Western Standard - Canada needs a DOGE!

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.980 Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I'm back and full of piss, vinegar, vitriol, ranting, information, news, all that good stuff.

00:00:37.740 It's all pent up and built up. Did I miss anything the last few weeks?

00:00:41.560 You know, you do try to schedule a vacation for a time when things are slow in business or whatnot,

00:00:46.580 but I couldn't change my, or wouldn't change my vacation schedule to suit the crazy politics going on in Canada and the United States.

00:00:54.400 So I just had to sit on my vacation and kind of watch from the sidelines until I could come back and rant and rave.

00:00:59.980 hard to cover all of everything that's been going on out there. So those of you watching live,

00:01:06.400 yeah, Paradoxy, others check in on there, use that comment, scroll, send me questions, comments,

00:01:11.220 notions, ideas. I don't necessarily read them all out, but I do see them all on there and it helps

00:01:15.300 to move things along. I got Mike Thomas coming on in a little while as a guest. He's going to talk

00:01:20.020 about, for those outside of Calgary, we've got a thing called the Green Line. It's just been an

00:01:24.260 ongoing white elephant of a behemoth of a light rail transit expansion. It's just a gong show

00:01:29.920 And the price keeps going up and no track ends up going down.

00:01:33.860 So we'll discuss that a little bit because Mike's got a bit of a different take.

00:01:37.060 We're not very nice to Gondek around here, typically, Mayor Gondek of Calgary. 0.89

00:01:40.480 But in this case, Mike says, actually, she's right.

00:01:43.320 Boy, we wouldn't expect those words around here.

00:01:44.980 But, you know, even a broken clock's right twice a day, right?

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00:02:32.860 on a number of platforms. Let me talk about some of the stuff that's got me going. The Conservative

00:02:37.580 Party of Canada, they're muted on the issue. Oh, they're starting to drop hints. The Liberals won't

00:02:41.660 even talk about it. Legacy media sure won't. What is it? Canada's bloated, inefficient civil service.

00:02:48.480 it must be cut. Not tuned up, not examined. No new committee needs to be formed, and we can't

00:02:54.200 afford some cowardly plan of job attrition to let the size of the bureaucracy shrink over time.

00:02:59.900 There must be cuts, and they must be deep. Since becoming Prime Minister, Trudeau has grown the

00:03:04.800 Canadian civil service by 42%. Over 61% of the federal budget is spent on wages and compensation.

00:03:11.800 The wages are high, the holidays are extended, the benefits are huge, and the pensions are

00:03:15.640 fantastic. Many of them work from home and unsurprisingly, government services have become

00:03:19.860 slower and more inefficient despite constantly adding staff and pumping up the budgets. Simply

00:03:25.080 renewing a passport has turned into an odyssey for people who find themselves mired in an inefficient

00:03:29.900 time-consuming mess. The immigration department has more than doubled its staff yet it takes over

00:03:34.400 24 months for those baboons to process a refugee application. Those trying to diligently pay their 1.00

00:03:39.840 taxes, the ones trying to play by the rules, they struggle to get a straighter timely answer from

00:03:43.740 the Canadian Revenue Agency, despite the agency employing 59,000 people. But for comparison,

00:03:48.420 the American Revenue Service employs 93,000 people to deal with a population eight times

00:03:53.860 Canada's size. No nation can enjoy general prosperity when sustaining such a large government.

00:04:00.040 The pool of productive people working in value-added industries is shrinking relative to

00:04:03.820 the people working in government sectors. Bureaucrats, they don't just cost dollars,

00:04:07.620 they add roadblocks to every aspect of private enterprise and often individual freedoms as they

00:04:11.800 instinctively add regulations on top of licenses, on top of inspections. The bureaucracy has become

00:04:17.000 a self-serving monster, and it's only going to be tamed through a strong-willed government with a

00:04:20.660 mandate to cut it down. If the path to freedom and prosperity was through big government, 0.61

00:04:25.700 Venezuelans would be living the good life, and the Soviet Union would have turned into an economic 0.83

00:04:28.980 powerhouse. And its productivity and GDP per capita have been in decline for years. Both will

00:04:35.240 climb. We've seen it in Argentina fast enough if the burden of government can be lifted from the

00:04:39.260 shoulders of citizens. Tax cuts can ease the cost of living and encourage investment. Regulation cuts

00:04:44.260 will speed everything from the construction of homes and spurring enterprise in other industries.

00:04:49.880 Canada's blessed with an abundance of natural resources, a skilled workforce, and a peaceful

00:04:53.180 environment, and we're right next door to the biggest consumer market on the planet. The yoke

00:04:57.040 of big government, though, on citizens is driving the nation down. Now, in the United States, Elon

00:05:01.880 Musk is tasked with heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short. Musk

00:05:07.100 proved how useless bureaucracies can be and how bad managerial bloke can get when he laid off 85%

00:05:12.300 of the staff at Twitter and it didn't even adversely impact services. Obviously they weren't

00:05:16.720 doing a hell of a lot. They'll be proving it further when he begins cutting the size of the

00:05:19.940 government in the USA and the impact is going to be quick. Canada's already struggling to be

00:05:23.660 competitive on the world market and with the USA streamlining its government burden, Canada's

00:05:28.080 competitiveness is going to become even worse and our productivity is going to suffer. Investment

00:05:32.020 and skilled personnel are going to be drawn south while a smaller pool up here tries to feed the

00:05:36.820 ever-hungry Canadian bureaucracy. It's a recipe for economic disaster, no less acute than that's

00:05:42.120 being threatened with Trump's tariffs. Just servicing Canada's national debt now costs the

00:05:46.580 government as much as it takes in from GST. The issue in Canada is not a revenue problem,

00:05:51.360 it's a spending problem, and there's few worse ways to spend money than on the interest payments

00:05:55.560 for a debt. The reasons to cut the size of the government are clear. Are they enough though to

00:05:59.540 inspire the next prime minister to do what must be done? It won't be easy to make the cuts. The

00:06:03.480 unions are going to go wild. Legacy media is going to flood the airwaves of scenes of single mothers 0.93

00:06:07.280 being evicted from homes and pouring onto the streets with broods of hungry children due to

00:06:11.400 having been laid off from a government position. The prime minister is going to have to remain

00:06:15.540 strong. Canada's bloated government costs far more jobs in the private sector and lowers the

00:06:20.940 standard of living more than any round of public sector layoffs are going to do. What's the role

00:06:26.080 of a government job anyway? Is it not to provide a service? If the only service in providing

00:06:29.560 employment for a government employee is a work for welfare program, like if that's the only point

00:06:33.280 of the service. It would be cheaper just to pay them to stay at home. In fact, that's what many

00:06:36.540 of them are doing right now. With the shackles of taxes and regulations removed, Canada would

00:06:40.520 experience an employment boom as investment enters the country. Wages climb and new enterprise is

00:06:44.400 open. Canada could finally reverse that decline in GDP per capita as industry growth overtakes

00:06:50.460 government growth. The opportunity to make heavy cuts doesn't come often though. In the early 90s,

00:06:54.640 it was spurred by double-digit interest rates. Currently, it's because our neighbor and largest

00:06:58.380 trading partner is poised to make cuts. We got to get on board. Hesitation will lead to delays

00:07:03.240 and Canada will remain an investment pariah

00:07:05.660 with a declining standard of living.

