Western Standard - CMS： Elitist authoritarians are counting on our apathy

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.460 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. This is my weekly hour where I can get on

00:00:37.960 with some issues, talk to some guests and cover those top stories that are going on

00:00:42.640 through the Western Standard and across Canada. Lots of stuff always on the go. Crazy, crazy

00:00:47.820 times we're living in. I guess it gives me no shortage of things to cover and things

00:00:52.320 to go on about. So thank you all for joining me this week, guys. I got lots to cover. I

00:00:57.400 got Franco Teresano is going to be my guest today. He's coming in. He is the Canadian Director of the

00:01:02.020 Canadian Taxpayers Federation. You've probably seen him in news or quotes from him. He's been

00:01:06.380 on this show a number of times. The federal budget just came down the other week, of course. So it

00:01:11.000 looks like we're all going to be in debt for generations, probably at the rate that it's

00:01:15.500 going right now. As well, a number of taxes went up on April 1st. They love using April 1st to do

00:01:20.560 that. So the carbon tax went up and liquor taxes went up. And there's probably a few others. I

00:01:25.900 I wouldn't be surprised if Franco lists a few more of those tax hikes that have nailed us as a happy April 1st sort of thing this year.

00:01:33.360 So that'll be a great conversation.

00:01:34.940 We're going to have him on in about 15 minutes or so.

00:01:37.880 And, of course, I'll be talking about a lot of issues and things that are going on.

00:01:41.020 So it's good to see you all checking in there on the comment scroll.

00:01:44.140 Guys, for folks who can't see the comment scroll, once in a while you'll hear me reference somebody over there.

00:01:49.240 You might not necessarily see it, but there are some people, live viewers, and I do like the interaction.

00:01:55.180 Just keep things civil, guys. That's all. Good to see y'all checking in from all across the province and across the country.

00:02:00.680 All right, so let's get on with what I'm going on about today.

00:02:04.080 So in Alberta, we've got a political action committee, a PAC. We have them all across the country.

00:02:09.180 This one's called Take Back Alberta, and I'm sure outside of Alberta you guys haven't heard much about it,

00:02:13.820 but boy, it's been big news in Alberta lately, and it's been active for a few years.

00:02:17.400 This PAC has been drawing the attention of local media,

00:02:21.120 while academics and other political pundits have been clutching pearls over the actions of this PAC.

00:02:26.580 The establishment is issuing dire warnings that this nefarious PAC is gaining undue influence on the political landscape.

00:02:33.340 And like I said, PACs exist across the country in many forms.

00:02:35.980 They're essentially non-party organizations trying to influence the political spectrum.

00:02:40.700 And they range across the political spectrum from left to right.

00:02:43.900 Now, Take Back Alberta is unapologetically conservative-leaning, but so are several other Alberta PACs.

00:02:49.760 and none of them are setting off the alarm bells among the establishment like TBA is, though.

00:02:54.840 Now, Take Back Alberta's been holding town hall-style meetings all across the province,

00:02:58.880 so when one was held near my place, I popped out to see in person what all the fuss was about.

00:03:03.900 I joined about 150 people to listen to the group's leader, a gentleman named David Parker,

00:03:08.720 and he explained what the purpose of the group was and what his intentions were.

00:03:12.360 The presentation was about an hour long, casual in style.

00:03:15.400 Most of it was taken up by Parker sharing his own political history.

00:03:18.600 Towards the end, though, Parker revealed the odious agenda of this group.

00:03:22.640 So was it a shameless fundraising pitch to pad his pockets?

00:03:27.080 No, there was an ask for donations, but it was a soft sell.

00:03:30.260 They didn't even pass a bucket.

00:03:31.940 So was there a call to action for mass demonstrations or political sabotage?

00:03:36.080 Perhaps an attempt to encourage attendees to intimidate voters or something,

00:03:40.040 or stuff ballot boxes?

00:03:41.500 No, it was nothing of the sort.

00:03:43.240 I'll reveal this underhanded agenda right now.

00:03:45.500 Hold on to your seats.

00:03:47.140 David Parker and his group Take Back Alberta is encouraging people to get out

00:03:50.740 and become active within the established political system.

00:03:54.080 That's it. That's all.

00:03:55.700 From encouraging people to join everything from local library boards

00:03:58.300 to taking part in provincial election nominations,

00:04:01.220 TBA is simply telling people to quit complaining and start taking part.

00:04:05.440 You see, David Parker and his organization are revealing a well-kept secret in Canadian politics

00:04:09.800 the establishment doesn't want exposed.

00:04:12.180 The academics, the political and media elites of the nation

00:04:14.660 count on citizen apathy to maintain their positions.

00:04:18.700 You ever wonder why so many universities have gone off the deep end? 0.78

00:04:21.560 Why so many nutty civic politicians managed to get ridiculous policies entrenched?

00:04:25.800 Why despised federal and provincial politicians seem to hold on to their seats forever? 0.86

00:04:29.880 Well, it's because we let them. It's as simple as that.

00:04:32.480 We have the means to fire them and replace them all with whoever we choose,

00:04:36.580 but we've given up on that responsibility.

00:04:38.760 Voter levels, you know, the turnout levels in most elections are shamefully low across the country,

00:04:43.580 especially at the local levels of government.

00:04:45.860 We need people to get off their butts more often and cast their ballots.

00:04:49.860 The thing is, though, there's more to democracy than just going out to vote. 0.62

00:04:53.320 People need to start taking part in the process every step along the way.

00:04:56.760 It's participatory democracy. It means you have to participate.

00:04:59.760 Fewer than 3% of Canadians hold memberships in political parties.

00:05:02.660 Is it any wonder the parties continue to select candidates and leaders

00:05:06.280 who don't represent the constituents well?

00:05:08.440 The number of people who take part in constituency associations,

00:05:11.440 school boards, or yes, even library boards, that's even lower. An active and tiny minority

00:05:16.760 tail has been wagging the Canadian dog for a long time. A small number of people can achieve a great 0.53

00:05:21.720 deal of change just by taking part. Now, Parker, he's just encouraging the commoners to take part

00:05:26.500 and scaring the bejesus of the establishment folks holding positions of power. PACs have been around

00:05:30.900 spending dollars in advertising and holding events for decades. The impact of all that activity is

00:05:34.780 limited, though. Having a PAC organizing people to become politically active, though, that's a

00:05:39.780 little different. It's having a difference in policy, and that's what's got some people scared.

