Cory Morgan rants about a broken dryer at his house and why a referendum on Alberta's status within Canada needs to happen. Plus, a new petition calls for an Alberta independence referendum for mid-2026.
00:11:33.780Talking about that independence vote, somebody saying, you know, why not have it in January?
00:11:37.840Well, you know, if it's going to happen, it's got to take a little more time.
00:11:42.080Again, I think some people are a little too optimistic about the chances of an independence vote actually winning in Alberta at this point.
00:11:48.800If it's going to happen, it's going to be a big deal.
00:11:51.480It's got to be done right, and it's going to take some months.
00:11:54.500So if it's going to be scheduled, it should be scheduled well into 2026.
00:11:59.200That said, I can't think of a better time to call for scheduling it
00:12:02.820and opening that discussion than the day after Grey Cup.
00:12:05.580I mean, what is Premier Smith going to say?
00:12:07.520She laid out some very solid demands with a big open-ended or else at the end of it.
00:12:12.840And Kearney has ignored every one of those demands.
00:12:16.880So, well, I think, you know, throw it to the people.
00:12:54.260I mean, they have ticked off their supporters, they have annoyed the people who elected them to be with a particular party, and they get wiped out in the next election.
00:13:02.440Or they don't even run because they know they're going to be wiped out in the next election.
00:13:06.300When Premier Smith did her ill-fated floor crossing in 2014 in Alberta, and I was on the provincial executive with the Wildrose, rest assured, I was as furious as anybody could be over that.
00:14:14.780You want to change the entire system? Well, we'll talk more about that independence thing I'm talking about. Or at the very least, get some recall legislation federally if you really wanted to see that. So if the floor crosser really did infuriate their base that much, give the electors a chance to initiate and trigger a by-election to change it. But otherwise, remember, party leaders are already powerful enough. This is one of the things that can kind of hold them in check.
00:14:39.300You don't like whipped votes. You don't like them all voting exactly the same way or never
00:14:42.780speaking for themselves. Well, if you take away the ability to cross the floor, I tell you what,
00:14:46.480you might as well just get rid of local representation and just elect leaders because
00:14:49.860they will have no ability to deviate from the party line in any way ever again. And that's
00:14:54.760not healthy for democracy folks. Even if you're furious with what that Chris, uh, unpronounceable
00:14:59.200French guy did, uh, the other day. All right. I'm not going to bother learning his name because I
00:15:03.820don't expect to speak too much more about him. Franco Terrazzano. I remember he corrected me
00:15:07.900because I shorted him on zeds in his name before he could be a little uh pedantic when it comes to
00:15:12.680that but I understand he's with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as I said to Dave this is
00:15:16.720his Super Bowl this is budget time and boy has he ever got a lot to talk about on that so let's
00:15:21.100bring him on and break some of that down how's it going Franco hey Corey great to be on the show
00:15:25.820with you man oh always great to have you on and I mean a perfect timing of course after the budget
00:15:30.820uh well where do we begin is it pretty much what you expected oh it's worse it's worse I mean look
00:15:37.520it's a debt disaster, right? The debt is spiraling out of control because spending is spiraling out
00:15:42.920of control. And I mean, Corey, like, welcome to Canada, man. Every single dollar you're paying
00:15:48.200in federal sales tax is now going to pay interest charges on the debt. And look, Ottawa, we have a
00:15:53.780problem or more precisely, there's two problems. Number one is the debt, massive debt crunch that
00:15:59.100we're in. But you know what might be even a bigger problem is that it seems like nobody within the
00:16:04.940liberal governing party is taking the first problem serious. It's almost like nobody is
00:16:10.860acting with any sense of urgency here. Meanwhile, the fire is starting to spread and they got to
00:16:16.920put it out before it gets real, real bad. Well, yeah, I mean, part of, you know, the liberals
00:16:21.980of the 90s are long gone when they balance the budget. It's something that kind of allowing the
00:16:26.080current ones to skate as low interest rates in the 90s. People could kind of see how badly this
00:16:30.660is costing them. What I like about you guys, though, is you break things down and you put
00:16:34.500into terms we can understand like i believe the deficit alone adds up to almost two thousand
