Western Standard - December 08, 2022


CMS： Businesses need to dump the Chamber of Commerce.


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00:00:00.000 We'll be right back.
00:00:30.120 Good day. It is Wednesday, December 7th. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show here with me, Cory Morgan.
00:00:38.540 Good to see you tune in. This is my weekly show with the Western Standard. We run every day at
00:00:43.380 this time on Wednesdays, and I cover issues, talk to guests, of course, rant, rave, all that good
00:00:49.200 stuff. This is while everybody's joining in. I like to remind everybody, use that comment scroll,
00:00:54.700 particularly today. I'll remind you why in a moment. Good to see y'all checking in there,
00:00:59.520 maryland and newfoundland lisa and bc paradoxy always there joseph uh i like seeing people
00:01:05.180 knowing you're back there knowing it's worth going live part of the problem is going live
00:01:09.160 we sometimes have hiccups things change so i had a guest who was going to come on today he's a
00:01:14.000 lawyer christopher uh constantine now he's he's going to be back next week because i really want
00:01:19.440 to have this conversation unfortunately he's become ill so he can't make it on today's but
00:01:24.080 he should be on next week for those who might you know remember from the 90s a big issue and
00:01:27.980 is kind of becoming a bigger issue today.
00:01:30.740 Christopher Considine was Sue Rodriguez's lawyer
00:01:33.940 and she was out in BC and she had,
00:01:37.140 I'll give more background later,
00:01:38.480 but it was a medically assisted suicide
00:01:40.940 from way back in the nineties.
00:01:42.000 It sort of set the precedent to where we are today.
00:01:44.100 And I wanted to talk to him about
00:01:45.940 is what you're looking at today though,
00:01:47.620 what you were looking to pursue back then with Sue Rodriguez
00:01:50.900 because what people consider worthy or appropriate
00:01:54.880 for a medically assisted intervention with somebody dying
00:01:57.520 It's a lot different now than it was in the 90s.
00:01:59.700 So, I mean, a complicated and just interesting conversation.
00:02:03.560 We'll have it next week, but I'm going to talk a lot about that today.
00:02:05.700 And I want to see those comments in there.
00:02:07.320 Since I won't have a guest, you'll get a lot more of my babbling today.
00:02:09.640 But we can chat back and forth and cover a lot of stuff.
00:02:11.540 This is great.
00:02:11.920 We've got somebody from Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Fort Mac, Rocky View,
00:02:15.300 nice and nearby Pat, you know, but PEI even.
00:02:17.820 Like, we really get across the country, and I love seeing that.
00:02:20.360 These modern broadcast means.
00:02:23.520 So, as well, of course, we'll have our check-in with Marketplace Commodities later.
00:02:26.660 and a lot of news items.
00:02:29.860 So first, let's go.
00:02:31.500 Yeah, I got to get on with my rant.
00:02:32.780 I'll tell you what's got me wound up today.
00:02:34.800 So it's about, and I've ranted about this before,
00:02:37.440 the Chamber of Commerce, particularly in Calgary,
00:02:39.580 but this is happening all over the place.
00:02:41.380 And I tell you what,
00:02:42.260 businesses need to abandon these Chambers of Commerce.
00:02:45.240 I mean, it's been a tough few years for Calgary businesses.
00:02:47.380 And while COVID-19, of course,
00:02:48.820 played a large part in the pressures,
00:02:50.940 businesses have been struggling due to bad governance
00:02:52.780 on all levels of government for years.
00:02:54.460 I mean, typically, businesses can expect their local chamber to advocate on their behalf when
00:02:58.900 they're in trouble. In Calgary, though, the chamber has gone so woke, they aren't even worth joining
00:03:03.460 anymore, much less counting on them to bring their message to governments. I mean, so let's give some
00:03:07.940 history. The first Canadian Chamber of Commerce, I didn't know this, was formed in 1750 in Halifax.
00:03:12.800 And now they have branches, of course, in every community in the country. And their initial mandate
00:03:16.140 was pretty simple. They were speaking for businesses and providing networking opportunities.
00:03:19.860 Now, those days are long, long gone.
00:03:22.440 I mean, in Calgary in 2019, businesses were being crushed by double and even triple business tax increases under the Nenshi administration.
00:03:30.060 The chamber was nowhere to be seen on this issue, however.
00:03:32.180 They were busy pursuing bike lanes.
00:03:33.600 It was only when hundreds of business owners actually protested in front of City Hall at an unprecedented demonstration that the city administration took notice.
00:03:41.080 Business owners aren't prone to attending protests.
00:03:43.320 This indicates, though, how desperate they'd become and the lack of representation they had, despite a very well-funded Chamber of Commerce in the city.
00:03:50.100 Unfortunately, most businesses simply cut a check to the local chamber as a matter of habit every year, and they ignore it after that.
00:03:55.640 They know the organization's of little value to them, but the problem is this apathy allows bad elements to slip into what was once a good group.
00:04:02.180 And the apathy of chamber members has allowed Calgary's chamber to morph into a woke advocacy organization.
00:04:07.960 It was bad enough when the chamber was useless, but now they're actually becoming a detriment to enterprise in the city.
00:04:13.740 Since Calgary Chamber appointed CBC commentator Debra Yedlin as its CEO, things have gone from bad to worse.
00:04:20.480 Yedlin has no experience in running a small to medium business, and it shows.
00:04:24.080 The stances she's taken in the last couple of years have been absurd.
00:04:27.160 I mean, Yedlin's clear dislike for the UCP has been shining through.
00:04:31.160 That was well programmed into her during her CBC time, I'm sure.
00:04:34.200 I was gobsmacked, though, when she vocally declared that the removal of vaccine passports was going to harm businesses in Calgary.
00:04:40.720 Yes, she said that. She claimed that customers would stay home out of fear if businesses didn't continue to scan people's phones and deny entry to the unvaccinated.
00:04:49.140 It doesn't matter where you stand on the vaccine issue. Yedlin's statement on this were just stupid.
00:04:53.920 And it's clear she didn't talk to the business owners she claims to represent at all.
00:04:57.540 No right-minded business wants to dedicate an employee to stopping and scanning every customer entering the establishment.
00:05:03.220 It costs money. It interferes with the customer experience.
00:05:06.880 And while the majority of the people are indeed vaccinated, excluding the minority still shrinks your customer base.
00:05:12.440 Thankfully, at least, Kenny, who was premier at the time, ignored Yedlin.
00:05:15.600 And when the mandates were dropped, business unsurprisingly grew.
00:05:19.180 Lo and behold, it sounds like Yedlin didn't know what the hell she was talking about.
00:05:22.080 The chamber, in the meantime, has been advocating for equity laws.
00:05:25.820 Code word for socialism, guys.
00:05:27.380 And it speaks of vibrancy and other buzzwords.
00:05:30.500 Businesses, though, particularly downtown of Calgary, they're dealing with crushing taxes, high crime, and an empty transit system because nobody wants to ride on there with the addicts.
00:05:38.500 Where's the chamber on this? Well, we don't hear a thing.
00:05:40.640 The chamber now has recommended that the city dump its cowboy hat and western image.
00:05:44.700 Yeah, you heard that right. Calgary enjoys local branding and an image that hundreds of cities would kill for.
00:05:50.320 And the Calgary chamber wants to dump it and turn the city presumably into another Toronto.
00:05:54.780 Again, toad and deaf and no business sense.
00:05:57.340 Now, the head of the chamber is on an anti-UCP crusade
00:06:00.500 as Yedlin's attacking Premier Daniel Smith at every turn.
00:06:03.880 I guess her hopes of returning the NDP to power are pretty evident.
00:06:07.560 While Yedlin is certainly welcome to her political views,
00:06:09.800 her responsibility should be to the business community.
00:06:11.840 And let's not pretend socialism is in the interest of businesses.
00:06:15.360 The only way to fix the chamber now is to starve it back into common sense.
00:06:18.420 It's spoiled by easy money from the energy companies.
00:06:21.440 In the Western Standard, we have a membership with the Strathmore Chamber of Commerce.
00:06:24.660 It bounds on Calgary and offers many of the same services, and it isn't hopelessly woke.
00:06:29.360 Calgary businesses need to examine their options and seek them out.
00:06:32.640 Why keep funding an organization that actually works against your business's interest?
00:06:37.280 So I'm just reaching out, guys.
00:06:39.020 I'd say don't renew your membership of the Calgary Chamber.
00:06:42.080 Teach these guys a lesson because they are not doing you or your business any favors.
00:06:45.900 That's what's got me wound up today.
00:06:47.840 All right, let's see what else can get me worked up, and we will check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:06:53.220 Hey, Dave, how's it going?
00:06:54.660 It's going well, Corey, even though I have to say, you're currently wearing the worst ear-plugged-in piece I've ever seen in the history of television.
