Western Standard - August 03, 2023


CMS： Criminals need to be held responsible for their crimes


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In this week's episode, Cory rants about transit projects across the country, the Green Line in Calgary, and the growing problem of electric vehicle charging stations being targeted by thieves. Also, Cory has a rant about how we need to stop blaming others for our problems.

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00:00:30.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show this is my weekly opportunity to vent and rant and rave
00:00:39.280 and cover some issues of importance offer my opinion and talk to interesting guests and this
00:00:44.600 week episode is like every other a good one i'm gonna have a lot of transit talk today i know we
00:00:50.320 don't typically talk about that that sounds pretty boring but it isn't it's important actually we got
00:00:54.960 some mega transit programs going on across the country and uh you're gonna pay for them even if
00:01:00.440 you don't ride transit or even if you live in the country because there's provincial and federal
00:01:04.380 transfers go to these and we're gonna speak a little later with he's jim gray he's a calgary
00:01:10.380 energy uh executive or he was and he's with the ad hoc citizens committee to rethink the green line
00:01:15.960 that's a mouthful but it's a group coming out saying hey we gotta second think this uh project
00:01:20.920 coming in Calgary because it's pretty big and those numbers are looking pretty scary and
00:01:25.020 we don't know if we need this thing. So that's going to be a very interesting
00:01:28.440 conversation coming up. Lots of news. I'll be checking in with Dave in a little while
00:01:32.820 as well. And of course, lots of the ranting and raving. So
00:01:36.500 make sure to use this as a live show, guys. Use that comment area. Get in there, get your
00:01:40.700 questions in, send things my way. Just keep things civil, of course.
00:01:44.960 We can always fight later on out on Twitter. And I'm going to remind people
00:01:48.740 more and more at the start and the end of the show. This is with the Western Standard. Save the
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00:02:08.440 can come directly to us, the better it's important. It's important for us and, of course, for you so
00:02:13.140 you can keep getting that great content. All right, I'm going to start with my rant for the day. I'll
00:02:18.700 start with a grumpy statement, as is my want anyways. So the common denominator, let's talk
00:02:24.660 about that. The common denominator in all your failures is you. Yes, yes, that's a harsh statement.
00:02:30.740 Few people ever want to face that reality. That's why so many people gladly embrace the opportunity
00:02:35.320 to blame somebody or something else for their problems when they can. Of course, we have an
00:02:40.400 ever-growing state with governments willing to indulge people when they don't want to take
00:02:43.780 responsibility for or accept the consequences for their actions either. All the excuses. Society made
00:02:49.740 me do it. The drugs made me do it. My parents didn't hug me enough. It's not my fault I got
00:02:54.340 burned. Nobody told me the coffee would be hot. Systemic racism held me back. My ex-wife is the 1.00
00:02:59.960 root of all my problems. Greedy corporations prevent me from getting ahead. The excuses used
00:03:04.940 to dodge and avoid personal responsibility are myriad. It's certainly more comforting to direct
00:03:10.580 your eye outwards when things may be going poorly for you than to consider that you may have caused
00:03:15.700 all or part of your current problems, especially when you have a world that's increasingly saying
00:03:21.380 nothing's your fault. There's many areas where we need people to start taking personal
00:03:26.160 responsibility, but I want to focus on crime. What got me going this time was a tweet from
00:03:31.400 the Western Standard's Arthur Green. It showed an electric vehicle charging station and the
00:03:35.400 charging cables have been cut off by thieves. Now crooks have realized that the copper in those
00:03:39.920 heavy-duty cables is valuable and thefts are becoming a problem throughout North America.
00:03:44.340 So I searched out and read a few articles. This is a growing problem everywhere. Now those articles
00:03:48.400 offered all sorts of advice in dealing with the issue ranging from keeping cars in garages to
00:03:53.240 bringing in detachable cables or to have retractable cables that'd be hidden when not in use.
00:03:57.760 But you know what I didn't hear? One piece of advice, one thing saying on how we're going to
00:04:02.240 deal with this? None of them said we should crack down on the bloody thieves. None. Just as it isn't
00:04:08.840 advisable for a woman to walk around alone during late hours in a bad part of town while wearing 1.00
00:04:13.580 revealing clothing, it doesn't absolve the perpetrator if she's assaulted. Yes, some
00:04:19.340 personal responsibility falls on property owners to work to ensure their items can't easily be
00:04:24.260 stolen. But we shouldn't have to keep locking everything we have down for fear of the thieves.
00:04:29.540 If the responsibility to protect properly fully falls upon the owner, then let's expand the right
00:04:34.500 to protect our property with force. Yeah, I know, the liberals won't like hearing about that.
00:04:38.400 So, let's get to those criminals. It reminded me of a town hall meeting the RCMP held in my area
00:04:43.340 when we were suffering under a particularly bad rural crime wave. We were told to consider
00:04:47.640 installing gates on our driveways and upgrading our alarm systems, maybe even get a dog. Well,
00:04:52.020 I got lots of dogs. I didn't move to the country to live in a fortress for fear of thieves.
00:04:56.980 They also told us not to defend our property, lest we be charged for assaulting a thief.
00:05:01.620 Huh? Violent crime and property crimes are rising across the country, the majority of which are
00:05:07.260 committed by chronic offenders who have been in and out and released back into society. It's time,
00:05:13.120 it's past time, to put the onus or responsibility on the offenders. I don't care about their
00:05:17.460 background. I don't care what led them to the life of crime. It's unfortunate, but that's not
00:05:21.360 my problem. Their crimes are my problem. And if they've been committing dozens of crimes,
00:05:26.280 it's time to consider warehousing them rather than wasting time and money reforming them.
00:05:30.620 It wouldn't be that costly to give truly long sentences to chronic offenders.
00:05:34.400 We're spending all that money and more having them in and out of the courts and keeping them 1.00
00:05:38.080 in remand centers while they steal from and assault innocent victims. There's no simple
00:05:42.540 or quick solutions to the growing disorder and crime issues. The trend is tied to a tougher
00:05:47.140 economy, the breakdown of family units, and an opioid addiction epidemic. There's lots we can
00:05:51.180 talk about. But we need to change attitudes in what's considered socially acceptable.
