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00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.880 Hey, welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:31.720 This is the second last day of July, but it's only the second day of summer for Calgary.

00:00:37.680 Just a reminder, if you want to look and see some fun things, look the last two years in a row.

00:00:42.120 The Weather Network, every winter, puts out a prediction, a dire one.

00:00:46.220 Calgary and southern Alberta are in for desert-like conditions, drought, famine.

00:00:52.320 It's going to be awful.

00:00:53.220 It's like a biblical plague.

00:00:55.120 They've been dead wrong two years in a row.

00:00:56.880 We've got wet, cold spring, and then this year, wet, cold summer.

00:01:01.140 Either way, I just want to take that shot at the climate alarmists that they can't even predict five days out. 0.94

00:01:06.860 Why do you take any of their crap seriously when they're trying to guess three months ahead? 0.88

00:01:10.740 Either way, we've got a good show coming up ahead of us here. 0.98

00:01:13.920 Dan McTigge is going to be on.

00:01:15.200 He's the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, and I love having him on.

00:01:19.240 It's always a good conversation.

00:01:20.720 He's one of the ones from back in the days when liberals were still somewhat sane.

00:01:24.500 I mean, they were liberals, but the Kretchen liberals were a world different than the liberals we get to enjoy today.

00:01:30.180 And we'll talk about where the direction of the Carney government is going on things.

00:01:34.600 We'll be checking in with Dave on some news updates pretty soon.

00:01:36.720 Lots going on out there.

00:01:39.360 And, yeah, let's start.

00:01:40.960 Also, we've got an event coming up, and they're going to be asking the question,

00:01:45.520 what is the West's role in Canada?

00:01:47.440 So don't miss this year's Canada's Strong and Free Networking Conference.

00:01:51.420 It's going to be in Calgary September 5th and 6th.

00:01:53.380 They've got speakers like Tristan Hopper, Lord Conrad Black, Premier Smith, and Preston Manning.

00:01:59.580 There's early bird rates until August 4th.

00:02:01.680 So, hey, get out there, reserve your tickets today, save a few bucks.

00:02:04.540 Canada strongandfree.network.

00:02:07.240 Check it out, guys.

00:02:08.200 You can't beat that theme, can you?

00:02:10.300 All right, let's get on with what I'm going to get on about today.

00:02:13.380 Junkies.

00:02:13.860 Yes, junkie.

00:02:14.720 It's a harsh term, and that's why I'm using it.

00:02:16.900 It's purposeful because it represents a harsh reality, and I want to tear the sugar coating off of it.

00:02:21.520 People addicted to substances who live on the streets of Canada are putting themselves and other citizens in danger every day.

00:02:27.860 Activists 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.

00:02:40.080 I mean, unless the person's blind, they've noticed an explosion in the growth of street people in the last decade.

00:02:45.380 We 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.

00:03:00.360 The 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.

00:03:07.260 If we want to help these people, we've got to begin by accepting what their conditions are.

00:03:10.960 Civic politicians and their associated bureaucrats are the worst. They use every term they can to deny reality.

00:03:17.120 People went from being called homeless to unwell to unhoused to my personal favorite, vulnerable people.

00:03:24.540 Well, these vulnerable people stabbed people in two separate incidents at the same LRT station in Calgary last week.

00:03:29.960 These vulnerable people have set brush fires at their encampments, and they have propane tanks there.

00:03:34.700 They'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.

00:03:45.380 Vulnerable people, indeed.

00:03:47.220 Look, I don't want to crap on addicts here.

00:03:49.360 The people on the streets need our compassion, and they need our help.

00:03:52.160 We 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.

00:04:00.640 We won't be able to help them, though, if we keep pretending that addiction isn't a problem.

00:04:05.740 It 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. 0.95

00:04:15.660 And I watched them get a quote from an idiot advocate for the homeless, talking about how this was an issue caused by high rents. 0.97

00:04:21.300 I wish I was making this up. 1.00

00:04:22.420 Look, the guy's an addict, and he was nuts. 1.00

00:04:24.140 He should be in an institution. 1.00

00:04:25.860 He doesn't have a rental problem. 0.99

00:04:27.380 The 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. 0.98

00:04:39.340 A late-stage addict, whether it's fentanyl, meth, heroin, or crack, is incapable of finding a job or maintaining a home. 0.95

00:04:46.220 They 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.

00:04:56.520 Another term that should be stricken from all public discourse is social disorder.

00:05:02.000 The proper term is crime, and it's getting out of control.

00:05:05.420 Hatchet attacks, robberies, and fentanyl dealing aren't a disorder issue.

00:05:09.700 They're bloody crimes.

00:05:11.280 Apologists 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.

00:05:19.620 Really? 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?

00:05:26.360 It's more than just a perception of unsafety, and they shouldn't have to deal with it.

00:05:30.180 In Nanaimo, the local government went full-enablement ideology and managed to create one of the most dangerous small cities in Canada.

00:05:36.320 While the city has a beautiful backdrop, it has become a dump. 0.60

00:05:38.680 Because 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. 0.99

00:05:46.720 Now 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. 1.00

00:05:52.880 Maybe they just perceive it. 1.00

00:05:54.620 Enablement addicts, advocates, blame the deaths of addicts on what they call a toxic supply.

00:06:00.600 They live in a mythical bubble state where they believe that addicts would be just fine if they could just get pure drugs.

00:06:05.720 That's not like those nasty additives the drug dealers put into the supply, which kill people.

00:06:09.540 Look, there's no such thing as a safe supply of meth, fentanyl, heroin, a crack for an addict.

00:06:13.720 Addiction is a progressive condition, causing addicts to continue to seek higher doses until they finally overdose and die.

00:06:19.920 Speaking of that, the term's overdose.

00:06:22.020 And even the most pure of drugs will cause it.

00:06:24.820 The sound of sirens are ubiquitous.

00:06:27.140 I don't know why I put those words in my own monologues, they just kill me.

00:06:29.200 In urban areas, the ambulance constantly responds to overdoses.

00:06:32.660 Meanwhile, people suffer and potentially die waiting emergency services and hospital spaces because they're tied up with addicts.

00:06:38.920 The addiction epidemic is only going to get worse as authorities refuse to acknowledge the realities associated with it.

00:06:45.220 If 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.

00:06:51.440 It's a complex problem and won't be solved by simplistic souls who have the courage to call a junkie a junkie.

