Western Standard - CMS： Trudeau has destroyed Canada’s international reputation

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00:00:30.720 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan show. This is my weekly opportunity to bend your

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00:01:18.640 and anonymous discussions are the most special of things that my wife, Jane, she's been suffering

00:01:23.620 from an illness for quite some time. And either way, it's a very serious thing. She's doing okay.

00:01:29.140 But there's an internet, you know, group on Facebook where they've been discussing

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00:01:37.400 with each other. And apparently that group blew up with a whole bunch of infighting. Even health

00:01:41.540 groups where you're lending each other support, people still manage to get at each other's

00:01:45.120 throats. It's pretty sad. Actually, social media is such a great tool, such a great means of

00:01:49.660 communication. But at the same time, we managed to sometimes turn it really negative. So let's,

00:01:54.720 again, we can rant, we can complain, we can do a lot of things. We just don't have to

00:01:58.340 cross those barriers and rip at each other to the point of splitting apart and getting

00:02:03.460 unforgivable. Though, of course, I am talking about splitting the country up quite often,

00:02:07.300 but that's a separate issue altogether. I'm going to start and get into a little why I get upset

00:02:11.680 with this country. And it is through this eight years now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Yes,

00:02:17.400 he's gone to India again. He went to another summit. So after days of awkward moments,

00:02:24.220 missed events, lost opportunities, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to India

00:02:28.640 for the G20 summit mercifully came to an end. Oh, except it didn't. To add insult to injury,

00:02:35.780 the political gods decided to have Trudeau's plane breaking down to leave him stranded in

00:02:39.660 India for two more days. If years of Trudeau's inept diplomacy weren't enough to convince the

00:02:45.040 world of Canada's irrelevance on the world stage, the nation's inability to get its own Prime

00:02:50.340 Minister back to Canada drove the point home. No, Trudeau isn't personally responsible for the

00:02:55.360 upkeep of the airplanes when it crashed years ago if that was the case, but the confusion caused

00:02:59.840 when the plane broke down showed how Canada just isn't a nation to be taken seriously anymore.

00:03:05.760 I mean, how many developed nations would find themselves utterly crippled for days,

00:03:09.720 trying to find alternative transportation for their leader in the case of a malfunction on a

00:03:14.780 plane. Now, Justin Trudeau, he's long had a cold relationship with India's Prime Minister Modi.

00:03:21.420 He was snubbed by Modi during his catastrophic 2018 trip to India, where he made international

00:03:26.740 headlines with his ridiculous dress-up games, and he got a frosty reception from Modi during

00:03:32.000 this latest trip. After much arm-bending, Trudeau did manage to get a 10-minute informal poliside

00:03:37.800 meeting with Modi. He then used that time to lecture Modi on foreign interference. In other

00:03:42.900 he wasted Modi's time on an issue that really isn't pressing to him right now. For a reason

00:03:48.200 yet to be disclosed, Canada just paused negotiations with India on trade negotiations, giving India

00:03:53.560 a figurative middle finger just days before a world summit they were hosting. It didn't exactly

00:03:58.340 warm the waters before Trudeau's visit. Modi had many extended and private meetings with leaders

00:04:03.800 from other countries during the summit. They discussed important trade and global affairs

00:04:07.300 issues. India is a huge and growing economy. Nations are eager to develop relationships with

00:04:12.320 that country. Aside from Trudeau, that is, who seems to go out of his way to antagonize them.

00:04:17.720 Still, even if Trudeau didn't manage to make any progress with India on the trip, he had some

00:04:22.840 important interactions with the leaders of the other 20 nations at the summit, right? Well, no.

00:04:28.220 Aside from some photo ops with some other leaders, including an awkward one where it appears President

00:04:32.440 Biden is chewing Justin out, Trudeau doesn't appear to have had any formal meetings with other

00:04:37.960 leaders while he was there. The press, even the Canadian press, were curious, and they're pretty

00:04:41.920 blunt when they asked Trudeau, well, what did you accomplish during this summit? Trudeau stammered

00:04:46.840 and offered his usual word salad and said, gender inclusion. Yeah, that's what he said. I mean,

00:04:53.320 while the gender pronoun issue is burning red hot among activists and left-leaning Canadian press

00:04:58.440 outlets, it doesn't even register on the list of items to be considered by serious world leaders.

00:05:04.200 World leaders don't take Justin Trudeau seriously, and by extension, they don't take Canada

00:05:08.260 seriously. Canada used to pride itself as a nation that punches above its weight on the international

00:05:14.000 stage. Past prime ministers performed diplomatic wonders at summits. Our military was respected as

00:05:19.820 a peacekeeper, and our resources, both human and natural, were high in demand. In eight years,

00:05:25.540 Justin Trudeau has wiped out all of that international goodwill on every front. Trudeau

00:05:30.480 can't leave the country without embarrassing himself, and of course us. From being chided by

00:05:35.620 the Australian Prime Minister when he tried to turn discussions to his socks, to his awkward

00:05:40.780 attempt at a three-way handshake in Washington, to his improv karaoke party during Queen Elizabeth's

00:05:46.960 funeral, to his hot mic moment where he was caught tittering like a schoolboy and gossiping about

00:05:51.560 then-President Trump. Trudeau has consistently proven he doesn't have the depth of intellect

00:05:56.460 or character to be a player on the world stage. Who can forget Xi Jinping chewing out Trudeau

00:06:02.220 on the floor of a conference just last spring or other conferences such as a recent G7 one where

00:06:07.260 Trudeau was literally standing on the outside looking in as leaders conferred. Serious leaders

00:06:12.700 won't dedicate time to Trudeau beyond quick poses for pictures and it shows as he's incapable even

00:06:17.180 lining up meetings with them now. This is harming Canada as we need international relationships to

00:06:22.380 continue supplying our resources in what is a competitive global environment. Canada needs a

00:06:27.660 leader with depth and gravitas in a world stage. Whenever Trudeau's term as a prime minister comes

00:06:35.040 to an end, Canada's going to have a mountain of damage to repair. I mean, the domestic economic

00:06:39.820 mess created by Trudeau is going to take decades to undo. But the international damage he's done

00:06:44.680 to Canada's reputation might take generations to get over. I'm sure you all remember, once upon a

00:06:49.340 time, people made a point of proudly displaying a Canadian flag on their backpacks or suitcases

00:06:53.580 when traveling overseas. Now they're more likely to kind of keep subdued about where they come from

00:06:57.980 unless they find themselves having to answer embarrassing questions about how this nation 0.99

00:07:01.640 allowed itself to be governed by a fool for so long. That's what's got me going today, guys. And 0.98

00:07:07.480 I'm sure, you know, many people feel the same. Like, it's so important. It's one of the prime

00:07:13.120 roles of being a leader. You might not be a great micromanager in policy. You might

00:07:18.400 have some other shortcomings. You might not be great with managing your caucus, but you've got

00:07:22.640 to represent the country overseas positively. He has never managed to do that. And in fact,

00:07:29.160 he set us back. If he could part with Jolie long enough, maybe he should just keep sending her 0.99

00:07:33.780 to go over there and deal with foreign affairs. I don't know how much longer he's going to hang

00:07:39.040 in there. I really don't. But he doesn't seem to be prime to give up yet. And this is a country

00:07:46.440 that's getting crabbier and crabbier. I mean, the liberals are swirling the toilet in the polls.