00:07:07.540 Canada's next prime minister must strike fast

00:07:09.880 without apology to bring the government down to size.

00:07:12.980 We need voices to encourage and support him or her

00:07:15.260 to ensure they remain on the right course.

00:07:17.720 On that subject, before I go to a news check with Dave,

00:07:20.020 I just saw that breaking.

00:07:21.100 What President Trump is doing right now,

00:07:23.040 and I'm sure through Musk

00:07:23.920 and through that government efficiency department,

00:07:26.540 is offering 2 million civil servants in the United States,

00:07:29.300 basically an early buyout package,

00:07:30.600 five to eight months of severance

00:07:31.980 if you guys quit right now.

00:07:33.880 And that gives them at least a transition allowance

00:07:35.900 to move on into something else.

00:07:37.100 They aren't straight out cutting, but it's huge.

00:07:38.920 That's a massive offer to cut the workforce.

00:07:41.560 And if it doesn't work, it's being clear.

00:07:43.240 He's going to cut anyways.

00:07:44.760 So here's your chance, guys.

00:07:46.160 Take that five to eight months, retrain, search,

00:07:48.840 take a break, whatever you want to do

00:07:50.060 or an early retirement, but move on.

00:07:51.680 He plans on cutting the size of that government.

00:07:53.720 And if we don't do it, we're going to fall behind badly.

00:07:57.120 Okay, let's see what else has been going on

00:07:59.020 this last little while.

00:07:59.720 I got our news editor, Dave Naylor in here.

00:08:02.300 How's it going, Dave?

00:08:02.960 Holy tan, Batman.

00:08:04.160 Look at you.

00:08:04.880 Yeah, I got a little bit of sun down there.

00:08:06.440 So you stayed in the world's largest trailer park, I understand.

00:08:09.560 Basically, yeah.

00:08:10.240 Quartzsite zone.

00:08:11.620 Tens of thousands of RVs out in the desert enjoying the southern sun and barren wilderness.

00:08:16.580 Sounds like a big party.

00:08:17.880 Kind of.

00:08:18.700 Some of them partied up quite a bit.

00:08:20.200 I'm pretty lame.

00:08:21.580 Lots of hippies? 0.98

00:08:22.380 There are a lot of hippies, but I can look the other way.

00:08:24.320 I was thinking to you yesterday when I put up a story on a female rap star out of Detroit

00:08:29.860 who weighs 500 pounds and she's suing Lyft because the Lyft driver refused to take her

00:08:35.820 because he was worried she might flatten his tires and I know you've said before you're

00:08:40.480 an Uber driver that's right how would you handle that situation well you know I saw

00:08:44.460 the videos of her I do drive Uber this is no secret I've talked about that on here I like

00:08:48.020 that as a side thing it gets me out it gets me talking to people makes a few bucks I drive a

00:08:52.140 little Hyundai venue. I don't think even if I was willing to put her in the car, if she would 0.99

00:08:55.740 fit through that door, I'd have to get people like, you know, the Japanese train style to push 1.00

00:09:01.100 her through. And then how the hell would I get her out? Exactly. Or through some chocolate bars 0.99

00:09:06.100 on the other side, she might dive after. But I mean, yeah, I mean, seriously, that could damage 0.95

00:09:09.720 a vehicle. It's 500 pounds. It's like putting a steer in your backseat. Exactly. So weird, weird,

00:09:15.220 weird. Yeah. You've missed a little bit of news. The whirlwind of Donald Trump's first week

00:09:20.820 continued uh last night he signed into law uh banning uh child sex changes uh one of the things

00:09:28.500 he ran on in the campaign so uh as daniel smith likes to say a promise made promise kept no more

00:09:34.740 child sex changes in the states i know a story close to your heart uh corey is the uh uh alleged

00:09:42.340 graves in uh at the residential school in uh in uh kamloops it's been revealed this week 12 million

00:09:49.780 dollars that went there was not spent trying to locate bodies it was spent on publicists and

00:09:56.820 administration costs and various things like that so our columnist hyby rubinstein takes a

00:10:03.220 deep dive into that and he's a bit of an expert as you know um burger king launching a new uh

00:10:10.740 i don't even know if i can call it a burger it's a slab of meat inside a donut and so just picture

00:10:17.140 of this it's 800 calories it's only 800 calories and i'm sure it probably tastes real good it

00:10:23.140 doesn't look great but right now it's only being a test test driven in ecuador so if you want to

00:10:29.620 get one you got to go i go on a bit of a plane ride so rfk doesn't need to worry about it coming

00:10:35.880 to the states for a little bit yet quebec minister came out this week and said multiculturalism

00:10:42.860 does not work. It creates

00:10:45.040 ghettoizations

00:10:46.520 of immigrants.

00:10:48.760 He says, the rest of Canada, you can have it.

00:10:51.100 It doesn't work in Quebec.

00:10:52.820 And we've got Blackhawk 0.58

00:10:54.900 on patrol now in Alberta. RCMP

00:10:56.840 Blackhawk patrolling the U.S.

00:10:59.020 border, trying to stop the flow

00:11:01.020 of drugs and

00:11:02.040 illegal immigrants. And

00:11:04.900 a big press conference this afternoon. Daniel Smith,

00:11:07.320 2 p.m.,

00:11:08.560 going to talk about the Heritage Savings Trust Fund.

