Ont. passes housing bill amid criticism, Next BoC rate hike, Impact of Stellantis Bankruptcy & India’s envoy calls on Canada to crack down on supporters of Khalistan separatism movement!

Bill Kelly Show

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Ontario passed a housing bill Monday intended to spur development, but critics say it will lead to higher property taxes, weaken conservation authority powers, and not actually make homes more affordable.

The new law is just one move among many in a flurry of recent housing changes from the Progressive Conservative government, including plans to open some areas of the protected Greenbelt land to development and allowing the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa to pass bylaws with just one-third council support.

GUEST: Emma McIntosh, Reporter for The Narwhal

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The next bank of Canada rate hike is scheduled for December 7th, but is the Bank overshooting with its hikes?

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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The bankruptcy of Stellantis’s Jeep joint venture in China could spell trouble for other global automakers whose output has plunged over the past five years in the world’s largest car market, as domestic players rapidly overtake.

GUEST: David Adams, President & CEO of the Global Automakers of Canada

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Ottawa can help repair frosty relations with New Delhi by cracking down on diasporic funding of the Sikh independence movement that is seeking to create a sovereign homeland known as Khalistan, India’s new envoy to Canada says.

Sanjay Kumar Verma told The Globe and Mail that India has long been concerned that some segments of the Sikh community in Canada are offering support and money to secessionists who want to separate Punjab from India. Punjab is an Indian state where the Sikh religion is the majority.

GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst