Should Finance Minister Bill Morneau resign? What will happen if antibiotics become ineffectual? And the latest Beauties and the Beast segment.

The Roy Green Show

 

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is facing more and more questions over how he handled his personal fortune when he entered government in 2015.

Morneau continues to insist he followed the advice of the ethics commissioner to the letter after he was elected. He’s rejecting any suggestion of a conflict of interest.

What will likely happen to Bill Morneau? Should he resign?

Guest: Michelle Simson, former Liberal MP
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Meanwhile, Finance Minister Bill Morneau has adjusted proposed rules for Canada's small business owners and operators. Has enough been done, or has Morneau lost the confidence of Canada's small business owners?

Guests: Dan Kelly, CEO and president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Megz Reynolds, Saskatchewan farmer whose online post about Morneau's initial tax fairness plan went viral
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More attention is being paid to concerns over antibiotics becoming ineffective, and the possibility of the end of modern medicine.

A study commissioned by former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron predicted that an antibiotics crash will cost the world economy more than $100 trillion by 2050, and​ could cost millions of lives.

Guest: Jason Tetro, Canadian Microbiologist known as "The Germ Guy," author of The Germ Code
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Raymond Caissie has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 17 years for killing Surrey, B.C. teen Serena Vermeersch in 2014.

The murder came after Caissie was released from prison after serving 22 years for a violent sexual assault and kidnapping in 1991.

Caissie had told the parole board he “would like to stay incarcerated for several more years,” saying he “feared he would re-offend.”

Guest: Scott Newark, former Alberta prosecutor, executive officer for the Canadian Police Association, president of the Office for Victims of Crime in Ontario and adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University
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Roy and the Beauties discuss the federal finance minister's ethical conflict and the idea of white privilege.

Guests: Catherine Swift
Linda Leatherdale
Michelle Simson

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