00:07:03.780 Oh, there.
00:07:05.180 That's hanging half out of my head.
00:07:06.280 I didn't even notice that.
00:07:08.080 Well, thanks, Steve.
00:07:09.340 It looked like a seagull and shit on your coat there or something like that.
00:07:14.500 I don't know what it was.
00:07:15.660 Well, again, I'm lacking a guess.
00:07:16.960 I've got to do other things to keep it interesting and different, right?
00:07:19.680 I guess.
00:07:20.840 Yeah, I was watching a video behind your place the other night.
00:07:24.100 to look like a greyhound racing track look at those things oh they're flying hey there's five
00:07:31.800 of them in that run there in the video behind our place i mean they're just blasted along there
00:07:36.120 should be two more in a moment i i don't know if people were discussing on twitter you know we
00:07:39.300 don't know if they were running away from something or chasing something but i mean you
00:07:42.020 gotta remember that's pitch black like that's the the ultraviolet or whatever oh yeah there they are
00:07:46.420 taking down that poor deer um but yeah this has been quite the year for wildlife behind my house
00:07:52.400 Yeah, maybe they couldn't be around the bear, could they?
00:07:55.220 Because the bear will be fast asleep.
00:07:58.040 Yeah, no, I mean, if the coyotes and the bear wanted to have it out,
00:08:00.920 I'd be more than welcome to see that episode happen.
00:08:03.040 But so far, they're just eating the deer.
00:08:05.920 You know, you were talking about in your rant there,
00:08:08.460 the mess that is the Calgary Sea Train system.
00:08:12.280 Our buddy Arthur, a reporter up in Edmonton,
00:08:15.140 has sure got people outraged by some of his photos that Nico's put up there.
00:08:19.660 you know some of the NDP activists went a bit you know they're saying that we were
00:08:24.720 you know just be exploiting these people basically and treating them like they were
00:08:29.740 animals in a zoo and Arthur's trying to say no that's not the case we're trying to
00:08:33.960 we're trying to show a problem that needs addressing here and it's you know it's
00:08:38.560 obviously not just Calgary but it's Edmonton as well. Yeah it's happening everywhere I mean
00:08:43.980 particularly I think you know it's my prejudice but I guess every city's progressive these days
00:08:49.340 it seems anyways, but you hear about Vancouver and Seattle and some of those other places as
00:08:53.760 well. I mean, this is just happening everywhere. The addiction epidemics are just overwhelming
00:08:57.000 the cities and they don't want to talk about it though. That's why they get so mad at Arthur.
00:09:02.940 Yeah, exactly. And you know, what, what is the solution? You know, these, yeah. And I think you
00:09:08.720 hit it on the head on Twitter that these really aren't the homeless people there. If they're
00:09:13.380 homeless, there's places for them to go. There are beds open at shelters, but these people don't
00:09:19.100 fit in shelters because they're addicts and they can't shoot their drugs in in shelters so they go
00:09:25.160 to the nearest warm uh place which i guess is an lrd station and uh you know they make them really
00:09:31.380 not a very uh welcoming place to go no and i mean you know transit's an issue everywhere and of
00:09:38.760 course you know every city again they're trying to get people to come back after the pandemic but
00:09:41.920 when they see scenes like that i mean who's who wants to ride if they have an option who's going
00:09:45.520 to ride in that? Who wants to put their kids on that to ride to school? I mean, you walk through
00:09:49.040 that. Yeah, it's only a matter of time before, you know, a little kid picks up a dirty needle
00:09:54.420 off the ground and something terrible has happened. But yeah, they've got to find a
00:10:00.780 solution. Got to find it quick. Yeah, we'll keep on it. Yeah. On to the news. We've got a wide
00:10:08.760 variety of news to keep you entertained this morning, including the latest from Elon Musk.
00:10:14.860 He has fired the lawyer who was overseeing the release of the Hunter Biden papers.
00:10:20.980 It looks like the lawyer may have been suppressing some of the stuff,
00:10:24.540 and Mr. Musk didn't take too kindly to that.
00:10:28.220 So we've got the latest on that.
00:10:30.360 Our Matthew Horwood has got a piece looking at China,
00:10:33.940 finally backtracking on some of their zealous COVID management
00:10:39.460 where they were locking down cities and quarantine camps,
00:10:43.300 and they're finally taking a step back.
00:10:46.840 Chris Holcorn in Saskatchewan's got a heartbreaking interview
00:10:51.060 with a woman who has applied for medically assisted suicide.
00:10:55.340 She's got all sorts of medical issues that she can't get help for,
00:11:00.100 and the nearest appointment with a specialist she can get is two years away.
00:11:04.780 So it's a sad story there.
00:11:09.300 Speaking of really sad stories, Corey, Rachel Gilmore, our favorite reporter from Global,
00:11:16.620 had a massive meltdown on Twitter yesterday in tears on all the nasty messages she's getting via her direct email.
00:11:26.480 And, you know, as somebody said, why not just shut down your direct messages?
00:11:30.500 But apparently they continue to pour in for Ms. Gilmore.
00:11:34.780 And everybody's favorite union leader, Gil McCowan of the Alberta Federation of Labor.
00:11:41.420 If you're speaking of Arthur, he kind of had a run-in with Arthur at a weekend protest over the Sovereignty Act.
00:11:48.820 And Premier Daniel Smith's office says they were, quote, alarmed by his actions.
00:11:55.120 And if you want to see them, click on the story, and it's in the video, and I guarantee you won't be disappointed, will you, Corey?
00:12:03.280 No, most definitely not.
00:12:04.580 It was quite a temper tantrum.
00:12:06.340 I'm going to talk a little more about that afterwards
00:12:08.260 because Mr. McGowan didn't do much for his credibility that day.
00:12:12.000 No.
00:12:12.700 Arthur is currently in the legislature at a portrait unveiling of Rachel Notley.
00:12:20.440 All former premiers get a painting of themselves put up in the legislature,
00:12:25.120 and today it's Ms. Notley's turn.
00:12:27.880 So Arthur is at the unveiling of that, so that will be coming up shortly.
00:12:31.240 Great. Well, thanks for the check-in and updates, Dave, and we'll talk to you again after the show.
00:12:38.100 Thanks, Corey.
00:12:39.340 Right on. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And yes, as you can see, lots of stuff going on,
00:12:44.300 lots of news and constant good content up there. And, you know, great people,
00:12:50.320 reporters across the country, and Dave manages them to keep that content coming. And the reason
00:12:56.800 we can do that, this is where I nag you, is because you guys subscribe. And we got thousands
00:13:00.380 and subscribers. I really appreciate it. We need more. We can always use more. That's how we can
00:13:04.660 expand this. We can get an assistant to come in and make sure I don't screw up my earpiece in the
00:13:08.720 mornings and things like that. But for you, if you've subscribed already, thank you very much,
00:13:13.520 guys. And if you haven't yet, come on, get on there. $9.99 a month, $99 a year if you go annual.
00:13:19.760 It's a good price. It's cheaper than a newspaper subscription used to be. And you don't have all
00:13:23.000 the old newspapers to deal with and clean up afterwards. So, and it keeps people like Arthur
00:13:27.660 out there doing the stuff he's doing for us as well. I would have got him on today. Like I said,
00:13:31.240 I was kind of scrambling and my guest couldn't make it. And Arthur would have been great. As
00:13:35.400 Paradox, he says, yeah, Arthur's our treasured Newfie. Yeah. If you listen to him, I've had him
00:13:38.700 on the show before. Boy, that accent is beautiful. And he's not afraid of anything. He loves taking
00:13:43.540 the pictures and things. You know, he really has been stirring the hornet's nest up in Edmonton.
00:13:47.620 And as Dave said, he's busy up there. He's at the legislature. And he's, sorry, I got distracted
00:13:55.220 about the Corey Price question.
00:13:56.940 I'm not quite prepped to talk on that one,
00:13:58.640 but we can talk about it.
00:13:59.300 But I'll get on about Arthur a bit first here.
00:14:01.980 So as Dave was saying,
00:14:03.320 and as Nico brought up those pictures,
00:14:04.960 Arthur went out,
00:14:05.560 because he's been quite shocked.
00:14:06.500 He moved to Edmonton recently,
00:14:08.260 and he took pictures on the public transit system.
00:14:13.100 These are things we've been doing
00:14:13.900 at The Standard for quite some time.
00:14:15.540 You know, you guys have been regular viewers and listeners.
00:14:17.460 I certainly do.
00:14:18.260 So I rode the train.
00:14:19.140 We got kicked off YouTube.
00:14:19.880 One of our times kicked off YouTube
00:14:21.420 was because we dared to put a video
00:14:24.960 of a guy smoking meth on a train on YouTube.
00:14:28.040 You can't do that.
