Western Standard - November 07, 2026


Borrowing for Projects… So Where's the Construction？

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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

179.52

Word count

430

Sentence count

46


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Well, and to stimulate the economy then, fine.
00:00:01.860 If let's say the Americans are sour, you can't cut a deal, we've got a problem, it's not going to build.
00:00:06.580 Then you would think he would feel the urgency and again, have the economic understanding.
00:00:10.380 Well, Canada is a resource economy.
00:00:11.900 That's our main asset.
00:00:12.780 And that's the one we can move the fast.
00:00:14.140 It's easier than building a new tech economy or pharmaceutical or something.
00:00:18.040 We should be having the ships just bumper to bumper going to those developments.
00:00:21.940 And not Europe.
00:00:23.280 Come on.
00:00:23.700 We know where the developing markets are.
00:00:25.560 Indonesia, India, China, throughout there.
00:00:28.940 They want lumber.
00:00:29.720 They want precious metals.
00:00:31.220 They want energy products.
00:00:32.820 They want coal.
00:00:34.280 And instead he's just as obstructionist with getting all of that stuff out.
00:00:38.120 It's all these major developments.
00:00:39.560 He's talking announcements on announcements and announcements
00:00:42.080 while the food bank use is going up.
00:00:44.420 I mean, he seems to feel no urgency on doing what you would have to do
00:00:50.220 to actually change this economy then.
00:00:52.420 And that's disturbing too.
00:00:54.220 So I guess the question is how long, Corey, before
00:00:57.720 he runs up against the expectations of the Canadian people.
00:01:02.860 He has been saying now for almost the entire length of time
00:01:06.940 that he's been in office, which is now more than 18 months.
00:01:10.120 Almost getting closer to two years now.
00:01:12.480 He has been saying we're going to have this Office of Special Projects.
00:01:17.060 They will expedite key developments.
00:01:20.700 Meanwhile, we are borrowing money.
00:01:23.280 We are running deficits.
00:01:24.660 So you would think that the deficits were intended to finance these projects.
00:01:32.180 That would be the only reason to do it.
00:01:35.180 There's only two of those projects now, I think,
00:01:37.060 or started construction of all the projects in the...
00:01:40.120 They've been approved. I don't even know if they started.
00:01:43.320 They didn't start. It was a highway and a camera with the other ones off.
00:01:45.680 They were sort of in the hopper before this.
00:01:47.800 Yeah, exactly. Before he was in the office.
00:01:49.300 This particular organization that he has established
00:01:52.720 has yet to process a single major project.
00:01:56.720 Oh, they're just dragging their heels.
00:01:59.720 It's like saying, I'm going to borrow money to start a construction company,
00:02:03.720 and you borrow the money, but you don't do any construction.
00:02:07.720 Meanwhile, you're on the hook for the debt.
00:02:10.720 What is the plan?
00:02:12.720 And my question to you, Cory—
00:02:14.720 I probably don't have an answer on this one.
00:02:17.720 I sort of ask this to myself.
00:02:19.720 I see he's got till just after Christmas to show something.