Western Standard - CMS： Is Trudeau getting ready to gouge Western energy companies？

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00:00:30.000 Good day. It's Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. I am, of course,

00:00:40.760 Cory Morgan. Happy hump day. It's like winter's finally gotten to Alberta and boy, it came with

00:00:46.440 a vengeance for anybody out in the Calgary area. Man, those roads are something special. Unless

00:00:50.420 you're on the bike lanes, have a look at Dave Naylor. He tweets under Nobby and he took that

00:00:55.940 nice picture in Calgary. We keep our bike lanes spotless during the snowstorms. I mean, the

00:01:00.880 streets, if you need an ambulance, firetruck, yeah, but hey, if you want a cargo bike or something,

00:01:05.640 those bike lanes are immaculate. We got our priorities straight around here. Got a good show

00:01:11.260 today. As always, I like to think they're always good. And yes, we're streaming now on Facebook,

00:01:15.820 YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitch, Rumble, and Telegram. We're all over the place. We're not kicked off

00:01:20.320 anything right at the moment. I'll try and avoid getting kicked off anything in the near future.

00:01:23.900 and it's good to see you all checking in we got folks scott and fort mac debbie i see jet there

00:01:28.380 a couple folks from bc heather and regina i like seeing that comment scroll used guys let's

00:01:33.120 interact that's the point of being live get those questions to me have discussions with each other

00:01:38.140 let's uh make this an interactive show i won't necessarily respond to every comment i do see

00:01:44.240 them all though guys and uh again though try to keep them fairly civil so i've got uh some good

00:01:49.840 guests on colin craig of second street he's been on before they're a great group a think tank

00:01:53.680 and they did a poll on health care and health care reforms and what people think.

00:01:58.160 And, you know, despite what the unions say and the status quo protectors say,

00:02:02.040 there might be a lot more appetite for some reforming of our health care system

00:02:05.780 than others would let on.

00:02:07.440 And they're reaching out to people getting past those interest groups

00:02:10.500 and it'll be a good conversation on health care.

00:02:12.860 It seems a little dry, but it's always the top political issue.

00:02:15.800 And we'll have a business check-in with Marketplace Commodities at the end of the show.

00:02:18.700 And I'm going to do something different.

00:02:19.640 I'm going to start some awards.

00:02:20.840 I'm going to be giving out the Dingleberry of the Week Award.

00:02:23.140 every week, some lucky person is going to be awarded my Dingleberry Award. And I won't give

00:02:30.740 them a trophy to take home. But if any of them ever want to come in and receive the award in

00:02:34.000 person after the fact, of course, they'll be more than welcome. I won't hold my breath. But yes,

00:02:37.520 hang on for the end of the show. We'll have that. So let's get on to what the title is about and

00:02:41.760 what I am ranting about. So I mean, the cognitive dissonance, it was stunning to behold as President

00:02:49.400 Biden berated oil and gas companies for their daring to make profits and apparently not investing

00:02:55.240 properly into the USA. This is in his own words. This is Biden. He said, the oil industry has a

00:03:00.360 choice. Either invest in America by lowering prices for consumers at the pump and increasing

00:03:05.200 production and refining capacity. That's a key part. Or pay a higher tax on your excessive profits

00:03:10.840 and face other restrictions. The gall is beyond the pale. Maybe it's not so much cognitive

00:03:16.160 dissonance as cognitive disability. That's an issue with Biden, leading Biden to chase oil

00:03:22.060 companies for not increasing production when he spent his entire presidency so far trying to force

00:03:27.520 oil companies to lower production. Biden's very first act in office was to shut down the Keystone

00:03:32.720 XL pipeline project. Billions of dollars had been invested in years dedicated to that line. It was

00:03:37.380 killed by the president with the stroke of a pen. Biden was making it clear then and there that he

00:03:42.660 would not fight, that he would fight, if not outright block any expansion of oil and gas

00:03:47.140 infrastructure in the United States. And now here he is pissing and moaning and threatening to punish

00:03:50.900 oil and gas companies for doing what he wanted them to. The idiocy of Joe Biden's approach runs 1.00

00:03:55.800 deep and exposes a total lack of understanding of basic economics on Joe Biden's part. Oil and gas 1.00

00:04:02.200 companies took a beating in the last decade. They lost billions of dollars while the oil prices were

00:04:05.980 $10 and lower per barrel, and government regulations made production financially unviable.

00:04:11.040 Now that they can finally recoup some of those losses,

00:04:13.180 Biden's threatening to steal those profits from them through taxation.

00:04:16.480 Now, if Biden hits oil companies with a punitive tax, guess what's going to happen?

00:04:19.980 Those companies will reduce what expansion they're doing, and they'll cut their production.

00:04:24.200 Why should they risk more dollars if the president's just going to steal the profit in anyway?

00:04:28.380 Investors, of course, flee.

00:04:30.060 Our current energy crisis is due to a lack of supply,

00:04:32.680 and Biden's taking an approach that would actually reduce supply.

00:04:36.340 Pouring more money into green renewables won't solve this problem.

00:04:38.740 If that worked, Germany wouldn't be moving back into coal today for their energy sources

00:04:43.120 after they spent billions of dollars on wind and solar.

00:04:46.420 Nationalizing the industry won't work.

00:04:47.760 Just ask Venezuelans how that worked out. 0.64

00:04:49.740 They have some of the richest oil reserves on Earth and are suffering under fuel shortages

00:04:53.180 and rampant poverty, of course.

00:04:55.180 Only government management of an industry can pull off such a disaster.

00:04:58.480 They literally ate their zoo animals there, guys.

00:05:01.040 Governments need to get out of the way.

00:05:02.820 They need to cut the onerous regulations dumped on energy companies

00:05:05.840 and make investors confident that capital projects will be allowed to finish

00:05:09.300 and that they can get a return on their investment.

00:05:11.560 In other words, they need to do the opposite of what Biden's doing. 1.00

00:05:14.300 Now, let's pivot to our own domestic idiot 1.00

00:05:15.940 who has a deficit in economic understanding as well. 1.00

00:05:19.180 Yes, I'm talking about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:05:21.820 And he's an impressionable little man he likes to follow.

00:05:24.300 So rest assured, he's watching Biden

00:05:25.880 and thinking about how he could implement a similar policy.

00:05:29.500 Justin's father tried to take control of the energy sector

00:05:31.460 with his disastrous national energy program.

00:05:34.160 The NEP caused thousands of bankruptcies while bleeding Alberta of nearly $100 billion at the start of the 1980s.

00:05:39.700 Justin would love to succeed where his father failed when it comes to energy.

00:05:43.080 Unfortunately, Justin can only replicate what his father did.

00:05:46.020 He can't make a national energy program work because the model is fatally flawed.

00:05:49.900 Can we expect Trudeau to realize this, though?

00:05:52.020 I wouldn't bet on it.

00:05:53.060 Trudeau's still trying to borrow and spend Canada into prosperity.

00:05:56.880 Inflation's running rampant, and the government's getting backed into a corner

00:05:59.620 as the higher interest rates make servicing the federal debt untenable.

00:06:03.040 Justin's going to be tempted to make a grab for Western resources, and he likely won't be able to resist himself.

00:06:07.480 All we can do now is hope somebody somehow talks some sense into Joe Biden and gets him to reverse course.

00:06:12.720 Otherwise, he and Trudeau will tag team to send North America energy capacity back into the dark ages as the winter approaches.

00:06:20.740 Yes, guys, the truth is stranger than fiction sometimes, and that's what's got me wound up today.

00:06:25.640 All right, let's bring in our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what else is going on there.

00:06:29.280 hey good morning cory that was quite a commute wasn't it oh man yeah something on those roads

00:06:36.760 right now i see somebody else was wondering if i came in in a convertible uh the hair's looking

00:06:40.320 a little wild no my hair always looks like crap but uh i was just walking in the snowstorm from

00:06:44.040 the parking spot to here yeah i don't have a stylist here but if you want to sponsor the

00:06:47.740 show we can get an in-house stylist and pretty me up there you go we could all use it around here

00:06:52.200 Yeah, it took me 65 minutes to travel 23 kilometers, but arriving at work today, like you said, just those beautifully cleared bike paths in Calgary.

00:07:04.600 Didn't see a single snowplow and also didn't see a single cyclist this morning, but holy cow, they were certainly clear and ready for them.

00:07:14.540 Yeah, I guess maybe, you know, if you want to get to work faster, you should just drive on the bike lanes because, you know, there's no bikes in them.

00:07:20.460 I mean, they're wide open.

00:07:21.960 No, exactly.

00:07:23.080 So anyways, on to more important things.

00:07:26.460 The bear keeps coming back.

00:07:28.080 I was thinking about you this week.

00:07:29.780 We had the news of fish and wildlife killing four bears in a Calgary suburb.

00:07:36.740 And I was thinking about your poor guy keep coming back.

00:07:39.600 Looks like the same fate may await him.

00:07:41.520 But it looks like you may have at least pegged him a few times in the back there.

00:07:45.300 I don't know if those chunks of fur missing were from the rubber bullets I shot him with

00:07:48.900 or if he's got mange going on.

00:07:50.920 it does make me more concerned actually if he's injured or sick and as you can see he's pretty

00:07:54.060 bold that was the other night by my car and my fifth wheel there he just wanders around he just

00:07:58.600 now that i've taken to chasing him away he just comes out a lot later in the night rather than

00:08:03.100 at nine like he used to uh i i hope we don't have to put him down all right so the next question

00:08:09.260 you got a four by four there you got a fifth wheel why the hell are you still here 0.97

00:08:13.900 well you know i got an empty wallet so uh once that fills up just enough to uh oh there we go

00:08:21.860 you see i'm saving for my happy meal there yes uh that's how you save money and eventually in

00:08:27.640 january i will escape for a little bit we'll do some updates from the desert what the hell is that

00:08:32.820 this is banana itchy ban that was a very popular tweet i'll bet it was with disgust

00:08:40.960 anyways uh busy morning as usual around here cory uh leading off the website right now is a

00:08:48.520 story on the uh the saskatchewan public safety minister finally apologized for

00:08:53.580 bringing convicted wife killer uh colin thatcher to the saskatchewan throne speech amazing these

00:09:01.320 politicians can't see potential problems in doing that uh we've got a piece from our lee harding on

00:09:08.840 the incredible Supreme Court of Canada decision last week that basically says the sex registry

00:09:16.720 is unconstitutional. Well, he's got some politicians, a lawyer and a former police

00:09:21.940 officer who are not very happy with that. And boss man Derek's going to be having a column come

00:09:27.820 out shortly, basically saying, you know, register sex offenders. You don't need to register rifles.

00:09:34.840 Preston Manning announced his citizen-led inquiry into Canadian government actions during COVID and the vaccine injured.

00:09:44.800 People who have suffered injuries because of vaccines will be testifying at that inquiry.

00:09:51.760 And we've got an interesting story, we'll call it, out of Strathmore, where somebody arrested was found to have thousands and thousands of dollars and more than 100 pills.

00:10:03.880 shoved up his bum. And they weren't noticed until he was in his cell by himself. And 0.62

00:10:10.400 I didn't want to be the poor jailer who had to go in there and deal with that, Corey.

00:10:15.120 No. I mean, the guy's got quite a talent to pack that much away, I guess. I don't know how much a

00:10:18.940 few thousand worth of drugs stacks up to, but you know, give the guy a little credit where he do.

00:10:23.060 Well, there is a picture to go along with the story, so you can take a look at it and

00:10:26.500 see if you'd want to attempt the same thing. I know you were just speaking of President Biden,

00:10:31.800 Our Mike Thomas will have a story out within seconds on a new survey showing it looks like a Republican sweep coming up next week in the midterm.

00:10:42.400 So good news for Republicans in the states because they'll control both houses and that'll basically cripple the last two years of the Biden presidency.

00:10:52.280 Well, yeah, the Americans like their conflict in there.

00:10:56.400 We'll see what happens.

00:10:57.180 Those midterms are creeping up quick.

00:10:59.260 They are.

00:11:00.220 All right.

00:11:00.980 Well, thanks for checking in, Dave.

00:11:03.220 And I like the beginnings of that mustache starting to sprout out.

00:11:07.200 By December, it may be even, you know, halfway in.

00:11:11.360 We'll see.

00:11:12.220 We'll do one of those photo shoots.

00:11:13.320 I saw something else that was going around with a mustached fella, but we'll save that for another show.

00:11:17.620 You bet.

00:11:18.380 All right.

00:11:18.760 Thanks, Dave.

00:11:20.320 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:22.320 I see lots out there, guys, and lots breaking.

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00:12:27.360 And, you know, so, I mean, that segues into one of the stories I was looking to talk about

00:12:30.840 with the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

00:12:33.800 Now, this is a group of these press galleries or other reporters, senior reporters, colonists,

00:12:39.360 and they have their own gallery and they determine who's allowed in and who's allowed out for

00:12:43.340 those parliamentary press conferences and all that good stuff.

00:12:45.880 It's quite a little inside club.

00:12:47.640 And, you know, I mean, I would rather that media members managed it than the government.

00:12:53.160 Absolutely.

00:12:54.120 But the problem is now that, of course, most of our media take subsidies.

00:12:57.600 Well, then the ones who manage the gallery are biased,

00:13:01.580 and there are a whole bunch of people who don't want to shake the tree

00:13:04.120 where they're getting their money, which is the federal government.

00:13:06.500 So it looks like the Blacklock's reporter, you see, we get a lot of that.

00:13:08.940 They're like a news aggregator.

00:13:10.160 They've been doing a newswire.

00:13:12.080 You know, we get a lot of our material from them.

00:13:13.520 They do excellent stuff, but they, of course,

00:13:15.360 dig into things that embarrass the government quite often.

00:13:17.780 But now the Parliamentary Press Gallery president is threatening

00:13:20.720 to terminate Blacklock's membership in the press gallery because of disrespectful treatment of

00:13:26.760 subsidized competitors. Oh, dear. In other words, we're making fun of you guys because you can't

00:13:31.940 pay your bills by putting out good news. So you'd rather kick them out? You know, you're just showing

00:13:36.980 your own insecurity and weakness, the establishment legacy media, that sick, sick media that doesn't 0.80

00:13:42.960 give you direct information. It's just another example of it. And that's why, you know, the

00:13:47.600 independent sources are so, so important. So let's look at some of the other stuff into the

00:13:53.840 news. You know, you might have heard some of the ads when I get on to Mr. Craig in a bit when we

00:13:57.440 talk. It's an interesting area because, you know, the health care, it's the top issue everywhere.

00:14:03.300 The systems are having problems in every province. You listen to an opposition member

00:14:07.220 in any province of any party, of course, they'll always blame whatever government

00:14:10.780 in their province is for the problem. It doesn't matter who is in power. In BC,

00:14:16.560 the liberals are blaming the NDP for the state of their healthcare. And here in Alberta, Rachel

00:14:21.260 Notley is going wild because of UCP mismanagement of healthcare. And in Saskatchewan, the NDP are

00:14:26.880 blaming the Sask party. It just goes all the way across. The bottom line is it's failing everywhere.

00:14:31.860 It doesn't matter which party is in power. That's the common denominator, guys. If there was a

00:14:36.820 magical formula within this system of making the healthcare work, one of the provinces would have

00:14:43.420 found it by now. The problem is the system. And, you know, you might have heard some ads. I guess

00:14:48.160 it sounds like if you listen to the radio, you've heard some of these. I guess the premiers got

00:14:51.960 together and they funded that. And they're pointing out something a lot of people don't

00:14:54.800 realize. Provinces, they have to, they administer the health care. They manage it. They deal with

00:14:59.900 it. But the funding, 50% of that was supposed to come from the federal government. According to

00:15:04.280 the original Health Act, that's who's supposed to pay half of it. They're down to 22%.

