Western Standard - CMS： Canada’s government is in total disarray under Trudeau

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to The Cory Morgan Show. This is my weekly hour to bend your ears,

00:00:36.680 do a little ranting, interview some guests, and cover some issues that are breaking. And I tell

00:00:41.800 you, they're really breaking this week. It's just been an orgy of issues to try and keep track of.

00:00:48.340 Usually, you know, throughout the summer anyways, it was hard. You're trying to things to come up

00:00:52.180 with things to write columns on in the political realm and things like that, and it's slow.

00:00:55.860 right now the hard part is trying to figure out what exactly to cover there is so much going on

00:01:01.880 it's just been a bizarre crazy couple of weeks in canadian politics and news in general

00:01:07.880 so i've got a good packed show today a little later i'll have page mcpherson on it'll cool

00:01:14.660 things down a little bit but it's a very important discussion she's with the fraser institute and

00:01:19.540 released a study on the impacts of the school closures due to covet over that period of time

00:01:25.080 we know we haven't had enough people looking back say, well, was it worth it? Were the shutdowns

00:01:29.100 worth it? Were there benefits to be had? And of course, most importantly, what sort of damage was

00:01:34.200 done? You know, having children out of school for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time was not good

00:01:39.140 for them. It came at a cost to them. And they've studied that and put out a report on it. So I'm

00:01:43.200 looking forward to that. Of course, we'll have our check-ins and things such as that too. And yes,

00:01:48.300 this is live for a lot of you. Use that comment section, guys. Send those comments my way,

00:01:52.680 questions my way, things like that. Discuss things with each other. I like seeing things being active

00:01:57.120 in there. Just remain civil, that's all. We can be good to each other. So yes, I'm going to get on

00:02:02.320 about, of course, the biggest event of the week, a really unbelievable one. It was one of those times

00:02:07.440 the world really was watching, and we had Ukrainian President Zelensky. He was a guest to the House

00:02:13.980 of Commons. The Liberals were celebrating another injection of 600 million Canadian tax dollars

00:02:19.360 going into the Ukrainian war effort. It was a big feel-good moment. Then the entire house rose and

00:02:25.380 they gave an ovation and an applause to a Nazi. Yeah, I didn't have a slip of the tongue. I'm not 0.71

00:02:33.020 talking about a figurative Nazi or a comical Nazi like the soup chef in a Seinfeld episode. Not some 0.59

00:02:38.420 goose-stepping neo-Nazi idiot with a shaven head and a swastika tattoo. No, this wasn't even a 1.00

00:02:43.760 conscript from the German army in World War II or a simple member of the Nazi party from those times.

00:02:49.060 No, the fellow they were plotting actually served in one of Hitler's SS Waffen units in World War II.

00:02:55.200 This was a true, dyed-in-the-wool, literal Nazi. 0.84

00:02:59.440 I mean, that term gets thrown around so much that we really have to couch it this time with,

00:03:03.580 no, this is the real thing.

00:03:05.180 And due to the passage of time, thankfully, it's actually quite difficult to find real Nazis these days.

00:03:10.740 But credit where due, the government managed to dig one up and bring him into the House of Commons.

00:03:15.680 House Speaker, or I should say former House Speaker, Anthony Roda,

00:03:18.840 has fallen on his sword for the issue now and claims the invitation of the Nazi was solely his own action.

00:03:24.300 Now, while Roda certainly appears culpable,

00:03:26.680 it beggars belief that this Nazi slipped through the vetting into the House of Commons with no examination. 0.87

00:03:32.020 It's no coincidence that a Ukrainian veteran happened to be introduced to the House by the Speaker

00:03:36.760 on the same day the President of Ukraine happened to be there.

00:03:39.860 It was a staged, jingoistic event that was supposed to show a common front of support for Ukrainians against Russian aggression.

00:03:47.580 The problem was with which war Yaroslav Hanke fought against the Russians in.

00:03:53.240 I'm going to speculate on what probably happened. I could be wrong. This is what I figure happened.

00:03:57.420 I imagine an order went out to Liberal members just to ask him, try and seek out a Ukrainian veteran, you know,

00:04:01.620 who stood up to the Russians to celebrate in the house while we have Zalyski here.

00:04:07.540 Some staffer went scurrying about and managed to find Yaroslav Hanka.

00:04:10.940 It was probably a young staffer.

00:04:12.040 If you go to Ottawa, you see them all the time.

00:04:13.520 You know, they're usually rushing around in ill-fitting suits.

00:04:15.480 And it didn't occur to him that if a person's 98 years old, Ukrainian, and fought against the Russians,

00:04:23.080 it's almost a sure thing he served in one of Hitler's Waffen-SS units.

00:04:27.220 And he volunteered to join that unit.

00:04:29.400 He wasn't conscripted.

00:04:31.160 I've seen some liberal supporters doggedly trying to point out how Hanka wasn't among the worst of the Nazis.

00:04:36.420 That's absurd, and it's not doing their cause any favors.

00:04:39.260 I don't care if nowadays Honka is the sweetest father and grandfather on the planet,

00:04:43.500 you know, and did a good job later in life.

00:04:46.160 I don't care if he was the friendliest Nazi in his unit, 0.94

00:04:48.880 that he never forgot anybody's birthday or won the Mr. Nazi Congeniality Award

00:04:53.800 every time there was an SS convention.

00:04:56.080 He was a Nazi and never should have been invited to the House of Commons, 0.97

00:04:59.840 much less applauded.

00:05:01.580 Some actions and life choices lead to a permanent stigma being applied.

00:05:06.400 Joining one of Hitler's SAS units during World War II is one of those life choices. 0.64

00:05:11.040 The leader of a nation in the middle of a war was a guest in the House of Commons,

00:05:14.640 and he unwittingly found himself joining the rest of the room and applauding a Nazi.

00:05:18.720 The damage done went beyond just humiliating Canada and a guest on the world stage.

00:05:23.580 Vladimir Putin was surely laughing for hours as Canada managed to create a public relations coup for him.

00:05:29.080 While Justin Trudeau wasn't directly involved in this latest national embarrassment,

00:05:33.440 it still happened on his watch.

00:05:35.960 The Prime Minister's office surely was behind the planning for this grand event,

00:05:39.680 and if their office didn't vet attendees, it must be asked why they didn't.

00:05:43.600 Could any MP just bring in whoever they please

00:05:45.680 and have them recognized by the House without any question or vetting?

00:05:48.960 I doubt it.

00:05:50.340 This is just one debacle piling onto a year of embarrassments from the Trudeau government.

00:05:54.660 Every policy they touch becomes a mess, and every event becomes a controversy.

00:05:59.060 We're seeing a government in its dying stages.

00:06:01.660 They're tired out and in disarray.

00:06:03.560 They're directionless and basically leaderless. Rather than trying to address the issues,

00:06:08.140 of course, Trudeau went into hiding. He's trying to distract from things. The Liberals tried and

00:06:13.220 failed even to get unanimous consent to have the whole incident stricken from the public record.

00:06:17.260 Yeah, they actually wanted to get that thrown out just so we pretend it never happened.

00:06:21.860 Thankfully, a Conservative member said, no, no, no, no, that's going to stay in there,

00:06:24.640 as embarrassing as it is. The Canadian government under Justin Trudeau is dysfunctional and

00:06:28.920 unsustainable. Trudeau's days as prime minister are clearly numbered. Even if Trudeau never gets

00:06:33.840 it, his caucus had better bloody well figure it out and fast. The scandals are piling up faster

00:06:38.300 and the embarrassments are hitting new heights with every month that they allow him to keep

00:06:43.400 sitting as the liberal leader. If Trudeau isn't removed by the next election, the liberal party

00:06:47.200 is going to be utterly decimated. While that sounds appealing, I don't like to imagine the

00:06:50.900 damage that dingbat could cause if he had two more years in power. Wake up, guys. Think about

00:06:56.100 I mean, just back up and think for a moment. We had a standing ovation and an applause for a true,

00:07:05.060 literal living Nazi in our House of Commons. You can't make this sort of thing up. This government's

00:07:10.240 just a mess. All right. Well, of course, everybody heard about that. And as somebody else pointed out,

00:07:14.320 yeah, Justin Trudeau, I believe, is making a statement. Finally, he's popped his head up.

00:07:17.960 That's happening right now as I speak. But we'll get the highlights of that a little later, I'm

00:07:21.360 sure. And we'll check in with the newsroom and see what else is going on. And maybe there's been

00:07:24.760 a few words out of Trudeau worth mentioning from our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what's

00:07:29.620 happening. Hey, Dave, how's it going? It's going well, Corey. Yeah, Prime Minister Trudeau just

00:07:33.820 seconds ago finished a statement where he apologized on behalf of the Parliament.

00:07:39.560 Didn't really apologize on behalf of himself, but on behalf of the Parliament, he said it was

00:07:44.720 obviously a very embarrassing situation. So that story is being typed up right now

00:07:50.500 by Jonathan Bradley.

00:07:52.380 But, hey, I'm more excited what the beer fairy

00:07:54.980 or the bee fairy brought this morning.

00:07:58.820 Yes.

00:07:59.380 That's direct from your hive, eh?

00:08:01.300 It is genuine, pretty honey.

00:08:05.440 I'm looking forward to it.

00:08:06.640 Actually, I'm going to give it to my daughter

00:08:07.880 because she's the honey expert. 0.99

00:08:09.640 But I'll let you know what she thinks.

00:08:12.400 Well, I appreciate it.

00:08:13.220 It's had good reviews so far.

00:08:14.640 Good.

00:08:15.020 Awesome.

00:08:16.520 Lots of news this morning, Corey.

00:08:18.200 Where to begin?

00:08:18.840 We'll begin in Paris, shall we, where Jonathan Wilkinson has released these sort of guidelines that Canada is committing to to cap emissions.

00:08:31.880 He confirms that there will be an oil and gas cap, but he doesn't say when.

00:08:37.640 It says it's still under development.

00:08:39.380 And if you remember, this is the line that Premier Daniel Smith drew in the sand and said, you guys better not cross it.

00:08:46.900 Well, they haven't crossed it quite yet, but it seems pretty obvious they're on their way.

00:08:53.480 Lots of news on the E. coli scandal in Calgary, where hundreds of young children have been stricken down.

00:09:00.160 Turns out it was bad meatloaf that led the way.

00:09:04.240 That seems to have caused it, combined with a vegan meatloaf.

00:09:08.580 And the city of Calgary has charged the kitchen with operating without a license.

00:09:15.240 And that's a fine of up to $120,000 if convicted.

00:09:21.620 We've got some good news out there.

00:09:24.500 The Taylor family has put in an additional $3 million to the new polar bear exhibit.

00:09:30.380 That's going to be opening up very, very quickly.

00:09:33.880 And it brings their combined donation to more than $11 million.

00:09:40.120 So these polar bears coming in from Winnipeg,

00:09:42.640 They're going to have a life of luxury that no other captive polar bear probably has.

00:09:48.240 And some amazing scenes last night in Philadelphia where basically you can go shoplifting anywhere you want now in the United States and not get charged.

00:09:59.480 And they had some mob scenes where people were, we won't call it shoplifting, we'll call it looting, looting stores.

00:10:07.460 And this comes on the heels of Target announcing they were closing stores across the U.S. to try and battle some of this economic loss that they're being faced with mob looting.

00:10:20.340 So tons of stuff already up, Corey.

00:10:23.420 We've got a column by our own Paul Forseth, who actually used to be a speaker, fill in for a speaker in the House of Commons.

00:10:33.740 So that's an interesting insight found only on the Western Standard, Corey.

00:10:38.160 So as mentioned, Jonathan's typing up the Trudeau stuff,

00:10:42.140 and no doubt we're going to have a lively question period kicking off in about 15 minutes.

00:10:47.980 Great. Well, thanks for the update.

00:10:50.400 And again, the plug for that Prittis honey, I'm afraid.

00:10:53.300 Yeah, I don't make quite enough to make a commercial venture of it,

00:10:55.920 but it's good to know somebody out there might be appreciating it.

00:10:58.500 Yeah, I'm sure we all do. Thanks. Thanks, Corey.

00:11:00.900 Thanks, Dave.

00:11:01.280 So that is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And yeah, you can see those stories just keep piling up. And, you know, lots to cover. We've got Jonathan Bradley out there hammering away and Sean and others. The stories are behind a paywall, but it's only $9.99 a month, guys, $100 for a year. And that's how we can stay independent. That's how we keep putting these stories out, whether the government likes us to or not. We don't take any tax dollars.

00:11:27.960 So again, subscribers have been fantastic so far

00:11:31.540 and that's why we're still going,

00:11:32.600 but we always need more and we can expand,

00:11:34.540 we can cover more stuff.

00:11:35.540 So check it out if you're not a subscriber yet,

00:11:37.420 go to westernstandard.news slash membership,

00:11:40.300 take one out.

