CMS： Businesses need to dump the Chamber of Commerce.
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Summary
In this week's episode of The Western Standard, we have a special guest on the show to talk about a controversial issue that has been around since the 90s: medically assisted dying. We also have a rant about the lack of representation from the Chamber of Commerce in the city of Calgary, and why it's time for them to go.
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Good day. It is Wednesday, December 7th. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show here with me, Cory Morgan.
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Good to see you tune in. This is my weekly show with the Western Standard. We run every day at
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this time on Wednesdays, and I cover issues, talk to guests, of course, rant, rave, all that good
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stuff. This is while everybody's joining in. I like to remind everybody, use that comment scroll,
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particularly today. I'll remind you why in a moment. Good to see y'all checking in there,
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maryland and newfoundland lisa and bc paradoxy always there joseph uh i like seeing people
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knowing you're back there knowing it's worth going live part of the problem is going live
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we sometimes have hiccups things change so i had a guest who was going to come on today he's a
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lawyer christopher uh constantine now he's he's going to be back next week because i really want
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to have this conversation unfortunately he's become ill so he can't make it on today's but
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he should be on next week for those who might you know remember from the 90s a big issue and
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Christopher Considine was Sue Rodriguez's lawyer
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It sort of set the precedent to where we are today.
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what you were looking to pursue back then with Sue Rodriguez
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because what people consider worthy or appropriate
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for a medically assisted intervention with somebody dying
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It's a lot different now than it was in the 90s.
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So, I mean, a complicated and just interesting conversation.
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We'll have it next week, but I'm going to talk a lot about that today.
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Since I won't have a guest, you'll get a lot more of my babbling today.
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But we can chat back and forth and cover a lot of stuff.
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We've got somebody from Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Fort Mac, Rocky View,
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Like, we really get across the country, and I love seeing that.
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So, as well, of course, we'll have our check-in with Marketplace Commodities later.
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So it's about, and I've ranted about this before,
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the Chamber of Commerce, particularly in Calgary,
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businesses need to abandon these Chambers of Commerce.
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I mean, it's been a tough few years for Calgary businesses.
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businesses have been struggling due to bad governance
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I mean, typically, businesses can expect their local chamber to advocate on their behalf when
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they're in trouble. In Calgary, though, the chamber has gone so woke, they aren't even worth joining
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anymore, much less counting on them to bring their message to governments. I mean, so let's give some
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history. The first Canadian Chamber of Commerce, I didn't know this, was formed in 1750 in Halifax.
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And now they have branches, of course, in every community in the country. And their initial mandate
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was pretty simple. They were speaking for businesses and providing networking opportunities.
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I mean, in Calgary in 2019, businesses were being crushed by double and even triple business tax increases under the Nenshi administration.
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The chamber was nowhere to be seen on this issue, however.
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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.
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Business owners aren't prone to attending protests.
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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.
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Unfortunately, most businesses simply cut a check to the local chamber as a matter of habit every year, and they ignore it after that.
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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.
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And the apathy of chamber members has allowed Calgary's chamber to morph into a woke advocacy organization.
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It was bad enough when the chamber was useless, but now they're actually becoming a detriment to enterprise in the city.
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Since Calgary Chamber appointed CBC commentator Debra Yedlin as its CEO, things have gone from bad to worse.
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Yedlin has no experience in running a small to medium business, and it shows.
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The stances she's taken in the last couple of years have been absurd.
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I mean, Yedlin's clear dislike for the UCP has been shining through.
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That was well programmed into her during her CBC time, I'm sure.
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I was gobsmacked, though, when she vocally declared that the removal of vaccine passports was going to harm businesses in Calgary.
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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.
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It doesn't matter where you stand on the vaccine issue. Yedlin's statement on this were just stupid.
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And it's clear she didn't talk to the business owners she claims to represent at all.
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No right-minded business wants to dedicate an employee to stopping and scanning every customer entering the establishment.
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It costs money. It interferes with the customer experience.
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And while the majority of the people are indeed vaccinated, excluding the minority still shrinks your customer base.
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Thankfully, at least, Kenny, who was premier at the time, ignored Yedlin.
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And when the mandates were dropped, business unsurprisingly grew.
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Lo and behold, it sounds like Yedlin didn't know what the hell she was talking about.
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The chamber, in the meantime, has been advocating for equity laws.
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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.
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Where's the chamber on this? Well, we don't hear a thing.
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The chamber now has recommended that the city dump its cowboy hat and western image.
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Yeah, you heard that right. Calgary enjoys local branding and an image that hundreds of cities would kill for.
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And the Calgary chamber wants to dump it and turn the city presumably into another Toronto.
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Now, the head of the chamber is on an anti-UCP crusade
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as Yedlin's attacking Premier Daniel Smith at every turn.
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I guess her hopes of returning the NDP to power are pretty evident.
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While Yedlin is certainly welcome to her political views,
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her responsibility should be to the business community.
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And let's not pretend socialism is in the interest of businesses.
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The only way to fix the chamber now is to starve it back into common sense.
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It's spoiled by easy money from the energy companies.
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In the Western Standard, we have a membership with the Strathmore Chamber of Commerce.
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It bounds on Calgary and offers many of the same services, and it isn't hopelessly woke.
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Calgary businesses need to examine their options and seek them out.
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Why keep funding an organization that actually works against your business's interest?
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I'd say don't renew your membership of the Calgary Chamber.
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Teach these guys a lesson because they are not doing you or your business any favors.
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All right, let's see what else can get me worked up, and we will check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor.
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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.
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It looked like a seagull and shit on your coat there or something like that.
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I've got to do other things to keep it interesting and different, right?
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Yeah, I was watching a video behind your place the other night.
