CMS： Climate alarmists don't want the drought to end
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The weather has finally started to get better in Alberta, and it's a good thing. Will climate alarmists ever get over their fear of good weather? Or will they continue to complain about the lack of it?
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Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. We're getting towards the end of May. I see lots of you guys already in the comments, girl. Good to see you. I love seeing it active. Yes, everyone likes talking about the weather, especially when we're talking about weather patterns, climate change, disasters, and of course droughts, and that's what I'm going to talk a little more about in a bit.
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But I'm a cheap man. I walked downtown to the studio from quite a ways away, so I don't have to pay for that excessive parking we have in Calgary. And I tell you, it was a wet, miserable walk to get here, but I saved a few bucks, so it was worth it to me. So yeah, be sure to use that comment, girl, guys, and chat with each other. It's good to see folks are out there. I see all of those comments. I don't necessarily read them all out, but it keeps the flow going and lets me know there are folks out there watching.
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For guests, I'm going to be talking to Darcy Giroux in a little while. He's an organizer of the Capitalism and Morality Conference. It's coming up this weekend in Calgary. We're going to do a little bit of political geekery. I want to talk about liberty, libertarianism, a little bit of poli-sci sort of stuff, but it's important, you know, and I'm kind of wondering whatever did happen to classic liberalism.
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So we're going to talk a little bit about that in about 15 minutes. But first, let's talk back and circle back around to the weather and what's got me going. It's been interesting with the people worked up with me on X, you know, formerly Twitter, and people get mad at me on there all the time. That's hardly anything new.
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But this was more than usual, and over the weather, and over my daring to even speak about it. So I think, well, then I better speak about it some more. So let's talk.
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Alberta, it's been in a drought for a couple of years, and it's been bad. I mean, last fall, the normally smooth-flowing creek that bounds my property out by Prittis, it's been reduced to a trickle. I've never seen anything like it.
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The reservoirs around the province, they were getting low, and last winter was relatively dry. And if things remain dry, you know, the province could be facing another rough year for agricultural producers and with the forest fires.
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But things appear to be turning around. According to data, actually, from Environment and Natural Resources Canada, Alberta's precipitation has been above average since March.
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Let's look at the numbers. Cumulatively, from March 1st until the end of May in 2023, Alberta had 55.6 millimeters of precipitation over those three months. So that's not very much for spring.
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Now, this year, from March 1st until May 20th was when I took the last update from it. Alberta's had 145 millimeters of precipitation, and there were still 11 days left to go, and they're raining right now.
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So precipitation's on track to have tripled in the last three months versus last year.
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Now, when we were even talking about it back then, when the snow and rains began in March, the doomsayers were quick to warn us it's just a one-off, you know.
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But when the precipitation continued into April, the climate hysterics point out this needs to be sustained, though, to moisturize the ground. It's not fixing anything.
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Well, as the rains kept falling into May, they're now howling. The reservoirs are still below average capacity.
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Is it ever enough? Will the climate alarmists ever be able to bring themselves to celebrate good weather?
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No, actually, they can't. Because climate alarmists are cultists.
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They've wrapped their world around the perception that they're always living in a state of emergency, and they enjoy it.
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It makes them feel that they're special, and they're living in singular times.
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It's no coincidence that climate alarmists tend to be the same ones who never wanted the COVID-19 state of emergency to end.
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I mean, you can still see them today. They're walking around with their masks. They're driving alone with them if they have a car.
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However, politicians, they're on a different part, but they still love using the climate alarmism to impose restrictive policies.
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Calgary Mayor Yodi Gondek declared a climate emergency as soon as she took office.
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She then proposed an insane $87 billion plan to deal with it for a city.
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Strangely, the cure for climate change is always some form of high-spending socialism.
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It's almost as if socialists are trying to use the perception of emergencies as a means to impose their ideology.
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It's just the democratic efforts to impose it aren't working fast enough.
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Now, last weekend, I had to make a quick trip out to the mountains to take care of some business,
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and I couldn't help but notice how high the streams and rivers are right now.
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I was also happy to see there's still a lot of heavy snowpack remaining on top of the mountains.
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This means the melt that's going to be coming in June is going to continue to fill Alberta's reservoirs with the runoff all the way out to Saskatchewan.
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And I posted a picture of those mountains on X, and I celebrated what appeared to be weather patterns shifting away from a drought.
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Well, the response I got was swift and visceral.
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Climate alarmists were furious that I dared to question the state of emergency with mere anecdotal evidence.
