Western Standard - CMS： Subsidized media is controlled media

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.980 welcome to the cory morgan show i am as the name would imply cory morgan and i'm gonna bend your

00:00:36.460 ear for the next hour or so on a number of issues there's lots to cover looking on the bright side

00:00:42.380 you know i'm always cursing complaining going on about things i'm sort of a grouch that's okay

00:00:47.100 but uh it's raining in alberta it's finally raining i mean you're hearing from some people

00:00:52.460 saying it's not enough it's too little too late okay but it's still better than nothing so we

00:00:57.340 we could use that cool down. Hopefully some stuff greens up, give our agricultural producers a break

00:01:02.680 and, uh, you know, give our firefighters a break. Just everybody a break. Heck, even your lawns at

00:01:07.440 home. Boy, it's been quite the drought going on here so far. So, uh, yes, this show runs live for

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00:01:26.600 of course, and we can all have a good time. Send questions to my guests and such, if you like.

00:01:31.860 I've got coming in today, Jay Hill. He's been on the show a number of times in the past. He was a

00:01:36.220 member of parliament for a good number of years before finally retiring out of there. I'm looking

00:01:41.240 forward to talking to Jay because there's just, I want to find out about some of the procedure. I

00:01:45.520 want to find out what's going on. How on earth do we deal with this, this CCP corruption issue?

00:01:51.880 How is it that a minority government can get away with putting off an inquiry so effectively?

00:01:55.980 are there things the opposition can do? Are there not things they could do? I think Jay will be able

00:02:00.420 to answer a lot of those questions. So I'm looking forward to that. Of course, we'll be

00:02:03.920 checking in with Jay, or Jay, checking in with our news editor Dave in a little while. But first,

00:02:11.220 I'm going to get on about what's got me going today. And it's talking about a nice self-serving

00:02:16.400 subject for me, the media. Yes, the media. And you know, lots of folks probably familiar with

00:02:22.100 that old saying, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Well, in Canada, the government's paying

00:02:26.960 the piper with your tax dollars, the media piper anyways, and it's calling the tune through

00:02:32.120 regulations. I mean, the CBC, they've pretty much nearly completed their transformation into a true

00:02:37.840 state media outlet. I mean, newscasts, pundits, stories on CBC, they sound more like communications

00:02:44.000 for the governing liberal party than actually reporting news anymore. But legacy media outlets,

00:02:49.360 they aren't that far behind now as they're getting increasingly dependent on federal subsidies to

00:02:53.960 keep the lights on. I'll face it, subsidies, they stunt innovation. And this is a time when we need

00:02:59.900 it. The older media outlets should have been changing their business models to adapt to a

00:03:03.960 digital world. Instead, they've been honing their lobbying skills and becoming, you know, getting

00:03:09.540 better at accepting handouts and putting that into their budget. Now they're beholden to the

00:03:14.100 government and it shows. And the controls the government has on them can be subtle, but they're

00:03:18.620 there. I mean, since 2019, the government's been paying out payroll subsidies to those they consider

00:03:23.900 qualified news organizations. So this money comes with strings attached, of course. In order to be

00:03:29.860 qualified, applicants must prove, and this is from their document here, a consistent practice of

00:03:36.200 providing rebuttal opportunity for those being criticized, including the government of Canada.

00:03:41.500 So what that's led to, though, is an obligation now. When government agencies, they make demands

00:03:45.860 on the media outlets to counter anything they may report.

00:03:49.620 The federal department of health issued hundreds

00:03:52.080 of what they call corrections to media outlets

00:03:54.560 over the course of the last couple of years, hundreds.

00:03:57.140 Other media, I mean, other departments

00:03:59.240 of the government surely have been doing

00:04:00.440 the same sort of thing.

00:04:01.840 Critical discourse on health issues

00:04:03.500 have been gagged since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:04:06.180 Government agencies have their own agenda,

00:04:07.860 particularly the health department.

00:04:09.320 And now they've got the power to muscle in

00:04:11.360 on legacy media outlets.

00:04:13.140 If they don't like the media messaging,

00:04:15.860 they'll put the pressure on.

00:04:17.160 This has trained a lot of those outlets

00:04:18.360 to avoid reporting on any commentary

00:04:20.860 that might run afoul of the health department

00:04:22.480 or the government itself.

00:04:23.840 I mean, if an outlet garners too many of those corrections,

00:04:26.420 they might find themselves not qualified anymore

00:04:28.580 and bumped from the subsidy train.

00:04:30.860 Bill C-18, of course, we've been hearing about that one.

00:04:33.820 That's even more bold and sneaky

00:04:35.340 as a means of controlling the media.

00:04:37.080 With that bill, the government wants to force

00:04:38.860 social media platforms to pay certain media outlets

00:04:42.040 when they provide links to them.

00:04:44.580 The outlets that will qualify for those payments, of course,

00:04:46.840 they'll be determined by a government committee,

00:04:49.000 and that committee will be appointed by the liberals.

00:04:51.920 This way, the government keeps its thumb on the media

00:04:53.860 and forces somebody else to pay the bill for them on top of it.

00:04:57.360 Stalin would have blushed with such a move.

00:04:59.980 Independent media outlets are still springing up and expanding, despite the government.

00:05:04.280 These outlets have shunned government subsidies

00:05:06.180 and tapped into the private market to pay their bills,

00:05:08.880 whether through subscriptions or advertising or both, like we do here at the Western Standard.

00:05:13.560 This allows the outlets to maintain full independence from the government.

00:05:17.780 Independent outlets are dependent, though, on social media platforms to aid with their distribution.

00:05:23.280 Independent outlets don't have mandatory carriage on cable channels as legacy outlets do,

00:05:28.360 and they don't have the means for broader advertising to draw readers and viewers like some of those legacy media outlets do.

00:05:34.060 We need Twitter, YouTube, Meta, Google, all of those ones to get to people out there.

00:05:39.380 The governments recognize this.

00:05:40.620 Now they've seen a way to shut down independent media outlets with C-18.

00:05:44.960 Because, I mean, not only will the media outlets be forced to pay out certain media outlets,

00:05:50.120 I should say the social media outlets will be forced to pay that out to media outlets,

00:05:53.780 they'll be leaving the independent outlets out to dry.

00:05:57.060 They won't be able to compete.

00:05:57.960 They might not even get links through them.

00:06:00.300 Now, right now, Meta and Google are threatening to drop links to all news sites,

00:06:04.300 whether independent or legacy, as a response to the Trudeau government's heavy-handed approach.

00:06:08.040 and can you blame them?

00:06:10.120 I mean, come on, they're putting the screws to them.

00:06:11.400 What else do they got to say?

00:06:12.000 Well, fine, we don't have to give links.

00:06:13.660 We'll just stop.

00:06:15.160 This response, though, is going to harm everybody.

00:06:17.140 Is it tougher than ever to access a broad spectrum

00:06:19.660 of news coverage and analysis?

00:06:22.220 My hope is on the horizon in some ways.

00:06:24.220 Elon Musk, I mean, he's proven to be a disruptor

00:06:26.540 indifferent to the establishment, and I love that.