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to look like a greyhound racing track look at those things oh they're flying hey there's five
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of them in that run there in the video behind our place i mean they're just blasted along there
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should be two more in a moment i i don't know if people were discussing on twitter you know we
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don't know if they were running away from something or chasing something but i mean you
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gotta remember that's pitch black like that's the the ultraviolet or whatever oh yeah there they are
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taking down that poor deer um but yeah this has been quite the year for wildlife behind my house
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Yeah, maybe they couldn't be around the bear, could they?
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Yeah, no, I mean, if the coyotes and the bear wanted to have it out,
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I'd be more than welcome to see that episode happen.
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You know, you were talking about in your rant there,
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has sure got people outraged by some of his photos that Nico's put up there.
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you know some of the NDP activists went a bit you know they're saying that we were
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you know just be exploiting these people basically and treating them like they were
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animals in a zoo and Arthur's trying to say no that's not the case we're trying to
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we're trying to show a problem that needs addressing here and it's you know it's
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obviously not just Calgary but it's Edmonton as well. Yeah it's happening everywhere I mean
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particularly I think you know it's my prejudice but I guess every city's progressive these days
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it seems anyways, but you hear about Vancouver and Seattle and some of those other places as
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well. I mean, this is just happening everywhere. The addiction epidemics are just overwhelming
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the cities and they don't want to talk about it though. That's why they get so mad at Arthur.
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Yeah, exactly. And you know, what, what is the solution? You know, these, yeah. And I think you
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hit it on the head on Twitter that these really aren't the homeless people there. If they're
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homeless, there's places for them to go. There are beds open at shelters, but these people don't
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fit in shelters because they're addicts and they can't shoot their drugs in in shelters so they go
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to the nearest warm uh place which i guess is an lrd station and uh you know they make them really
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not a very uh welcoming place to go no and i mean you know transit's an issue everywhere and of
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course you know every city again they're trying to get people to come back after the pandemic but
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when they see scenes like that i mean who's who wants to ride if they have an option who's going
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to ride in that? Who wants to put their kids on that to ride to school? I mean, you walk through
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that. Yeah, it's only a matter of time before, you know, a little kid picks up a dirty needle
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off the ground and something terrible has happened. But yeah, they've got to find a
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solution. Got to find it quick. Yeah, we'll keep on it. Yeah. On to the news. We've got a wide
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variety of news to keep you entertained this morning, including the latest from Elon Musk.
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He has fired the lawyer who was overseeing the release of the Hunter Biden papers.
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It looks like the lawyer may have been suppressing some of the stuff,
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Our Matthew Horwood has got a piece looking at China,
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finally backtracking on some of their zealous COVID management
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where they were locking down cities and quarantine camps,
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Chris Holcorn in Saskatchewan's got a heartbreaking interview
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with a woman who has applied for medically assisted suicide.
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She's got all sorts of medical issues that she can't get help for,
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and the nearest appointment with a specialist she can get is two years away.
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Speaking of really sad stories, Corey, Rachel Gilmore, our favorite reporter from Global,
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had a massive meltdown on Twitter yesterday in tears on all the nasty messages she's getting via her direct email.
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And, you know, as somebody said, why not just shut down your direct messages?
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But apparently they continue to pour in for Ms. Gilmore.
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And everybody's favorite union leader, Gil McCowan of the Alberta Federation of Labor.
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If you're speaking of Arthur, he kind of had a run-in with Arthur at a weekend protest over the Sovereignty Act.
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And Premier Daniel Smith's office says they were, quote, alarmed by his actions.
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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?
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I'm going to talk a little more about that afterwards
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because Mr. McGowan didn't do much for his credibility that day.
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Arthur is currently in the legislature at a portrait unveiling of Rachel Notley.
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All former premiers get a painting of themselves put up in the legislature,
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So Arthur is at the unveiling of that, so that will be coming up shortly.
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Great. Well, thanks for the check-in and updates, Dave, and we'll talk to you again after the show.
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Right on. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And yes, as you can see, lots of stuff going on,
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lots of news and constant good content up there. And, you know, great people,
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reporters across the country, and Dave manages them to keep that content coming. And the reason
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we can do that, this is where I nag you, is because you guys subscribe. And we got thousands
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and subscribers. I really appreciate it. We need more. We can always use more. That's how we can
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expand this. We can get an assistant to come in and make sure I don't screw up my earpiece in the
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mornings and things like that. But for you, if you've subscribed already, thank you very much,
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guys. And if you haven't yet, come on, get on there. $9.99 a month, $99 a year if you go annual.
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It's a good price. It's cheaper than a newspaper subscription used to be. And you don't have all
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the old newspapers to deal with and clean up afterwards. So, and it keeps people like Arthur
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out there doing the stuff he's doing for us as well. I would have got him on today. Like I said,
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I was kind of scrambling and my guest couldn't make it. And Arthur would have been great. As
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Paradox, he says, yeah, Arthur's our treasured Newfie. Yeah. If you listen to him, I've had him
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on the show before. Boy, that accent is beautiful. And he's not afraid of anything. He loves taking
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the pictures and things. You know, he really has been stirring the hornet's nest up in Edmonton.
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And as Dave said, he's busy up there. He's at the legislature. And he's, sorry, I got distracted
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and he took pictures on the public transit system.
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You know, you guys have been regular viewers and listeners.