00:15:08.180 percent. So you can't count on the federal government to fund your health care. And that's

00:15:13.300 where I get a kick when you listen to people saying, well, we can't turn down this program

00:15:17.020 from the feds or we can't turn down that program from the feds because they won't give us the money.

00:15:20.460 That's where you got to remember, where do you think the money's coming from?

00:15:23.300 So when you say we have to accept the government's, we have to start this arena deal in Calgary,

00:15:28.600 say with a bunch of tax dollars, because if we don't, because the government's offering to pay

00:15:31.760 for part of it and they'll just burn that money, I guess, in a fire pit if we don't take it.

00:15:35.200 No, they'll put it into something else.

00:15:37.300 There's only one pot, guys, only one taxpayer.

00:15:40.000 So when the healthcare has only got 22% of the funding coming from the feds, think about that.

00:15:44.560 So if you want a nice big dental program like Jagmeet Singh's talking about, or you want to talk about the childcare programs or all these other things, they force the provinces to opt in.

00:15:52.140 Because what they do is they say, here's the transfer we'll give you for it.

00:15:55.280 And if you don't participate, we won't give you the money.

00:15:57.940 Well, the thing is, it's still our money.

00:15:59.920 And while they sit there and dangle those carrots in front of every province and make them dance to their tune,

00:16:05.020 they're starving us on what their obligation is supposed to be on the health care front 0.92

00:16:08.180 because they aren't funding half of it like they're supposed to.

00:16:10.980 Which I think, you know, that's part of what they like doing when provinces try to do something different.

00:16:15.220 I remember the battles between Ralph Klein and Jean Chrétien when he was trying private MRIs and things like that.

00:16:21.120 And Chrétien was threatening to cut health transfers because he felt he was outside of the Health Act.

00:16:25.820 Well, what a rotten system this is.

00:16:27.440 it forces you to be reliant on them for the funding and you have to administrate it though.

00:16:31.680 You have to somehow make this system work. But if you don't do it under their rules,

00:16:36.540 they'll punish you for it by cutting your funding. I don't know. Maybe it's better if the government,

00:16:40.780 federal government just goes to zero transfers and then they won't be able to threaten us with it

00:16:44.080 anymore. But the bottom line is it's costing us a whole lot of money and it's not giving us any

00:16:51.900 better outcomes. So I see Colin in the lobby there. I'm going to get to him. We're going to talk about

00:16:56.360 that and some of the polling he's done on health care and reforms and talking to canadians uh first

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00:17:35.160 in the studio well not in studio he's remote he didn't drive through this snow and crap to get

00:17:39.640 here today we got colin craig from second street and i've been looking forward to i i saw some of

00:17:43.960 those poll numbers and i i they're very interesting calling so thanks for joining us today to talk

00:17:47.560 about those well thanks for having me corey so i mean just to get right to it i mean you know

00:17:53.800 quite often as i kind of said earlier in the show before you got on there's people always say that

00:17:59.480 canadians don't want any change in their health system they're afraid of change they want the

00:18:02.920 status quo they only want to spend more money on it but when you've asked canadians directly they

00:18:07.400 sound a little more receptive to some reforms than than some people would make you believe

00:18:11.640 yes for sure i it seems to be a case where canadians are ahead of the politicians and i

00:18:17.000 you know some of the polling that i've seen over the years suggests that canadians have been ready

00:18:20.200 for health reform for a long time now now if we had been talking about 20 years ago i think was

00:18:24.920 a different topic because you know people talk about things like uh having private clinics

00:18:30.040 outside of the public system and it was a lot more taboo whereas i think over time canadians

00:18:35.080 have had an opportunity to read lots of opinion columns see lots of interviews hear lots of

00:18:40.200 discussions about different health care systems around the world and understand that it's not an

00:18:45.480 either or situation we can have a universal public health care system which is what canadians like

00:18:50.120 this idea you can walk into a hospital and you know receive some kind of significant procedure

00:18:55.080 then walk out without facing a big bill we can keep that option in place but at the same time

00:19:01.000 allow patients the choice so if they don't want to wait a long time to get their knee or hip done

00:19:05.720 maybe they could go to a private clinic and pay privately governments could work with private 0.92

00:19:10.200 clinics to reduce backlogs all kinds of different reform options canadians i think are understanding

00:19:15.000 that these things work in other countries that are not called the United States and, you know,

00:19:21.360 that we could bring them here. And that's really what our poll shows is that Canadians are very 0.96

00:19:25.160 much open to health reform if it can help patients. Yeah. I mean, as you pointed out,

00:19:30.440 not the United States. I mean, speaking of, you know, when we talk about a lot of binary,

00:19:33.140 non-binary stuff, well, our healthcare isn't a binary discussion with systems. There's dozens

00:19:36.580 of systems with a lot of innovative ideas. Some systems stink, some are very good,

00:19:40.860 but we really have shunted our discussion and kind of closed it down for looking anywhere

00:19:45.540 outside of North America. And that's putting us at a disadvantage.

00:19:50.240 Oh, 100%. That's why I say not the United States, tongue in cheek, of course, because

00:19:54.340 for so long, opponents of health reform, people who like this sort of pseudo-government monopoly,

00:20:01.800 they don't want to lose any control. So they've effectively tried to position this as

00:20:05.880 Canada's system or the U.S. model. But as you just noted, there's tons and tons of countries around

00:20:11.880 the world with universal health care systems. We could be learning from them, understanding how

00:20:16.180 they're delivering better care. And, you know, really, I think that's what we need to do as a

00:20:20.940 country is to start to look at, you know, what's happening in Sweden, on Australia, New Zealand,

00:20:26.000 many other countries around the world that have that universal aspect that Canadians like,

00:20:30.700 but ultimately deliver better results for patients.

00:20:33.900 Well, that word's the key part, because I think that's where a lot of the fear-mongering

00:20:36.960 and misunderstanding comes.

00:20:38.340 I mean, nobody's proposing to end the universal aspect of it.

00:20:41.720 Nobody's saying we want to make it where if you don't have cash in hand, you won't get

00:20:45.700 coverage.

00:20:46.180 I mean, most people fully agree they want a system where you never have to sweat paying

00:20:50.140 the bills because you need health care.

00:20:52.300 So there'd be universal coverage.

00:20:53.560 It's just changing how it'd be managed and delivered.

00:20:56.960 Yeah, exactly.

00:20:57.440 And even if someone did want to completely get rid of health care as we know it, it's

00:21:02.080 a non-starter politically there's not a single member of parliament in ottawa that would stand

00:21:07.020 up and say let's get rid of it there's no provincial government in the country no major

00:21:11.340 political party with any seats that would would campaign on this so politically it's just not

00:21:16.660 it's it's pretty much impossible at the moment and i would say for the foreseeable future i don't

00:21:21.680 think it's on anyone's radar but yeah like you said i mean we can reform the system and make

00:21:26.960 sure that we keep that universal aspect that Canadians absolutely want and find ways to

00:21:32.720 deliver care better. And we threw out a couple ideas in our public opinion research to ask

00:21:38.020 Canadians, well, what do you think about these ideas? So as I mentioned, this idea of, you know,

00:21:43.300 keeping the universal public healthcare system, but if a patient doesn't want to wait, say, a year

00:21:48.380 in chronic pain for their hip operation, we'll allow them to go to a private clinic where they

00:21:53.260 could pay out of pocket and a majority of canadians support that idea about 51 so you know we've seen

00:21:59.740 that in the past uh majority support that um and you know i i think the public is there especially

00:22:08.060 when they start to understand what that actually means i mean there's there's ways that other

00:22:12.160 countries have put safeguards in place that you know the boogeyman argument is always that well

00:22:16.600 everyone's going to leave the public system and go and work with the private system and obviously

00:22:20.920 that's not the case because other countries successfully do this and they often have some

00:22:24.920 safeguards in place to say okay you can't work at the private a private clinic until you've done

00:22:29.880 x number of hours in the public system each week or whatever but you know one important

00:22:34.120 thing about this is that right now a lot of surgeons will tell you that they're they have

00:22:38.120 time on their hands at least certainly before covid um when all these backlogs emerged but

00:22:44.120 they had all this time on their hands because the governments wouldn't hire them to pay them

00:22:49.320 what would be full-time work for a surgeon they would only ration out a certain number of hip

00:22:54.840 operations a year so once the surgeon's done all those he or she has time to kind of twiddle their

00:23:00.440 thumbs so to speak so you know there's certainly a lot of capacity within existing time that

00:23:06.920 surgeons have to be able to work in both systems and ultimately that would lead to

00:23:11.320 more procedures being done helping patients and so forth yeah well that's where somebody i mean is

00:23:16.520 That's kind of the lowest you found on reforms, though, is the 51% talking about allowing people perhaps to pay to get ahead in line.

