Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Canada’s ticking immigration time bomb

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00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. This is my weekly platform with the Western Standard out there on the Cowboy Network and RFDTV and all those good spots.

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00:01:13.500 So I've got Michael Binion. People may be familiar with him. He's the head of Quest Air Energy and he founded the Modern Miracle Network. I know it sounds almost like an evangelical sort of thing, but actually, no, it's an energy activism group, I guess you could say, in a sense.

00:01:27.560 We want to talk about subsidies and oil. Are they really subsidized? Are we really, you know, Gilboa made all that virtue signaling. We're going to cut the oil subsidies. Pardon me. But where are these subsidies? What are these subsidies? So Mr. Binion will certainly have some answers for us as well.

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00:02:27.560 So back to what Brandon said. He said, it's getting bad out there, too many immigrants. Okay. Well, I don't think there's too many, but I think we're, well, there's too many for what we have to sustain the level of immigration. 1.00

00:02:39.620 And that's the problem. So I'm going to start talking about that because I'm pretty, very concerned about what's going on.

00:02:48.200 So are you ready to be forced to take strangers into your home? I know that sounds unbelievable.

00:02:53.240 But then most of us never would have believed the government would have locked the country down for years over a virus, either, would they?

00:02:58.980 Canada's marching towards a national catastrophe as the government's refusing to even consider reducing the immigration numbers while our housing construction lags.

00:03:08.080 This isn't a matter of my opinion. This is just simple math.

00:03:11.220 The government plans to bring in nearly 1.5 million immigrants into Canada in the next three years.

00:03:16.640 While we're expecting to construct about 700,000 new housing units over that period.

00:03:21.080 So where on earth does the government think we're going to put all these new Canadians? 1.00

00:03:25.540 I mean, Canada's a winter country. It's not as if we could set up massive tent camps to hold the immigrants for a few years while we figure out what to do with them. 1.00

00:03:33.400 People need shelter with solid walls and heat for six months of the year.

00:03:37.440 So what's the plan? We're going to house the immigrants in community halls and gymnasiums? 1.00

00:03:42.840 That won't be sustainable for terribly long.

00:03:45.400 I mean, again, the immigrants aren't necessarily coming in destitute.

00:03:48.260 Many have funds, and they're going to be finding homes in the existing market.

00:03:52.140 But that, of course, will push rents higher and purchase prices for homes higher.

00:03:56.620 And Canada's already experiencing a housing affordability crisis.

00:04:00.840 Then there's the health care shortage.

00:04:02.600 Everybody's already having a hard time finding a family, doctor.

00:04:05.720 The lineups for specialty treatments are, you know, people are suffering.

00:04:09.180 They're long.

00:04:09.600 Well, how is bringing millions of new Canadians in going to impact the health care availability and services in years to come?

00:04:15.400 Now, what it's going to lead to, unfortunately, is tensions between current Canadians and new immigrants

00:04:20.740 as citizens find themselves pushed into possibly homelessness by the surge in immigration.

00:04:25.960 And that's not fair to the immigrants who are just simply seeking a new life or a home. 0.99

00:04:29.680 But let's not pretend that this isn't going to happen.

00:04:32.260 The ire, of course, should be directed at the legislators who refuse to back down on the ridiculous immigration targets.

00:04:37.420 So why is the government so hung up on bringing in millions of people when we clearly don't have the infrastructure and services to handle them?

00:04:44.840 Well, the Trudeau government's created a budgetary pyramid scheme or even a Ponzi scheme.

00:04:50.020 You see, with the massive increases in deficit spending, the government needs to try and pump the economy through your immigration or it's going to crash. 1.00

00:04:57.080 It's an artificial way to buy prosperity.

00:04:59.680 But like any pyramid scheme, eventually the bottom becomes too wide.

00:05:03.080 You can't keep widening it and it won't sustain it and the structure is going to collapse.

00:05:06.120 I think most of these top decision makers are hoping and assuming they'll have retreated to their retirement destinations before it all falls apart.

00:05:13.420 It's pretty cold comfort for us commoners, however.

00:05:16.400 The push, though, when I get back to what I asked to start with, to force citizens to rent out rooms in their homes, it will start.

00:05:22.940 And it's going to start as a soft sell.

00:05:24.900 In fact, it's already begun.

00:05:26.340 In Nova Scotia, their housing minister pointed out that there's 130,000 vacant bedrooms across that province that could be rented out to ease the housing crisis.

00:05:37.120 Well, that's quite a suggestion.

00:05:38.580 It's troublesome on a couple of fronts.

00:05:40.460 I mean, for one, how does he know how many vacant bedrooms the province has?

00:05:43.660 Well, remember all those questions that seem so intrusive on the census form and they ask you about how many bathrooms you had and such?

00:05:51.000 Well, now you see the sort of thing that information gets used to.

00:05:53.460 You can also see why, not just why they wanted to know, but why you probably shouldn't have cooperated with the census.

00:05:59.600 The other issue is we have a senior government official looking at those, as for now, spare rooms with an eye to compelling people to rent them out.

00:06:07.920 So we know the progression of government when they do these things.

00:06:10.740 The next step is going to be shaming people.

00:06:12.760 People with large houses or empty nesters with spare bedrooms are going to be called selfish if they don't rent those routes out, rent those rooms out.

00:06:21.140 The politics of envy will come into play.

00:06:23.340 And the government's going to demand homeowners do their fair share.

00:06:26.200 They love that term.

00:06:27.140 In easing the crisis.

00:06:28.100 And, of course, they will imply that holdouts are racist.

00:06:32.040 Though, again, immigrants come in all colors, as do the existing homeowners and people residing in Canada.

00:06:39.500 It isn't a matter of racism.

00:06:41.040 It's a matter of statistics and ability.

00:06:43.460 When the social shaming, though, doesn't work, the government will use its favorite tool to compel people to do things.

00:06:47.760 They'll move on to taxes.

00:06:49.320 In the UK, there's already what they call an empty bedroom tax.

00:06:52.340 And Canadians on social media are already hinting that that might be a good idea here.

00:06:56.440 Let's just call it what it is, though.