00:06:28.860 He's willing to go against the grain

00:06:30.460 and stir up the social media world.

00:06:32.620 And Musk has the means to take,

00:06:34.760 and that's the reality of it,

00:06:35.820 financial beating that comes with going into such a battle. Now, whether, for example, one likes

00:06:41.140 Tucker Carlson or not, it doesn't really matter. The unfolding, though, story from his firing from

00:06:45.980 Fox News and his streaming his show on Twitter now is remarkable. Carlson's first episode of

00:06:51.720 Tucker on Twitter garnered 114.8 million views between June 6th and June 12th. Now, to put that

00:06:58.940 in perspective, the average CNN show draws about 500,000 viewers, just blew them completely out

00:07:06.440 of the water. A whole new broadcast medium is exploding on the scene, and it's already leaving

00:07:11.900 the conventional media behind. If a show, of course, whether it's Tucker or anything else,

00:07:15.880 can gather millions or tens of millions of viewers, it will draw advertising and revenue.

00:07:21.600 The show won't need tax dollars. If the platform's owned by somebody as intransigent as Elon Musk,

00:07:26.920 guy, you know, it won't capitulate to government control, at least not easily, if ever. The battle

00:07:32.560 for free media versus government control media is just heating up in Canada. It's going to take

00:07:37.140 some time, but the legacy media outlets will collapse eventually for lack of viewership,

00:07:41.780 despite the government subsidies. And we will see independent media outlets, some will come,

00:07:45.920 some will go, but eventually they will establish the new order of media provision. The only question

00:07:50.600 now though is how long will it take and how much damage will the government cause in trying to

00:07:54.940 maintain an obsolete status quo for its own benefit. That's what's got me going today,

00:08:00.560 guys. Yes, the battle for your eyes and ears and the federal government using all its tools it can

00:08:06.360 to try and control that. And it's just, it's sad and it's repugnant, to be honest. All right,

00:08:11.680 let's talk to our news editor. He's independent. He doesn't get any tax dollars, or if he does,

00:08:16.900 he's hitting it really well. And that's Dave Naylor. And see what else is going on out there.

00:08:20.820 Hey Dave, how's it going? Pretty good, Corey. No, the government takes a lot of tax dollars

00:08:25.460 from me. They don't give me anything. Hey, does your lovely wife Jane watch the show?

00:08:32.300 Usually. She's not watching today, I believe, because she had a course to teach. But yeah,

00:08:36.220 she watches later in case I say something stupid. Well, I just wanted to wish her a happy birthday. 0.99

00:08:40.420 What did you get her? Well, I took her out for supper and actually I made her a card and a

00:08:46.320 breakfast this morning that she politely said was good. Well, there you go. It's more than you

00:08:50.520 normally do, I think. I've got a lot of news to talk about this morning, Corey, and a lot of it

00:08:56.720 is kind of related to your monologue there. Bell Media took $122 million in subsidies from the

00:09:06.760 federal government, but that didn't stop them from gassing 1,300 workers today. They shut down

00:09:14.200 newsrooms across the country, including two in Vancouver, one in Edmonton, one in Calgary,

00:09:19.980 and they're going to solidify all their news under sort of one CTV umbrella.

00:09:25.800 So we'll see how that goes for them.

00:09:29.000 Top story at the moment is the leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Calgary.

00:09:33.980 Ironically, she's being charged with a hate crime for her actions in front of a Catholic church recently.

00:09:40.540 So you can click on that one.

00:09:42.740 And speaking of Tucker Carlson, we have a story on his third Twitter episode that aired last night talking about the arrest of President Donald Trump and his appearance in the courtroom in Miami yesterday.

00:09:58.180 So you get Tucker's thoughts there.

00:10:01.740 You remember a tweet from The Weekend Quarry on Premier Daniel Smith in her restaurant in High River.

00:10:08.960 She was washing dishes there, and that tweet got a lot of attention.

00:10:13.440 So I guess she's gone from washing dishes to washing her hands of the restaurant because it's now up for sale.

00:10:21.960 So if you want to own your own little restaurant on a rail car, give Premier Daniel Smith a call.

00:10:30.340 The other thing worth mentioning this morning, Corey, is you remember that $13 billion taxpayer gift to Volkswagen?

00:10:38.960 Well, apparently, according to the parliamentary budget officer, it's already gone up by more than $2 billion, already $2 billion over budget.

00:10:48.900 And I think they only announced the thing maybe a month ago.

00:10:51.740 So can you say boondoggle, Corey?

00:10:55.600 Oh, I can't imagine what that thing's going to total when they're done with it.

00:10:58.880 And lastly, I'll mention we have the announcement of the Calgary Stampede Parade Marshal this morning.

00:11:05.080 If you remember last year, it was Kevin Costner, and he caused all the women to swoon along the parade route.

00:11:13.580 This year, it's going to be Jeremy Hansen.

00:11:16.020 And if that name is not familiar to you, he's a Canadian astronaut,

00:11:20.940 and he's set to be blasted off to the moon through a moonshot,

00:11:26.700 one of the first moonshots in a generation coming up later.

00:11:30.620 So he'll be leading the parade this year, Corey.

00:11:33.420 Right on.

00:11:33.860 Well, it's, yeah, a lot of busy one in the newsroom today.

00:11:37.060 Dave, I'll let you get back to putting that up there

00:11:40.060 so you can continue to stay free from, you know,

00:11:43.020 government largesse and keep getting those stories out.

00:11:47.760 Absolutely.

00:11:48.380 We wouldn't do it if we were, right?

00:11:50.140 No, I wouldn't.

00:11:51.700 All right.

00:11:52.040 Thanks, Dave.

00:11:52.860 Thanks.

00:11:54.020 So, yes, that was our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:11:56.160 from the newsroom.

00:11:56.760 As you can hear, yes, lots of stories, guys.

00:11:58.620 We put stuff up there all the time.

00:12:00.540 And we blow the legacy media outlets out of the water.

00:12:03.320 There is constant stories going up.

00:12:05.960 We've got reporters across the country, unique content.

00:12:09.280 The reason we can do it kind of ties into my rant.

00:12:11.600 I'm segwaying it together is because you guys subscribe,

00:12:14.340 and that makes us accountable to you.

00:12:15.880 I mean, as opposed to what I was talking about with legacy media outlets.

00:12:18.260 When they take the money from the government, they become accountable to them.

00:12:21.900 $9.99 for a month, guys, $100 for a year,

00:12:25.260 and you get full unfettered access to all of our stories, our columns,

00:12:29.380 and all that good stuff.

00:12:30.220 Plus, of course, you support us, support this show, and keep us rolling.

00:12:32.840 So if you're already a subscriber, thank you very much, guys. You can go to westernstandard.news and get straight through to it. And if you're not a subscriber yet, come on, get on in there, guys. westernstandard.news slash membership. And it helps keep us rolling and keeping these shows going. So yeah, a lot there, you know, and as Dave mentioned, so Bell Media, and this shows the subsidy route, and this kind of gets to the end of the monologue I gave, but I do believe that these large outlets are still going to crumble. It doesn't matter how many tax dollars get poured into them.

00:12:59.940 So $122 million poured into Bell Media, and what did they do? They laid off 1,300 people and shut

00:13:06.120 down a bunch of radio stations. And they won't adapt. It's similar to what I was talking about

00:13:11.060 before. These are AM radio stations. One of the ones they shut down was 1060 in Calgary,

00:13:16.880 an AM platform. It had been running the last couple of years just playing comedy clips. It was

00:13:22.680 Calgary Funny Radio or something like that that they called it. I couldn't imagine they were

00:13:26.080 drawn much for ad revenue. And finally, they just pulled the plug on it. I'm dating myself. I remember

00:13:32.320 in the 80s, when I moved to Calgary, that was AM 106. That was the All Hits 106. It was a huge

00:13:37.900 radio station in the city back then, very big. But times change. That station probably should

00:13:43.380 have disappeared 10 years ago, to be honest. And I'm not celebrating the losses of jobs or the

00:13:47.420 people that are in them, but they have to adjust to the changing atmosphere. Who listens to AM

00:13:53.440 radio anymore. Well, I do in my car now and then, but I'm one of the last of them going on out there,

00:13:58.580 guys. I mean, it's streaming, it's online, it's, you know, people, you see the earbuds in with the

00:14:03.440 next generation, they're not listening to radio stations. And if these companies weren't being

00:14:08.240 subsidized all this time, then these stations would have adapted perhaps, or these outlets in

00:14:17.060 general, and some of those jobs perhaps could have been saved. But as it is now, we gave them the

00:14:22.880 money. We got little to nothing of benefit out of it. And yeah, now they're going to centralize

00:14:26.540 further, as Dave said, into just CTV. So we're getting fewer and fewer outlets. And none of

00:14:33.000 these outlets are really going to want to ever be too critical of their sugar daddy in Ottawa,

00:14:37.500 where they might find the pin pulled on their subsidies. Not a good situation. But hey,

00:14:41.520 we're still here. And that's what's positive out of this, as are some of the others, Rebel,

00:14:46.260 True North, Epoch Times. We're going to spring up like weeds. We won't let them get away with

00:14:51.360 stopping the information getting to you. All right. I'm going to get to my guest here. I've

00:14:55.380 been looking forward to this. It's been a while since we've had you in studio there, Jay. It's

00:14:59.760 good to see you. This is Jay Hill. As I mentioned at the top of the show, a former member of

00:15:03.820 parliament, former whip, all around experts in all that's Ottawa. So thanks for coming in and

00:15:10.680 talk to us today, Jay. My pleasure, Corey. It's always nice to be on your show. Yeah. And what I

00:15:16.400 kind of said in the email, what I want to get to is we've had all of this federal talk. We've had

00:15:19.720 all of this political games going on for months we have a federal government that's in a minority

00:15:24.680 position but they still it appears to be able to skate on a public inquiry like I'm just wondering

00:15:31.860 are there parliamentary things that can be done to address this by the opposition parties or are

00:15:36.860 their hands tied well first of all absolutely there are things that can be done I think you're

00:15:43.400 well aware that I hold the dubious distinction of having been the only member of parliament in

00:15:49.700 the history of our Canadian Parliament to hold the position of caucus or party whip four times.

00:15:58.080 My staff did some research and couldn't find any other time that anybody had been in that position

00:16:02.720 twice, let alone four times. And I've also been the House leader, both in opposition for the

00:16:10.460 chief opposition, but also for the government, which is a cabinet position, as you know.

00:16:17.760 So I'm very well versed in certainly in what can happen and how a government can be held accountable.

00:16:28.140 Certainly part of the reason why I decided to try something else other than public life in 2010 was at the time I had reached basically the apex of my political career.

00:16:40.000 I was in cabinet. I was sort of sitting on the right hand of the prime minister at the time

00:16:44.020 as the government house leader or the leader of the government in the house of commons.

00:16:49.980 And as such, in a minority parliament, it's a very, very difficult position normally,

00:16:55.480 certainly for a conservative it is, because you have to negotiate with the other parties, Corey,

00:17:01.400 bill by bill, motion by motion, daily, sometimes hourly to try and get anything done for the

00:17:07.820 government's agenda to get it through parliament. And of course, with conservatives, we don't have

00:17:13.560 any natural allies. All the other parties are, shall we say, left of center. And so it was

00:17:20.720 immensely stressful for the two minority parliaments that we had from 2006 to 2011 until

00:17:28.260 Prime Minister Harper won his one and only majority. So I fully recognize what can be done

00:17:35.440 and what can't be done when it comes to negotiating with the other parties.

00:17:40.860 Sadly for Canadians, we have an opposition party, the NDP,

00:17:45.360 under the leadership of Jagmeet Singh,

00:17:47.520 that has given our prime minister free reign to do whatever the hell he wants.

00:17:52.680 And that's totally unlike the way we were held accountable,

00:17:56.860 Harper Conservatives, in those two minorities that I was a part of.

00:18:01.560 Yeah, well, and just the talking out of both sides of his mouth, though,

00:18:04.760 where Jamie's saying he's been very critical, rightly so, of this whole scandal. I mean,

00:18:10.820 see, we might as well call it that by now, you know, the scandal of the Chinese Communist Party

00:18:14.180 interference and the Trudeau government working so hard to block an inquiry by all means. But,

00:18:19.940 you know, he's tabling motions, a non-binding motion, a non-binding motion. Well, big deal.

00:18:23.860 It's virtue signaling. But are there things that can be done that can force this then without

00:18:29.320 bringing down the government? He's saying, okay, we'd have to, it's not worth bringing the

00:18:33.340 government down over right now. I mean, not all of us might agree, but fine. But, you know,

00:18:37.540 is it opposition day? Is there something they could put in as a bill or something that can

00:18:41.380 force this without turning it to a confidence matter? Well, absolutely. I mean, the prime

00:18:47.800 minister under our system always holds the Trump card. Corey, I think you're aware of this.

00:18:52.340 In so far as that he can declare any motion or any act, any piece of legislation, a confidence

00:19:00.260 motion, which means that if that motion is defeated, if it falls, then we're into an

00:19:07.820 election. That's what that means. But what we did, what Stephen Harper did when Prime Minister and I

00:19:15.640 as both his House Leader and earlier as his government whip, we negotiated on a continual

00:19:21.140 basis with the other parties to say, okay, well, how can we work with you to amend this so that

00:19:28.140 it doesn't become a confidence measure. In fact, we never played that so-called trump card

00:19:32.900 of declaring something a confidence unless we felt very clearly that it was so integral

00:19:40.640 to our government agenda for what we were trying to accomplish for Canadians that we had no other

00:19:47.520 choice. So that happened very rarely that we would sort of have a showdown. And usually it was behind

00:19:53.800 closed doors where you say, you know, face to face, well, this is so much part of our electoral

00:19:59.640 promises or whatever, that if you're insistent, other House leaders, other whips, about getting

00:20:08.720 your caucuses to vote against it, and we lose this, then we're going to go into an election.