00:06:56.680 No serious social problem has ever been solved with Pollyanna attitudes and euphemisms. 1.00

00:07:02.140 So take that and put it in your crap pipe. 1.00

00:07:04.100 Smoke it. 0.99

00:07:05.500 How's it going, Dave? 0.99

00:07:05.920 That was a damn good rant. 0.99

00:07:07.780 That's pissed off. 0.99

00:07:08.760 It was an ambiguous.

00:07:11.280 Ubiquitous.

00:07:12.300 Ubiquitous.

00:07:12.840 I write that one often, but boy, I don't say it that often.

00:07:14.900 Oh, I know.

00:07:15.540 It is a weird one.

00:07:16.440 Yeah, I'm not going to write it so much for these monologues.

00:07:18.900 No, that was a good monologue.

00:07:20.780 Well, it just got me going on that newscast.

00:07:23.300 They're talking, oh, well, this is due to lack of rent. 0.98

00:07:25.560 The guy's a nut.

00:07:26.780 He's out of control and you're talking about rent control. 0.92

00:07:29.120 And it was good video and one of the people who suffered was Councillor McClain.

00:07:34.300 Yes.

00:07:34.700 $4,000 damage to his vehicle by this.

00:07:37.100 For the second time.

00:07:38.200 For the second time.

00:07:39.080 Hey, I was thinking during your earlier statement, I should have been a meteorologist growing up.

00:07:44.020 Yeah.

00:07:44.440 You know, you don't have to be right.

00:07:46.660 You really don't have to do anything.

00:07:47.940 You look out the window, you know.

00:07:50.000 Oh, it's going to be dark sunny.

00:07:52.140 How do you get a job?

00:07:54.760 How do you keep a job when you're wrong most of the time?

00:07:57.160 Well, you'd see that or become an elected official.

00:08:00.220 Yeah, I suppose.

00:08:01.480 Six of one.

00:08:02.220 Half of the other is the other.

00:08:03.260 So your face isn't covered with horrible boils.

00:08:06.360 So I assume the honeybee milking went okay on the weekend?

00:08:10.440 It did, yes.

00:08:11.580 Yeah, we got a pretty good crop there.

00:08:13.280 And I managed to suit up correctly.

00:08:14.740 Last year, yeah, I got four stings for my troubles in one session.

00:08:17.480 But no, I went sting free and got a hell of a lot of honey.

00:08:20.400 So are we talking gallons?

00:08:22.480 I mean, I don't know.

00:08:23.580 Oh, we got about seven gallons.

00:08:24.900 Oh, that's good.

00:08:25.760 Yeah.

00:08:26.600 And the bees don't get angry that you're taking them, do you?

00:08:29.200 Oh, they get right pissed.

00:08:30.160 They get suited up.

00:08:31.260 I avoid the stings when I can.

00:08:34.480 And no, it went really well, actually.

00:08:37.240 That's one thing with all this rain, the flowers and everything out there in the foothills where I am are something else.

00:08:42.080 So during the dry days, the bees are quite happy until I come in and try to steal their honey.

00:08:46.220 And do they start making it again the next day or do they sort of go on strike?

00:08:49.320 They're right back at it.

00:08:50.700 You know, they're good little winged slaves for me. 0.99

00:08:54.400 How many harvests do you do a year?

00:08:56.100 Well, I did a little one in spring just to get some rolling.

00:08:58.760 I probably could only, typically I would do two, though.

00:09:00.840 I'm going to do one more probably in three weeks.

00:09:02.240 Nice.

00:09:02.760 Yeah.

00:09:03.040 I look forward to the honey lip balm you're going to bring in.

00:09:07.020 Yeah, I keep forgetting to.

00:09:07.880 I've got to bring a bunch of that in.

00:09:09.100 Okay.

00:09:10.060 It's coming.

00:09:10.540 So, yeah, another fun day in the news.

00:09:14.000 We survived the tsunami.

00:09:17.500 You know, that was good fun last night.

00:09:20.100 Top story at the moment is the electoral officer in Alberta has officially, whatever he does, 0.91

00:09:26.300 released or declared the first petition, which I think, if you remember, was filed by that lunatic. 0.78

00:09:34.160 Fabio. 0.60

00:09:34.760 Fabio.

00:09:35.520 Fabio.

00:09:35.880 Thomas Lukasik.

00:09:36.680 Thomas Lukasik.

00:09:38.080 Yeah.

00:09:38.560 And there was a sort of stay in Canada petition.

00:09:40.960 Do you vote for Alberta to stay in Canada?

00:09:43.380 So, that's official.

00:09:44.820 They can now go out and collect signatures.

00:09:46.860 I think they need 293,000.

00:09:50.160 Wasn't it higher for Fabio's because he filed before the change?

00:09:53.780 Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:09:54.460 295 is higher in his case.

00:09:56.160 Yes.

00:09:56.280 So, that's him knocking on a lot of doors.

00:09:58.700 Yeah, well, he's known for assailing seniors when he goes shopping.

00:10:01.600 Exactly.

00:10:01.680 So, yeah, residents of Edmonton, you might want to secure your debt.

00:10:05.880 And make sure it's not him knocking.

00:10:09.840 The Liberals are apparently hosting a cabinet meeting today, virtually, to discuss recognizing Palestine as a state.

00:10:17.720 Ah, right.

00:10:19.120 Right.

00:10:19.760 So, overseas virtue signaling.

00:10:21.840 Yeah. 0.78

00:10:22.160 You know, you've got to reward those Hamas terrorists. 0.98

00:10:25.280 And it tells those countries, if you slaughter and rape enough people, Liberal countries will give you your own state. 0.95

00:10:31.140 So, they only killed about 1,100, 1,200. 0.96

00:10:34.000 I mean, come on.

00:10:35.220 Worst day since the Holocaust. 0.96

00:10:36.920 Dropping the bucket.

00:10:37.860 Well, you know, France was the first to capitulate, which they usually do.

00:10:42.980 And then England.

00:10:44.740 So, Great Britain followed yesterday.

00:10:46.940 So, there is a sort of motion going that way.

00:10:51.080 But, of course, Donald Trump will come along.

00:10:53.260 And as he already says, no, not a chance.

00:10:55.920 Yeah, there's, you know, again, many things I take issue with Trump on.

00:10:59.080 But at least on that one.

