Rebel News Podcast - Ethics and supply management： Humane food production under government price-fixing

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00:01:43.320 Is supply management detrimental to animal welfare?

00:01:55.140 It's an interesting argument.

00:01:57.280 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:59.660 Canada is one of the few remaining places in the world where we still have supply managed milk.

00:02:22.320 Now we do also have supply managed other things too like poultry and eggs.

00:02:27.960 And we know that while supply management does protect the wholesale price to the farmer,

00:02:35.100 it also artificially inflates the price to the consumer of the most basic foodstuffs.

00:02:41.620 And it limits choice.

00:02:43.600 And it also limits the ability of new farmers to get into the game.

00:02:48.520 But does it do something else?

00:02:50.440 Does it, in some instances, end up being bad for animals?

00:02:55.580 Then, Calgary City Council has voted to defund the police by $20 million

00:03:02.400 at the urging of a small handful of radical activists.

00:03:06.860 What could possibly go wrong?

00:03:10.340 And still in Calgary, left-wing Mayor Naheed Nenshi has asked Justin Trudeau

00:03:15.720 to help him get access to multi-generational quarantine facilities.

00:03:22.340 And still in Alberta.

00:03:24.540 Are we getting a PST?

00:03:25.980 There's a lot to talk about.

00:03:27.040 My guest tonight is Corey Morgan.

00:03:28.840 He's a columnist for the Western Standard Online.

00:03:31.500 And he joins me in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon.

00:03:35.720 So joining me now from the Western Standard offices in Calgary is Corey Morgan.

00:03:56.720 Corey's a columnist with Western Standard and he's also the podcast editor.

00:04:01.120 Corey, thanks for joining me.

00:04:02.240 Um, there's so much to talk about in Calgary news.

00:04:07.120 Um, but before we get into that, I wanted to talk to you about the swipe that you took

00:04:13.980 at the, I guess, it's one of those things that you can't talk about in Canadian conservatism,

00:04:21.140 um, and really get elected at all.

00:04:25.300 And that's supply management.

00:04:26.440 And you have a great article that I really appreciate, um, saying that Canada's Soviet 0.78

00:04:33.680 style supply management system encourages inhumane factory farms. 0.77

00:04:39.180 Why don't you give us the premise of your article?

00:04:41.460 Sure.

00:04:41.980 Like I, I've always been outspoken about supply management just on the economic, economic case

00:04:46.960 of it, because Soviet style is the, the best term to describe supply management.

00:04:51.180 I mean, the government issues quotas will only allow you to produce a certain amount.

00:04:56.640 Uh, my wife grew up on a dairy farm where they had a cream quota and literally they'd 1.00

00:05:00.300 pour milk in the ditch afterwards because it was illegal for them to sell it.

00:05:03.100 They can only sell the cream. 0.94

00:05:04.260 Like it's just absurd and ridiculous.

00:05:06.380 And just about every country has gotten out of it.

00:05:08.360 But the left seems to stay silent on that.

00:05:11.000 They, they like large government controlling, uh, uh, policies, but perhaps, you know, going

00:05:16.960 into the animal welfare aspect of it, because that's a valid case as well, that nobody really

00:05:21.840 talks about supply management really, you know, pushes to have larger commercial operations,

00:05:29.380 great big ones that have bought those quotas up and they're doing a production on economies

00:05:34.280 of scale.

00:05:34.800 I mean, I'm a capitalist.

00:05:35.600 I understand it.

00:05:36.240 You're keeping your expenses down.

00:05:37.440 You're getting a cheaper product out to market.

00:05:39.280 You're going to sell more of it.

00:05:40.780 And I'm not even talking about banning that kind of production, but people like to see

00:05:45.240 alternatives sprouting, but they're more expensive and they can't get quotas.

00:05:49.980 And I use that premise just because this year, like a lot of, uh, people, we've gotten in

00:05:53.680 new hobbies and almost a bit of survivalism.

00:05:55.600 I live on a small acreage.

00:05:56.860 We thought we'd get a little more independent.

00:05:58.300 So we built a chicken coop and brought in a bunch of chickens and it's been fun.

00:06:02.720 They leave more eggs than we could ever imagine consuming.

00:06:05.880 So we just put a thing out on, you know, social media saying, Hey, we've got a bunch of excess

00:06:10.680 free range eggs.

