Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Government theft and subsidies won’t save legacy media outlets

00:00:00.000 We'll be right back.

00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. Hey, we're getting into July now. It's my favorite month of the year. We're not crawling out of winter through spring and the leaves aren't quite turning yellow yet to warn us we're going into winter. Never learned to like winter. I just can't do it. Good on those who do. Lots to cover today. The politics aren't ending even though the legislatures and the parliament are all off for their summer holidays to go around shaking hands, kissing babies, attending barbecues, cutting ribbons.

00:01:00.000 Doing all that important stuff they do when we don't lock them in the parliament or at least on Zoom meetings now to try and tell us how to live our lives.

00:01:08.400 They're still managing to do it. They're still managing to make a mess and they're still managing to be a pain.

00:01:13.180 So, of course, I will call them out on it and complain about it today. Be sure to use that comment scroll over there, guys. That's what I like about being live. You know, I can see some of that stuff.

00:01:23.520 Good to see Jake and Paradoxy checking in there. If you're watching a recorded version, of course, I just don't pay any mind to my references to the comments.

00:01:32.240 And, you know, disgusting. Send questions my way. Send them towards the guests. I have Chris Sims coming on from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in a little while.

00:01:42.100 It's going to be a good conversation about our second carbon tax and how Quebec, of course, as usual, somehow has managed to get a better deal on it than the rest of the country.

00:01:52.340 As well, we'll be checking in with Dave in a little bit and doing some other good stuff. Just keep the comments civil with each other and we can all get along.

00:02:01.260 So, good to see you checking in, sharing, saying hello there and Kevin out in Lake Pelletier, Saskatchewan. I love messing up French names.

00:02:09.640 So, one of the things on the news, when I came into the newsroom today, I saw a conference with our heritage minister, Rodriguez, indignantly going on.

00:02:17.580 He's going to make Facebook and Google pay their fair share for doing a service somehow. Yeah.

00:02:23.560 And now they're going to pull the advertising, the government advertising, away from Facebook.

00:02:29.140 That's how they're going to bring Facebook to their knees. The government will not spend advertising dollars on Facebook telling us how good they are and what a fantastic job they're doing for us.

00:02:38.720 So, I want to talk about this, though. This problem. I mean, most of this, Bill C-18 is a solution looking for a problem, really, is what it is.

00:02:47.340 I mean, there's an issue, but the government can't legislate it away. And they won't, through theft and subsidies, save legacy media.

00:02:55.520 So, I'm going to, you know, talk about how that works with the changing world. So, I mean, I'll give some history on myself. I love talking about myself. We know that.

00:03:02.280 At the beginning of the 1990s, I landed a job with a survey company and they specialized in advanced work for seismic projects.

00:03:08.820 It involved travel and working in isolated areas. The starting pay was pretty modest back then, but I loved it.

00:03:14.060 Climbing the workplace ladder in the survey industry back then was a slow process.

00:03:18.740 I had to put in a few years as a rodman and a chainer before I was even allowed to touch a survey transit as a junior surveyor.

00:03:26.120 So, I had to take my lumps and abuse and learn.

00:03:29.120 I had to learn how to make solar observations to determine an azimuth out in the bush.

00:03:33.540 How to double angles in my head to ensure accurate measurements.

00:03:36.180 And I had to process my raw data and to finish survey at night in the hotel rooms or camps I was staying in.

00:03:41.340 It was a big learning curve.

00:03:43.000 Now, shortly after I became a junior surveyor, everything changed as real-time survey systems, GPS systems, came onto the scene.

00:03:51.500 Suddenly, with only a few hours of training, a person could navigate to a location, record the elevation,

00:03:56.200 just as accurately as I'd had to learn how to do with conventional surveying.

00:03:59.920 Just a few hours of training.

00:04:00.880 Demand for conventional surveyors dropped dramatically as fewer people with less training could cover more ground in staking out exploration programs.

00:04:09.600 It felt unfair and certainly annoying, to say the least, all that time I'd put in to find my job was obsolete.

00:04:16.300 But it left me with two options.

00:04:18.100 I could stubbornly refuse to change how I work and slowly fade into unemployment, or maybe change trades even,

00:04:24.480 or I could adapt with the changing times.

00:04:26.980 Now, many of the older surveyors opted for the first option.

00:04:29.720 I mean, old dogs can learn new tricks, but it is tougher for them as things go along.

00:04:34.100 As for myself, I was young, I adapted.

00:04:36.800 I learned how to create maps using GPS data and took on more supervisory roles in the field.

00:04:41.980 And being flexible, I kept working and spent over 20 lucrative years working in energy exploration.

00:04:47.400 I left the field eventually as I got tired of being out of the country for months at a time,

00:04:50.780 and the feast or famine nature of petrochemical exploration started to wear on me.

00:04:54.760 But if I'd have wanted to, I could have stayed in the field.

00:04:56.860 I would have had to constantly adapt, though, to the changes in new technology and methods.

00:05:02.780 Let's get back to the media.

00:05:04.400 Changes in the media industry over the last decade have been no less dramatic than they were in the survey world.

00:05:10.820 Readership and viewership for conventional media platforms such as television and newspapers dried up.

00:05:15.740 Radio stations, they're going to be a thing of the past within a generation.

00:05:18.800 Advertising dollars have followed audiences and headed to platforms like YouTube and Facebook.

00:05:24.640 Every major media outlet's been forced to heavily cut back on staff and resources.

00:05:29.460 They're in a dire position.

00:05:31.520 But the Canadian government has responded by directly subsidizing media outlets.

00:05:35.440 And now they're trying to extort funds from social media platforms to try and prop up these legacy media sources.

00:05:41.980 Now, not only will the efforts to bail out obsolete media outlets inevitably fail, but it'll also actually hurt them.

00:05:49.480 I mean, if I, back when I was surveying, had a subsidy lifeline tossed to me while my trade was evolving,

00:05:55.300 I probably would have desperately grabbed to that at the time, too.

00:05:58.160 It would have been easier than changing how I do things, and I could have stuck to the form of the trade I had trained for.

00:06:03.100 For a while, at least.

00:06:05.140 No amount of bailout dollars could have saved my job in its original form in the long run.

00:06:09.680 I mean, for perspective, the first program I ever worked on in the survey field had a crew of about 40 people,

00:06:14.460 and it took us over a month.

00:06:16.240 A job that size today would take eight people about two weeks to do.

00:06:20.400 The old way just wasn't sustainable.

00:06:23.040 If I'd have been protected from change, though, as GPS came along,

00:06:26.240 I would have been employed for perhaps a couple more years,

00:06:28.580 but it would have left me even more vulnerable and unskilled when the dollars dried up.

00:06:32.220 I wouldn't have been inspired to learn modern methods, nor would the companies in the industry have been.

00:06:37.760 We would have been left behind and perhaps would have been replaced by foreign workers who kept up with new technology. 1.00

00:06:43.860 Subsidies actually would have stunted the evolution of companies and workers.

00:06:47.460 Now, the same thing's happening with legacy media.

