The people on the streets of Canada are putting themselves and other citizens in danger every day. Activists and politicians dance around the problem, using euphemisms and euphemisms, refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by unchecked addiction, and making the catastrophe worse.
00:02:14.720It's a harsh term, and that's why I'm using it.
00:02:16.900It's purposeful because it represents a harsh reality, and I want to tear the sugar coating off of it.
00:02:21.520People addicted to substances who live on the streets of Canada are putting themselves and other citizens in danger every day.
00:02:27.860Activists and bureaucrats and politicians dancing around the problem using euphemisms and euphemisms refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by unchecked addiction are killing people and making the catastrophe worse.
00:02:40.080I mean, unless the person's blind, they've noticed an explosion in the growth of street people in the last decade.
00:02:45.380We never used to see that types of street encampments or tent encampments have sprung up all over the place, and we never had to deal with the zombie-like groups of strung-out souls congregating at transit facilities and parks, alleys, schoolyards, every corner of the city centers.
00:03:00.360The vast majority of these people, and this is what we've got to get down to, they're either addicts or suffering from mental health disorders, or both.
00:03:07.260If we want to help these people, we've got to begin by accepting what their conditions are.
00:03:10.960Civic politicians and their associated bureaucrats are the worst. They use every term they can to deny reality.
00:03:17.120People went from being called homeless to unwell to unhoused to my personal favorite, vulnerable people.
00:03:24.540Well, these vulnerable people stabbed people in two separate incidents at the same LRT station in Calgary last week.
00:03:29.960These vulnerable people have set brush fires at their encampments, and they have propane tanks there.
00:03:34.700They've also caused spikes in property crimes as they steal anything they can to feed their addiction, and they create a thriving market for organized crime as they consume illicit drugs.
00:03:47.220Look, I don't want to crap on addicts here.
00:03:49.360The people on the streets need our compassion, and they need our help.
00:03:52.160We have a social obligation to help the folks suffering out there, and funds directed towards addiction treatment and expanding long-term mental health facilities are dollars where it well spent.
00:04:00.640We won't be able to help them, though, if we keep pretending that addiction isn't a problem.
00:04:05.740It was maddening watching Calgary News this week as legacy outlets reported on a vandalism rampage committed by an addict where he did tens of thousands of dollars of damage to cars.
00:04:15.660And I watched them get a quote from an idiot advocate for the homeless, talking about how this was an issue caused by high rents.
00:04:27.380The delusional dolts from the enablement cult have been blaming the explosion of crime and street-person populations on everything from capitalism to racism to climate change, all while refusing to admit it's the damn addiction.
00:04:39.340A late-stage addict, whether it's fentanyl, meth, heroin, or crack, is incapable of finding a job or maintaining a home.
00:04:46.220They do indeed need to be taken from the streets if they're to be treated, but they aren't in any condition to live within any form of long-term housing unless they've been treated, despite what smooth-brained housing-first activists claim.
00:04:56.520Another term that should be stricken from all public discourse is social disorder.
00:05:02.000The proper term is crime, and it's getting out of control.
00:05:05.420Hatchet attacks, robberies, and fentanyl dealing aren't a disorder issue.
00:05:11.280Apologists for the havoc they have fostered in the streets through addiction-enablement policies often try to blame citizens by saying it's a perception of unsafety.
00:05:19.620Really? You know, when people, a senior or a woman, has to run the gauntlet of addicts in various states of frenzy just to get to work?
00:05:26.360It's more than just a perception of unsafety, and they shouldn't have to deal with it.
00:05:30.180In Nanaimo, the local government went full-enablement ideology and managed to create one of the most dangerous small cities in Canada.
00:05:36.320While the city has a beautiful backdrop, it has become a dump.
00:05:38.680Because the fools in city administrations felt the risk was only a perception issue, they allowed an addiction-enablement facility to be set up next to their city hall.
00:05:46.720Now the imbeciles are calling for a fence to be built around city hall because they're surrounded by out-of-control addicts, and they feel unsafe.
00:06:27.140I don't know why I put those words in my own monologues, they just kill me.
00:06:29.200In urban areas, the ambulance constantly responds to overdoses.
00:06:32.660Meanwhile, people suffer and potentially die waiting emergency services and hospital spaces because they're tied up with addicts.
00:06:38.920The addiction epidemic is only going to get worse as authorities refuse to acknowledge the realities associated with it.
