Western Standard - CMS： Deinstitutionalization puts people on the streets

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00:00:31.000 Good day. Welcome to today's episode of the Cory Morgan Show. As the name would imply,

00:00:36.500 I am indeed Cory Morgan. This is my weekly playground with the Western Standard and on

00:00:41.280 the rest of all those channels out there, the Cowboy Network, Wild TV, where I can rant,

00:00:45.820 rave, go on about some news issues, have some interactions with some commenters, talk to

00:00:50.180 some cool guests and see what's happening in the news for the week. And as always, there's

00:00:55.460 lots to cover. So thanks for joining me. I got a really good one today. I've got a

00:00:59.980 A fella, his name is Dixon DeLorme, but he's probably better known to you as Quick Dick McDick.

00:01:05.860 He is an agricultural producer in Saskatchewan.

00:01:08.820 He's built quite a social media name for himself getting out there.

00:01:11.640 He's done some great fundraising for charity work and really gets the agricultural producer's message out there

00:01:17.200 in a format in a way that, you know, is difficult to translate for urban living people.

00:01:22.620 He's always fun to talk with, so it's great to have him on.

00:01:25.480 And my conversation with him will be playing in a little while.

00:01:27.640 I'll have a news check in with our news editor in a little while and I'll be talking about a

00:01:31.960 few other things. So I always start these shows off though with a monologue and you know something

00:01:37.760 like the columns I write and things like that. I like sharing. I share things. I'm in the open

00:01:43.040 with that on social media and on this show about personal experiences because they can apply to

00:01:47.340 real world issues and unfortunately I had a very recent one that that's very direct and it's worth

00:01:53.460 talking about. So I've written several times already on the consequences of well-meaning

00:01:58.640 but misguided. It's a long trend of deinstitutionalization for people suffering

00:02:02.840 from mental illness. Now, my family, unfortunately, just got to experience the outcome

00:02:07.140 of that trend directly. Recently, a close family member of mine experienced a sudden and severe

00:02:13.440 mental breakdown. And while he thankfully wasn't threatening to harm himself or others, he was in a

00:02:17.980 state of agitation and paranoia so serious he couldn't be safely managed within a family

00:02:22.460 household, though we tried. He wasn't capable of taking care of himself, and we couldn't keep him

00:02:26.980 contained. So the decision was made to take him in for professional help and evaluation. This wasn't

00:02:32.620 a situation where you could just schedule an appointment, wait a few weeks to see a counselor

00:02:36.060 or a psychiatrist. It was acute, and we needed immediate help for him. So our family member was

00:02:41.960 taken to one of Calgary's hospitals, and we began through the emergency department. And just so you

00:02:46.300 know, that's the only way to check somebody in during such an episode. As with pretty much all

00:02:51.060 the emergency departments across Canada, it was busy, they were harried and they were backed up

00:02:55.360 with admissions. It took over nine hours of waiting before a temporary bed could be found

00:02:59.900 and he was stuck in that temporary bed for another day until a bed could be found in the mental health

00:03:04.660 unit for some better assessment and to seek treatment options. Now it's just typical in our

00:03:09.440 healthcare system. The medical professionals are fantastic. I mean all the way from the people

00:03:13.220 cleaning the rooms to the nurses to the doctors. They're hard-working and patient people and they're

00:03:17.440 doing a hell of a tough job. The problem is getting through the queue to get to them. The

00:03:21.860 triage area of a hospital. It's by nature a chaotic and high stress environment. It's unfair and

00:03:27.560 unhealthy to keep somebody in a serious state of mental health distress in such an environment.

00:03:32.980 And it doesn't do those waiting for physical medical help any favors either being seated

00:03:36.420 next to a paranoid delusional person for hours. That's all the options we have right now though.

00:03:41.700 Canada's monopolized public health care model has evolved into a very hospital-centric model. We

00:03:46.640 pack every type of specialty treatment and procedure into overcrowded and often poorly

00:03:51.700 managed general hospitals. But many of these services could and should be provided in specialized

00:03:56.060 facilities outside of the hospital. Now one of those specialized services is acute mental health

00:04:01.000 treatment. Calgary has a population or metropolitan population of 1.5 million people, yet it doesn't

00:04:06.480 have a single generalized psychiatric hospital. Major hospitals and they all have wards dedicated

00:04:12.520 to secured mental health treatment. And there's a forensic psychiatric facility for the criminally

00:04:17.140 insane up by our prison, but there's no specialized facility for just general patients, even though

00:04:22.480 so many people get touched by mental health issues. We recognize that pediatric health care

00:04:26.880 is so specialized, we build children's hospitals, yet we can't accept the need for psychiatric

00:04:32.280 hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals, they boomed in North America at the turn of the 19th century,

00:04:36.860 when it was noted that a large segment of inmates in the prison system were suffering from mental

00:04:41.280 health disorders. Facilities were built to humanely house and treat people with psychiatric disorders

00:04:46.180 and initially that's what they did. Unfortunately the facilities became dumping grounds for people

00:04:50.720 the state didn't want to deal with over time and funding began to run short. Conditions became

00:04:55.300 inhumane and abuse was rife and by the 1950s half a million Americans were secured in mental

00:05:00.060 hospitals. Canada had tens of thousands secured as well and the conditions became unacceptable.

00:05:05.360 That began the trend for deinstitutionalization through the 60s and in North America mental

00:05:09.520 hospitals began reducing the size and closing altogether, but no new facilities were built and

00:05:14.860 the remaining ones were often outdated and poorly maintained. So as people were turned out into the

00:05:19.440 communities with well wishes, they often didn't have much support and we're seeing the consequences

00:05:23.140 of that today. It's estimated that 25% of the homeless you see on the streets are suffering

00:05:27.880 from mental health disorders and as much as 15% of the inmates in prisons. While we don't like the

00:05:32.540 idea of securing the mentally ill long-term in hospitals, can we keep pretending they're better 0.91

00:05:36.600 off in the streets or in jail. We've de-stigmatized a lot of mental health disorders, depression,

00:05:42.440 things like that, and we should. It's time to de-stigmatize mental health hospitals. Extended

00:05:46.780 stay mental health facilities, they don't need to be inhumane and nasty and odious as they used to

00:05:51.980 be. I assure you the current wards and existing hospitals are not good spots for people to reside

00:05:56.320 long term. Our health care system needs a lot of reforms. One big one though would be to decouple

00:06:02.160 mental health wards from general hospitals and build facilities that can provide comprehensive

00:06:06.100 mental health care services from admission to evaluation to day treatment and yes possibly

00:06:12.140 secure treatment if need be. Specialized facilities can offer much more effective treatment and take

00:06:17.180 the pressure off of the hospitals. Committing somebody is and should always be a last resort

00:06:21.720 but we need to have that option available at need and quickly at times even if we don't like to

00:06:25.740 think or talk about it. I understand we want to respect people's dignity but there's not much

00:06:30.280 dignity remaining when a person's on the streets in jail or possibly even dead for lack of mental

00:06:34.500 health treatment facilities. Had my family member not had the family support he had, I'm certain

00:06:38.420 he'd be facing one of those fates right now. So again, guys, it's time for some frank talk

00:06:43.080 and treating the people who are suffering from mental illness as the illness it is and the

00:06:48.320 illness that needs specialized separate treatment because they're falling through the cracks.

00:06:52.280 And it's not like we aren't paying for it anyway. We pay for it. It's just that we're paying for it

00:06:56.020 through our prisons, through our regular hospitals, and again, in homeless supports. So either way,

00:07:02.060 we're still hoping for the best for my family member. He's still incarcerated in there right

00:07:05.600 now. And many other families are dealing with us. I just wanted to get that out there and remind

00:07:10.020 people health care reform comes with a lot of other aspects beyond just the physiological area

00:07:16.760 of it. All right, let's get on and see what else is happening out there in the big wide world and

00:07:22.000 check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor. Hey, Dave, how's it going out there? It's all right,

00:07:26.800 Corey, and speak the word. What you said about mental health is very, very true. I think the

00:07:34.120 lack of facilities and support for people suffering from mental health issues in Canada

00:07:39.840 is absolutely criminal. It's just not enough. And I wish your family member all the best.

00:07:47.660 Thanks. Yes. Well, we're going to keep pushing. He's one of the fortunate ones, like I said,

00:07:51.660 to have a stubborn family pushing. But unfortunately, a lot of people fall through

00:07:55.200 the cracks exactly so i'm just back from arizona uh you know 39 degrees celsius sitting in the sun

00:08:02.180 and i gotta say i kind of took to that desert landscape i was a bit a bit afraid because you

00:08:08.320 know i'm terrified absolutely terrified of snakes but uh you know one dollar all those cactuses

00:08:13.620 they're kind of cool yeah there's a lot more to the desert than people realize if you have a look

00:08:18.240 around they're really nice areas i used to love working down there when i was in the oil field i

00:08:21.660 I mean, I'd roast, but the scenery is actually nice.

00:08:25.380 Yeah, it is.

00:08:26.320 Anyways, glad to be back and at the grind,

00:08:28.460 and we're getting close to an election call, obviously.

00:08:31.440 So cornucopia of news today already up on the website.

00:08:35.580 Corey leading off with, you know,

00:08:37.160 Rachel Notley hasn't been very nice to us in the past week.

00:08:41.580 She's refused to give us any sort of NDP literature,

00:08:46.540 and she's banned the Western Standard

00:08:48.280 from asking questions at her press conference.

00:08:50.780 So today, the Independent Press Gallery of Canada has sent her a letter demanding that she change her evil ways and allow independent journalists to ask questions.

00:09:04.140 There's also a story up from our energy expert, Sean Pulser, talking about worldwide sales of electrical vehicles.

00:09:12.420 Unsurprisingly, Corey, China is leading the way. More electrical vehicles are sold in China than anywhere else in the world.

00:09:22.160 We've got a story on a Edmonton fella. This is one of the stories you just love, Corey.

00:09:27.780 He's released from jail, the police issue a warning, and wouldn't you just know it, he's committing crimes again.

00:09:34.480 days after his release. And police are, again, they're showing another warning. They're urging

00:09:40.320 people who have run into this fellow to come and have a chat with them. We've got stories up

00:09:48.380 already on the PESAC strike that's happening across Canada. More than 150,000 government

00:09:54.940 workers are having to, as you said on Twitter today, Corey, get off their couches and go to

00:10:00.140 picket line they're striking for a whole bunch more money and the ability to work from home so

00:10:07.740 nice work if you can get it a couple of other stories to bring to your attention somebody

00:10:13.100 decided to go on a joy ride through the morley school and caused tens of thousands of dollars

00:10:20.380 of day in damage so we've got a story up there on on that and loads of photos and the best news of

00:10:27.740 of the day corey comes from tim hortons after a 10-year absence they are bringing back my favorite

00:10:34.400 donut so yes as of i think it's may 1st national donut day walnut crunch is available again so uh

00:10:43.220 i'll be late for work that day corey because i'll be first in line to get one of those babies well

00:10:47.760 then we're gonna sit through the meeting with you having the donut sweats you betcha love those

00:10:52.480 love those walnut crunches well they make it special for us all right well i'll let you get

00:10:58.180 back to it there is a lot breaking and going on but they're so good to have you in for a check-in

00:11:02.340 and welcome back to the great white north dave thanks gory thank you so that is our news director

00:11:08.740 dave naylor and as you heard yes we're covering a lot of things across this country all the time

00:11:13.040 the news is breaking almost faster than we can write it lots of things going on so uh this is

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00:11:55.880 So yes, this strike, you know, the public service workers.

00:11:58.760 I mean, okay, I mock them.

00:12:00.680 I poke fun at them.

00:12:01.980 I had another fun one on Twitter.

00:12:03.480 I pointed out that apparently traffic has dropped on Pornhub

00:12:06.720 since they all went out to hit the picket lines.

00:12:09.660 But I mean, you know, the thing is that the image of lazy civil servants

00:12:13.080 is founded to a degree.

00:12:15.080 I know some of them probably work very hard,

00:12:16.820 but come on, we've all dealt with government services. We know darn well, listening to these

00:12:20.840 guys, they're massive pensions, they're massive vacation times, the huge amount of sick days

00:12:26.060 they're allowed to have. They've already been working from home. You have to wait, what, four

00:12:29.980 or five, six months to get a passport renewed from these guys. They screw up your tax returns half

00:12:34.880 the time. And then they said, you know what, we're going to walk out while everybody else is

00:12:38.360 tightening their belts because we want more days working from home. And we want as much, as much,

00:12:44.840 and it depends on which category, as high as a 47% wage increase. With the CRA, they're looking

00:12:50.300 for 30%. CRA, that's, you know, Canada Revenue Agency. These are the ones going after you to

00:12:54.340 pay more taxes. They want a 30% raise. Over three years, 10% a year. Come on, guys. That's a lot of

00:13:01.120 money. Now, already, on average, government workers make almost 9% more than your comparable

00:13:07.260 private sector worker. And then, of course, once you bring in the other benefits, they're doing

00:13:12.380 very well for themselves, guys. They tend to retire two and a half years earlier because they

00:13:16.360 have those huge extra pension plans. Let's see, they get, for personal reasons, they average 14.9

00:13:22.180 paid days off a year. That's on top of the vacation pay they already get. And of course,

00:13:28.180 all the premiums and perks and benefits. So the other problem is this, the amount of them. I mean,

00:13:34.700 just since 2015, I mean, in 2015, we had three and a half million, 3.6 million federal government

00:13:41.840 workers. Now there's 4.2 million. It's growing massively, the number of them. And really,

00:13:49.700 are your services getting better? How many things can you look at from the federal government?