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When I posted the data proving my assertions were based on more than just my observations on a drive,
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they howled that I'm not an expert or a scientist.
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It should be noted that the experts and scientists were predicting a hot, dry spring in Alberta,
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In reality, weather forecasters can't predict the weather very accurately beyond a couple of weeks.
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They can make broad, long-term speculations, but as we can see this year,
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those tend not to be much more accurate than what you would get from shaking a magic eight ball
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Canada might be in for years of drought, years of flooding, or years of moderate weather.
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I don't know, and I'll tell you what, the experts don't bloody well know either.
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alarmists can cherry-pick the regions to try and make their case
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while ignoring weather predictions that were inaccurate in other areas.
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Alberta isn't poised to be needing severe water use restrictions,
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even though we were warned dramatically constantly of this for the last couple of months.
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And the spring wildfire season, it appears to have already come to an end.
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Soil's hydrated, and farmers could be in for some excellent crops this year.
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We should always plan for the worst, but we can't live in constant fear of it.
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So dismiss those morose, miserable climate zealots who want to bring us all down with their dire predictions.
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When we get good weather, we should enjoy it and celebrate it.
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And I know I will, at least until I've got to mow that ever-growing lawn I've got
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that's just sprouting up in this drought right now.
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Let's get Dave Naylor in to see what's going on in the rest of the world of the news.
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I was actually out in Golden, not this weekend, but last weekend.
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And I couldn't believe the amount of snow up there in the mountains that's still got to come down.
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Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, the heavy flow season is still coming.
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That's what fills the reservoirs and such, as long as it doesn't come too fast and burst the rivers.
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No. I think Nico's got a photo, if he could bring up, of your compound out in Prittis.
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That's the creek that runs through the edge of it.
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Well, thankfully, our house is a little bit up on the hill off to the right from where that picture is.
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So unless we're getting sort of Noah's Ark sort of water levels going on, we should be safe.
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But as you can see, that's Fish Creek, actually, out by Prittis.
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And it doesn't have very far before it comes to the top of those banks.
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Like, there's a lot of water on the move right now.
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Leading off our side story is like a Ripley's Believe It or Not type story, where the federal government is going to pay $12 million to hunt a few hundred deer on a small BC island.
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This is a Parks Canada plan to eradicate the deer because they're eating all the native grasses.
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In phase one of the operation, they flew in hunters from New Zealand, of all places, and they were up in helicopters shooting at them.
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In fact, the next couple of weeks, locals in the area went in and killed about three times as many.
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But now they're about to launch phase two of the operation, the ground operation.
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They're going to be using hunting dogs and all that sort of stuff to kill all these deer.
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And the total cost is $12 million, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Federation of Taxpayers.
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I mean, all you'd have to do is open it up to the public, and they'd be gone in a weekend, wouldn't they?
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Well, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people who would actually spend good money for the privilege of going out to kill an animal.
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We have one right here in our office who talks about it quite often, actually.
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So how on earth are we spending money on something somebody would pay us to do?
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We've got tragic news coming out of Edmonton, which police have revealed a 15-year-old boy was slain
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and some sort of altercation in northwest Edmonton yesterday.
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Details are sketchy, but a man that the boy apparently knows has been taken into custody
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and is set to appear in court, and an autopsy will take place on Friday.
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We've got a new poll out by Janet Brown showing the UCP basically maintaining their support
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that they had in the last election, despite bringing in a whole bunch of policies
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that the left wing has been screaming holy murder on.
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We've got a column from our Anthony Crusher, who is wondering where the Liberals get their
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And you'll remember back in the halcyon days of sunny ways, the Prime Minister said the budgets
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You remember a couple of weeks ago they had to be shut down because they were hacked in a
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They have to pay $25 million to this shadowy group, I think based in Russia, or their detailed
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prescription list will be revealed to the public.
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So Thursday deadline to pay that amount of money.
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And a judge has blocked the auction of Graceland.
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Some people were, or a group was trying to maybe sell it to foreclose on it.
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So the potential auctioners are now at the Heartbreak Hotel, Corey.
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That one gave you all sorts of opportunities for your cheesy wordplay.
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I have to give credit to the author of the story, Michael Thomas.
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Well, we'll see what more comes out of that one.
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I'll let you get back there and see if you can't find another gem full of puns to play
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As you can see, lots and lots of those stories out there breaking all the time.
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And the reason we have it rolling, the reason we have those reporters working that hard,
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This is how we can maintain independence in media.
