Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Canada needs a DOGE!

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.980 Hey, welcome to The Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:31.940 I'm back and full of piss, vinegar, vitriol, ranting, information, news, all that good stuff.

00:00:37.780 It's all pent up and built up.

00:00:39.300 Did I miss anything the last few weeks?

00:00:41.600 You know, you do try to schedule a vacation for a time when things are slow in business or whatnot,

00:00:46.620 but I couldn't change my, or wouldn't change my vacation schedule to suit the crazy politics going on in Canada and the United States.

00:00:54.440 So I just had to stay on my vacation and kind of watch from the sidelines until I could come back and rant and rave.

00:01:00.000 Hard to cover all of everything that's been going on out there.

00:01:04.680 So those of you watching live, yeah, Paradoxy, others check in on there.

00:01:08.680 Use that comment, scroll, send me questions, comments, notions, ideas.

00:01:12.240 I don't necessarily read them all out, but I do see them all on there and it helps to move things along.

00:01:16.980 I got Mike Thomas coming on in a little while as a guest.

00:01:19.600 He's going to talk about, for those outside of Calgary, we've got a thing called the Green Line.

00:01:23.500 It's just been an ongoing white elephant of a behemoth, of a light rail transit expansion.

00:01:28.680 It's just a gong show and the price keeps going up and no track ends up going down.

00:01:33.860 So we'll discuss that a little bit because Mike's got a bit of a different take.

00:01:37.040 We're not very nice to Gondek around here typically, Mayor Gondek of Calgary, but in this case, Mike says actually she's right.

00:01:43.340 Boy, we wouldn't expect those words around here, but you know, even a broken clock's right twice a day, right?

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00:02:34.380 So let me talk about some of the stuff that's got me going.

00:02:37.200 The Conservative Party of Canada, they're muted on the issue.

00:02:40.020 Oh, they're starting to drop hints.

00:02:41.060 The Liberals won't even talk about it.

00:02:42.840 Legacy media sure won't.

00:02:44.560 What is it?

00:02:45.300 Canada's bloated, inefficient civil service.

00:02:48.860 It must be cut.

00:02:50.160 Not tuned up, not examined.

00:02:51.920 No new committee needs to be formed.

00:02:53.700 And we can't afford some cowardly plan of job attrition to let the size of the bureaucracy shrink over time.

00:02:59.940 There must be cuts and they must be deep.

00:03:01.900 Since becoming Prime Minister, Trudeau has grown the Canadian civil service by 42%.

00:03:07.060 Over 61% of the federal budget is spent on wages and compensation.

00:03:11.840 The wages are high.

00:03:12.600 The holidays are extended.

00:03:13.660 The benefits are huge.

00:03:14.660 And the pensions are fantastic.

00:03:16.380 Many of them work from home.

00:03:17.620 And unsurprisingly, government services have become slower and more inefficient, despite constantly adding staff and pumping up the budgets.

00:03:24.880 Simply renewing a passport has turned into an odyssey for people who find themselves mired in an inefficient, time-consuming mess.

00:03:31.160 The Immigration Department has more than doubled its staff, yet it takes over 24 months for those baboons to process a refugee application. 1.00

00:03:38.400 Those trying to diligently pay their taxes, the ones trying to play by the rules, they struggle to get a straight or timely answer from the Canadian Revenue Agency, despite the agency employing 59,000 people.

00:03:47.220 But for comparison, the American Revenue Service employs 93,000 people to deal with a population eight times Canada's size.

00:03:55.960 No nation can enjoy general prosperity when sustaining such a large government.

00:04:00.100 The pool of productive people working in value-added industries is shrinking relative to the people working in government sectors.

00:04:06.160 Bureaucrats, they don't just cost dollars, they add roadblocks to every aspect of private enterprise and often individual freedoms, 1.00

00:04:11.440 as they instinctively add regulations on top of licenses, on top of inspections.

00:04:15.440 The bureaucracy has become a self-serving monster, and it's only going to be tamed through a strong-willed government with a mandate to cut it down.

00:04:22.600 If the path to freedom and prosperity was through big government, Venezuelans would be living the good life, and the Soviet Union would have turned into an economic powerhouse.

00:04:30.240 And this productivity and GDP per capita have been in decline for years.

00:04:34.860 Both will climb. We've seen it in Argentina fast enough.

00:04:37.500 If the burden of government can be lifted from the shoulders of citizens, tax cuts can ease the cost of living and encourage investment.

00:04:43.500 Regulation cuts will speed everything from the construction of homes and spurring enterprise in other industries.

00:04:49.960 Canada's blessed with an abundance of natural resources, a skilled workforce, and a peaceful environment.

00:04:53.800 And we're right next door to the biggest consumer market on the planet.

00:04:56.740 The yoke of big government, though, on citizens is driving the nation down.

00:05:00.880 Now, in the United States, Elon Musk is tasked with heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short.

00:05:06.500 Musk proved how useless bureaucracies can be and how bad a managerial bloke can get when he laid off 85% of the staff at Twitter, and it didn't even adversely impact services.

00:05:16.280 Obviously, they weren't doing a hell of a lot.

00:05:18.060 He'll be proving it further when he begins cutting the size of the government in the USA, and the impact is going to be quick.

00:05:22.480 Canada's already struggling to be competitive on the world market.

00:05:24.960 And with the USA streamlining its government burden, Canada's competitiveness is going to become even worse, and our productivity is going to suffer.

00:05:31.600 Investment and skilled personnel are going to be drawn south, while a smaller pool up here tries to feed the ever-hungry Canadian bureaucracy.

00:05:38.840 It's a recipe for economic disaster, no less acute than that being threatened with Trump's tariffs.

00:05:44.440 Just servicing Canada's national debt now costs the government as much as it takes in from GST.

00:05:48.400 The issue in Canada is not a revenue problem, it's a spending problem, and there's few worse ways to spend money than on the interest payments for a debt.

00:05:56.740 The reasons to cut the size of the government are clear.

00:05:58.780 Are they enough, though, to inspire the next prime minister to do what must be done?

00:06:01.760 It won't be easy to make the cuts.

00:06:03.400 The unions are going to go wild, legacy media is going to flood the airwaves of scenes of single mothers being evicted from homes,

00:06:08.640 and pouring onto the streets with broods of hungry children due to having been laid off from a government position.

00:06:14.100 The prime minister's going to have to remain strong.

00:06:16.020 So, Canada's bloated government costs far more jobs in the private sector and lowers the standard of living more than any round of public sector layoffs are going to do.

00:06:25.540 What's the role of a government job, anyway?

00:06:27.020 Is it not to provide a service?

00:06:28.540 If the only service in providing employment for a government employee is a work for welfare program, like if that's the only point of the service,

00:06:33.880 it would be cheaper just to pay them to stay at home.

00:06:35.860 In fact, that's what many of them are doing right now.

00:06:37.860 With the shackles of taxes and regulations removed, Canada would experience an employment boom as investment enters the country.

00:06:43.100 Wages climb and new enterprises open.