00:06:50.320 Instead of griping about new upstart outlets and journalists,

00:06:53.420 the old guard and conventional media should be looking at how to emulate them.

00:06:56.940 I mean, if they hope to remain gainfully employed in the field of journalism, they need to accept change.

00:07:02.880 Newspapers are little more than flyers now, and TV news ratings are never going to recover.

00:07:07.620 And the infrastructure required for those old dinosaurs, those models, is too expensive to maintain.

00:07:12.760 A new company, like the Western Standard, can build a studio or create an online publication

00:07:17.080 for a tiny fraction of the money it would have required 20 years ago.

00:07:20.180 The government right now is keeping a corpse on life support and is doing a disservice to both journalists

00:07:25.880 and Canadian citizens and consumers.

00:07:29.040 New outlets are being choked off, while legacy outlets are creating products modeled for a market

00:07:36.200 that just doesn't exist anymore.

00:07:38.020 Legacy media dinosaurs are going to go extinct, no matter what the government does.

00:07:42.140 When that happens, the information gap will be much harder to fill, though,

00:07:45.400 due to the efforts to fight change and innovation.

00:07:48.820 Demand for news and information isn't going away any more than demand for petrochemical products is.

00:07:54.500 But the way we produce and deliver those products has changed.

00:07:57.420 And unless we let companies evolve and stay out of it,

00:08:00.360 we're going to lose our domestic producers to innovative foreign ones or chat GPT, 0.94

00:08:06.500 things such as that are going to actually replace a lot of people in media.

00:08:09.940 And artificially trying to hold it together like this guy is,

00:08:12.600 it's only putting off the inevitable and causing more harm.

00:08:16.020 All right, that's what's got me going today.

00:08:18.440 Let's see what else is happening out there in the world and check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:08:23.660 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:08:28.280 Oops.

00:08:29.460 Guess I should unmute myself.

00:08:31.060 It's going well, Corey.

00:08:31.940 It's going well.

00:08:32.880 Yeah.

00:08:33.580 Are you all ready for the stampede this Friday?

00:08:35.540 Oh, yes.

00:08:37.820 I mean, next week I get my one day of the year when I can, you know, wear my jeans and, you know, cosplay a cowboy for the show.

00:08:44.820 Yeah.

00:08:45.220 And the missus is going to be heavily involved this year, too, right?

00:08:49.020 Yes, she will.

00:08:49.880 Yeah.

00:08:50.060 She's got some stuff on display at the stampede grounds this year.

00:08:53.980 Yeah.

00:08:54.320 Oh, there we go.

00:08:55.000 Yes.

00:08:55.320 The barn quilts.

00:08:57.780 And, yeah, that's at the BMO Center.

00:08:59.980 It's a tribute to Ian Tyson, as you can see.

00:09:02.400 You know, these quilts, her business has really been taken off.

00:09:04.560 I'm well on my road to being a kept man.

00:09:07.160 And, yeah, you know, thousands of people are going to see that one barn quilt that has the four strong winds tribute to Ian Tyson and the cowboy hats around it.

00:09:14.660 She's got quite some talent, and I'm lucky to have, you know, she has bad taste in men. 0.98

00:09:19.360 Yes, very true.

00:09:20.680 Well, yeah, I encourage everybody to go by and take a look at it.

00:09:24.840 She sure does a good job, that's for sure. 1.00

00:09:27.900 I understand you being more cougar problems out at your ranch, Corey.

00:09:33.780 Well, not a problem, yeah.

00:09:35.340 But, yeah, we had one run through the yard there the other day, and in mid-daylight, and it was really on the move.

00:09:40.740 Yeah, you can see with that video, you know, usually the cougars aren't uncommon, but they only come by at night, and they usually come by a little slowly.

00:09:47.960 We haven't seen one in a while, and this fella came trotting right through in broad daylight there.

00:09:51.860 So, well, I might have one less dog if it keeps hanging around.

00:09:55.500 We'll see.

00:09:56.300 Yeah, that's a big boy, too.

00:09:57.560 I don't know how you sleep at night, Corey, with all those things in the forest watching you.

00:10:01.560 Bears, cougars.

00:10:04.040 Well, I keep the doors closed.

00:10:05.900 There you go.

00:10:06.600 Well, let's go on in the news quite a bit, Corey.

00:10:09.720 We're no summer doldrums yet.

00:10:11.880 Our real estate expert, Mike Thomas, is leading off the website at the moment with a story on the still red-hot Calgary real estate market.

00:10:20.260 In June, it's at a second consecutive record, so sales are high, and the prices are even higher.

00:10:30.920 Columnist Herb Binder has got a look at the Alberta oil economy and what's going to be happening in the uncertain future.

00:10:39.300 Two Alberta cabinet ministers have written to the feds urging that they recall parliament to end that, I guess it's three or four-day long strike now by B.C. port workers.

00:10:54.080 Alberta ships about $12.5 billion a year, or 9% of the provincial economy goes through the B.C. ports.

00:11:02.640 So anything that drags on, Corey, is going to be a bit of a disaster for not only Alberta's economy but across the country.

00:11:12.040 You've mentioned the Liberals out waving their fists at Facebook today.

00:11:17.260 They've cut their $10 million worth of advertising on Facebook, so don't know how we're going to hear about what kind of job they're doing now.

00:11:29.160 And I think you also mentioned Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Association.

00:11:34.040 They've put out a release today showing why Quebec is getting the lowest rate of carbon tax in the country, where they're paying $0.04 less a leader than anywhere else, Corey.

00:11:48.020 So what Quebec has done to deserve that, you and I can only guess.

00:11:52.520 But that, lots of other stuff, our legislature reporter, Arthur Green, is currently covering a Danielle Smith press conference at the moment out at the Sutina Nation,

00:12:04.200 and they're talking about building drug recovery centres on nation land.

00:12:09.720 So that's obviously an important issue as we're trying to battle the addiction problem in the province, Corey.

00:12:15.000 Yeah, well, it's good to see that kind of innovation.

00:12:17.900 You know, they're building that surgical facility up on the Enoch Reserve, and they're putting something in down in the Sutina.

00:12:23.980 Look forward to finding out what the details are on that.

00:12:26.720 Absolutely.

00:12:27.580 And wish Jane luck for me. 0.65

00:12:29.220 I hope she sells lots of quilts.

00:12:31.180 Let's see how it goes.

00:12:32.300 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:33.360 Thank you.

00:12:34.220 All right.

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00:13:26.660 So, yeah, you know, the big issue with this, it kind of ties into what I was ranting about before with times changing.

00:13:33.100 So, the longshoremen, the guys who work in the docks and the facilities on the west coast are on strike.

00:13:39.460 And, you know, I looked that up.

00:13:40.920 These guys, they've gone on strike and been legislated back to work.

00:13:45.700 Let's see, in 1995, 1994, 1991, 1988, 1986, 1982, 1975, 74, 72.

00:13:53.340 These guys are serial strikers, and they have us over a barrel.

00:13:59.140 And, I mean, this is a tough, tough deal.

