Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show： Let’s hold criminals responsible for their crimes.

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00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:35.060 This is my weekly opportunity to vent and rant and rave and cover some issues of importance, offer my opinion, and talk to interesting guests.

00:00:44.460 And this week's episode is, like every other, a good one.

00:00:48.100 I'm going to have a lot of transit talk today.

00:00:50.140 I know we don't typically talk about that. That sounds pretty boring, but it isn't.

00:00:53.620 It's important, actually. We've got some mega transit programs going on across the country, and you're going to pay for them, even if you don't ride transit or even if you live in the country, because there's provincial and federal transfers go to these.

00:01:05.520 And we're going to speak a little later with Jim Gray.

00:01:09.640 He's a Calgary Energy executive, or he was, and he's with the Ad Hoc Citizens Committee to Rethink the Green Line.

00:01:16.140 That's a mouthful, but it's a group coming out saying, hey, we got to second think this project coming in Calgary because it's pretty big, and those numbers are looking pretty scary.

00:01:24.640 And we don't know if we need this thing.

00:01:26.700 So that's going to be a very interesting conversation coming up.

00:01:30.420 Lots of news. I'll be checking in with Dave in a little while as well.

00:01:33.780 And, of course, lots of the ranting and raving.

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00:02:15.520 All right. I'm going to start with my rant for the day.

00:02:18.640 I'll start with a grumpy statement, as is my want anyways.

00:02:22.420 So the common denominator, let's talk about that.

00:02:25.080 The common denominator in all your failures is you.

00:02:28.660 Yes, yes, that's a harsh statement.

00:02:30.840 Few people ever want to face that reality.

00:02:32.880 That's why so many people gladly embrace the opportunity to blame somebody or something else for their problems when they can.

00:02:38.720 Of course, we have an ever-growing state with governments willing to indulge people when they don't want to take responsibility for or accept the consequences for their actions either.

00:02:48.100 All the excuses.

00:02:49.140 Society made me do it.

00:02:50.360 The drugs made me do it.

00:02:51.460 My parents didn't hug me enough.

00:02:53.480 It's not my fault I got burned.

00:02:54.720 Nobody told me the coffee would be hot.

00:02:57.020 Systemic racism held me back.

00:02:58.680 Or my ex-wife is the root of all my problems. 0.93

00:03:01.540 Greedy corporations prevent me from getting ahead.

00:03:03.740 The excuses used to dodge and avoid personal responsibility are myriad.

00:03:09.140 It's certainly more comforting to direct your eye outwards when things may be going poorly for you than to consider that you may have caused all or part of your current problems.

00:03:17.920 Especially when you have a world that's increasingly saying, nothing's your fault.

00:03:23.880 There's many areas where we need people to start taking personal responsibility, but I want to focus on crime.

00:03:28.920 What got me going this time was a tweet from the Western Standards' Arthur Green.

00:03:32.740 It showed an electric vehicle charging station, and the charging cables have been cut off by thieves.

00:03:38.120 Now, crooks have realized that the copper in those heavy-duty cables is valuable, and thefts are becoming a problem throughout North America.

00:03:44.420 So I searched out and read a few articles.

00:03:46.120 This is a growing problem everywhere.

00:03:47.860 Now, those articles offered all sorts of advice in dealing with the issue, ranging from keeping cars in garages to bringing in detachable cables, or to have retractable cables that be hidden when not in use.

00:03:57.840 But you know what I didn't hear?

00:03:59.440 One piece of advice, one thing saying on how we're going to deal with this? 0.84

00:04:03.960 None of them said we should crack down on the bloody thieves. 0.72

00:04:06.900 None.

00:04:08.020 Just as it isn't advisable for a woman to walk around alone during late hours in a bad part of town while wearing revealing clothing, 0.98

00:04:14.620 it doesn't absolve the perpetrator if she's assaulted.

00:04:17.600 Yes, some personal responsibility falls on property owners to work to ensure their items can't easily be stolen.

00:04:25.320 But we shouldn't have to keep locking everything we have down for fear of the thieves.

00:04:29.580 If the responsibility to protect property fully falls upon the owner, then let's expand the right to protect our property with force.

00:04:36.160 Yeah, I know, the liberals won't like hearing about that.

00:04:38.500 So, let's get to those criminals.

00:04:40.140 It reminded me of a town hall meeting the RCMP held in my area when we were suffering under a particularly bad rural crime wave.

00:04:47.000 We were told to consider installing gates on our driveways and upgrading our alarm systems, maybe even get a dog.

00:04:51.980 Well, I got lots of dogs.

00:04:53.620 I didn't move to the country to live in a fortress for fear of thieves.

00:04:57.060 They also told us not to defend our property lest we be charged for assaulting a thief.

00:05:01.700 Huh?

00:05:02.800 Violent crime and property crimes are rising across the country,

00:05:05.760 the majority of which are committed by chronic offenders who have been in and out and released back into society.

00:05:12.420 It's time, it's past time, to put the onus or responsibility on the offenders.

00:05:16.820 I don't care about their background.

00:05:18.280 I don't care what led them to the life of crime.

00:05:20.300 It's unfortunate, but that's not my problem.

00:05:22.220 Their crimes are my problem.

00:05:24.060 And if they've been committing dozens of crimes,

00:05:26.120 it's time to consider warehousing them rather than wasting time and money reforming them.

00:05:30.800 It wouldn't be that costly to give truly long sentences to chronic offenders.

00:05:34.280 We're spending all that money and more having them in and out of the courts 0.99

00:05:37.620 and keeping them in remand centers while they steal from and assault innocent victims.

00:05:41.920 There's no simple or quick solutions to the growing disorder and crime issues.

00:05:45.540 The trend is tied to a tougher economy, the breakdown of family units, and an opioid addiction epidemic.

00:05:50.660 There's lots we can talk about.

00:05:52.220 But we need to change attitudes in what's considered socially acceptable.

00:05:57.120 That's no easy task, but it has to be done.

00:05:59.140 And the excuses have to be dismissed, and personal reality and responsibility, I should say, must be applauded.

00:06:06.000 Until that happens, though, crime is only going to continue to get worse.

00:06:10.340 So there, that's kind of what's got me going today.

00:06:13.120 I know some folks saying, yes, shoot, shovel, and shut up, and other comments such as that.

00:06:17.380 And, well, that's kind of what it'll come to if we can't rely on the authorities to protect us from the criminals any longer.

00:06:22.240 People will take it into their own hands, and they won't necessarily be the best arbiters of justice.

