Western Standard - Canada needs a prime minister

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:28.860 Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:31.240 Here we go, another week.

00:00:32.440 The world's still turning, but my lord, it's screwy, isn't it?

00:00:35.640 The news cycles are just changing faster than we can keep up with them.

00:00:39.600 A lot of the same stories, but just trying to interpret them as they change and twist

00:00:43.020 and maneuver.

00:00:44.640 So we'll try and work through some of those today.

00:00:47.320 Lots to cover.

00:00:48.740 I've got a good show, as always, I like to think, coming up.

00:00:51.400 I've got Franco Tarrazzano is going to come out from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation,

00:00:54.380 and he's always good to chat about, you know, current taxes,

00:00:57.840 maybe what's going on with the carbon tax, is it going to go,

00:01:00.840 are the Liberals going to do it, plus what other taxes are we going to look at

00:01:03.900 as we have an election pending.

00:01:05.860 After that, actually, we're going to have our own Sean Polzer.

00:01:08.000 He's down in Houston at that Petroleum Show,

00:01:10.180 and he's been rubbing shoulders with and writing on,

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00:01:59.820 paradoxy in the comments scroll yes this show is live use those comments chat with me send things

00:02:04.300 to my guests send ideas i see them all i don't necessarily react to them all but i appreciate

00:02:09.740 them all just trying to keep things civil all right let's get on just what i want to talk about

00:02:13.900 this this period of stagnation we're stuck in canada desperately needs a prime minister i mean

00:02:19.820 I mean, the House of Commons has been virtually useless since last fall

00:02:22.700 when the Conservatives began filibustering due to the Liberals' refusal

00:02:25.780 to release documents related to their green slush fund.

00:02:28.880 By the time things finally collapsed for Trudeau at Christmas,

00:02:31.660 parliamentary business had already been piling up.

00:02:33.640 Now, more than two months later, we still don't have a functional Prime Minister

00:02:37.200 and the prorogation of Parliament has killed every bill on the order paper.

00:02:40.660 President Trump's taken full advantage of Canada's leaderless state

00:02:43.720 as he shakes his northern neighbour like a dog with her egg doll.

00:02:47.220 Yes, the Liberals, sure, they coronated Mark Carney in the farce of a leadership race.

00:02:52.840 And yes, Carney is going to be enthroned in the Prime Minister's seat. 0.72

00:02:55.820 But come on, until he faces us in a general election, he's just as much a lame duck as Justin Trudeau was.

00:03:02.340 Carney has no seat, no mandate, no history in elected office to draw from.

00:03:06.240 He won't be able to craft or pass legislation, and he has a sad collection of Trudeau's leftover MPs to try and cobble a cabinet out of.

00:03:13.360 Worst of all, of course, we're in the midst of an unprecedented trade war,

00:03:16.840 and we're being pundled not only with Trump's tariffs, but now China's jumped into the fray.

00:03:21.080 We've got premiers across the country trying to do what they can to mitigate damage,

00:03:24.680 and they've taken different approaches.

00:03:26.440 Donald Ford, Donald Ford, Doug Ford has taken a bluster, threaten, and retreat strategy,

00:03:32.040 while Daniel Smith continues her American excursions to try and foster diplomatic relationships.

00:03:37.180 There's not been much evidence that either of them have had any impact upon Trump, but time will tell.

00:03:42.500 But what Canada really needs is a Prime Minister with a strong mandate and a large caucus to run things

00:03:47.500 while he, and I'm saying he because there's no woman running for the role, takes on the trade war.

00:03:53.160 Only after an election, though, is this possible.

00:03:55.160 Thankfully, all signs are pointing to an election soon.

00:03:57.940 The Liberals have been taking out ads, and they've been acting in campaign mode.

00:04:01.420 There were fears, and I was fearing it, that there was going to be a deal cut with Singh to try and hold on to power until fall,

00:04:05.980 but even Singh sounds like he's jumping into campaign mode now, too.

00:04:09.780 Hopefully the campaign period is as short as we can, though.

00:04:12.460 Not only must there be an election, though, Canadians have got to pay attention.

00:04:15.840 I know that's something we're not typically good at.

00:04:17.680 Legacy media is invested in this re-election of the Liberal Party,

00:04:21.400 and it's going to be tough to get unfiltered information during this campaign.

00:04:26.020 I mean, liberals are going to continue to hide Carney from independent media,

00:04:28.960 and the legacy outlets will ensure he never faces tough questions.

00:04:31.900 That's the problem when you get subsidized media, folks.

00:04:34.620 I wouldn't be shocked if the media group scheduled the French debate at 2 a.m.

00:04:37.300 so people can't witness Carney being eaten alive by both Polyev and Blanchet with his rudimentary French.

00:04:44.080 The Liberals haven't changed.

00:04:45.400 They've cut off the vacuous head of Justin Trudeau and attached the bland but still ideological head of Mark Carney.

00:04:51.200 The bulk of the party hasn't changed and the rot remains within just as much now as it did in December.

00:04:56.400 Now, polls are indicating the Canadians are falling for the new coat of paint slapped on the old corrupted party.

00:05:01.320 I'd like to think that bounce was exaggerated and will be short-lived.

00:05:05.300 Who knows?

00:05:05.980 Carney's rebranding the carbon tax.

00:05:08.540 But the end payer remains the common citizens

00:05:10.680 as the price of consumer goods are going to continue to rise.

00:05:13.520 Will the move manage to hoodwink voters

00:05:15.300 who are ready to turf the Liberals, though?

00:05:17.040 I certainly took a plank out of Polyev's campaign.

00:05:20.880 Polyev's also going to be challenged

00:05:22.080 with perceived associations with President Trump.

00:05:24.820 While Polyev's never been close to Trump,

00:05:26.220 the Liberals are running ads to create the impression that he was,

00:05:28.700 and it looks like it might be effective.

00:05:30.520 Most Canadians want somebody who can stand strong against Trump in the trade war,

00:05:33.560 and if they feel Polyev is compromised, it could bode poorly for the Conservatives.

00:05:37.800 Every election is important, but some are more important than others.

00:05:41.280 The 2025 election is the most important election we've faced in a decade.

00:05:45.040 Nobody's exactly sure what Trump's motivations are.

00:05:47.440 I'm not even sure if Trump knows what his motivations are.

00:05:49.840 What we do know, though, is Trump gets off on pouncing upon weakness.

00:05:53.460 Trudeau is as weak as they come, and Canada has become even weaker during the transition from Trudeau.

