Western Standard - CMS： Healthcare？ It’s the system stupid!

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 and yeah i use that term holiday but it's okay i mean i wish happy hanukkah merry christmas

00:00:39.420 happy kwanzaa it doesn't matter to me it's a time of year that a lot of people are getting together

00:00:44.560 doing things and as long as people aren't too uptight and such we can all enjoy it and have

00:00:50.400 a good time some people get hung up on some of the dumbest of things at this time of year but

00:00:54.640 I'm enjoying it. Lots of stuff going on. So there's a commenter there, Karina Mack, 0.52

00:01:01.740 saying Merry Christmas and saying back at you. So yes, use that comment scroll, guys. I like

00:01:08.280 seeing you out there, have some audience participation, send questions my way, the

00:01:12.300 guests way or to each other, have discussions, just keep things civil. We don't always have to

00:01:17.760 be at each other's throats. And yeah, I had an interesting thing greet me when I came into the

00:01:21.720 office today. This came from Anthony and he sent a beautiful Christmas card, which I really

00:01:26.500 appreciate. And as well, a calendar with the 2024 calendar of dogs pooping in beautiful places.

00:01:34.660 You know, this Anthony certainly knows what my taste in humor is and my liking of dogs. And

00:01:41.020 yeah, I don't tend to dwell on them pooping too terribly much, but all the same, it is great

00:01:46.020 seeing them on that calendar with a great background. So that'll go up over my desk,

00:01:49.560 Anthony, and thank you very much for sending it out my way. Good to see you there as well,

00:01:53.280 Mr. Stanley. And of course, it looks like Mike from Freedom Honey's hanging around out there

00:01:57.220 in Paradoxy. All right, let's get on to what I'm going to go on about today to start things off.

00:02:02.540 Because, you know, we're always hearing about it in the news. We're all experiencing it and we

00:02:05.220 all know about it. So let's look at some healthcare news. Healthcare, yes, the big

00:02:09.540 overwhelming Canadian subject. And let's look at the news across Canada. We'll kind of go from west

00:02:14.320 to east. Well, in BCE, cancer patients have been sent to the United States for treatment because

00:02:19.900 the local facilities are overwhelmed. In Alberta, we've got patients languishing in hospital hallways

00:02:25.260 as the capacity in those hospitals right now is reported to be at 150%. In Saskatchewan,

00:02:31.960 patients are being sent to Alberta, ironically, for diagnostic services and some surgeries

00:02:36.360 because their public systems are overwhelmed. In Ontario, hospital emergency departments have

00:02:41.640 been experiencing rotating closures because they have a lack of resources. In Quebec, conventional

00:02:47.580 hospitals are reported to be at 100% capacity, while the children's hospitals are at 150% capacity.

00:02:54.280 Parents are being urged to seek home treatment for their sick kids. In Nova Scotia, the waitlist

00:02:59.740 for finding a regular family doctor has grown to 150,000 people. I skipped some provinces and didn't

00:03:06.460 go into every health care issue, but I think you get the picture. It's the same everywhere.

00:03:11.740 The Fraser Institute recently released its annual report on health care waiting times,

00:03:16.420 and the picture is bleak. The median wait time for treatment after having been referred to a

00:03:20.960 specialist by a general practitioner in Canada is climbed to 27.7 weeks, and that's assuming the

00:03:27.220 person managed to find a general practitioner in the first place. How many people are dying

00:03:31.560 waiting to see a specialist right now? How many conditions end up becoming untreatable because

00:03:36.860 people spent too much time waiting for diagnosis or treatment? Canada's healthcare system is failing

00:03:41.860 in every jurisdiction and in every possible way across the country. I mean, there's modern

00:03:47.380 facilities staffed by fantastic professionals in every province, but they just can't keep up

00:03:51.540 with the demand. Waiting lists for every medical service imaginable. They're growing and people are

00:03:56.620 dying while they're waiting for that care. We've got opposition parties in every province trying

00:04:00.620 to score political points by blaming the party in power, but they're missing the mark. It doesn't

00:04:05.300 matter if it's NDP, UCP, PC, CAQ, in power, in government, in the province, the situation's the

00:04:11.360 same everywhere. Every province has dramatically increased health care spending too, so we can't

00:04:15.860 pretend we aren't spending enough. The federal government, love them or hate them, most of us

00:04:20.300 hate them, they have been increasing health care transfers to the provinces. So again, it's not

00:04:24.160 lack of money. Canada's one of the highest spending countries on earth when it comes to health care,

00:04:27.360 But it's among the worst when it comes to providing access.

00:04:31.320 So funding isn't the cure, and the different party isn't the cure.

00:04:35.260 The problem has to lie with the system itself.

00:04:37.560 This is the thing that Canadians just never want to admit. 1.00

00:04:40.500 Canada's health care system is crap. 1.00

00:04:42.900 It's hopelessly broken. 1.00

00:04:44.800 And it's become politically taboo to point that out.

00:04:47.140 And politicians are too terrified to take on the health care unions and bureaucrats. 0.96

00:04:51.080 But it's beyond time they set aside their cowardly instincts and call out this system.

00:04:56.180 Some premiers are trying to do what they can within the system, but it's going to inevitably fail.

00:04:59.680 They're doing patchwork repairs on a blown engine that needs to be torn down and rebuilt.

00:05:05.080 Daniel Smith in Alberta has taken on the local bureaucracy and decentralizing the administration of health care services.

00:05:10.960 Her efforts will probably lead to some improvements and some better efficiency. 1.00

00:05:14.420 But in the end, Canada's health act is going to overwhelm it and the system is going to remain crap. 0.84

00:05:20.140 We're in a monopoly situation, government monopoly. 0.94

00:05:23.180 And whether it's private or government, it doesn't matter.

00:05:24.660 the consumer always loses. And citizens, whether you like the term or not, are consumers of health

00:05:29.580 care, and they're forced by law to deal with only one provider. The only other nations that 0.99

00:05:34.360 illegalize private health care that way are North Korea and Cuba. Speaks volumes, doesn't it? 0.79

00:05:38.760 Canada's legislated health care monopoly makes it impossible for provinces to create real and

00:05:43.480 lasting fixes to the system. Unions and bureaucrats fight every effort to make changes while the costs

00:05:48.640 keep climbing and efficiency keeps dropping.

