Canada resettles world's largest number of refugees; Yellow Vest organizer speaks to YV movement/truck convoy; UWO Prof Salim Mansur warns of U.N. agenda; Humboldt Broncos parents prepare for truck driver sentencing; Challenging Canada's justice/prison systems

The Roy Green Show Podcast

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Canada has taken the lead in refugee settlement for the first time in 72 years, according to new data compiled by a researcher at the University of Calgary. In 2018, Canada received more planned refugees than any other country. Is it fair that Canada is shouldering so much of the worldwide refugee resettlement burden?

We’ve been hearing about them for weeks now – the Yellow Vest protesters. Who are they? We know the movement started in France in response to fuel tax hikes, but what message is behind the movement that has established itself in Canada? Roy speaks with Mark Friesen, a Yellow Vest organizer from Saskatchewan, to get an idea of what the movement in Canada is all about. Mark is also an organizer of the truck convoy that is planning to travel from Alberta to Ottawa to protest numerous policies of the Trudeau government.
And then, Roy is joined by a University of Western Ontario professor who says northern countries are under pressure from the United Nations Agenda on Social Development, which includes the Compact on Migration. Professor Salim Mansur wrote a column in the American Thinker entitled ‘Justin Trudeau's Canada Embraces a World Without Borders’.

Lyle and Carol Brons are the parents of the Humboldt Broncos’ athletic therapist Dayna Brons, who lost her life in the horrific bus crash last April. They join Roy to weigh in on the five days of sentencing hearings for Jaskarit Singh Sidhu that are scheduled to begin tomorrow. Singh Sidhu has pleaded guilty to all criminal charges related to the deaths and injuries on the Broncos team bus, which was struck by the massive semi-truck he was driving.

We often discuss the perpetrators of crime in Canada, but what about the victims? Roy is joined by a pair of guests to discuss what victims of crime face when dealing with the justice system and how it both works and doesn’t work.

When Joe Wamback’s son Jonathan was 15 years old, he was horribly beaten by a gang in a park directly across from the family home in Newmarket, Ontario. Since then, Joe and his wife Lozanne have devoted their lives to working with and for victims of crime. In 2012, Joe walked across Canada to raise awareness of crime and victims. He’s appeared before parliament and the Senate, and has organized events across Canada for crime victims.
Scott Newark is a friend of the show and a frequent guest with years of experience dealing with the Canadian justice system. He’s a former Alberta crown prosecutor, former executive director of the Ontario Office for Victims of Crime and former senior policy advisor to a federal Minister for Public Safety.

Roy, Joe and Scott are later joined by Jessie Melo, the daughter of Canadian boxer Eddie "The Hurricane" Melo who was murdered in a contract killing by Charles Gagne. Melo’s killer is currently serving a life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 12 years at the Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst, Ontario. Gagne, with numerous armed robberies on his record has received a 60-day work pass with no supervision required.  Jessie Melo is furious about the work pass development, both with how secretively it’s been handled and that the prosecutor in Gagne's murder trial is now Gagne's chief booster.

Guests:

Robert Falconer, Research associate at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, author of the study on refugee settlement in Canada

Mark Friesen, Yellow Vest organizer and representative, Saskatchewan

Professor Salim Mansur, Political Science Professor, University of Western Ontario, research focuses on international relations and comparative politics with special interest in the politics of South Asia and the Middle East

Carol and Lyle Brons

Joe Wamback

Scott Newark

Jessie Melo

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