00:06:27.200 But that's what happens when society breaks down.

00:06:29.220 So maybe we should just take responsibility instead.

00:06:31.560 Okay, let's get on and talk to our news editor in the newsroom, Dave Naylor.

00:06:35.020 It's been a busy day already.

00:06:36.380 How's it going there, Dave?

00:06:38.440 Oh, it has been a busy day, Corey.

00:06:40.360 And can I just say ditto regarding your rent?

00:06:43.300 Oh, no problem.

00:06:44.240 Yeah, we've got big breaking news this morning out of Ottawa, where the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has announced he and his wife, Sophie, are separated.

00:06:55.660 They've been married for 18 years and have decided to take a break.

00:07:01.400 Not revealing the reasons why, but they are asking for privacy for their children's sake.

00:07:09.360 And they're actually off on holiday, I think, next week, and they're going to go together.

00:07:14.780 So ironically, the last Prime Minister who separated from his wife when he was in office was Justin's father, Pierre, who split up from Margaret while he was the PM in 1977.

00:07:30.260 So it doesn't happen very often, Corey.

00:07:32.480 Anyway, we've also got UCP reaction to that blockbuster court announcement yesterday that threw out all of Dr. Dina Hinshaw's health orders.

00:07:43.300 Justice Minister Mickey Amory told the Western Standard that they're going to take the 30 days that they're allowed legally whether or not to decide to have an appeal.

00:07:54.880 Well, we've got another transgender scandal brewing, so to speak, if you'll pardon the pun, this time at a coffee outlet across England, Costa Coffee.

00:08:06.300 It's huge in England, Corey, in every block.

00:08:10.060 They put out the latest cup with a transgendered man with scars on his chest after having his breasts removed.

00:08:18.020 So I guess they didn't learn from the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, and they're jumping right in, and they're already the subject of a boycott in England.

00:08:28.000 The Stanley Cup is making an appearance in small-town Saskatchewan today.

00:08:32.540 The town of Davidson, not named after me, is going to host the cup with Golden Ice player McNabb is bringing it to town.

00:08:43.440 Every player gets a day with the Stanley Cup, as you know, Corey, and he's decided to spend it in small-town Saskatchewan, his hometown.

00:08:52.280 So a big day for them.

00:08:54.180 And our Linda Slobodian continues to focus on human trafficking.

00:08:57.780 She's got a column on a recent FBI bust that freed more than 200 people who were trapped by human traffickers.

00:09:05.800 So all that and more, Corey's already up this morning, and just coming up right now, we're educating our young reporter, Jonathan Bradley, on the Burgess Shale.

00:09:15.600 He had never heard of it, and he's writing now about the latest interesting fossil find that they've got out there.

00:09:24.160 Great.

00:09:24.460 As a payoff boy, I was in a rockhound.

00:09:26.280 I've always been tempted to sneak out there and see what I could find in the Burgess Shale myself for fossils, but it's a UNESCO site.

00:09:32.600 People might not realize that you'd be in serious trouble and some serious fines if you tried to do that.

00:09:41.400 Yeah, well, it'll be an interesting story, and looking forward to it.

00:09:44.500 And maybe next year at this time, we'll report on the Stanley Cup Touring Canada with a Canadian player carrying it around.

00:09:50.460 Wouldn't that be nice?

00:09:51.540 A Canadian team, I should say.

00:09:54.660 I'm not going to hold my breath on that one yet, Corey.

00:09:57.220 See what training camp brings.

00:09:58.760 Some kind of nice note.

00:10:00.000 All right, thanks, Dave.

00:10:01.340 We'll check in with you later.

00:10:03.160 Thanks.

00:10:04.780 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:10:06.820 And, yes, lots on the go.

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00:10:40.900 Spread the word.

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00:10:42.540 Get it out there because it's going to be harder to find these outlets for a while.

00:10:47.580 I got a feeling this will come to an end.

00:10:50.260 You know, this standoff, the social media giants don't care.

00:10:52.620 It's not hurting them to not carry Canadian news.

00:10:55.220 They don't care.

00:10:56.580 But it's really hurting the outlets.

00:10:58.220 So I think Trudeau, you know, and the government is going to have to relent eventually.

00:11:04.020 Speaking of that, so Dave brought it up, and I do want to talk about, you know, for people

00:11:07.740 who follow me on Twitter, they know I like to indulge in poor taste.

00:11:10.680 I like to make jokes.

00:11:11.420 I like to get personal.

00:11:12.240 I like to get nasty on folks in there. 0.99

00:11:14.240 Trudeau and his wife Sophie's separation probably lead to a divorce.

00:11:19.080 Who knows?

00:11:20.520 We've kind of, a lot of people have seen the signs, perhaps, or we thought we did over

00:11:23.900 the years.

00:11:24.360 You watch that.

00:11:25.180 When they're public figures, it's a bit gossipy.

00:11:27.200 It's human nature.

00:11:27.680 We're curious, but we can't forget, and that's where I'm going to lay off a bit on this one.

00:11:32.860 I mean, I'll talk about it, and I'll watch this news, and I'll see things, and I'm certainly

00:11:36.040 not showing some love or sympathy for Justin Trudeau, but his kids, they've got kids.

00:11:42.500 I've been, a child, you know, went through a divorce, parents went through a divorce.

00:11:46.880 It's an unpleasant thing.

00:11:48.260 I can't imagine how it is for a kid when it's in the news, when it's public like that,

00:11:53.140 when that's all going on.

00:11:54.300 And the only innocents in those relationships, Justin and Sophie, they did their thing.

00:11:58.720 They made their bed.

00:12:00.680 Kids had nothing to do with it. 0.99

00:12:03.320 And if only for that, you know, again, we can stay on Trudeau's case.

00:12:07.860 Let's get on his case as much as we can, but lay off the kids when it comes to this personal

00:12:12.480 thing.

00:12:12.840 It's a personal thing with them right now, and we'll see how it develops.

00:12:17.660 So, yeah, a big one on the news that's been for us lately.

00:12:23.500 Again, that justice ruling from the Rebecca Ingram challenge to the pandemic lockdowns.

00:12:32.220 It was launched, I believe, in January 2020 or something around there, and it took, of

00:12:37.440 course, this long.

00:12:38.580 Oh, let's see.

00:12:38.920 They filed it in December 2020.

00:12:40.400 Okay, much later, but still.

00:12:41.400 It took this long, but they basically said, yeah, you know what, those pandemic restrictions

00:12:47.400 weren't constitutional, or they didn't fall under the charter.

00:12:51.800 And basically, now, this is a little difficult because the restrictions of the damage have

00:12:56.400 already been done.

00:12:57.400 So what are you going to do about it?

00:12:59.360 But that's what some people are also talking about.

00:13:03.380 But, you know, we're going to see a lot of class action suits.

00:13:07.580 We're going to see things like that because now the door is open.

00:13:09.660 They're realizing the government was wrong.

00:13:11.100 So I got distracted because I looked at a comment, a wild rose, and that's a regular

00:13:14.100 here, saying, hey, Corey, he came after our children.

00:13:16.280 Why are his off limits?

00:13:17.900 Well, wild rose, because two wrongs don't make a right.

00:13:20.580 That's why.

00:13:21.720 So, again, take out your ire on Trudeau, not his kids. 0.99

00:13:24.700 That's ridiculous. 0.99

00:13:26.140 That's like saying somebody who is a child murderer, and it turns out he has kids as well. 1.00

00:13:30.020 We should go out and murder his kids as well. 0.98

00:13:31.680 No, so there's not a reasonable response to a wrong that was done. 1.00

00:13:38.240 You can be as upset with the Trudeaus as you like. 1.00

00:13:40.920 And by all means, I am all the time.

00:13:43.260 Leave the kids out. 0.98

00:13:45.200 If they want to grow up and get into politics and public life, after that, hey, they're open

00:13:49.020 game.

00:13:50.040 Until then, it's just not where to be.

00:13:52.620 Either way, getting back to that, yeah, so we're going to see a lot of things.

00:13:55.940 And some of the calls from that court ruling and so on, people like Ty Northcott and Pastor

00:14:01.620 Coates, you know, people are saying it's time to drop the charges against them.

00:14:05.380 I mean, those charges aren't valid now that the COVID orders that were found not to be

00:14:09.840 valid in themselves as well.

00:14:12.280 And, yeah, that door, we've just seen the beginning, I think.

00:14:16.720 The floodgates are about to open, not just class action suits, but other challenges.

00:14:20.720 This puts Premier Smith in such a tough spot.

00:14:24.580 Is the provincial government going to appeal this?

00:14:26.620 Well, if they appeal that, she's made a lot of her political bases based on opposing those 1.00

00:14:32.660 lockdowns and restrictions.

00:14:34.460 But at the same time, the government could be on the hook for, and that does mean us in

00:14:39.240 the long run, unfortunately, a whole lot of money if lawsuits and other such things start

00:14:44.020 coming down the line.

00:14:45.640 Okay.

00:14:45.880 I'm going to frame up for the next guest coming on.

00:14:48.160 Like I said, Jim Gray is going to come.

00:14:49.460 We're going to talk about the Green Line.

00:14:50.740 So I know we've got a lot of viewers and listeners outside of Calgary.

00:14:53.680 It's called the Green Line.

00:14:55.140 It's a light rail transit expansion in Calgary.

00:14:58.300 And it's huge.

00:14:59.300 It's huge in scope.

00:15:00.200 They've been talking about it for decades, I think.

00:15:03.100 It's supposed to go way up to North Calgary and then way, way down south.

00:15:05.780 And then they've cut the scope of it.

00:15:07.380 They've been ripping up the streets downtown.

00:15:09.240 They've been making a mess.

00:15:10.560 Still no track laid yet.

00:15:12.140 And the price tag for this thing seems to be just getting higher and higher.

00:15:15.660 Well, finally, a group of people in Calgary has gotten together, some business people,

00:15:19.920 philanthropists, people involved in the community.

00:15:22.380 And they've formed the Ad Hoc Citizens Committee to rethink the Green Line.

00:15:27.660 It's a big mouthful.

00:15:28.620 It's greenlineinfo.ca.

00:15:30.080 But, you know, the reason I said I'm explaining this for the folks who aren't in Calgary is

00:15:33.820 because these sorts of projects are happening in cities across Canada.

00:15:38.260 And maybe it's time to really tap the brakes on some of these because the costs are getting

00:15:41.860 too high.

00:15:42.300 So I have Jim Gray in studio with me today.

00:15:44.660 Thank you very much for coming downtown to talk to us about this today, Jim.

00:15:49.020 Oh, thank you for having me.

00:15:50.360 I live downtown.

00:15:51.280 Okay.

00:15:51.820 So I didn't have that far to go.

00:15:53.100 Well, a short commute.

00:15:54.040 But still, it's a nice day.

00:15:55.140 You know, there could be other things to be doing.

00:15:57.180 So I appreciate that.

00:15:58.940 So I guess living downtown, you've seen already the construction, the work they've been doing

00:16:04.340 down here on this.

00:16:05.640 And that would be part of what inspired you to get involved with this group and get this

00:16:10.080 group going then?

00:16:11.680 Well, first of all, it's a good group.

00:16:14.500 It's about eight or ten people.

00:16:16.660 And no, I got started 10 years ago, 10, 12 years ago.

00:16:22.080 I found out during the flood of 2013 that we were planning two tunnels under the Bow River

00:16:28.820 one going north, one going south, each of them worth a billion dollars.

00:16:33.920 And I'm an old, worn-out geologist, but we live on a floodplain in Calgary.

00:16:40.420 And tunnels are very, very dangerous from water.

00:16:44.760 And we know what's happened in the past.

00:16:47.340 So I got really interested because of the tunnels under the Bow River.

00:16:51.400 And I just thought that was an enormous risk and was very dangerous.

00:16:57.160 And that's what kind of got us started back in about 2012.

00:17:02.200 Okay.

00:17:02.980 And I mean, you've been involved, as I said earlier, in the energy industry.

00:17:06.560 I mean, you've been involved in a lot of large capital projects before.

00:17:09.600 And I guess, you know, in watching how the expenses and things have been moving along

00:17:13.980 with this, that must be raising some alarm bells with you as well, then.

00:17:17.700 Well, it was.

00:17:19.080 And the world experts are at Oxford University.

00:17:23.900 They've got 15,000 megaprojects in their database.

00:17:27.940 And I've been in touch with them, and our group has been in touch with them.

00:17:33.200 And they just say the way Calgary is moving on this green line is kind of a poster child

00:17:39.760 for how these things go in the ditch.

00:17:42.380 And there's three elements.

00:17:44.160 Number one, they start by underestimating the cost.

00:17:48.380 Well, if you remember, 4.65 was going to build the whole line from 160th North all the way to Seton.

00:17:54.060 And now it's down to about 25% of that for more money.

00:17:59.600 And then number two, they overestimate the benefits.

00:18:02.760 And we've done that with ridership and various other things.

00:18:07.020 And then number three, they spend money as fast as possible to get past the point of no return.

00:18:13.640 And every one of these, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton,

00:18:18.580 and then a whole group of them in the U.S. have followed that same path.

00:18:24.740 And now, from coast to coast, with the exception of Calgary,

00:18:29.420 most of them, over 90% of them are saying,

00:18:32.860 let's just pause.

00:18:34.160 Let's get this right.

00:18:35.680 It's too big to get wrong.

00:18:39.000 And we need to do that in Calgary.

00:18:41.280 We're not opposed to the green line.

00:18:43.160 In fact, we're trying to save the green line if it's possible to save it.

00:18:47.140 But we can't use pre-COVID estimates of the cost.

00:18:53.180 And because inflation and COVID and everything that we touch

00:18:58.220 has been impacted by inflation and by other cost increases.

00:19:03.920 And so we're just lobbying.

00:19:06.480 We're just bringing pressure on the provincial government.

00:19:09.640 They're the ones that we have to focus on.

00:19:11.800 And the provincial government to just pause and let's get this right.

00:19:16.880 Yeah.

00:19:17.460 So, I mean, that one element you were talking about, and we've seen that.

00:19:20.460 I mean, they're spending, I believe, $100,000 a day right now.

00:19:22.960 And they haven't even laid track on this.

00:19:24.960 I mean, it's been over a billion dollars spent on this.

00:19:27.460 Well, Corey, they're right at just about a billion.

00:19:32.340 And they're spending multiples of $100,000 a day.

00:19:37.100 They're spending $200,000 or $300,000 a day.

00:19:40.000 And as you say, we haven't laid that much track yet.

00:19:43.740 And they say they won't have the final prices till next spring.

00:19:48.640 Meanwhile, we're spending $200,000, $300,000 a day and ripping up downtown.

00:19:52.800 And so by that time, we will have spent a billion and a half dollars, which is more than the new cancer center, which is way more than the new event center.

00:20:04.940 And we still won't know what this thing's going to cost.

00:20:09.680 So let's just pause and get it right, because I think we have to understand that this Green Line, 46 kilometers from the north to the south, doesn't go to the health campus, the big new hospital, doesn't go to that big new economic area.

00:20:29.340 Doesn't go to the airport.

00:20:30.560 Doesn't go to the airport.

00:20:31.740 Doesn't go to the eight communities between Shepard and Seton.

00:20:35.900 And stage one goes from Eau Claire to Shepard.

00:20:41.120 And when people always ask me, well, Jim, where's Shepard?

00:20:45.020 I say, well, that's the old landfill site.

00:20:47.280 Oh, yeah, I remember taking stuff out to Shepard.

00:20:50.440 But there are no new riders between new riders.

00:20:53.740 We're not talking about when you talk about riders, you got to talk about new riders, people that aren't now taking the bus.

00:21:00.240 And there are very few new riders between Eau Claire and Shepard that aren't now serviced with a bus.

00:21:07.460 Very well serviced with a bus.

00:21:10.160 So I could go on, but we're spending huge amounts of money.

00:21:16.300 Phase one is now budgeted at around $5 billion, five or five and a half billion dollars.

00:21:23.000 That includes $500 million for financing.

00:21:25.640 Clearly, it's going to go to between 8 and 10.

00:21:29.760 And there are many people think it will go more than that.

00:21:33.000 Phase two, which takes us all the way to Seton, the South Health campus, etc., will be something in the order of $10 to $15 billion.

00:21:41.920 So let's understand, Corey, this is the biggest thing Calgary's ever done at $20 to $25 billion.

00:21:50.720 And then, I guess, to put that in perspective, a couple of things, and not everybody's from Calgary, too.

00:21:56.440 So, yes, what you're talking about is this is going to go through essentially like a large light industrial and sort of reclaimed garbage dump zone.

00:22:03.280 So there's not going to be a lot of traffic or need.

00:22:05.380 That was one of the factors you were talking about, you know, for the lack of benefit.

00:22:09.000 If you don't have the ridership there, why are you building the train?

00:22:11.420 But just to put those dollars in perspective, if you're talking $20 billion, $25 billion, assuming there's a million taxpayers in Calgary, that would come up to about $20,000 a person in the city of taxpayers to cover this line.

00:22:25.840 That's before they even get to buy a ticket and ride on it.

00:22:28.640 Exactly.

00:22:29.760 And the average taxpayer, I believe, pays about $2,500 of residential tax.

00:22:36.160 And so that $20,000 number is an enormous number.

00:22:41.180 And the one area, there's three agencies paying for this.

00:22:45.920 The citizens of Calgary, the citizens of Alberta, and Canadians.

00:22:50.200 A third, a third, a third.

00:22:52.120 A third, Calgary, a third, Edmonton, and a third, Ottawa.

00:22:56.340 But the one agent with deep pockets is Edmonton.

00:23:01.700 And they're going to have a real problem bailing out Calgary because Edmonton's LRT's in trouble.

00:23:10.700 And they've just caused a pause to their capital line, and the costs of their capital line have ballooned.

00:23:18.620 Now, you might be amused to know that I phoned the journalist that wrote the story.

00:23:24.340 I said, what does ballooned mean?

00:23:25.960 I mean, I don't see any definition in a financial textbook about ballooned.

00:23:32.520 And the best we can come up with is 50% to 100%.

00:23:35.100 So their counsel, to their credit, said, stop.

00:23:39.740 Let's look at this, and let's bring the cost down to the funds that are available.

00:23:46.300 And we've got to do that in Calgary.

00:23:48.740 That has to be done in Calgary.

00:23:50.700 Most definitely.

00:23:51.400 And I don't like, and this has been happening for a few years, some of the number juggling they've done with this.

00:23:55.900 I used to lock horns with former Mayor Nenshi on this.

00:23:59.140 And they said, no, it's not over budget.

00:24:01.620 Well, you've cut it down to a quarter of the scope, and the budget is the same.

00:24:06.720 That's a blown budget.

00:24:08.100 You're just juggling now.

00:24:09.980 Please quit trying to.

00:24:11.300 And when you see that trend, and we haven't reevaluated in years now, it can't be anywhere close to budget.

00:24:17.200 And who would use pre-COVID numbers for anything?

00:24:22.780 Take the cars.

00:24:24.020 The cars are made in Spain.

00:24:25.880 Our present cars are made in Germany, Siemens.