00:05:52.740 The only way to change this intractable cycle is to scrap

00:05:55.840 or at least seriously reform the Federal Health Act

00:05:59.100 and bring some new options into health care.

00:06:01.640 While Canadians constantly list health care as one of their top issues of concern,

00:06:05.380 they've been trained to fear any changes to the system

00:06:07.680 aside from injecting more funds.

00:06:09.540 Unions, again, and activists decry any effort to improve the system

00:06:12.880 as Americanization, and it's effective in frightening voters

00:06:16.080 away from supporting change.

00:06:17.840 I'll tell you, I'd rather have some change than die on a waiting list.

00:06:20.540 Canadians need to be educated.

00:06:21.860 They need to realize there are dozens of universal health care systems in the world,

00:06:25.540 and most of them are functioning better than ours.

00:06:27.480 Universal, you still get covered.

00:06:29.960 Politicians need to immediately dismiss the two-dimensional argument

00:06:32.940 that only Canada and the United States have systems in the world.

00:06:35.660 Political leaders need to turn the discussion to European and Asian models

00:06:39.260 that have universal coverage and are outperforming us.

00:06:42.200 And guess what?

00:06:43.360 Private health care provision is not a bad thing.

00:06:46.920 And the world provides a plethora of evidence to back that up. 0.98

00:06:49.480 Fear-mongering has dominated the narrative and allowed Canada to become so collectively stupid on the issue, 0.98

00:06:54.660 citizens won't even glance at models that are proven to provide better care than the current system. 0.97

00:06:59.240 Does it really matter how you're getting your care, as long as you're getting the care?

00:07:03.320 Things are sure to get worse with the healthcare system in Canada until the system itself is rebuilt.

00:07:07.940 The only question is, how bad are things going to have to get before enough Canadians understand this?

00:07:13.640 And yes, once enough Canadians understand it,

00:07:15.860 perhaps enough of the politicians will start to act on it.

00:07:19.140 That's what's got me going, guys.

00:07:20.400 Again, we just keep running in circles on this healthcare thing.

00:07:22.940 It's the system. It's the system. It's the system.

00:07:25.420 Broken. No matter how much more you spend,

00:07:28.000 it doesn't matter how much more you tinker with it.

00:07:30.280 If the system is broken, it's not going to work.

00:07:33.420 All right, just a quick greeting to Scott Campbell out there in Thunder Bay.

00:07:35.920 It's good to see people coming in from all over the country on these things.

00:07:39.320 I really appreciate it.

00:07:40.200 Let's me know you're out there,

00:07:41.360 I'm not just talking to myself like I typically do when I'm driving in the car or sometimes in

00:07:44.860 the corner of the office. Let me talk to somebody else now. We'll check in and see what's happening

00:07:48.020 in the news with our news editor, Dave Naylor. Lots going on as usual. Hey, Dave, how you doing?

00:07:53.960 I'm doing well, Corey. I'm a little upset you pinched the column of, or the calendar of dogs

00:07:59.380 pooping. I was going to steal that from my mom. Well, we can make arrangements on what could

00:08:06.400 happen. I mean, maybe we could divide the year half and half or something like that.

00:08:08.900 Well, I know she always watches, so she'll be, sorry, mom, I tried.

00:08:12.380 I was going to try.

00:08:13.880 Still going to try and get you some sugar, mom, so don't panic too much.

00:08:18.300 That's quite a commodity.

00:08:19.800 Yeah, you can't find sugar anymore.

00:08:21.520 It's crazy.

00:08:22.620 It's rationed.

00:08:24.180 Yeah, bizarre times.

00:08:26.180 That's a fodder for another rant on unions down the road.

00:08:29.060 Exactly.

00:08:29.920 Yeah, busy day again, as you noted.

00:08:33.720 We've got a just-released Angus Reid poll showing how the situation in Gaza is affecting Canadians.

00:08:41.000 Obviously, we've seen a huge rise in anti-Semitic incidents.

00:08:46.660 The Democracy Fund has decided they're going to take the Red Deer Catholic Regional School to court.

00:08:53.080 They were the ones that dismissed Trustee LaGrange for her daring to stand up for Canadian kids against gender issues.

00:09:05.320 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.

00:09:16.060 This comes after they announced a layoff of hundreds of workers earlier this month.

00:09:23.080 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.

00:09:34.640 And this poll released after she did her trick with the menorah lighting core that you've talked about and refused to attend.

00:09:44.160 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.

00:09:58.400 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.

00:10:07.820 We also have a Scotiabank economist saying all the recent immigration could be problematic for keeping inflation still sky high.

00:10:20.780 And as you know, there was 400,000 recent immigrants to Canada in the last quarter.

00:10:27.320 We've got our Dave Makachuk talking about robots and the effect of drones and robots in warfare.

00:10:35.160 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.

00:10:47.900 So they're trying to do what they can to clean that up.

00:10:51.680 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.

00:11:02.660 So that's what we've got up at the moment.

00:11:04.460 coming out. We've got newly released remarks by the head of Hamas thanking Melanie Jolie for

00:11:12.140 calling for a ceasefire in that situation with Israel over there. So the terrorists seem quite

00:11:19.340 happy with this, Corey. Well, I'm glad somebody is liking Melanie Jolie aside from, you know,

00:11:25.420 Justin Trudeau. I guess somebody had to appreciate her efforts. Yeah, making friends and influencing

00:11:31.680 people. That's our

00:11:33.940 Minister Jolie. Wonderful.

00:11:36.280 All right. Well, thanks for the

00:11:38.020 updates, Dave. I'll let you get back on

00:11:40.160 or over there, and we'll talk to you after the show.

00:11:42.540 Thanks, Corey. Great. Thanks.

00:11:44.680 So, yes, that is Dave Naylor.

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00:12:50.540 on here. So the Scotiabank, you know what, I'm going to move on since we're in the holiday mood

00:12:56.300 and get that going. We did have a special guest, and I talked about that. It's not like our typical

00:13:00.280 guest, not a political guest, but we'll have a little bit of a political chat with that guest.

00:13:05.240 We had somebody come in who comes into the Western Standard offices every year, and he came by and

00:13:11.340 gave us a special exclusive one-on-one here. Let's have a look at this.

00:13:18.840 You know, at this time of year, it seems like every radio show, every TV show, every talk thing,

00:13:24.720 Oh, we'll have Santa on. We'll have a nice, pretty, festive holiday show.

00:13:29.620 We'll talk about who's been good. We'll talk about who gets gifts.

00:13:32.560 We'll talk about sitting on each other's laps. Well, depends on which show.

00:13:36.300 This is the Cory Morgan Show, and this is the Western Standard.

00:13:39.320 So we go a little differently around here.

00:13:41.920 I have brought on a festive persona.

00:13:44.520 Today we've got a treat we've brought in from the hills of Germany.

00:13:49.440 Krampus.

00:13:52.720 You behave.

00:13:53.520 you got your work cut off for those who may be unfamiliar with this creature krampus helps keep

00:14:03.060 children in line where santa is the carrot krampus has the sticks and he's here to talk about some

00:14:10.080 of the folks whether they've earned a good treatment this year well well we'll start with

00:14:15.980 me have i been good this year krampus or do i get beaten with sticks

00:14:20.460 he's weighing this over carefully yes there's the other part and plus i could be hauled off to

00:14:28.920 another world by krampus if i misbehave i've been good mostly yeah yeah you watch my shows

00:14:38.100 yeah all right well let's go through some of the people this year krampus

00:14:44.900 huh who deserves a beating who deserves santa's treatment let's start with everybody's favorite 0.99

00:14:51.620 justin trudeau you're saying that you'll be eating trust justin with sticks this year

00:14:59.180 yeah yeah he's had a hard year krampus i mean you know you're just kind of piling on the poor guy

00:15:04.340 yeah true enough he hasn't heard over the rest of the country

00:15:09.080 You know, you got to wonder sometimes, though, Krampus, I mean, these are inside.

00:15:14.500 How do you deal with masochists? 1.00

00:15:16.080 I mean, we've heard Justin might like a little bit of abuse from, you know, that sort of perspective.

00:15:20.720 You know, I mean, a lot of people like a little slap and tickle, a little hair tug or whatnot.

00:15:25.420 What do you do then?

00:15:26.600 Convince his wife to leave him.

00:15:28.100 Ah, well, you've pulled that off.

00:15:33.460 Well, speaking of which, you know, are you going to be visiting Sophie this year?

00:15:39.080 You know, so the doctor's in the house.

00:15:43.000 Maybe.

00:15:45.240 I see.

00:15:46.080 Bad, bad, bad.

00:15:48.440 Wow.

00:15:49.460 I see.

00:15:49.880 There's going to be a lot of stick spankings this year. 1.00

00:15:51.880 My favorite thing to do.

00:15:53.860 It's apparently.

00:15:55.600 I see.

00:15:56.160 You seem pretty eager.

00:15:58.340 Has anybody ever actually just escaped your punishment?

00:16:00.560 Has anybody ever been good enough for you yet?

00:16:05.360 Me.

00:16:06.160 You.

00:16:06.920 All right.

00:16:07.860 I see.

00:16:09.080 Uh-huh.

00:16:10.160 I don't know.

00:16:10.780 It looks like you've taken a few sticks to the face yourself now and then, Krampus.

00:16:14.280 Ah, Derek Fildebrand's cane will do that to you. 1.00

00:16:17.420 Yeah, Fildebrand is a mad, nasty person with that cane. 0.99

00:16:20.920 That's a separate... 0.98

00:16:21.600 Derek, are you going to be visiting him this year?

00:16:24.020 Uh-huh, uh-huh.

00:16:25.620 He's the Germanic soul who has really sort of invited you into the quarters around here in the first place.

00:16:31.760 Uh-huh.

00:16:32.800 That's a bad idea.

00:16:35.060 I don't know why you'd invite me anywhere. 0.88

00:16:37.520 You're going to beat you with a stick?

00:16:39.080 Well, let's see if you can take on his cane.

00:16:41.920 I've got magic.

00:16:43.680 OK, well, let's go down there.

00:16:45.080 God, magic.

00:16:46.080 Magic.

00:16:47.080 I don't trust you Germans. 1.00

00:16:48.080 I don't have a mystery with you guys.

00:16:52.080 Premier Smith.

00:16:53.080 Oh, God.

00:16:54.080 Danielle, I mean, she's been pretty good.

00:16:57.080 I mean, she's been standing up, trying to make things a little better in Alberta.

00:17:02.080 Oh, yeah.

00:17:04.080 Toss-up.

00:17:05.080 You know, would it be a light meeting?

00:17:07.080 oh i see a token beating we don't support tokenism around here it's merit or nothing

00:17:17.160 ollie f

00:17:22.280 he's okay i see i see okay uh taylor swift oh no no no a lot of people would pay to watch

00:17:31.880 no no people pay everything for taylor smith i mean if you get that content on there

00:17:36.680 I want to watch football, not Taylor Swift.

00:17:39.320 Oh, well.

00:17:40.880 Ah! 0.98

00:17:42.020 The hell are the Chiefs anyways. 0.97

00:17:44.100 Ah!

00:17:45.480 So, I mean, that gets me thinking about things.

00:17:47.760 I mean, you've got to have resources.

00:17:48.780 Santa has his North Pole spot.

00:17:50.400 He has his little elves and everything.

00:17:52.580 Do you have anybody helping you out up there,

00:17:54.880 wherever you stay during the offseason?

00:17:59.360 Let's see.

00:18:00.740 Secretive.

00:18:02.220 Elves, gremlins, gnomes.

00:18:03.600 I mean, there's got to be some sort of affirmative action program, right?

00:18:06.680 Evil. Evil. Well, I mean, if you're just punishing the bad, that's not an evil course of action,

00:18:12.740 is it? I guess not. There we go. You're good. You're good. Somewhat. Some days.

00:18:21.900 So, but you do have a long history. I mean, this has been hundreds and hundreds of years. You know,

00:18:26.920 you've been out there traumatizing Germanic children and so on, but you work in partnership

00:18:33.260 with mr claus so he doesn't have to be the bad guy ah i get the naughty list ah yes that's where

00:18:38.960 it actually goes so much fun no lump of coal but uh beating with yeah i think you should have some

00:18:46.000 elves though evil elves okay i see do i i don't know we can arrange for it that's what i was

00:18:54.540 talking about i'm talking about a special for you krampus you get us live footage of you

00:18:59.820 Punishing Taylor Swift.

00:19:01.300 I tell you what, the viewership will be overwhelming.

00:19:05.160 What about Derek Fildebrandt?

00:19:07.160 Well, a lot of people want to see that.

00:19:08.480 Yeah.