00:10:59.860 I mean, they've got the veto authority at the UN. 0.99

00:11:01.440 And so, Canada and France can prance around and do whatever stupid virtue signaling they like. 1.00

00:11:05.820 They're not going to get declared by the UN anyways. 0.99

00:11:08.700 No.

00:11:09.360 No.

00:11:09.660 So, that's a fun game.

00:11:11.360 Some emotional scenes in Birmingham, England today as Ozzy Osbourne did his final tour of the city.

00:11:17.460 A casket with his family.

00:11:20.040 Sharon and the kids walking behind, crying.

00:11:23.280 Tens of thousands of people lining the street there.

00:11:26.820 A good story from our friends at Black Locks Reporter.

00:11:29.900 They've discovered 22 foreign diplomats.

00:11:33.740 Canadian diplomats have been fired for criminal activity.

00:11:37.360 Like, you know, inflating their, you know, taking bribes and stealing stuff and all that sort of stuff.

00:11:43.600 So, I'm not a lawyer.

00:11:45.580 Usually, isn't it work when you commit criminal activity, you get charged with a crime?

00:11:49.760 Well, that is normally the case.

00:11:51.880 But none of these cases have been sent to the police.

00:11:54.940 Oh.

00:11:55.780 Well, I think they probably got a severance package in them.

00:11:59.120 They probably did get a severance package, but Global Affairs is working very hard to recover the lost and stolen funds.

00:12:06.960 Oh, yeah.

00:12:07.620 So, I'm sure they'll hold my breath on that.

00:12:09.700 Let's see.

00:12:10.400 That'll work.

00:12:11.640 So, and Friday's the big day, the big deadline day for tariffs.

00:12:17.620 Trump has said, came out today, say, no extension.

00:12:22.040 No extension for Canada.

00:12:23.620 And I get the sense he's going to hammer us on Friday.

00:12:26.960 Probably, but you never know.

00:12:28.000 I mean, this is what he likes doing, though, is waiting until 11.59 on Thursday.

00:12:34.060 He's saying, eh, you know, he will give it a month.

00:12:36.560 I mean, I don't.

00:12:37.480 Neither am I surprised.

00:12:38.700 I get the sense he's upset with us.

00:12:40.720 Well, he's always upset with us.

00:12:41.900 Yeah, and I think, you know, he put some softwood lumber tariffs on this week, I think 26%.

00:12:48.300 So, I think the hammer's going to fall on Friday, but we shall see.

00:12:52.360 I can be wrong occasionally.

00:12:54.940 Well, yeah.

00:12:55.860 I mean, it's just, you know, trying to predict what Trump might do is a tough game at the best.

00:13:00.520 I mean, better make some football predictions if you can figure out what he's going to be up to.

00:13:04.400 Well, you missed out on the big celebrity news.

00:13:06.400 We might have a new celebrity company.

00:13:08.500 Oh, yes.

00:13:09.380 It wasn't that exciting.

00:13:10.560 It wasn't that exciting.

00:13:11.760 Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau.

00:13:14.720 Oh, there's a meeting of the minds.

00:13:16.060 Yes.

00:13:17.140 Yeah.

00:13:18.260 Spotted.

00:13:19.280 She was having a concert in Montreal and spotted having dinner, and then they went for drinks on the terrace.

00:13:25.840 So, you know, she's newly divorced from Orlando Bloom, and he's been separated a while now from Sophie.

00:13:34.840 So, who knows?

00:13:36.060 Stranger things have happened.

00:13:37.660 As long as they don't reproduce.

00:13:40.340 Otherwise, he's single.

00:13:41.420 He's going, go ahead.

00:13:42.280 Go with Katie. 0.86

00:13:42.920 Do your thing.

00:13:43.920 Yeah.

00:13:44.220 I think probably Katie was driving around Canada and saw all those F Trudeau signs.

00:13:50.600 Oh.

00:13:51.060 And then she thought, okay, I'll give it a go.

00:13:52.420 Well, then if Orlando ever meets Trudeau, he can use that classic old line, how do I taste?

00:13:58.360 Yes.

00:13:59.080 Yes.

00:13:59.860 Maybe we can get us some CRTC complaints.

00:14:01.560 There we go.

00:14:02.320 That one's on you, buddy.

00:14:04.260 Right.

00:14:04.940 All right.

00:14:05.340 Well, I'll leave it on that vile note and let you get back to the newsroom. 0.71

00:14:08.540 Thank you, sir.

00:14:09.340 All right.

00:14:09.800 Have a great show.

00:14:10.560 Yeah.

00:14:10.760 Thank you.

00:14:12.060 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:14:14.820 And, oh, there's Dave behind me with his lunch right on cue.

00:14:17.600 Oh, no.

00:14:17.800 He's just opening his laptop today.

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00:14:49.000 All right.

00:14:50.340 What do we got looking in the comments?

00:14:52.880 Just much of the same.

00:14:53.800 Good to see you all checking in.

00:14:54.880 This is, you know, for those watching it live, use that chat with things.

00:14:58.100 Keep things civil.

00:14:59.020 That's all.

00:14:59.820 I am going to have Mr. McTeague on, but it's going to be at 1230 due to timing with things.

00:15:04.520 So I'll do my rambling on things until then.

00:15:08.720 The schedule's a little different today.

00:15:11.260 So in Alberta, the independence movement, the petitioning, the stuff going on, there's a

00:15:14.720 lot happening.

00:15:15.240 So yeah, they've given a full approval from the elections, a chief electoral officer in 1.00

00:15:20.360 Alberta to Thomas Lukasik's stupid petition put forth. 1.00

00:15:26.380 And I say stupid in that it's petitioning to hold a referendum about nothing. 1.00

00:15:32.080 It's pulled to, to have a referendum just saying, yes, we love Canada. 0.99

00:15:37.680 Well, good for you, but nothing will change.

00:15:40.180 Nothing will change.

00:15:40.880 Either way you vote on that referendum.

00:15:42.260 Why use the electoral system to have what is essentially a poll, but it doesn't matter.

00:15:46.540 That is, uh, what, uh, the electoral officer has felt is fit to potentially put forth for

00:15:53.400 a referendum.

00:15:53.940 I doubt Lukasik is going to really get, because it's really about nothing.

00:15:59.100 The, as Dave said, close to 300,000 signatures that are going to be required to get that on

00:16:03.660 a ballot for a referendum.