00:05:57.740 If the Liberals are put back in power, Trump's going to chew Canada apart piece by piece and spit it out.

00:06:02.800 The economic damage would make the COVID years look prosperous.

00:06:05.660 Trudeau is gone, but the hangover remains.

00:06:07.860 It has to be flushed from the halls of power.

00:06:09.880 Canada must have a fresh face at the helm with a solid electoral mandate.

00:06:15.400 So we got that chance coming soon, guys.

00:06:17.180 Let's just hope we get it right.

00:06:19.280 Because, boy, we sure love stepping on rakes. 0.88

00:06:21.820 All right, well, that's what's got me going today to start things off.

00:06:25.120 Let's check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:06:27.380 Dave, what do you got today?

00:06:28.120 Good day, Mr. Morgan.

00:06:29.160 I've got bad news.

00:06:30.540 I'm slapping a 50% tariff on you for appearing to appear on your show from now on.

00:06:36.180 Okay, well, you can triple what I pay you.

00:06:38.980 I get 50% of nothing.

00:06:40.360 It's still nothing, isn't it?

00:06:41.340 Yes.

00:06:42.720 Well, if I ever hear the word tariff again, it'll be too soon.

00:06:46.400 I know.

00:06:46.980 You're probably going to hear it a few times in the next five minutes.

00:06:51.580 So, yeah, you mentioned we've got our Sean Polzer, our energy writer, down in Houston at CIRA Week.

00:06:57.900 It's the biggest oil show in the world, and there's nothing but sultans and sheiks and Daniel Smith down there.

00:07:05.760 So he's got a good column on how well Daniel Smith seems to be doing down there.

00:07:12.280 He's also got a good exclusive from Brian Jean that Alberta is going to start using their royalty barrels to build pipelines.

00:07:22.880 You know, it's way above my head, but Sean explains it all in this story.

00:07:26.020 And he's just finished covering a Danielle Smith keynote address to the convention.

00:07:32.860 So hopefully that's up as I'm speaking.

00:07:35.180 If not, it'll be up very shortly.

00:07:39.960 We've got some final figures now on how much Trudeau has spent on gender projects outside Canada.

00:07:47.520 $11 billion.

00:07:49.600 That's with a B.

00:07:51.060 Yeah.

00:07:51.480 $11 billion.

00:07:52.100 But I mean, think of all those little skinny African children who now aren't so confused

00:07:57.800 about whether their PP means they're a boy or a girl.

00:08:00.100 Yes, I suppose.

00:08:01.100 This was important.

00:08:02.100 Money well spent.

00:08:03.100 Oh, yes.

00:08:04.100 We've got a good exclusive from our Jen Hodgson on a digital currency, as you know,

00:08:09.100 which seems to be around the corner.

00:08:12.100 And it's JCCF did a big in-depth look at it and all the dangers and why it's a very bad thing.

00:08:20.100 So that's up on the side right now.

00:08:22.700 Oh, no, here it is, tariffs.

00:08:24.960 Yeah, we slapped some on the states, $30 billion worth, I guess.

00:08:29.340 So that's up there now.

00:08:31.400 And the Liberals are saying they're going to eliminate the April 1st carbon tax increase,

00:08:38.140 but they're not quite sure how they can do it because it's mandated by law,

00:08:42.620 but there's no Parliament sitting.

00:08:44.540 So they're scrambling to try and figure out how they're going to get to stop by April 1st. 0.99

00:08:48.700 But it just shows you the idiocy of what's going on down there in Ottawa. 0.94

00:08:52.960 Well, in a slight way, I mean, it's only going to cost us so much more. 0.98

00:08:56.560 I almost hope, almost hope that they can't find a way to do it,

00:09:00.700 because having that increase in the midst of an election campaign will just help remind people

00:09:04.480 this is what the Liberals have to offer for you.

00:09:07.120 Exactly. It would be just poetic, wouldn't it?

00:09:10.120 It would.

00:09:11.560 All right. Well, that and what? I saw a video of police laying a beating on somebody.

00:09:15.940 Oh, yes, I should have mentioned that.

00:09:17.540 There was an arrest in northeast Calgary yesterday.

00:09:20.520 Apparently a police officer pulled a man over for a dirty license plate. 0.95

00:09:25.120 The man didn't want to talk to the officer and walked away from him into a convenience store.

00:09:31.460 Then when the gentleman came out of the convenience store,

00:09:34.200 the officer tried to connect with him again, and that didn't go well.

00:09:38.300 The officer put the man under arrest, and the fight was on.

00:09:42.280 So a very dramatic video there on the site of it looks like four or five Calgary police officers

00:09:48.880 Jumping on this guy and trying to restrain him all over a dirty license plate 0.99

00:09:56.260 You drive around these days every license plate is dirty

00:09:59.720 Yeah, it's like the pretense for pulling him over might have been shaky 0.99

00:10:02.720 But the bottom line is even if they're being jerks don't start struggling. It never ends well 0.98

00:10:06.740 Do what the police tell you to do within reason right if he asked for an ID do it

00:10:11.840 you see all these examples of people being shot and killed in the States just

00:10:16.100 by not listening to basic police instructions well either way that's where

00:10:21.680 I think the cameras are kind of a good thing both ways hey police overstep as

00:10:24.800 well they absolutely they do record these things and let us judge and have a 0.93

00:10:28.640 look and see who was being the moron in these cases I have it looks from what I 0.92

00:10:32.000 saw that this gentleman perhaps might have taken a few more knocks than it was 1.00

00:10:36.080 warranted but he was also being stupid yeah he was being stupid and the problem 1.00

00:10:39.400 with these 30-second videos is you don't get the context no right you don't get a 1.00

00:10:43.300 sense of what kind of a airhead this guy was in dealing with the officer and why

00:10:49.920 he wouldn't just just say yes sir no sir so a lot of times they get what they 0.72

00:10:55.160 deserve but you know we the police have put out a statement they seem to be

00:10:59.800 standing by their men well and if a certain investigates we'll know in about

00:11:02.980 11 years whether there was a problem done or not there you go well you know

00:11:06.820 we'll hopefully still be on there my tariffs could be up to 75 percent well okay well i'll

00:11:13.060 make that promise for 11 years from now there you go all right keep you to it thanks steve

00:11:17.380 back to the newsroom thanks all right guys yes and the reason we're covering all those stories

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00:11:51.080 out if you have already thank you we really do appreciate it and if you

00:11:54.260 haven't come on get on there now you got other people to do it too okay I saw a

00:11:58.640 Another good question there from a commenter, Kenzie Kraken, it looks like asking if I think

00:12:02.780 Smith is wasting taxpayer money going to the United States.