00:19:09.920 But, I mean, he's not quite the arousing draw that Swift might be.

00:19:13.680 Yeah.

00:19:15.160 See, we monetize you, Krampus.

00:19:17.760 Monetize you.

00:19:18.480 We can go further with this.

00:19:20.180 You can go places.

00:19:21.440 You don't have to crawl around the alleys anymore and scare children.

00:19:24.620 You could have your own place with your own minions taking care of this. 0.78

00:19:27.320 You get to fill the rent, I give you money.

00:19:31.280 You give me money.

00:19:32.660 No.

00:19:33.180 Oh.

00:19:34.340 No.

00:19:34.920 Nothing but sticks, huh? 1.00

00:19:35.680 I don't know, my ass dicks. 1.00

00:19:37.560 We are a low-budget deity anyways, aren't you? 1.00

00:19:40.760 Well, you got to do what you got to do.

00:19:43.620 Everybody's got to make a living.

00:19:44.740 It is tough times these days.

00:19:46.580 Inflation.

00:19:47.540 Well, yeah.

00:19:48.480 Everything's gone up.

00:19:49.280 I mean, your sticks look a little thinner this year.

00:19:51.100 I had to sell some.

00:19:52.240 You can burn some to keep warm, I guess,

00:19:54.920 but you have to pay the carbon tax on those emissions.

00:19:57.320 absolutely they actually want to ban these well you should talk to stephen gill bull will be

00:20:02.520 hitting his house this year yeah yeah been there twice already okay is he inviting you back no

00:20:08.360 okay i'm going anyways all right on well there's no stopping crampus very bad very bad well i know

00:20:14.280 you've got a busy schedule and a lot of people to punish there always seems to be more of the

00:20:18.920 so i'll probably let you get back and making your rounds so people watch out for krampus

00:20:23.880 this year. We'll be creeping around

00:20:25.800 and traumatizing you.

00:20:27.800 But thank you for joining us at the Robert's Standard

00:20:29.820 Studio again this year, Krampus.

00:20:31.880 And I'll try and behave lest we see

00:20:33.900 you again next year. You better.

00:20:35.680 Okay, I'll do whatever. Be good.

00:20:37.660 Alright. Merry Christmas. Thanks, Krampus.

00:20:39.800 Merry Christmas, guys.

00:20:43.520 Alright, that was a rare guest appearance

00:20:45.980 on the show. As I said, every other

00:20:47.900 show has Santa Claus and things like

00:20:49.900 that. For those not familiar with it, though,

00:20:51.980 So we've had Krampus coming here, actually, to the Western Standard Christmas parties every year.

00:20:56.300 We had some pictures go out and onto social media.

00:20:59.400 So people got really upset and said, why have you got some Satan going on in your Christmas thing in the newsroom?

00:21:05.040 Guys, it's Krampus.

00:21:06.140 It's a German tradition.

00:21:07.820 We're up in those European countries out there where Krampus would come along, I guess, you know,

00:21:12.440 rather than just having kids and worrying about a lump of coal.

00:21:17.060 The mythology there would be Krampus would show up and beat the kids with the sticks,

00:21:21.020 as you saw with Krampus there, if they weren't being good kids.

00:21:24.300 And if they were being really bad kids, Krampus had his sack, 0.97

00:21:27.160 and the kids would be stuffed into the sack and taken off to hell. 0.95

00:21:30.540 So I guess he is a little demonic.

00:21:32.020 So yeah, I tell you, they've got some scarier stuff going on in those European mountains 0.51

00:21:36.460 for traditions out there for their children.

00:21:38.360 But we just thought we'd do something different, bring them in for the holidays.

00:21:40.740 Again, we don't want to drag guests down to the studio, aside from Krampus.

00:21:43.400 during this time of year. People are all busy shopping, preparing, and hopefully having a good

00:21:48.220 time. All right, let's kind of get back to the regular show format and some of the stuff

00:21:51.660 Dave was talking about. We'll get to some news here and things. So yeah, Derek Holt, he's the

00:21:56.980 vice president and head of capital markets and economics at Scotiabank. So he's coming out,

00:22:02.540 we're seeing more people coming out as the numbers are coming out. Reality, one of those things

00:22:08.640 Canadians seem to hate so much. That's what I was talking about with the healthcare, with Canadians 1.00

00:22:12.220 denying reality on how our system is and the state it's in. The other reality is we can't

00:22:17.640 sustain our current immigration levels. We can't. The numbers are just there. They're stark. We are 1.00

00:22:25.100 in serious trouble. We have high inflation. We have low productivity. We have a dropping GDP per

00:22:31.620 capita. We have a massive housing crisis. And what were the liberals celebrating the other day?

00:22:37.840 They are celebrating that we brought in a million people in the last year.

00:22:42.280 In 2023, a million people.

00:22:45.440 You know, Canada is built on immigrants and we rely on immigrants. 0.66

00:22:48.540 I mean, we thrive on people from all over the world and we will continue to.

00:22:53.100 It's fantastic.

00:22:54.540 But it doesn't, there's a difference between good immigration and uncontrolled immigration.

00:22:59.660 If you don't have the resources to have the immigrants settle in, who are we doing a favor to? 1.00

00:23:08.400 The immigrants are having a terrible, tough time, too.

00:23:10.300 They've got to find a place to rent.

00:23:11.460 They've got to find a job.

00:23:12.360 They've got to settle in.

00:23:13.720 They're finding out that there's long, long health care lineups for them as well. 0.91

00:23:17.960 This is ridiculous.

00:23:19.220 We've got to rein it in. 0.83

00:23:21.600 Our housing starts in Canada.

00:23:23.740 They're down something like 21%.

00:23:25.260 So not only are we bringing a million people a year in, we're building fewer houses.

00:23:29.660 despite all the announcements from Trudeau all the time, all the new subsidies, all the money

00:23:33.720 he's throwing all over the place, we're actually building fewer houses. Housing starts in the

00:23:38.000 United States are going up. Like guys, we got to look to our numbers. People, you know, some people,

00:23:44.640 well, we need the immigrants to build the housing, you know? Yeah. Okay. I don't know why she swallowed 1.00

00:23:48.140 the fly. You know, you can start talking in circles and going into chicken and egg and what

00:23:51.800 goes on here. But I mean, in that case, we should be targeting people to fill the needs that we have

00:23:57.200 most acutely? Are we bringing in predominantly carpenters, electricians, plumbers? I mean,

00:24:01.200 there's fantastic people in all those trades from all over the world who would love to Canada and

00:24:05.100 come to Canada and set up shop. What about the healthcare lineups? You know, and again, I know

00:24:08.860 to some degree we're bringing in the professionals. Of course we are. But are we predominantly

00:24:13.220 bringing in nurses, doctors, even, you know, janitorial stuff? Our healthcare systems are

00:24:18.300 overwhelmed. If we target the immigration, yes, absolutely. We can all benefit from that. But 1.00

00:24:24.840 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.