00:16:40.020dollars for each for every man woman and child in the country if you had a household of four i think
00:16:44.660it's about seventy six hundred dollars you're taking on his debt just this year i mean this is
00:16:50.020big well look at the debt interest charges i mentioned now that every dollar in federal sales
00:16:54.660tax is just going to pay interest on the debt let's break it down one other way uh you know
00:16:59.140interest charges are costing each canadian more than a thousand bucks this year right that's a
00:17:04.740thousand bucks that the government has taken from each canadian not to uh build a hospital not to
00:17:11.460improve education no no no not even to pay down the debt right the government has taken a thousand
00:17:16.180bucks from each canadian just to pay interest on the debt yeah and i mean interest is just money
00:17:23.620flush so uh you know he's trying to play both sides of the fence he said oh this is this is
00:17:28.420investment it's not spending oh and we made some cuts so this is actually an austerity budget
00:17:33.220i don't know how you can expand spending that much and use the word austerity without throwing
00:17:36.580up a little or something but what should be cut well look we need austerity for the government
00:17:43.140right you heard carney go on about sacrifice how about politicians and government bureaucrats
00:17:49.060sacrifice for a change and like austerity huh are you kidding me the carney government is spending
00:17:54.180$581 billion this year. Corey, does that sound like austerity to you? $581 billion in spending?
00:18:02.440You know, everyone knows that Trudeau was reckless, that he wasted money like crazy,
00:18:07.760that we had a decade of out-of-control spending. Well, Carney this year is going to spend $38
00:18:13.240billion more than the government did last year. Does that sound like austerity to you, Corey?
00:18:19.460And I'll get to where we got to cut in a second, but let me just point out one more thing,
00:18:23.420because you're right. Carney is trying to play it both ways here, right? In his budget, he said,
00:18:29.140oh, don't worry, folks, we're going to find a bunch of savings. Well, you got to check the
00:18:33.400fine print. Guess when all those savings magically are going to occur in future years, right? It's
00:18:39.900like the government is always saying it's going to go on a diet Monday and then Monday never comes.
00:18:44.580The same thing happened during the Trudeau era. Oh, we'll run some deficits, balance the budget
00:18:49.520in four years that never happened oh we'll find 15 billion dollars in savings over a handful of
00:18:55.080years that never happened right so there are no savings this year in the budget all you see is
00:19:00.660spending going up by billions of dollars every single year yeah they just keep kicking the can
00:19:06.420down the road i mean a promise to cut spendings isn't to cut to to any spending are there any of
00:19:12.140these initiatives i guess i'll try to start on the other side of the coin though anything you
00:19:15.100see that it's a positive is there something good they've done i mean there's got to be something
00:19:18.400in there oh i didn't know this was going to be a gotcha interview cory toughest question of the
00:19:24.340day well there's hundreds of pages i mean they've got to be something you know uh two ply tissue in
00:19:28.820the parliamentary washroom or something yeah look there there is like a couple things here right so
00:19:33.840um look uh you remember the luxury tax that the trudeau government brought in which is really
00:19:39.080just a tax on blue collar workers who build boats and airplanes uh so it looks like the government
00:19:43.880is going to be cutting that. So that's some good news. There's some changes on how businesses can
00:19:49.780calculate their expensing, right? So that's some decent news there. It looks like the government
00:19:56.200is also being a little squishy around the production cap on oil and gas, right? It looks
00:20:01.740like the government might back off on that. So I guess you can call that good news. I mean,
00:20:06.080that should be scrapped immediately. But you know, there's almost an ultimatum on that one,
00:20:11.200right? Because Kearney is doubling down on the industrial carbon tax on the hidden carbon tax
00:20:16.000on Canadian business, right? And look, that's going to be a huge blow to Canada's competitiveness.
00:20:21.360And what it does is that it pushes Canadian entrepreneurs to cut production here and set
00:20:26.380up shops south of the border. So, I mean, let's get on then to the low hanging fruit,
00:20:32.120the reality, where are they blowing money that they really shouldn't be?