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It's because the progressives know their policies
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have been a catastrophe. They've been a total failure. I mean, we've been trying. They've been
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doing the safe consumption sites. They're talking about the clean supply, things like that. All of
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it is turning out, as a lot of people warn, and we've seen it already where they're a year ahead
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of us on this in Portland and areas like that. It's enablement and it's not working. And I'm not
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opposed to harm mitigation. Again, we've talked about this a lot of times. You can't treat the
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addicts if they're dead. So if we can try and keep and prevent the overdoses as much as possible,
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even with some degree of safe consumption centers and things until hopefully we can get them into
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treatment and solve that, great. But in the meantime, we've got to admit where they don't
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belong. And they do not belong in our city transit systems. They don't. It's dangerous. And then other
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people say, oh, they're harmless. There was one clown on Twitter said, oh, what, you're worried
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they're going to steal from you? Yes. Yes. They're addicts. They will steal the teeth out of your
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grandmother's head to feed their addiction. They are not in their right mind. It's not even saying
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they're bad people. I will have the mind of believing it's like a disease. They're diseased
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right now. They're not in control of themselves. But let's not pretend they aren't dangerous.
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Of course they're dangerous. They steal. They fight with each other. We had flare gun fights
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going on in an LRT station in Calgary recently. We had, it's funny, I thought it was somebody else
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putting a different link up, but a few years ago, a 65-year-old woman was pushed off an LRT platform
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randomly in Calgary. She's now a paraplegic by an addict. And there was another person put up this
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thing about a 65-year-old person pushed off a platform and injured as well by an addict. And
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I thought it was Calgary again. And no, it was in Edmonton. It's the same story. This is how often
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this sort of thing is happening. And there's the other story I talked about the other week with
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a gentleman who randomly, a junkie again, went up and cut an older man's throat, a blind man.
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I mean, this doesn't happen to every person who rides the train, but let's not pretend they're
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harmless. And that's what the problem is. They're pretending. They're faking. They want people to
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look the other way. You got to remember, especially in cities like Calgary and Edmonton, the vast
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majority of the public doesn't ride public transit. They don't go downtown. They don't have to
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anymore. So they don't know how bad it's gotten. When you get on those odd times, you have to ride
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and you see it. It's like, oh Lord. And that's what Arthur's doing. He's exposing it. He's letting
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people see just how bad it is. And they need to see it. Because otherwise, we can have these
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progressives sugarcoating while this gets worse and worse and worse. And the other pictures that
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Arthur put up, which were really gross, but it drives it home, was human feces, loads of it,
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all different pictures all over in corners in the transit facility in Edmonton. These guys,
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yes, they're crapping in there. When they aren't shooting up, they're taking dumps. I mean,
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it has to be dealt with now people say well if you throw them out of there where will they go
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that's a fair enough question we got to find somewhere but where they are isn't appropriate
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and they got to come out of there and it's unfair to people who pay taxes it's unfair to the people
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who have to ride transit people on a lower income people have to take their kids to school and ride
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these trains these buses and deal with this seniors get them out of there find something
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else. I mean, as pointed out, the problem is they can't go into a shelter because they're in the
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throes of addiction. The shelters can't take them in when they're in that condition. Okay, well,
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then let's find a shelter for them when they're in that condition. I don't know. Like I said,
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one of the things I point out, we got that big over in West Calgary, empty Greyhound Depot just
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sitting there, sitting for years. Maybe we can stick them in there, pick them up, stick them in
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there, have treatment professionals around, have people around, concrete walls, concrete floor,
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at least they won't freeze to death. They won't die, but they're out of our stations and we can
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work from there. But the first thing is getting them out of where they don't belong. And for them
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getting so upset with Arthur for his daring to expose it says a lot. So, and as some of the other
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commenters are saying, it's not a matter of trying to shame or get on their cases. You know, I mean,
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I'm not a religious man, but the statement is clear, you know, and it's good, but for the grace
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of God their walk eye, right? Like, hey, I'm a friend of Bill W. I've had my challenges with
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substances and things as well. I managed to get past that, but a lot of people didn't. And it's
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a hard, hard thing. They need help, but it doesn't mean they're harmless. And we got to stop that.
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You know, Denise saying, yeah, as one related to an addict, I'll agree. And that's when I was
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talking about how harmful or how they can be prone to being thieves. I mean, this is others
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saying they're dangerous. You know, Pamela, she was accosted by a homeless person, luckily a
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policemen have it around the corner. And another aspect of it we've talked about is mental health.
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And the two are linked quite closely together, very closely. I mean, people, if they have mental
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health issues, we're finding with good treatments, a lot of, and I know people don't like big pharma,
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but there's a lot of good pharmaceuticals for people with mental health issues that are very
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effective and help them get on with their lives and be functional and stable. The problem is they
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have a lot of difficulty staying on the medication. And the success of those medications is part of
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pushed that misguided movement of deinstitutionalization, which was basically that started in the 80s or so.
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We started closing down all of our long-term mental institutions and saying we want these
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people to live within the community. Nice, sounds nice, but so do unicorns. The problem is these
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people are troubled and instead of integrating with the community, they ended up on the streets
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or they ended up in prisons and they ended up in hospitals. We have to face some realities that
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some people are better off in an institutionalized environment where their medication can be
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monitored and their safety. I know. And it chafes on me as a libertarian because what bigger part
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of liberty and taking it away can you talk about by saying, we're going to take you off the street
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and forcibly lock you into an institution. I'm not saying we do that with every one of them,
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but yeah, it's time to start looking at that, particularly people with mental health issues.
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Let's quit being naive for their sake and ours. And they don't have to be hell holes. We're not
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talking about prisons. I think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I love that movie. Brilliant.