00:24:28.700 These cars are ground-loading cars, and they're made in Spain.

00:24:32.300 They're not compatible with our present fleet.

00:24:35.080 So we need new parts, new shops, new mechanics.

00:24:38.980 We've got a whole new protocol of vehicles to put in place.

00:24:44.080 And they were going to have roughly 80 cars when it started for $300 or $400 million.

00:24:49.820 Now we're down to about 30 cars.

00:24:52.060 And they say, well, we're still on budget.

00:24:53.860 Same sort of.

00:24:54.760 But we've only got 30 cars, not 80 cars.

00:24:57.800 Look, I don't make any of this personal.

00:24:59.740 I will not attack anybody in a personal way because we've got to learn in this to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

00:25:10.940 And it's time that we just paused and tried to save this green line, if it's possible to save it.

00:25:20.440 And I don't know whether it is possible to save it.

00:25:22.920 But nevertheless, we've got to, and our sensible, affordable alternative is to start on 7th Avenue by City Hall and go all the way to Seton on the surface, no tunnels on the surface or elevated.

00:25:38.200 And that's the way we've built every LRT.

00:25:41.880 We've started on 7th Avenue and gone out to where the population is.

00:25:46.660 So let's do that.

00:25:47.700 And let's look at building to the airport, like Vancouver has.

00:25:54.000 They've got a line that stops downtown in many places and then goes to the airport.

00:25:59.680 Well, what about Saddletown?

00:26:01.300 Let's just look at that.

00:26:02.580 I'm not saying it's the thing to do until we get a good analysis of the cost and the benefits.

00:26:09.180 But I like the idea, personally.

00:26:11.620 And in North Calgary, we've got a wonderful buff system in North Calgary. 1.00

00:26:17.020 But it picks up people all over the area and then comes down on three lines over Center Street and deposits them right downtown and then picks them up and takes them back home.

00:26:27.440 And maybe we can strengthen that.

00:26:30.160 But let's just start on 7th Avenue and go all the way to Seton on the surface and elevated.

00:26:37.760 No tunnels.

00:26:38.820 Building tunnels in Calgary is a mug scheme.

00:26:42.360 It's at high risk and dangerous because of water.

00:26:47.860 And so another aspect that's changed since COVID is people aren't riding transit downtown as much as they used to.

00:26:55.020 And there's a couple of factors going on.

00:26:56.840 Some people have moved on to working from home.

00:26:58.620 They don't come downtown like they used to.

00:27:00.280 And this could be solvable.

00:27:02.660 So it doesn't necessarily mean scrapping the line.

00:27:04.260 But crime has been a serious, serious problem on transit.

00:27:06.860 And it's pushing people from wanting to utilize the transit.

00:27:11.280 And people have been shifting more to the outer areas of the city rather than the inner.

00:27:15.160 And it's, again, not necessarily saying that the project isn't viable.

00:27:18.060 But maybe we should be focusing on getting people to use transit more again first before building more infrastructure for what's right now a declining demand.

00:27:28.240 Well, there's a fundamental issue that you just touched on, Corey.

00:27:31.720 The danger of stations underground in tunnels is measurably higher than the danger of surface or elevated stations that are open up, that have windows, that are open.

00:27:47.140 And so we have to be very careful in that the hesitancy in using these facilities.

00:27:53.700 We run a high risk of that escalating with stations buried underground in tunnels.

00:28:00.520 We've got to forget this business of tunnels.

00:28:03.100 I'm an older person.

00:28:04.740 I remember when the CPR was going to build a tunnel for their main line under Calgary in Rod Sykes' day so that they could monetize all their land.

00:28:13.920 And they said they did the studies and they said, no way.

00:28:17.440 We're not building tunnels under Calgary.

00:28:20.380 Well, if I recall, there is a built, sitting, gathering dust, little LRT station they put under the new city hall in anticipation.

00:28:29.760 It's still sitting there thinking they were going to put an LRT line under there at some time or another.

00:28:34.780 You see, when you build a tunnel, you only need 5 or 10 or 15 feet of water-saturated sandstones or conglomerates or whatever, full of water, to ruin the whole system.

00:28:51.180 So just because you've got 100 feet or 100 yards of tunnel doesn't mean anything.

00:28:56.220 Oh, no.

00:28:56.640 I'm just saying it means that they've been peddling around with us for a long time.

00:28:59.340 Oh, yeah.

00:28:59.960 And we were going to actually build a tunnel along 9th Avenue at one time.

00:29:04.500 But I don't know if you remember 2nd Street when they were building Bankers Hall.

00:29:09.440 And there was such a water influx that the big overhead crane crashed, that part of 9th Avenue fell into the hole.

00:29:18.360 And there were lawsuits that were still active just several years ago.

00:29:22.220 So we've got to stop that.

00:29:24.500 We've got to stop tunnels under downtown Calgary.

00:29:28.060 That is not, that should not be on.

00:29:31.500 And furthermore, the tunnel workers are not Calgarians.

00:29:37.680 We're not known for our tunnel expertise in Calgary.

00:29:41.700 We're known to be able to build roads.

00:29:43.880 And the 69th Street, we can build elevated LRTs.

00:29:48.820 We're good at that.

00:29:50.340 And we've got to put local contractors to work on and not international tunnel experts.

00:29:58.160 So I appreciate that you guys have gotten together and you're raising a hand.

00:30:01.400 Again, to be, you know, pragmatic, you're not saying shut it down, but let's just hold our horses and get a better look.

00:30:09.220 It's going to be hard because, as you say, they're going to say, oh, look at the sunk costs and things such as that.

00:30:14.300 Politicians are going to dig in their heels. 0.99

00:30:15.920 So I'm kind of getting on to the what can people do?

00:30:18.040 You guys are preparing for a petition and some efforts?

00:30:20.680 Well, no, not a petition, but we've got 1,000 people have now, and it's gone up dramatically in the last week or two,

00:30:30.480 have now taken the time to send us an email to say there are supporters.

00:30:34.300 Now we're going on to social media, and our target is to get 5,000 Calgarians.

00:30:40.780 Look, I'm a citizen.

00:30:42.280 We're a taxpayer.

00:30:43.200 I have no skin in the game on this thing.

00:30:45.700 I just believe we have a responsibility as taxpayers to be involved in issues as big as the biggest thing that Calgary has ever done.

00:30:54.820 And let me repeat, our email, our website is greenlineinfo.ca, and you can log into that, and you can become a participant.

00:31:06.980 And we're not asking for money.

00:31:08.640 We're not asking for anything.