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I'll just talk a little bit before I get to my guest about, you know, one of the stories
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Dave was talking about, you know, a little more background.
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And the whole story is on the Western Standard site, westernstandard.news.
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But yeah, this is pure government on so many levels.
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Now, the reason that these deer need to be shot, because I don't think we quite covered
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They're not like mule deer and white tail deer that we would have.
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There's some other type that I imagine somebody brought in for their private hunting, and
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they're all stuck on an island over on the West Coast.
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Because, God, if they went all the way through BC, there's no way we'd be able to hunt them
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But even fish in a barrel or deer on an island, our government is incapable of dealing with
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All right, let's contract some German sourced public art.
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Well, wait a minute, are there not artists here?
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Why are we bringing hunters from New Zealand to shoot deer on an island here?
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And here's some of the numbers of how good these hunters were.
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Yeah, they used a helicopter to shoot these little fellas.
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It came up to over 10,000 a head for the deer they shot.
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And it turns out that 18 of the 84 were the wrong kind of deer.
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So they shot the natural deer along with the invasive deer.
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And as we said earlier, we've got a country full of hunters.
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We've got grocery bills going through the roof.
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We've got people who would have paid, paid to go out and shoot these deer off season if
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And I'm sorry, why do we see these things happening?
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Somebody somewhere in the middle probably made some pretty good money getting that contract
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That tends to be the explanation that comes down to the bottom of some of these bizarre
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government contracts and things that go out to tender.
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So I'll say, wait, I'm going to talk to my guest when I want to talk about smaller government.
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The smaller government we get, probably the better chance that at least we could avoid
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And that means, you know, coming towards a libertarian point of view.
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I want to talk about classical liberalism because, I mean, if I were to categorize myself,
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Unfortunately, contemporary liberal parties have sort of ruined the word.
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So let's bring Darcy Jarreau in and talk about some of these things.
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You know, I just wanted to get into some political talk.
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Look, it's, you know, as I said, I think of myself as more of a libertarian, classical liberal.
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You know, we're living in a polarized political world where it just seems to be talking about
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And people are kind of forgetting about the principles, perhaps, of what they might stand
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What do you think of that interpretation of things?
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Oh, I think it's an exactly, perfectly accurate interpretation.
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Highly, highly polarized, you know, totally absent of the foundation of liberalism, classical
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liberalism, as you and I would call it, you know, where self-ownership, autonomy, and kind
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of the corresponding rights of property and self-defense are paramount.
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Yeah, and I mean, I think both of the prime two parties we have up there used to embrace
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elements of personal liberty, and I think neither of them are really promoting them terribly
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I mean, the liberals, or at least the left, hey, they were responsible for getting the
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government out of our bedrooms and, you know, allowing us to live our lives as adults and
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But at the same time, they went and turned around and got more intrusive with just about
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And then the conservative side of it, they talked about smaller government and getting
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I mean, you know, the conservatives won't even talk about getting rid of supply management.
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And that's about as non-liberty-minded a policy as you could ever imagine.
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And I think where, you know, we have to look at this is, you know, first of all, I think
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there's a lot of nostalgia for, you know, Canada in the early days of Confederation as some
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sort of beacon of classical liberalism, which, you know, isn't entirely evident in the, you
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know, the British North America Act or anything like that.
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There's not a whole lot there saying that they were trying to build a, you know, there's not
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a whole lot there saying that they were up to anything outside of imperialism, right?
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And, and, and then the other thing is to remember that historically, you know, liberalism was
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I mean, it was, it was influenced by the Stoics, right?
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And it was, and what ends up happening when you take that sort of doctrine based on private
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property based on self-ownership and you implement it into a, a political, a political narrative.
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It loses some of its, it loses some of its, some of its weight in that if the foundation
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is private property and self-ownership, you are, you are naturally, and then when you hand
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over authority to tax and regulate, when you open that door to the state, you are naturally
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going to lose some of that self-ownership, autonomy, and rights of property instantly.
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So what you're left with is not true liberalism or, or libertarianism.
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What you're left with is a response to liberalism or true liberalism.
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And, and, and like you say, we end up with what we would consider modern or contemporary
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It's a, a, an egalitarian response to true liberalism.
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And you end up with conservatism, which is a reactionary response to liberalism, but they
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only tend to react to whatever type of liberalism is directly in front of them.
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They tend, like 300 years ago, they, the conservatives were defending feudalism.
