The Andrew Lawton Show

Volkswagen has chosen St. Thomas, Ontario as the site of its first North American electric vehicle battery plant. The federal and provincial governments haven't said what they had to pay to make this deal happen, though the Financial Times reported that Volkswagen put plans for a European battery plant on hold because the company claimed it could get $15 billion in subsidies for a North American p...

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia are proceeding with their trilateral AUKUS security alliance, with countering China’s growing influence at the top of the agenda. AUKUS represents three of the Five Eyes partners, with Canada and New Zealand kept on the sidelines. True North’s Andrew Lawton says this is because other countries simply don’t take Canada seriously. Also, Calgary City Co...

The Alberta government has tabled a provincial firearms bill that will allow the province to decide how federal firearms laws are administered within Alberta. The bill could block municipal police agencies from confiscating firearms like those the government has recently prohibited. Alberta Chief Firearms Officer Teri Bryant joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to explain how the Alberta Firearms Act...

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says that Liberals have “deep ties” to China and that a public inquiry is needed to find out what exactly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew about Beijing’s election interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Watch Poilievre’s exclusive sit down interview with True North’s Andrew Lawton. Plus, from two doses to three, to one every few months, the Canadian gov...

Through Bill C-18, the Trudeau government trying to force technology companies to pay news media companies for using their content. Except news companies willingly use tech platforms to share and promote their content. In response to Bill C-18, Google is trying out ways to limit access to news content, similar to what Facebook and other companies did to protest a similar law in Australia. Former C...

The China election interference story has only grown, with Justin Trudeau now accusing critics and CSIS of racism for raising concerns about a foreign power meddling in Canada's democracy. In this live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, Andrew discusses the scandal with Patricia Adams of Probe International. Also, in just a few weeks, Canada's conservative movement will be meeting in Ottawa for th...

We know that China ran a sophisticated operation in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections to influence the results. In the most recent election, the Chinese Communist Party specifically wanted the Liberals to return to power, and Canadian intelligence officials knew. In spite of this, the Liberals have downplayed the extent of the interference, with Justin Trudeau saying today we should be more con...

At an NBA game in Utah, Canadian singer Jully Black changed the lyrics to O Canada, singing “our home on native land” instead of “our home and native land” to make a statement about Indigenous peoples. Since then, Black has been praised by the media and activists, prompting her to double down by claiming she sang the “facts.” True North’s Andrew Lawton says the ordeal demonstrates politicization i...

The Public Order Emergency Commission has found that Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to react to the Freedom Convoy was appropriate. Commissioner Paul Rouleau also defended the freezing of protesters’ bank accounts and the conscription of tow truck drivers. In this live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, True North’s Andrew Lawton breaks down the report and brings in guests to o...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Brenda Lucki is retiring from her post next month in what she called today a “personal decision.” Lucki has been accused of interfering in the RCMP’s investigation into the Nova Scotia killing spree to support the Liberals’ gun control plans and she was unable to address key details during her testimony before last year’s Public Order Emergency Commission...

It’s been one year since Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to break up the peaceful Freedom Convoy protest underway on the streets in front of Parliament Hill. The move was unprecedented and extreme, but numerous polls have shown that a majority of Canadians supported it. Next week, the Public Order Emergency Commission will release its report examining the circumstances that led to the d...

CBC chief executive officer Catherine Tait has said in an effort to "stay relevant," Canada's state broadcaster will be pivoting away from traditional radio and television broadcasts and adopting a streaming model. Except she offered no concrete plans for such a transition and said it won't happen within the next decade. In the same interview, Tait took aim at Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre'...

The question of whether Canada is broken has become a contentious political debate between Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau. Poilievre has continued to point out the brokenness of Canada, which Trudeau claims is not just wrong, but offensive. True North’s Andrew Lawton says you have to be delusional to not see the system breakdowns taking place across the country, though he doesn’t think any po...

