Western Standard - CMS： Trudeau’s war on grocers will raise food prices and cause shortages

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.240 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. This is my weekly period where I can spend an hour

00:00:37.600 turning your ear, giving you my views, ranting about current issues and talking to interesting

00:00:43.160 people. What a crazy week we got going on this week. So many news stories. You know, sometimes

00:00:47.900 you got to sit down in the morning, try and think of what I'm going to write about or talk about.

00:00:52.240 Today, it was just a matter of trying to figure out which ones to prioritize. There's stuff going

00:00:57.120 on all over the place. I guess after a summer, you know, of people worrying about vacations and

00:01:02.600 taking a break and things like that, everything built up. And once the fall hit, the political

00:01:07.980 world went bananas. And it certainly is. I got a good show coming up today. I like to think they're

00:01:13.400 all good. Be sure to use those comments, by the way. I like that. You know, let's get that

00:01:18.160 interactivity going in there, guys. Send questions my way, comments my way. I do see them all. I

00:01:22.500 don't necessarily read them all out. But again, discuss things with each other. Just keep it

00:01:28.120 civil. That's all for guests today. I've been looking forward to this. I've got Sam Cooper

00:01:33.720 coming on. He's an investigative journalist. He's really been leading the file for pretty much a

00:01:39.020 year on the Chinese interference issue going on in elections and with government and in general.

00:01:45.540 And he's got his news outlet, the Bureau. And it seems as well now we're talking about Indian

00:01:51.280 interference. Well, the Trudeau government was warned about that as well, yet they chose not

00:01:56.780 to do anything about it. I wanted to talk to Mr. Cooper mostly about the inquiry that's finally

00:02:02.480 going to get going, and we'll cover a little bit of that. But now with this Indian debacle opening 1.00

00:02:07.060 up, we've got even more to expand into. It just goes and goes and goes. So getting me warmed up

00:02:14.080 and thinking about it and starting on Justin Trudeau, one of my favorite people to talk about

00:02:18.640 on this show. I can't wait till I speak about him in the past tense, but for now he's still our

00:02:23.160 Prime Minister. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he desperately wanted an investigation he initiated

00:02:29.420 by the Competition Bureau to find evidence of price gouging by retail grocers. So he must have

00:02:35.340 been terribly disappointed when the report found that not only were grocers not gouging citizens

00:02:40.580 on food prices, but their profits were also modest in the words of the authors. That's it,

00:02:45.020 Modest is what they called them.

00:02:46.900 Net profit margins for major grocery retailers sits around 3.6%.

00:02:51.820 That's pretty thin.

00:02:53.800 Now, the Liberal government's been collapsing in the polls, and Trudeau is desperate.

00:02:58.960 He ignored the results of his own study and jumped out there,

00:03:02.460 and he's trying to blame the grocers yet again for the food price increases.

00:03:07.100 Now, he's taking a threatening tone with them.

00:03:09.540 He said he'll impose taxes on grocers if they can't tell them how they will lower grocery prices by Thanksgiving, which is just a few weeks away.

00:03:18.100 Now, even if those grocers decided to be completely altruistic and become nonprofit organizations, the price drops on food would be negligible at best.

00:03:26.040 Again, they only got 3.6% to work with.

00:03:28.900 Shareholders, of course, would say, to heck with that.

00:03:30.460 Then they're barely making anything anyways.

00:03:31.680 They'd flee.

00:03:32.880 And stores would start closing.

00:03:34.560 We wouldn't see new ones constructed.

00:03:35.960 And we would actually see food shortages.

00:03:38.120 is. Not only is Trudeau ignoring the results of his own data, but he's also playing loose with

00:03:43.580 his language in an effort to villainize Canadian businesses. He angrily spits out the words record

00:03:49.020 profits as if profits are an evil thing. Those record profits are due to a declining dollar

00:03:54.400 and a growing volume of sales. They're not taking any more as far as profit margins go. As long as

00:04:00.480 their margins remain in the realm of 3.6%, nobody's getting a windfall here. What will Trudeau's taxes

00:04:06.480 look like when these grocers fail in finding savings where they don't exist? I mean, how on

00:04:12.980 earth would laying a tax upon grocers reduce prices for anybody? I mean, we've got liberal

00:04:17.940 simpletons and they've been flooding social media and cheering Trudeau's war with the grocers. They

00:04:22.360 want easy solutions to complex problems, but it just never works that way. The numbers look big

00:04:27.840 because there's only five major grocery chains in Canada. They have to operate in high volumes in

00:04:33.360 order to keep the prices down. Logistics, buying power, training efficiency, and management systems,

00:04:38.400 they're all superior with large businesses. That's why products usually cost more at farmers markets,

00:04:44.200 for example, where you're buying direct from a producer than they do at the big box store.

00:04:48.160 If we did do something as ridiculous as forcing big box stores to break up, you know, in some sort

00:04:55.780 of antitrust legislation, grocery prices would go through the roof and selection would go into the 0.99

00:04:59.720 toilet. Nobody suggested that yet, but if Trudeau thinks he can somehow make food prices get lower

00:05:04.740 through adding taxes to them, I won't put anything beyond them. He's the man who said budgets balance

00:05:08.740 themselves. Now, the heads of Canada's largest grocery chains, they dutifully attended a meeting

00:05:13.500 with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry,

00:05:18.020 Francois-Philippe Champagne, this week. They came from the meeting and said, well, they'll see if

00:05:22.700 they can find ways to stabilize food prices. They took part in Trudeau's theater, made their

00:05:27.820 statements, but nothing's going to change. The grocers know that. Economists know that. Anybody

00:05:32.600 with even the tiniest understanding of basic economics knows that. The thing that's questionable

00:05:37.240 is whether or not Trudeau knows that. If the Prime Minister imposes taxes on an industry claiming that

00:05:42.540 a 3.6% profit margin is a windfall, he's going to send shockwaves to the Canadian economy.

00:05:48.240 What businesses are going to be next? Most industries have higher margins than that.

