About this episode

The episode discusses the B.C. Conservative leadership race, climate action under Prime Minister Mark Carney, and features a guest from Guelph city council.

This week on Open Sources Guelph we boogey! And yet, there's not much time to celebrate because the news keeps on coming. We will see who won the B.C. Conservative leadership race and talk about what the next steps, and then we will look at a certain prime minister's weak spot when it comes to a very green issue. Closer to home, we have a guest from Guelph city council to talk about, among other things, the next council. This Thursday, June 4, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss: Findlay's Wake. Last weekend, Kerry-Lynne Findlay become the new leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, and there's a lot of hope that this former Harper government member and current subject of an Elections Canada probe might be the unifier that this upstart political party is looking for but, as we've seen, unifying a party of made of small 'c' conservatives and fringe-y cranks is easier said than done, so has Findlay got what it takes? Carney, Climate, Catastrophe? In the year since he's became prime minister, Mark Carney has undone a lot of the climate action policies by his predecessor Justin Trudeau, and we were reminded of that last week when all of Trudeau's old environmental…

People in this episode

Hosts: Scotty Hertz, Adam A. Donaldson

Topics covered

• B.C. Conservative leadership race
• climate action policies
• Guelph city council
• political unification
• environmental issues

Keywords

• B.C. Conservative Party
• Kerry-Lynne Findlay
• Mark Carney
• climate action
• Guelph city council
• Cam Guthrie
• politics
• environment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: B.C. Conservative Party, Guelph city council

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