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Today, they're, you know, looking to still maintain that status quo, but I think they'd be happy
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if we rolled back the state to, you know, Jean Chrétien's liberal party, right?
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Well, yeah, we seem to be in a kind of a steady progression to the left, but I think part of
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that's just due to the fact that whether it's a conservative government or a liberal government,
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they can't seem to help themselves in making the government bigger and bigger and bigger.
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And then by its very nature, it's going to become more intrusive, more controlling.
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And if we struggle against it, they have to take our liberties so they can take more while
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I like to think it's going to change eventually.
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And I don't want to, you know, tell people to give up on politics, but how do we change it?
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I mean, we've had a libertarian party since the 70s, and it sits there and says all the
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right things, but it's just always kind of sits off, you know, on the fringe.
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I ran for them in one election, as a matter of fact.
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I mean, it's great on principle, but does it have an impact?
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And how can we impact then, whether it's the conservatives or the liberal, maybe to at
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least mitigate and bring a little more liberty into the governance that we have right now?
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And I will say I'm not very optimistic, and I'm not entirely sure that, you know, I mean,
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I've been the deputy leader of the Libertarian Party.
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And I, but I will, I'll say I'm not optimistic in that it's, this is all a political solution.
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I mean, a lot of it is, you know, we have to encourage people to, you know, to actually
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Once, once you have a, especially in a huge democracy like, like Canada, I mean, they, you
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know, 51% of the people can always, can always steal from the other 49% of the population in
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And so we really need people to learn about these ideas and, you know, and embrace the
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ideas of like sound economic theory, natural rights theory, you know, the, the types of
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things that the, the classical liberal thinkers tried to entrench in, into policy.
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I mean, the, um, but what, but once people learn that and once the, once, you know, Canadians
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are, that's what they're demanding, that's what their politicians will deliver.
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I mean, I think we have to look at it in a way that, you know, we're not expecting some
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What we're expecting is for us to make those demands on them.
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I mean, the, we, we, we both know the conservatives or the liberals will bend, uh, because all they
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And if we put, if we, if we put demands on them, um, it will happen, but it takes, it,
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it takes, you know, a huge swath of the population embracing these ideas.
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Well, yeah, we, we have the population has been well programmed to say government should
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Government should do that whenever there's a problem where their first recourse should
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If you want to talk collectively, or even as an individual, what can I do to address this
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Government should be the solution of last resort, not the first one, but that's some very
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deeply entrenched attitude, uh, that's really grown.
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And I think is growing among people right now, but I mean, government's really starting
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They're not managing to achieve any of the things they say they're going to do year after
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Well, they set targets and they miss them all the time.
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Do you think it's possible that we could redirect people when they realize you see you're asking
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the wrong, uh, you know, group or, or you're, you're, you're promoting the wrong tool to
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Like I say, I don't, I don't want to say that it's impossible.
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I mean, I, I actually work hard to, to do that.
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I mean, that's part of you, you know, that's part of the reason we hold our seminar in Calgary
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is to bring people in and, and talk about these ideas.
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Um, you know, that's part of the reason, you know, why I am an advocate for liberty.
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And I mean, the other option is, um, you know, the, this thing, this thing that is Canada
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will collapse under itself, under its own weight at some point, if, if that doesn't change.
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So, um, you know, and you, and you see it all over the place, you see, um, you know,
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secession movements, um, um, becoming, gaining popularity, you see, uh, huge political divisions.
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I mean, the, the political divides we're looking at today are, are not easily overcome.
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And, and that is really a sign of, you know, the, the end of something.
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I mean, uh, we, we are closer to some sort of, um, you know, I, I don't even know what
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it might look like, I mean, but it, it is not, it is not a cohesive society.
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And, uh, so there are things you can advocate for, you know, major, major radical decentralization,
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um, lower taxation, regionalism, those sorts of things, um, you know, leaving, leaving people
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Um, and a lot of those ideas are, um, you know, that those are kind of easy sales for
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people because nobody wants, nobody wants, um, somebody in, you know, say the conservatives
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get in next time and you're going to have a bunch of left-wing cities that don't want
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to live under the, um, you know, the yoke of, uh, a conservative, uh, central government.
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And, and so it is a pretty easy sell as long as it's, as long as you're advocating it consistently,
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um, throughout different political administrations, but it still takes time.
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The consistency is hard, especially when people start wearing a partisan banner and then they
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look the other way when their team does something, uh, that intrudes on Liberty, but, uh, scream
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I mean, you want to, you have more credibility if you're critical of both sides.