00:11:41.300 We really appreciate it.

00:11:42.540 And it's an investment for yourself.

00:11:44.380 You get all that full access to all of those stories

00:11:46.820 as they come out and break.

00:11:49.140 Let's see, somebody commenter, Theo Thurm saying,

00:11:52.400 Trudy's blaming everyone but himself right at this moment.

00:11:54.520 Yeah, that's not to be too surprised at the conference.

00:11:56.800 We didn't really expect him to take responsibility.

00:11:59.160 That's not been a hallmark.

00:12:00.800 But, you know, I just would have thought eventually somebody's got to be twisting that guy's arm,

00:12:05.240 saying, look, that's enough.

00:12:06.320 That's enough.

00:12:06.960 You've got to go.

00:12:08.020 There was that caucus meeting late last night or cabinet meeting, something going on.

00:12:11.140 Some people were speculating maybe.

00:12:13.720 Looks like nothing's changed.

00:12:15.180 They feel they can manage to right this ship and hold the course.

00:12:18.680 It's like I said at the end of my opening.

00:12:21.560 I mean, I think they'll get themselves down to single-digit numbers if they keep at this pace by the next election.

00:12:26.800 which would be nice. I'd like to see the Liberals obliterated from the House of Commons, but

00:12:30.640 look how much more damage can we sustain from these hammerheads? Two more years? Boy, or possibly 0.93

00:12:37.040 three. Don't forget, we're in the parliamentary system. He can actually hang on for five years if

00:12:42.020 he really wanted to stretch it out as much as possible. So let's see. Dave D'Souza saying,

00:12:49.880 what are the chances of a vote of confidence so we can get Trudeau on the road? I'd say

00:12:52.660 practically none. You would need the NDP to participate in that. And Jagmeet Singh has

00:12:58.380 shown no interest in breaking up the agreement that he has with the liberals right now, because

00:13:04.240 that's the closest the NDP will ever get to power, and Singh knows it. So he'll talk big and act low,

00:13:10.780 as he always has been. He'll critique Trudeau, but he'll never bring him down. The only thing

00:13:15.340 that's going to bring Trudeau down, clearly it's not himself, because he's too stupid to realize 1.00

00:13:19.380 how stupid he is, is his own caucus. They have to do it. You know, conservatives are always 1.00

00:13:25.760 criticized because they tend to pull down their own leaders, and it's true, and they do it perhaps

00:13:29.540 a little too quickly and with a little too much damage. But at times with every party, eventually

00:13:34.940 you've got to show the leader the door if they don't realize that they need to go to it. And

00:13:40.440 these liberals in caucus, they're going to end up on the unemployment line just as much as Trudeau.

00:13:46.160 I mean, look at the disgraces that are happening right now. 0.98

00:13:49.260 I'm sure some of them have got to be getting ready to say, look, I got to save my own butt. 0.96

00:13:52.840 This guy's got to go. 0.96

00:13:54.540 That'll be the only chance.

00:13:55.640 And that wouldn't lead to an election.

00:13:57.760 That would just lead to a new liberal leader and a period in between.

00:14:02.180 But it wouldn't necessarily mean a big change immediately either.

00:14:06.600 But it would be the end of him, at least.

00:14:08.020 Because, I mean, again, like I said, this party is floundering.

00:14:10.400 They really are.

00:14:10.820 The government is out of control.

00:14:12.660 They don't know what each arm is doing.

00:14:14.280 They don't know what's happening. 1.00

00:14:15.740 Everything they touch turns to crap. 1.00

00:14:18.100 And we're paying the price for it. 1.00

00:14:20.040 See commenter David Fleischman saying,

00:14:22.760 many ex-German soldiers, in brackets, Nazis, emigrated to Canada after World War II.

00:14:26.100 They lived and worked in Canada.

00:14:27.280 The government at the time led them into Canada.

00:14:29.760 Do we blame the past government on this?

00:14:31.120 Well, you know, if you look back on it,

00:14:34.160 there were a number of people who fought in the war.

00:14:37.000 And yes, on the side of Germany with the Waffen-SS,

00:14:39.720 actually, I believe that was covered in the 50s.

00:14:42.040 They determined that they hadn't, they weren't going to call these guys war criminals, but they

00:14:46.720 weren't exactly sanctioning them either. But they were saying, okay, it's done. We're leaving it

00:14:50.440 where it is. And, and, you know, there's no sense turning back the clock. And at this point, going

00:14:54.140 down, chasing down 98 year olds and trying, because some people are saying you should be 0.98

00:14:57.120 arrested or, you know, sent back to Poland for, to face justice. You know, no, it's just let him 0.72

00:15:04.780 and his God, if he has one in his conscience, deal with whatever happened then along with the others

00:15:09.220 at this point. The bottom line, though, is they aren't appropriate to bring in front of the House

00:15:13.360 of Commons. That's the issue. That's the problem. You know, you should have let the, nobody should

00:15:18.460 have ever heard of this guy outside of his own friends and family until he passed on of old age,

00:15:22.920 but now suddenly he's one of the most famous men on earth and not in a good way. All right, let's

00:15:28.060 turn the page and get onto something, though I have been looking forward to this conversation.

00:15:31.940 Like I said, we get distracted with all of this, this haywire stuff coming out of the House of

00:15:35.240 Commons, but we've got a lot of important stuff happening otherwise. So we've got Paige McPherson

00:15:39.640 with the Fraser Institute on, and they put out a great study recently, and I'm looking forward

00:15:45.360 to discussing this. We aren't talking enough. We didn't talk enough before the pandemic measures

00:15:49.740 happened on cost-benefit, but at least now that we have the benefit of hindsight, let's look at

00:15:54.660 these things and what the impacts were so that presumably if there's another such event, we can

00:15:59.060 do things differently. Hello, Paige. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me.

00:16:03.440 Well, I really appreciate it. I'm glad you came on. So kind of as I framed it there, so you called it the forgotten demographic, and you focused particularly on children in school with the amount of lost time and of the impacts that had. I mean, we can't pretend there was zero impact, but you guys actually dug in to see what those impacts were then.

00:16:23.840 Yeah, absolutely. We've often heard the refrain that policymakers when it came to COVID and school closures were doing the best with the information that they had at the time. So what our report really looks into is what information exactly did policymakers, including governments across Canada, we looked at each provincial government, including in Alberta, where you are, looking at what did they know exactly, and also when did they know it?

00:16:51.720 Did they have any information that would guide their policymaking or were they really just flying blind?

