More than a week has passed since Israel and the United States launched a massive attack on Iran — a move the prime minister says Canada supports "with regret." How does that stance square with the vision Carney laid out in Davos? Former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae weighs in on the Canadian view and shares concerns around how the conflict may end.
Plus, tanker traffic in one of the world's key oil passageways in the Middle East has ground to a halt, leaving some countries calling on Canada to ramp up its energy exports. Liberal MP Corey Hogan, parliamentary secretary to the energy minister, explains what Ottawa is telling these eager nations; then Adam Chambers, the Conservatives' international trade critic, explains his party's vision to meet rising energy demands.
Next, Mark Carney addressed Australia’s parliament this week, reiterating his theory that middle powers must work together as the international rules-based order crumbles around them. Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull joins The House to discuss how Carney's pitch is being received Down Under and how the two countries can work together in an increasingly uncertain world.
Then, new data shows that almost half of Canadians polled are in favour of their country becoming a member state of the European Union — despite its physical distance from the continent. CBC’s Jennifer Chevalier hears the arguments for and against membership from the Global Governance Forum’s Augusto Lopez Claros, former deputy prime minister John Manley, trade expert Meredith Lilly, Canada-U.S. expert Fen Hampson and pollster David Coletto.
This episode features the voices of:
- Bob Rae, former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations
- Corey Hogan, Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary to the energy minister
- Adam Chambers, Conservative international trade critic
- Malcolm Turnbull, former prime minister of Australia
- Augusto Lopez Claros, executive director of the Global Governance Forum
- John Manley, former deputy prime minister under Jean Chrétien
- Meredith Lilley, international economic policy professor at Carleton University
- Fen Osler Hampson, co-chair of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations
- David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data