Massey College

This has to do with Project South.

Who wrote that column? Alec Mukherjee, former chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, currently a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.

Mr. Mukherjee, good morning.

Good morning, Jay.

that it was important that the investigation and the inspection of systemic issues were both conducted at an arm's length with no involvement whatsoever, no perception of any possibility of conflict.

Alec Mukherjee is the former chair of the Toronto Police Services Board.

He's currently a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto, and has, as he's been telling us here, misgivings about how the inspection has proceeded after the revelations of Project South and corruption within the police, including perhaps the possibility of a hit for hire.

I mean, it's pretty shocking stuff, really.

Previously, she served as the CEO of the Canada Energy Regulator and Alberta's senior representative to the United States.

Brett is a professor at Columbia Business School and a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, also with Massey College at the University of Toronto.

And he is a fellow with the Public Policy Forum.

Chetan and Brett, thank you for joining us.

It's a long-form piece of media criticism.

It's a partnership between the Literary Review and Massey College.

And So I embarked on that journey, kind of looking at what, trying to get to the bottom of what's going on here if we are just putting the focus solely on us in the media.

And so this is a, it's a short book based on the Massey essay, and it is very much an argument.

She served as parliamentary bureau chief for Le Devoir and La Presse before moving on to become a political columnist for the Toronto Star.

She's a graduate of Glendon College, York University, a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and she holds honorary degrees from a dozen Canadian universities.

In 2012, she was appointed to the Order of Canada.

Her second book, The Morning After, which deals with the 95 Quebec referendum, was published simultaneously in both official languages in 2015.

Dudes like family at this point.

But we lived together at Massey College, which is a graduate residential college at the University of Toronto.

And Alex at the time was doing his PhD in molecular virology.

And it was, you know, based on the Oxbridge system.

Imagine the scene.

[upbeat music] A posh, dimly lit 1960s era lounge room with dark vintage leather bucket seats and couches at Massey College within the University of Toronto.

It's an after party for graduate students.

I go to this thing, and I enter the room, and my song is playing, like a song that I have written.