CMS： ESG is finally going into the corporate dustbin where it belongs
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In this episode, author Mark Milkey joins me to talk about the differences between Justin Trudeau and his father, the late Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, and the importance of individual liberty. We also discuss the end of the so-called "Woke" movement, and its impact on corporate governance and environmentalism.
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Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. This is my weekly rant and rave and guest interview
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show with the Western Standard. We run live every Wednesday and then it runs on a number
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of different channels throughout Canada, higher up on the dial there, including the Cowboy Network
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and Wild TV and some other areas. So thank you for taking some time out in a summer day to
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check out what's going on and there is a lot going on today. I got a guest coming on,
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is author Mark Milkey of the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. He's going to talk about
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Justin Trudeau and, you know, quite a difference between Justin Trudeau and his father, Pierre
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Trudeau, with their views on individual liberty and the importance of it. Of course, Justin's
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not one for much nuanced political thought or philosophy, so not too shocking. There's
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quite a difference between the two with how they approach things. As well, of course,
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lots of news and other such good stuff. So I'm going to get started with talking about something
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kind of surprised me. I guess it shouldn't. And that's with ESG. You know, we hear about ESG a
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lot in the news and there's been a lot of talk about it. And it sounds like finally it's this,
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this, it's an investment fad and it's coming to an end. The whole concept of ESG, I mean,
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it was flawed from the beginning. So ESG, if people aren't familiar with it, stands for
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environmental, social, and governance, and it's been pushed by extreme woke activists for years.
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It's some of a catch-all term, and they use it to try and pressure corporations into prioritizing
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social activism over actually pursuing a profit for shareholders. The term ESG originated from
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a 2004 United Nations report. Yeah, the UN. Shocking, isn't it? But it was claiming companies
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should set aside a profit focus, and if they just took on enough environmental and social justice
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work it would be beneficial to the public and to the companies themselves now the concept is utter
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pie-in-the-sky bunk and despite nearly two f decades of effort on this crap it's finally
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failed i mean corporations only exist for one thing and that's to make a return for the shareholders
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they're not charities nor should they be expected to be i mean while good corporate citizenship can
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aid with a company's public reputation and help build brand loyalty esg goes well beyond that
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with its demands on corporations profit is supposed to be considered a secondary goal to esg
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now the esg movement i mean is rather insidious and compelling it's really backdoor socialism
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rather than trying to directly convince companies to embrace woke policies that run counters to the
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company's own objectives they would target instead things like large asset asset management companies
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and get them to push the esg basically saying don't invest in it unless they have a high esg score
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Now, BlackRock is a company you've probably heard of now and then,
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and it was a leader in pushing ESG upon companies.
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It was kind of thought that even if consumers don't really care about ESG targets,
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the companies would embrace ESG policies if they were strangled from incoming investment
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the name sort of works, doesn't it, spearheaded such efforts.
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Now, Fink now is distancing himself from the entire ESG movement.
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just whoa okay okay no that's enough of that we're not gonna do this anymore yeah but he did a lot of
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damage on the way up because shareholders will only put up with so much they want to return on
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any investments they entrusted to these asset managers and they couldn't care less if the
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company has unisex washrooms or sets its emission targets above and beyond those required by
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legislation they're demanding investments in profitable companies rather than woke ones
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Retailers, I mean, they can't pay the insane living wages demands being made by woke people
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while maintaining competitive pricing, of course,
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because then they scream about the inflation when the costs go up.
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And then, of course, adding environmental regulations doesn't win any government love
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because the governments just keep piling on new regulations on top of the old ones.
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Appeasing the woke in the name of ESG has only managed to make profits smaller.
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Now, some ESG-inspired idiocy will go down in business history,
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such as the Budweiser debacle with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney.
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Even a first-year marketing student should have seen the consequences coming
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when Budweiser decided to take on the flamboyant Mulvaney as a brand ambassador.
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Budweiser had over a century of carefully cultivated market development under its belt.
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The brand loyalty for Budweiser was the envy of the very competitive beer industry,
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and it was shattered by this bizarre choice to go down the trans activist rabbit hole.
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How could somebody have thought for a moment that a market demographic made up predominantly of
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cowboys and blue-collar workers would want their favorite beer associated with a colorful trans
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activist? It's not a question of tolerance. It's just knowing your market. The thing is,
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the luminary who came up with this idea to bring Mulvaney on as a brand ambassador wasn't thinking
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of reality. She was wrapped up in the mythical world of ESG. It might take a generation for
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Budweiser sales to recover to where they were only last year. Nobody chooses their consumer products
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the company said it seeks directors on its board
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with key risk oversight and risk management functions
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Yeah, Trudeau-style word salad, ESG garbage, and it led to the collapse of the bank.
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The list of ESG failures is growing, while ESG language, though, is finally disappearing from corporate boardrooms.
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One of the dumbest and most expensive social trends in human history is finally just coming on.
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Unfortunately, though, as with supporters of communism, the supporters of ESG just think,
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They will rebrand the concept and try and push it through another way.
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So let's celebrate at least the end of this incarnation of backdoor socialism, guys.
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ESG is a thing of the past, and, well, let's see what they turn the next efforts into.
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Let's get on and see what else is happening out there in the news and check in with Dave Naylor in our newsroom there.
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it is it's absolutely beautiful day and uh environment canada's issued a heat warning
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for calgary so so that's all good uh so we're talking earlier i understand you now
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fool foolproof plan on protecting your bees from bears
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there's that beautiful video i mean the inspiration you can find online for those
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don't know i keep bees and yes a pair wiped out my bees last year i've been inspired by this guy
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look at that that's just kind of nightmares no i am going to
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go hit home depot or one of those stores maybe uh walmart wherever get those
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cheap motion activated weird halloween decorations and i am going to surround my beehive with those
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uh this fall and uh you know it should give the bears nightmares and maybe even any inquisitive
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neighbors might stay away that's true but you think it's going to scare a one-time grizzly
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bear do you well it's worth a try i'm trying every way to stop that thing rather than shooting it
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that's true it's got any canada day plans cory you're going to have a barbecue
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no no i'll be taking it pretty easy for canada day i think i think i got to run a stampede
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actually jane's got some sort of barn quilt thing she's got to put up down there oh that's right
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Well, if you were planning on hosting a barbecue, you better, you haven't bought your meat yet.
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You better get ready to dig deep in your wallet because beef prices are set to soar.
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That's our top story on the website at the moment.
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Corey, our agriculture energy business expert, Sean Polzer, says the number of cows in Canada is down to levels not seen since the 1990s.
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And that's why the price of your Canada Day steak is going to send shockwaves through your wallet.
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We've got a story on how the Saskatchewan government hired an advertising agency to encourage people to get vaccinated during COVID.
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And the agency admits they used fear tactics and scare tactics to try and convince people in Saskatchewan to get jabbed.
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Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean today announced that last month Alberta oil production increased 4%.
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Also means, interestingly, that Alberta itself was the fourth biggest oil producer in the entire world last month.
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We've got a story from Barry Cooper, the esteemed Dr. Barry Cooper,
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on the looming threat of laws coming in where it will make it illegal to be a residential school
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denier. And a very disturbing story this morning from Jonathan Bradley, our reporter.
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The ICE team investigators launched a massive three-month investigation where they arrested
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eight Calgary men, sorry, seven Calgary men and one other man from southern Alberta.
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It's just sickening, Corey, just absolutely sickening.
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You can read about NASA's plan to start mining on the moon.
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Apparently, they want more than cheese out of there.
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And even though, you know, everybody or Canada is backing away from making investments in the oil industry,
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the government of Norway announced 18 billion in new projects. So Canada's going one way,
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Norway's going another, and I think I'd rather be on the Norway train, Corey.
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I hear you there. I mean, they got a terrible taste in food, but they're at least pragmatic
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with their energy resources. That's right. And the Heritage Savings Trust Fund that
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dwarfs ours. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Well, thanks for the update, Dave. Some good news and
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bad news and that whole mix there. I guess it's
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that we've got to keep hearing those reports of it.
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and important stories get up there on the Western Standard site. This is where I nag you to help us
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haven't subscribed yet, guys, get on there and do it. And if you have already, thank you. I mean,
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know, we really do appreciate it. This is how we're going to beat the subsidy wars and stuff's
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going on out there. So yeah, let's see what this, this thing with the drilling on, you know, on the
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moon. I noticed somebody else asking about a timeline on that one of the commenters. Yeah,
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and that's, they're looking, I guess a rig is going to test the soil on the Artemis mission
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of 2024. So not too, too far ahead. But I mean, we'll see how long it is before they get to the
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point where anything looks financially viable to actually dig way the heck up there. But who knows,
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it's interesting stuff. It's certainly science fiction sort of thing. We talk about a last
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frontier for us to get into. What I'm wondering though, of course, is how long is it going to
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take before environmentalists lose it and say we have to leave the moon pristine because there
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aren't an infinite number of them in the rest of the universe out there. So if we don't do that,
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you know, the world will end. What if we change the climate on the moon? I mean, that would be
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tragic, wouldn't it? Could you imagine a heat wave on the moon or a cold snap? I mean,
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all the moon life would be wiped out. Oh, it would be terrible. So don't worry, we can be assured.
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If somebody's got something in mind that's innovative, interesting, and has potential,
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somebody's going to oppose it. And chances are, somebody in Canada will support that.
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You know, they think Dave was talking about. So Norway, yeah, Norway has been expanding its North
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sea work. People keep pointing to them as this great example as a world citizen and an energy
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producer and things like that. Well, that's fine. But Canada, we're punching ourselves in the knackers.
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We're shutting in our stuff. It sounds like Alberta increased its oil production and that's
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great, but that's despite the efforts of the federal government. It's despite Trudeau trying
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his hardest to make energy as unviable as possible in Canada. Meanwhile, Norway is smart enough to
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say, hey, world demand is going up. It's growing. People want oil and gas, whether they like it or
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not. It's like the ESG thing. You can talk and virtue signal all you want. When it comes to
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actually hitting the light switch and having the lights come on, that's all that matters in the
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end. And Norway realizes that. You know, people talk about that massive fund that Norway has.
