Senior oil & gas financial executive doubts Trudeau; B.C. driving up Canada's homicide rate; $600 million in tax credits and incentives for media may do more harm than good

The Roy Green Show Podcast

Canadian oil is sinking to below any real value, and foreign investors are staying away. Our guest is Grant Fagerheim, President/CEO Whitecap Resources Inc. Calgary, has Over 30 years of diverse experience in both the upstream and downstream areas of the oil and gas business. Prior to founding Whitecap Resources Inc in 2008, Fagerheim was President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Cadence Energy Inc, a public oil and gas company. He says "if the people of Canada think for one moment that we can only have Canadian investors and hope to drive any type of business going forward, they are absolutely, massively mistaken."

In his fiscal update federal Minister of Finance Bill Morneau has committed roughly $600 million in tax credits and incentives over five years for Canadian media organizations facing significant financial challenges. Is this move protecting media availability or is it an attempt to buy favourable coverage for Justin Trudeau's government heading toward the federal election? Roy has assembled a panel of media and political experts to debate and discuss the pros and the cons.

Back-to-Work legislation passed the house of commons early this morning. Today the Senate will debate it before ratifying, and the Labour and the NDP are adamantly opposed. How much damage will this do to Truduea’s relationship with unions?

The clerk Craig James and Sargent-at-Arms Gary Lenz were arrested and perp-walked out of the B.C. Legislature. They are now the subjects of an RCMP investigation. What do we know about this strange turn of events, and what lies ahead for these two?             

British Columbia's homicide rate was up 32 per cent according to StatsCan, making it the province's highest rate since 2009. B.C.’s highest numbers were in Metro Vancouver, with 52 homicide victims in 2017.  Curtis Robinson is now the Chair of Barwatch in Vancouver, the self-regulated association of bars, nightclubs and restaurants which have been pushing back against the gang members who previously frequented their establishments.

Sheri Arsenault who attended the parole hearing for the individual who killed her son Bradley and Bradley's two friends while driving drunk and at over 200kmh has questions about the parole process and will ask our guest those questions. Scott Newark, former Alberta Crown Attorney, answers these questions.

Guests:

Grant Fagerheim.  President/CEO Whitecap Resources Inc. Calgary, over 30 years of diverse experience in both the upstream and downstream areas of the oil and gas business

The Panel on Media

Kathryn Stewart, Executive producer, talk radio, with the Corus radio network.

               Maddie di Muccio. Former council member, Newmarket, Ontario and former Toronto Sun columnist.

                Dan McTeague. chief petroleum analyst at GasBuddy .com,  former Liberal MP for 18 years

Hassan Yussuf, President of the Canadian Labour Congress

Mike Smyth, Political columnist with The Province, and host at CKNW Global News Radio

Curtis Robinson. Fmr VPD Sgt.  Now chair of Barwatch in Vancouver.

Scott Newark, Former Alberta prosecutor, senior policy analyst for a federal Minister of Public Safety and executive director of the Canadian Police Association.

Sheri Arsenault

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