00:16:04.760 And I keep reminding people of that, if they think it's that easy to get something into

00:16:10.640 a referendum, this is a real petition, a real one on paper, witnessed name, phone number,

00:16:17.280 address, signature, and the address has to be the home address.

00:16:20.340 You can't use a mailing address.

00:16:22.020 Hundreds of thousands of them.

00:16:23.540 And he has 90 days to get them.

00:16:25.880 Very, very unlikely.

00:16:26.840 Now, the one put forth, though, by the Alberta Prosperity Project is a whole different ball

00:16:31.980 of wax.

00:16:32.880 That one is saying, do you want Alberta to become a complete sovereign state and leave

00:16:38.400 Confederation?

00:16:39.500 I'm paraphrasing, but it's a straightforward question.

00:16:42.340 But now the Alberta electoral officer has said, we've got to put that question to the

00:16:48.600 King's Court as a judge to rule on whether or not it's constitutional.

00:16:51.500 Well, hold on a minute.

00:16:53.920 What?

00:16:54.320 Where does that come from?

00:16:56.300 Look, it's a straightforward question asking whether we want to stay or not.

00:16:59.540 It's based on the Clarity Act.

00:17:01.500 The Clarity Act went all the way through the Supreme Court.

00:17:04.280 This has already been settled.

00:17:07.240 You think that now we have to beg the court for permission to ask a question on a referendum?

00:17:13.240 The double standard is starting to get a little blatant there.

00:17:16.080 What's interesting is Premier Smith and her justice minister have already spoken up to the

00:17:19.600 electoral officers and, hey, hey, hey, hey, cut that out. 0.93

00:17:22.060 That's not where this needs to go.

00:17:23.460 You're there to, you know, administer the votes in the elections, not to determine those sorts

00:17:29.720 of things.

00:17:29.960 Or I guess he's saying it's not his role to determine those sorts of things.

00:17:32.160 That's why he feels he has to put it to the court.

00:17:34.620 We can't hold referendums, and it's fair enough on things according to the legislation, on anything

00:17:41.280 that would violate the Constitution.

00:17:44.580 If we wanted to hold, or the Charter for that matter, if we wanted to hold a referendum to,

00:17:50.040 I don't know, make LGBTQ marriage illegal again, that would be a clear violation of the Charter

00:17:58.540 and it wouldn't be able to go to a question.

00:18:00.920 That's fair enough.

00:18:01.540 But this other one has already been covered.

00:18:02.940 No, they're just dragging their heels.

00:18:04.140 So they give the permission to a completely unserious question like Thomas Lukasik's question.

00:18:11.300 And now they're going to try and drag it through the courts with the legitimate question.

00:18:18.960 And I mean, most Albertans don't want to go at this point.

00:18:22.940 I like to think that's going to change, but that's where it's going to be put to the voters.

00:18:28.620 That's the only way to go.

00:18:30.080 But to refuse to give or drag your heels or mess with the process, do you think, guys,

00:18:36.240 that that's really going to reduce the independence movement, set it back?

00:18:40.680 Is it going to cut away at the frustration?

00:18:43.560 You know, if you take away the democratic means and ability for people to get things done,

00:18:49.240 that's what ends up leading to non-democratic efforts.

00:18:52.360 No, I'm not saying it is a threat or some clown goes on along that.

00:18:55.720 I'm just saying you can't cork the bottle and think the issue is going to go away. 0.98

00:19:00.960 In fact, the best thing, it's funny, I give him credit because wherever he is, he's not stupid. 0.97

00:19:06.620 And I had an inchie. 0.76

00:19:07.680 When this really first came about, what he did was daring Smith saying, put it to a referendum right now.

00:19:12.900 Let's do it right away.

00:19:13.680 Let's get it ready to put it on the question next month because he knew that it wouldn't win.

00:19:17.860 And if you want to shut down the movement, hold a referendum and have it lose.

00:19:24.580 And that, indeed, would put ice on it for some years.

00:19:29.420 But to try and say, oh, we're going to drag it out for what is it going to be now?

00:19:33.140 Months, years, weeks, whatever it is to go through the courts for us to get permission to ask the question?

00:19:38.980 That is not going to reduce the movement.

00:19:41.600 That's going to build more mistrust in the federation and only make the movement stronger. 0.99

00:19:47.320 Speaking of our charter and constitution is stupidity in judges because they all kind of get bundled together quite often. 0.99

00:19:53.580 A judge in Ontario just ruled today that bike lanes are a constitutional right. 1.00

00:20:01.920 Apparently, you know, this is how stupid the interpretation of our constitution and charter starts to get. 0.95

00:20:08.780 This is where I really start to question the judiciary and just our entire system. 0.99

00:20:14.000 It really did.

00:20:15.780 I mean, I so the battle has been going on. 0.95

00:20:18.980 Look, ridiculous, anti-automotive, ideological nutcases have taken over city halls across the country. 0.99

00:20:27.100 And one of their favorite ways to screw with cars is sticking a bunch of stupid bike lanes in to choke up the traffic. 0.99

00:20:32.960 But, you know, the way to deal with them, again, I actually wrote a monologue. 0.99

00:20:39.480 I put a column on that. 1.00

00:20:40.420 I think voters should just wake up and start firing these idiots. 1.00

00:20:44.020 You know, Chow in Toronto, Gondek in Calgary, Sohi in Edmonton. 1.00

00:20:48.960 Instead, 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.

00:20:57.520 About bike lanes in Calgary because it's interfering with traffic.

00:21:00.440 So is it a provincial thing where transportation and traffic is their authority or is it city thing because it's city streets?

00:21:05.980 I don't know.

00:21:07.480 They're going to fight it out.

00:21:08.160 I think if we were to start firing those hammerheads in civic elections, we wouldn't have to deal with it. 1.00

00:21:12.760 But either way, in Toronto, the bike lanes have gotten so stupid, and they are stupid, and they're underutilized, and they're seasonal. 1.00

00:21:19.900 We aren't Amsterdam clowns. 1.00

00:21:22.480 But Ford has taken that as something to take on, and he was talking about forcing the city to remove bike lanes.

00:21:30.880 So it got taken to the courts because there's existing bike lanes he wanted to get rid of.

00:21:34.980 It went to Ontario courts, and they ruled that it would violate the Constitution to remove them.

00:21:41.660 What sort of ridiculous mental twisting did this judge have to take to determine a bike lane is a constitutional right?