00:12:05.440 You know, that's a good and fair question.

00:12:08.480 I typically support a lot of what Premier Smith does and I think in this case, going

00:12:12.880 to this Houston show, if it's a trade delegation with a mandate in mind and a goal, yes, I

00:12:18.140 think in this case, it's a good use of taxpayer dollars as her as a representative of Alberta. 0.98

00:12:23.760 Now we might see them doing stupid things that we'll find out about later, like if they're 0.96

00:12:27.320 having themselves, you know, $50 shrimp cocktails and booking $5,000 a night hotel rooms, people 0.99

00:12:32.740 like Franco Tarazano will expose that and we will beat on them for it. But we'll see until after

00:12:37.240 the fact. But I think the trip in itself, in this case, is good. Now, I think it's more questionable

00:12:42.900 about whether taxpayers should fund her going to speak to Ben Shapiro. That's a little different

00:12:48.740 now. That's getting a little more political. That's getting a little more partisan. Perhaps

00:12:52.280 the UCP should foot the bill for that sort of trip because I think she's going to Florida to do that 1.00

00:12:56.540 And so I guess my answer is sometimes I think the travel is justified and sometimes it isn't.

00:13:03.580 And we'll see.

00:13:05.560 I mean, waste can happen.

00:13:07.720 It does not can't happen.

00:13:08.560 It does happen with every government.

00:13:09.960 There's ones we like more or less than others.

00:13:12.520 It's a matter of trying to mitigate and get the best you can out of the bunch and try to keep them accountable.

00:13:18.400 That's why it's important for us to stay on the case of the politicians we like just as much as getting on the case of the ones we don't like.

00:13:25.520 I have not been thrilled with the budget performance of the UCP.

00:13:29.820 I really expected better.

00:13:31.480 Daniel Smith, I mean, we've known her a long time.

00:13:33.640 She's a fiscal conservative.

00:13:34.720 She's always talked the talk.

00:13:36.360 And here we are with this giant deficit,

00:13:38.320 with a projected extension of that deficit for some years to come.

00:13:42.180 We're supposed to be conservatives, aren't we?

00:13:44.000 That means you cut things.

00:13:45.360 They're afraid of cutting.

00:13:48.080 Afraid of cutting.

00:13:49.400 We've got to cut sometimes.

00:13:50.440 We're spending too bloody much.

00:13:51.780 If the UCP can't cut, just imagine, I see that's where we would want to race to the bottom,

00:13:57.300 but it'd be much worse if you even get the left in.

00:13:59.200 So let's correct the current government and get on their case.

00:14:03.400 Premier Smith's been dealing with other things.

00:14:05.100 A member left over the budget, an MLA.

00:14:08.760 There could be some unity issues in caucus.

00:14:10.520 That's a separate issue.

00:14:11.800 But the thing to keep in mind, that member left was because he complained

00:14:16.180 he wasn't getting enough funding towards his constituency.

00:14:18.360 He wasn't complaining about the overspending that was going on in that budget.

00:14:21.460 So he wasn't coming from a conservative direction, but it turned into a problematic thing that blew up for him.

00:14:28.520 That's politics. It's back and forth.

00:14:30.400 But that's where I do say some of the onus is on us.

00:14:33.480 It's on us to pay attention. It's on us to ask the tougher questions.

00:14:36.260 It's on us and independent media to ask those questions, of course, and to try to be fair about them,

00:14:42.000 but not give a pass when it's somebody who we feel we like or is more ideologically inclined along where we are on things.

00:14:51.780 So, yes, in a vamp fashion, saying,

00:14:54.060 can you imagine our lefty friends screaming if Daniel Smith cut anything of actual substance?

00:14:57.980 Yeah, I know.

00:14:58.740 And just on that final note, I mean, I saw a press conference a little while back

00:15:02.480 where they had Ninchy, the leader of Alberta NDP, was going on about Daniel Smith's cuts.

00:15:06.280 Not one person in that scrum said, what cuts?

00:15:10.160 That's all they had to ask him.

00:15:11.320 What cuts?

00:15:12.460 She hadn't cut anything, Ninchy. 0.83

00:15:14.160 But he can just blather away and they'll leave it uncorrected as if she's been cutting.

00:15:18.620 It's going to be hard to get a responsible government.

00:15:20.460 We got somebody who does like asking those questions and getting on their case all the time.

00:15:24.060 And that's Franco Tarrazzano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:15:27.180 So, hey there, Franco. How's it going?

00:15:29.200 Hey, Corey. Great to be on the show with you today.

00:15:31.520 Yeah, it's been a while. Overdue, I think.

00:15:33.880 Yeah, man. I love coming on the show. Love what you guys are doing.

00:15:37.300 So, just happy to be here.

00:15:38.780 Right on.

00:15:39.880 So, well, you know, this is basically kind of like the Super Bowl or the Olympics for people like us.

00:15:45.860 Political wonks and so on.

00:15:47.340 we've got a federal election coming a whole lot to cover i mean i understand some of the

00:15:51.900 generalities of where you're going to be coming from but what are they going to be the main

00:15:55.260 priorities the canadian taxpayers federation is going to be pushing on in these next couple of

00:15:59.500 months yeah well there's three right we can go into details but there's three number one scrap

00:16:05.900 all carbon taxes right like we've heard now the liberal leader mark carney say he's going to end

00:16:11.740 the consumer carbon tax. Okay. All right. But guess what? He still wants to hammer businesses

00:16:18.080 with a carbon tax. And he hopes you won't notice when those businesses pass on those costs to you

00:16:24.220 through higher prices. So number one, end all carbon taxes. Number two, balance the budget

00:16:31.260 and balance the budget by making spending go down. Like look for the last decade or so,

00:16:37.220 this government in ottawa has been on the runaway spending train wasting money like crazy hiring

00:16:43.460 108 000 extra government bureaucrats so what we need to see is a plan to balance the budget within

00:16:50.420 two years by making spending go down and finally we need to see not just ending all carbon taxes

00:16:57.860 we need to see massive massive tax cuts okay i mean everyone knows what's going on with uh

00:17:04.660 the u.s canada tariffs and all that kind of stuff like that's going to hurt our economy

00:17:09.380 but what we have to do is focus on making canada the most competitive place on earth to work to

