CMS： Healthcare？ It’s the system stupid!
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Health care in Canada is a broken system, and it s getting worse by the day. Canada s health care system is failing in every area of the country, and people are dying while they wait to see a doctor or receive treatment.
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and yeah i use that term holiday but it's okay i mean i wish happy hanukkah merry christmas
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happy kwanzaa it doesn't matter to me it's a time of year that a lot of people are getting together
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doing things and as long as people aren't too uptight and such we can all enjoy it and have
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a good time some people get hung up on some of the dumbest of things at this time of year but
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I'm enjoying it. Lots of stuff going on. So there's a commenter there, Karina Mack,
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saying Merry Christmas and saying back at you. So yes, use that comment scroll, guys. I like
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seeing you out there, have some audience participation, send questions my way, the
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guests way or to each other, have discussions, just keep things civil. We don't always have to
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be at each other's throats. And yeah, I had an interesting thing greet me when I came into the
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office today. This came from Anthony and he sent a beautiful Christmas card, which I really
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appreciate. And as well, a calendar with the 2024 calendar of dogs pooping in beautiful places.
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You know, this Anthony certainly knows what my taste in humor is and my liking of dogs. And
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yeah, I don't tend to dwell on them pooping too terribly much, but all the same, it is great
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seeing them on that calendar with a great background. So that'll go up over my desk,
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Anthony, and thank you very much for sending it out my way. Good to see you there as well,
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Mr. Stanley. And of course, it looks like Mike from Freedom Honey's hanging around out there
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in Paradoxy. All right, let's get on to what I'm going to go on about today to start things off.
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Because, you know, we're always hearing about it in the news. We're all experiencing it and we
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all know about it. So let's look at some healthcare news. Healthcare, yes, the big
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overwhelming Canadian subject. And let's look at the news across Canada. We'll kind of go from west
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to east. Well, in BCE, cancer patients have been sent to the United States for treatment because
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the local facilities are overwhelmed. In Alberta, we've got patients languishing in hospital hallways
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as the capacity in those hospitals right now is reported to be at 150%. In Saskatchewan,
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patients are being sent to Alberta, ironically, for diagnostic services and some surgeries
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because their public systems are overwhelmed. In Ontario, hospital emergency departments have
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been experiencing rotating closures because they have a lack of resources. In Quebec, conventional
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hospitals are reported to be at 100% capacity, while the children's hospitals are at 150% capacity.
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Parents are being urged to seek home treatment for their sick kids. In Nova Scotia, the waitlist
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for finding a regular family doctor has grown to 150,000 people. I skipped some provinces and didn't
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go into every health care issue, but I think you get the picture. It's the same everywhere.
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The Fraser Institute recently released its annual report on health care waiting times,
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and the picture is bleak. The median wait time for treatment after having been referred to a
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specialist by a general practitioner in Canada is climbed to 27.7 weeks, and that's assuming the
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person managed to find a general practitioner in the first place. How many people are dying
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waiting to see a specialist right now? How many conditions end up becoming untreatable because
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people spent too much time waiting for diagnosis or treatment? Canada's healthcare system is failing
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in every jurisdiction and in every possible way across the country. I mean, there's modern
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facilities staffed by fantastic professionals in every province, but they just can't keep up
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with the demand. Waiting lists for every medical service imaginable. They're growing and people are
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dying while they're waiting for that care. We've got opposition parties in every province trying
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to score political points by blaming the party in power, but they're missing the mark. It doesn't
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matter if it's NDP, UCP, PC, CAQ, in power, in government, in the province, the situation's the
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same everywhere. Every province has dramatically increased health care spending too, so we can't
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pretend we aren't spending enough. The federal government, love them or hate them, most of us
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hate them, they have been increasing health care transfers to the provinces. So again, it's not
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lack of money. Canada's one of the highest spending countries on earth when it comes to health care,
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But it's among the worst when it comes to providing access.
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So funding isn't the cure, and the different party isn't the cure.
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This is the thing that Canadians just never want to admit.
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And it's become politically taboo to point that out.
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And politicians are too terrified to take on the health care unions and bureaucrats.
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But it's beyond time they set aside their cowardly instincts and call out this system.
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Some premiers are trying to do what they can within the system, but it's going to inevitably fail.
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They're doing patchwork repairs on a blown engine that needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
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Daniel Smith in Alberta has taken on the local bureaucracy and decentralizing the administration of health care services.
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Her efforts will probably lead to some improvements and some better efficiency.
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But in the end, Canada's health act is going to overwhelm it and the system is going to remain crap.
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We're in a monopoly situation, government monopoly.
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And whether it's private or government, it doesn't matter.
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the consumer always loses. And citizens, whether you like the term or not, are consumers of health
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care, and they're forced by law to deal with only one provider. The only other nations that
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illegalize private health care that way are North Korea and Cuba. Speaks volumes, doesn't it?
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Canada's legislated health care monopoly makes it impossible for provinces to create real and
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lasting fixes to the system. Unions and bureaucrats fight every effort to make changes while the costs
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The only way to change this intractable cycle is to scrap
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or at least seriously reform the Federal Health Act
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While Canadians constantly list health care as one of their top issues of concern,
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they've been trained to fear any changes to the system
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Unions, again, and activists decry any effort to improve the system
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as Americanization, and it's effective in frightening voters
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I'll tell you, I'd rather have some change than die on a waiting list.
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They need to realize there are dozens of universal health care systems in the world,
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and most of them are functioning better than ours.
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Politicians need to immediately dismiss the two-dimensional argument
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that only Canada and the United States have systems in the world.
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Political leaders need to turn the discussion to European and Asian models
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that have universal coverage and are outperforming us.
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Private health care provision is not a bad thing.
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And the world provides a plethora of evidence to back that up.
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Fear-mongering has dominated the narrative and allowed Canada to become so collectively stupid on the issue,
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citizens won't even glance at models that are proven to provide better care than the current system.
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Does it really matter how you're getting your care, as long as you're getting the care?
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Things are sure to get worse with the healthcare system in Canada until the system itself is rebuilt.
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The only question is, how bad are things going to have to get before enough Canadians understand this?
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perhaps enough of the politicians will start to act on it.
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Again, we just keep running in circles on this healthcare thing.
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It's the system. It's the system. It's the system.
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it doesn't matter how much more you tinker with it.
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If the system is broken, it's not going to work.
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All right, just a quick greeting to Scott Campbell out there in Thunder Bay.
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It's good to see people coming in from all over the country on these things.
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I'm not just talking to myself like I typically do when I'm driving in the car or sometimes in
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the corner of the office. Let me talk to somebody else now. We'll check in and see what's happening
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in the news with our news editor, Dave Naylor. Lots going on as usual. Hey, Dave, how you doing?
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I'm doing well, Corey. I'm a little upset you pinched the column of, or the calendar of dogs
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pooping. I was going to steal that from my mom. Well, we can make arrangements on what could
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happen. I mean, maybe we could divide the year half and half or something like that.
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Well, I know she always watches, so she'll be, sorry, mom, I tried.
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Still going to try and get you some sugar, mom, so don't panic too much.
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That's a fodder for another rant on unions down the road.
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We've got a just-released Angus Reid poll showing how the situation in Gaza is affecting Canadians.
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Obviously, we've seen a huge rise in anti-Semitic incidents.
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The Democracy Fund has decided they're going to take the Red Deer Catholic Regional School to court.
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They were the ones that dismissed Trustee LaGrange for her daring to stand up for Canadian kids against gender issues.
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Heritage Minister has come out today and demanded that the head of CBC, Catherine Tate, release her decisions on whether or not executives are going to get bonuses.
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This comes after they announced a layoff of hundreds of workers earlier this month.
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Speaking of polls, we've got one out by our friend Mark Henry with Think HQ showing Jody Gondek, the least popular mayor in Calgary history.
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And this poll released after she did her trick with the menorah lighting core that you've talked about and refused to attend.
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You remember earlier this week, the crazy Stephen Gilbeau, the Environment Minister, announced that all Canadian cars would have to be electric by, I think it was 2030 to 2035.
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Pierre Polyev in a radio interview this morning said, no way, once he becomes power, once he becomes Prime Minister, if the polls are correct, he'll be changing all that.
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We also have a Scotiabank economist saying all the recent immigration could be problematic for keeping inflation still sky high.
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And as you know, there was 400,000 recent immigrants to Canada in the last quarter.
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We've got our Dave Makachuk talking about robots and the effect of drones and robots in warfare.
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And an undercover drug operation by Calgary police has led to hundreds of charges, 212 charges against 27 drug dealers on the Calgary transit system.
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So they're trying to do what they can to clean that up.
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But things aren't, as you know, outside our building, Corey, there is the 7th Street station, and it's not a good place to hang around, especially after dark.
