Western Standard - CMS： Progressives need to accept hard realities

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.980 Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. We're getting into spring. Finally, it's about time. I can't

00:00:36.480 stand winter. I just can't make myself like it. Starting to look a little better out there.

00:00:41.240 So yes, welcome to the show. Seeing you guys all checking in and signing in, it's much appreciated.

00:00:47.220 I got something to announce today. Some things are going to change a little bit. We actually

00:00:51.880 have expanded and we're going to be broadcast to the Cowboy Channel, Wild TV, and RFD TV,

00:00:58.160 which is great. You know, we're getting to new audiences, new folks seeing us. The pipeline is

00:01:02.520 going to be broadcast there as well, but there are going to be some little changes to the format

00:01:06.420 for you guys who are regular viewers of this show. We're going to, it's going to be the same. We're

00:01:11.240 still going to have a regular guest, lots of ranting and raving out of me, news check-ins from

00:01:15.340 Dave, but it's got to be a little shorter because they got to put the brakes in. So it's going to be

00:01:18.840 a little closer, more to the 45 to 50 minute mark rather than the hour you're accustomed to, but

00:01:24.820 we can pack a whole lot into that period and I'm sure it's all going to go well. It's great to

00:01:31.080 spread out to new audiences and welcome viewers from across the whole country. We already have

00:01:36.400 viewers from across the country but now there's going to be even more of them which is great and

00:01:40.880 there's always a lot to go on about. So I'll start with getting on with what has me worked up today.

00:01:47.340 I want to start with a quote from a fantastic man PJ O'Rourke. I loved his work and this quote

00:01:54.320 really says it well about he calls it liberalism I call it progressives it's similar things at the

00:02:00.600 core of liberalism is the spoiled child miserable as all spoiled children are unsatisfied demanding

00:02:07.380 ill-disciplined despotic and useless liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats yes O'Rourke

00:02:14.740 wasn't one for beating around the bush and he summed it up brilliantly may he rest in peace

00:02:19.300 Now, modern progressives live in a self-induced, entitled bubble.

00:02:24.000 They know what they want to see while refusing to accept any explanation, though, of why they may not be able to have it.

00:02:29.960 Instead of reconsidering a policy when it fails to achieve its objective,

00:02:34.600 progressives scream louder and double down as if that could change the outcome.

00:02:39.420 Now, what got me going on this one is hearing some elected officials and activists recently calling for rent control.

00:02:44.820 Yes, inflation and higher rents are pressuring many citizens,

00:02:47.680 and we'd all like to find ways to ease that pressure.

00:02:49.960 The problem with rent control, though, is it's been tried dozens of times

00:02:53.280 in dozens of jurisdictions, and it has maintained an impressively consistent

00:02:56.880 100% failure rate.

00:02:59.380 It only causes shortages in supply as investors and property owners

00:03:03.380 flee the rental market.

00:03:05.260 Undeterred by reality, though, progressives insist on soldiering along

00:03:08.360 and demanding rent control because this time, just maybe this time,

00:03:11.960 it might work.

00:03:13.140 Sounds a lot like the contemporary supporters of communism.

00:03:16.240 This habit of willful blindness doesn't stop at rent control, of course.

00:03:19.880 That's just a recent and more stark example.

00:03:22.340 Let's look at addiction enablement activists, for example,

00:03:25.100 as they continue to push their ideology of deadly, unintended consequences,

00:03:30.200 despite the catastrophic failure of their policies in every city on the west coast of North America.

00:03:36.240 Supervised consumption sites, decriminalization of hard drugs,

00:03:39.120 in a permissive environment for open drug consumption has caused overdoses to explode

00:03:43.460 in cities. Portland, Oregon saw overdoses more than double under their progressive approach.

00:03:48.380 Not to be outdone, Vancouver legalized hard drugs and is handing out safe supply. The fruit of that

00:03:54.720 effort has led Vancouver to break records in daily recorded overdoses. Still, progressives insist if

00:04:00.520 we just enabled the addicts a little more, if we enabled it a little harder, they'd somehow kick

00:04:05.180 that habit and become functional members of society. Look, addicts need treatment, and they

00:04:09.660 need mental health supports, but they don't need free drugs, and there's no such thing as a safe

00:04:14.420 supply of meth. The addiction epidemic is complicated, and there's many factors attached

00:04:22.040 to it. One factor is the progressive trend of deinstitutionalization over the last few decades.

00:04:27.900 It's a mouthful. Well-meaning but misguided governments closed down mental health facilities

00:04:31.880 and move towards community living initiatives.

00:04:34.840 Unfortunately, that initiative has led to people with mental health challenges

00:04:37.880 finding themselves either on the streets, in jail, or dead.

00:04:41.780 We don't like the idea of incarcerating people due to their having a mental health issue

00:04:44.860 through no fault of their own, but it doesn't matter what you like or don't like.

00:04:48.500 A reality has to be faced that some people simply have to be kept in a secure environment

00:04:52.240 for their own protection and for the protection of others.

00:04:54.860 Are they maintaining dignity on the streets?

00:04:56.440 That's what they like, saying, we've got to allow their dignity.

00:04:58.520 Really? When they're passed out and having lost bowel control in a bus stop, there's no dignity left anymore, guys.

00:05:05.020 A growing addiction problem, of course, also leads to the growing gang problem, as criminals compete to supply the drugs to these addicts.

00:05:11.580 Now, those gangs often go to war, and we see spikes in shootings in city centers, and progressives love to demand simple solutions to complex problems as usual.

00:05:19.520 Rather than dealing with the complicated and sticky issues of often ethnic-based gangs and illegally imported handguns,

00:05:25.420 they demand the illegalization and seizure of firearms from law-abiding citizens, hunters, 0.55

00:05:30.160 such. There's no evidence such seizures will make anybody feel safer. But progressives aren't bound

00:05:34.760 by evidence, only impulses and knee-jerk reactions. Likewise, as we see the cost of living skyrocketing,

00:05:40.820 progressives are accusing food producers and retailers of greed and gouging, despite readily

00:05:45.860 available data indicating narrow profit margins in those industries. Meanwhile, progressives refuse

00:05:50.740 to accept the impact government actions such as carbon taxes or chemical fertilizer bans might

00:05:55.220 have on food production costs. Cognitive dissonance can get expensive, guys. The protests

00:06:00.980 and even eco-terrorism against petrochemical production in Canada continue to expand as

00:06:06.140 progressives continue with an ongoing tantrum against petrochemicals. They refuse to accept

00:06:10.440 the reality that we don't have a feasible alternative to it yet. Intransitantly digging

00:06:15.560 in their heels, they demand we transition out of oil and gas, but can't explain what we'll be

00:06:20.000 transitioning into. Germany learned this lesson the hard way rather recently, and they've gone

00:06:24.500 back to burning coal, but our local progressives have planted their fingers in their ears whenever

00:06:28.280 that's mentioned. Like most in Cal children, progressives scream loudest when their demands

00:06:32.960 are blunted. It's like a kid who gets denied ice cream. Just listen to them if somebody dares to

00:06:37.540 point out that no matter how hard one might wish it, no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard

00:06:42.040 you screw your eyes shut and scream it, you can't change a boy into a girl or a girl into a boy.