00:06:45.220If we do truly care about the addicts, we've got to start speaking bluntly about it and deal with it directly, even if it means forcible confinement.
00:06:51.440It's a complex problem and won't be solved by simplistic souls who have the courage to call a junkie a junkie.
00:06:56.680No serious social problem has ever been solved with Pollyanna attitudes and euphemisms.
00:07:02.140So take that and put it in your crap pipe.
00:20:40.420I think voters should just wake up and start firing these idiots.
00:20:44.020You know, Chow in Toronto, Gondek in Calgary, Sohi in Edmonton.
00:20:48.960Instead, we've got battles going on in Alberta with Devin Driesian, our transportation minister, battling with, I think he's meeting with Gondek today on that.
00:20:57.520About bike lanes in Calgary because it's interfering with traffic.
00:21:00.440So is it a provincial thing where transportation and traffic is their authority or is it city thing because it's city streets?
00:23:23.620I'm fighting on my charter rights for free movement and free press.
00:23:28.200My court date's been set for the first court date on that anyways, October 16th.
00:23:32.360Maybe that'll probably, you know, you see, I would say normally that would be thrown out of court because it's a stupid charge and their own law is stupid.
00:23:38.880And you don't need to be a lawyer to realize that.
00:23:40.980It's just the local chief and council pretty upset that I showed that a First Nations ban that got $1.2 billion from Justin Trudeau has everybody living in shacks and garbage for some reason.
00:23:51.980So people are kind of wondering where the money went.
00:23:55.220So rather than answer the question, they've charged me with trespassing for daring to drive on a public highway.
00:31:57.580Because I'm just seeing that he seems to be throwing it out there but backing it off as soon as any opposition sort of rises up against it.
00:32:04.000Well, there's conditionality to everything he's doing.
00:32:06.920You know, if you want a pipeline, you have to have consensus, which we're not going to get.
00:32:11.960If you want a pipeline, you have to decarbonize.
00:32:14.020If you want a pipeline, you know, someone else has got to try to pay for it.
00:32:19.920If you want a pipeline, you listen, we built one, and it's great.
00:32:23.660It's doing great things, except it costs us 50 billion bucks, thanks to BC and the other miscreants who spent a lot of time trying to block a pipeline that had the signature of the Canadian government on it, which isn't worth its weight in gold, which is discouraging investments.
00:32:37.080Look, I think it's come down to a very simple thing.
00:32:39.100But this September, to use an old Shakespearean, the place, the thing where we'll catch the king, he's got to come out and show what he is, really, once and for all.
00:32:48.500Because we have the Mark Carney that is against fossil fuels, against hydrocarbons, against the very thing that maintains our standard of living in this country.
00:32:55.680Like it or not, and by the way, I'm from Toronto.
00:33:15.880Within a year, there's going to be, what, a 20% sales bar that they have to hit.
00:33:21.760It's just insane, you know, telling private businesses this is what you have to sell and how much of it or there's going to be consequences.
00:33:27.880You know, when Trump got elected, everybody was worried about tariffs.
00:33:30.720I was more worried about the EV mandate out the door, which meant my province had spent a lot of money, along with the federal government, and basically, you know, wet the pole with respects to a lot of money we didn't have to build things that no one wants, that can't afford, and the United States isn't going to buy.
00:34:00.060They didn't go for the, you know, the flavor of the day with EVs.
00:34:03.900They know that, yeah, people, for some people, over-glorified golf carts are a cool thing to have, and maybe they're fun, and they're, you know, computers on wheels.
00:34:12.760But for practical reasons, and for a cool country like Canada, they don't work, and now we don't have a market in the United States in which to sell batteries and auto parts, much less manufactured auto parts.
00:34:26.080And here in Ontario, our number one sector is the auto sector, and it's now in peril.
00:34:30.080So thanks, Doug, to Doug Ford and his, you know, kissing up to the federal liberals on this stupid EV mandate, which is really a recipe for disaster for the country and for the province.
00:34:39.560And, you know, it's not lost, I think, on people in Western Canada.
00:34:42.900Canola farmers and others have had to take enormous hits in terms of tariffs by China because we're not allowing them to bring in their cheaper made.
00:34:50.380And they've got a 15-year advantage in building EVs.
00:34:54.180They know that they can't beat us in terms of internal combustion engines, which is where we ought to be going, which is where the consumer is going in this country unless they can, you know, have EVs shoved down their throats.
