Western Standard - CMS： Justice system puts us all at risk again

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's Wednesday, November 30th, 2022. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. As

00:00:38.300 the name implies, I'm Corey Morgan. Glad to see you there, guys. Today, boy, what a cold one. I'm

00:00:44.660 cheap. I don't like paying for parking too much, so I always park a long ways away from the office

00:00:48.900 and walk here, but I'm starting to reconsider that in some of these temperatures. But I don't know,

00:00:54.700 I was thinking I'll run my leaf blower for some extra time this week. That'll certainly cause

00:00:58.180 some global warming and heat things up for next week. So I'll be more comfortable on my head in.

00:01:03.680 So yes, we've got, again, for your first time joining, this is a live show, as you can see,

00:01:09.000 and it's great. It comes with bugs now and things like that, but the interactivity is fantastic. So

00:01:13.140 make use of the comment scroll, guys. I want to see you in there, you know, chat with each other,

00:01:17.380 send questions, comments my way, send them towards my guests. I read them all. I don't necessarily

00:01:22.540 read them out or, you know, put them to the guests, but I do like seeing it. Again, let's keep it

00:01:27.700 civil. Just, you know, we don't have to be at each other's throats. We can take it seriously

00:01:30.760 without getting on each other's case. Good to see you there. Paradoxy, Patricia out in Chauvin,

00:01:35.020 Pamela out in Monty Lake. Lots of folks coming from all over. It's fun seeing people tuning in

00:01:39.920 from all across the country during these shows. So I got a good one. We've got coming on Tony

00:01:45.700 Bernardo. He's with the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. Of course, with Bill C-21,

00:01:51.060 the federal government is coming after our guns more and more all the time. They're just kind of

00:01:54.780 doing it incrementally this time rather than in one big grab but the goal is always the same

00:02:00.160 and i'm certain that mr bernardo is going to have some good things to say about that of course we'll

00:02:03.840 have the marketplace check-in and lots and news and ranting and things to cover as well boy busy

00:02:09.680 of course the sovereignty act we'll talk a little bit about that later uh daniel smith is uh premier

00:02:13.840 smith has stirred up the country good to see you there jake shirley and tracy yes a good snowy

00:02:19.660 afternoon indeed a good time to have an indoor job i miss the oil field and surveying sometimes but

00:02:23.900 when the weather's like this, I don't miss it so much. Let's talk about commuting. Let's talk

00:02:29.000 about cold weather. I'm going to get on to my rant about an issue. So last May at 621 in the morning

00:02:35.240 on a weekday, 65-year-old Leonard Smith, he stood on an LRT platform waiting for a train to take him

00:02:40.740 to work. Now Smith has to take the train because he's visually impaired. He's almost blind. Now

00:02:45.880 suddenly Smith was attacked by a man who cut his throat from ear to ear with a utility knife. He

00:02:50.800 made a 24-centimeter gash. Doctors told Crane the knife missed his caratid artery by a mere four

00:02:56.400 millimeters, and had that artery been cut, Crane surely would have been killed for the crime of

00:03:01.580 being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, the man who randomly cut Smith's throat

00:03:06.860 is a violent, chronic offender named Bobby Crane. Crane had been sentenced to six and a half years

00:03:12.840 of jail time over multiple crimes since 2019. That math doesn't add up well, does it, though?

00:03:18.400 Clearly, he didn't serve that time as he was free to attempt to murder an elderly, visually impaired man last May.

00:03:25.700 Last week, in an Alberta court, Judge Harry Van Harten sentenced Crane to two years less a day to ensure Crane doesn't have to go to a federal prison.

00:03:35.740 With time served and remand, Crane's going to be on the streets in a little more than a year.

00:03:40.560 I wonder if he'll succeed in killing somebody during his next period of freedom.

00:03:44.340 Van Harten noted that treatment for FASD would serve Crane better than doing prison time.

00:03:50.020 This may indeed be true.

00:03:51.520 Prison does have a way of making dangerous offenders even worse

00:03:54.380 if they aren't treated for whatever their underlying issues are.

00:03:57.220 We should be looking at ways to reform offenders and avoiding prison when possible,

00:04:00.800 and we need to expand our treatment options.

00:04:03.180 But that said, public safety has to come first, and Judge Harry Van Harten has not done so.

00:04:09.680 With an offender as dangerous as Crane, we need to seek treatment options while he is secured.

00:04:13.640 Letting him out is just inviting another random crime against an innocent citizen.

00:04:18.160 And then this is where it gets worse.

00:04:19.500 Justin Van Harten went further than just pointing out how Crane needed FASD treatment.

00:04:23.340 He said that generational trauma from European society is caused to indigenous communities has to be addressed.

00:04:35.520 Really? And we address that by freeing dangerous criminals?

00:04:39.560 If indeed this generational trauma is going on, where is the judge going with this?

00:04:44.380 And he also said, the history of colonialism has to be taken into account. 0.99

00:04:48.960 What a load of whoop crap. 0.99

00:04:50.980 Crane is 25 years old. 0.99

00:04:52.660 He never attended a residential school, and he likely can't even define colonialism.

00:04:56.600 I don't doubt he's had a hard life, and our messed up reserve system has doubtless contributed to that.

00:05:04.540 This doesn't, though, negate the risk that Crane presents to society. 0.81

00:05:08.560 We need to examine our entire First Nations system, absolutely.

00:05:12.280 The reserve system is failing by every measure, and the outdated Racist Indian Act should be repealed.

00:05:17.220 That giant ball of wax, though, is not Justin Van Harten's responsibility.

00:05:20.940 Van Harten should have been considering what risk Crane would present if released,

00:05:24.320 rather than dwelling on the broader issues of European influence on modern history.

00:05:28.620 I do hope to be wrong, but I fear I won't be.

00:05:31.200 Crane is going to re-offend violently and soon after being released.

00:05:34.780 They don't just get better after a little while there. 0.86

00:05:37.700 He randomly picked out an elderly, handicapped man and tried to murder him for cutting his throat. 0.99

00:05:42.300 He's a cowardly, violent man, and he won't be any less so in a year and change from now. 0.90

00:05:47.540 I know we need better ways to treat offenders, but until those means of treatment are developed and available, 0.94

00:05:51.780 the best way to protect the public from violent people like Bobby Crane remains incarceration.

00:05:57.080 The system's failing to protect us, and woke judges like Van Harten should be held accountable

00:06:01.500 if we're harmed by their refusal to incarcerate dangerous offenders.

00:06:05.900 So yeah, I was just shocked.

00:06:07.680 I mean, you know, as Cliff is saying,

00:06:09.160 yeah, a woke judge.

00:06:10.000 And that's what it is.

00:06:10.620 It's wokeism.

00:06:11.820 Look, you can go in and discuss these things,

00:06:14.280 these issues, these things with how First Nations

00:06:18.200 have been treated historically,

00:06:19.140 the residential schools, things such as that.

00:06:21.180 Fine, but you're a judge.

00:06:22.560 You're there to determine whether or not

00:06:23.860 this man is going to present a risk to society.

00:06:25.920 And I can't see how you could look at a man

00:06:27.620 with a long, violent record already

00:06:29.340 who tried to cut the throat of an old man

00:06:32.500 simply waiting for a train and say,

00:06:34.280 you know what?

00:06:34.580 I think it'll be good for him to be out in 13 months or so. You know what? That freaking judge

00:06:37.820 should have him billeting at his house. That's what he should do. You think he's safe? Well, 0.98

00:06:41.100 how about you use your house as a halfway house? Have him stay there. Maybe have him babysit your 1.00

00:06:45.440 grandchildren. How's that work? Because you're putting them loose among the rest of us, judge.

00:06:49.860 You're asking us to take on the responsibility and risk of a violent person like that.

00:06:54.860 No, this is wrong. This is terribly wrong. And I got a feeling, unfortunately, we're going to hear

00:06:58.620 about Crane again, and it's going to be in the worst kind of way. All right, let's see about

00:07:02.520 other news and check in with our news editor dave nailer hey dave how's it going i'm cold cory i'm

00:07:08.360 cold not gonna lie it's gross out there and that story is just another uh uh you know shows just

00:07:17.320 how dangerous our lrt system is we had a story uh last week and we updated it yesterday a guy's

00:07:24.120 firing a flare gun at another guy uh at an lrt station and who catches fire and it's no wonder

00:07:31.160 people don't want to ride that thing. No, it's a war zone on those trains and in those stations.

00:07:35.880 And again, the woke and the city administrators and our judges, unfortunately, just don't want

00:07:39.900 to deal with it. Anyways, I flew out to BC last week on the weekend to a surprise party for my

00:07:47.940 mom for her 80th birthday. So happy birthday, mom. And she kind of gave me a hack. She gave me a slap

00:07:54.340 on the wrist she said during our interactions last week i was too focused on missing the soccer game

00:08:02.500 and was too quick and i did not get the weekly update on things like duke the wonder dog so uh

00:08:10.420 for my mom's birthday can you tell her how duke the wonder dog's doing duke is doing perfectly

00:08:15.220 fine he's an he's spoiled rotten he puts his paws up on the counter to try and catch any crumb that's

00:08:20.900 possibly been missed when I make my lunches in the morning and drives Jane Bananas. He wrestles

00:08:25.200 with Volsig and leaves a mess in the backyard for me to clean. So Duke is living his best life.

00:08:31.500 Excellent. So there you go, Mom. On to the news and what a busy morning it has been,

00:08:37.200 Corey. We've got some reaction from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Danielle Smith's

00:08:44.040 Sovereignty Act, which was introduced into the legislature yesterday. Trudeau says he doesn't

00:08:49.400 want to pick any fights and he's not ruling anything out and he's just going to continue

00:08:55.160 doing all the good work that he has done for Alberta. He's going to continue to do that

00:09:00.460 in the future. So yeah, we'll see how that works out for him. If you want to go see A

00:09:07.320 Christmas Carol in Edmonton this Christmas season at the Citadel Theatre, you have to

00:09:13.880 wear a mask. The theater has imposed a mask mandate for anybody that wishes to go there.

00:09:21.000 Former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest when he compared to the

00:09:28.600 Sovereignty Act to Adolf Hitler and the rise of Nazism in 1933 Germany. So that certainly

00:09:37.800 riled up a few of our readers. And during her evening press conference last night,

00:09:45.200 Premier Smith said she's going to ask for a second medical opinion for a woman called Sheila Lewis.

00:09:51.320 She was the Edmonton woman who was denied a transplant because she refused to be vaccinated.

00:09:57.600 So the Court of Appeal has ruled on the medical side, the doctor's side, against Ms. Lewis.

00:10:07.840 So Daniel Smith is going to call in another doctor to see if he agrees.

00:10:12.720 And Arlindis Labodian's got a great column up today just on just how poorly, how shabbily the Liberal government treated the truckers in the convoy.

00:10:22.520 This is all coming out of the inquiry, Corey, this or last week, which heard from the prime minister and just some, you know, Linda's not very happy with it.

00:10:33.960 So that's what we've got at the moment.

00:10:37.100 Our Jonathan Bradley is about to give me a story on a Ontario man who's going to choose assisted suicide because of poverty, says he cannot live in poverty anymore.

00:10:48.740 and there's nobody to help him get out of this mess that he's in.

00:10:52.720 So he's chosen to die.

00:10:55.740 So sad story and we'll have that up shortly, Corey.

00:10:59.320 Yeah, well, Linda's column is well worth the read.

00:11:02.060 I mean, everything is, of course,

00:11:03.120 but she really does cut to the issue, 0.99

00:11:04.560 especially when she gets a little upset.

00:11:05.900 I understand that sort of writing.

00:11:07.740 Yeah, she's certainly one of our best.

00:11:11.480 Absolutely.

00:11:12.300 All right, thanks, Dave.

00:11:13.280 I'll check in with you after the show.

00:11:15.580 We'll see if it warmed up.

00:11:16.780 Thanks, Corey.

00:11:17.220 I guarantee you it will not.

00:11:18.740 I know. All right, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor. This is the part of the show where I nag

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00:12:09.740 thank you to all the people who have already subscribed. So, yeah, a whole lot to unpack. You

00:12:13.100 You know, there's only a problem with going weekly from daily.

00:12:15.480 I noticed one of the commenters noting that they missed the daily show.

00:12:17.800 I know, it kind of burned me out, but at least we can cover a lot of things.

00:12:21.400 And we'll still cover a lot today, but there's just so much to unpack.

00:12:25.380 Looking with Paradoxian talking about, yeah, you know, how we used to have a high ridership in Calgary.

00:12:30.840 Yeah, and it's down.

00:12:33.020 We've recently, in talking, City Hall was talking about that.

00:12:37.640 there, I think 60, 65% of riders have returned from what it was a few years ago before the

00:12:44.520 pandemic hit. It's down by like 35%. Those trains are nearly empty. I mean, people who absolutely

00:12:49.100 have to ride the train or the bus to work or to school, they're still using it. There's still

00:12:53.220 some people who have to, they have no other means. They don't have a driver's license,

00:12:56.180 expensive to take Uber or taxi everywhere you want to go. But otherwise, ridership is way down

00:13:03.640 and the city just seems mystified.

00:13:05.900 They won't, they'll never admit

00:13:07.620 to why ridership is so low.

00:13:10.500 I mean, come on, as Dave pointed out,

00:13:12.080 that video that was out there,

00:13:14.160 it was a gang war in the middle of an LRT station.

00:13:18.300 If you haven't seen it already,

00:13:19.300 go back in the archives of the Western Standard

00:13:21.000 and you'll see it.

00:13:22.000 These guys were shooting at each other with a flare gun.

00:13:24.340 They were pulling out sticks and beating on each other.

00:13:26.440 This is stuff we've been reporting on for years.

00:13:28.400 Of course, people aren't gonna ride that train.

00:13:30.240 And yeah, the worst of the worst was last year

00:13:32.120 when that fella came out and tried to cut the throat of an old man. 0.88

00:13:37.920 It was terrible. It was horrible. 0.98

00:13:40.040 Now, getting on to some of these woke city management, things like that.

00:13:44.960 You know, Calgary's system is a mess.

00:13:47.720 The people involved with it, I mean, one of the ones I love getting after all the time,

00:13:51.340 I shouldn't say I love doing it, but it needs to be gotten on to,

00:13:55.340 is Calgary Economic Development.

00:13:57.420 You know, with Mary Moran, they do a terrible job. 0.98

00:13:59.380 It's got a big slush fund. They're woke. They hire their political buddies for it. And they don't actually do anything. So there we go. Nico's found the video of that crazy. You can see it in the background. This is an LRT station in Broaddale. And you can see the blurred people around the edges, but they're all camped out everywhere. When you go into one of these LRT stations now, it's like you've walked into a prison yard. I mean, there's rough, rough people, addicts, and they are not peaceful.

00:14:27.680 I mean, some are, but a lot aren't.

00:14:29.420 As you can see with this, I mean, the guy's on fire.

00:14:32.820 And they can, we don't know why people won't ride transit.

00:14:35.260 Come on.

00:14:36.120 So what are they doing?

00:14:37.640 They're increasing parking in Calgary by 25%.

00:14:40.480 Yes, yes, Calgary is going to be one of the most expensive places to park in the world.

00:14:44.500 We've got a downtown that's 30% vacant.

00:14:48.280 Yet still, they keep cranking it up.

00:14:50.060 And you know why?

00:14:50.980 They talk about that.

00:14:51.680 They talked about that with Niche. 0.77

00:14:52.660 They talk about that back with the Imagine Calgary document and all that crap.

00:14:55.920 is they want to get you out of your car. They know that nobody's riding a bike. Go downtown right now.

00:15:01.100 We've got these bike lanes all over the place. These bike tracks, they take up room. They stole

00:15:04.160 all the street parking. They killed the ground level businesses down there. It's not to facilitate

00:15:08.280 bikes. Nobody's riding bikes down there. Oh, sure. There's a dozen hardcores riding around. It sure

00:15:12.520 looks like they're having fun too. And they're all bundled up and fogged up and sliding all over the

00:15:15.820 place. No, the goal is to push you out of your cars, but it's not working. That's the problem.

00:15:21.540 it's not working. All we're seeing is an expansion out there into the outlying areas, into the

00:15:28.440 suburbs. I mean, it's doing the opposite of these guys who say they want to see a high density

00:15:31.700 downtown. Ah, looks like somebody's looking to find love in our city there. Oh, that's good. I

00:15:35.840 mean, it's, uh, you get the odd commenters. You know, when we get the spammers popping into the

00:15:40.460 comment scroll, it does mean that we're getting some traffic and attention, but I would suggest

00:15:44.040 perhaps not checking that one out to find love in your city. I'm going on about ranting about

00:15:48.200 what's in our city right now. And this is happening in all the cities. We're seeing

00:15:51.060 these reports, Vancouver, Ottawa, everywhere. It's happening all over. It's the addiction

00:15:55.280 epidemic. But getting back to things, so I want to get on to Yedlin. She's the head of the Calgary

00:15:59.680 Chamber of Commerce. This person who supposedly is representing businesses, Deborah Yedlin. She

00:16:05.960 used to write the business column in the Calgary Herald. And I don't think she ever owned a

00:16:11.380 business. I'm not sure. They are the chamber of woke. It's just garbage. You read the stuff that

00:16:15.780 they put out. It's crap. They talk about all the diversity and this and that. The main one that 1.00

00:16:20.880 got me was back when we got rid of the vaccine passports, back when restaurants no longer had 0.88

00:16:26.480 to force a person to show their medical record in order to sit down and buy a meal.

00:16:32.780 Debra Yedlin of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce said, when Kenny got rid of those passports,

00:16:36.980 finally, said, this is going to be bad for business. She said, people will not go to

00:16:40.920 restaurants. They will be afraid. This will hurt businesses because they're going to be afraid

00:16:45.160 they're going to get infected without the vaccine passports in place. Yeah, that's how stupid Yedlin 1.00

00:16:48.560 is. That's how disconnected from business reality Yedlin is. And this is a person speaking for 1.00

00:16:53.520 businesses. Look, the issue isn't whether or not even the passports were effective or not effective.

00:16:56.880 Her job is supposed to be speaking on what is good or bad for businesses. And don't tell me

00:17:01.200 for a second. And I know this. I owned a restaurant and pub for five years. I got some experience in

00:17:05.860 this as opposed to Yedlin that any of those owners were thinking, yes, we want to keep this odious 0.97

00:17:11.200 passport that annoys customers, that costs us 30% of the market, that gets our hostess, you know, 0.73

00:17:17.080 the people at the front doors harassed and abused by upset people. Yeah, it's good for business.

00:17:22.200 We want to keep it around. Spare me. And what's Yedlin going on about now? Well, she's claiming

00:17:27.940 she's jumped into the mix with Daniel Smith's Sovereignty Act. She's saying it's going to

00:17:32.180 drive away business. It's going to make Alberta a tougher place to invest. Really? Yedlin. NDP

00:17:39.280 Yedlin. What has made Alberta a difficult place to invest has been a liberal government that pulls

00:17:45.700 the rug out from under investors halfway through a project. A liberal government that shut down

00:17:51.240 the Northern Gateway Pipeline. A liberal government that shut down the oil sands expansions.

00:17:57.940 A liberal government says we're going to phase out our industries. A liberal government that

00:18:02.480 says they're going to tax fertilizers to put our farmers out of business. A liberal government that

00:18:09.480 wants to come and steal the property of Albertans and steal. Yes, I don't care if it's a buyback. If

00:18:14.680 I haven't put my item up for sale and you're going to take it, it's theft. You don't have my

00:18:19.180 permission to take that. And then to have the head of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, though,

00:18:23.720 say, oh, the Sovereignty Act is what's going to drive investment out of Alberta. Look,

00:18:29.220 Yedlin, that ship has already sailed. The thing that's driving investment out of Alberta

00:18:33.640 is the man in the Prime Minister's seat in Ottawa and his policies and what he's been doing.

00:18:40.800 The Sovereignty Act, if anything, would show some more stability in saying, yes, we can invest in that province.

00:18:47.100 We can build our infrastructure there because we know we have a government in place that's going to stand up for our interests there and not just capitulate every time Trudeau goes on a whimsical thing saying we want to shut down your business.

00:18:58.740 I mean, the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:19:00.980 If we had a prime minister with a brain, and I'm afraid we don't, he was virtually silent when Biden shut that down.

00:19:08.760 and again, they should be pushing, they should be revitalizing this thing. Biden is going over

00:19:15.060 and begging and groveling for to get more Saudi oil, more blood oil, more oil from countries that 0.99

00:19:20.760 execute gay people. Meanwhile, Qatar signed a big contract with Germany. You remember when Germany 0.99

00:19:27.140 came over the chancellor and said, Mr. Trudeau, could you help us? You got a lot of natural gas

00:19:31.220 in Canada and we have an energy crisis coming. Justin said, nah, nah, there's no business case

00:19:35.220 for that. Well, now they've signed a 15-year-old contract to get liquid natural gas from Qatar.

00:19:40.500 So again, another nation that doesn't respect human rights is going to be making the billions

00:19:44.840 of dollars out of that while Western Canada's clean, ethically sourced natural gas remains

00:19:49.620 shut in. And you have some clown from a chamber of commerce like Yedlin saying the problem

00:19:55.060 is our sovereignty act. No, the problem is woke clowns like you, Yedlin, who claim to speak for 0.99

00:20:00.740 businesses when you have no clue. All right, I'm going to get on to somebody who can speak some 0.99

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00:20:39.900 hey there tony it's good to see you back on the show again it's been a while uh as usual

00:20:47.780 it's under uh bad circumstances sometimes well unfortunately cory but that seems to happen to

00:20:53.520 us a lot these days it's just something to do with those guys in ottawa i think i think it does

00:20:59.640 As you might have caught part of my rant, I'm not typically very happy with them anyways.

00:21:03.700 But I mean, you guys are national and rightly so, because I mean, there are firearm owners

00:21:09.640 who are having their rights stepped on from coast to coast in Canada.

00:21:13.440 This isn't just a Western issue.

00:21:14.740 This is nationwide.

00:21:17.080 I guess we'll start with it because I mean, the development of C-21 is a little newer.

00:21:21.660 But first of all, I'd like to talk about you guys have launched a challenge when it comes

00:21:25.120 to that handgun freeze, basically.

00:21:28.900 Yeah, actually, the challenge is against not just the handgun freeze.

00:21:32.960 The challenge is against all of C-21 because, quite frankly, it wasn't written properly.

00:21:38.540 There's a bunch of things that are black letter law in the writing of legislation.

00:21:42.520 You have to do A and B in order to get C, and they have completely messed it up.

00:21:49.220 We think we have decent grounds to declare the legislation null and void,

00:21:53.840 and we're going to pursue that on a technical basis.

00:21:57.700 But also, one of the things they did in there with the handgun legislation was the first thing they did was they reduced our handguns to a value of zero.

00:22:07.560 And they did this because you can't transfer them in any way, shape, or form.

00:22:12.180 So by making them untransferable, they now have a value of exactly zero.

00:22:18.700 And when you pass away, the handguns obviously go to your next of kin, except this time they don't.

00:22:26.580 They go to the federal government, and they don't have to pay compensation because the value is zero.

00:22:34.460 Now, this is absolutely wrong because they were the ones who made the value zero.

00:22:38.040 And in doing so, they trampled all over existing Canadian legislation in this.

00:22:44.000 And that's why we launched the challenge, because these things are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:22:48.940 in fact we're looking right now 1.1 million handguns in canada give an average price of

00:22:56.660 about 1500 and do the math on that one and you're quickly over a billion and uh this this is

00:23:05.120 unconscionable that you can take you know one and a half billion dollars of generational wealth 0.57

00:23:10.860 that belongs to the citizens of canada and make it disappear by going poof that's ridiculous who 0.97

00:23:18.280 the hell thought that up? And firearms, I mean, they're property, they're an investment. I mean,

00:23:24.120 some of them were handed down from people prior to us. Some of us saved our money and we purchased

00:23:28.120 them. I mean, the property right aspect alone, I mean, nevermind all the rest of whether this

00:23:33.300 is effective legislation or making anybody safer or any of that. It's our property. And the

00:23:38.480 government, as you said, I mean, it's a roundabout way to, I talked earlier on, I feel it's a theft,

00:23:42.940 even if they compensate you for it, but their way of, okay, we're just going to turn the value to

00:23:46.720 zero. Because as you said, if you can't transfer or sell something, it is de facto zero, then

00:23:52.800 they'll take it for nothing. It's beyond the pale. Well, sure. And they're stuck in between a rock

00:23:59.620 and a hard place because there's legislation that's gone through the Supreme Court years and

00:24:05.260 years ago that say that if they're going to take your property, they got to compensate you fair

00:24:09.900 market value for it. Well, these son of a bitches just reduced fair market value to nothing. 1.00

00:24:16.720 like this is insanity and we don't think this will withstand a court test courts tend to be 0.99

00:24:22.860 pretty practical for the most part well i certainly hope not i mean i guess this is something

00:24:27.800 we want to get this resolved as fast as possible but uh it's not the same as an immediate

00:24:34.060 illegalization or seizure so people still can hang on to their property until hopefully when

00:24:38.920 this court challenge goes through and hopefully wins what sort of timeline are you looking at

00:24:42.520 with that well you you're looking for the challenge probably a year and a half anyway

00:24:48.220 i mean there's all kinds of things that could happen there's many many many chess pieces moving

00:24:55.260 politically right now on this uh just just yesterday saskatchewan said they aren't going

00:25:00.700 to play and they're not going to let the citizens of saskatchewan play either so you're they're

00:25:07.300 aren't even going to do anything with this stinking legislation. And we're expecting our

00:25:12.320 friends in Alberta will do the same, possibly even New Brunswick, Yukon, and Manitoba. We're

00:25:18.300 still working on Ontario, and we still get a no comment out of the Ontario government. They're

00:25:23.760 still not willing to stick their neck out far enough to say that we should be spending the

00:25:29.560 billions of dollars it will cost to collect all these firearms and actually spend it on crime

00:25:35.020 control. Well, yeah, I mean, there's again, so many levels. I mean, the amount of money being

00:25:41.300 wasted on every level and kind of move on to the other firearms they're going after too. And we're

00:25:45.900 talking about billions of dollars. I remember making this case a long time ago with the failed

00:25:49.920 registry when they spent $2 billion on that, that pointless endeavor. How many crimes would have

00:25:56.240 prevented perhaps if they'd put $2 billion into substance abuse treatment or mental health

00:26:02.180 treatment or support, things like that. That's how you prevent crime. That's how you make people

00:26:06.760 safer. Instead, they flushed it away on a $2 billion bureaucracy that served nobody.

00:26:11.960 That's right. And when questioned under oath, the commissioner of the RCMP, when asked,

00:26:17.980 how many crimes has this solved? They said none that they were aware of.

00:26:23.000 i mean it's just it's just one of these ultra left woke ideological things that's a lot like

00:26:32.420 unicorns and and tooth fairies and stuff like that and and they think that because they they

00:26:38.640 put a regulation on it criminals will stop misbehaving i mean it it's just wishful thinking

00:26:45.180 on on every part you know you can base your policies on on fairy dust and unicorn snot but

00:26:51.680 quite honestly, it's not going to go anywhere, right? And Canadians are buying into this. This

00:26:57.940 is the part that's so absolutely amazing. The Canadians are buying into this nonsense. 0.98

00:27:04.640 And we have to inform. I mean, it's just the reality is okay. The firearms owners are now

00:27:10.040 a minority within the country. But it doesn't mean that they shouldn't have their abilities in that.

00:27:14.920 But it does mean that the majority doesn't necessarily understand what comes with responsible

00:27:18.780 ownership or the mindset again with the vast vast majority people never want to hurt a fly that's

00:27:24.200 not why they got any firearms uh just uh actually one of my commenters also pointing out you might

00:27:29.420 have seen that video in a calgary lrt station they were shooting each other with a flare gun

00:27:34.420 like criminals will find ways to get dangerous uh no matter what laws you know you put in place

00:27:39.960 against the law abiding yeah absolutely and you know democracy is not based on the rights of the

00:27:45.680 majority. Democracies are based upon the rights of the minorities. And quite frankly, we expect

00:27:53.020 our governments to protect the rights of minorities. And if we're a minority, that just

00:27:58.260 means we need even more protection than we did before. Absolutely. And I wrote about it last

00:28:03.580 week as well, because I've always felt it's been the liberal agenda since Khrushchev's days and

00:28:07.560 into today. They want to disarm. They want to take every firearm out of every Canadian's hands.

00:28:12.700 and this is just the new move on to it.

00:28:16.140 So rather than the registry route,

00:28:18.060 now they're incrementally doing it

00:28:19.420 through things like C-21

00:28:20.520 and they're taking advantage of tragedies.

00:28:22.440 I mean, the timing's no mistake.

00:28:23.660 Every time they make another grab

00:28:24.820 is just after another tragedy.

00:28:27.500 Yeah, that's right.

00:28:28.800 So this time they're going after,

00:28:31.380 they've expanded it in committee.

00:28:33.000 So this won't even get discussed in parliament.

00:28:36.120 Basically hunting rifles.

00:28:39.460 Right.

00:28:40.100 And when you look back at this,

00:28:42.700 You're absolutely right. The goal is to completely disarm Canadian society.

00:28:48.080 But if the people that they're disarming aren't the ones that are committing the crimes, and they're not,

00:28:54.740 and that the amount of all these people produces no positive effect on criminal activity in the country in any way, shape, or form, and it doesn't,

00:29:04.960 you have to ask yourself the big question.

00:29:07.400 Why are they spending so much time and money to do this?

00:29:11.200 why do we need the public of canada so effectively helpless it's it's it's ideological and and uh i

00:29:21.240 do believe i mean i i you know an authoritarian is always nervous if the population is able to

00:29:27.440 fight back if they push things too far right but what do you think they're going to do that's so

00:29:32.840 bad that the canadian people would rise up against them i mean this just if you think about this

00:29:39.440 They're doing this for a reason.

00:29:40.940 They're spending billions of dollars over decades to do this.

00:29:45.760 And I don't think it's just because they've been influenced by a Hollywood movie.

00:29:49.520 There's more to it than this.

00:29:51.160 And they're not telling us what it is.

00:29:53.540 No, and they're failing.

00:29:54.580 I mean, the public, the firearm owners, we don't trust them.

00:29:57.800 They can, you know, recategorize and legalize whatever they like.

00:30:02.220 I suspect, and I won't counsel people to commit crimes,

00:30:04.700 but a whole lot of people are not going to turn in their firearms.

00:30:08.480 What it will do is turn those people into criminals as far as the law is concerned.

00:30:12.900 I mean, in reality, they're not harming anybody.

00:30:15.600 But I can't see wide compliance with this, not when it comes down to the hunting rifles now.

00:30:20.980 No, and, you know, some of the firearms they've taken are put on the list.

00:30:26.720 Incredibly common firearms, absolutely.

00:30:29.340 So common, you wouldn't believe it.

00:30:31.840 And some of them, there's like half a million examples of one type of firearm.

00:30:36.440 And they're all non-restricted.

00:30:37.820 so how do you know where they are well the answer is you don't and you know when you're talking

00:30:43.340 about compliance well you know my office is sort of like a hub of what's happening with compliance

00:30:50.280 i haven't had a single person yet that say oh yeah i'm gonna march right down there and give

00:30:55.380 them my guns and you know this compensation thing this is wishful thinking like we we put

00:31:01.380 compensation into our lawsuit not because we expect the government to give us money but how

00:31:07.780 else do we restore the value of the guns that they've devaluated if there's a compensatable

00:31:14.660 amount when when you perish at least they're worth something at this point in time and i think that

00:31:22.180 the average canadian's hair would stand straight up if they honestly found out how much money we're

00:31:27.940 really talking about with all the long guns that they've got now added into this and the handguns

00:31:34.260 we're looking at about a third of the the guns in the entire country and my guess eight to ten

00:31:40.180 billion dollars billion with a b that's just the bio that's not the administration figuring out

00:31:46.420 how to get these things how to process how to deal with it i mean and that's something to keep

00:31:52.660 reminding canadians of even if you don't have the firearms even if you don't care if it's taken away

00:31:56.580 from your neighbor okay but are you ready to reach into your own pocket to pay for it because

00:32:00.100 this is going to cost you well at this point i guess it's reaching into your great-grandchildren's

00:32:05.060 pocket isn't it yeah there is that that's kind of a different discussion all together and i mean i

00:32:11.700 wonder about some of the other hiccups uh i mean this is kind of out of the blue but have you ever

00:32:15.460 been in communication with some of the first nations communities like somebody had pointed out

00:32:18.900 that apparently a lot of first nations people use uh sks's for hunting i mean it's a a low-priced

00:32:25.860 uh you know very common actually carbine that people use it's utilitarian and uh that's a tool

00:32:31.940 for their livelihood and survival on those isolated communities uh you're going to be

00:32:36.660 taking away something very important to them and i i don't think the government's thinking that

00:32:40.500 through on the problem they'll have going after those no they they aren't and i don't even think

00:32:45.860 they care you know that they'll make a policy where they're not going to prosecute it in certain

00:32:51.140 spots and on other places they will but mostly it'll be a a charge laid as opportunity presents

00:32:58.420 itself to lay the charge the thing with the sks is like i say half a million of them in canada

00:33:04.420 right now all non-restricted i can tell you honestly both my kids got their first deer with

00:33:11.780 an sks these things are absolutely perfectly acceptable hunting firearms they work they

00:33:19.620 always work they're inexpensive and very very common on first nations the first thing they

00:33:26.820 banned were the the ruger minis the series of mini rifles and those minis were were not banned in the

00:33:34.180 first round of this gun control legislation and the reason they weren't banned back then i was

00:33:38.900 around back then working on the legislation the reason was was because they were so ubiquitous

00:33:44.340 within the first nations and they didn't want to get the the first nations all riled up at them

00:33:50.260 and so they left the minis off the list even though that was the time when it was still hot

00:33:54.820 and fresh from the montreal massacre but now they've gone ahead banned all the minis and banned

00:34:00.660 all the sks's and quite frankly i i think they they've take they've got a tiger by the tail on

00:34:07.700 this one i don't think compliance will be anything no i mean provinces won't cooperate uh our firearms

00:34:13.620 chief firearms officer in Alberta. She's fantastic, actually. She's quite outspoken. She's not going

00:34:19.640 to be helping along with this in Saskatchewan and certain other provinces. They don't want to take 0.85

00:34:22.960 on this headache. They got better things to do. Well, I mean, all we can do though, we got to

00:34:27.560 keep fighting back or we will lose. I guess kind of before I let you go, I really appreciate the

00:34:31.600 work you guys are always doing, keeping people up to date. I like reminding people too, the CSSA has,

00:34:35.820 you do stuff other than lobbying. I mean, you got all kinds of resources there that a member has as

00:34:39.660 firearm or whether it's uh videos for say firearm operation or different sports or things like that

00:34:45.820 let's know about your organization before i let you go and and and the best insurance products

00:34:51.500 for firearms owners anywhere in the country we also ensure firearms and hunter safety instructors

00:34:57.820 all over the country and we have some really fantastic products we're also offering the only

00:35:04.060 you know, first aid courses that are developed specifically for shooting ranges. Lots of stuff.

00:35:11.180 There's so many things I can't take all this time to say them all, but we're always working hard for

00:35:16.420 our members. Right. And I just really appreciate the work you do. And again, I just like to remind

00:35:21.000 everybody, it's more than just lobbying. I mean, if you're a firearm owner, that's a resource. As

00:35:24.760 you said, everything from the insurance to safe firearm use. And yeah, like anything you take

00:35:29.640 seriously, you should join an association of others and then work together. Because if we

00:35:32.820 stand up for ourselves together we're done for well our track record speaks for itself in 62

00:35:38.740 years of existence we have had exactly zero fatalities on our shooting ranges yeah excellent

00:35:46.260 i bet you the police can't say that you can't have a ski hill claim that no exactly exactly

00:35:53.300 you know so we're very very safe it reflects in our insurance rates and uh you know it's a

00:35:59.300 a wonderful pastime for those people who've never tried it. They really should get out there and try

00:36:04.100 it. They fall in love with it right away. Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us today,

00:36:08.740 Tony. And I know you got a lot to do. We'll be keeping an eye on it and we'll hopefully win

00:36:13.380 this in the long run. Thank you, Corey. Great. Thanks. So that was Tony Bernardo of the Canadian

00:36:18.400 Shooting Sports Association. Their website is cssa-cila.org. And again, if you just Google

00:36:24.920 that Canadian Shooting Sports Association, as Pamela Jones, Kenny and the commenters just said

00:36:28.960 there. Time for all of us to join the CSSA. It really is time. Uh, you got to get in there guys

00:36:33.500 and, and, you know, it's standing up for yourself and there's more to it than the lobbying, all

00:36:36.700 sorts of stuff that's good for you. Cause it's a great fun sport. As he pointed out, it's good for

00:36:40.680 young people. It's a good time. You know, I have some of the online fights and discussions. I do

00:36:44.200 that. That's Twitter. That's where I go. And of course, one of the drives me nuts, you don't need,

00:36:48.440 as soon as they start saying you don't need, you know what, you don't tell me what I need or don't

00:36:52.060 need. All I need is shelter, food, water, anything beyond that technically is not a need. And it's

00:36:58.320 not up to you to tell me what I do or don't need. And then people start talking, well, why do you

00:37:02.300 need a semi-automatic? You want to know why with the 22 plinking gun I have, the semi-automatic,

00:37:06.180 why I need it? Because it's fun. I find it fun to go to the range and play and shoot really fast

00:37:11.660 with my finger at the target. That's all. And I don't have to justify that to you. It's a

00:37:16.920 pastime. It's a harmless pastime. It's a sport. You don't need to go skiing. You don't need to

00:37:21.500 ride a bike. You don't need to own a horse. I don't care. It's not my business to tell you what

00:37:26.320 you need or don't need, nor is it theirs to tell us. We are always on the defensive as firearm

00:37:32.100 owners, and that's part of the problem too. We can't engage them when they start down that line

00:37:37.220 of question. You see, once you have to start trying to justify why you don't need, no. You have to say,

00:37:40.560 it's none of your business what I may or may not need. It's not for you to determine, because once

00:37:44.940 you allow them to start the conversation that way, suddenly you're on the defensive, and you shouldn't

00:37:48.840 because you haven't done anything wrong. They have to be making the case. We have to turn it on to

00:37:53.780 them. That's part of the point of court challenges, like we're saying. Make them make the case in

00:37:59.220 court. Be proactive. And likewise, when you're debating, if you're debating online or if you're

00:38:03.740 debating with Uncle Louie over, you know, Christmas dinner, don't let him take you down the road of

00:38:08.360 having to defend yourself. You don't have to. You never did anything wrong. And it's not up to

00:38:12.480 anybody else to tell you what you do or don't own. You know, another irony, and people lose that and

00:38:18.120 they forget that all the time too. If you want somebody who gets furious with criminal use of

00:38:21.520 firearms. It's law-abiding firearm owners. Of course we're furious with that. I hate seeing

00:38:26.220 armed robbers out there. I hate seeing people shooting other people out there. I want to see

00:38:31.000 the laws finding ways to crack down on the illegal use of those firearms and be unforgiving for the

00:38:36.380 people who do it. That's what we want to see. We don't want to see, because again, they start,

00:38:40.480 you just want to see more shootings. Oh, come on now. You see, you're not even dealing with a

00:38:43.040 rational person when they start that kind of discussion. But that's what the tone of it is

00:38:46.660 right now. And we got to stop that. But again, we can't defend ourselves. When they say something

00:38:52.080 like that, you don't engage them, just say you're absurd. You're not worth talking to anymore if

00:38:56.140 you're going to go on that track of discussion. You obviously don't really want to have a

00:39:00.380 conversation about this, because anybody with even a gram of common sense knows that recreational,

00:39:06.140 legal, law-abiding firearm owners are not the ones committing those crimes. And we shouldn't

00:39:10.320 have to defend ourselves for the pastime we enjoy. So don't let them own the narrative.

00:39:16.660 Because that's what they're doing.

00:39:18.220 And that's what I was talking about.

00:39:19.380 That's what I was talking about with the liberals piggyback. 0.98

00:39:21.060 And it's disgusting. 0.97

00:39:21.920 I think it's really disgusting.

00:39:23.660 Every time there's a tragedy, they use the Nova Scotia tragedy to really bring in that legislation and go after things.

00:39:29.420 Next, they used, of course, that horrible shooting in Texas to go after the firearms and expand their reach.

00:39:37.060 And now they waited until the shooting in a nightclub in Colorado to suddenly throw an amendment into C-21.

00:39:44.640 It's a gross way to make their case.

00:39:46.440 It shows their case is weak. They're playing on emotion rather than logic. I mean, how will any

00:39:52.480 of these legislations stop those sorts of tragedies from happening? They won't. There's

00:39:56.840 much bigger things in society we got to work on if we want to work on it. I want to see mental 0.98

00:40:00.840 health supports because I'll tell you, every person who has done a mass shooting out there

00:40:06.000 has clearly had mental health problems. Nobody sane goes out and murders a whole bunch of their

00:40:10.840 fellow man. We should be proactive. We should be making sure that people, when they are going off

00:40:15.680 the rails, have the supports they need, or perhaps are even incarcerated in a mental health facility,

00:40:20.800 things like that. That's how we can stop these, not by chasing around somebody with a plink and 22.

00:40:27.380 We've got to change the narrative. Don't let them take it away from us like this. Not just

00:40:31.780 the firearms. Don't let them take the narrative because they're good at this. And they play the

00:40:36.740 emotions. I mean, we're all emotional. I was horrified when I watched what happened in Texas.

00:40:41.440 Of course I was. You are not human if you didn't look at that and just be mortified.

00:40:47.980 But I want to find out then how can we stop that?

00:40:50.420 And going after law-abiding firearm owners isn't going to do that.

00:40:53.320 So then if that's not going to do it, then let's look at what will.

00:40:55.780 And as Tony said, $8, $9 billion perhaps this could cost.

00:40:58.240 If we have that kind of money laying around, then let's put it into, again, mental health supports.

00:41:02.800 Another area that they use the stats quite often if they talk about firearm deaths, because they do happen, sure.

00:41:07.360 and the ones that do happen among firearms that were either registered law or legally owned.

00:41:13.640 Something we don't like talking about is the bulk of those are suicides and it's tragic. Of course

00:41:17.940 it is but you see the issue is much deeper than the tool that was used for the suicide. Obviously

00:41:22.820 we got to find out why that person chose to commit suicide. If a person's determined to end their

00:41:27.680 life even if you take the fire away you know we are actually fragile beings. We'll find another

00:41:32.440 way. So again, the solution isn't to go after the tool, it's to go after the underlying reason. Why

00:41:37.960 was this person in such a place where they felt they wanted to end their life? That again comes

00:41:41.840 down to investing in mental health, investing in supports, investing in our society in a much

00:41:45.940 bigger way. But targeting the firearms is vacuous, wrong, and it's not going to help us. All right,

00:41:52.220 I've been ranting about that more than I should. No, not more than I should. I'll rant as long as

00:41:55.480 I want on things. But I do want to talk about the Sovereignty Act a bit before we get into

00:42:00.580 the commodity check-in in a bit here, because it's been, you know, brought forward. This is

00:42:05.920 one of the areas, and this is really being mischaracterized. As Dave pointed out in the

00:42:11.640 news check-in, you know, Bill, or Brian Mason, a former NDP MLA, is comparing it to Hitler.

00:42:19.800 So I read the Sovereignty Act. It's pretty boring. A lot of legalese, a lot of stuff in there.

00:42:23.460 there's nowhere in there that allows cabinet to write legislation. It's hard to describe what

00:42:32.000 happens. Everything that will happen through that act has to go through the legislature. In a free

00:42:35.720 vote, no less. That means any MLA, theoretically, if the cabinet and premier said, we want to invoke

00:42:43.540 the Sovereignty Act against this, you know, the government's coming in and say the fertilizer

00:42:46.960 bans, things like that. We don't feel it's serving Albertans. We want to make sure that the federal

00:42:51.760 government can't punish our agricultural producers with these. So we're going to invoke the act so we

00:42:56.160 can hinder that and not enforce their laws on the fertilizer. Let's say the majority of the MLAs,

00:43:01.540 even the conservative ones said, no, I don't think we need the Sovereignty Act for that. Well,

00:43:05.000 it'd be dead in the water because it's a free vote just to get to that step. And then once that step

00:43:09.820 comes in, what it does is puts it into cabinet. Now, cabinet can, if they've gotten permission

00:43:15.240 from the legislature after that step, then they can start directing and not non-governmental

00:43:20.840 agencies. They can start directing, though, provincial agencies, things like that, as to what

00:43:24.780 they will or won't enforce or cooperate with. But what the opponents of this act are trying to claim

00:43:31.040 is that it gives the cabinet arbitrary powers to write or bring about legislation, and no, it

00:43:37.700 doesn't. Now, there's already orders in council, which is a problematic area, and provincial and

00:43:41.620 federal governments abuse those. We start getting a lot too technical when you go into all of these

00:43:46.960 things. But this isn't, this isn't what some people are portraying it as. It's not the power

00:43:52.520 grab some people think it is. What it is, is a great big warning shot across the bow of the

00:43:58.280 federal government to say, you know, we're pushing back. And, you know, listening to our clown in 0.91

00:44:05.780 chief, Prime Minister Trudeau, here's a quote from him. So he says, anything's on the table in 0.88

00:44:10.280 regard to the federal government's response to the new sovereignty act, but he's not looking for a

00:44:13.580 fight. Whatever, Justin, the fight's coming to you anyways. If you're going to keep infringing

00:44:18.200 on our provincial jurisdiction, you started the fight. So we're going to push back. And this is

00:44:23.360 another way to do so. And he says, we know the exception. I'm not going to try and imitate his

00:44:28.020 voice. It's just I abuse it badly. And so we know the exceptional powers. The premier is choosing to

00:44:33.260 give the Alberta government. No, it's not exceptional. It's all within the constitution,

00:44:36.180 actually. In bypassing the Alberta legislature, it's not bypassing the legislature. But Justin,

00:44:40.720 and you sure love to bypass the truth, you liar. 0.91

00:44:43.400 It's causing a lot of eyebrows to raise in Alberta, Trudeau said Wednesday. 0.95

00:44:46.680 Yeah, so he's buying right into the BS.

00:44:48.740 And just throwing the lies out as well.

00:44:52.480 And he said, we're going to see how this plays out.

00:44:53.880 I'm not going to take anything off the table, but I'm also not looking for a fight.

00:44:56.320 We want to continue to be there to deliver her for Albertans.

00:44:59.280 Blah, blah, blah, um, ah, ur.

00:45:01.700 Typical Justin Trudeau response.

00:45:03.680 This has got them nervous, though.

00:45:05.960 The battle lines are drawn.

00:45:07.840 This won't be brought in as long as they leave our, sorry, Ashley Ellis saying, just speak moistly,

00:45:16.220 Corey. Yeah. It still gives you the willies. You know, if you remember Trudeau's speech,

00:45:20.380 sorry, I like sidetracking on a live show. You know, when he was talking about speaking moistly,

00:45:24.600 when he was talking about the reason for masks and everything, it just gave that repugnant vision 0.52

00:45:27.940 of his slobber floating through the air, talking towards me as he's moistly speaking or God, 0.59

00:45:33.800 Either way, you know, we do, I mean, face it, Alberta's the punching bag of confederation.

00:45:41.260 We always have been.

00:45:42.360 The amount of equalization we've poured out, coincidentally, almost always, you know, like 11 billion a year,

00:45:47.460 we put out that we don't get back in return in services, happens to be the amount that Quebec takes in.

00:45:53.900 And this is really showing a lot of, again, the broken narrative, the hypocrisy of our confederation.

00:46:00.120 because nothing in here is beyond what anything

00:46:03.580 that Quebec's ever done or will do or says they'll do.

00:46:06.160 Nothing. 1.00

00:46:07.100 But when Albertans do it, we're assholes. 1.00

00:46:09.400 When Quebec does it, it's their right. 0.99

00:46:12.180 The fact that there is that dissonance,

00:46:15.440 that hypocrisy, that unfairness

00:46:17.820 shows why provinces have to stand up for themselves

00:46:20.340 within the Confederation.

00:46:21.980 Provinces, if you read the Constitution,

00:46:24.060 if you want some dry reading,

00:46:25.140 but it's worth reading in the BNA Act

00:46:27.700 and things such as that,

00:46:28.520 We're actually quite powerful. We have a lot of abilities, but we have to exercise them. We've

00:46:34.460 let the federal government usurp a lot of our authority. And what Daniel Smith's doing is

00:46:40.040 bringing about the means to take that authority back. And people are saying it's a move towards

00:46:43.540 separatism. Look, I've been supporting Alberta independence for a long, long time. People might

00:46:48.640 remember my failed formation of the Alberta Independence Party back when I was 29 years old

00:46:53.460 and ran against Ralph Klein and had our butts handed to us in that election.

00:46:57.680 I'm very familiar with this turf.

00:47:00.240 And if anything, this will defer independence movements.

00:47:05.080 This will slow them down.

00:47:07.040 Doing nothing is what will bring about more independence movements.

00:47:10.620 You know, just letting the government keep walking all over us.

00:47:13.280 That's how you flourish and bring about an independence movement.

00:47:16.420 If what Smith is doing works, it will actually reduce independent sentiment.

00:47:23.460 Quite the contrary.

00:47:25.620 And I'm saying that as a person who supports independence.

00:47:29.180 If anything, it's slowing what I'd like to see eventually,

00:47:31.560 because I want to see the whole Constitution rewritten,

00:47:34.600 and I don't think anything less than independence will do that.

00:47:36.340 But in the meantime, we're quite a ways from it.

00:47:38.840 And yeah, the CBC walked out of the media forum and stated

00:47:41.820 Smith was making up her legislation, according to Chris Gibson.

00:47:45.160 Can we take him to court for slander? I don't know.

00:47:47.140 The CBC, I just want to see them defunded.

00:47:49.140 I mean, they're a bunch of Marxists doing what their bosses tell them.

00:47:53.460 it's a gross Pravda organization fully funded by your tax dollars. Not only that, they steal

00:48:00.100 advertising dollars from the private market because they can undercut other advertisers.

00:48:03.840 The only thing is nobody watches them. I mean, very, very few. It's a garbage organization,

00:48:09.220 and I do look forward to its demise. It's another area where we certainly could use 0.99

00:48:14.160 a departure from our federal control on things. So let's watch this act unfold. And I mean,

00:48:22.560 again, people can debate whether it needs to be done or doesn't need to be done. But in reading

00:48:29.460 it, and I read it, like I said, I've read the actual act today. It's not that long. There's a

00:48:33.280 whole lot of legalese in it. It's pretty boring. But there's nothing in there giving extraordinary

00:48:37.680 powers to the cabinet. There's nothing in there that clashes with the Constitution.

00:48:43.220 Most of it is just that the strongest thing is the language around the act going into it. It's

00:48:48.660 pushing back and saying we want to use it to give a backhand to the federal government if they step

00:48:53.920 on our authority. But there's nothing I could find in it to interpret the haywire stuff that

00:49:01.360 people are claiming is within it. It shows quite a bit, though, when we had a prime minister who,

00:49:07.800 again, on 50% of the days, he puts his shoes on the wrong feet. And he managed to impose the

00:49:13.000 Emergencies Act upon Canadians. And the mainstream media has no issue with this, apparently, and

00:49:18.260 felt it was a justified move. They can entrust him with that power and that ability to suspend

00:49:24.640 our rights and what he determines to be an emergency. But when we want to bring in something

00:49:28.680 like the Sovereignty Act, or I shouldn't say we necessarily, I don't have a membership,

00:49:33.060 but I'm an Albertan, suddenly we're extreme. Suddenly we're pushing it too far. Suddenly

00:49:37.400 we're threatening confederation. I tell you people, this is what protects confederation.

00:49:41.880 It's funny, I'm watching people like Don Braid, who's a columnist who, you know, I've got nothing

00:49:46.320 about respect for Brady. He's been there a long time and he knows this stuff, but boy, he's just

00:49:50.660 got a chip on his shoulder for Smith. And he's talking about basically whether or not the federal

00:49:56.740 government will override. They have an ability. The federal government can disallow this legislation.

00:50:01.700 They can come in. There's a kind of an obscure clause where they can say, no, no, we're going

00:50:05.300 to override that and not allow it to happen. Again, if you want to see an independence movement

00:50:11.300 explode, have the federal government step in and tell us we're not allowed to have that act.

00:50:15.680 Well, Quebec does all the same things. We'll see interesting times, if nothing else. And that's

00:50:21.120 just day one of the legislative session. Okay, let's get on to talking actually about, again,

00:50:26.400 people working for 11, paying those bills and being out there. And that is our weekly check-in

00:50:32.700 with Jim Buzicom of Marketplace Commodities. Good to see you, Jim. Hi, Corey. How are you doing

00:50:38.380 today? I'm pretty good. I'm ranting and raving. People sometimes mistake it for anger, but that's

00:50:42.880 just my nature actually i i just feel better that way if i'm quiet you gotta worry well there's lots

00:50:48.320 to rant and rave about i i get it i get it there is but i won't pull you into that uh you know

00:50:53.620 we're talking about more important things uh to to at least uh more immediately for people and

00:50:58.440 that's uh working in in agriculture and trying to plan and plant and market your products uh i guess

00:51:04.800 as efficiently as possible uh how are things looking on the agricultural commodity front today

00:51:10.380 yeah so cash markets are quiet right now with buyers and sellers they somewhat go into

00:51:17.480 hibernation mode between u.s thanksgiving and winter that's 20 30 day time period a lot of

00:51:26.440 buyers have their purchases figured out a lot of sellers they like to plan things out

00:51:32.820 around grain movement around cash flow things like that so it's a little bit quieter that way

00:51:39.180 some action that we have seen in the cash markets are buyers and sellers both talking

00:51:44.540 about new crop. So we're talking about 2023 sales. So executing those sales following

00:51:52.200 August, September into next year. And we think that's good. It's nice to see

00:51:59.340 both sides that are being proactive looking at forward contracting into another marketing year.

00:52:07.620 those options are available to farmers. They can go out as much as a year, year and a half in

00:52:13.400 advance on selling their commodities. Yeah, well, that's the challenge, I guess,

00:52:19.660 with agricultural producers. You really have to look at that long game, right? I mean,

00:52:23.080 you're planning what you're going to see, I imagine, at this point, and that's with the

00:52:26.740 goal of marketing that almost a year from now. So some bad decisions can really impact you

00:52:32.940 terribly if you aren't looking at or reading the winds right, I guess.

00:52:37.360 Yeah, that's right. So they can look at, you know, planning out what they're seeding. They can plan

00:52:42.500 out and purchase already like their production, their production, like so their inputs such as

00:52:48.620 fertilizer, seed, chemical, those type of things. So in turn, if they go out there and they sell

00:52:54.000 those commodities for the fall and winter of next year, 2023, you know, hopefully they can

00:53:00.080 lock in a profit we'd like to think they are because my prices are at record levels now of

00:53:04.900 course inputs are very high as well so expenses are very high so it's it's good that they're doing

00:53:10.740 that now there's only just a very small percentage that start at that we just want to remind farmers

00:53:16.240 when they do that just make sure that they're aware of the contract risk so forward contracting

00:53:21.760 does involve some more risk i mean their production they're not production contracts

00:53:26.320 They're actual fixed price, actual 10-inch contracts, so you have to produce it, and you can't control the weather.

00:53:34.080 You can only control the things you can control, such as production, like your inputs and things like that.

00:53:42.100 Yeah, and then some of those inputs, I guess, aside from what commodities you might be choosing to produce or what levels,

00:53:46.960 I mean, it's kind of beyond a producer's control, but you want to plan for it.

00:53:50.080 I mean, the two big ones, I guess, right now are fertilizer and diesel.

00:53:53.040 those are really impacting production costs in general.

00:53:58.840 Yeah, exactly.

00:54:00.340 So food laser costs have stabilized somewhat

00:54:05.340 and so have diesel prices

00:54:06.620 and we've seen crude oil back off a little bit

00:54:09.280 but I believe the outlook on both those things

00:54:12.100 are actually quite bullish

00:54:13.440 along with the commodity markets being quite steady.

00:54:15.780 So yeah, there's a lot of moving pieces at the farm gate

00:54:20.140 to try and manage all these parts

00:54:21.780 And the more that they're on it, probably the more chance that they're going to be profitable.

00:54:27.620 Yeah, well, I guess in the break period, this is when you're viewing things, it gives you a bit of a breather to start with processing data and figuring out where things should be going for your clients at this point.

00:54:41.620 That's correct, yeah.

00:54:43.080 So just some other areas that I just want to comment on.

00:54:45.720 The outside markets are still showing some healthy volatility.

00:54:48.700 So what I mean by that is the futures derivatives market.

00:54:52.860 Canola dropped in the last week down to as low as $800 per metric ton.

00:54:58.620 Now it's back up.

00:54:59.480 This week's actually having a nice bounce, up about $40 per ton.

00:55:02.840 Corn wheat market's chattering around, more or less flat.

00:55:07.060 Canadian dollar is interesting, though.

00:55:08.920 Over the last week, we've seen it move to as low as $73 and change,

00:55:13.500 like I think it was $73.10 or $73.20.

00:55:16.080 it's now back up to about 74 10 74 15 um you know last week we talked about some of the

00:55:25.140 geopolitical issues that are still there we can now add China into that mix with China's zero

00:55:29.640 COVID policy and millions and millions locked down in China um of course a big exporter big

00:55:36.000 importer still have the issues in Brazil still have the war in Russia and Ukraine so these are

00:55:40.700 all geopolitical issues that will continue to affect uh marketing here in canada i i guess a

00:55:48.760 bit a little bit out of left field i'm wondering no i we've seen news about i mean i know there

00:55:52.940 was a lot of disruptions in in the netherlands uh last year and then there's talk now about some

00:55:57.160 farms being bought out i i mean that would be quite a local issue going on there but are they

00:56:02.540 a large enough producer that that would impact i guess more of the world markets in any way

00:56:06.140 yeah i don't see any uh issues in canada because of what's going on in netherlands i i think the

00:56:14.520 dutch farmers yeah their protests didn't really seem to affect markets or anything like that i

00:56:20.620 would expect that it would have affected their local economy they're more on a localized basis

00:56:26.680 but other than that we haven't seen too much effect you know other than some of these other

00:56:32.280 places such as brazil uh some of the chinese ports if workers are unable to to get to and from

00:56:40.520 their job sites that's that's a much bigger issue yeah well those countries brazil is one everybody

00:56:45.720 forgets about i mean they're massive and it produces a a lot of everything uh you know we

00:56:50.840 just don't hear enough about that country in the news sometimes yeah yeah no the south american

00:56:55.720 markets are are massive massive markets especially with corn and soybeans but they're starting to be

00:57:01.640 even more so on other commodities as well, even wheat producing.

00:57:06.200 Of course, beef is huge in Brazil as well.

00:57:09.360 So, you know, we have, we definitely have some similarities here and we definitely need

00:57:15.380 to keep an eye on it.

00:57:16.820 Well, it's certainly a world market these days.

00:57:18.780 So a person has to keep an eye on everything, but that's your job out there.

00:57:21.920 So I appreciate the check-in this week, Jim, and we'll talk to you again next week.

00:57:26.680 All right.

00:57:27.040 Thanks, Corey.

00:57:27.520 Have a good day.

00:57:28.200 Thanks.

00:57:29.180 Bye.

00:57:29.320 So this is Jim Buzicum of Marketplace Commodities.

00:57:32.460 Guys, if you're an ag producer, again, they provide those services.

00:57:35.120 He watches all those things and helps counsel and aid with agriculture production

00:57:40.460 so you can maximize what you're doing.

00:57:41.840 Check them out, marketplacecommodities.com.

00:57:43.880 I think their main office is in Lethbridge,

00:57:45.320 and they've got offices throughout the West and other areas in that.

00:57:50.020 So, yeah, we're getting near the end of things.

00:57:51.580 I want to wrap up with speaking on a business line but in a different sense.

00:57:54.840 So Dave mentioned that with the Citadel feeder up in Edmonton,

00:57:58.520 and they're going to play the Christmas carol on December 10th.

00:58:02.100 And they're saying, though, it's masked only.

00:58:04.060 You have to wear a mask in the audience if you're going to watch.

00:58:06.940 I guess the performers won't be masked, but if you want to attend, you have to wear a mask.

00:58:11.920 You know what?

00:58:12.920 I have no problem with this.

00:58:14.640 Because I'll just choose not to go.

00:58:16.200 And this is an interesting experiment.

00:58:18.080 By all means, maybe you've got enough people who want to sit in a masked room full of a bunch of other masked people

00:58:24.880 and take in a play.

00:58:26.020 Good for you.

00:58:26.820 And if it works great, go for it.

00:58:28.520 If it doesn't, don't.

00:58:30.940 So, I mean, a lot of people are getting a little wound up with this,

00:58:33.200 but you see, that's a choice of that theater group and that bunch

00:58:36.420 and doing whatever they want.

00:58:37.720 That's between them and the patrons of their theater.

00:58:40.740 It's when we have legislation that we have a problem.

00:58:44.520 And, you know, there's some people who, they're obsessed.

00:58:47.820 They're almost religious with masking.

00:58:49.220 They want us to mask, it seems, in perpetuity.

00:58:51.260 At the drop of every hat, they're calling for more mask mandates.

00:58:54.680 Mandates, that's where the problem is.

00:58:57.740 So, you know, as Jet Corrigan saying,

00:58:59.620 I used to love the Citadel,

00:59:00.480 but I don't do breathing obstruction.

00:59:01.640 See, and that's her choice.

00:59:04.340 Maybe people will choose to go there.

00:59:05.920 Maybe they won't, but that's up to them.

00:59:07.780 I don't care.

00:59:08.520 Go ahead.

00:59:08.880 You can have a rule in your private business

00:59:12.960 saying everybody coming in has to wear a ball gag.

00:59:14.920 I think there's probably some specialty bars

00:59:16.520 that have that in the back rooms.

00:59:18.860 Your business, if you don't want to wear it,

00:59:20.180 don't go there.

00:59:21.220 Likewise with the theater and things like that.

00:59:24.380 Another big one.

00:59:25.120 So we're going to be talking, I'm kind of wrapping things up.

00:59:27.820 The pipeline, we're going to have that running tonight at seven o'clock as usual with Nigel

00:59:31.960 and Derek Fildebrand and myself.

00:59:33.620 And a big issue that's coming in this, there's just so much to cover.

00:59:36.260 As I said, I'm almost tempted to go back to a daily show, but I'm not.

00:59:40.140 But the Métis Settlement Council and the federal government are talking about sitting

00:59:43.580 aside potentially a whole bunch of Alberta land, which would take it out of energy production.

00:59:47.500 And this could be a massive hornet's nest coming about.

00:59:50.980 It would really impact Alberta's ability to produce. 0.99

00:59:53.400 and it would also set a precedent 0.99

00:59:54.860 to them coming in 0.66

00:59:55.620 and shutting down our lands

00:59:56.540 under our feet

00:59:57.500 which could be the very first

00:59:58.800 big challenge

00:59:59.540 for the Sovereignty Act.

01:00:02.120 Perhaps there's a lot of things

01:00:03.160 we could challenge on.

01:00:03.960 It could be the firearms

01:00:04.600 and things like that.

01:00:06.080 So, all right.

01:00:06.900 I think that kind of covers it today, guys.

01:00:08.920 Jason Kenney resigned yesterday.

01:00:10.500 I don't know yet.

01:00:11.100 Dave noted that in the News Update 2.

01:00:12.860 I guess he just kind of wanted

01:00:13.800 to give one more little middle finger

01:00:15.500 and chose to throw in speech to do it.

01:00:17.960 Whatever.

01:00:18.520 I appreciate the work Mr. Kenney

01:00:19.960 has done over the years

01:00:20.880 as a member of Parliament

01:00:21.740 and I appreciate what he did

01:00:23.140 and bringing the UCP into power.

01:00:24.760 I just wish he could have left with a little more dignity,

01:00:27.180 but that's just the way it goes.

01:00:29.160 So thanks for tuning in today, guys.

01:00:30.980 Try to stay warm out there.

01:00:32.360 Always be thankful.

01:00:33.140 Remember, it is fossil fuel keeping you warm today,

01:00:35.400 not windmills.

01:00:36.740 Remind your legislators of that.

01:00:38.800 Good to see you all.

01:00:39.660 And I will talk to you all again next week at the same time.

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Western Standard - November 30, 2022

CMS： Justice system puts us all at risk again

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