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00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the

00:00:29.280 Cory Morgan Show. Good to see you guys already there in the audience. It's live a minute or so late, but that's all right. We've got lots to cover today, lots going on for late August, believe it or not, or at least not a heck of a lot of issues, but a few good big ones. In a little while, I'm going to have Colin Craig on. He's with secondstreet.org. He did a great documentary out in Japan. I know it sounds a little dry, but it's about healthcare models, but it is important. It's a top issue and just showing over and over again that despite what the CBC and the rest of them like to feed you,

00:00:59.260 Canada system isn't the best in the world. In fact, it's far, far from it. Let's see you guys out in the comments. Scroll checking in. Kenzie, E-Sharp Paradox-y. I thought that said CBC fixes all. CB fixes all. And Tyler, good to see you all.

00:01:13.220 Use that comment. Scroll. Just try to keep things somewhat civil. If we want to fight and get nasty with each other, we've always got X for that. All right. Well, let's get on with the title of the show and what's got me going today.

00:01:24.440 I mean, the story, it sounds so familiar, right? A native band in BC claims that radar has identified the graves of murdered children. The CBC repeats the story from the band without checking it.

00:01:33.760 The government lowers the flags in apology, and then the band shuts down communications, refuses to allow any further investigation into the alleged graves, despite having taken millions in tax dollars to do that very thing.

00:01:45.360 Story sounds familiar because the hoax is proving lucrative and the grifters won't change the narrative that works.

00:01:51.600 It's been over four years since a band in Kamloops claimed they've discovered the remains of over 200 murdered children in a field next to a former Indian residential school.

00:02:01.700 So the federal government allocated $246 million to search for the bodies of children at former residential school sites.

00:02:08.560 And the Kamloops band, well, they took $8 million of those dollars in funds and apparently didn't find a thing.

00:02:13.840 I mean, they say they know the location of 200 bodies, but with $8 million to work with, they were incapable of taking a shovel and digging even one of those alleged graves up.

00:02:21.600 It's a hoax. I'm going to say it outright, and the band knows it's a hoax.

00:02:25.480 If they really believed there were children's bodies interred there, a forensic excavation would have begun within weeks of the discovery of the anomalies.

00:02:31.540 The government's willing to give them millions of dollars without oversight, so why should they stop asking for more?

00:02:36.220 And they are asking for more, by the way. They want $12 million now.

00:02:39.220 The claim made in Sitchel, I'm probably mispronouncing it, B.C. It's just up north of Vancouver. This is the new one.

00:02:44.840 They're saying radar identified the graves of 81 children.

00:02:48.820 When the Kamloops hoax was announced, it made international headlines.

00:02:51.440 This is something that's kind of promising.

00:02:53.280 The response to this latest hoax has been more muted. Only a few outlets have given it any coverage.

00:02:57.740 This one didn't make any waves really, aside from CBC, though, who dutifully called the radar anomalies unmarked graves.

00:03:03.360 After a backlash over that inaccurate and inflammatory reporting, CBC reporter Alana Kelly actually deleted her posting on X,

00:03:10.300 where she said graves had been found and locked down her account.

00:03:13.500 People are getting sick and tired of being fed this hoax, not to mention paying for it.

00:03:16.860 Another grift being carried out by many Indigenous bands is to do GPR surveys over known cemeteries and then acting aghast when indications of graves are found. 1.00

00:03:26.160 That was done in Grouard, Alberta in 2022. It was reported that a possible mass grave site was there.

00:03:30.940 The news faded away, but it became clear that all they did was prove that a cemetery contained bodies.

00:03:35.060 How much funding they got to establish this is unknown.

00:03:38.820 Most burials on Native reserves historically, and even today, all they mark them with is wooden crosses, which deteriorate after a few years.

00:03:45.120 They don't maintain the cemeteries, it's just the way it goes, and they get overgrown.

00:03:48.860 It's common for cemeteries to have large sections of unmarked graves.

00:03:52.960 It doesn't mean the bodies were surrepturously buried there or there was foul play.

00:03:56.720 Makes for great news copy, though, when these sites are discovered anew, aren't they?

00:04:00.600 The reluctance to dig these sites proves the motivations of the activists to be fraudulent rather than genuine.

00:04:06.680 In Winnipeg, activists lobbied to have tens of millions of dollars dedicated to digging up a local landfill to find the bodies of two murdered women suspected to be in there.

00:04:14.600 It was claimed that burial for Indigenous people is sacred, and these bodies must be found and properly interred at any cost.

00:04:21.040 Why, then, aren't the alleged bodies at the residential schools considered sacred?

00:04:24.340 Why hasn't it become a priority to return these remains to the families?

00:04:28.040 This exposes another part of the hoax.

00:04:29.500 While it's alleged that hundreds of children were killed and buried at these residential school sites, there aren't any families to be found making the claims that their children disappeared.

00:04:36.960 I wonder if at least a few would be kind of demanding to know where their children went.

00:04:40.180 The schools also kept meticulous records of the students they needed to in order to be reimbursed by the government.

00:04:46.100 There's no records of vanishing children to be found.

00:04:47.880 And guys, this was supposed to be happening in the 50s and 60s.

00:04:50.780 Where did these alleged children come from?

00:04:52.540 At a church site in Manitoba and a hospital site in Edmonton, activists made the air of actually, they believe, their own soup and excavated the alleged children.

00:04:59.580 Graves.

00:05:00.200 And guess what?

00:05:00.820 There was not a single body found, despite the oral history claiming they were there.

00:05:04.840 Since those failures, Indigenous bands have learned not to excavate. 1.00

00:05:07.420 They just do the radar surveys and demand more money.

00:05:09.720 Speaking of oral history, the claims of the attendees of the Kamloops Residential School that they were forced to go out and dig graves in the night for their murdered classmates as recently as the 60s.

00:05:18.420 If this is true, it's possible the perpetrators might still be alive to be prosecuted.

00:05:22.560 If the RCMP believed any of this, there'd be excavations.

00:05:25.460 Mass murders don't just remain uninvestigated.

00:05:28.440 The RCMP knows there's no bodies to be found.

00:05:30.140 It's a hoax.

00:05:31.020 The child burial hoaxes at residential school sites have caused real hurt, though, and real social division.

00:05:35.800 Also, over 100 churches have been vandalized or burned to the ground in response to this hoax.

00:05:39.740 And hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted.

00:05:42.500 And this is only going to be continuing, this is going to keep continuing, as long as the hoaxes are indulged rather than called out.

00:05:47.520 It's time to take the shovels out and prove what's underground at these sites once and for all, no matter what the local band thinks.

00:05:53.380 Guess what, guys?

00:05:53.940 Indigenous bands aren't sovereign nations.

00:05:55.940 They have no authority to block murder investigations, despite what they like to claim.

00:05:59.880 That's a different hoax than for another column.

00:06:02.080 In the meantime, let's get digging.

00:06:04.540 All right.

00:06:05.360 Well, that's my rant to get me going to start with.

