Western Standard - March 28, 2024


CMS： The Trudeau government is about to get much worse.


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

194.20798

Word Count

9,346

Sentence Count

545

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

Corey Morgan rants about the Liberal Party's failure to win the next election, the Gold-plated federal pension plan, and the fact that Justin Trudeau is now a lame duck Prime Minister, and what that means for all of us.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.
00:00:44.160 We got another big busy one ahead.
00:00:46.360 As always, lots of news breaking, lots of craziness happening.
00:00:49.420 I guess, you know, it's what that curse and blessing about living in interesting times.
00:00:54.340 They're certainly interesting and there's certainly lots for me to go on about and I will.
00:00:58.960 So, yes, this is live, guys.
00:01:00.860 I see E-Sharp and Jordan already using comments.
00:01:03.280 Scroll right on.
00:01:04.240 I appreciate that.
00:01:05.100 Send your comments my way.
00:01:06.340 Send them towards my guests.
00:01:08.160 I don't necessarily read them all out on the air, but I do see them all there and I do appreciate them.
00:01:13.420 It lets me know you're listening and helps keep the conversation rolling.
00:01:17.160 So, I got a couple of guests on today.
00:01:19.000 So, it's going to be a pretty packed show.
00:01:20.380 So, Fergus Hodgson is going to be on.
00:01:22.260 He's going to discuss his new book, which is Financial Sovereignty for Canadians, which, yeah, offers a lot of, well, I guess, I read it, bleak outlook and such on, you know, where Canada's economy is sitting.
00:01:34.560 But then he offers a lot of advice, perhaps, of what you should be doing to protect your own finances to avoid going down the drain with the rest of Canadians as things move along.
00:01:42.860 So, we'll talk to him.
00:01:44.000 And Franco Terrezano from the Taxpayers Federation is going to pop in for a quick hit a little later in the show.
00:01:48.960 And he's going to talk about something related to what I'm just about to rant about.
00:01:53.080 So, let me get on with that.
00:01:55.880 So, let's talk about, yes, my favorite gang there, Trudeau's Liberals.
00:01:59.160 And they've moved the proposed general election date ahead by a week to ensure that 80 MPs who wouldn't previously have qualified will now be eligible for the gold-plated federal pension plan.
00:02:10.600 Now, the Liberals are claiming they move this date because it clashes with a religious holiday.
00:02:14.520 That's a load of crap, guys.
00:02:15.760 Come on, we've known the date of that religious holiday, what, for probably a few thousand years.
00:02:20.540 They suddenly realized, now, that was the date?
00:02:22.360 Of course not.
00:02:23.220 No, they realized something else has happened.
00:02:26.160 So, what's changed?
00:02:27.240 Well, the Liberals are facing the reality that they haven't a hope of winning the next election.
00:02:31.800 Their poll numbers have collapsed and they continue to migrate downwards.
00:02:35.080 Even if they unload their wildly unpopular leader, they likely can't keep the ship from sinking.
00:02:40.440 And many are quick to point out that most of the MPs who would qualify for the pensions due to this change of date for the election,
00:02:45.660 are conservative members of Parliament.
00:02:47.260 And that's true.
00:02:48.300 But it doesn't really matter because most of those members are looking at comfortably being re-elected.
00:02:52.560 The change was made for the Liberal MPs who are either going to be fleeing before the next election comes
00:02:57.020 or be kicked out on their asses in the next general election.
00:03:00.900 And while it's a good thing that the writing's on the wall for this terrible administration,
00:03:05.280 this also signals that the Liberals have entered lame-duck mode.
00:03:09.200 And that's going to be costly for all of us.
00:03:10.840 You see, the only thing worse than a Liberal government that's trying to win an election
00:03:14.300 is a Liberal government that isn't trying anymore.
00:03:17.900 I mean, let's face it, Justin Trudeau isn't a thoughtful or pragmatic Prime Minister.
00:03:21.500 He's a simple man, driven by ideology.
00:03:24.140 Trudeau's going to be pushing his obsessive agenda of trying to battle climate change through carbon taxes
00:03:28.980 and attempting to buy himself international love and respect through transferring Canadian tax dollars to other nations.
00:03:35.000 Now, his efforts are going to fail, but he's willing to spend Canadian citizens into penury trying.
00:03:40.780 With Trudeau convinced he won't win the next election, remember he said he doesn't care if he's popular anymore.
00:03:45.020 That's good, he should stop caring because he's not going to be popular again.
00:03:47.880 But he's going to focus on building a legacy for himself, and we're all going to suffer dearly for that.
00:03:52.140 Look back to Justin's father, Pierre, when he notoriously appointed over 70 of his pals
00:03:56.300 to plumb government positions during his last couple months in power.
00:03:59.180 It was a poison pill that crippled his successor, John Turner's chances of winning the next election.
00:04:05.720 But Pierre didn't care.
00:04:06.880 He just wanted to make sure his friends were well cared for on the taxpayer's dime as he went out the door.
00:04:11.500 Now, if Pierre Trudeau did that much damage in a couple of months, says a lame duck leader,
00:04:14.600 just think of what Justin's going to do with a year and a half to play with.
00:04:17.580 Cabinet ministers will be doing the same.
00:04:19.320 We're going to expect a flurry of sole-sourced contracts to well-connected Liberal companies.
00:04:24.000 Yeah, I know that's been happening for years, but now that the party has lost up a re-election,
00:04:27.200 they're going to become even more bold and blatant with their influence peddling and favours for friends.
00:04:32.640 Liberal cronies are going to be jammed into high-paying positions within crown corporations,
00:04:36.260 and if those positions run out, I won't be shocked to see if we have new crown corporations formed in the next year and a half.
00:04:41.940 We're going to see more judges, ambassadors, countless special envoys with high-paying roles
00:04:45.940 with indeterminate agendas or obligations.
00:04:48.360 They're going to get appointed to things all over.
00:04:50.280 Things are looking bad in Canada right now economically and socially, but prepare for them to get worse.
00:04:54.600 We got where we are today through the actions of a government that was trying, albeit poorly,
00:04:58.420 to implement policy while garnering favour among citizens.
00:05:02.040 Now we face a year and a half of governance from a government that no longer even ostensibly cares what we think.
00:05:06.740 We're about to acutely feel the pain of a system that gives people no means of imposing accountability upon governments between elections.
00:05:13.340 Even if Trudeau's support dropped to 5% nationally,
00:05:16.480 we'd be stuck with who either chooses to step down or calls an election.
00:05:21.060 I mean, clearly Jagmeet Singh's never going to bring him down.
00:05:23.840 Singh's as close to power as he's ever going to get, and he knows it.
00:05:25.960 He's not going to rock that boat.
00:05:27.600 And let's not forget, according to the Constitution, actually,
00:05:29.660 Trudeau could theoretically hang on until the fall of 2026 before having to call an election.
00:05:34.740 The election date can be adjusted at any time, and the Liberals just proved that.
00:05:37.920 Sunny ways are long gone.
00:05:39.440 Trudeau said as much in his clumsy and awkward way recently when he said it's not his job to be popular
00:05:43.540 as he tried to defend his failing carbon tax.
00:05:45.660 He's convincing himself that he's martyring his political career for the larger cause of battling climate change.
00:05:50.880 He thinks he's saving the world and that history will look on his actions kindly, even if the voters don't.
00:05:56.140 He's wrong, of course, but nothing's going to convince him otherwise now.
00:05:59.380 There's nothing more dangerous than a person who feels they have nothing to lose.
00:06:02.700 Canada's now facing an entire government that feels that way.
00:06:05.520 So I hate to tell you guys, but we're up that creek and in for some tough times.
00:06:09.060 Get ready to strap in.
00:06:10.540 All right.
00:06:11.880 That's what I got to bitch about today.
00:06:13.200 Let's see what else is happening in the news.
00:06:14.920 We've got a treat today.
00:06:15.960 Dave Naylor is in studio with me.
00:06:18.160 In studio. Look at this.
00:06:19.220 Face to face. I can't even take my shots at you, kind of, because I don't have that safety of a glass studio wall.
00:06:25.560 No, no, I know. So this is what it's like. This is where it all happens.
00:06:28.140 It's where the magic happens.
00:06:30.000 Yeah, we're having some internet trouble, so I figured I might as well.
00:06:33.540 What the hell did we ever do before Al Gore invented the internet?
00:06:37.680 True. That's true.
00:06:38.780 I mean, it is pretty sad, though, when, let's see, technically, I think from the studio to your desk is about 40 feet.
00:06:46.340 And we were, for a short time, crippled with what are we going to do if we can't stream you in until it occurred to you, you know, I could just kind of actually go in there and sit down with it.
00:06:54.080 There you go.
00:06:54.760 There you go.
00:06:55.620 So I hear congratulations are in order.
00:06:57.700 Oh, on which front?
00:06:58.760 Well, you've got a new addition to your family.
00:07:01.000 Oh, you're speaking about that horse, aren't you?
00:07:02.360 Yes, I think, hopefully, Nico's got a picture he can throw up there of your, oh, there it is.
00:07:09.720 I mean, what a cute, is it a boy or a girl?
00:07:12.240 It's a boy. It's a colt, a leopard pal.
00:07:16.120 That's so beautiful.
00:07:17.700 No, leopard appaloosa.
00:07:19.540 See, I am not a horse person.
00:07:22.240 Jane is the horse person.
00:07:23.400 That's her horse, and that's her horse's colt there.
00:07:26.760 So, yeah.
00:07:26.980 Nice.
00:07:27.720 Jane's pretty excited.
00:07:28.820 Does it have a name yet?
00:07:29.980 It does, but I don't know it off.
00:07:32.040 Corey.
00:07:32.700 I'm going to get it when I get home now.
