Despite previous claims that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s office had no idea that convicted killer Paul Bernardo was getting transferred to medium security, in fact, Mendicino’s staff knew for three months that the transfer was going to happen. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Mendicino to resign, though all the public safety minister is committing to is a new “policy directive” allowing for more information to be shared.
Also, True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in on the Bell Media layoffs.
Plus, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, head of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence, joins the show to talk about the privacy dangers of digital ID.