Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Climate obsessed governments are reducing world food supplies

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00:00:29.980 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am, of course, Corey Morgan, and this is my weekly little stage to rant, rave, interview interesting guests and cover some news stories and items.

00:00:44.680 We're coming to you, as you can see in the background, out of beautiful, sunny Calgary. It is getting a little dry out there. We could use a little rain, and we're broadcasting across the country through all of our regular social media channels and the Cowboy Network, RFDTV and Live TV.

00:00:57.920 So good to see you all out there, seeing you guys coming in on the comment scroll already. Debbie, Yasha, Paradoxie, Shirley.

00:01:04.300 So for those of you who are watching this live, by all means, use that comment scroll. I love it. It's good to see the interaction going on out there.

00:01:11.420 Throw questions my way, my guest's way. As I kind of always said, I might not necessarily read them all on the air, but I do see them all there, and I appreciate them.

00:01:20.140 And good to see you there, too, Melissa. So, yes, we've got a good packed one today. I've got Spencer Fernando coming on in a little while as a guest.

00:01:28.040 People are probably familiar with him. He's based out of Manitoba. He's a prolific writer. He was involved with the National Citizens Coalition and a number of things.

00:01:35.860 And he's put out a good little column on basically Canada's abuse of its own military forces.

00:01:42.280 We're really asking a lot from them and not providing terribly well for them. And again, it just keeps undercutting and reducing the pride in this nation.

00:01:50.260 But, yes, Spencer and I will have a good conversation about that in about 15 minutes or so.

00:01:55.580 So let's start with what's got me wound up and ranting today. There's always something.

00:02:00.000 And it's on food supplies, guys, because it's serious and it's something that we really need to start discussing.

00:02:05.140 We've got climate-obsessed governments out there reducing world food supplies. 0.96

00:02:10.520 And think about it. If you want to control a population, control its food supply, right?

00:02:13.780 I mean, we're in this world where every little entitlement and desire is defined as a need or a human right, and people are protesting for it.

00:02:19.760 Yet at the same time, we're quietly letting ideologically driven political leaders threaten what is the very real right to and need for reliable, affordable food supplies.

00:02:30.060 So this latest attack on food production that we're reading about comes from Ireland, where the government's proposing the slaughter of 200,000 dairy cows in an effort to reach EU climate change targets.

00:02:42.320 Now, the climate impact of culling these animals is going to be negligible at best, but the impact on Irish consumers and food producers is going to be immediate and harsh.

00:02:51.200 I mean, dairy products, they're infused into most European food supplies.

00:02:54.200 The slaughter of these cattle is going to immediately raise prices on most food items, and it's probably going to put a lot of producers out of work, and not going to do a bloody thing for the environment.

00:03:02.940 But climate zealots, they don't care. They're undeterred by protests or economic reality.

00:03:07.860 They just want to shut down human activity by all and any means possible.

00:03:12.760 You're not talking about rational, reasonable people here.

00:03:15.860 Even in Sri Lanka, I mean, this is a nation that's not a stranger to hard times and famine and relatively recent memory.

00:03:21.940 Well, their government imposed ridiculous regulations banning types of fertilizer and encouraging these inefficient organic growing practices.

00:03:29.620 At least with them, they got stirred up enough it spawned protests that actually took down their own government.

00:03:34.520 That was only a couple of years ago.

00:03:36.160 But still, the push doesn't stop.

00:03:38.080 In the Netherlands, the state's been at war with its own farmers since 2019,

00:03:42.160 when nationwide protests were spawned by nitrogen and ammonia bans at the expense of the agricultural producers.

00:03:47.320 Farm protests have been crippling their nation at times, but the government's still undeterred.

00:03:52.420 And they're working towards foresting the reduction of livestock herds and taking land away from agricultural producers in the Netherlands.

00:03:58.720 And hey, don't think it's just happening overseas, guys.

00:04:00.880 Canada isn't far behind.

00:04:02.120 The Trudeau government suggested a 30% reduction in fertilizer use by agricultural producers.

00:04:08.000 I mean, such a reduction would deeply cut into crop outputs.

00:04:11.660 And the notion sparked a quick backlash from Canadian agricultural producers.

00:04:15.380 The government then hastily pointed out the 30% reduction is voluntary for producers.

00:04:19.720 But of course, what they're saying is, for now. 0.99

00:04:22.800 I mean, these guys are nuts. 0.91

00:04:24.220 They put eight and a half million dollars into a cricket production facility. 0.99

00:04:28.860 Crickets for human consumption.

00:04:30.320 Yes, this is how mad they are.

00:04:31.660 I'm not making this stuff up.

00:04:32.600 Look it up.

00:04:33.380 Eight and a half million.

00:04:34.100 Your tax dollars went to cricket production while they're attacking food production here.

00:04:38.940 We're being governed by zealots.

00:04:41.180 Don't expect rationality to come from Ottawa anytime soon.

00:04:43.900 Justin Trudeau desperately wants to be respected on the world stage.

00:04:47.020 He knows his intellect isn't going to get him there.

00:04:48.780 So he's hoping his actions as a climate crusader will garner him the international adoration he wants to revel in.

00:04:56.060 He knows nothing of supply chains, food needs, or agricultural production.

00:04:59.920 I mean, think about it.

00:05:00.640 Canada is led by a man whose servants shop for him and chill his favorite cereal bowl in the mornings while he tries to pick out cute socks for the day.

00:05:07.560 He's never seen a grocery bill, much less a balance sheet from a farm.

00:05:11.700 But he's in the position to control our food supplies.

00:05:13.880 Think about that.

00:05:15.220 NGOs and environmental groups feed the agenda further.

00:05:17.840 The Suzuki Foundation, oh yes, David Suzuki and his foundation with his many, many homes, just came out against domestic beekeeping.

00:05:25.680 Yes, because domesticated bees, as far as they're concerned, are a form of unnatural livestock and they might pressure wild bee populations. 0.83

00:05:33.500 Yeah, aside from the honey they produce, domestic bees are sort of an integral part of crop pollination for agricultural producers.

00:05:40.500 Bees are actually rented by farmers for this purpose.

00:05:44.660 Their crop yields will go down if they don't have these bees. 1.00

00:05:47.240 Suzuki and his elk don't care.

00:05:49.540 They aren't pro-environment.

00:05:50.860 That's what we've got to get driven to people's heads.

00:05:52.440 They are not pro-environment.

00:05:53.400 They're anti-human.

00:05:54.760 Big difference.

00:05:55.320 They want to drop world populations and they don't care what it takes to do it. 1.00

00:06:00.640 Arguably, I guess, a reduced world population would ease environmental pressures on the planet, whether from, you know, the reduction in trash, water contamination, emissions.

00:06:09.320 Sure, fine.

00:06:10.040 But reducing the efficiency of food production isn't going to reduce the world's population or improve the environment.

00:06:16.080 It's just going to make populations desperate, hungry, and impoverished.

00:06:20.480 The most environmentally friendly populations on the planet are all in the richest nations.

00:06:24.580 Blue bins, emission reduction plans, comprehensive waste management, those are all luxuries developing nations lack. 1.00

00:06:30.680 We take them for granted here.

00:06:32.320 Having a low birth rate is also a luxury only afforded to wealthy nations.

00:06:35.940 In developing nations, people need large families in order to survive and sustain a retirement.

00:06:40.540 In developed nations such as ours, we need immigration to counter our low birth rates.

00:06:45.420 Developing nations are also forced, of course, to use inefficient food production means such as slash-and-burn farming and burning high-emitting fuels from wood to coal to even animal dung to cook their food sometimes.

