Greetings friends, and welcome to this episode of the Rob Breakenridge Show - thanks for much for downloading and listening to the podcast

We begin the show with a look at a fascinating shake-up in Alberta politics and the two MLAs at the centre of it. We’ll speak with Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair, both former UCP MLAs - Guthrie was also a cabinet minister - who found themselves sitting as independents. They’re now hoping to revive the PC Party of Alberta, and provide Albertans with an option that is a fiscally conservative, socially moderate, and pro-Canada. We’ll find out how they’re planning to make that happen.

Also today, this week marks the one-year anniversary of the massive wildfire that ravaged the Town of Jasper. It was July 22, 2024 that almost 25,000 people had to be hastily evacuated - and then two days later, the powerful winds sent the blaze ripping through the town. We’ll speak with Jasper Chief Administrative Officer Bill Given about the status of the recovery, the work that still lies ahead, and what lessons have been identified in the town’s independent review.

Plus, coming off the heels of the First Ministers’ gathering this week in Ontario, and looking ahead to an ever approaching deadline for a US-Canada trade agreement, there’s an timely and important new white paper out from the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations. We’ll speak with Tim Sargent, who is a member of the Expert Group and is Director of Domestic Policy and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He’s also got a unique perspective on this trade drama with the US, as he previously served as Deputy Minister of Trade during the NAFTA renegotiation during the first Trump administration.

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