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fantastic movie. But I think it honestly did put such a negative image into what, you know,
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mental health facilities are, into people's heads that, you know, they of course shy away from the
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concept of it all the time. Look, it's a last resort. But when you've got people sleeping and
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living and shooting up in transit facilities, dying of overdoses all the time, living in the
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trees, are we doing them better by leaving them out there? Really? Really? Come on. But you see,
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they don't even want to talk about it. So thank you. Thank you very much, Arthur, for having the
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courage to get out there and take those pictures and expose it and let people know. And of course,
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ignoring the Twitter-roddy and the peckerheads who come after you for having done it. Now,
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something Dave mentioned as well. I mean, Arthur's at a busy time. For those who, you should check
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him out, Arthur Green on Twitter, if you don't already. And then, of course, he writes a lot
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of stories for us, and he's up in the legislature there. But he was there at the protests last,
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and there's a Nico showing the video at the legislature last Sunday and you can see he's
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giving the finger and he's swearing and yelling and this is that's Gil McCown he's the head of
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the Alberta Federation of Labor. Now you see that that federation it's mandatory to be a member if
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you're a union member so they claim 170,000 members. Old Gil there you see he's really
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the reason he's pissing himself and so crabby there is mostly because with 170,000 members
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they were talking we're going to have this giant protest against the Sovereignty Act of the
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legislature on Sunday. We're going to bring everybody out and we're going to show Smith
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her place. Well, they showed up and there are 20 of them there. It was pretty pathetic. It was
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pretty embarrassing for old Gil. Meanwhile, there were about a hundred pro-Soverty Act protesters
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there and that upset Gil even more. So what Gil did and the gentleman who's with him, that tall
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one with the orange jacket, was confronted the pro-Soverty Act protesters. There's a couple of
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video angles of it and got in their faces. And I guess the one who was wearing a mask and got into
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verbal arguments and apparently that guy is Gil's son. I don't know. Maybe. That's fine. Take him
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there and teach him the ropes early, Gil. But his son was getting very confrontational and Gil had
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to keep going back and pulling him away from the crowd. You see, what Gil was doing, he knew his
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protest flopped. So he thought, well, maybe I can instigate and make some news and get myself
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punched in the face or attacked by one of these guys and then I can play victim. That's the way
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that thugs like Gil play. He's a union head, right? What do you expect? And that didn't work
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either. And that's when Arthur tried talking to him and Gil went off. And as you know, we saw the
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video, just check it out. You can see it in full on Twitter, swearing and whining and howling
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repeatedly before stomping away in a tantrum. And again, credit to Arthur for just standing his
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ground being there for it. And that video, I don't know what it's at now, but it was over 300,000
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views, I think, on Twitter alone. So Gil, I don't think, did his organization any favors. Now,
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people say, well, who cares? Gil's just some nut. Yes, he is just some nut, but he's a nut who has
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a spot on Rachel Notley's board of directors with the NDP. In fact, the Alberta Federation of Labor
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has a guaranteed spot in high positions on the executive of the NDP. Basically, to a degree,
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Rachel Notley answers to him and his organization. So yeah, you can't dismiss this guy as just a
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run-of-the-mill cook. This guy is not far from the levers of power if Notley manages to get back
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in. So what a piece of work he is. So again, credit to Arthur for exposing the Alberta Federation of
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Labour for what they are. And obviously, he's not doing a good job in representing his labour
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workers and so on, his members, because they didn't come out. You couldn't even get 20, Gil?
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Really? I mean, I bet you, you know, I got enough people follow me on Twitter. If I wanted to have
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some sort of street party in a park in Calgary, I could probably get more than 20 just to pop out
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for that. It's not that hard kill. I know I certainly don't have 170,000 member organization.
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Either way, Art's doing a great job. And he's quite fun. Let's see. Well, let's pay some bills
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And somebody was talking about Carey Price. Now he's a goalie with the Montreal Canadiens. So
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I guess, I don't know this one fully. I've been watching this kind of blown up on Twitter. So
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he posted pictures. Basically he's a hunter. He's an avid hunter. He's a firearm owner.
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And he dared to post pictures up saying he's unapologetic about it. He likes it. The problem,
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it's not a problem. The problem that was created by harebrained progressives was he put his
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pro firearms messaging, I guess, out on Instagram and some other areas. And it was close to the
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anniversary of the Ecole Ponte technique when, what was it, 14 women were slaughtered by Mark
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Lapine, that monster back then. It was 30 some years ago. And it looks like he's apologized for
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support. Like, you know, the bullies online, he had no intent of offending people. He's just
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speaking up for firearm ownership. You can't watch every date. There's, I guess, a sad commentary on
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society. At any given time, you're probably near an anniversary of some sort of awful human act
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against humans at some point or another. But that wasn't his intent. It wasn't, again, a man with a
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duck hunting rifle doesn't represent the lunatic Mark Lapine who went in and slaughtered women in
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an educational institute 30 years ago. But if you're at the wrong place at the wrong time,
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you say the wrong thing, the social media swarm gets on you, and they push you down if you let
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them. Never apologize, guys. Stop it. Stop retreating. They're powerless if you just ignore
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them. You know, that's part of why I'm somewhat tasteless when I'm online. Some people say not
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somewhat. I'm very tasteless online. It's my sense of humor. It's the way I go. I'm a South Park
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conservative. I, you know, grew up, I would say grow up. I was in my adult life, you know,
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but watching South Park or enjoying even Howard Stern or Adam Carolla's podcast, which I think
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is great. But I also like a lot of tasteless humor. I'm not afraid of swears. I spent 20
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years in the oil field. Now, when everybody was getting wild and upset with me on Twitter about
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something, I can't even remember what that one was. Maybe it happens quite often. Or I think it
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was just me supporting Arthur's stuff, maybe. I don't know. Or no, it was when I was going after
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Gill. This is just the other day. And somebody dug up a tweet of mine, where I said to a woman back
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in 2021, spring of 2021, I said, I think, may I most, paraphrasing myself, may I most kindly
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invite you to suck my balls? Okay, I'll give the context to that. This was a woman, we were just
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about to go to the rodeo that was being held in Bowdoin, the illegal rodeo, the rodeo that was
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in contradiction of COVID-19 laws, which then didn't turn into a super spreader, didn't harm
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anybody. Thousands of people ended up going out to it in Alberta. I think it was a bit of a turning
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point for the Western Standard and for Alberta in saying, we've had enough, we're going to go
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outside and we're going to live again. But she was calling the police on people and tagging people
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on Twitter and saying, you guys have to arrest these guys. I want them charged to the full extent
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of the law. And I want them, you know, fined and bankrupted because they're going to a rodeo.