00:07:33.860 You're supposed to be a father.
00:07:35.420 I'm not a father, but God, I just, I don't like horses.
00:07:40.640 They smell bad.
00:07:41.560 They step on my feet when I try to pick their hooves, and, you know, they bite me.
00:07:45.820 Yeah, I got trampled by one when I was a kid, knocked unconscious.
00:07:50.480 It sticks in the head, doesn't it?
00:07:51.100 I've always been a bit careful around them.
00:07:53.960 Never go behind them.
00:07:54.660 Jane is quite thrilled all the same.
00:07:56.040 All right, well, we'll have to let people know next week what the colt's name is.
00:08:00.140 So, yeah, despite all the internet hassles we're going through, holy cow, what a busy morning, politically wise.
00:08:07.560 Scott Moe was among all those premiers yesterday who tried to get a personal invitation to talk to the finance committee and was told, no, this is about the carbon tax.
00:08:17.460 But some other committee invited him today, so he was on there explaining his opposition, and apparently Alberta Premier Daniel Smith will be doing the same thing tomorrow.
00:08:28.640 Smith herself has just wrapped up a press conference in Edmonton, ostensibly about immigration.
00:08:34.260 She's written a letter to your friend Trudeau, demanding Alberta get more control over immigration, especially Ukrainian immigration.
00:08:43.940 We've got the second largest population of Ukrainian immigrants in the country, and Smith wants to bring in more.
00:08:51.300 But I think the big story of the day is what's happening in the city of Edmonton.
00:08:56.520 Post Media actually broke the story this morning that the province is looking at maybe intervening and going in and helping Edmonton,
00:09:06.060 auditing their books and seeing what's going on.
00:09:09.520 A Western Standard source this morning told me that Edmonton's economic situation is dire, extremely, extremely dire.
00:09:19.000 And the issue dominated Smith's press conference.
00:09:23.020 She said, you know what, we're here to help, but it's got to come from Edmonton and Mayor Sohi.
00:09:28.020 Basically, we're waiting for a letter.
00:09:30.060 We're waiting for a request for help.
00:09:31.460 Apparently, she said there is a letter coming to Municipal Affairs Minister Rick McIver this afternoon,
00:09:40.200 alleging all sorts of nasty stuff going on at City Council that may be enough to get them in a intervene.
00:09:46.620 But, you know, this is our capital city that's apparently, you know, could be, I'm not saying they're going to go broke,
00:09:53.140 but apparently their finances are in really, really rough shape.
00:09:56.800 A poll out today showing the UCP is leading the NDP by 15%.
00:10:01.600 A good, healthy lead, even with a head of Nenshi in power.
00:10:05.940 Daniel Smith would still kick his butt.
00:10:09.520 A big rally held in Duncan that we're reporting on.
00:10:12.080 There was an incident in the washroom where a transgender person allegedly assaulted some kids.
00:10:18.120 So there was a big rally out there today.
00:10:20.260 And I know you've commented on this on Twitter already, Corey.
00:10:22.960 I mean, Cadbury, the latest company to go woke, has changed the name of their Easter eggs to Jester eggs.
00:10:31.480 I guess I didn't want to offend any non-Christians.
00:10:35.960 What happens when you go woke?
00:10:37.820 You go broke.
00:10:38.540 You go broke.
00:10:39.340 They're going to figure it out.
00:10:40.340 Yeah, as I said, you know, they've done this with Budweiser.
00:10:42.580 They did it with Target.
00:10:43.300 Why do you guys not really?
00:10:44.040 You've built a market.
00:10:45.600 And those eggs are gross.
00:10:46.720 I mean, I don't.
00:10:48.020 They're just nasty in my view.
00:10:49.980 But because they made them such a special seasonal thing, they built a brand.
00:10:53.780 And now these foolish clowns are going to rebrand it.
00:10:56.540 And they'll just fall to every other dollar store chocolate that's out there.
00:11:01.120 So you don't like horses?
00:11:02.760 You don't like chocolate?
00:11:03.780 Oh, I like chocolate.
00:11:04.420 I just don't like those weird fake Easter cream egg things with that.
00:11:07.460 Oh, yeah.
00:11:07.860 The gooky stuff.
00:11:09.000 Yeah.
00:11:09.460 Agreed.
00:11:10.140 Agreed.
00:11:10.820 So that's what's going on, Corey.
00:11:13.080 Right on, Dave.
00:11:13.780 Well, thanks for coming to join me in the studio today.
00:11:16.240 Love it.
00:11:16.260 Love it.
00:11:16.760 Much appreciated.
00:11:17.720 And, well, now I'll drive you back out of here to into that newsroom to write up.
00:11:22.140 Yeah, we'll see you on the pipeline tonight, assuming the internet works.
00:11:25.200 Yeah, we'll see.
00:11:26.200 All right.
00:11:26.660 Thanks, sir.
00:11:27.060 Thanks, Dave.
00:11:28.100 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor, in studio.
00:11:31.220 A rare treat, guys.
00:11:32.640 And, yes, lots being covered, all sorts of stuff.
00:11:35.180 Isn't it?
00:11:35.740 You know, that's some serious business.
00:11:37.880 We're talking about the province stepping in and intervening on the capital city.
00:11:41.860 That's, boy, that's just starting to unfold.
00:11:44.120 So this is that time I like to remind everybody that the reason we can do this, the reason we're paying for Dave and somewhat paying for internet around here is because you guys have subscribed.
00:11:55.060 So thank you very much for your subscriptions if you've subscribed already.
00:11:58.300 And if you haven't yet, it's $9.99 a month, guys.
00:12:01.420 $100 a year.
00:12:02.800 Well worth it.
00:12:03.520 Just like a newspaper subscription.
00:12:04.820 You know, we're just changing with the times.
00:12:06.360 New outlets like ours aren't dependent on the government.
00:12:09.220 We're independent.
00:12:09.800 And the reason for that is because we're accountable to you and you guys buy subscriptions.
00:12:14.100 I mean, we've just got to get used to that.
00:12:16.380 You know, we never thought twice about paying to have the newspaper delivered to your door once a day.
00:12:20.460 You shouldn't think twice about paying for a couple or a few of your favorite news services so you can get past the paywall, support that, and get that good information, especially considering the mainstream.
00:12:28.620 You know we won't cover this sort of thing.
00:12:31.840 So, yeah, let's see what else is going on.
00:12:34.140 That Easter egg thing, you know, they just can't help themselves.
00:12:37.900 This is what happens.
00:12:38.600 The graduates, the woke, the lunatics, the ones we saw in the 90s going through post-secondary, now they've found their way into corporate positions.
00:12:46.900 These are the marketing gurus.
00:12:48.680 And guess what?
00:12:49.260 They're idiots.
00:12:50.360 I mean, the bottom line is, is your agenda to maximize the sales of your product?
00:12:56.440 Is your agenda to make sure that you brand it as well as you can and get it out to people?
00:13:02.060 Or is it to pacify the blue-haired lunatics who are offended by anything and everything that goes around out there?
00:13:09.100 Well, these nutcases that are getting into marketing think that their task is to pacify the woke.
00:13:13.640 And how's that working out for them?
00:13:14.820 Like I said, how'd that work out for Budweiser?
00:13:17.060 How'd that work out for Target?
00:13:18.480 It's not going to work out for Cabaret.
00:13:19.960 I mean, chocolate.
00:13:21.060 Think about it.
00:13:21.460 That's a competitive, competitive field.
00:13:23.460 I mean, the amount of, you know, junk food providers out there of all sorts.
00:13:28.900 If you want to stand out from the crowd, you need unique brands.
00:13:31.920 You need things to grab people and bring them loyally to your product.
00:13:36.180 And part of that was that Easter cream egg thing.
00:13:38.800 Like I said to Dave, I don't even like the things.
00:13:40.480 Not to my taste.
00:13:41.600 But it was something that every year people would see it come out.
00:13:45.160 It was specialized.
00:13:45.840 Think of it like the McRib.
00:13:46.740 You know, if you give a sense of anticipation, people will actually go out of their way to
00:13:51.500 get a product that's actually not all even all that good, but because you've made it
00:13:55.220 into something.
00:13:55.820 And now they just dynamited that decades and decades and decades of a brand that was built
00:14:00.500 and loyal followers.
00:14:01.980 And they threw it in the toilet because they listened to the advice of a woke imbecile.
00:14:07.440 We're going to see more of it.
00:14:08.480 We're going to see more of it.
00:14:09.920 These guys, as I said, they've unfortunately gotten into provincial or provincial corporate
00:14:15.480 positions of power.
00:14:16.240 And I guess, you know, shareholders are going to start speaking up.
00:14:18.880 They got to say, that's it.
00:14:19.980 You know, get ahold of your directors.
00:14:21.700 Like, what are you doing to get a return on my investment, not for you to make social
00:14:30.720 justice statements or any of that crap.
00:14:33.040 And that's the thing with the private market.
00:14:34.840 As long as the government stays out of it, they're welcome to dynamite their own brands
00:14:37.640 if they like, I guess.
00:14:38.600 But the shareholders should have something to say about that.
00:14:40.800 When we get into government, it's a little difficult.
00:14:42.600 The shareholders are voters and they don't necessarily listen to what we want or do what
00:14:46.220 we want, but they manage a whole lot of our money, unfortunately, in our future.
00:14:49.880 And that segues me into talking to my guest here, Fergus Hodgson.
00:14:54.100 I had him on the show before.
00:14:55.240 I believe it was a couple of years ago.
00:14:56.780 He was outside.
00:14:57.640 If I recall, there was a thunderstorm approaching.
00:14:59.940 We had to kind of be a little short.
00:15:02.580 But it was a good conversation for what we got out of it.
00:15:05.820 Hey, welcome back to the show, Fergus.
00:15:07.900 Corey, thank you so much.
00:15:09.380 I'm a big fan of the Western Standard.
00:15:11.220 I promote it to many people.
00:15:13.060 And I appreciate just the limited, free or independent media that exists in Canada.
00:15:18.800 And yeah, it was a couple of years ago.
00:15:20.280 I think I was on the road in North Carolina.
00:15:23.400 Yeah.
00:15:23.580 Yeah, when we last got it.
00:15:27.300 Yeah, yeah.
00:15:27.660 I see, Ernie, it looks like a much more weather-stable environment for today, which is good.
00:15:31.880 I mean, it's a lot to pack into the short time I have you.
00:15:34.620 I downloaded your book.
00:15:36.180 I've read about two-thirds of it so far.
00:15:38.800 It was a lot packed in there and a lot to think about.
00:15:40.840 That financial sovereignty for Canadians.
00:15:43.780 I guess I'll kind of go in the order of how you wrote things.
00:15:46.360 You've been outspoken on financial issues and economic issues, precious metals and things like that for some years now on social media.
00:15:53.200 But now you've packed it all into one book, particularly for Canada.
00:15:58.380 And it starts out pointing out first,
00:16:03.580 before you're giving any advice on what you can do about it.
00:16:08.720 Yeah, exactly.
00:16:09.600 If you don't understand the gravity of the situation in Canada,
00:16:12.720 you're not going to make the necessary changes or responses.
00:16:16.900 And one of the problems, which we touched on briefly before,
00:16:20.460 is that Canadians live in a sea of government propaganda,
00:16:24.020 both the explicit CBC, which is a state outlet,
00:16:26.980 and then the bought-off media outlets,
00:16:28.680 in addition to, let's say, the control of information through government schools and universities.
00:16:34.420 And so then even when it comes to government reporting of official statistics,
00:16:38.560 they are misled,
00:16:39.640 especially when it comes to the likes of the Canada Pension Plan.
00:16:42.020 And so I want Canadians to understand that the trajectory is,
00:16:47.920 let's just say, unfavorable.
00:16:51.140 And Canada is going to become, in my opinion,
00:16:54.080 in the next 20 or 30 years,
00:16:55.500 more like a post-First World nation,
00:16:57.760 much like Argentina.
00:16:59.340 And if people want to understand what that is like,
00:17:00.980 just move to Atlantic Canada right now,
00:17:03.600 because they're further along this path.
00:17:05.560 Yeah, I mean, we've got ballooning debt.
00:17:10.200 We have a pension plan that, I mean, they did fix it a bit.
00:17:13.500 You know, it's, what, 33% funded,
00:17:15.280 but it's still a pay-as-you-go sort of system for a pension that really isn't all that good.
00:17:20.320 Absolutely.
00:17:20.660 And we've got, again, the numbers that are coming up often,
00:17:25.340 where people talk about is our GDP per capita,
00:17:27.940 and it is dropping dramatically and fast,
00:17:31.140 especially if we compare ourselves to our American neighbors.
00:17:33.640 I mean, that's a very accurate measure of the potential wealth we have,
00:17:36.880 and we should all be pretty concerned about this.
00:17:38.540 Yeah, so over time, this is,
00:17:41.620 even if the policy,
00:17:43.560 let's say policy differences between Canada and the United States are not huge,
00:17:48.440 that marginal difference over time causes greater and greater differences
00:17:52.000 in terms of the people who go there or who leave.
00:17:55.060 And so Canada has, unfortunately,
00:17:57.900 bled some of her best talent
00:17:59.540 and attracted less ambitious immigrants than would come to the United States.
00:18:04.120 And this breaks my heart,
00:18:06.780 because I care a lot about Canada's future.
00:18:09.460 And I see, you know,
00:18:11.300 I write a lot about this in the book,
00:18:12.560 about whether people should make that decision to leave or not,
00:18:15.920 because Canada still is one of the better countries in the world to live in.
00:18:20.100 And there's a great history there.
00:18:21.960 There's a lot of many wonderful people, beautiful nature.
00:18:24.720 I mean, there's a lot to value in Canada,
00:18:26.420 and it breaks my heart to see the communities there coming apart.
00:18:31.280 So one of the big, I guess, you know,
00:18:33.800 tenants and wealth in North America in particular has always been the dream of home ownership.
00:18:39.280 That's been a foundation.
00:18:41.940 You expected you work, you save your money,
00:18:45.760 down payment,
00:18:48.060 you can start in your own little home.
00:18:51.600 Two chapters calls it the fading dream of home ownership.
00:18:55.680 I mean, for you,
00:18:56.620 it's become very unachievable,
00:18:58.580 like that economic goal just within reach any longer.
00:19:01.480 And it doesn't look like it's going to get there anytime soon.
00:19:05.560 It's not going to change anytime soon.
00:19:07.280 The problem is that we,
00:19:09.500 in Canada,
00:19:09.900 we have a whole,
00:19:11.340 let's say,
00:19:11.860 layering of interventions,
00:19:13.740 right?
00:19:13.940 You've got zoning,
00:19:15.620 occupational licensing,
00:19:16.700 you've got all sorts of subsidies,
00:19:19.200 the,
00:19:19.840 that basically inflate the price.
00:19:22.100 And so,
00:19:22.760 yes,
00:19:23.100 everyone knows this or should know that Toronto and Vancouver have some of the most expensive housing on the planet.
00:19:29.640 And that's not just expensive,
00:19:30.780 but in absolute value terms,
00:19:33.000 that's expensive in terms of the incomes that people can bring in.
00:19:35.620 So people need about 10 years of their gross income to buy a house in Toronto and Vancouver.
00:19:42.140 And of course,
00:19:43.860 that has spread to all the surrounding areas because people have moved out trying to find cheaper places.
00:19:48.460 So Victoria,
00:19:49.360 or let's say even places like Hamilton,
00:19:51.580 Ontario,
00:19:52.100 whatever,
00:19:52.620 all the surrounding communities,
00:19:54.160 they're also inflated now.
00:19:56.260 And this,
00:19:56.680 these,
00:19:57.300 you know,
00:19:57.460 for better and for worse are the high population centers of Canada and often with the employment opportunities are too.
00:20:03.540 So there are more affordable places,
00:20:05.340 obviously Alberta or the prairies offer more cost-effective housing,
00:20:08.940 but you have to look further afield to find that.
00:20:13.100 And unfortunately people go where the,
00:20:16.740 like I said,
00:20:17.060 the employment options are and they tend to be in Vancouver and Toronto.
00:20:20.040 And that's why,
00:20:21.020 you know,
00:20:22.320 that's why the,
00:20:23.020 and Ottawa,
00:20:23.640 of course,
00:20:24.260 that's why the house pricing is ballooned there in particular.
00:20:28.140 Yeah.
00:20:28.640 So getting beyond that,
00:20:30.360 say if people were looking at investing in a home for the future,
00:20:33.140 if that's out one of the bigger social programs,
00:20:36.280 you know,
00:20:36.400 we already touched a little bit upon if a person's working and renting thinking,
00:20:39.460 well,
00:20:39.540 at least I have the safety net of a pension plan that I'm contributing towards throughout my whole life.
00:20:44.560 But the CPP,
00:20:45.980 as you basically put it,
00:20:47.260 it's a form of Ponzi scheme in a sense.
00:20:50.520 I mean,
00:20:50.680 when it's pay as you go,
00:20:51.460 you're constantly relying on new young people to keep filling up the bottom to fund the ones who got to the top.
00:20:57.200 It's not a sustainable long-term plan.
00:20:59.680 It is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme.
00:21:01.620 When you pay to people more than what they have earned with their savings and rely upon newcomers,
00:21:06.520 that is a Ponzi scheme.
00:21:08.200 And to sort of rub salt into the wound,
00:21:10.320 it is deceitful because the people who run the CPP,
00:21:14.840 they conceal the unfunded liabilities or debts of this program.
00:21:19.960 If you were to have a private pension plan that was 68% unfunded,
00:21:24.640 and that's by their numbers,
00:21:25.600 and I don't believe their numbers.
00:21:26.880 So it's worse than that in reality,
00:21:28.280 but 68% unfunded,
00:21:29.460 that would immediately generate regulatory scrutiny for being an irresponsible or fraudulent plan.
00:21:35.560 So getting out of that now,
00:21:39.780 as you said,
00:21:40.480 it just gets back to what we're talking about in sovereignty in a sense,
00:21:43.440 and getting away from these massive government programs.
00:21:46.160 I noticed one of the commenters there,
00:21:47.480 Wes Wayne,
00:21:48.180 it looks like says,
00:21:48.940 Canadian sovereignty is when we use cash instead of credit,
00:21:51.320 and this digital shift is definitely not sovereign.
00:21:54.040 I don't know if you've read your book or not,
00:21:55.700 because that's kind of what you get onto further,
00:21:57.540 though,
00:21:57.640 is the importance of cash,
00:21:58.740 because we've got a real push,
00:22:00.400 pushing people away from cash
00:22:02.040 and into digital forms of currency or trackable currency,
00:22:05.780 which may or may not work for people,
00:22:08.240 but it definitely puts you at risk as a sovereign individual,
00:22:10.920 doesn't it?
00:22:12.320 Yeah.
00:22:12.600 So, look,
00:22:14.000 nations that have better governance,
00:22:16.400 and you even mentioned this in your own book,
00:22:18.240 an admirable nation is Switzerland,
00:22:20.020 which has great decentralization.
00:22:22.480 Ironically,
00:22:22.980 even though they're extremely civilized in advance,
00:22:24.740 they use a lot of cash.
00:22:25.620 People have confidence in the currency, right?