00:24:41.780 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.

00:24:54.840 And it's true, because when you pump a bunch of new immigrants into a country, the GDP goes up. 1.00

00:25:01.480 But what he doesn't mention is the GDP per capita is dropping.

00:25:06.300 It's getting lower and lower because you have more and more people,

00:25:10.000 and the pool of money and funds and resources isn't growing, or at least not fast enough to absorb that.

00:25:16.560 So let's reset the clock. Let's start thinking a little harder here.

00:25:22.160 I want to see, look, we aren't breeding fast enough to prosper as a nation without immigration. 1.00

00:25:28.440 I'm not one of those people saying we should end all immigration or any of that crap. 0.85

00:25:30.800 No, no, absolutely not.

00:25:32.640 It's good for all of us as we bring people in.

00:25:34.960 But we've got to do it with a plan.

00:25:37.240 We've got to make sure we have the resources for the immigrants because everybody is suffering 0.89

00:25:41.440 right now.

00:25:42.220 Canadian students and foreign students are like, they're living in closets. 1.00

00:25:44.920 They're spending every nickel they got just for accommodations right now.

00:25:47.980 kids don't even have a dream of owning a house anymore the prices have gone so far out of reach

00:25:55.500 and again the numbers are showing but at least we're seeing some people professionals are finally

00:26:00.280 saying the emperor has no clothes when you see a vice president at scotia bank saying it in the

00:26:06.260 open hopefully that'll help that this house of cards crumble a little bit this baloney start

00:26:11.460 you know being cut into guys and yeah you see the fear the fear just intrude well he's got a number

00:26:17.680 of fears besides Krampus and whoever his wife's boyfriend might be. But it's, his fear is a

00:26:25.760 recession, the R word. You see, if a recession hits, a recession comes in, this is the immigration 1.00

00:26:32.040 contracts, his support numbers are already in the toilet. I mean, they are kind of realizing that

00:26:37.900 Canadians don't care about virtue signaling, they don't care about long discussions on gender

00:26:42.580 identities or, you know, global warming that much if they can't make the rent, if they can't

00:26:49.020 pay for groceries, the economy, it's everything in the end. If you can't pay the bills, every other

00:26:56.220 issue falls to the wayside. We go into recession, this already unpopular government is going to

00:27:01.800 become extremely unpopular. So again, how do you avoid recession, you got to keep the GDP growing.

00:27:06.820 but he's causing, he's kicking the can down the road. He's making a small disaster into a bigger

00:27:13.340 and a bigger and a bigger disaster. I mean, in some Toronto and other areas, they're putting,

00:27:18.220 again, new Canadians who are showing up and finding out there's no accommodation or they're

00:27:21.240 staying in hotels. They're staying in emergency shelters. How is this doing anybody any good?

00:27:28.080 Anywhere? It's ridiculous. But again, we're starting to see some senior people calling it out. 0.98

00:27:33.560 And if we start seeing that, maybe, maybe some of the legacy media members will start calling it out too, those cowards.

00:27:41.580 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.

00:27:46.820 And I mean, this is a government out of control.

00:27:48.480 So let's go on to the other thing that's been a big subject of late, you know, and that's okay.

00:27:52.560 So the green Jesus, Stephen Gilboa, has announced his electric vehicle mandates.

00:27:59.000 And holy cow, you know. 0.85

00:28:00.760 So essentially what he's going to do is make it illegal to sell a conventional vehicle after 2035.

00:28:13.620 Illegal.

00:28:14.320 He's illegalizing the sale of cars because people are saying he wants to mandate 100% sales of electric vehicles.

00:28:18.680 Yeah, that's part of it in a sense.

00:28:21.120 But what you've got to look at is the negative.

00:28:22.620 Look at the other side.

00:28:23.500 He's illegalizing selling new combustion engine vehicles. 0.95

00:28:27.760 And it's ridiculous.

00:28:28.760 And it's going to cost us a fortune.

00:28:30.100 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.

00:28:36.940 We know they're not going to get there.

00:28:38.440 It's going to disrupt the market.

00:28:40.260 Auto manufacturers within Canada, they're going to cut the production of conventional vehicles.

00:28:44.660 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.

00:28:51.120 If it's going to be illegal for them to sell them, they're going to change their plans.

00:28:55.340 So that's going to have an immediate whiplash effect on our economy.

00:28:58.900 and at least with Poliev coming out saying, look, one of my first things I'm going to do is reverse

00:29:05.060 it. So hopefully some of these automotive companies will realize that this is temporary.

00:29:10.340 If they can just hold off, hold off, you know, after Prime Minister Hammerhead's finally knocked

00:29:14.940 out of power, however that might happen, the laws will be returned to something closer to normal

00:29:19.440 and it won't have disrupted the automotive market too much. Let's look at how sensitive our supply

00:29:25.540 chains are and how expensive it is with vehicles, which we rely on. We're a winter country with a

00:29:30.660 low population density. I mean, we need cars to get around. We need them. And look what happened

00:29:37.520 during the pandemic when the supply chains got all messed up and there was what the computer chips

00:29:41.940 and things. And suddenly we ran out of used cars. The market for used cars went bananas. You couldn't

00:29:47.520 buy a piece of junk for less than $10,000. And then again, that really, really pressured,

00:29:53.660 particularly low-income Canadians you know you have to have a vehicle to get by you have to have 0.92

00:30:00.380 a vehicle to get to work you have to have a vehicle to get your kids to school we are not

00:30:03.780 a dense European city even though we've got a dense bunch of politicians who seem to think we

00:30:09.380 are we need vehicles to get around that's how we're built that's how our infrastructure is it

00:30:14.000 might change in the long run but not in the short term so this this target of EVs meanwhile in the

00:30:18.860 states. Ford has said, you know what? We had $16 billion or $14 billion planned on spending to

00:30:26.740 expand our electric vehicle production. We're putting it on hold because nobody's buying them.

