Western Standard - CMS： Climate obsessed governments are reducing world food supplies

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:29.980 day welcome to the cory morgan show i am of course cory morgan and this is my weekly little stage to

00:00:38.140 rant rave interview interesting guests and uh cover some news stories and items we're coming

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00:00:58.940 y'all out there seeing you guys coming in on the comment scroll already debbie yasha paradoxy

00:01:03.500 surely so for those of you who are watching this live by all means use that comment scroll i love

00:01:08.940 it it's good to see the interaction going on out there throw questions my way my guests way

00:01:13.660 as i kind of always said i i might not necessarily read them all on the air but i do see them all

00:01:18.700 there and i appreciate them and good to see you there too melissa so uh yes we've got a good

00:01:23.900 packed one today i got spencer fernando coming on a little while as a guest people are probably

00:01:28.460 familiar with him. He's based out of Manitoba. He's a prolific writer. He was involved with the

00:01:33.360 National Citizens Coalition and a number of things. And he's put out a good little column on

00:01:38.860 basically Canada's abuse of its own military forces. We're really asking a lot from them

00:01:44.120 and not providing terribly well for them. And again, it just keeps undercutting and reducing

00:01:48.720 the pride in this nation. But yeah, Spencer and I will have a good conversation about that in about

00:01:54.120 15 minutes or so. So let's start with what's got me wound up and ranting today. There's always

00:01:59.000 something. And it's on food supplies, guys, because it's serious. And it's something that

00:02:03.760 we really need to start discussing. We got climate obsessed governments out there reducing

00:02:08.360 world food supplies. And think about it, if you want to control a population, control its food

00:02:12.780 supply, right? I mean, we're in this world where every little entitlement and desire is defined as

00:02:17.520 a need or a human right, and people are protesting for it. Yet at the same time, we're quietly letting

00:02:21.860 ideologically driven political leaders threaten what is the very real right to and need for

00:02:28.120 reliable, affordable food supplies. So this latest attack on food production that we're reading about

00:02:33.840 comes from Ireland, where the government's proposing the slaughter of 200,000 dairy cows

00:02:38.960 in an effort to reach EU climate change targets. Now, the climate impact of culling these animals

00:02:44.780 is going to be negligible at best, but the impact on Irish consumers and food producers is going to

00:02:49.400 be immediate and harsh. I mean, dairy products, they're infused into most European food supplies.

00:02:54.700 The slaughter of these cattle is going to immediately raise prices on most food items.

00:02:58.380 It's probably going to put a lot of producers out of work and not going to do a bloody thing

00:03:01.760 for the environment. The climate zealots, they don't care. They're undeterred by protests

00:03:06.140 or economic reality. They just want to shut down human activity by all and any means possible.

00:03:12.800 You're not talking about rational, reasonable people here. Even in Sri Lanka, I mean, this is 0.96

00:03:17.820 a nation that's not a stranger to hard times and famine and relatively recent memory, well, 0.99

00:03:22.420 their government imposed ridiculous regulations banning types of fertilizer and encouraging these

00:03:27.480 inefficient organic growing practices. At least with them, they got stirred up enough at spawn

00:03:31.720 protests that actually took down their own government. That was only a couple of years ago.

00:03:36.180 But still, the push doesn't stop. In the Netherlands, the state's been at war with its

00:03:39.900 own farmers since 2019, when nationwide protests were spawned by nitrogen and ammonia bans at the

00:03:45.640 expense of the agricultural producers. Farm protests have been crippling their nation at

00:03:50.300 times, but the government's still undeterred, and they're working towards foresting the reduction of

00:03:54.320 livestock herds and taking land away from agricultural producers in the Netherlands.

00:03:58.840 And hey, don't think it's just happening overseas, guys. Canada isn't far behind. The Trudeau

00:04:02.420 government suggested a 30% reduction in fertilizer use by agricultural producers. I mean, such a

00:04:09.480 reduction would deeply cut into crop outputs, and the notion sparked a quick backlash from Canadian

00:04:13.980 agricultural producers. The government then hastily pointed out the 30% reduction is voluntary

00:04:18.220 for producers. But of course, what they're saying is, for now. I mean, these guys are nuts. They put

00:04:24.520 eight and a half million dollars into a cricket production facility. Crickets for human consumption.

00:04:30.320 Yes, this is how mad they are. I'm not making this stuff up. Look it up. Eight and a half million

00:04:34.020 of your tax dollars went to cricket production while they're attacking food production here.

00:04:38.940 We're being governed by zealots. Don't expect rationality to come from Ottawa anytime soon.

00:04:43.900 Justin Trudeau desperately wants to be respected on the world stage.

00:04:47.020 He knows his intellect isn't going to get him there,

00:04:48.780 so he's hoping his actions as a climate crusader will garner him the international adoration he wants to revel in.

00:04:56.060 He knows nothing of supply chains, food needs, or agricultural production.

00:04:59.920 I mean, think about it.

00:05:00.620 Canada is led by a man whose servants shop for him

00:05:02.940 and chill his favorite cereal bowl in the mornings while he tries to pick out cute socks for the day.

00:05:07.520 He's never seen a grocery bill, much less a balance sheet from a farm.

00:05:11.160 but he's in the position to control our food supplies. Think about that. NGOs and environmental

00:05:16.400 groups feed the agenda further. The Suzuki Foundation, oh yes, David Suzuki and his

00:05:21.160 foundation with his many, many homes, just came out against domestic beekeeping. Yes,

00:05:26.500 because domesticated bees, as far as they're concerned, are a form of unnatural livestock, 0.78

00:05:30.440 and they might pressure wild bee populations. Yeah, aside from the honey they produce,

00:05:35.440 domestic bees are sort of an integral part of crop pollination for agricultural producers.

00:05:40.520 Bees are actually rented by farmers for this purpose.

00:05:44.660 Their crop yields will go down if they don't have these bees.

00:05:47.240 Suzuki and his elk don't care.

00:05:49.560 They aren't pro-environment.

00:05:50.860 That's what we've got to get driven to people's heads.

00:05:52.460 They are not pro-environment.

00:05:53.420 They're anti-human.

00:05:54.780 Big difference. 0.99

00:05:55.940 They want to drop world populations, and they don't care what it takes to do it.

00:06:00.660 Arguably, I guess.

00:06:01.580 A reduced world population would ease environmental pressures on the planet,

00:06:06.220 whether from, you know, the reduction in trash, water contamination emissions.

