More asylum seekers at Roxham Road. Plus: Calls to the DPJ have dropped, yet experts do not see this as a good thing

Elias Makos welcomes in Neil Drabkin, Immigration Lawyer, Political Commentator & former chief-of-staff to the Harper Government, and Trudie Mason, veteran newscaster at CJAD 800.

• Yesterday Finance Minister Éric Girard tabled a historic budget with a projected $11 billion dollar deficit
• Mayors in Greater Montreal say they’re looking at the possibility of significantly increasing density in certain areas
• The Online Harms Act continues to get attention, and very little of it is good

Elias Makos is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media, Akil Alleyne, Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Quebec’s budget will be unveiled later today and it’s set to focus on education and health
• The ArriveCan scandal is getting worse. Today we’re finding out that GC Strategies won three other contracts to develop apps for the Canada Border Services Agency
• The latest poll from Mainstreet Research shows the Conservatives with a 21-point lead nationwide, and a lead in every region of the country except Quebec - where there is now a statistical tie between the Bloc, Liberals, and Conservatives

Elias Makos kicks off the week with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst, and Sue Montgomery, former journalist and former mayor of CDN-NDG 

• Projet Montréal recently polled Montrealers for their views about a list of people who could conceivably run for mayor
• Just a few months before the start of the leadership race for Quebec’s Liberal Party - a political commission has been formed to highlight, defend and make clear what the political positions of the Liberals are
• Laval will be offering $50 dollars a year to residents towards the purchase of reusable menstrual products and adult diapers

Elias Makos caps off the week with Justine McIntyre, strategic consultant and former city councillor, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

• Quebec’s deal with Groupe Construction Pomerleau-Canam to replace the Olympic Stadium roof and technical ring is official
• Anti-Airbnb rage has spread in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood of Montreal
• A Superior Court judge has denied Montreal's Roman Catholic archdiocese’s request for an exemption to Quebec’s medical assistance in dying law

Elias Makos is joined by political analysts Karim Boulos and Anne Lagace-Dowson

• Montreal’s festivals have penned an open letter this morning, wondering out loud which of their festivals will go down the path of Just For Laughs next
• That the Northvolt plant would not have happened if the company had to submit to a BAPE, or environmental assessment
• Stick around Quebec making $120,000 Canadian a year, or take an offer to make $90,000 a year in Florida. Which one would you pick?

Elias Makos welcomes back Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media, and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. 

• Canada’s GDP per capita is now lower than it was at the end of 2014. The gap between Canada and the U.S. on that front is now $25,000, more than double what it was when the Liberals took power in 2015
• Just for Laughs is seeking creditor protection and has cancelled this year's festival
• Paul St-Pierre Plamondon wants the referendum to be on immigration

Elias Makos is joined by Trudie Mason, veteran newscaster at CJAD 800, and 
Akil Alleyne, reporter and commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Correctional Service Canada has confirmed that notorious killer Luka Magnotta has been transferred to a medium-security prison
• Former Bell Media radio host Jamil Jivani won the federal byelection in Durham, Ontario last night
• Quebec is annoyed as Ottawa is imposing an increase in family unification permits

Elias Makos starts the week with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

• A reception for visiting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Toronto had to be cancelled on Saturday, after “Pro-palestinian” blocked all entrances to the venue
• Radio-Canada reports that federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller has told his staff to exceed the immigration thresholds
• Is Air Canada slowly becoming the WORST airline to travel with? 
• Could we soon see the end of the classic 4-litre milk bag? 

Elias Makos ends the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

• Canada’s former prime minister Brian Mulroney has died at age 84. What are your most memorable Mulroney moments? What did he mean to you? 
• Quebec’s highest court made a ruling on Bill 21 yesterday. Ruling on the province’s secularism law they ruled that it was constitutional
• The new proposed online harms bill would give the Justice Minister the power to impose house arrest on someone who “is feared to commit a hate crime in the future – even if they have not yet done so already”

Elias Makos welcomes back Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.

•  The latest poll has Pierre Poilievre’s conservatives ahead of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals… in Quebec!
• CTV News has learnt that the CEO of a company that received $8 million to work on the ArriveCan app is an employee of the Department of National Defence
• 40 years ago today, Pierre Elliott Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister, the day after taking his now infamous walk in the snow. There are so many parallels between the fate of the father and the current fate of the son, Justin. Would you advise Justin Trudeau to resign today?