00:07:50.860 They are lowest they have ever been since becoming elected.

00:07:54.720 He needs something big to turn things around.

00:07:56.880 The cabinet shuffle didn't do it.

00:07:59.600 There's no policies looming that it looked like they're going to change his fortunes right now.

00:08:04.000 He's in London at a caucus retreat where even the state broadcaster has mentioned that caucus members are getting pretty nervous.

00:08:11.400 And they might or something.

00:08:13.120 There's the difference between liberals and conservatives.

00:08:14.300 They might start speaking up and asking Justin Trudeau to try and account for himself or even perhaps step aside.

00:08:20.860 Now, conservatives, we never hesitate in asking our leaders to step aside. In fact, we're often

00:08:25.460 too eager to do so. I think maybe finding somewhere in the middle between that blind, 0.99

00:08:30.640 lemming-like following that liberals seem to do with their leaders and the prickly, 0.98

00:08:36.120 ready-to-throw-our-leaders-under-the-bus attitude of conservatives and get good government.

00:08:41.480 Somewhere in the middle is the better way to go, I guess. I mean, people always say that,

00:08:46.640 but there's some truth to it. Either way, we'll see. We'll see what comes out this weekend.

00:08:50.060 And, you know, he came bearing gifts.

00:08:52.320 He showed up in London, Ontario with an announcement of housing money for them, 60, 70 million, something like that.

00:09:01.260 But the bottom line was this was money that was actually already announced long ago.

00:09:05.720 He's just reannouncing it.

00:09:06.900 So, I mean, he can't even come up with new things to try and turn his fortunes around.

00:09:11.180 He just keeps rehashing old ones.

00:09:13.080 And I tell you, we've got a scary economic outlook ahead of us.

00:09:16.100 something I tweeted recently, if you want to meet my other playgrounds besides doing these shows

00:09:21.380 is on Twitter at Corey B. Morgan. That's one of my favorite places. Plus, you're going to find

00:09:25.640 the shows there. We can't get on Facebook, things like that. But, you know, it was something that's

00:09:31.260 looming and we aren't hearing enough about. I've heard some business groups and others talking

00:09:34.160 about it, but there's the CERBA loans. Those are the loans given to small businesses. And they were

00:09:39.180 very generous ones during the COVID lockdowns, right? Because, I mean, the businesses were

00:09:43.000 crippled. They were terribly harmed. And these were loans that had no interest for a good period 1.00

00:09:48.600 of time. And actually a large portion of them was forgivable if they were paid within a certain

00:09:53.680 period of time. And hundreds of thousands of businesses took advantage of those generous

00:09:57.480 loans. The problem is, and I know that they've extended the terms on them once, by the end of

00:10:04.240 this year, by the end of December, those loans, you're either going to have to be paid out in full

00:10:08.700 or the forgivable portion is going to be added to it and the interest is going to start to be

00:10:12.640 charged. Now, I honestly don't know. I mean, this is a credit on the government books. It's not so

00:10:19.020 easy just to say, well, let's just forgive the loans or extend the terms or carry on kicking the

00:10:22.240 can down the road. I understand why they aren't eager to do that. But we've got a lot of businesses

00:10:26.880 that are hanging by a thread right now. And if they suddenly have that big debt on their books,

00:10:33.380 they're suddenly paying the interest on it. You can bet a lot of them are going to say, you know

00:10:36.420 what, that's it. We've been treading water for three years, four years with all of the misery

00:10:41.100 of the pandemic and other pressures and challenges, we're going to pull the plug. You know some of

00:10:46.260 them are going to. That's all we need at Christmas time is yet another economic blow in a country

00:10:50.940 that's been blowing pretty hard for quite some time. Those numbers coming out recently, I mean,

00:10:55.920 our GDP per capita, we're embarrassingly lagging. We sit at, I believe, 52,000, and it's dropping,

00:11:02.900 dropping. The United States, their GDP per capita is 71,000. Think about that, just south of the

00:11:08.880 border. Now I can go to Houston and buy a house for 300,000. That's really nice. Up here, you're

00:11:14.340 lucky to get one for six, 700,000. Yet you are going at it with a dramatically reduced income

00:11:19.480 compared to the States. Guys, we are in serious trouble in this country. And I don't think enough

00:11:22.880 people realize it. So what's the government doing? What is our main leaders talking about?

00:11:29.320 Yeah, Tam, she showed her beatific face again on a news conference the other day, 0.98

00:11:35.200 talking about, oh, the COVID numbers are coming up.

00:11:37.920 They just won't let go on this thing.

00:11:39.680 Oh, dear people, be afraid, be worried.

00:11:41.860 And sure enough, she was masked right up

00:11:43.960 as were the others sitting up there.

00:11:45.820 They were all spaced out from each other.

00:11:47.420 It looked like a conference from two, three years ago.

00:11:50.300 She was saying, yes, it's time to dust off the masks.

00:11:52.680 She's hinting the mandates are gonna come back.

00:11:54.700 She's hinting the lockdowns are gonna come back.

00:11:56.940 We can't afford it.

00:11:58.040 We haven't paid for the last mess.

00:12:00.700 We're not even close.

00:12:01.820 a lot of the elements of our economic disaster going on right now is because of the whiplash 0.98

00:12:09.140 effect of what we did to the economy in response to the COVID pandemic. Yet here we go, they're

00:12:14.060 trotting out there. If even just these announcements, even if they don't impose more mandates and

00:12:18.720 lockdowns and passports and all that kind of garbage, it chills the economy, it scares people.

00:12:24.620 You're not going to invest, you're going to tighten up. We got people can't even get into 0.52

00:12:28.700 houses right now. And what's Trudeau doing? You know, I mean, again, we keep talking about that.