00:23:23.240 But, you know, I think with more discussion, if people realize and they frame it the right way, you know, they can embrace that.

00:23:28.380 Like the way I look at it is, OK, I've been told I'll get my knee surgery in six months.

00:23:32.960 But if I let that guy pay cash and get ahead of the line, my surgery would be reduced to four months.

00:23:39.040 So if I could just swallow the envy, yes, he got in tomorrow, but he subsidized my getting in two months faster.

00:23:45.020 like I'm winning here this is okay and if people could kind of wrap it that way rather than trying

00:23:50.840 to think of somebody jumping the line I think you'd see more people realizing this is a better

00:23:55.120 way to go yeah it's it's an absolutely huge benefit if if we did that because yeah patients

00:24:00.960 other patients would get to move ahead faster in line it would also increase competition and

00:24:05.700 innovation you know when you have two different people doing the same task well that increases

00:24:11.400 your chances that maybe one of them will find a better way to do it. And then they can both learn

00:24:15.300 from it. I mean, this is how economies work in every industry, right? You see constant innovation

00:24:20.400 over the years as new technologies are established and so forth. And, you know, like I said, we got

00:24:25.820 51% support. I think if we had to maybe rephrase the question a little bit to make it clarify it

00:24:31.900 that, you know, it involved keeping the public system, but allowing this on the side, I think

00:24:36.220 that the public, if they fully understood what this is, I think we'd see support to be actually

00:24:41.220 a lot higher. So it is, you know, it's something I'm thinking about the next time we pose this

00:24:44.780 question is to reframe it a bit. But I think certainly the majority of the public is there.

00:24:49.540 Yeah, well, and one of the areas we had a stronger showing a supporter, perhaps the

00:24:52.800 strongest was 72% support copying that European Union policy that allows patients to visit

00:24:58.920 facilities outside of their provincial borders and get reimbursed later. And I mean, that one,

00:25:04.100 I guess what, if a province has to say a specialized clinic that has extra room in it,

00:25:08.560 they can bring people from next door and then get reimbursed from the province later and still

00:25:12.980 gets the faster care? It's sort of that sort of concept? Yeah, it would depend how they implement

00:25:17.440 it here. But I mean, you've done a pretty good job of explaining it. So the way it works in Europe

00:25:23.220 is let's say you're in Ireland and you're facing a four-month wait for your knee surgery. And when

00:25:29.180 the government would provide it to you, it would cost them, let's say, just to pick a number,

00:25:33.340 5 000 euros well what you could do is instead of waiting that four-month waiting period you could

00:25:38.540 maybe go to another eu country like france and pay let's say they're charging four thousand or

00:25:43.260 five thousand euros for it well you go there you pay it you come back to ireland the irish government

00:25:48.460 reimburses you for what you paid now if you found a better deal and you paid less let's say someone

00:25:53.660 went to estonia and got their knee surgery done there well then the irish government would actually

00:25:59.180 save money because they would pay you that that lower rate the amount you actually paid

00:26:03.340 and then the opposite of that of course is if you went somewhere and you had to pay more than what

00:26:07.340 your government would normally pay well then you would be responsible for the difference but just

00:26:11.980 having this funding mechanism in place for patients right now to be able to go abroad

00:26:16.940 and get the care they need instead of spending another year in chronic pain off work whatever

00:26:23.180 canadians like this idea and it's a way to get relief for patients immediately to give them

00:26:29.820 that option it wouldn't be forced to be completely voluntary uh patients would have that option not

00:26:35.260 everyone's gonna take the government up on it but you know as we just talked about when that

00:26:40.860 happens let's say the government subsidizes someone to go to wherever tennessee to get their

00:26:45.580 hip done well then they go off of the public waiting list and whoever's behind them in line

00:26:50.220 gets to move up a spot so i mean this is this policy is not perfect but it's one i think that

00:26:55.980 could help immediately reduce waiting lists in Canada and at the same time you'd help patients

00:27:03.020 who are decide not to go abroad for surgery they would all get to move up in a spot in line so you

00:27:10.140 know the big question with this policy Corey is well what what's the cost and if you think about

00:27:14.780 it over a two or three year period the cost is there's no real increase because what you're

00:27:19.980 you're doing is you're changing the timing of when expenses occur. So instead of paying, say,

00:27:25.160 $5,000 to, you know, fix your knee next year, the government would spend $5,000 this year. So over

00:27:32.200 a two-year period, the expenses are roughly neutral. Yeah, and I mean, again, you see some

00:27:37.560 of the concerns that come up, and it's fair enough. One of our commenters, Lori Dobby, saying

00:27:41.300 the issue she sees is she or he hates or tell would be if people with money would be able to

00:27:47.600 displace others in a wait list. And we sort of addressed that earlier. If it's shortening the

00:27:50.860 list overall, it won't displace people on the list. It would just mean somebody else. But

00:27:55.460 the waiting list, though, at least, you know, in addressing that, that's the problem. That's

00:27:59.500 where our system is bottlenecked. And maybe if people understand too, like as you're speaking

00:28:04.080 about that, the costs of somebody waiting, if somebody can't go to work because they're

00:28:09.740 injured or sick, or they're only part time, or they're not as productive. Another thing is

00:28:13.720 they're being medicated quite often pain medication, and that can lead to addiction

00:28:16.940 or long-term issues, uh, as well as quality of life. Like we really need to cut those weights

00:28:22.260 and, and, and start to examine how we can do it. Yeah. And you know, I, I agree with your point

00:28:27.140 and Lori's, I think you both made, made good points there. Like you said, uh, everyone could

00:28:31.840 benefit because people ahead of you in line who decide to do this, well, they get off of the

00:28:36.760 waiting list. Everyone else gets to move up a spot who's behind them. Lori makes a good point 0.92

00:28:41.600 though about cost. I mean, that's true. If let's say that you need a, whatever, $30,000

00:28:46.640 hip operation somewhere and you don't have access to being able to pay for that before you get

00:28:52.400 reimbursed that is the limitation obviously of this policy but what this policy does do

00:28:58.080 is if you think about it right now who has the money to go abroad for health care because we know

00:29:03.360 hundreds of thousands of canadians every single year are flying to other countries they're driving

00:29:08.320 across the border to the us people with access to money are able to do this right now and it's sort

00:29:14.720 of that lower income and lower middle income people that often don't have the funds to be

00:29:19.600 able to do that this policy changes that it gives them an opportunity to go abroad and get a subsidy

00:29:27.760 if not full cost coverage for the procedure they require there's a patient i'll just give this

00:29:32.560 quick anecdote this patient from manitoba named max johnson johnson and the cbc highlight his

00:29:39.040 his story um what happened with him is he needed a knee replacement and it was going to take i

00:29:43.920 I think something like a year or so waiting list in Manitoba, he ended up going to Lithuania.

00:29:50.000 And after he paid for his knee surgery there, he compared that with what the Manitoba government

00:29:56.320 would normally pay to get that procedure done for him. And he calculated that it was about $7,000

00:30:02.340 less in Lithuania. So if the Manitoba government had been subsidizing people to go to Lithuania

00:30:08.320 for their knee surgeries they can the government could actually save money uh patients who may not

00:30:13.840 have um you know whatever amount of money to go abroad if they have this subsidy in place

00:30:19.520 they might then be able to start to afford it so you know again it's not a perfect solution but it

00:30:23.840 is a policy that could help right now we're in a crisis we need to think outside the box and i

00:30:28.080 think we need to pursue options that may not be 100 right on the money but maybe you're 90 of the

00:30:34.240 the way there. And I think this is one of them. Well, I see you took advantage of, you know,

00:30:37.960 when, when you're doing the poll, the polls are expensive, especially when you get a 1500 people

00:30:41.340 like that through, uh, you know, a good polling company. Uh, so you want to get all your questions

00:30:45.640 in that you can, but this one's interesting with saying 66% believe that a health minister should

00:30:49.240 have to hold a press conference every year and announce the number of patients who died the

00:30:53.020 previous year due to long waiting lists. And, you know, that's kind of getting outside of talking

00:30:57.120 about the systemic reform, but a nice way to point out, like people maybe don't realize just

00:31:01.340 how backlogged the system is. I mean, if you've been fortunate enough not to have health issues,

00:31:04.780 not have to wait for anything in the system, nobody in your family has had a problem,

00:31:08.860 you might not realize how bad it's getting out there. So having these health ministers get up

00:31:13.480 and tell you, by the way, this many people would be alive today if we could have sped up the system,

00:31:18.160 you know, it might add a little fire under some butts. 1.00

00:31:21.140 Yeah, it's a real serious problem right now. And this is a, you're right, this question's

00:31:26.220 different from the others in that it's asking, it's driving an accountability in the system.

00:31:30.100 uh it's a sad fact that every single year there are patients in this country that die

00:31:35.800 because the government made them wait too long for health care in Canada remember the government

00:31:42.500 has a monopoly on it you cannot go to a private clinic and get a heart operation in this country

00:31:48.340 because the government won't allow it so the government is taking complete control over your

00:31:52.560 access to health care and when they essentially force a patient to die in a way because they're

00:31:59.640 not able to get that care they need in time in Canada. Well, that's a pretty serious problem.

00:32:05.980 We've been trying to dig into this information. We do reports every year that are called died on

00:32:11.380 a waiting list reports. And we gather government data on how this is happening. It's a bit

00:32:17.140 difficult to get the numbers because governments don't track it very well, but it's a very serious

00:32:21.220 problem. And so we've asked this question, well, you know, should health ministers have to stand

00:32:27.180 up each year and explain to the public how many patients died under their watch because they had

00:32:31.040 to wait too long. And this option is overwhelmingly a popular one with the public. Like you said,

00:32:37.600 66% agree with it. It's just a good accountability measure. Obviously, politicians love to get in

00:32:44.780 front of the cameras and attract lots of attention when they're building a new hospital, when they're

00:32:50.120 hiring new staff, whatever. They like to get a lot of attention to the good news. This would

00:32:54.640 obviously be an accountability problem in some cases. The public wants to know about it. That's,

00:33:00.920 I think, what that number shows. Yeah. Now, another thing that's interesting when we're

00:33:06.600 talking about private clinics, you know, is the pandemic crisis. I mean, that led to a lot of

00:33:13.860 hospitals basically locking down. A lot of procedures got put off and pushed off because

00:33:17.800 they were trying to quarantine the hospital spaces. And maybe there's a, you know, this is

00:33:21.860 kind of going outside of what your poll was asking about, but still, if we had a number

00:33:24.960 of specialized private clinics, whether it was for dialysis or orthopedic surgery or

00:33:30.200 other day surgeries, those areas could have continued to operate while the hospitals were

00:33:35.820 still locked down with vulnerable patients within them.

00:33:38.180 But because we have everything packed into a few giant hospitals, it made us a heck of

00:33:42.620 a lot more vulnerable when a pandemic came around, understanding that there's benefits

00:33:46.560 we could see from spreading our system out a little more rather than having it packed

00:33:50.680 into one central location like that as well yeah you're 100 bang on this is a very serious problem

00:33:57.300 i think in canada is that so often when you need to get your your knee or your hip done or maybe

00:34:02.800 you're an expectant mother and you're giving birth you're going into that hospital building often

00:34:08.400 it's the same building and complex where you've got people going in because they've got covid or

00:34:13.120 the flu or some kind of other um disease or something that can spread and sometimes

00:34:20.320 those infections happen right and when you keep the the healthy people if you're pregnant you're 1.00

00:34:26.320 healthy if you need your knee done you're healthy you just you have this other problem right you're

00:34:30.960 not contagious so if you had those procedures taking place in private clinics at least if you

00:34:35.680 had that option then i think you help could uh you could help spread some of those uh viruses

00:34:40.720 in that from being transmitted. Yeah, well, we're kind of, you know, going, I guess, a different

00:34:45.620 route. Rather than lobbying the politicians, you're talking to the public. Because as you said,

00:34:49.920 the public's kind of ahead of the politicians on this one. If they can realize there's an appetite

00:34:53.460 for this among the electorate, maybe they'll be ready to take it on. But I mean, there's clashes

00:34:58.720 that could come with the Canada Health Act. Would it be time to start calling for maybe reforming

00:35:02.820 that act a little to allow a little more flexibility? I think so. Yeah. And I mean,

00:35:07.120 When you talked earlier about the funding of healthcare in this country and how it used

00:35:11.300 to be sort of 50-50, now it's down to 20-some percent that the federal government's contributing

00:35:16.200 and the vast majority is coming provincially, the great hindrance is that when provincial

00:35:21.220 governments try to experiment a bit, you know, we talked earlier about innovation, when they

00:35:25.140 try to innovate and try doing things differently to try and improve services, well, if Ottawa

00:35:30.280 doesn't like it, they can come in with the hammer and say, well, we're going to cut your

00:35:33.740 funding. Now, it's only 20%, but that's 20% that provincial governments need. So, you know,

00:35:39.940 if you did reform the Canada Health Act, I think you could make sure some of the language is clear

00:35:45.160 so that provincial governments have the opportunity to innovate while keeping that

00:35:51.320 universal aspect that, you know, Canadians overwhelmingly like. So, you know, I think

00:35:57.360 there's an opportunity to reform the Health Act. And if you did, you could ultimately improve

00:36:01.940 the uh the outcomes for patients well and we have to start with somewhere as i said that the

00:36:07.760 politicians will move when their own uh electoral butts get on the line so you know you guys are

00:36:11.900 doing good work and getting the public uh working up on it and you know and realizing that we've got

00:36:16.100 to examine new things uh you've been doing other things with with second street before i let you

00:36:20.180 go to you know your your survivors of socialism series and a number of other things uh do you

00:36:24.980 want to let us know a little bit more about the work you do before you go sure yeah like you said

00:36:28.660 We did a series called Survivors of Socialism, where we talked to Canadians who came from socialist and communist countries.

00:36:34.720 We heard their stories and we also surveyed them to say, you know, are there any policies in Canada that concern you?

00:36:40.380 Because they remind you of the countries that you fled.

00:36:43.020 And so, yeah, we got some interesting responses there.

00:36:45.180 People can check that out.

00:36:46.260 We've been doing public opinion research on the oil and gas sector and what Canadians think about developing and exporting more of our resources

00:36:55.600 so that the world can buy from us instead of russia and obviously the huge benefit of that 0.97

00:37:01.620 is if the world doesn't have to keep money giving money to putin for energy well then he has fewer

00:37:07.380 dollars to buy tanks and rockets and invade countries like ukraine and whoever what other

00:37:12.080 what the other countries that may be on his list to invade next so we've been doing projects like

00:37:18.460 that we've got lots of stuff on our our website and obviously people can find it at secondstreet.org

00:37:23.980 Excellent. Well, I always appreciate you coming in. I really liked the poll you did, you know,

00:37:27.380 and getting some of that good information directly from Canadians. So thanks for coming on to talk

00:37:31.400 to us today about it and keep up the good work. Thanks a lot, Corey. Appreciate it.

00:37:35.240 Great. Thanks. That was Colin Craig with Second Street. And as he said, you can find him at

00:37:39.740 secondstreet.org. And it's not just healthcare, as we said, all sorts of things they do, the

00:37:44.040 survivors of socialism, things like that. Some good common sense talk, you know, from one of

00:37:47.900 these think tanks. You know, some of the discussion coming, like Tammy Drove, he's saying,

00:37:51.680 but all these points are moot. I guess healthcare doesn't want to pay for procedures, the capacity,

00:37:56.140 if the capacity is there, why would healthcare pay for procedures done sooner in other countries?

00:37:59.900 But, you know, the thing is, we don't have the capacity. The goal, I think, was to get more

00:38:04.100 domestic capacity. Absolutely. And the thing is, people are going anyway. We like to think that

00:38:08.760 if they're still going to save to some degree, if we could shake up management, they might,

00:38:13.660 you know, embrace more creative ways of saving money. And that's part of what's good with,

00:38:18.940 I like seeing that AHS in Alberta, Daniel Smith is shaking them up because these, these health

00:38:23.660 administrations are rotten. They're bloated. They're bureaucratic. They're pulled by the

00:38:27.460 unions. They're pulled by ideology rather than patient needs. And you really need to flush

00:38:31.840 those health system toilets and, uh, um, you know, get reform in there. So if they could find a

00:38:41.600 faster way, but something I found, you know, exciting. I talked about on here a little while

00:38:44.760 ago was the Enoch Reserve just outside of Edmonton. And it's Billy Morin. And he's actually,

00:38:53.340 I believe on Daniel Smith's staff now too. He was the chief of that reserve. And they're building a

00:38:57.680 private healthcare facility. And I tell you what, Rachel Notley, who's beholden to her unions, 0.97

00:39:03.100 she's NDP. She's going to do what she's told by Jagmeet and what she's told by Gil McGowan and

00:39:07.620 the union leaders. That's all in the NDP constitution. I've talked about that before.

00:39:10.540 she of course goes haywire over every possible private facility providing care except for the 1.00

00:39:17.820 one on the reserve because you know one thing they're terrified of is first nations getting 0.68

00:39:21.560 into business so you know what good good bring it on let's do it i'd like to see one in the

00:39:25.880 sutina reserve too build some private health care facilities on there you guys can do it

00:39:29.820 it's good for the reserve it brings some local commerce there it's next to the cities it gets

00:39:34.560 us faster care and it shuts up the socialists because they're scared of you so we can all

00:39:39.580 benefit. And I'll talk at the end of the show quickly too, but the guests I have next week,

00:39:42.900 but we're talking about an Aboriginal, a first nation coalition with businesses to be looking

00:39:47.080 to build an energy corridor to get to Hudson's Bay and get our product out there. You know,

00:39:54.180 we're getting blocked everywhere else. Well, why don't we get it to the port in Hudson Bay?

00:39:58.280 I'm talking about something else. I see Cheryl saying a WS cave to Facebook pressure and didn't

00:40:02.160 punish the embalmers finding story by Horwood. You know, I, I, I'm not, I wasn't privy to that

00:40:07.180 particular one, but I can tell you it's difficult for us. It really is. It's not so much, well,

00:40:12.180 I guess it is if we pressure whatever way you want to put it, but we are reliant on those social

00:40:16.320 media giants. We can only reach out so much. And actually the vast majority, our biggest one of

00:40:21.020 all the social media giants, we get some people in from LinkedIn. We get some from Twitter. We get

00:40:24.480 them from Google searches. You know, we get people to the Western Standard site all sorts of ways,

00:40:28.260 but Facebook is huge. And unfortunately, yeah, Facebook censors. And if we put some of the wrong

00:40:33.940 stuff up, we can get canceled and kicked off. And it's not a matter of us caving to pressure. It's

00:40:40.500 a matter of us paying the bills. Like we can't afford, they've got us by the short and curlies.

00:40:44.000 I hate to admit it. I hope that changes. I hope seeing things like Elon Musk shaking things up

00:40:49.620 at Twitter helps change the social media giants a little bit to allow more open discussion. As some

00:40:55.160 of your viewers know, we've been sporadically kicked off of YouTube here and we lose a lot

00:40:59.300 of viewers every time that happens. And we do broadcast to Rumble and we go to the other sites,

00:41:04.680 but YouTube, it's the big one. So we're trying, we really are. We want to get as much stuff out

00:41:10.980 as we can. I would say, get directly to westernstandard.news, get to those stories,

00:41:15.640 follow Matthew Horwood on Twitter. He's been really following some really good in-depth

00:41:20.160 stories on things and things with the, I can't even say it on here. We're going to end up getting

00:41:27.380 kicked off YouTube. But follow Matthew Horwood, check those things out. We are covering it guys

00:41:31.620 and we're covering it as well as we can within the unfortunate limits that we have with

00:41:37.680 Facebook and the rest of the social media giants out there. All right, let's see some of the other

00:41:44.080 stuff. So here's a report from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. This one's interesting and

00:41:49.680 it kind of ties into a number of stories. So it says 252 current or former school personnel

00:41:54.360 committed or accused of committing offenses of sexual nature against 548 children over a five

00:41:59.420 year span. Now, with millions of kids in school, thankfully, that's, but I mean, this report,

00:42:04.260 she's also saying it's the tip of the iceberg. There's far, far more than that going on,

00:42:08.000 but that's what they got from the report. 38 criminally charged. A few things. One of the

00:42:13.660 things that I hope Daniel Smith remains strong as premier on it that the Kennedy government began

00:42:18.480 was taking away the ability for the teachers union to be the sole disciplinary body for

00:42:23.540 teachers when there's teacher misconduct because they gave some horrifically, if you want to search

00:42:27.940 that out on Western Standard, I wrote a number of columns on it, horrifically light sentences. I

00:42:32.000 would call a sentence punishments for teachers who were inappropriate with children, with our

00:42:36.520 children. Two years suspensions from teaching and they won't call the police if there's a criminal

00:42:40.780 thing that comes before their eyes. It's disgusting. So I take it out of their hands. 0.81

00:42:45.380 It's ridiculous. So teachers union, they have the right to be a union. I mean, look at that so that 0.87

00:42:48.440 they could screw all the Ontario parents and hold them hostage, you know, for a 10, 11% raise during

00:42:52.780 recession with an illegal strike. Yeah, those teachers unions are great. The ones in Alberta

00:42:57.400 are the disciplinary barter for teachers. So that way the teachers can act up as much as they like

00:43:01.920 and the union will have their ass covered. Take that ability away. We've got people molesting our 0.97

00:43:09.180 kids and sometimes they're in the education system and that needs to be exposed when we have to. And

00:43:15.200 that gets on to the Supreme Court decision to strike down the sex offenders registry. Why?

00:43:20.200 Well, I mean, I know why. They fall into these academic discussions. I'm a libertarian. I understand some things, but I also understand that when lines have crossed, you've got to have some sanctioning consequences. Having a database of the perverts who screw our kids is not unreasonable. That needs to be challenged. We need to push back on that. We can't register the sex offenders? Really? That's getting beyond the pale?

00:43:46.520 Well, you know, this is not a country with a government that really goes out of its way to respect our individual rights, typically.

00:43:53.700 But when it comes to the rights of the perverts, then it's not a problem.

00:43:57.860 There's a story I was tweeting yesterday.

00:43:59.280 If you want to see on Corey B. Morgan on Twitter, that's my favorite playground there, and it's been busy lately. 0.84

00:44:04.980 And in Edmonton, a pervert who was a repeat violent rapist was released. 0.92

00:44:10.300 And guess what? 0.99

00:44:12.080 He, within days of being released, got a hold of a woman, held her hostage, and assaulted her.

00:44:19.480 Gee, who would have seen that coming? 0.97

00:44:21.700 This priorities of the state right now are so screwed, so backwards. 0.82

00:44:27.740 And we do need to be able to report on these things. 0.84

00:44:29.800 So we can't even have a sex offenders registry anymore, apparently, according to the Supreme Court.

00:44:34.260 And, you know, as we'll be talking about that later on the pipeline with the show tonight.

00:44:37.600 But yeah, we'll register firearms owners, we'll register everything else.

00:44:40.600 There it is. Nico pulled up the story. But we can't have a registry for guys like this guy, a repeat sexual offender who we let out, a violent man, and guess what? Within days he violently, you know, hit somebody else. I think maybe these people on these boards who let these guys out, for every person they let out, they should have them stay at their house for the first three days that they're free.

00:45:01.560 If they're that confident that these people are safe, fillet them, guys.

00:45:05.520 Come on, kick in. 0.99

00:45:06.320 We'll pay.

00:45:06.740 We'll pay, you know, $100 a night for you to keep them there.

00:45:09.340 You can be the little halfway house. 1.00

00:45:10.540 You think they're safe.

00:45:11.620 Have them babysit your kids.

00:45:13.540 Why are we letting these guys out?

00:45:15.660 The damage is way too much.

00:45:18.560 We've got to err on the side of public safety.

00:45:21.200 But again, we can't even have a registry of sex offenders now.

00:45:25.080 The Supreme Court struck it down.

00:45:26.580 and uh it's we just we've got it backwards i mean i'm not as i said i'm libertarian i don't want some

00:45:33.660 crazed police state where people are uh you know incarcerated for life on relatively minor

00:45:38.580 offenses but when we get to the most odious the most dangerous the most violent of offenses and

00:45:42.320 they're out there we need to put public safety first and we gotta stop letting these guys out

00:45:47.760 one of the most red columns i had last year too and this wasn't even sex offenders but that was

00:45:52.360 of how I listed four different Alberta mothers in the course of one year, one year in Alberta,

00:45:59.060 four mothers were murdered by released offenders. Four different incidents, one of them with her

00:46:05.700 baby. Why can't we keep these guys behind bars? That price is way too high. I'm sorry, we can only

00:46:13.120 give so much benefit adult. I mean, if it's some nut bar who's flown off the handle and never had

00:46:17.480 a previous record, that's one thing. But when they've been in and out of our system dozens of

00:46:20.600 times, and then they go out and kill somebody again, then it's our fault, or it's our system's

00:46:24.220 fault. But we can't seem to get that sorted out. Get me ranting up too much. So we're going to have

00:46:31.840 something different coming up, and I see him in the lobby. And this is going to be a market

00:46:37.220 commodity report and some talks from Market Commodities Limited. And with Jim Boscombe,

00:46:42.860 I hope I'm pronouncing that right. He's gonna let me know it's the first time he's been on there.

00:46:46.720 and of course this is very important we are in the west we're in a prairie province and these

00:46:51.040 commodities are very important to us and we're going to be updating you guys weekly on this

00:46:55.180 with jim or somebody else from over there so let's bring jim in and uh get an update on things

00:46:59.180 hey welcome to the show jim hi cory how are you today good thanks did i destroy your last name

00:47:04.060 you know a little bit but uh you're not the first one to do that so i'm sorry a dozen emails but i

00:47:11.120 don't get the pronunciation, right? No, that's okay. It's Busicum. So, but you're pretty close.

00:47:16.560 No, I was terrible on my part, but okay. I'll have that fixed. Thank you very much. Well,

00:47:21.060 welcome to the show and thanks for joining us. And we do have a lot of viewers and listeners,

00:47:25.920 you know, on in the, well, there's investors and there's people directly within the ag business.

00:47:30.000 So this is some pretty important discussions to be had. So, so this is our first discussion. Let's

00:47:35.020 talk about the general market direction then since the start of the crop year, August 1st.

00:47:39.100 For sure. Since the start of August, prices have moved up actually quite significantly. We would say that on most major commodities, roughly about $100 a ton. So to equate that into different commodities, barley's moved up roughly about $250 a bushel, canola somewhere in that same $250 to $3 a bushel, and the wheat markets as well.

00:48:05.060 so significant price increase which you know we do normally see prices increase following harvest

00:48:11.460 uh harvest time period august through september and but this year we come out of a very high

00:48:19.460 commodity price market from last crop year when there was shortages due to the 2021 drought

00:48:26.500 major price correction going into harvest starting this crop here we had some significant things

00:48:33.540 happen. For example, the Canadian dollar lost roughly 8% to 10% of its value over those three

00:48:40.520 months, which helps exports out quite a bit. And not only that, farmers selling, as they had room

00:48:50.640 in their bins to store this crop, farmers selling has been somewhat limited as they restock their

00:48:56.360 bends and slowly start to access the market now as we move into November.

00:49:03.240 So, so what are some of the current market factors that are affecting the

00:49:06.640 price like right now?

00:49:09.240 Actually, when it comes to that, I'd like to take a look at some of the things

00:49:12.080 that are happening outside of our local and our domestic market.

00:49:16.220 So one obvious problem is the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, where a lot

00:49:23.520 different commodities such as wheat canola different commodities come out and supply

00:49:29.840 the world from that area we're seeing that conflict lead to disruptions in shipments

00:49:39.200 how be it even though that makes the news on basically a daily basis they are still shipping

00:49:45.440 out of those areas for example on monday out of ukraine ports they actually had their largest

00:49:51.600 shipment day a record of 350 000 tons left that port now other areas of concern that i think is

00:49:59.320 noteworthy to buyers and sellers is australia it's extremely wet there right now in their main

00:50:06.200 producing areas which is damaging the quality and supply of the crops that are grown there

00:50:12.280 and they would be harvesting that you know pretty much about right now through december

00:50:16.240 yeah so i mean we do have live uh commenters uh you know asking questions occasionally too if i

00:50:22.880 can kind of toss one ask at you out of the blue a bit though he was just wondering about perhaps

00:50:26.520 the diesel shortage if that's going to impact things in the more immediate term yeah not in

00:50:32.660 immediate term i think further out into the first quarter of 2023 i think there's enough diesel to

00:50:38.320 go around right now so when they talk about i believe the comments are that the united states

00:50:44.480 potentially could run out of diesel in 25 days well i think to clarify that that's if you actually

00:50:51.040 didn't produce diesel at all between now and then right so we're not going to run out of diesel

00:50:56.800 necessarily right away albeit logistics are a concern right now they're extremely tight

00:51:05.680 the cost to move product from point a to point b are expensive

00:51:08.800 and fuel is a big part of that okay well are there any you know further comments you'd want to

00:51:17.980 add for our followers and viewers today well I think really to the farmers that are listening

00:51:24.880 to this you grow your crops to market them to sell those crops and we've seen three months

00:51:31.120 since you've harvested most of those crops well I shouldn't say three it's probably more like

00:51:34.660 six weeks for a lot of farmers. It's time to start marketing these crops, plan out your sales

00:51:39.440 accordingly. As I just alluded to before, logistics are extremely tight. A lot of areas

00:51:45.440 across Alberta and Saskatchewan are fairly remote. And in order to have that grain move timely and

00:51:51.560 that fair market value, you need to plan out your sales. So we'd be happy to talk to any of you if

00:51:57.180 you're looking to move that grain. That's great. And I mean, farming is, well, it's a big business

00:52:02.320 in a complicated one, like anything else, you want to maximize your product at the best times.

00:52:06.540 And it takes some expert consultation sometimes. Excellent. All right. Well, thank you very much

00:52:14.160 for joining us today. And then we'll talk again next week. All right. Thanks, Corey. Goodbye.

00:52:19.200 Thank you. Yes, it's Jim Bozakam. I'm going to rehearse that one a few times before next week.

00:52:25.500 And yes, from Marketplace Commodities, guys. And I mean, it is, it's, everything's been volatile.

00:52:31.000 everything's been up and down and we do have a lot of ag producers who you know follow the shows

00:52:35.640 I've had people on from them as guests before and stuff like that and it is a business that

00:52:40.980 takes some careful planning you really want to make the most of what you've harvested and get

00:52:45.660 your best prices for it and these guys help you out with that sort of thing so we'll be checking

00:52:50.100 in with them regularly on that and if you got other questions for them in the ag you know market

00:52:53.880 that send them to me through email next week or whatnot and we'll get them out to them so uh yeah

00:53:00.700 you know, there's my Twitter account there, Corey B. Morgan, you can see. And, you know,

00:53:05.200 that's where it's been interesting watching what I've mentioned earlier with Elon Musk

00:53:08.380 changing things with Twitter. Boy, the left is going bananas. And, you know, I don't fully

00:53:14.240 understand a lot of these things. I don't understand how a lot of it works, but I do a

00:53:17.360 lot on Twitter with the algorithms and things. So I've got a Twitter account with a decent amount

00:53:22.740 of following, and it's one of the verified ones. It's got the blue checkmark. And, you know,

00:53:29.040 when it came really close to the time that Musk was going to buy Twitter the first time before

00:53:32.920 it fell apart, suddenly the engagement was getting high. Suddenly I was getting all sorts of new

00:53:37.380 followers. It was picking up as soon as that fell apart, back down. And I was lucky to gain

00:53:42.380 50 followers a week or so. Now, since Musk bought Twitter in the last five or six days,

00:53:50.420 I've gained about six, 700 followers. Again, anecdotal, I don't know, but I mean,

00:53:55.860 I haven't done anything different than I did three weeks ago.

00:53:58.960 But the thing is, the way things were going, and Twitter never denied it,

00:54:01.960 they shadow ban conservatives.

00:54:03.860 They throttle your reach.

00:54:05.860 They stop other people from seeing your things.

00:54:08.200 I had a regular Twitter follower, and I've had a number of them say,

00:54:11.260 geez, Corey, I'd like to see your tweets, but I actually have to go right to

00:54:13.760 Corey B. Morgan in order to see the tweets.

00:54:16.140 I don't see them in my scroll.

00:54:17.380 I have to search them out.

00:54:18.920 And that's because, see, that's that insidious way that they would manipulate

00:54:22.360 what you see.

00:54:23.300 and you think you're getting a larger view of things,

00:54:26.000 but in reality, they're actually filtering

00:54:28.000 and hiding a whole bunch from you.

00:54:29.460 So suddenly now I'm guessing my tweets are becoming visible

00:54:32.840 to a whole lot more people

00:54:33.640 and I'm getting a lot more negative feedback.

00:54:35.020 Oh yeah, I'm getting all sorts of lefties attacking me.

00:54:36.800 I mean, I've always had them,

00:54:37.920 but I've got even more of them than usual now,

00:54:40.220 which is telling me they're seeing it too.

00:54:42.620 So my reach is getting out farther.

00:54:45.580 And I don't think, I mean,

00:54:46.760 especially the way Musk has been talking,

00:54:48.040 he's not trying to make conservative tweets stand out more.

00:54:50.840 He just took the filters off of them

00:54:52.600 and let it go. And it's showing, and it's showing fast. And it gives me optimism to see what happens

00:55:00.100 with how postal the left is going. The tamper tantrums they are having

00:55:04.420 shows that they've really enjoyed that slanted platform. And I talked about that the other week

00:55:11.680 too. I mean, Twitter seems overrated in a lot of ways, and it is in a lot of ways. It's a short

00:55:15.400 form thing, but it drives a lot of traffic. It breaks a lot of stories. And it's, whether you

00:55:24.800 like it or not, it drives things. As I said, your average people might not be on Twitter,

00:55:30.180 but the media is all there. The politicians are all there. The decisions makers are there

00:55:35.100 and it influences them. So the more we can just get word out to everybody. And you know, it's not

00:55:40.500 that hard. We don't need them to filter everything to protect your sensitive eyes. Block. Block people

00:55:46.940 like crazy. I know people get upset. I don't care. If somebody's on my case and they're being stupid

00:55:49.920 on Twitter, I just block them. There. It's not hard. Somebody's being hateful on Twitter, I block 1.00

00:55:54.100 them. They're being, you know, nasty just too far, I block them. Just do it. Oh, you don't respect

00:55:59.520 free speech. Sure I do. They can speak all they want, just not to me. I don't care. We yell at a

00:56:04.540 wall. We yell at a street corner. I'm not interfering in your speech. I'm just telling you to get the

00:56:08.340 hell off my little corner of the platform. It's not that complicated. And new things that Musk's

00:56:12.540 bringing out, because apparently you might have to pay $8 a month to keep your blue check. I don't

00:56:18.620 know. We'll see what happens with that. But the funny thing was Stephen King just went nuts about

00:56:22.080 you're going to charge me for it while I'm out. Guys, King, come on. I read a few of your books

00:56:26.280 that were right crappy. You should have paid me for it because he's saying you should be paying

00:56:28.900 me to be on Twitter. Don't let the door hit your ass, Stephen. You're yesterday's man. But I mean, 1.00

00:56:34.720 Again, how indignant the left gets when, oh my God, he's not changing anything.

00:56:39.460 He's not reducing it.

00:56:40.000 He's just saying, we're going to open it up and level the playing field.

00:56:44.420 Boy, they sure like that advantage they had.

00:56:48.120 All right.

00:56:48.740 So a new thing I'm going to be putting out too is the Dingleberry of the Week.

00:56:51.440 I'm giving that award.

00:56:52.300 I'm getting towards the end of the show.

00:56:55.380 And by the way, next week I'm going to be talking, as I said, to an Aboriginal group.

00:56:59.460 And they're Robin, Lauren, Wilford, Jimmy.

00:57:01.400 they're going to be my guests and we're going to talk about a project to get a First Nations

00:57:04.960 group getting product to Hudson's Bay. So tune in for that. But the Dingleberry of the Week,

00:57:09.580 yes, somebody's going to earn that every week and I'm kicking it off and I'll finish my show

00:57:13.780 just so I can rant at one more person to finish things on the right note. And of course, the

00:57:18.040 worthy winner, you know, the first one had to be Justin Trudeau, the first Dingleberry of the Week

00:57:23.340 award. He's welcome to come down here to the Western Standard office and collect it. And

00:57:27.160 the reason this time is just his hypocrisy. It was just shining through so much. There we go. 0.96

00:57:35.240 Oh, that's a nice trophy picture. A fine picture of the Dingleberry of the Week. And where Justin

00:57:39.360 said, the suspension of people's rights is something that you should only do in the most

00:57:42.480 exceptional circumstances. And I really hope that politicians call out the overuse of the

00:57:47.380 notwithstanding clause to suspend people's rights and freedoms. I'm sure he said it in his chiding 0.99

00:57:52.000 schoolmarm voice. But the thing is, this is the man who right now we're in the midst of hearings

00:57:58.400 over the suspension of individual rights with the Emergencies Act when he cracked down on bouncy

00:58:03.260 castles. They have the gall to say this. And the reason for this is because the unions are upset

00:58:09.040 because Doug Ford's in a big battle with the teachers unions in Ontario, and he used the

00:58:13.300 notwithstanding clause. Did Justin ever speak up when Quebec used the notwithstanding clause to

00:58:19.120 step all over the rights of 0.72

00:58:21.040 minorities in Quebec and religious

00:58:23.060 minorities? No, of course not. Justin

00:58:25.280 wouldn't call that out.

00:58:27.300 But when a conservative does it, then it's a problem.

00:58:29.900 Yes, Justin, you're 1.00

00:58:31.260 a hypocrite and you are 1.00

00:58:32.840 the first weekly dingleberry 1.00

00:58:35.240 of the week. I'm certain next week some

00:58:36.980 worthy peckerhead is going to earn that

00:58:39.200 award from me and I'll happily bestow

00:58:41.320 it upon them. Aside from

00:58:43.200 that, tune in tonight, guys. 7 o'clock

00:58:45.120 we're going to have the

00:58:46.640 pipeline on, and that's going to be Nigel

00:58:50.320 Hannaford and Derek Fildebrand and myself

00:58:52.520 covering some more news stories for the week.

00:58:55.820 Mel Rizdin,

00:58:56.560 of course, has been doing her fantastic series

00:58:58.460 on Tuesdays. You can watch those drop when they

00:59:00.460 come out.

00:59:02.860 We've got other stuff all the time.

00:59:04.500 Get on to westernstandard.news, check it out.

00:59:06.560 All sorts of productions, all sorts of things.

00:59:08.340 Thanks for tuning in today, guys.

00:59:11.040 We'll talk again next week at this time.

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