On Point With Alex Pierson

If you want to sell Canadians on a new tax, then don’t hand the money over to the richest people in the country who don't need it. We found out this week that Loblaws will get $12 million from the Trudeau government's Climate Action Fund. The fund is aimed at encouraging businesses to reduce their carbon footprint. Why is a multi-billion dollar company getting government handouts? Isn't the whole point of a carbon tax to give incentive to companies like Loblaws to change their bad habits to avoid a penalty? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined with Zak Trolley, Engineer and Futurist to discuss how Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques has completed his first ever spacewalk. Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Anne McClain accomplished the feat in six hours, 29 minutes, with no apparent issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Richard Warman, Human Rights Lawyer and Member of the Canadian Anti-hate Network to discuss how Facebook will ban Faith Goldy, Soldiers of Odin, the Canadian Nationalist Front, and other hate groups from across its platforms, the company said on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you want the fire to go out-- don’t poor gasoline on to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Franklin is a real estate mortgage and security lawyer and explains why it is that so many Canadians are simply so trusting that they'll hand over big chunks of money and think that it's going to be secure because the name on the billboard is one they know.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks with Jessica Brost from North East EMS, a first responder at the Humboldt Bus Tragedy last April.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Alex is joined by Catherine Swift, former president and C.E.O of Canadian Federation of Independent Business and current spokesperson for Working Canadians, to take a closer look at memo's obtained by the Toronto Star, from the Ministry of Education, that say more than 3,000 teaching positions will be cut over the next four years. According to the Ontario government, those cuts will mostly be through attrition and retirement. The expected cost-saving from this is estimated near $851 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Duff Conacher, Democracy Watch, to discuss comments made by former Treasury Board President and ousted Liberal MP Jane Philpott. After being kicked out of the federal Liberal caucus, alongside former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, Philpott said she was stunned by her removal while stating the entire SNC-Lavalin scandal could have been contained. According to Philpott, all it would have taken was a clear apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seems that the young masses aren't all too pleased with Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Following several recent changes to the province's education system, students from over 700 schools walked out of their classrooms to show the provincial government that they are not happy with the changes. While that is all well and fair, where has this feeling of resistance been for the better part of the past 15 years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Deanna Allain, daughter of the vote to discuss how a few young women from Windsor-Essex want to see more females in the political sphere. They are headed to Parliament Hill to have their say.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by a prominent B.C. Indigenous leaderm Grand Chief Stewart Phillip. He is not mincing words when it comes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s expulsion of Vancouver-Granville MP Jody Wilson-Raybould from the Liberal caucus. “He’s toast, absolutely toast,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. “Once again Mr. Trudeau has demonstrated his arrogance and did absolutely the worst thing he could possibly do. There’s going to be an enormous backlash across the country in terms of Indigenous people,” Phillip said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jodi Wilson Raybould is not a Conservative, why would she join the party. She shouldn’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson for ON Point is Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founding lawyer of Lexsage - a boutique international trade law firm, to discuss the possibilities of a global trade war. In the past few years global trade has been brought into question. Overseas, Brexit has more questions than answers, and things aren't much better here in North America. American and Chinese tariffs have been introduced on Canadian goods with no sign of being removed. At this point it seems like we're at a stalemate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you get for speaking your truth in Justin Trudeau's Liberal party - you get fired. Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are now both out of the liberal caucus and will sit as independents. Both Wilson-Raybould and Philpott received minimal support from liberal party members who questioned their ethics. If ethics were of concern, then how come the liberals still support Justin Trudeau? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman in for Alex Pierson is joined by Jean Twenege, Author of I-Gen, to discuss how Americans are having less sex then ever. U.S. adults reporting no sex in the past year reached an all-time high in 2018. But among the 23 percent of adults — or nearly 1 in 4 — who spent the year in a celibate state, a much larger than expected number of them were 20-something men, according to the latest data from the General Social Survey.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman is in for Alex Pierson and he is joined by Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre to discuss how Conservatives are launching their fourth filibuster of the past year and their second over Liberal limits on the probe into the SNC-Lavalin scandal that has been engulfing the government for the past two months. But this time, their filibustering member is flying solo. In a press release Monday, the Conservative Party announced that finance critic Pierre Poilievre would kick off a “marathon speech” during debate on a motion asking the House of Commons to approve the federal budget in general: the motion is in effect a precursor to the introduction of a budget bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman who is in for Alex Pierson is joined with Craig Damian Smith, Associate Director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. They discuss how Canada and the United States are closer to redrawing the Safe Third Country Agreement covering asylum seekers, as Ottawa looks to stem the flow of refugee claimants crossing between authorized points of entry.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson is Mark Calzavara from the Ontario Council of Canadians. Mark was with the Grassy Narrow Protesters at Wednesday night's event when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mocked the protesters. Trudeau built his political campaign on reconciliation, but those efforts were not reflected in his comments. Mark Calzavara speaks about Trudeau's comments as well as the Liberal government's reconciliation efforts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are bombshells and then there are what we heard today. We knew we were getting an updated statement from Jody Wilson-Raybould, but what we are learning from the secret recording moves the SNC-Lav scam to a whole new level. The tape backs Wilson-Raybould's allegations that she was pressured to get a deal done for SNC Lavalin. It doesn't just back JWR's allegations, it proves that everything she stated in her initial testimony was factual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices