Western Standard - Bloated government has crushed charities

00:00:00.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show holy crap we're into december already where is this

00:00:10.320 year gone but some things are still dragging on is our house of commons they're still hanging

00:00:14.480 in there in a bizarre filibuster state and yes unfortunately i hate to report that trudeau is

00:00:18.880 still as of right now our prime minister but we can always hope for the best and a christmas gift

00:00:23.760 at some point probably not this year but one way or another the status quo is going to change

00:00:28.000 all right so yes this is a live show get on there use that comment scroll guys i appreciate it i see

00:00:34.000 tinker and angry canadian already checking in uh let's discuss things on there keep things civil

00:00:40.480 though you know we can have our fights on x that's what it's for cory b morgan on there if you really

00:00:44.160 want to scrap it out that's what i love doing there but for showtime we can just get those things out

00:00:48.640 there and be civil to each other the holiday season is coming i got a guest i've been looking forward

00:00:53.360 to coming on her name is sheila cunningham she was at the ucp agm and there are thousands of people

00:00:58.240 were there i'm sure a few of the viewers were and yes she she is a trans person and she spoke calmly

00:01:03.920 and rationally to the issue that's something that issue just hasn't had it hasn't had good discussion

00:01:08.560 it's had people screaming on each side so let's talk we don't have to agree on everything but let's

00:01:13.600 talk and she's going to come on and talk to us about some of those things because yes conservatives can 0.95

00:01:18.480 be trans i know it sounds crazy to some folks but it's true all right and uh as well of course there's

00:01:24.320 going to be news check-ins and all the rest of that good stuff so let's start with me talking about

00:01:28.160 something a little different holiday giving in a way so let's talk about the left and the right in

00:01:32.080 politics i mean on both sides most agree you know because compassionate conservatives that society

00:01:37.120 has a moral obligation to help care for those who can't care for themselves as opposed to those 1.00

00:01:41.280 who won't care for themselves the difference between the left and the right and the issue though

00:01:44.720 tends to be on who they feel should be helping people out i mean the left tends to support forming

00:01:49.680 government departments and policies and programs to deal with social needs while the right tends to

00:01:54.080 support charities and volunteers well let's face it the left has been winning that battle as the

00:01:58.160 government's grown exponentially while charitable donations and volunteerism are in sharp decline

00:02:03.280 the federal civil service is growing at three times the rate of population while services of course

00:02:08.480 anybody knows from the government are getting worse than ever but the big you know the losers in this

00:02:12.560 trend the biggest ones are the people who are in need and taxpayers in in 2012 over a quarter

00:02:17.760 canadians filing tax returns had made charitable donations by 2022 in just 10 years that dropped

00:02:22.720 to one in six people and that decline is continuing volunteer heavy charity groups from

00:02:27.280 meals on wheels to girl guides have been scaling back their services as fewer people sign up to help

00:02:31.920 out and again meanwhile the size of canada's government and civil service has been growing out of

00:02:36.400 control every government department is bloated and inefficient but no politicians have found the

00:02:41.120 courage to make any cuts yet but they're going to have to austerity is inevitable canada's government

00:02:46.400 is on the brink of collapsing under its own weight and politicians won't be able to kick the can of

00:02:50.480 cuts down the road much longer and when those cuts come the pain is going to be very tough for people

00:02:55.680 because we've let so many people become reliant on government services as slow and as inept as

00:03:00.480 canada's government is is now the only thing separating a lot of people from actual homelessness and

00:03:04.240 starvation i can't think of any institution worse to be depended on than the bloody government if you're in that

00:03:09.120 condition there have been several factors contributing to this mess i mean some of it's

00:03:13.360 just been sloth on the part of voters they vote for whoever promises the most giddy goodies you know 0.92

00:03:17.520 whoever blow blow the most smoke up their butt and whoever promises to take the most responsibility 0.84

00:03:22.640 social responsibility off their hands it's easier to think the government will fix it than to think 0.84

00:03:27.360 maybe you should be the one fixing things right so let's just hand it off to them

00:03:30.880 unfortunately governments rarely solve problems they just expand and create new ones

00:03:35.120 now we've got tough economic times contributing to the drops in charitable donations and it's a

00:03:39.600 self-perpetuating problem as canada's bloated parasitic bureaucracy grows productivity drops the

00:03:44.400 dollar loses value gdp per capita shrinks and taxes rise then fewer people can afford to donate to

00:03:50.000 charities so the government expands to cover the void and drives more people into poverty thus needing

00:03:54.880 more government aid more recently of course the postal strike they've hit charities hard charities

00:03:59.680 used to raise a lot of funds through mail outs and getting checks the prime time for fundraising right

00:04:04.480 now is right now and it's during the christmas season and charities are having a tough time while

00:04:08.640 postal workers try to fight against progress everybody's losing as postal workers are striking

00:04:13.040 themselves into obsolescence but it's also striking charities out of business the covid lockdowns they

00:04:18.320 decimated volunteer-based organizations as the state made it illegal for people to gather to help each

00:04:22.720 other out once the habit of volunteering has been broken it's hard to get back into the swing of things

00:04:27.520 again as people got used to staying at home and began embracing the attitude of well government

00:04:31.520 will take care of everything we need to return to community-based care for each other guys charities

00:04:36.880 volunteer organizations and a sense of personal responsibility that's the hard one for social

00:04:40.960 ills it has to return unfortunately things are going to have to get worse before they get better

00:04:45.440 i know charities are far from perfect i mean we can't forget the we charity many also become top

00:04:49.760 heavy with administration and some are outright corrupt but for the most part they did better work for

00:04:54.560 people in need than any government program ever could and they'll be needed more than ever soon

00:04:58.960 a good competitive charity environment helps weed out the bad ones people are facing a tough christmas

00:05:03.920 this year i know our pockets aren't as full as they used to be but we should be seeking ways to dig a

00:05:07.440 little deeper and try and help our fellow citizens through some of the better charities or maybe dedicating

00:05:12.000 some time with the local organizations it's satisfying it's good for the community and it'll help far more

00:05:16.560 people than the government ever will look we're in a rut right now we will dig ourselves out but it's going

00:05:21.200 to take some time we can shorten that time frame though as we start changing our habits now we can

00:05:26.080 shrink the government remind ourselves it's the people not governments that create a prosperous

00:05:30.400 cohesive society so let's take back our role from the government guys and we can start with charities

00:05:35.600 and volunteering all right enough of my christmas ranting and feel good sort of things you know it's

00:05:41.280 me i'm all fuzzy in that way when it gets near the holiday season let's check in with the news with

00:05:45.360 dave naylor and see what else is going on in the big bad world how's it going dave it's going well cory

00:05:49.120 glad to see you remembered your microphone this week i did i did i'm glad people can hear me this

00:05:53.440 week yeah so you've spent a lot of your career in the states working there and and traveling what

00:05:58.640 do you think about canada becoming the 51st state well i it's been an interesting thing coming up we

00:06:05.040 haven't heard for quite a while but i got a feeling we would just still just be a small fish in a bigger

00:06:08.720 pond i mean we might be better off than we are under old trudeau but i don't know if that's going to be

00:06:13.600 necessarily a solution to our problems no uh i've had fun this morning putting together all the

00:06:18.480 different means of trump and what it you know with him planting the flag oh he's just we've got

00:06:23.520 him in a mountie uniform riding a horse it's been a good uh good fun this morning uh our lead story

00:06:30.080 right now corey is uh the new york times came up and did a big feature on our vacuous uh foreign

00:06:34.880 affairs minister melanie jolie and they've declared her the top contender to replace uh uh justin trudeau

00:06:42.960 when he finally gets uh booted so all i can say is if she's the best the liberals have or he could

00:06:49.840 be in power for uh generations oh gi joelie i mean and uh christia freeland has released a book that

00:06:56.800 i may get you for christmas oh uh you know so she's obviously she's obviously gonna be a contender 1.00

00:07:03.840 um you're a big swifty right big big concerts in vancouver this week uh to end the uh to end the

00:07:10.880 tour tickets yeah well you know who's got tickets and you paid for them or helped pay for them

00:07:16.400 his liberal cabinet minister harjeet's agent he's going with his family on taxpayer tickets that

00:07:22.160 were purchased uh obviously on on our dime so there's some outrage over that our uh west coast bureau

00:07:29.920 chief uh jared yager he's all over this swift concert he's got a story up there on uh you know

00:07:36.880 how hotels are jacking up their prices it's price gouging basically they're they're charging five or

00:07:42.640 six times their regular roommate and or room rate so if you're gonna if you haven't got accommodation

00:07:48.480 yet corey be prepared to pay and he's currently in line at the uh bc place where they've got a place

00:07:54.720 set up for buying swift merchandise so there's literally hundreds of teenage girls in line gonna 1.00

00:08:02.880 blow their entire year's allowance on getting a taylor swift hoodie and jared's got the assignment of

00:08:08.480 talking to them and seeing what they're so excited about uh southwest airlines in the states has uh joined

00:08:14.960 the party and have canceled all their dei programs uh abbotsford police today made an arrest of a drunk

00:08:21.760 driver uh early this morning the scary thing is he was on his way to start his job as a semi driver

00:08:28.000 and he was uh pissed as a newt uh you know at 6 a.m so good thing they got him off the screen yes

00:08:36.320 and speaking of elections uh all that stuff about delaying the election until the following week until

00:08:43.760 all those ndp people in sync and lock in their pensions that's now off the table so what i think that

00:08:49.840 means is we could have a snap election sooner than later uh if if if i'm reading it right

00:08:56.480 uh so that's what we've got now uh currently manhattan is almost in a state of lockdown where

00:09:01.840 uh the head of the biggest health insurance company in the united states uh was assassinated

00:09:06.880 as he walked outside a high-rise uh this morning and there is a massive manhunt for that killer on the

00:09:13.360 go as we speak and uh our uh our jennifer hodgson will have a story up there as soon as i'm out of

00:09:20.000 here great well no shortage of things to cover today as usual so no it's another busy day in the

00:09:26.080 news right on well i appreciate you filling us in on it dave i'll let you get back in there to sort

00:09:30.720 through all that stuff and make sure we don't miss anything else taylor swift related we got it

00:09:35.760 covered man we got it all right thanks thank you yes that is our news editor dave nailer covering as

00:09:41.520 you see lots and lots going on guys the stories are just piling up out there and uh we're getting

00:09:47.120 them out there if you look on the site it is just prolific we're one of the most uh highly covered

00:09:52.880 news sites in western canada now so the reason we're doing it the reason we can that's where i

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00:10:02.960 for you just like an old newspaper subscription guys well worth it and it keeps us going keeps those

00:10:07.120 reporters out there as i said jared is out there covering taylor swift stuff i mean come on

00:10:11.280 you know we can't get a guy to suffer through all that without paying him at least a little bit

00:10:16.080 and uh we got you know chris old corn out in saskatchewan we got jen here in calgary we got

00:10:20.480 all sorts of people columns get on there westernstandard.news subscription take one out if you

00:10:25.040 subscribed already thank you very much we uh do appreciate it it keeps us rolling you know it's

00:10:32.720 interesting it is with uh what dave was talking about and i didn't see that coming i didn't really

00:10:38.560 anticipate it with uh the government changing the uh the date you know for a potential election coming

00:10:45.920 along and uh yeah as dave said i got a feeling we're going to head into a spring election i can

00:10:50.560 see where their uh logic is going to come from now they'll fall on a budget they'll put out a budget

00:10:56.720 just full of handouts goodies promises they know they'll never be able to keep and they'll go down

00:11:02.880 on a confidence vote on that and they'll see you see you see you know the conservatives and everybody

00:11:07.200 else are just so evil they wouldn't accept this fantastic budget so we've got to go to the canadians 0.98

00:11:13.040 and get their permission to bring it in and i would hope that they get slaughtered in the elections you

00:11:17.280 know that's what uh what is due to happen they've just been in too long i mean it is saying a lot about

00:11:25.120 the pool that the liberals have to draw from when melanie jolie is really considered the top contender

00:11:31.280 you know coming in for the next job again she's just not the brightest uh light in the on the 1.00

00:11:37.760 string there guys i mean she's kind of proven that over the last few years but you gotta remember

00:11:43.040 smart politicians can read the writing on the wall whoever the next liberal leader is going to be is

00:11:48.960 probably going to be a placeholder and sure you might even if you know if trudeau uh resigned before

00:11:54.800 the election you could even become the prime minister for a very short time but who remembers those

00:11:58.640 names you know stefan dion michael ignatiev they come and go uh the the smart ones are going to

00:12:04.080 hold off let somebody else take one for the team and they're going to make their go for it in another

00:12:08.560 electoral cycle but again with them putting off that change that was going to put the election

00:12:13.360 farther into october next year the only reason i can see them doing that is they're pretty confident

00:12:18.320 they're going to go before then you know spring spring's a good time to go in election people are

00:12:23.920 in a better mood they're feeling more positive i mean these are all the things you actually have to take

00:12:28.000 into consideration an election is a thing about feelings sometimes and you know the winter is

00:12:32.880 melting urdo's handing money out to everybody boy everybody got 250 of their own money back in april

00:12:40.000 they might be in a less grouchy mood rather than say a fall election when the leaves have fallen the first

00:12:45.360 snowfall is hit and and you're uh looking for the days getting shorter and darker i i i'll lay my money

00:12:51.680 now you know people uh well i don't have any money i'll lay my bet that's worth nothing on this show right

00:12:56.560 now though i say we're going to see an election in april this year it's going to come and as for

00:13:02.720 the outcome well i suspect a strong conservative majority but who knows politics are a weird

00:13:07.760 bloody creature but all the same i think we're going to be in for it this next year which is

00:13:12.160 about time for a minority government i guess credit for where it's due for the maneuvering and the

00:13:17.040 political uh uh play the average minority government in canada actually only lasts 18 months

00:13:22.560 so the trudeau government well went beyond the average by a long shot and and you know to make

00:13:27.440 it almost a full term as a minority is uh exceptional not exceptionally good for us but

00:13:32.400 it's just exceptional as far as politics go all right let's get back a little closer to alberta with

00:13:36.720 politics and again as i said i've been looking forward to this so there was a lot of discussion

00:13:40.560 trans issues have been big and discussed a lot of course in general and some policies went before

00:13:45.680 the ucp agm and uh you know it was an amazing agm 6 000 people came out there were thousands of

00:13:51.680 people in the audience voting yes or no on policy proposals and i mean i tell you it's tough it's

00:13:57.120 scary it's scary for public speaking to get up in front of 30 people it's really scary to get up in

00:14:02.240 front of a few thousand people and then to get up in front of a few thousand people where consistently

00:14:07.120 they tended to vote against what you proposed as a policy but still being polite about it taking it

00:14:12.800 and continuing to get up and make your case that takes some courage and i really admired that and

00:14:16.720 that's what sheila cunningham was doing at the agm she was speaking to those issues got her her 1.00

00:14:22.240 perspective out there and then came by the broadcast booth quickly and and uh you know offered to come

00:14:27.360 on and chat about these things some more and i think it's important that we chat about it we get

00:14:30.720 too much of the i think hysterics from the activists on one side and i and some from some of

00:14:35.680 the people who get a little too upset on the conservative side as well and we're not going to solve

00:14:39.760 anything until we talk so she's come on this week and i really appreciate it thank you and welcome

00:14:44.240 to the show sheila thanks cory it's a pleasure to be here so you are a member of the united

00:14:49.280 conservative party uh you know an active one you came out to the agm i mean that alone is a commitment

00:14:54.000 i mean it's not cheap to get to those things and to take the time and all that as well uh i guess i'll

00:15:00.720 just start from the beginning though what did you feel you were there to accomplish and do you think

00:15:06.080 you accomplished it well i guess part of why i'm involved at all is to show that not everybody

00:15:12.800 that's trans is hard on the political left you can be in the conservative side and that that's fine 1.00

00:15:20.320 and but there's so few people that are there and part of getting involved and going to events was to

00:15:25.200 see how many other trans people are there very few there are very few that are evident in what they

00:15:30.560 look like but people have been really respectful lots of people even regardless of if they agree

00:15:35.920 with me or or like me or whatever a lot of people ignore me i ignore them a lot of people are really

00:15:41.760 accepting and celebratory even come up to me and go even uh mlas and cabinet mesh come up and go

00:15:48.320 thank you so much for being here for showing there's another side to the story and thank you for

00:15:52.640 speaking up and so to hear those things to know that they're the just simply being there and speaking

00:15:59.680 it makes a difference to peak to that many people has really been uh worthwhile well great yeah it

00:16:06.160 breaks the ice i mean it's not just a time when you're at the microphone up front speaking to the

00:16:09.840 whole room but you're there i mean those are social events everybody's getting together uh exchanging ideas

00:16:15.360 now the the you you spoke to policy proposals you made your recommendations i don't believe any of

00:16:20.880 them went the way you recommended but you still did it respectfully but do you still feel uh heartened

00:16:25.680 about you know how things went that day oh yes because the the what happens that the policies that

00:16:31.680 pass become advice to the government and so by speaking about you know how is the government might

00:16:37.280 implement it or what other issues might there be around it that goes into the hopper of the things

00:16:42.400 that the government considers as they goes from being party policy to potentially government policy

00:16:48.640 and so and often the concepts that come from the party they're rooted they're rooted in something

00:16:53.440 and there's a good concept there but sometimes the uh the administration of the concept how to

00:16:58.160 actually do it doesn't isn't going to fit with how all the various mechanisms of government work

00:17:03.360 so just trying to put those pieces in there both both for members to hear because they might hear next

00:17:09.200 year that well the government couldn't do certain things because of and like in an accountability

00:17:14.800 session but also then for the government to have to then that becomes part of the whole of the whole

00:17:19.520 process so let's uh talk i guess about some of the the sticking points like i i have as a i i mean i

00:17:25.360 tend to consider myself a classical liberal libertarian as far as people if they're grown

00:17:29.360 want to do their own thing cool go be happy do what you will but we start to get some of the

00:17:33.600 difficulties when we get policy or when we get interaction and uh like one one that becomes

00:17:38.880 complicated is is sports and that the legislation just came through that recently i i think that's one of

00:17:43.440 the ones where i mean we've got physiological realities there's a difference between people

00:17:47.280 biologically male and biologically female and you know as much as we want to accommodate it it has

00:17:53.680 really led to some serious problems particularly in contact sports but also things like swimming

00:17:58.000 and areas such as that uh do you think the government's bill to address that was was good

00:18:03.920 well that's a good that's a good segue into the difference between biological sex and gender because

00:18:09.920 both of them include the terms male and female and so biological sex the vast majority of people are

00:18:15.920 either biologically male or biologically female there's a few that are intersex that you know that

00:18:21.440 that's not the focus of today but those basically i mean that's really the presence or absence of

00:18:27.200 testosterone as people grow and and that really makes a big difference in who is the most explosive in

00:18:34.240 their starts and the faster runner and the bigger muscles now gender is very also includes male or female but

00:18:41.120 that's really who people believe they are inside how they feel in their soul and so many people look

00:18:47.600 at those two the term by male and female is interchangeable between there but like i would

00:18:53.280 say i'm biological male but my gender would be female and so that fits under trans and so in sports to

00:19:00.240 have the biological males on one side and the biological females now that matches from strength and speed 0.90

00:19:06.480 and the gender piece that's more that's more of a social and who socializes together but you don't

00:19:12.320 need to socialize together in in competition on a sport because that's the ban that's the restrictions

00:19:17.680 are in competition and the greatest competition is the trials and if you suck during your competitive

00:19:23.840 trial you get cut and that's not fair either so you need to have fairness in there as well

00:19:29.760 yeah so uh but i mean in those cases if a person is you know particularly if they transition

00:19:35.200 later then their body is developed into a a male uh position you know do you feel that they should 0.50

00:19:40.800 compete directly with with people who are you know i guess straight to female again in the swimming i

00:19:45.520 mean we saw some exceptional or weight lifting things like that there's just such a tremendous advantage

00:19:49.440 given it it makes it difficult oh yes i mean for me a good example of a good alberta example is

00:19:55.680 basketball go watch your local uh like high school girls or college watch the girls play and then

00:20:00.960 what's the boys play and see just what that difference in height and elevation speed they

00:20:06.560 just they play a very different game because their their physical abilities are different

00:20:11.120 and so you know i'm i'm fine with there's there's a difference of safety and a difference of fairness

00:20:15.920 and i i'm fine with the restrictions that they're proposing for competitive sport and we can work

00:20:20.800 hopefully to accommodate i mean we want as many kids to participate in sports if they want to as

00:20:24.480 possible and have fun and that's part of the problem was it becomes not fun if you get somebody with

00:20:28.640 unfair advantages going on so uh you know maybe open categories or some sports where it doesn't make

00:20:33.600 a difference things like that but i mean that's where we need the reasonable discussion to happen

00:20:36.960 not the some of the crazed i guess we've had on both sides so a lot of it i guess where we get a lot

00:20:42.240 of sticking points lately with people too is when it comes to age though and youth and i want to ask

00:20:47.280 kind of a little way because i don't understand i have to admit it uh with yourself anyways when did you

00:20:54.640 feel or know you were trans or you you wanted you know to identify as a different gender when did

00:21:01.040 that become clear to you well even as a teenager i knew it was different but at that time the the

00:21:08.080 letter of the like the 2s lgdbq it didn't even get to the b so it was a very short alphabet there

00:21:14.000 wasn't it was before the internet so i knew it was different but i thought every teenager thought they

00:21:18.480 were different so i didn't really have any sense it was it was related to femininity until i was 18

00:21:23.840 but it was it was decades later before i actually accepted it myself and then another decade before

00:21:29.760 i came out publicly so it's been i i knew it was different for a long time but it really as a

00:21:35.200 teenager it was never there i just don't know it was different than teenagers teenager is not an easy

00:21:40.720 time for many people for a variety of reasons no it's not for most and that's where we get the

00:21:45.440 concerns i guess is when somebody might do something irreversible and perhaps it was the

00:21:48.880 wrong choice in a confusing time that that's where we start worrying like a lot you know a lot of

00:21:53.360 things come out anecdotal i'll offer one who we have a family friend their daughter identified

00:21:58.400 decided she's male so okay went with the name change so on and the whole works and a few years

00:22:04.400 later determined now you know what i i'm i'm i'm female and went back okay no harm no foul moved ahead

00:22:11.040 that's all good but had there been any medical intervention whether puberty blockers or even

00:22:17.440 worse you know top surgery or something there would have been some very serious regret on somebody who

00:22:22.320 was just going through the usual pubescent infusion identity i mean you're overloaded with hormones you've

00:22:27.440 got social talent you've got everything happening it's just we're we're talking about entrusting people

00:22:32.400 to make some very big life-altering decisions during what's probably the worst few years for us to make

00:22:37.040 good long-term decisions in our whole lives yes and so to the youth part is challenging for for

00:22:45.200 that that reason and you know once someone goes through like i did through a teenager to miss

00:22:50.560 testosterone your hands don't get smaller your head like your if you have broad shoulders they stay

00:22:55.760 so some changes through puberty are irreversible but if you go through medical treatment during that

00:23:01.120 time you may also end up some of the treatments you might end up infertile and unable to have kids

00:23:06.480 and that was actually one of the things the premier identified during the when announcing these bills

00:23:11.040 in the press conference why coming forward the concern that that the state so the province taking

00:23:17.120 away those rights of minors by by treating them that that could potentially result in a class action

00:23:23.600 lawsuit in the future and protecting future taxpayers from that and i think well okay so there's there's a

00:23:29.840 financial piece to it that i think has not been much discussed no i mean we've got sued very heavily

00:23:37.040 though it was the purposeful sterilization of of people it was you know a terrible period of history

00:23:41.600 and eugenics with people they believe were mentally handicapped and they would sterilize it turned out 0.59

00:23:45.200 some weren't even uh what we would consider mentally handicapped now it was it was terrible terrible 0.90

00:23:49.120 policy and then the lawsuits cost a lot but of course the moral issue is more important and more sticky

00:23:53.520 than the uh the the money one the money is important uh and we just it would just be horrific to think

00:24:01.600 of of somebody who had something irreversible happen or later on and and that regardless of the money

00:24:06.560 settlement they can't have children or they didn't develop the way they should have or there might be

00:24:10.080 other long-term consequences with the add so much more use of puberty blockers i mean i just don't

00:24:15.360 think it's unreasonable to step on the brakes a little with this no and and i think that's fine i'm looking

00:24:20.320 forward to i mean the legislation that those three pieces all passed yesterday through third reading

00:24:27.040 in the legislature um the one on and for on the health part for uh the youth i mean i look at gender

00:24:34.560 dysphoria often you can look at in three categories so that that's where your gender does not match your

00:24:39.360 biological sex that's gender dysphoria and so the if you've got mild moderate or severe is three categories

00:24:46.320 if you've got mild or moderate you can probably navigate that as a teenager with your support from

00:24:51.200 your parents until you're an adult and can make your own decisions the ones that are severe those

00:24:56.240 are a tougher case so i mean there are kids out there that they're they're suicidal at ages younger than

00:25:02.320 what's have been passed in the legislation and so how do we protect them how do we treat them during

00:25:09.200 those years and that's and so there's potential just what the legislation doesn't go into that detail

00:25:17.520 but because there's orders and regulations yet to come i'm hopeful that that will be addressed because

00:25:23.920 it's clear on all three bills the government has not invoked enough notwithstanding clause so they are

00:25:28.880 looking at these as being reasonable restrictions on the rights of people and so the detail exact details

00:25:34.720 of how they do that aren't clear to me today but they would generally come in the next steps anyway

00:25:39.760 so i'll continue to watch for that but that's a that's a piece i'm continuing to look for how are

00:25:45.120 how are i mean we want all those i want all those all those kids to become tax-paying adults when

00:25:51.360 they grow up and whatever their gender sexuality whatever is and it's not easy to get them all there 1.00

00:25:56.480 um i'm a parent of three adult kids sometimes teenager and was hard well i mean it's a work in

00:26:02.400 progress that that's what i appreciate with your patience too some of the difference as i said you

00:26:06.320 you got up you spoke you you certainly i i think you made an impact in the room if you hadn't i i

00:26:11.520 wouldn't have called you to come on the show uh but but all the same you didn't win the day policy wise

00:26:16.400 but the other thing that was in fact you didn't turn on your heel and give everybody the finger and say

00:26:19.920 to hell with all you and then stomp out the door you realize this is a process and and uh and back and 0.86

00:26:25.520 forth and uh you know i i we get things wrong we get things right i mean i remember in my youth 0.99

00:26:31.120 we wouldn't even have thought that there would be marriage between same-sex couples it wasn't

00:26:34.960 even a discussion it couldn't even consideration and now it's it's it's widely accepted uh and i

00:26:41.680 don't think despite what some people claimed at that time too uh opening things up you know legalizing

00:26:48.000 same-sex marriage things like that didn't create more gay people it just allowed them to have a better

00:26:54.640 life for themselves while they're out there i mean i think in some sense it's just me guessing there's a

00:26:58.320 bit of a trans trend going on with some kids that kind of goes back and forth but true gender dysphoria 0.94

00:27:04.480 isn't going to be expanded because of more trans uh friendly i guess uh policies no no trans friendly

00:27:11.920 policies won't expand yeah someone's talked about the kind of a trans trend um there's more and and

00:27:18.000 some have really expressed concern about the number of uh young women that are identifying as trans

00:27:23.600 particularly if there's a group of them and like there's a group in a small so a small social group

00:27:29.280 but and all of a sudden there's several of them that are trans in a statistically unlikely manner

00:27:36.320 and so people there have been some people's oh someone must be recruiting them or trying to do

00:27:40.560 something well you know maybe all these young women and based on what i had one uh uh person tell me 0.99

00:27:47.840 one adult tell me they said they're there but their kid told them was it's not someone this was

00:27:52.800 a girl going to a boy not so much they're a boy but there's far more than a girl and so perhaps these

00:27:58.880 girls are seeing what one theory i have is these girls are seeing what sexism exists in society 1.00

00:28:04.320 and they're looking at that and going you know what for generations ago they banded together to get

00:28:09.440 the vote and then later on to get the rights to earn their own their own their own paycheck and not have

00:28:14.080 that to be part of their husband and now they're like heck with that i'm gonna play for the other 0.99

00:28:19.200 team because that's a possibility right we can discount that as a plot but it's worth looking

00:28:25.520 into why is there like why is that happening and there's even been bans on funding things research-wise

00:28:32.480 by the feds if it doesn't match their their program their you know that oh everything trans is just fine

00:28:40.160 so yeah well and that's what we need again just some some rational calm discussions as

00:28:45.200 you know things come they go we get things right we get things wrong i'll kind of just close off

00:28:49.920 though i mean as a conservative as a person who likes to see participatory democracy i i love that

00:28:55.200 agm just in the fact that there were so many people there i'm not a member but it's certainly a

00:28:58.640 party i prefer and we we've got to broaden our base if we want small government if we want government

00:29:05.520 out of our faces if we want less taxes if we want business friendly things all those conservative

00:29:10.080 values and i just i appreciate you getting out reminding other conservatives hey don't exclude

00:29:15.760 other conservatives this is how we win guys we get together don't let them divide us the liberals

00:29:20.560 love it when we fight with each other and i appreciate you showing that you can be trans and conservative

00:29:26.880 well that's a really good point cory is that i mean there's a lot of estimates about the percentage of

00:29:31.840 the lgpu population in society and often they're around ten percent okay but ten percent could swing

00:29:37.600 an election and then that ten percent they tend to have a number of people that love them and so all

00:29:42.640 of a sudden you're up more than ten percent you're into twenty or thirty percent and if that number of

00:29:47.200 people is looking at they're making their decisions part of the decisions that they vote is based on how

00:29:52.320 that group is being treated that starts to be something that i think all parties should be interested in

00:29:58.080 and in even how they're extending out to them and in either directly in policy or indirectly so

00:30:04.720 those groups can see themselves in that party's future absolutely i mean it's better politics it's

00:30:09.600 just better as being people come on we can sit in the same room even if we don't agree we've all

00:30:14.560 got to get better at that hey it takes practice it takes uh self-control sometimes but uh it's uh

00:30:20.640 how we we get better policy in a better place in the end well i appreciate you taking the time to

00:30:25.120 come on to talk to us today and and the time you took at the agm i'm glad you're still active and

00:30:29.600 going at things i'm certain but we'll see you at an event sometime soon in the future thank you so

00:30:33.840 much gory and anytime you want me back let me know i'd appreciate it thanks sheila so that was

00:30:39.600 sheila cunningham and as i said you see there a good conversation you don't have to agree with

00:30:43.520 everything sheila said or i said uh i'm certain sheila and i don't agree on everything with these

00:30:48.240 things it is a very sensitive big issue as i will fully admit and i'm a blowhard i talk on issues i give

00:30:53.200 my opinions there's a lot of things i just don't understand i had it pretty easy in a lot of ways

00:30:58.880 through puberty i still went through my insecurities and my social challenges and everything else

00:31:03.680 but one thing at least i was always straight i knew that the only was i knew i liked the girls i 1.00

00:31:07.520 wasn't uh caught with that self-doubt and the other stuff that a lot of kids had to deal with at

00:31:12.400 that time if they were gay or or it turns out trans things like that so the only way i can learn 0.95

00:31:17.600 about these things is talking to others who went through it and and we can get better with these

00:31:22.320 things and we're getting better we're we're moving along there again i worry about yes some of the 0.98

00:31:27.920 activists are nuts but that happens in every area we're at we've got religious activists who are nuts 0.99

00:31:33.680 we've got socialist activists who are nuts we've got all kinds god knows let's talk about the gazans you 1.00

00:31:40.160 know in the palestine movement uh but there's a lot of rational people in the middle and i i think often

00:31:46.320 they were afraid to come out and speak afraid to participate i know uh you know i'll offer another

00:31:53.440 anecdote this is where i kind of learned just how bad things were for some people this is way back

00:31:58.800 when the alberta alliance we're gonna get some alberta history here alberta alliance party was the

00:32:02.480 party and and my wife jane and i were on the board with that we had a solid strict policy opposing gay 0.99

00:32:09.680 marriage and my wife jane actually put forth that and started the battle to get rid of that policy it 1.00

00:32:15.440 was already legalized anyways and that's the party that eventually morphed into the wild rose party

00:32:19.040 and then the ucp and uh we got rid of that policy but it was a battle and who cares i mean most people

00:32:26.640 could say that now but it was a serious battle at that time who and and and we went for supper with

00:32:33.040 a another couple we were invited this was even before we tried to change the policy but we were eating

00:32:39.840 a meal with a couple people we thought were good friends and everything and and i was you know we're

00:32:44.160 talking politics that's what we do we and i pitched i i just said i wasn't even talking about

00:32:47.120 the gay marriage i was just saying we've got to change and broaden and reach out to to the lgbtq

00:32:53.680 as sheila said earlier i don't think we had quite as many letters back at that time it was more simple

00:32:57.040 but bring them in because there's business owners there's all sorts of people out there who were just

00:33:01.200 as frustrated with these bad governments as anybody else we would be better for it to bring them

00:33:06.400 in they want to be conservatives but we're just not welcoming well you would have thought i lobbed a

00:33:10.080 deterred into the punch bowl holy cow did the room get cold and quiet our meal was ruined we we went

00:33:16.800 through it in a weird you know perfunctional sort of way and literally we never ended up talking again

00:33:22.000 i never heard from them ever again turns out they were highly highly religious which is fine but to the

00:33:28.480 point where they couldn't even withstand discussing welcoming gay people in the party wow so how does that

00:33:36.240 feel if you were a person of the lgbtq community and you get a reception like that of course you're

00:33:43.920 not going to go back there even if you are concerned about the taxes the regulations and all of those

00:33:47.920 conservative issues who wants to be in a room that's that hostile to you but rooms like that are

00:33:53.840 so much more rare now it's so much better now than it was then there's still a ways to go

00:34:01.200 and we can we can overshoot the boundary you can be hyper tolerant again we can we can get to the

00:34:07.120 point of of allowing the activists to get too far i'm horrified when i heard that there's minors who

00:34:11.680 have had top surgery we're talking about girls who have had their breasts removed before turning 18. 0.98

00:34:17.600 i just hope and pray then i'm not much of a prayer sort of guy but either way i hope

00:34:23.040 that every one of those surgeries were people who were really really confident that's what they wanted to

00:34:26.960 do be and certainly you can end up getting you know breast augmentation later to try and repair 1.00

00:34:32.640 that but boy you know these are irreversible ideas and i got a feeling we push too far when we're

00:34:38.160 getting kids and doing something like that to them they can hang on until they're 18. i know when you're

00:34:41.840 16 17 18 19 feels like it's 100 years from now but once we start getting middle age we realize how

00:34:46.720 fast that little roll of toilet paper life is running it'll speed up don't worry you'll get there guys

00:34:51.360 hang on you can change how you dress you can change your identity you can do all sorts of stuff

00:34:56.400 just maybe hang on before you get to the point of surgical intervention all right let's talk about

00:35:01.200 some of the other stuff though because boy what a week it's been crazy old donald trump yes that mad