00:14:01.880 I mean, you know, it's a much larger conversation, I guess, to be had on how you deal with that.

00:14:07.000 Because organized labor, it's a right, you know, to be able to do that.

00:14:10.540 But just to bear in mind, these guys are making, on average, the median salary is $136,000 a year.

00:14:16.040 I'm sure it's hard work working on those ports, but they're not starving, guys.

00:14:20.380 That's some pretty good coin for a longshoreman.

00:14:23.860 And the union says the key points, though, right now, their gripe is the devastation of port automation.

00:14:30.480 You see, again, we're getting back to that fighting change.

00:14:33.640 Yes, there's now automated things.

00:14:36.480 They're unloading those C-cans, loading those trucks, dealing with inventory management, things like that.

00:14:42.920 They're getting better and better.

00:14:44.080 But rather than striking and just paying these guys more to do a job that's becoming obsolete,

00:14:48.500 we need to be encouraging them to adapt.

00:14:51.480 And that's not the way we're going.

00:14:55.220 We'll see.

00:14:56.160 And the chances of them being forced back to work are a little tough this time.

00:15:00.060 Because Jagmeet Singh holds the balance of power, and he's saying, no, we aren't going to do that.

00:15:04.620 We support our union, buddy.

00:15:05.740 So I suspect the liberal government's going to cut these guys a big settlement or encourage one, I guess.

00:15:10.500 It's not a direct government thing.

00:15:12.060 Either way, we're going to see more costs due to it.

00:15:14.940 You know that when you hold up product and delivery, the costs go higher.

00:15:18.260 So let's talk to somebody who specializes and talk about all the other stuff that's nickel and diming us to death.

00:15:22.640 And that's Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, so we can chat about and celebrate our second carbon tax.

00:15:29.440 Hi, Chris.

00:15:29.820 How are you doing?

00:15:30.900 Hi, Corey.

00:15:31.620 So, yeah, happy second carbon tax, happy Canada Day, right on July 1st, too.

00:15:37.660 It's brutal.

00:15:38.820 And, I mean, you know, you've been warning us about this for quite a long time.

00:15:43.660 And people, I think, don't realize it.

00:15:45.120 But, I mean, once they start seeing it actually hitting their wallets, maybe they start to realize that, yes, all these initiatives cost us.

00:15:51.960 And they're costing a lot.

00:15:52.920 Yeah, it costs us big time.

00:15:55.140 So the first carbon tax is still going to be there, and it is still going to triple within the next seven years.

00:16:01.800 So as of right now, it's $0.14 a litre for gasoline, $0.17 a litre for diesel.

00:16:07.480 So on average, you're paying around $15, $16 extra every time you're filling up even a light-duty pickup truck.

00:16:14.580 That's in the first carbon tax.

00:16:16.020 This new carbon tax, the second one that's being layered on top, it's actually fashioned after British Columbia's second carbon tax.

00:16:24.900 Anybody who's ever driven across the Rockies over to B.C. and looked up at the gas pump has gone, holy crap, why is that so much more expensive?

00:16:33.220 Well, two reasons.

00:16:34.020 One, they don't get the discount.

00:16:35.840 So Premier Daniel Smith gives us the provincial fuel tax discount here.

00:16:39.960 So we're saving $0.13 right off the hop.

00:16:42.300 Two, they have a second carbon tax over there, and it's a big one.

00:16:46.020 It's like, you know, $0.15, $0.16 per litre extra.

00:16:49.880 So Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, not kidding, took a look at B.C. and said, huh, that's super awesome.

00:16:56.140 I'm going to do that to the whole country.

00:16:58.460 And so as of July 1st, he's now imposed this government fuel regulation, which penalizes companies for the carbon content of their product.

00:17:08.360 Now, we don't know how much it's going to cost right out of the chute, right?

00:17:12.000 Because it takes a while.

00:17:13.000 So the company gets the cost incurred.

00:17:15.560 They then try to compensate.

00:17:17.300 Some of them might use more ethanol for a little while in their blend, blah, blah, blah.

00:17:22.300 Eventually, though, that cost is going to trickle down to you and me at the gas pump, and we're going to pay for it.

00:17:28.040 So within the next seven years, the parliamentary budget officer says the second carbon tax is going to cost around $0.14 extra per litre of gasoline, around $0.17 extra per litre for diesel.

00:17:40.740 Long story short, Albertan families are going to get hit the hardest.

00:17:45.500 Within the next seven years, Corey, we're going to be out around $3,900 per Alberta family.

00:17:53.760 That's with rebates factored in.

00:17:55.700 That's net cost of Trudeau's two carbon taxes.

00:17:58.840 But, I mean, they're giving it back to us, right?

00:18:00.440 We get rebates, and they just announced, you know, they're going to give us a bunch of breaks on our grocery bills, right?

00:18:04.740 Like, it just cycles through the government, and we all win.

00:18:07.440 Yeah, sure.

00:18:08.160 If only it worked like that.

00:18:09.780 So two things.

00:18:11.780 It's almost insulting for the federal government to think that people are silly enough to think that the government is a magical wealth-producing machine.

00:18:20.540 It's not.

00:18:21.660 All it does is take your money, run it through a bureaucracy, and spit it back at you sometimes.

00:18:27.640 So, number one, that cost I just listed was net.

00:18:30.960 That's with the rebates factored in.

00:18:32.900 One, that's $3,900 with that factored in.

00:18:36.900 So you're out that amount as an Alberta family.

00:18:39.640 Two, just don't take the money in the first place, right?

00:18:44.180 If this is all supposed to make you magically more wealthy, then why are they doing this?

00:18:49.000 The fact is, is they're fibbing.

00:18:50.580 They're not telling the truth.

00:18:52.000 They want gasoline and diesel and natural gas and propane to be unaffordable.

00:18:57.120 That's the feature, not the bug.

00:18:59.380 So every time the politician at the federal government level opens their mouths and says, oh, you're going to get more back than you pay in.

00:19:05.400 Number one, that's not true.

00:19:06.740 Number two, that contradicts their entire purpose of their carbon tax, which is meant to punish you for using oil and gas.

00:19:14.320 And it's not working.

00:19:16.100 That's the other thing.

00:19:17.000 I mean, B.C. has been carbon taxing for a long time.

00:19:19.220 You were out there until recently.

00:19:21.280 And I remember you guys would report on that.

00:19:23.320 Emissions have been dropped in B.C.

00:19:25.320 If a carbon tax was going to work, it would have started working by now.

00:19:29.860 A hundred percent.

00:19:30.380 So this is where, you know, as somebody, I grew up in the interior mostly, but I spent some of my formative years on Vancouver Island.

00:19:37.460 You know, I get it.

00:19:38.440 I've wandered around barefoot on Gulf Islands.

00:19:40.440 I would describe myself as a small e-environmentalist.

00:19:43.140 I pick up litter every time I'm walking near the river.

00:19:45.960 It's not helping the environment.

00:19:48.660 Like, to slow that down, British Columbia has had the two highest carbon taxes in North America for years.

00:19:57.520 Their emissions keep on going up anyway.