00:22:28.140 And they're able to enjoy privacy and independence.
00:22:31.760 Look,
00:22:32.620 the prospect of central bank digital currencies
00:22:35.320 is one that is coming.
00:22:37.120 The Bank of Canada has already looked into this.
00:22:39.060 They did this,
00:22:39.620 I think it was maybe five years ago now.
00:22:41.440 They researched the opportunity.
00:22:43.580 When they feel threatened,
00:22:45.920 when they feel like the loony is under threat
00:22:47.860 from cryptocurrencies,
00:22:50.200 they will push back
00:22:51.920 with their own central bank digital currency,
00:22:53.720 which, yes,
00:22:54.620 it does enable a greater form of control of the population
00:22:58.200 because it can have negative interest rates.
00:22:59.800 It's much easier to cut people out of that system.
00:23:04.560 So, yes,
00:23:04.980 it is a concern.
00:23:05.960 And so,
00:23:06.580 I support both,
00:23:07.740 I promote in the book both cash,
00:23:10.180 you know,
00:23:11.280 cash transactions,
00:23:12.500 what I call the gray market
00:23:14.100 or informal market.
00:23:15.880 And there are various cryptocurrencies now
00:23:18.480 that are designed specifically to mimic cash
00:23:21.080 so that even the person receiving the transaction
00:23:24.540 or receiving the benefit
00:23:26.060 doesn't know who is sending it.
00:23:27.540 So, it's much like when you go into the church
00:23:29.280 and you make a voluntary donation,
00:23:31.360 no one knows how much you gave
00:23:33.200 or didn't give.
00:23:34.700 There are cryptocurrencies now
00:23:36.160 that are replicating that.
00:23:38.320 Okay.
00:23:38.500 So,
00:23:38.960 whatever currencies you may get,
00:23:40.560 if you've tried to distance yourself away
00:23:42.480 from digital government control currencies,
00:23:44.720 the next thing you still want
00:23:45.640 is some degree of something you can invest in.
00:23:47.420 And I mean,
00:23:47.900 it's like I said,
00:23:48.540 there's a whole lot.
00:23:49.160 I'm kind of rushing through with your book.
00:23:50.500 You talk about capital markets
00:23:52.420 and areas that you might want to invest,
00:23:55.680 but we've got a government
00:23:56.400 getting in and regulating
00:23:58.040 or centralizing regulation
00:23:59.700 and that puts your investments at risk there.
00:24:02.480 So,
00:24:02.680 I mean,
00:24:02.900 it's hard to find a safe haven anywhere.
00:24:04.900 Yeah.
00:24:05.160 So,
00:24:06.240 this is the challenge,
00:24:08.240 Corey.
00:24:08.940 Many of us can see the writing on the wall
00:24:10.520 in terms of Canada's struggling future.
00:24:12.440 And the question is,
00:24:13.240 are we just going to complain about it?
00:24:14.880 Are we going to do things?
00:24:15.680 And I want to promote your book,
00:24:16.940 actually.
00:24:17.500 Everyone should get this one.
00:24:19.020 It's one of my favorites,
00:24:19.880 The Sovereign Test Handbook.
00:24:21.800 And so,
00:24:22.200 that's one way of breaking out of the mold.
00:24:24.260 But so,
00:24:25.400 I seek to give as much as possible actions.
00:24:28.220 There's no magic cure
00:24:29.280 to Canada's ails.
00:24:32.480 But,
00:24:33.140 yes,
00:24:33.600 in terms of your own activities,
00:24:35.300 Canada does have relatively well-functioning capital markets.
00:24:38.540 And you can access
00:24:40.040 alternatives of what I call real assets,
00:24:42.920 which perform better in an inflationary environment.
00:24:45.600 And in particular,
00:24:46.320 yes,
00:24:46.580 I focus on precious metals and mining.
00:24:48.480 They are the go-to.
00:24:50.060 And that they're the most protected.
00:24:51.560 And they will have the most upside value
00:24:53.360 when inflation comes in or grows.
00:24:56.380 I go through different types of vehicles,
00:24:58.820 whether you want to go to streaming companies,
00:25:00.280 whether you want to go to junior minors,
00:25:01.760 seniors.
00:25:02.500 There's all,
00:25:03.000 you don't want to have physical possession.
00:25:04.840 So,
00:25:05.140 that's one thing you can do right away.
00:25:07.560 Divert some of your savings
00:25:08.760 or your discretionary income
00:25:09.960 to real assets.
00:25:12.780 And again,
00:25:13.200 some of those real assets,
00:25:14.460 Jordan,
00:25:14.960 one of my commenters I see mentioned,
00:25:16.380 you know,
00:25:16.560 gold,
00:25:16.860 like precious metals.
00:25:18.720 And they've been climbing,
00:25:19.940 you know,
00:25:20.600 slowly but steadily,
00:25:21.780 I think,
00:25:22.040 for decades.
00:25:23.220 Is it a good hedge for people in general
00:25:25.100 to get into silver's gold,
00:25:26.300 some of those metals?
00:25:27.820 Absolutely.
00:25:28.540 Right now,
00:25:29.240 and I'm not sure what it is
00:25:30.020 in terms of the Canadian dollar,
00:25:31.680 but in the U.S.,
00:25:32.800 it's climbed to record heights,
00:25:34.260 about 2,200.
00:25:35.800 And I feel confident
00:25:36.840 that it can get to 3,000
00:25:38.200 before year end,
00:25:39.400 that this is a great time to buy.
00:25:41.320 It was a great time to buy a year ago,
00:25:42.620 but,
00:25:42.980 you know,
00:25:43.140 still a good time to buy.
00:25:45.100 And there was a prominent article
00:25:47.500 with the CFA Institute,
00:25:49.000 with the Chatham Financial Analyst Institute,
00:25:50.540 that went through three reasons why,
00:25:52.580 this was three years ago,
00:25:53.780 gold should already have been at $3,000 U.S.
00:25:56.340 So,
00:25:57.000 the case is even stronger now.
00:25:59.700 Okay,
00:26:00.180 so you kind of go into,
00:26:01.720 I mean,
00:26:01.920 one of our challenges we have,
00:26:03.320 there's things we want to do
00:26:04.200 as sovereign individuals or individuals,
00:26:05.900 but we have a very constraining government.
00:26:09.040 And you kind of hit a hot button
00:26:10.400 in Chapter 10 with the,
00:26:11.820 you know,
00:26:12.000 why the Freedom Convoy?
00:26:13.120 You talked a bit about that,
00:26:14.200 but why it feigned to gain favor?
00:26:16.800 Because as you point out,
00:26:18.060 a lot of Canadians
00:26:18.780 were pretty supportive
00:26:20.000 of the War Measures Act,
00:26:21.680 or sorry,
00:26:22.080 the Emergencies Act,
00:26:23.180 you know,
00:26:23.640 being imposed upon citizens.
00:26:25.320 We've got a cultural thing
00:26:26.640 of some pretty compliant Canadians
00:26:28.200 you've got to get beyond.
00:26:29.640 Yeah,
00:26:30.160 this strikes right to the heart
00:26:31.520 of the problem.
00:26:32.460 And this is why
00:26:32.980 I wrote the book
00:26:33.560 because political solutions
00:26:35.780 in the current environment
00:26:37.280 that favor freedom,
00:26:39.760 good luck with that,
00:26:41.240 right?
00:26:41.680 Because unfortunately,
00:26:43.420 and we can go,
00:26:43.960 this is a long history,
00:26:45.280 but the Laurentian Canadians
00:26:46.740 seem to have
00:26:48.040 a much more interventionist
00:26:49.620 or busybody mentality.
00:26:51.460 They're quite happy
00:26:52.120 to control free speech
00:26:53.620 or impose harm upon those
00:26:55.600 who go against them,
00:26:56.680 right?
00:26:57.400 And so whether it's
00:26:58.560 kicking you out of your job
00:26:59.440 because you don't want
00:26:59.860 to take a vaccine
00:27:00.520 or ideological,
00:27:02.220 let's say,
00:27:03.140 retribution.
00:27:03.880 So Frances Whitteson
00:27:04.680 is a prominent case
00:27:05.520 in Alberta
00:27:06.340 where she was a professor
00:27:07.220 who lost her job
00:27:08.160 just because she spoke
00:27:09.280 what she believed
00:27:09.740 to be the truth
00:27:10.320 about Canadian history.
00:27:12.420 And so I,
00:27:14.320 my personal view,
00:27:15.880 and someone recently asked me,
00:27:17.200 it's not a secret,
00:27:18.160 I'm here in Colorado
00:27:19.180 and I'm a Canadian citizen,
00:27:21.000 but I live in the United States.
00:27:23.200 Someone asked me,
00:27:23.780 what would it take me
00:27:24.620 to get me back to Canada?
00:27:27.600 And the short answer
00:27:28.400 really is that
00:27:29.040 Western independence,
00:27:30.480 that there is a problem,
00:27:32.020 that there's an ideological problem
00:27:33.240 that about,
00:27:34.360 let's say,
00:27:34.700 20% of the country
00:27:35.740 or 25% of the country
00:27:36.920 is largely freedom-oriented
00:27:38.800 and the other 75% is not.
00:27:41.860 And the prairie provinces,
00:27:44.600 Alberta, Saskatchewan,
00:27:45.840 Manitoba,
00:27:46.780 maybe some of BC,
00:27:48.320 which is not a prairie province,
00:27:49.420 but some of the people
00:27:50.160 are on board,
00:27:52.000 they have much more,
00:27:52.800 let's say, ideologically
00:27:53.640 or culturally in common
00:27:54.720 with the likes of Wyoming,
00:27:56.000 Montana, Idaho,
00:27:57.320 than with the rest of Canada.