00:20:35.300Where aren't they blowing money? I mean, look, you got the federal government spending 100,000
00:20:39.680bucks on a study about a grocery cart cory you remember trailer park boys hey with bubbles
00:20:46.560one of my favorite shows like just give bubbles a couple packs of pepperoni sticks and there you go
00:20:51.360you got your study about a grocery cart no need to spend six figures or the government spending
00:20:55.920twenty thousand bucks on a stender about a study about gender politics of peruvian rock music
00:21:02.000like huh or the government spending eight grand studying the gender identities in online harry
00:21:08.160potter fan communities i mean what a waste of money right we all know jk rowling's stance on
00:21:13.760gender is pretty firm and we also know that grown-up harry potter nerds never get laid
00:21:18.960so just a complete waste of money but look the biggest thing that the government has to do is
00:21:23.920that the government should have been firing thousands of bureaucrats yesterday absolutely
00:21:29.840i mean i i remember again just showing my gray hair and so on but you know the time of the
00:21:34.080the austerity, the real austerity of the 1990s, one of the first things that Premier Klein did
00:21:39.240was actually cut the salaries of MLAs, at least as an example. You know, 5% each year we go,
00:21:45.340we're starting with ourselves, we're taking a bit of a haircut, and now we're going to apply it all
00:21:50.400the way down the civil service. I mean, that's the only way I think morally you can pull that off.
00:21:54.740They are really just high-paid civil servants, but I imagine there's no mumbling of reducing
00:21:59.360compensation for any of our uh members of parliament no when they say we're all in this
00:22:04.300together they mean it they're not talking about me and you cory they're talking about the gang of
00:22:08.180300 of them up there on parliament hill and hey i'll just shamelessly plug my column that i wrote
00:22:13.500for you guys at the western standard it was published this week right and it kind of goes
00:22:18.240through this historical uh point that you know all the politicians in the modern era all of them
00:22:24.560who were successful in reigning in the deficit, they all did one thing first, showed leadership
00:22:29.420by cutting their own pay, right? You have Harper following the 08-09 crisis. Well, he froze MP pay
00:22:37.720for a couple of years. They reformed the pensions to make them a little bit more affordable for
00:22:41.640taxpayers. What about the 90s, right? You saw the 90s federally, where in the early 90s, there was
00:22:47.720pay cuts for ministers and the prime minister until they balanced the budget. Or, you know,
00:22:52.980you mentioned Klein, the 5% pay cut for politicians. There's also a 5% pay cut for
00:22:57.480bureaucrats. But this story goes on and on and on. Like if you want to make the necessary cuts to
00:23:04.220the bureaucracy, politicians got to show leadership themselves and cut their own pay. And you know,
00:23:09.180Corey, we are always criticizing the government, but I'll say I haven't heard even a single member
00:23:15.380of parliament from an opposition party forcefully push for members of parliament to take a pay cut.
00:23:21.420i haven't heard it so you already took a shot at those poor adult harry potter fans and their
00:23:27.260lack of sexual gratification but there's other nerds out there and those are economists and
00:23:31.500people who look at that broader picture maybe we should dig a little deeper into the nerdy
00:23:35.340end of this though the bigger part how does this affect our economy when we're looking at inflation
00:23:40.620when we're looking at devaluation of currency uh massive government spending has longer term
00:23:45.500consequences than just what we see on our tax bill oh yeah there's three ways okay corey hold
00:23:50.860me accountable to it three ways so number one uh you get worse and worse services even though the
00:23:56.380federal government takes more and more money right like you're you're looking at what interest
00:24:00.540charges making up about what 56 billion dollars this year uh well by uh 2029 interest charges on
00:24:07.340the debt are gonna blow a 76 billion dollar hole in the budget right so even though the government
00:24:13.180is taking more money from canadians uh less and less dollars can then be allocated towards other
00:24:18.540services and like look no further of a prime example of this to saskatchewan in the 1990s
00:24:24.240where you had an ndp government there close what dozens of hospitals across that prairie province
00:24:30.000but number two uh it's it's also a hit to our economy right like ask business investors they
00:24:36.220see these massive deficits and they worry about tax increases tomorrow right so that discourages
00:24:42.020businesses from setting up shop here in canada so the third one too is is just inflation and
00:24:48.460And we really saw that during the pandemic as the Bank of Canada printed up hundreds
00:24:53.300of billions of dollars out of thin air financing Ottawa's deficits, right?