00:13:53.340 Boy, they're doing a much better job than they did a few years ago. These civil service unions,

00:13:57.760 guys, they're going to bleed us dry. We got massive deficits. We got taxes going up. We got 0.81

00:14:02.180 inflation going bad, hitting the rest of us as it is. And some of the most secure and well-paid

00:14:07.160 people in the country now have the gall to get out and say, we're going to refuse to work. We're

00:14:12.240 getting off our couches for a day. We're holding picket signs out and whining for a raise.

00:14:17.540 Unfortunately, they have us over a barrel. It's tax time. Trudeau will probably cave. He's not

00:14:21.920 exactly known for his backbone and they'll get their raise and we will all pay a dear, dear

00:14:28.220 price for that. It's frustrating and it'll be interesting to see how long this holds on. I

00:14:34.180 I think they're going to hold on for a bit

00:14:35.780 to make it look like the government tried to hold off

00:14:38.520 and then they'll just give them everything they want

00:14:40.640 because that's what liberals do.

00:14:43.780 All right.

00:14:44.480 Well, let's get on to somebody

00:14:45.580 who can speak a lot more common sense.

00:14:47.500 Again, as I said, this was pre-recorded.

00:14:50.080 We usually do things live,

00:14:51.120 but Quick Dick McDick is a real agricultural producer

00:14:53.740 out in the field.

00:14:54.560 It's hard to corner him to get him on the show.

00:14:56.980 I finally did right from out there

00:14:58.520 when he was working on a fencing project

00:14:59.880 and we had a great conversation.

00:15:01.660 So check this out.

00:15:02.740 And, you know, we can we can listen to a lot of seminars and listen to a lot of podcasts and everything.

00:15:08.100 But I think a really unique way to connect with audiences nowadays is to visually show people, you know, what we do.

00:15:14.600 And I think it helps for people to be able to draw a parallel to some of the work that goes into, you know, agriculture and maybe some things that happen in oil and gas.

00:15:23.740 And hell, sometimes we just go and do stuff that has nothing to do with anything.

00:15:27.440 We just try and laugh a little bit. Right.

00:15:29.460 Well, that's it.

00:15:30.140 I mean, so, I mean, I'm going to segue this into a little bit of what I want to talk about.

00:15:33.560 So you kind of grew up in an agricultural environment.

00:15:36.280 You ended up taking off to the oil field for a while and put some time in there.

00:15:39.800 And then you kind of migrated back to the ag sector.

00:15:42.160 Is that correct?

00:15:43.680 Yeah, that's right.

00:15:44.260 Yeah, that's exactly.

00:15:44.820 Yeah, we just got to reset that and get it back to the start.

00:15:51.360 We're not used to recorded stuff.

00:15:52.760 We're better with the live.

00:15:54.080 So let's start that right from the beginning again, guys.

00:15:55.860 Thanks for your patience and have a listen to Quick Dick, Quick Dick here.

00:15:58.740 all right well we are here finally i've got him on my show we've had him on some other 0.96

00:16:03.760 before but i haven't managed to corner yet we got quick dick mcdick i pulled him away from a fencing

00:16:09.800 task as you can see and i've got him on to chat with us so thanks a lot for joining us today i've

00:16:14.160 really been looking forward to this hey cory yeah good to see you man it's uh yeah there's never a

00:16:18.540 dull moment around here it's uh it's hard to get to everybody but uh yeah thanks for uh thanks for

00:16:22.880 having me on man oh well that's a lot of you know like what you've you've built i mean for those

00:16:27.500 who aren't familiar with you that most of our viewers are uh you're a person working in the

00:16:31.440 ag industry you're out in saskatchewan and you you put together a lot of fantastic videos and

00:16:36.140 commentary that i think really helps bring home the the challenges of working in the agricultural

00:16:41.580 sector you know without bitching about it and adding some humor to the whole thing it's just

00:16:45.160 kind of drives it home to people who aren't familiar with it yeah well you know i think i

00:16:49.320 bitch about it sometimes too but i think we're all guilty of that a little bit you know what i mean

00:16:52.680 But yeah, I appreciate that. 0.94

00:16:54.160 And I try to do it again to show people what it's like out here firsthand.

00:16:58.700 You know, we can we can listen to a lot of seminars and listen to a lot of podcasts and everything.

00:17:02.820 But I think a really unique way to connect with audiences nowadays is to visually show people, you know, what we do.

00:17:09.340 And I think it helps for people to be able to draw a parallel to some of the work that goes into, you know, agriculture and maybe some things that happen in oil and gas.

00:17:18.460 And hell, sometimes we just go and do stuff that has nothing to do with anything.

00:17:22.020 we just try and laugh a little bit right well that's it i mean so i mean i'm going to segue

00:17:26.660 this into a little bit of what i want to talk about so you you kind of grew up in an agricultural

00:17:30.420 environment you ended up taking off to the oil field for a while and put some time in there

00:17:34.580 and then you kind of migrated back to the ag sector is that correct yeah that's right yes

00:17:39.140 exactly i did uh so i grew up in uh more on the cattle uh cow calf production side of agriculture

00:17:46.180 and then uh yeah i did 19 years oil and gas in northern alberta and that took me all over to

00:17:51.540 northern bc the northwest territories yukon arctic circle and then uh wound up coming back

00:17:56.100 home here would be close to four years ago here now and i'm back in the egg here now uh working

00:18:01.940 with another uh much larger farmer than i am myself and uh yeah getting back into cattle and

00:18:07.300 learning a lot on the grain side here now too right on so it and and that's what happened is

00:18:12.820 you came back but i mean what i wanted to talk about was that changing demographic and i mentioned

00:18:16.580 it earlier you know we've had a report recently that so we're expecting 40 percent of current

00:18:20.980 ag producers to retire within the next 10 years and a lot of the younger generation isn't isn't

00:18:26.900 kind of taking up the the the horns on that like we might end up with quite a crisis for producers

00:18:32.580 very soon yeah there's there's a lot of ways to look at it you know and i always look at a lot of

00:18:38.500 these uh these reports that come out uh you know especially when it's from rbc but especially they

00:18:44.180 were talking about the the amount of you know foreign workers that we'd have to come in to

00:18:48.180 to take up the reins or or you know have people migrate to canada a lot of that has to do with

00:18:54.740 the you know with the with the horticulture side of agriculture you know that's the greenhouses and

00:19:00.180 your lettuce and and carrots and tomatoes and everything you know a lot of that's very you

00:19:04.420 know labor intensive i think there's a lot of different processes that are happening nowadays

00:19:08.260 to try and take some of the labor intensive processes out of it which happens with agriculture

00:19:12.020 all over the place you know we're more into the oil seeds and cereals part of agriculture here and

00:19:17.060 obviously the beef industry. We face a little bit different of a set of challenges out here. I think

00:19:22.660 there's a labor shortage and people retiring. It doesn't mean that agriculture is going to go

00:19:27.140 anywhere, but I think what we share commonly throughout agriculture in Canada is large

00:19:33.160 corporations coming in to invest and taking away some opportunity for younger people that are

00:19:39.300 interested in getting into agriculture to be able to do it. Take myself, for example. I was lucky

00:19:45.420 enough that i bought some land years ago and i had some land here and was ready to come back

00:19:50.040 and and take that land over uh from the people that were renting it from me but still your

00:19:54.760 investment into equipment uh and and technology and fertilizers and everything else especially

00:20:00.380 if you're getting into cattle to buy into your cattle herd and everything is is insane right

00:20:04.920 so i'm just go figure i'm getting a little battery warning uh but uh it's just it takes a lot of

00:20:12.180 money and when and if you don't have land you're not going to do any of it and when we have whether

00:20:16.800 it be foreign investment companies or local investment companies here in saskatchewan you

00:20:21.340 know we've got angelic and manettes that are uh that are they're big corporate farms that are

00:20:26.640 starting to own a lot of the land and when a lot of the lands prices start going up and up and up

00:20:31.340 and they come in and start paying a little more for rent and then they can artificially kind of

00:20:36.340 inflate the price of their land just because they own so much of it so if they buy a quarter

00:20:42.060 section next to him for, you know, three quarters more than what the average person would pay for

00:20:46.680 it. All the land that they own around it artificially goes up in value as well. So

00:20:50.500 there's some big challenges. And I think a lot of people don't realize, you know,

00:20:54.480 the catalyst that's fueling these challenges. Yeah, well, it's a huge capital investment if

00:21:00.960 somebody were to try and come from outside and get into something like that. And kind of as you

00:21:04.980 pointed out to me, the days of the little subsistence romantic, you know, subsistence

00:21:09.760 farm for a family to run or sort of long gone now you've got to run a large enterprise and with

00:21:15.440 modern equipment and that that's part of it a smaller labor pool can really maintain a much

00:21:19.620 larger amount of fields but again you need some very uh advanced training and advanced equipment

00:21:24.900 and chemicals in order to do that yeah absolutely and i'll take it down a little bit different of

00:21:30.200 an alley here too is another challenge i feel that we face is technology is going to continue

00:21:35.140 to advance i've done a few talks on this at some different ag shows and stuff and uh when we see

00:21:39.940 like where springs going and autonomy and self-driving tractors and combines and all

00:21:44.180 this stuff there's there's nobody out here that's that's against that because it it helps you know

00:21:48.740 if you have an operation that only has five employees and you want to take on a little bit

00:21:52.180 more land to try and help pay for some of the equipment that you've got no one's against it

00:21:55.700 because it's one less head that you might need running it which is fine uh but the people that

00:22:00.820 you do get i mean quality labor is something that that is lacking people contributed to you know

00:22:07.220 they don't pay enough in agriculture there's not enough money there for it i don't see that uh

00:22:12.100 where we are hired labor is well compensated uh for what they do out here i i think it's what we

00:22:18.900 see with the with the whole scope of labor in general and candid in our new world here is that

00:22:23.860 you got to get out of bed at six in the morning and you are actually going to have to go and

00:22:28.740 physically work for your money and i believe that we have a generation of people coming up to take

00:22:34.900 over this generation that we have right now that are that are afraid of hard physical labor and

00:22:40.340 that's a problem and that's where you see the people that are in the horticulture industry and

00:22:44.740 in your fruits and vegetables that is hard physical labor and in my opinion which i mean take it as you 1.00

00:22:50.260 will that's why we see a lot of temporary foreign workers coming into canada because these are

00:22:55.220 people that are not afraid of hard work you know uh and i mean that's just my tuning i'm sure a

00:23:01.540 lot of people disagree with me on that but it's what i see from from the boots on the ground

00:23:05.220 perspective right well i think it's a fantastic point i mean i was in the oil field for 20 years

00:23:10.180 as well and i mean back then that was the days of yeah 10 12 hour shifts seven days a week

00:23:15.460 month at a time until you get home uh but now we've got a generation that's talking about going

00:23:19.620 on to a four-day work week because 40 hours is too much to put in uh yeah well that's right

00:23:26.580 but like there's another side to it too corey like i mean our government policy like it

00:23:31.300 incentivizes you to to work harder the more money you make the more taxes you have to pay the more

00:23:36.980 you take go into a higher tax bracket and when you look at clawbacks what happens in the canadian

00:23:41.700 economy we're slowly taking away the incentive for people to work harder like there's an actual

00:23:46.980 monetized incentive for you to work harder and if that's taken away well i mean i listen here i'm

00:23:52.980 gonna pick this up and show you where i'm at here right now like i mean i'm out here in basically

00:23:57.060 the middle of nowhere putting in a extremely expensive fence right now uh but i'm here because

00:24:02.660 i love it and but it needs to be done because what i need to get done as well i wouldn't expect

00:24:07.060 somebody that's coming out here to work for me to have to love it i just need to pay them for

00:24:11.780 their time to be here and that being you know contrary to me having that requirement of them

00:24:16.980 i require them to be here to do what i'm paying them to do i mean to me it's a simple transaction

00:24:23.060 but we just live in a society where uh it i i need to be beholden to the person that's here we should

00:24:29.700 just have a contractual agreement that hey we're here to get a job done let's love it let's do it

00:24:33.380 and uh let's go on from there right well yeah i mean it's a business like any other well it's not

00:24:38.660 like any other that's part of the problem though i mean it's it's got some seasonal highs lows it's

00:24:42.820 got uh you know times where you're working like crazy times where it's only moderately working

00:24:47.300 and that makes it difficult for as well i mean when you have to take them for certain periods

00:24:51.380 i mean that's where you put in a bunch of overtime they get gouged on their check as

00:24:54.660 you say and then well later on when it's a little slower well maybe they could have used that money

00:24:58.660 then uh speaking of taxes though you put out a great video you've talked about that a couple

00:25:03.140 of times i mean the pressures that are coming on for producers uh people are screaming at producers

00:25:07.620 are screaming at retailers as to why the costs of food are going up but they're forgetting that

00:25:10.660 the government is really contributing to the cost and the carbon tax is a big one yeah it it really

00:25:17.220 is and it is what i tried to illustrate my last carbon tax video i've tried to illustrate it in

00:25:21.300 all of them but uh it just seems to go to the wayside and you have a lot of people fight the

00:25:24.980 point that even though so we're waiting on bill c-234 to receive royal assent it's got to pass

00:25:29.940 the senate here once more before before it receives royal assent and that would exempt farm

00:25:34.740 operations in canada that don't have their own carbon pricing structure which i mean basically

00:25:39.220 is just quebec because they don't have one in bc because they have their own that doesn't work

00:25:43.780 uh but that would exempt natural gas and propane on on farm use that we use to heat our barns dry

00:25:50.100 grain uh all that good stuff right well we still pay a carbon tax on our electricity here in

00:25:54.980 saskatchewan which we need to do all the set above things and to run our bin fans and to do everything

00:25:59.540 else that we do in an operation but anything that we bring in third party to the farm or anything

00:26:05.100 that we ship third party from the farm are all like subject to carbon tax so if we're having

00:26:11.040 grain hauled out or fertilizer hauled in we get a charge passed on to us from that fuel because

00:26:16.600 it's a commercial operation bringing the fertilizer to the farm then take that back a step to the

00:26:21.420 fertilizer that's in the trailer well the manufacturers that cfl say in medicine hat

00:26:25.740 that have manufactured the fertilizer they're not exempt from a carbon tax they use a lot of

00:26:30.000 natural gas to make nh3 and dip fertilizers and look at nutrient here in saskatchewan who mine

00:26:35.060 potash all these places are charged carbon taxes and that just comes down to their price which gets

00:26:40.400 passed on to us and then when the product is done and grown and shipped away from the farm here

00:26:44.820 it turns commercial again as soon as it's out of our hands and so that we we are price takers on

00:26:50.460 this side we're price takers on this side and then if you take the produced side of what we grow here

00:26:55.440 on farms and send that down to the consumer that's in the grocery store from the time it leaves the

00:26:59.760 farm to the time it gets home in their uh of course non-reusable plastic bags that don't exist anymore

00:27:05.760 to their kitchen each step of the way that that food is taken since it's left the farm is subject

00:27:10.720 to a carbon tax and nobody talks about it no they gotta understand they listen to that my album oh

00:27:16.320 no but i got a rebate and it's a revenue neutral thing well no you're paying for it guys you might

00:27:20.560 not realize it but you're paying for it it's just it's just not a line item and that's a problem

00:27:26.240 i'd love to see a line item sorry line item everywhere on on a receipt that we get that shows

00:27:32.560 here's how much carbon tax it was because we get that we get that passed on to us as producers and

00:27:37.680 you'll see that in a lot of other places too where you'll see a fuel surcharge and a carbon tax

00:27:42.080 surcharge line itemized on a bill because transport companies can't afford to absorb this cost

00:27:47.840 carbon tax drives up the price of everything that they're buying to make their business work as well

00:27:51.760 they can't afford to take it and they're competing in a market for lower and lower and lower rates

00:27:56.000 when the cost of carbon tax keeps driving your fuel up and up and up like it's uh it's it's a

00:28:01.200 it's a terrible terrible tool if that's what you want to call it yeah well and taxes are kind of

00:28:06.320 dry talk and you know we get economists on or things like that i get franco on the show to

00:28:10.480 talk about that but it kind of makes some people's eyes glaze i'm kind of bringing that back around

00:28:14.000 and what i appreciate out of you though is at least you bring it into some language drive it

00:28:17.280 home to where it's really happening but where it's palatable i i just wanted to bring up i know you

00:28:21.440 probably see it's more of a novelty show but like for example that clarkson's farm with uh jeremy

00:28:26.000 clark's note in england i mean it's it's just kind of a play almost exaggerated reality tv

00:28:31.600 but he really does illustrate actually how bureaucracy can really uh hinder producers

00:28:36.240 from getting creative or doing different things and i think that it kind of applies all over the

00:28:40.320 place people forget too that there is a lot of hoops and regulation it's not like you guys can

00:28:44.240 just have free run and do whatever the hell you want out there like you've got a lot of stuff to

00:28:47.840 cover yes it's what i tried to make up one point in the in the fertilizer ban video that i did is

00:28:53.680 like does everybody think we're just out here with with nitrogen trying to like sell it like a drug

00:28:57.840 dealer to our crop yeah i know you don't need it but uh how about you have a little taste instead

00:29:03.040 and just see how things go i mean there's a very specific amount of fertilizer that you can apply

00:29:08.240 to a crop everyone thinks that the more fertilizer you throw at a crop the better it's going to do

00:29:12.080 which is completely the opposite you can actually overgrow a crop and it'll lodge and fall to the

00:29:17.440 ground and you won't be able to pick it up and you'll cost yourself hundreds of thousands of

00:29:21.200 dollars you can deal with seed burn if you put too much down at one time it's and people that

00:29:27.200 are actually professional farmers i mean i rely on a lot of professionals to help me do what i do

00:29:32.720 they're going to be laughing at me right now they're like you haven't even touched half the

00:29:35.600 points but like it's just it's an endless sea of perfect perfection that it takes to grow a crop

00:29:40.720 and then if you do everything right on your end you still rely on mother nature to hopefully rain

00:29:44.560 or hopefully be a dry fall and we we never get that we never get that option no and i mean it's

00:29:50.480 also like putting out with professional drivers who are playing paying carbon taxes they can't

00:29:54.720 reduce burning you know fuel they have to it's part of their job and they're not they were never

00:29:59.120 burning more than they had to that's just throwing money you guys aren't gonna yeah so so that's the

00:30:05.120 thing corin like in my oil field career i was very involved in transportation and where everyone's

00:30:09.760 like oh well just reduce reduce reduce like fuel is your biggest cost as a transportation company

00:30:15.520 you already do everything you can to reduce your fuel usage right from we had non-idle bonuses for

00:30:21.560 our drivers and we would work on wheel hub covers and we would work on aerodynamic trailers to

00:30:26.400 reduce wind drag we would do absolutely everything we could to be as efficient as possible without a

00:30:31.600 carbon tax it's your goal it's the same with farming it's the same with everything these

00:30:35.460 things cost money and if you run a successful business your goal is to have the least amount

00:30:40.780 of input with the most amount of profit from what you've grown or your product that you sell to your

00:30:45.560 customer you don't need a carbon tax to make it happen no it's not an unreasonable goal uh well

00:30:51.720 i mean i that time went quick there i'm really glad you came on i want to close with a few other

00:30:55.180 things i noticed for example geez you know you you do some other things you do some charities

00:30:58.920 you shaved your beard off the other year crap look at that thing go i mean i i got beard envy

00:31:04.820 going on i mean the hair on my back's growing faster with age but i still can't grow a beard 0.89

00:31:08.380 to save my life you know if i can grow crops as good as i can grow a beard i probably i wouldn't

00:31:14.020 have to worry so much when i go to visit the banker but uh yeah it seems to grow good uh and

00:31:19.020 yeah definitely uh we've definitely got some hair going on again here now but it's uh no i've had a

00:31:23.960 really good opportunity uh sorry just low battery warning the last one that you get i've had a really

00:31:28.960 good opportunity uh to to be able to work with a few charities and to bring some uh some attention

00:31:33.960 to some different organizations i'm i'm very honored and humbled to be able to have the

00:31:37.480 opportunity to do that and the point of this whole thing is for everybody to just have a good time and

00:31:41.320 keep laughing so uh hopefully we can keep that going and uh and and see where things go we've

00:31:47.560 got to keep laughing or we'll truly lose it all that's for sure and sometimes things are so bad

00:31:52.120 there's nothing left to do but laugh at them man oh so just before i let you go then are there any uh

00:31:57.480 events you got coming up and where channels can people find you for uh to see oh man yeah so uh

00:32:02.520 I'm QuickTickMcDick on YouTube.

00:32:04.560 Be careful when you Google that.

00:32:05.820 It can take you to some websites I'm not affiliated with whatsoever.

00:32:09.760 QuickTickMcDick on Twitter, on Facebook, on TikTok.

00:32:13.340 QDMcDick on Instagram, just because apparently they won't let me have that name on Instagram for some reason.

00:32:18.740 And QuickTickMcDick.ca.

00:32:20.980 Man, I'm going to be all over the place.

00:32:22.600 I'm booked up right until 2024, trying to get a show list on my website there where I'll be doing stand-up comedy.

00:32:28.060 and if people want to come and check it out we're usually raising some money for some good

00:32:31.960 organizations while we do it so awesome we'll have to get out and catch one of those shows in person

00:32:36.320 well thanks for sure i'm to talk to us today i'll let you get back to your fencing try not to nail

00:32:41.220 your thumb if you can avoid it and i hope we get the target chance to talk again soon i'll do it

00:32:47.720 again thanks for the chat or take care of yourself man all righty all right the one the only the

00:32:54.320 legend quick dick mcdick i was looking forward to getting him on there as i said and he's quite

00:32:58.620 a personality you know and that was almost some kind of serious talk because he again as you can 0.93

00:33:02.480 see he's a bright guy and he certainly knows uh the ins and outs of the agricultural production

00:33:07.240 and in that industry and as i said and as you heard at the end he's on all sorts of channels

00:33:12.100 he does stand-up comedy if you haven't seen one of his videos you know he does like five minute

00:33:15.640 videos on things check them out search them out as he said be careful when you're putting some

00:33:20.240 of those terms into a search engine, but they're a really funny, good and informative watch. I just

00:33:25.060 love seeing serious messaging packaged into something palatable. You know, we can read

00:33:29.420 long, long essays, columns, articles, all that sort of thing from academics and, you know, and it's

00:33:35.220 got a lot of good content. But when somebody like QuickDeck can put it in a more, you know,

00:33:39.820 consumable way, it just reaches a much bigger audience and, you know, helps get that messaging

00:33:45.180 across. So let's see what else we got going on here as we go. Speaking of social media, you know,

00:33:50.380 I mean, that's the big thing. That's where our communications are these days. It's a part of

00:33:55.140 every part of our life and everything. And I'm looking at the event you probably heard of. Not

00:34:01.460 everybody's on Twitter, but CBC, our state broadcaster, got labeled as government funded

00:34:07.360 media on there by Elon Musk over the weekend. And boy, what a kerfuffle that caused. Now,

00:34:12.760 for those not familiar with Twitter, verified accounts, they typically would have a little blue

00:34:17.920 checkmark next to them. And most media accounts had them. My account has one, whatever. And now

00:34:22.800 people can actually pay bucks a month and they can get their own blue checkmark. And CBC got

00:34:30.240 changed to a gold checkmark. And a little part in the description says government funded media,

00:34:34.400 because it is. And it's a good fair way to label it as what it is. CBC gets 1.4 billion tax dollars

00:34:44.060 per year. So Elon Musk, and he's done it for others. He did for ABC in Australia. And he's

00:34:50.520 done it for some other state broadcasters, you know, government run broadcasters. And it is.

00:34:55.760 I mean, they claim to be independent of the government. That's a load of crap. We know 1.00

00:34:58.440 better. Come on. Speaking of BS coming out of CBC. But what gets me is how furious the

00:35:04.200 CBC and progressives and leftists were when he did it. I mean, why are you so upset? It's accurate

00:35:10.820 labeling. They are government-funded media. Now, the fun thing to watch again as a Twitter

00:35:16.800 participant or person or whatever, though, is watching Elon Musk, and yes, he's like

00:35:21.060 a big billionaire kid with a toy. He likes to piss around and poke at them. So when they all

00:35:26.820 were furious, because some of them said, CBC gets 30% of its funding from advertising. It's unfair

00:35:31.300 to say it's all government funded. So Elon Musk went in there and changed it to say 70% government

00:35:35.980 funded. Okay. Well, they were still rather upset. And they said, well, you know, actually it's,

00:35:41.460 it's under 70. So he said, okay, fine. And he changed it to 69% government funded. Remember,

00:35:48.120 like I always like to keep pointing out with the Western standard, we're 0% government funded.

00:35:52.680 The problem with, you know, any media, and it's a risk is you're going to dance with the one that

00:35:58.920 brung you. You're going to respond and react to who's paying your bills and it's going to impact

00:36:05.360 your coverage. And that's why having a subscription-based service like the Western

00:36:11.280 Standard has and actually like the Cowboy Network and all the rest of those, you have your audience

00:36:16.440 directly reaching out to you. And that makes you accountable to them because if you don't provide

00:36:22.360 the service your audience wants to see, you're going to go broke. But we will adjust our coverage

00:36:27.840 likewise. It's not like we're going to always just blow sunshine up the butts of our target

00:36:31.280 audience and supporters, but we're accountable to our subscribers. The problem with the CBC is

00:36:34.780 it's accountable to the government, and the government's interests, like it or not, aren't

00:36:39.580 always yours. And even if it's unconscious, and I don't think it's unconscious, but the CBC is

00:36:45.060 reflecting government bias. It's putting out government message, and it drives them nuts when

00:36:49.300 I call them a state broadcaster, because that is what a state broadcaster is, you know, like

00:36:52.680 Provdon, Russia, and others that were truly just pure propaganda machines for the government.

00:36:56.940 But no, the CBC, well, there, I think it was fair out of Elon.

00:36:59.600 They're only 70% of propaganda machine for the government.

00:37:02.540 Still way too much.

00:37:03.900 And why, though?

00:37:05.300 Why does it drive them so bananas to have that labeled like that?

00:37:09.300 Big deal.

00:37:09.800 You think you'd be able to shrug it off?

00:37:11.620 Okay, well, Elon did this little thing and changed our checkmark.

00:37:14.560 Well, it's because they don't want you to know.

00:37:16.400 They don't want you to think about it.

00:37:17.540 They don't want you to realize how much money is getting poured into that god-awful network.

00:37:22.900 And it's terrible.

00:37:23.960 Come on, what sort of productions have you liked out of CBC?

00:37:25.940 their ratings are in the toilet. And when you speak of that 30% of advertising revenues,

00:37:31.860 we got to think that's basically, as far as I'm concerned, stolen from the private market

00:37:35.900 is how can content providers like ourselves compete in ad sales when we have a mega

00:37:43.380 entity like the CBC that gets $1.4 billion per year that can undercut us in advertising sales

00:37:50.800 and get it all in there, undercut us on the production costs because they get their money

00:37:54.500 from the taxpayers. So at the very least, just kind of reminding everybody with a little golden

00:37:59.900 check mark, I think it's kind of doing a good public service. Just remind people where their

00:38:03.560 money's coming from. And I don't think enough people think about how much money that is.

00:38:09.480 And it's funny, I got a guy going nuts on me on Twitter about it because I pointed out because

00:38:12.540 it was, look, post media got 65 million a year, I think it was in, in some cities. Yeah, I think

00:38:18.160 that sucks too. But it's a, why don't they have a gold check mark? Well, I don't know. I mean, 0.86

00:38:22.480 ask Elon. But I mean, that would bring it down. Then if we want to make it accurate to what,

00:38:26.560 10% of their budget, it's still more than they should get. But I did want to make the comparison.

00:38:31.360 So I said, okay, say they get 65 million a year. The CBC gets 1,400 million a year, you know,

00:38:37.080 1.4 billion. People forget. That's how much that is. $1,400 million. People say, oh, they need that

00:38:44.200 local coverage. It's so important. We'll never have it without the CBC. What a load of crap.

00:38:48.040 For one, the CBDC has been closing its local outlets anyways. Most of what they cover is 1.00

00:38:51.660 national and it's biased. Rosie Barton is clearly madly in love with Justin Trudeau. It's wretched.

00:39:00.500 Let's say, and I don't think we should do this, but I want to tell you the way we can get more

00:39:04.440 value for dollar if the intent was actually to have good local Canadian content and coverage

00:39:10.040 across the country. Think about that. Think if you broke that up into million dollar increments

00:39:13.840 and it's every year, remember every year. So you had $1,400 million checks. Let's say you just

00:39:20.880 divided it by 10 right across the country, province by province. Boy, PEI is going to do

00:39:25.000 really well on it, but that's fine. Every province could now have a local outlet that gets a check

00:39:31.580 for a million dollars every year to help them out. You would have 140 outlets in every province. I

00:39:39.240 mean, every town would have their local outlet with that $1 million seed money to get them going.

00:39:45.100 Now that would cover local things, wouldn't it? That would cover a few local reporters,

00:39:49.040 that would cover a newsroom, that would cover, I mean, you could really do a lot with a million

00:39:52.820 dollars a year plus. Being like the CBC, you could sell some advertising on top of that.

00:39:56.760 Would that not make far, far, far more impact for local coverage, local news, local production,

00:40:04.000 than just cutting a check for 1.4 billion to that wretched, giant, obsolete dinosaur of an

00:40:10.020 organization, the CBC? It's just food for thought. Again, that's not what I really think we should 0.75

00:40:15.600 do. I'm just saying we'd get more value for dollar. What we should do is just defund them

00:40:19.540 completely and let them sink or swim as they are and give that 14, you know, $1.4 billion a year

00:40:27.020 back to taxpayers as a tax break. And I know, oh, that's only 35 bucks a Canadian. No, I hate

00:40:33.100 that argument or people saying, oh, this new spending initiative is only a cup of coffee a

00:40:37.160 day. Yeah. But the problem is the government is now starting to hit us for like a hundred cups

00:40:40.380 of coffee a day and I can't drink that much. I can't even piss that fast. So guys, the waste,

00:40:47.580 the waste with the CBC, the improper use of our tax dollars, at least to have people know that's

00:40:54.000 where it's coming from. That's who they are. And, you know, you can see why they feel sensitive

00:40:58.660 about it. This was an interesting one. Somebody did a FOIP, you know, a Freedom of Information

00:41:02.340 Request and had a look at Chrystia Freeland, who is our, our what, Deputy Prime Minister and

00:41:09.620 finance minister. And I think she's wearing a few hats nowadays and everything. If you might 0.98

00:41:14.540 remember, she made a statement a little while back because people were, you know, we're having a hard

00:41:19.060 time making ends meet. We're having a hard time paying the rent, having a hard time buying the

00:41:22.320 groceries. Everything's going up and our incomes aren't, unless you're a civil servant outstriking

00:41:26.920 right now. And she says, oh, I don't know, we're tightening our belts too. In fact, people should

00:41:33.220 do like us. And we got rid of our Disney plus option on our cable package to save money.

00:41:39.620 Yeah, yeah, that's what she advised. She really did do that. And they actually polled on it later. And people were furious by it because I mean, it was such a let them eat cake moment. You know, it showed that massive disconnect of where she just somebody at her level with the amount of money she's got in income and revenue and all expenses paid all the time. You know, no idea what the run of the mill family is going through.