00:21:54.340 I mean, Kinsey Crack and a comment are saying, yeah, banking needs to be a constitutional right for these days. 0.76

00:21:58.720 You know, these selective rights that we get given in this increasingly authoritarian state, where Ewa Chipiak got debanked.

00:22:08.660 Yeah, Royal Bank shut down her accounts. 0.55

00:22:10.320 She has to move them because she played with the wrong crowd, because she was a lawyer who represented freedom-minded people.

00:22:19.240 I mean, you know, banks, unfortunately, are something I consider a necessary evil in life.

00:22:26.840 You can't get through modern life without a bank.

00:22:29.400 You have to deal with them, kind of like insurance companies.

00:22:32.380 I don't care for dealing with them.

00:22:33.600 I can't stand them.

00:22:34.160 You always feel like you're a supplicant, even though you're the customer.

00:22:36.140 But because it's a necessity for you, yeah, there should be quite some stringent rules about what it'll take before being debanked.

00:22:44.760 And there should, of course, never be an occasion where the government can reach into your accounts and steal it.

00:22:48.580 But that very thing happened within Canada.

00:22:50.560 Our courts don't seem to worry about those constitutional rights, those abilities, those freedoms.

00:22:56.280 But they have found that bike lanes are a constitutional right.

00:23:01.900 When I say online, it gets a lot of people all upset and whiny.

00:23:04.060 When I say Canada is broken, this is why I say it, guys.

00:23:07.440 It's broken. 1.00

00:23:08.380 It's stupid. 0.99

00:23:10.220 Speaking of my personal news, I might as well talk about it. 1.00

00:23:12.220 That was covered in the Western Standard News a while back.

00:23:15.820 You know, I'm dealing with those charges that came because I shot a video on the Siksika Reserve in Alberta.

00:23:21.800 And, yeah, I'm fighting it.

00:23:23.620 I'm fighting on my charter rights for free movement and free press.

00:23:28.200 My court date's been set for the first court date on that anyways, October 16th. 0.99

00:23:32.360 Maybe 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. 0.99

00:23:38.880 And you don't need to be a lawyer to realize that. 0.99

00:23:40.980 It'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.

00:23:51.980 So people are kind of wondering where the money went.

00:23:55.220 So rather than answer the question, they've charged me with trespassing for daring to drive on a public highway.

00:24:01.020 And it was a highway, guys.

00:24:02.660 And shoot video of the conditions on that reserve.

00:24:06.760 So, yeah. 0.94

00:24:07.920 Now, I would have said with confidence that a judge will look at this and say, this is ridiculous. 0.98

00:24:12.580 You guys can't do this. 0.95

00:24:13.500 It's a public highway.

00:24:14.400 Get over it.

00:24:15.040 But then, this is a world where judges consider my claims to be a constitutional right.

00:24:22.000 So I kind of lose a little bit of confidence in where things might go with that.

00:24:26.880 It gets a little frightening.

00:24:28.720 Speaking of free speech, free expression.

00:24:30.260 Here's the other one, right?

00:24:30.880 That Christian worship band fella, whatever Sean Foyt, whatever his name might be, has been chased all over the place, right?

00:24:42.000 Chased out of a national park on the East Coast.

00:24:43.920 Now, Winnipeg has refused to let him have a concert, it looks like.

00:24:47.660 And Montreal at church got fined for having him perform inside it.

00:24:52.240 Could you really imagine, say, if a performance was banned in a mosque and the mosque got fined?

00:24:59.760 Of course not.

00:25:00.460 They wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole.

00:25:03.020 But the church got fined thousands for hosting this guy in Montreal, a private facility.

00:25:09.580 Fined for hosting a Christian guy. 1.00

00:25:12.340 Look, it's not my sort of thing.

00:25:14.060 I wouldn't go to one of these, but that's the thing.

00:25:15.780 I choose not to.

00:25:17.400 It's not that hard.

00:25:20.340 This should fall under free expression.

00:25:22.100 This should fall under free speech.

00:25:23.300 This is the sort of thing that are charter and constitutional rights.

00:25:26.320 Yeah, nobody seems to be standing up in our courts for this man's rights or the people

00:25:30.940 who want to see him or want to listen to him. 0.66

00:25:33.540 This country is getting so ass-backwards, guys. 0.88

00:25:36.380 It's frightening.

00:25:37.920 But I believe he's going to be, this will be where the fun starts to really get going.

00:25:44.000 He's going to be performing in Alberta, I think, on provincial property.

00:25:47.280 And of course, the NDP is doing cartwheels and jumping up and down, very upset with it.

00:25:50.740 Oh, too bad.

00:25:52.420 But let's do kind of nutcase protesters or whatever else comes about from that.

00:25:58.480 We really just, we've got to get what our rights are and our responsibilities are and

00:26:03.800 get that sorted out.

00:26:04.640 And I don't have faith that our current system can do so when we look at these things.

00:26:08.780 That news story that Dave talked about.

00:26:10.520 So, 22, diplomats committing crimes.

00:26:15.880 They're not named.

00:26:17.580 They got fired.

00:26:18.740 Being government employees and government appointees, they probably,

00:26:21.980 probably did get big severance packages.

00:26:27.240 The rest of us in the real world, you do something like that, you get criminally charged.

00:26:31.400 In Canada, it gets covered up.

00:26:34.240 Speaking of us getting robbed,

00:26:35.680 Yeah, just another comment.

00:26:39.460 Just to mention a commenter, Joe Mills, the point of, well, you know where some of that

00:26:42.240 1.2 billion is going?

00:26:43.380 It's going to lawyers.

00:26:44.600 Yeah, there is.

00:26:45.380 It's called the Indian industry.

00:26:47.240 There's a lot of people who make a heck of a lot of money out of the perpetual court challenges

00:26:51.340 from the reserves, one way or another, up and down, all left, right, and center.

00:26:55.380 And they're just bleeding it.

00:26:58.340 And, you know, my little case is another example of it.

00:27:01.160 So let's talk about other big bloated institutions robbing Canadians.

00:27:04.380 The CBC, yeah, you know, the state broadcaster, they get their, what, 1.3, 1.4 billion a year.

00:27:12.460 Their market share during the news on evenings is down to like less than 3%. 0.98

00:27:17.020 Yeah, 97% of Canadians don't watch their crap, but 100% of Canadians get to pay for it. 0.98

00:27:22.500 Well, it turns out they have almost 1,500 employees making six figures. 0.99

00:27:28.120 Yeah, not a typo.