00:27:58.760 And they would form
00:27:59.440 a more cohesive
00:28:00.260 and, in my view,
00:28:01.960 a prosperous country
00:28:03.420 that would be attractive
00:28:04.460 for people like me
00:28:05.300 and other people
00:28:05.800 who are more freedom-minded.
00:28:06.920 And you would attract people
00:28:07.920 from all across Canada
00:28:09.120 who share that view.
00:28:11.400 Yeah, so, I mean,
00:28:12.360 your solution chapters,
00:28:14.000 and there's quite a few of them
00:28:14.900 on how to opt out
00:28:15.600 of the cashless society,
00:28:16.780 setting up LLPs,
00:28:18.020 all sorts of things,
00:28:19.220 and, you know,
00:28:20.640 there's just more
00:28:21.360 that we can get into
00:28:22.180 in this show,
00:28:22.800 but, I mean,
00:28:23.180 I like how you laid out.
00:28:24.360 You laid out the problem,
00:28:25.260 which is what we talk about,
00:28:26.280 unfortunately,
00:28:26.780 on this show a lot.
00:28:27.440 Yeah, yeah.
00:28:27.960 And you laid out
00:28:28.840 a lot of the solutions,
00:28:29.780 which is really important.
00:28:30.740 I mean, it's easy
00:28:31.140 to point out the problems.
00:28:32.680 It's harder to point out
00:28:33.640 the solutions
00:28:34.300 and how people can at least
00:28:35.300 protect themselves from that.
00:28:37.240 So, before I let you go then,
00:28:39.300 you know,
00:28:39.460 how are people going to find your book
00:28:40.780 and get a copy for themselves?
00:28:42.200 I'd hold one up like you did,
00:28:43.300 but I...
00:28:43.880 Yes, yeah, yeah.
00:28:44.400 So, this is the book,
00:28:45.640 although I guess
00:28:46.300 the green screen
00:28:47.400 is not liking it,
00:28:48.200 but Financial Sovereignty
00:28:49.440 for Canadians
00:28:49.960 is the one
00:28:50.780 and you can get on Amazon.
00:28:53.040 Thank you, mate.
00:28:54.580 Amazon.com
00:28:55.540 or Amazon.ca
00:28:56.460 if you're in Canada.
00:28:57.900 It is the way to go.
00:28:59.580 I'd love to have feedback
00:29:00.720 and reviews
00:29:01.360 and if the response
00:29:03.880 is positive enough,
00:29:04.820 I will make an updated
00:29:06.680 or expanded edition
00:29:07.740 with feedback.
00:29:09.860 Great.
00:29:10.400 Yeah, just a heads up to people.
00:29:11.720 Yeah, you are on CA and .com
00:29:13.320 and for technological Luddites
00:29:15.360 like myself,
00:29:16.460 I went to .com at first
00:29:17.820 and had a whole bunch of grief
00:29:18.680 trying to get the darn book
00:29:19.540 and then realized
00:29:20.060 I'm in Canada.
00:29:21.140 Go to .ca
00:29:21.800 and it worked as smooth
00:29:23.920 as you can get after that.
00:29:25.720 So, just a heads up
00:29:26.600 to other people
00:29:27.140 going out to grab it.
00:29:28.660 Aside from the book,
00:29:29.900 you've got a social media presence.
00:29:31.380 Where can people find you?
00:29:32.100 Because you speak quite,
00:29:33.160 you know, vocally elsewhere as well.
00:29:36.060 In terms of the political stuff,
00:29:37.900 I do mostly on Twitter.
00:29:39.520 If you want more finance,
00:29:40.420 it's LinkedIn.
00:29:40.960 So, I'm easy to find.
00:29:41.720 Fergus Hodgson.
00:29:42.720 My name is rare enough
00:29:43.620 that I'm pretty much
00:29:44.500 the first one who will come up.
00:29:46.100 And you can also go
00:29:47.360 to econamericas.com,
00:29:48.440 my website for business
00:29:49.800 or for consulting.
00:29:51.500 But really,
00:29:52.460 my hope is that this book
00:29:54.300 will introduce people
00:29:55.240 to my ideas
00:29:56.200 and then they'll see
00:29:57.220 whether they want to work
00:29:57.940 with me or not.
00:29:59.080 And Corey,
00:29:59.820 also I want to say,
00:30:00.660 as you know,
00:30:01.040 I really admire your work
00:30:02.340 and I'm a big fan.
00:30:04.200 Your own book
00:30:05.160 influenced my chapter
00:30:06.220 on the Wexit idea.
00:30:08.280 Particularly promoting,
00:30:09.180 let's say,
00:30:09.920 let's be less negative about it
00:30:11.420 and more positive
00:30:12.040 about the opportunity
00:30:12.820 which I think
00:30:13.860 really did shape
00:30:15.880 my own view on the topic.
00:30:17.640 I appreciate that.
00:30:18.580 Yeah,
00:30:18.740 we got to look forward
00:30:19.760 rather than all on the negative
00:30:21.380 and, you know,
00:30:22.100 look at things like that.
00:30:23.420 Separation and things like that
00:30:24.260 doesn't have to be
00:30:25.020 a negative at all.
00:30:26.400 Well,
00:30:26.580 thank you very much
00:30:27.260 for joining us
00:30:27.840 and thank you for putting
00:30:28.560 this all together
00:30:29.220 in a book for us,
00:30:30.060 Fergus.
00:30:30.360 And I hope we get
00:30:32.100 to talk again soon.
00:30:33.980 You're welcome, Corey.
00:30:34.740 Thanks for having me.
00:30:35.720 All right.
00:30:36.000 Thanks.
00:30:36.740 So, yes,
00:30:37.020 that was Fergus Hodgson.
00:30:40.460 Boy,
00:30:40.760 I'm just tongue-tied today.
00:30:42.140 But yes,
00:30:42.540 Financial Sovereignty for Canadians.
00:30:44.080 This is Untether Yourself.
00:30:45.420 Look it up, guys.
00:30:46.460 It's on Amazon
00:30:47.200 and, you know,
00:30:48.720 Amazon's great.
00:30:49.540 I mean,
00:30:50.020 you know,
00:30:50.520 people might not like the company
00:30:51.520 and some things
00:30:52.060 and this and that,
00:30:52.620 but hey,
00:30:53.040 they're good for authors.
00:30:54.260 You can get something up there
00:30:55.360 and really get it out there.
00:30:56.420 Distribute fast.
00:30:57.200 The price is good
00:30:58.060 and he has lots
00:30:59.380 of great advice
00:31:00.360 to offer for us.
00:31:02.640 So, yeah,
00:31:03.900 we got a lot of craziness.
00:31:05.040 You know,
00:31:05.180 I'm going to hit on one thing
00:31:06.180 before I get to Franco there
00:31:07.880 who I see getting ready on deck.
00:31:09.460 And I don't know
00:31:11.100 if you've been watching
00:31:11.540 in Argentina,
00:31:12.440 you know,
00:31:12.720 that president there,
00:31:15.000 Javier Maile,
00:31:16.380 I could be mispronouncing it,
00:31:17.580 but you know,
00:31:17.820 but the dude
00:31:18.140 with the crazy hair going on.
00:31:19.660 It seems that some
00:31:20.380 of our best libertarian leaders
00:31:21.580 always get the wild hair.
00:31:22.880 There's something about that.
00:31:24.040 I think mostly
00:31:24.540 it's just they're focused
00:31:25.260 on their politics
00:31:25.940 and, you know,
00:31:26.480 somewhere way down the lines
00:31:27.780 worrying about their hair
00:31:28.560 is not a top priority for them.
00:31:30.860 But he's just been
00:31:31.940 in Argentina
00:31:32.740 just going through that country
00:31:34.280 with a chainsaw
00:31:35.100 and it needs it.
00:31:36.040 So does ours.
00:31:37.040 But I mean,
00:31:37.440 it sounds like he's planning
00:31:38.640 on firing 70,000
00:31:40.400 government workers.
00:31:41.580 And I'm really looking forward
00:31:42.680 to seeing what happens.
00:31:43.380 I'm not looking forward to,
00:31:44.120 I know,
00:31:44.520 70,000 people.
00:31:45.480 Some are going to really suffer
00:31:46.460 because of that.
00:31:47.020 They'll have lost jobs
00:31:47.880 and things like that.
00:31:48.480 But you know,
00:31:49.100 everybody's always dire
00:31:50.460 doom and gloom
00:31:51.800 if we cut government workers.
00:31:53.000 Oh, the services we'd lose.
00:31:54.080 Well, you know what?
00:31:54.500 I got a feeling
00:31:55.100 he's going to cut 70,000.
00:31:56.320 People aren't going to see
00:31:57.260 service really decline that much.
00:31:59.780 I mean,
00:32:00.100 in Canada,
00:32:00.500 we've been adding
00:32:01.240 and adding and adding
00:32:02.540 government workers
00:32:03.180 year after year after year.
00:32:04.860 One of the things I see
00:32:05.640 in the city of Calgary,
00:32:06.320 every time I drive by
00:32:07.060 a federal office,
00:32:08.140 a service,
00:32:08.900 the irony of the name of it,
00:32:10.280 Service Canada office
00:32:11.880 is a big lineup of people
00:32:13.360 standing out there
00:32:14.160 shivering in the cold
00:32:15.200 out on the sidewalk
00:32:16.040 because our government
00:32:17.380 somehow is incapable
00:32:18.960 of doing something
00:32:19.680 as simple as a passport renewal
00:32:21.380 without having a mountain
00:32:22.680 of bureaucrats
00:32:23.540 and weeks of time
00:32:24.520 and this service is terrible.
00:32:26.600 So if adding more people
00:32:28.160 to the civil service
00:32:29.660 doesn't make the service better,
00:32:31.300 I contend that cutting
00:32:32.720 a bunch out of there
00:32:33.400 isn't going to make it any worse.