00:20:13.360 That's very rare under most circumstances. The problem is, is that Jagmeet Singh never plays

00:20:19.740 that card. He never, I'm sure he never says to the Prime Minister, or maybe behind closed doors,

00:20:25.980 the Prime Minister indicates all the time to him, well, you know, if you go against this Jagmeet,

00:20:31.480 we're going to be into an election. In other words, he's playing that fear of a confidence

00:20:35.820 motion constantly. Because stomping short of that, there's lots that can be done. At committees,

00:20:42.400 opposition days, as you say, in the House of Commons, there's a few that are votable,

00:20:47.300 that are actually driven to a vote.

00:20:49.780 You could do a lot of things.

00:20:51.880 This is not the first scandal.

00:20:55.080 There have been many.

00:20:56.800 And the Prime Minister has done this.

00:20:58.520 Prime Minister Trudeau has done this repeatedly

00:21:00.580 throughout the last number of years,

00:21:02.600 where every time a scandal comes up,

00:21:04.240 he'll do everything possible to hide it from Canadians,

00:21:08.320 even up to and including calling an election,

00:21:11.880 you know, which he did in 2021.

00:21:13.920 want. So it's just really, it comes down to having an extremely weak opposition party led by someone

00:21:24.860 that doesn't want to see an election because he fears for himself in his leadership position,

00:21:30.120 and he fears for his party's fortunes. Oh yeah, and I understand that. I mean,

00:21:34.920 Jagmeet Singh is as close to power as he will ever get. He knows that, you know,

00:21:38.700 come the next election, he might not be in such a position again. But I mean,

00:21:42.500 it just feels to me that it's a bluff that it can be called. I mean, you know, when you when you

00:21:49.060 declare something of confidence matter, that means that you're building a hill for yourself to die

00:21:53.060 on. You're saying we're going to stand on this. And really, even Trudeau is as tone deaf as he

00:21:57.900 can seem to be to go to Canadians and we're going to call an early election because I don't want to

00:22:03.700 go to an inquiry. I can't think of a more politically suicidal platform to go to the

00:22:08.500 voters with, I just don't think he would. He would do that. So to answer your question, yes,

00:22:14.260 on opposition day, certainly we had tremendous challenges at each and every committee. As you

00:22:20.800 know, the Procedure and House Affairs Committee has been studying this issue, if you will. They

00:22:26.720 called the, I forget what he's called now, reporter, Mr. Johnston, before them for three

00:22:38.360 hour testimony about a week ago, I think a week ago yesterday. And, you know, put him on the hot

00:22:44.640 seat asking questions about why his report basically said, well, no, he didn't think a

00:22:50.520 public inquiry was necessary. Starting next month, had he stayed in his job before he resigned,

00:22:56.080 he was going to start public hearings. Well, public hearings do not have the strength

00:23:01.840 and do not have all the tools that a public inquiry have, as I'm sure you're aware.

00:23:07.320 For example, a public inquiry is very much like the powers of a standing committee or even a special committee of the House of Commons.

00:23:16.040 They have rights very similar to courts where they can subpoena you and say you will show up on this day to give evidence and answer questions.

00:23:26.880 Public hearings, which Mr. Johnston allegedly was going to do, you cannot.

00:23:32.160 They can request. They can ask you to come. But if you basically say go pound sand, nothing happens.

00:23:41.400 So committees have that power. Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have that power.

00:23:47.620 They could easily, by dint of working with the other opposition parties, they could easily force those issues at a committee

00:23:56.040 and hold basically a full public inquiry or something very similar to that at one of those

00:24:02.720 committees. And you'll recall other instances over the last number of years since Trudeau came to

00:24:09.320 power in 2015, where a committee started to do that, and then eventually the NDP folded and didn't

00:24:16.720 force it to go to its logical conclusion. Okay, so they could start, because I mean, people want

00:24:23.460 And the answer is, I mean, we're seeing it's just rare when we see such a dominant thing with polling and Canadians, the lack of faith in everything we've been hearing out of this.

00:24:31.040 You know, you're looking at 20 some percent of the people believing anything more out of the Trudeau government when it comes to this issue.

00:24:38.160 I mean, still, the numbers supporting the government are higher than that.

00:24:40.940 OK, they don't want to go to election, but they want to get to the bottom of this.

00:24:43.880 They want to find out just what the heck is going on.

00:24:46.560 I mean, we've had some very direct meddling and it just flabbergasts me.

00:24:51.880 I mean, our system isn't working like it should.

00:24:53.640 If we can't, in a minority situation, get a real deep dig into something this important, it doesn't bode well for us.

00:25:01.680 Well, and I think it really hinges to a large extent.

00:25:04.160 And this is, I say this very sort of sadly, that it hinges on the topic you were discussing just as I came into the studio, which is the basic neutering of our national media.

00:25:19.000 You know, why aren't they on to Jagmeet? Why aren't they calling bullshit on Jagmeet Singh when he stands up and rants and raves about scandal after scandal and does nothing when he has the power to do that?

00:25:35.240 All he has to do is sit down with the conservatives and block and say, okay, let's devise a common strategy of how to get to the bottom of this at whichever committee, ethics committee, procedure and house affairs, pick a committee, doesn't matter. 0.93

00:25:48.400 They all have the same powers and say, we're going to work together.

00:25:51.680 We have the majority of votes on that committee, because it's a minority government, and we're going to force this starting tomorrow, next time that committee meets, and we have the power to have that committee meet all summer, right through the heat of summer.

00:26:07.640 You know, it doesn't have to rise when the House rises, you know, next week or whenever it is.

00:26:13.460 They have that power.

00:26:15.780 But the media and the public, you know, it's fine for, you know, the latest poll to say that 80% of Canadians, you know, are opposed to this, the way the government is going on this issue.

00:26:29.440 Right.

00:26:30.100 That's great.

00:26:31.360 But is it going to accomplish anything?

00:26:34.600 Well, that's it.

00:26:35.080 I mean, if their elected members can't bring about any change or getting into this, I'll ask you to get a little speculative.

00:26:44.560 The time goes fast.

00:26:45.860 We've still got a few minutes yet, but do you think we're going to get a public inquiry eventually?

00:26:50.840 I don't know.

00:26:52.040 I mean, judging by the way that this prime minister is skated around other issues, whether it's the SNC-Lavalin thing, that should have brought him down.

00:27:01.780 I mean, my goodness, the Attorney General and Justice Minister of the country, Jody Wilson-Raybould, resigned over it, wrote a book over it.

00:27:12.180 And still Canadians put up with this.

00:27:14.900 I mean, so when we didn't over that, when we didn't over the we, he skated around that issue of trying to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to the we,

00:27:25.040 a company that he was clearly in a conflict with, with his members of his family receiving money

00:27:31.600 for speaking engagements from that company, the We Foundation. You know, so it's been one,

00:27:38.300 and that's just two that come to mind. I was looking online a few days ago out of curiosity,

00:27:43.580 and I challenge your viewers to do this. Go online and just Google Justin Trudeau scandals.

00:27:50.240 It's page after page after page. It's almost impossible for journalists to keep up with.

00:27:56.480 And the few journalists like yourselves that actually want to dig into it.

00:28:01.020 So are we going to get one? You would think that logically he's going to be forced,

00:28:06.740 but it's only the media that can force him to do that. I don't understand why his own party is

00:28:12.160 letting this go on and on because eventually, and I think we're reaching that point, that tipping

00:28:16.880 point, if you will, where his star is going to be so much in decline that it's going to be very

00:28:25.360 difficult for the Liberal Party to recover from it. That's where I wanted to go next, actually,

00:28:30.160 was just wondering if that's one other area. I mean, there's got to, we know there's principled

00:28:33.520 Liberal members of Parliament, and they've got to be, you know, taking the flack from this stuff

00:28:39.260 they had nothing to do with, they're embarrassed, their constituents are on their case, and they're

00:28:42.600 looking to their own political futures.

00:28:45.540 Liberals, I mean, that's just a fact.

00:28:47.260 They tend to be better at keeping them all together

00:28:49.640 than conservatives.

00:28:50.460 We love speaking out and ripping our own.

00:28:52.440 I mean, that's our nature.

00:28:54.180 But at some point, as you said,

00:28:57.280 that tipping point might be hit

00:28:58.400 where enough in caucus,

00:28:59.360 he might finally get a caucus revolt,

00:29:00.700 even if behind closed doors,

00:29:02.040 but to say, look, that's enough.

00:29:03.460 We're not going to go down with this ship.

00:29:05.200 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:06.340 And it has happened in the past,

00:29:07.920 I think with both governing parties,

00:29:09.940 whether it's ours, the conservative party.

00:29:11.660 like you say, I think that the record would show that within the Conservative Party, and it's both

00:29:17.620 good and bad, that the leadership is held more accountable than what we see in the Liberal Party.

00:29:23.900 I mean, most recently, Mr. O'Toole, right? It wasn't the general public or the media that

00:29:31.420 eventually held him accountable. It was his own caucus. And we don't see that from the Liberals.

00:29:37.720 And as you say, I worked with, well, partly because of the positions I held, I had to work daily, sometimes hourly, as I said, with my counterparts, with the House leaders and the whips of all the other parties.

00:29:50.360 And I found most of them were very respectful and, you know, putting forward an alternate point of view, but you could work with them.

00:29:59.880 And so there are people in those ranks within the Liberal Party, the Liberal caucus, that should be holding him accountable because they're not profiting.

00:30:11.180 In fact, arguably, as you say, it's their very futures that are in jeopardy because of the way that he acts.

00:30:18.300 Every time one of these scandals comes along where he does everything, well, and including, I think, on the one, I don't remember which it was, where he actually launched a lawsuit against the Parliament of Canada to prevent them digging into something.

00:30:34.480 Yeah, it's bizarre times.

00:30:36.300 I mean, you know, another long shot, I'll throw out my speculation, but it's not impossible to think that maybe at a point Justin's going to take his walk in the snow like his father did and come back.

00:30:45.900 I mean, that would be because he was getting the pressure inside to think, you know what, maybe I'll just bail out now, move on, put it to a leadership race.

00:30:52.360 We could still kick the inquiry down the road.

00:30:53.960 Maybe people will have forgotten about it and I can retire.

00:30:57.160 Yeah.

00:30:57.780 No, I think that everybody runs their term of office and has to come to that decision.

00:31:04.000 And some people are forced out.

00:31:06.600 I've often remarked, I guess, that all too many politicians, you know, are like bad milk in the fridge.

00:31:14.040 I mean, they stay around until they start to stink up the place.

00:31:17.080 Well, yeah, and I mean, even with great ones, it's been unfortunate.

00:31:19.280 You know, Premier Klein's a good example of it.

00:31:21.740 I mean, he's a legend in Alberta.

00:31:23.740 He did a lot of great things.

00:31:24.740 But that last couple of years, it was kind of the hook was starting to come out.

00:31:27.920 Okay, Ralph, maybe it's time to step aside.

00:31:30.460 And he kind of left, you know, with his own party.

00:31:32.120 He's turning on him a little.

00:31:33.400 Same with Kretchen.

00:31:34.500 He was just in for too long.

00:31:37.060 But just not seeing it with Trudeau yet.

00:31:40.220 No, we're not.

00:31:41.100 And I think that partly because of a lot of things.

00:31:43.820 we've never been in a situation in our country where the major media has become the propaganda

00:31:49.660 arm of the government through subsidization. That's never happened before until Justin Trudeau.

00:31:56.180 And so that puts a very unique perspective on everything that's happening in and out of Ottawa.

00:32:03.320 And had it not been for that, there may have been enough pressure from multiple sources,

00:32:09.120 not just the sort of the lone, one of the lone voices in the wilderness, the Western Standard

00:32:14.520 out here in Calgary saying these things, digging into these things or rebel news.

00:32:20.520 You know, they're very few and far between. If you had some of the major networks doing the job

00:32:26.440 they're supposed to do for Canadians, I think they're, you know, maybe he would have already

00:32:31.420 taken that walk. Perhaps. Well, we'll see what happens. I said, you know, they're going to

00:32:36.680 recess in a week or so. I suspect they're going to kick this can down the road until fall. And

00:32:40.820 we'll see if public interest is still there when the time comes. I think so. It seems to me the

00:32:45.000 leaks are going to keep coming. Whoever that is, they've got more. They're not going to let this

00:32:48.600 go. Well, sadly, the message I want to leave your viewers with is that don't make any mistake on

00:32:55.460 this. Jagmeet Singh and the NDP, every time you hear him say something critical of the government,

00:33:01.940 call him out for what it is. 1.00

00:33:04.640 He's being a hypocrite. 1.00

00:33:06.400 It's complete hypocrisy. 1.00

00:33:08.120 He has the power to work with the other opposition parties

00:33:11.680 and drive these types of scandals

00:33:14.680 to some form of public disclosure at minimum.

00:33:19.560 And he chooses, he and his caucus choose not to do that

00:33:23.920 and instead to prop up this scandal-ridden government.

00:33:29.000 Well, time will tell.

00:33:30.160 All right, well, thanks again for coming in, Jay.

00:33:31.680 I just appreciate some explanation, you know,

00:33:33.280 not everybody are political weenies like us that watch the procedure and what's

00:33:37.800 going to be done and what can't be done committees, things like that.

00:33:40.200 And just, you know, the general audience, like they're,

00:33:42.020 they're frustrated readers and what can be done,

00:33:44.980 just the confirmation that something can be done.

00:33:47.220 They're just choosing not to. And, and well, we'll, we'll see what happens.

00:33:51.340 So Canadian, especially in this case, Canadian democracy is the poorer for it.

00:33:56.620 I mean,

00:33:56.840 I think that's why it's 80% of Canadians is because there isn't an awakening

00:34:01.300 to the fact that foreign interference in our elections

00:34:05.260 strikes at the very heart of everything that we stand for.

00:34:10.340 I mean, a democracy has to stand on the legitimacy of its elections.

00:34:15.120 Absolutely.

00:34:16.300 All right.

00:34:16.760 Well, thanks, Jay.