00:27:30.800 1,500 CBC employees making six figures to make broadcasts that nobody watches.

00:27:37.240 There's where your money's going, guys.

00:27:39.340 I'm sure they got some great severance packages as well.

00:27:44.900 And, of course, the bias at the CBC is just outrageous.

00:27:47.580 We've seen that recently with that CBC anchor who quit.

00:27:51.260 We've seen a few of them over the years who've left, and they've exposed it and said,

00:27:54.500 yes, this is an ideological state broadcaster that is there to create a narrative, not report on things.

00:28:01.680 If we must, and we don't need one, but if we must have a state broadcaster,

00:28:06.740 if we must have a tax-funded broadcaster, it should be the most unbiased one possible.

00:28:16.180 And it's not.

00:28:18.080 It's the worst.

00:28:19.320 CTV is working hard to come in on a close second, but CBC is just brutal.

00:28:25.160 And, yeah, 1,500 of them are making six-figure salaries.

00:28:28.460 For what?

00:28:28.860 What are you guys doing?

00:28:30.240 Because nobody's watching.

00:28:32.680 Ugh.

00:28:34.300 You know, we didn't get out of that in the election.

00:28:37.080 Eastern Canada said, no, we love the Liberals.

00:28:38.580 We're going to keep them. 0.97

00:28:40.340 Yeah, you know, in the Western Standard, there's a recent story from Jaime Rubenstein on that

00:28:44.460 with the First Nations and kind of bouncing back to that one again.

00:28:47.220 It starts out with this column saying, if you want to understand who's benefited the most

00:28:50.000 from Canada's residential school reckoning, look not to the survivors, but the lawyers,

00:28:53.120 the consultants in the Indian industry.

00:28:56.300 And, I mean, the numbers, the final bill for just the latest, because it never gets settled,

00:29:01.940 right?

00:29:02.100 These guys love keeping on that hamster wheel of settlements.

00:29:04.780 3.23 billion.

00:29:07.260 And it's still growing.

00:29:08.700 It's still going.

00:29:09.920 And guess what?

00:29:10.940 Let's look at that.

00:29:11.820 What was it, 150,000 kids attended the residential schools over the course of a hundred and some

00:29:18.580 years?

00:29:20.260 Yet you listen to the interviews and everything, because everybody can self-identify.

00:29:24.060 Guess what?

00:29:24.720 Every First Nations person you talk to says they had an uncle who went to a residential school,

00:29:28.480 and they deserve compensation, and they've all gotten it.

00:29:31.220 But it's not enough.

00:29:31.920 They need more and more and more.

00:29:34.560 It's an industry unto itself.

00:29:36.280 And is it making anything better?

00:29:37.740 That's a lot of what I did with the video.

00:29:40.480 That's what I go on with my rants.

00:29:41.900 If it was working to make things better, I wouldn't be as upset.

00:29:46.660 But it isn't working.

00:29:48.280 The housing is still atrocious.

00:29:50.960 Their health is still atrocious.

00:29:54.080 I mean, the statistic I bring up most often on that is that one that came up in Alberta,

00:29:59.640 where First Nations men die on average 19 years younger than your average person.

00:30:07.800 This should make international news.

00:30:10.500 That's a quarter of a person's life gone on average.

00:30:16.380 And you're trying to pretend and tell me the system is working?

00:30:19.480 Decades of pouring money in, of platitudes, of self-government, all these programs.

00:30:25.180 And it's getting worse.

00:30:27.580 They're dying younger.

00:30:28.860 They're living in squalor.

00:30:30.200 That's why they got so upset when I showed the imagery of those houses,

00:30:34.340 because that reserve got more than even the other ones got.

00:30:37.260 The crime is through the roof.

00:30:38.920 Their education levels are atrociously low.

00:30:43.400 Where's the end?

00:30:45.100 Who can point at this and say it's working and that this path is reasonable?

00:30:53.080 It's not.

00:30:54.380 So somebody's got to call it out.

00:30:56.060 And we do.

00:30:57.360 I enjoy calling it out.

00:31:00.320 But all right.

00:31:01.000 I'm going to get on to somebody else I see here in the lobby there.

00:31:04.500 He enjoys calling things out and how they are as well.

00:31:07.060 And that's Dan McTeague, the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy.

00:31:11.180 Hey, Dan, how you doing?

00:31:12.280 I'm doing great.

00:31:13.480 Happy midsummer days to you here, Corey, and lots to talk about.

00:31:17.820 Yes, there certainly is.

00:31:19.180 Yeah, you guys have got some hot weather going on out there.

00:31:21.280 We're just finally warming up, so I think it is.

00:31:24.500 Well, let's have a tax so I can bring down the temperature a few degrees. 0.85

00:31:28.680 Why not?

00:31:29.120 Yeah, that's right.

00:31:30.620 I mean, I thought maybe that's what it is.

00:31:32.320 We lost the carbon tax, and now we don't have uniformity in weather anymore.

00:31:35.680 There you go.

00:31:36.120 So, you know, there's so much to cover, I guess.

00:31:41.180 What I kind of want to speak of from our view, though, and this is kind of in your ballpark, we're just hearing a lot of talk from Carney.

00:31:48.800 He speaks the right language.

00:31:50.140 He's saying we're going to get this done.

00:31:52.360 We're going to get a utility corridor.

00:31:53.840 We're going to diversify our markets.

00:31:55.500 But is any of that realistic?

00:31:57.580 Because 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.

00:32:04.000 Well, there's conditionality to everything he's doing.

00:32:06.920 You know, if you want a pipeline, you have to have consensus, which we're not going to get.

00:32:11.960 If you want a pipeline, you have to decarbonize.

00:32:14.020 If you want a pipeline, you know, someone else has got to try to pay for it.

00:32:19.920 If you want a pipeline, you listen, we built one, and it's great.

00:32:23.000 It's wonderful things.

00:32:23.660 It'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.

00:32:37.080 Look, I think it's come down to a very simple thing.

00:32:39.100 But 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.

00:32:48.500 Because 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.

00:32:55.680 Like it or not, and by the way, I'm from Toronto.

00:32:57.220 I'm not from the West.

00:32:58.340 So I know what of I speak.

00:32:59.960 And so I think we're going to have to wait to see what Mr. Carney is prepared to do.

00:33:02.540 Is he old Mark Carney or is he somehow, yes, he reinvented himself?