00:12:33.620 He got a memo himself. He knows that immigration is strongly pressuring the housing crisis right 0.99

00:12:41.480 now. And it's not an anti-immigration thing. It's a pro-math thing when we're saying, hold on,

00:12:47.720 guys, tap the brakes. Let's reevaluate. People can't get into homes right now. They can't afford

00:12:52.720 to rent. They can't afford to get in. Your own secretary of the cabinet, Justin, told you

00:12:58.260 immigration is exacerbating this and the numbers don't balance we're building way way less fewer

00:13:03.560 units than we will require to keep up with the immigration now we've got two options we either

00:13:09.540 have to build hundreds of thousands of more units a year somehow how on earth we do that where we

00:13:16.200 going to find the labor the materials the time the capital we can't do it that fast we do still need

00:13:21.260 to buy them but we can't do it that fast something we can do fast though is reduce the demand and

00:13:25.900 that means we have to take a serious look at immigration and how we got to cut it, at least 0.55

00:13:29.940 pause and reduce it. Not to zero. No, of course not. That's ridiculous. But we've got to also

00:13:35.620 realize how ridiculous it is to maintain the current levels. So yeah, we've got a scary 0.69

00:13:43.180 outlook coming up ahead of us and a prime minister that just seems outright oblivious. I don't know

00:13:48.980 what it's going to take for that guy to understand. I mean, it was a big discussion I did have on

00:13:54.420 social media. Because I still think, and I'm throwing that prediction out there, hey, I could

00:13:57.340 be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. That's for sure. But I think Trudeau's gone by the end of

00:14:02.600 the year. He just can't turn it around. He's floundering. He's stressed. He's got his family

00:14:06.880 issues going on. He doesn't know how to turn this government around. And I'm sure the knives

00:14:10.960 are coming out from underneath him saying, that's it. It's time to go. But it's clear he's not

00:14:15.880 signaling himself, though. I don't think he realizes it yet. And maybe he'll hang on kicking

00:14:22.920 and screaming even longer.

00:14:24.220 Some people are saying that's good, that's good,

00:14:25.760 because that's what's driving the liberal support

00:14:27.740 into the toilet so that they can be replaced.

00:14:29.940 Yeah, I know, but think of the damage he could do 0.99

00:14:32.580 if you give that clown two more years, 0.97

00:14:33.960 even if he's at 5% support, 0.96

00:14:36.080 as long as he's still holding government and backed by Singh,

00:14:38.500 just think of how much worse it will be

00:14:40.040 with two more years of that dingbat in there.

00:14:42.220 I understand a new liberal leader

00:14:43.800 might turn things around for that party somewhat,

00:14:46.280 but we gotta look at the sake of the nation too,

00:14:47.880 rather than just the sake of CPC.

00:14:50.140 If Poliev's gonna win, he'll have to win on his own merit.

00:14:52.920 rather than just relying on Trudeau being a complete incompetent,

00:14:56.820 which is a good thing to rely on to win power,

00:14:59.520 but it's not a positive thing for the country.

00:15:02.700 But we'll watch and see.

00:15:04.580 I got a feeling it's going to be a pretty chilly caucus conference

00:15:09.660 going on out there in London right now.

00:15:12.140 All right, so moving on here,

00:15:14.940 we're going to talk about a part of our economic issues and economic problems,

00:15:18.140 and that's with Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:15:22.920 because one of our bigger issues is corporate welfare money being flushed down the toilet. 0.92

00:15:26.960 There's one that recently came up that is just kind of gross to even think about. And it's not

00:15:32.780 huge in the numbers, but it's still the principle of it really, really stinks. So maybe I'll get

00:15:38.280 Franco to explain that. And we'll talk a little bit more about corporate welfare further after

00:15:42.940 that. How are you doing, Franco? Hey, Corey. Great to be with you. I'm doing great.

00:15:46.960 Oh, good, good.

00:15:48.460 So, you know, we'd heard about this before.

00:15:52.100 There seems to be a push to make us eat bugs.

00:15:55.480 We're actually paying for this?

00:15:58.200 Oh, we sure are.

00:15:59.680 Taste the crunch, everyone, because we're all paying for some cricket corporate welfare, courtesy of the federal government.

00:16:05.340 Now, you may have heard not too long ago that there was this big processing plant in London subsidized to the tune of almost $9 million for this cricket processing plant.

00:16:16.920 Well, now the company says that only 10% of its crickets or its business is to use crickets for human food.

00:16:24.320 However, we went through the government's own open data portal to look at some grants and contributions, and we found that the federal government has spent more than $420,000 subsidizing companies that directly turn crickets into human food.

00:16:41.700 So we are subsidizing corporations, presumably for-profit corporations, to take crickets and to turn it into human food for your dining pleasure.

00:16:54.320 Isn't that something? Well, and I know we're not a fan of corporate welfare in general,

00:16:58.800 and I want to talk a little bit more about some of the bigger issues once we move along. But

00:17:02.040 in any case, at least if they could point to some demand, if they could point to a reason,

00:17:07.640 like I don't recall seeing people marching on the streets saying, please expand our cricket

00:17:11.420 production. Please give me a bigger variety of bugs at the local supermarket. What is the

00:17:16.620 motivation for the government to pump our tax monies into this? Yeah, no kidding, right? Okay,

00:17:21.860 So the company that's received the most amount of subsidies since 2018,

00:17:25.740 I believe they're pronounced NAC, N-A-A-K.

00:17:28.820 Anyways, they're producing these cricket energy bars for human consumption.

00:17:33.460 They're producing steaks, sausages, falafels.

00:17:36.260 Now, Corey, I thought falafels are made with chickpeas.

00:17:39.820 I guess they're making falafels with crick peas.

00:17:43.140 Another company, Prairie Cricket Farms, you know,

00:17:45.700 I was just Googling through their About Me page.

00:17:48.700 And let me tell you, you know, I haven't been the best boyfriend over the years.

00:17:51.540 not the best partner but this guy was talking about starting his company from his own basement

00:17:57.220 having his cricket farm initially from his own basement and the first thing that came to mind is

00:18:01.620 oh boy i mean this wife must be a saint could you imagine starting your own cricket farm in 0.90

00:18:07.780 your own basement but look here's the thing right if you want to eat crickets fill your boots if

00:18:12.340 you think that there's a market demand for cricket consumption fill your boots i don't think we

00:18:17.860 should be subsidizing with taxpayers money in the same way that we shouldn't be subsidizing

00:18:22.820 mcdonald's or harvey's or arby's or pizza pizza or take your pick core you can tell i'm laurentian

00:18:30.020 now because i'm saying pizza pizza yeah i know it sounded foreign to me uh and he's getting to

00:18:36.260 you i think you're due for a trip out west again well i couldn't agree more well let's get on to

00:18:42.100 some of the the bigger issues i mean the principles remain the same even with small subsidies uh but

00:18:46.820 all the way up to the big ones we've got that monster and i'm certain you saw at the parliamentary

00:18:50.740 budget office estimates on the volkswagen plants and the apparent break-even date estimate has

00:18:58.660 extended a little bit from their original one four times longer than what the government was leading

00:19:03.460 on four times folks so the federal government and the ontario government but it's mostly coming from

00:19:08.980 the federal government is subsidizing two multinational corporations volkswagen and

00:19:15.380 and Stellantis to build some electric vehicle battery plants in southwestern Ontario.

00:19:20.260 The total cost of all of the subsidies to these two multinational corporations, $28 billion.

00:19:27.600 Now, when they were cutting the ribbons and holding the press conference

00:19:30.760 to announce their Volkswagen corporate welfare, you had politicians saying,

00:19:34.980 oh, don't worry, folks, it'll all be paid back.

00:19:38.360 Don't worry, within five years, the government will recoup the money.

00:19:41.340 not so fast surprise surprise you've been sold a false bill of goods the parliamentary budget

00:19:48.160 officer's latest report from yesterday shows that the break even is 20 years from now 20 years from

00:19:57.040 now and that's if it breaks even i mean come on we these things that's that's being generous with

00:20:03.580 the estimates and thinking that demand is going to materialize for these batteries and a market

00:20:08.480 and these companies are somehow going to do well out of it i mean they can't predict a couple of

00:20:12.160 years ahead uh 20 years that's a pretty big stretch okay two things to that right cory i think you

00:20:17.840 nailed it right there if if is the big question here look this federal government has never paid

00:20:23.760 its bills on time okay so the government even even the got this federal government saying don't worry

00:20:28.800 we'll get enough revenue back in 20 years it's kind of like having that one uncle we all have

00:20:34.080 have that one uncle at christmas dinner trying to sell you his newest business plan and saying hey

00:20:39.720 don't worry you'll get your money back in 20 years how about i just keep my own money thank you very

00:20:44.760 much but the second thing is break even in 20 years break even in 20 years so we're gonna get

00:20:52.500 back to zero maybe in 20 years you know that doesn't sound like a good investment to me but

00:20:58.640 you know i just thought of a third thing as well and to the broader point here right i mean 20 years

00:21:03.300 like, come on, I don't really buy it from this government. I think we're going to break even,

00:21:08.840 if we could even say that, somewhere between 20 years from now and never.

00:21:13.720 Yeah. I mean, again, it follows the same economic rule that you and I tend to follow. If there's

00:21:18.920 demand for it, somebody is just going to build it on their own and they will profit and good for

00:21:22.720 them, carry on. If it needs a subsidy this huge, that tells me there really is no demand for this

00:21:29.380 product. So I can't see it turning around. Well, remember they're using political incentives,

00:21:35.140 the political calculation. They're not using market calculation. It's not their own money.

00:21:39.600 They don't have skin in the game. What these politicians are trying to do is get reelected. 1.00

00:21:44.500 And now let me give you some proof points. Where are these EV battery manufacturing plants going

00:21:50.100 to be? Southwest Ontario, battleground ridings, okay? So they're taking political incentives

00:22:00.380 essentially to hand out almost $30 billion in corporate welfare. Now, another proof point here

00:22:07.220 is, well, where are the opposition parties? Why aren't they speaking out? Where are the

00:22:11.180 new Democrats, right? Where are the people saying, let's get the pitchforks and go after

00:22:15.180 those greedy corporations well now it's crickets when it comes to this corporate welfare but not

00:22:20.940 just the ndp corey where are the conservatives right where are all the representatives out in

00:22:26.300 alberta speaking out against this right you can barely even twin a pipeline that's already in 1.00

00:22:31.900 existence without the company leaving in canada but now the government is handing out corporate

00:22:37.740 welfare to the tune of almost 30 billion dollars to these companies and the conservatives are

00:22:42.380 essentially crickets on the sideline as well right where where is the party that is supposed

00:22:46.940 to be looking out for the taxpayer at least like that's the perception that they like to lead on

00:22:51.420 so remember folks this is not about economic calculation they're not thinking about the

00:22:55.260 economic incentives they're just trying to get re-elected and they're trying to buy votes with

00:22:59.500 your money well i'm glad you brought that up that's what some people actually are debating online

00:23:04.460 comparing with well well look we bought you a pipeline out west look at the favors we did for

00:23:09.580 the west it's a pipeline nobody asked them to buy they drove out the private investor that was going

00:23:15.100 to do it in the first place but it also illustrates with the trans mountain expansion when a government

00:23:20.620 plans on something costing this much it always ends up costing that much i mean where's the

00:23:25.820 trans mountain now it started at four and a half billion to purchase and they're getting up 30

00:23:29.500 billion i think oh it's it's it's astronomical okay and let's just talk about that the east

00:23:34.620 versus west because i think this is a very important part of this discussion what they're

00:23:38.380 They're just handing over buckets of cash to multinational corporations to set up shop in southwestern Ontario.

00:23:44.380 You know, you're hearing about all this other type of corporate welfare in Quebec as well.

00:23:47.940 And what do Albertans get?

00:23:49.200 What does the Prairie provinces get?

00:23:51.020 Well, you get a political system that chased away Kinder Morgan when it wanted to invest billions of its own dollars twinning a pipeline that's already in existence.

00:23:59.980 Well, you had the government reject the Northern Gateway pipeline.

00:24:03.360 You had the government move the regulatory goalposts on the Energy East pipeline.

00:24:07.000 then you got a carbon tax then you got a second carbon tax then you got a no more pipelines law

00:24:11.680 then you got a discriminatory tanker ban and oh by the way what happens when president biden

00:24:17.480 pulls the rug out of keystone xl crickets from the federal government it's it's bad news all

00:24:25.620 around it's unfortunate that the regional games happen like they do and the conservatives tend

00:24:29.880 to be silent about it uh just kind of piggyback and i know it's coming something unexpected

00:24:33.640 but it ties together uh one of the things you know some people are saying oh who cares what

00:24:39.200 india thinks it doesn't matter if trudeau is alienated and well the one province that it

00:24:43.780 relies on india as a customer the most in all of canada is actually saskatchewan and uh when when

00:24:49.440 justin trudeau is crushing trade deals that could have benefited saskatchewan again we aren't hearing

00:24:53.920 much uh had it been a quebec or an ontario deal i got a feeling we've been hearing a heck of a lot

00:24:58.080 more about it well look let me tie in the taxpayer angle here what value are we getting from all

00:25:04.060 these international trips that these bureaucrats and politicians are taking seriously right i mean

00:25:09.480 in the news right you have the governor general spending almost three million dollars on travel

00:25:14.100 in one year alone and what value are we getting right what value are we getting for many of this

00:25:19.600 right the governor general and their entourage rack up almost a hundred thousand dollars on fancy

00:25:23.620 airplane food. Well, that's nice for them. We get the bill. Or the governor general spends $71,000

00:25:29.160 on ice limos during a four-day trip to Iceland when the hotel was, what, an eight-minute walk

00:25:34.640 away from the main conference center? Well, that's nice for them. What value are we getting? We just

00:25:39.360 get the bill. So that's another, I think, concerning point here as well with all these international

00:25:45.560 travel. It's clear that they like staying in the fanciest hotels, taking the sweetest rides,

00:25:50.520 and dining on the most fancy cuisine.

00:25:53.580 But it almost seems these days

00:25:54.800 that all taxpayers are getting out of it.

00:25:56.420 It's just a big fat bill.

00:25:58.320 Yeah, and it shows that disconnect.

00:26:00.280 It really does.

00:26:01.300 I was recently reading an article

00:26:02.500 raising some alarms showing Toronto restaurants,

00:26:04.860 their sales are really dropping.

00:26:06.200 People aren't going out to eat.

00:26:07.640 I don't think you need to be a star economist

00:26:09.940 to realize the reason is

00:26:10.800 because people can't afford to.

00:26:11.980 Going out is a luxury.

00:26:13.200 It's expensive.

00:26:14.920 Now you're at that point of going back

00:26:16.420 to kind of how it used to be in the old days.

00:26:17.760 You only go out for special occasions or something

00:26:19.660 if you can at all meanwhile the governor general a hundred thousand dollars in airplane food i i

00:26:25.340 mean they have no clue what common canadians are suffering while they live in the lap of luxury

00:26:29.900 they really don't no they really don't folks believe me when you hear about this bubble that

00:26:34.140 is ottawa it really is a bubble and the reason is because they're living high on the hog and you 0.96

00:26:39.100 just are their favorite atm you're their favorite piggy bank they give themselves pay raises every

00:26:44.140 single year uh we've talked about this many times on this show before cory but they've essentially

00:26:48.460 just continued the gravy train continue the pay raises for themselves continue the bonuses for

00:26:53.340 the government employees so they truly are financially divorced from the reality facing

00:26:59.420 most of your audience corey they truly are and when you get people who are financially divorced

00:27:04.140 from the realities facing their constituents you get these this type of governance that totally

00:27:09.740 doesn't actually take into account the real struggles that people are facing so let's get

00:27:14.780 get back to how they pay for all their overseas junkets or subsidizing some businesses while

00:27:19.960 draining others. The carbon tax, that's still looming out there and still really pressuring

00:27:25.080 Canadians today. Oh, it sure is. I mean, look, the carbon tax is costing the average family,

00:27:31.460 the average family in Alberta, $710 this year, even after the rebates. But it gets worse because

00:27:39.440 on July 1 of this year, the federal government brought in a second carbon tax. Okay. Now Trudeau

00:27:45.920 is going to keep cranking up these carbon taxes until 2030. By that time, the carbon taxes alone

00:27:52.900 will cost 55 cents a liter of gas, will cost the average family in Alberta more than $3,000

00:28:00.620 annually, even after rebates by 2030. So, you know, it's almost like there's just no give here.

00:28:08.000 People are struggling.

00:28:09.260 Mortgage payments through the roof.

00:28:10.940 The price of a hamburger meat is like the price of a good steak used to be, it seems like, right?

00:28:18.560 A jug of milk, a roast chicken.

00:28:20.700 Everything's going through the roof.

00:28:22.240 People are struggling.

00:28:23.760 And meanwhile, the government is doing the one thing or is failing to do the one thing that it can actually control to make life more affordable.

00:28:32.240 And that's end these carbon taxes, right?

00:28:33.800 Because the carbon tax makes gasoline more expensive.

00:28:36.100 It makes a natural gas more expensive.

00:28:37.780 It makes diesel more expensive.

00:28:39.080 And it makes everything that relies on diesel and natural gas more expensive as well, which is almost everything.

00:28:46.160 So as we kind of wrap up here, we know which taxes we'd like to see less of.

00:28:51.360 Now, there's that love affair with Keynesian economics where they feel, though, it would hurt the nation too much if we stopped spending public dollars and pumping them into the economy.

00:29:00.780 I don't think we fully agree with that.

00:29:02.340 So what areas, though, is the cuts have to come?

00:29:04.400 And where can we cut without causing too much damage?

00:29:08.060 Oh, oh, I mean, here's the thing.

00:29:10.420 Okay, a lot of-

00:29:11.420 I know you could do an hour on that.

00:29:12.540 Okay, let me just be very brief.

00:29:14.980 I'll give overall and some brief things.

00:29:17.360 So first of all, it's actually only a modest amount of spending restraint would balance

00:29:21.740 the budget essentially tomorrow.

00:29:23.680 All they would have to do is go back to the all-time high levels of spending before the

00:29:28.960 pandemic in 2018, even adjusted upward for inflation and population growth, a balanced

00:29:33.900 budget.

00:29:34.400 And nobody was claiming that Trudeau was austerity in 2018, right? So it's actually

00:29:40.940 very easy for any government who was even remotely caring about fiscal responsibility to balance the

00:29:46.400 budget. Now, specifics, we talked about some, right? All the stuff at the top, but then you

00:29:51.620 really have to look at the bureaucracy. 98,000 extra bureaucrats hired since Trudeau took power,

00:29:56.620 $1.3 billion in bonuses since 2015, 800,000 pay raises for the government bureaucracy over the

00:30:03.580 last three years. The corporate welfare is obviously a big one, right? $28 billion in

00:30:08.440 total from the government of Ontario and the feds to Stellantis and Volkswagen. Look, we don't need

00:30:13.920 to be subsidizing other provinces forever through equalization. Let's look at the official

00:30:18.840 residences, the National Capital Commission. They're incompetent. They got to go. Here's a 0.98

00:30:23.740 good one. Why does the official opposition leader get a taxpayer-funded mansion? Why does someone

00:30:29.680 who lose the election get a get a taxpayer funded mansion uh that needs to be rethought of uh the

00:30:34.880 cbc right over a billion dollars every single year i mean i could go on and on and on and folks if

00:30:40.880 you are curious about this we have uh published a 75 page budget submission detailing all the

00:30:46.440 different cuts that this federal government could and should make excellent i'm glad you said with

00:30:51.620 that at the end because yes you guys do don't just point out the problems you point out some

00:30:55.220 solutions and I appreciate that. So before I let you go, where can people find that document and

00:31:00.080 other things that you guys are up to? Well, everything's at taxpayer.com. Check out our

00:31:04.660 newsroom, all the good articles there. Check out the petitions. Yeah. And Corey, I just want to

00:31:09.280 thank you so much for letting me come on your show today. Oh, always happy to have you, Franco. Even

00:31:13.360 if most of the news is off and dire, at least you're exposing those things that are important

00:31:17.320 and I really appreciate the work you guys do. So I'll let you get back to digging through all

00:31:21.300 those exciting documents. And I'm sure we'll talk again soon. Take care, Corey. All right. Thanks.

00:31:28.660 So it was Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. As you heard, yeah, he always

00:31:32.480 has many answers and many things to point out. Well worth it. Check them out, guys. The Canadian

00:31:38.220 Taxpayers Federation. Search them out. It's a good group. That's why I have them on that often.

00:31:43.200 And yeah, it gets tough. One of the things I like is, as Franco pointed out, is we can be pretty

00:31:47.840 partisan. And I see a commenter, Shirley Gervais, saying, it seems that the left wing, the right

00:31:51.760 wing, they're all part of the same bird. You know, when you're talking about different parties,

00:31:54.680 that is a frustration. It doesn't matter what side you are on with a party. In fact, it's more

00:32:00.680 important to hold your own party accountable than the other one. You expect the worst of the other

00:32:05.400 guys. So don't let your guy get away with being silent on these things. You've got to call them

00:32:12.700 out. You've got to call out your member of parliament, even if they're a conservative one,

00:32:17.060 or MLA if they're UCP or Saskatchewan party

00:32:20.760 or whatever it is.

00:32:21.320 You can't let them slide into the lazy world

00:32:25.360 of just spending your way out of your problems

00:32:27.680 because they'll all try.

00:32:28.720 They'll all try.

00:32:29.500 And you have to hold them accountable yourself.

00:32:33.440 It's hard.

00:32:34.920 I would say, Mike at Freedom Honey,

00:32:36.020 always love seeing you guys.

00:32:36.940 Yeah, save the bees, don't eat the bugs. 0.97

00:32:38.360 Yeah, I'm still keeping my bees.

00:32:39.600 They're finishing their mite treatment.

00:32:42.220 And I'm not asking for subsidies for it.

00:32:44.220 I'll raise the bees on my own.

00:32:45.220 Just leave me alone,

00:32:45.880 as will Mike at Freedom Honey. Check those guys out, actually. They do good work for veterans

00:32:50.300 and things like that with beekeeping. But yeah, these subsidy wars, this constant taking of money

00:32:56.220 from one place and sticking it in another. Look, guys, if you leave the market free, I know it

00:33:00.460 sounds like I'm the ideologue, but there's truth to it. It will migrate. The capital will migrate.

00:33:04.800 The labor will migrate. They'll go to where they're needed. We will be more functional and

00:33:09.820 healthy for it. One of the things Franco hit quickly, you know, on was equalization. You see

00:33:15.720 equalization, again, you know, it's supposed to be this thing of balancing the country. So everybody

00:33:19.080 has equal services. I mean, we know it's a load of baloney. It's regionally loaded. It always

00:33:23.860 benefits Quebec no matter what, because they just keep giving them exemptions from the equalization

00:33:28.640 formula. But the conservatives won't speak up on that very loudly because they want to keep

00:33:35.200 everybody happy across the country. But how well has it been working? I mean, many of the provinces,

00:33:41.180 if it's going to be a hand up, well, they've been collecting for 50 years. They still aren't

00:33:44.980 up yet. How long do you keep tossing money to the kids in the basement before you say that's enough?

00:33:50.920 You got to get a job. But you see, it creates that imbalance. It actually hindered people from

00:33:57.940 migrating to the money when you take the money and move it to the people, which is an inefficient

00:34:02.940 way to do it. I mean, we saw a lot of that when they were giving in the 90s preferential

00:34:07.140 EI rates, all sorts of things like that to people in the Maritimes, whilst basically just gouging

00:34:13.420 the hell out of Alberta while our economy was going strong. And listen, there were some fantastic

00:34:17.300 Maritimers came out West, and people from all over the country came out West and worked in the

00:34:21.480 energy sector. I worked with them all the time out there. But there was a whole hell of a lot more

00:34:25.520 who sat around on their asses with a growing sense of entitlement, saying, well, I don't care if our 1.00

00:34:29.960 local economy's crap. The country owes it to me to be able to make my bills and stay here. No, 0.99

00:34:34.480 it doesn't actually. It really doesn't. You know, I get a bit of that when I see people talking

00:34:39.640 about the prices of things up in the Arctic. I did four winters in the Arctic. This is part of why

00:34:44.180 I'd rather be here doing alternative media than being in the oil fielding where it was terrible.

00:34:48.020 It was cold as hell up there. Very lucrative. But I mean, in the North Mart and Inuvik or some of

00:34:53.160 those towns, you know, you got Tuk-Tuk-Tuk. Yeah, things are really, really expensive up there.

00:34:57.540 What do you expect? You know, the access is limited to get up there. You can bring dry goods by barge in summertime and the Dempster Highway is very narrow in winter. And then, of course, the ones where you got to fly in early have winter access are even worse. But you know what? It's a choice to live up there. It's a choice. And you choose to live up there. You're going to choose to pay more for your goods and services. That's the way it goes.

00:35:18.840 as long as we keep pumping welfare into keep unsustainable populations sitting around up

00:35:24.060 there, who are we doing a favor to? What are we doing? What are we doing? If they can't afford

00:35:29.260 to sustain themselves, there's no industries, there's nothing going on. It's one of those

00:35:33.060 things that gets me with people who support the reserve system, because when you get the smaller

00:35:36.060 communities in the Arctic, it tends to be Inuit folks and others on isolated reserves up there.

00:35:42.280 Okay, what's the end game? What's the long game for those little communities when they have

00:35:46.540 really no resources assigned from some sustenance, you know, hunting and trapping. Trapping's long

00:35:52.640 gone. They'll hunt some caribou to eat. Good on them, by all means. But otherwise, we're pumping

00:35:58.860 up the main employer as government. In other words, it's work for welfare, and the rest just

00:36:02.200 get direct welfare. What do you see a generation from now? What do you see 60 years, 100 years from

00:36:06.920 now in those communities? What's the point? Is it a little zoo? I know that sounds harsh, but it's

00:36:13.060 truth. Is it where urban people could feel good themselves? Look at these fine Inuit people we've

00:36:17.540 kept up there as a little population that are holding tightly to their cultural norms, and it's

00:36:21.540 important to us, as if you're preserving an animal population in an isolated area. It's kind of how

00:36:25.980 it feels, isn't it? It's wrong, guys. I'm not saying kick everybody out of there either, but we've got

00:36:30.620 to start getting realistic about how and why and how long we're sustaining some populations in areas

00:36:35.300 that don't have the ability to sustain them. It's not doing them any favors. It's not doing us any

00:36:41.340 favors. And maybe if we're not talking about moving the population out, then let's look at

00:36:44.740 some of the resources we can exploit to make it sustainable for them to be there. Are there

00:36:49.760 oil and gas deposits? Are there mining things that they can do? But instead, we're shutting

00:36:55.740 down economic activity and keeping these populations sitting up there where they can't

00:36:59.960 travel outward. They still live modern lives, guys. They're not living in the nice romanticized,

00:37:04.880 you know, at one with earth, you know, nature loving up there and building igloos or any of 0.95

00:37:10.960 that crap. They live in houses with satellite dishes. Now they got Starlink internet. They 0.84

00:37:15.020 got cell phones. They're like anybody else, except they don't have a local means of generating

00:37:19.020 income. So you get this hybrid of a culture, actually. It's kind of got one foot in the old

00:37:24.320 ways and one foot in the modern ways and dysfunctional in almost all ways. And I'm not

00:37:28.820 saying it to be insulting. Look up the stats. Health-wise, life expectancy-wise, education-wise,

00:37:34.680 crime-wise, those isolated reserves are living in misery and they can't escape them. They're

00:37:39.240 walked into these spots. By the way, kind of a side rant, but I mean, we need a hard, unvarnished

00:37:46.220 look at economic policies when we're going to bring them about. Don't talk about what you wish

00:37:50.220 you want to see. Let's talk about what we can do. What's going to make things better? What's going

00:37:53.420 to pay off? So pumping subsidies into electric batteries when nobody wants the frigging things 0.87

00:37:58.480 doesn't change the reality that nobody wants the frigging things. What a boondoggle this is going 0.88

00:38:03.340 to be. What a mess. $20 billion for something nobody wants yet. They're not going to want them

00:38:09.820 later. And then private companies, if they are relying on subsidies, on tax dollars, then they

00:38:17.260 aren't going to be efficient. They aren't going to compete. They aren't going to make a better product.

00:38:21.360 If you have a competitive market, maybe some creative company, inventor, some person is going

00:38:25.460 to come up with a fantastic cost-effective battery and it will ship things to an electric world. But

00:38:30.860 But right now, just pumping more money into technology that isn't ready to serve us yet is stupid. 0.98

00:38:36.800 But when we look at who we keep re-electing as a prime minister, 1.00

00:38:39.720 we shouldn't be so surprised that some things are stupid. 1.00

00:38:44.020 Speaking of stupid, people, most of you have probably seen it. 1.00

00:38:48.300 The Peel School District Board, those guys are nuts. 1.00

00:38:52.140 They truly are. They're absolutely nuts. 1.00

00:38:54.300 Maybe it's just one thing after another with their critical race theory crap 1.00

00:38:57.540 and all of their other junk. It's out in Ontario. 0.99

00:39:00.860 But this latest one that's come out,

00:39:02.560 even the CBC, the state broadcaster, reported on it.

00:39:06.540 They're yanking all of the books out of the school libraries

00:39:09.360 that are older than 2008.

00:39:12.080 Yeah, like there's huge gaps left in the library shelves.

00:39:16.600 And some of the books they pulled

00:39:18.220 because they said they weren't diversive or inclusive enough.

00:39:22.600 Anne Frank's diary has been pulled.

00:39:26.740 Yeah, apparently that's politically incorrect.

00:39:29.400 I don't know how. 0.99

00:39:29.940 I don't know where the logic comes from, but like I said, these people are crazy. They are so. I mean, 1.00

00:39:34.340 you look at that Neely one, she's from a different school board in Ontario as well, and she's 0.86

00:39:38.580 certifiable. I mean, you look at the eyes on that woman and some of the stunts she pulls and the 0.97

00:39:43.060 things she says, yet she's there and she's controlling what gets to your children. So 0.77

00:39:48.160 this is getting really scary though. This is really scary. They don't feel that anything

00:39:53.500 written prior to 2008 is appropriate to put in front of children. Do you know what kind of

00:39:58.920 frightening, chilling, historic revisionism and control of the minds of children we're talking

00:40:04.660 about here? Like, if you can't give some degree of classical history to these children, how are

00:40:11.020 they going to think? But that's the goal. They don't want these kids critically thinking. They

00:40:14.980 don't want common sense. They want to fill their heads with that woke crap that they've been 0.99

00:40:19.500 filling them with for years. If they read actual history, if they read critical thought, if they 0.99

00:40:24.400 read philosophy, if they read records of things that have happened and succeeded and or failed 0.96

00:40:28.960 before them, they probably would drift away from that crazy woke junk. So the school board is trying 0.96

00:40:34.660 to pull the books and access away from these children. Everything beyond 2008. It's insane.

00:40:42.320 It's insane. Even the CBC is calling it out. But will it stop anything? You know, will it change

00:40:49.400 these guys? This is what we got to get back to. This is the part nobody likes hearing, but this

00:40:53.400 of the truth. It's on you. It's on me. Who here can name their local school board trustee?

00:40:59.920 How many people voted for their trustee in the last election? You know, how many people are

00:41:05.200 paying attention to how these whack jobs are getting in there? They're elected to these roles. 0.99

00:41:10.680 That means you do have the power to fire, but you got to get off your ass and do it. 0.99

00:41:14.300 You got to find somebody sane who wants the job. That's a big ask because it's a thankless, 0.99

00:41:18.420 miserable job. And you have to support them and you've got to get them in. The crazy,

00:41:23.400 wackadoodle left has realized that it's these small electric positions where they can really 0.88

00:41:29.780 do the maximum, well, I would call it damage, they say the maximum social engineering to make it such

00:41:35.100 a better fluffy world. And they're winning. They're winning. We let them win. I mean, if we don't get

00:41:42.520 out there and fire them, whose fault is it? So pay attention, learn from these clowns, not learn to 0.99

00:41:48.760 emulate their ideology, but learn how they've come up with the simple solution of taking 0.93

00:41:54.180 advantage of the democratic tools that are right in front of them and using them.

00:41:58.260 Have a look at your school board elections, guys.

00:42:01.040 Nag your neighbors, nag your kids, get out and vote and get these crazy people out of 1.00

00:42:06.380 those roles. 0.90

00:42:06.960 And that can move up as well to the next level, because it seems the lower the level, well,

00:42:10.420 I shouldn't say that, I was going to say the lower the level of government, the crazier

00:42:13.320 the person.

00:42:13.800 But of course, our top level with the prime minister, he's not exactly that close to

00:42:17.240 saying, if you see some of those pictures of him riding like a weirdo on a golf cart over in India,

00:42:22.080 man, that's a strange, strange man. But for the most part, we don't give enough scrutiny to our

00:42:25.900 lower levels of government. That's a better way to put it. You know, think of some of the nutty

00:42:30.120 civic politicians we have in office. Every city's got them, guys. You know, we had that guy,

00:42:37.420 I'm forgetting his name. He was a crazy hippie up in Edmonton. He wanted to flood the streets, 0.90

00:42:41.100 took our Gomberg, and to make people escape to work, to save the environment. He wasn't kidding.

00:42:47.240 Sadly, he passed. He was actually had some serious mental health issues. He jumped off the

00:42:51.420 confederation bridge, but he was unhinged. Dar Hetherington, if we're looking at Alberta

00:42:58.100 things, if you might remember in Lethbridge, this woman took off and made international headlines

00:43:02.360 with a crazy story she did down in the States, claiming to be kidnapped and a whole bunch of

00:43:06.600 things. Nutty. But who put her in there? Well, we did. We've got to actually fire these people,

00:43:14.560 and we haven't been doing it, haven't been doing it, likewise, you know, yeah, the Trans Mountain,

00:43:21.020 I see that I've got that popped up for a bit of a story, it's on the Western Standard, just that

00:43:23.740 reminder for everybody to get on there, guys, this is how we stay independent, this is why we talk

00:43:28.380 about this stuff, this is why I can rant about these things, it's because you guys have subscribed,

00:43:32.460 get out there, $10 a month, $100 for a year, and you don't have to listen to the CBC, you can get

00:43:38.540 past the paywall, Dave is out there, Jonathan's out there, all those folks, we got, you know,

00:43:44.020 Nigel, a great pile of folks putting out great stories, columns, all of that. The reason we can

00:43:49.080 do it is because you subscribe. So please get on there, westernstandard.news slash membership.

00:43:53.520 And if you've already subscribed, thanks. So let's get back to that. Apparently the latest delay with

00:43:58.880 the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the Trans Mountain Catastrophe. I mean, this wasn't even a new

00:44:04.220 pipeline to go in. This is one just going right next to one that's existed since the 50s. We just

00:44:10.480 had to put one right next to it. Can't do it. It's way, way, years and years behind schedule. You

00:44:16.240 know, meanwhile, we lose a premium on the oil that we sell. And it's just been one thing after

00:44:21.820 another. There was a hummingbird nest of not an endangered one or anything like that, but a

00:44:26.340 hummingbird nest. That was a couple of years ago and it cost millions and millions of dollars

00:44:30.160 because they delayed everything over these hummingbird nests out there. It's stupid. Again, 1.00

00:44:34.020 getting back to the stupid part. Well, the latest now is apparently there's a sacred tree near 1.00

00:44:39.760 Kamloops. Sacred tree. And it's going to cost almost a hundred million dollars. It's going to

00:44:45.900 just delay construction by another year. We might not actually see oil in that thing until 2025,

00:44:51.740 late 2025. This is crazy. It's a tree. Come on. There's always somebody going to say it's sacred.

00:44:59.120 Always. Cut it down. Give them a new one. Give them 10 new trees. How many trees can you get

00:45:05.080 for a hundred million dollars? Just spend a million dollars. Give them a million dollars

00:45:08.480 were the trees. This is dumb. Sacred tree. We got a degree of respect for the people who live 1.00

00:45:14.700 along the right-of-ways of these pipelines, but let's face it, some of these guys are feeding us 0.82

00:45:19.240 a load of crap when they throw every roadblock they can in front of the progress and make their 0.89

00:45:23.440 excuses. Sacred tree. It's a tree. That's it. But we're allowing it to cost us 100 billion dollars. 0.99

00:45:33.440 I don't know how we're ever going to get out of this stuff, guys.

00:45:38.240 Side note, I'll finish on one thing where some people will maybe disagree with me,

00:45:41.700 but that's fine.

00:45:42.400 People do all the time.

00:45:43.260 I see that settlement with Stephen Gilboa and Ezra Levant and Rebel took him to court

00:45:47.660 over him blocking them on Twitter.

00:45:51.840 And they won.

00:45:52.800 He got a $20,000 settlement, and basically Gilboa has to allow Ezra to see him on Twitter.

00:45:57.840 You know what?

00:45:58.100 I don't agree.

00:45:59.240 I don't agree.

00:45:59.820 I don't like Gilboa.

00:46:00.600 I think Ezra and Rebel does some great stuff.

00:46:03.940 I just don't think they should be legally obligated

00:46:06.800 to allow anybody and everybody to look at their Twitter account.

00:46:09.300 You can open a side Twitter account if you've been blocked

00:46:11.960 and just watch and see what they're putting out.

00:46:14.720 They're not hiding anything that much from you.

00:46:16.520 Twitter is not owned by the government, nor should it be.

00:46:19.760 So I don't know.

00:46:21.340 It was just an odd settlement.

00:46:22.520 I mean, I do like seeing Gilboa slapped down.

00:46:24.700 There's certainly no doubt about that.

00:46:26.300 I just don't think this was a move in the right direction.

00:46:29.060 It was just a weird ruling, but whatever, we'll see.

00:46:32.720 It's not the worst thing we've seen coming out of our courts.

00:46:34.540 And of course, by the way, one last thing, Olivia, of course, the court case is going

00:46:38.140 on for the convoy organizers, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.

00:46:42.900 So watch for the news coming out on that on the Western Standard, guys.

00:46:47.180 That's all the time I've got for today.

00:46:49.000 Tune into the pipeline.

00:46:49.920 We're going to be recording that a little later too.

00:46:51.580 It'll be airing tonight and we'll be covering a bunch more subjects with some other folks

00:46:55.980 on a panel.

00:46:56.680 So thank you all for tuning in today, guys.

00:46:59.060 And I'll see you all again at this time next week.

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00:47:08.860 Cash barley is holding at $3.40.

00:47:11.080 Feed wheat is unchanged at $3.58, while corn slipped $3 to $3.55.

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Western Standard - September 14, 2023

CMS： Trudeau has destroyed Canada’s international reputation

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