German MEP Christine Anderson has made a name for herself in Canada from her outspoken support of the Freedom Convoy and opposition to Justin Trudeau. Next month, she’s touring Canada and meeting with politicians, though she says the real motivation for the trip is to meet with some of the “bravest people in the world” — the supporters of the Freedom Convoy. In this edition of The Andrew Lawton Sh...

The World Economic Forum’s 2023 annual meeting in Davos just wrapped up, with thousands of political, business and media elites descending on the Swiss alps to talk about “transitioning” away from oil and gas, eliminating carbon emissions, and adopting aggressive environmental policies – while all the limos and private jets lingered nearby. True North was in Davos covering the official programme a...

True North's Andrew Lawton is once again live from Davos on day three of the World Economic Forum's 2023 annual meeting. Today, Andrew was given the cold shoulder by John Kerry, Tony Blair, and Chrystia Freeland. Freeland refused to answer whether her position with WEF puts her in a conflict of interest as a cabinet minister. But the day in Davos brought other developments, such as the Moderna CEO...

For the first time ever, The Andrew Lawton Show is live from Davos. True North's Andrew Lawton is in the Swiss mountain village reporting on the World Economic Forum annual meeting. He's already encountered Klaus Schwab, four presidents and prime ministers, and countless other global elites who claim they're here to find solutions to the world's problems through "cooperation." In this special edit...

The theme of this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos is "cooperation in a fragmented world." The WEF says there are numerous crises unfolding, and world leaders need to gather together "in the spirit of improving the state of the world." True North's Andrew Lawton will be on the ground in Davos reporting on the meeting, which WEF founder Klaus Schwab says will have "unprecedented"...

When the billionaires and global elites gather in the Swiss Alps next week, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland will be among them. Freeland, who sits as a World Economic Forum trustee, will be an honoured guest at this year's WEF Annual Meeting in Davos. True North's Andrew Lawton will also be there reporting on some of the "solutions" being proposed in response to the world's problems. Also,...

Canadians had to withstand record inflation throughout 2022. Instead of offering a reprieve, the Liberal government hiked carbon taxes, kept printing money, and more importantly kept spending money. Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Franco Terrazzano joined True North's the Andrew Lawton Show for a wide-ranging chat about the last year and the year ahead through the lens of government...

It's the beginning of a new year, so True North's Anthony Furey and Andrew Lawton team up to talk about what's happening in politics and media in the coming year. Will Jagmeet Singh pull his support of the Liberal-NDP coalition? Will there be a federal election? Will the legacy media acknowledge why Canadians don't trust them? Plus, a preview on what's on True North's radar in 2023.  Learn more ab...

When Sun News Network went off the air in 2015, it looked like the end of conservative media in Canada. But Ezra Levant launched a new company from his living room. Nearly eight years later, Rebel News has 50 staff in sites around the world, and has influenced a wave of independent media. In this interview with True North's Andrew Lawton, Levant talks about why he chose media over politics, why Re...

The last three years have not been great for civil liberties in Canada, but this year takes the cake with the government invoking the Emergencies Act to crackdown on peaceful protesters in Ottawa. Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms president John Carpay joined True North's Andrew Lawton to talk about the state of civil liberties in Canada in 2022 and what's on the horizon in 2023. Carpay a...

It's been almost a year since the first leg Freedom Convoy set out for Ottawa from Delta, British Columbia in a weeks-long protest culminating in the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act and a swift expulsion of the protesters from Ottawa. This fall, the Public Order Emergency Commission convened to investigate the circumstances leading to the emergency declaration. While the Com...

Ottawa's police chief has said he will not allow a repeat of the Freedom Convoy as several people involved in the original trucker-led protest earlier this year say they want to return to Ottawa in February. Do you think it's possible to replicate the Convoy – and should people even try? True North's Andrew Lawton, author of a #1 bestseller about the convoy, shares his thoughts. Plus, the City of...