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coming out. We've got newly released remarks by the head of Hamas thanking Melanie Jolie for
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calling for a ceasefire in that situation with Israel over there. So the terrorists seem quite
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happy with this, Corey. Well, I'm glad somebody is liking Melanie Jolie aside from, you know,
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Justin Trudeau. I guess somebody had to appreciate her efforts. Yeah, making friends and influencing
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or over there, and we'll talk to you after the show.
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stories coming out from a number of reporters, a number of
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columnists. This is where I make that plug, but it's an
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important one, guys. The reason we can stay independent,
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the reason we're doing this, the reason I'm doing this show
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when getting newspaper subscriptions in the past.
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And hey, the holiday season, as I said, coming up,
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Buy a membership for your uncle who can't stand conservatives, or buy one for your aunt who does
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like them. I mean, you can use a subscription as a gift. Give the gift of information and
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Cory Morgan's ranting right behind the paywall. What a gift indeed. Things to keep in mind. But
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again, we appreciate it, guys. Thank you very much. All right. Yeah, we got a few things going
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on here. So the Scotiabank, you know what, I'm going to move on since we're in the holiday mood
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and get that going. We did have a special guest, and I talked about that. It's not like our typical
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guest, not a political guest, but we'll have a little bit of a political chat with that guest.
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We had somebody come in who comes into the Western Standard offices every year, and he came by and
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gave us a special exclusive one-on-one here. Let's have a look at this.
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You know, at this time of year, it seems like every radio show, every TV show, every talk thing,
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Oh, we'll have Santa on. We'll have a nice, pretty, festive holiday show.
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We'll talk about who's been good. We'll talk about who gets gifts.
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We'll talk about sitting on each other's laps. Well, depends on which show.
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This is the Cory Morgan Show, and this is the Western Standard.
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Today we've got a treat we've brought in from the hills of Germany.
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you got your work cut off for those who may be unfamiliar with this creature krampus helps keep
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children in line where santa is the carrot krampus has the sticks and he's here to talk about some
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of the folks whether they've earned a good treatment this year well well we'll start with
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me have i been good this year krampus or do i get beaten with sticks
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he's weighing this over carefully yes there's the other part and plus i could be hauled off to
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another world by krampus if i misbehave i've been good mostly yeah yeah you watch my shows
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yeah all right well let's go through some of the people this year krampus
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huh who deserves a beating who deserves santa's treatment let's start with everybody's favorite
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justin trudeau you're saying that you'll be eating trust justin with sticks this year
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yeah yeah he's had a hard year krampus i mean you know you're just kind of piling on the poor guy
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yeah true enough he hasn't heard over the rest of the country
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You know, you got to wonder sometimes, though, Krampus, I mean, these are inside.
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I mean, we've heard Justin might like a little bit of abuse from, you know, that sort of perspective.
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You know, I mean, a lot of people like a little slap and tickle, a little hair tug or whatnot.
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Well, speaking of which, you know, are you going to be visiting Sophie this year?
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There's going to be a lot of stick spankings this year.
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Has anybody ever actually just escaped your punishment?
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It looks like you've taken a few sticks to the face yourself now and then, Krampus.
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Ah, Derek Fildebrand's cane will do that to you.
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Yeah, Fildebrand is a mad, nasty person with that cane.
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Derek, are you going to be visiting him this year?
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He's the Germanic soul who has really sort of invited you into the quarters around here in the first place.
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I mean, she's been standing up, trying to make things a little better in Alberta.
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oh i see a token beating we don't support tokenism around here it's merit or nothing
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he's okay i see i see okay uh taylor swift oh no no no a lot of people would pay to watch
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no no people pay everything for taylor smith i mean if you get that content on there
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So, I mean, that gets me thinking about things.
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I mean, there's got to be some sort of affirmative action program, right?
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Evil. Evil. Well, I mean, if you're just punishing the bad, that's not an evil course of action,
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is it? I guess not. There we go. You're good. You're good. Somewhat. Some days.
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So, but you do have a long history. I mean, this has been hundreds and hundreds of years. You know,
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you've been out there traumatizing Germanic children and so on, but you work in partnership
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with mr claus so he doesn't have to be the bad guy ah i get the naughty list ah yes that's where
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it actually goes so much fun no lump of coal but uh beating with yeah i think you should have some
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elves though evil elves okay i see do i i don't know we can arrange for it that's what i was
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talking about i'm talking about a special for you krampus you get us live footage of you
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I tell you what, the viewership will be overwhelming.
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But, I mean, he's not quite the arousing draw that Swift might be.
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You don't have to crawl around the alleys anymore and scare children.
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You could have your own place with your own minions taking care of this.
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I mean, your sticks look a little thinner this year.
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but you have to pay the carbon tax on those emissions.
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absolutely they actually want to ban these well you should talk to stephen gill bull will be
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hitting his house this year yeah yeah been there twice already okay is he inviting you back no
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okay i'm going anyways all right on well there's no stopping crampus very bad very bad well i know
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you've got a busy schedule and a lot of people to punish there always seems to be more of the
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so i'll probably let you get back and making your rounds so people watch out for krampus
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But thank you for joining us at the Robert's Standard
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So we've had Krampus coming here, actually, to the Western Standard Christmas parties every year.
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We had some pictures go out and onto social media.
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So people got really upset and said, why have you got some Satan going on in your Christmas thing in the newsroom?
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We're up in those European countries out there where Krampus would come along, I guess, you know,
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rather than just having kids and worrying about a lump of coal.
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The mythology there would be Krampus would show up and beat the kids with the sticks,
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as you saw with Krampus there, if they weren't being good kids.
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And if they were being really bad kids, Krampus had his sack,
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and the kids would be stuffed into the sack and taken off to hell.
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So yeah, I tell you, they've got some scarier stuff going on in those European mountains
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But we just thought we'd do something different, bring them in for the holidays.
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Again, we don't want to drag guests down to the studio, aside from Krampus.
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during this time of year. People are all busy shopping, preparing, and hopefully having a good
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time. All right, let's kind of get back to the regular show format and some of the stuff
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Dave was talking about. We'll get to some news here and things. So yeah, Derek Holt, he's the
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vice president and head of capital markets and economics at Scotiabank. So he's coming out,
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we're seeing more people coming out as the numbers are coming out. Reality, one of those things
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Canadians seem to hate so much. That's what I was talking about with the healthcare, with Canadians
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denying reality on how our system is and the state it's in. The other reality is we can't
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sustain our current immigration levels. We can't. The numbers are just there. They're stark. We are
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in serious trouble. We have high inflation. We have low productivity. We have a dropping GDP per
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capita. We have a massive housing crisis. And what were the liberals celebrating the other day?
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They are celebrating that we brought in a million people in the last year.
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You know, Canada is built on immigrants and we rely on immigrants.
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I mean, we thrive on people from all over the world and we will continue to.
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But it doesn't, there's a difference between good immigration and uncontrolled immigration.
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If you don't have the resources to have the immigrants settle in, who are we doing a favor to?
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The immigrants are having a terrible, tough time, too.
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They're finding out that there's long, long health care lineups for them as well.
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So not only are we bringing a million people a year in, we're building fewer houses.
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despite all the announcements from Trudeau all the time, all the new subsidies, all the money
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he's throwing all over the place, we're actually building fewer houses. Housing starts in the
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United States are going up. Like guys, we got to look to our numbers. People, you know, some people,
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well, we need the immigrants to build the housing, you know? Yeah. Okay. I don't know why she swallowed
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the fly. You know, you can start talking in circles and going into chicken and egg and what
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goes on here. But I mean, in that case, we should be targeting people to fill the needs that we have
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most acutely? Are we bringing in predominantly carpenters, electricians, plumbers? I mean,
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there's fantastic people in all those trades from all over the world who would love to Canada and
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come to Canada and set up shop. What about the healthcare lineups? You know, and again, I know
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to some degree we're bringing in the professionals. Of course we are. But are we predominantly
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bringing in nurses, doctors, even, you know, janitorial stuff? Our healthcare systems are
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overwhelmed. If we target the immigration, yes, absolutely. We can all benefit from that. But
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We aren't. I mean, we just opened the floodgates. And again, the reason for it, and that's what gets most maddening, and that's what gets most frustrating, is it's the federal, incompetent, inept, overspending government under Justin Trudeau padding their numbers.
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You see, you notice one of the things they love, you know, Jolie and Freeland and Justin Trudeau always says, look, we've got one of the highest GDPs, you know, for a country in the G7 or GDP growth.
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And it's true, because when you pump a bunch of new immigrants into a country, the GDP goes up.
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But what he doesn't mention is the GDP per capita is dropping.
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It's getting lower and lower because you have more and more people,
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and the pool of money and funds and resources isn't growing, or at least not fast enough to absorb that.
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So let's reset the clock. Let's start thinking a little harder here.
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I want to see, look, we aren't breeding fast enough to prosper as a nation without immigration.
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I'm not one of those people saying we should end all immigration or any of that crap.
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We've got to make sure we have the resources for the immigrants because everybody is suffering
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Canadian students and foreign students are like, they're living in closets.
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They're spending every nickel they got just for accommodations right now.
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kids don't even have a dream of owning a house anymore the prices have gone so far out of reach
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and again the numbers are showing but at least we're seeing some people professionals are finally
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saying the emperor has no clothes when you see a vice president at scotia bank saying it in the
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open hopefully that'll help that this house of cards crumble a little bit this baloney start
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you know being cut into guys and yeah you see the fear the fear just intrude well he's got a number
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of fears besides Krampus and whoever his wife's boyfriend might be. But it's, his fear is a
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recession, the R word. You see, if a recession hits, a recession comes in, this is the immigration
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contracts, his support numbers are already in the toilet. I mean, they are kind of realizing that
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Canadians don't care about virtue signaling, they don't care about long discussions on gender
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identities or, you know, global warming that much if they can't make the rent, if they can't
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pay for groceries, the economy, it's everything in the end. If you can't pay the bills, every other
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issue falls to the wayside. We go into recession, this already unpopular government is going to
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become extremely unpopular. So again, how do you avoid recession, you got to keep the GDP growing.
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but he's causing, he's kicking the can down the road. He's making a small disaster into a bigger
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and a bigger and a bigger disaster. I mean, in some Toronto and other areas, they're putting,
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again, new Canadians who are showing up and finding out there's no accommodation or they're
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staying in hotels. They're staying in emergency shelters. How is this doing anybody any good?
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Anywhere? It's ridiculous. But again, we're starting to see some senior people calling it out.
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And if we start seeing that, maybe, maybe some of the legacy media members will start calling it out too, those cowards.
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But I won't count, you know, hold my breath on it, but it's a good sign and it's in the right direction.
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And I mean, this is a government out of control.
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So let's go on to the other thing that's been a big subject of late, you know, and that's okay.
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So the green Jesus, Stephen Gilboa, has announced his electric vehicle mandates.
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So essentially what he's going to do is make it illegal to sell a conventional vehicle after 2035.
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He's illegalizing the sale of cars because people are saying he wants to mandate 100% sales of electric vehicles.
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But what you've got to look at is the negative.
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He's illegalizing selling new combustion engine vehicles.
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And as Dave said, thankfully, hopefully, you know, one of the things is that even him announcing that, we know it's not going to achieve that target.
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Auto manufacturers within Canada, they're going to cut the production of conventional vehicles.
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They know nobody can afford or wants the crappy electric vehicles, but they're not going to lose more money by making more conventional ones.
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If it's going to be illegal for them to sell them, they're going to change their plans.
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So that's going to have an immediate whiplash effect on our economy.
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and at least with Poliev coming out saying, look, one of my first things I'm going to do is reverse
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it. So hopefully some of these automotive companies will realize that this is temporary.
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If they can just hold off, hold off, you know, after Prime Minister Hammerhead's finally knocked
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out of power, however that might happen, the laws will be returned to something closer to normal
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and it won't have disrupted the automotive market too much. Let's look at how sensitive our supply
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chains are and how expensive it is with vehicles, which we rely on. We're a winter country with a
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low population density. I mean, we need cars to get around. We need them. And look what happened
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during the pandemic when the supply chains got all messed up and there was what the computer chips
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and things. And suddenly we ran out of used cars. The market for used cars went bananas. You couldn't
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buy a piece of junk for less than $10,000. And then again, that really, really pressured,
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particularly low-income Canadians you know you have to have a vehicle to get by you have to have
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a vehicle to get to work you have to have a vehicle to get your kids to school we are not
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a dense European city even though we've got a dense bunch of politicians who seem to think we
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are we need vehicles to get around that's how we're built that's how our infrastructure is it
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might change in the long run but not in the short term so this this target of EVs meanwhile in the
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states. Ford has said, you know what? We had $16 billion or $14 billion planned on spending to
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expand our electric vehicle production. We're putting it on hold because nobody's buying them.
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Yes, nobody wants them. And the states have been subsidizing them like all hell. So has Canada
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been subsidizing them like all hell. We can't subsidize enough to make these vehicles worth it
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to the common Canadian yet. So why are we shoving it down our throats? We can't do it. It's not
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reasonable. It's not feasible. At least Ford is backing off. Prime Minister Pinhead is pushing
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us ahead with his henchman, Gilboa. And it's going to hurt a lot of people. And again, the ones they
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always pretend to care about, the ones that they feel they're standing up for, yes, middle and
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lower, you know, income Canadians are going to be the ones who suffer the most. Because imagine,
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you know, as production and imports drop for new conventional vehicles, what the price of a used
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vehicle we'll go to. It's going to skyrocket again. It's going to go through the roof. Now,
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maybe some people say that's the plan, right? Drive more people out of personal vehicles
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anyways. I mean, that does follow with the World Economic Forum. True enough. They want us all
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riding buses and being completely dependent on the state to get around. But this is an agonizing
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way to do it. Now, I don't know. I don't know if I can give Justin Trudeau that much credit for
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having that much foresight. I mean, come on, the guy could barely tie his shoes. But all the same,
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he is obsessed. He's obsessed. He thinks he's saving the bloody world somehow. And again,
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you do have to wonder who's on the inside, who is going to monetarily benefit by, you know,
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expanding the push of these vehicles that nobody wants to buy. Yeah, I mean, what's the C8 Freedom
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where he says 70,000 is the base model, 200,000 for a Tesla truck is the price right now. And
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And Karina Mack, I'm probably mispronouncing that, but the commenters, and I appreciate that, guys.
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You know, people can't afford the ridiculous price of groceries, but we're going to go out and buy $70,000 electric vehicles.
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And in the cold weather, they don't work with a crap.
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Edmonton's discovering that, and certainly the hard way, hasn't it?
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$60 million they spent on that, and the whole fleet's pretty much gone into storage after a couple of years because they don't work in winter.
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And the company that made them went broke, and they can't even get spare parts.
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You know, either way, that's where we're moving with that right now.
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It says, it's raised Canadians' expectations of faster, better services.
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Managers said the private sector evolved rapidly through ever-advancing technologies
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Well, the department struggles with months-long backlogs for benefits like CPP checks.
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So there's people realizing that government services are terrible.
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People realizing that the government is terribly inefficient.
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But rather than saying, what are they doing right and how can we embrace it?
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It's more like they're just kind of complaining, saying the private market's just moving too darn fast.
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Well, no, why don't you learn how to move faster?
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They thrive on people making a lot of money to take this piece of paper and stamp it and
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hand it to that person over there to stamp it and then hand it back and stamp it again.
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And this is part of why our productivity, if you want to talk another number, not just
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GDP per capita, but Canadian productivity is terrible.
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And that's because our civil service is massive.
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And I know they get upset from hearing me say this, but it's true.
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We could probably cut half of them out of there
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you've got to go to this GUM department store in Moscow.
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It was huge in Moscow, all these skylights and windows and all these storefronts and you go
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walking in. Now there's a couple of problems though. I'm not going to talk so much about the
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lack of stock, but that was one of the huge problems. There weren't many products to be had.
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So, uh, you know, that's a whole bigger issue of communism in general. But so there was some
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stuff I wanted to buy and the way it worked there is you'd stand in a big long lineup and get to
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the front and everything's behind the counter. So you finally get there to the front and you tell
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the person what you want to buy from behind the counter there. So, okay. And then they give you
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a little piece of paper. Then you go into this other giant lineup and you wait for 10, 15 minutes
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there. You get to the front of that, you give them the piece of paper, then you pay them. They give
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you another piece of paper. Then you go all the way back to the first lineup and wait through that
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all the way again. It is the front. You give them that piece of paper and then they reach back and
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grab the item that you wanted and hand it to you. You leave with it. That's bureaucracy, folks.
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That's what happens with an oversized government trying to manage something. This is what happens
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when the government thinks it can fix unemployment. The other thing you used to see around there,
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the metros. I mean, it was amazing. You know, most people smoked in the 80s, but I mean,
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in Russia, it was something else back in the 80s. I mean, it was like 90% of the people smoked.
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And you'd go into the metro and spotless, spotless, not a cigarette butt to be seen,
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not a bit of dust, but what was it? They literally had women, you know, older women, babushkas
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walking around with brooms, sweeping every little street corner and things downstairs. I mean, it's
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fine. It did make for clean streets, but inefficient. It was terrible. Working for the sake of working
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again, passing, you know, dig a hole, fill it in again, sort of mentality. We've got that going on
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in our bureaucracy. One of the interesting things is, for example, I mean, a huge company, look at
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Twitter now X that, uh, Elon Musk, um, you know, took over and he, how many did he cut out of
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there? More than 50% of the staff, wasn't it? And it's still functioning. I didn't see a big
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problem that they had some hiccups, but not much for the service. I mean, a lot of those guys were
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dedicated to just censorship and other crap and they didn't need them. And other ones, honestly,
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probably just weren't doing a heck of a lot. That's what happens when something grows too
00:36:38.540
fast as well, whether it's in the private market or in a bureaucracy, if they grow too fast,
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they hire too fast, there's too many staff, come on. You find there's a whole bunch there that
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actually don't need to be there. Any efficient company that cuts even more than 10% of its staff
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is going to have a really hard time keeping up and keeping efficient. I need to have running a
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restaurant. If I cut 10% of my staff, I was going to be in some serious trouble. But bureaucracies,
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they can do it. When Ralph Klein was premier of Alberta, and he cut the civil service by 10,
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20% in Alberta. You know how much worse service got? It didn't. In fact, I think in some ways it
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got better because then when they realized the ax is over their head, the real world is encroaching
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upon them. These pointy headed bureaucrats suddenly realized I had better start looking
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like the most productive one in the office because I might not be here much longer if I keep it up.
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But that reality doesn't come in everywhere. So let's talk about the state broadcaster,
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one of my favorite Canadian parasites as well. Dave mentioned them. So, you know, they're taking
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billions from us in tax dollars, just pumping it in there to run terribly biased, crappy news
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and crappy programming. And then, yeah, the CEO, Tate, who barely ever shows up in Canada, lives in
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New York for the most part, is defending, they're giving executive bonus. Now, CBC laid off hundreds
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of workers, too. They laid off hundreds of them. But then they're giving bonuses to those who
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are remaining on the executive level. Yeah, see, again, that's where bureaucracies work, right?
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And that's where unionization works. And that's where socialism works. Because there's that top
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tier. It's a different form of classism. They convince themselves and try to convince others
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that it's something otherwise, but it's not the truth. What it is, is elitism in a different way.
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the top Politburo people, the top bureaucrats now are the rulers who were there. And that's
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what happened in the Soviet Union as well. I mean, when I was in Moscow, you'd see all the
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latas broken down and burning oil and stinking these beat up cars and everything all over the
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place. But then you got near the Kremlin and you'd see the BMWs and the Mercedes, nice ones.
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Well, that was the top bureaucrats for a country where everybody's communist and supposedly equal.
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Some were driving luxury cars and living in nice dodges out of the city. And others were driving
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latas, the commoners. So CBC is similar, right? And there we see the headline, yeah, heritage
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minister tells CBC to justify the executive bonuses, because here you are laying off 400
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people just before Christmas. And meanwhile, you're giving yourselves massive bonuses. And are
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you giving yourselves bonuses for good work? No. So ad revenue, because not just, you know,
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does the CBC take money from your pocket with government funding, they take it from the private
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market with ad revenue. Well, their revenue fell. It went from $95.7 million to $80 million.
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It's gone into the toilet. People don't even want to buy ads with them. But the reason they
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want to buy ads with them is because nobody's watching it. We're just paying for it. And what
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are they doing when it comes to ad revenues collapsing? They're laying people off. They're
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getting rid of folks. They gave themselves bonuses. Brilliant. And meanwhile, your taxes
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get higher and higher and higher. It's a state broadcaster. They also realize too,
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they don't need to lobby to advertisers. They don't need to lobby to Canadians to keep their
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high paying privileged jobs. They lobby to the politicians. They lobby to the more senior
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bureaucrats. This is a sick system. This is a country that is eating itself. This is the sort
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of stuff that Ayn Rand wrote about in Atlas Shrugged. This is where it got to. And it's ugly.
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CBC is just a dinosaur. It should be long gone. Another thing that passed quickly, and now it's
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just waiting royal assent, is Trudeau's, I wouldn't say long-awaited, but gun legislation,
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his firearm legislation, where he's going to come after hunting rifles. He's going to come after
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conventional firearms, ones that aren't committing crimes. They're going after the low-hanging fruit
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of law-abiding citizens. That's what always happens. Oh my god, there's mass shootings in
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the states. What should we do? Let's punish Canadian hunters. Let's punish collectors up
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here in Canada. Let's steal the property of Canadian citizens. That'll make it better.
