46% of Canadians $200 away from financial trouble. Canada must prepare after US immigration policy changes. Swift, Leatherdale, Simson on election so far. Major benefits if Eastern refineries use more Canadian oil. Bricker on Empty Planet&The Big Shift. - a podcast by Global News / Curiouscast

The Roy Green Show Podcast

-In recent days we became aware 24% of Albertans are carrying more than $40,000 of non-mortgage debt and 50% are living paycheque to paycheque.  The national numbers concerning financial distress are hardly better. Polling by Ipsos for MNP Ltd., from earlier in 2019, showed that 46% of Canadians are less than $200 away from not being able to pay their debts. That should be a huge concern.

Guest: Grant Bazian, President and CEO of MNP Ltd.-

Dramatic changes have been made to the U.S. refugee and immigration policy. Canada must prepare itself for the repercussions, according to a new University of Calgary School of Public Policy report. Immigration expert Robert Falconer has released two reports examining the U.S. retreat from refugee resettlement and the U.S. asylum ban.

Guest: Robert Falconer, Author of the reports-

Tomorrow's national political party leaders debate and what lies ahead as the parties enter the final two weeks of the campaign. Where can they be aggressive and where must they do damage control? The Beauties and the Beast panel reconvenes to discuss these questions and more.Guests:

Catherine Swift, WorkingCanadians.com (former president&CEO at CFIB)

Linda Leatherdale, VP of Cambria Canada (former editor MONEY section Toronto Sun)Michelle Simson, Formerr LPM MP&seatmate to Justin Trudeau during Question Period

-A report released last year by the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) found that if refineries in central and Atlantic Canada substituted Canadian oil whenever possible for the foreign oil imported into Canada – and if extending the current transportation system by construction of a new pipeline equal to the cancelled Energy East pipeline – the eight refineries in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland would be able to replace 57% of imported oil at an annual saving of $317 million, while simultaneously cutting GHG's by two million tonnes.  

Guest:  Allan Fogwill, CEO, CERI-

    IPSOS President and CEO Darrell Bricker joins us to speak to two of his books.The Big Shift which speaks to major shifts in Canada's immigration policies and numbers of immigrants and how that reality affects Canada's political landscape (e.g., many of the newcomers are philosophically conservative.)
In Empty Planet, Darrell Bricker makes the argument that the global population is headed for a steep decline and in some countries this has already begun, in contrast to much of the climate change panic being centered on a supposedly very rapidly increasing global population.Guest: Darrell Bricker, President and CEO of Ipsos

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