00:06:11.600 You know, who wants to buy some?

00:06:12.940 And boy, we were sold out in a heartbeat and we've got regular people grabbing those.

00:06:17.820 And a lot of the premise is it's, it's not a matter of, I mean, they, they taste great.

00:06:21.600 They're fresh.

00:06:22.160 That's part of it.

00:06:22.940 Part of it is people feel more comfortable knowing that these birds at least are raising

00:06:25.980 in a humane environment.

00:06:27.740 They're living as good a chicken life as a chicken could.

00:06:29.820 They get to hop around the yard and chase bugs and stretch their wings out and do chicken

00:06:34.640 things.

00:06:35.080 I mean, I don't have them named.

00:06:36.900 I don't cuddle them to sleep at night or anything.

00:06:39.180 They're birds that produce eggs, but I do feel better knowing that at least, you know,

00:06:43.660 I think our responsibility as people who eat meat is to at least humanely raise what we're

00:06:48.720 going to consume.

00:06:49.360 Now, supply management makes it illegal to own more than 300 chickens for purposes of

00:06:56.960 laying in Alberta.

00:06:58.100 In some provinces, I believe it's down to 100.

00:07:00.560 And that's just a purposeful way to make sure that it's absolutely impossible, though, for

00:07:04.140 a cottage industry to start up to provide these kind of free range things.

00:07:08.380 If a person had a quarter section, wanted to raise a few thousand birds and have them

00:07:12.160 range around, it could be done.

00:07:13.540 And the demand is there.

00:07:14.360 I mean, I've seen that.

00:07:15.540 Yeah.

00:07:16.320 But they'll never get a quota.

00:07:17.380 There's no way that those large producers jealously guard those and the government protects

00:07:21.540 them.

00:07:22.220 So I wanted to make that case.

00:07:23.460 Just one more facet for people to put pressure to the government, for conservatives and liberals

00:07:27.220 alike who are just terrified of the Quebec dairy cartels to say, let's get rid of this

00:07:31.960 odious system and allow more diverse production for the sake of the animals, then, if not just

00:07:37.340 for the sake of your wallet, because we pay a lot for the supply managed goods, too.

00:07:40.740 Yeah, and I think it stifles diversity in the marketplace.

00:07:48.140 We see this all the time with cheese.

00:07:50.940 You know, when you see the cheese offerings from other countries compared to the government

00:07:56.320 controlled cheese we have here in Canada, not only is our cheese sort of boring, and

00:08:01.180 this is not an attack on the industry.

00:08:02.680 I mean, they're trying to make, you know, they're trying to make profit with what they've

00:08:07.460 got.

00:08:08.520 But our choices are boring.

00:08:11.140 And, you know, there could be so much more done if the government and this expensive quota

00:08:18.800 system got out of the way of small startup entrepreneurs.

00:08:23.740 Absolutely.

00:08:24.360 Not to mention the price.

00:08:26.000 Yeah.

00:08:26.540 It was an embarrassment a few years ago.

00:08:29.000 Talk about a purely Canadian story.

00:08:30.820 I don't know if many people caught it, but there was actually a cheese smuggling ring

00:08:34.200 that got broken up over, I believe it was Quebec or Ontario.

00:08:37.220 Yeah.

00:08:37.540 But Big Cheese was buying up cheese and sneaking it across the border to supply restaurants

00:08:43.840 and pizzerias.

00:08:44.560 And actually, as a person who owned a pub that sold pizza, I was, and it was small, I was

00:08:49.540 spending thousands a month on cheese.

00:08:51.280 And those big restaurants, they actually created a black cheese market, which is just absurd.

00:08:56.840 But that's what this system has done. 0.94

00:08:58.620 And it's ridiculous. 0.71

00:09:00.300 And, you know, aside from the lack of variety, I mean, even some liberals have come out. 0.77

00:09:05.100 Boy, I shouldn't forget her name, but she was a liberal leadership candidate federally. 0.99

00:09:08.740 And she's done a great deal of writing against supply management.

00:09:11.440 I think she's with the Canada West Foundation now.

00:09:13.520 I'm just brain farting on her name.

00:09:14.620 But it's a terrible policy.

00:09:17.620 It just is.

