RECOVERING POLITICIANS PANEL: HEALTHCARE AND CONTROVERSIAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

Marissa is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by George Smitherman, former Ontario Liberal MPP for Toronto Centre who also served as a health minister and deputy Premier, Lisa Raitt, former deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and Peggy Nash, who is a former NDP MPP for Parkdale-High Park.

Today: we get reaction from our panel on a multibillion dollar healthcare deal that could soon be on the horizon between Ottawa and the provinces and territories. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking the Privy Council Clerk to look into how the government funded the ArriveCan app And, we look into another controversy which is that during Justin Trudeau’s time in government, the federal government awarded consulting firm McKinsey with $100 million in contracts.

HOW A TRAVELER’S LUGGAGE ENDED UP IN THE HANDS OF CHARITY

Marissa Lennox is now joined by Nakita Rees, a resident of Cambridge.

Imagine taking a return flight home to Canada from your honeymoon only to find out that your luggage is not there and that it was allegedly given to a charity by a third party luggage handler hired by Air Canada. That’s exactly what happened to Nakita and her husband when they returned to Pearson International airport from a connecting flight from Montreal on Sept. 10 from a vacation in Greece. Her baggage was there but her husband’s had disappeared. The good news is that the luggage has finally been returned to them, but it took four months for that to happen. Rees joins the story to share what happened and the back and forth she had with Air Canada before ultimately resolving the situation.