00:17:15.220 invest to grow business and all that starts with massively cutting taxes yeah so one of

00:17:21.540 the things dave mentioned it sounds like the liberals are having a difficult time they want to

00:17:24.900 extricate themselves from the consumer carbon tax and there's a rise in it coming on april 1st

00:17:30.580 yeah but it sounds like they might have painted themselves in a corner because parliament's not

00:17:33.780 sitting and they might not be able to actually get that out of there before the election no no

00:17:38.820 no no no don't buy that spin okay well good i want you to confirm what's going on there

00:17:46.420 oh we appear to have lost your sound there uh franco

00:17:54.580 okay uh well we'll keep working on things there franco i'm not sure somehow we've lost your sound

00:17:59.700 for the moment uh and still not coming which really sucks because i i really wanted to hear

00:18:05.460 the answer for that i'm not sure what's happening okay we're just going to kind of pop you out there

00:18:11.060 maybe uh log in and out and see if we can't get that to crack back on because i really really

00:18:15.300 wanted to hear that answer there we are it sounds like we're under a misconception so the liberals

00:18:19.220 do have a way to avoid that raising of the carbon tax so that's interesting because

00:18:25.700 You'd think, I mean, Franco will clarify that in a moment.

00:18:28.760 You know, you'd think they're going to be eager to get themselves out of that.

00:18:31.520 That tax really beat the heck out of them in the polls.

00:18:34.860 It really was an anvil around their necks.

00:18:38.420 I mean, Trudeau was so stubborn.

00:18:39.560 He did not want to back off on that thing.

00:18:42.180 And it was just killing them.

00:18:43.960 And now, I mean, that's part of what Carney's hoping that helped him was getting out of that tax and seeing if maybe that's what's turning around a little bit of electoral fortunes.

00:18:54.480 so we got franco in the lobby again let's see if we got that rectified how's it going franco

00:18:57.540 can you hear me now i do yes yeah i do i got you finally so you were just explaining thank you uh

00:19:05.800 um how the liberals can get out of raising that carbon tax april 1st yeah so you're right in the

00:19:12.240 sense that the carbon tax is still scheduled to go up 19 on april 1 but the liberals when you hear

00:19:19.740 minister gibault saying well i don't know what to do that is just factually incorrect okay in the

00:19:25.420 legislation that brought in the carbon tax it gives cabinet the power to set the carbon tax rates

00:19:33.740 okay so with a stroke of a pen today the government could effectively kill the carbon 0.63

00:19:39.660 tax by setting the carbon tax rate to zero okay don't believe me well how did the federal

00:19:46.780 government remove the carbon tax from furnace oil for three years it didn't do it by passing

00:19:53.020 legislation but it did it with regulation okay so the government has done it before by removing the

00:19:59.580 carbon tax for furnace oil for atlantic canadians predominantly and the government can do it again

00:20:05.420 by immediately ending the carbon tax today okay so the government doesn't need to pass any

00:20:11.100 legislation the act itself gives cabinet the power to put the carbon tax rate on all the different

00:20:18.140 fuels to zero all right good so they've got no excuse and we'll uh remind them of that in the

00:20:24.760 the weeks to come here uh so getting on to other things one of the you know we're in the midst of

00:20:29.940 this bizarre trade war and the tariffs and counter tariffs and the rest going on something you

00:20:35.700 You pointed out, I mean, a strategy, and we're not hearing that tactic much.

00:20:39.640 I mean, it sounds like among the many things, I mean, it depends on the hour, what President

00:20:43.380 Trump may or may not want from us, but he does say he wants to draw Canadian businesses

00:20:47.460 down to south of the border.

00:20:50.560 Taxing further up here wouldn't help us defend from that.

00:20:53.760 I mean, as you said, let's streamline, make this a great place to do business and cut

00:20:57.080 business taxes.

00:20:57.800 It'll make it even harder for President Trump to snipe them.

00:21:00.840 Yeah, you know, I understand the sentiment, right?

00:21:03.940 like when someone pushes you you want to push back i understand that sentiment i understand

00:21:09.460 that emotion but like folks retaliatory tariffs are just a tax on canadians right so when president

00:21:17.460 trump imposes tariffs well that is a tax on american businesses and is passed on to american

00:21:24.340 consumers okay so just because president trump wants to increase taxes on americans that doesn't

00:21:31.060 mean that ottawa should then go ahead and increase taxes on canadians you know what i mean like

00:21:37.620 that's the problem like trump's tariffs will hurt canada's economy but you want to know what's going

00:21:42.980 to hurt us even more knee-jerk retaliatory tariffs it's just another tax on canadian citizens that 0.58

00:21:50.580 canadians can't afford now that doesn't mean that canada should just sit back and do nothing

00:21:56.580 no no no we should take the us's lunch money by making canada more competitive okay so number one

00:22:04.020 immediately scrap all carbon taxes carbon taxes make the necessities of your life more expensive

00:22:09.540 and blew a 12 billion dollar hole in our economy last year number two immediately cancel the capital 0.98

00:22:16.420 gains tax hike scheduled for next year right nothing tells entrepreneurs to leave canada

00:22:22.820 louder than a looming capital gains tax hike but number three as i mentioned right we have to go

00:22:30.020 on a major tax cutting campaign okay so canada ranks about 31st out of 38 industrialized countries

00:22:38.420 on individual tax competitiveness that is awful we rank 26th out of 38 industrial countries on

00:22:46.740 business tax competitiveness that is also awful and on both measures we rank behind the united

00:22:53.460 states okay so if you want to really do some damage to the u.s you shouldn't be imposing new

00:22:59.660 taxes on canadians we should be doing the exact opposite cutting taxes left right and center

00:23:06.260 yeah well milton friedman put it excellently with tariffs when he pointed out saying well

00:23:10.780 it's like you're all sitting in the same boat somebody goes and shoots a hole in the boat

00:23:14.160 and then you respond by taking out a gun and shooting a hole in right next to it so you're

00:23:17.740 both sinking at the same time it doesn't help but and that's fair enough like when you start

00:23:22.740 taxing us further but american tariffs on canadian products do harm our outward sales like it's

00:23:28.280 going to lead to a reduction in sales so it is punitive to canadians i just i know i don't

00:23:33.880 expect you will like using taxes as a tool for much of anything but what about countermeasures

00:23:38.780 such as an export tariff when it's trying to put it on to the other end of the bill yeah i mean

00:23:45.900 cory look i'm not suggesting that u.s tariffs aren't going to hurt canada and canada's economy

00:23:51.180 that's not what i'm suggesting i i agree that u.s tariffs will hurt canada's economy but you know

00:23:58.140 what will make that pain worse knee-jerk retaliatory tariffs that make life in canada more expensive

00:24:04.860 that will make life more expensive and that will make things worse and look corey i am very

00:24:09.820 skeptical that a trade war prolonged with canadian tariffs will work i'm very skeptical maybe they

00:24:16.780 will work but probably they won't you know what's more likely to push trump to back down pain felt

00:24:23.740 by americans congress people governors who are watching prices soar their economy blow up and

00:24:32.220 the stock market crash right so i understand the emotional feeling here when someone pushes you

00:24:38.780 you want to hit back but canada's knee-jerk retaliatory tariffs will land like a punch

00:24:45.100 across our own jaw if we really want to be serious what we have to do is make canada more competitive

00:24:52.620 than the united states if they want to impose taxes on their own citizens we should not be

00:24:58.300 doing the same thing and let me just bring up some breaking news from i believe earlier this morning

00:25:03.900 where australia's prime minister essentially said the same thing that i'm saying where they're not

00:25:09.020 going to impose retaliatory tariffs because that is a tax on their own citizens right so on top of

00:25:15.900 that something else that kind of surfaced i know this might be kind of a bit out of left field but

00:25:19.340 canada put that hundred percent tariff on chinese electric vehicles last fall which has now led to

00:25:25.420 china uh taking a run at canadian goods with tariffs and it's causing harm to canadian farmers

00:25:31.100 in particular i mean you know a lot of our canola and other outward crops china is a big customer

00:25:35.980 you know this swirling mess i mean i suspect your answer is going to be the same our best

00:25:39.660 way out of it is to start just dropping our own bloody tariffs yeah that's exactly right so two

00:25:44.860 things come to mind so cory i'm not well versed in that specific issue but two things come to mind

00:25:50.140 Number one, isn't it kind of crazy that the federal government and some of the provinces are putting taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars for battery factories in the hopes that Canadians buy more EVs and then they slap tariffs on more affordable EVs, right?

00:26:07.640 Like that doesn't make any sense.

00:26:08.980 And also, too, Corey, I just want to bring back my past point that what I think will really stop this tariff war is actually pressure from the United States, whether it's Americans, American lobby groups, Congress or governors.

00:26:22.660 Like you mentioned farmers. Well, what led Mr. Trump to reduce the tariff on potash?

00:26:30.180 It was pushback from American farmers who rely on Canadian potash for their inputs.

00:26:37.000 well and likewise i imagine with these tariffs on steel aluminum the rest any american companies

00:26:42.280 that have to buy those products their ceos or representatives have got to be flooding to

00:26:47.000 washington right now at least behind closed doors begging trump lay off man we we can't make money

00:26:52.840 if you keep doing this to us yeah and cory you know i'm really happy to be on this show with you

00:26:57.960 and your audience talking about tariffs because let me just plant the seed right the answer to

00:27:04.200 making our economy better or life in Canada better? The answer is not giving Ottawa more

00:27:11.620 power to tax us and intervene in our economy. And that's exactly what a tariff is, regardless

00:27:18.980 if it's the initial tariff or a retaliatory tariff, okay? A tariff is a way for Ottawa

00:27:27.480 or the central government to impose itself in the economy and to impose itself with new taxes

00:27:34.360 that make people's lives more expensive. We should not be in support of giving Ottawa

00:27:40.260 the tool to tax us more. So an unfortunate thing as we're just kind of running things out is that

00:27:46.580 basically the two major parties running in this general election are both calling for

00:27:51.560 counter tariffs right now correct yeah you know it's it's unfortunate i mean i actually don't see

00:27:57.640 much on the tariff specifically i don't see any of the major parties uh saying no tariffs no new

00:28:05.080 taxes on canadians the difference that i'm hearing and again we haven't actually seen any concrete

00:28:10.680 plans from the liberal government is how they're going to spend the tariff or tax revenue right

00:28:17.080 We've heard some of the media float this notion of how the Liberals might put in some pandemic-era level of spending, right?

00:28:25.940 Whereas the Conservatives, they say that most of the revenue from the tariff tax will go back towards tax cuts.

00:28:34.640 So that is really the only difference that I'm hearing on this specific issue from the major parties.

00:28:40.920 Well, it's going to be a long month in some.

00:28:43.460 I mean, and everything changes day by day, too.

00:28:45.700 I mean, part of the issue is the instability.

00:28:47.680 I mean, the tariffs are on, the tariffs are off.

00:28:49.600 They're going to be large.

00:28:50.240 They're going to be low.

00:28:51.960 I'm sure it's going to change a lot more before we get to talk again.

00:28:55.580 So before I let you go then, I mean, you guys keep track of that on our behalf,

00:28:59.460 which I really appreciate, and you're always putting stuff out on it.

00:29:01.880 Where can people find and or support the Taxpayers Federation?

00:29:05.340 Yeah, and, you know, given all this uncertainty, that's why it's more important than ever

00:29:09.080 that we clean up our own backyard, cut taxes, cut red tape here in Canada.

00:29:13.440 folks head over to taxpayer.com you can see a lot of stuff you can follow us all over social media

00:29:18.740 canadian taxpayers federation me on twitter at franco underscore nomics and on this tariff issue

00:29:24.600 let me just say uh that the canadian taxpayers federation teamed up with an american taxpayer

00:29:29.540 group to write an op-ed in the united states uh essentially calling on both our leaders

00:29:35.300 to cut it out with the new taxes excellent well i hope both of them are listening it'd be a

00:29:40.640 refreshing change. So thank you for joining us and for the work you guys do. Franco, I'm sure we'll

00:29:45.900 talk again soon. Hey, thank you so much, Corey. The pleasure was mine. Right on. So yeah, guys,

00:29:51.400 and honest, they're not paying me. I just want to say it is important to follow them. They get the

00:29:54.900 stuff out there. They're coming from the right side of things. As I said, media is not holding

00:29:59.400 the politicians accountable enough, or at least not legacy media, but the CTF does, and they put

00:30:05.460 it out there. So check them out, Canadian Taxpayers Federation. They're a good group out there to make

00:30:10.360 sure we're trying to keep those politicians as honest as we can. I mean, it's always an endless

00:30:14.300 push and pull game. And as I kind of said in my opening monologue, it's so important for us to be

00:30:19.120 informed when we go into this election in particular, because there's just, we're hard,

00:30:24.400 we're having a hard time getting unfiltered information from any of the leaders, particularly

00:30:27.660 the liberals. So, you know, get some of those outward groups that are going to ask those

00:30:31.300 questions, or at least put out the stats and the numbers and cut through the BS on your behalf,

00:30:35.120 so you don't have to try and translate it. All right, let's pop down. I see in the lobby,

00:30:38.360 We've got our energy and business reporter, Sean Polzer, down in Houston, who I envy terribly.

00:30:44.160 I love Texas, but it is a working trip, though.

00:30:48.380 He's down there at the petroleum gathering.

00:30:53.200 I don't seem to have any sound out of Sean right now, though.

00:30:55.840 Hopefully that pops on there pretty quickly.

00:30:58.460 And, yeah, his mic appears to be muted for the moment.

00:31:01.300 But he's down there, and you can see him, and it's nice and sunny wherever he's sitting.

00:31:04.880 and we've had a lot of stuff going on down there.

00:31:10.220 As Dave mentioned, stories have been coming up from down there with Sean.

00:31:14.820 The Smith government has been proposing basically a royalty and kind sort of thing

00:31:19.080 to backstop pipelines as well.

00:31:23.200 I believe there was a deal at least to have an agreement with Japan

00:31:28.400 on possibly getting liquid natural gas on the go down there

00:31:31.480 with increasing our exports on that.

00:31:34.180 And these gatherings are important.

00:31:35.900 Somebody else make sure.

00:31:37.020 Oh, there we go.

00:31:38.080 Okay, I've got Sean finally.

00:31:39.700 Okay.

00:31:40.420 God, it makes it hard.

00:31:41.320 There's two of you guys in a row got me.

00:31:43.100 I've got to keep babbling away when I've got no sound.

00:31:45.380 I appreciate it.

00:31:46.440 It's this technology thing, you know.

00:31:49.740 The Internet's way oversubscribed here, as you can imagine.

00:31:54.120 10,000 people all hanging on Wi-Fi.

00:31:58.160 Oh, yes.

00:31:58.820 Yeah, I remember that from the USP.

00:31:59.620 And yes, I've managed to put on some Texas barbecue, a couple of pounds,

00:32:04.560 to fill the brand's expense.

00:32:07.540 Well, you know, that's the only thing where Texans, I don't dare utter it when I'm down there, 1.00

00:32:11.220 but I still think their barbecue is overrated.

00:32:13.280 They use too much mesquite.

00:32:14.440 But there's still a lot of good food to be had down there, that's for sure, though.

00:32:19.280 So you've been following the Alberta delegation around.

00:32:22.240 You know, what's the top highlight you got?

00:32:24.000 I've seen your stories coming up.

00:32:25.660 It's been interesting times.

00:32:27.260 Well, the top highlight was probably Premier Smith's address just moments ago, barely an hour ago.

00:32:35.720 We've got a breaking news update up on the site.

00:32:38.840 I think it's safe to say that she wowed the crowd, although there's definitely a lot of homegrown partisans. 0.92

00:32:47.120 But I think that the message on the tariffs, I saw your segment briefly with Franco, is starting to register with the people that at least know anything about oil and gas around here.

00:32:59.760 And, of course, being in Houston and being at Sierra Week and IHS, we've got some of the biggest luminaries of the oil world all gathered in one spot.

00:33:10.500 So what kind of reception has there been, actually, for Canadians down there?

00:33:15.980 I would imagine, I would hope that the business community is just looking at the dollars and cents and not taking it personally.

00:33:21.280 It's not like we're, you know, seeing the sporting community booing each other's anthems and other such foolishness.

00:33:25.500 I mean, they're just talking about dollars and cents down there, I imagine, not bitter.

00:33:30.020 Well, absolutely, dollars and cents.

00:33:32.060 And, you know, the message here is that the American Energy Advantage is predicated on the partnership with Canada.

00:33:37.700 Like, they really couldn't do it without us.

00:33:39.420 So, just assuming that there is a 10% tariff, which is not as bad as a 25% or even a 50% tariff, you know, it seems to be going up by the minute here, just even a 10% tariff, if they were to back those barrels out, Canadian barrels out of the market and replace them with American barrels, they're exporting about an equivalent amount that they're importing from us.

00:34:03.360 and they're getting our oil cheaper.

00:34:05.780 It's a higher value product because you get more byproducts out of it,

00:34:09.300 like diesel fuel and even wax and sulfur and these kinds of things

00:34:16.040 out of that heavy barrel.

00:34:17.520 So it's actually worth more, and they would have to replace them

00:34:20.240 with their own higher-cost barrels, and it would actually reduce

00:34:22.980 that 4 million barrels a day of exports that they have.

00:34:26.560 And if you recall, you're an oil guy, you know that the oil export ban

00:34:31.780 has only been lifted in about the last less than 10 years.

00:34:36.720 And it's the same story with LNG.

00:34:38.800 You know, in basically less than 10 years,

00:34:42.420 they've gone from zero to being the world's largest LNG

00:34:44.840 at the border all overnight.

00:34:47.120 And, you know, shifting around those flows threatens

00:34:49.820 what they call energy dominance.

00:34:54.580 You know, they're creating the department

00:34:56.620 of energy dominance.

00:34:58.180 No word if Elon Musk is going to head it up.

00:35:01.780 Well, LNG is the big thing these days.

00:35:04.400 I mean, it's finally a means to export that, you know, natural gas,

00:35:07.700 which normally was just a domestic product.

00:35:09.420 I mean, this last couple of decades, it's really become a commodity.

00:35:12.700 I remember seeing the facility being built down in Louisiana.

00:35:16.020 I was down there some years back, and they built a massive LNG terminal and quickly.

00:35:21.280 But up in Canada, what did it take us 15 years to get one

00:35:24.340 that still isn't quite operational yet on the West Coast?

00:35:27.440 Absolutely, yeah.

00:35:27.740 So, I mean, it's nice to have all these aspirational ideas about exporting more,

00:35:32.980 but are we hearing anything concrete about how we might be able to actually get it done?

00:35:36.980 Well, that's actually the mantra here, and I mentioned that in the article.

00:35:40.840 It's not so much drill, baby, drill, because, you know, the amount of resources that are available is well-known.

00:35:47.900 Alberta government is putting out a resource assessment later on today, if it's not already out by the time I get there.

00:35:53.660 But Smith was talking about it briefly in her presentation.