00:05:57.020 That's no easy task, but it has to be done. The excuses have to be dismissed in personal reality
00:06:01.700 and responsibility, I should say, must be applauded. Until that happens, though,
00:06:07.420 crime is only going to continue to get worse. So there, that's kind of what's got me going today.
00:06:12.960 I know some folks saying, yes, shoot, shovel, and shut up, and other comments such as that.
00:06:17.380 And, well, that's kind of what it'll come to if we can't rely on the authorities to protect us from the criminals any longer.
00:06:22.760 People will take it into their own hands, and they won't necessarily be the best arbiters of justice,
00:06:26.940 but that's what happens when society breaks down, so maybe we should just take responsibility instead.
00:06:31.480 Okay, let's get on and talk to our news editor in the newsroom, Dave Naylor.
00:06:34.940 It's been a busy day already. How's it going there, Dave?
00:06:38.080 Oh, it has been a busy day, Corey, and can I just say ditto regarding your rent?
00:06:42.960 Oh, no problem.
00:06:45.580 Yeah, we got big breaking news this morning out of Ottawa
00:06:48.480 where the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has announced he and his wife, Sophie, are separated.
00:06:55.580 They've been married for 18 years and have decided to take a break.
00:07:01.440 Not revealing the reasons why, but they are asking for privacy for their children's sake.
00:07:09.260 and they're actually off on holiday I think next week and they're going to go together.
00:07:14.700 So ironically, the last prime minister who separated from his wife when he was in office
00:07:21.680 was Justin's father, Pierre, who split up from Margaret while he was the PM in 1977.
00:07:30.180 So it doesn't happen very often, Corey.
00:07:33.180 We've also got UCP reaction to that blockbuster court announcement yesterday
00:07:38.400 that threw out all of Dr. Dina Hinshaw's health orders. 1.00
00:07:43.220 Justice Minister Mickey Amory told the Western Standard
00:07:46.420 that they're going to take the 30 days that they're allowed legally
00:07:51.060 whether or not to decide to have an appeal.
00:07:56.160 Got another transgender scandal brewing, so to speak, 1.00
00:08:00.740 if you'll pardon the pun,
00:08:01.520 this time at a coffee outlet across England, Costa Coffee.
00:08:06.220 It's huge in England, Corey, in every block.
00:08:09.600 They put out the latest cup with a transgendered man with scars on his chest after having his breasts removed.
00:08:18.520 So I guess they didn't learn from the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, and they're jumping right in,
00:08:23.840 and they're already the subject of a boycott in England.
00:08:27.900 The Stanley Cup is making an appearance in small towns, Saskatchewan, today.
00:08:32.440 The town of Davidson, not named after me,
00:08:37.000 is going to host the Cup with Golden Ice player McNabb is bringing it to town.
00:08:43.460 Every player gets a day with the Stanley Cup.
00:08:46.220 As you know, Corey, he's decided to spend it in small-town Saskatchewan,
00:08:51.300 his hometown, so a big day for them.
00:08:54.120 And our Linda Slobodian continues to focus on human trafficking.
00:08:57.680 She's got a column on a recent FBI bust that freed more than 200 people who were trapped by human traffickers.
00:09:05.700 So all that and more, Corey's already up this morning.
00:09:09.120 And just coming up right now, we're educating our young reporter, Jonathan Bradley, on the Burgess Shale.
00:09:15.520 He had never heard of it.
00:09:17.040 And he's writing now about the latest interesting fossil find that they've got out there.
00:09:23.800 Great. As a payoff boy, I was in a rockhound.
00:09:26.080 I've always been tempted to sneak out there and see what I could find in the Burgess Shale myself
00:09:30.140 for fossils, but it's a UNESCO site. People might not realize that.
00:09:34.320 You'd be in serious trouble and some serious fines if you tried to do that.
00:09:41.300 Yeah, well, it'll be an interesting story and looking forward to it. And maybe next year at
00:09:45.280 this time, we'll report on the Stanley Cup Touring Canada with a Canadian player carrying it around.
00:09:50.380 Wouldn't that be nice?
00:09:51.480 Canadian team, I should say.
00:09:53.140 That's the. I'm not going to hold my breath on that one yet, Corey. See what training camp brings.
00:09:58.680 Some kind of nice note. All right. Thanks, Dave. We'll check in with you later. Thanks.
00:10:04.700 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And yes, lots on the go. That's where I nag and remind
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00:10:43.720 to find these outlets for a while.
00:10:47.620 I got a feeling this will come to an end.
00:10:50.180 You know, this standoff,
00:10:51.120 the social media giants don't care.
00:10:52.520 It's not hurting them to not carry Canadian news.
00:10:55.140 They don't care,
00:10:56.660 but it's really hurting the outlets.
00:10:57.920 So I think Trudeau, you know,
00:11:00.060 and the government is gonna have to relent eventually.
00:11:03.980 Speaking of that, so they've brought it up
00:11:05.360 and I do want to talk about,
00:11:06.760 you know, for people who follow me on Twitter,
00:11:08.600 they know I like to indulge in poor taste.
00:11:10.600 I like to make jokes.
00:11:11.320 I like to get personalized,
00:11:12.320 get nasty on folks in there.
00:11:13.720 Now, Trudeau and his wife, Sophie's separation probably lead to a divorce.
00:11:19.000 Who knows?
00:11:20.440 We've kind of, a lot of people have seen the signs perhaps, or we thought we did over the years.
00:11:24.280 You watch that when they're public figures, it's a bit gossipy.
00:11:27.120 It's human nature.
00:11:27.720 We're curious, but we can't forget.
00:11:30.560 And that's where I'm going to lay off a bit on this one.
00:11:32.740 I mean, I'll talk about it and I'll watch this news and I'll see things.
00:11:35.480 And I'm certainly not showing some love or sympathy for Justin Trudeau, but his kids, they've got kids.