00:14:29.120 And Arthur's taking those pictures.
00:14:29.940 Some people say, oh, you're shaming them.
00:14:31.060 If you look, actually, Arthur's picture
00:14:32.440 is very carefully taken.
00:14:33.920 You can't see their faces.
00:14:34.840 You can't tell who these people are.
00:14:36.720 So it's not personally shaming them.
00:14:38.180 Some people say, you've got to get consent
00:14:39.240 before you put people's pictures up.
00:14:40.940 Let's bust that myth anyways.
00:14:42.380 No, you don't.
00:14:42.820 If you're in a public place,
00:14:43.620 you have no expectation of privacy
00:14:45.980 and a person can publish your pictures.
00:14:48.660 So why are they so upset?
00:14:49.820 It's not shaming.
00:14:50.580 It's not exposing who they are.
00:14:51.860 It's because the progressives know their policies
00:14:54.700 have been a catastrophe. They've been a total failure. I mean, we've been trying. They've been
00:15:01.020 doing the safe consumption sites. They're talking about the clean supply, things like that. All of
00:15:07.820 it is turning out, as a lot of people warn, and we've seen it already where they're a year ahead
00:15:11.280 of us on this in Portland and areas like that. It's enablement and it's not working. And I'm not
00:15:17.540 opposed to harm mitigation. Again, we've talked about this a lot of times. You can't treat the
00:15:21.200 addicts if they're dead. So if we can try and keep and prevent the overdoses as much as possible,
00:15:26.140 even with some degree of safe consumption centers and things until hopefully we can get them into
00:15:30.020 treatment and solve that, great. But in the meantime, we've got to admit where they don't
00:15:34.240 belong. And they do not belong in our city transit systems. They don't. It's dangerous. And then other
00:15:41.200 people say, oh, they're harmless. There was one clown on Twitter said, oh, what, you're worried
00:15:44.500 they're going to steal from you? Yes. Yes. They're addicts. They will steal the teeth out of your
00:15:50.720 grandmother's head to feed their addiction. They are not in their right mind. It's not even saying
00:15:55.080 they're bad people. I will have the mind of believing it's like a disease. They're diseased
00:15:58.320 right now. They're not in control of themselves. But let's not pretend they aren't dangerous.
00:16:03.620 Of course they're dangerous. They steal. They fight with each other. We had flare gun fights
00:16:08.420 going on in an LRT station in Calgary recently. We had, it's funny, I thought it was somebody else
00:16:14.300 putting a different link up, but a few years ago, a 65-year-old woman was pushed off an LRT platform
00:16:19.360 randomly in Calgary. She's now a paraplegic by an addict. And there was another person put up this
00:16:25.540 thing about a 65-year-old person pushed off a platform and injured as well by an addict. And
00:16:29.660 I thought it was Calgary again. And no, it was in Edmonton. It's the same story. This is how often
00:16:35.020 this sort of thing is happening. And there's the other story I talked about the other week with
00:16:38.860 a gentleman who randomly, a junkie again, went up and cut an older man's throat, a blind man.
00:16:44.800 I mean, this doesn't happen to every person who rides the train, but let's not pretend they're
00:16:49.440 harmless. And that's what the problem is. They're pretending. They're faking. They want people to
00:16:55.020 look the other way. You got to remember, especially in cities like Calgary and Edmonton, the vast
00:16:59.460 majority of the public doesn't ride public transit. They don't go downtown. They don't have to
00:17:04.080 anymore. So they don't know how bad it's gotten. When you get on those odd times, you have to ride
00:17:08.640 and you see it. It's like, oh Lord. And that's what Arthur's doing. He's exposing it. He's letting
00:17:13.520 people see just how bad it is. And they need to see it. Because otherwise, we can have these
00:17:19.340 progressives sugarcoating while this gets worse and worse and worse. And the other pictures that
00:17:23.840 Arthur put up, which were really gross, but it drives it home, was human feces, loads of it,
00:17:29.880 all different pictures all over in corners in the transit facility in Edmonton. These guys,
00:17:34.460 yes, they're crapping in there. When they aren't shooting up, they're taking dumps. I mean,
00:17:39.480 it has to be dealt with now people say well if you throw them out of there where will they go
00:17:43.980 that's a fair enough question we got to find somewhere but where they are isn't appropriate
00:17:49.220 and they got to come out of there and it's unfair to people who pay taxes it's unfair to the people
00:17:54.620 who have to ride transit people on a lower income people have to take their kids to school and ride
00:17:59.540 these trains these buses and deal with this seniors get them out of there find something
00:18:05.960 else. I mean, as pointed out, the problem is they can't go into a shelter because they're in the
00:18:11.560 throes of addiction. The shelters can't take them in when they're in that condition. Okay, well,
00:18:17.140 then let's find a shelter for them when they're in that condition. I don't know. Like I said,
00:18:21.220 one of the things I point out, we got that big over in West Calgary, empty Greyhound Depot just
00:18:25.300 sitting there, sitting for years. Maybe we can stick them in there, pick them up, stick them in
00:18:30.940 there, have treatment professionals around, have people around, concrete walls, concrete floor,
00:18:34.860 at least they won't freeze to death. They won't die, but they're out of our stations and we can
00:18:39.680 work from there. But the first thing is getting them out of where they don't belong. And for them
00:18:44.160 getting so upset with Arthur for his daring to expose it says a lot. So, and as some of the other
00:18:50.820 commenters are saying, it's not a matter of trying to shame or get on their cases. You know, I mean,
00:18:56.660 I'm not a religious man, but the statement is clear, you know, and it's good, but for the grace
00:18:59.980 of God their walk eye, right? Like, hey, I'm a friend of Bill W. I've had my challenges with
00:19:05.540 substances and things as well. I managed to get past that, but a lot of people didn't. And it's
00:19:10.860 a hard, hard thing. They need help, but it doesn't mean they're harmless. And we got to stop that.
00:19:17.140 You know, Denise saying, yeah, as one related to an addict, I'll agree. And that's when I was
00:19:20.140 talking about how harmful or how they can be prone to being thieves. I mean, this is others
00:19:24.980 saying they're dangerous. You know, Pamela, she was accosted by a homeless person, luckily a
00:19:29.760 policemen have it around the corner. And another aspect of it we've talked about is mental health.
00:19:34.420 And the two are linked quite closely together, very closely. I mean, people, if they have mental
00:19:41.140 health issues, we're finding with good treatments, a lot of, and I know people don't like big pharma,
00:19:45.400 but there's a lot of good pharmaceuticals for people with mental health issues that are very
00:19:48.680 effective and help them get on with their lives and be functional and stable. The problem is they
00:19:52.840 have a lot of difficulty staying on the medication. And the success of those medications is part of
00:19:58.080 pushed that misguided movement of deinstitutionalization, which was basically that started in the 80s or so.
00:20:05.920 We started closing down all of our long-term mental institutions and saying we want these
00:20:09.820 people to live within the community. Nice, sounds nice, but so do unicorns. The problem is these
00:20:15.000 people are troubled and instead of integrating with the community, they ended up on the streets
00:20:19.520 or they ended up in prisons and they ended up in hospitals. We have to face some realities that
00:20:24.100 some people are better off in an institutionalized environment where their medication can be
00:20:28.560 monitored and their safety. I know. And it chafes on me as a libertarian because what bigger part
00:20:33.540 of liberty and taking it away can you talk about by saying, we're going to take you off the street
00:20:37.080 and forcibly lock you into an institution. I'm not saying we do that with every one of them,
00:20:41.080 but yeah, it's time to start looking at that, particularly people with mental health issues.
00:20:44.200 Let's quit being naive for their sake and ours. And they don't have to be hell holes. We're not
00:20:49.480 talking about prisons. I think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I love that movie. Brilliant.