00:20:01.760 This is the government's own data.

00:20:04.100 Okay?

00:20:04.580 Now, apart from when people were locked in their homes and stuff at the beginning of 2020 where you saw a dip, other than those weird moments, it goes up and up and up steadily.

00:20:13.760 Why?

00:20:14.940 Because, like you know and all your viewers know, people need to drive to work, they need to heat their home, and they need to eat food.

00:20:22.020 They don't have an affordable, alternative, dependable energy source to switch to.

00:20:29.100 This isn't like paper bags or plastic bags.

00:20:31.760 There's nothing for them to switch to.

00:20:33.920 They have to drive to work, and they usually use natural gas to heat their home.

00:20:38.440 And truckers use diesel, and farmers use diesel and natural gas and propane to both heat their barns and to dry their grain.

00:20:46.780 So, if you increase the cost of that element, of those fuels, you increase the cost of everything, because people can't opt out.

00:20:55.180 Right?

00:20:55.680 And so, this is why this is such a brutal punishment for people.

00:20:59.060 And what really gets me going, Corey, is that the parliamentary budget officer themselves, an independent government watchdog who keeps an eye on the budget, says,

00:21:08.840 This hurts low-income people, like single mothers, and fixed-income folks, the worst.

00:21:15.740 It hurts them the most.

00:21:17.660 Because for folks who don't remember what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck, that literally means your paycheck's out there paying for stuff.

00:21:27.520 Everything.

00:21:28.440 Rent, your car payment, groceries, whatever.

00:21:31.880 You increase the cost of one of those essentials, and you're cutting into their food budget.

00:21:36.880 You're making them have to find a cheaper place to live.

00:21:39.740 Good luck.

00:21:40.560 So, that's why it's hurting those folks the most, even with the rebates factored in.

00:21:45.400 And this is where I can't understand why the feds aren't listening.

00:21:49.280 Well, and part of it, too, and you sort of touched a bit on that, is the indirect costs.

00:21:53.400 I mean, we see it at the pump.

00:21:54.520 We see it on our heating bill.

00:21:55.640 But also, the delivery of a lot of products and services to us.

00:21:59.560 So, retail brick-and-mortar places, they're all paying that as well.

00:22:03.880 And, of course, they have to incorporate that into the prices of the goods and services they provide.

00:22:07.740 So, you still end up paying it down the road for the other consumers of it in the business world.

00:22:14.620 100%.

00:22:15.100 And so, just imagine you are, you know, a store.

00:22:18.940 You're a big store.

00:22:20.100 You have to keep it cool in the summer and heat it in the winter.

00:22:23.540 Most companies would use natural gas to do that.

00:22:26.900 Boom, there's a carbon tax.

00:22:28.500 All those trucks that deliver all the stuff that we eat and use that are backing into their loading bays,

00:22:34.180 those are running on diesel, those get a carbon tax.

00:22:38.260 And a lot of folks forget, too, that most of our locomotives in Canada run on diesel.

00:22:43.780 It's around $2,400 extra per fill-up of one of those diesel locomotives in the carbon tax alone.

00:22:52.340 That's just the carbon tax.

00:22:53.680 For a big-rigged truck, like if you've got, you know, a Peterbilt and you've got a couple of those diesel cylinders,

00:22:59.220 that's around $160 extra just in the first carbon tax on diesel.

00:23:04.900 So, that one's going to triple in the next seven years, plus the second carbon tax is going to add more pain.

00:23:12.040 And so, this is where we're, every time a politician opens their mouths about affordability,

00:23:17.300 you should really question them and ask them how seriously they're taking affordability

00:23:21.480 when they're making everything more expensive through the carbon taxes.

00:23:24.140 So, something Dave mentioned before, and then what you and your organization just put out in a release,

00:23:30.800 though, is this carbon tax isn't being applied equally across the country.

00:23:35.400 It appears that we've got a special province that, unsurprisingly, to be honest, is getting a break on it.

00:23:42.560 Guess which one?

00:23:43.820 It's the province of Quebec.

00:23:45.720 I know, your viewers are shocked, I can tell, at the Western Standard.

00:23:49.420 So, what's interesting here, Corey, is that this is now getting really highlighted.

00:23:55.640 Because up until July 1st, Atlantic Canada had a cap-and-trade deal.

00:24:02.020 So, they were paying a much lower carbon tax, I think it was around $0.02 per litre of gasoline,

00:24:08.220 where the rest of us are paying $0.14.

00:24:10.600 Why is that?

00:24:11.520 Well, they have a more energy-intensive economy for heating, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:16.500 Whatever reason they had, they had a cap-and-trade deal so that they had a slower roll into the mandatory minimum federal carbon tax.

00:24:25.260 Now, that's gone.

00:24:27.560 Boom.

00:24:28.160 Overnight, their cost of their carbon tax went up $0.12 a litre on gasoline.

00:24:34.300 That's a big number.

00:24:36.020 If you're filling up a minivan, that's $10.

00:24:39.020 Boom.

00:24:39.800 Added on to your extra cost.

00:24:41.720 Overnight.

00:24:42.280 And so, that got a lot of news out that way in Atlantic Canada.

00:24:47.080 And now, it puts into sharp relief the fact that Quebec is the last one standing.

00:24:52.740 They're the last ones that have a cap-and-trade deal.

00:24:55.320 Now, they don't have as good a deal as Atlantic Canada had going for a while.

00:24:58.700 I think they're around $0.10 a litre or so.

00:25:00.760 But they've still got a deal.

00:25:02.480 This is all to say, there should be one rate for the carbon tax across Canada.

00:25:07.100 And it should be zero.

00:25:08.040 Well, that's it.

00:25:10.040 I mean, we could all agree that that would have an equal impact upon every province in

00:25:15.120 the country.

00:25:16.220 But let me play devil's advocate.

00:25:18.800 Sure.

00:25:19.140 Let's assume emissions are going to cause the world to continue burning and somehow Canada

00:25:25.240 has to do its part in reducing these emissions.

00:25:29.920 If not carbon taxes, what should they do?

00:25:33.280 I mean, that's a fair question that people ask.

00:25:34.980 If they're concerned about the problem, carbon taxes aren't working, then what should the

00:25:39.020 government do?

00:25:39.920 Hey, totally legit question.

00:25:41.740 And a lot of people care about the environment, myself included.

00:25:44.600 Like, I hand-sewed my baby's cloth vipers.

00:25:47.640 Okay, I take this stuff real seriously.

00:25:49.460 I buy almost all my stuff used because it reduces the impact on the environment.

00:25:54.220 And it doesn't use up resources that don't need to be used.

00:25:57.200 So, I get it.

00:25:58.440 Three things.

00:25:59.360 One, the carbon tax isn't working.

00:26:01.660 Straight up.

00:26:02.140 If that's your issue, if you wake up at three in the morning worried, oh my gosh, global

00:26:07.040 emissions.

00:26:07.740 Like, it's really upsetting me.

00:26:10.100 The Canadian carbon taxes aren't making a dent in that.

00:26:13.080 Who said that?

00:26:14.540 Actually, it was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it back in 2018, I believe, in French.

00:26:20.580 He said it on the very popular Quebec talk show, Tout le Mans en Parle.

00:26:24.360 And in translation, he basically said, we could shut down everything tomorrow.

00:26:29.820 And what he meant is trucking, heating, eating, like, go die in a cave.

00:26:34.620 We could shut down everything tomorrow, and it wouldn't really make a big difference.

00:26:38.760 Interestingly, the parliamentary budget officer said mostly the same thing.

00:26:43.800 That Canada, and I'm paraphrasing, Canada's emissions are not significant enough to make

00:26:48.940 a dent in global emissions.

00:26:51.560 So, one, it's not working.

00:26:54.160 Even with the carbon taxes, even though British Columbia is one of the most unaffordable places

00:26:58.040 to live on Earth, they're punishing their people. 0.99

00:27:00.640 It's still not making a dent, and it's not working because our emissions keep on going up.

00:27:04.280 Two, even if it did, our emissions in Canada don't do enough to really move the needle on

00:27:10.800 global emissions.

00:27:11.580 And three, there are alternatives.

00:27:14.660 So, the tax isn't working.

00:27:16.400 What could we possibly do?

00:27:18.420 And so, we're not the emissions people.

00:27:20.560 We're the tax people.

00:27:21.760 But it kind of seems a little obvious to look at the big end of the arithmetic problem.

00:27:27.180 So, there's about a few hundred million people in India who burn things like wood and animal

00:27:34.260 dung every day.

00:27:36.000 This is according to the Indian government saying this, that this is their fuel source.

00:27:39.740 And they apparently want to switch to cleaner burning sources of energy, like natural gas.

00:27:47.280 We've got a lot of that.

00:27:49.260 So, why doesn't the government look at doing that to really tackle the big end of the arithmetic

00:27:54.440 problem when it comes to global emissions and heavy pollutants?

00:27:58.560 Why not ship them cleaner energy instead of punishing people here in Canada for driving

00:28:05.320 their minivans and buying groceries?

00:28:06.960 Oh, yeah.

00:28:08.700 And if we exported some nice, clean, liquid, natural gas and increase that, they could get

00:28:13.600 some tax revenues and they could apply that to, say, the unclean drinking water on First

00:28:17.420 Nations reserves or planting more trees in areas where the fires did burn things.

00:28:22.360 Crazy concepts.

00:28:23.400 But, I mean, they still can't seem to get off the idea that taxes can actually fix things.

00:28:29.340 And this is the thing.

00:28:30.340 Number one, we knew they wouldn't.

00:28:31.680 We were warning them years ago that this wouldn't work.

00:28:35.560 We have a perfect lived example in British Columbia that this does not work.

00:28:41.560 Okay.

00:28:41.880 Even if they try to trot it out and say it'll be revenue neutral, governments are going to

00:28:45.980 government and they're going to cook the books, which is exactly what they did in British Columbia.

00:28:50.320 It was only revenue neutral for a few years before they started skimming.

00:28:53.920 Okay.

00:28:54.660 So we know it doesn't work.

00:28:56.420 We know it's making people poorer.

00:28:58.460 We know it's driving up the cost of living and we know it's not helping the environment.

00:29:02.540 So, folks, we need to rework this.

00:29:06.300 We need a different approach and taxes are not it.

00:29:09.620 Well, I knew you guys wouldn't support taxes as an approach.

00:29:12.640 Any raiser is pretty unlikely, but all the same, I do appreciate the work you guys do

00:29:18.460 and bringing that to light because Canadians don't necessarily see how they're getting it.

00:29:21.680 And I noticed actually a side note, I threw that out on Twitter.

00:29:25.580 I see another outlet in Canada labeled you guys as an anti-tax organization.

00:29:30.680 So you're anti-taxers and boy, the games they play with the terminology.

00:29:35.380 I'll put that on a t-shirt, man.

00:29:37.900 Anti-taxer.

00:29:39.260 We should put that in our swag shop.

00:29:41.760 But, you know, it's one of those things.

00:29:43.000 And I think I can't remember if it was because of the carbon tax or because of the so-called

00:29:47.580 media bailouts and the government funding the media that we got that label.

00:29:51.680 Uh, on Twitter from that.

00:29:53.440 Uh, but either way, uh, taxes, either if it's either the media bailout that they're trying

00:29:58.240 to do and they keep fumbling really badly like today or, uh, doubling up on our carbon

00:30:03.720 taxes, uh, none of it works.

00:30:07.320 No, no, it doesn't.

00:30:08.960 Well, where, where can we, uh, continue to, to follow you guys and, and, uh, you know,

00:30:12.840 keep up with, uh, what you guys are putting out there and how to support you.

00:30:15.740 Did you want to chat about Rodriguez or not?

00:30:18.260 Do you want to get into the government?

00:30:19.480 Why it shouldn't fund journalists or we can save that for a rainy day?

00:30:22.460 What would you like?

00:30:23.540 Hmm.

00:30:24.640 Yeah, let's do it.

00:30:25.860 Okay.

00:30:26.360 We'll go into all of the time.

00:30:28.580 Look at me wedging in on somebody else's time.

00:30:31.920 I don't know who's up after me.

00:30:32.860 I'll be really quick.

00:30:33.940 No, that's right.

00:30:34.740 All right.

00:30:35.040 And it's well worth going into, cause that's just a whole new absurdity that the whole C-18 1.00

00:30:39.460 and the way they're trying to put the screws to, uh, uh, social media, uh, platforms.

00:30:44.860 For sure.

00:30:45.540 So speaking of, you know, not working, like we pointed out, the carbon tax isn't working

00:30:49.580 as they're trying to say it's supposed to.

00:30:51.960 Um, and the, the whole media bailout thing isn't working either.

00:30:55.700 Uh, Black Locks reporter, great folks over there.

00:30:58.300 Uh, they pointed out that the rate of attrition and newsroom shutdowns didn't abate.

00:31:04.140 It didn't stop with the so-called media bailout.

00:31:07.260 Uh, that's the one where it's around half a billion dollars and it was supposed to be

00:31:11.100 a, a cluster of subsidies and tax credits, blah, blah, that was going to other media outlets

00:31:16.420 outside of the CBC.

00:31:18.420 Well, apparently it didn't work as intended.

00:31:21.080 Number one.

00:31:21.940 Number two, that's a waste of taxpayers' money.

00:31:24.720 You shouldn't be spending taxpayers' money on news media, period.

00:31:28.220 And number three, this is a huge conflict of interest.

00:31:32.300 You cannot hold government to account if you're counting on the government for your paycheck.

00:31:38.220 It's not going to work.

00:31:39.640 So if you say are a reporter and $13,000 of your paycheck, your salary is coming from

00:31:46.860 the government, from Justin Trudeau's government.

00:31:49.820 Now imagine yourself on Parliament Hill.

00:31:52.440 You're part of the parliamentary press gallery.

00:31:54.540 One guy gives you 13 grand towards your salary.

00:31:58.540 It might be the deciding factor whether or not you got that job.

00:32:01.680 If it exists, the other guys in opposition want to scrap that program.

00:32:07.560 How on earth are you supposed to call that game straight?

00:32:11.240 You're, you're not, even if you tried, if you knew, even if you did yeoman's work to try,

00:32:16.740 you're a human being and the perception of bias is going to tarnish it.

00:32:23.760 And this is the problem.

00:32:24.920 Not all media outlets took government money, but most of them get accused of doing so.

00:32:30.160 And this, as a longtime journalist, is what upsets me personally, is that now there's a major survey that

00:32:37.420 goes out every year on trust, Corey.

00:32:39.080 Did you see those numbers?

00:32:40.660 Oh, they're in the toilet.

00:32:41.640 Oh, okay.

00:32:44.460 So a couple of years ago, I was shocked to see it was over 40% of Canadians think that

00:32:49.340 journalists are actively trying to mislead them.

00:32:52.660 Not a typo, not a flub or a mispronunciation, not innocent mistakes, actively trying to mislead

00:32:58.960 them.

00:32:59.700 Corey, I checked the most recent one.

00:33:01.800 It's over 60% of Canadians now think journalists are trying to actively mislead them with statements

00:33:09.420 they know to be untrue.

00:33:11.640 No, that's brutal.

00:33:13.480 And I mean, that contributes more.

00:33:15.420 It's just such a snowball effect because then people stop tuning in.

00:33:18.420 They stop watching.

00:33:19.300 The advertising revenues drop and on and on we go.

00:33:23.780 And what's insidious about this social media shakedown they're trying, this is just their

00:33:28.340 way of not reaching into the government coffers to try and bail these guys out.

00:33:32.620 They want to reach into private industries coffers to do it.

00:33:35.300 And, but it'll add to this.

00:33:38.300 The government, of course, are the ones who will say whether or not you qualify for those

00:33:42.080 dollars that they're going to steal from Facebook and Google on your behalf.

00:33:45.180 So again, you end up, even if unconsciously, you're going to be leaning away from holding

00:33:50.460 the government to account because you don't want to lose those dollars.

00:33:53.060 It is a terrible, terrible mess we're getting into.

00:33:56.380 It is.

00:33:56.900 It's a deep and obvious conflict of interest.

00:34:00.120 I'm surprised that more journalists aren't just saying so.

00:34:04.760 I understand that they're scared.

00:34:06.420 I've been in that position before.

00:34:09.060 It's awful to have something shut down around you like a media company, but it's not working.

00:34:14.940 It's actually having, you know, a tightening effect because like we just said, look at that

00:34:19.800 increase in lack of trust.

00:34:22.060 Like if the audience doesn't trust you, even on basic W5s, who, what, where, when, why,

00:34:27.900 when, what are you doing?

00:34:29.900 What are you doing anymore?

00:34:31.200 And so they're going to have to figure out something else.

00:34:33.520 Like you explained, they're going to have to do their own models.

00:34:35.840 They're going to have to do their own subscriptions.

00:34:37.860 They're going to have to take donations, something like that.

00:34:40.160 They're going to have to shift their model of how they interact with their audience and

00:34:43.780 how they generate revenue, but they can't take it from the government.

00:34:47.380 They can't take it from taxpayers because then they're going to have the perception of

00:34:51.920 bias and they're wasting taxpayers' money.

00:34:54.820 It's, it's a major lose-lose situation and we're imploring the government and mainstream

00:35:00.360 media to rethink this.

00:35:03.160 Yeah.

00:35:03.600 Well, and they seem to just keep doubling down.

00:35:05.860 It's almost absurd, bizarre watching Rodriguez kind of fumbling around, throwing out threats

00:35:11.080 and trying different things.

00:35:12.100 I mean, this, this bill is failing, but the government will not quit.

00:35:15.940 And that's where we're wincing and bracing ourselves because the Google Facebook thing

00:35:20.080 that doesn't directly affect taxpayers.

00:35:21.620 So we're just keeping an eye on it.

00:35:23.200 But the band-aid solution, if it fails from what he said last week was really concerning.

00:35:28.600 He said something to the effect of, we need to make sure these newsrooms stay open.

00:35:33.660 I'm sorry.

00:35:34.480 Who's we?

00:35:35.380 The federal government needs to make sure a newsroom? 0.99

00:35:37.400 No, you don't.

00:35:38.920 Two.

00:35:39.540 And basically said, we will make sure they have the resources they need.

00:35:44.160 Resources in government speak usually means taxpayers' money, which is worth saying no, no.

00:35:49.100 So defund the media and defund the CBC.

00:35:52.780 Like, not one nickel needs to go to the media.

00:35:55.940 Well, you won't hear any disagreement from me.

00:35:58.400 No.

00:35:58.720 Well, either way, we'll see what's happening as this unfolds over the course of the summer.

00:36:04.260 It gives us something to watch while Parliament's out of session, even if it's the darkest of

00:36:08.020 comedy.

00:36:09.160 So I guess one more time before I let you go, where can people find out about what you

00:36:13.240 guys do and how they can support you?

00:36:15.800 Oh, we would love that.

00:36:17.020 Head on over to our website, taxpayer.com.

00:36:19.940 The best way is to actually go through our petitions list.

00:36:23.200 There's something there for everybody.

00:36:24.580 If you want to defund the media, like we were just saying, if you want to scrap the carbon

00:36:28.240 taxes, if you want to scrap the gun grab, there's all sorts of stuff on there.

00:36:33.320 Sign those specific petitions, and that way you're now part of our taxpayer standing army.

00:36:39.040 And the next time there's a big bill or a piece of legislation or something to do, we

00:36:43.360 will send out a major email blast to you and let you know what we can all do.

00:36:47.500 And by all teaming up and speaking up at the same time and pushing back, we have a much

00:36:51.940 better chance of making the changes that we want to see in the government.

00:36:55.320 It's participatory.

00:36:57.320 Excellent.

00:36:58.000 Thanks, Chris.

00:36:58.660 Well, appreciate you joining us today.

00:37:00.340 I'm sure we'll be talking again soon.

00:37:02.220 Thanks so much, Corey.

00:37:02.920 Great.

00:37:03.460 Thanks.

00:37:04.080 Well, as Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, it's true, it was worth going a

00:37:07.580 little longer because there's just so many things to cover.

00:37:10.020 Boy, they're hitting us on all fronts.

00:37:12.660 It's just a never-ending battle.

00:37:15.620 This government has no interest in trying to do better.

00:37:18.900 It's not interested in trying to come up with nuanced policies or actually solve problems.

00:37:23.440 They just want to control and tax.

00:37:26.420 And then tax is the hammer they love to use to achieve the first thing.

00:37:30.500 But of course, it irreparably, I should say irreparably, things recover, but it damages

00:37:34.660 the economy.

00:37:35.440 It damages people.

00:37:36.320 And then with this media mess, yes, it's damaging trust.

00:37:39.140 If nobody trusts what the media puts out there, they won't tune in.

00:37:42.700 I mean, we're accountable to you.

00:37:45.340 If I kept feeding you a bunch of BS on this show and kept lying to you or just putting

00:37:51.760 out shaky things or if Dave was doing so with the news copy, things like that, our subscribers 0.99

00:37:57.120 are going to say, I'm not paying to get this garbage fed to me. 0.92

00:38:00.520 They will leave. 0.98

00:38:01.340 If we're accountable to them that way, and that's the only way you can do it.

00:38:07.260 But when you force everybody, you force the whole country to contribute and put money in,

00:38:12.820 then there's no accountability whatsoever.

00:38:14.960 So they can feed you whatever they please.

00:38:17.060 And I mean, as we said, some of them might be very honest goods, journalists and stories,

00:38:21.100 but once the trust's lost, they all get labeled as the parasites taking subsidies and things

00:38:25.980 such as that. 0.57

00:38:26.540 So everybody's losing here.

00:38:29.020 Everybody's losing.

00:38:30.000 And that's the final part of every story we keep talking about with these things, whether

00:38:33.340 it's the carbon tax, whether it's these media ballots, they aren't working.

00:38:36.580 They aren't doing what they told us they were going to do in the first place.

00:38:39.580 So why do we keep doing it?

00:38:42.040 All right.

00:38:43.280 Let's see here where else we can go.

00:38:46.860 Yes, some other folks talking about a number of things.

00:38:50.320 Somebody mentioned UBI and was asking about it.

00:38:52.540 That's a whole separate show.

00:38:53.980 I guess I've written columns on it.

00:38:55.060 That's a universal basic income ideas.

00:38:57.380 And these are scary.

00:38:58.120 That's to the point.

00:38:58.860 It's basically a backdoor to communism.

00:39:01.740 It's saying we're going to set a bar and everybody will make this much.

00:39:05.240 And anything, you know, the government will fund you at a base level and anything you

00:39:09.300 want to make above and beyond that is it's a pie in the sky dream.

00:39:12.880 Other countries have tried experiments with it.

00:39:14.440 It always fails.

00:39:15.140 But if they tax us deeply enough, you can get into that situation.

00:39:19.500 So let's talk about a few other news stories here while we're going into things.

00:39:23.040 Here's something because we're talking about the cost of living, cost of rent.

00:39:26.280 Of course, we get the people coming out of the woodworks again, screaming for rent control.

00:39:29.640 Another proven failure of a policy.

00:39:31.640 It never works.

00:39:32.420 It never helps.

00:39:34.020 Getting back to results-based policy.

00:39:36.320 But some of the other areas for landlords, people wondering why there isn't enough rental

00:39:40.340 property out there.

00:39:41.720 Because that's the problem.

00:39:42.500 There's not enough supply.

00:39:43.500 It's as simple as that.

00:39:44.560 If there's not enough places, the rents are going to go up.

00:39:48.120 It's just the way it works.

00:39:50.320 And if you control the rents, you put a cap on it, you do things like that.

00:39:53.640 Well, then people don't get into the rental market.

00:39:58.640 They don't put their houses or apartment buildings out for rent. 0.57

00:40:01.520 And you reduce supply and everybody gets screwed.

00:40:04.580 But the other part is our lack of property rights.

00:40:07.240 So if you're the owner, you're the landlord.

00:40:09.260 And you know, landlords have been demonized for a long, long time.

00:40:12.060 I mean, the old silent movies with the mustache tweaking guy, throwing the little old lady 0.95

00:40:15.540 out in the street and things like that.

00:40:17.000 But somebody has to own the house.

00:40:18.600 Somebody has to maintain the house.

00:40:19.740 Somebody has to pay the taxes on it.

00:40:21.500 Somebody has to find the renters, manage all that.

00:40:23.520 It costs, guys.

00:40:24.960 So when you don't have property rights, though, then you start seeing why you don't want to

00:40:28.980 do something.

00:40:29.320 So we got a story in Calgary, a Calgary landlord.

00:40:32.040 This is a fella up in the Northeast.

00:40:34.580 He figures it's about $100,000 in property damage got done by a group of squatters who moved

00:40:41.200 in.

00:40:42.500 There are nine people, it turned out, were stuffed into that house up in Temple.

00:40:46.420 And they just trashed the house. 0.98

00:40:48.420 They paid the deposit to get in.

00:40:49.800 But then they never paid rent ever again after that.

00:40:52.240 So he had to go in himself and evict them, kick them out after months.

00:40:55.980 They never even paid the first month's rent.

00:40:57.860 But now, now they're all camped on his front yard.

00:41:01.860 I've seen pictures of the reports of this.

00:41:04.360 There's mattresses and furniture and appliances.

00:41:07.120 And there's nine of them squatting in the yard of this house.

00:41:11.220 And neighbors have been reporting. 0.72

00:41:12.660 They're a bunch of addicts. 0.99

00:41:13.880 They're just a mess. 0.99

00:41:15.880 And he can't get rid of them.

00:41:17.280 He's had the sheriffs come.

00:41:18.640 He's had, you know, he's gone through the system.

00:41:21.300 He's gone through the courts.

00:41:23.260 And there doesn't appear to be anybody willing.

00:41:26.140 I mean, they can keep giving him notice and keep handing him pieces of paper and threatening

00:41:29.240 him with the fines.

00:41:29.800 They don't care.

00:41:30.540 So this guy's home is getting completely destroyed and he can't throw them off of there.

00:41:37.740 Angry Canadians say, my grandfather would walk in with his buddies and physically chuck them. 0.98

00:41:41.380 Yeah.

00:41:41.600 And that's the way it used to be.

00:41:43.280 But now with these controls and everything, it's almost impossible for landlords to get

00:41:47.780 rid of these guys when they do something like this, which again, compounds the problem

00:41:52.820 when other people considering getting into the rental market, like, you know, providing

00:41:56.860 rental properties, uh, see stories like this.

00:42:01.060 They say, you know what?

00:42:01.560 I'm going to put my money into something else.

00:42:03.440 I'm going to invest into something different.

00:42:05.400 And meanwhile, our supply continues to crater, uh, angry Canadians didn't drag him out.

00:42:09.600 The problem is, you know, it'll happen.

00:42:12.060 You know, what'll happen.

00:42:13.140 The property owner will be charged. 0.99

00:42:15.380 The property owner will be the one who gets the crap for grabbing these bums and throwing 1.00

00:42:20.720 them off his property. 0.99

00:42:21.800 And let's go all the way farther back to Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

00:42:25.140 Yes. 0.95

00:42:25.440 That massive, nasty, nasty man whose second biggest crime after the national energy program 0.97

00:42:30.800 was spawning Justin Trudeau, or some people think it might be somebody else who knows. 0.93

00:42:35.240 But one of the things he also pointedly did with the charter was make sure we don't have

00:42:38.780 property rights is this man who's having his home, his property, his investment, his life

00:42:44.180 savings trashed by these bums, these addicts. 0.99

00:42:48.600 He would have some recourse.

00:42:51.000 He would have much more strength going to the course.