00:06:07.940 Now, we're checking into the news with Dave number two.

00:06:10.720 Dave, what the hell are you doing?

00:06:11.840 Oh, same old, same old. 0.81

00:06:12.980 And Deer in Headlights is back.

00:06:14.640 Oh, great job.

00:06:17.000 Shockingly comfortable for only a second appearance on this national show.

00:06:20.800 Yeah, not too bad.

00:06:22.020 Well, to be fair, Corey, I mean, we don't have a lot of news this week.

00:06:24.200 It's been pretty slow, actually.

00:06:25.540 But, I mean, I guess the big one would be Paulyev has actually been back in the House of Commons.

00:06:28.900 You know, I mean, he won the Battle River Crowfoot riding by over 80% of the votes.

00:06:33.820 I think there's still some coming in.

00:06:35.240 But last I looked at it, I think it was 80.4%.

00:06:37.300 And I think some of the liberals were saying that it would be a failure if he didn't get that many.

00:06:41.000 Do you think that would have been the case?

00:06:42.040 I mean, it is a massive conservative stronghold.

00:06:45.460 To read anything, whether a victory or a loss into a by-election, is really going on a stretch.

00:06:50.980 If anybody's saying it's a great victory because he got 80%, well, again, it was a by-election.

00:06:54.260 They threw everything at it.

00:06:55.300 It was down to 60%.

00:06:56.360 Well, it's a by-election.

00:06:57.200 People may not have felt like coming out.

00:06:58.940 That's true.

00:06:59.360 Everybody's trying to read something to the tea leaves.

00:07:01.180 The reality, he took a safe spot.

00:07:02.680 You need a seat.

00:07:03.440 But, well, that's one more thing out of the way.

00:07:05.580 Yeah, no, exactly.

00:07:06.260 Apparently, Bonnie Critchley was finished second.

00:07:08.600 I think she got 10% of the votes, but it was actually pretty good when you think about it because she was an independent.

00:07:12.420 She's a local.

00:07:13.400 And she kept referring to Paulyev as a carpet beggar and said the whole thing was a waste of taxpayer dollars, which you could argue maybe it was.

00:07:19.480 It was kind of seemed like a sure thing from the get-go.

00:07:21.720 Well, yeah.

00:07:22.560 But, I mean, it happens.

00:07:23.300 It's funny.

00:07:23.740 I didn't hear Bonnie when Ned and she went out and ran for a seat in Everton to get himself into the legislature when he doesn't live there.

00:07:29.720 They kind of get a little selective.

00:07:30.900 I mean, it's an old game that political leaders have done forever.

00:07:34.260 Don Getty did it a long time ago out in Camaros, I think it was.

00:07:37.580 I mean, he built a nice new hospital and put the Lottery Corporation there to make sure he won the seat this time.

00:07:42.240 I mean, you don't have to like that aspect of the politics, but it's just the way that game's played.

00:07:45.900 Yeah, no, exactly.

00:07:47.120 And also we had the Air Canada strike, which actually really lasted not very long.

00:07:50.660 I thought it probably lasted a couple of weeks and then they'd probably finally go back to work.

00:07:53.260 But, yeah, no, they reached a four-year agreement, apparently, that covers over 10,000 flight attendants.

00:07:57.840 And ground pay is introduced for the first time, which I couldn't believe they didn't actually get paid for ground pay to begin with.

00:08:02.100 It's just when I think the plane was in like actually in motion in the air is when they started getting paid, apparently.

00:08:07.120 A different sort of compensation, yeah.

00:08:09.040 But then if you worked it out by the amount they were compensated per hour while it was in the air, it was very healthy.

00:08:14.080 But whatever, they settled, I guess, and people are flying again.

00:08:17.500 Yeah, because I think they said that.

00:08:18.620 I think it was, I'm looking here, it was 500,000 passengers were affected across all of Air Canada's flights around the world.

00:08:23.780 So that's a fair number.

00:08:24.940 I mean, especially at the end of August, you know, like end of summer vacation, kids are going back to school, that sort of thing.

00:08:29.080 So it's a good thing it didn't last more than two weeks.

00:08:31.600 I think it was, what, the total amount of days was less than a week, I think five days or so, something like that.

00:08:35.560 Yeah, they're still recovering, I think, a bit today from a few flights, but they're getting back in track.

00:08:39.220 But yeah, Canada's Airlines have been having nothing but grief for the last couple of years.

00:08:41.920 I'm not kidding.

00:08:42.800 Opens up a bigger discussion.

00:08:43.960 Maybe we need more than two large airlines in this country.

00:08:46.740 Not a bad idea, I think.

00:08:48.440 And we had a little bit of an interesting one.

00:08:49.740 There was a BC nurse that actually got suspended for one month and was ordered to pay over $94,000 over public statements on women's rights. 0.82

00:08:55.760 And it stems apparently from controversy from a 2020 billboard that she helped fund that said,

00:09:00.880 I heart JK Rowling, that some said was unprofessional, and they were talking about transphobia and whatnot.

00:09:06.300 I think there was someone on Vancouver City Council that had something to say about that.

00:09:10.140 Yeah, it's absurd.

00:09:11.540 And I mean, especially when we're talking to the point of a nurse where it should just be sticking at, you know, anatomy, biology, let's get real.

00:09:17.600 Hey, we want to indulge people, make people happy, find everything else.

00:09:20.300 But when you're treating somebody, I hate to say it, but women don't have peckers. 1.00

00:09:26.780 And, you know, if one of these women comes in and they're over 45 and they need to check out, you should probably check the prostate because it's still in there. 1.00

00:09:37.280 And then let's just stick to the actual health things and we'll deal with the social ones.

00:09:39.960 But now to the point where we're actually not even costing jobs, but fining $94,000 for daring to point out biological reality.

00:09:48.560 This world's upside down.

00:09:50.300 Ain't that the truth.

00:09:51.400 Well, like I said, Corey, that's about all we had.

00:09:52.840 It's a pretty slow news week.

00:09:55.160 Well, I'm sure there's more coming up.

00:09:57.500 Hopefully, hopefully.

00:09:58.520 Probably the CRTC complaint about after what I said about women and their peckers. 1.00

00:10:01.700 But actually, probably.

00:10:02.400 Have to look into that.

00:10:03.100 Well, watch for the email.

00:10:04.320 All right.

00:10:06.040 Well, thanks for the update.

00:10:07.420 I'll let you back into the newsroom there.

00:10:09.300 And I know you got lots to do with Dave hiding out with his grandchild.

00:10:13.200 Yeah, he's supposed to be back Monday.

00:10:14.720 So I guess we'll wait and see.

00:10:15.680 Right on.

00:10:16.480 All right.

00:10:16.740 Thanks, Corey.

00:10:17.080 Thanks, Dave.

00:10:18.780 And this I'd like to remind you guys, yes, the reason Dave's in there putting out all those great stories and writing on it is because you've been subscribing.