00:06:55.500 If we want to slow or even reduce human population growth, the path is through economic development for developing nations.

00:07:01.700 Make them rich enough to afford to be nice to the environment and stop breeding like we've been able to.

00:07:06.460 To do that, they need reliable, plentiful energy and food supplies.

00:07:10.640 And they need to become wealthy enough to cut back on breeding. 0.97

00:07:13.440 In other words, they need to do the opposite of what the environmentally fanatical nations are pushing them to do.

00:07:18.320 They don't need more windmills.

00:07:19.860 They don't need organic farming.

00:07:21.840 They need natural gas networks heating their homes and generating their power.

00:07:25.000 They need modern farms along with the associated chemicals for pest control and fertilizer.

00:07:29.760 In other words, they need all those things that Justin Trudeau and other vain virtue signaling world leaders are denying from them.

00:07:36.380 Canada has abundant resources.

00:07:38.000 Not only will we not expand development of them for ourselves, we're also being prevented from exporting them to those nations that need them most.

00:07:44.640 The environmental movement's hit new, revolting extremes.

00:07:48.320 It's working basically to starve populations into what they think is going to be a greener new world.

00:07:52.280 And it won't come.

00:07:53.680 The alarm bells are ringing now, guys.

00:07:55.520 Are we going to act and reverse this madness and food reduction?

00:07:58.020 Or are we going to wait until the starvation actually sets in?

00:08:00.940 And guys, it's just going to start with developing nations.

00:08:03.280 Don't think for a moment that we're immune for it and it won't come here next.

00:08:07.040 Well, that's what's got me ticked off today.

00:08:08.800 I was lucky enough to have a nice big meal at least to set it off.

00:08:12.680 But seriously, guys, it's insane.

00:08:14.400 It's insane.

00:08:15.140 I have all things to go after our food.

00:08:17.120 All right.

00:08:17.540 Let's talk to somebody who's more sane.

00:08:19.120 And that's our news editor, Dave Naylor, coming from the newsroom there.

00:08:23.020 How's it going, Dave?

00:08:24.080 Good.

00:08:24.500 I wouldn't say I'm any more sane than you, Corey.

00:08:26.660 Not a bit.

00:08:28.240 But I was thinking to you when we published that bee story about Suzuki on Saturday.

00:08:35.020 I pictured you in your beekeeping outfit and your head exploding.

00:08:39.980 Pretty close.

00:08:41.440 The vein was pulsing there and my bees were not happy when I passed it along to them.

00:08:46.400 No. 0.98

00:08:47.680 Utterly, utterly ridiculous. 0.98

00:08:50.120 Yeah. 0.95

00:08:50.720 Extremely busy morning already, Corey, on the Western Standard.

00:08:55.240 Right now we're leading off with what could be actually a fun political event.

00:08:59.440 Pierre Polyev has vowed that as of 5 p.m. tonight, he's going to rise in the House of Commons and speak.

00:09:06.980 And he's going to speak and filibuster until Justin Trudeau caves on his latest budget.

00:09:13.580 So you know how Justin does not like to admit he's wrong.

00:09:17.740 And, you know, Polyev's got a bit of a stubborn streak in him anyway.

00:09:21.740 So he could be talking for days.

00:09:23.860 I hope he brings some snacks.

00:09:25.240 And, you know, I hope he gets a bathroom break or two.

00:09:28.640 But that's going to be very, very interesting.

00:09:32.300 Other stories we're working on at the moment are already posted, actually.

00:09:36.540 A school in California, their school board was talking about introducing sexual minority rights into the curriculum.

00:09:45.900 And some parents weren't happy about that.

00:09:48.140 Some parents were.

00:09:49.000 And they protested outside and it ended up in fisticuffs, a mass brawl with California cops having to come in and make the peace.

00:10:00.700 We've got a follow-up on that story out of Innisfail earlier this week, Corey,

00:10:04.640 where a Red Deer lawyer was charged with attacking a RCMP officer and uttering threats.

00:10:11.980 This came after a Innisfail RCMP unit pulled over a truck with two women in it.

00:10:20.600 And it ended up also being a mass brawl with the Red Deer lawyer allegedly or has been charged with allegedly attacking the officer.

00:10:29.860 The lawyer's brother, who's also a lawyer, put out a statement saying the entire blame was on the RCMP for overreacting.

00:10:38.700 And they were racist because the female lawyer was indigenous. 1.00

00:10:44.240 Well, now the National Police Federation has lambasted the two lawyers saying they should know better than to publicly try and shame a police officer.

00:10:54.140 And there are ways to take their anger out going through the proper channels.

00:11:02.400 What else is worth mentioning?

00:11:04.280 We've got a premier's poll by Angus Reid.

00:11:07.320 Scott Moe continues to be the most popular premier in Canada.

00:11:11.960 Stephenson in Manitoba is the worst.

00:11:15.300 Tucker Carlson's back on Twitter with his first show.

00:11:18.040 We've got dramatic video out of St. Louis where a gunman on foot opened up or started firing at police.

00:11:26.540 So they did the right thing and they ran him down.

00:11:29.400 And it's kind of fun to see a bad guy flying through the air like that.

00:11:34.220 And Bank of Canada, interest rates up a quarter percent today.

00:11:38.360 And the head of CNN, Mr. Licht, has been fired because he hasn't been doing so well on that channel.

00:11:47.980 Coming up shortly, we've got a story about an Ontario school board who was holding a summer camp.

00:11:54.320 You know, what's newsworthy about that, you're asking, Corey? 0.91

00:11:57.540 Well, it's only open to black children. 0.86

00:12:00.200 So it's sort of a reverse segregation camp. 0.67

00:12:02.820 And there's some outrage coming out of Ontario on that.

00:12:06.540 So lots of stuff to read already and lots more to come, Corey.

00:12:11.340 Right on, Dave.

00:12:12.100 Well, it's good to see there's still lots to keep you busy after that hellishly long provincial election wrapped up.

00:12:17.260 I was hoping for a bit of a slowdown in the news, but no such luck.

00:12:21.760 Maybe once July hits.

00:12:23.720 All right.

00:12:24.240 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:24.840 I'll let you get back to all those stories.

00:12:26.440 I know the reporters have all been giving you a good time today.

00:12:29.200 They have.

00:12:29.760 They have.

00:12:30.100 I've got to crack the whip.

00:12:31.400 All right, Dave.

00:12:31.960 Thanks.

00:12:33.200 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:12:35.780 And it's that time before I get on to things just to remind everybody the reason we have all those stories going up.

00:12:39.760 And loads of them.

00:12:40.540 Loads of them.

00:12:41.000 Look at conventional newspapers these days.

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00:13:13.200 So let's see.

00:13:15.120 Yeah, you know, some stuff out of the comments.

00:13:16.680 I see Wildrow saying started a vegetable garden this year.

00:13:19.360 Yeah, you know, some people, we're going to see this with the food things, right?

00:13:21.520 More people doing home production when we can't trust the government to allow large-scale food production.

00:13:27.700 Pretty scary times.

00:13:28.740 Myself, I'm a terrible gardener.

00:13:31.260 I try.

00:13:31.880 I've tried year after year.

00:13:33.120 I can grow nothing but weeds.

00:13:34.340 It's just once in a while I grow zucchini.

00:13:35.960 That's one thing I found.

00:13:36.760 But I don't like zucchini that much, you know.

00:13:38.400 And it goes slowly, slowly, slowly.