00:31:09.800 We just want to know that you support just pausing and getting this right because it's never too late to do the right thing.

00:31:19.160 Oh, absolutely, and that's the battle it'll have to be.

00:31:22.100 Look, even if it's well along, if the right thing is to pause it, pause it.

00:31:26.220 Well, I'd rather lose a billion than lose five.

00:31:28.660 Well, or 10 or 20.

00:31:30.280 Or 10 or 20.

00:31:31.180 Yeah, so okay, before I let you go, then, is there anything else you'd like to add?

00:31:34.280 No, but I urge people, you made the comment, what are you going to do about it?

00:31:39.040 I urge people to get engaged, understand this project, and sign up as a participant.

00:31:46.360 We're trying to save the green line, but let's save it in a practical, objective, clearly thought-out way,

00:31:54.720 because these things are going in the ditch from coast to coast, and let's not be one of them.

00:32:00.980 Well, thank you very much for raising your hand and getting on to it and taking a break from, I'm sure, retirement to take this on.

00:32:08.480 And let's hope that the voice of reason prevails in the end.

00:32:12.080 Thanks again for coming to talk to us today, Jim.

00:32:13.820 Thanks very much, Paul.

00:32:14.520 All right.

00:32:15.560 So again, one more time, guys, greenlineinfo.ca, and there's a lot of resources and information there for you on it.

00:32:21.340 And as he said, this is happening across the country.

00:32:23.980 Edmonton has just been a catastrophe.

00:32:26.060 Colby Kosh wrote a great piece on that, actually, up in Edmonton with what's been going on with their line.

00:32:31.740 And they're years behind schedule.

00:32:34.340 They're running test trains up and down on it.

00:32:35.840 They've spent a fortune on it, and it still hasn't taken a passenger yet.

00:32:40.060 So as I said, you don't have to live in Calgary.

00:32:42.260 You don't have to even live in a city to realize that this is going to cost you.

00:32:46.640 This is going to cost you.

00:32:47.420 The federal taxes are going to get you.

00:32:49.260 The provincial taxes are going to get you.

00:32:50.920 You're going to pay for this.

00:32:51.940 So as I said, we're talking about a lot of transit sort of issues going on, you know, today and things like that.

00:33:01.440 I mean, so one of the interesting ones was Chrystia Freeland. 1.00

00:33:04.960 You know, we've been hearing that one.

00:33:05.940 That's been a popular story on ours federally.

00:33:08.320 And she has been talking about, you know, they're trying to look like the common people.

00:33:13.040 They're saying, we're just like you.

00:33:14.500 We're tightening our belts.

00:33:15.880 Freeland did the thing with saying, you know, we got rid of the Disney Channel.

00:33:20.640 We're saving money.

00:33:21.320 You got to remember, this is a cabinet minister who's making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

00:33:25.860 I don't begrudge you that.

00:33:28.440 But don't pretend that you're tightening your belt like the rest of us.

00:33:31.820 And then she went on a rant to say she doesn't have a car and she rides a bike where she has to. 1.00

00:33:37.560 And she takes transit or taxis where she has to go and got quite upset when she got called on it.

00:33:42.920 Well, turns out that, yes, her chauffeur, and she has a chauffeur, claimed expenses for meals and other costs over 28 days just in Toronto where she lives.

00:33:52.340 I mean, there's been other areas where she's traveled, she's used, you know, chauffeured vehicles as well.

00:33:56.980 Look, she's a federal cabinet minister. 0.98

00:33:59.180 She's a deputy prime minister.

00:34:01.160 She's a finance minister.

00:34:03.040 She, I don't feel that people in that position should necessarily not have that sort of transportation at their disposal.

00:34:10.940 But don't sit and pretend that you don't use it.

00:34:13.760 Of course you do.

00:34:15.120 And the evidence is there.

00:34:16.300 We've seen it.

00:34:16.820 Or, or her chauffeur has been ripping off taxpayers by filing false expense reports.

00:34:21.960 So which one's it going to be?

00:34:23.540 Freeland, you were using it.

00:34:25.860 But getting on more recently.

00:34:29.540 So, I mean, with this whole affair starting to hit the news and be a problem and everything else, coincidentally, suddenly, a photo starts going around from a Toronto outlet.

00:34:39.100 It first hit Twitter, I believe.

00:34:40.460 And it says, look who was spotted riding the TTC, which is the Toronto subway line, the train line.

00:34:46.400 Well, there's Justin Trudeau.

00:34:47.620 You can see the picture right there in front of people listening on the podcast.

00:34:50.040 He's standing there looking stoic, sort of staring off into the distance and holding up there in a train.

00:34:55.980 He's got his sleeves rolled up.

00:34:57.520 You know, he's getting serious.

00:34:58.500 He's on to something here.

00:34:59.980 If you look really closely, you see the bulletproof vests on all the people around him, of course, because he's got security and such.

00:35:07.000 Which he should.

00:35:08.060 He's the prime minister.

00:35:09.620 But you're trying to pretend to be able to relate with us.

00:35:13.820 You're trying to pretend that you're one of us.

00:35:15.660 You aren't.

00:35:16.560 You aren't.

00:35:17.060 Quit the facade.

00:35:18.340 Quit insulting our intelligence with this.

00:35:21.780 You don't ride transit, Justin Trudeau.

00:35:24.180 You're a trust fund baby.

00:35:25.720 And hey, that's no fault of your own.

00:35:26.840 You were born into that.

00:35:27.560 But you were born into a rich, well-known family.

00:35:30.680 You were chauffeured all your life.

00:35:32.900 You've probably never cooked Kraft dinner for yourself.

00:35:35.860 That's fine.

00:35:36.800 Embrace that.

00:35:37.520 But don't sit and pretend and stand there as if you're a transit rider like everybody else.

00:35:43.020 And we're seeing that song and dance.

00:35:44.760 We're seeing that game.

00:35:46.700 We saw that in Calgary, too, with the mayor, Jodi Gondek, was riding the train.

00:35:51.940 And sure enough, she had a pile of cops with her for the whole ride.

00:35:55.360 And the point of her ride was to say, see, the train's perfectly safe.

00:35:58.140 No, no, your worship.

00:36:01.300 The train's perfectly safe when you can have an escort of a bunch of armed police officers with you.

00:36:07.480 For the common rider, it doesn't work that way.

00:36:11.500 In Edmonton just the other day, it works great.

00:36:13.800 They came up with their Marvin the Meatball thing to show.

00:36:16.360 Come on, downtown.