00:06:48.440 People can make every effort to transition. I have no problem with respecting how they want to

00:06:51.920 identify. I refuse to indulge in claims contrary to biological reality, though, and that's what

00:06:56.900 progressives are asking us to do now. Conservatives aren't heartless, though that's what we're often

00:07:01.220 accused of. We're bound by reality, even when the reality stinks. It doesn't matter if a policy

00:07:07.100 feels good, and it doesn't matter how good the intentions are behind it. If a policy doesn't

00:07:10.660 work, it needs to be abandoned. Conservatives aren't this way because we don't care. It's quite

00:07:14.940 the opposite. We care enough to set aside our sentiment, even when it feels bad, in order to

00:07:19.600 find solutions to problems that actually work. If we didn't care, we just let ourselves sink into

00:07:24.840 the fuzzy world of delusion enjoyed by modern progressives. Well, that's what's got me wound

00:07:30.220 up today, guys. Progressives at their best. All right. Well, lots of news breaking and stuff going

00:07:36.060 on as always. So let's check into the Western Standard newsroom with our news editor, Dave

00:07:39.780 Naylor, and see what else is going on out there. Hey, Dave, how you doing? I'm okay, Corey. Good

00:07:46.500 afternoon uh like you i'm looking forward to spring uh saw that picture of duke the wonder dog

00:07:51.900 you had out uh earlier this week he's looking right forward to it too isn't he oh he's driving

00:07:56.840 me nuts those dogs you know all that snow out there they just get into the house and drive me

00:08:01.060 crazy but yes i'm sure he's looking forward to getting and running around on some dry ground too

00:08:04.620 yeah absolutely so hopefully it's on the way uh here's what we've got going on the website right

00:08:11.480 now, Corey. Elon Musk, a very smart guy, as you know, and hundreds of other experts are calling

00:08:19.200 for an immediate halt to artificial intelligence development until some safety procedures could

00:08:25.660 be put in place. So that's interesting. We've got Amnesty International. They like to stick their

00:08:33.220 nose into other people's business. And today they're telling us that our record on climate change

00:08:38.760 Indigenous people is absolutely dismal. We've got a story speaking of what you did on rent control.

00:08:47.000 Calgary senior shocked to find her rent going up $450 a month. So that's indicative of the

00:08:55.560 the tight rental market here in Calgary at the moment, Corey. Arthur Poslowski has been kicked

00:09:02.680 out of the, as the head of the Alberta Independence Party. He says they were asking him to not talk

00:09:11.720 about God so much. So that's interesting. And we've got some shocking video, a tragic video up

00:09:18.440 on a guy who stole a police car in Southern California, stole a California highway patrol

00:09:25.940 car, and there was a high-speed chase, 160 kilometers an hour. He saw a spike belt ahead

00:09:34.300 of him and decided the best thing to do would be to jump out of the vehicle, and let's just

00:09:39.580 say it didn't end well. Lots of other stuff coming up, Corey, we've got City of Calgary

00:09:46.300 has decided to expand their backyard hen program. So last year they did it with 100 households.

00:09:53.160 Now, anybody in the city who wants to bring in those cluckers into their backyard can do so. 1.00

00:10:00.240 So I just hope my condo board says no. 1.00

00:10:04.100 Our newest reporter, Shea Bottomley, who you might be able to see over my left shoulder, furiously working away.

00:10:11.720 You'll remember the rash of beheadings of John A. McDonald statues and topplings of Queen Victoria statues.

00:10:19.700 Well, now the thing to do, apparently, is to behead statues of Mahatma Gandhi.

00:10:25.420 There's been several across Canada, the latest coming on the Simon Fraser University campus in Burnaby, so Shea is working on that.

00:10:36.220 And our senior political columnist, Linda Slobodian, has got a really good one coming out this lunch hour.

00:10:43.400 An NDP writing association in Edmonton decided to hold a fundraiser.

00:10:50.380 So, of course, they brought in a drag queen dancer.

00:10:54.020 And there's video of her, him, they taking money from children as they dance around in drag. 0.68

00:11:02.000 So that will be up shortly and highly entertaining, I'm sure, from Linda.

00:11:06.500 So, yeah, another busy day, Corey.

00:11:09.220 So it's all good.

00:11:11.680 Right on.

00:11:12.440 Well, thanks for the updates, Dave, and I'll see you in the newsroom after the show.

00:11:17.980 Thanks, Corey.

00:11:19.320 Right on.

00:11:20.120 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:22.420 And as you can see, lots of stuff breaking, lots of things going on out there in the world,

00:11:27.820 and the Western Standard is covering it.

00:11:29.040 I mean, we have more stories getting posted than most of the old legacy establishment

00:11:33.640 media sites.

00:11:34.260 And the reason we can do that, I'll just throw that out there quickly, is because of

00:11:37.120 you guys who have subscribed.

00:11:39.400 We can stay independent.

00:11:40.240 we don't take tax dollars, and it allows us to keep producing that content. As we said,

00:11:44.360 Shay is a new reporter. We've got Jonathan Bradley, Arthur Green, all sorts of people,

00:11:47.760 Lindis Labodean, doing great work. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, it's only $9.99 a month,

00:11:52.840 just like a newspaper subscription. You know it helps us keep producing this stuff. And if you've

00:11:56.940 subscribed already, thank you very much. And so many of those divisive issues that are coming up,

00:12:01.700 you know, we're hearing about that across the country. This trend, the drag shows, this one,

00:12:07.420 you know, I'm so mixed on this. I mean, I'm very personally socially progressive. Grown adults

00:12:13.060 want to go out, do whatever they please, by all means, go to it. There used to be a bar in Calgary

00:12:17.200 that held drag shows regularly back in the 90s. Nobody batted an eye. I mean, there was intolerance

00:12:23.240 back then, and I'm certain, you know, there were people from the LGBTQ community who took chances

00:12:28.920 at night. We had a Calgary police raiding a bathhouse all the way into the 90s. Again, hey,

00:12:33.160 these were grown people, and they were private establishment. They should be able to do what they

00:12:35.800 want. But it just seems that the activists, again, you see, this is where I'm talking about the

00:12:39.840 delusional progressives, not your run-of-the-mill progressives, the activist element. They push and

00:12:44.600 push and get too far. And they just, once they get the rights that they should have gotten,

00:12:49.560 they look for more. But then they push into the unreasonable and they cross lines that

00:12:54.500 shouldn't be crossed. And I think it's unfortunately doing a disservice to a lot of

00:12:58.800 people who enjoyed things like drag shows responsibly. But there's this fixation now

00:13:03.980 of getting in front of kids with it.