00:35:56.840 is you know trillion barrels of oil thousands of trillions of feet of natural gas so now the

00:36:02.920 problem is is how do we you know get those resources to market so the new slogan around

00:36:09.560 here is build baby build it's not so much drill baby drill and the sense is that is the american

00:36:15.800 advantage because they can get these projects to market really really fast it's like you said the

00:36:22.360 The whole LNG infrastructure down here on the Gulf Coast, I'm going to call it the Gulf Coast, not the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of David, not the Gulf of Alberta, right?

00:36:31.520 The Gulf Coast, it's gone from zero to, you know, in just less than a decade.

00:36:40.240 It's impressive, I must say.

00:36:43.440 Yeah, hopefully we can learn from them.

00:36:45.480 I mean, you know, we've got lots and lots.

00:36:47.480 It's a whole separate show to how we deal with getting things done across Canada or whatnot.

00:36:51.440 But I guess it's double-edged.

00:36:54.860 I mean, we know we could hopefully build that infrastructure to get stuff for exporting down to the Gulf Coast relatively quickly.

00:37:03.800 But it also leaves us very vulnerable to a single customer if and when we have further disputes.

00:37:11.640 Absolutely.

00:37:12.160 So I spoke to some folks from Tourmaline, Calgary-based, Mike Rose Company, biggest natural gas producer in Canada.

00:37:21.440 They're actually the first one to actually start shipping LNG through the Gulf of Alberta.

00:37:27.400 But, you know, there was a comment made, like, just even with the number of projects that are on the West Coast that are already set in motion,

00:37:34.960 you know, once those come online, we are going to be the world's fourth or fifth largest LNG producer.

00:37:41.020 You know, it's still not too late to get into that game.

00:37:44.680 And Danielle Smith's announcement yesterday with the government of Japan to, you know, sign this, you know, there is no business case for LNG, Corey.

00:37:55.060 You know that. We know that. Our prime minister has told us how many times there's no business case for LNG.

00:38:00.780 And yet the LNG demand around the globe is going to double within the next however many years.

00:38:06.380 And it's because of data centers. It's because of electric cars. It's because of pulling all these other countries out of energy poverty.

00:38:13.480 It's because of the wars in Ukraine and in Russia.

00:38:17.300 So I don't think that the demand inside of the equation is really the problem.

00:38:22.640 The problem is, like I said, getting those trucks and shovels into the ground.

00:38:27.780 Yeah, absolutely.

00:38:29.660 And I mean, it's a cleaner energy, too.

00:38:31.420 Maybe some countries are starting to realize it.

00:38:33.380 Yeah, absolutely, for sure.

00:38:34.860 And that's another theme of the conference here is realism, energy realism.

00:38:39.540 So the idea is let's focus on the emissions.

00:38:41.820 Let's not focus on the type of fuel.

00:38:44.800 There's this debate about blue hydrogen and green hydrogen and all this stuff.

00:38:49.960 The idea is let's not worry about all that.

00:38:53.660 Let's just stick to what we know, what we know best, and what is actually going to reduce emissions, and that is natural gas.

00:39:01.260 Right on.

00:39:01.780 Well, how much time is left on that conference?

00:39:03.800 Are there some more bigger events or meetings or conferences you're looking forward to yet?

00:39:08.880 Well, we're kind of hitting the high point here.

00:39:10.500 I think the peak is today.

00:39:13.720 Premier Smith is probably on our way to the airport as we speak.

00:39:18.740 Brian Jean, I didn't interview with him.

00:39:21.580 Hopefully, we're going to get that up on the site here pretty quick,

00:39:24.300 assuming that I can get a decent internet connection.

00:39:27.300 And he's going to be around here until tomorrow,

00:39:30.480 and then things start winding down on Friday.

00:39:33.080 Friday is kind of a clean-up day.

00:39:36.280 It's like cleaning up your dorm.

00:39:38.940 Yeah.

00:39:39.420 all right on uh anything else you want to let us know before i let you go back to

00:39:45.260 dipping into that texan barbecue maybe some tex-mex and uh yeah the texas you know what

00:39:49.900 texas caviar is don't you it's like a black eye it's like black eyed peas texas caviar it's black

00:39:56.060 eyed peas and pico de gallio and yeah no they've got fresh produce in here already today is uh

00:40:02.620 a nice spring day it's about 24 degrees the humidity's not too bad so it's actually nice

00:40:08.780 patio weather believe it or not so that's you know what i'm going to be doing tonight yeah yeah 0.97

00:40:15.120 you can kiss my ass all right well enjoy it and i i appreciate the great coverage though you've 0.96

00:40:21.760 had so far and the stuff that's been coming sean so uh i'll let you get back to uh finding more of 0.99

00:40:26.840 those energy scoops and i appreciate you coming on to talk to us about it today okay thanks a lot

00:40:30.940 nice to see you great great see you so that is our sean polzer yes down in texas in person

00:40:37.440 catching the stuff going on i mean that's that's where deals get made right you know

00:40:42.280 getting the professionals together in the same room as for the earlier question about you know

00:40:47.740 whether or not the trip's worth it it sounds like it could be i mean again as i said you know our

00:40:51.720 politicians can waste money they can be foolish when they're down there but this this has a lot

00:40:57.440 of potential merit uh jacqueline a commenter saying what emissions is sean talking about co2 0.95

00:41:02.200 is not a pollutant yeah that's a separate discussion in a sense i i'm sick of people

00:41:05.740 calling CO2 a pollutant as well. We exhale it. It's not, you know, this evil poison. I mean,

00:41:11.140 if you have nothing but CO2 in a room, yes, you will drop and die. But if you have nothing but

00:41:14.780 oxygen in a room, you'll drop and die as well. It's that incredible balance of different gases

00:41:20.420 that allows us to breathe. But the reality is, it's a concern with emissions in general anyways.

00:41:28.540 And if we're going to have generation, for example, though, if I'm just talking what's

00:41:32.440 cleaner than what's not. A lot of these countries are burning loads and loads of coal. They're still

00:41:38.140 burning loads and loads of coal. It's what's most economic for them and that's the way it goes.

00:41:42.920 India, China, all around the world, Europe still burns a lot of coal for their power generation.

00:41:48.180 Natural gas is cleaner than that at least. So we're going to look on that. I'm finding it

00:41:54.660 interesting though with the big electric shift. It seems to be falling apart. You know that

00:42:01.240 But Dingbat Trudeau sunk $50 billion of ours into these battery plants out in eastern Canada.

