In this episode of The Corey Morgan Show, host Corey Morgan rants about the growing problem of homelessness and drug addiction in Canada. He is joined by his good friend Sean Polzer to discuss the growing issue, and the potential solutions to it.
00:09:07.720The court today joined a list of all, you know, many other people who were having their COVID charges thrown out, including Pastor Tim Stevens today on the Fairview Baptist Church.
00:09:21.720They were thrown out, so, you know, all these people who battled against the COVID restrictions appeared to have won their case.
00:09:35.720Also, big news this morning with the feud between Alberta Premier Daniel Smith and
00:09:44.340He's over in China now talking to them, and instead of giving China some advice, he used
00:09:52.780it to shred Suncor, and they announced a couple of weeks ago that they were sort of giving
00:09:58.020up on renewals and going hard on just oil production itself.
00:10:03.440So Gilbo says that means, you know, his efforts to cap emissions are even more needed, to
00:10:11.000which Premier Smith today unloaded on him quite heavily.
00:10:16.100So I understand you've got my colleague Sean Bolzer coming to talk about that.
00:10:20.880It's a developing good national story.
00:10:25.280And our NDP friend, Charlie Angus, he took a shot at the Western Standard yesterday,
00:10:32.580basically saying you know we were partly to blame for the the death of annette lewis
00:10:37.620she's the edmonton woman who died last week because she refused to code a covet vaccine and
00:10:45.540was denied a transplant because of that and uh charlie thought uh it worked so our opinion
00:10:53.460hanford takes a run at him so that's uh that's a good call i'm also doing well this morning
00:10:58.660call him or this morning cory and i draw your attention uh i know you're a bee guy uh earlier
00:11:05.300this morning we printed a story on uh bee horror in toronto five million bees on the loose after a
00:11:13.060truck carrying their crates crashed so uh holy cow you can imagine uh imagine what a swarm of five
00:11:20.100million of them look like cory yeah it'd be quite something around hopefully they were well trained
00:11:25.620yeah and then you told me how many bees you have uh that kind of shocked me to be honest
00:11:30.700yeah no it's anywhere from 30 to 60 000 in a hive i figure mine's got about 50 000 at this point of
00:11:37.600the summer they really pack up so as many bees as that was it was probably only about 100 hives on
00:11:41.940that truck but that's still a heck of a lot of uh i got a lot of bees on the loose to try and
00:11:46.080recapture yeah and i bet those uh those bears are salivating at the thought of all that honey right1.00
00:11:51.560now, Corey. They're making their plans. They're coming. Absolutely. All right. Well, is that
00:12:00.100everything we've got going right now, Dave? That's it. Just about to put up a story on why
00:12:05.720you should all be looking up into the skies tonight. A rare celestial event. It's called
00:12:11.040a blue moon. And Arthur Green will have that story up for you momentarily. Excellent. Well,
00:12:17.660as the saying goes, once in a blue moon, it's not that common. All right.
00:12:21.320It's pretty rare. Thanks for the update, Steve. And I will catch you in the newsroom after the
00:12:26.180show. Thanks, Corey. All right. As you can hear, guys, yes, lots on the go out there. Lots of news,
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00:13:22.660get on there guys, lend us a hand. I mean, it's an investment in yourself and in keeping that
00:13:26.920free information going and keeping independent media independent. So yeah, you know, some of the
00:13:35.200stuff with the addicts building castles, a commenter saying, you know, addicts just
00:13:40.700do this stuff to themselves. And, and it is, you know, it's difficult. I mean, in the end,
00:13:46.860it does come up to the individual. But as I said, we come to a point where an individual can't take
00:13:51.740care of themselves. You know, when, when you see that addict shuffling up and down the street
00:13:56.020corner, they're skinny, they're, they're covered in sores, their teeth have fallen. It's really
00:14:00.200that bad. Do you really, you know, they're barely surviving right now. You think they're going to
00:14:04.760make it through the winter? Like we've got to just face the hard reality. We need to intervene.
00:14:09.680There's no easy answers to this, but I don't want to keep hearing the stories that will be coming this winter of emergency services personnel having to keep extracting, you know, bodies and such of people who have passed on from exposure, you know, due to being basically on the fentanyl and other such drugs while outdoors in this weather.
00:14:34.180So see what else is going on in the news out there.
00:14:36.600Yeah, the BC Center for Disease Control.
00:14:39.980Yes, it's identified BC's first case of a person infected with the BA.282.86 variant in the Fraser Health region.