00:25:15.440and third the worst tax of them all the inflation tax well i thought mccarty was supposed to be a
00:25:21.660genius when it came to uh you know macroeconomics and some of those things he wants to make
00:25:25.240canada the destination for self-sustained you know industry and investment but i mean anybody
00:25:30.500i think in their first year of economics should know well to do that you've got to cut the
00:25:35.100regulation you've got to cut the taxes you've got to create the business environment to draw
00:25:39.500these industries in and he's doing the very opposite well there's only one thing i'll quibble
00:25:43.980with you there, Corey, is I think you're giving the taxpayer funded universities too much credit.
00:25:49.560I think that's a little bit, I think that's a little quibble, but Hey, look, um, you know,
00:25:54.440we're hearing the government talk about investment, investment, investment, investment. I mean,
00:25:57.680it's just more spending, it's more debt. And, and look like this is a continuation of the Trudeau
00:26:02.160era. It is like, remember it was under Trudeau where they called investments, which was really
00:26:08.340just corporate welfare, the billions and billions of dollars to multinational corporations. So they
00:26:13.680can build battery plants right like folks we just saw this failed experiment play out in real time
00:26:20.320over the last 10 years where the government tried to borrow its way to prosperity and how did that
00:26:26.320work massive inflation and a stagnating canadian economy right we just we just saw this social
00:26:32.960experiment fail over the last 10 years so what do you think is going to happen over the next 10
00:26:37.440years if the government continues this trudeau era debt field spending spree well it's unfortunate
00:26:43.200and it's pretty bleak, but what do you think the chances are that there'll be any amendments or
00:26:46.740changes? I mean, the budget hasn't passed yet. Do you think there's a chance some of this could be
00:26:51.500fixed up a little bit? Well, Corey, I don't know. I don't know this year. I really don't know.
00:26:56.600But you know, if there is a glimmer of hope, it takes me back to like 1994. Because everyone
00:27:02.160remembers when Martin and Kretchen, they ended up balancing the budget in three years. But that
00:27:07.080started in the 1995 budget, right? The 1994 budget was kind of more of the same that you saw from
00:27:12.680the previous governments over the last couple decades. So there is hope, but it's really going
00:27:18.580to take pressure both from Canadians to be like, yo, this is enough. We can't just keep borrowing
00:27:24.120like this forever. But it's also going to take backbone from the opposition parties, right? And
00:27:29.360to give them some credit, the conservatives have been pretty good calling for some spending cuts,
00:27:33.760calling for a lower deficit, but they're going to have to go harder. They're going to have to
00:27:38.040make the case that the government is wrong and that what we need at this time are legitimate
00:27:44.080and serious spending cuts yeah well and the government theoretically could fall on this
00:27:50.180budget but it looks like they're kind of getting the pieces in place getting a floor cross or we
00:27:54.720know elizabeth may you know for a bottle of gin she'll vote however she you know is told
00:27:58.300uh they'll probably get it over the line but do you think there's a chance maybe enough members
00:28:04.500of parliament would make a stand i mean i don't see it i suspect some of the conservatives will
00:28:08.500get the flu that day if it looked that way because they're not ready for an election either
00:28:12.180but maybe there'd be something to put some pressure on well with the floor crossing last
00:28:16.260night what would the government only needs what two votes now is that right and and there are
00:28:20.340some rumors swirling i mean ottawa's national pastime is uh rumors about the next possible
00:28:25.620election so i don't really i i take it with a grain of salt right but i mean at this point
00:28:30.180of time i think the way the math works out is that the government only needs either two votes
00:28:35.060two extra floor crossers or two people to not vote right so i mean i you know i don't want
00:28:41.940to place any bets but uh it's sure looking like all they need is is two things to happen
00:28:47.540and they'll get the budget passed yeah well we still always hope for the best i mean i appreciate
00:28:52.420what you guys do though you you break it down in lay terms so i said that we need the pressure to
00:28:57.140come up from citizens to go to their politicians to change those things within there and you guys
00:29:01.700at the taxpayers federation do an excellent job of that with your column and other stuff but i've
00:29:06.180been pumping your tires enough but still before i let you go where could people find all that good
00:29:11.620stuff and how can they support you well hey the best way uh to to find our stuff and to support
00:29:16.980us is at taxpayer.com taxpayer.com you can also just follow us on every social media just type
00:29:23.140been canadian taxpayers federation uh you can follow me directly on x i'm at franco underscore
00:29:28.320nomics but the best place to follow us is at taxpayer.com excellent well thanks again for
00:29:33.680coming on franco i know you got a whole whack to do during budget week so uh looking forward to
00:29:37.620seeing more of your work coming out there and uh talking to you again on the show soon yeah that'd
00:29:42.200be great cory thanks so much for having me on man great thank you franco all right guys yeah just
00:29:47.480one more time that's franco teresano you can get the all the good stuff at taxpayer.com because i
00:29:52.280mean, I know a lot of it can make the eyes glaze over. I mean, that's what these guys got to do.