00:16:57.040 And I think it's very reasonable to say that, OK, within the first, let's say, one, two, maybe even three months, there wasn't a lot of good data.

00:17:05.800 There was a lot of uncertainty and fear during that period in the pandemic.

00:17:11.740 And so school closures happened.

00:17:13.080 But the reality is that in Canada, and including Alberta, schools were closed in Alberta well into January 2022.

00:17:22.160 So that's spanning three school years.

00:17:24.560 In other parts of Canada, they were closed up until February 2022.

00:17:28.700 And so just to put that into context, that is 110 days minimum that Alberta students missed due to school closures related to the pandemic, which began in March of 2020.

00:17:41.840 And our report really found that there was a no good reason, no evidence informed reason to believe that school closures would help in terms of the health and safety of children or even necessarily stopping the spread of COVID-19.

00:17:58.180 And certainly, we knew very early on, if we're being really, really conservative in what we're saying, by December 2020, at the latest, that there was almost no significant health risk to children of COVID-19, and yet governments continued to close schools.

00:18:19.580 So they really didn't let the data inform their response.

00:18:22.640 So, I mean, we all, well, again, there was a lot of conflicting stories and everything going on at the time.

00:18:27.960 but as you said, it was starting to become pretty clear. We kind of got very fortunate that among

00:18:31.560 infectious diseases, this one was one that seemed to leave children alone, at least for the most

00:18:36.120 part. But I mean, another, when that was brought up, often people would say, well, yes, but they're

00:18:41.340 putting the teachers at risk or they're adding to spread and they'll bring it home to their

00:18:45.520 household and put grandma and grandpa at risk or things like that. So did open times with school

00:18:50.920 contribute to the general infection of the population or could a link be found?

00:18:55.180 The short answer is that we there's really no clarity in the data. There's really no good

00:19:00.960 evidence to say yes, school closures worked. When we're looking in hindsight now in terms of

00:19:06.100 stopping the spread, there's certainly some speculation that they might have had some

00:19:10.680 impact, but there's really no good scientific data showing that they worked. And that's

00:19:16.700 from the epidemiological review, that portion of our paper. Also, it wasn't like we had never

00:19:22.900 thought about school closures before 2020. School closures had been studied in terms of a review of

00:19:30.700 the existing data when it came to coronaviruses, SARS and MERS, but before COVID-19, also in the

00:19:39.360 context of influenza. And those are the same. It was very inconclusive. Really, like I said,

00:19:44.220 there was no good evidence that school closures would work for what we had hoped that they would

00:19:51.080 do or what policy makers had hoped that they would do. What was also very clear from the start was

00:19:56.360 that school closures or in other words missed classroom time would have negative impacts on

00:20:03.960 children from an academic perspective, from a mental health perspective, social outcomes,

00:20:10.440 severe absenteeism. These are all of the things that we are now seeing and the other side of our

00:20:15.560 paper what we look at following school closures the consequences that children have faced and

00:20:20.440 are continuing to face but the fact is that policy makers in the Alberta government and

00:20:26.760 right across Canada and the western world if they had done their due diligence and looked into this

00:20:32.440 information it was there ahead of time we know that missed classroom time does have severe

00:20:38.120 consequences for kids and like I said 110 days minimum of missed classroom time in Alberta

00:20:43.480 that's not including if your school had an outbreak which would be two kids or more with a positive

00:20:48.680 COVID test, or if your kid had the sniffles and therefore they couldn't go to school because they

00:20:53.760 had a COVID symptom for however long it took them to get over the sniffles. So that is a minimum.

00:20:59.120 Kids actually, in effect, missed quite a lot more time than that. And that does have a negative

00:21:03.960 impact. Well, absolutely. And I guess something that probably lended to your study, though,

00:21:10.360 was the fact that every province was quite different for the amount of time. You had a

00:21:13.360 widespread. There was 10 weeks in BC at a minimum and 27 weeks in Ontario and sort of everything

00:21:19.120 in between. So I imagine that gave you some data and information to really see the differential

00:21:23.600 and impacts with the provinces that have less closing, fewer closures than the others.

00:21:29.260 Absolutely. So in terms of the academic impact, for example, what I will stress is that this is

00:21:35.520 a very preliminary look. A lot of what I do in my role at the Fraser Institute is look at

00:21:40.180 standardized test score data and provinces more or less halted standardized testing during COVID

00:21:46.440 and that during sort of the school closure period which we know is a very long period

00:21:50.540 and they're only just starting to reinstate and get those tests back into action so the data that

00:21:56.020 we have is sort of a preliminary peek into the window but we do know that there was impacts

00:22:02.780 particularly on math scores is something that we found quite striking in our paper it was in

00:22:09.460 Ontario and Nova Scotia, which are the two provinces which did close schools for the longest

00:22:13.600 period of time, that math scores did seem to be quite impacted. In Alberta, we looked at the grade

00:22:21.820 six provincial achievement test scores. Across all subjects, there were some minor declines between

00:22:27.900 2018-19, so the first or the last year not impacted by COVID school closures, compared with

00:22:35.080 2021-2022, which was the first year where you're not seeing the, or well, I guess there were still

00:22:45.240 school closures, but where we have that good test score data that we can look at. So we did see a

00:22:49.800 minor decline across all subjects. In addition, the Calgary Board of Education reported that the

00:22:55.480 number of students who pass the diploma exams, which are a necessity for graduation, so this is

00:23:01.220 very important exam for students and therefore this is quite a significant result in math 31

00:23:06.340 it declined by 18 percent um so in 2021-22 only 63.6 percent of alberta grade 12 students who

00:23:14.980 took that exam actually passed it and in 2018-19 uh and that was the that that was the same change

00:23:21.620 from 2018-19 to 2021-22 they also saw a decline in the english 31 exam a decline by uh by nine

00:23:30.420 percent so we we did see some significant learning loss in provinces that did close schools for long

00:23:38.500 periods of time but really any lost classroom time even if the school closures were short

00:23:44.260 would have an impact and we also saw impacts in terms of severe absenteeism students who were

00:23:49.300 actually out of school more than they were in school the only province that really reported

00:23:55.140 that um in a formal way was ontario they did see an increase in severe absenteeism but we've seen

00:24:00.660 from the uk and the us that where severe absenteeism so students not coming back to school

00:24:08.660 where it actually increased in the first school closure year it actually grew even larger um in

00:24:14.740 the the following year even if school closures hadn't continued so those those effects were