00:42:07.580 It sounds like most of the plants weren't even constructed yet at this point.

00:42:10.820 Partnered with European companies that have been going broke and scaling back.

00:42:14.420 So that was a catastrophe.

00:42:16.180 Part of trying to save his ridiculous electric vehicle mandate,

00:42:21.300 because he was banning the production of proper vehicles, I think, by 2035,

00:42:25.520 I'm pretty certain no matter who wins the next election, that's going to be walked back. 0.91

00:42:29.140 it's a stupid commitment that we can't make um that's falling apart because nobody's making them 0.93

00:42:35.460 you know and uh so but to try and protect it he threw a hundred percent tariff on chinese-made 0.97

00:42:41.960 electric vehicles so if there was any chance and i don't think there ever was but if there was any

00:42:46.880 chance of a big wave of electrical electric vehicle uh assumption within canada it would

00:42:54.400 have been with an influx of affordable Chinese made EVs but Trudeau stopped that by forcing the

00:43:00.420 prices of them to double through a tariff so that screwed his own plans because now as well well who

00:43:06.340 was the main electric vehicle maker oh my lord it was the evil Elon Musk with Tesla that's still the

00:43:12.060 main player in the electric vehicle market and now all the progressive Canadians say we can't buy

00:43:17.580 Tesla we can't support well now where is this EV wave where is it gonna come from it's not

00:43:24.740 It's stalling.

00:43:25.560 It's dying in its tracks.

00:43:27.920 And, I mean, the bigger discussion as well, just another point from Paradoxi.

00:43:32.680 Doug Ford needs to answer as much as Trudeau for the money burnt on EVs and battery plants.

00:43:36.840 Absolutely.

00:43:37.300 The Ontario government pumped in loads of subsidies too.

00:43:40.680 The bottom line is it always comes down to the same role.

00:43:44.160 Governments have got to stay out of these businesses.

00:43:46.480 They've got to.

00:43:47.500 It's not their role.

00:43:48.580 It's not their place to pick winners and losers.

00:43:50.840 I don't care what their motivation was.

00:43:52.440 I don't care why they think it was a good idea.

00:43:55.100 It almost always backfires.

00:43:57.980 They can't do it.

00:43:59.320 Alberta was one of the worst in the past. 0.96

00:44:02.120 We had, if people remember, Novotel.

00:44:07.300 It was supposed to assemble cellular phones.

00:44:10.120 This was back in the 90s.

00:44:11.200 Good idea.

00:44:12.320 You know, look at what happened with cell phones since the 90s till today.

00:44:15.540 But the government ran it, and they put hundreds of millions of dollars into it.

00:44:18.500 And guess what?

00:44:18.860 It went broke.

00:44:19.360 Only government can go broke getting in on the manufacturing of cellular phones

00:44:25.160 just as they were about to explode onto the world market.

00:44:27.980 Likewise, the government back then had Swan Hill's plant that went broke.

00:44:32.900 The magnesium plant down in High River, anybody who knows Alberta,

00:44:36.600 can drive by a big orange brick building sitting there empty.

00:44:39.440 It's been empty since the 90s.

00:44:40.800 That was half a billion tax dollars went into it.

00:44:43.540 Stay out of business.

00:44:45.440 And that includes electric vehicles.

00:44:47.200 If you want EVs to actually make a possible run, the best thing the government can do, which is contrary to so much of their nature, get the hell out of the way.

00:44:57.440 Get out of the way. 0.53

00:44:58.760 If Trudeau really wanted to see a bunch of EVs all over the roads, he would have gotten out of the way.

00:45:02.420 Perhaps the Chinese ones would be affordable. 0.81

00:45:04.440 Who knows?

00:45:04.980 I doubt it.

00:45:05.840 But all the same, that would be where the better chance was.

00:45:09.020 But now he's got nothing.

00:45:10.620 There's the great thing to see.

00:45:12.000 As I'll close off the show, as we're finally seeing Trudeau exiting, 0.96

00:45:17.220 and as he did, like a clown as usual. 0.77

00:45:19.280 People saw that picture of him walking out of Parliament with his tongue out again. 0.99

00:45:22.400 Like, he's just a dingbat.

00:45:24.380 But he's got no legacy to point at.

00:45:27.660 He really doesn't.

00:45:28.720 I mean, they're all trying to, you know, puff him up and everything

00:45:31.140 and talking about how wonderful he was.

00:45:33.340 What's he leaving everybody?

00:45:35.500 A massive debt, massive deficit, a totally divided nation,

00:45:40.520 electric vehicle mandates that went nowhere a carbon tax that completely failed he has no

00:45:47.680 legacy he can't nothing he's going to be able to sit and point at and say look what i got done

00:45:51.680 while i was in canada closest he has was this giant uh uh investment he's talking about with

00:46:00.620 a high speed rail line out in uh quebec and ontario that obviously isn't going to get built

00:46:06.920 but it will waste billions more dollars of ours as they try.

00:46:09.880 So that won't be a legacy.

00:46:10.780 It won't be the Justin Trudeau train line.

00:46:12.720 No, we're going to look at him.

00:46:14.720 Just thankful he's gone.

00:46:16.460 Nobody's going to have fond thoughts of his history.

00:46:19.100 It's not going to treat him well.

00:46:20.300 The only other part of his legacy I'll close, as Dave mentioned earlier,

00:46:22.720 10 years, the government of Canada spent $11.2 billion

00:46:25.180 on overseas gender initiatives.

00:46:28.360 Imagine being in a third world country, 1.00

00:46:30.320 not able to get clean water,

00:46:31.880 having difficulty finding employment,

00:46:33.940 bad housing, 0.89

00:46:34.920 And what do you get from Trudeau, some dildo showing up at your place with drawings to show you that you might not be a boy, you might be a girl, because that's what's most important to you. 0.99

00:46:44.140 And all you want to do is friggin' eat. 0.99

00:46:46.340 Alright guys, hey, tune in to the pipeline tonight.

00:46:49.340 I'm going to have another show, it's an election special, it's going to be coming on on Friday, and it's going to be moving probably to a live format on Fridays after that.

00:46:56.560 Nigel Hannaford's doing his thing, Derek Fildebrandt, we've got lots of content.

00:47:00.420 Subscribe to these channels, keep watching them, keep sharing them.

00:47:03.340 I appreciate you tuning in today and we'll see you on the next one.

00:47:33.340 today

00:48:03.340 Thank you.

Western Standard - March 13, 2025

Canada needs a prime minister

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