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Um, I mean, one area of orthodoxy in Canada has been public health care.
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You know, it's a huge part of, of what we spend our taxes on.
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It's one of those areas though, where everybody seems to agree government is responsible for
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I mean, you see people shift towards thinking about change once they get a personal kick
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And I think we're starting to see that, that personal kick in the butt with healthcare,
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like people realizing maybe it's starting to drive home.
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As long as you can survive six months to get in, to get it.
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And it's becoming, you know, more common all over the place.
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I think maybe people are being more receptive to realize maybe we can start looking at options
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where I'm going to be a little bit responsible directly for my healthcare, uh, and government
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will be maybe a part of it, but you know, we can start chipping away at that monopoly healthcare
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I mean, if we could slay that sacred cow or at least, you know, reduce it, I think we're
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really moving in the right direction on just about everything else.
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And, you know, I think there's, I think there's a good opportunity there for, uh, you know,
00:27:43.000
some, you know, kind of the extreme left and the extreme right to, to make a, uh, to make
00:27:50.920
some inroads because you have people on the, on the left who are, you know, um, you know,
00:27:56.860
not to, not to put them down, but you know, they're like granola eating type people who,
00:28:02.540
uh, uh, don't believe in pharmaceuticals and that sort of thing.
00:28:07.280
And on the, on the other far end of the right spectrum, you have people who are, uh, you know,
00:28:12.940
especially after COVID very much, very much the same, uh, you know, very leery of these,
00:28:20.340
And also, um, kind of maintain that, uh, idea of, of freedom, uh, when it comes to their
00:28:30.320
And you're absolutely right that, you know, presently, I mean, look at Calgary.
00:28:34.680
I mean, you can't, I mean, uh, emergency waiting times are 12, 14 hours every day.
00:28:39.720
And, and ultimately you can say that the government is responsible for healthcare,
00:28:46.020
but if you're waiting, if you show up there and you're waiting 12, 14 hours and you're
00:28:51.460
in bad condition, ultimately, you know, ultimately you're the one who is responsible.
00:28:56.780
Like you have to do whatever it's going to take to save your life at that point, because
00:29:02.160
You're not going to get the help that you need.
00:29:07.100
I mean, people who leave the country for private care aren't necessarily rich.
00:29:12.380
I mean, if I was told that, Hey, Corey, you need this heart surgery within a month, or
00:29:18.140
We'll schedule you in for three months from now.
00:29:21.700
I'm going to refinance my house and I'm going to go to Vietnam and get it done.
00:29:25.120
I mean, it's a matter literally of life and death at that point.
00:29:27.860
And people are starting to get faced with that decision.
00:29:33.200
I mean, it's just, yeah, it's always the other guy, but now when it comes to health,
00:29:36.060
eventually it always becomes you at some point or another.
00:29:38.840
So I'm just looking at, I guess, one of those cracks where we could have an opportunity to
00:29:42.740
talk to people and say, look, we can do better for ourselves.
00:29:45.720
Uh, this is one of the big areas where, you know, some room for Liberty could actually
00:29:57.020
And again, it kind of, it, that kind of plays into what I was saying before about these
00:30:00.960
organizations, you know, call it the Canadian government, but even, you know, healthcare.
00:30:04.780
I mean, the thing is collapsing under its own weight.
00:30:07.320
It's a huge bureaucratic nightmare and it's, and you can't get the service you need and it
00:30:13.720
is collapsing and people are looking for other options.
00:30:16.120
I mean, people are not only are they leaving the country for healthcare, they're looking
00:30:21.160
at lots of alternative options, lots of like witch doctory type stuff and black market options
00:30:27.680
So, I mean, this is, that's what happens when, uh, the state has a monopoly on these sorts
00:30:36.300
Well, I mean, there's only so much we can cover in 15 minutes, but that'll lead me up to
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We're going to Saturday in Calgary, there's going to be an opportunity to have a whole
00:30:44.580
day to listen to myself and you and, and a whole bunch of other, uh, liberty minded
00:30:50.500
Uh, where could people go if they wanted to join the, uh, capitalism and morality, uh,
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Um, we have, uh, geez, I can't even list them all.
00:31:21.600
And then, um, so that, that's the Calgary event, May 25th.
00:31:25.540
Uh, you can also check out the Vancouver event.