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so i invited her to suck my balls i didn't even tell her to suck my balls i just invited
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it's an open question well these nutcases on the twitter left pulled it up look at it look at that
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look at what cory said back in 2021 cancel them cancel them but all i did was retweeted and said
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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
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down and part of it too is being a little bit tasteless to begin with then i'm not this saint
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that's going to come up and curl up into a ball because I said something tasteless. And I'm sure
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other people talking, did you hear what Corey Morgan said on Twitter? What? I told someone to
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suck his balls. Well, yeah, it's Corey Morgan. What the hell did you expect? God, don't get on his
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case. You're lucky that's all he said. I say worse things off Twitter. But as I talk about the Twitter
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mob, they only have power if you let them have it. And if you don't, if you ignore them, you're fine.
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Did I get kicked off Twitter for my little exchange about that and having that tweet from a year and
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half ago, surfaced again? No, I think I gained another 200 followers thanks to it. So good work,
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by all means, bring it up again. But either way, you know, it looks like Carey Price is backed up.
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That's his choice. I mean, if he's just, you know, he didn't want to step into a crap storm,
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so be it. But they swarm and they mob. And when you retreat, you only empower them. And it's never
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enough. If you're truly wrong, apologize for something. Absolutely. People are wrong often.
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But if you aren't, head to hell with them. Don't let them own you. And that's what happens. They
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on you. All right. Yes. Let's see. We got other stuff here. This is something that's been going
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interesting on Twitter just today. So, you know, Daniel Smith, Premier Smith, it seems has rounded
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up 4 million doses of like acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which, you know, under the brand names
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are Tylenol and Advil for children. And a lot of people have been talking about that's why the
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hospitals are overcrowded with children who have the flu and have cold right now because parents
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can't, you know, there's been that shortage. The shelves are cleaned right out and they can't treat
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their kids. They can't bring down the fever. They can't do anything at home. So they go to the
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hospital on desperation. So Smith has gone and sought and found a supplier with 4 million doses
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and he's going to be bringing it in soon. But suddenly we get this little note from Health
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Canada saying, yeah, we've heard about that and we're talking with the government, but
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we got a few things we want to cover first on this. And we're not too sure if we're going to
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let that happen. Yeah. And their list of things as to why they might not. Well, because there's
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not going to be French labeling on it. I don't care. How stupid are we? That's enough. You know,
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a pharmacy can print out a French translation. A Frenchman can look it up online if you really
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have to wonder how many pills to give your child. This is getting stupid. Is it an emergency or not?
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The screaming, howling, progressive assholes on the left have been going on for weeks
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about how it's an emergency in the hospitals with the children
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and that cold-hearted Daniel Smith hasn't done a thing about it
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Now, this company, she didn't get like bathtub Tylenol or something.
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What it is is off-brand stuff that's from a very well-reputable,
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And that company supplies these drugs to European countries all over the place.
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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.
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And I'll tell you what, if they really do hold it up more than a day or so on this regulatory
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crap, you're going to give her a huge win because parents are going to lose it, and
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And I've had clowns again, fart catchers on social media going after me.
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No, but we can bring in, yes, accredited pharmaceuticals, Tylenol and Advil, guys.
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people are saying, oh, it's just like bringing in, you know, horsemen. They're bringing up
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everything. No, guys. These are proven children's drugs. It's just a matter of glancing at it,
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rubber stamp, bring it in. Cliff is saying isn't health a provincial issue. Yes, Cliff, it is. But
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at the same time, importing drugs into Canada becomes a federal issue. So, but the feds should
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just get out of the damn way. So we'll see. We'll see if they're petulant enough to actually hold
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this up and try, which I think will backfire on them even worse. But I mean, for people pretending
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Smith isn't doing something, well, she did something there. She went out and did something,
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didn't talk about it, didn't sit around. And if it isn't in French, you know, didn't at least
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the Fed secure it without French? Of course, they shouldn't. Yeah. So, but this is the discussion
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that's happening out there. And it reminds me of Trudeau. Again, you know, the Feds like to make
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sure to stunt anything that's happening. A while back when there was an idea balloon of having a
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rail line going from Alaska to Alberta and bringing a bunch of stuff and things.
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That sounded interesting. It's private enterprise, might be feasible, might not.
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But then Truda came in, yeah, that would have to pass Bill C-69. So don't count your chickens
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there. Well, and then the investor said, oh, we're out of here. We're out. We don't, you know,
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they're not going to go in with that instability. C-69 screws us in a lot more ways than pipelines,
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guys. The feds do not want to let us have successes. And we're seeing that with these
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medications right now too. There's no excuse to hold that up more than hitting a checklist going
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all the way through and getting it out there to the kids. But we'll see. They don't want to give
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Smith. I mean, I've never seen anything like this. I've really never seen such an establishment push
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against a political leader like this. Never. There's a lot of things you can like or dislike
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with Smith, but I mean, they are lined up. The mainstream media, every other politician in the
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country, the pundits, the clowns at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. They do not want to get her
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success. All right, let's talk, well, about some more serious stuff. I'm going to give some
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background. So as I said, the guest who was going to come on was Christopher Constantine.