00:06:57.540 It's a fine for those daring not to help the government with the immigration catastrophe it has created. 1.00

00:07:03.340 So even with the social ostracization and the extratization, though, there's still people aren't going to comply.

00:07:08.440 If they wanted to rent their spare rooms to strangers, they already would have.

00:07:12.280 So then as tensions escalate across the nation due to growing homelessness, clashes between immigrants and citizens, the government will use its trump card.

00:07:20.000 This will sound familiar.

00:07:21.240 They'll declare a national emergency.

00:07:22.720 Then they can suspend civil rights, and people can be compelled to open their doors through the threat and seizure of things like their bank accounts or possibly even their property itself.

00:07:32.740 It'll be for the public good, though, of course, right?

00:07:34.500 That's why.

00:07:35.620 Does this all sound far-fetched?

00:07:37.100 Well, remember what happened when we were told just two weeks to flatten the curve?

00:07:40.620 Third, authoritarians in power in Canada are capable of anything, and they've already proven that.

00:07:46.200 We don't need to halt all immigration.

00:07:47.800 That would be bad for the nation.

00:07:49.700 We need to lower the numbers, though, to match the housing ability and infrastructure.

00:07:54.240 Otherwise, we are on a collision course with a catastrophe.

00:07:57.840 Well, that's kind of what's got me going today.

00:08:02.220 Let's see.

00:08:02.680 You know, Stonely saying, did you know Israel doesn't accept immigrants, but they shame any other country that doesn't? 0.60

00:08:08.820 That's not true, Stonely.

00:08:09.920 In fact, Israel takes it a lot, though they do give a great preference to people who were part of the Jewish diaspora.

00:08:16.320 But that's a separate discussion altogether.

00:08:18.080 No sense injecting it into this.

00:08:20.280 Let's see.

00:08:21.180 You know, again, one million new Canadians each year from Flexing saying, you know, it helps with Justin's inflation.

00:08:27.240 Yes, I mean, it's just supply and demand, but supply and demand is lost a lot in the left when it comes to any of these discussions.

00:08:33.020 But all right, let's check in and see what else is happening out there and bring in Dave Naylor, our news editor,

00:08:37.520 and see what other news items are topping the scroll today.

00:08:40.760 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:08:42.180 Good.

00:08:42.560 You got me worried about my empty bedrooms now, Corey.

00:08:44.800 I'm going to have to rent them out, I guess.

00:08:48.500 It may come to it, you know, but hey, it's for the public good.

00:08:52.220 It is.

00:08:52.760 It is.

00:08:53.080 So, you know, viewers know, Corey, that you tried to get into the bee business, and I think you'll agree.

00:09:00.040 It wasn't a great success.

00:09:01.880 Your bees have basically all run away, and you're not having, you know, you're not making floods of honey, as you had hoped.

00:09:08.420 So I understand you're now trying a new business, and you're going to try and set up the Prittus cartel, 0.54

00:09:14.680 and you're going to manufacture drugs because they just grow freely on your property, Corey.

00:09:20.760 Like, look at the photo.

00:09:22.260 I mean, that is a beautiful specimen of a marijuana plant growing in your backyard.

00:09:27.900 It most certainly is.

00:09:29.220 I mean, we're economically diversifying.

00:09:31.520 Yeah, I shared that picture.

00:09:33.380 That thing did sprout up out of the blue in the backyard. 0.74

00:09:35.980 I'm glad it's legal these days because I'm sure no enforcement agent would ever believe me if I made that excuse.

00:09:41.720 We have a couple of family suspects we think may have played the Johnny Appleseed with the weed in the backyard.

00:09:49.000 But, boy, that plant sure is doing well, and I can't grow anything else to save my life.

00:09:53.920 Well, whenever it's matured, I'm sure Duke the Wonder Dog will have a fun time chewing on the leaves.

00:10:00.140 Yeah, I hope.

00:10:02.060 The dogs seem to have ignored it so far, thankfully, and they're already scurry enough, but we'll see what happens.

00:10:08.200 Good.

00:10:08.480 Well, I wish you luck in your new cartel.

00:10:11.260 News on the website already.

00:10:13.180 A busy morning, as always, Corey.

00:10:15.620 You remember all of the fallout from Chinese interference in the election and Chinese police stations being set up in Toronto and Vancouver.

00:10:24.320 It turns out since the start of the year, one quarter of the Chinese diplomats in Toronto have quietly left the country.

00:10:32.900 You know, things that make you go, hmm.

00:10:35.840 Dramatic scenes in Hawaii today, Corey, where wildfires are running amok over Maui.

00:10:42.240 You don't think of the Hawaiian Islands being a tinderbox, but apparently Maui is.

00:10:48.040 And the Coast Guard is having to rescue people because the flames have forced them into the ocean.

00:10:53.920 So there's some dramatic video for you to look at there.

00:10:58.760 We had a tragedy in downtown Calgary this morning, Corey, when a woman was killed by the LRT station crossing at Centre Street.

00:11:07.720 A young Jonathan Bradley was sent to the scene and his report on what happened and what the police are doing about it is there.

00:11:16.860 Downtown Calgary, the LRT is going to be shut for several hours as police investigate.

00:11:23.680 The TransCanada Pipeline, it looks like the feds are trying to sell some of it to the local First Nations along the route.

00:11:30.880 They're offering them basically free money or risk-free money if they want to try and invest.

00:11:37.980 And we've got Dr. Barry Cooper, University of Calgary wizard, pitching in his thoughts on the lawsuit last week,

00:11:47.660 which ruled that Deanna Hinshaw's public health orders, emergency orders, were in valid. 0.99

00:11:54.880 So that's an interesting read from Dr. Cooper.

00:11:57.760 Sure. And just to come, Corey, we've got another story on, you know, mind-numbingly, head-shaking local government waste.

00:12:06.740 They're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up a goose farm on Hudson's Bay.

00:12:12.860 A goose farm. I mean, you go put a fence around Princess Island Park in Calgary and get, you know, thousands of geese trapped there.

00:12:21.760 It just boggles the mind. But even I'm looking forward to reading that story, Corey.

00:12:26.840 Yeah, it's an interesting one. I had a look at that.