00:23:33.380So she, in discussions, she's referenced her environment with Mr. Rebecca Schultz as the
00:23:40.380Gibault whisperer. And I think they're coming to the end of their rope and like really trying to
00:23:46.080deal with this guy because every time you take, you seem like you take one step forward, it's
00:23:51.680like four or five, six steps backwards. And I don't know how long they continue like this.
00:23:58.060Well, you can't reason with Gilboa. I mean, maybe people start realizing this, you know,
00:24:02.880look him up, the picture of him manically grinning in an orange prison jumpsuit as he's being taken
00:24:08.540away in handcuffs, like this man's an extremist. He always has been. We're not talking about a,
00:24:14.140you know, a environmental activist who's been rational over this time. This is a guy on the
00:24:18.940fringe and he's the most powerful environment minister in the country. And what's ironic is
00:24:23.020that he's threatening to have the RCMP come after politicians like Smith and Moe and have
00:24:29.180them hauled away in handcuffs and orange jumpsuits, you know, for keeping the lights on in the middle
00:24:33.580of January. Well, you know, speaking as a guy who's written a book on pursuing independence
00:24:37.660in the West, if they wanted to send the RCMP to start arresting Western politicians, I know it
00:24:41.220would be great for my book sales, but not very good for the stability of the country as a whole.
00:24:45.540I mean, this is really is challenging unity and stability within Canada. I mean, yeah,
00:24:51.040Scott Moe, I mean, this is in Saskatchewan where these battles are happening as well.
00:24:55.920It's just dangerous politics going on right now. Absolutely. And, you know, there's for all the
00:25:01.620talk of separation that there's been in this country, Quebec nationalism is more cultural
00:25:06.800based western national is more economic based it seems to me that these climate policies are
00:25:13.760becoming the catalyst for the breakup of the country trudeau is going to be the one who
00:25:20.400presides over the end of this federation this confederation that we know well and some of it's
00:25:26.060just the politics i mean we can see the liberals are in a bad position right now as far as the
00:25:29.400polls go i mean it could be we're looking at potentially two years before the next election
00:25:32.840Anyways, a whole lot, we know a whole lot can change between now and then, you know, nobody in the CPC should be popping champagne corks yet.
00:25:39.360You're in the lead, but that can, that can evaporate quickly.
00:25:41.840And one of the tactics, the old one used by the Liberals with the senior Trudeau and his advisor, that old term, screw the West, we'll take the rest.
00:25:50.800Playing the politics of regional division has always been an asset for the Liberals, you know, because what have they got to lose?
00:25:58.440They got two seats in Alberta, zero seats in Saskatchewan.
00:26:00.860And if they can make us look like a bunch of jerks, it tends to sell well in Toronto.
00:26:06.300Well, even Paul Martin, I was really, I thought Paul Martin was a good finance minister,
00:26:11.500but I was really disappointed when he became prime minister because when he was down in the polls,
00:26:14.920that's exactly what he did was start kicking at the West and managed to somehow salvage the minority government out of it.
00:26:21.540But I don't know. I'm hoping that the Trudeau Liberals are forced so far down that they're not going to be able to come back.
00:26:27.720But what really concerns me is the damage that they're going to be able to do in two years with this wrecking ball that they have flying around the world, imposing all these policy by fiat.
00:26:40.800Well, an investment, Jill. I mean, really, as an international investor, even a domestic one,
00:26:46.460when you see that sort of hostility towards an industry in the country, it's going to be a heck
00:26:52.020of a lot harder to convince you to open your wallet and invest in a capital project when it
00:26:56.720looks like we've got the powers that be want to shut us down. Absolutely. And a lot of people
00:27:00.740don't realize that about oil and gas is number one, how much money it takes just to maintain
00:27:06.040production, nevermind, increase it. And the lead times, the time, the amount of time that it takes
00:27:13.680to build these oil sands plants, to get this stuff out of the ground and build these markets
00:27:19.580and build these pipelines and do all these other things that need to be done before you can sell
00:27:24.620one barrel of oil. Well, something else, I mean, that really poked the stick in the hornet's nest
00:27:29.800and that came from the Alberta side of it. I'm kind of throwing a curve ball. We didn't speak
00:27:33.940on this, but still, it's a part of this issue was the moratorium or the freeze on renewable
00:27:39.940permits for the next six months in Alberta that Premier Smith's government imposed. I mean,
00:27:44.660that certainly infuriated those who feel we're going to fully transition into renewables soon.
