In this episode, we talk about heat pumps, water fluoridation, and why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks you should switch from heating and cooling to heat and air-conditioning using heating oil. We also hear from Dr. Robert Dixon, an expert on the topic.
00:01:48.260It looks like Calgary is moving back into it soon.
00:01:51.100And some people, including Dr. Dixon, have some serious concerns about it.
00:01:55.580So we'll chat about that and look at some of the issues going on with that subject.
00:02:00.640I mean, I got to admit, I get more inclined to saying, I just wish it'd be over and leave it in the background.
00:02:04.620But obviously, a lot of people are still seriously concerned about it.
00:02:08.480And if they're concerned about it, it's their water.
00:02:10.620And they should have the right to talk about it and express those concerns on what might be happening with that going into the water supplies.
00:02:48.620Even with the $5,000 rebates from the taxpayers on those things that have been around for a while, not many people are taking up heat pumps.
00:02:56.740They're a lot like solar panels on homes.
00:02:58.840They offer a supplemental source of energy but really aren't economical for most people, at least not yet at this point.
00:03:04.400The technology might get better later, but it's not here yet.
00:03:07.360I mean, insurance companies won't cover homes with heat pumps if that's the only form of heat in the household.
00:03:12.200They know that the pumps are likely to fail during cold snaps.
00:03:15.100And then, of course, you get the ruptured water pipes and freezing, and it causes catastrophic damage.
00:03:20.180So you still end up having to pay for gas service and maintain a furnace on top of paying for a heat pump.
00:03:26.000I mean, if you're with gas to begin with.
00:03:27.520And that pump could cost you $10,000 to $15,000 to install.
00:03:30.320And suddenly, it just doesn't look all that appealing, does it?
00:03:32.400Not to mention, heat pumps use a whole pile of electricity.
00:03:35.200They're sort of like reverse air conditioners.
00:03:37.220And home owners can look forward to a spike in their electric bills, even if there's a modest decrease in their gas heating costs if they switched over or whatever other source of heat they used.
00:03:46.900All the same, to be fair, they offer one option among many for home heating and cooling.
00:03:51.780Some people in moderate climates have said they work really well for them for some air conditioning and heat.
00:04:07.940Because like electric vehicles, people aren't inclined to buy these heat pumps without huge subsidies.
00:04:13.700Also, you know, the subsidies are going to have to be massive to encourage large numbers of people to invest in systems that just don't work well for them.
00:04:20.540So why have we got this sudden big push for these pumps?
00:04:26.120He cut the carbon tax for home heating for people in Atlantic provinces who use heating oil.
00:04:29.980It was a crass move to try and buy electoral love from the East Coast, and it blew up in his face.
00:04:35.100In a bizarre attempt to justify the move, Trudeau said it was to encourage people using heating oil to switch to heat pumps.
00:04:40.940Now, how would making it cheaper to use heating oil, you know, how would that encourage people to move away from heating oil in the first place?
00:04:49.180It's a mystery only Trudeau could understand.
00:04:51.260Still, this move brought heat pumps, which had previously been a seldom used heating option into Canada, into the spotlight.
00:04:57.840It fits in with the environmental obsession of making everybody move to electric forms of energy, despite the lack of electric infrastructure being in place to make it feasible.
00:05:06.860It also ignores the fact that much of the electric power in Canada still comes from coal and natural gas.
00:05:11.820But again, we understand it's virtue signaling.
00:05:13.360It's not about reality or the environment.
00:05:15.380Jagmeet Singh knows people aren't willing to invest in heat pumps.
00:05:18.280So, like a good socialist, he feels the government should do so on the people's behalf, even though it's our money.
00:05:24.420The costs to convert every home to heat pumps would run into the hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:05:28.840At least that's according to Western Standard energy writer Sean Polzer.
00:05:33.520Even if houses that were already just on pure electric heat were excluded from that, the costs would be astronomical.
00:05:38.800Now, Singh might be economically witless, but he does know the government doesn't happen to have a couple hundred billion dollars laying around.
00:05:45.620That's why he's proposed stealing the money from energy companies with what he's, of course, calling a windfall tax.
00:05:51.180You don't hear about those taxes when oil was near ten or five dollars a barrel, of course.
00:05:55.180And never mind the reality that even if the government stole every penny from the energy company profits, they'd barely get over 40 billion dollars.
00:06:01.660Never mind that the companies would flee Canada in such a circumstance.
00:06:04.640And never mind how it would decimate the pension funds and savings of Canadians.
00:06:08.240Singh sees a target, and in his simplistic economic world, he would just propose nationalizing energy companies if they didn't cooperate anyways.
00:06:14.720I mean, it worked like a charm in Venezuela, didn't it?
00:06:17.160While I doubt the government would be so bold as to scoop the entire profits of energy companies, it's very believable they would make a large grab for them.
00:06:23.940Trudeau's floundering, and Singh is a slave to a socialist ideology.
00:06:28.260Neither party has anything to lose in enraging the Prairie provinces.
00:06:32.580The policies of the government don't make sense because the government isn't even trying to make sense anymore.
00:06:36.780Trudeau's throwing everything he has at the wall in hopes of somehow turning about his plummeting political support.
00:06:41.620And Jagmeet Singh is working to take advantage of the government's weakness.
00:06:46.500Get ready for the National Energy Program Part 2 as the Liberals hit the wall.
00:06:50.620Because the Liberals and NDP won't be able to restrain themselves for much longer, and Justin would be more than happy to join in with Singh and try and do to Alberta what has Dada failed to do the first time with the National Energy Program.
00:07:36.760And then when she found out there was a whole bunch of Western Standard people there, she just lit up and said, oh, I love what you guys do.
00:08:39.920So, it's been a very busy morning here at Western Standard World Headquarters, led off by the, as promised, UCP dismantling of Alberta Health Services.
00:08:50.980It's a massive undertaking, very complicated, but basically they're going to take everything, all responsibilities away from AHS, except for hospitals, acute care.
00:09:04.840They are setting up, you know, special bureaus, bureaucracies to run things like mental health and addiction and seniors care.
00:09:16.640So, it's going to be a very, very interesting few years ahead for AHS or what's left of it.
00:09:23.100And, as you know, Corey, the Premier Smith campaigned on that very issue of blowing up AHS.
00:09:30.420Rebecca Schultz is mocking her good friend, Stephen Gilbeau, for failing to meet emissions targets.
00:09:37.940The report was out yesterday from a federal watchdog that said the Liberals are failing miserably to meet emissions targets.
00:09:46.020Our best friend of the Western Standard, Gil McGowan, and the NDP leader, Rachel Notley, is chiming in with their disgust over the fact that Premier Smith will be sharing the stage with Tucker Carlson at an event in Calgary in the new year.
00:10:03.020And I understand tickets are selling like hotcakes.
00:10:06.840So, if you did want to go, you better get yours quickly.
00:10:09.800The London Cenotaph down in Whitehall in London is being closed to the public this Sunday for the big Armistice Day celebrations.
00:10:21.920Authorities fear that an expected march of tens of thousands of pro-Hamas supporters would try and disrupt the Remembrance Day ceremonies.
00:10:33.080So, police are blocking off all roads leading to the Cenotaph and will not allow the public anywhere near it.
00:10:40.480If you're a fan of CBC, and we all know that nobody is, this hour had 22 minutes.
00:10:47.220It had Premier Smith on last night, and they were joking about Gilbeau's plans for home heating systems and whatnot.
00:11:00.460Oh, I don't know if you cook with olive oil at all, Corey, but apparently that is now shot up in price to where a barrel of olive oil is 15 times more expensive than a barrel of crude oil.
00:14:12.520Unfortunately, if you want to call it free, fine, even though it's costing you out of your taxes,
00:14:16.960it won't matter if you don't make it in time to take care of whatever condition you may need treated.
00:14:21.680So the bureaucracy is a large chunk of that.
00:14:24.200And yeah, I guess you don't want to go under the wrecking ball.
00:14:26.580You can potentially make things worse.
00:14:28.340But you can't be afraid of taking on the administration as well if you want to make substantive change.
00:14:34.760So Premier Smith has announced she's going to be breaking up the AHS into more units, I guess you could say, to specialize in different areas.
00:15:53.360So I guess where I want to start with is why now?
00:15:57.880Is there something coming up then in City Hall or a turning point that's approaching when it comes to the water fluoridation?
00:16:02.820Well, I'd like to think so, because they just raised the cost of putting fluoridation back in our city water from $10 million of taxpayers' money.
00:16:11.480That was two years ago when they passed this law, this policy.
00:16:17.000So I think that's a very significant point to be brought up before a council, amongst other things.
00:16:21.460Yeah, and you're going to go into the other things right away here.
00:16:24.320But I mean, that's one of the areas that people could be concerned about, too.
00:16:27.120I mean, we had it in before, and of course, in the typical manner of government bureaucracies, boy, it suddenly gets expensive to bring something back that we already had in the first place.
00:16:35.280So the first place this is of concern is at your pocketbook.
00:16:38.700I suspect your bigger concern, from what I've looked into, though, is I guess the possible health effects of fluoridation within people's water supplies.
00:17:04.460Well, aside then from perhaps not having a beneficial aspect, which, of course, would be pointless if you're putting something without benefit, what potential harms then can fluoride bring in?
00:17:14.580There's fluorosis and some other concerns that people have.
00:17:17.080You can start right from the top of the head.
00:17:18.580So it calcifies the pineal gland in the back of the brain.
00:17:29.500Now, there's been really good studies out with the Element and the MIREC cohort.
00:17:33.180That's groups of thousands, even millions of people across Canada that have been tracked for years and years by the government.
00:17:39.860And people have teased out from those groups the data, the facts from Canadian cities fluoridated at Canadian levels with Canadian women that are pregnant and then Canadian kids that are bottle-fed from fluoridated water.
00:17:52.060And we're looking at a 3 to 15-point IQ drop.
00:18:05.920So, and getting around the world, because we're so used to it out here in Calgary, people don't seem to realize that most world water supplies actually don't fluoridate their water.
00:18:40.720So, is this side, I'm on a water well actually, I'm just outside of the city, but there's some degree of naturally occurring fluoride in some water supplies as well.
00:18:49.400Like it doesn't necessarily have to be put in by a local municipal service.
00:18:53.240Yeah, and that's a little bit different.
00:18:54.960That's natural calcium fluoride, which is really tightly bound.
00:18:58.580And if you look at the entire Earth's crust, almost everywhere there's calcium fluoride.
00:19:02.460But usually it's in fairly small amounts.
00:19:04.900Like in our Boer River system on the north side, there's 0.2 parts per million.
00:19:08.140And that's about the maximum it should be that all the studies show.
00:19:11.380That should be the maximum allowed amount of fluoride.
00:19:14.100So, calcium fluoride, 0.2 parts per million in the Boer, about 0.3 parts per million on the average in the elbow system.
00:19:20.440So, yeah, I mean, is that going to harm us?
00:22:15.560It's not like you could say, well, I could turn on this fluoridated tap over here in this non-one if I choose otherwise.
00:22:19.700Otherwise, it's kind of everybody has to get it or nobody has to get it.
00:22:23.060And speaking as a libertarian individual, well, then in my view, it should be nobody gets it and they can choose to get it on their own if they like otherwise.
00:22:28.680And there's lots out there, topically and cheap.
00:38:45.320Had it been a Muslim who was targeted with a hate-motivated incident, you guys would have had that plastered all over the place.
00:38:51.000Had it been an Asian person, had it been anybody except this, because that doesn't fit with your pro-Hamas standpoint when it comes to the Gaza-Israel conflict going on right now.
00:39:04.200So you don't want to say that because that would perhaps show that, oh my God, they have demonstrated hatred towards Jews.
00:39:09.300Yeah, you think? They cut the heads off their babies, you clowns.
00:39:47.260KPMG, which again, boy, they certainly get some really cozy contracts there with the government.
00:39:51.960But you spent, you know, close to $700,000 on a consultant asking how to save money on consultants.
00:40:00.180This was similar, I guess, when Jason Kenney started up the whole ministry to end red tape.
00:40:05.500When obviously, you know, the first thing that that ministry should have done is basically shut itself down because it was creating a whole new industry and a bunch of red tape.
00:41:11.060We've got 17,260 government vehicles, which is probably 10,000 too many for whatever the hell they do anyways.
00:41:19.340Of all of those, only 3% or zero emission.
00:41:23.200You would have thought when they're bending over backwards and they're spending billions on battery plants, your money, my money, when they're telling us we must go on to these things, they won't do it themselves.
00:41:34.060Maybe the bureaucrats don't want to drive an electric car.
00:41:47.060Stephen Gilboa stating Tuesday that Canadians, this is the other neat thing, Canadians need to take further actions to meet climate targets because they've been embarrassed.
00:41:58.800We're kicking ourselves in the economic balls over and over and over again to try and bring down emissions within Canada, but the emissions aren't falling.
00:42:05.360So does Gilboa, the green Jesus, the man in charge, the environment minister, the one who's been part of this government for eight years to bring down the emissions, is any of that responsibility his?
00:42:28.480You've had a carbon tax in for this long.
00:42:30.440Shouldn't the emissions have been dropping by now?
00:42:33.240But, I mean, the government doesn't care.
00:42:35.340The climate tax, the climate tax, the carbon tax, if it really mattered, then the government would never have cherry-picked and lifted it on the maritime provinces, would it?
00:42:54.840But even the government knows the carbon taxes aren't doing a damn thing, except costing us money and putting more money into government coffers to put into stupid programs.
00:43:01.560But it just gets so insulting when you listen to a clown like Gilboa, a vowed socialist, saying it's Canadians' responsibility.
00:43:14.000Hey, we should send him cards and apologize.
00:43:15.520He says, I'm sorry, Stephen, I didn't make my life miserable enough to reach your climate target, so I'll try and wear two more sweaters this winter and turn the heat down.
00:44:13.840She is not even allowed to sit with a person who really is, whether you like him or don't like him, an iconic conservative voice in North America.
00:44:22.240You know, he left Fox, and, you know, they thought that's going to be the end of him.
00:44:26.960No, actually, he moved on to Twitter, and his shows on Twitter get views in the tens of millions of people.
00:44:56.700I don't think Premier Smith is raising him any.
00:44:59.520He's already got a fan base here and particularly in the States.
00:45:03.920That's why the TELUS Convention Center, even at a couple hundred to five hundred, I think a seat is going to fill right up for people wanting to listen to this and go to it.