00:11:11.760 That's the

00:11:12.520 main thing on the agenda but obviously she'll be asked about trump uh there was a first minister's

00:11:18.740 conference call today with uh with the prime minister and uh it's getting close uh you know

00:11:23.660 saturday's only a day or two away when the uh tariffs are supposedly coming so down the hatches

00:11:30.440 yeah well we'll see what happens i mean either is believable right you know saturday could come and

00:11:35.300 there'd be no tariffs that wouldn't be shocking but him laying them on there on saturday would

00:11:39.100 it's just as likely. Yeah, it could be at like 2 a.m. or he's on the golf course. He's gloriously

00:11:47.260 unpredictable. Be that he is. Well, as an anarchistic type, I kind of like it, but I'm

00:11:51.760 kind of terrified of his time. Exactly. All right. Well, thanks, Dave. I'll let you get back

00:11:55.580 into that newsroom and hammering on all those stories and see you after the show. Thanks for

00:11:59.820 that. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And this one, I'd like to remind everybody the reason

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00:12:41.360 commenting and he was sitting in for me for the last couple of weeks on the show. And I don't

00:12:46.120 like to make his head swell any further than it has to, but he really did do an awesome job. I

00:12:50.400 really appreciate him sitting in. When I sent him the note, I wasn't kidding. I couldn't leave him

00:12:54.380 sitting there too much longer or he'd fully replaced me and I wouldn't have a show for myself

00:12:58.420 anymore. So thanks, Josh. I'll see you back in this chair maybe in about 11 and a half months.

00:13:03.840 all right yeah so all this news it's it's just where do you where do you stop right so let's talk

00:13:11.120 about the woke and the insane this one came up recently it was brought up by jk rowling online

00:13:15.860 this is a uh an albertan issue that got international coverage and it should a man 0.74

00:13:21.460 and this is a man there's no doubt about it was put into a woman's shelter this pervert and he 0.76

00:13:27.960 what did he do well he assaulted the women in the woman's shelter in Edmonton this this guy he 0.92

00:13:33.980 doesn't look even a little bit like a woman it's not like a trans person where you you might have 1.00

00:13:39.140 mistaken them for a woman uh we should have a picture there he is really so this person

00:13:45.840 identified as a woman and they said let's put this guy into a shelter full of women who were 0.99

00:13:52.580 trying to hide from men who assaulted them and then they got put in with this guy and he assaulted

00:13:57.660 them. It's insane. It's insane. This is beyond the pale. And how does this happen? Well, it happens

00:14:05.620 because DEI woke morons who come out with a degree in gender ideology, which ironically teaches them 1.00

00:14:13.140 that there's more than two genders and there aren't, get over it. These are the ones that are 1.00

00:14:17.540 also feminists at the same time, and they understand, and there is a need for women's 1.00

00:14:20.560 shelters. There's abusive spouses, monsters, animals out there, and women and family need a 1.00

00:14:26.260 place to transition and hide and get themselves together. And the safe space we put, we set aside

00:14:31.880 for these women, and instead they stuck this pervert in with them. And these women who had 1.00

00:14:35.380 already been abused once, frightened once, dealt with this, had to deal with it again in a safe

00:14:41.620 space. They're never going to feel safe for the rest of their lives. This is unforgivable. And

00:14:47.140 you know it was some self-styled feminist moonbat idiot who said, well, we have to let him in 1.00

00:14:52.320 because he said he identifies as a woman. He's got a deck and knackers, guys. That's all the 1.00

00:14:57.880 tests you need. It really is. This doesn't have to be complicated. If they got the plumbing of a

00:15:03.240 man, they don't go into a woman's shelter. Yet we haven't figured that out. And this is Alberta. 0.95

00:15:08.060 I thought we were supposed to be one of the brighter ones in Canada, but apparently no,

00:15:13.520 we actually stick sex offenders into women's shelters. I just, you know, again, I'd say it

00:15:19.840 leaves me lost for words but as you can see now I got plenty of words it makes it hard for me to

00:15:22.640 hold back the expletives I really want to use on this one either way let's get on with that let's

00:15:27.740 talk about some other things big government big waste big confusion it's the big green line and

00:15:32.940 we got Mike Thomas in studio to talk about it and uh it's been big news you know I'll kind of frame

00:15:38.400 it a little bit I mean for people outside of Alberta though it seems like Ottawa I think

00:15:41.640 Montreal Edmonton there's big transit projects Vancouver happening all over they're trying to

00:15:46.440 these train projects going and they're almost invariably turned into boondoggles uh calgary

00:15:52.280 has the green line and this has been going and going going and now we've kind of culminated with

00:15:57.960 a weird vote yesterday on a provincial version of it yeah it's uh they should call it the yellow

00:16:03.800 line because it's turned into a lemon cory um council voted reluctantly calgary city council

00:16:11.800 voted i think reluctantly in favor of the alberta government's revision to the line

00:16:18.200 which has drawn gotten people up in arms because it is elevated through the downtown core

00:16:25.240 over top of 10th avenue in calgary if you're not familiar with that it's a very busy uh main road

00:16:32.520 that runs east and west and and has a lot a lot of buildings uh businesses sorry including hotels

00:16:40.840 and restaurants and things like that, running along the street.

00:16:44.860 Now they're going to have a train running over top of them.

00:16:47.640 And the Alberta government is of the mind, well, that won't affect the business.

00:16:52.080 Yeah, right, right.

00:16:54.560 It will.

00:16:55.020 If anybody's been to Chicago and seen underneath how nice that part of town is

00:16:58.100 where all the elevated train lines are, you build insta-slums kind of.

00:17:01.540 Yeah, and the Alberta government came in.