00:29:55.820They put the budget documents out and they're huge, they're thick, they're boring. These guys
00:30:00.100will distill it down so you can see and have that apply to you. I'm going to paraphrase and break it
00:30:06.620terribly, you know, something along the lines, but like people can understand. That's why, you know,
00:30:10.780the $16 orange juice, you know, drove everybody crazy years ago, yet they kind of shrug off a
00:30:15.820billion because billions don't register in the average citizen's mind. It doesn't, it's not in
00:30:20.380there. We don't deal in terms like that. And we need to have it, you know, as I said, distilled,
00:30:26.780broken down and in ways that just make more sense to us. And that's what those guys do. That's what
00:30:30.600I like to think I do to a little bit of a degree. And what we need more of being done by our elected
00:30:35.460officials, though, they're supposed to know better, they're supposed to do better. And yeah,
00:30:39.940we're not seeing much of that. That's why I sound a little defeatist sometimes when I go on about
00:30:44.140independence minded things. Let's see some of the comments there, Kenzie cracking saying,
00:30:47.680hey don't have your show on during the same time as question period thanks well I don't think they
00:30:53.160should have question period on at the same time as my show how about that but uh you know I'm on
00:30:57.820every Wednesday at this exact same time all year round those clowns in parliament only sit for
00:31:02.560so many days a year I know uh it's frustrating that so there's a little bit of overlap but keep
00:31:07.480in mind question period is mostly just an exchange of insults they rarely ever actually answer
00:31:13.020anything. And if any member knocks one truly out of the park, which I enjoy watching as much as the
00:31:18.180next person, you know that the YouTube clips will be up there to be seen, but here, here you get it
00:31:22.160live guys. You get the interaction. You send me the question and often though, not always, I'll
00:31:26.560give an answer on it. Uh, this, my perspective saying supposedly there'll be two more crossing
00:31:31.040over. There should be by-elections, not crossover into that party status. Yeah. So, uh, you know,
00:31:36.660that's what, uh, Franco was saying as well as endless speculation, political, uh, intrigue,
00:31:41.480things that go on, floor crossings back and forth. We won't be able to force by-elections
00:31:46.780without changing the entire system. And as I said before, you got to remember, you're really going
00:31:52.620to give a heck of a lot of power to those leaders and they already have way too much
00:31:55.320if you take away that ability to cross the floor. I don't like what they're doing. I'm not saying
00:31:59.800it. I'm not defending the floor crossers. I'm defending the ability for there to be floor
00:32:05.200crossers. This, I, you know, we're not going to get an election. I mean, I won't, I'll never say
00:32:11.820100%, not in Canada's system and the way things go, but the odds of an election coming over this
00:32:17.320budget are very, very slim. The NDP don't even have a leader yet. They're broke. In fact,
00:32:23.020they're grossly in debt. This is a huge problem for them. They don't want to go into an election
00:32:28.880right now. Elizabeth May is clinging to the last vestiges of her best job she'll ever have her
00:32:33.740whole life. She will go whatever way it is to keep that job hanging in there as long as possible.