00:24:19.060 really compounding we also saw that mental health impacts in kids in terms of stats can data the

00:24:25.540 mental health commission of canada did a broad survey and found that the youngest kids who were

00:24:30.980 at the lowest physical health risk from covid19 actually faced the greatest rates self-reported

00:24:38.900 of severe anxiety and depression and other really negative mental health impacts and they actually

00:24:45.380 were the longest lasting. Contrast that with the oldest segment of the population who was the most

00:24:52.380 at physical health risk of COVID-19. They had a spike at the start in terms of their severe

00:24:59.920 anxiety, but it quickly dissipated and the rates were actually significantly lower than we saw in

00:25:04.660 the youth. So that's why we called the paper the forgotten demographic. It's really that children

00:25:10.660 are bearing a lot of the burden of these COVID-19 school closures and lockdown policies. It's

00:25:16.260 actually lasting quite a long time in terms of those impacts on kids, whereas we're just not

00:25:21.980 seeing that in the older demographics. Yeah, and I mean, the academic impact is somewhat easier to

00:25:28.000 measure when we have standardized testing and we can see some correlation. The more difficult, but

00:25:32.880 possibly more distressing, is the social impact. You touched a little upon, I see one of our

00:25:36.980 commenters, Ann McCormack, said their 14-year-old committed suicide, you know, the weekend before

00:25:42.020 school starts September 20th. You know, the individual cases vary all over the place,

00:25:47.480 but it's certainly, there's a lot of vulnerable children. They're suffering from, you know,

00:25:51.960 anxiety. It's a difficult time. Suicide is always a risk and things such as that at the best of

00:25:57.460 times. And when you disrupt it with something like this and so much fear and separation from

00:26:03.120 their social peers there's it's unquestionable that there's been an impact but you know it's

00:26:09.300 I guess difficult to quantify just how much it was. Yes you're right and that's that's a that's

00:26:14.480 a really tragic outcome it's it's also not an isolated thing we did see that there were

00:26:20.220 emergency rooms for example in Calgary said that there was an emergency the emergency room doctors

00:26:25.760 there I forgot which hospital it was but they reported a significant increase in people who

00:26:32.140 came in youth who came in um due to suicide attempts and self-harm um those those mental

00:26:38.620 health commission of canada surveys and stats can surveys and also um complemented by um kmh

00:26:44.860 the center for addictions and mental health in ontario did ontario specific studies all really

00:26:49.980 finding the same things that kids were certainly facing um severe anxiety and depression they they

00:26:55.980 were those rates went up um rates of reported self-harm or thoughts of suicide did go up

00:27:01.580 amongst youth. And that is a really, really tragic outcome. The other thing that I found

00:27:08.180 interesting when I was reviewing that survey data, because this was another common refrain that,

00:27:12.780 oh, it's just anxiety because of COVID-19, because of the pandemic, they're afraid of the virus,

00:27:17.640 they're afraid of the impact that the virus is going to have on their loved ones. That was not

00:27:21.960 what the youth survey data showed. It really showed that youth were much more concerned about

00:27:28.520 isolation. Family stress from that isolation of being, you know, inside the house, not seeing

00:27:34.580 their friends, missing school. It was not, you know, the fear of COVID-19 of the virus itself

00:27:40.760 was actually quite low on the list of concerns for youth in this survey data. And that is, you know,

00:27:47.040 that's really the tragic outcome is that it wasn't the virus. It was the policy response

00:27:51.520 to the virus by governments, including the Alberta government, that that really negatively

00:27:58.180 impacted children. So as you said, there was already data on how school closures impact

00:28:03.220 children. Now there's certainly a whole much larger set of data to look at and the impact.

00:28:10.660 Have you seen indications that governments are going to be embracing this? I'm certain you've

00:28:14.320 been sharing it and sending it their way, but do you think hopefully they've learned from this? So

00:28:18.640 if there's another similar event, they won't necessarily react as quickly with school closures.

00:28:23.020 Well, I certainly hope that that is the case. The fact is that, you know, there really hasn't been any sort of official national account of school closures. Okay, let's look at exactly what happened. You know, our paper is really one of the only of its kind that are looking at this. And there really hasn't been any kind of government level official assessment of that. And that is sort of a depressing fact. And maybe governments are working on that behind the scenes, and I'm not aware of that.

00:28:53.020 but certainly learning from their mistakes would be good I think that you know we really like I

00:28:58.900 like I said in terms of the academic student success you know we see that there has been

00:29:04.840 learning loss but it is very preliminary and we really won't know the full impact of school closures

00:29:11.020 until you know maybe 10 or 20 years from now because effective even the World Bank has has

00:29:19.480 data showing that if you actually have missed classroom time for kids it results in basically

00:29:27.240 years of effective schooling lost which means that their their outcomes in life are going to

00:29:33.320 be worse they're going to be worse off so it's going to decrease their lifetime earnings at an

00:29:37.920 individual level and it actually contributes to a decrease in GDP for the country as a whole

00:29:43.100 when kids are not in school the amount that they should be in school when they're not learning

00:29:48.160 Of course, you know, I'll give the caveat that there are some kids who probably did really well in this environment that actually discovered that they loved homeschooling or something as a result.

00:29:58.360 But there was a lot of kids whose parents had to continue to go to work.

00:30:02.220 They had nobody at home helping them with with their schoolwork.

00:30:05.860 And this is what we see. There are kids who basically disappeared, who just fell out of the school system completely.

00:30:10.700 And so we won't know exactly the societal impacts of that for many years to come.

00:30:15.720 But hopefully governments will pay attention to the fact that school closures are the root issue in a lot of what we are facing today and what we will face in the years to come.

00:30:26.680 Well, I appreciate you guys studying that and compiling it.

00:30:29.760 I mean, we know it's a matter of if and when.

00:30:31.800 There seems to be some people just eager to hit the panic button at every possible opportunity and react to things.

00:30:37.420 At least there's that much more data that some of us can pull up and say, no, hang on a second, hang on.

00:30:42.840 This might not be worth it.