00:13:40.220 You think, oh, this is coming along. 0.86

00:13:41.320 And then all of a sudden you've got like 50 pounds of frigging zucchini you've got to try and eat. 0.57

00:13:44.880 And, yeah, I go through a bit of it and then move on.

00:13:47.100 But still, you know, getting serious with things, this trend of going after our food production abilities is really distressing,

00:13:54.560 especially when we're looking at hard times and inflation, as Dave mentioned too now.

00:13:57.640 So the economy, I guess, didn't slow as much as a lot of economists and people predicting thought it would.

00:14:05.360 So what did the bank do?

00:14:06.660 They jumped in and said, well, good, we've got room.

00:14:08.160 We're going to raise the interest rates a little more again.

00:14:10.240 And so, yet again, I mean, I think it's been over 4% in interest rate hikes in the last year and some now

00:14:16.180 as they're trying to keep the inflation in check.

00:14:19.880 Yeah, you know, that's a balancing act.

00:14:21.700 Because, you see, if they crank the interest rates too high, you'll slow inflation.

00:14:24.780 But it's because you'll drive us into recession.

00:14:26.960 So we shouldn't celebrate those interest rate hikes.

00:14:29.520 You know, if we want to battle recession, we should be trying to become more productive, become more economically stable.

00:14:36.860 And as I said earlier, you know, one of the things you want to reduce the costs of staples and things like that for consumers for food,

00:14:43.300 well, stop pressuring food producers.

00:14:46.340 Stop trying to shut them down.

00:14:47.720 Stop messing with the agricultural community.

00:14:50.460 That's where it comes from.

00:14:52.280 And it'll have far more effect on bringing food to your table in an affordable way than any amount of interest rate hikes trying to fight inflation will.

00:15:00.240 And one more thing before I get to my guests, get rid of supply management for crying out loud.

00:15:04.580 That's one conservative thing the conservatives even don't have the courage to jump into, but they really have to.

00:15:09.380 All right, I see Spencer on deck there.

00:15:11.460 And I've been looking forward to talking to him.

00:15:12.540 We haven't had him on for a while.

00:15:13.940 And it's great to have him on.

00:15:15.640 He's been writing a lot of stuff and covering some federal issues for us.

00:15:20.460 So let's bring in Spencer Fernando and discuss things.

00:15:24.180 Hey, Spencer, how are you doing?

00:15:25.420 Not too bad.

00:15:25.960 Yourself?

00:15:26.720 Very good.

00:15:27.580 You know, ranting, raving, but that actually makes me happy.

00:15:29.720 People think I'm angry all the time, but I'm actually in my best state while I'm frothing like this.

00:15:33.680 Yeah, it's good to get the negativity out somehow.

00:15:36.140 Well, that's right.

00:15:36.840 You know, Jane doesn't have to deal with it as much out of me.

00:15:39.780 Smart move.

00:15:41.200 So, I mean, I'm always reading your stories.

00:15:43.440 And then just to remind everybody, it's spencerfernando.com.

00:15:45.760 There's lots of them you're putting out all the time.

00:15:48.040 But just one that caught my eye, it kind of coupled a bit with a column I did in a sense of what the, you know,

00:15:54.080 the almost apologetic statement from the government on the RCMP's 150th anniversary.

00:15:58.940 And you talking, pointing out how the lack of equipment for Canadian troops, it signifies a deeper decline for Canada as a nation.

00:16:05.780 Like, this is symbolizing much more than just the immediate problem that we're leaving our troops in the lurch.

00:16:10.920 Yeah, you know, I mean, if you, you know, tell a whole generation of people that Canada's history is, you know, nothing but evil and colonialism and, you know, terrible mistreating people and, you know, all our values are bad and we should feel guilty and sad about everything.

00:16:24.920 And, you know, then, you know, at the same time, you're saying, oh, well, you know, sign up, join the military and, you know, go overseas to, you know, defend our national interest.

00:16:32.840 Well, how can you really have national interest if you're, if you take such a negative view of the nation and the history of the country?

00:16:38.360 And so I do see those things as linked, you know, you have a government that manages, I mean, I think we just saw that they just asked for the authority to spend 20 billion extra dollars this year over what they'd already budgeted, which itself was a massive increase over the previous year.

00:16:53.760 So they're, they spend money on everything. I mean, massive deficits, you know, the debt's gone up dramatically.

00:16:58.700 The only place where it seems they don't spend much money is equipping our soldiers. I mean, they sent people over, I think it was to Latvia and, you know, they're having to buy their own helmets.

00:17:06.900 I mean, so, you know, it's, it's, I'm sure we'll get to the moral aspect of, you know, sending people to harm's way without equipping them and how bad that is.

00:17:14.900 But I do think we are seeing a deeper problem with just the fact that we've, you know, demonized our history.

00:17:19.580 We've made people think Canada's, you know, based on bad values, you know, Western civilization is, it's no better than any other civilization.

00:17:27.380 You know, it's terrible. It's, it's got all these problems.

00:17:29.480 And so when you kind of depress a country like that and depress a whole generation about their past and their history, then, you know, how do you expect people to, to join the military?

00:17:37.960 And how do you expect to have a government that sees the value of the military or have citizens that see the value of the military?

00:17:43.000 Because, you know, it's not just, it's easy to blame the politicians, but, you know, most Canadians don't vote on whether the military is, you know, effective or not.

00:17:50.420 And most people don't seem to care that much.

00:17:52.040 So I think it's a serious problem, especially in a world that's becoming a lot more dangerous.

00:17:56.200 Well, that's it. I mean, the military is a calling.

00:17:58.560 I mean, it's not a route to easy money.

00:18:00.460 It's not a good time.

00:18:02.580 It's, it's dangerous sometimes and difficult career path to take.

00:18:06.200 The people who join typically are feeling that they're going to do a service for the nation they love.

00:18:10.820 That's what would help them, I guess, overlook shortcomings.

00:18:13.160 They're getting back from the military, such as perhaps not being as well equipped or, or, you know, whatnot as they should be.

00:18:20.600 But if they're at the same time being told they should be ashamed of the nation and being under equipped, this is a terrible formula for these people serving right now.

00:18:29.020 Yeah. And, you know, it's, you know, one of the ironies was some of the soldiers, the other NATO troops that were over there, I think from the Netherlands, had better equipment than the Canadians.

00:18:38.480 And much of the equipment was actually Canadian.

00:18:40.140 You know, they've been buying Canadian equipment for some time.

00:18:42.240 So we make good equipment.

00:18:43.100 We just don't buy it for our own soldiers and we don't equip them.

00:18:45.740 And so, and then there's, of course, the aspect of, you know, Justin Trudeau postures as a, you know, big defender of NATO and the rules based international order.

00:18:53.240 He talks about it all the time, but, you know, it's, it's just words if you don't back it up.

00:18:57.820 Right. So he says all the, all the nice words about, you know, supporting NATO and freedom and democracy and all that stuff.

00:19:02.540 But you send people overseas, you know, into the idea is that if there's a big war, they're going to be involved in it.

00:19:09.020 That's the reason we're sending people over there is a deterrent, but obviously they'd be on the front line if a massive war broke out.

00:19:14.600 So how can you justify sending them over there if you're not equipping them well, right?

00:19:17.780 You're basically saying, yeah, well, we just hope nothing bad happens because if it does, you'll be under equipped and your chances of dying will go up.

00:19:23.800 So, so again, you know, I, I don't see how, you know, you know, it's, it's sad that Canadians are not more outraged about this because we're sending people to harm's way without equipping them.

00:19:32.180 We're spending massive amounts of money every year, but somehow not, you know, prioritizing our national defense.

00:19:37.280 So, you know, I see, you know, all these people who posture is, you know, they're supporters of NATO on the, you know, oppose Russia.

00:19:43.520 That's fine. But, you know, we live in the real world.

00:19:45.760 And that means if you want to really oppose Russia and stand up for NATO, then you need to equip our military.

00:19:50.260 We need to have a credible military force.

00:19:51.800 We need to be able to, if necessary, fight and succeed in a major war.

00:19:55.840 And so, you know, I think there's a lot of talk in this country about what our values are supposedly, but we undermine those values both by, of course, demonizing our history.

00:20:03.740 And then we undermine those values by not living up to our military commitments or our commitments to our allies.

00:20:08.240 So, you know, it's, I don't know why people would really take our country seriously at this point.

00:20:12.820 And this has been going on actually for a long, long time.

00:20:16.040 I remember during one of the Gulf Wars, for one, we had to take a gun out of surplus because they didn't actually have a gun for their boat to serve in the Gulf.

00:20:25.660 And a bunch of our soldiers went overseas and they showed up in the desert and they had olive green uniforms.

00:20:31.760 And, of course, they stood out like sore thumbs.

00:20:33.500 They didn't have desert camouflage.

00:20:35.440 There's different types.

00:20:36.180 They're not in the jungle.

00:20:36.920 So other soldiers lent them ponchos to cover their olive green uniforms.

00:20:42.460 This was decades ago.

00:20:43.680 And how humiliating that must have been for them, you know, when you're serving overseas in these other countries that they're lending you these things out of a sense of goodwill and to keep you safe, of course.

00:20:53.000 But if this hasn't been solved after decades of underfunding the military, do you think we ever will turn it around?

00:20:58.480 As you said, Canadians don't seem to get upset enough about this. 0.99

00:21:01.260 Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm doing the best I can to try to wake more people up about it, but it's certainly a tough task.

00:21:06.860 And, you know, one of the strange things about it is if you look at the country that Canada most resembles, you know, militarily in terms of our attitude towards the military and underfunding, ironically, it's Germany, right?

00:21:17.220 I mean, Germany has the same thing.

00:21:18.460 I mean, they promised recently they were going to boost their military funding and that turned out to be mostly hot air.

00:21:22.700 They haven't really done that much.

00:21:24.160 But it's a lot because Germany, you can understand why they'd be a little reticent to build up their military again, right?

00:21:29.600 I mean, they've got a history where certainly the idea of saying, you know, we're pretty ashamed of what we did in the past, that makes a lot of sense for Germany.

00:21:36.560 Canada, of course, is fighting on the opposite side of that.

00:21:38.680 So we have a lot to be proud of militarily.

00:21:40.400 But we seem to have the same kind of almost ashamed attitude of all the military.

00:21:44.220 Oh, we don't want to really talk about it.

00:21:45.500 We don't want to be military.

00:21:46.600 We don't want to be too strong.

00:21:47.620 It's too scary and too mean.

00:21:50.040 And so, you know, I don't know if it will change.

00:21:52.880 It's an attitude that obviously comes, I think, from, you know, very deep with a lot of Canadians.

00:21:57.280 You know, I see people who say, oh, we don't need a military or America will protect us or, you know, who needs a big military in today's day and age?

00:22:04.220 And again, you know, a big military is something that certainly looks like a waste of money most of the time.

00:22:08.480 But when you need it, you know, it better be there because you can't just build it up instantly.

00:22:11.860 Right.

00:22:12.160 And so, you know, I think all the people who claim that they, you know, support NATO and claim that Canada, you know, should be a part of defending, you know, our values against, you know, countries like Russia, against countries like China, that's only credible if you support building up the military.

00:22:27.760 There's no magical, you know, way around that.

00:22:29.580 You know, you have to have a strong military to be able to defend yourself and help your allies.

00:22:33.320 So, you know, I think maybe it's because Canada hasn't had any, you know, internal military conflicts for a long time.

00:22:39.240 You know, we didn't fight a major war of independence.

00:22:41.920 That's not how we became a nation.

00:22:43.380 So maybe people just don't appreciate it.

00:22:45.580 But, you know, I think it's something that we don't want to overlook because it's, you know, you don't want to be in a situation where you're desperately trying to build up a military when your country is being attacked.

00:22:53.860 Well, it sounds like we need a national discussion to find out, well, what do we want then as a military?

00:22:58.860 What do we want to be as a role around the world, a peacekeeper or an emergency, just that they're going to show up to help in emergencies?

00:23:04.500 Or are they going to be a part of NATO?

00:23:05.920 I mean, NATO means you should be pretty militarized because that's some pretty hot areas that you might need to defend yourself.

00:23:11.440 I would think it doesn't have to be a large military, but we could at least equip them better.

00:23:15.880 The current military is using, they're using sidearms from World War II.

00:23:19.280 I remember a series of columns on the National Post.

00:23:23.120 They've been spending decades navel-gazing and talking about getting new sidearms.

00:23:27.360 You could go to Cabela's with a couple million dollars and get them updated sidearms in a week if you really wanted to, and they still can't even manage to get this done.

00:23:36.640 I mean, it seems almost if it's that bad that it's purposeful that maybe they're trying to starve this military out of existence.

00:23:43.040 Yeah, there certainly does seem to be part of that attitude at play here.

00:23:47.560 You know, and as you say, it doesn't need to be a massive military.

00:23:50.040 We're not a big country in terms of population, but certainly we could have a very advanced air force.

00:23:54.220 You know, we could be a leader in drone technology, missile technology, and then have a small but very well-equipped, you know, military.

00:24:00.120 And, you know, even in terms of cost, I mean, it's not really that expensive.

00:24:04.300 I mean, NATO's asking us to spend 2% of GDP on our military.

00:24:07.820 That's not really excessive.

00:24:08.780 I mean, you look at a lot of other countries, they're spending 4%, 5%, 6%, way more militarized.

00:24:12.740 Even the U.S. 0.95

00:24:13.480 I mean, everyone talks about the U.S. supposedly being some big, you know, imperial military power.

00:24:18.260 They spend, you know, about average, you know, as the world goes on their military per capita or as a percentage of their GDP.

00:24:25.600 They just have a huge GDP, so it looks like big spending.

00:24:28.420 So we don't need to be, you know, it's not like we're going to be a super militarized country.

00:24:31.820 It's just basically doing the bare minimum, basically saying, look, we're going to have advanced equipment.

00:24:36.080 We're going to have good planes.

00:24:37.060 We're going to have a few good ships.

00:24:38.280 We're going to have soldiers who are well-trained and well-equipped.

00:24:40.700 And if we need to help our allies, then we can do so.

00:24:43.220 And so that really shouldn't be too much to ask.

00:24:45.460 I mean, the flip side is you look at it from the American perspective.

00:24:48.760 By not funding our own military and then by saying, oh, America will protect us.

00:24:52.800 We're basically saying, oh, Americans will die to protect Canadians because we're not choosing to do our part.

00:24:57.620 And an alliance has to go both ways.

00:24:59.380 You know, if we expect the Americans to help us if we're in trouble, we should be able to at least do a little bit to help them if they get in trouble.

00:25:05.040 And so I think just, you know, strategically, morally, ethically, you know, having a decent military is certainly not something we can overlook in today's world.

00:25:13.320 Yeah, I mean, taking our southern neighbours' goodwill for granted for the sake of our own defence is a pretty weak way to go about things.