00:20:54.100 fantastic movie. But I think it honestly did put such a negative image into what, you know,
00:21:00.220 mental health facilities are, into people's heads that, you know, they of course shy away from the
00:21:06.160 concept of it all the time. Look, it's a last resort. But when you've got people sleeping and
00:21:10.120 living and shooting up in transit facilities, dying of overdoses all the time, living in the
00:21:15.100 trees, are we doing them better by leaving them out there? Really? Really? Come on. But you see,
00:21:21.420 they don't even want to talk about it. So thank you. Thank you very much, Arthur, for having the
00:21:26.200 courage to get out there and take those pictures and expose it and let people know. And of course,
00:21:30.360 ignoring the Twitter-roddy and the peckerheads who come after you for having done it. Now,
00:21:34.460 something Dave mentioned as well. I mean, Arthur's at a busy time. For those who, you should check
00:21:38.660 him out, Arthur Green on Twitter, if you don't already. And then, of course, he writes a lot
00:21:41.860 of stories for us, and he's up in the legislature there. But he was there at the protests last,
00:21:47.680 and there's a Nico showing the video at the legislature last Sunday and you can see he's
00:21:53.160 giving the finger and he's swearing and yelling and this is that's Gil McCown he's the head of
00:21:58.200 the Alberta Federation of Labor. Now you see that that federation it's mandatory to be a member if
00:22:02.840 you're a union member so they claim 170,000 members. Old Gil there you see he's really
00:22:07.480 the reason he's pissing himself and so crabby there is mostly because with 170,000 members
00:22:13.260 they were talking we're going to have this giant protest against the Sovereignty Act of the
00:22:16.820 legislature on Sunday. We're going to bring everybody out and we're going to show Smith
00:22:19.620 her place. Well, they showed up and there are 20 of them there. It was pretty pathetic. It was
00:22:23.760 pretty embarrassing for old Gil. Meanwhile, there were about a hundred pro-Soverty Act protesters
00:22:28.580 there and that upset Gil even more. So what Gil did and the gentleman who's with him, that tall
00:22:34.820 one with the orange jacket, was confronted the pro-Soverty Act protesters. There's a couple of
00:22:40.900 video angles of it and got in their faces. And I guess the one who was wearing a mask and got into
00:22:46.200 verbal arguments and apparently that guy is Gil's son. I don't know. Maybe. That's fine. Take him
00:22:53.040 there and teach him the ropes early, Gil. But his son was getting very confrontational and Gil had
00:22:59.640 to keep going back and pulling him away from the crowd. You see, what Gil was doing, he knew his
00:23:03.180 protest flopped. So he thought, well, maybe I can instigate and make some news and get myself
00:23:08.620 punched in the face or attacked by one of these guys and then I can play victim. That's the way
00:23:12.200 that thugs like Gil play. He's a union head, right? What do you expect? And that didn't work
00:23:17.080 either. And that's when Arthur tried talking to him and Gil went off. And as you know, we saw the
00:23:21.580 video, just check it out. You can see it in full on Twitter, swearing and whining and howling
00:23:25.660 repeatedly before stomping away in a tantrum. And again, credit to Arthur for just standing his
00:23:31.920 ground being there for it. And that video, I don't know what it's at now, but it was over 300,000
00:23:39.260 views, I think, on Twitter alone. So Gil, I don't think, did his organization any favors. Now,
00:23:45.960 people say, well, who cares? Gil's just some nut. Yes, he is just some nut, but he's a nut who has
00:23:50.700 a spot on Rachel Notley's board of directors with the NDP. In fact, the Alberta Federation of Labor
00:23:56.240 has a guaranteed spot in high positions on the executive of the NDP. Basically, to a degree,
00:24:01.920 Rachel Notley answers to him and his organization. So yeah, you can't dismiss this guy as just a
00:24:08.840 run-of-the-mill cook. This guy is not far from the levers of power if Notley manages to get back
00:24:14.360 in. So what a piece of work he is. So again, credit to Arthur for exposing the Alberta Federation of
00:24:22.020 Labour for what they are. And obviously, he's not doing a good job in representing his labour
00:24:28.200 workers and so on, his members, because they didn't come out. You couldn't even get 20, Gil?
00:24:33.080 Really? I mean, I bet you, you know, I got enough people follow me on Twitter. If I wanted to have
00:24:37.280 some sort of street party in a park in Calgary, I could probably get more than 20 just to pop out
00:24:41.760 for that. It's not that hard kill. I know I certainly don't have 170,000 member organization.
00:24:49.020 Either way, Art's doing a great job. And he's quite fun. Let's see. Well, let's pay some bills
00:24:55.260 here. And then I'm going to talk about some more news issues. And we'll run an ad from one of our
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00:25:35.880 know, they're standing up for your rights as a firearm owner. And with that bill 21, it sounds
00:25:39.340 almost like the government might be actually backtracking a little on that. The liberal
00:25:42.360 government of Canada, we'll see, but they might've bitten off more than they can chew. And the reason
00:25:46.580 there's only one way they'll backtrack is if we're pushing back hard, if we make them realize you
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00:26:00.660 And somebody was talking about Carey Price. Now he's a goalie with the Montreal Canadiens. So
00:26:07.180 I guess, I don't know this one fully. I've been watching this kind of blown up on Twitter. So
00:26:11.520 he posted pictures. Basically he's a hunter. He's an avid hunter. He's a firearm owner.
00:26:15.600 And he dared to post pictures up saying he's unapologetic about it. He likes it. The problem,
00:26:19.720 it's not a problem. The problem that was created by harebrained progressives was he put his
00:26:26.180 pro firearms messaging, I guess, out on Instagram and some other areas. And it was close to the
00:26:33.960 anniversary of the Ecole Ponte technique when, what was it, 14 women were slaughtered by Mark
00:26:39.820 Lapine, that monster back then. It was 30 some years ago. And it looks like he's apologized for
00:26:47.880 support. Like, you know, the bullies online, he had no intent of offending people. He's just
00:26:52.960 speaking up for firearm ownership. You can't watch every date. There's, I guess, a sad commentary on
00:26:57.820 society. At any given time, you're probably near an anniversary of some sort of awful human act
00:27:03.220 against humans at some point or another. But that wasn't his intent. It wasn't, again, a man with a
00:27:07.920 duck hunting rifle doesn't represent the lunatic Mark Lapine who went in and slaughtered women in
00:27:12.880 an educational institute 30 years ago. But if you're at the wrong place at the wrong time,
00:27:18.080 you say the wrong thing, the social media swarm gets on you, and they push you down if you let
00:27:24.800 them. Never apologize, guys. Stop it. Stop retreating. They're powerless if you just ignore
00:27:32.860 them. You know, that's part of why I'm somewhat tasteless when I'm online. Some people say not
00:27:38.680 somewhat. I'm very tasteless online. It's my sense of humor. It's the way I go. I'm a South Park
00:27:43.040 conservative. I, you know, grew up, I would say grow up. I was in my adult life, you know,
00:27:48.220 but watching South Park or enjoying even Howard Stern or Adam Carolla's podcast, which I think
00:27:53.200 is great. But I also like a lot of tasteless humor. I'm not afraid of swears. I spent 20
00:27:57.300 years in the oil field. Now, when everybody was getting wild and upset with me on Twitter about
00:28:02.980 something, I can't even remember what that one was. Maybe it happens quite often. Or I think it
00:28:06.160 was just me supporting Arthur's stuff, maybe. I don't know. Or no, it was when I was going after
00:28:09.740 Gill. This is just the other day. And somebody dug up a tweet of mine, where I said to a woman back
00:28:16.700 in 2021, spring of 2021, I said, I think, may I most, paraphrasing myself, may I most kindly
00:28:24.980 invite you to suck my balls? Okay, I'll give the context to that. This was a woman, we were just
00:28:31.100 about to go to the rodeo that was being held in Bowdoin, the illegal rodeo, the rodeo that was
00:28:35.460 in contradiction of COVID-19 laws, which then didn't turn into a super spreader, didn't harm
00:28:41.440 anybody. Thousands of people ended up going out to it in Alberta. I think it was a bit of a turning
00:28:44.960 point for the Western Standard and for Alberta in saying, we've had enough, we're going to go
00:28:49.420 outside and we're going to live again. But she was calling the police on people and tagging people
00:28:55.020 on Twitter and saying, you guys have to arrest these guys. I want them charged to the full extent
00:28:59.140 of the law. And I want them, you know, fined and bankrupted because they're going to a rodeo.
00:29:04.180 so i invited her to suck my balls i didn't even tell her to suck my balls i just invited
00:29:09.940 it's an open question well these nutcases on the twitter left pulled it up look at it look at that
00:29:15.740 look at what cory said back in 2021 cancel them cancel them but all i did was retweeted and said
00:29:20.300 yeah she's still welcome to suck my balls i don't care i don't care i won't let the mob shout me
00:29:26.220 down and part of it too is being a little bit tasteless to begin with then i'm not this saint
00:29:33.780 that's going to come up and curl up into a ball because I said something tasteless. And I'm sure
00:29:38.100 other people talking, did you hear what Corey Morgan said on Twitter? What? I told someone to
00:29:41.760 suck his balls. Well, yeah, it's Corey Morgan. What the hell did you expect? God, don't get on his
00:29:45.700 case. You're lucky that's all he said. I say worse things off Twitter. But as I talk about the Twitter
00:29:50.740 mob, they only have power if you let them have it. And if you don't, if you ignore them, you're fine.
00:29:57.100 Did I get kicked off Twitter for my little exchange about that and having that tweet from a year and
00:30:01.400 half ago, surfaced again? No, I think I gained another 200 followers thanks to it. So good work,
00:30:06.220 by all means, bring it up again. But either way, you know, it looks like Carey Price is backed up.