00:30:32.380 Yes, nobody wants them. And the states have been subsidizing them like all hell. So has Canada

00:30:37.460 been subsidizing them like all hell. We can't subsidize enough to make these vehicles worth it

00:30:42.380 to the common Canadian yet. So why are we shoving it down our throats? We can't do it. It's not

00:30:47.220 reasonable. It's not feasible. At least Ford is backing off. Prime Minister Pinhead is pushing

00:30:51.940 us ahead with his henchman, Gilboa. And it's going to hurt a lot of people. And again, the ones they

00:30:57.200 always pretend to care about, the ones that they feel they're standing up for, yes, middle and

00:31:02.560 lower, you know, income Canadians are going to be the ones who suffer the most. Because imagine,

00:31:09.460 you know, as production and imports drop for new conventional vehicles, what the price of a used

00:31:15.020 vehicle we'll go to. It's going to skyrocket again. It's going to go through the roof. Now,

00:31:19.880 maybe some people say that's the plan, right? Drive more people out of personal vehicles

00:31:25.520 anyways. I mean, that does follow with the World Economic Forum. True enough. They want us all

00:31:29.840 riding buses and being completely dependent on the state to get around. But this is an agonizing

00:31:36.240 way to do it. Now, I don't know. I don't know if I can give Justin Trudeau that much credit for

00:31:39.580 having that much foresight. I mean, come on, the guy could barely tie his shoes. But all the same,

00:31:43.600 he is obsessed. He's obsessed. He thinks he's saving the bloody world somehow. And again,

00:31:49.660 you do have to wonder who's on the inside, who is going to monetarily benefit by, you know,

00:31:56.440 expanding the push of these vehicles that nobody wants to buy. Yeah, I mean, what's the C8 Freedom

00:32:03.760 where he says 70,000 is the base model, 200,000 for a Tesla truck is the price right now. And

00:32:09.400 And Karina Mack, I'm probably mispronouncing that, but the commenters, and I appreciate that, guys.

00:32:14.140 You know, people can't afford the ridiculous price of groceries, but we're going to go out and buy $70,000 electric vehicles.

00:32:19.900 Yes, we can't do it.

00:32:21.420 We can't do it. 0.99

00:32:22.620 And in the cold weather, they don't work with a crap. 0.99

00:32:25.100 Edmonton's discovering that, and certainly the hard way, hasn't it? 0.99

00:32:27.640 They bought a bunch of electric buses.

00:32:29.060 $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.

00:32:35.140 And the company that made them went broke, and they can't even get spare parts.

00:32:41.840 God, I don't know.

00:32:43.060 You know, either way, that's where we're moving with that right now.

00:32:48.840 Let's see.

00:32:50.900 Private sector.

00:32:52.780 This is an interesting article.

00:32:54.360 It says, it's raised Canadians' expectations of faster, better services.

00:32:57.480 The Department of Employment report.

00:32:59.320 Managers said the private sector evolved rapidly through ever-advancing technologies

00:33:02.820 Well, the department struggles with months-long backlogs for benefits like CPP checks.

00:33:07.780 So there's people realizing that government services are terrible.

00:33:12.460 People realizing that the government is terribly inefficient.

00:33:15.500 But rather than saying, what are they doing right and how can we embrace it?

00:33:20.120 It's more like they're just kind of complaining, saying the private market's just moving too darn fast.

00:33:24.440 Well, no, why don't you learn how to move faster?

00:33:28.000 These are bureaucracies, though.

00:33:29.240 They're bloated.

00:33:30.020 They thrive on inefficiency.

00:33:32.820 They thrive on people making a lot of money to take this piece of paper and stamp it and

00:33:36.780 hand it to that person over there to stamp it and then hand it back and stamp it again.

00:33:40.720 People don't understand bureaucrats.

00:33:43.600 And this is part of why our productivity, if you want to talk another number, not just

00:33:46.920 GDP per capita, but Canadian productivity is terrible.

00:33:50.380 And that's because our civil service is massive. 1.00

00:33:52.880 Remember, civil servants are parasites. 0.99

00:33:54.760 And I know they get upset from hearing me say this, but it's true. 1.00

00:33:57.780 And most of them are useless. 0.99

00:33:59.300 We could probably cut half of them out of there 0.99

00:34:01.480 and find out that they really weren't doing

00:34:03.160 a hell of a lot in the first place.

00:34:05.720 And that's the nature of bureaucracies.

00:34:07.820 These guys don't even know that.

00:34:08.920 They think their job is important.

00:34:10.900 I had an eye-opening trip to the Soviet Union

00:34:13.440 way back at the end of the 80s.

00:34:15.020 I've talked about it before.

00:34:16.120 One of the things that was very interesting,

00:34:17.660 they kept talking,

00:34:18.160 you've got to go to this GUM department store in Moscow.

00:34:20.980 It's this huge department store.

00:34:22.200 It's incredible and beautiful,

00:34:24.400 and you've got to check it out.

00:34:25.040 So part of the tour, we went through there.

00:34:26.680 And the building was amazing.

00:34:27.900 It was huge in Moscow, all these skylights and windows and all these storefronts and you go

00:34:32.460 walking in. Now there's a couple of problems though. I'm not going to talk so much about the

00:34:36.220 lack of stock, but that was one of the huge problems. There weren't many products to be had.

00:34:40.260 So, uh, you know, that's a whole bigger issue of communism in general. But so there was some

00:34:45.000 stuff I wanted to buy and the way it worked there is you'd stand in a big long lineup and get to

00:34:50.980 the front and everything's behind the counter. So you finally get there to the front and you tell

00:34:55.440 the person what you want to buy from behind the counter there. So, okay. And then they give you

00:35:02.940 a little piece of paper. Then you go into this other giant lineup and you wait for 10, 15 minutes

00:35:07.820 there. You get to the front of that, you give them the piece of paper, then you pay them. They give

00:35:13.000 you another piece of paper. Then you go all the way back to the first lineup and wait through that

00:35:17.640 all the way again. It is the front. You give them that piece of paper and then they reach back and

00:35:21.380 grab the item that you wanted and hand it to you. You leave with it. That's bureaucracy, folks.