00:35:03.240Well, and that's where we do get a bit worried out here in the West.
00:35:07.460I mean, honestly, as much as we're having some regional issues, and I like to take my shots at the voting patterns of Central Canada, I don't want their economy to crater because the more Central Canada's economy craters, the more carny dips into the West's resources to try and pay the bills.
00:35:22.020I mean, we all do better if our industries are doing well where they are.
00:35:26.160And it just looks like he's taking a stick to the automotive sector out there.
00:35:34.280It will be catastrophic, and they will leave.
00:35:37.540Toyota, again, being the number one, you know, maker of vehicles, isn't really worrying too much about EVs, didn't want to go for the grift.
00:35:45.080And now we have the mayors of various cities across Canada, auto city mayors now running a letter to the prime minister and to his minister saying EV mandates are going to kill our cities.
00:36:02.900They've done so with the emissions caps and a bunch of other things.
00:36:05.740There's a cost of being foolish and trendy, and that's going to cost people real jobs.
00:36:10.760And so, yeah, maybe Mark Carney thinks it's cool to go, you know, dip into and make the country, go put the country further in debt.
00:36:20.120But I don't think bond rating agencies are going to put up with that nonsense much longer.
00:36:23.120I think we're going to see a significant credit downgrade, the likes of which is going to affect even the Tony types in downtown parts of this world when they have to renew their mortgages at much higher rates rather than falling down, which many had expected and hoped for.
00:36:34.940Well, and then people should realize as well, then, you know, they don't necessarily watch those sorts of things.
00:36:41.460When we get those credit downgrades, what the impact is, is our national debt suddenly becomes a heck of a lot more expensive.
00:36:47.860And we are already, I believe the Taxpayers Federation, Franco always likes to put it, you know, we're losing like a hospital a day worth of money right now on interest payments, essentially.
00:36:58.180Or the interest alone on our national debt is more than the transfers for health care going to every province.
00:37:04.440And if we get our credit downgraded, that's only going to become worse.
00:37:08.420And if we don't start selling our products to the rest of the world, because we've spent 10 years shutting down the infrastructure that would get our most important and valued 9 to 15 percent of your GDP, oil and gas.
00:37:19.160So we can't get those to the market, we're done.
00:37:20.460And instead, yeah, we can send it to the United States, sell it for three bucks a million cubic feet, and then they turn around, LNG it for 15, 16 bucks.
00:37:27.860No wonder Trump made a big deal, but he's doing it on the backs of Canadian resources.
00:37:32.080I suspect that Canadians are really starting to smarten up finally.
00:37:35.500They are starting to realize that you have to build pipelines in order to sustain your standard of living.
00:37:40.120The Germanys, the South Koreas, the Japans, the Greece, take your pick, Latvia, Lithuania, are not coming to Canada for our AI or for our vehicles.
00:37:48.780They're coming here for our oil and gas, and we're not prepared to give to them.
00:37:53.100In the meantime, you and I and our children are going to have to be faced, and possibly grandchildren, with debts we will never be able to repay.
00:39:28.640Look, I'm in downtown Toronto right now.
00:39:30.500There's something called the CNE, Canadian National Exhibition.
00:39:33.340It's been going on for 160 years or something.
00:39:35.880There were 4,000 jobs part-time for two weeks, three weeks.
00:39:40.88055,000 people showed up for 4,000 jobs.
00:39:43.780That's how desperate the situation has become in this country.
00:39:45.920Anybody who's still friendly and cool and wants to deny and thinks it's all about climate and that we can spend without consequence and give grift and money to every Tom, Dick and Harry foundation, organization, green group out there and someone looking for more money to mooch.
00:40:00.520Which, the game is over, the cupboards are bare, and we now have to fish or cod bait, as I said earlier.
00:40:06.980Either you sell more oil, get it to market pronto, or you falter as a nation financially.
00:40:12.540Yeah, well, and beyond that, I mean, kind of pivoting back to the domestic markets for our automotive sectors.
00:40:18.580Speaking, you know, of giving a chill to investment or wanting to expand, when we've got essentially a ban on conventional vehicles coming 10 years away now, it's not that long.
00:40:30.580Let's just say, for whatever reason, everybody in Canada said, yes, you know what, I want to go with it.
00:40:48.880It's not going to come in time, but I can tell you on January 1st, car dealers in every community across this country are going to be worried that if one of every five cars they sell isn't EV, they're going to get dinged with a $20,000 per unit tax.
00:41:02.320So the liberals are going to tax the daylight set of car dealers.
00:41:04.720So if you're a car salesman, you think this is kind of cool and nice, you know, full well at the back of your loft are a lot of EVs that are not selling.
00:41:10.760Because people won't buy them unless they get subsidies.
00:41:13.280They won't build infrastructure unless they get subsidies.
00:41:15.360They won't even build them unless they get subsidies.
00:41:18.080This makes no sense whatsoever, including economics.
00:41:22.100But from another perspective, if we think we have the money to go spend on trinkets that a few handful of people in downtown parts of this country think is cool, or that, you know, in February and March, these things work out well, I always say, take your iPhone, take your smartphone, put it out in the middle of winter in Alberta or northern Ontario.
00:41:39.360See how long the battery lasts in those kind of conditions.
00:41:41.340The same thing for the technology that's there, we can wish all the wonderful things we want about electric vehicles, they're impractical, they're unreliable.
00:41:48.580And unfortunately, they're too expensive.
00:41:50.540And for a lot of car dealers and Canadians, the harsh reality begins in just a few months.
00:41:55.140And if we don't get our act around suspending this EV mandate, there's going to be hell to pay, and we're going to make a bad situation economically in this country a lot worse on my car dealer.
00:42:33.600Well, and it's likely to possibly even trigger what could be an election, although I don't think the bloc really cares.
00:42:39.200But if there's no money to pay for these things and you're going to penalize dealers for not meeting your Tony commitment, you know, it goes to 100% by 2035.
00:42:48.140That means every year it goes up by 10%.
00:42:49.840How much are you going to beat car dealers who are really trying to struggle to make ends meet?
00:42:54.740How are you going to tell an automotive industry that could very well pack up its bags and decide to go to the United States under the swan song of President Trump of giving them incentives to be here and no tariffs?
00:43:05.740Wait till we see in one year from now the renegotiation of the USMCA.
00:43:11.900I'm not going to call it CUSMA because I think that's kind of trendy and Tony and people like to have that version.
00:43:17.900If you think tariffs are bad, you think vehicle EV mandates ending in the United States are bad, wait till we have to go through renegotiations.
00:43:24.740If only Canada had not stopped building pipelines and getting our oil to other countries around this world, we wouldn't be in this position.
00:43:34.020Make no mistake, Canadians voted to weaken their economy and to make Donald Trump that much more of an opportunist.
00:43:41.220I mean, there's no weaker position you could put yourself in as a vendor of anything than to have yourself when you really only have one customer.
00:43:48.940And we've been screaming that from the rooftops for 20 years now.
00:43:52.080Now we're seeing the consequence of it when, you know, it's a negotiation between the strong and the weak and we're on the weak side and we can't change that overnight.
00:44:03.260Corey, I mean, I look at this every day.
00:44:04.980I mean, gas prices are going to go up everywhere across the country.
00:44:07.140One retailers are going to put back their retail margins on this for the long weekend.
00:44:27.860And it has a lot to do with the fact that we're not selling to the world that which the world wants.
00:44:31.440They're not coming to us to talk about our hydrogen.
00:44:33.660They're not coming to us to talk about our AI.
00:44:35.520They're coming here because they need our oil and gas because they don't have it and we do it with the best damn specs in the world.
00:44:41.120And for us to say no or to navel gaze or to dither like Mark Hardy is doing, Mr. Dither soon, I think it's pretty clear where this country is going to wind up.
00:44:50.260And we're going to see this in September.
00:44:51.840He either really has to fish or cut bait, as I said earlier.
00:44:56.560He's got to make a decision, including a budget, which, by the way, will demonstrate to everybody just how deep and protracted this economic malaise is
00:45:05.020because of how we voted and the people we put in power.
00:45:08.280Well, that's a pretty bleak picture, but I didn't bring you on to give us all, you know, sunshine and lollipops.
00:45:12.960We just need that reality check if we're going to try and head this off a little bit.
00:45:18.480I know there's a lot more things we could have gone on about, but I love having you on.
00:45:22.340As I said, it harkens me back to when I still had my beefs with liberals to a degree, but there was a lot of common sense still within that party.
00:45:28.740But it's long fled, and you still at least apply that out there.
00:45:33.300So, before I let you go, where can people find your organization and what you're up to, Dan?