00:30:11.420 That's his choice. I mean, if he's just, you know, he didn't want to step into a crap storm,
00:30:14.660 so be it. But they swarm and they mob. And when you retreat, you only empower them. And it's never
00:30:19.680 enough. If you're truly wrong, apologize for something. Absolutely. People are wrong often.
00:30:25.920 But if you aren't, head to hell with them. Don't let them own you. And that's what happens. They
00:30:29.560 on you. All right. Yes. Let's see. We got other stuff here. This is something that's been going
00:30:37.220 interesting on Twitter just today. So, you know, Daniel Smith, Premier Smith, it seems has rounded
00:30:42.620 up 4 million doses of like acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which, you know, under the brand names
00:30:48.840 are Tylenol and Advil for children. And a lot of people have been talking about that's why the
00:30:56.100 hospitals are overcrowded with children who have the flu and have cold right now because parents
00:30:58.980 can't, you know, there's been that shortage. The shelves are cleaned right out and they can't treat
00:31:02.760 their kids. They can't bring down the fever. They can't do anything at home. So they go to the
00:31:05.100 hospital on desperation. So Smith has gone and sought and found a supplier with 4 million doses
00:31:10.820 and he's going to be bringing it in soon. But suddenly we get this little note from Health
00:31:15.640 Canada saying, yeah, we've heard about that and we're talking with the government, but
00:31:18.680 we got a few things we want to cover first on this. And we're not too sure if we're going to
00:31:22.700 let that happen. Yeah. And their list of things as to why they might not. Well, because there's
00:31:29.520 not going to be French labeling on it. I don't care. How stupid are we? That's enough. You know,
00:31:36.200 a pharmacy can print out a French translation. A Frenchman can look it up online if you really
00:31:40.460 have to wonder how many pills to give your child. This is getting stupid. Is it an emergency or not?
00:31:45.340 The screaming, howling, progressive assholes on the left have been going on for weeks
00:31:48.800 about how it's an emergency in the hospitals with the children
00:31:51.220 and that cold-hearted Daniel Smith hasn't done a thing about it
00:31:55.180 and the children are suffering.
00:31:56.100 Well, now she's done something about it.
00:31:58.480 And Health Canada might get in the way.
00:32:00.440 Now, this company, she didn't get like bathtub Tylenol or something.
00:32:04.720 What it is is off-brand stuff that's from a very well-reputable,
00:32:08.080 established pharmaceutical company in Turkey.
00:32:11.160 Yeah, it's in Turkey.
00:32:11.920 And that company supplies these drugs to European countries all over the place.
00:32:15.960 They fit those health standards.
00:32:17.900 Now, I understand there has to be a standard. You can't just throw anything out there, but this should be a rubber stamp, guys. And if they hold it up, if they hold it up, really, you would hold up medication for Albertan kids because what? You want to know why? Because they got a chip on their shoulder for Daniel Smith. That's why. They don't want to see her score points. They don't want to see her ever getting a win.
00:32:41.640 She went out, did something, solved something.
00:32:43.420 We can't let her get credit for that.
00:32:45.060 So let's hold it up.
00:32:45.720 And I'll tell you what, if they really do hold it up more than a day or so on this regulatory
00:32:48.660 crap, you're going to give her a huge win because parents are going to lose it, and
00:32:54.500 rightly so.
00:32:55.540 Get it in there, guys.
00:32:56.840 And I've had clowns again, fart catchers on social media going after me.
00:33:00.580 Oh, we should just bring in any drug.
00:33:02.480 No, but we can bring in, yes, accredited pharmaceuticals, Tylenol and Advil, guys.
00:33:09.460 people are saying, oh, it's just like bringing in, you know, horsemen. They're bringing up
00:33:13.500 everything. No, guys. These are proven children's drugs. It's just a matter of glancing at it,
00:33:19.260 rubber stamp, bring it in. Cliff is saying isn't health a provincial issue. Yes, Cliff, it is. But
00:33:24.320 at the same time, importing drugs into Canada becomes a federal issue. So, but the feds should
00:33:29.880 just get out of the damn way. So we'll see. We'll see if they're petulant enough to actually hold
00:33:35.180 this up and try, which I think will backfire on them even worse. But I mean, for people pretending
00:33:41.140 Smith isn't doing something, well, she did something there. She went out and did something,
00:33:44.600 didn't talk about it, didn't sit around. And if it isn't in French, you know, didn't at least
00:33:49.860 the Fed secure it without French? Of course, they shouldn't. Yeah. So, but this is the discussion
00:33:55.080 that's happening out there. And it reminds me of Trudeau. Again, you know, the Feds like to make
00:33:59.120 sure to stunt anything that's happening. A while back when there was an idea balloon of having a
00:34:03.940 rail line going from Alaska to Alberta and bringing a bunch of stuff and things.
00:34:09.660 That sounded interesting. It's private enterprise, might be feasible, might not.
00:34:13.240 But then Truda came in, yeah, that would have to pass Bill C-69. So don't count your chickens
00:34:19.680 there. Well, and then the investor said, oh, we're out of here. We're out. We don't, you know,
00:34:23.760 they're not going to go in with that instability. C-69 screws us in a lot more ways than pipelines,
00:34:28.120 guys. The feds do not want to let us have successes. And we're seeing that with these
00:34:32.420 medications right now too. There's no excuse to hold that up more than hitting a checklist going
00:34:36.940 all the way through and getting it out there to the kids. But we'll see. They don't want to give
00:34:41.160 Smith. I mean, I've never seen anything like this. I've really never seen such an establishment push
00:34:44.980 against a political leader like this. Never. There's a lot of things you can like or dislike
00:34:48.860 with Smith, but I mean, they are lined up. The mainstream media, every other politician in the
00:34:54.140 country, the pundits, the clowns at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. They do not want to get her
00:35:00.040 success. All right, let's talk, well, about some more serious stuff. I'm going to give some
00:35:04.840 background. So as I said, the guest who was going to come on was Christopher Constantine.
00:35:08.800 People remember the Sue Rodriguez case in the 90s. And so I'll give a bit of a background on it.
00:35:13.680 You know, I've written it down, but it's only so fresh in my mind. I remember it quite well,
00:35:16.560 because it was big at the time. And Sue Rodriguez was in BC. She got diagnosed with ALS. They
00:35:21.860 figured she had two to five years to live. And it's an awful disease. You know, it wears you down.
00:35:26.680 It takes away your ability to do things.
00:35:29.340 It's not a nice way to go.
00:35:31.120 It gets a lot of people.
00:35:32.800 She wanted to have a medically assisted suicide.
00:35:37.320 You know, that was the term for it back then too.
00:35:39.400 And she, her was Sven Robinson and this lawyer, Christopher Considine,
00:35:44.780 took it to the Supreme Court and it was ruled against her five to four.
00:35:49.720 No, you can't do it.
00:35:51.140 In the end, she found a doctor who was anonymous.
00:35:53.600 And while with some other people in Sven Robinson, she ingested a mixture of morphine and secobarbital and died.
00:36:03.120 So her suffering ended, she chose to.
00:36:05.960 Now, still, it was controversial at the time, and people still see that as controversial now.
00:36:10.280 But I think in her case, it was still a little more clear cut, I guess, if people feel that that should be an option that people should have.
00:36:17.300 I'll give my own point of view.
00:36:18.400 I think if a person is of right mind and their diagnosis is truly, fully terminal, it's untreatable,
00:36:24.600 and it really does reduce their standard of living that bad, painful, miserable,
00:36:29.380 if that's what they choose, so be it.
00:36:33.040 And that was the case with Sue Rodriguez.
00:36:34.600 But you see that now it's getting far, far, far beyond that.
00:36:37.600 And that's why I want to talk to lawyers.
00:36:38.720 Is this what you envisioned, though?
00:36:39.560 Did you envision it for other people down the road?
00:36:42.340 It's been done for a long time.
00:36:43.940 We know that.
00:36:44.780 We knew that.
00:36:45.240 When people are terminal, when they're very, very sick, how many times?
00:36:47.860 and we know it, I think some people always know family members have gone through it, you know,
00:36:50.640 they're in a care center of one sort or another, whether it's palliative or in a hospital, just
00:36:55.960 kind of, okay, there's the button for your morphine, and be careful, because if you hit it
00:36:59.520 too many times, it might be fatal, now I'm going to go and launch break, I mean, there's been a lot
00:37:05.500 of unofficial euthanasia going on out there, and some people consider it a mercy, hey, only with,
00:37:12.440 by the way, a consenting person who's in their right mind, but here's where some of the problem
00:37:17.260 going as some others are bringing up. Joseph Bass pointing out that they're offering to veterans
00:37:23.980 and others. Yeah. And here's what for PTSD will hang on a minute, particularly when it comes to
00:37:28.600 now they're expanding it. And then that's going to come in March. And Linda Slobodian has been
00:37:31.640 writing on that a lot. I strongly recommend you read some of the stories Linda has been putting
00:37:35.680 out there on the Western Standard. And she's been talking to some people. And the last person
00:37:42.860 who is in a position to responsibly determine whether or not to end their life is somebody
00:37:50.220 with a mental health issue going on. That doesn't mean that their life is interminable. It means
00:37:56.100 that they're suicidal, which we've had perfectly healthy people commit suicide. It's a mental
00:38:01.280 health thing and it's frightening and it's terrible. But when you get somebody who's
00:38:07.180 depressed and then offer them this out, is that really a way we want to go? Depression is not
00:38:12.660 incurable. I mean, a depression is horrible. It's debilitating, and a lot of people suffer from it,
00:38:18.660 and they have a terrible, terrible time, and a lot of people commit suicide because of it.
00:38:22.580 But do we want them walking up and offering it when they're in that position? No. No. As Ashley
00:38:29.300 Ellis just said there, yeah, Canada, the only place where the suicide line calls you. But it's
00:38:34.220 a difficult subject. It is difficult. As I said, not everybody on here would even agree with me
00:38:39.300 necessarily. But I think in cases like Sue Rodriguez, yes, she should have that alternative
00:38:43.340 and a lot of other cases. And I got some of the numbers here, you know, now that it's been 2016
00:38:47.820 since it was legalized. So, I mean, it was fully illegal when Sue Rodriguez had that.
00:38:52.660 And it's legal now. And the numbers have gone up, of course, dramatically, at least the official
00:39:00.060 numbers. Again, as I said, I think a lot of it's probably been happening anyways, but it's been
00:39:04.040 unofficial. But again, and most of the cases now from the stats are people in the end stages of
00:39:12.040 cancer. You know, again, everybody unfortunately pretty much knows somebody who's passed from
00:39:16.540 cancer. It's a rough way to go. Again, it wears you down. It can be terribly painful. And perhaps
00:39:22.840 shortening it is in the best interest of that individual if they've chosen to, and they
00:39:27.000 shouldn't be coerced into it ever. But we get other challenging ones, like this one that I'm
00:39:37.720 just looking down because I'm reading from Slobodian's article. This is a Saskatchewan
00:39:40.800 resident. Oh, no, this wasn't Slobodian. I think this was Chris Oldcorn, I think. But either way,
00:39:46.240 Jolene Alstein put in a medical assistance application because she can't get the surgery
00:39:49.600 she needs. I guess she's got a condition that causes nausea, vomiting, bone fractures, abdominal
00:39:55.560 pain. Yeah, it's pretty agonizing, but it's not terminal. But I mean, again, there's where we
00:39:59.440 start those questions. How far does it go? I mean, if you're in extreme discomfort,
00:40:05.580 but it's not terminal. Okay, but you're asking this person perhaps to live a long, long time
00:40:10.660 in constant agony. I don't know. I don't know. Or constantly medicated to the point where you
00:40:15.880 don't feel it. But at the same time, okay, she can't get the medical care as fast because there's
00:40:21.100 surgery apparently that can help with it but it won't come fast enough and that's why she feels
00:40:25.620 well let's just end it instead maybe if that ending option isn't there man it's such a quagmire
00:40:32.460 and we got to watch not to judge anybody because again we're fortunate enough not to be in those
00:40:36.240 shoes to be thinking about these sorts of things but uh this was a big house of commas discussion
00:40:42.440 the other day and uh uh this was uh blake richards was saying yeah that since macaulay
00:40:48.220 confirmed two weeks ago that Veterans Affairs Canada is aware of four instances of medical
00:40:53.460 assistance dying being offered to veterans by one employee for PTSD, depression. Guys,
00:41:00.060 you know, whose fault is it? If you've got somebody who's seriously depressed, who's not in their
00:41:05.560 right mind, who's in a bad way, somebody who's bipolar, something like that, and you hand them
00:41:09.720 a loaded pistol and leave them in a room alone for the day, they blow their brains out. Whose
00:41:16.320 fault was it really you know you hand it to him say you could end it it's your choice but you know
00:41:23.860 here's the means it's in your hands it's up to you because that's what they're doing right now
00:41:28.760 with people with mental health is you're saying hey we can offer you something for that and now
00:41:33.900 that they're expanding it so people with mental health issues can choose this i i'm really worried
00:41:38.480 about this now look some people if they're really determined they're going to end their life anyway
00:41:42.300 i mean we know that there's unfortunately suicide's been around for a long long time
00:41:45.380 And we're not the hardest creatures to kill.
00:41:49.400 But it's just getting disturbing with how far it's being pushed.
00:41:52.200 There were those ads recently for some clothing company or something
00:41:54.380 where they almost glamorized it.
00:41:56.560 You know, they showed the, oh, this is my planned life ending,
00:41:59.280 and people are standing by a beach, and they're talking and everything.
00:42:01.840 And this woman chose assisted suicide.
00:42:04.740 She died.
00:42:05.700 And we're hearing from friends afterwards, and there's a story in The Standard
00:42:07.960 about that, that sounds like maybe she didn't really want to go.
00:42:12.320 She just felt she was out of options.
00:42:14.460 Well, maybe we should be trying to find more options
00:42:16.400 rather than finding more ways out.
00:42:18.580 If our health care isn't serving well enough,
00:42:20.660 then let's fix the damn health care.
00:42:23.180 There was that case about that gentleman a while back,
00:42:25.240 and I'm sorry, I don't remember his name,
00:42:26.380 but he was very sick and he was constantly offered.
00:42:29.860 He recorded on his phone,
00:42:31.740 the medical workers coming out constantly
00:42:33.400 telling him over and over,
00:42:34.540 you know, you could choose to end this.
00:42:36.120 Really, how much do you have to encourage it?
00:42:37.720 Was it because you wanted that bed
00:42:39.020 that he was taking up that badly?
00:42:40.580 But again, it gets tough.
00:42:45.660 Remember Robert Latimer?
00:42:47.460 He was in Saskatchewan.
00:42:48.540 That was 25 years ago.
00:42:50.100 His daughter was, again, try to put yourself in their shoes.
00:42:54.380 This is hard.
00:42:55.540 I mean, she had severe cerebral palsy, constant surgery.
00:42:59.000 She was in terrible pain.
00:43:00.760 And she had the mental capacity of a four-month-old infant.
00:43:04.960 And she lived for years, you know, 12 years in that condition.
00:43:08.880 Is it a life?
00:43:11.080 She can't consent, obviously.
00:43:14.080 So he ended up using exhaust fumes and killed her,
00:43:17.280 and he ended up getting convicted and doing time.
00:43:19.780 Was it a mercy?
00:43:21.460 Was it a murder?
00:43:22.860 I mean, people still talk.
00:43:23.760 I don't, that one's hard.
00:43:25.080 This whole thing is hard.
00:43:26.920 That's why I am looking forward to talking to that lawyer as well.
00:43:29.200 This is not a clear-cut thing going on here.
00:43:32.360 And, you know, and what is what Latimer said, or not said, but what he did,
00:43:35.980 what does that say to other people with disabilities?
00:43:37.800 that your life is worth less, that you should be euthanized.
00:43:41.180 But, I mean, at what level?
00:43:42.820 Again, this was somebody who was 12 years old
00:43:44.760 with the mental capacity of a four-month-old and in pain.
00:43:48.500 I don't know. I don't know.
00:43:51.500 And Bonnie's saying Robert Latimer played God.
00:43:54.780 Yeah, well, God put his daughter in that position if he's up there.
00:43:59.840 You know, I know religion offers some answers to it, I guess, in some ways.
00:44:05.420 Maybe he was wrong.
00:44:06.520 I, you know, it's, it's, it's a, a rough, rough thing. So here's some of those numbers. Yeah.
00:44:12.900 The federal government's annual euthanasia report determined that 7,595, so almost 7,600
00:44:18.780 people chose a medically assisted death in 2020. But this is an interesting one. 2,650 did so
00:44:27.660 because they perceived they were a burden to family or caregivers. You know, I imagine, I mean,
00:44:31.700 when you're, when you're high maintenance, when you're bringing family down, I mean,
00:44:35.800 your loved ones are going to do everything they can for you. And it's hard on them.
00:44:39.300 But is it enough reason to go? Another 348 did it because they couldn't get palliative or
00:44:44.720 disability care. Again, that talks about let's talk about fixing just as as Lisa saying, you
00:44:49.100 know, medical murder is a cheaper way to avoid fixing the system. Yeah, let's fix the system
00:44:53.360 rather than offering this out. This out. This is difficult. And here's a story from Linda as well.
00:45:02.420 So, yeah, this gentleman, Keanu, who's 23, she talks about he spent the last few days cleaning out his grandpa's garage.