00:05:43.720 Seems as groups have found the path to change, and the establishment knows it, and that's why

00:05:47.420 it's gaining that much attention. I'm not trying to cheerlead for them. They tend to be dominated

00:05:51.160 by people more socially conservative than I, and, uh, you know, uh, it's not necessarily the best

00:05:57.500 pack in the world as far as I'm concerned, but I respect their right to organize and their success

00:06:01.040 with it. If you don't like what they're doing, the solution is to not to demonize the group or try

00:06:05.540 to make up conspiracy theories. The solution is to fight fire with fire. Get out on the ground,

00:06:09.940 then. Go to other meetings. Go out to the polls. Use the democratic means sitting right in front

00:06:13.680 of you. The process isn't a secret. It just hasn't been used. If Parker's organization takes people

00:06:19.080 from all sides of the political spectrum, you know, or encourages them and gets them active

00:06:22.940 in their communities, we're all going to be better for it. If any agenda is going to be questioned,

00:06:27.160 is that put forth by those who fear citizens organizing and using legitimate democratic

00:06:31.640 tools to achieve change. What's the establishment so afraid of? The unwashed masses daring to stand

00:06:36.920 up for themselves? Well, good. It's time the establishment had a shaking up. So keep that 0.81

00:06:41.260 in mind in your areas. No matter what province you're in, no matter what side of the spectrum

00:06:44.420 you're in, take part, guys. Get up. Get out there. You don't have to like what that group's doing.

00:06:49.580 If you don't like it, join and fight back. That's all. Either way, I've just been shocked. I've been

00:06:55.500 shocked by how much is popping up in the news, how much is going on with it. I mean,

00:06:58.520 well this isn't anything that controversial he's he's it's it's an open secret but they're almost

00:07:05.040 characterizing it as if it's some sort of conspiracy and this sneaky odious group that's

00:07:09.340 going to come in and take over uh you know and undercut the democratic ways well no actually

00:07:14.160 it's the opposite it is engaging and using what we have in our hands and it's not so much what

00:07:20.800 they're doing that i found striking it's it's been the response of legacy media outlets of

00:07:27.580 academics and the usual folks to it. Wow, they are just wound right up. And you know what,

00:07:32.620 when I see the establishment wound up like that, then I start to think somebody is flying over the

00:07:38.060 target. So I just wanted to get in on that. Like I said, I'm not necessarily hung up on them in

00:07:43.140 particular. I'm just, again, quite astounded by how stirred up people are with it. It's nothing

00:07:48.160 new. Unions have been doing it for a long, long time on the left, guys. You don't hear the

00:07:53.380 establishment media going after them, of course. So looking at some of our stuff, you know,

00:07:58.040 some of the stories that have come up, I'm going to talk a little bit about affordability. It kind

00:08:01.220 of segues in when we get on to talking about Franco and things. There was a poll released

00:08:04.880 recently. There's always polls released. This one's talking about those, and it's pretty sad.

00:08:08.520 It's dejecting. That 60%, I guess, of people who don't own a home yet have given up. They basically

00:08:14.300 said, we don't feel we're ever going to own one. We'll never be able to afford one. We'll never

00:08:18.140 get the down payment together. Just won't be able to do it. You know, I mean, that's been a hallmark

00:08:22.240 of North America, of modern times, of where most people want to go. You want to get up and own your

00:08:27.400 little chunk of property, have your home, invest in it, build your nest, maybe, you know, build some

00:08:33.120 equity, sell it off, retire, that whole cycle. And now more than half of young Canadians are not

00:08:38.100 necessarily young. I mean, you're getting up there. It took me until I was 40 before Jane talked me

00:08:41.080 into committing to a mortgage, but they're thinking it's hopeless. I can't get in on a place.

00:08:47.600 And I can see that. I mean, the amount required for a down payment in a home, some of the

00:08:52.160 the prices of them now and the costs. I mean, how do you get that together as a newer person

00:08:57.740 in the working world when you're paying for kids growing up and every other fee that's hitting you?

00:09:01.860 But the problem is supply. We don't have enough. And, you know, we've covered that a lot of times

00:09:07.480 on here. I've talked about that. I've had Shane Wenzel on as a guest. He's a home builder. He

00:09:11.040 talks about to get a home built from start to finish in Calgary takes, from when they propose

00:09:17.340 a new development to when you're starting to get constructing. Eight years. Eight years. Millions

00:09:22.760 of dollars in applications, forms, studies, permits, layouts, design, all of that. And that's assuming

00:09:29.920 it doesn't get rejected somewhere along the way. And that's just Calgary. Every other city is the

00:09:34.500 same. They're hindering new developments. So we can't build. And when we do, it costs a fortune.

00:09:39.340 Another thing Wenzel pointed out was the green energy requirements coming from the federal

00:09:44.040 government, put the cost of the home, they're adding $40,000 to $60,000 to every new house

00:09:48.740 because of all these new requirements. Plus, not every contractor can necessarily build to those.

00:09:53.420 So we have a shortage of supply, but nobody likes to talk about that. Now, we're talking about

00:09:58.820 federal interference into provincial jurisdiction. Stephen Gilboa, one of my favorites, our

00:10:04.240 environment minister, and we're going to talk, I'm sure, a bit about him when we discuss the

00:10:08.440 carbon tax in a little while. But there's been a big controversy in Ontario with the Greenbelt.

00:10:13.260 It's an expansion. I guess they're looking to build a bunch of new homes out there and environmentalists are all lighting their hair on fire and going mad about it.

00:10:20.000 It sounds like he's thinking he might be able to intervene on that.

00:10:22.900 He might be able to poke in on that and interfere on something that is purely it's not even provincial jurisdiction.

00:10:28.340 It's civic. That's how much overreach this federal government, this obsessed federal government with their environmental ideology is that they feel that they can shut down a new home development in an area that needs it.

00:10:40.960 I mean, again, we're talking about, what, 400,000 immigrants a year coming into Canada,

00:10:45.140 and I'm not in any immigration at all.

00:10:46.740 I think it's great for our economy.

00:10:47.920 They fill a lot of those roles and professions we really need,

00:10:50.360 but we need somewhere to put them.

00:10:51.800 They need to live somewhere.

00:10:52.860 This is only common sense.

00:10:54.760 Yet, we aren't.

00:10:55.980 We aren't increasing the supply.

00:10:57.640 So what happens?

00:10:58.340 The government shoots out at the high cost of living and blames everybody else.

00:11:01.200 I ranted about that before, you know, when they were going after grocers

00:11:04.340 and getting upset with the costs of foods and things like that.

00:11:08.740 I looked at the state broadcaster.

00:11:10.940 Yes, the good old CBC.

00:11:13.420 They put an article out I read this morning.

00:11:15.400 I torture myself reading that stuff on your behalf, so you don't have to.

00:11:17.980 I'll give you guys the nutshell version of it.

00:11:19.940 But it was talking, again, almost conspiratorial, and the headline was,

00:11:22.960 Grocery Chains Boost Profits by Charging Different Prices for the Same Stuff.