00:05:52.880 Dairy farmers, for example, they have profit margins around 20%. Supply management systems

00:05:56.660 serving them well. Canada's inflationary situation is due to several factors. We've got

00:06:01.540 high new taxes, such as the carbon tax. We've got massive immigration numbers adding to demand as 0.92

00:06:06.500 they need housing and food like everybody else. We've got ongoing supply chain issues going on

00:06:11.880 and lingering still from the pandemic lockdowns. And of course, we've got the massive debt the

00:06:15.800 government's taken on. Until all those issues are somehow addressed, Canada's going to see

00:06:20.040 continued inflation. Going after grocery retailers, it won't do a damn thing. Trudeau's desperately

00:06:25.460 seeking distractions from his own dismal record as his public support evaporates. Just like his

00:06:30.600 bombshell about India allegedly assassinating a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil. Why did Trudeau

00:06:36.880 wait until the day Parliament opened before making those allegations? And why hasn't Trudeau

00:06:41.880 expanded upon or provided some evidence then of such a serious charge? Let's pray this isn't a

00:06:47.280 stunt on the part of Trudeau. It's terrifying to think that a governing party is diplomatically

00:06:52.180 and economically is inept as the Trudeau liberals might still have two more years of power ahead of

00:06:57.160 it. So guys, yeah, the food crisis, it's just warming up, guys. It's going to get worse, I'm

00:07:02.860 afraid. That's what's got me wound up today. And, you know, lots to keep me going on that one.

00:07:09.200 The amount of economic illiteracy I've seen on social media between others and so on on this

00:07:15.300 issue has just been astounding. So, I mean, you know, people, you got to wake up. I know you

00:07:20.760 don't like seeing those higher prices, you see them at the counter. That's the reason it gets

00:07:24.080 targeted at the grocer's levels, because that's where you see the high cost. But it doesn't mean

00:07:28.820 necessarily that that's where they're coming from. It's a little more complicated than that.

00:07:32.860 All right, let's check in and see all that other stuff that's going on with our news editor,

00:07:36.580 Dave Naylor. So hey there, Dave, how's it going in there today?

00:07:40.440 Pretty good, Corey. There was a definite chill in the air this morning, though,

00:07:43.860 wasn't there? Winter's on its way.

00:07:45.240 Oh, it is. I'm not wanting to talk.

00:07:47.460 Well, you know the good thing about autumn and the fall is NFL football.

00:07:51.980 And I know you're a big fan, Corey.

00:07:53.900 So you must have watched the mighty Seahawks victory last Sunday against Detroit.

00:07:59.080 What a game.

00:07:59.580 What a squad.

00:08:00.940 It did.

00:08:01.720 It was actually a pretty close one there against what used to be the hapless Detroit, actually.

00:08:06.660 Yeah, they're pretty good, though.

00:08:07.700 I'm sorry.

00:08:08.240 Who's your team?

00:08:08.840 I forget.

00:08:09.540 Hey, the Steelers are one and one now.

00:08:13.060 Nobody cares about the Steelers. 0.72

00:08:14.680 Their offense stinks.

00:08:15.920 But hey, look at what's going to kill it for him.

00:08:18.580 There you go. 0.95

00:08:19.400 So yeah, you hit it on the head.

00:08:20.820 Holy cow, what a news week, eh?

00:08:22.900 No rest for the wicked for us this week.

00:08:25.520 Today we're focused on the 1 million March for Children that's happening across Canada as we speak, Corey.

00:08:32.640 And holy cow, these people are turning out by the tens of thousands.

00:08:37.860 Streets of Ottawa around Parliament Hill are just packed.

00:08:40.980 it's certainly the biggest demonstration they've seen there since the truckers freedom convoy

00:08:47.080 toronto has a huge turnout in calgary right now there's about a thousand people in front of the

00:08:53.740 federal harry hayes building and they're they're marching to city hall where they'll be met by

00:08:58.480 no doubt other people so yeah that's it's big story across canada today and we've got reporters

00:09:05.720 all over the place that'll be filing stories on that.

00:09:09.540 Other stories you can click on this morning

00:09:11.460 is our energy expert, Sean Polzer,

00:09:14.040 has spent the week down at the World Petroleum Congress

00:09:17.100 down at the Roundup Centre in Calgary.

00:09:19.980 And he says it's been a story of mixed opportunities

00:09:22.660 and mixed messages.

00:09:24.760 As the feds say one thing and Alberta says another.

00:09:29.040 So it's a really good column from Sean there.

00:09:32.360 Speaking of columns, our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford,

00:09:36.360 He's got a really good one on the Trudeau announcement on the Indian government assassination of a Canadian citizen.

00:09:44.180 And he's got four points about it that really don't make any sense.

00:09:47.740 And you're certainly right.

00:09:49.600 There is more to this story to come.

00:09:52.280 And British Prime Minister Sunak announced today that Great Britain will be rolling back their targets for energy cars,

00:10:00.420 not energy cars, for electric vehicles.

00:10:03.360 They say it's just too costly right now.

00:10:05.440 and they're rolling it back for several years.

00:10:08.800 And speaking of Trudeau, he's at the UN today

00:10:11.160 and he's going the other way, as we know, Corey.

00:10:14.160 He's Mr. Climate and he's telling the world

00:10:16.780 how great Canada is and all we're doing.

00:10:20.320 Even though he's making life unaffordable

00:10:22.860 for the rest of us at the moment.

00:10:24.900 Yeah, he's certainly going to some great pains

00:10:27.240 to save us all from ourselves, isn't he?

00:10:30.020 That's it.

00:10:31.060 So yeah, keep coming back to the website this afternoon.

00:10:34.060 we'll have continuing coverage of the big marches across Canada today.

