Fmr Raptors coach on Kawhi leaving; A fed cabinet minister's neighbour & supporters named as judges; Carbon taxes require makeover, MEI; Ebola gathering momentum in West Africa; Earthquakes in California; Privacy lawyer David Fraser challenges @JusticeCanadaEN
The Roy Green Show · Global News / Curiouscast
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Show Notes
Kawhi Leonard. To sign with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Being appointed a judge is based on merit?? Five of the last six federal appointments to the bench from New Brunswick have included senior Liberal MP and cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc's neighbour, a LeBlanc family member and three lawyers who helped pay off LeBlanc's debts from his unsuccessful 2008 Liberal Party leadership campaign. Democracy Watch is calling on federal Ethics Commissioner to ensure an independent investigation.
A study by the Montreal Economic Institute concludes - Carbon taxes: Governments need to go back to the drawing board. Three fundamental requirements for a carbon tax or carbon market to be efficient are not being met.
The Ebola crisis is increasingly concerning in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has spread into Uganda. Paramilitaries have attacked Ebola treatment centres killing medical staff. Medecins Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders has closed one treatment centre because of the violence and it's feared numbers of infections are far greater than reported. Meanwhile the World Health Organization has refused to declare a global health emergency, which the WHO also did in 2014 for far too long during the 2014 Ebola crisis.
A destructive 7.1 Richter scale earthquake follows the 6.4 quake of a few days ago in California. A 5-10% chance of an even stronger quake in the next days is possible according to earthquake scientists. And should British Columbia have concerns?
@justiceCanada posted contradictory tweets over the new alcohol impaired driving laws. Challenged by an observant Canadian and then by privacy lawyer David Fraser of McInnes Cooper in Halifax who tweeted to @justiceCanada "you should not be deleting your tweets. There are public records."
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Guests:
Butch Carter. Former Toronto Raptors head coach.
Duff Conacher. Co-founder, Democracy Watch. Adjunct Professor of Law and Politics. U of Ottawa. Books: Canada Firsts and More Canada Firsts.
Germain Belzile. Senior associate researcher. Montreal Economic Institute.
Trish Newport. Coordinator of MSF Ebola-related activities in the DRC. (She is Canadian).
Dr. John Cassidy. Research scientist and international earthquake specialist with the Geological Survey of Canada.
David Fraser. McInness Cooper. Privacylawyer.ca and the Canadian Privacy Law Blog.
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