The LINK Online this week features Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts in studio and Marc Montgomery with fallout from Donald Trump’s election victory, GMO salmon and a song from to the iconic Leonard Cohen who died Thursday.
ListenWhat about climate change?
The world spent the latter half of the week trying to figure out the implications of Donald Trump’s election victory. While campaigning to become president of the United States, he promised to do many things like pull the U.S. out of NATO, to bar Muslims from entering the U.S., to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement. These could have broad ramifications for Canada and the world. But one stand he took scared scientists and environmentalists. And that is denial of climate change and repudiation of the Paris Agreement to deal with it. To find out more about what that might mean, Lynn Desjardins spoke with Prof. Douglas Macdonald, senior lecturer at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto.
Americans want to flee to Canada
Donald Trump’s stunning upset victory in Tuesday’s election had many Americans thinking about moving north. But what chances do they have seeking asylum in Canada? To find out, Levon Sevunts spoke with Mitchell Goldberg, a Montreal-based lawyer and president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.
He says Americans wishing to relocate to Canada have a myriad of various opportunities. But none of them are quick. And as far claiming asylum in Canada, the news is not so great.
GMO salmon setback for environmentalists
Recently environmental groups lost another court case in their battle against the commerical production and marketing of genetically-modified salmon in Canada. This would be the first GM food animal sold to consumers anywhere in the world. Marc Montgomery spoke to Mark Butler, policy advisor for the Ecology Action network, one of the groups pleading their case against the GM salmon. In this edited version, Butler explains that the government actually approved far more than the company originally asked, and there was never an environmental assessment of the expanded permission.
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