Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. It's time to MAFA Gaza

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.280 Hey, welcome to The Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:31.220 As you can see, it's the same show, but we've got a new background.

00:00:34.260 We have a view of the newsroom live behind me.

00:00:36.840 We can see Jen back there. 1.00

00:00:38.400 I've started that pool on X for one of you guys, you know,

00:00:41.240 trying to make your bets on when eventually somebody does something untoward in the background

00:00:45.800 so we can have fun with it.

00:00:47.600 But it certainly gives everybody on their guard in the newsroom,

00:00:49.900 gives something different to look at than that cityscape we used to have.

00:00:52.580 But the subject matter is going to be the same.

00:00:54.640 Still covering these issues, ranting about things and having interesting guests.

00:00:58.160 And today is no exception.

00:00:58.980 I've got Professor Sylvain Charlebois coming on in a little while.

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00:01:08.100 because there's been some serious issues within that.

00:01:12.640 As well, of course, I'll be covering some new things, getting the updates and all of that good stuff.

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00:01:55.600 All right, well, let's get on to what I want to rant about today, get things going.

00:01:59.140 So let's talk, starting with President Trump, of course, always in the news.

00:02:02.080 And he's a bombastic character who shoots from the hip and often has departures from the truth.

00:02:07.420 It's hard to know when to take his musings seriously or if he's just trying to shake things up.

00:02:12.160 Now, when it comes to Trump's proposal for Gaza, though, let's hope he's deadly serious.

00:02:16.580 It's the best idea I've seen for the region yet.

00:02:19.440 I mean, let's face it, the two-state solution's a dream because the Arab world has utterly no interest in it. 1.00

00:02:25.180 While Israel has supported maintaining a blended population within its own borders,

00:02:28.920 Arab nations have ejected nearly every Jew from their countries.

00:02:32.220 Israel has over 2 million Arab citizens living peacefully and with full rights within it.

00:02:36.600 You rarely hear about that, though.

00:02:38.240 However, in 2005, Israel bent under international pressure.

00:02:42.600 Disengaged from Gaza and the West Bank, they shut down and dismantled 21 Jewish settlements

00:02:47.580 and the Palestinians were given free reign over the land.

00:02:50.560 It was a form of two-state solution and billions of dollars came from other nations

00:02:54.520 to help Palestinians build their state.

00:02:56.780 So what did the Palestinians do?

00:02:58.300 Well, as soon as they had control over the territories,

00:03:00.060 they put the terrorist organization Hamas in charge of the government in Gaza

00:03:03.920 and empowered the terrorists of Hezbollah and the West Bank.

00:03:06.520 Instead of developing an economy and improving the standard of living for their people,

00:03:09.560 they dug hundreds of miles of terror tunnels to attack Israel.

00:03:12.980 Rather than expand infrastructure for their people,

00:03:14.780 they dug out water pipes and converted them into rockets to fire into Israel. 0.65

00:03:18.760 The Arab world has no interest in a two-state solution. 0.88

00:03:21.720 They want to wipe out every Jew in Israel and won't settle for anything less. 0.99

00:03:25.420 Listen to them when they tell you. 0.96

00:03:26.560 It's not like they make a secret of it, guys.

00:03:28.180 They pour funds into terrorist groups attacking Israel and chanting from the river to the sea.

00:03:32.100 There can't be any negotiation with them, 0.99

00:03:34.860 especially when the only, again, demand is the annihilation of every Jew in the Middle East. 0.92

00:03:39.220 Yet world organizations expect Israel to negotiate with them.

00:03:42.520 With years of fundraising, digging, and planning,

00:03:45.780 the Palestinian people set off their revolution in October 2023

00:03:49.360 by raiding a music festival in Peaceful Kibitzis.

00:03:52.920 They went on an orgy of torture, destruction, rape, and murder.

00:03:56.300 As they slaughtered over 1,200 people, 0.98

00:03:58.160 they took hundreds of hostages who they tortured, raped, and often killed.

00:04:01.200 And have only released them on occasion when backed against the wall.

00:04:05.040 They were given the world on the platter

00:04:06.560 with funding and access to one of the most beautiful coastlines on Earth.

00:04:09.740 Rather than embracing it,

00:04:10.940 they devolved into subhuman savagery 0.98

00:04:12.840 and expanded their culture of mindless hate.

00:04:15.860 They break every peace deal

00:04:17.120 and yet again have broken another agreement to release hostages.

00:04:21.240 Palestinians have given up the right to the land bordering on Israel.

00:04:24.560 It's time they migrated to the Arab nations who funded their way by proxy. 1.00

00:04:28.520 They want to live in a Jew-free world. 1.00

00:04:30.400 Egypt and Jordan can offer that to them. 1.00

00:04:32.940 Their values of beating women and murdering gay people 1.00

00:04:35.100 will be better accepted in those places anyways. 1.00

00:04:37.700 There's never been a country of Palestine,

00:04:39.800 so let's quit pretending the world owes them one.

00:04:41.820 Palestinians will fit in as well in Egypt or Jordan

00:04:43.900 as they will anywhere else, that's for sure.

00:04:45.760 It's rather telling how mortified, actually,

00:04:47.700 Egyptians and Jordanians are at the prospect 0.91

00:04:49.400 of an influx of Gazans within their midst. 0.62

00:04:51.660 They know they created a monster

00:04:53.180 and they don't want to have to live with it.

00:04:55.020 Gaza provides a perfect buffer for Israel 1.00

00:04:57.880 and having a third party like the U.S. in charge of it.

00:05:01.580 It's a good mediator.

00:05:02.880 The Strip could begin to meet its potential.

00:05:04.440 With rebuilding focused on housing, hospitals, schools, businesses,

00:05:07.360 the region could prosper.

00:05:08.620 Not to mention some nice casinos.

00:05:10.300 That's only going to happen under a third party oversight.

00:05:12.380 We know the Palestinians will just try and turn the zone 1.00

00:05:14.500 into another terrorism launch pad if given a chance.

00:05:17.800 Let a Trump Tower rise on the coast.

00:05:19.440 Clean those beaches and build some resorts.

00:05:21.080 Golf courses are prettier to look at than rocket batteries.

00:05:23.120 The area is a little more than rubble right now, anyways,

00:05:25.820 and that's purely due to the intransigence of Gazans

00:05:28.000 when it came to releasing the hostages.

00:05:30.780 Israel wasn't going to stop 1.00

00:05:32.280 until every single citizen was accounted for,

00:05:34.040 and they shouldn't.

00:05:35.560 Displaced Palestinians, well,

00:05:36.940 they would be welcome to pursue working opportunities

00:05:38.640 back in Gaza if they could prove 0.99

00:05:39.780 they want to set aside their hate

00:05:41.200 and actually try to live peacefully.

00:05:42.800 Any evidence of terrorist activity or planning

00:05:44.400 would be dealt with harshly.

00:05:46.220 Quit pretending the Gazan people weren't supportive

00:05:48.760 of the atrocities on October 7th

00:05:50.820 and the attacks launched on Israel since.

00:05:53.120 Hamas couldn't hide hundreds of hostages

00:05:54.760 for over a year without participation from the public.

00:05:57.200 They couldn't have planned for and launched

00:05:58.840 an assault on Israel like that

00:05:59.940 without a complicit population.

00:06:01.680 They made their bed.

00:06:03.180 Some time wandering in the desert

00:06:04.400 would do the Gazan people some good.

00:06:06.200 Offer them a chance for some introspection

00:06:07.700 and perhaps inspire them to evolve upward

00:06:10.220 into maybe 18th century values.

00:06:12.660 They might even begin to consider women's rights one day.

00:06:15.040 Hey, it served Moses and his bunch well enough.

00:06:17.380 Trump's offering the first feasible solution

00:06:19.280 to the Palestinian issue we've seen in generations.

00:06:21.360 So, yeah, on that one,

00:06:22.780 let's hope he plans on following through with it.

00:06:25.300 All right.

00:06:25.920 Well, there's my nice, simple rant for the day.

00:06:28.680 Let's check in on Dave Naylor

00:06:30.120 and see what else is going on in the news out there.

00:06:31.320 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:06:31.980 Oh, this is different, isn't it?

00:06:33.120 It is, it is.

00:06:33.960 So they can see what my staff's doing.

00:06:36.240 Hey, they're not flocking out there.

00:06:37.940 Hey, they're not flocking out there.

00:06:38.400 Coming away with Jen.

00:06:39.620 Come on.

00:06:40.000 Yeah.

00:06:40.260 So, looking on Facebook,

00:06:43.620 you found a couple of dead bees at your place

00:06:45.560 and that makes you happy.

00:06:46.420 It does.

00:06:47.020 It does.

00:06:47.380 Can you explain why?

00:06:48.380 Well, it's been, as we know, awfully cold out.

00:06:50.700 I mean, in the little Prittis Valley,

00:06:52.320 we've been hitting minus 30 in some of the mornings.

00:06:54.840 Dead bees outside of the hive are actually a good sign

00:06:56.800 because it shows they're alive in there.

00:06:58.480 And when the bees die,

00:06:59.940 when things warm up a little bit,

00:07:01.040 they'll take the dead ones out,

00:07:02.960 bring out your dead, 0.99

00:07:03.800 toss them out under the snow.

00:07:05.180 So you always worry that you've lost your hives over winter.

00:07:07.360 And when I go out and see a couple of dead ones laying there,

00:07:09.640 I know that they're still kicking in there.

00:07:10.980 So my chances of having my hives

00:07:12.620 making through the winter look better.

00:07:13.800 Nice.

00:07:14.000 So there is a chance that some spring honey?

00:07:16.960 Yeah.

00:07:17.320 Once we get into the flow in May or so,

00:07:18.800 I might get a little bit of an early harvest

00:07:19.980 if both, you know, those hives kick out well this year.

00:07:22.560 Awesome.

00:07:23.120 Yeah.

00:07:23.460 Well, another busy day in the news.

00:07:25.400 We're leading off with a big story,

00:07:27.200 Corey, big, big, big story about the Big Mac.

00:07:31.940 Donald Trump's favorite meal could go up in price

00:07:34.840 because everything about the Big Mac

00:07:37.500 is dependent on potash to grow the wheat,

00:07:41.120 to, you know, to make the buns, you know. 0.68

00:07:45.040 So if there's a tariff on potash,

00:07:47.220 which they haven't announced yet,

00:07:49.920 then that's going to result in the bigger price of a Big Mac,

00:07:53.840 which I'm sure Donald can afford it,

00:07:57.140 but others may go away.