00:09:18.140 And it just doesn't hit the news enough.

00:09:19.340 And the politicians are terrified of taking it on.

00:09:21.840 Well, yeah.

00:09:22.520 And it makes those staples, those dietary staples, so much more expensive for the people on the

00:09:28.620 lower socioeconomic spectrum.

00:09:31.940 And, you know, there are a lot of people, for example, in the lower mainland of BC, who'd

00:09:37.340 probably be more inclined, since they are that sort of people there, to stay a little bit

00:09:42.840 closer to home, buy milk from the local guy.

00:09:46.840 Instead, they fled across the border and clean out the Costco down there because milk is just

00:09:52.980 cheaper there.

00:09:54.060 And, you know, it's stripping entrepreneurs right out of the marketplace.

00:10:02.960 Absolutely.

00:10:03.760 And, again, it shows if the demand is there strong enough, people will find a way, whether

00:10:07.460 it's if they're lucky enough to live close enough to a border to get it, they'll go get

00:10:10.520 it.

00:10:11.020 Or even literally the mafia will smuggle cheese if there's good enough margin in it.

00:10:17.020 So, yeah, I just thought I'd take another approach to it because there's just so many

00:10:19.800 arguments against supply management.

00:10:21.560 But the production aspect of it is one.

00:10:23.820 I mean, in modern chicken facilities, those birds live their entire life in a small cage.

00:10:29.400 They've changed it now.

00:10:30.380 They used to call them battery cages, where the bird was actually on something about a

00:10:34.120 square foot.

00:10:35.080 And now they said, OK, we're going to end that.

00:10:36.460 His grandfather, though, any place that had them before still has them.

00:10:39.700 But now they have to be able to allow to spread their wings.

00:10:42.760 So now they've got about two square feet to live in for their entire life.

00:10:47.360 Again, I'm not talking about banning that and things like that, but I'd feel better buying

00:10:51.020 things knowing the bird's been running around a bit.

00:10:52.760 You know, same with pork and some other options.

00:10:54.820 But we've got to get government out of the way.

00:10:56.300 There's producers willing to do it.

00:10:57.480 There's consumers willing to buy it.

00:10:59.140 Why aren't you letting us?

00:11:00.940 Yeah, I am by no means an animal rights activist.

00:11:04.060 But I thought this was a phenomenal way of, I guess, taking some of the ethical oil arguments

00:11:11.280 and placing it on top of supply management to make the case that there are just better

00:11:17.820 ways or different ways of being a producer.

00:11:20.260 And again, get the government out of the way and let the consumer decide.

00:11:26.300 If there is no market for this and if everybody likes supply management, then this will fail.

00:11:30.260 But give people the ability to find out.

00:11:32.860 And I'm not against people finding things out the hard way.

00:11:35.540 Oh, and I wouldn't want to shame people who still get the lower priced regular, because

00:11:39.680 those would remain.

00:11:40.720 And, you know, personal budget.

00:11:42.280 Hey, if you've got a family to feed, you know, get those eggs or chicken and so on.

00:11:46.960 But there's a lot of people willing to pay a premium.

00:11:49.640 Yep, yep.

00:11:50.300 Yeah.

00:11:50.560 Like everything.

00:11:51.240 I mean, if we're fine with, you know, fair trade coffee, then, you know, and there's

00:11:57.120 a niche market for that, then why isn't there a niche market for all other ways of getting

00:12:01.780 our food?

00:12:02.760 I wanted to talk to you about something else.

00:12:06.760 And I didn't suggest it to you when I was sort of setting up the interview with you, but

00:12:10.840 it sort of popped on my radar since.

00:12:13.640 And it is this idea that Finance Minister Taves here in Alberta, Travis Taves, he has

00:12:22.300 not ruled out the prospect of a PST to dig us out of this financial hole caused by the

00:12:31.340 pandemic and lack of market access for Alberta oil and gas.

00:12:35.680 I don't think this is going to sit well, and I think it's already not sitting well with

00:12:43.540 the conservative base.

00:12:45.340 This is something that Rachel Notley would propose and conservatives would lose their

00:12:49.220 mind over.

00:12:49.940 But we're not hearing a lot of anger from true blue Tories over this.

00:12:55.340 And I think it's simply tribalism.

