Western Standard - CMS： The war on personal autos is a war on freedom

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.980 It's Wednesday, February 15th, 2023.

00:00:34.060 Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:35.740 I am Corey Morgan.

00:00:37.320 It is the day after Valentine's Day.

00:00:40.160 So say a little prayer for chambermaids across North America

00:00:43.760 and what they've got to deal with in hotel rooms.

00:00:45.980 Today, it's probably the hardest day of the year for all of them.

00:00:49.280 But our working people are important and I value what they do.

00:00:53.200 We've got a good show coming up today.

00:00:54.820 As always, I like to think they're always good, but it's self-serving, of course.

00:00:58.000 um i've got a guest now i'm going to start banning guests with hard to pronounce names i swear it

00:01:03.820 sometimes or i've just got to get better pronouncing but his name is uh david budweil

00:01:08.140 lefebvre i'm probably torturously brutalizing that name but he's going to talk about uh he's a part

00:01:14.740 of a public affairs group in quebec and on how quebec their energy situation isn't necessarily

00:01:19.740 as strong and solid as some people might think quebec might actually be at risk of running out

00:01:24.260 of energy, that hydroelectric they love to rub in our faces and tell us all about all the time.

00:01:29.140 Well, it's not necessarily as stable or able to keep up as some people might think. So that'll

00:01:33.000 be an interesting conversation. We'll be checking in with our news editor in a little while as well.

00:01:37.640 And of course, the agriculture report and lots of ranting and raving. Good to see you guys

00:01:42.340 checking in. We got Bob from Consort there, KJF, Julia. Good to see you. Helen, Jake. I like using

00:01:48.820 that comment scroll, guys. Keep it interactive. That's why I'm making it worthwhile doing this

00:01:53.940 live, you know, rather than canning it, recording it like so many other shows. Get those comments

00:01:58.440 out there. Chat with me. Chat with our guests. I won't necessarily read them all out, but I do

00:02:02.560 see them all, and I do appreciate seeing you there, including you there, Lucy. All right, so I might

00:02:06.380 as well get going and see what's got me ranting today. And yes, I'm talking about the war on

00:02:12.460 personal automobiles, and it is a war on the individuals, and I'll explain why. So you look

00:02:17.020 all the way back to when Henry Ford was envisioning the Model T. And he said, I'll build a motor car

00:02:23.100 for the great multitude. It'll be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual

00:02:27.280 to run and care for. It'll be constructed of the best materials by the best men to be hired

00:02:31.480 after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it'll be so low in price that no

00:02:36.860 man making a good salary will be unable to own one and enjoy with his family the blessing of

00:02:42.460 hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces. Now, he followed up on that, and when the Model T was

00:02:48.940 released, it changed the world. Personal automobiles were no longer a novelty or a luxury for the

00:02:53.740 wealthy. Middle-income families could now travel independently of public transit, trains, or with a

00:02:59.600 horse and wagon. Workers who'd been confined to employment options within walking distance or

00:03:04.360 perhaps public transit reach, they could suddenly seek employment elsewhere, should they choose to.

00:03:09.100 I mean, so commuters now had, I mean, commuters were created and they had more options than ever.

00:03:13.780 Consumers were empowered as well.

00:03:15.120 Families with personal automobiles could now comparison shop with more distant retailers.

00:03:19.820 Local businesses, including the old company store, no longer held small consumer bases captive.

00:03:24.480 And they had to compete and earn business of consumers that they had previously taken for granted.

00:03:29.780 And then, of course, rural citizens.

00:03:31.360 I mean, they can now reach neighboring communities for consumer goods or supplemental employment if need be.

00:03:36.380 Traveling salesmen.

00:03:37.340 I mean, they broadened their ranges, and the earliest incarnation of Amazon Prime was created

00:03:40.880 as home delivery of goods expanded. Intercity or even interstate migration became a reality for a

00:03:46.580 lot of people who had felt trapped prior in their residences. People could move to where the work

00:03:51.460 was in ways they never imagined only a few years prior. Now, unions will never like to admit it,

00:03:56.660 but the personal automobile did as much to empower workers than their labor organizations ever had.

00:04:01.320 While the right to strike held employers accountable, the ability to find work elsewhere

00:04:05.600 did the same. Socially, people's worlds shrunk as they were able to easily visit with friends

00:04:10.300 and family members regularly, even if they were miles away. Horizons for people were broadened.

00:04:14.440 The road trip was created. Families traveled across the nation and things like the Highway

00:04:18.260 Route 66, it became legendary. A whole new cottage industry of motels and restaurants

00:04:23.300 blossomed throughout North America. The personal automobile empowers the individual and

00:04:27.940 authoritarians, of course, want to take that empowerment away. Statists with a twisted vision

00:04:33.560 of utopia got a taste of the world they want to see during the lockdowns the last few years and

00:04:37.860 they want more of it. And you know, what happened? Well, mobility disappeared while dependence on the

00:04:42.440 state increased. Tourism evaporated while social structures fell apart. The other thing

00:04:48.060 authoritarians noted was how the personal automobile can facilitate citizen actions and

00:04:52.380 protests. The Freedom Convoy sure never would have happened if people didn't have personal

00:04:56.320 transportation, would it? Those who want to end individualism for a socialized state also realize

00:05:01.400 just how docile and pliable most citizens can be if they're convinced of a public emergency.

00:05:06.600 So putting that all together authoritarian collectivists have realized more than ever

00:05:11.240 they won't be able to achieve their envisioned utopia as long as individuals retain personal

00:05:15.560 automobiles or speech or firearms for that matter but that's fodder for another rent.

00:05:19.640 The public emergency they're pushing is ostensibly climate change and the latest

00:05:23.320 tool they plan to use is the 15-minute city. Now the 15-minute city goes by many other names but

00:05:28.120 but the policies are always the same.

00:05:29.880 Auto owners are punished through taxes,

00:05:31.660 while auto infrastructure and roads are constantly removed.

00:05:34.700 We have those bike lanes created in zones without any bicycle demand.

00:05:37.400 Well, the intention was to snarl automotive traffic,

00:05:40.380 not to facilitate bikes.

00:05:41.360 They know nobody's going to ride them.

00:05:42.740 New high-density developments are being designed without parking.

00:05:45.460 Well, they're starting to charge people for parking on the streets

00:05:47.880 in front of their own homes.

00:05:48.900 This is happening.

00:05:50.240 In cities such as Oxford in the UK,

00:05:51.700 they're imposing a program where a person will be fined

00:05:53.660 if their vehicle enters the wrong zone

00:05:55.420 or leaves its own zone too many times.

00:05:57.840 Permits will be issued by the state if an auto owner wants to travel to certain areas.

00:06:02.400 Now, people keep fleeing further from city centers while municipal politicians expand

00:06:06.700 their metro regional plans to try and enforce city limits outside of the city limits.

00:06:10.820 It's a whack-a-mole game going on.

00:06:13.320 And the war is on.

00:06:14.440 While free individuals will be the ultimate victims, they always are, the target is the

00:06:17.980 personal automobile that empowers them.

00:06:20.060 Citizens need to realize just how much they stand to lose if they no longer have that

00:06:23.780 freedom to travel wherever they like at will with a personal automobile.

00:06:26.240 they need to start paying attention to local politics and start firing the mayors and councils

00:06:31.380 who are pursuing this war on cars it's a subtle and incremental war but it's a war nonetheless

00:06:35.620 and unless folks wake up soon you're gonna lose that war guys you can't afford to lose your cars

00:06:41.200 it's much more important than just a little convenience that's what's got me going today

00:06:44.820 because we're seeing it going on all right let's see who else we got out there don sharp good to

00:06:49.220 see you he's been working really hard on the ems issue by the way look at some of those postings

00:06:54.240 look EMS on Facebook, things like that. They've been really putting the pressure on, on Alberta

00:06:58.560 Health Services. Lots of folks jumping in on the audience. Good to see you guys popping in there.

00:07:03.340 And yes, this is the time I'm going to remind you quickly, the reason we can have all the news that

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00:07:31.280 westernstandard.news membership and take one up all right let's check in and see what else is

00:07:35.680 going on out there in the world today with our news editor there dave naylor hey dave how's it going

00:07:44.320 good corey uh how are you i'm all right it's a nice day yeah it is beautiful out the window here

00:07:52.560 So the last time we heard from the long-suffering Jane, she was changing the tire on your fifth wheel down in the States. 0.99

00:08:00.800 Just wondering, you know, what you got her for Valentine's Day yesterday.

00:08:06.060 I did get some flowers on sale the other day, and there was that, you know, craft dinner with a folded wiener and a heart shape.

00:08:12.040 I was looking at it online, but the recipe confused me too much, so I didn't get it made.

00:08:15.800 But you know what? I'll make a commitment to at least help her more the next time she has to change a tire. 0.97

00:08:20.820 poor woman as the patience of a saint, that's for sure. I was thinking you might get her one of 1.00

00:08:26.620 those squirrel-headed things that was on your Facebook earlier this week, but I didn't want to

00:08:32.620 show a picture of her. I don't know if she's quite into that. That would probably make it my last

00:08:38.860 Valentine's Day on a number of levels, but I'll keep that in mind. I'm not sure where you begin

00:08:43.740 the conversation on something like that. No, it might be your last day permanently, never mind

00:08:48.820 valentine's day anyway straight for the straight to the news we have a very busy day going on

00:08:54.340 uh our parliamentary columnist david creighton is looking at that uh train derailment down in

00:09:01.380 down in ohio where there's all sorts of toxic chemicals uh leaking into the river and and

00:09:07.620 animals dropping dead uh it's really really disturbing scene down there and our matthew

00:09:13.700 horwood reporter is is also on it uh opposition leader pierre pauliav was in calgary uh this

00:09:20.340 morning and our jonathan bradley asked him whether he was still committed to eliminating the

00:09:24.820 um 600 million dollar media bail up fund goes to and he uh confirmed and said yep he's uh he still

00:09:35.860 do that he becomes a prime minister uh two school related stories in alberta a teacher

00:09:41.620 and the teacher in Lac La Bish has been charged with assaulting a student up in Lac La Bish,

00:09:47.300 RCMP being their usual tight-lipped self, not saying which school or anything like that,

00:09:53.220 but the teacher is charged with assault. A child was getting off the school bus this week in

00:09:59.540 Panoka, Cory, and as the child just about got off the bus, the door closed and trapped her backpack 0.90

00:10:06.660 behind her and started to drive away so the poor child was dragged and has been left traumatized

00:10:13.060 according to her dad it only went about 15 feet before the principal saw what was going on and

00:10:19.540 and stopped it our new uh our newest uh addition to our trove of columnists uh raheem mohammed 0.69

00:10:27.620 looks at uh the horrors that would be if uh the ndp got elected and janice erwin became

00:10:33.380 the Justice Minister David, the Education Minister. It would be a drag time story for all grades,

00:10:44.340 Rahim says. Some other stories, there's a really, really disturbing story out of British Columbia

00:10:49.540 in which a man, actually he was a teenager at the time, raped a three-month-old baby boy so badly

00:10:57.620 that the boy needed surgery. He is now transgendered and is serving time in a women's prison near the

00:11:06.980 mother and child ward, believe it or not, only in Canada. The newest billionaire in the world

00:11:16.260 came forward to be publicly identified yesterday. He won the Powerball lottery, elected to take the

00:11:23.060 billion dollar price and minus taxes so he just gets a tad under a billion dollars us well over

00:11:30.020 a billion dollars canadian but imagine that cory waking up one morning and uh and you're a

00:11:35.060 billionaire uh our friend uh franco terror has filed a legal suit to try and find out who exactly

00:11:45.300 in the canadian delegation spent the night sleeping in that six thousand dollar a night room in uh in

00:11:52.420 London when the Canadian contingent went over for the Queen's funeral. I think you and I can make a

00:11:58.920 good guess, Corey, as to who just might have slept in that room. But Franco is going to go to court

00:12:05.300 and try to find out why the government is redacting all these names from who it is.

00:12:13.940 And I'm just about to publish a story out of Edmonton. Edmonton police have charged two people

00:12:18.740 in a shocking case of animal abuse.

00:12:21.900 So that'll be going up shortly, Corey.

00:12:24.820 So really, really busy day.

00:12:26.660 And proud to say we just passed 1 million page views

00:12:29.760 for the month already.

00:12:31.740 And I just started the 15th of the day.

00:12:33.720 So thanks to all the readers out there.

00:12:36.700 And I think we're on our way to a record readership this month.

00:12:42.120 Oh, yeah.

00:12:43.000 You're pushing through the February doldrums with a bang.

00:12:46.200 Well, that's great.

00:12:46.800 I'll let you get back to pushing out all that content, see if we can make it to 2 million views by the end of February.

00:12:53.920 Thanks, Corey.

00:12:54.660 Hope you'll be my valentine.

00:12:56.880 Okay, thanks, Dave.

00:12:58.500 All right, that is my secret valentine, Dave Naylor.

00:13:01.680 He's also known as our news editor in the Western Standard Newsroom.

00:13:04.780 And as I said, it's a lot to keep up with.

00:13:06.600 You know, these news check-ins with Dave, I mean, there's just so much always happening and so much going up there at the Standard all the time.

00:13:13.320 So many stories. 0.99

00:13:13.980 some horrific ones like that sick, sick rapist of a child. And it sounds like a bad one with a 1.00

00:13:20.120 animal abuse coming in there, but a lot of political stuff too, and things. And, you know,

00:13:23.500 we, we cover every kind of news, good and bad. I mean, that's part of what wears some people out

00:13:28.120 in newsrooms is some of the horrible stuff you got to write about at times too.

00:13:32.820 So let's get back some of the comments here. I see Leanne. Well, I see Cheryl coming from Mexico. 1.00

00:13:37.140 Well, good for you. I don't want to hear about it. Actually, it's pretty nice here in Calgary,

00:13:41.020 but it's not Mexico right now. And Leanne begs Leonard Singh, watching from Merrickville,

00:13:45.460 Ontario, they'll never take my truck. I need it for work. And no, I'll be keeping my gas-powered

00:13:50.040 truck, my diesel backhoe and diesel-powered quad and gas-powered sawmill. See, that is an

00:13:56.840 independent person right there. This is what authoritarians despise. This is somebody who's

00:14:01.260 not going to be easily controlled. And I tell you what, having your own backhoe is a great thing for

00:14:06.240 your individual security, especially if you own firearms too, and you want to protect your

00:14:09.860 property. Sometimes those things can work hand in hand in a great way to make sure you're a lot

00:14:14.060 safer and your property is protected. But yes, the authoritarians don't want that. They want you

00:14:18.160 dependent on the state. They want you to have to ask for whatever, whether it's to travel,

00:14:23.320 to move, to work, whatever it's going to be. And guys, it's happening. You know, it's not a

00:14:27.100 conspiracy. As Karen Mitchell saying, once again, the conspiracy theory is coming true. Yeah. I mean,

00:14:32.700 these aren't conspiracies. It's just happening out there, guys. Rock Girl saying counties are

00:14:37.700 fighting the stupid changes too. Yeah, I know, these municipal governments, you know, only four 1.00

00:14:41.260 chickens, a rain barrel considered to be a pond. Yeah, you don't have the right to the water you're

00:14:45.500 collecting in a rain barrel. That's how insane these guys are getting. Limits on outbuildings,

00:14:49.280 a doghouse is considered one, no unapproved fencing. Yeah, this is in the rural areas.

00:14:54.020 It's crazy. And, you know, it's our own fault to a degree. We've got to get up, got to vote out

00:15:00.660 those municipal politicians, pay attention to them, see who they are, and vote. I mean,

00:15:05.400 our apathy is biting us in the ass. This is why the extremists and they are extremists. This is 1.00

00:15:10.820 how they're getting to lead large cities. This is how they're dominating councils because we 0.99

00:15:15.680 aren't paying attention. When you get a 20% voter turnout, these crackpots can get in there and stay

00:15:21.300 in there. You've got to fire them now and then you've got to pay attention to what they're doing. 0.76

00:15:25.160 You can't let them dismiss these things as conspiracy theories while they regulate and

00:15:29.820 legislate our freedoms into oblivion. It's happening everywhere. People keep asking. I saw

00:15:34.860 somebody tweeted at me the other day, you know, I don't get it with Calgary. You vote conservative

00:15:39.440 provincially and federally, and he keeps sticking those liberals in the city council. Yeah, I know.

00:15:44.660 It's maddening. You know, one of the areas, and I know people cringe when I talk about it,

00:15:48.540 is maybe getting a party system. In Vancouver, they got a party system. They actually got a mayor

00:15:52.080 who came in on a crackdown on crime stance. And I don't think he'd have been able to do that

00:15:57.260 without a party. See, the reason these civic politicians, what they do is they campaign

00:16:00.920 conservative. Ninchy did it. He pretended to be a friend of business, you know, so did to a lesser

00:16:06.020 degree, though. So did Gondek. And then once they got in, of course, they went full socialist.

00:16:10.720 And well, what happened once they're in with people that was too much work to fire them. So

00:16:14.500 they don't fire them and they stay in. You got to fire them. You got to look into what they're

00:16:18.260 actually talking about. But as long as we keep electing them, unfortunately, you know, people

00:16:22.700 say when, you know, in a democracy, you get the government you deserve. Well, now I'm getting

00:16:26.560 the government some other asshole deserves. They voted for these people, not me. But we need to 1.00

00:16:30.220 engage each other. We need to get politically active. We need to do these things. Um, another

00:16:35.320 point from Karen Mitchell, we're talking about that, that rail disaster, that mess and those

00:16:38.200 chemicals out in East Palestine, the States and whatever's burning out there, it's awful. And

00:16:42.280 then pointing out if we had pipelines, we wouldn't need rail. At least for some individual chemicals,

00:16:46.360 it's still probably better to move by rail. But when we're looking at a crude oil products and

00:16:50.160 some refined products, yeah, get those pipes. People, railways, I mean, they've served their

00:16:54.920 purpose. They, they have served it and they'll continue, but they're not the best mode to move

00:16:59.580 everything. And we're going to see more of these because the demand for oil and gas isn't going

00:17:03.920 away. No matter what loopy people like Prime Minister Trudeau do to try and shut it down or

00:17:08.880 Joe Biden does down in the States, it's not going away. The demand's going up. So we're just putting

00:17:13.500 more and more on trains. I wouldn't be surprised if all these balloons we're seeing all over the

00:17:17.060 place were actually clandestine ways of trying to find ways to ship oil by balloon, maybe,

00:17:22.480 you know, because we can't do it through a pipeline. But you see people, as long as they

00:17:24.780 want it, they're going to get it. And, uh, the, the oil and gas sector isn't going away. They're

00:17:30.840 just making it more and more difficult on us all the time. And we're paying that price. Uh,

00:17:37.060 never separate, uh, celebrate February 14th as a heart day. I don't know. Uh, Cheryl asking what

00:17:42.900 happened to Mel Risdon. Mel still, I saw a call from her the other day, but there's a, she's moved

00:17:47.040 on some other projects and things. I'm not totally sure, but she's still around. Uh, and here's,

00:17:51.860 you know, a good point again from, from Carol saying, uh, your municipal governments affect

00:17:54.980 you the most and they do. And they, we've really got to start watching these things guys.

00:18:00.220 Uh, so let's see here. What else we got going? Uh, something else David mentioned, you know,

00:18:05.520 and this is an interesting from, and we have been watching that on Twitter, the taxpayers

00:18:08.880 federation and that, that, that picture that came up of, they did a freedom of information request

00:18:14.020 on, um, uh, who stayed in that 6,000, a night hotel room in, in England and, uh, you know,

00:18:23.320 for the queen's funeral. And they returned it. It was a very simple question. They put the request

00:18:27.500 in just to let's ask a straightforward question, get a name. And they sent it back, said, here it

00:18:32.480 is the name and stayed in the suite. But of course then they redacted it and, and, and inked it out.

00:18:36.980 I mean, you know, it was true though in there. Actually, Nigel differs with me on the, in the,

00:18:42.720 in the newsroom. He thinks maybe it was Sandra Oh. Because you've got to remember, Justin Trudeau

00:18:47.100 brought in an entourage with him of people like Sandra Oh, who's an actress, had nothing to do

00:18:50.940 with government or nothing to do with the Queen. I guess just Justin thought she was neat, so he

00:18:54.280 wanted to spend our tax dollars to take her out on a vacation. But $6,000 for a room for a night. 1.00

00:19:00.500 Good Lord. Meanwhile, the room wasn't big enough, because as we said, Justin went down

00:19:06.120 into the lobby of the hotel to do his little karaoke stunt, which again is pure Justin Trudeau.

00:19:12.720 The reason he did that is because if he did it in his giant 6,000 a night suite, well, that's fine, but nobody would be able to see it.

00:19:19.800 Nobody would be able to share the video and put it on TikTok and say, oh, look at Justin being so hip and interesting and different and trendy.

00:19:27.740 This is a small scandal, but it's also big.

00:19:30.700 People bring up the $16 orange juice of Bavota in the past.

00:19:33.880 Yes, when it's our money, then it turns big.

00:19:37.980 when we're having a hard time making the mortgage, when we're having a hard time making ends meet,

00:19:41.080 we see government frittering away money on things like that. Yes, we get upset. And we should.

00:19:47.760 These guys are going to start answering to us. Now, I think our guest was going to be a bit

00:19:51.860 delayed, but perhaps he's made it into the lobby at this time. If he can give me a thumbs up. Oh,

00:19:55.680 no, I've lost him. Okay. Oh, he was just checking in on stuff, I bet. That's what's going on there.

00:19:59.960 So we will have that guest on in a little while, and that's fine. And I'll continue covering some

00:20:04.580 some more of the issues going on out there. So yeah, this taxpayer federation thing, though,

00:20:07.900 I mean, what's the point of a freedom of information request if, you know, you can't

00:20:14.700 get the information back? It's our money. It's our information. It's what we should feel and be

00:20:21.980 entitled to. And we are getting access to it. And it's a real problematic thing.

00:20:30.140 Let's see. Yeah, this is another one that we need to get some information on. The Canadian

00:20:33.120 Revenue Agency said it investigated claims made by a caller to a Toronto radio station. I guess

00:20:38.040 somebody phoned a radio station in Toronto, and it boasted employees fraudulently claimed

00:20:42.560 pandemic relief benefits. Now, okay, this is how anybody can pick up a phone and claim things and

00:20:48.680 state it, so it might be a load of garbage. But, you know, they tried to follow up, and it sounds

00:20:54.060 like they've kind of admitted, yeah, there's been some cases. The CRA investigates substantive

00:20:59.620 leads to questionable conduct. And the revenue commissioner said, I don't have the numbers right

00:21:04.300 in front of me. Not very many though. And no, none have gone to a criminal investigation. Again,

00:21:09.280 getting back to our money and the entitlement. Now CRA union members have been pushing for

00:21:14.460 a 30% raise. They're threatening to strike. And here they are doing that. And it sounds like a

00:21:22.860 number of them actually got in there and managed to collect CERB whilst they were in CRA and could

00:21:28.840 be the ones who could actually hide that collection man we've really got to get some

00:21:32.120 investigations but we can't get answers uh once more i'll just kind of check if he's available

00:21:37.840 if our guest is ready give me a thumbs up i will pop you in shortly if not we'll wait until uh

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00:22:17.420 Okay, so I'm going to speak with, and I apologize in advance, I'm probably going to slaughter your 0.94

00:22:22.420 name, but I'm going to give it another crack. David Boudouille Lefebvre with Boudouille Public

00:22:28.320 Affairs. And you speak on, well, Quebec Public Affairs. Yes, of course. Nice to meet you,

00:22:34.900 Corey. Nice to be here with your audience today. Yes. I appreciate you coming on. And it's in

00:22:40.640 regards to a recent piece you put out, was posted on your site there about Quebec potentially

00:22:47.280 running out of energy. I mean, we've always seen Quebec as a powerhouse of hydroelectric

00:22:51.460 electricity and it seemed like it was almost an unlimited resource but as you describe it

00:22:56.820 sounds like in reality they could be quite vulnerable there right now yes definitely

00:23:01.540 uh interesting that you bring that up because because part of our quebec now newsletter is

00:23:05.940 to to to instruct and also educate people from across the country about you know the main issues

00:23:11.140 about quebec and sometimes you know you you find some shifts in the issues in quebec that's that's

00:23:16.340 interesting for other people and this is definitely one you know the news that hydro quebec is

00:23:20.820 thinking about refusing some industrial project because they will lack the ability to supply them

00:23:26.820 is something that actually was quite surprising to a lot of Quebecers and definitely of interest

00:23:32.420 to English Canada, you know, as the province moves forward. And, you know, in fact, it's a

00:23:38.340 little bit of a good news because you have a lot of industrial projects that want to develop in

00:23:42.420 Quebec, but you would never have imagined that they could be short of power.

00:23:46.900 Well, yeah, and in power, I mean, it's essential for, well, the cost of living for your citizenry or any expansion of a commercial base.

00:23:54.900 I mean, if your businesses can't get a steady or affordable supply of power, they're not going to locate there.

00:24:00.320 No, exactly. And, you know, Quebec has not always had and still does not have the most favorable, I would say, corporate tax system to bring some companies in.

00:24:09.480 Like you would have Florida and Texas, for example, that would have very favorable taxation system to bring people in. 0.86

00:24:14.820 And Quebec used to be quite flush with labor, you know, but now not so much so, you know, with an unemployment rate under 4%, you know, Ontario still has a lot of workers that they can offer at that reasonable price to businesses.

00:24:29.160 But Quebec's advantage has really always been on the hydroelectricity side, that they were able to offer very good rates to foreign companies and to people that wanted to do business, including domestic companies from Quebec and companies from Canada.

00:24:42.180 But right now, what's in jeopardy is, you know, as the supply dwindles compared to what the demand is, well, something we'll have to give.

00:24:50.640 Either people will not be able to get the power or that electric power will be more expensive, which is what we think that Quebec will have, whether it really wants it or not, to turn towards other sources of energy to put in its mix.

00:25:06.680 Because even if they want to build the hydroelectricity dam, that's going to take 8 to 15 years.

00:25:12.180 Yeah, well, and something that's been a frustration for us who are more accustomed out here in Alberta with hydrocarbon-based energy sources is the knowledge.

00:25:20.620 And it was some Alberta-based companies were kind of investing, looking at there's some significant natural gas fields in Quebec that could provide a ready amount of power in relatively short order, at least not the eight to ten years that it would take for a hydroelectric project.

00:25:33.880 But Quebec has now banned any more further development of any of those resources in the province anymore.

00:25:38.280 So it sort of frustrates when perhaps you're approaching an energy shortage, yet you're shutting down alternative forms of energy before they even get started.

00:25:46.640 Definitely. And I completely understand your point.

00:25:49.440 And you see Quebec has included in its mix of, you know, supply supply of energy over the last few years, you know, windmills, solar, biomass, biogas.

00:26:00.220 But there will come a point where just the amount of megawatts or petajoules, whatever you want to call them, you will need at least some energy transition in the meantime while you build the dams and you try to bring more hydroelectricity to the grid.

00:26:14.980 And definitely the natural gas reserves is someplace where I think Quebec would have an interest going to.

00:26:22.140 We'll see what happens with the current government and where they want to move in.

00:26:24.880 But definitely there's a need for Quebec to bring more kind of energy in the mix.

00:26:30.220 a little bit like alberta has also done so alberta was very very heavy in hydrocarbon but now you

00:26:35.980 start to have some windmill you start to have different projects we understand that the quebec

00:26:39.900 culture regarding energy is much different than albertas or even atlantic canada or ontario but

00:26:45.820 more and more jurisdiction are getting to the point where they need to have more safety of supply

00:26:51.340 bring more kind of different different energy sources in the mix and we think quebec is something

00:26:55.900 that they will be most probably willing to explore over the next few months or years,

00:27:00.460 if only because, you know, they will want the jobs and they will want the economy growth that comes

00:27:05.260 from companies that want to be established in Quebec and work.

00:27:08.700 Yeah, well, I mean, a sense of pragmatism, you know, eventually comes in when you realize that

00:27:12.540 your economy might be suffering for the lack of diversity. Something I didn't see mentioned was

00:27:17.900 nuclear. Is that a consideration of expansion? There's the modular nuclear plants that are

00:27:22.300 being developed or even conventional ones that can do reactors uh has there been any consideration

00:27:27.820 of expanding any of that in quebec good question especially as as i think dog ford in ontario has

00:27:34.220 has been adamant that you know he would like to bring you know to continue to bring uh nuclear

00:27:38.860 power in the mix quebec basically only ever had i think one or two nuclear planet agent region

00:27:44.940 they've been shut down a few years ago not multiple they've really been shut down

00:27:49.100 so i i think i think in terms of nuclear energy the the the the curve to bring it back in the

00:27:54.460 mix would be very very steep for quebec uh would require investment a lot a lot of people to work

00:28:00.860 on the file and probably also you know quebec basically lost its expertise in nuclear when

00:28:06.060 those when those plants shut down so i i would say and i would say the volume that you would

00:28:11.020 need to bring to make a difference definitely not not as interesting as renewables and what

00:28:15.660 what natural gas could be.

00:28:18.880 Yeah, well, and as you note in your piece

00:28:21.120 is with the decarbonization,

00:28:23.500 I mean, it only stands to reason then

00:28:25.520 if people are moving to electric vehicles,

00:28:27.080 electric heating, items like that,

00:28:29.080 it's going to draw more power from the grid.

00:28:31.600 You will need more power.

00:28:33.180 There's no getting away from that.

00:28:35.960 But the solution part's difficult.

00:28:37.320 As you said, eight to 15 years before a dam can come on,

00:28:40.120 you try to propose some solutions,

00:28:41.760 but what will it take to perhaps shorten those timelines?

00:28:45.340 lobbying to the government, a change in attitude, how can they avoid, you know, perhaps running

00:28:50.940 into a wall of a loss of energy security?

00:28:54.520 Well, one of the first things they could do, so maybe you signed the news that Quebec has

00:28:58.560 contracted, you know, a very heavy electricity delivery contract to the United States, mainly

00:29:04.540 to the state of New York.

00:29:06.160 Quebec is also working with Maine and Massachusetts to get a line to be able to supply parts of

00:29:11.300 Boston.

00:29:11.620 I think probably some of those projects will have to be re-evaluated, especially as they would reduce supply and increase, you know, even more pressure on the grid.

00:29:22.120 I think Quebec needs to accelerate development of other sources of energy.

00:29:26.960 Not, I think, yes, as a transition toward building more dams, but also being able to, you know, to give a solution to people over the next three to five years.

00:29:36.960 And in terms of energy, three to five years is literally tomorrow morning.

00:29:40.020 And the other thing that the government will need to do is continue to put forward and promote programs into energy efficiency.

00:29:48.020 But these are a double edged sword because usually those programs, you put energy efficiency on the same level of decarbonation.

00:29:55.680 Yes, but if you're more efficient, whether you use diesel or heavy fuels, well, then you will use the electricity.

00:30:01.860 So in a way, it is a quagmire and you need to reduce your energy dependency only on hydro.

00:30:09.120 And at the same time, you need to make sure that new projects are more efficient.

00:30:12.860 So definitely Quebec has quite a challenge on its hands that even just a few years ago, there's not many people that start coming.

00:30:20.400 Well, yeah, and as you said, Quebec has made perhaps commitments to New England area or New York for providing electrical services.

00:30:28.680 But if they reevaluate or back out on those deals, that could come with some serious repercussions as well.

00:30:34.300 I mean, those states have been dependent and expecting that power source to be coming on stream, right?

00:30:39.120 Yeah, I think the one with the state of New York, honestly, it's something that you cannot really get out with for the reason that you that you say that, that, you know, there will be some very, very heavy penalties.

00:30:49.360 But, you know, should they reconsider the one that they plan to do with Massachusetts?

00:30:54.040 Should they try to renegotiate the race with other smaller export programs and projects that they have with the US?

00:31:00.000 uh definitely i think this should be this should be on the table because otherwise politically

00:31:05.700 there will be a price to pay if if uh hydroquebec needs to i would say increase or jack up the prices

00:31:11.840 especially for residential customers so that that's going to be an interesting topic and and

00:31:16.900 it is something that from an energy perspective i think that should be that should be monitored

00:31:21.620 because it could it could redefine some some of the uh you know energy boundaries in the country

00:31:27.760 And it definitely, you know, Quebec has felt very safe with IDRO for decades.

00:31:33.140 You know, they felt, well, we don't really need to engage into those big and large energy affordability and supply discussions.

00:31:40.760 Well, I think it's about time that we have the debate here also.

00:31:43.700 And I think this situation will bring the debate whether people want to have it or not.

00:31:49.200 Well, the debates will always come no matter how long you put them off.

00:31:52.740 It's just a matter of whether they're going to be on your terms by the time they get to you.

00:31:55.960 So I guess you're sort of started sounding the alarm early on this.

00:31:59.060 I mean, there's still time to start perhaps changing some attitudes and direction before it potentially becomes a crisis.

00:32:05.220 Yes, no, no, exactly.

00:32:07.360 And also, you know, both from a Quebec standpoint and also from a Canada standpoint,

00:32:12.600 there's also the question that you always want to maintain your good reputation in front of foreign investors, financial markets.

00:32:20.260 And, you know, usually investors and markets don't like uncertainty.

00:32:24.120 And you certainly want to make sure that Quebec addresses this problem before it becomes a crisis, also in order to be able to reassure those investors and people that honestly want to do open and transparent business in the province.

00:32:36.720 Well, I appreciate you bringing it up and laying it out. I hope it's been getting some appreciation in Quebec as well.

00:32:42.260 Can you tell us a little more about your public affairs company and other issues, perhaps, that you're following right now?

00:32:48.500 Yes, so I'm welcoming the opportunity. Basically, we set up shop at the end of 2020, because we found that there were some inefficiencies in the market that some companies, associations, especially from English Canada, didn't have the right conduit for Quebec, were not willing to go into the market, because they didn't speak the language, didn't know the Quebec culture.

00:33:10.320 And honestly, I will say bluntly, it pissed me off a little bit to see a lot of very good people and very good project missing opportunities because of that.

00:33:18.360 So we said, let's build a firm that can help those English Canadian associations and companies do business in Quebec and do it the right way.

00:33:26.440 Because a lot of people tell us, Quebec is different. It's not another province. It's like being in another country, like doing business in Germany or Italy.

00:33:33.560 And I say, you're exactly right. But it's not a reason that it's not a reason good enough not to do business in Quebec.

00:33:39.920 And, you know, I would say our business is basically 80 percent clients from English Canada and 20 percent for Quebec.

00:33:45.460 But really the clients that we work with, whether it's on natural resource, financial sector, health care, definitely to help and provide them the services that they require to work with the government of Quebec, which is, by the way, very open to do so.

00:33:59.600 But they just need the right people to knock on the door and they need to write to me and they need the right projects to get in.

00:34:05.400 Great. So before I let you go, where can people find your site and where your services are?

00:34:10.920 So they can find us mainly on our website at www.boudwell.com. Just send us a line,

00:34:19.840 send us a contact and it will be our pleasure to discuss with you. I always say we're like

00:34:24.240 a lawyer office or an accountant office. First call is always free.

00:34:28.020 Great. Okay. Well, I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today. And I really do appreciate

00:34:32.100 getting a different perspective on things from that part of the country we we don't communicate

00:34:35.780 with or understand as clearly as we should sometimes so uh thank you i i hope things go

00:34:40.500 well and we can talk to you again soon much appreciated cory say hi to everybody thanks

00:34:45.300 i will do thank you so that was uh david uh and uh yes that's a goodwill.com again i'm

00:34:53.060 probably terribly pronouncing it but if you can spell it and find it and get there and he can

00:34:56.260 certainly correct you and it's interesting so it's it's a an intermediary i guess you know of

00:35:01.300 a service because we are different between quebec and alberta and quebec and bc and quebec and

00:35:06.020 newfoundland but alberta is different from newfoundland as well and and yes i guess we're

00:35:09.860 seeing lost business opportunities because people are dismissing the potential uh because they don't

00:35:14.740 necessarily understand each other so having somebody in the middle to help us facilitate

00:35:18.660 those discussions it can only be good for investors on both sides and again uh he's certainly willing

00:35:24.820 to poke into some of the issues i think that some people would rather not talk about like

00:35:28.260 the almost sacred status of Quebec's hydroelectric system, you need some blunt looks at it and see

00:35:36.100 what's going on before you lead to a potential crisis down the road. And energy, I mean, it's

00:35:40.440 a big issue all the way around the world and in every province. So it was good to see a different

00:35:44.820 discussion coming up there. All right, I'll get back to the comments. Speaking of some of the

00:35:49.760 national things going on, I see Carrie Lynn Oldford asked earlier talking about Smith accepting the

00:35:54.300 the health care deal from Ottawa. Yeah. Now you see, we're seeing some ugly politics going on

00:35:59.300 there. And, you know, we had the big health summit and the handshake and all that. But meanwhile,

00:36:03.840 there was an increase offered that really, when you spread it over 10 years, isn't a heck of a

00:36:08.580 lot, but it would be an increase. The politics of it is where Premier Smith or any other premier

00:36:14.860 for that matter is over a barrel because they have the task. Every premier has the task of

00:36:20.640 delivering health care. That's their job. That's constitutionally the way it is. Funding it,

00:36:25.760 you know, provincially is most of the funding still comes from the provinces, but a good chunk

00:36:29.720 comes in the federal health transfer. And what happens is you go to these things with Turto or

00:36:34.920 any prime minister and they say, we're going to offer this much, but we need you guys all to agree

00:36:38.540 to it. If any premier doesn't agree to it, then suddenly you'll see Rachel Notley jumping up and 0.99

00:36:45.960 down and Jagmeet saying, everybody else lighting their hair on fire. So look at this, look at this,

00:36:48.840 This Premier Smith in Alberta is just refusing to take the money,

00:36:52.500 and their health care is going to suffer,

00:36:53.980 and they will use it as a hammer to keep hitting the Premier with.

00:36:56.560 Every time there's a shortcoming, they'd say,

00:36:58.140 well, you know what, we would have more ambulances

00:36:59.400 if Smith had accepted that health transfer,

00:37:02.980 or if Scott Moe in Saskatchewan, they'd say,

00:37:05.360 oh, that hospital wouldn't be overwhelmed

00:37:06.920 if he had taken that money from Trudeau.

00:37:09.040 So it puts them between a rock and a hard place.

00:37:11.200 Personally, I'd like to see the government,

00:37:12.720 the federal government, rate the hell out of it then.

00:37:15.460 Just cut, you know, stay out of health care.

00:37:18.640 altogether, let the provinces raise their own funds and distribute them how they will. And then

00:37:23.720 just leave us alone. But either way, yeah, it's the only thing I was watching for was making sure

00:37:30.220 there weren't too many conditions laid on. And surprisingly, there weren't too many. I was happy

00:37:33.980 to see it. You know, he just said stay within the Health Act, which is actually a lot broader than

00:37:37.480 some people make it out to be. So he didn't try to put too much of a hindrance on premiers with

00:37:44.960 what was going out though. It's still, it's, I don't like watching them go back and forth. I

00:37:48.800 prefer more provincial independence whenever possible, particularly with healthcare and

00:37:52.400 things like that. Uh, let's see. Um, Cliff saying hydro is not nature friendly. Nuclear is a better

00:37:58.200 option. Yeah. You know, every, every energy source. And that's where some of the energy

00:38:01.620 discussions come to is there's no zero impact energy source. None. I mean, some have more and

00:38:08.160 some have less. Uh, nuclear, uh, is very cost prohibitive to get into. And of course people

00:38:13.720 are fearful of the the possibilities that will happen with an accident though I mean again take

00:38:17.640 if you look at statistically nuclear is very very safe but all the same it's got its downsides it's

00:38:23.060 got its upsides low on emissions hydro low on emissions but again you're going to dam and block

00:38:27.660 up and flood very large tracts of land that isn't necessarily all that friendly you know coal of

00:38:34.940 course well we know what coal is about we're getting better and better and there's not enough

00:38:37.800 discussion of that too that we can we've got clean burning coal technology we're getting better and

00:38:42.540 better. And we get carbon sequestration and all sorts of things. But there's a number of them.

00:38:47.300 And it's not either or, you know, that's, that's part of it. I don't have a problem with wind

00:38:52.100 developments going on. Just don't say that you have to shut down the oil and gas in order to

00:38:57.020 have it. If you want to have it there as a supplemental thing and investors think it's

00:38:59.940 worthwhile getting into. That's the big one though. Go for it. You know, if you can find the

00:39:04.060 land and people want to do it, but they forced it and they make it, you see, the problem is people

00:39:07.700 aren't embracing these, these harebrained alternative energy, uh, sources. So that's

00:39:12.560 where they're thinking. It's similar to the cars. They think if we could just shut down the oil and

00:39:15.940 gas, people will switch. Well, no, you have to come up with the alternative before you can shut

00:39:20.960 down the last one. But these ideologues don't listen to reason. They don't understand that.

00:39:26.400 And, uh, we all pay a terrible price for it. Uh, let's see what else is happening in the news

00:39:31.420 today. Yes. ERA making a mess. This is something interesting. Actually, I didn't even know they

00:39:36.280 still going on i haven't had to in a while but cabinet has actually formally dropped the last

00:39:40.920 of their mask mandates there were still actually some mask mandates going on it was in the the

00:39:45.480 service canada offices i guess if you had to go in you know for passport um renewals and so on

00:39:51.080 it's funny because i drove by uh in northeast calgary one of those service canada offices

00:39:54.680 the other day and it's still lined up way out into the parking lot these these guys are so backed up

00:39:59.240 so inefficient so terrible that they can't even renew passports and do basic things but they've

00:40:03.080 been forcing people to wear masks actually until recently and i guess even some of them the office

00:40:08.600 managers and so on are still getting on people's cases and turning them away uh conservative mp

00:40:13.480 rosemary falk was uh saying she's getting phone calls saying the services are limited and somebody

00:40:18.520 was turned away for not having a mask even though she had a medical exemption this fanaticism they

00:40:23.480 got ingrained into us uh over the course well not all of us but they know they really pushed into a

00:40:27.640 lot of people particularly pointy-headed busybody bureaucrats who just love control they love to

00:40:32.920 get their thumb on somebody and force them to move which way they will. And of course, masks are

00:40:38.240 one of those ways to do it. They're finally starting to drop it. So if, well, you know,

00:40:46.760 here's one of the hard things. I would almost say, you know, if you go to a Service Canada office and

00:40:50.460 they tell you to put on a mask, you tell them to go to hell. But you see, the problem is, and this

00:40:53.380 is where they get you by the short and curlies, they'll turn you out. They'll have security kick

00:40:57.020 out and say you're being belligerent and you won't be able to get the service done. Or they will do

00:41:02.040 things, you know, you'll fill out your form and it'll get filed, you know, in the circular file

00:41:06.400 in the back. And you will wonder why when you're trying to take your trip that your passport still

00:41:10.240 hasn't arrived. Unfortunately, fighting with them can turn out to be a bad tactic. And I hate that

00:41:19.280 because I believe in, in fighting back. Okay. It looks like just a quick update that

00:41:26.240 Dave

00:41:28.620 Naylor put in from the news. This is

00:41:30.220 sad news. Rochelle Welch just

00:41:32.400 passed away at

00:41:34.360 82 years old.

00:41:36.600 Actually, I didn't realize she was that young,

00:41:38.520 but still

00:41:40.120 she's passed on. That was certainly

00:41:41.600 a well-established

00:41:44.200 celebrity and person who

00:41:45.300 was easy on the eyes for a lot of people for

00:41:47.960 a long, long time. She has just passed

00:41:50.080 away. So for fans

00:41:52.240 of Ms. Welch,

00:41:54.880 send your

00:41:55.520 condolences and may she rest in peace

00:41:58.140 I guess. So yeah

00:42:00.120 we break things as they come out even if

00:42:01.720 some celebrity stuff. Rock Girl

00:42:04.140 pointed out Christine Anderson arrives this week

00:42:05.980 show her some love Canada. Yeah I looked at that

00:42:08.120 people have been sending me some stuff on that

00:42:10.200 and she's going to be speaking

00:42:12.140 in Calgary. I believe that event is sold

00:42:14.160 out but there's VIP tickets

00:42:15.400 available and she's going to be doing another event at the

00:42:17.980 Petroleum Club. She is if you 0.90

00:42:19.980 don't know is a

00:42:22.040 a member

00:42:24.340 of parliament for the european union and she was a very outspoken one who really really ripped into

00:42:29.220 trudeau when he brought the emergencies act up in canada like she just and it showed how we were

00:42:33.860 getting embarrassed uh overseas and pretty much around the world from the activities of our prime

00:42:37.880 minister so she's doing a tour across canada uh if you're interested in that sort of thing search

00:42:42.700 it out christine anderson and calgary and things like that i'm sure you'll find the website and be

00:42:47.360 able to attend one of those it'd be interesting to see you know you get an international perspective

00:42:50.780 on some of our things out here.

00:42:53.120 Here's an interesting one.

00:42:54.320 It gets back to Arthur Green.

00:42:55.560 And of course, he's always pushing

00:42:57.020 and writing on those things.

00:42:58.600 And Edmonton and Calgary,

00:43:01.160 you know, with the ongoing disorder,

00:43:03.740 social disorder, you know,

00:43:04.980 I use the term now and then in columns.

00:43:07.100 I think I should stop using their language. 1.00

00:43:08.940 It's crime.

00:43:10.300 It's crime.

00:43:11.320 It's criminals.

00:43:12.120 It's assaults.

00:43:12.940 It's open drug use.

00:43:14.100 It's public defecation.

00:43:15.760 It's intimidation of the public.

00:43:18.440 That's what it is.

00:43:19.260 It's not social disorder. 0.99

00:43:20.780 let's not sugarcoat that crap. It's crime. And people are afraid of it. And they're sick of it. 0.99

00:43:26.160 And they're tired of it. And this is how ridiculous it was getting. This is something 0.94

00:43:30.520 making news that the city of Edmonton said, Okay, well, we're not going to hand out clean needles

00:43:35.700 and crack pipes at transit facilities anymore. What the hell were they handing them out there

00:43:40.520 for in the first place? These aren't safe consumption sites. You know, no wonder they

00:43:46.440 were flooding the drains and bus stations to do all that crap. I mean, I know they're going to do 0.90

00:43:50.580 it somewhere and I'm not wholly against giving out clean syringes for example because HIV does go

00:43:55.240 around we can limit the transmission fine but it does piss me off I've got a son with type 1

00:44:00.260 diabetes he has to pay for his syringes but you know as a guy who works for a living he's got to

00:44:05.400 deal with that but if you're a junkie hey hey have a syringe and they were putting it I mean when

00:44:10.120 you're handing it out at a transit station what you are saying is do your drugs here they're saying 0.98

00:44:16.380 you're welcome to consume your drugs here don't smoke a cigarette we'll slap you in irons and 0.89

00:44:20.400 have you publicly whipped but oh yeah you want to shoot up some heroin or smoke some meth on the 0.99

00:44:24.840 bus and share your secondhand meth smoke with people go to town and then likewise crack pipes

00:44:32.180 oh wait a minute why the hell are we giving them crack pipes anyways there's no transmission of 0.99

00:44:37.580 HIV and things from crack pipes make your own damn crack pipe come on I mean drug users are 0.98

00:44:43.420 always creative think of all the potheads and you know stuff they would come up with I mean you could 0.99

00:44:47.600 make a pipe for your hash out of a toilet paper roll and some aluminum foil and a few holes in

00:44:56.100 it and some tobacco and you're off to the races I heard you know everything you said back in the

00:44:59.760 80s but here we are supplying saying here have your drug using paraphernalia and here it is

00:45:07.240 we're handing it out at the transit station and then suddenly we're so why is there so much drug

00:45:11.020 use on the train I mean it's not as bad as BC where they're going to actually give them the

00:45:15.120 drugs now, too. But we've got to get real, guys. And I understand criminalizing, chasing, going

00:45:21.940 after these guys doesn't work. It won't stop them. No, but you can at least get them out of some of

00:45:26.960 the areas where they don't belong. And public transit is one of the areas where they don't

00:45:31.620 belong. I mean, let's just face that reality. It's not being cruel or unusual. It's just facing

00:45:40.460 the realities of what's going on on there. I mean, we can only facilitate so much for these things,

00:45:46.840 but this is where we're at. And so this has been the big news too, was yes, there's more sheriffs

00:45:54.460 being deployed in Calgary now too. And let's not pretend on this one. You know, Premier Smith

00:45:59.940 is announcing she's going to have sheriffs coming to Calgary and Edmonton. And it's funny,

00:46:05.440 is people have pointed out the uh test project the timeline is these police officers who are

00:46:10.800 going to add to downtown to make people feel safer it runs out right at the end of the provincial

00:46:15.320 election uh you want to keep people happy of course you want them feeling safe and if they

00:46:18.900 can see visible improvements in their downtowns because calgary and edmonton and it's happening

00:46:22.760 everywhere lethbridge red deer grand prairie if they see improvements they're going to feel in a

00:46:27.880 better mood there's a better chance they're going to put the ucp back in so let's not pretend that's

00:46:31.360 not part of what it's about. But it's also a good idea. It's telling those progressive civil

00:46:37.980 governments, fine, you can defund your police, you can prioritize them to be trying to pretend

00:46:44.040 to be social workers and get on to other things such as that. But we are going to step in and

00:46:49.440 make sure the citizens are safe. And we'll put because that's what citizens want is a full out

00:46:53.820 police officer on that train platform. So they can feel safe. And if things go bad, I have a

00:46:59.240 trained person to keep me safe and intervene. That visible presence. And I know you see security

00:47:04.520 workers and guards on public transit all the time. I see that. Hey, they're doing what they can,

00:47:08.960 but they're limited and they're only paid so much. I don't blame them for not laying hands on a

00:47:13.200 strung out math head who's losing his crap on a, on an LRT or in a bus stop. That's where you need 0.98

00:47:19.800 trained law enforcement officers. It's not criminalizing drug users. It's keeping other

00:47:24.360 people safe. We've got to quit, you know, speaking of the cherry picking BS language out there,

00:47:29.240 It used to be vulnerable people.

00:47:30.980 It's vulnerable people.

00:47:32.080 Now it's unhoused.

00:47:33.860 Guys, they're junkies. 0.99

00:47:35.240 They're addicts. 0.86

00:47:36.220 They're out of control and they can be dangerous.

00:47:38.960 I understand that they are victims. 0.99

00:47:41.320 I understand that they are sick.

00:47:42.740 I understand that they need treatment.

00:47:44.380 But none of that takes away from the fact that they can be dangerous.

00:47:47.940 And you have to be treating them as such.

00:47:50.360 Look for the rights of the actual other people on there.

00:47:53.280 We got to look at them too.

00:47:54.600 They pay the bills.

00:47:55.680 They're going to work or they're trying to.

00:47:57.460 I saw somebody relating that on social media the other day saying they were on a train and all of the commuters, the workers, the taxpayers were all huddled on one end together for like safety in numbers.

00:48:08.640 Whereas on the other end, of course, were all the reprobates and rough sorts were all on the other side, you know, bashing around, making a racket, being aggressive and doing what they do.

00:48:19.360 You need law enforcement in there.

00:48:20.760 We've got to set some boundaries, guys.

00:48:23.140 You know, enablement doesn't work.

00:48:25.100 It doesn't work.

00:48:25.880 there we go, Carolyn Oldford saying

00:48:28.280 I work in the addictions field, what the government's doing is so wrong

00:48:30.280 enabling them to be addicts and not helping

00:48:32.260 that's right, and we're

00:48:34.220 seeing the numbers, I said it before

00:48:36.060 I've had that on here

00:48:36.720 Premier Kenny, credit where it's due, we were

00:48:40.060 really hard on him around here, and no

00:48:42.040 he got pushed out of the leadership of the UCP, but one thing

00:48:44.040 he did right was really focused on treatment

00:48:45.960 and we're seeing that overdoses

00:48:48.140 in Alberta drop by 47%

00:48:50.120 BC, they're going up, and you know what

00:48:51.980 they're going to go up a hell of a lot more, because they've decriminalized

00:48:54.200 the drugs and they're just going to be handing it out

00:48:55.880 You know, you don't even have to.

00:48:57.220 Now, I guess I imagine because it should be all the way down the Rhine, right?

00:48:59.680 That you won't charge or even take away the drugs from somebody if you find them.

00:49:03.260 So if some guy's got a couple of grams of Coke and he's going up partying, hey, you

00:49:07.340 don't even have to hide it anymore.

00:49:08.560 Do your rails out in the open.

00:49:10.260 Don't have to go and do it on the toilet tank in the back room in the bar or something

00:49:13.000 anymore.

00:49:13.780 Yeah, that's going to make things better, guys.

00:49:15.140 It's definitely going to make it better.

00:49:17.540 And yeah, paradox is saying in the crowd, I'm the vulnerable one.

00:49:21.260 Yeah, our people are vulnerable.

00:49:22.540 The taxpayers are the ones who are vulnerable.

00:49:23.860 and uh it's funny how the cities go out of their way to to deny and hide from the crime that these

00:49:31.260 vulnerable people do if you remember and it's been sitting there since uh the uh gpr anomalies

00:49:39.740 were discovered in kamloops i'm bouncing a little here but you know we remember in kamloops by the

00:49:43.640 site of an old residential school there's a bunch of gpr anomalies they still haven't actually found

00:49:46.820 a body yet not one they haven't tried either so uh whether there's bodies there or not who knows

00:49:52.420 but it set, of course, the world on fire. Things went crazy. Well, they set up a big,

00:49:57.240 I don't know what you call it, memorial on the steps of City Hall in Calgary. And people threw

00:50:01.540 hundreds and hundreds of teddy bears there and shoes and all sorts of stuff. And then

00:50:05.980 it looks like crap now. It's all going moldy and mildewy and everything. And it's just turning 0.87

00:50:11.040 into, you know, weather's taking over, but the city's got it fenced in because nobody has the

00:50:14.420 courage to take it away and say, maybe now we can have our steps back. And somebody went and lit it

00:50:20.340 on fire. Yeah, they went and lit the teddy bears on fire. And everybody went nuts. This is white 1.00

00:50:24.340 supremacists. This is, oh, this is a sign of those evil Albertans, those Calgarians. And they're 1.00

00:50:29.160 trying to kill a memorial for kids. And the second time it was lit on fire. And then they said,

00:50:33.220 oh, it was a vulnerable person. In fact, it turned out it was probably a First Nations person. 0.62

00:50:37.360 Then we never heard about it again. Likewise, somebody went into City Hall, lit a bunch of

00:50:42.120 fires, caused millions in damage, set off the sprinklers, alarms, and everything.

00:50:45.540 vulnerable person. Yes, it turned out it was a vulnerable person. Somebody went to the peace

00:50:51.120 bridge and smashed a bunch of the windows out on it, causing again, hundreds and hundreds of

00:50:55.100 thousands of dollars of damage. Right now it's just got chain link on it. This bridge that cost

00:50:58.960 us $25 million. Vulnerable person. Well, for a vulnerable person, they're pretty damaging guys.

00:51:07.340 Maybe a little reality there should be popping in. Speaking of reality, if you want the crazy

00:51:13.000 side of politics? Or is it that crazy? Is it unusual? John Tory, you know, he couldn't keep

00:51:18.140 his pecker in his pants, I guess, and decided to have his way with one of the staffers. I don't 0.88

00:51:24.660 know some of the details. It's like they came out and admitted to it and he implied he was going to

00:51:28.280 resign. So I guess he was expecting more information or something. And then now they're

00:51:32.500 kind of packing off and people are trying to encourage him to stay on as mayor. I don't know.

00:51:37.440 that's what a mess. What a mess. First rule is just don't screw your staff. You know, this

00:51:44.320 shouldn't be that complicated. I mean, the other part is you're married. You shouldn't be screwing

00:51:49.080 anybody other than your wife. But I mean, just levels and levels of wrong going on here. I mean, 0.99

00:51:55.740 I guess it makes me feel better when we've had our mayors like Gondek and Nenshi, whereas Toronto

00:52:00.680 has had, you know, a crackhead and a cocksmith. I can't wait to see what they come up next. But 1.00

00:52:06.860 But, you know, again, getting back to people, we've got to pay better attention to our municipal politicians.

00:52:13.040 Though, again, John Tory is first, you know, far from the first politician who's gotten himself in trouble with meddling around with staff or just otherwise with his weenie.

00:52:28.160 You know, just, hey, if you're feeling stressed out in office and everything else, don't go into the sex. 0.97

00:52:33.340 Have some coke.

00:52:34.060 It's legal in B.C. now.

00:52:35.240 Let's see, here we go

00:52:37.620 This was a neat one from the CBC

00:52:39.220 I saw in their Twitter account

00:52:40.460 In their big investigative report

00:52:42.280 Toronto police are spending more than $300,000

00:52:45.700 Of taxpayer money on a podcast

00:52:47.820 With a limited audience

00:52:49.300 CBC Toronto was only able to attain the price tag

00:52:52.040 By filing a Freedom of Information request

00:52:54.320 Yes, indignantly

00:52:55.680 CBC was tweeting and reporting

00:52:57.120 Saying we found out the police are spending

00:52:59.100 $300,000 tax dollars on a podcast

00:53:01.920 Talk about

00:53:03.880 not being self-aware, this $1.5 billion dinosaur with news ratings down at the 3.9% range in

00:53:13.760 Canada, pointing at another government level, saying, look at these guys wasting tax dollars

00:53:18.620 on a podcast. In fact, that podcast apparently had an audience of about 94,000 people. I don't

00:53:24.000 know if that's a good investment or not. We spend a hell of a lot less than 300,000 here, and we've

00:53:28.960 reached some thousands here at the standard, but still the hypocrisy, the, the, the tone deafness

00:53:34.940 of the state broadcaster getting upset because the Toronto police had a podcast. And I mean,

00:53:41.780 you know what, maybe they spent too much. Maybe it was a bad investment. That's a lot of money

00:53:45.440 for a podcast. Podcasts can be made pretty cheap. I admit that, but it's just, the CBC should be

00:53:49.860 pointing out. But that gets back to, again, I think the 300,000 that, the attitude against

00:53:58.720 police, of course, that the progressives have. They always want to devalue and degrade and get

00:54:05.380 on the case of the police. That's where the thin blue line debates went and things such as that.

00:54:10.140 This is just another one. The state broadcaster wants to pick at the police. You know, having

00:54:14.080 something where there's a podcast where they can communicate perhaps and have more, you know,

00:54:19.580 interaction with the public on a non-straight basis, explaining themselves, explaining police

00:54:23.560 procedures, I think it's a pretty good initiative. Again, it sounds like maybe they pissed away more

00:54:26.880 money than they should have on it, but again, from the Steve Broadcaster on that, that's just

00:54:35.000 something else. Here's one, yeah, it's Canada. There's a story I saw is prepping to ramp up

00:54:38.900 immigration levels. Yeah, we're looking around. I'm not against that. Immigration, if we do it 1.00

00:54:43.040 right is good for us, but they're saying we're going to need to build 50% more housing than is

00:54:48.000 already planned. This is a big crisis coming down the pipe that not enough people are watching as

00:54:52.960 well. I'm hoping to talk, I'm going to talk to Traceeva and get a Calgary or somebody, a home

00:54:56.360 builder on to talk about some of the things that are holding up our ability to build enough housing

00:55:01.120 because a lot of it comes down to, again, these municipal politicians keeps coming back to them.

00:55:04.960 Sure, federal ones are screwing us, but the municipal ones are hitting us just as hard or

00:55:08.460 more and it's because we're not paying attention. So we need between 2023 and 2024, 100,000 more

00:55:15.020 homes to be constructed, 100,000 homes in a year. That's not going to happen, guys. Not a chance in

00:55:20.300 hell, not a hope. We're too busy putting more green standards on them. We're too busy making

00:55:26.200 developers wait eight years to get an approval on a project and then jump through hoops and rings

00:55:31.460 and stuff all over the place. And you think you're going to make 100,000 more and that's not just,

00:55:35.680 this is above and beyond what's already being built. We can't keep up with it.

00:55:40.520 Yeah, we got problems. You know, maybe, maybe sort out the housing thing before you

00:55:45.780 start pulling in more people, because where the hell are we going to put them? Seriously,

00:55:49.460 we're a winter country. When are we going to get some homeless people going on?

00:55:53.200 And speaking of municipal ding-dongs, yeah, here we go. Nenshi made the news again. You know,

00:55:56.700 I haven't missed that guy. The head Nenshi was talking to a parliamentary committee saying the

00:56:02.360 the radicalization of white people is a big problem going on right now. And he's saying

00:56:08.840 some unnamed politicians are seeing short-term political gain. In other words, he's carrying

00:56:13.280 the liberal water. He's trying to imply that Polyev is playing towards white supremacists.

00:56:23.240 That's what it is. It's talking about, you know, the irony of it, if you go look at it and you

00:56:26.700 Google it, it's actually, I shared it on YouTube and it got thousands of views a couple of elections

00:56:30.760 ago. It was referencing that, which is what got Brett Wilson canceled, actually, from QR 77.

00:56:37.400 But there was an interview Ninchy did, where going into his third or fourth re-election,

00:56:42.440 he was saying that there's a white, basically, supremacist conspiracy to keep him out of office

00:56:47.040 as mayor. Calgarian white people hated Ninchy so much, they kept him in power for 11 years. 0.99

00:56:53.200 But boy, he loves playing that card, doesn't he? And you know, and again, I got to make the usual

00:56:57.400 little caveat. Yes, there are lunatic white supremacists out there. Yes, there's some 1.00

00:57:03.160 racists out there. But guys, they are nearly as prevalent or widespread as some of these

00:57:08.940 political opportunists would like to make it sound like. But Ninchy, well, I guess he needed

00:57:13.060 something to do. So he's out trying to stir those pots going on up there. Oh, the RCMP,

00:57:19.220 you know, speaking of police, speaking of why we should have a provincial force, that was another

00:57:21.920 thing I wanted to get to. And we're talking about sheriffs getting to the stations. It could be the

00:57:26.100 start of a provincial police force moving along. You know, this is a test of it. I like it. I like

00:57:29.540 it. They'll answer to our provincial politicians, not federal priorities or municipal ones where we

00:57:33.840 get a lot of the crackpots. So we get crackpots provincially too. But so, I mean, the alleged

00:57:39.440 Chinese interference into 11 ridings during the 2019 federal election. That should be criminal.

00:57:46.160 Shouldn't we check into it? Well, it turns out the RCMP didn't even investigate it.

00:57:50.780 Really? Foreign interference in our democratic system and the RCMP didn't investigate?

00:57:56.100 Who tells the RCMP what to do?

00:57:57.720 Oh, yeah, Trudeau's little pet commissioner does.

00:58:01.240 Lucky.

00:58:02.120 So, of course not, they won't investigate it 0.95

00:58:03.580 because they're all bloody liberal candidates,

00:58:05.340 probably, that the Chinese operatives were funding. 0.88

00:58:08.280 Of course, they don't want an investigation.

00:58:09.520 We need more independent police, guys.

00:58:11.940 So, yeah, no, nobody's ever going to find anything there.

00:58:16.080 Well, I think that's pretty much covered it for today.

00:58:18.860 It looks like the farm report's going to have to wait

00:58:20.420 until next week, and that's too bad.

00:58:21.680 I wanted to talk to him about Clarkson's farm.

00:58:23.560 I've been learning a lot about the agricultural stuff

00:58:25.400 through that.

00:58:26.100 Great show, guys. Check it out on streaming if you watch that sort of thing.

00:58:30.780 And just that reminder again, yeah, we got that new columnist, Rahim Mohamed.

00:58:34.120 He's really been ripping it up great so far on the NDP and really laying out what the future is going to look like with more NDP members going into cabinet and perhaps being, you know, if they get into power again in this province, boy, we are in a lot of trouble.

00:58:50.220 So check out those columns.

00:58:51.760 Jonathan Bradley was out at the press conference at Polyav today.

00:58:54.500 uh arthur's hard at work matthew is a we've just got so many people i can barely list them on the

00:58:59.560 shows anymore check it all out guys go to the western standard dot news see it all and next

00:59:04.880 week i've got professor tom flanagan coming on we are going to talk more about uh yes some

00:59:09.860 residential schools and potential grave sites if indeed they are there and some of the repercussions

00:59:15.240 and political play going on so thanks for tuning in today guys i appreciate it as always and we'll

00:59:21.420 see you all again next week at this time

00:59:24.500 Thank you.

Western Standard - February 16, 2023

CMS： The war on personal autos is a war on freedom

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