00:12:29.760 And they never seem to cease to find ways to spend our money on crazy ventures.

00:12:34.960 No, they're very, very good at it.

00:12:37.280 All right. Well, thanks for the update, Dave.

00:12:39.680 I'll let you get back to curating more of that news.

00:12:43.560 And, yeah, you know, if that plant blossoms and continues as it does, perhaps I'll bring a bunch by the office for everybody to sample quality down the road.

00:12:51.100 Well, we can all go out and do it at your place and stay in your Airbnb.

00:12:55.500 There you go. All right. Thanks, Dave.

00:12:57.640 Thanks, Corey.

00:12:58.380 Talk to you later.

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00:15:23.020 So, OK, with that out of the way, and it kind of segues in a nice way, I want to talk about subsidies.

00:15:27.960 I want to talk about what I think is a bit of a myth when it comes to subsidies, but perhaps we'll get some more clarity on it.

00:15:33.540 Because recently, Minister Stephen Gilboa has said he's going to end all the subsidies going to the oil and gas industry.

00:15:41.320 You know, they always make it out to sound like Canadians have been shoring up the oil and gas industry all this time, you know, particularly central Canadians, of course.

00:15:49.720 But nobody can exactly explain what those subsidies are.

00:15:52.140 Sure. So we've got Michael Binion coming on the show.

00:15:55.060 As I said, he's the head of Quest Air Energy and, of course, the Modern Miracle Network.

00:15:59.700 And he's worked on these things in the energy sector for a long time.

00:16:03.280 And hopefully he can clarify some of these things for us.

00:16:05.900 So hi, Michael. Thank you very much for joining us today.

00:16:08.680 Hi, Corey. Thanks. I appreciate you inviting me.

00:16:10.580 Yeah. So you kind of heard in the intro, like where I want to start with this, at least anyways.

00:16:17.100 I mean, if I don't care for corporate welfare, I don't like seeing the tax dollars going out to businesses if they aren't viable.

00:16:23.420 But usually you can kind of see it.

00:16:25.180 You can say, well, look, here's this many millions went to Bombardier or here's this much went over to this agricultural facility over there.

00:16:32.500 But I can't find these checks that were going to the oil and gas companies.

00:16:36.880 Yeah. Well, when people mention that to me, I always say, well, could you just please tell me where I could apply?

00:16:42.040 Because I would love to get one of them if I could, you know.

00:16:44.300 And, of course, I don't really mean that because as former head of the Canadian Tax or chair of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation,

00:16:49.540 I'm completely against this corporate welfare as well.

00:16:51.900 So I'm all for getting rid of these subsidies.

00:16:55.960 But and I can probably find you a couple of them that do exist, but certainly nothing like what they portray and nothing like getting $16 billion to build a battery factory, for example,

00:17:09.760 where there's direct checks and production subsidies being given directly.

00:17:13.140 So I think what I what I said about the Stephen Gilboa announcement was it's literally trying to kill a dead horse like we we got rid of the subsidies and we're just going to announce over and over again that we're getting rid of the subsidies.

00:17:27.540 And and great, you're successful every time because you got rid of them years ago.

00:17:31.960 Right. I think the other thing is that gets missed in that conversation is just the net the net tax and royalty revenues that the industry is giving into governments.

00:17:43.140 Which which which as well as well should when you're making money.

00:17:46.300 But the you know, that the you know, this idea that somehow it's a subsidized industry when in fact it's it's the the industry is the the main net provider of foreign exchange to the country.

00:17:58.700 And we're one of the largest providers of of government revenue.

00:18:03.420 Well, well, that's it.

00:18:04.580 I mean, so with these subsidies having vanished, we didn't see a, you know, flood of oil companies suddenly going under or fleeing the country because because they weren't getting them in the first place.

00:18:14.960 Yeah. And if you want to get into sort of some details, I mean, I'm sure.

00:18:19.560 Well, the worst example is is is one report that said, you know, the having to send out police or security to the site of a of a protest, you know, at a pipeline or whatever.

00:18:34.520 Well, that's a subsidy, you know, because the government's having to pay to protect your asset was the was was the line.

00:18:41.160 So there's the there's the type of example of where these subsidies come from.

00:18:44.300 It's it's really by redefining the word and, you know, and I don't think that the average person would think that, you know, police protection of property would be considered to be a subsidy.

00:18:58.520 And by the way, it's not like the police don't protect other people's property, too.

00:19:02.260 So it feels like that would be a level playing field.

00:19:05.020 I'm sure people will.

00:19:06.300 I've seen a lot of people talk about that.

00:19:07.860 The TMX pipeline is an example of the government subsidizing the industry.

00:19:11.520 I mean, I, I personally find that so objectionable because the last thing, most, not all people, but certainly most people in the industry, the last thing we wanted to see was the government take over the management of constructing that pipeline.

00:19:27.420 But, you know, their their own policies chased away the private sector proponent.

00:19:32.520 And I think the government felt they had no choice but to step in because there was there was nobody, nobody, nobody to run it.

00:19:38.980 But, but, but that, that, that, you know, unfair to me to call that a subsidy when nobody wanted it.

00:19:44.160 Right.

00:19:45.400 The other one, the other one that I think is that that I would say is that there are growing subsidies and of interest.

00:19:52.640 Stephen Gilbo noted that, you know, we continue to support projects that create indigenous involvement.

00:20:01.360 Um, so there's a, you know, I think we, we could probably all agree that, um, that first nations poverty is a, is a, is a major social issue in this country and, and the government continues or even adds to programs that would, that would help that.

00:20:17.280 Uh, he, they also, he was announcing additional, additional programs to help with decarbonization emissions reduction.

00:20:24.020 So the, you know, out of, out of one side of his mouth, he says, we're eliminating subsidies for the oil and gas industry that were already eliminated.

00:20:31.560 And then on the other says, oh, by the way, we're going to continue to support, or maybe give a bit more support for things like carbon emissions reduction or in, in indigenous involvement in, in, in jobs and equity in the industry.

00:20:46.620 So, um, my, my, my, my, my sense was that to cover, that they were actually giving out some more money to help indigenous people.

00:20:56.260 And, and I'm sure, you know, this may, maybe not everybody who's listening knows this, but every, you know, the, the oil and gas industry has been by far the best industry for providing jobs to indigenous people.

00:21:06.720 And, and, and also the best at, uh, at gender parity, uh, in, in terms of jobs for women and men.

00:21:13.220 And so, um, you know, you, the, our industry getting help to do that, um, as they're announcing that he wanted to say, oh yeah, well, don't forget we're getting rid of those other subsidies.

00:21:25.300 Yeah.

00:21:25.720 Well, and, and I mean, it's, it's, it gets convoluted as you said, as you start and how you're going to define what's a subsidy then, uh, an area that a lot of people aren't necessarily familiar with, but I think some of those numbers get pulled out of that with claims of subsidies as well as, is like the tax deferral for capital investments in the oil sands.

00:21:41.920 Uh, but I mean, I, I, you, if you go on a real stretch, you can say that's a benefit the government's offering, but I wouldn't call it a subsidy.

00:21:50.160 Yeah.

00:21:50.580 Well, I think that's, that's what they, I mean, these international report, there was a report a few years ago that got a lot of play about how many billions of dollars worldwide were given to the industry.

00:22:00.320 But, you know, I, I took time to read that report and it was, it, it, it redefined what I think the layman thinks of subsidies.

00:22:07.440 I mean, I would say for, for the average person, a subsidy is the government actually writes you a check or the government gives you a, you know, everybody else is paying 40% tax, but you're only, you know, but you're going to get no, you're going to get zero tax for five years.

00:22:23.220 I think the average person thinks those are subsidies, things like, uh, I went and bought some equipment and I was allowed to write it off.

00:22:31.700 Most people don't think that's a subsidy.

00:22:33.540 And by the way, what industry doesn't get to write off its capital investment over time and things like, you know, police protection of your property and, uh, the government, the government having to rescue a pipeline that they themselves torpedoed.

00:22:46.700 Most people wouldn't consider those to be subsidies, but, but these reports, um, they consider it subsidy.

00:22:53.040 The other, the other thing that reports did was, you know, they, they made their own assessment of what royalty should be.

00:23:02.660 And if your royalties weren't at what the UN said they should be, well, that was another subsidy.

00:23:06.680 And it didn't really take into account that profit margins on oil sands is less than profit margins on natural gas, which is less than profit margins on light oil.

00:23:15.460 And so it, in Alberta, it makes sense that we, we have different royalties for different types of products.

00:23:23.140 Uh, but that was another thing they called a subsidy.

00:23:25.940 Yeah.

00:23:26.400 They, they start to really stretch up one area though, that, uh, uh, you know, maybe there's a bit of merit in a sense.

00:23:33.360 I think it was perhaps due to some bad policy historically, a number of things that there are a large number of, uh, orphaned and abandoned facilities that need reclamation and tax dollars have been dedicated towards that.

00:23:44.060 Now that's not, uh, the, the, the thing is the companies that left that are often gone.

00:23:47.680 So it's not like a subsidy is gone to that company, but there are tax dollars going to a remediation that, uh, that, that came from that industry in the first place.

00:23:55.280 How would that kind of fit in?

00:23:57.040 Well, I would say in, in all honesty, there's the one, one place where I would say that there was a subsidy that, and I, and I disagree with it, uh, was during COVID.

00:24:06.880 The Alberta government said, Hey, the industry is in real trouble.

00:24:12.540 The price of oil is 20 some dollars.

00:24:14.620 I mean, there's, there was that one day where oil actually sold for less than zero.

00:24:18.900 Um, and so, you know, I, I think every company during the height of the COVID crisis, which was also a energy, you know, an energy crisis and an economic crisis.

00:24:28.900 You know, I think there was a sense that I, I know me leading my company, I said, well, I, I, I don't know how I got maybe six to 12 months.

00:24:36.120 And after that, we're bankrupt.

00:24:37.100 So, uh, during that time, the government was saying, Hey, like, like every other industry that you're giving all these supports to the airline industry and others, could we have some support for the oil and gas industry?

00:24:49.200 And what they were, what we were mainly asking for was just some liquidity support to make sure that our banks didn't call our lines in the middle of the, of the, of the, of the crisis.

00:24:59.080 What the government gave instead, and this was, I think, more a federal government decision, not a Alberta government request, said, well, we'll give you some money for well reclamation.

00:25:09.900 We think we can justify that.

00:25:11.820 Um, I, uh, that's, that's not really what we needed.

00:25:14.920 Uh, by the time that, by the time the money came through for well reclamation, our liquidity crisis was over.

00:25:21.060 So it, it didn't come in time.

00:25:22.760 It didn't help the problem we were looking for.

00:25:24.600 And in the end, uh, I, I think for, for, for my, and I, and I won't, not everybody in the industry is going to agree with me on this point, but, but I, I think that it is bad for our, you know, our reputation as an industry, as responsible, as a responsible industry, responsible companies.

00:25:42.920 Uh, I, I don't think we should take any subsidies to clean up our wells.

00:25:47.100 And to the extent companies go bankrupt, we have a industry funded orphan well program, and I think the industry needs to be responsible to keep it funded.

00:25:55.520 So that, that's, that's my, that's my strong view.

00:25:58.640 Not everybody agrees with me, as you can imagine, but so I guess I would say from my perspective, I think there was a subsidy there.

00:26:05.940 It wasn't what we asked.

00:26:07.480 It wasn't what I asked for my company and it didn't come in time to help me.

00:26:11.040 Um, yeah, and, and again, it's certainly, if you're gonna look at the scale of subsidies or what's going on, I mean, it doesn't equate a $15 billion battery plant or, or something like that, that, that, that subsidy, I'm just saying it could fairly be called such, I guess, was still pretty minor in the, in the scheme of things.

00:26:26.000 It was one, yeah, it was one, it was $1.5 million, I think, relative to the industry size and the economy, the industry got less than, um, less than, you know, proportionately less than a lot, if not most industries got during the COVID crisis.

00:26:41.680 Um, and as I said, it didn't even come, it didn't even come in time to help us with the COVID crisis.

