Western Standard - CMS： We need a Prime Minister with intellect

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.780 Good day. It's Wednesday, first day of February. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. As you see,

00:00:37.540 I'm back from my two weeks down in the sunny South. It was sunny down there in Arizona.

00:00:43.320 I wouldn't call it warm though. I hit a lot of cold snaps. It was a good break and a good trip.

00:00:48.120 I got to admit, I did miss you guys. I need to get out and rant and rave a little. Nico's got

00:00:53.040 some pictures there. We free camped out in the desert. You know, it's a real libertarian sort

00:00:58.160 thing. You can see that nice big old bulldog of ours sitting out there. We had the solar panel

00:01:01.780 and the generator in the works. So you could basically camp without cost on your own. People

00:01:07.220 don't get on your case and you use what you can. There's some shots from the other joys of the

00:01:11.240 blizzards on the way down. And yeah, I blew a tire whilst on the trailer and other such things. But

00:01:17.560 either way, it was a good break. My mind's been kind of reset and I'm ready to rant and rave and

00:01:23.000 get on with this year. It's going to be a busy one. We've got a provincial election coming up

00:01:26.240 in Alberta in a few months and of course federally things are always a gong show so as people are

00:01:31.700 coming in I'll uh yeah you know it's good to see you using the chat area that's what's important

00:01:35.640 this is a live show I like the interaction I mean that's that's the thing with doing this you know

00:01:39.880 I make mistakes now and then when it's live but we get back and forth so good to see you checking

00:01:43.880 in there Jake Yasha Wildrose Scott folks from all over Greg Nichols uh welcome back to the show

00:01:50.340 Yasha, after my break, it's good to see you all here again. And yeah, it has been quite a trip.

00:01:57.860 Something else I did, I might as well throw that out there and get it while I'm at it either,

00:02:00.920 Travis, is I managed to finish a book I've been working on for quite some time. It's called The

00:02:05.860 Sovereignist's Handbook. This is something, you know, I've talked about independence,

00:02:10.700 I've talked about sovereignty for quite some time. Good to see Keith out there from Newfoundland,

00:02:15.740 and Steve, by the way, I actually sent a copy out to Newfoundland. It surprised me out of the

00:02:19.480 orders, but that's okay. There's still some, I like to think some useful stuff in there. There's

00:02:23.800 a lot of things on how to politically organize, how to get involved with parties, how to do stuff

00:02:27.920 like that. It's more of an instructional book. The people who want to get independent, they already

00:02:31.320 have their independence plans. This is for those who've come up with that, but how they're going

00:02:36.220 to get around to it. So yes, the books are out. Hey, if you want to check them out, they're at

00:02:39.700 gvlbooks.com. And yeah, I'll gladly send you a copy of it. All right. So maybe I'll talk about

00:02:47.000 some of the stuff that I did, you know, and get on with my thoughts while I was down there. So as I

00:02:52.740 said, I just returned from a two-week road trip through the United States, and it's always nice

00:02:56.140 to take a break from local issues and attitudes and absorb some of that hospitality and positive

00:03:01.180 attitudes of individualism you see down in the American Southwest. So for the driving time,

00:03:06.080 I chose to listen to the audio version of Barack Obama's book, A Promised Land. Yeah, yeah, I know,

00:03:11.060 before you all get going, it says I'm not suddenly a fan of Obama's progressive policies and his

00:03:15.360 high-spending Keynesian approach to economics. I do like to listen, read, and learn, though,

00:03:21.120 from former leaders, and there can be positive insight to be found in their writing. I mean,

00:03:24.800 really, Levesque's memoirs, for example, are a must-read for anybody interested in regionalism

00:03:29.960 and Canadian politics. I mean, love or hate Obama, or Levesque's politics, for that matter. It can't

00:03:34.880 be denied, though, that Obama is an intelligent, articulate, and skilled communicator. His voice

00:03:39.980 is comfortable to listen to, and he gets his messages out clearly. And then I was thinking

00:03:43.660 to myself as I was listening to it, what would Justin Trudeau's memoirs be like, though? And I

00:03:47.980 had to laugh to myself. I mean, to begin with, Trudeau would need somebody to write it for him.

00:03:52.640 A few, if any, words in the publication would be his own, unless perhaps it was a pop-up book.

00:03:57.460 I mean, and if Trudeau were to narrate the words for an audiobook, it would be unlistenable.

00:04:02.140 I'd rather spend a day under the tender mercies of a vivisectionist with a rusty razor than subject

00:04:06.520 my mind and ears to hours of Trudeau's vacuous, breathy oration. While a written version may be

00:04:12.360 less painful to consume, there'd be little of merit to be found. I mean, what would Trudeau

00:04:16.580 talk about? Eight years in power, but really what? His wardrobe decisions? Preferred surfing

00:04:21.160 locations? Maybe his favorite reality TV shows? I mean, I really got to ask the stubborn liberal

00:04:26.160 supporters out there who just can't seem to let Trudeau go, when will the novelty of this man

00:04:31.060 wear off for you? It's embarrassing enough, as a Canadian in general, when Trudeau pulls some

00:04:35.980 ridiculous stunt or does something idiotic on the world stage. How bad must it be, though, 1.00

00:04:40.040 when you're on the Liberal team? I mean, this is your guy. Will Liberal supporters never tire of

00:04:45.420 the gaffes and fiascos? I mean, how much did it have felt for his supporters when Trudeau decided

00:04:49.660 to use the Queen's funeral to bring a celebrity entourage on a trip where he held an embarrassing

00:04:53.920 and insulting karaoke party in a hotel lounge? What about when Trudeau earned ridicule around

00:04:58.720 the world as he insulted India during his weeks over there with his bizarre penchant for dressing 0.98

00:05:03.240 and playing dress-up in the cultural clothing of other nations? How many more surfing trips

00:05:07.180 during national days of remembrance can his supporters endure?

00:05:10.520 I mean, does it hurt internally for liberal supporters

00:05:12.500 to see Trudeau ignored by other world leaders at summits

00:05:16.060 when they've found little time to spend on a guy

00:05:18.540 who's too busy wanting them to admire his latest cute socks

00:05:21.800 rather than talk policy?

00:05:23.200 I understand partisanship.

00:05:24.680 I understand some liberal supporters will never support the thought of

00:05:27.280 or entertain the thought of voting for a conservative party

00:05:29.620 under any circumstances.

00:05:30.540 Okay, I can respect that.

00:05:32.640 But can the liberals at least start working on finding a new leader?

00:05:35.400 I mean, the nation's in a tough spot.

00:05:36.860 the economy sputtering, inflation's roaring, and unity is shattering. Canada needs a respectable,

00:05:41.820 strong, and intelligent leader in there, and Trudeau's incapable of providing any of those

00:05:45.660 things. I mean, there have been, and I know it's not what everybody likes to hear, but there have

00:05:50.420 been some bright, pragmatic liberal members in the party. Isn't it time to give one of them the top

00:05:54.880 job? A new leader would bring a new cabinet as well. And let's face it, Trudeau's unfortunately

00:05:58.860 been prone to stacking cabinet positions with people he sees as his intellectual peers, and it

00:06:03.520 shows. A leader less cerebrally insecure wouldn't feel threatened by filling cabinet positions with

00:06:09.840 strong, intelligent people. And Canada needs those kind of people in power right now. I don't

00:06:13.940 understand the appeal of the Liberal Party, but again, I can respect it. I'll never understand

00:06:17.700 the ability, though, of Liberal supporters to endure idiocy from their leadership. I'm beyond 1.00

00:06:21.960 caring right now if Canada's Prime Minister is conservative or liberal. I just want one who is

00:06:25.720 intelligent. Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is. So that's what's got me ranting and raving.

00:06:31.360 And like I said, I find inspiration in all sorts of things and all sorts of areas.

00:06:35.740 You know, while I'm driving, you get a lot of time to think.

00:06:38.520 As I said, on that road trip, I was on the highway for hours and hours and hours.

00:06:42.280 We hit a number of blizzards.

00:06:43.640 I really got to get better at driving a fifth wheel while I was coming and going.

00:06:46.300 And yeah, as you see, that was outside Salt Lake City with that upside down vehicle.

00:06:50.520 I'm not sure how he managed.

00:06:51.560 It was a straight stretch.

00:06:52.420 I mean, as you can see, it was icy, but this guy managed to get it on top of his roof like that.

00:06:56.440 It was a little hair raising, but it gives me a lot of time to think.

00:06:59.820 And these are the things I think of.

00:07:00.900 plus a plunger full of Shreddy. So that's a separate story altogether. But yes, good to see

00:07:05.980 you, Tracy, and some of the others popping in. And yeah, Alan talking about what the narration

00:07:10.020 would be, again, if it was Trudeau with his ums and ahs of an audiobook. Like I said, it's just,

00:07:16.480 it's enough, isn't it? I mean, okay, they wanted change. You know, Canada went from Stephen Harper,

00:07:21.920 who was a bit dry and buttoned down and, you know, a straightforward policy wonk. And here

00:07:26.560 along came Trudeau. Okay. With the, the nice hair and the planking and the, you know, something

00:07:30.540 different, refreshing. Okay. Again, I still didn't vote for him, but I can kind of see how people

00:07:34.580 did. But after this long, isn't it time guys, have you not had enough of this clown? I mean, 0.98

00:07:41.180 he refreshed the office. All right. Now it's starting to rot from within and stinks. It really

00:07:47.060 stinks. Uh, by the way, I'm going to have a guest coming on. I should get to that. I can get out of 0.63

00:07:51.020 my routines again, uh, Stuart Muir. And I'm looking forward to that. He's with Resource

00:07:54.400 works. And we're going to be talking with him about liquid natural gas and getting higher

00:07:59.000 hydrocarbons to market in Canada, which has been a big problem. And he works a lot out in BC and

00:08:03.900 Northern BC, because of course it's been a challenging area. Good to see you guys too,

00:08:07.600 Brenda and Lisa and Richard from out in Kit Scottie. Everybody's checking in today, a good

00:08:13.320 busy day. So yeah, I mean, the weather's kind of, it's a winter day again and everything else.

00:08:18.160 So speaking of the rot, speaking of how screwed up our federal government is, our, you know,

00:08:24.020 the mismanagement of bureaucrats. Most of you have probably already seen that story.

00:08:28.760 I mean, you know, credit to Michelle Ripple Garner. I can never really tell where Michelle's

00:08:31.820 coming from or where she's going. Sometimes she's brilliant in there. Other times she's so woke. I

00:08:36.240 wonder which party she's with. But she had a notion and she thought and she followed through

00:08:40.900 and checked into, you know, what the costs were for a quarantine hotel in Calgary. And it was

00:08:47.720 outrageous. You know, we're seeing that in the news. It came out to $453,000 per quarantine guest

00:08:54.760 in a period of less than a year last year to put them in a hotel. 15 people because the pandemic

00:09:01.540 was virtually done already. Yet we booked this hotel at a cost of millions and millions of

00:09:08.720 dollars. What was that total? It was insane. It was near six or seven million dollars. I think

00:09:14.900 6.9 million dollars to do what to do what by then this was last year come on guys how can you not

00:09:22.020 believe we got some backdoor corruption going on here whose palms got greased where did that money

00:09:28.980 go this is just one hotel in one city to keep 15 people for a little while has been pointed out you

00:09:36.100 could buy every one of those people for that price their own home permanently for a lifetime

00:09:42.980 how many dozens of hotels have the liberals been pumping millions of dollars into like that

00:09:48.740 i i said it before i don't know it might be just uh just pure waste but i wouldn't be really

00:09:54.580 shocked if somebody in there had some liberal connections because boy that sure is a lot of

00:09:59.220 money for very little services and even if it is just incompetence rather than corruption that's no

00:10:06.900 less, you know, unacceptable. This is our money. We've got massive inflation. We've got addiction

00:10:14.160 issues. We've got homeless problems. And this is where it's gone. Millions of dollars to quarantine

00:10:19.780 hotels sitting around. And they got no excuse. They can't say they were locked into a long

00:10:23.460 contract on this. It was found that, no, they could have gotten out of that with 30 days notice

00:10:29.000 at any time. Yet they maintained this hotel for a whole year, even beyond the time when we needed

00:10:33.220 to quarantine anybody. I mean, of course the hotel didn't say anything. Hey, if you're going to cut

00:10:37.520 me great big checks to keep my place empty and sit in here, why not? It's easier than dealing with

00:10:42.120 maids and guests and everything. But this, this is just becoming so constant, so chronic. This,

00:10:48.560 this ties back into what I was getting upset about before. This is what happens when you have

00:10:54.440 a prime minister who isn't terribly bright, who isn't well in control of his party or the country.

00:11:00.040 It just throws money blindly at things. And this is what happens with it. And again,

00:11:04.720 it's just one example. I mean, it sounds like, yes, it's a drop in the bucket. Oh,

00:11:07.840 it's $6.7 million out of billions or getting to the point of close to trillion dollars in debt.

00:11:13.420 Well, it's a lot of money. It adds up. It adds up and they have no respect for it. If they can't

00:11:19.940 respect 6 million, don't worry. They're not respecting the billions either. And this is

00:11:23.320 what you're paying for. This is what you're working for. This is what's happening when

00:11:26.240 you're sweating to make your mortgage payments. When you're figuring out how to pay for your

00:11:29.460 kids post-secondary education when you're looking at how expensive it is to buy groceries and we've

00:11:34.840 got a government that kept an empty hotel sitting in calgary for 6.7 million dollars and that's just

00:11:40.540 one we gotta flush that government you guys that's why i'm at the point of almost you're just begging

00:11:45.680 the liberal people then fine you won't accept conservatives fine but change the bloody leadership

00:11:51.380 let's get somebody else in there you know i get most upset when it's somebody on my own team who 1.00

00:11:55.960 something stupid. I expected to the other guys, shouldn't you guys be getting sick of Trudeau 0.99

00:12:02.640 yet? No, some are. Here was a little shining light that came out a little bit. And this was,

00:12:09.500 you know, getting over that Bill C-11. The liberals want to control the information. They

00:12:13.340 want to control what you hear. They want to control what you see. And we've been talking

00:12:16.440 about this bill for over a year now. They really want to control the internet. They want to control

00:12:20.120 the message. They've been paying off legacy media for long enough. Now they're finding it

00:12:25.560 sneaking through on the outside. This is the time to remind everybody, by the way, and I see the

00:12:29.460 things below. The reason we can do this, the reason we're independent is because we're

00:12:33.400 subscription-based, because we answer to you guys. So check it out, by the way, if you haven't

00:12:39.740 subscribed yet, this is the reason we can, you know, afford to be on the air. We can afford to

00:12:44.660 talk about these things that the other media outlets won't, is because we rely on those

00:12:49.180 subscriptions. And other media outlets like True North and Rebel, they're doing the same thing,

00:12:54.580 that's it. You see, the government's trying to control the message, and the message is still

00:12:57.680 leaking out despite them. So then, what do authoritarians do? Well, they try to control

00:13:02.480 our platforms, such as YouTube, such as Facebook, such as Google, and C11 is that sort of thing.

00:13:09.780 Thankfully, at least, I don't know if it's going to be enough to stop it, but we're seeing some

00:13:13.000 voices speaking out, and this was a liberal appointed senator, and he basically, his name

00:13:20.040 is David Richards, and of course, he was a novelist and a screenwriter before he got appointed to the

00:13:23.940 Senate. And he has ripped into it. He said, this is one of the things, he said, the law will be

00:13:29.160 one of scapegoating all those who don't fit in to what our bureaucrats think Canada should be.

00:13:33.460 Yes, it's controlling thoughts. It's controlling words. He said, Stalin, again, will be looking

00:13:38.580 over our shoulder when we write. These are not minor words. And this is from a senator,

00:13:42.760 a liberal appointed senator, no less. That's what I'm saying too. And I know some people say,

00:13:47.300 no, don't expect anything of liberals. And I don't expect a lot of them when I'm begging them to find

00:13:50.900 a new leader or to change their government or update things, there are some liberals out there

00:13:55.420 who still have some principle. And David Richards is an example of it. He's speaking up. You know,

00:14:01.100 where's Paula Simons on this? Alberta's liberal senator. And you know, they hate that. They say, 1.00

00:14:06.860 no, we're independent. No, you aren't. Spare me that crap. Paula Simons voted for the anti-pipeline 0.95

00:14:12.180 bill that was going to shut down Alberta. And now as a former journalist, and she did some good work,

00:14:17.280 by the way, she exposed some terrible things that were going on in the social services system,

00:14:20.900 in Alberta, for example. She was a very accomplished journalist. But once she got into the Senate, 0.72

00:14:25.920 appointed by Trudeau, she became a good lockstep liberal. And she's accepting these threats to our

00:14:31.500 speech, these threats to our expression, these threats to freedom in general. But at least this

00:14:35.900 senator is speaking up. Boy, the words. I mean, you know, it's almost, as you can see, he compared

00:14:41.720 it to Nazi Germany. And I don't care for that when it's done. But, you know, it sounds like

00:14:48.680 too much hyperbole, and it leads to the old Godman win awards, but there's truth to it. I mean,

00:14:54.100 the bottom line, it's authoritarianism. It's a government that can't accept messages from

00:14:58.460 differing people from differing minds, and they want to control it, and that's what C11 is about.

00:15:02.620 This is a solution in search of a problem. I mean, there is a problem. The problem is for the 0.94

00:15:07.300 government, and they're going to make it our problem, and that's where they can suddenly,

00:15:12.660 if they can get this sort of thing through, that's where they can shut down this show,

00:15:15.140 where they can shut down the Western standard, where they can shut down post-millennial,

00:15:18.960 all these alternative media outlets out there. This is scary stuff. This is fundamental freedoms.

00:15:25.160 You look at any democracy, one of the things they always protect in their charters,

00:15:28.860 in their bills of rights, things like that is a free press. You need that. If people can't

00:15:33.400 hear what's going on out there, well, they become docile, right? And look at some of the terrible

00:15:38.300 things that authoritarian regimes have done. So let's see, Jackie Burdensing, Corey, have you

00:15:44.820 idea. We hear he's calling election this spring. Yeah, I don't know. I really don't know. There's

00:15:51.620 the things with a minority government, right? Jagmeet Singh's certainly stamping his little

00:15:56.640 feet and trying to act as if he's independent, speaking of people, you know, putting on a song

00:16:01.160 and dance and a show. He's demanding that Trudeau intervene into provincial jurisdiction and stop

00:16:07.640 Alberta and stop Ontario from expanding the ability of private medical provision under a

00:16:16.640 universal system, publicly funded. He wants him to step in. He's been making all this noise.

00:16:21.500 But will Jagmeet actually pull the pin on the Liberal government? I doubt it. I really doubt

00:16:26.340 it. This is as close to power as Jagmeet can get. And look, he sounds like an idiot. I mean, really,

00:16:30.700 anybody who knows even a little bit about the Canadian system knows it. This is no more

00:16:34.960 privatization than we've always had. It's just expanding it a bit more. Doctors' offices are

00:16:39.460 private. Walk-in clinics are private. There are all sorts out there. Like, you know, eye surgery

00:16:44.780 clinics, there's all sorts of private facilities within our system already. And for Jagmeet to sit 1.00

00:16:49.220 here and pretend something new is happening and demand that Trudeau step in and intervene on it,

00:16:55.380 hey, again, I'm selling a book on provincial, you know, sovereignty. Trudeau, if you want to keep

00:17:00.920 stepping in and listening to Jagmeet and coming in on provincial jurisdiction for healthcare,

00:17:04.960 Be my guest. But I don't think he will. So as far as the election goes, though, you know, getting back to politics, Jackie, he won't call it unless he thinks he can win.

00:17:14.080 I mean, he's had two minorities in a row. I'm kind of surprised, as I said, that the liberals are still supporting him even now.

00:17:20.480 He needs to turn the page. The only there's no way they will put up with him getting another minority. 1.00

00:17:25.240 He has to win a majority if he wants to maintain his prime ministership any longer beyond this term.

00:17:30.740 So they won't pull that pin unless they're confident they're going to win.

00:17:34.960 And I don't see that yet. You know, I mean, the conservatives federally are actually looking a

00:17:39.460 little stronger in the polls right now. And you'd have to see some sort of issue that breaks things

00:17:45.480 down. But again, it's a minority government. So you never know what could happen. If a scandal

00:17:49.780 breaks out with the conservatives or something strange or just something brilliant happens and

00:17:53.600 the liberals can capitalize on that, they will call an election in a heartbeat. The average

00:17:59.240 minority government in Canada lasts 18 months. That's the average. So we're already there almost 0.62

00:18:03.960 with this government. So yeah, you know, the chances of an election, I don't see the circumstances

00:18:10.440 coming along to warrant it yet, but I wouldn't rule it out. And you know, you hear a lot of that

00:18:15.920 from the conservatives. You'll see that in your emails. If you're on conservative email lists,

00:18:19.620 they'll always say we're on the brink of an election, but that's because it's good fundraising,

00:18:22.040 guys. You want to make sure people are reaching in their pockets, funding those parties to get

00:18:25.120 ready for what may be an election. And in a minority situation, you're kind of always in

00:18:29.340 campaign mode. Paradox, he's saying the whole country needs a good flush of leadership. Yeah,

00:18:34.180 it is. It's a frustrating thing. I don't know what it takes, but we need it, and we need it

00:18:39.660 on all ends. It says Kippy80, our local public hospital remains closed. Ford's making a story

00:18:46.440 that private hospitals are needed to meet capacity. Yeah, he's not doing full-out private

00:18:51.180 hospitals, but we're talking about specialized clinics. I mean, I don't know the Ontario

00:18:55.520 of situations specifically enough to parse each and every facility that may be opened or closed

00:19:02.220 or things like that. But we got to watch with some of the almost inflammatory language when it comes

00:19:07.960 to trying different things within the health system. I mean, people have turned it very much

00:19:10.880 into a sacred cow. And there's a lot of myths. They, you know, when people scream about the

00:19:15.880 privatization, and they try to compare things to the American system and things like that.

00:19:20.020 And people forget that most of our provision is actually already in private facilities. It's just

00:19:24.100 full-blown hospitals that are always fully, you know, run by the public system. And by the way,

00:19:29.880 you know, they're not always all that efficient, but lots of specialized clinics and places that

00:19:34.020 do procedures were already in the private sector. One example I'll give before I get to our guests,

00:19:40.300 just to talk about that, because I heard a bit about that with somebody complaining

00:19:43.100 or, you know, upset that the reality that they could go down and get an MRI and pay cash out

00:19:49.280 of pocket and get it right away, but they'd have to wait, you know, six or seven months to wait

00:19:52.660 the public system. Yes, this is true. Or actually, and you can buy one in Alberta faster. We did that

00:19:57.240 with Jane when she had back issues. We paid ourselves. And yes, bed things up. But what

00:20:03.040 people forget, way back with Saskatchewan, when they had the NDP there, that NDP government there,

00:20:08.300 Romano, he was actually good at balancing the budget and things, but he stuck very much to the

00:20:11.960 anti-privatization of any form of healthcare. And he fought MRIs brutally. Well, Saskatchewan

00:20:17.120 weights for MRIs got as high as 22 months towards the end of the 90s. So sure, some people can pay

00:20:24.720 to jump the line now, but the public system will bring you in now at a fraction of that speed.

00:20:34.280 You know, because other people are paying up front, they're able to speed the line for everybody.

00:20:40.380 So it does pay off in the end. Set aside the fact that, you know, people are getting in there faster

00:20:46.140 than you are. And just look at the outcome. As long as we're all getting in faster, isn't it

00:20:50.660 better? I mean, the other way, and you know, what'll happen is they will set them up in the

00:20:54.500 United States. They'll just have it right on the other side of the border. So if people have the

00:20:57.840 means, or the other thing is they're not always wealthy people. That's a bit of a myth. They're

00:21:01.800 desperate people. They're people who really just need something done and they will go down there.

00:21:07.540 So if we're going to have people spending out of pocket to go a little faster, let's keep the

00:21:11.980 money here. Keep the professionals here. Keep the clinics here. Keep the infrastructure here.

00:21:17.580 And, you know, just get over the fact that some people are going to get a little faster.

00:21:22.940 It's a better way to go about things. We've got to, you see, here's Wildrose. And we've discussed

00:21:29.100 that here before. It looks like Stuart's having perhaps a technical issue or something. He's in

00:21:34.060 the lobby. We're going to have him on really soon here. But any for-profit healthcare will end up

00:21:38.680 with people dying in the hospital steps

00:21:41.560 for lack of a credit card. 1.00

00:21:42.440 Wilders, that's a load of crap. 1.00

00:21:44.040 That's a load of crap. 1.00

00:21:45.520 That's the fear-mongering crap I was talking about. 1.00

00:21:47.500 And I know, we've talked about this on here before. 0.98

00:21:50.640 We already have that kind of care.