00:36:17.180 It's nice and safe.

00:36:17.740 It was bizarre, almost surreal.

00:36:19.180 A Chilean older woman was riding the Edmonton Transit, and she got assaulted.

00:36:25.080 Edmonton's getting known as Stabmonton.

00:36:27.480 But that's happening everywhere, the crime on these transit systems.

00:36:31.520 And in wintertime, it gets even worse.

00:36:33.140 And in Edmonton, they talked about that.

00:36:34.820 It was tweeted out, basically saying we're going to allow the transit lines to be a de facto shelter for the homeless people when it gets cold.

00:36:42.560 That's not reasonable. 0.89

00:36:43.520 But it just really, yeah, it does get under my skin when you see poses like that from that clown Trudeau, pretending that, you know, how I understand. 0.93

00:36:53.180 I feel your pain, O common Canadians. 1.00

00:36:55.880 I ride the train like you do.

00:36:57.760 No, you do not.

00:36:59.600 No, you do not.

00:37:00.580 This is a government that's on the ropes, though.

00:37:02.900 I mean, that poll, we talked about that in the pipeline last week.

00:37:05.420 It was something else.

00:37:06.360 That was out of abacus.

00:37:07.220 I mean, that was 2,500 people sampled.

00:37:09.120 It wasn't a minor one.

00:37:10.200 And it found a lot of issues that are probably very disturbing for this government.

00:37:14.980 They're doing internal polling all the time as well.

00:37:16.760 Every government and party does that.

00:37:18.120 They do polls and polls and polls.

00:37:20.120 And they're probably finding that, no, no doubt about it, they are finding, of course, that, yeah, they're 10 points behind the conservatives now.

00:37:27.020 And the scary thing is, who are they losing?

00:37:28.700 Women and young people.

00:37:30.640 Women and young people.

00:37:31.360 Those were traditionally his areas of support.

00:37:34.320 And the conservatives are leading in both those categories now.

00:37:37.440 But, I mean, there's a lot of factors that come into it.

00:37:39.060 But affordability, that's the huge one.

00:37:41.500 And who's getting hit?

00:37:42.780 A lot of women who are often perhaps, you know, raising children and so on might not be in an intact marriage or young people again. 0.78

00:37:50.200 And these are people also that ride transit.

00:37:53.040 These are people that have a hard time paying their bills with the carbon taxes, the inflation,

00:37:57.660 the constant pounding they're getting from this government, raising the cost of living while they're pretending they aren't.

00:38:05.120 Well, they keep saying, we're addressing it.

00:38:06.540 No, you aren't.

00:38:07.280 People are having a really hard time.

00:38:09.220 So I'm sure their focus groups found, look, people are afraid of riding on transit.

00:38:13.020 Well, let's show them how, oh, we understand.

00:38:15.680 We ride transit too.

00:38:16.960 How many people look at that and say, oh, yes, look at Justin genuinely riding transit just like everybody else. 1.00

00:38:22.620 Oh, what a load of crap. 0.98

00:38:24.020 And Chrystia Freeland, a picture of her with her bicycle there. 0.99

00:38:27.560 There was one of those going around.

00:38:28.920 And we saw that with Climate Barbie, who used to be in cabinet, another one of theirs, who was riding her bike in a big pose on Ottawa Hill and she was wearing high heels. 0.92

00:38:36.960 Now, I don't ride bicycles a lot and I never wear high heels.

00:38:40.960 I mean, it's just, you know, not a fear of trans thing.

00:38:44.800 It's just they don't have the right ankles for that sort of get up.

00:38:47.260 But I'm pretty sure the two don't go together well on bicycles if you're really actually going to ride one.

00:38:52.740 Curly May Q saying seniors too.

00:38:55.340 Yeah, when the pressure is coming on.

00:38:56.380 Yeah, particularly seniors have fixed incomes.

00:38:59.780 They are very sensitive to rises in costs for food, for rent, for and transit.

00:39:05.660 And seniors are often riding transit.

00:39:07.280 And again, when it's a little easier to feel comfortable, I guess, when you're riding on an LRT loaded with attics and people, you know, freaking out and tweaking when you're in your 20s and strong and fit and confident.

00:39:21.120 But once you're getting into the senior years, you're a little more uncomfortable riding amongst that mass.

00:39:25.920 Likewise, with women.

00:39:27.820 Instead of pretending they can relate with us, because that's what the government's doing right now.

00:39:32.180 That's why they put on the show.

00:39:33.540 That's why they do their photo ops.

00:39:36.380 How about actually fixing the problems, huh?

00:39:39.060 How about getting your bail reforms done, Prime Minister Trudeau?

00:39:41.980 You've talked and talked and talked about that.

00:39:43.540 We've had police officers shot by people released on bail.

00:39:46.260 We've had people released on bail, violent individuals all over the place.

00:39:50.440 The stories are constant, chronic, and they're violent.

00:39:53.860 Fix it.

00:39:54.980 Don't give me a photo op.

00:39:56.260 Give me legislation. 1.00

00:39:57.140 When you morons pushed through C-18, damn the torpedoes. 1.00

00:40:02.680 We're going to screw up and coming alternative media companies. 1.00

00:40:06.020 That got through without much difficulty.

00:40:07.780 When the government wants to get something through, they will get it through.

00:40:10.800 The only reason I can see them dragging their butts on bail reform is they don't want to do it.

00:40:15.400 Too bad.

00:40:16.240 You need to.

00:40:17.040 I'm offering tips here, Justin.

00:40:19.040 These are tips.

00:40:19.740 Because your little photo opportunities are not going to turn that demographic crowd around and make them vote for you. 0.99

00:40:26.360 That's that arrogance, that vanity, that foolishness. 0.98

00:40:30.780 That's what's costing you support. 0.96

00:40:32.940 So I guess as a conservative, I say, carry on, Justin.

00:40:35.120 Do another one.

00:40:36.240 Show yourself walking to work one day or riding your bike downtown.

00:40:40.280 I mean, we'll believe it.

00:40:41.240 Sure, we will.

00:40:42.400 You know, they've tried this before with Trudeau in his early times to paint him as something he isn't.

00:40:48.100 But I remember that when he first became prime minister, let's give one thing to his credit.

00:40:52.160 His speaking has gotten better.

00:40:53.420 I mean, I still find his voice to be like nails on chalkboard.

00:40:55.760 But you remember eight, nine years ago, even when he's leader of the opposition, the ums and ahs and stammering and stuttering, driving bananas.

00:41:03.880 He's gotten better.

