Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Canada can’t afford free housing

00:00:00.000 good day welcome to the

00:00:28.560 Cory Morgan show it's my weekly opportunity to get everything off my chest cover a few of what I

00:00:33.620 feel are the top stories of the day interview some interesting people and you know solve the

00:00:37.300 world's problems we pack that all into 45 minutes thanks for tuning in it's a beautiful fall day out

00:00:43.360 there for folks in Alberta maybe everywhere I don't know we didn't get much of a summer but I

00:00:46.780 can't complain about the September so far I mean I'll complain about all sorts of things but I

00:00:50.120 won't hit on the weather today anyways another good show coming up here in a bit uh my guest

00:00:55.680 coming on is is school board trustee candidate Jennifer Stewart and I know people say oh

00:01:01.140 school board trustees well look what's been going on guys we've we've got porn showing up in school

00:01:06.840 libraries we've got a school board and open rebellion up in Edmonton and whose fault's all

00:01:11.440 that well actually it's ours because we never pay attention to those school board trustee elections

00:01:15.860 and let the nutcases get into power so uh Jennifer's gonna share a lot with us and how that works and 1.00

00:01:20.940 what's going on what her campaign's on and maybe you know encourage more folks to seek it out so

00:01:25.060 perhaps we can get a better crop of trustees in there we'll see all right let's get started on a

00:01:30.720 policy thing what's got me wound up right now Mark Carney always announced the big fanfare is 13

00:01:35.800 billion dollar housing initiative and it highlights everything that's wrong with the Canadian system

00:01:40.940 and why things aren't going to be improving under the Carney government I mean to begin with it proves

00:01:45.400 Carney's claims that he's going to streamline the government and reduce the bureaucracy to be hollow

00:01:50.020 the Trudeau government nearly doubled the civil service over 10 years Carney implied the growth

00:01:54.720 was unsustainable and he's going to get the bloat under control but then he announces a new agency

00:01:59.580 was going to employ hundreds if not thousands more civil servants not one of which will swing a hammer

00:02:04.240 to actually help build a home speaking of efficiency the estimated cost per unit under Carney's plan is

00:02:09.940 going to be over three million dollars each affordable indeed Carney dared to use the term austerity when

00:02:15.660 referring to his upcoming budget but he keeps spawning new spending initiatives of the scope like

00:02:20.000 the housing plan if he keeps doing that he's going to blow by that record hundred billion dollar

00:02:24.500 deficit that some people are predicting already he's making Trudeau look outright miserly in comparison

00:02:29.620 now the housing initiative lands 100 outside of federal jurisdiction it's not the role of the

00:02:36.000 federal government to build homes it never has been or should it ever be the provinces are responsible

00:02:41.580 for housing and even then the government should only be creating the environment to facilitate home

00:02:45.280 construction not building houses directly the federal government's pushing ever more deeply into

00:02:50.340 jurisdictions where it doesn't belong and it only creates more regional conflicts and inefficiency

00:02:55.320 and program delivery the federal government spent over six billion dollars to develop a website

00:02:59.920 to make government services easier to access this is how good they are they've been trying to build

00:03:04.460 this site for eight years now and estimate it might be fully available by 2030 the same government took a

00:03:10.700 pipeline that should have cost four and a half billion to build and ballooned the cost of 34 billion

00:03:15.160 dollars while delaying the construction for years do you really want them to take over housing too

00:03:19.380 you know i recently posted an image of a sea of decrepit housing projects from the soviet era

00:03:24.760 on x along with a comment on how this is what's putting well this is what putting the state in charge of

00:03:29.960 housing is going to lead to i was kind of distressed by how many young fools got upset and made the case that

00:03:35.320 such housing was wonderful and how the communists ended homelessness they also ended over 100 million

00:03:40.140 lives but who's counting you know if they're dead you don't need to house them it's frightening to

00:03:44.220 think we have an up-and-coming generation are truly clueless about the horrors of communism and think the

00:03:48.840 trade-off between general prosperity and freedom is worth it if it came with what they think is free

00:03:53.800 housing in a concrete block slum also lost upon them is the rationing and misery that came with state

00:04:00.040 housing waiting lists were part of the game in getting a home and to get repairs bribery was

00:04:05.300 usually the order of the day these modern day marxists so they kept making the case that

00:04:09.080 government guilt built ghettos are still superior to the tent cities that grace every city in north 1.00

00:04:13.420 america look people risk their lives to escape the hell of communist nations but that's been forgotten

00:04:18.500 if it was so damn great communist countries wouldn't have had to lock their citizens in

00:04:22.680 also ignored is that those tent cities are due to leftist policies that led to the closure of mental

00:04:27.700 health asylums and permissive drug use enablement policies that fed an opioid addiction epidemic

00:04:32.680 if we took all those people from tent encampments and put them into housing without treatment

00:04:36.320 those housing complexes would become drug dens and drug crime hubs

00:04:40.020 kawartha lakes in ontario boy they keep coming up proved with a catastrophic experiment when they

00:04:46.060 put a bunch of addicts into subsidized housing look that one up guys they tore it to shreds and

00:04:50.560 it's not to say that people on the streets don't need housing but we can't pretend the lack of housing is

00:04:54.540 what put them there most of them are addicts and have mental health issues which need treatment in

00:04:58.580 secured facilities and there are folks who just fell through the cracks and missed a couple rent

00:05:03.460 payments they're screwed up north american projects weren't much better they're crime ridden slums 0.58

00:05:08.060 which can be seen today in most major cities the creeping communism is just as insidious and damaging

00:05:13.220 as the communist that came quick communism that came quickly through revolutions and we let the

00:05:17.200 government incrementally take control of housing as it has with health care we can look forward to

00:05:21.700 the rationed substandard delivery of housing we already enjoy with hospitals we mustn't let the

00:05:27.400 government get there we need smaller government lower taxes and fewer regulations if we want

