Leaders on the Frontier Podcast

No-nonsense leadership could turn Canada into a global superpower in under 5 years. Here’s how.

Get a front row seat to an exclusive conversation between host David Leis and the well-known Sir Conrad Black as he offers his unfiltered opinion on the hot button issues of the day including the failings of Indigenous affairs, the economic suicide of green policies and the lack of a well-managed, excellence-driven media industry. As the discussion unfolds, learn what history reveals about a good-governance vision for Canada’s future.

David Leis welcomes two experts to unearth the real problem behind housing affordability and why the cost of living is under such crisis in Canada and the USA. You'll learn from Wendell Cox & Charles Blain about how urban and provincial policies, even though well intentioned, often erode housing affordability. Learn what you can do as a citizen today to influence change so the next generation can experience "the Canadian Dream".

Trump, Biden, covid and everything in between… how America’s turmoil will be Canada’s strife.

David Leis' guest today, Randal O'Toole has dedicated decades of research and analysis to policies that help citizens live and thrive rather than be held hostage to the demands of green belts and bureaucratic restrictions. In this conversation he debunks myths about how North American cities ought to structure development to serve human behaviour rather than utopian urban plans that don't add up.

Climates do change, as they always have. So, what's the truth behind human-influence on climate?  David Leis learns this, and other fascinating perspectives into the high science academic community with Dr. William Happer; who has decades of experience in atomic physics, and adaptive optics; consulting several presidential science committees and teaching at Princeton University.

What exactly happened during 2020 to deliberately hide the truth about the Wuhan Lab, therapeutic treatments for patients, age-stratified risk and the collateral damages of lockdowns? Two authors of the Great Barrington Declaration join David Leis for a well-rounded discussion on what truths have been revealed recently and why public health abandoned over 100 years of data and practices.

What exactly happened during 2020 to deliberately hide the truth about the Wuhan Lab, therapeutic treatments for patients, age-stratified risk and the collateral damages of lockdowns? Two authors of the Great Barrington Declaration join David Leis for a well-rounded discussion on what truths have been revealed recently and why public health abandoned over 100 years of data and practices.

Many Canadians are noticing that life has gotten progressively harder over the past 5 years; much of this is due to public policies that follow the prescription that big government is the solution to everything. As David Leis and his guest Spencer Fernando discuss; the last few years have only proven that reasoning to be false, over and over again.

Are to many politicians in power for the wrong reasons? Sir Roger Douglas, former Minister of Finance of New Zealand, joins David Leis on the podcast this week. What can Canada learn from New Zealand’s economic history?

Deanna McLeod, Principal & Lead Strategist at Kaleidoscope Strategic Inc. walks David Leis through a fascinating timeline of how the pandemic measures and vax trials got it wrong and how the normal parameters of a medical study were not properly followed; and the data misrepresented.

Former CEO of Encana, Gwyn Morgan joins David Leis for a honest discussion about the state of energy in Canada and how that impacts our place on the global stage. Affordable energy is essential to raise countries out of poverty and to improve quality of life, so why are environmentalists so hell-bent on killing Canada's most powerful industry: the oil and gas sector? Will there ever be a balance?

There is a raging debate among scientists about climate change. This is in contrast with public statements made by politicians who claim that climate change is an existential threat and the science is certain. In this Leaders on the Frontier, the discussion is with renowned physicist Dr. William Happer. Dr. Happer explains how science really works and that the debate regarding climate change is far from certain. Dr. Happer also explains a possible way to resolve elements of this scientific debate using so call Red-Blue exercises.

In this in depth discussion, host David Leis welcome Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute to comb through ten principles of Classical Liberalism and the current state of affairs in the western world.

Leaders on the Frontier will be streaming live on November 17th at 4:00pm CT. Watch live and submit your questions.

NOTE: Due to an oversight, we misspelled one of our guests' names in today's video. It should be noted that the correct spelling is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

With guests Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert) and Dr. Martin Kulldorff (professor of Medicine at Harvard University on leave, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, and Founding Fellow at the Academy for Science and Freedom), David Leis discusses how lockdown policies produced devastating effects on short and long-term public health in the form of lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden.

Climate change policies designed to reduce and eliminate carbon dioxide emissions are causing chaos and falling living standards around the world. Moves to ban fertilizers, for example, recently caused a famine in Sri Lanka that collapsed that country’s government. Those same policies have ignited massive and growing farmer protests in the the Netherlands. Two such climate policies include Net Zero 50 – which aims to eliminate co2 emissions by 2050 - and a green social credit scheme which scores corporations highly for moving away from fossil fuels referred to as ESG (Environmental Social Governance). The Trudeau government has made climate change its highest priority and is now proceeding to impose fertilizer bans on Canada’s farmers. ESG and Net Zero policies are ultimately an attack on cheap, effective energy sources that will degrade everybody’s living standards by profoundly raising costs across Canadian industry including energy, manufacturing, agriculture, mining and financial services to name a few. What are the essentials you need to understand about these policies and their far-reaching impacts? What is the history behind them and their relationships to other nations? Who are the key actors so intent on pursuing them and why are they promoting them despite their disastrous impacts on working people? We will explore why Canadians need to be more concerned about these harmful anti-energy policies. More importantly we will discuss how elected officials and decision-makers can stop and reverse them.

Canada faces a myriad of serious economic challenges. On May 18th, the Canadian consumer price inflation hit a three-decade high, adding pressure on the Bank of Canada to continue with major interest rate increases. This at a time of record level government deficits and historically high debt levels. At the same time, Canada’s dismal track records on productivity, regulations and energy policy appear to be setting the stage for economic recession and decline. Witness a recent OECD document shows Canada dead last in per capita GDP growth for the coming decades. In this complex and dynamic state of affairs, how do we make sense of the state of our economy? Do we indeed face a recession and even a decline in our standard of living? What are Canada’s economic opportunities and decisions to build a bright economic future? From bitcoin to ESG to the Governor of the Bank of Canada, our country faces many strategic decisions. Be sure to join Policy on the Frontier for this engaging session with well-known economist and editor of the Financial Post comment page, William Watson. Dr. Watson will share his take on current economic topics and the choices Canada faces.