00:27:48.820No matter how you look at it, that will slow the development of these renewable projects to a degree.
00:27:56.100Do you think that something's going to be resolved, some better
00:27:59.780regulations and so on, and those projects are going to start getting rolling again?
00:28:03.140well right now it's kind of like a wild west and texas had this problem uh when it froze a couple
00:28:08.980years so here in canada when you have the natural gas wells and it goes down 40 below you have these
00:28:13.540things called freeze-offs so there's a certain amount of production that gets shut in just from
00:28:17.860the cold and in texas obviously they're not ready for it they're not prepared and when their gas
00:28:22.740went down and they had to rely on the renewables for their grid it was just havoc like people were
00:28:29.140getting power bills over like tens of thousands of dollars um you know and there's a very real
00:28:35.540possibility that if you don't have that backup for all the renewable generation that people want
00:28:43.460to come online that it is going to destabilize the grid yeah so i mean it's not the renewables
00:28:48.900themselves that are problems i worry about the dependence on the renewables as a source right
00:28:53.700And especially when they're intermittent, by definition, they're intermittent.
00:28:58.300And, you know, I compared this with our other colleague, Nigel Hannaford.
00:29:04.780You know, so OPEC, Saudi Arabia, they drill wells and then shut them in and just leave them there and drill the capacity, right?
00:29:12.920Well, it's a lot like these windmills that only run 30% of the time.
00:29:17.780So you're spending all this money to have an asset that really is only 30% efficient and you can't rely on it when it's not there, when you don't have the other stuff to back it up.
00:31:30.120Apparently, the electricity, when she has taken it, it is her.
00:31:34.720And I would imagine that admissions cap will be, she's kept her cards fairly close to her chest, you know, at the same time while keeping all those options open, the Sovereignty Act, constitutional challenges, and, you know, but at the same time being very emphatic and very clear that these are unrealistic, they're unachievable, and they will not be implemented by 2035.
00:32:01.740and certainly not the way that the Liberal government thinks that they will.
00:32:08.880Well, it certainly gives you lots to cover and it gives me lots to rant about.
00:32:12.880I appreciate you coming in to explain kind of what's been going on
00:32:15.680with this fight that's unfolding, I mean, from China to Alberta at this point.
00:32:19.620I mean, we've bypassed Ottawa for the time being.
00:32:58.480I'm just trying to see a comment that,
00:33:00.020oh yeah, Wildrose commenting, is there any truth to the rumors that cartels are sitting up in
00:33:04.780Edmonton? Yeah, this was interesting. This was something that our Arthur Green in Edmonton
00:33:08.940broke actually last week in a story, if you look it up on the Western Standard.
00:33:14.080Yeah, Mexican cartels have been having some operations in Edmonton. That's a long haul,
00:33:19.480guys. But the bottom line is where there's mass drug consumption, there's money. And where that
00:33:24.140money is, the drug dealers are going to follow. And that's why we're seeing some of the stuff.
00:33:30.700Arthur's story was very interesting talking to people and breaking that down. And these syndicates,
00:33:35.420these cartels, they're organized. And that's why we see the shootings going on. That's why you get
00:33:39.420the shootings in the malls and the shootings in the streets. I mean, it's happening in Edmonton,
00:33:42.820Calgary, Toronto, because, I mean, these are nasty people. And when one steps on the other one's
00:33:49.660turf, the drug wars begin. So, you know, that's when the innocent folks also get hit. I mean,
00:33:54.420with the drive-by shootings, things like that, you're in the wrong place at the wrong time,
00:33:58.920and suddenly some poor innocent person gets killed. Now, some of the discussion on that,
00:34:04.720fair enough, for the drug enablers say, well, if we just provide enough safe supply,
00:34:08.580then these cartels won't make any money, right? I mean, it's the same logic that prohibition with
00:34:12.780liquor, you know, the mafia was never at its strongest than when liquor consumption was
00:34:18.060illegal in the United States and in Canada. And they could, of course, illicitly supply it to
00:34:22.020everybody because everybody wanted to keep drinking. There's some truth to that. But the
00:34:27.020issue is that, again, these addicts aren't on something where they're not like people who like
00:34:30.680to indulge. There's a lot of casual drinkers. There's a lot of people who enjoy a few drinks.
00:34:34.720A lot of people can responsibly enjoy a few drinks. You can't responsibly have a little fentanyl.