00:05:31.760 affordable housing we let the governments take over we're trying to cure the disease with what

00:05:35.560 caused it in the first place if looking back on communism is it doesn't offer stark enough example

00:05:40.720 of what happens when government takes control of housing check out an indian reserve they offer a

00:05:45.300 contemporary example right in our own country look if you want good quality affordable housing in

00:05:50.040 canada the housing must be kept as far from the government control as possible all right well

00:05:56.440 it's got me pissing one day how's it going dave going well cory but the comedy's all upset at you 0.53

00:06:00.800 i do boy have they ever flattened my uh timeline on x over that they don't like that you were telling

00:06:05.180 me some incredible numbers you're getting on x yeah that's like four million impressions in the

00:06:09.260 last couple days on that one post alone they're very upset am i exposing their ugly concrete jungle 0.52

00:06:16.020 housing as a failure they're saying it's one of the beautiful things the soviet union did of course

00:06:20.540 none of these guys i think actually lived in them no i don't think so hopefully the commies keep 0.98

00:06:24.520 going to make some money on x for some of the irony i make money off of x yes so as these guys keep

00:06:29.300 pumping it up and this wonderful capitalist system of x run by musk they're just sending me more money 0.99

00:06:34.440 so keep it up guys hey i got you a present oh yes oh no i gotta i can only look at this cory look at

00:06:44.260 this thing of beauty sea chickens thing of beauty yeah now just for those who may have missed it

00:06:50.380 why don't you sort of remind everybody what happened on the weekend well my steelers played

00:06:56.200 your your seahawks on the weekend at the steelers stadium and the steelers had their asses roundly 0.73

00:07:02.600 handed to them um i won't make any excuses you know you try to say oh well at least uh there was this

00:07:08.100 shining aspect of every no the steelers stunk on every level the defense stunk the offense stunk and

00:07:12.920 the special teams did a real special stinker there so yes yes your your seahawks soundly defeated

00:07:20.120 the steelers last weekend i will i will spare you the shame of forcing you to wear it during your show

00:07:27.160 oh thank you i appreciate that i mean i got my hair's all actually my hair terrible oh whatever

00:07:31.700 there you go so uh i knew i had to eat some go seahawks go or seahawk or something don't need a seahawk

00:07:38.140 uh busy day in the news we got a uh bc teacher suspended he got involved uh with a female student

00:07:46.260 ended up uh sending her over 1 000 i guess they had 1 000 phone calls in just a year uh so uh he's

00:07:54.980 been suspended for 15 years uh good riddance uh to him uh city of calgary budget details uh released

00:08:02.400 today cory it's not going to shock you to find out you're going to have to pay more

00:08:05.820 pretty well not you don't have to pay at all do you you're imprentice but i'm going to feel for

00:08:10.440 you guys yeah so i have to pay more 5.6 percent on the property taxes and you know all sorts of

00:08:17.120 other charges going up and up and up and it's going to be an expensive place to live uh we've got a story

00:08:23.420 on the uh the federal dental care plan uh it's already a boondoggle they spent uh 500 million dollars

00:08:31.040 just setting it up 500 million just to set the thing up and the bureaucrats who are setting it

00:08:36.520 all up you know they have full dental coverage and won't have to use that program to go get their

00:08:40.100 teeth fixed no no kidding and i wonder what sort of it contracts they've uh they've been using

00:08:45.120 it ties back to all into that same thing like i was talking with covered house you can't let them

00:08:49.440 run this stuff it only makes bureaucrats rich you don't get anything in the end and speaking of it it's

00:08:54.880 now being revealed there are nine count them nine rcmp probes into itv procure it procurement at uh

00:09:03.520 uh the federal level all basically coming out of the arrive cam scandal and the gc tragedy so

00:09:10.240 so there's probably going to be some criminal charges laid uh eventually how much uh do you spend a year

00:09:16.640 on shoes yeah not much maybe uh oh this is me i'm pretty cheap 150 bucks 200 bucks maybe what about

00:09:24.000 jane last kind of female perspective pretty modest when it comes to that you know maybe maybe a few 1.00

00:09:28.480 hundred i guess well if you're the governor general you can spend 1100 on shoes uh i got a story out

00:09:35.760 today about her her regal spending shall we say and it's uh it's quite outrageous uh and the bank of

00:09:42.480 canada today uh cut interest rates by a quarter uh down to 2.5 so uh let's keep that downward

00:09:49.280 trajectory going for when i have to renew my mortgage next year and then they can well yeah

00:09:55.680 they can do whatever they want and uh there's going to be big news at one o'clock today out of

00:09:59.760 calgary police headquarters our david winnick will be there uh they're touting perhaps the largest drug

00:10:05.520 bust in alberta history and it's all sort of seems like all across north america and the united

00:10:11.280 states we've got uh uh people here from the dea toronto police so it's uh should be a big press

00:10:18.960 conference and then we'll have all the details oh yeah i heard you sending dave out to check that out

00:10:23.920 in there i didn't know what that was about so uh yeah it should be good and who do your steelers

00:10:29.840 lose to this weekend they will be playing the patriots this week oh and the paler the patriots stink

00:10:36.560 these days too so i'm hoping that tomlin is whipping a beating at least into and again i'm

00:10:42.160 ticked i'm not going to try and sugarcoat things for this year they've got the most highly paid

00:10:45.920 defense in the entire league and they look like high school football players last weekend i think

00:10:50.800 i picked them in the pub pool for this week uh so yeah i think you know maybe tomlin's good for that

00:10:55.760 he'll lay a beating into them and maybe they'll perform if it cheers you up i was one yard away from

00:11:00.960 winning the pub pool and four hundred dollars but houston could not score from the one yard line

00:11:07.440 so it took a bit of sting out of these celebrations uh well i'll just see i'd rather you'd still had

00:11:14.000 your year funds uh so uh you know i wouldn't feel as bad when i mock you when the team turns around

00:11:19.200 well when you're sitting in your laser boy watching the game feel free to wear the seahawks out

00:11:22.560 yeah i'll keep that right on thanks dame you bet all right that is our news editor dave naylor bad

00:11:28.960 taste in football but an excellent nose for news guys and the reason we've got dave and dave the

00:11:34.000 other dave down there at the police conference and those reporters you see scurrying around behind me

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00:11:58.400 can keep everything going for you anymore if you subscribed you know i really appreciate it thank

00:12:03.840 you very much and if you haven't yet get on there take one out uh let's see just check some of the

00:12:10.880 comments here i see debbie from taber and uh you know jacqueline saying why would anybody believe

00:12:16.640 carney would cut anything i know but it's eastern canada seemed to believe what carney was going to do

00:12:20.960 uh the state of alberta person saying what you know wooden houses if given be given to whoever are

00:12:27.600 sober people who didn't commit crimes well i doubt it they tend to make these uh you know programs

00:12:33.440 and they're broad and they're not focused and they're not targeted and that's the discussion people

00:12:38.480 are looking for simplex simplistic solutions for complicated problems i've talked about that on

00:12:43.440 here a lot we have a huge addiction epidemic we have a huge problem of people with serious

00:12:50.880 untreated mental health issues who are on the streets but if people think that just building

00:12:56.320 houses is what's going to take care of that i mean houses are needed but the issue is treatment

00:13:02.960 these guys need to be taken off the streets they need to be brought into a secure treatment center

00:13:07.280 and hopefully successfully become ready to move into housing because they aren't right now people

00:13:12.800 are being naive go to a tent city because i know you listen to some apologists they say oh they're

00:13:16.800 people are just gonna make the rent or high costs of housing or couldn't find a job no guys they're

00:13:20.480 junkies let's just not beat around the bush and if you just took them and stick them into a house

00:13:25.520 all they're gonna do is turn it into a drug den strip the copper wire out sell that probably burn 1.00

00:13:29.760 the place to the ground and end up back in their tent city within a month if they survive

00:13:34.720 i'm not saying like they're animals and awful people they need help but we're being stupid if we

00:13:39.200 think the reason they're on the street is for lack of government building housing we do want to make

00:13:43.920 housing more affordable and i tell you the last way to make it affordable is to get the government

00:13:48.720 building it it's like dave brought up we've got a dental program that's supposed to give everybody

00:13:53.760 free dental guess what who can afford that because no dentists are offering it with that

00:13:57.760 program and they've already spent 500 million dollars though in the administration paperwork

00:14:03.200 paperwork won't fill your tooth guys you need a dentist to do that but you're not going to get

00:14:07.680 one if the government has it's just like the government has the monopoly on health care how's

00:14:10.800 that all working out for you great long as you can survive long enough to get through the waiting

00:14:15.600 lines look we got to learn and uh these these issues they take a little more in-depth looking

00:14:22.400 than rather than just saying let's just get the government to fix it that's usually the last

00:14:26.800 solution uh well problem is it's not a solution all right well let's talk about solving other things

00:14:32.240 this is our chance to impact the government we got a municipal election coming up in alberta and that

00:14:35.920 means we're voting for our county reeves in my case and counselors and uh mayors and uh

00:14:42.000 counselors in other towns and the other one that's always forgotten or shouldn't be is our school board

00:14:47.280 trustees and god guys the school boards are going nuts in some places some of the stuff going on

00:14:52.320 terrio is hair raising and i think it's because we haven't paid attention so i'm happy that we've

00:14:57.120 got a jennifer stewart is running for uh ward six and seven in calgary for the calgary school

00:15:01.520 school board to put your your hat for it actually i'm gonna get this thing off the counter jesus

00:15:06.480 dude thanks so much for having me i appreciate you coming in and uh i i i know unfortunately with a

00:15:13.280 lot of people this school board comes up it's a school board but then everybody gets outraged when

00:15:18.000 the school boards do something poorly or don't do something at all and uh well whose fault is that but

00:15:23.920 our own so i appreciate you stepping up i mean this is not some high profile uh high paying political

00:15:30.080 sort of role or job or something the only reason a person would run for a school board is they have

00:15:34.400 goals in mind that they want for the schools so thank you for for doing it yeah thank you thank you

00:15:40.960 so much for for having me on and talking about it because you're definitely right um it's definitely not

00:15:45.600 given enough attention and also people really aren't sure what a school board trustee does no and

00:15:52.480 that's what i wanted to ask you first so maybe if you could kind of break that down what is the

00:15:55.760 responsibility of a trustee and the role yes absolutely so um in alberta a public school board

00:16:02.080 trustee is an elected official um that is is really there to govern the school division um they don't

00:16:10.800 run the day-to-day operations of schools that's up to the superintendent and the people that work under

00:16:15.120 the superintendent um but they govern the the school system to make sure that it's serving students

00:16:20.800 efficiently and effectively yeah and it's kind of the conduit i guess between the you know parents and

00:16:24.880 citizens and the administration who really run the nuts and bolts right yes absolutely so um the the

00:16:30.880 school board it does it does quite a few things and then there's also things that i i've that it can't

00:16:36.800 do um publicly that's part of the you know what the province sets or also up to the individual schools

00:16:43.280 and teachers and the superintendent um so they set policy for the school division um they made sure that

00:16:49.680 it aligns with provincial legislation um they also establish the mission the vision uh and also the

00:16:56.960 priorities for the education of students um probably the biggest thing that they do is they oversee the

00:17:02.560 budget uh so for example this year for the 25 20 or 2025 2026 school uh season is a 1.67 billion dollar

00:17:11.840 budget um for 146 000 students in over 250 schools so that's a really big part of their job is making

00:17:19.600 sure that they approve the divisions budget and make sure that the funding is allocated responsibly