00:42:54.480 He wouldn't have to in the first place because this is my property.

00:42:57.600 I have the right to kick these people off it.

00:43:01.180 But he's having to run the gauntlet.

00:43:03.280 He's going desperately to the media.

00:43:05.220 The media have talked to the neighbors.

00:43:06.520 They said the media camped out and watched this place.

00:43:09.900 And they watched the addicts coming and going into this.

00:43:13.040 It's just a crack house on the front yard and he can't get rid of it.

00:43:17.420 So who who's going to get into the rental business?

00:43:20.520 Why would you do that?

00:43:21.700 Why would you roll those dice?

00:43:22.720 I mean, I know the vast majority of renters aren't like these people.

00:43:26.440 You know, most of them are going to come in.

00:43:27.960 They'll pay their rent.

00:43:28.720 They'll keep the place going.

00:43:29.580 But everybody hears the horror stories and things like that.

00:43:32.440 This is, you know, I don't know what sort of financial position this man's in.

00:43:37.280 But I mean, that's a big chunk of money for anybody.

00:43:39.580 It's a house.

00:43:40.800 It's, again, something he was hoping to invest in.

00:43:43.100 What's it going to be worth by the time he finally gets those bums out of there? 1.00

00:43:47.060 And then so you rewind.

00:43:48.360 Don't go for rent control, guys.

00:43:50.340 Make providing rental units more desirable.

00:43:54.320 There's people who do want to invest.

00:43:56.260 There's people who do want to have that sort of monthly income going on.

00:44:01.660 But they need to know that their investment can be protected.

00:44:04.960 They need to know they have some rights as a landlord.

00:44:07.520 We always talk about tenant right, tenant right, tenant right. 0.97

00:44:09.520 Well, these are just a bunch of bums. 0.96

00:44:11.060 They shouldn't have any bloody rights to this man's property. 0.96

00:44:14.180 But welcome to the backward world of Canada, right? 1.00

00:44:17.080 We blame the provider.

00:44:19.380 This is similar to how we blaming Facebook and Google, calling them bad, calling them nasty.

00:44:24.320 Why?

00:44:24.540 Well, because they were providing a service to the media.

00:44:26.580 What?

00:44:27.040 Yes.

00:44:27.860 They want to steal money from social media providers because they were providing links to media.

00:44:33.620 This is bizarro.

00:44:35.020 But this is the point, too.

00:44:36.120 This guy was a guy who invested his life savings, probably bought the house, got it up to a point.

00:44:42.120 He looks like he's a new Canadian, and he's trying to make it out here like everybody else is.

00:44:46.500 And instead, he's stuck in this living, waking nightmare of trying to protect his own property.

00:44:51.440 And he gets blamed.

00:44:54.480 He gets blamed.

00:44:55.280 The landlords are blamed.

00:44:56.600 The people who invest and take the risk, start the business, try to provide the things, are demonized. 1.00

00:45:01.920 They're the ones who are called jerks. 0.98

00:45:03.320 They're the ones who are saying everybody's, you know, we should cap the rent they can collect, and we should gouge them. 1.00

00:45:08.060 They're just going to get out of the market, guys.

00:45:11.600 Welcome back to policies that don't work.

00:45:14.320 And when they get out of the market, nobody has anywhere to live. 0.57

00:45:17.660 And then, you know, the progression of fools who go down that road, because, well, if private industry won't provide rental housing, we should get the government in on it. 0.94

00:45:26.260 Oh, okay. 0.94

00:45:27.440 You should travel a little more and see just how nice government-built housing is, how good it looks.

00:45:33.040 You really want to see the projects?

00:45:34.500 You really want to see how nice it is?

00:45:37.500 I had the opportunity to go to Moscow back in 87.

00:45:40.160 That was government-provided housing.

00:45:41.660 Nobody was homeless, I tell you.

00:45:43.000 But, boy, what a beautiful spot to live.

00:45:46.240 Bland, basic apartment buildings as far as the eye could see, run down in poor condition, because nobody owns them, right?

00:45:53.600 So nobody maintains them.

00:45:55.440 So they're falling apart, yet they're still paying for these.

00:45:59.260 Guys, we need property rights.

00:46:01.740 We need to reward our producers instead of demonizing them.

00:46:06.260 We need to let them earn money and provide things for us rather than stealing from them.

00:46:11.480 But we aren't.

00:46:12.580 We're in this world where we're playing the politics of envy, where we are stepping on those who go out of their way to make things, yes, better for themselves, good for them. 0.99

00:46:22.800 Your damn rights is good for them. 0.98

00:46:24.040 There's nothing wrong with investing for yourself. 0.99

00:46:27.360 And you know what?

00:46:27.880 It makes things better for others when you let them do it.

00:46:30.260 We've got a whole mentality, a philosophy, a nasty anti-success mindset that's really sinking in, a sense of entitlement.

00:46:39.540 The world owes me an apartment.

00:46:40.860 The world owes me cheap groceries.

00:46:42.440 The world owes me this.

00:46:43.380 The world owes me that.

00:46:44.100 No, it doesn't. 0.87

00:46:44.560 It doesn't owe you a damn thing.

00:46:45.840 All the government owes you is providing the environment for you to be able to get up and get those things for yourself.

00:46:53.060 You know, you shouldn't be stolen from.

00:46:55.200 You shouldn't be assaulted.

00:46:56.640 Sure, I'm not an anarchist.

00:46:58.060 I want to see some degree of government, but we need less and less, not this constant controlling and everything, and everything's the government's responsibility.

00:47:04.560 Guys, that won't work for you.

00:47:06.620 That won't work for you. 1.00

00:47:09.020 The less government, get off your ass. 1.00

00:47:11.220 I know. 1.00

00:47:11.740 It's scary.

00:47:12.680 You'll have to take care of yourself.

00:47:15.240 Consider the government.

00:47:16.180 A lot of you guys, it's mom's basement is what it is for you.

00:47:19.520 And you've grown dependent on it, and you're not letting yourself find the ambition and work ethic to get out of it.

00:47:24.840 Well, that's your own fault, and demanding more government is not going to fix the problem, guys.

00:47:29.020 It's never worked before.

00:47:30.220 It's not going to work now.

00:47:31.520 All right.

00:47:32.100 That was enough ranting and raving and pissing and moaning out at me for today.

00:47:35.880 Otherwise, the weather's beautiful.

00:47:37.260 Stampede's coming up next week.

00:47:39.280 We've got a nice summer ahead of us for most of Canada here.

00:47:43.900 Let's embrace it.

00:47:44.880 When you get off the show, get outside, get some sunshine, mow the lawn, do it while you can,

00:47:48.800 because it'll be winter soon enough.

00:47:50.440 Thank you all for tuning in today, guys.

00:47:52.520 And I will be back next week at the same time with a whole bunch more stuff to go on about.

00:47:57.880 Maybe even I'll come up with a few solutions for problems.

00:48:00.100 Thanks.

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Western Standard - July 05, 2023

Cory Morgan Show. Government theft and subsidies won’t save legacy media outlets

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