00:35:05.840 cheeto in the south is really establishing himself though as dominant in north america i mean what we are 0.74

00:35:12.960 seeing is a social media pissing match and he is taking his thumb on trudeau and and grinding him 0.53

00:35:18.160 down he is making him dance and it's not that shocking because trudeau is a terribly weak leader

00:35:23.920 now i i i kind of enjoy watching this as a social media watcher as a conservative as a guy who really

00:35:28.960 doesn't like trudeau but i do fear for what kind of policy this is going to lead to you know trudeau

00:35:36.480 yeah went down to uh uh mar-a-lago which i still think was a one of the few bright moves on trudeau's

00:35:42.400 part i mean when you've got an incoming president doesn't matter what you think of him how much you like

00:35:46.480 him if he's threatening tariffs that are going to and if those 25 tariffs come through they are going

00:35:51.120 to hurt canada a lot then you'd better react get down there and start talking with him it doesn't

00:35:57.120 matter whether you like him or not let's get chatting now unfortunately i don't think though

00:36:01.920 trudeau's presence down there helped necessarily i think it was the right move but again you're taking

00:36:07.440 a weak man and sticking him next to a type a man who's got a big chip on his orange shoulder

00:36:13.040 who really wants to grind it back to trudeau and that's where you're getting mockery when you're

00:36:16.480 getting talk i mean this is between leaders of countries i mean some people kind of shrugging it

00:36:21.040 off oh it's just uh trump joking around leaders don't joke like that about saying ah we can make

00:36:25.600 you the 51st state maybe you'll be a governor guys that is taking a leak on his leg and dominance

00:36:31.840 is what he did and uh from the other reports from that trudeau just kind of awkwardly giggled and

00:36:36.400 then let it go because he didn't know what to do because trudeau is not a sharp strong man

00:36:41.680 and in times like this that's what we need now you shouldn't say madness doesn't matter if it's

00:36:45.680 a woman or a man you want to see strength look at daniel smith look what she's been doing

00:36:49.920 she's been proactive she's been joining groups of governors on the south side of the border she's

00:36:56.080 going to trump's inauguration that was prior to the threat of these uh uh you know trade sanctions

00:37:02.880 that we're going to get coming up i'll call them sanctions if you're talking about tariffs that big

00:37:06.880 and if anything she's got a good case to make i i kind of said that in my my column the other week

00:37:12.640 because if 25 uh tariffs hit canadian oil and gas products that's going to hurt americans a lot their

00:37:18.720 price at the pump is going to go up immediately their price to heat their homes is going to go

00:37:22.240 up immediately and that's not going to bode well for trump he's got to try and still maintain you know

00:37:26.720 strength for the midterms in two years from now if he can find an out if there's going to be anything

00:37:31.040 he's going to carve out of the tariffs it'll be oil and gas and with premier smith providing him

00:37:36.960 that escape route for that alberta might weather the trump storm a heck of a lot better than the

00:37:42.480 rest of the country will and again i got a feeling that'll lead to other unity challenges because

00:37:46.480 when that happens usually then the country tries to steal alberta's resources but that's a whole

00:37:49.680 separate uh rabbit hole to go down but at least he's being proactive and smart about it unfortunately

00:37:54.000 on the federal front we've got a president coming in who's got uh you know the senate he's

00:38:00.000 congress he's got the supreme court and he's got his own house he's the most powerful president we've

00:38:03.520 seen in a generation and he's trolling us he's posting pictures of him saying oh canada and looking

00:38:10.640 over the mountains with a flag he's got no respect for the leadership of this country and you can get

00:38:17.920 upset with him all you like that's fine i do but uh he's there he's gonna be there for a while we have

00:38:25.440 to deal with it and we aren't well equipped to so it's kind of scary looking at what's going on great

00:38:31.760 to be a political watcher not so good to be a uh alien who's worried about their economic outlook

00:38:38.560 in a country that's already hurting another thing out of trump though this is going to be interesting

00:38:42.640 to see coming and this is something the world really needed to see i think particularly from

00:38:46.240 the united states he has said outright and he said it again that the hostages in gaza have to be freed

00:38:51.920 by the time he's sworn in this is his quote those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been

00:38:57.120 hit in the long and storied history of the united states of america and of course i've seen the the

00:39:02.800 leftist uh media pissing themselves over it oh my god and people say gazzans are afraid well they should 1.00

00:39:07.760 be they should be it's about time they've tried for over a year with these terrorist rapist murderous 0.99

00:39:14.800 scumbags to try and negotiate to try ceasefires to try to get the hostages released and they still 0.99

00:39:21.280 have them let's quit pretending the average gazzan citizens don't know where they are because they do 0.98

00:39:27.840 you don't have a neighbor building tunnels launching rockets and holding somebody hostage

00:39:32.240 for a year without knowing it they're supporting hamas they're still supporting hamas and no i don't

00:39:38.960 think bombing them is going to make them support hamas less but it might get the bloody hostages loose 0.99

00:39:43.760 because there's no more uh pussyfooting with these guys this is horrific and i tell you what when 0.96

00:39:49.120 you've got a man like trump saying he's gonna come in and deal with this you guys had better bloody be

00:39:54.800 scared because whatever the thing is with trump he does follow through with what he says he's gonna do

00:39:59.600 that's a rare trait among politicians you might not like what he's gonna do but he's offering a pretty

00:40:03.920 good warning you guys are on notice you got a little more than a month i suspect a lot of those

00:40:08.960 hostages are no longer alive but there should be a few they've been finding the corpses of ones you 0.98

00:40:15.440 know because of course these scumbags kill them the second it looks like they're going to be overrun by 0.90

00:40:19.280 the idf but there's still some that could be rescued and it should be hamas has to lose this has to lose 0.99

00:40:28.560 this has to set an example to the world this sort of approach cannot win you can't raid a music festival

00:40:37.120 and murder people like that you can't kidnap people like that rape people like that and then 0.57

00:40:42.560 get what you wanted out of it you can't you have to lose and lose dearly and unfortunately yes the