00:07:59.200 Lots of stuff from Trudeau today

00:08:01.380 as he continues his farewell jaunt

00:08:03.460 through European capitals.

00:08:06.100 He talked about reaffirming his commitment

00:08:08.400 to NORAD and NATO,

00:08:10.720 but didn't explain how we were going to get

00:08:12.780 to the 2% figure.

00:08:16.160 He said that Canada will never, ever become 51st state,

00:08:19.860 so Trump should stop talking about it.

00:08:22.220 And he's talking about Arctic sovereignty

00:08:25.340 and all that sort of stuff.

00:08:26.420 The new fentanyl czar made an appearance

00:08:29.500 at an Ontario border today

00:08:31.460 and outlined how he wants to crack down

00:08:35.900 on the fentanyl between the two countries.

00:08:38.720 And your average MP is celebrating today

00:08:40.940 because they just got a $15,000 raise,

00:08:43.600 almost $16,000.

00:08:45.240 It's not bad for the number of days

00:08:46.800 they worked out there.

00:08:48.220 They haven't done a bloody thing since last year.

00:08:50.040 No, they should be paying us money back.

00:08:52.380 And a study out showing Calgary

00:08:55.740 is going to be one of the two hardest-hit cities

00:08:57.940 if tariffs do come in,

00:09:01.360 the other one being St. John's

00:09:03.960 with the refinery out there.

00:09:06.900 So, yeah, if they do come in,

00:09:09.100 it's going to certainly hit our city hard.

00:09:12.340 It's just hard to figure out what to deal with, though.

00:09:14.860 I mean, kind of like I said at the start

00:09:15.920 of that monologue, too,

00:09:16.820 that with Trump, you don't know when he means it

00:09:18.380 or when he doesn't.

00:09:18.940 I mean, he took us right to the 11th hour

00:09:20.200 with the tariffs before,

00:09:22.340 then he backed off.

00:09:23.120 Now he's in post-new ones.

00:09:24.000 Now he's saying the whole thing's coming

00:09:25.040 in a few weeks, but maybe it won't.

00:09:26.980 It's that state of constant frenzy

00:09:29.020 that's just so difficult to deal with, isn't it?

00:09:33.000 And all the premiers are down there now.

00:09:34.400 They're apparently going into the White House

00:09:36.460 later on today, not to meet Trump.

00:09:39.520 They're meeting some assistant deputy

00:09:41.960 to the associate chief of staff

00:09:44.580 or something like that.

00:09:45.560 So we'll see what comes of that.

00:09:47.380 Well, it gives us no shortage

00:09:49.760 of things to cover.

00:09:50.780 Well, no, the news business

00:09:52.780 is a little crazy these days,

00:09:54.000 and I love it.

00:09:54.660 All right.

00:09:55.120 Well, I'll let you go back

00:09:56.200 into that newsroom.

00:09:57.040 We'll watch you in the background.

00:09:58.520 I think from the right angle,

00:10:00.040 I'll see you sitting there.

00:10:00.980 So again, just watch

00:10:01.880 if you're scratching anything,

00:10:03.020 you know, untoward or something.

00:10:05.360 I will definitely do my best.

00:10:06.960 I don't want to be like Trump's,

00:10:08.580 or not Trump's,

00:10:09.920 Elon Musk's kid,

00:10:11.220 picking his nose,

00:10:12.220 harvesting a nose gobbler

00:10:13.560 in the Oval Office.

00:10:14.320 And Trump and eating it

00:10:16.600 as Trump kind of looked on

00:10:18.260 and uttered disdain.

00:10:19.420 Yeah.

00:10:21.680 Oh, it's a world.

00:10:23.020 I don't know.

00:10:23.720 It's a world.

00:10:24.420 One of us will get caught

00:10:25.500 at some point in the thing,

00:10:26.840 and it'll just make for fun

00:10:28.780 showing at the Christmas party.

00:10:31.200 Yeah.

00:10:31.440 Well, and yeah,

00:10:32.420 I'll be watching too

00:10:33.380 because I'll make a lot of it.

00:10:34.620 And I'm sure our commenters there,

00:10:35.880 I see Paradoxie and Wildrose

00:10:37.160 and some of the others,

00:10:37.920 they'll certainly let me know fast enough

00:10:39.440 if somebody's done something

00:10:40.480 in that background.

00:10:41.320 Oh, absolutely.

00:10:41.900 I feel kind of bad for Jen in a way.

00:10:44.780 Oh, well, she's fine.

00:10:46.740 She gets a profile,

00:10:47.680 her work recognized.

00:10:48.240 She does.

00:10:48.860 Right on.

00:10:49.280 All right.

00:10:49.440 Thanks, Dave.

00:10:49.980 You bet, Corey.

00:10:50.840 All right.

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00:11:43.340 There's going to be a lot to cover.

00:11:44.480 I mean,

00:11:44.700 what a year we're in.

00:11:46.880 I mean,

00:11:47.060 I've never seen anything like this.

00:11:50.020 We've got,

00:11:50.700 of course,

00:11:50.960 the return of President Trump.

00:11:52.120 Yeah,

00:11:52.200 nobody missed that.

00:11:52.980 But he's hit the ground

00:11:54.760 running more.

00:11:57.180 I don't know how to put it,

00:11:58.160 you know,

00:11:58.360 haywire,

00:11:58.900 inconsistent,

00:11:59.420 just being Trump.

00:12:00.740 You know,

00:12:01.140 a bull in a China shop.

00:12:02.540 And in this last month,

00:12:03.640 he's done more

00:12:04.460 through those executive orders

00:12:05.760 than your average president

00:12:06.900 does in an entire term.

00:12:08.620 And we've still got

00:12:09.640 three and nine tenths

00:12:11.720 of his term

00:12:12.520 left ahead of him.

00:12:14.220 Who knows what's going to happen

00:12:15.460 and Canada's reactions.

00:12:16.640 And it's tough.

00:12:17.600 It is tough.

00:12:18.540 I like

00:12:19.740 seeing the status quo

00:12:22.180 stirred up.

00:12:22.860 I like seeing

00:12:23.940 somebody come in

00:12:24.620 and shake things up a bit.

00:12:25.700 But at the same time,

00:12:26.860 is there a plan though?

00:12:28.200 You've still got to have

00:12:28.840 an end in mind.

00:12:29.740 I mean,

00:12:29.860 is he just doing it

00:12:30.680 for the sake of doing it?

00:12:32.060 Tariffs are terrible policy.

00:12:34.040 I've seen a lot of discussion

00:12:35.040 on that back and forth

00:12:35.840 and they're not good guys.

00:12:37.780 They're clumsy tools

00:12:39.040 for trying to make

00:12:40.220 economic change.

00:12:41.180 They tend to hurt yourself

00:12:42.340 more than others.

00:12:44.560 And most economists

00:12:45.800 typically don't think

00:12:47.720 highly of tariffs

00:12:48.680 as a way

00:12:49.240 to help your own economy.

00:12:52.080 But they can certainly

00:12:53.380 be used as a tool

00:12:56.000 to, I guess,

00:12:56.700 knock other nations 0.99

00:12:58.460 into submission.

00:12:59.080 And that seems to be

00:13:00.000 more the intent

00:13:00.720 on what Donald Trump's

00:13:01.800 doing right now.

00:13:02.520 But how well

00:13:03.360 is it going to serve them?

00:13:04.200 You know,

00:13:04.360 aluminum tariffs,

00:13:05.280 steel tariffs.

00:13:05.880 Okay, great.

00:13:06.640 But who pays that?

00:13:07.820 Well,

00:13:08.300 it's going to be

00:13:08.860 the American consumers

00:13:09.860 because the price

00:13:11.880 just comes on to them

00:13:12.900 and it might slow sales

00:13:14.080 within Canada.

00:13:15.300 So yes,

00:13:15.940 that hurts Canadian producers.

00:13:17.420 So again,

00:13:17.740 where's the winner?

00:13:18.700 Who's the winner

00:13:19.400 in all of this?

00:13:22.580 It's just difficult

00:13:23.720 to watch.

00:13:24.340 So you can be

00:13:25.100 somewhat supportive

00:13:25.720 and not supportive

00:13:26.400 at the same time.

00:13:27.400 Canada doesn't know

00:13:28.100 how to deal with them.

00:13:29.240 At the same time,

00:13:29.800 we're stuck in this period

00:13:31.180 of stasis

00:13:32.280 when we've got

00:13:32.880 an outgoing prime minister.

00:13:35.680 It looks like

00:13:36.340 a coronation for Carney,

00:13:37.600 but who knows?

00:13:38.540 A parliament

00:13:39.120 that's prorogued.

00:13:40.380 Then we might go

00:13:41.020 into a general election.

00:13:42.140 I don't know.

00:13:42.820 The rumors are starting

00:13:43.560 to come hot and heavy

00:13:44.880 that Jagmeet Singh's

00:13:45.840 probably going to be

00:13:46.720 cutting a deal

00:13:47.260 to extend the new leader

00:13:48.480 of the Liberals

00:13:48.980 some time.

00:13:50.580 Might be all the way

00:13:51.520 into fall.

00:13:52.900 If we don't have,

00:13:54.660 you know,

00:13:55.040 and I mean,

00:13:55.540 you certainly have

00:13:56.040 my preferences,

00:13:56.780 but if we don't have

00:13:57.900 a prime minister

00:13:58.900 with a solid mandate

00:14:00.660 in this time right now,

00:14:01.700 somebody who's going

00:14:02.200 to be there

00:14:02.700 for some years,

00:14:03.920 it's going to be hard

00:14:04.700 to make lasting deals

00:14:06.040 with President Trump

00:14:07.140 or anybody else

00:14:07.800 for that matter.

00:14:08.620 We've really got to

00:14:09.500 get our affairs in order.

00:14:10.820 There's never a good time

00:14:11.880 to have a parliament

00:14:12.640 in such flux and chaos

00:14:13.920 as we do right now,

00:14:15.080 but now is worse

00:14:16.180 than a whole heck

00:14:16.860 of a lot of the other times

00:14:17.840 for it.

00:14:18.260 There's no getting around that.

00:14:20.300 All right.

