Why Flight Costs Continue to Rise
RECOVERING POLITICIANS PANEL: WHO WERE THE MPS WHO "WITTINGLY" ASSISTED FOREIGN ACTORS FOR THEIR OWN GAIN?\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by George Smitherman, a former Ontario Liberal Health minister and Deputy Premier, Cheri DiNovo,\xa0 a former NDP MPP and Janet Ecker,\xa0 a\xa0 former Ontario PC MPP and finance minister.\n\nIt's Tuesday - time to talk politics and today is jam packed! We begin with the auditor general report on the government's use of consultants -without competitive bids. This even though the federal Liberals added about 100,000 public service workers to their payrolls - workers who are now fighting not to go into work! Meanwhile, yesterday we learned that some federal politicians are knowingly working with foreign governments to advance their own interests while subverting our democracy. The foreign governments involved: China and India, but the politicians themselves are not named. And federal Minister of Health Mark Holland made a head-scratching comment about Canadian families taking road trips. Our panel reacts to the latest.\n\n\n\n\nBIDEN'S PEACE PLAN FOR ISRAEL: WHERE ISRAEL STANDS ON IT\n\nLibby Znaimer is now joined by Jon Allen, former Canadian Ambassador to Israel and Spain and currently a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy , and Dr. Amos Guiora, Professor of Law at the University of Utah and a former legal advisor to the IDF in Gaza.\n\nThe latest proposal outlined by President Joe Biden is being called an Israeli proposal, but there\u2019s a big question about whether the Netanyahu government will accept it. Our guests try to explain that apparent contradiction.\n\n\n\n\nCOST OF FLIGHTS TO CONTINUE RISING:\xa0 HOW CAN CUSTOMERS FIND THE BEST DEAL?\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by John Gradek, a faculty lecturer at McGill University in Montreal and a former executive with Air Canada and Janet Radley with St. Clair Travel Agency.\n\nWhy are flight costs continuing to rise?\xa0\xa0Our travel panel reacts to what the International Air Transport Association is saying about this.