00:13:06.340 That's what gets people upset.

00:13:08.060 That's what gets them worked up.

00:13:09.480 Why?

00:13:09.880 Why are you so stuck on getting in front of children with this?

00:13:13.920 And a lot of these are very benign.

00:13:15.960 The readings in schools, I mean, they're odd,

00:13:18.480 but a person made a good point to me a little while back.

00:13:20.180 I said, well, it's kind of crazy 0.98

00:13:21.400 with this made-up Tammy Faye Baker-looking drag queen 1.00

00:13:24.080 sitting there reading stories 0.98

00:13:25.420 in front of kids in a library in Calgary.

00:13:27.900 But they say, well, does, you know,

00:13:29.980 did Mr. Dress Up look normal?

00:13:31.340 Did Captain Kangaroo look normal?

00:13:32.880 I mean, Pee Wee Herman, there were a lot of people who did kids programming, looked a little different and exaggerated.

00:13:37.620 You know what, yeah, that's fine, and they're just reading kids' stories.

00:13:40.260 But we see the videos from where some activists have to cross the line, where they go into burlesque, where they go into stripping,

00:13:47.520 where you have children putting dollars into the thong of a stripper. 0.96

00:13:51.080 Look, whether that's trans person or a regular gender of any sort, that's wrong, but they keep pushing. 0.99

00:13:58.380 And another one that was horrible, it was on the Western Standard site as well, that video was posted, 1.00

00:14:02.140 of a 13-year-old kid who's been pushed into dressing up in drag as a young woman

00:14:08.300 while a bunch of grown men sit around, and he's doing like a strip show in front of him.

00:14:12.340 Guys, that's pedophilia.

00:14:13.860 That's not indulging art or gender identity.

00:14:18.740 This is a sexualized child on a stage in front of what I will say are perverse men.

00:14:24.740 We've got to rein this back.

00:14:26.920 Again, it's too much.

00:14:32.140 But I think that's part of it. Some activists, they feel they just have to keep pushing. They

00:14:36.460 have to keep moving. And it's never enough. Well, now it's time to draw the line in the sand and

00:14:41.700 say, guys, that's enough for gals or whoever you might be. It's too much. One of the commenters 0.72

00:14:46.500 here, Paradox, he's saying when Peewee crossed the line, he got rightfully canceled. Well,

00:14:49.620 it's hard to say. Yes, if people don't remember, he was masturbating in an adult theater. I think

00:14:57.040 it was in Florida. We're talking like 30 years ago or something. But it's not a good image for

00:15:00.680 guy who's running a children's show. So, uh, uh, you know, he got canceled. He got moved out of

00:15:05.120 those things. Uh, I, I, you know, again, if you're a grown man and want to do those sorts of things

00:15:09.040 in theaters, you know, it's your business, it's your hand, it's your part. But if you're going

00:15:13.160 to run children's shows, that's where we start talking that difference that people see the line

00:15:16.940 that gets crossed, then we expect a different standard of behavior on your part. Other things,

00:15:23.040 you know, I'll stick to that theme of progressive tantrums, progressives getting too far. They're

00:15:26.320 cutting the heads off Mahatma Gandhi statues? That's the first I heard of it was just with

00:15:30.700 Dave's news check in there. That's ridiculous. I mean, come on. We're talking about a man who

00:15:35.460 changed, you know, the world. I mean, a lot of the largest countries in the world through peaceful

00:15:39.340 protest. I mean, you might, again, disagree or agree with this thing, but this attempted erasure

00:15:43.980 of every little bit of history based on who knows what slight these lunatics have with them. And as

00:15:49.580 I said, Johnny McDonald, that was happening all the time too. We can't measure historical figures

00:15:54.200 under the lens of what we consider acceptable today.

00:15:57.240 It's ridiculous, it's divisive, and it's destructive.

00:16:00.020 It's absurd.

00:16:01.880 John A. MacDonald lived by the standards of his time.

00:16:05.920 And if you don't like some of the things he did, fine,

00:16:07.560 but he was clearly a significant element of our history.

00:16:11.720 He was somebody, it doesn't mean you have to even admire the statue,

00:16:14.320 but you have to acknowledge it.

00:16:15.820 Know that this person was an intrinsic part of the formation of Canada

00:16:20.540 and tearing down statues and crapping on the history of the efforts of others is bizarre and

00:16:25.480 ridiculous. You know, I said this on Twitter the other day, is let's turn it around a little bit.

00:16:31.140 And believe me, this is tongue in cheek. But if you look around Eastern Canada, there are

00:16:34.960 statues to Tekumseh, Chief Tekumseh, all over the place. There's a town named after him. There's

00:16:39.380 schools named after him because he took part in some of the wars, you know, getting towards,

00:16:44.460 I guess, keeping Canada independent from the United States and Britain as a native Shawnee chief.

00:16:48.920 But the Shawnee tribe, people forget to mention, they kept slaves.

00:16:54.220 Yeah, they did. 0.95

00:16:55.340 Look it up.

00:16:56.680 Tecumseh was a slave keeper, and they would capture members from other bands,

00:17:01.240 and they would actually sell them to European slavers down in the States.

00:17:06.100 Horrible, horrible practice.

00:17:08.100 Now, to hold Tecumseh to the standards that you guys are holding,

00:17:11.180 John A. MacDonald or even Gandhi now, which is still as floor as me,

00:17:15.180 shouldn't you be tearing down his statues too?

00:17:17.080 Shouldn't you be erasing him from history?

00:17:18.920 And no, you shouldn't. You shouldn't.