00:06:09.120 sure, fine. But reducing the efficiency of food production isn't going to reduce the world's

00:06:14.160 population or improve the environment. It's just going to make populations desperate, hungry,

00:06:18.840 and impoverished. The most environmentally friendly populations on the planet are all

00:06:22.980 in the richest nations. Blue bins, emission reduction plans, comprehensive waste management,

00:06:27.880 those are all luxuries developing nations lack. We take them for granted here. Having a low birth 0.94

00:06:33.120 rate is also a luxury only afforded to wealthy nations. In developing nations, people need large

00:06:37.480 families in order to survive and sustain a retirement. In developed nations such as ours,

00:06:41.980 we need immigration to counter our low birth rates. Developing nations are also forced, of course,

00:06:47.120 to use inefficient food production means such as slash-and-burn farming and burning high-emitting

00:06:51.460 fuels from wood to coal to even animal dung to cook their food sometimes. If we want to slow or

00:06:56.800 even reduce human population growth, the path is through economic development for developing nations. 0.99

00:07:01.820 Make them rich enough to afford to be nice to the environment and stop breeding like we've been able 0.54

00:07:05.480 too. To do that, they need reliable, plentiful energy and food supplies, and they need to become

00:07:11.980 wealthy enough to cut back on breeding. In other words, they need to do the opposite of what the

00:07:15.720 environmentally fanatical nations are pushing them to do. They don't need more windmills. They don't 0.95

00:07:20.300 need organic farming. They need natural gas networks heating their homes and generating their

00:07:24.660 power. They need modern farms along with the associated chemicals for pest control and

00:07:28.780 fertilizer. In other words, they need all those things that Justin Trudeau and other vain virtue

00:07:33.720 signaling world leaders are denying from them. Canada has abundant resources, and not only will

00:07:39.400 we not expand development of them for ourselves, we're also being prevented from exporting them to

00:07:43.200 those nations that need them most. The environmental movements hit new revolting extremes. It's working

00:07:48.800 basically to starve populations into what they think is going to be a greener new world, and it

00:07:52.440 won't come. The alarm bells are ringing now, guys. Are we going to act and reverse this madness and

00:07:57.440 food reduction, or are we going to wait until the starvation actually sets in? And guys, it's just

00:08:01.620 going to start with developing nations. Don't think for a moment that we're immune for it and

00:08:05.360 it won't come here next. Well, that's what's got me ticked off today. I was lucky enough to have a

00:08:10.940 nice big meal at least to set it off. But seriously, guys, it's insane. It's insane. I have all things

00:08:15.560 to go after our food. All right, let's talk to somebody who's more sane. And that's our news

00:08:20.020 editor, Dave Naylor, coming from the newsroom there. How's it going, Dave? Good. I wouldn't

00:08:24.920 say I'm any more sane than you, Corey. Not a bit. But I was thinking to you when we published

00:08:30.980 that bee story about Suzuki

00:08:33.060 on Saturday.

00:08:35.260 I pictured you in your beekeeping outfit 0.96

00:08:37.180 and your head exploding.

00:08:40.040 Pretty close.

00:08:41.740 The vein was pulsing there

00:08:43.160 and my bees were not happy when I passed it

00:08:45.220 along to them.

00:08:46.400 No. 0.99

00:08:47.480 Utterly ridiculous. 0.96

00:08:50.140 Yeah, extremely busy morning already, 0.92

00:08:52.780 Corey, on the Western Standard.

00:08:55.220 Right now we're leading off with what could be

00:08:57.040 actually a fun political event.

00:08:59.440 Pierre Polyev has vowed that as of 5 p.m. tonight, he's going to rise in the House of Commons and speak.

00:09:06.980 And he is going to speak and filibuster until Justin Trudeau caves on his latest budget.

00:09:13.740 So you know how Justin does not like to admit he's wrong. 0.52

00:09:17.740 And, you know, Polyev's got a bit of a stubborn streak in him anyway.

00:09:21.740 So he could be talking for days.

00:09:23.860 I hope he brings some snacks and, you know, I hope he gets a bathroom break or two.

00:09:28.500 But that's going to be very, very interesting.

00:09:32.260 Other stories we're working on at the moment are already posted, actually.

00:09:36.540 A school in California, their school board was talking about introducing sexual minority rights into the curriculum.

00:09:45.920 And some parents weren't happy about that.

00:09:48.160 Some parents were.

00:09:49.000 And they protested outside and it ended up in fisticuffs, a mass brawl with California cops having to come in and make the peace.

00:10:00.500 We've got a follow up on that story out of Innisfail earlier this week, Corey, where a Red Deer lawyer was charged with attacking a RCMP officer and uttering threats.

00:10:11.980 This came after a Innisfail RCMP unit pulled over a truck with two women in it, and it ended up also being a mass brawl with the Red Deer lawyer allegedly, or has been charged with allegedly attacking the officer.

00:10:30.560 The lawyer's brother, who's also a lawyer, put out a statement

00:10:34.360 saying the entire blame was on the RCMP for overreacting

00:10:38.380 and they were racist because the female lawyer was Indigenous.

00:10:44.180 Well, now the National Police Federation has lambasted the two lawyers

00:10:49.760 saying they should know better than to publicly try and shame a police officer.

00:10:54.140 and there are ways to take their anger out going through the proper channels.

00:11:02.400 What else is worth mentioning?

00:11:04.280 We've got a premier's poll by Angus Reid.

00:11:07.320 Scott Moe continues to be the most popular premier in Canada.

00:11:11.960 Stephenson in Manitoba is the worst.

00:11:15.300 Tucker Carlson's back on Twitter with his first show.

00:11:18.580 We've got dramatic video out of St. Louis where a gunman on foot,

00:11:23.880 opened up or started firing at police so they did the right thing and they ran him down and uh

00:11:30.200 it's kind of fun to see a bad guy flying through the air like that and uh bank of canada interest

00:11:36.760 rates up a quarter percent today and the head of cnn uh mr licht has been fired because he hasn't

00:11:43.880 been doing so well uh so well on that channel uh coming up shortly we've got a story about

00:11:49.960 an Ontario school board who was holding a summer camp you know what's newsworthy about that you're

00:11:56.760 asking Corey well it's only open to black children so it's a sort of a reverse segregation camp so

00:12:03.400 and there's some outrage coming out of Ontario on that so lots of stuff to read already and

00:12:09.400 lots more to come Corey all right on Dave well it's good to see there's still lots to keep you

00:12:13.640 busy after that hellishly long provincial election wrapped up I was hoping for a bit of a slowdown

00:12:19.000 in the news, but no such luck.

00:12:21.780 Yeah, maybe once July hits.

00:12:23.720 All right.

00:12:24.260 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:24.840 I'll let you get back to all those stories.

00:12:26.440 I know the reporters have all been giving you a good time today.

00:12:29.160 They have.

00:12:29.760 They have.

00:12:30.100 I've got to crack the whip.

00:12:31.420 All right, Dave.

00:12:31.980 Thanks.

00:12:32.640 Thanks.

00:12:33.440 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:12:35.740 And it's that time before I get on to things, just to remind everybody the reason we have

00:12:38.840 all those stories going up, and loads of them, loads of them.

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00:13:13.960 So let's see.

00:13:15.140 Yeah, you know, some stuff out of the comments.