00:26:46.340 Well, with a lot of, I mean, the, the issues of the energy sector, it's not a matter of needing capital or needing subsidies.

00:26:51.720 They just need a government to get out of the darn way. 1.00

00:26:53.620 But, but that's something this government doesn't seem to be interested in. 0.80

00:26:57.560 I mean, that's the catastrophe with the Trans Mountain.

00:26:59.580 That, that could have been completed, I think, by private dollars if the government had just lightened up on, on regulation.

00:27:05.940 But they would rather, at this point, it looks like getting up to $30 billion and climbing, um, turn it into a compounding mess than, uh, admit that maybe some deregulation was in order.

00:27:16.120 Yeah, it's, it's a, it's a shame.

00:27:17.640 And I, and I do feel that there's a little bit of a misdirection going on here.

00:27:20.620 I mean, if you want to look, step back and look, I mean, all the way back to the McKenzie Delta pipeline, where, uh, private sector was willing to put up, uh, billions of dollars, $8 billion in those dollars.

00:27:31.020 So that's going to be 20, 30 billion in today's dollars to open up, uh, like America has opened up.

00:27:37.040 Alaska would have opened up our Canadian North to, to oil and gas, uh, all financed by private sector.

00:27:43.880 The Northern gateway private sector was killed.

00:27:46.460 The energy East private sector, that was a $16 billion offer.

00:27:50.800 Uh, you know, these are all high paid jobs.

00:27:53.420 They they're there and they're all private sector funded jobs.

00:27:57.500 And so we have this strange LNG plants that have been turned down, all private sector money, wanting to create, wanting to create jobs in the LNG sector that will reduce global emissions by replacing dirty or fuels internationally.

00:28:12.320 And we're saying no to that.

00:28:14.060 Um, and then instead we use government money to subsidize, you know, forklift jobs at a battery plant.

00:28:20.040 It just makes no sense.

00:28:20.960 Right.

00:28:22.080 Yeah. 0.91

00:28:22.280 So, I mean, uh, getting to the, you know, as we kind of wrap up, I mean, a lot of it, you could tell that, I mean, Gilboa, whatever he is, it isn't stupid.

00:28:28.720 It's a public relations battle going on.

00:28:31.200 He wants to keep the myth alive that the average taxpayer is actually holding, uh, you know, shoring up the energy sector and the energy sector is a net loser for the country.

00:28:40.340 Uh, that's part of why you've named your, your, your organization, Modern Miracle Network.

00:28:44.020 I mean, you know, celebrating the benefits that, uh, the hydrocarbon industry has brought to us.

00:28:50.280 And I guess it's that back and forth, you know, I appreciate your defending an industry that's done us this much good as we have an ideological government that's trying so hard to mischaracterize it.

00:28:59.660 Yeah.

00:28:59.820 And I don't, I don't discount for a moment that there are been negative environmental impacts from our industry.

00:29:06.160 The, the, our organization, Modern Miracle Network is to remind people, but it's also literally had, you know, created the miracle of modern society, you know, and, and so let's not, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

00:29:20.140 Uh, we can, we can reduce the impacts of our industry with new technology and we are.

00:29:26.540 So why, why give away these benefits that have had been such enormous, enormous impacts on life expectancy and infant mortality and education and equality and all the, all the, and, you know, leisure time, all the things that we just take for granted today.

00:29:42.020 Let's keep those benefits, but, but, but work on the impacts.

00:29:46.040 And, and, and, and by the way, I'm a, I'm a big proponent, wind, solar alternatives.

00:29:49.700 We, we need all of our energy choices.

00:29:51.940 It doesn't make any sense at all as a society to put all our energy, like, why would you ever put everything in one basket?

00:29:58.040 You've seen what happens in Germany.

00:29:59.500 You can, you, you know, you can be at risk, you put your society at risk doing that.

00:30:04.140 Um, but let's not forget that these other energy, uh, sources, well, you know, they have enormous impacts and, you know, I say that, uh, wind and solar have had better work on their problems with land, you know, too much land use, too much materials use, and they better fix those problems too.

00:30:20.560 Cause we're going to need those energy sources in the future.

00:30:23.680 Yeah.

00:30:24.220 Well, and again, I mean, it's unfortunately turned a lot into an either or discussion when it comes to those energy sources and it really shouldn't be.

00:30:30.380 I mean, they can compliment each other.

00:30:32.260 Absolutely.

00:30:32.660 But we need all of our energy sources and we should be applying, like, we just got to get away from these 20th century ideas that, you know, moratoriums and taxes and subsidies are, you know, with big government central planning is going to fix anything.

00:30:47.380 We need to do what United States is doing, turn your climate, uh, you know, carbon pricing into a, into carrots, more carrots and not so many sticks, turn carbon into a business opportunity and let the private, unleash the private sector. 0.99

00:31:02.440 To solve these problems and I, I think you can, I think you're going to see dramatic improvements in America as they've rolled out this, this policy that, that turns carbon into a business opportunity with carrots.

00:31:14.100 And Canada, as long as we stick with, um, um, centrally planned solutions.

00:31:19.760 And by the way, Stephen Gilboa is a very smart guy.

00:31:21.860 I mean, he's very knowledgeable, but he's, but he's got a point of view and he's got an ideology and he wants to impose his smart solution on all of us.

00:31:30.180 Uh, whereas in America, they've gone and said, well, let's, let's let the market, uh, find the best solutions and let the best solutions win as opposed to pick them.

00:31:39.780 Great.

00:31:40.280 Well, I thank you very much for, for filling in some of those blanks.

00:31:43.040 Cause not everybody watches the energy industry necessarily as closer, closely as, as even myself and certainly not as, as yourself.

00:31:48.820 So, uh, you know, good to counter some of those, those, uh, I think incorrect points that have been thrown around out there.

00:31:54.180 So, uh, thank you again for coming on and for your work and speaking up for that industry, Michael.

00:31:58.860 Okay.

00:31:59.140 Well, thank you, Corey.

00:31:59.840 Appreciate the chance to be here.

00:32:01.460 Great.

00:32:01.740 Thanks.

00:32:02.020 Hope we can talk again soon.

00:32:03.300 Bye-bye.

00:32:04.960 Okay.

00:32:05.340 So that was Michael Binion.

00:32:06.580 And yes, the, uh, his group is a, the modern miracle network and he's with quest air energy and it's just so much, you know, mythology.

00:32:13.480 I mean, that those checks aren't going out like that.

00:32:16.540 I, I, you know, part of the problem with that, uh, modern miracle network, like I said before, is people mistake it for some sort of evangelical thing.

00:32:22.980 It's not, it has that sort of sound or something like that.

00:32:25.600 The reason he named it such as he said on there as well, is that it's, it's kind of a modern miracle.

00:32:31.580 We wouldn't be sitting as comfortably today, not even close without hydrocarbons.

00:32:36.460 I mean, look at the evolution of technology and where it's gone.

00:32:39.820 Every medicine, computers, it's all is completely dependent on energy.

00:32:44.900 And I mean, it went all the way back to, you know, hand driven and animal driven machinery was coming about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

00:32:52.880 That was evolving even through the middle ages, things like that.

00:32:56.100 The steam engine changed all that around, right?

00:32:57.900 The industrial revolution, holy cow, we can generate energy with something other than people or animals.

00:33:04.060 This is a big turning point, something bigger than a water wheel.

00:33:07.360 And then of course, the leap into hydrocarbons.

00:33:11.140 I mean, that was a massive leap that brought us the ability for everything from settling the North to, to medicine, to transportation.

00:33:20.520 There is no way without hydrocarbons we would be doing as well as we are around the entire world today.

00:33:26.240 Look at the world today with famine.

00:33:28.040 Even back in the 80s, it was so common.

00:33:30.800 It was so large.

00:33:31.760 It was terrible, terrible looking at what was happening in Northern Africa back then, things like that.

00:33:36.720 And there's still challenges around the world, absolutely, but not nearly on the scale it used to be.

00:33:41.000 Why?

00:33:42.340 Affordable energy, because of course that lends itself to affordable food production and, you know, housing, you name it, every bit of it.

00:33:50.980 And we have this ideologically driven government that's trying to push us away from these hydrocarbons.

00:33:58.400 And as Michael was saying, there are alternatives and we should look to those alternatives, certainly.

00:34:03.740 But, you know, we can have both.

00:34:06.100 And that's part of why I think it's hard to ration on that one.

00:34:10.620 But when the Smith government in Alberta tapped the brakes on approvals for renewable energy projects.

00:34:15.940 Now, again, the left has gone bananas, but guess what?

00:34:19.100 The left is going to go bananas on Premier Smith, no matter what she does, ever. 1.00

00:34:25.200 And that includes the legacy media, the same parasites who support things like stealing money from Facebook and other areas to try and subsidize their industry. 0.85

00:34:34.960 They don't like her. 0.93

00:34:36.280 They want her out.

00:34:37.400 Speaking of subsidies.

00:34:39.020 So look at legacy media.

00:34:40.820 So they've put a pause.

00:34:43.060 And see, they're talking about the end of the world.

00:34:44.860 It's a moratorium.

00:34:45.860 It's going to be an end.

00:34:46.700 It's this and that.

00:34:47.120 No, it's a six-month pause on, and it's not ones that are in process.

00:34:51.300 It's not ones that are already built on pending and applications for wind and solar projects.

00:34:58.680 Not necessarily forever.

00:34:59.920 They're saying, let's just have another look at this.

00:35:02.260 And I mean, as Michael said, too, we've got to look at the impact.

00:35:04.780 They are not zero impact projects.

00:35:06.940 Down by Vulcan, south of there, you get towards the Little Bowl.

00:35:11.320 This is part, you know, I know we've got national viewers.

00:35:13.300 But this is in southern Alberta.

00:35:14.360 There is a massive solar project down there.

00:35:17.140 Massive.

00:35:17.540 It's the Traverse Solar Project.

00:35:18.880 And it takes up 3,300 acres.

00:35:21.980 Yeah, 3,300 acres of land down there that was grazing and agricultural land.

00:35:27.440 And that land had, again, endangered species on it.

00:35:30.160 It had burrowing owls.

00:35:31.380 It had antelope down there.

00:35:34.320 And it had farmers in some areas.

00:35:35.820 It's pretty dry down there.

00:35:36.760 But there's some areas where they were either running cattle or they were trying cropland on dry land farming.

00:35:42.260 It's gone now.

00:35:43.020 3,300 acres have been taken out of the mix.

00:35:45.980 Now, that solar facility generates about as much power as one.

00:35:51.240 There's a major one in the city of Calgary, a natural gas one that generates power for the city of Calgary.

00:35:58.400 Now, that natural gas facility takes up, well, I don't know, 10, maybe 20 acres.

00:36:03.300 There's cost benefit.

00:36:05.080 Okay, we've got to look at those things.

00:36:07.700 I mean, maybe the solar one is still worth it.

00:36:10.000 But it comes with a cost, an environmental cost, and, of course, a monetary cost.

00:36:16.100 And speaking of subsidies, we have a really hard time finding subsidies for the oil and gas energy industry.

00:36:22.800 That's why Michael and I were, you know, talking so long trying to find exactly where they are.

00:36:27.340 But you just don't have to look hard to find the subsidies that go into wind and solar.

00:36:33.000 It's not just private industry building these.

00:36:35.140 These are heavily subsidized companies going into these projects because most of them can't generate on their own.

00:36:41.060 There was a large solar project out by Medicine Hat, the sunniest, driest part of Alberta.

00:36:44.920 It went broke.

00:36:45.960 It went broke after just a few years.

00:36:47.940 It just couldn't come up with it.

00:36:50.400 Now, technology is getting better.

00:36:52.920 Solar is getting better.

00:36:54.400 Maybe it'll get there.

00:36:55.540 But what we need also, though, is reliable energy.

00:36:58.700 We need a grid that you can have even if the weather isn't cooperating.

00:37:01.660 And solar and wind don't contribute when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.

00:37:06.920 So we still need, and that's what Premier Smith was talking about, basically for every bit that we bring on stream, that solar and wind, it still has to be backed up or matched by something reliable, whether it's nuclear, natural gas, or even coal.

00:37:20.160 I don't think she said that, though.

00:37:22.560 So we've got to look at these things.

00:37:23.620 Alberta, the West, we don't have giant rivers we can dam like Quebec and Newfoundland had.

00:37:27.560 We have to work with what we've got.

00:37:29.380 And this energy is important.

00:37:31.280 It's important to every part of us.

00:37:32.400 Meanwhile, again, we have a central Canadian government trying to shut it down.

00:37:35.800 But they're happily taking all the taxes out of it.

00:37:37.820 They're happily sucking the equalization out of the West and happily screwing the West on transfer payments for pretty much everything. 0.88

00:37:45.680 So we've got quite something going on.

00:37:48.260 And it's a PR battle.

00:37:49.360 So reminding people, no, please, people, average Canadian people, you were not being ripped off by the oil and gas industry.

00:37:56.680 In fact, it's one of the best things that ever could have happened to you.

00:37:59.120 You were lucky.

00:38:00.000 You were born in the period of human history when oil and gas were providing you all of this prosperity and comfort and extended lifespans and modern medicine.

00:38:09.020 So let's hope these battles keep up because the thing is, again, with all of Gilbo's talk, if the energy industry was so dependent on subsidies, well, they would have bailed out as soon as he said he was ending them.

00:38:21.280 Right.

00:38:21.380 But they're looking around.

00:38:22.800 Oh, OK, you're going to stop giving me money that you never gave me in the first place.

00:38:26.360 OK, I guess I'll be all right.

00:38:28.780 That's what it comes down to.

00:38:29.920 All right, let's turn the page a little bit.

00:38:33.260 Sorry about some federal things.

00:38:35.780 Perception of increased crime.

00:38:37.400 We've got this going on.

00:38:38.200 Some numbers have been coming in up here.

00:38:40.020 Polly has certainly been pointing out violent crime in Canada and crime in general in Canada everywhere is going up.

00:38:45.860 In fact, frighteningly so.

00:38:47.820 It is shooting through the roof.

00:38:49.160 I don't think there's easy solutions for it.

00:38:50.960 I mean, there never is.

00:38:51.720 Most big things, there's no easy solution.

00:38:53.320 But the Liberals have really taken on an outlook, not just with the immigration, for example, but with the crime.

00:39:01.360 They deny that it's a problem.

00:39:03.180 They say it's a perception problem.

00:39:05.220 Canadians perceive crime is going up.

00:39:07.060 No, they aren't perceiving it.

00:39:08.500 They've got knives piercing them. 1.00

00:39:10.720 They're being robbed.

00:39:12.280 They're being molested. 0.98

00:39:13.700 They're being abused by criminals. 0.85

00:39:16.960 The statistics now back it up.

00:39:18.720 Stats Canada says the crime is rising dramatically.

00:39:21.420 And you're not going to start towards the solution, whatever it may be, until you at least first admit we got the bloody problem.

00:39:29.060 But they aren't admitting that.

00:39:29.980 I mean, I see some recent stories.

00:39:31.640 This is just today on the Western Standard.

00:39:33.360 Again, I've got to keep nagging you guys.

00:39:34.680 Westernstandard.news.

00:39:35.560 Get on there.

00:39:35.940 Get your stuff.

00:39:37.240 Two in Edmonton alone, Arthur is always on top of that stuff up there, two violent sexual offenders have been released among the public who are both considered high risks to re-offend.

00:39:50.240 And the police are warning us basically one of them again was released four years ago, and they warned us then, saying he's a high risk to re-offend.

00:39:56.080 Guess what? 0.90

00:39:56.420 He raped and hurt somebody. 0.99

00:39:58.160 Who just saw that coming, right? 0.99

00:40:00.040 You know what?

00:40:00.420 He's going to be out in a few frigging years again, and he'll do it again. 0.99

00:40:03.960 There are a core of incorrigible criminals out there, dangerous criminals. 0.90

00:40:10.660 You know, I believe in three strikes laws.

00:40:13.400 I really do.

00:40:14.040 And, you know, you see, the problem is when you get a government that takes a policy and screws it up dramatically, you can ruin a good policy because you implemented it wrong.

00:40:22.960 I believe it was California that did that, and they love screwing up policy down there.

00:40:25.740 They brought in a three strikes law, but the problem is they let it encompass everything.

00:40:29.320 So somebody who gets three convictions for shoplifting is suddenly getting a 20-year sentence, and then they overcrowded their prisons.

00:40:34.680 They caused all sorts of problems. 0.99

00:40:37.400 Is our justice system really too stupid to figure out the difference between a rapist and a shoplifter? 1.00

00:40:44.320 A murderer and a car thief? 1.00

00:40:46.840 You know, some of these violent crimes, and when they're repeat, and when you know you can't fix them, you know what?

00:40:52.480 I don't care anymore.

00:40:54.340 Warehouse them.

00:40:55.200 Yeah, warehouse them.

00:40:56.620 Put them away long, long term.

00:40:59.220 And you know what?

00:40:59.760 Once you do that, it's not that expensive anymore.

00:41:02.160 Once you've accepted that, once you've given a true life sentence, you're going to die of old age in prison.

00:41:09.500 Okay.

00:41:10.380 Then you don't have to worry about all those rehabilitation programs.

00:41:12.600 You just got to keep them in jigsaw puzzles and some recreational activities and so on to do out their time in prison in an isolated area.

00:41:20.260 Because you know what?

00:41:20.980 We're paying for it anyway with these chronic criminals.

00:41:24.100 You hear about them 20, 30 convictions, or some of them if it's only five or six convictions, but of heinous, heinous crimes.

00:41:29.420 Guess what?

00:41:29.960 They're in remand for years at a time.

00:41:32.260 They're in and out of our hospitals for years at a time, our police stations for years at a time.

00:41:36.420 We're paying for all of that.

00:41:37.580 They're in and out of the courts chronically.

00:41:39.040 Don't try to tell me it's cheaper to release those chronic, violent, nasty people into the public, the innocent public, and then keep re-arresting them.

00:41:48.380 Don't try and tell me that's cheaper than just taking them and saying, you know what? 0.99

00:41:51.260 You have raped the third person in your life. 1.00

00:41:53.140 You're going to go away until you die of old age in prison. 1.00

00:41:55.740 We've had it with you. 0.98

00:41:56.640 We can't fix you. 1.00

00:41:57.960 Your brain is broken. 1.00

00:41:59.020 Sorry it happened, but goodbye. 1.00

00:42:01.360 Likewise, armed robbers, people who assault people.

00:42:05.080 Again, there's one more commonality you see with these.

00:42:07.960 I'm not going to go into the whole side rant, but if anybody's interested, look up the GLADU principles, guys, because that is the bottom line when you look at most of these offenders who keep getting released and keep getting light sentences for very, very serious crimes.

00:42:22.660 Tracy, too, saying, weirdo, crime's gone up since Trudeau's reign in mass immigration policy.

00:42:26.380 Yeah, you see, some of the crime is from new Canadians, but a whole lot, actually, in fact, are disproportionately high, and that's a much bigger discussion, is coming from our Indigenous Canadians.

00:42:37.760 If you look at the cities with the highest crime rates in Canada, violent crime rates, they're always the cities with the highest percentage of Indigenous people. 1.00

00:42:46.500 Now, it's not saying Indigenous, don't misinterpret this.

00:42:49.220 It's not saying that they're naturally criminals by any means.

00:42:52.420 What it's saying, obviously, is that the system is not treating Indigenous Canadians well at all.

00:42:57.180 They are not doing well, and we need to change how we're approaching our entire Indigenous policy.

00:43:02.800 But as it is, they're the highest victims and perpetrators of most crimes in Canada right now.

00:43:08.680 And, yes, they do disproportionately fill up the bulk of our prison spaces right now.

00:43:12.660 In fact, those GLADU principles I referenced earlier, that's a policy that's talking about how to keep First Nations people out of our prisons because they've had different challenges and things in their backgrounds.

00:43:24.200 Well, those policies have been in place for, what, over 20 years now, and Indigenous people are making up still a higher percentage in prisons than they ever did.

00:43:30.800 So let's just face it, that policy failed.

00:43:33.240 It failed.

00:43:33.880 It didn't work.

00:43:35.380 And we've got to be careful.

00:43:36.140 Again, I'm not talking about targeting Indigenous people for long-term prison sentences.

00:43:39.320 I'm just talking about, because there's non-Indigenous people who do some horrific crimes, too. 1.00

00:43:43.700 But we've got to get realistic about where the problems are.

00:43:46.340 And we've got to stop making excuses.

00:43:48.720 I don't care about the background of the offender.

00:43:50.840 I really don't.

00:43:52.080 I mean, it's tragic.

00:43:53.760 I understand.

00:43:54.700 People who have been assaulted and harmed in their young life are much more likely to end up going off the rails when they're older.

00:44:01.620 And it's tragic.

00:44:02.560 It's wrong. 0.93

00:44:03.020 It's suckless.

00:44:03.620 Try and prevent that as much as we can.

00:44:04.980 But once it's done, once they're committing the crimes, once they're reoffending, once they're harming citizens, once they're putting citizens at risk, we have to quit worrying about what got them there and just worry about stopping them from continuing with what they've been doing.

00:44:18.020 And meanwhile, releasing stabbers and armed robbers and these things.

00:44:23.220 And a lot of it's tied to the opioid addiction epidemic as well.

00:44:26.600 That's a large part of it.

00:44:27.840 When we talk about stabbings and things, look at the numbers, look at the stories, read them up.

00:44:34.520 They're often people on the streets.

00:44:36.020 They're often addicted.

00:44:36.940 Or when you see all the shootings that are going on, and there's a lot of shootings. 0.98

00:44:39.720 Those aren't the addicts because any addict who gets a hold of a gun is going to sell that thing as fast as they can to get more crap. 0.98

00:44:45.040 But killers, of course.

00:44:47.780 I mean, they've got a big, lucrative market of addicts out there that they need to keep selling to and feeding and funding.

00:44:52.720 So they're shooting each other up in gang wars.

00:44:56.440 And then it gets into a large, complicated discussion going on about how we deal with drug policy and things such as that.

00:45:05.300 It's messy.

00:45:06.680 Getting back to where I started that whole rant is admitting that crime is going up.

00:45:11.460 And again, it's similar to what I was talking about with the immigration thing.

00:45:14.400 It's not a matter of opinion.

00:45:15.580 It's math.

00:45:16.580 The crimes are going up.

00:45:17.820 People don't have a perception of being unsafe when they go into urban cities in Canada right now.

00:45:23.160 They are unsafe when they go into those places right now.

00:45:26.240 It is dangerous to go to those places right now.

00:45:28.640 There are people stabbing and robbing people in those places right now.

00:45:32.560 And there's a few things we can do about it.

00:45:34.280 No easy things, but there's a few.

00:45:35.740 Start by admitting that crime is going up and start giving real sentences to those real repeat offenders.

00:45:42.500 All right, guys.

00:45:43.380 That's kind of used up my time today.

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00:46:08.700 There will be lots more to discuss next week at this time.

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00:46:15.320 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.

00:46:19.220 Cash barley is down $3.00 at $3.85.

00:46:21.980 Feed wheat is also down $3.00 at $3.87.

00:46:24.980 And corn is steady at $3.86 per metric tonne.

00:46:28.280 In the milling wheat markets, September Minneapolis futures are lower $7.5 cents at $8.23 per bushel.

00:46:33.800 With local hard red spring bid for August movement at $10.20 per bushel.

00:46:39.160 Looking at canola, November futures are down $6.40 at $7.84.50 per tonne.

00:46:45.680 With delivered values for August-September movement at $17.44 per bushel.

00:46:49.300 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are trading at $0.32 per pound and yellow peas are at $10.70 per bushel.

00:46:57.900 And in the livestock markets, October live cattle added $0.70 at $1.80.40 per hundredweight.

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Western Standard - August 09, 2023

Cory Morgan Show. Canada’s ticking immigration time bomb

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