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Toronto has a massive gang problem. Well, let's ban the legal ownership and transfer
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of handguns among the law-abiding citizens. That'll certainly fix it, won't it? No, it doesn't. In fact,
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it makes Canadians more vulnerable, and the criminals laugh their heads off. The only thing
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that held up this bill this long, again, is that the government had no clue what firearms they're
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going after when they say assault style. You know, everything is scary. Yes, they're all firearms.
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They're all scary. They can all hurt people if they're used irresponsibly. Some of the most
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powerful ones can look like the most innocuous. And some of the ones that just have a lot of
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bells and whistles and plastic and crap around them are just for weekend wannabe pretend Rambos
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to run around and play with the firemen. There's nothing wrong with that either, but they aren't
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necessarily assault weapons, guys. One of the areas they really screwed up with though is they
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went after, there's a very common gun, they figure there's probably as many as 400,000 of them in
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Canada. It's the SKS. And it's a Chinese, Czech, Russian sort of made semi-automatic firearm from
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back in the 50s. They produced loads and loads of them. They sold them for decades. And mostly
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because they're practical, they're semi-automatic, they're cheap. And, you know, they work. They're
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simple and they're functional as a semi-automatic. Well, they were going to get rid of those. They're
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going to ban those. But that's when they found out that loads and loads of those hundreds of
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thousands of SKSs in Canada are owned by First Nations people on the reserves and they're using
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them to hunt. So how does Justin want to look when he's taking away the firearm that these people
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are using to feed their families with? So suddenly they backed off because there's one thing that
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always still gives a chill and makes the buttholes of civil servants pucker up is when it comes to
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possibly getting into a conflict with Canada's First Nations. They'll back off almost every time
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But either way, the firearm legislation is now almost fully through and we're not exactly sure
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how he's going to use it or what he's coming after. All I will say, folks, don't give them
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anything. Don't comply. Don't sell them anything. Hopefully this stuff's going to go by the wayside
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as well. Don't play their game. You can't. You can't. You can't undo that. You can't put the
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toothpaste back in the tube. So yeah, don't register stuff, guys. Don't volunteer it. They
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don't have your interest at heart and uh yeah where else do we go i mean one of their bigger
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ones too it's not the firearms they're just after but they're still you know even though the courts
00:43:29.440
have said it's unconstitutional here we go with the the plastics the plastic straws plastic forks
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those things that are now terrible uh you know contraband items in canada dangerous going to
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kill all of the sea turtles in alberta and the killer whales of saskatchewan because you're
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using a reusable plastic bag to pick up dog poop or something. Well, Premier Smith is going to take
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it to the federal court again and see if we can get that further declared unconstitutional. But
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you see, this is where it's getting scary. This is where it's getting scary. Because we've had a
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couple of items now where the government's been found with their legislations unconstitutional,
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both times the federal government basically said, oh, well, it sucks. We're still going ahead with
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it. If we can't have legal remedy through the courts, if the constitution no longer applies
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to the government, you are not in a democracy anymore. If the government won't abide by the
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highest court in the land, this is why some countries have things like a Second Amendment,
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guys. Just don't give up anything. That's scary when the government thinks it's above the
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Constitution. It's above the agreement that governs the lands. Even if it sounds like something as
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petty as plastic straws, it's significant. It was constitutionally invalid to have that ban,
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and the government still hasn't lifted the friggin' ban.
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It's a government that does not want to abide by law.
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I'll close with one other thing, yeah, we're seeing.
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Kimberly Murray, the government's interlocator on unmarked graves
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in residential, former residential school sites,
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There's a column in the Western Standard about that
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And they certainly weren't a good idea that certainly didn't pay off in the long run.
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But we got a heck of a lot of valid questions about things like Kamloops, for example,
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In Calgary, they're bronzing 250 shoes in a sick parallel to a Holocaust memorial over in Europe
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where they actually have proof and evidence of the murder.
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And they're bronzing 250 pairs of children's shoes to make a display
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to represent the 215 children who were secretly murdered and buried in Kamloops.
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But they haven't found a single body yet or evidence or proof.
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And now they want to illegalize being able to question that.
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But there's only one way to find out, and you've got to get a bloody shovel
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in there. It's been, well, it's going to be coming up on three
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world upside down. The pulp came over groveling
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that's what it comes to, the government just ignores
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the Constitution anyways. We're in for some scary times.
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either way maybe 2024 we will see some positive things we just got to keep trying keeping at it
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because giving up is a guaranteed formula for failure so uh stay stubborn have good christmas
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guys enjoy it hanukkah whatever you celebrate if you celebrate nothing just enjoy the days off
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