00:31:28.720
If anybody in Vancouver is watching, um, that you will go to JayantBandari.com and, uh, another
00:31:36.220
great lineup of speakers there that takes place June 1st.
00:31:53.840
I'd like to see you there and I'll be, uh, rambling at you live for a little bit along
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with a whole bunch of other deeper thinkers than I, it should be a good time for people
00:32:05.120
Well, thank you for organizing it, Darcy, and putting that together.
00:32:07.880
I mean, we keep at it as, as, as, you know, negative as it seems to be in looking ahead.
00:32:12.360
Still, you can't give up and, uh, hopefully, uh, find some solutions this Saturday.
00:32:23.420
So that is Darcy Giroux and the conference is yes, capitalism and morality.
00:32:28.660
And it's coming up this Saturday and we could talk again.
00:32:30.660
And there's a number of us talking about different forms of liberty, how it's going to benefit
00:32:35.060
Cause that's what it always ends up coming down to is, is what's in it for me.
00:32:41.340
It's kind of, as he was saying, the parties will react when enough of the voters start
00:32:47.860
I just wanted to use the healthcare, uh, example when it comes to that, cause it's just become
00:32:55.380
It just doesn't seem to matter how bad the healthcare system is failing, how long the
00:33:00.480
weights are getting, how expensive it is, how many times we can put it in people's face.
00:33:03.780
Look, we're many other nations are doing much, much better than us.
00:33:08.760
And people say, no, we got the best system in the world.
00:33:12.380
As a matter of fact, we got some fantastic professionals.
00:33:14.280
We've got some good facilities, but we are far from having the best system in the world.
00:33:19.000
So let's start examining different ones and we're seeing it leak out.
00:33:28.760
Whether it's professionals getting the heck out to find a better life for themselves
00:33:32.480
or ambitious people leaving all together, or it's people getting out to get better
00:33:37.720
You know, when Soviet Russia was going on, they had to lock in their professionals because
00:33:42.760
You didn't see anybody, for example, getting on rafts from Miami and trying to get out to
00:33:57.500
But the people on the top of the food chain in these socialist countries, some are more
00:34:02.660
You know that they didn't get their treatment and goods and services where they were at.
00:34:10.340
And notice Jordan, one of our commenters saying, enterprising people ought to set up private
00:34:14.940
Border towns, a short drive from Canada, and cater to the Canadian healthcare refugees.
00:34:19.760
I think Great Falls, Montana has a, I think they have an MRI machine, and that's just
00:34:23.580
south of Calgary a little way, so people can speed up with that.
00:34:28.220
I talked about a couple of years ago, Jane and I went down, you know, we like to escape
00:34:33.360
But we also went to, there's a town, Algodones, and it's just across from Yuma, just into Mexico.
00:34:40.120
And other people, the nickname for that town is Molar City.
00:34:42.800
It's just a small town just into Mexico, and it has something like 600 dentists there.
00:34:48.480
And it also has optometrists, pharmacies, all sorts of things.
00:34:52.420
You cross that border, you walk in, and the whole town, well, of course, you've got the
00:34:56.620
guys, as opposed to Tijuana, where they're going to be trying to pull you into donkey
00:35:01.600
These are all guys trying to get you to the best dentist or the best optometrist.
00:35:05.000
But you go into the dentist's office there, you book an appointment, you get in.
00:35:08.820
And for a procedure, we were looking at, I think, about $10,000 to get done up in Canada.
00:35:20.920
And these are the professionals trained just as well as any up here.
00:35:24.340
The dentist and doctors down there are fantastic.
00:35:34.720
I'm not saying we should just call the problem solved because people are escaping down there
00:35:40.720
We should just try and figure out how to build the environment here so you don't feel like
00:35:45.080
you have to escape here to go down there and get your medical procedures or dental procedures
00:35:53.600
And the other thing that people are forgetting when it comes to Canada's socialized system
00:36:01.660
We are short of doctors, we're short of nurses, nurse practitioners, we're short of respiratory
00:36:07.160
therapists, we're short of every type of medical professional.
00:36:12.340
But in our socialized environment, we don't offer enough of the incentives to keep and retain
00:36:18.560
them because we have to compete with the other areas that are offering them a better deal.
00:36:26.660
And I know I'm going to use the P word, privatizing.
00:36:30.080
I'm not talking about privatizing the whole system.
00:36:33.140
I know somebody's going to comment really soon.
00:36:39.380
There are dozens and dozens and dozens of systems around the world.
00:36:43.360
And most of them in developed countries are universal.
