PODCAST: The Rob Snow Show for March 29, 2022
Posted Mar 29, 2022 04:43:00 PM.
Hour 1:
Tuesday. We wake up this morning to the news that Eugene Melnyk, owner of the Ottawa Senators, has died at the age of 62 after a long illness. The Trudeau government is set to release more climate targets today.
11:48 – “That drove him crazy. He didn't think that was right, and that's what motivated him to step in in Ottawa and buy the team.”
Sportsnet Senators writer Wayne Scanlan joins the show for a conversation about the life and legacy of Eugene Melnyk.
22:58 – “The grid is simply not yet built up enough to deliver gargantuan amounts of new kinds of energy to displace the oil and gas we use”
Professor Ian Lee joins the show for his weekly appearance. This week's discussion focuses on the Conservative Party leadership race and the Trudeau government's new climate targets which suggest Canada can cut its oil and gas use in half in the next eight years.
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Hour 2:
It's the Talk Back Hour. Rob takes your calls.
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Hour 3:
0:00 – “He is a radical environmentalist. Whether you like Mr. Guilbeault or not, that really is his world.”
Columnist Michael Taube joins Rob for some instant reaction to the new 2030 emissions plan just tabled in the House of Commons by environment minister Stephen Guilbeault.
12:14 – “As you can imagine, that's a business that has taken off and gone through the roof in the last two years…a little over 1700% since 2019.”
Dave Sali is here from the Ottawa Business Journal with a look at the fastest growing companies in Ottawa for 2021.
20:04 – “Both central banks might need to over-tighten, raise rates more aggressively, and that might cause economic trouble.”
Rob speaks with BMO economist Sal Guatieri about the outlook for interest rates, after the 30 year U.S. treasury bond yield inverted on Monday for the first time since 2006.
32:47 – “This aircraft is the one that should have been selected right from the get-go”
Macdonald Laurier Institute senior fellow Richard Shimooka joins the show with some analysis on the Trudeau government's u-turn on buying F-35 fighter jets.
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