00:17:06.080 They've been a partner on the thing all along with them and the feds

00:17:09.880 and then of course city calgary government but they came in uh late last year with a revision

00:17:15.240 to the plan which shortened the green line which was supposed to be running from all the way in

00:17:22.520 northwest calgary from 160th avenue if you're not familiar with calgary that's way up north

00:17:28.200 and then running down to the southeast part of the city uh to an area called shepherd um

00:17:35.240 and the alberta government said nah you don't need that let's just go from shepherd we'll take it

00:17:40.280 into downtown and we can both stop in downtown initially and we'll see what happens after that

00:17:47.800 and so that goes against the the plans the the green line was uh part of uh former mayor

00:17:57.640 had nenshi's uh plans and that in those days a huge huge thing like i say wipe the northwest 0.66

00:18:05.080 down in the southeast but it's now been narrowed down to what i just mentioned at the cost of 6.23

00:18:13.080 billion dollars that is shared between the city at 47 percent the province 26 percent and the feds

00:18:20.680 27 percent so that's basically where we stand right now and um we were talking earlier and

00:18:28.760 i was at council last night watching all this happen and i'll be very honest it's not very

00:18:34.200 often i i agree with with the mayor but uh mayor gondack uh out of the meeting the private meeting

00:18:42.440 they had and just ripped the province apart it's in an article i wrote that's up on the website

00:18:48.680 now i think um and i was shocked i was absolutely shocked that she would do that 0.98

00:18:57.000 and i was even more shocked that i agreed with her because i don't like i say i don't very often

00:19:02.360 agree with her but she's absolutely right the contention being that the part going over 10th

00:19:08.200 avenue and then elevated again into downtown is going to be very very disruptive yeah well the

00:19:15.160 the construction alone. I mean, we know these things don't happen fast and there's a lot of

00:19:18.380 businesses under there. They're going to be decimated. But some people will say you have

00:19:22.820 to break some eggs to make an omelet, blah, blah, blah. But they don't take into account the impacts

00:19:28.400 really, it seems. But I mean, this is kind of a pissing match that's been going on for quite a

00:19:32.800 while. I mean, some of the language that was interesting out of it from the province, and I

00:19:36.340 got to admit, sounded pretty heavy handed from above when we're supposed to be a decentralized

00:19:39.220 model, saying that the city is going to get the liability and they're going to deal with the

00:19:43.640 construction, they're going to deal with the debt and everything else, but you're going to do our

00:19:46.920 plan. Yes. And that's, that's good that you mentioned that because the, when the province

00:19:52.980 came back with their revision to the plan, they said, well, this, that, and that, and that's going

00:19:58.160 to add, the C looked at it and went, well, it's going to add $1.3 billion to the cost. And there

00:20:03.460 are all kinds of liabilities involved in this thing, obviously. And this province says, no,

00:20:08.080 that's on you but you're right uh the city's got to do it the alberto government way or no way and

00:20:14.400 if there's any problems liabilities um it's on the city um interesting last night a condo complex in

00:20:23.760 eau claire burned down the ironic timing it's like well whoa where did that come from but this condo

00:20:31.600 complex was expropriated by the city to the tune of pretty close to 21 million dollars to get the

00:20:38.320 owners out um it was being demolished it was scheduled to be demolished because there was

00:20:44.340 going to be a green line station at that point um so it was like i say it was being demolished

00:20:52.200 and then last night after this the vote said yeah okay i guess we got to go with with the

00:20:56.560 province. It burned down. And I don't know. I'm not going to suggest that. Just that region's

00:21:02.360 full of irony anyways. And for those of us old enough to remember, I mean, it used to be a

00:21:05.940 horrible area with the old bus barns and Greyhound station a long time back. The city planners

00:21:12.240 changed it to Eau Claire. It was going to be the Granville Island of Calgary. This was going to be

00:21:16.720 a brilliant area. And it sort of failed catastrophically over the years. And now they're

00:21:22.420 tearing that mess down and they've put in a well now a fictional lrt station it's going to be a

00:21:27.160 dead zone again actually the lrt isn't going to go anywhere near there no not with the latest plan

00:21:32.240 but i mean who would invest in anything there right now because you don't know what it's going

00:21:35.240 to be next month no i exactly i mean it the it never really took off the way they thought it

00:21:42.880 was going to and now it has no chance of taking off at all it's kind of in flux so i mean getting

00:21:49.180 into the bigger issue, as I said, other cities, everybody deals with this. What I see part

00:21:52.920 of the problem of getting anything done is you've got three levels of government in this

00:21:57.480 ideal world. Okay, everybody's pitching in, but they all come with strings attached. They

00:22:01.800 all want to make their mark. And it's bad enough getting one government managing to

00:22:05.480 get something done. When you got three, two of which put strings attached typically to

00:22:09.820 the funding, you end up with this. Yeah, or you'll never get anything done with three

00:22:14.660 levels of government that

00:22:16.740 involved monetary.

00:22:19.040 Now, the feds,

00:22:20.100 they said, yeah, we'll give you the money.

00:22:22.720 And they pretty much have stayed out of it. It's the Alberta

00:22:24.780 government that's come in and

00:22:26.840 scared the chickens in

00:22:28.800 the hen house.

00:22:31.060 Getting further back,

00:22:32.140 the recent release, this kind of made it all hit the fan

00:22:34.600 last July, I think it was.

00:22:37.020 That's when the latest city plan

00:22:38.560 had come down to, they'd scaled this thing

00:22:40.500 down now to what, like four stations

00:22:42.280 and 10 kilometers long.

00:22:44.660 and wanted to tack on another $1.5 billion in the price.

00:22:50.100 Should they just be left alone to say, yeah, we'll go with that?

00:22:52.880 I mean, it was becoming untenable.

00:22:55.380 Well, I think I'm not a big fan of government involvement in anything,

00:23:00.240 but I think probably, I mean, it's easy to look back at something like that

00:23:04.800 and come up with a solution, obviously.

00:23:06.940 But all levels of the government should have gone.

00:23:11.060 there are construction associations and companies in the city who do these things it's their job

00:23:18.020 and they should have said we want to train to go from here down to there bring us a plan but they

00:23:23.300 didn't the city bureaucracy did it in-house and that's a mistake i mean you don't go to a radiator

00:23:33.540 mechanic to get your teeth fixed you know and that's pretty much what a bureaucracy is about

00:23:39.300 so what's the solution do you think this train line is ever going to get done

00:23:43.860 i think eventually um now that the because it's always been about the money and and you

00:23:50.420 i mean they've done some things but now that the money is pretty much guaranteed

00:23:55.140 uh they can start putting shovels in the ground and um i don't know if you're going to start

00:24:01.300 downtown or if you're going to start in in uh shepherd if they're going to build it from shepherd

00:24:06.580 north or build it from downtown

00:24:08.520 south. But yeah, I think it will

00:24:10.740 get done now, finally.

00:24:13.520 And the time and the cost of the

00:24:14.680 other questions. I mean, it sounds like

00:24:16.600 I saw this interesting, it seemed a bit strategic.

00:24:18.920 I think it was Evan Spencer, one of the counselors,

00:24:20.500 talking about just saying, well, we've got to push,

00:24:22.780 get them to start digging in the south

00:24:24.120 right away. Perhaps I get the feeling

00:24:26.300 let's get it irreversible.

00:24:28.360 Now the tracks are on the ground, even if only a couple

00:24:30.660 of blocks. It's moving. Let's

00:24:32.580 quit stopping now. We've got to get it done.

00:24:34.480 We could fight about downtown over the next five years

00:24:36.540 while they build it to the... Well, it's, yeah,

00:24:38.440 it's interesting because

00:24:40.580 Spencer at the council meeting last

00:24:42.760 night called the decision poopy.

00:24:44.520 Yes. It's not a term you hear

00:24:46.760 in council. No, not too often.

00:24:48.980 But yeah, Corey, I think it's

00:24:50.760 going to get done. How long it's going to take is

00:24:52.640 another issue. Are there

00:24:54.660 going to be other problems that get in the way? Oh, yeah,

00:24:56.860 of course. There's going to be things

00:24:58.780 when people in, for example,

00:25:01.020 Corey Park, where it's going through

00:25:02.800 in Southeast Calgary, or even in

00:25:04.560 Ramsey, Inglewood, where it's

00:25:06.540 where it turns to go west after running north ramsey englewood for the people who don't know

00:25:13.100 are probably the oldest neighborhoods in calgary and i'm guaranteeing you that most people living

00:25:20.300 there right now have no clue that this thing is coming to their neighborhood and it's going to

00:25:25.180 disrupt things like crazy oh yeah there's some of the irony again going back 30 years when i moved

00:25:29.260 to calgary you didn't want to go into england it was rough the old national hotel the the prostitutes 1.00

00:25:35.020 it was just a bad bad end of town and to their credit i mean i didn't believe it when the city

00:25:39.020 back then said you know we're going to fix this area up and they did they turned it around it's

00:25:42.620 a trendy area nice shops expensive condos you go blasting an lrt line through there you're going to

00:25:48.860 send it back into being a ghetto well yeah uh it's just people are going to wake up one day and see

00:25:54.780 all this stuff going on in front of their houses people digging ditches and laying down track and

00:25:59.420 they're going to go what happened but you know that's it brings me to another point it's an

00:26:03.420 election year in calgary and um calgarians are notoriously bad when it comes to showing up at 0.73

00:26:11.580 the polls and so there are going to be people who who wake up one morning to the lrt in their

00:26:17.020 or past their front windows and they're going to say what the heck where did this come from 0.71

00:26:22.220 but uh calgarians really got to get off their butts um and and participate in the election

00:26:28.700 this year is it's vital it's absolutely important um to get and there's like 100 000 new calgarians

00:26:36.620 in the city this year i think something like that and and they've got to get to the polls

00:26:41.980 they got to pay attention to what's going on so that we don't they don't wake up and are surprised

00:26:46.540 by an lrt going by yeah well it's like the old statement it's a true one in democracy you get

00:26:51.740 the government you deserve i'm going to talk a little after this about how messed up our democracy

00:26:55.580 is trying to get the government reserve federally but at least municipally i mean that's government

00:26:59.820 close to you that's government that impacts you more than you imagine and most people i hate to

00:27:04.460 say it but couldn't name their local counselor they wouldn't even know who it is and paying

00:27:07.980 attention because this is yeah when you express shock when that rail lines across the street

00:27:12.460 well i think you know it's something happened in the city last year but i think people don't think

00:27:19.340 they can fight city hall and and city hall proved you shouldn't when they did the up zoning uh

00:27:27.500 blanket up zoning thing last year and 70 of the calgarians at a public hearing said no we don't

00:27:33.100 want it yet council went ahead and did it um well you just got to get out and fight but it's it was

00:27:39.500 good to see that many people come out and and take up the fight even if they lost it they at least

00:27:44.620 they got out there well that's it the opportunity is coming this fall i mean this is the crabbiest

00:27:48.540 I think I've seen in general with people with it.

00:27:50.320 I mean, they got grumpy with Mitchie,

00:27:51.380 but Gondek has really not endeared herself,

00:27:53.400 nor a lot of those counselors. 0.81

00:27:54.920 It's not surprising to see some like Mian, 1.00

00:27:56.960 I believe, already announced she's not going to run again.

00:27:59.120 Spencer's not going to run again.

00:28:00.360 I think they already read the writing on the wall.

00:28:02.040 They're just getting it.

00:28:02.800 Yeah, I think with those two,

00:28:05.680 I think they're probably another four, maybe five.

00:28:08.920 And these are only first termers too.

00:28:11.140 So, I mean, they've had one taste in their salmon.

00:28:13.320 Well, yeah.

00:28:14.020 Look, you know, I've been hanging around City Hall

00:28:16.520 a lot in the last couple of months.

00:28:17.700 you need danger pay it is something else and you know before i let you go i mean just remind people

00:28:26.220 because that's what we need more of to the other part not just taking part in elections but

00:28:29.300 there's one of the differences with press evolution we don't have the coverage of city

00:28:32.900 halls like we used to i mean used to have a whole lineup of reporters in the gallery for every boring

00:28:37.320 meeting just in case something of importance came out now not many people are you're thankfully you

00:28:42.220 know donning the hat and going down there and watching that uh you know so this is kind of

00:28:46.240 the final plug you write regularly and you're going to continue watching this

00:28:49.660 on our behalf oh yeah yeah I think the Green Line's probably off my agenda for

00:28:54.520 a while but we'll do more especially as an election year unfolds yeah yeah all

00:28:59.440 right well thanks for keeping an eye on thank you Cory I appreciate it a summary

00:29:02.620 of it for us and yeah I look forward to more of the coverage as it unfolds all

00:29:06.880 right all right thanks have a good day you do it

00:29:09.280 hey that was Mike Thomas yes he covers any many things as you can tell a

00:29:13.720 a journalistic veteran still at it here for us. And, you know, it's a problem, as I said,

00:29:19.460 for people across the country. Every city hall has this issue going on. A lot of it is our own

00:29:25.020 bloody fault due to apathy. We have the means to get out, fire these guys. We have the means to 0.93

00:29:31.060 pay a little bit of attention if only once every four years and realize, my Lord, this person's a 1.00

00:29:35.740 twit. Vote for somebody else. But we don't do it. Turnouts and civic elections are horrible in 1.00

00:29:40.940 Calgary, I think I've seen them as low as 20% over the years. Getting back to, you know, there's

00:29:46.820 something, I've been very much a fan of the UCP in Alberta and Daniel Smith and a lot of the things

00:29:51.780 she's doing and a lot of the things she's done. I'm concerned about others. When I talk about the

00:29:55.800 size of government, I talked about spending and things like that. Well, they haven't cut spending

00:30:00.140 and I'd like to see that, you know, we're supposed to be conservative. That's staying up there. We're

00:30:04.640 not cutting our civil service. We should be. Alberta is actually pretty bad for that. We got 0.99

00:30:08.060 a pretty bloated one ourselves. So, I mean, I'm not just going to beak at the federal government

00:30:11.500 for not finding the courage to do it. The provincial government needs to as well, and the

00:30:14.940 city. I see some of the discussion from others in the comments, girl, Wildrose, Angry Canadian,

00:30:20.160 talking about independence and whether, you know, we're looking at 51st state stuff or Alberta

00:30:24.340 moving along, which is, of course, very familiar turf with me. One of the things I've always said,

00:30:28.340 and I said it, you know, making my own plug in my own book when I wrote The Sovereign's Handbook.

