This Week in DUMB Cana-DUH - Vol. 1 Ep. 1
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Summary
In this episode of The Big Blue Mug of Coffee, John talks about some of the dumb things happening in Canadian politics, including: 1. Mark Carney's immigration plan. 2. Safe injection sites. 3. Censorship. 4. Safe drug injection sites in Alberta. 5. The government wants to build a fence around Nanaimo, B.C. to protect against drug use.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 534 a.m. Friday, July the 18th with the big blue
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mug of coffee. Of course, I hope you're having a great start to your Friday, getting set
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for an awesome weekend as well. And I am doing that. Now, before we get to today's video,
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just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Derek from the unacceptable fringe for being
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part of this channel. I posted a fantastic interview with him earlier this morning where
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we talked about Canadian politics, Alberta politics, Alberta separation, censorship,
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touched on Mark Carney, Pierre Polyev, Daniel Smith, and so much more. I wanted to go on,
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didn't have time, but check out the video. I'll put a card at the end of this video so you can
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click on it and watch it in its entirety. And I hope to do more videos and interviews with people
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who are doing independent media in Canada. Thanks again, Derek. Go to his channel and subscribe.
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So, I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Dumb things in Canadian politics. And of course,
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you can get pretty deep into this. And this video could go on for two hours because there's a lot
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of dumb stuff happening. But I'm going to limit it to three with maybe an honorable mention on occasion.
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Hopefully, I can do this on a weekly basis. So, immigration has been a big issue here in Canada.
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We bring too many people into the country. The supply and demand thing becomes an issue.
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Low supply of houses, high demand, it drives up prices. So, there's been talk of cutting immigration.
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The Carney government is not going to do that. Pierre Polyev was the one who made this an issue
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during the election campaign. He's actually changed his tune on immigration lately. And he's talking
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about immigration almost like he's talking about negative immigration.
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We need to ensure that more leave than come in over the next couple of years while we catch up,
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while housing, health care, and jobs can catch up.
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So, at a time when Polyev is calling for negative immigration and Canadians are saying we need to let
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fewer people into the country on a yearly basis, illegal and legal, what's the Carney government
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doing? They're going to let more people in. Thousands of Canadians to start receiving invitations
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to apply to sponsor parents and grandparents from CTV News just published yesterday.
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Thousands of Canadians will soon receive invitations to apply to sponsor their parents and grandparents
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as permanent residents. The 2025 intake will open for a few weeks starting July 28th for 17,860
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potential sponsors who submitted an interest to sponsor form in 2020, according to Immigration,
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Refugees, and Citizenship Canada. In a notice published online Wednesday, IRCC said its goal is to accept
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it to 10,000 complete applications under the Federal Parents and Grandparents Program. So, I'm assuming
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if they have 10,000 complete applications, it doesn't just mean 10,000 people are coming here. They
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could be applying for more people in their own family to come here. It could be 20,000 or 30,000 or
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40,000 more people coming to the country at a time when we're calling for less immigration.
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That's number three. Let's move along to dumb thing number two.
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Number two on the list of dumb things here in Canada has to deal with safe injection sites.
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Here in Alberta, the government has decided that they want to help people get off drugs,
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not continue to give people drugs to eventually have them die of a drug overdose in the future. That's
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what safe injection sites eventually lead to. Now, I'm a compassionate person. I'm all for helping
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people who have a real problem. I've had a close family member of mine die of a drug overdose. But
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with these safe injection sites, people don't want them in their neighborhood. It causes problems. It
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causes dysfunction. It causes crime. It causes them to find needles in the street. They don't want them in
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their neighborhood. But when it comes to government, the government needs to be protected from safe
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injection sites, which takes us to Nanaimo, B.C. You see, the people out in the communities who
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complain about these sites get nothing. But the council's got to be protected from the very policies
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that they put into place. Plan to fence off Nanaimo, B.C. City Hall to protect from overdose site
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disorder. Violence and disorder associated with an overdose prevention site next to City Hall.
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Let's read a little bit of this story, shall we? The city of Nanaimo, B.C. is considering building a
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1.8-meter-high fence to protect its staff from congregations of people, violence, and disorder
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associated with an overdose prevention site next to City Hall. Staff proposing the $412,000 fence site
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intimidation and harassment of employees, particularly those working early or late, as well as damage to
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staff vehicles, fires near doorways and building perimeters, human waste, and a general deterioration
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of the site. Now, let's read what the mayor has to say about this.
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Mayor Leonard Krog said in an interview Monday that the municipality had a legal obligation to protect
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its staff and property, and the final cost may be less or more than the recommended budget.
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We can't fence off everybody's private property, he said. We can't control every street, but we do have
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a duty to our employees which is legal and present and very clear. This report represents the views of
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our staff, their feelings, and more importantly, and sadly, their fears and experience that they have had in
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the last few years as we've seen the situation in our streets become the challenge that it is.
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Mayor Krog, it is your duty to help the people that you represent. You have a duty to your constituents,
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to your voters, not just to the staff that feel intimidated by these people in the street.
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That's your job. I don't think government has many jobs. As Ronald Reagan said, the government that is
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best governs least, but one of the few things government should be doing is security, making
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people safe. And Mr. Krog, you've got it all wrong. Let's move on to number three.
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So number three on the list this week is Mind Numbingly Dumb, and I want to give credit where
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it is due to Corey Morgan from The Corey Morgan Show and The Western Standard. Now, the video you're
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going to watch in just a moment, admittedly, is probably from the wintertime, but Corey tweeted this
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out this week because this is a story that is very pertinent right now. Here is Corey's tweet.
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Every Canadian should watch this. A farmer is forced to dump thousands of liters of good
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milk down the drain because supply management makes it illegal for him to sell it. This
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is a sick system while families struggle with food prices.
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Hey guys, we're here at Gibbonbo's Farm in Southern Ontario. We milk about 260 pounds. Right
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now, during the winter months, we milk quite a bit more milk because the feed is very consistent.
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And if you do a good job, you will produce quite a bit of milk. So, but right now, we're
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over our Fultum. It's regulated by the government and by the DFO. But the problem is, is what
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they don't understand is millions of people, look at this milk running away, because it's
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the end of the month. So I have to dump, I dump 30,000 liters of milk and it breaks my heart.
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And it breaks my heart. I will show you, by the way, this here Canadian milk is $7 a liter.
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When I go for my haircut, people say, wow, $7, Jerry, for a little bit of milk. I say, well,
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you have to go higher up because we have no say anymore as a dairy farmer on our own farm
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farm or on our own farm because they, they make us dump it. And no matter how we stand
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up, so this time I'm going public. I want the people to see the pain that us growers have.
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Oh, 365 days as a little boy, we grew up on a dairy farm, came from Europe. Work, work, work.
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Doesn't that just turn your stomach? You know, I watched that video and I'm incensed.
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I've held liters of cream here on my channel saying I pay more than $4 a liter for this in
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some places. And it's creeping up at Costco where it's $3.20 a liter now. Yeah, American friends,
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we pay more than $4 for a liter goddamn cream in this country because of stuff like this.
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The policy couched in the language of defending Quebec farmers artificially inflates food prices
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and hinders consumer choice and limits market access for Canadian producers from an article
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in the Western Standard. They cover this quite extensively. Supply management. Go over and subscribe.
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I do. Meanwhile, this is a major bone of contention when it comes to Donald Trump. He talks about this all the time.
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So what does the Canadian government do just before we're supposed to go into trade negotiations?
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This big issue. The crisis of our lifetime. Parliament on June 17th passed Bill C-202,
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a Bloc Quebecois bill that bars the government from making any international trade deals
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that alters Canada's quotas for dairy, eggs, or poultry.
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Meanwhile, it passed. Everybody voted in favor of this because they pander to the vote in Quebec.
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Screw Alberta. Screw the rest of Canada. Drives up prices.
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Polyev confirms he will never cancel controversial dairy supply management.
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So even if you get a conservative government, this will not change.
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