00:10:39.500 Right on. Thanks, Dave. I'll let you get back to it. I know you got a mountain to manage today

00:10:43.560 there. Certainly do. Thanks, Corey. All right. Thanks. So that was our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:10:48.320 And yeah, we just, like I said, this week has just been kicking off with a mountain of stories

00:10:54.360 going on. We've got reporters all over covering things, writing on it as much as they can and

00:10:59.320 getting it out to you guys. So this is where an agian remind you, though, the reason we can stay 0.97

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00:11:43.680 It's just like an old newspaper subscription used to be. It's just now we spread it around a little

00:11:48.000 more. And yeah, I'm going to talk a little more about that. It's something I'm going to write on

00:11:51.380 later. Another interesting thing I saw, you know, breaking last night, kind of, it was an announcement

00:11:56.600 of a $3 billion loan that's going to finance nuclear reactors in Romania. Now, so here we are,

00:12:05.920 we've got the Alberta government that's being told, hey, you guys have somehow got to come down

00:12:10.180 to net zero by 2035 for your electrical generation, or we're going to put emission caps on your prime

00:12:14.780 industries and punish you. But meanwhile, we're going to give $3 billion, or at least in loan

00:12:20.500 guarantees to Romania to build reactors. Now, I know it's going a little farther back, but if you

00:12:25.660 look at the history of can-do reactors in Romania, Canada actually supplied them or tried to supply

00:12:30.580 them with five back at the late 80s, and it turned into a complete debacle. It was a mess. Only two

00:12:37.080 of them got completed, and they are running right now. Three of them are sitting to this day half

00:12:41.700 completed, and now we're going to guarantee loans for a bunch more reactors for Romania. Nothing

00:12:50.100 against the Romanians. They're trying to climb up from an old communist economy. I understand that, 0.61

00:12:54.640 But we have some economic challenges ourself.

00:12:57.700 And I tell you what, Romania is not a good credit risk.

00:13:00.700 It's one of the most corrupt countries in Eastern Europe.

00:13:02.860 They got some fantastic people, but they've got some challenges.

00:13:06.420 And putting billions into yet another reactor debacle with them

00:13:09.700 is really asking for a lot of trouble, guys.

00:13:13.900 So why? Why are they so fixated on it?

00:13:16.060 You know, I'm writing a column on this and looking into it,

00:13:18.480 learning more as I go.

00:13:19.640 I didn't realize, but yeah, the whole can-do energy company actually

00:13:22.360 was bought by, lo and behold, SNC-Lavalin.

00:13:26.300 Well, great.

00:13:27.320 There's a company known for its above-the-board overseas dealings, isn't it?

00:13:31.240 I can see why they could get along with the players in Romania

00:13:34.580 in having government-funded things like reactors built over there.

00:13:38.520 Guys, we've got some big issues going on in this country.

00:13:41.980 And this one just floored me.

00:13:43.220 Again, I want to see Romania prosper in doing as well as they can,

00:13:48.140 becoming more energy independent.

00:13:49.500 But again, if we're going to electrify Canada,

00:13:51.740 we got to start spending those dollars here. Where's the Western Canadian reactors? Where's

00:13:55.760 the talk about that? Not hearing about it. All we're hearing out here is more of the punitive

00:14:00.120 side of things as to why, again, the Western Canadian energy industry, of course, are the

00:14:05.940 bad guys who have been polluting Canada's environment and the world, you know, and the

00:14:10.640 rest. So yeah, lots going. But okay, stay on the foreign file. As I said earlier, I've been looking 0.53

00:14:16.320 forward to speaking to him. I've got, he's in the lobby there, investigative journalist Sam

00:14:21.160 Cooper of the Bureau and he started that up and he's just been on top of the foreign interference

00:14:25.660 file all year long on the Chinese foreign interference. And now the Indian issue has

00:14:32.640 broken amidst it just to take an already crazy issue and make it even more so and more complicated

00:14:38.900 and I'd say more tenuous at this point considering the announcements from Justin Trudeau this week.

00:14:45.300 So as well, the Bureau came out with a story right afterwards talking about this Indian

00:14:50.700 interference issue wasn't all that new. The Trudeau government was aware of it and like

00:14:55.200 others, they chose not to act. So we'll get Sam to expand on that. So thank you very much for

00:14:59.460 joining us today, Sam. Thanks for having me, Corey. So I, as I was saying in the lead in,

00:15:05.500 you know, we've got so much going on, it's hard to see how much to cover. But I mean,

00:15:09.760 it was quite a bombshell. I mean, to hear the leader of a nation say in parliament that

00:15:15.480 another nation has had agents assassinate somebody on our soil. I mean, that's pretty,

00:15:21.020 this is serious as it gets. But I mean, it kind of, I guess, overshadows the fact that whether

00:15:28.820 or not that's, you know, the accuracy or proof going on with that, that this could be a consequence

00:15:35.080 of them ignoring warnings from the security agencies again years ago. Yeah, that's right.

00:15:40.320 What my exclusive report for the Bureau revealed was that I've been tracking, as you know, sensitive, internal, confidential Canadian records for a while now.

00:15:51.100 These are what led to the bombshells about China's election interference.

00:15:55.360 But I learned from my documents and sources that the concerns of CSIS are, of course, China is the number one threat. 0.65

00:16:03.540 Russia, of course, is in that interference mix deeply and has been always. 0.75

00:16:08.500 But India as well.

00:16:10.320 a democracy a huge economy but CSIS is concerned deeply involved in both our electoral politics

00:16:18.400 our institutions and perhaps more importantly like China they are using and targeting their 1.00

00:16:25.280 large diaspora in Canada to interfere and so that uh when I knew that I had a lot of information on

00:16:33.440 CSIS's blocked efforts to roll up and intervene against these Indian intelligence networks being

00:16:40.640 run out of consulates in Canada and so when Mr Trudeau dropped his bombshell seemingly out of

00:16:46.400 nowhere in Parliament I knew it was time to bring out my evidence from documents that said indeed

00:16:52.640 CSIS wanted to move forward with the threat reduction powers as you recall given to them

00:16:59.120 by the harper government really to target and uh roll back terrorist networks in this case cesus

00:17:05.520 was so concerned that indian intelligence was so deep into communities uh in vancouver that they

00:17:12.800 wanted to intervene target a diplomat there and uh it's a long story that i'll make short because

00:17:19.760 i've repeated it over and over again trudeau's government blocked this intervention because