00:30:33.160 If Alberta seriously wants to go independent, though, they've got to clean up their own 0.99

00:30:36.520 backyard first. If you want to convince voters in Alberta to take a referendum vote and leave

00:30:41.400 or change the situation in the federation or anything, you have to prove that wouldn't be

00:30:44.880 any better. If it's still big government, if it's still not democratic, if it's still not

00:30:49.940 serving the people right, why would you think that you'd be doing any better in a smaller version of

00:30:55.380 it? So we've got to pay attention to the municipal politics. We've got to get on the case of our

00:30:59.940 provincial leaders. And as I said, something that got me increasingly just uncomfortable

00:31:05.160 with the Smith government. And again, for the most part, I think, you know, Premier Smith's

00:31:10.060 doing great, but they really are top down. It's ironic when they complain as much about the

00:31:16.600 federal government pushing into the jurisdiction of the provincial government, and rightly so,

00:31:20.860 but they have been very heavy handed when it comes into the jurisdiction of the municipal governments

00:31:25.400 and pressuring them and putting strings onto the transfers

00:31:29.100 or, you know, talking about regulations

00:31:31.800 and things that would manage municipal politics.

00:31:34.240 That's where I get a little more uncomfortable.

00:31:35.840 Isn't the principle supposed to be the same all the way along?

00:31:38.660 Shouldn't you leave the local government

00:31:40.100 more in the hands of the people?

00:31:41.580 And I've seen people saying,

00:31:42.680 we need Smith to intervene.

00:31:43.740 Look how terrible the mayor is

00:31:44.960 or look how terrible our councillor is

00:31:46.820 or our reeve or whatever it might be.

00:31:49.000 True, they might be terrible, but whose fault is that?

00:31:52.480 You want the premier or a minister of hers

00:31:55.240 to step in and deal with that, or should we be doing it as electors? And I mean, I won't go down

00:32:01.040 the rabbit hole or recall, but that's one way between elections to do it. But we do get the

00:32:04.300 chance every election and we don't take advantage of it. Got to start firing these guys. Got to start

00:32:09.360 putting better ones in. We shouldn't be counting on a higher level of government to intervene. I

00:32:14.660 mean, going further along in that sense, that's like saying we should have Trudeau intervene

00:32:17.720 and overrun our premier, Daniel Smith, when she's doing something here. That's not the way to do it.

00:32:23.020 We should be bringing government, the ability to control government closer to home.

00:32:26.800 Municipal governments should be powerful.

00:32:28.260 They're the close ones to us.

00:32:29.360 But we have to hold them responsible.

00:32:31.260 Voters, not the next level of government up.

00:32:33.940 That's just adding another problem to it.

00:32:36.620 So I won't applaud them for that.

00:32:40.300 Let's get on to the federal government.

00:32:42.080 Oh, boy.

00:32:43.460 So just before I left for my vacation, Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign.

00:32:49.580 He didn't actually fully resign yet.

00:32:50.980 So the city's going to, after, and I'll go a little more into that in a moment, you know, a robust leadership election process.

00:33:00.480 You know, I listen to a lot of podcasts.

00:33:02.280 I drove all the way, pulled a fifth wheel with Jane all the way down to Arizona and back.

00:33:05.200 A lot of driving time.

00:33:06.100 I make poor Jane endure a whole lot of podcasts and such. 1.00

00:33:11.300 And I listen to Joe Rogan.

00:33:12.360 I like listening to Joe Rogan, but I don't often have the three hours to set aside to listen to him.

00:33:15.900 But when I get road trips like that, I do.

00:33:17.040 and it's funny because he broke down something finally kind of defined something about Justin

00:33:21.520 Trudeau I hadn't thought of but it makes sense it's like you know just that that weird

00:33:27.080 creepy breathy performative way that Justin Trudeau speaks you know any conference anything

00:33:33.900 he's at it's just that bizarre speech inflection he has that way of putting himself and Rogan said

00:33:40.160 it's because it's performative it's because he's acting he's always acting and yet we always kind

00:33:46.340 of knew Trudeau was fake. We always knew he was acting, but you see the way Rogan broke it down,

00:33:49.460 he's right. If you ever watch old, old movies, acting evolved. You know, if you look back

00:33:54.500 all the way, you know, to when it was just stage and theater, a person on a stage really had to

00:34:01.040 exaggerate, be performative, really reach the audience with an exaggeration of emotion and

00:34:05.840 statements. And then it moved on to movies and it was silent movies. So you still, you expressed

00:34:10.140 yourself bodily greatly with that. And then the first actors, those old ones, they didn't, they

00:34:14.300 didn't talk anything like we talked today. The first radio hosts didn't talk like anybody does

00:34:20.100 today. They had that weird inflection. You didn't see anybody on Earth, and frankly, I don't give a

00:34:24.720 damn it, any of that sort of stuff. That was just the way they spoke back then. It was bad acting,

00:34:29.560 actually. It was acting that needed to evolve into today. You look at movies of today, the intent of

00:34:33.340 the actors is to seem at least as human as possible, so it seems like you're watching a real

00:34:37.900 scene. Trudeau is a bad actor. He's not just an actor. He's a bad one. And not an endearing one.

