The LeDrew Three Minute Interview

Catherine Swift joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss Canada’s struggle to compete in the global race for artificial intelligence, data centres, energy, and major investment. As AI data centres are being built around the world, Swift argues that Canada is falling behind because of bureaucracy, environmental delays, political dithering, and an anti-business mindset. She says Canada has the resources — in...

George Burger joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss education, socialism, media, history, and what he sees as the growing influence of destructive progressive ideology in Canada. In this episode, Burger argues that many of Canada’s cultural and political problems begin in the classroom. He says history, civics, and politics have been replaced by vague “social studies,” leaving generations of Canadians w...

Does Canada need more independent journalism? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Arshy Mann, co-founder and host of The Hatchet, about legacy media, government funding, independent journalism, and the growing need for voices outside the traditional Ottawa and Toronto media consensus. LeDrew argues that too much of Canada’s legacy media relies on govern...

Franco Terrazzano, head of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss Ottawa’s plan to buy unsold condos from Vancouver developers — and why taxpayers should be concerned. In this episode, LeDrew and Terrazzano question why the federal government would use taxpayer money to help condo developers during a market downturn. They argue that if condo prices are too high, the mar...

In today’s Rant, Stephen LeDrew takes aim at the federal government’s Vancouver condo bailout and asks the question many Canadians are already thinking: does this pass the smell test? The deal involves billions in taxpayer money, politically connected rich developers, pricey fundraisers, Housing Minister Gregor Robertson, Prime Minister Mark Carney, and questions about Brookfield’s connections to...

Small business owner Jim Doan joins Stephen LeDrew to talk about the growing burden of government bureaucracy, taxes, red tape, financing challenges, and the rising cost of doing business in Canada. In this episode, LeDrew and Doan discuss how small businesses are being forced to spend more time and money dealing with forms, remittances, questionnaires, regulations, and multiple levels of governme...

George Burger, founder of the 'The Honour Sir John Project', joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss the growing concern that Canada’s history is being erased, rewritten, or reduced to one-sided political narratives. In this episode, LeDrew and Burger talk about Sir John A. Macdonald, the push to remove names and statues, the controversy at Queen’s University Law School, and why so many Canadians no longe...

In today’s LeDrew Rant, Stephen argues that Canadians should stop apologizing for their country and start celebrating what generations built, defended, and sacrificed for. Canada has made mistakes, but it should not be defined only by them. LeDrew says the country needs to reject national self-loathing, rebuild common purpose, and believe in Canada’s future again. Topics covered: Canada Day and Na...

Is Canada building its economy — or just listening to more speeches? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Dan McTeague, former Liberal MP and energy analyst, about Mark Carney’s economic promises, Canada’s missed opportunities, and why major private-sector projects remain trapped in political delay. McTeague argues that despite months of speeches, announ...

Catherine Swift of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada joins Stephen LeDrew for a blunt conversation about government, bureaucracy, business, and the future of the Canadian economy. In this 3-minute preview, Swift argues that Canada has become increasingly hostile to business, with too much red tape, too much government, and too little focus on productivity, growth, a...

Is Canada erasing its own history in the name of “decolonization”? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Mark Johnson, lawyer, columnist, conservative commentator, and founder of Save Our History, about Canadian history, statue removals, public renaming campaigns, and the growing debate over decolonization. The conversation looks at how cities and institu...

Why is Canada so slow to approve major energy projects? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Dan McTeague, former Liberal MP and energy analyst, about Bay du Nord — a major offshore oil project near Newfoundland that could have brought billions in investment, jobs, and economic activity to Canada. McTeague explains that the Bay du Nord project, located h...

Could Frank Stronach build Magna in Canada today? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Frank Stronach, the founder of Magna International, about Canada’s struggling economy, small business, red tape, and the growing burden of bureaucracy. Stronach came to Canada in 1954 with $200 in his wallet and went on to build one of the country’s most successful com...

Why is Mark Carney still popular when so many Canadians know the economy is getting worse? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew enjoys an animated conversation with Arshy Mann, co-founder and host of The Hatchet, about the disconnect between Canada’s struggling economy and Carney’s continued political strength. Canadians are facing rising costs, job losses, housing...

As Canada Day approaches, Stephen LeDrew takes a hard look at the State of the Country - celebrating what still makes Canada great, while asking whether Canada has lost sight of what holds it together. In this rant, LeDrew tackles government bureaucracy, over-regulation, DEI, multiculturalism, immigration, and integration. He argues that Canada has become too focused on diversity as a political sl...

Has Canada lost its social contract? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Dr. Michael Bonner about social decomposition, loneliness, crime, freedom, and the future of community in Canada. Bonner is the author of The Crisis of Liberalism: The Origin and Destiny of Freedom, a book that examines the philosophical and theological foundations of modern freedo...

Does Canada really need to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on artificial intelligence? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with journalist Arshy Mann of the Hatchet about the Carney Liberal Government’s major investment in AI, the creation of a dedicated AI ministry, and the growing questions Canadians have about how this technology will actually affect t...

Why is Alberta talking about sovereignty — and how much of the blame belongs to Ottawa? In today’s LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Tony Keller, columnist with The Globe and Mail, about Alberta separatism,Premier Danielle Smith, Canadian unity, and the role Liberal energy policy has played in alienating the province. Keller argues that Alberta has legitimate grievances aft...

Is Canada in recession — or just stuck? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with John Turley-Ewart, columnist with The Globe and Mail, about Canada’s slowing economy, rising affordability pressures, and why so many Canadians feel they are falling behind. Turley-Ewart argues that while economists may debate whether Canada is technically in recession, the live...

Are heat pumps really the future of home heating in Canada — or just another expensive government-backed experiment? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen speaks with Dan McTeague, former Liberal MP and president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, about heat pumps, electricity costs, green subsidies, net-zero policy, and the growing burden on taxpayers. McTeague argues tha...

Canada was once seen as a country that got immigration right. So what changed? In this Three-Minute preview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Tony Keller, columnist with The Globe and Mail and author of Borderline Chaos: How Canada Got Immigration Right and Then Wrong, about the major shift in Canadian immigration policy after 2015. Keller argues that Canada’s previous immigration model was relatively h...

Should Canada be ashamed of its own history — or honest about it? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Mark Johnson, lawyer, columnist, and founder of Save Our History, about how the Town Council refuses to restore a Sir John A. Macdonald statue in Picton, Ontario. Johnson explains that the statue was originally installed through local fundraising and pr...

Is the West losing confidence in its own ways, learned from costly experience? In this LeDrew Rant, Stephen LeDrew argues that Canada and other Western countries are suffering from the same political problem: leaders and institutions that are more interested in symbolism, slogans, and bureaucracy than common sense, national memory, and action. The rant begins with the Bank of England’s decision to...

Why can’t Canada get major projects built anymore? In this episode of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview, Stephen speaks with Dan McTeague, former Liberal MP and president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, about pipelines, regulation, bureaucracy, energy policy, and the media’s relationship with government funding. McTeague argues that Canada has become so over-regulated that major infrastructure...

Stephen LeDrew sits down with Michelle Ferreri, former MP, for a blunt conversation about why so many Canadians feel disconnected, frustrated, and increasingly hopeless about the direction of the country. Ferreri argues that after years of rising costs, growing bureaucracy, weak leadership, and economic decline, many Canadians have simply “checked out” of politics altogether. Instead of engagement...