The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Brigitte Legault is our special guest. And if you don’t know who Ms. Legault is, you’re surely going to after this discussion. She is the fearless, mobilizing force and architect of the CAQ, Coalition Avenir Quebec. As its Director General, she organized the party from an idea to a governing behemoth in just over 10 years.We’ll talk a little bit about her backstory. Her journey from being a former President of the Young Liberals and party activist. Why she became disaffected with the Liberal Party. What led to the creation of the CAQ. What subsequently has happened to the Liberals and PQ in that province, and the CAQ’s role in that. We’ll talk Bill 96, Quebec language laws, and as much as we can cover about what’s happening on the ground in Quebec politically, today.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. I’m excited to welcome Armine Yalnizyan as our guest today. Armine is a leading voice on Canada’s economy. According to Maclean’s Magazine, who ranked her #22 on their Power List. She’s the Caring Person’s economist and a big picture thinker who looks out for the little guy. Armine coined the term “She-cession”, way back in March 2020, to describe the economic fallout of the pandemic and is currently the Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers. Her mission as a policy thinker and innovator, is to bring a worker’s perspective to the public policy development process and to help all of us make sense of what’s happening in the economy. And these are precisely the things we’re going to talk about today:Why do working people deserve a bigger slice of the pie?How do they get it?How will hordes of gig workers ever find security?And what’s the role of government in all of that?Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. We have a good friend of the pod here, Greg Lyle, founder and President of the Innovative Research Group. If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard Greg before, as part of our pollster panel back in February. He’s built his career on the intersection of public policy, communications and public opinion. And if you’re following our sister program, Curse of Politics, you know that Greg is in field in Ontario all month long, with a weekly tracking of voter attitudes and preferences. We’re breaking down his numbers on that show, on pretty much a daily basis. But today, here on The Herle Burly, recorded on the day the writ drops, we’re going to set the table for the Ontario election:If there’s any kind of a horse race & where the hell is it?Can Ford be assailed at all?What do people think about each of the leaders (Ford, Horwath, Del Duca, Schreiner).Where are voter priorities when it comes to policy?Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Welcome back, for his second appearance on The Herle Burly, Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. First elected in 2015, Mr. Wilkinson has served Canadians as Minister of Fisheries, Oceans. And the last time the minister was on the pod, back in February 2021, it was in his capacity as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change. Subsequent to the last election, he was appointed Minister of Natural Resources at the end of October. So today we’re going to talk more about climate change, the path to net-zero and to 1.5-2 degrees, and the natural resource sector’s role in those objectives and outcomes.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Peter Weltman is Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer. That means he heads an office that provides independent fiscal, financial and economic analysis on the state of the Ontario's finances. Just ahead of the provincial budget we'll discuss Ontario's finances and the assumptions that go into those fiscal projections. We'll also discuss a few platform ideas and how sustainable they might be.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Back again, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr.! This time as Canada's Minister of Labour. You all know Mr. O’Regan. 10 years a co-host of CTV’s Canada AM. Member of Parliament for St. John’s South—Mount Pearl since 2015. Previously serving as Minister of Veterans Affairs, Minister of Indigenous Services, Minister of Natural Resources, and as mentioned, now Minister of Labour since October 2021. That's what we'll talk about today: what's the future of the labour movement in Canada, how do working people get a bigger slice of the economic pie, how will legions of gig workers find security and what role does the federal government play in all this.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. We've assembled a panel to talk housing and housing affordability. Plus all the related social and economic issues involved with the housing industry. As well, some solutions to Canada's housing crisis. Joining us are:Mukhtar Latif - Mukhtar is developer and affordable housing consultant with 30 years experience in the public and private sectors. His expertise is in developing affordable housing policies, products and programs, including modular housing and regeneration projects. Previously, Mukhtar was Vancouver’s Chief Housing Officer.Mike Moffatt - Mike is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at Ivey and is the Senior Director, Policy and Innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute. Previously, Mike was the Chief Innovation Fellow for the Government of Canada, advising Deputy Ministers on innovation policy and emerging trends, and represented Canada at G7, OECD and Organization of American States meetings.Diana Petramala - Diana is a Director in the Economic Advisory Team at Altus Group. Ms. Petramala has spent the bulk of her career conducting economic and real estate research. Previously, she was the senior economist at the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Ryerson University where she analyzed the impacts on demographics on housing markets and urban growth.Adam Vaughan - Adam is a former Liberal Party Member of Parliament and former Toronto City Councillor. He’s our insider on government on this panel and he’s just joined the School of Cities at the University of Toronto as a Canadian Urban Leader. As Parliamentary Secretary for Housing in the Trudeau government, he played a leading role in the creation of Canada’s first national housing strategy.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail and Easter Seals.This week on the pod, our thoughts turn to the events in Europe and we are honoured to have Sabine Sparwasser here with us. Ms. Sparwasser has been the Federal Republic of Germany’s Ambassador to Canada since 2017. Just prior to that, she was Germany’s Special Representative of the Federal Government for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ms. Sparwasser started her career as a journalist for German television.Today, we’re going to talk about the war in Ukraine generally. And more specifically with respect to Germany, the huge policy shifts the country’s made recently with respect to nuclear power and military build-up. Then we’ll discuss the strain on the EU in light of Brexit and Ukraine and Germany’s pivotal role within that political and economic union.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail and Easter Seals.My long-time friend and mentor, Bill Fox is with us. Bill started as a working journalist and now is a leading academic analyst of media and communication. Bill has worked at the highest levels of journalism and government and business. And he's among the best story tellers you'll ever find. His fantastic new book is: "Trump, Trudeau, Tweets, Truth: A Conversation." Today we'll discuss his book, politics, journalism, media, and so much more.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail and Easter Seals.Get ready politicos because we've assembled a panel of Conservative strategists, operatives, and insiders to discuss the party's fiery leadership race. Joining us are:Dennis Matthews - former advertising advisor to PM Stephen Harper and currently a principal at Enterprise Canada and president of Creative CurrencyMelanie Paradis - served as deputy campaign manager (communications) for Erin O’Toole’s successful 2020 Conservative leadership campaign as well as director of communications on Christine Elliott's leadership campaign for the Ontario PC Party in 2018, and currently an executive ghost-writer of speeches for industry executives and politiciansLaryssa Waler - worked in the Harper government in Ottawa and served as executive director of communications for Premier Doug Ford, and currently a principal of GT&CompanyThank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube.