CMS： Healthcare. It’s the system stupid!
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Summary
Healthcare in Canada is one of the worst in the world, and we're all sick of it. Canada's healthcare system is broken, and it's time for government to fix it, or else we're going to continue to see people die waiting to see a doctor.
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Hey, you know, this, this, uh, Anthony certainly knows what my taste in, in, uh, humor is
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and, uh, my liking of dogs and, uh, yeah, I don't tend to dwell on them pooping too terribly
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much, but, uh, all the same, it is great seeing them on that calendar with a great background.
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So, uh, that'll go up over my desk, Anthony, and thank you very much for sending it out
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And of course it looks like Mike from Freedom Honey's hanging around out there in Paradox-y.
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All right, let's get on to what I'm going to go on about today to start things off.
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Cause you know, we're always hearing about it in the news.
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We're all experiencing it and we all know about it.
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Healthcare, yes, the big, overwhelming Canadian subject.
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Well, in B.C., cancer patients have been sent to the United States for treatment because
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In Alberta, we've got patients languishing in hospital hallways as the capacity in those
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In Saskatchewan, patients are being sent to Alberta, ironically, for diagnostic services
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and some surgeries because their public systems are overwhelmed.
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In Ontario, hospital emergency departments have been experiencing rotating closures because
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In Quebec, conventional hospitals are reported to be at 100% capacity while the children's
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Parents are being urged to seek home treatment for their sick kids.
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In Nova Scotia, the wait list for finding a regular family doctor has grown to 150,000
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I skipped some provinces and didn't go into every healthcare issue, but I think you get
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The Fraser Institute recently released its annual report on healthcare waiting times, and the
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The median wait time for treatment, after having been referred to a specialist by a general
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practitioner in Canada, is climbed to 27.7 weeks.
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And that's assuming the person managed to find a general practitioner in the first place.
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How many people are dying waiting to see a specialist right now?
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How many conditions end up becoming untreatable because people spent too much time waiting for
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Canada's healthcare system is failing in every jurisdiction and in every possible way across
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I mean, there's modern facilities staffed by fantastic professionals in every province,
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Waiting lists for every medical service imaginable.
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They're growing, and people are dying while they're waiting for that care.
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We've got opposition parties in every province trying to score political points by blaming
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the party in power, but they're missing the mark.
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It doesn't matter if it's NDP, UCP, PC, CAQ, in power, in government, in the province,
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Every province has dramatically increased healthcare spending too, so we can't pretend we aren't
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They have been increasing healthcare transfers to the provinces, so again, it's not lack
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Canada's one of the highest spending countries on earth when it comes to healthcare, but
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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, and politicians are too terrified
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to take on the healthcare 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
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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
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Efforts will probably lead to some improvements and some better efficiency, but in the end,
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Canada's health act is going to overwhelm it, and the system's 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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And citizens, whether you like the term or not, are consumers of healthcare, and they're
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The only other nations that'll legalize private healthcare that way are North Korea and Cuba.
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Canada's legislated healthcare monopoly makes it impossible for provinces to create real
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Unions and bureaucrats fight every effort to make changes while the costs keep climbing
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The only way to change this intractable cycle is to scrap or at least seriously reform the
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federal health act and bring some new options into healthcare.
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While Canadians constantly list healthcare as one of their top issues of concern, they've
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been trained to fear any changes to the system aside from injecting more funds.
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Unions, again, and activists decry any effort to improve the system as Americanization.
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And it's effective in frightening voters away from supporting change.
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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 healthcare systems in the world and most of
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Politicians need to immediately dismiss the two-dimensional argument that only Canada and
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Political leaders need to turn the discussion to European and Asian models that have universal
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Private healthcare 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
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stupid on the issue, citizens won't even glance at models that are proven to provide
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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
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The only question is, how bad are things going to have to get before enough Canadians understand
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And yes, once enough Canadians understand it, perhaps enough of the politicians will start
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Again, we just keep running in circles on this healthcare thing.
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No matter how much more you spend, 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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It lets me know you're out there, and I'm not just talking to myself like I typically
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do when I'm driving in the car or sometimes in the corner of the office.
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We'll check in and see what's happening in the news with our news editor, Dave Naylor.
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I'm a little upset you pinched the column of or the calendar of dogs pooping.
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Well, we can make arrangements on what could happen.
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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 the 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 Gilboa, 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 and undercover drug operation by Calgary police has led to hundreds of charges,
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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 up that, 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 calling for a ceasefire in that situation with Israel over there.
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So the terrorists seem quite happy with this, Corey.
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Well, I'm glad somebody is liking Melanie Jolie aside from, you know, Justin Trudeau.
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I guess somebody had to appreciate her efforts.
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I'll let you get back on her over there and we'll talk to you after the show.
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We've got constant stories coming out from a number of reporters, a number of columnists.
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This is where I make that plug, but it's an important one, guys.
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I'm going to move on since we're in the holiday mood and get that going.
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It's not like our typical guest, not a political guest.
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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.
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And he came by and gave us a special exclusive one-on-one here.
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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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We'll have a nice, pretty, festive holiday show.
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But this is the Corey Morgan Show, and this is the Western Standard.
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We've brought in from the hills of Germany, Krampus.
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For those who may be unfamiliar with this creature, Krampus helps keep children in line.
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Krampus, and he's here to talk about some of the folks, whether they've earned good treatment this year or not.
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And plus, I could be hauled off to the netherworld by Krampus if I misbehave.
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Well, let's go through some of the people this year, Krampus.
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Let's start with everybody's favorite, Justin Trudeau.
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You're saying that you'll be beating trust Justin with sticks this year?
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I mean, you know, you're just kind of piling on the poor guy.
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He has hurt Alberta in the rest of the country.
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You know, you've 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, you know?
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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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Does anybody ever actually just escape 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 Fildebrandt's cane will do that to you.
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Yeah, Fildebrandt 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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I mean, he's the, you know, 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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A little toss-up, you know, what, maybe a light beating or a...
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So, I mean, that gets me thinking about things.
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Do you have anybody helping you out up there, wherever you stay during the off-season?
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I mean, there's got to be some sort of affirmative action program, right?
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Well, I mean, if you're just punishing the bad, that's not an evil course of action, is it?
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I mean, this has been hundreds and hundreds of years.
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You know, you've been out there traumatizing Germanic children and so on, but you work in
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partnership with Mr. Claus, so he doesn't have to be the bad guy.
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You get us live footage of you punishing Taylor Swift.
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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 yourself.
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I mean, your sticks look a little thinner this year.
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You got to pay the carbon tax on those emissions.
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Well, I know you've got a busy schedule and a lot of people to punish.
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So I'll probably let you get back in making your rounds.
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But thank you for joining us at the Robert Standard Studio again this year, Krampus.
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And I'll try and behave lest we see you again next year.
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As I said, every other show has Santa Claus and things like that.
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For those not familiar with it, though, so we've had Krampus coming here, actually, to
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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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Some people got really upset and said, why have you got some Satan going on in your Christmas
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We're up in those European countries out there where Krampus would come along, I guess,
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you know, rather than just having kids and worrying about a lump of coal.
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So 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 and the kids would be stuffed
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So, yeah, I tell you, I tell you, I think some scarier stuff going on in those European
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mountains for traditions out there for their children.
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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 during this
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People are all busy shopping, preparing, and hopefully having a good time.
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All right, let's kind of get back to the regular show format and some of the stuff Dave was
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So, yeah, Derek Holt, he's the vice president and head of capital markets and economics at
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We're seeing more people coming out as the numbers are coming out.
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Reality, one of those things Canadians seem to hate so much.
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That's what I was talking about with the health care, with Canadians denying reality on
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The other reality is we can't sustain our current immigration levels.
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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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There's a difference between good immigration and uncontrolled immigration.
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If you don't have the resources to bring, you know, to have the immigrants settle in,
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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 we're 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,
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all the money he's throwing all over the place, we're actually building fewer houses.
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Housing starts in the United States are going up.
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People, you know, some people, well, we need the immigrants to build the housing.
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You know, you can start talking in circles and going into chicken and egg and what goes on here.
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But, I mean, in that case, we should be targeting people to fill the needs that we have most acutely.
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Are we bringing in predominantly carpenters, electricians, plumbers?