00:14:20.920 Well, speaking on

00:14:21.400 some of those issues,

00:14:22.340 and he's been fantastic

00:14:23.540 and prolific online,

00:14:24.460 I've seen them all over

00:14:25.120 my television screen

00:14:26.100 lately as well,

00:14:27.440 is Dr. Sylvain Charlebois.

00:14:29.480 He's also known

00:14:30.060 as the food professor.

00:14:31.240 He's been on before

00:14:32.180 and boy,

00:14:32.960 he likes to cut

00:14:33.520 through the BS.

00:14:34.400 So I really appreciate

00:14:35.540 you joining us today

00:14:37.720 to talk for a little while.

00:14:39.480 Sylvain.

00:14:40.500 Yeah, absolutely, Corey.

00:14:41.520 Thank you for inviting me again.

00:14:43.140 I know we've been trying

00:14:44.980 to get a date together

00:14:47.040 to speak about

00:14:48.440 all of these issues,

00:14:49.900 but now here we are

00:14:51.500 together, finally.

00:14:52.760 Yes, I've got you.

00:14:53.720 You know, I do want to,

00:14:55.440 because it seems supply

00:14:56.320 management's kind of

00:14:56.960 hitting things,

00:14:57.440 and it's always been

00:14:57.920 kind of a pet issue

00:14:58.660 for both of us,

00:14:59.400 but I want to talk

00:14:59.820 about that a little later.

00:15:00.660 The first reason

00:15:01.340 I wanted to bring you on,

00:15:02.320 though, you know,

00:15:03.540 it's kind of fallen

00:15:04.200 by the wayside,

00:15:04.920 but we can't forget

00:15:05.480 we have a carbon tax,

00:15:07.020 and it does impact

00:15:08.820 consumer prices.

00:15:10.820 And what I want to talk

00:15:13.120 about is some of the

00:15:13.620 inconsistency among academia,

00:15:15.040 and you've been at least

00:15:15.920 open in questioning

00:15:17.500 some of the other

00:15:18.840 interpretations of it.

00:15:21.020 Has the carbon tax

00:15:22.300 impacted food prices or not?

00:15:23.860 We don't know.

00:15:27.920 I mean, we can't really

00:15:29.540 correlate the policy

00:15:31.120 with retail prices,

00:15:33.200 because as you know,

00:15:33.880 Corey, a lot of things

00:15:34.620 can impact retail prices.

00:15:36.780 And this is the one thing

00:15:37.920 that many economists,

00:15:39.280 and a lot of them

00:15:39.820 in Alberta, where you are,

00:15:41.760 they don't seem to understand

00:15:42.960 how distribution

00:15:43.720 actually works.

00:15:44.660 Distribution economics

00:15:45.740 are complicated,

00:15:47.860 and a policy like the carbon tax

00:15:50.000 will compound

00:15:52.020 throughout the supply chain

00:15:53.660 and will eventually

00:15:54.720 impact consumers,

00:15:56.400 whether there is

00:15:57.160 a consumer carbon tax

00:15:58.680 or not, by the way.

00:16:00.620 And this is the one thing

00:16:01.620 that we're hearing more

00:16:02.500 from liberal candidates

00:16:03.620 these days.

00:16:04.440 We're going to be eliminating

00:16:05.660 the consumer carbon tax,

00:16:08.140 but not for companies.

00:16:11.340 Well, guess who is going

00:16:12.360 to pay for that tax?

00:16:14.140 Eventually, it's going

00:16:15.060 to be the consumer.

00:16:16.820 Now, if you're trying

00:16:18.600 to assess how food

00:16:20.720 affordability is impacting,

00:16:22.500 is being impacted

00:16:23.540 by the carbon tax,

00:16:24.440 that's very difficult to do,

00:16:25.600 but you can assess

00:16:27.180 how the carbon tax

00:16:29.080 is affecting

00:16:30.040 the sector's competitiveness.

00:16:33.060 And that's really,

00:16:33.840 to me, even more important,

00:16:35.440 because over time,

00:16:36.660 if you impact

00:16:37.700 a sector's competitiveness,

00:16:39.480 you will make it

00:16:40.340 a food security issue.

00:16:41.520 And that's exactly

00:16:42.240 what's going on right now.

00:16:43.860 Wholesale prices

00:16:44.680 are actually pretty stable

00:16:46.440 in the U.S.,

00:16:47.940 food wholesale prices.

00:16:49.740 But in Canada,

00:16:50.460 since 2019,

00:16:51.740 since implementing

00:16:52.920 the carbon tax,

00:16:54.280 it's gone up 40% more

00:16:56.100 than in the U.S.

00:16:56.900 So if you're a Loblaw

00:16:57.920 or a Sobe's

00:16:58.840 or a Costco

00:16:59.520 or a Walmart Canada,

00:17:01.280 well, if you have a choice

00:17:03.360 between going to the U.S.

00:17:05.300 where things are cheaper,

00:17:06.560 more affordable,

00:17:07.180 versus Canada 0.61

00:17:07.940 where things are more expensive,

00:17:09.180 and especially right now

00:17:10.320 when people are looking

00:17:11.180 for Canada,

00:17:12.300 the grocery store,

00:17:13.160 well, it's more tempting

00:17:14.920 to actually go south.

00:17:16.420 And that's been

00:17:16.940 my number one concern

00:17:18.040 for a long time.

00:17:19.220 And I think

00:17:19.920 that we're actually

00:17:20.700 hurting our economy

00:17:21.880 from farm gate

00:17:22.980 to store.

00:17:26.080 Yeah, well,

00:17:26.820 and we need

00:17:27.280 those discussions.

00:17:28.960 So, I mean,

00:17:29.400 I don't want to get

00:17:30.480 too leading on things,

00:17:31.660 and we hope to get

00:17:32.220 things productive.

00:17:32.900 But, I mean,

00:17:33.160 some of the issue

00:17:33.700 we've got, too,

00:17:34.380 is sometimes

00:17:35.280 we've got economists

00:17:36.080 and others

00:17:36.560 who are kind of beholden

00:17:37.480 due to getting funding

00:17:38.560 through, you know,

00:17:39.820 government sources,

00:17:40.580 and it may or may not

00:17:41.660 impact some of their

00:17:44.060 conclusions sometimes

00:17:44.940 for the same reason

00:17:45.620 that I talk about

00:17:46.720 how we're proud

00:17:47.360 not to take government

00:17:48.080 funding as a media outlet.

00:17:50.060 Likewise, you know,

00:17:50.840 we prefer academia

00:17:51.820 not to be beholden

00:17:53.200 to the government,

00:17:54.120 whether it's a conservative

00:17:54.800 or liberal

00:17:55.240 or whatever government.

00:17:56.420 You know,

00:17:56.740 we want to make sure

00:17:57.660 they just stick to the facts.

00:17:59.700 Absolutely.

00:18:00.060 I have to outline

00:18:02.800 one case

00:18:04.620 with Trevor Toome

00:18:06.240 out of the University

00:18:06.720 of Calgary.

00:18:07.480 He's been publishing papers

00:18:09.580 with Jennifer Winter,

00:18:11.340 his wife, by the way,

00:18:13.060 and Jennifer Winter,

00:18:15.140 for people who may not know,

00:18:17.400 she's a special advisor

00:18:18.520 to Minister Stephen Gilbo

00:18:20.240 in Ottawa,

00:18:21.460 the Minister of Environment.

00:18:23.540 And so,

00:18:24.020 and some of the papers

00:18:25.440 that they were actually publishing

00:18:26.820 were funded by ECCC

00:18:28.940 on top of it all.

00:18:30.760 So,

00:18:31.300 and I think it's important

00:18:32.460 regardless of

00:18:33.620 what the papers

00:18:35.300 are telling us,

00:18:36.460 I think it's important

00:18:37.540 for people to understand here

00:18:39.420 the potential conflict

00:18:40.980 of interest

00:18:41.840 or perceived conflict

00:18:43.060 of interest.

00:18:43.860 It's super important

00:18:44.720 to understand

00:18:45.180 that everything

00:18:46.180 is intertwined.

00:18:47.840 And you got other scholars

00:18:48.940 also being funded

00:18:50.120 by ECCC

00:18:51.240 and they often

00:18:52.540 don't disclose

00:18:53.340 and they're not clear

00:18:54.640 in terms of what

00:18:55.300 they're doing.

00:18:56.120 They're all working together

00:18:57.600 to support one narrative.

00:18:59.180 Science is not about

00:19:00.240 supporting one narrative.

00:19:01.860 It's about understanding.

00:19:04.020 And over the last

00:19:04.600 eight, nine years

00:19:05.740 we've seen Ottawa

00:19:06.740 just supporting

00:19:07.560 one narrative

00:19:08.640 with millions

00:19:09.880 and millions of dollars.

00:19:11.580 But the worst case

00:19:12.500 to me has been

00:19:13.640 the one of Trevor Toome

00:19:15.360 and Jennifer Winter.

00:19:17.640 Yeah,

00:19:17.820 and it's frustrating

00:19:18.800 to watch.

00:19:19.660 I mean,

00:19:19.880 is the public,

00:19:20.640 you know,

00:19:20.860 on the ground?

00:19:21.520 We're relying on people

00:19:22.500 like you and Mr. Toome

00:19:23.640 and others

00:19:24.240 to hopefully,

00:19:25.100 you know,

00:19:25.320 filter this information

00:19:26.080 to us

00:19:26.540 so we can understand

00:19:27.380 these bigger issues.

00:19:28.460 And by the way,

00:19:29.000 Trevor Toome

00:19:29.440 is a good economist.

00:19:31.100 It's just

00:19:31.460 every time

00:19:32.700 he goes into food,

00:19:35.700 his work is questionable.

00:19:37.760 If I were Trevor,

00:19:38.780 I would stick to

00:19:39.680 what I'm good at

00:19:40.800 and that's certainly

00:19:41.420 not food.

00:19:42.780 Well,

00:19:43.220 and we'll stick

00:19:43.820 to that with you.

00:19:44.480 I mean,

00:19:44.600 you are the food professor.

00:19:45.700 That is your specialty

00:19:46.400 and it's a unique,

00:19:48.140 almost niche

00:19:48.840 and an important one.

00:19:50.040 We don't have enough

00:19:50.760 covering that.

00:19:51.900 I mean,

00:19:52.000 it's something

00:19:52.320 we all have to purchase

00:19:53.320 that impacts

00:19:53.820 all of our lives.

00:19:54.680 So kind of further

00:19:56.040 along the same line

00:19:56.940 when we're talking

00:19:57.500 about the tariff war,

00:19:59.980 I mean,

00:20:00.260 people talk about

00:20:01.040 imposing tariffs

00:20:02.000 on incoming American goods

00:20:03.720 to try and,

00:20:04.560 you know,

00:20:05.060 retaliate.

00:20:05.780 I understand

00:20:06.560 the sentiment behind it,

00:20:08.480 but at the same time,

00:20:09.780 people have better understand

00:20:10.720 that it is going to

00:20:11.940 really impact

00:20:12.720 your local price

00:20:13.700 of food products.

00:20:14.700 I mean,

00:20:15.160 even if you're becoming

00:20:15.840 selective and trying

00:20:16.600 to buy local.

00:20:17.840 Oh,

00:20:17.920 absolutely.

00:20:18.660 So it's important

00:20:19.920 for people to have choice

00:20:21.340 and affordable choice,

00:20:22.360 but it's also,

00:20:23.120 I think,

00:20:23.340 important to perhaps

00:20:24.640 offer industry

00:20:25.660 the carrot approach.

00:20:27.800 I've always believed

00:20:28.620 that carbon markets

00:20:30.200 are an opportunity

00:20:31.560 for the agro-fee sector

00:20:33.220 to do better.

00:20:34.140 We are in Canada.

00:20:35.120 We got land.

00:20:35.840 We got resources.

00:20:36.900 We can do better.

00:20:38.820 It's just right now

00:20:39.900 we have a regime

00:20:41.200 in Ottawa

00:20:41.640 treating carbon

00:20:42.600 as a stick

00:20:44.800 and only a stick

00:20:46.320 and I don't think

00:20:47.360 that farmers deserve that.

00:20:48.820 I don't think

00:20:49.180 that food manufacturers

00:20:50.420 deserve that as well.

00:20:51.660 We've never been strategic

00:20:52.960 and we've never actually

00:20:54.040 had a conversation

00:20:54.940 about that.

00:20:56.280 And frankly,

00:20:56.780 because we know

00:20:58.100 that some provinces,

00:21:00.060 some regions

00:21:01.580 do prefer certain models

00:21:03.760 around the environment

00:21:04.800 and, you know,

00:21:05.980 there's a lot of talk

00:21:06.680 about inter-provincial barriers

00:21:08.920 these days

00:21:09.600 and certainly,

00:21:11.660 to me,

00:21:13.020 environmental stewardship

00:21:13.820 is another one.

00:21:15.220 It's invisible,

00:21:16.200 but I think

00:21:16.780 all regions

00:21:17.740 have a different approach

00:21:18.780 to environmental stewardship.

00:21:20.440 Where you are,

00:21:21.660 carbon capture

00:21:22.520 is a big deal

00:21:23.640 and I think

00:21:24.140 there's a lot

00:21:24.740 of opportunities

00:21:25.460 for carbon capture

00:21:26.920 but central Canada,

00:21:29.180 they don't value

00:21:30.060 carbon capture.

00:21:30.960 All they value

00:21:31.760 is the stick

00:21:33.100 and that's unfortunate.

00:21:34.800 Well,

00:21:35.420 and I guess

00:21:35.980 I'll segue into

00:21:37.380 we're talking about

00:21:38.000 regional disparity

00:21:39.280 and inter-provincial trade

00:21:40.840 and boy,

00:21:41.740 you really poked

00:21:42.400 the hornet's nest

00:21:43.000 but I'm sure

00:21:43.480 you knew you wouldn't

00:21:44.300 when you went

00:21:45.300 and dared

00:21:45.800 to question

00:21:46.880 Canada's Dairy Supply

00:21:48.640 Management

00:21:49.120 on a Quebec broadcast

00:21:51.200 of all places.

00:21:53.540 And it's not just

00:21:54.720 one show.

00:21:55.360 I mean,

00:21:55.560 Tumon Apali

00:21:56.240 is their show

00:21:56.700 that he's watched a lot.

00:21:58.100 So,

00:21:58.640 if you want to get elected

00:21:59.380 in Quebec,

00:22:00.020 you've got to go

00:22:00.500 on that show.

00:22:01.160 If you want

00:22:01.700 to raise money

00:22:02.680 to do anything,

00:22:04.000 you've got to go

00:22:04.600 on that show.

00:22:05.340 So,

00:22:05.480 I've been on that show

00:22:06.280 three times

00:22:07.220 and,

00:22:08.280 you know,

00:22:08.520 the first time

00:22:09.020 I was pretty nervous.

00:22:10.040 The second time around

00:22:10.860 I was a little more

00:22:11.860 acquainted.

00:22:13.480 Last weekend

00:22:14.180 I was very comfortable

00:22:15.160 but I had only one goal

00:22:17.000 it was to raise

00:22:17.720 the issue of supply management

00:22:18.820 because I was in Quebec.

00:22:20.520 I was in the middle

00:22:21.360 of supply management

00:22:22.740 country

00:22:23.580 and I wanted to be clear

00:22:25.160 that if we want

00:22:26.300 to create

00:22:26.760 a free flooring

00:22:27.960 market in Canada,

00:22:29.080 if we really believe it,

00:22:30.940 if we want to do it,

00:22:32.600 in the agri-food sector

00:22:33.860 there's no other way

00:22:35.180 to do it

00:22:35.800 other than looking

00:22:36.940 at marketing boards

00:22:38.740 provincially

00:22:39.560 because they have

00:22:40.460 a lot of power.

00:22:41.320 They're the one

00:22:41.900 allocating quotas.

00:22:43.780 A lot of people

00:22:44.940 think it's all

00:22:46.020 about the federal government.

00:22:47.100 No,

00:22:47.300 it's actually

00:22:47.720 provincial governments

00:22:48.780 that actually allocate quotas

00:22:50.340 and that needs

00:22:51.440 to be discussed

00:22:52.200 especially right now

00:22:53.320 in light of what's

00:22:54.080 happening with the U.S. 0.75

00:22:55.720 Well,

00:22:56.440 as well,

00:22:57.200 I mean,

00:22:57.460 that system in general

00:22:58.760 along with actually

00:22:59.940 we've had some

00:23:00.760 pretty heavy tariffs

00:23:01.680 on our dairy products

00:23:02.840 for quite some time

00:23:03.980 or incoming dairy products

00:23:05.160 to try and protect

00:23:05.820 the Canadian market.

00:23:08.020 I appreciate your blasphemy

00:23:09.840 taking it out there

00:23:10.760 but there's no better time

00:23:13.200 maybe to discuss this.

00:23:14.240 I mean,

00:23:14.340 if we're going to talk about

00:23:15.200 well,

00:23:15.400 how can we be Team Canada?

00:23:16.640 How can we be more self-reliant?

00:23:19.040 How can we

00:23:19.820 explore other markets?

00:23:21.860 Or how can we get out

00:23:22.900 of trade issues,

00:23:23.860 trade challenges?

00:23:25.360 The arrow keeps pointing

00:23:26.680 towards supply management.

00:23:27.900 I mean,

00:23:28.000 are we finally ready

00:23:29.100 as Canadians

00:23:29.660 to just start critically

00:23:30.780 looking at it?

00:23:31.760 Well,

00:23:32.000 I mean,

00:23:32.240 I'll give you one example.

00:23:33.540 Let's say you're in Alberta

00:23:34.460 and you're operating

00:23:35.360 a provincially licensed

00:23:36.680 abattoir or slaughterhouse

00:23:38.300 or manufacturing plant.

00:23:39.760 You cannot export

00:23:41.040 in other provinces

00:23:42.760 right now

00:23:43.560 because there's

00:23:44.620 no mutual recognition

00:23:45.940 which is ridiculous.

00:23:48.000 But as soon as you raise 0.81

00:23:49.200 the issue

00:23:49.700 of mutual recognition

00:23:50.820 in say,

00:23:52.120 beef

00:23:52.560 or pork

00:23:53.760 or with other commodities,

00:23:55.700 people will say,

00:23:57.100 well,

00:23:57.340 what about dairy?

00:23:58.400 What about eggs?

00:23:59.500 What about poultry?

00:24:01.440 Now,

00:24:01.720 poultry and eggs

00:24:02.460 have actually done

00:24:03.080 a pretty good job

00:24:04.000 working together.

00:24:06.400 Many boards

00:24:07.080 do work together.

00:24:07.920 Like right now,

00:24:08.680 there's a shortage

00:24:09.240 of eggs in BC

00:24:10.580 while Alberta

00:24:11.620 is helping BC.

00:24:12.960 So there's that.

00:24:14.000 But in dairy,

00:24:15.600 dairy,

00:24:16.140 Corey,

00:24:16.540 it's been terrible.

00:24:18.040 It's been very divisive.

00:24:19.960 The DFO,

00:24:20.900 the Dairy Farmers of Ontario,

00:24:22.340 they don't talk

00:24:23.060 to the UPA

00:24:23.720 which represents

00:24:25.020 dairy farmers in Quebec

00:24:26.060 and these silos

00:24:27.720 are incredibly difficult

00:24:29.520 to crack

00:24:30.200 and I think it's time

00:24:31.240 to have it done.

00:24:32.200 The easy thing to do

00:24:35.580 is to create

00:24:37.760 a federal system

00:24:39.000 to reallocate quotas.

00:24:41.720 There's an easy fig.

00:24:44.200 That's the only thing

00:24:45.160 you can do.

00:24:45.880 But the problem,

00:24:47.060 once you do that,

00:24:48.780 guess what's going to happen

00:24:49.560 to the value of quotas

00:24:50.820 in Quebec?

00:24:53.780 They're going to drop.

00:24:55.020 Like significantly.

00:24:56.120 And that's their

00:24:56.660 number one asset.

00:24:58.080 So that's why

00:24:58.540 Quebec farmers

00:24:59.240 have no appetite

00:25:00.400 to actually talk about this.

00:25:02.320 They're a very effective lobby.

00:25:04.200 I mean,

00:25:04.660 they're very active online.

00:25:06.140 They're active directly

00:25:06.960 with politicians.

00:25:08.080 They're active

00:25:08.720 all around.

00:25:10.280 I mean,

00:25:10.640 as you've expressed online,

00:25:12.320 the...

00:25:12.720 If you allow

00:25:14.020 Albertans

00:25:15.120 to buy quotas

00:25:16.200 from Quebec tomorrow,

00:25:17.500 I bet you

00:25:18.060 there'll be tons

00:25:18.740 of them doing that.