00:06:44.640 Canada could finally reverse that decline in GDP per capita as industry growth overtakes government growth.

00:06:51.300 The opportunity to make heavy cuts doesn't come often, though.

00:06:53.940 In the early 90s, it was spurred by double-digit interest rates.

00:06:56.940 Currently, it's because our neighbour and largest trading partner is poised to make cuts.

00:07:00.740 We've got to get on board.

00:07:02.060 Hesitation will lead to delays, and Canada will remain an investment pariah with a declining standard of living.

00:07:07.040 Canada's next prime minister must strike fast, without apology, to bring the government down to size.

00:07:13.000 We need voices to encourage and support him or her to ensure they remain on the right course.

00:07:16.940 On that subject, before I go to our news check with Dave, I just saw that breaking.

00:07:21.120 What President Trump is doing right now, and I'm sure through Musk and through that government efficiency department,

00:07:26.560 is offering 2 million civil servants in the United States, basically an early buyout package.

00:07:30.620 Five to eight months of severance, if you guys quit right now.

00:07:34.120 And that gives them at least a transition allowance to move on into something else.

00:07:37.120 They aren't straight out cutting, but it's huge.

00:07:38.940 That's a massive offer to cut the workforce.

00:07:41.420 And if it doesn't work, it's being clear he's going to cut anyways.

00:07:44.800 So here's your chance, guys.

00:07:46.200 Take that five to eight months, retrain, search, take a break, whatever you want to do, or an early retirement, but move on.

00:07:51.700 He plans on cutting the size of that government.

00:07:53.720 And if we don't do it, we're going to fall behind badly.

00:07:57.120 Okay, let's see what else has been going on this last little while.

00:07:59.760 I've got our news editor, Dave Naylor, in here.

00:08:02.340 How's it going, Dave?

00:08:03.020 Holy town, Batman.

00:08:04.200 Look at you.

00:08:04.920 Yeah, I've got a little bit of sun down there.

00:08:06.460 So you stayed in the world's largest trailer park, I understand.

00:08:09.580 Basically, yeah, courtside zone.

00:08:11.760 Tens of thousands of RVs out in the desert, enjoying the southern sun and barren wilderness.

00:08:16.620 Sounds like a big party.

00:08:17.940 Some of them partied up quite a bit.

00:08:20.240 I'm pretty lame.

00:08:21.620 Lots of hippies? 0.98

00:08:22.420 There are a lot of hippies, but I can look the other way.

00:08:24.560 I was thinking to you yesterday when I put up a story on a female rap star out of Detroit who weighs 500 pounds. 0.96

00:08:32.180 Yes.

00:08:32.340 And she's suing Lyft because the Lyft driver refused to take her because he was worried she might flatten his tires.

00:08:39.080 And I know you've said before you're an Uber driver.

00:08:41.220 That's right.

00:08:41.800 How would you handle that situation?

00:08:43.400 Well, you know, I saw the videos of her.

00:08:45.200 I do drive Uber.

00:08:46.020 It's no secret I've talked about that on here.

00:08:47.900 I like that.

00:08:48.240 It's a side thing.

00:08:48.900 It gets me out.

00:08:49.360 It gets me talking to people, makes a few bucks.

00:08:51.500 I drive a little Hyundai Venue.

00:08:53.420 I don't think even if I was willing to put her in the car, if she would fit through that door, I'd have to get people like, you know, Japanese train style to push her through. 1.00

00:09:02.040 And then how the hell would I get her out?

00:09:03.520 Exactly.

00:09:03.980 You'd have to have some pullers.

00:09:04.980 Or through some chocolate bars on the other side.

00:09:06.660 She might dive after. 0.82

00:09:07.520 But I mean, yeah.

00:09:08.140 I mean, seriously, that could damage a vehicle.

00:09:10.300 It's 500 pounds.

00:09:11.000 It's like putting a steer in your backseat.

00:09:12.880 Exactly.

00:09:13.480 So weird.

00:09:14.800 Weird.

00:09:15.300 Weird.

00:09:15.880 Yeah.

00:09:16.220 You've missed a little bit of news.

00:09:17.840 The whirlwind of Donald Trump's first week continued.

00:09:21.920 Last night, he signed into law banning child sex changes.

00:09:27.680 One of the things he ran on in the campaign.

00:09:29.860 So, as Daniel Smith likes to say, promise made, promise kept.

00:09:34.420 No more child sex changes in the States.

00:09:36.620 I know a story close to your heart, Corey, is the alleged graves at the residential school in Kamloops.

00:09:48.040 It's been revealed this week.

00:09:49.240 $12 million that went there was not spent trying to locate bodies.

00:09:54.240 It was spent on publicists and administration costs and various things like that.

00:10:00.420 So, our columnist, Heidi Rubenstein, takes a deep dive into that. 0.58

00:10:04.500 He's a bit of an expert, as you know.

00:10:07.500 Burger King launching a new, I don't even know if I can call it a burger.

00:10:12.620 It's a slab of meat inside a donut.

00:10:16.240 So, just picture this.

00:10:17.540 It's 800 calories.

00:10:19.540 It's only 800 calories.

00:10:21.260 And I'm sure it probably tastes real good.

00:10:23.080 It doesn't look great.

00:10:24.140 But right now, it's only being test-driven in Ecuador.

00:10:28.580 So, if you want to get one, you've got to go on a bit of a plane ride.

00:10:33.780 So, RFK doesn't need to worry about it coming to the States.

00:10:37.420 For a little bit yet.

00:10:39.080 Quebec minister came out this week and said, multiculturalism does not work.

00:10:44.440 It creates ghettoizations of immigrants.

00:10:48.620 He says, the rest of Canada, you can have it.

00:10:51.140 It doesn't work in Quebec.

00:10:51.980 And we've got Blackhawk on patrol now in Alberta.

00:10:56.440 RCMP Blackhawk patrolling the U.S. border, trying to stop the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants.

00:11:03.780 And a big press conference this afternoon.

00:11:06.420 Daniel Smith, 2 p.m., going to talk about the Heritage Savings Trust Fund.

00:11:11.840 That's the main thing on the agenda.

00:11:14.640 But obviously, she'll be asked about Trump.

00:11:17.320 There was a first minister's conference call today with the prime minister.

00:11:21.660 And it's getting close.

00:11:23.480 You know, Saturday's only a day or two away when the tariffs are supposedly coming.

00:11:28.640 So, heading down the hatches.

00:11:30.580 Yeah.

00:11:31.160 Well, we'll see what happens.

00:11:32.500 I mean, either is believable, right?

00:11:34.280 You know, Saturday could come and there'd be no tariffs.

00:11:36.020 That wouldn't be shocking.

00:11:36.860 But him laying them on there on Saturday is just as likely.

00:11:40.580 Yeah.

00:11:40.840 It could be at like 2 a.m.

00:11:42.420 Or when he's on the golf course.

00:11:46.360 He's gloriously unpredictable.

00:11:48.240 Be that he is.

