{"id":71565,"date":"2026-10-07T03:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/?p=71565"},"modified":"2026-10-07T03:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:35:38","slug":"what-avi-lewis-thinks-ottawa-got-wrong-with-bill-c-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/?p=71565","title":{"rendered":"What Avi Lewis thinks Ottawa got wrong with Bill C-39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71566\" src=\"http:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/db109777e1229c8ed79cf966fc57441e47f10f37f36fda94dc7c4b758726ed7a-1024x652-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By Analysis by The Big Story podcast<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In today\u2019s The Big Story podcast, Ottawa is furthering its pursuit of building a stronger, more sovereign Canada. Bill C-39, the Build Canada Strong Act is the latest omnibus legislation that aims to reform parts of the Canadian Labour Code, as well as streamline projects deemed of \u201cnational interest.\u201d Critics, however, say the bill throws environmental protection, Indigenous consultation and workers\u2019 rights all into limbo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among those critics is Federal NDP Leader, Avi Lewis.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Host Caryn Ceolin speaks to Mr. Lewis to discuss who he thinks gets left behind in the bill, what tweaks are needed to protect workers, and why Prime Minister Carney\u2019s goals seem to be less in the interest of Canadians and more in the interest of foreign investors. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Analysis by The Big Story podcast In today\u2019s The Big Story podcast, Ottawa is furthering its pursuit of building a stronger, more sovereign Canada. Bill C-39, the Build Canada Strong Act is the latest omnibus legislation that aims to reform parts of the Canadian Labour Code, as well as streamline projects deemed of \u201cnational &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":71566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-198"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71660,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565\/revisions\/71660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}