00:11:42.040 I've been a child, you know, went through a divorce. Parents went through a divorce. It's
00:11:46.920 an unpleasant thing. I can't imagine how it is for a kid when it's in the news, when it's public
00:11:52.400 like that, when that's all going on. And the only innocence in those relationships, Justin and
00:11:57.200 Sophie, they did their thing. They made their bed. Kids had nothing to do with it. And if only for
00:12:04.380 that, you know, again, we can stay on Trudeau's case. Let's get on his case as much as we can,
00:12:09.560 But lay off the kids when it comes to this personal thing. It's a personal thing with them right now. And we'll see how it develops. So yeah, a big one on the news that's been for us lately. Again, that justice ruling from the Rebecca Ingram challenge to the pandemic lockdowns, it was launched, I believe in January 2020 or something around there. And it took, of course, this long.
00:12:38.340 Oh, let's see. They filed it in December, 2020. Okay. Much later, but still took this long,
00:12:42.560 but they basically said, yeah, you know what? Those, those pandemic, uh, restrictions weren't
00:12:48.220 constitutional or they, they didn't fall under the charter. And, uh, basically now this is a
00:12:54.020 little difficult because the restrictions of the damage have already been done. So what are you
00:12:58.340 going to do about it? But that's what some people are also, um, um, talking about, uh, uh, you know,
00:13:05.680 we're going to see a lot of class action suits. We're going to see things like that because now
00:13:08.840 the door is open. They're realizing the government was wrong. So I got distracted because I looked
00:13:12.100 at a commenter, Wildrose, and that's a regular here, saying, hey, Corey, he came after our
00:13:15.880 children. Why are his off limits? Well, Wildrose, because two wrongs don't make a right. That's
00:13:20.800 why. So again, take out your ire on Trudeau, not his kids. That's ridiculous. That's like saying
00:13:26.580 somebody who is a child murderer, and it turns out he has kids as well. We should go out and
00:13:30.440 murder his kids as well? No. So that's not a reasonable response to a wrong that was done.
00:13:38.160 You can be as upset with the Trudeaus as you like. And by all means, I am all the time. 1.00
00:13:43.160 Leave the kids out. If they want to grow up and get into politics and public life after that, hey,
00:13:48.500 they're open game. Till then, it's just not where to be. Either way, getting back to that. Yeah. So
00:13:53.900 we're going to see a lot of things. And some of the calls from that
00:13:57.520 court ruling and so on, people like Ty Northcott and Pastor Coates,
00:14:02.620 people are saying it's time to drop the charges against them. I mean, those charges aren't valid
00:14:06.500 now that the COVID orders were found not to be valid in themselves
00:14:10.600 as well. And yeah,
00:14:14.000 that doors, we've just seen the beginning, I think. The floodgates are about to open,
00:14:18.040 not just class action suits, but other challenges.
00:14:21.520 This puts Premier Smith in such a tough spot. Is the provincial government going to appeal
00:14:25.960 this? Well, if they appeal that, she's made a lot of her political bases based on opposing those 1.00
00:14:32.580 lockdowns and restrictions. But at the same time, the government could be on the hook for,
00:14:38.120 and that does mean us in the long run, unfortunately, a whole lot of money if
00:14:41.900 lawsuits and other such things start coming down the line. Okay, I'm going to frame up for the next
00:14:47.320 guest coming on. Like I said, Jim Gray is going to come. We're going to talk about the Green Line.
00:14:50.660 So I know we got a lot of viewers and listeners outside of Calgary. It's called the Green Line.
00:14:54.840 It's a light rail transit expansion in Calgary, and it's huge. It's huge in scope. They've been
00:15:00.320 talking about it for decades, I think. It's supposed to go way up to North Calgary and then
00:15:04.620 way, way down south, and then they've cut the scope of it. They've been ripping up the streets
00:15:08.420 downtown. They've been making a mess. Still no track laid yet, and the price tag for this thing
00:15:13.660 seems to be just getting higher and higher. Well, finally, a group of people in Calgary has gotten
00:15:18.480 together, some business people, philanthropists, people involved in the community, and they've
00:15:23.520 formed the ad hoc committee ad hoc citizens committee to rethink the green line it's a big
00:15:28.120 mouthful it's greenlineinfo.ca but you know the reason I said I'm explaining this for the folks
00:15:33.100 who aren't in Calgary is because these sorts of projects are happening in cities across Canada
00:15:37.860 and maybe it's time to really tap the brakes on some of these because the costs are getting too
00:15:42.000 high so I have Jim Gray in studio with me today thank you very much for coming downtown to talk
00:15:47.360 to us about this today Jim oh thank you for having me I live downtown so I didn't have that power to
00:15:52.740 Well, a short commute, but still, it's a nice day.
00:15:55.100 You know, there could be other things to be doing.
00:15:56.980 So I appreciate that.
00:15:58.960 So I guess living downtown, you've seen already the construction, the work they've been doing down here on this.
00:16:05.300 And that would be part of what inspired you to get involved with this group and get this group going then?
00:16:11.620 Well, first of all, it's a good group.
00:16:14.400 It's about eight or ten people.
00:16:16.560 And no, I got started 10 years ago, 10, 12 years ago.
00:16:20.800 I found out during the flood of 2013 that we were planning two tunnels under the Bow River,
00:16:28.880 one going north, one going south, each of them worth a billion dollars.
00:16:33.780 And I'm an old worn out geologist, but we live on a floodplain in Calgary,
00:16:40.220 and tunnels are very, very dangerous from water.
00:16:44.660 And we know what's happened in the past.
00:16:47.260 So I got really interested because of the tunnels under the Bow River.
00:16:51.320 And I just thought that was an enormous risk and was very dangerous.
00:16:57.080 And that's what kind of got us started back in about 2012.
00:17:02.120 Okay.
00:17:02.880 And I mean, you've been involved, as I said earlier, in the energy industry.
00:17:06.480 I mean, you've been involved in a lot of large capital projects before.
00:17:09.740 And I guess, you know, in watching how the expenses and things have been moving along with this,
00:17:14.420 that must be raising some alarm bells with you as well then.
00:17:17.260 Well, it was. And the world experts are at Oxford University. They've got 15,000 megaprojects in their database. And I've been in touch with them and our group has been in touch with them. And they just say the way Calgary is moving on this green line is kind of a poster child for how these things go in the ditch.
00:17:41.600 and there's three elements. Number one, they start by underestimating the cost. Well, if you
00:17:48.680 remember, 4.65 was going to build the whole line from 160th North all the way to Seton. And now
00:17:55.300 it's down to about 25% of that for more money. And then number two, they overestimate the benefits.
00:18:02.500 And we've done that with ridership and various other things. And then number three, they spend
00:18:08.980 money as fast as possible to get past the point of no return. And every one of these,
00:18:15.680 Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, and then a whole group of them in the US have followed
00:18:23.160 that same path. And now from coast to coast, with the exception of Calgary, most of them,
00:18:31.080 over 90% of them are saying, let's just pause, let's get this right. It's too big to get
00:18:37.820 wrong and and we need to do that in calgary we're not opposed to the green line in fact we're trying
00:18:44.220 to save the green line if it's possible to save it but we can't use pre-covid estimates of the cost
00:18:52.780 and because inflation and covid and everything that we touch has been impacted by inflation
00:19:00.380 and by other cost increases.
00:19:03.840 And so we're just lobbying,
00:19:06.400 we're just bringing pressure on the provincial government.
00:19:09.560 They're the ones that we have to focus on.
00:19:12.340 The provincial government to just pause
00:19:14.680 and let's get this right.
00:19:16.760 Yeah, so I mean, that one element you were talking about,
00:19:19.800 and we've seen that, I mean,
00:19:20.460 they're spending, I believe, 100,000 a day right now,
00:19:22.900 and they haven't even laid track on this.
00:19:24.880 I mean, it's been over a billion dollars spent on this.
00:19:27.240 Well, Corey, they're right at just about a billion, and they're spending multiples
00:19:34.600 of $100,000 a day. They're spending $200,000 or $300,000 a day. And as you say, we haven't
00:19:41.800 laid that much track yet. And they say they won't have the final prices till next spring.
00:19:48.520 Meanwhile, we're spending $200,000, $300,000 a day and ripping up downtown. And by that time,
00:19:55.480 we will have spent a billion and a half dollars, which is more than the new cancer center,
00:20:01.480 which is way more than the new event center. And we still won't know what this thing's going to
00:20:09.160 cost. So let's just pause and get it right. Because I think we have to understand that
00:20:15.480 But this Green Line, 46 kilometers from the north to the south, doesn't go to the health campus, the big new hospital, doesn't go to that big new economic area.
00:20:29.260 Doesn't go to the airport.
00:20:30.480 Doesn't go to the airport, doesn't go to the eight communities between Shepard and Seton.
00:20:36.780 Stage one goes from Eau Claire to Shepard.
00:20:40.680 And when people always ask me, well, Jim, where's Shepard?
00:20:44.680 I say, well, that's the old landfill site.
00:20:47.200 Oh, yeah, I remember taking stuff out to Shepherd.
00:20:50.360 But there are no new riders between new riders.
00:20:53.640 We're not talking about, when you talk about riders, you got to talk about new riders,
00:20:58.300 people that aren't now taking the bus.
00:21:00.680 And there are very few new riders between Eau Claire and Shepherd that aren't now serviced
00:21:06.140 with a bus, very well serviced with a bus.
00:21:10.080 So I could go on, but we're spending huge amounts of money.
00:21:16.220 Phase one is now budgeted at around $5 billion,
00:21:20.980 five or five and a half billion dollars.
00:21:22.920 That includes $500 million for financing.
00:21:26.800 Clearly, it's going to go to between eight and 10.
00:21:29.680 And there are many people think it'll go more than that.
00:21:32.740 Phase two, which takes us all the way to Seton,
00:21:36.500 the South Health campus, et cetera,
00:21:38.100 will be something in the order of $10 to $15 billion.
00:21:41.840 So let's get, let's understand, Corey,
00:21:45.480 this is the biggest thing Calgary's ever done at $20 to $25 billion.
00:21:52.160 And then I guess to put that in perspective, a couple of things,
00:21:54.700 and not everybody's from Calgary too.
00:21:56.380 So yes, what you're talking about is this is going to go through
00:21:58.360 essentially like a large light industrial and sort of reclaimed garbage dump zone.
00:22:03.220 So there's not going to be a lot of traffic or need.
00:22:05.300 That was one of the factors you were talking about,
00:22:07.840 you know, for the lack of benefit. If you don't have the ridership there, why are you building
00:22:10.940 the train? But just to put those dollars in perspective, if you're talking $20 billion,
00:22:15.100 $25 billion, assuming there's a million taxpayers in Calgary, that would come up to about $20,000
00:22:21.840 a person in the city of taxpayers to cover this line. That's before they even get to buy a ticket
00:22:27.360 and ride on it. Exactly. And the average taxpayer, I believe, pays about $2,500 of residential tax.
00:22:36.100 And so that $20,000 number is an enormous number.
00:22:41.140 And the one area, there's three agencies paying for this,
00:22:45.840 the citizens of Calgary, the citizens of Alberta, and Canadians.
00:22:50.140 A third, a third, a third.
00:22:52.040 A third, Calgary, a third, Edmonton, and a third, Ottawa.
00:22:56.260 But the one agent with deep pockets is Edmonton.
00:23:01.620 and they're going to have a real problem bailing out Calgary
00:23:07.380 because Edmonton's LRT's in trouble
00:23:09.860 and they've just caused a pause to their capital line
00:23:13.900 and the costs of their capital line have ballooned.
00:23:18.280 Now, you might be amused to know that I phoned the journalist
00:23:22.840 that wrote the story.
00:23:24.260 I said, what does ballooned mean?
00:23:26.420 I mean, I don't see any definition in a financial textbook
00:23:30.900 about balloon and the best we can come up with is 50 to 100%. So their council to their credit said
00:23:38.200 stop let's look at this and let's bring the cost down to the funds that are available
00:23:45.300 and we've got to do that in Calgary. That has to be done in Calgary. Most definitely and I don't
00:23:52.100 like and this has been happening for a few years some of the number juggling they've done with this
00:23:55.740 I used to lock horns with former Mayor Nenshi on this, and they said, no, it's not over budget.
00:24:01.540 Well, you've cut it down to a quarter of the scope, and the budget is the same.
00:24:06.620 That's a blown budget.
00:24:08.000 You're just juggling now.
00:24:09.880 Please quit trying to.
00:24:11.240 And when you see that trend, and we haven't reevaluated in years now, it can't be anywhere close to budget.
00:24:17.860 And who would use pre-COVID numbers for anything?
00:24:22.760 Take the cars.
00:24:23.820 The cars are made in Spain.
00:24:25.740 Our present cars are made in Germany, Siemens.
00:24:28.640 These cars are ground-loading cars, and they're made in Spain.
00:24:32.220 They're not compatible with our present fleet.
00:24:34.980 So we need new parts, new shops, new mechanics.
00:24:39.380 We've got a whole new protocol of vehicles to put in place.
00:24:43.580 And they were going to have roughly 80 cars when it started for $300 or $400 million.
00:24:49.680 Now we're down to about 30 cars.
00:24:51.960 And they say, well, we're still on budget.
00:24:53.780 Same sort of.
00:24:54.680 But we're only getting 30 cars, not 80 cars.
00:24:57.780 Look, I don't make any of this personal.
00:24:59.860 I will not attack anybody in a personal way
00:25:04.700 because we got to learn in this
00:25:07.100 to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
00:25:10.620 And it's time that we just paused
00:25:15.620 and tried to save this green line,
00:25:18.040 if it's possible to save it.
00:25:20.440 And I don't know whether it is possible to save it,
00:25:23.360 But nevertheless, we've got to,
00:25:25.660 and our sensible, affordable alternative
00:25:29.520 is to start on 7th Avenue by City Hall
00:25:32.080 and go all the way to Seton on the surface,
00:25:34.720 no tunnels on the surface or elevated.
00:25:38.460 And that's the way we've built every LRT.
00:25:41.880 We've started on 7th Avenue
00:25:43.940 and gone out to where the population is.
00:25:46.700 So let's do that.
00:25:48.560 And let's look at building to the airport
00:25:52.300 Vancouver has. They've got a line that stops downtown in many places and then goes to the
00:25:58.700 airport. Well, what about Saddletown? Let's just look at that. I'm not saying it's the thing to do
00:26:04.700 until we get a good analysis of the cost and the benefits, but I like the idea personally.
00:26:12.140 And in North Calgary, we've got a wonderful buff system in North Calgary 1.00
00:26:17.420 or that picks up people all over the area and then comes down on three lines over Center Street
00:26:22.940 and deposits them right downtown and then picks them up and takes them back home and maybe
00:26:27.900 we can strengthen that. But let's just start on 7th Avenue, go all the way to Seton on the surface
00:26:36.540 and elevate it. No tunnels. Building tunnels in Calgary is a mug scheme. It's at high risk
00:26:43.740 risk and dangers because of water. Yeah. And so another aspect has changed since COVID
00:26:50.800 is people aren't riding transit downtown as much as they used to. And there's a couple of factors
00:26:55.900 going on. Some people have moved on to working from home. They don't come downtown like they
00:26:59.760 used to. And this could be solvable. So it doesn't necessarily mean scrapping the line,
00:27:04.180 but crime has been a serious, serious problem on transit. And it's pushing people from
00:27:08.040 wanting to utilize the transit. And people have been shifting more to the outer areas
00:27:13.720 of the city rather than the inner. And it's, again, not necessarily saying that the project
00:27:17.420 isn't viable, but maybe we should be focusing on getting people to use transit more again first
00:27:22.740 before building more infrastructure for what's right now a declining demand.
00:27:28.140 Well, there's a fundamental issue that you've just touched on, Corey. The danger of stations
00:27:35.760 underground in tunnels is measurably higher than the danger of surface or elevated stations.
00:27:43.460 that are open up, that have windows that are open. And so we have to be very careful in that
00:27:49.940 the hesitancy in using these facilities, we run a high risk of that escalating with stations buried
00:27:59.300 underground in tunnels. We've got to forget this business of tunnels. I'm an older person.
00:28:04.580 I remember when the CPR was going to build a tunnel for their main line under Calgary,
00:28:09.220 so in Rod Sykes day so that they could monetize all their land and they said they did the studies
00:28:15.460 and they said no way we're not building tunnels under Calgary. Well if I recall there is a built
00:28:24.340 sitting gathering dust little LRT station they put under the new city hall in anticipation it's
00:28:30.020 still sitting there thinking they were going to put an LRT line under there at some time or another.
00:28:34.980 You see, when you build a tunnel, you only need 5 or 10 or 15 feet of water-saturated sandstones or conglomerates or whatever, full of water, to ruin the whole system.
00:28:50.720 So just because you've got 100 feet or 100 yards of tunnel doesn't mean anything.
00:28:56.220 Oh, no.
00:28:56.560 I'm just saying it means that they've been peddling around with us for a long time.
00:28:59.500 Oh, yeah.
00:28:59.880 And we were going to actually build a tunnel along 9th Avenue at one time.
00:29:03.840 But I don't know if you remember Second Street when they were building Bankers Hall, and there was such a water influx that the big overhead crane crashed, that part of Ninth Avenue fell into the hole, and there were lawsuits that were still active just several years ago.
00:29:22.140 So we've got to stop that. We've got to stop tunnels under downtown Calgary. That should not be on.
00:29:30.640 And furthermore, the tunnel workers are not Calgarians.
00:29:37.240 We're not known for our tunnel expertise in Calgary.
00:29:41.680 We're known to be able to build roads.
00:29:44.360 And the 69th Street, we can build elevated LRTs.
00:29:48.740 We're good at that.
00:29:50.260 And we've got to put local contractors to work on and not international tunnel experts.
00:29:58.160 So I appreciate that you guys have gotten together and you're raising a hand.
00:30:01.300 Again, to be, you know, pragmatic, you're not saying shut it down, but let's just hold our horses and get a better look.
00:30:09.140 It's going to be hard because, as you say, they're going to say, oh, look at the sunk costs and things such as that.
00:30:14.220 Politicians are going to dig in their heels. 0.99
00:30:15.820 So I'm kind of getting on to the what can people do?
00:30:17.880 You guys are preparing for a petition, but we've got a thousand people have now, and it's gone up dramatically in the last week or two.
00:30:28.240 have now taken the time to send us an email
00:30:30.900 to say there are supporters.
00:30:32.780 Now we're going on to social media
00:30:35.220 and our target is to get 5,000 Calgarians.
00:30:38.480 Look at, I'm a citizen, we're a taxpayer.
00:30:40.920 I have no skin in the game on this thing.
00:30:43.480 I just believe we have a responsibility as taxpayers
00:30:47.060 to be involved in issues as big as the biggest thing
00:30:51.220 that Calgary has ever done.
00:30:53.020 And let me repeat, our email,
00:30:55.480 our website is greenlineinfo.ca and you can log into that and you can become a participant.
00:31:04.660 And we're not asking for money. We're not asking for anything. We just want to know that you
00:31:09.140 support just pausing and getting this right because it's never too late to do the right thing.
00:31:17.360 Oh, absolutely. And that's the battle it'll have to be is look, even if it's well along,
00:31:21.240 If the right thing is to pause it, pause it.
00:31:23.900 Well, I'd rather lose a billion than lose five.
00:31:26.360 Well, or 10 or 20.
00:31:27.940 Or 10 or 20.
00:31:28.860 Yeah, so okay, before I let you go then, is there anything else you'd like to add?
00:31:31.980 No, but I urge people, you made the comment, what are you going to do about it?
00:31:36.860 I urge people to get engaged, understand this project, and sign up as a participant.
00:31:43.800 We're trying to save the green line, but let's save it in a practical, objective,
00:31:50.120 have clearly thought out way because these things are going in the ditch from coast to coast
00:31:56.160 and let's not be one of them. Well, thank you very much for raising your hand and getting on to it
00:32:02.640 and taking a break from, I'm sure, retirement to take this on and let's hope that the voice of
00:32:08.480 reason prevails in the end. Thanks again for coming to talk to us today. Thanks very much.
00:32:12.140 All right. So again, one more time, guys, greenlineinfo.ca and there's a lot of resources
00:32:17.200 and information there for you on it.
00:32:19.040 And as he said, this is happening across the country.
00:32:21.660 Edmonton has just been a catastrophe.
00:32:23.740 Colby Kosh wrote a great piece on that actually
00:32:26.260 up in Edmonton with what's been going on with their line.
00:32:29.420 And they had, they're years behind schedule.
00:32:32.040 They're running test trains up and down on it.
00:32:33.540 They've spent a fortune on it
00:32:34.820 and it still hasn't taken a passenger yet.
00:32:37.760 So as I said, you don't have to live in Calgary.
00:32:40.040 You don't have to even live in a city
00:32:42.120 to realize that this is gonna cost you.
00:32:44.120 This is gonna cost you.
00:32:45.120 The federal taxes are gonna get you.
00:32:46.620 the provincial taxes are going to get you, you're going to pay for this. So as I said,
00:32:50.620 we're talking about a lot of transit sort of issues going on, you know, today and things like
00:32:58.520 that. I mean, so one of the interesting ones was Chrystia Freeland. You know, we've been hearing
00:33:03.220 that one. That's been a popular story on ours federally. And she has been talking about, you
00:33:08.460 know, that they're trying to look like the common people. They're saying, we're just like you,
00:33:12.080 we're, we're tightening our belts. Freeland did the thing with, uh, saying, you know, we got rid
00:33:17.320 of the Disney channel. We're saving money. You got to, this is a cabinet minister who's making
00:33:21.320 hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. I don't begrudge her that, but don't pretend that you're
00:33:27.740 tightening your belt like the rest of us. And then she went on a rant to say she doesn't,
00:33:31.820 she doesn't have a car and she rides a bike where she has to, and she takes transit or taxis where
00:33:36.820 she has to go and got quite upset when she got called on it. Well, turns out that yes, her
00:33:43.200 chauffeur, and she has a chauffeur, claimed expenses for meals and other costs over 28 days,
00:33:48.680 just in Toronto, where she lives. I mean, there's been other areas where she's traveled. She's used
00:33:52.340 chauffeured vehicles as well. Look, she's a federal cabinet minister. She's a deputy prime minister.
00:33:58.800 She's a finance minister. I don't feel that people in that position should necessarily not
00:34:05.480 have that sort of transportation at their disposal. But don't sit and pretend that you don't use it.
00:34:11.440 Of course you do. And the evidence is there. And we've seen it. Or, or her chauffeur has been
00:34:16.600 ripping off taxpayers by filing false expense reports. So which one's it going to be? Freeland,
00:34:21.620 you were using it. But getting on more recently. So I mean, with this whole affair starting to hit
00:34:29.360 the news and be a problem and everything else, coincidentally, suddenly a photo starts going
00:34:35.260 around from a Toronto outlet at first hit Twitter, I believe. And it says, look who was spotted
00:34:39.820 riding the TTC, which is the Toronto subway line, the train line. Well, there's Justin Trudeau. You
00:34:45.380 can see the picture right there. And for the people listening on the podcast, he's standing
00:34:48.440 there looking stoic, sort of staring off into the distance and holding up there in a train. He's got
00:34:53.840 his sleeves rolled up. You know, he's getting serious. He's on to something here. If you look
00:34:58.020 really closely, you see the bulletproof vests and all the people around him, of course, because
00:35:01.360 he's got security and such, which he should. He's the prime minister. But you're trying to pretend
00:35:09.340 to be able to relate with us. You're trying to pretend that you're one of us. You aren't.
00:35:13.960 You aren't. Quit the facade. Quit insulting our intelligence with this. You don't ride transit,
00:35:21.020 Justin Trudeau. You're a trust fund baby. And hey, that's no fault of your own. You were born into that.
00:35:25.240 But you were born into a rich, well-known family. You were chauffeured all your life. You've probably
00:35:31.060 never cooked Kraft dinner for yourself. That's fine. Embrace that, but don't sit and pretend
00:35:36.520 and stand there as if you're a transit rider like everybody else. And we're seeing that song and
00:35:42.000 dance. We're seeing that, that game. We saw that in Calgary too, with the mayor, Jody Gondek was
00:35:48.560 riding the train. And sure enough, she had a pile of cops with her for the whole ride. And the point
00:35:53.480 of her ride was to see the train's perfectly safe. No, no, your worship. The train's perfectly safe
00:36:00.400 when you can have an escort of a bunch of armed police officers with you.
00:36:05.180 For the common rider, it doesn't work that way.
00:36:09.160 In Edmonton just the other day, it works great.
00:36:11.500 They came up with their Marvin the Meatball thing to show,
00:36:14.040 come on, downtown, it's nice, and say it was bizarre, almost surreal.
00:36:17.460 A Chilean older woman was riding the Edmonton Transit, and she got assaulted.
00:36:22.780 Edmonton's getting known as Stabmonton.
00:36:25.260 But that's happening everywhere, the crime on these transit systems.
00:36:28.680 and in wintertime, it gets even worse. And in Everton, they talked about that. It was tweeted
00:36:32.860 out and basically saying, we're going to allow the transit lines to be a de facto shelter for
00:36:38.660 the homeless people when it gets cold. That's not reasonable, but it just really, yeah, it does get
00:36:44.420 under my skin when you see poses like that from that clown Trudeau pretending that, you know,
00:36:49.660 I understand. I feel your pain, oh common Canadians. I ride the train like you do. No, 0.99
00:36:55.640 you do not. No, you do not. This is a government that's on the ropes though. I mean, that poll,
00:37:01.280 we talked about that in the pipeline last week. It was something else that was out of abacus. I
00:37:04.960 mean, that was 2,500 people sampled. It wasn't a minor one. And it found a lot of issues that
00:37:10.580 are probably very disturbing for this government. They're doing internal polling all the time as
00:37:14.180 well. Every government party does that. They do polls and polls and polls. And they're probably
00:37:18.500 finding that, no, no doubt about it, they are finding, of course, that yeah, they're 10 points
00:37:23.380 behind the conservatives now. And the scary thing is, who are they losing? Women and young people.
00:37:28.300 Women and young people. Those were traditionally his areas of support. And the conservatives are
00:37:33.000 leading in both those categories now. But I mean, there's a lot of factors that come into it. But
00:37:36.840 affordability, that's the huge one. And who's getting hit? A lot of women who are often perhaps, 1.00
00:37:42.560 you know, raising children and so on might not be in an intact marriage or young people again.
00:37:47.560 And these are people also that ride transit. These are people that have a hard time paying
00:37:52.940 their bills with the carbon taxes, the inflation, the constant pounding they're getting from this
00:37:58.480 government, raising the cost of living while they're pretending they aren't. Well, they keep
00:38:03.280 saying we're addressing it. No, you aren't. People are having a really hard time. So I'm sure their
00:38:07.860 focus groups found, look, people are afraid of riding on transit. Well, let's show them how,
00:38:12.300 oh, we understand we ride transit too. How many people look at that and say, oh yes, look at
00:38:17.700 Justin genuinely riding transit just like everybody else. Oh, what a load of crap. And
00:38:21.860 Chrystia Freeland, a picture of her with her bicycle there. There was one of those going
00:38:26.200 around. And we saw that with Climate Barbie, who used to be in cabinet, another one of theirs,
00:38:30.160 who was riding her bike in a big pose on Ottawa Hill, and she was wearing high heels. Now,
00:38:35.240 I don't ride bicycles a lot, and I never wear high heels. I mean, it's just, you know, not a
00:38:41.520 fear of trans thing. It's just I don't have the right ankles for that sort of getup. But I'm 1.00
00:38:45.460 pretty sure the two don't go together well on bicycles if you're really actually going to ride
00:38:49.340 one. Curly Mayhew saying seniors too. Yeah. When the pressure is coming on, yeah, particularly
00:38:54.860 seniors have fixed incomes. They are very sensitive to rises in costs for food, for rent,
00:39:01.880 for, and, and, and transit and seniors are often riding transit. And again, when it's a little
00:39:06.440 easier to feel comfortable, I guess, when you're riding on an LRT loaded with addicts and people,
00:39:11.220 you know, freaking out and tweaking when you're in your twenties and strong and fit and confident,
00:39:18.800 But once you're getting into the senior years, you're a little more uncomfortable riding amongst that mass, likewise with women. 1.00
00:39:25.520 Instead of pretending they can relate with us, because that's what the government's doing right now.
00:39:29.860 That's why they put on the show.
00:39:31.240 That's why they do their photo ops.
00:39:34.180 How about actually fixing the problems, huh?
00:39:36.760 How about getting your bail reforms done, Prime Minister Trudeau?
00:39:39.700 You've talked and talked and talked about that.
00:39:41.220 We've had police officers shot by people released on bail.
00:39:44.120 We've had people released on bail, violent individuals all over the place.
00:39:48.060 the stories are constant and chronic, and they're violent. Fix it. Don't give me a photo op. Give
00:39:54.060 me legislation. When you morons pushed through C-18, damn the torpedoes. We're going to screw 0.88
00:40:01.120 up and coming alternative media companies. That got through without much difficulty. When the
00:40:05.780 government wants to get something through, they will get it through. The only reason I can see
00:40:09.320 them dragging their butts on bail reform is they don't want to do it. Too bad. You need to. I'm
00:40:15.060 offering tips here, Justin. These are tips because your little photo opportunities are not going to
00:40:20.880 turn that demographic crowd around and vote for you. That's that arrogance, that vanity, that
00:40:27.020 foolishness. That's what's costing you support. So I guess as a conservative, I say, carry on,
00:40:32.480 Justin, do another one. Show yourself walking to work one day or riding your bike downtown. I mean,
00:40:38.120 we'll believe it. Sure, we will. You know, they've tried this before with Trudeau in his early times
00:40:43.880 to paint him as something he isn't.
00:40:46.300 I remember that when he first became prime minister,
00:40:48.520 let's give one thing to his credit,
00:40:49.820 his speaking has gotten better.
00:40:51.100 I mean, I still find his voice
00:40:52.260 to be like nails on chalkboard,
00:40:53.420 but you remember eight, nine years ago,
00:40:55.060 even when he's leader of the opposition,
00:40:56.960 the ums and ahs and stammering and stuttering,
00:41:00.660 driving bananas, he's gotten better.
00:41:02.420 To his credit, he's gotten better.
00:41:03.680 A lot of practice, perhaps even some voice coaching,
00:41:05.680 who knows.
