On this episode of the Corey Morgan Show, host Corey Morgan talks about the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision allowing Honeybees to keep their honey in captivity, and the story of a dairy farmer who sold eggs on his doorstep and was jailed for selling them.
00:03:03.560People were shocked when an Ontario farmer released a video showing tens of thousands of litres of milk going down the drain in his operation.
00:03:11.400The video was pulled and the farmer vanished from the public eye and he won't do interviews.
00:03:15.540He'll likely have his licenses pulled if he act up again.
00:03:18.520Greedy dairy producers would rather see food go down the drain than let citizens have a break on the price.
00:03:23.100And while Canadians are suffering from food inflation, over 7 billion litres of milk were dumped and destroyed in the nine years between 2012 and 2021
00:03:30.780to ensure the prices remain high to protect the dwindling number of dairy producers.
00:07:18.740He doesn't have the courage to diversify his market, though, admittedly, specializing, you know, just in one product, perhaps, it helps him get over the edge.
00:07:25.200Yeah, when you do have the best honey in Alberta, it makes all the difference, right?
00:08:51.980Barry Cooper, our erstwhile columnist from the University of Calgary, I believe, has a great column up today on the glory of Theresa Tam and Bonnie Henry getting the Order of Canada.
00:09:50.520And Puff Daddy court today in New York.
00:09:54.380He was acquitted on all the serious racketeering charges and only found guilty of transportation prostitutes across state lines, which is still, you know, you can get 10 years.
00:10:07.640But I don't think he'll be doing any more time.
00:10:09.800And the crowds gathered and celebrated out in front of the courthouse.
00:10:13.600And women took off their tops and doused themselves with baby oil.
00:10:17.780And if you've been following the trial coverage, you'll know what that means.
00:10:29.100And news coming up at the bottom of the hour in a few minutes.
00:10:32.540Daniel Smith, the premier, will be holding a press conference, updating us all on what's happening with policing in Alberta and the move to get rid of those RCMP guys.
00:12:28.040Congratulations all over the place today.
00:12:29.840Except for me and my darned underperforming bees.
00:12:33.620Now, if we had a supply management system, perhaps we could force the purchase of my subrate honey.
00:12:37.580But I'd rather be competitive and raise the quality of it and bring that up along.
00:12:44.740So, I mean, it's interesting development.
00:12:46.040We're seeing that with conservatives, you know, in general.
00:12:49.220This is what conservatives do to themselves in the party system all the time.
00:12:52.080But in B.C., we're seeing that conservative members have split over there.
00:12:56.560They're forming a new party, even though their conservative party came within a hair's breadth of actually winning the last provincial election.
00:13:04.500But now they've started infighting and splitting amongst themselves.
00:13:07.460Here in Alberta, Pete Guthrie and Scott Sinclair, as Dave mentioned, they're two MLAs.
00:13:14.880They had grievances with Premier Smith's management.
00:13:17.880So, they've been sitting as independents and now they're going to reform the progressive conservative party.
00:13:23.420That's just such a strange approach, even.
00:13:26.440I mean, the breaking off, as I said, isn't unfamiliar.
00:13:28.740That just seems to be what conservatives do in general.
00:13:30.980But to want to revive the PCs of all parties, I mean, they went out in loathing.
00:13:38.360People were not exactly thrilled with them when they went out the door.
00:13:43.540When the merger came along under Jason Kenney and formed the UCP, not many people were shedding tears for the old progressive conservatives.
00:13:51.280That was the party of Alison Redford and her Sky Palace.
00:13:54.500And it was the party of Ed Stelmack and his attempted gouging on local energy companies.
00:14:00.900And that was the beginnings of the deficits, the return of the deficits.
00:14:04.760It was the party that was a dynasty that was in Alberta in power for over 40 years.
00:14:10.660But you just think maybe if you're going to try to start a new kind of conservative party alternative to the UCP, I don't know if you want to dig up the specter of the progressive conservatives.
00:14:30.820But the bigger risk in Alberta, we've seen that before.
00:14:33.940When we get two conservative parties on the block, the NDP tend to win.
00:14:37.980So the person smiling the most right now as these guys are looking to start a progressive conservative party in Alberta or restart the progressive conservatives is NDP leader Nahed Nenshi, hoping that the vote splits because he's been trailing badly in the polls for quite some time.
00:14:51.140But if these guys and maybe the Alberta Republicans can take a bite out of the UCP support, maybe Nahed does have a chance of becoming the premier.
00:14:58.480And boy, if you want to see us become broke, I can't think of a better way to do it.
00:24:59.780Well, I mean, it's, uh, you know, before, before I let you go then, uh, where can people, uh, find your, your books and get themselves a copy if they choose to?
00:25:15.320Well, I, I thank you very much for, for writing this and keeping on it because, you know, these important stories, we, we have to document them and, as I said, try and, try and learn from them.
00:25:23.760And I, I appreciate you coming on today to, to talk about these things.
00:25:36.080And she wrote, uh, the story David Milgard wanted told.
00:25:40.340And, uh, it, it's just, it's, it's, it's a fascinating, tragic and Canadian story.
00:25:45.740I, you can't really read enough on it because we can't learn enough from it.
00:25:48.400I, I see one of our commenters, you know, Van Fashens, for example, saying if he had a bad reputation with woman, isn't it also possible that he had indeed raped someone?
00:25:55.960Maybe not the victim, but it was pretty common in the seventies.
00:26:11.040Putting them in jail, come on, you, it's the way our system works.
00:26:15.560You only convict people with evidence and, and you need to be as stringent as possible that that miscarriage of justice, uh, really impacted my thinking on justice a lot.
00:26:29.400And, and things, and this has worked with conservatives.
00:26:31.540I, uh, have had debates before because I oppose capital punishment very much.
00:26:38.340So, and it's not that I have sympathy for some of the horrific, terrible people who are behind bars and not that I like the idea of spending money to keep some of those awful, uh, violent and, and, and torturous people alive behind bars.
00:26:52.540But I just don't trust our government to do something as irreversible as execute somebody.
00:27:00.860I mean, come on, we don't trust our government.
00:27:02.480But that's kind of a theme of a lot of our readers and followers, you know, on these broadcasts and everything.
00:27:08.800Why do you want to give those guys the ability to execute citizens?
00:27:13.720And people say, oh, DNA proves everything.
00:30:23.000But, uh, I mean, it's just brutal with what they've done with Leach and Barber.
00:30:28.760Again, I mean, that's what you're supposed to be asking yourself, right?
00:30:31.300If these people were let out, I mean, we, we can agree that they committed a crime, perhaps they committed mischief, fine, things like that.
00:30:38.220But are these crimes that really need somebody to spend years in court and possibly years in jail?
00:30:45.680When we do have violent, violent offenders, sex offenders, and others being released all the time, our system is messed up.
00:30:53.460So unless you were, uh, much more confident in the ability of the government, I just don't have that much confidence.
00:30:59.320I don't want them to have capital punishment ability.
00:31:02.780Uh, was that pointed out from a commenter?
00:31:05.360Uh, Derek from, uh, from unacceptable fringe also voted against my honey.
00:31:39.620Um, and I, I do believe that a lot of the efforts within the legal system and the, whether it's justice or legal are genuine.
00:31:46.680I think most of the judges really do take their jobs seriously.
00:31:49.800Most of the prosecutors, most of the defenders, but we're having difficulty.
00:31:53.420It seems distinguishing between the people that we really need to keep incarcerated and, uh, you know, the, the ones that just aren't providing a, or presenting a harm to people.
00:32:03.000And it's always going to be, uh, a push back and forth on that.
00:32:07.240I mean, the, you know, legislation law in general, it's, it's fluid and, uh, things are going to, uh, just have to keep working on things.
00:32:23.340It looks like Carney managed to elbow himself in the face.
00:32:27.060Uh, I, I got a little bit of sympathy for Carney, not much, but I got, you know, I hate to say it, but I don't know if Polly would be doing much better right now.
00:32:36.160With trade with president Trump, because Trump just does what Trump will do.
00:32:43.080I don't know if, uh, as I said, it kind of in my monologue, even if, if the policies for, uh, the supply management, you know, and, and the, the digital, uh, services tax were thrown out immediately.
00:32:55.820I think Trump would just find something else and keep pushing, but he's giving them easy targets, but boy, look how fast that digital service tax, that, that hill to die on.
00:34:25.180Uh, you know, Dave was talking about that earlier too.
00:34:27.820So here's some of the stuff we're going to have to see coming out of, uh, uh, if we want to talk about it, the independence movement, if we want to talk about the frustration and what's going on in the West, Carney talking about getting rid of interprovincial trade barriers.
00:34:42.040And he's saying he's gotten rid of a bunch.
00:34:55.000Are we going to get more product to market?
00:34:56.380So as Dave mentioned, there's that group that's looking to bring liquid natural gas to Hudson's Bay by rail, and it's an indigenous group.
00:35:04.360And that's an interesting approach to it because the government uses the indigenous groups to hide behind as a reason not to approve anything.
00:35:13.420But now this is an indigenous owned initiative to get it up there.
00:35:59.800And somehow it always gets solved with enough of a payment, but it's harming all of us and it's driving investment away and we can't get anything done.
00:37:05.380Look at the impact of a road cut through the mountains, even the bush, what you've got to do to build that road, even a narrow gravel road.
00:40:55.520Cyril Arnold saying, should only have to consult the First Nations whose territory is being crossed, just like the landowners who have oil and gas leases on their land.
00:42:35.180We haven't been able to get past 1.4%.
00:42:37.840Now, the jury's going to be out and whether or not that's going to be well spent, or are we just going to get more tampons for the men's rooms on the military basis?