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00:10:57.080 Yeah, the near Canada thing.

00:10:58.860 You know, there's a bigger discussion going on.

00:11:01.280 If you've looked at this last year and a half or so, and why has there been so many of these strikes?

00:11:07.100 Well, and we've got Canada Post workers even talking about it again.

00:11:11.100 Well, you've got to remember one of the things Trudeau did was brought in legislation with Jagmeet Singh, you know, that disgraced former politician, to illegalize replacement workers in federally regulated fields of work.

00:11:24.180 Well, what a beautiful thing that was, right, because that covers interprovincial truckers, so, you know, the Teamsters can ready to really strong arm.

00:11:32.880 That covers flight attendants on airlines.

00:11:35.600 It covers postal workers, and it covers federal workers, of course, as well.

00:11:39.680 So when the federal workers went on strike, you couldn't put anybody in.

00:11:42.320 Postal workers, why would such an obsolete service think that they can get away with threatening strikes?

00:11:50.580 Well, not just threatening.

00:11:51.460 They did strike last year, and they're threatening yet again, because you can't replace them.

00:11:54.940 You see, airline flight attendants, that's a little more difficult.

00:11:58.240 Fair enough.

00:11:59.240 You know, that takes some safety training, and it's still got some specialized things.

00:12:02.440 But that's something within a couple of weeks, you could probably fill a whole lot of those roles, actually.

00:12:06.220 Maybe get some people across the picket lines.

00:12:09.040 Postal workers, come on. 0.99

00:12:10.820 Anybody who delivered newspapers in the 80s can be a postal worker.

00:12:13.420 If you can read, write, find an address, and have two legs, you can be a postal worker.

00:12:17.860 But if it's illegal to actually have somebody fill that role in a strike, they still have Canada Post over a barrel.

00:12:24.420 And that's why they feel empowered to pull these things.

00:12:27.700 So get used to more of these strikes.

00:12:29.960 I understand the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike.

00:12:34.220 These things are important.

00:12:35.400 They really are.

00:12:35.980 I respect those.

00:12:37.460 But when you give all of the power to one side and take away all the power from the other side, this isn't good, guys.

00:12:44.520 It's gone the wrong way.

00:12:45.780 This is what drives companies out of business.

00:12:47.900 This is what puts the cost of living through the roof. 0.99

00:12:51.340 So we really, so many things that Prime Minister Carney should be re-evaluating from his predecessor,

00:12:58.700 one of which would be the banning of replacement workers.

00:13:03.260 But I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

00:13:04.820 All right, let's talk about something else I'm looking forward to.

00:13:06.820 I haven't had him on in a while.

00:13:08.580 Colin Craig of secondstreet.org.

00:13:12.380 And they do great stuff on healthcare file.

00:13:15.240 And he's been out to Japan.

00:13:16.740 I envy it.

00:13:17.060 It must have been a hell of a trip.

00:13:17.960 But he's also come back with a great deal of information on the healthcare system out there.

00:13:22.080 So let's bring Colin in and chat about that.

00:13:24.820 Hey, how's it going, Colin?

00:13:25.960 Good.

00:13:26.220 How are you doing, Corey?

00:13:27.160 Good, good.

00:13:29.580 I just really appreciate, like I said, the work you guys do in showing, breaking through the myth as if, you know,

00:13:37.020 there's only two healthcare systems in the world, the Canadian one and the American one,

00:13:40.740 and examining other functional systems so that Canadians maybe can start to understand we can reform our system without becoming the big bad Americans.

00:13:49.960 And, yeah, of course, and that's been a frustration for so long is that people who benefit from not having health reform because they have a real stranglehold over control and, you know,

00:14:02.080 who gets to do what in healthcare, well, they have successfully for years presented this false choice between keeping our system or the American option.

00:14:09.580 And, like you said, we've been trying to show the world, or not show the world, show Canadians, rather, that there's all kinds of universal healthcare systems around the world that are performing much better than us.

00:14:21.880 So a couple of years ago, we went to Sweden to look at their system.

00:14:25.280 Again, universal, everyone's covered in Sweden.

00:14:27.840 We showed some of the things they do differently.

00:14:30.620 Last year, we went to France, and this year, we went to Japan.

00:14:33.400 So it was pretty amazing to go over there.

00:14:35.240 Yeah, and that's the key word, really, you know, with what the Canadians are concerned about, which is fair enough, is universal.

00:14:41.520 And they just want to be, you know, assured that you're always going to be covered one way or another.

00:14:47.060 The system might be different, but you're never going to be turned away from a hospital because you don't have enough money in the bank or a good enough credit rating.

00:14:53.020 You have coverage.

00:14:54.420 Everybody has coverage.

00:14:55.980 And Japan has universal coverage.

00:14:58.540 Yeah, they do.

00:14:59.600 They most certainly do.

00:15:00.400 And the most amazing thing about their system is that there's basically no waiting list.

00:15:04.380 It was culture shock, Corey, to go over there and learn more about their system.

00:15:10.400 I actually lived there 20 years ago, but as a younger guy, I didn't really need the health care system too much, so I didn't have a lot of exposure to it.

00:15:17.780 But to go back now in my 40s and with the specific purpose of learning about their system, it was culture shock to just hear again and again that if you need health care, you're getting in within, you know, maybe if it's emergency, you get in right away.

00:15:32.600 Excuse me, if it's not, you're getting in within a week, two weeks, a month max kind of thing.

00:15:38.420 Like you're getting in right away compared to in Canada where people often wait over a year for something like knee operation, hip operation, whatever.

00:15:46.400 Yeah, and I mean, that's one of the, not one of, it's definitely the biggest critique of the Canadian system is just waiting for access, trying to get in.

00:15:56.180 I mean, it's fine if you're covered, but the lost productivity, the pain and suffering of somebody waiting, or of course the worst possible outcome, somebody actually passes away or perishes waiting for care.

00:16:06.940 So that's not happening in Japan.

00:16:09.320 No, no, they looked at us surprised.

00:16:12.180 One doctor at a medical university hospital in Tokyo, we were talking away, we had an interpreter and everything.

00:16:20.440 I mean, he knew English, not incredibly well, I don't think, but we were talking with him and then someone would translate it for him.

00:16:27.860 And then once I started to talk about how patients had to wait a year often in Canada for things like a knee or hip operation, he switched into English.

00:16:37.200 He couldn't believe it.

00:16:37.860 He said a year, how long, a year?

00:16:39.920 Like he was shocked.

00:16:41.960 And this is a problem is that in Canada, I think many people have come to think of this as somehow normal.

00:16:47.080 It is not normal.

00:16:48.140 The suffering that we're seeing in this country is not normal.

00:16:50.460 And, you know, like I said, if we copy things like what Japan does and other universal countries, well, then we can get our wait times down so that they're more in line with other developed countries.

00:17:02.760 So, you know, that's what we did is we went over there to really kind of learn more about the system, show Canadians that, you know, are the constant suffering that people are enduring in this country.

00:17:13.660 It doesn't have to be this way.

00:17:15.140 So that gets us down to the how, you know, how is it then that Japan's able to do this with any universal system when we appear incapable?

00:17:24.600 Yeah.

00:17:24.880 So in their particular model, there's a few differences.

00:17:27.780 The most important one that we can learn from them is that in our country, the government tightly controls who can deliver health care.

00:17:37.980 And I don't mean like making sure that, you know, a doctor has a license or a nurse has, you know, a nursing degree or anything like that.

00:17:44.800 But that's a given.

00:17:46.300 But you can't simply open up a clinic in Canada and start providing health care to the public.

00:17:53.420 You can't just do that and start billing the government system if you're doing, say, knee operations or if you want to open up a hospital.

00:18:01.680 You can't do that.

00:18:02.620 The government does not allow it.

00:18:03.980 So the government tightly restricts the supply of health care for the public system.

00:18:08.680 And there's also very tight restrictions around, you know, delivering care outside of the public system.

00:18:14.520 So, you know, here in Alberta, as an example, if you want to pay for, you know, some kind of significant operation in Calgary as a Calgarian, there are a lot of roadblocks that make it very difficult to do that.

00:18:28.820 So this is why Calgarians often fly to another province.

00:18:32.380 And many other provinces do the same thing.

00:18:34.400 So you'll see Vancouverites flying to Calgary, Calgarians flying to Vancouver. 0.62

00:18:38.360 You have these ridiculous restrictions.

00:18:40.400 Japan is the opposite. 0.92

00:18:41.640 They do the exact opposite of Canada.

00:18:43.880 What they do is the government there determines how much they're going to pay for different procedures.

00:18:49.920 And then they basically tell anyone who's in the health care market or wants to enter the health care market.

00:18:55.880 If you want to provide these procedures, here's how much you're going to get from the government.

00:18:59.760 And then it doesn't matter if you've got, say, a different level of government wants to open up a clinic or maybe it's a nonprofit wants to open up a hospital or a private company wants to open up, you know, something like a clinic or hospital or whatever.

00:19:14.820 They know how much they're going to get from the government when they help out a patient.

00:19:19.900 And so it's a very, very different approach.

00:19:22.160 They welcome people to enter their market.

00:19:24.200 They actually have so much health care that they're trying to grow their medical tourism sector.

00:19:29.060 They're trying to get patients to come over from China, South Korea and Canada, too.

00:19:33.860 And it's a great system.

00:19:35.100 So if people are looking for, you know, to go abroad to get timely health care, I mean, I definitely recommend taking a look at Japan.

00:19:42.720 But, yeah, very different, very different approach.

00:19:45.060 They wanted to grow their system.

00:19:46.360 They've grown it.

00:19:46.920 So they have shorter wait lists.

00:19:48.100 We've done the opposite of the results for themselves.

00:19:50.920 And that should calm some of the fears then.

00:19:52.520 I mean, if they're at actually a point of a surplus of health care ability, one of the things that critics for private provision of care say is that, well, the private clinics will open up and they'll prioritize all the people who want to pay above and beyond.

00:20:03.640 And the people in the public system will end up being left behind anyways.

00:20:06.560 And, you know, back to we all must be equal and blah, blah, blah.

00:20:09.240 But, I mean, if we're all getting timely treatment, it doesn't matter anymore.

00:20:13.440 Well, exactly.

00:20:14.820 And, you know, the interesting thing when you talk about private and the sky falling, because that's what we hear all the time.

00:20:20.700 I mean, there's all these other countries that have choice.

00:20:23.140 People can use the public system in Sweden or you can pay private.

00:20:25.860 Same in France, et cetera.

00:20:26.960 All around the world, people have this choice and the sky hasn't fallen.

00:20:31.240 In fact, they perform better than us.

00:20:33.640 So we can navigate that issue and make sure that, you know, the public system still has staffing and so forth.

00:20:40.940 That's not a challenge.

00:20:42.620 But it's really, I think, the biggest thing we need to do is change this mentality from, like I say, the government strictly controlling who can provide health care to taking the opposite approach.

00:20:52.880 You want to provide health care?

00:20:54.540 Come on into the Canadian market.

00:20:56.280 That if you're an existing, you know, doctor or nurse or entrepreneur, by all means, open up a clinic.

00:21:01.760 Like, let's grow our health care sector so we've got more supply.

00:21:05.100 And so waiting lists decrease.

00:21:06.840 Well, and it's funny because, you know, one of the things people constantly talk about or worry about is we lose our medical professionals.

00:21:14.080 We're having difficulty retaining them and keeping them here.

00:21:16.580 Yet at the same time, they're afraid of changing the system that's been pushing these professionals out.

00:21:21.500 I mean, you guys help chip through some of the, I guess, that the cognitive dissonance people have when it comes to that.

00:21:29.220 Like, the system is failing in front of your own eyes.

00:21:31.760 You're still terrified to even tweak it, much less to give it substantial changes.

00:21:35.280 So you guys did a documentary, though, right?

00:21:37.840 You did a production so people can watch and see at length what the differences are.

00:21:42.240 Yeah.

00:21:42.540 Well, we've got a few things people can watch.

00:21:44.580 It's all for free.

00:21:45.260 It's on our website.

00:21:46.460 If you want to watch the Japan video, it's just go to secondstreet.org, all spelled out, and you can see it's right on the main page.

00:21:53.080 It's super easy to find.

00:21:54.420 And also, people could go to healthreformnow.ca.

00:21:58.020 Again, healthreformnow.ca.

00:21:59.180 That's a 40-minute documentary that's much more comprehensive and looks at more issues and more solutions.

00:22:05.960 But, yeah, you're right.

00:22:06.800 I mean, when it comes to labor issues, those can be navigated.

00:22:11.800 And, you know, personally, I don't have $100,000 laying around if I needed heart surgery or whatever.

00:22:16.780 I want the public system to be strong, but it's not strong right now.

00:22:19.820 So we have to be looking at reform, and we can make sure that we have the staff and the public system.

00:22:25.140 And the reality right now is that a lot of health care professionals are just leaving Canada.

00:22:30.840 They're looking at these different options, largely just working for the government, some government hospital here or there, and they're saying, I don't want to work there.

00:22:38.180 I mean, I hear terrible things.

00:22:39.420 It's not a good environment.

00:22:40.560 It's chaotic.

00:22:41.380 It's not managed well.

00:22:43.020 So they're leaving.

00:22:45.040 You know, other times these workers start out there, and then you hear MEI, the Montreal Economic Institute.

00:22:50.180 They've done great research looking at nurses retiring before they're, like, 35. 0.93

00:22:53.940 I should correct that, not retiring, but leaving the profession before they're 35 because it's just too stressful.

00:23:00.080 The government's operating a chaotic environment, whereas you go into countries like Japan.

00:23:05.900 You know, we went into these hospitals.

00:23:07.240 It's not chaos.

00:23:08.220 There's not patients laying in hallways.

00:23:10.140 There's not, you know, just this, you know, I don't know, confusion, like, surrounding the hospital.

00:23:17.060 And I'm not criticizing individual doctors and nurses in Canada.

00:23:20.100 The problem is the government's running the thing, and they've set it up poorly, and the results are not very good for too many Canadians.

00:23:27.720 So, yeah, we can navigate these issues.

00:23:29.840 I mean, two other things people, I think, may want to keep in mind about the Japanese system.

00:23:33.920 They do have user fees.

00:23:36.120 They're pretty affordable.

00:23:37.200 Like, no one's, you know, from what we could tell, no one's going bankrupt by the Japanese system.

00:23:43.160 If you need something like a heart operation, they have protections in place that if you're a middle-income Japanese person, the most you would pay in a month would be around $800.

00:23:53.220 So, if you think about, I mean, $800, a lot of us don't have that money to throw around casually, but if you think about it for something like a heart operation, you know, that's when the cost is probably upwards of $80,000, $90,000, $100,000.

00:24:09.120 I mean, $800 isn't very much.

00:24:11.560 So, they do have safeguards in place to keep the costs low.

00:24:14.160 So, if you need something less significant, a professor from Kyoto that we talked to estimated it would be about 3,000 yen to visit your family doctor, you know, if you've got a bad cough or something like that.

00:24:25.620 So, that works out to around $28 Canadian.

00:24:28.220 So, you know, it's not tiny.

00:24:30.640 It's not huge either.

00:24:31.620 I think most people, if they've got a serious health problem, they can afford that.

00:24:35.440 And then there's other safeguards in place if you're poor or, you know, for costs for children and so forth.

00:24:42.480 But that's one.

00:24:43.820 And the other thing that I think is important to talk about too, Corey, is just that the Japanese people are healthier to begin with.

00:24:49.600 And when you live a healthy life, you end up with fewer health problems.

00:24:54.240 And that's where we as a nation, I think, are weaker and we have more room for improvements for Canadians to, you know, live healthier lives in the first place.

00:25:03.440 Then we put less stress on the health care system.

00:25:06.280 So, you know, we talk a little bit about that in the documentary as well.

00:25:10.900 Yeah.

00:25:11.340 So, with these reforms, though, ideas like this, would these involve actually having to reform the Canada Health Act or provinces able to implement some of these without that?

00:25:20.940 Like, that's one of the problems Canada's had is the provinces are tasked with delivering the health care, but the federal government tells them how they must do it.

00:25:29.060 Do we need federal policy reform?

00:25:30.440 Yeah, I mean, the question or the answer is that it kind of depends, depends how you want to do it.

00:25:35.400 So, in Japan, actually, like, you know, we talk about the option of paying privately.

00:25:41.600 Use the public system or you reach into your pocket and pay privately.

00:25:44.880 I mean, that's how it works in countries like Sweden or whatever.

00:25:49.420 In Japan, it's basically the government's going to pay X amount of money.

00:25:53.580 It doesn't matter where you go.

00:25:55.160 That money is flowing.

00:25:56.820 And then you would pay that additional top up.

00:26:00.060 So, it's not really a, you know, you don't necessarily think about choosing between public and private.

00:26:04.660 It's all part of the public system.

00:26:06.080 But you could receive care at a private clinic within the public system.

00:26:11.800 So, the money flows from the government to the private clinic when you go in for your knee operation.

00:26:15.680 And then you pay a portion, which is the user fee.

00:26:19.400 So, that could certainly be done without having to change legislation.

00:26:27.040 Just changing this approach.

00:26:28.660 I mean, we're seeing it happen here in Alberta.

00:26:30.380 I mean, we'll see in the near future sort of how the government rolls this out as the details become clear.

00:26:37.580 But it looks like they're moving in that direction so that they're switching the system so that the focus, stay with me here, so that the focus now becomes all about the patient, which is where it should have been in the first place.

00:26:50.520 Too often in Canada, the focus is about ideology.

00:26:53.500 Who gets to deliver the healthcare? 1.00

00:26:55.280 Are they unionized?

00:26:56.260 Are they not?

00:26:57.040 Is it a public institution or not?

00:26:58.620 That's not what the focus should be about.

00:27:01.620 The focus should be about patients being empowered to go out and find the best solution for them.

00:27:08.020 And that's how they do it in Japan.

00:27:09.520 And that's a big difference.

00:27:11.280 Like I say, it looks like Alberta is moving in that direction towards kind of what they do in Japan.

00:27:16.440 Quebec has actually been doing that more and more.

00:27:19.100 And they've had some very good success there.

00:27:21.000 Yeah, I appreciate the way you guys have been approaching it and the Montreal Economic Institute, whereas people have been actually trying to pressure the politicians who will eventually have to be the ones to help implement the changes.

00:27:32.740 But I think what you've got to do is change the hearts and minds of the public.

00:27:35.960 Don't worry.

00:27:36.220 The politicians will follow.

00:27:37.540 If the public is asking for these reforms, the politicians will feel emboldened to do so.

00:27:44.080 And, you know, you've been doing more of a public education sort of role that way.

00:27:48.240 So, I mean, I really appreciate that and kind of laying it out in late terms so people can understand you're not looking to threaten healthcare.

00:27:54.400 You're looking to improve it.

00:27:55.800 And if we demand it, we can get it.

00:27:57.760 No, yeah.

00:27:58.140 I mean, we've spent tens of thousands of dollars, maybe even more, trying to show the public how we can improve our universal public system.

00:28:06.820 We're trying to improve the thing and also give patients more choice to, like, show how that can help and other things that can ultimately improve care for patients in the public system.

00:28:16.840 But spending decades continuing to do what we've done for the last 30 years, which is throw money at the system and hope something works.

00:28:24.800 I mean, that's insanity, right?

00:28:26.960 We've got to do something different.

00:28:28.660 And I actually take a different view than you on sort of where we're at.

00:28:32.780 I don't think the problem is as much the public.

00:28:35.580 It's more the politicians because when we do public opinion research, the public is largely on board with reform.

00:28:41.960 They overwhelmingly believe that we need reform, not throwing more money at the system.

00:28:47.600 So that's a good thing right there, that public understands throwing money at the system isn't going to work.

00:28:53.160 Well over 60% believe that.

00:28:55.040 And then there's another portion that believe that, you know, we continue to need reform and it's not throwing money at the system, too.

00:29:02.680 But, you know, so that's positive.

00:29:05.080 When it comes to choice, keeping the public system, allowing people to pay privately, locally in their own city, province, whatever.

00:29:11.960 Last poll we did found 61% believe that.

00:29:15.640 And that would help because every time someone pays privately, well, then that's one less patient that the public system has to provide care for.

00:29:24.420 So, you know, like I say, over 60% there support that.

00:29:28.640 So I think the public is largely there.