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I mean, there's fantastic people in all those trades from all over the world who would love to come to Canada and set up shop.
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You know, and again, I know to some degree we're bringing in the professionals.
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But are we predominantly bringing in nurses, doctors, even, you know, janitorial stuff?
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If we target the immigration, yes, absolutely, we can all benefit from that.
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And, again, the reason for it, and that's what gets most maddening, and that's what gets most frustrating,
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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,
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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, and the pool of money and funds and resources isn't growing,
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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 right now.
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Canadian students and foreign students alike, 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.
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And again, the numbers are showing, but at least we're seeing some people.
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Professionals are finally saying the emperor has no clothes.
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When you see a vice president at Scotiabank saying it in the open,
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hopefully that'll help that this house of cards crumble a little bit,
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this baloney start, you know, being cut into, guys.
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The fear, Justin Trudeau, well, he's got a number of fears, besides Krampus,
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You see, if a recession hits, a recession comes in, the immigration contracts,
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I mean, they are kind of realizing that Canadians don't care about virtue signaling,
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they don't care about long discussions on gender identities,
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or, you know, global warming that much, if they can't make the rent,
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If you can't pay the bills, every other issue falls to the wayside.
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We go into recession, this already unpopular government
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But he's causing, he's kicking the can down the road.
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He's making a small disaster into a bigger and a bigger and a bigger disaster.
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I mean, in some Toronto and other areas, they're putting, again,
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new Canadians who are showing up and finding out there's no accommodation
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or they're staying in hotels, they're staying in emergency shelters.
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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
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But I won't count, you know, hold my breath on it.
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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,
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So the green Jesus, Stephen Gilboa, has announced his electric vehicle mandates.
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Well, so essentially what he's going to do is make it illegal to sell a conventional vehicle
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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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As Dave said, thankfully, hopefully, you know, one of the things is that even him announcing
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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
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They know nobody can afford or wants the crappy electric vehicles, but they're not going
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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 Paul Yev coming out saying, look, one of my first things I'm going to
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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
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knocked out of power, however that might happen, the laws will be returned to something closer
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to normal, and it won't have disrupted the automotive market too much.
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Let's look at how sensitive our supply chains are and how expensive it is with vehicles, which
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We're a winter country with a low population density.
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And look what happened during the pandemic when the supply chains got all messed up and
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You couldn't buy a piece of junk for less than $10,000.
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And then again, that really, really pressured, particularly low-income Canadians.
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You know, you have to have a vehicle to get by.
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You have to have a vehicle to get your kids to school.
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We are not a dense European city, even though we've got a dense bunch of politicians who seem
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It might change in the long run, but not in the short term.
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Meanwhile, in the States, Ford has said, you know what?
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We had $16 billion or $14 billion planned on spending to expand our electric vehicle
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We're putting it on hold because nobody's buying them.
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And the States have been subsidizing them like all hell.
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So has Canada been subsidizing them like all hell.
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We can't subsidize enough to make these vehicles worth it to the common Canadian yet.
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Prime Minister Pinhead is pushing us ahead with his henchman, Gilbo.
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And again, the ones they always pretend to care about, the ones that they feel they're standing
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Yes, middle and lower, you know, income Canadians are going to be the ones who suffer the most.
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Because imagine, you know, as production and imports drop for new conventional vehicles,
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Now, maybe some people say that's the plan, right?
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Drive more people out of personal vehicles anyways.
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I mean, it does follow with the World Economic Forum.
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True enough, they want us all riding buses and being completely dependent on the state
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I don't know if I can give Justin Trudeau that much credit for having that much foresight.
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He thinks he's saving the bloody world somehow.
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And again, you do have to wonder who's on the inside.
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Who is going to monetarily benefit by, you know, expanding the push of these vehicles
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Yeah, I mean, what's the C8 Freedom where he says $70,000 is the base model, $200,000
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And Karina Mack, I'm probably mispronouncing that, but commenters, and I appreciate that,
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You know, people can't afford the ridiculous price of groceries, but we're going to go out
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And in the cold weather, they don't work with a crap.
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Edmonton's discovering that certainly the hard way, hasn't it?
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They bought a bunch of electric buses, $60 million they spent on that, and the whole
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fleet's pretty much gone into storage after a couple of years because they don't work
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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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The private sector, this is an interesting article.
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It says, it's raised Canadians' expectations of faster, better services, a Department of
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Managers said, the private sector evolved rapidly through ever-advancing technologies while
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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, people realizing that
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But rather than saying, what are they doing right, and how can we embrace it, it's more
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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 and find out that they really weren't doing
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I had an eye-opening trip to the Soviet Union way back at the end of the 80s.
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One of the things that was very interesting, they kept talking, you've got to go to this
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All these skylights and windows and all these storefronts.
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I'm not going to talk so much about the lack of stock, but that was one of the huge problems.
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So, you know, that's a whole bigger issue of communism in general.
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And the way it worked there is you'd stand in a big, long lineup and get to the front.
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And you tell the person what you want to buy from behind the counter there.
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And then they give you a little piece of paper.
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Then you go all the way back to the first lineup and wait through that all the way again.
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And then they reach back and grab the item that you wanted and hand it to you.
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That's what happens with an oversized government trying to manage something.
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This is what happens when the government thinks it can fix unemployment.
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The other thing you used to see around there, the metros.
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But, I mean, in Russia, it was something else back in the 80s.
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Sweeping every little street corner and things downstairs.
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Again, passing, you know, dig a hole, fill it in again sort of mentality.
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One of the interesting things is, for example, I mean, a huge company.
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They had some hiccups, but not much with the service.
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I mean, a lot of those guys were dedicated to just censorship and other crap, and they
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And other ones, honestly, probably just weren't doing a heck of a lot.
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That's what happens when something grows too fast as well, whether it's in the private
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If they grow too fast, they hire too fast, there's too many staff, come on, you find
00:36:46.360
there's a whole bunch there that actually don't need to be there.
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Any efficient company that cuts even more than 10% of its staff is going to have a really
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If I cut 10% of my staff, I was going to be in some serious trouble.
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When Ralph Klein was premier of Alberta and he cut the civil service by 10, 20% in Alberta,
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In fact, I think in some ways it got better because then when they realized the axe is
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over their head, the real world is encroaching upon them, these pointy headed bureaucrats
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suddenly realized I had better start looking like the most productive one in the office
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because I might not be here much longer if I keep it up.
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So let's talk about the state broadcaster, one of my favorite Canadian parasites as well.
00:37:39.160
So, you know, they're taking billions from us in tax dollars, just pumping it in there
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to run terribly biased, crappy news and crappy programming.
00:37:50.680
And then, yeah, the CEO, Tate, who barely ever shows up in Canada, lives in New York for the
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But then they're giving bonuses to those who are remaining on the executive level.
00:38:07.440
Well, yeah, see, again, that's where bureaucracies work, right?
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And that's where socialism works is there's that top tier.
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They convince themselves and try to convince others that it's something otherwise.
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The top Politburo people, the top bureaucrats now are the rulers who were there.
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And that's what happened in the Soviet Union as well.
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I mean, when I was in Moscow, you'd see all the Ladas broken down and burning oil and stinking
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these beat up cars and everything all over the place.
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But then you got near the Kremlin and you'd see the BMWs and the Mercedes, nice ones.
00:38:43.240
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.
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And there we see the headline, yeah, heritage minister tells CBC to justify the executive
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bonuses because here you are laying off 400 people just before Christmas.
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And meanwhile, you're giving yourselves massive bonuses.
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And are you giving yourselves bonuses for good work?
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So add revenue because not just, you know, does the CBC take money from your pocket with government
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funding, they take it from the private market with ad revenue.
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But the reason they want to buy ads with them is because nobody's watching it.
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And what are they doing when it comes to ad revenues collapsing?
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And meanwhile, your taxes get higher and higher and higher.
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They also realize, too, they don't need to lobby to advertisers.
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They don't need to lobby to Canadians to keep their high-paying, privileged jobs.
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This is the sort of stuff that Ayn Rand wrote about in Atlas Shrugged.
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Another thing that passed quickly, and now it's just waiting for 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.
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He's going to come after conventional firearms, ones that aren't committing crimes.
00:40:39.420
They're going after the low-hanging fruit of law-abiding citizens.
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Well, let's ban the legal ownership and transfer of handguns among the law-abiding citizens.
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In fact, it makes Canadians more vulnerable, and the criminals laugh their heads off.
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The only thing that held up this bill this long, again, is that the government had no clue what firearms they're going after.
00:41:21.240
When they say assault style, you know, everything is scary.
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They can all hurt people if they're used irresponsibly.
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Some of the most powerful ones can look like the most innocuous.
00:41:36.040
And some of the ones that just have a lot of bells and whistles and plastic and crap around them are just for weekend wannabe pretend rambos to run around and play with a firearm.
00:41:45.360
But they aren't necessarily assault weapons, guys.
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One of the areas they really screwed up with, though, is they went after, there's a very common gun.
00:41:53.340
They figure there's probably as many as 400,000 of them in Canada.
00:41:57.760
And it's a Chinese, Czech, Russian sort of made semi-automatic firearm from back in the 50s.
00:42:08.800
And mostly because they're practical, they're semi-automatic, they're cheap.
00:42:15.240
They're simple and they're functional as a semi-automatic.
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But that's when they found out that loads and loads of those hundreds of thousands SKSs in Canada are owned by First Nations people on the reserves.
00:42:29.820
So, how does Justin want to look when he's taking away the firearm that these people are using to feed their families with?
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Because there's one thing that always still gives a chill and makes the buttholes of civil servants pucker up is when it comes to possibly getting into a conflict with Canada's First Nations.
00:42:50.600
But either way, the firearm legislation is now almost fully through.
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And we're not exactly sure how he's going to use it or what he's coming after.
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All I will say, folks, don't give them anything.
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Hopefully, this stuff's going to go by the wayside as well.
00:43:26.300
It's not the firearms they're just after, but they're still, you know, even though the courts have said it's unconstitutional.
00:43:31.200
Here we go with the plastics, the plastic straws, plastic forks, those things that are now terrible, you know, contraband items in Canada, dangerous, going to kill all of the sea turtles in Alberta and the killer whales of Saskatchewan because you're using a reusable plastic bag to pick up dog poop or something.
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Premier Smith is going to take it to the federal court again and see if we can get that further declared unconstitutional.
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But, you see, this is where it's getting scary.
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It's where it's getting scary because we've had a couple of items now where the government's been found with their legislations unconstitutional.
00:44:03.060
Both times the federal government's basically said, oh, well, it sucks.
00:44:06.120
If we can't have legal remedy through the courts, if the Constitution no longer applies to the government, you are not in a democracy anymore.
00:44:16.240
If the government won't abide by the highest court in the land, this is why some countries have things like a Second Amendment, guys.
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That's scary when the government thinks it's above the Constitution.
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It's above the agreement that governs the land.
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Even if it sounds like something as petty as plastic straws, it's significant.
00:44:39.200
It was constitutionally invalid to have that ban, and the government still hasn't lifted the frigging ban.
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It's a government that does not want to abide by law.
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Yeah, we're seeing they're really pushing as well.
00:44:53.180
Kimberly Murray, the government's interlocator on unmarked graves from residential school sites, really is pushing hard to make it illegal for people to be residential school deniers.
00:45:04.920
There's a column in the Western Standard about that because it's kind of ridiculous.
00:45:13.900
We know they weren't necessarily good places, and they certainly weren't a good idea that certainly didn't pay off in the long run.
00:45:19.100
But we got a heck of a lot of valid questions about things, like Kamloops, for example, that set off the whole firestorm.
00:45:33.480
In Calgary, they're bronzing 250 shoes in a sick parallel to a Holocaust memorial over in Europe where they actually have proof and evidence of the murder.
00:45:44.960
And they're bronzing 250 pairs of children's shoes to make a display 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.
00:45:58.540
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 in there.
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It's been, well, it's going to be coming up on three years.
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Well, it's pretty lucrative to keep the secret, though, isn't it?
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So, yeah, again, and even if it's unconstitutional to illegalize the discussion of these things, if that's what it comes to, the government just ignores the Constitution anyways.
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Either way, maybe 2024, we will see some positive things.
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We just got to keep trying keeping at it because giving up is a guaranteed formula for failure.
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If you celebrate nothing, just enjoy the days off.
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So thanks for joining us, and we'll see you then.
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