00:13:16.600 I see Wildrow saying, started a vegetable garden this year. Yeah, you know, some people, we're

00:13:20.320 going to see this with the food things, right? More people doing home production when we can't

00:13:24.280 trust the government to allow large-scale food production. Pretty scary times. Myself, I'm a

00:13:30.580 terrible gardener. I try. I've tried year after year. I can grow nothing but weeds. It's just

00:13:34.600 once in a while I grow zucchini. That's one thing I found, but I don't like zucchini that much,

00:13:38.160 you know, and it goes slowly, slowly, slowly. You think, oh, this is coming along. And then all of

00:13:41.620 a sudden you got like 50 pounds of frigging zucchini you got to try and eat. And yeah, 0.93

00:13:45.540 I go through a bit of it and then move on. But still, you know, getting serious with things,

00:13:49.320 this trend of going after our food production abilities is really distressing, especially when

00:13:55.360 we're looking at hard times and inflation, as Dave mentioned too now. So the economy, I guess,

00:14:00.400 didn't slow as much as a lot of economists and people predicting thought it would. So what did

00:14:06.160 the bank do? They jumped in and said, well, good, we've got room, we're going to raise the interest

00:14:09.100 rates a little more again. So yet again, I mean, I think it's been over 4% in interest rate hikes

00:14:14.460 in the last year and some now

00:14:16.180 as they're trying to keep the inflation in check?

00:14:19.840 Yeah, you know, that's a balancing act

00:14:21.660 because you see if they crank the interest rates too high,

00:14:24.000 you'll slow inflation,

00:14:24.920 but it's because you'll drive us into recession.

00:14:26.940 So we shouldn't celebrate those interest rate hikes.

00:14:29.840 You know, if we want to battle recession,

00:14:31.600 we should be trying to become more productive,

00:14:34.920 become more economically stable.

00:14:37.220 And as I said earlier, you know,

00:14:38.280 one of the things you want to reduce the costs of staples

00:14:40.880 and things like that for consumers for food,

00:14:43.380 Well, stop pressuring food producers.

00:14:46.260 Stop trying to shut them down.

00:14:47.720 Stop messing with the agricultural community.

00:14:50.440 That's where it comes from.

00:14:52.020 And it'll have far more effect on bringing food to your table in an affordable way than any amount of interest rate hikes trying to fight inflation will.

00:15:00.260 And one more thing before I get to my guest, get rid of supply management for crying out loud.

00:15:04.680 That's one conservative thing that conservatives even don't have the courage to jump into, but they really have to.

00:15:09.380 All right, I see Spencer on deck there, and I've been looking forward to talking to him.

00:15:12.500 We haven't had him on for a while, and it's great to have him on.

00:15:15.640 He's been writing a lot of stuff and covering some federal issues for us.

00:15:20.360 So let's bring in Spencer Fernando and discuss things.

00:15:24.200 Hey, Spencer, how are you doing?

00:15:25.440 Not too bad.

00:15:25.980 Yourself?

00:15:26.720 Very good.

00:15:27.600 You know, ranting, raving, but that actually makes me happy.

00:15:29.720 People think I'm angry all the time, but I'm actually in my best state while I'm frothing

00:15:33.200 like this.

00:15:33.900 Yeah, it's good to get the negativity out somehow.

00:15:36.100 Well, that's right.

00:15:36.820 You know, Jane doesn't have to deal with it as much out of me. 0.92

00:15:39.820 Smart move.

00:15:40.500 So, I mean, I'm always reading your stories. And then just to remind everybody, it's spencerfernando.com. There's lots of them you're putting out all the time. But just one that caught my eye, it kind of coupled a bit with a column I did in a sense of what the, you know, the almost apologetic statement from the government on the RCMP's 150th anniversary.

00:15:58.960 and you talking, pointing out how the lack of equipment for Canadian troops, it signifies a

00:16:03.680 deeper decline for Canada as a nation. Like this is symbolizing much more than just the immediate

00:16:08.160 problem that we're, that we're leaving our troops in the lurch. Yeah. You know, I mean, if you,

00:16:14.100 you know, tell a whole generation of people that Canada's history is, you know, nothing but evil

00:16:18.360 and colonialism and, you know, terrible mistreating people and, you know, all our values are bad and

00:16:22.880 we should feel guilty and sad about everything, you know, then you're at the same time you're

00:16:27.880 saying oh well you know sign up join the military and you know go overseas to you know defend our

00:16:31.980 national interest well how can you really have national interest if you're if you take such a

00:16:36.020 negative view of the nation and the history of the country and so i i do see those things as linked

00:16:41.140 you know you have a government that manages i mean i think we just saw that they just asked for

00:16:44.980 the authority to spend 20 billion extra dollars this year over what they'd already budgeted which

00:16:49.880 itself was a massive increase over the previous year so they're they spend money on everything

00:16:55.660 I mean, massive deficits, you know, the debt's gone up dramatically.

00:16:58.860 The only place where it seems they don't spend much money is equipping our soldiers.

00:17:02.080 I mean, they sent people over, I think it was to Latvia, and, you know, they're having to buy their own helmets.

00:17:07.120 I mean, so, you know, it's, I'm sure we'll get to the moral aspect of, you know, sending people to harm's way without equipping them and how bad that is.

00:17:15.000 But I do think we are seeing a deeper problem with just the fact that we've, you know, demonized our history.

00:17:19.380 We've made people think Canada's, you know, based on bad values.

00:17:23.180 you know western civilization is it's no better than any other civilization you know it's terrible

00:17:28.120 it's got all these problems and so when you kind of depress a country like that and depress a whole

00:17:32.860 generation about their past and their history then you know how do you expect people to to join the

00:17:37.700 military and how do you expect to have a government that sees the value of the military or have

00:17:40.760 citizens that see the value of the military because you know it's not just it's easy to

00:17:45.160 blame the politicians but you know most canadians don't vote on whether the military is uh you know

00:17:49.540 effective or not and most people don't seem to care that much so i think it's a serious problem

00:17:53.660 especially in a world that's becoming a lot more dangerous well that's it i mean the military is

00:17:57.820 a calling i mean it's not a route to easy money it's not a good time it's it's dangerous sometimes

00:18:03.920 and difficult career path to take the people who join typically are feeling that they're going to

00:18:08.980 do a service for the nation they love that's what would help them i guess overlook shortcomings

00:18:13.180 they're getting back from the military such as perhaps not being as well equipped or or uh you

00:18:18.520 know uh whatnot as they should be but if they're at the same time being told they should be ashamed

00:18:23.120 of the nation and being under equipped this is a terrible formula for these people serving right

00:18:27.720 now yeah and you know it's you know one of the ironies it was some of the soldiers uh the other

00:18:33.600 nato troops that were over there i think from the netherlands had better equipment than the

00:18:38.120 canadians and much of the equipment was actually canadian you know they've been buying canadian