00:32:38.880And the conservatives are always looking at the numbers. If you want to know one of the number
00:32:42.700one things political parties spend money on, having worked within them, polling. They're
00:32:48.460always polling. They're constantly polling. And if they don't see a good surge, something that's
00:32:54.280going to really pull them over the finish line, they're not going to trigger an election. And
00:32:59.540things aren't looking fantastic for the conservatives right now. So as I said, even if
00:33:03.400they didn't get the floor crossers to come over to make this happen what I forget what they call
00:33:10.100it you know often the parliamentary flu but a few conservative members will suddenly take sick
00:33:15.020on the day of the budget vote and the budget will pass so they will none of them will vote for the
00:33:19.240budget but enough will be there that the budget will manage to pass. I stand to be proven wrong
00:33:25.540on that within a couple of weeks but I don't think we should be dusting off the old election
00:33:30.600signs federally quite yet. Though who knows? It's a crazy, crazy world. Jordan saying, I don't
00:33:37.940consider Parliament to be an effective representation for me. It's rigged and Alberta will never get a
00:33:41.500fair deal with the Confederation. Well, I kind of agree with that. That's where I talk about the
00:33:45.580independence referendums and things that would be the catalyst to either tearing down and rebuilding
00:33:50.060the entire Canadian system, or at least tearing down and rebuilding a good chunk of it over here
00:33:54.100because I don't know if we can save the entire thing. CB fixes all says, how much did he pay
00:34:00.760the trader to cross the floor to the dark side? Well, I doubt there was any direct payment,
00:34:04.500but MPs love being in government because when you're in government, it's not direct payment,
00:34:10.180but what you will get is parliamentary secretary positions, if not a cabinet position, right? You
00:34:15.120know, there will be things offered and that's a good chunk of extra change and extra allowances
00:34:19.240and extra staff. You also get onto a whole track of committees. Not nearly enough people talk about
00:34:24.380that, but you get onto all those committees, you get paid for all of those, even if they don't sit
00:34:28.520a heck of a lot, nice extra money into the pocket. Uh, and of course the people just seem to prefer
00:34:34.900on the ground to have a government member in office, depending on the government. Uh, so we'll
00:34:39.680see what happens. It's going to be interesting. Uh, you know, getting out of the budget things,
00:34:43.920getting out of the economics and, uh, and people who just don't pay enough attention to it.
00:34:49.240uh hayek one of my favorite economists so they're talking about dorks i'm a dork i won't deny it
00:34:55.880one of my favorite quotes from him was it if socialists understood economics
00:35:00.840they wouldn't be socialists it really is you've got to have a mental disconnect to embrace
00:35:06.680socialism and people just just blank that out and somehow keep supporting a system that is a proven
00:35:13.720failure over and over and over and over again. And yes, socialism is just communism light, guys.
00:35:20.320It's just a matter of degree. And when we see what happened in New York, New York, the financial
00:35:27.000hub of the Western world, massive city, has elected a socialist lunatic. He is, I mean,
00:35:36.580he wants to nationalize grocery stores. He wants to nationalize rentals. You know,
00:35:41.860it's going to make things so brutally bad there. And he's, of course, he's going to do it by taxing
00:35:48.280the rich. No, the rich will leave. They already are. They're fleeing. As I was saying, there is
00:35:54.460no iron curtain. You can't do it like East and West Berlin. So the Capitol, the skilled, the
00:35:59.600ambitious, and it's already been happening. You look at the population balances in the United
00:36:03.960States, the interstate movement of people. And Texas is growing. Tennessee is growing. Arizona's
00:36:12.120growing. Nevada's growing. You know what's shrinking? New York and California. Florida's
00:36:17.480growing. Because the people with the money, the brains, the ambition, and realizing the ugliness
00:36:23.120of socialism, whether it's under Newsom or this nutcase in New York, or saying, I'm getting the
00:36:28.540hell out of there. But you see, this leads to a self-perpetuating problem, because what do you
00:36:31.640leave behind. The welfare bums, the entitled, the unproductive. Then your budget gets worse and the
00:36:37.940socialists in charge try to drain more from the productive. Then they drive the productive out
00:36:41.780more. Guess what? We got into that cycle that collapses socialism every time. And New York,
00:36:46.520of all cities, such a massive city, is going to run down that experiment.