00:34:40.260You can't just socially smoke meth. It doesn't work that way. You become an addict. You become
00:34:45.400one of those zombies on the streets and it's not sustainable. Now, again, try to find ways to make
00:34:52.200it less profitable for the cartels. Absolutely. But if we supplied it, if the government supplies
00:34:56.440it, we're seeing that in Vancouver already. We're getting those reports. The addicts go to the
00:35:00.660consumption center. They get their safe supply. They go out and they peddle that because they
00:35:06.560want to buy the harder, nastier stuff that the street dealers can provide them. We got to remember
00:35:10.880you're not dealing with rational people. We're talking about people in the throes
00:35:15.060of a terrible addiction and they just want it stronger and stronger. That's why, and I think,
00:35:22.260you know, some of the well-meaning people, but it has never been addicted to something.
00:35:26.860And that's why we see some of the strongest advocates like in Alberta with Marshall Smith.
00:35:31.580He's been through addiction recovery. He's been at rock bottom. Myself, I've talked about my own,
00:35:38.380you know, recovery from alcohol and putting a number of things up my nose for a period of time.
00:35:42.700That took a lot of recovery and a program as well for me. Once you've been there, you find out that
00:35:50.240you realize because addictions aren't sustainable. They aren't. They escalate. Some slower, some
00:35:56.680faster than others. But eventually you need more and more and more. And you let other important
00:36:02.260things lapse while you're pursuing your addiction or wasted from your addiction. So you're not going
00:36:07.440to do your job as well as you used to. Eventually you're going to lose your job. It's going to
00:36:11.380pressure your relationships. You know, wives, husbands, they get tired of living with an
00:36:16.280addict. They get tired of living with somebody who's strung out or drunk or messed up all the
00:36:20.020time. And eventually the addict hits the streets. That's the longer trail to get to. Most of the
00:36:26.620overdoses actually happen in households, to be fair. That's something, you know, a stat a lot
00:36:30.600of people forget. We just see the ones on the streets, but there's a lot of addicted people
00:36:33.740living within households and they're dying too because you can't sustain the addiction. Eventually
00:36:38.780it eats you alive. You watch, what is there for a safe supply, maintainable supply of meth?
00:36:46.200You look at a meth addict. Their teeth get eaten out of their head. They're covered in sores. They
00:36:51.260get skinny. They get drug-induced psychosis. You can't sustain that. There's an addiction
00:36:57.080enablement center in Toronto. It's really been in the news a lot lately because it turns out part
00:37:01.440their mission statement was saying that we're never going to try and tell people to stop taking
00:37:07.640it. Well, because they want to know no questions asked. Well, they act and imply as if you can just
00:37:11.900carry on with that addiction. You can't. It's going to kill you eventually, or you got to get
00:37:16.960off of it once you get down that road. And that all just comes back to where I'm at. Remember,
00:37:22.100again, you see the ones who are saying we need intervention, the ones that are saying that we
00:37:24.960need treatment are those of us who've been through it. The ones who were, again, well-meaning,
00:37:30.580perhaps thinking enablement and extending this sort of thing and safe consumption will lead to
00:37:34.300a good end are people who've never actually gotten to enjoy the real feeling of being in
00:37:40.260withdrawal and having your life start to get out of control because you found yourself dependent
00:37:43.920on a substance that's not doing you any favors. So we got to stop listening to those clowns. I
00:37:48.100don't care how well-meaning they are. I don't care how many textbooks they've read and start
00:37:51.560listening to the people who actually managed to get out of that spiral because they're going to
00:37:55.700offer much better advice and realistic advice, even if it's advice people don't want to hear.
00:38:00.580All right. Let's talk about information that apparently we're not supposed to hear as well.
00:38:04.460This is an interesting one that popped up from our federal government and our heritage minister,
00:38:08.260Pascal Saint-Ange. I'm probably ruining the French pronunciation. I don't care.0.55
00:38:12.320Tired of them shutting down our oil. Anyway, so I'm going to keep mispronouncing your names until
00:38:15.480you're nicer to Alberta. Either way, she's our heritage minister and she's taken it to federal
00:38:20.120court to block the release of some records at the federal information commissioner. So this
00:38:27.160the person in charge of giving us our information. And there was a mandate letter she got, and it
00:38:33.920was promised to ensure the commissioner is empowered to order government information to be
00:38:37.180released. Well, the commissioner is trying to order information to be released, and the government is
00:38:41.300taking the commissioner to court saying, no, we don't want to release it. Guess what the information
00:38:45.880is about? Firearms legislation. Yeah, so I mean, this comes back to an individual, I guess, in
00:38:52.660Ontario, who's using the Access to Information Act, who wants to see some of the files and documents
00:38:58.120involving firearms and management, and some of them go back a ways, I guess, the 1970s they requested
00:39:03.160two years ago. Why? Why do we have to fight for the information we own? It's ours. It's our
00:39:11.060government. We're the citizens. See, this is the lopsided world we're starting to get into, and
00:39:16.160it's dangerous, and it's bad. The government's supposed to answer to us, not the other way around.
00:39:21.080When it comes to us asking for information, the default should be that we get the information until and unless they can really make a solid case as to why we shouldn't be allowed to see it.
00:39:32.360I mean, there's some areas, certainly national defense, things like that, some contracts with private companies that perhaps it's inappropriate for us to see the information or, of course, personal information about those working at the government.
00:43:01.320Now, these guys have been put through the ringer. They've spent who knows how much on their defense. They've been in an area of legal limbo. I mean, people talk about the process being the punishment. This is an example of it. I mean, you don't know what's going to happen. You might be thrown in jail. You might be bankrupted. It's scary no matter who you are, even if these guys are willing to stand up to these things.
00:43:18.960but it's still great to see these being thrown out because as I said, the lunatics who like
00:43:25.400masking, the authoritarians who like lockdowns, the ones who think we should impose and coerce
00:43:31.040vaccination upon people. See, I don't have a problem with vaccination. I have a big problem
00:43:35.080with coercion though. Ask me to get vaccinated. Don't force me. Don't put me out of work. Stop
00:43:40.440me from traveling. Stop me from going to school. Ban me from restaurants if I might choose
00:43:43.680a different medical path than you. These people stood up to it. And in the end, though, it got
00:43:50.920thrown out. Now, if and when, and unfortunately, it's probably a matter of when something else
00:43:56.960comes along, a new variant, a new virus or whatever, and they try the lockdowns again,
00:44:00.920people are going to be a lot more prepared to stand up to it when they see, hey, in the long
00:44:04.800run, the courts are going to throw this out. This didn't stand up to the scrutiny of a true
00:44:09.840unbiased justice. These rights are being violated. It's not correct. And I will be acquitted. So I
00:44:16.600think there's going to be a heck of a lot more pushback if the government dares to try and start
00:44:21.180bringing in some of these legislations again. Again, particularly in Alberta, we've certainly
00:44:24.560got no spoken premier here saying, no, it's not happening again. Let's see. I'll run for a couple
00:44:30.320other things quickly. Speaking of wackadoodles, there was a environmental protester who threw0.99
00:44:36.660that pink paint on a painting, a Tom Thompson painting, a very valuable one, a rare one in the
00:44:42.040Canadian gallery. What is with these morons? You know, you think you're really bringing us to your
00:44:46.560cause. I mean, they're just attention whores. We understand that. They're just, hey, look at me.1.00
00:44:50.320Hey, look at me. Either way, part of the problem is we really need to start punishing these guys
00:44:54.440severely. Give them 30 days in jail. I mean, he looks like a pencil neck little dork. Let's see
00:44:58.300how he does in remand for a little while. I suspect he'll never do it again. But as long as we keep
00:45:03.300slapping their wrists and giving them a $100 fine for Dada to pay off because he probably came from0.99
00:45:07.080some nice privileged upper class household in the area. It's not going to stop him from wanting to
00:45:11.980do it again in the future. The only thing that's fortunate, I guess, is there was a glaze on the
00:45:15.740painting and this idiot's paint came off of it without doing any major damage to it. But this
00:45:19.860trend with these environmentalists, it's got to stop. They've got to start actually having some
00:45:25.360degree of consequences or penalty for some of these stunts they're doing. Final thing, the News
00:45:31.820Act has been delayed until 2025. This is C18. It's blown up in the Liberals' faces. You know,
00:45:38.420Meta stopped sharing news links. It didn't affect their traffic. They don't care. They make their
00:45:42.460money out of cute kitten videos and people putting up their food pictures from when they're out at
00:45:46.140restaurants. It didn't harm them a bit when they called the Liberals' bluff and stopped the news
00:45:50.180links. It did harm us a little bit at the Western Standard. So I'm going to leave you guys off,
00:45:53.900though, with one more little plug. You can't find our news stories on Facebook, Meta, any longer.