00:12:58.620 Yeah, well, and I interviewed Jason Kenney last week for a podcast, actually, and I wish

00:13:03.560 this had come up prior to it, because that would have been a question.

00:13:05.520 I would have loved to have tossed to him at the time, but I didn't figure it was on the

00:13:08.920 table.

00:13:09.400 And a half hour goes pretty fast.

00:13:12.040 You know, as we know, sales tax is blasphemy in Alberta.

00:13:14.620 I mean, at least among the conservative base.

00:13:16.480 I mean, that's just, you just don't go there.

00:13:18.960 And they keep dipping into it.

00:13:21.360 You know, every government seems to at least test the waters for it.

00:13:24.880 I mean, if you listen to a number of economists, conservative and non-conservative alike, they'll

00:13:28.460 say that consumption taxes are an efficient way to go and they're a better way to tax.

00:13:32.700 And I don't think that is so much of the issue.

00:13:34.860 The thing is, we don't trust the bloody government.

00:13:37.180 I mean, if it's just one more tax, it's not helping us on the ground any.

00:13:41.200 It's just taxing us further.

00:13:42.900 If you guys, if we trusted you to make it revenue neutral, like you like claiming, then

00:13:47.380 we could perhaps accept that.

00:13:48.860 If you got rid of provincial income tax and then replaced it with a sales tax, that might

00:13:53.420 be palatable.

00:13:53.960 But they don't look at it that way.

00:13:55.500 They're just looking at one more way to get us.

00:13:57.380 And that's not good.

00:13:59.160 And these tax ourselves into prosperity people, you know, always seem to neglect to look at

00:14:05.680 that's money taken out of the economy.

00:14:07.760 I mean, it's not money generated or created.

00:14:10.180 It's taken from somebody.

00:14:11.720 So that pool is finite and we're going broke already.

00:14:15.720 You raise our cost of living.

00:14:17.620 We consume less.

00:14:18.800 People get laid off.

00:14:19.920 It has a consequence.

00:14:22.500 But yeah, to hear that being floated by the finance ministers discussing, because they know

00:14:26.820 darn well how Albertans typically react to a sales tax concept.

00:14:31.320 Yet, yet they're still trying to put it out there. 0.96

00:14:34.920 And yeah, as you said, with some tribalism, some conservatives were afraid to speak up

00:14:38.120 on it, perhaps.

00:14:38.860 But I'd like to hear more.

00:14:41.080 I mean, they're in a budgetary crisis, but we're not going to be able to tax our way out

00:14:44.780 of it.

00:14:44.980 We need to see some serious spending cuts.

00:14:48.320 Yeah, I have some pretty serious concerns with this in that part of the beauty of Alberta,

00:14:56.280 I guess, is that we have this tax structure that is attractive to people who want to live

00:15:02.740 and work here and start businesses here.

00:15:05.220 And really, what sets us apart in the country is that we don't have a PST or an HST.

00:15:12.300 So to propose this, I mean, it acts as a scarecrow for business investment and for people who want

00:15:19.220 to come here and work in those new businesses.

00:15:21.720 And secondarily, it makes me wonder, you know, are they the conservatives?

00:15:31.380 Are they fine with this because they expect us to be fine with it because, well, at least

00:15:37.500 they aren't the NDP?

00:15:38.940 And that's the sense that I'm getting here.

00:15:41.280 Some of that is going on.

00:15:43.360 And part of the problem with it, again, I talked to Kenny about that last week.

00:15:47.860 I was glad to get the chance to talk to him because he's getting no questions from the

00:15:50.700 right. When you go to the legislature, it's a two-party system right now.

00:15:53.920 So question period is all knotly, all tax more, tax more, spend more, spend more.

00:15:58.600 They don't have a voice in there that used to be like the old Wild Rose or even like

00:16:02.900 reform federally that at least is giving some balance and pressuring the leadership to say,

00:16:07.120 well, wait a minute, there's other ways to deal with our fiscal crisis.

00:16:11.200 And they don't necessarily involve taxing everybody more.

00:16:14.060 It involves spending cuts.

00:16:15.000 And they're not getting that voice right now.

00:16:17.460 And of course, you look at Twitter and it's just a barrage cesspool that's been taken over

00:16:21.380 by the left.

