Western Standard - Cory Morgan： No, America isn’t going to steal Canada’s water

00:00:00.000 You know, there's a lot of legitimate things to be discussed right now.

00:00:02.660 We're in a volatile, crazy time, a trade war.

00:00:05.400 We got an independence movement moving towards a referendum in Alberta,

00:00:08.740 a Quebec election with an independence movement looking like it's going to win that.

00:00:12.260 But an old canard popped up that I haven't heard in a while.

00:00:15.740 And it's that the big, bad Americans are going to come up and steal Canada's water.

00:00:20.200 Or some evil separatists are going to sell all the water away from Alberta to the United States.

00:00:25.740 And that's been in the headlines and that's been all over. 0.96

00:00:27.680 I had to listen to that crap back during the free trade talks well over 30 years ago. 0.99

00:00:33.980 Maude Barlow, another hard leftist saying, again, the Americans are going to steal our water. 0.99

00:00:38.060 Look, it's a non-starter. 1.00

00:00:40.000 It's one of the dumbest myths, and there's a lot of dumb ones out there, but it's one of the dumbest of them all. 0.99

00:00:44.280 And purely because of logistics, okay? 0.99

00:00:46.620 Just think about that one a few minutes before getting worked up that the Americans are going to buy or steal our water.

00:00:52.500 Water isn't easy to move.

00:00:54.300 You can't just pick it up and move it.

00:00:56.740 If you put it in a pipeline, let's use that comparison.

00:00:59.780 The pipeline they're talking about moving to the West Coast right now from Alberta to move oil,

00:01:03.540 which is much lighter than water and easier to move.

00:01:07.180 That pipeline is probably going to cost $30 or $40 billion, only go less than 1,000 kilometers,

00:01:13.300 and it'll move a million barrels of oil a day if it ever gets done.

00:01:17.540 Water is worth.

00:01:19.680 Now, oil is getting up today as over $90 a barrel.

00:01:22.320 water is worth on an industrial commercial scale about five cents a bottle a barrel yeah you know

00:01:28.540 when it's used for irrigation or things like that look at that value now think of a pipeline to run

00:01:34.600 water all the way down to utah california all those parched areas where those big band americans

00:01:39.440 are going to steal it it would cost about a hundred billion dollars it's not going to happen

00:01:44.060 oh but what about a canal again look at it guys it would have to actually go under valleys over

00:01:50.780 mountains across rivers that are going to take even more water out to the Pacific coast. And by

00:01:58.440 the way, did I mention that pipeline would move less than a creek moves? Guys, I'm sure they'd

00:02:04.460 love to get our water down to the California desert to irrigate things, but it's not going to

00:02:08.960 happen. If it was that easy to move, we'd already be irrigating Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan.

00:02:14.820 Going to have a lot of things to cover over the course of this referendum, but don't let people 0.99

00:02:19.180 start down that stupid rabbit hole of all the Americans are gonna steal our 0.99

00:02:23.080 water guys who's on the south side of the Great Lakes why haven't they stolen 1.00

00:02:27.340 all of that yet it just doesn't work that way look at the Panama Canal that

00:02:33.100 thing is one of the modern wonders of the world and it's only what 50 miles

00:02:37.000 across it only goes to a height of 85 feet yet conspiracy theorists think the

00:02:42.760 Americans are somehow gonna move volumes of water from the lesser slave

00:02:46.780 lake over mountain passes through valleys all the way down to the southern states

00:02:51.660 get real guys we got bigger issues to deal with but this is the stuff that's making headlines today

Western Standard - October 06, 2026