00:33:06.000 I doubt it.

00:33:06.480 Yeah, well, I mean, some of it, I guess, kind of showed.

00:33:09.420 He's still making the ban of combustion engine vehicles a hill to die on.

00:33:14.620 That recently came up.

00:33:15.880 Within a year, there's going to be, what, a 20% sales bar that they have to hit.

00:33:21.760 It'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.

00:33:27.880 You know, when Trump got elected, everybody was worried about tariffs.

00:33:30.720 I 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.

00:33:45.580 Why do I know that?

00:33:47.200 Corey, before I was a member of Parliament back in 1993, I served media relations for a tiny little company.

00:33:53.160 Back then, it was number five in Canada.

00:33:54.480 Now, it's number one, Toyota, the largest exporter of vehicles into the United States.

00:33:58.780 They didn't go for the grift.

00:34:00.060 They didn't go for the, you know, the flavor of the day with EVs.

00:34:03.900 They 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.

00:34:12.760 But 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.

00:34:26.080 And here in Ontario, our number one sector is the auto sector, and it's now in peril. 0.88

00:34:30.080 So 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. 0.84

00:34:39.560 And, you know, it's not lost, I think, on people in Western Canada. 0.91

00:34:42.900 Canola 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.

00:34:50.380 And they've got a 15-year advantage in building EVs.

00:34:54.180 They 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.

00:35:03.240 Well, and that's where we do get a bit worried out here in the West.

00:35:07.460 I 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.

00:35:22.020 I mean, we all do better if our industries are doing well where they are.

00:35:26.160 And it just looks like he's taking a stick to the automotive sector out there.

00:35:32.040 I mean, it could be catastrophic.

00:35:34.280 It will be catastrophic, and they will leave.

00:35:37.540 Toyota, 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.

00:35:45.080 And 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.

00:35:57.600 They're going to kill our industry.

00:35:59.140 So if the liberals want to ignore that, that's fine.

00:36:01.320 They did so with carbon taxes.

00:36:02.900 They've done so with the emissions caps and a bunch of other things. 0.93

00:36:05.740 There's a cost of being foolish and trendy, and that's going to cost people real jobs.

00:36:10.760 And 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. 0.95

00:36:20.120 But I don't think bond rating agencies are going to put up with that nonsense much longer.

00:36:23.120 I 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.

00:36:34.940 Well, and then people should realize as well, then, you know, they don't necessarily watch those sorts of things.

00:36:41.460 When we get those credit downgrades, what the impact is, is our national debt suddenly becomes a heck of a lot more expensive.

00:36:47.860 And 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.

00:36:58.180 Or the interest alone on our national debt is more than the transfers for health care going to every province.

00:37:04.440 And if we get our credit downgraded, that's only going to become worse.

00:37:07.960 Well, I know.

00:37:08.420 And 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.

00:37:19.160 So we can't get those to the market, we're done.

00:37:20.460 And 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.

00:37:27.860 No wonder Trump made a big deal, but he's doing it on the backs of Canadian resources.

00:37:32.080 I suspect that Canadians are really starting to smarten up finally.

00:37:35.500 They are starting to realize that you have to build pipelines in order to sustain your standard of living.

00:37:39.200 Because you know what?

00:37:40.120 The 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. 0.92

00:37:48.780 They're coming here for our oil and gas, and we're not prepared to give to them. 0.65

00:37:51.760 They will go somewhere else.

00:37:53.100 In 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.

00:37:59.620 And why is that a concern?

00:38:00.780 In 1997, a young Buck MP, Dan McTague, decided to write a report on gasoline prices in Canada.

00:38:05.940 The two people that want to know what the hell was going on, John Creighton and Paul Martin, they both pulled me aside and said,

00:38:10.520 please do not make this about the upstream, about the oil and gas sector, which of course wasn't.

00:38:15.840 It was to deal with the problems at the retail level, at the refinery level.

00:38:21.040 And I asked him why.

00:38:21.860 Simply because we were going to go from 1 million to 2 million barrels of production and export per day,

00:38:27.940 which would get us out of the national debt that we had found ourselves back in the 1990s.

00:38:31.700 So make no mistake, we want to get out of this morass, we're going to sell more oil, more gas,

00:38:35.840 doesn't matter what Mark Carney thinks or all the conditions he puts on it, he's got a choice.

00:38:40.040 Either fish, he gets involved in doing a bit of the fishing, or cut bait, as my grandfather used to say,

00:38:45.860 do your stuff or get off the pot.

00:38:47.860 Yeah, well, and as you said too, I mean, I hope so.

00:38:50.180 You're saying, you know, Canadians seem to be waking up or realizing it or figuring it out.

00:38:53.100 It seems when people's butts get kicked, reality kind of jumps in there, and it's going to happen pretty soon.

00:38:58.220 But he's going to have to take a dramatic course then. 0.92

00:39:00.880 It doesn't matter if Canadians are ready to go. 0.93

00:39:03.560 We showed most Canadians already support pipelines.

00:39:05.920 It's that ideological leadership that has to turn around and say,

00:39:08.800 okay, we're going to put our foot down, exercise our constitutional authority, and get this done.

00:39:14.180 And he's showing no indication yet, anyways, that he's willing to do that.

00:39:18.320 Well, he's told people that believe he could actually stand up Donald Trump in 36 hours.

00:39:22.220 We're going to find out just how much, how hollow a promise and commitment that was.

00:39:27.080 But he doesn't have much of a choice.

00:39:28.640 Look, I'm in downtown Toronto right now.

00:39:30.500 There's something called the CNE, Canadian National Exhibition.

00:39:33.340 It's been going on for 160 years or something.

00:39:35.880 There were 4,000 jobs part-time for two weeks, three weeks.

00:39:40.880 55,000 people showed up for 4,000 jobs.

00:39:43.780 That's how desperate the situation has become in this country.

00:39:45.920 Anybody 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.

00:40:00.520 Which, the game is over, the cupboards are bare, and we now have to fish or cod bait, as I said earlier.

00:40:06.980 Either you sell more oil, get it to market pronto, or you falter as a nation financially.

00:40:12.540 Yeah, well, and beyond that, I mean, kind of pivoting back to the domestic markets for our automotive sectors.

00:40:18.580 Speaking, 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.

00:40:30.580 Let's just say, for whatever reason, everybody in Canada said, yes, you know what, I want to go with it.

00:40:34.720 I'm going to buy an electric car.

00:40:36.580 The problem is we also don't have the national infrastructure to do that.

00:40:40.780 We don't have the generating capability.

00:40:42.680 We don't have the transmission capability.

00:40:44.600 We don't have the household capability.

00:40:46.240 Where is this going to come from?

00:40:47.400 Well, it's not going to come.

00:40:48.880 It'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.

00:41:02.320 So the liberals are going to tax the daylight set of car dealers.

00:41:04.720 So 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.

00:41:10.760 Because people won't buy them unless they get subsidies.

00:41:13.280 They won't build infrastructure unless they get subsidies.

00:41:15.360 They won't even build them unless they get subsidies.

00:41:18.080 This makes no sense whatsoever, including economics.

00:41:22.100 But 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.

00:41:39.360 See how long the battery lasts in those kind of conditions.

00:41:41.340 The 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.

00:41:48.580 And unfortunately, they're too expensive.

00:41:50.540 And for a lot of car dealers and Canadians, the harsh reality begins in just a few months.

00:41:55.140 And 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.

00:42:04.140 I'd be very worried.

00:42:05.440 The first thing I'd be, if I could, I'd be on the phone to every Liberal MP I could get my hands on and tell them to end the madness now.

00:42:12.540 Well, I can imagine and hope some are quietly calling and asking them to end that.

00:42:17.500 But assuming it still goes ahead and comes in, do you think there could be a legal recourse?

00:42:21.980 I mean, this is a government action that's going to drive dealerships out of business.

00:42:26.040 I mean, it's put them into a corner.

00:42:28.020 Yeah.

00:42:29.460 You know, could this go to the courts?

00:42:31.720 It could.

00:42:32.540 It probably will.

00:42:33.600 Well, and it's likely to possibly even trigger what could be an election, although I don't think the bloc really cares.

00:42:39.200 But 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.

00:42:48.140 That means every year it goes up by 10%.

00:42:49.840 How much are you going to beat car dealers who are really trying to struggle to make ends meet?

00:42:54.740 How 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?

00:43:05.740 Wait till we see in one year from now the renegotiation of the USMCA.

00:43:11.900 I'm not going to call it CUSMA because I think that's kind of trendy and Tony and people like to have that version.

00:43:16.540 But wait till this happens.

00:43:17.900 If 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.

00:43:24.740 If only Canada had not stopped building pipelines and getting our oil to other countries around this world, we wouldn't be in this position.

00:43:34.020 Make no mistake, Canadians voted to weaken their economy and to make Donald Trump that much more of an opportunist.

00:43:40.680 Well, absolutely.

00:43:41.220 I 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.

00:43:47.420 You are over a barrel.

00:43:48.940 And we've been screaming that from the rooftops for 20 years now.

00:43:52.080 Now 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.

00:44:03.260 Corey, I mean, I look at this every day.

00:44:04.980 I mean, gas prices are going to go up everywhere across the country.

00:44:07.140 One retailers are going to put back their retail margins on this for the long weekend.

00:44:10.520 But you know what?

00:44:12.440 Because of the weak Canadian dollar, we're not selling any oil.

00:44:15.060 We're not selling gas that we used to.

00:44:16.900 And there's no one investing in the country to buy housing and create the bubble we have.

00:44:20.860 You and I are actually paying an extra 24 cents a liter on every 24 cents on every liter price of gasoline.

00:44:26.420 That is the biggest tax we have.

00:44:27.860 And it has a lot to do with the fact that we're not selling to the world that which the world wants.

00:44:31.440 They're not coming to us to talk about our hydrogen.

00:44:33.660 They're not coming to us to talk about our AI.

00:44:35.520 They'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.

00:44:41.120 And 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.

00:44:50.260 And we're going to see this in September.

00:44:51.840 He either really has to fish or cut bait, as I said earlier.

00:44:55.120 He's got to get his act together.

00:44:56.560 He'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

00:45:05.020 because of how we voted and the people we put in power.

00:45:08.280 Well, that's a pretty bleak picture, but I didn't bring you on to give us all, you know, sunshine and lollipops.

00:45:12.960 We just need that reality check if we're going to try and head this off a little bit.

00:45:16.700 So, yeah, we've run out of time.

00:45:18.480 I know there's a lot more things we could have gone on about, but I love having you on.

00:45:22.340 As 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.

00:45:28.740 But it's long fled, and you still at least apply that out there.

00:45:33.300 So, before I let you go, where can people find your organization and what you're up to, Dan?

00:45:38.660 Thanks, Corey.

00:45:39.680 AffordableEnergy.ca.

00:45:40.560 Look at the work that we're doing.

00:45:41.780 Join us.

00:45:42.440 Support us.

00:45:43.080 And, of course, get on the bandwagon.

00:45:45.260 Get more pipelines built.

00:45:46.320 Get rid of these EV mandates.

00:45:47.520 And above all, NICS net zero.

00:45:50.320 It's time to get rid of that thing.

00:45:51.320 That's what's causing all these problems.

00:45:52.600 It's very bad for Canada.

00:45:53.700 It's time for it to go.

00:45:55.420 Absolutely.

00:45:56.020 Well, thank you very much again, Dan, and I hope we get to talk again soon.

00:45:59.120 Take care, Corey.

00:45:59.940 Great.

00:46:00.260 Thanks.

00:46:01.180 So, yeah, that was Dan McTeague.

00:46:02.400 And as you can hear, yeah, he doesn't beat around the bush, and he knows of what he speaks, all things energy.

00:46:08.000 So, get out there.

00:46:08.900 Check that out.

00:46:09.520 Subscribe.

00:46:10.240 Support.

00:46:11.080 Do those things.

00:46:11.740 We need those voices.

00:46:12.820 We're heading down a drain, guys.

00:46:15.040 And, you know, it's a tough outlook, but still, the sooner we try to work on heading it off, the better.

00:46:22.220 Okay, well, that's the time I've got for today, guys.

00:46:25.320 Thank you very much for tuning in, putting up with my ill humor.

00:46:29.640 And be sure to tune in tonight.

00:46:31.700 The pipeline will be on.

00:46:32.740 We got another good panel talking and breaking down a number of issues.

00:46:35.980 And subscribe and like and do all those good things with those Western Standard channels.

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00:46:43.740 So, thank you again for tuning in, and we'll see you next week at this time again.

00:46:52.220 We'll see you next week.

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Junkies aren’t harmless

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