00:17:24.960 for students and schools great and then the other part is i mean as an advocate and the local

00:17:29.600 representative the needs in school divisions are different from division to division i mean uh you

00:17:35.840 know you get into a higher new canadian part of the city they're going to be different challenges with

00:17:40.480 esl and things such as that or inner city of schools that are underpopulated that new suburbs you got

00:17:46.160 schools that are uh don't have enough space so i think it's important to have representatives from

00:17:51.520 those different areas rather than a central person to speak up it is for sure um and it's actually in

00:17:57.120 in the education act the the school elected school board trustees do have to think um they're an advocate

00:18:02.960 for all of the students and the community members parents um and and community stakeholders but they

00:18:08.800 do advocate for all the students across the board in the division as well yes you have to look at the

00:18:13.680 broad thing but at the same time it's uh you know an advocate for your local area that might be

00:18:18.640 represented or different needs or views yeah and school board should really be engaging with the

00:18:23.520 community especially especially with their constituents um community engagement is really important so part

00:18:28.960 of the trustee's job is to go into schools when they're invited um and go uh you know meet with

00:18:34.320 parents and and stakeholders and engage the community great before i get more specific into your

00:18:39.440 platform which i want to get into uh but i mean we see issues with the the system the trustee

00:18:44.800 system altogether and it seems to be coming to a peak in ontario where they're actually talking

00:18:48.240 about eliminating the role of school board trustees which i think would be a bad approach it'd be a loss

00:18:53.840 of a means of accountability but when you look at some of the i mean ontario listen it's crazy things

00:18:58.960 that come out of some of their school boards out there which you can understand why the provincial

00:19:02.720 government maybe is saying you know we've had enough with it what can and should we be doing

00:19:06.480 provincially to make sure our school boards as a whole are effective and at a worthwhile endeavor

00:19:11.280 for people yeah and that's a great question i think i mean i i there is a lot of value in having

00:19:17.840 a local school board level i mean they're they're closest to the students they're closest to the

00:19:21.760 community and they should be advocating for for what the community needs because the community needs

00:19:26.160 in calgary may not be the same as edmonton's it's not going to be the same as rural communities so you

00:19:31.200 do need people at the local level who who know what's going on in the community engaging with the

00:19:36.240 community and you know knowing what the community needs in order to advocate for them effectively

00:19:41.120 and i'm not sure um that somebody at the provincial level most definitely not at the federal level is

00:19:48.160 going to know what's best for you know students in in southwest calgary no absolutely not uh so getting

00:19:56.400 on to your campaign so what's what's driven you i mean a person usually a lot of reason what is it that

00:20:01.120 you want to bring to the table then to change or or adjust or impact within the school board yeah

00:20:07.760 absolutely so i um my student my my kids aren't in the school system yet but they will be soon and

00:20:13.440 they're they're my primary motivation for running um i i i'm not happy with what's happening in public

00:20:19.040 schools right now and the status quo is not working um the other thing that kind of pushed me towards

00:20:23.440 running was i uh when i had my my first kids i had twins first um i joined a mom group and uh i'm

00:20:31.840 very lucky to still be close with this mom group today but there's they're all cbe teachers i'm not

00:20:36.640 i'm a small business owner um but i've spent the last last few years listening to them on the teacher

00:20:42.160 side uh i've always been interested in the policy side but you know i now that i've been hearing the

00:20:47.600 teacher side um there's a lot more going on in schools that really needs to be addressed uh in

00:20:54.080 particular by the board and it's it's just not happening teachers are not happy i mean everyone

00:20:58.400 can see that already with the strike happening but there's a lot more to it i think um and i think

00:21:04.400 the school boards haven't been supporting teachers the way that they should be and that needs to change

00:21:10.240 so um again in supporting the students then in which way do you feel that the board needs to be doing

00:21:16.400 such well there's there's quite a few different things that the board the board can do so the

00:21:21.280 board can't um the board can't uh implement curriculum that's that's set by the province but

00:21:26.960 the board can help implement uh different ways about how the curriculum is is taught for example um

00:21:32.880 the number one issue that i hear from teachers is about classroom complexity uh and and that's

00:21:37.600 something that the board can address based literally just by funding right the the the current

00:21:42.720 funding model where the students with complex needs have to be assessed uh in the classroom

00:21:50.080 and uh have their their needs assessed and what what kind of stuff they're going to need for the year

00:21:54.560 by september 30th and then the province provides the funding um but if anything happens after september

00:22:00.160 30th those students are not supported because the funding has already been allocated and to me that's

00:22:04.720 an immediate failure to this any student that's moving around after september 30th they're not going to

00:22:08.960 have the supports and stuff that they need and besides that there's not enough supports going

00:22:12.960 into the classroom right now the money really needs to follow the students um and i think right now

00:22:18.160 it's it's not doing that yeah i mean union negotiations and such are outside of the preview of a

00:22:24.240 of a school board that you're speaking of things as a whole i mean there's been some of the battle

00:22:27.760 people say okay we need more resources in the class but if you give a certain amount to the teachers

00:22:33.520 there's not going to be much resources left any longer we can only spend so much uh well and

00:22:39.120 exactly and also it doesn't i mean of course of of course you know there's many things that need more

00:22:44.640 money but it doesn't matter how much money you throw at a problem if that money is mismanaged

00:22:48.880 there's no point yeah so what about some of the diversity of school provision that's been a kind

00:22:54.720 of a battle going on different students respond better in different environments sometimes

00:22:59.200 sometimes you not just uh special needs within the same school but maybe a different school that

00:23:03.680 can offer different programs can be effective oh without a doubt and the school board sets those

00:23:08.160 programs um there's also the whole the whole point of yeah the school board is in charge of the

00:23:14.000 programs and adding more and making more choices available for parents and that's that's obviously

00:23:18.960 something that works we need to make sure parents are aware of those programs and that there's also not

