Alert! Radio - Episode 162

The Harper government foreign policy doomed Canada’s bid for a UN Security Council seat according to award winning editor and columnist Haroon Siddiqui. Stephen Shrybman, international trade and public interest lawyer and Board member of the Council of Canadians reveals the pitfalls of the Canada-European Union free trade agreement now being negotiated. Award winning film maker, broadcaster and writer Saul Landau talks about the right-wing swing in American politics and reflects on whether it matters that the Democratic Party will gain at the expense of the Democrats in next week’s Congressional elections. He also ruminates on California’s ballot to decriminalize possession of marijuana.