00:17:21.140 Those were the practices of the First Nations in Canada hundreds of years ago. 0.72

00:17:26.940 They've grown beyond that. We've grown beyond that. 0.86

00:17:29.180 But we don't try to erase the historical figures of that time

00:17:33.700 because they were acting on what was considered appropriate at that time.

00:17:37.000 Thankfully, we can look at that and realize how far we've come along,

00:17:40.060 how much better humanity is, how much better of a society we are

00:17:44.580 thanks to, I guess, just social evolution.

00:17:48.920 and time and modern things.

00:17:51.520 Common sense, it just is sadly lacking.

00:17:55.640 As I said, we've got a progressive element

00:17:57.680 and it's gonna help me segue into my guest here soon.

00:18:00.900 With, as I said, they screw their fingers into their ears,

00:18:03.580 they're screaming, they're demanding,

00:18:05.360 they're howling saying we must end petrochemical production

00:18:08.760 and dependence and use.

00:18:10.760 But we don't have a viable alternative.

00:18:13.420 I don't know how many times they have to hit that wall.

00:18:15.260 As we said, Germany hit that wall very, very hard

00:18:17.760 And they invested a heck of a lot of money into alternative energy sources.

00:18:20.940 But they don't want to hear it.

00:18:22.340 They just want to keep screaming and hoping, I guess, if we get rid of it, a solution will magically appear.

00:18:28.020 Maybe some sort of alternative will come along.

00:18:29.960 But it's not here yet.

00:18:32.160 And what they've been doing is, well, some of it we see out in the streets.

00:18:36.900 We see the protests.

00:18:38.280 We see the screaming.

00:18:39.240 We see the howling.

00:18:40.240 Fine.

00:18:41.000 It's their right to do it, whether it's ridiculous or not.

00:18:43.580 But something that's a little more insidious is the divestment movement.

00:18:46.400 People don't hear about that a lot.

00:18:47.760 But what they're doing is they're approaching the financial institutions that back energy

00:18:54.300 exploration or the pension plans that invest in energy projects and programs and insurance

00:19:00.440 companies that fund those things. So what they're trying to do is backdoor, cut off all the money

00:19:04.980 from these petrochemical industries and others, mining and other things. And again, they don't

00:19:10.480 look to what would happen if they actually got their wish and these companies disappeared. They

00:19:14.420 just want them to disappear or wanting it isn't enough. So somebody's pushing back, which is great

00:19:18.900 because this is an issue that's sliding under the radar and people don't realize how damaging it

00:19:23.220 actually is. And I'm sure she may correct me on the name pronunciation in a minute. As regular

00:19:29.400 viewers know, I love slaughtering people's names, but I think it's Gina Papano and she's with 0.94

00:19:33.340 investment now or invest now I should say. And she's been working hard on approaching places

00:19:38.720 and pushing back against divestment. So let's have her in and have a conversation about their 0.94

00:19:42.360 effort as a group there. Hi, Gina, how are you doing? I'm good, Corey. How are you? Good. Thank

00:19:48.860 you. Did I get that last name right? Yes, you did. It was perfect. Oh, great. You know, there's a

00:19:53.660 couple of ways that one could have gone. So yes, I've heard them all. As you might have heard from

00:20:00.460 the lobby there, I talked a bit about the background of divestment and what's happening

00:20:03.920 with it. But perhaps if you could expand a little more on what that is and where they're targeting

00:20:08.440 some industries right now? Yes. So on the one side, we have investing, which is putting money

00:20:14.240 into something. And on the other side, we have divesting, which is starving a company of the

00:20:19.320 capital they need to thrive, survive, thrive, and even start up. And we've been seeing the

00:20:29.220 divestment movement take hold in Canada over the last few years. You know, they started

00:20:33.960 at the universities calling on the endowment funds of universities to divest from

00:20:40.200 all stock any stock holdings of oil and gas companies and now as you mentioned they've

00:20:46.840 moved on to pension funds as well as calling on the banks to stop financing and investing in oil

00:20:55.720 and gas companies um so at invest now we we think that's totally wrong um we should be investing in

00:21:03.800 our oil and gas companies you know we have some of the highest standards in the world

00:21:09.320 our oil and gas companies are the cleanest demand is going nowhere but up and we feel that canada

00:21:16.360 should be supplying the oil and gas that the world needs and that's our main mission is to

00:21:22.440 fight against the divestment movement and i mean it can be terribly damaging i mean you know

00:21:28.840 if i mean if we just leave the markets alone if they're non-viable industries if enough of the

00:21:33.000 people don't want to have any part of it they'll stop investing in it but this is different this

00:21:36.920 is intervening against the instincts of investors and and trying to artificially stunt the the flow

00:21:42.440 of of capital to these projects and and it can be very damaging for a lot of people and their

00:21:47.880 their pension plans, they might not realize it. Yes, the returns on oil and gas companies of late

00:21:53.620 have been exceptional. And you by just wiping out a whole sector, you know, that's that's

00:22:01.780 artificially constraining portfolio. And it's artificially constraining investment in a sector

00:22:07.560 that is viable and so important to Canada, especially. Yeah, so I mean, your organization

00:22:14.780 has been doing more than just speaking to it. Of course, your site is quite deep with a lot

00:22:17.860 of information on but you've been giving presentations and proactively going out too

00:22:21.740 to try and you know counter this sort of activity right? Yes and our latest big push is to the

00:22:28.140 banks. We've submitted some shareholder proposals which I'll be presenting on in the next few weeks

00:22:32.580 and we're calling on the banks to commit to investing in the oil and gas sector and to

00:22:40.680 look at their, the things that they've committed to like net zero, which is, you know, is another

00:22:49.080 word for divestment basically, because you're saying that you're not going to invest in oil

00:22:52.660 and gas companies. And we're calling on them to, to commit to the sector. And we're calling on

00:22:58.400 shareholders to vote for our proposal. Well, that's it. I mean, if you can get to the shareholders,

00:23:04.020 those are the people that are actually in the end of it, putting their money in and they want

00:23:07.140 a return on it. That's why they're doing it. If senior levels of these companies are, you know,

00:23:14.100 misdirecting with these shareholders bought into it, that's a kind of inappropriate when with

00:23:18.120 the goal of investment is. That's exactly right. And it's, you're not only taking care of the

00:23:25.340 shareholders when you're, you know, you're investing in viable companies, as you said,

00:23:29.460 and you're allowing the markets to work themselves out, so to speak, but you're also

00:23:36.180 taking care of stakeholders because the whole purpose of divestment is to stem the climate crisis

00:23:43.460 but that does nothing to it doesn't do anything to help emissions reductions because the oil and

00:23:50.580 gas that the world needs and is demanding is going to come from somewhere so i we believe

00:23:55.780 that canada should be supplying that oil and gas and why should we be hobbling canada and

00:24:01.460 our economy and jobs and everything that relies on oil and gas um to to chase this non-existent

00:24:10.900 like this exists this goal of emission reduction which isn't um it's not happening yeah i mean

00:24:19.940 it's well something that the the divestment movement i guess kind of overlooks is

00:24:24.180 that uh energy producers oil and gas and other things i still have made great strides in reducing

00:24:30.420 the emissions that they do produce. I mean, we won't hit zero, but they've done great advancements

00:24:35.820 with carbon capture, with cleaning up oil field practices, and a lot of other technological

00:24:41.400 advances that reduce the impact on the planet in general, whether it's emissions or even on

00:24:45.220 ground footprint. But the divestment movement refuses to acknowledge that.

00:24:49.480 That's right. And investment really, it does foster innovation. Because if you have capital,

00:24:54.600 you will be innovating. You're constantly innovating. You're always trying to do better.

00:24:58.600 if you take away that investment or that capital, then it means that we're starving the industry of

00:25:05.300 innovation. Well, and you've got, I imagine you don't want to get too specifically political,

00:25:11.360 but a challenge with the federal government that's giving a bunch of incentives to

00:25:15.300 green investments, but it's kind of been pretty silent when it comes to our existing industries.

00:25:22.820 Yes. And the question we always have is why are we hobbling ourselves? And meanwhile,

00:25:28.900 you know, China is permitting two new coal plants per week in 2022. They were permitting two,

00:25:36.180 two new coal plants per week when they could be used. We could be the supplier of choice.

00:25:40.900 We could be an energy powerhouse and we're, we're hobbling ourselves for no reason.

00:25:47.140 well yeah and i'd mentioned germany earlier like we've seen the examples you know any

00:25:52.480 realistic economist is pointing out there's going to be still a growing demand for petrochemical

00:25:58.540 products probably for decades to come yet so i mean we have to face that reality germany kind

00:26:04.380 of refused to face it they put billions and billions and billions of dollars into renewables

00:26:08.960 and when push came to shove they found themselves over a barrel they actually had to start burning

00:26:13.840 coal again. I mean, the irony of that whole mess is, but it seems to be lost on anti-petrochemical

00:26:19.200 activists. That's right. And we just need to look at Europe for an example of where Canada is headed.

00:26:25.600 And unless we change our, unless we change the attitudes and get our message out there that

00:26:32.020 investment is key and not divestment, we're going to be, we will be following in their footsteps.

00:26:38.460 What Europe is going through right now, you know, they're deciding between eating and heating,

00:26:42.440 the energy prices have skyrocketed um there's no supply and uh canada could be there to

00:26:50.280 to save the day and and as i noticed on your website of course i mean it's predominantly

00:26:56.060 we hear about oil and gas but this isn't this doesn't stop just there and anything that

00:27:00.640 activists could deem to be irresponsible environmentally or socially by their measure

00:27:05.820 they could start doing the same thing whether it's uh livestock producers or fertilizer use

00:27:11.040 in agricultural applications or mining or forestry.

00:27:14.800 Mining, exactly.

00:27:16.500 We're advocating, we started with oil and gas

00:27:19.460 because they've been the most demonized,

00:27:21.960 but we are keeping our eye on all those four sectors

00:27:25.040 that you just mentioned,

00:27:25.980 all the natural resources sector,

00:27:27.660 which Canada is blessed with.

00:27:29.660 You know, we have an advantage

00:27:31.980 by having all of these natural resources

00:27:34.820 and we should be fostering the national resources.

00:27:37.940 We should be investing in it.

00:27:41.040 So this kind of all ties into that whole ESG, I would call it a fad even, but it's a destructive one. It's basically saying that our corporations, our businesses shouldn't actually be focused on making money, that their role is as some sort of philanthropists in the world with environment and social governance and such.

00:28:00.340 But that's, you know, speaking of divestment, that's a divestment from the reality of why those places were formed in the first place.

00:28:07.120 But their boards are starting to embrace this stuff.

00:28:09.540 And, you know, how do you turn back that trend a little bit?

00:28:12.960 Well, we have seen a little bit of pushback in the industry.

00:28:17.060 Vanguard exited out of a net zero, like a global asset manager alliance, because they realized that you can't just blanket divest from a sector.

00:28:27.720 that is not that is the antithesis of esg investing if you want it to go that way they get

00:28:33.080 you can't just say oh we're never investing in an oil and gas company you're not even looking

00:28:36.520 at their governance standards their environmental standards their social standards and um especially

00:28:42.600 in canada where our standards are so high to just say oh we're not we're not investing in oil and

00:28:47.560 gas anymore that is not esg investing at all and we have seen some pushback you know in the

00:28:53.800 in the us um the ceo of of um jamie diamond said to to divest from oil and gas would be hell for

00:29:00.840 america and i would say it would be health for canada as well so we need to get our mess that

00:29:05.800 divestment is wrong it's it's not good for canada not good for canadians not good for jobs and not

00:29:12.680 good for innovation not good for shareholders either no and even speaking to shareholders and

00:29:19.240 organizations have you been in communication your organization with elected officials or

00:29:24.040 uh you know government bodies of any kind on this issue no not on this issue but we're um our first

00:29:29.960 product this first initiative reaching out to shareholders we have been doing that and we've

00:29:34.600 gotten some good feedback that people will be voting for for our proposal um so we're happy

00:29:41.000 to hear that and we're just going to keep pushing step by step so as you move i know you've got a

00:29:48.040 petition on the go and a few other things. Before I let you go then, where can people find

00:29:52.520 more information on how to help support this, I say, push back against an unreasonable and

00:29:58.420 destructive movement? Where are you guys based? Yeah, people can go on to sdin.ca and look at

00:30:04.560 our campaigns. We have a campaign for the university professors across universities

00:30:09.860 across Canada to stop, to reject the divestment agenda because they're pushing for their pension

00:30:15.780 funds to divest and um they can look at our campaigns and sign on to our our resolution

00:30:22.420 where we say uh vote against divestment excellent is there anything more you'd like to add before i

00:30:29.220 let you go um just that you know investment is good divestment is bad uh let's not hobble canada

00:30:39.700 at the expense of, um, uh, a climate, you know, a climate, uh, emissions reductions that aren't

00:30:48.100 happening anyway. And Canada should be the one to supply the demand. Great. Well, thank you very

00:30:54.660 much for joining us today to talk about it and for your work and pushing back against this

00:30:58.340 unreasonable movement. I hope it continues to go well for you. Thank you, Corey. Thanks very much.

00:31:03.620 right so that was gina papano of invest now and look into it guys support at the very least you

00:31:10.120 know the petition and things like that like i said this is a this is sneakier than most environmental

00:31:14.140 moves in a lot of ways you know when they go out and block railways and protest on the streets and

00:31:18.860 do some of their other ridiculous stuff it's annoying but we see it but this this is actually

00:31:23.760 a little more as i said insidious you know that they're going to the root of investment and this

00:31:29.520 could be very costly for us. So by all means, check this out. And I was happy to see somebody

00:31:34.620 making an effort to push back on that. Because again, hey, if we remain apathetic,

00:31:38.680 they win. Credit to give to the progressive protesters and the ones out there. They organize,

00:31:44.060 they get off their butts, they make noise, and that's why they unfortunately get away with murder.

00:31:47.800 So we've got to get active as well. And there's one of the ways you can do it.

00:31:52.140 All right. So I see some of the comments in the comment scroll about, and it's been breaking

00:31:57.040 recently. This is a big deal and we're still kind of finding out what's going on with Premier

00:32:02.460 Daniel Smith in Alberta. And I want to expand a little on it because we do have people across

00:32:06.240 the country listening in. As you know, Premier Smith's had a hard time finding her feet in a 0.97

00:32:10.820 lot of ways since becoming leader. There's an election approaching in a couple of months.

00:32:14.400 And there was word that she had been inappropriately communicating with the

00:32:21.200 prosecutor's office on behalf of people charged through the period of time with COVID lockdowns

00:32:27.660 and restrictions and things like that. And that was scandalous at its time when it was accused,

00:32:32.700 but Premier Smith had gotten up and said, no, I didn't. I'd never directly spoke to them and

00:32:37.680 such. Well, Artur Pawlowski, now he's a, how would I put it? Bombastic Alberta preacher,

00:32:47.000 quite a character. And yes, he got charged a number of times for holding church services.

00:32:53.340 I don't want to go into discussion of whether or not that was appropriate to charge him for

00:32:56.440 holding services. I don't think they should have. But, you know, it doesn't mean that he's a smart

00:33:01.040 or decent person. And that's what some people are realizing right now. So Daniel Smith, Premier

00:33:06.440 Smith has been actually quite sympathetic to Mr. Palowski's plight. Again, maybe not necessarily,

00:33:10.520 you know, supporting him, but doesn't feel he was charged in the correct circumstances. So it looks

00:33:16.140 like she had a conference call or something of the sort with Ardner Pawlowski and some others

00:33:20.520 in January. And during that call, she said that she had communicated regularly with the

00:33:27.140 prosecutor's office. She didn't, and she actually kind of couched it a few times and saying that

00:33:30.560 she didn't, she couldn't change their path and she couldn't force them to do their things. 0.99

00:33:35.920 Her role as premier means, you know, she doesn't interfere directly in criminal cases. But, you 0.61

00:33:42.960 know, you really get that line fine when the Premier's communicating directly with prosecutors

00:33:46.680 offices, even if your communication is not trying to pressure them. It looks bad. Plus,

00:33:50.860 it's very contrary to what she communicated, saying she'd never had those communications

00:33:54.780 in the first place. So for whatever reason, either way, a mistake on Premier Smith's part,

00:34:02.780 absolutely, I think, but we'll see as this unfolds. But this is a big one. And the other

00:34:08.060 mistake was talking to Pawlowski in the first place. I've known Premier Smith for a long time.

00:34:13.420 We worked together in politics in the past. She worked here at the Western Standard for a while.

00:34:17.260 If anything, Premier Smith has as a character flaw of her own is she really does seem to have 0.97

00:34:22.860 a tendency to try and see the best in everybody. And she has a hole sometimes when it comes to 0.78

00:34:28.360 judging the character of others. So she innocently, I think, had that conversation with Pawlowski

00:34:34.900 because she felt for his plight and she spoke to him. And for whatever reason, Mr. Pawlowski has

00:34:39.640 decided to leak the video that you could tell by the way the camera was held. He sneakily recorded

00:34:45.120 during their conference call and violated that confidence and gave it to the CBC and the NDP

00:34:50.120 are having a field day with it. So we'll see as that unfolds. But I tell you, Alberta is in the

00:34:55.180 midst of an election that's going to be very close by most measures. And with a blow like this,

00:34:59.980 when we're going to see now the premier's office in damage control mode for the next little while,

00:35:04.900 This is a very, very big problem.

00:35:07.940 So we'll certainly be watching that closely as it unfolds in times like this and everything else.

00:35:15.220 And, you know, as we see, one of the commenters saying, you know,

00:35:18.120 I have the utmost respect for Pastor Pawlowski.

00:35:21.480 And that's fine.

00:35:22.440 You know, as a minister, he's done his work and things.

00:35:25.440 But as a politician, he's been an absolute disaster.

00:35:28.200 His own party just fired him the other day.

00:35:29.780 That was another story that came up.

00:35:31.020 He was leading the Alberta Independence Party.

00:35:32.740 I think they got 40 votes or something in a recent election.

00:35:35.960 And even they couldn't handle him any longer and moved him along.

00:35:41.500 So perhaps he should stick to his pulpit.

00:35:43.880 But that's going to be breaking news here for a while.

00:35:46.420 Okay, another one, you know, big this week, of course, is the federal budget.

00:35:49.200 We should talk a little bit about that.

00:35:51.460 Because it was, well, you know, it was kind of what we expected, which was too bad,

00:35:55.700 because we expected a high-spending, nasty liberal budget.

00:35:58.740 And, you know, most of it was to keep Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, and make sure that that deal is maintained because Justin Trudeau doesn't want to lose his minority government and he doesn't want to address the Chinese Communist Party interference issue that's going on.

00:36:13.220 So he's buying Jagmeet's love.

00:36:15.200 The problem, of course, you know, and some people aren't old enough to remember it.

00:36:18.860 I think myself and of course, you know, many of our listeners are.

00:36:22.320 The interest payments, deficit financing, like you can't go too long with it.

00:36:27.040 The only thing that's kind of saving the government's butt, and it's not just the federal government, all the provincial governments have been borrowing too, has been low interest rates.

00:36:35.380 So if you go all the way back to the 90s, when we had kind of the whole country had to cut the budgets.

00:36:41.220 They had to provincially, federally, even the NDP government in Saskatchewan under Romano balanced the budget because people were disgusted by the amount of money that was going out in interest on the debt.

00:36:51.620 because that's money flushed down the toilet. That's money, the tax dollars coming out of your

00:36:55.280 wallet that don't go towards a social program, don't go towards healthcare, building highways,

00:37:00.380 or even another ugly public art project. They go flush down the toilet of interest payments on a

00:37:05.740 debt. They're living on the credit cards. And it's costly and we can't keep doing it.

00:37:13.680 So now, right now, the interest charges is going to be 44 billion a year on Canada's federal debt.

00:37:20.480 That's your money. You're working hard. You're paying your taxes. Well, $44 billion of that

00:37:24.500 is going into interest. Now, if the government sticks with their budget, which I doubt they

00:37:29.660 will, you got to remember last fall, they put out a budget update saying they were going to be

00:37:33.180 balanced this year. And now they're, you know, billions in deficit or not balanced this year,

00:37:37.520 but balanced soon. And they were going to reduce the deficit. And that grew in just a matter of a

00:37:41.280 few months. So, but if the projections stay the same, we'll be paying 50 billion a year in interest

00:37:46.240 by 2027. Money flushed down the toilet, wasted. So we've got some serious, serious problems on

00:37:55.000 the federal front, guys. And what are they doing with the money? Are they being responsible with

00:37:58.580 it? Is it benefiting us? Well, look at some of these things. Well, we got the notes of Harrington

00:38:03.300 Lake, the cottage that Prime Minister Dresden Trudeau resides in when he's not traveling and

00:38:09.120 staying in $6,000 a night hotel rooms to have impromptu karaoke parties during funerals.

00:38:14.740 and $20,000 a month is the maintenance cost.

00:38:20.120 Just the maintenance of the cottage Trudeau lives in.

00:38:24.800 I mean, the specific expense is $116,000 for mowing snow and ice control.

00:38:30.500 Really? How do you get those contracts?

00:38:32.640 Well, yeah, we got an idea how those things happen.

00:38:34.880 They have no respect for our money whatsoever.

00:38:37.040 Even if you were very wealthy and lived in a large place with large grounds,

00:38:41.680 Do you really think you would blow $116,000 a year for your mowing and snow and ice control?

00:38:48.520 Really?

00:38:49.540 They don't care.

00:38:50.640 They don't care. 0.99

00:38:51.380 They don't work for the money.

00:38:52.460 They take the money. 0.67

00:38:53.740 They take our taxes and they blow the budgets.

00:38:57.340 What's the other thing we saw recently? 0.81

00:38:58.580 The governor general, she did a $90,000 day trip one day to go up to where she used to

00:39:05.200 live and visit for a day up in the Arctic and came back.

00:39:09.320 $90,000.

00:39:12.360 You know, we have so many families having a hard time making ends meet right now.

00:39:15.820 They'd love to go on vacations.

00:39:17.340 They'd love to take the kids out. 0.99

00:39:18.540 They'd love to do something they can't afford to.

00:39:21.640 They're getting taxed to the hilt.

00:39:23.180 The cost of living is going up.

00:39:24.600 The government's higher spending is only going to spur more inflation.

00:39:28.960 What do we got, though?

00:39:29.640 A prime minister who gets himself into $6,000 a night hotel rooms

00:39:33.580 and his appointed governor general spending $90,000 on a day trip.

00:39:38.280 They don't care about you.

00:39:40.320 They hold you in contempt.

00:39:42.280 I mean, this is insulting.

00:39:44.660 Insulting when you work.

00:39:47.120 All right, I'll turn the page and get on to something else that's got me a little, well, worked up and it's bad.

00:39:54.140 This trend that we're seeing lately with people on bail killing people.

00:39:59.480 It's happening all the time.

00:40:01.260 So we're finding out they're on bail or they've been released and arrested again.

00:40:07.060 The 16-year-old kid who was randomly attacked on a Toronto train, murdered by a man.

00:40:13.400 Turns out the man had a long criminal history, and he was out on bail.

00:40:16.640 He killed somebody.

00:40:18.080 You know, the officer who was killed, the OPP officer just recently, last year, was killed by a man on bail.

00:40:26.660 We have Constable Shailen Yang.

00:40:28.560 She was killed at a homeless encampment in Burnaby last fall by a person who, again,

00:40:34.580 had serious mental health issues and was known, but was released again. You know, we saw that

00:40:40.500 horrible stabbing in Vancouver the other day at a Starbucks. You know, that video was going

00:40:48.860 around. It was just mortifying. I believe the Western Standard had it up too. You know,

00:40:53.060 it was awful. He was stabbed. He bled out right in front of people. And lots of people have

00:40:57.360 questions. One guy just sat there having a coffee. The other is wondering who just stood there

00:41:00.600 filming it. You know, some of the questions with that, but the guy who did that apparently had no

00:41:07.480 record. Okay. See, sometimes they come out of the blue. They clearly have a mental health issue.

00:41:12.220 This stabbing happened apparently because the man had asked a man to stop vaping next to his kid.

00:41:16.680 And instead of stopping vaping, the man pulled out a knife and stabbed him to death. Horrible.

00:41:22.740 But now, now we couldn't prevent a lunatic like that man who stabbed him. You couldn't see it

00:41:28.600 coming, perhaps, at this point. But now we have him. He's in custody. He's been charged. You know

00:41:32.780 what? Let him die of old age in jail. Quit letting guys like this out. A man capable of that cannot

00:41:38.800 be repaired. They can't be fixed. They can't be made safe for society. We have to have real life

00:41:45.720 sentences. The officer killed in Quebec, thrown out of a window by a man who'd been in and out

00:41:51.560 mental health facilities for most of his adult life again why was he loose it cost another life

00:42:00.440 the 16 year old kid who murdered two police officers in edmonton a couple of weeks ago

00:42:05.400 again he'd had back and forth mental health facilities now it's easy to judge with hindsight

00:42:10.280 it's hard to say if he'd done enough bad things to stay to keep him locked up within a mental

00:42:15.480 health place but a lot of what's happening it gets back to that deinstitutionalization where

00:42:19.720 we've closed down our mental health facilities. We aren't keeping people within them. And it's

00:42:25.480 dangerous. It's dangerous to the people within those facilities. And it's dangerous, of course,

00:42:29.740 to the public when they get out. We don't like to think, as I said, of keeping people incarcerated

00:42:35.920 because of an illness. And it is an illness. But, you know, they don't have to be. And that's part

00:42:41.400 of it. I had some of those Twitter discussions. If people really want to, by the way, I'll just

00:42:44.420 get that out there. If you really want to interact with me, get into the fighting.

00:42:46.800 Corey B. Morgan on Twitter. That's where we have those discussions. And I talked about that and

00:42:51.440 the guy said, Oh, you just want to lock people up and torture chambers that are insane asylums. And

00:42:55.920 you want to, uh, you know, these, these awful places of abuse. Come on guys. They aren't like

00:42:59.780 that anymore. Not even close too many. One flew over the cuckoo's nest. One of the best movies I

00:43:04.340 ever saw. And it was also, I think one of the most devastating ones on society because it gave,

00:43:09.780 well, perhaps that was some of the way those institutions were at that time,

00:43:12.980 such a negative impression. But rather than reforming the institutions, we close them.

00:43:17.740 And what happened to people? What happens to somebody? Their family can't keep them under

00:43:21.620 control anymore. They have serious mental health problems. Police can't control them. We don't

00:43:27.080 want them in jail. They aren't criminals. They're sick. But they end up on the street. And then they

00:43:30.980 self-medicate, which often ends up meaning methamphetamines or fentanyl or other opioids.

00:43:37.080 Yes, the street people, we see a lot of them. That's why you often hear of addiction mental

00:43:40.460 health services tied together, because they are very closely tied together. We need to have the

00:43:45.240 ability to take these people in. And yes, yes, in a lot of cases means you have to hold them,

00:43:51.120 whether they want to leave or not. And it's for their own sake. And it doesn't have to be

00:43:54.820 an electroshock therapy place dominated by a nurse rat shed who wants to emasculate men in pajamas.

00:44:01.660 It's not like that anymore. And it doesn't have to be. I mean, people say, again, we want to

00:44:06.220 protect the dignity of these people. Are they enjoying dignity now? But we've got lives being

00:44:10.540 lost, whether it's the criminal ones, as the OPP officer who got shot, or the ones with regular

00:44:16.540 mental health problems, which again, should be, again, kept within for the sake of everybody,

00:44:23.500 for the sake of them. That's what I talk about, the irony, the mental disconnect. These progressives

00:44:28.940 say, we're being compassionate by giving safe supply. Really? Get out there in the street and

00:44:33.720 check it out. What does your compassion look like? You've got people living in misery. They're

00:44:38.720 shuffling along, bent over. You ever see people walk with that? You see them in that strange

00:44:42.460 stooped over look, you know, on a corner and they're kind of slowly passing out. Just so you

00:44:46.360 know, if you're wondering what that is, that's fentanyl. That's what it does to you. It gives

00:44:49.720 you that bend and you walk that strange shuffling way. You probably see them walking up and down

00:44:53.300 the curbs, bigging for change and in downtowns. You see them passed out in train facilities.

00:44:59.980 Vancouver yesterday, there's a video just went out on Twitter I saw,

00:45:02.980 was another stabbing incident between two addicts in the middle of a station.

00:45:06.340 And in Calgary the other day, we had a bunch of women get into a fight

00:45:10.140 and stab each other in a residential area in a station, a train station as well.

00:45:15.980 And you say it's compassionate to leave this where it is.

00:45:18.540 It's compassionate to keep these people loose, armed,

00:45:21.860 and attacking each other and other people.

00:45:24.020 That's not compassion. That's delusion.

00:45:26.720 And innocent people are dying because of it.

00:45:29.120 So again, back to that earlier theme on what I went on about to begin, you know, my whole rant

00:45:33.900 is I don't care what your fuzzy notions of how things are supposed to be. We need policies that

00:45:39.700 actually have outcomes. That's compassion, the changing things, even if you don't like the way

00:45:47.560 that policy has to go. And, you know, instead, we got a government that's fixated on green energy

00:45:55.100 and fluffy crap and stuff like that.

00:45:57.840 You know, they spent $9 billion on a dental plan

00:46:00.960 to keep Jagmeet Singh happy.

00:46:03.020 I didn't hear any mention of mental health supports.

00:46:05.860 I, no matter how big your dental plan is,

00:46:08.360 the meth is going to eat the teeth out of those guys, you know.

00:46:11.300 I would rather that money went into mental health supports,

00:46:13.640 get them stable, get them hopefully perhaps fixed.

00:46:16.420 Mental health doesn't have to mean a life sentence,

00:46:17.860 but if they are dangerous, then sometimes it does.

00:46:21.080 We got to get realistic on this.

00:46:23.160 And I'll finish with one other thing with where money was wasted. 0.72

00:46:25.100 because we've got a government that's kind of picking up where the Christian government failed. 0.54

00:46:28.420 And that's what going after law abiding firearm owners. We spent $2 billion on a failed registry

00:46:35.700 in the past in the 90s. And that's 1990s dollars, you know, so $2 billion. Imagine if we'd spent

00:46:42.160 that then on expanding mental health treatment for people, because the money on the registry

00:46:47.680 didn't prevent a single crime didn't help anybody. But money on mental health facilities

00:46:52.340 would have, how many crimes would it have prevented? How many families would it save? How many suicides

00:46:56.200 could it have prevented? I mean, if you divide that up among the provinces, you know,

00:47:00.560 hundreds of millions of dollars to every province in the country to expand and get out

00:47:04.340 there and help people. But no, we don't talk about that. We're giving dental programs

00:47:08.100 because Jagmeet Singh wants to buy support in the lower mainland Vancouver.

00:47:11.900 Got to get our priorities right. I know it's the most recent commenter, Tracy, saying

00:47:15.740 green energy and drag shows seem to be their priorities rather than lies. Yeah, you know,

00:47:19.560 prioritize and prioritize one role of the government. I don't want to see any more

00:47:25.240 government than we have to. One role is to keep us safe and they're failing in it. So we've got

00:47:29.680 to keep on them. Okay. That covers it for today, guys. Next week, I'm going to have Franco

00:47:33.700 Terrazzano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation on. We're going to talk about the federal budget

00:47:37.440 and a whole bunch of tax increases that are coming along on April 1st. Yes. Happy April Fool's Day.

00:47:43.440 And of course there'll be other news items and ranting and raving on my part as well. So thank

00:47:48.020 you all for tuning in today, guys, and I will see you all next week.

00:48:18.020 Thank you.

Western Standard - March 30, 2023

CMS： Progressives need to accept hard realities

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