00:45:09.240 This was the big deal.
00:45:10.300 That's because he's alive.
00:45:11.340 He was scheduled to die the September 28th, even though he has no terminal illness.
00:45:17.440 He has type 1 diabetes, and he has depression.
00:45:20.740 And he got approved for medically assisted suicide, a 23-year-old guy with type 1 diabetes and depression.
00:45:28.620 And it sounds like because it got exposed a bit,
00:45:31.400 actually through the standard in Linda Savodian,
00:45:33.700 but basically the news made the doctor back out
00:45:36.060 and kind of threw a wrench into it, and it didn't happen.
00:45:38.940 So he's still alive today, and he's still functioning.
00:45:41.560 He's still okay, and he's with his grandparents right now.
00:45:43.300 I guess he's pretty furious with his mother,
00:45:45.060 who sort of interfered and stopped this.
00:45:48.340 But why?
00:45:50.620 Why are we giving the option at that age,
00:45:53.920 rather than saying, let's work on your depression.
00:45:55.540 Let's work on bringing up your standard of living.
00:45:59.580 They're offering death to a 23-year-old, and he seems to be okay only because of intervention.
00:46:05.860 Bonnie's saying, it's not rough.
00:46:07.320 There's supports for people whose children have disabilities.
00:46:09.500 How horrible to kill his own child.
00:46:10.540 Think he had no choice.
00:46:11.460 I do not go there.
00:46:12.660 Yeah, I know.
00:46:13.940 I'm not saying what he did was right or wrong.
00:46:15.640 I'm torn on it.
00:46:16.700 I'm torn on it.
00:46:17.700 That's all.
00:46:18.620 And I don't think his intent was bad, necessarily.
00:46:21.980 I do think we should increase the supports then
00:46:24.440 so that people don't feel they have to
00:46:26.020 make those kinds of choices,
00:46:28.100 feel that kind of corner.
00:46:28.960 But I'm not in his shoes.
00:46:30.500 I haven't been.
00:46:31.160 I can't imagine how that must be
00:46:32.260 to look at your child
00:46:32.980 and see them suffering like that for so long,
00:46:34.720 knowing you can't fix them,
00:46:35.740 you can't cure them.
00:46:36.760 What you want to do, of course,
00:46:37.820 is always have your child not suffer
00:46:39.040 and you'd feel helpless.
00:46:40.260 And what are you going to do?
00:46:42.180 Either way, we're going to talk about that
00:46:44.060 more next week, guys.
00:46:45.580 And I'm going to have that guest on.
00:46:47.880 And it's, you know,
00:46:48.720 I don't think there's going to be
00:46:49.620 straightforward resolution on that issue on any level next week either. But it's one we have to
00:46:57.180 discuss because it's certainly moving along. Speaking of some other things I'll touch quickly
00:47:01.080 on before we get to Jim there. So yeah, Dave talked about this. We'll lighten things up a
00:47:07.040 little too because, you know, and this isn't light, I guess exactly, but it gets to the social
00:47:11.220 media swirling and stuff going on. Rachel Gilmore, she's a global reporter and she became very
00:47:17.440 emotional. And she put out a teary video about how she gets death threats and hateful comments
00:47:21.580 every day. And it's because she's female and a reporter and she shows the DMS and they were
00:47:26.440 gross. They were nasty. No doubt about it. Sort of mine. I throw a few of those tweets out there.
00:47:34.200 Some people might've seen the last week. I won't even quote them. Some of them were talking about
00:47:36.980 they were so just nasty and I'm pretty tasteless guys, but they were brutal. And yes, multiple
00:47:41.240 ones to people tell me just kill yourself, Corey, whatever. These are losers. These are lowlifes.
00:47:46.100 these are social media cowards. And it happens. And I do believe it's worse. The bullies, the
00:47:52.200 needle dick jerks, the ones who go after people online are worse with the women online than the
00:47:57.220 men. I can believe that. And it's definitely more intimidating for a woman than a man. I'm not as
00:48:02.020 worried about somebody waiting outside the studio, you know, to potentially harm me on the way to the
00:48:08.060 car park or something like that as a woman would be. So it's an issue and it's serious. But then
00:48:12.320 And there's ones, why is it there's certain ones
00:48:14.060 who always get in the trouble?
00:48:14.760 Well, that's because people like Rachel Gilmore
00:48:17.040 dive into it all the time though.
00:48:18.800 She stirs the pot, she asks for it.
00:48:21.180 She gets into the fight, she gets into their face.
00:48:23.780 I'm not saying she deserves those nasty messages,
00:48:26.900 but they can be avoided rather than playing victim.
00:48:29.180 It's not that hard to block, it's not that hard to delete.
00:48:31.880 And it's not that hard to keep going in and provoking.
00:48:33.900 I go in on Twitter and I provoke.
00:48:35.800 I talked about that earlier and I stir people up.
00:48:38.020 They get very upset with me and I get the hate mail
00:48:39.740 and I get the stuff like that.
00:48:40.840 I'm not gonna bitch about it
00:48:41.760 because I chose to dive into that cesspool.
00:48:44.520 Rachel has dived waist-deep in a cesspool,
00:48:48.280 and now she's complaining she's got shit between her toes.
00:48:50.760 Well, Rachel, back off and quit whining about it.
00:48:55.800 You chose that sort of personality.
00:48:57.800 It reminds me of Sandra Janssen.
00:48:58.940 She used to get all sorts of vitriol and trouble as well in Alberta
00:49:01.600 when she was in politics.
00:49:02.620 Why, though?
00:49:03.500 Because she would dive in and stir it.
00:49:05.720 There's many, many other female politicians
00:49:07.720 who don't get all of that nasty pushback.
00:49:09.680 I'm not saying they should be quiet and hiding in a corner.
00:49:11.380 No, not at all.
00:49:12.420 But if you're going to put the elbows up in the corners and play rough, people are going
00:49:17.040 to play rough back at you.
00:49:18.820 That's the way the interwebs work, people.
00:49:21.760 All right, let's get on to the Marketplace Commodities and our weekly report with Jim
00:49:28.660 Buzicum and see what's happening out there.
00:49:31.180 Hey, Jim, how's it going?
00:49:32.400 Good, good.
00:49:33.020 How are you doing, Corey?
00:49:33.960 Good.
00:49:34.420 Lots of good ranting and raving today, you know, keeping the vein pulsing.
00:49:37.820 I see that.
00:49:38.780 That's good.
00:49:39.160 so uh i mean something to look at and you sent me that note in advance nico's got the image i believe
00:49:45.340 uh some statistics canada reports on the uh volumes of of uh products coming out it's pretty
00:49:52.960 interesting numbers actually yeah for sure so this report came out roughly a week ago at the start of
00:49:58.280 december and um as you can see the changes from 2021 to 2022 are actually large so first of all
00:50:08.340 to explain 2021 we had a significant drought across western Canada resulted in huge declines
00:50:15.380 from previous years so 2022 it largely we gained what we lost in 2021 for example if I look at wheat
00:50:25.480 50 percent over 50 percent gain over 2021 so that's huge we actually produced more than what
00:50:32.160 we'd lost in 2021 by an extra 14% roughly.
00:50:37.640 I'll just highlight on some of the other larger commodities,
00:50:40.040 barley, nice bounce back, 43% increase in tonnage versus 21.
00:50:46.960 Canola was roughly just bouncing back from a poor crop to,
00:50:53.460 you know, roughly about 30% gain versus a 30% loss.
00:50:57.280 So, you know, and then some of the others
00:51:00.220 that are really large, if you look down,
00:51:03.580 way down on the list, mustard seed bounce significantly.
00:51:07.560 And mustard is used for making mustard.
00:51:09.460 That's about all there's to it, but increase in acres
00:51:12.880 and we produce a lot more mustard.
00:51:15.740 The same thing with oats, 86% increase in oats.
00:51:19.320 And as a result, the price of oats are roughly about half
00:51:22.280 of what they were a year ago.
00:51:24.140 So some of these large increases in production gains
00:51:29.300 on commodities have resulted in lower prices.
00:51:34.560 But surprisingly enough,
00:51:35.840 markets are actually still really solid on wheat,
00:51:39.800 canola, barley, even mustard that's gone up so much.
00:51:45.220 It's still very, very solid numbers.
00:51:47.300 So our conclusion to some of that,
00:51:51.540 it would be the farmers had room to store this 2022 crop.
00:51:55.980 They had the bin space, the availability, you know, room to place this crop and aren't necessarily in a rush to move it, even though prices are really good.
00:52:06.580 Yeah, I mean, it's interesting.
00:52:07.900 I mean, how much mustard do people really need?
00:52:09.660 But I mean, that was striking 167 percent over, you know, in the year there.
00:52:14.880 But I guess that these are the things you've got to watch when you're planning, too.