00:34:17.520 It was great seeing you in here again.

00:34:19.840 Thanks for asking me.

00:34:20.720 Hope we can have you back again sometime soon,

00:34:22.640 maybe to start talking about the next election.

00:34:27.100 Hopefully we'll be into it sooner rather than later 0.81

00:34:29.360 because the country is going to be destroyed if it keeps going the way it is.

00:34:32.520 It does seem to be. All right. Thank you.

00:34:34.900 So that was Jay Hill, as you heard, and yes, a regular guest here,

00:34:39.920 a person who's certainly put in a long time of service on Parliament Hill

00:34:43.720 and still managed to maintain his marbles out of all that time in there.

00:34:46.980 It's quite surprising.

00:34:48.660 I think a lot of them have a few screws loose on the way in

00:34:51.400 if they don't make it on the way out.

00:34:55.300 But yeah, it just gets so maddening, you know?

00:34:57.300 So I'm going to talk a little bit about some federal things.

00:34:59.800 I mean, the things that are coming up, this complete lack of accountability, this feeling

00:35:03.600 that they just don't care and they get away with whatever they like.

00:35:08.260 You know, so we see these things coming up at the Privy Council, which is sort of, it's

00:35:12.580 the prime minister's wing of government in a sense, is the Privy Council and the Privy

00:35:16.540 Council President Bill Blair.

00:35:19.020 And at first he was claiming when it comes to the Chinese interference, like these bits

00:35:23.960 of information keep coming out.

00:35:25.120 He was saying they withheld information they didn't even know about it.

00:35:28.860 Well, it's been found, no, that was absolutely false.

00:35:30.940 He was completely lying.

00:35:32.100 Just lying.

00:35:32.740 There's no other way to put it.

00:35:33.720 He's outright lying.

00:35:35.560 They don't care.

00:35:36.480 They lie, and they get away with it.

00:35:38.160 And then, of course, the minister of lies.

00:35:40.280 I call him that all the time, Marco Mendicino, because this is a different one, but it's with the Paul Bernardo.

00:35:45.780 It was found out that he was being transferred to a medium security prison. 0.96

00:35:49.240 He's a monster. 0.74

00:35:50.240 He's an odious person that nobody likes to imagine being moved anywhere less secure than a maximum security prison. 0.99

00:35:56.740 And, you know, I understand.

00:35:59.380 We've got some liberal fart catchers on social media saying, oh, well, you know, it's not the part of the minister to determine who moves to which prison and who doesn't.

00:36:07.860 That's true.

00:36:08.420 That's the Department of Corrections.

00:36:10.180 But they did let Mendicino's office know about this because they knew, obviously, it was going to be a big issue.

00:36:15.520 They knew they were dropping a bomb, and they let him know months before the transfer.

00:36:20.240 they let his office know months before the transfer but he claimed i didn't hear about it

00:36:24.960 again just lies just lies lies when asked about it and again lying from politicians well that's

00:36:32.400 hardly a new thing this is not something that's a you know uh unique or singular but it's the way

00:36:38.000 they get away with it is driving us so mad i mean they're getting rewarded for lying about things

00:36:43.760 all the time. And I don't know what it's going to take to stop it. And they need to be held

00:36:50.460 accountable on a lot of levels with a lot of things. You know, this is one that Dave mentioned

00:36:54.740 with the news check-in, the Parliamentary Budget Office. So yeah, the report. So this is, you know,

00:36:59.460 an independent office in Parliament saying, look, these numbers for the massive amount of subsidies

00:37:04.380 going into this battery fabrication facility that Trudeau is basically punishing Western

00:37:11.280 energy producers to funnel money into this Ontario Volkswagen owned, so foreign owned plant

00:37:18.100 to make batteries for electric vehicles. And they haven't even moved a shovel yet.

00:37:23.340 And they've blown their own budget by billions. It's up to 16.3 billion from 13.9. This is only

00:37:30.280 a few months and they haven't done anything yet. What's this going to cost by the time we're done

00:37:36.060 with it. But who's holding them accountable? It's like Jay said, media isn't. They don't want to

00:37:41.680 stir everything up because so many of them are so dependent on the subsidies as well. They don't

00:37:45.840 want to rock the apple cart. That's how they're paying their bills. And they're all running in 0.60

00:37:50.700 circles in parliament between Polly Evan, the block and Jagmeet Singh trying to get this inquiry

00:37:56.940 going, or maybe not trying to get the inquiry going. Meanwhile, this, as Dave said, budding

00:38:01.900 boondoggle is sliding under the radar. This should be making bigger headlines. I want to give a

00:38:07.620 shout out to Blacklock's reporter because they have the guys keep digging these things out too.

00:38:10.920 And actually it was the Taxpayers Federation also got in on that one. Like there's some people

00:38:14.320 holding government to account, but it's not legacy media and it's not our elected opposition

00:38:18.500 members. So if they aren't, who the hell is? And how bad is it going to get? I mean, this is a

00:38:24.080 government that's on the rocks. This is a government that's a mess. This is, you know, another one here

00:38:29.140 from Bill Blair's staff, yeah, seeing that he wasn't given a memo on Beijing targeting things.

00:38:36.800 Melanie Jolie, you know, yeah, a lot of people speculate as to why she's in such a position of 0.99

00:38:43.280 power. She's a federal minister, but apparently she showed up at a party. It was a scandal because 0.96

00:38:49.560 there was a senior official with the Russians who showed up and she didn't. Her staff again said,

00:38:54.560 she said they didn't tell me, I didn't know. Well, these are cabinet ministers. These are

00:38:59.420 some of the most theoretically powerful people in the country. And they never seem to know what's

00:39:03.900 going on under their feet. It's always their staff apparently just running around rampant. And

00:39:06.980 no, they're just lying. They're lying. But you know what, if it works, you're going to keep doing

00:39:14.620 it, I guess. And this is another one. This is what really gets to the nub of a lot of things.

00:39:19.860 So, all roads keep leading back to the Trudeau Foundation.

00:39:24.960 And people keep screaming, you know, again, they get upset with me on social media when I point that out.

00:39:29.000 It's just because it has the name of Trudeau, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with the family.

00:39:32.700 Oh, spare me. Spare me.

00:39:35.600 Justin's brother was on the board.

00:39:38.400 Justin's half-sister.

00:39:40.300 Yes, Pierre didn't just have times with Margaret.

00:39:43.940 Half-sister was on the board.

00:39:46.660 Justin's brother, though, was part of what got that donation to the foundation from the Chinese Communist Party.

00:39:53.980 And we've got, you know, the CEO, former CEO of the Trudeau Foundation, Morris Rosenberg.

00:40:01.960 He was running it when they took the 200,000.

00:40:05.600 Now, he's also the guy that the Trudeau government appointed to watch and see if there's any interference in the 2019 and 2023 elections.

00:40:13.120 Yeah, it's this inbred bunch.

00:40:16.080 These names keep popping up.

00:40:17.500 And lo and behold, Rosenberg didn't find any interference in those elections.

00:40:21.000 CSIS found interference in those elections.

00:40:23.580 Rosenberg didn't, though.