00:35:27.440 That's what happens with an oversized government trying to manage something. This is what happens

00:35:31.820 when the government thinks it can fix unemployment. The other thing you used to see around there,

00:35:35.420 the metros. I mean, it was amazing. You know, most people smoked in the 80s, but I mean,

00:35:39.700 in Russia, it was something else back in the 80s. I mean, it was like 90% of the people smoked.

00:35:44.060 And you'd go into the metro and spotless, spotless, not a cigarette butt to be seen,

00:35:49.520 not a bit of dust, but what was it? They literally had women, you know, older women, babushkas 0.98

00:35:54.220 walking around with brooms, sweeping every little street corner and things downstairs. I mean, it's

00:35:59.080 fine. It did make for clean streets, but inefficient. It was terrible. Working for the sake of working

00:36:04.340 again, passing, you know, dig a hole, fill it in again, sort of mentality. We've got that going on

00:36:09.160 in our bureaucracy. One of the interesting things is, for example, I mean, a huge company, look at

00:36:14.740 Twitter now X that, uh, Elon Musk, um, you know, took over and he, how many did he cut out of

00:36:22.720 there? More than 50% of the staff, wasn't it? And it's still functioning. I didn't see a big

00:36:26.940 problem that they had some hiccups, but not much for the service. I mean, a lot of those guys were

00:36:30.280 dedicated to just censorship and other crap and they didn't need them. And other ones, honestly,

00:36:35.020 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,

00:36:43.220 they hire too fast, there's too many staff, come on. You find there's a whole bunch there that

00:36:47.300 actually don't need to be there. Any efficient company that cuts even more than 10% of its staff

00:36:53.700 is going to have a really hard time keeping up and keeping efficient. I need to have running a

00:36:58.380 restaurant. If I cut 10% of my staff, I was going to be in some serious trouble. But bureaucracies,

00:37:04.260 they can do it. When Ralph Klein was premier of Alberta, and he cut the civil service by 10,

00:37:08.480 20% in Alberta. You know how much worse service got? It didn't. In fact, I think in some ways it

00:37:14.080 got better because then when they realized the ax is over their head, the real world is encroaching

00:37:18.320 upon them. These pointy headed bureaucrats suddenly realized I had better start looking 0.99

00:37:23.360 like the most productive one in the office because I might not be here much longer if I keep it up.

00:37:30.240 But that reality doesn't come in everywhere. So let's talk about the state broadcaster,

00:37:34.780 one of my favorite Canadian parasites as well. Dave mentioned them. So, you know, they're taking 0.87

00:37:42.240 billions from us in tax dollars, just pumping it in there to run terribly biased, crappy news 0.77

00:37:48.640 and crappy programming. And then, yeah, the CEO, Tate, who barely ever shows up in Canada, lives in

00:37:55.040 New York for the most part, is defending, they're giving executive bonus. Now, CBC laid off hundreds

00:38:01.320 of workers, too. They laid off hundreds of them. But then they're giving bonuses to those who

00:38:05.620 are remaining on the executive level. Yeah, see, again, that's where bureaucracies work, right?

00:38:11.580 And that's where unionization works. And that's where socialism works. Because there's that top

00:38:15.700 tier. It's a different form of classism. They convince themselves and try to convince others

00:38:19.640 that it's something otherwise, but it's not the truth. What it is, is elitism in a different way.

00:38:25.420 the top Politburo people, the top bureaucrats now are the rulers who were there. And that's

00:38:31.260 what happened in the Soviet Union as well. I mean, when I was in Moscow, you'd see all the

00:38:34.480 latas broken down and burning oil and stinking these beat up cars and everything all over the

00:38:38.320 place. But then you got near the Kremlin and you'd see the BMWs and the Mercedes, nice ones.

00:38:43.220 Well, that was the top bureaucrats for a country where everybody's communist and supposedly equal.

00:38:47.680 Some were driving luxury cars and living in nice dodges out of the city. And others were driving

00:38:55.140 latas, the commoners. So CBC is similar, right? And there we see the headline, yeah, heritage

00:39:01.980 minister tells CBC to justify the executive bonuses, because here you are laying off 400

00:39:06.440 people just before Christmas. And meanwhile, you're giving yourselves massive bonuses. And are

00:39:11.660 you giving yourselves bonuses for good work? No. So ad revenue, because not just, you know,

00:39:18.860 does the CBC take money from your pocket with government funding, they take it from the private

00:39:23.880 market with ad revenue. Well, their revenue fell. It went from $95.7 million to $80 million.

00:39:28.800 It's gone into the toilet. People don't even want to buy ads with them. But the reason they

00:39:32.800 want to buy ads with them is because nobody's watching it. We're just paying for it. And what

00:39:37.460 are they doing when it comes to ad revenues collapsing? They're laying people off. They're

00:39:40.760 getting rid of folks. They gave themselves bonuses. Brilliant. And meanwhile, your taxes

00:39:47.280 get higher and higher and higher. It's a state broadcaster. They also realize too,

00:39:53.080 they don't need to lobby to advertisers. They don't need to lobby to Canadians to keep their

00:39:59.140 high paying privileged jobs. They lobby to the politicians. They lobby to the more senior

00:40:05.360 bureaucrats. This is a sick system. This is a country that is eating itself. This is the sort 0.83

00:40:11.820 of stuff that Ayn Rand wrote about in Atlas Shrugged. This is where it got to. And it's ugly.

00:40:20.000 CBC is just a dinosaur. It should be long gone. Another thing that passed quickly, and now it's

00:40:24.700 just waiting royal assent, is Trudeau's, I wouldn't say long-awaited, but gun legislation,

00:40:31.300 his firearm legislation, where he's going to come after hunting rifles. He's going to come after

00:40:36.880 conventional firearms, ones that aren't committing crimes. They're going after the low-hanging fruit

00:40:42.420 of law-abiding citizens. That's what always happens. Oh my god, there's mass shootings in

00:40:48.780 the states. What should we do? Let's punish Canadian hunters. Let's punish collectors up

00:40:53.360 here in Canada. Let's steal the property of Canadian citizens. That'll make it better. 1.00

00:40:59.100 Toronto has a massive gang problem. Well, let's ban the legal ownership and transfer

00:41:04.000 of handguns among the law-abiding citizens. That'll certainly fix it, won't it? No, it doesn't. In fact,

00:41:11.300 it makes Canadians more vulnerable, and the criminals laugh their heads off. The only thing

00:41:17.220 that held up this bill this long, again, is that the government had no clue what firearms they're

00:41:20.820 going after when they say assault style. You know, everything is scary. Yes, they're all firearms.

