The Controversial Call: Canada and the 51st State Debate

Elias Makos ends the week with Gabriel Retta, is a Montrealer active in politics and government service at all three levels for the last 20 years. He is currently serving as Chief of Staff to the Official Opposition at Montreal City Hall, and Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College.

• Yesterday, Radio-Canada broke the story that in their phone call on March 28, Donald Trump did indeed bring up Canada becoming the 51st state to Carney. But after that phone call, Carney claimed to journalists that Trump “respected Canada’s sovereignty.”
• We vote Monday. What’s the key ballot issue?
• The Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel project will end up costing at least five times the original projection
• A Quebec Superior Court judge has overturned the province’s tuition hike for out-of-province students