Western Standard - CMS： The inhumanity of enabling addicts

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am, as the name would imply, Corey Morgan, and

00:00:35.720 we've got a good show lined up for you this week. This is the Western Standards production where we

00:00:41.960 cover some news items, interview interesting guests, interact with commenters and viewers,

00:00:48.060 and get a lot of stuff off our chest. So I do want to remind people as well, you know,

00:00:53.220 some of the folks are going to be watching the rebroadcast on television, and that's great,

00:00:57.300 and I appreciate it. But yes, when you hear me referencing commenters, you won't see those

00:01:01.480 comments, but I'll try and make it clear when I'm talking to them. And as for you guys commenting,

00:01:06.000 you know, make use of it, chat with each other, send questions my way or towards my guest. I don't

00:01:09.920 necessarily read them all on the air, but I do see them all guys and I appreciate it. And just

00:01:14.320 try to keep things fairly civil with each other though. That's always the important part. We can

00:01:18.860 get upset and mad, get on each other's cases, but we still don't have to get beyond the pale.

00:01:22.960 So I got a great guest on today. It's not been too long since she was here last. It's Tamara

00:01:28.180 Leach. She's going to be on in a little while. And the reason we've brought her back is because

00:01:32.000 her book has just come out called Hold the Line. And it's already been quite the bestseller,

00:01:37.980 I believe, on Amazon in some categories. And it's really making the rounds and it's fantastic. So

00:01:42.980 we're going to talk to her about that and see what that's all about as well. I will be talking

00:01:47.540 about news items and opinion and all that good stuff. So I'm going to start with, as usual,

00:01:52.500 my opening monologue. Now, this was from a column about a week ago, so a lot of you Western Standard

00:01:57.320 readers may have already read it, but this one really took off. I mean, I'm not here to pat

00:02:02.560 myself on the back, just sometimes a column will really resonate with people, and this one seems

00:02:06.160 to have, and I've never gotten so many emails back from readers on one column before. Mostly

00:02:13.400 positive, a few telling me to get stuff, that's nothing new, but I mean, obviously, this is

00:02:17.060 something people want to talk about, people want to read about, so I want to reiterate it for those

00:02:20.400 who are viewers and make sure that you understand that, you know, this discussion and where we've

00:02:26.040 been coming with things. So it's easy to critique proposed policies of mandatory drug treatment

00:02:31.780 being imposed upon addicts from the comfort of a suburban home. When one hasn't seen this disorder

00:02:37.260 and misery spreading on the streets of every major city in Canada, one can convince oneself that it

00:02:41.920 really isn't that bad out there. A person can delude themselves and think that policies of

00:02:46.820 enablement will eventually lead addicts to liberation from their poison of choice. They

00:02:51.720 can call efforts to intervene in the state of addicts inhumane and refer to it as something

00:02:56.080 like imprisoning Albertans against their will. In fact, that's the exact approach NDP leader

00:03:01.620 Rachel Notley is taking on the issue. And those were her words. Exactly. Now, the UCP under

00:03:07.880 Premier Daniel Smith dared to broach the issue of mandatory drug treatment. And as usual,

00:03:13.200 the partisan subjects have gone wild. Now what privileged progressives like Notley refuse to

00:03:19.160 understand is that addicts are already in prison against their will. They're trapped in a cycle of

00:03:24.960 substance abuse which drives them to seek larger and more frequent doses to the point of an almost

00:03:29.720 inevitable overdose. As they stumble down that path of addiction they lose their jobs, they lose

00:03:34.860 their homes, they lose contact with their families. They live on the streets in fear, misery, and

00:03:40.080 desperation as it gets harder to find the means to get their drugs and keep them in their stupor,

00:03:44.360 which would allow them to forget their life situation. The fate of an addict once they've

00:03:48.180 hit the streets is bleak. Unless they somehow find their way into a recovery program, they're

00:03:52.360 likely going to end up either in jail, in a hospital, or dead. How on earth is it compassionate

00:03:57.640 to say that we should leave addicts in that condition to their own devices? I mean, sure,

00:04:02.460 it's always preferred, of course, to let free will dictate a person's path in life. That's working,

00:04:07.520 though under the assumption a person is in their right mind. A heavily addicted person living on

00:04:12.580 the streets is not in their right mind. Yes, it's best if an addict voluntarily checks themselves

00:04:18.080 into treatment. Unfortunately, once they're down on the street level, very, very few will do that.

00:04:23.200 For most of them, once they've hit that point, intervention is required. Last week, I wrote and

00:04:27.980 I said on this show on how I had a family member we had to deal with, and he needed to be committed

00:04:33.620 to a mental health facility. It was a tough process. The facilities are limited, and for now,

00:04:38.180 he's still residing there. It's terrible to have to force a loved one into a situation where they're

00:04:42.680 held against their own will. In the condition he's in, though, we know that he can't take care of

00:04:47.480 himself, and he's beyond what we as family members can offer him with home care. We were forced to

00:04:52.680 face the hard reality he needed to be committed for his own sake, and we do hope it's temporary.

00:04:58.280 Now, society needs to make that decision when it comes to addicts. I can assure you, any family who

00:05:03.540 has a loved one living on the streets in the throes of addiction will welcome a forced

00:05:08.000 intervention with the intent of saving them. And I know success rates for addiction treatment

00:05:12.360 aren't the greatest, particularly if the addicts didn't come of their own will to begin with.

00:05:16.700 But still, the success rate's infinitely higher than having no treatment at all.

00:05:21.140 A beating addiction is rarely a solitary journey. An addict needs support and guidance to stay

00:05:26.320 clean. It's a long-term thing. It took me several false starts and countless support meetings before

00:05:30.920 I finally managed to permanently end my addictive and destructive relationship with alcohol.

00:05:35.500 I never would have been able to do it alone, and I can't imagine how somebody at the point

00:05:39.380 of living in the streets can get started on recovery, much less complete the process on

00:05:43.140 their own. Street addicts can't just up and quit cold turkey. To every person claiming

00:05:48.180 it's inhumane to force drug rehabilitation upon addicts, I invite them to go out and

00:05:52.380 see how it is for themselves then. Get out there. Spend a day riding city transit into

00:05:56.760 the city cores. Walk the alleys into the parks. You'll find numerous addicts in a state of

00:06:01.480 deterioration. Look at them curled up unconscious in bus shelters or behind dumpsters after they

00:06:06.920 get their fix. Watch the ones shouting at the clouds as they shuffle down the street in a

00:06:11.080 drug-induced psychosis. Look at the sores covering their faces and their emaciated bodies as the

00:06:17.020 addiction is eating them alive. Spend a day doing that. I'm serious. Do it. Then come to me and tell

00:06:22.360 me we shouldn't intervene. Tell me how that person on the park bench stoned out of their wits,

00:06:27.580 soaking in their own feces, must be left alone for the sake of their dignity. There's no dignity in

00:06:33.020 death, and that's the inevitable destination of many street addicts if something doesn't knock

00:06:37.880 them off their path. Intervention and mandatory treatment isn't a perfect option, and it won't

00:06:42.980 work for them all, but it's still a far better course of action than the failed policies of

00:06:48.040 enablement and wishful thinking that's led to the spread of addiction and disorder we're seeing on

00:06:52.340 the streets today. That's the rant I got this week, guys. And it's the truth. And this one

00:06:57.460 just hits me hard. It drives me crazy. I honestly think a lot of the people who are saying intervention

00:07:03.540 is wrong or that we can fix them or they call them, they sugarcoat it. They're not addicted.

00:07:07.300 They're unhoused. Yes, they're unhoused. They're unhoused because they're addicted. We've got to

00:07:11.220 get to the core thing if we're going to get them out of the trouble they're in. Most people living

00:07:15.480 in the suburbs don't see it. They don't go into the alleys. They don't see quite how bad it's

00:07:20.880 gotten, and how awful it is. And the emails really got to me, the number of people, it's one of the

00:07:25.920 things nobody likes to talk about. And that's why I want to talk about it. Because we shuffle it off,

00:07:31.020 you know, you don't talk about that in the water cooler, you don't talk about it in general. But a

00:07:35.020 lot of us have loved ones either have mental health issues, or addiction issues. And you know

00:07:39.180 what, we're not going to find solutions until we accept that. I mean, a lot of those emails I got

00:07:43.120 were saying, thank you for bringing this up. I have a niece who's on the street, or I have an

00:07:47.720 uncle who's on the street, or I have a cousin who died of an overdose. It's touching everybody

00:07:54.440 everywhere, but still we're seeing these ridiculous push for enablement. This idea that if we could

00:07:59.520 just keep giving enough safe consumption, they'll get better. They won't. And I'm not wholly against

00:08:04.840 safe consumption sites and trying to mitigate harm. There's some truth to it. We can't treat

00:08:08.980 them if they're dead. So if we can stop enough overdoses, hopefully we get them to the point

00:08:13.620 where we can intervene and save them, but without treatment, it's pointless. All you're doing is

00:08:18.500 dragging out a slow, ugly, and unnecessary death, and it's hurting us all, and the associated crime 0.78

00:08:24.640 with it is just nuts. So that's what I got going on this week, guys, and yeah, we have to

00:08:31.760 address these things. I'm just going to have a quick look through the comments. Good to see you

00:08:35.660 all jumping in there, guys, and John Vancouver bringing up, you know, it's the results of

00:08:40.640 deinstitutionalization, and I talked about that a bit before. We've moved away from putting people

00:08:46.440 into institutions, and there was a good reason for it. The institutions were abused. There were

00:08:51.680 terrible things that happened. There were bad conditions. They were underfunded, and I tell

00:08:54.660 you what, the mental health facilities that my family members in, I'm going to be visiting them

00:08:59.120 this afternoon there, aren't the greatest. They're doing what they can with what they have, but it's

00:09:02.340 not a great place to reside, and they used to put, literally, in Michener Center and Pinocchio in

00:09:07.860 Alberta, they had people with cerebral palsy back in there in the 60s and 70s. They had deaf people

00:09:13.180 put in there. They were using those dumping grounds for undesirables. It was wrong, but instead of 1.00

00:09:18.020 fixing the problem, we threw out the solution, and we should have addressed that. We still need

00:09:23.680 these institutions, and they should be a last resort, but it has to be there when that resort

00:09:27.680 is needed. We've got a lot of addiction beds opening up, 8,000 of them in Alberta, as a matter

00:09:31.820 of fact. But again, getting these people into them, that's another issue altogether. And we

00:09:38.080 need to start talking about it. All right, let me pivot a little and let's talk about something else.

00:09:42.660 So I mean, a big thing in the news, let's get into government waste and spending,

00:09:46.580 one of always another favorite pet subject, depressing in its own right, but not as bad

00:09:50.240 as dealing with addiction. The government's addicted with taking our money and giving it

00:09:54.120 to their buddies. In this case, $13 billion to Volkswagen for a battery facility in Ontario,

00:10:00.500 of course. I'm surprised it wasn't in Quebec. $13 billion. And it's going to be flushed, guys.

00:10:07.500 It's going to be flushed. Volkswagen's going to take the money and run. Oh, they'll build something

00:10:11.100 and eventually it'll fall apart. We'll be on the hook for that too. And there'll be layoffs.

00:10:15.240 We've seen this. We've seen this so many times. And, you know, Alberta isn't innocent in it. I

00:10:20.280 mean, for those of us gray enough of hair, we remember the MagCan and Novotel, these things

00:10:26.060 in the 80s and early 90s. The government was subsidizing all these stupid business ventures. 0.99

00:10:31.680 They were going to diversify Alberta's economy away from oil. Doesn't that sound familiar? 1.00

00:10:36.060 Well, if you ever drive south of Calgary, there's a great big, when you get towards High River,

00:10:40.880 so about half an hour south of Calgary, you see this giant red brick building just a little bit,

00:10:45.200 a few miles off to the highway to the west. Strange. It's been there forever. That's the

00:10:49.080 mag can plant. It was a magnesium processing facility. Somebody just smelled the idiocy of

00:10:55.020 government willing to throw out subsidies on notions and economic diversity and modernization 0.99

00:11:00.820 and said, we can process magnesium in this spot. All I need is half a billion tax dollars and we

00:11:06.180 can do this. That facility was only open for a few months. And now it's sat there shuttered,

00:11:11.140 closed. In fact, we're spending, I don't know, there's security guards and a trailer that's

00:11:15.240 permanently there. So we're spending money just to keep it there. I notice there's lights on when

00:11:18.680 you get close to it and go by, but there's nothing being done within it. It's too specialized.

00:11:22.780 it's too unusual to be leased out for anything else. Eventually we'll spend the money to pay

00:11:28.220 to rip it down. That, that building, that dinosaur, that's what we're going to see with the Volkswagen

00:11:35.280 battery plant out in Eastern Canada. And also what it does is gives our prime minister who wants to

00:11:41.820 shut down the energy industry in Western Canada, one of his things to point to. See, this is the

00:11:46.100 transition, guys. This is the transition. You can leave the rigs and go work at the battery factory.