00:36:46.200
Universal meaning you will not get turned away for lack of funds.
00:36:51.320
But almost every other system in the world and every system that's doing better than
00:36:58.360
Canada, and there's many of those, have a larger element of private provision with
00:37:08.240
It's illegal to build up a private hospital in Alberta, in Canada.
00:37:12.160
You know, I can't say if I won a bunch of lotteries.
00:37:14.320
I want to spend all my millions and build Corey's Hospital down the road, hire my own
00:37:20.740
Even if I wanted to work within the public system, I could not do that.
00:37:24.940
You know, speaking of liberty-wise, I mean, shouldn't I be able to build whatever the
00:37:27.320
hell I want, hire whoever I want, let people choose whatever they want?
00:37:32.640
You don't want me to just stick a, you know, doctor in front of my name and I can start
00:37:36.740
It's probably going to fare poorly for everybody.
00:37:38.660
But why can't a private person open a hospital and work within the public system?
00:37:46.060
Part of its unions, people are terrified of taking them on.
00:37:55.700
You can, all through Europe, there's private hospitals and they're mixed private public all
00:37:59.600
But imagine a hospital that was built by a private investor, but it's regulated.
00:38:06.340
They say 70% of what you do and there has to be within the public system and you'll be
00:38:10.260
paid for the procedures and the patients based on this schedule.
00:38:13.020
This is what you will make and this is what you will do.
00:38:18.640
Use your doctors, use your rooms, use your surgical feeders, do whatever you want and
00:38:23.280
charge whatever you think you can get away with.
00:38:26.180
Suddenly you're getting people coming from other countries, spending money to keep your
00:38:29.680
doctors here and keep your hospital facilities open.
00:38:36.640
And then people with the politics of envy, some rich guy is going to jump the line on me.
00:38:45.120
The worst, most self-destructive politics in the world.
00:38:48.640
We're going to pull everybody down to the same level of lower misery because you can't
00:38:52.480
stand the thought that somebody else is getting a better service or something than you.
00:38:58.660
There's always going to be somebody richer than you.
00:39:00.340
Unless you're Elon Musk, there's still going to be somebody who's going to have a bigger
00:39:03.560
house, drive a nicer car, sleep with better partners.
00:39:12.020
If the other guy is jumping the line and spending the money so that you can get through the line
00:39:16.160
faster and you can get to that specialist that wouldn't even have been there in the
00:39:24.520
So don't look at it as somebody taking advantage of you.
00:39:34.200
So we've, but we've really got to chip away at this mountain in Canada when it comes to
00:39:38.100
healthcare mountain of envy and misconception that we have a good system.
00:39:49.580
People, oh, those conservative premiers are screwing healthcare everywhere.
00:39:57.300
BC has got some of the worst waiting lists in the country.
00:39:59.740
In fact, BC sent cancer patients to Washington to get treatment.
00:40:07.540
Yes, the socialist bastion of British Columbia couldn't keep up with their own cancer patients.
00:40:14.180
So they sent them to private hospitals in the big, bad United States to get it done.
00:40:20.740
And, you know, and it brings me into something else.
00:40:22.200
It's one of the dumbest things that shows just how stupid Canada's system is.
00:40:27.580
And it is stupid because we can't pay people for blood donations.
00:40:34.820
Oh, that would be unprincipled to pay somebody for that.
00:40:40.920
We can't have people just dying for lack of blood and plasma when surgery is getting done.
00:40:48.920
And why has the United States got so much plasma, so much, that they can afford to actually sell some to us as well as filling their own needs?
00:40:59.320
Well, it's because they pay people to give the plasma in the first place.
00:41:05.360
It's just that we don't allow ourselves to pay Canadians to donate the plasma.
00:41:15.400
Pay a guy 50 bucks to go down and spend the time to give a pint.
00:41:19.480
And lo and behold, we will have it because we're paying anyway.
00:41:29.420
Well, except for the plasma vendors in the States, I guess.
00:41:36.040
And yes, as Jordan said as well, you know, the commenter,
00:41:40.300
if people are going to go to private options, we might as well privatize it up here and keep the money here.
00:41:48.640
Do you think an NHL player really has to wait for care?
00:41:55.180
Either way, you know, it gets back to, again, liberty.
00:41:57.460
See, that's where I talk about classical liberalism, too, though.
00:41:59.820
I'm not one of the hardcore libertarians where I think it should be just wide open.
00:42:03.500
I do believe in that we have a role for a universal system.