00:17:25.680 global affairs canada values trade uh deals diplomacy political wins with other governments

00:17:33.440 in this case india uh other agencies other departments in ottawa were worried that this

00:17:39.120 was too politically sensitive for ceases to dive into vancouver and also as you recall prime minister

00:17:45.200 trudeau's big trip to india was planned for 2018 so in a nutshell ceases plan to intervene was

00:17:52.880 blocked in ottawa and they did nothing in vancouver so when i heard that now mr trudeau is uh

00:17:59.040 alleging india has ties to this assassination of a sikh separatist leader in vancouver this was the

00:18:06.400 sikh community was the one targeted and infiltrated according to csis they wanted to intervene they 0.76

00:18:12.800 couldn't and so we can ask the fair question do hostile state activities such as not only spying

00:18:20.080 on Canadians, but in this case, allegedly being close to or involved in an assassination,

00:18:26.320 can these activities build up because Justin Trudeau's government hasn't intervened against

00:18:31.920 India, and more importantly, China? So as you say, there's so much politics involved here. But

00:18:38.080 again, I want to stress, this is a story I've now reported at the Bureau. After only a few

00:18:44.040 months in operation, again and again, it refers to the Chinese so-called police stations in Canada

00:18:50.160 Again, Trudeau's government, warned since 2015, literally took no action until my stories brought really a lot of this activity to light.

00:18:59.080 At least now we're having a debate about it.

00:19:01.400 Your stories have been driving this whole issue, and it really is appreciated.

00:19:06.540 I mean, when we talk about we pride ourselves as being a safe haven for populations to come from other nations if they've been oppressed or they're in danger.

00:19:14.700 And when we're seeing so much evidence that they're still being intimidated here, whether it's Chinese immigrants to Canada, and now, of course, potentially the worst possible outcome with a Sikh person on our soil, I mean, it's just unbelievable that it's led to this.

00:19:31.920 That's right. I talked to a former BC federal conservative politician who lost in the 2021

00:19:39.320 election. But the point she made that is that she and her family came from Korea to live a better

00:19:45.900 life, to run away from those geopolitical concerns facing off North Korea, where they were living.

00:19:52.080 And as an MP, she found that similarly, immigrant communities were coming to her and saying,

00:19:58.420 We're being chased, surveilled, targeted by hostile foreign regimes on Canadian soil, and CSIS and the RCMP know about it, but aren't equipped to protect us in this democracy that we came to.

00:20:12.700 So she argued that, of course, we need a deep inquiry to look into these issues, but she would be aligned with many people that have said, as the evidence has showed, as I've reported, above all, the Trudeau government has really let down the very multiculturalism that this country is supposed to support.

00:20:35.020 Canada clearly needs laws such as a foreign agent registry that the United States has

00:20:40.560 and has used, by the way, to crack down on Chinese transnational repression.

00:20:45.700 And yet in Ottawa, we've learned this week that nowhere on the Trudeau government agenda

00:20:50.960 is tabling foreign agent registry yet.

00:20:54.280 No, and I mean, it is diplomatically sensitive.

00:20:57.380 I mean, we have huge trade ties with China.

00:21:00.040 Every developed nation does now.

00:21:01.600 it could potentially be a growing relationship with India, I guess. You don't want to 0.86

00:21:06.560 constantly be battling with them, but at the same time, you can't be a pushover. I mean,

00:21:10.260 if the registry didn't seriously hinder trade between the United States and China,

00:21:15.560 there's no reason to believe such a registry, if done correctly, would cause too much diplomatic

00:21:20.480 damage within Canada. Oh, it has to be done correctly. And there are examples out there

00:21:25.900 for Canada to lean on. Of course, Australia facing the very same deep interference and attacks

00:21:32.620 on their democracy from China acted years ago. As the documents I've reported on have said,

00:21:39.940 Prime Minister Trudeau was directly led to the example of Australia and now other countries.

00:21:45.180 And so look, the model is out there. And as pretty much any reasonable Canadian expert I'm aware of

00:21:51.660 says, look, this is now a tool of modern democracies.

00:21:55.440 The world is getting tougher out there.

00:21:57.540 If you don't have, you know, a fair law such as this in place,

00:22:01.420 you're leaving your populations wide open to, let's just come out and say it,

00:22:06.780 essentially secret police activity on Canadian soil.

00:22:10.940 And one thing I'd like to add, Corey, I, you know,

00:22:13.900 among any other reporters that are chasing down this story,

00:22:17.020 Again and again, my reports have pointed to the use by these hostile foreign nations. 0.91

00:22:24.260 I won't name them all here, but China and Russia would be at the top of the list.

00:22:29.120 The direct use of organized crime elements in diaspora communities, which is completely unacceptable and is something that the United States is cracking down on for sure.

00:22:40.680 Absolutely.

00:22:41.160 Absolutely. So, I mean, you know, this is just, I guess, we're seeing the results of what's a huge

00:22:45.720 and boiling issue that's been going for quite some time. It took a lot of pressure, a lot of arm

00:22:49.880 twisting, a lot of foot dragging, but it sounds like we might finally have a public inquiry

00:22:54.700 getting rolling. They broadened the terms of it to go beyond China and into others. At first,

00:23:00.820 I thought maybe this was a way to dilute it, but it sounds to me that if you're going to do the

00:23:04.560 inquiry, actually, we should be looking at every nation. I guess it's probably a good thing.

00:23:08.880 Yeah, you know, I have complex thoughts on this. I have been open to the thinking that there's definitely some people that would like to make this an inquiry about, you know, chasing rabbit holes about who was behind the convoy, looking at Russia, looking at United States politicians, which would be a mistake.

00:23:28.520 But what is not a mistake, I believe, would be to focus 90% more on China because all the experts, former thesis officers say, by far, China is the most deeply involved threat in Canada. But yes, Russia and India are also, you know, as my reports have shown, documented to be big threats that use many of the same tactics.

00:23:51.440 And now I suppose Prime Minister Trudeau has come out and without revealing too many details, at least alleged that he too believes India is involved in deep operations in Canada.

00:24:03.700 So I would say to sum up, let's focus on China, but let's also understand, as I say, that China uses proxies, it targets the diaspora, it uses any element, including front and center organized crime actors, and the concerns are that Russia and potentially India are using those same methods.

00:24:24.920 so of course we should look at whether they are and uh i've said to others cory we don't just

00:24:31.280 need a foreign agent registry if we're dealing with criminal proxies we need stronger laws

00:24:36.260 against transnational crime as well well yeah we have to keep all of our canadians safe

00:24:41.560 particularly our newer ones that we've brought in and they're getting you know people from taiwan

00:24:45.360 people from china dealing with that and now as we said you know when i don't know if ukrainian

00:24:50.800 citizens may be getting pressure from Russian sources. Like, we're supposed to be the safe

00:24:55.820 haven. It won't necessarily be easy, but we got to get started on this. But again, our relations

00:25:02.220 with India now have certainly been as chilly as we've ever seen them. CSIS must have provided 1.00

00:25:07.580 the prime minister with some information, at least pointing towards that. But is there more

00:25:12.680 that could be released then to clarify on what's going on? Because it really just seems to have

00:25:17.080 made a mess. Well I would agree with that and I think a lot of people are scratching their heads

00:25:23.040 about the way this information was disclosed. Look there were already enough indications that

00:25:28.480 RCMP national security and I believe organized crime units probably were looking at this

00:25:35.160 targeted shooting outside a temple in Vancouver this summer and that's not a surprise to me 0.99

00:25:41.680 Because if you remember, the Air India mastermind was also executed in recent years and police were not shy and saying it could be anything from organized crime, state sponsored crime, potentially another state.

00:25:56.900 You take your pick. And let's not forget, my reports have already shown that CSIS believes not only are they worried about India being active in Canada, but they're worried about Pakistan being similarly active in Canada.

00:26:11.680 to counter india so when i boil all this down uh will prime minister trudeau be able to produce

00:26:17.680 more evidence you would think he has some sort of document but does he want to produce more evidence

00:26:23.600 and could this just uh i'm not and others aren't convinced you know how clear could the line to

00:26:30.320 india be or could it just be going into a rat's nest of uh networks that could include uh

00:26:37.040 intelligence agencies, internessing rivalries at this temple, organized crime. It could be

00:26:44.340 anything. And you're right when you say, I think Canadians need more because there's now an

00:26:50.020 international diplomatic crisis underway. Well, and we have large Indian communities in Canada

00:26:56.980 and Calgary and Vancouver, everywhere. You know, they're fantastic Canadians. They're a complicated

00:27:01.420 society. You have their Sikh populations, the Hindu populations. I can't imagine this has aided

00:27:08.840 with feelings within the community of new Canadians. It had nothing to do with all of this

00:27:13.440 mess, but they start turning the side eye at your neighbors sometimes. I believe that's right. And

00:27:19.040 we've seen it already, you know, in our wonderful Chinese, Canadian, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Canadian

00:27:25.440 communities look uh politicians like former conservative kenny chu out in richmond bc came

00:27:32.000 out and told me in my book willful blindness we're seeing tooth and nail diaspora battles

00:27:38.400 in the asian canadian community between essentially what we can call you know pro-democracy forces

00:27:44.640 and uh what would be uh you know the the communities that side more with beijing's hardliners

00:27:51.840 and it why is it happening essentially it's because canada doesn't have the right laws in

00:27:57.920 place to support democracy and to make sure that uh uh when we're in canada you know you're going

00:28:04.320 to of course you can uh express your views but the that doesn't enable you whatever regime you

00:28:10.800 may be friendly to another country to spy on your neighbor and you're right now that uh you know

00:28:16.400 know, what we see happening, the allegations in Parliament Hill this week, it can only lead to

00:28:22.880 more, you know, more distrust within diaspora communities in Canada. So CSIS, I mean, you can 0.92

00:28:30.380 sense the frustration coming from some people within it. They know their mandate, they've worked

00:28:34.040 hard, they're trying to make the government aware and prevent these things, but they get ignored.

00:28:39.080 And that's, I'm imagining why some of these documents end up getting leaked out. And, you

00:28:44.520 know, further you put it forth. That's not, I guess, the ideal way for security documents to

00:28:49.240 come out. But if if there's no other option, if the government's stonewalling them, you can see

00:28:54.720 these leaks continuing. I can confirm exactly what you say. Of course, speaking very carefully,

00:29:00.820 there are legal actions underway. I need to be careful to protect my sources to protect myself

00:29:06.820 indeed, but I can confirm that it's gone beyond frustration. It's fair to say that people in

00:29:14.600 Canadian institutions for years have been approaching me because they believe, one,

00:29:20.580 first of all, for decades, most specifically with China, Canadian governments, that is,

00:29:26.040 successive prime ministers have been targeted. Some governments have responded better than others,

00:29:31.820 But the situation since 2015, coincidentally to Xi Jinping rolling out more forcefully what we call his United Front Interference Networks and the Trudeau government not responding to this threat.

00:29:46.120 the situation has become so dire in Canada that indeed people that walk around with badges to

00:29:53.360 protect Canada came to me and said they don't see any other path but for an established journalist

00:30:00.160 on this file to tell Canadians what's really going on. And by the way, they say that Canadians still

00:30:06.620 don't know the half. There's sensitive information I have I can't report. There's information too

00:30:11.920 sensitive for people to even share with me so i do believe uh there's many people in canada's

00:30:17.360 government that uh that i won't mince words here when they say words like elite capture or in other

00:30:24.720 countries state capture look that is what china is trying to do in canada and so there are people

00:30:31.600 on the inside that are concerned that uh not only are politicians captured but you know whole

00:30:37.520 segments of institutions may be under the sway of foreign states which is unacceptable and yet

00:30:44.080 we still don't have the reasonable laws that our allies have to counter uh these attacks on our

00:30:50.080 democracy as it's such a shame i know you're not gonna let up on this issue uh you're very

00:30:58.000 persistent and you've been doing a fantastic job before i let you go you've got your your book on

00:31:02.720 this and uh the the bureau uh where can we point our viewers to find out more in detail on what

00:31:07.920 you've been doing sam sure you can go to uh the bureau.news uh for now i'm on sub stack i'm

00:31:15.280 building up a strong list of subscribers we've got a great community there and as i say pushing out

00:31:21.280 these international breaking stories takes a lot of time it takes legal support so i really

00:31:26.800 appreciate you know everyone that can come to the page read the stories and support you can find me

00:31:32.240 on Twitter at Scooper Cooper, which will lead to my page and my book. And I hope there's a lot of

00:31:38.680 international reporting and breaking news in the future. And I'm working towards that.

00:31:43.400 Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us today and for the work you've been doing, Sam.

00:31:47.060 And I hope we get to talk again soon. My pleasure, Corey.

00:31:50.660 All right. Thank you. So as you heard, that was Sam Cooper. And yes, he's just been all over this.

00:31:56.020 If it weren't for him, I don't think this issue would be where it is. I think most people can

00:32:00.480 agree on that. And that reminder at the end, we were talking about independent media, talking

00:32:04.320 about how to keep up on these things. Get on there, go to thebureau.news. He's working as an

00:32:09.760 independent investigative journalist now. He needs support to do that. When I booked him,

00:32:15.400 when I was trying to get him a while ago, actually he was over in Taiwan. Like he's on the ground

00:32:19.340 getting the information directly, working on these things. And it costs money. It takes resources. So

00:32:27.000 you know, keep supporting these journalists because we've seen, you know, this isn't coming

00:32:30.560 up from legacy media anymore. It's coming up through other sources. They're afraid to shake

00:32:35.640 the boat. They don't want to scare their, their liberal masters and, and guys like Sam have been

00:32:40.380 holding their feet to the fire. And it's so important. I mean, this is huge. It's huge.

00:32:45.360 Whatever happened with that, that shooting in Vancouver, if indeed, I mean, I don't know,

00:32:52.000 But if we've had a foreign government, you know, assassinating somebody on our soil, 0.91

00:32:58.100 I know some people have been bringing up the history of the guy who was shot and talking

00:33:02.920 about how it sounds like he was a pretty bad actor in a number of fronts.

00:33:06.240 Yes, that's true.

00:33:07.520 But our ground is not the place to come over and do that.

00:33:11.760 It's not acceptable.

00:33:13.580 But again, for Trudeau to come out and point to India and say the government was behind

00:33:18.820 it and then not follow up with more evidence on it. He's just made tensions worse. He's made

00:33:26.080 things worse. And as we've seen, as we just heard from Sam there, they knew. They knew this was an

00:33:33.060 issue. They knew there were potential solutions. There were things that we could do, a registry,

00:33:36.920 other stuff like that. And the Trudeau government has just kept putting it off and pushing it away

00:33:40.640 and putting it off. But I mean, that's kind of a hallmark of the Trudeau government though,

00:33:44.020 isn't it? He doesn't like taking the tough road on things. Diplomacy is tough. It is. It's like I

00:33:50.180 was talking about before. Everybody says, you know, often, not everybody, a lot of people say,

00:33:53.580 you know, with China and as bad an actor as they've been, we should just tell them to get 1.00

00:33:57.440 stuffed and no longer buy any Chinese products. Well, you don't understand, I think, if you're

00:34:02.860 going to say that, how much we are dependent on those products to keep life affordable right now,

00:34:07.820 whether we like it or not. Loads, whether from your clothing to your electronics to

00:34:12.040 virtually everything these days, so many paths go through China. We might want to reduce our 1.00

00:34:16.820 dependence on it. Absolutely. I can understand that. But when we have a cost of living crisis

00:34:21.060 going on at the same time, we don't necessarily want to shut out China as well. So it's a

00:34:29.400 relationship between countries that can be tense. You've got to be able to call them out. You can't

00:34:33.240 let them walk all over you just because they are a strong supplier of a lot of your consumer goods.

00:34:37.740 but at the same time you know you can't put up with things and things like with India I mean 1.00

00:34:42.600 it's a huge developing market we got a fantastic large Indian community in Canada and uh to see it

00:34:49.560 getting messed up with something like this I mean we got so many opportunities for for broadened

00:34:54.300 trade with India but if if and that's that big thing that Trudeau left that bloody question

00:34:58.560 mark there if the government was actually behind that assassination then we've really got to

00:35:03.120 reevaluate a lot of things with the Indian government our relationship with them because

00:35:07.500 it's just not tolerable. And I know people have pointed out that foreign agents have pulled that

00:35:11.480 sort of crap for a long time. Yeah, I know. I mean, you know, what is the assassination of 0.99

00:35:16.800 Ferdinand that started World War One? This has been going a long time. You know, Israel has gone 1.00

00:35:21.560 around the world and took out a number of nasty terrorists all over the place as well. And but I

00:35:29.500 mean, again, you know, that says crossing a lot of lines when you're crossing borders and pulling

00:35:33.020 those stunts. It doesn't matter whether the people being assassinated are good or bad. It's whether

00:35:37.320 that the sovereignty of the nation where it's happening is being respected.

00:35:40.740 And if that happened in Canada, it was certainly disrespected

00:35:42.940 in the worst possible way.

00:35:44.600 We're supposed to have other ways to deal with this.

00:35:46.240 So this story is really just getting started.

00:35:48.840 It really is.

00:35:49.360 Trudeau, you know, it's funny, the response from the United States

00:35:53.820 and Australia was kind of lukewarm on Trudeau's revelation.

00:35:58.060 Like, yeah, this is a problem, but we're not getting on the soapbox here

00:36:02.760 and starting to shout quite yet.

00:36:04.720 And, you know, for good reason.

00:36:08.440 Like, it seems pretty reckless.

00:36:09.900 But again, as I was talking about earlier, Trudeau is desperate.

00:36:12.260 He's trying to sidetrack and distract and create issues.

00:36:15.820 This is the marks of a man who really doesn't care about the well-being of the nation,

00:36:20.320 only his political fortunes, which are currently in the toilet.

00:36:24.740 So, again, with Trudeau recently, with this revelation about India,

00:36:31.340 was it a distraction, though?

00:36:33.140 like, was that the reason you did it right on the first day of parliament? Because they knew about

00:36:36.380 this earlier, probably, surely. But you wanted something this important to have as much political

00:36:41.780 impact for your own benefit as possible. That's not responsible leadership. But what's the, you

00:36:50.640 know, somebody else saying no extra judicial killings, it's not okay for them, it's not okay,

00:36:53.840 but no, that's right. We just, we're in a, we're a civilized democratic, modern country, we got a lot

00:36:59.100 of challenges and a lot of threats to our democracy. That's not where we go. Somebody

00:37:05.580 I saw a comment earlier asking about the march and the protest for the children and that going on.

00:37:12.620 Well, we are covering it. And Dave mentioned that at the start when he was talking about the stories

00:37:15.880 happening. I mean, right now, all those marches are currently happening right now. We've got

00:37:20.040 reporters out there on the ground, and we will be reporting on things at the westernstandard.news

00:37:25.920 uh, as they come in. So, uh, you can go there and see the updates. I'm not speaking to it right now

00:37:30.780 because I, I mean, I, I know as much as you guys about it, you know, in the preparation and the

00:37:34.740 stuff leading up to it, the counter protests leading up to it. And, uh, I got a feeling

00:37:38.380 there's going to be a lot of, uh, uh, pretty heated exchanges to say the very least going on

00:37:43.940 between protest groups. I, I drove downtown to Calgary today and they were set up already a

00:37:49.140 couple of hours ago, uh, a bunch of people on one side of the street and a bunch of people

00:37:52.840 the other all screaming across the street at each other. And that was hours before the official

00:37:57.420 start time. So I imagine it hasn't gotten any better since, but we'll see what happens with

00:38:02.280 it. We got a lot of frustration going on out there. And I said before, I'm mixed on it. I mean,

00:38:07.240 I've never made a secret of that. I'm pretty socially liberal, guys. I'm not a social

00:38:10.420 conservative. But at the same time, I also see the right to the parents to be sacrosanct. This is

00:38:19.120 where the line keeps getting crossed by the activists. They keep pushing and pushing and

00:38:23.520 pushing. I understand there are some intolerant parents who children, you know, are hitting into

00:38:30.900 their teens and realizing that they're not straight. They'd be afraid to say so in their

00:38:35.440 household and things such as that. Fine. You know, we're growing as a society. We're getting better.

00:38:41.280 We're getting more accepting of all of those things. But it's not the role of the school

00:38:45.020 system and the unions. Remember, it keeps coming to the unions to bypass the parents, though,

00:38:51.000 and get in the middle of that. That's not their role. It's not their role at all. And they keep

00:38:56.420 crossing it. And that's what this battle is right now. And we saw the Toronto Star earlier,

00:39:00.340 basically saying parents don't have the rights to know what their kids are doing.

00:39:03.900 BS, they don't. They're the parents. The parents may not always be right. But it's not the role

00:39:10.220 of the state to get in the middle unless we're talking about true, serious, physical or mental

00:39:14.960 abuse, and I know they're broadening the definition of mental abuse and calling it serious. If some

00:39:20.920 kid walks up to the parents and say, hey, I'm a girl today, and you say, no, you aren't, that could

00:39:25.980 be considered serious mental abuse. Come on, guys, you've moved that goal line way too far beyond the

00:39:31.960 reasonable. Leave the kids alone. That's the thing with the activists. Why are they always focused on

00:39:39.220 going after the kids. Leave them the hell alone. When they get 16 and into 18 years old, they'll 0.99

00:39:45.760 have a much better idea of where they're going, what their identity is. Some families will be

00:39:51.020 better at dealing with their children than others, but it's not the state's role. And that's where,

00:39:58.040 that's why people are on the streets today. You know, there are some people out there,

00:40:01.280 and that's how it's being phrased by the legacy media. Of course, they're saying it's all anti

00:40:04.360 LGBTQ demonstrators. Well, no, not necessarily. They're pro-parent demonstrators, pro-parental

00:40:09.860 rights. And not all of them. There are some amongst them. Oh, there's certainly some hateful

00:40:15.640 people in there, and some people who think that homosexuality should be illegalized again, or 1.00

00:40:20.900 that same-sex marriage rights should be reversed, and garbage like that. They're out there. They 1.00

00:40:25.560 have the right to have that view. It's a dwindling view, and it's a wrong view, in my view. But

00:40:30.720 most of them are just concerned parents and is being framed the wrong way, but they're pushing

00:40:37.460 it too far. They've pushed the parents too far. You know, Commander St. and Lethbridge, a leader

00:40:43.840 of Antifa known as a Marxist is a junior high school teacher. Yeah, you know, like the ridiculousness 0.94

00:40:48.720 going on in our schools and the acceptance of when it goes too far. That nutcase who was out there 0.97

00:40:57.240 with his great big fake giant boobs, you know, as a shop teacher. And the school board couldn't 1.00

00:41:05.360 find the courage to just get up and say, this guy's screwed in the head. He's dressed 0.99

00:41:11.140 inappropriately. This is not right for the students. This is not a good example. And we're

00:41:16.700 going to impose a dress code to remove this person from their job. They wouldn't do it. They couldn't

00:41:22.040 do it. They were too scared. The well-being of the students fell beyond what his paradox is saying.

00:41:28.320 He trolled everyone. Yeah, I don't know if he was trolling or nuts or whatever it was. I don't care.

00:41:32.520 The bottom line is what he did expose, whether intentionally or unintentionally, was that

00:41:36.460 the schools and the school boards won't stand up for the rights of children when somebody has

00:41:41.400 crossed the line dramatically in front of them like that. And parents have had enough. They're

00:41:47.280 getting concerned. And that's what a whole lot of them out there demonstrating today are. I put a

00:41:52.360 post up on Twitter recently, showing a picture from one of the Edmonton protests, and it had

00:41:57.480 a setup. They actually got a booth set up with a picture of Karl Marx and saying it's the

00:42:03.560 Communist Party. Join us here. You know what? I'm going to say this outright because we don't say

00:42:09.020 it enough. Communists are as bad as scumbags as Nazis. They are. Communists killed hundreds of 1.00

00:42:15.180 millions of people. They're murderous thugs. They're disgusting. And the hammer and sickle 1.00

00:42:21.380 should be spit on as quickly as a swastika when you see it surfacing again. They should have the 1.00

00:42:26.500 right to put their stupid table out there, but call these people out because there's no room 1.00

00:42:32.720 to have people embracing that sick ideology. When they sit there and stand on a high horse and 1.00

00:42:39.380 saying that people are embracing a sick ideology by protesting in parents' rights, yet you'll

00:42:45.040 happily sit there manning a table, a communist table, communists, the ones who starve millions 0.99

00:42:51.160 of Ukrainians to death, millions of Chinese that oppressed people for decades and decades. 1.00

00:42:57.920 No, no, I'll call you scumbags out when you push that crap. Just as I'll call it some scumbag out 1.00

00:43:03.420 who pushes a swastika. That's disgusting too. Well, you know, there's a double standard when 1.00

00:43:08.460 it comes to it. If some idiot was sitting there with a table with a couple of swastikas saying, 1.00

00:43:12.240 you know, let's, you know, bring about a new Nazi party in Canada. I think people will rip that 1.00

00:43:16.380 table down and then, you know, give those guys a few swift kicks in the butt moving along 0.99

00:43:19.620 as they should. But communists, well, that's not so bad. Yes, it is so bad. They're two sides of 1.00

00:43:26.260 the same coin. They're authoritarian extremists who don't care about the population and who will

00:43:31.820 murder citizens for the sake of their ideology. So yeah, it's a sick, sick ideology. 1.00

00:43:42.720 So speaking of crime, I'm just going to hit a couple of things as we kind of wrap things up, 0.96

00:43:45.760 a few news stories. Crime costs Canadians more than 43 billion a year, you know, turn the page

00:43:50.600 a little, because we've got a weak, weak justice system, if you want to call it that. And this is

00:43:57.440 where people talk about it's too expensive to keep incarcerating, it's too expensive to get

00:44:00.420 more police, it's too expensive. BS, you know, when we're cost 43 billion a year, because the

00:44:06.020 crime's committed, unchecked crime, I'm sorry, you know, that's totals expenses from police

00:44:11.080 over time, lost wages from victims, funeral expenses, trauma, 43 billion a year. Uh, yeah,

00:44:17.320 I think we've got some money that we could crack down on and, uh, make more effective crime policy.

00:44:23.740 But again, where is it coming from? Well, let's have a look here. There was an inflation summit.

00:44:28.720 This is a neat story that's come up. I think Dave mentioned that or not. Uh, cabinet had one of the

00:44:33.320 retreats, Trudeau's cabinet, you know, so a couple of dozen people, a few dozen people got together

00:44:37.800 out there for three days. And let's see, what did they spend? $275,000 on an inflation summit.

00:44:46.240 Yeah, three days in a Vancouver hotel, and they spent $275,000 to examine inflation. Can you

00:44:53.180 imagine just sat there eating their caviar, drinking their Dom Perignon, and dwelling on

00:44:58.180 why are Canadians having higher prices for everything? They've got no clue, these elitist

00:45:03.280 jerks. True Marie Antoinette sort of behavior. What would he expect out of a trust fund baby 1.00

00:45:07.900 prime minister like Justin Trudeau? His cabinet's reflecting him. They are tone deaf. They have no

00:45:12.680 idea what common Canadians are actually suffering under their inflationary regime, their overspending

00:45:17.900 regime, the regime that is stepping on the rights of Canadians every day. So for these scumbags, 0.99

00:45:23.560 and I'll call them that, to sit there sipping on that, to have $275,000 to sit in a hotel for three 0.99

00:45:30.000 days. Room charges were $130,000. Three days. The catering alone was $46,000. Again, it's just the

00:45:41.140 cabinet. You know what? We've got a giant bunch of buildings and facilities on Parliament Hill

00:45:46.100 where those guys can get together at a fraction of that cost. No, no. We want to travel on the

00:45:53.580 dime of the taxpayers, sip those expensive foods, drink those, you know, eat the good foods,

00:46:00.840 sip the wine. It's sick. It's sick. This is a broken government. And it's only going to get

00:46:06.960 worse. This is what I'm worried about. This week is going bananas, like I was saying, from bombshells

00:46:11.040 dropped in Ottawa with the India thing, with going after the grocers, you name it, things like that.

00:46:15.580 It's a desperate government. It's only going to get worse as they continue to drop in the polls.

00:46:20.240 He's going to keep coming up with things to try and sidetrack us from it somehow.

00:46:24.600 All right, to close things out with the dark comedy of interesting news that was released out of all this.

00:46:28.420 Yeah, India has put out a warning to travelers saying, you know, Canada could be a dangerous place for Indians to travel to because of politically condoned violence happening over here.

00:46:39.380 Yeah, the shots get back and forth, get more and more observed.

00:46:42.660 i mean there are some very real dangers going on if we've got assassinations happening on our soil

00:46:47.340 though i don't think your your typical indian tourist has to worry about it over here but

00:46:51.080 that's the sort of games that are going to get going and they're going to get a heck of a lot

00:46:54.180 worse as we go along unfortunately so uh that covers it get on there guys western standard

00:47:00.700 news the news stories will keep coming up there's going to be a whole lot breaking and a whole lot

00:47:04.740 more we're riding on through the course of this week and uh tune in for the pipeline that's going

00:47:10.160 to be on a little later tonight guys and that's where we'll have our panel breaking down a bunch

00:47:14.620 more of these issues and getting some more updates on things so thank you very much for

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CMS： Trudeau’s war on grocers will raise food prices and cause shortages

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