00:25:21.320 Maybe I'll pivot a bit for our last few minutes because you've put another piece out since just to talk about it.

00:25:25.740 And it's more about, again, Canada as a whole.

00:25:27.840 It kind of ties into the last one.

00:25:29.140 You talk about, you know, diversity and how the Liberals love to talk up a good game of diversity,

00:25:34.280 but they don't really seem to support diversity when push comes to shove in a lot of ways, or at least not when it comes to viewpoints.

00:25:39.080 Yeah, I mean, there's a situation where I think a teacher was, you know, admonishing a Muslim student for not wanting to attend a Pride event.

00:25:48.000 And, you know, that's gone viral, and a lot of people are talking about that.

00:25:50.780 And I think it just goes to show that, you know, Canada, this is the problem with not saying, you know, Trudeau said, oh, there's no core Canadian identity.

00:25:58.360 You know, Canada has no, you know, set values.

00:26:00.220 But then at the same time, bring in a lot of people, many of whom come from parts of the world with very different values than Canada, you know, not based on individual rights or, you know, freedom of religion.

00:26:09.600 And then you have, you know, the far left pushing, you know, a certain set of values on other people.

00:26:14.160 And so, you know, that's the problem with not ever discussing these things as a country and just hoping that a few nice slogans like diversity and strength will make it all work together.

00:26:21.560 And now, personally, I think the solution is decentralization.

00:26:23.800 You know, I think we need the technology, as I read in the article, the technology to decentralize education certainly exists.

00:26:30.300 It's just politicians and, you know, entrenched interests who stand in the way of that.

00:26:34.040 You know, if parents want their kids to go to Pride events, certainly they should be free to do so.

00:26:37.600 You know, we shouldn't be allowing, you know, discrimination in schools.

00:26:40.060 We shouldn't be, you know, teaching people, you know, to hate any group.

00:26:43.140 At the same time, if parents, for religious reasons, want their kids to opt out or they want to send them to a religious school, we should make that easier for people as well.

00:26:49.220 I think the only way for a country like Canada that's, you know, diverse in terms of, you know, ethnic backgrounds, you know, cultures, religious beliefs, the only way for that really to work is to be decentralized because if one group tries to impose all of their values on another, it's just going to become, you know, tribal division and anger.

00:27:04.980 And I think that's, unfortunately, it seems to be where we're heading and I don't think that's where we want to go because that doesn't really end well.

00:27:10.760 No, it takes some delicacy.

00:27:15.120 I mean, if you're going to try and force everybody to be under the same viewpoint, well, you better come up with the chart then that we're supposed to comply by.

00:27:22.180 That doesn't jive with anybody thinking that they live in a free nation whatsoever.

00:27:26.460 So these contradictions going on, I have to admit, it puts them between a bit of a rock and a hard place when they're dealing with LGBTQ rights and dealing with minority Islamic rights at the same time.

00:27:39.260 So maybe that'll force a little self-examination on some of these things, though.

00:27:43.880 Yeah, I think, you know, that's a good point.

00:27:45.860 Self-examination does need to happen because I see, you know, some concerning trends both on the left and, to be honest, on the right to an extent.

00:27:52.680 You know, the left obviously has gone so far.

00:27:54.780 It's like you become so tolerant that you're intolerant of everybody, right?

00:27:58.420 You know, only a very small set of beliefs are considered acceptable and any little deviation from that is considered, you know, hate, right?

00:28:05.500 So the left has become quite intolerant.

00:28:07.440 But then I see some people on the right who, you know, you see them idolizing Russia, you know, praising, you know, Uganda.

00:28:13.600 I've even seen some people on the right praising Uganda with their horrific law. 0.58

00:28:16.960 And so it's like you have people who are, oh, they don't like that they're seeing, you know, some drag events.

00:28:22.080 So they decide to completely turn against Western civilization itself and start praising, you know, foreign dictatorships.

00:28:27.760 And so I think people just need to get a grip and realize, you know, this is what living in a democracy is about.

00:28:31.780 Sometimes you're out of power and your opponents do crazy things, but you speak out against them and then you try to get elected and you try to persuade people to change.

00:28:39.220 I mean, you look at the United States, you have a lot of states who are passing laws restricting, you know, I guess what they'd say, you know, drag events or certain events.

00:28:47.480 You look at, I think, Norway just banned sex change surgery for children.

00:28:53.760 And so and then some people will like that.

00:28:55.200 Some people won't like that.

00:28:56.080 But democracies are trying to figure these issues out and there's a back and forth debate.

00:28:59.240 So I think both the left and the right need to, you know, restore some of their faith in the idea of freedom and the idea of democracy, the idea of debate.

00:29:06.220 We experiment different ideas.

00:29:07.520 One jurisdiction tries one thing.

00:29:09.180 One tries another.

00:29:09.920 We see how it works and, you know, we fight it out politically.

00:29:12.280 But the idea that we should turn to, you know, being a dictatorship or, you know, being communist or something because we're a little dissatisfied with Western democracy, I think that would be a massive mistake.

00:29:22.240 Yeah, some debate and live and let live concepts.

00:29:25.000 They sound like simple ones, but not enough people seem to recognize them sometimes.

00:29:28.860 Well, we'll keep debating anyways and keep pushing and shoving and trying to keep a balance in the nation, I would hope.

00:29:35.480 I appreciate your contributions and your columns going out there.

00:29:39.960 Just kind of remind everybody one more time before I let you go.

00:29:42.620 Where can we find where you're writing and where your presence is out there, Spencer?

00:29:47.040 Yeah, you can go to spencerfernando.com.

00:29:48.960 That's where most of my articles are.

00:29:50.580 And then I publish one column about once a week for the National Citizens Coalition.

00:29:55.320 So you can find that on nationalcitizens.ca.

00:29:58.640 Great.

00:29:59.080 Well, I appreciate you joining the show again, Spencer.

00:30:01.600 It's always a good conversation.

00:30:03.000 I hope we get to talk again soon.

00:30:04.640 Sounds good.

00:30:05.500 Great.

00:30:05.740 Thanks.

00:30:07.020 That was Spencer Fernando.

00:30:08.720 And yes, and you can watch from as well on Twitter.

00:30:10.540 He's on there.

00:30:11.120 And it's, you know, Twitter's a good spot.

00:30:12.180 Like I said, people say I get too worked up about the discourse and debates on Twitter, but it's a good spot to see stories and items when they first come out.

00:30:18.760 So give Spencer a follow on there, and then you'll see those columns as they pop up along with the Citizens Coalition and things like that.

00:30:26.720 So, you know, yeah, I want to pivot a little to, you know, this is some of the areas where people get worked up.

00:30:32.380 Somebody threw it out because I got on Twitter.

00:30:35.660 I put it out there when people are talking about banning Fox News, for example.

00:30:38.800 We got to ban them.

00:30:39.700 We want CRTC to step in and ban them.

00:30:43.000 They said, no, get over it.

00:30:44.520 Don't watch it.

00:30:45.300 Just change the channel.

00:30:46.200 Why is it always banning?

00:30:47.500 Why is it always shutting down?

00:30:48.840 Why have people jumped straight to attacking the other viewpoint, not allowing the other viewpoint?

00:30:54.800 But somebody tweeted back at me saying, so fine.

00:30:56.980 So you'd be okay with LGBT people in schools and, you know, drag shows and libraries? 0.96

00:31:03.360 And yes, actually, yes, I don't care.

00:31:07.500 Now, the thing is, what we have to have is choice.

00:31:12.300 We have to have choice.

00:31:13.600 In a library, for example, as we mentioned before, join the library board if you're really that concerned and don't have trans shows going on there.

00:31:20.660 Likewise with the school, we need charter schools.

00:31:22.640 We need to let parents choose where their kids are going to go and where they aren't. 0.51

00:31:26.460 And we need to reframe the discussion and take it back from the trans activists, not trans people, trans activists. 0.97

00:31:35.560 And, you know, the trans activists are usually the same hysteric jerks that are the activists that get involved in all the woke causes. 0.99

00:31:44.360 Usually some basement dwelling white middle class person who feels that they want to get a chip on their shoulder and make the world a better place by speaking up as a white knight on behalf of some minority or another minority that they aren't even actually a part of. 0.95

00:31:58.660 Trans people have been around for a long, long time, and they've been achieving a lot more rights, and they should, I think, you know, they want to live their lives.

00:32:09.500 But the activists got involved.

00:32:11.720 The activists got into the mix.

00:32:13.760 The activists moved the goalposts.

00:32:16.620 They're there to outrage.

00:32:17.980 They're not there to make things better for anybody else.

00:32:20.660 They just have to push it farther and farther and farther.

00:32:23.800 They found the line that's ticking off just about everybody.

00:32:27.620 They finally found it, and it's a straightforward line for most people.

00:32:30.860 Kids.

00:32:31.720 Why are they always so obsessed in getting in front of kids? 0.95

00:32:36.440 Why?

00:32:37.420 And no, by the way, because some people imply that. 0.98

00:32:39.900 They're saying that, well, it's because all those trans performers and drag story hour readers are pedophiles. 0.87

00:32:44.120 No, no, they aren't. 0.95

00:32:45.160 Not all of them.

00:32:46.220 Not most of them.

00:32:47.680 Hopefully not any of them.

00:32:49.480 But it is odd with that hang-up and getting in front of kids.

00:32:52.140 You've got the age of majority that hits at 18.

00:32:55.160 That means the majority.

00:32:56.060 Guys, guys, gals, whatever.

00:32:57.680 You can perform and do your things in front of millions and millions of people who are older than the age of 18.

00:33:03.480 There's nothing stopping you.

00:33:05.440 It's perfectly legal.

00:33:06.680 It's perfectly allowed.

00:33:08.240 Go for it.

00:33:09.460 But instead, they've got to keep pushing it.

00:33:11.480 I mean, that's a story that just kind of, I've got to admit, and I'm not easily shocked, 0.99

00:33:14.740 but got me the other day when I saw that, was trans woman's testicle falls out in front of children during performance. 0.98

00:33:22.140 Yes, because, again, this goes beyond. 0.99

00:33:26.260 There's more than one thing here with the trans performances.

00:33:30.040 Now, there's drag time story hour.

00:33:33.260 In that case, somebody's kind of dragged up, dolled up, and reading to some kids, usually pretty benign and harmless.

00:33:38.340 But then that limit keeps getting pushed, and we see the videos, and it's not everywhere.

00:33:42.200 We see enough.

00:33:42.840 We see the ones where there's kids going up and putting money into the G-strings of trans performers.

00:33:48.880 You know, it would be illegal if these were straight people up there. 0.99

00:33:52.120 Just leave the kids alone. 1.00

00:33:53.600 Leave the kids out of it.

00:33:56.080 Why?

00:33:56.640 Why do we have to keep pushing?

00:33:57.840 And I think, personally, I can't speak for them, but I think it's probably making it harder on the genuinely trans people who just want to live their lives.

00:34:06.380 Just leave the kids out of it. 0.90

00:34:08.520 Move on.

00:34:09.260 But it's the rage.

00:34:10.100 It's the rage.

00:34:10.700 They've got to push.

00:34:11.340 They've got to push.

00:34:13.340 You know, I listened to something the other day.

00:34:15.620 I listened to Adam Carolla's podcast a lot.

00:34:18.420 And he said something interesting, or he had a guest who said something interesting.

00:34:21.220 He said, a lot of libertarian-minded people tend to be on the autism spectrum because they have a different way of emotions in the way they work with things.

00:34:28.920 And I don't know if that's fair or not to say if that's the case or whatnot.

00:34:31.620 But, yes, I do think, though, and one of the ways he put it was good, wasn't that, because we get accused of that.

00:34:37.920 You get accused of these sensitive issues.

00:34:39.120 You're heartless.

00:34:39.680 You want this.

00:34:40.180 You want that.

00:34:40.520 No, not.

00:34:41.600 No, not.

00:34:42.580 But a libertarian person won't look at an emotional argument as being valid when it comes to policy.

00:34:51.600 So, yes, emotions are important, but I honestly don't care what you feel.

00:34:57.060 I don't.

00:34:58.320 It's your problem.

00:34:59.100 I want to see results.

00:35:01.680 It doesn't matter what makes you feel good.

00:35:04.100 It matters what works.

00:35:06.380 It doesn't mean I don't have emotions.

00:35:08.060 It just means I'm not going to let the emotions set the policy.

00:35:11.100 Some of these items they love using.

00:35:13.620 Rent control.

00:35:15.260 I always oppose rent control.

00:35:16.940 I say, why, why?

00:35:17.940 Do you want people on the streets? 1.00

00:35:19.600 Stupid question. 1.00

00:35:20.360 But that's the kind of question these emotional jerks send at you, isn't it? 1.00

00:35:23.280 Do you want people to be homeless? 0.94

00:35:25.040 Do you not feel that people should be able to live comfortably under a roof? 1.00

00:35:28.200 Stupid questions. 1.00

00:35:30.180 Turning the discussion all based on emotion. 1.00

00:35:33.860 Why do I oppose rent control? 1.00

00:35:35.020 Not because I'm a heartless jerk. 0.99

00:35:36.780 It's because it doesn't work. 0.98

00:35:38.460 It never works.

00:35:40.120 Not usually doesn't work.

00:35:42.000 Not only sometimes works.

00:35:43.620 Rent control never works. 0.59

00:35:46.260 So the only way a person could potentially push rent control is on an emotional basis.

00:35:51.740 And I reject that premise.

00:35:53.840 You're just wasting time.

00:35:55.100 You are not helping people.

00:35:56.980 Don't you want to deal with the housing crisis?

00:35:58.360 Sure.

00:35:59.820 Not through rent control.

00:36:01.240 It'll make it worse.

00:36:02.240 But that'll be the people without houses.

00:36:03.640 No, won't you? 0.99

00:36:04.560 Clowns. 0.91

00:36:06.100 What else? 0.98

00:36:06.520 Minimum wage hikes.

00:36:07.920 You oppose minimum wage hike?

00:36:09.140 You want everybody working for slave wages? 1.00

00:36:10.320 No, don't ask the stupid questions. 1.00

00:36:14.100 But minimum wages don't make people richer, guys. 1.00

00:36:17.400 It doesn't work that way.

00:36:19.260 What does a business do when it's forced to raise minimum wages?

00:36:22.180 They raise their prices.

00:36:23.940 When prices raise on everything everywhere, what happens?

00:36:27.000 Inflation.

00:36:27.940 Then the person you just went through that whole rigmarole with,

00:36:31.160 not to mention jobs get shed because other businesses will also lay people off

00:36:34.680 or modernize or do some other things to get rid of the jobs to save money

00:36:37.480 when the minimum wage gets risen.

00:36:39.820 It doesn't work.

00:36:40.800 It doesn't make those low-income people any richer.

00:36:45.020 If it did work, and some people say it's a shallow argument being thrown back,

00:36:48.700 then let's just raise it to $80 an hour for everybody and we'll eliminate poverty.

00:36:53.880 Well, the reason we don't do that is because it's economically unviable and it doesn't work.

00:36:58.500 So no, I'm not saying I want to see people live in poverty when I oppose constant minimum wage hikes.

00:37:04.100 I'm saying it doesn't friggin' work.

00:37:07.060 Socialized medicine, there's another beauty, isn't it?

00:37:09.700 Canada's sacred healthcare system.

00:37:12.640 You want people to pay for their healthcare with a credit card.

00:37:16.180 You see, again, they throw a question at you.

00:37:19.020 When did anybody say that?

00:37:21.120 Either way, yeah, you know what?

00:37:22.740 I want people to have the option to pay with a credit card.

00:37:24.720 In fact, they do already.

00:37:26.560 It's just that they crossed the border to do it.

00:37:28.480 So if they're going to be stuck on a waiting list in Canada to get care that they need desperately, if they have the means, they will go somewhere else.

00:37:39.480 Maybe to get treatment from Canadian trained health professionals.

00:37:43.280 But they'll do it in the United States or Vietnam or all sorts of places where medical tourism is getting bigger and bigger.

00:37:50.980 So, you know what?

00:37:52.540 Yeah, if we can have some pay for profit.

00:37:55.700 Profit's not evil, guys.

00:37:56.740 It's not evil.

00:37:57.580 I loathe it.

00:37:58.120 You know, I can always tell an extremist when they spit out the word profit as if it's a bad thing.

00:38:02.920 Profit.

00:38:03.760 The pursuit of profit brought us to this comfort level in this wonderful world we're living in today, guys.

00:38:08.060 Socialism didn't do it.

00:38:08.960 God, the Soviets couldn't even invent a bloody decent alarm clock. 0.96

00:38:12.840 Go find an old ladder.

00:38:14.060 See how well that works for you.

00:38:15.700 A profit-driven automakers, then they do get subsidized too much.

00:38:19.920 But they bring about the innovation with things.

00:38:22.640 So the socialized medicine, bring some profit into it.

00:38:26.200 I don't care.

00:38:27.540 I don't care if the guy down the street gets in for his diagnostics a week earlier than me because he paid out of pocket.

00:38:34.140 As long as all of us get in a little faster because he paid out of pocket, set aside the envy.

00:38:40.540 Because that's what it's all about.

00:38:41.680 It's envy.

00:38:43.140 It's not policy-wise.

00:38:45.780 You can't stomach the thought that that person who has more means got better medical treatment than you.

00:38:49.860 Well, get over it.

00:38:51.300 You want us all to be equally miserable?

00:38:53.040 Because we aren't.

00:38:53.960 They'll still leave.

00:38:55.480 And people going for medical treatments aren't always rich.

00:38:59.000 They're usually desperate.

00:39:00.980 I've said that before on this show.

00:39:02.400 Things like, hey, what if you got a diagnosis?

00:39:03.680 Yeah, you need this heart surgery in six weeks or there's probably an 80% chance you'll be dead.

00:39:09.600 Let's schedule you in for three months from now.

00:39:11.260 That's pretty close to how Canada's system is getting with some of these treatments.

00:39:15.060 What are you going to do? 0.91

00:39:16.260 Well, you're going to wait around and die. 0.98

00:39:19.400 You'll refinance your house. 0.91

00:39:20.900 You'll borrow from friends and family.

00:39:22.800 You'll sell everything you got.

00:39:24.220 And you'll go across the border somewhere where you can get that treatment faster.

00:39:27.320 So let's face that reality and allow these treatment options to come here.

00:39:31.660 Set aside the bloody envy because all of us will get in faster.

00:39:35.620 It's just that you'll have to accept that, yes, Larry over there is going to get in faster than you because he has more money than you.

00:39:43.160 So what?

00:39:44.480 Get over it.

00:39:45.120 There's a lot of people that have a lot more things than you and things better than you.

00:39:47.800 That's life. 1.00

00:39:48.880 Speaking of emotion, you want a really useless and stupid one? 1.00

00:39:52.000 It's envy. 1.00

00:39:53.440 So, yes, Larry gets faster health care.

00:39:56.720 Larry has a bigger house.

00:39:59.140 Larry has a bigger income.

00:40:00.900 Larry drives a nicer car.

00:40:02.140 Larry's better looking woman. 0.96

00:40:03.860 Get over it.

00:40:05.080 Larry's also paying a whole whack of taxes.

00:40:07.260 It helps support the social supports that are bringing you up.

00:40:09.620 If you really want to get what Larry has, work harder, put your nose to the grindstone and try and do better for yourself then.

00:40:15.240 Don't try to drag everyone down with it.

00:40:16.860 But, again, it's emotion.

00:40:17.920 Emotion.

00:40:18.940 I'm not saying not have emotions.

00:40:20.740 I'm just saying don't let them control policy formulation.

00:40:25.280 Another one's First Nations. 0.97

00:40:27.020 That's a big one, isn't it?

00:40:29.140 Oh, wow.

00:40:30.540 The only solution to any First Nations problem, apparently, in Canada, it's the same as the health care one, is to throw more money at it.

00:40:37.640 And any other solution to the challenges going on is going to get you the same responses from people.

00:40:44.720 You want them to keep living in misery?

00:40:46.280 You feel that the First Nations shouldn't be compensated for what happened 150 years ago? 1.00

00:40:51.840 You're throwing stupid questions at me. 0.99

00:40:54.920 I want to see policies that work. 1.00

00:40:57.660 Right now, the First Nations policies are failing catastrophically on every level.

00:41:03.340 Go onto a native reserve. 0.88

00:41:05.460 Check it out sometime.

00:41:06.260 I spent a lot of time on them when I was in the oil field, constantly working with people from those reserves.

00:41:12.380 And most of them are socioeconomic nightmares.

00:41:16.860 They're dystopias.

00:41:17.900 There's wild dogs running around.

00:41:19.300 There's houses falling apart.

00:41:20.940 The water, if it's drinkable, is hard to come across.

00:41:24.560 But it's not for lack of money.

00:41:25.760 So let's quit pretending it's for lack of money.

00:41:27.600 We spend an inordinate amount on First Nations above and beyond what's spent on everybody else. 0.99

00:41:33.080 And I'm not saying cut the spending.

00:41:34.220 I'm saying what we've got to do is start looking at what will actually bring a positive outcome rather than what makes you feel better.

00:41:41.380 Because I don't care how you feel.

00:41:43.420 I want to see outcomes. 0.99

00:41:44.900 And the outcomes right now are crap. 0.98

00:41:47.800 They, by every measure, they're failing. 0.99

00:41:50.640 How can we keep allowing the status quo to keep going when you check every minute?

00:41:54.640 And it's all online.

00:41:55.460 It's easy to check out.

00:41:57.280 Health, failing.

00:41:59.520 Life expectancies, low.

00:42:01.800 Poverty, rampant.

00:42:03.820 Addiction, as Wildrose said, massive.

00:42:06.940 Education levels, low.

00:42:09.660 Crime, through the roof.

00:42:11.540 Victims and perpetrators. 0.99

00:42:13.600 How can you look at all that crap and say, let's keep doing what we've been doing. 0.97

00:42:18.900 We just need to throw a little more money in. 0.99

00:42:21.260 It doesn't work.

00:42:23.140 And the ones who are losing out of this, it's not the, yeah, the taxpayers are losing.

00:42:27.320 But the bigger losers are the people stuck on.

00:42:30.660 And, oh, here comes the person who's going to take that one. 0.99

00:42:32.160 You called them all losers.

00:42:33.520 No, they're losing the people living on the First Nations communities.

00:42:38.340 Until we set aside emotions and start saying, let's look at policies that work rather than

00:42:42.960 policies that make me feel a little better about myself, we're not going to get better policy.

00:42:48.000 Likewise, with a lot of our climate policies, a lot of our, you know, recycling, things like that.

00:42:55.160 I mean, I'll give an analogy that's a little less charged than the First Nations one.

00:42:59.240 Another one that, again, simplistic, emotional, feel-good policy thinking. 1.00

00:43:03.760 That's really stupid. 1.00

00:43:05.560 In Calgary, for a long, long time, we've had the sorted bins. 1.00

00:43:08.260 You sort your recycling stuff.

00:43:09.640 People take their time and they rinse their jars and their bottles and they separate them and they put them in these green bins.

00:43:14.780 And, oh, boy, they're saving the world, aren't they?

00:43:17.240 Sweethearts.

00:43:17.560 Well, then they go to a sorting center where we pay a bunch of union people a whole lot of money to clean them all again and separate it all again.

00:43:25.680 And they took out all the jars and bottles in Calgary and they cleaned them.

00:43:30.720 Then they crushed them into a powder because there's not, you can't just refill them, reuse them.

00:43:34.040 Actually, you crush them.

00:43:34.800 And then they took all this powder and they put it at the Calgary garbage dump because they had nowhere else to put it.

00:43:40.300 So there was this mountain was building because the problem was nobody wanted it.

00:43:45.220 There's nothing you can do with it.

00:43:46.920 It's powderized glass.

00:43:48.520 It's good for next to nothing.

00:43:49.660 And this mountain got bigger and bigger and bigger at the Calgary garbage dump.

00:43:53.740 And finally, some luminary said, I got an idea for this stuff.

00:43:56.280 I've got it.

00:43:57.040 I've had a brainstorm at the dump.

00:43:59.300 We're always building roads and trails to get around for the equipment and machinery.

00:44:04.160 We're putting gravel down for those roads.

00:44:06.560 Why don't we take the powdered glass and use that for roadbed?

00:44:10.440 Brilliant.

00:44:11.140 Brilliant.

00:44:11.620 So after all this much time, after all this million spent, this big mountain, what you've decided to do is bury it at a landfill.

00:44:18.840 Good thinking.

00:44:19.920 At a higher cost than gravel by a long shot.

00:44:24.540 Come on, you guys. 0.99

00:44:25.760 If we'd just thrown the damn jars in the garbage in the first place, we would have saved millions. 0.99

00:44:30.660 They still would have got buried at the landfill. 0.99

00:44:32.600 We could have used gravel.

00:44:33.560 But no, that doesn't feel as good.

00:44:35.160 I don't feel right throwing away glass like that.

00:44:38.560 And we better get better at it because we're banning all our plastics.

00:44:43.320 I just want to see policies about things that work.

00:44:45.900 And, you know, we don't get nearly enough of those.

00:44:50.420 Let's see.

00:44:51.280 I'll close with a few more things that we'll be watching.

00:44:53.600 So, you know, this doesn't feel so good.

00:44:55.040 I'm talking about emotional because I don't know what it takes to change things in this country.

00:44:58.760 I mean, they voted 174 to 150 to fire this special rapporteur, you know, the fake position that Justin Trudeau created for his surrogate uncle Johnston to look into the Chinese interference issue in Canada.

00:45:12.180 Even with a clear majority of our elected officials in the House of Commons, they cannot get this done.

00:45:19.440 We cannot fire a man who is clearly inept and biased in the job he's in.

00:45:25.620 Then what on earth is the purpose of that federal legislature? 0.98

00:45:30.080 Really? 0.99

00:45:30.960 Talk about useless. 0.85

00:45:32.220 Talk about an affront to democracy. 0.86

00:45:34.200 Talk about a waste of time.

00:45:36.440 Now, Jagmeet Singh could do something about it. 0.99

00:45:38.020 But, you know, I spoke about testicles earlier. 0.98

00:45:40.020 There, yes, the drag performers have more testicles to be seen than Jagmeet Singh does when it comes to holding the government that he's propping up to account. 1.00

00:45:48.080 He talks big but acts small. 0.88

00:45:51.300 But, I mean, yes, as we see that headline, his testimony showed missing information in the election investigation.

00:45:55.740 The investigation was half-assed.

00:45:57.280 It was a joke.

00:45:58.180 It was just him going through the motions.

00:46:00.380 They're kicking the can down the road and they're hoping Canadians forget about this whole thing.

00:46:04.660 They might be right.

00:46:06.040 They might even be right.

00:46:07.080 But he's doddering around, 81 years old.

00:46:10.980 And even in discussions, Jagme brought up the other day, he doesn't even sound like he's necessarily all in his right mind.

00:46:17.980 I mean, this guy might be getting a little, you know, cognitive challenges going on here.

00:46:23.380 So, similar to with Mr. Biden down south of the border, we're getting into the realm of elder abuse by sticking these folks up here into these positions and letting them take the heat.

00:46:32.260 Particularly when this guy is taking the heat on behalf of Justin Trudeau and his incompetent government.

00:46:37.920 And, yeah, you know, more news came out.

00:46:41.000 It's evidence of them meddling in elections and stuff coming up.

00:46:47.280 What's it going to take?

00:46:48.700 What is it going to take?

00:46:50.360 All right.

00:46:51.560 That's what it takes out of me.

00:46:53.200 That's my ranting and raving for today, guys.

00:46:55.000 Lots to cover.

00:46:55.480 There's lots more stories going on.

00:46:57.360 Let's hope.

00:46:58.340 I'm not a praying type, but for those of you who pray, by all means, go for it.

00:47:01.900 But let's hope there's some rain gets to those parts of the country where it's burning pretty bad.

00:47:05.360 I mean, we've got some serious issues going on.

00:47:06.980 Alberta seems to have gotten things under control, but it's getting pretty hairy out east.

00:47:11.520 And, well, let's just keep supporting our independent media guys acting well.

00:47:17.060 Again, follow policies based on what works.

00:47:19.240 Don't worry about your emotions.

00:47:20.180 Save your emotions for your significant others.

00:47:22.020 They appreciate them much better.

00:47:23.820 And I will see you all again next week at this time, guys.

00:47:26.680 Thanks.

00:47:27.040 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.

00:47:32.820 Cash barley is unchanged at $4.12.

00:47:35.200 Feed wheat is steady at $4.12.

00:47:37.280 And corn is down $2 at $4.04 per metric tonne.

00:47:40.900 In the milling wheat markets, July Minneapolis futures drop $0.1675 to $7.9975,

00:47:46.320 with local hardwood spring bid for June movement at $10.50 per bushel.

00:47:51.580 Looking at canola, nearby futures are up $0.50 at $6.7040 per tonne,

00:47:55.960 with delivered values for June movement at $0.1542 per bushel.

00:47:59.720 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are trading at $0.33 per pound and yellow peas are holding at $11.25 per bushel.

00:48:07.440 And in the cattle markets, August live cattle slipped $0.60 at $1.7390 per hundredweight.

00:48:14.160 For more information on pricing or picked-up options, give me a call at 403-394-1711.

00:48:21.120 I'm Matt Musicum at Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

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00:48:35.000 These guys are on the front lines, helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and legislation in Canada.

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Western Standard - June 08, 2023

Cory Morgan Show. Climate obsessed governments are reducing world food supplies

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