00:30:44.040 here's what happened last time let's let's consider a little further before we do something

00:30:48.620 like closing up a school uh there's much more of course you covered in that and it's a great piece

00:30:53.480 where can people find the the full study and then your your other work yeah thanks so much so they

00:30:58.280 can find the full study it's called the forgotten demographic at fraser institute.org and you can

00:31:03.460 find all of the rest of our education policy work and all the other policy work that we do i appreciate

00:31:07.980 it great thanks page i really appreciate you coming on to talk to us about it and uh the you

00:31:12.680 know the fact you guys went in and dug that up so we have that resource available and we can't undo

00:31:17.360 the past but hopefully we can learn from it. Thank you I agree. Great thanks I'll talk to you again

00:31:22.580 I hope soon. So as we said that was Paige McPherson with the Fraser Institute and yes it was a very

00:31:29.000 important piece and a very good one you know you can't overstate the amount of impact with kids

00:31:34.400 it's different with them they're in a developmental stage you know the impact on one of us a two three

00:31:39.480 year period when you're in your 30s 40s 50s we see the world differently by then we've developed it

00:31:44.420 still disrupts our lives but remember when you're a kid I mean a week was an eternity back then so

00:31:50.440 when you're talking two years of strangeness of fear of masking of closing of in school and out

00:31:55.620 of school I think the best analogy of showing the children's view of timelines we all know as we get

00:32:01.560 older you know is looking at life is like a roll of toilet paper I know it's an odd analogy but

00:32:05.060 you know you start pulling it it just keeps coming and coming but once you're getting closer and

00:32:08.860 closer to the end, it's going faster and faster. That's your perception of time as a child. That's

00:32:13.200 why a month just seems like years to you when you're a child and a month blasts by us now that

00:32:18.200 we're, you know, some of us in our fifties. But again, these are times that you can't get back.

00:32:23.280 You know, you can't undo what happened to that child in that period. It's a big percentage of

00:32:29.260 their life was living in that world. I really, you know, children are impressionable. They trust us.

00:32:35.060 They want, I think it's, you know, ingrained into us to be listening to our elders and learning from them.

00:32:40.960 So when they're getting this messaging of there's a virus that could kill you if you take your mask off or if you don't wash your hands enough times, you're going to kill your grandma.

00:32:50.120 Or, you know, I mean, that's the sort of things these kids were terrified.

00:32:53.320 I mean, we want to be responsible during the pandemic.

00:32:56.160 I can certainly understand we want to reduce transmission.

00:32:59.160 You want to encourage, you know, common sense ideas, hand washing, things like that.

00:33:03.860 but shutting down the schools for weeks and weeks on end.

00:33:07.220 And as we're seeing, we saw very little benefit.

00:33:10.300 If this was an infection that had been predominantly harming children,

00:33:15.280 that's a different story.

00:33:16.200 If you look at the history of the Spanish flu, for example,

00:33:18.020 actually, it was children were some of the ones getting terribly hit by that flu.

00:33:22.460 That was a different virus.

00:33:23.700 Perhaps closing schools would make a heck of a lot more sense

00:33:26.440 if it was something like that.

00:33:28.500 But we seem to be stuck on this notion that everybody from cradle to elderly grave

00:33:33.520 should have been separated and we did a lot of damage. And it wasn't just in the schools. You

00:33:37.700 know, that's what got me too. I mean, remember the imagery of arresting people for playing hockey,

00:33:42.500 for kids, for getting out again, for socializing, for, you know, roped off playgrounds. They filled

00:33:47.620 a skate park in one city with sand, you know, so the skateboarders wouldn't get out. It was just

00:33:54.320 insane. And it's like we always say, if we don't learn at least from these past things, though,

00:33:59.620 we will repeat them. There are people ready to panic. We see that, whatever her name is, Neely

00:34:06.020 whatever, the unusual school board member out in Ontario who's always causing a ruckus out there,

00:34:12.400 Kaplan Murr or something like that. But I mean, she is terrified of COVID. She's masked everywhere

00:34:19.040 she goes. She's kind of like Alberta's Dr. Vipon. She's certain there's a boogeyman around every 0.94

00:34:23.720 corner, people like her will close a school in a heartbeat, given another chance. So, and people 1.00

00:34:30.260 fear for the safety of their children. If you're getting told by the authorities, you're getting

00:34:33.720 told by the news, you're getting told by everybody, we have to close these schools for their safety.

00:34:36.860 Well, parents will comply, but the impact is huge. That's what we needed was cost benefit throughout

00:34:42.140 the entire pandemic. And we never did it. We didn't do it before, but at least we're starting

00:34:46.240 to do it after, at least the Fraser Institute is. So I appreciate that on their part. So okay,

00:34:52.200 turned the page onto something similar though. And some Dave mentioned that for people across

00:34:56.500 the country might not have heard about it, but yeah, Alberta had a huge E. coli breakout in

00:35:01.280 daycares. You know, again, speaking of the safety of our children and the irony and weirdness of it

00:35:08.320 with a vegan meatloaf being part of the cause, the E. coli. I mean, it just sounds like it's

00:35:15.060 an oxymoron rate to begin with, but the real meatloaf had a infection as well, but it's not

00:35:20.740 funny at all. In reality, hundreds of kids got hit with bad infections. I mean, a number of them

00:35:26.920 were in hospital, a number of got dialysis, they could have some very permanent, you know, kidney

00:35:31.400 damage, things like that. It's terrible, terrible mess. And everybody's scrambling and pointing

00:35:35.600 fingers and trying to get to the bottom of that. At least they found the root of it. And I guess

00:35:42.700 we got a caution against overreaction. That was the most appalling and terrible thing we can think

00:35:48.700 of happening with children in care, daycare. I mean, you put your kids there, you don't want

00:35:52.920 them dying of poisoning from bloody food. But people are saying we need more inspectors,

00:35:56.760 we need more cracking down, we need more of this, we need more of that. I listened to one person

00:36:00.360 saying every restaurant and kitchen in the whole province needs to have every employee trained in

00:36:06.560 food safety. Okay, we need to make sure these things don't happen as very little as reasonably

00:36:14.080 possible. I know people say zero, never. Well, that's not going to happen. We can only mitigate,

00:36:17.820 We can minimize. And we do want to keep up. Like I owned a pub and restaurant. We were regularly

00:36:23.720 inspected. EHS was very thorough. If we'd have been doing things that were really beyond the

00:36:29.480 pale, we would be shut down. I mean, some people are saying, why wasn't this place shut down

00:36:33.400 earlier? It had roaches that were found in it and some other things. Yeah, there's some questions to

00:36:38.300 be asked. Ironically, I mean, that's an indication of a dirty kitchen. There's no doubt about that.