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Why didn't Alberta do that? Well, because Norway doesn't have Quebec. It's a big difference. It's
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a big anchor hanging around the neck of Alberta. We've had to pay, of course, billions and billions
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and equalization. Anytime we make money, we get it drained out of us to keep feeding our eastern
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parasitic cousins there. So, you know, it's not fair to make a direct comparison between Norway's
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resource management strategies and Alberta's. They're completely different. And they have
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different challenges ahead of them. Either way, hopefully, maybe, you know, with the pragmatism,
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the expansion coming from Norway with expanding their conventional energy exploration might
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inspire some of our decision makers in Canada realize, yes, we're getting left behind. We've
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got to, you know, sure, eventually, eventually, maybe in a century, oil and gas will no longer
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be used. But that just tells us, well, let's get it out and use it while we can then. And while
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it's viable. So maybe that'll sink in with a few folks. Hard to say, though, because the folks in
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charge aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. So let's get on to talking about the head knife
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in the drawer in Ottawa, and that's Justin Trudeau. And author Mark Mielke has written a
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column recently on some of the differences between the junior Trudeau and the senior Trudeau
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with their attitudes when it comes to individual liberties. So let's bring in Mark. Hey, Mark,
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how's it going? I'm great, Corey. Thanks for having me on. Happy Almost Canada Day.
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It's almost there. And yeah, it's kind of a good time to talk about this. And it kind of
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ties into your your last book there in a sense i mean you know identity and individual rights
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things like that i mean they aren't mutually exclusive we can respect the individual while
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still having a collective identity right well the collective it's important to make distinctions
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and in the 1867 project i quote pierre trudeau of all people on these distinctions um collective
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action you know i'm an individual guy you know rights kind of guy but obviously there's a point
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for the collective if you mean government at some point um ostensibly to do things that as individuals
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or you know private businesses can't be done right um i mean hard only hardcore libertarians think
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you know maybe the trans canada should be privatized or something in the highway
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but most people grasp or get that you know there's a need for government you know you need government
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for courts you need governments for armies uh you know to fight the nazis in the 1940s that sort of
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thing um so but the point is the collective exists um for that but they have to treat us all equally
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the government has to treat us all equally as individuals that's the beauty of 500 years of
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enlightenment thought and especially in the anglosphere where he said the individual is worth
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something treat the individual equally morally equal which means what which means the state
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shouldn't be saying to me or you you're going to be treated differently because of your skin color
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your ethnicity, where you were born, your gender. Now, it took a long time to get there,
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probably till the 1950s and 1960s, really, in parts of the world, or at least in the Western
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world, rather, especially in the United States. Canada got there before that. But we got there,
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and it's crystallized in Martin Luther King's famous 1963 speech, that he wanted to see a world,
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in the case of his country, where his children would be judged on the content of their character,
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not the color of their skin. It took a long time to get there. We have reversed and we shouldn't
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have. So people are, again, being treated as something other than individuals in law and
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policy. But that's a long way of saying, yeah, look, the collective exists. That's government
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in essence. But it shouldn't be allowed to take a whack at you or me or anyone else based on
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irrelevant characteristics. Yeah, well, and a totally different philosophy. I mean, aside from
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the name Trudeau, and I guess the amount of loathing Western Canada has for him, Justin Trudeau is
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quite different from his father. I mean, Pierre Trudeau, among his many flaws or whatnot, though,
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he's still a classic liberal in a number of ways, like things such as getting government out of the
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bedrooms of the nation. That was, I think, some fine work on his part. I mean, to give a little
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credit we're doing, I don't give a lot to Trudeau's, but that was important. I was recognized
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these are adults, these are individuals, their rights are paramount, and it's not our place to
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to regulate that. Whereas Justin Trudeau seems to be getting increasingly intrusive into the
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lives of individuals and telling us how we're supposed to live.
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Right. Look, Pierre Trudeau was wrong in many things. And, you know, to be fair to the historical
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record, he probably introduced a little bit of, you know, collective, you know, group rights type
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thinking, you know, in part in the constitution because of the affirmative action clause or,
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you know, the equity clause as people call it. I call it the racial and, you know, gender
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discrimination clause. But, you know, Pierre Trudeau at least would argue he was consistent
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when it came to Quebec and ethnic collective rights, right, that the French could discriminate
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against the English. And it's why he was such a fervent opposition, you know, oppositional figure,
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you know, to Quebec ethno-nationalism. But you're right, Justin Trudeau has almost none of that,
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as far as I can tell. He really believes that Canada is some sort of weird post-national state
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where you don't have any core convictions. And also that it's the government's role to
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discriminate against people based on the fact that, you know, if you measure different groups,
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they have different outcomes. But that's silly. You know, the best performing cohorts in Canada
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are, you know, usually from East Asia, or if you're, you know, an Indian extraction,
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your ancestors, and I mean, as in India in India, not indigenous. And there are reasons for that,
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higher education levels, career choices, that sort of thing. You have different outcomes between
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different groups because different choices, different educational levels, different geography,
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different histories. Very little of it has to do with racism these days. But Justin Trudeau
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wants to micromanage outcomes to make us all equal, so to speak. That's silly. As the famous
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American economist Thomas Sowell once said, the same people in a family, brothers and sisters,
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who grow up will have vastly different outcomes, even though they have the same environment.
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You can't always blame different outcomes on racism, but that's what's driving a lot
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And again, Justin Trudeau, unlike his father, Pierre Trudeau, Trudeau understood that it's
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So you give a collective power based on its religion or language or ethnicity to lord
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Again, the best example in Canada is what French ethno-nationalists do to minorities,
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including English. Well, that's dangerous. It's a liberal, but it's also dangerous because people
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eventually clash over such things. Well, when we talk about, I guess, just, I mean, unity,
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it's a term we hear a lot all the time, but we seem to be, I think, I see more signs of regionalism
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and regional division and even division within the regions now that identity politics are really
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sinking in. The country is actually more fractured than ever, rather than working in a common
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direction. It is. Maybe provincial divisions have always been there, right? The West, you know,
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Quebec, Atlanta, Canada. I grew up in British Columbia, and the Charlottetown Accord was on
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that referendum in 1992. I can tell you most British Columbians, even more than Albertans,
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voted against it because they didn't like the idea of Quebec having special status, which it's got
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all but a name now. So the divisions, I think, have been there, but they've exacerbated. And now
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the federal government and others have brought in divisions based on color, based on ethnicity,
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based on gender. This is the wrong direction to go. What's a more positive way to think about
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Canada on Canada? Or what's a better way to go? Well, it's the old fashioned, what is known as
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classical liberal but today might be considered small c conservative ideas that you don't that
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you celebrate people based on who they are as an individual you don't discriminate discriminate
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against someone based on irrelevant characteristics and what that means is you celebrate the good
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ideas out there um you know the the rights of the individual i mean classical liberalism that came
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from john stuart mill mary wollstonecraft and the rights of women um can be can be adopted by anyone
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these days we see it in hong kong when hong kongers protest against beijing and the crackdowns in
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hong kong over the last several years you would often see them raising the british flag why they
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understood that the british inheritance for example is about the rights of the individual
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about capitalism about the rule of law these are ideas and they're good ideas anybody can
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unite around those and we should there's bad ideas that people can unite around and they have in
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history there's bad ways to unite and it's you know only my religion or my skin color or what
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have you and that's rife throughout history which is why we shouldn't repeat it but for sure
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canadians can and should unite around laudable ideas that you know various founders had a glimpse
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of and pushed to some degree but certainly in the 20th century starting in the 1950s canadians
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were supposed to be united around the idea of the equality of the individual um and other other
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beneficial aspects of modern nation state capitalism and the rest of that's what we should
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actually unite around these days great ideas not identities well yeah and we seem to have some some
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i guess culture wars going on in in canada i mean we've seen some of that just recently in calgary
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city hall didn't understand why a minor move such as getting rid of fireworks blew up the way
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it did but it was because of the reasoning for it i mean the bottom line is there are some people
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who feel that canada day is supposed to be a day where we look at our shoes and shame it's supposed
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to be when we're supposed to dwell on the negatives that happened historically within
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canada and there certainly have been some negatives rather than taking one day though
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to say hey we can still celebrate the positives while acknowledging the negatives i mean they
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treat it as if it's mutually exclusive and it's i think it's really making canadians depressed
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about their own history well that's one of the things we tried to approach in the 1867 project
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right the new book that you know i and 19 other people wrote we tried to give people a sense of
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of Canadian history with nuance, with balance, with informed history, and also to kind of change
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the way some people view Canadian history. I think the majority of Canadians think we should feel
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proud of Canada. They may not, you know, and they're not part of the minority of the chattering
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classes that thinks we should cancel Canada. So I think most Canadians get that we should
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celebrate or cherish Canada. They may not fully conceptually have worked out why or why the,
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you know those who want to cancel canada are completely in the wrong and so what we're trying
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to in the 1867 project is make people think um about canada and the best analogy i can give you
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corey is canada and other civilizations are like oak trees right they take time to grow to build
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they're not perfect um in history you've seen what i would the analogy would be diseased limbs women
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didn't have the right to vote indigenous folk were denied the right to vote in the late 1800s by
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parliament, finally given it in 1960 under John Diefenbaker, that parliament. Those were, you know,
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the bad policies were diseased limbs that were right to be pruned. But that doesn't mean the
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project was a bad idea, that the oak tree, which shelters people, is a bad idea. Canada, as an oak
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tree, has sheltered tens of millions of people over the decades, unlike, say, Chairman Mao's China in
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1960 in the Cultural Revolution. While Canada is giving the vote, rightly, to Indigenous Canadians,
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Chairman Mao is persecuting his own people and causing mass starvation and famine because of his ideological Marxist beliefs.
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So it's not just that no nation is perfect. That's obvious. No person is perfect.
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The key question is, are certain minorities preferable?
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When Hong Kongers celebrate the ideas of freedom, the rule of law, capitalism,
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what they're saying is we prefer these to what's north of the border in Beijing.
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And it doesn't matter if those ideas originated with John Stuart Mill and others in the 19th century in London, what matters is that they're a good idea and anybody can adopt them. You don't have to be, you know, a white person to be an Indian and say capitalism is better than socialism. So, you know, you can take some of what the British left behind and leave what you don't like. And that's part of Canada. And that's why we should celebrate Canada. We got some great ideas. We've had some great ideas for a very long time.
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we abolished slavery before almost every country on earth. We shouldn't look down to our shoes and
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be ashamed of that. Slavery was once considered normal. It wasn't, it was evil, but it was
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considered normal. And Canada got rid of it almost before any other country on the planet. So rather
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than be ashamed of sort of Canada's past, it's like, you have to ask the question, why did we
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break away from that faulty thinking on slavery? Well, there were reasons for that, which I won't
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won't go into now but they matter and that's why we should cherish Canada and not cancel it so
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that's kind of which is the subtitle of the 1867 project yeah well and so with what we've got going
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on out of Ottawa though and mixed signals almost coming from the prime minister but some of that
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is I mean is it a matter of it being politically expedient for him to play these politics and
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division and identity or or is he really got actually some inherent core feelings you know
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Because I mean, the first one perhaps can be changed
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He might continue like this for the rest of his term.
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that it plays well in certain communities, not all.
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Again, to quote Thomas Sowell, who I mentioned, I think, in my previous book, but also this one, the 1867 project, Thomas Sowell tells a great story of how, look, if you look in history, the Italians dominate the fishing fleets around the world.
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The Swiss don't. Is it because the world was systemically biased against the Swiss? No.
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So you would expect over decades and centuries that the Italians to dominate the fishing industry around the world in the fleets.
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It's the same with, you know, simplistic looks that say, again, outcomes and incomes today.
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There's a reason why indigenous Canadians are lower than, say, other Canadians and why, you know, those of Japanese, Chinese or Taiwanese or Korean ancestry at the top of the income heap, because the latter are more educated.
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The families are often more together, which matters to stability and other reasons.
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So indigenous folk often are in rural locations, often on reserves, far from opportunities.
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So there's reasons, and I think Trudeau, Justin Trudeau,
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simplistically looks at differences in outcomes and goes,
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Why would you be so mono-causal, Mr. Prime Minister?
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a number of factors, I guess, before closing out,
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The 1867 Project, and you've got a number of our authors
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contributing towards that, so it's an anthology
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where can people find your book and get themselves a copy?
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You can also check out aristotelfoundation.org.
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It's a new think tank that I and others have set up,
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about 30 senior fellows, a great board of directors,
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and we've already been publishing some material,
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but we set it up very simply to make people think.
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Well, we need more people thinking, that's for sure.
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Well, thank you very much for joining us again today, Mark.
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And I appreciate your work with the book and the foundation.
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Is there anything you'd like to let the audience know
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sensible democracy and an old fashioned word, civilization.
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And that's also what the Aristotle Foundation is about.
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and I think you'll be intrigued by what you see.
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He's been the author of a whole number of other books.
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I still remember going way back to Tax Me, I'm Canadian.
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There's always a lot of common sense coming from Mr. Mielke.
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Thanks. So yes, lots to think about, you know, and as I said, we need more thinkers, more people
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putting their ideas in, and I like that statement he used, monocausal, you know, when you look at
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a complicated issue, outcomes, things like that, and then, you know, with Trudeau just simplistically
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points at one cause, it could be a contributing cause, but there's a lot more to it. So speaking
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of thinking a little harder, it's something I need to do now and then as well. Something I want to
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talk about before we go. I mean, I've still got a while before we go here, but just getting on to
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where, you know, rant a little bit. It's a lesson I learned that I should know better just a couple
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of days ago. So I was on Twitter as I commonly am. Those who know me, I spend a lot of time there.
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I find things there. You get good breaking news things. There's not a great place for
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nuanced discourse though and things, but you've got to watch it. You got to watch it on social
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media, of course. And the way I've said it before a lot of times is we've got more access to
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information than we've ever had in human history, but we've also got more access to BS than we've
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ever had before. So I saw a tweet a couple of days ago, it came up, it showed, some of you
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were on Twitter, might've seen it. This big husky balding man with, he's out there playing
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rugby with a bunch of women and he's running. And this Twitter story was saying that apparently
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during a rugby team, this guy's identifying as trans and he joined the woman's team and three
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women got injured in a rugby match out in Ontario because this great big husky man was among them
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playing. You know, rugby is a very physical game. This guy would have a great advantage over, of
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course, people who are, you know, biologically women. And he was, you know, you can envision
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them, him slamming them around like so many mannequins on the field or whatnot. But I was
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pretty outraged. I mean, this is nuts. This is a, I was actually thinking I'm going to write a column
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on this because there's so many lines getting crossed. It's just getting so ridiculous with
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the trans world with, with pushing on at least the activist end of things to the point of actually
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putting women at risk. Now, I mean, my thoughts were, this is a guy who is probably somebody just
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wants to abuse women. I mean, he's not even trying. He doesn't even look like he's dressed
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like a woman or anything like that. Once I started researching, I couldn't, it didn't happen.
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It didn't happen. It's just a picture out of context with some text, but I cannot, if it did
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happen. It's been scrubbed from history everywhere. There's no rugby league in Ontario saying this
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happened. There's no team members saying this happened on either team. There's no news reports
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that this happened. There's no eyewitness accounts saying that this happened. It didn't happen.
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And I fell for it. I tweeted a couple of things with my usual rage tweeting, you know, saying how
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ridiculous this is and how, you know, this is going to lead to broken necks with women. And
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well, it won't because it didn't happen. Now, guys, it doesn't matter how outrageous things
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are getting. We don't need to go to the juicy, smaller level of making up controversy. There's
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enough real ones happening already. We discredit ourselves when we put stuff like that out there
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on social media. And yeah, Tracy's saying it was on Sky News. Yeah, it's getting around,
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but i can't find evidence of it i can't find it anywhere so if somebody can find real evidence
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this is showing that's what i mean sky news this is going international i saw some heavy duty
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twitter accounts also of media personalities were sharing this thing but it's to my knowledge it
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didn't happen so this hurts things and it hurt i mean it's twitter i'm not gonna heavily research
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everything I retweet or share or talk about. And the reason I dug deeper was because I was
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considering writing a column on it. And then of course, when I'm going to write and commit this
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to print or, you know, digital print through the Western standard or wherever else I might be
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writing, I want to make sure I've got all the facts done. I want to find out where this happened,
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who it was, what's the name of the people involved, all of that. None of it's out there, guys. Not a
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bit of it. And it's not new, you know, stuff, like I said, being spread on social media. It happens
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all the time. We can all fall for it now and then too. But the responsibility does land on us. See,
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this is where I get worried too. This is part of the stuff that people like Trudeau used to say,
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see, see, this is why we have to control conversation. This is why we have to control
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social media. This is why we have to get in there. No, no, we have to be responsible for ourselves.
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We have to fact check our own material. We have to look into this stuff. Because if we don't,
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it invites them to take that on. And we know that they're only going to fact check
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huge way, at least any more so than a lot of other
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people. It was just Twitter. I retweeted it, made a couple
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statements. I even got rid of the tweets afterwards.
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There's no sense spreading more rage. We've got enough things to
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who's a swimmer who's just blowing women out of the water, you know, pun intended, on the swimming
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races throughout the United States. I mean, again, not even trying. This isn't somebody who's
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presenting as a woman. He's got all his junk and his parts intact, and he's just out there
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defeating women in swimming pools. But as outrageous as that is, it doesn't put them at
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physical risk. It's still ridiculous, and the guys shouldn't be in there. But the rugby story
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was different. This was a person on a physical sport that theoretically would have really hurt
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somebody if that was happening. But again, as I said, as far as I can find, it did not happen.
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So we need to watch ourselves when we're on social media. That's all, you know, all of us,
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including me. And I mean, there's, you know, real damage can get done. I have a fair-sized
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Twitter following and sharing and tweeting and getting on with those things can spread a lot of
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mistrust or anger into an area for something that didn't happen. And then it's just not good.
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So speaking of the massive media in general, let's have a look at that. You know, Rodriguez
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or a heritage minister federally, basically, it's looking like Facebook isn't going to back down,
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guys. They're going to start blocking news links out there. Google might follow soon too,
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based on C18, you know, which is a shakedown. It's basically trying to steal money from social
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media companies to subsidize preferred media companies by the government. It's a disgusting
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policy move. And they're not having any of it. And I don't blame them a bit. You don't have to
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see some people screw meta to heck with Facebook. I hate them. I don't care. You don't have to like
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them. You don't have to like Zuckerberg or any of them. But it doesn't mean they deserve to be
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robbed by the government and have the money given over to other
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um, um, you know, media outlets. It's, it's not, it's not right. Don't like Facebook. Don't go
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there. Don't like meta or whatever. Don't like Google. Don't use it. Use Bing. But, uh, this
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bill is terrible. And so what is the response though from Rodriguez? Well, he said, we're going
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to dip in more and we will just make sure to keep pouring more money into the media outlets to cover
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any money lost. Uh, if, if Facebook and all those block the links to it, they just won't back down
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on this battle. This is bad, guys. It's bad for news in general. And yes, it could very much hurt
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the Western standard. Something I'm going to put out for some self-serving advice, but it's true.
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Sign up for email access to your favorite media outlet, guys. I know you get spammed, you get all
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sorts of emails chronically from news organizations. Once their name got your list, you keep getting
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them. But it's important because that way they can reach you with news without having to go through
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those social media platforms and we can still get the stories to you and still share these things
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because we don't know where this is going to end. We don't know where it's going to finish and you
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just might not be able to find the sites as easily. I mean, they're always going to be there. The
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site's there. All the social media platforms do is funnel the traffic to them. That's all. They
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don't carry the content. That's where a lot of people are mistaken. Oh, Facebook's carrying and
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making money off the content. No, they aren't. No, they aren't. They're just providing a link.
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Likewise with Google, but it's going to be a lot harder to find them and it's going to reduce
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traffic. And if we reduce traffic, we reduce the advertising revenue we can get. And that means we
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can't provide as good a news as we did, or we don't get as many new subscribers. It's just
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bad, bad, bad all around. And unfortunately, I think it's only going to get worse for it gets
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better. We're seeing in the news now that Post Media and the company who owns the Toronto Star,
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you know, two big, the remaining, you know, of the few media giants left in Canada,
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they're all losing money hand over fist, are talking about merging now.
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I imagine it'll be easier to get the government welfare checks in.
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It's just a bigger version of the broken model.
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I mean, loads of them out there in legacy media outlets, or they were.
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The whole media platform, the way it's done, is different.
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And these guys are holding on to outdated, obsolete models.
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They either have to adapt and scale down and get better, or they've just got to go away.
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Subsidizing them, pouring tax dollars into them, or stealing money from social media giants and giving it to them,
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that won't save them. That just puts off the inevitable at best. But it also harms the smaller
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up and coming outlets like us with the Western Standard or True North or Epoch Times, Post
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Millennial, all those other ones. They get hurt because there's still only so much market. It's
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a tougher market now. We're in a battle for information. But like I said, you know, kind of
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in a long circular way, we have to make sure we fact check our own information, get it out there.
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Because when BS starts spreading, that's one of their favorite ways to make an excuse
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to get in there and interfere with the sharing of information online.
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So when you see something and you find out that it's baloney going around, call it out.
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Because, you know, it just gives them more reason to intervene.
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Because they won't intervene for the sake of your truth or learning.
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speaking of self-serving jerks let's look at the Suzuki Foundation now they're they're taking to
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the airwaves it says to tell the public that the liquefied natural gas industry is bad you know
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see this is why we need independent media we need to report and counter the baloney that comes out
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of nutcases like David Suzuki and his and his gross foundation you know the world is burning
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a lot of high emission fuel. Most of the world's burning it, whether it's wood or coal or animal
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dung. A lot of the developing world, they're using whatever they have to. Liquefied natural gas is
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one of the best developments to help mitigate and reduce the emissions. No, it doesn't eliminate
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them, but it reduces them. It's far less damaging than the other forms. But we've got lunatics like
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the Suzuki Foundations and lunatics like Justin Trudeau, who are saying there's no market for
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liquid natural gas, even though we've got countries asking, begging almost, for the export of things
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like liquid natural gas. The demand is there, but we're not allowing ourselves to fill it. Other
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countries are filling it. The United States is making a great deal of money exporting liquid
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natural gas to places like Germany. Canada, on the other hand, has spent decades, still hasn't got
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a single drop of LNG off the coast yet. Eventually it looks like the Kitimat project might come into
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operation, but I'm at a point where I'll believe it when I see it. And in the meantime, while
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billions are being invested, while years of fighting over the coastal gas link pipeline have
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gone on, and it's getting close to completion where they can finally get a return on this,
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where some money will come back, where you can sell some product, or you can invest it back into
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your country. Clowns like the David Suzuki Foundation are saying we should shut down
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liquid natural gas. These extremists, and they are extremists, want us to economically kick
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ourselves in the balls and we can't let them get away with it. We've got to push back. So again,
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getting self-serving as I like to do, that's why independent media is important because guys like
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him need to be countered. They need to be called out. We need the facts to get out there. Or guys
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like Trudeau will hide behind extremists like David Suzuki, and we will shut down viable energy
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alternatives, and is harming the entire world. Japan needs LNG, India needs LNG, Germany needs
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LNG. We have it. And we can't get it out of here. As Anita Salisbury, you know, a commenter saying
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yeah, told Germany, you know, Trudeau told Germany there was no business. And then he gives no
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business for LNG, and he gives 13 billion tax dollars to a Volkswagen plant for batteries.
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Nobody wanted that. If it was financially viable, you don't need to give them that.
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It's not that complicated. But we've got an inept government. We've got a corrupted government.
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And as long as they can control information, we're in a lot of trouble, guys. So we've got
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to stand up for ourselves make sure our information is accurate and uh yes support your independent
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media outlets guys because i mean you you look at that you know toronto star and post media are
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looking to merge i mean just a horrible thought just think of the giant ugly evil empire of media
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that'll become for a short time till they go broke too but they're gonna pull a lot of subsidies and
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a lot of influence both ways from the government to that media organization the toronto star i mean
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known as the Red Star. Come on, guys. And you want that to dominate the media landscape even
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more than it already does? Scary stuff, actually. Very distressing. So, I mean, we need to make sure
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we have the alternatives out there, guys, because if we put it all into one basket with these sorts
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of media outlets like that, we're all going to be in trouble. All right. Well, let's get a report
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on the agricultural front from Jim Busicum of Marketplace Commodities and see what's happening
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out there hey jim good to see you back again this week how you doing hey doing great cory how are
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you doing today i'm all right i'm all right always lots for me to rant on there you go there you go
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all right so i'll start with um stats can acreage estimates came out this morning stats can uh
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collects these estimates going back into roughly the start of april so there can be some variants
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if farmers do change their seeding plans but you know really the short of it is on acreage estimates
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if you look at a look at the changes year over year is that the crops that over the last year
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were really high in price so you take durham wheat spring wheat all wheat classes barley
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those acres are up roughly 20 percent on all wheat up around four percent on barley and then some
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things that may be good prices but not great prices the last year pulse crops such as lentils
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and peas relatively flat not not bad pricing but not as good as maybe what some of the other
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commodities are those acreages are down somewhere in 15 to 20 range oats also a big change year over
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year down 35 and then fun fact i bet most people listening here don't know it but farmers actually
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grow a lot of canary seed of all things there's roughly 300 000 acres of canary seed on the
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prairies and it's it's not a major commodity by any means but i thought just fun facts throw it
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out there and it's just really used for feeding birds that's all it is so um as far as commodities
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go for the rest we're still right in the middle of a weather market prices are extremely volatile
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we're seeing a lot of price range on a week-to-week basis on whether it rains or doesn't
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rain um we've seen good parts of western canada get rains uh how be it there's still dry areas
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going along the eastern side western side of saskatchewan eastern side of alberta that is
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and uh so we got a few more hoops to go through before we have another crop in the bin all right
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yeah just a you know a note before i let you go then we did i mean it was a couple weeks ago when
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when we spoke and things were looking very, very bleak for the rain though. And we did, as you said,
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get some, at least in the Western end of Alberta, was it too late or did it make a difference at
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least for some? It wasn't too late. It, it, uh, there's certainly some individuals and some areas
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that the rain came somewhat too late. It takes away the optimal production, but you can still
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come out with an average production in Western Canada. I'll be like, I am aware of it. We talk
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to farmers all day long there are areas in alberta especially that are basically close to zero
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production right now likewise there's some really really good areas and i know this is an alberta
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show but down in montana they have bumper crops coming up montana is only 100 kilometers away
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from lethbridge so a lot of those grains if they're feed quality they can work their way up
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into Alberta. Well, it's the luck of the draw year by year, I guess. Nobody ever said it was an easy
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industry. There you go. All right. Well, thanks for the updates, Jim. And well, let's keep hoping
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things stay decently strong and we'll check in with you again soon. All right. Thanks a lot.
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Bye-bye. Thank you. So that was Jim Busicum of Marketplace Commodities. Yeah, that whole
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agricultural market, like I said, Paradox, he's saying that the bird seed, I didn't know that.
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I saw that in the list on the image, you know, canary seed.
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I thought maybe it was a term for some sort of food crop, you know, and they call it that or something.
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So why not diversify your crops, grow something a little different out there.
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But when you're talking 300,000 acres, it's still a sizable chunk of land out there.
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there you see we got our little educational parts of this show it's not just me rambling and twisting
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your ear with my my anger and uh rage on things though i mean that we do dominate with a lot of
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that uh let's see what else we've got going on yeah an interesting story with uh canada day
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approaching uh the citizenship you know so we put out a thing uh the citizenship survey if you want
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to become a citizen of canada you have to answer a bunch of questions about you know the the country
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and we were asking them around the newsroom a little bit dave was asking them and because this
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survey found 1,500 Canadians that only 23% would actually pass the citizenship test. These are
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people already here based on answers to 10 randomly selected questions. And he was asking
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those questions that I couldn't get them either. I'd fail the citizenship test, I think, if I had
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to go through it. You know, it's important to have these tests, obviously. And I suspect committed
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new Canadians are going to read, you know, and study and be very careful and they'll make sure
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to pass these tests. But the homegrown Canadians, I guess we're lapsing or lagging on our own
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history. We, we aren't as well educated on the nation as the new Canadians coming in are. So
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that's a bit of a, I don't know, I can speak to our education or speak to our attitudes or speak
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to a number of things. Interesting thing to come out before Canada, you know, to find that most of
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us, I mean, at least I'm not alone. The majority of us wouldn't pass that darn test. Another
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interesting thing, just seeing it unfold, I'll finish up with two. I'm really hoping, you know,
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and I can do, I probably will do whole shows on it down the road, but as healthcare, it's just
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always ongoing. It's always big. I'm really hoping that Premier Smith maintains the courage to get
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in there and reform it and do some stuff and shake that Alberta Health Services tree. And we're
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seeing just how ugly it's getting. This whole thing with Dr. Dina Hinshaw, now whether she was
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fairly treated or not fairly, I don't know. She was the person who was the head of the public
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health officer while the pandemic hit none of them that's not a good position to be in I think
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for anybody at that point I'm sure through a lot of it she wishes she was just back in her office
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in a cubby hole somewhere in the legislative buildings and tracking you know venereal disease
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outbreaks at high school dances rather than dealing with COVID but she got caught in the
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middle of it and rightly or wrongly whatever she got fired eventually once Smith came in
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partly due to some of the actions Hinshaw did, or I think partly was just followed from her doing
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what she was told to do by the Kennedy government. But it doesn't matter, she was gone. But then we
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find out recently, no, she's back. She's been hired into a different department. And then they
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said, no, no, no, no, that was fake. It was a fake letterhead and everything else. Well, no, it turns
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out it really was real. And she got unhired is the way they're putting it, because I think she never
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quite got started. And now a bunch of doctors are having a temper tantrum over it. Talk about
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politics in our health care provision, guys. You know, the amount of noise and who hired her and
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how this is going on is just showing what a bureaucratic nightmare the health care administration
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and system is. What a mess. What a bloody mess. End to end. And they're all fighting with each
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other. Doctors fighting. Look, we need to decentralize. And this is in every province.
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It doesn't, isn't just Alberta. That's the thing that we have to, every opposition party claims
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that their province is the worst on the planet. Well, no, actually, if you go across the country,
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every province has the same problem going on. Every one of them, because none of them will
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change the system. None of them have the courage to take on their own bureaucrats and unions.
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I'm hoping Daniel Smith will be the first one to have the courage to take that on. So yeah,
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it looks like a bit of a debacle with this in Henshaw, out Henshaw and a hundred doctors
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whining. And you know, it's the same hundred doctors who complain as Dr. Vipond and others.
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They're all NDP members and union supporters. It's just the same old stuff and the legacy
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media feeding that crap. But either way, a little bit of chaos hopefully is an indication of actual
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reforms coming because they're going to fight Smith tooth and nail. The status quo is going to
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fight. It's like I've said in the past, she's got to stand strong. She's got to push back. She's got
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to reform that system or we're all going to lose. All right. Well, that's enough for today, guys.
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I've covered quite a bit of ground. I will let you all go back to your summer days. So thank you
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very much for joining us today guys and we will be back again with another guest more ranting
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more news and all that good stuff next week at this time so i'll see you then
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