00:11:28.420 Yeah, yes, they're trying to make money.

00:11:31.240 And their margins, though, of course the article doesn't go into that, are 4% on average, guys.

00:11:35.440 And they are competing with each other.

00:11:37.220 That's why they do things, though it's just charging different prices for stuff.

00:11:40.280 And they talk about how they do selective specials and things like that to encourage people to buy and grab stuff.

00:11:44.660 Well, yes, but shop around.

00:11:47.440 Be careful.

00:11:48.000 It's just a competitive thing.

00:11:49.680 You go to a grocery store, they're trying to maximize their sales.

00:11:53.720 Welcome to business.

00:11:54.600 This isn't a conspiracy, yet the CBC wrote it as if it was.

00:11:58.580 Go to a different store if you don't like what they're doing, or look at the different prices.

00:12:02.120 Look what they're doing with specials.

00:12:03.460 You ever wonder why the milk and the meat and the eggs are all at the back of the store?

00:12:08.840 They call them lost leaders.

00:12:09.920 They undercharge for a lot of those things sometimes.

00:12:11.980 But they want you to walk through that entire store because chances are you're going to grab and buy a couple of things along the way.

00:12:17.700 This isn't a conspiracy.

00:12:18.860 This isn't nefarious.

00:12:19.880 This is marketing.

00:12:21.540 You ever been to Vegas?

00:12:22.960 Try and find a hotel where you can check into your hotel room without walking through the casino first.

00:12:27.080 They know what they're doing.

00:12:28.120 They want you to go buy those slot machines, buy those tables.

00:12:31.780 Grocery stores do the same thing, but it's not necessarily bad.

00:12:34.960 If you want to go to Vegas, you have to exercise self-control.

00:12:38.020 Same thing when you're grocery shopping.

00:12:39.560 I'll give you another little tip about what happens in the store.

00:12:42.140 They put all their most expensive products at eye level.

00:12:44.800 They want you to see, you know, when you've got the shelves going on,

00:12:47.420 this is the stuff they want you to grab.

00:12:49.060 It's not necessarily the most expensive, but it's where they're getting their best margins.

00:12:52.700 So if you're looking for a certain product of some sort and you see that sitting right there,

00:12:56.840 take a second or two to look a little higher, look a little lower.

00:12:59.500 where you might find a comparable product for a lower price above and below.

00:13:04.080 Welcome to capitalism, guys.

00:13:06.120 I mean, part of it's just personal responsibility.

00:13:07.840 You don't want to think that maybe part of the reason my grocery bill's gotten so high

00:13:10.420 is because I'm a crappy shopper.

00:13:12.120 But, I mean, you've got the means in your own hands.

00:13:15.560 But this is not where the government wants it to be.

00:13:18.340 They want to make it sound as if you're getting ripped off.

00:13:21.180 Yes, you are getting ripped off, but it's not by the companies that are serving you, guys.

00:13:26.880 You're getting ripped off by the government itself.

00:13:29.500 Before I get to the guest, just another story, and you've probably seen others. It's been laughable

00:13:33.420 in a sense, but it's dark comedy. You know, the old traditional home for prime ministers in 22

00:13:38.120 Sussex. Every country has their traditional place, whether it's the White House or 10 Downing Street.

00:13:43.800 Well, we have 24 Sussex, but Trudeau never moved into that. He's been off in another cottage where

00:13:47.640 they've been spending millions and millions of dollars renovating it, making it prettier for him

00:13:50.820 and the family to hang out at. And in the meantime, apparently rats and rodents have moved in

00:13:57.080 and taken over 24 Sussex. Basically, the traditional prime minister's quarters have

00:14:02.860 been condemned. They're unsafe to live in. Man, and the fact that it's overladen with rats and

00:14:08.920 such, I mean, that's just the irony is just too delicious not to point out. But again, it's sad

00:14:13.000 because we are the owners of that place. And I'm certain what they're going to respond with is

00:14:16.580 some giant plan to renovate the place and soak us for tens of millions or perhaps hundreds of

00:14:22.140 millions of dollars to fix it up, which I'm sure they'll give a lot of things to their preferred

00:14:26.540 contractors to do it. Okay, I'm going to speak briefly on one of our sponsors. This is how we

00:14:30.700 pay our bills before I get on with him. And that is on with my guest. That is the Canadian Shooting

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00:14:42.160 you respect the rights of others to own firearms. You got to be a member of this group, guys. This

00:14:46.760 is how you stand up for your own rights. This is how you can speak. You work safety in numbers.

00:14:52.540 Canadian Shooting Sports Association, they've been around a long time. They offer all sorts

00:14:55.780 of resources for firearm owners, whether it's advocacy or resources in general, like any

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00:15:09.240 Shooting Sports Association, cssa-cila.org, or just Google them, of course, Canadian Shooting

00:15:15.600 Sports Association, and you will get to them. All right, let's get to our guest. He's been on

00:15:21.000 before. It's been quite a while, though, and it's Franco Terrizano, the Canadian Director of the

00:15:25.400 Canadian Taxpayers Federation. How's it going out there, Franco?

00:15:28.420 Corey, it's swampy here in the nation's swamp. How are you?

00:15:32.380 Oh, I'm doing well, you know, but I mean, even if I'm distant from the nation's swamp,

00:15:35.800 I still get to pay the bills for it. So I might as well get you to come in and tell us what we're

00:15:39.480 paying for this year. With the new budget and with April 1st hitting, we got all sorts of

00:15:44.920 new stuff to look forward to funding, huh? Oh, we sure do. And you know what you're paying for?

00:15:49.540 Hire member of parliament pay. Yep. You heard that right, folks. April 1,

00:15:54.080 the insult injury for taxpayers because on the same day they take more money from your wallet

00:15:59.140 they stuffed more money into their own wallets april one we saw alcohol taxes go up the carbon

00:16:05.840 tax go up and members of parliament took their fourth one two three four pay raise since the

00:16:12.080 beginning of the pandemic uh members of parliament uh the raise was about fifty one hundred bucks for

00:16:16.940 a back venture all the way up to an extra ten thousand two hundred dollars for prime minister

00:16:21.240 Justin Trudeau. So look, these guys, a backbench is making about $194,000 now. They don't need a

00:16:28.400 raise, and they certainly don't deserve a raise. Yeah, and you're going to pay a little more to

00:16:34.320 try and drink and comfort yourself with it. I mean, I do want to point out, though, a bit of,

00:16:38.400 I think, a taxpayer advocacy success story with that, in a sense, at least. I mean, damage was

00:16:42.500 mitigated. The alcohol tax was supposed to go up a lot more than it did, and at least with some good

00:16:48.340 lobbying from the breweries and others the government did back off and bring it down to

00:16:52.320 only two percent i believe wasn't it yeah two percent a two percent increase i mean the canadian

00:16:56.720 taxpayers federation and our supporters deserve a lot of credit here too because they were emailing

00:17:01.180 they were calling they were hammering these politicians and we essentially forced them

00:17:05.760 to back down from a 6.3 tax hike you know i know we'll get into the budget in a second here

00:17:11.100 but isn't it just sad that essentially the best thing in the budget for taxpayers

00:17:15.600 was that the federal government wasn't going to hike its alcohol tax as much as it wanted, right?

00:17:21.820 It wanted to hike alcohol taxes by 6.3%. It ended up increasing taxes, but by 2%. So a little bit

00:17:28.440 less. That'll save Canadian taxpayers a million or millions of dollars. But here's the thing that

00:17:34.700 your people need to know, Corey. Every time you go pick up that case of Canadian, you're paying

00:17:41.360 about 50% in tax. You go pick up that bottle of Pinot to enjoy with your better half, you're

00:17:47.260 paying about 65% of that bottle in wine. And every time you'd want to enjoy one of the hard stuff,

00:17:52.840 you know, like the whiskeys, the vodkas and rum, you're already paying about three quarters plus

00:17:57.180 of that bottle in tax. And that's quite a waste. And that puts a lot of pressure. And that's what

00:18:03.560 some of the lobbying was. I just like to point out once in a while, it reminds people it's worth

00:18:06.960 speaking up though. You can, you can make them back off of it because that was really harming

00:18:10.500 uh the hospitality industry i mean as a former pub owner i know those margins are narrow and

00:18:16.120 when you got to keep raising your prices your customers don't respond well and cory like let's

00:18:21.020 remember that this isn't happening in a vacuum what just happened over the last two plus years

00:18:26.520 i mean our tourism sector our small businesses your favorite restaurant or pub or brewery down

00:18:31.500 the road was absolutely hammered by government lockdowns so it's not like these uh small

00:18:37.700 businesses just have buckets of cash lying around for the Trudeau government to continue to take

00:18:43.320 more and more money from them. And of course, Canadians are tapped out as well. Now, Corey,

00:18:48.140 let's talk about the big tax that everyone is going to be feeling, especially out there

00:18:53.080 in your neck of the woods in Alberta, the carbon tax. It went up again April 1. It's going to cost

00:19:00.020 the average Alberta family about $710 this year, even after the rebates. But Trudeau is going to

00:19:07.420 continue cranking up that carbon tax all the way through to 2030. By 2030, the carbon tax will cost

00:19:14.020 the average family about $2,700, even after the rebates. Absolutely ridiculous.

00:19:22.060 Yeah, well, and that is a tax on everything. And I mean, that's one where there just hasn't been 0.52

00:19:26.460 any success. We've been pushing back hard on that tax for years now. And the government's just

00:19:30.880 determined to keep raising it and pushing forward with this tax. But I mean, something interesting

00:19:36.580 that came out, I noticed I mentioned Gilboa earlier, one of my favorite people on Parliament

00:19:40.920 Hill, but he kind of admitted, well, OK, so everybody's paying more than they're getting

00:19:45.220 back. But but it's mostly the rich. So, I mean, apparently this is a wealth redistribution tax

00:19:49.440 rather than an environmental savior. You know, Corey, two things on that. Number one,

00:19:56.080 a politician finally admitting what everyone already knew. Right. If you think that you can

00:20:01.080 raise taxes, skim some off the top to pay for some new bureaucrats, then somehow make everyone

00:20:06.380 better off with rebates, then I've got some Ocean View property in Lethbridge to sell you.

00:20:12.020 I mean, of course you can't do that. The parliamentary budget officer is showing

00:20:15.500 that the government is using magic math to try to spin Canadians, right? As I just mentioned,

00:20:20.520 from the parliamentary budget officer itself, the carbon tax is costing the average Canadian

00:20:25.760 seven or the, sorry, the average family in Alberta, $710 this year, even after rebates.

00:20:32.140 That's a couple of weeks of groceries for a struggling family that the government is taxing

00:20:36.520 away. Now, Corey, let's talk about that redistribution. You know, I've heard a lot

00:20:41.560 in the news about a redistribution from the wealthy to the poor, but I don't think that's

00:20:46.760 correct. I don't think that's largely correct. I think what we're actually seeing with the carbon

00:20:50.420 tax is a redistribution from certain lifestyles to others, right? Because there's going to be a

00:20:58.080 lot of rich people out there who live off of their computer, the Zoom class, who won't be paying as

00:21:05.060 much in carbon tax as other Canadians who might be lower or middle class Canadians, who may be

00:21:11.860 mechanics, who might have to drive to work, right? Who have to heat their homes with natural gas. So

00:21:17.400 I get the PBO's point, but I think what would be more accurate is to describe the carbon tax as

00:21:24.920 punishing certain lifestyles while punishing other lifestyles even more.

00:21:30.940 Yeah, and it punishes them, but it doesn't change them. Because if you're a mechanic who has to

00:21:34.660 drive to the shop to work, it doesn't change no matter how high that carbon tax goes. Or

00:21:38.620 if you own a home and you want to keep your family from freezing to death,

00:21:42.220 you have to pay for energy products to heat your home. So it's not like it's something you can

00:21:46.740 choose to escape. Well, that's absolutely correct, right? I mean, people who have to drive to work

00:21:51.640 have to put gasoline or diesel in their car. Truckers, by the way, who bring all of our food

00:21:57.060 to the store, they have to fuel up their big rigs with diesel. So when you make it more expensive

00:22:03.280 for a trucker to deliver the food to the store, you make it more expensive for families to buy

00:22:07.820 that food at the store. Or what about farmers in Canada, right? Well, they need natural gas or

00:22:13.300 propane to dry grain. Well, when you make it more expensive for farmers to produce the food,

00:22:18.140 you also make it more expensive for families to buy the food so now when we hear about the carbon

00:22:22.780 tax the government is essentially punishing you for the the necessities in life so what happens

00:22:29.500 well now families have less money in their pockets to pay for their kids education for example

00:22:37.020 yeah it hits us on every level i'm glad you guys continue to point that out so we might as well get

00:22:41.820 to the the true giant elephant in the room though and that's that massive spending budget we got

00:22:47.100 greeted with just a couple of weeks ago I guess it wasn't that unexpected but boy it's ugly

00:22:54.380 oh it's really ugly so what is the government giving taxpayers more debt more deficits and

00:22:59.340 higher taxes forever essentially look I think with budget 2023 it's safe to say

00:23:04.700 that this government will never balance the budget they'll just never balance the budget now

00:23:09.180 the one surprise is just how much they just don't care about fiscal responsibility or helping

00:23:16.220 taxpayers because remember before the budget you had freeland who was essentially saying well don't

00:23:21.340 worry folks this is going to be prudent you know even during the budget that she said she'd be

00:23:25.660 exercising restraint they'd be saving money corey i don't know if these politicians understand this

00:23:31.660 but if you spend billions of dollars more every single year if you increase spending by 85 billion

00:23:38.540 dollars over a handful of years you're saving money wrong well yeah we can't do it that way

00:23:45.580 I mean, that's some of that difference, right?

00:23:47.340 I mean, they're living on the credit cards, but at the same time, also what they can do

00:23:50.240 is just kind of keep cranking up that monetary supply, but then that leads to inflation and

00:23:55.900 devaluation of our own currency.

00:23:57.360 I mean, your average system, unfortunately, I think, doesn't pay enough attention to that.

00:24:01.620 And, you know, the government keeps pointing, oh, it's the grocers that are messing with

00:24:05.040 you or those greedy energy companies.

00:24:06.820 Well, no, your dollar is buying less, and the government has a part in that.

00:24:12.000 Well, it also has a part in that with some of the groceries, too.

00:24:14.820 Let's not forget that the Trudeau government announced $12 million for Loblaw, right?

00:24:20.100 Like, let's not forget that the government continues to spend buckets of cash raising

00:24:24.520 taxes on Canadians and handing buckets of cash to certain corporations.

00:24:29.560 So let's not forget that.

00:24:30.860 I mean, of course, we're against corporate welfare.

00:24:32.540 Corey, I know you're against corporate welfare.

00:24:34.720 You've held many politicians accountable on this show for corporate welfare, and kudos

00:24:39.160 to you for that.

00:24:40.040 But you're absolutely right.

00:24:41.440 two ways the government is driving up the cost of living and including groceries. We talked about

00:24:46.060 one way, the never ending carbon tax hikes, right? You make it more expensive for farmers to make the

00:24:51.820 food. You make it more expensive for families to buy the food, but then also they make everything

00:24:57.260 more expensive when they print money. The central bank printed hundreds of billions of dollars,

00:25:02.940 more than $300 billion right out of thin air during the pandemic, largely by buying government

00:25:08.460 of Canada debt. That's using the printing press to finance Ottawa's out of control deficits.

00:25:15.060 Now, the problem is the central bank can print dollars right out of thin air, but it can't print

00:25:21.020 ground beef out of thin air. It can't print farmland out of thin air, and it can't print

00:25:25.500 new condos out of thin air. So you get this situation where you have too many dollars

00:25:30.880 chasing too few goods, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the inflation tax.

00:25:36.660 Well, and then as we go farther down, we know what the Bank of Canada responds with,

00:25:41.280 and we've seen that, is raising interest rates.

00:25:43.760 And that affects things all the way down the line.

00:25:45.920 And the other area of the biggest wasteful spending that drives me bananas to watch

00:25:50.100 is interest servicing our federal debt.

00:25:52.640 I mean, talk about flushing dollars down the toilet, and those numbers are getting staggering.

00:25:57.600 Staggering.

00:25:58.200 You know, I can't believe we're going to see this.

00:25:59.820 but by 2027, Corey, we're talking about $50 billion just to cover the interest charges on

00:26:06.660 the federal government credit card. $50 billion one year on interest charges to cover the debt.

00:26:13.400 Now this year, interest charges are going to be pretty high, man. $44 billion, okay? That's a cost

00:26:19.940 of $1,000 per person that we're not getting through better healthcare or better roads or

00:26:27.240 lower taxes because that money, guess where it's going? To the bond fund managers on Bay

00:26:32.500 Street just to pay interest on the debt. And while we're talking about the debt, this year,

00:26:37.260 the government's debt will pass $1.2 trillion. When Trudeau first came to power, the debt was

00:26:44.780 about $616 billion, which means that over Trudeau's time, Trudeau will have nearly doubled the debt,

00:26:54.360 the entire federal debt by the end of this year. Yeah, we can't maintain that spending trajectory

00:27:00.560 much longer. I mean, things have to crash. But I'll throw that, you know, as we get to the tail

00:27:04.620 end of this, the harder part, though, how can we stop this? I mean, what can we do? What can the

00:27:09.720 government cut? I mean, that's always the area. Well, we're going to have to cut health care or

00:27:13.700 policing or whatever if you want to cut any spending. But I think there's probably a few

00:27:17.480 areas they could cut that really wouldn't hurt the common Canadian that much. Yeah, like maybe

00:27:21.740 stop giving yourself pay raises that might help i mean like look we're so far away from even talking

00:27:28.620 about the big things that you just mentioned because there is so much fat everywhere i mean

00:27:32.940 you can barely walk downtown ottawa without stepping on some government ways okay like we

00:27:38.620 talked about the pay raises here's one bureaucrats last year isn't this nice gave themselves 200

00:27:44.380 million dollars in bonuses when they can barely meet half of their own targets cory if you go to

00:27:49.820 to Derek and you say, Hey, I haven't met half of my own targets this year. Give me a bonus check.

00:27:55.040 He ain't going to give you a bonus check. He's going to give you a boot somewhere. Let me tell

00:27:58.040 you that. Okay. $6,000 a night in a hotel room, cut that, you know, maybe sob given beef,

00:28:06.780 Wellington and pork stuff, tenderloin to the governor general and her entourage. Every time

00:28:10.220 they have to fly overseas. Uh, we talked about the bonuses for those bureaucrats. What about 0.61

00:28:14.900 the pay raises on top of that, right? More than 300,000 federal government employees received at

00:28:20.500 least one raise during the pandemic. We just got a PBO report out yesterday that shows that the cost

00:28:26.820 to fund the bureaucracy increased by 31% over two years. We talked about Loblaws, right? The 12

00:28:34.560 million announced for them. What about the $295 million announced for the Ford Motor Company?

00:28:38.700 What about the $372 million an ounce for Bombardier?

00:28:44.200 We still don't know how many billions of dollars the government is giving to Volkswagen.

00:28:48.640 So scrap the corporate welfare.

00:28:50.700 I mean, there is so much fat in Ottawa's budget that it's almost difficult to know where to start to cut.

00:28:58.220 But I've given you some examples there.

00:29:00.260 You certainly have.

00:29:00.980 And I know we can keep you for an hour and you can list a lot more.

00:29:03.380 But I do have to let you go.

00:29:05.420 So before you take off, where can people find information from your organization and how they can help holding this government to account?

00:29:13.860 Guys, check out taxpayer.com.

00:29:16.980 And hey, for all everyone watching right now, please do me a favor.

00:29:20.000 If you want to contact a member of parliament, pick up the phone, give them an email and say, hey, why aren't you publicly speaking out against the pay raises?

00:29:28.040 I would love to hear what they say to you.

00:29:31.060 Yeah, it's when it comes to their own wallets, it's amazing how quiet they get.

00:29:34.540 always great to have you on, Franco. Thanks for the work you're doing, and I'm sure we'll talk

00:29:38.700 again soon. Take care, Corey. Great. So that was Franco Tarazano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:29:45.480 It is always a good chat. It sounds almost repetitive, but it's because, you know, as

00:29:48.960 frustrating as it gets, things just keep going the same way. The spending keeps going up. The

00:29:53.120 borrowing keeps going up. And again, it's all of us who end up paying the bills, you know,

00:29:58.080 comes out of our pockets. We got to keep paying attention. We got to keep fighting it. And that's

00:30:03.440 what they're doing. So yes, good discussion. Well, I'm going to get on to another area, I guess,

00:30:08.680 of political delusion and frustration and something I go on about. Every city, every

00:30:14.080 jurisdiction in Canada is dealing with this. I mean, it's related to a lot of things.

00:30:17.700 The bottom line, I think the root of the whole thing is the addiction epidemic that's going on.

00:30:23.560 It's definitely an epidemic. It's happening in every city. Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton,

00:30:29.720 Vancouver, it seems it's predominantly in the West. Other cities aren't getting hit as hard,

00:30:32.660 but every city is getting hit badly. And it's leading again to higher associated crime. It's

00:30:38.740 leading to thousands of overdoses, thousands. And we aren't doing enough about it, or we aren't

00:30:46.320 doing the right things about it. We've taken an enablement approach over the years. In Calgary,

00:30:51.420 it hit ahead the other day. I mean, basically, it's gotten so bad in Calgary and Edmonton. And

00:30:54.900 I still want to credit our own Arthur Green. You know, he's been putting a lot of pressure on

00:30:58.060 because the enablers don't want to talk about it. They don't want people to see it. They don't want

00:31:01.740 people to realize how bad it's gotten and how bad their policies have failed and they've failed

00:31:07.380 and uh cliff uh burkhardt pointing out not just cities everywhere that's true even you know

00:31:12.040 smaller communities in alberta and everything this this this awful addiction problem is going

00:31:16.580 everywhere and i tell you what it's hitting every class every race it doesn't matter people are

00:31:22.900 getting nailed by this i i've talked about that on the show before maybe it's because i'm at this

00:31:27.420 age group, but I personally know three different people now who have lost sons to overdoses, or

00:31:34.640 they call it drug toxicity or poisoning. Now, it doesn't matter. The bottom line is they took

00:31:38.560 things that weren't from the doctor and they died because of it, and they didn't intend to. What a

00:31:43.060 waste. And we're not talking about people from the rough end of town or people from abusive families,

00:31:47.280 though that happens too. Just it can be anybody, guys. And there's people who get addicted later

00:31:52.260 in life. I mean, they got onto some prescription opioids because of an injury, and it led to an

00:31:56.720 addiction. Either way, the denial has gotten too far. And in Calgary, we've had a policy of denial

00:32:02.320 and enablement for a long time. And we saw it yesterday with a press conference where Premier

00:32:07.760 Daniel Smith came in and at least addressed one facet of it. And there's a lot of facets,

00:32:12.240 but basically said, we need more policing and we're going to fund it. We're going to bring in

00:32:16.300 50 more officers in Calgary and 50 in Edmonton, and as well as funding some more things for mental

00:32:22.520 health supports and things such as that. But it was almost a shameful press conference as you saw

00:32:27.020 Mayor Gondek, who previously had been supportive of defunding the police and feeling that the way

00:32:32.280 to address this somehow is to have more social workers out there on the streets. And I mean,

00:32:38.160 there's a role for that, absolutely. You want to help people, you want to, you know, get them into

00:32:43.600 treatment and things like that. But in the meantime, people are unsafe. And it seemed

00:32:49.520 awfully, just the way it went. We've had three stabbings in Calgary in the last three days

00:32:54.640 on the transit system in downtown, one of which, and I'll expand a little further into the root

00:33:00.320 of that problem too, because this is just so many layers of complication going on.

00:33:04.060 But one of those stabbings happened just hours basically before the press conference of Jody

00:33:09.020 Gondek standing up there, Calgary's mayor, basically shamefacedly watching a provincial

00:33:14.660 leader step in and take over the crime. That really was municipal jurisdiction, but they let

00:33:18.440 get out of their hands. And we're seeing numbers that are promising. I've talked about that on the

00:33:22.580 show before, but I want to keep talking about it because we've got to look at what's starting to

00:33:26.340 work. And there was a great graph that I saw that showed the overdose differences between BC and

00:33:31.840 Alberta over the years. Now, BC has very much taken the West Coast approach, just like down in

00:33:37.240 Portland, Oregon, or San Francisco, and in Vancouver, we're seeing it. See, if we can just

00:33:43.140 enable them enough, if we can just give them enough free drugs, if we can decriminalize enough

00:33:47.380 things, if we can allow enough tent cities to set up, somehow these addictions will just go away.

00:33:52.820 I mean, the biggest measure of a failure of a policy, of course, is a fatality and an overdose

00:33:57.300 is a fatality. So you see those two lines on that chart. And, you know, I'll describe it because

00:34:01.760 some people are listening on the podcast, but they really, they follow the same trajectory.

00:34:05.820 You can see that both provinces are dealing with the same issues. It rises and drops

00:34:09.280 at the same period. But then suddenly something happened just a few years ago. Alberta's overdoses

00:34:14.460 dropped dramatically, and they've stayed down. It looks like there's a little bit of a recent uptick

00:34:19.240 in them, but for the most part, they've stayed down. BC, on the other hand, has stayed high. Their

00:34:23.320 overdoses are way up there, and they had a bit of a drop, but now they're continuing to climb. The

00:34:27.340 spread between the two is huge, and again, we've been very hard on Jason Kenney, Premier Kenney,

00:34:32.240 former Premier Kenney, for many, many things, but one of the things he did was said, look,

00:34:36.500 we need more treatment facilities. We've got to have the availability when somebody hits bottom,

00:34:42.320 when somebody's ready for treatment to say, we can get you in, we can help you, and we can treat

00:34:46.780 you for your addiction. And with that, Alberta has opened up 8,000 treatment beds, almost double

00:34:53.020 what BC has when BC has a larger addiction problem and a larger population. And we're starting to see

00:34:59.860 the fruits of that. There's still a problem. I mean, that graph shows there's still, unfortunately,

00:35:05.240 hundreds and hundreds, building up to thousands of Albertans dying from overdoses. But it's dropped.

00:35:11.100 That's the first sign we've seen some indication of progress on it.

00:35:14.720 And we need to move with that.

00:35:16.000 We need to face that reality.

00:35:17.260 We need to have those discussions.

00:35:19.400 And instead of facing those statistical realities, instead of having those discussions, if anyone's been watching me on Twitter lately,

00:35:24.980 I've seen I had people coming after me because I took a picture of some syringes I found on the way into the office today,

00:35:29.560 and I put them out there and say, this is what we're seeing out here.

00:35:32.100 Because those syringes I took the picture of were along the side of a sidewalk,

00:35:35.340 and they're only literally five blocks away from the Sheldon Chumir Center, which is a safe drug

00:35:40.500 consumption site, a supervised drug consumption site. I've had a doctor on a talk about that

00:35:45.480 before. I mean, supervised consumption, we want to mitigate harm. Sure, of course, you want,

00:35:50.220 you can't treat an addict who's dead. And if they will come in and use those sites,

00:35:55.200 great. But the reality is, and one of the doctors I talked to said, basically, they're only good for

00:36:00.240 at best, at best within a kilometer of where they are. So to really have an impact, you'd have to

00:36:04.360 have dozens and dozens and dozens of these sites. Plus a lot of addicts just don't choose to use

00:36:08.960 them. So whoever was shooting up in that spot where I took those pictures, they chose not to

00:36:13.240 use the safe consumption site. They went elsewhere. It doesn't necessarily work. In fact, the majority

00:36:18.840 of addicts don't go to those sites, but a lot do, but it wasn't, isn't so much for safe consumption.

00:36:22.600 It turns into a congregation area. And, uh, you know, again, drive down in, in other cities,

00:36:28.800 you'll see the same thing around those sites. Unfortunately, the associated crime goes through

00:36:33.780 the roof. Because the drug dealers follow the addicts. And even if they can consume it safely,

00:36:39.060 and guys, there's no such thing as a safe consumption of meth. Don't delude yourselves.

00:36:44.380 They're going to need more. They're going to want more. People say, give them more supply. That

00:36:47.960 won't work, guys. Come on. And then they start getting desperate. And then the crime goes up.

00:36:53.780 Then they go out and rob areas. And then the dealers start with their turf wars. That's where

00:36:58.100 a lot of these stabbings are coming in. They're street-level dealers fighting over who they're

00:37:01.680 going to supply the fentanyl or whatever garbage they are to the addicts out there. And then the 0.99

00:37:05.280 stabbings come up. We've got to get realistic. We've got to start establishing some control

00:37:10.880 because we're failing with the current course. And, you know, I'm going to go back. Not everybody's

00:37:16.060 old enough to remember, but when I grew up, I mean, the reputation, for example, of New York

00:37:19.480 City, I mean, and the subway, that was, it was literally the thing of movies. There were cheesy

00:37:23.620 70s and 80s movies about how graffiti laden and crime ridden the New York subways were. They were

00:37:28.740 the most frightening place to get into. And they started something into the 1990s, I believe it was

00:37:34.620 the late 80s, early 90s. But you know, it was called the broken windows, not the economic

00:37:38.760 broken windows fallacy. This was about taking control of the area. And with the way this theory

00:37:44.680 works, it says, if you see a broken window, you don't leave it there, you don't board it up, you

00:37:48.360 go out and fix it right away. You see graffiti, you clean it up right away. You see disorder, you

00:37:52.580 arrest it and get them the hell out of there right away. Because these things are contagious. And it

00:37:57.120 leads to more social disorder. It leads to people feeling a lack of respect for their environment

00:38:00.640 around them all the time. And it took them years and years to work on this. Part of it as well that

00:38:05.480 they focus on, they realized and they've talked about, is that the vast, vast majority of crimes

00:38:10.140 were committed by a tiny minority of people. And if you can identify those repeat offenders

00:38:14.140 and get them out of there, the crimes dropped dramatically. So they did this for years. And New

00:38:21.380 York City, it was a great transition. I mean, people, tourists, the rest riding the subway in

00:38:27.920 New York. I mean, still, it's a giant city. It still had crime issues, but way, way less than

00:38:32.000 it used to be. But it started to degrade because again, unfortunately, progressives get in and

00:38:36.320 they soften up and they let it go. And you start enabling again. And you're hearing experts. I love

00:38:42.240 these experts that come out of the woodworks saying that that whole broken windows thing was

00:38:46.000 a failure. What are you talking about? It worked excellently. It was only a failure once you guys

00:38:50.040 stopped. We need that here. We need to clean it up. You've got to clean up the literal urine and

00:38:57.820 such that are on transit stations and areas. You've got to move those troubled people out of those 1.00

00:39:03.780 spots. And it doesn't fix the whole problem, but it fixes one part of it. I mean, some people who

00:39:08.840 are stuck on any solution you point out, they say, well, then you still got the problem over there.

00:39:13.620 Well, yes, you do. But you've solved one of them. You can't just dismiss everything. That's what

00:39:18.360 we're talking about getting people off of transit. Transit is not a safe consumption center. It's not

00:39:22.560 a housing center. It's not a homeless shelter. It's a transit facility. And yes, once you move

00:39:28.860 the addicts off of the transit, you still have the problem of the addicts. Absolutely. And that's

00:39:33.640 what we got to talk about. And that's what we got to talk about treatment. But at least the commuters

00:39:37.300 who use it and the taxpayers who fund it, it's one less problem. They can safely get to work and

00:39:42.060 back because right now they can't. And we just have to get realistic with this. And you know,

00:39:47.880 there's nothing more stupid than defunding and devaluing your police. I mean, talk about, 1.00

00:39:53.660 if you want some of the issues and cultural problems they've had among police forces. I mean,

00:39:59.380 we've seen polls on that too with the police. Yeah, they screw up and they can be overly

00:40:03.380 aggressive at times. They can racially profile at times. They do a lot of things wrong. But what do

00:40:08.520 you think helps spawn that? Well, some of it is when you've got nothing but crap thrown at you 0.98

00:40:12.700 all the time. When the establishment, when the mayor and the rest are constantly crapping on you, 0.99

00:40:18.740 no matter what you do, yet you're going out there, you're getting stabbed, you're getting spit on,

00:40:22.200 you're getting yelled at. And what do they say? We want to rip away your thin blue line patch that,

00:40:27.100 you know, pays homage to the lost and fallen police officers in the past. That's how they

00:40:31.120 reward you. Well, no wonder the officers are feeling dejected and having a hard time getting

00:40:35.040 out there. The other part, to get further, of course, and somebody mentioned that in the

00:40:39.960 comments too, and Cliff saying, yeah, catch and release. It's the bail. And that's federal. And

00:40:45.140 we're seeing this with every one of these major crimes, almost every one of them. The lunatic 0.99

00:40:49.940 in Calgary recently who went out on a stabbing spree, he tried to steal a purse, and he stabbed 0.94

00:40:55.080 four people before he could get caught. Turns out he was on bail. Shocker. And you don't know what

00:41:00.840 the bail conditions was? He wasn't supposed to carry a knife. Yeah, I know. I'm not making this

00:41:05.780 up. Don't you do that again. What are they going to do this time when they let them out? You know,

00:41:11.340 double dare you not to carry a knife. Guys, it doesn't work. It doesn't work. This is a chronic.