00:11:50.640 See, we're not putting anybody out of work. We're transitioning them. No, you aren't. You're creating false industries. If there was a demand, if it was real, if it was possible, if it was feasible, they wouldn't need 13 billion of our dollars to do it. It's not that complicated.

00:12:05.640 it. Likewise, I'll finish up getting on a local rant. We've got, yes, Premier Smith announcing

00:12:12.720 yesterday with the mayor of Calgary and others that a new arena deal has been struck for Calgary.

00:12:19.400 I mean, they need one. Sure, the Saddle Dome is, the roof is falling apart. It's out of date.

00:12:24.560 But taxpayers are going to be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars for this new

00:12:29.960 arena. Let's not pretend it's because, you know, it's not because of election time coming. Of

00:12:33.900 course it is. And it'll probably work. That's, you know, we've got to stop being so responsive

00:12:38.960 to being bribed with our own money and maybe they'll stop doing it. But Daniel Smith desperately

00:12:44.300 needs Calgary support numbers to jump for her. Calgarians have been very concerned that they're

00:12:48.320 going to lose their hockey team and jumping in and pouring 300 million tax dollars into a private

00:12:55.040 venture is what her solution to it has been. And it's just maddening. It's maddening. It's circling

00:13:00.620 the drain, and it's these endless subsidy wars, and we get those people saying, oh, but look,

00:13:04.680 this city over here subsidize theirs, and they'll steal our team if we don't do it.

00:13:08.500 Oh, well. Come on, guys. There's other cities that have built arenas, stadiums, huge ones,

00:13:14.740 without soaking the taxpayers for it. If there's a market for it, it'll be built, but if,

00:13:20.420 and I don't even fault the sports company that owned the flames for taking it, if you can get

00:13:25.900 the money out of them, they're going to push for it, and they know, of course, coming up to an

00:13:28.760 election is a very good time to get their hands on it. But, you know, and I get frustrated with

00:13:34.700 that myth that all these arenas, they bring all the money into the city. No, they don't.

00:13:39.500 They redistribute money. Come on. I mean, Calgarians, are they going to say, oh, geez,

00:13:44.120 the flames moved out, which I don't think they ever will. But either way, the flames moved out.

00:13:47.980 I was going to spend money going down to the games, but now I'll just take the money and

00:13:51.160 roll it up in a joint and smoke it. No, they're going to spend it on something else. They'll go

00:13:55.400 to a restaurant. They'll go to a football game. They'll go to a movie. They'll take a vacation.

00:14:00.880 The money doesn't disappear. The arena doesn't generate money. It takes money. It redistributes 0.72

00:14:06.080 money. Sure, there's people employed in the arena and in restaurants and bars in the area and

00:14:11.240 parking, but let's not pretend that it's generating something. I mean, it benefits people. Sure,

00:14:16.580 there's adds some value to the city and adds to some identity and things, but we can have those

00:14:22.260 things without subsidizing them. That's the point. We don't need to get into the business

00:14:26.440 of sports arenas, but it's too late. We're not getting out of that one, but we got to start

00:14:30.680 speaking up because, you know, and again, I've been supportive of Premier Smith. I'm really

00:14:35.400 fearful of an NDP government, but boy, how much conservatism is going to be left in her by the 1.00

00:14:39.760 time she gets there if she keeps going down this course? She was very opposed to arena subsidies

00:14:44.040 only a few years ago. All right, that's enough out of me. Let's get some ranting and raving out

00:14:48.800 somebody else we've got our guest on deck as i said we got tamara leach here to talk to us this 1.00

00:14:54.400 week as she's got her new book out hold the line and let's bring tamara in and talk about it hey

00:15:00.720 how's it going out there it's going great corey how are you great rant this morning oh thanks you

00:15:06.160 know well i've always got lots of rage and fury that i have to vent forth to everybody else or

00:15:11.600 i'll be yelling on the sea trains and they'll think i'm another one of the addicts otherwise

00:15:14.320 so so yeah i mean uh you know we pretty much everybody's familiar with your story but we'll

00:15:23.120 go over a bit of it uh overall as well i mean we we the last time you were with us you mentioned

00:15:27.500 there was a book coming and uh here it is it's out it's published it's it's been making a lot

00:15:32.160 of waves uh tell us a little bit what's the basis of the book then is this a first person narration

00:15:38.120 Is this giving the history of what happened?

00:15:40.000 What is within that book?

00:15:43.120 Yeah, well, it's basically telling the story of how I came to be involved and what my involvement

00:15:48.840 was once we got to Ottawa and ever since, really.

00:15:53.000 I love it.

00:15:54.580 I think it captures the story really nicely and it's a nice, easy read.

00:16:00.320 And I think it'll answer a lot of people's questions.

00:16:04.020 I've been very quiet for the last year, as you know.

00:16:06.400 So I think this will give people an opportunity to have some of their own questions answered also.

00:16:13.180 Yeah, and you have been quiet and for good reason on a lot of it.

00:16:16.520 You've had to be, I mean, you've had to be very careful because of your status.

00:16:19.500 For those that already know, you're technically, you're still on bail.

00:16:22.840 You know, there's conditions attached to that.

00:16:25.320 If those are violated, they already showed that there's some people be more than overjoyed to stick you back and holding if they could find an excuse.

00:16:31.440 uh there's clearly i'm guessing since you're still free and talking to me unless you're in a hidden

00:16:36.600 location there's no problem then with publishing this book it's not going to violate any of your

00:16:41.140 your bail conditions or anything like that no and and we actually sent the draft to my criminal

00:16:47.180 lawyer for him to read and review and edit and uh actually i was a little surprised too i wasn't

00:16:53.140 sure what he was going to think but he he sent his edits back and said best of luck well it's

00:16:59.160 It's good to be careful. I mean, you've already done your share of time and remand. I'm sure

00:17:03.540 you'd rather not have to repeat any of that if you can help it. So how far back does this book

00:17:09.900 go into the story then? I mean, is this more background on you or does it kind of begin when

00:17:14.620 the convoy begins or where does it start? It starts with basically a brief background

00:17:22.140 about my history and how I ended up becoming involved. But the bulk of the book is all about

00:17:27.920 uh the whole event all the convoy how i came to meet chris and bridget and uh you know all the

00:17:34.600 wonderful people that i've been so blessed to work with over the last year and a half

00:17:38.640 because we've become like family really most of us and um so it goes into a lot of the day-to-day

00:17:46.140 things that were happening on the ground there in ottawa and all the things that we were dealing

00:17:49.900 with i mean it was it was chaos it was a beautiful beautiful chaos well and i mean you've you well

00:17:57.100 yourself have become a polarized, polarizing figure because you've become something of a

00:18:01.660 figure recognizable to do with the convoy, which of course was a polarizing event in itself. And

00:18:05.960 I mean, Mizzle addressed a little of the misinformation. You're not allowed on social

00:18:09.220 media, but I am. And I get out there and stir everybody up. But of course, as soon as we

00:18:12.800 announced you were coming on, we get the usual people jumping out. And I see the book gives you

00:18:16.420 the opportunity to clarify a lot of things. And of course, one of the things that come,

00:18:19.740 oh, here comes the grifter. She's looking to make more and more money out of this whole thing. And 1.00

00:18:24.060 And of course, the false allegation that you took money from any of the fundraising or things such as that with the convoy and such.

00:18:30.320 I imagine you can clarify a lot of that within the book, right?

00:18:34.220 Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.

00:18:37.640 Yeah, there's always going to be questions about the money.

00:18:40.300 And if this convoy taught me anything, it is really that money is the root of all evil.

00:18:46.760 We had a forensic audit done.

00:18:49.240 Everything is accounted for.

00:18:50.740 All the donations that weren't able to be refunded to people is sitting in an escrow account.

00:18:57.700 We have a $406 million civil lawsuit that we're facing for nuisance.

00:19:03.620 And then we have two orders, General of Ontario.

00:19:07.880 One was a forfeiture order and the second was a seizure order.

00:19:10.620 So, you know, I don't even know if we'll ever see those donations.

00:19:14.540 but obviously if we do win all these cases our objective is to make sure that that money gets

00:19:21.360 used what it was donated for and that is too we've got registration forms for some of the truckers

00:19:26.480 um another part of the group also did a poll on Facebook to find out what people wanted and I

00:19:32.120 mean that's one of the things that I was always very mindful of is that we never looked at that

00:19:38.000 as our money I mean that was Canadians money so it was always important to have their input

00:19:42.620 it and so they conducted a poll to find out you know what if people wanted any of those funds

00:19:49.240 should we ever have access to it to be used for legal representation uh over and above uh refunding

00:19:55.840 and we had an overwhelmingly positive response so we'll see there's there's lots to get before we

00:20:01.460 even get close to that stage so you're not coming to us from a mansion full of servants or anything

00:20:06.200 like that and sleeping no i still wait i haven't got my swiss bank accounts opened yet i also heard

00:20:12.820 i've got property in mexico and a mansion in hall quebec and it's just ridiculous people need to

00:20:21.140 find something better to do with their time and honestly it's a google search if people really

00:20:25.600 want to know that badly they could put in some effort and do some research it's all out there

00:20:30.360 in the public domain well and you do have to watch what you search like if you search cory morgan

00:20:35.240 worth i've had people throw that at me there's some goofy sites like celeb wiki and everything

00:20:39.000 that say that i'm apparently worth between one and five million dollars and come on you think

00:20:42.680 i'd be wearing a cheap sport coat like this if that was the case i mean uh the internet isn't

00:20:47.160 always accurate that's where things like getting things straight from the person himself with

00:20:51.320 something like a book at least you can cut through it and get your direct interpretation of what

00:20:55.480 happened then yes exactly and i think it's really important to get the truth out and i'm really

00:21:00.840 happy you know we wanted to get try and get this book out a lot sooner but i'm actually very happy

00:21:05.400 with the timing i mean it's really interesting to see what's going to happen with this peace act

00:21:09.880 strike that's happening out east uh see how they're handling that once they start blocking

00:21:14.520 some infrastructure and uh you know everything happens for a reason i've always said that and

00:21:20.120 the timing of this book i think is is really good there's a lot of truth coming out now there's a

00:21:24.760 lot of good things happening uh testimony and evidence coming out now again at the national

00:21:29.320 Citizens Inquiry. So yeah, I'm really happy with this. And I hope everybody appreciates it and

00:21:35.540 enjoys it. Yeah, and I mean, something that I imagine the book will go into, I'm sorry,

00:21:41.080 I apologize. Usually, when I get these, I've read the book already, and I'm going to, I promise.

00:21:45.260 I just wasn't able to get a copy in time to do so. But it'll give some clarity to like a lot of

00:21:50.960 people don't understand, you didn't anticipate what was going to happen. Like this was a snowball

00:21:56.080 that just grew and sort of took you up within it.

00:21:59.240 I mean, it started as a small initiative

00:22:01.260 and, you know, the world went crazy,

00:22:03.960 but you weren't a professional activist.

00:22:05.840 You weren't anticipating or seeing a future

00:22:08.200 or anything like what happened.

00:22:09.460 And I guess the book can show those steps

00:22:10.860 on how you ended up where you did.

00:22:12.700 Yes, I think in the category of did not see this coming,

00:22:16.740 this is number one, for sure.

00:22:20.360 So did you have some collaboration within the book then

00:22:23.480 with some of the other people who were at the protests with you or prior to it like is it is

00:22:29.000 it all just yourself in in the writing or are there some other uh oh no it yeah it references

00:22:34.240 you know chris barber uh bridget ben all the all the core team that was involved at the beginning

00:22:40.640 it references all of that too so um yeah i mean there's a whole story there this is just that this

00:22:47.100 is the story from my perspective and and what my experience was well and that's yeah an important

00:22:53.900 part to point out i mean you're not speaking for the entire convoy or even the everything that

00:22:58.140 happened you didn't see you were just one person i mean certainly one pivotal person but it was a

00:23:02.580 very decentralized and unusual sort of protest i mean you can't really lump it all into one area

00:23:08.940 but at least you can speak for the part that you were a part of that's right yeah exactly yep i'm

00:23:14.240 happy to say my piece very much so and it is interesting when you see yes the the public

00:23:19.260 service alliance of canada and i know uh nigel our our opinion editor is working on that or it

00:23:26.160 might be up pretty soon with a column pointing out the parallels though that we've got people now

00:23:30.500 that are hindering trade across ports of entry that were blocking things on parliament hill that

00:23:35.860 are keeping people from get to their work i'm not hearing anybody talking about the emergencies act

00:23:40.440 them yet no i know isn't it ironic um it it really comes down to who's doing the protesting in this

00:23:49.560 country it seems these days um we were just a bunch of dirty blue collar workers that were

00:23:55.800 going to say our peace and so i think we were looked upon in some circles uh with disdain

00:24:03.960 and why are you here and so it is interesting to see how these guys are getting treated

00:24:09.160 and let's see if he opens up some dialogue with them

00:24:12.480 and wants to talk to them and hear what they have to say.

00:24:15.260 Well, yeah, and that's an excellent point.

00:24:17.680 And I'm not saying we want to get in there with the horses

00:24:20.260 and start batoning the strikers or things like that.

00:24:24.240 Two wrongs don't make a right.

00:24:25.980 I mean, if they are blocking people from getting to work,

00:24:28.480 then perhaps we should work on making room so people can do so

00:24:31.240 and things like that.

00:24:32.120 But, I mean, we don't want to see the Emergencies Act

00:24:34.120 imposed against more people.

00:24:36.040 We want to point out just that it was wrong then

00:24:38.280 and it would be wrong now, but it's interesting how they have quite a double standard when it

00:24:41.720 comes to what merits that sort of action. It certainly is, yes. I'm watching with great

00:24:47.240 interest, put it that way. Yes, absolutely, and hopefully, I mean, as you said too, though, was

00:24:53.660 that there will be dialogue. There's already dialogue. There's negotiators. I mean, even if

00:24:58.380 they're not getting anywhere with the union, that was the biggest, most insulting part of the whole

00:25:03.660 convoy thing, there was never an effort to even make dialogue, even to show up, give you guys 20

00:25:10.040 minutes, and then walk away and say, okay, they're all crazy, but we tried. Yes. Yeah, that's right.

00:25:14.380 Yeah. I mean, a little bit of effort goes a long way, in my opinion, and in our case, for sure,

00:25:21.120 for sure. So what portion, I mean, writing was new to you. I mean, you've always been vocal online

00:25:28.760 and active with things like that.

00:25:30.340 But I mean, you know, I wrote a book recently as well.

00:25:33.740 There were some parts I enjoyed writing more than others

00:25:35.740 or I could really get into.

00:25:37.200 I mean, was there a part of that engagement?

00:25:39.340 I mean, you had a lot of time being sort of locked down

00:25:41.260 even post-con boy, so that helped.

00:25:43.900 But what do you really feel most satisfied with in that book?

00:25:48.720 Oh boy, that's a tough question.

00:25:53.360 I enjoyed it.

00:25:54.420 I think it was really therapeutic for me

00:25:56.760 because obviously this book was written before I went to testify at the national or at the POEC

00:26:03.860 in Ottawa. So I found it very therapeutic for myself to get a lot of stuff out. Um, I think

00:26:10.780 one of my favorite things about the book, honestly, is the relationships that we had

00:26:16.600 that we forged, you know, sin. I mean, you're talking about a group of people that had never

00:26:21.740 met before didn't know each other and just came together and had this beautiful um crazy

00:26:29.500 experience you know uh all with one common goal of trying to make our country a better place and

00:26:35.300 and um the whole thing corey it's so hard to just pick something i i'm really pleased with it i think

00:26:42.740 there's a lot of good information in there um i've i've always been very a very open person

00:26:49.040 and transparent. And I think it gives people an opportunity to get to know me better also. So

00:26:55.080 which is important. And that's always been important to me from day one.

00:27:00.340 Yeah, well, there's been a lot of efforts to really demonize and dehumanize a lot of the

00:27:04.340 people taking part. And you know, that's not unique to the left. There's conservatives who

00:27:08.560 get pretty nasty online as well and doing things like that. We can't forget that there's people

00:27:12.700 behind those news stories and people behind these events that are going on and giving the

00:27:17.620 opportunity at least to speak up for themselves you don't have to agree with them but you know

00:27:20.380 show a little respect i guess and so true i've seen people that wish i would wish wish me dead

00:27:27.300 uh i've seen comments you know that they wish would wish i would go back to jail or that they

00:27:32.780 want me to go to jail for the rest of my life like i i guess the thing is that they don't understand

00:27:37.560 is that if that gets allowed to happen in this case this government isn't going to be in power

00:27:42.520 forever so next time it could be them with a different government in power you know so uh

00:27:48.680 it's a really important case i think me and chris's criminal trial is going to be very important and

00:27:53.560 and set a precedent for what's going to happen for for all canadians going forward in cases like this

00:28:00.280 yeah and then while i've got you then you know before i let you go so how are things going with

00:28:04.360 your your criminal trial i mean things just go so agonizingly slowly through our system

00:28:08.840 is the timeline progressing at all with that? Well, we've been in and out of court hearings

00:28:13.300 for the last month and a half, I guess. Nothing really was solved. Monday morning, we did get a

00:28:18.600 decision from the trial judge that she is going to stay our trial judge, which is very good news

00:28:24.140 for us because that means hopefully everything will stay on schedule. Chris and I are co-accused

00:28:29.960 and so we'll be facing trial together and that is set to commence on September the 5th and

00:28:34.780 last for two weeks. Well, hopefully, I mean, we're hoping for a positive resolution,

00:28:40.280 but I just imagine a resolution whatsoever is just, you know, hanging halfway between has

00:28:43.960 got to be stressful. Yeah, you're right. Well, the punishment is in the process, right?

00:28:49.520 Yes, absolutely. And they certainly used every bit of it that they could.

00:28:53.100 So before I let you go, where can people find a copy of that book for themselves? And are there

00:28:56.880 any events or things you'll be going to promote it? Yeah, I think I'm coming to Calgary on May

00:29:03.540 6th for a book signing i i haven't quite confirmed it yet but it sounds like it'll be may 6th at the

00:29:08.260 canyon meadows uh cinemas and then we'll be scheduling a tour here uh i was gone yesterday

00:29:14.980 so i didn't have access to my emails but i'll be checking that today and we'll be starting a book

00:29:19.220 tour right away and some book signings right now you can find the book uh at theconvoybook.com

00:29:24.980 or right from amazon also so well very excited i hope everybody likes it i hope you have to let

00:29:31.700 let me know what you think, Corey. I will, I will get it. I don't, I don't BS when I say I'm going

00:29:36.800 to read a book. I'm looking forward to it. So thanks for writing that and everything you've

00:29:42.040 done, Tamara. And thanks for coming on again today. And yeah, I'll send a note once I've

00:29:45.720 finished reading your book there. Perfect. My pleasure. And thanks so much for having me.

00:29:49.380 It's always good to see you. Great. Thanks, Tamara. Have a great day. Thanks. So that was

00:29:54.040 Tamara Leach. And yes, that new book, as you can see, it's quite easy to find. Just look it up,

00:29:58.140 look up Tamara, hold the line. It's on Amazon and she'll be going around promoting it. It's good to

00:30:03.080 get direct stories on what happened. I mean, especially something as haywire as the convoy

00:30:08.340 and thing. Let's get some clarity. And you might not agree with everything she's written. In fact,

00:30:12.360 if you read with everything, there's probably something a little wrong with you. We've got

00:30:15.240 different points of view. That's the problem we have these days. Nobody's respecting other points

00:30:19.040 of views. So this is where you can clarify some stuff and get that out there. And I get annoyed

00:30:23.920 that, oh, it's grifting. Well, you know what? You don't have to buy the book. Grifting is one of the

00:30:29.240 guns to your head. And the ones who do that are the government, not private enterprise. This is

00:30:33.620 private enterprise. Don't buy the book if you don't like it then. But, you know, I'm going to

00:30:38.580 buy it and I'm certainly going to review it and talk about it. Hey, if it's terrible and everything

00:30:43.300 else, I'll be real polite about it, but I'll still give an honest review. But I'm sure it'll be good.

00:30:47.440 All right. So speaking of grifters, I want to expand a little more on that and talk about the

00:30:52.640 Public Service Alliance of Canada strike that's going on. And it's only been, what, 10 days or so

00:30:59.500 or whatnot. But this was quite striking. And it's on the Western Standard News as well now putting

00:31:05.500 out. It was the Globe and Mail that broke it to give them credit. But apparently these strikers

00:31:09.120 are still going to be continuing to receive their regular salaries until May 10th. They're getting

00:31:16.080 full pay. I mean, not that they were doing a hell of a lot before they went on strike. We know that

00:31:20.980 They're civil servants. But even since they've walked out, they're getting full pay. This is

00:31:27.120 ridiculous. This is beyond the pale. I mean, if you're going to have your union, fine, that's a 0.99

00:31:32.620 right. And if you're going to have your union dues go into that kitty for your strike pay, fine. And

00:31:38.340 then the union can pay your butts while you waddle up and down the streets holding your campaign 0.53

00:31:42.700 signs for four hours, oh, a day. I mean, I know it was hard getting off the couches, guys. But to get

00:31:48.820 paid while they're on strike. We are paying them not to work. I mean, we were already paying them

00:31:54.200 not to work, but we're paying them not to work even more so now. This is ridiculous. Of course, 0.94

00:32:00.080 this strike is going to drag out. It's not costing any one of those picketers a nickel. You see,

00:32:04.800 part of the impasse, if you're going to have a strike, if workers are refusing to do their work

00:32:10.280 and whoever they're striking is not getting, you know, their business or products done,

00:32:14.780 eventually hopefully theoretically you'll get to a point of you know negotiation and settle things

00:32:20.720 but if one side is taking no punishment taking no risk taking no hit it's not going to be settled

00:32:26.640 so these guys can sit for another two weeks of doing nothing and get full pay so all the pressure

00:32:32.540 is going on the government all the pressure is going on the taxpayer as we can't get our passports

00:32:37.160 renewed as goods are getting hindered getting across the border right now as people are getting

00:32:42.100 blocked from federal services, immigration services falling behind. Of course, CRA services,

00:32:47.580 as much as we despise giving our money to the CRA, it's not going to get any easier for waiting. And

00:32:53.660 as they bring in a backlog, again, it's not like those jerks were all that efficient in processing 0.99

00:32:57.940 our taxes in the first place. But wow, where on earth can you walk out on a job and you'll get 0.98

00:33:05.680 paid full wages for the first apparently three weeks of your walkout. It's nuts. It's nuts.

00:33:13.400 Speaking of nuts, let's talk about the federal government. Oh yeah, that was the federal

00:33:17.820 government. Furthermore, so they're talking about their firearms grab, of course, their

00:33:22.740 legislation where they want to steal your property. They call it a buyback. Look, you can't buy back

00:33:28.240 if it wasn't for sale. My property isn't for sale, so don't bother making an offer. And forcing me

00:33:34.660 to buy it back with the threat of the law against me. Again, that's theft, even though you're

00:33:38.220 compensating me for it. You know, you can't walk over somebody, hey, I like your car. I want to

00:33:42.340 buy it off you. The person says, no, well, too damn bad. I'm going to beat the hell out of you

00:33:45.360 unless you take my money and give me your car. I mean, that's sort of what we're talking about. 0.88

00:33:48.420 So it's not a buyback, guys. It's a seizure, and they're giving a little bit of tax money to you

00:33:52.300 for it. But they talked with this Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association to start their

00:33:58.720 program, to start grabbing those firearms, grabbing that property from law-abiding citizens.

00:34:04.040 because these are law-abiding citizens. This is not taking criminal guns. That's what the whole

00:34:08.960 basis and the infuriating part of this. We've got shootings going all over the place.

00:34:13.500 And we've got the numbers. We've got the statistics. We know what's going on.

00:34:16.800 They're smuggled, illegal firearms, often from the states. So what are they targeting?

00:34:23.380 People who follow the law, people who registered their restricted firearms, people who bought them

00:34:28.320 in good faith, people who committed no crimes. If they committed no crimes, guess what, guys?

00:34:33.540 you're not going to prevent any crimes by stealing their property. In fact, you're committing another

00:34:37.400 crime and it's against the citizens, but they're moving towards that. Um, and they're starting in

00:34:43.760 the East. If you remember, they were going to begin in Prince Edward Island. They want to start

00:34:46.600 in one of the most areas with a fewer firearms at least. And again, this gets back to Alberta,

00:34:51.200 Saskatchewan, the provinces, uh, they've been telling, especially in the West, the government

00:34:54.960 to go to hell. We're not going to help you with this. And, uh, our recent thing I heard on the

00:34:59.480 news in Alberta, was in Alberta, nobody, no officer, whether it's RCMP or special firearms

00:35:05.440 officers or whatever the government wants to create, is going to be allowed to seize property

00:35:10.160 and firearms from Albertans without a permit from the province. Yeah, fighting bureaucracy

00:35:14.940 with bureaucracy. So that'll be interesting. Come on and get them, guys. Good luck. Presumably,

00:35:22.540 if we've got Premier Daniel Smith in the next month, they're going to demand a permit from you

00:35:28.880 guys to come steal our guns, and I doubt you're going to get it. Meanwhile, firearms owners,

00:35:33.440 I don't think a heck of a lot of them are going to just pop out there and give up their property

00:35:38.240 to you guys. And Marco Mendicino, my favorite, he's the public safety minister, minister of lies.

00:35:46.940 This guy, he has been caught lying more times. I mean, lying in politicians, you know, of course,

00:35:51.200 it's not all that unusual. You know, as Forrest would say, they're all together like peas and

00:35:56.900 carrots. But Mendocino brings it to a whole new art form. I think he's incapable of telling the

00:36:02.280 truth. I mean, this guy is pathological. And yeah, this is the guy in charge of the firearm 0.97

00:36:07.660 theft from law-abiding firearm owners. But also, you see, what they're trying to pack into their

00:36:11.900 legislation is saying, we're going to crack down, though, on illegal firearm use. Most of us are

00:36:17.260 okay with that. Okay, that's fine. The lunatic robbing places with a firearm? Yes, we want to

00:36:23.380 heavy sentences for them, the person assaulting people with it, the person shooting people with

00:36:26.840 it. But they're talking about, so they want to increase the maximum for firearm crimes,

00:36:32.420 for gun running and things like that, to 14 years from 10 years. But when he was asked about how

00:36:37.840 many people had ever actually gotten the maximum at 10 years, he talked in circles, says by raising

00:36:43.420 maximum sentences, we're sending a strong signal. He was asked again, well, how many people got the

00:36:47.100 10 year sentence? Wouldn't answer it, because people didn't even get the last maximum. So it's

00:36:51.800 not like you hit a wall of maximums that judges were trying to give these gun runners. They're

00:36:56.940 already giving them limp-wristed weak sentences. So increasing the maximum isn't going to make a

00:37:02.560 bloody difference. They're not really cracking down on the illegal firearms. They're cracking

00:37:06.320 down as usual on the law-abiding firearm owners. But yeah, Mendicino taking the questioning with

00:37:13.900 his smirk and his lies. He's a liar. I'll say that outright. There's lots of evidence on it, 1.00

00:37:21.800 by all means, you know, send the legal letters. We can find all sorts of incidents where he just

00:37:25.700 outright makes stuff up. Speaking of making stuff up and criminals, it looks like this was

00:37:31.160 interesting. A Commons Public Accounts Committee, because we don't want to forget about this one,

00:37:34.560 all the rest of the stuff's going on in the world, but they're ordering hearings on the Trudeau

00:37:38.480 Foundation. Like what an ugly mess that's turning into and people are forgetting about it. And that

00:37:42.480 was a 10 to 0 vote to have the CRA, of course they're on strike, but we'll see whenever they

00:37:46.420 get back. They're going to scrutinize the Trudeau Foundation. Like that thing was started with 125

00:37:52.640 million tax dollars. They keep saying it's an arm's length charity. Just because it says Trudeau

00:37:58.420 doesn't mean it has something to do with Trudeau. Well, wait a minute. Justin Trudeau's brother is

00:38:02.180 on the board with it and he was cutting deals for donations from Chinese Communist Party.

00:38:07.000 That's kind of a Trudeau involvement in it. Justin Trudeau's half sister is on the board

00:38:11.140 and involved with the Trudeau Foundation.

00:38:13.720 You know, it's a charity.

00:38:15.160 So what?

00:38:16.020 The WE charity was there too.

00:38:18.000 And how was that used?

00:38:18.840 Oh yeah, hundreds of thousands of dollars 0.98

00:38:20.060 in speaking fees going to Margaret Trudeau

00:38:22.940 or to Alexander Trudeau.

00:38:25.300 Look, they're using these things 0.97

00:38:26.340 to launder bloody tax dollars into their pockets.

00:38:30.260 Come on.

00:38:31.440 So is it happening in the Trudeau Foundation? 0.80

00:38:33.000 I don't know, but it stinks. 0.93

00:38:34.380 It stinks to high heaven. 0.87

00:38:36.280 And why?

00:38:37.460 Why if this supposed foundation has no connection with Justin Trudeau

00:38:42.560 and it won't win his influence by donating to it,

00:38:45.620 then why were the Chinese Communist Party so eager to keep pouring money into it?

00:38:50.940 I mean, I'm sorry, guys.

00:38:53.380 The Chinese Communist Party looks up for the Chinese Communist Party.

00:38:56.440 They're philanthropists who care about the goodwill for Canadians.

00:38:59.780 The other thing with that foundation is it had charitable status.

00:39:03.260 And to maintain charitable status, you have to put out,

00:39:05.000 I believe it's something like 3.8 or 4% of your assets into the actual charity every year. It means

00:39:10.020 you actually have to not just take money in, but spend it out on the charity you say you were

00:39:14.740 holding. If you were the head of the Special Olympics and you took in a million dollars in

00:39:19.920 donations, you would have to spend at least, and that's not much anyways, $40,000 on holding a

00:39:27.200 sporting event or something to do with the Special Olympics. The Trudeau Foundation didn't even reach

00:39:31.700 that bar three out of four years. Shouldn't they be deregistered as a charity? I bet you if you had

00:39:37.840 a small charity, they'd do it. This country is corrupted on so many levels, so many levels.

00:39:44.440 It's not serving any of us well. Speaking of serving people poorly, here's another one we're

00:39:48.200 hearing about. Of course, the horror is in Sudan. It's going bad over there. And people are trying 0.99

00:39:53.740 to escape. They're trying to get out. It's awful. And yet again, this looks just like Canada in

00:40:00.400 Afghanistan. When we knew it was coming, we had the warnings, we had the rumblings. We have Canadian 0.99

00:40:05.940 citizens and permanent residents over in the area that's breaking out in war, and we aren't

00:40:11.480 evacuating. And we abandoned them. We left them. You know, the ambassador's always hightailing it

00:40:16.680 out pretty darn fast in a luxury jet. But the people on the ground are screwed. And in Sudan, 0.98

00:40:21.640 that's what's happening right now. So yeah, the big news, an additional 50 were evacuated out the

00:40:25.780 other day? 50. You know, how is it that Calgary can ship 2,000 people a day down to Mexico for

00:40:32.040 vacations from the airport, but it's impossible to get more than 50 people a day out of Sudan?

00:40:36.980 Is it that hard to get a jet out there? And in fact, it turns out most of those 1.00

00:40:42.240 got out from the planes and boats of other countries. Canada didn't even help them. The

00:40:48.620 Canadians. Yeah. Embarrassing. We can't, we don't have the hardware. We don't have the military

00:40:54.020 ability to save the Canadians or permanent registered residents who were there. There's 1.00

00:40:58.320 1,800 Canadian citizens over there. And 700 of them have said, please help me get out of here. 0.99

00:41:04.900 And we can't because we are a country that's too inept and full of vain naval gazing with a prime

00:41:11.080 minister in love with himself and forgetting his actual duties to citizens overseas. And now they're 0.96

00:41:16.240 stranded over there. And let's hope there's not more tragedy in Afghanistan with our allies,

00:41:20.060 the people who helped us out out there, we abandoned them, we left them. Again, the ambassador

00:41:24.620 got out fast enough, but they were left to the warlords and terrible Taliban punishments they

00:41:33.000 were going to get for having cooperated with Canada. What an embarrassment as a nation. You

00:41:36.800 know, we used to be such a proud nation in a lot of ways, and look what we're down to now.

00:41:42.320 And again, let's get to resources. Let's talk about subsidies. Here's one of the things people

00:41:45.760 have been turning around, oh, look, you're getting mad about the Volkswagen subsidy, but think about

00:41:49.640 the billions that Trudeau put in the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Well, there's a difference

00:41:52.500 there. There's a big difference there. The Trans Mountain Pipeline, nobody asked them to buy it.

00:41:58.140 All we needed them to do was get out of the way. They kept moving the regulatory goalposts,

00:42:02.380 kept adding more and more crap onto Kinder Morgan, who were trying to build it, who were going to

00:42:06.220 build it for like four, what, four and a half billion dollars, I believe it was, of private 0.88

00:42:10.120 dollars, wouldn't have cost us a nickel, just had to get out of the way. Not even a new pipeline.

00:42:15.000 It's just putting one right next to one that's existed for the last 60 years without problems.

00:42:19.600 But Kinder Morgan finally said, that's enough.

00:42:20.860 We're out of here.

00:42:21.480 This is nuts.

00:42:22.340 And the government bought it because he realized he blew it.

00:42:26.340 And it's ballooned up to $30 billion now.

00:42:28.760 $30 billion?

00:42:30.040 And it's not done.

00:42:31.100 Way behind schedule.

00:42:32.320 Way behind schedule.

00:42:33.060 Well, now I find out work has been halted on it yet again.

00:42:37.200 Yes, there was an injury somewhere on the pipeline out there, I think, out by Chilliwack.

00:42:41.060 So they shut the whole thing down because, again, you see, when you get a government-run project,

00:42:44.840 and the oil field's been getting bad even in the private area for that. 0.95

00:42:47.100 But the HSE guys, the safety maggots, they shut everything down over the dumbest of things. 0.77

00:42:52.380 I mean, shut down a little zone, do a safety stand on fine. 0.96

00:42:54.680 But when you're shutting down a pipeline worth that much, we're talking millions and millions of dollars is not making them any less injured or dead. 0.99

00:43:00.340 We got to get that damn thing done. 0.97

00:43:02.020 And we're regulating it to death as we're trying to build it. 0.99

00:43:05.320 There was a hummingbird nest.

00:43:06.700 And I mean, somebody referred to it as the hundred million dollar hummingbird nest, because that was found a couple of seasons ago on the side.

00:43:12.440 And it wasn't an endangered hummingbird.

00:43:14.020 It wasn't a rare hummingbird, but they found it in the environment.

00:43:17.280 We've got to stop a big giant section of the construction of the pipeline

00:43:20.120 because we don't want to disturb that hummingbird nest.

00:43:21.800 And we've got to study this now.

00:43:23.280 In the end, it costs like $100 million to save a nest, not even the hummingbird itself, just the nest.

00:43:29.840 You know what?

00:43:30.100 If you cut the nest down, the bird will probably fly 10 more feet in the trees and make a new one.

00:43:34.300 No wonder the dam pipe's not getting done.

00:43:36.560 I don't think they want to get it done.

00:43:38.000 How's Trudeau going to plug his hydrogen dreams and his battery factories

00:43:41.400 if we're actually supplying petrochemical products

00:43:43.980 to the world like we should.

00:43:45.520 And gas, LNG, getting back to that.

00:43:48.040 We got the terrorists on the CGL line

00:43:50.040 that's supposed to feed the LNG port up in the West Coast.

00:43:53.440 Guess what?

00:43:53.940 The United States has got LNG.

00:43:55.420 They're the top exporter in the world with it now.

00:43:57.880 You know, UAE, all sorts of countries.

00:43:59.660 Not us, not us. 1.00

00:44:00.940 We're shutting it in.

00:44:01.900 Instead, we're spending billions of our own dollars

00:44:03.820 to build batteries from a foreign company

00:44:05.980 out here in Canada.

00:44:07.780 Brilliant, brilliant, guys.

00:44:10.700 All right.

00:44:11.400 leave off. And one final note with my ranting. Watch out. God, it sounds like it's going crazy.

00:44:15.580 I went many years ago to it down in Cancun, Mexico. Fantastic, beautiful area, Caribbean,

00:44:20.000 clear waters. But man, looks like they got a hell of a drug war going on down there. 0.99

00:44:24.020 We're hearing more and more of it. I don't like to knock Mexico. I love Mexico. I love Mexicans,

00:44:27.380 but geez, they just found another eight bodies dumped close to Cancun. Yeah, they've been missing

00:44:32.460 for some time and they found them down there. I'm just saying if you're considering vacations,

00:44:37.840 guys. It's a popular destination for Canadians, but you might want to steer clear of Cancun for

00:44:42.480 the next little while. They've really got some stuff there settling out there. All right. Well,

00:44:47.380 that's about it for the show today, guys. We covered a lot of ground, had a good guest,

00:44:51.680 and I ranted right out. So, you know, watch for the pipeline that'll be coming on a little later

00:44:58.160 this evening, guys. That's our panel show with a bunch of us. Be sure to take a subscription out

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00:45:05.960 $10 a month, full unfettered access to all of our news and opinion content.

00:45:10.880 Thank you all for tuning in this week.

00:45:13.100 I'm going to have another great guest and a whole bunch more stuff to rant about next week at this time.

00:45:16.760 And I'll see you then.

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00:45:21.340 Without the CSSA, our gun rights would have been taken long, long ago.

00:45:25.720 These guys are on the front lines, helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms, regulations and legislation in Canada.

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00:45:38.300 people to become a member. It's absolutely worth every penny. Folks it's springtime and the Leafs

00:45:45.700 are in the playoffs. Even the markets are surprised. I was going to wear a Flames jersey

00:45:50.300 to represent all the red we've been seeing in the market but I thought that might be too soon for

00:45:54.280 some of you Flames fans out there. So I think we better just get into these prices just to keep

00:45:59.540 everything everybody happy here cash parties unchanged at 419 feed wheat were sitting up

00:46:04.900 three dollars to 418 a metric and corn were up five dollars to 412 per metric moving to the

00:46:11.600 milling wheat markets july minneapolis futures dropped 14.5 cents to 822 per bushel with local

00:46:18.180 hard red spring bid for may movement at ten dollars per bushel delivered in the oil seeds

00:46:23.280 nearby canola futures went up $10.80 to $7.3720 per ton, with delivered values for mave movement

00:46:30.940 at $17.40 per bushel. Continuing on to the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are trading at

00:46:36.780 $0.34 a pound, and yellow peas remain at $12 per bushel. Finishing up with the cattle markets,

00:46:42.980 June live cattle slid $0.4 to $163.63 per hundredweight. For more information on pricing,

00:46:50.620 or if you just want to talk about how great those Leafs fans are, give me a call.

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