00:41:06.820 But part of what came out at first too was,
00:41:09.360 and there's some truth to any part of that impression,
00:41:11.720 he's not what we would call a cerebral prime minister. He's not a deep thinker. He's not a
00:41:17.500 philosopher. He's not a policy want. Come on. He's a guy with pretty hair who gets around,
00:41:22.320 leads the party, has a good family name, and has managed to lead to success in Central Canadian
00:41:26.500 voters. But what they try to do is show him as something else. And this photo op they did,
00:41:32.060 this whole presser, it was just bizarre. And I can't believe people didn't see through that.
00:41:37.520 I don't know if you guys remember it. He had a whiteboard behind him. I think he was out of
00:41:41.120 school or a college or something had all these formulas written out on it and everything else
00:41:46.040 it looked like you know a professor's been building a rocket or something like that
00:41:49.020 there was of course a staged question about quantum computing and Justin Trudeau launched
00:41:55.100 into a lecturing answer with his deep knowledge on quantum computing it was just so grossly staged
00:42:02.240 I'm surprised they didn't give him a pair of glasses a little tape in the middle to try
00:42:05.660 They're trying to change the impression of him from being the vacuous ski coach, you know, part-time drama teacher into some sort of intellectual.
00:42:16.320 Don't. Don't do that.
00:42:18.260 You're just insulting us.
00:42:19.560 Show him is what he is.
00:42:21.580 Or maybe what he is is just too ugly to actually win an election.
00:42:25.380 But, you know, look at that.
00:42:27.440 Nico's amazing.
00:42:28.660 He found that picture.
00:42:29.700 Look at that.
00:42:30.740 Look at that.
00:42:31.700 And, you know, again, for the people listening on the podcast, yeah, here's all these numbers and formulas and everything in the background.
00:42:37.780 I would love to have a mathematician or somebody look at that and say, does that actually mean anything?
00:42:41.920 Or do they just kind of clip something out and stick it back there behind him anyways?
00:42:46.220 Sorry, it didn't make him any smarter, guys.
00:42:48.040 It looks to me like you're covering something up.
00:42:49.840 And what you're covering up was the lack of intellect on the part of the prime minister.
00:42:56.460 And, yeah, as they get more desperate, things are going to get uglier.
00:43:00.260 They're going to get worse.
00:43:01.700 And one of the things the government will do, and again, it seems to work for them politically, so I see why they do it, but is, of course, screw the West. I mean, that was the statements from one of Pierre Trudeau's main enforcers of the past, screw the West, we'll take the rest, and it worked. The liberals would win over and over.
00:43:18.140 One of the recent ones Jason Nixon in Alberta has been bringing up loudly, as he should, is, you know, there's been housing funds.
00:43:27.240 I think the government came up with a $1.5 billion or something with a housing affordability program, and then they transferred it out to the provinces.
00:43:34.740 It's how they control everything.
00:43:36.260 You know, people hear about equalization all the time.
00:43:38.040 We get upset about equalization.
00:43:39.140 That's because equalization is directed exclusively, specifically for the point of giving more to one province versus another to try and supposedly balance out unequal economies.
00:43:49.840 But people forget that, no, we get screwed on transfers all over the place.
00:43:53.640 Equalization is just the most visible.
00:43:55.840 So when it came to transferring out the money that came from us in the first place, Alberta makes up 12% of Canada's population now, really growing.
00:44:04.360 We only got 2.5% of the housing transfer back.
00:44:09.140 So basically they hooped us out
00:44:10.380 hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:44:12.180 I mean, the left goes wild
00:44:13.060 and is blaming Danielle Smith
00:44:14.040 for a lack of housing.
00:44:15.060 You know, the blame game
00:44:15.800 goes all over the place.
00:44:16.560 Well, if it's just money,
00:44:17.340 it's much more than money.
00:44:18.200 But if the money helps,
00:44:20.380 well, we lost hundreds of millions of dollars
00:44:21.960 because the Trudeau liberals
00:44:24.840 transferred it to the rest of the country
00:44:26.460 and shortchanged Alberta
00:44:27.680 by a huge amount.
00:44:29.280 They're going to up that game
00:44:30.500 because they don't care.
00:44:31.520 They know there's no seats to win out here.
00:44:33.680 They know there's very little seats to win
00:44:34.820 in Saskatchewan or interior BC.
00:44:37.040 So you watch.
00:44:37.760 They're desperate.
00:44:38.380 They're hurting.
00:44:39.140 Toronto, Montreal, some of the Maritimes and lower mainland BC, they're going to get a lot
00:44:43.380 of love in the next little while, but the rest of the West, internal Canada is going to get it.
00:44:48.780 We're going to get it bad. It's typical strategy on the part of the liberals. And that one is just
00:44:53.960 odious, just such a huge amount of the discrepancy. And Alberta is the fastest growing province in
00:44:58.240 the country. They're coming in here. People are coming in here. They're setting up homes here.
00:45:01.800 We need the housing. You're putting it into areas where people don't have a population growth.
00:45:07.500 It's just, again, but it was a political decision,
00:45:10.720 not one based on realistic need.
00:45:13.440 All right, that's it for this week, guys.
00:45:15.700 I appreciate you tuning in.
00:45:17.580 It's going to be another good one next week.
00:45:18.800 I got Michael Binion coming on
00:45:20.160 from the Modern Miracle Network.
00:45:21.300 We're going to talk about the mythical oil field subsidies
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00:45:51.140 The current Lethbridge feed grind prices are as follows.
00:45:54.040 Cash barley is steady at $4.14.
00:45:56.100 Feed wheat is down $2 at $4.10, while corn dropped $3 to $3.96.
00:46:01.040 In the milling wheat markets, September Minneapolis futures are off 5.5 cents at $8.49 per bushel,
00:46:07.800 with local hardwood spring bid for August movement at $10.45 per bushel delivered.
00:46:12.940 Over to the canola market, nearby canola futures are lower $1.70 at $777.40 per ton,
00:46:20.240 with delivered values for August movement at $17.28 per bushel.
00:46:24.140 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentils are trading at $0.32 a pound,
00:46:28.180 and yellow peas are at $11 per bushel.
00:46:31.040 Looking at the cattle markets, August live cattle decreased $1.30 at $178.20 per 100 weight.
00:46:38.260 For more information on pricing and picked up on-farm options, give me a call at 403-394-1711.
00:46:45.580 I'm Vera Buziak at Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.
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