00:41:04.760 To his credit, he's gotten better.

00:41:06.000 A lot of practice, perhaps even some voice coaching.

00:41:08.000 Who knows?

00:41:09.140 But part of what came out at first, too, was, and there's some truth to any part of that impression,

00:41:14.120 he's not what we would call a cerebral prime minister.

00:41:17.680 He's not a deep thinker.

00:41:19.180 He's not a philosopher.

00:41:20.480 He's not a policy want.

00:41:21.820 Come on.

00:41:22.100 He's a guy with pretty hair who gets around, leads the party, has a good family name,

00:41:26.440 and has managed to lead to success in Central Canadian voters.

00:41:30.660 But what they try to do is show him as something else.

00:41:33.120 And this photo op they did, this whole presser, it was just bizarre.

00:41:36.940 And I can't believe people didn't see through that.

00:41:39.840 I don't know if you guys remember it.

00:41:41.160 He had a whiteboard behind him.

00:41:42.760 I think he was at a school or a college or something, had all these formulas written

00:41:47.020 out on it and everything else.

00:41:48.420 It looked like, you know, a professor has been building a rocket or something like that.

00:41:51.800 There was, of course, a staged question about quantum computing.

00:41:55.580 And Justin Trudeau launched into a lecturing answer with his deep knowledge on quantum computing.

00:42:01.400 It was just so grossly staged.

00:42:04.840 I'm surprised they didn't give him a pair of glasses, a little tape in the middle.

00:42:07.960 They're trying to change the impression of him from being the vacuous ski coach, you know,

00:42:15.400 part-time drama teacher into some sort of intellectual.

00:42:18.620 Don't.

00:42:19.660 Don't do that.

00:42:20.560 You're just insulting us.

00:42:21.860 Show him as what he is.

00:42:23.680 Or maybe what he is is just too ugly to actually win an election.

00:42:27.660 But, you know, look at that.

00:42:29.760 Nico's amazing.

00:42:30.860 He found that picture.

00:42:32.020 Look at that.

00:42:33.120 Look at that.

00:42:34.300 And, you know, again, for the people listening on the podcast, yeah, here's all these numbers

00:42:37.920 and formulas and everything in the background.

00:42:40.100 I would love to have a mathematician or somebody look at that and say, does that actually mean

00:42:43.900 anything or do they just kind of clip something out and stick it back there behind him anyways?

00:42:48.580 Sorry, it didn't make him any smarter, guys.

00:42:50.400 It looks to me like you're covering something up.

00:42:52.180 And what you're covering up was the lack of intellect on the part of the prime minister.

00:42:57.480 And, yeah, as they get more desperate, things are going to get uglier.

00:43:02.820 They're going to get worse.

00:43:04.220 And one of the things the government will do, and again, it seems to work for them politically,

00:43:07.340 so I see why they do it, but is, of course, screw the West.

00:43:10.960 I mean, that was the statements from one of Pierre Trudeau's main enforcers of the past.

00:43:17.880 Screw the West.

00:43:18.360 We'll take the rest.

00:43:18.900 And it worked.

00:43:19.420 The liberals would win over and over.

00:43:20.940 One of the recent ones Jason Nixon in Alberta has been bringing up loudly, as he should,

00:43:26.420 is, you know, there's been housing funds.

00:43:29.540 I think the government came up with a $1.5 billion or something with a housing affordability

00:43:33.420 program, and then they transferred it out to the provinces.

00:43:37.060 It's how they control everything.

00:43:38.420 People hear about equalization all the time.

00:43:40.380 We get upset about equalization.

00:43:41.560 That's because equalization is directed exclusively, specifically for the point of giving more

00:43:47.500 to one province versus another to try and supposedly balance out unequal economies.

00:43:52.160 But people forget that, no, we get scared on transfers all over the place.

00:43:56.020 Equalization is just the most visible.

00:43:58.180 So when it came to transferring out the money that came from us in the first place,

00:44:03.380 Alberta makes up 12% of Canada's population now, really growing.

00:44:06.460 We only got two and a half percent of the housing transfer back.

00:44:11.320 So basically, they hooped us out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:44:14.380 I mean, the left goes wild and is blaming Danielle Smith for a lack of housing.

00:44:17.380 You know, the blame game goes all over the place.

00:44:18.880 Well, if it's just money, it's much more than money.

00:44:20.520 But if the money helps, well, we lost hundreds of millions of dollars because the Trudeau liberals

00:44:27.160 transferred it to the rest of the country and shortchanged Alberta by a huge amount.

00:44:31.600 They're going to up that game because they don't care.

00:44:33.740 They know there's no seats to win out here.

00:44:36.000 They know there's very little seats to win in Saskatchewan or interior BC.

00:44:39.360 So you watch.

00:44:40.100 They're desperate.

00:44:40.720 They're hurting Toronto, Montreal, some of the Maritimes and lower mainland BC.

00:44:44.940 They're going to get a lot of love in the next little while.

00:44:46.960 But the rest of the West, internal Canada is going to get it. 0.84

00:44:51.100 We're going to get it bad.

00:44:52.520 It's typical strategy on the part of the liberals.

00:44:55.340 And that one is just odious.

00:44:56.800 Just such a huge amount of the discrepancy.

00:44:58.980 And Alberta is the fastest growing province in the country.

00:45:00.940 They're coming in here.

00:45:01.720 People are coming in here.

00:45:02.520 They're setting up homes here.

00:45:04.280 We need the housing.

00:45:05.940 You're putting it into areas where people don't have a population growth.

00:45:09.840 It's just, again, but it was a political decision, not one based on realistic need.

00:45:15.720 All right.

00:45:16.380 That's it for this week, guys.

00:45:18.040 I appreciate you tuning in.

00:45:19.900 It's going to be another good one next week.

00:45:21.120 I got Michael Binion coming on from the Modern Miracle Network.

00:45:23.620 We're going to talk about the mythical oil field subsidies that we keep hearing about.

00:45:27.480 It's going to be a good discussion.

00:45:28.920 Lots of news items, issues, things like that.

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00:45:49.880 The current Lethbridge feed grind prices are as follows.

00:45:56.380 Cash barley is steady at $4.14.

00:45:58.400 Feed wheat is down $2 at $4.10, while corn dropped $3 to $3.96.

00:46:04.140 In the milling wheat markets, September Minneapolis futures are off $5.5 at $8.49 per bushel,

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00:46:22.600 with delivered values for August movement at $17.28 per bushel.

00:46:26.580 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentils are trading at $0.32 a pound,

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