00:41:26.560 They're all scary. They can all hurt people if they're used irresponsibly. Some of the most

00:41:32.060 powerful ones can look like the most innocuous. And some of the ones that just have a lot of

00:41:37.760 bells and whistles and plastic and crap around them are just for weekend wannabe pretend Rambos

00:41:42.820 to run around and play with the firemen. There's nothing wrong with that either, but they aren't

00:41:46.060 necessarily assault weapons, guys. One of the areas they really screwed up with though is they

00:41:51.400 went after, there's a very common gun, they figure there's probably as many as 400,000 of them in

00:41:55.800 Canada. It's the SKS. And it's a Chinese, Czech, Russian sort of made semi-automatic firearm from

00:42:03.840 back in the 50s. They produced loads and loads of them. They sold them for decades. And mostly

00:42:10.340 because they're practical, they're semi-automatic, they're cheap. And, you know, they work. They're

00:42:15.440 simple and they're functional as a semi-automatic. Well, they were going to get rid of those. They're

00:42:20.560 going to ban those. But that's when they found out that loads and loads of those hundreds of

00:42:24.900 thousands of SKSs in Canada are owned by First Nations people on the reserves and they're using

00:42:29.280 them to hunt. So how does Justin want to look when he's taking away the firearm that these people

00:42:35.940 are using to feed their families with? So suddenly they backed off because there's one thing that

00:42:40.320 always still gives a chill and makes the buttholes of civil servants pucker up is when it comes to

00:42:46.360 possibly getting into a conflict with Canada's First Nations. They'll back off almost every time

00:42:50.620 But either way, the firearm legislation is now almost fully through and we're not exactly sure

00:42:55.780 how he's going to use it or what he's coming after. All I will say, folks, don't give them

00:43:01.400 anything. Don't comply. Don't sell them anything. Hopefully this stuff's going to go by the wayside

00:43:07.100 as well. Don't play their game. You can't. You can't. You can't undo that. You can't put the

00:43:13.140 toothpaste back in the tube. So yeah, don't register stuff, guys. Don't volunteer it. They

00:43:19.560 don't have your interest at heart and uh yeah where else do we go i mean one of their bigger

00:43:25.660 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

00:43:34.340 those things that are now terrible uh you know contraband items in canada dangerous going to

00:43:40.100 kill all of the sea turtles in alberta and the killer whales of saskatchewan because you're 0.98

00:43:44.940 using a reusable plastic bag to pick up dog poop or something. Well, Premier Smith is going to take

00:43:50.600 it to the federal court again and see if we can get that further declared unconstitutional. But

00:43:55.360 you see, this is where it's getting scary. This is where it's getting scary. Because we've had a

00:43:59.280 couple of items now where the government's been found with their legislations unconstitutional, 0.98

00:44:03.060 both times the federal government basically said, oh, well, it sucks. We're still going ahead with

00:44:05.800 it. If we can't have legal remedy through the courts, if the constitution no longer applies

00:44:13.160 to the government, you are not in a democracy anymore. If the government won't abide by the

00:44:17.920 highest court in the land, this is why some countries have things like a Second Amendment,

00:44:23.980 guys. Just don't give up anything. That's scary when the government thinks it's above the

00:44:30.700 Constitution. It's above the agreement that governs the lands. Even if it sounds like something as

00:44:35.380 petty as plastic straws, it's significant. It was constitutionally invalid to have that ban,

00:44:41.680 and the government still hasn't lifted the friggin' ban.

00:44:44.620 It's a government that does not want to abide by law. 0.50

00:44:47.720 It's scary.

00:44:49.780 I'll close with one other thing, yeah, we're seeing.

00:44:51.780 They're really pushing as well.

00:44:53.480 Kimberly Murray, the government's interlocator on unmarked graves

00:44:56.600 in residential, former residential school sites,

00:44:59.580 really is pushing hard to make it illegal

00:45:01.560 for people to be residential school deniers.

00:45:04.920 There's a column in the Western Standard about that 0.94

00:45:07.020 because it's kind of ridiculous.

00:45:08.580 Who's denying the schools happened?

00:45:10.520 We know the schools were there.

00:45:12.380 We know there were some abuses.

00:45:13.900 We know they weren't necessarily good places.

00:45:15.480 And they certainly weren't a good idea that certainly didn't pay off in the long run.

00:45:19.780 But we got a heck of a lot of valid questions about things like Kamloops, for example,

00:45:23.400 that set off the whole firestorm.

00:45:25.860 Still, not a single body has been found.

00:45:30.540 Zero. Zip.

00:45:32.480 Everybody screamed.

00:45:33.480 In Calgary, they're bronzing 250 shoes in a sick parallel to a Holocaust memorial over in Europe

00:45:41.920 where they actually have proof and evidence of the murder.

00:45:44.980 And they're bronzing 250 pairs of children's shoes to make a display

00:45:48.740 to represent the 215 children who were secretly murdered and buried in Kamloops.

00:45:54.340 But they haven't found a single body yet or evidence or proof.

00:45:58.360 And now they want to illegalize being able to question that.

00:46:01.340 Maybe there are 250 bodies there.

00:46:03.480 15, I should say, or 200.

00:46:05.800 But there's only one way to find out, and you've got to get a bloody shovel

00:46:07.740 in there. It's been, well, it's going to be coming up on three

00:46:09.720 years. It's turned the

00:46:11.800 world upside down. The pulp came over groveling

00:46:13.700 and sniveling.

00:46:15.820 And they still haven't moved an inch of dirt.

00:46:18.780 Well, it's pretty lucrative

00:46:19.660 to keep the secret, though, isn't it?

00:46:21.820 So, yeah, again, and even if it's

00:46:23.400 unconstitutional to illegalize

00:46:25.880 the discussion of these things, if

00:46:27.680 that's what it comes to, the government just ignores

00:46:29.700 the Constitution anyways. We're in for some scary times.

00:46:31.600 either way maybe 2024 we will see some positive things we just got to keep trying keeping at it

00:46:36.760 because giving up is a guaranteed formula for failure so uh stay stubborn have good christmas

00:46:44.460 guys enjoy it hanukkah whatever you celebrate if you celebrate nothing just enjoy the days off

00:46:49.160 have fun say hi to your family hug your dog and i will talk to you all in the new year so

00:46:56.220 thanks for joining us and we'll see you then

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