00:42:12.860
But we can do much, much better while still universally covering people.
00:42:17.680
Be much more responsive and do a better job with it.
00:42:22.000
You know, somebody else who's been a classical liberal, I would say,
00:42:27.000
and libertarian for a long time is Premier Danielle Smith in Alberta.
00:42:34.260
how things change sometimes when they get in office.
00:42:36.360
She seems to have one blind spot when it comes to Premier Smith.
00:42:42.840
And I know I've ranted and raved about this before,
00:42:44.520
but I'm going to rant a little more about it right now as well.
00:42:46.520
And that is, she came back from a meeting in Alaska and was speaking about a train line going from Fort McMurray,
00:42:58.080
so that's northeast Alberta for people outside of there, going up to Alaska.
00:43:03.040
I think Alberta should be partnering a lot more with Alaska.
00:43:05.060
We've got more in common with Alaska than we do with the rest of the country.
00:43:07.440
And we're talking about sending goods, you know, between Alberta and Alaska,
00:43:12.440
predominantly in the oil and gas sector energy, and a train line might work for that.
00:43:26.460
And Premier, well, I don't know who, we had Kenny at that time.
00:43:31.580
But then the company that was promoting it, it basically ended up falling behind,
00:43:37.740
went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and racked up $212 million in debt.
00:43:41.800
So that's what keeps happening with these train projects, these rail projects.
00:43:51.300
This thing didn't even get to the planning point before the company that was pushing it went broke.
00:43:57.360
The role the government has is, do you think you've got a business case?
00:44:01.500
Maybe we'll help facilitate the construction of that.
00:44:04.900
We'll help, you know, maybe with some of the land acquisition.
00:44:07.260
We'll definitely move back a bit on the permits so you can get through easier.
00:44:10.900
We'll help with the negotiations with people along the way, of the right-of-way with this.
00:44:15.180
But we're not going to put tax dollars into your business.
00:44:21.140
We're not here to bail out an unviable business.
00:44:23.900
If you can't do it without my tax dollars, then don't do it.
00:44:29.200
Now, a lot of these things is where government has to get out of the bloody way.
00:44:32.900
Some people talk about, well, the Trans Mountain Line, we needed the liberals to build that.
00:44:36.080
We never needed the federal government to build that.
00:44:38.560
All we needed was the federal government to get out of the bloody way.
00:44:41.880
We had a private company that wanted to build that, and they really desperately wanted to build it.
00:44:47.440
They were going to spend billions of dollars to build it.
00:44:49.300
But Prime Minister Trudeau and his buddies in B.C. kept getting in the way, kept blocking it, kept hindering it, kept holding it up.
00:45:00.860
And Trudeau realized, even Trudeau realized, wow, we've pushed it too far.
00:45:15.320
Either way, these train lines will be the same.
00:45:21.540
This is an industry one from the housing minister, Sean Fraser.
00:45:26.320
He's saying critics must not interfere in his plan to build 3.9 million homes.
00:45:31.100
Yes, he's saying the critics are hurting things.
00:45:34.040
I'm trying to solve the crisis, and you guys are harming it.
00:45:38.780
They couldn't even get their own tree planting program to come within 10% of its goal.
00:45:42.740
Do we really think they're going to build 3.9 million homes?
00:45:47.720
This is where we're talking about getting government in to do something.
00:45:53.080
We showed how well they can hunt deer on an island.
00:45:57.820
Do we really think they're going to build 3.9 million homes?
00:46:01.540
And you're going to blame the critics who are perhaps questioning that goal that you set that is so absurdly high?
00:46:10.820
And the solution to it is like the solution to so many of the other problems.
00:46:16.200
The amount of permits and regulations and licenses and bureaucracy and BS to get from the point of starting to build a house to have somebody move into it is absurd on every level of government in Canada.
00:46:28.700
So, no, I don't want you morons to promise me 3.9 million houses.
00:46:42.320
But I know, as Darcy kind of said, maybe it's a dream.
00:46:49.820
Thank you very much for tuning in on this wet week.
00:46:54.540
Maybe it looks like it's still going to be wet next week, too.
00:47:03.000
You know, the pipeline is going to be on a little later tonight.
00:47:05.340
We'll discuss a few more of those issues and get on to the westernstandard.news, guys.
00:47:13.420
So, thank you all for tuning in and listening to me vent my spleen at you today.
00:47:19.580
We'll do it all again with a whole new fresh set of issues for me to go on about.