00:36:43.220 But the roaches probably wouldn't have been the cause of the E. coli. If you really look at the

00:36:46.720 roots that it means somebody was infected wasn't washing their hands after using the washroom

00:36:49.820 they're preparing food yeah disgusting subject matter on a lunch time show but uh like everything

00:36:56.380 else and again when we get children involved while i'm saying is let's not uh i mean we should

00:37:01.300 react strongly but let's not uh overreact in the sense of bringing in a bunch more legislation and

00:37:06.860 pressure when we don't necessarily need it remember if you put that expense i as i said i own a pub

00:37:12.720 your average margin in that, it's just like the grocery world, it's like 5%. And if you suddenly

00:37:19.580 put that new staff training cost up where you had to train each and every one of them on that

00:37:23.400 multiple day course in food safety, and there's rules, you have to have some staff members with

00:37:27.340 it so that somebody in that kitchen knows how to properly manage the kitchen. That's already there

00:37:30.560 and it's good. If you're requiring that for everybody from the dishwasher to the prep cook

00:37:35.280 to the line cooks and everything, you're going to shoot the cost of operation through the roof

00:37:40.460 in a narrow margin business.

00:37:41.560 It will put some restaurants over the edge

00:37:43.400 and it will put the price of everything up again.

00:37:46.120 Everything comes with a cost.

00:37:48.440 So yeah, let's find out what happened

00:37:50.420 with the kitchen with those kids and things like that.

00:37:52.200 But let's not let the legislators and bureaucrats 0.98

00:37:55.480 go too wild with extra controls to respond to this.

00:38:00.720 Likewise with school closures.

00:38:03.120 You know, if we're not seeing as much benefit

00:38:05.800 as we should out of it,

00:38:06.780 then let's not be doing it again.

00:38:10.460 And it depends on the infection.

00:38:11.980 Things are different every time.

00:38:13.000 If it's a different bug, we might have a different reaction to it.

00:38:19.380 All right, let's talk about government efficiency, right?

00:38:22.860 So let's see, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

00:38:25.320 Is this one of the announcements?

00:38:26.180 This one kind of just flew away.

00:38:28.060 I mean, as the government talked about, it wasn't a bad policy, to be honest.

00:38:31.280 They're talking about giving a GST holiday for the construction of rental projects.

00:38:37.200 What does that mean exactly?

00:38:38.320 it sounds like if you're building an apartment building, I guess you'll get a GST break on

00:38:42.580 the materials or some of the contracting or services you got when you built it. And it could

00:38:47.000 add up to about $383 million a year. But they have no idea how many units that will actually

00:38:53.680 lead to. Like I said, reducing taxes is always a good thing. It'll always help. It'll bring down

00:38:58.300 the expenses. But they figure the cabinet estimates on how many units this will help facilitate is

00:39:03.480 between the thousands to millions. Yeah, that's how wide the spread is. In other words, they have

00:39:08.220 no idea. But hey, error on the side of tax cuts, guys. I'll give you credit for doing one thing

00:39:13.800 right once in a while because it doesn't happen bloody often. But yeah, they got no clue. They

00:39:17.500 got no clue. It just matches with everything else this government's doing. They're fumbling along.

00:39:21.920 They're just shooting in all directions, trying to do, trying to save their own butts at this 0.97

00:39:28.160 point. The post office, speaking of inefficiency, right? Canada Post, you know, they kind of made

00:39:34.240 a bit of a comeback. For a few years, they were making a bit of a profit. But now, for some years

00:39:39.100 running, they've been losing and losing and losing. The last year, they lost $548 million.

00:39:44.300 It's time, I think, to really start seriously considering retiring that dinosaur.

00:39:49.620 We don't need it. You know, look at how private industry has filled the void. I mean, we don't

00:39:56.520 need letters like we used to. We don't need paper bills like we used to. I know some people still

00:40:01.340 rely on that stuff, but we can start phasing that out. We really don't need it. You can get

00:40:05.140 everything on your phone now. And as far as packages go and everything, Amazon is delivering

00:40:09.680 directly. Pure later is part of Canada Post. But FedEx, all of those other private couriers are

00:40:14.620 doing the job and they're making money. Canada Post, which you would think with such an already

00:40:20.400 established network to be able to deliver packages, should be able to take advantage of this new age

00:40:25.200 of so much online ordering and things being delivered, but no, they can't. They can't

00:40:28.700 efficiently do it. They're too bloated with their unions and inefficiency and old ways of doing 0.62

00:40:32.980 things, and they're losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Again, government just can't

00:40:38.520 do things right, and they won't. So either way, I just say, let's start looking towards pulling

00:40:44.760 the pin on those guys. We can get to an end on it. Cocaine on a plane. Odd statement, isn't it?

00:40:52.200 you might have seen some of the news. Toronto, the Toronto Sun published a story. I think,

00:40:58.720 you know, it was almost a media trolling. Hey, I'm not above trolling on Twitter and social media

00:41:03.460 and things like that to just kind of poke the hornet's nest a little bit and everything.

00:41:06.480 But there was an internet rumor. It started way back when Justin Trudeau, again, like, you know,

00:41:11.200 his constant catastrophes and problems everywhere and everything he does, he got stuck in India for 1.00

00:41:17.060 two extra days because his plane broke down and he was sitting there. And there was a rumor,

00:41:20.780 somebody started probably on Facebook or Twitter saying the reason that plane's down is because

00:41:25.080 the Indian authorities found cocaine on it and they're not letting him fly out. It was ridiculous. 0.90

00:41:31.120 You know, I think it's impossible that Trudeau was taking coke. It might explain a lot of things 0.91

00:41:35.960 actually, but look guys, that didn't happen. Even as much as India doesn't like Justin Trudeau,

00:41:43.340 they weren't going to send the drug sniffing dogs on a foreign leader's plane while he's

00:41:47.160 the G20 summit, even if there really was a bunch of coke on there, they wouldn't have been in there 0.95

00:41:51.560 looking for it. But the Indian media, I did a few interviews on some Indian television networks last

00:41:58.400 week, and it's an experience, I'll tell you. They are very, they're very biased. I mean, all media's

00:42:05.080 got some biases and everything, but holy cow, these guys are really something else. I sat on those

00:42:08.260 panels, and it's so torqued and high energy. It was kind of fun to sit on them, but they play very

00:42:13.740 loose with some facts and things. Remember, I am far from a defender of Justin Trudeau. I spend

00:42:19.380 a large part of my shows all the time ripping into him. But somebody on one of those Indian 1.00

00:42:24.040 shows the other day said that he had, I love the irony he was playing with, he said there was

00:42:29.860 credible evidence that there was cocaine on Justin Trudeau's plane, and that's why it was held up.