00:21:52.920 Plus the best systems in the world, the best,

00:21:55.060 the ones that are outperforming us

00:21:57.000 are in Europe, are in Asia,

00:21:59.380 and they have universal coverage.

00:22:00.920 None of that dying on the steps

00:22:02.300 for lack of a credit card.

00:22:04.080 But they do have more private provision.

00:22:07.020 And yes, there's a profit in it.

00:22:08.680 And guys, profit isn't a dirty word.

00:22:11.720 It isn't.

00:22:13.140 Socialism is.

00:22:14.600 So, okay, that's enough ranting out of me.

00:22:16.520 I think Stuart's just about set up there.

00:22:19.080 And we'll pop him in.

00:22:20.240 So let's run a quick ad here.

00:22:22.440 And we'll talk to Stuart, you know, turn the page a bit and get on to some energy talk, you know,

00:22:27.840 so I'll stop barking at Wildrose there because, you know, he's a good fan and show regular.

00:22:33.180 But we differ on that issue.

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00:23:00.980 Yes, a good group and they've been a good sponsor.

00:23:03.200 Okay, there's Stuart there. I know you're coming in from out in Ottawa, I believe, Stuart.

00:23:07.040 I appreciate you coming in to join us today from out there in the land of the east.

00:23:14.120 Oh, I think your microphone might be muted, Stuart.

00:23:21.740 There we are. How's that?

00:23:25.280 Ah, much better. Okay, we've got you now.

00:23:27.120 My lip reading is pretty good, but not everybody can necessarily catch you.

00:23:30.760 These are the joys of being live.

00:23:32.280 So thanks again for joining.

00:23:33.860 And it is Ottawa you're at right now, isn't it?

00:23:36.060 Yes, that's right.

00:23:36.900 i'm in ottawa within view of the house of commons i've been talking with people about energy issues

00:23:41.940 in particular lng here today yeah and lng so i mean maybe we'll start though just giving a little

00:23:48.500 background on yourself you're with resource works it's a bc-based group though you talk about energy

00:23:52.640 issues across the country and particularly lng lately uh what else is your focus i guess what

00:23:59.060 you say lng is a big part of it because gas whether it's produced in saskatchewan alberta or bc

00:24:05.720 gets to markets and influences our way of life in lots of positive ways.

00:24:09.960 It creates a huge amount of income for governments to support social programs,

00:24:14.080 and that is a profitable thing for businesses to engage in.

00:24:17.460 It creates a lot of employment, so that's a good thing.

00:24:20.220 We also work for better awareness of mining opportunities.

00:24:25.340 Pretty much every politician right now is talking about critical minerals,

00:24:27.840 which is great because that's the EV, the electrification future.

00:24:31.280 We need those, but you know what?

00:24:32.160 also need the more traditional uh old-fashioned if you will minerals that have been used for

00:24:37.360 thousands of years minerals like coal like copper molybdenum silver gold all of these

00:24:44.400 things are a huge part of the canadian economy so the problem right now is that it takes often

00:24:50.240 decades to build a new mine and at the pace that humanity is looking for solutions to the

00:24:55.840 need for everything in their lives we need to produce those and right now the regulatory

00:25:02.000 system is not creating conditions for new projects to be advanced same thing in forestry we see that

00:25:08.880 too here's a renewable almost the ultimate renewable building product if you're building a

00:25:13.120 house or we're using products made of paper we're not allowed to have plastic straws anymore they

00:25:18.480 have to be paper well that paper comes from trees right and those have to be grown and harvested

00:25:23.840 managed and then processed into the things we use in life we also look at you know the coasts

00:25:30.880 things like aquaculture and fishing so all these things you put it together you say that's a natural

00:25:35.040 resource economy and 10 years ago we started for the purpose of building awareness of how

00:25:40.080 these are first of all fundamental even today in the way of life that we enjoy whether you're

00:25:45.280 working up close or you live in a city it doesn't matter you're just as dependent and we've had

00:25:50.000 economic studies galore that have proven this on having that economy hey it's not always glamorous

00:25:56.080 or the the the dazzle that some people want and that's that's fair but you know what it's still

00:26:00.880 fundamental to our way of life yeah so with resources i'm glad you said that you know it's

00:26:06.000 a broader thing the one we're hearing the most about in the west in general though and that's

00:26:09.680 i think one of the even speaking on uh particularly this time around but every resource development

00:26:14.160 area is suffering from that regulatory regime and some ideological uh challenges going on

00:26:18.800 so the the liquid natural gas that's a a really growing world industry right now and canada is

00:26:23.760 really well placed. I mean, we have a lot of resources, but boy, we're having a hell of a

00:26:28.220 time trying to get a, you know, infrastructure in place so that we can take advantage of that

00:26:33.100 and export it. I mean, is that, that's part of what you've been explaining over in Ottawa this

00:26:37.540 week, right? Yeah, that's right. And I just listened to the CEO of Enbridge, Greg Ebel,

00:26:44.140 tell a room of policymakers and people who pay attention to these things, that it's not a

00:26:48.720 question of building things. If we want to build infrastructure, he said that a pipeline to the

00:26:56.000 East Coast could be built in 18 months. It's not a question of whether we have the ability. Of

00:26:59.840 course we have that. Alberta, above all, has that. It's whether we have the regulatory certainty to

00:27:05.100 attract investment and get those decisions made. That's what's tying us up and leaving us in knots

00:27:10.100 as a country. Yeah, well, something that's been difficult, I wrote on that recently too. I believe

00:27:15.440 there was 18 or 15 proposed LNG terminals over the last 10 or 12 years. And only one is really

00:27:21.400 under full construction. At least, thankfully, that one looks like it's going to be going.

00:27:24.700 The ones all on the east end have all been shut down. And the other people have basically backed

00:27:28.760 away, not for lack of a market, but they just can't feel confident that they'll get a return

00:27:32.800 on their investment. How are things going, though, with the CGL line? I mean, that's something I

00:27:38.240 think any potential investors are watching carefully. Can this even get completed? If we

00:27:42.840 can't even get that done I can't see any future ones being constructed yeah I don't think there's

00:27:48.760 too much question as to whether it will get done we did see today in the news that TransCanada has

00:27:52.760 announced some additional cost overruns on that it's now I think 10.6 billion US that we saw this

00:27:58.880 morning that may have some impact on investment intentions in regards to you know owning the

00:28:05.700 stock and what that means in terms of will that asset be completed yeah for sure it will be

00:28:11.040 completed, it's probably 80% done. And now they're in a phase

00:28:15.120 where they're building sort of the more difficult stuff. The

00:28:17.700 terrain there is unbelievable. You go from that run, that

00:28:22.380 there's the final leg down to Kinemat, you know, you're

00:28:25.540 talking about high mountain passes, there's even an aerial

00:28:27.980 tramway, like you see at a ski resort, but I'm sure built for

00:28:31.980 the incredible weight of pipeline components that had to

00:28:35.100 be constructed to position some of these pieces. That's what

00:28:37.740 talking about in this terrain uh the the costs um you know one can only guess given the price

00:28:44.780 escalation it's more expensive to feed people you know any family knows that well imagine you're

00:28:50.940 feeding 5 000 people at a work camp somewhere on the cgl line or lng canada all that has to

00:28:56.380 be paid for and no one anticipated this so costs are going up sure but so is every family's cost

00:29:01.980 um so i don't think that is the big thing it really does come back to the regulatory certainty

00:29:06.700 you know we we also don't need to debate the the idea that this is a useful commodity um

00:29:13.420 we we don't need to debate whether the world is going to pay a premium for it because long-term

00:29:18.940 contracts 20-year contracts are being signed if that wasn't happening we could debate that but

00:29:23.420 there is commercial interest in securing these molecules so all that's left really is for

00:29:29.420 politicians to to say okay i can do this and we saw some good news today from a pollster we had

00:29:34.620 abacus pollsters who are kind of well regarded in Ottawa for being able to put things together

00:29:40.620 in a way that you know reads the political times we're in and I thought the top line number for me

00:29:46.300 was that the impressions of LNG among a coast-to-coast sample that was a you know a very

00:29:52.460 solid polling method that no one would challenge I don't think they said that the impressions of

00:29:57.420 LNG among Canadian residents are 43% positive and only 34% neutral, and then a small number like

00:30:06.860 9% negative. Very few people in this country are against it. So if you're seeing in social media,

00:30:13.740 in your feeds, you're seeing things come up, don't do this, don't do that, or this horrible

00:30:18.140 toxic polluting. No, that does not reflect what Canadians think.

00:30:22.300 yeah so beyond what the you know our common canadians think how's your reception been with

00:30:28.160 the political class in ottawa this this week i mean as you've been explaining this does it sound

00:30:33.000 like some pragmatism might be finally kind of sinking in for some people and then realizing

00:30:37.720 that they've got to change the regulatory scheme well i think there's always been plenty of people

00:30:42.060 in ottawa just not the right ones who are in you know holding the stick to get things done

00:30:46.300 and looking across a room of 100 or so policy walks today at lunch i thought there was a really

00:30:52.100 good cross section of that world you know most most canadians the vast majority of canadians

00:30:57.700 vote either liberal or conservative that's 80 percent of you know mps um that's most of the

00:31:02.820 country so if you look at that group you know they're in the room and the problem is i think

00:31:07.060 for the you know trudeau pmo uh that's you know love them or hate them they're in their way trying

00:31:14.580 to figure things out politically so that they can you know accomplish whatever it is they're trying

00:31:19.060 to accomplish and i think it's really important for them to know that when you look at the numbers

00:31:23.940 and what canadians think that you can not lose votes today by supporting lng that's what we heard

00:31:30.580 from the the poster who explained this you you could um you could pass all the regulations needed

00:31:37.860 to get pipelines built and energy plants approved and that's not going to cost you power i think

00:31:42.740 that's really important for politicians not just federally but also in bc that's where a lot of

00:31:48.340 really important decisions are going to affect a next wave of decisions you know we we've had 10

00:31:53.860 years corey 10 years of inaction you go back you talked about the 15 projects that you know most of

00:31:59.540 which never came about a couple more of those can go forward so that we don't have a second lost

00:32:05.620 decade i mean that would be the tragedy that having seen what can happen or not happen i should

00:32:10.820 say in 10 years um we go into another decade and come to the same result that would be a true

00:32:16.420 true travesty and loss for, for Canada. So, so I mean, one of the areas that opponents to

00:32:22.440 hydrocarbon development like putting out, and I see that your group, Resorts Works put out a good

00:32:29.120 report on that with, is subsidies and incentives. I mean, people like saying, oh, oil companies are

00:32:35.080 just pulling in all these subsidies and it's costing Canadians a fortune to keep maintaining

00:32:40.380 hydrocarbon development and these things. But I mean, there's a lot of misinformation kind of

00:32:45.280 going on when people talk about what's a subsidy or what isn't, or how much is actually going into

00:32:49.560 the energy sector, if at all, in some cases. I mean, it's tax deferrals and things like that,

00:32:54.420 but it's kind of a complicated area for people. Well, let's simplify it. If you're seeing that

00:32:59.000 message coming at you, just ask the question, is someone trying to affect me by making me

00:33:05.200 hate big business? Are they trying to take things away from personal responsibility?

00:33:10.560 because you could equally say of these things oh it's it's uh you know joe and jane down the street

00:33:16.560 they're causing this problem because they want to have a warm house they want to have a car they

00:33:21.520 can take their kids to school those people are evil you could equally say that but instead we

00:33:26.180 have the lobbyists who are pursuing the you know extermination of canadian opportunity who are

00:33:31.120 saying big big business is trying to get something for nothing so they can you know get all these

00:33:35.420 profits well i think anyone whether you don't have to be a small business owner or a manager

00:33:39.480 and company you just have to manage a household budget i mean it's we everyone who who plugs in

00:33:43.960 that way knows this if you're just pointing the finger at someone else and saying it's on them

00:33:49.800 right away we can be suspicious of that it's about personal responsibility so when i see

00:33:54.600 these subsidy arguments um it's not about subsidies actually the ministry of finance

00:33:59.160 in ottawa has gone through all the so-called cities and they've they've removed them they'll

00:34:04.760 tell you that what they have though are incentives and in public policy without getting into the

00:34:12.040 weeds on this you know it's an instrument of every government to encourage people to do things that

00:34:18.360 the government prefers them to do and not do things that government would rather they don't do

00:34:23.480 and that's how taxes are used that's how all kinds of policy instruments are used and that's normal

00:34:28.920 but what's happened is the anti-fossil fuel activists are taking

00:34:32.040 instruments like that and pretending that they are subsidies. They're painting them as these

00:34:40.240 sort of free handouts when really they're anything but. And that's, I think, important to understand

00:34:45.060 if you're hearing this stuff. It just doesn't add up. No, we hear it a lot. And it's just a hard

00:34:51.300 one to counter because it's easy to throw it out there and just cause the doubt. And it takes a

00:34:56.400 little while to explain to somebody putting off taxes when they're putting in a heavy capital

00:35:01.120 investment on something like an oil sands mine doesn't mean you're giving them a check or cutting

00:35:05.740 them money. It just means that you're not taking from them until they start bringing a return in

00:35:09.800 on their funds. The disingenuous way that they paint that as a subsidy causes a lot of mistrust

00:35:17.400 with a lot of our energy sector industries, unfortunately. Yeah, well, next door to Alberta

00:35:21.820 and BC, there's a spending spree going on on the social priorities of the new Premier, Premier EB.

00:35:27.380 he will be going to the polls no doubt at some point to get his own mandate to run a government

00:35:33.140 for now he is obviously seeking to make his mark by spending on housing and health care and all

00:35:38.960 kinds of social programs you might ask well where's he got the money well it turns out he's got a ton

00:35:44.160 of money because high natural gas prices have produced a bounty of revenue for the bc government

00:35:49.660 and he's spending it so you know for someone in david eby's position and he hasn't become

00:35:53.880 famous or influential or powerful by being seen supportive of industry. He's more with the kind

00:36:02.800 of social, environmental, urban crowd that got him in. I think someone like that, if you're running

00:36:08.480 a Canadian province, any Canadian province, at some point you need to be practical and pragmatic

00:36:12.780 about things because it's about the people. It's not about the politics. And to serve the people

00:36:17.360 of British Columbia, any premier will have to recognize that you need to have the money coming

00:36:22.200 in so you can spend it on whatever your priorities are. If that's housing, affordability, then do

00:36:29.460 that. But you need to acknowledge where it comes from. Yeah, well, reality always sinks in in the

00:36:35.420 end one way or another, but it'd be better to have foresight rather than being forced into it.

00:36:39.840 You got that right, Corey. So before I let you go back to the land of the Ottawa crowds over there

00:36:46.980 and making the case, is there more you'd like to share with our viewers today before I let you go?

00:36:50.840 yeah you know i think uh we we have uh in alberta an enormous amount of gas an opportunity to be part

00:36:59.400 of of that uh i think that if someone's listening you know call your mp's office you know that's

00:37:06.380 what a lot of pressure groups do whether they're organized or unorganized and tell them something

00:37:11.020 because the staff you know take that down and they may not uh you know put it in the hands of

00:37:16.300 the MP right away, but they, you know, it's their job to do that. We might feel like we're just

00:37:21.000 individuals and can't influence anything, but, you know, we can call our MPs and tell them what

00:37:27.840 we think about things and try to have some, you know, some notes about what you want to say and

00:37:31.540 make sure it makes sense and do that. Just take a minute or so to do that or write them a letter

00:37:36.100 or send them an email. Great. No, I appreciate that. Yeah. When there are electoral butts on

00:37:40.900 the line, it's amazing how receptive they can get. I mean, the reality is they do follow public

00:37:45.560 opinion we just have to let them know what what we want to see uh so and and your website it's

00:37:50.320 resourceworks uh that you're at is that resourceworks.ca i'm sorry i don't know it's resourceworks.com

00:37:56.680 and thanks for showing it on the screen there what you see there is a little clip uh of my

00:38:02.120 recent presentation again here in ottawa i come here quite a bit nowadays uh at the standing

00:38:06.980 committee on natural resources where i talked about a number of things including a little

00:38:11.800 country of Qatar. At that time, the World Cup was on. I noted that this country was basically

00:38:17.060 able to pay the $220 billion tab for hosting the World Cup because of natural gas exports. Most of

00:38:23.620 it is LNG. And, you know, we could be just as competitive. We could be a superpower of energy

00:38:29.360 like Qatar is, but we've chosen not to be, which is, you know, a lost opportunity. And we can

00:38:36.080 change that. Absolutely. All right. Well, thanks for coming on today, Stuart. And I'll let you

00:38:41.460 carry on with that important work. All right. Thanks. Thank you. So that was Stuart Muir with

00:38:47.340 ResourceWorks. So ResourceWorks.com. And as Nico showed, yeah, with those screen synapses,

00:38:51.480 there's a lot of resources on there. You can look at things you can check into studies,

00:38:56.100 papers they've done, and he's on the ground out there working. There's some truth to that,

00:38:59.860 you know, and that's the thing. If you push these politicians, even David Eby, you know, BC,

00:39:04.740 I mean, he's hard left. This guy is a NDP to the core. I mean, we're not talking about a lightweight

00:39:09.320 yet he's quietly accepting you know despite he he was an environmentalist he came through the ranks

00:39:14.740 of shut down everything shut down the trans mountain shut down the cgl and now he's in and

00:39:18.820 suddenly he's kind of quiet on that because even ndp politicians realize we got to pay the bills

00:39:23.740 somehow somehow i mean they can borrow and they will and they do and they can tax and they will

00:39:28.400 and they do but in the end you still need some resources coming in and natural gas has given him

00:39:33.720 the funds to be able to do those things and that can happen across the country just to you know

00:39:37.860 mentioned, I see a commenter, Danny Lorraine from Newfoundland. Yeah. So across the country,

00:39:41.580 this can help everywhere. And Wildrose saying if Alberta or just even Alberta and BC, you know,

00:39:45.620 get a pipeline to the East, energy East. That one drove me bananas when it was shut down. We're

00:39:50.400 talking about a line get out there. Uh, though I believe that was oil, but all the same, we can get

00:39:54.860 gas out there. We can do things. Quebec has natural gas. The world wants this resource. And

00:40:00.980 Prime Minister Ding Dong there, Justin, I mean, when he told Germany's chancellor, I mean, you

00:40:06.240 can see the look in his eyes when just well you know there's no business case for that for natural 0.91

00:40:11.280 liquid natural gas to go to germany what a load of crap and you know people have said oh the reason

00:40:16.520 that the energy yeast got shut down was because there was no business case no the only reason 0.97

00:40:19.340 there wasn't a business case is because the government regulated it to death they didn't do

00:40:24.000 the studies to do those pipeline expansions they didn't do the the work the groundwork on keystone

00:40:28.320 excel for example or northern gateway or all these other pipelines that have been shut down

00:40:31.740 these companies didn't do that thinking there was no business case for it the problem is the

00:40:36.220 government just kept getting in the way and getting in the way and getting in the way and

00:40:39.580 gouging them and hitting them and slapping them and causing uncertainty where they finally said,

00:40:43.740 okay, fine, we're out of here. That's what happened with the Trans Mountain. That drives me nuts too

00:40:48.380 when you get jerks on social media. Well, Trudeau supports the oil field. He bought the Trans 0.99

00:40:53.580 Mountain. Nobody asked him to buy it. He didn't have to buy it. All he had to do was get out of

00:40:57.900 the damn way. Kinder Morgan wanted to build this thing. But Canada's regulatory system is such a 0.99

00:41:04.580 convoluted joke that finally Kinder Morgan said, we can't get this thing done. We're out of here.

00:41:10.480 And now since the government's taken it over, the costs on this thing have exploded. And of course,

00:41:14.520 the timelines keep expanding. Maybe we can get there. I mean, the ideological battle,

00:41:19.880 the ridiculousness, and again, getting to natural gas. I mean, we saw that recently. That was the

00:41:23.940 thing. The natural gas is suddenly, this is a pollutant in your house. This is causing asthma

00:41:28.220 in your children. This is going to kill you. Yeah, that's what these nutcases put out there. 1.00

00:41:31.900 And that rotten legacy media supports it.

00:41:35.000 They push it.

00:41:35.580 There was a thing I shared from the Hill Times on Twitter the other day, which showed eggs

00:41:41.100 frying in a pan and talked about the poisons and dangers in your house from natural gas.

00:41:46.760 We've been using natural gas for a century. 0.88

00:41:48.880 And these clowns saying, we think natural gas will cause asthma in children. 0.91

00:41:52.360 Well, guess what? 0.95

00:41:53.260 Alberta, over 70% of the homes in Alberta have natural gas running in them and they're

00:41:57.480 using it as their primary form of energy.

00:41:59.140 Not always just on the stove, but it's the furnace or water heater all over the place.

00:42:03.220 Alberta has the lowest asthma rates in Canada.

00:42:06.200 Explain that to me.

00:42:07.780 If this natural gas is this secret killer that's giving all our kids asthma, why is

00:42:13.480 Ontario leading the country for asthma where they don't use as much natural gas?

00:42:17.400 After that, it's, I believe, Nova Scotia.

00:42:21.380 Where's the logic, guys?

00:42:22.900 Again, it's just they will make it up and they won't get countered in it.

00:42:25.740 And that's where, again, people like Stuart at least work on things and counter the disinformation, the narrative, the ideologues, the extremists.

00:42:34.000 We have so much opportunity.

00:42:35.840 I mean, if we want to deal with things, I'll get back to something else, too.

00:42:39.320 I mean, the addictions epidemic that's hitting across the whole country.

00:42:43.280 And we're seeing it in every city.

00:42:44.480 It's a mess.

00:42:44.980 I mean, that's stuff we've seen a lot of Arthur Green's been working on in Edmonton, taking, you know, the pictures showing that in transit lines and on the streets.

00:42:51.500 I mean, the discarded syringes, the people in distress is a lot of money to get them out of it.

00:42:56.560 I give Jason Kenney some credit. One of the things he did do, it was really good and it took a while, but he did it right.

00:43:02.660 I mean, he expanded Alberta's addiction treatments beds. We have over 8,000 spaces for addictions treatment.

00:43:08.240 It's expensive. It's very expensive.

00:43:11.160 BC is trying the legalization route that Portland used, which caused their overdoses to explode, by the way.

00:43:18.220 It doesn't work.

00:43:19.240 Enabling doesn't work.

00:43:20.900 You don't give a gambler a bunch of money,

00:43:23.120 but we'll just give a weekly allowance

00:43:24.360 so that he can be stable until he quits gambling.

00:43:27.100 It doesn't work that way.

00:43:28.440 He will still gamble himself to death,

00:43:29.860 whether it's a suicide or whatnot later.

00:43:31.980 And you can't give somebody a safe supply of meth.

00:43:34.760 You need treatment.

00:43:36.760 And it's expensive and it's difficult.

00:43:38.760 And if you want to do those things,

00:43:40.480 you need to use your resources.

00:43:42.080 We're sitting on some of the most abundant

00:43:44.000 natural resources in the world.

00:43:45.720 The world wants our products.

00:43:48.220 Germany wants our natural gas. Japan wants our natural gas. Our prime minister, who is an idiot, won't facilitate it. And what does he signal to investors when he mumbles and refuses to commit to supplying them when they come here cap in hand asking us to supply them?

00:44:05.220 Well, it tells investors, I'm not putting money into Canada.

00:44:08.140 I can't get anything done.

00:44:09.360 We've got a prime minister who's opposed to my business.

00:44:11.280 I'm not going to do that.

00:44:13.100 And it shows and it chills the investment across the country.

00:44:16.920 And it's not just the West.

00:44:17.940 It hurts the West the most because that's the area that Prime Minister Trudeau despises the most.

00:44:21.980 And we have the industry that he's ideologically opposed to the most.

00:44:25.380 But it hurts all of Canada when he does that.

00:44:28.080 Whether it's a coal mine on the East Coast or natural gas developments out there or a mine of any other kind

00:44:33.680 or even manufacturing, when you've got that much overbearing regulation crushing you,

00:44:39.480 then you can't get anything done. You'd be crazy to put the money in. But again,

00:44:45.600 we've got to stand up. We've got to push back. Lots of comments, you know, politicians equal

00:44:52.480 crooks, you know, from Kibbe and I know the frustration, the cynicism that comes with things.

00:44:59.540 But a point that's valid and very much that Stuart put out.

00:45:03.940 And, you know, just to throw another shot back to the book,

00:45:06.540 the bottom line, if you're looking to push sovereignty and things like that.

00:45:08.640 The politicians, to a degree, will follow the lead of the people.

00:45:13.180 You have to push them.

00:45:14.900 They don't change your mind, or at least they're not terribly effective at it.

00:45:19.340 But they will flex to meet what they think your mind is,

00:45:22.640 like where you're going politically.

00:45:24.780 So if you push for a lot of independence from within a party

00:45:27.220 or showing things. The politicians are going to start leaning that way if they want to keep their

00:45:30.240 job. And as Stuart was saying too, if you let your MLAs, you let your members of parliament know,

00:45:34.080 and it's self-serving, it's for themselves, that's fine. But if they realize, wow, there is support

00:45:38.700 for this natural gas, there is support for this development, or there is support for sovereignty,

00:45:42.700 well, these politicians then, if they want to keep their jobs, they're going to reflect that.

00:45:46.060 So it's kind of up to us. But we've got to correct them. There's a battle going on, guys,

00:45:50.720 and we're losing it. Canada's losing it. Again, do you want all this health care? Do you want

00:45:55.280 all of this child care? Do you want the education? Do you want, again, the treatment for addicts?

00:46:02.540 Well, the money's got to come from somewhere. And here we are sitting on this giant pool of it,

00:46:06.600 and we are allowing ourselves to be hindered in getting it out. And where are they putting the

00:46:10.660 money they get? Again, I guess to back to where I was ranting about before, where we could spend

00:46:14.080 $7 million to have a hotel house 15 people for a short period of time. Or yeah, some of the other

00:46:20.200 out of lunacy. I see from Gary Armstrong about a 15-minute city in Edmonton. Yeah, you know,

00:46:24.780 that's that. I don't have time to even get into that today, that ideological lunacy from urban

00:46:30.400 designers and nutcases. It's going to cause a disaster furthermore. But we've got it in Calgary.

00:46:35.980 He said Calgary soon. No, we got Mayor Gonduk who has an $80 billion climate change plan she wants

00:46:40.800 to put in place. So yeah, don't worry. Our civic politicians will break us soon enough. And what

00:46:45.780 are they doing with the money they got? So this is an interesting one. Eight years after the

00:46:49.620 parliament passed the veterans hiring act. So they're trying to find jobs for veterans. This

00:46:53.680 reflects a bit on Trudeau's just transition. You know, prime minister pinhead thinks if we just,

00:46:58.420 we could shut down the energy sector in the West, but Doreen will transition them to new jobs, 1.00

00:47:02.420 right? Well, they didn't find veterans any jobs. In fact, uh, Stephen Harris, the assistant deputy

00:47:08.360 minister says, we believe in it, but we have no numbers. We have no numbers. They don't know.

00:47:12.760 They don't know how many veterans they've actually hired with eight years of this program

00:47:16.580 with millions of dollars tossed into it.

00:47:19.700 It's just a bunch of bureaucrats

00:47:21.040 running in spur circles.

00:47:22.240 The ones you were putting to work

00:47:23.400 are these pointy-headed bureaucrats

00:47:25.380 shoveling one piece of paper to one desk

00:47:27.180 and shoveling it back to the other.

00:47:28.440 They're all working from home now

00:47:29.500 and they're doing squat.

00:47:31.780 We know we're doing squat

00:47:33.120 because you look at outcomes like this.

00:47:34.300 They can't even give a number

00:47:35.200 of how many veterans were hired.

00:47:37.340 Eight years they've had on this.

00:47:39.780 Millions of dollars.

00:47:42.000 So how many,

00:47:43.120 if they shut down the energy sector,

00:47:44.760 how effective do you think they'll be

00:47:45.900 in finding new jobs for them. How well will they transition them? How many windmills can we really

00:47:50.840 build? But this is what we've got going in there. And this is where the money goes. This is the

00:47:57.460 problem with the bureaucracy and it doesn't serve us. So, I mean, the government doesn't need more

00:48:03.280 money. They don't need more money. They need a kickstart. I don't know what it'll take, but to

00:48:09.280 start managing the money they've already got well or better. I mean, we've got this CRA bureaucrat

00:48:15.860 The Taxpayers Federation's been making a lot of noise about that, rightly so. 0.83

00:48:20.100 The CRA, they want a 30% raise. 0.97

00:48:22.700 These are the jerks that have been sitting at home since COVID for the most part. 0.99

00:48:25.740 They aren't even going into work. 1.00

00:48:27.860 And they're threatening to strike for a 30% raise.

00:48:31.980 Everybody else is tightening their belts. 0.88

00:48:33.540 And the parasitic bureaucrats, and they don't get any more parasitic than the Canadian Revenue Agency, 0.53

00:48:38.600 actually, they want a 30% raise to keep coming after you to take your money,

00:48:43.000 to throw into things like this veterans program

00:48:44.940 that can't tell us how many people they've hired

00:48:47.060 or hotels that house, you know, 15 people for $6.7 million.

00:48:54.740 Yeah, we've got a lot of big problems again, guys.

00:48:58.800 I mean, here's a great example, too,

00:49:00.820 that we saw at the House of Commons.

00:49:03.800 I believe the video is on the Western Standard,

00:49:05.720 thecutt.com.

00:49:07.280 They had a motion to condemn Tucker Carlson

00:49:10.000 over comments about using the military to remove Justin Trudeau.

00:49:14.000 Now, if you watched Tucker Carlson's show,

00:49:15.900 he's like me, he rants and raves.

00:49:18.700 He's on daily, he's an American pundit.

00:49:20.460 He's on Fox News.

00:49:21.920 He makes those statements.

00:49:23.000 He wasn't being serious.

00:49:24.320 I'm pretty sure, even if he was being serious,

00:49:26.720 do you think Biden was going to,

00:49:29.940 oh, well, Tucker Carlson said,

00:49:31.780 we're going to use the military to remove Trudeau.

00:49:33.720 We'll go out and run the tanks up there to Canada and do it.

00:49:36.800 I'm sure some people might like to see that.

00:49:38.980 It wasn't serious.

00:49:39.880 It wasn't real. And it sure as hell wasn't worth spending the time in the House of Commons, which is what they did, to say, we have to condemn this.

00:49:48.520 We have to have the government take the time in our highest house of power in the land and discuss and debate and condemn the statements of an American pundit on a TV station.

00:49:58.760 Really? You guys got nothing better to do with your time than worry about that?

00:50:03.600 god i'm surprised they didn't get on condemning jeremy clarkson while they're at it because

00:50:08.920 there's the big cancel thing going on over in britain right let's use parliament for that

00:50:13.500 we've got some bigger things to deal with guys speaking of freedoms this has been another one

00:50:19.280 that's been big uh so the society for academic freedom and scholarship uh they came out and

00:50:25.280 spoke on how it was wrong yeah to prohibit uh uh dr widowson she's a professor she was fired from

00:50:31.980 Royal University in Alberta. And she was going to speak at University of Lethbridge. And of course,

00:50:36.420 the woke, the clowns, the snowflakes, the weak minded, and you are weak minded. If you are so 1.00

00:50:42.820 pathetic, you can't tolerate somebody speaking to somebody else. The problem is yours. Don't like 1.00

00:50:50.440 what Woodison has to say? Don't go. But that's not the woke. That's not the left. That's not

00:50:55.140 progressives. No, we have to shut them down. We have to shut them up. So yeah, they've shut her

00:51:00.740 down. She said she's going to go there and speak anyways. It'll be interesting. The veiled threat

00:51:04.640 from University of Lethbridge was along the lines of we'll do what we have to to protect the safety

00:51:08.020 of our students. Because as you see in the picture of them is Whitteson, Professor Whitteson.

00:51:12.240 Dr. Whitteson would threaten the safety of these snowflakes on their campus if she dared to even 0.91

00:51:18.720 speak in a classroom. This is pathetic. Guys, what happened to free thought? And this was a bigger 1.00

00:51:24.240 issue than it should have been. Because Whitteson used to have tenure at Mount Royal University.

00:51:28.520 And for people, you know, if you're familiar, tenure means it's supposed to protect professors from just this very sort of thing.

00:51:35.420 It's supposed to say, we will make sure you do not get unduly terminated from your role or pressured or fired as an academic.

00:51:43.700 And you can speak of things even if they're considered controversial.

00:51:47.220 And I tell you what, if it was, you know, decades ago, the controversial professors were the ones saying they should integrate multiracial universities.

00:51:55.880 They were considered controversial in the South.

00:51:58.520 They needed protection.

00:52:00.360 You know, Mississippi professors daring to say that we would allow black students to come into our university in the 1950s could lose their jobs.

00:52:08.380 So things like tenure were around to prevent that from happening.

00:52:13.080 To say, you don't agree with this professor, that's fine, but you don't dare shut them up because this is too important.

00:52:18.120 This discussion is too important.

00:52:19.780 And now we're shutting up widows and you don't have to agree with what she's saying,

00:52:22.620 but people understand how important it is to allow all of these professors to speak.

00:52:29.320 And we aren't.

00:52:30.520 So the university caved.

00:52:31.820 They've blocked her.

00:52:32.620 She can't speak there.

00:52:34.420 And we'll see what this turns into.

00:52:36.780 And it's not good, guys.

00:52:38.020 This is a bad, bad trend.

00:52:40.440 Another one, Gad Saad.

00:52:41.980 He's a professor, an academic in Canada.

00:52:44.100 I strongly suggest you look him up and look up his things because he talks on this a lot.

00:52:48.300 He did a, he put a book out.

00:52:50.040 I read that one.

00:52:50.460 It's called The Parasitic Mind. 0.97

00:52:52.300 And he covers a lot of that, this garbage that's gotten into our academia, 0.92

00:52:58.220 what are supposed to be institutions of thought, of examination, of thinking. 0.97

00:53:03.220 And instead, it's moved on to groupthink.

00:53:05.300 And it's dangerous to us all.

00:53:07.940 It's dangerous.

00:53:09.020 I mean, if you don't like what Witteson has to say, organize a counter speech and counter it.

00:53:14.520 Organize a debate.

00:53:16.680 Don't shut them down.

00:53:18.060 And we're seeing the same thing, attempted things with Jordan Peterson.

00:53:20.180 looks like to a degree he's too big to fail he's still packing his venues in canada even though

00:53:26.100 groups are trying to shut him down they tried to shut him down out east and they failed uh the

00:53:31.580 protests there was another interesting thing just you know just sidetrack so they were expecting all

00:53:37.220 these big protests against peterson against peterson during his uh presentation in ontario

00:53:41.760 there the other day because 30 some groups were opposing and saying we've got to shut this man

00:53:46.460 down. We're not allowing Dr. Peterson to speak here. There were squat for protesters. Nobody

00:53:51.560 came out. Well, this was manufactured. These 36 groups, 36 extremists probably getting tax funding

00:53:57.360 and CBC gave them oxygen. Global gave them oxygen. CTV gave them oxygen. Legacy media made it sound

00:54:04.600 like there was a big groundswell against Peterson. Most of the people in the world, if they didn't

00:54:08.520 like Peterson, didn't care. Okay, well, I'm not going to buy tickets. I'm not going to go see him.

00:54:11.620 geez, that's not too complicated, is it?

00:54:14.540 But they want to make this atmosphere of shutting down debate,

00:54:19.140 and it's a bad one.

00:54:20.000 It's bad for all of us.

00:54:21.280 Looking on an interesting and bright side,

00:54:23.400 some polling numbers out just recently.

00:54:26.200 Speaking of legacy media, I mean, I saw the headlines from Don Braid with the Herald.

00:54:31.380 Against all odds, Daniel Smith and the UCP might be poised to win the spring election. 0.60

00:54:36.920 No, it's against all of the effort and work you clowns have been doing for the last six months

00:54:41.040 to demonize the UCP and try and discredit Danielle Smith as much as humanly possible 0.88

00:54:46.880 to keep her from winning. That's what it's against. And yes, the votes, I mean, it shows,

00:54:53.420 at least from these polls, that it's tight. It's tight, you know, it's statistically a tie,

00:54:59.200 but looking at the balance of votes and where they land and everything, if they stay where

00:55:03.560 this pollster said they were, then the UCP would still win a narrow majority. I tell you what,

00:55:09.240 the legacy media and the establishment are going to fight tooth and nail all the way to the end on

00:55:15.400 this. All the way. They want Notley back in there. And it's going to be a rough and tumble battle.

00:55:21.180 That's part of why I took my break when I did, because I tell you what, the Western standard is

00:55:23.980 going to be busy as we lead up to that election. It's going to be vitriolic. And we're fighting

00:55:29.380 over some principles and concerns like we haven't seen before. The main thing with Smith and what

00:55:34.780 she's doing. She scares the crap out of them. She's actually looking to change things. That's 0.91

00:55:40.140 why they get so upset. It's not right or left. It's change they're terrified of. They've got

00:55:44.860 their big bloated, comfortable system. Leave it alone. Just give us more money, more money,

00:55:49.240 more money, but don't change anything. She looks like she's got the will to actually shake the 0.91

00:55:55.020 tree to change some stuff. And it's got the establishment crapping bricks and sweating

00:56:01.080 bullets and the polls are starting to show though that it's coming around. Alberta are not, we're

00:56:07.960 not socialists. We don't have a vote split that happened like happened the last time Notley got

00:56:12.500 in. It's not there. People aren't as warm on Smith as they were with Kenny initially when he went in

00:56:18.820 or as, you know, past conservative leaders, but they're warming to her and they certainly still

00:56:24.680 prefer her over Notley and you don't have a second party splitting it up. As I said right now, the

00:56:29.280 Independence Party is small, and they got Arthur Pawlowski leading it. They'll have their little 0.60

00:56:34.920 niche, but they're not going to really take much, I think, on any urban seats or have much impact at

00:56:38.580 all. I mean, especially if you look at the past electoral results. And the Wilderness Independence

00:56:41.840 Party, again, they were going okay, but then they've ripped themselves to shreds with infighting.

00:56:45.720 So the UCP is the only conservative option out there. It's going to be a two-party race,

00:56:48.960 and for the most part, Albertans have no interest in going back to another term of NDP.

00:56:55.580 Another interesting one that's on the Western Standard site,

00:56:58.380 this poll came out across the country apparently

00:57:01.220 and was talking about the amount of Canadians

00:57:03.060 who were receptive to the idea of their provinces

00:57:04.900 joining the United States.

00:57:06.280 This one's kind of interesting.

00:57:09.900 And of course, Alberta was the highest proportion with 21%,

00:57:13.380 but even in Atlantic Canada,

00:57:14.540 we're looking at 11% favorable towards doing it.

00:57:17.340 And Ontario second at 19%.

00:57:20.500 Ontarians aren't necessarily all content

00:57:21.960 with the status quo either.

00:57:22.880 Like, this country is getting uncomfortable.

00:57:25.920 And I go back, I see Gerald Jones commenting, St. Francis's widows, it's widowson, actually, Gerald, deserved to be fired.

00:57:32.700 No, no, she didn't.

00:57:35.100 You don't understand tenure.

00:57:36.200 You don't understand free speech.

00:57:37.980 She deserved to be fired because she said things that were contrary to the woke? 0.55

00:57:41.800 I think not.

00:57:44.020 Oh, I see.

00:57:44.900 She says, I'm a RU student, a far-right propaganda.

00:57:47.520 All right, so yeah, you're a snowflake.

00:57:49.460 I don't care what you think then.

00:57:51.220 Sorry, I thought there was going to be some intelligent discussion going on there, but I was mistaken.

00:57:55.900 He's just trolling now with the NDP stuff.

00:57:57.800 So that's the depth, though, of the NDP.

00:58:00.140 And this is as far as they can go in supporting things is to come out and troll some live shows.

00:58:04.500 But I thought maybe there'd be a discussion on why a person may or may not have tenure or be able to speak freely as a professor.

00:58:09.160 But Gerald is not capable of that kind of discretion.

00:58:12.780 So speaking of some of the last things to throw in a note to keep the things in flame as we end up the week.

00:58:18.000 SNC-Lavalin. Yes, City of Calgary has appointed them to deliver the Green Line LRT. So yeah,

00:58:24.260 we'll have a subsidized Eastern Canadian corrupted company working in Calgary to build this Green

00:58:30.000 Line that will build an LRT station to help deliver catalytic converter thieves more efficiently

00:58:35.800 from downtown to the outlying southeast suburbs in Alberta. So yes, things are getting better and

00:58:41.820 better. We really got to pay attention to our municipal politicians. Well, that's enough

00:58:46.900 ranting and raving for today guys it was a good full show it was good to be back lots more coming

00:58:52.380 we got lots of digital content by the way make sure to follow us on all of them guys facebook

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00:59:06.360 guys subscribe to the western standard we don't have to fall in with the rest of the

00:59:10.960 legacy media we got enough of that already i will be back next week the pipeline is going to be on

00:59:16.820 tonight. I'll be on that as well with Derek and Nigel and keep at it guys. I appreciate you and

00:59:23.740 it's good to be back.

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Western Standard - February 02, 2023

CMS： We need a Prime Minister with intellect

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