00:11:49.180 Well, as an anarchistic type, I kind of like it.

00:11:51.620 But I'm kind of terrified of his time.

00:11:53.040 Exactly.

00:11:53.720 All right.

00:11:54.080 Well, thanks, Dave.

00:11:54.800 I'll let you get back into that newsroom and hammered on all those stories and see you after the show.

00:11:59.540 Thanks, Mark.

00:12:00.700 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

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00:12:39.820 And there I see Josh Andrus commenting.

00:12:42.200 And he was sitting in for me for the last couple of weeks on the show.

00:12:45.360 And I don't like to make his head swell any further than it has to.

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00:13:03.980 All right.

00:13:05.180 Yeah.

00:13:05.420 So all this news, it's just where do you stop, right?

00:13:10.280 So let's talk about the woke and the insane.

00:13:13.200 This one came up recently.

00:13:14.260 It was brought up by J.K. Rowling online.

00:13:15.900 This is an Albertan issue that got international coverage and it should. 0.70

00:13:21.060 A man, and this is a man, there's no doubt about it, was put into a woman's shelter, this pervert. 0.95

00:13:27.260 And he, what did he do? 0.96

00:13:30.160 Well, he assaulted the women in the woman's shelter in Edmonton.

00:13:33.180 This guy, he doesn't look even a little bit like a woman. 1.00

00:13:36.360 It's not like a trans person where you might have mistaken them for a woman.

00:13:42.660 We should have a picture.

00:13:43.240 There he is.

00:13:44.580 Really.

00:13:45.320 So this person identified as a woman and they said, let's put this guy into a shelter full of women who are trying to hide from men who assaulted them.

00:13:54.780 And then they got put in with this guy and he assaulted them.

00:13:58.400 It's insane.

00:14:00.020 It's insane.

00:14:01.060 This is beyond the pale.

00:14:03.780 And how does this happen? 0.99

00:14:05.060 Well, it happens because DEI woke morons who come out with a degree in gender ideology, which ironically teaches them that there's more than two genders and there aren't. 0.99

00:14:14.940 Get over it. 0.99

00:14:16.640 These are the ones that are also feminists at the same time. 1.00

00:14:18.760 And they understand.

00:14:19.380 And there is a need for women's shelters. 1.00

00:14:21.140 There's abusive spouses, monsters, animals out there.

00:14:24.540 And women and family need a place to transition and hide and get themselves together. 1.00

00:14:29.800 And the safe space we put, we set aside for these women. 0.97

00:14:32.720 And instead, they stuck this pervert in with them.

00:14:34.740 And these women who had already been abused once, frightened once, dealt with this, had to deal with it again in a safe space.

00:14:41.960 They're never going to feel safe for the rest of their lives.

00:14:44.620 This is unforgivable. 1.00

00:14:46.740 And you know it was some self-styled feminist moonbat idiot who said, well, we have to let him in because he said he identifies as a woman. 1.00

00:14:54.900 He's got a deck in knackers, guys. 1.00

00:14:57.280 That's all the tests you need.

00:14:58.680 It really is.

00:14:59.260 This doesn't have to be complicated.

00:15:02.000 If they got the plumbing of a man, they don't go into a woman's shelter. 1.00

00:15:05.780 Yet we haven't figured that out.

00:15:06.940 And this is Alberta.

00:15:08.100 I thought we were supposed to be one of the brighter ones in Canada.

00:15:12.100 But apparently, no, we actually stick sex offenders into women's shelters. 1.00

00:15:16.720 I just, you know, again, I'd say it leaves me lost for words.

00:15:20.580 But as you can see, no, I've got plenty of words.

00:15:22.020 It makes it hard for me to hold back the expletives I really want to use on this one.

00:15:25.440 Either way, let's get on with that.

00:15:27.640 Let's talk about some other things.

00:15:28.820 Big government, big waste, big confusion.

00:15:31.120 And it's the big green line.

00:15:32.900 And we got Mike Thomas in studio to talk about it.

00:15:35.740 And it's been big news.

00:15:37.460 And, you know, I'll kind of frame it a little bit.

00:15:39.040 I mean, for people outside of Alberta, though, it seems like Ottawa, I think Montreal, Edmonton.

00:15:42.540 And there's big transit projects, Vancouver, happening all over.

00:15:46.120 They're trying to get these train projects going.

00:15:47.780 And they're almost invariably turned into boondoggles.

00:15:51.900 Calgary has the green line.

00:15:53.220 And this has been going and going and going.

00:15:55.840 And now we've kind of culminated with a weird vote yesterday on a provincial version of it.

00:16:00.600 Yeah, they should call it the yellow line because it's turned into a lemon, Corey.

00:16:08.480 Council voted reluctantly.

00:16:10.300 The Calgary City Council voted, I think, reluctantly in favor of the Alberta government's revision to the line,

00:16:18.060 which has gotten people up in arms because it is elevated through the downtown core.

00:16:25.100 Over top of 10th Avenue in Calgary, if you're not familiar with that,

00:16:28.960 it's a very busy main road that runs east and west and has a lot, a lot of buildings, businesses, sorry,

00:16:39.760 including hotels and restaurants and things like that, running along the street.

00:16:44.880 Now they're going to have a train running over top of them.

00:16:47.720 And the Alberta government is of the mind, well, that won't affect the business.

00:16:52.120 Yeah, right, right.

00:16:54.620 Anybody who's been to Chicago and seen underneath how nice that part of town is where all the elevated train lines are,

00:16:59.720 you build insta slums kind of.

00:17:01.500 Yeah, and the Alberta government came in.

00:17:06.040 They've been a partner on the thing all along with them and the feds and, of course, City of Calgary government.

00:17:11.740 But they came in late last year with a revision to the plan, which shortened the Green Line,

00:17:18.460 which was supposed to be running from all the way in northwest Calgary from 160th Avenue.

00:17:25.500 And if you're not familiar with Calgary, that's way up north.

00:17:28.120 And then running down to the southeast part of the city to a area called Shepherd.

00:17:35.440 And the Alberta government said, nah, you don't need that.

00:17:38.000 Let's just go from Shepherd.

00:17:39.840 We'll take it into downtown and we can both stop in downtown initially and we'll see what happens after that.

00:17:48.000 And so that goes against the plans.

00:17:51.640 The Green Line was part of former mayor, had Nenshi's plans.

00:18:00.040 And in those days, a huge, huge thing.

00:18:03.020 Like I say, we'll wipe the northwest down to the southeast.

00:18:05.840 But it's now been narrowed down to what I just mentioned at the cost of $6.23 billion that is shared between the city at 47 percent, the province 26 percent, and the feds 27 percent.

00:18:21.680 So that's basically where we stand right now.

00:18:24.800 And we were talking earlier, and I was at council last night watching all of this happen.

00:18:32.000 And I'll be very honest.

00:18:33.800 It's not very often I agree with the mayor.

00:18:37.920 But Mayor Gondack got out of the meeting, the private meeting they had, and just ripped the province apart.

00:18:45.940 It's in an article I wrote that's up on the website now, I think.

00:18:50.200 And I was shocked.

00:18:51.460 I was absolutely shocked that she would do that.

00:18:56.840 And I was even more shocked that I agreed with her because I don't, like I say, I don't very often agree with her.

00:19:03.220 But she's absolutely right.

00:19:05.120 The contention being that the park going over 10th Avenue and then elevated again into downtown is going to be very, very disruptive.

00:19:13.840 Yeah, well, the construction alone, I mean, we know these things don't happen fast.

00:19:17.840 And there's a lot of businesses under there.

00:19:19.400 They're going to be decimated.

00:19:21.660 But some people would say you have to break some eggs to make an omelet, blah, blah, blah.

00:19:26.260 But they don't take into account the impacts, really, it seems.

00:19:29.400 But, I mean, this is kind of a pissing match that's been going on for quite a while.

00:19:33.240 I mean, some of the language that was interesting out of it from the province, and I got to admit, sounded pretty heavy-handed from above when we're supposed to be a decentralized model,

00:19:40.020 saying that the city's going to get the liability and they're going to deal with the construction, they're going to deal with the debt and everything else, but you're going to do our plan.

00:19:47.960 Yeah, and that's good that you mentioned that because when the province came back with their revision to the plan, they said, well, this, that, and that, and that's going to add.

00:19:58.540 The city looked at it and went, well, that's going to add $1.3 billion to the cost.

00:20:02.560 And there are all kinds of liabilities involved in this thing, obviously, and the province says, no, that's on you.

00:20:09.380 But you're right.

00:20:10.660 The city's got to do it the Alberta government way or no way, and if there's any problems, liabilities, it's on the city.

00:20:19.720 Interesting, last night, a condo complex in Eau Claire burned down.

00:20:25.340 What would be ironic timing?

00:20:27.340 It's like, well, whoa, where did that come from?

00:20:30.560 But this condo complex was expropriated by the city to the tune of pretty close to $21 million to get the owners out.

00:20:40.520 It was being demolished.

00:20:42.340 It was scheduled to be demolished because there was going to be a Green Line station at that point.

00:20:49.680 So, like I say, it was being demolished.

00:20:52.320 And then last night after the vote said, yeah, okay, I guess we've got to go with the province, it burned down.

00:20:57.600 So, I don't know, I'm not going to suggest that.

00:21:01.280 It's just that region's full of irony anyways.

00:21:03.460 I mean, for those of us old enough to remember, I mean, it used to be a horrible area with the old bus barns and Greyhound station a long time back.

00:21:10.920 The city planners changed it to Eau Claire.

00:21:13.520 It was going to be the Granville Island of Calgary.

00:21:15.700 This was going to be a brilliant area, and it sort of failed catastrophically over the years.

00:21:20.980 Oh, it was terrible.

00:21:21.360 It was terrible.

00:21:21.680 And now they're tearing that mess down, and they've put in, well, now a fictional LRT station.

00:21:26.760 It's going to be a dead zone again.

00:21:28.900 Actually, the LRT isn't going to go anywhere near there.

00:21:31.160 No, not with the latest plan.

00:21:32.380 No.

00:21:32.500 I mean, who would invest in anything there right now?

00:21:34.500 Because you don't know what it's going to be next month.

00:21:35.780 No, exactly.

00:21:37.540 I mean, it never really took off the way they thought it was going to, and now it has no chance of taking off at all.

00:21:47.080 It's kind of in flux.

00:21:48.520 So, I mean, getting into the bigger issue, as I said, other cities, everybody deals with this.

00:21:51.960 What I see part of the problem of getting anything done is you've got three levels of government.

00:21:57.160 In this ideal world, okay, everybody's pitching in, but they all come with strings attached.

00:22:01.640 They all want to make their mark, and it's bad enough getting one government managing to get something done.

00:22:06.780 When you've got three, two of which put strings attached typically to the funding, you end up with this.

00:22:11.900 Yeah, well, you'll never get anything done with three levels of government that involve monetary.

00:22:19.080 Now, the feds, they said, yeah, we'll give you the money, and they pretty much have stayed out of it.

00:22:24.360 It's the Alberta government that's come in and scared the chickens in the henhouse.

00:22:29.700 Well, getting further back, though, I mean, so it was the recent release.

00:22:33.620 This kind of made it all hit the fan last July, I think it was.

00:22:37.120 That's when the latest city plan or whatever had come down to.

00:22:39.660 They'd scaled this thing down now to, what, like four stations and 10 kilometers long and wanted to tack on another $1.5 billion in the price.

00:22:50.220 Should they just have been left alone to say, yeah, we'll go with that?

00:22:52.900 I mean, it was becoming untenable.

00:22:54.500 Well, I think I'm not a big fan of government involvement in anything, but I think probably, I mean, it's easy to look back at something like that and come up with a solution, obviously.

00:23:07.100 But all levels of the government should have gone.

00:23:11.220 There are construction associations and companies in the city who do these things.

00:23:16.780 It's their job, and they should have said, we want a train to go from here down to there, bring us a plan.

00:23:23.060 But they didn't.

00:23:24.060 The city bureaucracy did it in-house, and that's a mistake.

00:23:29.560 I mean, you don't go to a radiator mechanic to get your teeth fixed, you know, and that's pretty much what a bureaucracy is about.

00:23:38.680 So, what's the solution?

00:23:41.320 Do you think this train line is ever going to get done?

00:23:43.800 I think eventually.

00:23:46.440 Now that the, because it's always been about the money, and, I mean, they've done some things.

00:23:52.240 But now that the money is pretty much guaranteed, they can start putting shovels in the ground, and I don't know if they're going to start downtown or if they're going to start in Shepard, if they're going to build it from Shepard North or build it from downtown South.

00:24:09.300 But, yeah, I think it will get done now, finally.

00:24:13.400 And the time and the cost of the other questions.

00:24:15.420 I mean, it sounds like, and I saw it as interesting, it seemed a bit strategic.

00:24:18.940 I think it was Evan Spencer, one of the counselors, talking about just saying, well, we've got to push, get them to start digging in the South right away.

00:24:25.540 Perhaps I get the feeling, let's get it irreversible.

00:24:28.420 Now the tracks are on the ground, even if only a couple of blocks.

00:24:31.640 It's moving.

00:24:32.420 Let's quit stopping now.

00:24:33.460 We've got to get it done, and we can fight about downtown over the next five years while they build it.

00:24:37.440 Well, yeah, it's interesting because Spencer, at the council meeting last night,

00:24:42.960 we called the decision poopy.

00:24:44.760 Yes.

00:24:45.720 Not a term you hear in Cali.

00:24:47.020 No, not too often.

00:24:49.020 But, yeah, Corey, I think it's going to get done.

00:24:51.560 How long it's going to take is another issue.

00:24:54.120 Are there going to be other problems that get in the way?

00:24:56.320 Oh, yeah, of course.

00:24:57.660 There's going to be things.

00:24:58.820 When people in, for example, Corey Park, where it's going through in Southeast Calgary, or even in Ramsey Inglewood, where it turns to go west after running north,

00:25:10.300 Ramsey Inglewood, for the people who don't know, are probably the oldest neighborhoods in Calgary.

00:25:16.600 And I'm guaranteeing you that most people living there right now have no clue that this thing is coming to their neighborhood,

00:25:24.060 and it's going to disrupt things like crazy.

00:25:27.020 Oh, yeah, there's some of the irony.

00:25:28.040 Again, going back 30 years when I moved to Calgary, you didn't want to go in Inglewood at night.

00:25:31.740 It was rough. 0.67

00:25:32.560 The old National Hotel, the prostitutes. 0.97

00:25:35.160 It was just a bad, bad end of town.

00:25:37.040 And to their credit, I mean, I didn't believe it when the city back then said, you know, we're going to fix this area up.

00:25:41.040 And they did.

00:25:41.780 They turned it around.

00:25:42.600 It's a trendy area, nice shops, expensive condos.

00:25:45.560 Because you go blasting an LRT line through there, you're going to send it back into being a ghetto. 1.00

00:25:50.980 Well, yeah.

00:25:53.360 People are going to wake up one day and see all this stuff going on in front of their houses,

00:25:57.420 people digging ditches and laying down the track, and they're going to go, what happened?

00:26:01.360 But, you know, that brings me to another point.

00:26:03.240 It's an election year in Calgary.

00:26:06.560 And Calgarians are notoriously bad when it comes to showing up at the polls. 1.00

00:26:12.020 And so there are going to be people who wake up one morning to the LRT and go past the front windows,

00:26:18.620 and they're going to say, what the heck?

00:26:20.680 Where did this come from? 0.97

00:26:22.400 But Calgarians really got to get off their butts and participate in the election this year. 0.68

00:26:29.280 It's vital.

00:26:30.440 It's absolutely important to get.

00:26:33.720 And there's like 100,000 new Calgarians in the city this year, I think, something like that.

00:26:38.640 And they've got to get to the polls.

00:26:42.140 They've got to pay attention to what's going on so that they don't wake up and are surprised by an LRT going by.

00:26:48.860 Yeah.

00:26:49.280 Well, it's like the old statement.

00:26:50.580 It's a true one.

00:26:51.160 In a democracy, you get the government you deserve.

00:26:53.040 I'm going to talk a little after this about how messed up our democracy is.

00:26:55.900 Yeah.

00:26:56.260 Trying to get the government to deserve federally, but at least municipally.

00:26:59.240 I mean, that's government close to you.

00:27:00.440 That's government that impacts you more than you imagine.

00:27:02.900 And most people, I hate to say it, but couldn't name their local councillor.

00:27:06.340 They wouldn't even know who it is.

00:27:07.660 And pay attention because this is, yeah, when you express shock when that rail lines across the street.

00:27:12.700 Well, I think, you know, it's something happened in the city last year.

00:27:17.620 But I think people don't think they can fight City Hall.

00:27:20.740 And City Hall proved you shouldn't when they did the upzoning, blanket upzoning thing last year.

00:27:30.420 70% of the Calgarians in a public hearing said, no, we don't want it.

00:27:33.580 And yet council went ahead and did it.

00:27:36.200 Well, you just got to get out and fight.

00:27:38.880 But it was good to see that many people come out and take up the fight.

00:27:42.880 Even if they lost, at least they got out there.

00:27:46.060 Well, that's it.

00:27:46.400 And the opportunity is coming this fall.

00:27:47.580 I mean, this is the crabbiest I think I've seen in general of people with it.

00:27:50.280 I mean, they got grumpy with an inchie.

00:27:51.420 But Gondek is really not dear to herself, nor are a lot of those councillors.

00:27:54.960 It's not surprising to see some like Mian, I believe, already announced she's not going to run again.

00:27:59.180 Spencer's not going to run again.

00:28:00.380 I think they already read the writing on the wall.

00:28:02.060 They're just getting it.

00:28:02.800 Yeah, I think with those two, I think they're probably another four, maybe five.

00:28:08.940 And these are only first termers, too.

00:28:11.160 So, I mean, they've had one taste in their sound.

00:28:13.360 Well, yeah.

00:28:14.060 Look, you know, I've been hanging around City Hall a lot in the last couple of months.

00:28:17.740 My condolences.

00:28:20.280 I tell you what, you need danger pay.

00:28:23.420 It is something else.

00:28:24.560 And, you know, before I let you go, I mean, just to remind people, because that's what we need more of, too.

00:28:27.440 The other part, not just taking part in elections, but there's one of the differences with the press evolution.

00:28:31.420 We don't have the coverage of City Halls like we used to.

00:28:33.900 I mean, you used to have a whole lineup of reporters in the gallery for every boring meeting just in case something of importance came out.

00:28:40.140 Now, not many people are.

00:28:41.080 You're thankfully, you know, donning the hat and going down there and watching that.

00:28:44.740 But, you know, so this is kind of the final plug.

00:28:46.880 You write regularly and you're going to continue watching this on our behalf?

00:28:50.500 Oh, yeah.

00:28:51.060 Yeah.

00:28:51.260 I think the green line is probably off my agenda for a while, but there will be more.

00:28:55.760 Oh, there will be plenty, especially as an election year unfolds.

00:28:58.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:28:59.240 All right.

00:28:59.720 Well, thanks for keeping an eye on it.

00:29:00.980 Thank you, Corey.

00:29:01.640 I appreciate it.

00:29:02.120 Giving a summary of it for us.

00:29:03.700 And, yeah, I look forward to more of the coverage as it unfolds.

00:29:06.760 All right.

00:29:07.280 All right.

00:29:07.540 Thanks.

00:29:08.060 Have a good day.

00:29:08.660 You do it.

00:29:09.040 Mike Thomas, yes, he covers many, many things.

00:29:13.120 As you can tell, a journalistic veteran still at it here for us.

00:29:17.140 And, you know, it's a problem, as I said, for people across the country.

00:29:21.320 Every city hall has this issue going on.

00:29:23.900 A lot of it is our own bloody fault due to apathy.

00:29:27.360 We have the means to get out, fire these guys.

00:29:29.740 We have the means to pay a little bit of attention, if only once every four years, and realize, 1.00

00:29:34.780 my Lord, this person's a twit. 1.00

00:29:36.280 Vote for somebody else. 1.00

00:29:37.380 But we don't do it.

00:29:38.680 Turnouts and civic elections are horrible in Calgary.

00:29:41.340 I think I've seen them as low as 20% over the years.

00:29:45.520 Getting back to, you know, there's something, I've been very much a fan of the UCP in Alberta

00:29:50.320 and Daniel Smith and a lot of the things she's doing and a lot of the things she's done.

00:29:53.620 I'm concerned about others.

00:29:55.180 When I talk about the size of government, I talk about spending and things like that.

00:29:58.960 Well, they haven't cut spending.

00:30:00.620 And I'd like to see that.

00:30:01.640 You know, we're supposed to be conservative.

00:30:03.860 That's staying up there.

00:30:04.600 We're not cutting our civil service.

00:30:05.900 We should be.

00:30:06.600 Alberta's actually pretty bad for that. 1.00

00:30:07.920 We've got a pretty bloated one ourselves.

00:30:09.540 So, I mean, I'm not just going to beak at the federal government for not finding the courage to do it.

00:30:13.200 The provincial government needs to as well, and the city.

00:30:15.160 I see some of the discussion from others in the comments, girl, Wildrose, angry Canadian, talking about independence and whether, you know, we're looking at 51st state stuff or Alberta moving along, which is, of course, very familiar turf with me.

00:30:27.180 One of the things I've always said, and I said it, you know, make it my own plug in my own book when I wrote the Sovereign's Handbook.

00:30:32.520 If Alberta seriously wants to go independent, though, they've got to clean up their own backyard first. 1.00

00:30:37.500 If you want to convince voters in Alberta to take a referendum vote and leave or change the situation in the federation or anything, you have to prove that wouldn't be any better.

00:30:46.260 If it's still big government, if it's still not democratic, if it's still not serving the people right, why would you think that you'd be doing any better in a smaller version of it?

00:30:55.620 And so we've got to pay attention to the municipal politics.

00:30:58.740 We've got to get on the case of our provincial leaders.

00:31:01.720 And as I said, something that got me increasingly just uncomfortable with the Smith government.

00:31:07.660 And again, for the most part, I think, you know, Premier Smith's doing great, but they really are top down.

00:31:14.400 It's ironic when they complain as much about the federal government pushing into the jurisdiction of the provincial government, and rightly so.

00:31:20.260 But they have been very heavy handed when it comes into the jurisdiction of the municipal governments.

00:31:26.180 And pressuring them and putting strings onto the transfers, or, you know, talking about regulations and things that would manage municipal politics.

00:31:34.260 That's where I get a little more uncomfortable.

00:31:35.820 Isn't the principle supposed to be the same all the way along?

00:31:38.680 Shouldn't you leave the local government more in the hands of the people?

00:31:41.600 And I've seen people saying, we need Smith to intervene.

00:31:43.760 Look how terrible the mayor is, or look how terrible our councillor is, or our reeve, or whatever it might be.

00:31:48.900 True, they might be terrible, but whose fault is that?

00:31:52.060 Do you want the Premier or a minister of hers to step in and deal with that, or should we be doing it as electors?

00:31:59.580 And, I mean, I won't go down the rabbit hole or recall, but that's one way between elections to do it.

00:32:03.620 But we do get the chance every election, and we don't take advantage of it.

00:32:07.240 We've got to start firing these guys.

00:32:09.020 We've got to start putting better ones in.

00:32:11.380 We shouldn't be counting on a higher level of government to intervene.

00:32:14.320 I mean, going further along in that sense, that's like saying we should have Trudeau intervene and overrun our Premier, Daniel Smith, when she's doing something here.

00:32:22.200 That's not the way to do it.

00:32:23.060 We should be bringing government, the ability to control government closer to home.

00:32:26.820 Our municipal governments should be powerful.

00:32:28.300 They're the close ones to us.

00:32:29.400 But we have to hold them responsible.

00:32:31.280 Voters, not the next level of government up.

00:32:33.980 That's just adding another problem to it.

00:32:36.880 So I won't applaud them for that.

00:32:40.460 Let's get on to the federal government.

00:32:42.060 Oh, boy.

00:32:42.560 You know, so just before I left for my vacation, Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign.

00:32:49.640 He didn't actually fully resign yet.

00:32:51.400 Said he's going to after, and I'll go a little more into that in a moment, you know, a robust leadership election process.

00:33:00.480 You know, I listen to a lot of podcasts.

00:33:02.320 I drove all the way, pulled a fifth wheel with Jane all the way down to Arizona and back.

00:33:05.240 A lot of driving time.

00:33:06.100 I make poor Jane endure a whole lot of podcasts and such. 1.00

00:33:11.280 And I listen to Joe Rogan.

00:33:12.400 I like listening to Joe Rogan, but I don't often have the three hours to set aside to listen to him.

00:33:15.980 But when I get road trips like that, I do.

00:33:17.640 And it's funny because he broke down something, finally, kind of defined something about Justin Trudeau I hadn't thought of.

00:33:24.180 But it makes sense.

00:33:25.640 He's talking, you know, just that weird, creepy, breathy, performative way that Justin Trudeau speaks.

00:33:32.080 You know, any conference, anything he's at, it's just that bizarre speech inflection he has, that way of putting himself.

00:33:39.520 And Rogan said it's because it's performative.

00:33:42.140 It's because he's acting.

00:33:43.420 He's always acting.

00:33:45.740 And yet we always kind of knew Trudeau was fake.

00:33:47.320 We always knew he was acting.

00:33:48.240 But you see, the way Rogan broke it down, he's right.

00:33:50.180 If you ever watch old, old movies, acting evolved.

00:33:52.900 You know, if you look back all the way, you know, to when it was just stage and theater, a person on a stage really had to exaggerate, be performative, really reach the audience with an exaggeration of emotion and statements.

00:34:06.820 And then it moved on to movies and it was silent movies.

00:34:09.280 So you still, you expressed yourself bodily greatly with that.

00:34:12.120 And then the first actors, those old ones, they didn't, they didn't talk anything like we talk today.

00:34:17.280 The first radio hosts didn't talk like anybody does today.

00:34:20.480 They had that weird inflection.

00:34:22.360 You didn't see anybody on earth and frankly, I don't give a damn.

00:34:24.960 Any of that sort of stuff, that that was just the way they spoke back then.

00:34:28.720 It was bad acting, actually.

00:34:29.900 It was acting that needed to evolve into today.

00:34:31.560 You look at movies of today, the intent of the actors is to seem at least as human as possible.

00:34:36.520 So it seems like you're watching a real scene.

00:34:38.700 Trudeau is a bad actor.

00:34:40.220 He's not just an actor. 0.90

00:34:40.900 He's a bad one and not an endearing one.

00:34:45.480 You know, William Shatner is a terrible actor, but at least he made a character out of it and we can kind of enjoy him.

00:34:51.180 Trudeau is a terrible one.

00:34:52.820 And yes, as others have said, you know, Wilders, when Trudeau speaks, I need a shower. 0.93

00:34:56.280 Yeah, I know.

00:34:56.920 It's just, it just grates.

00:34:58.280 It's going to be, finally to see that guy in the rearview mirror is going to be such a good thing.

00:35:02.540 But it's going to be a while yet.

00:35:04.280 A good commenter saying, Lone Warrior says, how do you convince good people to run for office though?

00:35:09.360 It's tough.

00:35:10.680 It's tough.

00:35:11.280 You know, you're asking a lot.

00:35:13.940 I mean, people talk about cutting political pay and salary down to the bone.

00:35:17.140 That's fine.

00:35:17.700 But boy, you know, some of the people you might want getting in, I mean, there's some great people working in the low income.

00:35:23.240 They might be very smart and dedicated who make great politicians too.

00:35:25.620 But a lot of people, you're asking them to take a heck of a wage cut to go into office then, especially if you reduce those amounts.

00:35:31.360 And I know it sounds frightening when you're talking about politicians already making six figures.

00:35:35.640 But you can only cut it so far.

00:35:36.860 So you've got to make sure they're well compensated, not overcompensated, absolutely.

00:35:40.380 But they've got to be well compensated.

00:35:44.040 You've got to convince the people running for office they can get something done.

00:35:46.920 You want people running on an ideal to make things better.

00:35:50.140 That's the reason a person does it, a professional or whether it's a person who works in a restaurant but just manages to run it off.

00:35:56.380 Fine.

00:35:56.700 But they want to actually be making a good change.

00:35:58.720 And if they don't feel they can make that change, they don't feel that it's actually doable.

00:36:02.760 They don't feel that putting their life on the line, going out there, becoming an elected official, spending four years doesn't actually accomplish something.

00:36:09.100 Then why are they running?

00:36:10.380 Well, then they are running for a better job or to line their pockets or something that's not a good person.

00:36:15.120 So I don't know if we need to improve this system, right?

00:36:18.840 We need to make sure that people feel like it works, not just the voters, but the people running for office.

00:36:23.020 They want to know they're getting into something that will be functional.

00:36:25.800 Right now we are very, very dysfunctional.

00:36:28.760 And it's difficult.

00:36:33.640 You know, where do we go with this?

00:36:38.200 Getting to the liberal race, for example, you know, the leadership race.

00:36:41.540 Now, I'll give them a little bit of a break.

00:36:43.400 This kind of happened suddenly.

00:36:44.560 You didn't expect it.

00:36:46.300 We kind of expected Trudeau was finally going to give it up and leave.

00:36:49.960 But we didn't know when.

00:36:50.940 Suddenly, bang, it's there.

00:36:51.840 It's in front of them.

00:36:52.500 Grudgingly, Trudeau announces his intention to resign.

00:36:54.600 And the liberals have to rush it in a process that they usually spend six months to do for a leadership race.

00:37:00.020 They squashed into two months.

00:37:02.060 But now they've turned it into a coronation. 0.98

00:37:05.480 And it's ridiculous. 0.65

00:37:07.420 Plus, their standards of how and what you do to lay a way.

00:37:11.160 See, back in 2014 or whenever they did it last, they allowed people to become members for free.

00:37:17.060 Nice, idealistic, blah, blah, blah.

00:37:18.880 All you had to do is fill out a form online.

00:37:21.440 It's a nice way to actually just kind of get out of mind, you know, bring in more people in there.

00:37:25.640 Because those are the people you'll hit up later for donations and participation in elections, things like that.

00:37:30.480 In political parties, when we used to do mail out everything, $10 a year for a membership fee would be just about enough to cover the amount of mailing and dealing with the members.

00:37:39.140 And then you want to reach further to hopefully bring them and get them engaged or get further contributions from them.

00:37:44.000 So they said, screw it.

00:37:44.960 Let's go free.

00:37:45.720 Everything's digital.

00:37:46.340 We can do that.

00:37:46.860 Now everybody can sign up for a leadership race for free online.

00:37:50.200 You know what?

00:37:50.500 In the last leadership race, it didn't really improve the amount of people coming out to take part in it.

00:37:55.340 But people have learned a whole heck of a lot about digital campaigning and getting people involved.

00:38:01.020 So now, even though the membership window for the liberal leadership was open and closed quickly, many, many, many people were signing up for free to vote in that race.

00:38:10.240 And I'm forgetting his name now.

00:38:11.620 You know, Aria or Chandra.

00:38:13.340 It was a liberal member of parliament.

00:38:14.780 He was a backbencher.

00:38:15.480 He'd been there forever.

00:38:15.940 But he'd been there for three terms and he started to run and he put a campaign together and he was hammering hard.

00:38:21.380 And thousands and thousands of people were signing up with those free memberships to vote for him.

00:38:25.240 But they want Carney.

00:38:27.020 It became clear.

00:38:28.300 And he scared them.

00:38:30.100 And you can tell he scared them because they kicked him out of the race.

00:38:34.100 They still, the liberal party hasn't given a reason why they kicked him out of the race.

00:38:38.300 He was good enough to be a member of parliament for them for almost 12 years.

00:38:42.100 But suddenly, he's not good enough to be in the race.

00:38:45.320 It's rigged.

00:38:46.700 It's rigged.

00:38:47.500 It's a Carney coronation.

00:38:48.980 And yes, sure, this gentleman was probably playing the ethnic vote and doing other things, but he did it fast enough that it looked like, oh, wow, this could really disrupt our coronation of Carney.

00:39:00.280 We've got to kick him out of the race.

00:39:01.760 We don't have to give a reason.

00:39:03.100 We'll just kick him out.

00:39:03.780 And they did.

00:39:04.880 But getting back to the earlier question, how do you get good people to run for office?

00:39:08.100 Who wants to run what their life on hold is?

00:39:10.300 I said, do all that and jump into a rigged game.

00:39:13.260 How does it, because a good person doesn't want to go into a rigged game.

00:39:16.740 I see Gord Talk commenting, and he's been fair enough online.

00:39:19.940 Because I, when that happened, I mean, I like doing my online trolling and poking and stirring things up.

00:39:24.960 And I have been encouraging people, get on there and vote for Ruby with the liberals.

00:39:29.660 Sign up, take out that free membership, and throw a vote for her now. 1.00

00:39:33.180 Since the liberals have basically discredited their entire race, let's just jump on to the next one and put another scare into it.

00:39:39.400 It looks like she, as a candidate, and she's kind of a fringe candidate, an interesting character, has embraced that.

00:39:45.120 She's taken on a hyper-conservative role and is running on that. 0.98

00:39:49.500 And it's just interesting to watch.

00:39:51.520 It's basically just throwing a wrench into a liberal political process.

00:39:56.020 And Gord pointed out, it's just not really a principled thing to do if you're just trying to screw with somebody else's party,

00:40:01.880 rather than, you know, build your own.

00:40:03.500 Fair enough.

00:40:04.000 It's fair comment.

00:40:05.040 Absolutely.

00:40:06.040 You know, because others have said, and the liberals have said, you know what?

00:40:07.980 If you fraudulently take out a liberal membership, you could be fined up at $10,000.

00:40:11.560 Ah, whatever.

00:40:12.740 Look, that's like an in-part fine.

00:40:14.740 You know, think of it this way.

00:40:16.800 Yes, there's a little thing that says you're not a member of another federal party when you sign up to join the liberal party.

00:40:21.900 And you have to say that you weren't a member of another federal party.

00:40:24.480 Okay.

00:40:25.620 If you fraudulently were a member of a federal party.

00:40:28.060 If the liberal somehow even found out and could prove that, how they could without getting the membership list of the other party,

00:40:34.400 then they could come after you, I guess, and say you fraudulently signed up.

00:40:38.840 But then as a defense, you say, oh, well, I didn't realize I was still a member.

00:40:41.160 Lots of little defenses like that.

00:40:43.320 Even if they judge, because they'd have to take you to court.

00:40:46.200 They don't have the ability to fine you, not directly fine you.

00:40:48.960 So the judge would say, well, okay, we could live a fine equal to the offense.

00:40:53.320 Well, you paid zero to get in.

00:40:55.180 You have a bit of a defense in saying you may, perhaps you didn't even remember you're a member of the other party.

00:41:00.700 I'm just saying as the legalities go, it's just a hollow threat on the part of liberals.

00:41:06.240 But is it nice, is it principled to jump in and screw with another process?

00:41:09.580 No, probably not.

00:41:10.340 So I didn't feel badly about it just because I guess, you know, some people can say two wrongs don't make a right fine.

00:41:17.680 But I just say that they already completely discredited their process when they kicked one of the candidates out in favor of another one.

00:41:25.280 I mean, you kick a candidate out if there is a reason for it.

00:41:29.700 You've got to have something to state, and they won't even state it.

00:41:31.860 They don't respect the voters, the liberals, anybody enough.

00:41:34.580 They want to put Carney in.

00:41:36.480 But the other scary part is Carney is short on time.

00:41:41.900 He's desperate.

00:41:42.900 So Carney gets in.

00:41:43.800 He wins this thing.

00:41:45.560 He's got maybe two weeks as prime minister before he's into an election, the way things were lining up.

00:41:51.280 Maybe.

00:41:52.540 It's not enough time to turn things around.

00:41:54.080 The liberals, I mean, despite Crazy Frank Graves' poll, they are in the toilet.

00:41:58.480 Their chances of winning the next election are extremely, extremely slim.

00:42:01.860 If they really hope, if Carney does dream that he could turn this around, he needs time.

00:42:09.020 He would need to get in.

00:42:09.880 He would need to bring in some policies.

00:42:11.060 He'd need to build a team.

00:42:12.080 He needs to do many, many, many things.

00:42:15.040 But he will only have two weeks.

00:42:16.900 And this paradox you just pointed out, Singh will prop them up for as long as he can.

00:42:20.200 And that's what happened.

00:42:21.160 Yesterday, Singh was already hinting, well, you know what?

00:42:23.460 Because even though Singh said over and over, this government is coming down, first possible opportunity, I'm going to take this government down, no matter who's leading it.

00:42:30.540 He lied.

00:42:31.360 He lied. 1.00

00:42:31.820 Singh's a liar. 1.00

00:42:32.560 Socialists are liars. 1.00

00:42:33.260 Get used to it. 1.00

00:42:33.880 That's just, that's their nature. 0.99

00:42:35.380 He's a self-serving wimp, is all he is. 0.99

00:42:38.360 Singh is a sad specimen of a politician. 1.00

00:42:41.660 So yeah, he flip-flopped again.

00:42:43.120 He will keep Carney in.

00:42:44.600 But as I said, he's self-serving.

00:42:46.560 He will keep him in at a price.

00:42:49.880 Trudeau talked about recently already saying, well, we could bring in an aid package on the level of the COVID-19 package to deal with the tariffs.

00:42:57.880 The tariffs aren't even in yet.

00:42:59.640 This is Singh's demand.

00:43:00.680 That's what's happening behind closed doors.

00:43:02.400 This is a UBI program.

00:43:03.840 This is a massive, massive social welfare program.

00:43:06.580 This would be talking about tens of billions of dollars when we're already tens of billions of dollars in the hole.

00:43:12.340 You thought inflation was bad before?

00:43:13.960 It will get a heck of a lot worse.

00:43:16.620 But that's Singh's demand.

00:43:18.280 Singh's saying, bring this in, this giant spending program, this giant throwing, living on the credit cards of taxpayers, and I'll support you.

00:43:27.380 And maybe I'll buy you that six months in power that you can, you know, hopefully have a chance.

00:43:32.200 Some people think, and there's the other thing to remind you, you know, just to keep you from getting a good sleep tonight.

00:43:37.100 Constitutionally, the liberals don't have to go to an election until October 2026.

00:43:42.440 I think it's very unlikely they'll push it that far.

00:43:45.880 But the election act is just an act.

00:43:48.440 It can be changed by the government any time.

00:43:50.460 They can change that date.

00:43:51.580 The only time they're fully outright forced is five years after the last election.

00:43:55.320 And, you know, I think it was Wildrose who said, does any of this actually surprise you?

00:44:00.680 Still, I manage to get surprised now and then.

00:44:02.960 I do.

00:44:03.460 I still try to maintain some optimism.

00:44:07.080 But they still manage to surprise me.

00:44:08.960 But I mean, I get a sour view of it, too.

00:44:10.640 We're seeing some of the worst, ugliest power play of politics that we possibly can.

00:44:15.980 Canada's system is hopelessly broken.

00:44:18.140 It makes it nearly impossible to hold these people to account between elections.

00:44:22.040 And we're seeing that with this prorogation, with these deals being cut in the minority government,

00:44:26.680 with these things happening, when the majority of the country clearly does not want this.

00:44:30.520 And there's not a single bloody thing they can do about it.

00:44:33.960 We are being held hostage.

00:44:36.000 Alberta is in an abusive relationship. 0.92

00:44:38.120 If anything does come into tariff work, rest assured, Alberta and the West will be thrown under the bus 0.99

00:44:42.400 as a sacrificial lamb to try futilely to fight against Trudeau's, or Trudeau's, Trump's tariffs.

00:44:50.480 I'll leave with one commenter from Lynn Myers saying,

00:44:52.600 Carney's even more dangerous than, well, turd face was the term he used, but Trudeau.

00:44:56.340 And there's truth to it. 1.00

00:44:57.900 Because Trudeau, whatever he was, an ideologue, and many other things, he's also an idiot. 1.00

00:45:02.700 He has a sweater on backwards the other day. 1.00

00:45:04.320 I mean, this man gets his shoes wrong on the wrong feet every second day.

00:45:08.220 Carney is just as much an ideologue as Justin Trudeau is.

00:45:12.400 But he's smart. 0.99

00:45:13.360 And that's a hell of a lot scarier than the fool we're getting rid of. 0.99

00:45:19.040 Let's just hope we get an election sometime soon. 0.98

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00:45:31.240 Tune into the pipeline tonight.

00:45:32.440 We're breaking a bunch of that down with a panel.

00:45:35.000 And yes, I will see you next week with a new guest, a new lineup,

00:45:38.720 and we'll discuss what's broken in the next week.

00:45:40.520 Who knows?

00:45:40.980 It's crazy news.

00:45:41.540 So thank you again.

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00:45:44.840 And I'll see you in a week.

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Western Standard - February 02, 2025

Cory Morgan Show. Canada needs a DOGE!

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