00:52:17.960 So as you said, they might not be selling that all right now.
00:52:19.740 That's just what's produced.
00:52:20.800 So if they're storing it, that would reduce a little of the downward pressure on the price.
00:52:24.680 But if you know that a whole bunch is in storage, you might not want to consider seeding that much of that for a little while yet.
00:52:31.100 Yeah, exactly.
00:52:32.040 So we're five months, we're going on the fifth month of the crop year now.
00:52:37.200 There is a lot of grain in storage.
00:52:39.360 Farmers will look at stats can reports like this and say, hey, look, what should we be planting in 2023?
00:52:45.520 And furthermore, they should also be looking at, hey, we better be looking at marketing our 2022 crop.
00:52:51.620 some have done a lot of marketing some still have a long ways to go so there's really what
00:52:59.460 this report is telling you there's really no shortage of grain so and not just grain but
00:53:04.620 even canola peas etc there's enough of those crops out there there may be a shortage of sellers and
00:53:10.420 there may be a shortage of logistics because Alberta and Saskatchewan Manitoba where we produce
00:53:15.340 majority of these crops. Logistics range from, yeah, you know, the 65 plus million acres that
00:53:24.080 are planted range over, what, 1,400 kilometers to and fro. So it's, you know, it can be hard to get
00:53:31.060 it to market at the right time. So farmers definitely need to keep looking at that.
00:53:36.840 Yeah, well, and then other factors we've talked about before, international events,
00:53:40.860 things such as that. I mean, it's hard to predict and judge necessarily on issues such
00:53:45.100 of that, but boy, it sure demonstrates the volatility of agriculture production in general
00:53:49.060 when you can see such swings. I mean, there's things beyond your control, as you said, the drought
00:53:52.680 and having a good year is great, but it also can put downward pressure
00:53:56.940 on those prices. Exactly. Yeah. So
00:54:00.840 we roll into a new calendar year real
00:54:04.980 soon here. And again, we'd like to see
00:54:08.040 a lot of these commodities will start coming to market and we'll be getting moved. And
00:54:12.780 You're right. The geopolitical issues remain. We need to start paying a lot of attention to
00:54:18.520 the Aussie crop. For example, it's not a geopolitical issue, but the Aussie crop
00:54:22.980 is being harvested right now. They've got a big crop, albeit maybe not a great quality crop was
00:54:28.460 too wet there. And then coming up in Feb, March, April, you have the South American crop that
00:54:33.220 starts to come to market again. So it's just a continual churning of markets. It comes and goes.
00:54:38.420 great so is this sort of getting towards the the busy season for you guys at the marketplace like
00:54:43.960 this is when you're really starting to plan for the next year i guess yeah it in some ways it is
00:54:50.560 yes there's there's a lot of decisions that be made um you're right so it is a busier season
00:54:56.500 um in terms of you know you can work on both marketing old crop and talk about marketing new
00:55:02.980 crop and things like that so those are those are some things that for sure will keep us busy
00:55:09.160 Right on.
00:55:09.680 Well, before I let you go, you guys have got a few branches across the West, don't you?
00:55:14.200 We do have one up in Red Deer and Fort McLeod and Lethbridge.
00:55:19.780 So those are our locations.
00:55:21.320 Yeah, but we do cover Alberta and Saskatchewan extensively.
00:55:24.400 Yes.
00:55:25.380 Right on.
00:55:25.860 Well, thanks for the update this week, Jim.
00:55:28.440 And we'll see you again next week.
00:55:30.520 Thanks, Corey.
00:55:31.640 Thanks.
00:55:32.540 Bye.
00:55:33.760 So yes, Jim Busicombe from Marketplace Commodities.
00:55:36.900 Again, I mean, just that agricultural world, it's business, it's big business.
00:55:40.540 And as you can see, there's just so many moving parts going on.
00:55:43.140 And producers who want to maximize, make sure that you are being as efficient as possible.
00:55:48.820 Well, this is where you get that help.
00:55:50.600 Check them out, guys, marketplacecommodities.com.
00:55:52.720 So they can watch all those factors and help you guys produce and plan as much as possible.
00:55:58.860 Cindy just asked the commenter, is this just Alberta planting?
00:56:01.940 And as Jim said, no, they also, you know, in Saskatchewan and other areas and such as that.
00:56:08.160 Or I think those numbers as well were Canada-wide, I believe, on that Statistics Canada report.
00:56:12.780 Though, I mean, most of the cereal and grain, of course, are in the prairie provinces out there.
00:56:17.220 So, yes, that's what's going on at this point.
00:56:19.880 I know everybody else is thinking about Christmas and everything, but the business still carries on.
00:56:23.820 And you still got to start planning for the next year.
00:56:26.240 As people do realize in the agricultural business, it's not a nine-to-five job.
00:56:30.060 you're living in it and you're on the job all the time. So let's see if we got other
00:56:36.720 issues going on. This is interesting, you know, just to close things off with the show. Yeah,
00:56:43.620 some stuff on the federal front, the revenue ministers being asked by the Conservatives to
00:56:49.600 apologize. I guess she suggested that the Auditor General report indicating that billions of dollars
00:56:54.620 in COVID-19 benefits went to those who were ineligible, that it was political pressure.
00:57:00.060 And the Auditor General, she's doing her job.
00:57:04.020 She audits the books.
00:57:04.920 She puts out the numbers.
00:57:06.020 That's a grave, big insult and undercutting
00:57:08.860 just because you don't like the numbers
00:57:10.000 the Auditor General put out.
00:57:11.380 When you imply that it was politicized,
00:57:13.740 you better be able to back it.
00:57:14.820 So I think the Conservatives are on good ground
00:57:16.200 because those numbers are ugly.
00:57:17.960 That is no doubt.
00:57:19.780 They're talking about perhaps,
00:57:21.200 I mean, they're definite 4.6 billion
00:57:23.420 that was paid to people who shouldn't have got it
00:57:25.080 in business and individuals.
00:57:26.540 27 billion though that she feels
00:57:28.620 should get further investigation.
00:57:30.580 Yeah, there's no wonder the Liberals
00:57:31.440 don't want to talk about it.
00:57:33.500 It's pretty bloody embarrassing.
00:57:36.680 Let's see other stuff in the news.
00:57:38.520 The Sovereignty Act, Bill 1.
00:57:39.860 It's still going through the legislature.
00:57:41.240 I think it's in second reading right away
00:57:43.020 if it hasn't already.
00:57:44.240 There's some amendments coming to it.
00:57:45.580 We'll see exactly how those go.
00:57:47.560 But again, this was interesting.
00:57:49.080 I look at CBC and what are they pulling up?
00:57:51.200 Well, now, even in Saskatchewan,
00:57:53.300 and you can tell this is the NDP organizing people
00:57:55.420 getting them out there.
00:57:56.160 They got First Nations chiefs in Saskatchewan and Alberta now howling, saying, take those off the table.
00:58:01.600 You can't do it without our permission.
00:58:02.800 Actually, that's bullshit.
00:58:04.600 Again, our First Nations people are, let's get rid of that earpiece.
00:58:08.740 I'm done with guests.
00:58:10.440 They need to be respected.
00:58:12.800 They need to be consulted.
00:58:13.900 But let's quit pretending they have a veto on policy.
00:58:16.320 Or that any of these acts, whether it's Saskatchewan, or the Saskatchewan First Act, or the Alberta Sovereignty Act,
00:58:22.560 for one, neither of them infringe on any treaty rights.
00:58:24.960 Read the treaties, guys.
00:58:26.160 They're short. They're actually pretty simple. These, these, these things don't interfere with
00:58:30.160 that. And, uh, you can put your word out guys, but you can't demand that any legislation come
00:58:35.460 off the table. That's not your place. It's not your business any more so than any other citizen
00:58:39.620 anyways. So, uh, Hey, you all got one vote each, like the rest of us, uh, vote in an election and
00:58:44.460 change it then until then you're going to enjoy that act along with the next, uh, the rest of us.
00:58:49.060 Okay. Well, that's enough for today, guys. Yes. I was guestless though. I did have Dave on,
00:58:53.440 I had Jim on. And I do find that, you know, your cultural stuff interesting. I mean, it's a big
00:58:57.360 complicated business. The old days of, you know, the little family farm are gone. It's got to be
00:59:03.220 treated the right way now. And it's quite an interesting lifestyle. Next week, we will have
00:59:07.840 Christopher Considine on. He will come on this time. I'm sure he'll be better by then. And we
00:59:12.600 will talk further about, well, medically assisted dying and whether or not that's where they're
00:59:17.380 looking to go with the Rodriguez case. And of course, lots of news and check-ins and all that
00:59:21.020 good stuff too. So thanks for tuning in this week, guys, and we will see you again this time next week.
00:59:51.020 Thank you.