00:16:22.220 I almost wonder in their political bubbles if they're forgetting what their roots are

00:16:26.000 sometimes because all they hear is just that that blast from one end of the spectrum.

00:16:30.140 And it's disturbing.

00:16:31.760 Yeah, that's an interesting point.

00:16:34.920 And I think that happens with all conservative parties is and I think maybe I suppose I try

00:16:42.100 to act as that.

00:16:42.880 And I'm sure you guys try to do that over at the Western Standard also, that all the forces

00:16:47.840 are pulling our conservative parties to the left, the media, the Twitter activists, the

00:16:55.120 opposition parties, federally it'd be the party in power.

00:16:58.660 Everything is pulling them to the left and there needs to be something on the right that

00:17:03.000 acts as that gut check that reminds them, no, no, no, no, no.

00:17:05.900 This is actually the conservative position on this.

00:17:08.480 And the position you're taking is the let's try to make CBC happy position.

00:17:13.300 And yeah, so maybe there is some of that, that they end up caught up in this, you know,

00:17:18.480 Twitter media bubble and they don't really remember what the conservative position is.

00:17:25.820 So I suppose that falls on us, doesn't it?

00:17:29.280 To do, to do the work of reminding them.

00:17:32.220 The unofficial opposition, I guess you could say.

00:17:34.800 And one of the things you'd floated in that same sense is City Hall.

00:17:38.460 I just thought you mentioned defunding the police.

00:17:40.760 Yes, please.

00:17:41.240 That was a stunt that came in Calgary.

00:17:44.120 They did defund the police.

00:17:45.180 They put the vote through.

00:17:46.100 The usual suspects pushed it.

00:17:48.240 Yeah.

00:17:48.360 But there's an even worse bubble because they don't have an opposition there to hold them

00:17:54.760 to account.

00:17:55.920 They seem to listen to nothing but a slanted city administration when it comes to things.

00:18:01.600 And again, a media and social media that has a hard left slant. 0.94

00:18:04.880 So trying to hold those clowns to account is very difficult, particularly with Mayor Nenshi 0.94

00:18:09.860 leading the pack there. 0.97

00:18:11.520 And, you know, you see them when they've got some backlash on it, but they say, no, we

00:18:15.440 didn't defund them.

00:18:16.320 We reallocated. 1.00

00:18:18.460 Kiss my ass. 1.00

00:18:19.500 Come on. 1.00

00:18:19.920 You took the money out of their budget.

00:18:22.180 That's defunding.

00:18:23.000 That's it.

00:18:23.360 There's no other way to polish that.

00:18:25.600 That's what you did.

00:18:26.600 Wherever else you put the money doesn't really matter.

00:18:30.340 I mean, if they'd use it on the context of generally trying to get the budget in balance

00:18:34.120 and they were cutting all over the place, I could accept that.

00:18:36.900 But no, this was pandering to Black Lives Matter.

00:18:39.900 This was pandering to those extremist activist groups that have the ear of these politicians.

00:18:45.320 And again, nobody critiques them aside from people like us.

00:18:49.460 So I think that the people in positions of power and elected authority forget the realities

00:18:55.000 out there rather than, you know, what they're hearing.

00:18:58.380 That is a really excellent point to make because to be clear, the city of Calgary took

00:19:06.260 $20 million out of the city policing budget and they're giving it to social agencies, whatever

00:19:14.400 that means.

00:19:15.380 Well, when you need a cop, I'm sorry, you're going to have to call a social worker now.

00:19:19.340 And they really didn't put this to the people.

00:19:21.740 You do point out that there really isn't much of a conservative opposition on Calgary City

00:19:26.660 Council.

00:19:27.040 That's true.

00:19:27.460 I think there's two strong conservatives on the entire council.

00:19:32.820 There's not much that they can do.

00:19:34.460 They're loud.

00:19:35.080 They're noisy.

00:19:35.520 They're prickly.

00:19:36.580 They're doing everything they can, but they don't hold any real power any more than any

00:19:41.280 other lone city councillor. 0.91

00:19:44.140 And this was entirely motivated by a handful of obnoxious, loud Black Lives Matter activists 1.00

00:19:54.120 concerned about a problem that is taking place in some places in the United States.