00:36:53.440I say, well, fine, go for it. I use the analogy in the newsroom I was talking to Leah there
00:36:58.280saying look at it like the old school way of trying to get a kid off of cigarettes if you
00:37:03.160caught them smoking you know make them smoke a hundred of them and get them real sick and green
00:37:07.100and everything and understand how bad it is for you and then perhaps they'll wisen up and not
00:37:13.800take it up well let's let them have their taste of socialism go ahead drink up consume it enjoy it
00:37:20.760have the fruits of that enjoy those bread lines because you think that government control of
00:37:26.300stores hasn't already been tried, you morons. Enjoy the block housing in the ghettos because
00:37:33.140you think government control of housing hasn't been tried, you guys? And think of all the waiting
00:37:38.440lists to get onto everything to get anything because socialized commodities are rationed
00:37:45.200commodities. We're seeing that in Canada when we've given a socialized monopoly to health care.
00:37:49.800It's great. Nobody ever has to pay out of the pocket for health care. The problem is you're
00:37:54.040prone to dying before you can actually get in to access it, because we are running out of it.
00:38:00.120But it's a good point of principle, isn't it? Well, this is what gets applied everywhere. Plus,
00:38:05.100government can't do anything well, ever. Dave brought that up in the news update.
00:38:11.920But that was the big two billion trees. You know, this should have been a very simple
00:38:17.660program, not one that the government should have needed to get into in the first place.
00:38:21.360But if the government was going to take something on, a nice green thing, that's why for our simplistic Prime Minister of Trudeau, he came up with this one.
00:38:29.020They were going to plant 2 billion trees, him and Climate Barbie, and they put that out there.
00:38:36.340Six years later, and 50 full-time employees blowing $268 million.
00:38:45.360How much do those 50 employees take each anyway?
00:38:48.180But they didn't even come close to planting 2 billion trees. How hard is it? There's an area
00:38:54.780that has no trees. Take a tree, dig a little hole, stuff the tree in the hole. Holy cow, you did it.
00:39:03.400And the government couldn't do it. This was too complicated for them. This was too difficult
00:39:08.720a program for them to manage efficiently to even plant bloody trees across the country.
00:39:14.960Now think of the things people are asking government to do.
00:39:17.340Do you really want government to take over providing lunches to kids in schools?
00:39:21.360Because that's where the federal government's jumped into now.
00:39:23.960I think one of the best examples you see of that is somebody saying, you know, if government
00:39:26.700took over cooking or something like that, it shows if government's made breakfast, you
00:39:29.540know, here's a frying pan with an egg cracked over on the side on the stove and some toast
00:39:40.820likewise uh you know government daycare same thing what's happening now with the daycare
00:39:47.000the government got into daycare oh we all got free daycare it's going to have 100 return on
00:39:50.500everything because all the women will go out working and everybody pay taxes we'll all be
00:39:53.480happy little families oh there's no spaces yeah socialized services are rationed services we don't
00:40:01.760have enough of them people have to have an expense they have to pay out of pocket and i hate to point
00:40:06.620this out. But abuse of socialized systems is rampant. It always is. And not every person who
00:40:12.120would take advantage of a socialized daycare system is a hardworking single parent who just
00:40:17.000wants to get out there and contribute. A lot of them. I'm going to say it. It's true. I lived in
00:40:21.800forest lawn for some years. I saw this. There's some lazy people out there. There's some entitled
00:40:27.180people out there. And the more you give them, the more they're going to pull. It's not to say we
00:40:32.480shouldn't have any social services, but when you throw them out blindly, people will take advantage
00:40:35.900of them and there will be waste. So when you try these blanket programs, you just overwhelm the
00:40:42.000system. And what does that do for the people? Well, then they have to pay out of pocket to try and get
00:40:45.720better services outside of that. So then the people who really are working, paying for daycare, going
00:40:50.380to a private daycare outside of the socialized daycare system, end up paying a fortune to get
00:40:54.640their kids into that. Or, or, or they'll stop working. They'll say, screw it, I'm going to be
00:40:59.920a stay-at-home parent. Well, where's the, you've just done the opposite of what this system is
00:41:04.660supposed to do. So this government is going to spend us all into prosperity. They're going to
00:41:10.760take care of everything. They're going to put our great-great-grandchildren into debt because these
00:41:16.520are investments. The government doesn't invest in anything it spends, not investments. And they're
00:41:23.640trying some voodoo economics. Oh, this is different. This is a capital investment over here.
