Roy Green Show Podcast, Sept 16: SK Prem. Scott Moe challenges PM, trade with India. – Farooq sisters in Toronto. $7k monthly rent increase. – Prof Sylvain Charlebois. Grocery execs summoned to Ottawa. – UNIFOR Pres. Lana Payne. Cdn autoworkers strike?

Today’s podcast:
Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe critical of Justin Trudeau India G20 messaging. Argues damages trade relationship with one of the SK's and Canada's most significant trading partners.
Plus: the premier muses about engaging the Charter notwithstanding clause to defend his government's pronoun/sex education for students under 16 and their parents policy.
Guest: Scott Moe. Premier. Saskatchewan.
Rents across Canada have achieved unaffordable status for many. Perhaps none more so than Toronto sisters Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment where they have lived for 3 years and for which they most recently have been paying $2,500 monthly rent was suddenly raised by $7,000 to $9,500 per month, to begin November 1, 2023. The sisters sought legal advice and will join us to share what they have found out. (Their building was constructed after 2018 making it exempt from rent control.)
Guests: Yumna and Khadeja Farooq.
The federal government has summoned the CEO's of Canada's largest grocery chains to parliament next week. Ottawa is making sweeping changes to the Competition Act that target the largest grocery chains and the government is threatening the chains with increased taxes if food prices don't stabilize by Thanksgiving.
Our guest has been invited to participate in the meeting between the grocery chain CEO's and Industry Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne.
Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois, head of the Agri-Foods Analytics Lab at Dalhousie, University.
The United Auto Workers union in the U.S. has begun simultaneous but limited strikes against Detroit's three automakers, Ford, GM and Stellara at plants in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio,with 13,000 autoworkers walking off the job. The union is demanding a roughly 40% pay increase and additional concessions. The automakers have countered with an approximately 20% increase offer. When might this morph into a full U.S.-wide strike and what might we expect from Canada's autoworkers represented by UNIFOR? UNIFOR's contract with automakers in this country expires next Tuesday and although the union is negotiating only with Ford at present, is a full Canadian walkout of autoworkers possible and what would the impact on our national economy be? 
In the U.S. a full walkout would remove approximately 150,000 workers from the job. President Biden waded into the dispute Friday, calling on the automakers to exercise fairness and and the strike.
Guest: Lana Payne. President, UNIFOR, Canada
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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green
Technical Producer – David Hunter
Podcast Producer – Tom McKay
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Today’s podcast:

Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe critical of Justin Trudeau India G20 messaging. Argues damages trade relationship with one of the SK's and Canada's most significant trading partners.

Plus: the premier muses about engaging the Charter notwithstanding clause to defend his government's pronoun/sex education for students under 16 and their parents policy.

Guest: Scott Moe. Premier. Saskatchewan.

Rents across Canada have achieved unaffordable status for many. Perhaps none more so than Toronto sisters Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment where they have lived for 3 years and for which they most recently have been paying $2,500 monthly rent was suddenly raised by $7,000 to $9,500 per month, to begin November 1, 2023. The sisters sought legal advice and will join us to share what they have found out. (Their building was constructed after 2018 making it exempt from rent control.)

Guests: Yumna and Khadeja Farooq.

The federal government has summoned the CEO's of Canada's largest grocery chains to parliament next week. Ottawa is making sweeping changes to the Competition Act that target the largest grocery chains and the government is threatening the chains with increased taxes if food prices don't stabilize by Thanksgiving.

Our guest has been invited to participate in the meeting between the grocery chain CEO's and Industry Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne.

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois, head of the Agri-Foods Analytics Lab at Dalhousie, University.

The United Auto Workers union in the U.S. has begun simultaneous but limited strikes against Detroit's three automakers, Ford, GM and Stellara at plants in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio,with 13,000 autoworkers walking off the job. The union is demanding a roughly 40% pay increase and additional concessions. The automakers have countered with an approximately 20% increase offer. When might this morph into a full U.S.-wide strike and what might we expect from Canada's autoworkers represented by UNIFOR? UNIFOR's contract with automakers in this country expires next Tuesday and although the union is negotiating only with Ford at present, is a full Canadian walkout of autoworkers possible and what would the impact on our national economy be? 

In the U.S. a full walkout would remove approximately 150,000 workers from the job. President Biden waded into the dispute Friday, calling on the automakers to exercise fairness and and the strike.

Guest: Lana Payne. President, UNIFOR, Canada

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical Producer – David Hunter

Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast!

https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/

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