00:29:30.540 It's now a matter of politicians catching up because a lot of them, I think, are still stuck living in, you know, the late 90s, early 2000s,

00:29:37.700 where health reform was something that you couldn't really talk about as a politician because the public didn't fully understand sort of the system,

00:29:45.640 the problems, and sort of how we can change things by copying policies from Europe, Japan, Australia, wherever,

00:29:52.520 other developed nations that have universal systems.

00:29:54.880 So, you know, I think what we need more than anything is for the political class to catch up and understand just how bad the crisis is

00:30:02.780 and puts emergency behind reform.

00:30:06.600 Well, it's hopefully the public speaks up then.

00:30:08.580 I mean, that's who the political class should be listening to. 0.97

00:30:11.940 And as you guys help engage them, hopefully, you know, we want to make that lead to some positive changes.

00:30:16.380 So before I let you go, you know, just one more time, where can people find your recent documentary and all the rest of the work you guys have been doing?

00:30:22.000 And I love the work you guys have out there.

00:30:24.180 Well, thank you.

00:30:25.040 And thank you so much for having this conversation today.

00:30:27.980 It's so important for people to talk about these issues so that we can ultimately reduce patient suffering.

00:30:33.260 Like I said, the video, it's on YouTube, on our Facebook page.

00:30:37.760 The easiest way might be to just go to our website, secondstreet.org, all spelled out, and people can watch it.

00:30:45.240 There's a link right on the main page and they can see it there.

00:30:48.220 Great.

00:30:48.720 Well, thanks for joining us today, Colin, and thanks for that work.

00:30:51.300 And I hope you got to enjoy some of that time in Japan, too.

00:30:53.780 And it wasn't all business while you were out there.

00:30:55.580 Well, it was awesome.

00:30:56.460 Great food, lots to see.

00:30:57.820 Highly recommended if someone's wondering where they should go on their next trip.

00:31:01.020 Wonderful, amazing country.

00:31:02.580 Right on.

00:31:03.120 Thanks, Colin.

00:31:03.500 I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

00:31:04.940 Thanks a lot, Corey.

00:31:06.180 Great.

00:31:06.460 Thanks.

00:31:07.160 So, yeah, folks, one more time, that is Colin Craig at secondstreet.org.

00:31:10.880 And they cover other things besides healthcare, but that's where they've really been fantastic on that file.

00:31:15.340 You know, we've got to change our perceptions.

00:31:18.500 I mean, most people are realizing there's a problem.

00:31:20.260 I think some of it really wakes you up, though, once you get a direct experience.

00:31:24.380 I've been going on about it for years, but something that really shook me up a year and some ago was going into Foothills Hospital.

00:31:31.060 It was shortly after my wife, Jane's mother, had had a stroke.

00:31:34.320 And she was in, well, she passed, unfortunately, but she was in hospital for some time.

00:31:39.720 And we went to the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, and there was a room for the family to wait.

00:31:43.240 And you had to weave through these tunnels through emergency.

00:31:45.640 And literally, hallway care.

00:31:50.400 It looked like a war zone.

00:31:52.560 There were stretchers with people in very rough condition.

00:31:56.320 We're not talking about somebody who needs a couple stitches or a sprained ankle.

00:31:59.640 Very, very ill people were waiting in a hallway with a, sometimes alone, sometimes with a loved one, at least sitting with them to try and keep them company.

00:32:09.320 Until they could find a bed.

00:32:12.100 We brag.

00:32:13.540 We listen to this myth, and it is a myth, that we've got this brilliant system that's fantastic.

00:32:19.880 Try it.

00:32:20.780 You know, there's part of the problem.

00:32:22.380 If you've been fortunate enough to be healthy and your friends and family have been healthy, so you haven't gone in and seen firsthand just how badly it's failing on the front line there, never mind the wait to get a specialist, then maybe you believe the CBC line that we have the best health care system in the world.

00:32:40.540 We don't.

00:32:41.540 We do not.

00:32:42.240 We're not even close.

00:32:44.120 And, you know, with the emergency service, the times like that when it's really acute, I mean, I know just from my St. John ambulance repeated constant courses when I worked in the oil field, everything in a traumatic injury or, you know, a medical situation, time is everything.

00:33:04.620 The faster you can get in to professional help in a facility that can treat you, the better your chances of having a recovery or, you know, surviving.

00:33:13.980 And if you've got people waiting around literally on hallways and miserable, your survival rate is not that high.

00:33:22.100 You know, we've demonized.

00:33:23.540 We've allowed this polarized conversation to happen, saying it's just the American system or just the Canadian. 1.00

00:33:29.580 And, you know, it's the damned unions, and I'll say it outright, it's the bloody unions sucking us dry, life-sucking parasites, preserving this system, which is causing so much death and suffering. 0.99

00:33:41.780 We're spending as much per capita or more than most countries, and our outcomes suck. 1.00

00:33:46.620 But we've got the unions, oh, no, it's good, it's fine, it just needs more money.

00:33:49.020 No, it doesn't.

00:33:49.540 We can keep pouring money into that black hole and feeding you bloated pricks. 1.00

00:33:53.680 But it's not getting people healthier faster.

00:33:55.760 And when you try to turn the debate into something that is here or there, what does it matter if the healthcare is free if you're dead?

00:34:05.680 You know, one of the things I saw, I spent a lot of time working in the United States.

00:34:08.940 I don't want us to embrace their system.

00:34:12.180 I don't.

00:34:12.560 Because, yes, some people end up broke because they got treated somewhere.

00:34:16.000 But the competition element, you can certainly see.

00:34:18.900 I was working in Hobbs, New Mexico.

00:34:20.740 I tell you, a dusty, miserable little town right on the Texas-New Mexico border.

00:34:23.820 I was there in July and August.

00:34:24.860 I really had some good timing with where I'd be surveying.

00:34:27.300 But there was a billboard when you drive into town, actually two of them, and they were both for private hospitals.

00:34:31.600 And one had a digital sign on it so that it would change.

00:34:35.880 And it told the estimated wait times for emergency service.

00:34:38.420 They're actually trying to say, come to our place, we'll treat you faster.

00:34:41.960 And then I never saw it higher than seven or eight minutes.

00:34:46.140 As a CB fixes all, it says, your mother sat in the waiting room for six hours to see a doctor for the trouble she was having.

00:34:51.500 And yeah, there was a recent poll I saw talking about, I wish I could remember the number offhand, but a startling number of people who went to the hospital and then finally just left because they got tired of waiting.

00:35:02.000 Now, obviously, these were people who didn't have, you know, an amputated arm or bleeding out or something, but they had a condition.

00:35:07.780 Some of the dangerous ones, the scary ones, the ones we're hearing about deaths on things like appendicitis, presenting as sickness, presenting as a pain, you know, in the stomach.

00:35:16.100 Is it kidney stones?

00:35:16.920 Is it appendicitis?

00:35:17.680 Is it a stomach bug?

00:35:18.900 Who knows?

00:35:19.380 But if untreated too long, it can quickly become fatal.

00:35:23.300 You have to get them in.

00:35:25.360 And those are the ones where often we've had people dying on the waiting list or gave up and went home and then died at home.

00:35:30.740 It's not working.

00:35:33.040 Think of the costs for some of the long waits for specialized care.

00:35:40.120 You know, knee and hip replacements, terrible, terrible.

00:35:43.300 We're talking a year to a couple of years for some of these things.

00:35:47.140 If a person's waiting for that, often they might not be able to work.

00:35:50.340 That means they're collecting disability or other social services potentially.

00:35:54.500 Often it's very painful.

00:35:55.860 So guess what happens?

00:35:57.100 They get prescribed opioids.

00:36:00.680 Want to know some of the keys to why we're having an opioid epidemic.

00:36:03.740 If somebody's got to wait a whole year, year and a half on painkillers to get through,

00:36:08.220 they might come out with their treatment, but now they're a hopeless, bloody addict to opioids.

00:36:14.660 And they've got to deal now with trying to kick an addiction or unfortunately maybe even having it turn into something much, much worse.

00:36:22.860 It's not working.

00:36:25.020 The politics of envy come into this a lot too.

00:36:28.280 So I'm not talking about the American.

00:36:29.640 I'm talking about European models.

00:36:31.160 A lot of them have mixed systems.

00:36:32.660 Colin was talking about Sweden, France.

00:36:35.660 And some of the things that happened, let's say France.

00:36:37.440 Now I don't know the numbers enough hand, but you see, they got private hospitals, but they're regulated.

00:36:41.660 Everybody has universal care.

00:36:43.060 Remember?

00:36:43.440 So universal, that's the big part.

00:36:44.900 Everybody's got coverage.

00:36:47.020 But that hospital in France, you know, let's say I'm Joe Millionaire, Billionaire.

00:36:50.980 I want to open a hospital up just outside of Paris, my own.

00:36:53.840 I'll recruit my own doctors.

00:36:55.100 I'll do my own thing.

00:36:56.740 Okay.

00:36:57.840 And I want to draw those patients in because I see them as an asset so I can treat them, make them better, make my money.

00:37:02.760 And you want them, people saying, oh, then they're just motivated by profit.

00:37:05.560 Well, not really, because if your patients don't have a good recovery level, they aren't going to come back.

00:37:09.520 The word's going to get out.

00:37:10.320 You're going to get a bad Google review.

00:37:12.020 People aren't going to come to your hospital.

00:37:13.320 You are motivated to do a good job.

00:37:15.960 But they have it regulated.

00:37:17.240 I'm just guessing.

00:37:17.800 Let's say it's like 60% of your hospital procedures have to be in the public system, have to be under the umbrella of the universal system.

00:37:25.440 Beyond that, though, you can start using those rooms, those doctors, those nurses, those laundry workers for extra stuff.

00:37:32.940 And yes, somebody rich might get treated a week ahead of you.

00:37:40.180 But they're paying for you to get treated in two weeks for something that might have taken two months prior.

00:37:44.980 Get over the envy.

00:37:48.200 And let's just all get ahead.

00:37:50.500 That person's paying for your lineup to get shorter.

00:37:52.960 Yes, they've paid to get in front of you in it.

00:37:55.820 But it still benefited all of you.

00:37:58.020 Quit this.

00:37:58.420 We've all got to suffer equally idea. 0.99

00:38:00.700 It sucks. 0.98

00:38:02.100 That's the old crab in the bucket mentality. 0.99

00:38:04.380 We're going to drag everybody down.

00:38:06.220 If I can't have it, nobody else can have it.

00:38:09.060 I just want it shorter.

00:38:10.620 And I'm okay if the rich guy gets ahead of me.

00:38:12.780 I've accepted a lot of things from the rich guy.

00:38:14.940 They've got the nicer car.

00:38:16.000 They've got the nicer house.

00:38:16.940 They take longer vacations.

00:38:17.920 Oh, well, get over it.

00:38:19.400 Either work harder to get their level of income or just forget about it.

00:38:24.220 But pissing and moaning and trying to pull them down to your level doesn't help.

00:38:27.200 And guess what happens?

00:38:29.380 This is something that's already happening, too.

00:38:31.760 People will go somewhere else for the care and they'll take their dollars out. 0.73

00:38:35.880 It's not because they're rich.

00:38:37.080 It's because they're desperate.

00:38:39.120 Let's say I've used this analogy before.

00:38:41.200 Let's say I was told I'm not rich.

00:38:42.740 I promise you I'm not rich.

00:38:44.520 I'm doing okay, but I'm not rich.

00:38:46.180 But I was told you need this heart procedure within four months or there's a 50% chance you'll be dead.

00:38:52.680 We'll book you in for six months from now.

00:38:54.120 That's kind of what some of the options people are kind of looking at right now with these long waits.

00:38:57.980 What am I going to do?

00:38:58.900 Sit there and take a 50-50 chance of dropping dead?

00:39:01.840 No.

00:39:03.040 I might remortgage my house and go to the United States to get it done or Vietnam or Japan.

00:39:08.820 So what happened then?

00:39:10.260 Well, I got faster treatment, but now I've lost the equity in my home.

00:39:14.380 Medical professionals in a different country got my money, which could have been kept here funding other medical professionals.

00:39:21.560 I'm not saying I'd have to pay the whole works out of pocket.

00:39:23.900 I'm just saying, you see, we're not winning.

00:39:27.040 It's not just rich people leaving to get care elsewhere.

00:39:30.440 It's desperate people.

00:39:31.860 And if they don't even have that means, well, yeah, then they're hooped.

00:39:34.500 And they just got to cross their fingers and hope that, you know, whatever you have doesn't get you before you can get the treatment on it.

00:39:45.360 We need rational discussion on it.

00:39:47.360 We need to stop the fear mongering.

00:39:49.060 We need to tell the unions to shut the hell up. 1.00

00:39:51.020 We need to allow, here's the big word, competition.

00:39:57.120 That's the thing.

00:39:58.120 If these public hospitals are giving good care, they don't have to fear losing patients or professionals to a private facility.

00:40:06.200 Part of the other problem we have is that we've centralized all of our care.

00:40:11.700 Again, thanks to the unions, thanks to the models.

00:40:13.440 So we've got these hospitals that encompass everything.

00:40:16.560 They're huge.

00:40:17.180 They're inefficient.

00:40:17.920 They're bloated.

00:40:18.680 I saw somebody else mentioned it.

00:40:19.820 It's the bureaucracy, the administration that's costing a fortune as well.

00:40:23.620 Administration doesn't empty your bedpan, doesn't give you the blood test, doesn't ring the bell when you're having a heart attack.

00:40:30.640 No, these are a bunch of paper pushing pencil neck geeks sitting in offices. 0.99

00:40:34.960 This is coming up with more ways to slow down care at a higher cost.

00:40:38.980 Go to a hospital as well and look at the nurse's station in the middle.

00:40:42.320 Go to any ward.

00:40:43.820 Walk around.

00:40:44.920 And there's one, two nurses running around and they're working their butts off. 1.00

00:40:47.820 They're very important.

00:40:48.780 They're very skilled.

00:40:49.480 I understand that.

00:40:50.120 But there's 12 of them sitting there staring at computer screens.

00:40:52.440 What the hell are they doing?

00:40:53.820 I don't get treatment by somebody staring at a computer screen.

00:40:58.320 They say they're charting.

00:40:59.520 They're charting.

00:41:00.220 They're charting.

00:41:00.720 Have we gotten to a point yet where somebody can do a visit to somebody in a bed and not have to spend half an hour charting?

00:41:08.580 What's going on?

00:41:10.140 Well, in a public system, a unionized, bloated system, they're not going to dig into what that problem might be.

00:41:17.200 But you need to have some competition.

00:41:20.560 Then you have another one down the street that maybe is doing things twice as fast as a good cost.

00:41:25.180 Then that pushes pressure on the other.

00:41:26.900 You see, but when you only have one system stuffed into one building, you can't find solutions.

00:41:32.020 You just keep doing the same thing.

00:41:34.100 And it's so big, so bloated.

00:41:36.300 The other thing, go to a hospital, visit somebody.

00:41:38.440 Visit on a weekend.

00:41:39.400 And guess what?

00:41:39.800 The parking lot is empty.

00:41:42.480 On a weekday, you can't park within a mile of the place.

00:41:44.760 What's going on? 0.95

00:41:45.420 Well, it's all those bloody bureaucrats, but they only work nine to five. 0.99

00:41:48.600 Guess what? 0.99

00:41:49.140 I wish, but I only get, I don't get sick nine to five.

00:41:52.960 We don't get into accidents, just nine to five.

00:41:55.760 But the hospital is overloaded with these bureaucrats. 0.87

00:42:00.520 And they're just like safety chodes. 0.98

00:42:02.300 If you're working in the oil field or construction, all they do is come up with more paper, more crap, more garbage to actually reduce the amount that productive professionals get done.

00:42:12.100 And those professionals are the ones keeping you healthy or trying to.

00:42:18.980 Dark Robe saying, charting is done from a progression of illness standpoint and liability.

00:42:22.600 Okay, yes, I understand.

00:42:24.420 You got to document, document, document.

00:42:25.780 Part of it's the bloody lawyers, right? 0.78

00:42:27.140 They'll sue you for anything and everything. 0.97

00:42:28.440 If they think a dot, you know, T wasn't crossed or an I wasn't dotted.

00:42:31.340 But you don't need that much. 0.99

00:42:34.100 Quit giving me that crap. 0.99

00:42:36.500 We don't need them for half an hour per patient every 20 minutes. 0.99

00:42:40.040 It just, they're in there all the time.

00:42:42.360 Don't try to tell me when I got AI that I can type in a sentence and get a, an essay.

00:42:47.540 You know, with this modern technology that we have to have our nurses spending that much time in front of a computer screen instead of actually working with the patients. 0.99

00:42:57.540 Something's wrong.

00:42:58.380 We got a lot of room to improve things, but we got to break out of what we're stuck with. 1.00

00:43:03.980 Here's something to show the stupidity of government. 0.99

00:43:06.780 I'll kind of break away from healthcare. 0.99

00:43:07.940 This is just, I want to hit some of these stories before the show runs.

00:43:10.040 And you might've seen this story popping up.

00:43:11.900 The Canadian embassy in Washington, they hired, so this is your tax dollars.

00:43:15.760 These are your bureaucrats.

00:43:16.940 These are these folks.

00:43:17.940 They hired a consultant for tips on how to talk to Americans.

00:43:21.340 Yeah.

00:43:21.580 The Canadian embassy in Washington.

00:43:23.160 And guess how much they paid?

00:43:25.220 2,000 American an hour for this specialist to teach how to talk to Americans.

00:43:34.240 This is teaching our diplomats.

00:43:36.180 This is teaching our $400,000 a year, most senior of bureaucrats living in,

00:43:41.900 in embassies with servants, how to talk to the Americans.

00:43:47.680 This is where your money's going, guys.

00:43:49.580 But this is what bureaucrats come up with. 1.00

00:43:51.200 This is the double speaking garbage they come up with. 1.00

00:43:53.580 This is the same sort of people are dealing with how we do our healthcare. 1.00

00:43:57.660 They're adding levels and levels of idiocy. 0.99

00:44:00.880 And are we getting any better for it? 1.00

00:44:05.620 Let's get to our rights.

00:44:06.620 Here's another story we're going to be watching.

00:44:08.320 I'm going to be following closely because I've always been big on those ones.

00:44:10.540 I believe in castle doctrine.

00:44:11.900 That means, yes, property rights, your property, your health, your safety, your well-being.

00:44:17.340 Some housebreaker comes in.

00:44:18.760 I should be able to sue their estate for the cleaning to get their brains off of the back 0.99

00:44:23.940 of my door after they got lead poisoning by threatening my family.

00:44:29.380 Well, in case of Kawartha Lakes, and Kawartha Lakes has got some serious issues going on

00:44:33.500 anyways with their junkies and other problems.

00:44:36.160 But yes, a 44-year-old man had a housebreaker come in.

00:44:39.020 He beat the snot out of the guy. 0.99

00:44:40.480 And now the 44-year-old man has been charged.

00:44:43.720 The housebreaker, of course, was already wanted on prior charges.

00:44:47.180 And the housebreaker had a weapon.

00:44:48.680 But that's not good enough.

00:44:49.600 They don't want you to have the right to defend your own home, defend your person, defend

00:44:54.400 your property.

00:44:56.060 This has to change.

00:44:57.860 That priority is so far off, so far out of whack.

00:45:01.260 Family, safety, property comes first.

00:45:05.460 And that's not going to happen in Canada.

00:45:08.100 It's back to maybe an independent Alberta.

00:45:10.500 I'll have it.

00:45:11.020 Independent West.

00:45:12.720 Look up Castle Doctrine if you aren't familiar with it, though.

00:45:15.020 You want crime prevention, go to an area.

00:45:19.280 Derek brought that up when we were talking about a meeting earlier this morning.

00:45:22.060 See how many home invasions happen in Montana.

00:45:24.340 Not a heck of a lot.

00:45:25.700 Why?

00:45:26.120 Because they have property rights, home protection rights, and most of them have firearms.

00:45:30.160 So even the worst of fentanyl-addicted hammerheads knows that it's suicide to break into a home

00:45:35.360 with an owner in there.

00:45:36.720 In Canada, the homeowner, I guess, is supposed to just sit there.

00:45:38.900 Please don't hurt me.

00:45:39.720 Take everything I got. 0.99

00:45:40.600 Maybe just rape me a little bit, but I won't fight back because I'll go to jail. 1.00

00:45:43.920 Ridiculous. 1.00

00:45:44.840 All right. 0.92

00:45:45.420 Ending off on that, guys.

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CORY MORGAN SHOW： Another day, another residential school mass grave hoax

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