00:25:20.520 And Quebec

00:25:21.460 will be out of quota

00:25:22.220 because there's no wealth there.

00:25:23.320 Farms are very,

00:25:24.500 very small.

00:25:25.640 They're not competitive.

00:25:26.880 But we're all paying for that.

00:25:28.960 And with trades,

00:25:29.700 we're paying for that as well.

00:25:31.560 It makes us look really bad

00:25:33.440 and bad players

00:25:34.560 as well internationally.

00:25:36.360 And you got a heck

00:25:37.320 of a blast

00:25:37.900 of bad feedback,

00:25:38.740 unfortunately,

00:25:39.700 for daring to chip away.

00:25:41.820 But I'll tell you what,

00:25:43.420 I've been doing this

00:25:44.160 for 25 years, Corey.

00:25:45.840 So yes,

00:25:46.360 I did get some insults,

00:25:47.860 which is really typical.

00:25:49.140 But I'm getting

00:25:50.360 a lot of supportive emails.

00:25:52.520 Like,

00:25:53.140 I can't believe it.

00:25:55.840 Something's happening, Corey.

00:25:57.600 Something is going on.

00:25:58.860 I think people

00:25:59.320 are starting to recognize

00:26:00.280 that we need perhaps,

00:26:01.940 perhaps,

00:26:03.260 supply management

00:26:03.920 and the dairy system 0.95

00:26:05.340 that we have in Canada

00:26:06.160 is not working for us.

00:26:08.080 I think the message

00:26:08.900 is starting to resonate.

00:26:10.340 Well,

00:26:10.500 the conversation's starting,

00:26:11.560 and I really appreciate you

00:26:12.920 bringing it to the fore.

00:26:13.900 As I said,

00:26:14.360 it's not the easy route

00:26:15.500 to take.

00:26:16.040 I mean,

00:26:16.220 you want to avoid

00:26:16.920 the headaches,

00:26:17.380 the flack and everything else.

00:26:18.580 You just stick to other subjects,

00:26:19.740 but you're not giving up on it.

00:26:21.740 And I really appreciate that.

00:26:23.640 I know you've got

00:26:24.040 a hard deadline today.

00:26:24.980 So before I let you go,

00:26:26.220 where can people find,

00:26:27.440 you know,

00:26:27.860 your work

00:26:28.340 and where you've been

00:26:29.080 speaking up and such?

00:26:31.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:26:31.740 So we're on X.

00:26:34.500 You can just look up

00:26:35.500 The Food Professor,

00:26:36.620 Food Professor.

00:26:38.200 I'm on LinkedIn,

00:26:39.300 of course,

00:26:39.780 and we have a podcast

00:26:40.820 called The Food Professor Podcast.

00:26:42.560 It's available

00:26:43.500 on Simplecast,

00:26:47.140 Apple,

00:26:49.280 Shopify,

00:26:50.540 and all the platforms

00:26:53.480 you're familiar with.

00:26:54.840 And so you can find out

00:26:56.860 all sorts of things

00:26:57.680 we're working on.

00:26:58.920 Well,

00:26:59.220 that's excellent,

00:26:59.860 Doctor.

00:27:00.200 Thank you again

00:27:01.060 for coming on the show again

00:27:02.580 and keep up the good fight.

00:27:04.200 Watching with interest,

00:27:05.360 as I said earlier,

00:27:06.240 we've got some crazy times happening,

00:27:08.220 but sometimes some good outcomes

00:27:09.360 can actually come out

00:27:10.160 of the insanity

00:27:10.680 if we could just think

00:27:11.460 rationally through it.

00:27:13.140 Exactly.

00:27:14.020 Thanks for inviting me, Corey.

00:27:15.380 Thank you.

00:27:16.940 So yeah, guys,

00:27:17.740 check them out.

00:27:18.520 As you can see,

00:27:19.160 yeah,

00:27:19.280 The Food Professor on X

00:27:21.560 and as well,

00:27:23.440 yes,

00:27:23.700 the podcast,

00:27:24.900 you know,

00:27:25.200 it's The Food Professor's Podcast.

00:27:26.860 You can get more extended discussion

00:27:28.580 on these things.

00:27:29.200 These issues are big

00:27:30.100 and you know,

00:27:30.600 things I don't like,

00:27:31.420 that's for sure.

00:27:32.300 And I hate,

00:27:33.640 one of the things I don't like

00:27:34.320 is puns actually,

00:27:35.260 but I can't help it

00:27:36.380 when it comes to supply management,

00:27:37.980 it is a sacred cow

00:27:39.200 and I don't,

00:27:39.700 you know,

00:27:39.840 it's the unintentional pun.

00:27:41.780 I can't stand sacred cows.

00:27:43.340 Why?

00:27:43.720 Why do we,

00:27:44.340 can we not even discuss it?

00:27:46.160 Dr. Charlebaugh was pretty polite about it,

00:27:48.240 but he got just blasted

00:27:50.520 for going into that issue

00:27:51.620 and they're very protective

00:27:52.720 and I mean,

00:27:53.220 I'm on X.

00:27:53.900 Those who know me on there,

00:27:54.920 Corey B. Morgan,

00:27:55.700 by the way,

00:27:56.000 if you really want to get into

00:27:56.920 the discussions of the fights,

00:27:57.880 that's my favorite playground.

00:27:59.500 But you can tell

00:28:01.180 they're searching the terms,

00:28:02.600 they're watching for it

00:28:03.780 and when supply management

00:28:04.940 comes up,

00:28:06.220 the defenders of it

00:28:07.120 come out of the woodwork

00:28:08.040 and they're vicious.

00:28:09.200 They are,

00:28:10.320 yes,

00:28:10.680 speaking of protectionist

00:28:11.700 and protective.

00:28:12.640 Why?

00:28:13.100 And it's not a mistake.

00:28:14.660 It's organized.

00:28:16.120 I mean,

00:28:16.320 these are dairy cartels

00:28:17.500 and it's not an exaggeration.

00:28:19.220 I know they're not

00:28:19.800 ruthless,

00:28:20.720 murderous cartels 0.94

00:28:21.540 like we saw in Colombia

00:28:22.380 with cocaine,

00:28:22.940 but it's the same thing.

00:28:23.920 It's a small group

00:28:25.680 that fixes

00:28:26.460 and controls the prices

00:28:27.700 and people don't understand

00:28:29.660 and realize

00:28:31.360 which supply management

00:28:32.740 is often enough

00:28:33.700 because again,

00:28:34.120 people are afraid

00:28:34.860 to discuss it.

00:28:35.540 It doesn't come up enough.

00:28:37.160 This is the system

00:28:37.880 in Canada, guys.

00:28:39.540 Governments provincially

00:28:40.500 issue quotas.

00:28:42.520 If you're a dairy farmer,

00:28:44.080 it is illegal

00:28:45.380 for you to produce

00:28:47.480 and sell a dairy product

00:28:48.940 without the government

00:28:50.040 issued quota for it.

00:28:51.800 If you sell more than that,

00:28:53.500 you will be charged.

00:28:55.240 That's how that works.

00:28:56.640 So they strangle

00:28:57.460 the amount of supply

00:28:59.060 so that they can artificially

00:29:00.740 keep the prices higher.

00:29:02.860 It's the opposite

00:29:03.780 of competition

00:29:04.460 and I get so frustrated

00:29:05.780 when I get conservatives,

00:29:08.240 people who call themselves

00:29:09.140 conservatives

00:29:09.540 saying that it's a good system.

00:29:10.860 It's not.

00:29:11.860 It's Soviet style.

00:29:13.160 It's as anti-capitalist,

00:29:14.820 anti-free market

00:29:16.220 as you could possibly get.

00:29:18.680 It really is.

00:29:19.920 And I get frustrated

00:29:21.460 with dairy farmers

00:29:22.980 get all upset

00:29:23.900 and everything.

00:29:24.460 Oh, we do a great job.

00:29:25.420 If you're doing

00:29:26.200 that great a job

00:29:26.960 and I'm sure

00:29:27.320 some of them are,

00:29:28.580 then you shouldn't need

00:29:29.620 to illegalize

00:29:30.860 the competition

00:29:31.480 and that's what they do.

00:29:32.740 And one of the things

00:29:33.440 that came up a lot,

00:29:35.040 if you might remember

00:29:35.580 a few years ago,

00:29:36.320 boy, they suppressed

00:29:37.220 that fast

00:29:37.680 and nobody can get

00:29:38.240 a quote from him

00:29:38.880 or talk to him anymore.

00:29:40.620 He got shoved off

00:29:41.920 to the sideline,

00:29:42.560 which is almost scary.

00:29:43.760 There was a dairy farmer

00:29:44.540 who showed a video

00:29:46.380 of thousands

00:29:47.440 and thousands

00:29:47.960 of gallons of milk

00:29:48.800 being dumped

00:29:49.260 in the drain

00:29:49.900 and it really gave

00:29:51.720 the visual to people

00:29:52.540 of just what's going

00:29:53.480 on with supply management.

00:29:55.060 And of course,

00:29:55.540 the supply management

00:29:56.200 loons went nuts,

00:29:57.320 but it was true

00:29:58.220 because you see,

00:29:59.180 again, he had produced,

00:30:00.160 he'd done a really good job,

00:30:01.200 the cattle were fed well,

00:30:03.360 you know,

00:30:03.600 the milk was flowing,

00:30:04.620 but the problem was

00:30:05.320 it was illegal

00:30:05.780 for him to sell

00:30:06.420 any more than

00:30:07.020 what his quota was,

00:30:08.200 so he had to dump

00:30:09.220 it down the drain.

00:30:10.140 There was nothing else

00:30:10.740 he could do.

00:30:11.080 They can't make cheese

00:30:11.760 with it and put it,

00:30:12.900 you know,

00:30:13.000 sell it somewhere else.

00:30:13.900 You can't give it

00:30:14.600 to a food bank.

00:30:15.440 You can't sell it

00:30:16.340 at a roadside milk stand.

00:30:18.260 You have to dump

00:30:19.060 at the ditch.

00:30:19.620 Some places might

00:30:20.340 feed it to pigs.

00:30:22.000 And, you know,

00:30:22.520 my wife grew up

00:30:23.420 in a dairy farm.

00:30:24.080 Her father had a

00:30:24.820 very small one.

00:30:25.800 You know,

00:30:25.920 back in those days,

00:30:26.540 the farms were a lot smaller.

00:30:28.140 He had a quota

00:30:28.860 for cream,

00:30:29.880 but not for milk.

00:30:32.000 And so, yeah,

00:30:32.560 he would skim the cream,

00:30:33.660 sell that,

00:30:34.080 it would supplement

00:30:34.500 the family farm,

00:30:35.640 and then you could

00:30:36.080 feed the family

00:30:36.740 some of the milk,

00:30:38.100 and otherwise,

00:30:38.700 you had to dump it.

00:30:40.060 You had to dump it. 1.00

00:30:41.400 What a stupid, 1.00

00:30:43.040 ridiculous system, 1.00

00:30:43.840 and we're still 0.99

00:30:44.480 defending it.

00:30:45.440 And this system

00:30:46.360 costs us

00:30:47.060 in a lot more ways

00:30:47.980 because others are saying

00:30:48.740 it's protecting

00:30:49.160 the family farm.

00:30:49.920 That's baloney.

00:30:50.720 The stats are

00:30:51.460 very clear right there.

00:30:52.880 In 1991,

00:30:53.660 we had some over

00:30:54.260 60,000 dairy farms

00:30:56.080 in Canada.

00:30:57.200 Now we've got 9,000

00:30:58.560 because these quotas

00:31:00.700 have become a commodity

00:31:01.820 in and of themselves.

00:31:03.760 Only very wealthy farmers,

00:31:06.520 large operations,

00:31:07.680 can afford

00:31:08.180 to buy up these quotas.

00:31:09.880 So the little guys

00:31:10.720 get crushed.

00:31:11.420 They get wiped out.

00:31:13.020 You can't open

00:31:13.840 a little cottage

00:31:14.740 industry dairy.

00:31:15.480 You can't open

00:31:15.980 a 50-cow dairy

00:31:17.500 and maybe just

00:31:18.240 make your own cheese

00:31:19.240 or do a few

00:31:19.820 small side things

00:31:20.500 because you would

00:31:20.860 have to get those

00:31:21.340 quotas,

00:31:21.680 and it's too high

00:31:22.220 priced.

00:31:23.120 So don't feed me

00:31:23.920 that baloney

00:31:24.620 that this system

00:31:25.480 supports the small

00:31:27.120 family farm.

00:31:27.740 It's totally the

00:31:28.460 opposite.

00:31:29.240 It's killing

00:31:29.840 the family farm.

00:31:31.520 And as Sylvain said,

00:31:32.760 let's start,

00:31:33.720 just start even,

00:31:35.740 with ripping down 0.70

00:31:36.600 then the provincial

00:31:37.160 barriers and just

00:31:38.240 let this get spread

00:31:39.140 across the whole

00:31:40.080 country.

00:31:40.480 Because isn't it

00:31:41.160 interesting with

00:31:42.360 Quebec, and I can't

00:31:43.020 remember what it is,

00:31:43.620 they got something

00:31:44.000 like 30%,

00:31:45.080 I might be corrected

00:31:46.240 by one of the

00:31:46.600 commenters,

00:31:46.980 about 30% or 40%

00:31:48.140 of Canada's dairy

00:31:49.920 industry is there,

00:31:51.680 even though they only

00:31:52.240 make up about 18%

00:31:53.580 of our population.

00:31:54.800 So it makes it a

00:31:55.460 hot-button issue,

00:31:56.560 of course,

00:31:57.040 because no federal

00:32:00.300 politician ever wants

00:32:01.240 to upset Quebec.

00:32:02.620 I mean, that's speaking

00:32:03.420 of sacred cows

00:32:04.180 within Canada, right?

00:32:05.160 They won't touch it.

00:32:06.360 I've had Polyab on

00:32:07.200 this show before,

00:32:08.240 and I asked him

00:32:08.840 about it before,

00:32:09.760 I appreciate his

00:32:10.600 honesty, he said

00:32:11.500 we won't touch it,

00:32:12.680 but I still would

00:32:13.420 rather he was honest

00:32:14.220 in saying it's time

00:32:14.820 to take it on.

00:32:15.540 And is there not a

00:32:16.160 better time than

00:32:16.700 right now?

00:32:18.040 So Trump is well

00:32:19.340 aware that dairy

00:32:20.220 supply management

00:32:20.880 system, I mean,

00:32:23.480 as I said earlier,

00:32:24.600 we've got tariffs,

00:32:25.820 Sylvain pointed that

00:32:26.760 out, you really

00:32:27.260 should follow them

00:32:27.800 on X, on some of

00:32:28.860 our stuff like

00:32:29.180 American butter

00:32:29.940 coming up to

00:32:30.640 Canada, and it's

00:32:31.200 something like a

00:32:31.620 325% tariff we

00:32:33.580 put on it to

00:32:34.200 protect our local

00:32:34.860 dairy industries.

00:32:36.320 It's absurd.

00:32:37.200 Look at all of

00:32:38.980 that great growing,

00:32:40.680 grazing, agricultural

00:32:42.140 land all across

00:32:43.620 the prairies.

00:32:45.100 Why isn't it

00:32:45.700 loaded with dairy

00:32:46.360 productions?

00:32:47.980 Well, because we

00:32:49.740 can't get the

00:32:50.440 quotas, they're all

00:32:51.260 in Quebec.

00:32:52.480 It's got to stop.

00:32:53.980 It's got to stop.

00:32:54.920 So Sylvain's

00:32:55.780 chipping at that.

00:32:56.520 Again, if we want

00:32:57.160 to be Team

00:32:57.840 Canada, Team

00:32:59.340 Canada needs to

00:33:02.100 tell Quebec to 1.00

00:33:02.840 go to hell. 1.00

00:33:03.860 That's the blunt 0.99

00:33:05.180 truth about it on

00:33:06.480 every level because

00:33:07.800 they aren't Team

00:33:08.340 Canada, they're Team

00:33:09.120 Quebec.

00:33:09.640 And you know what?

00:33:10.220 They've always been,

00:33:11.060 they're unapologetic

00:33:12.020 about it.

00:33:12.720 But that's enough.

00:33:13.920 As we talked about,

00:33:14.620 people realize, oh my

00:33:16.000 Lord, we're so

00:33:16.880 vulnerable as

00:33:17.440 Canadians now that we

00:33:18.120 got President Trump

00:33:18.840 jumping all over us

00:33:19.600 with tariffs and

00:33:20.260 pushing us around and

00:33:21.240 making demands.

00:33:22.760 Yes.

00:33:23.960 How would we become

00:33:24.960 more independent from

00:33:25.780 that?

00:33:26.540 Well, and some of them

00:33:27.440 realize, well, if we

00:33:28.080 got oil and gas

00:33:29.240 products to the coast,

00:33:30.140 those things that that 1.00

00:33:30.780 idiot Trudeau has been 1.00

00:33:31.660 fighting for 10 years, 1.00

00:33:32.820 that moron, we would be 1.00

00:33:35.220 able to say, well, 1.00

00:33:35.700 fine, we're going to

00:33:36.260 take our oil and gas,

00:33:37.080 we're going to sell it

00:33:37.520 to Europe, we're going

00:33:37.940 to sell it to Asia,

00:33:38.500 we're going to sell it

00:33:38.900 to India.

00:33:39.280 India's got the biggest 1.00

00:33:40.280 oil refinery on Earth.

00:33:42.140 We could be shipping it

00:33:42.940 there.

00:33:43.180 But what did we get?

00:33:44.560 Trudeau banned tankers.

00:33:46.300 He shut down the

00:33:47.180 Northern Gateway pipeline.

00:33:48.420 He regulated energy

00:33:49.500 east to death.

00:33:51.260 But now they're finally

00:33:52.340 realizing, some of them

00:33:53.520 saying, we better get

00:33:55.540 these pipes to the

00:33:56.860 coast.

00:33:58.020 Yes.

00:33:58.460 But guess who popped up

00:33:59.520 right away and said, no,

00:34:00.540 no, no, no, that's not

00:34:01.360 going to happen.

00:34:02.340 Quebec.

00:34:03.400 They said they're not

00:34:03.840 going to allow it.

00:34:04.260 So now you don't hear

00:34:05.440 it from the federal

00:34:05.840 politicians anymore.

00:34:07.020 Okay.

00:34:07.660 So now we're just going

00:34:08.340 to keep, and you know

00:34:09.200 what, 97% of our oil and

00:34:12.200 gas exports, the stuff

00:34:13.100 that actually leaves the

00:34:13.900 country, goes to the

00:34:14.880 USA.

00:34:15.820 And we get discounted on

00:34:17.600 it because of that.

00:34:18.540 When you only have one 0.99

00:34:19.500 customer, you're screwed. 0.93

00:34:23.440 It's a huge, huge issue. 0.99

00:34:26.200 But the big sticking point

00:34:28.060 is always Quebec. 0.92

00:34:30.160 Are we a country or not?

00:34:31.640 Look, I've always been an

00:34:33.940 advocate for independence.

00:34:34.980 That's nothing new out of

00:34:35.600 me.

00:34:36.540 So if we're not, fine,

00:34:38.860 let's move on with it.

00:34:39.660 Let's break into separate

00:34:40.460 regions.

00:34:40.880 Let's make our own trade 0.98

00:34:41.580 deals.

00:34:41.860 Let's get on with it.

00:34:42.780 Cut our own deals to get

00:34:46.180 our products to the coast.

00:34:47.900 Another area, you know,

00:34:48.880 realizing our ports.

00:34:52.800 Thanks again, Trudeau.

00:34:55.020 Vancouver has, it's a

00:34:56.240 busy, busy port, but it's

00:34:57.340 also the second slowest,

00:34:58.980 most efficient, inefficient

00:35:00.360 port on earth for

00:35:01.920 shipping.

00:35:02.660 A lot of Canadian 0.60

00:35:03.300 products actually end up

00:35:04.040 going to Seattle and then

00:35:05.200 they'll bring it up to

00:35:05.740 Canada because Vancouver's

00:35:06.880 so bad.

00:35:07.200 Why is Vancouver so bad?

00:35:08.360 Well, because it's been

00:35:08.920 year after year after year

00:35:10.720 of labor strife.

00:35:12.260 The unions are constantly

00:35:13.460 going on strike and

00:35:14.540 holding up the ports and 0.98

00:35:15.700 they're corrupt as hell 0.98

00:35:16.440 out there, guys. 0.99

00:35:17.960 So one of the things

00:35:19.760 they've been fighting is

00:35:20.480 automation.

00:35:21.220 No, we've got to keep

00:35:21.840 those bodies working.

00:35:22.800 So no, we will make it

00:35:23.440 illegal to upgrade.

00:35:24.760 I mean, why don't we just

00:35:25.300 get horses and carriages, 0.99

00:35:26.380 you clowns? 0.99

00:35:26.840 I mean, the Teamsters would 1.00

00:35:27.540 be happy enough to see

00:35:28.280 that, wouldn't they?

00:35:28.780 We've got to take some

00:35:30.480 things on here.

00:35:31.520 If you want to increase

00:35:32.980 our ability to export or

00:35:34.820 import other goods, we've

00:35:36.760 got to take on Quebec and

00:35:38.140 we've got to take on those

00:35:38.940 unions.

00:35:39.320 Why are the unions suddenly

00:35:40.460 so strong?

00:35:41.460 I mean, they've always been

00:35:42.160 strong, but why more so?

00:35:44.020 Because Prime Minister

00:35:44.940 Dingbat cut a deal with 0.96

00:35:46.540 Jagmeet Singh where any

00:35:48.640 federally regulated industry,

00:35:51.380 it is now illegal for them

00:35:52.820 to have replacement workers

00:35:54.260 if there's a strike.

00:35:55.680 Well, that just gave all of

00:35:57.320 the power to the unions,

00:35:58.880 all of it.

00:35:59.960 So because of ports,

00:36:01.600 Teamsters, all of that,

00:36:02.560 that's all federally

00:36:03.800 regulated. 0.97

00:36:04.400 So when those clowns go on 0.98

00:36:05.280 strike and they're 0.98

00:36:05.740 constantly going on strike,

00:36:07.880 port authorities are 0.97

00:36:08.560 screwed. 1.00

00:36:09.240 They can't, they are 0.98

00:36:10.420 immediately shut down.

00:36:11.780 You can't even get

00:36:12.420 somebody to unload a

00:36:13.360 container until this

00:36:14.780 thing is over. 0.96

00:36:15.700 That's ridiculous. 0.68

00:36:16.560 It's putting all the 0.96

00:36:17.520 power on one side.

00:36:19.060 So again, if we want to

00:36:22.480 become less reliant on the

00:36:23.900 United States, less

00:36:24.660 dependent, less pushed

00:36:25.580 around the other big port,

00:36:26.860 guess where it's at?

00:36:27.640 Montreal.

00:36:29.260 But until you get those

00:36:30.480 unions in line, we're not

00:36:32.680 going to up that.

00:36:33.720 So we're talking a great

00:36:36.020 game, Team Canada, but 0.99

00:36:38.040 we're playing crap. 0.99

00:36:39.700 We're playing terribly. 0.99

00:36:40.660 So yes, all the premiers are

00:36:41.640 down in Washington, but what

00:36:42.640 can they offer?

00:36:43.820 When President Trump says,

00:36:44.800 fine, but I want to see free

00:36:45.720 access for dairy, they said,

00:36:46.640 no, we can't do that.

00:36:47.820 Okay.

00:36:48.560 Well, here come your tariffs.

00:36:50.540 What are we going to do?

00:36:51.720 What are we going to do about

00:36:52.360 it?

00:36:52.620 Nothing.

00:36:52.820 We lost a big deal with

00:36:54.200 the UK over the supply

00:36:55.380 management the other year

00:36:56.720 as well over Canadian

00:36:57.960 cheese going out. 1.00

00:36:59.220 Yeah, really stupid 1.00

00:37:00.360 Canadian cheese. 1.00

00:37:04.100 So we were blocking UK

00:37:05.980 cheese, I think was the

00:37:06.940 deal or something.

00:37:07.520 Either way, an entire

00:37:08.420 trade deal with the United

00:37:09.680 Kingdom fell apart over

00:37:10.960 cheese because our

00:37:12.760 politicians are such 1.00

00:37:13.700 pussies. 1.00

00:37:14.360 They will not take on 1.00

00:37:15.820 Quebec when it comes to 0.94

00:37:16.720 supply management.

00:37:18.760 So either get crater,

00:37:20.100 give up, split this

00:37:21.300 country up, or have that

00:37:24.180 federal government assert

00:37:25.040 itself.

00:37:25.260 So people call me out

00:37:25.860 and say, well, what?

00:37:26.340 You suddenly want

00:37:26.860 centralized power?

00:37:27.500 No, no, I don't.

00:37:29.740 But I don't like this

00:37:30.620 double standard, this

00:37:31.320 hybrid, because it's got 0.95

00:37:32.080 to be one way or the

00:37:32.600 other.

00:37:33.000 Are we a federation?

00:37:34.160 Because there's only so

00:37:35.060 many benefits you get from

00:37:36.360 being a large federation.

00:37:38.660 One of those is that

00:37:41.180 ability to trade within

00:37:42.340 your federation.

00:37:43.540 That ability to not have

00:37:45.180 another province say, we

00:37:46.240 won't allow your product to

00:37:47.720 come across our turf.

00:37:49.960 That ability to say, your

00:37:51.400 labor can come here and

00:37:52.380 work, or this person can

00:37:53.340 work there, do that.

00:37:55.020 And we don't have that.

00:37:56.640 And the sticking point is

00:37:57.500 almost always Quebec.

00:37:59.100 But I mean, it's all

00:37:59.680 sorts of other things.

00:38:00.560 Don't forget, it was only

00:38:01.520 a few years ago, a guy, I

00:38:02.960 think it was New Brunswick,

00:38:03.760 actually got arrested.

00:38:05.620 Why?

00:38:06.120 Because he bought beer in

00:38:07.200 Quebec and tried to drive

00:38:08.220 into New Brunswick with

00:38:09.100 it.

00:38:09.500 Not across an international

00:38:10.520 border, a provincial border.

00:38:12.120 And he got convicted on it.

00:38:13.880 Then we're not a

00:38:14.440 federation.

00:38:15.060 We are not a proper

00:38:16.380 federation if that happens.

00:38:17.520 We might as well put up

00:38:18.100 borders.

00:38:18.400 Hey, and I'm not fully

00:38:19.480 averse to that.

00:38:21.100 So when you wonder why

00:38:22.300 some people, they might be

00:38:24.480 upset with that 51st state

00:38:25.820 talk and all that and

00:38:26.700 everything going on, but

00:38:27.500 then once they start

00:38:28.100 thinking about it, you

00:38:28.840 know, what are we

00:38:30.740 gaining in not joining the

00:38:33.080 United States, right?

00:38:34.500 So if you guys want to

00:38:35.980 build one central country

00:38:38.100 that's feeling united, you

00:38:39.860 got to take on those

00:38:40.760 Frenchmen.

00:38:41.480 You got to find some

00:38:42.160 courage and you got to lay

00:38:43.360 down the law because our

00:38:44.040 constitution actually makes

00:38:45.100 it very clear.

00:38:45.700 They're not supposed to be

00:38:46.740 able to hinder these

00:38:47.320 things, but you got to

00:38:48.700 have the knackers as a

00:38:50.620 government to take that

00:38:51.400 on.

00:38:51.720 Now we don't even have a

00:38:52.540 government as it is.

00:38:53.900 Even if Trudeau suddenly

00:38:54.720 found courage, he won't

00:38:56.680 have enough time in office

00:38:57.720 to take care of it.

00:38:58.920 And I'm hoping and

00:38:59.940 thinking that Carney, and

00:39:02.100 it's going to be a

00:39:02.560 coronation for him when he

00:39:03.560 gets in, that he's not in

00:39:05.480 for very long.

00:39:06.180 I mean, we're still in

00:39:07.880 flux.

00:39:08.380 You know, what's killing us

00:39:09.260 right now is instability.

00:39:10.520 That's one of the

00:39:11.080 frustrations out of Trump.

00:39:12.000 You just don't know where

00:39:12.660 he's coming from.

00:39:13.420 I mean, businesses hate

00:39:14.920 taxes.

00:39:15.760 Investors hate taxes, but

00:39:17.260 the thing they hate the

00:39:18.000 most is unpredictability,

00:39:20.020 instability.

00:39:20.600 And we don't know.

00:39:21.280 We don't know if we're

00:39:21.800 going to have a

00:39:22.160 tariff on in a couple

00:39:22.920 of weeks or not have a

00:39:23.640 tariff on or which

00:39:24.380 products or which won't.

00:39:25.880 But the other thing we

00:39:26.560 don't have is stability in

00:39:27.780 Ottawa.

00:39:28.180 We don't know who's going

00:39:28.880 to be the bloody prime 0.68

00:39:29.640 minister month to month 0.97

00:39:30.500 right now.

00:39:31.740 And as I said earlier, it

00:39:34.160 looks to me and the

00:39:35.280 rumors, Singh's going to

00:39:36.460 cut a deal.

00:39:37.240 Carney's going to drag this

00:39:38.140 out all the way until

00:39:39.660 fall, if not longer.

00:39:42.660 Yeah, you know, another

00:39:43.940 scary thought.

00:39:44.900 Constitutionally, Canada,

00:39:46.080 we could drag it out to

00:39:47.120 fall of 2026 before we

00:39:49.040 get the chance to vote.

00:39:50.740 That's how screwed up our 0.67

00:39:51.820 system is.

00:39:53.480 And what's going on?

00:39:56.260 Guess what?

00:39:56.700 The liberals are surging

00:39:57.580 in the polls.

00:39:58.300 At first, it looked like

00:39:59.020 it was just crazy Frank

00:39:59.900 Graves, who's always been

00:40:00.960 inconsistent with his

00:40:02.140 ecoist company and very

00:40:03.260 biased.

00:40:03.760 But no, we're starting to

00:40:04.520 see a number of polls now

00:40:05.440 pointing out saying, no,

00:40:06.480 you know what?

00:40:07.800 Canadians actually are

00:40:08.660 kind of warming up to the

00:40:09.560 liberals again.

00:40:10.240 Yeah, all of this, all of

00:40:11.320 this abuse, all of this

00:40:12.240 mess, all these carbon

00:40:13.600 taxes, house prices

00:40:14.920 through the roof, mass

00:40:16.180 immigration screwing up 1.00

00:40:17.440 everything.

00:40:18.280 The liberals admitting

00:40:19.320 pretty much that everything

00:40:20.280 we've done in the last 10

00:40:21.300 years has been a screw up.

00:40:23.180 But please forgive us.

00:40:24.200 We won't do it again this

00:40:25.300 time in Ontario and Quebec

00:40:26.460 say, sure, we'll give you

00:40:28.140 another shot.

00:40:28.760 You change the face at the

00:40:29.640 front of you.

00:40:31.460 I don't know if that, you

00:40:33.540 know, we've got crazy times.

00:40:35.200 I think some of that is just

00:40:36.940 again due to people feeling

00:40:38.560 they got to rally around

00:40:39.620 their local leadership in a

00:40:41.180 time when we do have an

00:40:42.060 outside threat.

00:40:42.700 And I get people, you

00:40:44.900 know, upset with me when

00:40:45.760 I'm critical of Trump, but

00:40:46.520 I am critical of Trump

00:40:47.400 too.

00:40:47.760 As I said, the guy's a

00:40:48.520 bull in a China shop and 1.00

00:40:49.480 he's using clumsy, stupid 1.00

00:40:50.880 economic policies to get 1.00

00:40:52.120 what he wants, which in the

00:40:53.780 long run, I don't think is

00:40:54.760 a bright way to do it.

00:40:55.860 And we should push back.

00:40:57.080 We should be upset.

00:40:58.300 We have been assaulted by

00:41:00.100 Trump.

00:41:00.440 We have been demonized by

00:41:01.420 Trump.

00:41:01.820 Trump has been lying.

00:41:02.980 That's nothing new out of

00:41:03.800 Trump.

00:41:04.120 We know that too.

00:41:05.020 People say, oh, it's just

00:41:05.680 part of his negotiation.

00:41:06.340 No, he's lying.

00:41:07.500 And I'm sick of people

00:41:08.180 brushing that aside to

00:41:09.200 think lying should be an

00:41:10.300 acceptable tactic in

00:41:12.020 negotiations with things.

00:41:13.200 And which lie are we

00:41:13.840 talking about?

00:41:14.580 When he keeps going on

00:41:15.540 about how we're subsidizing

00:41:16.520 Canada 200 billion a

00:41:18.540 year.

00:41:18.920 Guys, that's a trade

00:41:19.920 deficit.

00:41:20.520 That's not a subsidy and

00:41:21.900 it needs to be called out

00:41:23.060 all the time.

00:41:26.480 You know, here's one.

00:41:28.400 Sven, oh, the typical 1.00

00:41:29.340 Trump, so stupid, eh? 1.00

00:41:30.640 No, not stupid, but clumsy. 1.00

00:41:32.740 Yes. 1.00

00:41:34.000 Unnuanced.

00:41:34.680 Yes.

00:41:35.080 Self-serving.

00:41:36.580 Yes.

00:41:37.760 And he is the man we're

00:41:38.720 going to have to deal with

00:41:39.920 for the next four years.

00:41:44.280 And this is a fun one.

00:41:45.140 See, this is where the fun

00:41:46.080 with the commenters come.

00:41:47.000 So Sven now comes, says

00:41:48.020 the guy at the desk playing

00:41:48.960 like he's some freedom

00:41:49.640 fighter.

00:41:50.340 Wall.

00:41:51.140 Oh, good one, man.

00:41:52.980 Yeah, the guy with his

00:41:54.020 picture on here with his

00:41:55.180 name out there, Sven,

00:41:56.280 anonymous Twitter person.

00:41:58.580 I'm doing more for freedom

00:41:59.760 than you ever bloody have. 0.59

00:42:01.340 But that's fine.

00:42:01.920 We can have the

00:42:02.420 discussions.

00:42:03.120 Oh, he's unfollowing me.

00:42:04.780 He's unfollowing me.

00:42:05.800 So there, Sven has laid

00:42:08.180 down the hammer and has

00:42:08.940 unfollowed me.

00:42:10.020 I fear I've only got

00:42:11.980 68,000 others.

00:42:13.860 So this is what the

00:42:15.560 discussion comes to, though.

00:42:16.440 This is what social media

00:42:17.220 does get to the lowest

00:42:18.280 common denominator, right?

00:42:19.860 You know, it gets to the 0.63

00:42:21.240 foolishness to the, and hey,

00:42:23.020 I play on X rough all the 0.98

00:42:25.220 time.

00:42:25.860 That's the way it goes.

00:42:26.920 But when we're talking about

00:42:27.840 world leaders now, then we

00:42:29.960 got to watch what we're

00:42:30.800 doing.

00:42:31.200 So yes, whatever our leaders,

00:42:34.640 whether they're provincially

00:42:35.460 or federally, are doing, you

00:42:38.600 don't want to roll over to

00:42:39.640 Trump because, yes, again, he's

00:42:41.040 trying to push us into a

00:42:42.440 corner.

00:42:42.840 But at the same time, you've

00:42:43.780 got to get realistic. 1.00

00:42:44.540 There's some of the stupid 1.00

00:42:45.620 discussion I've seen online as 1.00

00:42:47.280 well, right?

00:42:48.060 I mean, people saying we will,

00:42:49.660 you know, we'll get armed and

00:42:51.700 we'll take on the, you know,

00:42:53.060 okay, I mean, even a very

00:42:56.240 respected senior columnist in

00:42:58.940 Calgary recently wrote that

00:43:00.760 Canada's got to beef up its

00:43:02.440 army so we could withstand a

00:43:03.800 possible invasion for the

00:43:04.720 United States.

00:43:05.860 Really?

00:43:07.320 I mean, there's levels and 1.00

00:43:08.480 levels of stupid going on 1.00

00:43:09.380 here, right? 1.00

00:43:10.040 An overreaction and 0.90

00:43:10.960 foolishness.

00:43:11.960 For one, there's not going to 0.99

00:43:13.400 be a military invasion into

00:43:14.560 Canada.

00:43:14.980 Trump is using economic tools

00:43:16.620 to get what he wants.

00:43:17.940 There's no appetite to come

00:43:19.200 and invade Canada.

00:43:20.760 It's not going to happen.

00:43:21.680 He doesn't need to.

00:43:22.560 I don't believe he wants to,

00:43:23.860 though it is hard to figure

00:43:24.620 out what exactly he ever

00:43:25.940 wants, but it's not going to

00:43:27.160 happen.

00:43:27.740 And the other aspect is get

00:43:29.140 realistic.

00:43:30.860 Get realistic, guys.

00:43:32.600 We might have some great

00:43:33.380 people within our forces, but

00:43:35.020 our forces are piddly.

00:43:37.300 They're next to nothing.

00:43:38.040 They're dysfunctional.

00:43:39.020 They're outdated.

00:43:40.140 And even if it was a good,

00:43:42.160 well-tuned armed forces we

00:43:44.080 had here, it would just be so

00:43:47.180 microscopically small, we

00:43:48.600 would be walked over within

00:43:49.820 days.

00:43:51.000 I listen to Warren Kinsella,

00:43:52.860 a commentator online, a

00:43:54.580 former liberal advisor, and

00:43:55.940 there's some of the funniness

00:43:56.840 out of it because he was

00:43:57.540 putting out the poll online.

00:43:58.660 Would you be willing to take

00:43:59.700 up arms and fight to the

00:44:00.700 death to defend Canada?

00:44:01.840 Nice jingoism, Warren.

00:44:04.260 You were also one of the same 0.65

00:44:05.700 buttholes who was pushing for 1.00

00:44:07.280 gun control and taking away

00:44:08.680 every rifle from Canadians who 1.00

00:44:10.220 wanted them.

00:44:11.480 How would people take up arms

00:44:13.220 if they'd have listened to you

00:44:14.520 and given up their firearms

00:44:15.860 years ago?

00:44:16.520 Well, it wouldn't have

00:44:17.160 happened, right?

00:44:18.900 You guys, sorry, you already

00:44:20.740 blew your chance there.

00:44:23.780 The very people that you berated

00:44:26.300 as rednecks and, you know, the 0.72

00:44:28.920 whole works and crazed firearm

00:44:30.700 owners.

00:44:31.200 Now you're saying that Canada can

00:44:32.560 suddenly have some sort of

00:44:33.760 militia, revolutionary type of

00:44:35.740 guard going on here?

00:44:37.180 Not going to happen, Warren.

00:44:39.140 A little consistency.

00:44:40.180 But, well, what are we going to

00:44:45.000 do?

00:44:45.360 They are interesting times.

00:44:46.980 So, let's see.

00:44:48.140 What else have we got going on?

00:44:49.580 At least one thing it'll give

00:44:50.560 Trump, you know, so I see some

00:44:52.380 people howling, oh, I was

00:44:53.460 critical of the orange man.

00:44:54.640 I get over it.

00:44:55.140 I'm going to continue to be

00:44:55.900 critical of the orange man.

00:44:57.160 But I'll give him credit.

00:44:57.900 One thing, he's actually spoken

00:44:59.260 on one of the blasphemies, which

00:45:00.780 is paper straws. 1.00

00:45:01.980 He has pointed out how stupid 1.00

00:45:03.660 they are, how pointless they are. 1.00

00:45:05.620 And he's getting back to

00:45:07.060 plastic.

00:45:07.560 You know what?

00:45:08.580 Hey, power to you.

00:45:10.660 Good.

00:45:11.340 I don't want to see any more

00:45:12.540 paper straws as well.

00:45:13.780 So, Trump's had one solid

00:45:14.780 policy victory.

00:45:15.820 We'll see what happens.

00:45:16.520 We're in for an interesting

00:45:17.240 couple of years yet.

00:45:18.400 All right.

00:45:19.240 Thanks for tuning in.

00:45:20.140 That's the time I got today,

00:45:21.000 guys.

00:45:21.360 The pipeline's going to be on

00:45:22.380 tonight.

00:45:22.660 We'll be up on a panel

00:45:23.380 discussing and breaking down a

00:45:24.680 few more things.

00:45:25.480 Plus, Jen's going to have 1.00

00:45:26.340 another episode on Hannaford

00:45:27.860 while Nigel takes a well-deserved

00:45:29.360 break.

00:45:30.120 And I'll be back next week with

00:45:31.740 more discussions, more guests,

00:45:33.480 and more issues.

00:45:34.380 So, thank you for tuning in

00:45:35.440 this week, guys, and we'll see

00:45:36.280 you on the next one.

00:45:40.180 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - February 16, 2025

Cory Morgan Show. It's time to MAFA Gaza

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