00:32:35.220 But it'll save us some money.
00:32:36.660 All right,
00:32:36.900 let's speak of some
00:32:37.600 overpaid civil servants
00:32:38.980 we have though
00:32:39.720 and those are the ones
00:32:40.400 that we elect
00:32:41.000 as members of parliament
00:32:42.240 and it looks like
00:32:43.240 a bunch more
00:32:44.140 are going to be able
00:32:44.680 to pop up to the trough now
00:32:46.120 thanks to a little change
00:32:47.080 in the election date.
00:32:48.480 Franco Tarazano
00:32:49.260 for the Canadian
00:32:49.660 Taxpayers Federation.
00:32:50.600 Hey Franco,
00:32:51.040 thanks for joining us today.
00:32:52.660 Hey Corey,
00:32:53.180 happy to be on.
00:32:54.880 So yeah,
00:32:56.220 you know,
00:32:56.540 it was kind of last minute
00:32:57.340 but this is a good one.
00:32:58.560 Wow,
00:32:58.980 you know,
00:32:59.340 suddenly this religious holiday
00:33:01.700 became so important
00:33:03.080 that the Trudeau government
00:33:04.840 had to reschedule the election.
00:33:06.140 That was the reason
00:33:06.560 they did it,
00:33:06.940 right?
00:33:07.900 Well,
00:33:08.360 no,
00:33:09.100 I mean,
00:33:09.480 let's just say the obvious.
00:33:10.820 If you're going to change
00:33:11.860 the election,
00:33:13.040 why don't you just move it
00:33:14.060 a week early,
00:33:15.100 not a week late?
00:33:17.080 Well,
00:33:17.400 the obvious answer
00:33:18.160 is because it looks like
00:33:19.180 the government
00:33:19.620 wants to make sure
00:33:20.520 that 80 additional MPs
00:33:23.040 can get that sweet,
00:33:24.080 sweet,
00:33:24.360 sweet taxpayer funded pension.
00:33:26.520 So folks,
00:33:27.220 if you're not aware,
00:33:28.200 here's what's going on.
00:33:29.580 So any MP elected
00:33:31.260 in the 2019 federal election,
00:33:33.180 well,
00:33:33.360 they're not eligible
00:33:34.160 for their pension
00:33:35.200 until October 21,
00:33:37.660 2025.
00:33:38.940 Now the scheduled election
00:33:40.320 is for October 20th,
00:33:42.360 2025.
00:33:43.240 So what do the feds do?
00:33:44.580 Well,
00:33:44.940 they're now going to try
00:33:45.780 to bump the election back
00:33:47.040 to October the 27th
00:33:48.620 of 2025.
00:33:50.300 And that would mean
00:33:51.100 that 80 additional MPs
00:33:52.580 would be eligible
00:33:53.200 for that pension.
00:33:54.520 And the total cost
00:33:56.000 could be up to $120 million.
00:33:59.080 But Corey,
00:33:59.620 look,
00:33:59.900 I'm not naive.
00:34:00.900 I guess it's probably unlikely
00:34:02.160 that all 80 of those MPs
00:34:04.660 were to lose their seat.
00:34:05.720 But if even half
00:34:07.500 of those MPs lose their seat,
00:34:09.980 then moving the week
00:34:11.100 or moving the election
00:34:12.420 one week back
00:34:13.340 would cost taxpayers
00:34:14.720 tens of millions
00:34:16.220 of dollars.
00:34:17.960 And it just shows
00:34:19.340 how lucrative
00:34:20.200 that gross federal pension plan is.
00:34:22.940 I mean,
00:34:23.300 you only have to actually
00:34:24.340 serve six years
00:34:25.420 before you gain
00:34:27.080 that entitlement
00:34:27.900 to a pension.
00:34:30.080 I mean,
00:34:30.260 even if you only put
00:34:31.120 six years in,
00:34:31.860 you're going to blow away
00:34:32.740 the return
00:34:33.300 on a whole lifetime
00:34:34.220 of paying into the CPP
00:34:35.340 with what you're going
00:34:36.200 to get back
00:34:36.840 out of this thing.
00:34:38.160 You can see why
00:34:39.080 it's so important to them,
00:34:40.000 I guess,
00:34:40.280 to make sure
00:34:40.900 that their outgoing members
00:34:42.440 can get their noses
00:34:43.460 into the trough
00:34:44.060 before they leave.
00:34:45.540 You want to hear
00:34:46.760 how lucrative it is,
00:34:47.880 Corey?
00:34:48.240 So some MPs,
00:34:49.960 for some MPs,
00:34:51.580 just working six years
00:34:52.980 could get a lifetime pension
00:34:55.380 of more than $2 million.
00:34:58.640 Okay?
00:34:59.600 Just six years
00:35:00.500 of being an MP
00:35:01.320 and a lifetime pension
00:35:03.240 of more than $2 million
00:35:04.600 for some of these MPs.
00:35:06.300 Now,
00:35:06.620 the starting annual pension,
00:35:08.800 just the starting annual,
00:35:10.400 will be anywhere
00:35:11.020 from about $32,000
00:35:12.520 for like the backbencher
00:35:13.940 all the way up
00:35:14.980 to $49,000
00:35:16.600 and that would be
00:35:17.680 for like Minister Anita Anand,
00:35:19.880 Minister Steve-Ange Bo,
00:35:21.840 his starting annual pension
00:35:23.760 will be around $48,000.
00:35:25.720 But yeah,
00:35:26.300 just to tie a bow on it,
00:35:27.900 I mean,
00:35:28.460 come on,
00:35:29.200 some MPs serving six years
00:35:31.000 and could get
00:35:31.980 a lifetime pension
00:35:33.440 of $2 million plus?
00:35:35.000 It's crazy.
00:35:36.760 Well,
00:35:37.020 and the Maximum Canada
00:35:38.100 pension plan,
00:35:38.760 I think if you receive
00:35:40.600 the maximum,
00:35:41.240 you're going to get
00:35:41.640 about, what,
00:35:42.040 $18,000 a year,
00:35:43.260 I think,
00:35:43.620 something like that.
00:35:44.280 So we don't even get
00:35:46.180 half of what these guys
00:35:47.780 get after six years.
00:35:49.880 It's just absurd
00:35:51.140 and obscene,
00:35:52.060 but it's not all that,
00:35:54.240 you know,
00:35:54.620 surprising out of these guys too.
00:35:56.320 So, I mean,
00:35:56.820 you know,
00:35:57.580 I'll leave you with that,
00:35:58.200 but what on earth
00:35:58.980 can we do about it?
00:36:00.680 Well, look,
00:36:01.300 this hasn't passed yet,
00:36:03.660 right?
00:36:03.860 This is just a legislation
00:36:05.060 with proposed amendments.
00:36:06.340 So it hasn't passed yet.
00:36:08.060 And, you know,
00:36:08.520 I'll just give some credit
00:36:09.540 where credit's due.
00:36:10.740 I did hear
00:36:11.560 Mr. Pierre Polyev,
00:36:12.680 the leader of the official
00:36:13.480 opposition on a radio show,
00:36:15.460 say that he's opposed
00:36:16.800 to moving it
00:36:18.200 a week back
00:36:19.240 so that all these extra MPs
00:36:20.860 could get a pension.
00:36:21.940 So it looks like
00:36:22.800 Mr. Polyev
00:36:23.820 and the Conservative Party
00:36:24.600 are at least going to fight
00:36:25.580 that change.
00:36:26.920 And so are we.
00:36:27.740 It hasn't become law yet.
00:36:29.160 There's still time
00:36:30.260 to raise a stink about it,
00:36:31.960 to pressure this government.
00:36:33.560 And because, look,
00:36:34.140 like here's the obvious thing.
00:36:35.280 If the government
00:36:35.960 is going to move the election
00:36:37.440 because of a religious holiday,
00:36:39.060 okay, that's one thing,
00:36:41.080 but make it a week early.
00:36:42.420 Make it a week early, right?
00:36:43.920 And my message
00:36:44.620 to politicians is this.
00:36:46.320 If you don't want
00:36:47.080 to look shady,
00:36:48.200 stop doing shady stuff
00:36:49.540 like this.
00:36:51.280 I don't think they're
00:36:52.120 worried about it anymore.
00:36:53.160 That's the sad part.
00:36:54.040 That was kind of what I said
00:36:54.740 at the start of the show.
00:36:55.820 You know, now that they're,
00:36:56.920 this is a government
00:36:57.480 that's kind of on the way
00:36:58.400 to the exit.
00:36:59.700 And a lot of them
00:37:00.680 are just seeing
00:37:01.140 how can I fill my pockets
00:37:02.520 before I get out the door
00:37:03.780 or my friends.
00:37:04.880 And, you know,
00:37:05.660 so you guys are going
00:37:06.300 to be pretty busy.
00:37:06.940 I got a feeling
00:37:07.540 in this next year and a half,
00:37:09.060 as you're watching
00:37:10.420 for the patronage appointments
00:37:11.640 and the, you know,
00:37:13.260 grants to companies
00:37:14.460 and things like that
00:37:15.000 that seem to happen
00:37:15.660 every time liberals
00:37:16.340 are on their way out.
00:37:18.180 So I appreciate your work
00:37:19.460 and, you know,
00:37:20.580 I'm certain we'll be hearing
00:37:21.540 a lot more from you guys
00:37:22.500 as these things surface
00:37:23.320 in the next little while.
00:37:24.960 Oh, you sure will, Corey.
00:37:26.080 And hey, folks,
00:37:26.700 don't forget,
00:37:27.380 the same day they raise
00:37:28.380 your carbon and alcohol tax,
00:37:29.820 April 1,
00:37:30.620 they're also giving themselves
00:37:31.820 another pay raise.
00:37:33.500 Yes, and a massive one.
00:37:34.920 We had to talk about that before.
00:37:36.740 So where can people find out
00:37:38.660 about what you guys
00:37:39.320 are up to, Franco?
00:37:40.300 And, you know,
00:37:41.180 keep right up to date
00:37:42.060 with you guys tracking
00:37:43.140 the outrageous spending.
00:37:45.560 Well, head over
00:37:46.240 to taxpayer.com
00:37:47.300 and if you want to know
00:37:47.940 more about those pay raises
00:37:49.060 ranging from an extra
00:37:50.120 8,000 bucks
00:37:51.360 to an extra 16,000 bucks,
00:37:53.160 well, it's all there
00:37:53.700 at taxpayer.com
00:37:54.780 and you can check out
00:37:55.720 our newsroom.
00:37:56.900 Well, that's awesome, Franco.
00:37:58.320 Thanks for taking the time
00:37:59.480 to quickly check in
00:38:00.320 with us today.
00:38:01.040 I'll let you get back
00:38:02.180 to digging through
00:38:02.740 all those exciting
00:38:03.720 government documents
00:38:04.740 and I look forward
00:38:05.840 to what you guys
00:38:06.580 expose next.
00:38:08.680 Awesome.
00:38:09.100 Thanks, Corey.
00:38:10.040 Great, thanks.
00:38:11.160 This is Franco Teresano
00:38:12.220 of the Canadian
00:38:12.960 Taxpayers Federation.
00:38:14.080 Yeah, he's always got,
00:38:15.100 they give him lots
00:38:15.900 to work with,
00:38:16.600 that's for sure.
00:38:17.380 I mean, just one thing
00:38:18.700 after another.
00:38:19.260 As he said,
00:38:19.640 we had him on
00:38:20.120 a couple weeks ago.
00:38:20.840 We talked about April 1st,
00:38:22.200 a bunch of taxes growing up
00:38:23.420 and yeah, a bunch of MPs
00:38:24.620 are getting raises.
00:38:25.420 They're getting rewarded
00:38:26.520 for taking more money
00:38:28.100 from you.
00:38:28.660 It's a pretty ugly cycle
00:38:29.840 and, you know,
00:38:31.380 a perfect response
00:38:32.760 because yeah,
00:38:33.440 hey, there's no way
00:38:34.720 you could have held
00:38:35.140 the election on that day.
00:38:36.040 Why not go a week earlier?
00:38:37.380 Come on, what's a week?
00:38:38.720 But we know
00:38:39.240 because it's going to get them
00:38:40.740 those extra pension qualifications
00:38:43.760 and some people
00:38:45.060 have been saying,
00:38:45.500 oh, but most of those
00:38:46.460 who are going to qualify
00:38:47.620 for that are Conservative MPs
00:38:49.180 and that's true.
00:38:50.560 But the truth of it is too,
00:38:51.820 if things don't change
00:38:52.860 and I know a year and a half
00:38:53.620 is a long time in politics,
00:38:54.440 most of those Conservative MPs
00:38:56.360 are actually going to probably
00:38:57.380 retain their seats
00:38:58.480 in the next election.
00:38:59.380 This move is most
00:39:00.840 going to benefit
00:39:02.320 those who are either
00:39:03.380 not going to run
00:39:04.080 in the next election
00:39:04.760 or don't win their seats
00:39:06.980 back in the next election
00:39:08.440 and there's no,
00:39:10.840 what was I about to say?
00:39:14.120 Yeah,
00:39:14.340 there's just
00:39:15.280 no other way
00:39:16.700 to make that out.
00:39:18.300 Now, yeah,
00:39:18.820 okay,
00:39:19.340 I'll address a comment
00:39:20.560 or this gets back
00:39:21.540 to one of the things
00:39:22.080 and I appreciate
00:39:22.540 that you're watching the show
00:39:23.640 but you're going on
00:39:26.380 about some of that
00:39:26.900 de-tax crap
00:39:27.840 and it's garbage
00:39:28.500 and we've heard it
00:39:28.980 a long time
00:39:29.460 and they always say,
00:39:29.960 Corey will never tell people
00:39:30.840 to refuse to file taxes.
00:39:32.400 Yes, you're right.
00:39:33.300 I won't tell people that.
00:39:35.100 There's always been
00:39:36.300 those things going on.
00:39:37.300 I remember since the 90s,
00:39:38.660 it was the de-tax movement
00:39:40.060 back then
00:39:40.600 and things like that
00:39:41.480 and now it's
00:39:41.920 the sovereign individuals
00:39:42.960 and things like that
00:39:44.740 that's saying,
00:39:45.100 if you refuse
00:39:45.840 to take part in it,
00:39:46.980 you can distance yourself.
00:39:48.460 If you can legally
00:39:49.120 break yourself away
00:39:50.640 from the Canadian tax system
00:39:52.320 and so on,
00:39:52.820 guys,
00:39:53.180 it doesn't work.
00:39:54.200 It never works.
00:39:54.920 A lot of people
00:39:55.440 have gone broke
00:39:56.080 trying those things.
00:39:57.260 Look,
00:39:57.400 we need to fix our taxes up.
00:39:58.680 We need to do
00:39:59.200 a lot of different things
00:40:00.420 but I am not.
00:40:01.880 No, you're right.
00:40:02.480 I am not going to counsel people
00:40:03.940 not defile their taxes.
00:40:06.320 I want to see our taxes cut.
00:40:07.640 I want to see people
00:40:08.780 use every possible way
00:40:12.580 to distance themselves
00:40:13.560 from paying more taxes
00:40:15.000 than they have to
00:40:15.640 but I won't go into
00:40:16.400 the conspiracy garbage
00:40:17.460 that Wes Wayne
00:40:18.280 is putting out
00:40:19.020 and telling people
00:40:20.060 not to file their taxes
00:40:22.060 and yes,
00:40:22.680 now he's responding
00:40:23.360 Corey's an indoctrinated dumbass.
00:40:24.960 Yes, actually, Wayne,
00:40:26.320 I'm controlled by the aliens
00:40:28.320 and the Illuminati
00:40:29.660 and all the rest of those things
00:40:31.920 they're the ones
00:40:32.380 telling me what to do
00:40:33.180 and they're telling people
00:40:34.200 to file their taxes.
00:40:35.540 No,
00:40:35.800 I'm just not going to give
00:40:36.720 bad advice on here
00:40:38.200 and you can give
00:40:39.960 bad advice
00:40:41.680 if you like
00:40:43.240 to people
00:40:46.080 and there's a lot
00:40:46.920 of good, wise
00:40:47.520 fiscal management
00:40:48.100 you can do.
00:40:48.600 That's the stuff
00:40:49.040 that Fergus is putting
00:40:49.820 in there,
00:40:50.140 ways that you can
00:40:50.860 set up LLPs,
00:40:52.800 do things to
00:40:53.420 distance yourself
00:40:54.580 from taxation
00:40:56.380 as much as reasonably possible.
00:40:57.860 Let's change some government
00:40:58.540 so we aren't getting taxed
00:40:59.920 as badly
00:41:00.700 as we have been
00:41:01.620 but don't go down
00:41:02.600 those rabbit holes
00:41:03.400 of thinking
00:41:03.840 there's some sort of loophole
00:41:04.800 that can get you out of that.
00:41:06.100 You're just going to find
00:41:06.820 your property getting seized
00:41:07.940 and get yourself
00:41:09.480 into a whole lot of trouble
00:41:10.880 so no,
00:41:11.860 I won't tell people
00:41:12.640 to do that on this show.
00:41:14.280 Don't hold your breath for it.