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People remember the Sue Rodriguez case in the 90s. And so I'll give a bit of a background on it.
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You know, I've written it down, but it's only so fresh in my mind. I remember it quite well,
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because it was big at the time. And Sue Rodriguez was in BC. She got diagnosed with ALS. They
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figured she had two to five years to live. And it's an awful disease. You know, it wears you down.
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She wanted to have a medically assisted suicide.
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You know, that was the term for it back then too.
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And she, her was Sven Robinson and this lawyer, Christopher Considine,
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took it to the Supreme Court and it was ruled against her five to four.
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In the end, she found a doctor who was anonymous.
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And while with some other people in Sven Robinson, she ingested a mixture of morphine and secobarbital and died.
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Now, still, it was controversial at the time, and people still see that as controversial now.
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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.
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I think if a person is of right mind and their diagnosis is truly, fully terminal, it's untreatable,
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and it really does reduce their standard of living that bad, painful, miserable,
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But you see that now it's getting far, far, far beyond that.
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Did you envision it for other people down the road?
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When people are terminal, when they're very, very sick, how many times?
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and we know it, I think some people always know family members have gone through it, you know,
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they're in a care center of one sort or another, whether it's palliative or in a hospital, just
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kind of, okay, there's the button for your morphine, and be careful, because if you hit it
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too many times, it might be fatal, now I'm going to go and launch break, I mean, there's been a lot
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of unofficial euthanasia going on out there, and some people consider it a mercy, hey, only with,
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by the way, a consenting person who's in their right mind, but here's where some of the problem
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going as some others are bringing up. Joseph Bass pointing out that they're offering to veterans
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and others. Yeah. And here's what for PTSD will hang on a minute, particularly when it comes to
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now they're expanding it. And then that's going to come in March. And Linda Slobodian has been
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writing on that a lot. I strongly recommend you read some of the stories Linda has been putting
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out there on the Western Standard. And she's been talking to some people. And the last person
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who is in a position to responsibly determine whether or not to end their life is somebody
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with a mental health issue going on. That doesn't mean that their life is interminable. It means
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that they're suicidal, which we've had perfectly healthy people commit suicide. It's a mental
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health thing and it's frightening and it's terrible. But when you get somebody who's
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depressed and then offer them this out, is that really a way we want to go? Depression is not
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incurable. I mean, a depression is horrible. It's debilitating, and a lot of people suffer from it,
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and they have a terrible, terrible time, and a lot of people commit suicide because of it.
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But do we want them walking up and offering it when they're in that position? No. No. As Ashley
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Ellis just said there, yeah, Canada, the only place where the suicide line calls you. But it's
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a difficult subject. It is difficult. As I said, not everybody on here would even agree with me
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necessarily. But I think in cases like Sue Rodriguez, yes, she should have that alternative
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and a lot of other cases. And I got some of the numbers here, you know, now that it's been 2016
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since it was legalized. So, I mean, it was fully illegal when Sue Rodriguez had that.
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And it's legal now. And the numbers have gone up, of course, dramatically, at least the official
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numbers. Again, as I said, I think a lot of it's probably been happening anyways, but it's been
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unofficial. But again, and most of the cases now from the stats are people in the end stages of
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cancer. You know, again, everybody unfortunately pretty much knows somebody who's passed from
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cancer. It's a rough way to go. Again, it wears you down. It can be terribly painful. And perhaps
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shortening it is in the best interest of that individual if they've chosen to, and they
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shouldn't be coerced into it ever. But we get other challenging ones, like this one that I'm
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just looking down because I'm reading from Slobodian's article. This is a Saskatchewan
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resident. Oh, no, this wasn't Slobodian. I think this was Chris Oldcorn, I think. But either way,
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Jolene Alstein put in a medical assistance application because she can't get the surgery
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she needs. I guess she's got a condition that causes nausea, vomiting, bone fractures, abdominal
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pain. Yeah, it's pretty agonizing, but it's not terminal. But I mean, again, there's where we
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start those questions. How far does it go? I mean, if you're in extreme discomfort,
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but it's not terminal. Okay, but you're asking this person perhaps to live a long, long time
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in constant agony. I don't know. I don't know. Or constantly medicated to the point where you
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don't feel it. But at the same time, okay, she can't get the medical care as fast because there's
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surgery apparently that can help with it but it won't come fast enough and that's why she feels
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well let's just end it instead maybe if that ending option isn't there man it's such a quagmire
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and we got to watch not to judge anybody because again we're fortunate enough not to be in those
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shoes to be thinking about these sorts of things but uh this was a big house of commas discussion
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the other day and uh uh this was uh blake richards was saying yeah that since macaulay
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confirmed two weeks ago that Veterans Affairs Canada is aware of four instances of medical
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assistance dying being offered to veterans by one employee for PTSD, depression. Guys,
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you know, whose fault is it? If you've got somebody who's seriously depressed, who's not in their
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right mind, who's in a bad way, somebody who's bipolar, something like that, and you hand them
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a loaded pistol and leave them in a room alone for the day, they blow their brains out. Whose
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fault was it really you know you hand it to him say you could end it it's your choice but you know
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here's the means it's in your hands it's up to you because that's what they're doing right now
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with people with mental health is you're saying hey we can offer you something for that and now
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that they're expanding it so people with mental health issues can choose this i i'm really worried
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about this now look some people if they're really determined they're going to end their life anyway
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i mean we know that there's unfortunately suicide's been around for a long long time
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But it's just getting disturbing with how far it's being pushed.
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There were those ads recently for some clothing company or something
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You know, they showed the, oh, this is my planned life ending,
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and people are standing by a beach, and they're talking and everything.
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And we're hearing from friends afterwards, and there's a story in The Standard
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about that, that sounds like maybe she didn't really want to go.
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Well, maybe we should be trying to find more options
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If our health care isn't serving well enough,
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There was that case about that gentleman a while back,
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but he was very sick and he was constantly offered.
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His daughter was, again, try to put yourself in their shoes.
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I mean, she had severe cerebral palsy, constant surgery.
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And she had the mental capacity of a four-month-old infant.
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And she lived for years, you know, 12 years in that condition.
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So he ended up using exhaust fumes and killed her,
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and he ended up getting convicted and doing time.
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That's why I am looking forward to talking to that lawyer as well.
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And, you know, and what is what Latimer said, or not said, but what he did,
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what does that say to other people with disabilities?
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that your life is worth less, that you should be euthanized.
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with the mental capacity of a four-month-old and in pain.
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Yeah, well, God put his daughter in that position if he's up there.
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You know, I know religion offers some answers to it, I guess, in some ways.
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I, you know, it's, it's, it's a, a rough, rough thing. So here's some of those numbers. Yeah.
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The federal government's annual euthanasia report determined that 7,595, so almost 7,600
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people chose a medically assisted death in 2020. But this is an interesting one. 2,650 did so
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because they perceived they were a burden to family or caregivers. You know, I imagine, I mean,
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when you're, when you're high maintenance, when you're bringing family down, I mean,
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your loved ones are going to do everything they can for you. And it's hard on them.
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But is it enough reason to go? Another 348 did it because they couldn't get palliative or
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disability care. Again, that talks about let's talk about fixing just as as Lisa saying, you
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know, medical murder is a cheaper way to avoid fixing the system. Yeah, let's fix the system
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rather than offering this out. This out. This is difficult. And here's a story from Linda as well.
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So, yeah, this gentleman, Keanu, who's 23, she talks about he spent the last few days cleaning out his grandpa's garage.
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He was scheduled to die the September 28th, even though he has no terminal illness.
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And he got approved for medically assisted suicide, a 23-year-old guy with type 1 diabetes and depression.
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And it sounds like because it got exposed a bit,
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actually through the standard in Linda Savodian,
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but basically the news made the doctor back out
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and kind of threw a wrench into it, and it didn't happen.
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So he's still alive today, and he's still functioning.
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He's still okay, and he's with his grandparents right now.
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rather than saying, let's work on your depression.
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Let's work on bringing up your standard of living.
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They're offering death to a 23-year-old, and he seems to be okay only because of intervention.
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There's supports for people whose children have disabilities.
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And I don't think his intent was bad, necessarily.
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I do think we should increase the supports then
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straightforward resolution on that issue on any level next week either. But it's one we have to
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discuss because it's certainly moving along. Speaking of some other things I'll touch quickly
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on before we get to Jim there. So yeah, Dave talked about this. We'll lighten things up a
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little too because, you know, and this isn't light, I guess exactly, but it gets to the social
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media swirling and stuff going on. Rachel Gilmore, she's a global reporter and she became very
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emotional. And she put out a teary video about how she gets death threats and hateful comments
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every day. And it's because she's female and a reporter and she shows the DMS and they were
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gross. They were nasty. No doubt about it. Sort of mine. I throw a few of those tweets out there.
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Some people might've seen the last week. I won't even quote them. Some of them were talking about
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they were so just nasty and I'm pretty tasteless guys, but they were brutal. And yes, multiple
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ones to people tell me just kill yourself, Corey, whatever. These are losers. These are lowlifes.
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these are social media cowards. And it happens. And I do believe it's worse. The bullies, the
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needle dick jerks, the ones who go after people online are worse with the women online than the
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men. I can believe that. And it's definitely more intimidating for a woman than a man. I'm not as
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worried about somebody waiting outside the studio, you know, to potentially harm me on the way to the
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car park or something like that as a woman would be. So it's an issue and it's serious. But then
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And there's ones, why is it there's certain ones
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Well, that's because people like Rachel Gilmore
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She gets into the fight, she gets into their face.
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I'm not saying she deserves those nasty messages,
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but they can be avoided rather than playing victim.
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It's not that hard to block, it's not that hard to delete.
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And it's not that hard to keep going in and provoking.
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I talked about that earlier and I stir people up.
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They get very upset with me and I get the hate mail
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because I chose to dive into that cesspool.
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Rachel has dived waist-deep in a cesspool,
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and now she's complaining she's got shit between her toes.
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Well, Rachel, back off and quit whining about it.
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She used to get all sorts of vitriol and trouble as well in Alberta
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There's many, many other female politicians
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I'm not saying they should be quiet and hiding in a corner.
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But if you're going to put the elbows up in the corners and play rough, people are going
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All right, let's get on to the Marketplace Commodities and our weekly report with Jim
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Lots of good ranting and raving today, you know, keeping the vein pulsing.
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so uh i mean something to look at and you sent me that note in advance nico's got the image i believe
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uh some statistics canada reports on the uh volumes of of uh products coming out it's pretty
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interesting numbers actually yeah for sure so this report came out roughly a week ago at the start of
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december and um as you can see the changes from 2021 to 2022 are actually large so first of all
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to explain 2021 we had a significant drought across western Canada resulted in huge declines
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from previous years so 2022 it largely we gained what we lost in 2021 for example if I look at wheat
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50 percent over 50 percent gain over 2021 so that's huge we actually produced more than what
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I'll just highlight on some of the other larger commodities,
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barley, nice bounce back, 43% increase in tonnage versus 21.
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Canola was roughly just bouncing back from a poor crop to,
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you know, roughly about 30% gain versus a 30% loss.
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way down on the list, mustard seed bounce significantly.
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That's about all there's to it, but increase in acres
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The same thing with oats, 86% increase in oats.
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And as a result, the price of oats are roughly about half
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So some of these large increases in production gains
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markets are actually still really solid on wheat,
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canola, barley, even mustard that's gone up so much.
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it would be the farmers had room to store this 2022 crop.
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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.
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I mean, how much mustard do people really need?
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But I mean, that was striking 167 percent over, you know, in the year there.
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But I guess that these are the things you've got to watch when you're planning, too.
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So as you said, they might not be selling that all right now.
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So if they're storing it, that would reduce a little of the downward pressure on the price.
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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.
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So we're five months, we're going on the fifth month of the crop year now.
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Farmers will look at stats can reports like this and say, hey, look, what should we be planting in 2023?
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And furthermore, they should also be looking at, hey, we better be looking at marketing our 2022 crop.
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some have done a lot of marketing some still have a long ways to go so there's really what
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this report is telling you there's really no shortage of grain so and not just grain but
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even canola peas etc there's enough of those crops out there there may be a shortage of sellers and
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there may be a shortage of logistics because Alberta and Saskatchewan Manitoba where we produce
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majority of these crops. Logistics range from, yeah, you know, the 65 plus million acres that
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are planted range over, what, 1,400 kilometers to and fro. So it's, you know, it can be hard to get
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it to market at the right time. So farmers definitely need to keep looking at that.
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Yeah, well, and then other factors we've talked about before, international events,
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things such as that. I mean, it's hard to predict and judge necessarily on issues such
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of that, but boy, it sure demonstrates the volatility of agriculture production in general
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when you can see such swings. I mean, there's things beyond your control, as you said, the drought
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and having a good year is great, but it also can put downward pressure
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a lot of these commodities will start coming to market and we'll be getting moved. And
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You're right. The geopolitical issues remain. We need to start paying a lot of attention to
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the Aussie crop. For example, it's not a geopolitical issue, but the Aussie crop
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is being harvested right now. They've got a big crop, albeit maybe not a great quality crop was
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too wet there. And then coming up in Feb, March, April, you have the South American crop that
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starts to come to market again. So it's just a continual churning of markets. It comes and goes.
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great so is this sort of getting towards the the busy season for you guys at the marketplace like
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this is when you're really starting to plan for the next year i guess yeah it in some ways it is
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yes there's there's a lot of decisions that be made um you're right so it is a busier season
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um in terms of you know you can work on both marketing old crop and talk about marketing new
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crop and things like that so those are those are some things that for sure will keep us busy
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Well, before I let you go, you guys have got a few branches across the West, don't you?
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We do have one up in Red Deer and Fort McLeod and Lethbridge.
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Yeah, but we do cover Alberta and Saskatchewan extensively.
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So yes, Jim Busicombe from Marketplace Commodities.
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Again, I mean, just that agricultural world, it's business, it's big business.
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And as you can see, there's just so many moving parts going on.
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And producers who want to maximize, make sure that you are being as efficient as possible.
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Check them out, guys, marketplacecommodities.com.
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So they can watch all those factors and help you guys produce and plan as much as possible.
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Cindy just asked the commenter, is this just Alberta planting?
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And as Jim said, no, they also, you know, in Saskatchewan and other areas and such as that.
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Or I think those numbers as well were Canada-wide, I believe, on that Statistics Canada report.
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Though, I mean, most of the cereal and grain, of course, are in the prairie provinces out there.
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I know everybody else is thinking about Christmas and everything, but the business still carries on.
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And you still got to start planning for the next year.
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As people do realize in the agricultural business, it's not a nine-to-five job.
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you're living in it and you're on the job all the time. So let's see if we got other
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issues going on. This is interesting, you know, just to close things off with the show. Yeah,
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some stuff on the federal front, the revenue ministers being asked by the Conservatives to
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apologize. I guess she suggested that the Auditor General report indicating that billions of dollars
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in COVID-19 benefits went to those who were ineligible, that it was political pressure.
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So I think the Conservatives are on good ground
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that was paid to people who shouldn't have got it
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and you can tell this is the NDP organizing people
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They got First Nations chiefs in Saskatchewan and Alberta now howling, saying, take those off the table.
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Again, our First Nations people are, let's get rid of that earpiece.
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But let's quit pretending they have a veto on policy.
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Or that any of these acts, whether it's Saskatchewan, or the Saskatchewan First Act, or the Alberta Sovereignty Act,
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for one, neither of them infringe on any treaty rights.
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They're short. They're actually pretty simple. These, these, these things don't interfere with
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that. And, uh, you can put your word out guys, but you can't demand that any legislation come
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off the table. That's not your place. It's not your business any more so than any other citizen
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anyways. So, uh, Hey, you all got one vote each, like the rest of us, uh, vote in an election and
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change it then until then you're going to enjoy that act along with the next, uh, the rest of us.
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Okay. Well, that's enough for today, guys. Yes. I was guestless though. I did have Dave on,
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I had Jim on. And I do find that, you know, your cultural stuff interesting. I mean, it's a big
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complicated business. The old days of, you know, the little family farm are gone. It's got to be
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treated the right way now. And it's quite an interesting lifestyle. Next week, we will have
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Christopher Considine on. He will come on this time. I'm sure he'll be better by then. And we
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will talk further about, well, medically assisted dying and whether or not that's where they're
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looking to go with the Rodriguez case. And of course, lots of news and check-ins and all that
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good stuff too. So thanks for tuning in this week, guys, and we will see you again this time next week.