00:23:23.520 huge lineups waiting to get into those those programs for parents um the other thing that school

00:23:28.640 boards could be doing that they're not doing right now is you know there's a lot of charter schools

00:23:34.000 um that are doing really well and are doing things really well and that's the whole point of having a

00:23:38.960 charter school is you know to to pick something niche and do it really well and then that model can

00:23:44.480 be brought back to the cbe and the cbe can implement it and that's not happening we need to we don't have

00:23:49.280 to re reinvent the wheel or rewrite the whole thing we can look at what's happening in other jurisdictions

00:23:54.320 what's working and what what they're doing super well and apply it to the cbe yes does the cbe have

00:23:59.840 any kind of authority over charter schools or are they totally separate totally separate yeah charter

00:24:04.000 schools are their own which again as you said that doesn't mean you can't learn from them or look at

00:24:07.440 them and stuff they compliment absolutely almost an adversarial as the attitude i'm held by some that

00:24:13.360 charter schools are undercutting public education and and uh i i i find that problematic i mean there's

00:24:19.440 some people feel we should just box it all into one centralized type of system yeah i i personally

00:24:24.800 would disagree with that i think i'm all for for for choice for parents to choose where their kids go

00:24:29.920 to school and the different types of programs um and and different different things that their kids can

00:24:35.200 be a part of which will will help shape their education better so you're in words six and seven

00:24:42.640 yeah that's where i'm running in words six and seven which part of the city is that people should

00:24:46.480 know their ward but as i said there's a lot of people don't pay enough attention yeah definitely

00:24:50.400 and it's hard with with school boards too because it's two wards right councillors just have the one

00:24:54.320 wards so it's actually quite a lot of ground to cover and a lot of neighborhoods and communities so

00:24:58.400 ward six in particular is uh in the southwest basically from like morgan uh discovery signal

00:25:04.000 hill all the way across over to cougar ridge right by cop um and all the kind of communities in

00:25:09.200 between ward seven is kind of a funny ward i always joke with people um about ward seven because i i think

00:25:15.360 uh it's like they drew all the other wards and everything that was left over in the middle is

00:25:19.360 ward seven because it's a little bit of uh of a little bit of the southwest a little bit of the

00:25:24.160 northwest and then also the northeast as well kind of from yeah so it's a it's a lot kind of in the

00:25:30.560 middle demographic changes i mean there's not many kids i think in kensington it's not really a young

00:25:35.520 family type area there isn't yeah there's the the amount of households in in that particular part

00:25:40.880 of ward seven is very low uh they not a lot of kids in the household there as opposed to

00:25:45.840 you know ward six where the they have a lot of kids in the household but to vote on the trustee

00:25:50.320 thing you don't have to have kids in the system absolutely not yeah and i always people that's the

00:25:55.280 number one thing i get door knocking is people say oh you know my kids are grown they're not in the

00:25:59.120 system i don't have kids um i have grandkids but you know everyone your taxes still go there

00:26:05.120 you're still a community stakeholder and you know these children are the next workforce it does it does

00:26:10.640 matter um and everyone should be a part of everyone should have a voice in shaping public

00:26:15.440 education yeah i mean those are the kids that are going to be filling government and filling

00:26:18.560 the places that are taking care of you when you're in your role as a senior and so on if you haven't

00:26:22.480 taken care of them now you might be in for a rough retirement later it's an interest to be engaged

00:26:27.280 even if your kids aren't there i just wanted to clarify that because some people feel well again

00:26:31.120 as you said or my kids aren't in it it doesn't matter well it does yeah and actually another thing

00:26:35.600 at the doors too is people are asking like is it is it on the ballot is it separate so when you get

00:26:39.760 your ballot uh when you go to vote in the election um you get your your mayor candidates your counselors

00:26:45.760 and then they ask you uh public or or separate or catholic right and then so when when you let's

00:26:52.640 say presumably you you win uh your your seat on the the board uh i guess what sort of approach you can

00:26:58.640 be bringing to it one of the problems we've seen before of all you know people might not know Alberta

00:27:02.080 history Daniel Smith got her first electoral start as a school board member at Cagri yes i didn't know that

00:27:06.800 it was such a disaster that the province ended up stepping in and dissolving that particular

00:27:12.080 school board because they were all at each other's throats and fighting the whole time and to this

00:27:15.760 day i think they're still all putting fingers at each other but whose fault that was sure uh but it

00:27:20.960 really takes a different kind of patience and and working as a as a group if you want to get anything

00:27:25.600 done absolutely and that's the whole point of a governing board is um you're all there to represent

00:27:30.560 all the different students and yeah the board would need to work together to to bring about actual change

00:27:35.040 so uh when you're campaigning what's the thing you're hearing the most of the doors and with

00:27:40.880 people with concerns for the system right now people are really people are really worried about

00:27:45.520 teachers i've also met a lot of teachers at the door and when every single time that i talk to a

00:27:50.880 teacher they don't they don't say pay is their number one um what their number one thing that the

00:27:57.360 teachers are telling me in particular is classroom complexity needs to be dealt with they're not being

00:28:01.920 supported um in the classroom for all of the different complex needs that come up right they

00:28:06.720 don't have enough eas there's there's not enough of them to go around classroom sizes is obviously

00:28:11.840 um at the top of everyone's list um and now most recently lots of parents are obviously worried about

00:28:17.840 the strike yeah well it's it's an inconvenience to say the least i mean i know people say well school

00:28:23.760 isn't supposed to be your babysitters well yes and no we pay a lot of money and they're supposed to be

00:28:27.520 entrusted to her we could count on them managing our children for a certain amount of hours every

00:28:32.400 week and it can be very disruptive for people on a fixed income to suddenly have of course and there

00:28:38.880 have you know there hasn't been a strike since 2001 so no one's actually dealt with it um at this

00:28:43.120 level right the closest thing to that would be covet when students are at home but yeah no a strike

00:28:47.760 it is a big deal and i think for the teachers to have got to this point that they're that they're ready

00:28:51.840 to strike like i said before there's a lot of failures on different levels and teachers aren't feeling

00:28:56.320 heard um and yeah they they need to be heard they need to be supported in the classroom well let's

00:29:01.120 hope it's averted i mean again if you know a break in as we saw with covet a break in the schooling for

00:29:05.040 the kids just doesn't do them any good at all no it doesn't and i i really do hope they come to

00:29:09.520 agreement but yeah october 6 is coming up pretty quickly it is and then uh october 6 i mean that might

00:29:15.360 lead it to just remind everybody the voting days october 20th advanced polling starts october 6 as well

00:29:21.040 yeah so uh this election is coming up fast and that might be a prime issue in this election is is

00:29:26.880 a strike going on at that time uh but i mean we have to do our part for it so before i let you go

00:29:34.000 how do people find your campaign to help out or ask more questions yeah absolutely um so they can visit

00:29:40.160 my website it's jennifer stewart for trustee.com um i have a number of different engagements i'm out in the

00:29:45.360 community i'm out every weekend i'm out multiple times a week different areas around ward six and seven if you see

00:29:50.640 me come say hi um but yeah uh jennifer stewart for trustee.com i'd love to hear from you uh i i

00:29:56.720 love hearing different ideas and and hearing what issues and concerns are facing constituents in

00:30:01.600 schools at the local level excellent well this is your your opportunity to get out and hear people on

00:30:06.480 the ground that's what uh you gotta just politicians have to remember for that other four years once they

00:30:11.360 get in what they heard uh during us and that's the critical period yeah that and i think the most

00:30:15.840 important thing once you once you get in is to stay uh engaged and and stay engaged and in contact with

00:30:22.400 the community because they are the people that you represent and one of the things that i really don't

00:30:26.480 like about um right now with the school board with the school board in general is trustees actually

00:30:31.360 aren't allowed to go into schools without being invited so they can't just go into a school and talk

00:30:36.400 to parents and teachers and community members they have to be invited to school council meetings

00:30:40.480 um and that to me just seems a little bit backwards um you know especially when trustees are supposed to be

00:30:45.840 representing representing the community at large yeah getting a filtered version perhaps and uh

00:30:51.280 missing some of this stuff that's interesting to hear i didn't know that actually yeah all right

00:30:55.040 well thank you very much for coming in to explain and thank you very much for having me i wish you

00:30:59.920 the best on the campaign well time's quick and fast on it yeah it's going to come up really soon

00:31:04.480 thanks again thank you all right guys so yes jennifer stewart ward six and seven if you look it up you

00:31:11.040 know google that name and uh you will find her campaign site and you can reach out to her

00:31:16.160 there's somebody saying vote jen in the comments already there you've gained one at least already 0.97

00:31:19.760 so it's a good start uh but it's every level of our democracy is underrated we don't take part in it

00:31:26.800 enough it's one thing i i admire though i understand the headaches of it in in the u.s you know whenever

00:31:32.000 i travel down my mother's american i go to the states a lot and it seems there's always an election

00:31:36.960 going on you know there's some corners in some towns that's just always decorated with signs because

00:31:41.760 they're electing everything from their county coroner to the county clerk to the sheriff to

00:31:47.440 we don't elect nearly as many positions up here in canada and if we want to elect more of those maybe

00:31:53.360 people don't i don't know but if we do we got to be taking advantage of the ones we're allowed to vote

00:31:58.160 for now and uh trustees it's just one and i gotta admit i'm guilty of it too i have no idea who the

00:32:04.720 trustee is down in my area i'm gonna have to look into it before voting time comes and try and make

00:32:09.040 a decision but as we discussed as well it does impact you guys because yeah those kids coming up

00:32:15.840 and through there they're the ones we're going to be relying on later it's pretty important and that

00:32:20.560 teacher strength coming in alberta it's looming fast and boy it's getting pretty um heated between

00:32:26.080 the smith government and the union which is not unusual uh listening to to uh jennifer she's saying

00:32:33.760 the the bigger issue with teachers is you know class sizes and uh you know the the ability to deal

00:32:40.000 with different needs of kids but it often these union the teachers might say that one-on-one but

00:32:45.520 the union always just says we want more salary we want more pension we want more money for the teachers

00:32:49.680 i i some of the the impasse coming is is the smith government said look we offered you guys 12

00:32:54.720 and a commitment to hire 3 000 more teachers and you told us to get stuffed how much more do you want

00:33:01.520 and uh the union won't give the answer so uh it's it's it seems to be an impasse we're going to see

00:33:09.120 what happens but keep an eye on it as well you know the rest of the municipal election watch it

00:33:14.080 guys look at the lunatics we got right these city councils this stuff i mean don deck dave mentioned

00:33:18.720 the budget and the tax increases that are hitting in the city of calgary uh these things are important

00:33:24.320 everywhere i'm down in the md of foothills it's also a a couple of the council uh seats actually are

00:33:29.360 getting some strong contention going on down there pay attention it can only do you good and if they

00:33:34.560 don't these elected representatives don't represent you later fire them because they get away with

00:33:38.800 murder if we don't know who they are and unfortunately i gotta take a shot at how

00:33:43.200 horrible our media is our legacy media is to show on how you can't trust them how bad it's gotten uh

00:33:50.480 not just the self-serving part because we're independent we we don't do this sort of thing

00:33:53.840 but just it makes it difficult for elections things like that to figure out what's what's right and

00:33:58.160 what's wrong here's a beautiful example from ctv on a headline this came up on x last night and i was just

00:34:05.280 in shock when i read it this was the headline black student found hanging from a tree in mississippi

00:34:13.680 whoa no whoa okay so we've gone out of our way to determine the race of this person and that it's

00:34:20.960 a student and he was hanging from a tree and in mississippi of all states reeks of a lynching doesn't

00:34:26.800 it memories of mississippi burning in the movie and then the whole works holy cow what's going on here

00:34:32.080 well i read the story and it still didn't say a heck of a lot except that the black guy was found

00:34:37.600 hanging in a tree in a college campus down in mississippi i searched further and i get to of

00:34:42.080 all things people magazine which had a larger version of this entire story in it and the black student

00:34:48.640 was the coroner has determined that it was suicide and that there's the police have said there's no foul

00:34:54.800 play and nobody is at risk you know typically media doesn't report on suicides i don't know if people

00:35:01.040 know that in general there's kind of an unwritten rule you just don't report on suicides at all

00:35:05.760 unless it's something outstanding a celebrity or an unusual circumstance of it otherwise they don't

00:35:11.520 want to publicize suicides and they don't but cb ctv felt compelled now i to be fair cnn put the

00:35:19.600 same crappy headline out so they use the same newswire but i mean every outlet can change the headlines when

00:35:23.840 you're taking stuff off the wire and stuff like that guys what a torqued divisive rotten headline

00:35:31.040 to put out there they didn't and i had an idiot on x there's no shortage of those uh debating me on 0.74

00:35:37.440 that well what did you want them to write on it nothing nothing this this was not reportable

00:35:43.360 particularly with a canadian outlet this was a tragedy this was a student that got into a terribly

00:35:49.680 bad place and committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree branch but ctv wants to go out and make 0.91

00:35:56.800 it look like the southern states are lynching young black men that's exactly what their headline is

00:36:01.920 talking about i mean why else let's just say they felt it was worth reporting on in general why did they

00:36:09.920 even have to say black why did the race matter it's just a student found hanging from a tree but no they 0.68

00:36:15.120 had to go out of their way black student found hanging from a tree in mississippi now how many

00:36:20.000 people didn't read further how many people didn't look a little farther to see the context and what

00:36:25.600 was happening behind that story instead they were just mortified thinking again we've we've got that

00:36:31.280 racial hornet's nest going on in the southern states and they're lynching black people again 0.51

00:36:35.360 look i spent a lot of time working south of the border all over the place i spent a lot some of the

00:36:42.320 yeah there's racial issues going on down there that we don't see in canada and there's some divisions

00:36:47.520 and there's a lot of big problems and uh you see that when it explodes and things like some of the

00:36:52.480 riots that look you know when when things come to a head and pop when i worked upstate new york some of

00:36:57.840 the crackers up there and the guys i had to deal with and i understand why some black people are pretty 1.00

00:37:02.240 bloody frustrated with uh trying to integrate into society with a lot of the folks up there hey some

00:37:07.920 great people up there too it's not just the south is part of what i'm saying uh but the south has its

00:37:13.680 issues as well but it doesn't help when legacy media torques headlines like this think of how that must

00:37:20.720 feel then again if you were a young black person who read that and didn't look further thought oh my

00:37:26.080 they are lynching people like me because of my color in mississippi because you didn't get to see the

00:37:33.200 rest of it why because ctv wanted to get clicks and maybe just ctv has gotten so bad they've been

00:37:38.800 worse than than cbc lately an ideological agenda an anti-american agenda that's been big with them

00:37:46.880 and a kissing of the liberal butts who really want to keep the division alive it was the division between

00:37:51.680 canada the united states that got carney elected i know some of my uh you know viewers and followers

00:37:57.200 disagree i know i i believe it was trump's fault for his his bloody uh approach to trade and and the

00:38:03.840 the turd he threw into our electoral punch bowl up here with his ridiculous tariffs and all that that

00:38:08.880 led to that but carney took full advantage of that and won an election based on it that he went into

00:38:14.640 with a minuscule amount of support and now he subsidizes the major legacy media outlets and those

00:38:20.800 legacy media outlets want to keep him happy well how do they keep him happy well let's keep the

00:38:24.640 division up between the united states and canada and let's just keep making the us look like some

00:38:29.200 crazed hellhole where they're lynching black people so some clown at ctv and went through probably a few

00:38:34.160 layers before that went out to the full headline said yeah this sounds like a good idea we'll put

00:38:38.000 that out there uh cyril arnold one of the commenters saying the headline is enough to trigger outrage so

00:38:43.360 the facts of the incident are lost that's it you know you're you're your uh vein pops and you see that

00:38:49.600 and uh you uh you don't necessarily look farther into it but this is this is bad this isn't some

00:38:57.440 backwater website or some individual's tweet or anything this is ctv one of the biggest media

00:39:03.200 outlets in canada and that's the trash they're putting out and they didn't even bury the lead they

00:39:09.120 didn't have that somewhere farther in the story that was suicide they didn't even put that part in

00:39:12.800 their story it's it's it's a organization i think is unfit to be in business any longer if they're

00:39:17.840 going to pull crap like that i mean hey we're encouraged in media to grab hold of people's

00:39:24.560 eyeballs with the headlines the standard does it we don't do anything like that but sure we'll put

00:39:29.440 headlines to be catchy and try to pull people in hoping they'll click through and read this story

00:39:33.760 but this is grossly divisive and irresponsible and misrepresenting it is just an affront

00:39:40.480 to responsible journalism and and and just i would have expected better i would have thought

00:39:46.720 maybe i don't anymore i don't know uh let's see here's a big one that came up in the globe and

00:39:54.160 mail and it's been kind of through ctv palestinian visa applications for canadian asylum blocked without

00:39:59.280 explanation lawyer says i thought how am i going to respond to that good we don't need them you know

00:40:06.800 there's a whole middle east that loves their values let them take them in we've got enough we

00:40:13.440 do not need to dip into that terrorist hornet's nest and bring them here canada has mass immigration

00:40:18.960 problems already we need to be carrying on with immigration being a heck of a lot more selective

00:40:24.960 with who and what trades and things like that and once the people come here and fit in and do well

00:40:31.440 and i tell you what palestinians don't fit in well anywhere we don't need them there's issues going on 1.00

00:40:35.920 over there we don't need to take it in here's something on the good news front kind of in a

00:40:40.000 funny way uh thomas lukasic he's been doing his little uh petition in alberta he's the he's the

00:40:45.520 disgraced uh uh former alberta mla for people don't remember he was deputy premier for allison redford

00:40:51.600 you know kind of a token position he's the one who billed albertans for what twenty thousand dollars

00:40:55.680 for his personal phone bill when he was uh over overseas at a trip to poland but he's been doing that

00:41:02.240 canada forever petition for a while now and uh i don't know it's not looking very good he keeps

00:41:07.360 dodging and deking and hiding and squirming whenever somebody asks me how many asks him how

00:41:11.520 many signatures he's got but now he's coming up even saying well you know what people are afraid

00:41:18.320 to sign some people are afraid to sign they're afraid to be seen signing this thing oh what a load

00:41:22.960 of crap for one fabio you are the guardian of those signatures are you not these are just only 0.83

00:41:29.840 supposed to be going to elections alberta it's not the government they don't trust then

00:41:34.160 fabio it's you they aren't afraid what for repercussions they think they're going to get

00:41:38.880 for signing a petition spare me no he's making his excuses because the petition is going to fail

00:41:44.800 he's not going to get his 300 000 signatures he's got uh less than a month and a half to get it done now

00:41:50.320 and obviously the numbers aren't coming in if the numbers were coming in he'd be

00:41:53.440 whooping and flagging and standing on rooftops and yelling about how brilliant he is and how great

00:41:57.840 raise petitions doing one thing i wouldn't trust in giving some of the information to some of that

00:42:01.520 i hope they don't do such but you got to remember he's obviously still has a political future in mind

00:42:06.400 going on and boy what a database he's sure building for his own little political future isn't he

00:42:11.200 i expect a lot of the people who uh took part and supported that group and signed petitions and such

00:42:16.240 are gonna suddenly find themselves contacted for fundraising and voting and all sorts of other

00:42:21.440 things that they didn't realize that were going to come with that either way it'll be interesting to see

00:42:25.920 whenever the the you know in november probably when the courts are done the petitioning begins on

00:42:30.480 the real independence uh question coming for a referendum in alberta and uh uh seeing how

00:42:40.800 well the app or or or how poorly they do in petitioning this should be a warning to some of

00:42:46.400 them guys it's not going to be easy you're not you're you're better organized than than thomas

00:42:50.640 lokasik's little group is but and you have a longer timeline you have less fewer signatures

00:42:55.440 but i tell you what a couple hundred thousand signatures in four months is a huge task it's a

00:42:59.440 big one so you guys have better be remaining prepared and ready for it uh tyler volstadt saying

00:43:04.320 the forever canada people were hounding me the other day to try to get me to sign i'd heard from uh

00:43:08.560 clayton uh a friend of mine down uh in our area and i guess he checked checked out one of the forever

00:43:16.000 canada ones down i think it was black diamond he said they parked with his wife and they just kind of

00:43:19.360 watched for a bit and what they did was held everybody up before they allowed them to sign

00:43:24.080 because they put the word out to everybody come on out come out to sign so they had about 30 40

00:43:27.520 people in line held them all up one limb sign so that they could take a picture showing a big lineup

00:43:31.920 and then other than that there really wasn't anything there again welcome to media and how you

00:43:36.480 don't get the whole picture uh wildrow saying how uh cory how soon do you think we'll get a referendum

00:43:41.360 i still think it's going to happen in 2026 maybe by june it's just a matter how we're going to get to

00:43:45.760 it i think if the court shuts it down i got a feeling that the smith government's still going

00:43:49.680 to allow it to happen one way or another because she's kind of painted into a corner on it uh

00:43:55.760 here's a cbc story let's get a you know close things off again with our state broadcaster

00:44:01.120 which uh we expect very little of so they're worse than than cbc ctv of course and we get to

00:44:06.960 pay one and a half billion for these guys here's the headline i study climate change this summer it

00:44:12.720 got too hot for me to do my field work yeah this is uh the whole story about this poor young lady 1.00

00:44:19.920 studying climate change and it got hot out so i got over 30 degrees she couldn't do it she couldn't

00:44:24.080 make it she was gonna bake like a potato what a wimp what a bunch of crap look i'm not saying 1.00

00:44:29.920 that climate change isn't necessarily happening and things are not necessarily getting warmer but

00:44:32.880 spare me hot weather is nothing new you can work in it you overpaid government simp

00:44:39.360 i worked on the texas mexico border in july and august when i was a surveyor in the past man

00:44:44.480 i got a hell of a tan while i was down there it's hot your average every day is over 40 and it's humid

00:44:50.800 down there you drink a load of water you take a lot of breaks and you get through it most of the world

00:44:56.400 deals with that kind of heat on a regular basis they don't shut down what i see is another lazy

00:45:01.520 entitled student with their degree that came out taught that climate change is gonna fry us all

00:45:09.440 and is just making excuses not to get to work i don't doubt she invoiced and got paid for it all 1.00

00:45:14.080 all right well that's enough out of me for today guys thank you very much for tuning in the pipeline's

00:45:18.720 gonna be on tonight be sure to tune into that we'll have a panel breaking down a bunch more of the issues

00:45:23.600 going on out there keep an eye on all these channels like them share them john's been working

00:45:28.240 great in production we got all sorts of new stuff leo's been putting interviews out watch

00:45:32.640 the western standard we're breaking the news out here we've got a newsroom covering these things

00:45:37.040 and keep tuning in i'll see you next week at this time

Western Standard - September 19, 2025

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Canada can’t afford free housing

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