00:19:59.160 None of this had anything to do with the Calgary police, but somehow the Calgary police are paying

00:20:04.120 a $20 million, they're paying the $20 million cost of this activism.

00:20:10.760 And it's just going to serve to make the citizens of Calgary less safe.

00:20:14.580 And the citizens of Calgary, I would suspect, probably didn't want this.

00:20:18.120 I don't know if there was any sort of survey that was put to the public as a whole about

00:20:22.580 any of this.

00:20:23.260 No, and there has been actually some internal city surveys that were done recently, and it

00:20:27.820 was shown that the vast majority of the city wanted police funding to stay where it was.

00:20:31.660 Actually, there was some of that done, but they disregarded it.

00:20:34.160 They don't seem to look at their own data.

00:20:35.600 And I really wonder what kind of bubble they live in.

00:20:38.000 I watched Shane Keating, for people who are familiar with Calgary councillors anyways,

00:20:41.500 who was the one saying, oh, we didn't defund, we reallocated.

00:20:44.400 Yeah, whatever.

00:20:44.780 Okay, you're BS-ing.

00:20:46.280 Ward Sutherland, there's another creature in there, going on saying he was expressing

00:20:52.360 shock because, of course, the police commission said, well, they're hiring freezing because

00:20:55.060 they don't have the money for it.

00:20:56.060 He was shocked that they're going to do that.

00:20:57.340 I didn't expect them to do that. 0.99

00:20:58.200 Well, what did you think they were going to do, you clown? 0.99

00:21:00.420 You took their money away. 0.97

00:21:01.680 I mean, they can only write so many speeding tickets.

00:21:05.000 But these guys are just, they're blind.

00:21:07.560 You know, that is also probably the unintended consequence in all of this, is that you're going to see

00:21:13.060 police try to make up that difference on their own through speeding tickets and other fine

00:21:20.100 enforcements because they do, they still have work to do, and they have to raise money somehow.

00:21:28.600 I wanted to ask you, this just sort of came out over the last 24 hours.

00:21:35.100 Nenshi, Mayor Nahid Nenshi, is calling for multi-generational quarantine and special isolation facilities for Calgary families.

00:21:52.760 Multi-generational.

00:21:54.740 These, whatever you think about COVID-19, it's not a multi-generational problem.

00:21:59.620 It's an old people problem. 1.00

00:22:01.420 And so I'm not sure why they need to lock up entire families, three generations of them,

00:22:06.720 and why Mayor Nahid Nenshi wants Justin Trudeau to provide these things to him because it's pretty clear.

00:22:15.380 He's angry that Jason Kenney isn't cracking down hard enough or locking down Albertans fast enough for his liking.

00:22:23.580 And so now he's just gone around, Premier Kenney, and reached out to Justin Trudeau.

00:22:29.420 This is pure politics at its ugliest.

00:22:33.340 Nahid Nenshi is in a great deal of trouble.

00:22:35.240 He's polling terribly.

00:22:36.940 The shine has worn off in the election year.

00:22:39.680 There's a very good chance, and he's all pride.

00:22:42.240 There's a very good chance he's going to be voted out next year, assuming he runs again.

00:22:48.180 I mean, he's kind of in a rock and a hard place.

00:22:49.600 If he announces he's not going to run again, people like me are going to tease, oh, so Farkas scared you away. 1.00

00:22:53.920 Okay, good.

00:22:54.440 Good riddance.

00:22:55.500 And if he does run again and actually loses, of course, that would just brutalize him.

00:23:00.100 I feel if Kenney had done, like, Ford and done a heavy crackdown and locked Alberta down,

00:23:06.680 he would be out there as the champion for small business talking about how evil Kenney is destroying businesses out here.

00:23:12.320 He's going to take whatever side can position him as the great defender against the great conservative provincial government.

00:23:19.600 And then she's been talking directly to Trudeau.

00:23:22.300 He was at a meeting with him recently.

00:23:23.460 I'm almost wondering, too, if he's looking to negotiate his soft landing if he leaves the mayoral chair,

00:23:27.920 perhaps a Senate appointment or even an ambassadorship or something.

00:23:32.300 But it's just politics.

00:23:33.460 And when it comes to something that really is a pandemic that's harming and scaring people economically and physically,

00:23:39.300 some people are still being killed by this bug, is repugnant.