00:41:27.260Oh, come on, spare me. I can't stand that in provincial projects, budgets too. Well, that was different. That was operating expenses and this is capital. Okay, I kind of understand how they're different areas, but it's still all spending. Do you think we could pick up that capital project and spend it? Or sell it? Who's going to buy an overpass? What are you going to do with it?
00:41:50.920You know, it's still government spending and we only have so many dollars. So where do we go with
00:41:58.700this? But we are on a bad track. CB Fixal says the forestry companies do the replanting every year
00:42:05.160and they don't get a cushy government paycheck. That's right. Private woodlots maintained by
00:42:10.180people actually do very, very well. We should be logging the crap out of the West. You want to deal
00:42:15.080with the pine beetles? You want to deal with drought? You want to deal with standing dead?
00:42:18.800you want to deal with, you know, the local economy, log like hell, guess what? They grow back,
00:42:26.300especially if we plant them. And you know what happens if we don't? They burn. We've seen that.
00:42:32.580We've seen that in spades. Let the private market do what it will. Export that wood. There's
00:42:38.920developing countries who want it like crazy. Export, of course, all of our raw resources,
00:42:42.400but we won't because we're this green country, right? The emissions cap. Let's get back to that
00:42:47.420beauty. So Carney said he's going to get rid of it. There's the bone he tossed to Danielle.
00:42:55.640So Rob Anderson, our chief of staff talking on X about it. No, not exactly. So they're rejecting
00:43:00.660that already. It's a promise to get rid of it. If Alberta does this, this, this, this, this,
00:43:05.580then it's nothing. It's nothing. You aren't getting rid of it. You put conditions on it.
00:43:09.380If you wanted to get rid of it, you just get rid of it. It's not that hard. And that chills
00:43:13.740investment because people aren't going to put money in when there's going to be a government
00:43:17.360imposed cap on them making money later. It's impossible. No investor in their right mind
00:43:21.680will invest in Alberta's energy projects as long as Carney's got a gun to the head with the
00:43:25.860emissions cap. This should be enough to go to a referendum alone because we're paying the bloody
00:43:31.420bills and they're making it harder and harder for us to do it. We don't get a thank you. We just get
00:43:35.360squeezed harder and our own industries get kicked in the proverbial knackers and stopped from
00:43:39.840expanding. It's brutal. And here we go. I'll just close off with, you know, other stuff that gets
00:43:48.040me wound up. But let's look at speaking of the lunatic in New York, and boy, the Jews are in
00:43:52.040for a good ride over there, aren't they? But are we much better off over here? The Toronto police
00:43:56.800force, the most cowardly force in Canada, and they really have been for a couple of years. These are
00:44:00.520the ones that brought donuts and coffee, literally, not even figuratively. I know lefties love to
00:44:05.040abuse the word literally. No, I mean literally in that an officer came with donuts and coffee and
00:44:09.660gave them to Hamas supporters in Toronto who were terrorizing a Jewish community.
00:44:15.200But what do you expect? This is a news release from the Toronto Police Force yesterday.
00:44:20.620Suspected hate-motivated mischief to religious property investigation at Bayview Avenue and
00:44:26.000Fife Shire Road area. Okay, so they're asking for help with this suspected hate-motivated mischief.
00:44:33.480What it was, was a synagogue had swastikas painted on it and it was vandalized and abused. In Canada,
00:44:39.460they've been putting bullets through synagogues for a couple of years already. But they don't say
00:44:43.580synagogue. They say religious property investing. Who the hell says religious property? Would you
00:44:49.100say that about a church? Would you say that about a mosque? Would you say that about a sick temple?
00:44:53.720No. But when it's a synagogue, those cowardly creeps on the Toronto Police Force say,
00:44:59.280a religious property. You scumbags. Say it like it is because a particular group is getting
00:45:06.040targeted. And how do you prevent that if you won't even admit who the group is that's being
00:45:10.400targeted? You say it's hate motivated. Well, fine. Motivated by who and why? How do you know what
00:45:16.540it's going to be? It's a religious property. That could be anything. And in particular, that one
00:45:22.260thing you just won't mention. No Jews, no news. Getting sick of that crap, guys. Free the West.
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