00:41:16.980 This is one of the ones established. With one of the stabbings we had up in Calgary a couple of

00:41:21.140 weeks ago, it was a woman who stabbed a bunch of people up there. Turns out she'd actually murdered

00:41:24.480 her own mother a few years ago. Doesn't seem like she was reformed terribly well. She's out stabbing

00:41:29.180 women at a train station shortly afterwards, but we keep letting them out. We've got to again get 1.00

00:41:34.560 to realizing, again, that minority, that small amount of people that are committing the majority

00:41:38.760 of the crimes and realizing whether we like it or not, we've got to keep them locked up. And people

00:41:43.180 are saying, we can't afford to lock everybody up. We can't afford to leave them out. Look at the

00:41:47.820 cost. Is it, you know, because people say, oh, a maximum security inmate, and that's just in the

00:41:52.080 max. And yeah, they'll cost $170,000 a year to keep a male one or something like that. Okay,

00:41:56.860 but what does it cost to constantly have somebody in and out of the police station bailed out in

00:42:02.460 and out. How much does it cost for the emergency services constantly on, on the courthouse to keep

00:42:07.280 trying them and releasing them over again? What about the cost to the victims? That's the cost

00:42:10.940 that keeps getting overlooked too. What about the person who was intimidated, the person who was

00:42:14.080 mugged, the person who was stabbed? That's a cost, a big cost, an unacceptable cost.

00:42:20.680 We can't reform the worst of them. We've been trying. So yeah, sometimes, you know what,

00:42:25.640 unless they can come up with a cure for the chronically violent people, and that's where

00:42:29.000 we got to be careful. We do want to fix people. That's the best outcome, certainly. But when you

00:42:34.000 get the ones that have 30, 40, 50 charges under their belt, and they do, you can't fix them.

00:42:39.860 Warehouse them. Let's get real. Take them off the streets and put them away. And you know what?

00:42:44.320 You don't have to spend as much once you've committed yourself to that. Here, here's your

00:42:47.500 books. Here's your videos. Here's your secured facility somewhere and give it to Nunavut or

00:42:52.080 something. They can use some jobs up there. But you're not getting out anymore. It's done. We

00:42:55.920 we tried, we can't fix you. Because constantly releasing them isn't working. We need reality-based

00:43:02.660 policies, not what we'd like to see. We need what works. And it's not working. And bail is a big one.

00:43:09.440 And I mean, our priorities, again, it's politicized. And I'd lay this one on Trudeau's feet. I mean,

00:43:13.040 remember, Tamara Leach, she was on the show recently. Look at what they went through. This

00:43:17.320 is a woman who's, what, barely over five feet tall, a grandmother, never committed a crime in

00:43:21.700 her life harmless. I mean, you know, we could debate on whether or not the convoy was right

00:43:27.980 or wrong. But when you're looking at bail, when you're looking at, does she present a threat to

00:43:32.160 the public if we let her out until her trial? Anybody with common sense? Because no, of course

00:43:36.860 not. You give her bail. But no, they kept her in for weeks and weeks and weeks. I mean, when there

00:43:42.820 was a, she could pose next to the wrong person in a photo, they sent homicide officers all the way 0.51

00:43:47.900 across the country to pick her up and stuff her back in jail again. Yeah, this is nuts. Meanwhile,

00:43:53.480 we're letting stabbers and murderers and assault, you know, people committing assault out all the

00:43:59.680 time. And what happened? They're going out and they're assaulting more people. It's madness.

00:44:03.640 Either way, seeing that turn around, seeing the shame on Mayor Gondek's face, and that's what it

00:44:08.220 was, and it was well deserved. Maybe it's turning around. The public have had enough and they're

00:44:12.760 speaking up and they're sick of it. So maybe we'll see some change. We'll see some outcomes. And

00:44:17.300 again, it's not, I want to see the addicts treated. I want to see the homeless people fixed

00:44:21.480 up, but we got to treat things with reality. Okay. I'm running near the end guys. It was a,

00:44:27.340 yeah. Thanks Karen for saying it was a good rant. I'm just getting it out of my system, 0.89

00:44:30.500 but you know, it's important stuff to talk about. There'll be a lot more to cover next week. I'm

00:44:34.080 looking to have a guest on quick Dick McDick. Some people might be familiar with him. He's a

00:44:37.900 agricultural producer in Saskatchewan with a great sense of humor and he really hits on those issues

00:44:43.620 in an excellent way so we'll have a great chat there and of course we'll discuss other issues

00:44:48.160 and items that come up so thanks for joining in today guys and we'll see you all next week at the

00:44:52.040 same time Canadian Shooting Sports Association without the CSSA our gun rights would have been

00:44:58.600 taken long long ago these guys are on the front lines helping to draft smart and intelligent

00:45:05.080 firearms regulations and legislation in Canada and more importantly educating the public about

00:45:11.120 how we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people to become a member it's absolutely worth

00:45:16.000 every penny that looks like the weather is deciding to warm up and it should be pretty

00:45:22.880 nice over the next couple weeks get some of that grass behind me to turn green and we can get out

00:45:27.140 golfing unfortunately commodity markets aren't 100 sure what they want to do yet they've been

00:45:32.040 bouncing around a little bit the last couple weeks and we're having some more sideways movement right

00:45:36.320 now a little bit of down a little bit of sideways we got kosh barley holding at 421 a metric feed

00:45:42.320 wheat's down two dollars to 423 a metric and corn's holding steady at 422 a metric

00:45:48.640 the milling wheat markets may minneapolis futures are down 13 cents at 872 per bushel with local

00:45:54.880 hard red spring for april movement at 1075 per bushel delivered in the oil seeds nearby canola

00:46:02.560 futures slid $9.30 to $7.68 per ton with delivered values for April-May movement at $17 per bushel even.

00:46:10.640 Continuing to the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are trading at $0.35 per pound

00:46:16.000 and yellow peas remain at $12 per bushel. Finishing up with the cattle markets,

00:46:20.720 April live cattle moved up $0.90 to $1.68.50 per hundredweight. For more information on pricing

00:46:26.960 and picked up on farm options, give me a call at 403 394 1711. I'm Mike Van Dyke at Marketplace

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00:46:56.960 We'll be right back.

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Western Standard - April 06, 2023

CMS： Elitist authoritarians are counting on our apathy

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