00:23:42.740 And that's all that she's doing is playing pure politics. 1.00

00:23:46.080 Yeah, it is. 0.96

00:23:46.660 It's gross.

00:23:47.920 I can't even believe that.

00:23:53.200 I mean, and he did it on CTV's question period.

00:23:56.640 So he told The Nation that he wants Justin Trudeau to provide multi-generational quarantine facilities.

00:24:05.960 There have been, I think the numbers are from yesterday, roughly 407 deaths from the virus.

00:24:14.220 The majority of those are over the age of 80.

00:24:18.700 It's a virus that kills the dying.

00:24:21.020 Yeah, it kills the dying.

00:24:22.280 You die with it, usually not of it.

00:24:24.800 And, you know, this idea that he needs the federal government to allow him to lock up entire families,

00:24:30.060 it's atrocious.

00:24:31.320 It's vulgar.

00:24:32.020 It shows that attitude.

00:24:36.460 Go ahead.

00:24:37.220 Go ahead.

00:24:37.720 Go ahead.

00:24:38.980 No, I was just going to wrap it up.

00:24:41.740 I was just going to say, Corey, it's been fun.

00:24:44.200 It's been a fast 20 minutes or so with you.

00:24:47.000 I want to give you a chance to let all of my Rebel viewers know where they can find you over at the Western Standard

00:24:53.860 and support the work that you do over there.

00:24:56.740 Great.

00:24:57.240 Yeah, well, there's the westernstandardonline.com.

00:25:00.160 That's our digital presence.

00:25:02.980 We do, you know, video stories, much like Rebel.

00:25:05.660 And, of course, for more of my direct ranting and raving comes at coreymorgan.com.

00:25:11.140 And, yeah, we cover western issues from a conservative perspective that, as we both agree,

00:25:16.580 needs to be put out there as much as possible.

00:25:18.600 And you guys also have a podcast platform.

00:25:23.720 I do, actually.

00:25:25.280 Yeah.

00:25:25.560 So it's called Core's Notes with the apostrophe.

00:25:28.340 And we're developing the podcast.

00:25:29.860 We're doing more video with Western Standard.

00:25:31.340 There is podcasts there.

00:25:32.700 So if you guys have to listen to download and listen to one of our video productions,

00:25:35.940 they can do so.

00:25:36.780 And we're still expanding.

00:25:39.280 Wonderful.

00:25:39.760 There's a real deficit on the right as far as news delivery and news coverage and commentary here in Canada.

00:25:49.860 You know, I look at the United States and see just how many small startups and conservative companies are making a go of it in the media landscape.

00:26:00.040 And there's, what, four of us, five of us here in this country.

00:26:05.240 It's getting there, though.

00:26:06.200 You know, they're springing up.

00:26:07.460 And the media is changing.

00:26:08.960 And I'm really actually looking a little enthusiastically forward to that, seeing, you know, post-millennia and true north and rebel and such.

00:26:18.440 I mean, we're filling that gap.

00:26:19.820 The mainstream media doesn't know how to stop us.

00:26:21.560 So it's wonderful to watch.

00:26:22.440 It is, until Justin Trudeau tries to stop us with his internet censorship laws that are barreling at us.

00:26:30.480 But I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

00:26:32.980 Corey, on that frightening note, thank you so much for coming on the show.

00:26:38.220 And we'll have you back on again very soon.

00:26:40.380 I think it was far too long in between appearances with you.

00:26:44.120 Great.

00:26:44.520 It's always a pleasure.

00:26:52.440 You know, with regard to the idea that a PST is being floated here in Alberta, I'm old enough to remember when conservatives were outraged,

00:27:01.400 when they absolutely flipped their lids, that the NDP installed a tax on everything that the NDP never campaigned on.

00:27:09.700 That was a consumption tax, a carbon tax.

00:27:13.760 It was a PST by another name.

00:27:16.480 Jason Kenney's government here in Alberta never campaigned on a PST.

00:27:21.300 And I am sure they will face the wrath of angry conservatives should they try to bring one in.

00:27:28.800 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:27:30.500 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:27:32.540 We'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:27:36.540 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:27:40.400 We'll see everybody back here in the same time.

Rebel News Podcast - November 19, 2020

Ethics and supply management： Humane food production under government price-fixing

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