politics, why Rebel has succeeded where Sun News failed, and why independent media is the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The last three years have not been great for civil liberties in Canada, but this year takes the cake with the government invoking the Emergencies Act to crackdown on peaceful protesters in Ottawa. Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms president John Carpay joined True North's Andrew Lawton to talk about the state of civil liberties in Canada in 2022 and what's on the horizon in 2023. Carpay and Lawton also talk about the big picture issues like freedom, individual autonomy, and why the left-right spectrum no longer holds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been almost a year since the first leg Freedom Convoy set out for Ottawa from Delta, British Columbia in a weeks-long protest culminating in the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act and a swift expulsion of the protesters from Ottawa. This fall, the Public Order Emergency Commission convened to investigate the circumstances leading to the emergency declaration. While the Commission was about fact-finding, for some of the parties and witnesses it was about face-saving. Journalist Paul Wells who covered the hearings on his popular Substack, joined True North's Andrew Lawton to discuss the winners and losers of the Commission's hearings. Wells is the author of An Emergency in Ottawa: The Story of the Convoy Commission, which will be published in March as the second edition of Sutherland Quarterly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ottawa's police chief has said he will not allow a repeat of the Freedom Convoy as several people involved in the original trucker-led protest earlier this year say they want to return to Ottawa in February. Do you think it's possible to replicate the Convoy – and should people even try? True North's Andrew Lawton, author of a #1 bestseller about the convoy, shares his thoughts. Plus, the City of Oshawa has fined a woman for giving the homeless food and necessities on the weekend. Ashley Wickett joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to explain what happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices