Western Standard - CMS： Theft and subsidies won’t save legacy media

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.860 Good day. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. Hey, we're getting into July now. It's my

00:00:36.300 favorite month of the year. We're not crawling out of winter through spring and the leaves

00:00:42.000 aren't quite turning yellow yet to warn us we're going into winter. Never learned to

00:00:45.720 like winter. I just can't do it. Good on those who do. Lots to cover today. The politics

00:00:51.380 aren't ending even though the legislatures and the parliament are all off for their summer

00:00:55.920 holidays to go around shaking hands kissing babies attending barbecues cutting ribbons and doing all

00:01:00.400 that important stuff they do when when we don't lock them in the parliament too or at least on

00:01:05.360 zoom meetings now to try and tell us how to live our lives they're still managing to do it they're

00:01:09.600 still managing to make a mess and they're still managing to be a pain so of course i will call

00:01:14.940 them out on it and complain about it today be sure to use that comment scroll over there guys that's

00:01:20.980 what i like about being live you know i can see some of that stuff couldn't see jake and paradoxy

00:01:25.120 checking in there. If you're watching a recorded version, of course, I just don't pay any mind to

00:01:30.920 my references to the comments. And, you know, disgusting. Send questions my way. Send them

00:01:36.420 towards the guests. I have Chris Sims coming on from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in a little

00:01:41.640 while. It's going to be a good conversation about our second carbon tax and how Quebec, of course,

00:01:47.240 as usual, somehow has managed to get a better deal on it than the rest of the country. As well,

00:01:53.980 be checking in with Dave in a little bit and doing some other good stuff. Just keep the

00:01:58.500 comments. Civil with each other, and we can all get along. So good to see you checking

00:02:02.220 in, sharing, saying hello there, and Kevin out in like, hello, Jay, Saskatchewan. I love

00:02:08.460 messing up French names. So one of the things on the news, when I came into the newsroom

00:02:11.440 today, I saw a conference with our heritage minister, Rodriguez, indignantly going on.

00:02:17.640 He's going to make Facebook and Google pay their fair share for doing a service somehow.

00:02:22.920 Yeah, and now they're going to pull the advertising, the government advertising, away from Facebook.

00:02:29.160 That's how they're going to bring Facebook to their knees.

00:02:31.500 The government will not spend advertising dollars on Facebook telling us how good they are

00:02:36.260 and what a fantastic job they're doing for us.

00:02:38.900 So I want to talk about this, though, this problem.

00:02:42.560 I mean, most of this Bill C-18 is a solution looking for a problem, really, is what it is.

00:02:47.400 I mean, there's an issue, but the government can't legislate it away.

00:02:51.080 And they won't, through theft and subsidies, save legacy media.

00:02:55.520 So I'm going to talk about how that works with the changing world.

00:02:58.100 So I mean, I'll give some history on myself.

00:03:00.120 I love talking about myself.

00:03:01.320 We know that.

00:03:02.240 At the beginning of the 1990s, I landed a job with a survey company,

00:03:05.540 and they specialized in advance work for seismic projects.

00:03:08.820 It involved travel and working in isolated areas.

00:03:11.620 The starting pay was pretty modest back then, but I loved it.

00:03:14.860 Climbing the workplace ladder in the survey industry back then was a slow process.

00:03:18.520 I had to put in a few years as a rodman and a chainer before I was even allowed to touch a survey transit as a junior surveyor.

00:03:26.120 So I had to take my lumps and abuse and learn.

00:03:29.160 I had to learn how to make solar observations to determine an azimuth out in the bush,

00:03:33.440 how to double angles in my head to ensure accurate measurements,

00:03:36.260 and I had to process my raw data and to finish survey at night in the hotel rooms or camps I was staying in.

00:03:41.320 It was a big learning curve.

00:03:42.920 Now, shortly after I became a junior surveyor, everything changed as real-time survey systems,

00:03:49.260 GPS systems, came onto the scene. Suddenly, with only a few hours of training, a person could

00:03:53.900 navigate to a location, record the elevation, just as accurately as I'd had to learn how to

00:03:58.480 do with conventional surveying. Just a few hours of training. Demand for conventional surveyors

00:04:03.020 dropped dramatically as fewer people with less training could cover more ground in staking out

00:04:08.000 exploration programs. It felt unfair, and it was certainly annoying, to say the least, all that time

00:04:13.200 I'd put in to find my job was obsolete. But it left me with two options. I could stubbornly refuse

00:04:19.260 to change how I work and slowly fade into unemployment, or maybe change trades even,

00:04:24.460 or I could adapt with the changing times. Now, many of the older surveyors opted for the first

00:04:29.340 option. I mean, old dogs can learn new tricks, but it is tougher for them as things go along. As for

00:04:34.280 myself, I was young, I adapted. I learned how to create maps using GPS data, took on more

00:04:39.880 supervisory roles in the field. And being flexible, I kept working and spent over 20 lucrative years

00:04:45.420 working in energy exploration. I left the field eventually as I got tired of being out of the

00:04:49.540 country for months at a time and the feast or famine nature of petrochemical exploration started

00:04:53.900 to wear on me. But if I had wanted to, I could have stayed in the field. I would have had to

00:04:58.520 constantly adapt though to the changes in new technology and methods. Let's get back to the

00:05:03.620 media. Changes in the media industry over the last decade have been no less dramatic than

00:05:08.840 they were in the survey world. Readership and viewership for conventional media platforms such

00:05:13.720 as television and newspapers dried up. Radio stations, they're going to be a thing of the

00:05:17.680 past within a generation. Advertising dollars have followed audiences and headed to platforms

00:05:22.880 like YouTube and Facebook. Every major media outlet's been forced to heavily cut back on

00:05:27.700 staff and resources. They're in a dire position. But the Canadian government has responded by

00:05:33.600 directly subsidizing media outlets. And now they're trying to extort funds from social media

00:05:38.880 platforms to try and prop up these legacy media sources. Now, not only will the efforts to bail

00:05:44.100 out obsolete media outlets inevitably fail, but it'll also actually hurt them. I mean, if I back

00:05:50.480 when I was surveying had a subsidy lifeline tossed to me while my trade was evolving, I probably

00:05:55.700 would have desperately grabbed to that at the time, too. It would have been easier than changing how I

00:05:59.660 do things, and I could have stuck to the form of the trade I had trained for. For a while, at least.

00:06:05.080 No amount of bailout dollars could have saved my job in its original form in the long run.

00:06:09.660 I mean, for perspective, the first program I ever worked on in the survey field had a crew of about

00:06:13.320 40 people, and it took us over a month. A job that size today would take eight people about two weeks

00:06:19.400 to do. The old way just wasn't sustainable. If I'd have been protected from change, though, as GPS

00:06:25.440 came along, I would have been employed for perhaps a couple more years, but it would have left me even

00:06:29.420 more vulnerable and unskilled when the dollars dried up. I wouldn't have been inspired to learn

00:06:34.120 modern methods, nor would the companies in the industry have been. We would have been left behind

00:06:38.980 and perhaps would have been replaced by foreign workers who kept up with new technology. Subsidies

00:06:44.280 actually would have stunted the evolution of companies and workers. Now the same thing's

00:06:48.380 happening with legacy media. Instead of griping about new upstart outlets and journalists, the

00:06:53.540 old guard and conventional media should be looking at how to emulate them. I mean, if they hope to

00:06:58.980 remain gainfully employed in the field of journalism, they need to accept change. Newspapers

00:07:03.280 are little more than flyers now, and TV news ratings are never going to recover. And the

00:07:07.900 infrastructure required for those old dinosaurs, those models, is too expensive to maintain.

00:07:12.740 A new company like the Western Standard can build a studio or create an online publication for a

00:07:17.580 tiny fraction of the money it would have required 20 years ago. The government right now is keeping

00:07:22.220 a corpse on life support and is doing a disservice to both journalists and Canadian citizens and

00:07:28.000 consumers. New outlets are being choked off while legacy outlets are creating models market

00:07:33.420 creating products modeled for a market that just doesn't exist anymore. Legacy media dinosaurs are

00:07:39.240 going to go extinct no matter what the government does. When that happens, the information gap will

00:07:44.020 be much harder to fill though, due to the efforts to fight change and innovation. Demand for news

00:07:49.540 and information isn't going away any more than demand for petrochemical products is. But the

00:07:54.760 way we produce and deliver those products has changed. And unless we let companies evolve

00:07:59.180 and stay out of it, we're going to lose our domestic producers to innovative foreign ones or 1.00

00:08:04.960 chat GPT, things such as that are going to actually replace a lot of people in media and

00:08:10.020 artificially trying to hold it together like this, guys, it's only putting off the inevitable

00:08:13.940 and causing more harm all right that's what's got me going today let's see what else is happening

00:08:19.660 out there in the world and uh check in with our news editor dave naylor hey dave how's it going

00:08:24.360 oops guess i should unmute myself that's going well gory uh yeah oh are you all ready for the

00:08:34.700 stampede this friday oh yes i mean next week i get my one day of the year when i can you know

00:08:40.780 wear my jeans and uh you know cosplay a cowboy for the show yeah and the missus is going to be 0.99

00:08:46.200 heavily involved this year too right yes she will yeah she's uh got some stuff on display at the

00:08:52.060 stampede grounds this year yeah well there we go yes the barn quilts and uh yeah that's at the

00:08:58.900 bmo center uh it's a tribute to ian tyson as you can see i you know these quilts her business has

00:09:03.880 really been taken off i'm well on my road to being a kept man and uh yeah you know thousands of

00:09:08.500 People are going to see that one barn quilt that has the four strong winds

00:09:11.460 tribute to Ian Tyson and the cowboy hats around it.

00:09:14.660 She's got quite some talent, and I'm lucky to have, you know,

00:09:17.700 she has bad taste in men. 0.99

00:09:19.440 Yes, very true.

00:09:20.680 Well, yeah, I encourage everybody to go by and take a look at it.

00:09:24.820 She sure does a good job, that's for sure. 1.00

00:09:27.860 I understand you being more cougar problems out at your ranch, Corey.

00:09:33.760 Well, not a problem, yeah.

00:09:35.340 But, yeah, we had one run through the yard there the other day,

00:09:38.080 and in mid daylight and it was really on the move.

00:09:40.760 Yeah, you can see with that video, you know,

00:09:42.160 usually the cougars aren't uncommon,

00:09:44.120 but they only come by at night

00:09:45.400 and they usually come by a little slowly.

00:09:48.000 We haven't seen one in a while

00:09:49.300 and this fella came trotting right through 0.99

00:09:50.840 and brought daylight there.

00:09:52.060 So, well, I might have one less dog

00:09:54.520 if it keeps hanging around.

00:09:55.500 We'll see.

00:09:56.280 Yeah, that's a big boy too.

00:09:57.560 I don't know how you sleep at night, Corey,

00:09:58.920 with all those things in the forest watching you.

00:10:01.560 Bears, cougars.

00:10:04.060 Well, I keep the doors closed.

00:10:05.920 There you go.

00:10:06.600 Well, what's going on in the news quite a bit, Corey, with no summer doldrums yet.

00:10:11.860 Our real estate expert, Mike Thomas, is leading off the website at the moment with a story on the still red-hot Calgary real estate market in June.

00:10:22.200 It's at a second consecutive record, so sales are high and the prices are even higher.

00:10:29.500 Columnist Herb Binder has got a look at the Alberta oil economy and what's going to be happening in the uncertain future.

00:10:40.300 Two Alberta cabinet ministers have written to the feds urging that they recall parliament to end that, I guess it's three or four day long strike now by B.C. port workers.

00:10:54.060 Alberta ships about $12.5 billion a year,

00:10:57.380 or 9% of the provincial economy goes through the B.C. ports.

00:11:03.180 So anything that drags on, Corey, is going to be a bit of a disaster

00:11:06.840 for not only Alberta's economy but across the country.

00:11:12.060 You've mentioned the Liberals out waving their fists at Facebook today.

00:11:17.260 They've cut their $10 million worth of advertising on Facebook.

00:11:23.420 so don't know how we're going to hear about how well they're what kind of job they're doing now

00:11:29.500 and i think you also mentioned uh chris sims from the canadian taxpayers association

00:11:33.900 uh they've put out a release today uh showing them why quebec is uh getting the lowest rate

00:11:40.220 of carbon tax uh in the country uh where it's uh uh they're paying four cents less a leader

00:11:46.780 than anywhere else corey so what quebec has done to deserve that uh you and i can only guess but

00:11:53.420 that lots of other stuff uh our legislature reporter uh arthur green is currently covering a

00:11:59.660 danielle smith press conference at the moment out at the sutina nation and they're talking about

00:12:05.580 building uh drug recovery centers on uh on nation land so that's uh obviously an important

00:12:11.740 issue as we're trying to battle the addiction problem in the province corey yeah well it's

00:12:16.380 good to see that kind of innovation you know they're building that surgical facility up on

00:12:20.140 on the Enoch Reserve and they're putting something in down in the Sutina. Look forward to finding

00:12:24.880 out what the details are on that. Absolutely. And I wish Jane luck for me. I hope she sells

00:12:29.900 lots of quilts. Let's see how it goes. Thanks, Dave. Thank you. All right. So that is our news

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00:13:18.840 membership, take one out. This is this kind of outlet that's going to keep hanging in there

00:13:23.580 while the other ones are falling by the wayside. So yeah, you know, the big issue with this,

00:13:28.800 it kind of ties into what I was ranting about before with times changing. So the longshoremen,

00:13:34.540 the guys who work in the docks and the facilities on the West Coast are on strike. And you know,

00:13:39.780 I looked that up. These guys, they've, they've gone on strike and been legislated back to work,

00:13:45.700 let's see, in 1995, 1994, 1991, 1988, 1986, 1982, 1975, 74, 72. These guys are serial strikers,

00:13:56.900 and they have us over a barrel. And I mean, this is a tough, tough deal. I mean,

00:14:02.980 you know, it's a much larger conversation, I guess, to be had on how you deal with that,

00:14:06.960 because organized labor, it's a right, you know, to be able to do that. But just to bear in mind,

00:14:11.560 these guys are making on average, the median salary is $136,000 a year. I'm sure it's hard

00:14:17.020 work working on those ports, but they're not starving, guys. That's some pretty good coin

00:14:22.080 for a longshoreman. And the union says the key point still right now, their gripe is the devastation

00:14:28.400 of port automation. You see, again, we're getting back to that fighting change. Yes, there's now

00:14:35.200 automated things. They're unloading those C-cans, loading those trucks, dealing with inventory

00:14:40.660 management, things like that. They're getting better and better. But rather than striking and

00:14:45.460 just paying these guys more to do a job that's becoming obsolete, we need to be encouraging them

00:14:50.280 to adapt. And that's not the way we're going. We'll see. And the chances of them being forced

00:14:57.900 back to work are a little tough this time because Jagmeet Singh holds the balance of power. And

00:15:02.260 he's saying, no, we aren't going to do that. We support our union buddies. So I suspect

00:15:06.320 the Liberal government's going to cut these guys a big settlement or encourage one, I guess. It's

00:15:10.640 not a direct government thing. Either way, we're going to see more costs due to it. You know that

00:15:15.320 when you hold up product and delivery, the costs go higher. So let's talk to somebody who specializes

00:15:19.880 and talk about all the other stuff that's nickel and diming us to death. And that's Chris Sims of

00:15:23.720 the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. So we can chat about and celebrate our second carbon tax. Hi,

00:15:29.580 Chris, how you doing? Hi, Corey. Yeah. Happy second carbon tax. Happy Canada Day. Right on

00:15:35.700 July 1st, too. It's brutal. And I mean, you know, you've been warning us about this for quite a

00:15:42.820 long time and people, I think, don't realize it. But I mean, once they start seeing it actually

00:15:46.980 hitting their wallets, maybe they start to realize that, yes, all these initiatives cost us and

00:15:52.060 they're costing a lot. Yeah, it costs us big time. So the first carbon tax is still going to be

00:15:57.700 there and it is still going to triple within the next seven years so as of right now it's 14 cents

00:16:04.020 a liter for gasoline 17 cents a liter for diesel so on average you're paying around 15 16 dollars

00:16:11.140 extra every time you're filling up even a light duty pickup truck that's in the first carbon tax

00:16:16.500 this new carbon tax the second one that's being layered on top it's actually fashioned after

00:16:21.940 British Columbia's second carbon tax. Anybody who's ever driven across the Rockies over to BC

00:16:27.780 and looked up at the gas pump has gone, holy crap, why is that so much more expensive? Well,

00:16:33.460 two reasons. One, they don't get the discount. So Premier Daniel Smith gives us the provincial

00:16:38.120 fuel tax discount here. So we're saving 13 cents right off the hop. Two, they have a second carbon

00:16:44.120 tax over there, and it's a big one. It's like 15, 16 cents per liter extra. So Prime Minister

00:16:50.800 Justin Trudeau, not kidding, took a look at BC and said, huh, that's super awesome. I'm going to do

00:16:56.800 that to the whole country. And so as of July 1st, he's now imposed this government fuel regulation,

00:17:03.540 which penalizes companies for the carbon content of their product. Now, we don't know how much it's

00:17:10.140 going to cost right out of the chute, right? Because it takes a while. So the company gets

00:17:14.300 the cost incurred. They then try to compensate. Some of them might use more ethanol for a little

00:17:19.320 while in their blend, blah, blah, blah. Eventually though, that cost is going to trickle down

00:17:25.160 to you and me at the gas pump, and we're going to pay for it. So within the next seven years,

00:17:30.760 the parliamentary budget officer says the second carbon tax is going to cost around 14 cents extra

00:17:37.020 per liter of gasoline, around 17 cents extra per liter for diesel. Long story short, Albertan

00:17:43.300 families are going to get hit the hardest. Within the next seven years, Corey, we're going to be

00:17:48.380 out around $3,900 per Alberta family. That's with rebates factored in. That's net cost of Trudeau's

00:17:57.340 two carbon taxes. But I mean, they're giving it back to us, right? We get rebates and they just

00:18:01.840 announced, you know, they're going to give us a bunch of breaks on our grocery bills, right? Like

00:18:04.980 it's just cycles through the government and we all win. Yeah, sure. If only it worked like that.

00:18:09.740 So two things. It's almost insulting for the federal government to think that people are

00:18:15.840 silly enough to think that the government is a magical wealth producing machine. It's not. All

00:18:21.960 it does is take your money, run it through a bureaucracy and spit it back at you sometimes.

00:18:27.660 So number one, that cost I just listed was net. That's with the rebates factored in. That's $3,900

00:18:34.560 with that factored in. So you're out that amount as an Alberta family. Two, just don't take the

00:18:41.740 money in the first place, right? If this is all supposed to make you magically more wealthy,

00:18:47.060 then why are they doing this? The fact is, is they're fibbing. They're not telling the truth.

00:18:52.020 They want gasoline and diesel and natural gas and propane to be unaffordable. That's the feature,

00:18:58.500 not the bug. So every time the politician at the federal government level opens their mouths

00:19:02.840 and says, oh, you're going to get more back than you pay in. Number one, that's not true.

00:19:06.300 number two that contradicts their entire purpose of their carbon tax which is meant to punish you

00:19:12.460 for using oil and gas and it's not working that's the other thing i mean bc has been carbon taxing

00:19:18.420 for a long time you were out there until recently and i remember you guys would report on that

00:19:23.160 emissions have been dropped in bc if a candidate if a carbon tax was going to work it would have

00:19:28.560 started working by now 100 so this is where you know as somebody i grew up in the interior mostly

00:19:34.400 but I spent some of my formative years on Vancouver Island. I get it. I've wandered

00:19:38.960 around barefoot on Gulf Islands. I would describe myself as a small e-environmentalist. I pick up

00:19:43.720 litter every time I'm walking near the river. It's not helping the environment. To slow that down,

00:19:51.080 British Columbia has had the two highest carbon taxes in North America for years.

00:19:56.840 their emissions keep on going up anyway. This is the government's own data, okay? Now, apart from

00:20:05.380 when people were locked in their homes and stuff at the beginning of 2020 where you saw a dip,

00:20:09.580 other than those weird moments, it goes up and up and up steadily. Why? Because, like you know and

00:20:16.520 all your viewers know, people need to drive to work, they need to heat their home, and they need

00:20:21.320 eat food. They don't have an affordable alternative dependable energy source to switch to. This isn't

00:20:29.640 like paper bags or plastic bags. There's nothing for them to switch to. They have to drive to work

00:20:35.400 and they usually use natural gas to heat their home and truckers use diesel and farmers use diesel

00:20:41.880 and natural gas and propane to both heat their barns and to dry their grain. So, if you increase

00:20:48.440 the cost of that element of those fuels you increase the cost of everything because people

00:20:53.480 can't opt out right and so this is why this is such a brutal punishment for people and what

00:20:59.560 really gets me going corey is that the parliamentary budget officer themselves an independent government

00:21:05.960 watchdog keeps an eye on the budget says this hurts low-income people like single mothers

00:21:12.760 and fixed income folks the worst. It hurts them the most. Because for folks who don't remember

00:21:20.120 what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck, that literally means your paycheck's out there paying

00:21:26.120 for stuff. Everything. Rent, your car payment, groceries, whatever. You increase the cost of one

00:21:33.320 of those essentials and you're cutting into their food budget. You're making them have to find a

00:21:38.600 a cheaper place to live. Good luck. So that's why it's hurting those folks the most, even with the

00:21:44.320 rebates factored in. And this is where I can't understand why the feds aren't listening.

00:21:49.240 Well, and part of it too, and you sort of touched a bit on that is the indirect costs. I mean,

00:21:53.560 we see it at the pump, we see it on our heating bill, but also the delivery of a lot of products

00:21:58.220 and services to us. So retail brick and mortar places, they're all paying that as well. And of

00:22:04.060 course they have to incorporate that into the prices of the goods and services they provide.

00:22:07.760 So you still end up paying it down the road for the other consumers of it in the business world.

00:22:14.620 100%. And so just imagine you are, you know, a store, you're a big store. You have to keep it

00:22:20.860 cool in the summer and heated in the winter. Most companies would use natural gas to do that.

00:22:26.920 Boom, there's a carbon tax. All those trucks that deliver all the stuff that we eat and use that

00:22:32.340 are backing into their loading base, those are running on diesel. Those get a carbon tax. And a

00:22:38.700 lot of folks forget too, that most of our locomotives in Canada run on diesel. It's around

00:22:44.540 $2,400 extra per fill up of one of those diesel locomotives in the carbon tax alone. That's just

00:22:52.720 the carbon tax. For a big rig truck, like if you've got, you know, a Peterbilt and you got a

00:22:57.300 couple of those diesel cylinders, that's around $160 extra just in the first carbon tax on diesel.

00:23:04.800 So that one's going to triple in the next seven years, plus the second carbon tax is going to

00:23:10.780 add more pain. And so this is where we're, every time a politician opens their mouths about

00:23:15.680 affordability, you should really question them and ask them how seriously they're taking

00:23:20.900 affordability when they're making everything more expensive through the carbon taxes.

00:23:24.940 So something Dave mentioned before, and then what you and your organization just put out in a

00:23:30.300 release though, is this, this carbon tax isn't being applied equally across the country. It

00:23:35.500 appears that we've got a special province that unsurprisingly, to be honest, is getting a break

00:23:41.760 on it. Guess which one? It's, it's the province of Quebec. I know your viewers are shocked. I can

00:23:48.060 tell at the Western standard. So what's interesting here, Corey, is that this is now getting

00:23:53.780 really highlighted because up until July 1st, Atlantic Canada had a cap and trade deal.

00:24:01.800 So they were paying a much lower carbon tax. I think it was around 2 cents per liter of gasoline

00:24:07.860 where the rest of us are paying 14 cents. Why is that? Well, they have a more energy intensive

00:24:14.080 economy for heating, blah, blah, blah. Whatever reason they had, they had a cap and trade deal

00:24:19.840 so that they had a slower roll into the mandatory minimum federal carbon tax.

00:24:25.260 Now, that's gone.

00:24:27.580 Boom.

00:24:28.160 Overnight, their cost of their carbon tax went up 12 cents a liter on gasoline.

00:24:34.280 That's a big number.

00:24:36.020 If you're filling up a minivan, that's 10 bucks.

00:24:39.320 Boom.

00:24:39.840 Added on to your extra cost overnight.

00:24:42.900 And so that got a lot of news out that way in Atlantic Canada.

00:24:46.800 and now it puts into sharp relief the fact that Quebec is the last one standing they're the last

00:24:53.380 ones that have a cap and trade deal now they don't have as good a deal as Atlantic Canada had going

00:24:58.100 for a while I think they're around 10 cents a liter or so but they've still got a deal this is

00:25:02.860 all to say there should be one rate for the carbon tax across Canada and it should be zero

00:25:08.120 well that's it I mean that's the the we could all agree that that would have an equal impact

00:25:14.000 upon every province in the country. But let me play devil's advocate. Let's assume emissions

00:25:20.940 are going to cause the world to continue burning and somehow Canada has to do its part

00:25:26.680 in reducing these emissions. If not carbon taxes, what should they do? I mean, that's a fair question

00:25:34.300 that people ask. If they're concerned about the problem, carbon taxes aren't working, then what

00:25:38.540 should the government do? Hey, totally legit question. And a lot of people care about the

00:25:43.180 environment, myself included. Like I hand sewed my baby's cloth vipers. Okay. I take this stuff

00:25:48.640 real seriously. I buy almost all my stuff used because it reduces the impact on the environment

00:25:54.220 and it doesn't use up resources that don't need to be used. So I get it. Three things. One, the

00:26:00.040 carbon tax isn't working. Straight up. If that's your issue, if you wake up at three in the morning

00:26:05.040 worried, oh my gosh, global emissions, like it's really upsetting me. The Canadian carbon taxes

00:26:11.260 aren't making a dent in that. Who said that? Actually, it was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:26:16.860 said it back in 2018, I believe, in French. He said it on the very popular Quebec talk show,

00:26:24.860 and in translation, he basically said, we could shut down everything tomorrow. And what he meant

00:26:30.940 is trucking, heating, eating, like we'll go die in a cave. We could shut down everything tomorrow,

00:26:37.100 and it wouldn't really make a big difference. Interestingly, the parliamentary budget officer

00:26:42.220 said mostly the same thing, that Canada, I'm paraphrasing, Canada's emissions are not

00:26:47.660 significant enough to make a dent in global emissions. So one, it's not working. Even with

00:26:54.540 the carbon taxes, even though British Columbia is one of the most unaffordable places to live on

00:26:58.540 earth, they're punishing their people. It's still not making a dent and it's not working because

00:27:02.780 because our emissions keep on going up. Two, even if it did, our emissions in Canada don't do enough

00:27:08.960 to really move the needle on global emissions. And three, there are alternatives. So the tax

00:27:15.240 isn't working. What could we possibly do? And so we're not the emissions people. We're the tax

00:27:21.060 people. But it kind of seems a little obvious to look at the big end of the arithmetic problem.

00:27:26.580 So there's about a few hundred million people in India who burn things like wood and animal dung

00:27:34.600 every day. This is according to the Indian government saying this, that this is their

00:27:39.080 fuel source. And they apparently want to switch to cleaner burning sources of energy, like natural

00:27:46.180 gas. We've got a lot of that. So why doesn't the government look at doing that to really tackle

00:27:53.200 the big end of the arithmetic problem when it comes to global emissions and heavy pollutants?

00:27:58.680 Why not ship them cleaner energy instead of punishing people here in Canada for driving

00:28:05.320 their minivans and buying groceries? Oh, yeah. And if we exported some nice clean liquid natural gas

00:28:11.860 and increase that, they could get some tax revenues and they could apply that to say the

00:28:15.940 unclean drinking water on First Nations reserves or planting more trees in areas where the fires

00:28:21.180 did burn things crazy concepts but i mean they still can't seem to get off the idea that taxes

00:28:27.420 can actually fix things then this is the thing number one we knew they wouldn't we were warning

00:28:33.100 them years ago that this wouldn't work we have a perfect lived example in british columbia that

00:28:39.820 this does not work okay even if they try to trot it out and say it'll be revenue neutral governments

00:28:45.580 are going to government and they're going to cook the books which is exactly what they did in british

00:28:49.740 colombia it was only revenue neutral for a few years before they started skimming okay so we

00:28:55.260 know it doesn't work we know it's making people poorer we know it's driving up the cost of living

00:29:00.300 and we know it's not helping the environment so folks we need to rework this we need a different

00:29:07.180 approach and taxes are not it well i knew you guys wouldn't support taxes as an approach any razor

00:29:13.260 is pretty unlikely but all all the same i do appreciate the the work you guys do and bringing

00:29:18.700 that to like, because Canadians don't necessarily see how they're getting it. I noticed actually a

00:29:22.920 side note. I threw that out on Twitter. I see a, uh, another outlet in Canada labeled you guys as

00:29:29.020 an anti-tax organization. So you're anti-taxers and boy, the, the games they play with the

00:29:34.160 terminology. I'll put that on a t-shirt, man. Anti-taxer. We should put that in, in our swag

00:29:40.760 shop. Um, but you know, it's one of those things. And I think, um, I can't remember if it was

00:29:45.520 because of the carbon tax or because of the so-called media bailout and the government

00:29:49.280 funding the media, that we got that label on Twitter from that. But either way, taxes,

00:29:56.200 either if it's either the media bailout that they're trying to do and they keep fumbling

00:29:59.620 really badly, like today, or doubling up on our carbon taxes, none of it works.

00:30:07.300 No, no, it doesn't. Well, where can we continue to follow you guys and, you know, keep up with

00:30:13.500 what you guys are putting out there and how to support you.

00:30:16.120 Did you want to chat about Rodriguez or not? Do you want to get into the government? Why

00:30:19.600 it shouldn't fund journalists or we can save that for a rainy day? What would you like?

00:30:23.520 Hmm. Yeah, let's do it. Okay. We'll go into all of our time.

00:30:28.560 Look at me wedging in on somebody else's time. I don't know who's up after me. I'll be really quick.

00:30:33.660 No, but all right. And it's well worth going into because that's just a whole new absurdity

00:30:38.440 the whole C-18 and the way they're trying to put the screws to social media platforms.

00:30:44.860 For sure. So speaking, you know, not working, like we pointed out, the carbon tax isn't

00:30:48.980 working as they're trying to say it's supposed to. And the whole media bailout thing isn't

00:30:54.800 working either. Black Locks reporter, great folks over there, they pointed out that the rate of

00:31:01.460 attrition and newsroom shutdowns didn't abate. It didn't stop with the so-called media bailout.

00:31:07.240 That's the one where it's around half a billion dollars and it was supposed to be a cluster

00:31:11.960 of subsidies and tax credits, blah, blah, that was going to other media outlets outside

00:31:17.360 of the CBC.

00:31:18.360 Well, apparently it didn't work as intended, number one.

00:31:22.120 Number two, that's a waste of taxpayers' money.

00:31:24.780 You shouldn't be spending taxpayers' money on news media, period.

00:31:28.680 And number three, this is a huge conflict of interest.

00:31:32.800 You cannot hold government to account if you're counting on the government for your

00:31:36.680 paycheck. It's not going to work. So if you say are a reporter and $13,000 of your paycheck,

00:31:45.000 your salary is coming from the government, from Justin Trudeau's government. Now imagine yourself

00:31:50.840 on Parliament Hill. You're part of the parliamentary press gallery. One guy gives you

00:31:56.360 13 grand towards your salary. It might be the deciding factor whether or not you got that job,

00:32:01.720 if it exists. The other guys in opposition want to scrap that program. How on earth are you

00:32:08.760 supposed to call that game straight? You're not. Even if you tried. Even if you did yeoman's work

00:32:16.120 to try. You're a human being. And the perception of bias is going to tarnish it. And this is the

00:32:24.200 problem. Not all media outlets took government money. But most of them get accused of doing so.

00:32:29.560 and this as a longtime journalist is what upsets me personally is that now there's a major survey

00:32:37.220 that goes out every year on trust cory did you see those numbers oh they're in the toilet and

00:32:42.500 oh okay so a couple years ago i was shocked to see it was over 40 percent of canadians think

00:32:49.060 that journalists are actively trying to mislead them not a typo not a flub or a mispronunciation

00:32:55.640 not innocent mistakes actively trying to mislead them cory i checked the most recent one it's over

00:33:02.200 60 percent of canadians now think journalists are trying to actively mislead them with statements

00:33:09.420 they know to be untrue no that's that's brutal and i mean that that contributes more it's just

00:33:15.820 such a snowball effect because then people stop tuning in they stop watching the advertising

00:33:19.920 revenues drop, and on and on we go. And what's insidious about this social media shakedown

00:33:26.800 they're trying, this is just their way of not reaching into the government coffers to try and

00:33:31.560 bail these guys out. They want to reach into private industries coffers to do it. But it'll

00:33:37.480 add to this. The government, of course, are the ones who will say whether or not you qualify for

00:33:41.860 those dollars that they're going to steal from Facebook and Google on your behalf. So again,

00:33:45.920 you end up, even if unconsciously, you're going to be leaning away from holding the government

00:33:50.820 to account because you don't want to lose those dollars. It is a terrible, terrible mess we're

00:33:55.540 getting into. It is. It's a deep and obvious conflict of interest. I'm surprised that more

00:34:02.160 journalists aren't just saying so. I understand that they're scared. I've been in that position

00:34:08.300 before. It's awful to have something shut down around you like a media company, but it's not

00:34:14.340 working it's actually having you know a tightening effect because like we just said look at that

00:34:19.780 increase in lack of trust like if the audience doesn't trust you even on basic w5s who what

00:34:27.140 where when why when what are you doing what are you doing anymore and so they're going to have

00:34:32.420 to figure out something else like you explained they're going to have to do their own models

00:34:35.860 they're going to have to do their own subscriptions they're going to have to take donations something

00:34:39.620 like that they're going to have to shift their model of how they interact with their audience

00:34:43.540 and how they generate revenue, but they can't take it from the government. They can't take it

00:34:48.320 from taxpayers because then they're going to have the perception of bias and they're wasting

00:34:53.700 taxpayers' money. It's a major lose-lose situation and we're imploring the government

00:34:58.980 and mainstream media to rethink this. Yeah, well, they seem to just keep doubling down.

00:35:05.900 It's almost bizarre watching Rodriguez kind of fumbling around, throwing out threats and trying

00:35:11.480 different things i mean this this bill is failing but the government will not quit and that's where

00:35:16.680 we're wincing embracing ourselves because the google facebook thing that doesn't directly affect

00:35:21.160 taxpayers so we're just keeping an eye on it but the band-aid solution if it fails from what he

00:35:26.520 said last week was really concerning he said something to the effect of we need to make sure

00:35:31.800 these newsrooms stay open i'm sorry who's we the federal government needs to make sure a newsroom

00:35:37.400 no, you don't. Two, and basically said, we will make sure they have the resources they need.

00:35:44.240 Resources, and government speak, usually means taxpayers' money, which is worth saying no,

00:35:48.560 no. So defund the media and defund the CBC. Like, not one nickel needs to go to the media.

00:35:55.940 Well, you won't hear any disagreement from me.

00:35:58.420 No.

00:35:58.720 Well, either way, we'll see what's happening as this unfolds over the course of the summer. It

00:36:04.300 gives us something to watch while Parliament's out of session, even if it's the darkest of comedy.

00:36:09.000 So I guess one more time before I let you go, where can people find out about what you guys do

00:36:13.700 and how they can support you? Oh, we would love that. Head on over to our website,

00:36:18.380 taxpayer.com. The best way is to actually go through our petitions list. There's something

00:36:23.640 there for everybody. If you want to defund the media, like we were just saying, if you want to

00:36:27.600 scrap the carbon taxes, if you want to scrap the gun grab, there's all sorts of stuff on there.

00:36:33.320 sign those specific petitions. And that way, you're now part of our taxpayer standing army.

00:36:39.040 And the next time there's a big bill or a piece of legislation or something to do,

00:36:43.020 we will send out a major email blast to you and let you know what we can all do.

00:36:47.280 And by all teaming up and speaking up at the same time and pushing back,

00:36:51.020 we have a much better chance of making the changes that we want to see in the government.

00:36:55.300 It's participatory.

00:36:57.320 Excellent. Thanks, Chris. Well, appreciate you joining us today. I'm sure we'll be talking

00:37:01.240 again soon. Thanks so much, Corey. Great. Thanks. Well, as Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers

00:37:05.720 Federation, it's true. It was worth going a little longer because there's just so many things to

00:37:09.420 cover. Boy, they're hitting us on all fronts. It's just a never ending battle. This government

00:37:16.040 has no interest in trying to do better. It's not interested in trying to come up with nuanced

00:37:21.140 policies or actually solve problems. They just want to control and tax and then tax is the hammer

00:37:27.620 they love to use to achieve the first thing. But of course, it irreparably, I should say

00:37:32.800 irreparably things recover, but it damages the economy, it damages people. And then with this

00:37:37.100 media mess, yes, it's damaging trust. If nobody trusts what the media puts out there, they won't

00:37:42.280 tune in. I mean, we're accountable to you. If we if I kept feeding you a bunch of BS on this show

00:37:48.640 and kept lying to you, or just putting out, you know, shaky things, or if Dave was doing so with

00:37:55.100 the news copy, things like that. Our subscribers are going to say, I'm not tuning, I'm not paying

00:37:59.040 to get this garbage fed to me. They will leave. We're accountable to them that way. And that's 0.98

00:38:05.120 the only way you can do it. But when you force everybody, you force the whole country to

00:38:10.960 contribute and put money in, then there's no accountability whatsoever. So they can feed you

00:38:15.860 whatever they please. And I mean, as we said, some of them might be very honest goods, journalists

00:38:20.400 and stories but once the trusts lost they all get labeled as the the parasites taking subsidies and

00:38:25.680 things such as that so everybody's losing here everybody's losing and that's the the final part

00:38:31.440 of every story we keep talking about with these things whether it's the carbon tax whether it's

00:38:34.320 these media ballots they aren't working they're doing what they told us they were going to do in

00:38:38.640 the first place so why do we keep doing it all right let's see here where else we can go uh

00:38:45.520 yes, some other folks talking about a number of things. Somebody mentioned UBI and was asking

00:38:52.220 about it. That's a whole separate show. I guess I've written columns on it. That's

00:38:55.320 universal basic income ideas. And these are scary. That's to the point, it's basically a

00:39:00.020 backdoor to communism. It's saying we're going to set a bar and everybody will make this much

00:39:04.620 and anything, you know, the government will fund you at a base level and anything you want to make

00:39:09.620 above and beyond that is, it's a pie in the sky dream. Other countries have tried experiments

00:39:14.140 with it, it always fails. But if they tax us deeply enough, you can get into that situation.

00:39:19.580 So let's talk about a few other news stories here while we're going into things. Here's something,

00:39:24.080 because we're talking about the cost of living, cost of rent. Of course, we get the people coming

00:39:27.480 out of the woodworks, again, screaming for rent control, another proven failure of a policy. It

00:39:31.720 never works. It never helps. Getting back to results-based policy. But some of the other areas

00:39:37.260 for landlords, people wondering why there isn't enough rental property out there, because that's

00:39:42.020 the problem. There's not enough supply. It's as simple as that. If there's not enough places,

00:39:46.040 the rents are going to go up. It's just the way it works. And if you control the rents,

00:39:51.780 you put a cap on it, you do things like that. Well, then people don't get into the rental

00:39:57.140 market. They don't put their houses or apartment buildings out for rent and you reduce supply

00:40:02.920 and everybody gets screwed. But the other part is our lack of property rights. So if you're the

00:40:07.740 owner. You're the landlord. And you know, landlords have been demonized for a long, long time. I mean,

00:40:12.320 the old silent movies with the mustache tweaking guy, throwing the little old lady out in the 0.67

00:40:15.940 street and things like that. But somebody has to own the house. Somebody has to maintain the house.

00:40:19.740 Somebody has to pay the taxes on it. Somebody has to find the renters, manage all that. It costs,

00:40:24.080 guys. So when you don't have property rights, though, then you start seeing why you don't want

00:40:28.920 to do something. So we got a story in Calgary, a Calgary landlord. This is a fella up in the

00:40:33.520 Northeast. He figures it's about $100,000 in property damage got done by a group of squatters

00:40:40.780 who moved in. There are nine people, it turned out, were stuffed into that house up in Temple,

00:40:46.420 and they just trashed the house. They paid the deposit to get in, but then they never paid rent

00:40:50.760 ever again after that. So he had to go in himself and evict them, kick them out after months. They

00:40:56.060 never even paid the first month's rent. But now, now they're all camped on his front yard. I've

00:41:02.240 seen pictures of the reports of this. There's mattresses and furniture and appliances. And

00:41:07.380 there's nine of them squatting in the yard of this house. And neighbors have been reporting

00:41:12.540 they're a bunch of addicts. They're just a mess. And he can't get rid of them. He's had the 0.80

00:41:17.780 sheriffs come. He's had, you know, he's gone through the system. He's gone through the courts.

00:41:23.060 And there doesn't appear to be anybody willing. I mean, they can keep giving him notice and keep

00:41:27.900 handing him pieces of paper and threatening with the fines. They don't care. So this guy's home

00:41:32.140 is getting completely destroyed and he can't throw them off of there. Angry Canadians say my 0.97

00:41:38.940 grandfather would walk in with his buddies and physically chuck them. Yeah. And that's the way

00:41:42.120 it used to be. But now with these controls and everything, it's almost impossible for landlords

00:41:47.400 to get rid of these guys when they do something like this, which again, compounds the problem

00:41:52.820 when other people considering getting into the rental market, like, you know, providing rental

00:41:57.280 properties see stories like this. They say, you know what? I'm going to put my money into

00:42:02.920 something else. I'm going to invest into something different. And meanwhile, our supply continues to

00:42:07.200 crater. Angry Canadians didn't drag them out. The problem is, you know what'll happen. You know 0.98

00:42:12.480 what'll happen. The property owner will be charged. The property owner will be the one who gets the

00:42:17.460 crap for grabbing these bums and throwing them off his property. And let's go all the way farther 1.00

00:42:23.320 back to pierre elliott trudeau yes that massive nasty nasty man whose second biggest crime after

00:42:29.640 the national energy program was spawning justin trudeau or some people think it might be somebody

00:42:33.560 else who knows but one of the things he also pointedly did with the charter was make sure

00:42:38.200 we don't have property rights because this man who's having his home his property his investment

00:42:43.320 his life savings trashed by these bums these addicts he would have some recourse he would have 0.99

00:42:52.040 much more strength going to the course he wouldn't have to in the first place because this is my

00:42:56.920 property i have the right to kick these people off it but he's having to run the gauntlet he's going

00:43:03.800 desperately to the media the media have talked to the neighbors they said the media camped out

00:43:08.680 and watched this place and they watched the addicts coming and going into this it's just

00:43:13.240 a crack house on the front yard and he can't get rid of it so who who's gonna get into the rental

00:43:20.040 business. Why would you do that? Why would you roll those dice? I mean, I know the vast majority

00:43:24.540 of renters aren't like these people. Uh, you know, most of them are going to come in and they'll pay

00:43:28.260 their rent. They'll keep the place going, but everybody hears the horror stories and things

00:43:31.740 like that. This is, you know, I don't know what sort of financial position this man's in, but I

00:43:37.600 mean, that's a big chunk of money for anybody. It's a house. It's a, again, something he was

00:43:42.360 hoping to invest in. What's it going to be worth by the time he finally gets those bums out of 1.00

00:43:45.620 there. And then you say we wind, don't go for rent control, guys, make providing rental units

00:43:52.480 more desirable. There's people who do want to invest, there's people who do want to have

00:43:57.500 that sort of monthly income going on. But they need to know that their investment can be protected.

00:44:04.940 They need to know they have some rights as a landlord, we always talk about tenant, right,

00:44:08.720 tenant, right, tenant, right. Well, these are just a bunch of bums, they shouldn't have any 1.00

00:44:11.700 bloody rights to this man's property, but welcome to the backward world of Canada, right? We blame 1.00

00:44:18.100 the provider. This is similar to how we blaming Facebook and Google, calling them bad, calling

00:44:23.700 them nasty. Why? Well, because they were providing a service to the media. What? Yes. They want to

00:44:28.500 steal money from social media providers because they were providing links to media. This is

00:44:34.080 bizarro, but this is the point too. This guy was a guy who invested his life savings, probably

00:44:39.920 bought the house, got it up to a point. He looks like he's a new Canadian and he's trying to make 1.00

00:44:44.820 it out here like everybody else is. And instead he's stuck in this living, waking nightmare of

00:44:49.880 trying to protect his own property. And he gets blamed. He gets blamed. The landlords are blamed.

00:44:56.360 The people who invest to take the risk, start the business, try to provide the things are demonized. 0.99

00:45:01.940 They're the ones who are called jerks. They're the ones who are saying everybody's, you know, 0.99

00:45:04.900 we should cap the rent they can collect and we should gouge them. They're just going to get out

00:45:10.120 of the market, guys. Welcome back to policies that don't work. And when they get out of the market,

00:45:15.940 nobody has anywhere to live. And then, you know, the progression of fools who go down that road 0.99

00:45:21.020 because, well, if private industry won't provide rental housing, we should get the government in 0.97

00:45:26.040 on it. Oh, okay. You should travel a little more and see just how nice government built housing is,

00:45:32.040 how good it looks. You really want to see the projects. You really want to see how nice it is.

00:45:37.540 I had the opportunity to go to Moscow back in 87. That was government provided housing. Nobody was

00:45:42.200 homeless, I tell you, but boy, what a beautiful spot to live. Bland, basic apartment buildings,

00:45:48.540 as far as the eye could see, run down in poor condition because nobody owns them, right? So

00:45:53.980 nobody maintains them. So they're falling apart, yet they're still paying for these. Guys, we need

00:46:01.040 property rights. We need to reward our producers instead of demonizing them. We need to let them

00:46:07.300 earn money and provide things for us rather than stealing from them. But we aren't. We're in this

00:46:13.360 world where we're playing the politics of envy, where we are stepping on those who go out of their

00:46:18.920 way to make things, yes, better for themselves, good for them. Your damn rights is good for them. 0.99

00:46:24.040 There's nothing wrong with investing for yourself. And you know what? It makes things better for 0.99

00:46:28.860 others when you let them do it. We've got a whole mentality, a philosophy, a nasty anti-success

00:46:35.960 mindset that's really sinking in, a sense of entitlement. The world owes me an apartment.

00:46:40.860 The world owes me cheap groceries. The world owes me this. The world owes me that. No, it doesn't.

00:46:44.500 It doesn't owe you a damn thing. All the government owes you is providing the environment for you to

00:46:50.300 be able to get up and get those things for yourself. You know, you shouldn't be stolen

00:46:54.580 from, you shouldn't be assaulted. Sure, I'm not an anarchist. I want to see some degree of

00:46:59.140 government, but we need less and less, not this constant controlling and everything,

00:47:02.680 and everything's the government's responsibility. Guys, that won't work for you. That won't work

00:47:07.260 for you. The less government, get off your ass. I know, it's scary. You'll have to take care of 1.00

00:47:13.660 yourself. Consider the government, a lot of you guys, it's mom's basement is what it is for you,

00:47:19.540 and you've grown dependent on it, and you're not letting yourself find the ambition and work ethic

00:47:23.880 to get out of it. Well, that's your own fault. And demanding more government is not going to

00:47:28.200 fix the problem, guys. It's never worked before. It's not going to work now. All right. That was

00:47:32.440 enough ranting and raving and pissing and moaning out at me for today. Otherwise, the weather's

00:47:36.740 beautiful. Stampede's coming up next week. We've got a nice summer ahead of us for most of

00:47:41.740 Canada here. Let's embrace it. When you get off the show, get outside, get some sunshine,

00:47:47.420 mow the lawn, do it while you can, because it'll be winter soon enough. Thank you all for tuning

00:47:51.480 it in today guys and i will be back next week at the same time with a whole bunch more stuff to uh

00:47:57.080 go on about maybe even i'll come up with a few solutions for problems thanks

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00:48:09.400 and corn is down five dollars at 385 per metric ton in the milling wheat markets september

00:48:14.840 Minneapolis futures jumped $0.42 at $8.51 with local hardware at spring vids for July movement

00:48:21.480 at $10.65 per bushel. In the oilseeds nearby canola futures gained $10.50 at $7.49.90 per

00:48:29.720 metric ton with delivered values for July movement at $17.23 per bushel. In the pulse markets nearby

00:48:37.160 red lentils are trading at $0.33 a pound and yellow peas remain at $11.25 per bushel. In the cattle

00:48:43.960 markets august live cattle lost 80 cents at 176.03 per 100 wave for more information on grain

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00:49:05.720 our gun rights would have been taken long long ago these guys are on the front lines

00:49:10.760 helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and legislation in canada and more

00:49:17.240 importantly educating the public about how we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people

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00:49:51.880 Thank you.

Western Standard - July 06, 2023

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