00:40:47.600 citizens of gaza the palestinians are suffering dearly because of it let's not pretend that they 1.00

00:40:52.160 weren't the ones who put them up there in the first place you got to remember gaza was fully under

00:40:56.320 israel's control 20 years ago israel gave it back to them and what did they do did they build up

00:41:01.680 industries did they come up with you know good schools and education for their people no they 0.95

00:41:07.280 oppressed their women dug tunnels built rockets and got ready to try and kill all the jews again 1.00

00:41:12.960 sorry guys you brought that on yourselves and trump now is going to bring it to an end 0.99

00:41:18.240 it might be an ugly bloody end i don't know any other kind of end that can come over there 0.99

00:41:22.480 but it gives me a little bit of optimism with that now let's talk about stupid vows from leaders 0.99

00:41:27.520 and yeah we'll start with the stupidest leader we got justin trudeau i just saw this on x before i 0.99

00:41:32.640 came to do the show he vowed to give resources to cities and this is his terms to crack down on airbnbs 0.99

00:41:40.080 to reduce the rental crisis really as i responded on x is he going to crack down on uber so that we 0.98

00:41:47.280 have more rental cars available you moron this isn't going to make a difference you know cracking 0.94

00:41:52.160 down on homes that have secondary suites things like that that's not the root of the problem the problem 0.97

00:41:57.360 is on a number of levels we've been of course had out of control immigration going for a long time

00:42:02.320 which has spiked demand for housing and the prices have gone up and the availability's gone down

00:42:07.360 we've been taxed half to death we can't afford much more and we're regulated terribly so we can't

00:42:12.800 build more supply and this dingbat wants to come in and increase regulations to make it even less

00:42:18.320 affordable to have rental properties even on a short-team level guess what happens you get less supply

00:42:23.920 but that's what he vowed oh boy that'll help things out won't it at least trump is something

00:42:29.360 doable and something that's going to benefit us but some of the usual barking seals are applauding it

00:42:34.400 you know cities that have been mismanaged not zoning correctly not allowing proper growth cities that

00:42:39.280 are choking the the creation of more housing oh it must be airbnb that's doing it that's next to nothing

00:42:46.000 for it the only ones are going to benefit from that of course are hotels which are already charging a

00:42:49.360 bloody fortune dave mentioned that recently anyways you know i'm in vancouver try and get a room for

00:42:54.160 the taylor swift concert and within vancouver during that period it's going through the roof airbnb's on

00:42:59.040 hotels but hey again it's supply and demand i mean uh all the way back in 88 yeah i'm dating myself i was

00:43:04.720 in banff back then but calgary all of those areas yeah if you wanted to get a room during the olympics out

00:43:10.960 here you were gonna pay a pretty price for it and you knew that years in advance so i mean hey

00:43:15.440 you want to get a good hotel rate don't book into a city while taylor swift is there right you're just

00:43:21.760 asking for it i'm not a fan it's you know i'm again i'm an 80s heavy metal guy you know i once

00:43:26.160 in a while i like to joke show my old mullet pictures from back then not my style of music

00:43:30.080 but you know what if people want to go out and enjoy that go to town good on them have fun do your

00:43:36.320 thing there's worse things that young girls could be doing with themselves and going to a taylor swift 0.99

00:43:40.480 concert if their parents are sponsoring it the problem that came about the other week of course

00:43:44.480 is one of the parents sponsoring it was justin trudeau with his daughter which again hey good 0.97

00:43:48.960 for you go out with your daughter that's fine but dancing around like a twit while montreal's 0.98

00:43:53.920 burning and you know he could have booked a box he could have stayed quietly in the background 0.97

00:44:00.000 but that's not trudeau he has to be front and center he has to do in blat bracelet exchanges

00:44:04.560 it did a disservice to the other people who are attending that and it rubbed people's noses

00:44:09.280 into it when he's saying hey here's a five percent break on jigsaw puzzles and beer

00:44:13.280 see i've saved christmas for you now i'm going to spend thousands of dollars take my daughter to a

00:44:16.800 concert that you couldn't dream of ever taking your children to uh i don't mind rich people spending

00:44:22.240 big money on things that's the way it goes that's okay envy is a bad thing to have but there is

00:44:26.320 conspicuous consumption and it depends on where you are and what you're doing if you're jagmeet singh

00:44:31.360 who's claiming to be a socialist who's claiming to talk for the working man you don't get yourself

00:44:36.560 caught on pictures getting into a maserati which is exactly what he did oh jagmeet your car is worth

00:44:43.680 more than what your party has in the bank good work that really helped show and as i said online yes

00:44:50.800 he's a maserati marxist politics guys you got to be a little more smart about it you know get into

00:44:57.040 your uh modest vehicle get driven around the block to a parking lot and then get into your maserati

00:45:01.840 whatever but what you're you're going to get that response and if you're not hiding if you're not

00:45:06.800 claiming to be a socialist or a marxist then get into the expensive vehicle but if you're going to

00:45:09.920 play the role guys you got to walk the walk so trudeau yeah he undid everything he did with his

00:45:15.040 gst holiday and all of that sort of crap when he was shown prancing around at the taylor swift

00:45:20.320 concert rubbing everybody else's nose into the kind of activities that the rich get to do

00:45:26.080 whilst the commoners get five percent off at mcdonald's for two months all right well that's

00:45:30.720 all the piss and moaning rent and raven i got for this week guys thank you very much for tuning in 0.73

00:45:35.520 there's more news to cover but there's just only so much time in the hour make sure to subscribe

00:45:40.400 and all those good things like share the links and uh tune in we're going to have uh the pipeline

00:45:46.240 coming on a little later tonight and of course nigel does those fantastic episodes of hannaford 0.96

00:45:51.040 and come back in one week's time i'm going to have jay hill on he's a political veteran and we're

00:45:55.440 going to talk parliament and uh what sort of mess we've got going on in there what do we got to look

00:45:59.680 forward to in the next federal year so be sure to come in wednesday same time next week and we'll

00:46:03.760 do it all again thanks guys see you then

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