00:18:41.240 equipment for some time so we make good equipment we just don't buy it for our own soldiers and we

00:18:45.160 don't equip them and so and then there's of course the aspect of you know justin trudeau postures is

00:18:49.860 a you know big defender of nato and the rules-based international order he talks about all the time

00:18:54.220 but you know it's it's just words if you don't back it up right so he says all the all the nice

00:18:59.160 words about you know supporting nato and freedom and democracy and all that stuff but uh you send

00:19:04.120 people overseas you know into the idea is that if there's a big war they're going to be involved in

00:19:08.880 it that's the reason we're sending people over there is a deterrent but obviously they'd be on

00:19:12.140 the front line if a massive war broke out so how can you justify sending them over there if you're

00:19:16.780 not equipping them well right you're basically saying yeah well we just hope nothing bad happens

00:19:20.160 because if it does you'll be under equipped and your chances of dying will go up so again you know

00:19:24.940 i don't see how you know you know it's it's sad that canadians are not more outraged about this

00:19:29.660 because we're sending people to harm's way without equipping them we're spending massive amounts of

00:19:33.660 money every year but somehow not you know prioritizing our national defense so you know

00:19:37.840 I see, you know, all these people who posture as, you know, they're supporters of NATO and

00:19:41.880 oppose Russia. That's fine. But, you know, we live in the real world. And that means if you

00:19:46.600 want to really oppose Russia and stand up for NATO, then you need to equip our military. We

00:19:50.320 need to have a credible military force. We need to be able to, if necessary, fight and succeed

00:19:54.560 in a major war. And so, you know, I think there's a lot of talk in this country about what our

00:19:58.300 values are supposedly, but we undermine those values both by, of course, demonizing our history.

00:20:03.680 And then we undermine those values by not living up to our military commitments or our commitments

00:20:07.480 to our allies. So, you know, it's, I don't know why people would really take our country seriously

00:20:11.720 at this point. And this has been going on actually for a long, long time. I remember

00:20:17.000 during one of the Gulf Wars, for one, we had to take a gun out of surplus because they didn't

00:20:22.680 actually have a gun for their boat to serve in the Gulf. And a bunch of our soldiers went overseas

00:20:27.720 and they showed up in the desert and they had olive green uniforms. And of course they stood

00:20:32.600 out like sore thumbs. They didn't have desert camouflage. There's different types. They're

00:20:36.260 not in the jungle. So other soldiers lent them ponchos to cover their olive green uniforms. This

00:20:42.540 was decades ago. And how humiliating that must have been for them, you know, when you're serving

00:20:46.760 overseas in these other countries that they're lending you these things out of a sense of good

00:20:50.620 will and to keep you safe, of course. But if this hasn't been solved after decades of underfunding

00:20:56.000 the military, do you think we ever will turn it around? As you said, Canadians don't seem to get

00:21:00.080 upset enough about this. Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm doing the best I can to try to wake more

00:21:04.680 people up about it, but it's certainly a tough task. And, you know, one of the strange things

00:21:08.280 about it is if you look at the country that Canada most resembles, you know, militarily in

00:21:13.380 terms of our attitude towards the military and underfunding, ironically, it's Germany, right? I

00:21:17.300 mean, Germany has the same thing. I mean, they promised recently they were going to boost their

00:21:20.360 military funding and that turned out to be mostly hot air. They haven't really done that much,

00:21:23.920 but it's a lot because Germany, you can understand why they'd be a little reticent to build up their

00:21:28.700 military again, right? I mean, they've got a history where certainly the idea of saying,

00:21:32.280 you know we're pretty ashamed of what we did in the past that makes a lot of sense for germany

00:21:36.140 canada of course is fighting on the opposite side of that so we have a lot to be proud of

00:21:39.800 militarily but we seem to have the same kind of almost ashamed attitude of all the military oh

00:21:44.280 we don't want to really talk about it we don't want a big military don't want to be too strong

00:21:47.520 it's too too scary and too mean and so you know i don't know if it will change it it's an attitude

00:21:53.520 that obviously comes i think from you know very deep with a lot of canadians you know i see people

00:21:58.440 say oh we don't need a military or america will protect us or you know who needs a big military

00:22:03.080 today's day and age and again you know a big military is something that certainly looks like

00:22:07.080 a waste of money most of the time but when you need it you know it better be there because you

00:22:10.680 can't just build it up instantly right and so you know i i think all the people who who claim that

00:22:15.880 they you know support nato and claim that canada you know should be a part of defending um you know

00:22:21.160 our values against you know countries like russia against countries like china that's only credible

00:22:26.040 if you support building up the military there's no magical you know way around that you know you

00:22:29.800 have to have a strong military to be able to defend yourself and help your allies so you know

00:22:34.520 i think maybe it's because canada hasn't had any you know internal military conflicts for a long

00:22:38.840 time you know we didn't fight a major war of independence that's not how we became a nation

00:22:43.240 so maybe people just don't appreciate it but you know i think it's it's something that we we don't

00:22:47.880 want to overlook because it's you know you don't want to be in a situation where you're desperately

00:22:51.480 trying to build up a military when your country's being attacked well it sounds like we need a

00:22:55.640 a national discussion to find out, well, what do we want then as a military? What do we want to be

00:22:59.520 as a role around the world? A peacekeeper or an emergency? Just that they're going to show up to

00:23:03.800 help in emergencies? Or are they going to be a part of NATO? I mean, NATO means you should be

00:23:06.840 pretty militarized because that's some pretty hot areas that you might need to defend yourself.

00:23:11.420 I would think it doesn't have to be a large military, but we could at least equip them

00:23:15.200 better. The current military is using, they're using sidearms from World War II. I remember a

00:23:20.480 series of columns on the National Post. They've been spending decades naval gazing and talking

00:23:25.940 about getting new sidearms. You could go to Cabela's with a couple million dollars and get

00:23:29.760 them updated sidearms in a week if you really wanted to, and they still can't even manage to

00:23:34.380 get this done. I mean, it seems almost, if it's that bad, that it's purposeful that maybe they're

00:23:40.060 trying to starve this military out of existence. Yeah, there certainly does seem to be part of

00:23:44.880 that attitude at play here. And as you say, it doesn't need to be a massive military. We're not

00:23:50.380 a big country in terms of population but certainly we could have a very advanced air force you know

00:23:54.300 we can be a leader in drone technology missile technology and then have a small but very well

00:23:58.220 equipped you know military and you know even even in terms of cost i mean it's not really that

00:24:03.760 expensive i mean nato's asking us to spend two percent of gdp on our military that's not really

00:24:08.380 excessive i mean you look at a lot of other countries they're spending four or five six

00:24:11.340 percent way more militaries even the u.s i mean everyone talks about the u.s supposedly being some

00:24:15.600 big you know you know imperial military power they spend you know about average you know as

00:24:20.580 the world goes on their military per capita or as a percentage of their their gdp they just have a

00:24:26.280 huge gdp so it looks like big spending so we don't need to be you know it's not like we're going to

00:24:30.360 be a super militarized country it's just it's just basically doing the bare minimum basically saying

00:24:34.760 look we're going to have advanced equipment we're going to have good planes we're going to have a

00:24:37.540 few good ships we're going to have soldiers who are well trained and well equipped and if we need

00:24:41.220 help our allies then we can do so and so that's that really shouldn't be too much to ask i mean

00:24:46.420 the flip side is you look at it from the american perspective by not funding our own military and

00:24:50.900 then by saying oh america will protect us we're basically saying all americans will die to

00:24:54.580 protect canadians because we're not choosing to do our part and an alliance has to go both ways

00:24:59.220 you know if we expect the americans to help us if we're in trouble we should be able to at least do

00:25:03.060 a little bit to help them if they get in trouble and so i think just you know strategically morally

00:25:08.100 ethically you know having a decent military is is certainly not something we can overlook in

00:25:12.740 today's world yeah i mean taking our southern neighbors uh goodwill for granted for the sake

00:25:17.540 of our own defense is a pretty weak way to go about things you know i'll pivot a bit for our

00:25:22.420 last few minutes because you've put another piece out since uh just to talk about it it's more about

00:25:26.420 again canada as a whole it kind of ties into the last one you talk about uh you know diversity and

00:25:31.060 and uh the liberals love to talk up a good game of diversity but they don't really seem to support

00:25:35.620 diversity when push comes to shove in a lot of ways or at least not when it comes to viewpoints

00:25:40.180 yeah i mean there's a situation where i think a teacher was uh you know admonishing a muslim student

00:25:45.860 for not wanting to attend a pride event and you know that's gone viral and a lot of people are

00:25:50.100 talking about that and i think it just goes to show that um you know canada this is the problem

00:25:54.420 with not saying you know trudeau said oh there's no core canadian identity you know canada has no

00:25:59.220 you know set values but then at the same time bringing a lot of people many of whom come from

00:26:03.620 parts of the world with very different values than in canada you know not based on individual

00:26:07.620 rights or you know freedom of religion and then you have you know the far left pushing you know

00:26:12.580 certain set of values on other people and so you know that's the problem with not ever discussing

00:26:16.340 these things as a country and just hoping that a few nice slogans like diversity is strength

00:26:20.340 will make it all work together and now personally i think the solution is decentralization you know

00:26:24.180 i think we need the technology as i read in the article the technology to decentralize education

00:26:29.380 certainly exists it's just politicians and you know entrenched interests who stand in the way

00:26:33.540 of that you know if parents want their kids to go to pride events certainly they should be free to

00:26:37.060 do so you know we shouldn't be allowing you know discrimination in schools we shouldn't be you know

00:26:40.820 teaching people you know to hate any group at the same time if parents for religious reasons want

00:26:45.220 their kids to opt out or they want to send them to a religious school we should make that easier

00:26:48.340 for people as well i think the only way for a country like canada that's you know diverse in

00:26:52.340 terms of you know ethnic backgrounds you know cultures uh religious beliefs the only way for

00:26:57.140 for that really to work is to be decentralized because if one group tries to impose all of

00:27:01.080 their values on another, it's just going to become, you know, tribal division and anger.

00:27:04.980 And I think that's unfortunately seems to be where we're heading. And I don't think that's

00:27:08.640 where we want to go because that doesn't really end well. No, it takes some delicacy. I mean,

00:27:15.320 if you're going to try and force everybody to be under the same viewpoint, well, you better come up

00:27:19.520 with the chart then that we're supposed to comply by. And that doesn't jive with anybody thinking

00:27:24.520 that they live in a free nation whatsoever so these contradictions going on i i have to admit

00:27:29.660 it puts a it puts them between a bit of a rock and a hard place when they're dealing with lgbtq

00:27:34.780 rights and dealing with minority uh islamic rights at the same time maybe that'll force a

00:27:40.880 little self-examination on some of these things though yeah i think i think you know that's a

00:27:45.460 good point self-examination does need to happen because i see you know some concerning trends

00:27:49.280 both on the left and to be honest on the right to an extent you know the left obviously has

00:27:53.840 gone so far it's it's like you become so tolerant that you're intolerant of everybody right you know

00:27:58.660 only a very small set of beliefs are considered acceptable and any any little deviation from that

00:28:03.600 is considered you know hate right so the left has become quite intolerant but then i see some people

00:28:08.820 on the right who you know you see them idolizing russia you know praising you know you know

00:28:12.980 uganda i've even seen some people in the right praising uganda with their horrific law and so

00:28:17.280 it's like you have people who are there oh they don't like that they're seeing you know some

00:28:20.620 you know, drag events. So they decide to completely turn against Western civilization 0.98

00:28:24.440 itself and start praising, you know, foreign dictatorships. And so I think people just need 0.65

00:28:29.100 to get a grip and realize, you know, this is what living in a democracy is about. Sometimes you're

00:28:32.380 out of power and your opponents do crazy things, but you speak out against them and then you try

00:28:36.580 to get elected and you try to persuade people to change. I mean, you look at the United States,

00:28:40.320 you have a lot of states who are passing laws restricting, you know, I guess what they'd say,

00:28:45.080 you know, drag events or certain events. You look at, I think, Norway just banned

00:28:50.200 sex chain surgery for children. And so and then some people will like that. Some people won't

00:28:55.700 like that. But democracies are trying to figure these issues out. And there's a back and forth

00:28:58.800 debate. So I think both the left and the right need to, you know, restore some of their faith

00:29:02.740 in the idea of freedom and the idea of democracy, the idea of debate. We experiment different ideas.

00:29:07.540 One jurisdiction tries one thing. One tries another. We see how it works. And, you know,

00:29:11.060 we fight it out politically. But the idea that we should turn to being a dictatorship or being

00:29:16.380 communist or something because we're a little dissatisfied with Western democracy, I think

00:29:20.560 that would be a massive mistake. Awesome. Debate and live and let live concepts. They sound like

00:29:25.440 simple ones, but not enough people seem to recognize them sometimes. Well, we'll keep

00:29:29.900 debating anyways and keep pushing and shoving and trying to keep a balance in the nation,

00:29:34.880 I would hope. I appreciate your contributions and your columns going out there. Just to kind

00:29:40.740 to remind everybody one more time before I let you go. Where can we find where you're writing

00:29:43.820 and where your presence is out there, Spencer? Yeah, you can go to spencerfernando.com. That's

00:29:49.060 where most of my articles are. And then I publish one column about once a week for the National

00:29:54.340 Citizens Coalition. So you can find that on nationalcitizens.ca. Great. Well, I appreciate

00:29:59.780 you joining the show again, Spencer. It's always a good conversation. I hope we get to talk again

00:30:04.000 soon. Sounds good. Great. Thanks. That was Spencer Fernando. And yes, and you can watch from as well

00:30:09.980 on Twitter. He's on there and it's, you know, Twitter's a good spot. Like I said, people say

00:30:13.420 you get too worked up about the discourse and debates on Twitter, but it's a good spot to see

00:30:16.920 stories and items when they first come out. So give Spencer a follow on there and then you'll

00:30:21.480 see those columns as they pop up along with the Citizens Coalition and things like that.

00:30:26.720 So, you know, yeah, I want to pivot a little to, you know, this is some of the areas where people

00:30:31.820 get worked up. Somebody threw it out because I got on Twitter, I put it out there when people

00:30:36.940 are talking about banning Fox News, for example, we got to ban them. We want to CRTC to step in

00:30:41.440 and ban them. They said, no, get over it. Don't watch it. Just change the channel. Why is it

00:30:46.700 always banning? Why is it always shutting down? Why have people jumped straight to attacking the

00:30:52.300 other viewpoint, not allowing the other viewpoint? But somebody tweeted back at me saying, so fine,

00:30:56.980 so you'd be okay with LGBT people in schools and, you know, drag shows and libraries. And

00:31:04.380 Yes, actually.

00:31:05.980 Yes, I don't care.

00:31:08.140 Now, the thing is, what we have to have is choice.

00:31:12.240 We have to have choice.

00:31:13.560 In a library, for example, as we mentioned before, join the library board if you're really that concerned and don't have trans shows going on there.

00:31:20.680 Likewise with the school, we need charter schools.

00:31:22.640 We need to let parents choose where their kids are going to go and where they aren't. 0.92

00:31:26.820 And we need to reframe the discussion and take it back from the trans activists. 0.70

00:31:31.960 not trans people, trans activists. And you know, the trans activists are usually the same 0.71

00:31:38.880 hysteric jerks that are the activists that get involved in all the woke causes. Usually some 0.99

00:31:45.540 basement dwelling, white, middle class person who feels that they want to get a chip on their

00:31:51.580 shoulder and make the world a better place by speaking up as a white knight on behalf of

00:31:55.280 some minority or another minority that they aren't even actually a part of.

00:31:58.660 trans people have been around for a long, long time. And they've been achieving a lot more rights.

00:32:06.480 And they should, I think, you know, they want to live their lives. But the activists got involved.

00:32:11.720 The activists got into the mix. The activists moved the goalposts. They're there to outrage.

00:32:17.860 They're not there to make things better for anybody else. They just have to push it farther

00:32:22.440 and farther and farther. They found the line that's ticking off just about everybody. They

00:32:27.700 finally found it. And it's a straightforward line for most people, kids. Why are they always so

00:32:33.380 obsessed in getting in front of kids? Why? And no, by the way, because some people imply that 0.84

00:32:39.840 they're saying that that's because all those trans performers and drag story, our readers are 0.97

00:32:43.700 pedophiles. No, no, they aren't. Not all of them. Not most of them. Hopefully not any of them. 0.98

00:32:49.480 But it is odd with that hang up and getting in front of kids. You got the age of majority that

00:32:54.640 hits at 18. That means the majority, guys, guys, gals, whatever, you can perform and do your things

00:32:59.540 in front of millions and millions of people who were older than the age of 18. There's nothing

00:33:04.080 stopping you. It's perfectly legal. It's perfectly allowed. Go for it. But instead, they got to keep

00:33:10.900 pushing it. I mean, that's a story that just kind of, I got to admit, and I'm not easily shocked,

00:33:14.840 but got me the other day when I saw that was trans woman's testicle falls out in front of 0.99

00:33:20.180 children during performance. Yes, because again, this goes beyond. There's more than one thing 1.00

00:33:27.760 here with the trans performances. Now, there's drag time story hour. In that case, somebody's 0.94

00:33:34.040 kind of dragged up, dolled up, and reading to some kids, usually pretty benign and harmless.

00:33:38.360 But then that limit keeps getting pushed, and we see the videos, and it's not everywhere. We see

00:33:42.600 enough. We see the ones where there's kids going up and putting money into the G-strings of trans 0.73

00:33:47.660 performers. You know, it would be illegal if these were straight people up there. Just leave the kids

00:33:53.160 alone. Leave the kids out of it. Why? Why do we have to keep pushing? And I think personally, I can't 1.00

00:33:59.240 speak for them, but I think it's probably making it harder on the genuinely trans people who just

00:34:04.380 want to live their lives. Just leave the kids out of it. Move on. But it's the rage. It's the rage. 1.00

00:34:10.720 They got to push. They got to push. You know, I listened to something the other day. I listened

00:34:16.200 to Adam Carolla's podcast a lot, and he said something interesting, or he had a guest who

00:34:20.740 said something interesting. He said, a lot of libertarian-minded people tend to be on the autism

00:34:24.680 spectrum because they have a different way of emotions in the way they work with things, and I

00:34:29.080 don't know if that's fair or not to say if that's the case or whatnot, but yes, I do think, though,

00:34:34.340 and one of the ways he put it was good, wasn't that, because we get accused of that. You get

00:34:38.060 accused of these sensitive issues. You're heartless. You want this. You want that. No, not. No, not,

00:34:42.100 But a libertarian person won't look at an emotional argument as being valid when it comes to policy.

00:34:51.600 So yes, emotions are important, but I honestly don't care what you feel.

00:34:57.080 I don't. It's your problem.

00:34:59.900 I want to see results.

00:35:01.900 It doesn't matter what makes you feel good.

00:35:04.120 It matters what works.

00:35:06.380 It doesn't mean I don't have emotions.

00:35:08.160 It just means I'm not going to let the emotions set the policy.

00:35:10.840 some of these items they love using. Rent control. I always oppose rent control. I say,

00:35:17.140 why? Why? Do you want people on the streets? Stupid question, but that's the kind of question

00:35:21.160 these emotional jerks send at you, isn't it? Do you want people to be homeless? Do you not feel 1.00

00:35:25.800 that people should be able to live comfortably under a roof? Stupid questions. Turning the 1.00

00:35:30.800 discussion all based on emotion. Why do I oppose rent control? Not because I'm a heartless jerk.

00:35:36.140 It's because it doesn't work. It never works. Not usually doesn't work. Not only sometimes works. 0.98

00:35:43.660 Rent control never works. So the only way a person could potentially push rent control is on an

00:35:50.340 emotional basis. And I reject that premise. You're just wasting time. You are not helping people.

00:35:56.980 Don't you want to deal with the housing crisis? Sure. Not through rent control. It'll make it

00:36:01.780 worse, but that'll be the people without houses. No, won't you clowns? What else? Minimum wage 0.98

00:36:07.000 hikes. You oppose minimum wage hike. You want everybody working for slave wages? No, don't ask

00:36:11.980 the stupid questions. But minimum wages don't make people richer, guys. It doesn't work that way. 1.00

00:36:19.200 What does a business do when it's forced to raise minimum wages? They raise their prices.

00:36:23.940 When prices raise on everything everywhere, what happens? Inflation. Then the person you just went

00:36:29.200 through that whole rigmarole with, not to mention jobs get shed because other businesses will also

00:36:33.540 lay people off or modernize or do some other things to get rid of the jobs to save money

00:36:37.480 when the minimum wage gets risen. It doesn't work. It doesn't make those low-income people any

00:36:43.900 richer. If it did work, and some people say it's a shallow argument being thrown back,

00:36:48.720 then let's just raise it to $80 an hour for everybody and we'll eliminate poverty.

00:36:54.020 Well, the reason we don't do that is because it's economically unviable and it doesn't work. So no,

00:36:58.840 I'm not saying I want to see people live in poverty when I oppose constant minimum wage

00:37:03.520 hikes. I'm saying it doesn't frigging work. Socialized medicine, there's another beauty,

00:37:08.480 isn't it? Canada's sacred healthcare system. You want people to pay for their healthcare with a

00:37:14.720 credit card. You see, again, they throw a question at you. When did anybody say that? Either way,

00:37:22.180 yeah, you know what? I want people to have the option to pay with a credit card. In fact,

00:37:24.980 they do already. It's just that they crossed the border to do it. So if they're going to be stuck

00:37:31.020 on a waiting list in Canada to get care that they need desperately, if they have the means,

00:37:37.640 they will go somewhere else, maybe to get treatment from Canadian trained health professionals,

00:37:43.000 but they'll do it in the United States or Vietnam, or all sorts of places where medical

00:37:47.520 tourism is getting bigger and bigger. So, you know what? Yeah, if we can have some pay for profit,

00:37:55.700 profit's not evil, guys. It's not evil. I love it. You know, I can always tell an extremist when

00:37:59.460 they spit out the word profit as if it's a bad thing. Profit. The pursuit of profit brought us

00:38:04.900 to this comfort level in this wonderful world we're living in today's, guys. Socialism didn't

00:38:08.740 do it. God, the Soviets couldn't even invent a bloody decent alarm clock. Go find an old ladder, 0.87

00:38:13.920 see how well that works for you. A profit driven automakers, then they do get subsidized too much,

00:38:19.920 but they bring about the innovation with things. So the socialized medicine, bring some profit into

00:38:25.480 it. I don't care. I don't care if the guy down the street gets in for his diagnostics a week earlier

00:38:31.660 than me, because he paid out of pocket. As long as all of us get in a little faster because he

00:38:37.580 paid out of pocket, set aside the envy because that's what it's all about. It's envy. It's not

00:38:43.780 policy-wise. You can't stomach the thought that that person who has more means got better medical

00:38:49.200 treatment than you. Well, get over it. You want us all to be equally miserable? Because we aren't.

00:38:54.000 They'll still leave. And people going for medical treatments aren't always rich. They're usually

00:38:59.660 desperate. I've said that before on this show, things like that. What if you got a diagnosis?

00:39:03.680 Yeah, you need this heart surgery in six weeks, or there's probably an 80% chance you'll be dead.

00:39:09.600 We'll schedule you in for three months from now. That's pretty close to how Canada's system is

00:39:13.160 getting with some of these treatments. What are you going to do? Well, you're going to wait around

00:39:18.280 and die. You'll refinance your house. You'll borrow from friends and family. You'll sell 0.99

00:39:23.380 everything you got, and you'll go across the border somewhere where you can get that treatment

00:39:26.880 faster. So let's face that reality and allow these treatment options to come here. Set aside the

00:39:32.380 bloody envy because all of us will get in faster. It's just that you'll have to accept that, yes,

00:39:38.220 Larry over there is going to get in faster than you

00:39:40.580 because he has more money than you.

00:39:43.180 So what?

00:39:44.500 Get over it.

00:39:45.280 There's a lot of people that have a lot more things than you

00:39:46.960 and things better than you.

00:39:47.800 That's life.

00:39:48.900 Speaking of emotion, 1.00

00:39:50.120 you want to want a really useless and stupid one? 1.00

00:39:52.000 It's envy. 1.00

00:39:53.460 So yes, Larry gets faster healthcare.

00:39:56.720 Larry has a bigger house.

00:39:59.120 Larry has a bigger income.

00:40:00.900 Larry drives a nicer car. 0.98

00:40:02.140 Larry's better looking woman. 1.00

00:40:03.840 Get over it. 1.00

00:40:05.080 Larry's also paying a whole whack of taxes.

00:40:07.000 that help support the social supports that are bringing you up.

00:40:09.620 If you really want to get what Larry has, work hard or put your nose to the grindstone

00:40:13.120 and try and do better for yourself then.

00:40:15.240 Don't try to drag everyone down with it.

00:40:16.860 But again, it's emotion.

00:40:17.920 Emotion.

00:40:18.960 I'm not saying not have emotions.

00:40:20.740 I'm just saying don't let them control policy formulation.

00:40:25.280 Another one's First Nations.

00:40:27.040 That's a big one, isn't it? 1.00

00:40:29.140 Oh, wow. 1.00

00:40:30.540 The only solution to any First Nations problem apparently in Canada, 0.92

00:40:33.800 it's the same as the healthcare one, is to throw more money at it. And any other solution to the 0.97

00:40:40.500 challenges going on is going to get you the same responses from people. You want them to keep

00:40:45.420 living in misery. You feel that the First Nations shouldn't be compensated for what happened 150 1.00

00:40:50.700 years ago. But throwing stupid questions at me, I want to see policies that work. Right now, 0.99

00:40:58.140 the First Nations policies are failing catastrophically on every level. Go onto a

00:41:03.980 native reserve. Check it out sometime. I spent a lot of time on them when I was in the oil field,

00:41:09.700 constantly working with people from those reserves. And most of them are socioeconomic

00:41:16.000 nightmares. They're dystopias. There's wild dogs running around. There's houses falling apart. The

00:41:21.060 water, if it's drinkable, is hard to come across. But it's not for lack of money. So let's quit

00:41:26.180 pretending it's for lack of money. We spend an inordinate amount on First Nations above and 0.74

00:41:31.480 beyond what's spent on everybody else. And I'm not saying cut the spending. I'm saying what we've

00:41:35.280 got to do is start looking at what will actually bring a positive outcome rather than what makes

00:41:39.980 you feel better. Because I don't care how you feel. I want to see outcomes. And the outcomes

00:41:45.980 right now are crap. They, by every measure, they're failing. How can we keep allowing the 0.99

00:41:52.280 status quo to keep going when you check every minute. And it's all online. It's easy to check

00:41:56.240 out. Health, failing. Life expectancies, low. Poverty, rampant. Addiction, as Wildrose said,

00:42:05.460 massive. Education levels, low. Crime, through the roof. Victims and perpetrators. How can you look

00:42:14.580 at all that crap and say, let's keep doing what we've been doing. We just need to throw a little 1.00

00:42:19.860 more money in. It doesn't work. And the ones who are losing out of this, it's not the, yeah,

00:42:26.440 the taxpayers are losing, but the bigger losers are the people stuck on. And oh, here comes the

00:42:31.380 person who's going to take that one out of the contest. You called them all losers. No, they're 0.96

00:42:34.320 losing the people living on the First Nations communities. But until we set aside emotions

00:42:40.100 and start saying, let's look at policies that work rather than policies that make me feel a

00:42:44.180 little better about myself, we're not going to get better policy. Likewise with a lot of our

00:42:49.000 climate policies, a lot of our recycling, things like that. I'll give an analogy that's a little

00:42:56.840 less charged than the First Nations one. Another one that, again, simplistic, emotional, feel-good

00:43:02.420 policy thinking. That's really stupid. In Calgary, for a long, long time, we've had the sorted bins. 1.00

00:43:08.260 You sort your recycling stuff. People take their time and they rinse their jars and their bottles

00:43:12.520 and they separate them and they put them in these green bins. And oh boy, they're saving the world,

00:43:16.220 aren't they? Sweethearts. Well, then they go to a sorting center where we pay a bunch of union

00:43:21.460 people a whole lot of money to clean them all again and separate it all again. And they took

00:43:26.380 out all the jars and bottles in Calgary and they cleaned them. Then they crushed them into a powder

00:43:32.000 because you can't just refill them, reuse them. Actually, you crush them. Then they took all this

00:43:36.620 powder and they put it at the Calgary garbage dump because they had nowhere else to put it.

00:43:40.300 So there was this mountain was building because the problem was nobody wanted it. There's nothing

00:43:45.720 you can do with it. It's powderized glass. It's good for next to nothing. And this mountain got

00:43:50.880 bigger and bigger and bigger at the Calgary garbage dump. And finally, some luminary said,

00:43:55.160 I got an idea for this stuff. I got it. I've had a brainstorm. At the dump, we're always building

00:43:59.900 roads and trails to get around for the equipment and machinery. We're putting gravel down for those

00:44:05.820 roads. Why don't we take the powdered glass and use that for roadbed? Brilliant, brilliant. So

00:44:11.760 after all this much time, after all this million spent, this big mountain, what you've decided to

00:44:16.280 do is bury it at a landfill. Good thinking. At a higher cost than gravel by a long shot.

00:44:24.540 Come on, you guys. If we'd just thrown the damn jars in the garbage in the first place, 0.99

00:44:29.380 we would have saved millions. They still would have got buried at the landfill. 0.99

00:44:32.700 We could have used gravel, but no, that doesn't feel as good. I don't feel right throwing away

00:44:37.060 glass like that. And we better get better at it because we're banning all our plastics.

00:44:41.760 i just want to see policies about things that work and you know we don't get nearly enough

00:44:48.300 of those uh let's see i'll close with a few more things i'll be watching so you know this doesn't

00:44:54.260 feel so good but talking about emotional because i don't know what it takes to change things in

00:44:58.360 this country i mean they voted 174 to 150 to uh fire this special rapporteur you know the the

00:45:04.700 fake position that justin trudeau created for his surrogate uncle johnston to look into the chinese

00:45:10.300 interference issue in Canada, even with a clear majority of our elected officials in the House

00:45:16.740 of Commons, they cannot get this done. We cannot fire a man who is clearly inept and biased in the 0.97

00:45:23.980 job he's in. Then what on earth is the purpose of that federal legislature? Really, talk about 0.98

00:45:31.400 useless, talk about an affront to democracy, talk about a waste of time. Now Jagmeet Singh could do

00:45:37.340 something about it. But, you know, I spoke about testicles earlier. Yes, the drag performers have 0.99

00:45:42.340 more testicles to be seen than Jagmeet Singh does when it comes to holding the government that he's 1.00

00:45:47.140 propping up to account. He talks big, but acts small. But I mean, yes, as we see that headline, 0.99

00:45:52.940 his testimony showed missing information election investigation. The investigation was half-assed.

00:45:57.280 It was a joke. It was just him going through the motions. They're kicking the can down the road,

00:46:02.080 and they're hoping Canadians forget about this whole thing. They might be right. They might even 0.90

00:46:06.720 be right. But he's doddering around 81 years old. And even in discussions, Jane brought up the other

00:46:14.440 day, he doesn't even sound like he's necessarily all in his right mind. I mean, this guy might be

00:46:18.660 getting a little, you know, cognitive challenges going on here. So similar to with Mr. Biden down

00:46:25.840 south of the border, we're getting into the realm of elder abuse by sticking these folks up here

00:46:30.540 into these positions and letting them take the heat, particularly when this guy is taking the

00:46:34.380 heat on behalf of Justin Trudeau and his incompetent government. And yeah, more news

00:46:40.380 came out. It's evidence of them meddling in elections and stuff coming up. What's it going

00:46:47.660 to take? What is it going to take? All right. That's what it takes out of me. That's my ranting

00:46:53.940 and raving for today, guys. Lots to cover. There's lots more stories going on. Let's hope. I'm not a

00:46:59.040 praying type, but for those of you who pray, by all means, go for it. But let's hope there's some

00:47:02.540 rain gets to those parts of the country where it's burning pretty bad. I mean, we got some

00:47:05.900 serious issues going on. Alberta seems to have gotten things under control, but it's getting

00:47:09.760 pretty hairy out east. And well, let's just keep supporting our independent media guys acting well.

00:47:17.060 Again, follow policies based on what works. Don't worry about your emotions. Save your emotions for

00:47:20.960 your significant others. They appreciate them much better. And I will see you all again next

00:47:25.500 week at this time, guys. Thanks. Here's an update on commodity prices in

00:47:31.040 Lethbridge for today. Cash barley is unchanged at $4.12, feed wheat is steady

00:47:36.060 at $4.12, and corn is down $2.00 at $4.04 per metric ton. In the milling wheat

00:47:41.500 markets, July Minneapolis futures dropped $0.1675 to $7.9975,

00:47:46.440 string bid for June movement at $10.50 per bushel. Looking at canola, nearby

00:47:51.500 futures are up 50 cents at $6.70.40 per tonne, with delivered values for June

00:47:56.420 movement at $15.42 per bushel. In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices

00:48:01.520 are trading at 33 cents per pound and yellow peas are holding at $11.25 per

00:48:05.880 bushel. And in the cattle markets, August live cattle slip 60 cents at $1.73.90 per

00:48:12.440 hundredweight. For more information on pricing or picked up options give me a

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00:49:16.060 Thank you.

Western Standard - June 08, 2023

CMS： Climate obsessed governments are reducing world food supplies

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