00:34:45.440 You know, William Shatner is a terrible actor, but at least he made a character out of it. We

00:34:49.660 can kind of enjoy him. Trudeau is a terrible one. And yes, as others have said, you know, 0.95

00:34:54.760 Wildrose, when Trudeau speaks, I need a shower. Yeah, I know. It just grates. It's going to be

00:34:58.600 finally to see that guy in the rearview mirror is going to be such a good thing, but it's

00:35:03.040 going to be a while yet. A good commenter saying, Lone Warrior says, how do you convince good

00:35:07.440 people to run for office though. It's tough. It's tough. You know, you're asking a lot. I mean,

00:35:14.080 people talk about cutting political pay and salary down to the bone. That's fine. But boy,

00:35:18.600 you know, some of the people you might want getting in, I mean, there's some great people

00:35:22.240 working in the low income. They might be very smart and dedicated who make great politicians

00:35:25.320 too. But a lot of people, you're asking them to take a heck of a wage cut to go into office then,

00:35:30.260 especially if you reduce those amounts. And I know it sounds frightening when you're talking

00:35:33.180 about politicians already making six figures, but you can only cut it so far. So you got to make

00:35:37.340 sure they're well compensated, not overcompensated, absolutely. But they got to be well compensated.

00:35:43.960 You got to convince the people running for office, they can get something done.

00:35:46.860 You want people running on an ideal to make things better. That's the reason a person does

00:35:51.240 it, a professional or whether it's a person who works in a restaurant, but just manages to run

00:35:55.840 into fine, but they want to actually be making a good change. And if they don't feel they can make

00:35:59.940 that change, they don't feel that it's actually doable. And they don't feel that putting their

00:36:03.840 life on the line, going out there, becoming an elected official, spending four years doesn't

00:36:07.520 actually accomplish something, then why are they running? Well, then they are running for a better

00:36:11.500 job or to line their pockets or something that's not a good person. So I don't know if we need to

00:36:17.280 improve this system, right? We need to make sure that people feel like it works, not just the

00:36:21.340 voters, but the people running for office. They want to know they're getting into something that

00:36:24.340 will be functional. Right now we are very, very dysfunctional. And it's difficult. You know,

00:36:33.840 So where do we go with this?

00:36:38.140 Getting to the liberal race, for example.

00:36:40.440 You know, the leadership race.

00:36:41.500 Now, I'll give them a little bit of a break.

00:36:43.360 This kind of happened suddenly.

00:36:44.520 You didn't expect it.

00:36:46.240 We kind of expected Trudeau was finally going to give it up and leave.

00:36:49.900 But we didn't know when.

00:36:50.900 Suddenly, bang, it's there.

00:36:51.800 It's in front of them.

00:36:52.480 Grudgingly, Trudeau announces his intention to resign.

00:36:55.000 The liberals have to rush it in a process that they usually spend six months to do for a leadership race.

00:36:59.960 They squashed into two months. 0.94

00:37:01.460 but now they've turned it into a coronation and it's ridiculous uh plus their standards

00:37:08.640 of of how and and what you do to lay me right see back in 2014 or whenever they did it last

00:37:14.520 they allowed people to become members for free nice idealistic blah blah blah all you had to do

00:37:20.220 is fill out a form online it's a nice way to actually just kind of get out of mind you know

00:37:24.160 bring in more people in there because those are the people you'll hit up later for donations and

00:37:28.300 participation in elections, things like that. In political parties, when we used to do mail out

00:37:32.480 everything, $10 a year for membership fee would be just about enough to cover the amount of mailing

00:37:37.660 and dealing with the members. And then you want to reach further to hopefully bring them and get

00:37:41.640 them engaged or get further contributions from them. So they said, screw it, let's go free.

00:37:45.660 Everything's digital. We can do that. Now everybody can sign up for a leadership race for free online.

00:37:50.180 You know what? In the last leadership race, it didn't really improve the amount of people coming

00:37:53.740 out to take part in it. But people have learned a whole heck of a lot about digital campaigning

00:37:58.940 and getting people involved. So now, even though the membership window for the liberal leadership

00:38:04.540 was open and closed quickly, many, many, many people were signing up for free to vote in that

00:38:09.120 race. And I'm forgetting his name now, you know, Arya or Chandra, there was a liberal member of

00:38:14.440 parliament, he was a backbencher, he'd been there forever, but he'd been there for three terms.

00:38:17.280 And he started to run, and he put a campaign together, and he was hammering hard. And thousands

00:38:21.780 and thousands of people were signing up with those free memberships to vote for him. But they want

00:38:25.980 Carney. It became clear. And he scared them. And you can tell he scared them because they kicked

00:38:32.540 him out of the race. They still, the Liberal Party hasn't given a reason why they kicked him out of

00:38:37.380 the race. He was good enough to be a member of parliament for them for almost 12 years. But

00:38:43.380 suddenly he's not good enough to be in the race. It's rigged. It's rigged. It's a Carney coronation.

00:38:48.920 And yes, sure, this gentleman was probably playing the ethnic vote and doing other things, but he did it fast enough that it looked like, oh, wow, this could really disrupt our coronation of Carney.

00:39:00.160 We've got to kick him out of the race.

00:39:01.740 We don't have to give a reason.

00:39:03.040 We'll just kick him out.

00:39:03.740 And they did.

00:39:04.820 But getting back to the earlier question, how do you get good people to run for office?

00:39:08.060 Who wants to run what their life on hold is?

00:39:10.260 I said, do all that and jump into a rigged game.

00:39:13.240 Because a good person doesn't want to go into a rigged game.

00:39:16.280 I see Gord Tulk commenting, and he's been fair enough online, because when that happened, I mean,

00:39:21.640 I like doing my online trolling and poking and stirring things up, and I have been encouraging

00:39:26.680 people to get on there and vote for Ruby with the Liberals. Sign up, take out that free membership,

00:39:32.000 and throw a vote for her now. Since the Liberals have basically discredited their entire race, 0.98

00:39:37.000 let's just jump onto the next one and put another scare into it. It looks like she, as a candidate, 0.96

00:39:41.540 and she's kind of a fringe candidate, an interesting character, has embraced that.