00:41:15.300 Speaking of taxes
00:41:16.980 and speaking to the problems
00:41:18.200 we got going on
00:41:19.180 and this is things
00:41:19.880 so the conference board
00:41:20.960 came out
00:41:21.340 this is an interesting one
00:41:22.420 it says the oil emissions cap
00:41:23.800 you see this is another thing
00:41:24.620 coming out of Trudeau
00:41:25.220 this is part of his
00:41:26.280 obsessive climate change battles
00:41:28.720 and part of it too
00:41:30.080 I think is
00:41:30.560 he wants to
00:41:31.700 on his way out
00:41:33.320 try to succeed
00:41:34.760 where his dad-dad failed
00:41:35.940 in fully crushing Alberta
00:41:37.620 and I tell you
00:41:38.120 Pierre crushed Alberta
00:41:39.020 pretty badly
00:41:39.620 but Alberta came back
00:41:40.520 but Alberta was the province
00:41:41.820 that dared to stand up
00:41:42.800 to old Pierre
00:41:43.380 and Justin doesn't like that
00:41:44.840 and of course Alberta
00:41:45.320 is still standing up
00:41:46.040 to the Liberals
00:41:46.480 and still standing up
00:41:47.260 to the latest incarnation
00:41:48.540 of a Trudeau prime minister
00:41:49.860 so he's got this
00:41:50.960 oil emissions cap
00:41:52.060 this you know
00:41:52.480 none of people
00:41:52.980 are talking about that
00:41:53.980 and the conference board
00:41:55.480 figures that's going
00:41:56.080 to cost Alberta
00:41:56.900 four and a half billion
00:41:58.520 a year by 2030
00:41:59.760 that's an estimate
00:42:00.920 that's just
00:42:01.700 this emissions cap
00:42:03.100 basically they're working
00:42:04.200 on illegalizing
00:42:05.540 our ability
00:42:06.440 to produce oil
00:42:07.460 and gas
00:42:08.120 you know
00:42:09.480 we've got
00:42:09.900 renewable energy
00:42:11.920 isn't working guys
00:42:12.840 it's not building
00:42:14.180 fast enough
00:42:15.080 and it's not
00:42:15.920 effective enough
00:42:16.760 it doesn't work
00:42:17.520 when the sun doesn't shine
00:42:18.360 it doesn't work
00:42:18.880 when the rain doesn't
00:42:19.900 or when the wind
00:42:20.820 doesn't blow
00:42:21.360 there's a project
00:42:23.080 down in Okotoks
00:42:25.280 that just came out
00:42:26.180 that was from back
00:42:27.060 a little less than
00:42:28.340 20 years ago
00:42:29.100 and the governments
00:42:30.020 I think it was
00:42:30.480 the provincial
00:42:30.960 and the federal governments
00:42:31.700 both pitched in
00:42:32.460 over 3.2 million dollars
00:42:34.140 for 50 some houses
00:42:35.980 to have full solar panel
00:42:37.660 they put power
00:42:38.480 they put panels on them
00:42:39.980 and they got their
00:42:40.740 water heat from solar
00:42:41.860 and power supplemented
00:42:43.320 by solar
00:42:43.680 a whole bunch of it
00:42:44.420 and it was supposed
00:42:45.380 to last for 25 to 30 years
00:42:47.060 well it's been less than 20 years
00:42:48.180 turns out all those houses
00:42:49.340 now are going to have
00:42:49.840 to spend the money
00:42:50.500 to go back to
00:42:51.680 natural gas heat
00:42:53.080 and regular conventional
00:42:55.020 electricity
00:42:55.580 because the solar stuff
00:42:57.080 wore out
00:42:57.660 it didn't last as long
00:42:58.680 as they were told it would
00:42:59.520 we spent millions of dollars
00:43:01.240 to prove with only 50 houses
00:43:03.260 that it's just not
00:43:05.080 economically feasible
00:43:06.060 now I know the technology
00:43:07.100 is getting better and better
00:43:08.160 but the way it's going to work
00:43:10.500 because if it gets good enough
00:43:11.640 that it's worthwhile
00:43:12.260 for us to do it
00:43:12.920 we'll do it
00:43:13.460 we will do it
00:43:15.000 if electric vehicles
00:43:16.840 of course is the big one
00:43:17.700 you know and I keep
00:43:19.060 hearing people talking about
00:43:19.940 oh they're great for this
00:43:20.860 they're great for that
00:43:21.420 guys if they were that great
00:43:22.540 we wouldn't need to subsidize
00:43:23.640 the hell out of them
00:43:24.120 to get people to buy them
00:43:24.840 and even then
00:43:25.200 people aren't buying them
00:43:26.220 car companies are backing off
00:43:28.120 they're saying
00:43:28.440 we can't make more of these
00:43:29.940 people aren't buying them
00:43:31.700 even with massive
00:43:34.500 massive subsidies
00:43:35.580 and maybe the day will come
00:43:37.560 if an electric vehicle
00:43:38.620 comes along
00:43:39.240 that's you know
00:43:39.700 in the $30,000 range
00:43:41.560 of price
00:43:42.120 and it takes
00:43:43.000 20 minutes to charge
00:43:45.000 maximum
00:43:45.660 and has a range
00:43:47.180 of 800-900 kilometers
00:43:48.500 in cold weather
00:43:49.780 I might consider it
00:43:52.100 but we aren't even
00:43:53.140 vaguely close
00:43:54.240 to any of those things
00:43:55.160 with electric vehicles
00:43:56.180 yet
00:43:56.700 they're a novelty
00:43:57.960 and that this novelty
00:43:59.580 is costing us
00:44:01.000 a fortune
00:44:01.840 you know
00:44:02.940 we gotta
00:44:03.260 let the market
00:44:04.660 deal with it
00:44:05.440 again if it works
00:44:06.680 we will use it
00:44:07.460 on my fifth wheel trailer
00:44:08.820 I have a solar panel
00:44:09.780 and I have battery sets
00:44:11.020 because it's very practical
00:44:13.060 and handy for me
00:44:13.800 I can go out boondocking
00:44:14.640 I can charge my batteries
00:44:16.240 when I'm not connected
00:44:16.960 to anything else
00:44:17.700 but that's what it is
00:44:18.800 it's a novelty
00:44:19.560 and it's a side thing
00:44:20.400 if we're talking about
00:44:21.040 powering the nation
00:44:22.440 on this stuff
00:44:23.120 it's not working
00:44:24.060 I saw some other stuff
00:44:25.240 apparently
00:44:25.780 I haven't verified that
00:44:27.440 but a hail storm
00:44:28.700 sounds like
00:44:29.060 did wreak havoc
00:44:30.360 on a Texas solar farm
00:44:31.840 because that's another thing
00:44:32.720 that can happen
00:44:33.320 is of course
00:44:33.900 weather knocks down
00:44:35.440 those solar projects
00:44:36.260 and hey guess what
00:44:36.960 you've got no juice
00:44:37.880 going on anymore
00:44:38.680 we still need fossil fuels
00:44:40.100 or nuclear
00:44:40.780 hydroelectric
00:44:42.400 in the areas that have it
00:44:43.640 you see what are we
00:44:44.080 supposed to do
00:44:44.460 we only have so many
00:44:45.160 rivers and creeks
00:44:45.800 in Alberta
00:44:46.080 we can't go hydro
00:44:46.960 like some of the areas
00:44:47.780 that's part of the problem too
00:44:49.180 is it's Quebec
00:44:49.740 it's Newfoundland
00:44:50.420 it's Ontario
00:44:50.980 with the massive river systems
00:44:52.600 and hydroelectric generation
00:44:53.720 capability
00:44:54.300 telling us out here
00:44:55.420 while we're sitting
00:44:55.960 on massive resources
00:44:57.260 for natural gas
00:44:58.880 and things for energy
00:44:59.480 but we shouldn't use it
00:45:00.640 we should switch
00:45:01.140 to something else
00:45:01.660 well we don't have
00:45:02.520 that luxury nearby
00:45:03.940 of a big river
00:45:04.760 to dam like that
00:45:05.640 so we use what we've got
00:45:07.100 and it's a very good source
00:45:08.460 just to add one final thing
00:45:11.640 here's a beauty
00:45:12.220 and that's on the
00:45:12.680 Western Standard site
00:45:13.740 too
00:45:14.040 you know
00:45:14.400 look at the joys
00:45:15.060 986 gazans
00:45:19.260 you know
00:45:19.540 the people
00:45:19.840 Justin said
00:45:20.620 bring them on over
00:45:21.800 because we need
00:45:22.480 to bring more people
00:45:23.980 from the heart
00:45:24.440 land
00:45:25.720 for raping terrorism
00:45:30.120 in the world
00:45:30.580 and bring them here
00:45:31.380 to Canada
00:45:31.780 because we really need that
00:45:32.800 and lo and behold
00:45:33.580 with this thousand of them
00:45:34.820 they brought in
00:45:35.280 guess what
00:45:35.920 most of them are men
00:45:37.100 yes
00:45:37.620 that's the nature
00:45:38.840 of the gazans
00:45:39.900 because they like
00:45:41.620 supporting the groups
00:45:43.420 that use their women
00:45:44.260 and children
00:45:44.700 as human shields
00:45:45.540 they can't come over here
00:45:47.020 Hamas won't have
00:45:48.400 any shields anymore
00:45:49.600 the men come scurrying
00:45:51.060 over here
00:45:51.580 how many of those 986 gazans
00:45:53.840 who are coming to Canada
00:45:54.880 were ones who took part in
00:45:56.660 and supported
00:45:57.280 and helped build up
00:45:57.940 the terrorist attacks
00:45:58.820 of October 7th
00:45:59.980 I don't know
00:46:00.520 but now they're our problem
00:46:01.820 so they poke the hornet's nest
00:46:03.900 Israel of course
00:46:05.120 predictably
00:46:05.800 retaliates
00:46:07.720 and defends itself
00:46:09.000 and it gets nasty
00:46:10.120 and where do the men go
00:46:11.400 they run for it
00:46:12.840 and they leave their women
00:46:13.820 and children behind
00:46:14.620 pathetic
00:46:15.240 we need immigration guys
00:46:16.960 we need to have more people
00:46:18.560 but we need to have
00:46:19.280 the right people
00:46:19.980 we need good
00:46:21.560 working
00:46:22.560 law-abiding people
00:46:23.660 and when you dip
00:46:24.180 into the pool of gazans
00:46:25.320 we're willing to leave
00:46:26.260 their women and children
00:46:26.980 behind to come here
00:46:27.640 I don't think we're getting
00:46:28.740 better quality Canadians
00:46:29.920 out of this
00:46:30.460 but
00:46:31.380 welcome to Canada
00:46:33.160 and virtue signaling right
00:46:34.380 just one more way
00:46:35.480 that Trudeau could give
00:46:36.140 the middle finger to Israel
00:46:37.020 he seems to have
00:46:37.760 quite an obsession
00:46:38.880 with doing that as well
00:46:39.920 all right guys
00:46:41.420 so that's the time
00:46:42.240 I have for today
00:46:43.180 thank you very much
00:46:44.220 for tuning in
00:46:45.340 I appreciate it
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00:46:59.560 so hey
00:47:00.940 check in for the pipeline
00:47:02.500 later on tonight
00:47:03.400 we'll have a panel
00:47:04.060 we'll talk about
00:47:04.560 a bunch more issues
00:47:05.520 and I'll see you all again
00:47:06.780 next week at this time
00:47:08.100 with a whole new guest
00:47:08.940 and a whole new bunch
00:47:09.900 of issues to rant about
00:47:11.060 thanks again
00:47:11.540 I'll see you then
00:47:19.560 we'll see you then
00:47:37.440 Thank you.