00:40:25.660 Strange, isn't it?

00:40:27.580 Yet, why?

00:40:28.980 Why is the Chinese Communist Party then obsessed with giving money to this foundation?

00:40:35.100 See, it doesn't buy any influence.

00:40:36.740 That's why Rosenberg was so upset.

00:40:37.740 You can't buy our influence for only $200,000.

00:40:40.400 Well, were you setting the price, Rosenberg?

00:40:41.940 Is that what you were saying with that statement that you put out the other day?

00:40:44.780 No, I don't think that's what you're saying.

00:40:46.060 But maybe, maybe if you have a high enough price, you'll admit, okay, you can buy our love for that.

00:40:50.360 They thought they could buy your love with it.

00:40:53.120 And it looks like they almost got away with getting that in without people knowing it happened.

00:40:58.760 So, yes, we've got a lot of questions.

00:41:02.360 And then, of course, when we have David Johnston, why was it right from the start when he was appointed at this baloney position of special repertoire,

00:41:10.120 which is just a fabrication on Trudeau's part. Why do people question his objectivity? Well,

00:41:15.360 because he was on the board of the Trudeau Foundation. And then Johnston says, it's

00:41:19.840 outrageous you're questioning my credibility. Here's a couple of big names that'll vouch for

00:41:23.700 me. And lo and behold, those names were on the Trudeau Foundation as well. Guys, what do you get

00:41:29.080 paid to be on the board of the foundation? Seriously, I don't know. A lot of boards are

00:41:34.120 volunteer. A lot of boards just give a small honorarium, but I got no idea. We can't audit

00:41:38.360 that foundation. That foundation was given 125 million tax dollars when Jean Chrétien set it

00:41:44.360 up. Yeah, it's charity. And people can't find a heck of a lot of evidence of what exactly that

00:41:49.620 charity does. It gives scholarships out to certain kids and a few things, but there are some rules

00:41:55.800 with charities. They have to put out something like four or five percent of their capital every

00:41:59.000 year in the charitable activity they're supposed to be running, or they could lose status. And

00:42:04.300 apparently the Trudeau Foundation hasn't met that bar a number of times over the years.

00:42:08.360 so where's all the money going when you look at that board of directors not just trudeau's family

00:42:12.440 and friends and neighbors and former mps and holy cow it's a whole liberal reunion on the board there

00:42:18.360 how much are those guys drawing to be on the board is it a foundation or is it a

00:42:24.600 money laundering scheme i don't know we need to investigate these things it stinks it stinks to

00:42:30.680 high heaven so don't get on my case because i call it out it if uh you know to to the liberals who

00:42:37.800 get so upset with me online when I point these things out. If it's all clean, if it's all in the

00:42:42.160 up and up, then why are you abjectly terrified wetting your pants over the possibility there

00:42:47.900 would be a full public inquiry? Whereas Jay Hill, I guess, said with a full public inquiry, then you

00:42:52.800 start getting a lot more power though. You can start, you know, subpoenaing. You can bring people

00:42:58.100 in and compel testimony. You can compel documents. That's how we can dig in. And if there's nothing

00:43:03.860 there, then the inquiry would say there's nothing there. Leave the foundation alone.

00:43:07.860 There's obviously not a problem here. But I think it's pretty clear there's

00:43:11.820 a problem there. I mean, as we were saying, it looks like Justin Trudeau's

00:43:15.760 willing to tear his own party to the ground rather

00:43:19.720 than have an inquiry, you know,

00:43:24.040 let people know what the heck is going on out there. We've got a foreign nation, 0.98

00:43:27.880 a state that is not a friend of Canada's. It's poking around with 1.00

00:43:31.920 our elections, that's meddling directly with our members of parliament in opposition, that's been

00:43:35.900 shoring up Chinese Communist Party-friendly politicians in the Liberal Party. Enemies and

00:43:41.860 some others are saying, well, you know, there's probably some conservatives that might have been

00:43:44.620 compromised too. Well, okay, let's have an inquiry and find out. I don't care which party is guilty.

00:43:51.360 I just want to find out who. But we can't seem to find out yet. Maddening. But yes, we'll carry on

00:44:01.220 pushing and ranting and raving and going over doing what we can. All right, let's do a check

00:44:05.500 in. And this is on a big issue right now. And we'll check in with Jim Bousicum and see what's

00:44:11.540 going on out there with marketplace commodities, because we've got some real weather-related

00:44:16.640 challenges going on. Hi, Jim. How are you doing? Hey, good, Corey. Thanks. We certainly do have

00:44:21.840 some big weather challenges going on. And I think we're all pretty aware of it in Alberta.

00:44:28.420 you know I'd say roughly looks like around 80 percent of the cropland so the

00:44:36.500 productive land in Alberta would be under moderate to severe drought and so this first affects

00:44:45.880 in the farming community affects those that are in the cow-calf livestock feeding where

00:44:54.260 you know where hay crops aren't growing very well they're not getting the moisture

00:45:00.180 and they're seeing some you know seeing some shortages of hay i mean maybe not today yet but

00:45:06.820 that'll come up in the coming weeks and months and then furthermore all the areas that are

00:45:14.260 seeded to the various crops that we grow here they're also they're still most of them are still

00:45:20.020 okay right now but as this drought intensifies or if it does we're going to see some yield

00:45:26.180 reductions that's for sure. So I guess you know part of your role is it how is this going to

00:45:32.900 affect markets is it still I mean it's world commodities though is it localized enough in

00:45:37.700 western Canada that it won't have a larger impact all around or is this going to change things

00:45:42.580 more dramatically? Yeah it's going to affect things on a local basis here in Alberta mostly

00:45:50.020 Saskatchewan is actually in quite good shape.

00:45:53.040 They've been getting about normal precipitation.

00:45:56.700 Manitoba is on the dry side.

00:45:58.120 And then to the south of us, trading in Montana.

00:46:02.100 Montana looks fine too.

00:46:03.500 So, yeah, in the scope of world commodity markets,

00:46:07.140 it is still definitely a localized problem.

00:46:09.980 Albeit, if you're right in the thick of it here in Alberta,

00:46:14.020 it does affect you at your farm.

00:46:16.980 and it does affect most Albertans to some extent.

00:46:21.240 I mean, it's not just the farmers.

00:46:22.620 We've seen the fires and all the other things that have happened

00:46:24.920 as a result of the dryness as well.

00:46:28.000 So markets have been steady.

00:46:33.400 I think it stopped the market from going down.

00:46:35.480 We were on a fairly steady downtrend from January until, I think, the end of May.

00:46:42.080 The last two weeks, we've seen the markets actually recover maybe just several percent on roughly about $10, $15 per ton.

00:46:53.980 Now, there's not a lot more upside to it because the world markets are just simply lower than what our domestic price is.

00:47:05.040 So in some aspects, the drought conditions, you could almost say is priced into the market already.

00:47:11.280 And I guess this brings a risk of just people getting out of the market altogether.

00:47:15.840 You know, cattle producers have been having a rough go for quite some time.

00:47:18.720 Things such as that with feed, which would lead to a longer term, it's just bad for consumers and producers altogether.

00:47:26.200 Yeah, these things, the long-term effect on it is if cattle producers are unable to either get feed for their cattle or it's really expensive,

00:47:34.540 they're going to call their herds and reduce their herd sizes and we're going to feed less cattle.

00:47:39.300 And yeah, ultimately it's going to mean, uh, already a very expensive products such as beef

00:47:44.800 getting more expensive. And I think we all know how expensive food is already. This is not,

00:47:49.960 this is not helpful. Um, it may be a local problem today, but it does affect the consumer

00:47:56.320 somewhere down the road. Absolutely. Well, it's, it's a long game. I guess we can, we can hope for

00:48:01.400 the weather to turn and, and, uh, you know, other seasons and, uh, this season perhaps to improve a

00:48:06.020 little bit yet yeah it's for sure i mean we'll see what what comes out of it and uh it's june

00:48:12.400 and things can change yet so we'll we'll still we still can see room for improvement but right now

00:48:18.060 it's certainly a large concern and uh and we hope that the rains come sooner than later great well

00:48:24.280 i thank you for the update even if it's a little bleak looking but i said the world's not ending

00:48:28.640 yet it's just a little distressing so we'll keep an eye on things and then hope for the best all

00:48:34.160 Great. Take care. Thanks, Corey.

00:48:35.520 Thanks, Jim.

00:48:36.400 Bye.

00:48:37.580 So yeah, that was Jim Buzicum of Marketplace Commodities.

00:48:40.600 Guys, they're based down in Lethbridge

00:48:42.540 and they have offices throughout the West

00:48:44.780 working in the agricultural commodities.

00:48:48.460 As you see, it's like any commodities,

00:48:50.640 just a difficult thing to judge

00:48:52.260 when things are going to be at their best or at their worst.

00:48:56.160 And there's things that are beyond your control,

00:48:57.660 such as the weather, but we're hoping for the best.

00:48:59.580 Like I said, we've got some rain today.

00:49:00.660 Maybe that's a sign of the breaking of that cycle right now, because, I mean, our producers are suffering.

00:49:07.060 It's just not an easy way to make a living, and we don't need more people getting out of that field, you know.

00:49:12.140 And as was pointed out by Jim as well, hey, it will run down to the consumers as well.

00:49:16.260 So, you know, what affects them today is going to affect your plate at home tomorrow.

00:49:21.180 Karen Mitchell, the commenter, saying, how can beef get more expensive?

00:49:24.040 Who can afford it now?

00:49:25.000 It's aging on the shelves.

00:49:25.840 Yeah, it's pretty tight.

00:49:27.060 you know, I think I'd like to bring somebody in down the road to talk a bit about that,

00:49:31.080 because we've got some issues, I think, also with processing and stuff to talk about when

00:49:34.540 it comes to that. There's a number of issues, but beef certainly is a, it's a luxury these days,

00:49:40.040 you know, to go out and buy a good steak. And I've gotten better at the art of tenderizing

00:49:45.020 tougher cuts and things like that at home if I want things, or it's just going to be a treat

00:49:48.900 if I'm going to get a nice ribeye. And when we're living in an area with so many cattle producers,

00:49:52.660 It's frustrating. But again, if it's costing more to feed, that's just the way it goes. I mean,

00:49:57.860 it has to come down to the consumer eventually. So yeah, I just hope for the best. I guess I'll

00:50:05.600 finish up and talk about, yeah, something Dave mentioned that was interesting on the front of

00:50:09.680 masochistic business ownership. I used to own, you know, the pub down there in Prentice and I've

00:50:14.160 talked about that before and I've written about it. I sold it to the new owners are making a go

00:50:19.500 and it's just, boy, it's a tough business.

00:50:21.680 Narrow margin, a lot of work, not a heck of a lot of money.

00:50:25.060 There was a picture Daniel Smith put out,

00:50:26.780 Premier Smith, in that rail car diner down in High River.

00:50:31.180 She was working in the dish pit,

00:50:32.960 putting in some time washing dishes there. 0.99

00:50:35.600 Some people thought it was staged.

00:50:37.240 I don't know.

00:50:38.840 You know, everything when you're political is certainly,

00:50:40.640 you put the pictures out for the sake of, you know,

00:50:43.000 political self-promotion and things like that.

00:50:45.140 But I don't think it was fully planned.

00:50:47.380 I think it was a matter of your home for the weekend. 0.96

00:50:49.140 not crap, something went down. It's the husband who's running it. Yeah, I'll go in and do some 0.98

00:50:52.500 dishes. I mean, when I owned the pub, I was in doing dishes all the time. I kind of liked it,

00:50:56.660 actually. I found a little relaxing versus running around on the floor and trying to keep everything

00:51:00.720 going. But then the next announcement is that it's up for sale. So, you know, I can see why it's a

00:51:09.360 tiring thing. It's a very unique one anyways. If somebody's looking for a different sort of

00:51:13.420 business, I'm not, by the way, doing ads for Premier Smith or anything like that, but there's

00:51:18.400 a neat uh rail car diner uh uh restaurant business for sale down in high river if you're interested

00:51:24.300 in that sort of course in life so as i've said before i wouldn't run another pub or restaurant

00:51:28.580 again if it was for free but there's other people have the dream and hey good on you go for it and

00:51:33.740 wish you the best either way something a little lighter it's a little different to see a premier

00:51:37.900 you know up to their elbows doing dishes and things like that and uh you know paradoxy saying

00:51:43.420 it's good that she posts that it shows she's a regular person not a sky palace shot yeah you

00:51:48.320 know that she's still connected on the ground with people and hopefully maintains that. I think when

00:51:53.560 they're in too long, they all lose touch with that eventually. But for now, she's still a person who

00:51:59.080 has an idea how work needs to get done. All right, guys, that was a packed show. It was great having 0.91

00:52:04.200 Jay in. It was great seeing all you guys tuning in today. I appreciate it. I got to move along

00:52:10.960 here. So thank you all for coming on. I will be back again with a whole bunch more stuff to rant

00:52:15.860 and rave about next week at this time.

00:52:20.000 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.

00:52:23.220 Cash barley is steady at $4.12, feed wheat is up $3.00 at $4.13,

00:52:28.140 and corn is unchanged at $4.08 per metric ton.

00:52:30.880 In the milling wheat markets, July Minneapolis futures are higher

00:52:33.580 at $2.5 at $8.12 per bushel,

00:52:36.580 with local hard-rate spring bid for June movement at $10.45.

00:52:40.500 Looking at canola, nearby futures slip $2.30 at $6.97 per ton.

00:52:45.860 with delivered values for June movement at 16.03 per bushel. In the pulse

00:52:50.720 markets nearby red lentil prices are higher a half a cent at 33 and a half

00:52:54.680 cents per pound and yellow peas remain at 11.25 per bushel. In the cattle

00:52:59.900 markets August live cattle drop 277 and a half at 171.15 per hundred weight. For

00:53:06.560 more information on pricing or picked up options give me a call at 403 394 1711

00:53:12.380 I'm Matt Musicum at Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

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