00:39:44.700 she's taken on a hyper conservative role and is running on that and it's it's just interesting to

00:39:51.180 watch it's basically just throwing a wrench into a a liberal political process and uh gordon pointed

00:39:57.200 out it's just not really a principal thing to do if you're just trying to screw with somebody else's

00:40:01.120 party rather than you know build your own fair enough it's fair comment absolutely uh you know

00:40:06.360 because others have said and the liberals even said you know what if you fraudulently take out

00:40:09.400 a liberal membership you could be fined up ten thousand dollars oh whatever look that's like an

00:40:13.960 Impark fine, you know, think of it this way. Yes, there's a little thing that says you're not a

00:40:18.240 member of another federal party when you sign up to join the Liberal Party. And you have to say that

00:40:22.840 you weren't a member of another federal party. Okay. If you fraudulently were a member of a

00:40:27.540 federal party, if the Liberals somehow even found out and could prove that, how they could without

00:40:31.760 getting the membership list of the other party, then they could come after you, I guess, and say

00:40:37.240 you fraudulently signed up. But then as a defense, you say, oh, well, I didn't realize I was still a

00:40:40.880 member, lots of little defenses like that, even if they judge, because they'd have to take you to

00:40:45.860 court. They don't have the ability to fine you, not directly fine you. So the judge would say,

00:40:49.920 well, okay, we could live a fine equal to the offense. Well, you paid zero to get in.

00:40:55.180 You have a bit of a defense in saying you may, perhaps you didn't even remember you're a member

00:40:59.280 of the other party. I'm just saying as the legalities go, it's just a hollow threat on

00:41:04.040 the part of liberals. But is it nice, is it principled to jump in and screw with another

00:41:09.100 process? No, probably not. I didn't feel badly about it. Just because I guess, you know, some

00:41:15.660 people can say two wrongs don't make a right fine. But I just say that they already completely

00:41:19.660 discredited their process when they kicked one of the candidates out in favor of another one.

00:41:25.220 I mean, you kick a candidate out. If there is a reason for it, you've got to have something to

00:41:30.760 state and they won't even state it. They don't respect the voters, the liberals, anybody enough.

00:41:34.260 They want to put Carney in. The other scary part is Carney is short on time. He's desperate.

00:41:42.880 So Carney gets in, he wins this thing. He's got maybe two weeks as prime minister before he's

00:41:49.160 into an election, the way things were lining up. Maybe. It's not enough time to turn things around.

00:41:54.040 The liberals, I mean, despite crazy Frank Graves poll, they are in the toilet. Their chances of

00:41:59.140 winning the next election are extremely, extremely slim. If they really hope, if Carney does dream

00:42:05.860 that he could turn this around, he needs time. He would need to get in. He would need to bring

00:42:10.320 in some policies. He'd need to build a team. He needs to do many, many, many things. But he will

00:42:15.580 only have two weeks. And his paradox, he just pointed out, Singh will prop them up for as long

00:42:19.680 as he can. And that's what happened. Yesterday, Singh was already hinting, well, you know what,

00:42:23.520 because even though Singh said over and over, this government is coming down, first possible

00:42:26.800 opportunity. I'm going to take this government down, no matter who's leading it. He lied. He

00:42:31.440 lied. Singh's a liar. Socialists are a liar. Get used to it. That's their nature. He's a self-serving 1.00

00:42:36.300 wimp, is all he is. Singh is a sad specimen of a politician. So yeah, he flip-flopped again. 1.00

00:42:43.120 He will keep Kearney in, but as I said, he's self-serving. He will keep him in at a price.

00:42:49.880 Trudeau talked about recently already saying, well, we could bring in an aid package on the

00:42:54.520 level of the COVID-19 package to deal with the tariffs. The tariffs aren't even in yet.

00:42:59.620 This is Singh's demand. That's what's happening behind closed doors. This is a UBI program. This

00:43:04.040 is a massive, massive social welfare program. This would be talking about tens of billions

00:43:08.720 of dollars when we're already tens of billions of dollars in the hole. You thought inflation

00:43:12.860 was bad before? It will get a heck of a lot worse. But that's Singh's demand. Singh's saying,

00:43:19.300 bring this in, this giant spending program, this giant throwing, living on the credit cards of

00:43:24.040 taxpayers. And I'll support you. And maybe I'll buy you that six months in power that you can

00:43:31.040 hopefully have a chance. Some people think, and there's the other thing to remind you,

00:43:33.800 just to keep you from getting a good sleep tonight. Constitutionally, the liberals don't

00:43:39.360 have to go to an election until October 2026. I think it's very unlikely they'll push it that far.

00:43:45.800 But the Election Act is just an act. It can be changed by the government any time. They can

00:43:50.660 change that date. The only time they're fully outright forced is five years after the last

00:43:55.000 election. And, uh, you know, I think it was Wildrose that said, does any of this actually

00:43:59.580 surprise you? I still, I managed to get surprised now and then I do. I still try to maintain some

00:44:04.620 optimism, uh, but they still managed to surprise me. But I, I mean, I get a sour view of it too.

00:44:10.600 We're seeing some of the worst, ugliest power play of politics that we possibly can. Canada's

00:44:16.260 system is hopelessly broken. It makes it nearly impossible to hold these people to account between

00:44:21.420 elections. And we're seeing that with this prorogation, with these deals being cut in the

00:44:25.920 minority government, with these things happening, when the majority of the country clearly does not

00:44:29.540 want this, and there's not a single bloody thing they can do about it. We are being held hostage.

00:44:35.960 Alberta is in an abusive relationship. If anything does come into tariff war, rest assured, Alberta

00:44:41.000 in the West will be thrown under the bus as a sacrificial lamb to try futilely to fight against

00:44:47.140 Trudeau's, or Trudeau's, Trump's tariffs. I'll leave with one commenter from Lynn Myers saying

00:44:52.500 Carney's even more dangerous than, turd face was the term he used, but Trudeau. And there's truth

00:44:57.080 to it because Trudeau, whatever he was, an ideologue, he's also an idiot. He has a sweater 1.00

00:45:03.380 on backwards the other day. I mean, this man gets his shoes wrong on the wrong feet every second

00:45:06.980 a day. Carney is just as much an ideologue as Justin Trudeau is, but he's smart. And that's a

00:45:13.820 hell of a lot scarier than the fool we're getting rid of. Let's just hope we get an election sometime 0.99

00:45:20.460 soon. All right, guys, like, share, do all that great stuff for us. Come on, let's make this

00:45:26.140 channel great again. Let's get it out there. And thank you all for tuning in this week. Tune into

00:45:31.520 the pipeline tonight. We're breaking a bunch of that down with a panel. And yes, I will see you

00:45:36.500 next week with a new guest, a new lineup, and we'll discuss what's broken in the next week.

00:45:40.480 Who knows? It's crazy news. So thank you again. It's great to be back

00:45:44.400 and I'll see you in a week.

00:46:06.500 Thank you.

Western Standard - January 30, 2025

Canada needs a DOGE!

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