New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs asks, is Canada a nation or a notion? A Massive cross-country convoy in the works; Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe on what 2019 has in store

The Roy Green Show Podcast

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Canada's newest Premier worries the Canadian federation is fractured, and is calling on the Trudeau government to not funnel nearly 70% of equalization to Quebec and supports resumption of interest in Energy East and challenges Trudeau's national carbon tax.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe joins the program for a year-end look at the Carbon tax, Western Canada’s energy sector, the Trudeau government. And then Premier Moe discusses the coming court case in which Saskatchewan will challenge whether the federal government has the constitutional right to impose a tax over the specific objections of a directly affected provincial government.

With a national election just 10 months away, Roy talks with President and CEO of Ipsos Darrell Bricker, to find out what Ipsos has heard from Canadians. How are Trudeau and the federal Liberals holding up, in the public’s opinion?

A massive truck convoy is in the works, to travel from Western Canada to Ottawa as a visible and audible expression of Western frustration with the Trudeau government's indifference for the energy industry.

In May of 2009 Bela Kosoian was a University of Montreal law student, and a multilingual immigrant from the former Soviet Union. Kosoian failed to hold the handrail on an escalator in Montreal, and was challenged by a Montreal police officer. When she questioned why the officer was aggressive with her, she was confronted by a second officer at the bottom of the escalator. Bela was handcuffed, arrested and charged with ignoring a pictogram which told her to hold onto the escalator hand rail. The case has wound its way through Quebec courts over 9 years, including the Court of Appeal.  Now the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the case. As with any Supreme Court decision, the impact will be nation-wide.

Guests:

Premier Blaine Higgs, of New Brunswick

Premier Scott Moe, of Saskatchewan

Darrell Bricker, President/CEO of Ipsos

Nicole Wapple, of Rally 4 Resources, Alberta

Bela Kosoian

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