00:42:34.840 This was a former diplomat from India. He used the credible evidence term purposely. That was

00:42:43.180 the term that Justin Trudeau used when he stood up and said that India had assassinated somebody

00:42:48.820 on Canadian soil. So there was credible evidence. Well, you need to prove it. And

00:42:55.740 yeah, yes, you know, so Trevor is saying, yeah, India news channels seem to think he was, you

00:43:01.140 know, yes, that's what I mean. Those channels get a lot of traffic. The amount of followers from

00:43:04.940 India I got after doing the, you know, on Twitter and such, after doing those interviews was

00:43:08.680 something else. But don't take that one to the bank, guys. I, you know, there's a million reasons

00:43:13.700 to get rid of Justin Trudeau. The mythological story of the cocaine on the plane, though,

00:43:19.960 is probably not real, as funny as it kind of sounds to begin with. Other stuff up on the

00:43:25.960 Western Standard site, Dave mentioned it earlier with Target. There's a video showing one of the

00:43:29.820 mobs, as he said, they're not thieves, they're looters, breaking into stores and just stealing 1.00

00:43:35.340 everything they can and going to the door. This idiotic left-wing policies of enablement, whether 1.00

00:43:40.200 it comes to drug use or shoplifting or any of those things have led, of course, to high crime 1.00

00:43:46.920 and high drug use, yet they still seem mystified about it. So Target, yeah, they're closing stores.

00:43:51.980 In San Francisco and throughout the West Coast, there's been Walmarts and all sorts of other

00:43:56.220 stores. They're folding up. They're pulling out. They say, we can't do this. We can't make money

00:43:59.940 and it's unsafe to staff. It's a nightmare to work there. And you watch some of those videos.

00:44:03.800 it's disturbing. And then there's the other bleeding heart, piss and moan and liberals. 0.97

00:44:08.040 Oh, well, it just shows how hard up people are and they're desperate. No, they aren't.

00:44:12.260 The video showed that in the recent one, it wasn't food they were stealing. It wasn't clothing. It

00:44:18.020 wasn't necessities. They went to Foot Locker because they wanted Nikes. They went to Lululemon

00:44:22.420 because they wanted yoga pants. And they went to the Apple store. Not for apples. This is food.

00:44:28.660 Apple electronic products. Come on, guys. They're thieves. They're looters. It's intolerable.

00:44:34.460 And until people start pushing back, these stores are going to keep closing. And guess what?

00:44:38.980 Stores like Target and that, those were ones that helped people who really were on a lower income

00:44:42.520 because they worked with large volumes of products and they can afford to get things to you cheaper.

00:44:49.020 Now, those retail outlets won't be there. Jobs are lost and people are going to pay more prices

00:44:53.420 for goods. Why? Because of idiotic, liberal enablement policies of crime. That's why. You

00:45:00.120 have to charge people if they steal things. You have to punish them. I'm not talking about public

00:45:05.500 whippings and hangings, but you can't let them off with nothing, and that's what's been happening

00:45:08.500 down there. And this is the consequence that anybody with a quarter of a brain could have

00:45:12.380 seen coming, but a quarter of a brain is a big ask when it comes to people in government on either

00:45:17.580 side of our border. One final thing we're seeing as things heat up, Dave mentioned that too, with

00:45:22.580 the announcements of emissions caps and things like that.

00:45:25.620 This will be something changing the dynamic in Canada

00:45:27.800 because it's been found now that Ontario, the average household,

00:45:32.540 is going to be paying another $3,300 a year

00:45:35.040 if they get rid of natural gas out there.

00:45:37.460 So it's not just Alberta is the whipping boy anymore.

00:45:39.880 It's going to hurt Ontario.

00:45:41.460 That changes the dynamic.

00:45:42.860 If it was Quebec, we already would have thrown out the emissions caps 1.00

00:45:45.440 if they found it was going to hurt them that much. 0.98

00:45:47.560 But yes, these caps is banning this idiocy of stopping natural gas

00:45:51.880 when we sit on that resource, it's costing everybody from coast to coast, including Ontario. 0.97

00:45:57.440 And I think, think if voters are going to push back, this liberal government, this tone deaf

00:46:02.780 government doesn't realize why they're dropping in the polls like a stone. It's things like this.

00:46:07.120 People can't pay the rent. They can't buy food. They can't get mortgages. And you morons are just

00:46:11.860 adding to every expense with your ideological insane push against the use of fossil fuels, 1.00

00:46:17.980 even if they make life affordable and livable.

00:46:20.880 Oh, well.

00:46:21.840 All right.

00:46:22.600 That's all I've got for you this week, guys.

00:46:25.020 Make sure to tune in a little later.

00:46:26.200 The pipeline will be on.

00:46:27.180 It'll be our panel show.

00:46:28.080 We'll cover a lot more of this sort of stuff.

00:46:30.800 And hey, share all this stuff on your social media channels.

00:46:33.300 We need to get it out there.

00:46:34.420 It's important.

00:46:35.580 So I appreciate everybody tuning in with me today.

00:46:38.200 And I'll see you all again next week at this time.

00:46:40.860 And we'll see what sort of new craziness we'll have to rant about.

00:46:43.880 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.

00:46:50.060 Cash barley remains at $3.35, feed wheat is steady at $3.50, while October corn is unchanged

00:46:55.680 at $3.50 and November-December corn is trading at $3.18.

00:46:59.700 In the milling wheat markets, December Minneapolis futures dropped 13.5 cents to $7.53 per bushel,

00:47:06.120 with local hardwood spring bid for October movement at $9.40 per bushel.

00:47:10.320 Looking at canola, November futures added $11.90 at $7.2610 per ton, with delivered

00:47:16.640 buys for October movement at $16.12 per bushel.

00:47:20.160 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are holding at $0.365 per pound, and yellow

00:47:25.320 peas are higher at $0.25 at $10.75 a bushel.

00:47:29.320 In the cattle markets, October live cattle are higher at $0.45 at $1.8525 per 100 weight.

00:47:35.480 For more information on pricing or picked up options, give me a call at 403-394-1711.

00:47:41.940 I'm Matt Musicum at Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

00:47:48.460 Canadian Shooting Sports Association. Without the CSSA, our gun rights would have been taken long, long ago.

00:47:55.080 These guys are on the front lines helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and legislation in Canada.

00:48:02.500 and more importantly, educating the public about how we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong

00:48:07.660 people. We've become a member. It's absolutely worth every penny.

00:48:32.500 Thank you.

Western Standard - September 28, 2023

CMS： Canada’s government is in total disarray under Trudeau

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript