Two Provinces, Two Futures： Alberta Builds, Ontario Begs.
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I woke up this morning scratching my head. I checked the news just after 2:30 this morning and wanted to talk about a couple of things, but there was one thing that's very exciting that doesn't seem related to the other thing I'm talking about. And then I thought, you know, there's no relation.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel Tuesday, March 31st.
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Great to have you along today, 3.56 a.m. with the Big Blue Mug of Coffee.
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I checked the news just after 2.30 this morning and wanted to talk about a couple of things.
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But there was one thing that's very exciting I wanted to bring up that doesn't seem related
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to the other thing I'm going to talk about this morning. And then I thought, you know, there is
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no relation, but there is a connection here. There's an opportunity here. There's a teachable
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moment in this video. There's an opportunity to describe the difference between Alberta
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and Ontario and Alberta and Canada. It deals with the Alberta independence movement and Carney's
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new plan, along with Doug Ford, to build houses in Ontario. So the first thing I want to talk
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about is this. This is exciting. We hit the magic signature number, but it ain't over yet. Last
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night, Mitch Sylvester from Stay Free Alberta said we reached the threshold of 177,000 plus
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signatures to get a referendum question in the fall for Alberta to leave Canada. I can assure you
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that this number is much higher. And don't forget coming up on Saturday,
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Canvas or Appreciation Day, more on that coming up. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be talking
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to Jeff Rath. Later this morning, I should have a video with him up around 11 o'clock
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to talk about this and us moving forward, including the court case next week.
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What has this got to do with Carney's new housing plan that he announced in Ontario
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with Doug Ford? And I believe Olivia Chow, the communist Chinese mayor of Toronto.
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Well, I'm going to show you in stark terms the difference between what's going on in Ontario
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and Canada and what happens here in Alberta and the different mindset in just a moment in very
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stark terms. What did Carney say yesterday? Listen closely to what he had to say. So cutting
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development charges was a key commitment of our housing plan and today we're delivering on that
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because of the historic agreement with Ontario. Development charges across this province and I'm
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to repeat this because this is important. Development charges across this province are
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reduced by half for three years. And while we reduce by half, we're still building the
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essential infrastructure. Through the Build Community Strong Fund, Canada will invest
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4.4 billion dollars over 10 years matched by Ontario a total of 8.8 billion to build the
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housing enabling infrastructure and reduce the development charges. Do you understand what Mark
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Carney is actually saying here? Because it might have slipped by. Is he actually cutting development
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charges? The first words out of his mouth. We're cutting development charges by pitching in 4.4
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billion dollars federally and the Ontario government will match those funds. Is that
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what's happening? Let's take a look at an article from the Canadian Broadcorp incastration. Ford
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Carney announced $8.8 billion to help cut development charges, spur housing builds in
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Ontario. Just a bit of this story. Ontario and Ottawa will spend billions to help cut municipal
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housing development charges in an effort to spur new builds across the province. Prime Minister
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Mark Carney, and Premier Doug Ford announced on Monday. My cat is knocking things over in the
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background here. The federal and provincial governments will each spend $4.4 billion.
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The majority of the $8.8 billion in funding is intended to help cover infrastructure costs
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for municipalities that lower development charges. Is he cutting development charges? No.
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The government of Canada and the government of Ontario are subsidizing development charges.
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they're not cutting development charges. Do you remember what Pierre Polyev talked about
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when he talked about housing prior to the election last year? He had like a five-point
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plan. I won't get into all of it, but his main part of his plan was get the government out of
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the way. I can go back to my friend Ronald Reagan, who had a great quote here.
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Government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them. And that's what this is. But this has been
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part of the plan all along, folks. I'm going to show you the difference in the mindset between
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Alberta and Ontario and Canada in just a moment. And it makes me mad, very mad. It's why I want
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Alberta independence. You're going to understand a little bit more in just a second. Out of the
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words from Danielle Smith. What did Carney say during the election? He created a whole new set
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books, folks. This is part of his spend less, invest more plan. I have a simple rule. Spend
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less, invest more. A government that spends less so that Canada can invest more. To spend
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less and invest more. Depends moins, invest plus. He said that over and over again during
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the election campaign and since. You were warned about this. We could see what was coming,
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folks. Let me ask you, Canadian taxpayer, Ontario taxpayer, what category would you put the $4.4
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billion Carney is contributing to this Ontario housing scheme? Where would you put it? Do you
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put this in the spending category or the investing category? Spend less, invest more. Well, Carney's
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putting it into investing, but it's not investing, it's spending and it's your money. People in
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Canada are subsidizing homes in Ontario and people in Ontario get a double whammy, federal taxes,
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provincial taxes to subsidize houses in Toronto. And you can't afford food or pay for your own
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damn mortgage anymore. But Carney's going to say this is an investment. At the end of the year,
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two sets of books. At the end of the year, spending's down folks, but we're investing
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more, but it's your money. Now here's the difference between Ontario and the mindset
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here in Alberta. See, Ontario wants a handout so they can build houses. Alberta wants to build a
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pipeline. They want nothing to do with the federal government and Carney won't help out at all by
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cutting the rules and regulations to build something here. Here's Danielle Smith saying,
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if we have to have the government fund our pipeline, it's a failure. And she said this
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over and over again. This was her on Jasmine Lane. We've had a constant barrage over the last 10 years
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of a government that has clearly been trying to do everything they could to keep oil and gas
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in the ground. So guess what happens when that occurs? Private sector says, well, if you don't
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want us, we'll go elsewhere. And they did. They went elsewhere around the world. Now what we're
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trying to do is to undo a lot of those terrible policies so that we can attract the private
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sector back. I certainly wouldn't look at having to build another pipeline with government money
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as being a success it would be i think a failure of the exercise the exercise we're going through
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right now yeah doug ford out there with his buddy mark carney both of them grinning ear to ear i
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think olivia chow just off to the side at that news conference yesterday happy as can be canadian
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taxpayers and ontario taxpayers are subsidizing housing in the toronto area what a great success
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mark carney he's fulfilled an election promise elbows up folks
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meanwhile here in alberta all we want to do is build a pipeline and keep the government out of
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it no but folks we got a memorandum of understanding
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a round of applause inside the room there various ministers from both the federal and
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provincial governments present as the premier and the prime minister shake hands after signing
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a memorandum of understanding you know what's even worse albertans pay five thousand dollars
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for every man woman and child into equalization payments that goes out east every year and ontario
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is a have-not province and gets some of that money so albertans who can't get a pipeline built
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without government involvement are probably paying a larger portion of this money that is going
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towards this so-called housing scheme of Mark Carney and Doug Ford.
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