00:42:03.620 I can understand. I mean, you might not understand what they're going through, but quit pretending

00:42:07.440 you're trying to talk as if you do, because that's even more insulting. That's why the headline says

00:42:11.160 a slap in the face. That's how Canadians saw it when she got up there. I understand. Now we don't 1.00

00:42:16.580 have Disney Plus. Oh, Christia, how do you get by? But I'm sure you probably got Disney Plus

00:42:21.840 through the five-star hotels that you stay in constantly when you're traveling all over the

00:42:26.060 world on the government dime. So I guess when you don't have it in the household, it's not that much

00:42:30.960 of a handicap, a little rough on the children, I guess. I mean, come on, the nerve of you guys to 1.00

00:42:35.660 tell us how to tighten our belts. I mean, we've got to remember your boss, Justin Trudeau had a

00:42:42.480 $6,000 a night hotel room when he went and embarrassed the nation over at Queen Elizabeth's

00:42:48.040 funeral. Our governor general had a $90,000 day trip, day trip to the North. The more recent one

00:42:57.640 with Justin Trudeau was that he was on a 9,000 a night vacation in Jamaica for the new year. Yeah,

00:43:02.840 9,000 a night. That clown spends more by the time he's finished eating breakfast on a vacation 0.98

00:43:09.220 than your average family can spend on their one vacation they may get a year. 0.92

00:43:16.120 But Christia says you can cut your Disney Plus and you'll be okay. That is where these guys live.

00:43:21.980 This is the disconnect with reality that they have, the entitlement that they have. And that's

00:43:26.520 why we're all suffering right now. And the other thing with that recent revelation of Justin

00:43:31.980 Trudeau on a $9,000 a night vacation at a luxurious villa was who offered him that there was actually

00:43:40.220 offered to him as well. Why it was donors to the Trudeau Foundation. Yes, yet again, all roads keep

00:43:47.500 leading to that Trudeau Foundation. Why when they claim that donations to the Trudeau Foundation

00:43:55.640 don't impact government policy or don't

00:43:57.720 impact Justin Trudeau, well then why do

00:43:59.740 all these lobbyists keep giving money to that foundation? 0.99

00:44:02.160 Why does the Chinese Communist

00:44:03.880 Party

00:44:04.640 give money to the Trudeau Foundation?

00:44:07.920 This foundation that supposedly Trudeau

00:44:09.640 is not connected with, his brother

00:44:11.400 Alexander Trudeau was the one

00:44:13.700 who inked the deal for the donation

00:44:15.400 that was laundered, and I'll call it laundered because

00:44:17.580 they hid it and they can't find how to give the

00:44:19.700 refund check back to you. They really can't

00:44:21.400 because it went through so many levels of things to try and sneak

00:44:23.740 it in there. Alexander Trudeau's

00:44:25.580 name is on that because he was literally one of the negotiators. That seems to be kind of a direct

00:44:30.660 connection with the family and the foundation, isn't it? By the way, there's a gal named Coyne

00:44:34.200 who's in there as well. That's Justin's half-sister. Pierre was a little prolific once he was finished

00:44:38.900 with Margaret as well. It's actually a pretty broad family. And these guys, again, telling us

00:44:46.500 how to tighten our belts, telling us how we can save a little bit of money by not having Disney

00:44:52.320 plus. You know, I wish it was so simple as just doing something like that to clean our things up.

00:44:59.120 You know, on a final note with that whole Chinese scandal, because we can't let ourselves forget it. 1.00

00:45:03.720 He's kicking it down the road. They've been interfering with elections, two different 0.94

00:45:07.120 elections. And the guy who, you know, investigated that and said there was nothing to see here was

00:45:11.560 the former head of the Trudeau Foundation. Coincidence. And the guy that Justin appointed

00:45:15.320 as his special rapporteur to look into it yet again, to make sure if we need an investigation

00:45:19.360 or not. Guess what he's a director of? The Trudeau Foundation. Wow. What a coincidence.

00:45:25.020 Well, in the States, one of those Chinese police stations, and that's what they call them. 1.00

00:45:28.160 These are communist party offices basically set up in free nations for the purpose of intimidating 0.72

00:45:34.580 people of Chinese descent in those nations. New Canadians of Chinese descent, they can intimidate, 0.99

00:45:40.740 they can threaten, they can pressure, they can push. They're acting on behalf of the Chinese 1.00

00:45:44.320 Communist Party. In the United States, the FBI raided them and busted them. And in that bust, 0.53

00:45:49.680 they found out as well in their probe that, of course, there's links. The guy who was running

00:45:53.840 the Chinese communist police station down in New York was also running the one up in Canada,

00:46:00.000 but nothing's been done about the one in Canada. But I guess we should be thankful the FBI is 0.80

00:46:04.200 willing to investigate these things on our behalf and point out, hey, Canada, you might want to do

00:46:07.620 something about this, but we know Justin won't because he doesn't even want a bloody investigation.

00:46:11.000 well that's about the news for this week guys so i finished it with a bit of a rant and a rave

00:46:18.200 uh i'm gonna let you go for another week thank you all guys for tuning in we'll have another

00:46:24.180 great guest on next week and lots of news to cover just that reminder subscribe to those channels

00:46:29.120 subscribe to the western standard and thank you all very much for tuning in today guys i'll see

00:46:35.020 you next week at this time canadian shooting sports association without the cssa our gun rights would

00:46:40.180 been taken long long ago these guys are on the front lines helping to draft smart and intelligent

00:46:47.060 firearms regulations and legislation in canada and more importantly educating the public about

00:46:53.060 how we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people to become a member it's absolutely worth

00:46:57.860 every penny as things are greening up outside the commodity markets aren't following suit as

00:47:08.260 they're mostly red today the only thing that is up is cash barley which is up $3 a ton to $4.22

00:47:13.780 per metric and feed wheat's unchanged at $4.20 a metric and corn is holding steady at $4.15 a metric.

00:47:20.420 Moving to the milling wheat markets May Minneapolis futures dropped 12.5 cents to $8.73 per bushel

00:47:26.100 with local hard red spring bid for April movement at $10.25 per bushel delivered.

00:47:30.340 In the oil of seeds, nearby canola futures are off $4.80 to $777 per metric ton with delivered

00:47:38.740 values for April-May movement at $17.50 per bushel. Continuing on to the pulse markets,

00:47:45.000 nearby red lentil prices are trading at $0.35 per pound and yellow peas remain at $12 per bushel.

00:47:51.660 Finishing up with the cattle markets, June live cattle dropped $1.78 to $1.6343 per hundred weight.

00:47:59.340 For more information on pricing and picked up on farm options, give me a call at 403-394-1711.

00:48:06.340 I'm Mike Van Dyke at Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

00:48:28.780 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - April 20, 2023

CMS： Deinstitutionalization puts people on the streets

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