CBC Radio’s The House: Should Canada issue vaccine passports?

Sexual misconduct in the military

This week, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced yet another independent review into sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces, to be led by former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour. 

She joins The House to discuss her role, while air force veteran and sexual assault survivor Christine Wood explains why the government can’t afford to delay dealing with the issue.

Can the 2011 election teach us anything about the next?

Sunday marks a decade since the Conservatives last won a majority, the NDP achieved its best-ever result and the Liberals faced the worst showing in their history during the 2011 federal election.

Whenever the next trip to the polls comes along, the campaign will see Justin Trudeau fighting to turn his minority into a majority — just as Stephen Harper did in 2011. The political landscape and the players have changed since then, but are there lessons that can be learned from that historic election? Producer Emma Godmere set off to find out.

Are vaccine passports the right call?

The European Union announced this week it will allow Americans to travel to Europe if they have a vaccine passport — a Digital Green Certificate that proves they are fully vaccinated. Is it a good idea that would open up borders and encourage people to get the vaccine? Or would it create inequality or even fuel vaccine hesitancy? 

Dalhousie professor Francoise Baylis and University of Toronto professor Dr. Anna Banerji debate the issue and The House also hears from EU Ambassador to Canada Melita Gabrič.

Canada’s new high commissioner to the U.K.

Ralph Goodale, a long-serving Liberal cabinet minister, has just arrived in London to take up his new position as Canada’s High Commissioner to the U.K.

Goodale has had several roles in cabinet, but foreign affairs was never one of them. So what does he hope to achieve in this new diplomatic role? Goodale sits down with host Chris Hall to discuss his new job and what Canada can learn from the U.K.’s accelerated COVID-19 vaccination campaign.